1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,060 I will be an Old Bailey barrister. 2 00:00:02,061 --> 00:00:04,061 but I would rather you embraced me, dear mentor. 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,200 And am I blessed to have the both of you to serve me, sir? 4 00:00:06,201 --> 00:00:08,101 - You are instructed. - This goes very well. 5 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,240 - Who is this? - William Garrow. 6 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:11,340 Court shall rise! 7 00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:13,960 Two hangings before lunch. I recommend the broth. 8 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,400 And I recommend you read your brief, again. 9 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,640 - Guilty. - No! No! 10 00:00:19,740 --> 00:00:21,880 I will pay for Mr Garrow. 11 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:26,080 This young woman may be executed in consequence of your evidence. Will you not dare to venture to recall? 12 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:30,400 My husband would consider my participation in this an infidelity. 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,120 Not guilty. 14 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,580 Hurry up with that! 15 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,760 The prosecutor is a gentleman... 16 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,160 - I've read the brief. - ...of Cavendish Square! 17 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,480 Julius Champion Crespigny. Pronounced Crapeney. 18 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,880 What I mean to say is, be careful. 19 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,280 You are not invulnerable, William. 20 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,680 - And how will I defend William Haywood? - Indeed, how will you? 21 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,280 He shall not speak on his behalf, and I shall not call witnesses. 22 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,780 He shall be innocent until proven otherwise. 23 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,120 Mr Crespigny shall have to prove guilt. 24 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,580 And with my assistance, he shall not. 25 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,940 William Haywood was indicted for stealing, on 21st August last, 26 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:29,520 one pair of plated chariot harness, valued ten shillings, 27 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,600 the property of William Champion Crespigny Esquire. 28 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,000 - How do you plead? - Not guilty, sir. 29 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,740 Call William Crespigny! 30 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,780 I think he said he'd meet us in an hour. 31 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,920 Oh! Maria! 32 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,560 Some assistance here! 33 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,680 For God's sake, some assistance! 34 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,040 Mr Haywood was my coachman a very few months. 35 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,600 He quitted it the 12th of August. 36 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,720 I paid him his wages and went to the country. 37 00:03:13,020 --> 00:03:19,500 After I had been in Berkshire 3 or 4 weeks, I wrote to town for the old harness 38 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:21,560 and it did not come. 39 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,840 - Why write for the old harness, Mr Crespigny? - I required it. 40 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,480 I see. And you have two coaches? 41 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,780 - I have one. - Ah, well... I am indeed sorry for that. 42 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,720 Mr Garrow! 43 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,720 Sir, but one coach and you required, all of a sudden, two harnesses? 44 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,760 Am I at fault for requiring my property? 45 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,620 Was the old harness laid by as unserviceable? 46 00:03:47,820 --> 00:03:50,300 I knew it was useful but might want repair. 47 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,420 Then if not unserviceable, but unusable, but still you wrote for it? 48 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:57,240 - I am not at fault for that. - Did it have a sentimental attachment? 49 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,840 It pained you to be separate from it? 50 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,120 Is that your only fault? You loved it too well? - My Lord. 51 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,140 - You will not mock me, sir! - Mr Garrow. 52 00:04:04,340 --> 00:04:08,540 Address yourself to the evidence and how to disprove it. 53 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,320 When this coachman was engaged, did you make a bargain with him? 54 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,960 - I did, of course. - Good. 55 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,840 And I will trouble you to state it. 56 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:24,620 I believe, at first, he asked for 26 guineas. 57 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,520 - I do not recollect. - This will be very important. 58 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,720 And I'm afraid I must trouble you to tax your recollection. 59 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,760 I believe, in the end, the standing wages agreed 60 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,840 were to be 22 guineas, together with other articles. 61 00:04:37,740 --> 00:04:38,700 Yes. 62 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,360 Yes! Yes. 63 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,600 - Now we do make progress. - I cannot say. 64 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,760 Do you recollect whether he was to have the old wheels and the old harnesses to make up the sum? 65 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,040 I never allowed old wheels and old harnesses to any coachman! 66 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:57,520 Well, then, explain to me what those articles were that were to make up the 22 guineas to be 26 guineas? 67 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,640 I believe... 68 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,280 I believe I paid him 25 guinea. 69 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:08,760 I do not have such a minute recollection. 70 00:05:08,761 --> 00:05:13,940 A few moments ago, you recollected it perfectly. Now you'll guess away a man's liberty. 71 00:05:14,041 --> 00:05:15,841 25 guineas. 72 00:05:16,540 --> 00:05:18,360 I understood you. 73 00:05:18,460 --> 00:05:23,680 The agreement was 22 guineas a year wages. 74 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,040 But what other agreements did you make besides? 75 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,620 I believe there were... boots and breeches and... a number of... 76 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:40,160 a number of etceteras that the coachmen generally have. 77 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,760 Etceteras? 78 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,180 An old harness in want of repair, perhaps? 79 00:05:46,380 --> 00:05:51,540 Under the pretence of my giving it to him, he took the plated harness out of my stable. 80 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,240 Upon this man being discharged, did he, by your desire, 81 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,680 deliver you an inventory of the things in the stable? 82 00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:02,780 - He did. - Good. Do you have the inventory here? 83 00:06:02,881 --> 00:06:04,981 - Of course I have not. - Ah. 84 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,740 And what if I was to tell you the old harness is not listed in it. 85 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:10,200 - Impossible! 86 00:06:10,401 --> 00:06:13,950 And if I have here the inventory that proves it? 87 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,240 My Lord, this is improper. 88 00:06:18,740 --> 00:06:20,740 Mr Garrow, 89 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,360 are you attempting to introduce new evidence? 90 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:30,720 My Lord, I'm merely introducing the face of Mr Crespigny to the jury at this moment. 91 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,100 It is my fervent wish that they mark it. 92 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:39,160 Mr Garrow, I will not have such tricks in my court. 93 00:06:39,260 --> 00:06:44,240 My Lord, I apologise for the creation of such a misleading impression. 94 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,480 But I cannot best Mr Crespigny, who stands before me, in the way of that vice. 95 00:06:49,780 --> 00:06:51,400 Mr Crespigny, 96 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:57,460 I believe that at the time you parted, you were in considerable displeasure with this man. 97 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:00,600 I was. 98 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:04,020 And how it shows still. 99 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:07,120 How it shows. 100 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,840 No more questions, my Lord. 101 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,280 Who would you call now, Mr Silvester? 102 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,740 The shaking servant still in the gentleman's employment? 103 00:07:18,140 --> 00:07:19,960 I call... 104 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,040 Benjamin Weaver, servant to Mr Crespigny. 105 00:07:24,140 --> 00:07:25,080 [LAUGHTER] 106 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,680 [JUDGE BANGS GAVEL] 107 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,240 - Thank you, Mr Garrow. Mr Southouse. - You're welcome. 108 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,480 You attract some attention, Mr Garrow. 109 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,480 You will introduce yourself, sir? 110 00:07:39,481 --> 00:07:42,481 - Thomas Rawlings, from the London Gazette. - I see. 111 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:48,100 He came for a murder, but all he has today is a diary item that a defence counsel was witty! 112 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:51,420 - Come. - Witty, fierce and merciless. 113 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,880 - You think so? - I think the coffee house is a better engagement than this. 114 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,440 Mr Garrow, do you seek to change the nature of the trial? 115 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,760 Are the lawyers and not the judges to turn events now? 116 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,560 The defence of the individual against the power of the state. 117 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:11,380 The rights of defendants, against the rights of those who seek to prosecute them. 118 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,100 - Come away. You are not a pamphlet. - But he solicits my views. 119 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,960 Let your vanity be in the interests of your clients. 120 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,340 Not in the interests of yourself. 121 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,560 You are envious. 122 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,760 You are careless. 123 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,700 Are the judges to read in the London newspapers that you intend to take control of their courtroom? 124 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,720 That can happen case by case. 125 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,280 It does not require you to become famous. 126 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,680 Mr Silvester. What do you think of Mr Garrow's speaking? 127 00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:40,900 I think it is like a racehorse... 128 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,600 runs fast because it carries a feather. 129 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,000 You are even lighter because you carry no convictions at all. 130 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,420 Mr Garrow, can you expand more on the defence of the individual against the power of the state? 131 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,240 Have a care, sir! 132 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,400 Oh! 133 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,640 Agh! Oh! 134 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,680 Help me! 135 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:21,480 To attack unsuspecting women with SUCH a weapon 136 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:24,940 is a crime rendered still more atrocious 137 00:09:25,050 --> 00:09:29,700 by the savage delight he enjoys in the terror, pain 138 00:09:29,740 --> 00:09:33,600 and distress of the lovely victim. 139 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:39,520 Elegant and attractive women, almost without exception. 140 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,740 Gentlemen, I will open a subscription 141 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,180 to raise a reward of £100. 142 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:50,660 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 143 00:09:50,761 --> 00:09:54,161 50!... £50... 144 00:09:54,260 --> 00:09:57,820 for the arrest of such a vile person 145 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:02,320 and a further 50 upon conviction. 146 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,100 Sir. Sir. 147 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,020 A journalist from my own newspaper. 148 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,880 I can't think I pay him well enough to subscribe to this reward. 149 00:10:14,980 --> 00:10:16,340 [LAUGHTER] 150 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,640 Sir, I wondered, is there not the danger that... 151 00:10:20,740 --> 00:10:23,180 Danger, sir? 152 00:10:24,380 --> 00:10:29,600 ..that this may lead to the apprehension of innocent men. 153 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:34,140 Innocent men may be inconvenienced. 154 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,500 Innocent WOMEN will be saved. 155 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:42,360 Thank you, sir. Very good, sir. I will quote you directly. 156 00:10:42,660 --> 00:10:44,560 And at length. 157 00:10:44,860 --> 00:10:47,080 [APPLAUSE] 158 00:10:54,580 --> 00:10:56,440 I'll see you in the chambers. 159 00:11:02,340 --> 00:11:03,980 [KNOCK AT DOOR] 160 00:11:13,460 --> 00:11:16,180 - Lady Sarah. - Mr Garrow. 161 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:23,680 You wish to pay me? 162 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:27,600 Your guinea fee for our defence of Elizabeth Jarvis. 163 00:11:28,020 --> 00:11:32,240 You should make payment to Mr Southouse. He will then make payment to myself. 164 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,280 - I see. - He didn't explain this to you? 165 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,920 - Yes, I do recollect now. - It's of no matter. 166 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:43,250 - You did not... tremble as you made your way here? - Why would that be so? 167 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,400 The monster, the sanguinary terror. 168 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:49,220 Ladies are now having copper petticoats fitted to protect them. 169 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,560 Yes, I thought you did enter in my chambers with a very decided gait. 170 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:55,440 The only metal in my petticoats are in my stays, Mr Garrow. 171 00:11:55,450 --> 00:11:59,680 - Then you're not enthralled to this new fever? - No, I have not that fever. 172 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,170 Yet I have to find my husband. I was not to go out unless in company. 173 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,280 Yet here you are and not in danger. 174 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,240 I'll go to Milk Street and to Mr Southouse to make rightful payment there. 175 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,500 Sarah. 176 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,480 You're not so mistaken about your errand here. 177 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,520 Judge Buller. You can assure me that when this monster is caught he can be hung? 178 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:42,560 - So that you may proudly assure the public? - That wouldn't just be politic. It would be reasonable, would it not? 179 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:46,720 It's a question of finding the right indictment that will see him hang. 180 00:12:46,750 --> 00:12:52,780 It's been difficult. But I find we are indebted to the sixth act of George I. 181 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,300 The cutting of cloth? 182 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,040 Felony. Introduced in 1721 to redress the issue of English weavers 183 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:08,320 slashing garments made of cloths from India. 184 00:13:08,340 --> 00:13:10,080 What has this to do with the monster? 185 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,720 Our monster does not murder. 186 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:17,780 And common assault, even with intent to maim or kill, is a misdemeanour. 187 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:23,560 But this, this cutting of cloth, is a felony... 188 00:13:23,580 --> 00:13:25,760 punishable by hanging. 189 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,620 If a bad law will becalm London, we must have it. 190 00:13:32,820 --> 00:13:37,800 I hear there are calls for a permanent police patrol in light of the monster? 191 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,520 That would be very expensive for the Treasury. 192 00:13:40,550 --> 00:13:43,840 The Home Secretary will be most grateful to you. 193 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,200 Miss Ann Porter is down there, sir. 194 00:13:57,260 --> 00:13:59,360 He came upon me like a madman 195 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:04,720 and suddenly I found myself brought down into a most indelicate position. 196 00:14:04,820 --> 00:14:06,780 On your hands and knees? 197 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,480 I had more regard for decorum than my wellbeing. 198 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:17,820 I'm sorry to have to make you revisit your most foul ordeal 199 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,960 but it's merely my way of cataloguing the man's crimes 200 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,000 and so build up a body of evidence against him. 201 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,180 And will news of my welfare appear in your newspapers? 202 00:14:32,380 --> 00:14:36,500 With all the other victims of this most aggrieved city, 203 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:38,120 Miss Porter. 204 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:41,000 I see. 205 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,080 One further question, if I may. 206 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,300 Certainly. 207 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,480 The wound, it heals now? 208 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:53,980 Thankfully so. 209 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,340 And... anatomically... 210 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,580 the thigh or...higher up? 211 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,960 Higher up, sir. 212 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,520 Higher up. 213 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:14,120 You bear it most courageously. 214 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,660 I asked you not venture out unaccompanied. 215 00:15:33,860 --> 00:15:37,680 I had no wish to have Mrs Browning as my companion. 216 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,880 Then you wish a monster to keep your company? 217 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:44,360 Then should I stay at home, employed at my needle and thread? 218 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:50,340 Arthur, I'm not strung high as a violin, 219 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:53,700 screaming at gusts of wind. I have never been. 220 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,040 That is why I didn't engage you at the Old Bailey. 221 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,380 I made you a guest of Judge Buller to serve both of us. 222 00:15:59,580 --> 00:16:03,100 But your welfare to me is not your progress... 223 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:05,940 ..it's your safety. 224 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,420 Maria, this is too much to bear! 225 00:16:21,460 --> 00:16:23,660 - To be out in public again? - No. 226 00:16:23,661 --> 00:16:25,840 - What, then? - That man, that man there! 227 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:28,720 - You know him? - Yes, I know him. I recognise him. 228 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,560 That man is the monster! He is the monster that did attack me! 229 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,460 - Stop! - Get him! 230 00:16:57,460 --> 00:16:59,720 It is nine o'clock in the morning. 231 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,280 - Your son was arrested yesterday afternoon. - Yes, sir. 232 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:09,200 I am therefore obviously not the first attorney whose assistance you have sought? 233 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,940 No. No, sir. 234 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,960 This morning, your son is the most unpopular man in London. 235 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,520 No other attorney has wish to represent... "The Monster". 236 00:17:21,820 --> 00:17:24,000 He is not the Monster. 237 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,080 He has alibis for each occasion? 238 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,160 He is not the Monster because he is my son. 239 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:36,500 A mother knows what her son may be capable of and while Renwick may be many things, sir, he... 240 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,800 What kind of things? 241 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:46,300 I did read that 22 women were called to the magistrates in total. 242 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:51,460 Half of them claiming Renwick bore a resemblance to their attacker but not able to swear to it. 243 00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:54,920 And the other half unable to do either, sir. 244 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,560 So, pray, what would that tell you? 245 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,200 That you neglect your mathematics, madam. 246 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,880 There was one who did swear to it, a Miss Ann Porter. 247 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,600 But the numbers are good enough for me. 248 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,200 Let us hope it is good enough for counsel. 249 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:16,260 - I have heard of a Mr Garrow. - Oh, I am sure of that. 250 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,720 "Monster at Bay?" 251 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,920 - God is merciful. - Hmm. 252 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,580 Not to those other poor wretches wrongly accused and brought up before the magistrate. 253 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,840 They have him now, for certain. Renwick Williams, 23, 254 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:41,300 native of Wales, no doubt, and an artificial flower maker. 255 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:45,040 Hardly an occupation for a monster but at least he be not an Englishman. 256 00:18:45,340 --> 00:18:51,020 - And this will be an end to your agitation? - I agitate for London. 257 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:58,660 Well, the press reports from the magistrates' court have thankfully been extensive. 258 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,000 And it appears there is only one indictment, 259 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:08,880 which is "Wilfully and maliciously cutting Ann Porter's cloak, gowns, stays, petticoat and shift." 260 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,120 - Injuries to buttocks or thighs? - Disregarded. 261 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,480 This indictment of cutting clothes is surely not a felony? 262 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,580 You should know your law better than I. 263 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,080 I can plead a case, do not expect more. 264 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,620 They wouldn't dare to make the Monster's crimes a mere misdemeanour. 265 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:28,420 In London's current fever, that would cause an outrage. 266 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,020 - So in the cutting of clothes they have found a felony. - How so? 267 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:39,040 They've dug up an obscure and very perverse statute from 1721. 268 00:19:41,660 --> 00:19:45,360 I cut to the flesh, it's only pillory or prison. 269 00:19:45,420 --> 00:19:49,080 but if I merely cut cloth, I will hang. 270 00:19:49,220 --> 00:19:50,880 Strange in fact... 271 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:52,700 BOTH: But true in law! 272 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,220 You will take the brief. 273 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,420 Visit him in Newgate. 274 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,680 It is worth, surely, that? 275 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:18,080 In London's eye, you are a beast, a creature beyond the pale. 276 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,440 What I learned from Mr Southouse and what London must also know is that you are... - Respectable? 277 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,760 A man who makes his way in society happily and modestly. 278 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:30,640 My son was in the theatre, a violinist and teacher of dance also. 279 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,220 I myself dance like the movements of heavy cavalry 280 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,500 but is very difficult to assure the opportunities it gave me, 281 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,900 to guide the movements of the limbs of high-born maidens. 282 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:45,440 He has played violin in theatre orchestras. 283 00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:48,800 Renwick, you will tell them of your musical gifts. 284 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,440 I screeched a living with my bow 285 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:57,300 until the orchestra pits of London swooned with the smell of the drink I'd taken. 286 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:00,140 I beg your pardon. 287 00:21:00,340 --> 00:21:04,520 What I mean to say is that I possessed a spirit 288 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,760 of such effervescent gaiety. 289 00:21:06,860 --> 00:21:10,900 The trammels of art were just too much of a confinement. 290 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,760 - Mother, is that some improvement? - Are you the Monster? 291 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,720 Good. A man as direct as myself. 292 00:21:18,750 --> 00:21:23,860 - Then you oblige me with a direct answer. - Mr Garrow, I cannot lie. 293 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,160 I am a man who does indeed go after women. 294 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,580 I lay siege to them. In restaurants, 295 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,960 dancing parlours, assembly rooms. 296 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:40,180 And if I am lucky, they will allow me to lay into expenses for them. 297 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,800 And if I am very lucky, they will allow me to lay... 298 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:45,920 Renwick, you must stop this now! 299 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,960 He has settled in a permanent position now. 300 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,280 He is a flower maker. He has put the habits of the past behind him. 301 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:02,520 In defence of me, there is no-one more vociferous or loyal. 302 00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:08,340 Do you think you can summon up such a feat of conviction, Mr Garrow? 303 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,080 If he is not the Monster, he certainly enjoys his monstrosity. 304 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,080 But surely you can still plead a case? 305 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,600 I can already conjure up what the prosecution will say... He's a lecherous libertine. 306 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,480 So you will not take this case because you think you may lose it? 307 00:22:22,481 --> 00:22:24,880 I will not take this case because I cannot well defend it. 308 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,920 Your rising reputation no match for the grime attached to his name? 309 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:32,920 Huh! How does a man bound for Hell propel you? 310 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:37,160 Justice is not applause. Approval is not the law! 311 00:22:37,180 --> 00:22:39,360 I cannot do what is not in my heart to do. 312 00:22:39,370 --> 00:22:44,000 You were called to the bar. They did not announce your heart there! 313 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,760 Your business done here, gentlemen? 314 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,120 It seems the business of one gentleman here is certainly done. 315 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,400 I have refused to defend the Monster. 316 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,440 From conscience? 317 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:33,100 If you would listen to Mr Southouse you wouldn't venture that I am troubled by morals here. 318 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,740 - It is not a popular cause. - You think me too much impressed with my popularity? 319 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,940 It must be a true novelty to you. 320 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,500 I find I do like approval. 321 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,340 I have no parents alive who might do the approving. 322 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:52,060 I am sorry for that. 323 00:23:52,860 --> 00:23:56,580 But you may be sorry if you do not fulfil your duty. 324 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,240 Sarah, win the case and I will not be thanked for it. 325 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,200 Lose it and I will be remembered as the Monster's apologist. 326 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,720 If Mr Williams does not have representation and is hung, 327 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,500 that will not be (*) a trial but simply a lynching. 328 00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:27,780 Gentlemen... 329 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:34,560 Mr Silvester... 330 00:24:34,661 --> 00:24:38,860 If I take a fee from the Monster, I may never get another. 331 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,640 - Has Mr Garrow already refused it? - Mmm. 332 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,380 Finally he understands how discretion is the better part of valour. 333 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:55,520 Or is it that you will only defend those that will add to the sum of your goodness? 334 00:24:56,020 --> 00:25:00,860 There we have it! Garrow, not the reforming revolutionary 335 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,600 but an insufferable hypocrite! 336 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:05,240 [LAUGHTER] 337 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,160 - Mr Angerstein? - Afternoon. 338 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,200 Forgive me. 339 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,800 John Julius Angerstein. 340 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,000 I see you take my publication. 341 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:40,520 - A man of judgement in all things, I hope. - We have business, sir? 342 00:25:40,620 --> 00:25:42,760 The Monster is your client. 343 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:46,280 I would venture there isn't a respectable attorney in London 344 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,580 who would wish to receive a guinea to defend his crimes. 345 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,800 Therefore I am not a respectable attorney, sir? 346 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,840 I am sure that is something I could persuade you to remedy. 347 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:03,780 This comes from what, sir? That you fear I have lost my moral sense, 348 00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:07,040 or that representation may mean success? 349 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,120 Do you wish the man success? 350 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,820 I wish him the chance to plead his case. 351 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,840 And you have counsel engaged in this? 352 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,580 Of course. 353 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,260 You take my newspaper, Mr Southouse. 354 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,680 Beware, it may take you. 355 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,480 Sir, his mother engages me 356 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,900 and I am very fond of his mother. 357 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,820 I believe her. 358 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,040 It's the Monster's mother. 359 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,220 That's the Monster's mother! 360 00:26:56,420 --> 00:26:58,440 [PEOPLE SHOUT] 361 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,780 Leave her alone! 362 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,620 I hope he starves and rots! 363 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,440 Madam, I am sorry that you endure this. 364 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,720 I would rather you defend my son than myself, sir. 365 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,280 I will happily lose a basket but not so happily my son's life. 366 00:27:51,020 --> 00:27:57,640 Your colleagues at the flower factory, they will attest to your attendance on the day of the attack? 367 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,960 There is an hour they will not be able to account for. - An hour? 368 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,560 - It is thirsty work there. - I see. And the name of the inn you did frequent? 369 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,200 - Several. - And witnesses there who will attest to your character? 370 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,320 - Have we dispensed with alibi? - Yes, I think we have. 371 00:28:14,321 --> 00:28:15,321 My character? 372 00:28:15,322 --> 00:28:19,460 To show that what you are accused of is inconsistent with who you are. 373 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:26,720 I am sure there are some who would say that I am a man normal in my appetites. 374 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,300 Mother, your attendance here is a credit to you. 375 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,500 But it's not really necessary. 376 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:40,100 If there are ladies of your acquaintence who will appear in court for you, then you must inform Mr Garrow. 377 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,340 - Mother... - You must do so! 378 00:28:42,441 --> 00:28:44,641 They are prostitutes. 379 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,160 They are the ladies of my acquaintance. 380 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,380 And less apt to judgment on my station or my manners. 381 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,800 - Very welcoming. - I bring these men here to save you, Renwick. 382 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,520 Please give them the incentive to do it 383 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,420 and please son, do not deprive me of the incentive to wish it! 384 00:29:04,450 --> 00:29:05,621 Mother... 385 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,480 it may be that you should not let me detain you. 386 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,620 How can you speak to me so? 387 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,020 Half my life you have watched me disappoint you 388 00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:19,960 and worn a brave face through it. 389 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,600 Perhaps you should not trouble yourself so painfully any more. 390 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,380 But you did not do it! You are not the Monster! 391 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,200 Alas, I am a very good fit. 392 00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:47,740 You have a mother, Mr Garrow? 393 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,120 No. 394 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,020 It is my good fortune 395 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,380 and her hell. 396 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,280 You are not sentenced yet. 397 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,820 Then let us go to it. 398 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:15,620 The ladies of your acquaintance, you mentioned that they were less apt to judgment on your station or your manners. 399 00:30:15,620 --> 00:30:17,560 Less apt than who, Mr Williams? 400 00:30:17,860 --> 00:30:19,980 Than that bitch. 401 00:30:19,980 --> 00:30:22,940 What person do you refer to? 402 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,280 Ann Porter. 403 00:30:25,681 --> 00:30:29,281 - You knew her already, did you not? - Oh, yes. 404 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,320 Why would she not let me seduce her? 405 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:45,520 No alibi, character witnesses from a bawdy-house and a motive to harm Ann Porter. 406 00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:47,880 Good God, we will never earn our guineas here. 407 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:49,760 In none of these newspaper accounts 408 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,200 does Ann Porter anyway suggest that Renwick Williams was previously known to her. 409 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:58,220 - You look to the newspapers for the preparation of your defence? - We have no other intelligence, Mr Southland 410 00:30:58,250 --> 00:31:01,720 Angus Dean's journals only further the case for the prosecution. 411 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,560 You will find nothing to encourage you here. 412 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,760 And your hands will be black with newsprint. 413 00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:09,160 Good day. 414 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,600 I find I like Renwick Williams a little more. 415 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,640 - It's not surprising. - How so? 416 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,700 He's wayward. 417 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,800 Outspoken. 418 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,180 Rude, belligerent, and an enemy unto himself. 419 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,940 Do you suggest...? 420 00:31:27,140 --> 00:31:30,200 The likeness is remarkable. 421 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,840 Mr Angerstein. 422 00:31:43,340 --> 00:31:46,840 A runner has just informed me that the monster struck again. 423 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:49,760 Another woman attacked and he was called to her assistance 424 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,640 and it appears it was in the very way the monster goes about his work. 425 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,380 And... did this new victim make complaint? 426 00:31:56,380 --> 00:31:58,960 - At the magistrates' court. - Nowhere else reported? 427 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,460 I've enlisted the runner as a source of information for a guinea or two. 428 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,880 You will not report this. 429 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,720 On the eve of the trial, such a revelation. 430 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,940 Would create unnecessary alarm. 431 00:32:11,140 --> 00:32:16,440 And divert attention from the crimes of a man already identified. 432 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:23,960 Would you wish Renwick Williams to go free because a woman yesterday made complaint which we print? 433 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,640 There is the danger that another newspaper may find themselves 434 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:32,200 privy to this information and not feel quite so... delicate about it. 435 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,560 And there is a danger that you will be in want of employment if you press the matter. 436 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,360 [KNOCK AT DOOR] 437 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,480 The trial of this monster begins tomorrow. 438 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,320 And? 439 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,600 I thought to accompany you. 440 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,080 There will be some uproar there. 441 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,920 Do you wish to stop up my ears from the oaths? 442 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,960 Stand fast as the mob invade the bench in their frenzy and overcome me? 443 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,800 Judge Buller will be the man for that. 444 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,600 He will throw his arms about you. 445 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,680 That is a thought not to be born. 446 00:33:21,980 --> 00:33:27,500 - What would be your purpose? - I merely wish to observe the trial that is the talk of London. 447 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:31,080 Such frivolity from one so steeped in higher matters. 448 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,400 Together we could observe, and then... 449 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,880 we could... 450 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,080 engage about it. 451 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,280 You wish to engage me? 452 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,000 It is my only wish. 453 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,700 - Mr Garrow. - Mr Williams. - You're in want of more information. 454 00:34:56,860 --> 00:35:00,380 I merely thought you may wish some company. 455 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,320 You did bring some, then? 456 00:35:03,420 --> 00:35:10,040 - What's that? - As you do not appear to be in possession of a small waist or dainty feet yourself. 457 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:11,780 [HE LAUGHS] 458 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,280 Am I to be hung tomorrow? 459 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,660 Well, I must be honest with you, the whole of London has its hands on the rope. 460 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,440 But if the law does its duty and I'm allowed to do mine, I think we may overcome the prosecution. 461 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,840 And then you will save me from damnation? 462 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,620 From death perhaps, but in life I think you are hopeless. 463 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,740 Your hands are black as the devil. 464 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,640 Yes. Newsprint. 465 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,160 [THEY ALL MURMUR] 466 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:15,560 Oh, my God, who does rampage now through our streets, wielding his terrible weapon? 467 00:36:15,660 --> 00:36:19,960 Oh, it's Garrow's infallibility let loose upon us all. 468 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,840 Renwick Williams was indicted for... 469 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,640 [SHOUTING] 470 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:43,840 ...unlawfully, wilfully, maliciously and erroneously make an assault on Ann Porter. 471 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,600 You no longer find favour with the public gallery, Mr Garrow. 472 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,520 Take care. 473 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,320 Has humanity taken flight from this damn place? 474 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,640 To whit, one silk gown valued 20 shillings. 475 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,500 A pair of stays valued five shillings... 476 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,720 You who slaver like dogs at the sight of a bone. 477 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,760 [LOUD SHOUTING] 478 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,640 Silk petticoat, value five shillings. 479 00:37:08,940 --> 00:37:12,960 Newgate is a haven of a civilisation in comparison to this dog's kennel. 480 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,720 ..Against this form of the statute and against the king's peace. 481 00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,400 Mother! 482 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,400 Animal! Animal! 483 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:34,040 I did warn you. It's never a most congenial place. 484 00:37:34,340 --> 00:37:37,920 And Renwick too infamous to expect fairness. 485 00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:40,560 I must return. 486 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,840 From your poster, Mr Angerstein. 487 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:53,920 The monster is generally described as 6 feet high, thin made, thin visaged, 488 00:37:53,920 --> 00:38:00,200 full eyes, large nose and is marked with the smallpox upon his cheekbones. 489 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,080 Now look, if you will, at the appearance of Mr Williams. 490 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:09,780 5 feet 6, round-faced and no sign of smallpox. 491 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:17,080 Men such as these are capable of fiendish cleverness. 492 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,420 What, to gain six inches in height? 493 00:38:21,020 --> 00:38:26,020 You have invested a great part of your energy and reputation in this case. 494 00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:32,400 Well, I thought I was fortunate enough to be able to exert some influence on the outcome. 495 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:36,940 You mean that your efforts would help to furnish arrest and conviction? 496 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:42,520 I would think it be the hope of anyone in London to see such a conclusion. 497 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,560 And is it not the case that what you would settle for 498 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,160 as the conclusion is the arrest and conviction of any man who might fit this sorry position? 499 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,680 And in Renwick Williams, you think you had found him. And the matter over and done. 500 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:02,120 In all this, I wished merely to save young women from the danger. 501 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,600 I have here a collection of interviews 502 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:13,880 you conducted with the victims of the monster and were published in your own newspaper. 503 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,960 The interviews were conducted under the general title, "An authentic account..." 504 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,680 "..of the barbarities lately practised by the monster." 505 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,540 - And you do recognise them as your own? - I do. - Good. 506 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,840 Why did you note the dress and appearance of the victims that you interviewed? 507 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:36,240 Well, I thought a description of each of the fair victims 508 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,640 to be interesting. 509 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:46,440 "May 12th, the victim is young, below the middle size with blue eyes that do allure. 510 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,760 "Pale, soft skin, fine teeth, delicate and pretty." Do you recognise her? 511 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,920 Mary Forster. 512 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,160 And another. "June 6th. 513 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,660 "Young, about or rather below the middle size, shiny black hair, 514 00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:07,280 "striking black eyes, full lips, a dainty waist, an agreeable countenance and, again, very, very pretty." 515 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,160 That's Rebecca Godfrey. 516 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:15,800 What a noble opportunity presented to be able to sympathise with those beautiful women, yes? 517 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,280 To sympathise, certainly, but also to obtain information. 518 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,520 And provide a good excuse to visit them repeatedly. 519 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:30,600 - You will not imply... - If only further to display your sympathy and want of information. 520 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,940 It seems, sir, that you wish to save handsome young ladies from danger, 521 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:38,700 if only to put them in the way of another... 522 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:40,600 yourself. 523 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,200 [LAUGHTER] No further questions, my Lord. 524 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,920 Thank you, sir. 525 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,000 Call Surgeon Tompkins. 526 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:12,360 The case goes better, madam. Decidedly so. Come. 527 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,620 The wound, Surgeon Tompkins. Can you tell me of its appearance? 528 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:23,680 Er, four or five inches long. 529 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:28,280 Its middle part had penetrated the skin to a depth of an inch or so. 530 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,360 A wound, in your view, only rendered by a sharp instrument? 531 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,120 Most certainly. 532 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,960 And but for the bow of the stays, the wound might have penetrated the abdomen. 533 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,320 If not for the bow of the stays, this may have been a murder. 534 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,760 And the brave Miss Porter, that did suffer such trauma, 535 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,280 - is she fortunate still to be living? - Oh, yes. 536 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:55,720 Your witness, Mr Garrow. 537 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,560 Murder, you say, intent to kill? 538 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,600 Or at least maim. 539 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,760 Excellent. 540 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,320 No further questions, my Lord. 541 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:33,500 It seems that Mr Garrow knows more of his law than we at first supposed. 542 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,960 Call Ann Porter. 543 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,160 Do you swear that you shall present the truth, 544 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,040 the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? 545 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,560 I do. 546 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,360 Miss Porter, 547 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:19,200 you can identify the man who maimed and abused you so cruelly? 548 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:20,880 I can. 549 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,520 And if it is not too much to bear, 550 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:28,100 I wonder if you would venture to do so. 551 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,280 [SHOUTING AND MURMURING] 552 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:41,800 Miss Porter, may I commend you for the grace and valour with which you have appeared here today? 553 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,720 I am aware of the great attention which has fallen on me, 554 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:48,300 but I merely wish to do my duty as a prosecutor, sir, 555 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:51,240 even with the eyes of London upon me. 556 00:43:51,340 --> 00:43:54,520 Especially with the eyes of London upon me. 557 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,880 No more questions. 558 00:43:57,180 --> 00:43:59,780 I was not aware that you had asked any. 559 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:01,980 Miss Porter? 560 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:07,600 You will forgive me, Miss Porter, if any of my questions might confuse or dismay you. 561 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:12,200 I can assure you that no man in this court may sympathise more with your sufferings than I. 562 00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:16,140 But firstly, I must insist, my Lord the judge, that her veil be removed. 563 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:20,160 I cannot bear to have the wretch stare upon me or look upon him! 564 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,200 My Lord, I ask the veil be removed so the jury may see 565 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:28,420 how my questions demand a truth that cannot simply come from speech but from the colours of a female cheek. 566 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,520 Miss Porter, 567 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,840 you will remove the veil. 568 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,680 Can you describe what your assailant was wearing on the day you were attacked? 569 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,680 - A tight-fit coat. - Oh, it's a tight-fit coat today, is it? 570 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,580 Can you explain why you told the magistrate that it was a greatcoat, a surtout? 571 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,280 - I was confused. - May it have something to do with the fact that a runner, 572 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,560 having searched Mr Williams' lodgings, found no greatcoat, as you had sworn it, 573 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,160 but a tightcoat, and now conveniently you concur with that? 574 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:11,960 He came upon me suddenly! I was... 575 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,380 - I was mesmerised by the knife before me. - Oh, the wretch! 576 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:24,240 What words did your assailant speak to you on the night you were attacked? 577 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:27,160 - Insults. - Such as? 578 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,720 I cannot bear to recall such obscene and gross... 579 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:33,320 - Bear it, madam. - I will not! - Blast your eyes, you damned bitch! 580 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,560 - Shame, sir! - Mr Garrow! 581 00:45:36,860 --> 00:45:38,960 Beg your pardon, my Lord. 582 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:43,220 I am merely quoting what comes from the magistrate's committal. 583 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,240 "Blast your eyes, you damned bitch. 584 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:51,000 "I will take a particular pleasure in murdering you and drowning you in your own blood." 585 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:56,440 - You do recall recalling that? - I have tried to put it out of my mind. 586 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,080 How would you describe your state of mind in the minutes after your attack? 587 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,280 It must have been the most terrifying experience. 588 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,400 I was insensible with fear. 589 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,800 But not so insensible that you could provide a thorough description of your attacker 590 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,800 and identify Mr Williams here. 591 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,240 However agitated I might be, I should have always known him. 592 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:18,520 His features are more impressed on my recollection than that of my most intimate friends. 593 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,000 And because you were previously acquainted with him. 594 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,580 Not acquainted but accosted, sir. 595 00:46:25,580 --> 00:46:28,240 You will tell the court what passed between you. 596 00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:30,000 He had attempted to seduce you. 597 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,840 It is too dreadful to recall. 598 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,120 Then you did at least rebuff his advances. 599 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,000 - I did disdain him most definitely. - How so? 600 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,120 I called him a shop man, a wretch and a scoundrel. 601 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,840 - And he did further insult you? - He did. - How so? 602 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,960 - No. - No? 603 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,040 Will you answer the question, Miss Porter? 604 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,860 Precisely what the insult was. 605 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,920 "Blast your eyes, you damned bitch. 606 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,400 "I will take a particular pleasure in murdering you 607 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,540 "and drowning you in your own blood." 608 00:47:10,540 --> 00:47:12,720 It is very familiar. 609 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,040 I put it to you, Miss Porter, 610 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,920 that on that occasion, Mr Williams did insult you 611 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,680 most scandalously and indecently but there was never another one. - Am I to be insulted again?! 612 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:30,160 I put it to you that for those insults, you determined never to forgive him and to gain revenge. 613 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,720 You seek revenge by portraying Mr Williams as the monster and the man who cut you. 614 00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:37,760 Madam, your agitation seems to occur at the most convenient time. 615 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:42,500 Withdraw, sir. My Lord, I ask you to bring my learned friend to order. 616 00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:46,920 - Very well. - Mr Garrow, do not insult the witness. - Very well. 617 00:47:54,840 --> 00:48:00,000 Miss Porter, I accept that you were indeed attacked and cruelly used... 618 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,800 ... but not by this prisoner. 619 00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:06,820 Behold him, Miss Porter. 620 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:12,160 A man it is easy to accuse, in that he is an unsympathetic figure, 621 00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:16,180 his position in society generally despised, 622 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,360 his social habits far from respectable. 623 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,840 But does he deserve this accusation and the death it may bring him? 624 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:32,120 - Does he deserve the way you have set your eyes upon him? - He should not have set them upon me! 625 00:48:35,460 --> 00:48:37,740 That is your answer? 626 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,720 Now we do most certainly have your answer. 627 00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:50,560 You do hide your own iniquity. 628 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,560 No more questions, my Lord. 629 00:48:55,180 --> 00:48:57,320 The court will adjourn. 630 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,280 The court shall rise. 631 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:01,920 My chambers. 632 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,540 Scheming, swooning, irrational. She acts like a defective man. 633 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:11,580 - And Garrow a heartless one. - Well, she deserves no-one's pity or admiration. 634 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:16,540 Who's the real hater of women, the monster or his counsel? 635 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,880 Judge Buller awaits me. 636 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,960 This prosecution fails. 637 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,820 - Mr Garrow has... - The court is yours, it's not Garrow's. 638 00:49:34,850 --> 00:49:40,000 My duty is to give advice as to the law, as to proof. 639 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:46,680 Williams's conviction may answer your difficulties in Parliament, but this jury may not even convict. 640 00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:51,420 Well then, it is your duty to direct the jury to see it favourably. 641 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,720 Mr Garrow? 642 00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:04,840 Lady Sarah. 643 00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:09,500 - You're alone. - Sir Arthur did need the ear of Judge Buller. 644 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:15,100 - In this case. - I fear he does not attend him for entertainment. 645 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,160 Ah, I think the jury may yet acquit. 646 00:50:21,260 --> 00:50:25,580 If the judge does turn their attention to the law and away from the hue and cry. 647 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,640 The judge will not. 648 00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,640 I think we may be in want of one very particular law, Mr Southouse. 649 00:50:32,740 --> 00:50:34,360 Indeed. 650 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:37,800 Gentlemen. 651 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,080 The attack on Miss Porter is not in dispute. 652 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,960 Her identification of her attacker, absolute. 653 00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,900 And the motive of the prisoner, apparent. 654 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:55,200 As for his alibi, that's barely credible and certainly not convincing. 655 00:50:55,300 --> 00:50:59,840 This is a man who had previously waylaid Miss Porter with lewd intent 656 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:04,760 and when these intentions were frustrated, threatened her most violently. 657 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:09,760 You have before you an opportunity to remove this foul potential 658 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:14,480 from the streets of London and restore peace of mind to its gentlewomen. 659 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,660 I trust you will do your duty by them. 660 00:51:18,060 --> 00:51:20,720 You will consider your verdict. 661 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:50,480 You have reached a verdict? 662 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,080 We have. 663 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:56,120 How do you find the prisoner? Guilty or not guilty? 664 00:51:56,420 --> 00:51:59,120 - Guilty. - Damn the lot of you! 665 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,640 This is a lynching, not a trial. 666 00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:09,480 Renwick Williams, you've been found guilty of the indictment. 667 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,600 - The sentence I pronounce upon you... - My Lord!... - is that you be... 668 00:52:12,700 --> 00:52:16,720 My Lord, I submit my client has been wrongly indicted and that any sentence be respited. 669 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,960 - You're a little late in the day, Mr Garrow. - My Lord, if you will allow me. 670 00:52:20,060 --> 00:52:22,140 Mr Silvester. 671 00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:25,120 My Lord. Very well, I will hear you. 672 00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:29,200 In 1721, certain weavers who were objecting to the importation of Indian fashions 673 00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:34,280 purchased in preference to theirs own goods actually poured aqua fortis onto the clothes of people wearing those fashions. 674 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,940 To stop these outrages, it was made a felony punishable by hanging 675 00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:43,800 to assault any persons in the public streets with intent to tear, spoil, burn, deface or cut the garments of such persons. 676 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,000 My Lord, the clothes of my client were cut. 677 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:53,540 But, my Lord, you did accept the evidence of Ann Porter, who quotes my client as wishing to murder her. 678 00:52:53,740 --> 00:52:57,100 You did hear and accept the testimony of the wounds to her flesh. 679 00:52:57,100 --> 00:53:02,280 This surely would prove by my client an intent to maim or kill, which is a misdemeanour. - A misdemeanour?! 680 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:06,940 Strange in fact, but true in law, therefore, therefore... 681 00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,760 Mr Williams should face a retrial for the minor offence 682 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:14,740 for the misdemeanour of wilfully and maliciously cutting Ann Porter with intent to maim and kill her. 683 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:25,360 It was, of course, impossible for him to strike Miss Porter's person 684 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,600 without... cutting the clothes. 685 00:53:28,900 --> 00:53:31,480 Unless he did in fact... 686 00:53:31,980 --> 00:53:37,460 cut the clothes in order to get to the flesh underneath. 687 00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:41,160 It's an ancient statute. 688 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:46,300 Indictment is indeed debatable. 689 00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,400 I shall reserve the case for the 12 judges of England. 690 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,360 Sentence is respited until then. 691 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,720 - What does this mean? - You'll at least not hang. 692 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:22,680 Why did you come here? 693 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,420 - I was sent here. - By whom? 694 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,760 You wish only to engage me. 695 00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,920 In what, sir? Certainly not the truth. 696 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,460 The Home Secretary sent me. 697 00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:42,560 In all this, I wanted nothing more than the safety of this city. 698 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:48,360 - It was a weak law to try a man's life with. - All law is weak if men can bend it to their will. 699 00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,940 I did not succeed there. Mr Garrow was very persuasive. 700 00:54:53,140 --> 00:54:57,680 Mr Garrow saved an innocent man's life. 701 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:07,820 Lady Sarah. 702 00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,340 Neither the Old Bailey or I can detain you further? 703 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,160 I'm already detained by you, sir. 704 00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,760 It's injustice that quickens your heart? 705 00:55:19,500 --> 00:55:21,140 Dear Will. 706 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,200 You are mistaken in that. 707 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,760 Mr Rawlings. 708 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:51,160 " A Foul Attack - Monster Still Infects The Streets. " 709 00:55:51,260 --> 00:55:53,260 Tomorrow's edition. 710 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,220 But this is the Times, not the Gazette. 711 00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,680 Angerstein would not allow it. The Times are very happy to employ me with it. 712 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,560 Three more attacks, identical, all committed during Williams' incarceration. 713 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:07,660 - You come with this now? - This would have served justice during the trial, Mr Rawlings, not after it. 714 00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,880 My position is only now just secured. 715 00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,800 So you are safely in your new employment while Williams still rots in Newgate! 716 00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,700 I'm afraid there is more. The runners have a man for the crimes. 717 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,480 I would happily lay my hands on you, Rawlings. 718 00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:26,760 - But I will instead shake the hand of my client. - Come, William. 719 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,360 ...which should prove to be a most welcome occasion. 720 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,720 And I shall be even happier to tell his mother. 721 00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:42,400 Indeed, Mr Southouse. 722 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:47,420 Gentlemen, it appears the rough court of Newgate 723 00:56:47,620 --> 00:56:50,700 has given its own verdict here. 724 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,760 Madam. My profound sorrow. 725 00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,380 And your son now proven an innocent man. 726 00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:39,180 An innocent man should be a free one. 727 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,160 And living. 728 00:57:49,140 --> 00:57:52,140 I would offer her consolation in prayer. 729 00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:55,060 But God will not change the law. 730 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:10,680 - You think him not guilty? - I defended her as best I could. 731 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,840 Mr Forrester, still filling your pockets with blood money? 732 00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:19,960 - Many in the house hope you will lose. - You overestimate Mr Garrow's influence. 733 00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,660 - How much would a criminal pay? - I wouldn't know. 734 00:58:22,860 --> 00:58:24,520 You are ill-prepared. 735 00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,040 Be reckless with your own life, not your client's. 736 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,200 Beast! 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