1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,960 Tonight, Columbia brings you as guest star Hollywood's genial character actor, Stuart 2 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,320 Irwin. 3 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,040 The story is by the author of The Thin Man and the Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, 4 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,400 one of America's acknowledged masters of the art of suspense. 5 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,880 Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 6 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:46,920 In this series, our story is calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 7 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:52,800 you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 8 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:58,840 Tonight, for instance, Stuart Irwin plays for us a pleasant, easygoing assistant chief 9 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:08,200 of police in a small town who to everyone's surprise was instrumental in solving a murder. 10 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:16,080 We trust that with this tale we shall keep you in suspense. 11 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:31,320 For suspense tonight, CBS presents Stuart Irwin in Two Sharp Knives by Dashiell Hammett. 12 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:39,000 Shortly after 2 a.m., a poker game had just broken up at Ben Cameliz, the doctor coroner 13 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,880 of Dearwood City. 14 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:46,680 Scott Anderson, Dearwood's chief of police, and Wally Shane, his assistant, were standing 15 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:47,680 outside. 16 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,000 Where are we heading for, Scott? 17 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,160 Let's walk across the street, Wally. 18 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,160 Railroad station. 19 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,880 Gee, aren't you afraid of the excitement, Chief? 20 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,920 Don't you think that watching the 211 come in is apt to be too much for your blood pressure? 21 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,920 Well, if it is, Wally, you can always carry on. 22 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,040 You've been a pretty good imitation of an assistant to me for some time now. 23 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,040 Yeah? 24 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,040 Yeah. 25 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,800 If anything happens to me, you'd be the chief. 26 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:13,800 Don't worry. 27 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,560 It won't be any heart of a you to fool the publicus, Chief. 28 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,560 Hi, Homer. 29 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,560 Howdy, Scott. 30 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,560 Hi, Wally. 31 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,920 Kind of late for you boys to be around, ain't it? 32 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:23,920 No, I don't know. 33 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,640 We sort of figured we'd put the town to bed tonight. 34 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:27,640 How's the 211? 35 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:28,640 On time? 36 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:29,640 Right on the nose. 37 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,680 She ought to be blowing for the bend in just about three seconds now. 38 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:34,680 Yep. 39 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:35,680 What'd I tell you? 40 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,680 It's her now. 41 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:37,680 You expecting anyone on her, Scott? 42 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,280 No, Elmer, I'm not expecting anyone. 43 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:46,000 Wally and I just thought we'd come over and watch a commendant, so. 44 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,320 You know, Elmer, you never can tell whom I'd get off, though. 45 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:56,280 Dick Turpin, Henry Morgan, Jesse James, Jack the Ripper, six officers of Murder Incorporated, 46 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,280 or even your Aunt Gussie. 47 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:58,280 You guess you're right, Wally. 48 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,280 Well, here she be. 49 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:06,280 Pardon me, James, but I gotta be rolling the wagon out to the baggage car. 50 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,280 Hey, Wally. 51 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,280 Hey, Wally. 52 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,280 Hi, Elmer. 53 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:13,280 How's it going? 54 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,280 Can't complain. 55 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,280 Can't complain, Cap. 56 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,280 Well, maybe you can, Elmer, but I sure can if you hold us up with that freight there. 57 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:20,280 You got much more? 58 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:21,280 Nope. 59 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:22,280 This is the last piece now. 60 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,280 There you are, Cap. 61 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:24,280 All done. 62 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:25,280 Okay. 63 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,280 See you tomorrow, Elmer. 64 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,280 Wally. 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:28,280 Wally. 66 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,280 Hey, Scott. 67 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:37,280 Can you see what I see? 68 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,280 What do you mean, do I see the man who just got off that train? 69 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,280 The answer's yes. 70 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,280 Well, he's a ringer for the guy we got a picture of. 71 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,280 That is the guy. 72 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,280 Well, then, what do we do now? 73 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,280 We take him, Wally. 74 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,280 My car's at the corner of the alley. 75 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,280 But, Scott. 76 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,280 Go tail him up the street. 77 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,280 Okay, Scott. 78 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,280 There he goes now, over toward the taxi stand. 79 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,280 Come on. 80 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,280 Let's follow him. 81 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,280 Hello, Farman. 82 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,280 Huh? 83 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:01,280 Why? 84 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,280 I don't believe I... 85 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,280 You're Mr. Farman, aren't you? 86 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:08,280 Yes, I am. 87 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,280 Philadelphia? 88 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,280 Yes. 89 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,280 I'm Scott Anderson, Chief of Police. 90 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,280 What? 91 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,280 Chief of... 92 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,280 What's happened to her? 93 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:17,280 Happened to who? 94 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:18,280 Oh, oh, no, you don't. 95 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:19,280 Let me go. 96 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:20,280 You think you can pull that sort of stuff with me? 97 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:21,280 You're very much a stick, huh? 98 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:22,280 Okay, now let me get a crack at that mug. 99 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,280 Oh, no, no, no. 100 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:24,280 Wait a minute. 101 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:25,280 Wait a minute. 102 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:26,280 Hold it, Wally. 103 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:27,280 There, Farman. 104 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:28,280 All right. 105 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:29,280 I'm sorry. 106 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:32,280 For a moment there, I thought you weren't really a policeman. 107 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:33,280 Thanks. 108 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:35,280 Nice to know I look almost human. 109 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,280 Yes, it was silly of me. 110 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:38,280 I'm sorry. 111 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,280 Well, let's get going now before anything else happens. 112 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,280 Okay, Farman, get in the car. 113 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:45,280 I'll drive, Scott. 114 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,280 In you go. 115 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:59,280 Are you taking me to police headquarters? 116 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:00,280 That's right. 117 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:01,280 What for? 118 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:02,280 Philadelphia. 119 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,280 I don't think I understand. 120 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:10,280 You understand that you wanted in Philadelphia for murder, don't you? 121 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:11,280 Murder? 122 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:12,280 Why, that's ridiculous. 123 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:13,280 That's... 124 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:14,280 Who told you that? 125 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:17,280 Well, it's a cinch he didn't make it up. 126 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:18,280 But wait, there must be something... 127 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:19,280 Take it easy now. 128 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:27,280 This way we'll get down to headquarters and I'll show you what I mean. 129 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:35,280 Now then, here's the circular on Lester, Farman. 130 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:39,280 It was sent out by the Trans America Detective Agency in Philadelphia. 131 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,280 Take a look at it. 132 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:48,280 $1,500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Lester Farman, 133 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:51,280 alias Lloyd Fields, alias J.D. Carpenter, 134 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:58,280 for the murder of Paul Frank Dunlap in Philadelphia on December 8, 1942. 135 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,280 It's a lie. 136 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:01,280 You're Farman, aren't you? 137 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:02,280 Oh, yes, but... 138 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:03,280 That's your picture on the circular, isn't it? 139 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:05,280 Oh, yes, yes, but I... 140 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,280 Well, Scott, I see you and Wally got Farman, huh? 141 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:09,280 Oh, hello, George. 142 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:10,280 You lucky stiffs. 143 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,280 Now you two split a grand and a half reward. 144 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:15,280 I've never seen nothing like it. 145 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:20,280 You know, if it ain't vacations in New York at the city's expense, it's reward, though. 146 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:27,280 George, someday, if you don't remember you're the jailer around here, not the D.A., 147 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:30,280 you're going to be wearing your teeth on the outside of your lips, 148 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:32,280 and I'll be the guy who arranged them that way. 149 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:33,280 Savvy? 150 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:35,280 Just cause you caught a guy who's hot in Philadelphia. 151 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:37,280 It's a lie. It's a frame up. 152 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:38,280 You can't prove anything. 153 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:39,280 There's nothing to prove. 154 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,280 I never killed anybody. I won't be framed. 155 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:43,280 Take it easy, Farman. Take it easy. 156 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:44,280 You're wasting your breath on us. 157 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:46,280 Save it for the Philadelphia police. 158 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,280 We're just holding you for them. 159 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:49,280 But it's not the police. 160 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:50,280 It's the Transamerica Detective... 161 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:52,280 We turn you over to the Philadelphia police. 162 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:54,280 Mr. Anderson, I... 163 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:55,280 I... 164 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:59,280 Well, then there's nothing I can do now? 165 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,280 There's nothing any of us can do till morning. 166 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,280 We'll have to search you now, then we won't bother you anymore till they come for you. 167 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:06,280 Wally, you look through his bag. 168 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:07,280 I'll see what he's got in his pockets. 169 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:08,280 Okay, Scott. 170 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Well, all he's got on him are some business cards, 171 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,280 a few letters, a hundred and... 172 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,280 a hundred and sixty dollars, 173 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,280 a book of checks in the Philadelphia bank, 174 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,280 and a few odds and ends. 175 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:25,280 What's with the bag, Wally? 176 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,280 Not much. A couple of changes of clothes, 177 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,280 some toilet articles, and... 178 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,280 Oh, here's a 38. Loaded. 179 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,280 Pretty little thing, isn't it? 180 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,280 Okay, put those things in what I got in the vault. 181 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,280 All right, George, you can take Perma now and lock him up. 182 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,280 This is the most ridiculous thing I... 183 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,280 Come along, darling, come on. 184 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,280 We ain't had nobody in our little Husco for three days running. 185 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,280 There you are. 186 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Now you'll have it all to yourself. 187 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,280 Just like a sweet of the Ritz. 188 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,280 What time? 189 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,280 Go on in you go. 190 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,280 I tell you, you're making a mistake. 191 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,280 I demand to be allowed to get in touch with my lawyer. 192 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,280 Hey, how about you boys cut me in on a little of that blood money, huh? 193 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,280 Oh, sure, George, sure. 194 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,280 I'll forget all about that two and a half you've been owing me for three months. 195 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,280 Make Perma as comfortable as you can, George. 196 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,280 Take good care of me. 197 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,280 He's valuable, huh? 198 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,280 Yeah, now, it was some bum that didn't mean a nickel to you. 199 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,280 George, any day now I'm gonna forget that your uncle is county chairman 200 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,280 and throw you back in the gutter just to see how high you'll bounce. 201 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:26,280 Now, none of that. 202 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,280 Oh, Scott, I didn't mean nothing. 203 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:29,280 That's all, George. 204 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,280 Never mind the rest. 205 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,280 I'm going home now. 206 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,280 If anything's urgent, I can reach there. 207 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,280 But get this, I don't want to be disturbed unless it is urgent. 208 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,280 Scott, this is Wally. 209 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:03,280 Yeah, yeah. 210 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,280 Yeah, Wally, what time is it? 211 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,280 It's five after six in the morning, and you'd better come right down, Scott. 212 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,280 That fellow Furman's hung himself. 213 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,280 What? Furman hung himself? 214 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,280 Yep, by his belt from a window bar. 215 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,280 Dinner and a macro. 216 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,280 I'll be right in, Wally. 217 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,280 Phone Doc Camsley and tell him I'll pick him up on my way down. 218 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,280 No doctor's gonna do Furman any good, Scott. 219 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,280 Well, it won't hurt to have him looked at. 220 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,280 You'd better phone the clinic court at Douglasville, too, 221 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:24,280 and file a routine report. 222 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:25,280 Already did that. 223 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,280 And once more, hold on to your seat. 224 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,280 The DA's on his way over in person. 225 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,280 The DA? 226 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,280 I'll be there before you hang up, Wally. 227 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:46,280 Come on in, Chief. 228 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,280 Ted Carroll, the DA's here, and he's plenty hot under the collar. 229 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,280 What's he burning about? 230 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,280 Oh, he's just mad, running up quite a phone bill on us, too. 231 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,280 Been calling Philadelphia every couple of minutes since he got here. 232 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,280 What kept you so long? 233 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,280 I couldn't get my car started. 234 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,280 Now let's go in and see the old buzzard. 235 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:05,280 Hello, Ted. 236 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,280 Listen, Scott, what is all this? 237 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:08,280 Well, what? 238 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,280 There's some funny business going on here. 239 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:11,280 What's funny about it? 240 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,280 The man hangs himself. 241 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,280 Just another case of suicide. 242 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,280 Sure, it was suicide. 243 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,280 But I just telephoned Transamerica. 244 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,280 Dug a guy out of bed there. 245 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,280 And he said they'd never sent out circulars on Furman. 246 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,280 Didn't know about any murder he was wanted for. 247 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,280 All they could tell me about him was he used to be a client of theirs. 248 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,280 You don't know what to say, Ted. 249 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:31,280 I don't either. 250 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,280 Oh, a fine chief of police you are. 251 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,280 What on earth kept you so long? 252 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:37,280 Car star. 253 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:38,280 Game as quick as a cord. 254 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,280 Aren't you so crabby, Ted? 255 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:41,280 Nothing. 256 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,280 I guess it's just the district attorney, you know. 257 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,280 Oh, now, come, come, gentlemen. 258 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,280 Nobody'd know you two are staunch admirers of each other. 259 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,280 Okay, Wally. 260 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,280 Tell me, what do you make of it? 261 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,280 Well, there's plenty wrong, Scott. 262 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,280 First, that Transamerica thing. 263 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,280 They never sent out circulars about Furman. 264 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,280 And now, get this. 265 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,280 I talked to the Philly police just before you came in. 266 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,280 There wasn't even any Paul Frank Dunlap murdered. 267 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,280 There wasn't? 268 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:10,280 No. 269 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,280 What did you get out of Furman before you let him hang himself? 270 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,280 But he was innocent. 271 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,280 Didn't you grill him? 272 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,280 Didn't you find out what he was doing in town? 273 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:18,280 Wally, didn't you? 274 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,280 What for? 275 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,280 He admitted he was Furman. 276 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:22,280 The description fitted him. 277 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,280 The photograph was him. 278 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,280 The Transamerica Detective Agency's supposed to be on the level, ain't it? 279 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,280 Philadelphia wanted Furman. We didn't. 280 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,280 But Scott... 281 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,280 I sure, Ted, if I'd known he was gonna hang himself. 282 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,280 Yeah, but then if your aunt wore pants, she'd be your uncle. 283 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,280 He said Furman had been a client of Transamerica. 284 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,280 Did they tell you what the job they did for him was? 285 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,280 His wife left him a couple of years ago, 286 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,280 and he had them hunting for her for five or six months. 287 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:47,280 But they never found her. 288 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,280 They're sending a man up here tonight to look things over. 289 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,280 Yeah, huh? 290 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:51,280 Yes. 291 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,280 Well, I'm going out and grab a quick bite. 292 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,280 But I might as well tell you, Scott, 293 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,280 there's going to be trouble over this. 294 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,280 I know that, Ted. 295 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,280 It usually is when somebody dies in a jail cell. 296 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,280 Well, so what's become of that 1,500 fish now, huh, Scott? 297 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,280 What happened there last night, George? 298 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Nothing. Furman hung himself. 299 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:26,280 Did you find him? 300 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,280 Uh-huh. 301 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,280 Wally took a look in here to see how things was 302 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,280 before he went off duty, and he found him. 303 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,280 You were asleep, I suppose. 304 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,280 Well, I was catching a nap, I guess, 305 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,280 but everybody does that sometimes, Scott. 306 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,280 Even Wally sometimes when he comes in off his beat between rounds. 307 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,280 Yeah, but I always wake up when the phone rings or anything. 308 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:45,280 Oh, sure. 309 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,280 Well, suppose I had been awake. 310 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,280 Can't hear a guy hanging himself, can you? 311 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,280 Did Doc Campley say how long Furman had been dead? 312 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,280 He'd done it about 5 o'clock, he said he guessed. 313 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,280 Oh, you want to look at the remains, Scott? 314 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,280 They're over at Fritz's Undertaken, Paula. 315 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,280 Not now. 316 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,280 Hey, and speaking of Furman, 317 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,280 what are you going to tell the guys from Transamerica 318 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:18,280 when they show up here tonight? 319 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,280 Come in, come in. 320 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,280 Oh, they told me I'd find you here. 321 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,280 You're Chief Anderson, aren't you? 322 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:25,280 Yes, that's right. 323 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,280 I'm Carl Reesing, Assistant Manager 324 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,280 of the Transamerica Detective Agency in Philadelphia. 325 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,280 This is Mr. Wheelock, who was Lester Furman's personal attorney. 326 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,280 Glad to know you, Mr. Reesing. 327 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:34,280 How do you do, Mr. Wheelock? 328 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,280 How do you do? 329 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,280 I know you gentlemen are already in possession 330 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,280 of most of the details concerning Mr. Furman 331 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,280 from the time he arrived in Dearwood until the time of his death. 332 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,280 But perhaps you don't know that the police 333 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,280 of most towns in our corner of the state 334 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,280 have also received copies of this same reward, circular. 335 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,280 Take a look at it. 336 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:56,280 I must say this circular is an excellent forgery. 337 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,280 You're sure it's a forgery, Mr. Reesing? 338 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:59,280 Oh, yes, there's no doubt about it. 339 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,280 But it's an excellent forgery. 340 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,280 Tell me, Mr. Wheelock, was Mr. Furman a native Philadelphian? 341 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,280 Oh, my, yes. 342 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:06,280 He was a well-known, respectable, 343 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,280 and prosperous citizen of Philadelphia. 344 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:09,280 I don't believe. 345 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,280 In 1934, he married a 22-year-old girl 346 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,280 named Ethel Bryan, daughter of a Philadelphia family. 347 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,280 And the Furmans had a child? Isn't that right, Mr. Wheelock? 348 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,280 Yes, born in 1936, but the child lived only a few months. 349 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,280 Mr. Furman's wife disappeared after the child's death. 350 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,280 What year was it that she disappeared? 351 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:27,280 Mr. Reesing should remember that. 352 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,280 His agency worked on the matter. 353 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,280 Oh, I'll remember it well. 354 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,280 Mrs. Furman disappeared in 1937. 355 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,280 We never heard anything of her again, 356 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,280 although Furman spent a lot of money trying to locate her. 357 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:39,280 What did she look like, Mr. Reesing? 358 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:40,280 Oh, in just a moment. 359 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,280 I have a picture of her right here in my briefcase. 360 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,280 Ah, here it is. 361 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,280 Quite pretty, isn't she? 362 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:48,280 If you care for that type. 363 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,280 You see what you mean, Mr. Wheelock. 364 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,280 She's attractive as that. 365 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,280 Judging by this photo, I'd say that she was a small-featured, 366 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,280 pretty blonde, with a weak mouth and large, 367 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,280 somewhat staring eyes. 368 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,280 That's an accurate enough description, all right. 369 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,280 If you don't mind, I'd like to have a copy 370 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,280 made of that photograph, Mr. Reesing. 371 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,280 Oh, you can keep that one if you like. 372 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,280 It's one that we had made up at Transamerica. 373 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,280 Her description's on the back. 374 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:13,280 Thanks. 375 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,280 Did Furman ever divorce her? 376 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:16,280 No, sir. 377 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:17,280 He was a lot in love with her, 378 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,280 and he seemed to think that the child's dying 379 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,280 made her a little screwy 380 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,280 so that she didn't know what she was doing. 381 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:23,280 That's right, isn't it, Mr. Wheelock? 382 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,280 That is my belief, Mr. Reesing. 383 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,280 You said Furman had money, Mr. Wheelock. 384 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,280 About how much did he have? 385 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,280 And who gets it? 386 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,280 I should say his estate will amount to perhaps 387 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,280 half a million dollars left in its entirety to his wife. 388 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:38,280 Mm-hmm. 389 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,280 It's quite a handy sum for anyone to have, I'd say. 390 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,280 Mr. Wheelock, everything shows that somebody 391 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,280 framed Furman into the day with jail. 392 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,280 That frame-up drove him to suicide. 393 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,280 But there has to be something else, a lot else. 394 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,280 Well, then, what are you going to do? 395 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,280 I'm going across the street to the undertaking parlor 396 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,280 and have a look at Furman. 397 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,280 I'll see you later. 398 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,280 Hello, Doc. 399 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,280 Hi, Scott. 400 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,280 I figured you'd come over here to the undertakers pretty soon. 401 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:29,280 It's in your mind, Doc. 402 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,280 Let's get out of this crowd. 403 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,280 I want to tell you something. 404 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,280 I just got rid of two guys in my office. 405 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:36,280 Let's go back there. 406 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:37,280 Suits me. 407 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,280 Two of those bruises showed, Scott. 408 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:45,280 What bruises? 409 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,280 Furman. 410 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,280 Well, up under the hair, there were two bruises. 411 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,280 Why didn't you tell me? 412 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,280 I'm telling you now, Scott. 413 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,280 You weren't here when I made my examination. 414 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,280 This is the first time I've seen you since then. 415 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,280 Why didn't you spill the stuff about Furman's bruises 416 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,280 when you were testifying at the inquest, then? 417 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,280 I'm a friend of yours. 418 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,280 Do I want to put you in a spot where people can say 419 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,280 you drove this champ to suicide by third-degreeing him too rough? 420 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,280 Ah, you're nuts. 421 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,280 How bad was Furman's head? 422 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:22,280 Well, Scott, that didn't kill him, if that's what you mean. 423 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,280 There's nothing to matter with his skull. 424 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,280 Just a couple of bruises, nobody had noticed, 425 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,280 and unless they parted the hair. 426 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,280 I thought you ought to know, though. 427 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,280 Yeah. Thanks, Ben. 428 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:39,280 Yes, who is it? 429 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,280 This is Fritz, the undertaker. 430 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,280 Listen, Scott, there's a couple of ladies over here 431 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,280 that want to take a look at Furman. 432 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,280 Is it all right? 433 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:46,280 Who are they? 434 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,280 I don't know them, strangers. 435 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:49,280 What do they want to see him for? 436 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,280 I don't know. Wait a minute. 437 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,280 Scott, I'd please see him. 438 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:56,280 Why do you want to see him? 439 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,280 Well, I... I'm... his wife. 440 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:00,280 Furman's wife? 441 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:01,280 Yes. 442 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,280 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, certainly. I'll be right over. 443 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,280 So long, Ben. I've got to go back to the undertakers. 444 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,280 So long, Scott. 445 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,280 Hey, Scott. 446 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:15,280 What do you want, Wally? 447 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,280 I want to talk to you a minute. 448 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,280 Over here, where we won't be seen. 449 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:22,280 Okay, what is it? 450 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,280 A couple of dames came into Fritz's undertaking place 451 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,280 just as I was leaving. 452 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,280 One of them's Hotchow Randall, 453 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,280 a babe with a record as long as your arm. 454 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,280 She's one of that mob you had me working on 455 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:32,280 in New York last summer. 456 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,280 Does she know you? 457 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,280 Sure, but not by my right name. 458 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,280 She thinks I'm a Detroit rum runner. 459 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,280 I mean, did she recognize you just now? 460 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,280 I don't think she saw me. 461 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,280 Anyway, she didn't give me a tumble. 462 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:42,280 You don't know the other one? 463 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,280 No, she's a blonde, kind of pretty. 464 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,280 Okay, Wally, stick around a while, but stay out of sight. 465 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,280 Maybe I'll be bringing these dolls back with me. 466 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,280 Whatever you say, Chief. 467 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,280 Oh, there you are, Scott. 468 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,280 I wondered when you were coming. 469 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,280 This is Mrs. Fairman, and this is Mrs. Crowder. 470 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:03,280 How do you do? Hiya, Chief. 471 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:04,280 They just saw the body. 472 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,280 Mrs. Crowder? I thought your name was Randall. 473 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,280 What do you care, Chief? I'm not hurting your town any. 474 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,280 Don't call me Chief. 475 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,280 You city slickers, I'm the town whittler. 476 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,280 Thank you for letting me see him. 477 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,280 It's all right, Mrs. Fairman. 478 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,280 But I'll have to ask you and your friends some questions. 479 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,280 So if you'll just come across the street to headquarters, 480 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,280 we'll get on with the routine. 481 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,280 Before I ask any questions, I want to tell you something. 482 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:44,280 Mrs. Fairman, your husband didn't commit suicide. 483 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,280 He was murdered. 484 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,280 Murdered? 485 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,280 Ah, Chief, we got alibis. 486 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,280 We were in New York, and we can prove it. 487 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,280 And you're likely to get a chance, Tim. 488 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,280 What brought you down here, anyway? 489 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:55,280 Murdered. 490 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,280 Well, who's got a better right to come down here? 491 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:58,280 She was still his wife, wasn't she? 492 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,280 She's got a right to look out for her own interests, hasn't she? 493 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,280 It reminds me of something. 494 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,280 Excuse me a second. 495 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,280 I've got to make a phone call in the next room. 496 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,280 Officer Hamill speaking. 497 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,280 This is Scott. 498 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:12,280 Yes? 499 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:13,280 Is Wally around? 500 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:14,280 No, he's not here. 501 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,280 He said you told him to keep out of sight. 502 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:18,280 I'll find them for you, though. 503 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,280 Right. 504 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Tell Wally I want him to go to New York tonight. 505 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,280 Send Mason home to get some sleep. 506 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,280 He'll have to take over Wally's night trick. 507 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,280 Okay. 508 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,280 I'll be right there. 509 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,280 I'll be right there. 510 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,280 I'll be right there. 511 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:34,280 I'll be right there. 512 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,280 I'll be right there. 513 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,280 I'll be right there. 514 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:37,280 I'll be right there. 515 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:44,280 Mr. Anderson, Mr. Anderson, do you think I had anything to do with Lester's... with his death? 516 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,280 I don't know, Mrs. Furman. 517 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,280 I know he was killed. 518 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,280 I also know he left you something like half a million. 519 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,280 Wow. 520 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,280 Dollars? 521 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,280 Dollars. 522 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,280 All right, Chief. 523 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Let's stop clowning. 524 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,280 The kid here didn't have a thing to do with whatever you think happened. 525 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:00,280 No? 526 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:01,280 No. 527 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,280 We read about Lester Furman committing suicide in yesterday morning's paper. 528 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,280 And about there being something funny about it. 529 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,280 And I persuaded her she ought to come down to deal with... 530 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,280 Mr. Anderson, I wouldn't have done anything to hurt Lester. 531 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,280 I left him because I wanted to leave him. 532 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,280 I wouldn't have done anything to hurt him for money or anything else. 533 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,280 Had I wanted money from him, I would only have had to ask him for it. 534 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,280 That's the truth, Chief. 535 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,280 For years I've been telling Ethel she was a chump not to tap him. 536 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,280 But she never would. 537 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,280 I wouldn't have hurt him. 538 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,280 Why did you leave him then? 539 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,280 I don't know how to say it. 540 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,280 The way we lived wasn't the way I wanted to live. 541 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,280 I wanted... 542 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,280 Oh, I don't know what. 543 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,280 Anyway, after the baby died, I couldn't stand it anymore. 544 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,280 Excuse me. 545 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,280 Hello? 546 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,280 Oh, yeah, Hammer? 547 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,280 Hmm? 548 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,280 You gave Wally the message? 549 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,280 Yes, yes, I want him to go to New York tonight. 550 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,280 Okay, where is he? 551 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,280 Home? 552 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,280 He is home, huh? 553 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,280 Okay, thanks. 554 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:06,280 Mrs. Fuhrman, this circular that got your husband in the jail, 555 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,280 did you ever see that picture before? 556 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:10,280 No. 557 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:11,280 Why, that's... 558 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:12,280 It can't be. 559 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,280 It's a snapshot I have. 560 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,280 It's an enlargement of it. 561 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,280 Who else has one? 562 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,280 Nobody that I know of. 563 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,280 I don't think anyone else could have one. 564 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,280 Maybe still got yours? 565 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:23,280 Yes. 566 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,280 But remember whether I've seen it recently. 567 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,280 It's with some old papers and things. 568 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:28,280 I must have. 569 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,280 Well, Mrs. Fuhrman, it's stuff like that that's got to be checked up. 570 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,280 Neither of us can dodge it. 571 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,280 Now, there's two ways we can play it. 572 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,280 Yes. 573 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,280 Mrs. Fuhrman, I can hold you here on suspicion 574 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,280 until I have time to investigate things. 575 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:45,280 Or I can send one of my men with you to check up in New York. 576 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,280 Yes. 577 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,280 If you're willing to do that, 578 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,280 if you'll speed things up by helping them all you can. 579 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,280 If you promise you won't try any tricks. 580 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,280 I promise. I'm as anxious as I thought. 581 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,280 All right, all right. 582 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,280 I'll see you in New York. 583 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,280 All right, all right. 584 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,280 How'd you come down? 585 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,280 We drove down. 586 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,280 We got a great big car. 587 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,280 That's my car, see? 588 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,280 That big green job across the street. 589 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:06,280 Yeah. 590 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,280 Yeah. 591 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,280 And my man can ride back with you, but... 592 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,280 no funny business. 593 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Oh, don't worry, Chief. 594 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,280 Come on. 595 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:16,280 We're going to see Wally Shane, 596 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:30,280 and my man is going to drive to New York with you. 597 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,280 Wally? 598 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,280 Who is it? 599 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:35,280 Scott, Wally. 600 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,280 Come in. 601 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,280 Ladies first. 602 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,280 Harry. Harry. 603 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:41,280 Air force. 604 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,280 No, you don't. No, you don't. 605 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,280 Oh, he was reaching with that gun, Wally. 606 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280 Already got you covered. 607 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,280 I guess you win, Scott. 608 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,280 Yeah, I guess I do. 609 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,280 Come along back there, 610 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,280 and coax him with me like a good little boy. 611 00:23:54,280 --> 00:24:11,280 Wally, you're under arrest for murder. 612 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,280 Well, and that's how I knew it was all up, Scott. 613 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,280 The minute I saw those two dames going into Fritz's. 614 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,280 Then when I was ducking out of sight, 615 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,280 I ran into you, 616 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,280 and I was afraid you'd take me over there with you, 617 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,280 so I had to tell you one of them knew me. 618 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,280 Figured you'd want to keep me undercover for a little while anyhow. 619 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,280 Long enough for me to get out of town. 620 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,280 Why didn't you get out, Wally? 621 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,280 Well, I dropped in home to pick up a couple of things before I scram, 622 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,280 and that phone call of Hamill's catches me, 623 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,280 and I fall for it. 624 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,280 You see, Scott, I figured you're not on to me yet, 625 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,280 and are going to send me back to New York 626 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,280 to see what dope I can get out of the dames. 627 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,280 Well, you fooled me, brother, 628 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,280 and I thought you'd fall for that. 629 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,280 Then you didn't just stumble into all this accidentally, did you? 630 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,280 No, I didn't, Wally. 631 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,280 I figured Parmen had to be murdered by a copper. 632 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,280 No reward circuit was well enough to make a good job of forging one. 633 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,280 Incidentally, who printed that Parmen circular for you, Wally? 634 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,280 I'm not dragging anyone in with me. 635 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,280 There's only a poor mug that needed dough. 636 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,280 Okay, Wally. 637 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,280 You see, I knew only a copper would be sure enough of the routine 638 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,280 to know how things would be handled. 639 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,280 Only one of my coppers would be able to walk in a Parmen cell, 640 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,280 bang him across the head and string him up on the... 641 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,280 those bruises. 642 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,280 Showed you, Wally. 643 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,280 They did? 644 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,280 I guess I should have wrapped two towels around that blackjack. 645 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,280 Oh, gee, Scott. I seem to have slipped up on a lot of things. 646 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,280 So that narrows it down to my coppers, and... 647 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,280 Well, you told me you knew the Randall woman. 648 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,280 There it was. 649 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,280 I figured you were working with him. 650 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,280 What got you like this, Wally? 651 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,280 Same thing that gets most saps into jams, a yen for easy dough. 652 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,280 I was in New York, see, Scott, working that Dutton job for you, 653 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,280 palling around with big shot racketeers, passing for one of them. 654 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,280 Yes? 655 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,280 Well, I got to figuring that my work takes more brains than theirs, 656 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,280 and they're taking in big money, and I'm working for coffee and cakes. 657 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,280 That kind of stuff gets you, Scott. Anyway, it got me. 658 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,280 Mm-hmm. 659 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,280 Then I ran into this Ethel Furman, and she goes for me like a house of fire. 660 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,280 I liked her, too, see, so that's dandy. 661 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,280 But one night she tells me about how much dough her husband's got 662 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,280 and how he feels about her, and I get to thinking... 663 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,280 Thinking what? 664 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,280 I think she's nuts enough about me to marry me. 665 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,280 So I get to thinking, suppose he died and left her his role. 666 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280 Mm-hmm. I see. 667 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,280 So I run down to Philly a couple of afternoons and look Furman up, 668 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,280 and everything looks fine. 669 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,280 I took my time working out the details, meanwhile writing to her 670 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,280 through a fella in Detroit. 671 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,280 Go on. Finish one. 672 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,280 Well, I decided to do it. 673 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,280 I sent those circulars out to a lot of places, 674 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,280 not wanting to point too much to this one, 675 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,280 and then when I was ready, I phoned Furman telling him 676 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,280 to go to the Dearwood Hotel that night, 677 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,280 and sometime before the next night he'd hear from his wife, Ethel. 678 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,280 I knew he'd fall for any trap that was baited with her. 679 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,280 Only I guess I'm not as sharp as I thought I was, Scott. 680 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,280 Maybe you are, Wally. Maybe you are. 681 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,280 That doesn't always help. 682 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:25,280 Old man Camsley, Ben's father, used to have a saying, 683 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,280 to a sharp knife comes a tough stake. 684 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,280 Well, sorry you did it, Wally. 685 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,280 I always liked you. 686 00:27:35,280 --> 00:28:02,280 I know you did, Scott. I was counting on that. 687 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,280 And so ends Dashiell Hammett's Two Sharp Knives, 688 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,280 starring Stuart Irwin. 689 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,280 Tonight's story of... 690 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,280 suspense. 691 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,280 Columbia presents these tales of mystery and intrigue 692 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:27,280 and dangerous adventure for your relaxation and enjoyment. 693 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,280 Next week, suspense will not be the only thing 694 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,280 that will make you feel better. 695 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,280 Next week, suspense will not be heard, 696 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,280 because of a special holiday broadcast. 697 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,280 Columbia's review of the events of the year, 698 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:47,280 12 crowded months, which has been scheduled. 699 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,280 On the following Tuesday, January 5th, 700 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,280 there will be another in this series, 701 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,280 same hour, 9.30 Eastern wartime. 702 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,280 William Spear, the producer, John Deeds, the director, 703 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,280 and Bernard Herrmann, the composer, conductor, 704 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,280 are collaborators on... suspense. 705 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:31,280 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.