WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Suspense. 00:12.000 --> 00:22.720 Produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 00:22.720 --> 00:27.120 This is the third in a special limited series of five Friday night performances of Suspense 00:27.120 --> 00:29.240 at this hour. 00:29.240 --> 00:34.080 This is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 00:34.080 --> 00:39.440 In this series, our stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 00:39.440 --> 00:46.120 you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 00:46.120 --> 00:51.440 Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you Mr. Dan Duryea as star in The Man Who Couldn't Lose, 00:51.440 --> 00:54.560 a radio play by Emile C. Teppelman. 00:54.560 --> 01:00.360 We trust that with this tale, we shall once again keep you in suspense. 01:00.360 --> 01:06.160 You feeling all right now? 01:06.160 --> 01:07.160 Sure, sure. 01:07.160 --> 01:09.160 I feel swell. 01:09.160 --> 01:10.520 You better not talk anymore though. 01:10.520 --> 01:11.520 Why not? 01:11.520 --> 01:13.000 I got nothing to worry about. 01:13.000 --> 01:14.440 That's what I'm telling you. 01:14.440 --> 01:15.440 Something's happened to me. 01:15.440 --> 01:17.300 I'm not scared. 01:17.300 --> 01:20.980 It's just like old man mostly said, it doesn't happen often. 01:20.980 --> 01:25.680 But when it does, well, it's happened to me. 01:25.680 --> 01:29.560 Something's happened to me that doesn't happen once in a hundred years. 01:29.560 --> 01:31.760 And it all happened in one day. 01:31.760 --> 01:37.840 Yeah, it began this morning. 01:37.840 --> 01:42.440 Leonard, Leonard. 01:42.440 --> 01:47.040 Now don't you try to kid me. 01:47.040 --> 01:48.040 You're not asleep. 01:48.040 --> 01:49.040 Get up. 01:49.040 --> 01:50.040 Sure, sure, sure. 01:50.040 --> 01:51.040 Okay, okay. 01:51.040 --> 01:52.040 I cook your breakfast. 01:52.040 --> 01:53.040 I come home and cook your dinner. 01:53.040 --> 01:59.040 In between, I work behind that counter all day until I'm so tired I can't hardly stand 01:59.040 --> 02:00.040 up. 02:00.040 --> 02:02.560 The least you can do is get up and drive me to work. 02:02.560 --> 02:03.560 Sure, I will. 02:03.560 --> 02:04.560 And what do you do? 02:04.560 --> 02:05.560 Nothing. 02:05.560 --> 02:06.560 Now listen, see you. 02:06.560 --> 02:07.560 You don't call what you do work, I hope. 02:07.560 --> 02:08.560 When did you last sell an insurance policy? 02:08.560 --> 02:09.560 When? 02:09.560 --> 02:10.560 I'll bet you can't even remember. 02:10.560 --> 02:11.560 I'm sure I can. 02:11.560 --> 02:12.560 All right, all right. 02:12.560 --> 02:13.560 And when you do, you'll be in trouble. 02:13.560 --> 02:14.560 I'll be in trouble. 02:14.560 --> 02:15.560 I'll be in trouble. 02:15.560 --> 02:16.560 I'll be in trouble. 02:16.560 --> 02:17.560 I'll be in trouble. 02:17.560 --> 02:18.560 I'll be in trouble. 02:18.560 --> 02:19.560 I'll be in trouble. 02:19.560 --> 02:24.000 And when you do get up enough energy to sell one once in a while, I never see the money, 02:24.000 --> 02:29.480 horses, wheat steak tickets, the numbers, anything just so long as you gamble it away. 02:29.480 --> 02:32.600 What do you ever bring a dollar home? 02:32.600 --> 02:34.560 Not that I ever hear anything about. 02:34.560 --> 02:36.400 Oh, shut up. 02:36.400 --> 02:38.600 Don't you tell me to shut up, Leonard Snalf. 02:38.600 --> 02:41.440 I pay the rent when it gets paid. 02:41.440 --> 02:43.200 I pay the grocery bills. 02:43.200 --> 02:45.600 I pay for everything. 02:45.600 --> 02:49.440 You'd think at least I'd get a little appreciation once in a while. 02:49.440 --> 02:50.960 I appreciate it. 02:50.960 --> 02:52.160 I hear about it enough. 02:52.160 --> 02:54.840 Well, then why don't you do something about it? 02:54.840 --> 02:58.080 Listen, Celia, I don't feel so good today. 02:58.080 --> 02:59.080 Sure. 02:59.080 --> 03:02.240 That's what you always say every time anybody talks about work. 03:02.240 --> 03:04.480 But I'm sick and tired of it. 03:04.480 --> 03:06.760 You promised you were going to get a job this weekend. 03:06.760 --> 03:08.760 You're going to do it. 03:08.760 --> 03:13.840 Celia, there's something I got to tell you. 03:13.840 --> 03:16.280 I suppose you want to wheel some money out of me again. 03:16.280 --> 03:19.840 Well, if you can't even keep a little lunch money in your pocket, I... 03:19.840 --> 03:21.560 No, listen, it's more than that. 03:21.560 --> 03:23.000 Oh, it is, is it? 03:23.000 --> 03:25.280 I suppose you got another hot tip on the races. 03:25.280 --> 03:26.880 Well, if you think I'm going to... 03:26.880 --> 03:28.880 Will you shut up? 03:28.880 --> 03:32.000 Hey, what's the matter with you? 03:32.000 --> 03:37.200 Listen, Celia, I've sold quite a few insurance policies in the last six months. 03:37.200 --> 03:38.200 Oh, you have, have you? 03:38.200 --> 03:39.840 Well, where's the money? 03:39.840 --> 03:41.600 Don't you try to pull that on me. 03:41.600 --> 03:42.600 You're going to get a job. 03:42.600 --> 03:43.600 All right. 03:43.600 --> 03:44.600 I spent the money. 03:44.600 --> 03:45.600 On the races. 03:45.600 --> 03:49.320 Yeah, only it wasn't all my money. 03:49.320 --> 03:50.320 What do you mean? 03:50.320 --> 03:51.320 I mean, I'm $1,800 short. 03:51.320 --> 03:56.240 And this is the last day to settle up my accounts with the company. 03:56.240 --> 03:57.240 You stole it. 03:57.240 --> 03:59.520 I thought I was going to get it back and make a killing. 03:59.520 --> 04:02.200 I had some tips that were supposed to be sure things. 04:02.200 --> 04:05.680 Oh, I get it. 04:05.680 --> 04:07.640 $1,800. 04:07.640 --> 04:09.840 Quite a coincidence, isn't it? 04:09.840 --> 04:10.840 All right. 04:10.840 --> 04:11.840 $1,750. 04:11.840 --> 04:12.840 What's the difference? 04:12.840 --> 04:18.200 It just so happens that I have $1,800 in a safe deposit box that Aunt May left me this 04:18.200 --> 04:19.200 spring. 04:19.200 --> 04:20.200 Quite a coincidence. 04:20.200 --> 04:23.440 Celia, I got to get that money back to them today. 04:23.440 --> 04:24.800 I don't believe a word of it. 04:24.800 --> 04:26.240 And you're not going to get that money. 04:26.240 --> 04:27.240 If I don't, they can send me to jail. 04:27.240 --> 04:29.520 And if I did believe you, you wouldn't get it. 04:29.520 --> 04:33.280 Maybe a few months in jail would teach you a little consideration. 04:33.280 --> 04:37.160 You know I got to have an operation sometime this fall. 04:37.160 --> 04:40.000 You think I want to go into a charity ward? 04:40.000 --> 04:41.880 And who'd pay the rent while I was sick? 04:41.880 --> 04:42.880 They can give me five years. 04:42.880 --> 04:46.040 You're just a little too cute, Mrs. Snell. 04:46.040 --> 04:49.360 You've had your eye on that money ever since you heard I got it. 04:49.360 --> 04:51.160 But you're not going to get it. 04:51.160 --> 04:54.880 Why do you think I wear the key to that safe deposit box around my neck? 04:54.880 --> 04:55.880 Celia? 04:55.880 --> 04:57.240 I suppose you think I haven't noticed. 04:57.240 --> 04:58.240 Now look, Celia, look. 04:58.240 --> 05:01.840 I suppose you think I don't know all those times you tried to get that chain off my neck 05:01.840 --> 05:03.160 when you thought I was asleep. 05:03.160 --> 05:04.160 Yeah, yeah, but... 05:04.160 --> 05:07.640 Well, I wasn't quite as sleepy as you thought, Mr. Snell. 05:07.640 --> 05:08.640 All right. 05:08.640 --> 05:09.640 Celia? 05:09.640 --> 05:12.480 And don't you think you can waddle it out of me? 05:12.480 --> 05:13.480 Get away from me. 05:13.480 --> 05:14.480 Lynn! 05:14.480 --> 05:15.480 Take your hands off! 05:15.480 --> 05:35.360 I knew I'd have to do that to you someday. 05:35.360 --> 05:36.960 I bent over. 05:36.960 --> 05:38.580 She was dead all right. 05:38.580 --> 05:42.000 The key was on the little chain around her neck, just like it had always been. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.680 I yanked on the chain, snapped, and the key came way in my hand. 05:46.680 --> 05:50.400 I shaved, got dressed, then I went through a purse. 05:50.400 --> 05:53.840 There was nine dollars and some change in the usual junk. 05:53.840 --> 05:56.920 And that sweepstake ticket made out the name of I'm a winner. 05:56.920 --> 06:00.080 I put the money in my pocket and the ticket in my wallet. 06:00.080 --> 06:03.440 I'm all set to go now except for writing a letter. 06:03.440 --> 06:07.520 All of a sudden I realize what I'm doing doesn't seem strange to me at all. 06:07.520 --> 06:11.280 It's like one of those dreams where you think it's all happened before sometime. 06:11.280 --> 06:14.240 I wrote to the police. 06:14.240 --> 06:16.840 I have killed my wife in a fit of anger. 06:16.840 --> 06:21.160 I can't go on living anymore after doing a thing like that to Celia. 06:21.160 --> 06:26.040 I'm short in my accounts too, so there's only one thing for me to do. 06:26.040 --> 06:27.320 Don't bother looking for me. 06:27.320 --> 06:31.200 By the time you get this letter, you can find me in the city morgue. 06:31.200 --> 06:38.000 It's truly Leonard Snell. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.040 Leonard! 06:40.040 --> 06:42.480 Oh, Leonard! 06:42.480 --> 06:44.880 Oh, good morning, Mr. Morsley. 06:44.880 --> 06:46.960 Leonard, I've just had some great news. 06:46.960 --> 06:48.840 I knew you'd want to hear about it right away. 06:48.840 --> 06:51.160 Well, I'm in sort of a hurry this morning. 06:51.160 --> 06:53.320 All right, but wait till you hear this. 06:53.320 --> 06:56.280 You know that picric acid dye formula I've been working on? 06:56.280 --> 06:57.280 Yeah. 06:57.280 --> 06:58.920 Well, the government's just bought an option on it. 06:58.920 --> 07:02.680 They're going to try it out under factory conditions, and when they do, why, my boy, 07:02.680 --> 07:04.200 it'll be worth a million dollars. 07:04.200 --> 07:05.200 So what do you know? 07:05.200 --> 07:06.200 That's really great. 07:06.200 --> 07:08.440 Well, I guess I'd better be going on... 07:08.440 --> 07:12.200 So I decided to take out that annuity you've been trying to sell me. 07:12.200 --> 07:14.200 Got an application with you, have you? 07:14.200 --> 07:15.200 You... 07:15.200 --> 07:16.200 Oh, yeah. 07:16.200 --> 07:17.200 Sure. 07:17.200 --> 07:18.200 Go on inside. 07:18.200 --> 07:19.200 Hello there, Leonard. 07:19.200 --> 07:20.200 Good morning. 07:20.200 --> 07:27.560 Why, my land, you look as though you've just seen a ghost yourself. 07:27.560 --> 07:29.040 He just sold a policy. 07:29.040 --> 07:31.360 You don't sell them like that every day, do you, my boy? 07:31.360 --> 07:32.880 What's that first premium? 07:32.880 --> 07:34.680 About $3,400, isn't it? 07:34.680 --> 07:35.680 Yeah. 07:35.680 --> 07:38.200 Well, there's a nice commission in that, eh, Leonard? 07:38.200 --> 07:41.200 About, oh, $1,800, isn't it? 07:41.200 --> 07:42.200 Yeah? 07:42.200 --> 07:43.200 Yeah. 07:43.200 --> 07:44.200 $1,800? 07:44.200 --> 07:45.360 Yeah, Leonard certainly deserves it. 07:45.360 --> 07:46.840 He works very hard. 07:46.840 --> 07:51.040 I see him coming home every evening with that briefcase and all those papers under his arm. 07:51.040 --> 07:55.560 Oh, I'm sure he works hard, but perhaps I'm a little more observant than you, dear. 07:55.560 --> 07:57.280 Oh, sit right down there, my boy. 07:57.280 --> 08:00.120 Watch out for those bottles behind you, though. 08:00.120 --> 08:01.120 That's picric acid. 08:01.120 --> 08:04.400 What do you mean, you're more observant than I am? 08:04.400 --> 08:08.480 Most of those papers are the racing forms, aren't they, Leonard? 08:08.480 --> 08:09.480 Well, uh... 08:09.480 --> 08:11.480 You know, I've been watching you, Leonard. 08:11.480 --> 08:14.640 Yes, you've had a hard time, but you're a gambler. 08:14.640 --> 08:15.640 You believe a lot in luck. 08:15.640 --> 08:18.880 Well, sir, now I've got a theory about luck. 08:18.880 --> 08:19.880 When were you born? 08:19.880 --> 08:22.280 Oh, March 1st, 1878. 08:22.280 --> 08:26.360 Yes, luck is something that can come in big doses sometimes. 08:26.360 --> 08:29.320 It's almost as though fate had planned it out ahead of time. 08:29.320 --> 08:30.320 Who's the beneficiary? 08:30.320 --> 08:31.320 Oh, uh, my wife. 08:31.320 --> 08:32.320 Oh, that's so good. 08:32.320 --> 08:33.320 Yes. 08:33.320 --> 08:36.640 There's a perfectly good mathematical explanation for it, of course. 08:36.640 --> 08:41.360 Now, a number of unrelated events converge and they all add up to the good fortune of 08:41.360 --> 08:42.360 a single man. 08:42.360 --> 08:46.720 Oh, happens once in a century, perhaps, but it does happen. 08:46.720 --> 08:48.720 You can make out the check. 08:48.720 --> 08:50.800 Oh, of course. 08:50.800 --> 08:56.960 Uh, why don't I make it out to you personally, then I can collect that three months' rent 08:56.960 --> 08:57.960 show me, huh? 08:57.960 --> 08:58.960 Why, sure, sure. 08:58.960 --> 08:59.960 That would be, uh, $3,255. 08:59.960 --> 09:00.960 Oh, fine, fine, fine. 09:00.960 --> 09:01.960 I'll make it out right. 09:01.960 --> 09:10.960 You know, Leonard, I was saying to Sam just this morning, I'm almost as glad for your 09:10.960 --> 09:12.400 sake as for ours. 09:12.400 --> 09:14.400 My won't see you be surprised. 09:14.400 --> 09:15.400 Huh? 09:15.400 --> 09:17.400 I said, won't see you be surprised. 09:17.400 --> 09:18.400 Oh, yeah, yeah. 09:18.400 --> 09:19.400 Say, where is Celia? 09:19.400 --> 09:23.440 She usually leaves to work long before this. 09:23.440 --> 09:24.440 I always hear her. 09:24.440 --> 09:25.440 Well, she's, uh... 09:25.440 --> 09:28.440 Oh, Leonard, don't tell me there's anything wrong. 09:28.440 --> 09:30.640 I know she hasn't been feeling well lately. 09:30.640 --> 09:31.640 Oh, no, no, no. 09:31.640 --> 09:33.840 It's, uh, it's just a little headache, you know. 09:33.840 --> 09:35.200 Why, the poor thing. 09:35.200 --> 09:36.200 Why didn't you tell me? 09:36.200 --> 09:38.520 I'd go right upstairs and fix her something. 09:38.520 --> 09:42.000 No, uh, no, you better not. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.760 She told me she wanted to sleep. 09:43.760 --> 09:44.760 She's asleep now. 09:44.760 --> 09:48.160 Oh, well, then I, I won't bother. 09:48.160 --> 09:49.160 Yeah. 09:49.160 --> 09:50.160 I'll go up around noontime. 09:50.160 --> 09:52.800 Maybe I can fix her a little something then. 09:52.800 --> 09:54.680 Well, uh, yeah, sure. 09:54.680 --> 09:57.600 Well, my boy, here's your check. 09:57.600 --> 09:58.600 Thanks. 09:58.600 --> 10:01.000 Now, don't play that on the races. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Don't worry. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.720 But you keep playing your luck just the same. 10:05.720 --> 10:07.760 Luck's a funny thing. 10:07.760 --> 10:10.040 You had a lucky start today. 10:10.040 --> 10:13.040 Maybe your luck's changed. 10:13.040 --> 10:14.040 Yeah. 10:14.040 --> 10:15.120 Yeah. 10:15.120 --> 10:16.120 Maybe it has. 10:16.120 --> 10:23.720 Why couldn't he have signed it yesterday? 10:23.720 --> 10:25.440 That's all I could think of for a couple of minutes. 10:25.440 --> 10:26.880 Why couldn't he have signed it yesterday? 10:26.880 --> 10:28.880 But it was done now. 10:28.880 --> 10:32.200 I get in the car and drive downtown. 10:32.200 --> 10:33.800 First I go to Celia's bank. 10:33.800 --> 10:36.640 I get that $1,800 out of the deposit box. 10:36.640 --> 10:37.640 Nobody says a word. 10:37.640 --> 10:41.200 Then I drive over to Morsley's bank and cash this check. 10:41.200 --> 10:43.520 I've got over five grand now. 10:43.520 --> 10:48.000 That's pretty good for a guy that started out the day by being $1,750 in the hole. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.360 I drive over towards the park. 10:49.360 --> 10:52.160 A clock in a jewelry store says $10.15. 10:52.160 --> 10:53.160 $10.15. 10:53.160 --> 10:55.160 That was plenty of time. 10:55.160 --> 10:59.840 At the park, I stop and give the ones over to the bums sitting around on the benches 10:59.840 --> 11:00.840 in the sun. 11:00.840 --> 11:02.760 There's always a bunch of them there. 11:02.760 --> 11:06.160 Pretty soon I see a guy that looks about right. 11:06.160 --> 11:08.160 Hey, you. 11:08.160 --> 11:09.160 Me? 11:09.160 --> 11:10.160 Yeah. 11:10.160 --> 11:12.600 You want to make five bucks? 11:12.600 --> 11:14.680 You mean the job? 11:14.680 --> 11:16.240 You won't have to strain yourself. 11:16.240 --> 11:18.240 I just hurt my wrist and I can't drive. 11:18.240 --> 11:19.680 I got to go uptown and meet a guy. 11:19.680 --> 11:20.680 You want to drive me? 11:20.680 --> 11:21.680 Oh, okay. 11:21.680 --> 11:22.680 You got a license? 11:22.680 --> 11:23.680 Yeah, I got a license. 11:23.680 --> 11:24.680 Let's see. 11:24.680 --> 11:25.680 Okay. 11:25.680 --> 11:26.680 Yeah. 11:26.680 --> 11:30.880 Floyd Hustas, Omaha, Nebraska. 11:30.880 --> 11:33.080 You're going to have a long ways from home, aren't you? 11:33.080 --> 11:38.080 Yeah, but it's okay to drive within this state if you got a licensed driver with you. 11:38.080 --> 11:41.080 Okay, Floyd Hustas. 11:41.080 --> 11:48.560 You'll do. 11:48.560 --> 11:50.120 We get in the car and head uptown. 11:50.120 --> 11:51.120 My luck is holding. 11:51.120 --> 11:54.120 This guy couldn't have been better if I looked a week. 11:54.120 --> 11:57.600 I see another clock and it's only a little past 1030 now. 11:57.600 --> 11:59.600 I still got lots of time. 11:59.600 --> 12:02.120 So I decide to clean up the details now. 12:02.120 --> 12:04.120 How am I doing? 12:04.120 --> 12:05.120 Okay. 12:05.120 --> 12:07.000 But turn right at the next block, Floyd. 12:07.000 --> 12:09.800 I want to go by the 43rd Street Post Office and mail a letter. 12:09.800 --> 12:10.800 Sure. 12:10.800 --> 12:12.680 You could mail it in a letter box, though. 12:12.680 --> 12:15.080 Yeah, but I don't want to mail it in a letter box. 12:15.080 --> 12:16.080 Oh, okay. 12:16.080 --> 12:21.520 I go into the post office and get a stamp, mail a letter. 12:21.520 --> 12:24.160 It's a letter where I tell about Kill and Sear you. 12:24.160 --> 12:27.400 And it's just addressed to Police Commissioner 21 Center Street. 12:27.400 --> 12:30.760 Somehow I just don't trust a letter box. 12:30.760 --> 12:34.800 Because if the police don't get that letter right on time, it's not so good. 12:34.800 --> 12:38.680 I go out and get in the car and I tell Floyd Hustas where to go. 12:38.680 --> 12:39.680 We head uptown. 12:39.680 --> 12:43.600 After a while, we get to Fort Tryon Park, right above Riverside Drive, looking over 12:43.600 --> 12:44.600 the river. 12:44.600 --> 12:46.600 There's hardly ever anybody up there at this time of year. 12:46.600 --> 12:47.600 So I felt pretty safe. 12:47.600 --> 12:48.600 And sure enough, there wasn't. 12:48.600 --> 12:55.960 I got the monkey wrench out and I had it in my hand. 12:55.960 --> 12:56.960 This right? 12:56.960 --> 12:57.960 Yeah. 12:57.960 --> 13:01.840 Just pull over there, up against the rail. 13:01.840 --> 13:09.000 Gee, I never been up here. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.440 Must be quite a drop down there, huh? 13:11.440 --> 13:13.680 A couple hundred feet, huh? 13:13.680 --> 13:14.680 Uh-huh. 13:14.680 --> 13:17.000 This where you're supposed to meet the guy? 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 Yeah. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Right here. 13:19.000 --> 13:30.600 I dragged him into the back seat and took off all his clothes and then all mine. 13:30.600 --> 13:33.920 I changed clothes with him right down to the underwear and socks. 13:33.920 --> 13:38.960 I put all my papers in his pockets, my license, Old Man Morsley's application, my wallet. 13:38.960 --> 13:39.960 The works. 13:39.960 --> 13:42.440 Then I dragged him up front again in the driver's seat. 13:42.440 --> 13:45.880 I propped him there with his arms through the wheel so his head would go through the 13:45.880 --> 13:46.880 windshield. 13:46.880 --> 13:51.720 I had to be sure they'd say it was me, nobody else. 13:51.720 --> 13:55.920 Then I put her in gear and let her go. 13:55.920 --> 14:01.120 All right, stand back now. 14:01.120 --> 14:04.120 Stand back. 14:04.120 --> 14:09.120 I tell you, Officer, didn't land more three feet from me. 14:09.120 --> 14:10.120 Right by me, not more three feet. 14:10.120 --> 14:11.120 What could have happened? 14:11.120 --> 14:15.360 This car just rolled off the palisades up there somehow and landed smack in the middle of 14:15.360 --> 14:16.360 the street. 14:16.360 --> 14:17.360 Gee, look at his face. 14:17.360 --> 14:19.360 He must have gone right through the windshield. 14:19.360 --> 14:21.200 Yeah, poor fella. 14:21.200 --> 14:24.320 Identified him from his wallet, a guy named Snell. 14:24.320 --> 14:30.480 Leonard Snell. 14:30.480 --> 14:31.800 I was free. 14:31.800 --> 14:34.080 I was free of Syria and all of Beliakin. 14:34.080 --> 14:35.680 I was free to do anything I wanted. 14:35.680 --> 14:40.440 I had five grand in my pocket and the cops had Leonard Snell's body down at the morgue, 14:40.440 --> 14:42.480 just like I told them they would in the letter. 14:42.480 --> 14:44.160 My luck was holding but good. 14:44.160 --> 14:46.880 I went over to the 181st Street bus station. 14:46.880 --> 14:49.480 There was a bus leaving for Boston in 20 minutes. 14:49.480 --> 14:50.920 I bought a ticket. 14:50.920 --> 14:55.880 Then I got a paper on the corner, went into the lunch room and sat down at the counter. 14:55.880 --> 14:56.880 What's yours? 14:56.880 --> 15:01.960 Scrambled eggs with bacon, french fries, orange juice and coffee. 15:01.960 --> 15:02.960 And I got to get your bus. 15:02.960 --> 15:04.200 Won't take long, will it? 15:04.200 --> 15:06.600 No longer than it takes an egg to scramble. 15:06.600 --> 15:07.600 Woop. 15:07.600 --> 15:08.600 Excuse me. 15:08.600 --> 15:09.600 That's all right, Mac. 15:09.600 --> 15:11.600 I like to read a newspaper while I eat myself. 15:11.600 --> 15:12.600 Uh-huh. 15:12.600 --> 15:14.600 Kind of aids the digestion, I find. 15:14.600 --> 15:15.600 Yeah. 15:15.600 --> 15:17.600 Here's your orange juice. 15:17.600 --> 15:18.680 Thanks. 15:18.680 --> 15:20.480 Some guys have all the luck, don't they? 15:20.480 --> 15:21.480 Huh? 15:21.480 --> 15:22.680 I said some guys have all the luck. 15:22.680 --> 15:26.280 I was just noticing in your paper there about those Irish sweepstakes winners. 15:26.280 --> 15:27.280 Oh, yeah. 15:27.280 --> 15:28.280 Yeah. 15:28.280 --> 15:29.280 Some guys... 15:29.280 --> 15:30.280 What's the matter? 15:30.280 --> 15:31.280 You feel bad? 15:31.280 --> 15:34.280 Have all the luck. 15:34.280 --> 15:35.280 Hey! 15:35.280 --> 15:38.280 Hey, wait! 15:38.280 --> 15:44.000 When I came to, somebody was swabbing my head with water. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.280 I pay my check and get out of there somehow. 15:46.280 --> 15:48.400 And I look at the paper again. 15:48.400 --> 15:49.680 That's what it said all right. 15:49.680 --> 15:52.800 I'm a winner draws favorite in Irish sweeps. 15:52.800 --> 15:53.800 My ticket. 15:53.800 --> 15:59.080 And it went on to say how it was worth at least 40,000, maybe 150,000 if the horse won. 15:59.080 --> 16:04.200 All of a sudden I was standing there and cursing and swearing at Celia right out loud, just 16:04.200 --> 16:05.200 as though she was alive. 16:05.200 --> 16:09.480 Until I see some people are staring at me and I stop. 16:09.480 --> 16:12.600 Because if it hadn't been for her, I'd have 40,000 dollars. 16:12.600 --> 16:13.600 40,000 dollars! 16:13.600 --> 16:19.440 And now, now that 40,000 was just a one-way ticket to the hot seat because that 40,000 16:19.440 --> 16:20.440 belonged to Leonard Snell. 16:20.440 --> 16:23.480 And that Irish sweep ticket was in Leonard Snell's wallet. 16:23.480 --> 16:28.160 And Leonard Snell's wallet was in the pocket of that bum that was supposed to be me. 16:28.160 --> 16:31.680 By now the cops that have it along with the rest of Leonard Snell's stuff down at headquarters 16:31.680 --> 16:35.400 after they put the body in the morgue. 16:35.400 --> 16:38.520 You've ever kissed off 40,000 dollars, you know how I felt. 16:38.520 --> 16:40.720 But what was the use? 16:40.720 --> 16:45.080 Well, I still have my five grand and a bus ticket to Boston. 16:45.080 --> 16:47.800 You can't get all the breaks all the time was what I figured then. 16:47.800 --> 16:49.440 So I got on the bus. 16:49.440 --> 16:51.440 Plenty of seats in the rear. 16:51.440 --> 16:52.440 This seat taken? 16:52.440 --> 16:53.440 No, not at all. 16:53.440 --> 16:54.440 Sit right down. 16:54.440 --> 16:55.440 Thanks. 16:55.440 --> 16:59.040 Wow, wow. 16:59.040 --> 17:00.960 Somebody must be feeling pretty good this afternoon. 17:00.960 --> 17:01.960 Huh? 17:01.960 --> 17:05.400 The guy that's got the I'm a winner ticket in the sweeps. 17:05.400 --> 17:10.240 I see it says there they'd pay him 40,000 dollars for it right now. 17:10.240 --> 17:11.240 40,000 dollars! 17:11.240 --> 17:12.240 Yeah. 17:12.240 --> 17:14.640 It sure like to be in his shoes, wouldn't you? 17:14.640 --> 17:15.640 Yeah. 17:15.640 --> 17:16.640 I see it says there. 17:16.640 --> 17:17.640 Here, you want to read it? 17:17.640 --> 17:19.640 Well, you don't need to get sore. 17:19.640 --> 17:20.640 Give it. 17:20.640 --> 17:21.640 I... 17:21.640 --> 17:22.640 Holy... 17:22.640 --> 17:23.640 Board? 17:23.640 --> 17:24.640 All aboard. 17:24.640 --> 17:25.640 Stop. 17:25.640 --> 17:26.640 Let me out of here. 17:26.640 --> 17:27.640 I gotta get out of here. 17:27.640 --> 17:28.640 Well, make up your mind. 17:28.640 --> 17:29.640 I don't have to make up my mind, brother. 17:29.640 --> 17:37.320 I don't have to make up my mind. 17:37.320 --> 17:39.900 It was right then I got the idea what was happening. 17:39.900 --> 17:41.600 It was just like old man Morsley said. 17:41.600 --> 17:45.840 It may only happen once in a hundred years, but it was happening to me. 17:45.840 --> 17:47.760 My luck was riding high. 17:47.760 --> 17:50.760 And when your luck is like that, you just can't lose. 17:50.760 --> 17:52.120 Because there it was. 17:52.120 --> 17:54.680 And I was sitting in the paper again on page three. 17:54.680 --> 17:57.920 Freak explosion in Brooklyn kills three. 17:57.920 --> 18:00.160 And it was my house. 18:00.160 --> 18:04.400 And the people killed were Morsley and his wife. 18:04.400 --> 18:05.400 And Celia. 18:05.400 --> 18:11.600 They thought it was caused by all Morsley's chemicals or something. 18:11.600 --> 18:12.600 I don't know and I didn't care. 18:12.600 --> 18:16.240 All I knew was they thought Celia had been killed by the explosion and the fire. 18:16.240 --> 18:17.240 And I was in the clear. 18:17.240 --> 18:20.240 I could walk into the police station and get my sweepstake ticket. 18:20.240 --> 18:22.680 You collect that 40,000 and be set for life. 18:22.680 --> 18:24.680 I knew just what I was going to tell them. 18:24.680 --> 18:26.600 It was a lead pipe cinch. 18:26.600 --> 18:30.960 I was walking on air all the way to the police station and I was going up the steps. 18:30.960 --> 18:36.080 And then I stopped because I just remembered something terrible. 18:36.080 --> 18:41.480 And if I'd remembered it ten seconds later, I'd have walked right into the electric chair. 18:41.480 --> 18:46.880 I remembered the letter. 18:46.880 --> 18:48.440 I was licked. 18:48.440 --> 18:52.640 I'm warning the cops that have that letter in my own handwriting over my own signature 18:52.640 --> 18:54.520 telling how I'd kill Celia. 18:54.520 --> 18:58.480 That letter that I'd taken all the trouble to mail at the 43rd Street Post Office so 18:58.480 --> 19:00.520 I would be sure to get off all right. 19:00.520 --> 19:05.920 I felt even worse this time than I had before because it seemed like I'd almost had that 19:05.920 --> 19:08.000 money right in my hands. 19:08.000 --> 19:09.000 I was pretty shaky. 19:09.000 --> 19:12.000 I went into a bar to get a drink. 19:12.000 --> 19:16.160 Yes, who will it be? 19:16.160 --> 19:17.160 Double shot. 19:17.160 --> 19:18.160 All right, sir. 19:18.160 --> 19:19.160 A little chaser on the side? 19:19.160 --> 19:20.160 No. 19:20.160 --> 19:21.160 That'll be a dollar. 19:21.160 --> 19:22.160 Leave the bottle. 19:22.160 --> 19:23.160 Yes, sir. 19:23.160 --> 19:24.160 And now we bring you five minutes of the latest news. 19:24.160 --> 19:25.160 Hey, Charlie, turn that radio up, will you? 19:25.160 --> 19:26.160 Sure. 19:26.160 --> 19:39.160 One of the most daring holdups in the annals of New York crime, a gang of armed men this 19:39.160 --> 19:44.120 noon robbed the United States mail truck just as it was leaving the 43rd Street Post Office, 19:44.120 --> 19:47.960 removing eight sacks of mail, the entire morning collection of the post office. 19:47.960 --> 19:52.320 Apparently, the gunmen were after a shipment of currency destined for the Federal Reserve 19:52.320 --> 19:53.320 Bank. 19:53.320 --> 19:56.160 But according to officials, the joke is on the gangsters. 19:56.160 --> 19:58.160 All they got was no regular mail. 19:58.160 --> 19:59.160 Hey, you didn't pay me here. 19:59.160 --> 20:00.160 Wait, you got change. 20:00.160 --> 20:01.160 Keep it. 20:01.160 --> 20:02.160 Keep the change. 20:02.160 --> 20:03.160 Several of whom paid a... 20:03.160 --> 20:04.160 I knew what had happened now. 20:04.160 --> 20:05.160 I couldn't lose. 20:05.160 --> 20:16.160 I simply couldn't lose because those mugs that stuck up that mail truck had got my letter. 20:16.160 --> 20:21.160 Nothing in the world could stop me now. 20:21.160 --> 20:27.960 Officer, I'd just been held up. 20:27.960 --> 20:28.960 Held up, huh? 20:28.960 --> 20:29.960 Yeah. 20:29.960 --> 20:30.960 Well, what happened? 20:30.960 --> 20:34.440 Well, I picked up a guy who asked me for a lift about 225th Street and Broadway. 20:34.440 --> 20:37.200 I was driving along by Vincortland Park when suddenly he grabbed me. 20:37.200 --> 20:39.080 Then he hit me with something. 20:39.080 --> 20:41.440 That's all I remember till I woke up lying in the park. 20:41.440 --> 20:42.440 My car was gone. 20:42.440 --> 20:45.600 Then I found out that he'd taken my wallet, my money, everything. 20:45.600 --> 20:46.600 I see. 20:46.600 --> 20:47.600 What's your name? 20:47.600 --> 20:48.600 Leonard Snell. 20:48.600 --> 20:49.600 Leonard Snell? 20:49.600 --> 20:50.600 That's right. 20:50.600 --> 20:53.600 Oh, say, Lieutenant. 20:53.600 --> 20:54.720 Yes? 20:54.720 --> 20:57.500 This gentleman is Mr. Leonard Snell. 20:57.500 --> 20:58.500 He was held up this morning. 20:58.500 --> 21:00.500 His car was stolen. 21:00.500 --> 21:01.500 Oh. 21:01.500 --> 21:05.600 Just step in here, will you, Mr. Snell? 21:05.600 --> 21:06.600 Sure. 21:06.600 --> 21:07.600 Sit down. 21:07.600 --> 21:08.600 Thanks. 21:08.600 --> 21:12.960 I've got some news for you, Mr. Snell. 21:12.960 --> 21:14.800 Did you find my car? 21:14.800 --> 21:15.800 Well, yes. 21:15.800 --> 21:17.240 The fellow didn't get far. 21:17.240 --> 21:19.560 He drove off the cliff at Fort Tryon Park. 21:19.560 --> 21:20.560 He's dead. 21:20.560 --> 21:23.520 For a while we thought it was you. 21:23.520 --> 21:26.800 But that wasn't what I was going to tell you. 21:26.800 --> 21:28.680 Well, what was it? 21:28.680 --> 21:31.080 You haven't seen the papers today? 21:31.080 --> 21:32.080 Not since this morning. 21:32.080 --> 21:33.080 What? 21:33.080 --> 21:36.800 I've got some good news and some bad news for you, Mr. Snell. 21:36.800 --> 21:38.920 Maybe I better tell you the bad news first. 21:38.920 --> 21:41.080 It's pretty bad. 21:41.080 --> 21:43.280 Go ahead. 21:43.280 --> 21:49.380 Your wife was killed this morning, Mr. Snell, in a fire at your home. 21:49.380 --> 21:51.380 My wife? 21:51.380 --> 21:53.380 Killed? 21:53.380 --> 21:56.360 I see. 21:56.360 --> 22:02.880 And this probably won't interest you much under the circumstances, Mr. Snell, but you've 22:02.880 --> 22:06.800 drawn a ticket worth $40,000 and the Irish sweepstakes. 22:06.800 --> 22:08.800 I see. 22:08.800 --> 22:16.360 Well, to win the Irish sweepstakes and then lose your wife the same day. 22:16.360 --> 22:23.360 Some people sure have all the hard luck in the world. 22:23.360 --> 22:24.360 Luck. 22:24.360 --> 22:28.480 Within about 15 minutes more things were happening to me that could happen to most 22:28.480 --> 22:29.480 guys in a dozen lifetimes. 22:29.480 --> 22:30.480 And then comes the jackpot I've been waiting for. 22:30.480 --> 22:31.480 Will you hold it, Mr. Snell? 22:31.480 --> 22:32.480 Just hold that pose right there. 22:32.480 --> 22:33.480 If you care to make us famous, Mr. Snell, would you mind telling the police about this 22:33.480 --> 22:34.480 thing? 22:34.480 --> 22:39.480 Please, fellas. 22:39.480 --> 22:43.120 Please. 22:43.120 --> 22:47.480 I hate to trouble you at this time, Mr. Snell, but the syndicate I represent is prepared 22:47.480 --> 22:51.200 to offer you $40,000 in cash for your sweepstake ticket. 22:51.200 --> 22:54.000 I've got the money right here in cash. 22:54.000 --> 22:55.000 All right. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.120 I don't care much about the money, though. 22:58.120 --> 22:59.120 Now. 22:59.120 --> 23:09.720 That was at 4.30. 23:09.720 --> 23:13.680 By 6, I've got $45,000 in my pocket. 23:13.680 --> 23:14.680 Cash. 23:14.680 --> 23:16.480 And I'm registered at the Waldorf. 23:16.480 --> 23:19.040 And I'm sitting down to dinner. 23:19.040 --> 23:20.880 I'll take the plank steak, please. 23:20.880 --> 23:21.880 Medium. 23:21.880 --> 23:22.880 Yes, sir. 23:22.880 --> 23:23.880 I will have your order very shortly, sir. 23:23.880 --> 23:24.880 Hello, pal. 23:24.880 --> 23:25.880 Mind if I serve? 23:25.880 --> 23:30.920 Uh, you a reporter? 23:30.920 --> 23:31.920 Not exactly. 23:31.920 --> 23:34.680 I'm a sort of a collector. 23:34.680 --> 23:36.360 You owe me 40 grand, pal. 23:36.360 --> 23:38.360 I come to collect. 23:38.360 --> 23:39.360 Now. 23:39.360 --> 23:40.360 40? 23:40.360 --> 23:41.360 Well, I don't owe you. 23:41.360 --> 23:42.360 Yes, you do, pal. 23:42.360 --> 23:47.400 Remember that little letter you wrote to the police commissioner this morning that you 23:47.400 --> 23:51.240 mailed to the 43rd Street Post Office? 23:51.240 --> 23:56.840 Some friends of mine found it, they figure it's worth just about 40 grand. 23:56.840 --> 24:00.400 You... you're one of the guys that stuck up the mail truck. 24:00.400 --> 24:01.880 You want to make something of it? 24:01.880 --> 24:04.080 There's a big reward. 24:04.080 --> 24:06.680 There's a cop right outside the hotel. 24:06.680 --> 24:11.960 I kind of figured you'd play ball. 24:11.960 --> 24:12.960 Where's the letter? 24:12.960 --> 24:16.480 My friend's got it right outside in the car. 24:16.480 --> 24:19.360 Still got that dough on you in cash like the papers said? 24:19.360 --> 24:20.360 Yes. 24:20.360 --> 24:21.360 Come on. 24:21.360 --> 24:22.360 All right. 24:22.360 --> 24:34.720 You're a pretty lucky guy at that, pal. 24:34.720 --> 24:37.160 I suppose somebody else had got that letter. 24:37.160 --> 24:38.160 Shh, shh, shh. 24:38.160 --> 24:39.160 Don't worry, pal. 24:39.160 --> 24:40.160 Your secret is safe with me. 24:40.160 --> 24:41.160 Here's the car. 24:41.160 --> 24:42.160 I think he's here. 24:42.160 --> 24:43.160 He's acting real reasonable, too. 24:43.160 --> 24:44.160 Hey, get up the cash, pal. 24:44.160 --> 24:45.160 You recognize the letter, don't you? 24:45.160 --> 24:50.160 Here's your money. 24:50.160 --> 24:54.160 And here's your letter. 24:54.160 --> 24:57.760 Only don't try anything funny because we still know what that letter says. 24:57.760 --> 25:02.360 And the cops could always dig up the body and find out how your old lady really kicked 25:02.360 --> 25:03.840 off, couldn't they? 25:03.840 --> 25:05.560 I think he gets the idea. 25:05.560 --> 25:06.560 So long, Patholka. 25:06.560 --> 25:07.560 Officer! 25:07.560 --> 25:08.560 Officer! 25:08.560 --> 25:09.560 Those are the gangsters that hailed up the mail truck! 25:09.560 --> 25:10.560 I saw them this afternoon! 25:10.560 --> 25:15.560 Oh, I'm so sorry. 25:15.560 --> 25:16.560 Officer! 25:16.560 --> 25:19.560 Somebody better help that poor man. 25:19.560 --> 25:20.560 He's been shot. 25:20.560 --> 25:21.560 Poor color. 25:21.560 --> 25:22.560 Hey, you! 25:22.560 --> 25:23.560 Now, you go call an ambulance. 25:23.560 --> 25:24.560 I'll stand by this man. 25:24.560 --> 25:25.560 Okay. 25:25.560 --> 25:26.560 What's up, Jerry? 25:26.560 --> 25:27.560 I just had a little showdown with those mail workers. 25:27.560 --> 25:28.560 The other boys got him down the street. 25:28.560 --> 25:29.560 This poor man was shot when he fired back. 25:29.560 --> 25:30.560 What's this letter? 25:30.560 --> 25:31.560 No, no, please. 25:31.560 --> 25:32.560 No. 25:32.560 --> 25:33.560 Here's the letter. 25:33.560 --> 25:40.560 Police commissioner. 25:40.560 --> 25:45.560 No, no, no. 25:45.560 --> 25:47.160 You'd better open it. 25:47.160 --> 25:48.160 Might be evidence. 25:48.160 --> 25:51.160 No, no, no. 25:51.160 --> 25:52.160 No. 25:52.160 --> 25:56.560 You better put a guard on this fellow at the hospital, Jerry. 25:56.560 --> 25:57.560 Right, sir. 25:57.560 --> 26:19.120 From the looks of this letter, he's going to stand trial for murder. 26:19.120 --> 26:21.600 You'd better not talk anymore, Mr. Snell. 26:21.600 --> 26:22.600 What's the difference? 26:22.600 --> 26:24.760 What's the difference how much I talk? 26:24.760 --> 26:25.760 That's what I wanted to tell them. 26:25.760 --> 26:27.440 What if they did get the letter? 26:27.440 --> 26:31.160 I'll never go to trial because I got luck, don't you see? 26:31.160 --> 26:34.280 It comes once in a hundred years and I got it. 26:34.280 --> 26:35.280 I got that kind of luck. 26:35.280 --> 26:38.720 And when you got that kind of luck, you can't lose. 26:38.720 --> 26:39.720 You can't lose. 26:39.720 --> 26:40.720 You can't lose. 26:40.720 --> 26:41.720 Oh, hello. 26:41.720 --> 26:42.720 Hello. 26:42.720 --> 26:43.720 You still here? 26:43.720 --> 26:57.360 Oh, you know, I got to guard that fellow Snell as long as he's here. 26:57.360 --> 26:58.360 He's here in the hospital. 26:58.360 --> 27:02.120 Yeah, but did you ever see the like of it? 27:02.120 --> 27:07.760 I don't suppose one man ever had so much luck in one day in a whole wide world. 27:07.760 --> 27:11.600 I guess his luck is played out now, right, though? 27:11.600 --> 27:12.600 Funny. 27:12.600 --> 27:14.480 He said you can't lose. 27:14.480 --> 27:17.240 Well, he's wrong. 27:17.240 --> 27:21.360 He's wrong now because that lad's going to fry just as sure as my name is Jerry Maloney. 27:21.360 --> 27:22.360 No. 27:22.360 --> 27:24.720 Now, you're wrong, Jerry. 27:24.720 --> 27:26.840 His luck is still good. 27:26.840 --> 27:27.840 Huh? 27:27.840 --> 27:33.840 He's dead. 27:33.840 --> 27:38.840 Suspense. 27:38.840 --> 27:54.800 Produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 27:54.800 --> 28:00.280 Tonight, you heard Mr. Dan Durier as star of The Man Who Couldn't Lose. 28:00.280 --> 28:04.960 This was the third in a limited series of five Friday night performances at this hour, 28:04.960 --> 28:11.040 which will present radio's outstanding theater of thrill, Suspense. 28:11.040 --> 28:16.280 Dan Durier will soon be seen in Black Bart, a universal international picture. 28:16.280 --> 28:22.280 Appearing with Mr. Durier were Lucille Meredith, Kathy Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, John McIntyre, 28:22.280 --> 28:29.000 Elliot Lewis, Joseph Kearns, Jerry Hausner, Frank Albertson, Jack Crouchon, Dick Ryan, 28:29.000 --> 28:33.320 Hans Conrad, Ed Max, Frank Goss, and Jack Webb. 28:33.320 --> 28:38.120 Music for Suspense is under the direction of Lud Bluskin with original music composed 28:38.120 --> 28:40.360 by Lucian Morrowak. 28:40.360 --> 28:47.840 Next Friday, same time, Boris Karloff will be our star in a famous story by John Collier. 28:47.840 --> 29:17.200 Don't forget, next Friday, same time, listen to Suspense. 29:17.200 --> 29:20.240 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.