1. Hi, Toivo.Copy !req
2. Hey. Your pal just drove into town,
Mr. McCarthy.Copy !req
3. I'll have one more, Toivo.Copy !req
4. I'm afraid I'll have to pay
my bar bill tomorrow.Copy !req
5. You're good with me, Mr. McCarthy.Copy !req
6. Thank you, Toivo.Copy !req
7. - Good night, Toivo.
- Good night, Mr. McCarthy.Copy !req
8. operator.Copy !req
9. Operator, I want, uh, 489, Thunder Bay.Copy !req
10. I want to speak to Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
11. M-A-N-I-O-N.Copy !req
12. This is Paul Biegler speaking.
Iron City, 700.Copy !req
13. - Well, do they know when she'll be there?
- No, they don't.Copy !req
14. I see. Well, just leave a message,
and tell her to call this number.Copy !req
15. Thank you.Copy !req
16. All right. What do you
say there, counselor?Copy !req
17. Save your money.Copy !req
18. What's in the brown paper bag?Copy !req
19. It might be a cabbage head.Copy !req
20. But it wouldn't be.Copy !req
21. You're a very suspicious man.Copy !req
22. True. I'm everlastingly suspicious of...Copy !req
23. and/or fascinated by...Copy !req
24. the contents of brown paper bags.Copy !req
25. - Shall I sneak a peek?
- You do that, counselor.Copy !req
26. You do that, and...Copy !req
27. after you sneak a peek, why, you uncork...Copy !req
28. whatever you find.Copy !req
29. - Shall I pour?
- Your privilege.Copy !req
30. My pleasure, sir.Copy !req
31. You fought this soldier by yourself.Copy !req
32. You've been drinkin' alone, Polly.Copy !req
33. I don't like that.Copy !req
34. Ah, drop the stone, counselor.
You live in a glass house.Copy !req
35. My windows have been busted
a long time ago, so I can say as I please.Copy !req
36. Have an Italian cigar?Copy !req
37. No, thanks.Copy !req
38. Those stinkweeds are another sign
of your decadence.Copy !req
39. Polly, it's a fact.Copy !req
40. Since Mitch Lodwick beat you
out of the office of public prosecutor...Copy !req
41. you haven't been worth salt for peanuts.Copy !req
42. Not that I don't understand how you feel.Copy !req
43. When a man gets beat out of
an office he's held for a long time...Copy !req
44. he feels his community has deserted him...Copy !req
45. the finger of scorn is pointed at him.Copy !req
46. None but the lonely heart
shall know my anguish.Copy !req
47. Polly, you're a good lawyer.
You ought to make like one.Copy !req
48. Be here, ready for clients, not out fishin'
and playin' that rooty-tooty jazz.Copy !req
49. I run a few abstracts and divorce Jane Doe
from John Doe every once in a while.Copy !req
50. Threaten a few deadbeats.Copy !req
51. And in the evening I sit around
and drink bourbon whiskey...Copy !req
52. and read law with Parnell
Emmett McCarthy...Copy !req
53. one of the world's great men.Copy !req
54. That was a kind word, Polly.Copy !req
55. You know, I might have been.Copy !req
56. That's one of the reasons I hate to see
your talent pushed aside by lesser men.Copy !req
57. I look at you and I see myself years ago...Copy !req
58. with the same love for the smell of
the old brown books and the dusty office.Copy !req
59. Here's a rose, a lily...Copy !req
60. a sweet lupine.Copy !req
61. The United States Supreme Court Reports.Copy !req
62. Well, what shall we read
this evening, counselor?Copy !req
63. How about a little, uh,
Chief Justice Holmes?Copy !req
64. Restrain Chief Justice Holmes for a minute.
I might have a client.Copy !req
65. Been waiting for a call. Hello?Copy !req
66. - Mr. Biegler?
- This is Paul Biegler speaking.Copy !req
67. - Here's your party.
- Hello? Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
68. - What?
- Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
69. I'm sorry I missed you a while ago.
Did you get my message?Copy !req
70. - Who is that? What is that name?
- Just a minute, please.Copy !req
71. We seem to have a bad connection.
Just hold on.Copy !req
72. It's a woman name of Manion.
Maida took a message from her.Copy !req
73. - In Thunder Bay?
- Uh-huh.Copy !req
74. If she wants you to represent
her husband, say yes.Copy !req
75. - I don't know what it's all about.
- Pretend you do and say yes.Copy !req
76. - Hello?
- Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
77. Oh, yes. It's much better now.
Yes, I can hear you fine.Copy !req
78. Yes, well, I just got in a few moments ago.Copy !req
79. You've read about my husband?
Muffy, please.Copy !req
80. - Yes.
- Mr. Biegler, have you read about my husband?Copy !req
81. Muffy, please.Copy !req
82. Well, yes, I have. A little.Copy !req
83. - Will you defend him?
- I don't know. I'd have to know more about it.Copy !req
84. Will you talk to him?
Mr. Biegler, he's in the county jail.Copy !req
85. Will you see him in the morning?
He's-He's very anxious to see you.Copy !req
86. - You've been so highly recommended.
- I have?Copy !req
87. Yeah. Someone told him about you.
Will you see him?Copy !req
88. Well, I suppose I could.
I'll see him tomorrow morning.Copy !req
89. Would you want me there too, Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
90. I think that'd be fine.
Let's make it about 10:00, huh?Copy !req
91. Thank you. Thank you so much.Copy !req
92. Yes, you're quite welcome. Bye.Copy !req
93. Now, what's this all about?Copy !req
94. A man named Barney Quill raped Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
95. Her husband, he's a lieutenant in the army.Copy !req
96. There's a temporary base in Thunder Bay.
Gunnery or something.Copy !req
97. The lieutenant goes to Quill's place
and plugs Mr. Quill about five times...Copy !req
98. which causes Mr. Quill
to promptly die of lead poisoning.Copy !req
99. - When did all this happen?
- A couple of nights ago.Copy !req
100. If you hadn't been out fishing in a rowboat
in some godforsaken backwater...Copy !req
101. you'd have known about it.Copy !req
102. - Morning, Maida.
- Oh, there it is.Copy !req
103. - What?
- The newspaper.Copy !req
104. I thought maybe they didn't bring it.
We haven't paid the bill.Copy !req
105. - Did you get my note?
- Uh-huh. We may be in the case.Copy !req
106. I'm just reading up on it
now before talking to Lieutenant Manion.Copy !req
107. - Doesn't he ever go home?
- You mean Parnell?Copy !req
108. - We were up late last night.
- Is that a fact?Copy !req
109. Yeah. I think maybe you'd better cancel
all my appointments for today.Copy !req
110. What appointments?
People think you migrated into the woods.Copy !req
111. If this refrigerator gets
any more fish in it...Copy !req
112. it'll swim upstream and spawn, all by itself.Copy !req
113. May I have your attention
for a moment, please?Copy !req
114. - Yeah.
- I was going over your checkbook yesterday.Copy !req
115. I can't pay me my salary.Copy !req
116. What did you do with the fee
for the Walkers' divorce?Copy !req
117. Help salt a uranium mine or something?Copy !req
118. - Uh, I bought a few bare necessities.
- Like a new outboard motor.Copy !req
119. I wish I could be classed as a necessity.Copy !req
120. - Aren't you gonna have your toast?
- No, no.Copy !req
121. I'll, uh - I'll, uh...Copy !req
122. call you and let you
know how things are going.Copy !req
123. Now don't let him pay
you off in purple hearts.Copy !req
124. Those professional
soldiers never have a dime.Copy !req
125. I ought to know. I was married to one.Copy !req
126. I beg your pardon. Are you Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
127. - Hi.
- I'm Paul Biegler.Copy !req
128. - I'm Laura.
- How do you do?Copy !req
129. - This is Muff.
- Hello, Muff. The jail's right here.Copy !req
130. You're tall.Copy !req
131. - Hello, Polly.
- Hi, Sulo.Copy !req
132. You wait here, Muffy.Copy !req
133. - Good to see you, Polly.
- How ya feelin'?Copy !req
134. Fine. I guess you come for the soldier boy.Copy !req
135. Yeah. Sulo, do you think it'd be all right
if we talked in the sheriff's office?Copy !req
136. Oh, sure, Polly. I'll bring him down.Copy !req
137. Would you mind taking your glasses off,
Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
138. Gee whiz. Barney Quill do that to you?Copy !req
139. Mm-hmm. More than that.Copy !req
140. You should see. All over.Copy !req
141. Well, you can put them back on
if it's more comfortable for ya.Copy !req
142. This is Polly Biegler.
This is the bucko, Polly.Copy !req
143. - Lieutenant Manion.
- Hello there.Copy !req
144. - Hi, Manny.
- Hello, Laura.Copy !req
145. Uh, Mrs. Manion, I wonder if you could meet me
down at my office about 2:00 this afternoon.Copy !req
146. It's 305 West Barnham.Copy !req
147. - Of course.
- Fine.Copy !req
148. - Is there anything I can get you, hon?
- I'm all right, hon.Copy !req
149. Right in here.Copy !req
150. "Wanted." The big ten.Copy !req
151. They got the ten best-dressed dames...Copy !req
152. the ten top teams, the ten top tunes...Copy !req
153. and now, the ten most wanted.Copy !req
154. Well, don't knock it. That's the American
dream. Those boys made the grade.Copy !req
155. You were the... district attorney
around here, weren't you?Copy !req
156. Mm-hmm. Ten years.Copy !req
157. What's your experience as a defense lawyer?Copy !req
158. Not very much.Copy !req
159. How do I know you can handle my case?Copy !req
160. Well, I guess you don't know.Copy !req
161. Shall we talk about it?Copy !req
162. I suppose so.Copy !req
163. Well, now, come on, Lieutenant.
Don't be so bored.Copy !req
164. You know, it might very well be
that no lawyer can handle your case...Copy !req
165. if you mean getting off Scot-free.Copy !req
166. You seem to be forgetting
Barney Quill raped my wife.Copy !req
167. I have the unwritten law on my side.Copy !req
168. The unwritten law is a myth, Lieutenant.Copy !req
169. There is no such thing
as the unwritten law...Copy !req
170. and anyone who commits a murder
on the theory that it does exist...Copy !req
171. has just bought himself
room and board in the state penitentiary.Copy !req
172. Maybe for life.Copy !req
173. Now, with that in mind...Copy !req
174. perhaps we can proceed with a few questions
and answers that - that, uh -Copy !req
175. Can I borrow your lighter?Copy !req
176. We can proceed with a few questions and answers
that might be of some help in your defense.Copy !req
177. But probably won't be.Copy !req
178. Yeah. Nice lighter.Copy !req
179. - Okay.
- Well, how old are you?Copy !req
180. - Twenty-eight.
- How long have you been in the service?Copy !req
181. Since '50.Copy !req
182. - You seen any action?
- Korea.Copy !req
183. - Have any decorations?
- Plenty.Copy !req
184. Is this your first marriage?Copy !req
185. No.Copy !req
186. You're not on the witness stand.
You don't have to answer yes or no.Copy !req
187. Just give me the matrimonial rundown.Copy !req
188. - Is this necessary?
- I'll be the judge of that.Copy !req
189. My first wife divorced me.Copy !req
190. Charged cruelty.Copy !req
191. Eating crackers in bed.
You know, the usual stuff.Copy !req
192. Truth was, she found another guy
when I was in Korea.Copy !req
193. I met Laura four years ago in Georgia.Copy !req
194. We were married right after her divorce.Copy !req
195. Did you know the husband?Copy !req
196. - He was in my outfit down there.
- You mean you were buddies?Copy !req
197. I'll withdraw the question.
That's a little old-fashioned.Copy !req
198. Have there been any children by or from
any of these marriages?Copy !req
199. - No.
- Any present prospects?Copy !req
200. Not unless Barney Quill started something.Copy !req
201. What kind of a gun did you use on Quill?Copy !req
202. War souvenir. Luger.
The police have it now.Copy !req
203. I suppose you've read the newspapers,
the stories about your case?Copy !req
204. - Some of them.
- Are they substantially correct?Copy !req
205. Yes.Copy !req
206. And you didn't see Quill
rape and beat your wife?Copy !req
207. No. No.Copy !req
208. When she got back, uh, to the trailer,
she told me what had happened.Copy !req
209. Then how long was it before you
went over to Quill's and killed him?Copy !req
210. I don't know exactly. Maybe an hour.Copy !req
211. That long, huh?Copy !req
212. Now, the newspapers say that your wife
volunteered to take a lie detector test.Copy !req
213. You know anything about this?Copy !req
214. Only what I read and what she told me.Copy !req
215. Do you know how
the lie detector test turned out?Copy !req
216. - They didn't tell her.
- Yes, Sulo?Copy !req
217. Polly, we got lunch served for the jail.
You want to eat with us?Copy !req
218. Does your sister still cook for the jail?Copy !req
219. - Oh, sure. She cooks.
- Uh-huh.Copy !req
220. Well, you give her my compliments, Sulo.Copy !req
221. - I've got a luncheon date downtown.
- Nice going, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
222. - I'll be back after lunch.
- Look, uh...Copy !req
223. I'm sorry if I offended you a while ago.Copy !req
224. No, you're not.Copy !req
225. Come on, bucko.Copy !req
226. Thank you.Copy !req
227. Pass the salt, Polly.Copy !req
228. Thank you.Copy !req
229. Did you give the lieutenant
the well-known lecture?Copy !req
230. If you mean did I coach him
into a phony story, no.Copy !req
231. Maybe you're too pure, Paul.Copy !req
232. Too pure for the natural
impurities of the law.Copy !req
233. Could be that you owe the lieutenant
a chance to find a defense.Copy !req
234. Could also be that you might
guide him a little...Copy !req
235. show him the way,
and let him decide if he wants to take it.Copy !req
236. - Want some salt?
- No. I'm not ready.Copy !req
237. Anyway, I'm not the right lawyer
for this fellow.Copy !req
238. He's insolent, hostile.Copy !req
239. You don't have to love
him. Just defend him.Copy !req
240. What's the matter? Don't you need a fee?Copy !req
241. You know something?
I think you might be a little bit afraid.Copy !req
242. - Afraid of what?
- That you might get licked.Copy !req
243. You know, there's only one thing more
devious than a Philadelphia lawyer...Copy !req
244. and that's an Irish lawyer.Copy !req
245. Pass the salt.Copy !req
246. Put it down. Put it down.Copy !req
247. - Hello there.
- I usually answer to the name Paul.Copy !req
248. Are we gonna have some more jokes?Copy !req
249. Not unless you want to be the comic.Copy !req
250. Oh.Copy !req
251. I brought you some cigarettes.Copy !req
252. - Oh, thanks.
- Peace?Copy !req
253. - Oh, sure.
- Fine, fine. Now, Lieutenant...Copy !req
254. there are four ways I can defend murder.Copy !req
255. Number one, it wasn't murder.
It was suicide or accidental.Copy !req
256. Number two, you didn't do it.
Number three, you were legally justified...Copy !req
257. like the protection of your home
or self-defense.Copy !req
258. Number four, the killing was excusable.Copy !req
259. Where do I fit into this rosy picture?Copy !req
260. I'll tell you where you don't fit.
You don't fit in any of the first three.Copy !req
261. Why? Why wouldn't I be legally justified
in killing the man who raped my wife?Copy !req
262. Time element.Copy !req
263. If you'd caught him in the act,
the shooting might have been justified...Copy !req
264. but you didn't catch him in the act.Copy !req
265. You had time to bring in the police,
and you didn't do that either.Copy !req
266. You're guilty of murder,
premeditated and with vengeance.Copy !req
267. That's first-degree
murder in any court of law.Copy !req
268. Are you telling me to plead guilty?Copy !req
269. When I advise you to cop out, you'll know.Copy !req
270. - "Cop out"?
- That's plead guilty and ask for mercy.Copy !req
271. Well, if you're not telling me to cop out,
what are you telling me to do?Copy !req
272. I'm not telling you to do anything.Copy !req
273. I just want you to understand
the letter of the law.Copy !req
274. - Go on.
- Go on with what?Copy !req
275. Whatever it is you're getting at.Copy !req
276. You know, you're very bright, Lieutenant.Copy !req
277. Now let's see how really bright you can be.Copy !req
278. Well... I'm working at it.Copy !req
279. All right. Because your wife was raped...Copy !req
280. you'll have a favorable atmosphere
in the courtroom.Copy !req
281. The sympathy will be with you,
if all the facts are true.Copy !req
282. What you need is a legal peg so that the jury
can hang up their sympathy in your behalf.Copy !req
283. - You follow me?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
284. What's your legal excuse, Lieutenant?Copy !req
285. What's your legal excuse
for killing Barney Quill?Copy !req
286. Not justification, huh?Copy !req
287. Not justification.Copy !req
288. Excuse.Copy !req
289. J-Just excuse.Copy !req
290. What excuses are there?Copy !req
291. How should I know?
You're the one that plugged Quill.Copy !req
292. - I must've been mad.
- How's that?Copy !req
293. I said I must've been mad.Copy !req
294. No, a bad temper's no excuse.Copy !req
295. Well, I mean, uh, I - I must've been crazy.Copy !req
296. Am I getting warmer?Copy !req
297. - Okay, Sulo.
- Paul?Copy !req
298. Am I getting warmer?Copy !req
299. Well, I'll tell you that
after I talk to your wife.Copy !req
300. In the meantime, see if you can remember
just how crazy you were.Copy !req
301. Mrs. Manion here yet?Copy !req
302. She's been through all your albums
from Dixieland to Brubeck.Copy !req
303. - What do you think of her?
- Soft, easy.Copy !req
304. The kind men like to take advantage of -
and do.Copy !req
305. - Did you get any money?
- Huh?Copy !req
306. - Money.
- Oh. Oh, no.Copy !req
307. I haven't decided to take the case yet.Copy !req
308. You know, you surprise me sometimes.Copy !req
309. Why? I've been around.Copy !req
310. Yeah, well -Copy !req
311. Hi.Copy !req
312. I, uh -Copy !req
313. I hope you don't mind.
I think we'd better talk.Copy !req
314. You're a funny kind of a lawyer.Copy !req
315. - The music, I mean.
- Aren't lawyers supposed to like music?Copy !req
316. Well, not that kind of music.Copy !req
317. Well, I guess that settles it.
I'm a funny kind of lawyer.Copy !req
318. Where's your home, Mrs. Manion?
Where'd you go to school?Copy !req
319. - Where'd you live when you were growing up?
- Oh, no place in particular.Copy !req
320. We sort of moved around. My father
was a boomer - construction boomer.Copy !req
321. Building dams, mostly.Copy !req
322. You can call me Laura.Copy !req
323. - Is your family still alive, Laura?
- No.Copy !req
324. I don't know. I have some
cigarettes around here someplace.Copy !req
325. - Do you want a cigarette?
- No, I wanted to offer you one.Copy !req
326. - You could light it for me.
- Oh, yes.Copy !req
327. Here.Copy !req
328. - That's just like your husband's, isn't it?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
329. He gave me this because
I liked the one he had.Copy !req
330. He's like that.
He gives me presents all the time.Copy !req
331. Do you have a happy marriage?Copy !req
332. Yes.Copy !req
333. What went wrong with the first marriage?Copy !req
334. Well, what went wrong
is when I went for Manny.Copy !req
335. Well, that's honest enough.Copy !req
336. It was more than just that.
Like I told you, I grew up on the move...Copy !req
337. and Jack - that was my first husband -Copy !req
338. Jack didn't like to move. He wouldn't even
take a transfer when he had the chance.Copy !req
339. I was really bored.Copy !req
340. Manny likes to go. We're always
going, whenever we get the chance.Copy !req
341. We've been all over. I'm thirsty.Copy !req
342. Water? Or would a beer do?Copy !req
343. I think a beer would do fine.Copy !req
344. Maida, bring me a bottle of beer,
will you?Copy !req
345. - Are you married?
- No.Copy !req
346. That's nice.Copy !req
347. What do you do alone
in this house if you aren't married?Copy !req
348. Well, it's a family home.
I'm the last of the family.Copy !req
349. - There you are.
- Thank you.Copy !req
350. - Aren't you having one?
- No, not right now. Thanks.Copy !req
351. There you are.Copy !req
352. Oh, could Muff have a little?
In that ashtray, maybe. He loves beer.Copy !req
353. - You want a beer for the dog?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
354. Well, here we are.Copy !req
355. He'll go to sleep now.Copy !req
356. - Isn't he cute?
- Yeah.Copy !req
357. Well, how about it? Are you ready?Copy !req
358. I mean, are you ready to tell me the story?Copy !req
359. I know what you mean.Copy !req
360. Yeah. Well, now, suppose you tell me
everything you told the state police...Copy !req
361. plus everything you didn't
tell the state police.Copy !req
362. - Where shall I begin?
- What time did you leave for Quill's bar?Copy !req
363. Right after dinner. About 8:30, I guess.Copy !req
364. Manny was late getting home
from the firing range...Copy !req
365. so we had dinner
and he laid down and went to sleep.Copy !req
366. I hadn't been out of
the trailer almost all day...Copy !req
367. so I took Muff and a flashlight
and walked over to the bar.Copy !req
368. I bought a drink
and played the pinball machine.Copy !req
369. Many people in the bar?Copy !req
370. Not many. Barney came over
and challenged me to a game.Copy !req
371. - For drinks, you know.
- How well did you know Barney?Copy !req
372. Well, he owned this bar where
Manny and I went sometimes. That's all.Copy !req
373. - Had he ever made a pass at you?
- No. Nothing like that at all.Copy !req
374. Was he drinking heavily that night?Copy !req
375. He didn't seem to be.
At least not when we were playing pinball.Copy !req
376. Were you with him
the whole time you were there?Copy !req
377. Oh, no. There were
other people playing too.Copy !req
378. What time did you leave the bar?Copy !req
379. Oh, about 11:00, I guess.Copy !req
380. I left by the side door.
Muff was carrying the flashlight.Copy !req
381. He carries it in his mouth.Copy !req
382. He's so cute running along ahead
with the light shining.Copy !req
383. - Was he sober?
- Muff? Of course he was sober.Copy !req
384. Oh, you're joking now, aren't you?Copy !req
385. Yes, I'm joking. Uh, go on.Copy !req
386. Well, Barney came from somewhere.
Not the door I left by.Copy !req
387. And he said he was going my way
and he could drive me home.Copy !req
388. He said the bears had been prowling around
that night, and I oughtn't to walk home.Copy !req
389. The bears come out of the woods
at night to scavenge.Copy !req
390. Yeah, but they're harmless enough,
aren't they?Copy !req
391. Yeah. I suppose I wouldn't have
been afraid in the daylight...Copy !req
392. but, well, the dark isn't
the same, you know.Copy !req
393. Yes, I know. I know.
Now, you got into Barney's car.Copy !req
394. I got in and he drove
straight to the trailer park.Copy !req
395. He made overtures?Copy !req
396. No, nothing.
When we got to the trailer park...Copy !req
397. the auto gate was closed.Copy !req
398. Mr. Lemon closes it
about 11:00 or a little after.Copy !req
399. So I thanked Barney
and started to get out of the car...Copy !req
400. but he said that there wasn't
any need for me to walk...Copy !req
401. that he could drive me
into the park on another road.Copy !req
402. I didn't know there was another road, but
he drove on before I could say yes or no.Copy !req
403. - Were you alarmed?
- No.Copy !req
404. I'm not usually afraid of men.Copy !req
405. And anyway, he hadn't touched me
or even said anything out of the way.Copy !req
406. Well, doesn't a woman sort of instinctively
know when a fellow's on the make?Copy !req
407. Oh, sure. But that's only usual with me.Copy !req
408. With men, I mean - almost all men.
Ever since I was a kid.Copy !req
409. You, for instance. You're interested.Copy !req
410. But there isn't any reason to be afraid
of you. It was like that with Barney.Copy !req
411. Well, now, Mrs. Manion,
believe me, I'm not in the least -Copy !req
412. Call me Laura.Copy !req
413. Uh, Laura.Copy !req
414. I'm only interested in helping
your husband. Nothing more.Copy !req
415. Oh, I don't mean you'd try anything.Copy !req
416. I just mean it's - it's
the way you look at me.Copy !req
417. Well, it'd be very difficult
not to look at you.Copy !req
418. Oh, the way I dress, you mean?
You don't like it?Copy !req
419. Oh, I love it. I just love it.Copy !req
420. Now, we-we'd better keep
moving along with this thing.Copy !req
421. Now, uh, how were you dressed that night?Copy !req
422. Oh, in a sweater like this and a skirt.Copy !req
423. And the rest. What about that?Copy !req
424. Underneath?Copy !req
425. I had on a slip and panties and a bra.Copy !req
426. - No girdle?
- I don't need a girdle.Copy !req
427. Do you think I need a girdle?Copy !req
428. I don't know.Copy !req
429. I don't know. How sh - I -Copy !req
430. Look, I'm only concerned
with a few facts...Copy !req
431. that might be of help to me
in the defense of your husband.Copy !req
432. - That's all.
- Well, I don't wear one.Copy !req
433. Okay. No girdle. Okay.
All right. Now go on.Copy !req
434. Well, he turned off the highway
into a lane in the woods...Copy !req
435. and he stopped the car
and turned off the lights.Copy !req
436. And then he grabbed me, and he said...Copy !req
437. "I'm gonna rape you,"
just like that.Copy !req
438. - Did he use those words?
- Exactly those words.Copy !req
439. Muff began to bark,
so he threw him out the window.Copy !req
440. I could hear little Muffy
whining outside the car all through it.Copy !req
441. Barney began to try to get at me...Copy !req
442. and I fought him off as best I could,
but he was terribly strong.Copy !req
443. Did you cry out? Did you scream?Copy !req
444. It didn't seem to be much use
out there in the woods.Copy !req
445. He began to shout names at me
like "army slut" and some other names.Copy !req
446. And then he drew back
and hit me with his fist.Copy !req
447. He hit me again, and
I didn't fight anymore.Copy !req
448. I must've been only half conscious,
but I know that he tore my panties off...Copy !req
449. and did what he wanted.Copy !req
450. Now, the newspapers said
that a doctor examined you...Copy !req
451. and said that he didn't
think you'd been raped.Copy !req
452. I don't care what the doctor thought.
A woman doesn't mistake these things.Copy !req
453. All right. All right. Now go ahead.Copy !req
454. Well, I -Copy !req
455. I don't know exactly what happened then.
I must've fainted.Copy !req
456. But the next thing I remember,
the car was moving.Copy !req
457. Barney was driving very fast,
and - and he was breathing hard.Copy !req
458. An ugly, gasping sound.Copy !req
459. We were on the main
road to the trailer park...Copy !req
460. and he swung in by the gate and stopped.Copy !req
461. I opened the door to get out. Muffy jumped out
first, with a lighted flashlight in his mouth.Copy !req
462. Well, now, wait a minute.
I thought you said...Copy !req
463. he'd thrown Muff out of the car
back in the woods.Copy !req
464. Well, he did, but Muff was
in the car when we got back.Copy !req
465. He must've let him
back in. I don't remember.Copy !req
466. All right. All right. Now, you opened the
door, and Muff got out first. All right.Copy !req
467. Before I could get out,
Barney grabbed me...Copy !req
468. and said he was gonna tear all
my clothes off and attack me again.Copy !req
469. I got away and ran. I could see
Muff at an opening in the fence.Copy !req
470. He was scooting back and forth
with the flashlight.Copy !req
471. Barney caught me from behind,
and I fell to the ground.Copy !req
472. He fell on top of me and began
to beat me again with his fists.Copy !req
473. I thought he was gonna kill me.Copy !req
474. I screamed, and somehow or other
I got to my feet again and ran.Copy !req
475. I went through the opening
in the fence and followed Muffy.Copy !req
476. He was running along
ahead with the flashlight.Copy !req
477. And I kept following the light
until he led me to our trailer.Copy !req
478. And you didn't see Barney again?Copy !req
479. Never laid eyes on
him again, dead or alive.Copy !req
480. Well, I -Copy !req
481. I think that's enough for now.Copy !req
482. I've got lots of time. All you want.Copy !req
483. Where can I reach you?Copy !req
484. I'm still in Thunder Bay,
but I can drive down again in the morning.Copy !req
485. - Was there something else?
- No.Copy !req
486. Thanks for letting me play the records.Copy !req
487. - Oh, you're very welcome.
- Thanks a lot. Bye.Copy !req
488. - Who's that?
- The lady in the case.Copy !req
489. Oh.Copy !req
490. And you're not gonna take the case, huh?Copy !req
491. Well, I don't know. That depends on
what Manion has to tell me tomorrow.Copy !req
492. He's thinking things out.Copy !req
493. Oh, well, that's more like it.Copy !req
494. Now, if I take the case, I want you in it.Copy !req
495. Me? In a big murder case?Copy !req
496. Why, Polly, the sight of this whiskey-drinking
old man at the counsel table would ruin you.Copy !req
497. I need you.Copy !req
498. Do you mean that?Copy !req
499. Why else would he say it?Copy !req
500. Well, I'd be glad to work with you
outside of the courtroom...Copy !req
501. but not in the courtroom.Copy !req
502. Well, suit yourself about that. Either way,
I'm gonna have to be able to depend on you.Copy !req
503. Will you lay off the booze?Copy !req
504. I don't know. I don't
know about that, Polly.Copy !req
505. Why don't you know?Copy !req
506. Do you think I could lay off the booze?Copy !req
507. Ever tried it?Copy !req
508. Try it.Copy !req
509. I've never been on a big murder case.Copy !req
510. Not once in all my life.Copy !req
511. It's up to you, Parn.Copy !req
512. Will you be around tonight?Copy !req
513. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be around.Copy !req
514. You know, Maida, darlin'...Copy !req
515. I might manage it.Copy !req
516. I might manage to be a real lawyer again.Copy !req
517. For a little while anyway.Copy !req
518. I tried remembering.Copy !req
519. There were still some pieces missing.Copy !req
520. I remember...Copy !req
521. going to Quill's bar with a gun...Copy !req
522. and I remember Quill's face behind the bar.Copy !req
523. But I don't remember anything else,
not even going home.Copy !req
524. Don't you remember firing the gun?Copy !req
525. Five shots. That's a
lot of noise to forget.Copy !req
526. Yeah, I remember hearing shots, but
they don't seem to be connected with me.Copy !req
527. They seemed far away...Copy !req
528. like somebody else was doing the shooting.Copy !req
529. Lieutenant Manion, I'll, uh -
I'll take your case.Copy !req
530. Why, thanks. Thanks, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
531. All right. Now, there's
the little matter of the fee.Copy !req
532. Three thousand dollars.
That's reasonable enough, isn't it?Copy !req
533. Oh, sure, sure. More than reasonable.Copy !req
534. I'll have to pay you later.
Right now I'm broke.Copy !req
535. - You're what?
- I'm broke. I'm flat busted.Copy !req
536. I don't have three
dollars, much less 3,000.Copy !req
537. - Well, can you raise it?
- Oh, yeah, as soon as I get outta jail.Copy !req
538. But, uh, next week's payday.Copy !req
539. I'll, uh -
I'll be able to give you $150.Copy !req
540. And if you get me off, I'll give you
a promissory note for the rest.Copy !req
541. All right. Now, suppose I don't go along
with you unless you pay me half the fee?Copy !req
542. Well, I'll have to take
the lawyer the court appoints.Copy !req
543. - I got my defense now. Right? Insanity.
- Yeah.Copy !req
544. I think I'll stick around
and make damn sure you get off.Copy !req
545. - Where do we start?
- We're gonna need a psychiatrist.Copy !req
546. As much as neither one of us has any money,
do you think the army'll stir one up for you?Copy !req
547. Well, I know a colonel in the Pentagon.Copy !req
548. - I'll write a letter.
- Good. Do that. Sulo.Copy !req
549. Where are you going now?Copy !req
550. I'm going to see your wife, for one thing.Copy !req
551. Why? Didn't you see her yesterday?Copy !req
552. That's right. I did.Copy !req
553. She's a very pretty woman, your wife.Copy !req
554. - A man gets used to the way his wife looks.
- Yeah. I can see that.Copy !req
555. I'll see ya.Copy !req
556. Come on in, Polly. Come on in.Copy !req
557. You haven't been in here since you vacated,
have you, Polly?Copy !req
558. - No.
- Hardly recognize the old place, huh?Copy !req
559. Mary did it for me.
She just finished a decorator's course.Copy !req
560. Smart girl.
Very smart girl. Look at this.Copy !req
561. - A real, genuine Picasso print.
- It's very nice.Copy !req
562. And here, try this chair.
It sort of does things for you.Copy !req
563. - Huh?
- Yeah. Sit right down.Copy !req
564. Great, isn't it? Good for the nerves, they say.Copy !req
565. - Yeah. How do you shut it off?
- There. Here we are.Copy !req
566. - Feel better?
- I feel all shook up.Copy !req
567. Whew!Copy !req
568. Uh, Mitch, I just dropped by to tell you
I've got both feet in the Manion case.Copy !req
569. - You're going to cop out, aren't you?
- No.Copy !req
570. - That's a mistake, Polly. It's open and shut.
- Well, maybe. We'll see.Copy !req
571. Judge Maitland is still in the hospital.Copy !req
572. Maybe you'd like to agree
to a continuance until he gets back.Copy !req
573. If we go with the case now,
we'll have to try...Copy !req
574. before some grab-bag judge they'll send in.Copy !req
575. - Me, I'd rather have Maitland.
- Yeah. So would I.Copy !req
576. But of course that'd also mean my client
would lie around in jail...Copy !req
577. for another two, three months
before the trial.Copy !req
578. Now, if you'll drop the charge
down to manslaughter...Copy !req
579. so I can get him out on bail,
we'll agree to a continuance.Copy !req
580. You wouldn't do that if you were still D.A.Copy !req
581. Oh, I don't know. I might.Copy !req
582. I might, since a great big fat
lie detector test on his wife...Copy !req
583. has given proof to the rape story.Copy !req
584. - He'd have the jury with him.
- How did you know what the lie -Copy !req
585. - Bit, didn't I?
- Yeah. You did.Copy !req
586. Anyway, the result of a lie detector test
isn't admissible evidence.Copy !req
587. - You can't use it.
- No, but it carries moral weight.Copy !req
588. Mitch, I wouldn't
sit in that chair too much.Copy !req
589. It could shake a fellow's brains loose.Copy !req
590. I'll see you later.Copy !req
591. He remembers you, Paul. He likes you.Copy !req
592. He likes the beer in my icebox.Copy !req
593. Well, what's the occasion today?
A buffalo hunt?Copy !req
594. I bought these in Arizona
when we were stationed there.Copy !req
595. - Aren't they smart? I think they're very smart.
- Here. We can sit in my car.Copy !req
596. Here you are.Copy !req
597. Here you go, Muffy.Copy !req
598. Several things have occurred to me.Copy !req
599. The, uh -Copy !req
600. The undergarments
that Barney Quill tore off.Copy !req
601. Who has them now? The police?Copy !req
602. You mean my panties?Copy !req
603. All right. Your panties.Copy !req
604. I haven't seen them since.Copy !req
605. I gave the torn skirt
and sweater to the police...Copy !req
606. and then I went with them up that lane
into the woods to look for the panties.Copy !req
607. - But we couldn't find anything but my glasses.
- Your glasses?Copy !req
608. You mean you were wearing glasses
through all that?Copy !req
609. No. I had them in a case in my hand.Copy !req
610. I wear them for reading, playing pinball.
Things like that.Copy !req
611. I must've tried to get
out of the car and dropped them.Copy !req
612. Uh-huh.Copy !req
613. You, uh, might be interested to know
that your lie detector test...Copy !req
614. turned out in your favor.Copy !req
615. Of course it did. I
could've told you it would.Copy !req
616. - You weren't worried about it?
- No. Why should I be?Copy !req
617. Would you like to have
something to worry about?Copy !req
618. Silly.Copy !req
619. Like your husband watching us
from his cell window?Copy !req
620. All right. All right. Let's have it.Copy !req
621. - Did he say something to you?
- Just enough.Copy !req
622. Are you afraid of him?Copy !req
623. Yes.Copy !req
624. Is that why you volunteered
for a lie detector test? For him?Copy !req
625. - Yeah.
- Mmm. Does he have reason to be jealous?Copy !req
626. He was jealous even before we were married.Copy !req
627. I should have known how it would be.Copy !req
628. It's funny though. He -
He likes to show me off.Copy !req
629. He likes me to dress the way I do.Copy !req
630. And then he gets furious
if a man pays any attention to me.Copy !req
631. I've tried to leave him, but I can't.Copy !req
632. He begs. I give in.Copy !req
633. Now, if you think I've forgotten
my question, I haven't.Copy !req
634. - I have.
- All right.Copy !req
635. All right. Then I'll ask it again.Copy !req
636. Does your husband
have any reason to be jealous?Copy !req
637. No.Copy !req
638. Not once. Not ever.Copy !req
639. All right? You like the place all right?Copy !req
640. I was just lookin' at these pictures.Copy !req
641. - That was Barney Quill, wasn't it?
- That's right. Barney Quill.Copy !req
642. - I'm Paul Biegler -
- I know who you are.Copy !req
643. Seen you around Iron City.Copy !req
644. - You didn't tell me your name.
- Paquette. We don't open till 5:00.Copy !req
645. That's all right. I can wait.
I don't have the shakes yet.Copy !req
646. You were on the job
that night, weren't you?Copy !req
647. The night Barney Quill was killed.Copy !req
648. Like the newspaper said, I was present.Copy !req
649. You were the fellow that stopped
Lieutenant Manion outside.Copy !req
650. That's right. He, uh -
He pointed the gun at me and said...Copy !req
651. "You want some too, buster?"Copy !req
652. And you said no,
because your name isn't buster.Copy !req
653. There wasn't anything funny
about it, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
654. No. There wasn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.Copy !req
655. Where were you when Barney Quill
was killed, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
656. I gather you don't want to
talk about that night, huh?Copy !req
657. That's right.
I don't want to talk about it.Copy !req
658. Have to talk to me about it in court.
Why not now?Copy !req
659. Because I don't have to now.
Reason enough, okay?Copy !req
660. Okay.Copy !req
661. Okay. Boy, old Barney, he was kind of
a rugged character, wasn't he?Copy !req
662. Ex-prize fighter, muscle man.
Fancy with guns.Copy !req
663. He paid his debts, ran a clean place.Copy !req
664. - Me, I liked him.
- You run the place now?Copy !req
665. No, I just work here.
Mary's running things.Copy !req
666. Mary. Was that Barney's wife?Copy !req
667. No. He wasn't - He didn't have a wife.
Mary was his manager.Copy !req
668. Oh. Gee, I wonder
who's gonna inherit the place.Copy !req
669. - Mary, I guess.
- Hmm, Mary again?Copy !req
670. What's the matter with that?Copy !req
671. You mean what's the matter with Mary?
I don't know what's the matter with Mary.Copy !req
672. Mary what?Copy !req
673. Pilant. Mary Pilant.Copy !req
674. She's in the back booth.Copy !req
675. We don't talk about our customers here,
but if we did -Copy !req
676. - Which we don't -
- Thank you.Copy !req
677. That's her. That's Mary Pilant.Copy !req
678. Do you know Lieutenant Manion's wife?Copy !req
679. Sure. I know the lieutenant too.Copy !req
680. He's a good officer. She's all right too.Copy !req
681. Friendly. Good kid.Copy !req
682. What do you know about it?
Knock it off.Copy !req
683. I didn't mean anything.
She's a dish. What's the matter with that?Copy !req
684. You want this lawyer to get wrong ideas?Copy !req
685. What chances has the lieutenant got,
Mr. McCarthy?Copy !req
686. Pretty good, I'd say, with a couple
of character witnesses like you.Copy !req
687. I'd like to help him out. I sure would, but
we're moving out. The whole outfit. Berlin.Copy !req
688. Oh. Uh, tell me...Copy !req
689. who is this babe at the hotel?Copy !req
690. Name's Mary Pilant.
She was Quill's private property.Copy !req
691. - Would you like a table, sir?
- Yes, please.Copy !req
692. - Will you be alone?
- I'll be joined by two others.Copy !req
693. - May I take your hat?
- Well, thank you. Thank you very much.Copy !req
694. How was the manicure?Copy !req
695. Just ask me any questions about anybody.
I've got all the dope.Copy !req
696. Well, can you tell me about a woman
by the name of Mary Pilant?Copy !req
697. Easy.Copy !req
698. Mary Pilant may or may not have
been the mistress of the late B. Quill.Copy !req
699. - Oh?
- The manicurist is in favor of the mistress theory...Copy !req
700. but the hairdresser is agin it.Copy !req
701. However, they both agree that some sort of
hanky-panky must've been going on.Copy !req
702. - To be continued.
- Menu?Copy !req
703. Thank you.Copy !req
704. - Pretty, huh?
- Yes, she's very pretty.Copy !req
705. Well, go on. Go on.Copy !req
706. Well, anyway, there's one story that says
that Barney's wild night with Mrs. Manion...Copy !req
707. was somehow triggered by Mary Pilant.Copy !req
708. Seemed she'd been running around with
some soldier, and Barney blew his stack.Copy !req
709. - He got tanked up and exploded.
- Is Mary Pilant local?Copy !req
710. No, she's a Canadian. Barney brought her
in here to sort of dress up the place...Copy !req
711. and she stayed on to manage it for him.Copy !req
712. - Looks like she's done all right.
- Better than all right. She's in for the estate.Copy !req
713. Oh? She doesn't look
like a bad sort, does she?Copy !req
714. - Hmm? Where?
- What do you mean, where?Copy !req
715. - The pretty one with the menus.
- This girl right here?Copy !req
716. Uh, Miss Pilant, may I introduce myself?Copy !req
717. I'm Paul Biegler,
attorney for Lieutenant Manion.Copy !req
718. This is Mrs. Rutledge
and Mr. McCarthy, my associates.Copy !req
719. - How do you do?
- I wonder if you could sit with us for a minute?Copy !req
720. - Yes, I can take a minute.
- Thank you.Copy !req
721. I'd like to ask you a few things,
if you don't mind.Copy !req
722. What sort of things, Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
723. Well, like what kind of a man
your employer was, Mr. Quill.Copy !req
724. A very nice man.Copy !req
725. If that's true, how do you explain what
happened with Lieutenant Manion's wife?Copy !req
726. I don't know what happened
with Lieutenant Manion's wife...Copy !req
727. so there really isn't anything
for me to explain, is there?Copy !req
728. Your loyalty to the dead Mr. Quill
is very touching, Miss Pilant.Copy !req
729. Barney was well liked here
by everyone, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
730. It was very generous of everyone to overlook his
little faults, like raping other men's wives.Copy !req
731. If you'll pardon me...Copy !req
732. the waitress will take your order
when you're ready.Copy !req
733. Nice to have met you, Mr. Biegler,
Mr. McCarthy, Mrs. Rutledge.Copy !req
734. You've just been ginned, Lieutenant.Copy !req
735. - Ten, twenty -
- Manion.Copy !req
736. - Any word, Lieutenant?
- Yeah.Copy !req
737. Uh, this. From Washington.Copy !req
738. They'll let a doctor come to testify,
but there's a string on it.Copy !req
739. They want me to go to an army hospital
in Detroit for an examination.Copy !req
740. Doesn't the army understand you're in jail
on a non-bailable offense?Copy !req
741. That's it, as far as the army's concerned.Copy !req
742. I don't know how I can get around this.
I'll try and think of something.Copy !req
743. Look. My wife hasn't been here
for two days. Have you seen her?Copy !req
744. - No, not for a while.
- Where the hell is she?Copy !req
745. You've got other things
to worry about, Lieutenant.Copy !req
746. Now, I'll get in touch with your wife.
I'll tell her you miss her.Copy !req
747. Yeah. You tell her that.Copy !req
748. - Thanks, Sulo.
- Okay, Polly.Copy !req
749. I know just how you feel, Lieutenant.Copy !req
750. I'd be tearin' my hair out too
if I had something like that outside.Copy !req
751. - Something like what outside?
- Man, you know what I mean.Copy !req
752. Something like that,
running around on the loose.Copy !req
753. Now, what's the big noise, buckoes?Copy !req
754. It's me, dummy.
I hit my elbow on this lousy iron bar.Copy !req
755. Oh. You want some rubbing alcohol, maybe?Copy !req
756. Nah. But a little bourbon might help.Copy !req
757. Knock it off. Knock it off, buckoes.Copy !req
758. Let's finish the game, Lieutenant.Copy !req
759. Oh! Hey!
What a crazy lawyer we've got.Copy !req
760. Hiya, Polly.
That's what they call you, isn't it? Polly?Copy !req
761. That's a crazy name for a crazy lawyer!Copy !req
762. Thanks for letting me sit in, Pie-Eye.Copy !req
763. - Hey, you're not splittin' the scene, man?
- Huh?Copy !req
764. - I mean, you're not cuttin' out?
- No, I'll be back.Copy !req
765. - Well, hi, Polly. Fellas, this is Manny's lawyer.
- Hi.Copy !req
766. - How are ya?
- Sit down, won't you?Copy !req
767. Sorry, I can't right now. Mrs. Manion,
may I talk to you for a moment, outside?Copy !req
768. "Mrs. Manion"? I thought
we dropped the formalities a long time ago.Copy !req
769. I think maybe we'd better pick
them up again. This is important.Copy !req
770. - All right. I'll go with you.
- All right, come on.Copy !req
771. - Hey! You're coming back, aren't you?
- Sure. What do you think?Copy !req
772. - See ya later, Pie-Eye.
- Okay.Copy !req
773. - Did you get my phone message?
- Yeah, but I got busy.Copy !req
774. Why haven't you been to see your husband?Copy !req
775. I don't see why I have
to see him every day.Copy !req
776. I think it'd be a very
good idea if you did.Copy !req
777. All right. I'll see him every day. Okay?Copy !req
778. No, not okay. Now, where's your car?Copy !req
779. - I came with them.
- All right. Mine's right over here. Come on.Copy !req
780. Hey, wait a second!
I've got friends inside.Copy !req
781. - Friends or no friends, you're goin' home.
- Who do you think you are?Copy !req
782. I'm the lawyer trying to beat a rap
for your husband! Do you remember?Copy !req
783. - What's that got to do with -
- Wait. Now, you listen. You listen.Copy !req
784. Now, until this trial is over, you're
gonna be a meek little housewife...Copy !req
785. with horn-rimmed spectacles, and you're
gonna stay away from men and juke joints...Copy !req
786. and booze and pinball machines...Copy !req
787. and you're gonna wear
a skirt and low-heeled shoes...Copy !req
788. and you're gonna wear a girdle -
and especially a girdle.Copy !req
789. Look, Laura, believe me, I don't usually
complain of an attractive jiggle, but just -Copy !req
790. You save that jiggle for your husband to
look at, if and when I get him out of jail.Copy !req
791. Now come on. Let's go.Copy !req
792. I'm sorry. I really am.Copy !req
793. I wouldn't hurt Manny's
chances for anything.Copy !req
794. Come on. Come on.Copy !req
795. Is this about where
Barney knocked you down?Copy !req
796. Yeah. Right over here.Copy !req
797. Over there is the opening in the fence...Copy !req
798. where Muffy was running
back and forth with the flashlight.Copy !req
799. Where's your trailer?Copy !req
800. Up there on the hill.Copy !req
801. This is my favorite place.Copy !req
802. Sometimes when Manny was sleeping,
I'd come out here and just sit.Copy !req
803. I had to get out of that trailer. I
couldn't stand being cooped up all the time.Copy !req
804. I'm - I'm lonely, Paul.Copy !req
805. I'm awful lonely.Copy !req
806. I wouldn't have gone to that roadhouse
if it weren't for that, you know.Copy !req
807. Maybe you're getting in
some good practice being lonely.Copy !req
808. You mean you think
maybe Manny won't get off?Copy !req
809. That'll be up to the jury,
and you can never tell about them.Copy !req
810. If he didn't, it'd be one way to end it.Copy !req
811. No. I don't mean that.
I - I may think it sometimes...Copy !req
812. but I don't really want it.Copy !req
813. Hello, sweetie. Did ya miss me?Copy !req
814. Of course you missed me.Copy !req
815. You wanna come in, Paul?Copy !req
816. You can if you want to, you know.Copy !req
817. No, thank you, Laura.Copy !req
818. I'm sorry I had to spoil
your fun over at that place. I -Copy !req
819. - Good night, Laura.
- Good night.Copy !req
820. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.Copy !req
821. The Circuit Court for the County
of Iron Cliffs is now in session.Copy !req
822. You can be seated.Copy !req
823. For those of you I haven't met,
my name is Weaver.Copy !req
824. I'm from downstate, and I'm sitting
temporarily while your good Judge Maitland...Copy !req
825. is recovering from a severe illness.Copy !req
826. There's no need, I think,
to dwell at length upon my methods.Copy !req
827. One judge is quite like another.Copy !req
828. The only differences may be in the state
of their digestions...Copy !req
829. or their proclivities
for sleeping on the bench.Copy !req
830. For myself, I can digest pig iron.Copy !req
831. And while I might appear to doze occasionally,
you'll find that I'm easily awakened...Copy !req
832. particularly if shaken gently
by a good lawyer with a nice point of law.Copy !req
833. We will now take up the criminal docket.
Case number one.Copy !req
834. The People versus Clarence Madigan.Copy !req
835. Breaking and entering in the nighttime.Copy !req
836. Will the defendant rise and come forward?Copy !req
837. That's me, Your Honor.Copy !req
838. "State of Michigan, Court of Iron Cliffs.Copy !req
839. I, Mitchell Lodwick,
prosecuting attorney...Copy !req
840. come into said county of Iron Cliffs
and give the court to understand...Copy !req
841. that one Clarence Madigan...Copy !req
842. alias 'One-Shot' Madigan,
alias 'Smoky' Madigan...Copy !req
843. did break and enter
the dwelling house of Casper Katz...Copy !req
844. and did there commit the felony
of larceny on said premises."Copy !req
845. Does Mr. Madigan have an attorney?Copy !req
846. Oh, no. A man's gotta have money
to ask them fellas the time of day.Copy !req
847. Mr. Madigan, if you're impoverished,
it's my duty...Copy !req
848. to appoint an attorney on your behalf.Copy !req
849. Oh, I wouldn't bother, Your Honor.
I stole the whiskey.Copy !req
850. I'm guilty as hell.Copy !req
851. It was a full case of expensive bourbon,
Your Honor.Copy !req
852. - Did you sell this whiskey?
- Oh, no. I drank it.Copy !req
853. - All of it?
- You bet, Judge.Copy !req
854. Are you aware that it will be necessary
to punish you for this crime?Copy !req
855. It was worth it, Your Honor.Copy !req
856. Well, I'll accept your plea of guilty,
Mr. Madigan. You'll be sentenced later.Copy !req
857. - You may now return to your place.
- Thanks, Your Honor.Copy !req
858. Case number two.
The People versus Frederick Manion.Copy !req
859. The charge: murder.Copy !req
860. Paul Biegler for the defendant.
My formal appearance is already on file.Copy !req
861. Which of these men is your client,
Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
862. - None of them, Your Honor.
- Mr. Sheriff...Copy !req
863. will you produce the prisoner?Copy !req
864. Well, I - I'm afraid I can't do that,
Your Honor.Copy !req
865. Perhaps someone should explain.
I'm not clairvoyant.Copy !req
866. The defendant is in Detroit being examined
by a psychiatrist, Your Honor.Copy !req
867. Shouldn't the court have been consulted...Copy !req
868. before the defendant
was allowed to leave its jurisdiction?Copy !req
869. Well, Your Honor, we're dealing
with the army in this matter...Copy !req
870. and this was the only crack the army would
give us at one of their psychiatrists.Copy !req
871. The court was not present,
and it was very urgent...Copy !req
872. that we get the defendant
to the psychiatrist.Copy !req
873. What does the attorney
for the People say to this?Copy !req
874. It was done with my knowledge, Your Honor.Copy !req
875. I've always heard that this Upper Peninsula
of our fair state was a queer place.Copy !req
876. If it's customary here to allow a man charged with
first-degree murder to wander about at will...Copy !req
877. I don't suppose it behooves
an outsider to point out...Copy !req
878. that the law makes no provision
for such quaint liberalism.Copy !req
879. Your Honor, the defendant is in the care of
a deputy and will be returned this afternoon.Copy !req
880. We'll formally arraign
the defendant on his return.Copy !req
881. For the sake of the docket,
can you give me a clue as to his plea?Copy !req
882. The defendant will waive reading
of the information and stand mute.Copy !req
883. A plea of not guilty will be entered.Copy !req
884. The case of Frederick Manion
will be placed first on the trial docket.Copy !req
885. Can you hurry it up, Polly?
Somebody tells that judge...Copy !req
886. the prisoner was lounging around the railroad
station, he'll really give me the works.Copy !req
887. - Just take a minute, Sheriff.
- Okay.Copy !req
888. Thank you. Come on over here.Copy !req
889. Well, Lieutenant, how'd things turn out?Copy !req
890. - I was temporarily insane.
- Did he tell you that?Copy !req
891. Yeah. Said he's gonna write you a letter...Copy !req
892. but, uh, I took some notes on my own.Copy !req
893. - Doctor's name is Smith.
- Smith.Copy !req
894. Anatole Ludwig Smith
or, uh, Ludwig von Smith, I hope.Copy !req
895. - A name like that would impress the jury.
- No, just plain Matthew Smith.Copy !req
896. He said that when I shot Quill, I was
suffering from "dissociative reaction."Copy !req
897. Dissociative reaction.
Sounds pretty good, doesn't it, Parn?Copy !req
898. - Yeah. What does it mean in plain English?
- Well, it means I had...Copy !req
899. "an irresistible impulse to shoot Quill."Copy !req
900. That's okay, isn't it?Copy !req
901. Yeah, but what did he say
about your knowing the difference...Copy !req
902. between right and wrong
when you shot Quill?Copy !req
903. I don't think he said anything.
Why? Is that important?Copy !req
904. We better not keep the sheriff waiting.
You better go.Copy !req
905. Thank you, Sheriff.Copy !req
906. You ever heard of a Michigan court
accepting irresistible impulse as insanity?Copy !req
907. No. Maybe we better switch to self-defense.Copy !req
908. Even Mitch Lodwick would make
a monkey out of us on that.Copy !req
909. Damn strawberry soda.Copy !req
910. - Here. Want a peanut?
- No, thanks.Copy !req
911. Well, tomorrow's Saturday.Copy !req
912. We just have the weekend before the trial.Copy !req
913. - When do you want to start working?
- Tomorrow morning, early.Copy !req
914. - Polly!
- Hey, listen to this, Parn.Copy !req
915. Never mind that. Just find...Copy !req
916. People versus Durfee,
62 Michigan, 486. Year 1886.Copy !req
917. Yeah, that's it.
I have it right here in the A.L.R.Copy !req
918. Listen. "The right-and-wrong test,
though condemned as being unscientific...Copy !req
919. is adhered to by most of the states, but" -Copy !req
920. Listen to this "but."But the fact
that one accused of committing a crime...Copy !req
921. may have been able to comprehend the
nature and the consequences of this act...Copy !req
922. and to know that it was
wrong, nevertheless" -Copy !req
923. Dear, sweet, endearing
word, "nevertheless"!Copy !req
924. "Nevertheless, if he was forced
to its execution by an impulse -Copy !req
925. by an impulse which he was
powerless to control...Copy !req
926. he will be excused from punishment."Copy !req
927. Why, the Michigan Supreme Court
did accept irresistible impulse, Parn.Copy !req
928. This is precedent. Boy, I think
we got ahold of something here.Copy !req
929. Good old Durfee, 1886.Copy !req
930. How about that? Give me a pad.Copy !req
931. By the saints, this strawberry soda pop is
beginning to taste like real bourbon whiskey.Copy !req
932. Well, don't get drunk yet.
You know, we've got to convince a jury...Copy !req
933. that our client was irresistibly impulsed.Copy !req
934. Remember that.Copy !req
935. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...Copy !req
936. before we proceed further, it will be
necessary for me to examine you...Copy !req
937. on your qualifications to sit as jurors.Copy !req
938. Will you please remember
that you are under oath?Copy !req
939. Are all of you citizens?Copy !req
940. Will you please raise
your hand if you are not.Copy !req
941. Are there any justices of the peace
or law enforcement officers among you?Copy !req
942. No.Copy !req
943. Are any of you related by blood or marriage
to any law enforcement officer?Copy !req
944. - No.
- So much for qualifications.Copy !req
945. I will now examine for cause.Copy !req
946. Do any of you have any business pending with
the prosecuting attorney, Mitchell Lodwick?Copy !req
947. No.Copy !req
948. Do any of you have any business pending
with Paul Biegler, attorney for the defense?Copy !req
949. No.Copy !req
950. Are any of you acquainted
with the defendant...Copy !req
951. sitting there on Mr. Biegler's left?Copy !req
952. - No.
- Will Mrs. Laura Manion...Copy !req
953. the defendant's wife please stand?Copy !req
954. - Do any of you know Mrs. Manion?
- No.Copy !req
955. Thank you, Mrs. Manion.
You may be seated.Copy !req
956. Counsel may challenge the jury for cause.Copy !req
957. Your Honor, before counsel's challenge, may
I introduce Mr. Claude Dancer to the court?Copy !req
958. Mr. Dancer is an assistant attorney general
from Lansing.Copy !req
959. Because of the peculiar nature of this case,
I have requested the attorney general...Copy !req
960. to allow Mr. Dancer to sit in
with the prosecution.Copy !req
961. Your reputation precedes you, Mr. Dancer.Copy !req
962. It's a privilege to have you in my court.Copy !req
963. Thank you, Your Honor.
I'm sure it will be instructive.Copy !req
964. Do any of you jurors
have any business pending...Copy !req
965. before the attorney general's office?Copy !req
966. No.Copy !req
967. I must apologize for my
disparaging remarks...Copy !req
968. about the Upper Peninsula and its customs.Copy !req
969. I've seldom seen a murder jury
selected and sworn in less than half a day.Copy !req
970. You have won my heart
completely, gentlemen.Copy !req
971. Now, Mr. Dancer, you asked for the recess.
What's your problem?Copy !req
972. There was a little suggestion
I wanted to make, Your Honor.Copy !req
973. - By all means.
- Since the defense plea is insanity...Copy !req
974. the prosecution has
retained a psychiatrist.Copy !req
975. Under the statute, we have the right
to petition for a mental examination...Copy !req
976. of the defendant by our own doctor.Copy !req
977. Are you familiar with that statute,
Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
978. Uh-huh. Moderately.Copy !req
979. I think it would only
delay things to file a formal petition...Copy !req
980. so why don't we just, uh,
get together and sort of...Copy !req
981. informally agree to ask His Honor
for an adjournment?Copy !req
982. Only a day or so, and our
doctor can visit with the defendant.Copy !req
983. I think it would save everyone a great
deal of time. Don't you, Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
984. - Yes, I'm sure it will.
- Good.Copy !req
985. But suppose you just go ahead
and file that formal petition anyway.Copy !req
986. Of course, you're a little late, aren't ya?Copy !req
987. Well, maybe His Honor will overlook that.Copy !req
988. And then, I'd sort of
like the jury to see...Copy !req
989. that you think our insanity plea
has some merit.Copy !req
990. There really won't be any need
for our doctor to examine your client.Copy !req
991. Naturally, I was only following
the usual procedure.Copy !req
992. - Well, naturally, I'm all for it.
- Uh-huh.Copy !req
993. Do you wish to file the petition or not,
Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
994. - Yes, Your Honor -
- It won't be necessary.Copy !req
995. That's right. It won't be necessary at all.Copy !req
996. Skirmish over.
Shall we join now on the field of battle?Copy !req
997. The body of Quill had sustained
five gunshot wounds.Copy !req
998. One of the bullets
had passed through the heart.Copy !req
999. Death, in my opinion,
was almost instantaneous...Copy !req
1000. and was directly caused by this wound.Copy !req
1001. - Dr. Raschid, may I have your detailed report?
- Certainly.Copy !req
1002. I ask that this report be marked
People's Exhibit One for identification.Copy !req
1003. So received and marked.Copy !req
1004. The People hand the defense
a copy of the report.Copy !req
1005. Counsel may cross-examine.Copy !req
1006. Dr. Raschid, your primary purpose was to
ascertain the cause of death, was it not?Copy !req
1007. Yes.Copy !req
1008. And yet, I read in your report here,
that you checked...Copy !req
1009. to determine whether
spermatogenesis was occurring...Copy !req
1010. in the body of the deceased
at the time of death.Copy !req
1011. Objection, Your Honor. The People call this
witness only to show the cause of death.Copy !req
1012. Your Honor, the entire report
was offered as evidence...Copy !req
1013. and the report contains this information
about spermatogenesis.Copy !req
1014. Overruled, Mr. Lodwick.
The witness may answer.Copy !req
1015. Yes, I made that
examination on the deceased.Copy !req
1016. Now, would you tell
the court your findings?Copy !req
1017. Spermatogenesis was occurring
at the time of death.Copy !req
1018. In other words, the deceased, in life,
was not sterile. He could produce children.Copy !req
1019. - That is correct.
- Now, Doctor...Copy !req
1020. if a woman says that she has had
intercourse with a certain man...Copy !req
1021. and the man is proved fertile, even though
no evidence is found in the woman's body...Copy !req
1022. could a lawyer - say a
prosecuting attorney -Copy !req
1023. could he use this as evidence
that the woman is lying?Copy !req
1024. Your Honor.
I, uh, object to this line of questioning.Copy !req
1025. We're not concerned
here with whether or not...Copy !req
1026. there have been relations
between a man and a woman.Copy !req
1027. Your Honor, as long as an examination
for spermatogenesis has been made...Copy !req
1028. at least we're entitled to know why.Copy !req
1029. Overruled. You may answer.Copy !req
1030. Yes. Prosecution could use that...Copy !req
1031. though it certainly
would not be conclusive that she was lying.Copy !req
1032. - Why not?
- There could be several reasons...Copy !req
1033. why the test on her was negative.Copy !req
1034. The, uh, use of a contraceptive...Copy !req
1035. or - or possibly there was no completion
on the part of the man.Copy !req
1036. Now, on this postmortem were you also asked
to determine whether or not...Copy !req
1037. the deceased had reached
a sexual climax shortly before his death?Copy !req
1038. - No, sir.
- Could you have made such a determination?Copy !req
1039. Oh, yes.Copy !req
1040. So you were only asked
to make such examination...Copy !req
1041. as might be useful to the prosecution,
none that might help the defense?Copy !req
1042. I object, Your Honor.
The question is argumentative.Copy !req
1043. Counsel for the defense
is trying to impugn the intent...Copy !req
1044. of the representatives of the People.Copy !req
1045. Mr. Biegler, you must be aware
that the question is improper.Copy !req
1046. I withdraw the question, Your Honor,
and apologize.Copy !req
1047. The question and answer will be stricken...Copy !req
1048. and the jury will disregard
both the question and the answer.Copy !req
1049. - That's all the questions I had.
- No redirect.Copy !req
1050. The People now call Lloyd Burke.Copy !req
1051. Will the witness step forward, please.Copy !req
1052. How can a jury disregard
what it's already heard?Copy !req
1053. They can't, Lieutenant. They can't.Copy !req
1054. The whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?Copy !req
1055. - I do.
- Sit down, please.Copy !req
1056. Will you state your profession,
please, Mr. Burke?Copy !req
1057. - I'm a commercial photographer.
- Were you called upon by the police...Copy !req
1058. to take photographs of the body
of the deceased Bernard Quill...Copy !req
1059. before and after he was removed
from the scene of death?Copy !req
1060. Yes, sir, I was.Copy !req
1061. Were these photographs
of the deceased made by you?Copy !req
1062. They were.Copy !req
1063. The reporter will please mark
these photographs...Copy !req
1064. People's Exhibit 2A
to 2D for identification.Copy !req
1065. Photographs are tendered
to the defense for examination...Copy !req
1066. and the People move
their admission as evidence.Copy !req
1067. - Your witness.
- Uh, no questions. No objections.Copy !req
1068. Paul, he took pictures
of me that night too.Copy !req
1069. Just a minute, Mr. Burke.Copy !req
1070. Uh, Mr. Burke...Copy !req
1071. these photographs offered as evidence...Copy !req
1072. are they the only photographs
you took that night?Copy !req
1073. Why, uh, no.Copy !req
1074. I suppose the others didn't turn out.
Is that it?Copy !req
1075. All my pictures turn out!Copy !req
1076. Oh, of course. I - I beg your pardon.Copy !req
1077. Did you give the other
pictures to the police?Copy !req
1078. - Yes, sir, I did.
- Well, Mr. Burke, what were they?Copy !req
1079. Were they side shots,
or a shot of the moon, perhaps?Copy !req
1080. Or a black bear scavenging the Thunder Bay dump?Copy !req
1081. Your Honor, I object! I can't see
how other photographs are relevant.Copy !req
1082. The photographs in
evidence were introduced...Copy !req
1083. to show that the deceased
met with a violent death.Copy !req
1084. Well, Your Honor, I should think any photograph
pertaining to the case would be relevant.Copy !req
1085. The point is good, Mr. Biegler. Continue.Copy !req
1086. What were these other
photographs of, Mr. Burke?Copy !req
1087. Lieutenant Manion's wife.Copy !req
1088. You mean these photographs showed how she
looked that night after Barney Quill was killed?Copy !req
1089. - Yes.
- Your Honor, how she looked is irrelevant.Copy !req
1090. No evidence has been introduced to connect
Mrs. Manion's appearance to a charge of murder.Copy !req
1091. - Sustained.
- I'm sorry, Your Honor.Copy !req
1092. I just wanted to make sure the prosecution
wasn't withholding evidence.Copy !req
1093. Now look here!Copy !req
1094. I protest to the defense attorney's
persistent attacks...Copy !req
1095. on the motives of the prosecution.Copy !req
1096. The jury will disregard the remark
made by the attorney for the defense.Copy !req
1097. There's no reason to believe that the
prosecution has not acted in good faith.Copy !req
1098. My apologies to the prosecution,
and to the court.Copy !req
1099. But, Your Honor,
as long as protests are being made...Copy !req
1100. I'd like to make a protest myself.Copy !req
1101. Now, I'm perfectly willing to take on
these two legal giants anytime, anyplace...Copy !req
1102. but in all fairness,
it ought to be one at a time.Copy !req
1103. I don't want these two fellows pitching
knuckleballs at me at the same time.Copy !req
1104. It seems to me you're batting
close to a thousand, Mr. Biegler...Copy !req
1105. but your point is well taken.Copy !req
1106. Whichever attorney
opens with the witness...Copy !req
1107. he alone shall continue with that witness
until the witness is excused.Copy !req
1108. Thank you, Your Honor. No more questions.Copy !req
1109. No questions.Copy !req
1110. - My, we're drawing well, aren't we?
- Where's Parnell?Copy !req
1111. Parnell? Why? Isn't he here?Copy !req
1112. No, he's not here. He's not in his rooming
house, and he hasn't been there all night.Copy !req
1113. You were the last to see him. Where is he?Copy !req
1114. I promised not to tell, so don't ask me.Copy !req
1115. - Aw, he hasn't fallen off the wagon?
- No. He was sober.Copy !req
1116. - Has he gone somewhere?
- He did borrow my car for something or other.Copy !req
1117. Your car? That was smart.
He hasn't driven a car in 20 years.Copy !req
1118. He'll kill himself. Now where's he gone?Copy !req
1119. My word is my bond.Copy !req
1120. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
1121. - Good morning.
- You may proceed.Copy !req
1122. Your Honor, the, uh -Copy !req
1123. the defense notices a third person
at the prosecution's table.Copy !req
1124. We were wondering if the court
shares our curiosity as to just who he is.Copy !req
1125. I was about to introduce him.Copy !req
1126. Your Honor, this gentleman
is Dr. W. Gregory Harcourt.Copy !req
1127. Dr. Harcourt is the People's psychiatrist
in this case.Copy !req
1128. We ask that Dr. Harcourt be allowed
to sit at our table as an observer.Copy !req
1129. What are you gonna have him observe?
The constellation of Taurus...Copy !req
1130. or the life and times of a bumblebee?Copy !req
1131. To observe the defendant, of course.Copy !req
1132. Oh! Oh, well, that's fine. That's fine.Copy !req
1133. The defense has no objection, Your Honor.
I just wish to express my relief...Copy !req
1134. that the new recruit is not additional
legal reinforcements from Lansing.Copy !req
1135. Call Alphonse Paquette.Copy !req
1136. Raise your right hand, please.Copy !req
1137. You do solemnly swear that the testimony
you shall give in this cause...Copy !req
1138. shall be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?Copy !req
1139. - I do.
- Take a seat, please.Copy !req
1140. - Will you state your name, please.
- Alphonse Paquette.Copy !req
1141. You work at the Thunder Bay Inn,
don't you, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
1142. I'm bartender there.Copy !req
1143. Were you working on the night that
Barney Quill was shot by Frederick Manion?Copy !req
1144. - I was.
- Were you witness to the shooting?Copy !req
1145. I was.Copy !req
1146. Will you tell us in your own words,
please, what happened?Copy !req
1147. I was at a table by the door
when Lieutenant Manion came in.Copy !req
1148. Did you know Lieutenant Manion
by sight and by name?Copy !req
1149. - Yes, sir.
- Go ahead.Copy !req
1150. Well, he came in
and walked over to the bar...Copy !req
1151. and began to shoot.Copy !req
1152. He shot Barney when he came up to the bar,
and when Barney fell...Copy !req
1153. he kept on shooting down at Barney,
behind the bar.Copy !req
1154. Then he turned around and walked out.Copy !req
1155. When Lieutenant Manion entered the bar,
how did he appear to you?Copy !req
1156. Well, he walked slow.Copy !req
1157. Kind of deliberate, I guess you could say.Copy !req
1158. - Did he speak to Barney Quill?
- Not a word.Copy !req
1159. Just walked over and pulled out
his gun, and bang.Copy !req
1160. - And then he walked out.
- Yes.Copy !req
1161. When he walked out,
how did he appear to you?Copy !req
1162. He seemed just like he
did when he walked in.Copy !req
1163. Like he was the mailman
delivering the mail.Copy !req
1164. When Lieutenant Manion
walked out of the bar, what did you do?Copy !req
1165. Well, it happened so fast,
I guess I was stunned.Copy !req
1166. - But then I ran out after him.
- Did you find him outside?Copy !req
1167. - Yes, sir. He was walking away.
- Did you speak to him?Copy !req
1168. Yes, sir. I said, uh, "Lieutenant,
you'd better not run away from this."Copy !req
1169. Did he reply to you?Copy !req
1170. He said, "Do you want some too, buster?"Copy !req
1171. Was he pointing the gun at you?Copy !req
1172. Well, he was holding the gun in
my direction, but the muzzle was low.Copy !req
1173. When he said,
"Do you want some too, buster?"Copy !req
1174. how was that expressed?Copy !req
1175. Did he shout it? Was it hysterical?Copy !req
1176. - Was he hoarse? Did his voice tremble?
- No, sir.Copy !req
1177. He just said it cool and hard
and looked right at me.Copy !req
1178. Did he appear to you,
as far as you could tell...Copy !req
1179. to be in complete
possession of his faculties?Copy !req
1180. - Yes, sir, far as I could tell.
- Your witness.Copy !req
1181. Mr. Paquette, did you see Laura Manion...Copy !req
1182. the wife of Lieutenant Manion,
in the bar that night?Copy !req
1183. Your Honor, there he goes again.
This is immaterial and irrelevant.Copy !req
1184. Your Honor, I don't see what the prosecution's
so jumpy about. I haven't gone anyplace yet.Copy !req
1185. Well, let's see where he's going
before we start objecting, Mr. Lodwick.Copy !req
1186. You may proceed, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1187. Well, did you see Mrs. Manion
in the bar that night?Copy !req
1188. - She was there.
- Did Barney Quill leave the bar that night?Copy !req
1189. - Yes.
- Do you remember when he returned?Copy !req
1190. I think he came back around midnight.Copy !req
1191. From which entrance did he come?
Did he come from the lobby entrance...Copy !req
1192. or come from that -
that, uh, outside entrance?Copy !req
1193. - It was from the lobby.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
1194. - And how did he appear to you at that time?
- How do you mean?Copy !req
1195. You understood the prosecuting attorney
very well when he asked you that question...Copy !req
1196. about Lieutenant Manion's appearance.Copy !req
1197. Oh, well, he was just
old Barney, like usual.Copy !req
1198. You mean he was just
good old sober, reliable...Copy !req
1199. - gentle, salt-of-the-earth, friend-to-man Barney?
- Your Honor! Your Honor!Copy !req
1200. Your Honor, what kind
of a question is that?Copy !req
1201. I withdraw the question, Your Honor.Copy !req
1202. Mr. Paquette...Copy !req
1203. had Barney changed his clothes
since he left the bar?Copy !req
1204. I don't remember.Copy !req
1205. Might his clothing have been different
when he returned?Copy !req
1206. That is, might he have changed his clothes?Copy !req
1207. I couldn't say. I didn't notice.Copy !req
1208. Was Barney drinking that night?Copy !req
1209. Well, he - he always had a few shots
while he was talking to the customers.Copy !req
1210. - He was friendly.
- Oh, sure he was. Sure. Good old Barney.Copy !req
1211. Well, now, how many shots would you say
good old Barney usually had?Copy !req
1212. I don't know exactly.Copy !req
1213. Wasn't he, in fact,
pretty loaded that night, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
1214. Objection, Your Honor.Copy !req
1215. Even if the deceased was dead drunk,
it's no defense to this charge.Copy !req
1216. Sustained.
I suggest you get off this, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1217. Mr. Paquette, what would you call a man
with an insatiable penchant for women?Copy !req
1218. - A what?
- A penchant.Copy !req
1219. A desire, uh, taste, passion.Copy !req
1220. Well, a ladies' man, I guess.Copy !req
1221. Or maybe just a damn fool.Copy !req
1222. Just answer the questions, Mr. Paquette.Copy !req
1223. The attorneys will provide the wisecracks.Copy !req
1224. Well - What else would you call
a man like that, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
1225. We can't see the drift of this, Your Honor.Copy !req
1226. You mean you do see, Mr. Lodwick.Copy !req
1227. - You may answer.
- Can you think of another name, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
1228. - Woman chaser.
- Try again.Copy !req
1229. - Masher?
- Oh, now, come now, Mr. Paquette.Copy !req
1230. Mashers went out with
whalebone corsets and hairnets.Copy !req
1231. Did you ever hear the expression "wolf"?Copy !req
1232. Well, sure, I heard that.
It just slipped my mind.Copy !req
1233. It slipped your mind.
Well, naturally it would.Copy !req
1234. Clanking around in there
with all those rusty old mashers.Copy !req
1235. - Have you ever known a man
who you could call a wolf, Mr. Paquette?
- I'm not sure.Copy !req
1236. - Was Barney Quill a wolf, Mr. Paquette?
- I couldn't say.Copy !req
1237. - Or wouldn't?
- Objection.Copy !req
1238. Sustained. The question was answered.
He said he couldn't say.Copy !req
1239. Mr. Paquette, when Barney returned
from wherever he had gone...Copy !req
1240. - did he relieve you at the bar?
- Yes.Copy !req
1241. - And what did he say to you when he relieved you?
- Said, "I'll take over."Copy !req
1242. When you came out from behind the bar,
where did you go?Copy !req
1243. I went over to the table
where the Pedersons were sitting.Copy !req
1244. Now, you testified that you were by the
door when Lieutenant Manion came in.Copy !req
1245. Is that the reason you were by the door,
because the Pedersons' table was there?Copy !req
1246. - Yes.
- Uh-huh.Copy !req
1247. And how long was it before
Lieutenant Manion came in?Copy !req
1248. I don't know exactly.
Uh, maybe 30 minutes.Copy !req
1249. And you remained
at the Pedersons' table all that time.Copy !req
1250. - Yes, they're friends of mine.
- Is there also a window beside that table?Copy !req
1251. - I think so.
- You think so.Copy !req
1252. How long have you worked
at the Thunder Bay Inn, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
1253. - About six or seven years.
- Well, now, does this window beside the table -Copy !req
1254. does it suddenly vanish
and then reappear...Copy !req
1255. and come and go in a ghostly fashion?Copy !req
1256. No, sir. It's there all the time.Copy !req
1257. And while you were talking to your friends
there, did you happen to look out of the window?Copy !req
1258. - I might have.
- And when you looked out of the window...Copy !req
1259. were you looking for something special?Copy !req
1260. No. No, I wasn't looking for anything.Copy !req
1261. Didn't Barney Quill tell you
to go over to that window...Copy !req
1262. and watch out for Lieutenant Manion?Copy !req
1263. Did he tell you to look out
for Lieutenant Manion?Copy !req
1264. He did not.Copy !req
1265. Mr. Paquette,
Barney was quite a marksman, wasn't he?Copy !req
1266. With guns. He'd won a lot of prizes
for shooting, hadn't he?Copy !req
1267. - Yes.
- Did he keep any guns behind the bar?Copy !req
1268. Well, he might have.Copy !req
1269. Isn't it a fact that there are three concealed
pistol racks behind the bar, Mr. Paquette?Copy !req
1270. Your Honor, the defendant's plea
is one of insanity, not self-defense.Copy !req
1271. I'm sure Mr. Biegler
hasn't forgotten that fact, Mr. Lodwick.Copy !req
1272. - You may answer.
- Are there concealed gun racks behind the bar?Copy !req
1273. Yes.Copy !req
1274. And how many people
know about these gun racks?Copy !req
1275. - I couldn't say.
- But isn't it a fact that Barney,
every once in a while...Copy !req
1276. he'd take the guns out of these racks,
and twirling them on his fingers...Copy !req
1277. he'd demonstrate his skill to the patrons?Copy !req
1278. - Isn't it?
- I don't remember.Copy !req
1279. Oh, now, come on. Try and remember.Copy !req
1280. - Did you ever see him do that yourself?
- Once or twice he did.Copy !req
1281. - That's all, Mr. Paquette.
- No further questions.Copy !req
1282. - The witness may step down.
- Call George Lemon.Copy !req
1283. Biegler's going off in all directions.Copy !req
1284. What's he getting at?Copy !req
1285. Raise your right hand, please.Copy !req
1286. - I have a feeling he's afraid of what we'll get at.
- ... shall be the truth -Copy !req
1287. Mr. Biegler's putting up
a smoke screen for some reason.Copy !req
1288. - I do.
- Take a seat, please.Copy !req
1289. - Will you state your name, please?
- George Lemon.Copy !req
1290. What kind of work do you do, Mr. Lemon?Copy !req
1291. I'm caretaker of the tourist park
in Thunder Bay.Copy !req
1292. I see the place is clean and orderly.Copy !req
1293. I check people in,
check 'em out and lock the gate at night.Copy !req
1294. And what is your
authority for these duties?Copy !req
1295. I'm paid by Mastodon township, and I'm also
a deputy sheriff - just courtesy, sort of.Copy !req
1296. Did you see Lieutenant Manion
on the night of the 15th?Copy !req
1297. - The night Barney Quill was killed?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1298. Will you tell the court...Copy !req
1299. about how and-and when
you saw Lieutenant Manion?Copy !req
1300. About 1:00 a.m.,
a knock on my door waked me up.Copy !req
1301. I went to the door,
and Lieutenant Manion was standing there.Copy !req
1302. He said, "You better take me, Mr. Lemon,
because I just shot Barney Quill."Copy !req
1303. I told him to go back to his trailer
and that I would call the state police.Copy !req
1304. How did Lieutenant Manion appear
to you when he asked you to take him?Copy !req
1305. He said what he had to say and did
what I told him. There wasn't any fuss.Copy !req
1306. Did he appear to you to be,
as far as you could tell...Copy !req
1307. in complete possession of his faculties?Copy !req
1308. As far as I could tell, yes, sir.Copy !req
1309. Take the witness.Copy !req
1310. Mr. Lemon,
did you go to the Manions' trailer?Copy !req
1311. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1312. Did you see Mrs. Manion at the trailer?Copy !req
1313. - Yes, sir.
- What was her appearance?Copy !req
1314. She was a mess.Copy !req
1315. Objection.
No evidence has been introduced...Copy !req
1316. to make Mrs. Manion's appearance
relevant to this case.Copy !req
1317. Well, no evidence has been introduced to
make Barney Quill's appearance relevant...Copy !req
1318. but you didn't object to the question then.Copy !req
1319. Is that because you know that Barney Quill
bathed and changed and cooled off...Copy !req
1320. after he raped and beat hell
out of this poor woman?Copy !req
1321. Your Honor, everybody in this court
is being tried except Frederick Manion!Copy !req
1322. - I must protest -
- Now listen! This is a cross-examination
in a murder case!Copy !req
1323. It's not a high school debate!
What are you and Dancer trying to do?Copy !req
1324. Railroad this soldier into the clink?Copy !req
1325. Mr. Biegler,
you are an experienced attorney...Copy !req
1326. and you know better
than to make such an outburst.Copy !req
1327. I will not tolerate
intemperance of this sort.Copy !req
1328. If you once again try
the patience of this court...Copy !req
1329. I shall hold you in contempt.Copy !req
1330. Sorry.Copy !req
1331. Your Honor...Copy !req
1332. I apologize,
and it won't happen again.Copy !req
1333. The witness's answer will be stricken,
and the jury will disregard the answer.Copy !req
1334. - Now you may proceed, Mr. Biegler.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1335. Mr. Lemon...Copy !req
1336. on the night when Lieutenant Manion
awakened you and turned himself in...Copy !req
1337. had you been awakened before?Copy !req
1338. - Had anything else disturbed your slumbers?
- No, sir.Copy !req
1339. - There were no soldiers singing?
- No, sir. Not in my park after 10:00.Copy !req
1340. - There were no women screaming?
- Well, those screams were down by the gate.Copy !req
1341. Objection! Objection!Copy !req
1342. I see no reason for objecting yet,
Mr. Lodwick.Copy !req
1343. Tell us about those screams, Mr. Lemon.Copy !req
1344. I didn't hear 'em myself. There were
some tourists from Ohio in the park...Copy !req
1345. and they heard 'em
and told me about it the next day.Copy !req
1346. - Now, Mr. Lodwick.
- This testimony is incompetent, hearsay...Copy !req
1347. irrelevant, immaterial, inconclusive -Copy !req
1348. Yeah, well, that's too much for me.Copy !req
1349. - The witness is yours, Mr. Lodwick.
- Huh?Copy !req
1350. Oh, uh, uh, no questions.Copy !req
1351. The witness may step down.Copy !req
1352. - Call your next witness.
- Um -Copy !req
1353. Detective Sergeant James Durgo.Copy !req
1354. - Hi, Polly.
- Hi, Jim. Come here.Copy !req
1355. As soon as we break,
you'd better phone that army psychiatrist.Copy !req
1356. - Tell him to be here day after tomorrow.
- Will do.Copy !req
1357. Will you please tell me
where Parnell has gone?Copy !req
1358. Won't do.Copy !req
1359. You're fired.Copy !req
1360. You can't fire me till you pay me.Copy !req
1361. Detective Sergeant
James Durgo, state police.Copy !req
1362. Were you called to Thunder Bay
by Deputy Sheriff Lemon of Thunder Bay...Copy !req
1363. on the night that Barney Quill
was shot and killed?Copy !req
1364. Yes, sir, I was. My companion officer and I
were the first to be called in on the case.Copy !req
1365. Sergeant Durgo, when you arrived
at the Manion trailer, who was there?Copy !req
1366. Lieutenant Manion and his wife were there.Copy !req
1367. What did Lieutenant Manion say to you?Copy !req
1368. He said that his wife
had had some trouble with Barney Quill -Copy !req
1369. that he had gone to the tavern
and shot Quill.Copy !req
1370. He asked us whether Quill was dead or not.
We told him he was.Copy !req
1371. How did Lieutenant Manion
take this information?Copy !req
1372. - He didn't seem surprised.
- What did you do then, Sergeant Durgo?Copy !req
1373. I asked for the gun he'd used.Copy !req
1374. Did you take Lieutenant Manion to the county
jail here in Iron City on that same night?Copy !req
1375. Yes, sir. We drove the lieutenant
down with his wife.Copy !req
1376. On the drive to Iron City, did the
lieutenant talk further about the shooting?Copy !req
1377. He remarked that if he had the whole thing
to do over again, he'd still do it.Copy !req
1378. During all this -
at the trailer, the drive to Iron City -Copy !req
1379. how did Lieutenant Manion appear to you?Copy !req
1380. He was very quiet most of the time.
Seemed clearheaded.Copy !req
1381. As far as you could tell, would you say that
he was in complete possession of his faculties?Copy !req
1382. - Seemed so to me.
- Your witness.Copy !req
1383. Sergeant Durgo, you testified that Lieutenant
Manion told you that he shot Barney Quill...Copy !req
1384. after he learned that his wife
had had some trouble with Quill.Copy !req
1385. Now, were these the words
Lieutenant Manion used? "Some trouble"?Copy !req
1386. No, sir. Those were my words, not his.Copy !req
1387. And was it your notion
to come here and use your own words?Copy !req
1388. No, sir. It was not.Copy !req
1389. And was the suggestion to call it "some trouble"
made by somebody here in this courtroom?Copy !req
1390. Yes, sir, it was.Copy !req
1391. All right, Sergeant.
Now, would you tell the court...Copy !req
1392. what words Lieutenant
Manion actually used...Copy !req
1393. to describe the trouble his wife had had?Copy !req
1394. Objection, Your Honor.
We've been over this before.Copy !req
1395. This information would not be relevant
to any issues before the court.Copy !req
1396. This statement concerning some trouble...Copy !req
1397. was brought out during
the direct examination of Sergeant Durgo.Copy !req
1398. Up to now you've adroitly restricted all
testimony as far as Laura Manion's concerned.Copy !req
1399. All right. The cat's out of the bag.
It's fair game for me to chase it.Copy !req
1400. This is a sore point, Mr. Biegler,
and it's getting sorer.Copy !req
1401. I'd like to hear from the prosecution.Copy !req
1402. The burden is on the defense to prove
temporary insanity at the time of the shooting.Copy !req
1403. Now, if the reason for the alleged insanity
is important to this case...Copy !req
1404. then that is a matter
for a competent witness...Copy !req
1405. an expert on the subject of the human mind.Copy !req
1406. What the defense is trying to do...Copy !req
1407. is introduce some sensational material...Copy !req
1408. for the purposes of
obscuring the real issues.Copy !req
1409. Your Honor, how can the jury accurately
estimate the testimony being given here...Copy !req
1410. unless they first know
the reason behind this whole trial -Copy !req
1411. why Lieutenant Manion shot Barney Quill.Copy !req
1412. Now, the prosecution would like to separate
the motive from the act.Copy !req
1413. Well, that's like trying to take the core
from an apple without breaking the skin.Copy !req
1414. The core of our defense is that
the defendant's temporary insanity...Copy !req
1415. was triggered by
this so-called trouble with Quill.Copy !req
1416. And I beg the court -Copy !req
1417. I beg the court
to let me cut into the apple.Copy !req
1418. Our objection still stands, Your Honor.Copy !req
1419. Objection overruled.Copy !req
1420. Sergeant Durgo, tell the court...Copy !req
1421. how Lieutenant Manion described
the trouble his wife had with Barney Quill.Copy !req
1422. He told us that Quill had raped his wife.Copy !req
1423. Now, can you recall generally what
Lieutenant Manion told you about this rape?Copy !req
1424. Yes, sir. He said he'd been asleep
since right after dinner.Copy !req
1425. That he was waked up by some noise.
Screams, he thought.Copy !req
1426. That he got up, opened the trailer door
and went outside.Copy !req
1427. His wife came running
out of the dark and fell into his arms.Copy !req
1428. You saw his wife in the trailer.
How'd she look?Copy !req
1429. She was a little hysterical.
She'd been pretty badly beaten up.Copy !req
1430. She had big black bruises
over her face and her arms.Copy !req
1431. - Did Mrs. Manion tell you
about this rape and beating?
- She did.Copy !req
1432. - And did she take you
to the place where it had happened?
- Yes, sir. The next morning.Copy !req
1433. And did you find anything there? Any
sort of evidence pertaining to the story...Copy !req
1434. that Mrs. Manion had told you?Copy !req
1435. On the lane in the woods we found
some tire tracks and some dog tracks...Copy !req
1436. and a leather case with some
horn-rimmed glasses inside.Copy !req
1437. We also looked for...Copy !req
1438. a certain undergarment of Mrs. Manion's,
but we didn't find it.Copy !req
1439. Will the attorneys for both sides
approach the bench, please?Copy !req
1440. Mr. Biegler,
you finally got your rape into the case...Copy !req
1441. and I think all the details
should now be made clear to the jury.Copy !req
1442. - Do you agree, Mr. Lodwick?
- Absolutely.Copy !req
1443. What exactly was
the undergarment just referred to?Copy !req
1444. Panties, Your Honor.Copy !req
1445. - Do you expect this subject to come up again?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1446. There's a certain light connotation
attached to the word "panties."Copy !req
1447. Can we find another name for them?Copy !req
1448. - I never heard my wife call 'em anything else.
- Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
1449. - I'm a bachelor, Your Honor.
- That's a great help. Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
1450. When I was overseas during the war,
Your Honor, I - I learned a French word.Copy !req
1451. - I'm afraid that it might be slightly suggestive.
- Most French words are.Copy !req
1452. All right, gentlemen. Back to your places.Copy !req
1453. For the benefit of the jury,
but more especially for the spectators...Copy !req
1454. the undergarment referred to
in the testimony was, to be exact...Copy !req
1455. Mrs. Manion's panties.Copy !req
1456. I wanted you to get your snickering
over and done with.Copy !req
1457. This pair of panties will be mentioned
again in the course of this trial...Copy !req
1458. and when it happens,
there will not be one laugh...Copy !req
1459. one snicker, one giggle...Copy !req
1460. or even one smirk in my courtroom.Copy !req
1461. There isn't anything comic
about a pair of panties...Copy !req
1462. which figure in the violent death
of one man...Copy !req
1463. and the possible incarceration of another.Copy !req
1464. Proceed, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1465. - Did you give Mrs. Manion a lie detector test?
- Objection.Copy !req
1466. A polygraph test is inadmissible evidence
in our courts.Copy !req
1467. I only asked if he gave the test.
I didn't ask the results.Copy !req
1468. He may answer that.Copy !req
1469. I gave her a lie detector
test at her request.Copy !req
1470. - After all this investigation,
did you believe Mrs. Manion?
- I did.Copy !req
1471. - Even after the lie detector test?
- Your Honor, I object to that question!Copy !req
1472. It constitutes flagrant, sneaking subterfuge
on the part of the defense counsel.Copy !req
1473. Objection sustained.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...Copy !req
1474. a polygraph or lie detector test
is not admissible in evidence...Copy !req
1475. because no one has ever been quite sure...Copy !req
1476. that some people couldn't lie
to a lie detector and get away with it.Copy !req
1477. - Go ahead, Mr. Biegler.
- In any case, Sergeant Durgo, you, yourself...Copy !req
1478. in your own heart and mind are quite
convinced of Mrs. Manion's honesty.Copy !req
1479. - Yes, sir.
- That's all.Copy !req
1480. Just a moment.Copy !req
1481. Yes, of course.Copy !req
1482. Sergeant Durgo, did you look for the panties
elsewhere than the lane in the woods?Copy !req
1483. We looked in Barney Quill's car
and his room in the hotel.Copy !req
1484. We didn't find the panties.Copy !req
1485. Do you know why Mrs. Manion
requested a lie detector test?Copy !req
1486. - I know what she said.
- What was that?Copy !req
1487. She said she wanted everybody
to believe her story...Copy !req
1488. because she knew it would
help her husband.Copy !req
1489. Was that the only reason she gave?Copy !req
1490. She said she'd already sworn to her husband.
She wanted everybody else to believe it too.Copy !req
1491. One moment, please, Your Honor.Copy !req
1492. Ask him in what manner she swore.Copy !req
1493. Did Mrs. Manion say how
she had sworn to her husband?Copy !req
1494. Yes, sir. She said she'd sworn on a rosary.Copy !req
1495. Sergeant, this lane in the woods -
What's it used for? Where does it go?Copy !req
1496. Used to be a logging road.
Doesn't go anyplace. Just stops.Copy !req
1497. Who uses it now?Copy !req
1498. - I think it's a road kids drive down to park.
- You mean it's a lovers' lane.Copy !req
1499. - I think so. Yes, sir.
- The witness is yours, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1500. - No more questions.
- The witness may step down.Copy !req
1501. In view of the evidence concerning rape
which Your Honor has ruled admissible...Copy !req
1502. the prosecution asks for a 30-minute
recess in order that we may bring in...Copy !req
1503. another witness whom
we had not anticipated using.Copy !req
1504. - All right. We'll take a 30-minute recess.
- Recess.Copy !req
1505. Why didn't you tell me about that rosary?Copy !req
1506. We forgot it.Copy !req
1507. We didn't forget it. Manny said
maybe we shouldn't tell that again.Copy !req
1508. It might have looked like something else.
Like I-I didn't believe her.Copy !req
1509. How much more didn't you tell me?Copy !req
1510. Everything else.
We told you everything else.Copy !req
1511. Is that right, Laura?Copy !req
1512. Oh, yes. Everything else.Copy !req
1513. All right. Now get this, both of ya.Copy !req
1514. When you get up on that stand,
I want you to tell the truth.Copy !req
1515. I don't want you to tell
anything but the truth.Copy !req
1516. Don't try and lie. Don't try and conceal
anything, or you'll get skinned alive.Copy !req
1517. This fellow Dancer's gonna move in.Copy !req
1518. Dr. Dompierre, did you have
occasion to come to the county jail...Copy !req
1519. on the night of August
the 15th of this year?Copy !req
1520. - I did.
- Who called you to the jail?Copy !req
1521. - The police authorities.
- What did they want you to do?Copy !req
1522. They wanted me to make a test
for the presence of sperm...Copy !req
1523. on the person of a Mrs. Frederick Manion.Copy !req
1524. - I made the test.
- In making this test, what was your conclusion?Copy !req
1525. - Negative. There was none.
- Your witness, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1526. Doctor, in making these tests...Copy !req
1527. did you notice any bruises or marks
on Mrs. Manion at that time?Copy !req
1528. I did.Copy !req
1529. Were you asked to determine the reason
for these bruises?Copy !req
1530. I was not.Copy !req
1531. Where did you do the laboratory work
on your test for sperm?Copy !req
1532. Saint Margaret's hospital in this city.Copy !req
1533. - Who worked up the slides for you?
- A technician at the hospital.Copy !req
1534. Well, wouldn't it have been better
to have these slides worked up...Copy !req
1535. by a pathologist or
an expert in this field?Copy !req
1536. Well, yes, but the
police were in a hurry...Copy !req
1537. and I happened to know this young fella
came on at 7:00 in the morning.Copy !req
1538. Wouldn't it have been especially better
to wait for the expert...Copy !req
1539. if the possible question of rape
hung on the result?Copy !req
1540. - It would have been.
- Now, Doctor, in the newspaper...Copy !req
1541. on the evening of August the 16th, it was
stated that you found no evidence of rape.Copy !req
1542. - Is that true?
- It is not true. I made no such statement.Copy !req
1543. But did you form an opinion
as to whether Mrs. Manion had been raped?Copy !req
1544. - No.
- Why didn't you form an opinion?Copy !req
1545. It's impossible to tell
if a mature, married woman has been raped.Copy !req
1546. - That's all.
- Doctor...Copy !req
1547. did you have an opinion about whether or not
she'd had any recent relations with a man?Copy !req
1548. Insofar as no sperm was present...Copy !req
1549. it didn't appear that she had
had recent relations with a man.Copy !req
1550. - That's all.
- Just one more question, Doctor.Copy !req
1551. The fact that no evidence
was present in her body...Copy !req
1552. does not mean that
she was not raped, does it?Copy !req
1553. No.Copy !req
1554. Do you know what constitutes rape
under the law?Copy !req
1555. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1556. Violation is sufficient for rape.Copy !req
1557. There need not be a completion.Copy !req
1558. - No further questions.
- The witness may step down.Copy !req
1559. The People recall
Alphonse Paquette to the stand.Copy !req
1560. Your Honor, since counsel for the defense
has forced the question of rape...Copy !req
1561. it becomes necessary to take this
additional testimony from Mr. Paquette.Copy !req
1562. You're still under oath, Mr. Paquette.Copy !req
1563. Mr. Paquette...Copy !req
1564. would you take a look at Mrs. Manion,
seated there behind the defense table?Copy !req
1565. Was she dressed in this manner
on the night of the shooting?Copy !req
1566. - No.
- How was she dressed?Copy !req
1567. She had on a real tight skirt
and sweater kind of thing.Copy !req
1568. Sort of glued on. She was wearing
a pair of red shoes with high heels.Copy !req
1569. - Was she wearing hose?
- No. She was bare legged.Copy !req
1570. - Was she wearing a hat?
- No.Copy !req
1571. Um, Mr. Paquette, what kind of hair
does Mrs. Manion have under that hat?Copy !req
1572. Well, we'd be very happy
to show the court Mrs. Manion's hair.Copy !req
1573. Mrs. Manion, would you take off
your hat, please?Copy !req
1574. Thank you, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1575. Mr. Paquette, was she wearing
glasses that night?Copy !req
1576. I think she was when she played pinball.Copy !req
1577. Considering the tight skirt
and the tight sweater and the bare legs...Copy !req
1578. - what was the result in her appearance?
- Well -Copy !req
1579. Would you say that Mrs. Manion's appearance
was deliberately voluptuous and enticing?Copy !req
1580. You could pretty much
see everything she had.Copy !req
1581. Your Honor, the defense will concede that
Mrs. Manion, when dressed informally...Copy !req
1582. is an astonishingly beautiful woman.Copy !req
1583. And we - Well, Mrs. Manion,
stand up, please. Will you?Copy !req
1584. As a matter of fact -
Take your glasses off.Copy !req
1585. As a matter of fact,
it's pretty easy to understand...Copy !req
1586. why her husband
became temporarily deranged...Copy !req
1587. when he saw such beauty
bruised and torn by a beast.Copy !req
1588. Your Honor, I protest.Copy !req
1589. Mr. Biegler is perhaps
the least disciplined...Copy !req
1590. and the most completely out-of-order
attorney I've ever seen in a courtroom.Copy !req
1591. The jury will ignore Mr. Biegler's oration.Copy !req
1592. Uh, was Mrs. Manion drinking
heavily that night?Copy !req
1593. I sold her six drinks myself, and then
Barney came over and got some more for her.Copy !req
1594. - I don't remember how many.
- Would you say that she was tight?Copy !req
1595. - Oh, she was high, all right.
- What did she do to make you think she was high?Copy !req
1596. Well, she took off
her shoes and went barefooted, and...Copy !req
1597. when she played pinball she'd kind of
swish around to give the machine English.Copy !req
1598. - You mean she was flipping her hips around.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1599. Anything else?Copy !req
1600. Well, when she made a good score, she jumped
up and down and squealed like women do.Copy !req
1601. She was playing pinball
with Barney Quill that night, wasn't she?Copy !req
1602. - Yes, sir.
- What was her attitude toward Barney Quill?Copy !req
1603. Friendly, I guess you could call it.Copy !req
1604. - More than friendly, would you say?
- I thought so.Copy !req
1605. Why did you think so?Copy !req
1606. Well, she - she'd kind of lean on him, and a
couple of times she bumped him with her hip.Copy !req
1607. Uh, would you say that Mrs. Manion
was making a play for Barney Quill?Copy !req
1608. Objection. That calls for an assumption
on the part of the witness, Your Honor.Copy !req
1609. I withdraw the question.
Would you say that, uh...Copy !req
1610. Mrs. Manion was free and easy
with Barney Quill?Copy !req
1611. - I would.
- Your witness, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1612. Mr. Paquette,
the attorney for the People asked you...Copy !req
1613. if Mrs. Manion was tight,
and you said that she was high.Copy !req
1614. Now, speaking as a bartender,
what's the distinction between the two?Copy !req
1615. - I don't think I understand.
- Well, I mean...Copy !req
1616. when we say a person's tight, we usually mean
that they're a little stupid with the drink.Copy !req
1617. - Isn't that so?
- I guess that's about it. Yes.Copy !req
1618. And if they're high,
they're gay and enjoying themselves.Copy !req
1619. - Yes.
- In other words, Mrs. Manion was happy.Copy !req
1620. Well, now, is there anything wrong
with being happy in Thunder Bay Inn?Copy !req
1621. - No.
- Thunder Bay itself is a resort, isn't it?Copy !req
1622. - Swimming, fishing, that sort of thing?
- Yes.Copy !req
1623. Is there anything unusual about
seeing a barefooted woman in Thunder Bay?Copy !req
1624. - No.
- So Mrs. Manion's taking her
shoes off in Thunder Bay...Copy !req
1625. that doesn't necessarily mean
that she was being unladylike, does it?Copy !req
1626. - I guess not.
- Yes or no?Copy !req
1627. No!Copy !req
1628. Now, you testified...Copy !req
1629. that Mrs. Manion was squealing
and jumping up and down and -Copy !req
1630. and swishing her -
I think that was the expression you used -Copy !req
1631. swishing her hips
around the pinball machine.Copy !req
1632. Now, was she creating a disturbance?
Was she attracting a crowd?Copy !req
1633. - No.
- Were all the men at the bar -Copy !req
1634. Were they all standing around
watching Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
1635. - No.
- But you were very conscious of Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
1636. You were conscious enough so that
you can tell us all about her actions.Copy !req
1637. - Yes.
- And certainly Barney Quill,
he was conscious of Mrs. Manion...Copy !req
1638. because he was playing pinball
with Mrs. Manion, wouldn't you say so?Copy !req
1639. - Yes.
- So it seems that only you and Barney Quill...Copy !req
1640. were acutely aware of Mrs. Manion
and her actions and her appearance.Copy !req
1641. And maybe good old Barney, when he
came up to get some drinks from you...Copy !req
1642. maybe he winked and said, "Alphonse,
I'm gonna take this babe out and rape her."Copy !req
1643. - No! No, he didn't.
- Yeah, and maybe you said,
"Do it once for me, boss!"Copy !req
1644. Objection, objection. Those
are not questions. Counsel is attacking -Copy !req
1645. No more questions!Copy !req
1646. The court's had about all of this dogfight
it can take for one day...Copy !req
1647. and I'm sure the jury
is equally tired and hungry.Copy !req
1648. Tomorrow the defense takes over,
and with expedition, prayer...Copy !req
1649. and a little self-discipline
on the part of counsel...Copy !req
1650. perhaps we can reach an end
by Saturday night.Copy !req
1651. Will you adjourn court?Copy !req
1652. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. This court stands
adjourned until 9:00 tomorrow morning.Copy !req
1653. He's banged up a little,
but there doesn't seem to be anything else.Copy !req
1654. We'd like to watch him for a day or so.Copy !req
1655. - How much damage did he do?
- Wrecked a gate and a barn door.Copy !req
1656. And he hasn't got a driver's license.Copy !req
1657. He'll have to appear
in the J.P. court when he's able.Copy !req
1658. - The old fool.
- Speak kindly of the dead.Copy !req
1659. - Do you mind if I have a minute with the corpse?
- Sure, Polly.Copy !req
1660. Now, was it worth
trying to kill yourself...Copy !req
1661. for whatever it is you've been up to?Copy !req
1662. How's the trial goin'?Copy !req
1663. Well, I'm making a lot of noise.
Dancer's racking up all the points.Copy !req
1664. No, but come on.
Now, where have you been?Copy !req
1665. Quill hired Mary Pilant
up north of the Sault Sainte Marie.Copy !req
1666. Struck me funny he'd go all the way up
there to hire somebody just to work for him.Copy !req
1667. I been up there nosin' around.Copy !req
1668. Well, did you find anything useful?Copy !req
1669. Not until I looked up
her birth certificate.Copy !req
1670. Born Blind River, Ontario,
1934, out of wedlock.Copy !req
1671. Mother was a waitress: Simone Pilant.Copy !req
1672. Father was a lumberjack.
Barney Quill.Copy !req
1673. Say, I'd like to see Miss Mary Pilant.Copy !req
1674. - It's late, mister.
- I know. I know. This is important.Copy !req
1675. - Real important?
- Real important.Copy !req
1676. Yes?Copy !req
1677. Miss Pilant, sorry if I woke you up. There's
a guy to see you. Says it's real important.Copy !req
1678. - What's your, uh -
- Paul Biegler.Copy !req
1679. - Biegler.
- I don't wish to see him.Copy !req
1680. Okay.Copy !req
1681. She, uh, said it's not important enough.Copy !req
1682. All right. Now you call her back and
tell her I mentioned Blind River, Ontario.Copy !req
1683. I'll be in the bar.Copy !req
1684. Evening, Alphonse.Copy !req
1685. Drinking, Mr. Biegler, or just snooping?Copy !req
1686. Well, I think I'll try a little of both.Copy !req
1687. What do you say we start out with a beer?Copy !req
1688. On the house, and that's all you get.Copy !req
1689. A beer. No questions, no answers.Copy !req
1690. I'm just a lawyer trying to do my job.Copy !req
1691. What are you so afraid of, Al?Copy !req
1692. Will you sit over there, please?Copy !req
1693. Miss Pilant, I owe you an apology.Copy !req
1694. I was a little rough
when I was out here before.Copy !req
1695. I didn't know that Barney Quill
was your father.Copy !req
1696. - You didn't come here just to apologize.
- No. No.Copy !req
1697. But the apology was part of it.Copy !req
1698. To tell the truth, I sort of hoped
maybe it would thaw you out a bit.Copy !req
1699. All I want you to do is just listen to me.
Just for a few minutes.Copy !req
1700. Now, I need some strong evidence to back
up Laura Manion's story about the rape.Copy !req
1701. The prosecution's gonna
attack that story pretty hard.Copy !req
1702. And if - if the jury thinks she's lying...Copy !req
1703. well, that could turn the decision
against Manion, you see.Copy !req
1704. Well, isn't she lying? Barney didn't do
what she said he did. He couldn't have.Copy !req
1705. - What did you know about your father?
- All I needed to know.Copy !req
1706. He took care of me and of my mother
for as long as she lived.Copy !req
1707. He was always there when I needed him.Copy !req
1708. That's what I know
about my father, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1709. Will that back up Laura Manion's story?Copy !req
1710. Miss Pilant, I don't want to get at you.
I don't want to hurt you.Copy !req
1711. I appreciate your
affection for your father...Copy !req
1712. but - but as a lawyer I've had to learn...Copy !req
1713. that people aren't just good or just bad.Copy !req
1714. But people are many things.Copy !req
1715. And I kind of have a feeling
that Barney Quill was many things.Copy !req
1716. - I don't want to hear that.
- No, no, please. Please now, hear me out.Copy !req
1717. I believe that Barney told
Al Paquette what happened that night...Copy !req
1718. and he told him to go to this window
and wait for Manion.Copy !req
1719. Barney stayed behind the bar
next to a gun rack, just waiting.Copy !req
1720. Manion came in and fired
the minute he got inside that door...Copy !req
1721. and the first shot went
right through Barney's heart.Copy !req
1722. Now, here's what I want you to do.Copy !req
1723. I want you to try to persuade Al to
come to the court as a defense witness...Copy !req
1724. and tell the court exactly
what Barney told him that night.Copy !req
1725. That he'd raped and assaulted Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
1726. Al wouldn't conceal a thing like that.Copy !req
1727. Why wouldn't he tell it, if it were true?Copy !req
1728. I don't know. I don't know.
But I know this.Copy !req
1729. Everybody loves something or someone.Copy !req
1730. Me, I love fishing...Copy !req
1731. and an old guy by the name of Parnell.Copy !req
1732. Manion loves his freedom.
He'd like to have a little more of it.Copy !req
1733. Barney loved you. Maybe so does Al.Copy !req
1734. I wouldn't blame him.
But he doesn't want to hurt you.Copy !req
1735. He doesn't want you to know
the truth about Barney...Copy !req
1736. that he could be dangerous and brutal.Copy !req
1737. Now, if you'd just ask Al. If you
could just ask him right straight out.Copy !req
1738. Al?Copy !req
1739. Al, Mr. Biegler knows
that Barney was my father.Copy !req
1740. He thinks you know something
about the night my father was killed...Copy !req
1741. something you won't tell.Copy !req
1742. Lawyer, I told you once,
and I'll tell you again.Copy !req
1743. - No questions, no answers.
- Wait, Al.Copy !req
1744. Did my father rape Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
1745. Barney wouldn't hurt a woman.Copy !req
1746. Is there any reason you wouldn't tell me
the truth about that, Al?Copy !req
1747. What reason?Copy !req
1748. - Anything else, Mr. Biegler?
- No.Copy !req
1749. I'm gonna leave a pass
for you and Al at the trial.Copy !req
1750. You might like to watch
Lieutenant Manion get convicted.Copy !req
1751. You gonna spread it around
about Mary being Barney's kid?Copy !req
1752. No, I'm not gonna spread it around, Al.Copy !req
1753. Thank you for the beer.
Good night, Miss Pilant.Copy !req
1754. All right,
now let's get at this rosary thing.Copy !req
1755. Now, it's been testified
that your wife swore to you on a rosary...Copy !req
1756. that she'd been raped by Barney Quill.Copy !req
1757. Did you ask your wife to swear on a rosary?Copy !req
1758. My wife was hysterical.
She wasn't making much sense.Copy !req
1759. I thought if I asked her
to take an oath on a rosary...Copy !req
1760. it might serve to calm her,
make her think more clearly.Copy !req
1761. Did the rosary help?Copy !req
1762. She was able to tell me
in detail what had happened.Copy !req
1763. All right. Go on from there now.Copy !req
1764. What did you do then, Lieutenant?Copy !req
1765. Well, I - I had her lie on the bed...Copy !req
1766. and I got some cold cloths for her head.Copy !req
1767. And, uh - Oh, yes.
I gave her a drink of brandy.Copy !req
1768. After a while she became calm...Copy !req
1769. seemed to go to sleep.Copy !req
1770. Then I went to the closet,
I got my gun, and I loaded it.Copy !req
1771. - Was it in your mind to kill Barney Quill?
- No.Copy !req
1772. Well, then why did you go to the closet
and get your gun and load it?Copy !req
1773. Well, I-I-I knew I had to go to
Quill's place. I thought I might need it.Copy !req
1774. Why?Copy !req
1775. I knew Mr. Quill kept guns behind the bar.Copy !req
1776. I was afraid he might shoot me.Copy !req
1777. Might shoot you if you did what?
What were you gonna do?Copy !req
1778. I'm not sure.Copy !req
1779. I remember having some idea...Copy !req
1780. of finding him...Copy !req
1781. and holding him while I called the police.Copy !req
1782. Well, that Mr. - what's his name -Copy !req
1783. Mr. Lemon, right at the tourist
court there, he was a deputy sheriff.Copy !req
1784. Why didn't you get him to go with you?Copy !req
1785. Maybe because he always seemed to be
just the old caretaker of the park.Copy !req
1786. Maybe because I wasn't
thinking about anything too clearly...Copy !req
1787. except finding Barney Quill.Copy !req
1788. Why didn't you go to a telephone, call the
state police before you went to the bar?Copy !req
1789. I don't know.Copy !req
1790. I was in sort of a daze.Copy !req
1791. It was a horrible thing
to see what had been done to my wife.Copy !req
1792. Now, you say you were in a sort of a daze.Copy !req
1793. When you got to the bar,
did you see that the bar was crowded?Copy !req
1794. I -Copy !req
1795. I didn't see anyone at the bar...Copy !req
1796. except Barney Quill.Copy !req
1797. He was the only person I saw.Copy !req
1798. What was he doing?Copy !req
1799. I think he was just
standing there behind the bar.Copy !req
1800. Well, now, did he make
a threatening move to get a gun?Copy !req
1801. I don't know.Copy !req
1802. He may have. I don't know.Copy !req
1803. All right.
Now, you say you went there to find him...Copy !req
1804. to hold him for the police.Copy !req
1805. Why did you shoot him?Copy !req
1806. I don't remember shooting him.Copy !req
1807. Now, when you left the bar...Copy !req
1808. do you remember Alphonse Paquette
coming up to you and stopping you...Copy !req
1809. and saying,
"You'd better not run away from this"...Copy !req
1810. and your reply,
"Do you want some too, buster?"Copy !req
1811. Remember that?Copy !req
1812. I-I seem to have a vague recollection...Copy !req
1813. of somebody speaking to me...Copy !req
1814. but I don't remember what I said
or what was said to me.Copy !req
1815. When did you realize
that you had shot Quill?Copy !req
1816. I was - I was getting a drink of water.Copy !req
1817. I remember my throat was so dry it hurt.Copy !req
1818. And when I put the glass down,
I saw the gun...Copy !req
1819. on the kitchen sink beside the tap.Copy !req
1820. I noticed the gun was empty.Copy !req
1821. Now I'd like you to
show the court and jury...Copy !req
1822. just, uh -Copy !req
1823. just how you knew this gun was empty.Copy !req
1824. Well, this gadget here...Copy !req
1825. when it sticks up,
you know the last round's been fired.Copy !req
1826. Lieutenant Manion,
on the night of the shooting...Copy !req
1827. did you love your wife?Copy !req
1828. - Yes, sir.
- Do you still love her?Copy !req
1829. Very much.Copy !req
1830. The witness is yours, Mr. Dancer.Copy !req
1831. Lieutenant Manion...Copy !req
1832. how many men have you killed?Copy !req
1833. Now wait a minute.Copy !req
1834. Your Honor, a man's war record - in
Lieutenant Manion's case, a great record -Copy !req
1835. certainly shouldn't be used against him.Copy !req
1836. Your Honor, I'm as
patriotic as the next man...Copy !req
1837. but the simple truth is, war can
condition a man to killing other men.Copy !req
1838. I simply want to determine
how conditioned the lieutenant may be...Copy !req
1839. to the use of firearms
on other human beings.Copy !req
1840. I don't quite like the
question, Mr. Biegler...Copy !req
1841. but I don't see how I can exclude it.Copy !req
1842. Let him answer.Copy !req
1843. I know I killed
at least four men in Korea...Copy !req
1844. three with a hand grenade...Copy !req
1845. and one with my service automatic.Copy !req
1846. I may have killed others.
A soldier doesn't always know.Copy !req
1847. Now, Lieutenant, in
these acts of killing...Copy !req
1848. did you ever have a lapse of memory...Copy !req
1849. - such as you had when you killed Barney Quill?
- No, sir.Copy !req
1850. Did you ever have
a lapse of memory during battle?Copy !req
1851. - No, sir.
- Were you ever submitted to a constant barrage...Copy !req
1852. constantly in a sweat for many hours...Copy !req
1853. - constantly under attack, or attacking?
- Many times.Copy !req
1854. Were you ever treated for shell shock,
battle fatigue...Copy !req
1855. - or any war neurosis or psychosis?
- No, sir.Copy !req
1856. Did you ever experience
any unusual mental state during the war?Copy !req
1857. - Well, I do remember having one great urge.
- What was that?Copy !req
1858. To get the hell out and go home.Copy !req
1859. You would do well to consider the
seriousness of the situation you are in.Copy !req
1860. - I'm sorry, Your Honor.
- I sympathize with the lieutenant.Copy !req
1861. I expect he has the same feeling
about getting out of jail.Copy !req
1862. But the main point here, Lieutenant, is
that at no time during your war service...Copy !req
1863. did you have a record
of mental disturbance.Copy !req
1864. You were always in complete possession
of your faculties.Copy !req
1865. Yes, sir, that's right.Copy !req
1866. - No more questions.
- No redirect, Your Honor.Copy !req
1867. Step down, please. Call your next witness.Copy !req
1868. We call Laura Manion to the stand.Copy !req
1869. - Up these stairs and to the right.
- Thank you.Copy !req
1870. Now, how long after you told your husband
what had happened...Copy !req
1871. did he leave the trailer?Copy !req
1872. I don't know exactly.Copy !req
1873. Everything was kind of fuzzy. I -Copy !req
1874. I was faint, and I lay down on the bed.Copy !req
1875. He sat beside me.Copy !req
1876. I vaguely remember
his getting up and going out.Copy !req
1877. I remember wondering
if he was going for a doctor.Copy !req
1878. And then he came back in.Copy !req
1879. It seemed like just a few seconds,
but it must have been longer.Copy !req
1880. I must have gone to sleep.Copy !req
1881. When he came back in,
he sat on the bed...Copy !req
1882. and he had a gun in his hand.Copy !req
1883. And I said, "What are you going to do?"Copy !req
1884. And he said, "I think I've already done it.Copy !req
1885. I think I've killed Barney Quill."Copy !req
1886. Are you sure he didn't say
"I've killed Barney Quill"?Copy !req
1887. No, I - I remember distinctly.Copy !req
1888. "I think I've killed Barney Quill."Copy !req
1889. Then what did you do?Copy !req
1890. I put my arms around him
and began to cry and -Copy !req
1891. and I said,
"You'd better go to Mr. Lemon."Copy !req
1892. And my husband said, "I forgot about that."Copy !req
1893. What did he mean? Forgot about what?Copy !req
1894. Well, he meant that he'd forgotten
Mr. Lemon was a deputy sheriff.Copy !req
1895. And he said,
"Yes, I'll go turn myself in to Mr. Lemon."Copy !req
1896. Yes, I see. Your Honor, I have no other
direct questions at this time...Copy !req
1897. but since I'm sure
it's difficult to visualize...Copy !req
1898. the part a little dog
played on this night...Copy !req
1899. I should like a few minutes to show
the court this remarkable little animal.Copy !req
1900. Do the People object?Copy !req
1901. I'm sure if we raise an objection,
Your Honor...Copy !req
1902. Mr. Biegler will declare that we're
haters of all small, furry animals.Copy !req
1903. A creature that cannot talk
will be a welcome relief.Copy !req
1904. Bring in the dog.Copy !req
1905. Thank you, sir. Will the, uh,
deputy bring in the dog, please.Copy !req
1906. Uh, you can put him right there.Copy !req
1907. Fine.
Here, Muff! Here, Muff! Come on!Copy !req
1908. Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!Copy !req
1909. That's a boy.Copy !req
1910. And now I'll ask Mrs. Manion
to bring a flashlight for the dog.Copy !req
1911. Now, I ask the court to notice
that the dog turned on the light.Copy !req
1912. Well, it's easy to see that Muff
doesn't know who his enemies are.Copy !req
1913. Remove the dog, please.Copy !req
1914. - Yes, sir.
- The witness will resume the stand.Copy !req
1915. Here we go, Muff. All right.Copy !req
1916. Mrs. Manion, may I congratulate you
on your well-trained pet.Copy !req
1917. May I also say that I'm pleased to see...Copy !req
1918. you are not today
hiding your lovely hair under a hat.Copy !req
1919. Your Honor, is the assistant attorney
general from Lansing pitching woo...Copy !req
1920. or is he going to cross-examine?Copy !req
1921. Let's get on with it.Copy !req
1922. Mrs. Manion, what was your occupation
before you were married?Copy !req
1923. - Housewife.
- Oh, then you've been married before?Copy !req
1924. - Yes, once.
- I suppose your first husband, uh, died, hmm?Copy !req
1925. No.Copy !req
1926. Did you divorce your first husband
to marry Lieutenant Manion?Copy !req
1927. Your Honor, if counsel wants to know
the grounds for Mrs. Manion's divorce...Copy !req
1928. let him ask that question.Copy !req
1929. What were the grounds for divorce,
Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
1930. - Mental cruelty.
- Naturally. And how long after your divorce...Copy !req
1931. was it that you married
Lieutenant Manion?Copy !req
1932. Uh, I'm not sure.Copy !req
1933. May I refresh the witness's memory
for Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
1934. - By all means.
- I believe she told me...Copy !req
1935. that they were married
three days after the divorce.Copy !req
1936. Thank you, Mr. Biegler.
Is that correct, Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
1937. Yes.Copy !req
1938. Then unless yours
was a whirlwind courtship...Copy !req
1939. you must have known Lieutenant Manion
before your divorce.Copy !req
1940. - Did you?
- Yes.Copy !req
1941. Mrs. Manion, what is your - religious affiliation?Copy !req
1942. I'm a Catholic.Copy !req
1943. - Catholic in good standing?
- Well, no. The divorce, you know.Copy !req
1944. You mean you were excommunicated
because of the divorce and remarriage?Copy !req
1945. Yes.Copy !req
1946. Mrs. Manion, wouldn't you say
that a Catholic who can blithely ignore...Copy !req
1947. one of the cardinal rules of her church...Copy !req
1948. could also easily ignore
an oath taken on one of its artifacts...Copy !req
1949. say, an oath taken on a rosary?Copy !req
1950. I-I-I don't think that's true.Copy !req
1951. But wouldn't you think there'd be some
doubt about the integrity of such a person?Copy !req
1952. I don't know. Uh -Copy !req
1953. All I know is the rosary
means something to me.Copy !req
1954. I see.
Well, I'll pass on to something else.Copy !req
1955. Mrs. Manion, you testified
that your husband came home late...Copy !req
1956. from his work
on the night of the shooting.Copy !req
1957. Were you a little angry
about his being late?Copy !req
1958. Well, I-I - I guess I was a little put out.Copy !req
1959. - Did you have an argument?
- Not much. A little.Copy !req
1960. When you left the
trailer to go to the inn...Copy !req
1961. did your husband know you were going?Copy !req
1962. He was asleep.Copy !req
1963. Was part of your reason
for going without his knowledge...Copy !req
1964. because you were, uh, vexed?Copy !req
1965. Well, I-I'd been ironing all day and I -Copy !req
1966. - Yes, I guess that's true.
- Your Honor, the counsel has deliberately...Copy !req
1967. cut off my view of the witness.Copy !req
1968. I'm sorry, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1969. I wouldn't want to interfere
with your signals to Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
1970. I object to the implication
I was signaling the witness.Copy !req
1971. This is the shabbiest
courtroom trick I've ever seen.Copy !req
1972. You haven't lived, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
1973. Your Honor, I ask the court
to rule on my objection.Copy !req
1974. Mr. Dancer, will you be careful
not to place yourself...Copy !req
1975. between Mr. Biegler and his witness.Copy !req
1976. Of course, Your Honor.
Anything else, Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
1977. You do it once more, I'll punt you...Copy !req
1978. all the way out into
the middle of Lake Superior.Copy !req
1979. Gentlemen, gentlemen.Copy !req
1980. This rowing has got to stop.Copy !req
1981. The next one of you that speaks out of turn
will have me to deal with.Copy !req
1982. Now get on with your cross-examination.Copy !req
1983. Would you have gone to the inn
if your husband had, uh, been awake?Copy !req
1984. - He probably would have gone with me.
- But would you have gone alone?Copy !req
1985. - Not if he didn't want me to.
- Would he have not wanted you to?Copy !req
1986. I'm not sure.
I - I don't know how to answer that.Copy !req
1987. Well, had you ever gone
to the Thunder Bay Inn...Copy !req
1988. or elsewhere in Thunder Bay
alone at night?Copy !req
1989. - Yes, sometimes.
- Did your husband know you were going?Copy !req
1990. Not always. He goes to sleep early and -Copy !req
1991. and sometimes I'm restless.Copy !req
1992. Where did you go on these occasions?Copy !req
1993. Oh, I'd take a walk by the lake
or went to the bingo place.Copy !req
1994. - Maybe to the inn.
- You ever go to meet another man?Copy !req
1995. No, I didn't. I never did that.Copy !req
1996. You mean to say, Mrs. Manion, a lovely
woman like yourself, attractive to men...Copy !req
1997. lonely, restless, that you never once -Copy !req
1998. Objection, Your Honor! The witness
has answered the question about other men.Copy !req
1999. Counsel is now making
a veiled suggestion to the jury.Copy !req
2000. I withdraw the question.Copy !req
2001. Now, Mrs. Manion, on these
occasional excursions into the night...Copy !req
2002. did you always go and return home alone?Copy !req
2003. Of course.Copy !req
2004. Mrs. Manion, you testified that the reason
you got into Barney Quill's car...Copy !req
2005. was because you were afraid
to go home alone.Copy !req
2006. Why were you so frightened
on this particular night?Copy !req
2007. I said that it was because he told me
bears had been seen around.Copy !req
2008. Was this the first time you'd heard that bears
came around Thunder Bay to pick up scraps?Copy !req
2009. - No.
- Had you seen the bears before?Copy !req
2010. Yes.Copy !req
2011. Oh, this was just the first time
you were afraid of them?Copy !req
2012. No, I was always afraid of them.Copy !req
2013. Oh, this was just the first time
you were enough afraid...Copy !req
2014. to allow a man to take you home
from one of your evening prowls?Copy !req
2015. Objection! The use of the word "prowl"
is meant to mislead the jury.Copy !req
2016. - Sustained.
- I apologize.Copy !req
2017. Mrs. Manion, I didn't mean to imply
that you were a huntress.Copy !req
2018. Was this the first time
that you were enough afraid...Copy !req
2019. to allow a man to take you home
from one of your evening walks?Copy !req
2020. Well, it - it wasn't just that.Copy !req
2021. - It was -
- Oh, come now, Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
2022. You should be able to answer that straight
off. That's a simple enough question.Copy !req
2023. Your Honor,
how can the witness answer straight off...Copy !req
2024. when the counsel keeps
interrupting the answer?Copy !req
2025. The witness seemed a little slow to me,
Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
2026. However, let her complete her answers
before you interrupt.Copy !req
2027. Of course, Your Honor.
In any case, Mr. Biegler's objection...Copy !req
2028. has given Mrs. Manion sufficient time
to think of an answer to my question.Copy !req
2029. You've thought of one,
haven't you, Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2030. What I was going to say was that
I didn't want to offend Mr. Quill...Copy !req
2031. by making him think that I was
afraid of him or didn't like him.Copy !req
2032. He'd been very pleasant to my husband
and me when we'd been in his bar.Copy !req
2033. - That's very good, Mrs. Manion. Very good indeed.
- Your Honor, please.Copy !req
2034. The attorney for the People will reserve
his comments for the arguments.Copy !req
2035. I will ask you this question, Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
2036. Was this the first time you had been
in Barney Quill's car at night?Copy !req
2037. Mrs. Manion, did you hear the question?Copy !req
2038. Yes, I heard.Copy !req
2039. Yes, it was the first time.Copy !req
2040. Would you raise your voice a little,
Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2041. I said it was the first time.Copy !req
2042. Now, Mrs. Manion,
I'm quite concerned about the lost panties.Copy !req
2043. Would you describe this article of clothing
to the court, please?Copy !req
2044. They were nylon
and had lace up the sides.Copy !req
2045. There was a label in them
of the place I got them -Copy !req
2046. the Smart Shop, in Phoenix, Arizona.Copy !req
2047. What was the color of the panties?Copy !req
2048. - I believe white.
- You believe?Copy !req
2049. - I have white and pink. They may have been pink.
- You're not sure?Copy !req
2050. Haven't you checked your lingerie
to see which pair of panties is missing?Copy !req
2051. No.Copy !req
2052. When your husband came home
late from his work...Copy !req
2053. and you had this little spat,
were you already dressed to go out?Copy !req
2054. - No.
- When did you dress?Copy !req
2055. After dinner, when he was asleep.Copy !req
2056. It's been stated here that you were
bare legged in the bar. Is that true?Copy !req
2057. Yes.Copy !req
2058. In your anger at your husband
and your haste to get out of the trailer...Copy !req
2059. - perhaps you didn't put on any panties either?
- Objection.Copy !req
2060. The witness has already testified
as to what she was wearing.Copy !req
2061. - Sustained.
- Do you always wear panties, Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2062. Now, Your Honor,
I object to this line of questioning.Copy !req
2063. It's immaterial what
Mrs. Manion does all the time.Copy !req
2064. On the night she was attacked,
she was wearing panties...Copy !req
2065. and that's all we're concerned with.Copy !req
2066. Your Honor, Mrs. Manion seems
a little bit uncertain...Copy !req
2067. about what kind of
panties she was wearing...Copy !req
2068. and since these panties
have not been found...Copy !req
2069. I submit that it's possible
she wasn't wearing any and has forgotten.Copy !req
2070. - That's all I'm trying to get at.
- You may answer, Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
2071. Do you always wear panties?Copy !req
2072. No.Copy !req
2073. On what occasions don't you wear them?
When you go out alone at night?Copy !req
2074. Oh, no, no. Objection. He says he's going
after one thing, then he goes after another.Copy !req
2075. I'll sustain the objection.Copy !req
2076. Strike out the last two questions
and Mrs. Manion's answer.Copy !req
2077. Now, Mr. Dancer, get off the panties.Copy !req
2078. - You've done enough damage.
- Yes, Your Honor.Copy !req
2079. Mrs. Manion, is your husband a jealous man?Copy !req
2080. - He loves me.
- I'm sure of that, but is he excessively jealous?Copy !req
2081. Your Honor, how can the witness
answer that question?Copy !req
2082. What's the norm of jealousy?Copy !req
2083. Can you put your question a
little differently, Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
2084. Has your husband ever struck you
in a jealous rage?Copy !req
2085. No. Your Honor, I think Mr. Dancer's fishing
now. What's the relevancy of this question?Copy !req
2086. Your Honor,
the shoe is squeezing Mr. Biegler's foot.Copy !req
2087. In his own words,
this is not a high school debate...Copy !req
2088. this is a cross-examination
in a murder trial.Copy !req
2089. Proceed, Mr. Dancer.Copy !req
2090. Mrs. Manion...Copy !req
2091. did you ever go out socially
in Thunder Bay?Copy !req
2092. Yes, a few times.Copy !req
2093. When your husband's outfit
moved to Thunder Bay...Copy !req
2094. didn't Barney Quill
throw a cocktail party...Copy !req
2095. - for the officers and their wives?
- Yes.Copy !req
2096. Didn't your husband strike
a young second lieutenant at this party?Copy !req
2097. There was a little scuffle. It wasn't much.Copy !req
2098. - What was it about?
- I'm not sure I remember.Copy !req
2099. - Were you too drunk to remember?
- No, I was not.Copy !req
2100. I-I-I think it was
because the lieutenant...Copy !req
2101. was cutting in too much
when I was dancing with my husband.Copy !req
2102. And shortly afterwards,
on the veranda of the inn...Copy !req
2103. didn't your husband slap you hard enough
so that you fell against the wall?Copy !req
2104. - Well, h-he was drinking.
- Wasn't this a jealous rage?Copy !req
2105. - I don't know!
- Do you remember why he struck you?Copy !req
2106. - Yes.
- Wasn't he enraged at you...Copy !req
2107. because he thought you'd encouraged
this young lieutenant?Copy !req
2108. He might have thought so.Copy !req
2109. Mrs. Manion,
there are witnesses to this whole affair.Copy !req
2110. I'll ask you again. Wasn't
this a jealous rage?Copy !req
2111. I guess you could call it that.Copy !req
2112. Now I'll ask you...Copy !req
2113. on the night of the shooting,
what did you swear?Copy !req
2114. What oath did you take on the rosary?Copy !req
2115. It was about Barney Quill raping me.Copy !req
2116. Why did you swear on the rosary
that he raped you?Copy !req
2117. For the reason that my husband said -
because I was hysterical.Copy !req
2118. That was the reason he gave
for asking you to swear.Copy !req
2119. - What was your reason for swearing?
- So he'd believe me.Copy !req
2120. - Why shouldn't he believe you?
- Objection.Copy !req
2121. The reason for the use of the rosary
has been established.Copy !req
2122. - These questions are immaterial.
- No, I think I'll take the answer, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
2123. I'll ask you again, Mrs. Manion.Copy !req
2124. Why shouldn't he believe you?Copy !req
2125. Because I wasn't making much sense.Copy !req
2126. Did he think you'd lie
about a thing like that?Copy !req
2127. Objection, Your Honor! Lieutenant Manion
has already testified as to what he thought.Copy !req
2128. - Sustained.
- Did your husband strike you that night?Copy !req
2129. Did he hit you that night?Copy !req
2130. Well, he - he -Copy !req
2131. He may have slapped me
because I was hysterical.Copy !req
2132. And didn't you swear to a lie to keep him
from hitting you again?Copy !req
2133. No! No, I didn't. I did not.Copy !req
2134. Hadn't he already beaten you up
at the gate when he caught you...Copy !req
2135. - coming home from lovers' lane with Barney Quill?
- Objection! Objection!Copy !req
2136. The witness has already testified
she was beaten by Barney Quill.Copy !req
2137. Quiet, quiet.Copy !req
2138. No more questions.Copy !req
2139. I think the witness has had enough,
Your Honor.Copy !req
2140. The witness may step down.
We'll recess for lunch.Copy !req
2141. Recess until 1:00.Copy !req
2142. Sorry, baby. You were fine.Copy !req
2143. Dr. Smith?Copy !req
2144. I've come to meet you, sir.Copy !req
2145. - My name is -
- I'm sorry. You've made a mistake.Copy !req
2146. Maybe I'm the one you're looking for.
Are you Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
2147. No, I'm his associate in the case.Copy !req
2148. - Don't tell me you're Dr. Smith.
- That's me.Copy !req
2149. - The army psychiatrist?
- Maybe you expected me to be in uniform.Copy !req
2150. No. Well...Copy !req
2151. I didn't expect anybody so young.Copy !req
2152. I'm 40.Copy !req
2153. I sort of hoped you'd, uh, have a beard
and wear a monocle.Copy !req
2154. Oh, I see.Copy !req
2155. - That better?
- It helps. You're on the stand this afternoon.Copy !req
2156. Doctor, have you formed an opinion...Copy !req
2157. as to Frederick Manion's
mental and emotional state...Copy !req
2158. at the time he killed Barney Quill?Copy !req
2159. - I have.
- And what is that opinion?Copy !req
2160. He was temporarily insane
at the time of the shooting.Copy !req
2161. At the time of the
shooting, do you believe...Copy !req
2162. he was able to distinguish
right from wrong?Copy !req
2163. He may or may not have been.
It doesn't make too much difference.Copy !req
2164. All right. Now, Doctor,
as clearly as you can...Copy !req
2165. will you explain Frederick Manion's
temporary insanity.Copy !req
2166. It is known as dissociative reaction -Copy !req
2167. a psychic shock which creates
an almost overwhelming tension...Copy !req
2168. which the person in shock must alleviate.Copy !req
2169. In Lieutenant Manion's case - a soldier -Copy !req
2170. it is only natural
that he would turn to action.Copy !req
2171. Only direct, simple action
against Barney Quill...Copy !req
2172. would relieve this unbearable tension.Copy !req
2173. This is not too uncommon.
For example, in combat...Copy !req
2174. some of the more remarkable heroics
take place in this state of mind.Copy !req
2175. Is there another name for dissociative reaction,
one we might be more likely to recognize?Copy !req
2176. Yes, it has been known
as "irresistible impulse."Copy !req
2177. Now, Doctor,
a man in the grip of irresistible impulse -Copy !req
2178. would he be likely
to go to his neighbor for advice...Copy !req
2179. or call up the police to come to his aid?Copy !req
2180. - Completely incompatible.
- Yes. But our man was able to think...Copy !req
2181. of going and taking out
a gun and loading it...Copy !req
2182. before setting out to find Quill.Copy !req
2183. Well, that was his conscious mind working.Copy !req
2184. But if no gun had been available,
he would have gone anyway.Copy !req
2185. How would a man look in the grip
of dissociative reaction?Copy !req
2186. He might appear to be deadly calm,
fiercely deliberate.Copy !req
2187. Mm-hmm. Would you describe
his behavior as being...Copy !req
2188. like a mailman delivering the mail?Copy !req
2189. That's not bad. Like a mailman, he
would have a job to do, and he would do it.Copy !req
2190. Your witness.Copy !req
2191. Doctor, did you find any psychosis
in Frederick Manion?Copy !req
2192. I did not.Copy !req
2193. - Any neuroses?
- I found no history of neuroses.Copy !req
2194. - Any history of, uh, delusion?
- None.Copy !req
2195. - Loss of memory?
- Not before this instance.Copy !req
2196. Hey. Can you spot Mary Pilant?Copy !req
2197. She didn't come back after lunch.Copy !req
2198. I think you'd better give up on that one.Copy !req
2199. Doctor, you stated that the defendant...Copy !req
2200. might or might not have been able to distinguish
the difference between right and wrong...Copy !req
2201. but that it wouldn't have made
much difference.Copy !req
2202. - Am I right? Is that what you said?
- Approximately, yes.Copy !req
2203. Did you mean that at the time
of the shooting...Copy !req
2204. he could have known the difference
between right and wrong?Copy !req
2205. He might have, yes.Copy !req
2206. Dr. Smith, if the defendant
could have known what he was doing...Copy !req
2207. and could have known that it was wrong...Copy !req
2208. how can you come here and testify
that he was legally insane?Copy !req
2209. I'm not saying he was legally insane.Copy !req
2210. I'm saying that in his mental condition...Copy !req
2211. it would not have made any difference
whether he knew right from wrong.Copy !req
2212. He would still have shot Quill.Copy !req
2213. Dr. Smith, are you willing...Copy !req
2214. to rest your testimony
in this case on this opinion?Copy !req
2215. Yes, I am.Copy !req
2216. Your Honor, I'd like to
ask for a short recess.Copy !req
2217. The attorneys for the People
would like to meet...Copy !req
2218. - with Mr. Biegler and the court in chambers.
- Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
2219. Glad to oblige, Your Honor.Copy !req
2220. Short recess. Jury will remain.Copy !req
2221. Someday I'm going to horrify tradition...Copy !req
2222. and lay a dense blue cloud of tobacco smoke
in that hallowed courtroom.Copy !req
2223. What's on your mind, Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
2224. Your Honor, in view of
Dr. Smith's testimony...Copy !req
2225. I thought perhaps the defense might like
to change their plea.Copy !req
2226. - Change it to what?
- Guilty, of course.Copy !req
2227. - No, we'll still go for broke.
- Hell, Polly.Copy !req
2228. You know a guy's not
considered legally nuts in Michigan...Copy !req
2229. unless he didn't know right from wrong.Copy !req
2230. - Why don't you come on and get this over with?
- Your Honor, would you turn to page 486?Copy !req
2231. What's that?Copy !req
2232. Appears to be a law book, Mr. Lodwick.Copy !req
2233. Oh, I'm sorry, Your Honor.Copy !req
2234. I make those things
to help me think sometimes.Copy !req
2235. - For perch?
- No, that one's for frog.Copy !req
2236. What case is he citing, Judge?Copy !req
2237. - We gig frogs down in my part of the country.
- Yeah, well, it's the same up here.Copy !req
2238. I'm a trout man myself,
but this is a new wrinkle I'm gonna try.Copy !req
2239. They do it a lot
down in the bayous down south.Copy !req
2240. The idea - they get a
great big long pole...Copy !req
2241. and about a ten-pound line, just
sort of drift along a high bank in a boat.Copy !req
2242. Then you see that
great big old bullfrog in a crevice...Copy !req
2243. and you sort of float this along
in front of him.Copy !req
2244. Pop! That old tongue of his snaps out and -Copy !req
2245. - You've got frog's legs for supper.
- Well, I'll be darned.Copy !req
2246. - Why don't you keep it? Try it sometime.
- Thanks. I will.Copy !req
2247. 486.Copy !req
2248. - What is it, Your Honor?
- People versus Durfee, 1886.Copy !req
2249. Looks like a precedent.Copy !req
2250. Would you like to read it, Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
2251. No, thank you, Your Honor.Copy !req
2252. I think I recall the case.Copy !req
2253. We're, uh, hooked... like the frog.Copy !req
2254. Dr. Harcourt, where did
you receive your university training?Copy !req
2255. Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, Maryland.Copy !req
2256. And where do you practice now?Copy !req
2257. I'm the medical superintendent of the
Bonder State Hospital for the Insane.Copy !req
2258. It's been stated here that dissociative
reaction, or irresistible impulse...Copy !req
2259. is not uncommon among soldiers in combat.Copy !req
2260. - Do you agree with that statement?
- I do...Copy !req
2261. but not as it was put by Dr. Smith.Copy !req
2262. - Where would you depart from Dr. Smith?
- Well, dissociative reaction...Copy !req
2263. is not something that comes out of the blue
and disappears as quickly.Copy !req
2264. It can only occur -
even among soldiers in combat -Copy !req
2265. if the individual has a psychoneurotic
condition of long standing.Copy !req
2266. It's been testified here that a psychiatric
examination of the defendant...Copy !req
2267. showed no, um, evidence of neuroses...Copy !req
2268. and no history of dissociative reaction.Copy !req
2269. You've further heard it testified...Copy !req
2270. that the defendant's behavior on the night
of the shooting was cool and direct.Copy !req
2271. - As an observer, do you remember this testimony?
- Yes.Copy !req
2272. From this, have you formed an opinion...Copy !req
2273. about the defendant's sanity
on the night of the shooting?Copy !req
2274. Yes. I'm of the opinion that he was in
sufficient possession of his faculties...Copy !req
2275. so that he was not dominated
by his unconscious mind.Copy !req
2276. In other words, he was not in
the grip of irresistible impulse?Copy !req
2277. - In my opinion, he was not.
- Thank you, Doctor. Your witness, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
2278. Dr. Harcourt, psychiatry
is an effort to probe...Copy !req
2279. into the dark, undiscovered
world of the mind.Copy !req
2280. And in there, the world might
be round, it could be square.Copy !req
2281. Your opinion could be wrong.
Dr. Smith's opinion could be right.Copy !req
2282. - Isn't that true?
- I'd be a poor doctor if I didn't agree with that...Copy !req
2283. but I believe my opinion to be right.Copy !req
2284. Now, do you think you might have
changed your opinion...Copy !req
2285. if you had examined the defendant,
as Dr. Smith did?Copy !req
2286. I don't believe so.Copy !req
2287. But Dr. Smith's opinion was made under
better circumstances, wasn't it?Copy !req
2288. If you mean that he was able
to examine the man, yes.Copy !req
2289. Yeah. Well, thank you, Doctor.Copy !req
2290. That's all, Dr. Harcourt.
Is there more rebuttal?Copy !req
2291. We're over a barrel, Mitch.Copy !req
2292. We have to use him.Copy !req
2293. We call Duane Miller to the stand.Copy !req
2294. Will the sheriff please
bring in the witness?Copy !req
2295. What can he tell?Copy !req
2296. Nothing.Copy !req
2297. He can't tell anything.Copy !req
2298. Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear
the testimony you shall give in this cause...Copy !req
2299. shall be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?Copy !req
2300. I do.Copy !req
2301. - Would you state your name, please.
- Duane Miller.Copy !req
2302. - Most folks call me Duke.
- Where do you presently reside, Mr. Miller?Copy !req
2303. Across the alley in the jail.Copy !req
2304. You know the defendant, Frederick Manion?Copy !req
2305. Yeah, I got to know him in the past
few weeks. His cell's right next to mine.Copy !req
2306. When was the last conversation
you had with the lieutenant?Copy !req
2307. Except for "hello" this morning,
the last time was last night.Copy !req
2308. - Did you discuss his trial last night?
- Yeah, some.Copy !req
2309. Would you tell the court what Lieutenant
Manion had to say about the trial?Copy !req
2310. Well, I said, uh,
"Things looking up, Lieutenant?"Copy !req
2311. And he said, "I got it made, buster."Copy !req
2312. He said, "I fooled my lawyer.
I fooled that headshrinker.Copy !req
2313. I'm gonna fool that bunch
of corn cobbers on the jury."Copy !req
2314. You're a liar!
You're a lousy, stinkin' liar!Copy !req
2315. Come on. Come on.Copy !req
2316. Take it easy.Copy !req
2317. I apologize for my client, Your Honor.Copy !req
2318. Yet his outburst is almost excusable...Copy !req
2319. since the prosecution
has seen fit to put a felon on the stand...Copy !req
2320. to testify against an officer
in the United States Army.Copy !req
2321. Your Honor, I don't know who is
the worse offender, Manion or his lawyer.Copy !req
2322. We're close to the end.Copy !req
2323. In the name of heaven, let's have peace
and courtesy for these last few hours.Copy !req
2324. Mr. Dancer, you will continue
your interrogation without comment.Copy !req
2325. Mr. Biegler, you will not
sound off at every opportunity...Copy !req
2326. and the defendant will remain seated
in his chair and keep his mouth shut.Copy !req
2327. - Now go ahead.
- Mr. Miller...Copy !req
2328. are you certain that
Lieutenant Manion said...Copy !req
2329. - "I've got it made, buster"?
- That's what he said.Copy !req
2330. Mr. Miller,
did Lieutenant Manion say anything else?Copy !req
2331. Yes, sir. He said when he got out...Copy !req
2332. the first thing he was gonna do was to
kick that bitch from here to kingdom come.Copy !req
2333. - To whom was he referring?
- To his wife.Copy !req
2334. Your witness, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
2335. What are you in jail for, Mr. Miller?Copy !req
2336. Arson. I copped out,
and I'm waiting for a sentence.Copy !req
2337. And how many other offenses
have you committed?Copy !req
2338. Well, I was in reform school
when I was a kid, but that's all.Copy !req
2339. Your Honor,
I'd like to see this man's criminal record.Copy !req
2340. Do you have his record, Mr. Lodwick?Copy !req
2341. Yes, sir.Copy !req
2342. Here it is.Copy !req
2343. Well, your record here
shows you've been in prison...Copy !req
2344. six times in three different states.Copy !req
2345. You were in three times for arson...Copy !req
2346. twice for assault with a deadly weapon,
once for larceny.Copy !req
2347. Yeah. Also shows you've done
short stretches in four city jails...Copy !req
2348. on charges of indecent exposure,
window peeping...Copy !req
2349. perjury and disorderly conduct.Copy !req
2350. Is this your true record?Copy !req
2351. Them things are never right.Copy !req
2352. How did you get the ear of the prosecution
in order to tell them...Copy !req
2353. about this conversation you had
with Lieutenant Manion?Copy !req
2354. - The D.A. was taking us to his office.
- Taking who to his office?Copy !req
2355. - Us prisoners in the jail.
- He take you all at once, or one at a time?Copy !req
2356. One at a time.Copy !req
2357. Him and that other lawyer
took us to his office...Copy !req
2358. and asked us questions
about Lieutenant Manion.Copy !req
2359. Were you promised a lighter sentence
if you came over here...Copy !req
2360. - and went on the witness stand?
- Your Honor, the People object -Copy !req
2361. Overruled. Answer the question.Copy !req
2362. - I wasn't promised anything.
- Oh, you just thought...Copy !req
2363. it would help your own troubles if you
dreamed up this story to please the D.A.?Copy !req
2364. - I didn't dream up nothin'.
- You're sure that's what Lieutenant Manion said?Copy !req
2365. - Yeah, I'm sure.
- Just as sure as you were
about your criminal record?Copy !req
2366. Well, I guess I kind of goofed on that one.Copy !req
2367. Your Honor, I don't feel I can dignify
this creature with any more questions.Copy !req
2368. Take the witness away.Copy !req
2369. Mr. Biegler, would you
like a conference with your client?Copy !req
2370. I can see how the last witness
was quite a surprise.Copy !req
2371. No, Your Honor.
We don't need a conference.Copy !req
2372. I'll recall Lieutenant Manion
to the stand right now.Copy !req
2373. Now you've heard the
testimony of this Miller.Copy !req
2374. Is any part of it true?Copy !req
2375. None.Copy !req
2376. Lieutenant, do you have any idea why
he might come here with a tale like that?Copy !req
2377. No, sir.Copy !req
2378. Have you ever talked with this man?Copy !req
2379. Yes.Copy !req
2380. And what did you talk about?Copy !req
2381. Nothing important.Copy !req
2382. Certainly nothing - nothing about
my personal life or my feelings.Copy !req
2383. That's all I wanted to know.Copy !req
2384. Lieutenant Manion...Copy !req
2385. have you ever had any sort of...Copy !req
2386. trouble with, uh, Miller?Copy !req
2387. I don't know. What do you mean?
An argument? Something like that?Copy !req
2388. Well, did you ever, um, attack Miller -
physically attack him?Copy !req
2389. Your lawyer can't answer the
question for you, Lieutenant.Copy !req
2390. Did you ever physically attack Miller?Copy !req
2391. Well, I wouldn't call it an attack exactly.Copy !req
2392. - I pushed his head against the bars one day.
- Why?Copy !req
2393. He said something ugly about my wife.Copy !req
2394. And do you remember, uh, pushing
or bumping his head against the bars?Copy !req
2395. Well, sure. I just told you.Copy !req
2396. Then this was not dissociative reaction?Copy !req
2397. - The defendant isn't qualified to answer that.
- Sustained.Copy !req
2398. Lieutenant Manion,
wasn't your action against Barney Quill...Copy !req
2399. much the same as your
action against Miller...Copy !req
2400. and against the lieutenant
that you struck at the cocktail party -Copy !req
2401. all in the heat of anger, with a willful,
conscious desire to hurt or kill?Copy !req
2402. I don't remember my action against Quill.Copy !req
2403. How long had you known your wife
was running around with Barney Quill?Copy !req
2404. I never knew anything like that.Copy !req
2405. I trust my wife.Copy !req
2406. I suppose you just beat her up occasionally
just for the fun of it.Copy !req
2407. Nothing has been established
to permit a question like that.Copy !req
2408. He keeps implying things
without ever getting to the point.Copy !req
2409. Let him ask the lieutenant,
did he ever beat his wife.Copy !req
2410. I'll sustain the objection.Copy !req
2411. Would you like to rephrase
your question, Mr. Dancer?Copy !req
2412. No, thank you, Your Honor.Copy !req
2413. I've finished.Copy !req
2414. Well, then I'll ask him. Did you,
Lieutenant Manion, ever beat your wife -Copy !req
2415. on the night of the shooting,
or at any other time?Copy !req
2416. - No, sir.
- Is there any doubt in your mind...Copy !req
2417. that Barney Quill raped Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2418. - No, sir.
- That's all.Copy !req
2419. Step down, Lieutenant.Copy !req
2420. - Are we hurt?
- We're hurt bad.Copy !req
2421. Paul.Copy !req
2422. Your Honor, I know time is very pressing.Copy !req
2423. I don't want to ask for a recess.Copy !req
2424. I would like to leave
the courtroom for a moment.Copy !req
2425. If it's important,
we can be at ease for a minute.Copy !req
2426. Thank you, sir.Copy !req
2427. This is highly irregular, Your Honor.Copy !req
2428. Well, there's no reason
to make a federal case out of it.Copy !req
2429. Thank you very much, Your Honor.Copy !req
2430. We now have another rebuttal witness.Copy !req
2431. The defense calls Mary Pilant to the stand.Copy !req
2432. Your Honor, we must
protest this whole affair.Copy !req
2433. The noble defense attorney
rushes out to a secret conference...Copy !req
2434. and now the last-minute witness is being
brought dramatically down the aisle.Copy !req
2435. The whole thing has obviously been rigged
to unduly excite the jury.Copy !req
2436. It's just another one
of Mr. Biegler's cornball tricks.Copy !req
2437. Your Honor, I don't blame
Mr. Dancer for feeling put upon.Copy !req
2438. I'm just a humble country lawyer
trying to do the best I can...Copy !req
2439. against this brilliant prosecutor
from the big city of Lansing.Copy !req
2440. Swear the witness.Copy !req
2441. Raise your right hand, please.Copy !req
2442. You do solemnly swear the
testimony you shall give in this cause...Copy !req
2443. shall be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?Copy !req
2444. - I do.
- Sit down, please.Copy !req
2445. Where do you live, Miss Pilant?Copy !req
2446. At the Thunder Bay Inn, in Thunder Bay.Copy !req
2447. - And how long have you lived there?
- For two years.Copy !req
2448. - And what's your profession?
- I manage the inn.Copy !req
2449. Now, Miss Pilant, how is the laundry
handled at Thunder Bay Inn?Copy !req
2450. It's chuted down to the laundry room.Copy !req
2451. Where is the location of that chute
on the second floor?Copy !req
2452. - Between room 42 and 43.
- Who lives in those rooms?Copy !req
2453. I live in 42. Mr. Quill lived in 43.Copy !req
2454. Now, would Mr. Quill,
coming up from the lobby...Copy !req
2455. have to pass by the mouth of that chute
on the way to his room?Copy !req
2456. Yes.Copy !req
2457. Would it be very easy for him to drop
something into that chute as he passed by?Copy !req
2458. Yes.Copy !req
2459. Have you ever had occasion to go down
into the laundry at any time?Copy !req
2460. Yes. Part of my job is to sort
various pieces of laundry...Copy !req
2461. as they come out of
the wash-and-dry machine.Copy !req
2462. Would you tell the court what you found...Copy !req
2463. among those pieces of laundry
on the day after Mr. Quill was killed?Copy !req
2464. I found a pair of women's panties.Copy !req
2465. - What did you do with them?
- I threw them in the rag bin.Copy !req
2466. When did you learn
the significance of those panties?Copy !req
2467. Here. This morning in the courtroom.Copy !req
2468. And then you went home
and got them out of the rag bin?Copy !req
2469. - Yes.
- Did you bring them with you?Copy !req
2470. Yes.Copy !req
2471. I offer this article of lingerie...Copy !req
2472. as exhibit number one for the defense.Copy !req
2473. They're white,
they have lace up the side...Copy !req
2474. and they're badly torn...Copy !req
2475. as if they'd been ripped apart
by powerful hands.Copy !req
2476. The label reads...Copy !req
2477. "Smart Shop, Phoenix, Arizona."Copy !req
2478. If there is no objection,
the exhibit will be received in evidence.Copy !req
2479. That's all, Miss Pilant.Copy !req
2480. Did you ever talk to Mr. Lodwick, the prosecuting
attorney, about the death of Barney Quill?Copy !req
2481. Yes. He came to the hotel several times
after Mr. Quill was killed.Copy !req
2482. Did you tell Mr. Lodwick that you didn't
believe Barney Quill had raped Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2483. - Yes, I told him that.
- Now, Miss Pilant...Copy !req
2484. did you ever talk to Mr. Biegler,
the defense attorney?Copy !req
2485. Yes.Copy !req
2486. - Was this also in connection
with the shooting of Quill?
- Yes.Copy !req
2487. Did you tell him you didn't believe
Barney Quill had raped Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2488. - Yes.
- How many times did you talk to Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
2489. - Twice.
- When was the last time?Copy !req
2490. - Last night.
- And have you now changed your mind?Copy !req
2491. Do you now believe
Barney Quill raped Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2492. I - I don't know now.
I think he might have.Copy !req
2493. When did you change your mind?
Last night?Copy !req
2494. No. No, it was here, this morning.Copy !req
2495. When were you given the panties?
Was that last night?Copy !req
2496. - Now wait a minute! Now just wait a minute.
- Use the proper form of objection, Mr. Biegler.Copy !req
2497. No, on second thought,
I don't object, Your Honor.Copy !req
2498. I'd like the jury to hear her answer.Copy !req
2499. - The witness may answer.
- No.Copy !req
2500. I was not given the panties,
last night or at any other time.Copy !req
2501. I found them exactly as I said.Copy !req
2502. Do you know for a fact that Barney Quill
dropped the panties down the chute...Copy !req
2503. - or did you just assume it?
- I assumed it.Copy !req
2504. Had you thought that perhaps someone
else might have put the panties there -Copy !req
2505. - someone who wanted them found in the laundry?
- I hadn't thought of that.Copy !req
2506. Mm-hmm. And in the grip of what Mr. Biegler
might call irresistible impulse...Copy !req
2507. you rushed in here with the panties...Copy !req
2508. because you wanted to crucify the character
of the dead Barney Quill.Copy !req
2509. - Isn't that true?
- No. I thought it was my duty.Copy !req
2510. - Your pride was hurt, wasn't it?
- I don't know what you mean.Copy !req
2511. Your Honor, he's trying
to confuse the witness.Copy !req
2512. Let him ask her a question
she can understand.Copy !req
2513. Yes, Mr. Dancer, I myself
would like to know what you're driving at.Copy !req
2514. Miss Pilant, when you found the panties...Copy !req
2515. was your first thought that Barney Quill
might have raped Mrs. Manion...Copy !req
2516. or was it that he might
have been stepping out with Mrs. Manion?Copy !req
2517. What does he mean?
I don't know what he means.Copy !req
2518. Mr. Dancer, once again I must ask you...Copy !req
2519. to put straight questions to the witness.Copy !req
2520. Here is a straight question, Your Honor.Copy !req
2521. - Miss Pilant, were you Barney Quill's mistress?
- No! No, I was not!Copy !req
2522. You know it's common knowledge
in Thunder Bay you were living with Quill?Copy !req
2523. That's not true! Barney Quill was -Copy !req
2524. Was what, Miss Pilant?Copy !req
2525. Barney Quill was what, Miss Pilant?Copy !req
2526. Barney Quill was my father.Copy !req
2527. No more questions, Your Honor.Copy !req
2528. That's all for me.Copy !req
2529. The witness may step down.Copy !req
2530. We will recess for 15 minutes...Copy !req
2531. after which we will hear
the closing arguments.Copy !req
2532. If possible, I would like
to charge the jury before nightfall.Copy !req
2533. Think they're gonna stay out all night?Copy !req
2534. Can't somebody say something?Copy !req
2535. What do you want me to say, Maida, darling?Copy !req
2536. Tell me we're gonna win.Copy !req
2537. I'm counting on getting
that promissory note from the lieutenant.Copy !req
2538. I hope we can borrow some money on it.Copy !req
2539. I need a new typewriter.Copy !req
2540. Half the time the "P" and the "F"
don't strike on mine.Copy !req
2541. "Party of the first part"
sometimes comes out "arty of the irst art."Copy !req
2542. Doesn't make sense.
It's embarrassing.Copy !req
2543. "Arty of the irst art"?Copy !req
2544. I kind of like that.Copy !req
2545. It has a ring to it.Copy !req
2546. Twelve people go off into a room.Copy !req
2547. Twelve different minds,
12 different hearts...Copy !req
2548. from 12 different walks of life.Copy !req
2549. Twelve sets of eyes,
ears, shapes and sizes.Copy !req
2550. And these 12 people...Copy !req
2551. are asked to judge another human being...Copy !req
2552. as different from them
as they are from each other.Copy !req
2553. And in their judgment they must become
of one mind - unanimous.Copy !req
2554. It's one of the miracles of man's
disorganized soul that they can do it.Copy !req
2555. And in most instances, do it right well.Copy !req
2556. God bless juries.Copy !req
2557. I don't know what I'd do
if I were on that jury.Copy !req
2558. I really don't know.Copy !req
2559. Do you?Copy !req
2560. I loved that, Polly.Copy !req
2561. I loved that "humble country lawyer" bit.Copy !req
2562. You had Mr. Dancer dancing.Copy !req
2563. I'm afraid he got in the last dance.Copy !req
2564. That's the best summary
I've ever heard in a courtroom.Copy !req
2565. I liked yours much better, Polly.Copy !req
2566. Do you have to play that stuff?Copy !req
2567. Can't you play "Danny Boy,"
or "Sweet Isle of Innisfree"?Copy !req
2568. Paul Biegler's office.Copy !req
2569. Yes, sir. Right away.Copy !req
2570. They're ready.Copy !req
2571. Hey, sweetie!Copy !req
2572. Go on, go on.Copy !req
2573. - The jury's coming in.
- Yeah, I heard.Copy !req
2574. You can tell my lovin' husband
I'll be waiting in the car.Copy !req
2575. - You're sure he's gonna come out?
- Oh, sure.Copy !req
2576. He's lucky.Copy !req
2577. Some people have all the luck.Copy !req
2578. You can tell him I'm waiting
to get kicked to kingdom come.Copy !req
2579. Oh. Hey, sweetie, I
have a souvenir for you.Copy !req
2580. Well, now, you better keep that.
You might need it again sometime.Copy !req
2581. - You never know.
- No, you don't, do you?Copy !req
2582. Oh, I like you, Polly.Copy !req
2583. I warn all those present
not to interrupt the taking of the verdict.Copy !req
2584. I will stop the proceedings
and clear the courtroom...Copy !req
2585. if there is any demonstration.Copy !req
2586. Proceed, Mr. Clerk.Copy !req
2587. Members of the jury, have you agreed upon a
verdict, and if so, who will speak for you?Copy !req
2588. We have. I'm the foreman.Copy !req
2589. The defendant will rise.Copy !req
2590. What is your verdict?Copy !req
2591. We find the defendant not guilty
by reason of insanity.Copy !req
2592. Maida gave you that promissory note,
didn't she?Copy !req
2593. Right here,
ready to be signed by our happy client.Copy !req
2594. You know, I used to think the world
looked better through a glass of whiskey.Copy !req
2595. It doesn't.Copy !req
2596. I think I'll keep it this way.Copy !req
2597. Looks nice.Copy !req
2598. Well, I got one good thing
out of this case -Copy !req
2599. a new law partner,
if it's all right with him.Copy !req
2600. He'd be mighty proud to have his name
on a shingle with yours.Copy !req
2601. I guess you're looking for Lieutenant
Manion, aren't you, Mr. Biegler?Copy !req
2602. - Yeah.
- He gave me this note for you.Copy !req
2603. Felt real sorry for Mrs. Manion.
She was crying.Copy !req
2604. Left a mess, didn't they?Copy !req
2605. Well, we'd better get busy here.Copy !req
2606. "Dear Mr. Biegler.
So sorry, but I had to leave suddenly.Copy !req
2607. I was seized by an irresistible impulse.
Frederick Manion."Copy !req
2608. Now, how in the world
are we gonna face Maida?Copy !req
2609. Gin.Copy !req
2610. I knew there was something
wrong with that guy.Copy !req
2611. Never saw a gin drinker
yet you could trust.Copy !req
2612. Well, partner, what do you say
we go and see our first client?Copy !req
2613. - Who might that be?
- Mary Pilant.Copy !req
2614. We're gonna administer
Barney Quill's estate.Copy !req
2615. Now that's what I call
poetic justice for everybody.Copy !req
2616. Yeah.Copy !req