CHAPTER XXXVI.

TAKING A SAFE LOOK AT A SUBDUED LION——POWER BEHIND BAYONETS——WEAKNESS IN CHAINS.

A Fort Turned into a Court-House——The Prisoners at the Bar—— Those Glittering Bayonets——The Prisoners Arraigned——The Trial Begins——A. B. Meacham in Court——Have the Prisoners no Counsel?——Schonchin and Capt. Jack——They Extend their Hands to Meacham——He Repels Them——The Reason for it——Meacham Advised by his Physician not to Appear as Prisoner’s Counsel——The Trial Goes On——Indian Testimony——They Seek to Shift the Responsibility——Capt. Jack not Himself; “He cannot Talk with Irons On.”——Hooker-Jim’s Weak Defence——The Modoc’s Attorney Arrives Too Late——The Most Guilty Modocs Escape Punishment—— The Mistake of the Judge Advocate——The Finding of the Court—— The Death Sentence 607