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00:06:06 #1 machine. The sale of marijuana is even more difficult to detect and halt as opium

00:06:21 #2 are hidden in fake jewelry cases. In the heels of shoe in four or another medium

00:06:41 #3 cases are convenient hiding places. Seized is apparently harmless shipment of 35

00:06:58 #4 barrel incinerator of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. More deadly even

00:07:10 #5 on these so destroying drugs is the menace.

00:07:18 #6 Many of you do not believe that these things do happen.

00:07:21 #7 What happened to you has been exaggerated.

00:07:27 #8 You have something that happened right here

00:07:30 #9 in there was an apartment near one of our houses.

00:07:41 #10 What time is it?

00:08:17 #11 Last night was high enough to take over the marines

00:08:20 #12 and the Navy.

00:08:21 #13 You better get on the job.

00:08:22 #14 Some of the kids may be up this afternoon.

00:08:24 #15 Oh, Jack, we can get along without dragging

00:08:27 #16 those young kids up here.

00:08:28 #17 Oh, why don't you button up your lip?

00:08:30 #18 You're only squawking about something. You got more stuff.

00:08:32 #19 Ah, greetings!

00:09:27 #20 Well, hello, sir. How are you? I'm good.

00:09:31 #21 And just the down-to-down makes us comfortable.

00:09:40 #22 What kind of a joint is this, Eddie?

00:09:44 #23 Oh, it's all right, Gwen.

00:09:45 #24 See, they probably had a party last night. Oh.

00:09:48 #25 Well, enough to know what they're doing.

00:09:58 #26 Not like those young kids you bring up here.

00:10:00 #27 All right, all right.

00:10:03 #28 Listen, I'm going to blow.

00:10:04 #29 Where are you going?

00:10:05 #30 I wish you'd lay off those kids.

00:10:12 #31 Oh, by the way, Ralph,

00:10:59 #32 I'm sort of getting a little party Saturday afternoon

00:11:01 #33 over at my grandmother's you know the place where the swimming pool like to come

00:11:05 #34 thanks Daddy maybe I will I sure like to have you okay I'll probably drop over so

00:11:09 #35 long Ralph see you later hi kid fine Jack and you are great where you had oh hey

00:11:21 #36 how do you like that that's the one I was telling you about very nice I don't

00:11:35 #37 know why you want to make such a fuss over that Ralph Wally all he's a swell

00:11:39 #38 swimmer he made a freshman team that year he went to college and that left him

00:11:43 #39 My dad knows his family.

00:11:45 #40 He's done them really good.

00:11:46 #41 Father and mother just got a divorce in Paris.

00:11:48 #42 Yeah?

00:11:49 #43 You know, Ralph comes round pretty much in his own.

00:11:51 #44 He's been in a couple of gyms.

00:11:53 #45 Well, I only kind of say hello to him.

00:11:55 #46 I don't go around with him.

00:11:56 #47 Well, you better not.

00:11:57 #48 He's a little too old for it.

00:11:58 #49 That's what my dad says.

00:12:00 #50 Hello, Mary.

00:12:03 #51 How are you, Bill?

00:12:04 #52 How are you, Ralph?

00:12:05 #53 Oh, hello, Ralph.

00:12:06 #54 You know our brother Jimmy, don't you?

00:12:08 #55 How are you?

00:12:09 #56 Well, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine, Jack Perry.

00:12:11 #57 Mary, Bill, I know you.

00:12:13 #58 How do you do?

00:12:14 #59 Glad to know you.

00:12:16 #60 We're going over to Joe's place. Why don't you come along?

00:12:18 #61 We have a date to play instead of doubles.

00:12:20 #62 Oh, you can play anytime. Come on, we'll have some laughs.

00:12:22 #63 Oh, we can today, Ralph. Some other time.

00:12:25 #64 Can I go along with you?

00:12:26 #65 Sure. Hey, I'll see you dinner, sis.

00:12:45 #66 I'd love to. You want to come? Don't you do any?

00:14:58 #67 Oh, sure.

00:15:00 #68 In my car.

00:15:03 #69 What's up, domestic client?

00:15:30 #70 Well, I billed. Don't you want to learn something about running your own home?

00:15:33 #71 The answer is no.

00:15:36 #72 You know, after that session we had yesterday,

00:15:38 #73 I went home and told Mother that the trouble

00:15:40 #74 where their potlose gravy was,

00:15:42 #75 she hadn't added three heaping teaspoonfuls of olive oil.

00:15:46 #76 What did she say?

00:15:48 #77 She didn't say anything.

00:15:49 #78 She just threw me out of the kitchen.

00:15:50 #79 Oh, I don't wonder.

00:15:52 #80 Hello, children. Hello, Mother.

00:15:53 #81 Hello, Mrs. Lane.

00:15:55 #82 That was sweet of you, Mother.

00:15:57 #83 Gosh! Hot chocolate.

00:15:59 #84 Thanks, Mrs. Lane.

00:16:01 #85 I know you can't study on empty stomachs.

00:16:03 #86 Now then, enjoy yourselves. He will.

00:16:05 #87 She wrote to Mrs. Lane.

00:16:07 #88 Mary?

00:16:09 #89 Oh, thank you, kind sir. You're so very, very kind.

00:16:13 #90 Mary, before we do that, Ma'am,

00:16:17 #91 how about reading you some of this?

00:16:19 #92 It's swell.

00:16:20 #93 Roll me on, Julius.

00:16:21 #94 Don't you like it?

00:16:22 #95 Uh-huh.

00:16:23 #96 You know, when I study this, I kind of think of you.

00:16:26 #97 I just sort of feel as though you're there beside me.

00:16:31 #98 Well, listen, it is my soul

00:16:37 #99 that calls upon thy name

00:16:40 #100 How silver sweet sound lovers tongues by night, like softest music to attending is, my dear.

00:16:53 #101 What o'clock tomorrow shall I send to thee?

00:16:57 #102 By the hour of nine.

00:16:59 #103 I will not fail.

00:17:01 #104 Here's to then.

00:17:04 #105 Don't bother your father every night.

00:17:43 #106 But maybe till late, Bill.

00:17:45 #107 I was getting worried.

00:17:46 #108 Oh, I had to study, Mark.

00:17:48 #109 I can cut it out.

00:17:57 #110 I've got a girl.

00:18:00 #111 Why?

00:18:01 #112 And put that candy away till after dinner.

00:18:04 #113 Henry, you shouldn't have given it to him. Well, he has no...

00:18:07 #114 I'll shut you up.

00:18:10 #115 What is it?

00:18:25 #116 Just didn't say Bill had a swell girl.

00:18:29 #117 Gee, it must be love.

00:18:32 #118 She'd have to be swell for you, Likers. Uh-huh.

00:18:35 #119 Sounds like you want something. Come on.

00:18:37 #120 What is it?

00:18:38 #121 Well, you could fix it.

00:18:44 #122 Ha.

00:18:47 #123 Okay, I'll fix it.

00:19:03 #124 Mary told me to wait until her cat to go home.

00:19:05 #125 Her mother wanted her to go to the dressmaker with her.

00:19:07 #126 Oh, thanks, Jimmy.

00:19:09 #127 You must be getting grown up.

00:19:11 #128 I see Mary let you have the car.

00:19:12 #129 Yeah.

00:19:14 #130 Let that get any place?

00:19:15 #131 Well, I wasn't going anyplace in particular.

00:19:17 #132 Well, then, how about driving me over to the show place with me?

00:19:21 #133 I'll buy you a soda.

00:19:22 #134 I never drink that stuff.

00:19:24 #135 Well, gee, I'll buy you something else.

00:19:26 #136 OK.

00:19:27 #137 You're on the hook for one root beer.

00:19:29 #138 Well.

00:19:44 #139 Hey, Jimmy.

00:19:45 #140 Hello, Bill.

00:19:49 #141 Come on.

00:19:53 #142 A two-soda.

00:19:59 #143 We're going out to your apartment some later.

00:20:01 #144 Couldn't build them long?

00:20:02 #145 Mm-hmm.

00:20:03 #146 Well, come on, come on, come on.

00:20:04 #147 Will, you get a kick out of it.

00:20:05 #148 Thank you.

00:20:07 #149 Oh, come on, Bill.

00:20:08 #150 Yeah, he won't be jealous. Well, sure.

00:20:10 #151 All the kids will be there.

00:20:11 #152 It's a team. Well, I don't know.

00:20:13 #153 I really shouldn't have.

00:20:14 #154 Well, OK.

00:20:17 #155 Hey, Jack, give me a cigarette before you go, will ya?

00:24:35 #156 That's 10 bucks, Jack.

00:24:40 #157 Hey, daily.

00:24:41 #158 All right, send him in.

00:24:42 #159 First of the day, aren't you? You know what?

00:25:02 #160 I don't need dough that bad.

00:25:04 #161 Taking two bits pieces from kids.

00:25:06 #162 There are millions of two-bit pieces just begging to be taken.

00:25:09 #163 Don't be a dope.

00:25:10 #164 I'm just dope enough to draw the line,

00:25:12 #165 selling off to kids.

00:25:14 #166 That policy's always been...

00:25:20 #167 The boys are not satisfied,

00:25:21 #168 and I'm always glad to have them retire.

00:25:25 #169 Retire...

00:25:26 #170 All right, Jack, pick up your stuff from Danny here.

00:25:48 #171 I'll be ready by now.

00:25:49 #172 Oh, Jack, I'm red-hot!

00:26:49 #173 Mary, you're not eating your breakfast again.

00:26:52 #174 The effort hasn't been around lately.

00:26:56 #175 Anything wrong?

00:26:57 #176 There shouldn't be anything wrong.

00:27:01 #177 There shouldn't be, I'm sure.

00:27:03 #178 and whatever it is, it isn't serious, I know.

00:27:06 #179 I'm sorry, Mother.

00:27:07 #180 You're snapping at you like that.

00:27:09 #181 Don't worry about it, dear.

00:27:12 #182 Why don't you speak frankly to Bill?

00:27:14 #183 He'll be honest whatever the trouble is.

00:27:17 #184 I'm sure Bill Harper never lied about anything.

00:27:20 #185 Yes, that's right.

00:27:21 #186 Bill's mother says he never lied.

00:27:23 #187 There, you see?

00:27:24 #188 You think it'd be all right if I speak to him about it?

00:27:28 #189 Why, of course.

00:27:31 #190 Oh, Jimmy.

00:27:35 #191 Sit down, darling, and I'll have your best tutorial in a moment.

00:27:45 #192 What have I got to worry about?

00:27:47 #193 Why don't you tell me?

00:27:48 #194 Oh, for Pete's sake, don't start to cross-examine me, will you? I'm all right.

00:27:51 #195 Jimmy!

00:27:53 #196 Don't let Mother think you right there.

00:28:13 #197 There is no doubt that there is an organized gang

00:28:15 #198 distributing the narcotics to students,

00:28:18 #199 not only in my school but the city.

00:28:22 #200 You government men have got to find some way

00:28:25 #201 to put an end to it.

00:28:26 #202 Of course, I agree with you, Dr. Carroll.

00:28:29 #203 But do you realize that marijuana is not like other forms of dope?

00:28:33 #204 You see, it grows wild in almost every state in the Union.

00:28:37 #205 Therefore, there is practically no interstate commerce in the drug.

00:28:41 #206 As a result, the government's hands are tied.

00:28:44 #207 And frankly, the only sure cure

00:28:46 #208 is a widespread campaign in education.

00:28:49 #209 Oh, it's all right to talk about education, Mr. Wyatt.

00:28:52 #210 But we educators can't do anything until the public is sufficiently aroused.

00:28:56 #211 Let me show you something.

00:28:59 #212 In 1930, the records on marijuana in the Washington office of the Narcotics Division filled cabinets,

00:29:08 #213 devoted a 16-year-old lad apprehended in the acts of staging a hold-up, 16 years old and a marijuana addict.

00:29:33 #214 Yes, I remember. Just a young boy.

00:29:37 #215 Under the influence of the drug, he killed his entire family with an axe.

00:29:41 #216 Then there is the most vicious type of cake. In Michigan, a young girl 17 years old, a reaper smoker,

00:29:50 #217 taken in a raid in a company with five young men.

00:29:54 #218 Here is a particularly flagrant case.

00:29:56 #219 Yes, I remember. The newspaper has made quite a play of it.

00:29:59 #220 In West Virginia, wasn't it?

00:30:01 #221 Yes.

00:30:02 #222 And there are hundreds of them coming up.

00:30:04 #223 New ones every day.

00:30:06 #224 I'd like to take these records if I may.

00:30:08 #225 I feel they would be of invaluable assistance to me

00:30:11 #226 in combating the evil in my school.

00:30:13 #227 You're very welcome, Dr. Carroll.

00:30:15 #228 Sit down, Bill.

00:30:21 #229 There seems to be something wrong.

00:30:26 #230 What is it?

00:30:27 #231 I'm a student.

00:30:30 #232 You always had excellent grades.

00:30:32 #233 Oh, I guess the work is getting a little harder, Dr. Carroll.

00:30:36 #234 Now, I'd like to help you.

00:30:40 #235 But of course I can't unless you let me.

00:30:43 #236 You're undermining your health.

00:30:45 #237 Well, there's nothing, Dr. Carroll. Really, there isn't.

00:30:48 #238 I'll study harder, honest.

00:30:50 #239 If you will be honest with me, I'm honest with yourself.

00:30:55 #240 I'm afraid you tell me an entirely different story.

00:30:58 #241 I'm going to ask you a straightforward question.

00:31:06 #242 And I'd like to have a straightforward answer.

00:31:09 #243 Yes, sir.

00:31:10 #244 Isn't it true that you have a certain harmful habit

00:31:16 #245 through association with certain undesirable people?

00:31:19 #246 No, sir. I haven't, Dr. Carroll.

00:31:26 #247 Well, that is, you...

00:31:28 #248 You see, I'm...

00:31:30 #249 I'm worried about something at home.

00:31:32 #250 We'll just have to let it go with that.

00:31:36 #251 Fine in me.

00:31:40 #252 Well, thank you, Dr. Carroll.

00:31:44 #253 You want to play a track?

00:31:54 #254 Thanks, Eddie, but I'm waiting for someone.

00:31:56 #255 Well, if you're waiting for Bill, he hasn't been here for weeks.

00:31:59 #256 Pacing a hit-and-run drive, if someone caught the license number at the place of the accident,

00:34:38 #257 it didn't get it quite right.

00:34:40 #258 So we're checking all numbers like it, and yours is one of them.

00:34:42 #259 Well, I'll try to help you.

00:34:43 #260 Do you remember what you did on the 29th of last month?

00:34:46 #261 Oh, that was the day before Mother's birthday.

00:34:49 #262 Oh, yes, I remember that because I left school and went directly to the dressmakers with Mother.

00:34:53 #263 I was there all afternoon.

00:34:55 #264 Did you happen to loan your car to a couple of men?

00:34:58 #265 No. No, I had to call all afternoon myself.

00:35:01 #266 Well, thanks, Miss. Sorry to have troubled you.

00:35:03 #267 Tell me, uh, did they... was the person killed?

00:35:06 #268 Fortunately he wasn't, but that's still no excuse for hitting wrong driving.

00:35:10 #269 He was in here the other day.

00:35:27 #270 He was in? He went over to May's? You know what that is?

00:35:33 #271 He was gonna wait for me here, so he didn't give me May's address.

00:35:39 #272 Are you sure Jimmy didn't leave any message for me? Mary?

00:35:46 #273 No, he didn't. But I guess you're okay.

00:35:51 #274 I'll write it down for you.

00:35:52 #275 I think he went out to take Agnes home.

00:36:15 #276 But you'll be right back. Come in and sit down Mary.

00:36:19 #277 And let me take your coat.

00:36:33 #278 All of that gal the Ralph gone overboard for.

00:36:36 #279 Funny we've never been able to get her up here before.

00:37:16 #280 Smoke Mary.

00:37:19 #281 Are you sure Jimmy will be back soon. Sure any minute.

00:38:30 #282 Hey what's the matter?

00:38:31 #283 Orson?

00:38:34 #284 Where do you put it?

00:38:35 #285 You've got a hollow leg.

00:38:36 #286 Thank you.

00:38:37 #287 Do you feel, Mary?

00:38:44 #288 Oh, Mary, get him.

00:38:45 #289 You've got nothing to attend.

00:38:49 #290 And it changed.

00:38:50 #291 He was under some severe mental strain, which might possibly have been induced by some...

00:45:33 #292 During a class of English literature, there was a serious discussion of Shakespeare's Romeo

00:45:45 #293 and Juliet when he suddenly burst into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical love.

00:45:51 #294 By the way, Mr. Carroll, six months ago,

00:45:54 #295 he was in regarding the character of Mike Lyon.

00:45:58 #296 He was a fine, upstanding American boy,

00:46:01 #297 representative of the caliber of young men.

00:46:07 #298 Snap out of it, will you?

00:46:19 #299 It's not our fault.

00:46:21 #300 They never bring him up there anyway.

00:46:25 #301 He's just a kid.

00:46:28 #302 He can't hang him.

00:46:29 #303 You let yourself go.

00:46:34 #304 They nothing have me that way, too.

00:46:39 #305 It's his own fault, wasn't it?

00:46:41 #306 Shut up!

00:46:42 #307 They've got it hidden out there.

00:46:44 #308 I want to get out of this.

00:46:50 #309 But they're getting on my nerves.

00:47:05 #310 It's about her.

00:47:10 #311 We got to keep him gagged.

00:47:13 #312 He's about ready to crack.

00:47:15 #313 What he got to do is keep him from having too many reefers.

00:47:18 #314 Any day now that punk will get hot,

00:47:20 #315 he'll probably spill until all he knows

00:47:22 #316 is he gets the chance.

00:47:34 #317 Where are you going?

00:48:01 #318 Tell Jettery, huh?

00:48:06 #319 That's what May's been doing.

00:48:07 #320 That's no good.

00:48:21 #321 He's never heard the verdict.

00:48:24 #322 Some of the jury have a duty to perform.

00:48:47 #323 a duty to yourself and you've heard of this of the defendant.

00:49:02 #324 By his own admission, he pressed the trigger of the weapon

00:49:06 #325 that sent lovely and innocent Mary Lane

00:49:08 #326 to a tragic and untimely death.

00:49:10 #327 Learned about the motives behind the deed,

00:49:17 #328 asked to the deed itself.

00:49:19 #329 While the defendant has told you

00:49:20 #330 that he saw someone attacking Mary Lane,

00:49:36 #331 your word has to be by this trial.

00:49:43 #332 Not the defendant, not the defense,

00:49:50 #333 has been unable to prove what he was saying

00:49:56 #334 When he visited the apartment where the tragedy occurred,

00:49:59 #335 he was in the habit of visiting the place.

00:50:01 #336 He was sane when he went to a bedroom with another young woman

00:50:08 #337 in its own lips.

00:50:19 #338 In a moment of anger, he deliberately and willfully

00:50:22 #339 killed us deeds of a minute ago, unpunished.

00:50:27 #340 This community would cease to be a decent and safe place

00:50:30 #341 for them to live.

00:50:33 #342 I do not believe I have to plead

00:50:37 #343 that you bring in a verdict to punish the defendant

00:50:40 #344 for the crime that he has committed

00:50:42 #345 against the right citizens.

00:50:46 #346 That is why you were chosen to judge another.

00:50:50 #347 Right citizens, there is only one verdict which you can find.

00:50:55 #348 And that is a verdict to.

00:51:01 #349 And this court will be adjourned until the jury's verdict

00:51:04 #350 is reached.

00:51:13 #351 I suppose you all feel the same about this case.

00:51:21 #352 But he might have been insane when he did it.

00:51:23 #353 No, he wasn't.

00:51:24 #354 He knew what he was doing.

00:51:32 #355 Supposing he was insane.

00:51:34 #356 You would never make me believe it nor anybody else.

00:51:36 #357 We'll take a first vote for conviction.

00:51:55 #358 There's a reasonable doubt about the boy's sanity.

00:52:05 #359 We can't no doubt about the fact that he murdered her.

00:52:07 #360 He admitted it himself.

00:52:08 #361 Gotta make an example.

00:52:24 #362 We fought wars like that to contaminate all of our children.

00:52:27 #363 We can't have every murderer hiding behind the gag

00:52:29 #364 that he's insane.

00:52:31 #365 Sure, they see red before they kill somebody.

00:53:24 #366 The defendant will rise.

00:53:32 #367 He find the defendant guilty.

00:53:34 #368 This may not alone keep you, but thousands of others

01:06:00 #369 from the vicious that I am murdering you

01:06:05 #370 remain in this court during the next case so that you will be obliged to witness

01:06:11 #371 what you yourself so narrowly escaped call the case of the people versus Ralph

01:06:16 #372 Wiley in this case the state waves trial of the defendant with

01:06:51 #373 convincing hopelessly and inculably insane it is recommended your honor that

01:07:00 #374 the defendant be placed at an institution for the criminal insane for the rest of

01:07:03 #375 his natural life defendant counsel joins the state of this request and counsel

01:07:11 #376 for the defense as well as counsel for the state seem to agree on this.

01:07:16 #377 I see no reason why the request should not be granted.

01:07:18 #378 That happened right here to your neighbors.

01:07:26 #379 It is not too much to say that in your hands lies the possibility of averting other tragedies like it.

01:07:33 #380 We must work on tiringly so that our children are obliged to learn the truth.

01:07:39 #381 Because it is only through knowledge that we can safely protect them.

01:07:43 #382 failing this, the next pageanty, may be that of your daughter, or your son, or yours.