style="font-size:15px;"> – You plead guilty?
Professor Wagner vaguely shrugged shoulders.
– No, I do not recognize.
– But you abducted dogs?
– Allow to offer an explanation after interrogation of witnesses.
– Well. Write down – the judge addressed the secretary. – «The defendant did not plead guilty». Call the witness, the militiaman in the beat Sitnikov! What can you show on business?
– Applications from citizens of Bondarny Lane about loss of dogs came to our police station. At the citizen Polyakov very expensive setter, at Yushkevich – a pug, and at Deryuginykh – even the Persian cat was gone. Dogs disappeared completely. Their corpses were not found. Obviously, someone stole dogs.
– You made search?
– The dog – business not big was gone. To admit, we had no time in each case search to do. But when complaints of the citizen Shmeman to the citizen Wagner and the statement of board of housing association arrived, we began to inquire. Almost all victims pointed to professor Wagner. It in general strange some. They say, at night does not sleep. Or works at home, or on streets is unsteady. The janitor of their house saw several times as Wagner came back home with a doggie on a lasso at night. In the room of his dog bark, squeal. Proofs were serious.
Therefore, owing to the arrived statements, we decided to execute a search and dredging of its papers at professor Wagner. A search was executed by me in the presence of the chairman of the board of housing association, the janitor and the citizen Shmeman.
Nothing reprehensible was found in the first room of the defendant, except various tools and cars of an unknown origin. In the second room we found six dogs of various breed, gender and age. All of them were tied to a wall on short thongs. At some of them the heads hanged down, as if died or were tired very much. And on a table the white doggie, lokhmatenky, with the hole punched in a skull so brains were visible lay. The citizen Shmeman identified the doggie in a corpse, cried and fainted…
In the courtroom reserved sobbings Shmeman were heard.
– Dez, Dezi!. – she whispered, sobbing.
– The taken-away papers are brought by me into court – the militiaman finished.
– Undersign. Witness Zhukov!
Zhukov, the chairman of the board of housing association, confirmed testimonies of the militiaman.
– To execute a search – he added – we were forced still by that circumstance that professor Wagner is very unclear resident. Residents think that they it the mad, and are even afraid to let out children. In order to avoid panic and disorganization of the population I would ask to subject Wagner to psychiatric examination.
Perhaps, it is dangerous – having for some reason been confused, Zhukov added – and he should be moved.
Professor Wagner smiled.
– What is it dangerous by? – the judge asked.
– As in general abnormal! And neighbors complain: something hisses at it in the room, buzzes, and that explosions suddenly… Still the house will blow up!. And dogs howl the whole night… Inconvenient resident, in a word.
– 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
