1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Tonight, the Roma Wines bring you Dane Clark, a star of This Will Kill You, 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:30,000 a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Suspense! Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 as Roma Wines bring you Dane Clark in a remarkable tale of... 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Suspense! 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Listen, get a load of this. This will kill you. 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I got a story that should be written up by one of those big magazine writers. 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Only mine is true. The whole thing is true, sir, help me. 15 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 You know, they say truth is stranger than fiction, don't they? 16 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Well, get this. I was working down at the Acme Engineering, 17 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 an outfit making hydraulic valves for gun turrets, 18 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 and we had a former named Charlie Harris, one of those big good-looking guys 19 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 who thought he was a big shot because he was a boss. 20 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Well, this guy was always picking on me. 21 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Like, for instance, one morning I come to work a few minutes late and this Harris says, 22 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Well, good afternoon, Jordan. I saved those gags for Jack Benny. 23 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 It's only a quarter after eight. Well, get here at eight and you'll be spared my sense of humor. 24 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Ain't a guy got a right to get here a couple of minutes late once in a while? 25 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Yes, sure, once in a while, Joe, but not every other day. 26 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Oh, gee, Charlie, my alarm clock's on a bump. 27 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 You know you can't buy a new one these days. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Oh, save that for the teacher. Now, come on, Joe, come on, get on the ball. 29 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Save that for the teacher, he said. 30 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Always throwing up to me that he graduated from engineering school 31 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 and I never even had a chance to go to high school. 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 As if you need an education to be a smart guy. 33 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Well, I could tell you a hundred guys who never even went to school 34 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 could buy and sell that guy a million... 35 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Well, that's another story. 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Anyway, this Charlie Harris kept giving me the needle. 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Joe, can I talk to you for a minute? 38 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 What is it now, Chief? 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Quit calling me Chief. 40 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Now, look, kid, look, I don't know what's wrong, but you're slowing up. 41 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 The other boys are turning out a hundred parts a day and you're only averaging 80. 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Now, what's the trouble, Joe? 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Well, I don't know, my eyes hurt. 44 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 This work gets tough on the eyes and I got to stop once in a while. 45 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 My eyes hurt bad. 46 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 You complained last week too, Joe, 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 and the company doctors report that there was nothing wrong. 48 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Ah, what does that quack know? 49 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 All right, all right, now quit the complaints and get on the job, Joe. 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 We've still got a war on our hands. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Even though you and a lot of other guys have forgotten it since Germany took the count. 52 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 There's a war on. Did you get that? 53 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 At the time, he was technically right, 54 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 but give me the business just because he didn't like me, 55 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 waving your flag and singing, oh, say, can you see? 56 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Look, I'm just as patriotic as him or any other guy. 57 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Could I help it if my eyes hurt bad? 58 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,000 But he had to go make a big thing out of it just because I got in the habit of, 59 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 well, stepping out a little here and there, and he found out. 60 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Well, ain't a guy got a right to have a little fun once in a while 61 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 just because those japs are still popping away? 62 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 So my eyes hurt a little the next day. Is that so terrible? 63 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Are the japs going to win a war just because I've had a little fun? 64 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Anyway, he keeps picking on me and picking on me. 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 And one day while I was knocking my brains out, Joe! 66 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Oh, let me ride in the wide open spaces that I love. 67 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Don't offense me. 68 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Joe! 69 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 What? 70 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Yeah? 71 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Look, Joe, look, I don't like playing cops, 72 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 but you know there's oil and gasoline all over the place. 73 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Yeah? 74 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 And that a cigarette dropped in one of those pools could burn the plant down. 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 So what? 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 So read the sign beside your machine. 77 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 I'd like to read it, Charlie. 78 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Go on, read it. 79 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 No smoking. 80 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Drop that cigarette. 81 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Why, what cigarette, Charlie? 82 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 You stupid jerk! 83 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Why, you, I'll break your head for that! 84 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Oh, you will, eh? 85 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:37,820 You're a 86 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:39,000 fool! 87 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,000 I would have mobilized the guy, but he hit me a lucky punch. 88 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Never would have happened again in a million years, but, well, he knocked me out. 89 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Charlie was standing by the cop when I came to, looking worried, 90 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 he acted as if he were doing me a big thing by not snitching, 91 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 but it was because he was scared of me. 92 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 He thought I'd forget. 93 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Joe Jordan never forgets. 94 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Remember that. 95 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 And Joe Jordan always gets even. 96 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 But I played my cards right. 97 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,000 I didn't let him know I was still sore. 98 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 That was smart, wasn't it? 99 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 I went out working as if nothing happened, 100 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 even though the rest of the guys started picking on me, too. 101 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Because he was a boss and they were trying to get in good with him, 102 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 they kept it after me every day until I thought my head would explode, 103 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 always, always rubbing it in. 104 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Hey, Jack Dempsey, still leading with your chin? 105 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Ha ha ha ha! 106 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Quit using my tools all the time, Joe. 107 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Hey, Joe, you ain't smoking again, are you? 108 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 You'll have to get another lucky punch from Charlie. 109 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Hey, quit throwing your shavens on my machine, Joe. 110 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 I used to get splitting headaches from the pounding of my brain. 111 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Well, you were, too, getting it from all sides like that, wouldn't you? 112 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 It wasn't so bad during the day that the machine drowned out the noise in my head, 113 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,000 but at night, at night that pounding would start steady like my machine, 114 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 banging away all the time so I couldn't sleep. 115 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 It might have got another guy, but not me, not me. 116 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 I'm too tough and I got plans for Joe Jordan. 117 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Be a big guy someday with my brains, 118 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 no foreman of some small time outfit, 119 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 be head man of the biggest shop in town with a classy car, 120 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 a big house with servants and a beautiful wife. 121 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Yeah, yeah, beautiful wife. 122 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And I had her all picked out. 123 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Her name was Harriet Slayton. 124 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 She was a stenographer at Acme. 125 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,000 All the guys was on the make for her, but she had a end for me. 126 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Not that she ever said anything, but I can tell. 127 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 You see, I know them. 128 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Well, at the water cooler this day, I managed to bump her as I got a paper cup and... 129 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Oh, pardonz-moi. 130 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Oh, you speak French. 131 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Oh, little, I knew a guy from Paris, France once 132 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 and he taught me a couple of things. 133 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Cherchez la femme. 134 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Commettez à l'ivou. 135 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Quite an accent. 136 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Excuse me, Joe, I gotta get back to my... 137 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 No, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 138 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 I got a lot of accomplishments. I'm a good dancer, too. 139 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Did you know that I took second place in the jitterbug contest at Ocean Park last year? 140 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 No, I didn't. 141 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Oh, are you Lindy? 142 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 No, I'm sort of on the conservative side. 143 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Well, I can do the square stuff, too. 144 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 We must have a dance sometime. 145 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Excuse me, Joe, I must... 146 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 No, wait, Harriet, I just happened to think, 147 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 how about going on a company dance with me on Friday? 148 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 I'm very sorry, Joe, but I can't. 149 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Why, aren't you going? 150 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Yes, but I have a date with Charlie. 151 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Charlie who? 152 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Charlie Harris. 153 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris. 154 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 He moved into my life, 155 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 then he moved into my head and he started banging, 156 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 and now he moved in with my girl. 157 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 That guy was doing everything he could to burn me up. 158 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 He knew I was gonna ask Harry to the dance, but he beat me to it. 159 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Okay, I said to myself, I can wait a week, 160 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 but I'll get to dance with that little lady, 161 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 and once I get her in my arms and I show her a couple of steps, 162 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 she won't want to dance with him again. 163 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Well, it was a long week, 164 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,000 and I kept hearing reports that Charlie and Harriet were engaged, 165 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 but that was just to burn me up, see? 166 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And then came the dance. 167 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Hey, didn't you bring a dame, Joe? 168 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I got a doll here, pal. 169 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Who is she, dancing with some other guy? 170 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Yeah, she's dancing with some other guy. 171 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Don't stand there with egg all over your face. 172 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,000 If my dame was dancing with another guy, you can bet I'd cut in. 173 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Well, that's a good idea. 174 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Pardon me, I'm cutting in. 175 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Oh, no, you're not, Joe. 176 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Look, I wasn't asking the pleasure of you, Charlie. 177 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Now, if you don't mind... 178 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 This is our favorite number, Joe. 179 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Well, why can't I cut in once? 180 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Just because he's a big foreman or something? 181 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,000 No, because you're the big dope. 182 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Dope. 183 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Did you get that? 184 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 He called me a dope, 185 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 but he didn't know I was smart. 186 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 You know, all good things ain't on the surface, you know. 187 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 I went home, I tried to sleep, 188 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 but the pounding on my brain was coming like a sledgehammer. 189 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Bang, bang, bang, bang, and I could hear her laughing at me. 190 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,000 I, that dirty double-crossing dame, laughing at me, laughing at me. 191 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 And the bang on my head was coming louder and louder 192 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 and crashing against my brain, exploding on my forehead. 193 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 And then the pounding stopped. 194 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 And for the first time in weeks, there was silence in my head. 195 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,000 That soft, cool, quiet, like Sunday morning when you were a kid 196 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 and no one was awake in the house, but you, 197 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 like Christmas night after the excitement was over 198 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 and you went to bed and you thought about the new sled 199 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 and the wonderful dinner you just ate, 200 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 and there was peace on earth and... 201 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 And then I got the idea. 202 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 No more pounding on my head now. 203 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I was going to eliminate the cause of the pounding, kill the root. 204 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Yeah, I was going to kill two birds with one stone. 205 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Charlie Harris was going to burn for murder. 206 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 And the murder? 207 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,000 The murder of Harriet Slate. 208 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Dane Clark in 209 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 This Will Kill You by I.A. 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Well, listen, like I was telling you, 231 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,000 I decided to kill Harriet and pin the rap on Charlie. 232 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Fooled you, didn't I? You thought I was going to knock off Charlie myself, didn't you? 233 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 No, no, no, no. The law was going to do that. You see? You get the switch? 234 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Now, get this. I knew how I was going to knock off the dame, 235 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 I knew how I was going to pin the blame on Charlie. 236 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 But the only thing missing was the motive. You understand the motive? 237 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 So before I killed her, I started supplying the motive. 238 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Every day down at the plant, I drop something here and I drop something there to the guys. 239 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Hey, I just heard that Charlie and Harriet was having an argument down the hall. 240 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Oh, lovers' spat, probably. 241 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 No, no, I understand things aren't so hot shot between those two. 242 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Oh, you're crazy, Joe. Well, that's what I heard. 243 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Hey, Charlie's been doing a lot of bowling these nights, hasn't he? 244 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Yeah, he loves it. Well, he didn't seem to when he and Harriet were so palsy walsy. 245 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I heard something about that, but I don't believe it. 246 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Oh, I do, I do. I heard him arguing plenty in the hall the other day. 247 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Say, did you hear that Charlie and Harriet had a big blow off last night, something about another guy? 248 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Yeah, I heard things weren't going so hot with those two lately. 249 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Hey, listen, did you hear that Harriet and Charlie had a big scrap the other night? 250 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Old news, Marty, it's old news. I understand she's got a guy up north and Charlie is burning. 251 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Oh, he ought to bust her head wide open. It'd serve her right for two-timing a white guy like Charlie. 252 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:16,000 There was the motive. Signs sealed, wrapped up in a big red ribbon. 253 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Now, was that smart or was that smart? 254 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,000 The next afternoon, I heard Charlie making a date with her for that night. 255 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 He didn't know it, but it was going to be his last date. 256 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 When the five o'clock whistle blew, Charlie went in to wash his hands. 257 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 I slipped over to his workbench. I grabbed the steel pipe he used on his drill press and I slipped under my coat. 258 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,000 I wore gloves so my fingerprints wouldn't show on it. Smart, huh? 259 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Only Charlie's fingerprints were on the pipe. 260 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,000 I waited outside the plant and in a little while, Charlie walked by. 261 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Uh, got a minute, Charlie? 262 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Huh? Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 263 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Look, there's an idea I've been working on that can speed production in our department. 264 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Now, can I talk to you tonight for an hour or so? 265 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Oh, I'm sorry, Joe, I can't tonight. I got a date with an angel. 266 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 But Charlie, with my idea, each man can turn out 200 valves a day easy. 267 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 I got it all worked out and I'm modeling my room. Can't you make it tonight? 268 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Look, Joe, I told you I got a date. 269 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Oh, fine, fine. You always give me that patriotic stuff when it doesn't cost you anything. 270 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Huh? Okay, Charlie, I took you up on it. 271 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 I've been giving up my nights to work on this idea I have. 272 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Now, look, I don't expect nothing out of it. 273 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 But when I ask you to give up a measly hour, you're too busy. 274 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Now, why can't you come up after your date? 275 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy there, Joe, easy. 276 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 I didn't know you were so hot about all this. 277 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Okay, okay, if it means so much to you. 278 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Look, suppose I leave my girl about 11 and get to your room a few minutes later, huh? 279 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Gee, you're swell, Charlie, swell. I'll be waiting for you. 280 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Now, look, I may be out for a minute or two to get a packet of butts or something, 281 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 but the door will be open, so will you wait for me? 282 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Yeah, sure, okay. I'll see you later. 283 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 You sure will. 284 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Everything was working out just like I planned. 285 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Pretty good for a dumb guy, huh? 286 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 I grabbed a bite of dinner and then I dropped over to Charlie's boarding house. 287 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 He lived on the first floor on the back. 288 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 I looked at his window and it was open. Perfect. 289 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 I waited until dark. I pushed up the window and I dropped in. 290 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 It took only a few seconds to find what I wanted. 291 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 A handkerchief with Charlie's initials on it. 292 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 I was outside and walking down the street before I had a chance to even get nervous. 293 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I killed time till about 10.30, and then I drove over to Harriet's house 294 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 and I waited across the street. 295 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 In a little while, Harriet and Charlie walked up, 296 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000 and they talked, and then Charlie looked at his watch and he kissed her goodnight. 297 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Kissed her goodnight. 298 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I waited for a few minutes after he left, 299 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 and I walked up to her room and knocked on the door. 300 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Who's there? 301 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 It's me, Harriet. It's Joe Jordan. I've got something to tell you about Charlie. 302 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 What is it, Joe? 303 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Don't get nervous. Nothing's happened. 304 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 I'm just playing a little trick on Charlie. 305 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 You're going to be scared for a second. 306 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Come on in, Joe. I was just making a little home recording of the song on the radio. 307 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 You know, sing along with the band. I know Charlie will get a big kick out of it. 308 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 That's your favorite song, isn't it? 309 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Mm-hmm. It's Charlie's, too. We love it. 310 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 You really go for that guy, don't you? 311 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Is there any question about him? 312 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Joe, we were going to tell everybody in a few days anyway, 313 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 so you may as well know now. 314 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Charlie and I are going to be married in three weeks when we get our vacations. 315 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Isn't that wonderful? 316 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Yeah, that's wonderful. 317 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Only you're taking your vacation a little sooner than that, baby. 318 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 What do you mean? 319 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 You're not marrying him or anybody else. 320 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Are you kidding? 321 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Get out of here, you big dope. 322 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Oh, I'm a big dope, huh? 323 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 I'm a big dope. 324 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Joe. Joe. 325 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 What are you going to do with it? 326 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Joe! Joe, don't! 327 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Joe, don't! 328 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 I did it. 329 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 It was done. 330 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 I looked at the clock. It was 1110. 331 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 He'd just be getting to my room now. 332 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Five minutes to kill. 333 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Hey, did you get that? 334 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Now I had time to kill. That was a good one, wasn't it? 335 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 I dropped Charlie's handkerchief on the floor, 336 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 then messed up the joint to look like a struggle. 337 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Then I waited till 1115, and then I smashed the clock. 338 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 It stopped dead. 339 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Did you hear that one? 340 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 The clock stopped dead. Good, huh? 341 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 I dropped the steel pipe on the floor, blew the place fast, and raced home. 342 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 I ran up the stairs, worried that maybe Charlie had left, 343 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 but he was still there. 344 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Well, where have you been, Joe? 345 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 I was just getting ready to leave. 346 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Oh, I'm sorry, Charlie. I... 347 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 I got stuck. 348 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Okay, okay. Where's the model you were talking about? 349 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Oh, gee, I'm sorry to drag you all the way over here for nothing. 350 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000 It's still at the welders. 351 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 I thought it would be here sure by tonight. 352 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Can we make it tomorrow? 353 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 You're a corker, Joe. You've messed up my whole evening. 354 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 I sure did. 355 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 I kept chewing the fat with Charlie about this and that 356 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 until I was sure he wouldn't get home until late. 357 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000 And then I dropped off to a nice, restful sleep. 358 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 The next morning, I was on the job at 8 on the dot. 359 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Charlie was there already, but that didn't worry me. 360 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 It wouldn't be for long. 361 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 And about an hour later, the kid from the front office came up 362 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 and said something to Charlie, and he left the shop. 363 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Now, that was it. Those were the dicks, and Charlie was a dead pigeon. 364 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000 I went on with my work, not doing very much, just faking, you know, 365 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 because I knew I was gonna be next. 366 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 And I was. 367 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,000 The same kid came at lunchtime and told me I was one of the front gate. 368 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Got a little nervous when I saw the two big coppers, 369 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 but as soon as they spoke, I felt it was gonna be all right. 370 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Joe Jordan? 371 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Yeah, yeah, it's me. 372 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 I'm Lieutenant Sullivan, Homicide Squad. 373 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 This is Sergeant Carter. Hello. Hop in. 374 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Hope you don't mind coming down to headquarters with us 375 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 when I ask you a couple of questions. 376 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 No, I don't mind. What's it all about? 377 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Where were you last night, Jordan? 378 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Uh, last night? 379 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Well, I... I hit the hay early. 380 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 What time? 381 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 I was awful tired. I had a tough day at the shop yesterday. 382 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 I guess it was about 9.30. 383 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Did you see Charlie Harris last night? 384 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 No. I saw him when we left the plant yesterday, about five, but... 385 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Hey, wait a minute. Where's Charlie now? 386 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 He left the shop about 10 this morning. 387 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Never mind. 388 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 But he says he was in your room at 11.15. 389 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 He says he was in my room at 11... 390 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Well, maybe he was. 391 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 No, Charlie Harris is a white guy. He don't lie. 392 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 If he says so, then he's probably right. 393 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 I thought you said you went to bed about 9.30. 394 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Well, I... I did. 395 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Maybe I was asleep when he came, 396 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 and maybe I was talking to my sleep when he was there. 397 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 You know, I wouldn't want to do anything to contradict Charlie. 398 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Say... 399 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 So what are you guys trying to pin on me? 400 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 If Charlie's in a jam, I gotta know what he said, 401 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 because I gotta back him up. 402 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Save it, kid. 403 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Tell me, do you know Harriet Slate? 404 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Why, that no-good, two-timing dame, 405 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 double-crossing a good guy like Charlie. 406 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Why, you know, he was telling me yesterday, 407 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 when we left the plant yesterday, 408 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 that he was going to get a settle last night, once and for all. 409 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 As a matter of fact, he... 410 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Say, what are you guys smiling at? 411 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Did I say something? 412 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Why, did I say anything to make Charlie... 413 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 to Charlie... 414 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Smart, huh? 415 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I handled that smart, didn't I? 416 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 You see now how I worked the whole thing out? 417 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Every little detail. 418 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Remember now how I planted that night in bed 419 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 and the pounding stopped like I told you before? 420 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Oh, the trial was a cinch. 421 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 The D.A. had all the evidence he needed and a little more. 422 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Charlie was with her that night, proved. 423 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 The steel pipe was his, wasn't it? Proved. 424 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 There were his fingerprints on it, wasn't they? Proved. 425 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 And the motive? 426 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 The boys in the plant furnished that. 427 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 They were perfect witnesses. 428 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 They liked Charlie, they tried to help him, 429 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 but they had to admit the stories that were going around. 430 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 And the piece, the resistance... 431 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 That's French, you know, 432 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 was the way I knocked his alibi for Luke. 433 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 That's why I smashed the clock at 11.15, do you? 434 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 It was airtight. 435 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Charles Harris, will you rise and come before the court? 436 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Charles Harris, the jury of your peers 437 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 have found you guilty of murder in the first degree, and I... 438 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Oh, boy, what a day. 439 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 You should have seen him. 440 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 He stood there trying to put on the big-shot stuff, 441 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 even then, trying to act like he wasn't scared. 442 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 But I could tell he was ready to faint right there and then. 443 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 But the newspaper guys were taking it, 444 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,000 and they said he stood straight and fine and brave, 445 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 like a soldier facing a firing squad. 446 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 That's what they said to dopes. 447 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 But I knew he was yellow. 448 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I knew he was a man of the heart. 449 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 I knew he was a man of the heart. 450 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 I knew he was a man of the heart. 451 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 But I knew he was yellow. 452 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Or else he wouldn't have picked on me 453 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 just because he was boss, would he? Would he? 454 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Huh? 455 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 So, you see, I was smarter than he thought, 456 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 than anybody thought, even the D.A. of those dicks. 457 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Now, there was a funny situation for you, wasn't it? 458 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 The real murderer was in court furnishing that testimony 459 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 that convicted that poor... 460 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 and no one knew it. 461 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 That's a good one, isn't it, huh? 462 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Isn't that wonderful, Father, huh? 463 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Isn't that marvelous? The real guy was in court... 464 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 It's time, Father. 465 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Be brave now, Joseph. We must go. 466 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 All right, Father, but let me tell you the punch line. 467 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Come on, Joe, it's time. 468 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Will you quit, or we'll be a minute late, 469 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 so you'll pay the guy who pulled the switch a minute overtime 470 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 to stay and can afford it. 471 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000 I've been telling Father the whole story. 472 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Let him finish, Warden. Go on, my son. 473 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 You see, it was a fluke, Father. 474 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 A minion to one shot. 475 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000 They never would have got me if not for just one thing, 476 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 one little mistake, Father. 477 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 The night I knocked the doll off, she up and told me 478 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 that she was making a recording of that song on the radio. 479 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 She told me to, you hear? 480 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 And I forget all about it. 481 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 So all the time I was spilling my guts to Harriet, 482 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 that machine was taking down every word, 483 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 and I forgot about it. 484 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 If I had only thought of the record, 485 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 if I only smashed it that night. 486 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 But I didn't. 487 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Then Harriet's old lady got a hold of her stuff, 488 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 and months later she decided to play the records, 489 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 and she heard the whole thing, my whole confession, 490 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 just as if I spilled it to the dicks. 491 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 We must go now, Joseph. 492 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Okay, Father. 493 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 I'm coming. 494 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Come on, Warden. Come on, come on. 495 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Watch that real man walk down the last mile. 496 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 497 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 He maketh me to lie down... 498 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 You seen plenty of guys walking down this road, 499 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 didn't you, Warden, huh? 500 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 I bet none of them ever took it as good as me, did they? 501 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000 They say guys crack up on this little walk, don't they? 502 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Not me. 503 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 I got guts. 504 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 I bet Charlie would have cracked up by now, huh, Warden? 505 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 You know, those... those newspaper guys said he stood straight and fine, 506 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 and brave that day. 507 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 He wouldn't be standing that way now, would he, Warden? 508 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 He'd be... he'd be screaming his yellow head off. 509 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 He wouldn't be taking it like me. 510 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 See, there's nothing to be scared of. 511 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Guy pulls a little switch, it's all over. 512 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 They say you don't feel a thing. 513 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 You don't feel nothing, do you, Warden? 514 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 You should know, you've seen plenty of it. 515 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 It doesn't hurt. 516 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Does it? 517 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 I would have been a big man in this town. 518 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Classy car. 519 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Big house with servants. 520 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Beautiful wife. 521 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 It's a beautiful wife, but I... 522 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,000 I got a tough break. 523 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 You know what? One in a million, I tell you, but... 524 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 it's all in the game, see? 525 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Come see, come saw her. 526 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 It's French, you know. 527 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I? 528 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Nobody take it like me, nobody. 529 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Not many of them, do they? Do they, Warden, huh? 530 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Do you think the paper will say I stood straight and fine and brave? 531 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Like a guy facing the firing squad, huh? 532 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Do you? 533 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I, Warden? 534 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Ain't I, Father? 535 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Tell me! 536 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 I said, tell me! 537 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 I'm not afraid. 538 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 You hear me? I'm not afraid. 539 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 I'm not afraid to burn. 540 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Look, I'm laughing. 541 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Aha! 542 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Aha! 543 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 No, don't take me in there, oh, God! 544 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Please don't take me in there! 545 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Don't take me in there! 546 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Don't take me in there! 547 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Don't take me in there! 548 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Oh, please, Lord, my spirit! 549 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 I don't need any of this, me! 550 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Romo Wines have brought you Dane Clark, 551 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 as star of This Will Kill You. 552 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Tonight's study in... 553 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Suspense. 554 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Before Dane Clark returns to our microphone, 555 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 this is Truman Bradley for Romo Wines, 556 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 the sponsor of Suspense. 557 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 As the temperature goes up, 558 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000 so does the popularity of tall, frosty, 559 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 thirst-quenching drinks. 560 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 And as Elsa Maxwell recently said, 561 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000 one of my favorite iced drinks, 562 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 and one everybody enjoys, 563 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000 is the delightful-to-look-at, 564 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000 delicious-to-sip Romo Wine and Soda, 565 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 made with distinguished Roma California wines. 566 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 And, Miss Maxwell might have added, 567 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 made so easily, too. 568 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Half-fill tall glasses with Roma California Burgundy 569 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,000 or Sauternes, add ice cubes and sparkling water, 570 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,000 and a bit of sugar, and for a decorative touch, 571 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 garnish with fruit or cherries. 572 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Good Roma wine is unvaryingly delicious, 573 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000 always pleasing, yet costs only pennies 574 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 a glass. 575 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 And next time you use vermouth, 576 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000 choose Roma Vermouth, sweet or dry. 577 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Zestful, full-flavored Roma Vermouth 578 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000 is blended and developed with all the traditional 579 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 winemaking skill of Roma wineries. 580 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 It's made and bottled in the heart of California's 581 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000 famous vineyards, yet surprisingly low-priced. 582 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Try Roma Vermouth soon, won't you? 583 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 This is Dane Clark. 584 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,000 It's been a great pleasure, as always, 585 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 to make an appearance here on Suspense. 586 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Mr. Spear wanted me to pass along to you the word, 587 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 which I know will be of interest to many thousands 588 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000 of listeners, and that is that two weeks from tonight, 589 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 on September the 6th, in response to overwhelming 590 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000 public demand, Suspense will again bring you 591 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 the Lucille Fletcher's Studying Terror, 592 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Sorry Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorhead. 593 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,000 That's the show you remember about the woman 594 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,000 on the telephone. 595 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 It's certainly one of the landmarks of radio. 596 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Next Thursday, you will hear Peter Laurie 597 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 in a Suspense play, which also promises 598 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000 to be most unusual. 599 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000 I know you will want to be listening, as I will. 600 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Dane Clark appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers, 601 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 and is currently being seen in their production 602 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,000 prior to the Marines. 603 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Next Thursday, you will hear Peter Laurie, 604 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 a star of Suspense, radio's outstanding 605 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 theater of thrills. 606 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 607 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 608 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:21,000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.