these gentlemen were to come into court on the day they did, and make the identical motion that they have submitted here." _Mr. Merrick._ "And states the ground of the motion?" _Mr. Bradley._ "Yes Sir, states the ground of the motion. It looks to me as though it came from very near home." _Mr. Pierrepont._ "What does it state as the ground of the motion?" _Mr. Bradley._ "There it is, just the same ground precisely as was stated here that it was not a lawful panel." _Mr. Pierrepont._ "Oh!" (laughingly.) Thus we get a glimpse at the outside pressure that was brought to bear on this trial by a constant fusilade of falsehoods couched in cunningly-devised paragraphs that they might gain a general circulation through the press of the country for the purpose not only of influencing the jury in this case, but also of misleading and perverting public opinion. The fact brought out in this paragraph is somewhat remarkable. It might have been a mere chance that sixteen out of the twenty-six drawn for the jury happened to be Catholics, but we cannot help feeling a suspicion that had the law been a little more closely followed it might have been otherwise. To the insinuation of Mr. Bradley, the District Attorney replied as follows: "I do not rise for the purpose of arguing the motion before the court, but with the permission of your honor, and my learned friend, simply to say a word or two in regard to a certain statement in one of the newspapers of the day to which my attention has just been called. It is an item in the New York _Herald_, purporting to be telegraphed from this city. The article is not very complimentary to myself, but as my friend is spoken of in very high terms, I am not disposed to quarrel with the writer, for, as a generous-hearted man, I am more anxious for the reputation of my friend than I am for my own. What is intimated in it, I would not think of sufficient importance to be called to the attention of the court, were it not that allusion has been made to it here by the learned counsel who last addressed your honor. He stated that there was some reason not made known for this motion which we have submitted. I deem it due to myself to say--" _Mr. Bradley._ "I beg your pardon if I have said anything wrong. I thought it was a fair retort on what was said by Judge Pierrepont."