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32 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:29,440 Be sure to ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 33 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,440 world. 34 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:36,920 And now with the defense rests and with the performance of our star, Alan Ladd, as defendant 35 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:42,760 Robert Tasker, supported by John McIntyre as the noted criminal lawyer, Max Kramer, we 36 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:59,400 again hope to keep you in suspense. 37 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,560 The people versus Robert Tasker. 38 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,920 The defendant charged on the indictment with murder in the first degree. 39 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:08,240 Is counsel for the defense prepared to proceed? 40 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,720 I am, your honor. 41 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,160 Very well, Mr. Kramer. 42 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:18,840 Your honor, if the court please, I think it is fitting that for a moment I should speak 43 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:26,320 openly to your honor and to the jury for matter which has, albeit indirectly, nonetheless, 44 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,560 a substantial bearing on this case. 45 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:35,640 I refer, of course, to the rather unique relationship existing between myself and the defendant 46 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,960 Robert Tasker. 47 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:45,920 It's true that my interest in him and in his fate is far greater than the normal interest 48 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,760 of a lawyer and his client. 49 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:54,880 It's true that that interest might be reasonably described as it has been so many times as 50 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,880 fatherly. 51 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:02,680 Yet, I ask your honor and the gentlemen of the jury to think of me in all fairness and 52 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,200 without bias simply as a lawyer defending his client. 53 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:14,200 It needs no expatiation on legal or practical ethics to demonstrate that if I did not, for 54 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:33,560 me, with my whole heart and mind be... 55 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,680 My name is Robert Tasker. 56 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,080 I am sitting in a courtroom on trial for murder. 57 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,880 As Mr. Kramer, my lawyer, stands there now telling the judge and the jury about me and 58 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:51,840 about him, I can't help thinking that if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here today. 59 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:57,960 And thinking what irony it is too because Mr. Kramer is the only friend I've ever had 60 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,880 in the world. 61 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,640 I am an ex-con. 62 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,320 My sentence was for 10 years. 63 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,920 After I'd been there about a year, I began to write just short stories, little things. 64 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,480 I had lots of time. 65 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,960 Finally, I sent one to a magazine and they published it. 66 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,720 Mr. Kramer happened to read it. 67 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:18,720 He wrote to me. 68 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,280 Then he came to see me. 69 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,280 He remembered my case. 70 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:24,560 He said he'd try to help me. 71 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,600 Then one day I was called to the warden's office. 72 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,440 Hello, Robert. 73 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,160 Hello, Mr. Kramer. 74 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,040 Robert, I've got some good news for you. 75 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,040 I've got your parole. 76 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,040 You're free. 77 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,040 Well, you happy? 78 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,040 Sure. 79 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,840 It's just that I still don't quite believe it. 80 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:46,840 It's official, Tasker. 81 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:47,840 Here are your papers. 82 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:48,840 Papers? 83 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:52,720 That'll make everything easy, won't it? 84 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,760 Passport to a brilliant future. 85 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:55,760 Ex-con. 86 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,020 Robert, I know it's going to be a little hard to adjust at first, but there's a job in my 87 00:06:00,020 --> 00:06:01,020 office that I... 88 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:04,120 Thanks, Mr. Kramer, but I don't want charity even from you. 89 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:05,120 I don't want charity, Robert. 90 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,320 I need a clerk in my office or I wouldn't have offered you the job. 91 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,240 You don't have to stay if you don't want to, but you'll be doing me a favor if you try it. 92 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,560 Well, I guess I owe you at least one favor. 93 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,280 No, Tasker, you're buying. 94 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:17,280 Good luck. 95 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:20,400 Just remember that what's happened up here is water over the dam. 96 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:21,900 Don't hold any grudges. 97 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:23,280 I don't hold any grudges. 98 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,400 There's one man I hate, that's all. 99 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,280 A man you hate, Robert? 100 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,280 What's the use of kidding about it? 101 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:31,240 His name is Arthur Hines and I hate him. 102 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:32,520 Simple as that. 103 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:33,960 Well, forget it, son. 104 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:34,960 Hines was D.A. then. 105 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:36,400 He was just doing a job, that's all. 106 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,600 He had nothing against you. 107 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,120 He was doing a job all right. 108 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:41,880 Robert, you mustn't feel that way. 109 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,520 You'll get along with Hines all right. 110 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:45,520 Get along with him? 111 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:46,520 In the office. 112 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,880 Oh, didn't I tell you? 113 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,200 Arthur Hines is my new partner. 114 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:58,960 Well, it certainly threw me for a second to hear I was going to be working side by side 115 00:06:58,960 --> 00:06:59,960 with that... 116 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:03,360 Well, I figured they were right and I shouldn't hold grudges. 117 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,160 I made up my mind to play ball. 118 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,600 The work wasn't hard and I was able to do some writing on the side. 119 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,680 Mr. Craig always encouraged me in that and Peggy helped me a lot too. 120 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,760 She helped me to believe in myself. 121 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,420 All that time I never saw Mr. Hines. 122 00:07:19,420 --> 00:07:21,840 He was out of town or something. 123 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,840 And then one day he came back. 124 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:29,240 I was nervous at the idea of seeing him but I thought I was all over my resentment then. 125 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,600 He was in his office with someone. 126 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,840 He had come in the private entrance. 127 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,200 I was out in the ante room with Peggy by the switchboard when I heard the commotion. 128 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:37,200 Don't you understand the English language? 129 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,200 No. 130 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,200 You're a liar. 131 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Now you get out of here. 132 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,200 Get out. 133 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,200 Don't give me that, Hines. 134 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,320 You'll be the goner or you know who has. 135 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,600 I don't know anything about it. 136 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:46,600 I don't want to know. 137 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,960 Don't you think I've got enough trouble nowadays keeping mugs like you out of the pen without 138 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,760 being the fence for what you stole? 139 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,800 Now you get out of my office and stay out. 140 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,760 Okay, but I'll be back. 141 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,600 Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money. 142 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,320 What do you want? 143 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,320 Why... 144 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,320 What brings you here, Mr. Hines? 145 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:04,320 My name's Robert Tasker. 146 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:05,680 Did Mr. Craig tell you about me? 147 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,380 I knew I'd seen you before. 148 00:08:07,380 --> 00:08:09,800 You're that punk kid I sent up to San Quentin. 149 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,320 What's for ten years? 150 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:12,920 What do you mean you're working here? 151 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,080 Well, Mr. Craig got me out. 152 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,080 He gave me a job. 153 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,080 Job of what? 154 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,080 Snooping outside my office? 155 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,080 Oh, I wasn't... 156 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,980 Don't talk back to me, you dirty little jail rat! 157 00:08:19,980 --> 00:08:20,980 You... 158 00:08:20,980 --> 00:08:21,980 Why you... 159 00:08:21,980 --> 00:08:22,980 Robert, don't! 160 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:23,980 Let me go. 161 00:08:23,980 --> 00:08:25,880 Well, what's the trouble here? 162 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:26,880 Robert? 163 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Let me go. 164 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:28,880 Stop it. 165 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:29,880 Calm down. 166 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:30,880 Calm down. 167 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,680 What's the matter? 168 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:34,840 What's the idea of bringing this kid into the office, Max? 169 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,720 Isn't it bad enough to have to work with criminals all day without... 170 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,480 Robert's not a criminal. 171 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,920 He's here because I want him to be here. 172 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,480 Because I believe in him and trust him. 173 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:44,480 Oh, yeah? 174 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,880 You don't still have anything against Robert, do you? 175 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,360 I just don't like anybody hanging around outside my door when I'm having a private conference, 176 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,360 that's all. 177 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:52,360 All right, all right. 178 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:53,360 Now, look. 179 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,400 Robert Tasker is one of the finest, most gifted young people I've ever known. 180 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,080 I want him to get along here. 181 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,840 And I want him to get along with you, too, Arthur. 182 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:01,840 Really? 183 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:02,840 Well, to me, I can get along with anybody. 184 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:03,840 Well, I've got to be in court. 185 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:04,840 Wait a minute. 186 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:05,840 Wait a minute. 187 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,840 Now, shake hands with both of you, will you? 188 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,240 Well, anything to keep peace in the family. 189 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,240 That's fine. 190 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:14,240 Everything forgotten. 191 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,240 Sound off on a clean slate, right? 192 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,240 Sure. 193 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,240 Well, I'll see you later in the afternoon, Max. 194 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:25,840 Oh, Robert, come into my office for a minute, will you? 195 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:26,840 Sure. 196 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,040 My boy, I'm terribly sorry. 197 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,520 I don't know how to begin to apologize. 198 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:33,520 Why should you apologize? 199 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,960 Oh, it was all my fault. 200 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,320 I don't know how I could have been stupid enough not to tell him beforehand for both 201 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,320 your sakes. 202 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:41,320 I know. 203 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,320 But I just don't like him and he doesn't like me. 204 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,000 Oh, Robert, you're wrong there. 205 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,880 It's just that things have been happening lately to upset him, like this fellow Marvin 206 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,160 and his $50,000. 207 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:52,160 You know about that? 208 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,640 Well, Robert, you know, we have to deal with some peculiar people in this business. 209 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,640 There's a poor fellow who's been in prison himself for the last five years. 210 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,680 He had quite a lot of money when he went in. 211 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,000 Oh, he stole it, I guess. 212 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,120 Oh, he thinks Hines hijacked it on him, huh? 213 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,040 If he ever really had it. 214 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,400 He says he left it with a pal of his. 215 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,160 Later the pal was killed in a gunfight. 216 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:12,640 Galucci, you remember the case? 217 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,200 Yeah, I remember something about it. 218 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,800 Anyway, just before he died, he told somebody he'd left the money with Hines. 219 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,560 That's how the story goes. 220 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:21,560 You know how these things travel on the grapevine. 221 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,360 It's all nonsense, of course. 222 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,040 That guy meant business just the same. 223 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,000 That probably explains the whole thing. 224 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,600 Hines is a little scared. 225 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,400 Well, don't let it worry you, Robert. 226 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,400 You will stay, won't you? 227 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:33,720 Believe me, it's for the best. 228 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,760 Well, I've got to trust somebody, I guess. 229 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,040 Well, trust me, Robert. 230 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,960 I've never given you a bum steer, have I? 231 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:40,960 No. 232 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:41,960 Okay. 233 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:42,960 That's the spirit. 234 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,680 And any other little troubles, you just bring them to me, see? 235 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:47,680 Thanks. 236 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,480 Well, I guess I'd better relieve Peggy on the board. 237 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,480 Keep your chin up, kid. 238 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,480 Sure. 239 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,480 Sorry I kept you waiting, Peggy. 240 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,480 That's all right. 241 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:55,480 Hey, Peggy, what's the matter? 242 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:56,480 Shh. 243 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,480 Please. 244 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:58,480 Don't say anything. 245 00:10:58,480 --> 00:10:59,760 But Peggy, what is it? 246 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:00,760 Robert, I'm scared. 247 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:01,760 Of what, Hines? 248 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:02,760 Don't be silly. 249 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:03,760 No, no, it's not him. 250 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:04,760 Well, what is it? 251 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,720 Robert, I shouldn't, but I've got to tell someone. 252 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:09,720 Well, sure you have. 253 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:10,720 Come on, take it easy now. 254 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:11,720 What is it? 255 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,720 Well, I've never told anyone before. 256 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,840 Neither Mr. Hines nor Mr. Craig are known. 257 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:16,840 I'd die if they did. 258 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:17,840 You wouldn't tell anyone, would you? 259 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:18,840 Of course I won't. 260 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:19,840 Come on, come on, spell it. 261 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,840 You saw that man who was in here who was arguing with Mr. Hines about the $50,000? 262 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:25,840 Yeah. 263 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:26,840 Well, it's true. 264 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:27,840 There is $50,000. 265 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:28,840 There is $50,000 somewhere. 266 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:29,840 Yeah? 267 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,680 Well, how do you know all this? 268 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:33,680 I know and I'm scared. 269 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:36,680 Robert, he's a killer. 270 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:37,680 That guy? 271 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:41,680 Well, I wouldn't be surprised, but how do you know? 272 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:50,280 Because he's my own brother. 273 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,840 I had a hunch to lamb out of there right then. 274 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,720 I knew something was going to happen, but I hated to run out on Peggy when she was in 275 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,360 the jam and might need help. 276 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,720 And I didn't want to let Mr. Craig down either, so I stayed. 277 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,520 Then one day, about two weeks later, it came. 278 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,160 I hadn't had any more trouble with Hines. 279 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,600 He was out of town most of the time anyway. 280 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,880 He was still out of town that day. 281 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:22,760 The day that he died. 282 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,360 Craig and Hines. 283 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:25,760 I'm sorry he's out of town. 284 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,360 You might try later this afternoon. 285 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,400 Yes, I'll tell Mr. Hines. 286 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:31,400 Say Peggy. 287 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:32,400 Uh-huh? 288 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,400 Do you know when Mr. Craig will be in? 289 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:34,400 No, he didn't say. 290 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,400 He's still over in the court. 291 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:36,400 Harry. 292 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:37,400 Where is he? 293 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,400 Who? 294 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:39,400 You know who. 295 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:40,400 Hines. 296 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:41,400 Oh, Harry, I told you not to come. 297 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,400 I begged you not to. 298 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,400 Sure, sure. 299 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,400 Always a little pal. 300 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:45,400 Always a little... 301 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,400 Hey, wait a minute. 302 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:47,400 What does this guy know? 303 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,200 I told him that we were... that you were my brother. 304 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,200 But nobody else knows him. 305 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:53,200 Yeah, sure. 306 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:54,200 Okay. 307 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,200 What do I care? 308 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:56,200 I care about one thing. 309 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,600 Harry, you promised you wouldn't come up here. 310 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:00,600 Where's Hines? 311 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:01,600 I don't know. 312 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:02,600 He's out. 313 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:03,600 Well, then I'll wait till he comes back. 314 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:04,600 Harry, you must... 315 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:05,600 I'm staying. 316 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,600 I'll get it out of him. 317 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,360 Harry, your sister said you should leave. 318 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,720 Keep out of this, punk. 319 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,320 I don't like that word, pal. 320 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:12,320 Robert, listen. 321 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,120 Will you watch the board for a few minutes? 322 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:15,120 Sure. 323 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,120 It's lunchtime anyway. 324 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,640 Harry, I've got some things I want to talk over with you, privately. 325 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:20,640 Yeah? 326 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,640 What things? 327 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,680 About Hines and you know. 328 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,880 Come on, we'll go downstairs to the grill in the lobby. 329 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,440 You wouldn't be trying to ease me out of here, would you? 330 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,440 No, honest. 331 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,760 I've got to talk to you, Harry. 332 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:31,760 Come on. 333 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:32,760 Okay, and listen, pal. 334 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,760 Yeah? 335 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,280 If Mr. Hines comes in, you tell him I was here and tell him he better come across or 336 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,280 else. 337 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Is that all? 338 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,280 That's enough, isn't it? 339 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:42,280 You know what I mean. 340 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,280 Plenty. 341 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:44,280 Sure. 342 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:45,280 Craig and Hines. 343 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:46,280 Hello, Robert. 344 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,280 This is Max Craig. 345 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,280 Oh, yes, Mr. Craig. 346 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:49,280 Hey. 347 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,960 You there all alone, pegging out to lunch, huh? 348 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:54,960 Yes, she is. 349 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:55,960 Well, that can't be helped. 350 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:56,960 I'm in a hurry. 351 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:57,960 Now, I'll tell you what I want you to do. 352 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:58,960 Yes, sir. 353 00:13:58,960 --> 00:13:59,960 I'm across the street in the courthouse, Judge Andrews Court, the Ellsworth case. 354 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:00,960 Now, there's some notes I've got to have over here right away. 355 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:01,960 They're in my own handwriting and pencil and clearly marked Ellsworth. 356 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:02,960 Yes, sir. 357 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:03,960 You'll find them in Mr. Hines' office. 358 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:04,960 The pages all clipped together. 359 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:05,960 I don't know exactly where in his office. 360 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:06,960 It may be on his desk or maybe one of the drawers or in the file. 361 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:07,960 I don't know exactly where in his office. 362 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:08,960 It may be on his desk or maybe one of the drawers or in the file. 363 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:30,120 I'll be waiting for you. 364 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,240 I left the switchboard and went into Mr. Hines' office. 365 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,600 I started looking around for the notes. 366 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:35,600 I looked everywhere. 367 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,640 The desk drawers, the piling cabinet. 368 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,080 I even tried to look in the safe, but it was locked. 369 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,080 Then I noticed some yellow papers on top of the bookcase. 370 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:44,760 I reached up and took them down. 371 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,280 I was standing there with my back to the private entrance, looking the papers over to be sure 372 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,680 that they were right ones when... 373 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,600 What are you doing in here? 374 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,280 Mr. Craigert wanted some papers, Mr. Hines. 375 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,880 I thought I told you to stay away from my office. 376 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,880 What are you snooping around in here for? 377 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,920 Well, Mr. Craigert told me to look in here for... 378 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:03,920 Yeah? 379 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,480 There's something mighty funny going on around this office. 380 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,480 There's nothing funny, Mr. Hines. 381 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:08,480 What did Mr. Craigert just say? 382 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:09,480 I say there is. 383 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,840 What's that switchboard girl doing sneaking around the lobby with Harry Marvin? 384 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,360 Tried to duck me, but I saw him. 385 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,360 First, the switchboard girl turns out to have a crazy ex-convict for a boyfriend and now... 386 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,360 That's a lie. 387 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,360 He's her brother. 388 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,360 Her brother? 389 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:24,360 Oh, so that's it. 390 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:25,360 I shouldn't have said that, Mr. Hines. 391 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:26,360 I don't know anything about it. 392 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,360 Oh, you don't? 393 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,360 Well, I do. 394 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:29,360 I get it now. 395 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,360 I knew there was something. 396 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:31,360 All of a sudden, I get it. 397 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:32,360 Mr. Hines, there's nothing to get. 398 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Yeah, so the girl and her brother go down to the lobby. 399 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:34,360 I don't know anything about it. 400 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:35,360 I don't know anything about it. 401 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,480 Yeah, so the girl and her brother go down to the lobby and set themselves an alibi because 402 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,200 they know I'll suspect them. 403 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,120 And then they get you to do their dirty work for a nice fat cut, I suppose. 404 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:45,120 That's what you think. 405 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,480 Please, Mr. Hines, don't talk that way. 406 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:47,480 Well, you didn't find it, did you? 407 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:48,480 And you won't. 408 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,680 Now get out of here, you little punk, before I... 409 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:50,680 I said don't talk that way. 410 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:56,200 Why, you dirty, thieving little stirbuck. 411 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:04,120 I told you not to talk that way. 412 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,160 He fell and just lay there. 413 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,400 For a minute, I didn't know what to do. 414 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,240 Then I knew I'd have to tell Mr. Kroeger. 415 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,800 I knew I was all worse up there anyway. 416 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,400 I couldn't very well expect even a man like Mr. Kroeger to choose between his law partner 417 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:19,680 and me. 418 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,160 And I couldn't stay in the same office with Mr. Hines after what had happened. 419 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:28,400 But somehow, I wanted to tell Mr. Kroeger myself before anyone else did. 420 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:34,600 I went out to the switchboard and dialed the courthouse number. 421 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:41,440 Judge Andrews, court, Johnson speaking. 422 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,220 I want to speak to Mr. Max Kroeger. 423 00:16:43,220 --> 00:16:44,220 This is office calling, please. 424 00:16:44,220 --> 00:16:45,220 Well, I don't see him around here right now. 425 00:16:45,220 --> 00:16:46,220 The court's in recess. 426 00:16:46,220 --> 00:16:50,080 I know, but try to locate him, will you? 427 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,080 It's important. 428 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,080 Okay, hold the line. 429 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:57,000 I sat there waiting for them to find Mr. Kroeger. 430 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,320 And all of a sudden, I remembered the papers he wanted. 431 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,840 I cut off the call on the switchboard. 432 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,920 I had to take the papers over to him anyway, and I thought I might as well go over and 433 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,160 give him the papers and tell him what had happened and get it over with. 434 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,520 I was starting for the front door of the office. 435 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,000 No, no, no. 436 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,640 Then I heard a sound from Mr. Hines' office behind me. 437 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,480 At first, I thought he was just coming to, and I kept going. 438 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,120 Then something sort of clicked in my mind, and I stopped. 439 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:27,760 The sound hadn't seemed quite right for a man just coming to. 440 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,880 I listened, but I didn't hear anything more. 441 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,240 That didn't seem quite natural either. 442 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,140 I went back and opened the door to Mr. Hines' office. 443 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:40,880 He was lying there just as I had left him, and there was something different. 444 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,040 I went over and looked at him more closely. 445 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,240 His face was a terrible gray. 446 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,080 I touched his wrist, feeling for his pulse. 447 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,720 The next thing I knew, I was down on my knees tearing open his collar, but even then I knew 448 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,840 it wasn't any use. 449 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:56,840 Mr. Hines was dead. 450 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:03,520 I don't know how long I stood there in the room. 451 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,040 It might have been hours. 452 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,520 It might have been only a couple of minutes. 453 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:11,080 I just stood there, my mind dazed, and yet at the same time racing through a thousand 454 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:16,800 half-formed plots and schemes of escape, of what I could say, of some way out of it. 455 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,440 Then the switchboard began to buzz with an incoming call. 456 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,120 It sort of brought me to my senses more than anything else. 457 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,480 I went to answer it. 458 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:27,480 Kroeger and Hines. 459 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,480 Robert, are you still there? 460 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:31,480 Mr. Kroeger, I... 461 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:32,480 Where are those notes? 462 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:33,480 Haven't you found them yet? 463 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:34,480 Yes, I found them all right. 464 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,480 Well, bring them over here. 465 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:36,480 I need them right away. 466 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,480 Mr. Kroeger, I... 467 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Robert, what's the matter with you? 468 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,480 I... 469 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:40,480 I just killed Mr. Hines. 470 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:55,760 You're just making it hard for yourself, Tesker. 471 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,280 I've told you what happened. 472 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:58,720 In a pig's eye you have. 473 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,520 Well, I don't have to talk if I don't want to. 474 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:01,520 Oh, no? 475 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:02,520 I'm waiting for Mr. Kroeger. 476 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:03,520 I told you that. 477 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,280 Kroeger, what do you think he's gonna do for you? 478 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,280 I don't know. 479 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:07,280 Well, I do. 480 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:08,280 He's gonna see that you're burned. 481 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,280 That's what he's gonna do for you. 482 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,280 Maybe. 483 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,560 I suspect you killed a man's law partner right in his own office. 484 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:13,920 You think he's gonna help you? 485 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:14,920 Are you crazy? 486 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,480 Well, he told me he'd come down. 487 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,120 Sure, of course he'll come down to give evidence against you. 488 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,120 Now, listen, Tesker. 489 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:21,120 Oh, yeah? 490 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:22,720 To give a full confession, we may be able to get you a break. 491 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:23,720 All right. 492 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:24,720 Mr. Kroeger's outside, Captain. 493 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:25,720 He wants to see you. 494 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:26,720 Sure, send him in. 495 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:27,720 Okay, Mr. Kroeger. 496 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:28,720 Thank you. 497 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:29,720 Oh, hi, boys. 498 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,720 Hey, Mr. Kroeger. 499 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:31,720 Hello, Robert. 500 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:32,720 Hello, Mr. Kroeger. 501 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:33,720 I've been treating you all right? 502 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:34,720 Pretty good. 503 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:35,720 Fine. 504 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,640 I don't like to have my people treated roughly. 505 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,040 You know what? 506 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,880 You heard me, Captain, and while you're at it, you might as well take those handcuffs 507 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,880 off of him. 508 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,440 Because from this moment, he's out on bond, released in my custody. 509 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:47,840 I've got the papers right here. 510 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,240 Say, are you crazy? 511 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:50,240 Certainly not. 512 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,240 I simply don't believe the boy did it, that's all. 513 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:53,240 Well, I'll be... 514 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,000 All right, Hawkshaw. 515 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,280 Who do you think did it? 516 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,620 That, Captain, is your department. 517 00:19:57,620 --> 00:19:59,520 My job is simply to defend an innocent man. 518 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,040 Now, look, Kroeger, don't try to kid us. 519 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,040 It's an open and shut case. 520 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,800 Tesker's the only person who had the opportunity, the only one who had a motive. 521 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:06,800 Uh-huh. 522 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:07,800 Well? 523 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:08,800 Not to speak ill of the deed, Captain. 524 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,840 Although Arthur Hines was my lower partner, it is unfortunately true that quite a number 525 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,840 of people at least thought they had a motive. 526 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:15,840 Sure. 527 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,920 So maybe this ex-con Harry Marvin had a motive, or even the dame on the switchboard had a motive, 528 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:19,920 for all I know. 529 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,400 But they couldn't have done it. 530 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,200 Fifty people saw him together downstairs in the lobby of the building at the time the murder 531 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,200 was committed. 532 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,840 Oh, you talked to them, have you? 533 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:27,840 Sure. 534 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:28,840 So what? 535 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,920 Listen, this kid admits he had a quarrel with Hines. 536 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,240 He always hated him anyway. 537 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,240 He admits he hit him. 538 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,200 So he picks the paperweight off the desk and smashes him over the head. 539 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,200 Wait a minute. 540 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,000 You didn't say anything about that, Robert? 541 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,440 No, I didn't even know about it before. 542 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,440 I didn't hit him with a paperweight. 543 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,440 Stop it, will you? 544 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,240 The back of the man's head is bashed in with that paperweight. 545 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,760 This kid's fingerprints are all over it. 546 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:49,800 What's so funny? 547 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,840 This is murder, mister. 548 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,920 I'm sorry, but you find out if you ever try to bring this boy to trial for killing Arthur 549 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:55,920 Hines with a paperweight. 550 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,880 Listen, Craig, I know you're pretty smart. 551 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,160 I know you go around bragging you never lost a case. 552 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,480 And that goes for this one. 553 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,480 Double. 554 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,000 But you're not going to make a chump out of me. 555 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,160 This boy is going to be indicted for murder. 556 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,920 He's going to be convicted of murder. 557 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:12,760 And he's going to burn for murder. 558 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:20,440 Indicted, convicted, burned. 559 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,440 Three promises. 560 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,320 And the first one's already happened. 561 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:29,480 The second one, well, even I can see we don't stand much chance. 562 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,680 And the third one, I just try not to think about it. 563 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,040 I'm not going to be a good judge, Mr. Craig, up before that jury. 564 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,520 Acting as though it was an absolute certainty that I'd be cleared. 565 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,720 Pleading for me as though I were the only guy in the world. 566 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:50,520 Because well, that's the kind of a man he is. 567 00:21:50,520 --> 00:22:00,160 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my firm conviction that when you've heard this boy's story from 568 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:05,880 his own lips and went through it, you have in some measure, as I have in large measure, 569 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:11,380 gained insight into the depth and integrity of his character and spirit, you will also 570 00:22:11,380 --> 00:22:13,340 believe him innocent. 571 00:22:13,340 --> 00:22:14,340 He is innocent. 572 00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:21,080 Now, Robert, I'll ask you to take a stand. 573 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,080 Raise your right hand. 574 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,680 You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, to help your God? 575 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:25,680 I do. 576 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,480 Now, Robert, just for the record, will you tell the court your full name? 577 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,480 Robert Loringtasca. 578 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,480 Your age? 579 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,480 Twenty-four. 580 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,240 Your mother and father are dead. 581 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,680 You have no living relatives? 582 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,280 No, not one. 583 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:41,480 Now, before you begin your story, there are one or two extremely important points that 584 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,480 I particularly wish to emphasize to the court. 585 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:50,360 Now, tell me, Robert, how long was it between the time you quarreled with Mr. Himes and 586 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:53,520 the time you went back into his office and found him dead? 587 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,000 Not long, six or seven minutes, perhaps. 588 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,480 But it was long enough for someone to have entered Mr. Himes' office by the back entrance, 589 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,680 struck him, and left again, was it not? 590 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,120 Yes, it was long enough for that to have happened. 591 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,920 Would you have necessarily heard such a person enter the office? 592 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,280 No, you can't hear much from outside when the door's closed. 593 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,800 Particularly if there were no conversation, because Mr. Himes is already unconscious. 594 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:15,800 Is that correct? 595 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,280 Yes, then I wouldn't have heard anything. 596 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:24,440 Now, concerning this famous paperweight the prosecution has talked so much about, I have 597 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:25,440 it here. 598 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,040 Do you recognize it? 599 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,520 Yes, it was always on Mr. Himes' desk. 600 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,080 Now, when you went into his office, at my order, to look for certain papers, you touched 601 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,840 this paperweight, did you not? 602 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,720 Yes, I saw just about everything on the desk. 603 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,720 Exactly. 604 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,120 In other words, your fingerprints would be found not only on this paperweight, but on 605 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,480 practically everything else in the room. 606 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,640 Well, yes, they would. 607 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:53,240 In due course, Your Honor, we shall demonstrate that such is, in fact, precisely the case. 608 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:59,520 Now, Robert, when Mr. Himes found you in his room, he was irate and highly suspicious, 609 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:00,520 was he not? 610 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:01,520 Yes, he was. 611 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,000 In fact, he even suspected that there was some plot against him involving Peggy, the 612 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,840 switchboard girl, and the client of his name, Harry Marvin. 613 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:08,840 Yes, he did. 614 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,120 You denied this, saying that in fact they were brother and sister? 615 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:13,120 Yes. 616 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,600 Yes, that's right. 617 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:16,600 How is that again? 618 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:21,400 You denied the charge of a plot saying that Peggy and Harry Marvin were brother and sister. 619 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,200 And Mr. Himes went so far as to accuse you of stealing? 620 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,200 Your Honor. 621 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,200 Yes? 622 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,840 Your Honor, there's something I've just thought of, some new evidence. 623 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,000 I'd like a few minutes alone with my lawyer, please. 624 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,120 Well, if counsel has no objection. 625 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:35,120 Robert, what is it? 626 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,000 It's just something that I think I ought to tell you in private. 627 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Very well. 628 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,560 If Your Honor, please, then. 629 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,560 By all means. 630 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,160 Perhaps you would like to use my chambers. 631 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,160 Thank you, Your Honor. 632 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,160 Come along, Robert. 633 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:52,720 Well, you didn't have to lock the door, Robert. 634 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,720 I wanted to be private. 635 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:54,720 All right. 636 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,120 But Robert, you mustn't worry like this. 637 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:57,120 Let me do the worrying. 638 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:58,120 They can't convict you. 639 00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,520 If there's a reasonable doubt, that's the law. 640 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,040 And there is a reasonable doubt. 641 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,540 Somebody did come in and hit Hines in those six or seven minutes. 642 00:25:03,540 --> 00:25:04,720 It must have been that way. 643 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,720 Yeah, I know. 644 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,720 Of course you do. 645 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:07,720 We've been over the whole thing. 646 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,520 Now, let's go back into that courtroom. 647 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,400 Mr. Craig, there's something I haven't told you. 648 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,400 Something you haven't told me? 649 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,400 What? 650 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,200 Well, it's not something, but it's kind of important because it's something I never told 651 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,200 anyone. 652 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,400 Well, what is it? 653 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:27,120 I never told anyone that Peggy was Harry Marvin's sister, except Mr. Hines, by mistake. 654 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,120 And he's dead. 655 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,920 Now, Robert, don't you think that's a little trivial to be... 656 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,080 No. 657 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,000 Because you know about it. 658 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,600 You just said so in the courtroom. 659 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,600 Well, I... 660 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,880 There's only one way you could have found out. 661 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,480 He must have been in your office when I had the fight with Hines and heard me tell him. 662 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:43,480 Robert, that's ridiculous. 663 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:44,800 Oh, no, it isn't. 664 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,360 And you're right. 665 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,640 Somebody did come in in those six or seven minutes and kill Hines. 666 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:50,640 You did. 667 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,640 You're crazy. 668 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,000 Yes, it must have been for that $50,000 you hijacked the hijacker. 669 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,840 And you knew they'd pin it on me with my record. 670 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,680 Maybe that's why you got me out of the pen in the first place. 671 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,680 It is, isn't it? 672 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,680 Well, I'm not going to stay here and listen to any such nonsense. 673 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,680 Oh, yes, you are, because I'm going to get the truth out of you right now. 674 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,640 You planned it that way, didn't you? 675 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,800 You sent me into Hines' office that day and you probably sent him. 676 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,520 And you figured you were such a hot lawyer that might even get me off at 20 years or 677 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,920 so to ease your dirty conscience, didn't you? 678 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:17,920 Talk, Kroeger. 679 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,240 You won't get anywhere using violence with me. 680 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,240 No. 681 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,240 Talk! 682 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,240 Now, wait a minute. 683 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,160 Even if I did confess, it wouldn't hold up as evidence. 684 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,160 Talk! 685 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,160 Listen! 686 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,080 Listen, we've postponed the trial. 687 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,080 I can get you out of the country. 688 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,080 I'll give you money. 689 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,080 That's all I wanted to know. 690 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,080 Talk! 691 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,080 No, don't! 692 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,080 You're dead! 693 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,080 You killed him! 694 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,080 That's why you were when I found you at court and I could find you, weren't you? 695 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,080 You were killing Hines, weren't you? 696 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,080 Yes, yes, I did. 697 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,080 I did it. 698 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:51,080 I killed him. 699 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,080 Okay. 700 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,080 I guess we can unlock the door now. 701 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,080 What's going on here? 702 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,080 He's under the garb of him! 703 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,080 He's crazy. 704 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,080 He attacked me. 705 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,080 So I gather. 706 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,080 He even killed me a murder. 707 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,080 Yes, I heard him. 708 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,960 Tell me, Kroeger, where were you when this boy phoned you here at court when they couldn't 709 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:07,960 find you? 710 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,560 Why, as a matter of fact, I was right here, right in this very room. 711 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,160 I had some work to do. 712 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,160 I wanted privacy. 713 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,680 Your court was in recent. 714 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,680 You were out of town. 715 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:18,680 Yes, I know. 716 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,680 But there's something you don't know. 717 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,680 I, hey, what? 718 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,840 On the day of the murder, the floor of this room was being repainted. 719 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,440 And the paint, Mr. Kroeger, was quite wet. 720 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:46,920 Your Honor, the defense rests. 721 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,520 And so closes the defense rest starring Alan Ladd. 722 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:55,080 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 723 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,960 Alan Ladd appeared through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, producers of Lady in the 724 00:27:58,960 --> 00:27:59,960 Dark. 725 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,320 John McIntyre played lawyer Max Kroeger. 726 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:08,200 Before Mr. Ladd returns to our microphone, here is a definition of yourself that may 727 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,720 interest you. 728 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:15,840 Connoisseur, one competent to act as a critical judge of an art or in a matter of taste. 729 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,000 That's what Webster says. 730 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,680 So that makes you a wine connoisseur because certainly you are competent to act as a critical 731 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,320 judge of a wine's taste. 732 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,440 Matter of fact, all you have to know to be a true wine connoisseur in the opinion of 733 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,840 your friends and guests is a single word. 734 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,320 Roma, R-O-M-A. 735 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,520 To get the proof, make your own taste test of the tangy, appetizing Roma Sherry, the 736 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:46,600 hearty, satisfying Roma Burgundy, the heavier, sweeter Roma Port, or any of the many different 737 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,560 delicious Roma California wines. 738 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,080 If your favorite dealer is temporarily out of the kind of Roma wine you prefer, ask for 739 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,760 it again, please. 740 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:04,240 Just be sure to say R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 741 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,240 world. 742 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,800 Well, this is Alan Ladd. 743 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,840 It was a pleasure to make another appearance on this program, which is a great favorite 744 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,200 of mine. 745 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,120 Next week they tell me Ladd Krieger will be your star, and I know you'll want to be listening, 746 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,840 because I certainly will. 747 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:19,840 Good night. 748 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,800 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 749 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,120 Tonight's play was written by Roland Brown and Robert L. 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