Mrs. Colgrave objected, upon which he made use of a coarse expression regarding Mrs. Dyson. At ten minutes to eight he was seen by a man named Brassington, who met Peace walking in front of the Bannercross Hotel.
They met under a gas-lamp, and prisoner inquired if he knew some strangers who had come to live there.
Witness did not, he said, and Peace showed him a bundle of notes and some photographs, but Brassington put them back, as he could not read.
They separated about ten minutes past eight. The jury would learn from Mrs. Dyson that about that time she had occasion to go to the closet in the yard. To do so she put on her clogs, and had to pass Gregory’s back door.
After being in the closet a short time, she opened the door, and saw standing before her the man Peace, who had a revolver in his hand.
He presented it in her face, and said, “Speak, or I will fire.”
The woman gave a loud and sudden shriek, and stepping back into the closet, slammed the door and fastened it.
She next heard her husband’s footsteps, and Mrs. Gregory also came up, but when she saw Mr. Dyson she went into her own house and fastened the door. Hearing her husband’s footsteps, Mrs. Dyson became emboldened, opened the closet door, and advanced towards the end of the passage.
Mr. Dyson passed her, and she saw Peace going out of the passage by the front. When he was a few steps from the gateway Mr. Dyson stepped after him.
According to Mrs. Dyson’s statement, he was never near enough to touch Peace. Having got into the road, Peace fired his revolver, apparently at Mr. Dyson. The shot struck the stone lintel of the doorway at the entrance to the passage.