text:  He called it "playing at pushpin with the lives of men"--"the reading-made-easy of judicial murder"--"the 'rule of three' of forensic assassination;--given a villain multiplied by a false oath the product an execution!" He now revelled in the boldest extravagances of imagery and language expressions which written might resemble the burlesque of a public jester or the wildness of a disturbed mind but which were followed by the audience whom he had heated up to the point of passion with all but acclamation