:58:00
Miss Franchette,
do you recognize these men?
:58:04
I most certainly do.
:58:06
Did you see them at any time
between 5 and 9 p. M...
:58:10
...on October 26th in Strand?
And, if so, where?
:58:15
Well, they were all at my place.
In the café.
:58:18
From 6 till, oh, 10, 11, anyhow.
:58:23
And what makes the presence of these
particular men stick in your mind?
:58:28
Because, for once, Mr. Dawson
paid the bill.
:58:34
You mean, by Mr. Dawson,
the defendant Kirby Dawson.
:58:38
Oh, yes.
:58:40
Two years in jail, not identified
with any church.
:58:44
- Objection!
- Sorry. I was just thinking out loud.
:58:49
Yeah.
:58:51
This defendant, Kirby Dawson,
according to these notes...
:58:54
...also known as Bubbles...
:58:57
...for once paid the bill.
:59:00
But he or someone else didn't pay you to
concoct an alibi for him and his friends...
:59:04
...by any chance, did they?
- Objection!
:59:07
Sustained. Strike it out.
:59:10
I wonder if I haven't been calling
the defense witnesses by mistake.
:59:14
His last remark proves
the district attorney...
:59:17
...hasn't lost his humor,
in spite of the fact...
:59:19
...that his attempt to establish
the presence of the defendants...
:59:23
...at the lynching has either failed
or been ridiculed by the defense.
:59:27
Wait. Just wait.
:59:28
Thaddus Hummel, Sheriff of Strand
County, is now on the stand.
:59:32
Can you identify any or all
of these defendants...
:59:36
...as having been in the mob
that stormed your jail and burned it...
:59:39
...thereby burning your prisoner
to death?
:59:42
Objection!
:59:44
To the latter part of the question as
assuming a fact not yet proved.
:59:48
I will change the question to:
:59:51
"Who stormed your jail
and burned it," then.