1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Tonight, I had an alibi starring Keenan Wynn. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you... 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Suspense! 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,000 This is the Man in Black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Who tonight from Hollywood bring you as star, Mr. Keenan Wynn. 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Who is soon to be seen in the Metro-Golden-Mail production between two women. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Tonight, Mr. Wynn details for us the dramatic narrative of a gentleman who studied thoroughly the art of murder. 15 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 And who, like certain others, whose ventures are now and again recorded on the front pages of our newspapers, 16 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 evolved his own formula for the perfect crime. 17 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 And so with, I had an alibi. 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,000 And with the performance of Keenan Wynn, we again hope to keep you in... 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Suspense! 20 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:38,000 ["Suspense!" plays.] 21 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Miss Lamson? 22 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Yes? 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Come in, come in. 24 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Sit down. 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Ever take dictation for a writer before? 26 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 No. 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Well, that's okay. I've never written a novel before that I finished. 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I hope you don't mind working in a place like this. 29 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 I don't mind working anywhere that I'm paid to work. 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Oh, don't let that worry you. 31 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I came into quite a piece of change not long ago. Maybe you heard about it. 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Yes. 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Well, you're not exactly the talkative type, are you? 34 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 I didn't think you'd have much time for talking, Mr. Eichner. 35 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Yeah, I checked. Eleven days to make my deadline. 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Ready to start? 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Yes. 38 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Title. I had an alibi by Joseph Eichner. 39 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Oh, by the way, this will all be in the first person. 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Yes. 41 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Chapter one. 42 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 I first met Belle Schaffner when I went to work for the Herald. 43 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 She was a sob sister and a good one. 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I was a police reporter and no bum in the business myself. 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 With Belle and me, it happened almost right away. 46 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 We talked the same language, thought the same way, wanted the same things. 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 We were that kind of a team. 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,000 But for a while, there were a couple of notions in the back of my mind that I hadn't even told Belle. 49 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Because sometimes a woman in love can be practical only just so far. 50 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:15,000 The door came out one night in the office after I'd been there about six months. 51 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Hello, handsome. 52 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Hi, sugarpuss. 53 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Busy? 54 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Uh-uh. 55 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Can I see? 56 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Why not? 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Dimly through the gray curtain of fog, Alice saw the phantom figure. 58 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 It was closer now. 59 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 She tried to scream, but her throat... 60 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Is Alice still having trouble with her throat? 61 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 She's been trying to scream for two weeks now. 62 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Look, I know, I know. 63 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 There's the reason right there. 64 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 City desk, Eichner. 65 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Yeah. 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Uh-huh. 67 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Yeah. 68 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Yeah, yeah. 69 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 What's the address again? 70 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Okay, I'll go right down. 71 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 I'm going to tell you. 72 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 President want to see you? 73 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Some guy carved up his wife. 74 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 I have to cover one more family brawl ends fatally for this sheet. 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 What's the matter? 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 You like to write about murders, and here they pay you for it. 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Not the kind of money I want they don't. 78 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Have you any idea what they pay a guy like James M. Kane? 79 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 A James M. Kane girl never has any trouble screaming when she wants to. 80 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Now, you listen, Joe. 81 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 You'll never write a decent book until you get down to something you know about. 82 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Well, this stuff sells, doesn't it? 83 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Agatha Christie sells. 84 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Leslie Charteris sells. 85 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Yeah, yeah, but that's not your racket, Joe. 86 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 You've seen plenty of the real thing. 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Write about that. 88 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Stick to your trade. 89 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Oh, yeah, well, look what it's got me. 90 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You just can't be a writer and a newspaper reporter at the same time, Belle. 91 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 That's all. 92 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 All right, quit. 93 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 On what, relief? 94 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Well, darling, it isn't leap year, but I'll always support you. 95 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 I can't even live on my own salary. 96 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 How are we going to both live on yours? 97 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Well, listen, Belle, you know how I am about you. 98 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Well, a girl always thinks she has ways of knowing. 99 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I'm giving you plenty of ways of knowing. 100 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 But before we do anything like that, we've got to have money, lots of money. 101 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 We're that kind of people. 102 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 And there are ways. 103 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Like what? 104 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Well, like marriage, for instance. 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 You're going to marry the boss's daughter, huh? 106 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Why not? 107 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,000 If the boss has left her a million dollars and she has a bad cough. 108 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Well, I don't have a million dollars, but... 109 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 All right, you think I'm kidding. 110 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 But they exist. You read about them in the papers all the time. 111 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 That's right, you do. 112 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Well, what's that? 113 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Just a picture of a girl. 114 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 And what about her? 115 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 I'm supposed to go out and interview her tonight. 116 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 It's a very, very sad story. 117 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Yeah? 118 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Uh-huh. 119 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 She's got not one million dollars, but five. 120 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 And she's an orphan. 121 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 And she's got something the matter with her heart. 122 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 So they only give her six months to live. 123 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,000 And she's just come out here to spend her last days in the glorious sunshine of California. 124 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 It's a very sad story. 125 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Yeah. 126 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 You want the assignment, Romeo? It's yours. 127 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Hmm? 128 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Oh, uh, say, loan me a couple of dollars, will you, Belle? 129 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 What? Poker? 130 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 No, no, no. Flowers. 131 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Mr. Keenan Wynne, whom you've heard in the prologue to I Had an Alibi, a radio play by Mindred Lord. 132 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Tonight's tale of suspense. 133 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 134 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:50,000 And we have an interesting idea for you tonight from the keen and sensible mind of America's famed expert on parties and smart entertaining, Miss Elsa Maxwell. 135 00:06:50,000 --> 00:07:02,000 And we quote, Serving a nice table wine when friends come to dinner or with everyday meals is one of the smartest, most sensible and truly moderate pleasures of the world. 136 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:10,000 And one which any family can regularly enjoy since the cost of delicious Roma burgundy is very little. 137 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Just serve your Roma burgundy well cooled. 138 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Enjoy it with any food and don't worry about special glasses. 139 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Any glasses available are perfectly correct. 140 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 The goodness of the wine, the added enjoyment of your food. 141 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 These are the best dishes for you tonight. 142 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 The goodness of the wine, the added enjoyment of your food. 143 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 These are the things that count. 144 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Miss Maxwell expresses perfectly what we have Roma believe in Roma California burgundy and all Roma wines. 145 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,000 You enjoy the glorious color, aroma and flavor of superb, sun ripe grapes. 146 00:07:48,000 --> 00:08:00,000 The more noted wineries located in California's choicest vineyard areas assure you of flavor and quality which are always good, never varying, always delightful. 147 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 And so Roma quality is preferred everywhere. 148 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:10,000 And you are able to enjoy these fine Roma wines at modest prices, only pennies a glass full. 149 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 150 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 OMA, Roma wines. 151 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage our star Mr. Keenan Wynn. 152 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Who as one Joe Eichner prepares to continue dictation on his first and only novel, I Had an Alibi. 153 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 154 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 The Story of the Woman 155 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 You're sure you don't mind coming here Miss Lamson? 156 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 No. 157 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Well we'd better go on with the dictation. 158 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 I've only got nine more days. 159 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I'm ready. 160 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Chapter four. 161 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Belle Schaffner was a good sob sister all right even if she did have one weakness which was me. 162 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,000 The story she'd given me about the girl was the real McCoy. 163 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Her name was Linda Vale and she did have five million dollars and just six months to live. 164 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 I went out to her house that night. 165 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 She was living in a big place in Beverly Hills that she'd taken over from some broken down movie star. 166 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 You know, swimming pool, tennis course, riding stables, the works. 167 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 And not a soul around. 168 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I'd been worried about that. 169 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:38,000 I thought maybe she might be having a last fling and working out at 24 hours a day, you know, with a lot of nosy sponges hanging on to her all the time. 170 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,000 There was just one light on in a room upstairs in a hall light. 171 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 I went up to the door, knocked and waited. 172 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Yes sir? 173 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 I'd like to see Miss Vale please. 174 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 I'm sorry sir but Miss Vale has given orders that... 175 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Would you just give her these please? I'll wait. 176 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Very well sir. 177 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 A press card will break the ice with almost anyone and I knew the flowers would do the rest. 178 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Oh, what a surprise. 179 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Pretty soon I heard steps and a voice. 180 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 The flowers are simply lovely but who... 181 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Miss Vale? 182 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Yes? 183 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Well my name is Joseph Eichner. 184 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Yeah, she was a nice enough kid and lonely. 185 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Because like a lot of people on a spot like that, the thing she was afraid of most was having anybody pity her. 186 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 That's the mistake that nearly everybody made. 187 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 But not me. 188 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 I played it for a switch. 189 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 I'd figured every move for days I had. 190 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Joe? 191 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Yes? 192 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 What's the matter? 193 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Oh, nothing. 194 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 You've been awfully subdued lately. 195 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 You've always been so... gay. 196 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Well and I? 197 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Well I've got to go away. 198 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Go away? 199 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Linda, I've been trying to keep it from you but... 200 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Gee, you must know how I feel about you and seeing you every day and knowing that... 201 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Oh Joe. 202 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 It's not fair to you Linda. 203 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 And well I can't take it anymore. 204 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Joe? 205 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Yes? 206 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 I don't want you to go. 207 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 I don't want to. 208 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I don't want to Linda but... 209 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Then promise me. 210 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Promise me you won't leave me. 211 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Just with a little time that's left. 212 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Oh Linda. 213 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 For my sake. 214 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Alright Linda. 215 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,000 For your sake. 216 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 After that it was quick and easy. 217 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Three days later we went to see her doctor. 218 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 The best heart specialist in California. 219 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Dr. Malcolm, you must be frank with us. 220 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Doctor, we're in love. 221 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I see. 222 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 And we want to be married. 223 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Look doctor, if I could make Linda happier. 224 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 If I could give her all the love and tenderness. 225 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Well isn't it just possible... 226 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,000 My boy, all that medical science can do is go on the basis of experience. 227 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 We can't make certain prophecies. 228 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 But on the basis of experience the prognosis for Linda remains unchanged. 229 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 But doctor, once you told me that anything is possible... 230 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 And I say it again my dear. 231 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Anything is possible. 232 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 That's enough for me Joe. 233 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Yeah me too. 234 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,880 The 235 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Do you Joseph take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife... 236 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 To have her to hold in sickness and health... 237 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 For better for worse, for richer for poorer... 238 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Forsaking all others until death do you part? 239 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I do. 240 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Do you Linda take this man to be your lawful wedded wife? 241 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Hello baby. 242 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Oh hello Romeo. 243 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 On a belway off will you? 244 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Sorry. 245 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 I'm just nervous I guess. 246 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Anything wrong? 247 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Well that ex-husband of mine is loose again. 248 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 What of it? 249 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,000 What of it? 250 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Remember the song and dance he led me the last time don't you? 251 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Alright so he gets rough you just haven't committed again that's all. 252 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Yeah. 253 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Yeah I suppose so. 254 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Belle. 255 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 No please. 256 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 I don't feel like... 257 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Well what's the matter? 258 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Well what do you think? 259 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Oh now Belle you know I come around here as often as I can. 260 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Sure. 261 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Sometimes as often as twice a week. 262 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Well I see other places. 263 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Anyway I can't help it. 264 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,000 And when I do come well gee you might at least... 265 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Alright. 266 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Skip it. 267 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 How's the writing coming along? 268 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Oh I don't know. 269 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I just can't seem to get started. 270 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 So you're not even getting that done. 271 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Well how can I get down to work when all I'm thinking about is... 272 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Joe. 273 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 How long is this going to go on? 274 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Well how do I know it's bound to happen soon? 275 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 That's what you said a year ago. 276 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 A year ago. 277 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Belle it's all set. 278 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 She made out the will and my name and everything. 279 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 All we have to do is wait. 280 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Just wait for the heart of hers to quit. 281 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Well I'm tired of waiting. 282 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Now what do you think of that? 283 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Well what else can we do? 284 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 You mean what else can I do? 285 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 There are a few guys around loose with five million bucks too you know. 286 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Oh now Belle. 287 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Oh you... 288 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 For all we know she's liable to live to be a hundred. 289 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Now that's impossible. 290 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 A doctor said... 291 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Yes and doctors have been wrong. 292 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Well what do you want me to do about it? 293 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Well... 294 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 You think you're a mystery writer. 295 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 What do you mean by that? 296 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 I mean... 297 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 If you're supposed to be able to think up mysteries... 298 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Start thinking one up. 299 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Oh. 300 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 And don't think about it too long either. 301 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Say Belle... 302 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I mean it Joe. 303 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Okay. 304 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Because I'm not going to wait like this forever. 305 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Okay. 306 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Well that was when I first began to think about it. 307 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Then all of a sudden I began writing again. 308 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Linda was a little surprised but I kept right at it and... 309 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Every so often I'd show her what I'd done. 310 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 It was pretty terrible but... 311 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 It didn't matter because nobody but her was ever going to see it anyway. 312 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 After about two weeks of this... 313 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 I was ready. 314 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,000 That night I came out of the study and went into the drawing. 315 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Hello there darling. 316 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Working hard? 317 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Yeah. 318 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Say Linda... 319 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 You want to do me a favor? 320 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Of course I do. 321 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Well you know the place in my story where Lillian pretends to commit suicide and leaves the note? 322 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Uh huh. 323 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Look I suddenly thought why not have the note reproduced right in the book as... 324 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000 As though we're in her own handwriting. 325 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 You know exhibit A. 326 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 You know along with the map of the grounds and so on. 327 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Well that would be good. 328 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah. 329 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Only of course it's got to be in a woman's handwriting. 330 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Do you want to write it for me? 331 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 You mean my handwriting is going to come out in a book? 332 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Oh exciting. 333 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 It sure is if I can get a publisher and I think I've got a nibble. 334 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Here you can write it on your own stationery. 335 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 I'll cut that letterhead off at the top later. 336 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Alright. 337 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 What does it say? 338 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Uh... 339 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Darling. 340 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Darling? 341 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:02,000 You know I can't go on like this. 342 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Huh? 343 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 It's got to end sometime. 344 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:14,000 It's got to end sometime. 345 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,000 It will be easier for both of us if I end it now. 346 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:25,000 If I end it now. 347 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Please try to forgive me and sign it L. 348 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,000 L? 349 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Wouldn't you sign... 350 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Oh no no you see all Lillian's letters to Dick are signed L. Remember? 351 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Oh yes yes I remember now. 352 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 There. 353 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Well thanks darling. 354 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Is it alright? 355 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Oh sure. 356 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 It's perfect. 357 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Hello? 358 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Hello Belle? 359 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Yeah. 360 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Now listen baby it's all set. 361 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Did you get the note? 362 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Oh sure sure she wrote it tonight. 363 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Now how soon can you leave for Palm Springs? 364 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Anytime. 365 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Tomorrow morning? 366 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Alright. 367 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Now listen when you check in down there make plenty of fuss about it. 368 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I will. 369 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 I'll leave here at exactly 9.30 tomorrow night. 370 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,000 I'll stop at a couple of places so you leave Palm Springs about fifty miles from here. 371 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Alright. 372 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 373 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Alright. 374 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 375 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Alright. 376 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 377 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Alright. 378 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 379 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 380 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 381 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 382 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I'll see you tomorrow man. 383 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 So the next time you come don't forget to check in at Palm Springs about fifteen minutes 384 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,000 later or 9.45. 385 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Okay. 386 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Better check your watch at Western Union. 387 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 I'll do the same. 388 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Okay. 389 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Hey be sure to bring plenty of stuff. 390 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Everything you can lay your hands on. 391 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Oh don't worry I will. 392 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 You remember the place don't you? 393 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Remember? 394 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 You know the second turn after you leave Riverside. 395 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,660 Well how far is it about? 396 00:17:30,660 --> 00:17:33,760 Well it's exactly half way between the springs in here. 397 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:34,760 Say sixty miles. 398 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:35,760 I'll be there. 399 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:36,760 Okay baby. 400 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:37,760 Tomorrow night. 401 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:45,760 What time is it, Linda? 402 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,040 It's just about nine thirty. 403 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,200 Well, I guess I'd better be going. 404 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,840 Gee, darling, I hate to have to leave you this way on such short notice. 405 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:53,840 It's all right, dear. 406 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,560 I'll be going to sleep in a few minutes anyway. 407 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,440 You know, I don't know why this guy has to see me in such a rush and pop springs of all 408 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:01,440 places. 409 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,360 But, if he wants to publish my book... 410 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,720 Of course, you have to go. 411 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,040 Well, I'll be back tomorrow afternoon, maybe even earlier. 412 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:10,040 You won't worry, will you? 413 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,040 No, I won't. 414 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,240 Uh, door's under the terrace locked. 415 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,000 Yep, yeah, they're all right. 416 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,600 You know, I know how nervous you are sometimes when I'm away for the evening. 417 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,960 I think you're the one that's nervous. 418 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,760 Yeah, yeah, maybe I am at that. 419 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,120 Well, good night, darling. 420 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,120 Good night, Joe. 421 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:28,120 Oh, uh, Saunders. 422 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:29,120 Yes, sir? 423 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:30,120 Come in, sir? 424 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:34,840 Look, Saunders, I've got to drive down to Palm Springs tonight. 425 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,480 Oh, excuse me just a second. 426 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Linda? 427 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,480 Yes? 428 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:43,640 Linda, you'd better put the snap lock on your door from the inside, just in case. 429 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:44,640 I've got the key. 430 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,640 Oh, all right. 431 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:46,640 There you are. 432 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:47,640 Okay, darling, good night. 433 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:48,640 Good night. 434 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:49,640 Saunders, uh, let me see. 435 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:50,640 Oh, yes. 436 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:57,640 I wonder if you'd mind checking the doors for Mrs. Eichner's room onto the terrace to 437 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,640 see if they're locked from the outside. 438 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:00,640 Very good, sir. 439 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,080 Little later, when she's asleep, so as not to disturb her. 440 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,960 You know, she gets nervous sometimes when I'm not here. 441 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:06,960 Yes, sir. 442 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,880 Saunders, you won't forget, will you? 443 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:09,880 Oh, no, sir. 444 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,880 I shan't forget, sir. 445 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:24,640 Uh, five gallons? 446 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,640 Yes, sir. 447 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,840 Say, uh, that ought to get me to Palm Springs. 448 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,560 Oh, sure, easy. 449 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,800 By the way, have you got a road map for Palm Springs? 450 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,240 I think I've got one inside here. 451 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:39,240 Oh, thanks. 452 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,400 Say, I don't suppose you'd cash a small check, would you? 453 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,400 I missed the bank today. 454 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,480 Well, the boss might, but, uh, he ain't here. 455 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,920 Well, I got identification, plenty of it. 456 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,360 See, Joseph Eichner, license, Social Security card. 457 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:54,360 Joseph Eichner. 458 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,440 Yes, yes, I see, son, I see. 459 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:03,440 And unless the boss was here, I wouldn't cash a check for Henry Morgenthau. 460 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,440 Belle? 461 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,960 Joe. 462 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,440 Hello, baby. 463 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:18,160 Well, what's the matter? 464 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:19,160 You're shaking all over. 465 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:20,160 Oh, I don't know. 466 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,160 Everything, I guess. 467 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,120 And I thought I saw that ex-husband of mine down in Palm Springs today. 468 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:25,120 What? 469 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:26,120 What would he be doing down there? 470 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,840 Oh, I must be seeing things. 471 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:28,840 Oh, I'm sure you are. 472 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:29,840 Oh, Joe. 473 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,360 Joe, I'm scared just the same. 474 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:34,960 Are you sure nobody's gonna get nosy about this? 475 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:35,960 Let them. 476 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:36,960 It's a set up. 477 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:37,960 The room's locked from the inside. 478 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,640 The butler knows it. 479 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:44,000 Nobody could have done what's going to happen in that room tonight except Linda or me. 480 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,760 I couldn't have done it because I couldn't be there and at Palm Springs with you at the 481 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:47,760 same time, right? 482 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:48,760 Oh, yeah, I guess so. 483 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,840 I've already left the trail to Palm Springs a mile wide. 484 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:53,840 Did you get away all right? 485 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,280 Yeah, out the back of the hotel. 486 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Nobody saw me. 487 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,280 Everything else go okay? 488 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,280 Oh, yeah. 489 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,080 I got the maid in this afternoon and raised a fuss. 490 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,520 Then I gave her five dollars and made her polish everything till she was blue in the 491 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:04,520 face. 492 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,520 She'll never forget it. 493 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:06,520 That's swell. 494 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:07,520 You got the stuff? 495 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,880 Yeah, my big suitcase and the trunk rack. 496 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,880 All packed in cotton. 497 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,880 Okay, let's take a look at it. 498 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,360 Here we are. 499 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:21,040 Look at this. 500 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,760 Glasses, water pitcher, ashtrays. 501 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 And look at this. 502 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,440 I even got doorknobs. 503 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,320 I unscrewed them with a nail file. 504 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:30,320 Hey, what do you know? 505 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,280 Here's the one to the bathroom. 506 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,280 This little one's from the medicine cabinet. 507 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,240 And this one's the inside of the front door. 508 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,440 Okay, I'll just put my fingerprints on them and you pack them back in cotton. 509 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,800 Say you're sure you can get this stuff back into your room all right? 510 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:43,800 Oh, sure. 511 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:44,800 Better hurry then. 512 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800 Yeah, I know. 513 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:47,800 There. 514 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,280 With my fingerprints on that doorknob, just let anybody try to prove I wasn't with you 515 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:52,760 in Palm Springs tonight. 516 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,760 I told you that when you got down to something real, you'd hit the jackpot. 517 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:57,760 Remember? 518 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,520 Yeah, and you know what this pot is worth, don't you? 519 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:10,440 Five million dollars. 520 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,000 There were no hitches. 521 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,920 I got back to town a little before two. 522 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,320 I drove the car into a little side road about a half mile up the canyon and walked back. 523 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,720 I didn't meet anybody and the places I passed were all dark. 524 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:23,720 So was mine. 525 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:29,480 I slipped through a hole in the hedge and crossed the lawn and went up onto the terrace. 526 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:34,280 I checked to see if I had the suicide note in my pocket and then I pulled on a pair of 527 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:40,720 gloves and opened the terrace door with my key and went inside. 528 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,440 The gun was in my overcoat pocket. 529 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:44,440 It was hers. 530 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,800 I had the flashlight in my hand. 531 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,800 I went over to the bedside and I flashed it on just for a second. 532 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,480 She was lying on her side, turned away from me. 533 00:22:54,480 --> 00:23:00,760 I put the gun against her temple and pulled the trigger. 534 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,000 She didn't make a sound. 535 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,800 I reached over to put the gun in her hand and then it hit me. 536 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,240 Her hand was stiff and cold as ice. 537 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,440 I flashed the light in her face. 538 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:12,440 It was blue. 539 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,600 While I was away, she'd had her heart attack at last. 540 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:22,800 For the last three or four hours, she'd been dead. 541 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,480 For about ten seconds, I didn't know what to do. 542 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,800 Then I realized I had to get out of there. 543 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,800 Someone might have heard the shot. 544 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,280 Before it wouldn't have mattered one way or the other because the coroner would have established 545 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:33,680 the time of death anyway. 546 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,000 Now it made all the difference in the world. 547 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,400 I went out the terrace door and I locked it behind me. 548 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,080 I crossed the grounds and I started walking up the canyon, walking, thinking. 549 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,400 I don't know how long I walked. 550 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,800 But what I was thinking was enough to drive me crazy. 551 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,240 I'd planned the perfect suicide. 552 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,000 I'd planned it so nobody could have fired that shot but Linda or me. 553 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,400 And I had a perfect alibi. 554 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,840 But now it had to be me that shot her because any fool of a doctor could tell she'd been 555 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,520 dead when that shot was fired. 556 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,640 And then it came to me. 557 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:05,860 What was the difference? 558 00:24:05,860 --> 00:24:07,840 Let the Palm Springs alibi go. 559 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,920 Let them think the shooting was an accident. 560 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:11,760 Let them think anything they wanted to. 561 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,500 I had the money. 562 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:17,440 And what can you do to a man for shooting a dead body? 563 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:24,640 It was almost daylight when I got back to the room. 564 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,480 The house was still dark so Saunders hadn't heard anything. 565 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,280 First I burned that suicide note. 566 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,760 Then I turned on the lights and unlocked the door. 567 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,000 Then I fired another shot into the wall for Saunders again just in case he was awake. 568 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,920 Then I went over to the inner house phone. 569 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:44,920 Hello? 570 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:45,920 Saunders. 571 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,920 Oh, oh yes sir. 572 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,360 Saunders, there's been an accident. 573 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,840 You better call the police. 574 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:07,960 Well, have you seen everything you want to lieutenant? 575 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,960 Yep. 576 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,080 Well, you're living kind of different than you used to when you were a police reporter 577 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,040 downtown, huh Joe? 578 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,720 Yeah, yeah. 579 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,120 I suppose you want to ask me some questions. 580 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:19,680 Oh, a couple. 581 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,480 I hear you were going to Palm Springs last night. 582 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,160 Yeah, I was. 583 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,160 Changed my mind. 584 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,760 Who were you going to see down there? 585 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,760 Anybody in particular? 586 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,920 Oh, just a friend. 587 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,560 It wouldn't have been your old friend, Bell Schaffner, would it? 588 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,840 Oh, whatever, I didn't go. 589 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,320 You could have had time to go though. 590 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,120 Oh, all right, but I didn't. 591 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,040 Anyway, what's all I've got to do with it? 592 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,760 Oh, nothing, nothing, nothing, just routine. 593 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,080 So you came back here? 594 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,840 Yeah, that's right. 595 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:48,840 And what happened? 596 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:56,040 Well, I came in the house and I went up to the, our bedroom and I thought I heard a noise. 597 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,800 I thought I saw a man moving around. 598 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,080 Well, I was pretty jumpy and I fired. 599 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:02,080 How many shots? 600 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,080 Two. 601 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,760 And one of them hit your wife? 602 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,240 One of them hit what was my wife. 603 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,640 All an accident, huh? 604 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,880 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 605 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:17,160 You, you're coming to quite a lot of money with her out of the way, don't you, Joe? 606 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,160 Yeah, sure. 607 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,160 What of it? 608 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,160 Nothing. 609 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,280 Only it's too bad you're not going to be able to spend it. 610 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,280 Oh, nuts. 611 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,560 What do you think you're going to do, charge me with a murder for firing a shot into a 612 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,560 corpse? 613 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:36,000 No, but it could be a pretty spectacular little alibi for just on the spur of the moment, 614 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,000 couldn't it? 615 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 For Belle Shaftner. 616 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 What? 617 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:54,880 Her throat was cut in Palm Springs last night and your fingerprints are all over the place. 618 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,120 It was her ex-husband who killed her, of course. 619 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,880 But what's the difference now? 620 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,360 Bella was right about one thing though. 621 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:07,480 You can't write a decent story unless it's something real. 622 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,360 I know. 623 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,360 The end. 624 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:13,960 Well, Miss Lamps, we made it. 625 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:14,960 Just. 626 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,960 Yes? 627 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,720 Do you believe it? 628 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,720 Yes. 629 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,840 Gee, that's funny. 630 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:23,840 Nobody else did. 631 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,280 The judge, the jury, not even my own lawyer. 632 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,680 Maybe they believed what I believe. 633 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,680 You ought to die for it anyway. 634 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:33,680 Yeah, check. 635 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:39,600 And I got a date for that right now. 636 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:40,600 Right Warden? 637 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,600 You ready, Ackmer? 638 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:57,000 Yeah, yeah, let's go. 639 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:03,000 And so close as I had an alibi starring Keenan Wynn, tonight's tale of Suspense. 640 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,560 Suspense is produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 641 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,000 The other day, Elsa Maxwell told us about a friend who had lived many years in wine loving 642 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,640 countries around the world. 643 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:18,280 I gave him some of our delicious Roma California burgundy at dinner and he confessed to me that 644 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,260 he thought it every bit as enjoyable as any he had ever had. 645 00:28:22,260 --> 00:28:28,120 So I say, you people who do not regularly serve Roma wine are missing one of the most 646 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,160 delightful treats daily living can offer. 647 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,400 It's so good, so smart, and yet so very simple. 648 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,280 Take Miss Maxwell's advice. 649 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,240 Enjoy Roma wine regularly. 650 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:45,400 It's always good, unburyingly fine in flavor and quality, and only pennies a glass. 651 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:50,600 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 652 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,400 Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 653 00:28:54,400 --> 00:29:01,520 Next Thursday same time, Miss Nancy Kelly will be your star of Suspense. 654 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:08,480 Presented by Roma wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 655 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:21,200 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.