1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,440 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,760 reserves for your pleasure. 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:19,400 And now Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:28,680 Tonight Roma wines bring you Chester Morris as star of The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy, 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:36,000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,360 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment 7 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,440 by Roma wines. 8 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:54,240 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 9 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:59,520 than any other wine, for friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 10 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:04,600 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Chester 11 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:14,280 Morris in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 12 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:20,320 I saw it once in a mirror in the police emergency hospital. 13 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,000 I never saw it again. 14 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,040 When they set me up, I smashed the mirror in my cell the first day. 15 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,480 They never dared to put in another. 16 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,760 The chaplain came and tried to talk to me about it a few times, and then a prison medic. 17 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,640 But I turned over in my bunk and didn't answer. 18 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,520 After a while they stopped coming. 19 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,440 Three and a half years. 20 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,720 Almost every night I dream it wasn't like that. 21 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,520 Wake up crying I was so happy. 22 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,280 And then put up my hand in the dark to feel them and know that it was. 23 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:59,000 It would always be three and a half years. 24 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,320 Waiting and hating. 25 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:06,320 Waiting to get out and hating one guy in particular and everybody in general. 26 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,320 Waiting and hating. 27 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:15,880 It was a cold windy day in November the day I left. 28 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,920 The guard opened the gate and gave me the usual corny send off. 29 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,480 Well Mr. Malone I hope you enjoyed your stay here. 30 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,200 Callers up make a reservation anytime. 31 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,120 I went on through and didn't answer. 32 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,920 I didn't even look at it. 33 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,560 For three and a half years I hadn't looked at anybody. 34 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:38,320 I didn't want anybody looking at me and I didn't look at anybody else. 35 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,920 My coat collar was pulled up and my hat pulled down and I walked towards the river to the 36 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,200 little park there and hung around waiting for it to get dark. 37 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,960 I knew what I was doing all right. 38 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,040 I was going to kill a man. 39 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,200 But first I was waiting for it to get dark. 40 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,520 When it was I went up into town and caught a train for New York that got me into Grand 41 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,240 Central about 815. 42 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,880 In the station I went to a phone booth and called Sam Braggen. 43 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,160 Then I went down there. 44 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,080 Sam lived in a walk up off Hudson Street. 45 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,320 A good dark street. 46 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,480 A hallway too. 47 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:14,480 Dark stairs. 48 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,480 The third floor. 49 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:18,480 Dark. 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,480 Who is it? 51 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Hello Sam. 52 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:27,480 Johnny. 53 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,920 Oh Johnny you old son of a gun you. 54 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:32,920 Hello Sam. 55 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,520 Well what are you standing there for? 56 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:35,520 Come on in come on. 57 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,520 Wait let me turn on the light. 58 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:38,520 No. 59 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:39,520 All right Sam. 60 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,520 You're having coke. 61 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:41,520 I will see it in hours later. 62 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:42,520 Oh Johnny. 63 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:43,520 Johnny. 64 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:44,520 Johnny. 65 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:55,480 I shouldn't have hit him but I couldn't stop myself when I saw that book of horror and 66 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:01,000 pity that I knew I'd always see from now on when anybody saw my face. 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,640 My awful scarred twisted nightmare of a face. 68 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,640 My face. 69 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:16,880 I closed the door and got Sam into the front room and onto the couch. 70 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,320 And then I got the phone and called Fran's old number because I couldn't stop myself 71 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,320 from that either. 72 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,320 Hello. 73 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,040 Is Miss Thompson there? 74 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,040 Miss Frances Thompson? 75 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,040 No she ain't. 76 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,040 Well is her mother there? 77 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,520 No they've gone away. 78 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:37,800 You know where I can get in touch with them? 79 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,280 No I don't. 80 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:45,920 Well do you know if they're coming back sometime? 81 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,480 I hadn't expected anything different. 82 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,880 I don't know why it should have made me so mad. 83 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,160 When I turned around Sam was just beginning to come out of it over on the couch. 84 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,640 Oh you. 85 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,840 Yeah remember? 86 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:04,080 You have no call to do that Johnny. 87 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,320 I know. 88 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:06,320 I'm sorry. 89 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,800 I said I'm sorry. 90 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,560 I guess I've been so long where I wanted to and couldn't that I took out the whole three 91 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,440 and a half years on the first guy I could. 92 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:19,440 I'm sorry. 93 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:20,440 Yeah I'm sorry too Johnny. 94 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,920 You want to talk about it? 95 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,920 Turn out the lights Sam. 96 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:28,920 Sure. 97 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:29,920 Okay. 98 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:30,920 Thanks. 99 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:31,920 Where's Fran? 100 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:32,920 Fran? 101 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:33,920 You remember Fran. 102 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,520 Oh yeah yeah you and her. 103 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:37,520 Where is she? 104 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,520 Gee Johnny I don't know. 105 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,160 Don't kid me she's with Gordy Fitzroy isn't she? 106 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:45,160 Isn't she? 107 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,920 I swear Johnny I swear I don't know what Fran's been doing. 108 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,280 I ain't heard nothing of Fran for a couple of years. 109 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:51,280 Alright. 110 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,280 Alright I'll find out. 111 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:57,160 Didn't she come to see you up there? 112 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:02,680 Yeah at first she did but I didn't see her. 113 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,560 They got lights on you when you see people up there Sam. 114 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,720 I only want to see Fran in the dark. 115 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,160 Yeah yeah sure. 116 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:13,480 Where's Gordy Fitzroy? 117 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:14,480 I don't know Johnny. 118 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,440 He's uh he's still around isn't he? 119 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,280 Oh sure sure I hear he's got another place uptown. 120 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:21,920 Yeah I bet. 121 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,320 What's the angle Johnny? 122 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,280 You sure you didn't hear nothing? 123 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:31,880 To tell you the truth Johnny it was so long since you was in touch I uh I heard you got 124 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,520 uh three to five and that's about all. 125 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,720 Okay I'll tell you the rest. 126 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,520 Is it how that happened? 127 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,200 Yeah it's how that happened. 128 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,480 You remember the gang around here in the old days you, Sam, Gordy Fitzroy and Fran and 129 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,440 me that always ran together when we were kids and Fran went to City College and I got into 130 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,400 a little trouble and Gordy inherited that jewelry store from his uncle. 131 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,400 You remember all that? 132 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,360 Oh sure I remember you were all good kids. 133 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,680 Yeah well it was about a year after the last time I saw you. 134 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:05,680 Gordy was having trouble. 135 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:11,680 He owed a lot of dough to the bookies and had to hock his jewelry store to pay off and 136 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,160 then he had a bright idea. 137 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,760 Georgia did? 138 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,600 Yeah he had about 10 or 15 grand worth of assorted rocks in his safe at the store. 139 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:26,560 We were going to crack it and peddle the rocks and collect the insurance too and split 50-50. 140 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:31,280 I was going to do the job but I made him come with me and of course we had to blow the safe 141 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,720 to make it look right. 142 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,040 Well something went wrong. 143 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:42,200 I used too much soup or something and it blew in my face. 144 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,200 In my face. 145 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,960 Oh so that's how. 146 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,800 Yeah only that wasn't all. 147 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,760 When I came out of it Gordy was still there but he'd ratted on me to save his own skin. 148 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,760 There were cops all over the place and Gordy was telling him how he'd caught me in the 149 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,880 act of blowing his safe and knocked me cold or something. 150 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,760 And the cops couldn't make up their minds between patting him on the back and kicking 151 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:04,760 me in the belly. 152 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,840 We were doing plenty of both. 153 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:12,600 Oh he was quite a little hero there Gordy was. 154 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,720 Gee Junie. 155 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:15,920 He did that? 156 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,640 He did better than that. 157 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,880 He even testified at my trial. 158 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,520 Even Fran believed him I guess. 159 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,100 She said she didn't but I don't know. 160 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:31,280 So I got three to five and lucky that. 161 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,400 I was all bandages then. 162 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,680 I didn't know how bad it really was till after the trial. 163 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:42,680 And then they took him off. 164 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:46,760 I only saw it once Sam. 165 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,400 I never dared look at it again. 166 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:50,400 Gee. 167 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:55,400 What are you going to do Junie? 168 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,400 What do you think? 169 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,400 Yeah but look. 170 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:58,400 Look that's bad Junie. 171 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,760 Why they'd pin it on you before you got off at the subway. 172 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,280 Not the way I'm going to do it. 173 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,040 You got a way to do it? 174 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,040 Yeah. 175 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:18,640 I got a way. 176 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:23,480 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Chester Morris in the strange death of Gordon 177 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:24,480 Fitzroy. 178 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:39,400 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 179 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,240 Between the acts of Suspense this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 180 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:49,640 Today was a memorable Thanksgiving and here's a tip on how to give tempting first meal flavor 181 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,560 to your Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. 182 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:56,960 Serve those leftovers with delicious Roma California wine. 183 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:02,960 For both robust Roma Burgundy and glorious Roma Sauternes have tantalizing taste harmonies 184 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:09,440 with food that bring out all the subtle hidden flavors in any meat or foul, hot or cold. 185 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:16,120 Yes, better tasting Roma Wines make simple turkey hash and epicures delight. 186 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,520 And Roma Wines do taste better. 187 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,080 For Roma starts with California's choicest grapes. 188 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:27,720 Roma skill and America's finest winemaking resources guide this great treasure to tempting 189 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,560 taste perfection. 190 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:35,800 Then Roma selects at peak taste richness from the world's greatest wine reserves for your 191 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,300 pleasure. 192 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,080 And here's a holiday tip. 193 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,280 Take advantage of present low Roma prices. 194 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,520 Tomorrow buy Roma by the case and save. 195 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:52,440 That's R-O-M-A. Roma, America's favorite wine. 196 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:58,560 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Chester Morris as Johnny Malone 197 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:01,440 in the strange death of Gordon Fitzroy. 198 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:16,400 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 199 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:17,800 Sam was always a good gee. 200 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,280 He let me shack up there and he helped me out. 201 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:26,600 He found out where Gordy Fitzroy lived alone in a little house on Long Island and how he 202 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,400 always caught the same train that got him out there about 1030 every night. 203 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,040 He made the contact with a guy that was going to fix me up the package too. 204 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,480 It was about a week later that I went around to collect it. 205 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:44,400 It was a little basement watch repair shop off Avenue C. At least that was the guy's 206 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:45,400 front. 207 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:50,640 He was a dried up little guy with thick glasses and he was working over some kind of a clock. 208 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:51,640 Yeah? 209 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,840 You want something? 210 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,400 I'm Pete Jones. 211 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,080 Pete Jones? 212 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,280 Yeah. 213 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,120 You got something for me, haven't you? 214 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,120 I don't know. 215 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:03,880 I'd have to look. 216 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,400 Sam Braggen sent me. 217 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,440 I don't know no Sam Braggen. 218 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,680 I don't go by names in here. 219 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:11,200 What do you go by? 220 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,480 I just remember. 221 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:13,960 Well, start remembering. 222 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,800 Let me take a look at you. 223 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,800 I said I'm Pete Jones. 224 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:18,800 Okay. 225 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,800 I guess you're the guy. 226 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,800 Where do I put up the sign? 227 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:24,800 What sign? 228 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:25,800 You got to go on back. 229 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,160 I don't want no one coming in while we're going. 230 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,920 Come on. 231 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:41,320 Where is it? 232 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:42,320 You're looking at it. 233 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,320 That suitcase. 234 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,520 Well, open it up. 235 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,840 I want to see it. 236 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,280 That suitcase ain't made to be opened up no more, bud. 237 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,280 Okay. 238 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:51,280 How do you work it? 239 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,440 You see the slide and that snap lock? 240 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,440 Yeah. 241 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,400 You push it just once. 242 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,440 When you do that, it's time to blow in three hours. 243 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:01,560 What'll it do? 244 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,040 Like the atom bomb, bud. 245 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:05,840 Like the atom bomb. 246 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,960 Listen, you ain't mixed up in any kind of politics, are you? 247 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,440 Like that Christian Front Gang or anything? 248 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,440 No. 249 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,040 Because I don't do that kind of work. 250 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,040 Dangerous. 251 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,040 This is strictly business. 252 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,040 Personal. 253 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:20,040 Okay. 254 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,720 You know what this job is going to cost you? 255 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,680 One C was what I was told. 256 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:25,680 No. 257 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:26,680 Two C's. 258 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:28,720 Is that the way you always do business? 259 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:30,080 Materials are going up. 260 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,080 Well, I'll give you one and a half and a working over. 261 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,040 Now, what'll it be? 262 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,160 I'll take the one and a half. 263 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:37,160 Three hours, you said. 264 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:38,160 Yeah. 265 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,160 Three hours. 266 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:40,760 Well, here's your dough. 267 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:41,920 And this thing better work right. 268 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:51,280 If it don't give satisfaction, wise guy, bring it back. 269 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,960 Three hours would give me plenty of time. 270 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,320 I went out to Gordy Fitzroy's house in Long Island the next night, about 9.30, an hour 271 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,360 before he'd get home. 272 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,200 The place was dark like it should have been. 273 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,920 I went around back where there was a kitchen window. 274 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,320 I jimmied it and stepped inside with my suitcase full of trouble. 275 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,800 For a minute, I stood and listened and almost thought I heard something. 276 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,440 Nerves, I guess. 277 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:18,440 Imagination. 278 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,600 Upstairs, under his bed would be the best place. 279 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,840 But first, I wanted to set it. 280 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,280 I put my flash on the slot, slide lock and pushed it like the guide said. 281 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,560 But it wouldn't move. 282 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:30,880 I tried again. 283 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,680 And it moved the wrong way. 284 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,040 It must have got pushed by mistake earlier sometime. 285 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,920 And then I heard the buzzing sound it was making. 286 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,200 I gave a wild look around and saw a space behind the stove and threw it in there and 287 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,200 started for the window. 288 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,200 I was about halfway out when I felt the blast and something hit me in the face. 289 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:49,200 And that was all. 290 00:14:49,200 --> 00:15:09,440 It was funny, but I came to sitting in a chair. 291 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,400 Just sitting there in a room I'd never seen before. 292 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:13,400 It was dark. 293 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,440 Just a little light coming in from the street. 294 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,840 Then I looked around a little and saw the bed. 295 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,720 I knew it must be a hospital. 296 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,720 And I remembered. 297 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,640 But it couldn't have been too bad. 298 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,360 They couldn't have to operate or I'd be in bed and feeling sick. 299 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:36,040 But there I was just sitting in one of those hospital night shirts and bathrobes. 300 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,040 Just sitting. 301 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,040 And then the door opened. 302 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:40,040 The doctor and the nurse. 303 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,040 Psychic, throwing a shock. 304 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,040 I just had to keep trying. 305 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,040 That's all. 306 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,040 Well, how's the patient this evening? 307 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:48,040 Don't turn on the lights, Doc. 308 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:53,600 Well, oh, what's that you said? 309 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,680 I said don't turn on the lights. 310 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,640 I like it better in the dark. 311 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,720 How did you know I was your doctor? 312 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,100 I guessed. 313 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:03,100 You are, aren't you? 314 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:04,100 Yes, yes, yes. 315 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:05,100 How am I? 316 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:06,100 You seem to be fine now. 317 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:07,100 The bulls outside? 318 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:08,100 The who? 319 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:09,100 Coppers. 320 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:10,100 Police. 321 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:11,100 Oh, the police. 322 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:15,000 They were here, but they're not around anymore. 323 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 You got tired, huh? 324 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Yes, I guess they did. 325 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Thanks for telling me. 326 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Well, it's nice to see you feeling so well. 327 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I'll drop by in the morning. 328 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 We'll have a long talk. 329 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Oh, yeah, sure, in the morning. 330 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,000 There were socks and shirts in the bureau. 331 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 I don't know what they were. 332 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 I don't know what they were. 333 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 There were socks and shirts in the bureau. 334 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,720 There were shoes and a suit and a hat and overcoat in the closet. 335 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,000 They weren't mine, but what did I care? 336 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,580 Because the cops must have quit watching me for the night, and that meant I could break 337 00:16:49,580 --> 00:16:50,580 out of here. 338 00:16:50,580 --> 00:16:55,560 There was no time for any fancy suitcase jobs now. 339 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,080 If I was going to get Gordy Fitzroy before the cops got me, I had to go after him and 340 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,240 give it to him face to face. 341 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,920 I put on the duds and got out into the hall and down a back stairway and out through the 342 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,400 basement without anybody even seeing me. 343 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,880 I knew where I could get a gun and I got it. 344 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:16,240 And then, then all of a sudden I was thinking about Fran. 345 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,240 I knew I was washed up. 346 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,320 I knew they'd get me for what I was going to do to Gordy, but before that I wanted to 347 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:22,320 see her. 348 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,080 I just wanted to see her. 349 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,680 I took a chance that the old dame on the phone might have been brushing me off here tonight, 350 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:35,040 and I went into a booth and dialed a number. 351 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,040 Hello? 352 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:37,040 Fran? 353 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,040 Yes? 354 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,040 Who's this? 355 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,040 Fran, it's, it's Johnny. 356 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,040 Johnny Malone. 357 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,040 Johnny? 358 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:43,040 Oh, Johnny! 359 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,040 Yeah, yeah, me too. 360 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Out? 361 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,040 Yeah. 362 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:53,040 Fran, I, I want to see you. 363 00:17:53,040 --> 00:18:04,040 I want to see you the worst way, but you're not going to get away with this. 364 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,040 The worst way, but... 365 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,040 But what, Johnny? 366 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,040 Did you know what happened? 367 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,040 Yes, Johnny, I know. 368 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,040 No, no, I mean all of it. 369 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,040 How bad it was? 370 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:15,040 Yes, Warden told me. 371 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:16,040 He even showed me pictures. 372 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,040 He did? 373 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,040 Did you get my letters? 374 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,040 Yeah, I got them, but I tore them up. 375 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,040 Why? 376 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,040 Because I didn't want to know what was in them, maybe. 377 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,040 Because I didn't want to even think about you after what happened. 378 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,040 I don't know. 379 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,040 I don't know. 380 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,040 I don't know. 381 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:26,040 I don't know. 382 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:27,040 I don't know. 383 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:28,040 I don't know. 384 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,040 I don't know. 385 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,040 I don't know. 386 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,040 I don't know. 387 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,040 I don't know. 388 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,040 I don't know. 389 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,040 I don't know what happened. 390 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,040 Then, then they stopped coming. 391 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,040 Well, I joined the Red Cross. 392 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,040 I've been away for two years. 393 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,040 Oh. 394 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:39,040 You're, you're sure you want to see me, friend? 395 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,040 Of course I do. 396 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:41,040 Listen, Johnny, I'll meet you now at Jack's, the old place. 397 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,040 No. 398 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,040 No, it's too bright there, friend, too much light. 399 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,040 Oh, all right, where? 400 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,040 Down on your corner, Hudson Street. 401 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,040 Ten minutes. 402 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,040 All right, Johnny. 403 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,040 I'll be there. 404 00:18:48,040 --> 00:19:08,560 I waited in the shadows in the doorway. 405 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,400 My heart seemed to be going crazy and I could hardly breathe. 406 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,000 I forgot all about Gordy Fitzroy and what I was going to do. 407 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,960 I, I didn't even care anymore. 408 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,480 Maybe something could be worked out. 409 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,400 Maybe Fran and I could somehow. 410 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,440 And then I heard her coming down the street. 411 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:27,440 I looked. 412 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,600 It was her, all right. 413 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,480 I was scared now. 414 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,040 I just waited where I was trying to get my breath. 415 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,720 She got to the corner and looked around. 416 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,080 And then she stood there for a minute under the street light. 417 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,280 And I walked up and went up behind her. 418 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,680 I laid my hand on her arm. 419 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:45,680 That's all. 420 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:51,800 I laid my hand on her arm and she whirled around and looked at me full in the face. 421 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,360 Get away from me. 422 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,520 Get away. 423 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Get away. 424 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,120 Get away. 425 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:02,120 I ran. 426 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:03,120 I just ran. 427 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:04,440 I was so torn up inside. 428 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,560 I didn't know what I felt. 429 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,480 There were tears dripping out of my twisted eye sockets. 430 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,200 And then, then I stopped. 431 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,440 All right. 432 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,280 She lied to me. 433 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,280 She didn't know what had happened and she didn't care. 434 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,200 And when she saw it, she was like all the rest. 435 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,200 No, right? 436 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,080 And if she could dish it out that way, she could take it that way. 437 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,400 I wasn't going to leave her behind either. 438 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,440 I went around the block and back to her house. 439 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,600 I went up the steps and into the vestibule. 440 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,200 It was dark in there. 441 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,280 Good and dark. 442 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,760 I waited. 443 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:50,480 It was nearly half an hour before I heard her coming up the steps. 444 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,880 Hello, Fran. 445 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:54,880 Johnny. 446 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,720 Oh, Johnny, why are you hiding here in the dark? 447 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:58,720 Why did you do it? 448 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,800 I waited and waited and you never even showed up and I was... 449 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,120 You had your chance, Fran. 450 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:08,680 And now it's this. 451 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:09,680 Johnny! 452 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:19,280 I ran out on the street, through the valley to the courtyard, the building next door and 453 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,240 over the fence and through another alley. 454 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:22,560 I was on the next street. 455 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:28,760 There was a cab coming and I hailed him. 456 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,760 Where to? 457 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:30,760 Just drive uptown. 458 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:31,760 I'll tell you where later. 459 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:32,760 Okay. 460 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,680 The next on the list was Gordon Fitzroy. 461 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,280 There was no use calling the house on Long Island. 462 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:45,440 I know I'd blown that guy high, but I had to find him before morning. 463 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,440 I tried to think. 464 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,200 There must be somebody who'd know where he was. 465 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,760 He was staying in town now, probably. 466 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:52,760 A cabbie. 467 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,760 Sure. 468 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,760 One of the cabbies up around where his store was ought to know. 469 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,640 I tapped on the glass behind the driver. 470 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,560 He slid it back without looking around. 471 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,880 You know where you want to go now? 472 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:09,560 Listen, is the RECAB stand up around 53rd and Lakes? 473 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:10,560 It sure is. 474 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,120 Well, that's where I want to go. 475 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,120 Okay. 476 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120 You're taking me right home. 477 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:15,120 Yeah? 478 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,120 That's your stand? 479 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,120 Sure. 480 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:19,160 I just happened to get a fare down here tonight. 481 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,920 Well, then maybe you're just the guy I want to talk to. 482 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:22,920 Me? 483 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:23,920 About what? 484 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,360 There's a jewelry store up around there named Fitzroy's. 485 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,160 Yeah, that's right. 486 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,160 Gordon Fitzroy. 487 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,520 Yeah, an old pal of mine. 488 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,520 You know him? 489 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:33,520 Yeah. 490 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:34,520 I've seen him. 491 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:35,520 I've seen him. 492 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,520 I've seen him. 493 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:37,520 I've seen him. 494 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:38,520 I've seen him a few times. 495 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:39,520 You don't know where I can get a hold of him, do you? 496 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:40,520 I mean, where he's living now? 497 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,520 No, I don't, Gordon. 498 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:42,520 To tell you the truth, I ain't seen him around lately. 499 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,520 I think his partner runs the business mostly now. 500 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,520 Oh, he's got a partner. 501 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:47,520 Oh, yeah. 502 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,520 Know his name? 503 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:49,520 Let me see. 504 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:50,520 No, it's... 505 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,520 It's right on a store there. 506 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,520 Begins with a Z. 507 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,520 A Zellman. 508 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,520 That's a Zellman. 509 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,520 Face named Fred, I think. 510 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,200 You can stop right here. 511 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,480 I want to make a phone call. 512 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,480 Wait for me. 513 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,480 OK. 514 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,840 Hello? 515 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:19,600 Uh, Mr. Zellman? 516 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,520 Yeah? 517 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:34,200 Well, I'm sorry to bother you this time of night, Mr. Zellman, but I'm an old pal of 518 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,200 Gordon Fitzroy. 519 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,520 I've been trying to find him, but his house in Long Island doesn't answer. 520 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,440 Yeah, I guess it does. 521 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,440 Could you tell me where he is? 522 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,440 Why, he's had an accident. 523 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,440 An accident? 524 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:47,440 Uh-huh. 525 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:48,440 He's in the hospital. 526 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:49,440 Oh, gee, that's terrible. 527 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,880 Oh, gee, that's too bad. 528 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,680 I'd like to see him, though. 529 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,680 What hospital is he in? 530 00:23:55,680 --> 00:24:01,160 Why, uh, the Jefferson Hospital, room 508. 531 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,160 The Jefferson Hospital? 532 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,160 Thanks. 533 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,720 The Jefferson Hospital. 534 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,520 I got it now. 535 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,640 Well, that was the hospital I'd been in. 536 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,920 I was almost sure. 537 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,600 So Gordy had been in his house when I blew it. 538 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,200 And they'd taken us both there. 539 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,920 Why else would he have had an accident just the same time as me? 540 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,200 Maybe he was right on the same floor all the time. 541 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,640 Maybe right in the next room to mine. 542 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,720 Just so he was still alive, that's all. 543 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,360 Because now I wanted to give it to him face to face. 544 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:40,680 Jefferson Hospital was way out in Long Island, and I knew I wouldn't be able to pay the fare, 545 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:41,680 but that didn't worry me. 546 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:46,360 When we got there, I just stepped out of the cab with a gun in my hand. 547 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,480 You want me to wait? 548 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:49,480 No. 549 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:50,480 No, beat it. 550 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,720 What about me fare, Dick? 551 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,260 This is your fare. 552 00:24:53,260 --> 00:24:54,800 What is this, a stick? 553 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:55,800 Hey! 554 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:56,800 You're... you're... 555 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:57,800 It's nothing. 556 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:58,800 I'm nobody. 557 00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,800 Now beat it. 558 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,000 It was the same place, all right. 559 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,240 I got in through the basement just like I'd got out. 560 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,240 I went up the same stairs. 561 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,320 I remember now, five flights. 562 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,320 The same floor. 563 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:15,280 Only this time there was an old dame, a nurse, sitting there at the desk. 564 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,840 I had my gun out and down at my side before I even spoke to her. 565 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,160 Well, where did you come from? 566 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,720 I want to see the guy in 508. 567 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,320 I'm sorry, but visiting hour... 568 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,280 I know all about that. 569 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,280 Take me to 508. 570 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,280 You wouldn't. 571 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:29,280 Yes, I would, sister. 572 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,280 Now get moving. 573 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,280 We went down the hall. 574 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,280 In 508 she stopped, but I poked her with a rod. 575 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,280 Oh, please don't. 576 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,280 She opened the door ahead of me. 577 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,280 It was a room just like mine, but it was dark. 578 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,280 Just a little street light coming in the window. 579 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,280 Oh, please don't. 580 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:38,280 I made a move to the right. 581 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,280 I'm going to go to the left. 582 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,280 I'm going to go to the right. 583 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,280 I'm going to go to the left. 584 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:42,280 I'm going to go to the left. 585 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,280 Just a little street light coming in the window. 586 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,280 Oh, please don't. 587 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,280 I made a move inside. 588 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,840 And then I slugged her. 589 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,800 I looked around. 590 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,200 I couldn't see much yet, but the bed was empty. 591 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:04,200 I moved on into the room and then I saw him standing in a door. 592 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,560 But somebody must have tipped him off. 593 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,800 He was dressed. 594 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,920 He had a gun in his hand. 595 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,520 I fired, but nothing happened. 596 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,800 It was glass. 597 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,800 Glass. 598 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,680 Somebody had snapped on the lights. 599 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,720 I whirled around looking for him, and then I saw him. 600 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,000 But in a mirror, it was me. 601 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Me with his face. 602 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,320 His face. 603 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:33,160 They must have come up behind me. 604 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,120 I didn't even remember. 605 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:38,840 I was in bed and half-doped, and the room was full of medics and cops. 606 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,640 But I knew. 607 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,040 Gordy and me had both been in that house. 608 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,240 Only the way he got it, they couldn't even find him. 609 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,240 Only me. 610 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,160 And they thought I was Gordy. 611 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,560 And they fixed up my face from pictures the way they do to make me look like Gordy. 612 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,680 And Fran had believed me. 613 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,640 That's why she screamed at me. 614 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,520 Because she thought I was Gordy and she knew what he'd done to me. 615 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,560 Oh, I knew. 616 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,160 I knew all right. 617 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,360 Without even hearing them talking in their low voices there beside my bed. 618 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:11,360 I knew. 619 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:15,120 Apparently the shock, the explosion and all was just too much for him. 620 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:18,720 Yes, he was here for 21 months while we rebuilt his face. 621 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,200 You know, he never spoke a word until today. 622 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,600 Well, he's due for another shock now. 623 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,400 He's wanted for murder. 624 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,440 I never even told them who I really was. 625 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,440 What was the use? 626 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:47,440 Suspense. 627 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:53,800 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wines. 628 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,880 This is Ken Niles bringing back to our suspense microphone the star of the evening, Chester 629 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:58,880 Morris. 630 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,040 Tell me, Chester, after so convincing a performance as a first rate heel, don't you find it difficult 631 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,880 to resume being the really nice guy we know you are? 632 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,120 Oh, not at all, Ken. 633 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:12,840 You know, I just whispered, Abracadabra, and the villain in me disappeared. 634 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:18,280 Well, I might have known since you're one of Hollywood's most accomplished amateur magicians. 635 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,600 Would you make me disappear if I asked how's tricks? 636 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,960 Now, Ken, I'd like to, but I don't know any tricks that good. 637 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,480 Well, Chester, here's a trick you want to know. 638 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,160 It's a trick in taste magic, and the only props you need are glasses and delicious Roma 639 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,480 California sherry. 640 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,720 Then, when guests drop in, you simply pour and presto, hospitality reigns. 641 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,920 Well, that's a trick anyone can master, Ken, with Roma sherry. 642 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,760 Right, Chester, for Roma sherry is the keynote of gracious entertaining, the popular first 643 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,360 call for dinner. 644 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,040 That's because Roma sherry is better tasting. 645 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:56,920 In fact, all Roma wines taste better because Roma starts with choicest grapes, skillfully 646 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:02,320 and unhurriedly guiding this grape treasure with America's finest winemaking resources 647 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,520 to tempting taste perfection. 648 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:10,040 Then, at the moment of peak taste richness, Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 649 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,680 reserves for your pleasure. 650 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,960 No wonder more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 651 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,720 Well, you're right, Ken, no wonder. 652 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,560 And Chester, so you may practice this taste magic at home and delight your guests, here 653 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,160 from Roma is a gift basket of Roma wines. 654 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,400 Well, thank you, Ken, and thanks to Roma. 655 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,560 And now before I return to my top hats and rabbits, Ken, who will I be hearing on suspense 656 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,560 this time next week? 657 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,840 You'll be hearing Robert Taylor. 658 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,960 Next week is our anniversary show for us. 659 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,560 Roma will be beginning its fourth year of presenting suspense. 660 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,080 It was Cary Grant who was our first star, and each year on our anniversary, Cary has 661 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,080 appeared. 662 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,720 This year, however, he'll be away from town. 663 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,040 We'll present him later. 664 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,560 Next week, it'll be Bob Taylor. 665 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,720 Wonderful, and what kind of a story will Bob do, Ken? 666 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,800 Well, it'll be a suspense play that involves him in a Christmas story with some of the 667 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,040 eeriest and most inexplicable twists imaginable. 668 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,720 It'll take all the magician in you to explain it away. 669 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,680 Well, I'll certainly be listening. 670 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,360 Chester Morris will soon be seen in the Columbia picture Inside Story. 671 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,680 Tonight's suspense play was written by Bruce Cassidy and Robert L. Richards. 672 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:22,600 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Robert Taylor as star of Suspense. 673 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,760 Produced and directed by Williams-Fear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 674 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:53,760 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.