1:28:04
You go back to the house and look
after mother. Tell her I'm all right.
1:28:08
Just when there's
a-gettin' het up. Hmph!
1:28:11
[Steve] You were an eyewitness
to the wreck of the Southern Cross?
1:28:16
- How would you judge her speed?
- Why, she come...
1:28:20
thrashin' through the fog there,
fit to bust her ballast.
1:28:24
How long have you known
Capt. Stuart?
1:28:26
Ever since Cutler
wrecked the Jubilee.
1:28:29
I object to
this scandalous attack!
1:28:33
Strike out
the answer.
1:28:35
In your opinion, could that wreck
have been anything but deliberate?
1:28:39
- Object!
- Sustain.
1:28:41
- It was a typical King Cutler job.
- I said sustain!
1:28:44
I heard you, Will.
Jehoshaphat!
1:28:47
- I'm only answerin' the man's questions.
- [Laughing]
1:28:50
- [Judge] Silence!
- Your witness.
1:28:55
- No questions.
- No questions?
1:28:58
- Man get up here for nothin'.
- [Crowd Laughing]
1:29:01
I ask you to remember
that a man is on trial here...
1:29:04
for the gravest offense
known to the sea.
1:29:07
Except that no loss
of life is shown,
1:29:10
this man, if guilty,
might well hang. Proceed.
1:29:14
I thank Your Honor.
We admit the defendant's error,
1:29:17
- but you cannot convict
a captain for bad seamanship.
- Your Honor,
1:29:20
we will show that behind the bad
seamanship lay a criminal conspiracy.
1:29:24
And will you also show
why you were waiting beside the reef...
1:29:27
when the Southern Cross
went down?
1:29:31
Your Honor, if this man
is to go on as prosecutor,
1:29:34
the strange part which he has played
in this disaster cannot be ignored.
1:29:38
Why were you waiting beside the reef
that sank the Southern Cross?
1:29:43
[Crowd Muttering]
1:29:45
It's in the testimony that
Mr. Tolliver's vessel fell becalmed.
1:29:47
Becalmed when the wind
held till dawn?
1:29:50
He tells us he sailed all night,
yet he was only 15 miles on his course.
1:29:54
Why?
1:29:56
He dares not answer.
1:29:58
Because the only living man who
could have foretold that wreck
is the man who planned it!