"But you believed him guilty," interposed Judge Brewster quickly.
"Yes."
"You thought him guilty and after a five-hour session you impressed this thought on his mind and he—he confessed."
"I didn't impress anything—I just simply——"
"You just simply convinced him that he was guilty—though as it turned out he was in prison at the time he was supposed to have committed the burglary——"
"It wasn't burglary," corrected the captain sullenly.
Judge Brewster again consulted the papers in his hand.
"You're quite right, captain—my mistake—it was homicide, but—it was an untrue confession."
"Yes."
"It was the same thing in the Callahan case," went on the judge, picking up another document. "In the case of the People against Tuthill—and—Cosgrove—Tuthill confessed and died in prison, and Cosgrove afterward acknowledged that he and not Tuthill was the guilty man."