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23 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:48,080 Not a move. 24 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,080 How about the back way? 25 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,080 No. 26 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,720 Peter's just covering that. 27 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:53,720 He'd leave us no. 28 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,960 Anyway, you know, he's still up there. 29 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,680 Every little while you can see the shadow against the shade. 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:00,680 There, see? 31 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:01,680 Huh? 32 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:02,680 Hey, look. 33 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:03,680 You got a match? 34 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:04,680 Oh, sure. 35 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:05,680 Here. 36 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:10,640 Hey, Lieutenant, did you get any orders or did we just stick around? 37 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:14,000 Myself, I think he's settling down for the night. 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 No. 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,920 This isn't getting us any place. 40 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:17,920 I'm going to make the pinch. 41 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:19,920 Now, come on up with me. 42 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,920 See what we got. 43 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:25,200 Oh, boy, it's good to stretch. 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,200 My gams were killing me. 45 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Yeah, I know. 46 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,200 I done plenty of stakeouts myself. 47 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,920 Anyway, it was warm the night. 48 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:32,920 That's a help. 49 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:34,920 Yeah, that's always a help. 50 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,920 Hey, you know what I think, Lieutenant? 51 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,280 What? 52 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,840 I think that guy's waiting for something. 53 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:42,840 Or someone. 54 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:43,840 Like who? 55 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:44,840 Us. 56 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:45,840 He's wise, huh? 57 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:46,840 Smart, pretty smart. 58 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:47,840 I don't like it. 59 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,840 Hmm. 60 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,200 Yes, sir, gents? 61 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,200 Coleman, Clarence Coleman, take us up. 62 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Yes, sir. 63 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,200 I need a shave. 64 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,200 Huh? 65 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,200 Nah, you don't look bad. 66 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,200 How long has he been living here? 67 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,200 You, how long has Coleman been living here? 68 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,200 Huh? 69 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,200 Oh, Mr. Coleman? 70 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:13,200 Hmm, two or three years. 71 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:20,200 Uh, second door to your... 72 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,200 In all the way. 73 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,200 What a dump, huh? 74 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,200 Hey, uh, no, no, no. 75 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,200 Lieutenant, I think I... 76 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:33,200 No, no, no. 77 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,200 No gun. 78 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,200 He won't give us any trouble. 79 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,200 He's too smart. 80 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,200 Your name, Coleman? 81 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,200 Yeah. 82 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,200 We're from headquarters. 83 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,200 Okay, you want to come in or you just want to talk to me where you are? 84 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,200 We want to talk to you downtown, but first we want to come in. 85 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,200 Come on in. 86 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:49,200 Nobody's stopping you. 87 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Look around, Cat. 88 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:51,200 Yeah. 89 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,200 I suppose you guys got a search warrant. 90 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,200 I suppose you got a witness that we don't. 91 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Go ahead and look around. 92 00:03:54,200 --> 00:04:00,680 I'm not going to be a 93 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:09,680 dumbass. 94 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,680 Sure, I know. 95 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,680 You're smart. 96 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:20,680 I was doing a crossword puzzle. 97 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,680 You don't mind, do you? 98 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,680 I'll go right ahead. 99 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,680 I want to get that one down before I forget. 100 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:26,680 Cat, you find it? 101 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:27,680 No. 102 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:28,680 Do you own a gun? 103 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,680 Why, sure. 104 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,680 Where is it? 105 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,680 Tell them to look in the bottom drawer of the bureau and they're under my winter underwear. 106 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,680 You hear that, Cat? 107 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:38,680 Yeah. 108 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,680 I got a license for it, too. 109 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,680 You fired it lately? 110 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:44,680 Yeah, sure thing. 111 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:45,680 I got it. 112 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:46,680 Here she is, little town. 113 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,680 I got you. 114 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:48,680 Don't rub off any prints. 115 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:49,680 I told you we were smart. 116 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:50,680 Maybe too smart. 117 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:51,680 38, one shell gone. 118 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:52,680 When'd you fire it last? 119 00:04:52,680 --> 00:05:01,680 Right last night. 120 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:02,680 Why should I lie to you? 121 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,680 You're going to give me the night faith test as soon as you get me downtown, anyway. 122 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:06,680 Right last night, huh? 123 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,680 Right into Edmund Lombard's body? 124 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:09,680 Wrong. 125 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:10,680 Into the floor. 126 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:11,680 Here. 127 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,680 You got all the answers, haven't you? 128 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,680 I only know what I know. 129 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,680 Can't do better than that for my own brother. 130 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,680 If you fired it into the floor, where's the crease? 131 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,680 See that little scatter rug? 132 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:28,680 Yeah. 133 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,680 Just kick it aside. 134 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,680 All right. 135 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,680 See it? 136 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:34,680 Mm. 137 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,680 I can do better than a crease. 138 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,680 If you dig in with your penknife, you can probably get the slug. 139 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Ah, well, let's have a look. 140 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,680 Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing that for, Cat? 141 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:45,680 This guy's just making a chump out of you. 142 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,680 Maybe, but we better have the slug just the same, Lieutenant. 143 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,680 All right. 144 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,680 You, take your hands out of your pockets and get your favorite hat 145 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:54,680 and start moving toward the door. 146 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,680 You're coming with us. 147 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,680 There we are. 148 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,680 Okay, by me. 149 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:58,680 You get it? 150 00:05:58,680 --> 00:05:59,680 Yeah. 151 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,680 It's a 38, all right. 152 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:03,680 Am I under arrest? 153 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,680 Well, have you got to have a name for it? 154 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:06,680 No, not yet. 155 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,680 You're just a guest of the department for the rest of the night. 156 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,680 Get the works, I suppose. 157 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,680 Cass, take him down the stairs, will you? 158 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,680 I want to talk to this kid on the elevator for a minute. 159 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,680 All right. 160 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:18,680 You want any more of that gum? 161 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,680 Yeah, here, sure, Lieutenant. 162 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:21,680 There you are. 163 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:22,680 Come on, you. 164 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:23,680 All right, all right. 165 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,680 Come on, everybody. 166 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,680 Go. 167 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,680 Yes, sir? 168 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,680 Got a match? 169 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,680 Oh, sir, I have. 170 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,680 A gun go up anywhere in this building last night? 171 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,680 Sir, his did. 172 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,680 Who's Coleman? 173 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:43,680 Yeah. 174 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,680 The people downstairs telephoned me, so I had to go up there. 175 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,680 I went to the floor by mistake. 176 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:54,680 He was plenty scared. 177 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,680 Hey, uh, he in trouble? 178 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:10,680 Nothing serious, just a little thing called murder. 179 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:15,680 For suspense, Roma wines are bringing you Howard De Silva in You Take Ballistics. 180 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:27,680 Roma wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 181 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,680 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma wines. 182 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,680 Next time you buy wine, remember this. 183 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:42,680 For entertaining, for everyday pleasure, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 184 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,680 That's because Roma wine tastes better, yet costs so little. 185 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:56,680 Yes, in Roma wine you enjoy an important difference, an extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 186 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:02,680 To bring you this difference, this better taste, Roma starts with California's choicest grapes. 187 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:12,680 Then Roma master vintners, with America's finest winemaking resources, guide this great treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 188 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:22,680 Later, along with Roma wines of years before, these choice cuvees await selection from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines for your pleasure. 189 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,680 Tomorrow, enjoy the better taste of Roma California wines. 190 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:35,680 Whether you prefer Sherry or Port, Muscatel or Toquet, insist on Roma wines, your best buy in good taste. 191 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:42,680 Remember, R-O-M-A, Roma, the greatest name in wine. 192 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:51,680 And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Howard De Silva as Homicide Lieutenant Ed Harvey in You Take Ballistics. 193 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:56,680 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 194 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:16,680 I've been on the force for quite a while, and I've made my shares of arrests big and small. 195 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:22,680 Little punks and chisllers and big time racket men and crazy wild eyed killers. 196 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:26,680 I never made a pinch that looked better and that I liked less than this Coleman. 197 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:30,680 We had everything, we had to make the pinch. 198 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:34,680 And I knew it was going to turn sour the minute I walked into that apartment. 199 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:39,680 And a sour murder wrapped as something, well I personally don't care for. 200 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:43,680 We didn't take him downtown, we took him over to a little precinct house up on the west side. 201 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:47,680 And we didn't book him, we just tossed him in the back room and let him wait. 202 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:51,680 Leffinger and my boss got there about ten minutes later. 203 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:53,680 Did you bring him in? 204 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:56,680 Yes sir, he's in the back. Here's his gun. 205 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:59,680 He claims it went off into the floor last night by mistake. 206 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:02,680 Oh, beat us to the paraffin test, huh? 207 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:05,680 Well, he could have framed it that way after he killed Lombard. 208 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:06,680 Yeah, he could have. 209 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:08,680 Here's the slug captain. 210 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:10,680 Hmm, 38. 211 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:12,680 Turn this stuff over to Ballistics. 212 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,680 Hey Cass, give me a light will you? 213 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:16,680 Sure. 214 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:17,680 Okay. 215 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:18,680 Yeah. 216 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,680 Any report on the one they dug out of Lombard? 217 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,680 Probably on its way now. 218 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:24,680 Who are these two guys? 219 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:26,680 The night elevator man that took them up to Lombard's apartment. 220 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:29,680 And the night counter man at a lunch room about half a block away. 221 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:31,680 They recognize him? 222 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:32,680 Positive. 223 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:34,680 Well, let's go to work. 224 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:35,680 Sergeant. 225 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:36,680 Yes sir? 226 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,680 We want to spring these witnesses on them. 227 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:42,680 One buzzed in the elevator man, two buzzed in the other guy. 228 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:44,680 Okay, Captain. 229 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:47,680 You think he'll sweat? 230 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,680 You? 231 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:51,680 No. 232 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:53,680 Hi Coleman. 233 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:55,680 Sit over there. 234 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:56,680 Sure. 235 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:58,680 Put the light on him, O'Farrell. 236 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:00,680 Yeah, sure. 237 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:02,680 All right, Coleman. 238 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:05,680 Suppose you tell us what you did last night. 239 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,680 Beginning when? 240 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:10,680 Beginning when you left your apartment. 241 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,680 Well, I went out about nine o'clock. 242 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:15,680 Walked over to 23rd and 7th. 243 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:17,680 There's a cigar store there. 244 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,680 I made a phone call. 245 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:19,680 Who to? 246 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:20,680 Edmund Lombard. 247 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,680 Oh, so you did contact Lombard? 248 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:24,680 Sure, did I say different? 249 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:25,680 Go ahead. 250 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,680 You know Lombard's racket? 251 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:29,680 You tell us. 252 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:31,680 Collected bets on the nags. 253 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,680 Only the long shots he wouldn't turn in. 254 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:36,680 They never came in anyway, so who knows the difference. 255 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,680 Only this one time I get a tip on one that comes in. 256 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:41,680 A 20 to one. 257 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:43,680 Lombard can't cover. 258 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:44,680 He lambs. 259 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:46,680 I just catch up with him last night. 260 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,680 On the phone I tell him I want my dough. 261 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,680 I tell him to meet me in an hour. 262 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:52,680 Did he meet you? 263 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:53,680 I didn't give him a chance. 264 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,680 I went up to his place. 265 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:57,680 You went up to his place? 266 00:11:57,680 --> 00:11:58,680 Sure. 267 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:00,680 Percentage for me to lie. 268 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,680 I know you got me placed up there. 269 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,680 So you went up to his place? 270 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:05,680 Yeah. 271 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:07,680 He was already packing. 272 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:09,680 Getting ready to lamb again. 273 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:11,680 He kind of laughed and said, 274 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,680 You can't blame a guy for trying. 275 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:14,680 I said I want my two grand. 276 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:15,680 Okay, he said. 277 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:16,680 You win. 278 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,680 He asked me for a receipt so I can't come at him again. 279 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:21,680 Fair enough. 280 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:23,680 I write one out for him on the hotel station. 281 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:25,680 We'll wind it up. 282 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:27,680 Let's see how good you can make it. 283 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:28,680 That's all. 284 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,680 So he begins unpacking. 285 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:34,680 Figures he might just as well stay where he is now. 286 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:36,680 And I leave. 287 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:38,680 So that's how it was. 288 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:40,680 Sure you didn't leave out anything? 289 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:41,680 No. 290 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:42,680 Why did you leave out about killing him? 291 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:43,680 Because it belongs out. 292 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:44,680 Because I didn't. 293 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,680 You didn't have a gun on you when you went up there. 294 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:47,680 Oh yeah. 295 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:48,680 Sure I did. 296 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:51,680 Why did you take a gun if you didn't plan to shoot him? 297 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:53,680 So he wouldn't pull one on me. 298 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:55,680 You think a guy like Eddie Lombard is going to cough up two grand just like that? 299 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:57,680 Don't lie to us. 300 00:12:57,680 --> 00:12:59,680 When we bring in here we want the truth. 301 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,680 You shot him first and collected your dough afterwards. 302 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:03,680 No. 303 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:04,680 You brought your receipt to a dead man. 304 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:05,680 No. 305 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:06,680 That's how it happened isn't it? 306 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:07,680 No. 307 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:08,680 Answer me isn't it? 308 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:09,680 No. 309 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:10,680 No. 310 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:11,680 Cass. 311 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:12,680 Yeah Captain. 312 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:13,680 Never mind those witnesses. 313 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:14,680 He spiked them for us. 314 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:19,680 Come on in here and give us a hand. 315 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:20,680 Sure. 316 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:23,680 Okay bring him out of here. 317 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,680 Alright come on. 318 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:26,680 Come on. 319 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:28,680 Come on will you get up there. 320 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,680 Why don't we give you something to pass out above. 321 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,680 Now why did you tell him? 322 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:35,680 You listening? 323 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:41,680 Why did you tell the night man that Lombard was staying and not to bother about his luggage? 324 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:44,680 Because I was afraid he'd go up there and Lombard might think it was me again and take 325 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:45,680 a shot at him. 326 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:48,680 Because he was dead in there and you wanted to get clear of the building before he was 327 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:49,680 found. 328 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:50,680 If I did I didn't go very far. 329 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:54,680 I stayed in the coffee shop down the block 15 or 20 minutes after. 330 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:58,680 Look what did you do with the money you took off him after you killed him? 331 00:13:58,680 --> 00:13:59,680 The dough he gave me. 332 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:03,680 I put it in the bank first thing this morning. 333 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:05,680 Take over Cass. 334 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:06,680 Alright. 335 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:07,680 Come on Harvey. 336 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,680 No no wait till I wash my hands. 337 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:16,680 You know I need a shave. 338 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:19,680 Alright. 339 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,680 Come on. 340 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:22,680 Come on. 341 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:23,680 See you later Cass. 342 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,680 Yeah yeah well now I'm good. 343 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,680 Alright Coleman come on now why don't we give you. 344 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:31,680 You know if I'd hang around there much longer I'd level of hurt him. 345 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,680 You see what I mean? 346 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:34,680 Yeah. 347 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,680 How come nobody heard this shot? 348 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,680 People next door were out and down below they were asleep. 349 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,680 You know I don't like it. 350 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,680 You notice how he beats us to the punch every time. 351 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,680 We got witnesses for everything except the killer. 352 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,680 Which all adds up to we got nothing but circumstantial. 353 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,680 Wouldn't stand up in court five minutes. 354 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,680 Maybe ballistics will tie it up for us. 355 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:57,680 Yeah maybe. 356 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:58,680 What's the matter? 357 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,680 Don't you believe in ballistics? 358 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,680 Sure but you heard the guy he's got every other angle covered. 359 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,680 Not going to slip up on anything as obvious as ballistics. 360 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,680 Don't you think he's guilty? 361 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:17,680 I think he's guilty. 362 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,680 I went back up to Coleman's apartment. 363 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:24,680 I hate this part of any job there's always the off chance that it may turn up something so it has to be done. 364 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,680 But nine times out of ten it doesn't get you the thing. 365 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:28,680 Didn't this time either. 366 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,680 There was a lot of junk in the living room. 367 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,680 Items, of course, we're positively working on. 368 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,680 A pencil, stuff. 369 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,680 The butt of the cigarette he'd been smoking and the package that came out. 370 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:41,680 The bathroom. 371 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,680 Items, usually sorted stuff in the medicine cabinet. 372 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,680 Fifteen rusty razor blades under the bathtub. 373 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:49,680 Kitchen items. 374 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,680 Three empty beer bottles and some very lively cockroaches of sorted sizes. 375 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,680 A bedroom. 376 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:56,680 Items. 377 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,680 A bureau full of linen and three suits in the closet. 378 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,680 One of them was the grain number he'd been wearing the night he called on Lombard. 379 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:09,680 There was nothing in the pockets but a Canadian dime, a faded snapshot of a faded blonde and a book of cigarette paper. 380 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,680 I put the stuff from his pockets in a regulation brown envelope for no very good reason. 381 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,680 Went back to the precinct. 382 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,680 I found Joe was still there biting his nails. 383 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,680 Did you get anything? 384 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,680 If I did I don't know it. 385 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:22,680 How's he doing? 386 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,680 How's he doing? How are we doing? 387 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:26,680 Lousy. 388 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,680 Yeah, so far. 389 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:30,680 You're still sure of him, huh? 390 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,680 I was never sure of a pinch in my life. 391 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,680 Hmm. 392 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,680 Listen, I'm going to let it go through on circumstantial. 393 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,680 Ballistics will be sure to match his gun to the slug that killed Lombard and that's enough to do it without anything else. 394 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:43,680 I don't know. 395 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,680 Say what are you drunk? 396 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,680 Yeah? 397 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,680 Yeah, this is Leffinger. 398 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,680 Well, it's about time. 399 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,680 Well, you know where to reach me. 400 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,680 I told you I was going to bring him out here. 401 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,680 Yeah. 402 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:01,680 What? 403 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,680 Yeah. 404 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,680 Okay. 405 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,680 Ballistics. 406 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:08,680 Coleman's gun was a.38. 407 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,680 I know that. 408 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:11,680 Oh, you know that. 409 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,680 Well, then maybe you know that the slug they took out of Lombard is a.32. 410 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,680 So now what do you know? 411 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,680 That does it. 412 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,680 Yeah, it does it, Orrin. 413 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:22,680 No, I don't mean that. 414 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:23,680 I mean he's our meat. 415 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:24,680 He's the guy. 416 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:25,680 You can't tell me different. 417 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,680 I'm not telling you different, but ballistics is. 418 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:30,680 And ballistics don't lie. 419 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,680 You setting yourself up above ballistics? 420 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,680 You take ballistics, I'll take human nature. 421 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:35,680 That don't lie either. 422 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,680 If you mean he did it with a.32 and then ditched it, you're wrong because we checked all the... 423 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:40,680 I know. 424 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,680 I know he didn't. 425 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,680 Otherwise he wouldn't have shot that slug into the floor. 426 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,680 But the slug in the floor was a.38. 427 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:51,680 Listen, Cap, I've called on Alderman, yeah, and state representatives. 428 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,680 And even they get a little scared when you say headquarters. 429 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,680 But not this guy. 430 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:57,680 He was waiting for us. 431 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,680 He was calm. 432 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:00,680 He was doing crossword puzzles. 433 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,680 He was too calm. 434 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:03,680 No, he's too smart. 435 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:04,680 He's got everything covered. 436 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,680 He's been ahead of us all the way. 437 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,680 He's our guy, I tell you. 438 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:09,680 He's our guy. 439 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:10,680 He's our guy. 440 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:11,680 He's our guy. 441 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,680 Well, go on out and prove it then. 442 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:14,680 All right. 443 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:15,680 Don't take it out on me, Cap. 444 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:16,680 I feel as bad about it as you do. 445 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,680 Yeah, well, you're the guy with all the big ideas. 446 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:20,680 Go out and do something about it. 447 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:21,680 All right. 448 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:22,680 How long are you giving me? 449 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:23,680 Tomorrow morning. 450 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,680 You can't hold them forever without booking them, you know. 451 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:26,680 Tomorrow morning? 452 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:27,680 What am I going to do it this time? 453 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,680 Look, make it noon, huh? 454 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,680 Give me a chance anyhow. 455 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:32,680 All right. 456 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:33,680 Noon. 457 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,680 And I'm stretching it for you. 458 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:36,680 Yeah, thanks, Cap. 459 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,680 Listen, wait a minute. 460 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,680 You're not holding out on me, are you? 461 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,680 I wish I was. 462 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,680 I don't know a thing more than you do, Cap. 463 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,680 I just know it's got to be our way, that's all. 464 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,680 Yeah, it's got to be. 465 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,680 Hey, I think I'll take another look at it before I go. 466 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,680 Oh, now listen, Colin, we know you did it. 467 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,680 Why don't you make it easy for yourself? 468 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,680 Make it easy for you coppers, you mean? 469 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:04,680 I know you guys anything for a pinch. 470 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,680 What do you care if you got the wrong guy? 471 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:07,680 All right. 472 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:08,680 Okay, okay, pass. 473 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:09,680 You can lay off. 474 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:10,680 You got something? 475 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:11,680 Yeah, the slug that killed Lombard was a.32. 476 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,680 His gun is a.38. 477 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,680 Huh? 478 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:15,680 Uh-uh. 479 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:16,680 All right, throw him in a cell. 480 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:17,680 We'll probably have to turn him loose in the morning. 481 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:18,680 Morning? 482 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:19,680 What's the matter with tonight? 483 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:20,680 What's the matter? 484 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:21,680 Don't you like it in here? 485 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,680 All right. 486 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,680 But you'll have a sweet case of false arrest on your hands by morning. 487 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,680 Remember that copper when you're back pounding a beat. 488 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:27,680 Oh, I won't forget. 489 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:28,680 You're smart. 490 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:29,680 Got a match? 491 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,680 Go on, have a cigarette. 492 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:33,680 I got my own. 493 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,680 Go ahead, have one. 494 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,680 I wouldn't take a smoke from a copper if it was the last one before I die. 495 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,680 You may have a chance to prove that someday. 496 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:41,680 Yeah? 497 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,680 Yeah, when you go to the electric chair. 498 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:56,680 Well, that sounded good, but I wasn't too sure. 499 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,680 You know, they say every criminal makes at least one mistake. 500 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,680 Well, I wasn't too sure of that either. 501 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,680 All I was sure of was that he'd done it, so there had to be some way to prove it. 502 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,680 At first I went back to his apartment. 503 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,680 I went over the joint with a fine-tooth comb. 504 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,680 Nothing. 505 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,680 And I thought of that suit in the closet. 506 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:20,680 I got it out, I went over it inch by inch, turned the pockets inside out. 507 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,680 Right there was where I found something that gave me an idea, 508 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,680 or rather it was what I didn't find that I should have. 509 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,680 I went out to Coleman's kitchen, I made a pot of black coffee, 510 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,680 and I sat down to think. 511 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,680 And the more I thought, the better I liked it. 512 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,680 It might not mean a thing, it might not even be possible, but it was all I had, so. 513 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,680 So the next stop was headquarters in the pistol range in the basement. 514 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,680 By the time I got through it was daylight. 515 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,680 At a quarter to seven I was waiting outside that cigar store at 23rd and 7th 516 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,680 where Coleman had made his phone call to lombard. 517 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,680 It was run by a little guy named Truehawk. 518 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,680 We questioned him before, but this was different. 519 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,680 The story wasn't open yet to it. 520 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,680 Finally after what seemed at least an hour and a half, I saw him. 521 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,680 I saw Truehawk come puffing down the street. 522 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,680 Well, well, Lieutenant, you're the real early bird, huh? 523 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:11,680 You're late. 524 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,680 Late he says. 525 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,680 What time you want at the cigar store should open in the middle of the night. 526 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,680 Come on, come on, let's go inside. I want to ask you a couple of things. 527 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,680 Ah, more questions. 528 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,680 Didn't you ask me already everything but my grandmother's middle name. 529 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,680 Yeah, I forgot that. That's why I came back. 530 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,680 All right, all right. So now what? 531 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,680 About this Coleman. When he was in Hillel. 532 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,680 Sure, sure, he telephoned from the booth back there. 533 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,680 How can I hear what he says one way up here? 534 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,680 I don't care about that now. 535 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,680 He used to buy smokes from you though, you said. 536 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,680 That's right, every day almost. 537 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,680 Any particular brand? 538 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,680 Sure, always the same for two years. These, these here. 539 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,680 Always machine-made cigarettes? 540 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,680 Always, why not? 541 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,680 What did he buy from you the night he was in here phoning? 542 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,680 The same, why not? 543 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,680 You're sure he... 544 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,680 He didn't buy these? 545 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,680 Wait. 546 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,680 Yes, if I didn't see them in your hand, I would never remember. 547 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,680 Cigarette papers. For change, he said, to cut down expenses, he said. 548 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,680 Sure, the first time he ever bought them. 549 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,680 Did he buy any loose tobacco to go with them? 550 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,680 Let me see. 551 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:23,680 Why, I don't think. He didn't ask me, so I figured he's got some already. 552 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,680 Okay. Okay. 553 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:27,680 You can give me some now. 554 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,680 Oh, sure thing. 555 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:30,680 Hey, give me some matches, will you? 556 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,680 Sure, sure, help yourself. 557 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,680 Say, what is it all of a sudden that you look down? 558 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,680 You look like you just swallowed the cat that ate the canary. 559 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,680 You're all right, Pop. And I'm going to fix you up. 560 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:44,680 Yeah? 561 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:45,680 Yep. 562 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,680 To be a witness of a nice big murder trial. Pre. 563 00:22:48,680 --> 00:23:02,680 I went back to the precinct, but Leffinger had moved them to another one, over on the east side, on account of the 24-hour detention law. 564 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,680 That took more time to locate them, but that was one thing I had plenty of. 565 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,680 I was either in with what I had, or I was out. 566 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,680 Suddenly I felt tired. I felt tired as an old dog. 567 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,680 I tried breakfast, but that didn't help much, so I went on over to the east side. 568 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,680 Leffinger was right on deck, cranky as ever, but I could see he was worried. 569 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,680 We had this guy pretty nearly 48 hours, and the cops don't like to break the law any more than the next guy. 570 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,680 Well, where have you been all night, bright eyes? You look like you slept on a park bench. 571 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,680 I didn't sleep anyplace. I've been using my brains. 572 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,680 Why did you leave Ward? You were going to move him. 573 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,680 What's the difference? His next move is out. 574 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,680 His next move is a raiment, after what I'm going to show you. 575 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,680 Great. Great. I'm just in the mood for lantern slides. 576 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,680 Let's have him in, huh? 577 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,680 Yeah, bring him in, Johnson. 578 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,680 Okay, Captain. 579 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,680 Now, look, first I want you to watch how he rolls a cigarette. 580 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,680 What'll he be doing now, playing parlor games? 581 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,680 Just watch him, that's all. And remember, I found these cigarette papers in the pocket of his suit. 582 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,680 The suit he wore the night he went to see Lombard. 583 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,680 Oh, I suppose he gassed him to death with cheap tobacco. 584 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,680 There he is, Captain. 585 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,680 Oh, the Rover boys. 586 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,680 You guys woke me up just to move me to another hideout. Why don't you get wise to yourselves? 587 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,680 You know you're going to have to book me or turn me loose sooner or later. 588 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,680 All right, all right. Forget it. We're turning you loose. 589 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,680 All we want to do is to sign a waiver. Nothing happened to you in here. 590 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:25,680 Nuts, I sign nothing. 591 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,680 Hey, take it easy, will you? We got the guy that did it. 592 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,680 Yeah? 593 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,680 Yeah. Got nothing to worry about. We just don't want any suits for false arrest, that's all. 594 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,680 Yeah, well, you took the words right out of my mouth, copper, because my first stop after here is a lawyer. 595 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,680 Ah, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's talk this over. 596 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,680 Smoke? 597 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,680 Ah, not one of them things. 598 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,680 Well, you smoke these, don't you? 599 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,680 Yeah, sure. 600 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,680 Here's some tobacco. Go ahead, roll one. 601 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,680 Thanks. 602 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,680 That's not the way. 603 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,680 I'm a little out of practice. 604 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,680 A little out of practice, he says. 605 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,680 Don't look to me like you've ever rolled one before in his life. Is it to you, Cap? 606 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,680 All right, so send me to the chair for that. 607 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,680 Just the same, he bought these cigarette papers the night he went to see Lombard at the cigar store where he bought all his smokes. 608 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,680 First time in two years he ever bought any. I know the backer to go with him. 609 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,680 And not a shred of loose tobacco to leave his pockets. 610 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,680 Now, why do you suppose he bought those cigarette papers that night, huh? 611 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,680 You're telling me. I'm listening. 612 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,680 Are you listening, Coleman? 613 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,680 You're talking in your sleep. 614 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,680 I'll tell you why he bought them. 615 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,680 Better than that, I'll show you why. Let me have your gun in a minute, will you, Cap? 616 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,680 Yeah, sure. 617 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:32,680 That's a.38, right? 618 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:33,680 Yeah. 619 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:34,680 Same caliber as Coleman's gun? 620 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:35,680 Right. 621 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:42,680 All right. Now, here's a.32 caliber bullet. The same caliber as the slug that killed Lombard. Do you want to see it? 622 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,680 I know a.32 when I see it. 623 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:49,680 All right. Now, we take the.38 bullets out of your gun. 624 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:55,680 Now, we take this.32 bullet and about the... about three of these cigarette papers. 625 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,680 We double them over, we wrap them around the bullet. 626 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,680 See? See how snug a.32 fits in your.38 gun now? 627 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:02,680 Now, I'll be a m... 628 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,680 Now, watch. Now, watch how a.38 gun will fire a.32 bullet. I'll put it in the baseboard over there. 629 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,680 That's ballistics, Cap. How do you like it? 630 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,680 Ballistics. Ballistics. 631 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,680 You take ballistics. I'll take human nature every time. 632 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:36,680 Three months later, Coleman went to the chair. Whether he took a cigarette from a copper or not before he died, I don't know. And I don't care. 633 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:55,680 Suspense. 634 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:02,680 Presented by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A. Roma. America's favorite wines. 635 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:08,680 This is Truman Bradley bringing back to our microphone the star of tonight's suspense play, Howard De Silva. 636 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,680 My compliments, Howard, on a grand performance. 637 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:16,680 Say, tell me, how did you like being on the side of law and order for a change? On the screen, I've seen you as a pretty tough character. 638 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,680 Truman, I much prefer to be law-abiding. Makes me more popular with my friends. 639 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:28,680 Well, here's something, Howard, that will make you even more popular with your guests. A gift basket of Roma wines from Roma, your host of the evening. 640 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,680 My thanks to Roma, Truman. This is my idea of real hospitality. 641 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:39,680 That's what your friends will say, Howard, when you treat them to the golden, amber, fragrant Roma California sherry in your gift basket. 642 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:49,680 For Roma sherry, with its tempting nut-like taste, is the perfect first call for dinner and served with nuts, fruit, cake, or any tasty snack. 643 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,680 Roma sherry is a truly delightful wine for entertaining any time. 644 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,680 Right, Truman. Roma sherry is certainly a versatile wine. 645 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,680 Versatile is the word for Roma sherry, Howard. And extra good, too. 646 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:11,680 For Roma sherry, like all Roma wines, gives you an important difference, an extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 647 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:19,680 And the best proof I can give you that Roma wines taste better is the fact that more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 648 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,680 Well, that's proof enough for me, Truman. And now who's on suspense next week? 649 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,680 Well, Howard, it's Claude Rains. 650 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:26,680 My favorite actor. 651 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:36,680 Yes, Claude Rains, and a very unusual suspense story. Mr. Rains will be entirely alone, no other member of the cast. A real solo performance. 652 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:47,680 The story will be a famous English study in terror, The Wax Work, and you'll want to hear what it feels like to spend the night in a museum haunted by the spirits of famous murderers of the past. 653 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,680 That I've got to listen to. Thank you and good night. 654 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:57,680 Howard De Silva appeared to the courtesy of Paramount Pictures and is currently being seen in their production, Blaze of Noon. 655 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,680 Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert Richards from the story by Cornell Woolrich. 656 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:10,680 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Claude Rains as star of Suspense. 657 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:16,680 Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 658 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:35,680 Buy your share of Easter happiness. Bring new life and hope to crippled children through Easter Seals. 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