WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.360 Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:10.360 --> 00:13.360 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 00:13.360 --> 00:23.040 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Paul Henry, a star of The Angel of Death, a suspense play 00:23.040 --> 00:28.000 produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:28.000 --> 00:38.800 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:38.800 --> 00:42.240 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:42.240 --> 00:46.760 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:46.760 --> 00:51.440 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:51.440 --> 00:56.880 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Mr. Paul 00:56.880 --> 01:04.680 Henry in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:04.680 --> 01:08.880 December 31st, New Year's Eve. 01:08.880 --> 01:14.680 I shall identify myself as John Forsythe, my true name, as I have no reason to fear 01:14.680 --> 01:18.080 it's being known or to assume one of a different character. 01:18.080 --> 01:24.960 My early life has no place in this narrative, save only to point out with the utmost objectivity 01:24.960 --> 01:31.560 that I've always been possessed since my tenderest youth of extraordinary intellectual powers, 01:31.560 --> 01:37.640 as witness my acquisition at the age of 16 of degrees from not one, but three of the 01:37.640 --> 01:43.000 leading universities of Europe, where despite my British nativity, I spent my formative 01:43.000 --> 01:44.000 years. 01:44.000 --> 01:50.000 But this fact has no special significance other than as it applies to those events which 01:50.000 --> 01:57.080 were set in motion on another New Year's Eve in London 15 years ago. 01:57.080 --> 02:02.340 For it was on that evening, as I had planned some weeks before it should be, that I stood 02:02.340 --> 02:08.400 outside a door and listened for confirmation of the relationship I knew existed between 02:08.400 --> 02:12.080 my best friend and my wife. 02:12.080 --> 02:15.280 Oh, darling, darling, darling. 02:15.280 --> 02:19.720 No, no, no, it's all right, Pam, it's all over now. 02:19.720 --> 02:20.720 Are you happy? 02:20.720 --> 02:26.520 Yes, now that we've decided, yes, almost for the first time since I can remember. 02:26.520 --> 02:30.160 I know, darling, and I suppose we should feel sorry for him, but I can't, not after the 02:30.160 --> 02:31.160 way he's treated you. 02:31.160 --> 02:32.720 Raymond, what do you suppose he'll do? 02:32.720 --> 02:34.080 It doesn't matter, darling. 02:34.080 --> 02:38.040 Tomorrow we'll be on the Atlantic Ocean and within a month we'll be on my uncle's plantation 02:38.040 --> 02:41.440 in Brazil where he couldn't find us if he looked for a hundred years. 02:41.440 --> 02:43.320 No, I suppose it doesn't matter. 02:43.320 --> 02:45.320 Now, how long will it take you to pack? 02:45.320 --> 02:46.320 Oh, an hour. 02:46.320 --> 02:47.520 Well, I ought to be back by then. 02:47.520 --> 02:49.920 I've just got to pick up the tickets and join a few things. 02:49.920 --> 02:50.920 All right, hurry, darling. 02:50.920 --> 02:51.920 I will. 02:51.920 --> 02:52.920 Goodbye, darling. 02:52.920 --> 02:53.920 Goodbye. 02:53.920 --> 02:58.920 Good evening, my dear. 02:58.920 --> 03:01.920 Oh, John. 03:01.920 --> 03:02.920 Why? 03:02.920 --> 03:06.160 What's the matter, Pamela? 03:06.160 --> 03:08.480 You look as though you'd seen a ghost. 03:08.480 --> 03:10.600 Why, nothing. 03:10.600 --> 03:13.240 You startled me, that's all. 03:13.240 --> 03:18.000 You said you were going out of town for the holidays and you don't usually come in by 03:18.000 --> 03:19.000 the back door. 03:19.000 --> 03:23.080 If you needn't be alarmed, I shall be only a moment. 03:23.080 --> 03:25.120 I forgot something. 03:25.120 --> 03:26.120 Can I get it for you? 03:26.120 --> 03:29.440 Your anxiety for my every wish is touching. 03:29.440 --> 03:31.480 But no, thank you. 03:31.480 --> 03:36.600 By the way, Pamela, have you any last words? 03:36.600 --> 03:37.600 Any what? 03:37.600 --> 03:40.880 We may not see each other for a while, you know. 03:40.880 --> 03:42.800 What are you talking about, John? 03:42.800 --> 03:44.080 What's the matter with you? 03:44.080 --> 03:48.760 Oh, my dear, sometimes I wonder if I merit you out of infatuation for your beauty or 03:48.760 --> 03:50.200 pity for your stupidity. 03:50.200 --> 03:52.200 Oh, John, please. 03:52.200 --> 03:58.200 Pamela, where do you suppose we shall all be, say, within the month? 03:58.200 --> 04:00.200 Does it really matter so much? 04:00.200 --> 04:02.760 No, no. 04:02.760 --> 04:07.560 I suppose it does not. 04:07.560 --> 04:17.200 Within the month, I was on trial for their murder. 04:17.200 --> 04:23.680 You are Henry Jenkins, proprietor of the Crown and Lion, number 17 Buxton Street. 04:23.680 --> 04:24.680 I'm not one, sir. 04:24.680 --> 04:26.280 I am Henry Jenkins. 04:26.280 --> 04:27.280 So long... 04:27.280 --> 04:28.280 Thank you. 04:28.280 --> 04:31.680 Now, will you kindly repeat the words spoken by the prisoner in the dock, filed in your 04:31.680 --> 04:34.480 place of business several weeks ago? 04:34.480 --> 04:36.480 Yes, sir. 04:36.480 --> 04:44.000 Well, about two weeks ago one night, Mr. Forsyte there, who's a steady customer of mine, sir, 04:44.000 --> 04:46.600 although he's not what you call a sociable man. 04:46.600 --> 04:47.600 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 04:47.600 --> 04:52.920 Well, sir, all me other customers had gone home, and I was asking Mr. Forsyte to leave 04:52.920 --> 04:57.280 also just so I could close up me shadows, you know. 04:57.280 --> 05:03.320 When all of a sudden he looks up at me and he whispers, kind of horse-like, you know, 05:03.320 --> 05:07.600 Jenkins, I did it, I finally did it. 05:07.600 --> 05:13.520 Well, not knowing what he did, I naturally ask him what he did. 05:13.520 --> 05:16.760 And what did the prisoner tell you, Mr. Jenkins? 05:16.760 --> 05:18.760 He said, sir, wanted me... 05:18.760 --> 05:22.080 Wanted me to keep it quiet. 05:22.080 --> 05:26.480 I found them together and I killed them. 05:26.480 --> 05:33.280 And then he laughs in a crazy way and adds, and Jenkins, I hid the bodies where no one 05:33.280 --> 05:36.480 will ever find them. 05:36.480 --> 05:37.480 That's what he said, sir. 05:37.480 --> 05:43.800 So help me it is. 05:43.800 --> 05:47.700 I saw him burning what looked to be a lot of bloody clothes. 05:47.700 --> 05:49.360 In the furnace it was. 05:49.360 --> 05:51.680 And he didn't try to hide them either. 05:51.680 --> 05:58.320 Just stared at me kind of odd-like and went right on as brazen as you please he did. 05:58.320 --> 06:02.920 He told me he wasn't worried at all. 06:02.920 --> 06:12.320 He said the two of them would never get away together, except if they are dead. 06:12.320 --> 06:17.840 I heard him say it on the stair landing one night and several other times in their rooms. 06:17.840 --> 06:22.720 Pamela, he says, if you don't stop leering at Raymond Tillotson with those evil eyes 06:22.720 --> 06:26.560 of yours, I'll see the two of you in your graves. 06:26.560 --> 06:29.560 I warn you. 06:29.560 --> 06:40.760 The court feels that it is its duty at this time again to remind the prisoner that he 06:40.760 --> 06:46.960 has so far made nor allowed to be made by counsel in his defense, no cross-examination 06:46.960 --> 06:53.360 of witnesses, nor rebuttal to the charges made by the prosecution of any kind, and that 06:53.360 --> 06:58.560 this attitude can only result adversely to his cause. 06:58.560 --> 07:04.680 The prisoner is therefore once more given opportunity at this time to make such rebuttal. 07:04.680 --> 07:07.840 Does the prisoner wish to do so? 07:07.840 --> 07:13.080 No, Your Lordship, I do not. 07:13.080 --> 07:19.760 Does the prisoner wish to make any statement of any nature whatsoever in his defense? 07:19.760 --> 07:23.760 I should merely like to ask the prosecution one question, Your Lordship. 07:23.760 --> 07:26.320 Yes, what is it? 07:26.320 --> 07:30.880 Has the prosecution found the bodies? 07:30.880 --> 07:38.240 Well, the prisoner wishes to know if the prosecution has yet produced the bodies of the alleged 07:38.240 --> 07:41.480 victims of the crime for which he is on trial. 07:41.480 --> 07:46.120 Well, no, Your Lordship, we have not. 07:46.120 --> 07:56.080 That is all. 07:56.080 --> 07:59.560 To kill them had been my plan and my intention naturally. 07:59.560 --> 08:05.360 But not in the usual stupid way such things are done, where men gamble their own lives 08:05.360 --> 08:09.080 against the lives of those whom they destroy. 08:09.080 --> 08:13.840 Every faculty of my intelligence revolted against such a thought. 08:13.840 --> 08:18.100 And so for me the gambler's risk was needless. 08:18.100 --> 08:19.360 So I had planned it. 08:19.360 --> 08:23.920 It was therefore without fear or question that I stood before the court to hear the 08:23.920 --> 08:29.880 verdict which in all the writing of it I had contrived against myself. 08:29.880 --> 08:34.920 Order, order. 08:34.920 --> 08:40.720 John Forsyth, the court has given most careful consideration to the fact that the bodies 08:40.720 --> 08:46.960 of the named victims have not been presented to this court as due evidence and assurity 08:46.960 --> 08:54.080 of murder, a fact which admittedly must alter the circumstances of guilt. 08:54.080 --> 08:59.960 But this Crown Court, no matter how deeply it desires to aid you, cannot but recognise 08:59.960 --> 09:06.280 the fact that you have allowed every shred of evidence and element to point to you as 09:06.280 --> 09:09.640 a cold-blooded killer. 09:09.640 --> 09:15.280 Under such circumstances, questionable though they may be, I can do only as the King's 09:15.280 --> 09:22.400 law directs me to do, tempered with the mercy of His Majesty's court. 09:22.400 --> 09:29.800 I hereby sentence you to no more than 20 and no less than 10 years at hard labour for the 09:29.800 --> 09:37.360 suspected and willful murders of your wife, one Pamela Felice Forsyth and one Raymond 09:37.360 --> 09:39.520 Elton Tillotson. 09:39.520 --> 09:46.520 May God protect the Crown and the jurisprudence of this court of His Royal Majesty. 09:46.520 --> 09:56.000 Ten to twenty years. 09:56.000 --> 10:01.440 It was perhaps a bit more than I expected, but I was content. 10:01.440 --> 10:07.520 And it may be that there was even the trace of a smile upon my lips as I left the courtroom. 10:07.520 --> 10:12.560 Today it was justified, if only by the looks of awe and admiration turned in my direction 10:12.560 --> 10:14.840 by the spectators. 10:14.840 --> 10:19.320 Clearly they recognised my genius, and I knew they were thinking of the countless lesser 10:19.320 --> 10:26.200 men who had failed in their efforts to hide even one dead body, whereas I, apparently 10:26.200 --> 10:40.120 without effort, had successfully hidden two. 10:40.120 --> 10:45.320 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Paul Henry, to the Angel of Death 10:45.320 --> 10:47.160 by Alan Cameron. 10:47.160 --> 11:00.080 From the Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 11:00.080 --> 11:05.120 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 11:05.120 --> 11:09.760 With the holiday excitement over, most of us are glad to enjoy evenings at home again, 11:09.760 --> 11:13.000 taking it easy and economising. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.400 What a perfect time to serve Roma California Sherry. 11:16.400 --> 11:22.960 Yes, glorious golden amber Roma Sherry adds so much to happy hours at home, yet costs 11:22.960 --> 11:24.920 so very little. 11:24.920 --> 11:29.280 More Americans every day make Roma Sherry first call for 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12:47.060 in The Angel of Death, a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:47.060 --> 12:54.560 It was thus that I began my prison term, and my association with William Waters, a shallow-faced, 12:54.560 --> 13:00.680 ill-favored little man, was to be my chief source of amusement and mental exercise for 13:00.680 --> 13:07.040 a long time to come, and to illustrate still further the inevitable triumph of the higher 13:07.040 --> 13:11.120 intellect over all obstacles and surroundings. 13:11.120 --> 13:17.640 So, you're the great John Forsythe, eh? 13:17.640 --> 13:19.000 You have heard of me, then? 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 Not half, I haven't. 13:20.000 --> 13:23.720 The luckiest beggar that ever cheated the young men. 13:23.720 --> 13:26.840 There is no such thing as luck. 13:26.840 --> 13:27.840 No? 13:27.840 --> 13:32.640 Now is it your sitting here safe and sound, and out as free as air in fifteen or twenty 13:32.640 --> 13:36.240 years, instead of stretching your neck at the end of a rope, eh? 13:36.240 --> 13:38.840 I'm here because I choose to be here. 13:38.840 --> 13:39.840 That is all. 13:39.840 --> 13:42.360 Because you choose to be? 13:42.360 --> 13:52.720 Tell me, Forsythe, just between the two of us, how did you do it? 13:52.720 --> 13:54.120 By using my brains. 13:54.120 --> 13:58.400 There's many another tried that before and been caught up with. 13:58.400 --> 14:01.760 Simply because they did not really have any brains to start with. 14:01.760 --> 14:04.480 Now, it's luck, I tell you. 14:04.480 --> 14:05.480 Bad luck, like mine. 14:05.480 --> 14:16.680 You want to hear the worst bit of luck that ever ruined a man's life? 14:16.680 --> 14:19.080 If you wish to call it that, why not? 14:19.080 --> 14:25.040 It was like what happened to you, in a way, the sweetheart, Agnes, her name was, with 14:25.040 --> 14:30.640 the biggest, bluest eyes, or the prettiest little thing you'd ever hope to see. 14:30.640 --> 14:31.640 And you killed her? 14:31.640 --> 14:33.680 I didn't mean to. 14:33.680 --> 14:35.680 It was the usual, you know. 14:35.680 --> 14:39.320 I'd caught her dead to rights, but she laughed at me. 14:39.320 --> 14:40.320 That was the trouble. 14:40.320 --> 14:43.400 Threw it in my face, she did. 14:43.400 --> 14:46.280 Next thing I knew, something snapped. 14:46.280 --> 14:53.280 And the head cleared, and I was sitting on the floor beside her, crying like a baby. 14:53.280 --> 14:58.520 And her lying there with her pretty blue eyes, tearing out of her head, and her pretty mouth 14:58.520 --> 15:04.000 all twisted, red marks there on her throat. 15:04.000 --> 15:08.920 The marks of the two very hands, where I'd strangled the life out of her. 15:08.920 --> 15:09.920 You weren't unlucky. 15:09.920 --> 15:10.920 You were stupid. 15:10.920 --> 15:14.000 You killed her without planning it. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.400 And what did you do with the body? 15:17.400 --> 15:23.200 Cemented her into the wall of the cellar, and the bloke next door at the gas heater 15:23.200 --> 15:26.840 exploded and blew out the old ruddy wall between us, it did. 15:26.840 --> 15:30.640 The time I got home, there was firemen and bobbies all over the place. 15:30.640 --> 15:37.000 And there was Agnes, what was left of her, lying right out in the middle of the cellar 15:37.000 --> 15:39.640 floor, for all the world to see. 15:39.640 --> 15:44.720 The truly intelligent man foresees every possibility and guards against it. 15:44.720 --> 15:45.720 Who could? 15:45.720 --> 15:47.480 Who could foresee a thing like that? 15:47.480 --> 15:48.480 I could. 15:48.480 --> 15:49.480 You could. 15:49.480 --> 15:51.960 I stand before you as the living proof of it. 15:51.960 --> 15:55.920 In ten or fifteen years, I shall be free, because I'm intelligent. 15:55.920 --> 15:59.280 Whereas you will rot and die here because you are stupid. 15:59.280 --> 16:01.320 Pretty clever, ain't you? 16:01.320 --> 16:04.720 Now, just about everything there is to know, don't you? 16:04.720 --> 16:05.720 No, no, no. 16:05.720 --> 16:06.720 Not everything. 16:06.720 --> 16:08.920 But quite a lot of things. 16:08.920 --> 16:13.680 For instance, I know something about that cough of yours. 16:13.680 --> 16:14.680 What about it? 16:14.680 --> 16:19.560 The colour of your skin, the look about your eyes, the way you breathe. 16:19.560 --> 16:22.200 I hope you're not afraid to die, Waters. 16:22.200 --> 16:23.200 Rubbish. 16:23.200 --> 16:24.200 What are you talking about? 16:24.200 --> 16:27.200 Have you ever heard of retribution, Waters? 16:27.200 --> 16:28.200 What? 16:28.200 --> 16:33.200 The inevitable fate that pursues and at last destroys the criminal mind. 16:33.200 --> 16:35.520 Vengeance, you might call it. 16:35.520 --> 16:37.240 Ah, rot. 16:37.240 --> 16:40.200 You don't think anything's going to happen to you or me, do you? 16:40.200 --> 16:41.840 Not to me, Waters. 16:41.840 --> 16:45.480 For the intelligent man foresees and prevents even that. 16:45.480 --> 16:47.800 But to you, Waters. 16:47.800 --> 16:49.160 Most certainly to you. 16:49.160 --> 16:50.160 Oh, indeed. 16:50.160 --> 16:52.320 And who's going to do all this? 16:52.320 --> 16:55.240 Oh, he's known by various names, Waters. 16:55.240 --> 17:01.800 But best known as the Angel of Death. 17:01.800 --> 17:10.880 Retribution, the Angel of Death. 17:10.880 --> 17:14.000 Absurd, wasn't it? 17:14.000 --> 17:15.880 But a most purposeful absurdity. 17:15.880 --> 17:21.280 For the intellectual stimulus so necessary to remaining mentally alert during the prison 17:21.280 --> 17:24.880 years ahead was here delivered into my hand. 17:24.880 --> 17:30.240 An experiment and one almost impossible under any other conditions. 17:30.240 --> 17:34.080 And William Waters would be my guinea pig. 17:34.080 --> 17:39.560 An experiment to determine just how far a man might succeed through sheer superiority 17:39.560 --> 17:46.000 of intelligence in breaking down and destroying the mind and the body of another. 17:46.000 --> 17:50.400 But a simple power of suggestion. 17:50.400 --> 17:52.720 I suggested nothing directly. 17:52.720 --> 17:55.600 Merely a word here, a glance there. 17:55.600 --> 18:00.520 Drops of water wearing away the stone. 18:00.520 --> 18:08.480 I've got a fever again tonight. 18:08.480 --> 18:10.480 Am I John? 18:10.480 --> 18:11.480 No, no. 18:11.480 --> 18:14.560 A touch perhaps, but that is all. 18:14.560 --> 18:17.560 My head feels hot. 18:17.560 --> 18:22.800 Why does that blasted cough, what does it? 18:22.800 --> 18:26.280 Now, now, you mustn't worry about it. 18:26.280 --> 18:31.520 It's every very, very bad for people with your condition to worry. 18:31.520 --> 18:34.000 What condition? 18:34.000 --> 18:35.000 What condition, John? 18:35.000 --> 18:36.500 Oh, why nothing. 18:36.500 --> 18:43.400 People with a cough like yours, people who feel, well, you know, indisposed, that's all. 18:43.400 --> 18:45.080 Oh. 18:45.080 --> 18:46.560 What's that book you're reading lately? 18:46.560 --> 18:50.680 Just a book, a scientific book that I got from the prison library. 18:50.680 --> 18:53.120 What sort of a scientific book? 18:53.120 --> 18:55.280 Journal book on medicine, things like that. 18:55.280 --> 18:56.280 Well, let me see it. 18:56.280 --> 18:57.280 No, no, no. 18:57.280 --> 18:58.280 Give it here. 18:58.280 --> 18:59.280 You wouldn't understand. 18:59.280 --> 19:00.280 Give it here. 19:00.280 --> 19:01.280 Oh, please, give it back to me. 19:01.280 --> 19:02.280 You wouldn't be interested. 19:02.280 --> 19:03.280 Oh. 19:03.280 --> 19:08.280 You had it open in this place here, didn't you? 19:08.280 --> 19:10.760 This is what you was reading, ain't it? 19:10.760 --> 19:12.800 Well, yes, among other things. 19:12.800 --> 19:13.800 Tuberculosis. 19:13.800 --> 19:15.800 Is that what I got, John? 19:15.800 --> 19:16.800 Tuberculosis? 19:16.800 --> 19:17.800 Oh, don't be silly. 19:17.800 --> 19:20.800 There's nothing seriously wrong with you. 19:20.800 --> 19:23.800 John, you've got to tell me. 19:23.800 --> 19:26.800 You've got to tell me. 19:26.800 --> 19:27.800 Now. 19:27.800 --> 19:30.800 I don't want to die. 19:30.800 --> 19:36.800 You're not going to die if you take care of yourself. 19:36.800 --> 19:38.800 Oh, but why should it come to me? 19:38.800 --> 19:39.800 I've always been healthy. 19:39.800 --> 19:40.800 I'm not old yet. 19:40.800 --> 19:41.800 Of course you are not. 19:41.800 --> 19:42.800 You're just imagining things. 19:42.800 --> 19:43.800 Imagining things? 19:43.800 --> 19:44.800 You're worrying too much. 19:44.800 --> 19:45.800 That's all. 19:45.800 --> 19:48.800 What makes you think I'm worried? 19:48.800 --> 19:50.800 Oh, I don't know. 19:50.800 --> 19:53.800 Sometimes, you know, when you're asleep. 19:53.800 --> 19:56.800 Tell me, do you ever have dreams? 19:56.800 --> 19:57.800 What sort of dreams? 19:57.800 --> 20:00.800 Oh, about the past or? 20:00.800 --> 20:03.800 Oh, you mean about... 20:03.800 --> 20:04.800 Yes. 20:04.800 --> 20:11.800 Do you ever dream you see her lying there on the floor with her eyes bulging out of her 20:11.800 --> 20:16.800 head and her mouth all twisted and her tongue all black and swollen? 20:16.800 --> 20:17.800 John, don't stop it. 20:17.800 --> 20:18.800 And your fingers digging into her throat? 20:18.800 --> 20:19.800 Stop it. 20:19.800 --> 20:20.800 Stop it. 20:20.800 --> 20:25.800 What's the matter here, huh? 20:25.800 --> 20:30.800 He seems somewhat disturbed in his mind this evening, God. 20:30.800 --> 20:31.800 Oh, he's mourned, huh? 20:31.800 --> 20:32.800 Oh, that remorse me. 20:32.800 --> 20:38.800 Doctor said we must try to prevail on him to get out of his bunk tomorrow and get outside, 20:38.800 --> 20:40.800 get a little exercise and fresh air. 20:40.800 --> 20:42.800 Oh, you tell him, I? 20:42.800 --> 20:43.800 Yes, yes. 20:43.800 --> 20:47.800 What was you too much in about? 20:47.800 --> 20:50.800 Oh, he was just telling me what the doctor said about you. 20:50.800 --> 20:51.800 What? 20:51.800 --> 21:04.800 Well, he wants you to stay in your bunk and get plenty of rest. 21:04.800 --> 21:07.800 The time was drawing near, I knew. 21:07.800 --> 21:12.800 The time for what I had planned as the culmination of my experiment. 21:12.800 --> 21:16.800 Waters was having periods of definite delirium, but I waited. 21:16.800 --> 21:19.800 I waited for them to become more pronounced. 21:19.800 --> 21:24.800 And then one night when I'd listened to him tossing and muttering for hours in his bunk, 21:24.800 --> 21:26.800 I crossed over in the darkness. 21:26.800 --> 21:31.800 No, no, no, no, wait, wait, no, it ain't time yet. 21:31.800 --> 21:33.800 I thought it was the go yet. 21:33.800 --> 21:35.800 No, no. 21:35.800 --> 21:40.800 I've come for you, William Waters. 21:40.800 --> 21:42.800 She sent me, William. 21:42.800 --> 21:50.800 She sent me with her eyes staring out of her head, with her black swollen tongue. 21:50.800 --> 21:52.800 I'm the angel of death. 21:52.800 --> 21:54.800 I'll kill you. 21:54.800 --> 21:56.800 Don't do it. 21:56.800 --> 21:57.800 Take care of it. 21:57.800 --> 21:58.800 Hands off my foot. 21:58.800 --> 22:02.800 I'll kill you. 22:02.800 --> 22:07.800 William. 22:07.800 --> 22:09.800 What's going on in here? 22:09.800 --> 22:11.800 I said we'll quiet you. 22:11.800 --> 22:13.800 I had to hit him. 22:13.800 --> 22:15.800 The man is out of his mind. 22:15.800 --> 22:17.800 He thinks I'm some angel of death or something. 22:17.800 --> 22:20.800 There you, come on up on your feet. 22:20.800 --> 22:22.800 Come on now then, Waters. 22:22.800 --> 22:24.800 Now what's the matter with you, eh? 22:24.800 --> 22:26.800 It was I, you. 22:26.800 --> 22:29.800 It was you what's done this to me. 22:29.800 --> 22:30.800 I told you. 22:30.800 --> 22:31.800 It was out of his head. 22:31.800 --> 22:33.800 It's you what's done it to me. 22:33.800 --> 22:34.800 I see it now. 22:34.800 --> 22:35.800 Come on, you're coming for me. 22:35.800 --> 22:36.800 Kill the fools. 22:36.800 --> 22:38.800 I'll get out of here with this. 22:38.800 --> 22:40.800 It will take 100 years. 22:40.800 --> 22:41.800 I'll kill you. 22:41.800 --> 22:43.800 I'll kill you. 22:50.800 --> 22:52.800 It was interesting while it lasted. 22:52.800 --> 22:55.800 And I've always believed that given a little more time, 22:55.800 --> 22:59.800 I could have ended my experiment successfully. 22:59.800 --> 23:01.800 But I had other plans to make now. 23:01.800 --> 23:04.800 Plans for the day when I would be free. 23:04.800 --> 23:06.800 And at last it came. 23:06.800 --> 23:10.800 At last I was walking away from the prison gate a free man. 23:10.800 --> 23:12.800 Now began my search. 23:12.800 --> 23:14.800 It was not difficult. 23:14.800 --> 23:17.800 It led me at last to Paris, to a small apartment, 23:17.800 --> 23:22.800 where I went tonight, December 31st, New Year's Eve. 23:22.800 --> 23:24.800 Yes? 23:24.800 --> 23:25.800 Good evening. 23:25.800 --> 23:26.800 Well, good evening. 23:26.800 --> 23:28.800 Did you wish to see someone? 23:28.800 --> 23:30.800 Don't you recognize me? 23:30.800 --> 23:33.800 Well, I do, of course, but are you a friend of Pam's? 23:33.800 --> 23:34.800 I am indeed. 23:34.800 --> 23:35.800 Who is it, darling? 23:35.800 --> 23:37.800 What's a friend of yours, dear? 23:37.800 --> 23:39.800 A friend of both of you. 23:39.800 --> 23:40.800 John. 23:40.800 --> 23:41.800 Yes? 23:41.800 --> 23:46.800 In fact, your husband, my dear, and Raymond's best friend. 23:46.800 --> 23:47.800 John, it's been... 23:47.800 --> 23:49.800 15 years, yes. 23:49.800 --> 23:52.800 You only returned to Paris recently, didn't you? 23:52.800 --> 23:54.800 Yes, a short time ago. 23:54.800 --> 23:59.800 And you never knew that I was convicted and sentenced to prison for your double murder, did you? 23:59.800 --> 24:00.800 Murder? 24:00.800 --> 24:03.800 Oh, that was quite as I planned it. 24:03.800 --> 24:07.800 I knew where you were, but the authorities did not. 24:07.800 --> 24:08.800 John. 24:08.800 --> 24:12.800 But perhaps you have heard of a curious legal technicality 24:12.800 --> 24:17.800 which provides that a man cannot be convicted twice for the same crime. 24:17.800 --> 24:21.800 So, you see, I've already paid for your murders. 24:21.800 --> 24:25.800 And now I've come to collect an ancient death... 24:25.800 --> 24:26.800 Put down that gun. 24:38.800 --> 24:41.800 I then walked calmly from their rooms. 24:41.800 --> 24:46.800 I made no effort to hide my face, my trail, or my identity. 24:46.800 --> 24:51.800 I can now defy every element in life and in law. 24:51.800 --> 24:58.800 After 15 years, I've committed the crimes for which I've already paid my debt to society. 24:58.800 --> 25:04.800 I shall mail this letter to the police, who may give it to the newspapers, 25:04.800 --> 25:09.800 whoever wants it, although it is now a matter of indifference to me 25:09.800 --> 25:13.800 if the world remarks upon my cleverness or my patience. 25:13.800 --> 25:20.800 For my life is complete. 25:20.800 --> 25:27.800 No man has ever known such happiness. 25:27.800 --> 25:29.800 John Forsythe. 25:29.800 --> 25:34.800 Yes, yes, come in, Madame Leclerc. I have a letter now ready. 25:34.800 --> 25:36.800 I wish you to mail for me. 25:36.800 --> 25:40.800 I've come for you, John Forsythe. 25:40.800 --> 25:41.800 What is? 25:41.800 --> 25:45.800 I'm not Waters any longer. 25:45.800 --> 25:47.800 How did you get out? 25:47.800 --> 25:53.800 They said I was insane, so I hadn't been responsible when I killed her. 25:53.800 --> 25:57.800 And then they said I was cured, sane again. 25:57.800 --> 25:59.800 And then they let me out. 25:59.800 --> 26:02.800 But there was one thing I didn't know. 26:02.800 --> 26:06.800 They never knew who I really was. 26:06.800 --> 26:08.800 What are you talking about? 26:08.800 --> 26:11.800 That's why I've come for you, John Forsythe. 26:11.800 --> 26:12.800 Me? 26:12.800 --> 26:16.800 I am the chosen messenger of an higher power. 26:16.800 --> 26:17.800 Look here, Waters. 26:17.800 --> 26:32.800 Die, John Forsythe. 26:32.800 --> 26:34.800 And the story ends with a newspaper clipping. 26:34.800 --> 26:35.800 Let me read it to you. 26:35.800 --> 26:37.800 Paris, January 1st. 26:37.800 --> 26:42.800 This gay metropolis spent one of its quietest New Year's Eve's in recent years. 26:42.800 --> 26:46.800 In all great of Paris, there were only two recorded deaths by violence, 26:46.800 --> 26:50.800 both of which by a strange coincidence occurred within a few yards of each other. 26:50.800 --> 26:55.800 The first was the fatal shooting by an unknown assailant of an Englishman, John Forsythe. 26:55.800 --> 26:59.800 The second victim, unidentified, had apparently leaped from a window or roof 26:59.800 --> 27:02.800 of the same dwelling occupied by Forsythe. 27:02.800 --> 27:07.800 Police were at a loss to explain a weird black silk robe and cape worn by the man. 27:07.800 --> 27:10.800 Jean-Guyves Leclerc, concierge of the building, 27:10.800 --> 27:13.800 alleges to have heard a voice repeating an English phrase, 27:13.800 --> 27:17.800 I am the angel of death, just before the suicidal leap. 27:17.800 --> 27:21.800 However, this can hardly have any bearing on the case, 27:21.800 --> 27:49.800 since the said phrase was undoubtedly uttered by New Year's revelers in the neighbourhood. 27:49.800 --> 27:51.800 Suspense! 27:51.800 --> 27:54.800 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. 27:54.800 --> 27:59.800 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 27:59.800 --> 28:04.800 How much more pleasureful any meal becomes when Roma Wine is served. 28:04.800 --> 28:10.800 Yes, a fine table wine such as Roma California Burgundy makes any food taste better, 28:10.800 --> 28:15.800 brings out all the flavour, lends romance and friendly companionship to the meal. 28:15.800 --> 28:19.800 America's famed hostess Elsa Maxwell says, 28:19.800 --> 28:25.800 my simple secret for gracious and enjoyable dining is to serve my guests Roma Burgundy. 28:25.800 --> 28:31.800 It's so easy to make your meals more delicious, more exciting as Elsa Maxwell does. 28:31.800 --> 28:36.800 Because Roma Wine costs so little, anyone can serve it often. 28:36.800 --> 28:41.800 Compliment your next dinner with the fruity fragrance and appetising pecan taste 28:41.800 --> 28:44.800 of red, robust Roma Burgundy. 28:44.800 --> 28:49.800 Come and get Roma Burgundy tomorrow, now selling at the lowest prices in years. 28:49.800 --> 28:55.800 And you get extra saving when you buy Roma in the half gallon and gallon size. 28:55.800 --> 29:00.800 No wine but Roma offers you so much for so little. 29:00.800 --> 29:03.800 Insist on Roma, R-O-M-A. 29:03.800 --> 29:09.800 Roma Wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:09.800 --> 29:12.800 Paul Henry appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers Studios 29:12.800 --> 29:14.800 and will soon be seen in their production, Devotion. 29:14.800 --> 29:18.800 Next Thursday, same time, Roma Wines will bring you Mr. Phil Terry, 29:18.800 --> 29:25.800 as star of Suspense, radio's outstanding theatre thrill. 29:25.800 --> 29:32.800 Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:32.800 --> 29:42.800 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.