"All I intended to do, and all I did do, was to wing him, so that he might be captured on the spot, or traced later.

I closed the door after firing the shot, as I fancied that he might have had some accomplices with him, and I wished to make myself safe until assistance arrived." "You had no idea that the man was Sir Hubert Pine ?" asked a juryman.
"Certainly not.

I should not have fired had I recognized him.

The moment I opened the door he flung himself upon me.

I fired and he ran away.