– Citizen Shmeman!
– Mister judge! – she began with the shivering voice, wiping a tear scarf, and immediately recovered: – Citizen judge!. He is a murderer! – She pointed a finger at Wagner with two wedding rings. – I am a widow… I have nobody… It killed my best friend… My Dezi!. – And Shmeman began to cry again.
– You make the civil suit?
– What claim? For what?
– For a doggie… You about it ask in your application…
– Nothing will reward me for loss!. – tragicly she said. – I do not know what there is written…
Other witnesses did not bring something new. The janitor in detail told how dogs on their yard vanished as also the «ostatny» doggie of Dezi was gone as he saw Wagner bringing into the house of dogs…
One of witnesses identified the dog among «victims» of professor Wagner. The dog was live, but she looked extraordinary tired and, brought home, overslept three days deeply.
– Among papers – the judge when interrogation of witnesses was finished told – from professor Wagner magazines with various records, obviously, about the experiments conducted by it over animals were taken in search time. I will announce some of them.
Here – there began the judge – records of professor Wagner about experiences:
«Skilled animal: Diana, a setter, a female, weight is twenty two kilograms. Viscosity of blood during wakefulness – two whole eighty nine 100-th. Viscosity of blood in the period of exhaustion sleeplessness – one and forty six 100-th».
There is also a number of such tables:
«Krioskopichesky point: the normal state – fifty nine 100-th degrees; a condition of imperative requirement of a dream – fifty eight 100-th degrees.
Density: the normal state – one and sixty four thousand; a condition of imperative requirement of a dream – one and fifty seven thousand.
Viscosity: the normal state – two whole seven hundred eleven thousand; a condition of imperative requirement of a dream – two».
Defendant professor Wagner! Testimony and the announced documents, I believe, your guilt is quite established. Why you do not plead guilty? Explain to us…
– Judge’s citizens! I do not deny the fact of kidnapping of dogs, but did not plead guilty, and that is why. Any theft assumes the mercenary purpose. I had no such purpose. You announced documents from which the court could be convinced that I pursued exclusively scientific aims. I conduct the experiences having enormous value for all mankind. That advantage which these experiences have to bring is incommensurable to insignificant harm which I did.
– What it is experiences?
After some fluctuation professor Wagner told:
– I work on a problem of fatigue and a dream. To win against fatigue and to destroy requirement of a dream – here what task I set to myself.
– And you successfully resolved it? Whether the truth that you already do without dream?
– Yes, truth. I do not sleep any more and I can work without exhaustion twenty four hours a day.
In public there was a movement. The surprised exclamations and a whispering were heard.
– Why you did not publish your achievements?
– I continue to improve the methods.
– But whether you why you considered it necessary to resort to such strange and illegal ways of getting of dogs for your experiences explain? If experiences are of value, the government would provide you to all necessary for work!
Professor Wagner hesitated.
