PEACE IS VISITED BY HIS SOLICITOR.
She got safely away, and the only thing in the way of a sensation that turned up to gratify the crowd for long waiting was the appearance of the Pentonville warders.
They had occasion to appear in the Haymarket, and, being identified by their uniforms, were made the butt of much unpleasant chaff.
They were followed about by the people, laughed at, jeered, ironically cheered, and asked the most pertinent, yet impertinent, questions.
Eventually they were protected by a strong body of police, and, amid a discharge of chaff, succeeded in gaining the Police-offices.
After this nothing more happened, and as nothing seemed likely to happen, first one and then another of the members of the crowd dropped off, until finally the last man, sighing over the barren results of all his struggling, scuffling, suffering, &c., cast a furtive eye at the Police-station, and a perfunctory glance at the now lighted Town Hall clock, and departed.
CHAPTER CLVII.
THE EXAMINATION OF CHARLES PEACE UPON THE CHARGE OF MURDERING MR. DYSON—SCENES IN COURT.
Peace remained in a very prostrate condition, and, according to his own account, he was not fit to make his appearance in a court of justice. It was deemed, however, expedient to proceed with the charge.