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00:04Ladies and gentlemen, we present Tony Hancock in...
00:10Hancock's Half Hour.
00:36Crown vs. Reginald Coote, second day.
00:39The council will proceed with the final address.
00:46Ah, good luck. Ladies and gentlemen, the jury.
00:50The defendant is accused of one of the most loathsome and despicable crime.
00:54Threaten the bond of human society.
00:57He's accused of...
01:07Bigamy.
01:10Yes, bigamy.
01:11Not once, not twice.
01:13Not three times, but eight times.
01:17Eight times as this person violated the sanctity of marriage.
01:23Eight innocent women have been inveigled.
01:27Inveigled into the lair of this clatham common potentate.
01:34Take a good look at this monster.
01:40Women have always been easy prey for a man of the world such as he is.
01:44Yes.
01:46His expert, romantic technique.
01:50His all too obvious charm.
01:52Nonchalant.
01:53Suave.
01:54Sophisticated.
01:56A lounge lizard.
01:59No woman was capable of resisting.
02:02His very occupation.
02:07Was sufficient to turn the head of a naive country girl.
02:11A long distance lorry driver.
02:18Picture the scene.
02:20Fred's all night cafe on the bathrobe.
02:23A jukebox blaring forth sensuous music.
02:27The air thick with the heavy scent of cigarette smoke and fried egg sandwich.
02:34The defendant, leaning against the counter.
02:37The glistening elbows of his leather jacket reflected in the puddles of cold tea.
02:41As with a mocking smile, he surveyed his next conquest through hooded lids.
02:45And then, with an ironic laugh, sidled across the room and jumped into his ten-ton articulator
02:50and dashed forward into the night.
02:54Found four far away places.
02:57We can imagine.
03:00How he dazzled them with romantic tales.
03:03Of unknown cities that had been merely words to them before.
03:08Preston.
03:11Market Harbour.
03:13Gateshead.
03:14Ah, the magic.
03:15The magic of those names.
03:17Ladies and gentlemen,
03:18What woman could have any defence against this unscrupulous philanderer?
03:22But why did he deceive these poor innocent creatures?
03:25Why did he lead?
03:27Eight blushing brides to the altar.
03:30The evidence is unshakable.
03:32Because he wanted to get his hands on their premium bomb.
03:40And so, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I demand the extreme cruelty
03:42of this villainous outcast from the dregs of humanity.
03:45I demand that he be put beyond the reach of defenceless women
03:49so that he can no longer pursue this dreadful path that has so disgusted him.
03:54For all the righteous people of Great Britain, I rest my case.
04:02Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you've heard the case against the defendant.
04:06You will now consider your verdict.
04:09Have you reached a verdict?
04:11You have, Your Honour.
04:12You find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?
04:14Guilty.
04:16Reginald Coote.
04:17You've been found guilty of bigamously marrying eight wives.
04:21Therefore, by the power invested in me in this court,
04:23I hereby sentence you to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six years.
04:29Case concluded.
04:32There we are, then.
04:33What about that?
04:34Masterly.
04:35And in just what I wanted in.
04:37Yes.
04:38There's only one snag.
04:40What?
04:41You were supposed to be defending him.
04:53Come on, Ed.
04:54You're in for it now.
04:56You wait until the old man is about this.
04:58Be careful.
05:20Come in.
05:23Oh, it's you.
05:24Yes, sir.
05:25So you've done it again.
05:26Yes, sir.
05:26Well, I can explain.
05:27The prosecution had a surprise witness.
05:28It was a complete surprise.
05:29I had no chance.
05:30I've heard all about it, Hancock.
05:31Oh.
05:32We're the laughing stock of the old Bailey.
05:34Tell me, Hancock, where did you study law?
05:38LCC evening classes, sir.
05:41Second-class diploma and nine out of ten for woodwork.
05:43Yes.
05:46And I took you on as a barrister because I admired your keenness.
05:50You'd made your own wig.
05:52And I thought you deserved a chance to show what you could do.
05:55I've given you every opportunity, Hancock.
05:57Yes, sir.
05:58I've allowed you to conduct ten major criminal cases.
06:01Eight you lost outright.
06:03Once you turned up drunk and spent the entire afternoon
06:06trying to sit on Rose Heilbron's knee.
06:09And the tenth.
06:10What an embarrassing experience for the firm.
06:13Well, it was a mistake anybody could make.
06:15A mistake?
06:16An important murder case and you turn up in the wrong court.
06:19You spend three hours making an impassioned plea
06:22for a life sentence on a man accused of passing betting slips in Hyde Park.
06:30It's not good enough, Hancock.
06:31Oh, fair's fair, sir.
06:32I've had my successes.
06:33You forget I appealed on behalf of Samuel Biggs
06:35and got his sentence changed to four years.
06:37He was only sentenced to six months in the first place.
06:41I've only put up with you so far
06:43because of my friendship with your grandfather.
06:46Ah, yes, dear old hanging Judge Hancock.
06:48Yes.
06:49It's a great pity that you haven't inherited some of his legal capabilities.
06:53That's not fair.
06:54That's not fair.
06:54It's always the same when anybody's got a relative to look up to like that.
06:57They always compare you.
06:58It's all right for him.
06:59All the Hancocks before him were idiots.
07:01It seems to me that history is repeating itself.
07:04How dare you?
07:04I shall sue you for libel.
07:06Don't you mean slander?
07:08Do I?
07:09Hang on a minute.
07:10No, I don't.
07:11You can't catch me out.
07:12Slander is set in fire to people.
07:14I know.
07:16I'm sorry, Hancock.
07:17I can't employ you anymore.
07:19Three Home Secretaries have had to resign because of some of your mistakes.
07:23In the name of British justice, give it up.
07:27Never.
07:27I know I can be a famous barrister like him one day.
07:29I can feel it in me bones.
07:31You can't make me turn me wig in now.
07:33You can't.
07:33Not at the beginning of my career.
07:34Give me another chance.
07:35I'm keen.
07:35I work hard.
07:36I'm improving all the time.
07:38Up in me attic every night, I'm studying law.
07:40I've seen every Dixon of Doc Green and Edward Lustgarten.
07:42What?
07:43Yes, but do you read law?
07:46Read it?
07:46What?
07:46I've got the finest selection of Agatha Christie's in the country.
07:50I mean legal textbooks.
07:52Do you read them?
07:54Well, I read one, but I couldn't understand it.
07:55Exactly.
07:57Well, it's not my fault.
07:58Half of it was written by a foreigner.
07:59What?
07:59Abeus corpus sine die subject.
08:03Rigor mortis.
08:04I can't help it if I can't understand French.
08:06That's Latin.
08:07Well, whatever country it is, they're all the same.
08:09I've seen them.
08:10Black hair and curly eyebrows.
08:13Cycle around the country with onions dangling off their handlebars.
08:18Hancock.
08:19Hancock.
08:20I believe you're an even bigger cretin than I gave you credit for.
08:24Oh, thank you, sir.
08:25I knew you had faith in me.
08:26I won't let you down.
08:28Give me another chance just for the sake of the judge.
08:31Very well, Hancock.
08:32Against my better judgment, I'll give you one last chance.
08:34And you wouldn't get this if you weren't his grandson.
08:37Now, one of our more regular clients is at this moment in Bow Street Police Station.
08:41On some charge or another, I'll put you in charge of the defense.
08:45Oh, thank you, sir.
08:45I'll win it, I promise you.
08:47Yes, well, you'd better get along to the police station and prepare your brief.
08:49And remember, slip up on this and you're through.
08:53Oh, don't worry, sir.
08:55I shall dazzle the court with my sparkling eloquence and legal knowledge.
08:58That's the spirit.
08:59Do you think you could lend me 20 quid?
09:02What for?
09:03Well, you know, a bit of a sweetener for the jury before they retire.
09:06Perhaps a quidditch and a fiver for the judge, you know how it is.
09:10Get out!
09:11You make my job very hard.
09:13You'll explode in a minute. Hang on.
09:14I'll see you in court.
09:15Oh!
09:55You do that again and I shall tell people you fell down the stairs trying to escape.
10:04Don't you take that high-handed attitude with me, my good man.
10:07Now, look here, Constable.
10:08Constable?
10:09What do you think these are?
10:10Don't.
10:11I beg your pardon, Sergeant.
10:12Sergeant, it's more likely.
10:13I nearly set the Alsatians on you.
10:17What can I do for you?
10:18Well, I'm here in official business.
10:19I'm the legal representative of one of the prisoners.
10:21There's your car parked outside.
10:23Yes, that's right.
10:24Well, that's a ticket before we start.
10:29Name.
10:30Hancock.
10:31Profession.
10:31Lawyer.
10:32Vehicle number.
10:33TLK 410.
10:35You'll be hearing from the magistrates in the course of a few days.
10:38Now, where were we?
10:40I'm here in official business.
10:41I'm the legal representative of one of the prisoners.
10:42What time is it?
10:44It's about half past five.
10:45You haven't got any lights in that car, have you?
10:48No.
10:52Name.
10:53Hancock.
10:54Profession.
10:55Lawyer.
10:55Vehicle number.
10:56TLK 410.
10:58You'll be hearing from the magistrates in the course of a few days' time.
11:02Now then, where were we?
11:03Well, I'm here in official business.
11:04I'm the legal representative of one of the...
11:06Oh, as a matter of routine, could I see your driving licence, please?
11:09Uh, yes, certainly.
11:10Here we are.
11:12Thank you very much.
11:14See this expires on December the 1st.
11:16That's right.
11:17What's the date today?
11:27Name.
11:27Hancock.
11:28Profession.
11:29Lawyer.
11:30Vehicle number.
11:30TLK 410.
11:32You'll be hearing from the magistrates in the course of a few days.
11:35Carry on.
11:36Now, I believe there's a prisoner in this establishment who is desirous of receiving legal aid...
11:39I haven't seen your insurance yet, have you?
11:42No.
11:43No, you haven't, have you?
11:50Hancock.
11:52Commissioner.
11:53Lawyer.
11:54Vehicle number.
11:55TLK 410.
11:56Oh, no, yes, that's right.
11:57You'll be hearing from the magistrates in the course of a few days.
11:59Now, look, please, could I please see the prisoner?
12:01Your car is still parked outside in a restricted area without any lights on.
12:06All right, I'll go and move it.
12:11Parsons.
12:13Yes, Sergeant?
12:14Get me some more forms.
12:15All right.
12:20I'd rather speedily put the car in the car park.
12:22Now then, I'd like to see the prisoner if you'd have by me because I had less a taste.
12:25Do I understand that you have just driven away on a mechanically propelled vehicle without an insurance and current driving
12:30licence?
12:31Yes, when you asked me to, you told me to move it.
12:34No.
12:34Oh, this is a thing.
12:35Name?
12:36Hancock.
12:37Profession?
12:38Lawyer.
12:39Vehicle number.
12:40TLK 410.
12:43Now, I believe you want to see one of the prisoners?
12:45Yes.
12:46I'm going to help you.
12:47I'm going to put you in the same cell.
12:50I'll get his arrest this man.
12:52You can't do this for me.
12:53Don't try to get away.
12:56Don't worry.
12:56I shan't.
12:57I'm not going to leave me arm with you.
12:59All right.
13:00Lock him up.
13:01All right.
13:01Come on.
13:04Hancock.
13:05Lord.
13:07Go on.
13:08In you go.
13:09Gustafo.
13:10Gustafo.
13:12Gustafo.
13:12Don't be the same since you had coppers and ties.
13:16Coppers?
13:17Oh, glad me barmy.
13:19Now, where's me client?
13:21Excuse me.
13:22I'm your lawyer.
13:23I shall see defending you in court.
13:24Your troubles are now at an end.
13:26You poor unfortunate wretch.
13:28This is a trumped up charge of the travesty of justice between us.
13:31We shall tear to shreds the evidence of the prosecution
13:33and you will emerge from the court a free man
13:35with your reputation completely unsurried.
13:39Hello.
13:40The interview is at an end.
13:42Let me out of here, don't you?
13:43Why, don't you?
13:44Come here.
13:45I'm not defending you.
13:47At least the lawyer has to believe his client is innocent
13:49and you are dead guilty.
13:50You don't know what are my clues used of yet.
13:52Whatever you are enclosed of yet.
13:56You are dead guilty.
13:58I'll never win with you.
14:00You'll be sentenced and on your way to Dartmoor
14:02before I got the curlers out of me way.
14:06I don't understand. Let's get something straight.
14:07Look, I'm not exactly tickled at the idea of you defending me either.
14:11We all know about you in the underworld.
14:12The boys are saying that you would find it difficult
14:14to prove that Jane Mansfield is a woman.
14:17Well, they're quite right.
14:18Have you ever thought of defending yourself?
14:19Because I'm no good in court, you know.
14:20I can't hear what I say.
14:22I mutter and, you know, I go on and I get shy
14:25and I can't hear and the judges don't like me.
14:27I'd be a drag.
14:28Yes.
14:29You'd be better on your own, Garth.
14:31Come in.
14:32You're going to defend me if it's the last thing you ever do.
14:34And if I do defend you, it probably will be the last thing you ever do.
14:38Now that would be a pity because I've got a lot of influential business associates outside
14:42who would be very distressed to see me put inside.
14:44They might.
14:44They might take it into their heads that it was your fault.
14:47They might even take it into their heads to visit you.
14:50And in the past, their visits have tended to overwork the health service more than somewhat.
14:56You mean sort of new teeth and noses and that stuff.
14:59You've got it.
15:02Yes, well, let's have a few details in and show it.
15:04That's better, sir.
15:05Now, look, you don't want to worry about anything.
15:06I know all the ropes.
15:07All you've got to do is do what I tell you.
15:08I think we'd better clarify the position at the outset, Sidney.
15:12I'm in charge of the defence.
15:13I will brook no interference from you whatsoever.
15:15I know what I'm doing.
15:16I'm fully equipped to...
15:18Yeah, what did you have in mind, then?
15:20That's a good point.
15:21Well, I'd better tell you what happened.
15:23Yes, that'll help me in my summing up.
15:24Now, how many charges are there against you?
15:27187.
15:27Garth!
15:30They're only trying me on 58.
15:32Oh, good.
15:33They can't prove the rest.
15:34No.
15:35I suppose they can prove the other 58, though.
15:37Yeah, I suppose they can.
15:38Yeah.
15:39So when you boil it down,
15:40all I've got to do is get you off 58 charges,
15:42all of which they can prove.
15:43Yeah, that's just about the gist of it.
15:45Yes.
15:46Well, I suppose we can do it,
15:48providing they don't start tapping me through.
15:50What are the charges, then?
15:52Well, they range from even a brick
15:53through the jeweller's window
15:55and lifting 50,000 quid's worth of stuff
15:57right down the scale
15:58to breaking and entering the builder's yard
16:00and whipping the brick.
16:02What about witnesses?
16:03Ward is a score of them.
16:05They all saw me.
16:06At the identification parade,
16:08224 people identified me
16:10without any hesitation.
16:11That's very careless of you, Sidney.
16:12You normally get clean away with it.
16:14Yeah, well, I was dead unlucky this time.
16:15I parked the getaway car
16:16around at the bus stop round the corner
16:18and when I went to get it,
16:19the cops had jacked it up and towed it away.
16:21I see.
16:23Hmm.
16:24How do you think we should approach the jury on this?
16:27Let me see.
16:28On this evidence,
16:30round the back door with money.
16:32You're not such a mad, are you?
16:34All right, son, I'll leave it to you.
16:36You'd better get cracking up
16:37because my case comes up on the 10th.
16:38Oh, isn't that funny?
16:39That's just right.
16:41Mine comes up on the 9th.
16:43I think I'll have the top bunk.
16:44Chill out.
16:48This comes up on the 9th.
16:51There's something wrong here somewhere.
17:19The Crown v. Sidney James,
17:21presiding judge Lord Chief Justice Williams.
17:23Proceed.
17:25Where's the defending council?
17:27What?
17:29Oh, I see.
17:31Well, bring in the defending council.
17:36Fourteen days, I got.
17:38This is ridiculous.
17:40Out on bail for this, not then back inside again.
17:42I shall appeal, of course.
17:43I wouldn't.
17:44Are you ready to proceed, Mr Hancock?
17:46Yes, my lad.
17:46There were no signs to indicate
17:47it was a restricted area where I parked my car.
17:49This is a deliberate attempt
17:50on behalf of the police.
17:50We are not here to discuss your parking offence.
17:53Kindly take your place.
17:54I'm sorry. Forgive me, my lad.
17:57Now, then.
17:57Are you Sidney Balmoral James?
18:00Yes.
18:01I am.
18:03You're accused of robbery on 58 separate counts.
18:06Do you plead guilty or not guilty?
18:07Objection!
18:08I beg your pardon?
18:08Objection!
18:10Already, Mr Hancock?
18:11Certainly my client refuses to answer that question
18:13on grounds of incrimination.
18:15Mr Hancock, we cannot proceed
18:17until the prisoner has entered a plea.
18:19I don't know how long you've been in the business,
18:21but surely you must realise
18:22that it's up to the jury
18:23to decide on the guilt or innocence of the prisoner.
18:25Yes, sir.
18:26What are you giving the game away now for?
18:30Objection ever ruled.
18:31Sit down.
18:32Now, do you plead guilty or not guilty?
18:37Not guilty.
18:38Not guilty.
18:39Will you proceed with the prosecution?
18:42Objection!
18:43What for?
18:44Unfair contest.
18:45He was higher up the LCC classes than I was.
18:48That is not a legitimate point.
18:50Objection overruled.
18:52Kindly proceed, Mr Foster.
18:53Thank you, my lad.
18:54With the court's permission,
18:56I shall attempt to show the court and the jury
18:58that the prisoner, Sidney Balmoral James,
19:01is guilty as charged.
19:03The man is a well-known habitual criminal.
19:06Objection!
19:07What?
19:07Not now.
19:07Hang on a minute, please.
19:10H-J-H-J-B.
19:12Have it, have it, have it, have it, have it, have it,
19:15have it.
19:16Has been doing it all his life.
19:18Carry on.
19:21I thank my learned friends.
19:24The prosecution's case is straightforward.
19:27It is simply that the prisoner was caught red-handed
19:30with the proceeds of the robbery on his person
19:32and was seen in the act to committing the crime
19:35by 224 witnesses,
19:37all of whom will testify in this court.
19:40Objection!
19:41Oh, no, not again.
19:42On what grounds?
19:44224 witnesses.
19:45The court is too small.
19:47I've given up my seat for anybody.
19:51I suggest we adjourn an overtrial in Wembley Stadium.
19:58Mr Hancock, your frivolity is out of place in this court.
20:02Any more attempts to hold up proceedings
20:04will be passed as contempt of court.
20:05Well, of course, you haven't got a sense of humour.
20:07Now, that's enough.
20:10May I have your name, Mr Hancock?
20:15Hancock.
20:18Make a note of that, will you, please?
20:20Continue, Mr Farnsworth.
20:21Thank you, the lad.
20:22I'd like to call my first witness,
20:25Police Constable Alfred Bates.
20:27Call Alfred Bates.
20:28Call Alfred Bates.
20:29Call Alfred Bates.
20:30Call Alfred Bates.
20:33Are you Police Constable Alfred Bates?
20:36No.
20:43Call my wife, will you?
20:44It looks as if it's going to be one of those trials.
20:46Where is Constable Biggs?
20:48Well, I've got a note here from him.
20:50He said he's very sorry he can't be here,
20:52on account of his slip to death
20:54when the rope broke on the tug of our team.
21:01Then who, pray are you?
21:03I'm his mate.
21:04Police Constable Trubshaw.
21:06I said I'd stand in for him.
21:08I was with him when the felony took place.
21:10Well, that's something, anyway.
21:12Will you continue, Mr Farnsworth?
21:13Thank you, my lad.
21:15Mr Trubshaw,
21:16will you tell the court in your own words
21:17what took place in Bond Street on the day in question?
21:21Yes.
21:23I was proceeding along Bond Street
21:25in an easterly direction.
21:28Objection.
21:29What is an easterly direction in Bond Street?
21:31I was walking up the street towards the little numbers.
21:38How very quaint.
21:41The jury will see the man is an idiot.
21:43Take their notice.
21:45Towards the little numbers, indeed.
21:47Kindly let the witness proceed.
21:50Anyway, I was walking up towards the little numbers
21:54when suddenly,
21:55Crash!
21:56Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.
22:00A brick whisked past my left ear hole
22:02and came into contact
22:05with a plate glass window.
22:07What was that? I exclaimed
22:10and we turned and faced in a westerly direction.
22:15towards the big numbers.
22:17That's right.
22:21Whereupon we saw the accused.
22:24And there, lo and behold,
22:27he was stuffing precious jewels into a sack.
22:32Whereupon we apprehended him
22:35and took him into custard.
22:39He.
22:43Thank you, Mr. Trotshaw.
22:45Your witness.
22:48You say you saw the prisoner.
22:50You saw him with your own eye.
22:52Yes.
22:53Quite sure about that.
22:55You saw him.
22:56You made no mistake.
22:57You actually saw him.
22:58Yes.
22:59Would you be good enough
23:00to put your helmet on, please?
23:12So much for the key witness for the prosecution.
23:16The most unreliable matter
23:17should ever be put in the witness box.
23:18I demand his testimony
23:19that he's struck from the record.
23:20Have you any more witnesses, Mr. Farnsworth?
23:22I have, Milad.
23:24I have another 224.
23:27What?
23:27They refused to testify
23:28they've been a British hospital.
23:30Oh.
23:31Milad, I've just been informed
23:32that all 224 witnesses
23:34have refused to testify
23:35against the prisoner.
23:37Apparently, they were admitted
23:38to hospital this morning
23:39suffering from broken noses
23:41and cauliflower ears.
23:42Have we been intimidated?
23:45Milad, this is an outrage.
23:47These people have been intimidated
23:49by friends of the accused.
23:50Objection.
23:51I consider this as a diabolical trick
23:53on behalf of the prosecution
23:54to blacken the character of my client.
23:56If you don't watch it, mate,
23:57you'll be the next to be sorted out.
23:58Now, then.
24:00Are you threatening me, Mr. Hancock?
24:02Why not?
24:03Have you any more witnesses,
24:04Mr. Farnsworth?
24:05No, Milad, I haven't.
24:06My case rests
24:07on Police Constable Trudshaw.
24:08Very well.
24:09The defence will proceed.
24:11I'd like to place the accused
24:13in the witness box, Milad.
24:14The accused will take the stand.
24:15I insist him, he's rather a weak lad.
24:17Take it easy, son.
24:18Just watch it.
24:19Watch it.
24:19Good boy, good boy.
24:25Your name is Sidney Balmoral Joe?
24:28James.
24:29James!
24:30I knew I'd seen you somewhere before.
24:32Yes, sir.
24:34Sidney Balmoral.
24:35And were you in Bond Street
24:36on the day in question?
24:37If you were, what happened?
24:38Well, sir,
24:39I was standing in front
24:40of this jewelers' window,
24:42looking at all the lovely things in there
24:43and wondering to myself
24:45how long it would take me
24:46to save all my sixpences
24:47to buy one of them
24:48for my dear grey-haired old mum.
24:51He loves his mother.
24:52How very refreshing in these days.
24:54Good lad.
24:55So as I was standing there,
24:56a very rude gentleman come up
24:57and shoved me aside.
25:00And he picked up a brick
25:01and he slung it through the window
25:02and he started to remove
25:04some of these lovely trickets.
25:06Knowing this to be against the law,
25:09I struggled with him
25:10and I fought him off.
25:11Then I picked up the brick
25:13and I started to put back
25:15some of these lovely trinkets.
25:17At this moment,
25:18I was roughly manhandled
25:19by two officers of the law
25:21who overpowered me
25:23because I'm not as strong as they are.
25:25He's always been a weak child.
25:27He's not strong.
25:28Poor lad.
25:29Would you like a little rest,
25:30Mr James?
25:32No, I'll be all right, John.
25:34Well, of course,
25:34the truth of the matter is coming out.
25:36My client was, in actual fact,
25:37putting the stuff back.
25:39Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
25:40I want you to see
25:40what sort of a boy
25:41you have in front of you
25:42in court today.
25:43Tell them more about
25:44your sterling character.
25:45Yes, sir.
25:46Well, I've been looking after
25:47my mum and dad
25:49right up to my 19th birthday
25:50and that's today.
25:51Oh, happy birthday.
25:53His name's Sidney.
25:54Happy birthday.
25:54Stop that, Bangkok, for goodness sake.
25:59Well, I...
26:01I've always had a tough life.
26:02I've never had any education
26:04due to the air raids.
26:06It was the boy.
26:06This boy could have been yours.
26:08I've always been a very lonely child.
26:11I've never had many friends
26:12because I wasn't strong enough
26:14to join in all their rough games.
26:17My only pal was my little doggy.
26:20When is the time I'd take him out?
26:23Me and my ragged charters
26:24and my toe sticking out of me boots.
26:27And me go robbing across the meadows
26:29chasing off through a rabbit.
26:31Well, I never let him catch him, of course,
26:33because I was always taught
26:33to respect all living things.
26:36I know we'd be starving sometimes,
26:38that poor little doggy and me.
26:40Well, we'd get a couple of crumbs
26:42and I'd share them with all the little birdies.
26:46Glass of water.
26:48Brandy.
26:49Shut up.
26:53And what will you do if you get away with it,
26:55if you are exonerated today?
26:57Well, I should go back to my social work, of course,
27:00to try and make life a little easier
27:02for all the people who've been as unfortunate as I have.
27:06Thank you very much.
27:08I think that's the most touching case I've yet to hear.
27:11Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
27:12you've heard this heart-rending tale.
27:15And I want you to look at it.
27:17Do you really believe that this innocent boy
27:19is capable of the charges brought against him?
27:21This gentle, bewildered child.
27:24The last decision must rest with you.
27:26And I must ask you here and now
27:27to look into your hearts
27:29and find a reason
27:30to exonerate this poor, poor boy.
27:33And I would like to stay here and now.
27:35And I would be proud, proud,
27:37to call this boy my son.
27:40Oh.
27:44My son.
27:46Go up your sleeve, mate.
27:48Shake the other one.
27:51I rest my case.
28:01Continue the cross-examination, Mr. Farnsworth.
28:03The most touching story, Mr. James.
28:07Now, now, this rough man who threw the brick.
28:09Could you, could you describe him to the court?
28:13Yeah, well...
28:33of the court, my son.
28:40All right.
28:41I'm a coward.
28:41Would you yes!
28:41Go on, sir.
28:42Go on, sir.
28:42I'm a coward.
28:43Thank you, Mr. James.
28:47I'm a coward.
28:47I'm a coward.
28:50You're a coward of a strongborn men.
28:51that man james is they asked him if he could identify the rough man who threw the brick
29:00after they after the build-up i gave him in court they believe anything he said justice all right
29:26so
29:51so
29:51so
29:52so
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