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Johnson of Greystone 01:44.880 --> 01:45.880 Penitentiary. 01:45.880 --> 01:50.680 At 9.15 tonight, less than one hour ago, the notorious Frankie Tatham shot his way out 01:50.680 --> 01:54.920 of the death house at State Prison, killing two guards and wounding two others. 01:54.920 --> 01:59.200 All stated local police, as well as all motorists in the vicinity of Greystone, are warned to 01:59.200 --> 02:01.680 be on the lookout for this escaped convict. 02:01.680 --> 02:03.160 Once again, the name is Frankie Tatham. 02:03.160 --> 02:09.920 He is armed and dangerous. 02:09.920 --> 02:15.320 I was just entering Greystone, and somewhere in these mountains was that escaped convict. 02:15.320 --> 02:17.560 A condemned murderer. 02:17.560 --> 02:23.760 It seemed such a cliché somehow, I'd heard that situation worn threadbare on cheap mystery 02:23.760 --> 02:24.760 broadcasts. 02:24.760 --> 02:30.160 The escaped murderer announced over the radio, the innocent listener. 02:30.160 --> 02:37.360 But I began to think about it, and all at once Alice got mixed in those thoughts. 02:37.360 --> 02:41.600 I slowed down the car and pulled over to the side of the road. 02:41.600 --> 02:44.720 I kept the motor running and the lights on. 02:44.720 --> 02:45.720 I sat there. 02:45.720 --> 02:49.120 I don't know how long I waited there. 02:49.120 --> 02:52.240 Maybe 15 minutes, maybe an hour. 02:52.240 --> 02:57.400 All I did know was that so long as that siren screeched, Frankie Tatham was still at large 02:57.400 --> 03:00.240 somewhere in these mountains. 03:00.240 --> 03:03.200 I was in no hurry. 03:03.200 --> 03:05.720 Finally, someone was coming. 03:05.720 --> 03:09.760 I sat very still and kept my eyes focused on the overhead mirror. 03:09.760 --> 03:14.080 The figure was materializing out of the thick brush that lined the road, moving stealthily 03:14.080 --> 03:15.880 toward the car. 03:15.880 --> 03:16.880 I waited. 03:16.880 --> 03:20.160 Presently, the handle on the door nearest to me turned. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.880 All right, don't move you. 03:21.880 --> 03:23.320 I had no intention of moving. 03:23.320 --> 03:24.320 Shut up. 03:24.320 --> 03:26.680 Get out of the car and don't try anything. 03:26.680 --> 03:28.880 The car isn't going to do you any good, Tatham. 03:28.880 --> 03:30.920 The highway is patrolled and blocked off for miles. 03:30.920 --> 03:33.160 I told you to button up and get out. 03:33.160 --> 03:36.560 Two motorcycle troopers just went by here looking for you. 03:36.560 --> 03:38.000 I said get out of that car. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.200 Well, I want to help you, Tatham. 03:40.200 --> 03:43.840 Why do you think I sit here with the lights on and the motor running? 03:43.840 --> 03:44.840 Huh? 03:44.840 --> 03:47.200 I knew the lights and the sound of the motor would attract you. 03:47.200 --> 03:48.760 God, don't give me that. 03:48.760 --> 03:50.080 There's miles of country here. 03:50.080 --> 03:52.040 How could you tell I'd come this way? 03:52.040 --> 03:55.840 This is the shortest and safest route of the old stone quarry on the other side of the 03:55.840 --> 03:56.840 mountain. 03:56.840 --> 04:01.280 If I had just escaped from prison and wanted to hide out until my pals could get to me, 04:01.280 --> 04:03.280 that's where I'd head. 04:03.280 --> 04:05.280 Hey, cops. 04:05.280 --> 04:09.480 There's a rope on the back seat. 04:09.480 --> 04:10.480 Get in. 04:10.480 --> 04:12.160 Lie on the floor and cover yourself over quickly. 04:12.160 --> 04:14.240 What kind of a shot do you take before? 04:14.240 --> 04:16.400 You have much choice in the matter, Tatham. 04:16.400 --> 04:19.200 In a few seconds, that trooper will be here. 04:19.200 --> 04:23.600 If you pull that trigger or try to get away without pulling it, you won't get 20 feet 04:23.600 --> 04:24.600 in those bushes. 04:24.600 --> 04:27.600 Now, get in and fast. 04:27.600 --> 04:28.600 Okay. 04:28.600 --> 04:33.040 Okay, I don't know what this is all about, but it better be on the level, pal. 04:33.040 --> 04:34.040 Get in. 04:34.040 --> 04:35.040 All right back there? 04:35.040 --> 04:36.040 Yeah. 04:36.040 --> 04:37.040 And don't forget this gun. 04:37.040 --> 04:48.400 What's going on here? 04:48.400 --> 04:50.520 Having trouble with my motor officer. 04:50.520 --> 04:52.000 Keeps heating up on me and stalling. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.600 Well, you got it running now, four of us overheated. 04:54.600 --> 04:55.600 Just started it up. 04:55.600 --> 04:56.600 I see your license. 04:56.600 --> 04:57.600 Oh, gladly. 04:57.600 --> 04:58.600 Here. 04:58.600 --> 04:59.600 Here you are. 04:59.600 --> 05:00.600 Warren Rice. 05:00.600 --> 05:01.600 Warren... 05:01.600 --> 05:02.600 Oh, Dr. Rice. 05:02.600 --> 05:03.600 All right. 05:03.600 --> 05:05.860 Gosh, Doc, why didn't you say it was you? 05:05.860 --> 05:07.120 Because you didn't ask me. 05:07.120 --> 05:08.120 You better watch it, Doc. 05:08.120 --> 05:10.120 Frankie Tatham's escaped from the death house up here. 05:10.120 --> 05:11.120 Frankie Tatham? 05:11.120 --> 05:12.480 Yeah, you must remember him, the bank robber and killer. 05:12.480 --> 05:13.680 Papers were full of him a while back. 05:13.680 --> 05:14.680 Bad guy. 05:14.680 --> 05:15.680 Shoot you in the back quick as he breathes. 05:15.680 --> 05:17.280 Did you say shoot me in the back? 05:17.280 --> 05:18.840 Yeah, he's loose somewhere in these mountains. 05:18.840 --> 05:20.520 You better not hang around any longer than you have to, Doc. 05:20.520 --> 05:21.520 He's a bad actor. 05:21.520 --> 05:22.520 Thanks very much, officer. 05:22.520 --> 05:25.760 I'll get started right away and see if I can make home without stalling again. 05:25.760 --> 05:26.760 Yeah, well, good luck, doctor. 05:26.760 --> 05:27.760 Good luck to you, officer. 05:27.760 --> 05:28.760 Hope you'll find Tatham. 05:28.760 --> 05:44.040 All right, Tatham, he's gone. 05:44.040 --> 05:45.040 So you were Doc, huh? 05:45.040 --> 05:46.040 Hmm? 05:46.040 --> 05:47.040 Saw bones? 05:47.040 --> 05:49.040 No, I'm a doctor of psychiatry. 05:49.040 --> 05:50.040 Yeah? 05:50.040 --> 05:52.080 Well, let's see what I'm going to do now. 05:52.080 --> 05:53.080 I'll take over from here. 05:53.080 --> 05:54.080 You'll take over? 05:54.080 --> 05:57.040 Look, Doc, you seem to forget which one of us is holding this gun. 05:57.040 --> 05:59.720 Look, if I figure it out, you'd hear it for the Quarry. 05:59.720 --> 06:01.280 Eventually, the cops will, too. 06:01.280 --> 06:02.840 I ain't afraid to shoot it out with no cops. 06:02.840 --> 06:05.680 There is no profit in shooting it out with them. 06:05.680 --> 06:08.040 You got a better idea, I suppose, huh? 06:08.040 --> 06:09.040 I think so. 06:09.040 --> 06:11.360 All right, what's this all about? 06:11.360 --> 06:13.240 You wait in here for me, hide me under the robe. 06:13.240 --> 06:15.080 Now figure in out an escape for me. 06:15.080 --> 06:16.080 It don't add. 06:16.080 --> 06:19.280 We'll talk about that on the way. 06:19.280 --> 06:20.280 On the way to where? 06:20.280 --> 06:23.320 On the way to my home. 06:23.320 --> 06:40.360 You see, Tatum, a psychiatrist every once in a while comes upon a subject so interesting. 06:40.360 --> 06:45.120 In other words, Doc, you're trading me a safe hideout and a chance to make a clean getaway 06:45.120 --> 06:47.800 for the opportunity of using me as a guinea pig. 06:47.800 --> 06:48.800 That's right, Tatum. 06:48.800 --> 06:50.800 I want to study you for a while. 06:50.800 --> 06:51.800 Yeah? 06:51.800 --> 06:53.840 Well, you're funded for me all along the line. 06:53.840 --> 06:58.400 And if I can make a clean break out of town in a few days or so, well, I guess I can stand 06:58.400 --> 07:00.400 being under glass that long. 07:00.400 --> 07:03.320 OK, it's a deal. 07:03.320 --> 07:07.360 All right, Tatum, follow me. 07:07.360 --> 07:08.360 Wait a minute. 07:08.360 --> 07:09.600 Can we go into the front door? 07:09.600 --> 07:10.600 No, no. 07:10.600 --> 07:11.600 There's a side entrance. 07:11.600 --> 07:13.880 It leads to the left wing of the house. 07:13.880 --> 07:15.880 That's where I have my office. 07:15.880 --> 07:16.880 OK. 07:16.880 --> 07:18.880 This is it, Tatum. 07:18.880 --> 07:22.960 Wait till I get my keys out. 07:22.960 --> 07:23.960 This is the one. 07:23.960 --> 07:27.840 There, there is a light switch right where your hand is, Tatum. 07:27.840 --> 07:30.840 Click it on, will you please? 07:30.840 --> 07:31.840 OK. 07:31.840 --> 07:34.880 Well, this is quite a layout. 07:34.880 --> 07:39.760 Yes, I have this annex put on the main building so I could have it private. 07:39.760 --> 07:41.560 No one uses it but me. 07:41.560 --> 07:42.560 Eh? 07:42.560 --> 07:43.560 Where will I stay? 07:43.560 --> 07:46.520 Well, there's a bit of a room back of the office. 07:46.520 --> 07:49.960 It has a bed and everything else you'll need. 07:49.960 --> 07:54.640 I use it sometimes for patients I bring home and sometimes for myself when I work late and 07:54.640 --> 07:56.680 don't wish to be disturbed by my wife. 07:56.680 --> 07:57.680 Yeah? 07:57.680 --> 07:59.680 Well, it's not bad. 07:59.680 --> 08:01.720 Well, I'm glad you like it. 08:01.720 --> 08:02.720 Just make yourself comfortable. 08:02.720 --> 08:03.720 I'll be back. 08:03.720 --> 08:04.720 OK. 08:04.720 --> 08:09.160 Hey, hey, Doc, bring some grub with you. 08:09.160 --> 08:10.160 All right, I will. 08:10.160 --> 08:20.920 As soon as I've had a little talk with my wife. 08:20.920 --> 08:21.920 Good evening, dear. 08:21.920 --> 08:22.920 So you got home? 08:22.920 --> 08:26.280 Yes, Alice, I just got in. 08:26.280 --> 08:28.120 I didn't expect you until morning. 08:28.120 --> 08:31.640 I finished a case earlier than I thought. 08:31.640 --> 08:32.640 Had anything to eat? 08:32.640 --> 08:33.640 No. 08:33.640 --> 08:34.800 I'll get, I'll call Greta. 08:34.800 --> 08:35.800 It's her night off. 08:35.800 --> 08:36.800 Do we, too? 08:36.800 --> 08:37.800 Yes. 08:37.800 --> 08:38.800 I'll get you something myself. 08:38.800 --> 08:39.800 No, no, no, Alice. 08:39.800 --> 08:40.800 Don't bother. 08:40.800 --> 08:42.800 Father, it's a pleasure, darling. 08:42.800 --> 08:43.800 Thanks. 08:43.800 --> 08:46.760 Oh, yes, I almost forgot I have someone with me. 08:46.760 --> 08:48.760 Not Lisa, by any chance. 08:48.760 --> 08:53.680 Alice, I'd hoped you'd forget about the other night and all the disagreeable things we said 08:53.680 --> 08:54.680 and... 08:54.680 --> 08:55.680 Disagreeable? 08:55.680 --> 08:56.680 I found them rather enlightening. 08:56.680 --> 08:57.680 Did you? 08:57.680 --> 08:58.680 Yes. 08:58.680 --> 09:02.160 It isn't every wife whose husband is so honest telling her that he's in love with someone 09:02.160 --> 09:03.160 else. 09:03.160 --> 09:04.720 Oh, I'm sorry about that, Alice. 09:04.720 --> 09:05.960 I didn't mean to say it, really. 09:05.960 --> 09:07.560 I can believe that. 09:07.560 --> 09:08.880 I mean, it isn't true. 09:08.880 --> 09:10.240 I'm not in love with Lisa. 09:10.240 --> 09:11.240 I have never been. 09:11.240 --> 09:12.920 Is that why you wanted a divorce? 09:12.920 --> 09:15.360 I said that in the heat of the argument, Alice. 09:15.360 --> 09:16.920 I have no reason to want a divorce. 09:16.920 --> 09:19.400 Especially since I told you I'd never give you one. 09:19.400 --> 09:21.600 I'm not going to argue with you any more, Alice. 09:21.600 --> 09:23.760 I told myself that on the way home. 09:23.760 --> 09:27.320 I'm going to try to make our marriage the way it was ten years ago. 09:27.320 --> 09:33.960 A very pretty speech, darling, but I'm afraid it will take a great deal more than the power 09:33.960 --> 09:36.360 of words to convince me of that. 09:36.360 --> 09:42.040 Oh, I think I convinced you, Alice, if you'll give me time. 09:42.040 --> 09:47.720 I'm sure I can convince you. 09:47.720 --> 10:00.000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Paul Henry, in No More Alice by Martin 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Ryerson. 10:01.000 --> 10:15.600 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:15.600 --> 10:21.000 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.320 What to serve when friends call during length? 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12:37.360 --> 12:42.360 Yeah, sure, I went to school. 12:42.360 --> 12:45.480 Laforme School for six whole years. 12:45.480 --> 12:47.880 How long did you bury your nose in books? 12:47.880 --> 12:49.360 About twenty years. 12:49.360 --> 12:50.720 Twenty years? 12:50.720 --> 12:51.720 Mm-hmm. 12:51.720 --> 12:54.760 What's there to learn that would take twenty years? 12:54.760 --> 12:56.400 I went through college. 12:56.400 --> 12:59.000 Then I took several post-graduate courses. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.780 You sure had plenty of time to waste. 13:01.780 --> 13:03.520 What did your father do for a living, Tatham? 13:03.520 --> 13:06.680 He was sharp in the Chicago stickup when I was two years old. 13:06.680 --> 13:09.000 How about yours? 13:09.000 --> 13:11.480 My father was the president of a bank. 13:11.480 --> 13:12.480 Bank? 13:12.480 --> 13:13.480 Ha-ha! 13:13.480 --> 13:14.480 Blank check, huh? 13:14.480 --> 13:15.480 Yes, Tatham. 13:15.480 --> 13:20.000 I never really wanted for a thing in my life that I couldn't have. 13:20.000 --> 13:25.080 Well, we sure came out of different baskets, didn't we, Doc? 13:25.080 --> 13:31.520 Tell me, when you robbed a bank or killed someone, was it premeditated? 13:31.520 --> 13:33.720 You mean, did I plan it? 13:33.720 --> 13:34.720 Yes. 13:34.720 --> 13:35.720 Sure. 13:35.720 --> 13:38.040 Sure, you have to lay out a bank job. 13:38.040 --> 13:39.040 But killing? 13:39.040 --> 13:41.600 Well, that just happened. 13:41.600 --> 13:44.440 Somebody just had the rough luck to get in my way. 13:44.440 --> 13:47.400 Did you feel you had the right to take the life of another human being? 13:47.400 --> 13:48.400 Why not? 13:48.400 --> 13:52.280 Somebody tries to take something from me, so I nudge them out of the way. 13:52.280 --> 13:53.280 But you... 13:53.280 --> 13:56.720 Well, you wouldn't understand that, Doc. 13:56.720 --> 14:00.840 You just said you never wanted anything you couldn't have. 14:00.840 --> 14:03.840 Ever feel remorseful when you kill someone? 14:03.840 --> 14:04.840 Remorseful? 14:04.840 --> 14:05.840 What's that? 14:05.840 --> 14:07.840 Well, did you ever regret it? 14:07.840 --> 14:10.440 Did it ever bother your conscience? 14:10.440 --> 14:11.440 No. 14:11.440 --> 14:12.440 Ha-ha-ha! 14:12.440 --> 14:13.440 Why should it? 14:13.440 --> 14:24.920 Why, I'd kill my own brother if he ever got in my way. 14:24.920 --> 14:27.760 It went on like that for the next three days. 14:27.760 --> 14:33.160 I kept Tatum in that little room and had Dooley, our butler, bring his meals to the office. 14:33.160 --> 14:34.880 No one saw him. 14:34.880 --> 14:37.880 Finally, on the morning of the third day... 14:37.880 --> 14:41.440 Look, Doc, how much longer you gonna keep me holed up in this room? 14:41.440 --> 14:42.760 I'm starting to get punchy. 14:42.760 --> 14:44.800 Maybe tomorrow you'll be able to leave Tatum. 14:44.800 --> 14:46.000 I've contacted your friends. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 What'd they say? 14:47.000 --> 14:48.000 What'd they say? 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 Well, they said, uh... 14:49.000 --> 14:52.000 Well, as soon as I get a definite answer from them, you'll be on your way. 14:52.000 --> 14:56.040 Well, look, look, Doc, I don't want you to think I don't appreciate all this, see, but 14:56.040 --> 14:59.640 staying cooped up in this two-by-four room is almost as bad as being in sturd. 14:59.640 --> 15:02.640 Except that you know you're going to get out of here. 15:02.640 --> 15:03.640 Yeah. 15:03.640 --> 15:04.640 Ha-ha-ha! 15:04.640 --> 15:05.640 Yeah. 15:05.640 --> 15:06.640 Yes. 15:06.640 --> 15:07.640 It's funny. 15:07.640 --> 15:09.480 You know, I had you pegged wrong at first, Doc. 15:09.480 --> 15:13.400 I thought you was just using me, and that sooner or later I'd have to bump you. 15:13.400 --> 15:14.400 Ha-ha! 15:14.400 --> 15:20.800 But I guess, uh, I guess that won't be necessary now, eh, Doc? 15:20.800 --> 15:22.800 Ha-ha-ha! 15:22.800 --> 15:26.880 Yes, Tatum was getting restless. 15:26.880 --> 15:27.880 So was I. 15:27.880 --> 15:30.840 I couldn't keep him hidden out much longer. 15:30.840 --> 15:33.920 The rooms were getting dirty and had to be cleaned by Greta. 15:33.920 --> 15:37.400 Alice was getting a little curious as to who my patient was. 15:37.400 --> 15:41.320 If you stayed there too long, there would be questions. 15:41.320 --> 15:44.920 It was time to act. 15:44.920 --> 15:51.440 That evening it rained, came down in torrents, though it was mild compared to the storm that 15:51.440 --> 15:53.960 surged inside me. 15:53.960 --> 16:00.040 I walked into the drawing room and saw Lisa Waters sitting in front of the fireplace alone. 16:00.040 --> 16:03.840 Alice asked me to drop over and said you'd be curious if I didn't stay for dinner. 16:03.840 --> 16:04.840 Hello, Lisa. 16:04.840 --> 16:05.840 Where is Alice? 16:05.840 --> 16:06.840 Hello. 16:06.840 --> 16:09.280 She went to see Greta about dinner. 16:09.280 --> 16:12.560 Warren, aren't you going to sit down? 16:12.560 --> 16:15.840 Hey, no, you're beside me on the divan. 16:15.840 --> 16:16.840 Thanks. 16:16.840 --> 16:21.440 Why, it's been a long time since I last saw you. 16:21.440 --> 16:22.840 Does that mean you missed me? 16:22.840 --> 16:23.840 But of course. 16:23.840 --> 16:26.680 Don't you know by this time that you're my favorite husband? 16:26.680 --> 16:27.680 Am I? 16:27.680 --> 16:28.680 Uh-huh. 16:28.680 --> 16:33.840 I've often told Alice that if I ever get married, I'll try to find a husband just like you. 16:33.840 --> 16:35.840 Well, hello, Doctor. 16:35.840 --> 16:36.840 Hello. 16:36.840 --> 16:39.840 You finished your work rather early this evening, darling. 16:39.840 --> 16:43.840 Or did you happen to see Lisa's car in the driveway? 16:43.840 --> 16:47.560 Alice, anyone hearing you would think... 16:47.560 --> 16:49.600 Think what, Lisa? 16:49.600 --> 16:51.400 Warren isn't early for dinner very often. 16:51.400 --> 16:54.840 Come to think of it, he hasn't been early since the last time you were here. 16:54.840 --> 16:57.160 Doesn't she tease something awful, Warren? 16:57.160 --> 16:58.920 Oh, but I'm not teasing. 16:58.920 --> 17:01.120 Don't you know, Lisa, that the other night Warren confessed... 17:01.120 --> 17:02.120 Alice, please. 17:02.120 --> 17:03.560 What's the matter, darling? 17:03.560 --> 17:09.040 I was only going to say you confessed that of all my friends you prefer Lisa. 17:09.040 --> 17:11.120 That was sweet, Warren. 17:11.120 --> 17:12.920 Mind if I sit between you two? 17:12.920 --> 17:16.320 Well, you'll be breaking up a very handsome couple. 17:16.320 --> 17:18.600 Yes, I know. 17:18.600 --> 17:22.200 By the way, speaking of breaking up, we had a most interesting discussion the other night 17:22.200 --> 17:23.200 about divorce. 17:23.200 --> 17:24.200 Alice, must you... 17:24.200 --> 17:26.200 Certainly not you and Warren. 17:26.200 --> 17:27.200 Oh, no. 17:27.200 --> 17:28.200 No, Lisa, darling. 17:28.200 --> 17:29.400 I don't believe in divorce. 17:29.400 --> 17:34.880 I told Warren that no matter what happened, I'd never give him a divorce. 17:34.880 --> 17:37.360 I don't imagine you would. 17:37.360 --> 17:41.160 After sacrificing and working with him for ten long years, I'd never step aside for 17:41.160 --> 17:42.940 anyone. 17:42.940 --> 17:48.600 Not even if that anyone was you, Lisa, my best friend. 17:48.600 --> 17:50.600 That's how marriage should be. 17:50.600 --> 18:01.320 Till death do us part. 18:01.320 --> 18:04.800 At ten o'clock, please, I'll leave. 18:04.800 --> 18:07.520 It was still stormy. 18:07.520 --> 18:11.880 As I walked her to the car under an umbrella, I fought the desire to take her in my arms. 18:11.880 --> 18:15.600 Tell her that after tonight she would be mine and I would be hers. 18:15.600 --> 18:20.120 And there would be no more, no more, Alice. 18:20.120 --> 18:24.480 But she seemed so young, so far from the thought of murder. 18:24.480 --> 18:26.480 Suppose I were wrong and took her into my confidence. 18:26.480 --> 18:28.760 Tell her about my plan to kill Alice. 18:28.760 --> 18:30.840 It could mean the end of everything. 18:30.840 --> 18:33.620 No, I must wait. 18:33.620 --> 18:39.400 It wouldn't be long now before there'd be no more goodbyes like this one. 18:39.400 --> 18:44.320 I watched a car crawl down the driveway into the rain and the darkness. 18:44.320 --> 18:49.400 Then I went back into the house. 18:49.400 --> 18:51.280 Alice was in the drawing room. 18:51.280 --> 18:53.040 I didn't have much to say. 18:53.040 --> 18:54.280 She did all the talking. 18:54.280 --> 18:59.080 She still goaded me about Lisa, asked if I kissed her goodnight, if we made a secret 18:59.080 --> 19:00.080 tryst. 19:00.080 --> 19:05.920 Well, finally I told her I had to get back to my patient in the office outside. 19:05.920 --> 19:10.240 I watched her turn out the lights and climb the stairs to her room. 19:10.240 --> 19:15.120 It was the last time I'd ever see Alice alive, I told myself. 19:15.120 --> 19:17.080 But I didn't feel badly. 19:17.080 --> 19:19.040 I felt good. 19:19.040 --> 19:24.120 When I got to the office, Tatum was listening to the radio. 19:24.120 --> 19:25.600 This was it. 19:25.600 --> 19:29.760 All right, all right, Tatum, better kill the radio. 19:29.760 --> 19:32.920 Yeah, sure, sure. 19:32.920 --> 19:33.920 What? 19:33.920 --> 19:36.400 What's up? 19:36.400 --> 19:37.400 My wife. 19:37.400 --> 19:39.600 What's the matter with her? 19:39.600 --> 19:43.480 She... she found out you were here and who you are. 19:43.480 --> 19:45.080 Hey, hey, that ain't good. 19:45.080 --> 19:46.560 What's she gonna do? 19:46.560 --> 19:47.560 Call the police. 19:47.560 --> 19:48.560 One side, brother. 19:48.560 --> 19:49.560 Wait a minute. 19:49.560 --> 19:50.560 I've cut the phone wires. 19:50.560 --> 19:51.560 She's got legs in. 19:51.560 --> 19:54.280 She can't get out of the house without us hearing her. 19:54.280 --> 19:55.280 We've got time. 19:55.280 --> 19:57.480 Let's try to think this thing out. 19:57.480 --> 19:58.480 You think it out? 19:58.480 --> 20:00.160 I'm the one that's on the spot. 20:00.160 --> 20:01.160 What? 20:01.160 --> 20:02.160 Hey, wait a minute. 20:02.160 --> 20:03.160 How did she find out? 20:03.160 --> 20:04.160 Well, I don't know. 20:04.160 --> 20:07.160 Just put two and two together somehow. 20:07.160 --> 20:08.760 What's the difference now? 20:08.760 --> 20:13.200 Plenty, plenty, because from the way it looks here, nobody could have tipped her off but 20:13.200 --> 20:14.200 you. 20:14.200 --> 20:15.200 Don't be a fool. 20:15.200 --> 20:16.640 Come on, talk fast, Doc, because if you cross me... 20:16.640 --> 20:17.640 Put that gun down. 20:17.640 --> 20:20.640 Why should I cross you? 20:20.640 --> 20:22.320 How do you think I stand in this? 20:22.320 --> 20:23.320 I don't know. 20:23.320 --> 20:24.320 How do you? 20:24.320 --> 20:25.320 Shielding an escaped convict. 20:25.320 --> 20:26.920 I'd go to prison for that. 20:26.920 --> 20:28.920 Some kind of a trap. 20:28.920 --> 20:30.400 This is what you've been leading up to. 20:30.400 --> 20:31.400 Why you... 20:31.400 --> 20:34.400 All right, Taffon. 20:34.400 --> 20:39.680 Oh, you stupid fool. 20:39.680 --> 20:40.680 Listen to me. 20:40.680 --> 20:42.520 We are together in this. 20:42.520 --> 20:43.520 You understand that? 20:43.520 --> 20:45.360 We are together in this. 20:45.360 --> 20:48.120 You can't kill me and I can't turn you in. 20:48.120 --> 20:50.600 Yeah, that's right. 20:50.600 --> 20:55.280 You and me are kind of in the same boat, ain't we, Doc? 20:55.280 --> 20:57.760 I'm glad it's penetrating finally, Taffon. 20:57.760 --> 20:59.800 I've got to do something quickly. 20:59.800 --> 21:02.080 You sure your wife can't leave without us hearing? 21:02.080 --> 21:03.080 No, I have the car keys. 21:03.080 --> 21:05.600 Anyway, it's a mile to the nearest phone. 21:05.600 --> 21:09.320 Of course, she's up in her room now. 21:09.320 --> 21:10.320 Look, Doc, look. 21:10.320 --> 21:12.520 She must have known the spot she put you in. 21:12.520 --> 21:14.720 Why does she want to pull a thing like that for? 21:14.720 --> 21:15.720 Because she hates me. 21:15.720 --> 21:16.720 Yeah? 21:16.720 --> 21:17.720 She's hated me for years. 21:17.720 --> 21:18.720 Yeah? 21:18.720 --> 21:21.240 I would have killed her long ago if I had the nerve. 21:21.240 --> 21:23.320 I've never killed a thing, but I would have. 21:23.320 --> 21:24.320 If what? 21:24.320 --> 21:25.720 If she got in my way. 21:25.720 --> 21:27.320 Where do you think she is now? 21:27.320 --> 21:28.320 I'm thinking. 21:28.320 --> 21:30.880 I'd say somebody broke in, a burglar. 21:30.880 --> 21:32.460 You could take my other car. 21:32.460 --> 21:33.880 You could be half a way across the country. 21:33.880 --> 21:35.520 Yeah, unless you had me picked up. 21:35.520 --> 21:37.960 Make myself an accessory to murder, huh? 21:37.960 --> 21:38.960 How could I? 21:38.960 --> 21:41.160 Oh, we've gone all through over there before. 21:41.160 --> 21:42.160 Yeah. 21:42.160 --> 21:43.160 Yeah, you're right. 21:43.160 --> 21:46.280 You really are in this, ain't you? 21:46.280 --> 21:47.920 Any way you play it. 21:47.920 --> 21:50.200 The only way for either of us. 21:50.200 --> 21:53.200 Pick up your gun. 21:53.200 --> 21:55.200 Yeah. 21:55.200 --> 21:57.200 Yeah. 21:57.200 --> 22:00.200 Okay, Doc. 22:00.200 --> 22:06.280 It's a deal. 22:06.280 --> 22:10.480 Slowly Tatum opened the door and slipped into the hall. 22:10.480 --> 22:12.080 I waited a few seconds. 22:12.080 --> 22:15.120 Then I walked to the desk. 22:15.120 --> 22:20.840 I unlocked the top drawer and got out my revolver. 22:20.840 --> 22:26.600 Cautiously I opened the door and moved into the hall toward my main building. 22:26.600 --> 22:32.280 As I reached the foot of the stairs, I heard the door to Alice's room squeak open. 22:32.280 --> 22:36.120 I went up the stairs quickly without a sound. 22:36.120 --> 22:41.800 As I reached the stop step, there was a muffled scream, a slight struggle, a single shot. 22:41.800 --> 22:45.880 Then a terrible silence. 22:45.880 --> 22:49.920 I crept in the door of the bedroom. 22:49.920 --> 22:50.920 Slowly I opened it. 22:50.920 --> 22:58.360 And in the dull light from the bed lamp, I took careful aim with the revolver at Frankie 22:58.360 --> 23:12.600 Tatum's broad back. 23:12.600 --> 23:16.600 Four bullets I pumped into him. 23:16.600 --> 23:19.960 A wave of conquests swept through me. 23:19.960 --> 23:22.840 For this, this was perfection. 23:22.840 --> 23:26.760 This was the difference between a crude killer like Frankie Tatum and me. 23:26.760 --> 23:29.400 This was exactly as I had planned it. 23:29.400 --> 23:32.520 In a moment duly, our butler, summoned by the shots, would rush into the room. 23:32.520 --> 23:35.800 He would find me standing there with a gun in my hand. 23:35.800 --> 23:40.560 The way I would disarrange the room in the next few seconds would convince him and the 23:40.560 --> 23:45.880 police that Frankie Tatum had broken into my wife's bedroom and murdered her. 23:45.880 --> 23:51.720 And I, the gallant husband, had rushed to the scene and blazed away at him. 23:51.720 --> 23:54.600 It would look awfully nice in prints. 23:54.600 --> 23:57.200 I would be quite a hero. 23:57.200 --> 24:02.760 And no one would know that I had carefully planned this murder step by step from the 24:02.760 --> 24:07.480 moment when I first heard the prison siren on the mountain road. 24:07.480 --> 24:13.160 Yes, now at last I was free to marry Lisa. 24:13.160 --> 24:18.600 Already I was busy turning over the furniture, disarranging the bed, reaching to tear the 24:18.600 --> 24:21.320 robe from the probe figured on the bed. 24:21.320 --> 24:22.320 And then... 24:22.320 --> 24:23.320 Juan. 24:23.320 --> 24:24.920 A voice. 24:24.920 --> 24:25.920 A woman's voice. 24:25.920 --> 24:26.920 Warren. 24:26.920 --> 24:27.920 I spun to face the doorway. 24:27.920 --> 24:31.200 I could feel a blood drain from my face. 24:31.200 --> 24:35.480 A terrible coldness reached out and grabbed at my heart. 24:35.480 --> 24:36.480 Alice. 24:36.480 --> 24:38.480 It was Alice. 24:38.480 --> 24:41.480 Framed in the doorway. 24:41.480 --> 24:45.360 Fear smashed into my brain. 24:45.360 --> 24:48.080 I turned to her, the figure on the bed. 24:48.080 --> 24:49.080 Turned it over. 24:49.080 --> 24:51.560 A scream choked in my throat. 24:51.560 --> 24:52.560 There. 24:52.560 --> 24:53.560 Look before me. 24:53.560 --> 25:00.320 Lay the lifeless body of Lisa. 25:00.320 --> 25:03.760 He's the man who escaped from Greystone Penitentiary. 25:03.760 --> 25:07.360 He's the man you kept locked in your office, isn't he? 25:07.360 --> 25:09.880 But I... 25:09.880 --> 25:13.000 I put her in her car. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.240 I saw her drive away. 25:15.240 --> 25:18.240 You planned to have him murder me. 25:18.240 --> 25:19.240 But he killed her instead. 25:19.240 --> 25:20.240 But I... 25:20.240 --> 25:22.300 I saw her drive away. 25:22.300 --> 25:23.300 She came back. 25:23.300 --> 25:24.300 I saw her. 25:24.300 --> 25:25.300 Landslide blocked the highway. 25:25.300 --> 25:26.300 I told her to spend the night. 25:26.300 --> 25:27.920 She could have my room. 25:27.920 --> 25:30.400 You planned to have him murder me, didn't you? 25:30.400 --> 25:33.080 You planned to have him murder me, didn't you? 25:33.080 --> 25:34.080 She spoke. 25:34.080 --> 25:35.080 She gloated. 25:35.080 --> 25:37.080 Alice moved into the room. 25:37.080 --> 25:40.120 I circled to her the doorway. 25:40.120 --> 25:42.760 The revolver was still warm in my hand. 25:42.760 --> 25:46.080 As I reached the doorway, I raised the gun. 25:46.080 --> 25:48.440 My finger tightened on the trigger. 25:48.440 --> 26:00.600 And then something came down out of the blackness and washed away and he crawled from my room. 26:00.600 --> 26:07.920 And that, gentlemen of the jury, is the true confession of Dr. Warren Rice told you in 26:07.920 --> 26:08.920 his own words. 26:08.920 --> 26:13.480 Ironically, the very person Rice expected would be his chief collaborating witness turned 26:13.480 --> 26:15.920 out to be the man who trapped and convicted him. 26:15.920 --> 26:19.600 I mean Dooley the butler who was summoned by the shots, hurried to the door of Mrs. 26:19.600 --> 26:23.320 Rice's bedroom, found Rice about to kill his wife and struck him down. 26:23.320 --> 26:28.800 The state rests. 26:28.800 --> 26:33.000 Suspense. 26:33.000 --> 26:45.280 Presented by Roma Wines. 26:45.280 --> 26:52.080 Our OMA made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 26:52.080 --> 26:56.480 Before we hear again from Paul Henreid, the star of No More Alice, tonight's suspense 26:56.480 --> 27:01.100 play, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 27:01.100 --> 27:06.920 If meatless Lenten meals fail to intrigue that family of yours, just serve a fine Roma 27:06.920 --> 27:09.120 table wine with tomorrow's dinner. 27:09.120 --> 27:15.360 Yes, the simplest meals become more flavorful, more exciting with Roma wine. 27:15.360 --> 27:21.200 Plain baked beans or spaghetti are royal treats when served with red robust Roma California 27:21.200 --> 27:22.560 Burgundy. 27:22.560 --> 27:27.560 And your favorite fish or omelet will taste better than ever with a glass of pale gold 27:27.560 --> 27:30.480 Roma California Sauternes. 27:30.480 --> 27:35.800 And listen to the praise you get for the extra appetizing goodness, the cheerful warmth, 27:35.800 --> 27:41.560 the air of friendly companionship that Roma wine adds to your dining pleasure. 27:41.560 --> 27:47.280 For an adventure in good dining, try delicious Roma Burgundy or Sauternes with tomorrow night's 27:47.280 --> 27:48.280 dinner. 27:48.280 --> 27:53.200 You can enjoy Roma wines often, for they cost just pennies a glass. 27:53.200 --> 28:01.680 So insist on Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 28:01.680 --> 28:03.080 world. 28:03.080 --> 28:05.240 This is Paul Henreid. 28:05.240 --> 28:09.480 Next week, I know you will want to make it a point to hear a suspense show that promises 28:09.480 --> 28:10.960 to be really something. 28:10.960 --> 28:16.520 It will star Gregory Peck in a remarkable study of the mental breakdown of a man who 28:16.520 --> 28:20.920 brings himself to the very brink of murder because of a woman. 28:20.920 --> 28:26.880 I know you won't want to miss hearing Gregory Peck in The Lonely Road. 28:26.880 --> 28:27.880 Thank you. 28:27.880 --> 28:32.840 Paul Henreid will soon be seen in the Warner Brothers production, Devotion. 28:32.840 --> 28:41.000 Next Thursday, same time, Roma Wines will bring you Mr. Gregory Peck as star of Suspense, 28:41.000 --> 28:45.680 radio's outstanding theater of thrill. 28:45.680 --> 29:02.160 Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:02.160 --> 29:15.520 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.