text:  Consequently before they could prosecute him for damages or before they could be witnesses in another case they had themselves to be tried for attempted murder! "Patrick Ring was one of those arrested; and though several hundreds of people some of them gentlemen of rank and property knew that he had been in the Catholic chapel for an hour before and an hour after the time the shot was alleged to have been fired and that at the distance of two miles yet he was kept in prison in solitary confinement not allowed to see any friend nor even a lawyer for several weeks