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Roma Wines. 00:32.000 --> 00:37.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:37.000 --> 00:42.000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable tale of suspense. 00:50.000 --> 00:56.000 And with the drama called Two Sharp Knives, and with the performances of Mr. John Payne as Scott Anderson 00:56.000 --> 01:01.000 and Mr. Frank McHugh as Wally Shane, Roma Wines hope indeed to keep you in... 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 Suspense! 01:06.000 --> 01:10.000 Shortly after 2 a.m., a poker game was breaking up at Ben Camsley's, 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 the doctor coroner of Dearwood City. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 Scott Anderson, Dearwood's efficient chief of police, and Wally Shane, his wife, 01:16.000 --> 01:20.000 were just about to leave. 01:20.000 --> 01:24.000 Talk about thieves. Our own chief of police committed nothing less than larceny, 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 the way he won that last part. 01:26.000 --> 01:30.000 Yes, and having won it, I noticed he's losing no time in making off with the swag. 01:30.000 --> 01:35.000 Shots! Why don't you boys just break down, admit you don't know how to play like old Professor Scott here. 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 You couldn't win a poker hand if it was on a punch board. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 It's a good thing he's chief of police. 01:40.000 --> 01:44.000 Come on, Wally, let's get out of here before these amateurs break my heart. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 Okay, Scott, anything you say. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Where are we heading for, chief? 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 Just across the street, Wally, the railroad station. 01:55.000 --> 01:59.000 Oh, shucks. Aren't you afraid of the excitement? 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 Don't you think that watching the 211 come in is half to be too much for your blood pressure? 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Well, if it is, Wally, you can always carry on. 02:06.000 --> 02:09.000 You've been a fair imitation of an assistant to me for some time now. 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 Yeah? 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 Yeah. 02:11.000 --> 02:14.000 If anything happens to me, you'll be chief. 02:14.000 --> 02:17.000 Don't worry, it won't be any harder for you to fool the public as chief. 02:17.000 --> 02:18.000 Hi, Elmer. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 Hi. Oh, howdy, Scotty. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 Well, hi, old Wally boy. 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 Hi, Elmer. 02:24.000 --> 02:27.000 Say, it's kind of late for you bigs to be around, isn't it? 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 Oh, I don't know. We sort of figured we'd put the town to bed tonight. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 How's the 211? On time? 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 Right on the nose, Wally, right on the nose. 02:35.000 --> 02:41.000 She ought to be blowing for the bend in just about three seconds now. 02:41.000 --> 02:46.000 By golly, she fooled Mrs. Early. That's her now. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 Why, you expecting anyone on us, Scotty? 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 No, Elmer, I'm not expecting anyone. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Wally, I just thought we'd mosey over and watch her come in, that's all. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 You know, Elmer, you can never tell who might get off though. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 Jesse James or Jack the Ripper or even your Aunt Gussie. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 Yeah, I guess you're right, Wally. 03:02.000 --> 03:08.000 Well, here should be he prodigies, but I've got to be rolling the wagon out to the bank, Scotty. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 Good, good. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 Hi, Elmer. How's it going? 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 Oh, I can't complain. I can't complain, Captain. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 Well, maybe you can, Elmer, but I sure can. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 You hold us up with that freight there. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Not much more? 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 No, no. 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 This is the last piece now. 03:30.000 --> 03:34.000 Well, maybe I can't show all guns. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Okay, see you tomorrow, Elmer. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 Hey, Scott, do you see what I see? 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 You mean do I see the man who just got off that train? The answer's yes. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 Well, he's a ringer for the guy we got that circle about. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 That is the guy. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Well, then, what do we do now? 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 We take him, Wally, let's go. 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 Whatever you say, Scott. Here he comes, over toward the taxi stand. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Driver, I want to go to the Dearwood Hotel. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 Oh, never mind. I see the hotel sign just a few blocks down the street. 04:07.000 --> 04:10.000 Sorry, I'll walk. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Hello, Furman. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 Oh, I don't believe I... 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 You're Lester Furman, aren't you? 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Yes, I am. 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 Philadelphia? 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Yes. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 I'm Scott Anderson, Chief of Police here in Dearwood, I... 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 What? What's happened to her? 04:28.000 --> 04:29.000 Happened to who? 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Oh, no, you don't. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 You think you can pull that sort of stuff with me? You're very much mistaken. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Now, look... 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Okay, Scott. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 You're silly. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 Let me get a quack at that mug. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Wait a minute. Wait a minute, gentlemen. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 Hold it, Wally, hold it up. 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 Well, Furman... 04:42.000 --> 04:46.000 I'm sorry for a moment there. I thought that you weren't really a policeman. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 Thanks. I guess I look almost human in civvies. 04:49.000 --> 04:54.000 Until... until I saw the other gentleman's uniform, I thought you were a hold-up man, Mr. Scott. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Never mind the thanks. 04:56.000 --> 04:59.000 It was silly of me. I'm sorry. 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 Well, let's get going before anything else happens. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 Are... are you taking me to police headquarters? 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 Mm-hmm. 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 What for? 05:07.000 --> 05:08.000 Philadelphia. 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 I... I don't think I understand you. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 You understand you're wanted in Philadelphia, don't you? 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 I'm wanted in Philadelphia? 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Yeah. Got a cigarette? 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Huh? Oh, yes, of course. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 You are? 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 What am I wanted for? 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Murder. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 Here we are. Here's the circular on Lester Furman. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 It was sent out by the Trans-American Detective Agency in Philadelphia. 05:46.000 --> 05:53.000 $1,500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Lester Furman, alias Lloyd Fields, alias J.D. Carpenter, 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 for the murder of Paul Frank Dunlap in Philadelphia on December the 8th, 1942. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Oh, no. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 Take a look at it. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Well? 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 It's a lie. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 You're Furman, aren't you? 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 Yes. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 The photograph reproduced in the circular is a picture of you, isn't it? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Yes, yes, it is, but I... I can't understand it. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Here, here, here. You'd better sit down. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Oh, well, what we got here? 06:16.000 --> 06:17.000 We got Lester Furman. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Oh, the Phil... 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 You lucky stiffs. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 Now you and Wally spent a grand and a half reward, though. 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 Jeez, I've never seen nothing like it. 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 If it ain't vacations in New York at the city's expense, it's reward, Moolah. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 George, someday, if you don't remember you're the jailer around here and not the D.A., 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 you're gonna be wearing your teeth on the outside of your lip, 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 and I'll be the guy who arranged it that way. You understand? 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 Oh, just cause you caught a guy who's hot in Philadelphia. 06:43.000 --> 06:46.000 It's a lie. I never killed anybody. I won't be framed. I won't be framed. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Oh, Shocks. Take it easy, Furman. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 Save it for the Philadelphia police. We're just holding you for them. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 If anything wrong, it's there, not here. 06:54.000 --> 06:58.000 But it's not the police. It's the trans-American deti... 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 Mr. Anderson, I... I... 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 I suppose you're sure there's nothing I can do. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 There's nothing anyone can do till morning. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 All right, George, you take Furman out and lock him up. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 Come along, darling. We ain't had nobody in our little hoot-cow for three days running. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 You'll have it all to yourself, just like a sweet at the Ritz. 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 Well, good night and... thank you. 07:22.000 --> 07:26.000 Make him as comfortable as you can, George. If he wants anything sent in, OK. 07:26.000 --> 07:30.000 He's valuable, huh? Now, if some bum didn't mean a nickel to you, 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 maybe I ought to take a pillar off my own bed for him. 07:33.000 --> 07:37.000 Eh, nuts. He's just like the rest of them to me. Shut up! 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 Perhaps you forgot my remark about your teeth a while back, George. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Any day now, I'm going to forget your uncle's county chairman 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 and throw you back in the gutter just to see how high you'll bounce. 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 Remember that. Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you. 07:48.000 --> 07:53.000 Oh, shock, Scott. George don't mean nothing. He's just money mad. 07:53.000 --> 07:58.000 OK, OK, I'm going home now. If it's anything urgent, I can be reached there. 07:58.000 --> 08:11.000 But I don't want to be disturbed unless it's urgent. 08:11.000 --> 08:17.000 Oh, hello. Hello. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 Scott, this is Wally. Yeah, Wally? Oh, what time is it? 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 It's five after six in the morning and you'd better come right down, Scott. 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 That fellow Furman's hung himself. What? Hung himself? 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 Yeah, by his belt from a window bar. Dead earn a mackerel. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 I'll be right in, Wally. Phone Ben Camsley. Tell him I'll pick him up on the way down. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 Oh, shucks. No doctor's going to do Furman any good now. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Well, I won't have him hurt to have him looked at. 08:42.000 --> 08:45.000 You'd better phone the county court at Douglasville, too, and file a routine report. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 I already did that. And what's more, hold on to your seat. 08:48.000 --> 08:52.000 The DA's on the way over, in person. 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Good old Ted Carroll, the D.A.'s here, 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 and he's plenty hot under the collar. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 Yeah, what's he burning about? 11:21.000 --> 11:25.000 Oh, he's just mad. He's run up quite a phone bill for us, too. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Been calling Philadelphia every couple of minutes since he got here. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 What kept you so long? 11:30.000 --> 11:34.000 I couldn't get my car started. Well, let's go in. 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 Hello, Ted. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 Listen, Scott, what is all this? 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 Oh, what? 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 This fiddly D, this hanky-panky. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 I suppose you mean Furman. Wasn't it suicide? 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 Sure it was suicide. I just telephoned TransAmerican, 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 dug a guy out of bed there. They phoned me just a few minutes ago 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 and said they'd never send out any circulars on Furman. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 They didn't want him for murder or anything else. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 The only thing they knew about him was he used to be a client of theirs. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 I don't know what to say, Ted. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 I don't either. What on earth kept you so long, Scott? 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 A car stall. Came as quick as I could. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 Well, what makes you so edgy, Ted? 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 Oh, nothing. I guess it's just the district attorney in me. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Oh, shucks. Jance, if you're not careful, 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 you're liable to give the impression that you two don't like each other. 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 Okay, okay, Wally. I'll quit if he will. 12:17.000 --> 12:18.000 Tell me what's wrong, Ted. 12:18.000 --> 12:21.000 Well, there's plenty wrong, Scott. Everything's wrong. 12:21.000 --> 12:24.000 First, that TransAmerican thing. They never sent out any circulars about Furman. 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 And I'll get this. I talked to the Philly police just before you came in. 12:28.000 --> 12:32.000 There wasn't any Paul Frank Dunlap murder down there that they know about. 12:32.000 --> 12:36.000 They've got no unexplained murder for December 8, 1942. 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 What did you get out of Furman before you let him hang himself? 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 Only, well, that he was innocent. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 Well, didn't you grill him? 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 Didn't you find out what he was doing in town? 12:45.000 --> 12:46.000 Wally, didn't you... 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 Oh, shucks. What fur? 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 He admitted his name was Furman. The circular description fitted him. 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 The photograph was him. 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 TransAmerican Detective Agency's supposed to be on the level. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 Philadelphia wanted Furman. We didn't. 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 But, Scott... 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 Oh, sure, Ted, sure. If I'd known he was gonna hang himself, 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 but then if your aunt wore pants, she'd be your uncle. 13:06.000 --> 13:10.000 You said Furman had been a client of TransAmerican. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 Then tell me what kind of a job they were doing for him. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 Well, his wife left him a couple of years ago, 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 and he had them hunting for her for five or six months. 13:16.000 --> 13:18.000 But they never found her. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 They're sending a man up here tonight to look things over. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 Yeah. 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 Yes. 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 Hmm. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 And I might as well tell you, Scott, 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 they're gonna raise plenty of trouble over this. 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 Yeah, yeah, I know that, Ted. 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 There usually is trouble when somebody dies in a jail cell. 13:32.000 --> 13:33.000 Chief Henderson? 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 Yeah, yeah, come in. 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 They told me I'd find you here. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 I'm Carl Rising, Assistant Manager of TransAmerican Detective Agency 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 in Philadelphia. 13:41.000 --> 13:44.000 This is Mr. Wheelock, who was Lester Furman's personal attorney. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 How do you do? 13:45.000 --> 13:48.000 Glad to know you, Mr. Rising. Mr. Wheelock, this is Wally Shane, my assistant. 13:48.000 --> 13:49.000 How are you? 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 How do you do? 13:50.000 --> 13:53.000 I know you're general, but I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 I know you gentlemen are already in possession of most of the details 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 concerning Mr. Furman from the time he arrived in Dearwood 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 until the time of his death. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 But perhaps you don't know that the police of most towns 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 in our corner of the state have also received copies of this reward circular. 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Get it for him, will you, Wally? 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Here you are. 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 Why, this... this circular is a forgery. 14:25.000 --> 14:28.000 Wow. You're sure it's a forgery, Mr. Rising? 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 Oh, yes, yes, there's no doubt about it. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 And it's an excellent forgery. 14:32.000 --> 14:36.000 The papers, style and type are almost exactly like those we use at Transamerica. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Almost, but not quite. 14:38.000 --> 14:41.000 Wow. What do you know? A forgery. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 Tell me, Mr. Wheelock, was Mr. Furman a native Philadelphian? 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 Oh, my, yes. He was well-known, respectable, prosperous citizen of Philadelphia. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 Married, wasn't he? 14:50.000 --> 14:54.000 In 1934, he married a 22-year-old girl named Ethel Bryan, 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 daughter of a Philadelphia family. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 He had a child, isn't that right, Mr. Wheelock? 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 Yes, born in 1936. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 But the child lived only a few months. 15:02.000 --> 15:05.000 Mrs. Furman's wife disappeared after the child's death. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 What year was it she disappeared? 15:07.000 --> 15:10.000 Mr. Rising should remember that. His agency worked on that matter. 15:10.000 --> 15:14.000 Yes, I remember it very well. Mrs. Furman disappeared in 1937. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 We never heard anything of her again, 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 although Furman spent quite a lot of money trying to locate her. 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 Furman never divorced her, huh? 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 No, sir. I should say now he was very much in love with her. 15:23.000 --> 15:26.000 And he seemed to think that the kid's dying made her a little screwy 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 so that she didn't know what she was doing. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 That's right, isn't it, Mr. Wheelock? 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 Well, that is my belief, Mr. Rising. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 You said Furman had money, Mr. Wheelock. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 How much did he have, and who gets it? 15:37.000 --> 15:41.000 I should say his estate will amount to perhaps a half a million dollars 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 left in its entirety to his wife. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 His wife, huh? 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 Hmm. That's quite a handy sum for anyone to have, huh, Wally? 15:48.000 --> 15:49.000 Yeah. 15:49.000 --> 15:52.000 Tell me, do either of you know why Furman came to Deerwood? 15:52.000 --> 15:53.000 No, I don't. 15:53.000 --> 15:56.000 No? Oh, shucks. You were his attorney, Mr. Wheelock. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 Don't you know if he told his servants or his office employers 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 or someone why he came here? 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 I know of no one of whom he told, 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 and I can't see that these questions of yours are getting us anywhere. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 Why do you persist in asking them? 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 Because, Mr. Wheelock, everything shows that somebody framed Furman 16:10.000 --> 16:14.000 into the Deerwood jail, and that frame-up drove him to suicide. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 Nothing shows anything else. 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 And there has to be something else, a lot else. 16:19.000 --> 16:22.000 Well, Chief, what do we do now? 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 I'm going across the street to Fritz' Undertaking Parlor. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 Maybe I'll find something else there. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 You find anything at the Undertaking Parlor, Scott? 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 No, not much. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 Well, I was over there myself just after you left, and I did. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 You did? What? 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 Well, I saw these... 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Save it, Wally. Come in. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 Hello. Am I bugging you into anything here? 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Oh, shucks, no. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 You know, the coroner's report is always welcome at a time like this, Doc. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 What's on your mind, Doc? 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 Well, is it all right to talk here? I mean, can anyone hear us? 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 No, no, go ahead, talk. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.000 Listen, Scott, two of those bruises showed. 17:08.000 --> 17:09.000 What bruises? 17:09.000 --> 17:12.000 Furman. Up under the hair, there were two bruises. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 But why didn't you tell me? 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 I am telling you, Scott. You weren't here when I made my examination. 17:17.000 --> 17:20.000 You were off chasing some stick-up hoodlums. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 This is the first time I've seen you since then. 17:22.000 --> 17:24.000 But why didn't you spill the stuff about Furman's bruises 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 when you were testifying at the inquest, Ben? 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 I'm a friend of yours. 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 Do I want to put you in a spot where people say you drove this fellow to suicide 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 by third-degreeing him too rough? 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 Oh, shucks, Doc. You're nuts. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 How bad was Furman's head? 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 Well, that didn't kill him, if that's what you mean. 17:42.000 --> 17:43.000 There's nothing the matter with this, Scott. 17:43.000 --> 17:46.000 Just a couple of bruises that nobody would notice unless they parted the hair. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 It killed him just the same. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 You and your friendship that... 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 Hello. 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 Yeah, Fritz, a couple of ladies? 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 Who are they? 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 Oh, okay, I'll wait. 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 I've got to run along now, Scott. 18:00.000 --> 18:01.000 Okay, I'll see you later. 18:01.000 --> 18:02.000 Right. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 It's Fritz at the undertaking parlor. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 A couple of ladies want to see Furman's body. He's going to ask why. 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 That's what I was going to tell you, Scott. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 When I was over there, I saw... 18:10.000 --> 18:11.000 Hello, hello. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 Oh, are you one of the ladies who wants to see... 18:14.000 --> 18:18.000 your Furman's wife, Mrs. Furman, hmm? 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Oh, then by all means, Miss Furman. 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 Only when you're through over there, I want you to come over to my office. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 I've got some things I want to ask you. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 Right. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 Well, what do you know about that Furman's wife? 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 That's what I've been trying to tell you. I saw him. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 And one of them's Hotchaw Randall, a babe with a record as long as your arm. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 She's one of that mob you had me working on in New York last summer. 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 Does she know you? 18:42.000 --> 18:45.000 Sure, but not by my right name. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 She thinks I'm a Detroit rum runner. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 No, no, I mean, does she recognize you just now? 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 I don't think she saw me. Anyway, she didn't give me a tumble. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 Okay, Wally, stick around a while, but stay out of sight. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Maybe I'll be bringing these dolls back with me. 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 Whatever you say, Chief. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 Come in. 19:05.000 --> 19:06.000 Chief Anderson? 19:06.000 --> 19:07.000 That's right. Mrs. Furman? 19:07.000 --> 19:10.000 Yes. This is my friend, Mrs. Crowder. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 Thought your name was Randall. 19:12.000 --> 19:15.000 What do you care, Chief? I'm not hurting your town any. 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 Okay. Now, before anybody says anything, I want to tell you something. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 Furman didn't commit suicide. He was murdered. 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 Murdered? My husband murdered? 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 We got alibis. We were in New York. We can prove it. 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 You're likely to get a chance. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 How'd your people happen to come down here? 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 Murdered. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Who's got a better right to come down here? 19:33.000 --> 19:34.000 She was still his wife, wasn't she? 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 She's got a right to look out for her own interest, hasn't she? 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 Yeah, that reminds me of something. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 Excuse me just a second. I gotta make a phone call in the next room. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 Oh, murder totally. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 Hey, Hamill. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Yeah, Chief? 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 I want you to have someone get hold of that lawyer, Wheelock, 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 before he leaves town and tell him I want to see him. 19:51.000 --> 19:52.000 And is Wally around? 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 No, he's not here. He said you told him to keep out of sight. 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 I'll find him for you, though. 19:56.000 --> 20:00.000 Right. Tell Wally I want him to go to New York tonight. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 Send Mason home to get some sleep. He'll have to take over Wally's night trick. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Okay. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Feeling better, honey, now? 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Mr. Anderson, do you think I had... 20:09.000 --> 20:13.000 that I had anything to do with Lester's... with his death? 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 I don't know, Mrs. Freeman. I know he was killed. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 I also know he left something like half a million. 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 Dollars? 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 Dollars. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 All right, Chief. Now, now, don't be a clown. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 The kid here didn't have a thing to do with whatever you think happened. 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 No? 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 No, no. 20:27.000 --> 20:31.000 We read about Lester Freeman committing suicide in yesterday morning's paper. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 And about there being something funny about it. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 And I persuaded her she ought to come down to Dearwood and that's all... 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 I wouldn't have done anything to hurt Lester. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 I left him because I wanted to leave him, 20:40.000 --> 20:43.000 but I wouldn't have done anything to him for money or anything else. 20:43.000 --> 20:48.000 If I'd wanted money from him, all I'd had to do would have been to just ask him for it. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 That's all. 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 Well, he used to put ads in the paper telling me if I wanted anything to let him know, 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 but I never did. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 You can ask his lawyer, Mr. Wheelock. 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 Anybody who knew anything about it can tell you that. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 Yeah, that's the truth, Chief. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 For years I've been telling Ethel she was a chump not to tap him, 21:02.000 --> 21:03.000 but she never would. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 I had a hard enough time getting her to come for her share 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 now that he's dead and got nobody else to leave it to. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 I wouldn't have hurt him. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 Why did you leave him then? 21:12.000 --> 21:16.000 Well, after the baby died, I just... 21:16.000 --> 21:19.000 Excuse me. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Oh, yeah, Hamill. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 You gave Wally the message. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Yeah, I want him to go to New York tonight. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 Okay, where is he, home? 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 He is home. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Okay, thanks. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 This circular is what got your husband on the jug, Mr. Furman. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Did you ever see that picture before? 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 No, I... 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 Why, that... 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 It can't be. 21:41.000 --> 21:44.000 It's a snapshot I have. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 It's an enlargement of it. 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 Who else has one? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Nobody that I know of. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 I don't think anybody else could have one. 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 Have you still got yours? 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Yes, I... 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 I don't remember whether I've seen it recently. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 It's with some old papers and things, but I must have it. 21:58.000 --> 22:01.000 Oh, Mrs. Furman, it's stuff like this that's got to be checked up. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Neither one of us can dodge it. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Now, there's two ways we can play. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Yes. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 I can hold you here on suspicion 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 till I've had time to check things up, 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 or I can send one of my men back to New York with you for the checkup. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 I'm willing to do that if you'll speed things up 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 by helping them all you can. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 And if you'll promise me, you won't try any tricks. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 I promise. I'm as anxious as you are to track this down. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 All right, all right. How'd you come down? 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 We drove. That's my car, the big green one across the street. 22:25.000 --> 22:28.000 Fine. Then my man can ride back with you. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 But no funny business. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 Funny shumny. What do you expect of... 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 Huh? Oh, send him in. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 Hello, Mr. Wheelock. Is this really Mrs. Furman? 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 Yes, that's really her, all right. How do you do? 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 Fine. You wait here, Wheelock. I'll be back in a little while. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Come on, girls. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 Where are we going? 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 We're going to solve a murder, sister. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 We're going to solve a murder, sister. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Who lives here? 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Wally Shane, my assistant. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 He's the man who's going to drive you to New York tonight. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 All right. Here we are. 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 Wally? 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 Who is it? 23:16.000 --> 23:17.000 Scott Wally. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 Oh, come in. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Ladies first. 23:20.000 --> 23:21.000 Harry. Harry! 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 Hello, Ethel. 23:22.000 --> 23:23.000 You two know each other, huh? 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Well, shucks. We just sort of... 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Don't reach for that gun, Wally. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 I've got you covered. 23:29.000 --> 23:30.000 I guess you win, Scott. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 I guess I do. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 Why didn't you get out of town, Wally? 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 No, it's Harry. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 You must have known when you saw these two women. 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 I did. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 But when Hamill phoned and said you were going to send me to New York, 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 I figured I was getting a break. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 You fooled me plenty on that one, Scott. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Yeah. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 You going to come along nice and quiet, Wally? 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 Oh, shucks. Why not? 23:51.000 --> 23:55.000 Okay. And I'm afraid I've got to say it. 23:55.000 --> 23:59.000 Well, Lashane, I arrest you for the murder of Lester Fuhrman. 24:12.000 --> 24:15.000 You comfortable in here, Wally? 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 Can't complain. For a cell. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 Say, Scott. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 Hmm? 24:22.000 --> 24:25.000 You didn't just stumble on all this, did you? 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 No. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Fuhrman had to be murdered by a copper. 24:29.000 --> 24:34.000 Only a copper with no reward circulates well enough to make a good job of forging one. 24:34.000 --> 24:38.000 Only a copper, one of my coppers, would be able to walk into Fuhrman's cell, 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 bang him across the head and string him up. 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 When you told me you knew the Randall woman, 24:42.000 --> 24:45.000 well, there it was. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 What got you like this, Wally? 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Oh, shucks. 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 What gets most saps into jams. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 A yen for easy dough. 24:53.000 --> 24:57.000 I'm in New York, see, Scott, working on that debt and job for you. 24:57.000 --> 25:01.000 Then I run into this Ethel Fuhrman, and she goes for me like a houseifier. 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 Like her, too, so that's dandy. 25:04.000 --> 25:08.000 But one night she tells me about how much dough her husband's got 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 and how it would all come to her if... 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 Well, I got to thinking. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Thinking what? 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 I think she's nuts enough about me to marry me. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 I still think she'd marry me if she didn't know I killed him. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 So, anyway, I did it. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 I swiped that snapshot. 25:24.000 --> 25:27.000 I sent those circlers out to a lot of places, you know, 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 not wanting to point too much to this one. 25:29.000 --> 25:34.000 And when I was ready, I phoned Fuhrman and I told him to come to the Dearwood Hotel that night 25:34.000 --> 25:37.000 and sometime before the next night he'd hear from his wife Ethel. 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 I knew he'd fall for any trap that was baited with her. 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 Oh, shucks. 25:44.000 --> 25:47.000 I guess I'm not as sharp as I thought I was. 25:47.000 --> 25:50.000 Maybe you are, Wally, but that doesn't always help. 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 Old man Camsley, as Ben's father used to have a saying, 25:53.000 --> 25:57.000 to a sharp knife comes a tough stake. 25:57.000 --> 26:01.000 I'm...I'm sorry you did it, Wally. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 I always liked you. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 I know you did. 26:05.000 --> 26:09.000 I was counting on that, too, Scott, but... 26:09.000 --> 26:14.000 Oh, shucks. 26:23.000 --> 26:26.000 And so closes Two Sharp Knives, 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 in which Roma wines have brought you John Payne and Frank McHugh 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 as stars of tonight's study in... 26:32.000 --> 26:34.000 Suspense. 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 Suspense is produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 Before our stars return to the microphone, 26:41.000 --> 26:45.000 let me say a word 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