NUISANCE
It is suggested that the Ward would have been justified in indicting the Ghost for a nuisance due to the hideous clanking of its chain in the dead silence of the night. This is a hypothetical claim rather than a confirmed fact.
THE WARD
The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.