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I have before me a series of articles
written by a newspaperwoman...
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who was an eyewitness to this conduct
ever since he came to New York.
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She tells how in the midst
of a normal conversation...
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he would suddenly
begin playing his tuba.
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She tells of his attack upon several
of our eminent writers for no reason.
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l, myself, unable to keep pace with his
mental quirks and fearful of assault...
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turned down an opportunity
to represent him as his attorney.
1:28:26
This newspaperwoman,
whom we have subpoenaed to testify...
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tells how he held up traffic for an hour
feeding donuts to a poor horse.
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We have photographs
to substantiate this little episode.
1:28:37
Another photograph showing Mr. Deeds
jumping about a fire engine.
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This scarcely sounds
like the action of a man...
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in whom the disposition of $20 million
may safely be entrusted.
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The writer of these articles,
a woman...
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whose intelligence and integrity in
the newspaper world is unquestioned...
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held him in such contempt that she quite
aptly named him the Cinderella Man.
1:29:02
We have witnesses here
from Mandrake Falls...
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his own hometown, who will tell of
his conduct throughout his lifetime...
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proving that his derangement is
neither a recent nor a temporary one.
1:29:12
We have others who will tell
of his unusual behavior...
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when he invited the great leaders
of the musical world to his home...
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and then proceeded
to forcibly eject them.
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- l hope he can explain that.
- Yes.
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Only recently, when he was in
the County Hospital for observation...
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he not only refused to be examined by
these gentlemen-- state psychiatrists--
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but he actually made
a violent attack upon them.
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In these times, with the country
incapacitated by economic ailments...
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and in danger with an undercurrent
of social unrest...
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the promulgation of such a weird,
fantastic and impractical plan--
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as contemplated by the defendant--
is capable of fomenting a disturbance...
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from which the country
may not soon recover.
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It is our duty to stop it.