Kugler, a notorious serial killer, is being judged after death. At his judgment, God acts as the witness and provides testimony about Kugler's life of crime, including details of each of his nine murders. Though Kugler asks questions, he does not deny any of the accusations. Three former judges from earth act as the judges and sentence Kugler to lifelong punishment in hell for his repeated murders and crimes. God explains that while all-knowing, he cannot be the judge as judgment must come from man.
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The last judgment
1. The Last Judgment
By Karel Čapek
The notoriousmultiple-killerKugler,pursuedbyseveral warrantsandawhole armyof policemen
and detectives,swore thathe’dneverbe taken. He wasn’t either – at least not alive. The last of
his nine murderous deeds was shooting a policeman who tried to arrest him. The policeman
indeed died, but not before putting a total of seven bullets into Kugler. Of these seven, three
were fatal. Kugler’s death came so quickly that he felt no pain. And so it seemed Kugler had
escaped earthly justice.
Whenhissoul lefthisbody,itshouldhave been surprisedatthe sightof the nextworld – a world
beyond space, grey, and infinitely desolate – but it wasn’t. A man who has been jailed on two
continents looks upon the next life merely as new surroundings. Kugler expected to struggle
through, equipped only with a bit of courage, as he had in the last world.
At length the inevitable Last Judgment got around to Kugler. The judges were old and worthy
councilors with austere, bored faces. Kugler complied with the usual tedious formalities:
FerdinandKugler, unemployed, born on such and such a date, died… at this point it was shown
Kugler didn’t know the date of his own death. Immediately he realized this was a damaging
omission in the eyes of the judges; his spirit of helpfulness faded.
“Do you plead guilty or not guilty?” asked the presiding judge.
“Not guilty,” said Kugler obdurately.
“Bring in the first witness,” the judge sighed.
Opposite Kugler appeared an extraordinary gentleman, stately, bearded, and clothed in a blue
robe strewn with golden stars.
At hisentrance,the judgesarose.EvenKuglerstoodup,reluctantbutfascinated. Only when the
old gentleman took a seat did the judges again sit down.
“Witness,”beganthe presidingjudge,“omniscientGod,thiscourthassummonedyouinorderto
hear your testimony in the case against Kugler, Ferdinand. As you are the supreme truth, you
neednottake the oath. In the interest of the proceedings, however, we ask you to keep to the
subject at hand rather than branch out into particulars – unless they have a bearing on this
case.”
“Andyou, Kugler, don’t interrupt the witness. He knows everything, so there’s no use denying
anything.”
“And now, witness, if you would please begin.”
God, the witness, coughed lightly and began:
“Yes. Kugler, Ferdinand. Ferdinand Kugler, son of a factory worker, was a bad, unmanageable
childfromhisearliestdays.He lovedhismotherdearly,butwasunable toshow it,thismade him
2. unrulyanddefiant.Youngman,you irked everyone! Do you remember how you bit your father
on the thumb when he tried to spank you? You had stolen a rose from the notary’s garden.”
“The rose was for Irma, the tax collector’s daughter,” Kugler said.
“I know,”saidGod. “Irma wassevenyearsoldat that time.Didyou ever hear what happened to
her?”
“No, I didn’t.”
“She married Oscar, the son of the factory owner. But she contracted a venereal disease from
him and died of a miscarriage. You remember Rudy Zaruba?”
“What happened to him?”
“Why, he joinedthe navyand died accidentally in Bombay. You two were the worst boys in the
whole town.Kugler,Ferdinand,wasathief before his tenth year and an inveterate liar. He kept
bad company, too: old Gribble, for instance, a drunkard and an idler, living on handouts.
Nevertheless, Kugler shared many of his own meals with Gribble.”
The presiding judge motioned with his hand, as if much of this was perhaps unnecessary, but
Kuglerhimselfaskedhesitantly,“And…whathappenedtohisdaughter?”“What’sshe doingright
now?”
“Thisveryminute she’sbuyingthreadatWolfe’s.Doyouremember that shop? Once, when you
were six years old, you bought a colored glass marble there. On that very same day you lost it
and never, never found it. Do you remember how you cried with rage?”
“Whatever happened to it?” Kugler asked eagerly.
“Well, it rolled into the drain and under the gutterspout. Right now it’s still there, after thirty
years. Right now it’s raining on earth and your marble is shivering in the gush of cold water.”
Kuglerbenthishead, overcome by this revelation. But the presiding judge fitted his spectacles
back on his nose, and said mildly, “Witness, we are obliged to get on with the case. Has the
accused committed murder?”
“He murdered nine people. The first one he killed in a brawl, and it was during his prison term
for his crime that he became completely corrupted. The second victim was his unfaithful
sweetheart. For that he was sentenced to death, but he escaped. The third was an old man
whom he robbed. The fourth was a night watchman.”
“Then he died?” Kugler asked.
“He died after three days in terrible pain,” God said. “And he left six children behind him. The
fifth and sixth victims were an old married couple. He killed them with an axe and found only
sixteen dollars, although they had twenty thousand hidden away.”
3. Kugler jumped up. “Where?”
“In the straw mattress,”Godsaid. “In a linen sack inside the mattress. That’s where they hid all
the moneytheyacquiredfromgreedandpenny-pinching.The seventhmanhe killedin America,
a countryman of his, a bewildered, friendless immigrant.”
“So it was in the mattress,” whispered Kugler in amazement.
“Yes,”continuedGod. “The eighth man was merely a passerby who happened to be in Kugler’s
way when Kugler was trying to outrun the police. At that time Kugler had periostitis and was
delirious from the pain. Young man, you were suffering terribly. The ninth and last was the
policeman who killed Kugler exactly when Kugler shot him.”
“And why did the accused commit murder?” asked the presiding judge.
“For the same reasons others have,” answered God. “Out of anger or desire for money, both
deliberately and accidentally-some with pleasure, others from necessity. However, he was
generousandoftenhelpful.He waskindtowomen,gentle withanimals,andkepthisword. Am I
to mention his good deeds?”
“For the same reasons others have,” answered God. “Out of anger or desire for money, both
deliberately and accidentally – some with pleasure, others from necessity. However, he was
generousandoftenhelpful.He waskindtowomen,gentle withanimals,andkepthisword. Am I
to mention his good deeds?”
“Thank you,”saidthe presidingjudge,“butitisn’tnecessary.Doesthe accused have anything to
say in his own defense?”
“No,” Kugler replied with honest indifference.
“The judges of this court will now take this matter under advisement,” declared the presiding
judge, and the three of them withdrew.
Only God and Kugler remained in the courtroom.
“Who are they?” asked Kugler, indicating with his head the men who just left.
“People likeyou,” answered God. “They were judges on earth, so they’re judges here as well.”
Kuglernibbledhisfingertips. “I expected… I mean, I never really thought about it. But I figured
you would judge since…”
“Since I’m God,” finished the stately gentleman. “But that’s just it, don’t you see? Because I
know everything, I can’t possibly judge. That wouldn’t do at all. By the way, do you know who
turned you in this time?”
“No, I don’t,” said Kugler, surprised.
4. “Lucky, the waitress. She did it out of jealousy.”
“Excuse me,” Kugler ventured, “but you forgot about that good-for-nothing Teddy I shot in
Chicago.”
“Not at all,”God said.“He recovered and is alive this very minute. I know he’s an informer, but
otherwise he’saverygoodmanand terriblyfondof children. You shouldn’t think of any person
as being completely worthless.”
“But I still don’t understand why you aren’t the judge,” Kugler said thoughtfully.
“But why are they judging… the same people who were judges on earth?”
“Because man belongstoman.Asyou see,I’monlythe witness.Butthe verdictisdeterminedby
man,eveninheaven.Believeme,Kugler,thisisthe wayit should be. Man isn’t worthy of divine
judgment. He deserves to be judged only by other men.”
At that moment,the three returnedfromtheirdeliberation. In heavy tones the presiding judge
announced,“Forrepeatedcrimesof first –degree murder,manslaughter,robbery,disrespectfor
the law,illegallycarryingweapons,andforthe theftof a rose; Kugler,Ferdinand,issentenced to
lifelong punishment in hell.
“Next case please: Torrance, Frank.”
“Is the accused present in court?”