Mr. Pollard was rash enough to ask him:
‘Who came to the station to inform the police?’
But his opponent at once objected, and the judge ruled the question out. Mr. Lewis’s indignant declaration, therefore, which Prescott had struck out of his brief with such prompt disdain, fared equally ill in court, and was not allowed to get to the ear of the judge or jury.
At last the evidence was gone through, and then the prosecuting counsel stood up and made the final announcement:
‘That is the case for the Crown, my lord.’
‘I will adjourn for half an hour,’ observed the judge, getting on his feet.
The whole court rose with him, and in a few minutes the entire place was empty.