WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Suspense! 00:16.000 --> 00:22.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Ms. Loretta Young in Lady Killer, 00:22.000 --> 00:30.000 a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:30.000 --> 00:36.000 Say Wilcox, did I ever tell you about the time I plugged a buffalo? 00:36.000 --> 00:42.000 No, Remingchester Shotgun, but have I told you about the sensational Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs? 00:42.000 --> 00:47.000 You mean there's something special about Auto Light Resistor spark plugs? 00:47.000 --> 00:52.000 Why, Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs are the newest addition to the complete line of regular, 00:52.000 --> 00:58.000 transport, aviation, marine, resistor, and model spark plugs, ignition engineered by Auto Light. 00:58.000 --> 01:02.000 You're sure plugging tonight, Wilcox. 01:02.000 --> 01:08.000 Built right into every Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plug is an exclusive 10,000 ohm Auto Light Resistor 01:08.000 --> 01:14.000 that makes practical a wider initial gap setting with advantages that have long been recognized by automotive engineers. 01:14.000 --> 01:20.000 For example, you get smoother performance on leaner gas mixtures, greater gas savings, quicker starts in cold temperatures, 01:20.000 --> 01:25.000 even double life as compared to spark plugs without the built-in resistor. 01:25.000 --> 01:33.000 So friends, see your friendly Auto Light spark plug dealer tomorrow and replace worn-out spark plugs with ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 01:33.000 --> 01:40.000 Whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, you'll be right, because you're always right with Auto Light. 01:40.000 --> 01:49.000 And now with Lady Killer and the performance of Loretta Young, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:49.000 --> 01:59.000 Flight 175 to Morningside and Capitol City now loading at Gate 3. 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 Will passengers please board the plane? 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Is this the right plane for Capitol City, stewardess? 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 Yes, sir. Name, please. 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 I'm Benson, Grant Fender. 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 Take any seat, Mr. Benson. 02:11.000 --> 02:14.000 I have a horror of getting in the wrong plane someday and winding up in Shabette. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 Things like that happen to me. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 Well, it's not very likely this time. Your name is on the passenger list. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 So it is. That won't keep me from worrying, though. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 Name, please. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 Nordlinger. Miss Nordlinger. 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 You can leave your coat with me if you like, Miss Nordlinger. I guess I would be better. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Here you are. 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 Take any seat, Miss Nordlinger. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 Thank you, stewardess. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 I always think the best way to problem is to ask stewardess to move more. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 No, you can't, stewardess. Company rules. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 I beg your pardon. Is this seat taken? 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 As a matter of fact, Miss Nordlinger, I was saving it for you. 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 You know me? 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 We've never met, but we travel in the same circle. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 Don't I look at all familiar? 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 No. But how do you do? 02:51.000 --> 02:55.000 Sit down, fasten your safety belt, have a pillow. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 Sick of gum? Set your blanket? 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 I'll settle for the gum. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 Here you are. 02:59.000 --> 03:00.000 Thank you. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 If you chew gum when you're up in the air, it relieves pressure on the ears. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Why it relieves pressure on the ears, I happen to beg your pardon. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Do you always babble on like this? 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Pretty near always, though sometimes... 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 Miss Nordlinger. 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 Oh, yes? Yes, stewardess. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 This telegram just arrived for you. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 We'll be taking off in a few minutes, so if you want to send an answer... 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 Oh, no. I'm sure an answer won't be necessary, stewardess. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 I'll tell the boy not to wait. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Thank you. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Aren't you going to open the telegram, Miss Nordlinger? 03:28.000 --> 03:32.000 I promise not to peek, or at most only a little bit. 03:32.000 --> 03:38.000 I can't open it. You see, I'm not Miss Nordlinger. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 I'm sort of on the dull-witted side. 03:40.000 --> 03:46.000 Well, the flight was booked solid, but I came out to the airport hoping there'd be a cancellation. 03:46.000 --> 03:52.000 And just before the passengers started to get on board, a woman came up to me and offered me a ticket. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 How did she know you wanted one? 03:53.000 --> 03:56.000 Well, she overheard me talking to the clerk at the reservation desk. 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 So? 03:57.000 --> 04:03.000 Well, it would have taken extra time to have the ticket validated in my own name, so I decided to use hers. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 This telegram complicates things. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 What's your real name, deceitful woman? 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 Lincoln. Peg Lincoln. Miss Peg Lincoln. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 And I didn't deceive you. I deceived the stewardess. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 You just happened to have your ears flapping when I told her my name was Nordlinger. 04:20.000 --> 04:26.000 Ah, then, Miss Lincoln, would you mind telling me why you let me go on with all that bilge about traveling in the same circle? 04:26.000 --> 04:31.000 Well, you were trying to pick me up, and I thought I'd better help out a little. 04:31.000 --> 04:35.000 That's what I liked about the modern woman, so shy and retiring, like Mata Hari. 04:35.000 --> 04:39.000 Well, after all, it's a two-hour trip to Capital City. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 Dear, I wish I knew what to do about this telegram. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 Didn't the Nordlinger woman give you an address? 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 No, she didn't. I gave her mine, but she was in such a hurry to get away. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 Uh, too late to do anything anyway. We're taking off. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 Oh, that's, that's funny. I feel busy all at once. 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 Well, since we're still on the ground, just your imagination. Miss Lincoln. 04:57.000 --> 05:02.000 Oh, it's so stuffy in here. I'm awfully sick. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 Your Honor, Your Honor, I'd like the plane take off. There's someone sick here. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 It feels like poison. 05:13.000 --> 05:17.000 Sick? Oh, brother, was I sick. 05:17.000 --> 05:22.000 When I came to in the hospital after a nightmare in which stomach pumps seemed to be reoccurring, 05:22.000 --> 05:27.000 I was told that I could thank my handsome seatmate for the fact that I was still alive. 05:27.000 --> 05:32.000 He'd stopped the flight, carried me off the plane, and raced me into the hospital. 05:32.000 --> 05:38.000 Furthermore, he had engaged a private nurse and had telephoned every hour until assured that the danger was over. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 I bounced back fast. 05:40.000 --> 05:45.000 Next morning, found me weak as a kitten, but sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 A bubbling Mr. Benton was waiting to drive me home. 05:48.000 --> 05:55.000 So we bid a reluctant farewell to Rosemont Hospital, to its unsmiling nurses with their picturesque thermometers, 05:55.000 --> 06:01.000 to the pungent, unforgettable aroma of chloroform that lingers in its halls. 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 Miss Lincoln. Miss Lincoln. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Oh, yes? 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 Are you sure you didn't die? 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 I'm sorry. My mind was on something else. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 Miss Lincoln, or may I call you Peg? 06:14.000 --> 06:18.000 Let's keep it at Miss Lincoln for a while, Mr. Benton. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 I wish we read the same books. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Meaning? 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 The books I read, A Fellow Saves the Girl's Life, She Falls All Over Him. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 Yes? 06:25.000 --> 06:29.000 The ones you read, it's Let's Keep It at Miss Lincoln for a while. 06:29.000 --> 06:34.000 Maybe I should explain. I am an insurance investigator. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 And insurance investigators get to be pretty good at spotting phonies. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 I think you're a phony. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 Well, aren't you sweet? 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 Not very. 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 You know what I'd do if you were drowning right now? I'd throw rocks at you. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 I don't doubt it. 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 A cryptic remark. I love cryptic remarks. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 Did Dr. Shipman happen to mention what I nearly died of? 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 He said it had some of the symptoms of food poisoning. 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 Suppose I told you I never eat for 12 hours before traveling? 07:00.000 --> 07:04.000 I'd say you must have had something. Contaminated water, maybe. 07:04.000 --> 07:10.000 Or maybe a stick of poisoned chewing gum to relieve the pressure on my ears, eh? 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 If you're getting at what I think you're getting at. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 I am. 07:13.000 --> 07:17.000 Do you know I canceled an important business trip just to make sure you were okay? 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Or you'd be at the embalmers right now if I hadn't run it. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Sure, sure I would. 07:21.000 --> 07:27.000 You did some expert diagnosing, all right. A little too expert for a man who hadn't had any medical training. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 Don't look now, but you're losing your mind. 07:30.000 --> 07:34.000 Now look, why would I want to poison a girl I'd never seen before, never had anything to do with? 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 That's what Dr. Shipman asked. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 You mean you ran off with a mouth to him? 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 I pointed out that the poison may have been meant for the woman whose ticket I bought. 07:41.000 --> 07:47.000 It's too late to make any poison tests, but to be on the safe side, Dr. Shipman decided to check on you. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 He called Chief of Police Longman. 07:49.000 --> 07:54.000 Oh, that must have been good. Ray Longman and I used to trade tricycles. 07:54.000 --> 08:00.000 Oh, the Chief rates you high, all right. Above suspicion was the phrase he used. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 But you're still not sold. 08:03.000 --> 08:10.000 I was for a while, but just after I got into your car, I found this unopened telegram in my pocket. 08:10.000 --> 08:15.000 Isn't that the one that was delivered to you aboard the plane, the one addressed to that Nordlinger woman? 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Yes. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 Well, what about it? 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 Well, it wasn't in my pocket when I left the hospital ten minutes ago. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 You just didn't notice, that's all. 08:22.000 --> 08:26.000 Want to look at a copy of the hospital receipt I signed for the personal article's return to me? 08:26.000 --> 08:30.000 You'll find everything else on it. No telegram, though. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 An oversight. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 Oh, hospitals don't make oversight. 08:35.000 --> 08:40.000 Would you mind running through the whole plot for me? I'm a little haziest to my motives. 08:40.000 --> 08:45.000 All right. You poisoned me thinking I was a Nordlinger woman. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Fortunately for me, you discovered the mistake in time to correct it. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Well, for a murder, I certainly am, Ken. 08:50.000 --> 08:53.000 However, you wanted to look at the telegram, so you stole it. 08:53.000 --> 08:58.000 Probably as you carried me out of the plane. You read it, and then you re-sealed the envelope, 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 and then met me at the hospital hoping to slip it back into my pocket before I missed. 09:03.000 --> 09:08.000 You've got the telegram right there. Open it up. Maybe we can put an end to this fairy tale. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 Thank you. No, I'd rather wait until I find the Nordlinger woman. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 She's still alive. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Well, then I'll open it for you. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Here, give that back to me, please. 09:16.000 --> 09:23.000 Have a nice trip, love. It's signed Aunt Ellen. 09:23.000 --> 09:32.000 Well, that's in my gang's secret code. That means boatload of stolen jewels ready to sail at dawn for what cheer Iowa. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 Thoughtful of you to rip the envelope so I couldn't check the resealing. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 How can you be suspicious of somebody so charming? 09:38.000 --> 09:42.000 The Chief of Police knows what's on my mind. 09:42.000 --> 09:47.000 If anything happens to me, it'll take more than that charm of yours to keep the badge boys off your neck. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 But I do have charm. That we're agreed on. 09:49.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, yes. But you're wasting it on me. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Next one is my apartment building. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 Oh, look out! Look out for that girl! 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Oh, get out of the way! 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 No! 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 I can see you can swallow this water, please. 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 Oh. What happened? 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 It's me, Jack, the elevator operator. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 Oh, gee, you had me scared. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 Jack, how did I get... 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 I carried you into the apartment lobby. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 Oh. 10:26.000 --> 10:30.000 I guess you're still weak from the hospital because you fainted after the accident. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Oh. Where's Mr. Benton? 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 The man, the man who was driving the car. Where is he? 10:34.000 --> 10:39.000 Police headquarters. They want you to report in too whenever you're feeling better. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 And the girl was killed? 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Yeah. She was awful. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 Oh. Dead? 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 Yes, Miss Lincoln. It was so awful. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 A friend of yours too, huh? 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 No. No, I don't... 10:52.000 --> 10:57.000 Gee, she was just leaving here when the car hit her. She was asking for you. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 Who was she? 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 Well, I wrote her name down. It's in my pocket somewhere. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Yeah, here it is. 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 Patricia Smyth. I don't know any Patricia Smyth. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 She said it was important to get in touch with you. 11:10.000 --> 11:20.000 Oh. Jack, Jack, did it strike you that Mr. Benton, the driver, could have avoided that accident by yanking the wheel the other way perhaps? 11:20.000 --> 11:25.000 Well, I was reading the financial page when it happened. I didn't see nothing. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.000 Oh. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 But anything you want me to swear to it on, Miss Lincoln? 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 No, no. Never mind, Jack. Call me a cab, will you? 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 Oh, Miss Lincoln, you're sick. You ought to be in bed. 11:33.000 --> 11:40.000 Well, look here. Something tells me if I stay a lot healthier if I get to the telegraph office right away. 11:40.000 --> 11:49.000 I'm sorry. Now, what was that message again, Miss? 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 It was addressed to Kate Nordlinger at the municipal airport. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 And the message? 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 Have a nice trip. Love, Aunt Ellen. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 Uh-huh. Well, not sent from this office. Might I see the telegram? 12:00.000 --> 12:01.000 Certainly. Here it is. 12:01.000 --> 12:04.000 Why, this thing is fake, Miss. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 Are you sure? 12:05.000 --> 12:12.000 It's a regulation form, all right, and the message is pasted on in the scripts, but, well, look how different the type is from one of ours. 12:12.000 --> 12:19.000 Yeah. Yes, I see. Well, was any telegram sent to Kate Nordlinger at the airport? 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 You're Miss Nordlinger? 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 Yes, I am. 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 Well, I can look it up in a minute. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 Thank you. That'll be fine. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Uh-huh. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 What's the minute here? I think I can find it right away. 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 Oh, yes. Yes, yes, here's one. 12:31.000 --> 12:36.000 Let's see. It reads, um, on your return, we'll contact you at Hotel Ludwig. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 It's signed Patricia Smythe. 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 Patricia Smythe. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 S-M-Y-T-A-T. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 What was the name of that hotel? 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 The Ludwig, Hotel Ludwig. Right there, right across the street. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 Oh, oh, yes. Thank you very much. You've been very helpful. 12:49.000 --> 13:02.000 Quite well. 13:02.000 --> 13:08.000 Good afternoon, Hotel Ludwig. Just a moment, I'll connect you. 13:08.000 --> 13:09.000 May I help you, Miss? 13:09.000 --> 13:15.000 Yes, if you would. Bring Miss Kate Nordlinger's room and tell her that Miss Lincoln would like to see her for a moment. It's important. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Whose room did you say? 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Miss Nordlinger's. 13:19.000 --> 13:23.000 Well, I'm sorry, but we have no Miss Nordlinger registered at the Ludwig. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 Well, I was sure she was staying here. 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 A friend of yours, Miss? 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 Why do you ask that? 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Well, it seemed a natural sort of question. 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 Well, not to me, it didn't. Why do you want to know she's a friend of mine? 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 No reason. No reason at all. I'm just making conversation. 13:37.000 --> 13:41.000 Well, make a little more conversation, will you? Did you ever have a Kate Nordlinger registered here? 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 Well, yes, but she's not with us any longer. 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 When did she leave? 13:46.000 --> 13:47.000 Last night. 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Why didn't you tell me that before? 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 I didn't think it important. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 Yes, you did, or you'd have mentioned it. Where'd she go? 13:52.000 --> 13:53.000 I don't know, I really... 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 Why are you so scared? 13:54.000 --> 13:59.000 I'm not scared. It's the manager's orders. We're not supposed to talk to reporters. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 Oh, now what makes you think I'm a reporter? 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 Well, who else would ask questions the way you do? 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 An insurance investigator. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 Oh. 14:08.000 --> 14:12.000 Here are my credentials. Now, what's this all about? 14:12.000 --> 14:15.000 Well, you'll have to promise to keep it confidential, Miss. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 Because? 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 Thanks to the cooperation of the police, there's been nothing about it in the papers, and we'd like to keep it that way. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 Such things are bad publicity for the hotel. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 What do you mean, such things? 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 Well, suicides. 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 Oh. 14:28.000 --> 14:47.000 Last night, Kate Nordlinger threw herself out the window on the fourteenth floor. 14:47.000 --> 15:03.000 Auto Light is bringing you Lorena Young in Lady Killer, tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspend. 15:03.000 --> 15:10.000 About that Buffalo Wheelcoach, I bagged him with a set of wide-gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 15:10.000 --> 15:22.000 Remming Chester, that's a spark plug story, all right. 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Taking over Kate Nordling's room as well as her name? 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 How about a stick of chewing gum? 16:37.000 --> 16:42.000 No, thanks, Mr. Benton. I thought you were at police headquarters. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 The police didn't keep me long. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 It was obviously an accident, so... 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Obviously? 16:47.000 --> 16:54.000 Look here, Ms. Lincoln. My car hit a girl and killed her. It was her own fault, but that doesn't make me feel any better about it. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 I could do without the cracks. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Oh. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.000 What are you doing here? 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 I just happened to be leaving my room as you walked into this one. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 That was convenient. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 I thought I recognized you and so... 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 You live at this hotel? 17:08.000 --> 17:09.000 Certainly, when I'm in town. 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 Oh, I see. 17:10.000 --> 17:14.000 Or did you think I just dropped by to push Kate Nordling out the window? 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 So you know about that? 17:16.000 --> 17:19.000 The chief of police is a friend of mine, remember? 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 Oh, yes, that's right. 17:21.000 --> 17:26.000 Me living on the same floor as the woman who committed suicide, I thought maybe I could help with some background information. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 But you couldn't, of course. 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 No, I couldn't. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.000 Uh-huh. 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 Believe it or not, I never once laid eyes on the woman. 17:32.000 --> 17:33.000 Oh. 17:33.000 --> 17:38.000 And it wasn't until I saw you walk in here that I connected her name with the name of the telegram. 17:38.000 --> 17:42.000 Well, I had better be going now. 17:42.000 --> 17:43.000 You think I'm lying, don't you? 17:43.000 --> 17:47.000 No, no, not necessarily. I... 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 Please don't come one step closer, Mr. Benton. 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 Ms. Lincoln. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 One step closer and I start screaming. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 Take it easy. I'm not coming any closer. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 I won't try to kid you. 17:55.000 --> 17:59.000 I'm scared of you. Really scared. 17:59.000 --> 18:03.000 I'm going out of that door now. And don't you move. 18:03.000 --> 18:04.000 This is absurd. 18:04.000 --> 18:08.000 So much as lift a finger and I'll yell my head off. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 I'm scared I'll tell you. 18:17.000 --> 18:21.000 And I kept running until I was out of sight of the hotel. 18:21.000 --> 18:27.000 At police headquarters, I suppose I looked just like any other psychopath with a persecution complex. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 But I was stubborn about it. 18:29.000 --> 18:34.000 Finally I got in to see the chief of police himself, Ray Long when his name was. 18:34.000 --> 18:39.000 Surprisingly young for his job, middle thirties I should say. Good looking, patient and reasonable. 18:39.000 --> 18:45.000 But when I told him of my experiences with the Charming Mr. Benton, he laughed out loud. 18:45.000 --> 18:49.000 Why, Grant Benton was his best friend. The whole thing was impossible. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 In the first place, there was no connection between the deaths of the two women. 18:53.000 --> 18:58.000 Patricia Smyth, the girl in the automobile accident, had been a clerk at the police department. 18:58.000 --> 19:00.000 The chief had known her well. 19:00.000 --> 19:07.000 Kate Nordlinger had held a private detective's license for five years prior to her suicide, as he kept calling it. 19:07.000 --> 19:11.000 So far as anyone knew, the two women had never even seen each other. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 It wasn't until then that I mentioned the fake telegram. 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, Miss Lincoln. I'll check with the telegraph company. 19:19.000 --> 19:22.000 If anything develops, I'll get in touch with you later. 19:22.000 --> 19:23.000 Get in touch with me later? 19:23.000 --> 19:26.000 I know, I know. You're taking all this very seriously. 19:26.000 --> 19:30.000 What am I supposed to do? Sit around like a duck in a shooting gallery until you decide to... 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 You can't be your own insurance investigator. You're a court procedure. 19:33.000 --> 19:39.000 Would you under oath swear that Grant Benton deliberately drove into Patricia Smyth and killed her? 19:39.000 --> 19:40.000 Well, I... 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 Oh, no. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 No, I couldn't, but... 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 Well, I know he did it deliberately. 19:47.000 --> 19:51.000 But I couldn't swear to it. If that makes any sense, then... 19:51.000 --> 19:57.000 It does. In order to swear to it, you'd have to know exactly what went on in his mind at that moment. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 Well, that's all very well and good, but don't you see that... 19:59.000 --> 20:04.000 I assure you there's nothing to link Grant Benton with the Nordlinger woman's suicide. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 And that brings us to the so-called attempts on your life. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Would you care to press charges? 20:09.000 --> 20:13.000 Well, I... I can't prove anything. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 So where does that leave us? 20:17.000 --> 20:22.000 It leaves you thinking that your best friend is the victim of a few embarrassing coincidences. 20:22.000 --> 20:25.000 And it leaves me thinking that... 20:25.000 --> 20:30.000 That the chief of police is just a big dumb flatfoot being taken in by a pal? 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 Which is exactly what I did think. 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 I felt pretty sick when I left his office. 20:41.000 --> 20:46.000 I went back to my apartment and locked the door and moved a dresser behind it, but... 20:46.000 --> 20:50.000 Even that didn't give me any feeling of security. 20:50.000 --> 20:55.000 I couldn't find anything else to do but paste the living room floor, so I... 20:55.000 --> 21:00.000 I paced and... I paced and I paced and... 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 Finally, late in the afternoon... 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Hello? 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 Miss Lincoln? 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 This is the chief of police, Ray Longman? 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 Oh, yes, yes. 21:10.000 --> 21:13.000 I checked the telegraph company. Your story's on the level. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 I already knew that. 21:16.000 --> 21:21.000 Yes. Well, there are a couple of other developments I'd like to tell you about. 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 Could you come out to my home tonight after dinner? 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Why, yes, I guess so. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Grant Benton will be there. 21:28.000 --> 21:31.000 Oh. Well, now look here, I... 21:31.000 --> 21:38.000 Yes, it's important. 21:38.000 --> 21:46.000 I wrote down the street directions, and there were a lot of them because the chief's home was in the secluded hill section on the outskirts of town. 21:46.000 --> 21:51.000 When I arrived there, my insides were doing push-ups. 21:51.000 --> 21:55.000 But I was calm enough on the inside, I hoped. 21:58.000 --> 21:59.000 Ah, Miss Lincoln. 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 Oh, good evening, chief. 22:00.000 --> 22:04.000 I was half expecting you to be late. Most people have trouble finding my house tonight. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Well, I started early. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Won't you sit down? 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 Thank you. 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 Take the easy check. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 Thank you. 22:11.000 --> 22:14.000 Grant should be arriving any moment. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 I, uh... 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 I want you to understand that... 22:19.000 --> 22:23.000 Well, I'm not out to trick him into a confession or anything. 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 It's, uh... 22:26.000 --> 22:30.000 Well, I'm hoping that the three of us can talk things out. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 The situation's become uncomfortable all around. 22:32.000 --> 22:37.000 With Benton being your best friend, I can see where this is rather awkward for you. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 Awkward? 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 You know what happened this afternoon? 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 Know what? 22:42.000 --> 22:47.000 Grant walked in on me just as I was testing this typewriter to see if the print checked with the print on the fake telegraph. 22:47.000 --> 22:48.000 Oh. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 I felt like Benedict Arnold. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 I'm sorry. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 Did the print check? 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 No. 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 Now I know what they mean by one-track mind. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 There are other typewriters. 22:59.000 --> 23:02.000 Well, that must be Grant now. 23:02.000 --> 23:05.000 You can take my word for it, Miss Lincoln. There's no need to be frightened. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 All right. 23:06.000 --> 23:11.000 Good girl. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 Ah, come in, Grant. 23:12.000 --> 23:16.000 Thank you, Ray. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 Well, what a handsome couple you two make. 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 Our forthright young chief of police. 23:21.000 --> 23:25.000 And the lovely lady who was only recently voted Miss Unbridled Imagination of 1950. 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 All right, that's enough, Grant. Sit over there and behave yourself. 23:28.000 --> 23:32.000 Now then, Miss Lincoln, to business. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 What can I do for you? 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 Chief Longman thinks you can convince me you're innocent. 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 I have reservations. 23:38.000 --> 23:42.000 On what plane? 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 Where would you like me to begin? 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 Let's start with a fake telegram. 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Explain that away. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 Starting with a beaut. 23:48.000 --> 23:53.000 The one thing I can't explain, I haven't the faintest idea why it was done or who did it. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 But you didn't. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 No. 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 Won't you even try to believe me? 23:59.000 --> 24:02.000 Yes, yes, I'll try. 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 I'll even concede it was an accident when your car killed Patricia Smythe. 24:06.000 --> 24:11.000 Are you willing to believe that that blonde miss, whatever her name was, committed suicide? 24:11.000 --> 24:12.000 Kate Nordling? 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 Mm-hmm. 24:13.000 --> 24:16.000 How did you know she was a blonde? 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 I read it in the paper with my big blue eyes. 24:18.000 --> 24:22.000 The whole thing was kept out of the newspapers and you told me that you never laid eyes on me. 24:22.000 --> 24:26.000 Well, pardon me for interrupting, Miss Lincoln, but I questioned Grant right after the suicide, 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 at the time I probably mentioned that the Nordinger woman was blonde. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 You did, Chief. I distinctly remember. 24:30.000 --> 24:33.000 Don't let him talk you into it, Chief. 24:33.000 --> 24:36.000 For heaven's sake, open your eyes. He's it. The explanation fits. 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 What explanation? 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 Well, can't you see? 24:40.000 --> 24:43.000 Patricia Smythe worked as a clerk in your office 24:43.000 --> 24:47.000 and she happened on some information that incriminated our friend here. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 There was no sense her telling you about it. 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 You were too fond of Benton to believe it anyhow. 24:52.000 --> 24:57.000 So she went to Kate Nordlinger, a private detective, and they worked together on the case. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 Benton found out what was going on. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 When he learned that Miss Nordlinger was taking a plane to Capital City 25:02.000 --> 25:06.000 in order to talk to the state's attorney, he decided to act. 25:06.000 --> 25:10.000 He'd seen Patricia Smythe around police headquarters plenty of times, 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 but the Nordlinger woman, he only knew by name, 25:13.000 --> 25:17.000 which is how he came to give me the poison by mistake, don't you see? 25:17.000 --> 25:22.000 I apologize, Grant. I thought Miss Lincoln understood this was to be a friendly meeting. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 The girls will be girls. 25:24.000 --> 25:28.000 But listen, Chief. That's all I asked. Just listen. 25:28.000 --> 25:31.000 Very well. Go ahead. 25:31.000 --> 25:37.000 Well, through the telegram, Benton learned that Kate Nordlinger was staying at the Hotel Ludwig. 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 That night while I was at the hospital, he killed her. He pushed her out of our window. 25:41.000 --> 25:45.000 Later he recognized Patricia Smythe coming out of my apartment building. 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 She'd come to warn me of what I was getting mixed up in. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 And he murdered her. He ran her down with his automobile. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 Now really, Miss Lincoln, you're lucky. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 Never mind, Ray. She's right. 25:55.000 --> 25:59.000 I've made a couple of slips and the entire Supreme Court couldn't shake her loose now. 25:59.000 --> 26:03.000 Very well, Miss Lincoln. If it makes you any happier, I killed both women. 26:03.000 --> 26:07.000 I have the dubious honor of having proved your point. 26:07.000 --> 26:11.000 You'll still be trying for laughs when they strap you in, won't you? 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 They're not strapping me. 26:13.000 --> 26:18.000 If you get a glance at our forthright Chief of Police, you'll notice a rather large gun in his hand. 26:18.000 --> 26:21.000 You'll further notice that it's pointed not at me, but at you. 26:21.000 --> 26:26.000 Sorry, Miss Lincoln. We did our best to talk you out of this. 26:26.000 --> 26:27.000 Now you've given me no choice. 26:27.000 --> 26:30.000 Let me tell you what our forthright Chief of Police means. 26:30.000 --> 26:34.000 He means that he and I run the gambling activities of this town. 26:34.000 --> 26:39.000 And people who interfere are apt to get hurt, very hurt, dead, you might say. 26:39.000 --> 26:43.000 I don't think the Chief is going to shoot. 26:43.000 --> 26:47.000 Oh, there are two schools of thought on that. 26:47.000 --> 26:52.000 I think I should mention that the bushes outside are sick with men from the State's Attorney's Office. 26:52.000 --> 26:54.000 What, Easy, Chief, Easy? 26:54.000 --> 26:57.000 When you telephoned to invite me here, Chief, 26:57.000 --> 27:01.000 you told me that you had checked with a telegraph company about that fake telegram, 27:01.000 --> 27:05.000 but later I talked to them again and it turned out that you hadn't checked, 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 which meant that you'd known about it all along. 27:08.000 --> 27:11.000 It was then that I decided to long distance the State's Attorney. 27:11.000 --> 27:15.000 You'd better leave the comedy to me, Miss Lincoln. That's not even a good stall. 27:15.000 --> 27:20.000 The men outside are under orders to demand entry at the slightest disturbance. 27:20.000 --> 27:25.000 Fire that gun, Chief, and they'll be here like a swarm of gnats. 27:25.000 --> 27:27.000 And if I don't fire? 27:27.000 --> 27:29.000 You'll take your chances in court. 27:29.000 --> 27:32.000 After all, it was Benton who actually killed those two women. 27:32.000 --> 27:35.000 You have any qualms about this, Chief? Just hand the gun over to me. 27:35.000 --> 27:37.000 Wait a minute, Grant. 27:37.000 --> 27:40.000 Stay right where you are for the moment, both of you. 27:40.000 --> 27:42.000 What are you going to do with that ashtray? 27:42.000 --> 27:44.000 Heave it through the window. 27:50.000 --> 27:54.000 There's your slight disturbance, Miss Lincoln. 27:54.000 --> 27:56.000 They'll be here. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 We'll wait. 28:00.000 --> 28:02.000 That bluff went over like a lead balloon. 28:02.000 --> 28:04.000 Now if you let me have the gun, Chief. 28:04.000 --> 28:07.000 Don't give it to him, Chief, please! 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