When Harry concluded and sat down, she again evinced astonishment, but not a syllable escaped from her lips.
After a few minutes the shouts of the crowd subsided, and at the request of the judge, silence was restored.

His honor then addressed the jury.
"Gentlemen of the jury," he began, "the case before your notice has become, from one of apparent insignificance, one of intense interest and importance.

A merchant of this city, well known to you all, both by his wealth and his long residence in your midst, appears before this court and accuses a woman of theft.

She is arrested and every evidence of her guilt is found on her person; she does not deny the act, and is accordingly brought before you to be tried and sentenced, or acquitted, as you may, in your good judgment think best." "Overwhelming evidence is brought against her to-day, and no doubt of her having committed the theft exists.

There appears little more for you to do than to find her guilty, and for me to pass the sentence.
But before doing these, it is necessary that the accused shall have a defense.