“Me and my mates? Noo York.”
“That will do. Silence!” cried the judge. “The next man. Keep those two well apart.”
The third man was led in, and the same questions asked him, when to the second he responded sharply:
“Chicago.”
There was a roar at this, but the judge held up his hand. “Silence, gentlemen, please, while I deliver judgment’” and a deep silence fell, while the three men glared meaningly one at the other. “I have given this a perfectly fair hearing, and I say—”
Crash!
The shivering of a lamp-glass, a burst of flame like a flash of lightning, as the lamp was dashed from where it hung; and then for a few moments intense darkness, while there was a sudden roar and rush for the entrance.