1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Jack Carson, a star of Easy Money, 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:30,000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:45,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,000 to your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant, 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 as Roma Wines bring you Jack Carson in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 10 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 The night I'm telling about, that Easy Money was hanging up there somewhere, just waiting to fall right into my lap. 11 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 I didn't even know it. 12 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 All I knew was I had business elsewhere. 13 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 I was playing the piano at Mario's over in Brooklyn, but that night I slipped out early. 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I didn't even tell Ellen I'd just left. 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Because for the first time in 14 years, I had a purpose in life, a plan, an objective, and I wanted to think. 16 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 I was sitting in Gus's grill over a cup of coffee, still thinking. 17 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 When I looked up suddenly, and there was Ellen. 18 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Hmm. Where'd you come from? 19 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I followed you. I think I'll have something to eat too. 20 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 A girl can sure work up an appetite chasing a man. 21 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Look, go away, will you? I'm depressed. 22 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 That's all the more reason you need me, darling. 23 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 The food here is terrible. Some of Gus's customers have to be treated for shock. 24 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Let's go somewhere else. 25 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 This is the only place where my credit's still good. 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 I stopped at your rooming house yesterday. Somebody said you had to move. 27 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 If you need money, Paul, why didn't you tell me? 28 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Because I'm through taking money from you. 29 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 You're only borrowing it. 30 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Look, this is a terrible blow to my pride, darling, but for the tenth time will you marry me? 31 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Nope. 32 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Why not? It'd make me terribly happy. 33 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 You'd be happy for a month and miserable for the rest of your life. 34 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Is this a kind way of telling me that you don't love me? 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 You're never out of my mind. 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Just walking in the street, I get lonely for you. 37 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Then marry me, Paul. 38 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I'd be good for you. I'd always be nagging you and driving you to work harder and get someplace. 39 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 I'm just exactly where I belong, walling a piano at Mario's for those lecherous leg breakers. 40 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 I know better. 41 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 You know, a couple of times I was there when you stayed after closing. 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 You thought you were all alone, and I heard you playing. 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 How did you ever get like this? 44 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 You're imagining things. 45 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Well, you never tell me anything about yourself. 46 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Paul, when I stopped at your room yesterday, I saw something on the floor that kind of puzzled me. 47 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Did it? 48 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Uh-huh. A page torn out of last week's Destiny magazine. 49 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 What's so puzzling about that? 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 It was all carefully folded. 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 You know, it looked like something you'd been carrying in your pocket. 52 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I thought maybe you dropped it, so I brought it along. 53 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 What would I want that for? 54 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 I don't know. 55 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 It's just a full page ad about the diary of Martha Lathrop that's starting next week. 56 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,000 It says, after ten years abroad, Martha Lathrop has just come back to America. 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Her authoritative books have opened the secret doors of politics. 58 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Her keen mind has alerted America on world affairs and punctured the stuffed shirts of important men. 59 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Now read the sensational story behind all her stories. 60 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Extraordinary woman. 61 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Yeah. 62 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Oh, well. 63 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 You didn't answer my question yet. 64 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Which question? 65 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 The only one that really interests a woman. 66 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Are you going to marry me? 67 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 I'm already married. 68 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 You're married? 69 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 That happens to men, you know. 70 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Why didn't you ever tell me, Paul? 71 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Because it's something that happened a long time ago. It's 14 years since I last saw her. 72 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 14 years? 73 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And you never did anything about it? 74 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 There was nothing I could do until now. 75 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Until Martha came back to this country. 76 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Martha? 77 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 You mean this woman in... 78 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Yeah, yeah. She's my wife. 79 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Martha Lathrop? Your wife? 80 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 I'm going to see her tonight. 81 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 But why? In all these years, why didn't you ever... 82 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Because sometimes marriage really seems to mean what it says. 83 00:04:51,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Till death do us part. 84 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 I left Ellen and went up there. 85 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,000 She was living in a big converted brownstone on Gramercy Plate, overlooking the park. 86 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:20,000 The door was opened by a rough-looking character who would have been a lot more convincing as a private dick than as a butler. 87 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Which is what he was apparently supposed to be. 88 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 For a moment I wondered if he knew anything about me. 89 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 If this watchdog might be the one person she could have told to warn him against me. 90 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 But of course I was wrong. 91 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Not with her pride, not her, not Martha. 92 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Yes? 93 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I want to see Miss Lathrop. 94 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 You have an appointment? 95 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 No, but... 96 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Then you can't see her. 97 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 You're not a waiter, madam. 98 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Without an appointment you can't see her. Nobody can see her. 99 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Miss Lathrop is a very sick woman. 100 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Sick? 101 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 The newspapers didn't say anything about it. 102 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Never mind what the newspapers said. You heard what I said. 103 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Well look, just give her this watch. I'll wait. 104 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 What about the watch? 105 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Well just give it to her. I think she'll see me. It has her name in it. 106 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Oh. Something you found? 107 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Uh, yeah. Something I found. 108 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 He took the watch and went upstairs. 109 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I knew the watch would work because Martha herself had given it to me as a wedding present. 110 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 I knew exactly how it would work, up to a point. 111 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 And if she still wouldn't give me what I wanted, I was ready for that too. 112 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 But there was something about the whole setup that I didn't get. 113 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 The house itself, dark and somber as a prison. 114 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 The pug ugly butler. 115 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,000 The part about her being sick. It didn't fit. It just didn't fit with what I knew about Martha Lathrop. 116 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 I sat down in the living room to wait. 117 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,000 It almost jumped out of my skin. 118 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,000 It was a big bird like a parrot, a macaw or mackaw, whatever it's called, 119 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 peering at me through the bars of a cage. 120 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 I remembered now reading about how some big game hunter had given it to her. 121 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,000 It was big and bright colored and mean looking with a green stripe between its eyes, 122 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 which gave a really quite startling impression that the thing was wearing spectacles. 123 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I was still staring at it when I turned and I saw Martha. 124 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 For the first time in fourteen years. 125 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,000 She was pale, thinner than I remembered, but with the same hard intense blue eyes. 126 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,000 The same air of cold condescension, but it was something else. 127 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Suddenly I knew what it was. 128 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 It was fear. 129 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,000 A look of hidden fear that was almost shocking to me, 130 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,000 who had almost known Martha as utterly even cruelly fearless. 131 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 I was in for another shock. 132 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 She didn't speak to me, she spoke to the butler. 133 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Robert, have you searched him? 134 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Not yet, Miss Lathrop. 135 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Please do. 136 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Turn around. 137 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 What's the idea? 138 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 I said turn around. 139 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Well, he's all right, Miss Lathrop. 140 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Very well, you may go now, Robert. 141 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Yes, Miss Lathrop. 142 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 May I ask what that was all about? 143 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I've had some very trying experiences since I saw you, Paul. 144 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,000 You must have if you have to search all the callers for concealed weapons. 145 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 What are you afraid of, Martha? 146 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I'd rather not discuss it if you don't mind. 147 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 What do you want? 148 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 You're not exactly overjoyed to see me, are you? 149 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 I said what do you want? 150 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 I read about your diary, I came to congratulate you. 151 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Then congratulate me and get out. 152 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Look, Martha, that bird seems to be as bad tempered as you are. 153 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Can you keep him out of this conversation? 154 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 This conversation is over. 155 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Not my end of it, no. 156 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 What did you come here for? Money? Because the answer's no. 157 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 No, not this time. 158 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 This time I want something money can't buy. 159 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 One of the very few things it can't. 160 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 What's that? 161 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 To be free, Martha. 162 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Why? 163 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 So that I can marry again. 164 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Did I happen to say something funny? 165 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I suppose to some people love isn't funny, is it? 166 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Wasn't to me when I married you. 167 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,000 That was the one bad miscalculation I made in my life. 168 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I know. 169 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I knew that first time you went to Paris for a newspaper, I'd never see you again. 170 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 You said going away would only be temporary, but as the French say, 171 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 there's nothing so permanent as the temporary. 172 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Why didn't you get a divorce then? 173 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Why didn't you think then that someday you might want to marry again? 174 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 After my experience with you? 175 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 My dear Martha, what I thought of women after that isn't fit language even for your ears. 176 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 But you weren't above taking money from a woman, were you? 177 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 You weren't above forging checks with my name, were you? 178 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 I needed it. 179 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 And I knew your vanity. 180 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 That was my temptation and my safety. 181 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 That you couldn't bear to look ridiculous by admitting that you had a... 182 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 a no good bum of a husband. 183 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 We made our bargain. 184 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 I could have sent you to jail. I still can't remember that. 185 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Now why didn't you divorce me? 186 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Because I... 187 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Because you didn't want me, but you couldn't bear the thought that I might be completely free of you. 188 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 That's ridiculous. 189 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Someone once said that we kill the thing we love. 190 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Are you trying to say I still love you? You? 191 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Oh, maybe in a twisted sort of a way. 192 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Because mine was the only love you ever really had. 193 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Maybe somewhere deep in your mind you're trying to keep the bleached bones of it. 194 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I...I'm not completely... 195 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 I wonder, Martha. I've always wanted... 196 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Get out of here! 197 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Without an answer? Without my freedom? 198 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 The answer's no. Never, do you hear? Never. 199 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Now, get out. 200 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Alright, Martha. 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I was way ahead of her. 224 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:47,000 In a place like Mary, as the customers we have, you can get a hold of almost anything you want, if you know who to ask. 225 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 But the first thing I got was nitrazine because it was the easiest and one of the deadliest. 226 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 And the next was a bunch of keys, pass keys. 227 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 And that was all I needed. 228 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:04,000 So the next night after I left Mario's, I just waited out in the park across the street. 229 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I was prepared to wait there every night for a week if I had to. 230 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 But it was less than an hour. 231 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 A taxi drove up in front of the house. 232 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,000 A well-dressed, well-heeled looking gent got out and went in. 233 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 The taxi waited. 234 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,000 In about ten minutes he came out again with Martha and they drove off. 235 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 A little time after that, the butler left. 236 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 I walked across the street. 237 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 And the third key I tried let me in the door. 238 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 It was that fiend of a bird. 239 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 But it only stopped me for a minute. 240 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 I won't say I wasn't nervous. 241 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 I guess anybody's nervous when they're about to commit a murder. 242 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 But I hadn't any reason to be, I kept telling myself. 243 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Who was going to pin it on me? 244 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 As far as anybody who knew Martha was concerned, I didn't even exist. 245 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Well, I went upstairs and found her bedroom. 246 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 And on the bedside table I found the bottle of sleeping pills, just as I expected. 247 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 She'd always use them and she was the type that always would. 248 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Very carefully I took each little capsule apart and emptied its contents down the wash basin in the bathroom. 249 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Then I filled each one up again with nitrazine, enough to kill a horse. 250 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 I was down at the bottom of the stairs again when a light went on in the vestibule. 251 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 She was coming back. 252 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I had just time to slip behind one of the heavy curtains in the living room, but that was all. 253 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I wouldn't have any need like that. 254 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 But Martha, to suspect me of all people. 255 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Please, Martin, I would rather not discuss it. 256 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Martha, you must realize that these obsessions are symptoms of a sick mind. 257 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I said I would rather not discuss it. 258 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Good night. 259 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Good night. 260 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 She'd had a quarrel with someone. That was good. 261 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Now I knew she'd take the sleeping pills. 262 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 She went directly upstairs. I waited. 263 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Five minutes later the butler came in. 264 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 But he went straight on to his own quarters somewhere in the back of the house. 265 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 I waited some more. 266 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,000 It seemed like hours, but I suppose it was only a few minutes. 267 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 I wondered if she'd taken the sleeping pills yet. 268 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 I wondered if I'd hear her when she fell. 269 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Finally, I didn't dare wait any longer. 270 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 I slipped out from behind the curtain and crossed the living room. 271 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 I just closed the front door quietly behind me when a light went on inside. 272 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 I pressed into a corner of the vestibule. 273 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Through the glass panel of the door, I could see Martha and a negligee coming down the stairs. 274 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 And she had a bottle in her hand. 275 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 The bottle of sleeping pills. 276 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,000 For a second I thought she must have found out somehow that she was going to call the police. 277 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Yeah, but she wasn't. 278 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Moving like a sleepwalker, she crossed the living room. 279 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,000 She was dumping one of the pills out of the bottle into her hand. 280 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 And then she stopped. 281 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 She stopped in front of the cage of that bird. 282 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Suddenly I saw the whole thing. 283 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 The tough butler who said she was sick and searched people for weapons. 284 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 The fear behind her eyes. 285 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 The man she just quarreled with about obsessions and symptoms of a sick mind. 286 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Martha was insane. 287 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I watched while she took the sleeping pill in her fingers and held it through the bars of the cage for the bird. 288 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,000 I saw the bird grab it in its beak, but I didn't wait for the rest. 289 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Softly as I could, I opened the outer door and went down to the street. 290 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Martha was insane. 291 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:37,000 And because she was insane, because she thought people were trying to kill her, I couldn't kill her. 292 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Nobody could ever kill her. 293 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Hello. 294 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Paul, are you all right? 295 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Alan, sure, I'm all right. 296 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 What time is it? 297 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Eleven o'clock. 298 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 I just saw the papers. 299 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Saw the papers? 300 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 About Martha Lathrop. 301 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 What about her? 302 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 She's dead. 303 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Poisoned. 304 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Poisoned? 305 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 They found nitrosine. 306 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 That's impossible. It couldn't be. 307 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 I'm afraid it's true, Paul. 308 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Alan, where are you? 309 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 At Gus's. 310 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Paul, Paul, let's go away. 311 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 With what? 312 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 I've got a little money, enough to get us to Chicago, maybe Los Angeles. 313 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 We could change our names and start over again. 314 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Why, Alan? 315 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 You think I killed her, don't you? 316 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Paul, if you did, I know why you did, and I don't care. 317 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 You're quite a gal, Alan, but I didn't kill her. 318 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 You were there. You said you were going to... 319 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Yes, I was, I was, but I didn't kill her and I can prove it. 320 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Don't you believe me? 321 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Okay, paper. Paper, here you are. 322 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Here you are, here you are. 323 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Hey, you, beat it. 324 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Wait a minute. Give me a couple of those. 325 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Yes, sir, here you are. All about the big murder. 326 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Murder? 327 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Yes, sir, a few. Okay, pal, thanks. 328 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 All right, now beat it. 329 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Okay, take it easy, will you? I gotta make a little... 330 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Paul. 331 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 332 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 It wasn't you. Oh, Paul. 333 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Dr. Martin Osterman. 334 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 That must have been the guy she went out with last night. 335 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And they've got him cold. 336 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,000 They quarreled publicly. They dressed him. 337 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 She said he was trying to poison her. 338 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 He'd given her the prescription for the sleeping pills that killed her. 339 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Alan, how would you like to have some real money and earn it? 340 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Easy money. 341 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Money? 342 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 This Osterman is rich, filthy rich. 343 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 But, Paul... 344 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 If I can prove I didn't do it, I can prove that he didn't do it. 345 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Harrison, Winters and Forbes. 346 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Which one is handling the Osterman case? 347 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 I'll give you Mr. Harrison. 348 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Hello? 349 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Mr. Harrison? 350 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Yes? 351 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 The papers say that you're Dr. Martin Osterman's lawyer, is that right? 352 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Yes, yes, that's right. Who is this? 353 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Your client's in a pretty bad way, isn't he? 354 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Look here, I'm not in the habit of speaking over the phone to people that I... 355 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 You'll speak to me, because I can prove he's innocent. 356 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 You can what? 357 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 That's what I said. I can prove it. 358 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Well, Mr. whatever your name is, if you have any evidence, 359 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I'd certainly be glad if you'd come down to my office and tell me... 360 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Well, I'll send somebody else down, my secretary. 361 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,000 She'll want money. 362 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Well... 363 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Fifty thousand dollars. 364 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Fifty thousand dollars? 365 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 You get in touch with Dr. Osterman and see if he doesn't think his life is worth that. 366 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 What you're suggesting is not only against the law, but... 367 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 I don't care about the law and I don't think Osterman will either. 368 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 I'll have somebody down there in an hour. 369 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Can you arrange it by the time I get there? 370 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Can you arrange it by then? 371 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Well... 372 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Possibly. 373 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 All right. 374 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 And we'll want the money in cash. 375 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Harrison, Wittes and Forbes. 376 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 There's a young lady waiting for this call in Mr. Harrison's office. 377 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 I want to speak to her. 378 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Oh, yes. 379 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Hello? 380 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Paul, Ellen. 381 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Have they given you the money? 382 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Yes. 383 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Did you count it? 384 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Yes. 385 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 All right, put Harrison on and then start for Grand Central Station. 386 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 All right, Paul. 387 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 He wants to talk to you. 388 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Thank you. 389 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Hello? 390 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Mr. Harrison? 391 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Yes. 392 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 All right, here's the deal. 393 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Martha Lathrop was not murdered. 394 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 She committed suicide. 395 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 What? Suicide? 396 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Suicide. 397 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000 And here's the proof. 398 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 She was suffering from delusions. 399 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 She thought people were trying to kill her, poison her and so on. 400 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Dr. Osserman confirms that, of course. 401 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Yes, he... 402 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 What he doesn't know is that it had gone so far 403 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 she was trying out things she ate on that big parrot she had. 404 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 The macaw? 405 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Yeah, the butler confirmed that. 406 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Anyway, she tried out those sleeping pills on the bird before she took them. 407 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 And you'll find a dead bird in the house to confirm that. 408 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Good heavens. 409 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 So she knew those pills were poisoned before she took them. 410 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Martha Lathrop killed herself. 411 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000 I must say they took it like a sport. 412 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 They paid up and shut up. 413 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000 An hour later, Ellen and I were on a train speeding along the banks 414 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 of the Hudson River bound for California. 415 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Oh, Paul. 416 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Fifty thousand dollars. 417 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Easy money. 418 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:06,000 That must be the easiest money any man ever made in his life. 419 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Must have been about two weeks after we got to California 420 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 that I got the phone call. 421 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Yes, Mr. Bentley? 422 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Yeah? 423 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 My name's McNulty. I run a pet shop downtown. 424 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 You must have the wrong number. 425 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Oh, no, no, no, I don't think so. 426 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 I got something down here you might be interested in. 427 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 A bird. 428 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 A bird? 429 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Yeah, a macaw. Real beauty. 430 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Got a green stripe between his eyes. 431 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Makes him look exactly as though he's wearing glasses. 432 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 You interested? 433 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 No. No, I'm... 434 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Oh, I could easy bring him up to show you. 435 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I got your address. 436 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,000 No, I said I'm not interested. 437 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 That night I told Helen I'd found bugs in the place, 438 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000 so we moved. 439 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Two nights later I was alone and there was a knock on the door. 440 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Mr. Bentley? 441 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Yeah? What do you want? 442 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I brought the bird anyway, Mr. Bentley. 443 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,000 I thought sure you'd want him when you saw him. 444 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Look, I said... 445 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Quite the time finding where you'd move to, though. 446 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Oh, look, isn't he a beauty? 447 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Look, I told you I... 448 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Did you see one like him before? 449 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Oh, they're very rare, very rare. 450 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 What made you think I'd want him? 451 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,000 I just thought you would. 452 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Don't you want him? 453 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 How much? 454 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Well, now, like I say, that's a very rare bird. 455 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Five hundred? 456 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Yes, that'd be all right, Mr. Bentley. 457 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Here. 458 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Oh. Thank you, Mr. Bentley. 459 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 And I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 460 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Now get out. 461 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Yes, yes. 462 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Good night, Mr. Bentley. 463 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 There could be no doubt about it. 464 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 It was the same bird. 465 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 I opened the cage and roughed his feathers 466 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 to see if the marquise might have been painted on. 467 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Hey! 468 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 He bit me. 469 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 But it was the same bird. 470 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 He sat there staring evilly at me through those spectacles of his, 471 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 laughing at me. 472 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I reached in the cage again... 473 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 and rang his neck. 474 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 I wrapped the body up in a newspaper. 475 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 I got a shovel out of the garage. 476 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 I drove about five miles up Topanga Canyon 477 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 and parked in a side road with my lights out. 478 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000 I went down into the canyon and started digging. 479 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 I dug like a madman. 480 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 The sweat was running into my eyes 481 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 and I was gasping for air. 482 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Suddenly a light was shining full on my face. 483 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 All right, Bentley. 484 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Wait, wait. The bird is dead. 485 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 I couldn't have done it. 486 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 I couldn't have killed it. 487 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 The bird is dead! 488 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Uh, Ellen... 489 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Ellen had nothing to do with it. 490 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 She thought I was innocent all along. 491 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Okay, we got nothing against her. 492 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 But the bird, I... 493 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Well, Bentley, that was what you might call 494 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 psychological warfare. 495 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 We knew you were guilty though when you bought it. 496 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 I mean, the poison. 497 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Oh, oh, we found poison, all right. 498 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Still traces on its beacon claws when we got there. 499 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,000 But there was one thing we couldn't understand 500 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,000 for quite a while. 501 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Dr. Dittenauers of the Bronx Zoo finally tipped us off. 502 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 But if Martha took the poison, 503 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,000 I saw her give it to that bird. 504 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 I saw the bird gobble it up. 505 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Why didn't it die? 506 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Yeah. You see, with this nitrazine, 507 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 some birds can take that stuff by the spoonful 508 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 and it won't even phase them. 509 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000 You just picked the wrong kind of poison 510 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 and the wrong kind of bird. 511 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 And so, being of sound mind 512 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000 and somewhat relieved to know it, 513 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 I do hereby bequeath in this my last will and testament 514 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000 to that witness here in the death house at Osceoning, New York 515 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 on this seventh day of November, 516 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,000 to my wife, Ellen, the sum of $48,700, 517 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000 the remainder of that easy money, 518 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 hoping that the facts herein set forth 519 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 will assure her that she has a right to it, 520 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 since I will shortly, to my regret, 521 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:44,000 have earned every nickel of it. 522 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Suspense. 523 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 524 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 525 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,000 This is Ken Niles presenting our Suspense Star of the Evening, 526 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000 the handsomest man in Hollywood, Jack Carson. 527 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Jack, you can stop twisting my arm now. I said it. 528 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 I suppose I'm not really the handsomest, 529 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000 just one of the best looking. 530 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Well, Jack, when it comes to looks, I'll take Hedy Lamarr. 531 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,000 But as an actor, believe me, Jack Carson ranks with the best. 532 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Gee, thanks, Ken. I'm sorry about your arm. 533 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 That's all right, Jack. My arm is still in good enough shape 534 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 to give you this gift basket of fine Roma Wines 535 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 with the compliments of Roma, your host tonight. 536 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Wonderful. That's a grand present, Ken. Why, thanks to Roma. 537 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 You folks really make me feel at home. 538 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Well, Roma Wine has a way of doing that, Jack. 539 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000 That's why your Roma gift basket includes Roma California Sherry. 540 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 When friends drop in, share with them 541 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 golden amber, fragrant Roma Sherry. 542 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Roma Sherry's tempting nut-like taste is the favorite of hosts and guests 543 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 for afternoon or evening entertaining. 544 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,000 And millions enjoy Roma Sherry daily as the perfect first call to dinner. 545 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000 I'll buy that, Ken. 546 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000 And Jack, because Roma and only Roma 547 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000 selects from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines, 548 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Roma Sherry, like all Roma wines, is better tasting every time. 549 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Yes, no other vintner selects for your pleasure 550 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 from so vast a treasure of good taste. 551 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,000 No other vintner can equal Roma in winemaking skills and resources. 552 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,000 No wonder more Americans enjoy Roma than any other one. 553 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Makes sense to me, Ken. Well, I must be going. 554 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Thanks for everything, and sincerely, 555 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000 it's been a stimulating and exciting experience tonight. 556 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000 I never miss suspense, and I've been looking forward 557 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000 to my appearance here for a long time. 558 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,000 I hope you'll have me back again. 559 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Well, thank you, Jack. We thought you were great 560 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 in your newest Warner Brothers picture, 561 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,000 two guys from Milwaukee, and we'll be hearing you 562 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000 on your regular Wednesday night show for Campbell's Suites. 563 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 And give a listen to us next Thursday on Suspense. 564 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 We'll have Hume Cronin as our star. 565 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,000 I'll do that. 566 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000 All right. 567 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Hume Cronin 568 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000 as star of Suspense. 569 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Produced and directed by William Spear 570 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 571 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,000 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars 572 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000 as Judy Garland, Chester Morris, Olivia de Havilland, 573 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Cary Grant, Joseph Cotton, Roddy McDowell, and others. 574 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,000 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, 575 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000 radio's outstanding theater of thrill. 576 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000 Suspense is broadcast from coast to coast 577 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000 and to our men and women overseas by short wave 578 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000 and through the worldwide facilities 579 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 of the Armed Forces Radio Service. 580 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Stay tuned for the thrilling adventures 581 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 of the FBI in peace and war 582 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 following immediately over most of these stations. 583 00:29:46,000 --> 00:30:09,000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.