There being some likeness between the parties, Bargally persisted in his charge, and, though the respectability of the farmer's character was proved or admitted, his trial before the Circuit Court came on accordingly.

The fatal bonnet lay on the table of the court.

Bargally swore that it was the identical article worn by the man who robbed him; and he and others likewise deponed that they had found the accused on the spot where the crime was committed, with the bonnet on his head.

The case looked gloomily for the prisoner, and the opinion of the judge seemed unfavourable.

But there was a person in court who knew well both who did and who did not commit the crime.