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01:47.080 --> 01:48.080 Not a move. 01:48.080 --> 01:50.080 How about the back way? 01:50.080 --> 01:51.080 No. 01:51.080 --> 01:52.720 Peter's just covering that. 01:52.720 --> 01:53.720 He'd leave us no. 01:53.720 --> 01:56.960 Anyway, you know, he's still up there. 01:56.960 --> 01:59.680 Every little while you can see the shadow against the shade. 01:59.680 --> 02:00.680 There, see? 02:00.680 --> 02:01.680 Huh? 02:01.680 --> 02:02.680 Hey, look. 02:02.680 --> 02:03.680 You got a match? 02:03.680 --> 02:04.680 Oh, sure. 02:04.680 --> 02:05.680 Here. 02:05.680 --> 02:10.640 Hey, Lieutenant, did you get any orders or did we just stick around? 02:10.640 --> 02:14.000 Myself, I think he's settling down for the night. 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 No. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.920 This isn't getting us any place. 02:16.920 --> 02:17.920 I'm going to make the pinch. 02:17.920 --> 02:19.920 Now, come on up with me. 02:19.920 --> 02:21.920 See what we got. 02:21.920 --> 02:25.200 Oh, boy, it's good to stretch. 02:25.200 --> 02:27.200 My gams were killing me. 02:27.200 --> 02:28.200 Yeah, I know. 02:28.200 --> 02:30.200 I done plenty of stakeouts myself. 02:30.200 --> 02:31.920 Anyway, it was warm the night. 02:31.920 --> 02:32.920 That's a help. 02:32.920 --> 02:34.920 Yeah, that's always a help. 02:34.920 --> 02:37.920 Hey, you know what I think, Lieutenant? 02:37.920 --> 02:39.280 What? 02:39.280 --> 02:41.840 I think that guy's waiting for something. 02:41.840 --> 02:42.840 Or someone. 02:42.840 --> 02:43.840 Like who? 02:43.840 --> 02:44.840 Us. 02:44.840 --> 02:45.840 He's wise, huh? 02:45.840 --> 02:46.840 Smart, pretty smart. 02:46.840 --> 02:47.840 I don't like it. 02:47.840 --> 02:48.840 Hmm. 02:48.840 --> 02:52.200 Yes, sir, gents? 02:52.200 --> 02:56.200 Coleman, Clarence Coleman, take us up. 02:56.200 --> 02:57.200 Yes, sir. 02:57.200 --> 03:00.200 I need a shave. 03:00.200 --> 03:01.200 Huh? 03:01.200 --> 03:04.200 Nah, you don't look bad. 03:04.200 --> 03:07.200 How long has he been living here? 03:07.200 --> 03:10.200 You, how long has Coleman been living here? 03:10.200 --> 03:11.200 Huh? 03:11.200 --> 03:12.200 Oh, Mr. Coleman? 03:12.200 --> 03:13.200 Hmm, two or three years. 03:13.200 --> 03:20.200 Uh, second door to your... 03:20.200 --> 03:23.200 In all the way. 03:23.200 --> 03:28.200 What a dump, huh? 03:28.200 --> 03:31.200 Hey, uh, no, no, no. 03:31.200 --> 03:32.200 Lieutenant, I think I... 03:32.200 --> 03:33.200 No, no, no. 03:33.200 --> 03:34.200 No gun. 03:34.200 --> 03:35.200 He won't give us any trouble. 03:35.200 --> 03:36.200 He's too smart. 03:36.200 --> 03:37.200 Your name, Coleman? 03:37.200 --> 03:38.200 Yeah. 03:38.200 --> 03:39.200 We're from headquarters. 03:39.200 --> 03:44.200 Okay, you want to come in or you just want to talk to me where you are? 03:44.200 --> 03:47.200 We want to talk to you downtown, but first we want to come in. 03:47.200 --> 03:48.200 Come on in. 03:48.200 --> 03:49.200 Nobody's stopping you. 03:49.200 --> 03:50.200 Look around, Cat. 03:50.200 --> 03:51.200 Yeah. 03:51.200 --> 03:52.200 I suppose you guys got a search warrant. 03:52.200 --> 03:53.200 I suppose you got a witness that we don't. 03:53.200 --> 03:54.200 Go ahead and look around. 03:54.200 --> 04:00.680 I'm not going to be a 04:00.680 --> 04:09.680 dumbass. 04:09.680 --> 04:14.680 Sure, I know. 04:14.680 --> 04:19.680 You're smart. 04:19.680 --> 04:20.680 I was doing a crossword puzzle. 04:20.680 --> 04:21.680 You don't mind, do you? 04:21.680 --> 04:22.680 I'll go right ahead. 04:22.680 --> 04:25.680 I want to get that one down before I forget. 04:25.680 --> 04:26.680 Cat, you find it? 04:26.680 --> 04:27.680 No. 04:27.680 --> 04:28.680 Do you own a gun? 04:28.680 --> 04:29.680 Why, sure. 04:29.680 --> 04:30.680 Where is it? 04:30.680 --> 04:35.680 Tell them to look in the bottom drawer of the bureau and they're under my winter underwear. 04:35.680 --> 04:37.680 You hear that, Cat? 04:37.680 --> 04:38.680 Yeah. 04:38.680 --> 04:42.680 I got a license for it, too. 04:42.680 --> 04:43.680 You fired it lately? 04:43.680 --> 04:44.680 Yeah, sure thing. 04:44.680 --> 04:45.680 I got it. 04:45.680 --> 04:46.680 Here she is, little town. 04:46.680 --> 04:47.680 I got you. 04:47.680 --> 04:48.680 Don't rub off any prints. 04:48.680 --> 04:49.680 I told you we were smart. 04:49.680 --> 04:50.680 Maybe too smart. 04:50.680 --> 04:51.680 38, one shell gone. 04:51.680 --> 04:52.680 When'd you fire it last? 04:52.680 --> 05:01.680 Right last night. 05:01.680 --> 05:02.680 Why should I lie to you? 05:02.680 --> 05:05.680 You're going to give me the night faith test as soon as you get me downtown, anyway. 05:05.680 --> 05:06.680 Right last night, huh? 05:06.680 --> 05:08.680 Right into Edmund Lombard's body? 05:08.680 --> 05:09.680 Wrong. 05:09.680 --> 05:10.680 Into the floor. 05:10.680 --> 05:11.680 Here. 05:11.680 --> 05:15.680 You got all the answers, haven't you? 05:15.680 --> 05:17.680 I only know what I know. 05:17.680 --> 05:20.680 Can't do better than that for my own brother. 05:20.680 --> 05:24.680 If you fired it into the floor, where's the crease? 05:24.680 --> 05:27.680 See that little scatter rug? 05:27.680 --> 05:28.680 Yeah. 05:28.680 --> 05:30.680 Just kick it aside. 05:30.680 --> 05:32.680 All right. 05:32.680 --> 05:33.680 See it? 05:33.680 --> 05:34.680 Mm. 05:34.680 --> 05:36.680 I can do better than a crease. 05:36.680 --> 05:39.680 If you dig in with your penknife, you can probably get the slug. 05:39.680 --> 05:41.680 Ah, well, let's have a look. 05:41.680 --> 05:43.680 Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing that for, Cat? 05:43.680 --> 05:45.680 This guy's just making a chump out of you. 05:45.680 --> 05:48.680 Maybe, but we better have the slug just the same, Lieutenant. 05:48.680 --> 05:50.680 All right. 05:50.680 --> 05:53.680 You, take your hands out of your pockets and get your favorite hat 05:53.680 --> 05:54.680 and start moving toward the door. 05:54.680 --> 05:55.680 You're coming with us. 05:55.680 --> 05:56.680 There we are. 05:56.680 --> 05:57.680 Okay, by me. 05:57.680 --> 05:58.680 You get it? 05:58.680 --> 05:59.680 Yeah. 05:59.680 --> 06:02.680 It's a 38, all right. 06:02.680 --> 06:03.680 Am I under arrest? 06:03.680 --> 06:05.680 Well, have you got to have a name for it? 06:05.680 --> 06:06.680 No, not yet. 06:06.680 --> 06:10.680 You're just a guest of the department for the rest of the night. 06:10.680 --> 06:12.680 Get the works, I suppose. 06:12.680 --> 06:14.680 Cass, take him down the stairs, will you? 06:14.680 --> 06:16.680 I want to talk to this kid on the elevator for a minute. 06:16.680 --> 06:17.680 All right. 06:17.680 --> 06:18.680 You want any more of that gum? 06:18.680 --> 06:20.680 Yeah, here, sure, Lieutenant. 06:20.680 --> 06:21.680 There you are. 06:21.680 --> 06:22.680 Come on, you. 06:22.680 --> 06:23.680 All right, all right. 06:23.680 --> 06:25.680 Come on, everybody. 06:25.680 --> 06:28.680 Go. 06:28.680 --> 06:32.680 Yes, sir? 06:32.680 --> 06:33.680 Got a match? 06:33.680 --> 06:37.680 Oh, sir, I have. 06:37.680 --> 06:39.680 A gun go up anywhere in this building last night? 06:39.680 --> 06:41.680 Sir, his did. 06:41.680 --> 06:42.680 Who's Coleman? 06:42.680 --> 06:43.680 Yeah. 06:43.680 --> 06:46.680 The people downstairs telephoned me, so I had to go up there. 06:46.680 --> 06:48.680 I went to the floor by mistake. 06:48.680 --> 06:54.680 He was plenty scared. 06:54.680 --> 06:57.680 Hey, uh, he in trouble? 06:57.680 --> 07:10.680 Nothing serious, just a little thing called murder. 07:10.680 --> 07:15.680 For suspense, Roma wines are bringing you Howard De Silva in You Take Ballistics. 07:15.680 --> 07:27.680 Roma wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 07:27.680 --> 07:32.680 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma wines. 07:32.680 --> 07:35.680 Next time you buy wine, remember this. 07:35.680 --> 07:42.680 For entertaining, for everyday pleasure, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 07:42.680 --> 07:46.680 That's because Roma wine tastes better, yet costs so little. 07:46.680 --> 07:56.680 Yes, in Roma wine you enjoy an important difference, an extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 07:56.680 --> 08:02.680 To bring you this difference, this better taste, Roma starts with California's choicest grapes. 08:02.680 --> 08:12.680 Then Roma master vintners, with America's finest winemaking resources, guide this great treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 08:12.680 --> 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. 08:22.680 --> 08:26.680 Tomorrow, enjoy the better taste of Roma California wines. 08:26.680 --> 08:35.680 Whether you prefer Sherry or Port, Muscatel or Toquet, insist on Roma wines, your best buy in good taste. 08:35.680 --> 08:42.680 Remember, R-O-M-A, Roma, the greatest name in wine. 08:42.680 --> 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. 08:51.680 --> 08:56.680 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 09:10.680 --> 09:16.680 I've been on the force for quite a while, and I've made my shares of arrests big and small. 09:16.680 --> 09:22.680 Little punks and chisllers and big time racket men and crazy wild eyed killers. 09:22.680 --> 09:26.680 I never made a pinch that looked better and that I liked less than this Coleman. 09:26.680 --> 09:30.680 We had everything, we had to make the pinch. 09:30.680 --> 09:34.680 And I knew it was going to turn sour the minute I walked into that apartment. 09:34.680 --> 09:39.680 And a sour murder wrapped as something, well I personally don't care for. 09:39.680 --> 09:43.680 We didn't take him downtown, we took him over to a little precinct house up on the west side. 09:43.680 --> 09:47.680 And we didn't book him, we just tossed him in the back room and let him wait. 09:47.680 --> 09:51.680 Leffinger and my boss got there about ten minutes later. 09:51.680 --> 09:53.680 Did you bring him in? 09:53.680 --> 09:56.680 Yes sir, he's in the back. Here's his gun. 09:56.680 --> 09:59.680 He claims it went off into the floor last night by mistake. 09:59.680 --> 10:02.680 Oh, beat us to the paraffin test, huh? 10:02.680 --> 10:05.680 Well, he could have framed it that way after he killed Lombard. 10:05.680 --> 10:06.680 Yeah, he could have. 10:06.680 --> 10:08.680 Here's the slug captain. 10:08.680 --> 10:10.680 Hmm, 38. 10:10.680 --> 10:12.680 Turn this stuff over to Ballistics. 10:12.680 --> 10:14.680 Hey Cass, give me a light will you? 10:14.680 --> 10:16.680 Sure. 10:16.680 --> 10:17.680 Okay. 10:17.680 --> 10:18.680 Yeah. 10:18.680 --> 10:20.680 Any report on the one they dug out of Lombard? 10:20.680 --> 10:22.680 Probably on its way now. 10:22.680 --> 10:24.680 Who are these two guys? 10:24.680 --> 10:26.680 The night elevator man that took them up to Lombard's apartment. 10:26.680 --> 10:29.680 And the night counter man at a lunch room about half a block away. 10:29.680 --> 10:31.680 They recognize him? 10:31.680 --> 10:32.680 Positive. 10:32.680 --> 10:34.680 Well, let's go to work. 10:34.680 --> 10:35.680 Sergeant. 10:35.680 --> 10:36.680 Yes sir? 10:36.680 --> 10:38.680 We want to spring these witnesses on them. 10:38.680 --> 10:42.680 One buzzed in the elevator man, two buzzed in the other guy. 10:42.680 --> 10:44.680 Okay, Captain. 10:44.680 --> 10:47.680 You think he'll sweat? 10:47.680 --> 10:49.680 You? 10:49.680 --> 10:51.680 No. 10:51.680 --> 10:53.680 Hi Coleman. 10:53.680 --> 10:55.680 Sit over there. 10:55.680 --> 10:56.680 Sure. 10:56.680 --> 10:58.680 Put the light on him, O'Farrell. 10:58.680 --> 11:00.680 Yeah, sure. 11:00.680 --> 11:02.680 All right, Coleman. 11:02.680 --> 11:05.680 Suppose you tell us what you did last night. 11:05.680 --> 11:07.680 Beginning when? 11:07.680 --> 11:10.680 Beginning when you left your apartment. 11:10.680 --> 11:13.680 Well, I went out about nine o'clock. 11:13.680 --> 11:15.680 Walked over to 23rd and 7th. 11:15.680 --> 11:17.680 There's a cigar store there. 11:17.680 --> 11:18.680 I made a phone call. 11:18.680 --> 11:19.680 Who to? 11:19.680 --> 11:20.680 Edmund Lombard. 11:20.680 --> 11:22.680 Oh, so you did contact Lombard? 11:22.680 --> 11:24.680 Sure, did I say different? 11:24.680 --> 11:25.680 Go ahead. 11:25.680 --> 11:27.680 You know Lombard's racket? 11:27.680 --> 11:29.680 You tell us. 11:29.680 --> 11:31.680 Collected bets on the nags. 11:31.680 --> 11:33.680 Only the long shots he wouldn't turn in. 11:33.680 --> 11:36.680 They never came in anyway, so who knows the difference. 11:36.680 --> 11:39.680 Only this one time I get a tip on one that comes in. 11:39.680 --> 11:41.680 A 20 to one. 11:41.680 --> 11:43.680 Lombard can't cover. 11:43.680 --> 11:44.680 He lambs. 11:44.680 --> 11:46.680 I just catch up with him last night. 11:46.680 --> 11:49.680 On the phone I tell him I want my dough. 11:49.680 --> 11:51.680 I tell him to meet me in an hour. 11:51.680 --> 11:52.680 Did he meet you? 11:52.680 --> 11:53.680 I didn't give him a chance. 11:53.680 --> 11:55.680 I went up to his place. 11:55.680 --> 11:57.680 You went up to his place? 11:57.680 --> 11:58.680 Sure. 11:58.680 --> 12:00.680 Percentage for me to lie. 12:00.680 --> 12:02.680 I know you got me placed up there. 12:02.680 --> 12:04.680 So you went up to his place? 12:04.680 --> 12:05.680 Yeah. 12:05.680 --> 12:07.680 He was already packing. 12:07.680 --> 12:09.680 Getting ready to lamb again. 12:09.680 --> 12:11.680 He kind of laughed and said, 12:11.680 --> 12:13.680 You can't blame a guy for trying. 12:13.680 --> 12:14.680 I said I want my two grand. 12:14.680 --> 12:15.680 Okay, he said. 12:15.680 --> 12:16.680 You win. 12:16.680 --> 12:19.680 He asked me for a receipt so I can't come at him again. 12:19.680 --> 12:21.680 Fair enough. 12:21.680 --> 12:23.680 I write one out for him on the hotel station. 12:23.680 --> 12:25.680 We'll wind it up. 12:25.680 --> 12:27.680 Let's see how good you can make it. 12:27.680 --> 12:28.680 That's all. 12:28.680 --> 12:30.680 So he begins unpacking. 12:30.680 --> 12:34.680 Figures he might just as well stay where he is now. 12:34.680 --> 12:36.680 And I leave. 12:36.680 --> 12:38.680 So that's how it was. 12:38.680 --> 12:40.680 Sure you didn't leave out anything? 12:40.680 --> 12:41.680 No. 12:41.680 --> 12:42.680 Why did you leave out about killing him? 12:42.680 --> 12:43.680 Because it belongs out. 12:43.680 --> 12:44.680 Because I didn't. 12:44.680 --> 12:46.680 You didn't have a gun on you when you went up there. 12:46.680 --> 12:47.680 Oh yeah. 12:47.680 --> 12:48.680 Sure I did. 12:48.680 --> 12:51.680 Why did you take a gun if you didn't plan to shoot him? 12:51.680 --> 12:53.680 So he wouldn't pull one on me. 12:53.680 --> 12:55.680 You think a guy like Eddie Lombard is going to cough up two grand just like that? 12:55.680 --> 12:57.680 Don't lie to us. 12:57.680 --> 12:59.680 When we bring in here we want the truth. 12:59.680 --> 13:02.680 You shot him first and collected your dough afterwards. 13:02.680 --> 13:03.680 No. 13:03.680 --> 13:04.680 You brought your receipt to a dead man. 13:04.680 --> 13:05.680 No. 13:05.680 --> 13:06.680 That's how it happened isn't it? 13:06.680 --> 13:07.680 No. 13:07.680 --> 13:08.680 Answer me isn't it? 13:08.680 --> 13:09.680 No. 13:09.680 --> 13:10.680 No. 13:10.680 --> 13:11.680 Cass. 13:11.680 --> 13:12.680 Yeah Captain. 13:12.680 --> 13:13.680 Never mind those witnesses. 13:13.680 --> 13:14.680 He spiked them for us. 13:14.680 --> 13:19.680 Come on in here and give us a hand. 13:19.680 --> 13:20.680 Sure. 13:20.680 --> 13:23.680 Okay bring him out of here. 13:23.680 --> 13:25.680 Alright come on. 13:25.680 --> 13:26.680 Come on. 13:26.680 --> 13:28.680 Come on will you get up there. 13:28.680 --> 13:31.680 Why don't we give you something to pass out above. 13:31.680 --> 13:34.680 Now why did you tell him? 13:34.680 --> 13:35.680 You listening? 13:35.680 --> 13:41.680 Why did you tell the night man that Lombard was staying and not to bother about his luggage? 13:41.680 --> 13:44.680 Because I was afraid he'd go up there and Lombard might think it was me again and take 13:44.680 --> 13:45.680 a shot at him. 13:45.680 --> 13:48.680 Because he was dead in there and you wanted to get clear of the building before he was 13:48.680 --> 13:49.680 found. 13:49.680 --> 13:50.680 If I did I didn't go very far. 13:50.680 --> 13:54.680 I stayed in the coffee shop down the block 15 or 20 minutes after. 13:54.680 --> 13:58.680 Look what did you do with the money you took off him after you killed him? 13:58.680 --> 13:59.680 The dough he gave me. 13:59.680 --> 14:03.680 I put it in the bank first thing this morning. 14:03.680 --> 14:05.680 Take over Cass. 14:05.680 --> 14:06.680 Alright. 14:06.680 --> 14:07.680 Come on Harvey. 14:07.680 --> 14:09.680 No no wait till I wash my hands. 14:09.680 --> 14:16.680 You know I need a shave. 14:16.680 --> 14:19.680 Alright. 14:19.680 --> 14:21.680 Come on. 14:21.680 --> 14:22.680 Come on. 14:22.680 --> 14:23.680 See you later Cass. 14:23.680 --> 14:25.680 Yeah yeah well now I'm good. 14:25.680 --> 14:27.680 Alright Coleman come on now why don't we give you. 14:27.680 --> 14:31.680 You know if I'd hang around there much longer I'd level of hurt him. 14:31.680 --> 14:33.680 You see what I mean? 14:33.680 --> 14:34.680 Yeah. 14:34.680 --> 14:37.680 How come nobody heard this shot? 14:37.680 --> 14:39.680 People next door were out and down below they were asleep. 14:39.680 --> 14:42.680 You know I don't like it. 14:42.680 --> 14:45.680 You notice how he beats us to the punch every time. 14:45.680 --> 14:48.680 We got witnesses for everything except the killer. 14:48.680 --> 14:50.680 Which all adds up to we got nothing but circumstantial. 14:50.680 --> 14:53.680 Wouldn't stand up in court five minutes. 14:53.680 --> 14:56.680 Maybe ballistics will tie it up for us. 14:56.680 --> 14:57.680 Yeah maybe. 14:57.680 --> 14:58.680 What's the matter? 14:58.680 --> 15:00.680 Don't you believe in ballistics? 15:00.680 --> 15:03.680 Sure but you heard the guy he's got every other angle covered. 15:03.680 --> 15:06.680 Not going to slip up on anything as obvious as ballistics. 15:06.680 --> 15:08.680 Don't you think he's guilty? 15:08.680 --> 15:17.680 I think he's guilty. 15:17.680 --> 15:19.680 I went back up to Coleman's apartment. 15:19.680 --> 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. 15:24.680 --> 15:27.680 But nine times out of ten it doesn't get you the thing. 15:27.680 --> 15:28.680 Didn't this time either. 15:28.680 --> 15:31.680 There was a lot of junk in the living room. 15:31.680 --> 15:34.680 Items, of course, we're positively working on. 15:34.680 --> 15:36.680 A pencil, stuff. 15:36.680 --> 15:39.680 The butt of the cigarette he'd been smoking and the package that came out. 15:39.680 --> 15:41.680 The bathroom. 15:41.680 --> 15:44.680 Items, usually sorted stuff in the medicine cabinet. 15:44.680 --> 15:48.680 Fifteen rusty razor blades under the bathtub. 15:48.680 --> 15:49.680 Kitchen items. 15:49.680 --> 15:53.680 Three empty beer bottles and some very lively cockroaches of sorted sizes. 15:53.680 --> 15:55.680 A bedroom. 15:55.680 --> 15:56.680 Items. 15:56.680 --> 15:59.680 A bureau full of linen and three suits in the closet. 15:59.680 --> 16:03.680 One of them was the grain number he'd been wearing the night he called on Lombard. 16:03.680 --> 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. 16:09.680 --> 16:13.680 I put the stuff from his pockets in a regulation brown envelope for no very good reason. 16:13.680 --> 16:15.680 Went back to the precinct. 16:15.680 --> 16:18.680 I found Joe was still there biting his nails. 16:18.680 --> 16:19.680 Did you get anything? 16:19.680 --> 16:21.680 If I did I don't know it. 16:21.680 --> 16:22.680 How's he doing? 16:22.680 --> 16:25.680 How's he doing? How are we doing? 16:25.680 --> 16:26.680 Lousy. 16:26.680 --> 16:28.680 Yeah, so far. 16:28.680 --> 16:30.680 You're still sure of him, huh? 16:30.680 --> 16:32.680 I was never sure of a pinch in my life. 16:32.680 --> 16:34.680 Hmm. 16:34.680 --> 16:37.680 Listen, I'm going to let it go through on circumstantial. 16:37.680 --> 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. 16:42.680 --> 16:43.680 I don't know. 16:43.680 --> 16:45.680 Say what are you drunk? 16:45.680 --> 16:47.680 Yeah? 16:47.680 --> 16:49.680 Yeah, this is Leffinger. 16:49.680 --> 16:52.680 Well, it's about time. 16:52.680 --> 16:54.680 Well, you know where to reach me. 16:54.680 --> 16:57.680 I told you I was going to bring him out here. 16:57.680 --> 16:59.680 Yeah. 16:59.680 --> 17:01.680 What? 17:01.680 --> 17:03.680 Yeah. 17:03.680 --> 17:05.680 Okay. 17:05.680 --> 17:07.680 Ballistics. 17:07.680 --> 17:08.680 Coleman's gun was a.38. 17:08.680 --> 17:10.680 I know that. 17:10.680 --> 17:11.680 Oh, you know that. 17:11.680 --> 17:15.680 Well, then maybe you know that the slug they took out of Lombard is a.32. 17:15.680 --> 17:17.680 So now what do you know? 17:17.680 --> 17:19.680 That does it. 17:19.680 --> 17:21.680 Yeah, it does it, Orrin. 17:21.680 --> 17:22.680 No, I don't mean that. 17:22.680 --> 17:23.680 I mean he's our meat. 17:23.680 --> 17:24.680 He's the guy. 17:24.680 --> 17:25.680 You can't tell me different. 17:25.680 --> 17:28.680 I'm not telling you different, but ballistics is. 17:28.680 --> 17:30.680 And ballistics don't lie. 17:30.680 --> 17:32.680 You setting yourself up above ballistics? 17:32.680 --> 17:34.680 You take ballistics, I'll take human nature. 17:34.680 --> 17:35.680 That don't lie either. 17:35.680 --> 17:39.680 If you mean he did it with a.32 and then ditched it, you're wrong because we checked all the... 17:39.680 --> 17:40.680 I know. 17:40.680 --> 17:41.680 I know he didn't. 17:41.680 --> 17:44.680 Otherwise he wouldn't have shot that slug into the floor. 17:44.680 --> 17:46.680 But the slug in the floor was a.38. 17:46.680 --> 17:51.680 Listen, Cap, I've called on Alderman, yeah, and state representatives. 17:51.680 --> 17:54.680 And even they get a little scared when you say headquarters. 17:54.680 --> 17:56.680 But not this guy. 17:56.680 --> 17:57.680 He was waiting for us. 17:57.680 --> 17:59.680 He was calm. 17:59.680 --> 18:00.680 He was doing crossword puzzles. 18:00.680 --> 18:02.680 He was too calm. 18:02.680 --> 18:03.680 No, he's too smart. 18:03.680 --> 18:04.680 He's got everything covered. 18:04.680 --> 18:06.680 He's been ahead of us all the way. 18:06.680 --> 18:08.680 He's our guy, I tell you. 18:08.680 --> 18:09.680 He's our guy. 18:09.680 --> 18:10.680 He's our guy. 18:10.680 --> 18:11.680 He's our guy. 18:11.680 --> 18:13.680 Well, go on out and prove it then. 18:13.680 --> 18:14.680 All right. 18:14.680 --> 18:15.680 Don't take it out on me, Cap. 18:15.680 --> 18:16.680 I feel as bad about it as you do. 18:16.680 --> 18:19.680 Yeah, well, you're the guy with all the big ideas. 18:19.680 --> 18:20.680 Go out and do something about it. 18:20.680 --> 18:21.680 All right. 18:21.680 --> 18:22.680 How long are you giving me? 18:22.680 --> 18:23.680 Tomorrow morning. 18:23.680 --> 18:25.680 You can't hold them forever without booking them, you know. 18:25.680 --> 18:26.680 Tomorrow morning? 18:26.680 --> 18:27.680 What am I going to do it this time? 18:27.680 --> 18:29.680 Look, make it noon, huh? 18:29.680 --> 18:31.680 Give me a chance anyhow. 18:31.680 --> 18:32.680 All right. 18:32.680 --> 18:33.680 Noon. 18:33.680 --> 18:35.680 And I'm stretching it for you. 18:35.680 --> 18:36.680 Yeah, thanks, Cap. 18:36.680 --> 18:38.680 Listen, wait a minute. 18:38.680 --> 18:40.680 You're not holding out on me, are you? 18:40.680 --> 18:42.680 I wish I was. 18:42.680 --> 18:44.680 I don't know a thing more than you do, Cap. 18:44.680 --> 18:46.680 I just know it's got to be our way, that's all. 18:46.680 --> 18:48.680 Yeah, it's got to be. 18:48.680 --> 18:51.680 Hey, I think I'll take another look at it before I go. 18:56.680 --> 18:59.680 Oh, now listen, Colin, we know you did it. 18:59.680 --> 19:01.680 Why don't you make it easy for yourself? 19:01.680 --> 19:03.680 Make it easy for you coppers, you mean? 19:03.680 --> 19:04.680 I know you guys anything for a pinch. 19:04.680 --> 19:06.680 What do you care if you got the wrong guy? 19:06.680 --> 19:07.680 All right. 19:07.680 --> 19:08.680 Okay, okay, pass. 19:08.680 --> 19:09.680 You can lay off. 19:09.680 --> 19:10.680 You got something? 19:10.680 --> 19:11.680 Yeah, the slug that killed Lombard was a.32. 19:11.680 --> 19:12.680 His gun is a.38. 19:12.680 --> 19:14.680 Huh? 19:14.680 --> 19:15.680 Uh-uh. 19:15.680 --> 19:16.680 All right, throw him in a cell. 19:16.680 --> 19:17.680 We'll probably have to turn him loose in the morning. 19:17.680 --> 19:18.680 Morning? 19:18.680 --> 19:19.680 What's the matter with tonight? 19:19.680 --> 19:20.680 What's the matter? 19:20.680 --> 19:21.680 Don't you like it in here? 19:21.680 --> 19:22.680 All right. 19:22.680 --> 19:24.680 But you'll have a sweet case of false arrest on your hands by morning. 19:24.680 --> 19:26.680 Remember that copper when you're back pounding a beat. 19:26.680 --> 19:27.680 Oh, I won't forget. 19:27.680 --> 19:28.680 You're smart. 19:28.680 --> 19:29.680 Got a match? 19:29.680 --> 19:32.680 Go on, have a cigarette. 19:32.680 --> 19:33.680 I got my own. 19:33.680 --> 19:35.680 Go ahead, have one. 19:35.680 --> 19:38.680 I wouldn't take a smoke from a copper if it was the last one before I die. 19:38.680 --> 19:40.680 You may have a chance to prove that someday. 19:40.680 --> 19:41.680 Yeah? 19:41.680 --> 19:43.680 Yeah, when you go to the electric chair. 19:43.680 --> 19:56.680 Well, that sounded good, but I wasn't too sure. 19:56.680 --> 19:59.680 You know, they say every criminal makes at least one mistake. 19:59.680 --> 20:01.680 Well, I wasn't too sure of that either. 20:01.680 --> 20:05.680 All I was sure of was that he'd done it, so there had to be some way to prove it. 20:05.680 --> 20:08.680 At first I went back to his apartment. 20:08.680 --> 20:11.680 I went over the joint with a fine-tooth comb. 20:11.680 --> 20:13.680 Nothing. 20:13.680 --> 20:15.680 And I thought of that suit in the closet. 20:15.680 --> 20:20.680 I got it out, I went over it inch by inch, turned the pockets inside out. 20:20.680 --> 20:24.680 Right there was where I found something that gave me an idea, 20:24.680 --> 20:28.680 or rather it was what I didn't find that I should have. 20:28.680 --> 20:31.680 I went out to Coleman's kitchen, I made a pot of black coffee, 20:31.680 --> 20:33.680 and I sat down to think. 20:33.680 --> 20:36.680 And the more I thought, the better I liked it. 20:36.680 --> 20:40.680 It might not mean a thing, it might not even be possible, but it was all I had, so. 20:40.680 --> 20:44.680 So the next stop was headquarters in the pistol range in the basement. 20:44.680 --> 20:46.680 By the time I got through it was daylight. 20:46.680 --> 20:50.680 At a quarter to seven I was waiting outside that cigar store at 23rd and 7th 20:50.680 --> 20:53.680 where Coleman had made his phone call to lombard. 20:53.680 --> 20:56.680 It was run by a little guy named Truehawk. 20:56.680 --> 20:58.680 We questioned him before, but this was different. 20:58.680 --> 21:00.680 The story wasn't open yet to it. 21:00.680 --> 21:04.680 Finally after what seemed at least an hour and a half, I saw him. 21:04.680 --> 21:07.680 I saw Truehawk come puffing down the street. 21:07.680 --> 21:10.680 Well, well, Lieutenant, you're the real early bird, huh? 21:10.680 --> 21:11.680 You're late. 21:11.680 --> 21:13.680 Late he says. 21:13.680 --> 21:16.680 What time you want at the cigar store should open in the middle of the night. 21:16.680 --> 21:19.680 Come on, come on, let's go inside. I want to ask you a couple of things. 21:19.680 --> 21:21.680 Ah, more questions. 21:21.680 --> 21:24.680 Didn't you ask me already everything but my grandmother's middle name. 21:24.680 --> 21:26.680 Yeah, I forgot that. That's why I came back. 21:26.680 --> 21:29.680 All right, all right. So now what? 21:29.680 --> 21:32.680 About this Coleman. When he was in Hillel. 21:32.680 --> 21:35.680 Sure, sure, he telephoned from the booth back there. 21:35.680 --> 21:38.680 How can I hear what he says one way up here? 21:38.680 --> 21:40.680 I don't care about that now. 21:40.680 --> 21:42.680 He used to buy smokes from you though, you said. 21:42.680 --> 21:44.680 That's right, every day almost. 21:44.680 --> 21:45.680 Any particular brand? 21:45.680 --> 21:49.680 Sure, always the same for two years. These, these here. 21:49.680 --> 21:51.680 Always machine-made cigarettes? 21:51.680 --> 21:53.680 Always, why not? 21:53.680 --> 21:56.680 What did he buy from you the night he was in here phoning? 21:56.680 --> 21:58.680 The same, why not? 21:58.680 --> 22:00.680 You're sure he... 22:00.680 --> 22:02.680 He didn't buy these? 22:02.680 --> 22:04.680 Wait. 22:04.680 --> 22:08.680 Yes, if I didn't see them in your hand, I would never remember. 22:08.680 --> 22:11.680 Cigarette papers. For change, he said, to cut down expenses, he said. 22:11.680 --> 22:13.680 Sure, the first time he ever bought them. 22:13.680 --> 22:16.680 Did he buy any loose tobacco to go with them? 22:16.680 --> 22:17.680 Let me see. 22:17.680 --> 22:23.680 Why, I don't think. He didn't ask me, so I figured he's got some already. 22:23.680 --> 22:26.680 Okay. Okay. 22:26.680 --> 22:27.680 You can give me some now. 22:27.680 --> 22:29.680 Oh, sure thing. 22:29.680 --> 22:30.680 Hey, give me some matches, will you? 22:30.680 --> 22:33.680 Sure, sure, help yourself. 22:33.680 --> 22:37.680 Say, what is it all of a sudden that you look down? 22:37.680 --> 22:40.680 You look like you just swallowed the cat that ate the canary. 22:40.680 --> 22:43.680 You're all right, Pop. And I'm going to fix you up. 22:43.680 --> 22:44.680 Yeah? 22:44.680 --> 22:45.680 Yep. 22:45.680 --> 22:48.680 To be a witness of a nice big murder trial. Pre. 22:48.680 --> 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. 23:02.680 --> 23:06.680 That took more time to locate them, but that was one thing I had plenty of. 23:06.680 --> 23:10.680 I was either in with what I had, or I was out. 23:10.680 --> 23:15.680 Suddenly I felt tired. I felt tired as an old dog. 23:15.680 --> 23:18.680 I tried breakfast, but that didn't help much, so I went on over to the east side. 23:18.680 --> 23:23.680 Leffinger was right on deck, cranky as ever, but I could see he was worried. 23:23.680 --> 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. 23:28.680 --> 23:33.680 Well, where have you been all night, bright eyes? You look like you slept on a park bench. 23:33.680 --> 23:37.680 I didn't sleep anyplace. I've been using my brains. 23:37.680 --> 23:40.680 Why did you leave Ward? You were going to move him. 23:40.680 --> 23:42.680 What's the difference? His next move is out. 23:42.680 --> 23:44.680 His next move is a raiment, after what I'm going to show you. 23:44.680 --> 23:48.680 Great. Great. I'm just in the mood for lantern slides. 23:48.680 --> 23:49.680 Let's have him in, huh? 23:49.680 --> 23:50.680 Yeah, bring him in, Johnson. 23:50.680 --> 23:52.680 Okay, Captain. 23:52.680 --> 23:56.680 Now, look, first I want you to watch how he rolls a cigarette. 23:56.680 --> 23:58.680 What'll he be doing now, playing parlor games? 23:58.680 --> 24:02.680 Just watch him, that's all. And remember, I found these cigarette papers in the pocket of his suit. 24:02.680 --> 24:04.680 The suit he wore the night he went to see Lombard. 24:04.680 --> 24:08.680 Oh, I suppose he gassed him to death with cheap tobacco. 24:08.680 --> 24:09.680 There he is, Captain. 24:09.680 --> 24:12.680 Oh, the Rover boys. 24:12.680 --> 24:15.680 You guys woke me up just to move me to another hideout. Why don't you get wise to yourselves? 24:15.680 --> 24:17.680 You know you're going to have to book me or turn me loose sooner or later. 24:17.680 --> 24:21.680 All right, all right. Forget it. We're turning you loose. 24:21.680 --> 24:24.680 All we want to do is to sign a waiver. Nothing happened to you in here. 24:24.680 --> 24:25.680 Nuts, I sign nothing. 24:25.680 --> 24:27.680 Hey, take it easy, will you? We got the guy that did it. 24:27.680 --> 24:28.680 Yeah? 24:28.680 --> 24:31.680 Yeah. Got nothing to worry about. We just don't want any suits for false arrest, that's all. 24:31.680 --> 24:35.680 Yeah, well, you took the words right out of my mouth, copper, because my first stop after here is a lawyer. 24:35.680 --> 24:39.680 Ah, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's talk this over. 24:39.680 --> 24:40.680 Smoke? 24:40.680 --> 24:42.680 Ah, not one of them things. 24:42.680 --> 24:44.680 Well, you smoke these, don't you? 24:44.680 --> 24:46.680 Yeah, sure. 24:46.680 --> 24:48.680 Here's some tobacco. Go ahead, roll one. 24:48.680 --> 24:52.680 Thanks. 24:52.680 --> 24:54.680 That's not the way. 24:54.680 --> 24:56.680 I'm a little out of practice. 24:56.680 --> 24:58.680 A little out of practice, he says. 24:58.680 --> 25:01.680 Don't look to me like you've ever rolled one before in his life. Is it to you, Cap? 25:01.680 --> 25:03.680 All right, so send me to the chair for that. 25:03.680 --> 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. 25:08.680 --> 25:11.680 First time in two years he ever bought any. I know the backer to go with him. 25:11.680 --> 25:14.680 And not a shred of loose tobacco to leave his pockets. 25:14.680 --> 25:19.680 Now, why do you suppose he bought those cigarette papers that night, huh? 25:19.680 --> 25:21.680 You're telling me. I'm listening. 25:21.680 --> 25:23.680 Are you listening, Coleman? 25:23.680 --> 25:25.680 You're talking in your sleep. 25:25.680 --> 25:27.680 I'll tell you why he bought them. 25:27.680 --> 25:29.680 Better than that, I'll show you why. Let me have your gun in a minute, will you, Cap? 25:29.680 --> 25:31.680 Yeah, sure. 25:31.680 --> 25:32.680 That's a.38, right? 25:32.680 --> 25:33.680 Yeah. 25:33.680 --> 25:34.680 Same caliber as Coleman's gun? 25:34.680 --> 25:35.680 Right. 25:35.680 --> 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? 25:42.680 --> 25:44.680 I know a.32 when I see it. 25:44.680 --> 25:49.680 All right. Now, we take the.38 bullets out of your gun. 25:49.680 --> 25:55.680 Now, we take this.32 bullet and about the... about three of these cigarette papers. 25:55.680 --> 25:57.680 We double them over, we wrap them around the bullet. 25:57.680 --> 26:01.680 See? See how snug a.32 fits in your.38 gun now? 26:01.680 --> 26:02.680 Now, I'll be a m... 26:02.680 --> 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. 26:07.680 --> 26:12.680 That's ballistics, Cap. How do you like it? 26:12.680 --> 26:15.680 Ballistics. Ballistics. 26:15.680 --> 26:18.680 You take ballistics. I'll take human nature every time. 26:18.680 --> 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. 26:48.680 --> 26:55.680 Suspense. 26:55.680 --> 27:02.680 Presented by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A. Roma. 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