The enemy was badly shattered and demoralized.

Ex-Judge Stuart, counsel for the prisoners, maintained the currency was not money because it was incomplete without the bank officers' signatures, but he was overruled by the court.
A host of witnesses were then produced to prove that Allen, Wells and some of the other prisoners were elsewhere on the night of the robbery.

The characters of the witnesses for the defense broke down under cross-examination; but no matter, the jury disagreed--a result which had been anticipated owing to certain associations of one of the jurors with friends of some of the prisoners.
A second trial was ordered, and took place in Danbury during the latter part of the year.

During the interval that elapsed before the second trial, McGuire, who was out on bail, took part in the bold robbery of the Bowdoinham Bank, in Maine, for which he is now serving out a fifteen years' sentence in State Prison.
Hudson managed to escape before the first arrest of the prisoners, and with ten thousand dollars of the stolen money went to Europe, where he has been ever since.
One of Allen's friends, who was visiting Danbury with his family during the first trial, and who was on visiting terms with one of the jurors, represented to an old friend who met him in the hotel that he "had found Jesus" and was "leading a new life." He was congratulated, but carefully watched.
One of the female witnesses for the _alibi_, a handsome brunette, said, on cross examination, that she was a dressmaker, but seldom made dresses, as she was the recipient of two hundred dollars every week from a New York merchant, who admired her for her beauty.
At the second trial the four remaining prisoners, McGuire having gone into business in Maine, fared not so well.

They were convicted and sent to Wethersfield, from whence some of them may have emerged wiser and better members of society.