taken place, endangering, I doubt not, the life of his lordship, and your
own lives, gentlemen, so valuable to--to--to--in short, to yourselves.
Need I point out to you at any length, then, the danger of allowing
criminals, offenders against the sacred rights of property, to go at
large? This incident speaks for me, and I have now nothing to do but let
the witnesses speak for themselves. Gentlemen of the Jury, I do not ask
you to convict on insufficient evidence; but I _do_ ask you not to be
swayed by any false sentiment bearing reference to the so-called
smallness of the offence, or the poverty of the offender. The law is
made for the poor as well as for the rich, for the rich as well as for
the poor. The poor man has no more right to shelter himself behind his
poverty, than the rich man behind his riches. In short, gentlemen of the
Jury, what I ask you in all confidence to do, is to do justice and fear
not.--I call Sergeant Sticktoit.

[SERGEANT STICKTOIT _sworn_.

_Mr. H_. Well, sergeant, you saw this woman steal the loaves?

_Sticktoit_. Yes, sir.

_Mr. H_. All of them?

_St_. Yes, all.

_Mr. H_. From different shops, or from one?

_St_. From three different shops.

_Mr. H_. Yes, just so. (_Aside_: Then why the devil did he say from one