In cross-examination the witness stated, that he never spoke a word about this until questioned by the prisoner's solicitor. John Nolan stated that he also saw the prisoner on the road near Kilglass Church between 7 and 8 o'clock. Mary Gorman, a servant in the employment of a man named Thomas Burke, living near Killglass, stated that she knew the prisoner, and that a quarter past seven on the evening of the outrage, she went to bring in water, and she saw him. He remained chatting with him for three quarter of an hour. She was not five minutes in his company when his nose began to bleed. He used his pocket handkerchief but the night was too dark to enable her to see what colour it was.
In cross-examination the witness denied that the prisoner was a sweetheart of hers,or that in a conversation with Sub-Inspector Saville she mentioned half-past-seven o'clock as the hour which she met the prisoner. It was the third time that she had seen his nose bleed Rev P Fitzgerald proved the ringing of the Angelus bell at six o'clock in the evening,frod which the witness had timed the circumstances.
Mr. Thomas Carroll and his wife,Mrs Elizabeth Carroll, the prisoner's late employers, near Kilglass, deposed to having heard the prisoner at their house shortly after eight o'clock on the evening of the 12th of October, and that his nose had been bleeding. Carroll gave the prisoner a good character,but on cross-examination it appeared that he had on one occasion paid a fine of 40 shillings for him for an assault he had committed. The prisoner's brother swore that he admitted him into his master's house a few minutes after eight o'clock. He had seen him previously at 6.30.His nose had bled that evening. James Moloney the sub-postmaster at Carrickboy, deposed that he knew a man named Sullivan who had left the country, one who had been returned for trial in connection with the boycotting transaction. He had a conversation after Sullivan left with the prosecutor William Lawlor.