Mr. Goldberry: I am glad--as I am sure the public will be--to hear the expression of your worship's sentiments in the matter. It is not my wish to excite false sympathy for the prisoner, but I would draw your worship's attention, and the attention of the police, to the reasonable presumption that while they are wildly hunting for evidence against an innocent man, the criminal is being allowed every opportunity to escape the hands of justice. It would almost seem--far be it from me to assert that it is so, for I am sure it would be untrue--but it would almost seem as if they were playing into the hands of the real criminal. The only excuse that can be found for the police is, that a murder having been committed, somebody had to be arrested and charged with its committal, and, with this end in view, Cowlrick was indiscriminately taken up and so charged. Zeal is a fine quality, but, when misapplied, frequently leads to grave consequences. In my defence of the prisoner I have had great difficulties to contend with. He has not assisted me in the slightest degree. It is no breach of professional confidence to say that, in my interviews with him, he has doggedly refused to give me any information concerning himself; but as I have before asserted that poverty and wretchedness were not to be accepted as marks of guilt, so I now declare that the prisoner's strange reticence concerning himself is also no crime. Nor is eccentricity a crime. I have had no opportunity of conversing with the prisoner this morning, or of seeing him before I entered the court a few minutes since, and I have to ask the meaning of those marks upon his face--to which I direct your worship's attention--and of his being handcuffed. The police explained that on his way to Martin Street police court the prisoner had attempted to escape, and that a struggle had taken place, during which a constable and the prisoner had received several blows. Mr. Goldberry asked if the constable who had been struck was present, and the answer was given that he was not; he was on duty in another place. Mr. Goldberry: I will not comment upon the occurrence; in the marks upon the prisoner's face, and in the absence of the constable who is said to have been struck, it speaks for itself. I strenuously oppose the application for a remand, and I demand the prisoner's discharge on the plain grounds that there is no evidence against him. Mr. White Lush: In the interests of justice, I ask for a further remand. Mr. Reardon: Am I to understand that if I remand the prisoner until this day week, you will be prepared to bring forward evidence which will justify not only his present but his past detention? Mr. White Lush: I am informed that such evidence will be forthcoming. Mr. Reardon: Upon that understanding the prisoner is remanded until this day week. [Decoration] CHAPTER VI. THE "EVENING MOON" SPEAKS ITS MIND.