"Oh, yer honour, I niver heard the particklars; I niver knew nothin' of the plan. I warn't one of them, you know."
"But the prisoner agreed to join them in any plan, or in some plan for ridding the country of Captain Ussher?"
"He did, yer honour; shure I said that before."
"Now, you said some time ago, that when you first discovered that Captain Ussher had been killed by the prisoner, and that when you came to remember yourself, you weren't much surprised. Now, thank God! it is, at any rate in this county, a very uncommon thing to find that one man has killed another. Can you tell the jury why you were not surprised at such an event as that?"
"Becase I knowed there war ill-blood betwixt the two."
"But men do not kill one another whenever they quarrel, do they?"
"Faix, they do sometimes."
"Did you ever, of your own knowledge, know a man before who killed another?"
"Oh dear! yes; shure I did."
"Well, tell us an instance."