Though the evidence against the cabinetmaker is clear, he is so irrational that he is still unable to explain what happened coherently. I too, as a spectator, though at some distance, had to give evidence at the inquest. I declared that it had all happened entirely accidentally through the action of men perhaps moved by ill-feeling, yet scarcely conscious of what they were doing⁠—drunk and irresponsible. I am of that opinion to this day.

The Last Resolution