Williams examined or rather crossexamined his own witnesses with a severity which confused them.

The crowd which filled the court laughed and clamoured.

Lunt in particular became completely bewildered, mistook one person for another, and did not recover himself till the judges took him out of the hands of the counsel for the Crown.

For some of the prisoners an alibi was set up.
Evidence was also produced to show, what was undoubtedly quite true, that Lunt was a man of abandoned character.

The result however seemed doubtful till, to the dismay of the prosecutors, Taaffe entered the box.
He swore with unblushing forehead that the whole story of the plot was a circumstantial lie devised by himself and Lunt.