1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 auto light and its ninety six thousand dealers present 2 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:11,200 tonight 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,400 auto light bring you to report 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,080 hotbed play starring 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:22,080 battleground 6 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:29,080 go ahead and look at the waiting for you 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,040 uh... 8 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:32,920 if you know captain 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,000 all right then i got it 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,400 yeah 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,840 everything here everything 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,560 sorry it had to be this way then yeah 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,800 but i couldn't come out of the other way to take it what you want to do with my 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,800 true report 15 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,600 and just a moment mister pat o'brien in the first act of true report 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,120 well hi a half welcome back to the spirit of a little light alley harlow 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,320 wilcock they no more have got to get proclaiming after my summer fiesta 18 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,640 proclaiming that when you replace worn out by plugged in your car with new 19 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,120 ignition engineered auto light spark plugs you'll get 20 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,120 motor performance 21 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,800 saving don't forget i know 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,680 all-time spark plugs are ignition engineered right half ignition engineered 23 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,560 by the same auto light engineers who designed the coil distributor and all the 24 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:29,720 other important parts 25 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,440 that go to make up the complete ignition system used on many of america's leading 26 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,200 makes of cars and trucks 27 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,760 that's why you can't buy better spark plugs for your car and auto light so 28 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,440 friends have a spark plugs in your car checked before you start on that long 29 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,520 labor day weekend drive and if replacements are needed insists on 30 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,320 move nappy ignition engineered auto light spark plug 31 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,200 and whether you choose the resistor type of the standard type 32 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,800 you're always right without a life 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,120 and now with true report and the performance of pat o'brien auto light 34 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:08,120 hopes once again to keep you in 35 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,800 all this very one 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,880 captain walbert dot 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,000 manor accident investigation division 38 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,800 the police department 39 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:22,400 from 40 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,120 lieutenant benny j kennedy 41 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,200 no undetailed 42 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:32,080 real on stacker 43 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,480 attached by supplementary traffic accident report completed this date 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,080 disregard other file concerning saying that the decision 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,080 today's ago 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:41,960 nine a m 47 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,640 what's your office for the day's assignment 48 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,640 i didn't know it was going to be needed to do 49 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:49,200 uh... 50 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,040 uh... 51 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:57,040 well 52 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,000 you're on 53 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,480 and 54 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,640 well given up to leave them 55 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:08,640 well out there 56 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:10,160 they have 57 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,120 anything new 58 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,160 that's a good one 59 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,360 i've been i feel 60 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,120 like asking if anything about that 61 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,640 so i think that all routine 62 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,560 sometimes i think i never should have been a car yeah 63 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,400 over hit and run artist named uh... edward franken right 64 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,760 but what's at the bottom of that 65 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,920 i'd good job baghdad 66 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:27,960 for the lifetime of 67 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,020 too long then 68 00:03:29,020 --> 00:03:30,320 would you believe i used up 69 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,760 three hundred eighty five probable witnesses to that accident came out with 70 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,440 just who knew what they were talking about 71 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,120 but i'm gonna figure out a system for questioning 72 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:40,200 uh... we go 73 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:45,340 the gun 74 00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:47,640 uh... good morning man 75 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:52,640 downplayed make it up 76 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,640 uh... no calls for the next half hour but 77 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,320 well i think i'm initial traffic accident reports twenty two 78 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,880 twenty two traffic accidents in our city in the last twelve hours three of them 79 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,680 fatal 80 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,520 most of them were in accidents 81 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,440 most of them could have been avoided if people are just realize that an 82 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,200 improperly handled causes dangerous as a loaded gun 83 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,400 routine for us but not routine in the lives of the citizens involved 84 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,720 let's get that 85 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,260 nine different people lined up an emergency hospital at night 86 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:30,600 we've had to test for a look like they won't make it 87 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,980 here's the list 88 00:04:32,980 --> 00:04:35,160 i hate to hand out things like this 89 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:41,000 hop over there if you can get any statement from them for the 90 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,280 or no 91 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,960 late last night a woman went to a boulevard stop at a button to park our 92 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,380 print calgary 93 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:50,460 extensive property damage he was all right but a six-year-old daughter was 94 00:04:50,460 --> 00:04:51,720 injured critically 95 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,500 the woman failed at the bride at f 96 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:57,560 that's how i think i and she couldn't even walk to the police cruiser without 97 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,920 stumbling 98 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,260 report says under attitude abuse claimed he was under drug why do they 99 00:05:02,260 --> 00:05:04,080 always pull that part of the group 100 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,720 because people are afraid to face the truth 101 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,920 one thing i know if you know about it all doesn't smell like 102 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,560 look into it and don't worry about it and you got it 103 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:19,720 it run on center dot twelve about three thirty this morning victim unidentified 104 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,480 anyway you've uh... enough all night with on that frankly i don't like that 105 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,440 i think another one i know you better not get the then actually 106 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,960 it'll be all day 107 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,440 find a good little ran that for devil down and didn't stop the fever is a 108 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:39,240 live up to it 109 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,800 and that's the way i got the assignment 110 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,040 that's a statement of two patrolmen with this to me 111 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,840 and i want to work on 112 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:47,860 like any other case 113 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:51,280 i would be a little accident report and state to the witness 114 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,840 and happen to be first 115 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:55,160 and any 116 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,560 police 117 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,600 they were here while they're here again 118 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,880 where's your uniform 119 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:00,720 how do i know 120 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,640 traffic investigator lieutenant ben kennedy 121 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:09,000 need where you can 122 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,320 field five this morning you reported a hit-and-run accident for this address 123 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,080 and here i don't like that 124 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,960 gone over all this stuff with them off 125 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,480 that showed up right after i called in man there was run over died receiving 126 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,200 hospital without regaining consciousness 127 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,440 uh... driving a car 128 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,120 what's the problem again 129 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,280 i would 130 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:32,360 hot 131 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,520 i think that that that 132 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,240 i think that i don't think that i think that 133 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,760 that 134 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:45,680 cartons off well 135 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,680 i think that 136 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,600 next on the top 137 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,780 two-door the four-door on the car 138 00:06:55,780 --> 00:06:59,720 the office report you say it was a sedan two-door the four-door 139 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,120 i don't know if i'm trying to tell you how to look at 140 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,520 independent world blue green 141 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,040 nighttime no more 142 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,320 three-part bloodline 143 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:10,920 shared black 144 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:12,400 black 145 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:13,880 dark color 146 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,440 shining 147 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,160 uh... 148 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:19,360 carter 149 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,880 feeding 150 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,760 that mark 151 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,080 and it goes right by this window 152 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,280 and i'm looking at it 153 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,840 and i don't know where he came from 154 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,400 big noise like black breaking in the form and lying half on the street and 155 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,040 happened that are 156 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,320 the car 157 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,240 and i don't know 158 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,280 now i call the police that your job traffic accidents have become everybody's 159 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:44,360 job 160 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,480 if you look at the driver of the car 161 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,080 that 162 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:49,880 woman and dot 163 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,840 the officer who wanted you to say she didn't see the driver at all 164 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,240 wasn't a call up about that 165 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,680 and i can't wait to get later i remember that the woman 166 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:02,080 the young 167 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,760 and that kind of thing that you know 168 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,120 but you're doing out of three in the morning with no good at all i'll give 169 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,800 the possibility of things in this one that was the top of the car and not the 170 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:12,720 person back 171 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,440 well i don't need it 172 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:15,920 try to get the license number 173 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,660 to dr 174 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:22,400 i did not do the the citizen i reported but i thought that 175 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:29,400 thanks mister 176 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,840 very first and one of the very reliable 177 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:32,920 well 178 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:37,720 i don't know if you're going to bring that 179 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,280 gave me enough to start on 180 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,240 and they both have talked to thirty people so the neighborhood and dropped 181 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:49,240 by the more to look at the victim 182 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,080 period of time 183 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,800 unidentified 184 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,960 the doctor 185 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,360 one other thing both legs 186 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,640 well-known 187 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,000 over five years 188 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,120 well-known 189 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:05,960 well-known impact 190 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,120 last article including the other hip 191 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,280 with it broken 192 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,040 dot figures wait i can't 193 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,380 high bumpers 194 00:09:12,380 --> 00:09:14,720 that it may get something before nineteen thirty nine 195 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:15,800 cross-strait 196 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:16,240 bumpers 197 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,080 and they want us a big truck scrambled on their street like center right all 198 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:20,640 right 199 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,560 the youthful 200 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:23,720 both long-term 201 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,800 hi ready 202 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,360 last week of out of them 203 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,440 with the technicians not about paint 204 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,480 not on the body maybe on the floor 205 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,280 technicians of got those two okay but all i need from this with this isn't 206 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,600 we've got a lineup now 207 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,600 that's guys still a john dole 208 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,680 we've got a print on the wire hoping you'll be recorded somewhere but i 209 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:44,880 recorded somewhere right down time 210 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,920 change that fact along stanker 211 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,340 aren't going to have to do it 212 00:09:49,340 --> 00:09:52,440 arrested him in nineteen thirty six and i was on a lot of detail 213 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:53,720 small-time grifter 214 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,280 track rolling bookmaking breaking and entering 215 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,200 thirty previous arrest and i think i'm not you are the time i've been the 216 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:06,200 fighting 217 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,680 at least you know my victim 218 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:09,960 and all my witness and 219 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,120 they all right 220 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,600 the broken glass and the paint found on the victim of the better story 221 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:21,760 part of the hit-and-run killer the crime land they don't miss it 222 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:22,800 and the 223 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:23,680 the lab 224 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:24,480 we got the top 225 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:25,680 i don't have it 226 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,360 the class letters came from a headlight lamp used on port of remixed cars between 227 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,280 thirty seven 228 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,160 about paint 229 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,640 also very 230 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,920 there's a bump on a fender on a broken headlight 231 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,680 maybe a front door 232 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:45,280 and that's a lot they over twelve years old probably can travel twenty miles 233 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,920 without breaking down 234 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,720 so my hit and run is in town somewhere trying to get a new headlight in the 235 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,040 fender 236 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,480 uh... 237 00:10:53,480 --> 00:11:00,480 yeah 238 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,240 you can't let you know that one of our pro-black that and this morning 239 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,160 direction goes like this 240 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,680 back for a little bit and here thirty seven make unknown 241 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:12,080 right on headlight shattered 242 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,760 right front bumper dented got it 243 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,400 i want every garage auto parts junk dealer and repair shop in town contacted 244 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,480 on that somebody's going to try and take the bumps out of a car and buy a new 245 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:28,480 headlight they shouldn't be hired but 246 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,560 before o'clock that afternoon the bulletin was out 247 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,720 we know what kind of car 248 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,240 eight pairs of offices out doing the legwork 249 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,600 with luck i expect to pick up in a matter of hours 250 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,160 uh... i got high 251 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,160 that's up with this time no not too tough 252 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,720 that you're home sleep or you know me got nothing else to do but be a cop 253 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,680 any help no thanks that's my time 254 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:55,920 i think it won't go 255 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:56,960 charlie 256 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,380 last year it was in the literature 257 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:00,440 next year 258 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:01,320 you're lucky 259 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,240 alice are yes 260 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,240 when you come over for dinner 261 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:07,100 ike 262 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:12,080 i don't know what's with me even when i have time off now i come sniffing 263 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,360 it seems to have been 264 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,320 uh... so long 265 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:24,320 okay 266 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,680 august twenty nine 267 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,840 and that's it 268 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:34,360 the father of course 269 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,800 not one of the part of the 270 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,560 but it was finally came from a phone call placed by a man named loper 271 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:44,840 London auto repair shop on 272 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,400 i don't know if it's what you're looking for a little time but it might be 273 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,560 i don't know 274 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:52,720 i got it in yesterday that he broke the land and then the defender on the road 275 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:59,720 uh... the only one of that right from the real ones in a lot with j 276 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,800 no registration 277 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,240 the car you're looking for 278 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,440 uh... maybe 279 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:08,920 and i think that 280 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:13,920 become up when it comes back 281 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,400 hi mister loper 282 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:23,400 when i look at the very end of the week atlantic 283 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:36,880 and the shimmy in the right front wheel of the winfield white 284 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,080 i bought it for charlie first year in college 285 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:47,080 my own 286 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:54,040 although i did bring you pat o'brien and who reports 287 00:13:54,040 --> 00:14:01,040 night production in radio about standing here for a thrill 288 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,160 and tomorrow but along labor day weekend 289 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,000 i hope that you make sure that your car is running right before starting on long 290 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:12,820 trip 291 00:14:12,820 --> 00:14:16,640 that you will have worn out by club replaced with new ignition engineered 292 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,440 auto life 293 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,720 but i have carefully wanted to date tomorrow 294 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,200 because the life you've paid 295 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,200 maybe you're on 296 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,200 and now 297 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,120 all right 298 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,940 while hollywood town stage pat o'brien 299 00:14:29,940 --> 00:14:31,840 in eliot lewis is production of 300 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:33,160 who report 301 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:40,160 upheld well calculated to keep you in 302 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,280 group 303 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,160 five improvement 304 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:36,380 directly he 305 00:14:36,380 --> 00:14:51,200 well 306 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,760 like that addicts mca próximo 307 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:00,480 play them work with the medics 308 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,680 Pretty soon, you know what the car looked like and you start looking for it 309 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:10,240 But what do you do when you're a cop and you find the car and you're supposed to arrest your own son and a man for it? 310 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:29,840 Oh, sorry. What do you do? I drove up to the State University that afternoon to have a talk with my sister. 311 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:38,560 Rick! Rick! Oh, Mr. Kennedy. Hello Rick, how are you? Uh, you seen Charlie around? 312 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:44,960 No, I haven't. I went over to the room, the landlady said you were here in the recreation hall. I thought maybe Charlie was with you. 313 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,960 Sorry. Rooming with that guy is like rooming with a ghost. I never see him. 314 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,600 I, uh, you didn't see his salami around anywhere, did you? 315 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:54,400 No, I didn't. 316 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:55,920 Was he taken out of town or anything? 317 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,840 Well, sometimes we go over to the county hospital for surgery classes. Maybe he drove over there. 318 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:00,880 Did I call him there? 319 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:02,160 No, not in class. 320 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,200 Oh, well... 321 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:10,400 Well, stick around Mr. Kennedy. You can probably pick him up at the hash house around dinner time. Anything wrong? 322 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:18,240 No. Say, shouldn't you be studying or something instead of playing that thing? 323 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,200 I'm majoring in the piano. Piano and law, Sergeant. 324 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,480 Lieutenant. 325 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:29,280 Lieutenant. That'd be 5100 per annum, right? Civil service. 326 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,400 Seem to know all about it, Rick. You should be a cop. 327 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,760 Nope. I'm like Charlie. I want something better. 328 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:36,880 What? 329 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,480 No offense, Lieutenant, but... well, I mean it's hard going to college. 330 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:41,760 You didn't answer me. 331 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:47,120 All right. He didn't go to college. Charlie's put in six hard years already and still a couple to go. 332 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:53,360 Plenty tough. I live with him. I watch him go through it all. He's building something good here, something important. 333 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,240 Kids sometimes get the wrong idea of how important they're going to be. 334 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,960 They forget about right now. They run around making mistakes and getting themselves into a lot of trouble they can't handle. 335 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,160 They take all their work and study and throw it right out the window when they get in that kind of trouble. 336 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,160 Yeah. 337 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,800 Well, you sort of rung out the philosophy today, haven't you, Mr. Kennedy? 338 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Tell Charlie to call me at home, please. 339 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,040 If I'd waited for him, I don't know what I would have said or done. 340 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:28,160 If it was, I'd have felt like a rookie with his first course throwing my cap in front of a punk kid. 341 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:34,240 So I just got out of there and drove back to the city. Lieutenant Geiger was sitting at my desk. 342 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,280 Oh, Ben. 343 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,320 Oh, you want some, Geiger? 344 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,040 Been waiting for you. 345 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:37,540 What for? 346 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,720 Have you heard of a mechanic named Loper? 347 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,960 Oh, Ben, don't look like I caught you from the dead body at his Loper call here a while ago. 348 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,640 I took the call for you. I said you were in to see him at his garage today. 349 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,600 Wanted to know if the car he had turned out to be the one you were looking for. 350 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:54,560 No, it wasn't. 351 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,640 Oh, that's not a good way to describe it. Maroon coupe, headlights gone, Ben. 352 00:17:58,640 --> 00:17:59,520 Well, there wasn't a one. 353 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,080 But you think I know what I'm doing on this case? 354 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,960 Sure, Ben, you know what you're doing. Can I see the file? 355 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:08,720 I have made it out yet. 356 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:10,340 No. 357 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,280 Come on, give me the file. A cop might put me on this, would he? 358 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,560 I've been with the department 14 years. Don't you think I can handle a simple hit and run case home? 359 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:23,840 Sure, Ben. I know you can handle it alone. I lost one yet. 360 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,960 I just want to help you keep that perfect record. Perfect. 361 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:41,360 I took the file home with me. I didn't want Giger to see it until I was good and ready for him to see it. 362 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,640 I couldn't believe that my son Charlie, the kid I'd caught to drive myself, 363 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,640 I couldn't believe that he'd ever kill anyone with his car. 364 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,000 But there was the evidence in an auto body shop on Crestville Street, and I'd 365 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,480 been on too many cases and dragged too many hit and run criminals in to start fooling myself and all. 366 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:06,400 And trying to tell Alice about it was like trying to tell her that Charlie had suddenly died. 367 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:08,320 I just couldn't do it. 368 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:13,760 I'm sorry. Potatoes? Ben, potatoes? 369 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:15,200 Oh, yeah, thanks. 370 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:21,920 Your dinner came over today. You can try to do the church bazaar. Tell me my quota is six pies. 371 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,880 Sure, I think I'll make up some of those graham cracker pies. 372 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,920 The ones you always start eating before they're even cool. 373 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,880 Oh, you're not even listening to me. You can tell when you get that not listening look. 374 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,080 Ben. What? 375 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,920 Oh, I guess I've still got my mind on some things. 376 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,240 You don't look well to me. You don't look at all well. 377 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,320 Let me look at your eyes. 378 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,320 I have bloodshot. 379 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,520 You've got a nervous twitch at the core in your mouth. 380 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,400 Your arthritis isn't hitting again, is it? 381 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,360 I'm all right. 382 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,320 I think you better have a doctor look at you. 383 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,800 Next time Charlie comes home, I think he should give you a checkup from Toby. 384 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,520 I think he should give you a checkup from Tota Toml. 385 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,920 Oh, give me that kind of a look. 386 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,440 He's as good as a doctor already. Only two years to go. 387 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,440 I don't want Charlie checking up on my health. 388 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,480 Oh, dear. Oh, I'm upset. 389 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,040 Work is going badly. Another hit and run? 390 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,080 Yeah, 12th and center. 391 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,640 I guess you weren't on that detail anymore. 392 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,760 I wish I'd never been on it. 393 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:35,360 Oh, Dan. Why, dang dear. Once a man like you, it wouldn't be safe to walk on a city street these days. 394 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,960 Every time you arrest a lawbreaker, you protect somebody's life. 395 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:39,920 What do you know about it? 396 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,840 Sometimes people just get panicky and forget what they're doing. 397 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:44,160 Dan... 398 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,560 Besides, the victim in this case was an opalex con, a bum. 399 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,040 Nobody cared whether he was alive or dead. 400 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,680 He didn't sound like you, Dan. He was a human being. 401 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,880 Whoever struck him down should be found and punished to the limit of the law. 402 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,480 Alice. Alice, suppose I had been driving that car. 403 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:04,560 That's the most foolish thing I ever heard you say. 404 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,560 It takes a certain kind of person to do something like that. 405 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:15,280 A thoughtless, selfish person. You're not the kind. Not mine, or Charlie, nor anybody we know. 406 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:16,800 Anyone's capable of doing it. 407 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,800 Anyone capable of driving thoughtlessly, passing red lights, 408 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,200 beating just a little, even having an accident. 409 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,600 Any of them are bad enough. But the runaway was criminal. 410 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,760 I hope you get over it, Dan. I hope you get him quick, too. 411 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:42,480 Because as long as that kind of person is free to drive a car, he's free to kill someone else. 412 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,200 I couldn't sleep that night thinking about the case, Chief. 413 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,600 Thinking about the case, Chief. Charlie had a full, useful life in Farnham. 414 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,200 If a doctor could save hundreds of lives and pay back the one worthless life he took hundreds of times over. 415 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,800 Justifications? Maybe. 416 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,920 But by midnight, I decided what I had to do. 417 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,280 I stayed up all night and worked on my report. 418 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,360 And I brought it down to your office the next morning. 419 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:14,480 Is everything, Dan? 420 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,360 Yeah. Incomplete. 421 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:19,920 No finish, huh? 422 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:21,840 Finish as far as I'm concerned. 423 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,280 Bird is Geiger out there. 424 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,080 Just walked in. 425 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,200 Well, I want him right now. 426 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,080 Dan, it's sometimes better if you talk it over with a guy. 427 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,080 Maybe. Oh, come in, Geiger. 428 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,840 It's about that hit-and-run, the tanker case Kennedy's handling. 429 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,280 I know all about that case, Captain. 430 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,560 Then you know more than I do. 431 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:43,600 Kennedy's bogged down. 432 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:44,560 I'm not bogged down. 433 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:46,720 This case has never been out. 434 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,560 I only had one witness. 435 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,080 All she could tell me was the car hit tanker. 436 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:54,560 All the lab reports were guesses. 437 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,000 We had paint and glass. 438 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,480 Paint and glass that could belong to 10,000 cars in this area. 439 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,720 What about this garage man, Loper? 440 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:01,360 Did that car... 441 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:02,960 He was just looking for free publicity. 442 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,280 He had a car and figured he'd get some mention in the papers. 443 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,760 Well, if that wasn't the car, Ben, just keep looking. 444 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,680 Maybe a thousand cars later you'll find the right... 445 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:10,640 I'm set up with it. 446 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,920 Well, Ben, we all get that way once in a while. 447 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,960 I suppose we take you off the case. 448 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,080 You're the captain. 449 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,080 And Geiger, I'm giving it to you. 450 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,320 Here, you can take Ben's report and work from it. 451 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,480 Ben, that's just what I was waiting for you to do. 452 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:28,800 Turn the whole thing over to Geiger. 453 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,920 It doesn't make any difference who you turn it over to. 454 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,560 The phony clues I'd planted in it the night before it'd take 10 years to run down. 455 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,960 And then I remembered Danker. 456 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:39,920 Criminal? 457 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:40,720 Yes. 458 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,120 But run down and left to die on the street. 459 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:45,920 And I remembered my own. 460 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,200 Captain, that report... 461 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,240 Oh, excuse me, Ben. 462 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,000 Yeah, Sergeant? 463 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,360 Someone to see you, Captain Geiger. 464 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:54,240 Oh, who? 465 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,000 Charles Kennedy, Lieutenant Kennedy's son. 466 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:56,720 Send him in. 467 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,000 No, tell him no. 468 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,520 Ben, what's the matter with you? 469 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:00,560 What goes on? 470 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,800 Oh, Dad, I'm here. 471 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:03,840 Come in, Charlie. 472 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,080 What can I do for you? 473 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,240 It's about a hit and run. 474 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,280 It's about a hit and run case. 475 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,800 Charlie, I've got to, Dad. 476 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,400 Captain, it's that Danker case. 477 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,360 I'd have come in sooner if I hadn't been up at the county hospital. 478 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,200 What do you know about the Danker case, Charlie? 479 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,120 It was my car that hit him. 480 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,000 Did you know this, Ben? 481 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,720 I found it out yesterday for me at the garage. 482 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,080 It was my car that did it, but somebody else was driving it. 483 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,160 You... you weren't driving it? 484 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:32,640 No. 485 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:33,280 Huh? 486 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,200 Suppose you tell us who was driving it, Charlie. 487 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,600 My roommate. 488 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,240 Ricks Blake. 489 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,680 I loaned him the car a couple of days ago. 490 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,840 When he didn't come back with it, I found out he left it in a repair shop in town. 491 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,120 Well, I went down to take a look at it, and my dad's a cop, and I... 492 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,120 I guess I picked up a few things. 493 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,040 I, um... 494 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,720 I got him on outside. 495 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,240 I dragged him down here myself. 496 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,960 All right, Geiger. 497 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,160 It's your case. 498 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,200 Take over and book him. 499 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,520 Thanks for coming in, Charlie. 500 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:06,720 Ben, what are you going to do? 501 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:08,880 I guess, Captain, I... 502 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,920 I guess I better go and make out my report. 503 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,960 So here it is, Captain. 504 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:18,560 My true report. 505 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,120 And my resignation. 506 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,000 I just want to ask you one question. 507 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:34,480 I just want to ask you one question. If it had been your kid, could you have done any differently? 508 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,680 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 509 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,520 Tonight's star, Pat O'Brien. 510 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,760 Friends, Auto Light has again opened Suspense's new season with a story that shows how 511 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,880 unnecessarily tragic bad driving can be. 512 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,160 Pat O'Brien performance. 513 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,800 Harlow, you know how much I wanted to play Sergeant Kennedy. 514 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,400 I sure liked the role, but I also wanted to do my part to help prevent highway accidents 515 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:11,520 this Labor Day weekend. 516 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,560 Driving accidents are horrible to the man, woman, a child, engineer killed, 517 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,560 and they're doubly horrible to their family. 518 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,960 That also always changed each one of his greatest right in the world, the right to live. 519 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,920 Now tonight, on behalf of Ned Dearborn, President of the National Safety Council, 520 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,320 it is my special privilege to present the National Safety Council's Public Interest Award 521 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,600 to Mr. Royce G. Martin, Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric Auto Light Company. 522 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:43,200 Auto Light, sponsor of Suspense, has won this Distinguished Service to Safety Award 523 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,960 for the second straight year. 524 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,880 Thank you, Mr. O'Brien. 525 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:57,200 Safety is as much our business as manufacturing, automotive, aviation, and marine products in our 526 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,200 plants throughout the world. 527 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:08,160 Auto Light has always assisted all efforts of the great automotive industry to make America 528 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,040 a safe driving nation. 529 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:19,280 Tonight, on Suspense, Auto Light repeats a message that can never be repeated enough. 530 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,160 Drive carefully. 531 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,760 The life you save may be your own. 532 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:33,120 So let's all be interested this Labor Day weekend in two driving lives, 533 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,000 our own and the other fellow's. 534 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,120 A lot of lives will be saved if we are. 535 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,200 Thank you, Mr. Martin. 536 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,760 Next week, at the same time, Auto Light will bring you Miss Ida Lupino in the tip, 537 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,400 a tale well calculated to keep you in... 538 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,400 Suspense! 539 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,040 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian 540 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,960 Morawec and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 541 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,640 Parts of this program were transcribed. 542 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:07,360 To report is an original play written for Suspense by E. 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