Gloomy gardens then went by, one by one: gloomy houses.

Mr Power pointed.

―That is where Childs was murdered, he said. The last house.

―So it is, Mr Dedalus said. A gruesome case. Seymour Bushe got him off. Murdered his brother. Or so they said.

―The crown had no evidence, Mr Power said.

―Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham said. That’s the maxim of the law. Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one innocent person to be wrongfully condemned.