WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:13.000 --> 00:18.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a story of treachery and greed. 00:18.000 --> 00:24.000 A story we call Murder in G Flat, starring Mr. Jack Benny. 00:24.000 --> 00:27.080 The 00:27.080 --> 00:34.000 Greetings, Pepito, my favorite free-holy friar. What's on the menu? 00:34.000 --> 00:37.880 The special, Senor Wilcock. She is Auto Light Stay Full Battery. 00:37.880 --> 00:43.240 You mean you're serving the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use? 00:43.240 --> 00:46.800 Si, si. What is better for quick, dependable starts, eh? 00:46.800 --> 00:52.840 Ah, nothing's better than an Auto Light Stay Full, that frisky friend of car owners from coast to coast. 00:52.840 --> 00:55.200 But... But? 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And remember... 01:34.600 --> 01:37.600 You're always right with Auto Light. 01:37.600 --> 01:44.000 And now with murder in G-flat and the transcribed performance of Mr. Jack Benny, 01:44.000 --> 01:50.400 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.600 Oh, Lieutenant, in here, sir, in the rec hall. 01:58.600 --> 02:00.000 What's he doing in the rec hall? 02:00.000 --> 02:03.400 Well, he thought he'd tune the piano while he was waiting, Lieutenant. 02:06.600 --> 02:09.800 Sunday night. Why couldn't you guys pick a better night than Sunday night? 02:09.800 --> 02:11.600 My one day off, and I have to come down here. 02:11.600 --> 02:16.000 Sorry we had to call you, Joe. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.200 This is the guy, huh? 02:17.200 --> 02:21.000 Yeah. Hey, you. 02:21.000 --> 02:25.000 That's it. C-flat. I had my wrench. 02:25.000 --> 02:26.400 This is the Lieutenant. 02:26.400 --> 02:28.600 Oh. Oh, I'm sorry, Lieutenant. 02:28.600 --> 02:29.800 Name? 02:29.800 --> 02:33.800 Oh. My name is Remington. Hercules Remington. 02:33.800 --> 02:36.000 That's it, Joe. We checked. 02:36.000 --> 02:40.200 Pardon me, Lieutenant, but my wife Martha is going to be awfully worried. 02:40.200 --> 02:42.400 You see, I haven't seen her since this morning. 02:42.400 --> 02:43.000 They told me... 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 You haven't seen your wife since this morning? 02:45.000 --> 02:49.000 No, and I thought that if I could phone her and at least tell her where I am... 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Where'd you pick him up? 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Coney Island, Joe. He called us from there. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.800 Yes, and I should have called my wife, too. 02:54.800 --> 02:57.200 Look, Lieutenant, I don't want to seem persistent about this. 02:57.200 --> 02:59.200 Well, I have plenty of time later to call your wife. 02:59.200 --> 03:01.000 Now, give the Lieutenant the story in detail, 03:01.000 --> 03:03.400 just like you told it to me on the way down here to the station. 03:03.400 --> 03:05.200 What kind of work do you do, Remington? 03:05.200 --> 03:08.200 Well, I'm a piano tuner, Lieutenant. 03:08.200 --> 03:10.200 Yours is out of tune. 03:10.200 --> 03:12.200 C-flat, Lieutenant. 03:12.200 --> 03:14.200 See, if I could get my bag, I'd tune this. 03:14.200 --> 03:15.800 Look, Remington, I haven't got all night. 03:15.800 --> 03:17.800 Now, either get on with your story or I'll have... 03:17.800 --> 03:19.400 All right, Lieutenant. 03:19.400 --> 03:22.800 But...but I really would like to call my wife first. 03:22.800 --> 03:24.200 Start your story. 03:24.200 --> 03:26.000 All right. All right. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.800 If there's any explaining to be done to my wife, you guys will have to do it. 03:29.800 --> 03:31.400 We'll be happy to. Now, go ahead. 03:31.400 --> 03:33.200 Yes, sir. 03:33.200 --> 03:39.000 Well, Lieutenant, this whole mess started yesterday morning, Saturday. 03:39.000 --> 03:43.200 I got up, had breakfast with my wife Martha and my Uncle Herman. 03:43.200 --> 03:46.000 He's my black sheep uncle of the family. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 He's a carnival man, came to work at the World's Fair here, 03:49.000 --> 03:51.600 and has been living with us ever since. 03:51.600 --> 03:54.200 I think he ought to pay at least one-third of the rent, 03:54.200 --> 03:58.400 but Martha, well, she feels sorry for him. 03:58.400 --> 04:00.600 Anyway, I left the house around 10 o'clock 04:00.600 --> 04:04.200 on my way to the Lipenridge School of Music. 04:04.200 --> 04:08.200 I usually tune their pianos on the first Saturday of the month, 04:08.200 --> 04:11.800 you see, because there aren't any classes there on that Saturday. 04:11.800 --> 04:17.000 I catch the BMT at 57th and get off at Union Square. 04:17.000 --> 04:21.000 Well, yesterday morning I got on the subway, just like I always do. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 I carry a little ordinary brown bag with all my tools in it 04:24.000 --> 04:28.200 and usually lay it right next to me under the seat. 04:28.200 --> 04:31.800 I was just sitting there thinking hard, 04:31.800 --> 04:34.800 wondering how I was going to meet the bills at the end of the month 04:34.800 --> 04:37.400 when a man sat down next to me. 04:37.400 --> 04:43.600 He shoved something under the seat and just sat there staring ahead. 04:43.600 --> 04:47.800 B flat, B flat, B flat, B flat, B flat, B flat. 04:47.800 --> 04:49.600 I beg your pardon. 04:49.600 --> 04:51.600 Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry. 04:51.600 --> 04:57.800 I guess I got carried away for a moment. 04:57.800 --> 05:00.800 Four stops later, the man got up, reached under the seat, 05:00.800 --> 05:04.200 pulled out a little brown bag and started for the door. 05:04.200 --> 05:10.400 I remember noticing he was bald-headed and wearing big black horn-rimmed glasses. 05:10.400 --> 05:13.400 For a minute I thought he'd stolen my bag of tools, 05:13.400 --> 05:17.800 but I reached my hand under the seat and found my bag was still there. 05:17.800 --> 05:20.400 I remember sort of chucking to myself, 05:20.400 --> 05:25.400 thinking of the coincidence that he'd been carrying the same type of bag. 05:25.400 --> 05:31.200 Well, anyway, I got off at Union Square and walked up to the Lippenridge School of Music on 14th. 05:31.200 --> 05:34.200 There are four floors there, you know, a piano on each floor. 05:34.200 --> 05:38.000 I usually start at the top and work my way down. 05:38.000 --> 05:46.600 Well, since the school doesn't have any classes on Saturday, the place was deserted. 05:46.600 --> 05:50.200 Hmm, that one's sour. 05:50.200 --> 05:53.200 Yeah, D flat. 05:53.200 --> 05:56.600 I'll soon have that in shape. 05:56.600 --> 06:00.200 What the? 06:00.200 --> 06:04.400 I zipped open my bag to take out my tuning hammer and my wedges, 06:04.400 --> 06:08.200 but there were no tools in my bag. 06:08.200 --> 06:18.600 The tools were gone and in their place were bundles and bundles of crisp ten dollar bills. 06:18.600 --> 06:20.400 And then it hit me. 06:20.400 --> 06:23.400 A little bald headed man on the subway. 06:23.400 --> 06:25.500 The man sat down next to me. 06:25.500 --> 06:27.500 This bag belonged to him. 06:27.500 --> 06:29.800 He picked up mine by mistake. 06:29.800 --> 06:34.100 There was no name on the bag, no identification of any kind. 06:34.100 --> 06:37.100 I started counting one of the bundles. 06:37.100 --> 06:44.400 Each bundle contained one thousand dollars and ten dollar bills and there were twenty five bundles. 06:44.400 --> 06:53.800 I had just come here to twenty five thousand dollars. 06:53.800 --> 06:58.100 When I got home, Martha was washing some clothes out on the back porch and 06:58.100 --> 07:02.300 Uncle Herman was rolling pennies for his pitchpenny concession. 07:02.300 --> 07:06.000 I called both of them into the living room, pulled all the shades down, 07:06.000 --> 07:10.800 closed and locked all the doors and set the bag on the table. 07:10.800 --> 07:13.700 Hercules, what are you doing back home so soon? 07:13.700 --> 07:16.100 What kind of nonsense is this, nephew? 07:16.100 --> 07:18.700 Martha, Uncle Herman. 07:18.700 --> 07:21.100 You look awful pale. 07:21.100 --> 07:21.900 I guess I do. 07:21.900 --> 07:23.600 Hercules, what's the matter with you? 07:23.600 --> 07:25.700 Listen to me, both of you. 07:25.700 --> 07:28.300 I... I'm rich. 07:28.300 --> 07:31.700 Oh, for heaven's sakes, Hercules, act your age. 07:31.700 --> 07:33.200 I'm not lying to you. 07:33.200 --> 07:34.100 Look, I gotta get out soon. 07:34.100 --> 07:35.200 Well, you must be sick. 07:35.200 --> 07:37.400 Look, will both of you be quiet for just a minute? 07:37.400 --> 07:38.400 Sounds like he's drunk. 07:38.400 --> 07:39.800 Are you sick, Hercules? 07:39.800 --> 07:41.800 Look, I'm not sick and I'm not drunk. 07:41.800 --> 07:42.900 I've got it right here. 07:42.900 --> 07:44.400 You've got what? 07:44.400 --> 07:47.200 Look. 07:47.200 --> 07:48.200 Wow. 07:48.200 --> 07:49.400 Hercules. 07:49.400 --> 07:51.000 Now do you believe me? 07:51.000 --> 07:53.500 Now do you believe I'm not sick or drunk? 07:53.500 --> 07:55.600 Look at it. 07:55.600 --> 07:57.500 Twenty-five thousand dollars. 07:57.500 --> 07:59.800 Twenty-five thousand dollars? 07:59.800 --> 08:00.600 That's a lot of money. 08:00.600 --> 08:01.900 Hercules. 08:01.900 --> 08:04.100 Hercules, where'd you get all this money? 08:04.100 --> 08:04.900 I found it. 08:04.900 --> 08:05.400 Found it. 08:05.400 --> 08:06.300 Found it? 08:06.300 --> 08:07.100 Yes. 08:07.100 --> 08:08.800 I... 08:08.800 --> 08:11.600 Listen to me, Hercules Remington, don't you lie to me. 08:11.600 --> 08:12.800 Where'd you get all that money? 08:12.800 --> 08:14.300 I told you, Martha, I... 08:14.300 --> 08:15.200 I found it. 08:15.200 --> 08:17.700 I haven't lived with you for ten years for nothing. 08:17.700 --> 08:19.700 I know when you're lying to me. 08:19.700 --> 08:21.400 Now tell me, where'd you get all this money? 08:21.400 --> 08:23.100 Okay, if I tell you the truth, I... 08:23.100 --> 08:24.200 I know you won't believe me. 08:24.200 --> 08:26.000 Well, tell me anyway. 08:26.000 --> 08:27.100 Well, all right. 08:27.100 --> 08:30.600 Look, this morning I got on the subway, just like I always do. 08:30.600 --> 08:35.300 Some little ball-headed man with black horn-rimmed glasses sat down next to me. 08:35.300 --> 08:41.300 When he got up to get off the subway, I noticed he was carrying a brown bag, just like mine. 08:41.300 --> 08:44.000 At first I thought it was mine. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.700 But mine was still under the seat. 08:46.700 --> 08:50.700 Anyway, when I got to the music school, I opened my bag and... 08:50.700 --> 08:53.400 and all this money was in it. 08:53.400 --> 08:54.800 Sounds fantastic. 08:54.800 --> 08:55.700 Hercules. 08:55.700 --> 08:56.800 But it's the truth. 08:56.800 --> 08:59.800 The little man picked up my bag by mistake. 08:59.800 --> 09:02.900 I searched this one for some identification, but there isn't any. 09:02.900 --> 09:04.100 Then... 09:04.100 --> 09:08.000 Then you mean the little ball-headed man has your bag with the tooth in it. 09:08.000 --> 09:09.600 I guess he does. 09:09.600 --> 09:14.600 It seems odd that anyone would be carrying this much money around in a little brown bag. 09:14.600 --> 09:18.200 Odd or not, the fact still remains that I didn't steal it. 09:18.200 --> 09:22.000 Well, I guess there isn't any way that you could get a hold of this man, so... 09:22.000 --> 09:24.900 we'll just have to turn the money over to the police. 09:24.900 --> 09:26.800 The... 09:26.800 --> 09:28.100 The police? 09:28.100 --> 09:29.800 Yes, I said the police. 09:29.800 --> 09:31.900 But... but why? 09:31.900 --> 09:33.600 Why? 09:33.600 --> 09:36.900 Good heavens, Hercules, you don't expect to keep this money. 09:36.900 --> 09:37.500 Why not? 09:37.500 --> 09:38.800 Which isn't ours. 09:38.800 --> 09:40.800 Why? Why isn't it ours? 09:40.800 --> 09:42.700 I found it. I didn't steal it, Martha. 09:42.700 --> 09:43.800 Hercules. 09:43.800 --> 09:46.400 Martha, don't you see? Maybe this is fate. 09:46.400 --> 09:49.000 Maybe we were meant to have this money. 09:49.000 --> 09:49.400 Maybe if we just... 09:49.400 --> 09:52.000 You're crazy. You're out of your head. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.400 You're talking like a madman and I won't have it. 09:54.400 --> 09:55.000 But Martha... 09:55.000 --> 09:57.900 You didn't come by this money, honestly. It isn't legally yours. 09:57.900 --> 10:00.200 Now, wait a minute, Martha. Maybe Hercules is a little... 10:00.200 --> 10:02.500 Now, you stay out of this, Uncle Herman. 10:02.500 --> 10:05.200 Hercules, you're going to take this money to the police. 10:05.200 --> 10:06.200 No. 10:06.200 --> 10:07.600 No, I'm not. 10:07.600 --> 10:10.200 I'm not going to take this to the police or anyone else. 10:10.200 --> 10:11.600 Do you understand me? 10:11.600 --> 10:14.000 I'm not going to take this money to the police. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.500 Hercules, I don't understand you at all. 10:16.500 --> 10:19.300 But mark my words, you'll pay for this. 10:21.300 --> 10:22.700 Well... 10:22.700 --> 10:25.500 Don't pay no attention to her, nephew. 10:25.500 --> 10:28.300 But why does she have to be that way? 10:28.300 --> 10:31.100 Why can't she understand me just this once? 10:31.100 --> 10:33.400 Why can't she see my side of it? 10:33.400 --> 10:35.300 See, I didn't steal this money. 10:35.300 --> 10:37.900 No, you didn't, nephew. 10:37.900 --> 10:39.000 Then I'm going to keep it. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.300 Sure you are, nephew. Sure you are. 10:41.300 --> 10:42.800 You're going to keep it. 10:42.800 --> 10:44.300 You bet I am. 10:50.500 --> 10:53.800 The next morning, that was this morning, Sunday, 10:53.800 --> 10:56.100 Martha wouldn't speak to me at all. 10:56.100 --> 10:59.100 Her eyes were all red and puffed up. 10:59.100 --> 11:01.100 I could see that she'd been crying. 11:01.100 --> 11:04.000 Uncle Herman wasn't doing much talking either. 11:04.000 --> 11:07.700 Martha just kept sniffling as she puttered around the stove. 11:10.300 --> 11:13.000 Martha, my peach isn't peeled. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.900 Peel it yourself. 11:14.900 --> 11:15.500 But I... 11:15.500 --> 11:18.500 Here, I'll peel it for you, nephew. 11:18.500 --> 11:20.500 Thanks, Uncle Herman. 11:20.500 --> 11:21.800 Martha, please, won't you try... 11:21.800 --> 11:23.000 Don't you talk to me. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 No, don't be too hard on him, Martha. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.200 After all, a man's got a right. 11:26.200 --> 11:29.100 I told you once, Uncle Herman, you stay out of this. 11:29.100 --> 11:30.600 It's none of your business. 11:30.600 --> 11:34.100 Sorry. 11:34.100 --> 11:36.100 She's plenty mad. 11:40.600 --> 11:43.600 Well, ain't you going to answer the phone? 11:46.100 --> 11:47.100 Hello? 11:47.100 --> 11:49.100 Uh, Mr. Remington? 11:49.100 --> 11:50.100 Yes? 11:50.100 --> 11:52.100 Hercules Remington? 11:52.100 --> 11:53.600 Yes, who is this, please? 11:53.600 --> 11:54.600 I, uh... 11:54.600 --> 11:59.100 I want to return you a bag of piano duels to you, Mr. Remington. 11:59.100 --> 12:00.100 I... 12:00.100 --> 12:01.600 I believe there was a slight mix-up. 12:01.600 --> 12:06.600 I believe in my haste, I picked up your bag instead. 12:06.600 --> 12:07.600 But... 12:07.600 --> 12:09.600 But how did you find me? 12:09.600 --> 12:10.100 I mean... 12:10.100 --> 12:11.600 Oh, it was quite simple. 12:11.600 --> 12:16.100 There's only one piano tuner with the initials H.R. in New York City. 12:16.100 --> 12:17.100 Well... 12:17.100 --> 12:18.600 Well, what do you know? 12:18.600 --> 12:22.600 You do want your piano tools back, don't you, Mr. Remington? 12:22.600 --> 12:23.600 Listen to me... 12:23.600 --> 12:29.600 I don't think you'd like the idea of not being able to tune any more pianos. 12:29.600 --> 12:30.600 Why? 12:30.600 --> 12:33.100 And I'd like to have my bag returned. 12:33.100 --> 12:34.100 Of course. 12:34.100 --> 12:35.600 As soon as possible. 12:35.600 --> 12:36.600 Yes. 12:36.600 --> 12:37.600 Tonight. 12:37.600 --> 12:38.600 Tonight? 12:38.600 --> 12:42.100 At 9.30 tonight, meet me at Madison Square Garden. 12:42.100 --> 12:43.600 Madison Square Garden? 12:43.600 --> 12:46.600 At 9.30, at the 49th Street entrance. 12:46.600 --> 12:49.100 The door on the far end will be left slightly open. 12:49.100 --> 12:53.600 And, uh, please be prompt, Mr. Remington, with my brown bag. 12:53.600 --> 13:00.100 You see, it will displease my business partner considerably if he finds I've lost the bag. 13:00.100 --> 13:01.100 All right. 13:01.100 --> 13:05.100 The 49th Street entrance, the door on the far end. 13:08.600 --> 13:10.600 Hercules, what's wrong? 13:10.600 --> 13:12.600 You're as white as a ghost. 13:12.600 --> 13:13.100 I am? 13:13.100 --> 13:14.600 You sure are. 13:14.600 --> 13:17.100 I guess I should be. 13:17.100 --> 13:21.600 That was the little bald-headed man with horn-rimmed glasses, Uncle Herman. 13:21.600 --> 13:25.100 I've just lost $25,000. 13:31.100 --> 13:34.100 Uncle Herman went in the living room to read the Sunday paper. 13:34.100 --> 13:37.600 I went in the bedroom to tell Martha about the phone call. 13:37.600 --> 13:39.100 But she wasn't there. 13:39.100 --> 13:42.600 In fact, she wasn't anywhere in the house. 13:42.600 --> 13:47.600 She was gone, and I figured that she'd probably gone over to her sister's house. 13:47.600 --> 13:51.600 I was so nervous the rest of the afternoon I couldn't eat a thing. 13:51.600 --> 13:55.600 I left the house for Madison Square Garden about nine o'clock, 13:55.600 --> 14:02.100 from Riches to Rags in about 24 hours, and I was back riding the subway. 14:02.100 --> 14:05.100 I walked up 8th Avenue to the garden. 14:05.100 --> 14:10.100 I turned and walked up 49th Street to the entrance and stopped. 14:10.100 --> 14:13.600 Sure enough, one of the doors on the far end was open a little, 14:13.600 --> 14:17.100 just as the little man had told me it would be. 14:17.100 --> 14:19.600 I slipped in through the open door. 14:19.600 --> 14:21.600 It was pitch black. 14:21.600 --> 14:24.600 I couldn't see a thing. 14:24.600 --> 14:26.600 Hello? 14:26.600 --> 14:28.600 Hello? 14:28.600 --> 14:30.600 Anybody here? 14:32.600 --> 14:34.600 Hello? 14:35.600 --> 14:38.600 Is there anyone here? 14:38.600 --> 14:40.100 What the? 14:40.100 --> 14:42.600 I stumbled over something and almost fell. 14:42.600 --> 14:47.600 I struck a match and looked down at a body, 14:47.600 --> 14:51.600 the body of the little man in horn-rimmed glasses. 14:51.600 --> 14:54.600 His head was all covered with blood. 14:54.600 --> 15:00.100 I started to blow out the match, and then something caught my eye. 15:00.100 --> 15:06.600 Lying next to his body was my brown bag with the initials H.R. 15:06.600 --> 15:10.600 And next to the bag, covered with blood, 15:10.600 --> 15:13.600 was my tuning hammer. 15:25.600 --> 15:30.600 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Jack Benny in Murder in G-Flat, 15:30.600 --> 15:40.600 tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 15:47.600 --> 15:51.600 Senor Wilcox, why does the Auto Light Stay Full battery need water 15:51.600 --> 15:53.600 like Pepito needs a hole in the head? 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16:39.600 --> 16:44.600 Right you are. So friends, visit your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer 16:44.600 --> 16:49.600 for an Auto Light Stay Full, the battery that needs water only three times a year 16:49.600 --> 16:53.600 in normal car use. Your Auto Light Battery man is fully equipped 16:53.600 --> 16:57.600 to give you the best in battery advice and service because... 16:57.600 --> 17:01.600 Because you are always right with Auto Light. 17:02.600 --> 17:07.600 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Jack Benny 17:07.600 --> 17:12.600 in Elliot Lewis's production of Murder in G Flat. 17:12.600 --> 17:15.600 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 17:15.600 --> 17:17.600 ...suscend. 17:19.600 --> 17:21.600 Please lieutenant, may I call my wife? I want... 17:21.600 --> 17:25.600 Finish your story first Mr. Remington, you can call her after that. 17:25.600 --> 17:26.600 Oh, alright. 17:26.600 --> 17:30.600 Now you were standing over the body of this man in Madison Square Garden. 17:30.600 --> 17:32.600 You found your tuning hammer next to the body. 17:32.600 --> 17:35.600 Yes, yes my tuning hammer. 17:35.600 --> 17:41.600 Let me tell you lieutenant, I was scared, plenty scared. 17:41.600 --> 17:45.600 Here I was standing over a dead man in Madison Square Garden 17:45.600 --> 17:51.600 and clutch in my hand was his brown bag containing $25,000. 17:51.600 --> 17:54.600 Who would kill him? Who would... 17:54.600 --> 17:58.600 But I couldn't stop to think about that now, I had to get out of there and fast 17:58.600 --> 18:01.600 and take my bag and hammer lying on the floor with me. 18:01.600 --> 18:04.600 I started to reach for my bag when... 18:04.600 --> 18:09.600 A sound G flat, someone had opened up a knife. 18:09.600 --> 18:14.600 Whoever was coming toward me, I blew out the match and waited. 18:14.600 --> 18:16.600 Who was in that corridor with me? 18:16.600 --> 18:19.600 Was it the business partner of the little man? 18:19.600 --> 18:24.600 Was it...I started to move backwards and then a big black figure loomed up at me. 18:24.600 --> 18:29.600 With all my strength I brought the brown bag swinging up from the floor. 18:35.600 --> 18:38.600 I ran until I thought my legs were done. 18:38.600 --> 18:41.600 My mind was all fogged up now. 18:41.600 --> 18:43.600 I couldn't think straight. 18:43.600 --> 18:46.600 Who was the guy who just tried to kill me? 18:46.600 --> 18:51.600 One thing I knew for sure, I had to get rid of this money until I could think things out. 18:51.600 --> 18:55.600 But where? Where could I get rid of it? 18:55.600 --> 18:59.600 I neared the corner of 59th and 8th Avenue and then saw it. 18:59.600 --> 19:03.600 A bus terminal. Why not? 19:03.600 --> 19:06.600 A public locker in the bus station. 19:06.600 --> 19:08.600 I opened the door and walked in. 19:08.600 --> 19:11.600 Stratton, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, leaving in 10 minutes. 19:11.600 --> 19:13.600 Yes, man, in about 20 minutes. 19:13.600 --> 19:16.600 Excuse me, mister, I'd like to have a key for a locker. 19:16.600 --> 19:18.600 Just a second. 19:18.600 --> 19:19.600 G sharp. 19:19.600 --> 19:20.600 What did you say? 19:20.600 --> 19:22.600 Oh, nothing. 19:22.600 --> 19:25.600 What do you know? I haven't got an empty one right now. 19:25.600 --> 19:26.600 Have to wait a little while. 19:26.600 --> 19:30.600 You mean out of all of these hundreds of lockers you haven't got one empty? 19:30.600 --> 19:32.600 I'm sorry, mister, but you can see for yourself. 19:32.600 --> 19:34.600 A lot of servicemen in town over the weekend. 19:34.600 --> 19:36.600 Well, how long will it be? 19:36.600 --> 19:39.600 Ten, fifteen minutes, maybe a couple of hours. 19:39.600 --> 19:44.600 Okay, I'll wait. I'll sit over there. 19:44.600 --> 19:48.600 I bought a paper at the newsstand and sat down on one of the benches. 19:48.600 --> 19:51.600 I didn't even know what I was reading. 19:51.600 --> 19:54.600 I just kept... and then I saw it. 19:54.600 --> 19:56.600 On page two. 19:56.600 --> 20:02.600 A complete account of a robbery that had occurred on Friday night in one of the downtown post offices. 20:02.600 --> 20:07.600 Two bandits had escaped with $25,000 in ten dollar bills. 20:07.600 --> 20:11.600 This was it. It must have been. 20:11.600 --> 20:15.600 But would the police believe a story like that? Of course they wouldn't. 20:15.600 --> 20:20.600 I had the money and it was my tuning hammer there, lying next to the body in the garden. 20:20.600 --> 20:24.600 I got out of that bus tournament in a hurry and walked up 8th Avenue. 20:24.600 --> 20:29.600 Where could I go? The only place I could think of was Coney Island. 20:29.600 --> 20:34.600 Coney Island and Uncle Herman and his pitchpenny concession. 20:34.600 --> 20:38.600 It was late and the island amusement park was almost deserted. 20:38.600 --> 20:41.600 It was cold and close to eleven. 20:41.600 --> 20:45.600 Uncle Herman was leaning against the side of his concession as I walked up. 20:45.600 --> 20:47.600 What? My nephew? 20:47.600 --> 20:49.600 What are you doing out this way? 20:49.600 --> 20:51.600 Uncle Herman, quick, let's go in back. 20:51.600 --> 20:55.600 All right. There ain't no customers anyway. 20:55.600 --> 20:57.600 Yeah. 20:57.600 --> 21:01.600 Now, what happened, Hercules? Did you give the money back to the man? 21:01.600 --> 21:04.600 I went to meet him at the garden, just like he told me. 21:04.600 --> 21:08.600 But when I got there and I found him, he was dead. 21:08.600 --> 21:10.600 Dead? 21:10.600 --> 21:13.600 He'd been beat over the head with my tuning hammer. 21:13.600 --> 21:14.600 Why, Hercules. 21:14.600 --> 21:19.600 I was just about to grab my hammer and bag and get out of there when someone made a lunge at me in the dark. 21:19.600 --> 21:23.600 But I got away. I went to a bus terminal to put the money in a locker. 21:23.600 --> 21:28.600 I had to wait. And then I read that the money is stolen post office money. 21:28.600 --> 21:31.600 Oh, you got yourself in a mess, nephew. 21:31.600 --> 21:34.600 I'm frantic. I don't know what to do. That's why I came here. 21:34.600 --> 21:36.600 Well, I'm glad you did, nephew. Glad you did. 21:36.600 --> 21:38.600 But what am I going to do? 21:38.600 --> 21:41.600 The best thing would be to go back and get that hammer and bag. 21:41.600 --> 21:43.600 Leave the money here. I'll hide it for you. 21:43.600 --> 21:45.600 But maybe I ought to go to the police. 21:45.600 --> 21:48.600 You can't go to the police with that story. They'd never believe you, Hercules. 21:48.600 --> 21:49.600 I know. I know. 21:49.600 --> 21:51.600 Now bring your bag and come with me, nephew. 21:51.600 --> 21:58.600 I've got a hiding place for that money that no one will ever find. 21:58.600 --> 22:03.600 Uncle Herman locked his place up and then he led me over to the fun house. 22:03.600 --> 22:06.600 It was closed now and the place was all dark. 22:06.600 --> 22:08.600 But Uncle Herman had a key. 22:08.600 --> 22:15.600 He led me up some stairs to a high ramp that people climb on, you know, to slide down the big chute. 22:15.600 --> 22:17.600 He stopped at one of them. 22:17.600 --> 22:25.600 Here, nephew, right under this top chute we'll just pry one of the boards loose a little and slip the bag with the money underneath. 22:25.600 --> 22:28.600 No one in the world will ever look for it. 22:30.600 --> 22:32.600 There we are. 22:32.600 --> 22:34.600 Now, give me the bag, nephew. 22:34.600 --> 22:36.600 Here you are, Uncle Herman. 22:36.600 --> 22:38.600 Are you sure that no one will find it here? 22:38.600 --> 22:42.600 Absolutely, nephew. You and I are the only ones who know where it is. 22:42.600 --> 22:43.600 I... 22:43.600 --> 22:45.600 There's nothing to be afraid of. 22:45.600 --> 22:47.600 Now, hand me the bag. 22:47.600 --> 22:48.600 Here you are. 22:48.600 --> 22:50.600 That's it. 22:50.600 --> 22:53.600 Now, let's just check to make sure that... 22:54.600 --> 22:57.600 What's the matter, Uncle Herman? 22:57.600 --> 22:59.600 Where's the money, nephew? 22:59.600 --> 23:03.600 The money? What are you talking about? 23:03.600 --> 23:04.600 It's in the... 23:04.600 --> 23:07.600 Is this what you call money? 23:07.600 --> 23:11.600 Well, this bag's got nothing in it but bundles of torn newspaper. 23:11.600 --> 23:13.600 I don't understand. 23:13.600 --> 23:17.600 Hercules, dear nephew, what did you do with the money? 23:17.600 --> 23:20.600 I don't know. It was in there. You saw it yourself when I brought it home. 23:20.600 --> 23:23.600 Is this a scheme of yours, Hercules? 23:23.600 --> 23:24.600 Scheme? 23:24.600 --> 23:28.600 Trying to cheat on your dear old uncle, aren't you, Hercules? 23:28.600 --> 23:30.600 Uncle Herman, what are you talking about? 23:30.600 --> 23:33.600 Where's the money, Hercules? 23:33.600 --> 23:37.600 She flat. That knife. She flat. 23:37.600 --> 23:40.600 This ain't no time to play games with your Uncle Herman, Hercules. 23:40.600 --> 23:42.600 Uncle Herman. 23:42.600 --> 23:44.600 Where were you tonight? 23:44.600 --> 23:46.600 What's that, Hercules? 23:46.600 --> 23:49.600 G flat. Your knife. It's G flat. 23:49.600 --> 23:51.600 Looks like this thing has got you going, Hercules. 23:51.600 --> 23:54.600 It was you in the garden, wasn't it, Uncle Herman? 23:54.600 --> 23:56.600 You killed him. 23:56.600 --> 23:58.600 Let's not waste any more time, nephew. 23:58.600 --> 24:00.600 Now, tell me where that money is. 24:00.600 --> 24:01.600 I don't know. 24:01.600 --> 24:04.600 Stop lying to your dear uncle, Hercules. 24:04.600 --> 24:05.600 I'm not lying. 24:05.600 --> 24:08.600 I usually use this knife to scale fish. 24:08.600 --> 24:11.600 The smell of fish is stronger than the smell of blood. 24:11.600 --> 24:13.600 But I tell you, I don't know where that money is. 24:13.600 --> 24:15.600 You're lying to me. 24:15.600 --> 24:17.600 You came down here just to throw me off, didn't you? 24:17.600 --> 24:19.600 Make me think you lost the money. 24:19.600 --> 24:21.600 Uncle Herman, stay away from me. 24:21.600 --> 24:23.600 All right, Hercules. 24:23.600 --> 24:25.600 So you won't tell your dear uncle. 24:25.600 --> 24:27.600 He rushed at me with the knife. 24:27.600 --> 24:29.600 I stepped back, tripped over the board. 24:29.600 --> 24:31.600 He had flied loose and fell down. 24:31.600 --> 24:33.600 But Uncle Herman... 24:33.600 --> 24:35.600 Ah! 24:39.600 --> 24:43.600 He went hurtling over me, head over heels, down the long slide. 24:43.600 --> 24:47.600 And I got back down at the bottom of the slide chute. 24:47.600 --> 24:49.600 He was dead. 24:49.600 --> 24:51.600 The uncle had his neck broken, Lieutenant. 24:51.600 --> 24:53.600 Yeah. What about the money? 24:53.600 --> 24:55.600 Well, Mr. Remington's wife turned it over to the authorities this morning, 24:55.600 --> 24:57.600 about 11 o'clock. 24:57.600 --> 25:00.600 She said the money wasn't his, and she didn't want him carrying it around. 25:00.600 --> 25:04.600 Well, I guess that'll be all, Mr. Remington. 25:04.600 --> 25:06.600 You can go now. 25:06.600 --> 25:08.600 But isn't it dangerous? 25:08.600 --> 25:10.600 I mean, the partner is still... 25:10.600 --> 25:12.600 We picked up his business partner a few hours after the robbery. 25:12.600 --> 25:14.600 Oh. 25:14.600 --> 25:18.600 But just in case you happen to come across another $25,000 25:18.600 --> 25:20.600 that doesn't belong to you, 25:20.600 --> 25:22.600 promise me that you'll get in touch with the authorities, 25:22.600 --> 25:24.600 will you, Mr. Remington? 25:24.600 --> 25:26.600 Oh, I've learned my lesson, Lieutenant. 25:26.600 --> 25:28.600 Believe you me, I have. 25:28.600 --> 25:31.600 Oh, for heaven's sakes, I almost forgot. 25:31.600 --> 25:33.600 I've got to call my wife. 25:33.600 --> 25:35.600 She's probably frantic by now. 25:35.600 --> 25:37.600 There's a payphone right outside in the corridor. 25:37.600 --> 25:39.600 Payphone? 25:39.600 --> 25:41.600 Yeah, right around the corner. 25:41.600 --> 25:43.600 You can't miss it. 25:43.600 --> 25:45.600 Hmm. 25:45.600 --> 25:47.600 Well, she's waited this long. 25:47.600 --> 26:12.600 I'll just tell her when I get home. 26:18.600 --> 26:20.600 Suspense. 26:20.600 --> 26:22.600 Presented by Auto Light. 26:22.600 --> 26:25.600 Tonight's star, Mr. Jack Benny. 26:26.600 --> 26:30.600 Ah, fine meal, Pepito. 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