1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,360 Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 2 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,360 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:23,040 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Paul Henry, a star of The Angel of Death, a suspense play 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:28,000 produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:38,800 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,240 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 7 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,760 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 8 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,440 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:56,880 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Mr. Paul 10 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:04,680 Henry in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 11 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,880 December 31st, New Year's Eve. 12 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:14,680 I shall identify myself as John Forsythe, my true name, as I have no reason to fear 13 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,080 it's being known or to assume one of a different character. 14 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:24,960 My early life has no place in this narrative, save only to point out with the utmost objectivity 15 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:31,560 that I've always been possessed since my tenderest youth of extraordinary intellectual powers, 16 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:37,640 as witness my acquisition at the age of 16 of degrees from not one, but three of the 17 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:43,000 leading universities of Europe, where despite my British nativity, I spent my formative 18 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000 years. 19 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,000 But this fact has no special significance other than as it applies to those events which 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:57,080 were set in motion on another New Year's Eve in London 15 years ago. 21 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:02,340 For it was on that evening, as I had planned some weeks before it should be, that I stood 22 00:02:02,340 --> 00:02:08,400 outside a door and listened for confirmation of the relationship I knew existed between 23 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,080 my best friend and my wife. 24 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,280 Oh, darling, darling, darling. 25 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,720 No, no, no, it's all right, Pam, it's all over now. 26 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:20,720 Are you happy? 27 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:26,520 Yes, now that we've decided, yes, almost for the first time since I can remember. 28 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,160 I know, darling, and I suppose we should feel sorry for him, but I can't, not after the 29 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,160 way he's treated you. 30 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,720 Raymond, what do you suppose he'll do? 31 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,080 It doesn't matter, darling. 32 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,040 Tomorrow we'll be on the Atlantic Ocean and within a month we'll be on my uncle's plantation 33 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,440 in Brazil where he couldn't find us if he looked for a hundred years. 34 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,320 No, I suppose it doesn't matter. 35 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,320 Now, how long will it take you to pack? 36 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Oh, an hour. 37 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,520 Well, I ought to be back by then. 38 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,920 I've just got to pick up the tickets and join a few things. 39 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:50,920 All right, hurry, darling. 40 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:51,920 I will. 41 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:52,920 Goodbye, darling. 42 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:53,920 Goodbye. 43 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,920 Good evening, my dear. 44 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,920 Oh, John. 45 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:02,920 Why? 46 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:06,160 What's the matter, Pamela? 47 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,480 You look as though you'd seen a ghost. 48 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,600 Why, nothing. 49 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,240 You startled me, that's all. 50 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:18,000 You said you were going out of town for the holidays and you don't usually come in by 51 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 the back door. 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,080 If you needn't be alarmed, I shall be only a moment. 53 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,120 I forgot something. 54 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,120 Can I get it for you? 55 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,440 Your anxiety for my every wish is touching. 56 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,480 But no, thank you. 57 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:36,600 By the way, Pamela, have you any last words? 58 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,600 Any what? 59 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,880 We may not see each other for a while, you know. 60 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,800 What are you talking about, John? 61 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,080 What's the matter with you? 62 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,760 Oh, my dear, sometimes I wonder if I merit you out of infatuation for your beauty or 63 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,200 pity for your stupidity. 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,200 Oh, John, please. 65 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:58,200 Pamela, where do you suppose we shall all be, say, within the month? 66 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,200 Does it really matter so much? 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,760 No, no. 68 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:07,560 I suppose it does not. 69 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:17,200 Within the month, I was on trial for their murder. 70 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:23,680 You are Henry Jenkins, proprietor of the Crown and Lion, number 17 Buxton Street. 71 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:24,680 I'm not one, sir. 72 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,280 I am Henry Jenkins. 73 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:27,280 So long... 74 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:28,280 Thank you. 75 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,680 Now, will you kindly repeat the words spoken by the prisoner in the dock, filed in your 76 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,480 place of business several weeks ago? 77 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,480 Yes, sir. 78 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:44,000 Well, about two weeks ago one night, Mr. Forsyte there, who's a steady customer of mine, sir, 79 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,600 although he's not what you call a sociable man. 80 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:47,600 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 81 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,920 Well, sir, all me other customers had gone home, and I was asking Mr. Forsyte to leave 82 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,280 also just so I could close up me shadows, you know. 83 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:03,320 When all of a sudden he looks up at me and he whispers, kind of horse-like, you know, 84 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,600 Jenkins, I did it, I finally did it. 85 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:13,520 Well, not knowing what he did, I naturally ask him what he did. 86 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,760 And what did the prisoner tell you, Mr. Jenkins? 87 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,760 He said, sir, wanted me... 88 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,080 Wanted me to keep it quiet. 89 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,480 I found them together and I killed them. 90 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:33,280 And then he laughs in a crazy way and adds, and Jenkins, I hid the bodies where no one 91 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:36,480 will ever find them. 92 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:37,480 That's what he said, sir. 93 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:43,800 So help me it is. 94 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,700 I saw him burning what looked to be a lot of bloody clothes. 95 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:49,360 In the furnace it was. 96 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,680 And he didn't try to hide them either. 97 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:58,320 Just stared at me kind of odd-like and went right on as brazen as you please he did. 98 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,920 He told me he wasn't worried at all. 99 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:12,320 He said the two of them would never get away together, except if they are dead. 100 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,840 I heard him say it on the stair landing one night and several other times in their rooms. 101 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:22,720 Pamela, he says, if you don't stop leering at Raymond Tillotson with those evil eyes 102 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,560 of yours, I'll see the two of you in your graves. 103 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,560 I warn you. 104 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:40,760 The court feels that it is its duty at this time again to remind the prisoner that he 105 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:46,960 has so far made nor allowed to be made by counsel in his defense, no cross-examination 106 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:53,360 of witnesses, nor rebuttal to the charges made by the prosecution of any kind, and that 107 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,560 this attitude can only result adversely to his cause. 108 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:04,680 The prisoner is therefore once more given opportunity at this time to make such rebuttal. 109 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,840 Does the prisoner wish to do so? 110 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:13,080 No, Your Lordship, I do not. 111 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:19,760 Does the prisoner wish to make any statement of any nature whatsoever in his defense? 112 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,760 I should merely like to ask the prosecution one question, Your Lordship. 113 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,320 Yes, what is it? 114 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,880 Has the prosecution found the bodies? 115 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:38,240 Well, the prisoner wishes to know if the prosecution has yet produced the bodies of the alleged 116 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,480 victims of the crime for which he is on trial. 117 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,120 Well, no, Your Lordship, we have not. 118 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:56,080 That is all. 119 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,560 To kill them had been my plan and my intention naturally. 120 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:05,360 But not in the usual stupid way such things are done, where men gamble their own lives 121 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,080 against the lives of those whom they destroy. 122 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,840 Every faculty of my intelligence revolted against such a thought. 123 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:18,100 And so for me the gambler's risk was needless. 124 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:19,360 So I had planned it. 125 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,920 It was therefore without fear or question that I stood before the court to hear the 126 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:29,880 verdict which in all the writing of it I had contrived against myself. 127 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,920 Order, order. 128 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:40,720 John Forsyth, the court has given most careful consideration to the fact that the bodies 129 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:46,960 of the named victims have not been presented to this court as due evidence and assurity 130 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:54,080 of murder, a fact which admittedly must alter the circumstances of guilt. 131 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:59,960 But this Crown Court, no matter how deeply it desires to aid you, cannot but recognise 132 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:06,280 the fact that you have allowed every shred of evidence and element to point to you as 133 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,640 a cold-blooded killer. 134 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:15,280 Under such circumstances, questionable though they may be, I can do only as the King's 135 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:22,400 law directs me to do, tempered with the mercy of His Majesty's court. 136 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:29,800 I hereby sentence you to no more than 20 and no less than 10 years at hard labour for the 137 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:37,360 suspected and willful murders of your wife, one Pamela Felice Forsyth and one Raymond 138 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,520 Elton Tillotson. 139 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:46,520 May God protect the Crown and the jurisprudence of this court of His Royal Majesty. 140 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:56,000 Ten to twenty years. 141 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,440 It was perhaps a bit more than I expected, but I was content. 142 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:07,520 And it may be that there was even the trace of a smile upon my lips as I left the courtroom. 143 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:12,560 Today it was justified, if only by the looks of awe and admiration turned in my direction 144 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:14,840 by the spectators. 145 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,320 Clearly they recognised my genius, and I knew they were thinking of the countless lesser 146 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:26,200 men who had failed in their efforts to hide even one dead body, whereas I, apparently 147 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:40,120 without effort, had successfully hidden two. 148 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,320 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Paul Henry, to the Angel of Death 149 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,160 by Alan Cameron. 150 00:10:47,160 --> 00:11:00,080 From the Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 151 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:05,120 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 152 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,760 With the holiday excitement over, most of us are glad to enjoy evenings at home again, 153 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,000 taking it easy and economising. 154 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,400 What a perfect time to serve Roma California Sherry. 155 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:22,960 Yes, glorious golden amber Roma Sherry adds so much to happy hours at home, yet costs 156 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:24,920 so very little. 157 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,280 More Americans every day make Roma Sherry first call for dinner. 158 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:34,560 You'll find Roma Sherry ideal for entertaining too, delicious any time. 159 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:42,000 For Roma Sherry is a happy mellow wine with tempting fragrance, satisfying natural sweetness, 160 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,480 and superb nut-like taste. 161 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:51,240 Roma Sherry, like all Roma wine, is a true wine, unvaryingly good always. 162 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:58,160 Crushed from choicest grapes, grown in California's finest vineyards, then unhurriedly guided to 163 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:04,200 tempting perfection by Roma's ancient winemaking skill, bottled at the winery. 164 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:09,120 Get Roma Sherry tomorrow, now selling at lowest prices in years. 165 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:17,360 Insist on Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wine, for uniformly fine quality at low cost. 166 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:23,080 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 167 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:29,000 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Paul Henry, as John Forsythe 168 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:47,060 in The Angel of Death, a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 169 00:12:47,060 --> 00:12:54,560 It was thus that I began my prison term, and my association with William Waters, a shallow-faced, 170 00:12:54,560 --> 00:13:00,680 ill-favored little man, was to be my chief source of amusement and mental exercise for 171 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:07,040 a long time to come, and to illustrate still further the inevitable triumph of the higher 172 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,120 intellect over all obstacles and surroundings. 173 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:17,640 So, you're the great John Forsythe, eh? 174 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,000 You have heard of me, then? 175 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Not half, I haven't. 176 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,720 The luckiest beggar that ever cheated the young men. 177 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,840 There is no such thing as luck. 178 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:27,840 No? 179 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,640 Now is it your sitting here safe and sound, and out as free as air in fifteen or twenty 180 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,240 years, instead of stretching your neck at the end of a rope, eh? 181 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,840 I'm here because I choose to be here. 182 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:39,840 That is all. 183 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,360 Because you choose to be? 184 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:52,720 Tell me, Forsythe, just between the two of us, how did you do it? 185 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,120 By using my brains. 186 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,400 There's many another tried that before and been caught up with. 187 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,760 Simply because they did not really have any brains to start with. 188 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,480 Now, it's luck, I tell you. 189 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:05,480 Bad luck, like mine. 190 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:16,680 You want to hear the worst bit of luck that ever ruined a man's life? 191 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:19,080 If you wish to call it that, why not? 192 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:25,040 It was like what happened to you, in a way, the sweetheart, Agnes, her name was, with 193 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:30,640 the biggest, bluest eyes, or the prettiest little thing you'd ever hope to see. 194 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:31,640 And you killed her? 195 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,680 I didn't mean to. 196 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,680 It was the usual, you know. 197 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,320 I'd caught her dead to rights, but she laughed at me. 198 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:40,320 That was the trouble. 199 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,400 Threw it in my face, she did. 200 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,280 Next thing I knew, something snapped. 201 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:53,280 And the head cleared, and I was sitting on the floor beside her, crying like a baby. 202 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,520 And her lying there with her pretty blue eyes, tearing out of her head, and her pretty mouth 203 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:04,000 all twisted, red marks there on her throat. 204 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,920 The marks of the two very hands, where I'd strangled the life out of her. 205 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:09,920 You weren't unlucky. 206 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:10,920 You were stupid. 207 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,000 You killed her without planning it. 208 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,400 And what did you do with the body? 209 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:23,200 Cemented her into the wall of the cellar, and the bloke next door at the gas heater 210 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,840 exploded and blew out the old ruddy wall between us, it did. 211 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,640 The time I got home, there was firemen and bobbies all over the place. 212 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:37,000 And there was Agnes, what was left of her, lying right out in the middle of the cellar 213 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,640 floor, for all the world to see. 214 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:44,720 The truly intelligent man foresees every possibility and guards against it. 215 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:45,720 Who could? 216 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,480 Who could foresee a thing like that? 217 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:48,480 I could. 218 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,480 You could. 219 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,960 I stand before you as the living proof of it. 220 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,920 In ten or fifteen years, I shall be free, because I'm intelligent. 221 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,280 Whereas you will rot and die here because you are stupid. 222 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,320 Pretty clever, ain't you? 223 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,720 Now, just about everything there is to know, don't you? 224 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,720 No, no, no. 225 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:06,720 Not everything. 226 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,920 But quite a lot of things. 227 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,680 For instance, I know something about that cough of yours. 228 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:14,680 What about it? 229 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,560 The colour of your skin, the look about your eyes, the way you breathe. 230 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,200 I hope you're not afraid to die, Waters. 231 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:23,200 Rubbish. 232 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:24,200 What are you talking about? 233 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,200 Have you ever heard of retribution, Waters? 234 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,200 What? 235 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:33,200 The inevitable fate that pursues and at last destroys the criminal mind. 236 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,520 Vengeance, you might call it. 237 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,240 Ah, rot. 238 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,200 You don't think anything's going to happen to you or me, do you? 239 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:41,840 Not to me, Waters. 240 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,480 For the intelligent man foresees and prevents even that. 241 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,800 But to you, Waters. 242 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,160 Most certainly to you. 243 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,160 Oh, indeed. 244 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,320 And who's going to do all this? 245 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,240 Oh, he's known by various names, Waters. 246 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:01,800 But best known as the Angel of Death. 247 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:10,880 Retribution, the Angel of Death. 248 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,000 Absurd, wasn't it? 249 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,880 But a most purposeful absurdity. 250 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:21,280 For the intellectual stimulus so necessary to remaining mentally alert during the prison 251 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,880 years ahead was here delivered into my hand. 252 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:30,240 An experiment and one almost impossible under any other conditions. 253 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:34,080 And William Waters would be my guinea pig. 254 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:39,560 An experiment to determine just how far a man might succeed through sheer superiority 255 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:46,000 of intelligence in breaking down and destroying the mind and the body of another. 256 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,400 But a simple power of suggestion. 257 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,720 I suggested nothing directly. 258 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,600 Merely a word here, a glance there. 259 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,520 Drops of water wearing away the stone. 260 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:08,480 I've got a fever again tonight. 261 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:10,480 Am I John? 262 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,480 No, no. 263 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,560 A touch perhaps, but that is all. 264 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,560 My head feels hot. 265 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:22,800 Why does that blasted cough, what does it? 266 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,280 Now, now, you mustn't worry about it. 267 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:31,520 It's every very, very bad for people with your condition to worry. 268 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,000 What condition? 269 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 What condition, John? 270 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,500 Oh, why nothing. 271 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:43,400 People with a cough like yours, people who feel, well, you know, indisposed, that's all. 272 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,080 Oh. 273 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,560 What's that book you're reading lately? 274 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,680 Just a book, a scientific book that I got from the prison library. 275 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,120 What sort of a scientific book? 276 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:55,280 Journal book on medicine, things like that. 277 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,280 Well, let me see it. 278 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,280 No, no, no. 279 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:58,280 Give it here. 280 00:18:58,280 --> 00:18:59,280 You wouldn't understand. 281 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,280 Give it here. 282 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:01,280 Oh, please, give it back to me. 283 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:02,280 You wouldn't be interested. 284 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:03,280 Oh. 285 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:08,280 You had it open in this place here, didn't you? 286 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,760 This is what you was reading, ain't it? 287 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,800 Well, yes, among other things. 288 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:13,800 Tuberculosis. 289 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,800 Is that what I got, John? 290 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:16,800 Tuberculosis? 291 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:17,800 Oh, don't be silly. 292 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,800 There's nothing seriously wrong with you. 293 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,800 John, you've got to tell me. 294 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,800 You've got to tell me. 295 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:27,800 Now. 296 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,800 I don't want to die. 297 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:36,800 You're not going to die if you take care of yourself. 298 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,800 Oh, but why should it come to me? 299 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:39,800 I've always been healthy. 300 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,800 I'm not old yet. 301 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:41,800 Of course you are not. 302 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:42,800 You're just imagining things. 303 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:43,800 Imagining things? 304 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,800 You're worrying too much. 305 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,800 That's all. 306 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,800 What makes you think I'm worried? 307 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,800 Oh, I don't know. 308 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Sometimes, you know, when you're asleep. 309 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,800 Tell me, do you ever have dreams? 310 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:57,800 What sort of dreams? 311 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,800 Oh, about the past or? 312 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,800 Oh, you mean about... 313 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:04,800 Yes. 314 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:11,800 Do you ever dream you see her lying there on the floor with her eyes bulging out of her 315 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,800 head and her mouth all twisted and her tongue all black and swollen? 316 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:17,800 John, don't stop it. 317 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:18,800 And your fingers digging into her throat? 318 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:19,800 Stop it. 319 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:20,800 Stop it. 320 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:25,800 What's the matter here, huh? 321 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,800 He seems somewhat disturbed in his mind this evening, God. 322 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Oh, he's mourned, huh? 323 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:32,800 Oh, that remorse me. 324 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:38,800 Doctor said we must try to prevail on him to get out of his bunk tomorrow and get outside, 325 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,800 get a little exercise and fresh air. 326 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,800 Oh, you tell him, I? 327 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:43,800 Yes, yes. 328 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,800 What was you too much in about? 329 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Oh, he was just telling me what the doctor said about you. 330 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:51,800 What? 331 00:20:51,800 --> 00:21:04,800 Well, he wants you to stay in your bunk and get plenty of rest. 332 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,800 The time was drawing near, I knew. 333 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,800 The time for what I had planned as the culmination of my experiment. 334 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,800 Waters was having periods of definite delirium, but I waited. 335 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,800 I waited for them to become more pronounced. 336 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,800 And then one night when I'd listened to him tossing and muttering for hours in his bunk, 337 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,800 I crossed over in the darkness. 338 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,800 No, no, no, no, wait, wait, no, it ain't time yet. 339 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,800 I thought it was the go yet. 340 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,800 No, no. 341 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:40,800 I've come for you, William Waters. 342 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,800 She sent me, William. 343 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:50,800 She sent me with her eyes staring out of her head, with her black swollen tongue. 344 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,800 I'm the angel of death. 345 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,800 I'll kill you. 346 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Don't do it. 347 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,800 Take care of it. 348 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800 Hands off my foot. 349 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,800 I'll kill you. 350 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:07,800 William. 351 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,800 What's going on in here? 352 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,800 I said we'll quiet you. 353 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,800 I had to hit him. 354 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,800 The man is out of his mind. 355 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,800 He thinks I'm some angel of death or something. 356 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 There you, come on up on your feet. 357 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,800 Come on now then, Waters. 358 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 Now what's the matter with you, eh? 359 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,800 It was I, you. 360 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,800 It was you what's done this to me. 361 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:30,800 I told you. 362 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:31,800 It was out of his head. 363 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,800 It's you what's done it to me. 364 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,800 I see it now. 365 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Come on, you're coming for me. 366 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:36,800 Kill the fools. 367 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,800 I'll get out of here with this. 368 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,800 It will take 100 years. 369 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:41,800 I'll kill you. 370 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800 I'll kill you. 371 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,800 It was interesting while it lasted. 372 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,800 And I've always believed that given a little more time, 373 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,800 I could have ended my experiment successfully. 374 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,800 But I had other plans to make now. 375 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Plans for the day when I would be free. 376 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,800 And at last it came. 377 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,800 At last I was walking away from the prison gate a free man. 378 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,800 Now began my search. 379 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,800 It was not difficult. 380 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,800 It led me at last to Paris, to a small apartment, 381 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,800 where I went tonight, December 31st, New Year's Eve. 382 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,800 Yes? 383 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:25,800 Good evening. 384 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:26,800 Well, good evening. 385 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,800 Did you wish to see someone? 386 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,800 Don't you recognize me? 387 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,800 Well, I do, of course, but are you a friend of Pam's? 388 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,800 I am indeed. 389 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:35,800 Who is it, darling? 390 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,800 What's a friend of yours, dear? 391 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,800 A friend of both of you. 392 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:40,800 John. 393 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,800 Yes? 394 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,800 In fact, your husband, my dear, and Raymond's best friend. 395 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:47,800 John, it's been... 396 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,800 15 years, yes. 397 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,800 You only returned to Paris recently, didn't you? 398 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,800 Yes, a short time ago. 399 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,800 And you never knew that I was convicted and sentenced to prison for your double murder, did you? 400 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,800 Murder? 401 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,800 Oh, that was quite as I planned it. 402 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,800 I knew where you were, but the authorities did not. 403 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,800 John. 404 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,800 But perhaps you have heard of a curious legal technicality 405 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:17,800 which provides that a man cannot be convicted twice for the same crime. 406 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,800 So, you see, I've already paid for your murders. 407 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,800 And now I've come to collect an ancient death... 408 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:26,800 Put down that gun. 409 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,800 I then walked calmly from their rooms. 410 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,800 I made no effort to hide my face, my trail, or my identity. 411 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:51,800 I can now defy every element in life and in law. 412 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:58,800 After 15 years, I've committed the crimes for which I've already paid my debt to society. 413 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:04,800 I shall mail this letter to the police, who may give it to the newspapers, 414 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:09,800 whoever wants it, although it is now a matter of indifference to me 415 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,800 if the world remarks upon my cleverness or my patience. 416 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:20,800 For my life is complete. 417 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:27,800 No man has ever known such happiness. 418 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800 John Forsythe. 419 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:34,800 Yes, yes, come in, Madame Leclerc. I have a letter now ready. 420 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,800 I wish you to mail for me. 421 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,800 I've come for you, John Forsythe. 422 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,800 What is? 423 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,800 I'm not Waters any longer. 424 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,800 How did you get out? 425 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:53,800 They said I was insane, so I hadn't been responsible when I killed her. 426 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,800 And then they said I was cured, sane again. 427 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,800 And then they let me out. 428 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,800 But there was one thing I didn't know. 429 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,800 They never knew who I really was. 430 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,800 What are you talking about? 431 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,800 That's why I've come for you, John Forsythe. 432 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,800 Me? 433 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,800 I am the chosen messenger of an higher power. 434 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:17,800 Look here, Waters. 435 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:32,800 Die, John Forsythe. 436 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,800 And the story ends with a newspaper clipping. 437 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:35,800 Let me read it to you. 438 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,800 Paris, January 1st. 439 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,800 This gay metropolis spent one of its quietest New Year's Eve's in recent years. 440 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,800 In all great of Paris, there were only two recorded deaths by violence, 441 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,800 both of which by a strange coincidence occurred within a few yards of each other. 442 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,800 The first was the fatal shooting by an unknown assailant of an Englishman, John Forsythe. 443 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,800 The second victim, unidentified, had apparently leaped from a window or roof 444 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,800 of the same dwelling occupied by Forsythe. 445 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,800 Police were at a loss to explain a weird black silk robe and cape worn by the man. 446 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,800 Jean-Guyves Leclerc, concierge of the building, 447 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,800 alleges to have heard a voice repeating an English phrase, 448 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,800 I am the angel of death, just before the suicidal leap. 449 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,800 However, this can hardly have any bearing on the case, 450 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:49,800 since the said phrase was undoubtedly uttered by New Year's revelers in the neighbourhood. 451 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,800 Suspense! 452 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,800 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. 453 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,800 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 454 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,800 How much more pleasureful any meal becomes when Roma Wine is served. 455 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:10,800 Yes, a fine table wine such as Roma California Burgundy makes any food taste better, 456 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,800 brings out all the flavour, lends romance and friendly companionship to the meal. 457 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,800 America's famed hostess Elsa Maxwell says, 458 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:25,800 my simple secret for gracious and enjoyable dining is to serve my guests Roma Burgundy. 459 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:31,800 It's so easy to make your meals more delicious, more exciting as Elsa Maxwell does. 460 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,800 Because Roma Wine costs so little, anyone can serve it often. 461 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,800 Compliment your next dinner with the fruity fragrance and appetising pecan taste 462 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,800 of red, robust Roma Burgundy. 463 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:49,800 Come and get Roma Burgundy tomorrow, now selling at the lowest prices in years. 464 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:55,800 And you get extra saving when you buy Roma in the half gallon and gallon size. 465 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,800 No wine but Roma offers you so much for so little. 466 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,800 Insist on Roma, R-O-M-A. 467 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:09,800 Roma Wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 468 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,800 Paul Henry appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers Studios 469 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,800 and will soon be seen in their production, Devotion. 470 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,800 Next Thursday, same time, Roma Wines will bring you Mr. Phil Terry, 471 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:25,800 as star of Suspense, radio's outstanding theatre thrill. 472 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:32,800 Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 473 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:42,800 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.