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He's trying to say I'm crazy.
With your permission, Your Honor,
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I should like to call my first
witness, Miss Neva Tremaine.
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Miss Neva Tremaine.
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Who is she? She's my
old grade school teacher.
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Ma'am, just right
up to the stand.
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You wanna put your left hand on the
Bible and raise your right hand, please.
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You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
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so help you God?
Mm-hmm. I do.
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Charley, your fingernails. I
had a flat on the way to work.
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Be seated, please.
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Would you state your name
and address, please? Mm-hmm.
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Neva Tremaine, 312 "E"
Street, Rachel, Kansas.
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- And your occupation, please.
- Schoolteacher.
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Willow Road Elementary School,
third grade, retired.
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Was there one Luther Heggs
a student of yours?
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Mm-hmm, he was.
Hi, Luther.
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How would you describe
Mr. Heggs as a boy?
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Oh, Luther was
a very good boy.
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He got three blue stars
in deportment...
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and three gold stars
in penmanship.
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How else would
you describe him?
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He was painfully thin
and very keyed up.
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Would you elaborate on that
phrase, "keyed up"?
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Well, let's see.
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Well, for one thing, he never ate
the crusts on his sandwiches at lunch.
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I object. I move that that statement
be stricken from the record.
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A lot of people trim
the crust on their bread.
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Young man,
he didn't trim them.
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He ate the inside out
and left the crust.
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Overruled.
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And more specifically,
Miss Tremaine,
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how else did he behave,
being keyed up, I mean?
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His shoes
fell off a lot.
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But I suppose that could be because
he was so thin and ran so much.
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- Was he a talkative boy?
- Well, when he had a good story to tell.
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And Luther made up
some beauties.
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What kind of stories, Miss
Tremaine? Oh, wild things.
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Can you recall any
of them specifically?