ATTWN+Justice+Wargrave+Persuasive

sbug232 February 1, 2008 Ruby Group

//And Then There Were None- Pleading Justice Wargrave's Case//

Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I am here today to plead guilty to killing the following murderers: Anthony Marston, Mrs. Rogers, General MacArthur, Mr. Rogers, Emily Brent, Dr. Armstrong, and Ex- Inspector Blore. I am NOT pleading guilty to killing the murderers Phillip Lombard and Vera Claythorne. There are a number of reasons that these people DESERVED to die, and I should NOT be punished for simply doing my duty by killing them. I did indeed invite these nine people to the island known as Indian Island, just off the coast of Devon. I also planned on murdering these nine people while they were on the island with me. But I did not try to hide the fact that people were dying off on the island one by one. I was even kind enough to tell them how they were going to die, and that the killer was one of us, to save them the trouble of looking for a hidden murderer they would never find. I was not committing these murders in a random order either. I killed the people who felt the least amount of guilt for what they did first, and the one's who felt it the most I murdered last. If they had been intelligent enough to realize my killing pattern, they would have even known the order in which the deaths were going to occur. They all very well knew that they had killed in the past, and they couldn't have thought that they were just going to get away with it, and receive no punishment for their wrong-doings. I will start by proving that the first man I killed, Anthony Marston, DESERVED to die. Mr. Marston was the relaxed type of guy who didn’t actually care about anyone but himself. You know, the type that tried to show off by speeding around in his expensive sports car. One day while speeding over near Cambridge, Anthony Marston ran over two young children, John and Lucy Combes. He told me that this was “beastly bad luck;” for him. He had his license endorsed for a year, a “beastly nuisance.” This is what I mean when I say he cared for no one but himself. You would think that after running down two young children and murdering them with your car, you would never speed again. It would be torture for any normal person to even think about driving again. Not only did Mr. Marston continue to drive, but he continued to speed, and practically forgot about the fact that he murdered two kids with their whole lives ahead of them. Next to go was Mrs. Rogers, a woman who also DESERVED to die. Mrs. Rogers and her husband, Mr. Rogers, (who I killed fourth because of the amount of guilt he felt for the murder him and his wife carried out), came up with a very ingenious plan to take the life of the woman they were caring for, Miss Brady. Miss Brady was an elderly woman who they said was often in poor health. The night Miss Brady passed was said to be a stormy night. Mr. Rogers said that the phone was out of order and he could not reach the doctor, so he set off to get the doctor on foot. Unfortunately, by time the doctor arrived back, it was too late, Miss Brady was dead. I will prove to you that this entire story is a complete and total lie. The married couple just happened to come into a legacy after the old woman’s death. I assure you, no accident. The two planned on murdering the woman the night of a storm, when the phone lines would be out of order, and when they could easily pretend that the woman was in bad health and the doctor just didn’t make it in time. There was only one problem with this perfect plan of theirs. The doctor of Miss Brady knew. He knew it was an intentional murder. He knew that the couple had restorative drugs that they were withholding. And one day I just so happened to be talking to the doctor of Miss Brady, who told me the whole story.