WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Suspense! 00:18.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight, the Roma Wines bring you Dane Clark, a star of This Will Kill You, 00:23.000 --> 00:30.000 a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:33.000 --> 00:40.000 Suspense! Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:40.000 --> 00:44.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:49.000 --> 00:55.000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:55.000 --> 00:58.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:58.000 --> 01:03.000 as Roma Wines bring you Dane Clark in a remarkable tale of... 01:03.000 --> 01:05.000 Suspense! 01:10.000 --> 01:14.000 Listen, get a load of this. This will kill you. 01:14.000 --> 01:18.000 I got a story that should be written up by one of those big magazine writers. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 Only mine is true. The whole thing is true, sir, help me. 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 You know, they say truth is stranger than fiction, don't they? 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 Well, get this. I was working down at the Acme Engineering, 01:28.000 --> 01:31.000 an outfit making hydraulic valves for gun turrets, 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 and we had a former named Charlie Harris, one of those big good-looking guys 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 who thought he was a big shot because he was a boss. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 Well, this guy was always picking on me. 01:40.000 --> 01:44.000 Like, for instance, one morning I come to work a few minutes late and this Harris says, 01:44.000 --> 01:48.000 Well, good afternoon, Jordan. I saved those gags for Jack Benny. 01:48.000 --> 01:52.000 It's only a quarter after eight. Well, get here at eight and you'll be spared my sense of humor. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 Ain't a guy got a right to get here a couple of minutes late once in a while? 01:55.000 --> 01:58.000 Yes, sure, once in a while, Joe, but not every other day. 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 Oh, gee, Charlie, my alarm clock's on a bump. 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 You know you can't buy a new one these days. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 Oh, save that for the teacher. Now, come on, Joe, come on, get on the ball. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 Save that for the teacher, he said. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 Always throwing up to me that he graduated from engineering school 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 and I never even had a chance to go to high school. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 As if you need an education to be a smart guy. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 Well, I could tell you a hundred guys who never even went to school 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 could buy and sell that guy a million... 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 Well, that's another story. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Anyway, this Charlie Harris kept giving me the needle. 02:26.000 --> 02:29.000 Joe, can I talk to you for a minute? 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 What is it now, Chief? 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 Quit calling me Chief. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 Now, look, kid, look, I don't know what's wrong, but you're slowing up. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 The other boys are turning out a hundred parts a day and you're only averaging 80. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 Now, what's the trouble, Joe? 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 Well, I don't know, my eyes hurt. 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 This work gets tough on the eyes and I got to stop once in a while. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 My eyes hurt bad. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 You complained last week too, Joe, 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 and the company doctors report that there was nothing wrong. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Ah, what does that quack know? 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 All right, all right, now quit the complaints and get on the job, Joe. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 We've still got a war on our hands. 03:01.000 --> 03:11.000 Even though you and a lot of other guys have forgotten it since Germany took the count. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 There's a war on. Did you get that? 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 At the time, he was technically right, 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 but give me the business just because he didn't like me, 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 waving your flag and singing, oh, say, can you see? 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 Look, I'm just as patriotic as him or any other guy. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Could I help it if my eyes hurt bad? 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 But he had to go make a big thing out of it just because I got in the habit of, 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 well, stepping out a little here and there, and he found out. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Well, ain't a guy got a right to have a little fun once in a while 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 just because those japs are still popping away? 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 So my eyes hurt a little the next day. Is that so terrible? 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 Are the japs going to win a war just because I've had a little fun? 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 Anyway, he keeps picking on me and picking on me. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 And one day while I was knocking my brains out, Joe! 03:50.000 --> 03:55.000 Oh, let me ride in the wide open spaces that I love. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Don't offense me. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Joe! 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 What? 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 Yeah? 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 Look, Joe, look, I don't like playing cops, 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 but you know there's oil and gasoline all over the place. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 Yeah? 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 And that a cigarette dropped in one of those pools could burn the plant down. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 So what? 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 So read the sign beside your machine. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 I'd like to read it, Charlie. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Go on, read it. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 No smoking. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 Drop that cigarette. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Why, what cigarette, Charlie? 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 You stupid jerk! 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Why, you, I'll break your head for that! 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Oh, you will, eh? 04:25.000 --> 04:37.820 You're a 04:37.820 --> 04:39.000 fool! 04:39.000 --> 04:45.000 I would have mobilized the guy, but he hit me a lucky punch. 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 Never would have happened again in a million years, but, well, he knocked me out. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 Charlie was standing by the cop when I came to, looking worried, 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 he acted as if he were doing me a big thing by not snitching, 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 but it was because he was scared of me. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 He thought I'd forget. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 Joe Jordan never forgets. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Remember that. 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 And Joe Jordan always gets even. 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 But I played my cards right. 05:07.000 --> 05:08.000 I didn't let him know I was still sore. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 That was smart, wasn't it? 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 I went out working as if nothing happened, 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 even though the rest of the guys started picking on me, too. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 Because he was a boss and they were trying to get in good with him, 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 they kept it after me every day until I thought my head would explode, 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 always, always rubbing it in. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 Hey, Jack Dempsey, still leading with your chin? 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 Ha ha ha ha! 05:29.000 --> 05:34.000 Quit using my tools all the time, Joe. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 Hey, Joe, you ain't smoking again, are you? 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 You'll have to get another lucky punch from Charlie. 05:41.000 --> 05:51.000 Hey, quit throwing your shavens on my machine, Joe. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 I used to get splitting headaches from the pounding of my brain. 05:54.000 --> 05:58.000 Well, you were, too, getting it from all sides like that, wouldn't you? 05:58.000 --> 06:02.000 It wasn't so bad during the day that the machine drowned out the noise in my head, 06:02.000 --> 06:07.000 but at night, at night that pounding would start steady like my machine, 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 banging away all the time so I couldn't sleep. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 It might have got another guy, but not me, not me. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 I'm too tough and I got plans for Joe Jordan. 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 Be a big guy someday with my brains, 06:20.000 --> 06:23.000 no foreman of some small time outfit, 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 be head man of the biggest shop in town with a classy car, 06:26.000 --> 06:30.000 a big house with servants and a beautiful wife. 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 Yeah, yeah, beautiful wife. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 And I had her all picked out. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Her name was Harriet Slayton. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 She was a stenographer at Acme. 06:40.000 --> 06:45.000 All the guys was on the make for her, but she had a end for me. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Not that she ever said anything, but I can tell. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 You see, I know them. 06:49.000 --> 06:54.000 Well, at the water cooler this day, I managed to bump her as I got a paper cup and... 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Oh, pardonz-moi. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 Oh, you speak French. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Oh, little, I knew a guy from Paris, France once 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 and he taught me a couple of things. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 Cherchez la femme. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Commettez à l'ivou. 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Quite an accent. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 Excuse me, Joe, I gotta get back to my... 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 No, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 I got a lot of accomplishments. I'm a good dancer, too. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 Did you know that I took second place in the jitterbug contest at Ocean Park last year? 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 No, I didn't. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Oh, are you Lindy? 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 No, I'm sort of on the conservative side. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Well, I can do the square stuff, too. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 We must have a dance sometime. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 Excuse me, Joe, I must... 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 No, wait, Harriet, I just happened to think, 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 how about going on a company dance with me on Friday? 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 I'm very sorry, Joe, but I can't. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Why, aren't you going? 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 Yes, but I have a date with Charlie. 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 Charlie who? 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Charlie Harris. 07:46.000 --> 07:50.000 Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 He moved into my life, 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 then he moved into my head and he started banging, 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 and now he moved in with my girl. 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 That guy was doing everything he could to burn me up. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 He knew I was gonna ask Harry to the dance, but he beat me to it. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 Okay, I said to myself, I can wait a week, 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 but I'll get to dance with that little lady, 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 and once I get her in my arms and I show her a couple of steps, 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 she won't want to dance with him again. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 Well, it was a long week, 08:14.000 --> 08:18.000 and I kept hearing reports that Charlie and Harriet were engaged, 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 but that was just to burn me up, see? 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 And then came the dance. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Hey, didn't you bring a dame, Joe? 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 I got a doll here, pal. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Who is she, dancing with some other guy? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Yeah, she's dancing with some other guy. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Don't stand there with egg all over your face. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 If my dame was dancing with another guy, you can bet I'd cut in. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Well, that's a good idea. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 Pardon me, I'm cutting in. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 Oh, no, you're not, Joe. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Look, I wasn't asking the pleasure of you, Charlie. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 Now, if you don't mind... 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 This is our favorite number, Joe. 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 Well, why can't I cut in once? 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 Just because he's a big foreman or something? 08:55.000 --> 09:01.000 No, because you're the big dope. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Dope. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 Did you get that? 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 He called me a dope, 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 but he didn't know I was smart. 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 You know, all good things ain't on the surface, you know. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 I went home, I tried to sleep, 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 but the pounding on my brain was coming like a sledgehammer. 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 Bang, bang, bang, bang, and I could hear her laughing at me. 09:22.000 --> 09:28.000 I, that dirty double-crossing dame, laughing at me, laughing at me. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 And the bang on my head was coming louder and louder 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 and crashing against my brain, exploding on my forehead. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 And then the pounding stopped. 09:42.000 --> 09:46.000 And for the first time in weeks, there was silence in my head. 09:46.000 --> 09:51.000 That soft, cool, quiet, like Sunday morning when you were a kid 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 and no one was awake in the house, but you, 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 like Christmas night after the excitement was over 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 and you went to bed and you thought about the new sled 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 and the wonderful dinner you just ate, 10:00.000 --> 10:03.000 and there was peace on earth and... 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 And then I got the idea. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 No more pounding on my head now. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 I was going to eliminate the cause of the pounding, kill the root. 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 Yeah, I was going to kill two birds with one stone. 10:16.000 --> 10:21.000 Charlie Harris was going to burn for murder. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 And the murder? 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 The murder of Harriet Slate. 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Dane Clark in 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 This Will Kill You by I.A. 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Well, listen, like I was telling you, 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 I decided to kill Harriet and pin the rap on Charlie. 12:43.000 --> 12:47.000 Fooled you, didn't I? You thought I was going to knock off Charlie myself, didn't you? 12:47.000 --> 12:52.000 No, no, no, no. The law was going to do that. You see? You get the switch? 12:52.000 --> 12:55.000 Now, get this. I knew how I was going to knock off the dame, 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 I knew how I was going to pin the blame on Charlie. 12:57.000 --> 13:00.000 But the only thing missing was the motive. You understand the motive? 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 So before I killed her, I started supplying the motive. 13:03.000 --> 13:08.000 Every day down at the plant, I drop something here and I drop something there to the guys. 13:08.000 --> 13:13.000 Hey, I just heard that Charlie and Harriet was having an argument down the hall. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Oh, lovers' spat, probably. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 No, no, I understand things aren't so hot shot between those two. 13:18.000 --> 13:25.000 Oh, you're crazy, Joe. Well, that's what I heard. 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 Hey, Charlie's been doing a lot of bowling these nights, hasn't he? 13:28.000 --> 13:32.000 Yeah, he loves it. Well, he didn't seem to when he and Harriet were so palsy walsy. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 I heard something about that, but I don't believe it. 13:35.000 --> 13:42.000 Oh, I do, I do. I heard him arguing plenty in the hall the other day. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 Say, did you hear that Charlie and Harriet had a big blow off last night, something about another guy? 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 Yeah, I heard things weren't going so hot with those two lately. 13:53.000 --> 13:57.000 Hey, listen, did you hear that Harriet and Charlie had a big scrap the other night? 13:57.000 --> 14:03.000 Old news, Marty, it's old news. I understand she's got a guy up north and Charlie is burning. 14:03.000 --> 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. 14:09.000 --> 14:16.000 There was the motive. Signs sealed, wrapped up in a big red ribbon. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 Now, was that smart or was that smart? 14:18.000 --> 14:23.000 The next afternoon, I heard Charlie making a date with her for that night. 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 He didn't know it, but it was going to be his last date. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 When the five o'clock whistle blew, Charlie went in to wash his hands. 14:29.000 --> 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. 14:34.000 --> 14:39.000 I wore gloves so my fingerprints wouldn't show on it. Smart, huh? 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 Only Charlie's fingerprints were on the pipe. 14:41.000 --> 14:45.000 I waited outside the plant and in a little while, Charlie walked by. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 Uh, got a minute, Charlie? 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 Huh? Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 Look, there's an idea I've been working on that can speed production in our department. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 Now, can I talk to you tonight for an hour or so? 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Joe, I can't tonight. I got a date with an angel. 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 But Charlie, with my idea, each man can turn out 200 valves a day easy. 15:02.000 --> 15:06.000 I got it all worked out and I'm modeling my room. Can't you make it tonight? 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Look, Joe, I told you I got a date. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 Oh, fine, fine. You always give me that patriotic stuff when it doesn't cost you anything. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Huh? Okay, Charlie, I took you up on it. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 I've been giving up my nights to work on this idea I have. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Now, look, I don't expect nothing out of it. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 But when I ask you to give up a measly hour, you're too busy. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Now, why can't you come up after your date? 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy there, Joe, easy. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 I didn't know you were so hot about all this. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 Okay, okay, if it means so much to you. 15:30.000 --> 15:34.000 Look, suppose I leave my girl about 11 and get to your room a few minutes later, huh? 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 Gee, you're swell, Charlie, swell. I'll be waiting for you. 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 Now, look, I may be out for a minute or two to get a packet of butts or something, 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 but the door will be open, so will you wait for me? 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Yeah, sure, okay. I'll see you later. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 You sure will. 15:53.000 --> 15:56.000 Everything was working out just like I planned. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 Pretty good for a dumb guy, huh? 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 I grabbed a bite of dinner and then I dropped over to Charlie's boarding house. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 He lived on the first floor on the back. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 I looked at his window and it was open. Perfect. 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 I waited until dark. I pushed up the window and I dropped in. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 It took only a few seconds to find what I wanted. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 A handkerchief with Charlie's initials on it. 16:14.000 --> 16:17.000 I was outside and walking down the street before I had a chance to even get nervous. 16:17.000 --> 16:20.000 I killed time till about 10.30, and then I drove over to Harriet's house 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 and I waited across the street. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 In a little while, Harriet and Charlie walked up, 16:24.000 --> 16:28.000 and they talked, and then Charlie looked at his watch and he kissed her goodnight. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 Kissed her goodnight. 16:30.000 --> 16:33.000 I waited for a few minutes after he left, 16:33.000 --> 16:37.000 and I walked up to her room and knocked on the door. 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Who's there? 16:47.000 --> 16:50.000 It's me, Harriet. It's Joe Jordan. I've got something to tell you about Charlie. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 What is it, Joe? 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 Don't get nervous. Nothing's happened. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 I'm just playing a little trick on Charlie. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 You're going to be scared for a second. 16:58.000 --> 17:02.000 Come on in, Joe. I was just making a little home recording of the song on the radio. 17:02.000 --> 17:05.000 You know, sing along with the band. I know Charlie will get a big kick out of it. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 That's your favorite song, isn't it? 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 Mm-hmm. It's Charlie's, too. We love it. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 You really go for that guy, don't you? 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 Is there any question about him? 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Joe, we were going to tell everybody in a few days anyway, 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 so you may as well know now. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 Charlie and I are going to be married in three weeks when we get our vacations. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 Isn't that wonderful? 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 Yeah, that's wonderful. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 Only you're taking your vacation a little sooner than that, baby. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 What do you mean? 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 You're not marrying him or anybody else. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 Are you kidding? 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Get out of here, you big dope. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Oh, I'm a big dope, huh? 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 I'm a big dope. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Joe. Joe. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 What are you going to do with it? 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Joe! Joe, don't! 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Joe, don't! 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 I did it. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 It was done. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 I looked at the clock. It was 1110. 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 He'd just be getting to my room now. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 Five minutes to kill. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Hey, did you get that? 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 Now I had time to kill. That was a good one, wasn't it? 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 I dropped Charlie's handkerchief on the floor, 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 then messed up the joint to look like a struggle. 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 Then I waited till 1115, and then I smashed the clock. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 It stopped dead. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Did you hear that one? 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 The clock stopped dead. Good, huh? 18:29.000 --> 18:33.000 I dropped the steel pipe on the floor, blew the place fast, and raced home. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 I ran up the stairs, worried that maybe Charlie had left, 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 but he was still there. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Well, where have you been, Joe? 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 I was just getting ready to leave. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Charlie. I... 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 I got stuck. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 Okay, okay. Where's the model you were talking about? 18:47.000 --> 18:50.000 Oh, gee, I'm sorry to drag you all the way over here for nothing. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 It's still at the welders. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 I thought it would be here sure by tonight. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Can we make it tomorrow? 18:56.000 --> 18:59.000 You're a corker, Joe. You've messed up my whole evening. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 I sure did. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 I kept chewing the fat with Charlie about this and that 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 until I was sure he wouldn't get home until late. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 And then I dropped off to a nice, restful sleep. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 The next morning, I was on the job at 8 on the dot. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 Charlie was there already, but that didn't worry me. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 It wouldn't be for long. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 And about an hour later, the kid from the front office came up 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 and said something to Charlie, and he left the shop. 19:27.000 --> 19:30.000 Now, that was it. Those were the dicks, and Charlie was a dead pigeon. 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 I went on with my work, not doing very much, just faking, you know, 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 because I knew I was gonna be next. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 And I was. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 The same kid came at lunchtime and told me I was one of the front gate. 19:40.000 --> 19:43.000 Got a little nervous when I saw the two big coppers, 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 but as soon as they spoke, I felt it was gonna be all right. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 Joe Jordan? 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 Yeah, yeah, it's me. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 I'm Lieutenant Sullivan, Homicide Squad. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 This is Sergeant Carter. Hello. Hop in. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Hope you don't mind coming down to headquarters with us 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 when I ask you a couple of questions. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 No, I don't mind. What's it all about? 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 Where were you last night, Jordan? 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 Uh, last night? 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Well, I... I hit the hay early. 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 What time? 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 I was awful tired. I had a tough day at the shop yesterday. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 I guess it was about 9.30. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 Did you see Charlie Harris last night? 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 No. I saw him when we left the plant yesterday, about five, but... 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 Hey, wait a minute. Where's Charlie now? 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 He left the shop about 10 this morning. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 Never mind. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 But he says he was in your room at 11.15. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 He says he was in my room at 11... 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 Well, maybe he was. 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 No, Charlie Harris is a white guy. He don't lie. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 If he says so, then he's probably right. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 I thought you said you went to bed about 9.30. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Well, I... I did. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Maybe I was asleep when he came, 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 and maybe I was talking to my sleep when he was there. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 You know, I wouldn't want to do anything to contradict Charlie. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 Say... 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 So what are you guys trying to pin on me? 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 If Charlie's in a jam, I gotta know what he said, 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 because I gotta back him up. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Save it, kid. 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 Tell me, do you know Harriet Slate? 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Why, that no-good, two-timing dame, 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 double-crossing a good guy like Charlie. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Why, you know, he was telling me yesterday, 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 when we left the plant yesterday, 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 that he was going to get a settle last night, once and for all. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 As a matter of fact, he... 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 Say, what are you guys smiling at? 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Did I say something? 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 Why, did I say anything to make Charlie... 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 to Charlie... 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Smart, huh? 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 I handled that smart, didn't I? 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 You see now how I worked the whole thing out? 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 Every little detail. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Remember now how I planted that night in bed 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 and the pounding stopped like I told you before? 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Oh, the trial was a cinch. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 The D.A. had all the evidence he needed and a little more. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 Charlie was with her that night, proved. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 The steel pipe was his, wasn't it? Proved. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 There were his fingerprints on it, wasn't they? Proved. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 And the motive? 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 The boys in the plant furnished that. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 They were perfect witnesses. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 They liked Charlie, they tried to help him, 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 but they had to admit the stories that were going around. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 And the piece, the resistance... 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 That's French, you know, 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 was the way I knocked his alibi for Luke. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 That's why I smashed the clock at 11.15, do you? 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 It was airtight. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 Charles Harris, will you rise and come before the court? 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 Charles Harris, the jury of your peers 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 have found you guilty of murder in the first degree, and I... 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 Oh, boy, what a day. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 You should have seen him. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 He stood there trying to put on the big-shot stuff, 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 even then, trying to act like he wasn't scared. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 But I could tell he was ready to faint right there and then. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 But the newspaper guys were taking it, 22:34.000 --> 22:37.000 and they said he stood straight and fine and brave, 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 like a soldier facing a firing squad. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 That's what they said to dopes. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 But I knew he was yellow. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 I knew he was a man of the heart. 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 I knew he was a man of the heart. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 I knew he was a man of the heart. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 But I knew he was yellow. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Or else he wouldn't have picked on me 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 just because he was boss, would he? Would he? 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 Huh? 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 So, you see, I was smarter than he thought, 22:59.000 --> 23:02.000 than anybody thought, even the D.A. of those dicks. 23:02.000 --> 23:05.000 Now, there was a funny situation for you, wasn't it? 23:05.000 --> 23:08.000 The real murderer was in court furnishing that testimony 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 that convicted that poor... 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 and no one knew it. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 That's a good one, isn't it, huh? 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 Isn't that wonderful, Father, huh? 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Isn't that marvelous? The real guy was in court... 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 It's time, Father. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Be brave now, Joseph. We must go. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 All right, Father, but let me tell you the punch line. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 Come on, Joe, it's time. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Will you quit, or we'll be a minute late, 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 so you'll pay the guy who pulled the switch a minute overtime 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 to stay and can afford it. 23:34.000 --> 23:36.000 I've been telling Father the whole story. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Let him finish, Warden. Go on, my son. 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 You see, it was a fluke, Father. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 A minion to one shot. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 They never would have got me if not for just one thing, 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 one little mistake, Father. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 The night I knocked the doll off, she up and told me 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 that she was making a recording of that song on the radio. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 She told me to, you hear? 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 And I forget all about it. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 So all the time I was spilling my guts to Harriet, 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 that machine was taking down every word, 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 and I forgot about it. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 If I had only thought of the record, 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 if I only smashed it that night. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 But I didn't. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 Then Harriet's old lady got a hold of her stuff, 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 and months later she decided to play the records, 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 and she heard the whole thing, my whole confession, 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 just as if I spilled it to the dicks. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 We must go now, Joseph. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 Okay, Father. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 I'm coming. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 Come on, Warden. Come on, come on. 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 Watch that real man walk down the last mile. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 He maketh me to lie down... 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 You seen plenty of guys walking down this road, 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 didn't you, Warden, huh? 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 I bet none of them ever took it as good as me, did they? 24:40.000 --> 24:43.000 They say guys crack up on this little walk, don't they? 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Not me. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 I got guts. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 I bet Charlie would have cracked up by now, huh, Warden? 24:50.000 --> 24:54.000 You know, those... those newspaper guys said he stood straight and fine, 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 and brave that day. 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 He wouldn't be standing that way now, would he, Warden? 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 He'd be... he'd be screaming his yellow head off. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 He wouldn't be taking it like me. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 See, there's nothing to be scared of. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 Guy pulls a little switch, it's all over. 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 They say you don't feel a thing. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 You don't feel nothing, do you, Warden? 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 You should know, you've seen plenty of it. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 It doesn't hurt. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Does it? 25:22.000 --> 25:25.000 I would have been a big man in this town. 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 Classy car. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 Big house with servants. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 Beautiful wife. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 It's a beautiful wife, but I... 25:35.000 --> 25:36.000 I got a tough break. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 You know what? One in a million, I tell you, but... 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 it's all in the game, see? 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 Come see, come saw her. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 It's French, you know. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I? 25:48.000 --> 25:50.000 Nobody take it like me, nobody. 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 Not many of them, do they? Do they, Warden, huh? 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 Do you think the paper will say I stood straight and fine and brave? 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 Like a guy facing the firing squad, huh? 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 Do you? 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I, Warden? 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 Ain't I, Father? 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 Tell me! 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 I said, tell me! 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 I'm not afraid. 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 You hear me? I'm not afraid. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 I'm not afraid to burn. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 Look, I'm laughing. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 Aha! 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Aha! 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 No, don't take me in there, oh, God! 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 Please don't take me in there! 26:29.000 --> 26:31.000 Don't take me in there! 26:31.000 --> 26:33.000 Don't take me in there! 26:33.000 --> 26:39.000 Don't take me in there! 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Oh, please, Lord, my spirit! 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 I don't need any of this, me! 26:51.000 --> 26:53.000 Romo Wines have brought you Dane Clark, 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 as star of This Will Kill You. 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 Tonight's study in... 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 Suspense. 26:59.000 --> 27:02.000 Before Dane Clark returns to our microphone, 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 this is Truman Bradley for Romo Wines, 27:05.000 --> 27:07.000 the sponsor of Suspense. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 As the temperature goes up, 27:09.000 --> 27:12.000 so does the popularity of tall, frosty, 27:12.000 --> 27:14.000 thirst-quenching drinks. 27:14.000 --> 27:17.000 And as Elsa Maxwell recently said, 27:17.000 --> 27:19.000 one of my favorite iced drinks, 27:19.000 --> 27:21.000 and one everybody enjoys, 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 is the delightful-to-look-at, 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 delicious-to-sip Romo Wine and Soda, 27:26.000 --> 27:30.000 made with distinguished Roma California wines. 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 And, Miss Maxwell might have added, 27:32.000 --> 27:34.000 made so easily, too. 27:34.000 --> 27:38.000 Half-fill tall glasses with Roma California Burgundy 27:38.000 --> 27:42.000 or Sauternes, add ice cubes and sparkling water, 27:42.000 --> 27:45.000 and a bit of sugar, and for a decorative touch, 27:45.000 --> 27:48.000 garnish with fruit or cherries. 27:48.000 --> 27:51.000 Good Roma wine is unvaryingly delicious, 27:51.000 --> 27:54.000 always pleasing, yet costs only pennies 27:54.000 --> 27:56.000 a glass. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 And next time you use vermouth, 27:58.000 --> 28:01.000 choose Roma Vermouth, sweet or dry. 28:01.000 --> 28:04.000 Zestful, full-flavored Roma Vermouth 28:04.000 --> 28:06.000 is blended and developed with all the traditional 28:06.000 --> 28:09.000 winemaking skill of Roma wineries. 28:09.000 --> 28:11.000 It's made and bottled in the heart of California's 28:11.000 --> 28:15.000 famous vineyards, yet surprisingly low-priced. 28:15.000 --> 28:18.000 Try Roma Vermouth soon, won't you? 28:18.000 --> 28:20.000 This is Dane Clark. 28:20.000 --> 28:21.000 It's been a great pleasure, as always, 28:21.000 --> 28:23.000 to make an appearance here on Suspense. 28:23.000 --> 28:25.000 Mr. Spear wanted me to pass along to you the word, 28:25.000 --> 28:27.000 which I know will be of interest to many thousands 28:27.000 --> 28:29.000 of listeners, and that is that two weeks from tonight, 28:29.000 --> 28:31.000 on September the 6th, in response to overwhelming 28:31.000 --> 28:34.000 public demand, Suspense will again bring you 28:34.000 --> 28:36.000 the Lucille Fletcher's Studying Terror, 28:36.000 --> 28:39.000 Sorry Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorhead. 28:39.000 --> 28:40.000 That's the show you remember about the woman 28:40.000 --> 28:42.000 on the telephone. 28:42.000 --> 28:44.000 It's certainly one of the landmarks of radio. 28:44.000 --> 28:46.000 Next Thursday, you will hear Peter Laurie 28:46.000 --> 28:48.000 in a Suspense play, which also promises 28:48.000 --> 28:49.000 to be most unusual. 28:49.000 --> 28:51.000 I know you will want to be listening, as I will. 28:51.000 --> 28:54.000 Dane Clark appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers, 28:54.000 --> 28:56.000 and is currently being seen in their production 28:56.000 --> 28:57.000 prior to the Marines. 28:57.000 --> 29:00.000 Next Thursday, you will hear Peter Laurie, 29:00.000 --> 29:04.000 a star of Suspense, radio's outstanding 29:04.000 --> 29:06.000 theater of thrills. 29:06.000 --> 29:10.000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 29:10.000 --> 29:14.000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:14.000 --> 29:21.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.