1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,640 If two people were to be born at the exact same instant 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,440 and very near to one another, 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,840 they would become what's known as astral twins. 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,120 They would share a destiny. 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,400 They weren't just after my money. 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,200 They were after my name. 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:19,280 Who are you? 8 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,280 How about you call me Mr Wells? 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:22,920 What? This is blackmail. 10 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,720 - You're blackmailing me. - I am. 11 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:26,960 So we were born in the very same instant. 12 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:28,840 Under the very same sky. 13 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:30,280 - Drink. - Or what? 14 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,080 Or I blow your brains out. 15 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:33,280 Hey! 16 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,880 You were talking in your sleep. 17 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,520 - What did I say? - 1 don't know. 18 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:39,850 It was Cantonese. 19 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,850 Francis Carver. 20 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,250 There. - Forgery? 21 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,680 It's his signature. It's not forgery. 22 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,880 Gentlemen, I 'am a man of reason. 23 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,810 I do not believe in magic. 24 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,860 Beg pardon, sir. I gave you the wrong one. 25 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:10,960 Oh, good. 26 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,780 Yes, there was a mistake. 27 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,250 This is isn't my trunk. 28 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,690 I was just making sure. 29 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,810 Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. 30 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,810 www. able. co. nz Copyright Able 2020 31 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,400 Alistair Lauderback made some very serious allegations 32 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,130 against you last night. 33 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,800 Men are so different until they're disappointed. 34 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,730 Then they're all the same. 35 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,600 This business with the ship. 36 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,480 It was between Crosbie and Alistair - 37 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,140 nothing to do with me. 38 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,740 I don't want any mention of it. 39 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:34,100 Not now, not in court, 40 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,720 not at any time until that girl is hanging by her neck. 41 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,180 - You understand me? - Perfectly. 42 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,170 - What's this? - Evidence of forgery, 43 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,740 as attested by a man of God. 44 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,700 Any idea what she's playing at? 45 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,880 None. 46 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,440 You will wait until your trial. 47 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:00,770 I can bail. 48 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,970 You know I have the money. 49 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,970 The gold from my dress. 50 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,160 You've been charged with murder, Miss Wetherell. 51 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:11,420 You cannot bail. 52 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,160 Emery's alive. 53 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,360 He needs help. 54 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:18,520 Please. 55 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,040 You killed him. 56 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,250 You killed them both. First Wells, and then Staines. 57 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,780 No, you don't understand. 58 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,840 - I shot myself and then... - You forged his signature. 59 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,900 No. It wasn't forgery. I can't explain it. 60 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,640 You think we do not talk? The whole town knows about it. 61 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:42,970 I just need to find him. Please. 62 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,300 Here is my advice - 63 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,040 plead lunacy. 64 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:52,640 What? 65 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,660 You have changed your story. 66 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,460 First you say you killed him; now you say he is alive. 67 00:04:59,660 --> 00:05:02,520 First you sign his name; now you say there is no forgery. 68 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:03,720 You are guilty. 69 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,840 Lunacy is the only chance you have. 70 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,220 But I'm not a lunatic. 71 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:24,380 What's all this? 72 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,400 Do you know, something utterly extraordinary 73 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,200 is just about to happen? 74 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,640 It has occurred just once before in our lifetimes. 75 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,320 The moon will be full just before the 1st of February 76 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,800 and then again just after the 28th. 77 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,530 A month without a moon. 78 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,640 What are you doing, Lydia? 79 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:46,720 I'm going to host a seance to make contact with Emery Staines. 80 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,920 What? 81 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,240 He went missing the night Crosbie died. 82 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:50,640 No one's seen him since. 83 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:52,120 What, and you're going to find him? 84 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,320 No. 85 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,280 I'm going to put myself into a trance, speak in his voice 86 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:57,800 and then accuse her of murder. 87 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 You were right. 88 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:00,760 Way back at the beginning, you said get rid of her, 89 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,960 and I said no. 90 00:06:02,460 --> 00:06:03,960 - You were right. - Lydia. 91 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,320 She's playing us, Francis, and I do not get played! 92 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:07,520 Lydia. 93 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,260 I want her dead. 94 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,640 Lydia, please, you'll get what you want. 95 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:21,370 Let the trial play out. 96 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,940 We're on a knife edge. 97 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,620 One false step, and it's not that girl on the gallows. 98 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:31,660 It's you and me. 99 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,440 We don't wish to take up too much of your valuable time, 100 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,680 Mr Justice. You have our evidence already. 101 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,280 Here are the names of the witnesses we wish to call. 102 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:17,680 We also recommend, 103 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,040 given the nature of the defendant's profession, 104 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,960 that the jury be culled where possible 105 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,820 from adjacent goldfields. 106 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,600 She's a prostitute, Mr Justice, 107 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,960 and to put it mildly, very well known. 108 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,720 - I'm not whoring any more. - A former prostitute. 109 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:30,920 Excuse me. 110 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,200 You are, of course, permitted to be tried by judge alone, 111 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,060 if you feel a jury will be prejudicial. 112 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,050 Do you have any witnesses? 113 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:41,680 Anyone you might wish to call? 114 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,240 Yes. Mr Emery Staines. 115 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,080 Mr Justice, this is a stalling tactic. 116 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,720 Mr Staines is missing and presumed to be dead. 117 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,960 - He's not dead. - He has not been seen 118 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,480 since the night of Mr Wells' demise, Mr Justice. 119 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,480 You'll find this is all of a piece. 120 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,520 Is there anybody else? Anyone who saw you that night 121 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,320 who could vouch for you? 122 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:04,640 The man who found me. 123 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,600 The Right Honourable Mr Alistair Lauderback? 124 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,330 Maybe he saw something. 125 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,220 Mr Lauderback... 126 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:18,900 for the defence. 127 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,400 To Mr Alistair Lauderback, 128 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,660 Provincial Council, Canterbury. 129 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:07,400 March 1864. 130 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,200 Sir, you do not know me, but I am your brother. 131 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,400 Your father sired a bastard by a prostitute. 132 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,440 I am that bastard. 133 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,370 I was raised in Yorkshire, 134 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,500 taking the surname of my parish priest. 135 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:25,530 I have not suffered. 136 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,280 But I desired always to learn my father's name, 137 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,460 to look upon his shape and hear his voice. 138 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:37,890 Recently, my prayers were answered 139 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,800 with a letter from the man himself. 140 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,900 He had always known of me, he wrote. 141 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,620 He enclosed me £20 and asked for my forgiveness. 142 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,040 I resolved to seek him out. 143 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,160 But then I made a blunder, 144 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,480 seeing in the shipping news that Alistair Lauderback 145 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:59,120 was departing for the colonies next tide. 146 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,180 I believed it was my father. 147 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,850 I did not know he had another son. 148 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,250 I did not think that son might share his name. 149 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,620 I made a plan to follow him. 150 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,090 In due course, I landed in Dunedin 151 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,850 and began to make enquiries as my fortunes would allow. 152 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,330 But when I saw your likeness, 153 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,260 I knew at once that I had erred 154 00:10:28,140 --> 00:10:31,340 and that you were not my father but my brother. 155 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,820 Sir, I never wanted to be in this country. 156 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,180 I never sought this life. 157 00:10:40,060 --> 00:10:42,080 But I have spent our father's £20 158 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,340 and do not now have the means to return home. 159 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:47,480 I beg you for your charity, 160 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,940 believing you to be a good and Christian man, 161 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,120 and because I will remain, always, your brother, 162 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,320 Croshie Wells. 163 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,360 June 1864. 164 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,000 Sir, two months have passed since I wrote you last. 165 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,000 Sir, I have begged you twice. 166 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,800 And even I, a whore's son, am too proud to beg again. 167 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:08,760 July 1864. 168 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,490 Sir, my fortunes are much changed. 169 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:16,920 I am proud to say I write this as a married man. 170 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,120 Mrs Wells, 171 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,360 as I must call her now, is a fine specimen of her sex 172 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,800 and a woman I shall be very proud to carry on my arm. 173 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,260 I suppose she is your sister now. 174 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:30,160 August 1864. 175 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,620 Sir, I do not know if my letters reach you, 176 00:11:33,820 --> 00:11:36,080 or in what spirit you read them if they do. 177 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,040 But I believe I have become contented by your silence, 178 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,970 strange as that may sound. 179 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,440 June 1865. 180 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,720 I have made a strike on the gold fields. 181 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,760 I write not as your inferior, but as your equal. 182 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,360 I 'am now a rich man. 183 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,480 Sir, it is a marvel to me in this new world 184 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,210 that one so low born could find himself so elevated. 185 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,980 Perhaps I take after our father in more ways than I knew. 186 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:05,920 August 1865. 187 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,960 You'll notice from my postmark that I've upped my sticks, 188 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:11,420 as the saying goes. 189 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,640 Suffice to say I have been betrayed, swindled, 190 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,280 nearly murdered and robbed of any means to prove the crime. 191 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,160 I owe my life not to my own cunning or perseverance, 192 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,400 but to the kind intervention of a girl 193 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,400 I then abandoned to her fate. 194 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,660 I met betrayal with betrayal, and that I must always regret. 195 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,760 I'm sorry I'm your only witness. 196 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,020 However, I honestly don't see how I can help. 197 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,280 Where did you get those? 198 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,380 Who gave you those? 199 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,200 I thought you did. 200 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,680 They are private property. They are stolen property! 201 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,140 I could have you... 202 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,320 A politician and a prostitute. 203 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:17,730 What do you want? 204 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,130 Why didn't you write back? 205 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,260 He kept writing. 206 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,000 You never replied. 207 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Why? 208 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:44,840 I was ashamed. 209 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,040 Of my father. 210 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,880 And then, after a while, of myself. 211 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,730 And then I couldn't write. 212 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,440 It had been too long. What would I say? 213 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:01,370 There was too much to say. 214 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,680 So I thought I'd go and meet him, face to face. 215 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,020 But I was too late. 216 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,810 I never knew she was married. 217 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,560 In his letters, Crosbie never called her anything 218 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,620 but Mrs Wells. You've read them. You know. 219 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,440 He never used her Christian name, 220 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,100 and with me, she only called herself Miss Greenway. 221 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,640 I never knew what Crosbie looked like. 222 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,520 So when that man Carver told me his name was Crosbie Wells, 223 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,320 I had no reason not to believe him. 224 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,160 He knew the whole story. He mentioned the letters, 225 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,360 my father. 226 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:49,800 Our father. 227 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,840 It wasn't till Crosbie wrote again, 228 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,760 a few months later, that I realised 229 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,020 I'd been played by an imposter. 230 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,690 If I'd only replied, 231 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:10,680 if 1., 232 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:17,960 Well, 233 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,480 there it is - my dirty secret. 234 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:25,040 It's not dirty. 235 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:29,840 And it's not just yours. 236 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:39,890 You don't have to testify. 237 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,660 You're the girl that saved his life. 238 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,130 It didn't matter. 239 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:54,980 They still killed him. 240 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,400 Keep them. 241 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,020 I know them by heart anyway. 242 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,690 How long have you been up? 243 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:30,560 I shot him. 244 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:38,720 That night, when I was leaving, he startled me; 245 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,780 I shot him square in the chest. I thought I'd killed him. 246 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,740 - Maybe you missed. - 1 didn't miss. 247 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,860 How is he still alive? 248 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:51,320 I don't know. 249 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,040 Mr Mannering. 250 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,800 This should be very interesting. 251 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Yes, indeed. 252 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:14,440 Mr Lowenthal. 253 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:18,640 Move. Move! 254 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,120 Shouldn't you be up the front? 255 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:26,850 I didn't take the case. 256 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,290 What? Why the hell not? 257 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,860 Her story's indefensible. 258 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,340 The missing bullet? 259 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,050 The cut on her hand? 260 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,120 Losing her memory? It doesn't make sense. 261 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,600 That's why she needs a bloody lawyer! 262 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,120 You talk to her. You'll see. 263 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,080 I can't. I'm a witness. I'm not allowed. 264 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:44,610 For the prosecution? 265 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,180 Of course for the bloody prosecution. There's no defence! 266 00:17:47,380 --> 00:17:51,310 She's representing herself. It isn't murder; it's suicide. 267 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:55,900 Quiet, please. 268 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:00,680 Mr Carver. 269 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,080 Were you acquainted at all 270 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,000 with the late Mr Crosbie Wells? 271 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,080 Not well. He married one of my tenants, Lydia Greenway, 272 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:21,340 now Lydia Wells. 273 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,600 The property in question being 35 Cumberland St, Dunedin, 274 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,280 formerly the Hotel Oriental, 275 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,080 later known as the House of Many Wishes? 276 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:29,280 That's correct. 277 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,480 Were you aware of the bonanza discovered by Mr Wells 278 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,720 in the Dunstan Valley in the month of May last year? 279 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,560 I was aware. He had a strongbox delivered. I saw it go in. 280 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,400 Was Miss Anna Wetherell residing at the property 281 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,160 at the time? Yes, she was. 282 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:41,600 So, to put it crudely, 283 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,330 she knew what Mr Wells was now worth. 284 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,440 I don't know. I suppose so. 285 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,210 Do you know Miss Wetherell's nickname, Mr Mannering? 286 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,080 It's... 287 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,800 Chinaman's Ann. 288 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:58,640 Why? 289 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,370 She has a taste for opium. 290 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,730 She goes to Chinatown to get it. 291 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:11,600 This fortune, 292 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:13,890 valued at precisely £4096, 293 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,080 was discovered in Mr Wells' cottage shortly after he died. 294 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,480 Can you read the engraving, please? 295 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:23,680 It says Aurora. 296 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,320 Do you know who made this engraving, Mr Mannering? 297 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,160 - I can guess. - Please do. 298 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:33,360 A man named Quee, Johnny Quee. 299 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,240 Pardon me. Quee - is that an English name? 300 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:37,500 He's a Chinaman. 301 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,530 Thank you. No further questions. 302 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,330 Your witness, Miss Wetherell. 303 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:57,840 I never saw that gold before. 304 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,370 Mr Justice, Counsel is testifying. 305 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,640 Miss Wetherell, you'll restrict yourself to questions only. 306 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,130 I have no questions for Mr Mannering. 307 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,880 In your professional opinion, Mr Pritchard, 308 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,120 what was the cause of the death of Mr Crosbie Wells? 309 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,360 Excessive consumption of laudanum. 310 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,220 Taken freely, or coerced? 311 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:40,880 Couldn't say. 312 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,320 Do you recognise this phial, sir? 313 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:52,980 Yes, it's one of mine. 314 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,600 Have you ever supplied the defendant with such a phial? 315 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:56,800 I have. 316 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,840 - On more than one occasion? - Yes. 317 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,960 And laudanum is a tincture of opium, correct? 318 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,400 - Yes. - Would you go as far as to say 319 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,640 she has a dependence on the drug? 320 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,360 A dependence so severe, in fact, 321 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,760 as to drive her into the arms of Chinamen every day? 322 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,080 What's your question? 323 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:13,880 Do you believe Miss Anna Wetherell 324 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,280 - to be capable of violence? - We all are, sir. 325 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,780 We wouldn't be human otherwise. 326 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,280 But a woman suffering from such a desperate compulsion 327 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,140 would surely be more capable than most. 328 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,600 No further questions. 329 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,540 Your witness, Miss Wetherell. 330 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,920 Why isn't she going to cross? What's her plan? 331 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,580 I don't think she has one. 332 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,280 I took Miss Wetherell into my home. 333 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,780 Crosbie tarnished that charity. Miss Wetherell abused it. 334 00:21:57,420 --> 00:21:59,680 You and Mr Wells were estranged at the time of his death - 335 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:00,940 is that correct? 336 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:02,880 It is. 337 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,480 What was the reason for your estrangement? 338 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:06,680 She was. 339 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,740 A fool could see the way she looked at him, at his money. 340 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,220 She's a whore, after all. 341 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,120 Poor Crosbie was entranced. 342 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,820 Wouldn't hear a word against her. 343 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,290 We had a row, he stormed out, 344 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,660 and I regret to say, I... 345 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:31,820 I never saw him again. 346 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,680 If it was the only time this had happened, 347 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,540 I would have forgiven him. But you see, 348 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,200 she was simply the last in a very long sequence 349 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,530 of young women... 350 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:48,560 just like her. 351 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,370 Do you think the defendant killed your husband, Mrs Wells? 352 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,240 Governor, 353 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:57,440 I know she did. 354 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:04,050 Miss Wetherell, do you wish to cross-examine this witness? 355 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:08,360 Yes, do. 356 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,130 I have here a letter... 357 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,380 addressed to Mr Lauderback, from Mr Wells. 358 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,360 It's dated December last year. 359 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,620 Mr Justice, this is not in evidence. 360 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:33,520 Go on. 361 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,400 Miss Wetherell? 362 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,600 Could you read it out, please? 363 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:47,420 The whole thing. 364 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,360 This is entirely unverified, sir. 365 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,020 No, I want to hear it. 366 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,600 Mrs Wells? 367 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,580 West Canterbury. 368 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,400 December 1865. 369 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,680 Sir, I observe in the West Coast Times 370 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,880 that you mean to make your passage overland and not by sea. 371 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,160 Your route will take you down the length of the Arahura River 372 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,560 and past my house. 373 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,800 I dare to hope that this may provide occasion 374 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,530 for us to meet at last. 375 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,200 I shall describe the dwelling 376 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,000 so that you may approach or stay away as you see fit. 377 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,400 The house is high above the Arahura River 378 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,000 on its southern side. 379 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,140 The dwelling is a small one, fashioned by my own hand. 380 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,040 Perhaps even if you do not stop, I shall see you riding by. 381 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,320 I shall not expect it... 382 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,160 ...nor hope for it, but wish you a pleasant journey westward 383 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,020 and a victorious campaign 384 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,020 and remain, with deepest admiration, Crosbie Wells. 385 00:24:57,860 --> 00:25:00,280 Mr Lauderback is the man who sold Crosbie Wells his ship - 386 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,480 is that right? 387 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,880 The ship known as the Godspeed, 388 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,320 which he bought using the bonanza 389 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,680 he found in the Dunstan Valley last year. 390 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,960 Of course, I can only guess he used the gold to buy the ship, 391 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,360 but how else could he afford it? 392 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,840 Mr Justice, I fail to see the relevance. 393 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,970 Where is this leading? 394 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:22,820 It just seems strange. 395 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,040 If Mr Wells had bought a ship from Mr Lauderback, 396 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,440 a ship worth thousands and thousands of pounds, 397 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,770 why does he write as though they have never met before? 398 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,240 You said she couldn't read, Lydia. 399 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,240 - She can't! - What else didn't you know? 400 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,340 - Who is it? - Letter for Mr Carver. 401 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,480 I've been summoned as a witness. 402 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,680 - For the prosecution? - No, for the defence. 403 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,680 - What? - Ah, she's planning something. 404 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,960 She's got something on us, and she's keeping it back. 405 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,600 - Staines? - No, she'd have named him 406 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,200 as a witness. It must be something else. 407 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,530 Why does that bloody Maori keep hanging about? 408 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,040 - The seance. - Lydia, we need something real! 409 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,900 No, you said it yourself. 410 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,920 If she knew where he was, she would've named him as a witness. 411 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:25,120 He's her alibi. 412 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,200 He's dead, Francis - he's either dead, or he's disappeared 413 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,000 and left her to hang. Either way, it's in our favour. 414 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,480 This is where we get her. Forget Croshie. 415 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,130 We frame her for murdering Staines. 416 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,980 Emery? 417 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,600 This bond - do you still feel it? 418 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Yes. 419 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:04,850 He's still alive. 420 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:06,920 He's just lost. 421 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,720 Tell me what you see. 422 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,560 Three bloody shillings for an evening's entertainment. 423 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,820 You'd think she was calling up Helen of Troy. 424 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,080 Hey, Chinaman! 425 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,200 You blind? There's a queue. 426 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,580 Mr Mannering, naturally. 427 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,380 But who is this? 428 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,600 Mr Walter Moody, ma'am. 429 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,240 - He's a lawyer. - A lawyer, indeed? 430 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,360 And what's your interest here tonight, Mr Moody? I'm curious. 431 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,090 Then we have something in common, Mrs Wells. 432 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,320 All of us have aspects of darkness and aspects of light, 433 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,050 a face we show and a face we hide, 434 00:28:11,860 --> 00:28:14,720 something that waxes and something that wanes, 435 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,980 something that rises and something that sets, 436 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,220 the light that's borrowed and the light that burns, 437 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:24,600 the sun 438 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,160 and the moon, 439 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,320 the spirit and the soul, 440 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:30,720 the Luminaries. 441 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,260 I ask you now to maintain absolute silence... 442 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,130 and join hands... 443 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,570 as I place myself... 444 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:52,960 into a trance. 445 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,800 What did she say to him? 446 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:40,800 Murderer. 447 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:23,560 Lydia! 448 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:35,120 Lydia! 449 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,120 He need medicine. No. 450 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,920 Take me to Anna, please. 451 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:02,560 Anna! 452 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,180 You're alive! You're alive. 453 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,650 Astral twins. 454 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:35,940 You think it's mad. 455 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,480 I think it's wonderful. 456 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,980 So we were born in the very same instant. 457 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,560 Under the very same sky. 458 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,960 Do you believe it? 459 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,120 Yes. 460 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:21,980 I don't understand it. 461 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,330 I can't explain it, but... 462 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:29,600 I believe it. 463 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,520 Francis Carver, I'm arresting you 464 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,240 in connection with the unlawful acquisition of the Godspeed. 465 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:58,800 No, you can't take him. 466 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,480 He's been called as a witness in the trial. 467 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,940 He'll testify - don't worry about that. 468 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,920 There has to be an explanation. 469 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,250 What I saw aboard the Godspeed - 470 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,050 it is impossible. 471 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,060 It defies logic. 472 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,930 No one would ever believe it. 473 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,090 So if it's impossible, then you've never met before. 474 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:43,240 What? 475 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,970 Emery was never on the Godspeed. 476 00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:52,980 I don't understand. 477 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,090 What you saw really was a ghost. 478 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:35,360 I'll do it. I'll testify. 479 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,360 This is extremely reckless. 480 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:38,800 We know. 481 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,330 You can't be in there. Get out of there immediately! 482 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,160 Mr Staines is a key witness. 483 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,480 Miss Wetherell has every right to meet with him 484 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,760 and to conduct those meetings in total privacy. 485 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,620 And who the hell are you? 486 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,720 The lawyer for the defence. 487 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,400 Mr Staines, how did you first become acquainted 488 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,260 with Miss Anna Wetherell? 489 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,000 We first met on the day of our arrival in New Zealand, 490 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,930 a little under a year ago. 491 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,000 And I'm ashamed to say I treated her rather badly. 492 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,120 You see, I stole her purse. I beg your pardon. 493 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,520 Just to clarify - this is the purse that was later discovered 494 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:29,850 in the home of Mr Croshie Wells? 495 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,180 The very same. But the laudanum phial was mine. 496 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,120 Thank you. Please go on. 497 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,040 When I picked her pocket, I was witnessed by Mr Francis Carver. 498 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,560 I thought he'd surely turn me in. 499 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,000 But I suppose, being a smuggler himself, 500 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,040 he saw in me a kind of kindred spirit. 501 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:48,100 I beg your pardon, Mr Staines. A smuggler? 502 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,280 He served 10 years on Cockatoo Island on a charge of smuggling. 503 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,520 Under Governor Shepard, I believe. 504 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:57,360 And Mr Carver was soon telling me about a man he knew, 505 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,360 Crosbie Wells, who had recently struck it rich on the field. 506 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,690 Mr Carver had devised a scheme to kill him, steal his bonanza 507 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,450 and assume his name. 508 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,800 You see, Mr Wells was married, and his wife, Lydia Wells, 509 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,520 had been conducting an affair 510 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,360 with the wealthy politician Alistair Lauderback. 511 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,890 Mr Carver wanted to use the affair 512 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,960 to blackmail Mr Lauderback into giving up a ship he owned. 513 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,960 How did the bonanza fit in? 514 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,400 The gold would be concealed in a trunk 515 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,060 that was bound offshore under Mr Lauderback's name. 516 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,480 If anyone opened it, they'd assume that Mr Lauderback 517 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,080 had stolen the colour himself 518 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,440 and was smuggling it out of the country. 519 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,040 It belonged to the husband of his mistress, after all. 520 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,500 The plan was that Mr Carver, posing as Mr Wells, 521 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,440 would use the affair and the trunk as his leverage 522 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,970 in the blackmail for the Godspeed. 523 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:52,850 It was a proper stitch-up. 524 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,560 Carver and I cut a deal. We agreed I'd go to Hokitika. 525 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,360 I would, in both our names, peg a claim on a tailing pile. 526 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,400 Meanwhile, Carver would carry out the blackmail, 527 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,400 then sail the Godspeed to Hokitika, 528 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,400 take the gold from the trunk and salt it into our claim. 529 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,360 We'd call it legal profit, split the winnings between us 530 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,220 and go our separate ways. 531 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:14,780 What happened next? 532 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,660 Well, I went off to Hokitika to do as I was bid. 533 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,360 And some days later, the Godspeed arrived, 534 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,560 with the trunk on board but without Mr Carver. 535 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,280 It wasn't what we'd planned. 536 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:28,800 I figured the swindle must have gone awry somehow. 537 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,120 Nevertheless, I took the gold from the trunk, 538 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,040 salted it into the claim as we'd agreed, 539 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,280 and waited for Mr Carver to show up. 540 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,560 But instead, I was reunited with Miss Wetherell. 541 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,280 She had since fallen on hard times. She was with child. 542 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,120 And she asked me for help. 543 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,760 She told me about a plot she'd uncovered back in Dunedin 544 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,420 to kill a man, steal his fortune and take his name. 545 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,700 She'd figured it all out. 546 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,360 Because of her, Mr Wells had escaped and gone to ground, 547 00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:58,800 and now Mr Carver was looking for him, 548 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,800 to finish what he'd started 549 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,800 and get revenge for a cut he'd sustained to his face. 550 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,040 Miss Wetherell was afraid that once he arrived 551 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:09,170 back in Hokitika, he'd try to kill her too. 552 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,810 So she asked me for my protection. 553 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:14,240 Well, 554 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,800 I was starting to feel more than a little ashamed of myself. 555 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,660 She had no idea that I was in business with Mr Carver. 556 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,520 But I was too much of a coward 557 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,980 to tell her the truth about the part I'd played. 558 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,530 So I agreed to help. 559 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,880 When Mr Carver arrived in Hokitika, 560 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,080 I put myself between them. There was a terrible fight. 561 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,140 He flew into a rage, and as a consequence, 562 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,680 the child Miss Wetherell was carrying was lost, 563 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,140 as witnessed by many men here who could testify. 564 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:47,920 And after that, I couldn't forgive him. 565 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,120 I vowed I wouldn't rest until I'd found Crosbie Wells, 566 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,280 restored his fortune and put everything to rights. 567 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,340 It was then I learned a Chinaman, Mr Quee, 568 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,660 had been digging my tailing piles... 569 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,020 and found the gold I'd buried there. 570 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,160 He'd smelted it into little squares 571 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,400 and engraved each square with the word 'Aurora', 572 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,200 to signify which claim it issued from. 573 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,680 I didn't want to bank the gold, as I was legally obliged. 574 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,000 If I did, you see, Carver would get his half shares, 575 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,460 and I was determined now he'd never see a penny. 576 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,140 I took it up north, 577 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,090 intending to bury it on Maori land, for safekeeping. 578 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,640 And that's when I encountered Croshie Wells. 579 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,880 I confessed. I told him everything. 580 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,120 At first, he didn't believe the gold was really his. 581 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,720 But I showed him Miss Wetherell's purse, 582 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,320 and he was persuaded. 583 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,320 Wells had his fortune back at last. 584 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,200 But Mr Carver had stolen his passport and his miner's right. 585 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,800 He had no way of proving his own provenance, 586 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,130 let alone the gold's. But he took it anyway... 587 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,960 and thanked me for my change of heart. 588 00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:01,580 And we parted as friends. 589 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,370 I then went back to Hokitika, 590 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,080 determined to tell Miss Wetherell the truth at last, 591 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,880 but she wouldn't grant me an audience. 592 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,560 She'd since learned that I owned the Aurora 593 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,840 on a joint share with Mr Carver, and she was very angry with me. 594 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,440 She refused to let me visit her, 595 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,940 so I felt obliged to go to her employer 596 00:41:22,140 --> 00:41:23,940 and purchase her company for the night. 597 00:41:24,140 --> 00:41:27,040 This was on the night of the 14th of January this year? 598 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:28,240 Yes. 599 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,210 We met at the opera house. 600 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:33,760 And I told her the whole story. 601 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,690 - What did she do? - She was very upset. 602 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:40,240 She wished to go to Mr Wells at once. She left. 603 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,370 That's the last I saw of her. 604 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:44,220 What did you do? 605 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,410 I went to Chinatown. 606 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,440 You see, I'm rather ashamed to admit 607 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,700 I have a weakness for opium in all its forms. 608 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,720 I woke up one day. Mr Sook was gone. 609 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,320 Sol upped and left, intending to return to Hokitika. 610 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:00,850 I was extremely ill. 611 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,530 It was days... before I was found, 612 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,240 and only then that I discovered that Crosbie Wells was dead. 613 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,280 I can only assume what really- 614 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,200 Mr Justice, this is conjecture. 615 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,400 It is. 616 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,930 But I'd like to hear it. 617 00:42:20,180 --> 00:42:21,920 I can only assume that Mr Carver overheard us 618 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,560 at the opera house that night, 619 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:24,920 learned where Mr Wells was living 620 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,760 and went at once to poison him. 621 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,520 So when Miss Wetherell turned up, he was already dead. 622 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:31,760 - This is pure speculation, sir! - Thank you, Mr Staines. 623 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,820 I have no further questions. 624 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,880 By your own admission, you were nowhere near 625 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,320 the Arahura Valley on the night that Croshie Wells was killed. 626 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:51,050 You have no idea who was present or what transpired. 627 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,800 With respect, sir, nor do you. 628 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:55,560 Nor do any of us, except Mr Carver. 629 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,440 He's the only one who was there. 630 00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,320 - All right, that's enough. - Carver posed as Wells to buy 631 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,560 the ship. Wells had to die, or the swindle wouldn't work. 632 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,360 It was part of the plan from the beginning. 633 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,600 If you were not there, then you cannot say to a certainty 634 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,880 that Anna Wetherell did not murder Croshie Wells. 635 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,480 She had no reason to. 636 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,080 Again, by your own admission, 637 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,000 you have withheld a great deal of information 638 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,760 from Miss Wetherell over the course of your relationship. 639 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,000 Is it not possible that she has done the same to you? 640 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,440 No, I do not think it possible. 641 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:20,640 Why not? 642 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:23,770 Because I trust her. 643 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,280 I'm asking if you think it possible, 644 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,000 not if you think it probable. 645 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,600 I understand the question. My answer is unchanged. 646 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,240 What induced you to trust Miss Wetherell? 647 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:35,680 I trust her because I love her. 648 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,140 And how did you come to love her? 649 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,440 By trusting her, of course. 650 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,580 Do you recognise this document? 651 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,320 - I do. - Did you sign it? 652 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,440 I suppose I must have done. On the night it was composed, 653 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:55,960 I was very drunk. I don't remember everything. 654 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,800 So you don't remember signing it. 655 00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,640 - Oh, it's my signature. - That wasn't my question. 656 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,560 Mr Justice, where is this leading? 657 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,160 Get to the point, Governor. 658 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:04,680 I have it on good authority, Mr Staines, 659 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,280 that the signature on this document was forged 660 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,560 by Anna Wetherell for her own personal gain. 661 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,280 On whose good authority? 662 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:12,920 Mr Justice, I call my chaplain, 663 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,480 Mr Cowell Devlin, to come forward. 664 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:15,880 I'm afraid you can't do that, sir. 665 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,040 Mr Devlin is in full co-operation. 666 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:18,720 Mr Devlin is a clergyman. 667 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,720 He cannot be compelled to testify against a penitent. 668 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,240 He is not being compelled, and she is not his penitent. 669 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,240 Mr Devlin testifies of his own free will. 670 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:27,680 Mr Devlin? 671 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:44,680 Mr Devlin? 672 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,770 She signed this deed before your very eyes. 673 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,170 You gave this to me. 674 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,660 I cannot share what was disclosed to me in confidence. 675 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:07,580 I will not testify. 676 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,080 How dare you? 677 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,240 If I may, she couldn't have forged it, 678 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,170 even if she wanted to. She's illiterate. 679 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:28,720 What? 680 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,720 Sir, we direct your attention to an item already in evidence - 681 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,370 the ticket discovered by the prosecution 682 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,250 in Miss Wetherell's purse. 683 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,690 You will observe that she signed with an X. 684 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,930 If the veracity of the deed is still in question, 685 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,300 you will find... 686 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,260 the signature from Mr Wells matches exactly the signature 687 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,120 on the private correspondence to Mr Lauderback 688 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:02,650 already in evidence, 689 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,200 though it does differ significantly from the signature 690 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,460 on the Godspeed's deed of sale. 691 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,020 You may continue with your cross-examination, sir. 692 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,360 No further questions. 693 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:37,400 Mr Moody? 694 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,900 The defence calls Mr Francis Carver. 695 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,580 Place your hand on the Good Book. 696 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,040 Do you, in your testimony today, swear to tell the truth, 697 00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:22,100 the whole truth and nothing but the truth? 698 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:24,160 To Francis Carver. 699 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,340 May you get the death that you deserve. 700 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:35,960 Mr Carver. 701 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:40,180 Did you, posing as Mr Crosbie Wells, 702 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,680 and in collusion with Mrs Lydia Wells, 703 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,330 blackmail Mr Alistair Lauderback 704 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,450 into relinquishing ownership of his barque Godspeed, 705 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,660 using a fortune stolen from Mr Wells 706 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,180 and with the intention of taking his life? 707 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:05,890 You have no proof... 708 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:08,520 of anything. 709 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,820 It's my word against his. 710 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,400 Please answer the question. 711 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,090 There was no collusion. 712 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:35,600 Mrs Wells - 713 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:37,600 Lydia. 714 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,960 Lydia Wells had nothing to do with it. 715 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,180 The murder was my design, 716 00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:48,240 my execution. 717 00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,140 Once a convict, always a convict. 718 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,240 Francis. 719 00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,100 No, you can't! No! 720 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:15,640 No! 721 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:25,940 No! 722 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:36,960 Cheerio. 723 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,280 Ka kimi puretumu au I tenei mamae. 724 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:57,920 Governor! Governor! 725 00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:24,880 We can't go back. 726 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:29,210 We can never go back. Every moment only happens once. 727 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,050 You told me that. 728 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:32,440 Did 1?7 729 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,020 Yes. Then you said it again, so... 730 00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:56,960 We declare the defendant 731 00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,320 to be not guilty. 732 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,250 Miss Anna Wetherell is hereby acquitted of all charges. 733 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,480 It remains for the court to consider two matters - 734 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,720 first, the just distribution of these spoils, 735 00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,400 and second, the testimony provided so fulsomely 736 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,660 by one witness for the defence. 737 00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:39,360 Mr John Long Quee. 738 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,650 All men, regardless of their provenance, 739 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,800 deserve reward for work fairly and honestly undertaken. 740 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,200 You may draw down your bonus at the oriental rate 741 00:52:58,400 --> 00:52:59,530 against this sum. 742 00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:04,920 The remainder shall be surrendered 743 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,520 to the Hokitika Town Council to be invested at their pleasure 744 00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:10,780 in the continued enforcement... 745 00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:12,680 of the law. 746 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:17,970 As for Mr Emery Staines... 747 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:27,640 ...the crimes to which you have confessed 748 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,370 are numerous and grave. 749 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,600 But the spirit of your confession recommends you, 750 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,060 as does the effort you have made towards reform. 751 00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:42,520 We sentence you... 752 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,240 to one year in prison with hard labour, 753 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:50,240 reducible to nine months in the event of good behaviour. 754 00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:57,980 I'll be out before you know it. 755 00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:01,660 I'll be waiting. 756 00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:05,780 I know you will. 757 00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:11,100 Because I'll be waiting too. 758 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,440 All right, come on. 759 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:28,640 Let's go. 760 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,040 Hyah! 761 00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,480 You know you could have just asked. 762 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,610 You didn't have to steal my purse. 763 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,290 You could have just asked me, 764 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:11,560 to my face, 765 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,410 if I'd come and work for you. 766 00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:18,770 And I would have said yes. 767 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,740 You probably didn't need an apprentice. 768 00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:25,280 But... 769 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,280 I loved it. 770 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,760 Putting the house in order. 771 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,900 Your little table, with the planets. 772 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,260 How you cast a spell over the crowd. 773 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:43,380 I loved every part of it. 774 00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,130 And if you'd just... 775 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:50,720 asked me... 776 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,130 I would have stayed. 777 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:04,540 What are you doing? 778 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:07,880 Take it. 779 00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:10,940 I don't want it. 780 00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:16,760 Take it! 781 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:28,280 Miss Wetherell. 782 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:31,480 Anna! 783 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,050 www. able. co. nz Copyright Able 2020