1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:53,000 This is the Man in Black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 3 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Our star tonight is one of the most compelling actresses in America today, Miss Agnes Moorhead. 4 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,280 Miss Moorhead returns to our stage to appear in a new study in terror by Lucille Fletcher 5 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,640 called Sorry, Wrong Number. 6 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:20,440 This story of a woman who accidentally overheard a conversation with death, and who strove 7 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:28,800 frantically to prevent murder from claiming an innocent victim, is tonight's tale of suspense. 8 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,880 If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded 9 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:38,880 of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 10 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:44,960 In this series, our tales are calculated to intrigue you, stir your nerves, to offer you 11 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:52,000 a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 12 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,080 And so it is with Sorry, Wrong Number, and the performance of Agnes Moorhead, we again 13 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:15,360 hope to keep you in suspense. 14 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Oh dear. 15 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,440 Your call please. 16 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,640 Operator, I've been dialing Murray Hill 70093 now for the last three quarters of an hour, 17 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:42,480 and the line is always busy. 18 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,440 I don't see how it could be busy that long. 19 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:45,720 Will you try it for me please? 20 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,080 I'll be glad to try that number for you. 21 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,080 One moment please. 22 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,280 I don't see how it could be busy all this time. 23 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,600 It's my husband's office. 24 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,200 He's working late tonight, and I'm all alone here in the house. 25 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,880 My health is very poor, and I've been feeling so nervous all day. 26 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,880 Ringing Murray Hill 70093. 27 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,880 Hello? 28 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,880 Hello? 29 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,880 Hello? 30 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,880 Is Mr. Stevenson there? 31 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,880 Hello? 32 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,880 Hello? 33 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:18,880 Oh hello, George. 34 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:19,880 Yes sir, this is George speaking. 35 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:20,880 Hello? 36 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:21,880 Who's this? 37 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:22,880 What number am I calling please? 38 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,880 I'm here with our client now. 39 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,880 He says the coast is clear for tonight. 40 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:28,880 Yes sir. 41 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:29,880 Where are you now? 42 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:30,880 In a phone booth. 43 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:31,880 Don't worry, everything's okay. 44 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:32,880 Very well. 45 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:33,880 Now you know the address. 46 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:41,880 At eleven o'clock, the private patrolman goes around to the bar on Second Avenue for a beer. 47 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,880 Be sure that all the lights downstairs are on. 48 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,880 There should be only one light visible from the street. 49 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,880 At eleven fifteen, a train crosses the bridge. 50 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,880 It makes a noise in case her window is open and she should scream. 51 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:56,880 Hello? 52 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,880 What number is this please? 53 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,880 Okay, I understand. 54 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:01,880 Now make it quick. 55 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,880 As little blood as possible. 56 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,880 Our client does not wish to make us suffer long. 57 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,880 Will a knife be okay, sir? 58 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,880 Well, a knife will be okay and do you remember the other details? 59 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:13,880 Yeah, yeah, I know. 60 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,880 Remove the rings and bracelets and the jewelry in the bureau drawer. 61 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:17,880 That's right. 62 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,880 Our client wishes it to look like simple robbery. 63 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:21,880 Don't worry. 64 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,880 Everything is going to be okay. 65 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:24,880 All right then. 66 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,880 Be sure that... 67 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,880 Oh, how awful. 68 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:39,880 How unspeakably awful. 69 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:40,880 Your call, please. 70 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,880 Operator, I've just been cut off. 71 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:44,880 I'm sorry. 72 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:45,880 What number were you calling? 73 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,880 Why, it was supposed to be Murray Hill seven, oh, oh, nine, three, but it wasn't. 74 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,880 Some wires must have got crossed. 75 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,880 I was cut into a wrong number and I've just heard the most dreadful thing. 76 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,880 Something about a murder. 77 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,880 And, operator, you'll simply have to retrace that call at once. 78 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,880 I beg your pardon. 79 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:02,880 May I help you? 80 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,880 Oh, I know it was a wrong number and I had no business listening, but these two men, 81 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,880 they were cold-blooded fiends and they were going to murder somebody, 82 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,880 some poor innocent woman who was all alone in a house near a bridge 83 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:13,880 and we've got to stop them. 84 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:14,880 We've got to... 85 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:15,880 What number were you calling, please? 86 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:16,880 Well, that doesn't matter. 87 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,880 This was a wrong number and you dialed it for me and we've got to find out what it was immediately. 88 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:22,880 What number did you call? 89 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,880 Oh, why are you so stupid? 90 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:26,880 What time is it? 91 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,880 Do you mean to tell me you can't find out what that number was just now? 92 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,880 I'll connect you with the chief operator. 93 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,880 Oh, I think it's perfectly shameful. 94 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,880 Now, look, look, it was obviously a case of some little slip of the finger. 95 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:42,880 I told you to try Murray Hill seven, oh, oh, nine, three for me. 96 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,880 You dialed it, but your finger must have slipped and I was connected with some other number. 97 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,880 And I could hear them, but they couldn't hear me. 98 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,880 Now, I simply failed to see why you couldn't make that same mistake again on purpose, 99 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,880 why you couldn't try to dial Murray Hill seven, oh, oh, nine, three in the same sort of careless way. 100 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,880 Murray Hill seven, oh, oh, nine, three. 101 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:01,880 I will try to get it for you. 102 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:02,880 Thank you. 103 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,880 Oh. 104 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,880 I'm sorry. 105 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,880 Murray Hill seven, oh, oh, nine, three is busy. 106 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:18,880 I will call you when... 107 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,880 Operator, operator. 108 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,880 Operator, will you answer me? 109 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:27,880 Your call, please. 110 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,880 Well, you didn't try to get that wrong number at all. 111 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,880 I asked you explicitly and all you did was dial correctly. 112 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:33,880 I'm sorry. 113 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,880 What number are you calling? 114 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,880 Oh, can't you for once forget what number I'm calling and do something for me? 115 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,880 Now, I want to trace that call. 116 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,880 It's my civic duty, it's your civic duty to trace that call and apprehend those dangerous killers. 117 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:45,880 And if you won't... 118 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,880 I will connect you with the chief operator. 119 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:48,880 Please. 120 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,880 Oh. 121 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:56,880 What happened to the answer? 122 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:58,880 This is the chief operator. 123 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,880 Oh, chief operator, I want you to trace the call, a telephone call immediately. 124 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,880 I don't know where it came from or who was making it, but it's absolutely necessary that it be tracked down 125 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,880 because it was about a murder that someone's planning. 126 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,880 A terrible cold-blooded murder of a poor innocent woman tonight at 1115. 127 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:14,880 I see. 128 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:15,880 Well, can you trace it for me? 129 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Can you track down those men? 130 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:17,880 I'm not certain, it depends. 131 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:18,880 Depends on what? 132 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,880 It depends on whether the call is still going on. 133 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,880 If it's a live call, we can trace it on the equipment. 134 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,880 If it's been disconnected, we can. 135 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:25,880 Disconnected? 136 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,880 If the parties have stopped talking to each other. 137 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,880 Oh, but of course they must have stopped talking to each other by now. 138 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,880 That was at least five minutes ago and they didn't sound like the type who would make a long call. 139 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,880 Well, I can try tracing it. 140 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:36,880 May I have your name, please? 141 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,880 Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Elbert Stevenson. 142 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:40,880 Now, but listen... 143 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,880 And your telephone number, please. 144 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,880 Plaza 4-2-2-9-5. 145 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,880 But if you go on wasting all this time... 146 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,880 Why do you want the call traced, please? 147 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:50,880 Why? 148 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,880 Well, oh, no reason, no reason. 149 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,880 I mean, I merely felt very strongly that something ought to be done about it. 150 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,880 These men sounded like killers. 151 00:07:58,880 --> 00:07:59,880 They're dangerous. 152 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,880 They're going to murder this woman at 1115 tonight and I thought the police ought to know. 153 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,880 Have you reported this to the police? 154 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,880 Well, no, no, not yet. 155 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,880 You want this call checked purely as a private individual? 156 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Yes, yes, but meanwhile... 157 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,880 I'm sorry, Mrs. Stevenson, but I'm afraid we couldn't make this check for you 158 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,880 and trace the call just in your say-so as a private individual. 159 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:16,880 Well, I... 160 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:17,880 We'd have to do something more official. 161 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,880 Oh, for heaven's sake. 162 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,880 You mean to tell me I can't report that there's going to be a murder 163 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,880 without getting tied up in all this red tape? 164 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,880 Why, it's perfectly idiotic. 165 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:28,880 Well, all right, all right. 166 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:29,880 I'll call the police. 167 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:30,880 Thank you. 168 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,880 I'm sure that would be the best way to... 169 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:33,880 Oh, it's ridiculous. 170 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,880 It's perfectly ridiculous. 171 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:39,880 Red tape. 172 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,880 Oh. 173 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:49,880 Your call, please. 174 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:50,880 The police department. 175 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,880 Get me the police department, please. 176 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:53,880 Thank you. 177 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:54,880 Bringing the police department. 178 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:11,880 Police station, precinct 43, Sergeant Martin speaking. 179 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,880 Police department, this is Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Albert Smyth Stevenson 180 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,880 of 53 North Sutton Place. 181 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,880 I'm calling up to report a murder. 182 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,880 I mean, the murder hasn't been committed yet, 183 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,880 but I just overheard plans for it over the telephone 184 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:26,880 over a wrong number that the operator gave me. 185 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,880 I've been trying to trace down the call myself, 186 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,880 but everybody is so stupid, and I guess in the end 187 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:34,880 you're the only people who could do anything. 188 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:35,880 Yes, ma'am. 189 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:37,880 It was a perfectly definite murder. 190 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:39,880 I heard their plans distinctly. 191 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,880 Two men were talking, and they were going to murder 192 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,880 some woman at 1115 tonight. 193 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,880 She lived in a house near a bridge. 194 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:48,880 Are you listening to me? 195 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,880 Yes, ma'am. 196 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,880 And there was a private patrolman on the street. 197 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,880 He was going to go around for a beer on 2nd Avenue, 198 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,880 and there was some third man, a client, 199 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,880 who was paying to have this poor woman murdered. 200 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:04,880 They were going to take her rings and bracelets 201 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:06,880 and use a knife. 202 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,880 Well, it's unnerved me dreadfully, and I'm not well. 203 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,880 I see. When was all this, ma'am? 204 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,880 Well, about eight minutes ago. 205 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,880 Then you can do something. You do understand. 206 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:19,880 What is your name, ma'am? 207 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,880 Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Elbert Stevenson. 208 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,880 And your address? 209 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:24,880 53 North Sutton Place. 210 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,880 53 North Sutton Place. 211 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:29,880 That's near a bridge. 212 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,880 The Queensborough Bridge, you know? 213 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,880 And we have a private patrolman on our street. 214 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:34,880 And 2nd Avenue... 215 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,880 And what was the number you were calling? 216 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,880 Murray Hill 70093. 217 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,880 But that wasn't the number I overheard. 218 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,880 I mean, Murray Hill 70093 is my husband's office. 219 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,880 He's working late tonight, and I was trying to reach him 220 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,880 to ask him to come home. 221 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,880 I'm an invalid, you know, and it's the maid's night off, 222 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,880 and I hate to be alone, even though he says I'm perfectly safe 223 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,880 as long as I have the telephone right beside my bed. 224 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,880 Well, we'll look into it, Mrs. Stevenson, 225 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,880 and we'll see if we can check it with the telephone company. 226 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:07,880 But the telephone company said they couldn't check the call 227 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,880 at the parties that stopped talking. 228 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,880 I've already taken care of that. 229 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:12,880 Oh, you have? 230 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,880 Yes, and personally I feel you want to do something 231 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,880 far more immediate and drastic than just check the call. 232 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,880 What good is checking the call do if they stop talking? 233 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,880 By the time you track it down, they'll already have committed the murder. 234 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,880 Well, we'll take care of it, don't you worry. 235 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,880 Well, I'd say the whole thing calls for a search, 236 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,880 a complete and thorough search of the whole city. 237 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,880 Now, I'm very near the bridge, and I'm not far from 2nd Avenue, 238 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,880 and I know I'd feel a lot better if you sent around a radio car 239 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:36,880 to this neighborhood at once. 240 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,880 And what makes you think the murder's going to be committed 241 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:39,880 in your neighborhood, ma'am? 242 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,880 Oh, well, I don't know. 243 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,880 Only the coincidence is so horrible. 244 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,880 2nd Avenue and the patrolmen and the bridge? 245 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,880 2nd Avenue is a very long street, ma'am. 246 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:50,880 I know. 247 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,880 And you know how many bridges there are in the city of New York alone, 248 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,880 not to mention Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx. 249 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:56,880 I know. 250 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,880 How do you know there isn't some little house out on Staten Island 251 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,880 on some little 2nd Avenue you've never even heard about? 252 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,880 How do you know they're even talking about New York at all? 253 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:06,880 But I heard the call in the New York dialing system. 254 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,880 Maybe it was a long-distance call you overheard. 255 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:10,880 And telephones are funny things. 256 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,880 Look, lady, why don't you look at it this way? 257 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,880 Supposing you hadn't broken in on that telephone call. 258 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,880 Supposing you'd got your husband the way you always do. 259 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,880 You wouldn't be upset, would you? 260 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:20,880 No, I suppose not. 261 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,880 Only it sounded so inhuman, so cold-blooded. 262 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,880 Well, a lot of murders are plotted in this city every day, ma'am. 263 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,880 We manage to prevent most all of them, 264 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,880 but a clue of this kind is so vague 265 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,880 isn't much more used to us than no clue at all. 266 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:33,880 But surely you... 267 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,880 Unless, of course, you have some reason for thinking this call was phony 268 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,880 and that somebody may be planning to murder you. 269 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:41,880 Me? 270 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,880 Oh, was... No, I hardly think so. 271 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,880 Well, I mean, why should anybody? 272 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,880 I'm alone all day and night. 273 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,880 I see nobody except my maid, Eloise, 274 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,880 and she's a big girl. 275 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:55,880 She weighs 200 pounds. 276 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,880 She's too lazy to bring up my breakfast tray. 277 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,880 And the only other person is my husband, Albert. 278 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,880 He's crazy about me. He just adores me. 279 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,880 He waits on me hand and foot 280 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,880 and scarcely left my side since I took sick 12 years ago. 281 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,880 Well, and there's nothing for you to worry about. 282 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:11,880 Well... 283 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:13,880 Now, if you'll just leave the rest of this to us, we'll take care of... 284 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,880 But what will you do? It's so late. It's nearly 11 now. 285 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,880 We'll take care of it later. 286 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,880 Well, will you broadcast it all over the city 287 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,880 and send out squads and warn your radio cars to watch out, 288 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,880 especially in suspicious neighborhoods like mine? 289 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,880 Lady, I said we'd take care of it. 290 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:29,880 Just now I've got a couple of other matters here on my desk 291 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:31,880 that require immediate attention. 292 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:32,880 Good night, ma'am, and thank you. 293 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,880 Oh, you, you idiot! 294 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,880 Oh. 295 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,880 Oh, now why did I hang up the phone like that? 296 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,880 Now we'll think I am a fool. 297 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,880 Oh, why doesn't Albert come home? 298 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,880 Why doesn't he? 299 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,880 Oh. 300 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,880 PHONE RINGING 301 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,880 Oh. 302 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,880 She answered. 303 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:06,880 PHONE RINGING 304 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,880 I need your call, please. 305 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,880 Operator, for heaven's sake, will you ring that 306 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,880 Murray Hill 70093 number again? 307 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:13,880 I can't think what's keeping him so long. 308 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:14,880 I will try it for you. 309 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,880 Well, try, try. 310 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,880 PHONE RINGING 311 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,880 Oh, I'm so nervous. 312 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,880 PHONE RINGING 313 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,880 Why does it take so long? 314 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,880 I'm sorry. 315 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,880 Murray Hill 70093 is busy. 316 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:32,880 I will call you when... 317 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:33,880 I can hear it. You don't have to tell me. 318 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:35,880 I know it's busy. 319 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,880 Oh. 320 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,880 Oh, if I could only get out of this bed for a little while. 321 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,880 If I could... 322 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,880 If I could get a breath of fresh air 323 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,880 or just lean out of the window 324 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,880 or see the street. 325 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,880 PHONE RINGING 326 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,880 Hello, Albert? 327 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,880 Hello? 328 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,880 Hello? 329 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:58,880 Hello? 330 00:14:58,880 --> 00:14:59,880 Oh, what's the matter with this phone? 331 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:01,880 Hello, hello? 332 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,880 PHONE RINGING 333 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,880 Hello? Hello? 334 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,880 Oh, for heaven's sake, who is this? 335 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,880 Hello? Hello? Hello? 336 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,880 PHONE RINGING 337 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:17,880 Oh, I'm trying. 338 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,880 PHONE RINGING 339 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:20,880 Oh. 340 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,880 PHONE RINGING 341 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,880 PHONE RINGING 342 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:27,880 Oh, my goodness. 343 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:28,880 Your call, please. 344 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:29,880 Hello, operator. 345 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:31,880 I don't know what's the matter with this telephone tonight 346 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:33,880 but it's positively driving me crazy. 347 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,880 I've never seen such inefficient, miserable service. 348 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:38,880 Now, now, now, look. 349 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,880 I'm an invalid and I'm very nervous 350 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,880 and I'm not supposed to be annoyed. 351 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:44,880 But if this keeps on much longer... 352 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:45,880 What seems to be the trouble, please? 353 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,880 Well, everything's wrong. 354 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,880 I haven't had one bit of satisfaction 355 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,880 out of one call I've made this evening. 356 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:52,880 The whole world could be murdered for all you people care. 357 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,880 And now, now, my phone keeps ringing and ringing 358 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,880 and ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing 359 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:57,880 every five seconds or so. 360 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,880 And when I pick it up, there's no one there. 361 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:01,880 I'm sorry. If you will hang up, I will test it for you. 362 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:02,880 I don't want you to test it for me. 363 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,880 I want you to put that call through, whatever it is, at once. 364 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,880 I'm afraid I cannot do that. 365 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:08,880 You can't? And why? Why, may I ask? 366 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,880 The dial system is automatic. 367 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,880 If someone is trying to dial your number, 368 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,880 there is no way to check whether the call is coming through the system or not. 369 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,880 Unless the person who is trying to reach you 370 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,880 complains to his particular operator. 371 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,880 Well, of all this stupid... 372 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,880 And meanwhile, I've got to sit here in my bed suffering 373 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,880 every time that phone rings, imagining everything. 374 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,880 I will try to check the trouble for you. 375 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:30,880 Check it, check it. That's all anybody can do. 376 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,880 Oh, what's the use of talking to you? You're stupid. 377 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,880 I'll fix her. Of all the impotence. 378 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,880 Oh, how dare she speak to me like that. 379 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:42,880 How dare she speak to me like that. 380 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,880 RINGING 381 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,880 Oh. 382 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,880 Oh, what does she answer? 383 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,880 RINGING 384 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:57,880 Your call, please. 385 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,880 Young woman, I don't know your name. 386 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,880 But there are ways of finding you out. 387 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,880 And I'm going to report you to your superiors 388 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,880 for the most unpardonable rudeness and insolence 389 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:06,880 that has ever been my privilege. 390 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,880 Give me the business office, if you'll. 391 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:09,880 You may dial that number direct. 392 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,880 Dial it direct? I'll do no such thing. I don't even know the number. 393 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,880 The number is in the directory. 394 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,880 Or you may secure it by dialing information. 395 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:17,880 Now listen here, you... 396 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,880 Oh, what's the use? 397 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,880 Oh. 398 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,880 Oh, for heaven's sake, I'm going out of my mind. 399 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,880 Hello? Hello? Stop ringing me. Do you hear? 400 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:32,880 Answer me. Who is this? 401 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,880 You realize you're driving me crazy? 402 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,880 Who's calling me? What are you doing it for? 403 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,880 Now stop it. Stop it. Stop it, I say. 404 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:41,880 Hello? Hello? If you don't stop ringing me, 405 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,880 I'm going to call the police. You hear? The police. 406 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,880 Oh. 407 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,880 Oh, if Elbert would only come home. 408 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,880 Oh, let it ring. 409 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,880 Let it go on ringing. 410 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,880 It's a trick of some kind. 411 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,880 And I won't answer it. I won't. I won't. 412 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,880 Even if it goes on ringing all night. 413 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,880 I won't. 414 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:18,880 Now what's the matter? 415 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,880 Why do they stop ringing all of a sudden? 416 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,880 What time is it? 417 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,880 Oh, where did I put that clock? 418 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,880 Five to eleven. 419 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,880 Oh, they've decided something. 420 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,880 They're sure I'm home. 421 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,880 They heard my voice answer them just now. 422 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:41,880 That's why they've been ringing me. 423 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,880 Why no one has answered me? 424 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,880 Call that operator again. 425 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,880 Oh, where is she? 426 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,880 Why doesn't she answer? 427 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,880 Oh, operator. 428 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,880 Why doesn't she answer? 429 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,880 Your call, please. 430 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,880 Where were you just now? Why didn't you answer at once? 431 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,880 Give me the police department. 432 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,880 I'm sorry. 433 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:10,880 Just a minute. 434 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,880 I'm sorry. The line is busy. 435 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,880 I will call you. 436 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,880 It's busy, but that's impossible. 437 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,880 The police department can't be busy. 438 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,880 There must be other lines available. 439 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,880 The line is busy. I will try to get them for you later. 440 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,880 No, no. I've got to speak to them now or it may be too late. 441 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,880 I've got to talk to someone. 442 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,880 What number do you wish to speak to? 443 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,880 I don't know, but there must be someone to protect people beside the police department. 444 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,880 A detective agency. 445 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,880 You will find agencies listed in the classified directory. 446 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,880 But I don't have a classified directory. 447 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,880 I mean, I'm too nervous to look it up. 448 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,880 I don't have the information. Perhaps she will be able to help you. 449 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,880 No, no. 450 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,880 Oh, you're being spiteful, aren't you? 451 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,880 You don't care, do you? What happens to me? 452 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,880 I could die and you wouldn't care. 453 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:06,880 Oh, stop it! Stop it! I can't stand anymore! 454 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,880 Hello? What do you want? 455 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,880 Stop ringing, will you? Stop it! 456 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:12,880 Hello? Is this Plaza 42295? 457 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,880 Yes, I'm... 458 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:20,880 I'm sorry. Yes, this is Plaza 42295. 459 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:22,880 This is Western Union. 460 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,880 I have a telegram here for Mrs. Albert Stevenson. 461 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,880 Is there anyone there to receive the message? 462 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,880 Yes, I'm Mrs. Stevenson. 463 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,880 The telegram is as follows. 464 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,880 Mrs. Albert Stevenson, 53 North, Sutton Place, New York, New York. 465 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,880 Darling, terribly sorry. 466 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,880 Tried to get you for last hour, but line busy. 467 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,880 Leaving for Boston 11 p.m. tonight on urgent business. 468 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,880 Back tomorrow afternoon. 469 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,880 Keep happy. Love, signed, Albert. 470 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:54,880 Oh, no. 471 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,880 Do you wish us to deliver a copy of the message? 472 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,880 No. No, thank you. 473 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,880 Thank you, madam. Good night. 474 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,880 Good night. 475 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,880 Oh, no. 476 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,880 No, I don't believe it. 477 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:15,880 He couldn't do it, not when he knows I'll be all alone. 478 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,880 It's some trick. 479 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880 It's some trick. Something... 480 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,880 Something is trick... 481 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,880 I know. 482 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,880 Oh, I'm so nervous. 483 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,880 Oh, what is the answer? 484 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,880 Your call, please. 485 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,880 Operator, try that Murray Hill 70093 number for me just once more, please. 486 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,880 You may dial that number direct. 487 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,880 Oh. 488 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,880 You... 489 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,880 Oh. Oh. 490 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:06,880 Oh. 9... 3... 491 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,880 Oh. Oh. Oh, he's gone. 492 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:17,880 Oh, Albert, how could you? How could you? 493 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,880 Oh, I can't be alone tonight. I can't. 494 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,880 If I'm alone one more second, I'll go mad. 495 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,880 I don't care what he says or what the expense is. 496 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,880 I'm a sick woman. I'm untied and... 497 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,880 I'm a sick woman. I'm untied and... 498 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,880 This is information. May I help you? 499 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,880 I want the telephone number of Henshley Hospital. 500 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,880 Henshley Hospital? Yes. 501 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,880 Do you have the street address? 502 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,880 No, it's a very small private and exclusive hospital 503 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,880 where I had my appendix out two years ago. 504 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,880 Henshley H-E-N-C... Wait a moment, please. 505 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,880 Well, will you please hurry and... Please, what is the time? 506 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,880 You may find out the time by dialing Meridian 71212. 507 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,880 Oh, for heaven's sake, I've no time to be dialing. 508 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,880 The number of Henshley Hospital is Butterfield 70105. 509 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:32,880 Butterfield 70105. 510 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:47,880 Henshley Hospital, good evening. 511 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,880 Nurse's registry. Who was it you wish to speak to, please? 512 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,880 I want the nurse's registry at once. 513 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,880 I want a trained nurse. I want to hire immediately for the night. 514 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,880 I see. And what is the nature of the case, madam? 515 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,880 Nerves. I'm very nervous. I need soothing and companionship. 516 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,880 You see, my husband is away and I'm also... 517 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,880 Have you been recommended to us by any doctor in particular, madam? 518 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,880 No, but I really don't see why all this catechizing is necessary. 519 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,880 I just want a trained nurse. 520 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,880 I was a patient in your hospital two years ago, 521 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,880 and after all, I do expect to pay this person for attending me. 522 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,880 We quite understand that, madam, but these are wartimes, you know. 523 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:22,880 I know that. 524 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,880 These registered nurses are very scarce just now, 525 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,880 and our superintendent has asked us to send people out only on cases 526 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,880 where the physician in charge feels it's absolutely necessary. 527 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,880 Well, it is absolutely necessary. I'm a sick woman. 528 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,880 I'm very much upset, very. 529 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,880 I'm alone in this house and I'm an invalid, 530 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,880 and tonight I overheard a telephone conversation that upset me dreadfully. 531 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,880 In fact, if someone doesn't come at once, I'm afraid I'll go out of my mind. 532 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,880 I see. Well, I'll speak to Miss Phillips as soon as she comes in. 533 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,880 And what is your name, madam? 534 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,880 Miss Phillips? And when do you expect her in? 535 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,880 I really couldn't say. She went out to supper at 11 o'clock. 536 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,880 Eleven o'clock? But it's not eleven o'clock yet. 537 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,880 Oh, oh, my clock has stopped. I thought it was running down. 538 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,880 What time is it? 539 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,880 Just fifteen minutes past eleven. 540 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,880 What was that? 541 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:12,880 What was what, madam? 542 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,880 That, that click just now in my own telephone, 543 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,880 as though someone had lifted the receiver off the hook of the extension telephone downstairs? 544 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,880 Well, I didn't hear it, madam. Now, about this... 545 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,880 But I did. There's, there's someone in this house, 546 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,880 someone downstairs in the kitchen, and they're, they're listening to me now. 547 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,880 They're listening! 548 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,880 Ah, I won't, I won't pick it up. 549 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,880 I, I won't let them hear me. 550 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,880 I won't let them hear me. 551 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,880 I'll be quiet. I'll be so quiet. 552 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,880 And they'll think... 553 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,880 Oh, but if I don't call someone now, 554 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,880 while they're still down here, 555 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,880 maybe there'll be no time. 556 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,880 Oh, I've got to... Oh, someone's got to help me. 557 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,880 Somebody's got to help me. 558 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,880 Your call, please. 559 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,880 Operator, I'm, I'm in desperate trouble. 560 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,880 I'm sorry, I cannot hear you. Please speak louder. 561 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,880 I, I, I don't dare. 562 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,880 There's someone listening. 563 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,880 Can, can you hear me now? 564 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:20,880 I'm sorry. 565 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,880 Oh, but you've got to, you've got to hear me. 566 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,880 Oh, please, please, you've got to help me. 567 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,880 There's, there's someone in this house, 568 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,880 someone who's going to murder me, 569 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,880 and you've got to get in touch with... 570 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,880 Oh, oh, there it is. 571 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,880 There it is. Did you hear it? 572 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,880 He's, he's put it down. 573 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,880 He's put down the extension phone. 574 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,880 He's, he's coming up. 575 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,880 Ah! He's coming upstairs. 576 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,880 Okay, okay, give me the police department. 577 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,880 The police department. 578 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,880 Give me the police department. 579 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,880 One moment, please. I will connect you. 580 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,880 I can hear him. Oh, I can hear him. 581 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,880 He's coming nearer. Oh, I know it. 582 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,880 Hurry. Hurry. 583 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,880 Hurry, please. 584 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,880 Ah! 585 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,880 Ah! 586 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:40,880 Ah! 587 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,880 Oh, police department. 588 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,880 Oh, I'm, I'm sorry. 589 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,880 I must have got the wrong number. 590 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,880 Police department, police department, 591 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,880 Sergeant Martin speaking. 592 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,880 Police department, Martin speaking. 593 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,880 Police department, Martin speaking. 594 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,880 Oh, police department? 595 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,880 I'm sorry, I must have got the wrong number. 596 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:19,880 Don't worry, everything's okay. 597 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,880 And so closes Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorhead. 598 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,880 Tonight's tale of suspense. 599 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,880 This is your narrator, the man in black, 600 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,880 who conveys to you Columbia's invitation 601 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,880 to spend this half hour in suspense with us again next Tuesday, 602 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,880 when Mr. Donald Crisp and Mr. John Loder 603 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,880 will star in the suspense play called The Extra Guest. 604 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,880 The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear, 605 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,880 who with Ted Bliss, the director, Ladd Kluskin, the musical director, 606 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:53,880 and Lucille Fletcher, the author, collaborated on tonight's suspense. 607 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,880 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.