the nameless one
Bareback riding. Weight for age. Gob, he organised her.
the jurors
(All their heads turned to his voice.) Really?
the nameless one
(Snarls.) Arse over tip. Hundred shillings to five.
the jurors
(All their heads lowered in assent.) Most of us thought as much.
first watch
He is a marked man. Another girl’s plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds reward.
second watch
(Awed, whispers.) And in black. A mormon. Anarchist.
the crier
(Loudly.) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable...
the recorder
I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious pest. Scandalous! (He dons the black cap.) Let him be taken, Mr Subsheriff, from the dock where he now stands and detained in custody in Mountjoy prison during His Majesty’s pleasure and there be hanged by the neck until he
