“Well,” continued Ezekial, “he said, 'That is the mule that the c******n rode here.' Just like that.”
“And what do you find so significant about that?” Sanders asked.
“Up to that point, we had not told him who had been murdered,” said Ezekial. “He incriminated himself that simply.”
The crowd rumbled angrily, as tempers flared among those outraged by the murder. But Greaseball countered that sentiment. “I don't believe a word coming out the mouth of that storekeep. Jewish asshole just wants to make money on the rope it would take to hang poor John Franck!”
Scattered laughter came from Greaseball's friends.
“Silence!” Fergus shouted. “There is nothing about any of this to joke about. This is a murder trial. A man is dead, the victim of an outrageous act of treachery. You here, all of yo
