1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:22,720 Produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 3 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:27,120 This is the third in a special limited series of five Friday night performances of Suspense 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,240 at this hour. 5 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:34,080 This is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 6 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,440 In this series, our stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 7 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:46,120 you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 8 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:51,440 Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you Mr. Dan Duryea as star in The Man Who Couldn't Lose, 9 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,560 a radio play by Emile C. Teppelman. 10 00:00:54,560 --> 00:01:00,360 We trust that with this tale, we shall once again keep you in suspense. 11 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:06,160 You feeling all right now? 12 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,160 Sure, sure. 13 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,160 I feel swell. 14 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:10,520 You better not talk anymore though. 15 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:11,520 Why not? 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,000 I got nothing to worry about. 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,440 That's what I'm telling you. 18 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,440 Something's happened to me. 19 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,300 I'm not scared. 20 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:20,980 It's just like old man mostly said, it doesn't happen often. 21 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:25,680 But when it does, well, it's happened to me. 22 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,560 Something's happened to me that doesn't happen once in a hundred years. 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,760 And it all happened in one day. 24 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,840 Yeah, it began this morning. 25 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,440 Leonard, Leonard. 26 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:47,040 Now don't you try to kid me. 27 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,040 You're not asleep. 28 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,040 Get up. 29 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,040 Sure, sure, sure. 30 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,040 Okay, okay. 31 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,040 I cook your breakfast. 32 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:53,040 I come home and cook your dinner. 33 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:59,040 In between, I work behind that counter all day until I'm so tired I can't hardly stand 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,040 up. 35 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,560 The least you can do is get up and drive me to work. 36 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:03,560 Sure, I will. 37 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:04,560 And what do you do? 38 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:05,560 Nothing. 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,560 Now listen, see you. 40 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:07,560 You don't call what you do work, I hope. 41 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:08,560 When did you last sell an insurance policy? 42 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:09,560 When? 43 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,560 I'll bet you can't even remember. 44 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,560 I'm sure I can. 45 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:12,560 All right, all right. 46 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:13,560 And when you do, you'll be in trouble. 47 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,560 I'll be in trouble. 48 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:15,560 I'll be in trouble. 49 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,560 I'll be in trouble. 50 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,560 I'll be in trouble. 51 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,560 I'll be in trouble. 52 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,560 I'll be in trouble. 53 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,000 And when you do get up enough energy to sell one once in a while, I never see the money, 54 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,480 horses, wheat steak tickets, the numbers, anything just so long as you gamble it away. 55 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,600 What do you ever bring a dollar home? 56 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,560 Not that I ever hear anything about. 57 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,400 Oh, shut up. 58 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,600 Don't you tell me to shut up, Leonard Snalf. 59 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,440 I pay the rent when it gets paid. 60 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,200 I pay the grocery bills. 61 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,600 I pay for everything. 62 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,440 You'd think at least I'd get a little appreciation once in a while. 63 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:50,960 I appreciate it. 64 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:52,160 I hear about it enough. 65 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,840 Well, then why don't you do something about it? 66 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,080 Listen, Celia, I don't feel so good today. 67 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,080 Sure. 68 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,240 That's what you always say every time anybody talks about work. 69 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,480 But I'm sick and tired of it. 70 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,760 You promised you were going to get a job this weekend. 71 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,760 You're going to do it. 72 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,840 Celia, there's something I got to tell you. 73 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,280 I suppose you want to wheel some money out of me again. 74 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,840 Well, if you can't even keep a little lunch money in your pocket, I... 75 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,560 No, listen, it's more than that. 76 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,000 Oh, it is, is it? 77 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,280 I suppose you got another hot tip on the races. 78 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,880 Well, if you think I'm going to... 79 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,880 Will you shut up? 80 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,000 Hey, what's the matter with you? 81 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,200 Listen, Celia, I've sold quite a few insurance policies in the last six months. 82 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,200 Oh, you have, have you? 83 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,840 Well, where's the money? 84 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,600 Don't you try to pull that on me. 85 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,600 You're going to get a job. 86 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,600 All right. 87 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:44,600 I spent the money. 88 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:45,600 On the races. 89 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,320 Yeah, only it wasn't all my money. 90 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:50,320 What do you mean? 91 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,320 I mean, I'm $1,800 short. 92 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,240 And this is the last day to settle up my accounts with the company. 93 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,240 You stole it. 94 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,520 I thought I was going to get it back and make a killing. 95 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,200 I had some tips that were supposed to be sure things. 96 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,680 Oh, I get it. 97 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,640 $1,800. 98 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,840 Quite a coincidence, isn't it? 99 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:10,840 All right. 100 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:11,840 $1,750. 101 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,840 What's the difference? 102 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:18,200 It just so happens that I have $1,800 in a safe deposit box that Aunt May left me this 103 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:19,200 spring. 104 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Quite a coincidence. 105 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,440 Celia, I got to get that money back to them today. 106 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:24,800 I don't believe a word of it. 107 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,240 And you're not going to get that money. 108 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,240 If I don't, they can send me to jail. 109 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,520 And if I did believe you, you wouldn't get it. 110 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,280 Maybe a few months in jail would teach you a little consideration. 111 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:37,160 You know I got to have an operation sometime this fall. 112 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,000 You think I want to go into a charity ward? 113 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,880 And who'd pay the rent while I was sick? 114 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:42,880 They can give me five years. 115 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,040 You're just a little too cute, Mrs. Snell. 116 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,360 You've had your eye on that money ever since you heard I got it. 117 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,160 But you're not going to get it. 118 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,880 Why do you think I wear the key to that safe deposit box around my neck? 119 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:55,880 Celia? 120 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:57,240 I suppose you think I haven't noticed. 121 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:58,240 Now look, Celia, look. 122 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,840 I suppose you think I don't know all those times you tried to get that chain off my neck 123 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,160 when you thought I was asleep. 124 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,160 Yeah, yeah, but... 125 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,640 Well, I wasn't quite as sleepy as you thought, Mr. Snell. 126 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,640 All right. 127 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:09,640 Celia? 128 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,480 And don't you think you can waddle it out of me? 129 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,480 Get away from me. 130 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:14,480 Lynn! 131 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:15,480 Take your hands off! 132 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:35,360 I knew I'd have to do that to you someday. 133 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:36,960 I bent over. 134 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,580 She was dead all right. 135 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:42,000 The key was on the little chain around her neck, just like it had always been. 136 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,680 I yanked on the chain, snapped, and the key came way in my hand. 137 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,400 I shaved, got dressed, then I went through a purse. 138 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,840 There was nine dollars and some change in the usual junk. 139 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:56,920 And that sweepstake ticket made out the name of I'm a winner. 140 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,080 I put the money in my pocket and the ticket in my wallet. 141 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,440 I'm all set to go now except for writing a letter. 142 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,520 All of a sudden I realize what I'm doing doesn't seem strange to me at all. 143 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,280 It's like one of those dreams where you think it's all happened before sometime. 144 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,240 I wrote to the police. 145 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,840 I have killed my wife in a fit of anger. 146 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:21,160 I can't go on living anymore after doing a thing like that to Celia. 147 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:26,040 I'm short in my accounts too, so there's only one thing for me to do. 148 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,320 Don't bother looking for me. 149 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,200 By the time you get this letter, you can find me in the city morgue. 150 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:38,000 It's truly Leonard Snell. 151 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,040 Leonard! 152 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,480 Oh, Leonard! 153 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,880 Oh, good morning, Mr. Morsley. 154 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:46,960 Leonard, I've just had some great news. 155 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,840 I knew you'd want to hear about it right away. 156 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:51,160 Well, I'm in sort of a hurry this morning. 157 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,320 All right, but wait till you hear this. 158 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,280 You know that picric acid dye formula I've been working on? 159 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:57,280 Yeah. 160 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:58,920 Well, the government's just bought an option on it. 161 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,680 They're going to try it out under factory conditions, and when they do, why, my boy, 162 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,200 it'll be worth a million dollars. 163 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,200 So what do you know? 164 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,200 That's really great. 165 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,440 Well, I guess I'd better be going on... 166 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,200 So I decided to take out that annuity you've been trying to sell me. 167 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,200 Got an application with you, have you? 168 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,200 You... 169 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:16,200 Oh, yeah. 170 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,200 Sure. 171 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,200 Go on inside. 172 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,200 Hello there, Leonard. 173 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,200 Good morning. 174 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:27,560 Why, my land, you look as though you've just seen a ghost yourself. 175 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,040 He just sold a policy. 176 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,360 You don't sell them like that every day, do you, my boy? 177 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,880 What's that first premium? 178 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,680 About $3,400, isn't it? 179 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,680 Yeah. 180 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,200 Well, there's a nice commission in that, eh, Leonard? 181 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,200 About, oh, $1,800, isn't it? 182 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,200 Yeah? 183 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,200 Yeah. 184 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,200 $1,800? 185 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,360 Yeah, Leonard certainly deserves it. 186 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:46,840 He works very hard. 187 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:51,040 I see him coming home every evening with that briefcase and all those papers under his arm. 188 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,560 Oh, I'm sure he works hard, but perhaps I'm a little more observant than you, dear. 189 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,280 Oh, sit right down there, my boy. 190 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,120 Watch out for those bottles behind you, though. 191 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:01,120 That's picric acid. 192 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,400 What do you mean, you're more observant than I am? 193 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,480 Most of those papers are the racing forms, aren't they, Leonard? 194 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:09,480 Well, uh... 195 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,480 You know, I've been watching you, Leonard. 196 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,640 Yes, you've had a hard time, but you're a gambler. 197 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:15,640 You believe a lot in luck. 198 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,880 Well, sir, now I've got a theory about luck. 199 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:19,880 When were you born? 200 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,280 Oh, March 1st, 1878. 201 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,360 Yes, luck is something that can come in big doses sometimes. 202 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,320 It's almost as though fate had planned it out ahead of time. 203 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,320 Who's the beneficiary? 204 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,320 Oh, uh, my wife. 205 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:32,320 Oh, that's so good. 206 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:33,320 Yes. 207 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,640 There's a perfectly good mathematical explanation for it, of course. 208 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:41,360 Now, a number of unrelated events converge and they all add up to the good fortune of 209 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,360 a single man. 210 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,720 Oh, happens once in a century, perhaps, but it does happen. 211 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,720 You can make out the check. 212 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,800 Oh, of course. 213 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:56,960 Uh, why don't I make it out to you personally, then I can collect that three months' rent 214 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:57,960 show me, huh? 215 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:58,960 Why, sure, sure. 216 00:08:58,960 --> 00:08:59,960 That would be, uh, $3,255. 217 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:00,960 Oh, fine, fine, fine. 218 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:01,960 I'll make it out right. 219 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:10,960 You know, Leonard, I was saying to Sam just this morning, I'm almost as glad for your 220 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,400 sake as for ours. 221 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,400 My won't see you be surprised. 222 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:15,400 Huh? 223 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,400 I said, won't see you be surprised. 224 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,400 Oh, yeah, yeah. 225 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,400 Say, where is Celia? 226 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,440 She usually leaves to work long before this. 227 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:24,440 I always hear her. 228 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:25,440 Well, she's, uh... 229 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,440 Oh, Leonard, don't tell me there's anything wrong. 230 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,640 I know she hasn't been feeling well lately. 231 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:31,640 Oh, no, no, no. 232 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,840 It's, uh, it's just a little headache, you know. 233 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:35,200 Why, the poor thing. 234 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,200 Why didn't you tell me? 235 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,520 I'd go right upstairs and fix her something. 236 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,000 No, uh, no, you better not. 237 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,760 She told me she wanted to sleep. 238 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:44,760 She's asleep now. 239 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,160 Oh, well, then I, I won't bother. 240 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:49,160 Yeah. 241 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,160 I'll go up around noontime. 242 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,800 Maybe I can fix her a little something then. 243 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,680 Well, uh, yeah, sure. 244 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,600 Well, my boy, here's your check. 245 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:58,600 Thanks. 246 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,000 Now, don't play that on the races. 247 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Don't worry. 248 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,720 But you keep playing your luck just the same. 249 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,760 Luck's a funny thing. 250 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,040 You had a lucky start today. 251 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,040 Maybe your luck's changed. 252 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,040 Yeah. 253 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,120 Yeah. 254 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:16,120 Maybe it has. 255 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:23,720 Why couldn't he have signed it yesterday? 256 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,440 That's all I could think of for a couple of minutes. 257 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,880 Why couldn't he have signed it yesterday? 258 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:28,880 But it was done now. 259 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,200 I get in the car and drive downtown. 260 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,800 First I go to Celia's bank. 261 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,640 I get that $1,800 out of the deposit box. 262 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:37,640 Nobody says a word. 263 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,200 Then I drive over to Morsley's bank and cash this check. 264 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,520 I've got over five grand now. 265 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,000 That's pretty good for a guy that started out the day by being $1,750 in the hole. 266 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,360 I drive over towards the park. 267 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,160 A clock in a jewelry store says $10.15. 268 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:53,160 $10.15. 269 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,160 That was plenty of time. 270 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,840 At the park, I stop and give the ones over to the bums sitting around on the benches 271 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:00,840 in the sun. 272 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,760 There's always a bunch of them there. 273 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,160 Pretty soon I see a guy that looks about right. 274 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,160 Hey, you. 275 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:09,160 Me? 276 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,160 Yeah. 277 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,600 You want to make five bucks? 278 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,680 You mean the job? 279 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:16,240 You won't have to strain yourself. 280 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,240 I just hurt my wrist and I can't drive. 281 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:19,680 I got to go uptown and meet a guy. 282 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:20,680 You want to drive me? 283 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:21,680 Oh, okay. 284 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:22,680 You got a license? 285 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:23,680 Yeah, I got a license. 286 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:24,680 Let's see. 287 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:25,680 Okay. 288 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:26,680 Yeah. 289 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,880 Floyd Hustas, Omaha, Nebraska. 290 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,080 You're going to have a long ways from home, aren't you? 291 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:38,080 Yeah, but it's okay to drive within this state if you got a licensed driver with you. 292 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,080 Okay, Floyd Hustas. 293 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:48,560 You'll do. 294 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,120 We get in the car and head uptown. 295 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,120 My luck is holding. 296 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,120 This guy couldn't have been better if I looked a week. 297 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,600 I see another clock and it's only a little past 1030 now. 298 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,600 I still got lots of time. 299 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,120 So I decide to clean up the details now. 300 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,120 How am I doing? 301 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,120 Okay. 302 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,000 But turn right at the next block, Floyd. 303 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,800 I want to go by the 43rd Street Post Office and mail a letter. 304 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:10,800 Sure. 305 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,680 You could mail it in a letter box, though. 306 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:15,080 Yeah, but I don't want to mail it in a letter box. 307 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,080 Oh, okay. 308 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,520 I go into the post office and get a stamp, mail a letter. 309 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,160 It's a letter where I tell about Kill and Sear you. 310 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,400 And it's just addressed to Police Commissioner 21 Center Street. 311 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,760 Somehow I just don't trust a letter box. 312 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,800 Because if the police don't get that letter right on time, it's not so good. 313 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,680 I go out and get in the car and I tell Floyd Hustas where to go. 314 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:39,680 We head uptown. 315 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:43,600 After a while, we get to Fort Tryon Park, right above Riverside Drive, looking over 316 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:44,600 the river. 317 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,600 There's hardly ever anybody up there at this time of year. 318 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:47,600 So I felt pretty safe. 319 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,600 And sure enough, there wasn't. 320 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:55,960 I got the monkey wrench out and I had it in my hand. 321 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:56,960 This right? 322 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:57,960 Yeah. 323 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,840 Just pull over there, up against the rail. 324 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:09,000 Gee, I never been up here. 325 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,440 Must be quite a drop down there, huh? 326 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,680 A couple hundred feet, huh? 327 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:14,680 Uh-huh. 328 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:17,000 This where you're supposed to meet the guy? 329 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Yeah. 330 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Right here. 331 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:30,600 I dragged him into the back seat and took off all his clothes and then all mine. 332 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,920 I changed clothes with him right down to the underwear and socks. 333 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:38,960 I put all my papers in his pockets, my license, Old Man Morsley's application, my wallet. 334 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:39,960 The works. 335 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,440 Then I dragged him up front again in the driver's seat. 336 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,880 I propped him there with his arms through the wheel so his head would go through the 337 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:46,880 windshield. 338 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:51,720 I had to be sure they'd say it was me, nobody else. 339 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,920 Then I put her in gear and let her go. 340 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:01,120 All right, stand back now. 341 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,120 Stand back. 342 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:09,120 I tell you, Officer, didn't land more three feet from me. 343 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,120 Right by me, not more three feet. 344 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,120 What could have happened? 345 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,360 This car just rolled off the palisades up there somehow and landed smack in the middle of 346 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,360 the street. 347 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,360 Gee, look at his face. 348 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,360 He must have gone right through the windshield. 349 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,200 Yeah, poor fella. 350 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,320 Identified him from his wallet, a guy named Snell. 351 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:30,480 Leonard Snell. 352 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,800 I was free. 353 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,080 I was free of Syria and all of Beliakin. 354 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,680 I was free to do anything I wanted. 355 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:40,440 I had five grand in my pocket and the cops had Leonard Snell's body down at the morgue, 356 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,480 just like I told them they would in the letter. 357 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,160 My luck was holding but good. 358 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,880 I went over to the 181st Street bus station. 359 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,480 There was a bus leaving for Boston in 20 minutes. 360 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:50,920 I bought a ticket. 361 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,880 Then I got a paper on the corner, went into the lunch room and sat down at the counter. 362 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:56,880 What's yours? 363 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,960 Scrambled eggs with bacon, french fries, orange juice and coffee. 364 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:02,960 And I got to get your bus. 365 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,200 Won't take long, will it? 366 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,600 No longer than it takes an egg to scramble. 367 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:07,600 Woop. 368 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:08,600 Excuse me. 369 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:09,600 That's all right, Mac. 370 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,600 I like to read a newspaper while I eat myself. 371 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:12,600 Uh-huh. 372 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,600 Kind of aids the digestion, I find. 373 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:15,600 Yeah. 374 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,600 Here's your orange juice. 375 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:18,680 Thanks. 376 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,480 Some guys have all the luck, don't they? 377 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:21,480 Huh? 378 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:22,680 I said some guys have all the luck. 379 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,280 I was just noticing in your paper there about those Irish sweepstakes winners. 380 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,280 Oh, yeah. 381 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:28,280 Yeah. 382 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:29,280 Some guys... 383 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:30,280 What's the matter? 384 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,280 You feel bad? 385 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Have all the luck. 386 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:35,280 Hey! 387 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,280 Hey, wait! 388 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:44,000 When I came to, somebody was swabbing my head with water. 389 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,280 I pay my check and get out of there somehow. 390 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,400 And I look at the paper again. 391 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:49,680 That's what it said all right. 392 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,800 I'm a winner draws favorite in Irish sweeps. 393 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:53,800 My ticket. 394 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:59,080 And it went on to say how it was worth at least 40,000, maybe 150,000 if the horse won. 395 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:04,200 All of a sudden I was standing there and cursing and swearing at Celia right out loud, just 396 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,200 as though she was alive. 397 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,480 Until I see some people are staring at me and I stop. 398 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,600 Because if it hadn't been for her, I'd have 40,000 dollars. 399 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:13,600 40,000 dollars! 400 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:19,440 And now, now that 40,000 was just a one-way ticket to the hot seat because that 40,000 401 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,440 belonged to Leonard Snell. 402 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,480 And that Irish sweep ticket was in Leonard Snell's wallet. 403 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:28,160 And Leonard Snell's wallet was in the pocket of that bum that was supposed to be me. 404 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,680 By now the cops that have it along with the rest of Leonard Snell's stuff down at headquarters 405 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,400 after they put the body in the morgue. 406 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,520 You've ever kissed off 40,000 dollars, you know how I felt. 407 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,720 But what was the use? 408 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:45,080 Well, I still have my five grand and a bus ticket to Boston. 409 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,800 You can't get all the breaks all the time was what I figured then. 410 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,440 So I got on the bus. 411 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,440 Plenty of seats in the rear. 412 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,440 This seat taken? 413 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:53,440 No, not at all. 414 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:54,440 Sit right down. 415 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:55,440 Thanks. 416 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,040 Wow, wow. 417 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,960 Somebody must be feeling pretty good this afternoon. 418 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:01,960 Huh? 419 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,400 The guy that's got the I'm a winner ticket in the sweeps. 420 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,240 I see it says there they'd pay him 40,000 dollars for it right now. 421 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,240 40,000 dollars! 422 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,240 Yeah. 423 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,640 It sure like to be in his shoes, wouldn't you? 424 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:15,640 Yeah. 425 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:16,640 I see it says there. 426 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:17,640 Here, you want to read it? 427 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,640 Well, you don't need to get sore. 428 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:20,640 Give it. 429 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:21,640 I... 430 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,640 Holy... 431 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:23,640 Board? 432 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:24,640 All aboard. 433 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:25,640 Stop. 434 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,640 Let me out of here. 435 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,640 I gotta get out of here. 436 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:28,640 Well, make up your mind. 437 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:29,640 I don't have to make up my mind, brother. 438 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:37,320 I don't have to make up my mind. 439 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,900 It was right then I got the idea what was happening. 440 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:41,600 It was just like old man Morsley said. 441 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,840 It may only happen once in a hundred years, but it was happening to me. 442 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,760 My luck was riding high. 443 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,760 And when your luck is like that, you just can't lose. 444 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,120 Because there it was. 445 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,680 And I was sitting in the paper again on page three. 446 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,920 Freak explosion in Brooklyn kills three. 447 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,160 And it was my house. 448 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,400 And the people killed were Morsley and his wife. 449 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,400 And Celia. 450 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:11,600 They thought it was caused by all Morsley's chemicals or something. 451 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:12,600 I don't know and I didn't care. 452 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,240 All I knew was they thought Celia had been killed by the explosion and the fire. 453 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,240 And I was in the clear. 454 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,240 I could walk into the police station and get my sweepstake ticket. 455 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,680 You collect that 40,000 and be set for life. 456 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,680 I knew just what I was going to tell them. 457 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,600 It was a lead pipe cinch. 458 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,960 I was walking on air all the way to the police station and I was going up the steps. 459 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:36,080 And then I stopped because I just remembered something terrible. 460 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:41,480 And if I'd remembered it ten seconds later, I'd have walked right into the electric chair. 461 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:46,880 I remembered the letter. 462 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,440 I was licked. 463 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,640 I'm warning the cops that have that letter in my own handwriting over my own signature 464 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,520 telling how I'd kill Celia. 465 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,480 That letter that I'd taken all the trouble to mail at the 43rd Street Post Office so 466 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,520 I would be sure to get off all right. 467 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,920 I felt even worse this time than I had before because it seemed like I'd almost had that 468 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,000 money right in my hands. 469 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 I was pretty shaky. 470 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 I went into a bar to get a drink. 471 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,160 Yes, who will it be? 472 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:17,160 Double shot. 473 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:18,160 All right, sir. 474 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:19,160 A little chaser on the side? 475 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,160 No. 476 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,160 That'll be a dollar. 477 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,160 Leave the bottle. 478 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,160 Yes, sir. 479 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:24,160 And now we bring you five minutes of the latest news. 480 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:25,160 Hey, Charlie, turn that radio up, will you? 481 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,160 Sure. 482 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:39,160 One of the most daring holdups in the annals of New York crime, a gang of armed men this 483 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:44,120 noon robbed the United States mail truck just as it was leaving the 43rd Street Post Office, 484 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,960 removing eight sacks of mail, the entire morning collection of the post office. 485 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,320 Apparently, the gunmen were after a shipment of currency destined for the Federal Reserve 486 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:53,320 Bank. 487 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,160 But according to officials, the joke is on the gangsters. 488 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,160 All they got was no regular mail. 489 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,160 Hey, you didn't pay me here. 490 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,160 Wait, you got change. 491 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,160 Keep it. 492 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,160 Keep the change. 493 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,160 Several of whom paid a... 494 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,160 I knew what had happened now. 495 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,160 I couldn't lose. 496 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:16,160 I simply couldn't lose because those mugs that stuck up that mail truck had got my letter. 497 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:21,160 Nothing in the world could stop me now. 498 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:27,960 Officer, I'd just been held up. 499 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:28,960 Held up, huh? 500 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:29,960 Yeah. 501 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:30,960 Well, what happened? 502 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,440 Well, I picked up a guy who asked me for a lift about 225th Street and Broadway. 503 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,200 I was driving along by Vincortland Park when suddenly he grabbed me. 504 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,080 Then he hit me with something. 505 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,440 That's all I remember till I woke up lying in the park. 506 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,440 My car was gone. 507 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,600 Then I found out that he'd taken my wallet, my money, everything. 508 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:46,600 I see. 509 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:47,600 What's your name? 510 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,600 Leonard Snell. 511 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,600 Leonard Snell? 512 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,600 That's right. 513 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,600 Oh, say, Lieutenant. 514 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:54,720 Yes? 515 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,500 This gentleman is Mr. Leonard Snell. 516 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:58,500 He was held up this morning. 517 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:00,500 His car was stolen. 518 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:01,500 Oh. 519 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:05,600 Just step in here, will you, Mr. Snell? 520 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:06,600 Sure. 521 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:07,600 Sit down. 522 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:08,600 Thanks. 523 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,960 I've got some news for you, Mr. Snell. 524 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,800 Did you find my car? 525 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:15,800 Well, yes. 526 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,240 The fellow didn't get far. 527 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,560 He drove off the cliff at Fort Tryon Park. 528 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:20,560 He's dead. 529 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,520 For a while we thought it was you. 530 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,800 But that wasn't what I was going to tell you. 531 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,680 Well, what was it? 532 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,080 You haven't seen the papers today? 533 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,080 Not since this morning. 534 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:33,080 What? 535 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,800 I've got some good news and some bad news for you, Mr. Snell. 536 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,920 Maybe I better tell you the bad news first. 537 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,080 It's pretty bad. 538 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,280 Go ahead. 539 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:49,380 Your wife was killed this morning, Mr. Snell, in a fire at your home. 540 00:21:49,380 --> 00:21:51,380 My wife? 541 00:21:51,380 --> 00:21:53,380 Killed? 542 00:21:53,380 --> 00:21:56,360 I see. 543 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:02,880 And this probably won't interest you much under the circumstances, Mr. Snell, but you've 544 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,800 drawn a ticket worth $40,000 and the Irish sweepstakes. 545 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,800 I see. 546 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:16,360 Well, to win the Irish sweepstakes and then lose your wife the same day. 547 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:23,360 Some people sure have all the hard luck in the world. 548 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:24,360 Luck. 549 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:28,480 Within about 15 minutes more things were happening to me that could happen to most 550 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,480 guys in a dozen lifetimes. 551 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,480 And then comes the jackpot I've been waiting for. 552 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,480 Will you hold it, Mr. Snell? 553 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,480 Just hold that pose right there. 554 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:33,480 If you care to make us famous, Mr. Snell, would you mind telling the police about this 555 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:34,480 thing? 556 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,480 Please, fellas. 557 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,120 Please. 558 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:47,480 I hate to trouble you at this time, Mr. Snell, but the syndicate I represent is prepared 559 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,200 to offer you $40,000 in cash for your sweepstake ticket. 560 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,000 I've got the money right here in cash. 561 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000 All right. 562 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,120 I don't care much about the money, though. 563 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,120 Now. 564 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:09,720 That was at 4.30. 565 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,680 By 6, I've got $45,000 in my pocket. 566 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,680 Cash. 567 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,480 And I'm registered at the Waldorf. 568 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,040 And I'm sitting down to dinner. 569 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:20,880 I'll take the plank steak, please. 570 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:21,880 Medium. 571 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:22,880 Yes, sir. 572 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:23,880 I will have your order very shortly, sir. 573 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:24,880 Hello, pal. 574 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,880 Mind if I serve? 575 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,920 Uh, you a reporter? 576 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:31,920 Not exactly. 577 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,680 I'm a sort of a collector. 578 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,360 You owe me 40 grand, pal. 579 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:38,360 I come to collect. 580 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:39,360 Now. 581 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:40,360 40? 582 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:41,360 Well, I don't owe you. 583 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:42,360 Yes, you do, pal. 584 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:47,400 Remember that little letter you wrote to the police commissioner this morning that you 585 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,240 mailed to the 43rd Street Post Office? 586 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:56,840 Some friends of mine found it, they figure it's worth just about 40 grand. 587 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,400 You... you're one of the guys that stuck up the mail truck. 588 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,880 You want to make something of it? 589 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,080 There's a big reward. 590 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,680 There's a cop right outside the hotel. 591 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,960 I kind of figured you'd play ball. 592 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:12,960 Where's the letter? 593 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,480 My friend's got it right outside in the car. 594 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,360 Still got that dough on you in cash like the papers said? 595 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:20,360 Yes. 596 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:21,360 Come on. 597 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:22,360 All right. 598 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:34,720 You're a pretty lucky guy at that, pal. 599 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,160 I suppose somebody else had got that letter. 600 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,160 Shh, shh, shh. 601 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,160 Don't worry, pal. 602 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,160 Your secret is safe with me. 603 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,160 Here's the car. 604 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,160 I think he's here. 605 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,160 He's acting real reasonable, too. 606 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,160 Hey, get up the cash, pal. 607 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,160 You recognize the letter, don't you? 608 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:50,160 Here's your money. 609 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,160 And here's your letter. 610 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,760 Only don't try anything funny because we still know what that letter says. 611 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,360 And the cops could always dig up the body and find out how your old lady really kicked 612 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:03,840 off, couldn't they? 613 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,560 I think he gets the idea. 614 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,560 So long, Patholka. 615 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,560 Officer! 616 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,560 Officer! 617 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,560 Those are the gangsters that hailed up the mail truck! 618 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,560 I saw them this afternoon! 619 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:15,560 Oh, I'm so sorry. 620 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:16,560 Officer! 621 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,560 Somebody better help that poor man. 622 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:20,560 He's been shot. 623 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:21,560 Poor color. 624 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,560 Hey, you! 625 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,560 Now, you go call an ambulance. 626 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,560 I'll stand by this man. 627 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:25,560 Okay. 628 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:26,560 What's up, Jerry? 629 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:27,560 I just had a little showdown with those mail workers. 630 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,560 The other boys got him down the street. 631 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:29,560 This poor man was shot when he fired back. 632 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,560 What's this letter? 633 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,560 No, no, please. 634 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,560 No. 635 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,560 Here's the letter. 636 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:40,560 Police commissioner. 637 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,560 No, no, no. 638 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,160 You'd better open it. 639 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,160 Might be evidence. 640 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,160 No, no, no. 641 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,160 No. 642 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,560 You better put a guard on this fellow at the hospital, Jerry. 643 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,560 Right, sir. 644 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:19,120 From the looks of this letter, he's going to stand trial for murder. 645 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:21,600 You'd better not talk anymore, Mr. Snell. 646 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:22,600 What's the difference? 647 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,760 What's the difference how much I talk? 648 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,760 That's what I wanted to tell them. 649 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,440 What if they did get the letter? 650 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,160 I'll never go to trial because I got luck, don't you see? 651 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,280 It comes once in a hundred years and I got it. 652 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:35,280 I got that kind of luck. 653 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,720 And when you got that kind of luck, you can't lose. 654 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:39,720 You can't lose. 655 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:40,720 You can't lose. 656 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:41,720 Oh, hello. 657 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:42,720 Hello. 658 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:43,720 You still here? 659 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:57,360 Oh, you know, I got to guard that fellow Snell as long as he's here. 660 00:26:57,360 --> 00:26:58,360 He's here in the hospital. 661 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:02,120 Yeah, but did you ever see the like of it? 662 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:07,760 I don't suppose one man ever had so much luck in one day in a whole wide world. 663 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,600 I guess his luck is played out now, right, though? 664 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:12,600 Funny. 665 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,480 He said you can't lose. 666 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,240 Well, he's wrong. 667 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,360 He's wrong now because that lad's going to fry just as sure as my name is Jerry Maloney. 668 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:22,360 No. 669 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:24,720 Now, you're wrong, Jerry. 670 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,840 His luck is still good. 671 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:27,840 Huh? 672 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:33,840 He's dead. 673 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,840 Suspense. 674 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:54,800 Produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 675 00:27:54,800 --> 00:28:00,280 Tonight, you heard Mr. Dan Durier as star of The Man Who Couldn't Lose. 676 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,960 This was the third in a limited series of five Friday night performances at this hour, 677 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:11,040 which will present radio's outstanding theater of thrill, Suspense. 678 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:16,280 Dan Durier will soon be seen in Black Bart, a universal international picture. 679 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:22,280 Appearing with Mr. Durier were Lucille Meredith, Kathy Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, John McIntyre, 680 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:29,000 Elliot Lewis, Joseph Kearns, Jerry Hausner, Frank Albertson, Jack Crouchon, Dick Ryan, 681 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,320 Hans Conrad, Ed Max, Frank Goss, and Jack Webb. 682 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:38,120 Music for Suspense is under the direction of Lud Bluskin with original music composed 683 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,360 by Lucian Morrowak. 684 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:47,840 Next Friday, same time, Boris Karloff will be our star in a famous story by John Collier. 685 00:28:47,840 --> 00:29:17,200 Don't forget, next Friday, same time, listen to Suspense. 686 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,240 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.