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My lord, may I express my regret that Sir
Wilfrid is even slightly incapacitated.
You may, Mr Myers. You may also proceed
with the case for the prosecution.
Thank you, my lord.
The facts in this case are simple
and, to a point, not in dispute.
You will hear how the prisoner made
the acquaintance of Mrs Emily French,
a woman of 56.
How he was treated by her with
kindness and even affection.
On the night of October 14 last,
between 9:30 and 10,
Mrs French was murdered.
Medical testimony will
be introduced to prove
that death was caused by a blow
from a blunt and heavy instrument,
and it is the case
for the prosecution
that the blow was dealt by
the prisoner, Leonard Vole.
That's not true! I didn't do it!
(MURMURING)
Among the witnesses,
you will hear police evidence,
also the evidence of Mrs French's
housekeeper, Janet McKenzie,
and from the medical and
laboratory experts,
and the evidence of the murdered woman's
solicitor, who drew her final will.
I now call Chief Inspector Hearne,
Criminal Investigation Department,
- New Scotland Yard.
- MAN: Chief Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.
This is ridiculous. Just nervous heartburn.
I always get it the first day of a trial.
240 above 130. You
shouldn't be here at all.
- I should be in court, the trial's begun.
- Syringe, please.
Be a good, brave boy, Sir Wilfrid.
It may interest you to know that I
am descended from a warrior family
which traces its brave past back
to Richard the Lion-Hearted.
You're to have a calcium
injection daily,
- tranquillising pill every hour.
- I'll set my wristwatch alarm.
Any pain or shortness of breath, pop
one of these nitroglycerin tablets
under your tongue. Oh, and
I'll leave you some...
That's enough, Doctor. The judge
will be asking for a saliva test.
Carter, I'd better take that
Thermos of cocoa with me.
- Helps me wash down the pills.
- Let me see it, please.
My learned patient is not above
substituting brandy for cocoa.
It is cocoa. So sorry.
If you were a woman, Miss Plimsoll,
I would strike you.
Take care of this, Carter.
Now, Sir Wilfrid, in the courtroom,
you must avoid overexcitement.
Yes, Doctor, yes, yes.
Watch your temper. Keep
your blood pressure down.
Thank you, Doctor, I shall be quite safe,
what with the pills and the cocoa.
Come along, Carter.
From the body temperature
and other factors,
we placed the time of death
at between 9:30 and 10 p.m.,
approximately 30 minutes before Janet
McKenzie returned home and called us.
Death was instantaneous, caused by one
blow from a heavy and blunt instrument.
Were there any signs of a struggle?
None. Just the one blow.
Would that indicate that the murderer
had taken Mrs French by surprise?
My lord, I must object.
My learned friend refers to the
assailant as "the murderer".
We have not yet determined whether
the assailant was a man or a woman.
It could quite conceivably
have been "the murderess".
Mr Myers, Sir Wilfrid has joined us just in
time to catch you on a point of grammar.
Please rephrase your question.
Yes, my lord. Inspector, is it
your opinion that the assailant,
whether he, she or it, had
taken Mrs French by surprise?
My lord, I am taken by surprise
that my learned friend should try to solicit
from the witness an opinion, not a fact.
Quite so. You'll have to do
better than that, Mr Myers.
My lord, I withdraw the
question entirely.
- Is that better?
- That's much better.
(MURMURING)
Silence! Silence!
(GAVEL)
Very well, Inspector, let
us proceed with the facts.
After establishing the cause and the
time of death, what did you then do?
A search was made, photographs were
taken and the premises fingerprinted.
- What fingerprints did you discover?
- I found the fingerprints of Mrs French,
those of Janet McKenzie, and some which
later proved to be those of Leonard Vole.
- No others?
- No others.
Did you say the room had the appearance
that a robbery had been committed?
Yes. Things were strewn about and the
window had been broken near the catch.
There was glass on the floor,
and fragments were found outside.
The glass outside was not consistent with
the window being forced from the outside.
You're saying that someone made it look as
if it had been forced from the outside?
My lord, I must object. My learned friend
is putting words in the witness' mouth.
After all, if he insists on
answering his own questions,
the presence of the witness
would seem superfluous.
Quite. Don't you
think so, Mr Myers?
Yes, my lord.
Inspector,
did you ascertain if any of the
murdered woman's property was missing?
According to the housekeeper,
nothing was missing.
In your experience, Inspector,
when burglars or burglaresses
break into a house, do they
leave without taking anything?
No, sir.
- Do you produce a jacket, Inspector?
- Yes, sir.
Is that the jacket?
- Yes, sir.
- That is exhibit P1, my lord.
Where did you find this, Inspector?
That is the jacket found
in the prisoner's flat,
which I handed to our lab
to test for bloodstains.
- And did you find any bloodstains?
- Yes.
Though an attempt had been
made to wash them out.
What tests were made?
First to determine if the
stains were human blood,
then to classify it
by group or type.
And was the blood of a
particular group or type?
Yes, sir. It is type O.
And did you subsequently test
the blood of the dead woman?
- Yes, sir.
- What type was that?
- The same. Type O.
- (MURMURING)
Thank you, Inspector.
No further questions.
Inspector, you say the only fingerprints
you found were those of Mrs French,
Janet McKenzie and Leonard Vole.
In your experience, when a burglar breaks
in, does he usually leave fingerprints
- or does he wear gloves?
- He wears gloves.
So the absence of
fingerprints in a robbery
- would hardly surprise you?
- No, sir.
Can't we surmise the burglar might
have entered a presumably empty house,
suddenly encountered Mrs
French and struck her,
then, realising she was dead,
fled without taking anything?
I submit, my lord, that
it is entirely impossible
to guess what went on in the mind
of some entirely imaginary burglar.
With or without gloves.
Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid,
but confine ourselves to facts.
Inspector, when you questioned the
prisoner as to the stains on his jacket,
did he not show you a
recently-healed scar on his wrist,
- saying he had cut himself slicing bread?
- Yes, sir, that is what he said.
And were you not told the
same thing by his wife?
- Yes, sir. But afterwards...
- Just a simple yes or no, please.
Did the prisoner's
wife show you a knife
and tell you that her husband had
cut his wrist while slicing bread?
- Yes, sir.
- I will ask you to examine this knife.
Just test the edge of it
with your finger. Carefully!
You agree that the point and the
cutting edge are razor-sharp?
- Yes, sir.
- Now, if such a knife were to slip,
might it not inflict a cut
that would bleed profusely?
Yes, sir, it might.
Inspector, you stated that the bloodstains
on the prisoner's jacket were analysed,
as was the blood of Mrs French, and
they were both found to be of group O.
- That is correct.
- However,
if the prisoner's blood were
also of this same group,
then the stains on his jacket
may well have resulted
from the household accident
he described to you.
Yes, sir.
Did you examine the
prisoner's blood, Inspector?
No, sir.
I have here a certificate
stating that Leonard Stephen
Vole is a blood donor
at the North London Hospital.
And that his blood is group O.
(MURMURING)
Thank you, Inspector.
Inspector, granted that the cut on
the wrist was caused by that knife,
is there anything to show
whether it was an accident
or done deliberately after the murder
to account for the bloodstains?
- Oh, really, my lord!
- I withdraw the question.
You may stand down.
- Call Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.
I swear by Almighty God
that the evidence...
(BUZZER)
...the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
Carter. Carter. Pill. Pill.
- Your name is Janet McKenzie?
- Aye, that's my name.
- When did you first come to London?
- That was many years ago. 28 years ago.
- Where do you live?
- Now that Mrs French, poor soul, is dead,
I've moved in with my niece
at 19 Glenister Road.
You were companion-housekeeper
to the late Mrs Emily French?
I was her housekeeper!
I've no opinion of companions,
poor feckless bodies, afraid of
a bit of honest domestic work.
I meant you were on friendly terms, not
altogether those of mistress and servant.
Aye. Ten years I was with
her and looked after her.
She knew me and she trusted me.
Many's the time I prevented
her doing a foolish thing.
Please tell us, in your own words, about
the events of the evening of October 14.
It was a Friday and my night out. I was
going to see my niece at Glenister Road,
which is about five minutes' walk.
I left the house at half past seven.
I promised to take her a dress
pattern that she admired.
- Och, is this thing necessary?
- An excellent question.
However, it has been installed at
considerable expense to the taxpayers,
so let us take advantage of it.
Please continue.
Well, when I got to my niece's,
I found I'd left the pattern behind.
So after supper I slipped back
to get it as it was no distance.
I got back to the
house at 25 past 9.
I let myself in and went
upstairs to my room.
Wilfrid is even slightly incapacitated.
You may, Mr Myers. You may also proceed
with the case for the prosecution.
Thank you, my lord.
The facts in this case are simple
and, to a point, not in dispute.
You will hear how the prisoner made
the acquaintance of Mrs Emily French,
a woman of 56.
How he was treated by her with
kindness and even affection.
On the night of October 14 last,
between 9:30 and 10,
Mrs French was murdered.
Medical testimony will
be introduced to prove
that death was caused by a blow
from a blunt and heavy instrument,
and it is the case
for the prosecution
that the blow was dealt by
the prisoner, Leonard Vole.
That's not true! I didn't do it!
(MURMURING)
Among the witnesses,
you will hear police evidence,
also the evidence of Mrs French's
housekeeper, Janet McKenzie,
and from the medical and
laboratory experts,
and the evidence of the murdered woman's
solicitor, who drew her final will.
I now call Chief Inspector Hearne,
Criminal Investigation Department,
- New Scotland Yard.
- MAN: Chief Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.
This is ridiculous. Just nervous heartburn.
I always get it the first day of a trial.
240 above 130. You
shouldn't be here at all.
- I should be in court, the trial's begun.
- Syringe, please.
Be a good, brave boy, Sir Wilfrid.
It may interest you to know that I
am descended from a warrior family
which traces its brave past back
to Richard the Lion-Hearted.
You're to have a calcium
injection daily,
- tranquillising pill every hour.
- I'll set my wristwatch alarm.
Any pain or shortness of breath, pop
one of these nitroglycerin tablets
under your tongue. Oh, and
I'll leave you some...
That's enough, Doctor. The judge
will be asking for a saliva test.
Carter, I'd better take that
Thermos of cocoa with me.
- Helps me wash down the pills.
- Let me see it, please.
My learned patient is not above
substituting brandy for cocoa.
It is cocoa. So sorry.
If you were a woman, Miss Plimsoll,
I would strike you.
Take care of this, Carter.
Now, Sir Wilfrid, in the courtroom,
you must avoid overexcitement.
Yes, Doctor, yes, yes.
Watch your temper. Keep
your blood pressure down.
Thank you, Doctor, I shall be quite safe,
what with the pills and the cocoa.
Come along, Carter.
From the body temperature
and other factors,
we placed the time of death
at between 9:30 and 10 p.m.,
approximately 30 minutes before Janet
McKenzie returned home and called us.
Death was instantaneous, caused by one
blow from a heavy and blunt instrument.
Were there any signs of a struggle?
None. Just the one blow.
Would that indicate that the murderer
had taken Mrs French by surprise?
My lord, I must object.
My learned friend refers to the
assailant as "the murderer".
We have not yet determined whether
the assailant was a man or a woman.
It could quite conceivably
have been "the murderess".
Mr Myers, Sir Wilfrid has joined us just in
time to catch you on a point of grammar.
Please rephrase your question.
Yes, my lord. Inspector, is it
your opinion that the assailant,
whether he, she or it, had
taken Mrs French by surprise?
My lord, I am taken by surprise
that my learned friend should try to solicit
from the witness an opinion, not a fact.
Quite so. You'll have to do
better than that, Mr Myers.
My lord, I withdraw the
question entirely.
- Is that better?
- That's much better.
(MURMURING)
Silence! Silence!
(GAVEL)
Very well, Inspector, let
us proceed with the facts.
After establishing the cause and the
time of death, what did you then do?
A search was made, photographs were
taken and the premises fingerprinted.
- What fingerprints did you discover?
- I found the fingerprints of Mrs French,
those of Janet McKenzie, and some which
later proved to be those of Leonard Vole.
- No others?
- No others.
Did you say the room had the appearance
that a robbery had been committed?
Yes. Things were strewn about and the
window had been broken near the catch.
There was glass on the floor,
and fragments were found outside.
The glass outside was not consistent with
the window being forced from the outside.
You're saying that someone made it look as
if it had been forced from the outside?
My lord, I must object. My learned friend
is putting words in the witness' mouth.
After all, if he insists on
answering his own questions,
the presence of the witness
would seem superfluous.
Quite. Don't you
think so, Mr Myers?
Yes, my lord.
Inspector,
did you ascertain if any of the
murdered woman's property was missing?
According to the housekeeper,
nothing was missing.
In your experience, Inspector,
when burglars or burglaresses
break into a house, do they
leave without taking anything?
No, sir.
- Do you produce a jacket, Inspector?
- Yes, sir.
Is that the jacket?
- Yes, sir.
- That is exhibit P1, my lord.
Where did you find this, Inspector?
That is the jacket found
in the prisoner's flat,
which I handed to our lab
to test for bloodstains.
- And did you find any bloodstains?
- Yes.
Though an attempt had been
made to wash them out.
What tests were made?
First to determine if the
stains were human blood,
then to classify it
by group or type.
And was the blood of a
particular group or type?
Yes, sir. It is type O.
And did you subsequently test
the blood of the dead woman?
- Yes, sir.
- What type was that?
- The same. Type O.
- (MURMURING)
Thank you, Inspector.
No further questions.
Inspector, you say the only fingerprints
you found were those of Mrs French,
Janet McKenzie and Leonard Vole.
In your experience, when a burglar breaks
in, does he usually leave fingerprints
- or does he wear gloves?
- He wears gloves.
So the absence of
fingerprints in a robbery
- would hardly surprise you?
- No, sir.
Can't we surmise the burglar might
have entered a presumably empty house,
suddenly encountered Mrs
French and struck her,
then, realising she was dead,
fled without taking anything?
I submit, my lord, that
it is entirely impossible
to guess what went on in the mind
of some entirely imaginary burglar.
With or without gloves.
Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid,
but confine ourselves to facts.
Inspector, when you questioned the
prisoner as to the stains on his jacket,
did he not show you a
recently-healed scar on his wrist,
- saying he had cut himself slicing bread?
- Yes, sir, that is what he said.
And were you not told the
same thing by his wife?
- Yes, sir. But afterwards...
- Just a simple yes or no, please.
Did the prisoner's
wife show you a knife
and tell you that her husband had
cut his wrist while slicing bread?
- Yes, sir.
- I will ask you to examine this knife.
Just test the edge of it
with your finger. Carefully!
You agree that the point and the
cutting edge are razor-sharp?
- Yes, sir.
- Now, if such a knife were to slip,
might it not inflict a cut
that would bleed profusely?
Yes, sir, it might.
Inspector, you stated that the bloodstains
on the prisoner's jacket were analysed,
as was the blood of Mrs French, and
they were both found to be of group O.
- That is correct.
- However,
if the prisoner's blood were
also of this same group,
then the stains on his jacket
may well have resulted
from the household accident
he described to you.
Yes, sir.
Did you examine the
prisoner's blood, Inspector?
No, sir.
I have here a certificate
stating that Leonard Stephen
Vole is a blood donor
at the North London Hospital.
And that his blood is group O.
(MURMURING)
Thank you, Inspector.
Inspector, granted that the cut on
the wrist was caused by that knife,
is there anything to show
whether it was an accident
or done deliberately after the murder
to account for the bloodstains?
- Oh, really, my lord!
- I withdraw the question.
You may stand down.
- Call Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.
I swear by Almighty God
that the evidence...
(BUZZER)
...the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
Carter. Carter. Pill. Pill.
- Your name is Janet McKenzie?
- Aye, that's my name.
- When did you first come to London?
- That was many years ago. 28 years ago.
- Where do you live?
- Now that Mrs French, poor soul, is dead,
I've moved in with my niece
at 19 Glenister Road.
You were companion-housekeeper
to the late Mrs Emily French?
I was her housekeeper!
I've no opinion of companions,
poor feckless bodies, afraid of
a bit of honest domestic work.
I meant you were on friendly terms, not
altogether those of mistress and servant.
Aye. Ten years I was with
her and looked after her.
She knew me and she trusted me.
Many's the time I prevented
her doing a foolish thing.
Please tell us, in your own words, about
the events of the evening of October 14.
It was a Friday and my night out. I was
going to see my niece at Glenister Road,
which is about five minutes' walk.
I left the house at half past seven.
I promised to take her a dress
pattern that she admired.
- Och, is this thing necessary?
- An excellent question.
However, it has been installed at
considerable expense to the taxpayers,
so let us take advantage of it.
Please continue.
Well, when I got to my niece's,
I found I'd left the pattern behind.
So after supper I slipped back
to get it as it was no distance.
I got back to the
house at 25 past 9.
I let myself in and went
upstairs to my room.
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