18 INT. PEMBROKE JAIL - DAY 18
OFFICER HILDRETH and DETECTIVE DEARBORN are interrogating
LEPAGE who is sitting on a chair with his hands handcuffed
behind his back.
JOSEPH LEPAGE
(staring at Officer Hildreth
with penetrating eyes)
Me no bad man… no talk, no proof
(demanding)
Gim'me French Priest
OFFICER HILDRETH
Not until you tell us how you killed her?
JOSEPH LEPAGE
No, no kill girl
(moving his head and hands as
he speaks to indicate
direction)
road go here, I go there, the girl lay
there.
OFFICER HILDRETH
Did you use the two bloody razors or the
long knife, that we recovered during the
search of your house?
LEPAGE sits and STARES at OFFICER HILDRETH with looks to
kill; but says nothing
OFFICER HILDRETH (cont'd)
You say that you were lost in the woods
and wandered all the forenoon?
(restating for emphasis)
Lost in the woods? You lie, LePage and
lie from necessity. No sensible Frenchman
or Yankee could be lost there.
You admitted to working for Mr.
Daignault, chopping wood in his lot, and
therefore must have walked over Academy
Road and directly by the scene of the
murder for several months, yet on this
day, you get lost? How can this be?
JOSEPH LEPAGE
(calmly)
No say, no prove.
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(enters with print)
You don't have to say anything, LePage,
because the evidence speaks for itself.
Your guilt is as black as night.
LePage attempts to get up from his chair and lashes out at
Officer Hildreth. As Detective Dearborn holds him down,
LePage is very uncooperative.
DETECTIVE DEARBORN
(continuing to restrain LePage
in the chair)
Frank, you check the print whilst I hold
him down.
Officer Hildreth fights to get LePage's boot in the right
position to match the print and finally manages to check the
imprint. It is a perfect fit. As he realizes that it
corresponds he speaks directly to LePage.
OFFICER HILDRETH
(disgusted and angered)
You sick Bastard!
LePage spits in Officer Hildreth's face and Hildreth slaps
LePage across the face.
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