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- Did you continue on with this man?
- I never saw him again...
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and after my baby died...
:33:10
I left the city.
:33:11
Did you make an effort
to secure employment...
:33:13
so you could earn your own living?
Work of any kind?
:33:16
Yes, I did.
:33:18
Tell the court just what happened.
:33:21
Well, I managed to get a position
as schoolteacher and then...
:33:25
someone found out about me, and l...
:33:27
And they blamed you instead of the man,
and you were forced to get out.
:33:30
I object! That's leading the witness!
:33:32
Objection sustained.
Strike out the question.
:33:36
Did you try to secure other employment
in that town?
:33:39
They wouldn't listen to me.
:33:41
- I had to leave.
- What did you do?
:33:44
Well, I got work in another town
as a nurse girl.
:33:46
But the same thing again and again,
wherever I went, always the same.
:33:49
In other words, refused
even the poorest kind of work...
:33:52
to try and keep body and soul together.
:33:53
- I object! Irrelevant and immaterial!
- You left out incompetent.
:33:57
- Sir!
- Gentlemen, gentlemen!
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That is all, Your Honor. Your witness.
:34:03
No questions. Prosecution rests.
:34:06
- Proceed.
- Thank you, Miss Lee.
:34:09
Gentlemen of the jury,
you have heard only part of the truth.
:34:13
My worthy opponent objects.
:34:15
He is afraid of your knowing
all the pitiful facts of her life.
:34:19
Gentlemen, an immortal soul
has been tortured on the rack...
:34:23
and I ask you as men
with blood in your veins...
:34:27
who have helpless women
in your own homes...
:34:29
to think of one of your innocent,
dear ones...
:34:32
wronged and oppressed,
like this poor defenseless woman.
:34:35
Where could she turn in her cruel anguish?
:34:39
Why, the very promises of God
are denied her.
:34:43
Who was it that said:
:34:45
"Come unto me, all ye that are weary
and heavy laden...
:34:49
"and I will give you rest"?
:34:52
She is indeed heavy laden...
:34:54
with the persecution of her own sex...
:34:57
why, gentlemen, a thief or murderer
may sin alone and is alone to blame.