1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,720 Now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present Suspense. 2 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:28,640 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mickey Rooney in The Lie, a suspense play produced and directed 3 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,880 by Antonim Leader. 4 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:40,280 Friends, get in step, get a rep for pep, get Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs and do it 5 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:41,280 now. 6 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,920 Replace those narrow gap spark plugs with wide gap Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs. 7 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,120 Your engine will idle smoother, give you better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually 8 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:51,120 save gas. 9 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,800 That's right, actually save gas. 10 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,800 Because those wide gap Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs give you better performance on 11 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,640 leaner gas mixtures. 12 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,400 Auto Light regular type spark plugs have long been standard factory equipment on many leading 13 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,920 makes of cars and trucks. 14 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,040 And now six, that's right, six of these leading makes of cars and trucks have switched to 15 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:16,800 new Auto Light Resistor type spark plugs for factory installation on their new 1949 models. 16 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,840 The new Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs are the spark plugs of today and the future. 17 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,480 Remember, you're right with Auto Light. 18 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:35,480 And now Auto Light presents Mickey Rooney in a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 19 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:45,320 You got the gate, you got the gate, you got the gate, you got the gate, you got the gate, 20 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,320 you got the gate, you got the gate, you got the gate, you got the gate, you got the gate, 21 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,320 shut up. 22 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,960 I've been kicked out of better college. 23 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,840 Son, why don't you leave that bottle alone? 24 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,280 I know it's none of my business. 25 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,240 Are you my father? 26 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,240 Of course not. 27 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,240 I'm only trying to... 28 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:04,240 Well, don't call me son. 29 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,320 And you're right, it's none of your business. 30 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,000 Why, you fresh pup. 31 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,720 If I were your father, I'd be ashamed to admit it. 32 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,120 I watched where you got on. 33 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,120 It's in the middle of the semester, bounced out on your ear, weren't you? 34 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,440 I know your type, taking everything you can get from the old man and not giving anything 35 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,440 back, only grief and gray hair. 36 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,440 Ah, shut up. 37 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:27,160 Mansfield, Mansfield, next station stop, Mansfield. 38 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,160 Put away that bottle, kid, you're home. 39 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:47,440 Mansfield, Mansfield. 40 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,600 The old hometown depot again. 41 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,040 Didn't look friendly. 42 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,600 Nobody was going to look friendly. 43 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,960 A whole term's tuition fee shot for the third time. 44 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:04,380 Well, Dad had tried to cover up what he felt, but she wouldn't. 45 00:03:04,380 --> 00:03:06,080 Not glad. 46 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,400 I could hear already in my imagination. 47 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,440 Oh, so you're home again. 48 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,680 I guess you found out it was all a waste of time. 49 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,680 They couldn't teach you anything at college. 50 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,800 Maybe they ought to change things. 51 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,560 Maybe they ought to learn from you. 52 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,760 And make them pay, Marty, dear, make them pay. 53 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,360 Maybe we get back some of the money you've wasted. 54 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,680 What do you think, you are a rich man's son? 55 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,240 I knew you from the day I married your father, and I expect to see the day when I have to 56 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,360 send you cartons of cigarettes up to the pen. 57 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,720 Well, I was going to hear it again. 58 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,040 No way of stopping that mouth. 59 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,320 To break the ice, I called home from the station. 60 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:46,320 Busy. 61 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,600 Five minutes later, I called again. 62 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,600 Busy. 63 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,960 So I waited, and five minutes later, I called again. 64 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:55,960 Talking, talking. 65 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,560 That's all she ever had under a peroxide. 66 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,320 Talk, talk with a cheap crowd of hers. 67 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,560 It wasn't my dad on the telephone. 68 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,560 He was in Baltimore working. 69 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:12,320 Well, I grabbed a bus and went home. 70 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,600 Glad. 71 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,880 Hey, Glad, it's me. 72 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:22,880 Hey, Glad. 73 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,880 It's your loving stepson. 74 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,880 Look at that. 75 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,880 Didn't even bother to hang up the telephone. 76 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:31,880 What a woman. 77 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:32,880 Hello. 78 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:33,880 What's that? 79 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:34,880 Hello. 80 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:35,880 Who is it? 81 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,960 It was a man. 82 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,200 It would be, with her. 83 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,080 He heard my voice, thought it was Dad, and hung up. 84 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,280 Dad had come home early today. 85 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:47,280 Plenty of signs. 86 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:50,120 There was the paper he always picked up in Baltimore. 87 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,120 Cigarettes, stuff. 88 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,120 And I knew it was his. 89 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,640 It was that awful Turkish brand he'd been smoking since before I was born. 90 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,120 No one else could stand. 91 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,520 Yeah, he came home early. 92 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,760 They must have gone out. 93 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,120 I wandered into her bedroom. 94 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,120 No reason. 95 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,120 Just wandered. 96 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,240 You know what I saw? 97 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,160 She was curled up on the bed. 98 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,400 Yes, Glad, curled up on the bed, sort of cuddling. 99 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,080 No makeup. 100 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,560 Hair all good up with that bleached stuff of hers, and she was dead. 101 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,320 But dead. 102 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,480 Somebody had broken her neck. 103 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,480 If ever a man deserved a break, it's my dad. 104 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,720 If ever a man deserved a decent, loving wife like my real mother, if ever a man deserved 105 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,000 the kind of son fathers dream about instead of the mutt the rat I was turning out to be. 106 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,960 Well, I didn't have much time for philosophizing. 107 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,600 I got rid of the newspaper and cigarette butt. 108 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:53,280 I mussed my hair, tore my clothes, picked up her dead hand with those purple cat-like fingernails, 109 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:55,160 and I scratched it across my face. 110 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,160 Ow! 111 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,280 You'd think she was alive the way those nails dug in. 112 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:06,080 And then I went to the phone. 113 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,720 Police headquarters. 114 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:15,240 Hello, this is Martin Delavan calling from 22 Beech Street South. 115 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:16,240 Yeah. 116 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,360 I think you'd better send somebody around to pick me up. 117 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:34,240 I just murdered my stepmother. 118 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:41,440 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Mickey Rooney in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 119 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:42,440 Suspense. 120 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,440 Hiya, hello. 121 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:52,440 Say, that's quite a stack of letters you got. 122 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,880 Yep, that's my fan mail. 123 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,680 Auditorial letters, pay-ons of praise. 124 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,520 You mean people like you? 125 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,080 Of course they like me because I tell them to replace old narrow gap spark plugs with 126 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,440 wide gap Auto Light resistor spark plugs, and naturally they like Auto Light resistor 127 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,400 spark plugs once they try them. 128 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:08,400 Here's one from Mr. W.E. 129 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,600 Schmitz of Houston, Texas who writes, gentlemen, I recently switched to Auto Light resistor 130 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,280 spark plugs for my 1942 car. 131 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,840 I've been trying other brands for years, but when I switched to Auto Light, I can truthfully 132 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,400 say I've never seen such an improvement in my 43 years in the automobile business simply 133 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:24,680 by changing plugs. 134 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,520 Well, from an automobile man, eh? 135 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,560 From the sort of man who'd know that switching to Auto Light resistor spark plugs means smoother 136 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,720 idling, better performance on leaner gas mixtures, and actual saving of gas. 137 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,840 And Auto Light resistor spark plugs cut down spark plug interference with radio and television 138 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:40,840 reception. 139 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:46,440 All right, Harlow, but let's not interfere with the reception of suspense. 140 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:53,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Mickey Rooney as Martin Delavan 141 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,800 in The Lie. 142 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:13,160 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 143 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,320 Don't get cocky with me, young fella. 144 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,200 And just remember that you put yourself in a jam that always turns out to be pretty rugged. 145 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,600 And let's have the story again. 146 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,600 Look, I've told it to you twice. 147 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,000 Let's have it again. 148 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,040 You don't have to play McTavish of Scotland Yard. 149 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,040 You don't have to find the killer. 150 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,240 I told you I did it. 151 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,000 But you make it sound so exciting. 152 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Let's have it again. 153 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,240 Okay, okay. 154 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,240 Beginning where? 155 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,760 You were expelled from college this morning for drinking. 156 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,760 They always expel me for drinking. 157 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,760 You took the early afternoon train at State Junction, got out here about six and telephoned 158 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,760 from the station. 159 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:49,760 Take it from there. 160 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,760 The line was busy. 161 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:51,880 I took a bus from the station. 162 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,400 I came in without making any noise. 163 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,120 It didn't happen to make any. 164 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,120 From the hall out there, I hear this... 165 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,120 This... 166 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,080 I heard my stepmother talking on the phone. 167 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,080 To a man? 168 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,080 Yes. 169 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,080 How'd you know it was a man? 170 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:04,080 I could tell. 171 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:05,280 Smart boy. 172 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,280 What was she saying? 173 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:07,280 She... 174 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,280 She said enough. 175 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,560 I'd like to find out what makes enough. 176 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:14,600 Well... 177 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:15,600 What makes enough? 178 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,320 The point when you put your hands around somebody's neck and start to squeeze. 179 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,360 She was two-timing your father, huh? 180 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,360 All right, go on. 181 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,000 I guess I lost my hit. 182 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,760 I remember grabbing her by the neck just as she heard me and turned around, and I remember 183 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,200 her fingernails coming up toward my eyes and digging into my face. 184 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,480 Would you say she did a good job on me? 185 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,000 Yeah, look at these scratches. 186 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,640 You did a better one on her. 187 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,840 Well, this is about checks with what you sent before. 188 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:41,840 Good for me. 189 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:42,840 You don't want to change anything? 190 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,200 I want you to take me downtown and book me. 191 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,080 There's no hurry. 192 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,920 I want you to reenact this for us before a motion picture camera. 193 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,520 The mo...movies? 194 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,560 That'll be fun. 195 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:56,840 Hey, what's the matter? 196 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:57,840 You don't look happy. 197 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,280 Would it have pleased you more if you'd had to beat it out of me with a rubber hose? 198 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:02,280 Maybe. 199 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,280 Maybe it would. 200 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:04,280 And a good... 201 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:05,280 Right here, Lieutenant, in the kitchen. 202 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,280 Now, break out your camera. 203 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:07,280 Somebody burned a newspaper in the kitchen stove. 204 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:08,280 The ashes are still warm. 205 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,280 And which paper? 206 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:10,280 Can you make it out? 207 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:11,280 No, no, no. 208 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,280 The ashes are all stirred up. 209 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,280 Did you burn a newspaper, kid? 210 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,280 Yes. 211 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:15,280 Why? 212 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:16,280 Well, after I killed her, I got kind of a bad feeling. 213 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:17,280 I mean, I'm not sure. 214 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:18,280 I mean, I'm not sure. 215 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,280 I mean, I'm not sure. 216 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:20,280 I mean, I'm not sure. 217 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,580 I got kind of a chill, and I thought I'd start a fire. 218 00:10:23,580 --> 00:10:24,880 And then you changed your mind, huh? 219 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:25,880 That's right. 220 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,780 So, you just waited for it to burn out, and you just stirred up the ashes, huh? 221 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:32,480 Listen, if people were always rational, they wouldn't commit murders. 222 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,640 Psychologists, too, huh? 223 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,800 Okay, set up the first shot from the hallway, Endocott, as it comes in. 224 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:39,800 Jack. 225 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:40,800 Where's your father, Delavan? 226 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Where can we reach him? 227 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:42,800 I don't want him pulled into this. 228 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,800 Leave him alone. 229 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,800 Don't start jabbering at him, making things worse than they are. 230 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,800 Get hold of your blood pressure, Bob. 231 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,400 It happens that you killed his wife. 232 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,400 Now, where do we reach him? 233 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,400 He's in Baltimore. 234 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,400 Henry Dullivan Company, import and export. 235 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,400 Commutes every day? 236 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,400 Yeah, yeah, but he wouldn't be at his office now. 237 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,400 It's long past closing time. 238 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,400 All set, Lieutenant. 239 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,400 All right with you. 240 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,400 You like your old man, huh? 241 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,400 Oh, I guess he passes. 242 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,400 And that's all? 243 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,400 We haven't seen much of each other since he married that... 244 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,400 since he got married again. 245 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,400 I get expelled from different colleges, and he balls me out, 246 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,400 and I write him for checks, and he sends them. 247 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,400 Mm-hmm. 248 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,400 Okay, let's make our try for the Oscar, shall we? 249 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,400 You just go through the motions starting at the door, 250 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,400 exactly as it happened. 251 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,400 Without my make-up, Lieutenant? 252 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,400 Very funny, except there's a dead woman in the bedroom. 253 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,400 You better change your attitude, kid. 254 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:35,400 Who's this? 255 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:36,400 It's my father, please. 256 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:37,400 Take it easy with him. 257 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,400 Dad! Dad! 258 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,400 What's going on in my house? 259 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,400 Marty, what are you doing here this time of year? 260 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Let me break into him my way. 261 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,400 You shut up. 262 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,400 Where's Glad? Where's your mother? 263 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,400 And what are all the police doing around here? 264 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,400 Marty, speak up. 265 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,400 All right. 266 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,400 I'll give it to you straight. 267 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,400 She's dead. 268 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,400 What? What do you mean? 269 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,400 You know what dead means? 270 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,400 She's dead. I...I killed her. 271 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,400 No, no, Marty, don't say that. It isn't true. 272 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,400 You...why, you don't know how... 273 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:09,400 I killed her! 274 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,400 How would you know anything about it? 275 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,400 You were in Baltimore. 276 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,400 You were in Baltimore, weren't you? 277 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,400 Gentlemen, please. 278 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:17,400 I'm Lieutenant Steele. 279 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,400 Lieutenant, don't listen to my boy. 280 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,400 He couldn't have possibly... 281 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Don't try to tell anybody what I couldn't have done. 282 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,400 You know I always wanted to kill her. 283 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,400 Anyway, you weren't here. 284 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,400 You were in Baltimore until now at your office. 285 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,400 I wasn't in my office. 286 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:31,400 Dad! 287 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,400 I didn't feel very well long about noon. 288 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,400 I quit for the day. 289 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,400 May I see my wife, please? 290 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,400 In the bedroom. 291 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,400 And what did you do for the rest of the day, Mr. Delavan? 292 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,400 You don't have to answer that, Dad. 293 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,400 You don't have to say anything. 294 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,400 I'm trying to full confession, Dad. 295 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,400 I went to a Turkish bath and I stayed there for several hours. 296 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,400 Yeah, we can check that easily enough. 297 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:49,400 Of course. 298 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,400 I'm sorry to say that my son is right, Lieutenant. 299 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,400 I wasn't here. 300 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:02,400 When you commit a crime, it's as though someone snapped a switch and the sun went out. 301 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,400 Now you live in shadow. 302 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,400 You wear faded blue denims with your number on them. 303 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,400 You're surrounded by so much iron. 304 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,400 Doors and bars and the bed you sleep on. 305 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,400 You weigh every word before you say it. 306 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:23,400 Because it might make the difference between living and dying. 307 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,400 Most of the time you're angling to live. 308 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,400 By the time I was through, I made sure I would die. 309 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,400 You did a bad thing, Marty. 310 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:35,400 Why did you do it? 311 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,400 The important thing is that I did it. 312 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,400 That's what we've got to keep remembering. 313 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:40,400 Now don't let me down. 314 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,400 You haven't said anything, have you? 315 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,400 About what? 316 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:44,400 About you. 317 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,400 Well, what's there to say? 318 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,400 What's there to... 319 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Oh, I get it. 320 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,400 I get it. 321 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:53,400 Swell. 322 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:54,400 Swell, we'll keep it that way. 323 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,400 Oh, I suppose I ought to be keeping it that way. 324 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,400 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 325 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,400 Swell, we'll keep it that way. 326 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,400 I suppose I ought to be able to understand what you're trying to say, Marty. 327 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,400 But I can't. 328 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,400 I'm so confused. 329 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,400 They keep hammering away at me, trying to break down my story, where I was. 330 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,400 That Turkish bath routine wasn't very bright. 331 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,400 They can check on that dad. 332 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,400 They did. 333 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,400 There's no question about that, Marty. 334 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,400 I was there. 335 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:21,400 When? 336 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:22,400 All that afternoon. 337 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,400 From two until five. 338 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Who says you were there? 339 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,400 Beside yourself. 340 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,400 The clerk, the attendants, the rubbers. 341 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,400 They all know me, Marty. 342 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,400 I've been going there every Wednesday for months. 343 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,400 This couldn't be true. 344 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,400 Everything else about the whole nightmare could happen. 345 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,400 It was happening. 346 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,400 But not this. 347 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,400 He had killed her. 348 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,400 He must have killed her. 349 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,400 I'd hung a perfect frame on myself because he did it. 350 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,400 What's the matter, son? 351 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:01,400 Dad, how would that day's Baltimore paper get into our house before you came home? 352 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:02,400 Well, it's delivered to me. 353 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,400 I buy one in the morning to read it on the way in, 354 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,400 and the one that's delivered I read in the evening at home. 355 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,400 It's that simple. 356 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,400 And I suppose you're going to tell me that since I've been away, 357 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,400 Gladys learned how to smoke those Turkish blowtorches. 358 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,400 No, but you know how chain smokers are, son. 359 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,400 They're bound to run out of their own brand sometime, 360 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,400 and they'll smoke anything they can get their hands on. 361 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Anything they can get? 362 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,400 Oh, sure. Anyone could figure that out. 363 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,400 But why talk about newspapers and cigarettes, Marty? 364 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,400 We have only five minutes together. 365 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,400 Don't talk about anything. 366 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,400 What a chump I've been. 367 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,400 What a sap. 368 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,400 Oh, Dad, Dad, you don't know. 369 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,400 I know only one thing, Marty, that you didn't do it. 370 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:49,400 How do you know that? 371 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,400 Well, who would have known better? 372 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 What does that mean? 373 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,400 Why, why, you're my boy. 374 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,400 Oh, you've been wild, but that was because you were so hurt 375 00:15:58,400 --> 00:15:59,400 when I remarried. 376 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,400 And when she turned out to be what she was. 377 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,400 Oh, you don't have to keep reminding me of that, son. 378 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,400 Oh, I'm sorry, Dad, I'm sorry. 379 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:12,400 Anyway, I know my boy, Marty, and you didn't kill her. 380 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,400 Makes no difference, Dad. 381 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,400 They got an airtight case against me. 382 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,400 I'm going to fry just as crisp as though I did it. 383 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,400 I never thought for more than a second that you killed her, Marty. 384 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,400 The way you kept jabbering, you were in Baltimore, I was here, 385 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,400 you were in Baltimore, like a needle stuck in a reckon. 386 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,400 What can we do now, Lieutenant? 387 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,400 Do? It's out of my hands. You go to trial. 388 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,400 Trial? For what? 389 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,400 You say you know I didn't kill her. 390 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,400 Listen, kid, you framed yourself too well. 391 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,400 You didn't leave a shred of evidence that points to the real killer. 392 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,400 You had a motive. 393 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,400 You cleaned up every trace of someone else. 394 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,400 And now that someone else is laughing up his sleeve. 395 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,400 But, wait a minute, they can't convict me and execute me for a crime I didn't commit. 396 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:00,400 Take it easy, kid. 397 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,400 Take it easy? You mean take the rap? 398 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,400 You mean you'd like me to sit with my hands folded like a good little boy 399 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,400 and let him shave my skull, slit open my pants leg 400 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,400 because somebody else broke her neck? 401 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,400 Well, have you got a real idea who that somebody could be? 402 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,400 How would I know? 403 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,400 You think I ran around with her friends? 404 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,400 I never saw one of them. 405 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,400 But I'll bet she had a little black book that was so full it was spilling over. 406 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,400 Son, I told you this thing is out of my hands. 407 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:22,400 According to police routine... 408 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,400 But we're talking about her life! Don't you understand? My life! 409 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,400 And I'm trying to tell you that you're talking to the wrong man. 410 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,400 See the D.A., kid. 411 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,400 He's the only one who can help you. 412 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400 Every word of my confession was a... 413 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,400 was a deliberate lie, sir. 414 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,400 A lie. See, I dictated it and I reenacted the whole thing before the camera 415 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,400 because I thought I was protecting someone else, see? 416 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,400 A real murderer? 417 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,400 No, no, but I thought so at the time. 418 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,400 What was this somebody's name? 419 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,400 I'd rather not tell you that. 420 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,400 Why not if he's innocent? 421 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,400 Because I don't want him dragged through the mud. 422 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,400 I... 423 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,400 Here's the report you've been waiting for, sir. 424 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,400 Oh, thanks, Endicott. 425 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,400 Yes, sir. 426 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,400 Listen... 427 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,400 Now look, Delavan, I am too busy to play games. 428 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,400 This report establishes beyond doubt that it was your skin and blood under her fingernails. 429 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,400 That clinches it for me. 430 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,400 But wait a minute, don't you... 431 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,400 That's all. I'll see you at the trial. 432 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,400 And I guess you know how it'll come out. 433 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,400 So callous was this killer, so conscienceless, 434 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,400 that not only did he freely admit his guilt, 435 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,400 he willingly reenacted the whole ghastly thing 436 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,400 before the police department's cameras you've seen. 437 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,400 Far from showing remorse for his crime, he gloried in it. 438 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,400 You know the evidence. 439 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,400 His finger prints his blood under her nails. 440 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,400 I ask that you return a verdict that will make mandatory the extreme penalty. 441 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,400 Death for Martin Delavan. 442 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,400 I... 443 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:04,400 I'm gonna die. 444 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:05,400 Dad... 445 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400 Dad... 446 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,400 Find a way out for me, will you? 447 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,400 I don't know where to turn, Marty. 448 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,400 I'd give my life to save you. 449 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,400 Would you, Dad, would you sometimes, you know, 450 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,400 people just use that expression? 451 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,400 I sometimes wonder if they really would do a thing like that. 452 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,400 Isn't that what you did for me? 453 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,400 It's such a shame, Marty, that this should happen to us because of her. 454 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,400 The only good thing she ever did was to bring us together again. 455 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,400 By dying. 456 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,400 Then you knew all about her. 457 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,400 For a long time. 458 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,400 But I kept hoping... 459 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,400 Well, maybe she didn't appreciate you, Dad, but... 460 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,400 but I do. 461 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,400 You're not so bad yourself. 462 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,400 Dad? 463 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,400 Yes? 464 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,400 It's probably too late, but... 465 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,400 one part of my story was true. 466 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,400 She had been talking to somebody. 467 00:19:58,400 --> 00:19:59,400 What? 468 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,400 The receiver was off the hook and there was still a party on the other end. 469 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:02,400 Who was it? 470 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:03,400 That I don't know. 471 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,400 I picked up the receiver and I said, hello. 472 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,400 I heard a funny kind of gasp and then a click. 473 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,400 But Dad, don't you see? 474 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,400 It means somebody's ear was in on that murder. 475 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:13,400 We've got a witness. 476 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,400 Somebody who knows I didn't do it. 477 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,400 He and the guy who murdered her. 478 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,400 Time's up, kid. 479 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,400 We have just another five minutes. 480 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,400 We've got rules here, mister. 481 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,400 I'm just the right guy to be worried about rules. 482 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,400 Shove off, will you? 483 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:25,400 Wait a minute. 484 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,400 Shove off, will you? 485 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:27,400 Dad, did you try everything? 486 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:28,400 Try everything. 487 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,400 Take your hands off of me! 488 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,400 Just because you're going to die, don't give you any special privileges. 489 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,400 Let me go. 490 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,400 Hey, Joe. 491 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,400 Dad, Dad, help me. 492 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,400 Come on, Marty. 493 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,400 Tell me what to do. 494 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,400 Help me, Dad. 495 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,400 Marty, tell me how to help you. 496 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,400 Steal! 497 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:41,400 Steal, Dr. Steal! 498 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,400 Lieutenant Steal, tell him. 499 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:43,400 Tell him about the vote. 500 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,400 Go! 501 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:45,400 Tell him we've got a witness. 502 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:46,400 Dad, remember, it's a matter of time. 503 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,400 I haven't got much time! 504 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,400 Now, look, Miss Jane, a boy's life depends on this. 505 00:20:48,400 --> 00:21:03,400 And we haven't got much time either. 506 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,400 There's anything I can do to help. 507 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:06,400 Fine. 508 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:07,400 Now, let's see. 509 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,880 It was around six in the evening when Marty Delavan got off the train and tried to call 510 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,880 home. 511 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,880 Uh-huh. 512 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,880 He got a busy signal. 513 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,640 Let's give ourselves a break and say it was the same party who was on the line when he 514 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:16,640 came home. 515 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:17,640 Could you trace that call? 516 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:18,640 I'm a trial lieutenant. 517 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,360 A call that long would have plenty of overtime on it. 518 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,040 Well, stretch it out a little, kind of narrow down the field. 519 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,080 Say five minutes before he called, another ten before he gave up, another ten to get 520 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,800 out to the house on the bus and then coming in, looking around, finding the receiver off 521 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:32,800 the hook. 522 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:33,800 Say, uh, say 45 minutes. 523 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:34,800 Oh, my gosh. 524 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:35,800 What's the matter? 525 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,620 I just happened to think. 526 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:40,480 What if Mrs. Delavan put in that call? 527 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,640 You'd have a record of it, but the charge would be on her bill. 528 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,400 That wouldn't show the name of the person she was calling. 529 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,840 Those are the breaks. 530 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,840 I'll see what I can do. 531 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:50,840 Hello. 532 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:51,840 Hello, Lieutenant. 533 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:52,840 Oh, what'd you find? 534 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:53,840 Well, that call was placed by Mrs. Delavan. 535 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:54,840 No. 536 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:55,840 To a Mr. William J. Simmons. 537 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:56,840 Sure. 538 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:57,840 What? 539 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:58,840 You see, Mrs. Delavan always complained about her bills. 540 00:21:58,840 --> 00:21:59,840 She never stopped saying we were cheating her. 541 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:00,840 Well, we had to put a monitor on her telephone and make a record of the bill. 542 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:01,840 And then we had to go back to the house and say, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 543 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:02,840 uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 544 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:31,400 uh, uh, uh, y- y- you know, 545 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:40,560 Now, look, V.A., that kid isn't any of the things you called him in the courtroom. 546 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:41,560 I know. 547 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,320 And I couldn't stand by and see him fry for a murder he didn't commit. 548 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,520 Steele, you're a fine detective, but a little too much of an optimist. 549 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,320 Now, this weasel you brought in here, his story is only as good as the amount of proof 550 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:52,320 you can attach to it. 551 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,520 Look, I'm no weasel. 552 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,040 I didn't want to get mixed up in this because I got a wife and kids, see? 553 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,000 You know what it means if your wife finds out you've been playing around? 554 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,960 Fill it into the dictograph. 555 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:02,960 Huh? 556 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:03,960 How do I start? 557 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,080 With your name. 558 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,480 William J. Simmons, 798 Shore Avenue. 559 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:12,480 Okay. 560 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,120 You were acquainted with Mrs. Gladys Delevingne? 561 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:15,120 Yes. 562 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:16,840 You were in love with her? 563 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,920 Well, in a way. 564 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,160 Tell us what you heard over the telephone at six o'clock on the evening she was murdered. 565 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:29,200 Well, we were talking, just talking, see, about... about how we felt. 566 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,480 Suddenly I hear this guy's voice on the phone somewhere off in her house. 567 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,480 He yells, where were you yesterday? 568 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,880 We had a date, didn't we? 569 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,600 Then he comes closer, still yelling. 570 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:39,600 What did he say? 571 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,560 Oh, all kinds of stuff, names, things like that. 572 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,200 Then she begins to scream, don't, Steve, don't, you're hurting me, Steve. 573 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,880 I can tell he's got her by the neck, he's choking her. 574 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,880 I can tell he's choking her. 575 00:23:50,880 --> 00:24:00,880 Come on, kid, on your feet. 576 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,520 Is it... is it time? 577 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,520 Time for what? 578 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:06,520 You... you know... 579 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,640 I don't know anything you wanted in the warden's office. 580 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,640 Come on. 581 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,160 What... what's up? 582 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,160 Search me. 583 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,960 Hey, that's pretty good. 584 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,320 I'm the guard, you're the prisoner, but I say you search me. 585 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,240 Do you know who's with the warden? 586 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,000 Well, that local Dick Steele. 587 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,360 McTavish of Scotland Yard. 588 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,240 A couple of other guys and your old man. 589 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,240 My father. 590 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:34,520 My father, what... what do they want with my father? 591 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,520 Search me. 592 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:40,520 Hey, I said it again. 593 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:50,440 We ought to hold you for obstructing justice, young fellow, but I suppose you and your father 594 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,440 have suffered enough. 595 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,880 So it was somebody else. 596 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:56,880 Somebody else all the time. 597 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,840 Your description of the murdered lady was very accurate. 598 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,880 She got around. 599 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,280 Who... who is he? 600 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,800 How'd you find him? 601 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,520 Well, that's a pretty terrific story, Marty. 602 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,600 You see, we traced the guy who was on the phone and he heard Mrs. Delavan holler the 603 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:12,600 name Steve. 604 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,080 Now, a detective has to be smart. 605 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,200 He's got to be a psychologist, a science bug, an incredible kind of a guy who can take the 606 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,760 name Steve and pick a murderer out of 140 million people. 607 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,640 So how did I do it? 608 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,960 Well, how? 609 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,160 I opened her little black address book. 610 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,280 Remember, you tipped me off to that and looked for a guy named Steve and there he was, Steve 611 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,480 Barton. 612 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,480 So I picked him up. 613 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,000 Mc... McTavish of... of Scotland Yard. 614 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,520 And this time with a real confession. 615 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,120 How do you feel now, Simon? 616 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,560 Oh, I... I don't know. 617 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:52,480 I've done so much thinking about what it means to die that I'm not sure which world I'm standing 618 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,480 in. 619 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,760 Now tell me, kid, what was the name of that newspaper you burned and who did smoke that 620 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,760 cigarette? 621 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:00,760 Dad, is all this on the level? 622 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,760 On the level, Marty. 623 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:08,920 Well, just to keep it on the level, gentlemen, it was the Baltimore Star, the paper my dad 624 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,680 always reads and the cigarette was his favorite brand. 625 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,240 Maybe you understand now. 626 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,560 Come on, Dad. 627 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:18,560 Take me home. 628 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:38,960 Thank you, Mickey Rooney, for a splendid performance. 629 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:39,960 It was fun to do. 630 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,160 Say, Harlow, I've heard great things about some new award suspensions received. 631 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:48,600 Why, yes, Mickey, the Alfred P. Sloan Award for the outstanding radio program in 1948, 632 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,560 promoting highway safety, was awarded to CBS and Auto Light last week. 633 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,080 Well, say, wasn't that the Jimmy Cagney Suspense Show of last December? 634 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,600 Right, Mickey, and coincidentally enough, last week the National Safety Council announced 635 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,760 a similar award to Auto Light for the same program and for their promotion of safety 636 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:05,760 on the highways. 637 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,120 Wow, that's great going. 638 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,800 And it reminds me, haven't I often heard an announcement on this show? 639 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:10,800 Let's see. 640 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:11,800 How does it go? 641 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,800 Oh, yeah, I know. 642 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,960 And, actually, the life you save may be your own. 643 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:16,960 That's right, Mickey. 644 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:22,120 Yes, Auto Light is proud to lend support to the promotion of highway safety. 645 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:26,800 They're proud, too, of the more than 400 products for cars, trucks, airplanes, and boats that 646 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,260 are made in 28 Auto Light plants from coast to coast. 647 00:27:30,260 --> 00:27:34,720 And Auto Light also makes complete electrical systems for many makes of America's finest 648 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,760 cars, batteries, spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors, all 649 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,840 engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a perfect 650 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:45,840 team. 651 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,760 So, folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. 652 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,000 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts at your neighborhood service 653 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,920 station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 654 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,080 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 655 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:09,520 Now, again, here is Mickey Rooney. 656 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,960 It's been a real pleasure to be here, and I'll be listening next week when radio's 657 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:20,600 outstanding theater of thrills presents Bob Hope in Death Has a Shadow, another gripping 658 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,040 study in... 659 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:31,880 Suspense. 660 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,800 Mickey Rooney appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of the technicolor 661 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,000 picture Little Women, starring June Allison, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth 662 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Taylor. 663 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,240 Tonight's suspense play was based on a story by William Irish and adapted by Herb Meadow. 664 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,080 Music was composed by Lucian Morrowake and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 665 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,280 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. 666 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,080 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as James Stewart, Claire Trevor, 667 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,240 Frederick March, and many others. 668 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,600 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, Radio's Outstanding, Theater of 669 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:13,880 Thrills, and next Thursday same time, hear Bob Hope in Death Has a Shadow. 670 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:18,680 You can buy auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light staple batteries, auto light electrical 671 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,240 parts at your neighborhood auto light dealers. 672 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,280 Switch to auto light. 673 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,860 Good night. 674 00:29:24,860 --> 00:29:38,760 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.