However, the defense reckoned without the defendant's religious counselor, the tireless Reverend Mr. Dameron, who appeared at the trial as the chief witness for the prosecution, and who, in the overwrought, rococo style of a tent-show revivalist, told the court he had often warned his former Sunday School pupil of God's impending wrath:
hala ere, Perryk ez zuen maiz hitz egiten Dickekin, eta hori ez zen haien artean inolako ageriko etsaitasunen bategatik (purrustada epel batzuk elkarri egin ondoren, haien harremana elkarrekiko tolerantziazkoa bihurtu zen: