13 INT. PEMBROKE JAIL - DAY 13
OFFICER HILDRETH and DETECTIVE DEARBORN are questioning
WILLIAM DREW about the murder of Josie Langmaid in a small
interrogation room inside the jail.
WILLIAM DREW
Why did you bring me here? What have I
done?… I…
OFFICER HILDRETH
(arrogantly, interrupting Drew)
Let's get something straight from the
start, Drew. I'm the one who asks the
questions and you answer them. Now, tell
me what you know concerning the murder
yesterday morning?
WILLIAM DREW
(surprised, eyes widening)
What? What Murder?
OFFICER HILDRETH
(matter of fact)
Make it easy on all of us and stop
playing games. You know that I'm talking
about Josie Langmaid.
Firstly, what were your whereabouts and
what were you doing during the morning
and forenoon?
WILLIAM DREW
(Thinking carefully before
speaking)
Let me see, I was at my shanty working.
OFFICER HILDRETH
(Turning to Detective Dearborn
and mocking Drew)
I guess we got the wrong guy; because he
was "at his shanty working!"
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(sarcastically, addressing
Drew)
And what may I ask were you working on?
WILLIAM DREW
(confidently)
I was laying a stone wall with my father
until 11 o'clock when I went into Suncook
village to get a physician to visit my
mother. She had injured herself with a
pitchfork. Just ask my father. He will
tell you…I swear.
OFFICER HILDRETH
Come on Drew, you have to do better than
that. Everybody in town knows that you
are both notorious liars.
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(addressing Officer Hildreth)
Hmm, you have to give him credit for such
a creative alibi… though it is so, poorly
corroborated.
OFFICER HILDRETH
(responding to Detective
Dearborn's comment as if Drew
were not present)
Yes, pretty funny for a man who is going
to hang for First Degree Murder.
(Turning to face Drew)
Is it not true, Drew, that your shanty,
which you want us to believe that you
were at all morning, is a half mile from
the scene of the murder and about equal
distance from the Langmaid home.
WILLIAM DREW
(Not showing any nervousness)
Yes… That's about right.
OFFICER HILDRETH
(trying to catch Drew in a lie)
I thought you said earlier that you
didn't know about the murder? So, how do
you know where it happened?
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(taking the lead)
Unless…You killed her Drew.
(Moving in closer to Drew and
looking him straight in the
eyes)
Did you use a knife or an axe to remove
her head?
WILLIAM DREW
(vehemently)
You're crazy. I am innocent!!!
Drew rises to get up but is pushed back down.
OFFICER HILDRETH
We know that you have often been in the
employ of Mr. Langmaid, a fact that would
be futile to deny…we also are aware that
you frequently went to Mr. Langmaid's to
see him about work and to collect pay,
and in this way you are well acquainted
with the entire Langmaid family.
WILLIAM DREW
So… What's your point?
OFFICER HILDRETH
Well Drew, It is clear to us that you
were watching for the chance, and
yesterday morning found it, to entrap
Josie alone at the point where the deed
was perpetrated.
WILLIAM DREW
That's a lie.
(Pleading)
I told you …ask my father!
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
Nobody will place any credence in what he
has to say
OFFICER HILDRETH
(Impatient, looking at his
pocket watch)
Drew, I'm getting tired of this…We know
that you are guilty and we can prove a
motive. A rank one citizen, has provided
testimony that you, William F. Drew,
threatened to cut Josie into inch pieces.
At this time a large MOB is heard making Anti-Drew REMARKS
outside of the Jail House.
WILLIAM DREW
(getting a little out of
control, and standing)
Listen to me, I did not do this murder.
You've got the wrong man. You cannot
continue to hold me here because I have
not been arraigned. I am innocent and
would appreciate it if you would just let
me outta here, now!
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(Laughing, as he looks out the
window)
Do you really want to face that angry mob
outside? I think you are safer, here,
behind bars, where you will remain until
we get a written confession… sit down…
OFFICER HILDRETH
(addressing Drew)
Law requires that we must arraign you in
public and since the people of Pembroke
feel so strongly against you and are
convinced that you committed the crime…
as we are, it is too dangerous to arraign
you now.
WILLIAM DREW
(aggressively)
Your charges are rumors, lies… I want a
lawyer.
OFFICER HILDRETH
(raising his voice)
The only person that lies around here is
you, Drew.
The crowd continues to yell for Drew.
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(looking at Drew's Boots)
Drew, are those your boots?
WILLIAM DREW
No, they're my wife's
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
Where are yours?
WILLIAM DREW
I don't own a pair. I can't afford my
own, so whenever I go into town I wear my
wife's.
OFFICER HILDRETH
(looking to Detective Dearborn)
You would think that an experienced liar
could do better than that.
Detective Dearborn nods in agreement
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(addressing Drew again)
Could it be, that after brutally
ravishing and killing Josie Langmaid, you
realized that you left a heel mark from
your boots on the victim's swollen
face?…and decided that you had better get
rid of the evidence? Where did you hide
them, Drew?
WILLIAM DREW
(angrily)
I told you, I don't own boots.
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(informing Drew)
Dr. Larabee took an imprint of a boot
heel with five nails from Josie's cheek.
We will find your boots and prove that
they correspond exactly to the the marks.
WILLIAM DREW
(Irritated)
I don't care what you do or think,
because I did not do it!
The MOB outside begins to get LOUDER and Drew appears to be
more nervous.
OFFICER HILDRETH
Drew, why don't you just confess?
(turning to Detective Dearborn)
Detective, please go dispatch the mob
while I finish up with Drew.
Detective Dearborn heads out the door.
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