For Them That Trespass Page #4

Thank you,Mr Heal

No questions,My Lord

Call for John Craigie Glenn

I swear by Almighty God,that the evidence I shall give

shall be the truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Your name is John Craigie Glenn?

That's right

Or Jocko to your friends?

I,you can call me that rather,I never mind

Very friendly of you,thank you

And now,Mr Glenn,

will you tell the court if Herbert Logan came to Glasgow on the night in question?

I,he did

And will you tell us why?

He came to do a job with me

A burglary to put it bluntly

Put it to the hear what you like i,Sir, I don't mind

And you came forward as a witness,

even though you are a burglar, self confessed?

Will you tell us why?

Because I am not a man to save my skin by letting a laddie swing for somebody else

Just because you english policemen don't do that job

I find the witness's comment on the police superfluous

I believe in that

Now,Mr Glenn,is Logan not a friend of yours?

Ay,he's a decent one

And every word he said in here has been Gospel truth

May one ask precisely who it is that you know what he has been saying here?

I,you mean?

Then what is the answer Mr Glenn?

Perhaps I can provide the answer for you,

the answer is that you both agreed upon the story you would tell in court

Ay,that's right.Unless emergency we would both agree to tell the truth

One final question ,Mr Glenn,am I not right in thinking

that at least on one occasion,if not more,

you have been convicted in the past of perjury?

Maybe I have,but not this time

Regrettably I cannot share your confidence

I tell you the the truth and nothing but the truth,so help me God

Thank you

Have you been in at it? We had a pint together many times

but as I tell his blooming Lordship,

if ever I see a man look murderer, that was Herb that night

Oh,Frankie you would have laughed to see her name in headlines,hey

I'll tell you something, Herb is for the drop

When that lawyer fellow get started on him he has not got a bin out

He is in a rot,sorry I'm telling you

Now,Logan,you admit

that when you told the police that you never visited the house that night

you lied.I put it to you that your statement that you went to Glasgow

to commit a burglary is false as well

No,Sir,it isn't

I put it to you that you murdered Frances Ketchen,that you panicked

that then by chance found your way on to a Glasgow train

No,Sir,I never killed her

You admit that you quarreled with her in the Public House that night?

Yes,Sir

Then presumably you went around

to found Ketchen's house and said "I am very sorry I was rude"

Yes,Sir,I did just that

Remarkably magnanimously of you wasn't it?

And then,no doubt, this non existent midnight visitor

this figment of your feeble mind,Kit Marlowe,

daft as he,draft in and murdered her

Yes,Sir

Kit Marlowe,Logan,was a poet of considerable genius,

who flourished in the days of Queen Elizabeth

and although,no doubt, his moral was in tune with those licentious time

one hardly thinks it likely his spirit would return to earth

to visit Frances Ketchen in a tenement in Lenten town

And yet without one single solemn shred of evidence,

that is what you are asking the jury to believe

That Frances Ketchen died from strangulation

at the hands of someone who doesn't exist

But he does exist,I swear, he does exist,Kit Marlowe does exist

Take him back

Mr Hall?

Yes,Sir Huntley

My Lord,members of the jury,

It is not for us to consider the possibility or even the probability

that Herbert Logan murdered Frances Ketchen

Our sole consideration must be whether on the evidence

the charge that Herbert Logan murdered Frances Ketchen has been proved

In my submission it has not

Herbert Edward Logan

Members of the jury,are you agreed upon your verdict?

We are

Do you find the prisoner Herbert Edward Logan

guilty or not guilty of the willful murder of Frances Ketchen?

Guilty

And that is the verdict of you all?

Yes

Prisoner at the bar you stand convicted of the crime of wilful murder

Have you anything to say

why the court should not give you judgment according to law?

No,I've never done it,I've never done it, on my oath I've never done it

No

Oh yeah,oh yeah,oh yeah

My Lord,the King's justices do strictly charging about all persons

to keep silence,while sentence of death is passing on the prisoner at the bar

upon paying of imprisonment, God Save the King

Herbert Edward Logan the jury of your countrymen have found you guilty of murder

The sentence of the Court is that you'll be taken from this place

to a lawful prison and thence to a place of execution

and that you 'll be there hanged by the neck until you be dead

And that your body be afterward buried

within the precinct of the prison in which you were last confined

before your execution

And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul

Amen

I should have seen that one

That makes us quit,say

Have you got anything to read?

Yes Sir,I can't see it taking it in though,Sir

I gather that you have not been sleeping too well

No Sir.That church clock keeps me awake

That girl of yours has called again. Do you still refuse to see her?

-Yes -I see

I'll tell her not to come here anymore

Did she send those?

Don't you like them?

Not if she

All right I'll see her then

God lad

Herbert

Is it lonely?

No.I've got company

Don't hate me Herb?

I don't hate you,that what makes it worse

But why did you do it Rosie?

Why?

Those people said,got scared

I know you didn't do it,I knew in the afternoon in that church yard

It was

Yes,I say it was.Still you got your hundred quid

I haven't touched it

I gave it all to your petition

You should have a kept a quid or two back for the reed

Herbert,don't.I knew it is all my fault

I love you

Cut it out.I can't stand it if you

Hear,take her out,take her away

Take her away

Whatever happen to us,I'll always love you

And although I did not kill Frances Ketchen

I was in her room which I described above

after Herbert Logan left that night to catch the Glasgow train

It's signed Kit Marlowe

Well I'm there?

It isn't evidence.The Home Secretary can't act on that

I'm afraid you're right

Because you've always be convinced that Logan didn't do it haven't you?

Yes,always

Still you had a too good a case

Why can't the fellow come forward?

They'll never do

Probably someone with a place in life to loose

How is that petition doing?

Fine

Well,that and this between them might carry some weight

Maybe

I never slept a wink last night

and when I did,I dreamt of Herb

I am awfully grub at all

Pity you're not off the beer

You turn it in,I only told the judge what I have seen

You ain't the only one that see things

I seen her one night before she was copped it,with a fellow

I mean it weren't Herbert Logan either

But you never told the police

I don't like publicity

Then we have to see a fellow swinging for a job he had never done

If I told the police it wouldn't help him then?

Might now with this

What's that then?

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