Quoting the accounts in both Time and Newsweek, they note that though the defense attorney may have outwitted, outsparred, and evenout gladiatored" (another popular image in the trial coverage) his opponent, but he still lost the case.

I have no belief in your tricken-bags, your luck-balls, your mysterious revelation from the snake, and spells from conjure-stones.

‘Thank you, and a Merry Mithrasmas to you,’’ I said.

But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; ….