“Your Honor, this young lady admits that she has visited the prisoner in the jail, and can give adequate reason for her assertion that he is the man he claims to be. She tells us what occurred in that fight on the bluff––things that she was not there to see, things she could only learn from the prisoner: is there not reason to believe that her evidence has been arranged between them?”
“Yes, he told me,––Peter Junior told me, and he came here to give himself up, but you won’t let him give himself up.”
“Miss Ballard,” said the judge again, “you will remember that you are to speak only in reply to questions put to you. Mr. Hibbard, continue the examination.”
“Miss Ballard, you admit that you saw Richard Kildene after he fought with his cousin?”
“Yes.”
“Was his head wounded?”
“Yes.”
“What did you do?”
“I washed his head and bound it up. It was all bleeding.”
“Very well. Then you can say on your sacred oath that Richard Kildene was living and not murdered?”