1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:23,720 Autolight and its 96,000 dealers present Transcribed Mr. Alan Ladd in Multiful Murder, 3 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:30,960 a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,400 Remingchester, you look like a badly battered battery. 5 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,320 A sorry sight indeed for an autolight-stay-full battery man like me. 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,280 Wilcox, I've just returned from a safari. 7 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,760 Been haunting camels in Kilkenny. 8 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,760 Camels in Kilkenny? 9 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,440 Why, by St. Patty, didn't you know that the last camel in Kilkenny calmly curled up and 10 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,080 died when the first autolight-stay-full battery landed in Ireland? 11 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:00,120 He knew he couldn't compare with that teetotalling dispenser of pep and power, the autolight-stay-full 12 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,320 battery, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal camo, I mean 13 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:05,320 car use. 14 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:08,280 Such shenanigans, Wilcox. 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,240 Remingchester, autolight-stay-full batteries give 70% longer average life than batteries 16 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:18,640 without stay-full features, and that's proven by tests conducted according to SAE life cycle 17 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,640 standards. 18 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:20,640 By the Blarney Stone. 19 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,120 And furthermore, autolight-stay-full batteries have three times as much liquid reserve above 20 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,640 the plates as batteries without stay-full features. 21 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,680 That's why they need water only three times a year in normal car use. 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,880 See no more, Wilcox. 23 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:36,120 One thing more. 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,600 You're always right with autolight. 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:54,560 And now with motive for murder and the performance of Alan Ladd, autolight hopes once again to 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:55,560 keep you in suspense. 27 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:56,560 Irish, she'd ask me, how is a guy a cop? 28 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:57,560 You make with magnifying glass and bloodhounds? 29 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,560 You make with facts, I'd tell her. 30 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,560 You start with something you know for sure. 31 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:02,560 Yeah. 32 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,560 Yeah, you make with facts. 33 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:10,600 But when you're a cop and you've got all the facts, what do you do when they're going to 34 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,480 arrest your own wife for murder? 35 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:16,960 Even the reporters were nice. 36 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,800 They didn't try to steal a picture of Mary, though there were plenty of them around. 37 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,000 But I knew what they were thinking about. 38 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,240 A little guy with a mustache sitting in my chair wearing a knife between his ribs. 39 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,360 And about Mary, my wife, lying over on the Davenport where the bourbon breath could be 40 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,600 used for a cutting torch. 41 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,640 And Doc Deussen was handling it. 42 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,440 My pal for eight years. 43 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,600 He was doing what he could for a brother officer and a friend. 44 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,800 But I knew what would have to go into his report. 45 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,800 You see, I've made out too many of them myself. 46 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,280 All right, all right, boys, wait out in the hall till the basket gets here. 47 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,280 Go on, go on. 48 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,240 Yeah, but Lieutenant, I ain't finished dusting the place yet, man. 49 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:55,240 Go on, get out of the hall. 50 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,240 Yeah, all right, sure, sure. 51 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,720 Smoke, Dave? 52 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,160 No, thanks, Chuck. 53 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,280 Well, she doesn't feel good. 54 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:07,280 I'm going to ask you, Dave. 55 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,280 You know who he is? 56 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,280 No, I never saw him before in my life. 57 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:10,280 His name's Hamilton, Victor Hamilton. 58 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,280 How'd you find that out? 59 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:12,280 You sat there and watched me frisk him. 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:13,280 Huh? 61 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,280 Yeah, yeah, I guess I got some sawdust in my head. 62 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:22,080 I've seen a lot of dead guys, but not in my own place. 63 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,720 Well, I just thought you might have known him, Dave, that's all. 64 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Funny you don't know the guy. 65 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,280 Oh, look, Dave, I'm sorry about... 66 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,280 I'm sorry it's your wife. 67 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,080 Yeah, everybody's sorry. 68 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,360 I can follow up the routine for an hour or two, maybe, but those guys from the D.A. 69 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,280 I know, I know, you're thinking of Second Avenue stuff. 70 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,680 Spilled whiskey, broken glass, mirror lipstick on dead man's cheek. 71 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,680 She didn't kill him, Jack. 72 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:48,680 Irish, Irish. 73 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,680 I feel funny. 74 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:50,680 She's awake now. 75 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:51,680 Hello, Angel. 76 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,680 Oh, hi, Irish, you're home early. 77 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:53,680 Good night, Peter. 78 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:54,680 Hello, Mary. 79 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:55,680 Jack. 80 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:56,680 Irish. 81 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:04,480 She's drunk. 82 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,480 Or drugged. 83 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:06,480 We'll find out later. 84 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,480 All right, Jack. 85 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,480 I'm sorry. 86 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:09,480 It's all right. 87 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:10,480 Look, Angel, I want to ask you something. 88 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,480 Why was Hamilton here? 89 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:12,480 Hamilton? 90 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:13,480 We don't know anybody named Hamilton Irish. 91 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:14,480 A little guy with a gray mustache. 92 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,480 Oh, you mean the sailor? 93 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:16,480 Yes, the sailor. 94 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,480 Oh, I see. 95 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:18,480 I see. 96 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:19,480 I see. 97 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:20,480 I see. 98 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,480 I see. 99 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,480 I see. 100 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,480 I see. 101 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:24,480 I see. 102 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,480 I see. 103 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,000 Oh, you mean the salesman. 104 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,480 I ordered a vacuum cleaner. 105 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,680 He had to give me demonstration and clean the whole place. 106 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,160 He was a funny old man. 107 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,720 I gave him a drink for doing all my work. 108 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:40,720 Then what, honey? 109 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:47,240 Then I felt this hurt in my head. 110 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,240 I saw you and Jack. 111 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,240 I don't feel right, Irish. 112 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,880 Baby, that set of knives in the kitchen. 113 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,880 Did you use the chef's knife or anything? 114 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:57,880 No, no. 115 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,880 You know those knives scare me. 116 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,000 Yeah. 117 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,480 That's all you can remember, Mary? 118 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,480 That's everything? 119 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:05,480 Yes. 120 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:06,480 What are you doing? 121 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:07,480 Practicing cops on me? 122 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,480 Look, honey, the landlady came over to borrow a book. 123 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,600 She heard the radio, but you didn't answer the bell. 124 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,600 She got worried and used the passkey. 125 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,120 Irish, what is it? 126 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,920 We got trouble. 127 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,920 Somebody used that knife on Hamilton. 128 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,920 Oh, Irish. 129 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,920 Jack, what is this? 130 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,720 Why, Mr. Hamilton's sitting right over there, right... 131 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:31,720 Irish. 132 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:32,720 Oh, no! 133 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:45,280 Well, Dave, the medic says that bruise on Mary's head is something she could have done on a 134 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:46,880 chair arm or a door. 135 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:47,880 Skin isn't broken. 136 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:48,880 The swelling doesn't amount to much. 137 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,840 So she was drunk and she fell down. 138 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:53,440 Jack, you know she never took more than one drink. 139 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,440 Let's hear the rest. 140 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,920 Lab ran tests, not finished yet. 141 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,560 No sign of narcotic on her so far. 142 00:05:58,560 --> 00:05:59,560 Plenty of whiskey. 143 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,480 The prints on the knife were hers. 144 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,480 Why not? 145 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,480 It was her knife in her kitchen. 146 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:04,480 You're a cop, Dave. 147 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,480 You can't beat the system. 148 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,680 Everyone's leaned backward on this all down the line. 149 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,160 Everything's been checked a dozen times. 150 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,160 The system says she's guilty, Irish. 151 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,440 You think she's guilty? 152 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:15,680 What I think doesn't count. 153 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:16,680 It's facts. 154 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,200 Hamilton sold vacuum cleaners. 155 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,960 He had business cards in his pocket, but there was no order book at your house and no vacuum 156 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:22,960 cleaner. 157 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,600 Well, you can see what that does to her story about that demonstration. 158 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:31,320 You, uh, you better send a lawyer down to Harbor Precinct. 159 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,320 Not yet. 160 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,320 I want to dig myself. 161 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:34,320 I know what you're thinking. 162 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,000 She was slugged or drugged or both. 163 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,720 And there was a third party. 164 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:38,720 That's right. 165 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:39,720 There was a third party. 166 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:40,720 He slugged Mary and shoved that knife in Hamilton. 167 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,360 Then he poured whiskey down Mary's throat and painted lipstick on Hamilton's cheek. 168 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,000 There has to be a third party. 169 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,480 Dave, I know you're trying, but you can't disregard what we found. 170 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,280 Look, I've been a cop a long time, Jock. 171 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:55,320 I know a woman will shoot a man or stab him or poison him and then stand there and scream 172 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:56,320 what a lousy he is. 173 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,560 But a man did this job and I'm going to find him. 174 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,160 We gave the neighborhood and the house the works and we came up empty, Irish. 175 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,960 Then you didn't look hard enough. 176 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:03,960 I'm going to go take a look. 177 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:04,960 Wait a minute, Dave. 178 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:05,960 I can't put you on this. 179 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,320 The newspapers had crucified you. 180 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:08,320 Because she's my wife? 181 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,520 Because I might want to destroy evidence? 182 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:11,520 Something like that. 183 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,400 All right, here's the fact. 184 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,560 I wouldn't want to get the department any bad publicity. 185 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,960 Now, Dave, please. 186 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,960 David X. Murphy, detective, second grade. 187 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,200 It says I'm a part of the system, a cop. 188 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,800 Give it to the commissioner with my regards. 189 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,800 Oh, no, wait. 190 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,920 Here, take this back, Irish. 191 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,560 As far as I'm concerned, you're hunting the guns that knocked off those service stations. 192 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,280 How could you ask questions without a badge, huh? 193 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,280 Thanks, Jock. 194 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:41,280 Thanks a lot. 195 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,480 If there is a third party, find him, Dave. 196 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:44,480 Find him. 197 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:45,480 There is. 198 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:46,480 And I'll find him. 199 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:55,480 You make with facts, I told you. 200 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,000 The start was something you know for sure. 201 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,480 I knew Mary hadn't killed Hamilton. 202 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,520 For sure. 203 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,000 Fact. 204 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,240 Strangers saw them kill each other. 205 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,960 Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the killer knows the victim. 206 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,480 Fact. 207 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,480 Hamilton had been stabbed at my house where he came to demonstrate a vacuum cleaner. 208 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,360 The vacuum cleaner wasn't in my house. 209 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,360 Hamilton had been killed for that vacuum cleaner. 210 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:23,360 Fact. 211 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,080 A vacuum cleaner? 212 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:33,840 Is that a motive for a murder? 213 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:43,160 Yeah? 214 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:44,160 Police I want to talk to you. 215 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,640 Ah, the police have been here. 216 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:46,640 Well, they're here again. 217 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,000 Victor Hamlin had an apartment here and you're his landlady. 218 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I want to know about him. 219 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 You do, huh? 220 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 What do you want to know? 221 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 The works, good and bad. 222 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Did he drink, gamble? 223 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Did he stay in nights or go out? 224 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Did he pay his rent? 225 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Start talking and I'll listen. 226 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,320 Oh, well, I know so much about a tenant. 227 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,600 I got my work to do. 228 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,480 Yeah, no maid to keep me. 229 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:02,480 Almost breaks my back sometimes. 230 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,480 Yeah, yeah, come on now, tell me. 231 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:04,480 Oh, he lived like a monk. 232 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:05,480 He paid his bills and kept to himself. 233 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:06,480 I never saw no friends with him. 234 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:07,480 Go on. 235 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:08,480 I can't tell you any more about him. 236 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:09,480 What do you think I am? 237 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Harriet? 238 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,480 Harriet, come here. 239 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:12,480 What is it? 240 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:13,480 This is a policeman. 241 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,480 He's asked me about Hamilton. 242 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,480 I thought you could help him maybe, huh? 243 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,480 Oh, Bob Victor. 244 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:22,480 You know him, Miss? 245 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:23,480 Yes, yes, I knew him. 246 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:24,480 I'm Harriet Blodgett. 247 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,480 I live in this building too. 248 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,480 Do I get to go back to my house for you? 249 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:29,480 Yeah, thanks. 250 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,480 Well, Miss? 251 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,480 I wish I could tell you something, but I can't. 252 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,480 I just felt sorry for Victor. 253 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:37,480 Oh, Mr. Hamilton. 254 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,480 He was small and he had no car. 255 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,480 He used to carry those cleaners all over the North End. 256 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,480 Now they're not fixing something to eat and take it up to him. 257 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:46,480 That all? 258 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:47,480 Nothing like you, ma'am. 259 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:48,480 I guess he wasn't interested. 260 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:49,480 No compliment to me. 261 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:50,480 What do you do for a living? 262 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:51,480 Hostess, Elgin restaurant, help Columbus Circle. 263 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:52,480 Ever meet any of his friends? 264 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:53,480 He was a lonely little man. 265 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:54,480 He was a very nice man. 266 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:55,480 He was a very nice man. 267 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:56,480 He was a very nice man. 268 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:57,480 He was a very nice man. 269 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:58,480 He was a very nice man. 270 00:09:58,480 --> 00:09:59,480 He was a very nice man. 271 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:00,480 He was a lonely little man. 272 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,480 No friend. 273 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:02,480 No enemy. 274 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:03,480 You're wrong. 275 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,480 He had one enemy. 276 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:14,480 The next morning I was on the third floor of the Morgan Building listening to a man named 277 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,480 Richards, the sales manager of the vacuum cleaner company. 278 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:17,480 Not house to house. 279 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:18,480 Indeed, no. 280 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,480 I'd like to have that absolutely clear. 281 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,480 Our people work from lists supplied by us. 282 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,480 We give the names of prospects and they close the sale. 283 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,480 You're not going to make a fortune. 284 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,480 Well, not exactly. 285 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:31,480 Take Hamilton. 286 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,480 A bad back. 287 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:33,480 Got pretty tired. 288 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:34,480 Didn't have the old bounce, the old steam. 289 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:35,480 A lot of sales got away. 290 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:36,480 Bad back? 291 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,480 War wound maybe. 292 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:38,480 I don't know. 293 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:39,480 He didn't talk much. 294 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,480 He got his demonstrator here every morning, huh? 295 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:43,480 We assign cleaners to each salesman. 296 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,480 Whenever they make a sale, they bring a deposit in and get another new machine. 297 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:47,480 Do they make reports? 298 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:48,480 Absolutely. 299 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:49,480 Every call. 300 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,480 Give me what Hamilton turned in yesterday. 301 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,480 Oh, yes, of course. 302 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,480 Here you are. 303 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,480 Hamilton's last report. 304 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:09,480 4502 Van Buren, 4510 Van Buren, 4515 Van Buren. 305 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,480 No house to house, huh? 306 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,480 Oh, you're kidding. 307 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:19,480 No friends, only one enemy. 308 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,480 On Van Buren Street. 309 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,480 That's where my killer had to be. 310 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,480 Somewhere on a street that had his feet in the bay and his head in the clouds. 311 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,480 From pawn shops to snob apartments. 312 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,480 The 4500 block was middle ground. 313 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:37,480 Somewhere on that block, Hamilton had put his thumb on one doorbell too many. 314 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,480 I started to top the list. 315 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:41,480 Police. 316 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,480 Oh, no, my Herman's a good boy. 317 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:45,480 He took that bicycle back. 318 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,480 He is a good boy. 319 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,480 Yes, Mr. Hamilton was here demonstrating a vacuum cleaner. 320 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,480 He cleaned all my rug. 321 00:11:55,480 --> 00:12:00,480 I promise to keep him in mind. 322 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,480 No, no, never let no strangers sell enough inside of my place. 323 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,480 No, never listen to what they got to say at all. 324 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,480 Never. 325 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,480 I went through 25 like that. 326 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,480 26 was bigger than the others. 327 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,480 A half block of lawn, stained windows and brick. 328 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,480 Built by one of yesterday's fortunes when Van Buren Street was young. 329 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,480 There'll be money in it somewhere. 330 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,480 Somehow, I said to myself. 331 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,480 This was money. 332 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,480 He was tall, slender and pretty. 333 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,480 The mustache moved first. 334 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,480 Please, my aunt's desperately ill. 335 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,480 Police. 336 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,480 But why? 337 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:36,480 What do you want? 338 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:37,480 We're checking. 339 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,480 A little guy named Hamilton came by here yesterday selling vacuum cleaners. 340 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,480 He rang your doorbell with a lot of others. 341 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,480 But he got himself killed. 342 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,480 We look into things like that. 343 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,480 Oh. 344 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:49,480 Whose house is this? 345 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,480 My aunt's, Cecilia Breckenbridge. 346 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:52,480 That chap was here. 347 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,480 Hamilton, was it? 348 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,480 An impertinent little fellow. 349 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,480 He rang the bell several times, woke my aunt. 350 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:58,480 I sent him away. 351 00:12:58,480 --> 00:12:59,480 He didn't get inside? 352 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,480 No, not past the door. 353 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:01,480 That's funny. 354 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:02,480 The salesmen make reports. 355 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,480 They list every house where they make a demonstration. 356 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:06,480 Your house is on that list. 357 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:07,480 It's a mistake. 358 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:08,480 I sent him away. 359 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,480 He didn't make any mistakes about his other demonstrations. 360 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:12,480 He didn't lie. 361 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,480 Mistake. 362 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,480 If you want it that way, I'll check the neighborhood. 363 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:16,480 People see things. 364 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:17,480 I'll find someone who saw him in here. 365 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:18,480 All right. 366 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,480 All right. 367 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,480 He was here inside. 368 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:21,480 Then why the runaround? 369 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:22,480 My aunt, she's... 370 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:23,480 Well, she's very old. 371 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,480 It's my duty to spare her any unnecessary excitement. 372 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,480 That's why I lied. 373 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,480 And anyway, there's nothing she could tell you. 374 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:29,480 He was here. 375 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:30,480 He made his little speech. 376 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:31,480 He went away. 377 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,480 But I've got a report to make out. 378 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,480 I know, but couldn't you make an exception? 379 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,480 I'm in position calling on people, bothering them. 380 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,480 But it's better than having a murderer walk the streets. 381 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,480 My aunt is really quite ill. 382 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:41,480 I can be very gentle. 383 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,480 Oh, it's embarrassing. 384 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,480 Do you know what a persecution complex is? 385 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:47,480 Right about them. 386 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:48,480 Well, that's her trouble. 387 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:49,480 She's old. 388 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,480 Well, you know, senile. 389 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,480 She thinks she's being kept a prisoner here. 390 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:54,480 Oh? 391 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,480 She's right, of course. 392 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,480 If she weren't confined here, she'd be confined to an institution. 393 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:00,480 She doesn't understand why. 394 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,480 She's outlived all her close friends, 395 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,480 and she wonders why no one comes to see her. 396 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,480 That's why you let Hamilton and his back-in-fiender in. 397 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Well, I thought it would help. 398 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:09,480 Instead, he made it worse. 399 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:10,480 I see. 400 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,480 Are you Breckenbridge? 401 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:13,480 My name is Dolph. 402 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,480 Harold Dolph, her sister's son. 403 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,480 I'm her only relative. 404 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:18,480 I keep the place going. 405 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,480 You know how old people are about family homes. 406 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,480 Yeah. 407 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:23,480 Yeah, I know. 408 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:24,480 Let's go and see her. 409 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,480 All right. 410 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:28,480 This way. 411 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,480 Cecilia Breckenbridge was sitting in a rocking chair 412 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,480 beside a window that looked out over the backyard. 413 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,480 She was thin and small. 414 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,480 And she looked up at me out of blue, tormented eyes. 415 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,480 Don't tell her that he was killed. 416 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,480 It'll upset her. 417 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,480 Aunt Cecilia? 418 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,480 Aunt Cecilia? 419 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,480 It's a beautiful day, Harold. 420 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,480 A lovely day. 421 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,480 Aunt Cecilia, this man is here to ask a few questions 422 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,480 about that vacuum cleaner salesman you saw the other day. 423 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,480 Oh. 424 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,480 Be a good girl and answer him. 425 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,480 It's a lovely day, Harold. 426 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,480 Mrs. Breckenbridge, I'd like to know what time he came in to see you. 427 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,480 Sometimes she'll talk, and sometimes she won't. 428 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,480 Mrs. Breckenbridge, do you remember how long he stayed? 429 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,480 The way her mind is, it's hard to tell what to expect. 430 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,480 Do you remember what he did while he was here? 431 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,480 Oh. 432 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,480 A lovely day, Harold. 433 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,480 A lovely day. 434 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,480 That you, Dave? 435 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,480 Yeah, I'm in a drugstore at Van Buren and Hope. 436 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,480 How's the coming out? Give me a hand. 437 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,480 I spotted that third party. 438 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,480 He's tall and pretty, and he's scared to death. 439 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,480 Auto Light is bringing you Alan Ladd in Motive for Murder, 440 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:34,480 tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 441 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:41,480 Say, Remingchester, were you in Limerick when you were hunting the Irish camel? 442 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,480 Was I in Limerick? I invented the Limerick. 443 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,480 Ah, but not this Limerick, old pal. 444 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:52,480 Listen, a good name in Erin is Slattery, so's Auto Light's stay-full battery. 445 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,480 Its water he needs a teaspoon feeds. Only three times a year is no flattery. 446 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,480 Alas, poor Limerick. I knew him well. 447 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:04,480 Well, you know that the Auto Light's stay-full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 448 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,480 Why? 449 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,480 Because it has three times as much liquid reserve above the plates as batteries without stay-full features. 450 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,480 Is it the leprechaun in you, Wilcox? 451 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:20,480 Why, every leprechaun in Ireland knows that the Auto Light's stay-full battery has a fiberglass retaining mat protecting every positive plate. 452 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,480 That keeps the power producing material in place, you see. 453 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:33,480 In recent tests based on SAE life cycle standards, the Auto Light's stay-full batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without stay-full features. 454 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:39,480 And remember, Auto Light's stay-full batteries need water only three times a year in normal car use. 455 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:44,480 Get an Auto Light's stay-full battery and be right with Auto Light. 456 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:51,480 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star, Alan Ladd, in Motive for Murder. 457 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:56,480 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 458 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,480 You start with something you know for sure, like the fact that Mary couldn't kill anyone. 459 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:12,480 Then you go to people and you ask questions. You look for somebody who'll talk too much or not enough. 460 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,480 Somebody like Harold Dolph in a big old-fashioned house on Van Buren Street. 461 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,480 You meet his invalid aunt who only sits and dreams of 50 years ago. 462 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,480 And you look at tall and pretty in his $30 shirt standing there. 463 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:30,480 And you find out why and go out and kill a man named Hamilton and steal his vacuum cleaner. 464 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:39,480 All right, Dave, you've told me what you walked into now. Tell me why you think Harold Dolph's the one. 465 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,480 Tried to cover up before I could ask anything accounted. He lied once. 466 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,480 Oh, cut it, man. I've questioned people too. 467 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,480 All right, but there's something wrong in that house, something wrong about him. 468 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,480 He looked like he knew she wouldn't talk before I asked her questions. 469 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,480 He explained she was ill, a little crazy. 470 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,480 Suppose she isn't crazy, Jock. Suppose she's afraid of him. 471 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,480 All right, Irish, suppose. 472 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:57,480 Maybe he's keeping her prisoner there. 473 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,480 Well, you said he admitted that much. She'd be in an institution otherwise. 474 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,480 But really keeping a prisoner in there. 475 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:03,480 Why, though? Why? 476 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,480 Money, money, of course. Her money. He explained it. Her family had money, not his. 477 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,480 You looked into that part? 478 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,480 No, Jock, but I've seen his kind a hundred times. 479 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,480 In Gabbardines, it costs 250 standing around living off what another man worked hard for. 480 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,480 Oh, it's a reach, Irish, a long reach. 481 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,480 He's our man. I know it. 482 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,480 He can stick around that house and torture that old lady by keeping her scared he could kill Hamilton. 483 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,480 Sure, but where does Hamilton fit? 484 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,480 Oh, I don't know, Jock. That old lady could tell me if I could talk to her. 485 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,480 You could be awful wrong, Irish. 486 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:34,480 I've been wrong before. All I want is a chance to talk to her without Dolph breathing down my neck. 487 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:35,480 Yeah, yeah. 488 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,480 If I'm wrong, okay. If I'm right, I want Dolph where we can make the pinch. 489 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,480 He'll come out of there sometime. 490 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,480 When he does, you trail a guy. I'll talk to the old lady. 491 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,480 All right, Irish, Jock. 492 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,480 Hey, that him backing the roadster out of the carriage house? 493 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:49,480 Hey, you're right. 494 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,480 Check with the station any time you get a chance. I'll do the same. 495 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:52,480 Right, Irish. 496 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,480 If she couldn't answer the bell, I had to use my gun butt on the garden door. 497 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:05,480 This time she wasn't humming, just breathing slow, uneven. 498 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,480 I lifted an eyelid and felt her pulse, doped. 499 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:16,480 Then I noticed her hands, fine, long, delicately formed hands, but no rings. 500 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,480 Yet marks that showed she'd worn rings most of her life. 501 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,480 The pictures of her all over the place showed her wearing rings. 502 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,480 Rings with big stones and old-fashioned settings. Money. 503 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,480 Went from top to bottom, then. Attic to basement, every room. 504 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,480 No rings and no vacuum cleaner. 505 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,480 Harbor precinct, Eddie speaking. 506 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:40,480 Jock Doosan checked in yet? 507 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,480 Who's this? 508 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,480 It's Dave. 509 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,480 Oh, Irish. Yeah, Jock checked in. 510 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:45,480 Well, give it to me. 511 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,480 I followed your man downtown to the Morgan building on Fifth. 512 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,480 Morgan building? 513 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:50,480 Yeah. 514 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,480 Morgan building? No house-to-house canvassing, only from lists. 515 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,480 Hey, Irish, you all right? 516 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:56,480 Yeah, thanks, Eddie. I'll come to your bank. 517 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,480 Right. 518 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,480 Oh, Eddie. 519 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,480 Yeah, Dave. 520 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,480 Send a car to 4698 Van Buren. 521 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,480 There's an old lady down there, doped. 522 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,480 Name's Cecilia Breckenbridge. Take care of her. 523 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,480 Nephew's name, Harold Dahl. Don't let him get close. 524 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:09,480 Got it. 525 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,480 Mr. Richards left strict orders that he wasn't to be disturbed. 526 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,480 All the salesmen were in for a big meeting today. 527 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:20,480 Come on, skip the act. 528 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,480 Now, you can't go in there. I don't care if you are the police. You can't go... 529 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,480 What is this, Elsie? I... 530 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,480 I told him, Mr. Richards, but he wouldn't listen. 531 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,480 I left strict orders that... 532 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,480 Oh, thought you. 533 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:32,480 Mr. Richards... 534 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,480 Later, sister. 535 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,480 Now, see here, such high-handed methods of entering a man's office. 536 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,480 I'm a citizen of this city... 537 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,480 And you're violating City Ordinance 116, paragraph 5, code 2. 538 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,480 You haven't got a peddler's license and your boys are doing house-to-house. 539 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,480 I distinctly told you, we work from clients'... 540 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:48,480 That's not why I'm here. 541 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,480 Don't go with the tall and pretty and the brown gabardines who came to see you a little while ago. 542 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,480 Huh? 543 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:54,480 Within the last hour. 544 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,480 An officer from my division followed him this far. 545 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,480 A tall man, brown gabardines, but I... 546 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:00,480 What do you want? 547 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,480 Well, he just wanted to ask me about his vacuum cleaner. 548 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,480 What about his vacuum cleaner? 549 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,480 Well, he... I had to tell him the same thing I explained to you this morning... 550 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:09,480 About how we handle our sales. 551 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:10,480 What thing? Come on. 552 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,480 About a sale. 553 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,480 When they make one, they bring the deposit money in and get a new machine to deliver to the customer. 554 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,480 They can't sell a gem and stir. It's used and worn. 555 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:20,480 Is that all? 556 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,480 Well, you see, he ordered a cleaner yesterday and he said the salesman promised to deliver it. 557 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:25,480 But he never got it. 558 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,480 What salesman? 559 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,480 He didn't know the salesman's name. He described him as a small man. 560 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,480 Yes, a small man. All the man wanted really was a vacuum cleaner. My goodness. 561 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:35,480 He wanted something else. What? 562 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,480 Well, he asked me for the address of that salesman. 563 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,480 He said he wanted to talk to him about his vacuum cleaner that wasn't delivered. 564 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,480 You gave the address to him? 565 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,480 But I told you I don't know what salesman it is. 566 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,480 It was just a little man, he said. So I remembered poor Hamilton. 567 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:52,480 And I thought it might be... 568 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,480 You told him where Hamilton lived? 569 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,480 Oh, yes. Yes, I did. Did I do something wrong? 570 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:14,480 Driving across town towards Hamilton's apartment, I kept thinking of Mary and her question about how a cop works. 571 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:20,480 No miracles, no magnifying glass, no butt hounds, just facts. 572 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,480 Facts to find a killer. 573 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,480 An old house built with one of yesterday's great fortunes, 574 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,480 a fortune that dwindled down to a handful of wedding rings. 575 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,480 Diamonds. 576 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,480 Twenty or thirty thousand dollars worth of motive. 577 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,480 Facts. 578 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,480 A tall and pretty who was money hungry and liked expensive clothes and cars. 579 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,480 Facts. 580 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,480 A vacuum cleaner salesman apartment without a vacuum cleaner. 581 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,480 Hey. 582 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:51,480 You held out on me. 583 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,480 What do you mean? What do you mean this is a respectable apartment? 584 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,480 You know how to throw that book at you? 585 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,480 When I was here before, I went through Hamilton's apartment and there wasn't a vacuum cleaner there. 586 00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,480 But I never... 587 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,480 Hamilton kept at least two cleaners here all the time. 588 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,480 You kept still hoping to grab one for free. 589 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,480 But I never saw any... 590 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,480 He didn't keep them in his place. He didn't want to lug them up three flights. 591 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,480 He kept them somewhere on this floor. 592 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:10,480 I didn't think you'd care. 593 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,480 Why was it? 594 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,480 The hall closet and back. He had a key. 595 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,480 You'll give me yours now. 596 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,480 And that's where I found the old lady's wedding rings. 597 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,480 The sack on that demonstrator Hamilton used in her house. 598 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,480 Facts. 599 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,480 I had all of them now. 600 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,480 A minute later I heard feet on the stairs. 601 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,480 I left the cleaner sitting there in the hall and stepped back into the shadows and waited. 602 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,480 Waited for my killer. 603 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:38,480 Oh. 604 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,480 Hello sweetheart. I've been expecting you. 605 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:41,480 We got business. 606 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,480 Business? 607 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,480 About your aunt's diamond rings. 608 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,480 What are you talking about? 609 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:46,480 Murder. 610 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:47,480 Murder? 611 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,480 There's an old lady waiting to die and you've been helping her with dope. 612 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,480 Well, that's ridiculous. 613 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,480 That's why you never let anybody in to see her. 614 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,480 But you wanted some fun yesterday. Jokes. 615 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,480 And you let a vacuum cleaner salesman named Hamilton come in and visit her. 616 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,480 Now, see here, really... 617 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,480 But as sick and as doped as she was, your aunt figured out a way so you'd never get those rings. 618 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,480 She beat you, Dolph. 619 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:08,480 All right, you've got to... 620 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,480 When you weren't looking, she took them off and threw them under the vacuum cleaner. 621 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,480 Now, we can come to some understanding of... 622 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,480 She wouldn't talk to you. Remember the salesman? 623 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,480 Trailed him all over town. 624 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,480 And you found him at one place, along the line you stabbed him with a kitchen knife, sapped Mary... 625 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,480 Mary? 626 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,480 ...and did the covering up with a broken glass, lipstick and liquor. 627 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,480 Mary? 628 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,480 My wife, brother, and it's my place. 629 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,480 Oh. 630 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,480 When I look, I can get you money. 631 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,480 Ten, fifteen thousand dollars. 632 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,480 Thanks, that's what I've been waiting for. 633 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,480 Please! 634 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,480 He talked. 635 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,480 Fact. 636 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,480 Harold Dolph killed the salesman when he opened the cleaner and didn't find the rings. 637 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,480 He didn't know that Hamilton had stopped off at his own place, where he left the demonstrator with the rings in the sack... 638 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,480 ...and picked up the new one he was delivering to Mary. 639 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,480 Irish. 640 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,480 How did you do it? 641 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,480 With a magnifying glass and bloodhound? 642 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,480 You know, honey, you make with thanks. 643 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,480 It starts with something you know for sure. 644 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,480 The fact that my wife can't be a killer. 645 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:32,480 You see, I love her too much. 646 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,480 Suspense. 647 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,480 Presented by Auto Light. 648 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,480 Tonight's star, Alan Ladd. 649 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:44,480 Say, Wilcox, I've decided never to hunt Irish camels again, big orie. 650 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,480 Let me give you a tip, Reming Chester. 651 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,480 You'll do better going for those Auto Light stay-full batteries... 652 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,480 ...than the more than 400 other products made by Auto Light... 653 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,480 ...for cars, trucks, planes and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 654 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:02,480 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many makes of America's finest cars. 655 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:08,480 Smart plugs, batteries, generators, coils, distributors, starting motors, bullseye sealed beam headlights. 656 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:14,480 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly because they're a perfect team. 657 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,480 So friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 658 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,480 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts... 659 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,480 ...at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 660 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:34,480 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 661 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,480 Next Thursday for Suspense, our star will be Ronald Reagan. 662 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,480 The play is called One and One's Alonesome. 663 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,480 And it is, as we say, a tale well calculated to keep you in... 664 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:56,480 ...Suspense. 665 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,480 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear... 666 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,480 ...and directed and transcribed by Norman MacDonald. 667 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,480 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Moraweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 668 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,480 Motif for Murder was written by John and Ward Hawkins and adapted for radio by Jack Newman. 669 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:17,480 Alan Ladd will soon be seen in the Paramount picture Captain Carrie USA. 670 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:28,480 Don't forget, next Thursday same time, Auto Light will present Suspense starring Ronald Reagan. 671 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,480 You can buy Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light resistor or regular spark plugs... 672 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,480 ...Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 673 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,480 Switch to Auto Light. 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