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In the interest of my client,
relative of the late Martin W Semple,
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we cannot permit the fortune
to be dissipated by a person
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whose incompetency and abnormality
we shall prove beyond doubt.
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I have a series of articles
written by a newspaperwoman,
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who witnessed his conduct
since he came to New York.
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She tells how, in mid-conversation,
he'd suddenly begin playing his tuba.
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She tells of his attack on several
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.
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This newspaperwoman,
who we've subpoenaed to testify,
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tells how he held up traffic for an hour
feeding doughnuts to a poor horse.
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We have photographs
to substantiate this episode,
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and others of him
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,
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whose 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.
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We have witnesses
from Mandrake Falls,
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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.
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We have others who will tell
of his unusual behaviour,
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when he invited great leaders in music
to his home
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and then proceeded
to forcibly eject them.
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- I 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 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,