:04:05
You may choose, members of the jury,
to believe the prisoner -
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that returning from a walk,
he found the hanging Mrs McGinty
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and was about to release the rope
:04:18
when Police Constable Wells
appeared on the scene.
:04:23
On the other hand, you may think
the accused intended
:04:27
to cover manual strangulation
of Mrs McGinty
:04:33
for motives of greed,
:04:35
with clumsy attempts to make
his mean crime appear to be suicide.
:04:47
Madam, either
you will have to cease knitting
:04:51
or I will have to cease judging,
which shall it be?
:04:55
It helps me to concentrate, m'lord.
:04:58
- It does not help me, madam.
- Oh.
:05:01
Very well.
:05:03
Thank you.
:05:06
Ah, yes.
:05:08
If what I have said
is the truth of the matter,
:05:11
then the prisoner was delayed in
the execution of his evil subterfuge
:05:16
by the desperate fight of his victim.
:05:19
Those scattered banknotes,
:05:21
that pathetic crushed rose
torn from her dress...
:05:25
He was delayed, I say, long
enough for the timely intervention
:05:30
of the alert Police Constable Wells.
:05:35
Summing up
for a conviction, Inspector.
:05:39
- Stand you a beer afterwards, Wells.
- Thank you.
:05:42
...had every opportunity
of knowing that the unfortunate widow
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kept her life savings there
instead of in the bank
:05:50
and that Harold Taylor was bent
on securing her meagre fortune.
:05:57
If the facts as presented to you
admit of any reasonable doubt,