Birdman of Alcatraz Page #2
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- 1962
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I just came from Kramer's widow.
I couldn't look her in the eye, Stroud.
I feel responsible for her husband's death.
He told me you were dangerous,
but I wouldn't listen.
And how he's cold in his grave.
You've taken the lives of two people
and haven't felt a twinge of conscience.
What do you want me to do?
Cry? Say I'm sorry?
I'm only sorry for Kramer's wife.
- And the dead man?
- He was fixing to brain me with his club.
I protected myself.
No remorse, huh?
No pity. Just an animal.
Ain't that what these cages are for?
Animals?
I have to make out a report
about this killing.
I hope it'll help to hang you.
Stroud had three trials.
The first one was declared a mistrial.
In the second, he was sentenced
to life imprisonment.
He appealed and was granted a third trial.
On June 28, 1918,
Therefore it is now by the court
considered, ordered and adjudged
that you be remanded to the custody of
the warden of Leavenworth penitentiary
and kept in solitary confinement there
until the 8th day of November, 1918,
and then and there be hanged
by the neck until you are dead.
No!
This sentence is unspeakable!
You call this justice?
You don't even know
the meaning of the word, sir.
Forget it. It's "Katy bar the door" for me.
I'm done.
Sit down, Robbie.
Sit down.
Look, Ma, you fought,
you spent all your money,
you got old followin' me from jail to jail.
It's time to douse the lights.
I told you before, Robbie,
I will not let them kill you.
I'm going to Washington DC very soon.
- I haven't begun to fight.
- Time's up.
You just don't know how to quit,
do you, Ma?
Did you think Mother was gonna
let them hurt my Robbie?
Carrying a petition for clemency,
Elizabeth Stroud doggedly haunted
the offices of Washington officials,
in an effort to gain an audience
with the president of the United States.
Finally, she managed to see
Senator Ham Lewis.
He reminded her
of the president's grave illness.
Grasping at straws,
she pleaded with the senator
to make an appointment for her
with the president's wife.
Reluctantly, he agreed.
Tell me, Mrs Stroud, why do you think
the president should intervene?
Mrs Wilson, the president is known
as the symbol of compassion
throughout the whole world.
I'm sure that deep in his heart
he doesn't believe in the brutality
of an eye for an eye.
I've never seen your husband,
but I've seen pictures of him.
He has the face of a man
who has known great suffering.
I think he'd understand what it means
to have the pack yapping at his heels.
Mrs Wilson, they've turned on
your husband in his fight for peace.
- They've broken his heart.
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