WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:07.000 --> 00:11.000 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 00:15.000 --> 00:20.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Jack Carson, a star of Easy Money, 00:20.000 --> 00:30.000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:37.000 --> 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, 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 to your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:50.000 --> 00:54.000 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:54.000 --> 01:00.000 as Roma Wines bring you Jack Carson in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:06.000 --> 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. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 I didn't even know it. 01:14.000 --> 01:17.000 All I knew was I had business elsewhere. 01:17.000 --> 01:22.000 I was playing the piano at Mario's over in Brooklyn, but that night I slipped out early. 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 I didn't even tell Ellen I'd just left. 01:24.000 --> 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. 01:32.000 --> 01:36.000 I was sitting in Gus's grill over a cup of coffee, still thinking. 01:36.000 --> 01:40.000 When I looked up suddenly, and there was Ellen. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 Hmm. Where'd you come from? 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 I followed you. I think I'll have something to eat too. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 A girl can sure work up an appetite chasing a man. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 Look, go away, will you? I'm depressed. 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 That's all the more reason you need me, darling. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 The food here is terrible. Some of Gus's customers have to be treated for shock. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 Let's go somewhere else. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 This is the only place where my credit's still good. 02:02.000 --> 02:08.000 I stopped at your rooming house yesterday. Somebody said you had to move. 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 If you need money, Paul, why didn't you tell me? 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 Because I'm through taking money from you. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 You're only borrowing it. 02:14.000 --> 02:20.000 Look, this is a terrible blow to my pride, darling, but for the tenth time will you marry me? 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 Nope. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 Why not? It'd make me terribly happy. 02:24.000 --> 02:27.000 You'd be happy for a month and miserable for the rest of your life. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 Is this a kind way of telling me that you don't love me? 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 You're never out of my mind. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 Just walking in the street, I get lonely for you. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Then marry me, Paul. 02:39.000 --> 02:44.000 I'd be good for you. I'd always be nagging you and driving you to work harder and get someplace. 02:44.000 --> 02:48.000 I'm just exactly where I belong, walling a piano at Mario's for those lecherous leg breakers. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 I know better. 02:50.000 --> 02:54.000 You know, a couple of times I was there when you stayed after closing. 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 You thought you were all alone, and I heard you playing. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 How did you ever get like this? 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 You're imagining things. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Well, you never tell me anything about yourself. 03:07.000 --> 03:14.000 Paul, when I stopped at your room yesterday, I saw something on the floor that kind of puzzled me. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Did it? 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 Uh-huh. A page torn out of last week's Destiny magazine. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 What's so puzzling about that? 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 It was all carefully folded. 03:23.000 --> 03:27.000 You know, it looked like something you'd been carrying in your pocket. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.000 I thought maybe you dropped it, so I brought it along. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 What would I want that for? 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 I don't know. 03:33.000 --> 03:39.000 It's just a full page ad about the diary of Martha Lathrop that's starting next week. 03:39.000 --> 03:45.000 It says, after ten years abroad, Martha Lathrop has just come back to America. 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 Her authoritative books have opened the secret doors of politics. 03:49.000 --> 03:55.000 Her keen mind has alerted America on world affairs and punctured the stuffed shirts of important men. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 Now read the sensational story behind all her stories. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 Extraordinary woman. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Yeah. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 Oh, well. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 You didn't answer my question yet. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Which question? 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 The only one that really interests a woman. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 Are you going to marry me? 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 I'm already married. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 You're married? 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 That happens to men, you know. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 Why didn't you ever tell me, Paul? 04:21.000 --> 04:27.000 Because it's something that happened a long time ago. It's 14 years since I last saw her. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 14 years? 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 And you never did anything about it? 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 There was nothing I could do until now. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 Until Martha came back to this country. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 Martha? 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 You mean this woman in... 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 Yeah, yeah. She's my wife. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Martha Lathrop? Your wife? 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I'm going to see her tonight. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 But why? In all these years, why didn't you ever... 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 Because sometimes marriage really seems to mean what it says. 04:51.000 --> 05:07.000 Till death do us part. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 I left Ellen and went up there. 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 She was living in a big converted brownstone on Gramercy Plate, overlooking the park. 05:14.000 --> 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. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Which is what he was apparently supposed to be. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 For a moment I wondered if he knew anything about me. 05:26.000 --> 05:30.000 If this watchdog might be the one person she could have told to warn him against me. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 But of course I was wrong. 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 Not with her pride, not her, not Martha. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Yes? 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 I want to see Miss Lathrop. 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 You have an appointment? 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 No, but... 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Then you can't see her. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 You're not a waiter, madam. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Without an appointment you can't see her. Nobody can see her. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 Miss Lathrop is a very sick woman. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Sick? 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 The newspapers didn't say anything about it. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 Never mind what the newspapers said. You heard what I said. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Well look, just give her this watch. I'll wait. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 What about the watch? 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 Well just give it to her. I think she'll see me. It has her name in it. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Oh. Something you found? 06:02.000 --> 06:13.000 Uh, yeah. Something I found. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 He took the watch and went upstairs. 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 I knew the watch would work because Martha herself had given it to me as a wedding present. 06:19.000 --> 06:23.000 I knew exactly how it would work, up to a point. 06:23.000 --> 06:27.000 And if she still wouldn't give me what I wanted, I was ready for that too. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 But there was something about the whole setup that I didn't get. 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 The house itself, dark and somber as a prison. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 The pug ugly butler. 06:36.000 --> 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. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 I sat down in the living room to wait. 06:44.000 --> 06:48.000 It almost jumped out of my skin. 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 It was a big bird like a parrot, a macaw or mackaw, whatever it's called, 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 peering at me through the bars of a cage. 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 I remembered now reading about how some big game hunter had given it to her. 06:59.000 --> 07:04.000 It was big and bright colored and mean looking with a green stripe between its eyes, 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 which gave a really quite startling impression that the thing was wearing spectacles. 07:07.000 --> 07:11.000 I was still staring at it when I turned and I saw Martha. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 For the first time in fourteen years. 07:15.000 --> 07:21.000 She was pale, thinner than I remembered, but with the same hard intense blue eyes. 07:21.000 --> 07:26.000 The same air of cold condescension, but it was something else. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Suddenly I knew what it was. 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 It was fear. 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 A look of hidden fear that was almost shocking to me, 07:35.000 --> 07:39.000 who had almost known Martha as utterly even cruelly fearless. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 I was in for another shock. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 She didn't speak to me, she spoke to the butler. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Robert, have you searched him? 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Not yet, Miss Lathrop. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 Please do. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Turn around. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 What's the idea? 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 I said turn around. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 Well, he's all right, Miss Lathrop. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 Very well, you may go now, Robert. 07:59.000 --> 08:04.000 Yes, Miss Lathrop. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 May I ask what that was all about? 08:06.000 --> 08:10.000 I've had some very trying experiences since I saw you, Paul. 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 You must have if you have to search all the callers for concealed weapons. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 What are you afraid of, Martha? 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 I'd rather not discuss it if you don't mind. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 What do you want? 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 You're not exactly overjoyed to see me, are you? 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 I said what do you want? 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 I read about your diary, I came to congratulate you. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 Then congratulate me and get out. 08:29.000 --> 08:34.000 Look, Martha, that bird seems to be as bad tempered as you are. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Can you keep him out of this conversation? 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 This conversation is over. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 Not my end of it, no. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 What did you come here for? Money? Because the answer's no. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 No, not this time. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 This time I want something money can't buy. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 One of the very few things it can't. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 What's that? 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 To be free, Martha. 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 Why? 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 So that I can marry again. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Did I happen to say something funny? 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 I suppose to some people love isn't funny, is it? 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 Wasn't to me when I married you. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 That was the one bad miscalculation I made in my life. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 I know. 09:11.000 --> 09:15.000 I knew that first time you went to Paris for a newspaper, I'd never see you again. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 You said going away would only be temporary, but as the French say, 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 there's nothing so permanent as the temporary. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Why didn't you get a divorce then? 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 Why didn't you think then that someday you might want to marry again? 09:25.000 --> 09:26.000 After my experience with you? 09:26.000 --> 09:30.000 My dear Martha, what I thought of women after that isn't fit language even for your ears. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 But you weren't above taking money from a woman, were you? 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 You weren't above forging checks with my name, were you? 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 I needed it. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 And I knew your vanity. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 That was my temptation and my safety. 09:41.000 --> 09:45.000 That you couldn't bear to look ridiculous by admitting that you had a... 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 a no good bum of a husband. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 We made our bargain. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 I could have sent you to jail. I still can't remember that. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Now why didn't you divorce me? 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 Because I... 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Because you didn't want me, but you couldn't bear the thought that I might be completely free of you. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 That's ridiculous. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 Someone once said that we kill the thing we love. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 Are you trying to say I still love you? You? 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Oh, maybe in a twisted sort of a way. 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 Because mine was the only love you ever really had. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 Maybe somewhere deep in your mind you're trying to keep the bleached bones of it. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 I...I'm not completely... 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 I wonder, Martha. I've always wanted... 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Get out of here! 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 Without an answer? Without my freedom? 10:16.000 --> 10:19.000 The answer's no. Never, do you hear? Never. 10:19.000 --> 10:20.000 Now, get out. 10:20.000 --> 10:34.000 Alright, Martha. 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I was way ahead of her. 12:40.000 --> 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. 12:47.000 --> 12:52.000 But the first thing I got was nitrazine because it was the easiest and one of the deadliest. 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 And the next was a bunch of keys, pass keys. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 And that was all I needed. 12:58.000 --> 13:04.000 So the next night after I left Mario's, I just waited out in the park across the street. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 I was prepared to wait there every night for a week if I had to. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 But it was less than an hour. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 A taxi drove up in front of the house. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 A well-dressed, well-heeled looking gent got out and went in. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 The taxi waited. 13:18.000 --> 13:22.000 In about ten minutes he came out again with Martha and they drove off. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 A little time after that, the butler left. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 I walked across the street. 13:28.000 --> 13:32.000 And the third key I tried let me in the door. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 It was that fiend of a bird. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 But it only stopped me for a minute. 13:46.000 --> 13:48.000 I won't say I wasn't nervous. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.000 I guess anybody's nervous when they're about to commit a murder. 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 But I hadn't any reason to be, I kept telling myself. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 Who was going to pin it on me? 13:56.000 --> 13:59.000 As far as anybody who knew Martha was concerned, I didn't even exist. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 Well, I went upstairs and found her bedroom. 14:02.000 --> 14:06.000 And on the bedside table I found the bottle of sleeping pills, just as I expected. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 She'd always use them and she was the type that always would. 14:10.000 --> 14:16.000 Very carefully I took each little capsule apart and emptied its contents down the wash basin in the bathroom. 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 Then I filled each one up again with nitrazine, enough to kill a horse. 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 I was down at the bottom of the stairs again when a light went on in the vestibule. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 She was coming back. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 I had just time to slip behind one of the heavy curtains in the living room, but that was all. 14:30.000 --> 14:31.000 I wouldn't have any need like that. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 But Martha, to suspect me of all people. 14:33.000 --> 14:36.000 Please, Martin, I would rather not discuss it. 14:36.000 --> 14:40.000 Martha, you must realize that these obsessions are symptoms of a sick mind. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 I said I would rather not discuss it. 14:42.000 --> 14:43.000 Good night. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Good night. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 She'd had a quarrel with someone. That was good. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 Now I knew she'd take the sleeping pills. 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 She went directly upstairs. I waited. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 Five minutes later the butler came in. 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 But he went straight on to his own quarters somewhere in the back of the house. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 I waited some more. 15:06.000 --> 15:09.000 It seemed like hours, but I suppose it was only a few minutes. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 I wondered if she'd taken the sleeping pills yet. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 I wondered if I'd hear her when she fell. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Finally, I didn't dare wait any longer. 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 I slipped out from behind the curtain and crossed the living room. 15:22.000 --> 15:26.000 I just closed the front door quietly behind me when a light went on inside. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 I pressed into a corner of the vestibule. 15:28.000 --> 15:32.000 Through the glass panel of the door, I could see Martha and a negligee coming down the stairs. 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 And she had a bottle in her hand. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 The bottle of sleeping pills. 15:36.000 --> 15:40.000 For a second I thought she must have found out somehow that she was going to call the police. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 Yeah, but she wasn't. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 Moving like a sleepwalker, she crossed the living room. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 She was dumping one of the pills out of the bottle into her hand. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 And then she stopped. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 She stopped in front of the cage of that bird. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 Suddenly I saw the whole thing. 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 The tough butler who said she was sick and searched people for weapons. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 The fear behind her eyes. 16:08.000 --> 16:12.000 The man she just quarreled with about obsessions and symptoms of a sick mind. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 Martha was insane. 16:15.000 --> 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. 16:20.000 --> 16:23.000 I saw the bird grab it in its beak, but I didn't wait for the rest. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 Softly as I could, I opened the outer door and went down to the street. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Martha was insane. 16:31.000 --> 16:37.000 And because she was insane, because she thought people were trying to kill her, I couldn't kill her. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 Nobody could ever kill her. 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 Hello. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Paul, are you all right? 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 Alan, sure, I'm all right. 17:02.000 --> 17:03.000 What time is it? 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 Eleven o'clock. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 I just saw the papers. 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 Saw the papers? 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 About Martha Lathrop. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 What about her? 17:12.000 --> 17:13.000 She's dead. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 Poisoned. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Poisoned? 17:16.000 --> 17:17.000 They found nitrosine. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 That's impossible. It couldn't be. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 I'm afraid it's true, Paul. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 Alan, where are you? 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 At Gus's. 17:24.000 --> 17:37.000 Paul, Paul, let's go away. 17:37.000 --> 17:38.000 With what? 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 I've got a little money, enough to get us to Chicago, maybe Los Angeles. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 We could change our names and start over again. 17:44.000 --> 17:45.000 Why, Alan? 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 You think I killed her, don't you? 17:48.000 --> 17:54.000 Paul, if you did, I know why you did, and I don't care. 17:54.000 --> 17:57.000 You're quite a gal, Alan, but I didn't kill her. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 You were there. You said you were going to... 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 Yes, I was, I was, but I didn't kill her and I can prove it. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Don't you believe me? 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 Okay, paper. Paper, here you are. 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 Here you are, here you are. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 Hey, you, beat it. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 Wait a minute. Give me a couple of those. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Yes, sir, here you are. All about the big murder. 18:11.000 --> 18:12.000 Murder? 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 Yes, sir, a few. Okay, pal, thanks. 18:15.000 --> 18:16.000 All right, now beat it. 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 Okay, take it easy, will you? I gotta make a little... 18:21.000 --> 18:22.000 Paul. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 It wasn't you. Oh, Paul. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Dr. Martin Osterman. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 That must have been the guy she went out with last night. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 And they've got him cold. 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 They quarreled publicly. They dressed him. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 She said he was trying to poison her. 18:36.000 --> 18:39.000 He'd given her the prescription for the sleeping pills that killed her. 18:39.000 --> 18:42.000 Alan, how would you like to have some real money and earn it? 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Easy money. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 Money? 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 This Osterman is rich, filthy rich. 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 But, Paul... 18:47.000 --> 18:50.000 If I can prove I didn't do it, I can prove that he didn't do it. 19:11.000 --> 19:12.000 Harrison, Winters and Forbes. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 Which one is handling the Osterman case? 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 I'll give you Mr. Harrison. 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 Hello? 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 Mr. Harrison? 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 Yes? 19:22.000 --> 19:26.000 The papers say that you're Dr. Martin Osterman's lawyer, is that right? 19:26.000 --> 19:29.000 Yes, yes, that's right. Who is this? 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 Your client's in a pretty bad way, isn't he? 19:31.000 --> 19:34.000 Look here, I'm not in the habit of speaking over the phone to people that I... 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 You'll speak to me, because I can prove he's innocent. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 You can what? 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 That's what I said. I can prove it. 19:40.000 --> 19:44.000 Well, Mr. whatever your name is, if you have any evidence, 19:44.000 --> 19:47.000 I'd certainly be glad if you'd come down to my office and tell me... 19:47.000 --> 19:51.000 Well, I'll send somebody else down, my secretary. 19:51.000 --> 19:52.000 She'll want money. 19:52.000 --> 19:53.000 Well... 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 Fifty thousand dollars. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Fifty thousand dollars? 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 You get in touch with Dr. Osterman and see if he doesn't think his life is worth that. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 What you're suggesting is not only against the law, but... 20:02.000 --> 20:05.000 I don't care about the law and I don't think Osterman will either. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 I'll have somebody down there in an hour. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Can you arrange it by the time I get there? 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Can you arrange it by then? 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 Well... 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 Possibly. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 All right. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 And we'll want the money in cash. 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 Harrison, Wittes and Forbes. 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 There's a young lady waiting for this call in Mr. Harrison's office. 20:38.000 --> 20:39.000 I want to speak to her. 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 Oh, yes. 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 Hello? 20:44.000 --> 20:45.000 Paul, Ellen. 20:45.000 --> 20:46.000 Have they given you the money? 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 Yes. 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 Did you count it? 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 Yes. 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 All right, put Harrison on and then start for Grand Central Station. 20:52.000 --> 20:53.000 All right, Paul. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 He wants to talk to you. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 Thank you. 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 Hello? 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 Mr. Harrison? 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 Yes. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 All right, here's the deal. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 Martha Lathrop was not murdered. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 She committed suicide. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 What? Suicide? 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 Suicide. 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 And here's the proof. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 She was suffering from delusions. 21:11.000 --> 21:14.000 She thought people were trying to kill her, poison her and so on. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Dr. Osserman confirms that, of course. 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 Yes, he... 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 What he doesn't know is that it had gone so far 21:19.000 --> 21:22.000 she was trying out things she ate on that big parrot she had. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 The macaw? 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Yeah, the butler confirmed that. 21:25.000 --> 21:29.000 Anyway, she tried out those sleeping pills on the bird before she took them. 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 And you'll find a dead bird in the house to confirm that. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 Good heavens. 21:33.000 --> 21:36.000 So she knew those pills were poisoned before she took them. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Martha Lathrop killed herself. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 I must say they took it like a sport. 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 They paid up and shut up. 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 An hour later, Ellen and I were on a train speeding along the banks 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 of the Hudson River bound for California. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Oh, Paul. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 Fifty thousand dollars. 21:58.000 --> 21:59.000 Easy money. 21:59.000 --> 22:06.000 That must be the easiest money any man ever made in his life. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Must have been about two weeks after we got to California 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 that I got the phone call. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Yes, Mr. Bentley? 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 Yeah? 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 My name's McNulty. I run a pet shop downtown. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 You must have the wrong number. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 Oh, no, no, no, I don't think so. 22:29.000 --> 22:33.000 I got something down here you might be interested in. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 A bird. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 A bird? 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 Yeah, a macaw. Real beauty. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Got a green stripe between his eyes. 22:40.000 --> 22:44.000 Makes him look exactly as though he's wearing glasses. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 You interested? 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 No. No, I'm... 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 Oh, I could easy bring him up to show you. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 I got your address. 22:52.000 --> 22:57.000 No, I said I'm not interested. 22:59.000 --> 23:02.000 That night I told Helen I'd found bugs in the place, 23:02.000 --> 23:03.000 so we moved. 23:03.000 --> 23:08.000 Two nights later I was alone and there was a knock on the door. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 Mr. Bentley? 23:13.000 --> 23:14.000 Yeah? What do you want? 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 I brought the bird anyway, Mr. Bentley. 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 I thought sure you'd want him when you saw him. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Look, I said... 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 Quite the time finding where you'd move to, though. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Oh, look, isn't he a beauty? 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Look, I told you I... 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 Did you see one like him before? 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Oh, they're very rare, very rare. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 What made you think I'd want him? 23:33.000 --> 23:36.000 I just thought you would. 23:36.000 --> 23:37.000 Don't you want him? 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 How much? 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 Well, now, like I say, that's a very rare bird. 23:41.000 --> 23:42.000 Five hundred? 23:42.000 --> 23:45.000 Yes, that'd be all right, Mr. Bentley. 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 Here. 23:46.000 --> 23:49.000 Oh. Thank you, Mr. Bentley. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 And I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 Now get out. 23:52.000 --> 23:53.000 Yes, yes. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 Good night, Mr. Bentley. 24:06.000 --> 24:07.000 There could be no doubt about it. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 It was the same bird. 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 I opened the cage and roughed his feathers 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 to see if the marquise might have been painted on. 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 Hey! 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 He bit me. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 But it was the same bird. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 He sat there staring evilly at me through those spectacles of his, 24:19.000 --> 24:20.000 laughing at me. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 I reached in the cage again... 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 and rang his neck. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 I wrapped the body up in a newspaper. 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 I got a shovel out of the garage. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 I drove about five miles up Topanga Canyon 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 and parked in a side road with my lights out. 24:41.000 --> 24:44.000 I went down into the canyon and started digging. 24:44.000 --> 24:46.000 I dug like a madman. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 The sweat was running into my eyes 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 and I was gasping for air. 24:48.000 --> 24:51.000 Suddenly a light was shining full on my face. 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 All right, Bentley. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 Wait, wait. The bird is dead. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 I couldn't have done it. 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 I couldn't have killed it. 24:55.000 --> 24:56.000 The bird is dead! 25:08.000 --> 25:09.000 Uh, Ellen... 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 Ellen had nothing to do with it. 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 She thought I was innocent all along. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 Okay, we got nothing against her. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 But the bird, I... 25:16.000 --> 25:19.000 Well, Bentley, that was what you might call 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 psychological warfare. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 We knew you were guilty though when you bought it. 25:23.000 --> 25:24.000 I mean, the poison. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 Oh, oh, we found poison, all right. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 Still traces on its beacon claws when we got there. 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 But there was one thing we couldn't understand 25:32.000 --> 25:33.000 for quite a while. 25:33.000 --> 25:37.000 Dr. Dittenauers of the Bronx Zoo finally tipped us off. 25:37.000 --> 25:38.000 But if Martha took the poison, 25:38.000 --> 25:39.000 I saw her give it to that bird. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 I saw the bird gobble it up. 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 Why didn't it die? 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 Yeah. You see, with this nitrazine, 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 some birds can take that stuff by the spoonful 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 and it won't even phase them. 25:49.000 --> 25:52.000 You just picked the wrong kind of poison 25:52.000 --> 25:54.000 and the wrong kind of bird. 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 And so, being of sound mind 26:04.000 --> 26:07.000 and somewhat relieved to know it, 26:07.000 --> 26:10.000 I do hereby bequeath in this my last will and testament 26:10.000 --> 26:13.000 to that witness here in the death house at Osceoning, New York 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 on this seventh day of November, 26:15.000 --> 26:19.000 to my wife, Ellen, the sum of $48,700, 26:19.000 --> 26:22.000 the remainder of that easy money, 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 hoping that the facts herein set forth 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 will assure her that she has a right to it, 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 since I will shortly, to my regret, 26:29.000 --> 26:44.000 have earned every nickel of it. 26:44.000 --> 26:46.000 Suspense. 26:46.000 --> 26:50.000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 26:50.000 --> 26:54.000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 26:54.000 --> 26:58.000 This is Ken Niles presenting our Suspense Star of the Evening, 26:58.000 --> 27:02.000 the handsomest man in Hollywood, Jack Carson. 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 Jack, you can stop twisting my arm now. I said it. 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 I suppose I'm not really the handsomest, 27:08.000 --> 27:11.000 just one of the best looking. 27:11.000 --> 27:15.000 Well, Jack, when it comes to looks, I'll take Hedy Lamarr. 27:15.000 --> 27:19.000 But as an actor, believe me, Jack Carson ranks with the best. 27:19.000 --> 27:22.000 Gee, thanks, Ken. I'm sorry about your arm. 27:22.000 --> 27:25.000 That's all right, Jack. My arm is still in good enough shape 27:25.000 --> 27:28.000 to give you this gift basket of fine Roma Wines 27:28.000 --> 27:31.000 with the compliments of Roma, your host tonight. 27:31.000 --> 27:34.000 Wonderful. That's a grand present, Ken. 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