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Leonard Vole is on trial for the murder of Emily French, an elderly woman who left him her inheritance. His lawyer, Mr. Mayherne, questions him to prepare his defense. Leonard claims he met Emily by chance after helping her carry items, and she later invited him over. However, Mr. Mayherne is suspicious as the circumstances seem to benefit Leonard financially. The maid Janet also provides a conflicting account, making Leonard's story look incriminating. Mr. Mayherne aggressively questions Leonard in an attempt to get him to reveal the truth.

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Witness For The Prosecution Script

Leonard Vole is on trial for the murder of Emily French, an elderly woman who left him her inheritance. His lawyer, Mr. Mayherne, questions him to prepare his defense. Leonard claims he met Emily by chance after helping her carry items, and she later invited him over. However, Mr. Mayherne is suspicious as the circumstances seem to benefit Leonard financially. The maid Janet also provides a conflicting account, making Leonard's story look incriminating. Mr. Mayherne aggressively questions Leonard in an attempt to get him to reveal the truth.

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Witness for the Prosecution

By Agatha Christie
Voice Record:
Plot: Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman. Unaware that he was a
married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard. When his wife, Romaine,
agrees to testify, she does so not in Leonard's defense but as a witness for the prosecution
Scene: Lawyer Questioning his client
Video Record:
Leonard Vole met his lawyer named Mr. Mayherne, responsible for defending him in his trial for the murder of
Miss Emily French. He is practical, unemotional, methodical, and has an excellent reputation. He is
described as “a small man precise in manner, neatly, not to say foppishly dressed, with a pair of very shrewd
and piercing grey eyes”. He cleaned his eyeglasses, stood very high and spoke to his client.
Mr. Mayherne: I must impress upon you again that you are in very grave danger, and that the utmost
frankness is necessary.
Guide only:
Leonard Vole, who had been staring in a dazed fashion at the blank wall in front of him, transferred his glance
to the solicitor.
Video Record:
Leonard Vole: I know. You kept telling me, yet I can't imagine that I am being charged with murder-
with murder! That is such a harsh crime.
Guide only:
Mr. Mayherne cough and took his glass off again and cleaned it, then wear it again.
Video Record:
Mr. Mayherne: Yes, yes,yes. Now my dear Mr. Vole, we are going to do everything to get you off and
we shall succeed. But I still have to know the facts. I must know just how damaging the case against you is
likely to be. Then we can fix upon the best line of defense.
Guide Only:
Still the young man looked at him in the same dazed, hopeless fashion. To Mr. Mayherne the case had
seemed black enough, and the guilt of the prisoner assured. Now, for the first time, he felt a doubt.
Video Record:
Leonard Vole: You think im guilty? But I swear to God Mr. Mayherne I did not do it. It looks pretty
black against me, I know that. I'm like a man caught in a net—the meshes of it all round me, entangling me
whichever way I turn. But I really didn’t do it.
Mr. Mayherne: You are right, Mr. Vole. The case does look very black against you. Nevertheless, I
accept your assurance. Now, I want you to tell me everything, only the facts. I want you to tell me in your own
words exactly how you came to make the acquaintance of Miss Emily French.
Voice Record:
Leonard Vole told Mr. Mayherne everything that has happened between him and Miss Emily French, how they
met. Leonard said that he saved the mistress in a grave danger carrying a lot of things on the way to cross the
lane. That the lady was so grateful towards him.
Video Record:
Leonard Vole: I never expected to see her again. But life is full of coincidences. That very evening, I
came across her at a party at a friend's house. She recognized me at once and asked that I should be
introduced to her. I then found out that she was a Miss Emily French and that she lived at Cricklewood. We
talked and when she was about to leave, she shook me warmly by the hand, and asked me to come and see
her. I replied, of course, that I should be very pleased to do so, and she then urged me to name a day. I did not
want particularly to go, but it would have seemed churlish to refuse, so I fixed on the following Saturday. After
she had gone, I learned something about her from my friends. That she was rich, eccentric, lived alone with
one maid and owned no less than eight cats.
Mr. Mayherne: I see. I have to look at the case as it will be presented by the other side. An ordinary
observer would not have supposed Miss French to be a lady of means. She lived poorly, almost humbly.
Unless you had been told the contrary, you would in all probability have considered her to be in poor
circumstances—at any rate to begin with. Who was it exactly who told you that she was well off?"
Leonard Vole: George Harvey, a friend of mine told me, at whose house the party took place.
Voice Record:
Mr. Mayherne explained to Mr. Vole how the prosecution will be established. They also talked about the
meeting of Mr. Vole and Miss Emily French. Mr. Mayherne asked Mr. Vole a lot of question and tried many
times to make him confess or tell the truth. Mr. Mayherne has a quite lot of suspicions towards Mr. Vole
because of it tangled story against the story of the maid, Miss Janet, of the mistress.

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