The Bell That Caught A Thief — Transcript

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1. 0:00To catch a thief, the judge made five
2. 0:02men touch a bell in the dark. The town's
3. 0:04silver was gone. Five suspects, no
4. 0:07witness, and every one of them swore he
5. 0:09was innocent. So the new judge has an
6. 0:11old temple bell dragged into court. This
7. 0:14bell is magic, he says. For an honest
8. 0:17man, it stays silent. But if a thief
9. 0:19touches it, it rings. The whole court
10. 0:21bursts out laughing. The biggest suspect
11. 0:24grins. Careful, boys, it might bite. The
12. 0:26judge doesn't blink. He hides the bell
13. 0:29behind a black curtain and sends them in
14. 0:31one at a time. The first man goes in.
15. 0:33Silence. The second, silence. The third,
16. 0:36the fourth, the fifth. Not a sound. Now
17. 0:39the crowd is howling. Arrest the bell,
18. 0:42your honor. It's lying. The judge just
19. 0:44smiles. Show me your hands. Four men
20. 0:46hold up palms as black as night. The big
21. 0:49one holds up his perfectly clean. You
22. 0:51see, the bell was never magic. The judge
23. 0:54had painted it with wet ink. An innocent
24. 0:56man has nothing to fear, so he grabs it.
25. 0:58But the thief believed just enough to
26. 1:01keep his hand away. The bell never rang.
27. 1:03It didn't have to. All it needed was a
28. 1:05curtain and a guilty man in the dark.