On the cross-examination, he said "the reason why he let the matter rest until now was that he did not wish to be the means of bringin' a fellow-creature to an untimely death. His conscience, however, always kept him uneasy, and many a time of late the murdhered man appeared to him, and threatened him for not disclosing what he knew."
"You say the murdered man appeared to you. Which of them?"
"Peter Magennis--what am I sayin'? I mean Bartle Sullivan."
The counsel for the defence requested the judge and jury to make a note of Peter Magennis, and then asked the Prophet what kind of a man Bartle Sullivan was.
"He was a very remarkable man in appearance; stout, with a long face, and a scar on his chin."
"And you saw that man murdered?"
"I seen him dead after havin' been murdhered."
"Do you think, now, if he were to rise again from the grave that you would know him?"
Then the counsel turned round, spoke to some person behind, and a stranger advanced and mounted a table confronting the Black Prophet.
"Whether you seen me dead or buried is best known to yourself," said the stranger. "All I can say is that here I am, Bartle Sullivan, alive an' well."