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01:09.720 --> 01:11.760 For the prosecution we are, Your Honor. 01:11.760 --> 01:12.760 The defense? 01:12.760 --> 01:13.760 Yes, Your Honor. 01:13.760 --> 01:14.760 Very well. 01:14.760 --> 01:17.520 The district attorney may call his witnesses. 01:17.520 --> 01:21.800 Your Honor, my first witness is a document. 01:21.800 --> 01:27.280 This document duly entered as evidence in this court and marked exhibit A is the diary 01:27.280 --> 01:30.680 of Alma Whorrell. 01:30.680 --> 01:35.320 I should like the court's permission to read from this diary certain entries beginning 01:35.320 --> 01:39.880 with May the 14th, which I consider to be relevant to this case. 01:39.880 --> 01:40.880 Granted. 01:40.880 --> 01:48.400 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is the diary of the defendant, Alma Whorrell. 01:48.400 --> 01:52.640 May the 14th, we open tonight in St. Louis. 01:52.640 --> 01:57.080 It is a shock to realize that today marks the fifth anniversary of my association with 01:57.080 --> 02:01.880 the great Whorrell and that for all but a few months of that time I have been married 02:01.880 --> 02:02.880 to him. 02:02.880 --> 02:10.520 The great Whorrell, the marked mentalist, that's the masked mentalist, jury. 02:10.520 --> 02:16.400 It is doubly shocking as I look back to realize how profoundly I have been affected by those 02:16.400 --> 02:20.520 five years as the wife and assistant of the world's greatest mind reader. 02:20.520 --> 02:24.360 For there is no doubt that he is that. 02:24.360 --> 02:28.640 As I write these lines I am sitting in a quiet corner of the wings where I can watch Paul's 02:28.640 --> 02:33.280 nimble feet out on the stage, the way he charms his audience. 02:33.280 --> 02:37.120 But such sounds as these with their familiar and well-remembered ring from five years of 02:37.120 --> 02:41.560 vaudeville and heart-truquing scarcely register upon my mind tonight. 02:41.560 --> 02:45.560 For today I have finally faced the terrible fear that has been haunting me through the 02:45.560 --> 02:48.040 gathering nightmare of these past months. 02:48.040 --> 02:52.040 If I have not faced it sooner it is because my mind quailed before the thought and all 02:52.040 --> 02:54.280 its implications. 02:54.280 --> 02:59.320 The evidence has always been there in a thousand little acts and instances almost from the 02:59.320 --> 03:00.320 first. 03:00.320 --> 03:03.400 Perhaps meeting Paul has forced the decision. 03:03.400 --> 03:07.080 Certainly I can wait no longer and avoid decision. 03:07.080 --> 03:09.720 Tonight I must put it to the test. 03:09.720 --> 03:12.920 What the result will be I already know. 03:12.920 --> 03:17.920 What steps for my salvation will lie ahead thereafter I have not dared to contemplate. 03:17.920 --> 03:20.920 Thank you all. 03:20.920 --> 03:26.320 Now ladies and gentlemen the final demonstration. 03:26.320 --> 03:32.520 I'll ask a member of the audience to step up here on the stage and blindfold me. 03:32.520 --> 03:34.920 You sir, the great Harrell, thank you. 03:34.920 --> 03:37.320 Do you have a handkerchief on? 03:37.320 --> 03:38.320 Yes, yes sir. 03:38.320 --> 03:39.320 Good. 03:39.320 --> 03:40.320 Take the handkerchief. 03:40.320 --> 03:43.320 You will fold your handkerchief and tie it over my eyes. 03:43.320 --> 03:44.320 Yes, right over the mask. 03:44.320 --> 03:45.320 That's it. 03:45.320 --> 03:46.320 Knotted in the back of my head. 03:46.320 --> 03:47.320 Good and tight. 03:47.320 --> 03:48.320 Splendid. 03:48.320 --> 03:55.320 Now tell me, you're certain that I can see nothing through this blindfold? 03:55.320 --> 03:59.320 Well, if you can you must have x-ray eyes. 03:59.320 --> 04:00.320 Very well. 04:00.320 --> 04:05.880 Now I shall ask my assistant to select some member of the audience who will give us some 04:05.880 --> 04:07.880 personal object, anything at all. 04:07.880 --> 04:13.520 I shall attempt to identify that object entirely by the transmission of thought waves by reading 04:13.520 --> 04:15.320 the mind of my assistant. 04:15.320 --> 04:17.320 Are you ready, I'm up. 04:17.320 --> 04:18.320 Yes, I am. 04:18.320 --> 04:22.320 Now my assistant has selected the victim. 04:22.320 --> 04:28.820 It is, yes it is a gentleman. 04:28.820 --> 04:34.320 My assistant now has in her right hand, thank you. 04:34.320 --> 04:37.320 Hold it up for the audience and see it, I'm up. 04:37.320 --> 04:39.320 Yes, I'm holding it. 04:39.320 --> 04:50.320 The object appears, very difficult, difficult, the object appears to be a picture. 04:50.320 --> 04:56.320 Yes, it is a picture, a picture of a middle-aged man. 04:56.320 --> 04:58.320 He has a beard. 04:58.320 --> 05:03.320 It is a picture of Abraham Lincoln on a five dollar bill. 05:03.320 --> 05:06.320 Please, please, please. 05:06.320 --> 05:14.320 Now I will ask my assistant to concentrate all the faculties on the serial number of 05:14.320 --> 05:15.320 that five dollar bill. 05:15.320 --> 05:18.320 Do you have the number well in mind, Alma? 05:18.320 --> 05:19.320 Yes, I have. 05:19.320 --> 05:20.320 Good. 05:20.320 --> 05:23.320 Will the gentleman take the bill back again then please? 05:23.320 --> 05:27.320 Does the gentleman now have the bill in his possession again? 05:27.320 --> 05:28.320 The gentleman has? 05:28.320 --> 05:30.320 Concentrate please, Alma. 05:30.320 --> 05:34.320 No, no, no, no, I'm not getting it. 05:34.320 --> 05:37.320 Now that's better. 05:37.320 --> 05:54.320 Yes, yes the serial number of the five dollar bill the gentleman has in his hand is B42533197D. 05:54.320 --> 05:55.320 Is that correct? 05:55.320 --> 05:56.320 That's right. 05:56.320 --> 05:58.320 I thank you all very much. 05:58.320 --> 06:11.320 Ah, there you are my dear. 06:11.320 --> 06:14.320 Congratulations, you were practically perfect tonight. 06:14.320 --> 06:16.320 Martin, I want to talk to you. 06:16.320 --> 06:17.320 By all means. 06:17.320 --> 06:19.320 No, turn around, look at me Martin. 06:19.320 --> 06:20.320 This is terribly important. 06:20.320 --> 06:24.320 It also happens to be quite important for me to get this grease paint off. 06:24.320 --> 06:26.320 Go ahead, Alma, I'm listening. 06:26.320 --> 06:29.320 Martin, you just said I was practically perfect tonight. 06:29.320 --> 06:30.320 You were indeed my dear. 06:30.320 --> 06:33.320 Your signals came through with unusual clarity. 06:33.320 --> 06:34.320 But Martin, what I'm... 06:34.320 --> 06:37.320 Good heavens, Alma, you've been doing this long enough to know what I mean. 06:37.320 --> 06:40.320 Martin, I didn't give you any signals tonight. 06:40.320 --> 06:41.320 What? 06:41.320 --> 06:44.320 I didn't give you any signals. 06:44.320 --> 06:45.320 Very well. 06:45.320 --> 06:47.320 The word then is not perfect. 06:47.320 --> 06:49.320 You are miraculous. 06:49.320 --> 06:51.320 Does that suit you better? 06:51.320 --> 06:53.320 Martin, look at me. 06:53.320 --> 06:54.320 Don't you see what that means? 06:54.320 --> 06:55.320 What's the matter with you, Alma? 06:55.320 --> 06:57.320 You can read my mind. 06:57.320 --> 06:58.320 Can I? 06:58.320 --> 07:01.320 You can read my mind, Martin. 07:01.320 --> 07:06.320 Very well, Alma, if you wish to believe that, I'm sure it can only have the excellent effect 07:06.320 --> 07:09.320 of making the act even more believable to the audience. 07:09.320 --> 07:10.320 Martin, I can't go on this way. 07:10.320 --> 07:12.320 This is all a lot of nonsense, you know. 07:12.320 --> 07:13.320 No, it isn't. 07:13.320 --> 07:15.320 You haven't even denied it. 07:15.320 --> 07:16.320 I've seen it coming for months. 07:16.320 --> 07:21.320 Little things at first, Martin, at home, on the street, until my most intimate thoughts 07:21.320 --> 07:26.320 weren't my own, until my mind wasn't my own, until I have no mind. 07:26.320 --> 07:30.320 Just what is this little scene leading up to, Alma? 07:30.320 --> 07:32.320 Martin, you've got to let me go. 07:32.320 --> 07:33.320 You've got to set me free. 07:33.320 --> 07:34.320 Let you go? 07:34.320 --> 07:35.320 Yes, give me a divorce. 07:35.320 --> 07:36.320 Go, Alma, you're being hysterical. 07:36.320 --> 07:37.320 Martin, please. 07:37.320 --> 07:40.320 Alma, I have devoted five years to my association with you. 07:40.320 --> 07:43.320 I have trained you until, yes, until you were perfect. 07:43.320 --> 07:48.320 I'm sorry, Martin, I'm sorry for all that, but I've got to have my freedom. 07:48.320 --> 07:50.320 Are you thinking of Paul Wilson? 07:50.320 --> 07:52.320 You know what I'm thinking. 07:52.320 --> 07:53.320 I see. 07:53.320 --> 07:55.320 And you do understand, Martin? 07:55.320 --> 07:58.320 I understand that you'll be of very little use to me in your present condition. 07:58.320 --> 08:00.320 Never, I can never go on again. 08:00.320 --> 08:01.320 Very well. 08:01.320 --> 08:06.320 It just so happens I received only this afternoon a very lucrative offer from Austrade. 08:06.320 --> 08:12.320 They'll even supply a partner, apparently not fully appreciating your importance in the scheme of things. 08:12.320 --> 08:14.320 I shall accept. 08:14.320 --> 08:15.320 Oh, thank you, Martin. 08:15.320 --> 08:20.320 I shall accept, but I shall return in about three months. 08:20.320 --> 08:23.320 Meanwhile, we shall forget Paul Wilson, won't we? 08:23.320 --> 08:29.320 I shall expect you to be fully rested when I return, and in a reasonable frame of mind. 08:29.320 --> 08:30.320 Rested? 08:30.320 --> 08:35.320 And as for your freedom, Alma, understand this. 08:35.320 --> 08:38.320 You'll never, never be free from me. 08:38.320 --> 08:41.320 Set your mind to that. 08:41.320 --> 08:44.320 My mind? 08:44.320 --> 08:46.320 My mind. 09:14.320 --> 09:19.320 Between the acts of suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 09:19.320 --> 09:26.320 Last week, ladies and gentlemen, many of you heard me announce for Roma the first release of Grand Estate Wines. 09:26.320 --> 09:33.320 Tonight, I bring you the story behind Roma's proud presentation of premier quality Grand Estate Wines. 09:33.320 --> 09:40.320 Years ago, Roma vintners set as their goal a limited bottling of truly outstanding wines. 09:40.320 --> 09:47.320 Beginning with a selection of choice grapes, Roma vintners unhurriedly created five superior wines, 09:47.320 --> 09:55.320 each with a character born of timeless skill, each rich in the brilliant clarity, full fragrance, and mellow taste, 09:55.320 --> 09:59.320 which distinguish an indisputably great wine. 09:59.320 --> 10:07.320 Today, at last, Roma, America's greatest vintner, offers you these fine, great wines. 10:07.320 --> 10:17.320 Each fully reflecting the patient perfection of Roma winemaking methods, each assuring you unvarying excellence always. 10:17.320 --> 10:24.320 For the host to offer, for the guest to give, Grand Estate Wines are a regal expression of hospitality, 10:24.320 --> 10:27.320 a flattering gesture of good taste. 10:27.320 --> 10:33.320 So choose and enjoy all five Grand Estate California wines. 10:33.320 --> 10:39.320 Medium Sherry, Ruby Port, Golden Musketel, Burgundy, and Sauternes. 10:39.320 --> 10:46.320 Remember the name, Grand Estate Wines by Roma, the crowning achievement of vintner skill. 10:46.320 --> 10:53.320 And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage, Joan Loring as Alma in the great Horel, 10:53.320 --> 11:03.320 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:13.320 --> 11:21.320 May 16th. I am free. At last, after all these months and years of haunting fear, I am free. 11:21.320 --> 11:27.320 Even the terrible revelation of two days ago, the final certainty that my husband could read my mind, 11:27.320 --> 11:32.320 now seems almost like the fading shadow of a bad dream compared to that wonderful fact. 11:32.320 --> 11:35.320 He is leaving and I am free. 11:35.320 --> 11:42.320 What does it matter now that he says he is coming back or even that half-failed threat that he will never give me my freedom? 11:42.320 --> 11:46.320 I am prepared for that. For now, I shall make the decisions. 11:46.320 --> 11:54.320 For the first time in five long years, my mind is my own, released at last from that constant crushing insidious influence of his. 11:54.320 --> 11:59.320 And I will do the planning. Tomorrow, Paul and I are going to see a lawyer. 11:59.320 --> 12:05.320 For by the time Martin Horel does come back, I will no longer be his wife. 12:05.320 --> 12:12.320 I will be Mrs. Paul Wilson. 12:12.320 --> 12:14.320 Can I help you? 12:14.320 --> 12:16.320 This is Martin Horel to see Mr. Banning. Do you have an appointment? 12:16.320 --> 12:17.320 Yes, for two o'clock. 12:17.320 --> 12:18.320 Have a seat, please. 12:18.320 --> 12:19.320 Thank you. 12:19.320 --> 12:26.320 Mrs. Horel to see Mr. Banning. Thank you. Mr. Banning will see you in just a moment, Mrs. Horel. 12:26.320 --> 12:29.320 Thank you. Oh, Paul, darling, I can hardly believe it. 12:29.320 --> 12:31.320 I know. How long will it take? 12:31.320 --> 12:34.320 Six weeks if I go to Reno. Can we manage that, darling? 12:34.320 --> 12:38.320 Sure, we'll manage it somehow. How do you think Horel is going to take it? 12:38.320 --> 12:40.320 I don't care how he takes it, do you? 12:40.320 --> 12:42.320 Maybe I'm a cat in a home wrecker, but I don't. 12:42.320 --> 12:46.320 Silly. I only wish you'd wrecked it years ago, what there was of it. 12:46.320 --> 12:49.320 After all, Paul, what can he say? He left me, didn't he? 12:49.320 --> 12:54.320 In spite of all his high-flown speeches about coming back after me and never giving me my freedom, he did leave me. 12:54.320 --> 12:58.320 Sure, although I'll never know why you didn't leave him long before this. 12:58.320 --> 13:01.320 Because, Paul, I'm not sure that I could have. 13:01.320 --> 13:03.320 Not sure that you could have? 13:03.320 --> 13:06.320 I'm not sure he'd have let me. 13:06.320 --> 13:10.320 Yes? Yes, Mr. Banning. 13:10.320 --> 13:12.320 Mr. Banning, we'll see you now, Mrs. Horel. 13:12.320 --> 13:13.320 Thank you. 13:13.320 --> 13:14.320 Let's go right in. 13:14.320 --> 13:20.320 Come with me, Paul. No. No, Paul, you wait here. 13:20.320 --> 13:21.320 Ah, Mrs. Horel? 13:21.320 --> 13:23.320 Yes. 13:23.320 --> 13:25.320 Sit down, please. 13:25.320 --> 13:26.320 Thank you. 13:26.320 --> 13:28.320 Now, what can we do for you? 13:28.320 --> 13:32.320 Well, you see, Mr. Banning, I'm married to a vaudeville artist, Mr. Martin Horel. 13:32.320 --> 13:33.320 Hm? 13:33.320 --> 13:38.320 He... We've had an act together for the past five years, a mind-reading act, the great Horel, it's called. 13:38.320 --> 13:41.320 Oh, yes, yes, I believe I've heard of it. 13:41.320 --> 13:44.320 Yesterday, my husband left me. He's gone to Australia. 13:44.320 --> 13:45.320 I see. 13:45.320 --> 13:47.320 And so I want to... 13:47.320 --> 13:49.320 Yes? 13:49.320 --> 13:53.320 And... And so I... I want... 13:53.320 --> 13:56.320 You want legal counsel, Mrs. Horel, hm? 13:56.320 --> 13:57.320 I... 13:57.320 --> 14:01.320 You can speak frankly with me, Mrs. Horel. Is it something about a divorce? 14:01.320 --> 14:02.320 No. 14:02.320 --> 14:04.320 Then what is it? 14:04.320 --> 14:06.320 I... I don't know. 14:06.320 --> 14:07.320 You don't know? 14:07.320 --> 14:08.320 No. 14:08.320 --> 14:12.320 Well, there's not much we can do for you if you don't know what it is you want us to do for you. 14:12.320 --> 14:13.320 How is that? 14:13.320 --> 14:14.320 No. 14:14.320 --> 14:19.320 Well, then, I suppose you'll come in at some later time when your mind is really made up. 14:19.320 --> 14:23.320 Yes, sir. All right. I'm very sorry. 14:23.320 --> 14:26.320 That's all right, Mrs. Horel. I quite understand. Good day. 14:26.320 --> 14:27.320 Good day. 14:27.320 --> 14:30.320 Oh, well, that was quick. 14:30.320 --> 14:32.320 I don't know what's the matter. 14:32.320 --> 14:33.320 It's nothing, Paul. 14:33.320 --> 14:34.320 Why is the sheet? What happened? 14:34.320 --> 14:37.320 We were going to have to wait a little while for the divorce. 14:37.320 --> 14:39.320 Wait? Why? 14:39.320 --> 14:43.320 Paulie, it's a lot more complicated than I thought. 14:46.320 --> 14:48.320 How could I tell him? 14:48.320 --> 14:50.320 We'd been so sure of happiness. 14:50.320 --> 14:52.320 And then this. 14:52.320 --> 14:55.320 I knew what it was, of course. I knew it the moment I tried to say that one... 14:55.320 --> 14:56.320 Divorce. 14:56.320 --> 15:00.320 And now the incredible, the terrifying fact stares me in the face 15:00.320 --> 15:03.320 that Martin Horel still reads my thoughts. 15:03.320 --> 15:07.320 Separated by thousands of miles, he still has the power when he wishes to invade 15:07.320 --> 15:12.320 the innermost recesses of my mind as easily as he would walk into a drawing room. 15:12.320 --> 15:16.320 I know because I felt his presence there. 15:16.320 --> 15:21.320 And so I shut off my thoughts, emptied my mind as I have always done to guard my slightest secret. 15:21.320 --> 15:24.320 But what am I to do now? 15:24.320 --> 15:27.320 I must think. I must plan very carefully. 15:27.320 --> 15:31.320 I dare not tell Paul if I possibly can avoid it. 15:31.320 --> 15:34.320 An even more horrifying thought. 15:34.320 --> 15:40.320 If Martin Horel's mind exerts such power over me as this, how much further can he go? 15:40.320 --> 15:43.320 How much further can he go? 15:45.320 --> 15:47.320 June the 22nd. 15:47.320 --> 15:52.320 For weeks I have moved in a nightmare of conflicting, panicky thoughts and indecision. 15:52.320 --> 15:58.320 And today something happened, trivial in itself, but having a significance that has left me shaken and appalled. 15:58.320 --> 16:02.320 This afternoon I was to meet Paul early and we were to go to the beach. 16:02.320 --> 16:06.320 But I was late. I was terribly late. 16:06.320 --> 16:09.320 It was nearly dark before I got to his hotel. 16:09.320 --> 16:11.320 Come in. 16:11.320 --> 16:13.320 Oh, so there you are. 16:13.320 --> 16:14.320 Oh, Paul. 16:14.320 --> 16:17.320 Where have you been? What have you been doing? I've been waiting here for nearly three hours. 16:17.320 --> 16:18.320 Paul, you'll never believe this. 16:18.320 --> 16:21.320 Sure, I'll believe it, but it better be good. 16:21.320 --> 16:23.320 I've been feeding the swans. 16:23.320 --> 16:24.320 Feeding the swans? 16:24.320 --> 16:26.320 Yes, in Central Park. 16:26.320 --> 16:31.320 Oh, but, Alma, we had a date. If you've held up somehow or got lost or put in jail, but feeding the swans... 16:31.320 --> 16:33.320 Oh, listen, I've got to tell you something. 16:33.320 --> 16:35.320 I'm listening. 16:35.320 --> 16:38.320 First, about the lawyer. 16:38.320 --> 16:41.320 I didn't ask for a divorce. 16:41.320 --> 16:43.320 What do you mean? 16:43.320 --> 16:44.320 I couldn't. 16:44.320 --> 16:46.320 You couldn't? 16:46.320 --> 16:51.320 Paul, he's reading my mind again. He's reading my mind. 16:51.320 --> 16:52.320 Alma. 16:52.320 --> 16:53.320 It's true, Paul. 16:53.320 --> 16:54.320 But he's in Australia. 16:54.320 --> 16:59.320 No, I know, but when I began to talk to the lawyer, he was in my mind. 16:59.320 --> 17:00.320 It doesn't seem possible. 17:00.320 --> 17:03.320 I know it doesn't seem possible, but it is. 17:03.320 --> 17:05.320 It was the same thing about the swans only worse. 17:05.320 --> 17:06.320 The swans? 17:06.320 --> 17:11.320 I didn't even know what I was doing, Paul. The date I had with you, everything just went out of my mind. 17:11.320 --> 17:16.320 And there I was feeding the swans until it was as though I suddenly woke up. 17:16.320 --> 17:18.320 And then I knew. 17:18.320 --> 17:19.320 Knew what? 17:19.320 --> 17:22.320 Why I was there. 17:22.320 --> 17:25.320 Paul, today is the anniversary of my marriage to Martin Harrell. 17:25.320 --> 17:26.320 Well? 17:26.320 --> 17:29.320 That was what we did, Martin and I, the day we were married. 17:29.320 --> 17:30.320 Paul. 17:30.320 --> 17:32.320 He made me do it, Paul. 17:32.320 --> 17:35.320 He reached out across all those miles and made me do it again today. 17:35.320 --> 17:38.320 He made me forget everything and just remember that. 17:38.320 --> 17:40.320 Remember him, Paul. 17:40.320 --> 17:41.320 How could he? 17:41.320 --> 17:42.320 He did. 17:42.320 --> 17:45.320 Paul, if he can do that, he can do anything, can't he? 17:45.320 --> 17:48.320 I don't know. 17:48.320 --> 17:55.320 He could even make me commit murder. 17:55.320 --> 17:57.320 July 7th. 17:57.320 --> 18:02.320 Yesterday I bought a gun. I don't know why, but something told me that I must. 18:02.320 --> 18:06.320 And today I found my opportunity to use it. 18:06.320 --> 18:10.320 It was early in the afternoon. I was in Brooklyn. I did not know why. 18:10.320 --> 18:12.320 And then I was going into a theater. 18:12.320 --> 18:15.320 They were playing a combined bill of a current motion picture in vaudeville. 18:15.320 --> 18:19.320 Again, I did not know particularly why I was there, but it seemed quite natural. 18:19.320 --> 18:26.320 I found a seat near the back of the house. A new act was just beginning. 18:26.320 --> 18:34.320 Ladies and gentlemen, the masked marvel of mentalism, the great Harrell. 18:34.320 --> 18:38.320 For a moment I sat stunned, unable to believe that I was not dreaming. 18:38.320 --> 18:40.320 But it was. 18:40.320 --> 18:44.320 He seemed to have changed a little, the voice perhaps, something about his hair, but it was. 18:44.320 --> 18:47.320 And so I knew. I knew why I was there. 18:47.320 --> 18:52.320 I knew that he had drawn me there, told me to come there, as surely as though he had summoned me with his voice. 18:52.320 --> 18:56.320 But I knew something else. I knew why I had bought the gun. 18:56.320 --> 19:00.320 I knew at last the terrible price I was prepared to pay to win my freedom. 19:00.320 --> 19:02.320 I have a little piece of paper. 19:02.320 --> 19:05.320 And a little piece of paper. 19:05.320 --> 19:11.320 It is, yes, it's the gentleman's driver's license. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. 19:11.320 --> 19:14.320 Thank you. Thank you. 19:14.320 --> 19:16.320 I knew what was coming next. 19:16.320 --> 19:19.320 I knew that out of all that audience I would be selected. 19:19.320 --> 19:22.320 I knew this was the chance he had been waiting for. 19:22.320 --> 19:25.320 But now I also knew it was the chance I had been waiting for. 19:25.320 --> 19:28.320 I was on my feet and making my way towards the aisle. 19:28.320 --> 19:31.320 My handbag was open, my fingers around the grip of the automatic. 19:31.320 --> 19:35.320 Now, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps there are some of you who believe that there's some trick to this. 19:35.320 --> 19:38.320 That it's all done with mirrors. 19:38.320 --> 19:45.320 But before we go any further, I'm going to ask some feminine member of the audience to step up here on the stage and blindfold me. 19:45.320 --> 19:47.320 Are there any volunteers? 19:47.320 --> 19:51.320 I see a young lady standing in back of the house. 19:51.320 --> 19:54.320 Will the young lady come up on the stage, please? 19:54.320 --> 19:55.320 No. 19:55.320 --> 19:58.320 Don't be bashful. Step right up. 19:58.320 --> 20:02.320 You're not afraid of me, are you? 20:02.320 --> 20:07.320 Oh, perhaps the young lady is afraid I'll read her mind. 20:07.320 --> 20:10.320 Perhaps she's harboring some guilty secret. 20:23.320 --> 20:27.320 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that is the last entry in the diary of Alma Harrell. 20:27.320 --> 20:30.320 You may judge for yourselves the significance of her words. 20:30.320 --> 20:35.320 I should like now to put into evidence the words of another witness, Paul Wilson. 20:35.320 --> 20:41.320 This is a statement by Paul Wilson placed in my hands only a short time ago and with the permission of the court. 20:41.320 --> 20:42.320 I will read it to you. 20:42.320 --> 20:43.320 Permission granted. 20:43.320 --> 20:45.320 These are the words of Paul Wilson. 20:45.320 --> 20:49.320 I am writing this hoping that it will never see the light of day. 20:49.320 --> 20:59.320 But if it ever does, I can only hope that it will be used wisely and unjustly and not as an instrument of vengeance or retaliation. 20:59.320 --> 21:02.320 I have been in love with Alma Harrell. 21:02.320 --> 21:05.320 The first day I met her, I am still in love with her. 21:05.320 --> 21:10.320 By the greatest of good fortune, it was not too difficult to hush up the affair in the Brooklyn theater. 21:10.320 --> 21:13.320 After she fired the second shot, someone grabbed her and they took her to the manager's office. 21:13.320 --> 21:17.320 She had the good sense to say nothing and to contact me at once. 21:17.320 --> 21:22.320 The theater manager didn't want trouble and after I'd spoken to Harrell's agent, a fellow I'd never seen before, 21:22.320 --> 21:25.320 it became apparent that he didn't want to press charges either. 21:25.320 --> 21:28.320 Of course, it was impossible to explain why she'd done it. 21:28.320 --> 21:30.320 No one knew that except Alma herself. 21:30.320 --> 21:32.320 And me. 21:32.320 --> 21:35.320 And I knew that it was up to me to help her somehow and as quickly as I could. 21:35.320 --> 21:39.320 I got hold of the best psychiatrist in town, a Dr. Emil Hokeman. 21:39.320 --> 21:42.320 He came to see Alma the very next day at her apartment. 21:42.320 --> 21:48.320 This feeling you have, Mrs. Harrell, that your husband has control over your mind, it has been growing stronger? 21:48.320 --> 21:51.320 It is not a feeling, Dr. Hokeman. It's a certainty. 21:51.320 --> 21:53.320 Oh, I see. 21:53.320 --> 21:56.320 There really isn't any other way to explain what's happened, is there? 21:56.320 --> 21:58.320 Well, it's very unusual, yes. 21:58.320 --> 22:01.320 Perhaps you would care to discuss it with me further at my office. 22:01.320 --> 22:06.320 If you think there is anything that can be done, yes, I'd like to very much. 22:06.320 --> 22:09.320 Good, good. Shall we say tomorrow at two then? 22:09.320 --> 22:10.320 Yes, tomorrow at two. 22:10.320 --> 22:12.320 Until then, Mrs. Holy. I'll show you to the door, doctor. 22:12.320 --> 22:14.320 Oh, thank you. Please. 22:14.320 --> 22:15.320 Goodbye, doctor. 22:15.320 --> 22:17.320 Goodbye. 22:19.320 --> 22:23.320 I'm almost frantic, doctor. I thought of going to Harrell himself. I thought of almost everything. 22:23.320 --> 22:24.320 Do you think something can be done? 22:24.320 --> 22:29.320 You see, Mr. Wilson, when two people live so closely together over a number of years as Mr. and Mrs. Harrell, 22:29.320 --> 22:35.320 it's not unusual that they may, well, occasionally, shall we say, anticipate each other's thoughts. 22:35.320 --> 22:37.320 Yes, I suppose so. 22:37.320 --> 22:40.320 The matter of the anniversary, a subconscious recollection. 22:40.320 --> 22:47.320 Of the theatre? Well, she must, of course, notice somewhere, perhaps forgotten it, that Mr. Harrell was back in the United States. 22:47.320 --> 22:49.320 Yes. 22:49.320 --> 22:58.320 But his reading her mind, projecting thoughts into her mind, there's no scientific proof whatsoever that such a thing is even remotely possible. 22:58.320 --> 23:01.320 And that's what makes it so terrible. 23:01.320 --> 23:07.320 I don't wish to alarm you, Mr. Wilson, but, well, we shall perhaps find out more tomorrow. 23:07.320 --> 23:08.320 Good day, sir. 23:08.320 --> 23:10.320 Goodbye, doctor, and thank you. 23:11.320 --> 23:13.320 Is that the paper, pa? 23:13.320 --> 23:14.320 Oh, yes, it was outside the door. 23:14.320 --> 23:16.320 Is there anything in it about her? 23:16.320 --> 23:18.320 I'll see. 23:18.320 --> 23:21.320 Mm-hmm. There's a little something here on the theatrical page. 23:21.320 --> 23:26.320 I guess he couldn't resist the publicity, but it just says, unidentified young woman. 23:26.320 --> 23:27.320 Oh. 23:27.320 --> 23:29.320 It's funny he never tried to get in touch with you, isn't it? 23:29.320 --> 23:31.320 But he did, Paul, didn't he? 23:31.320 --> 23:32.320 Alma. 23:32.320 --> 23:33.320 What? 23:33.320 --> 23:35.320 It wasn't Harrell at all. Look here. 23:35.320 --> 23:36.320 What? 23:36.320 --> 23:38.320 He'd sold the act in Australia, the name and everything. 23:38.320 --> 23:40.320 What, Paul? 23:40.320 --> 23:45.320 Alma, he was hurt shortly after he arrived. That's why he sold the act. 23:45.320 --> 23:47.320 And he died out there. 23:47.320 --> 23:48.320 Died? 23:48.320 --> 23:51.320 Martin Harrell has been dead for almost a month. 23:53.320 --> 23:56.320 Oh. I see. 23:56.320 --> 23:57.320 What? 23:57.320 --> 23:59.320 I really should have known, I suppose. 23:59.320 --> 24:00.320 Known what, Alma? 24:00.320 --> 24:05.320 That it was someone much closer to me than Martin Harrell who was reading my mind. 24:05.320 --> 24:06.320 Listen, Alma, the doctor says... 24:06.320 --> 24:08.320 You knew all the facts. 24:08.320 --> 24:11.320 It's you who's been reading my mind, isn't it, Paul? 24:11.320 --> 24:14.320 Alma, the doctor says that's impossible. He says there's no... 24:14.320 --> 24:20.320 But you should have realized, Paul, that if I was willing to kill Martin Harrell for my freedom, I would be willing to kill you too. 24:20.320 --> 24:21.320 Alma, the... 24:21.320 --> 24:24.320 Yes, Paul. I still have a gun. 24:27.320 --> 24:30.320 It's no use locking yourself in there, Paul. 24:30.320 --> 24:33.320 Because, you see, I'm going to wait. 24:38.320 --> 24:40.320 I've locked myself in. 24:40.320 --> 24:44.320 But the room in which I'm writing this is a sheer drop of fifteen stories to the street. 24:44.320 --> 24:46.320 And there's no telephone. 24:46.320 --> 24:48.320 Not that it matters. 24:48.320 --> 24:50.320 I wouldn't escape even if I could. 24:50.320 --> 24:52.320 I must try to save her. 24:52.320 --> 24:58.320 Because either this is some ghastly misunderstanding, or Alma is hopelessly insane. 24:58.320 --> 25:01.320 What I have written here I shall hide somewhere in this room. 25:01.320 --> 25:07.320 I shall hide it in such a way that it can never be discovered except by the painstaking search of someone looking for evidence. 25:07.320 --> 25:11.320 Evidence of murder. 25:11.320 --> 25:15.320 And now I'm going to unlock the door. 25:21.320 --> 25:22.320 Alma? 25:22.320 --> 25:24.320 Yes, Paul? 25:24.320 --> 25:26.320 Alma, I'm coming out. 25:26.320 --> 25:28.320 I want to talk to you. 25:28.320 --> 25:30.320 Yes, Paul? 25:32.320 --> 25:35.320 Alma, I know what you're thinking. 25:35.320 --> 25:37.320 Yes, Paul. 25:37.320 --> 25:39.320 I'm sure you know what I'm thinking. 25:57.320 --> 26:01.320 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached the verdict? 26:01.320 --> 26:02.320 We have. 26:02.320 --> 26:04.320 How do you find the defendant? 26:04.320 --> 26:06.320 Guilty or not guilty? 26:06.320 --> 26:13.320 We find the defendant, Alma Harrell, did deliberately shoot and kill Paul Wilson. 26:13.320 --> 26:21.320 We further recommend that she be confined for the rest of her natural life to an institution for the criminally insane. 26:28.320 --> 26:31.320 They said I was insane. 26:31.320 --> 26:36.320 What do they know of the tortured depths that lie beneath the surface of the human mind? 26:36.320 --> 26:41.320 I know because it is beginning again. 26:41.320 --> 26:43.320 It is Dr. Hockman. 26:43.320 --> 26:47.320 He has been coming nearly every day to visit me. 26:47.320 --> 26:51.320 He thinks he too can see into my brain and know my thoughts. 26:51.320 --> 26:54.320 But I have made my mind a blank. 26:54.320 --> 26:57.320 There's nothing there for anyone to read. 26:57.320 --> 27:00.320 And so he won't know. 27:00.320 --> 27:06.320 He doesn't know that I have hidden a table knife and sharpened it all night against the stone. 27:06.320 --> 27:10.320 When he comes tomorrow, I shall be ready. 27:10.320 --> 27:13.320 Suspense. 27:13.320 --> 27:15.320 Presented by Roma Wines. 27:15.320 --> 27:17.320 R-O-M-A. 27:17.320 --> 27:19.320 Made in California. 27:19.320 --> 27:21.320 For enjoyment throughout the world. 27:21.320 --> 27:24.320 This is Ken Niles to tell you a below story. 27:24.320 --> 27:27.320 The story of a man who was a drug addict. 27:27.320 --> 27:29.320 He was a drug addict. 27:29.320 --> 27:31.320 He was a drug addict. 27:31.320 --> 27:33.320 He was a drug addict. 27:33.320 --> 27:35.320 He was a drug addict. 27:35.320 --> 27:37.320 He was a drug addict. 27:37.320 --> 27:43.320 For this is Ken Niles to tell you of a luxurious new experience in wine enjoyment. 27:43.320 --> 27:47.320 An experience you share with discriminating wine users everywhere. 27:47.320 --> 27:52.320 When first you taste grand estate wines by Roma. 27:52.320 --> 27:59.320 Yes. 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