1:27:02
Regarding the sanity hearing
of Longfellow Deeds...
1:27:07
You represented by counsel,
Mr. Deeds?
1:27:19
l understand
you have no counsel.
1:27:22
In fact, that you have no intention
of defending any of these charges.
1:27:25
Now, if you wish to change your mind,
the hearing can be postponed.
1:27:36
Crazy.
1:27:49
Proceed.
1:27:50
In the interest of my client,
the only other living relative...
1:27:54
of the late Martin W. Semple...
1:27:55
we cannot permit a fortune so huge
to be dissipated by a person...
1:27:58
whose incompetency and abnormality we
shall prove beyond any reasonable doubt.
1:28:02
I have before me a series of articles
written by a newspaperwoman...
1:28:06
who was an eyewitness to this conduct
ever since he came to New York.
1:28:09
She tells how in the midst
of a normal conversation...
1:28:11
he would suddenly
begin playing his tuba.
1:28:14
She tells of his attack upon several
of our eminent writers for no reason.
1:28:18
l, myself, unable to keep pace with his
mental quirks and fearful of assault...
1:28:22
turned down an opportunity
to represent him as his attorney.
1:28:26
This newspaperwoman,
whom we have subpoenaed to testify...
1:28:29
tells how he held up traffic for an hour
feeding donuts to a poor horse.
1:28:34
We have photographs
to substantiate this little episode.
1:28:37
Another photograph showing Mr. Deeds
jumping about a fire engine.
1:28:40
This scarcely sounds
like the action of a man...
1:28:42
in whom the disposition of $20 million
may safely be entrusted.
1:28:46
The writer of these articles,
a woman...
1:28:48
whose intelligence and integrity in
the newspaper world is unquestioned...
1:28:52
held him in such contempt that she quite
aptly named him the Cinderella Man.