Original subtitles

You

To the women he's seduced and sometimes murdered he was the old maid's dream a bachelor of course

but a bachelor nursing some secret sorrow a wounded hero keeping himself pure for some

chased virgin who would dry his tears and walk with him hand on hand into the rosy glow of an

everlasting sunset in short the dream came true of many a lonely doubted neglected spinster

pushing middle age and terrified of ending up on the shelf to contemporary journalists he was

quite simply super cad the multiple bigger missed a man who lived off women seducing them

leaving over their pitiful savings if they had any sending them out to steal for him if they had

none on three occasions murdering them the blue beard of the bath george joseph smith

alias baker alias williams alias rose his lord and most inappropriately of all

alias love

i did answer i'm telling you straight i did answer she was on awe what they do to jessabel

they thrown her down right i'm telling you straight they thrown her down with the dogs to eat

and i bet you them little dogs laugh to see such fun right

so

to george joseph smith the word love had little meaning except once and that was some nine years

before this case opened in july nineteen hundred and six in the city of brusstrel when amiss edith

mabel pegler advertised for a position as housekeeper in a respectable home where a servant was kept

smith answered the advertisement and miss pegler accepted the post of housekeeper for him

and within a week had agreed to marry him bigamously of course on his part

why don't you use her and what are you

hello every year the surviving spouse the lucky little lady that got away

mrs smith to you sir and what does the lucky mrs smith paul jorgie paul jim

the day don't tell me don't make it jimmy axor bunch of skeleton keys wrong again sir

strawberries an arty cake he does like a nice bit of brusstrel arty cake and a jar of dhamson

cheese dhamson cheese now that takes me back i haven't tasted none of this in 30 years then

you must get your wife to make you some i'm certain she knows how

amiss edith mr smith paul jimmy sir cabito cabito which one now that's naughty jorgie porgie

you've always said i was the only one for you and so you are my dear so you are above rubies

a good woman's price is above rubies and you are the best woman in the world well i haven't bought

you know rubies today dear just the first draw brieze from our own little garden nice piece of

brusstrel arty cake and some lovely dhamson cheese you always were so clever my little ead

puts you always knew how to handle me it's quite right well they tell you the best way to a man's

heart is through his stomach what follows now is a reconstruction of the trial of jorge joseph smith

based on the verbatim evidence of 120 witnesses given jore hearing which lasted eight days

he's only where the action moves out of the courtroom that we have to resort to a little

educated guesswork to look under the mask of the monster for what remains of the man

be upstanding all persons having anything to do before my lord's the king's justice is of

oil and terminal and general jail delivery draw near and give your attendance god save the king

and the king's justice is

this

mr justice scruppen later lord justice of apillopressides for the prosecution mr later

sa archibald boddkin mr travers humphris and mr sassel white lee for the defense mr later sa edward

marshall hall casey suffering agonies from chronic phibitis his illahum are in no way improved by

the knowledge that he's facing a long fight with little prospective winning for a client he

detests and all for the lordless summer of 17 giddies doctor later serberna spillsbury

pathologist who as an expert witness is permitted to sit in court before he's called to give evidence

put up jorge joseph smith

jorge joseph smith you are charged on indictment that you on the 13th day of july in the year

nineteen hundred and twelve philoniously willfully and of your amalice of forethought did kill and

murder bessie constance annie monday are you guilty or not guilty not guilty sir i may be a bit peculiar

but i'm definitely not a murderer

may please your lord she's the indictment put to my client and to which he has pleaded not guilty

charges him with the murder of one woman mr bessie any constance monday and one woman only

now my friend and may i acknowledge at this stage my debt of gratitude to mr boddkin for the courtesy

and frankness which he's shown me while apprising me of his intention proposes to introduce evidence

not simply relating to the one murder but to two others as well yes mr boddkin on what basis do

you seek to do this in order to establish system my lord each case follows a similar if not

identical pattern in each case the prisoner goes through a bigger most form of marriage with a

woman after the briefest possible courtship in each case the bride so-called rights to her

relatives describing her happiness and extolling the virtues of her most perfect husband in each case

the prisoner takes the wife for a totally unnecessary visit to the doctor in each case husband and

wife take furnished lodgings together first making an inquiry about the availability of a bath in

each case the bride is subsequently found drowned in this bath and the coroner's inquest returns a

verdict of death by misadventure in each case the prisoner is the sole beneficiary under the will

of the deceased yes mr mr mr haul and what have you to say to me my lord i have this to say

never was your lordship called upon to determine so grave an issue i don't know about that you and

your brethren are saying it to me every day this issue goes far beyond the fate of one wretched

prisoner in the dock at the central criminal court the whole principle of the presumption of innocence

is at stake evidence of system is only admissible when a defense denying intent or the like is to be

set up here no defense is necessary there is no crime a facie case to answer at all it's all

very well mr mache lehaul but how are you going to get round the making case i shall endeavor to

distinguish it by lord in making against the attorney general for new south whales it was held at the

mere fact that evidence of juice tends to show the commission of other crimes does not necessarily

rhetoric that one guilty retched should escape utterly worthless and a danger to society though he may be

than that the necessity for his conviction should impair the common law i'm sorry mr mache lehaul

but i think the evidence is admissible if i'm wrong you must appeal me

well that's it he's as good as hanged already all we can do now is go through the motions

may piece of our chip gentleman of the jury the subject of this indictment miss bessie

Constance Annie monday was the daughter of a bank manager at war minster wilcher

mr monday died in 1904 leading two children george hollard monday and bessie Constance

george hollard married and set up home in another part of the country while bessie Constance adopted

from the time of her father's death that solitary kind of existence which many women adopt

living as paying guests or inmates of boarding houses in different parts of the country

mr monday was a man of some property when he died and he left a share of it to bessie it amounted to

over 2,500 pounds by his will he appointed his brother mr herbert monday as executor and also

his son george in november in 1905 the executors and the families of licitor thought it right

from the inexperience and unbusiness like habits and general characteristics of mr monday that

there should be a voluntary settlement of her 2,500 pounds the property consisted of shares and

marketable stock these were transferred to the trustees and they paid the income to her for life

mr monday could not by deed during life but could by will at her death dispose of the property

diabolical very very liquid is applied in her blooming open habits

monday was living in a boarding house existing on the modest income from the trust fund which

amounted to some eight pounds per month in circumstances which are not known she met the prisoner while

he was passing as henry williams after a very brief acquaintance the prisoner persuaded mr monday to

go through a ceremony of marriage with him by special license at the local register office

the prisoner describing himself as a picture restorer afterwards the couple were known as mr and mrs

williams within hours of this marriage mr mrs williams were to be found in the office of mr

philip deviere anisely solicitor of hern bay in which town the pappy couple had set up home together

i said i should like to consider the whole question of whether the trust could be revoked

and the question of making wills in favor of one another well as mr williams satisfied with this

oh sir he continued to press me to devise some way of releasing his wife's property forth with

accordingly i agreed to take counsel's opinion on the matter and i drafted six questions which

i duly sent to mr spear who specializes in pre-viet matters in the temple when you look at this

document mr anisely exhibit 200 mylon is this the opinion which you requested signed by my friend

mr gf spear of paper buildings temple and dated the first of july in nineteen hundred and twelve

yes sir it is the doony of a general power of appointment excerizable by will can covenant

not to revoke a will exercising the power little bit mr gf spear of paper buildings temple realize

that his opinion was the signature on port miss monday's death warrant the courts regard married

women jealously and discourage dealings with their property in favor of husbands i think

comparatively slight evidence of pressure on the part of the husband might induce the court to

set aside a covenant of this nature tying up a woman's power of disposition did you show a copy of

the opinion to the prisoner yes sir you make any comment upon it oh yes sir he seemed most displeased

yes sir my name is mrs dolly hill and i'm an iron munga carrying on business in hern bay

i recognize the prisoner i first saw him in may nineteen hundred and twelve and in july that year

he inquired about a second hand bath standing in my shop i was asking two pounds for it

did he buy the bath no sir but a couple of days after his wife came in and offered me

thirty seven shillings and sixpence which i was prepared to accept did you subsequently

deliver the bath to the prisoners lodgings yes sir my son took it round himself did you ever see

the prisoner again yes sir a few days later he came into my shop and asked me to take the bath

back again well it hadn't been paid for there was never nothing paid for it so i took it back

this is hill you've seen this bath before yes sir it's my bath and i'd like it back as soon as you've

done with it i've got my living to get don't worry mrs hill you shall have your bath back as

soon as justice has been satisfied yes she's probably had an offer from madam to sword for it

it was the woman who did the cheapening yes sir she got half a crown off yes

yes

dr frank austin french of hern bay who treated bessie monday in july 1912 the back of the head

was against the slooping end of the bath with the crown of the head just a little below the level

of the top of the bath the bottom of the spine was resting on the bottom of the bath and the

legs were stretched straight out the feet were actually out of the water

actually was the body straight or was it inclined to one side or the other it was straight melon

yes please continue dr french i took her pulse she was pulseness then with mr williams' assistance

i got her out of the bath i laid her on her back and performed artificial respiration

she had false teeth i removed these to facilitate this what she did yes did you form an opinion

of the cause of death yes sir from what i could see i took the cause of death to be a sphixier

caused by drowning the following morning i gave evidence this effect of the inquest into her death

thank you dr french these are main where you are

dr french you gave evidence at the coroner's inquest in july 1912 yes i did french did you say to the

coroner her face was rather blue as if she had met her death in the early stage of epilepsy

no signs of a struggle in any sort or shape and in her hand a large piece of soap yes did you also

say this before the coroner i think she had an epileptic seizure yes and that was your honest

opinion at that time it was if a woman was sitting in a bath unapprehensive of any violence and if

someone were to take hold of both of feet at the bottom of the bath and the bath were full of water

she would have ample opportunity would she not of putting our arms across to the outside of the

bath to prevent her going under yes anybody would normally and naturally clutch the top of the bath

yes what do you think it would be possible to drown a woman of five feet nine inches in that bath

unless she were unconscious or under the influence of her fit yes i do if the legs were taken hold

of by surprise if you surprise the person in the bath and rapidly drew them away did you make any

examination of the body externally yes there were no marks upon it she was a world of

valet woman and in strong health from what i could judge the woman at her death was was she not in a

delicate time of the month yes it is most unusual is it not for a woman to take a bath at this time

most unusual there's no scientific or medical reason for it my lord

another a deep-seated female superstition regarding the matter particularly among the

laboring classes another old wives came precisely

my dear marshal i give you ten out of ten for trying but i'm afraid that your horse won't run

you must stop listening to old wives tales and brush up on a little elementary gynecology

regards Bernard Spillsbury

my name is katie ester rapley i live at Ferriglen Victoria park hern bay

i am chalk and secretary to mr willby who owns properties house properties in hern bay including

high street in may 1912 80 high street was to let unfurnished on or about the 20th of may

a man giving the name of henry williams came to me regarding 80 high street where did he come

my lord i have a little office in mr willby's house i have been there for 36 and a half years

remarkable please continue mr budgan and what did the man giving his name as henry williams

want of you he wanted to rent the house sir i told him the rent was 18 pounds per annum on

the early tendency he said that would not suit as he got his money monthly i said well if it were

merely a question of money i wish all we could arrange matters i then asked him how many people

would occupy the house he said only my wife and i know family i then asked him the name of his

previous landlord he said never had one i then asked him for a solicitor's reference but he

could not give me one i asked him if he had a bank account on that he put his hand into his

coat pocket and pulled out a book yeah what sort of book wait a minute mr budgan i'm coming to that

i looked at the cover of the book and said oh this is a post office savings bank book i do not

mean that sort i held out my hand for the book but he put it back saying you need not be afraid i

have between 50 or 60 pounds in there i said if you are going to furnish the house that will not

leave much to live on he said oh but my wife has a private income paid monthly i've not got anything

but that you see i dabble in antiques speaking of his wife he said i may as well tell you she is

a notch above me she is the daughter of a bank manager i met her in a boarding house her friends

do not at all approve of the marriage the cut-along story short did you and mr williams eventually come

to terms yes sir mr williams paid the first month rent on the 20th of may and i handed in the key

of the front door after that did you see the prisoner from time to time yes sir he

frequently came to the office on little things connected with the house did you ever see mrs williams

yes sir but uh first mr mr williams alone when did you first learn of mrs williams death

it was on the uh the 16th of july i had no knowledge of the inquest being held the day before

will sir on the morning of the 16th i was in my office at mr will biz in came the prisoner

he was extremely agitated immediately he got in he came up to my desk which is rather a high one

bent down his hair and didn't commence to sob i was very much surprised and asked him what was

the matter but he continued sobbing i then said has anything happened he looked up and said

have you not heard she is dead i said who is dead he said my wife and what did you say that the

prisoner well to tell you the truth sir i was so surprised and shocked i could not say anything

i said just stood there and looked at him then all at once he said was it not a jolly good job i

got her to make a will was it not a jolly good job i got her to make a will and what did you say to

that well sir i still couldn't say anything i was very much surprised and he appeared angry that i

didn't say anything but he said well is it not the correct thing when people marry for a wife to

make a will leaving everything to her husband and a husband to make a will leaving everything to his

wife i said did you make yours he said yes then i looked at him very straight i said i thought you

told me you had not got anything oh well he said i made a will just the same thank you mr rappley

rappley between the month of july 1912 and this year did you discuss these events with anyone

no sir what with no one i am not given to idle chit chat sir but i assure you the matter did not

pass from my mind all the details are very much impressed upon me well there is a center of gossip

is there not in hern bay i know nothing about that would you have any friends in hern bay i have

not any of my own sir of course having lived out all these years i know everyone and everyone

knows me but that does not follow that they are friends therefore we may take it that you have

not said a single word about these incurrences which impressed you so much for over two and a half years

that is correct sir mr rappley do you and also said it he pledged your word that you remember

all the details of these conversations without having them record your mind until now i do

you have a wonderful memory i have

until mr williams came to your place of business on the 16th of july you had no

suspicions of any kind against it no sir he was a respectable and desirable tenant i thought so

and then on the morning of the 16th of july without any introduction of any sort or shape he comes

in puts his head down on your desk and sobs that was it and you naturally with a woman's

instinct said what is the matter mr williams yes sir and he said she is dead and you said dead

who yes sir and then grasp what he meant and then you say he volunteered without any

prompting on your part was it not a jolly good job that i got her to make her will

those were the exact words he used and that you swear i swear absolutely

the

elfrit apse hogbin undertaken the funeral was to be moderately carried out at an expense of seven

guineas and a grave the prisoner did not wish to purchase a grave sir the lady was buried in a

common grave a common grave but used years ago to be called a porpoise grave shared with

eight or nine others then a headstone did the prisoner purchase a headstone no my lord

there was nothing in the cemetery to show where the woman was lying

well mr bodkin that seems to be an appropriate moment all stands all persons having anything to

do before my lord the king's justices may depart hence and give their attendance tomorrow at

half that is the evidence relating to the death of the death of the sunday taken by itself it would

probably have been insufficient to overturn the verdict of the coroner's inquest of accidental

death and to have convicted smith of murder bodkin however was now to turn to the fate of

alice bernum smith's wife of 1913

while smith was running around he visited a non-conformist chapel in south sea where his

gaze fell upon alice bernum a buck some young nurse of 25 the prisoner would and won her within a

few days she was writing to her married sister we met at the chapel i attend i'm so happy rose

dear my heart and soul thank god continually for joining me to the love of so good a man

i am the most fortunate and happiest girl in the world within hours of proposing marriage and

being accepted he had persuaded mr bernum to draw all her money from the bank the grand total amount

to 27 pounds 19 shillings and five pence he then ensured her life for 500 pounds this inauspicious

wedding was celebrated on the fourth of november 1930 no member of the bernum family was present

well sir i tried my best to be fair to him seeing that alice had taken offensive to him and

wanted my daughter to be happy i even went to fetch them from the station myself in the ponium

trap from aston clinton but as i would sir i could not be doing with him i could not take

to him see he kept poking around the house examining the furniture pulling it out looking at the

backs well in the end i told him to leave and did he leave yes sir and he he took our alice with him

did you see your daughter again uh no sir i find it hard to forgive myself

i should have known i should have seen it did you hear from the prisoner after this

yes sir he ripped me a letter asking for our last 100 pound that was her dowry luck where was

that the november sir uh twelfth and of em were 1913 mr bernum did you at that moment realize

that your daughter was already married to the prisoner no sir more pity if i had no one

going down to porths with i would have horse with the parenthood did you say that the prisoner

alice is dowry no sir well i wrote him a letter asking for a reference did he furnish you with

the references required no sir he did not he sent me a most peculiar postcard

postcard exhibit number 183 dated the 24th of november in 1913 my lord

sir i answer to application regarding my parentage etc my mother was a bus horse my father a cab driver

my sister a rough rider over the arctic regions my brothers were all gallant sailors on a steam roller

this is the only information i can give to those who are not entitled to ask such questions contained

in the letter i will see it on 24th inst your despised son in lord jim srip

they like it oh my little elitibus we got chances oh yes we got chances take him down take your bloody

hands off me we're winning oh yes we are winning

of course we're winning georgie porgy they like you very much make them laugh i really made them

laugh when everyone enjoys a good laugh you know i always say you've got to see the funny side

you're so right georgie you're always so right i've been watching him all along he's not stupid you

know he takes my point he knows there are certain times when a lady shouldn't never take a bath

and if she does take a bath and something happens she brings it on herself of course dear

the filthy beast yeah filthy beasts a lot of them well everyone knows what can happen

they should all have a nice strip wash like us

mrs. crossly when you described to my lord majuri the events of the evening of the 11th of

december 1913 mr. mrs. smith went out about six o'clock i saw them go myself while they were

out my daughter prepared the bath it was for mrs. smith he had ordered it especially to make a

more comfortable he said did the smiths come back yes sir they came back about eight o'clock and

went upstairs but my daughter my son-in-law and i were having arty in the kitchen at the time

while we were sitting in the kitchen we noticed some water coming through the ceiling

and running on both sides down the walls was that unusual or an unusual thing to happen when

someone is taking a bath in your house most unusual sir we all three of us remarked on it

did you hear anything from upstairs no sir nothing at all and then he came in with two eggs for

tomorrow's breakfast did he speak to you oh yes sir he spoke to me quite normally he told me about

a new motor fire engine that was to be tried out next monday and now he'd have to go and see it

how long did he remain talking with you oh a short time about ten minutes a day say

and then off he went i heard him call out Alice put the light out when you've done

well sir my daughter's name is Alice too and she went on the stairs and said did you call me mr. smith

and did you answer yes sir he said no i was calling to my wife but she does not answer me

well then i went out of the kitchen and went up two or three steps

then i saw mr. smith standing in the bathroom doorway he said fetch the doctor

i said what is wrong he said my wife cannot speak to me fetch dr. billing she knows him dr. billings

yes dr. billings sir he lives near my home i ran for him he came i waited on the stairs for him

when he came out of the bathroom i said what's wrong he said she is drowned she's dead

did you speak to the prisoner later that evening yes sir he came into the kitchen

after they got the poor lady out of the bath and laid her out i said how dreadful what an awful

thing this is and how i'd fix it for him to go and sleep at my neighbor's house and what did you

answer to that he said not to bother in sleeping there bed i said you can't do that

he said when they're dead they're dead no woman is a lunatic don't you call me a lunatic

krypton mr. smith mr. smith oh excuse me sir i have to keep myself it's a five years in the

novendent already what's up gymnasium instructor feel that not bad for 45 a mr. smith i must ask

you to cease your interruptions forth with they are of no assistance to me and they antagonize

the court if you feel you have to make comments on the evidence kindly do it in writing and address

your misives to me deeply regrets her no offense mens sir felt that the jury being comprised of

men of substance and property sir might look on me with more favor if they were first to grasp

how deep seated is my hatred of loose and filthy women's up

be a good fellow eh and leave the jury to me all right sir

storms are worse sir stom and crump

Dr. George Billing general practitioner yes sir i do recognize the prisoner i saw him for the

first time on december the 10th 1913 he came to see me with a young woman who he said was his wife

he said she was suffering from headaches he said oh yes sir as i recollect he did all the talking

he said they'd come a long journey from potsmith or Bristol or somewhere did you examine the young

woman yes sir her pulse was rather lower than usual but nothing out of the way i asked her about

the state of her bowels she was suffering from constipation disgusting so i looked at her tongue

follow dirty that is to say uh coated i did not examine her any further she looked rather tired

a short pale woman extremely fat but from the medical viewpoint she looked quite healthy

did you prescribe for her oh yes i described some tablets for the headache and the stomach powder

my fee was three shillings and sickness which the prisoner paid to me there and then

did you see the couple again yes sir on the friday night i was called by mrs. crossly who is

known to me well i went straight down to our house and then up to the bathroom where i saw the prisoner

supporting the head of the young woman uh she was in the bath did you notice anything particular

about the prisoner's dress no sir except that he had one sleeve rolled up the left one i believe

the one with which he was supporting the young woman did you speak to the prisoner yes sir i

asked him why he had not lifted her out of the bath and he replied that he could not i then asked him

why he had not pulled out the plug he said he'd not thought of it well together we lifted her out

uh the body was quite limp having got her out of the bath did you proceed to examine her

she was dead sir

can you look at the bath dr. billing there is no dispute about this the bath in which this is smith

death yes

will you demonstrate to my lord and the jury the position first of the deceased's head

here sir and then of the base of the spine the buttocks approximately there sir thank you

so

then tell me dr. if he strike you as a tall odd to find her head that end of the bath

yes indeed he did it my lord extremely odd

by 1914 George jelles smith must have believed he'd perfected a new method of undetectable murder

he had forgotten however or discounted the fact that he made two very dangerous enemies

Charles Burnham that did girl's father and Mrs. Crossner the landlady who called him krippen

both of these two read the news of the world and both came to the same conclusion when in

December 1914 they read of the tragic death of a bride of one day drowned in her bath at highgate

Miss Margaret Elizabeth Lofta was a daughter of a deceased clergyman and had been living with her

mother and her sister at bath she made smith's acquaintance unknown to them sometime in the autumn

and became engaged to him on this occasion the accused married the deceased is John Lloyd

bachelor at bath on the 17th of December 1914 within the space of a few days the prisoner on his

bride had moved to London and taken lodgings in bismarck road height it they visited a solicitor

is linton where miss loftie executed the will leaving everything to our husband and then visited

the doctor mr. Lloyd doing all the talking the following night the landlady a German lady

mrs. Blatch prepared a bath for the bride about half past seven i went to the sitting room and

told mrs. Lloyd her bath was ready i got the water hot and put towels and soap in the bathroom

i heated the water on the kitchen stove after you were told mrs. Lloyd that her bath was ready

where did you go i went into the kitchen sir to do some ironing and while you were ironing in the

kitchen mrs. Blatch did you hear anything unusual first i heard someone going upstairs and i took

it that mrs. Lloyd was going for her bath and then after a few minutes i heard a sound from the bathroom

it was a sound of splashing then there was a noise of someone putting wet hands or arms on the side

of the bath and then a sigh a sigh what kind of sigh the kind of sigher a child might make while

bathing or a woman washing her hair did you hear any other sound coming from the bathroom no sir no

the next sound i heard was someone playing the organ in the sitting room good gracious me

the playing went on for about 10 minutes whatever were they playing whoever it was it was a hymn my

lord nearer my god to thee and how long did this concert continue for about 10 minutes

afterwards i heard the front door slam and then the front doorbell ring did you answer the door

yes sir i did and there was mr. Lloyd saying oh i forgot i had the keys did he say anything else

he said he'd been for some tomatoes for mrs. Lloyd supper then he said is she down yet i answered

that i hadn't seen her so he started upstairs with a bag of tomatoes um i was standing at the bottom

then he shouted there is no answer and then there's no light and then she's in the bath

come and help me and i said no i cannot come mr. Lloyd he called out again don't leave me alone

come and help me when i got into the bathroom he had mrs. Lloyd in his arms he was holding her

up over the bath her legs were in the bath still i felt her arm and it was cold i said i would go

for the doctor anti-policeman on the day of the funeral the prisoner told me he was going on a

cycling tour and that he would be back for the inquest the inquest was adjourned to the first of

january you see and come the first of january that morning mr. Lloyd called on me we went together

to the adjourned inquest he remained with me after the inquest until he had to go back to muster that's

my girl no you lovely louisa dr. spillsbury i was asking you last night about the possible

positions of the women the three positions standing kneeling and sitting while facing the

narrow end of the bath with the back to the sloping end yes sir now supposing she was standing facing

the sloping end and some sudden collapse occurred if she fell face downwards she would probably dry

and kneeling the same would probably occur more probably occur sitting dr. spillsbury

sitting she would fall backwards but i do not think the mouth and nose would become submerged

oh so the tit tit over us what does it matter they were all horrible at all dead

foul tongue constipated i'm telling you my lord's ladies and gentlemen i've done them a favor

they're better off dead now don't say i say for you take it down yeah take me down

i'm telling you straight i want my bloody tea i'm fed up with a lot of you i want my bloody tea

i want my bloody tea take me back to myself make me have a big feeder i can't listen to all

their nonsense i'm too brave for the lot of them pull yourself i gave us smithy and you shall

have your tea why no oh spills please long windy yes you definitely bores for england but you can't

show us help lucky don't ever listen to him you're in and you're out like me maybe mate here don't

kill you yeah i'll drink that and you'll feel better

now be a good fella smithy we'll send a message to the judge saying you would like to apologize

and then we'll all go upstairs and listen to mrs smith give her evidence oh my little leadipus

yeah i like that good man she's next up

this edith pegler to whom smith returned again and again to throw answering the advertisement that i

first met the prisoner he was then staying in the same road as i was glossed a road bristle

he was carrying on business as auntie congenital dealer under what name did he carry on business

why his own name sir George joseph smith after answering the advertisement did you and mr smith

come to an arrangement yes sir i went to him as housekeeper

but after a little while he made a suggestion to me and well sir i agreed to it i'm more married

and bristle on the 30th of july i have my marriage lines to prove her exhibit number 162 my lord

mr pegler the marriage certificate describes the prisoner as george joseph smith 33 years of age

bachelor when you went through the ceremony of marriage did you believe it to be lawful

lawful or no sir he's been a good husband to me no woman could wish for better well everything he's

ever got in the antique business you understand he's always brought home to me oh beautiful dresses

rings and arts all and christmas money there was always plenty of money a christmas a nice piece

a beef and a belly pork well mr smith is a clever man you see sir and he does know a work of art

you were my best work of our needy-puss in the only one after the marriage where did you and mr smith

make your home oh we went all over sir well mr smith he had a wandering nature you see sir

he'd been overseas before we were married spain and canada in the like always buying the selling antiques

but when you were with him where did you live oh different parts sir bedford we were in and

luton croydon in the bark and road london and then we went to wealth from stow and south end on

sea we was always on the move but mr smith he liked it that way i used to say it was the gypsy

in him and when you were not together where did you go oh i went on to bristleser to my dear mother

mr piggler i'm afraid i have to put certain other painful matters to you

did you have any knowledge of your husband assuming the name of williams and going through a ceremony

of marriage at hern bay in 1912 no sir or another such ceremony at port smith in 1913 no sir or

another such ceremony this time under the name of loyd at bath in 1914 no sir and i don't know

why i should it's not right to go prying into a gentleman's business above movies mr piggler

you've mentioned a number of places at which you and he were together do you remember him saying

anything else to a bathroom at any of these places well sir he did mention to me once just after

last christmas it was but he wouldn't have anything to do with them if he were me as they were dangerous

did he say how they were dangerous or to whom he said there had been cases known of women who had

lost their lives through having fainton fits or weak arts he advised me against him

well that was part of his care for me sir you see sir he was a perfect husband

the trial ran its predictable course right to the bitter end marshall hall fought a gallant

rare guard action on the issue of system but even he must have known that once the evidence of the

second and third roundings was admitted the result was a foregone conclusion after a tarmen to

only 20 minutes the jory found smith guilty of murder

the sense of this court upon you is that you'll be hanged by your neck until you are dead

it is further ordered that judgment be carried into execution in his magices

after the appeal had been dismissed and smith was transferred to maddesten jail to await execution

there he was visited at the condemned cell by the error faithful mr pegler

I'm now edy first don't cry we'll be together again you see beyond them pearly gates on the other

side i'm not really crying george it's just the victoria plums

treasal benton over with fruit new not been there to eat

you always did love a nice victoria plump come now edy was fancy crying over a load of victoria

plums eat them and think of me now promise me you will be strong you won't cry on the day

they promise george i will be strong

i do love you george you was a perfect husband to me the best husband or one could have

the most perfect husband in the world

i know she loves me i know she loves me because she says she is my lead

of lakuna she is my lily and my runs she's my lady love she is my love my turtle dumb

she in spite of vigorous pleas by marcel hall i believe that he was clinically insane

and by the bishop of bulge who after conversations with the ministers who had visited smith in the

condemned cell believed him to be truly penitent the home secretary refused to reprieve him and he

was hanged on the 13th of august 1915 all the glue now she is my lily and my runs

so

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm not going to be a good person.