Mr. Martindale, State's Attorney, opened the case for the prosecution with a few brief but very severe remarks upon the baseness of the crime with which the prisoner stood charged, and then called his first witness—
"The Reverend Adam Borden."
Mr. Borden took the stand and testified to having performed the marriage ceremony between Alden Lytton and Mary Grey on the morning of the fifteenth of the preceding September, at his own parish church, in the city of Philadelphia.
He was strictly cross-examined by Mr. Berners, but his testimony only came out the clearer from the ordeal.
John Martin, sexton of the church, and Sarah Martin, his daughter, were successively examined, and testified to having witnessed the marriage ceremony between the parties in question.
They also were cross-examined by Mr. Berners, without detriment to their testimony.
"Mrs. Mary Lytton" was then called upon to come forward for identification.
And Mary Grey, dressed in deep mourning and closely veiled, came up, leaning heavily on the arm of Mr. Philip Desmond, assistant counsel for the prosecution.
At the request of counsel she drew aside her veil, revealing a face so ghastly pale that all who gazed upon it shuddered.
Alden Lytton turned to look at her, in order to catch her eyes, but they were fixed upon the ground, and never once raised.