Night Must Fall

By Williams, Emlyn

Book Id: WPLBN0000628935
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Night Must Fall
Author:	Williams, Emlyn
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Williams, E. (n.d.). Night Must Fall. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

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Excerpt: LORD CHIEF JUSTICE: ... and there is no need to recapitulate here the arguments for and against this point of law, which we heard in the long and extremely fair summing up at the trial of the appellant at the Central Criminal Court. The case was clearly put to the jury; and it is against sentence of death for these two murders that the prisoner now appeals. Which means that the last stage of this important and extremely horrible case has now been reached. On a later page in the summing up, the learned judge said this ... (turning over papers ) ... ?This case has, through the demeanour of the prisoner in the witness?box, obtained the most widespread and scandalous publicity, which I would beg you most earnestly, members of the jury, to forget.? I cannot help thinking that the deplorable atmosphere of sentimental melodrama which has pervaded this trial has made the theatre a more fitting background for it than a court of law; but we are in a court of law, nevertheless, and the facts have been placed before the court. A remarkable and in my opinion praiseworthy feature of the case has been that the sanity of the prisoner has never been called into question; and, like the learned judge, the Court must dismiss as mischievous pretence the attitude of this young man who stands convicted of two brutal murders in cold blood. This case has, from beginning to end, exhibited no feature calling for sympathy; the evidence has on every point been conclusive, and on this evidence the jury have convicted the appellant. In the opinion of the Court there is no reason to interfere with that conviction, and this appeal must be dismissed.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Night Must Fall, 1 -- Emlyn Williams, 1 -- BEFORE THE PLAY, 2 -- Act I, 2 -- Act II, 29 -- Scene I, 29 -- Scene II, 43 -- Act III, 61 -- Scene I, 61 -- Scene II, 73