WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.440 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 00:07.440 --> 00:10.760 reserves for your pleasure. 00:10.760 --> 00:19.400 And now Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 00:19.400 --> 00:28.680 Tonight Roma wines bring you Chester Morris as star of The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy, 00:28.680 --> 00:36.000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 00:36.000 --> 00:43.360 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment 00:43.360 --> 00:45.440 by Roma wines. 00:45.440 --> 00:54.240 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 00:54.240 --> 00:59.520 than any other wine, for friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:59.520 --> 01:04.600 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Chester 01:04.600 --> 01:14.280 Morris in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:14.280 --> 01:20.320 I saw it once in a mirror in the police emergency hospital. 01:20.320 --> 01:23.000 I never saw it again. 01:23.000 --> 01:27.040 When they set me up, I smashed the mirror in my cell the first day. 01:27.040 --> 01:29.480 They never dared to put in another. 01:29.480 --> 01:33.760 The chaplain came and tried to talk to me about it a few times, and then a prison medic. 01:33.760 --> 01:37.640 But I turned over in my bunk and didn't answer. 01:37.640 --> 01:40.520 After a while they stopped coming. 01:40.520 --> 01:43.440 Three and a half years. 01:43.440 --> 01:45.720 Almost every night I dream it wasn't like that. 01:45.720 --> 01:48.520 Wake up crying I was so happy. 01:48.520 --> 01:53.280 And then put up my hand in the dark to feel them and know that it was. 01:53.280 --> 01:59.000 It would always be three and a half years. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.320 Waiting and hating. 02:01.320 --> 02:06.320 Waiting to get out and hating one guy in particular and everybody in general. 02:06.320 --> 02:09.320 Waiting and hating. 02:09.320 --> 02:15.880 It was a cold windy day in November the day I left. 02:15.880 --> 02:18.920 The guard opened the gate and gave me the usual corny send off. 02:18.920 --> 02:21.480 Well Mr. Malone I hope you enjoyed your stay here. 02:21.480 --> 02:24.200 Callers up make a reservation anytime. 02:24.200 --> 02:27.120 I went on through and didn't answer. 02:27.120 --> 02:28.920 I didn't even look at it. 02:28.920 --> 02:33.560 For three and a half years I hadn't looked at anybody. 02:33.560 --> 02:38.320 I didn't want anybody looking at me and I didn't look at anybody else. 02:38.320 --> 02:41.920 My coat collar was pulled up and my hat pulled down and I walked towards the river to the 02:41.920 --> 02:46.200 little park there and hung around waiting for it to get dark. 02:46.200 --> 02:48.960 I knew what I was doing all right. 02:48.960 --> 02:51.040 I was going to kill a man. 02:51.040 --> 02:54.200 But first I was waiting for it to get dark. 02:54.200 --> 02:58.520 When it was I went up into town and caught a train for New York that got me into Grand 02:58.520 --> 03:01.240 Central about 815. 03:01.240 --> 03:04.880 In the station I went to a phone booth and called Sam Braggen. 03:04.880 --> 03:07.160 Then I went down there. 03:07.160 --> 03:09.080 Sam lived in a walk up off Hudson Street. 03:09.080 --> 03:11.320 A good dark street. 03:11.320 --> 03:13.480 A hallway too. 03:13.480 --> 03:14.480 Dark stairs. 03:14.480 --> 03:17.480 The third floor. 03:17.480 --> 03:18.480 Dark. 03:18.480 --> 03:23.480 Who is it? 03:23.480 --> 03:26.480 Hello Sam. 03:26.480 --> 03:27.480 Johnny. 03:27.480 --> 03:31.920 Oh Johnny you old son of a gun you. 03:31.920 --> 03:32.920 Hello Sam. 03:32.920 --> 03:34.520 Well what are you standing there for? 03:34.520 --> 03:35.520 Come on in come on. 03:35.520 --> 03:37.520 Wait let me turn on the light. 03:37.520 --> 03:38.520 No. 03:38.520 --> 03:39.520 All right Sam. 03:39.520 --> 03:40.520 You're having coke. 03:40.520 --> 03:41.520 I will see it in hours later. 03:41.520 --> 03:42.520 Oh Johnny. 03:42.520 --> 03:43.520 Johnny. 03:43.520 --> 03:44.520 Johnny. 03:44.520 --> 03:55.480 I shouldn't have hit him but I couldn't stop myself when I saw that book of horror and 03:55.480 --> 04:01.000 pity that I knew I'd always see from now on when anybody saw my face. 04:01.000 --> 04:05.640 My awful scarred twisted nightmare of a face. 04:05.640 --> 04:06.640 My face. 04:06.640 --> 04:16.880 I closed the door and got Sam into the front room and onto the couch. 04:16.880 --> 04:21.320 And then I got the phone and called Fran's old number because I couldn't stop myself 04:21.320 --> 04:24.320 from that either. 04:24.320 --> 04:27.320 Hello. 04:27.320 --> 04:30.040 Is Miss Thompson there? 04:30.040 --> 04:31.040 Miss Frances Thompson? 04:31.040 --> 04:32.040 No she ain't. 04:32.040 --> 04:35.040 Well is her mother there? 04:35.040 --> 04:36.520 No they've gone away. 04:36.520 --> 04:37.800 You know where I can get in touch with them? 04:37.800 --> 04:39.280 No I don't. 04:39.280 --> 04:45.920 Well do you know if they're coming back sometime? 04:45.920 --> 04:48.480 I hadn't expected anything different. 04:48.480 --> 04:51.880 I don't know why it should have made me so mad. 04:51.880 --> 04:56.160 When I turned around Sam was just beginning to come out of it over on the couch. 04:56.160 --> 04:59.640 Oh you. 04:59.640 --> 05:01.840 Yeah remember? 05:01.840 --> 05:04.080 You have no call to do that Johnny. 05:04.080 --> 05:05.320 I know. 05:05.320 --> 05:06.320 I'm sorry. 05:06.320 --> 05:10.800 I said I'm sorry. 05:10.800 --> 05:14.560 I guess I've been so long where I wanted to and couldn't that I took out the whole three 05:14.560 --> 05:18.440 and a half years on the first guy I could. 05:18.440 --> 05:19.440 I'm sorry. 05:19.440 --> 05:20.440 Yeah I'm sorry too Johnny. 05:20.440 --> 05:25.920 You want to talk about it? 05:25.920 --> 05:27.920 Turn out the lights Sam. 05:27.920 --> 05:28.920 Sure. 05:28.920 --> 05:29.920 Okay. 05:29.920 --> 05:30.920 Thanks. 05:30.920 --> 05:31.920 Where's Fran? 05:31.920 --> 05:32.920 Fran? 05:32.920 --> 05:33.920 You remember Fran. 05:33.920 --> 05:36.520 Oh yeah yeah you and her. 05:36.520 --> 05:37.520 Where is she? 05:37.520 --> 05:40.520 Gee Johnny I don't know. 05:40.520 --> 05:44.160 Don't kid me she's with Gordy Fitzroy isn't she? 05:44.160 --> 05:45.160 Isn't she? 05:45.160 --> 05:47.920 I swear Johnny I swear I don't know what Fran's been doing. 05:47.920 --> 05:50.280 I ain't heard nothing of Fran for a couple of years. 05:50.280 --> 05:51.280 Alright. 05:51.280 --> 05:53.280 Alright I'll find out. 05:53.280 --> 05:57.160 Didn't she come to see you up there? 05:57.160 --> 06:02.680 Yeah at first she did but I didn't see her. 06:02.680 --> 06:06.560 They got lights on you when you see people up there Sam. 06:06.560 --> 06:09.720 I only want to see Fran in the dark. 06:09.720 --> 06:12.160 Yeah yeah sure. 06:12.160 --> 06:13.480 Where's Gordy Fitzroy? 06:13.480 --> 06:14.480 I don't know Johnny. 06:14.480 --> 06:16.440 He's uh he's still around isn't he? 06:16.440 --> 06:19.280 Oh sure sure I hear he's got another place uptown. 06:19.280 --> 06:21.920 Yeah I bet. 06:21.920 --> 06:24.320 What's the angle Johnny? 06:24.320 --> 06:26.280 You sure you didn't hear nothing? 06:26.280 --> 06:31.880 To tell you the truth Johnny it was so long since you was in touch I uh I heard you got 06:31.880 --> 06:34.520 uh three to five and that's about all. 06:34.520 --> 06:37.720 Okay I'll tell you the rest. 06:37.720 --> 06:40.520 Is it how that happened? 06:40.520 --> 06:44.200 Yeah it's how that happened. 06:44.200 --> 06:48.480 You remember the gang around here in the old days you, Sam, Gordy Fitzroy and Fran and 06:48.480 --> 06:53.440 me that always ran together when we were kids and Fran went to City College and I got into 06:53.440 --> 06:57.400 a little trouble and Gordy inherited that jewelry store from his uncle. 06:57.400 --> 06:58.400 You remember all that? 06:58.400 --> 07:00.360 Oh sure I remember you were all good kids. 07:00.360 --> 07:04.680 Yeah well it was about a year after the last time I saw you. 07:04.680 --> 07:05.680 Gordy was having trouble. 07:05.680 --> 07:11.680 He owed a lot of dough to the bookies and had to hock his jewelry store to pay off and 07:11.680 --> 07:13.160 then he had a bright idea. 07:13.160 --> 07:14.760 Georgia did? 07:14.760 --> 07:19.600 Yeah he had about 10 or 15 grand worth of assorted rocks in his safe at the store. 07:19.600 --> 07:26.560 We were going to crack it and peddle the rocks and collect the insurance too and split 50-50. 07:26.560 --> 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 07:31.280 --> 07:33.720 to make it look right. 07:33.720 --> 07:36.040 Well something went wrong. 07:36.040 --> 07:42.200 I used too much soup or something and it blew in my face. 07:42.200 --> 07:43.200 In my face. 07:43.200 --> 07:45.960 Oh so that's how. 07:45.960 --> 07:48.800 Yeah only that wasn't all. 07:48.800 --> 07:53.760 When I came out of it Gordy was still there but he'd ratted on me to save his own skin. 07:53.760 --> 07:57.760 There were cops all over the place and Gordy was telling him how he'd caught me in the 07:57.760 --> 08:00.880 act of blowing his safe and knocked me cold or something. 08:00.880 --> 08:03.760 And the cops couldn't make up their minds between patting him on the back and kicking 08:03.760 --> 08:04.760 me in the belly. 08:04.760 --> 08:06.840 We were doing plenty of both. 08:06.840 --> 08:12.600 Oh he was quite a little hero there Gordy was. 08:12.600 --> 08:14.720 Gee Junie. 08:14.720 --> 08:15.920 He did that? 08:15.920 --> 08:17.640 He did better than that. 08:17.640 --> 08:20.880 He even testified at my trial. 08:20.880 --> 08:23.520 Even Fran believed him I guess. 08:23.520 --> 08:26.100 She said she didn't but I don't know. 08:26.100 --> 08:31.280 So I got three to five and lucky that. 08:31.280 --> 08:33.400 I was all bandages then. 08:33.400 --> 08:37.680 I didn't know how bad it really was till after the trial. 08:37.680 --> 08:42.680 And then they took him off. 08:42.680 --> 08:46.760 I only saw it once Sam. 08:46.760 --> 08:49.400 I never dared look at it again. 08:49.400 --> 08:50.400 Gee. 08:50.400 --> 08:55.400 What are you going to do Junie? 08:55.400 --> 08:56.400 What do you think? 08:56.400 --> 08:57.400 Yeah but look. 08:57.400 --> 08:58.400 Look that's bad Junie. 08:58.400 --> 09:01.760 Why they'd pin it on you before you got off at the subway. 09:01.760 --> 09:03.280 Not the way I'm going to do it. 09:03.280 --> 09:06.040 You got a way to do it? 09:06.040 --> 09:07.040 Yeah. 09:07.040 --> 09:18.640 I got a way. 09:18.640 --> 09:23.480 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Chester Morris in the strange death of Gordon 09:23.480 --> 09:24.480 Fitzroy. 09:24.480 --> 09:39.400 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 09:39.400 --> 09:44.240 Between the acts of Suspense this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 09:44.240 --> 09:49.640 Today was a memorable Thanksgiving and here's a tip on how to give tempting first meal flavor 09:49.640 --> 09:52.560 to your Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. 09:52.560 --> 09:56.960 Serve those leftovers with delicious Roma California wine. 09:56.960 --> 10:02.960 For both robust Roma Burgundy and glorious Roma Sauternes have tantalizing taste harmonies 10:02.960 --> 10:09.440 with food that bring out all the subtle hidden flavors in any meat or foul, hot or cold. 10:09.440 --> 10:16.120 Yes, better tasting Roma Wines make simple turkey hash and epicures delight. 10:16.120 --> 10:18.520 And Roma Wines do taste better. 10:18.520 --> 10:22.080 For Roma starts with California's choicest grapes. 10:22.080 --> 10:27.720 Roma skill and America's finest winemaking resources guide this great treasure to tempting 10:27.720 --> 10:29.560 taste perfection. 10:29.560 --> 10:35.800 Then Roma selects at peak taste richness from the world's greatest wine reserves for your 10:35.800 --> 10:37.300 pleasure. 10:37.300 --> 10:39.080 And here's a holiday tip. 10:39.080 --> 10:42.280 Take advantage of present low Roma prices. 10:42.280 --> 10:46.520 Tomorrow buy Roma by the case and save. 10:46.520 --> 10:52.440 That's R-O-M-A. Roma, America's favorite wine. 10:52.440 --> 10:58.560 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Chester Morris as Johnny Malone 10:58.560 --> 11:01.440 in the strange death of Gordon Fitzroy. 11:01.440 --> 11:16.400 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:16.400 --> 11:17.800 Sam was always a good gee. 11:17.800 --> 11:21.280 He let me shack up there and he helped me out. 11:21.280 --> 11:26.600 He found out where Gordy Fitzroy lived alone in a little house on Long Island and how he 11:26.600 --> 11:31.400 always caught the same train that got him out there about 1030 every night. 11:31.400 --> 11:35.040 He made the contact with a guy that was going to fix me up the package too. 11:35.040 --> 11:38.480 It was about a week later that I went around to collect it. 11:38.480 --> 11:44.400 It was a little basement watch repair shop off Avenue C. At least that was the guy's 11:44.400 --> 11:45.400 front. 11:45.400 --> 11:50.640 He was a dried up little guy with thick glasses and he was working over some kind of a clock. 11:50.640 --> 11:51.640 Yeah? 11:51.640 --> 11:54.840 You want something? 11:54.840 --> 11:56.400 I'm Pete Jones. 11:56.400 --> 11:58.080 Pete Jones? 11:58.080 --> 11:59.280 Yeah. 11:59.280 --> 12:01.120 You got something for me, haven't you? 12:01.120 --> 12:02.120 I don't know. 12:02.120 --> 12:03.880 I'd have to look. 12:03.880 --> 12:05.400 Sam Braggen sent me. 12:05.400 --> 12:07.440 I don't know no Sam Braggen. 12:07.440 --> 12:09.680 I don't go by names in here. 12:09.680 --> 12:11.200 What do you go by? 12:11.200 --> 12:12.480 I just remember. 12:12.480 --> 12:13.960 Well, start remembering. 12:13.960 --> 12:15.800 Let me take a look at you. 12:15.800 --> 12:17.800 I said I'm Pete Jones. 12:17.800 --> 12:18.800 Okay. 12:18.800 --> 12:20.800 I guess you're the guy. 12:20.800 --> 12:23.800 Where do I put up the sign? 12:23.800 --> 12:24.800 What sign? 12:24.800 --> 12:25.800 You got to go on back. 12:25.800 --> 12:30.160 I don't want no one coming in while we're going. 12:30.160 --> 12:32.920 Come on. 12:32.920 --> 12:41.320 Where is it? 12:41.320 --> 12:42.320 You're looking at it. 12:42.320 --> 12:43.320 That suitcase. 12:43.320 --> 12:44.520 Well, open it up. 12:44.520 --> 12:45.840 I want to see it. 12:45.840 --> 12:49.280 That suitcase ain't made to be opened up no more, bud. 12:49.280 --> 12:50.280 Okay. 12:50.280 --> 12:51.280 How do you work it? 12:51.280 --> 12:53.440 You see the slide and that snap lock? 12:53.440 --> 12:54.440 Yeah. 12:54.440 --> 12:56.400 You push it just once. 12:56.400 --> 13:00.440 When you do that, it's time to blow in three hours. 13:00.440 --> 13:01.560 What'll it do? 13:01.560 --> 13:04.040 Like the atom bomb, bud. 13:04.040 --> 13:05.840 Like the atom bomb. 13:05.840 --> 13:09.960 Listen, you ain't mixed up in any kind of politics, are you? 13:09.960 --> 13:12.440 Like that Christian Front Gang or anything? 13:12.440 --> 13:13.440 No. 13:13.440 --> 13:16.040 Because I don't do that kind of work. 13:16.040 --> 13:17.040 Dangerous. 13:17.040 --> 13:18.040 This is strictly business. 13:18.040 --> 13:19.040 Personal. 13:19.040 --> 13:20.040 Okay. 13:20.040 --> 13:22.720 You know what this job is going to cost you? 13:22.720 --> 13:24.680 One C was what I was told. 13:24.680 --> 13:25.680 No. 13:25.680 --> 13:26.680 Two C's. 13:26.680 --> 13:28.720 Is that the way you always do business? 13:28.720 --> 13:30.080 Materials are going up. 13:30.080 --> 13:32.080 Well, I'll give you one and a half and a working over. 13:32.080 --> 13:34.040 Now, what'll it be? 13:34.040 --> 13:36.160 I'll take the one and a half. 13:36.160 --> 13:37.160 Three hours, you said. 13:37.160 --> 13:38.160 Yeah. 13:38.160 --> 13:39.160 Three hours. 13:39.160 --> 13:40.760 Well, here's your dough. 13:40.760 --> 13:41.920 And this thing better work right. 13:41.920 --> 13:51.280 If it don't give satisfaction, wise guy, bring it back. 13:51.280 --> 13:53.960 Three hours would give me plenty of time. 13:53.960 --> 13:58.320 I went out to Gordy Fitzroy's house in Long Island the next night, about 9.30, an hour 13:58.320 --> 14:00.360 before he'd get home. 14:00.360 --> 14:03.200 The place was dark like it should have been. 14:03.200 --> 14:05.920 I went around back where there was a kitchen window. 14:05.920 --> 14:10.320 I jimmied it and stepped inside with my suitcase full of trouble. 14:10.320 --> 14:14.800 For a minute, I stood and listened and almost thought I heard something. 14:14.800 --> 14:17.440 Nerves, I guess. 14:17.440 --> 14:18.440 Imagination. 14:18.440 --> 14:21.600 Upstairs, under his bed would be the best place. 14:21.600 --> 14:23.840 But first, I wanted to set it. 14:23.840 --> 14:27.280 I put my flash on the slot, slide lock and pushed it like the guide said. 14:27.280 --> 14:29.560 But it wouldn't move. 14:29.560 --> 14:30.880 I tried again. 14:30.880 --> 14:32.680 And it moved the wrong way. 14:32.680 --> 14:36.040 It must have got pushed by mistake earlier sometime. 14:36.040 --> 14:39.920 And then I heard the buzzing sound it was making. 14:39.920 --> 14:43.200 I gave a wild look around and saw a space behind the stove and threw it in there and 14:43.200 --> 14:44.200 started for the window. 14:44.200 --> 14:48.200 I was about halfway out when I felt the blast and something hit me in the face. 14:48.200 --> 14:49.200 And that was all. 14:49.200 --> 15:09.440 It was funny, but I came to sitting in a chair. 15:09.440 --> 15:12.400 Just sitting there in a room I'd never seen before. 15:12.400 --> 15:13.400 It was dark. 15:13.400 --> 15:17.440 Just a little light coming in from the street. 15:17.440 --> 15:19.840 Then I looked around a little and saw the bed. 15:19.840 --> 15:21.720 I knew it must be a hospital. 15:21.720 --> 15:23.720 And I remembered. 15:23.720 --> 15:26.640 But it couldn't have been too bad. 15:26.640 --> 15:30.360 They couldn't have to operate or I'd be in bed and feeling sick. 15:30.360 --> 15:36.040 But there I was just sitting in one of those hospital night shirts and bathrobes. 15:36.040 --> 15:37.040 Just sitting. 15:37.040 --> 15:39.040 And then the door opened. 15:39.040 --> 15:40.040 The doctor and the nurse. 15:40.040 --> 15:41.040 Psychic, throwing a shock. 15:41.040 --> 15:42.040 I just had to keep trying. 15:42.040 --> 15:43.040 That's all. 15:43.040 --> 15:44.040 Well, how's the patient this evening? 15:44.040 --> 15:48.040 Don't turn on the lights, Doc. 15:48.040 --> 15:53.600 Well, oh, what's that you said? 15:53.600 --> 15:56.680 I said don't turn on the lights. 15:56.680 --> 15:58.640 I like it better in the dark. 15:58.640 --> 16:00.720 How did you know I was your doctor? 16:00.720 --> 16:02.100 I guessed. 16:02.100 --> 16:03.100 You are, aren't you? 16:03.100 --> 16:04.100 Yes, yes, yes. 16:04.100 --> 16:05.100 How am I? 16:05.100 --> 16:06.100 You seem to be fine now. 16:06.100 --> 16:07.100 The bulls outside? 16:07.100 --> 16:08.100 The who? 16:08.100 --> 16:09.100 Coppers. 16:09.100 --> 16:10.100 Police. 16:10.100 --> 16:11.100 Oh, the police. 16:11.100 --> 16:15.000 They were here, but they're not around anymore. 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 You got tired, huh? 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Yes, I guess they did. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 Thanks for telling me. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 Well, it's nice to see you feeling so well. 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 I'll drop by in the morning. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 We'll have a long talk. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 Oh, yeah, sure, in the morning. 16:27.000 --> 16:32.000 There were socks and shirts in the bureau. 16:32.000 --> 16:35.000 I don't know what they were. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 I don't know what they were. 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 There were socks and shirts in the bureau. 16:41.000 --> 16:43.720 There were shoes and a suit and a hat and overcoat in the closet. 16:43.720 --> 16:47.000 They weren't mine, but what did I care? 16:47.000 --> 16:49.580 Because the cops must have quit watching me for the night, and that meant I could break 16:49.580 --> 16:50.580 out of here. 16:50.580 --> 16:55.560 There was no time for any fancy suitcase jobs now. 16:55.560 --> 16:59.080 If I was going to get Gordy Fitzroy before the cops got me, I had to go after him and 16:59.080 --> 17:02.240 give it to him face to face. 17:02.240 --> 17:05.920 I put on the duds and got out into the hall and down a back stairway and out through the 17:05.920 --> 17:08.400 basement without anybody even seeing me. 17:08.400 --> 17:10.880 I knew where I could get a gun and I got it. 17:10.880 --> 17:16.240 And then, then all of a sudden I was thinking about Fran. 17:16.240 --> 17:17.240 I knew I was washed up. 17:17.240 --> 17:21.320 I knew they'd get me for what I was going to do to Gordy, but before that I wanted to 17:21.320 --> 17:22.320 see her. 17:22.320 --> 17:26.080 I just wanted to see her. 17:26.080 --> 17:29.680 I took a chance that the old dame on the phone might have been brushing me off here tonight, 17:29.680 --> 17:35.040 and I went into a booth and dialed a number. 17:35.040 --> 17:36.040 Hello? 17:36.040 --> 17:37.040 Fran? 17:37.040 --> 17:38.040 Yes? 17:38.040 --> 17:39.040 Who's this? 17:39.040 --> 17:40.040 Fran, it's, it's Johnny. 17:40.040 --> 17:41.040 Johnny Malone. 17:41.040 --> 17:42.040 Johnny? 17:42.040 --> 17:43.040 Oh, Johnny! 17:43.040 --> 17:44.040 Yeah, yeah, me too. 17:44.040 --> 17:45.040 Out? 17:45.040 --> 17:46.040 Yeah. 17:46.040 --> 17:53.040 Fran, I, I want to see you. 17:53.040 --> 18:04.040 I want to see you the worst way, but you're not going to get away with this. 18:04.040 --> 18:05.040 The worst way, but... 18:05.040 --> 18:08.040 But what, Johnny? 18:08.040 --> 18:10.040 Did you know what happened? 18:10.040 --> 18:12.040 Yes, Johnny, I know. 18:12.040 --> 18:13.040 No, no, I mean all of it. 18:13.040 --> 18:14.040 How bad it was? 18:14.040 --> 18:15.040 Yes, Warden told me. 18:15.040 --> 18:16.040 He even showed me pictures. 18:16.040 --> 18:17.040 He did? 18:17.040 --> 18:18.040 Did you get my letters? 18:18.040 --> 18:19.040 Yeah, I got them, but I tore them up. 18:19.040 --> 18:20.040 Why? 18:20.040 --> 18:21.040 Because I didn't want to know what was in them, maybe. 18:21.040 --> 18:22.040 Because I didn't want to even think about you after what happened. 18:22.040 --> 18:23.040 I don't know. 18:23.040 --> 18:24.040 I don't know. 18:24.040 --> 18:25.040 I don't know. 18:25.040 --> 18:26.040 I don't know. 18:26.040 --> 18:27.040 I don't know. 18:27.040 --> 18:28.040 I don't know. 18:28.040 --> 18:29.040 I don't know. 18:29.040 --> 18:30.040 I don't know. 18:30.040 --> 18:31.040 I don't know. 18:31.040 --> 18:32.040 I don't know. 18:32.040 --> 18:33.040 I don't know. 18:33.040 --> 18:34.040 I don't know what happened. 18:34.040 --> 18:35.040 Then, then they stopped coming. 18:35.040 --> 18:36.040 Well, I joined the Red Cross. 18:36.040 --> 18:37.040 I've been away for two years. 18:37.040 --> 18:38.040 Oh. 18:38.040 --> 18:39.040 You're, you're sure you want to see me, friend? 18:39.040 --> 18:40.040 Of course I do. 18:40.040 --> 18:41.040 Listen, Johnny, I'll meet you now at Jack's, the old place. 18:41.040 --> 18:42.040 No. 18:42.040 --> 18:43.040 No, it's too bright there, friend, too much light. 18:43.040 --> 18:44.040 Oh, all right, where? 18:44.040 --> 18:45.040 Down on your corner, Hudson Street. 18:45.040 --> 18:46.040 Ten minutes. 18:46.040 --> 18:47.040 All right, Johnny. 18:47.040 --> 18:48.040 I'll be there. 18:48.040 --> 19:08.560 I waited in the shadows in the doorway. 19:08.560 --> 19:12.400 My heart seemed to be going crazy and I could hardly breathe. 19:12.400 --> 19:15.000 I forgot all about Gordy Fitzroy and what I was going to do. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.960 I, I didn't even care anymore. 19:17.960 --> 19:20.480 Maybe something could be worked out. 19:20.480 --> 19:24.400 Maybe Fran and I could somehow. 19:24.400 --> 19:26.440 And then I heard her coming down the street. 19:26.440 --> 19:27.440 I looked. 19:27.440 --> 19:29.600 It was her, all right. 19:29.600 --> 19:31.480 I was scared now. 19:31.480 --> 19:35.040 I just waited where I was trying to get my breath. 19:35.040 --> 19:37.720 She got to the corner and looked around. 19:37.720 --> 19:40.080 And then she stood there for a minute under the street light. 19:40.080 --> 19:43.280 And I walked up and went up behind her. 19:43.280 --> 19:44.680 I laid my hand on her arm. 19:44.680 --> 19:45.680 That's all. 19:45.680 --> 19:51.800 I laid my hand on her arm and she whirled around and looked at me full in the face. 19:51.800 --> 19:55.360 Get away from me. 19:55.360 --> 19:57.520 Get away. 19:57.520 --> 19:59.320 Get away. 19:59.320 --> 20:01.120 Get away. 20:01.120 --> 20:02.120 I ran. 20:02.120 --> 20:03.120 I just ran. 20:03.120 --> 20:04.440 I was so torn up inside. 20:04.440 --> 20:06.560 I didn't know what I felt. 20:06.560 --> 20:09.480 There were tears dripping out of my twisted eye sockets. 20:09.480 --> 20:13.200 And then, then I stopped. 20:13.200 --> 20:15.440 All right. 20:15.440 --> 20:17.280 She lied to me. 20:17.280 --> 20:19.280 She didn't know what had happened and she didn't care. 20:19.280 --> 20:22.200 And when she saw it, she was like all the rest. 20:22.200 --> 20:23.200 No, right? 20:23.200 --> 20:27.080 And if she could dish it out that way, she could take it that way. 20:27.080 --> 20:30.400 I wasn't going to leave her behind either. 20:30.400 --> 20:33.440 I went around the block and back to her house. 20:33.440 --> 20:36.600 I went up the steps and into the vestibule. 20:36.600 --> 20:39.200 It was dark in there. 20:39.200 --> 20:41.280 Good and dark. 20:41.280 --> 20:44.760 I waited. 20:44.760 --> 20:50.480 It was nearly half an hour before I heard her coming up the steps. 20:50.480 --> 20:53.880 Hello, Fran. 20:53.880 --> 20:54.880 Johnny. 20:54.880 --> 20:57.720 Oh, Johnny, why are you hiding here in the dark? 20:57.720 --> 20:58.720 Why did you do it? 20:58.720 --> 21:02.800 I waited and waited and you never even showed up and I was... 21:02.800 --> 21:07.120 You had your chance, Fran. 21:07.120 --> 21:08.680 And now it's this. 21:08.680 --> 21:09.680 Johnny! 21:09.680 --> 21:19.280 I ran out on the street, through the valley to the courtyard, the building next door and 21:19.280 --> 21:21.240 over the fence and through another alley. 21:21.240 --> 21:22.560 I was on the next street. 21:22.560 --> 21:28.760 There was a cab coming and I hailed him. 21:28.760 --> 21:29.760 Where to? 21:29.760 --> 21:30.760 Just drive uptown. 21:30.760 --> 21:31.760 I'll tell you where later. 21:31.760 --> 21:32.760 Okay. 21:32.760 --> 21:35.680 The next on the list was Gordon Fitzroy. 21:35.680 --> 21:39.280 There was no use calling the house on Long Island. 21:39.280 --> 21:45.440 I know I'd blown that guy high, but I had to find him before morning. 21:45.440 --> 21:46.440 I tried to think. 21:46.440 --> 21:49.200 There must be somebody who'd know where he was. 21:49.200 --> 21:51.760 He was staying in town now, probably. 21:51.760 --> 21:52.760 A cabbie. 21:52.760 --> 21:53.760 Sure. 21:53.760 --> 21:57.760 One of the cabbies up around where his store was ought to know. 21:57.760 --> 21:59.640 I tapped on the glass behind the driver. 21:59.640 --> 22:01.560 He slid it back without looking around. 22:01.560 --> 22:03.880 You know where you want to go now? 22:03.880 --> 22:09.560 Listen, is the RECAB stand up around 53rd and Lakes? 22:09.560 --> 22:10.560 It sure is. 22:10.560 --> 22:12.120 Well, that's where I want to go. 22:12.120 --> 22:13.120 Okay. 22:13.120 --> 22:14.120 You're taking me right home. 22:14.120 --> 22:15.120 Yeah? 22:15.120 --> 22:16.120 That's your stand? 22:16.120 --> 22:17.120 Sure. 22:17.120 --> 22:19.160 I just happened to get a fare down here tonight. 22:19.160 --> 22:21.920 Well, then maybe you're just the guy I want to talk to. 22:21.920 --> 22:22.920 Me? 22:22.920 --> 22:23.920 About what? 22:23.920 --> 22:27.360 There's a jewelry store up around there named Fitzroy's. 22:27.360 --> 22:29.160 Yeah, that's right. 22:29.160 --> 22:30.160 Gordon Fitzroy. 22:30.160 --> 22:31.520 Yeah, an old pal of mine. 22:31.520 --> 22:32.520 You know him? 22:32.520 --> 22:33.520 Yeah. 22:33.520 --> 22:34.520 I've seen him. 22:34.520 --> 22:35.520 I've seen him. 22:35.520 --> 22:36.520 I've seen him. 22:36.520 --> 22:37.520 I've seen him. 22:37.520 --> 22:38.520 I've seen him a few times. 22:38.520 --> 22:39.520 You don't know where I can get a hold of him, do you? 22:39.520 --> 22:40.520 I mean, where he's living now? 22:40.520 --> 22:41.520 No, I don't, Gordon. 22:41.520 --> 22:42.520 To tell you the truth, I ain't seen him around lately. 22:42.520 --> 22:44.520 I think his partner runs the business mostly now. 22:44.520 --> 22:46.520 Oh, he's got a partner. 22:46.520 --> 22:47.520 Oh, yeah. 22:47.520 --> 22:48.520 Know his name? 22:48.520 --> 22:49.520 Let me see. 22:49.520 --> 22:50.520 No, it's... 22:50.520 --> 22:53.520 It's right on a store there. 22:53.520 --> 22:54.520 Begins with a Z. 22:54.520 --> 22:55.520 A Zellman. 22:55.520 --> 22:56.520 That's a Zellman. 22:56.520 --> 22:58.520 Face named Fred, I think. 22:58.520 --> 23:00.200 You can stop right here. 23:00.200 --> 23:04.480 I want to make a phone call. 23:04.480 --> 23:07.480 Wait for me. 23:07.480 --> 23:10.480 OK. 23:10.480 --> 23:13.840 Hello? 23:13.840 --> 23:19.600 Uh, Mr. Zellman? 23:19.600 --> 23:21.520 Yeah? 23:21.520 --> 23:34.200 Well, I'm sorry to bother you this time of night, Mr. Zellman, but I'm an old pal of 23:34.200 --> 23:35.200 Gordon Fitzroy. 23:35.200 --> 23:38.520 I've been trying to find him, but his house in Long Island doesn't answer. 23:38.520 --> 23:41.440 Yeah, I guess it does. 23:41.440 --> 23:42.440 Could you tell me where he is? 23:42.440 --> 23:45.440 Why, he's had an accident. 23:45.440 --> 23:46.440 An accident? 23:46.440 --> 23:47.440 Uh-huh. 23:47.440 --> 23:48.440 He's in the hospital. 23:48.440 --> 23:49.440 Oh, gee, that's terrible. 23:49.440 --> 23:52.880 Oh, gee, that's too bad. 23:52.880 --> 23:54.680 I'd like to see him, though. 23:54.680 --> 23:55.680 What hospital is he in? 23:55.680 --> 24:01.160 Why, uh, the Jefferson Hospital, room 508. 24:01.160 --> 24:03.160 The Jefferson Hospital? 24:03.160 --> 24:04.160 Thanks. 24:04.160 --> 24:08.720 The Jefferson Hospital. 24:08.720 --> 24:10.520 I got it now. 24:10.520 --> 24:12.640 Well, that was the hospital I'd been in. 24:12.640 --> 24:14.920 I was almost sure. 24:14.920 --> 24:17.600 So Gordy had been in his house when I blew it. 24:17.600 --> 24:20.200 And they'd taken us both there. 24:20.200 --> 24:23.920 Why else would he have had an accident just the same time as me? 24:23.920 --> 24:27.200 Maybe he was right on the same floor all the time. 24:27.200 --> 24:30.640 Maybe right in the next room to mine. 24:30.640 --> 24:33.720 Just so he was still alive, that's all. 24:33.720 --> 24:37.360 Because now I wanted to give it to him face to face. 24:37.360 --> 24:40.680 Jefferson Hospital was way out in Long Island, and I knew I wouldn't be able to pay the fare, 24:40.680 --> 24:41.680 but that didn't worry me. 24:41.680 --> 24:46.360 When we got there, I just stepped out of the cab with a gun in my hand. 24:46.360 --> 24:48.480 You want me to wait? 24:48.480 --> 24:49.480 No. 24:49.480 --> 24:50.480 No, beat it. 24:50.480 --> 24:51.720 What about me fare, Dick? 24:51.720 --> 24:53.260 This is your fare. 24:53.260 --> 24:54.800 What is this, a stick? 24:54.800 --> 24:55.800 Hey! 24:55.800 --> 24:56.800 You're... you're... 24:56.800 --> 24:57.800 It's nothing. 24:57.800 --> 24:58.800 I'm nobody. 24:58.800 --> 24:59.800 Now beat it. 24:59.800 --> 25:04.000 It was the same place, all right. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.240 I got in through the basement just like I'd got out. 25:06.240 --> 25:07.240 I went up the same stairs. 25:07.240 --> 25:09.320 I remember now, five flights. 25:09.320 --> 25:10.320 The same floor. 25:10.320 --> 25:15.280 Only this time there was an old dame, a nurse, sitting there at the desk. 25:15.280 --> 25:18.840 I had my gun out and down at my side before I even spoke to her. 25:18.840 --> 25:21.160 Well, where did you come from? 25:21.160 --> 25:22.720 I want to see the guy in 508. 25:22.720 --> 25:24.320 I'm sorry, but visiting hour... 25:24.320 --> 25:26.280 I know all about that. 25:26.280 --> 25:27.280 Take me to 508. 25:27.280 --> 25:28.280 You wouldn't. 25:28.280 --> 25:29.280 Yes, I would, sister. 25:29.280 --> 25:30.280 Now get moving. 25:30.280 --> 25:31.280 We went down the hall. 25:31.280 --> 25:32.280 In 508 she stopped, but I poked her with a rod. 25:32.280 --> 25:33.280 Oh, please don't. 25:33.280 --> 25:34.280 She opened the door ahead of me. 25:34.280 --> 25:35.280 It was a room just like mine, but it was dark. 25:35.280 --> 25:36.280 Just a little street light coming in the window. 25:36.280 --> 25:37.280 Oh, please don't. 25:37.280 --> 25:38.280 I made a move to the right. 25:38.280 --> 25:39.280 I'm going to go to the left. 25:39.280 --> 25:40.280 I'm going to go to the right. 25:40.280 --> 25:41.280 I'm going to go to the left. 25:41.280 --> 25:42.280 I'm going to go to the left. 25:42.280 --> 25:45.280 Just a little street light coming in the window. 25:45.280 --> 25:46.280 Oh, please don't. 25:46.280 --> 25:47.280 I made a move inside. 25:47.280 --> 25:51.840 And then I slugged her. 25:51.840 --> 25:53.800 I looked around. 25:53.800 --> 25:57.200 I couldn't see much yet, but the bed was empty. 25:57.200 --> 26:04.200 I moved on into the room and then I saw him standing in a door. 26:04.200 --> 26:05.560 But somebody must have tipped him off. 26:05.560 --> 26:07.800 He was dressed. 26:07.800 --> 26:10.920 He had a gun in his hand. 26:10.920 --> 26:12.520 I fired, but nothing happened. 26:12.520 --> 26:13.800 It was glass. 26:13.800 --> 26:14.800 Glass. 26:14.800 --> 26:16.680 Somebody had snapped on the lights. 26:16.680 --> 26:19.720 I whirled around looking for him, and then I saw him. 26:19.720 --> 26:23.000 But in a mirror, it was me. 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 Me with his face. 26:25.000 --> 26:27.320 His face. 26:27.320 --> 26:33.160 They must have come up behind me. 26:33.160 --> 26:35.120 I didn't even remember. 26:35.120 --> 26:38.840 I was in bed and half-doped, and the room was full of medics and cops. 26:38.840 --> 26:40.640 But I knew. 26:40.640 --> 26:44.040 Gordy and me had both been in that house. 26:44.040 --> 26:47.240 Only the way he got it, they couldn't even find him. 26:47.240 --> 26:48.240 Only me. 26:48.240 --> 26:50.160 And they thought I was Gordy. 26:50.160 --> 26:54.560 And they fixed up my face from pictures the way they do to make me look like Gordy. 26:54.560 --> 26:56.680 And Fran had believed me. 26:56.680 --> 26:58.640 That's why she screamed at me. 26:58.640 --> 27:01.520 Because she thought I was Gordy and she knew what he'd done to me. 27:01.520 --> 27:03.560 Oh, I knew. 27:03.560 --> 27:06.160 I knew all right. 27:06.160 --> 27:10.360 Without even hearing them talking in their low voices there beside my bed. 27:10.360 --> 27:11.360 I knew. 27:11.360 --> 27:15.120 Apparently the shock, the explosion and all was just too much for him. 27:15.120 --> 27:18.720 Yes, he was here for 21 months while we rebuilt his face. 27:18.720 --> 27:21.200 You know, he never spoke a word until today. 27:21.200 --> 27:24.600 Well, he's due for another shock now. 27:24.600 --> 27:27.400 He's wanted for murder. 27:27.400 --> 27:30.440 I never even told them who I really was. 27:30.440 --> 27:32.440 What was the use? 27:32.440 --> 27:47.440 Suspense. 27:47.440 --> 27:53.800 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wines. 27:53.800 --> 27:57.880 This is Ken Niles bringing back to our suspense microphone the star of the evening, Chester 27:57.880 --> 27:58.880 Morris. 27:58.880 --> 28:04.040 Tell me, Chester, after so convincing a performance as a first rate heel, don't you find it difficult 28:04.040 --> 28:06.880 to resume being the really nice guy we know you are? 28:06.880 --> 28:08.120 Oh, not at all, Ken. 28:08.120 --> 28:12.840 You know, I just whispered, Abracadabra, and the villain in me disappeared. 28:12.840 --> 28:18.280 Well, I might have known since you're one of Hollywood's most accomplished amateur magicians. 28:18.280 --> 28:21.600 Would you make me disappear if I asked how's tricks? 28:21.600 --> 28:24.960 Now, Ken, I'd like to, but I don't know any tricks that good. 28:24.960 --> 28:27.480 Well, Chester, here's a trick you want to know. 28:27.480 --> 28:32.160 It's a trick in taste magic, and the only props you need are glasses and delicious Roma 28:32.160 --> 28:33.480 California sherry. 28:33.480 --> 28:38.720 Then, when guests drop in, you simply pour and presto, hospitality reigns. 28:38.720 --> 28:41.920 Well, that's a trick anyone can master, Ken, with Roma sherry. 28:41.920 --> 28:46.760 Right, Chester, for Roma sherry is the keynote of gracious entertaining, the popular first 28:46.760 --> 28:48.360 call for dinner. 28:48.360 --> 28:51.040 That's because Roma sherry is better tasting. 28:51.040 --> 28:56.920 In fact, all Roma wines taste better because Roma starts with choicest grapes, skillfully 28:56.920 --> 29:02.320 and unhurriedly guiding this grape treasure with America's finest winemaking resources 29:02.320 --> 29:04.520 to tempting taste perfection. 29:04.520 --> 29:10.040 Then, at the moment of peak taste richness, Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 29:10.040 --> 29:12.680 reserves for your pleasure. 29:12.680 --> 29:16.960 No wonder more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 29:16.960 --> 29:18.720 Well, you're right, Ken, no wonder. 29:18.720 --> 29:23.560 And Chester, so you may practice this taste magic at home and delight your guests, here 29:23.560 --> 29:26.160 from Roma is a gift basket of Roma wines. 29:26.160 --> 29:29.400 Well, thank you, Ken, and thanks to Roma. 29:29.400 --> 29:33.560 And now before I return to my top hats and rabbits, Ken, who will I be hearing on suspense 29:33.560 --> 29:34.560 this time next week? 29:34.560 --> 29:36.840 You'll be hearing Robert Taylor. 29:36.840 --> 29:38.960 Next week is our anniversary show for us. 29:38.960 --> 29:42.560 Roma will be beginning its fourth year of presenting suspense. 29:42.560 --> 29:47.080 It was Cary Grant who was our first star, and each year on our anniversary, Cary has 29:47.080 --> 29:48.080 appeared. 29:48.080 --> 29:50.720 This year, however, he'll be away from town. 29:50.720 --> 29:52.040 We'll present him later. 29:52.040 --> 29:53.560 Next week, it'll be Bob Taylor. 29:53.560 --> 29:55.720 Wonderful, and what kind of a story will Bob do, Ken? 29:55.720 --> 29:59.800 Well, it'll be a suspense play that involves him in a Christmas story with some of the 29:59.800 --> 30:04.040 eeriest and most inexplicable twists imaginable. 30:04.040 --> 30:06.720 It'll take all the magician in you to explain it away. 30:06.720 --> 30:08.680 Well, I'll certainly be listening. 30:08.680 --> 30:12.360 Chester Morris will soon be seen in the Columbia picture Inside Story. 30:12.360 --> 30:16.680 Tonight's suspense play was written by Bruce Cassidy and Robert L. Richards. 30:16.680 --> 30:22.600 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Robert Taylor as star of Suspense. 30:22.600 --> 30:26.760 Produced and directed by Williams-Fear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 30:26.760 --> 30:53.760 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.