Sentence:  The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more <WSD>nebulous</WSD> in their evidence. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Vague or ill-defined.