“In direct answer to your question your honor, I saw no such event happen; nor can I say what has transpired at the gates whilst I turned the carriage and came back.  I beg your indulgence your honors the importance of law and order is of primary and great importance to us all.  Your prudent foresight to call for a trial is to be commended and applauded as many in such conditions may have skipped jurisprudence all together.  The tenants of Abadar are clear in respect for the courts, but they are equally clear on dealing with bandits, those who live by plunder, most narrowly think of highway men and burglars, but there are also stealers of identity, false princes set upon thrones, crafty users of dark magic and even evil shapeshifters.  At the same time I am granted abilities and spells such as Abadar’s Truthtelling, or smiting evil with that powers comes the responsibility of my sole discernment in when to use it, no court issuance neither adjudicate nor serve injunction upon that, there is no legal conflict; as a valid court would decline to even hear such a case.  Meaning there exist both things and circumstances beyond the normal reach and exceeding the authority of the courts and beyond even great judges to impose order upon; dragons; devils and demons!  Who would give each of a multitude of demons each a day in court?   For that reason I ask the judges here not to stop me or offer any impediment.  Likewise commander I would have you also agree not to interfere....”

Sir Constantine Godalming rolled 22 using 1d20+8.  Diplomacy

“What happens should a Paladin try to smite a person who is not evil?  It is wasted effort full of sound and fury and causing no holy harm; how could holy energy hurt anything not evil?

Waits for the judges to agree and the commander

Turns to the chymical master
“You stand here with confident swagger conning the ignorant with fully predictable routines certain of your inscrutable nature, but behind your single lie and my gaze upon your countenance you have undone yourself!  I am ready for your continued false statements and forged documents;  saying the item was sold or stolen or returned;  and therefore we must we play the puppets and move to retrieve it from where you say it is have you added difficulty to obtain it to convince us all of its authenticity? Likewise the man you name is likely already dead by your hand and firmly planted the evidence of his guilt and escape.  Also you tell me there is a secret way in and out of your lair, that it is more than the layout seen from the walls.”

“My suspicion for the Morast murderer, has evolved as evidence was painstakingly collected; however the most likely full conclusion is a very dangerous shapeshifter of some sort who is also an alchemist, as cataloged in the evidence along with everything else a vial with the remnants of a mutagen.  If a shapeshifter sought to plunder a place of little suspicion, isolated, with wealth, power and influence the Master Chymist would have made the perfect target for plunder; if this man has tiny vials of bombs, potions, and mutagens on his person he may be the most dangerous thing in this room, possibly even without them. Which is why he refuses to set down his goods and turn out his pockets!“

Sir Constantine Godalming rolled 18 using 1d20+7.  Intimidate

“You cry false for your workers!  When does the shift end? when can they be seen?  Have they been murdered and brought in as a skeleton crew? Do not cry more false tears or feigned terror, the lady doth protest too much for a peek in her purse; after I put you down I will go there and see whom can be helped.”

“Last chance to put down all your items on the table! No twists, no turns, no escape!  Prepare yourself for the judgement and justice too long delayed and denied!  If you believe the full of people here will or can stop me from hunting you with sleepless and unceasing persistence until you are done you have made your last miscalculation!”