1:32:00
[Judge]
This is incredible.
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Have you any questions,
Mr. Tolliver?
1:32:06
None.
1:32:08
I certainly have.
1:32:11
So, Miss Claiborne,
you disabled this vessel.
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Virtually knocked her apart
with your own little hands...
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while a full crew of able seamen
stood 'round sucking their teeth.
1:32:21
No, gentlemen.
What you have heard...
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is a girl caught hopelessly
between two men...
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who have fought over her
as dogs fight over a bone.
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- I object to this outrageous...
- Sustained.
1:32:31
Didn't you play these men
one against the other,
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encouraging each
in turn?
1:32:36
Isn't that why they're both
hopelessly entangled in this disaster?
1:32:41
I won't answer that.
1:32:43
Isn't that why you're
now trying to undo what you've done,
1:32:46
by taking some part of
Stephen Tolliver's guilt to yourself?
1:32:50
Judge, we're not here to crucify
this woman who's not even on trial.
1:32:53
No, we're here to learn the facts,
and they're deadly plain.
1:32:58
Now we can understand
this vicious persecution of a man...
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whose only crime is he stands
between Tolliver and that girl.
1:33:05
Your Honor,
when this case is over,
1:33:08
the court may bring me to trial on
Mr. Cutler's charges if it so desires.
1:33:14
But the government's case
against Jack Stuart is not over.
1:33:18
For years we've tried to find
one witness who would
turn against this pirate ring.
1:33:23
That witness
has been found.
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I ask the court's leave
to call a man who, to save
his own neck from the halter,
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has made full confession:
Matthias Widgeon.
1:33:35
[Crowd Muttering]
1:33:38
Granted.
Step down, Miss Claiborne.
1:33:48
- Did Widgeon talk?
- Yes.
1:33:52
- He talked.
- [Steve] Call Matthias Widgeon,
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mate of the Southern Cross.
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[Bailiff]
Call Matthias Widgeon.