1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:28,500 Produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 3 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:33,280 This is the second in a special limited series of five Friday night performances of Suspense 4 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,240 at this hour. 5 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,800 Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 6 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:44,720 In this series, our story is calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 7 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:51,120 you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 8 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,960 Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you Mr. Jackie Cooper as star in The Clock and the Rope, 9 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,480 a radio play by Lewis Pollock. 10 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:06,240 We trust that with this tale, we shall once again keep you in Suspense. 11 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,880 Would you like to hear the old story about the innocent man facing execution and his 12 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:16,000 last minute attempts to get a pardon and how it feels when he doesn't get it? 13 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,280 Well, I can tell you all about it, because that's my story. 14 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,600 There's a couple of different twists to it, of course, there always are. 15 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:30,000 For one thing, it happened to me, now I keep away from people. 16 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,720 I keep away from cities and buildings, buildings with the cells they call rooms and the doors 17 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,880 that don't always open. 18 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,680 I never button my collar, you'll find out why. 19 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,940 I earned my living as a guide for hunting parties, me, who couldn't find my way across 20 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:50,080 the city park. 21 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:55,340 I never sleep indoors and I can't stand clocks. 22 00:01:55,340 --> 00:01:59,000 Most of all, I can't stand clocks. 23 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:06,120 It happened so fast, I told them it wasn't murder, it was self-defense, involuntary self-defense, 24 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,200 like putting up your arms to protect yourself. 25 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,160 But it didn't work out that way in court. 26 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,880 That's the other different twist I told you about. 27 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:33,560 They convicted me, they sentenced me to be hanged, and they hanged me. 28 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:38,400 I was night man, my job wasn't hard, and to me interesting. 29 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,640 Sell a little gas, do the rough strip down for some repairs that had to be done the next 30 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:45,560 day, take care of any tranch and overnight parking. 31 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:51,120 Then this girl started dropping in for gas every other night or so, late. 32 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,800 I liked her style, but I was too shy to say anything and I guess she figured it. 33 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,040 She'd sit with a sort of a little smile, half turned in her seat, and watch me while I filled 34 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,040 the tank. 35 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,920 Then she'd pay me and pull away with a funny look in her eyes, like she was getting a kick 36 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:08,560 out of the way I acted. 37 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,640 Then one night, instead of pulling away when she paid me, she spoke. 38 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:14,080 Oh, come on, come on, open up. 39 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,040 Say something, I've been here 20 times. 40 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,600 You can say a word or two, can't you? 41 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,000 You know, hello, it's a nice night or it ain't. 42 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,360 Oh, well, I didn't know that you wanted me to. 43 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,360 You're a funny fellow. 44 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,440 I didn't look like I didn't want you to, did I? 45 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,920 Or don't I know my looks anymore? 46 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:30,920 Oh, sure. 47 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,520 Oh, I just, well, can I get your windshield here? 48 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,160 Tell me, did I hear somebody call you Hank the other night? 49 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,160 I guess you did. 50 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,960 My name's Henry, Henry Guilford. 51 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,600 Does your girl call you Hank? 52 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,080 Haven't you got a girl? 53 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:43,080 No, steady girl. 54 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:44,080 Is that what you mean? 55 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,080 I don't mean anything. 56 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Anyway, what would you be doing on a steady girl working here every night? 57 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,520 Well, I get one night off, go to a dance or something. 58 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,000 Oh, you get a night off? 59 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Oh, sure. 60 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,160 Hey, say, you like to dance? 61 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 I have, Dan. 62 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 Well, I'm off tomorrow night. 63 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,960 You ever go to the Arcadia? 64 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:01,480 They got a good band there. 65 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:02,640 Forget who it is this week. 66 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,120 I'm sorry, tomorrow night isn't my night off. 67 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,200 But I get off at midnight, though. 68 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,560 Well, gee, the Arcadia closes at midnight. 69 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,400 All the big dance places close at midnight. 70 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,640 We don't have to have a big place, do we? 71 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,840 Well, I don't know. 72 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:17,840 No. 73 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:19,720 There's the Owl Inn out on Tapscott Avenue. 74 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,560 They run late, have a pretty good little band and booths and everything. 75 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:24,560 That'll be fine. 76 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,160 I'll pick you up at your job. 77 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,480 No, I'm way at the other end of town. 78 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:29,800 I have to drive my car back anyway. 79 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,560 Suppose I meet you at the Owl. 80 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:32,760 I'll be there a little after midnight. 81 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:33,760 I'll be there. 82 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Okay. 83 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:35,760 See you. 84 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:36,760 Yeah, see you. 85 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:37,760 Jose, hey, what's your name? 86 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,760 My name's Mike, Mike. 87 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 Mike, Mike. 88 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:49,800 Well, that next night around 1130, I caught the trolley going out along Tapscott Avenue. 89 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,440 The motorman was old Steve Hoffman. 90 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,400 He'd known me since I was a kid. 91 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,960 He'd written me about my new gray suit and especially about wanting to get off at the 92 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:57,960 Owl Inn. 93 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,840 Said I was stepping out in fast company. 94 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:05,200 Well, we got there in about 20 minutes and I started up the driveway, kind of thrilled 95 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,040 at the idea of a midnight date. 96 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,080 I was just starting up the steps to the inn when I heard voices coming from a grove of 97 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,920 trees to one side. 98 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,440 Seemed to be a quarrel, so I instinctively glanced that way and saw a man and a girl 99 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,440 talking. 100 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,160 The girl was my girl. 101 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,160 She was saying something. 102 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,160 Nobody, I tell you. 103 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,160 Don't give me that stuff. 104 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:23,160 I've followed you all the way out here. 105 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:24,160 Who are you meeting? 106 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,160 Nobody. 107 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,160 Who are you meeting? 108 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,160 Oh, Joe, I told you nobody. 109 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,160 Don't lie to me. 110 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,160 Who are you meeting? 111 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:30,160 Hey, come back here. 112 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:31,160 Hey, what is this? 113 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,160 Get out of my way. 114 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,160 Look, this is... 115 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,160 What's you, Hank? 116 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,280 Well, here, here, I'll help you up. 117 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:39,280 I'm sorry I got in your way, but I... 118 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:40,280 Oh, Hank, so this is the guy, huh? 119 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,280 Swell. 120 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:42,280 Hey, now what's going on? 121 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:43,280 What do you mean anybody, huh? 122 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:44,280 Hey. 123 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:45,280 What did you get him for? 124 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:46,280 Joe, he's got nothing to do with you. 125 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:47,280 Get up, Hank and Ron. 126 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:48,280 This guy is just crazy. 127 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:49,280 Crazy? 128 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:50,280 Well, go call somebody. 129 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:51,280 What? 130 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:52,280 Now, wait a minute, fellow. 131 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:53,280 Look, I don't know what this is. 132 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:54,280 Oh, Hank, will you get out of here? 133 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:55,280 Run. 134 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,280 You want more? 135 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,280 I got it right here for you. 136 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:58,280 Hank, it's a blackjack. 137 00:05:58,280 --> 00:05:59,280 Will you run? 138 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:00,280 Please? 139 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:01,280 No, no, wait a minute. 140 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:04,280 I'll get you drunk, here, put that away, now somebody's gonna get... 141 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:05,280 Let go? 142 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:06,280 No, you don't grab... 143 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:07,280 Let go? 144 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:08,280 You got him. 145 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:09,280 You got him, Hank. 146 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:10,280 Hit him. 147 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:11,280 Hit him again. 148 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:12,280 Hit him. 149 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:13,280 Hit him. 150 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:14,280 Hit him. 151 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,280 Hit him. 152 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:16,280 I did it, I guess. 153 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:17,280 Hey, who is he? 154 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:20,280 Oh, he would have done worse to you. 155 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:21,280 He's... 156 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:22,280 We used to go together. 157 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:25,200 Oh, I didn't know you had a steady fellow. 158 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,200 I thought we made our date. 159 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:27,200 You didn't ask me. 160 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,200 Besides, we were breaking up. 161 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:29,200 He had no right to interfere. 162 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:30,200 Well, what do we do now? 163 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,200 I mean about him. 164 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,200 You better go. 165 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,200 I'll take care of him. 166 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,200 No. 167 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,200 You mean leave him here with you? 168 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:39,200 Please go, will you? 169 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,200 There'll be more trouble if you're too... 170 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,200 Go ahead, will you, Hank? 171 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,200 I'm gonna leave right away too. 172 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,200 He'll be all right, honest. 173 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,200 Well, okay, I guess. 174 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,200 He'll be all right up. 175 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:49,200 Joe. 176 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,200 Joe? 177 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,200 But he wasn't all right. 178 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,280 He was dead. 179 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:00,800 I knew about it hardly two hours later. 180 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,600 She didn't come and tell me. 181 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,200 The police came and got me. 182 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,280 They didn't learn about me from her either. 183 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:08,480 They didn't know anything about her. 184 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,120 And they acted like they didn't want to know. 185 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,520 Sometimes you punks aren't as smart as you think you are. 186 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,280 I wasn't trying to cover up, I tell you. 187 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,280 I wasn't. 188 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,280 Why did you walk home? 189 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,760 You rode out there on a trolley. 190 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:22,760 Why didn't you ride back? 191 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,280 I just wanted to think, that's all. 192 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,280 Yeah, sure, sure. 193 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:31,560 Of course, you weren't thinking about how maybe the motor man wouldn't remember taking 194 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,280 you out there if you didn't ride back. 195 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,760 No, why would I do that? 196 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,080 I've known old Steve Hoffman all my life. 197 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,080 That I found out. 198 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,120 I told you, you aren't as smart as you think you are. 199 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,280 I'm not trying to be smart. 200 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:44,280 Okay, okay, okay. 201 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,440 So you hit him in self-defense and you saved the girl. 202 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,480 Now, what's her name? 203 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:51,480 Her name? 204 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,640 Gee, I never got it. 205 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:54,640 She never told me. 206 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,440 You mean you had a date with a girl and you didn't even know what her name was? 207 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,240 Well, yeah, well I asked her. 208 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:01,240 I seen her often. 209 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,040 Well, she didn't tell me. 210 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,320 Are you sure there was a girl? 211 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,320 Of course. 212 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,160 Now who did I have a date with? 213 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,480 Maybe just with the guy you killed. 214 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:10,920 I never met him before. 215 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:11,920 I don't even know him. 216 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,840 You just don't know anything, do you? 217 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,920 Well, I'll ask you a very simple question. 218 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,600 I'm sure you can answer this one. 219 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:21,600 I'll try. 220 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,800 How much money did you take off the man you murdered? 221 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:24,800 How much money? 222 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:25,800 Yeah, how much? 223 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:26,800 Where is it? 224 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,320 His pockets were turned inside out. 225 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:39,280 You went from self-defense to help yourself. 226 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,680 They pushed me around some after that. 227 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:44,160 They'd take me to court and then back to my cell. 228 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,880 Half the time I didn't know what was going on. 229 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,520 They gave me a lawyer, Mr. Hall, Bailey Hall. 230 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,240 He'd do the talking. 231 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:58,320 He kept asking for things like reduced bail, time for further investigation, continuances 232 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,000 to find witnesses, just sort of stalling all the time. 233 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 I don't know why. 234 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,040 I told him I didn't have any money for any bail and witnesses. 235 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,920 There was only one I wanted, that girl. 236 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:11,920 But he kept on. 237 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,640 I was trying to hold up things. 238 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,600 And one day he told me I'd been indicted. 239 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,640 I knew what that meant all right. 240 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,440 Then I had to go on trial for murder. 241 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,960 That's bad, boy. 242 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,160 I've done all I could to delay indictment and trial and hope that something would turn 243 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,320 up, but we're in for it now. 244 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,920 I wish you could give me something more to work on. 245 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:35,920 What do you mean? 246 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,960 Well, this girl you can't even name. 247 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,240 I can't go into court with just that. 248 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,640 The police feel certain there never was a girl. 249 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,160 There's no trace of her anywhere. 250 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,160 Maybe she'll show up. 251 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:47,160 Show up? 252 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,040 My boy, you've got a lot to learn. 253 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,200 I hate to bet my case on a hope like this. 254 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,640 That's all I got. 255 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,960 Whole case smells. 256 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,120 A man is killed and his pocket's empty. 257 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,120 You admit hitting him. 258 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,480 You talk about a girl who saw you hit in self-defense. 259 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:02,480 You don't know her name. 260 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:03,480 She doesn't show up. 261 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,480 The police can't find her. 262 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,840 It's a great case for the state. 263 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,040 Mr. Hall, that's all I know. 264 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:10,040 I can't help it. 265 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:15,560 Why, George, if you'd never mentioned the girl and just claimed self-defense or a fight, 266 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:16,920 I'd like it 10 times better. 267 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,000 It's a girl thing that's so bad, it makes your whole defense phony. 268 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,440 Good Lord, boy, if you made up a girl, why didn't you make up a name? 269 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,800 I've been all through that with the police. 270 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,640 If you're gonna talk that way to me, we'd better forget the whole thing. 271 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,320 Maybe you'll give me another attorney or none for all I care. 272 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:34,320 Easy, easy, boy. 273 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,320 Sorry, I piped off. 274 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,080 It isn't a new attorney you need. 275 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,080 It's a new story. 276 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,080 Well, I'll do my best. 277 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:42,080 Do my best. 278 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:53,120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. 279 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,600 Guilford rode out to the inn that night in my trolley. 280 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:56,600 On my run. 281 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:57,600 Speak louder, please. 282 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,600 Yeah, that's right. 283 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,480 Guilford rode out to the inn that night in my trolley. 284 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:01,480 On my run. 285 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,040 Speak to the jury, please, and talk louder. 286 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,040 Oh, louder? 287 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,040 Oh. 288 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,520 I, uh, I said I took Guilford to the inn that night. 289 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,520 It was about 1210. 290 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:15,400 Uh, that's 10 after midnight, you know. 291 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:16,400 Card talk, doesn't it? 292 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,400 The way we talk around the barn. 293 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,440 He got out and started for the inn. 294 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,560 Yes, well, just a minute. 295 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,160 Did you notice anyone else around? 296 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,160 Any girl, for instance? 297 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:28,160 Girl? 298 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,160 No. 299 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:30,160 Nobody else. 300 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,720 Just my friend, Fatty Cushion, that's all. 301 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:32,720 That'll be all. 302 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:33,720 We play Puyknuckle together, don't you? 303 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:34,720 Thank you very much. 304 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:35,720 Yes. 305 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:42,040 And the defense may have the witness. 306 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,640 And as soon as we started to talk to Guilford, he confessed to striking the blows. 307 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,800 He talked about doing it in self-defense and about a girl he had a date with, a witness 308 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:51,800 to fight. 309 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:52,800 Yeah. 310 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:58,680 Well, now, Lieutenant, has your department been able to trace this girl whose existence 311 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:00,640 is claimed by the defendant? 312 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:01,640 No. 313 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,280 No trace of her at all? 314 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:04,280 No, sir. 315 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:09,280 No trace of her at all. 316 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:13,640 Beyond the shadow of any reasonable doubt. 317 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:18,720 Now then, we come to the actual evidence, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. 318 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,240 Where do we get the evidence? 319 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,200 From the witnesses. 320 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,040 And who is the state's principal witness? 321 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,640 None other than the defendant himself, Henry Guilford. 322 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,840 But the defendant can prove his story. 323 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:39,960 He has a witness, the girl who saw it all, the girl he saved from a bad beating. 324 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,920 Would any girl be so heartless as to leave such a benefactor in the lurch when just a 325 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,840 word would save him? 326 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:47,840 Why doesn't she appear? 327 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,640 Why hasn't she found? 328 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,720 But no, no trace of her. 329 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,160 Not even a small size note. 330 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:02,600 In other words, she is behaving exactly as you would expect of someone who is not real, 331 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:16,360 but just the figment of a desperate man's imagination. 332 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,240 The defendant will rise. 333 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,240 Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? 334 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,520 We have, your honor. 335 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,080 What is your verdict? 336 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:32,080 We the jury find the defendant, Henry Guilford, guilty as charged with murder in the first 337 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,080 degree. 338 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,120 Henry Guilford, you have... 339 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,120 Yes, sir. 340 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:50,840 It was crazy. 341 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,200 Sometimes I thought it must be just a crazy nightmare. 342 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:58,520 Like when you're going to wake up and everything's going to be all right. 343 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,520 I was innocent. 344 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,960 And they were going to hang me. 345 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:02,960 For murder. 346 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,800 Because they couldn't find a girl. 347 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,400 One girl who knew I hadn't done it. 348 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,640 Can you imagine how that feels? 349 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,280 My boss at the garage and the fellows who worked there days chipped in some money. 350 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:23,880 I had an uncle in West Virginia who sent Mr. Hall $50 in cash, a promissory note for another 351 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:24,880 50. 352 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,560 And I guess Mr. Hall put up some money himself for expenses. 353 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:33,600 Anyway, he kept appealing the case all the way up to the state Supreme Court. 354 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,840 But it didn't do any good. 355 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,480 Kept coming back with the original decision sustained, Mr. Hall said. 356 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,640 I asked him if he was going to take the case to the United States Supreme Court. 357 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,240 But he said he couldn't. 358 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,920 He had nothing to justify a hearing. 359 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,880 Guess he meant everything was cut and dry. 360 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,440 All this time the courts had kept changing the date. 361 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,840 The date I was supposed to be hanged. 362 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:04,120 Now all of a sudden I knew there weren't going to be any more changes. 363 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,680 The last date set was it. 364 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,440 How do you suppose that feels? 365 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,560 I think I started to suffocate right then. 366 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,120 There was something growing in my throat that wouldn't let me breathe. 367 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,840 Evening of the next day, McGill, the deputy warden, came into my cell with a couple of 368 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:20,840 guards. 369 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,160 Told me I was moving. 370 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:24,160 I knew where. 371 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,720 It was down on the main floor, a row of only three cells. 372 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,400 These were larger cells. 373 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:31,680 More light. 374 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,640 More convenient. 375 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:38,400 This was the last death row. 376 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:48,080 Now there's a team of two guards who live right in the cell with you the last few days. 377 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:53,280 It's one time a prison breaks down and shows a human touch, I guess. 378 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Where else? 379 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,840 I just want to make sure you don't go ahead and carry out the sentence on yourself. 380 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,440 Anyway, whatever it was, I was grateful. 381 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,080 Because now I was lonely. 382 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,440 Wait deep inside myself. 383 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,240 I ached with loneliness and fear. 384 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:09,240 I was afraid. 385 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,240 Well, not like a man. 386 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,400 Afraid of a boy or a child. 387 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,800 Who's gone someplace? 388 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:17,800 The last place. 389 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:25,360 I was going alone. 390 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,200 The thing you feel most the last hours is the time. 391 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,200 The clock. 392 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,560 Remembering how often you wished it would hurry so you could get off work or go out 393 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,400 of school or see your girl, like a fishin'. 394 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,760 Oh, you remember a hundred hours like that one. 395 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:42,760 Six hours is all you got left. 396 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,880 Outside, you know, they're watching the clock, too. 397 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,960 Not like you are, but they're watching it. 398 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,320 All the usual people concerned with an execution, doing the usual things. 399 00:16:53,320 --> 00:17:00,600 Your lawyer in the ward, governor maybe, newspaper men, guards, the executioner. 400 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,080 I know what every one of them was doing as they watched the clock that night. 401 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,720 They told me afterwards. 402 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,560 Now I'll never forget it. 403 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:16,560 The clocks all over the state ticking away my life. 404 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:27,760 You know, you ought to get some sleep, warden. 405 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,960 It's only five hours away. 406 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:30,960 I know. 407 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:36,960 Oh, I wish I could lose this pain in my chest for a little while. 408 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:38,840 I think I'll just lie down here on the couch. 409 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,840 Why don't you do that, warden? 410 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,840 Yeah, yeah. 411 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,840 Oh. 412 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:50,280 What time is it? 413 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,280 It's coming up one a.m. 414 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,280 Been feeling bad all day? 415 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,000 Not too good. 416 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,440 I've got this thing in my chest. 417 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,120 I suppose it's nervous indigestion. 418 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:02,120 Good day. 419 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:03,120 Yeah. 420 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:07,080 Had it a couple of weeks, as a matter of fact. 421 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,320 I'm exhausted. 422 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,880 This is a tough job, McGill. 423 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:20,520 Every time it gets harder, it takes it out of me. 424 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,760 What do you think of young Guilford? 425 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:23,760 Nice kid. 426 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:24,760 Yeah. 427 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,800 Yeah, nice kid. 428 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:28,840 He sounds like he's... 429 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,960 Well, that's not up to us. 430 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,200 It's not up to us. 431 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,840 Well, I'll try and get some rest. 432 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:40,840 Yeah. 433 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:41,840 When shall I call you, warden? 434 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,640 Oh, make it an hour beforehand. 435 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,640 Five o'clock. 436 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,440 Hello. 437 00:18:52,440 --> 00:19:00,760 This is Bailey Hall. 438 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:06,120 Yes, I'm Guilford's attorney. 439 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,320 Look, it's four o'clock in the morning. 440 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:09,320 I need... 441 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,320 You're who? 442 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,320 You're... 443 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,320 Well, where have you been all this time? 444 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,320 What? 445 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,200 Yeah, now look, you're not just some crank that's after publicity. 446 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,280 I know, I know, I know. 447 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:21,280 It's for six o'clock. 448 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:22,280 Where are you? 449 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:23,280 Well, wait for me. 450 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:24,280 I'll be right down. 451 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,280 We've got about two hours. 452 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:26,280 I'll stake my reputation on the governor. 453 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:37,520 This is a girl. 454 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,360 At least it deserves a stay of execution. 455 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,360 It's true, sir. 456 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,640 Honest, I swear it's true. 457 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:43,640 I've been away. 458 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:44,640 I've been in Mexico. 459 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,360 You just don't read the papers there. 460 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:49,520 I just hadn't heard about it till tonight, but it's just as he said it was. 461 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:50,520 Self-defense. 462 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,600 Please, sir, it's after five o'clock now. 463 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:53,600 Can't we get... 464 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,200 What about the money that was taken out of the dead man? 465 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,200 I took it. 466 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:58,200 I took it. 467 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,200 I needed it. 468 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,200 I didn't know he was dead. 469 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,200 He was drunk. 470 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,200 He was... 471 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,200 I had every right to the money, honest. 472 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,200 He'd been my husband. 473 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,200 Well, very well. 474 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,200 Richard. 475 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:07,200 Yes, governor? 476 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,800 Type out a stay of execution on the Guilford case for three weeks. 477 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:12,800 Bring it in and I'll sign it. 478 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:13,800 You can take it down. 479 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:14,800 All right. 480 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,080 You'd better phone the warden to make sure, though, governor. 481 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,640 The boy's only got about a half hour left. 482 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:27,840 Oh, warden's office. 483 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:41,920 Yes, this is warden Barnes. 484 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:42,920 What? 485 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:47,000 Well, put him on, of course. 486 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Yes, governor. 487 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Young Guilford? 488 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Oh, you don't say so. 489 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Why, that's splendid, governor. 490 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Yes. 491 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Yes, I'll let them know right away. 492 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Yes. 493 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Mr. McGill! 494 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Yes, warden. 495 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Harry, Jack, come in here quick. 496 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 What's the matter? 497 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Something's happened to the warden. 498 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Let me get him up on the couch. 499 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Yes, warden. 500 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Yes, sir. 501 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Yes, sir. 502 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Yes, sir. 503 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Yes, sir. 504 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Yes, sir. 505 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Yes, sir. 506 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Yes, sir. 507 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Yes, sir. 508 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 You're not going to get hurt. 509 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000 That's better. 510 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Looks like a stroke. 511 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Yeah, you better call the doctor, will you? 512 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Sure. 513 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Phone off the hook. 514 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Never mind that. 515 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Call the doctor. 516 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Must have been the strain on this execution. 517 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Warden. 518 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 I think he's kind of like the kid. 519 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 What's the matter with his phone? 520 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 I'm afraid there's no hurry for the doctor. 521 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 The warden's dead. 522 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Gee. 523 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Yeah. 524 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 It's 5.30. 525 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 I'm afraid it's time to go. 526 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Yes, sir. 527 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Yes, sir. 528 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Yes, sir. 529 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Yes, sir. 530 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Yes, sir. 531 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Yes, sir. 532 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Yes, sir. 533 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Yes, sir. 534 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Yes, sir. 535 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Yes, sir. 536 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Yes, sir. 537 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Yes, sir. 538 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Yes, sir. 539 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Yes, sir. 540 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000 It's 5.30. 541 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000 I'll have to take over for the execution. 542 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Uh, gentlemen. 543 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Gentlemen, please. 544 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 It's now 10 minutes to six, gentlemen. 545 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:07,960 In a few moments, you will be admitted to the ground floor of Blockhouse A, where the 546 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:12,600 scaffold has been erected and where the execution, which you are to witness as newspaperman and 547 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,240 members of the medical profession, will take place. 548 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,360 You'll find rows of benches. 549 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:22,640 Please take your seats quietly in any of the rows except the first, which has been reserved 550 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,720 for members of the medical examining committee. 551 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:31,240 We ask you to cooperate with us in our duties and to respect the solemnity of the occasion 552 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:36,320 by moving quietly and refraining from any loud conversation from the moment you enter 553 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,320 until you leave. 554 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:43,320 Thank you. 555 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:51,200 The minister was reading from the Bible when the outer cell-block door clanged. 556 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,200 I knew it was time. 557 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,000 They were coming for me. 558 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,000 This was it then. 559 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 There was a group of guards. 560 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,520 The deputy warden was with them. 561 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,560 They opened my cell door. 562 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,720 One of the guards came straight up to me. 563 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,040 He was carrying a leather strap with a big buckle on it. 564 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,040 I stood up. 565 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,760 I felt him strapping my arms behind me. 566 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,960 The minister stopped reading for a moment to say something. 567 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,280 Steady, my son. 568 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:25,880 We'll go now, Guilford. 569 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,840 I started to say something to the deputy, but he nodded his head at the man, and he started 570 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:30,840 to move. 571 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:39,600 The two guards who'd been with me in the cell stood back. 572 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,280 One of them reached over and let his hand fall on my shoulder for a second. 573 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,520 I tried to say goodbye. 574 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,080 I walked and realized they couldn't breathe very deeply, though I wanted to. 575 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,080 Just short breaths were all I could take. 576 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,480 The deputy turned around once and looked at me. 577 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,480 He seemed nervous. 578 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,480 That bothered me. 579 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,480 I wish he wasn't so nervous. 580 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,200 We got to a door in the corner. 581 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,600 Through that and another door that was already open. 582 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:17,160 I walked through and I was in a room full of men, but my eyes went to something else. 583 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,120 There were steps just ahead of me, unpainted wooden steps. 584 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:30,040 They led to a platform, and from above that, there was, I saw the rope. 585 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:37,040 I walked up with you, my son. 586 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,040 Huh? 587 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,040 What? 588 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:51,800 The guard who was waiting worked fast. 589 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,600 He moved me into position. 590 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,000 The men in the room were going me now. 591 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,400 There was a movement among them. 592 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400 One of them had fainted and his bed fell over. 593 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,440 He landed hard. 594 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,200 I wondered if he'd hurt himself. 595 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,320 Then I felt something over my head. 596 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,640 He lifted it and came down over my head. 597 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,200 Somewhere inside of me, a scream began, but my lips were closed and I was just saying 598 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:24,200 to myself, hurry, hurry, hurry. 599 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,480 Don't put any calls through here. 600 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,960 What, what, what? 601 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,880 But you know better than to ring the phone now. 602 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,880 Guilford's on the scaffold. 603 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,880 What? 604 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,880 Governor's messenger at the outer gate. 605 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,880 Well, are you sure it's not? 606 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,880 The trap is sprung. 607 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:43,880 McGill! 608 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:44,880 McGill, stop this apartment! 609 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,880 Stop it! 610 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:46,880 Stop it, McGill! 611 00:25:46,880 --> 00:26:01,000 No, a man doesn't always die right away when he's hanged. 612 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,680 They talk about the neck being broken and death coming instantly. 613 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,160 No, not always. 614 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,160 Death doesn't come for a long time. 615 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,400 For some men it's nearly 20 minutes. 616 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,280 For others it may be less. 617 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,080 But never under 12 minutes before the heart stops. 618 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,560 You can check on that. 619 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,560 Me? 620 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,760 I was only up a few seconds. 621 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,120 They cut me down and the doctors worked on me right on the wheel stretcher that was waiting 622 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:26,800 to carry my body out. 623 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,080 No, I didn't lose consciousness. 624 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,240 I sometimes wish I had. 625 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,640 I sometimes wish I had gone then instead of being brought back to remember every bit of 626 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,000 those last hours. 627 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,800 There was a new trial after I was on my feet again, but I don't know what was said and 628 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,480 I was free. 629 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,080 I saw the girl, Judy. 630 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,920 I know her name now and I thanked her. 631 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,400 Neither one of us knew what to say after that so she just went. 632 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,240 Yes, I never sleep indoors. 633 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,360 I never button my collar. 634 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,280 I don't like buildings, any building. 635 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,440 It's got stone and steel and holes in it. 636 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,200 I want to be out here where I can see the sky anytime I open my eyes and I open them 637 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,200 often. 638 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,120 I think too much when they're closed. 639 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:33,200 I hear the clock, the clock. 640 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,200 Suspense. 641 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,640 Produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 642 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,920 Tonight you heard Mr. Jackie Cooper as star of The Clock and The Rope. 643 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,320 This was the second in a limited series of five Friday night performances at this hour 644 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,120 which will present radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 645 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:56,360 Jackie Cooper appeared by courtesy of United Artists. 646 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:01,240 Appearing with Mr. Cooper were Cathy Lewis, John McIntyre, Elliot Lewis, Joseph Kearns, 647 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:06,920 Paul McVeigh, Junius Matthews, Wally Mayer, Lester Jay and Jack Crushen. 648 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,400 The fourth Suspense is under the direction of Lud Gluskin with original music composed 649 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,680 by Lucian Morawak. 650 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,400 Next Friday same time we will bring you one of the most remarkable studies in Suspense 651 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,800 ever to be presented in this series. 652 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,960 Mr. Dan Durier will be our star in The Man Who Couldn't Lose. 653 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:49,640 Don't forget next Friday same time listen to Suspense. 654 00:28:49,640 --> 00:29:01,520 This is CBS, The Columbia Broadcasting System.