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61 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,040 Sure. 62 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,360 It's just that I still don't quite believe it. 63 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,360 It's official, Tasker. 64 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,360 Here are your papers. 65 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:54,480 Papers? 66 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,720 That'll make everything easy, won't it, warden? 67 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Passport to a brilliant future, ex-con. 68 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:05,440 Robert, I know it's going to be a little hard to adjust at first, but there's a job in my 69 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:06,440 office. 70 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,120 Thanks, Mr. Krieger, but I don't want charity, even from you. 71 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,000 Oh, it isn't charity, Robert. 72 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,480 I need a clerk in my office or I wouldn't have offered you the job. 73 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,360 You don't have to stay if you don't want to, but you'll be doing me a great favor if you 74 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:19,360 try it. 75 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,040 Well, I guess I owe you at least one favor. 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,400 Well, Tasker, goodbye and good luck. 77 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,360 Just remember that what's happened up here is water over the dam. 78 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:28,360 Don't hold any grudges. 79 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,400 I don't hold any grudges, warden. 80 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,480 There's one man I hate, that's all. 81 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,720 A man you hate, Robert? 82 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:36,880 His name is Arthur Hines and I hate him. 83 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,040 It's simple as that. 84 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,200 Forget it, son. 85 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:40,200 Hines was D.A. then. 86 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,520 He was just doing a job, that's all. 87 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,800 He had nothing against you. 88 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,640 He was doing a job, all right. 89 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,960 Robert, you mustn't feel that way. 90 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,400 You'll get along with Hines, all right. 91 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:50,400 Get along with him? 92 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,400 In the office. 93 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,520 Didn't I tell you? 94 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,320 Arthur Hines is my new partner. 95 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:03,620 Well, it certainly threw me for a second to hear I was going to be working side by side 96 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:08,600 with Hines, but well, I made up my mind to play ball. 97 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,120 The work wasn't hard and I was able to do some writing on the side. 98 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,400 Mr. Krager always encouraged me in that and Peggy helped me a lot too. 99 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,480 She helped me to believe in myself. 100 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,760 All that time I never saw Mr. Hines. 101 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,680 He was out of town or something and then one day he came back. 102 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,160 I was nervous at the idea of seeing him. 103 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,520 He was in his office with someone. 104 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,360 He'd come in the private entrance. 105 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,320 Mr. Krager was in that day too in his own office. 106 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,720 I was out in the anteroom with Peggy by the switchboard. 107 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,480 Krager and Hines. 108 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,280 I'm sorry Mr. Hines is in conference now. 109 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:44,080 Can you call back later? 110 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,080 About half an hour. 111 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,080 Thank you. 112 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,760 But what's he really like, Peggy? 113 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,800 I've never seen him except that time in court. 114 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,800 He's all right, I guess. 115 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,720 How do you mean all right? 116 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:54,720 How do I know what he's like? 117 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,720 I just work here. 118 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:56,720 I'm not married to the man. 119 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:57,720 Okay, okay. 120 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:58,720 I'm sorry, Robert. 121 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,840 I guess I'm kind of jumpy today. 122 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:03,840 What's the matter, Peggy? 123 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,480 Isn't anything, nerves? 124 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,240 You've been that way ever since Hines came in. 125 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,520 Mr. Hines, how could he have anything to do with it? 126 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:11,520 I don't know. 127 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,520 You don't understand the English language? 128 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:13,520 No. 129 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:14,520 Now get out. 130 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,520 Don't give me that, Hines. 131 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,520 You'll be the gutter. 132 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:17,520 You know who has. 133 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,440 I don't know anything about it and I don't want to know. 134 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,280 Don't you think I've got enough trouble nowadays keeping mugs like you out of the pen without 135 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,560 being a fence for what you stole? 136 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,120 Now get out of this office and stay out. 137 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:27,120 Okay. 138 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,120 But I'll be back. 139 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,120 $50,000 is a lot of money. 140 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Well, what do you want? 141 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,400 Why, I... 142 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Robert works here, Mr. Hines. 143 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,440 My name's Robert Tasker, didn't Mr. Craig... 144 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:39,920 I knew I'd seen you before. 145 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,760 You're that punk kid I sent up to San Quentin. 146 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,360 It was for 10 years. 147 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,440 What do you mean you're working here? 148 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,080 Mr. Craig got me out. 149 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:48,080 He gave me a job. 150 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:49,080 A job of what? 151 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:50,080 Snooping outside my office? 152 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:51,080 I wasn't... 153 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,080 Don't talk back to me, you dirty little jail rat. 154 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,080 Why, you... 155 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,080 Robert, don't. 156 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,080 Let go. 157 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:57,080 Leave me alone. 158 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:58,080 Let me go. 159 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,240 Okay, both of you. 160 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:01,240 Calm down. 161 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,800 What's the matter? 162 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,040 What's the idea of bringing this ex-con into the office of ex? 163 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,160 Isn't it bad enough to have to work with criminals all day? 164 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,600 Robert is not a criminal. 165 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,240 He's here because I want him to be here. 166 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,520 Because I believe in him and trust him. 167 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,040 Well, I don't like anyone hanging around outside my door when I'm having a private conference, 168 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:18,040 that's all. 169 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,200 Now look, Robert Tasker's one of the finest, most gifted young persons I've ever known. 170 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,440 I want him to get along here. 171 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,400 And I want him to get along with you too, Arthur. 172 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,400 You understand? 173 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:28,600 I can get along with anyone. 174 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Well, sure you can. 175 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,080 Everything forgotten now, eh? 176 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,520 Start right off with a clean slate, eh? 177 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:36,520 Sure. 178 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,800 Well, I'll see you later in the afternoon, Max. 179 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:45,120 Well, Robert, come into my office for a minute, will you? 180 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:46,120 Sure. 181 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:51,920 My boy, I'm terribly sorry. 182 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,960 I don't know how to begin to apologize. 183 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:55,360 Why should you apologize? 184 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,880 I just don't like him. 185 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:57,880 He doesn't like me. 186 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,800 No, no, Robert, you're wrong there. 187 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,680 It's just that things have been happening lately to upset him. 188 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,640 Like this fellow Marvin and his $50,000. 189 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,920 Yeah, what's that all about? 190 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:12,000 Well, there's a poor fellow who's been in prison for the last five years. 191 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,240 He claims he had quite a lot of money when he went in. 192 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,320 He thinks Heinz hijacked it on him, huh? 193 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:22,080 Well, he says he left it with a pal of his, and later the pal was killed in a gunfight. 194 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,800 Galucci, you remember the case? 195 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,400 Yeah, I remember something about it. 196 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,960 Well, anyway, just before he died, Galucci told somebody he'd left the money with Heinz. 197 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,280 That's how the story goes, anyway. 198 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,600 But you know how these things travel on the grapevine? 199 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,400 It's all nonsense, of course. 200 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,680 That guy meant business, just the same. 201 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:40,480 That probably explains the whole thing. 202 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,680 Heinz was a little scared. 203 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:45,400 Don't let it worry you, Robert. 204 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,280 You will stay, won't you? 205 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,880 Well, believe me, it's for the best. 206 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,280 Well, okay. 207 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:53,660 That's the spirit. 208 00:08:53,660 --> 00:08:56,760 And any other little troubles, you just bring them to me, will you? 209 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:57,760 Thanks. 210 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,280 Well, I guess I'd better relieve Peggy on the board. 211 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:01,280 Keep your chin up, son. 212 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:02,280 Sure. 213 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,280 I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Peggy. 214 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,280 That's all right. 215 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:07,280 What's the matter? 216 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Please don't say anything. 217 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Peggy, what is it? 218 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:10,280 Robert, I'm scared. 219 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:11,280 Scared of what? 220 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:12,280 Heinz? 221 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:13,280 Don't be silly. 222 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,280 No, no, it's not him. 223 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,280 Well, what is it? 224 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,280 I shouldn't, but I have got to tell someone. 225 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,280 Sure you have, but take it easy now. 226 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,280 What is it? 227 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,280 I've never told anyone before. 228 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,280 I'm afraid you'll be afraid. 229 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,280 I'm afraid you'll be afraid. 230 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:22,280 I'm afraid you'll be afraid. 231 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,040 I've never told anyone before. 232 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:25,040 Neither Mr. Heinz nor Mr. Craig would know. 233 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,040 I'd die if they did. 234 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,040 You wouldn't tell anyone, would you? 235 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,040 Of course I won't. 236 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,040 Come on, spill it. 237 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,200 You saw that man who was in here who was arguing with Mr. Heinz about the $50,000? 238 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:34,200 Yeah, yeah. 239 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,200 Well, it's true. 240 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,200 There is $50,000 somewhere. 241 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,200 Yeah? 242 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,800 Well, how do you know all this? 243 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,800 I know, and I'm scared. 244 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,040 Robert, he's a killer. 245 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:44,040 That guy? 246 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,280 Well, I wouldn't be surprised, but how do you know? 247 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:47,280 Of course. 248 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,280 He's my brother. 249 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:59,960 I had a hunch to lay him out of there right then. 250 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:03,720 I knew something was going to happen, but I hated to run out on Peggy when she was in 251 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,400 a jam and might need help, and I didn't want to let Mr. Craig get down either. 252 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,280 I promised I'd stay until I could get sort of a start on my own. 253 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:16,560 He was the only man in all my life who ever treated me like a person instead of a thing, 254 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:17,560 so I stayed. 255 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,080 I didn't have any more trouble with Heinz. 256 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,400 We didn't speak to each other much. 257 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,820 There wasn't any need to, and he was out of town most of the time anyway. 258 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:36,360 He was out of town until that day, the day that he died. 259 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,000 Craig and Heinz, I'm sorry he's out of town. 260 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 You might try later this afternoon. 261 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,080 Yes, I'll tell Mr. Heinz. 262 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,080 Say, Peggy. 263 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,080 Uh-huh? 264 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:46,440 Do you know where Mr. Craig will be in? 265 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:47,440 He didn't say. 266 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:48,440 He's still open. 267 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:49,440 Who? 268 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:50,440 Harry. 269 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:51,440 Where is he? 270 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:52,440 Who? 271 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,440 You know who? 272 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:54,440 Heinz. 273 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,440 Oh, Harry, I told you not to come. 274 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,440 I begged you not to. 275 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:58,440 Sure, sure. 276 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,440 Always a little pal, always a little... 277 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,440 Hey, wait a minute. 278 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:01,440 What does this guy know? 279 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,440 I told him that you were my brother, but nobody else? 280 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:06,440 Yeah, sure. 281 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,440 Okay, what do I care? 282 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,440 I only care about one thing. 283 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,440 Harry, you promised me you wouldn't come up here. 284 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,440 Where's Heinz? 285 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:11,440 I don't know. 286 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:12,440 He's out. 287 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:13,440 I'll wait till he comes back. 288 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:14,440 Harry, you mustn't. 289 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,440 I'm staying. 290 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,440 I'll get it out of him. 291 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,440 Harry, your sister says you should leave. 292 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,440 You keep out of this punk. 293 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:23,440 I don't like that word, pal. 294 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,440 Robert, listen, will you watch the board for a few minutes? 295 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:27,440 Sure. 296 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:28,440 It's lunchtime anyway. 297 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,440 Harry, Harry, I've got some things I want to talk over with you privately. 298 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:31,440 What things? 299 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,440 About Heinz and, you know, come on, we'll go downstairs, the girl in the lobby. 300 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,440 You wouldn't be trying to ease me out of here, would you? 301 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,440 No, no, honest, I've got to talk to you, Harry. 302 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:41,440 Come on. 303 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,440 Okay. 304 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:43,440 Now, you listen, pal. 305 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:44,440 Yeah? 306 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,440 If Mr. Heinz comes in, you tell him I was here, 307 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,440 and you tell him he better come across or else. 308 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:51,440 Is that all? 309 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:52,440 That's enough, isn't it? 310 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,440 He'll know what I mean. 311 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:55,440 Sure. 312 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,440 After they left, I just sat there with this guy, Harry, feeling the way he did, 313 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,440 even if he was a screwball with a jackpot like $50,000 kicking around somewhere, 314 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:12,440 no matter who had it, I knew it was a cinch, there was going to be a blow-off. 315 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,440 And I knew I was going to be right in the middle of it. 316 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,440 I didn't know how then, but I knew I was. 317 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,440 A guy with a record always is. 318 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,440 And there wasn't a thing I could do about it. 319 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,440 So I just sat there waiting for trouble to happen. 320 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:34,440 Kroeger and Heinz. 321 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:35,440 Hello, Robert, this is Max Kroeger. 322 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:36,440 Oh, yes, Mr. Kroeger. 323 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,440 Are you there alone? Peggy out to lunch? 324 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,440 Yes, yes, she is. 325 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,440 Well, it can't be helped, I'm in a hurry. 326 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:43,440 I'll tell you what I want you to do. 327 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,440 Yes, sir. 328 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,440 I'm across the street in the courthouse, Judge Andrews Court, the Ellsworth case. 329 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,440 There are some notes I've got to have over here right away. 330 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,440 They're in my own handwriting, pencil, and clearly marked Ellsworth. 331 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:53,440 Yes, sir. 332 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,440 You'll find them in Mr. Heinz's office. 333 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,440 The pages all clipped together. 334 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,440 I don't know exactly where in his office, but keep looking, keep looking until you find them. 335 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:01,440 All right, sir. 336 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,440 Then bring them over to me right away. Got it? 337 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:04,440 Yes, sir. 338 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:05,440 I'll be waiting for you. 339 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,440 I left the switchboard and went into Mr. Heinz's office. 340 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,440 I started looking around for the notes. 341 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:12,440 I looked everywhere. 342 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,440 I looked on top of the desk first, and then I looked in all the drawers. 343 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,440 Then I looked in the filing cabinet. 344 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,440 I even tried to look in the safe, but it was locked. 345 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,440 Then I stopped and sort of looked around the room to see if there was anything I'd missed. 346 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,440 And I noticed some yellow papers on top of the bookcase. 347 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,440 I reached up and took them down. 348 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:34,440 I was standing there with my back to the private entrance, looking the papers over to be sure they were the right ones. 349 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,440 What are you doing in here? 350 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,440 Mr. Craig wanted some papers, Mr. Heinz. 351 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,440 I thought I told you to stay away from my office. 352 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,440 What are you snooping around here for? 353 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,440 Mr. Craig had told me to look in here for the... 354 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,440 Yeah, there's something mighty funny going on around this office. 355 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,440 There's nothing funny. Mr. Craig had told me... 356 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:48,440 I say there is. 357 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,440 What's the switchboard girl doing sneaking around the lobby with Harry Marvin? 358 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,440 They tried to avoid me, but I saw them. 359 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,440 First the switchboard girl turns out to have a crazy ex-convict for a boyfriend, and now... 360 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,440 That's a lie. He's her brother. 361 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,440 Her brother? Oh, so that's it. 362 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,440 Oh, I shouldn't have said that, Mr. Heinz. I don't know anything about it. 363 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,440 Oh, you don't? Well, I do. I get it now. 364 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,440 I knew there was something, and all of a sudden I get it. 365 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,440 Mr. Heinz, there's nothing to get... 366 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,440 So the girl and her brother go down to the lobby and set themselves an alibi... 367 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:21,440 because they know I'll suspect them and get you to do their dirty work for a nice fat cut. 368 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,440 Please, Mr. Heinz, don't talk that way. 369 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,440 Well, you didn't find it, did you, and you won't. 370 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,440 Now you get out of here, you little punk. 371 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:27,440 I said don't talk that way. 372 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,440 You dirty, thieving little... 373 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:34,440 I told you not to talk that way. 374 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,440 We fell and just lay there. For a minute I didn't know what to do. 375 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,440 Then I knew I'd have to tell Mr. Kramer. 376 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,440 I knew I was all washed up there anyway. 377 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,440 I couldn't very well expect even a man like Mr. Kramer to choose between his law partner and me. 378 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,440 And I couldn't stay in the same office with Mr. Heinz after what had happened. 379 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,440 Somehow I wanted to tell Mr. Kramer myself before anyone else did. 380 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,440 I went out to the switchboard and dialed the courthouse number. 381 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,440 Judge Andrews, Gort Johnson speaking. 382 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,440 I want to speak to Mr. Max Kramer. This is his office calling. 383 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,440 Well, I don't see him around here right now. The court's in recess. 384 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,440 I know, but try to locate him, will you? It's important. 385 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:22,440 Okay, hold the line. 386 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,440 I sat there waiting for them to find Mr. Kramer. 387 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,440 And all of a sudden I remember the papers he wanted. 388 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,440 I cut off the call on the switchboard. 389 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,440 I went back to Mr. Heinz's office. 390 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,440 He was just lying there, just as I'd left him. 391 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,440 And yet there was something different. 392 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,440 I went over and looked at him more closely. 393 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,440 His face was a terrible gray color. 394 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,440 I touched his wrist, feeling for his pulse. 395 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,440 The next thing I knew I was down on my knees tearing open his collar, 396 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,440 but even then I knew it wasn't any use. 397 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,440 Mr. Heinz was dead. 398 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,440 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Van Johnson in the defense rests. 399 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:22,440 Tonight's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 400 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,440 Hey, Hap, did I tell you about my hobby? 401 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:27,440 Hobby? 402 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,440 Yeah, I collect old-fashioned narrow gap spark plugs 403 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,440 that have been replaced with smooth firing wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs. 404 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,440 You got many of the old-fashioned plugs? 405 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,440 Many. 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Robert, you still there? 434 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,440 Mr. Craig, I... 435 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,440 Where are those notes? Haven't you found them yet? 436 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,440 Yes, I found them all right. 437 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,440 Well, bring them over here. I need them right away. 438 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,440 Mr. Craig, I... 439 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,440 Robert, what's the matter with you? 440 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,440 I just killed Mr. Hines. 441 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,440 Pretty soon the police came. I called them myself. 442 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,440 Mr. Craig said it was the only thing to do, and I knew he was right. 443 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,440 He said he'd be in touch with me as soon as he was through at court. 444 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,440 I didn't know what he could do. 445 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,440 I didn't think there was much he'd want to do. 446 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,440 But it made me feel better to have him talk that way. 447 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,440 The police took me across town in a squad car. 448 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,440 I knew what I was in for. 449 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,440 The police don't like ex-convicts, 450 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,440 particularly one that they think has been mixed up with murder. 451 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,440 Well, you're just making it hard for yourself, Tasker. 452 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,440 I told you what happened. 453 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,440 Inner pig's eye you have. 454 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,440 I don't have to talk if I don't want to. 455 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:04,440 No? 456 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,440 I'm waiting for Mr. Craig. I told you that. 457 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,440 Craig? What do you think he's going to do for you? 458 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,440 I don't know, but he told me he'd come down. 459 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,440 Oh, sure, of course he'll come down to give evidence against you. 460 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,440 Oh, now, listen, Tasker, if you give a full confession, 461 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,440 we may be able to get a break for you. 462 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,440 Gavin, Mr. Craig is outside. He wants to see you. 463 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,440 Oh, yeah? Okay, send him in. 464 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,440 All right, boys. 465 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:24,440 Hi. 466 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,440 Hello, Robert. 467 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,440 Hello, Mr. Craig. 468 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:27,440 They've been treating you all right? 469 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,440 Fine. I don't like to have people get rough with my clients. 470 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:31,440 Your what? 471 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:32,440 You heard me, Captain. 472 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,440 While you're at it, you might as well take those handcuffs off him 473 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,440 because from this moment, he's out and out and bond, 474 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,440 released in my custody. 475 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,440 I got the papers right here. 476 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:41,440 Say, are you crazy? 477 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:42,440 Certainly not. 478 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,440 I simply don't believe the boy did it, that's all. 479 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Look, Craig, why try to kid us? It's an open and shut case. 480 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,440 Tasker's the only person who had the opportunity, 481 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,440 the only one who had a motive. 482 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:53,440 Uh-uh. 483 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,440 Well, not to speak ill of the dead, Captain, 484 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,440 and although Arthur Hines was my law partner, 485 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,440 it's unfortunately true that quite a number of people 486 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,440 at least thought they had a motive. 487 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,440 Oh, sure, so maybe this other ex-con, Harry Marvin, 488 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:06,440 had a motive. 489 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,440 Maybe even the dame on the switchboard had a motive, 490 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,440 for all I know. 491 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,440 But they couldn't have done it. 492 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,440 Fifty people saw him together downstairs 493 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,440 in the lobby of the building 494 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:14,440 at the time the murder was committed. 495 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,440 No, you've talked to them, have you? 496 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,440 Listen, this kid admits he had a quarrel with Hines. 497 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,440 He always hit him anyway. 498 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,440 He admits he hit him. 499 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,440 So he picks the paperweight off the desk, 500 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:24,440 smashes him over the head. 501 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:25,440 Wait a minute. 502 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,440 You didn't say anything about that, Robert. 503 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,440 Oh, I didn't even know about it before. 504 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:30,440 I didn't hit him with any paperweight. 505 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,440 Oh, stop it, Willard. 506 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:33,440 The back of the man's head was bashed in 507 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:34,440 with that paperweight, 508 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,440 and this kid's fingerprints were all over it. 509 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,440 Well, what's so funny? 510 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,440 This is murder, mister. 511 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:40,440 I'm sorry. 512 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,440 But you'll find out if you ever try to bring this boy 513 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,440 to trial for killing Arthur Hines with a paperweight. 514 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,440 Listen, Craig, you're not going to make a chump out of me. 515 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,440 This boy is going to be indicted for murder. 516 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,440 He's going to be convicted of murder, 517 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,440 and he's going to burn for murder. 518 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,440 Indicted, convicted, burned. 519 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,440 Three promises. 520 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,440 And the first one's already happened. 521 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,440 The second one? 522 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,440 Well, even I can see we don't stand much chance. 523 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,440 And the third one, I... 524 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,440 just try not to think about. 525 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,440 But there is Mr. Craig Europe before that jury, 526 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,440 acting as though it was an absolute certainty 527 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,440 that I'd be cleared, pleading for me 528 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,440 as though I were the only guy in the world 529 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,440 because, well, that's the kind of a guy he is. 530 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,440 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my firm conviction 531 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,440 that when you have heard this boy's story from his own lips 532 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,440 and gained an insight as I have 533 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,440 into the depth and integrity of his character and spirit, 534 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,440 you will also believe him innocent. 535 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,440 He is innocent. 536 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,440 Now, Robert, I'll ask you to take the stand, please. 537 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,440 Raise your right hand, please. 538 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,440 You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, 539 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,440 nothing but the truth, sir, hope you've got? 540 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:09,440 I do. 541 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,440 Please be seated. 542 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,440 Now, Robert, just for the record, 543 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,440 will you tell the court your full name? 544 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,440 Robert Loring Tasker. 545 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:19,440 Your age? 546 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,440 24. 547 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:21,440 Your mother and father are dead. 548 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,440 You have no living relatives? 549 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,440 No, no one. 550 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,440 Now, before you begin your story, 551 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,440 there are one or two extremely important points 552 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,440 that I particularly wish to emphasize to the court. 553 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,440 Now, tell me, Robert, how long was it 554 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,440 between the time you quarreled with Mr. Hines 555 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,440 and the time you went back into his office 556 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,440 and found him dead? 557 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,440 Not long. Six or seven minutes, perhaps. 558 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,440 Six or seven minutes, eh? 559 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,440 Long enough for someone to have entered Mr. Hines' office 560 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,440 by the back entrance, struck him, and left again. 561 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,440 Now, concerning this famous paperweight 562 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,440 the prosecution has talked so much about, 563 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,440 I have it here. 564 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,440 Do you recognize it? 565 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,440 Yes, it was always on Mr. Hines' desk. 566 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,440 Now, tell me, when you went in his office at my order 567 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,440 to look for certain papers, 568 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,440 you touched this paperweight, did you not? 569 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,440 Yes, I touched just about everything on the desk. 570 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,440 Exactly. In other words, your fingerprints 571 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,440 would be found not only on this paperweight, 572 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,440 but on practically everything else in the room. 573 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:25,440 Yes, they would. 574 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,440 In due course, Your Honor, we shall demonstrate 575 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,440 that such is in fact precisely the case. 576 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:36,440 Now, Robert, when Mr. Hines found you in his room, 577 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,440 he was irate and highly suspicious, was he not? 578 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:40,440 Yes, he was. 579 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,440 In fact, he even suspected that there was some plot against him. 580 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,440 Involving Peggy, the switchboard girl, 581 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,440 and a client of his named Harry Marvin. 582 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:49,440 Yes, he did. 583 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,440 You denied this, saying that in fact they were brother and sister. 584 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:53,440 Yes. 585 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,440 A house? 586 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:56,440 Yes, that's right. 587 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,440 You denied the charge of a plot saying that Peggy 588 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,440 and Harry Marvin were brother and sister. 589 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,440 Then Mr. Hines went so far as to accuse you of stealing. 590 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,440 Your Honor. 591 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,440 Yes? 592 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,440 Your Honor, there's something I've just thought about, 593 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,440 some new evidence. 594 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,440 I'd like a few minutes alone with my lawyer. 595 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,440 The counsel has no objection. 596 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:13,440 Robert, what is it? 597 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,440 It's just something that I think I ought to tell you in private. 598 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:17,440 Very well. 599 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,440 If Your Honor please then. 600 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,440 By all means. 601 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,440 Perhaps you'd like to use my chamber. 602 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:22,440 Thank you, Your Honor. 603 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,440 Come along, Robert. 604 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,440 You didn't have to lock the door, Robert. 605 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,440 I want it to be private. 606 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,440 All right. 607 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,440 But Robert, you mustn't worry like this. 608 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,440 Let me do the worrying. 609 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,440 They can't convict you. 610 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,440 If there's a reasonable doubt, that's the law. 611 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,440 And there is a reasonable doubt. 612 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,440 Someone did come in and hit Hines in those six or seven minutes. 613 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,440 It must have been that way. 614 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:48,440 Yes, I know. 615 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,440 Of course you do. 616 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,440 We've been over the whole thing. 617 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,440 Now let's go back into the courtroom. 618 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,440 Mr. Krager, there's something I haven't told you. 619 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,440 Something you haven't told me? What? 620 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,440 It's a little thing, but it's kind of important 621 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,440 because it's something I never told anyone except a dead man. 622 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:04,440 Well, what is it? 623 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,440 I never told anyone that Peggy was Harry Marvin's sister 624 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,440 except Mr. Hines. 625 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,440 Now, Robert, don't you think that's a little trivial? 626 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,440 No, because you know about it. 627 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,440 You just said so in the courtroom. 628 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,440 Well, I... 629 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,440 And there's only one way you could have found out. 630 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,440 You must have been in your office when I had the fight with Hines 631 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,440 and heard me tell them. 632 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,440 Well, Robert, that's ridiculous. 633 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,440 Oh, no, it isn't because you're right. 634 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,440 Somebody did come in in those six or seven minutes and kill Hines. 635 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,440 You did. 636 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,440 You're crazy. 637 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,440 It must have been for that $50,000. 638 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,440 You hijacked the hijacker. 639 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,440 And you knew they'd pin it on me with my record. 640 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,440 I'm not going to stay here and listen to any such nonsense. 641 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,440 Oh, yes you are because I'm going to get the truth out of you. 642 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,440 You planned it that way, didn't you? 643 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,440 You sent me into Hines' office that day and you probably sent him. 644 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,440 Robert, I... 645 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,440 And you figured you were such a hot lawyer 646 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,440 you might even get me off of 20 years or so 647 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,440 to ease your dirty conscience, didn't you? 648 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,440 Talk, Craig. 649 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,440 You won't get anywhere using violence with me. 650 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,440 No. 651 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,440 Talk. 652 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,440 Now, wait a minute. 653 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,440 Even if I did confess, it wouldn't hold up as evidence. 654 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,440 Talk. 655 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,440 Listen, we'll postpone the trial. 656 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,440 I can get you out of the country. 657 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,440 I'll give you money. 658 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,440 That's all I wanted to know. 659 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,440 Talk. 660 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:06,440 You did it, didn't you? 661 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,440 You killed him. 662 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,440 Stop. 663 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:09,440 Talk. 664 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,440 Stop it. 665 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:11,440 Stop it. 666 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:12,440 That's where you were when I phoned you at the office. 667 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,440 I couldn't find you, weren't you? 668 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,440 You were killing Hines, weren't you? 669 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440 Stop it. 670 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,440 Stop it. 671 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,440 Yes. 672 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,440 Yes, I did it. 673 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,440 I killed him. 674 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,440 I guess we can unlock the door now. 675 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,440 What's going on here? 676 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:27,440 Grab him, Your Honor. 677 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,440 He's crazy. 678 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,440 He attacked me. 679 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:30,440 So I gather. 680 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:31,440 He even accused me of murder. 681 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,440 Yes, we heard him. 682 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,440 Tell me, Craig, where were you when this boy phoned you? 683 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,440 When this boy phoned you here at court? 684 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,440 When they couldn't find you? 685 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,440 Why, Your Honor, as a matter of fact, I was right here. 686 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,440 Right in this very courtroom. 687 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,440 I had some work to do. 688 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,440 I wanted privacy. 689 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,440 Your court was in recess. 690 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,440 You were out of town. 691 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,440 Yes, I know. 692 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,440 You say you were right here in this room. 693 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,440 Yes, that's right. 694 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,440 Then, Craig, there's something you don't know. 695 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,440 What? 696 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,440 On the day of the murder, the floor of this room was being repainted. 697 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,440 And the paint, Mr. Craig, was quite wet. 698 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,440 Your Honor, the defense rests. 699 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,440 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 700 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,440 Tonight's star, Van Johnson. 701 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,440 Ever do crossword puzzles, Harlow? 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