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By Jack Joseph Smith

164 Vanicular expressions many times take on an appearp ence far beyond their own reality, your honfiors Excuse me Father, but if this report is correct, and I believe it to bey one reality is that young Mister Frost started a fight with the head trustee, while serving his two weeg retrial periods The aid of Fathér Lawnegan began to speak, but was waved dows Excuse me Father, but let me finish, The punishment for Pighting during a retrial period is an automatic eighteen monthas My mother and father looked buried, as the Father spoke, I have been up to talk to the administration at Thorn Hill, and I have also talked to the boy Michael Was involved with, Does it say in your report, how many boys were involved in the fighting, It says five boys were involved, but that Frost and the head trustee were the main ones involved in the conflicts Kicking me, bending me over, crack, I went whirling back in paim I gaged deep and spit the blood out at the charging facess Your honnor, the true story is that Michael interceded when the head trustee and his companion were picking ona crippled child, According to a~negro boy named Johnson, who later had to come to Michaels rescues it all began during the time when the boys are swabbing the hallas Swab swab, feet wrapped in cloth sliding over slippery halls of stones There is nothing in here about a crippled child, The Jesuit eaid, may t talk to you for a imomenty your honbors Certainly, he replieds fhe personality of a Jesuit alone, was enough for me to make assumption about his whispers I could just hear him feeding his words into the judges Care: Tools

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The hearing turns on the Thorn Hill fight, with the court presenting Michael as a repeat offender and the priest's side trying to widen the event beyond a simple trustee conflict.

The transcript is slightly rough, but the page clearly stages a clash between institutional shorthand and lived circumstance. Michael's own memory keeps flashing blood, kicks, and force through the legal language, refusing the court's neat version of what happened.


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The Jesuit aide speaks for Michael in courtroom dialect — vanicular expressions many times take on an appearance far beyond their own reality — and begins to walk the judge toward the crippled-child version of the Thorn Hill fight.