WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:11.000 --> 00:21.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a story of desperation and terror, Another Man's Poison, 00:21.000 --> 00:24.000 starring Mr. Charles Boyer. 00:24.000 --> 00:38.000 I am Claude Bourget. 00:38.000 --> 00:43.000 Regardless of what you've read about me in the papers, money means nothing more and nothing 00:43.000 --> 00:47.000 less to me than it does to any other man of moderate income. 00:47.000 --> 00:48.000 You must realize that. 00:48.000 --> 00:53.000 You must know that I only wanted to give my family every comfort and advantage I could. 00:53.000 --> 00:58.000 At least I think that's the reason I hesitated several months ago. 00:58.000 --> 01:01.000 At least I hope it's the reason. 01:01.000 --> 01:02.000 Because there it was. 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 Wouldn't you have looked at it? 01:04.000 --> 01:06.000 Wouldn't you have opened it up? 01:06.000 --> 01:10.000 A package wrapped in brown paper and tied with a heavy cord. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 Wouldn't you have opened it? 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 And then all I knew was that I had to get home with it. 01:16.000 --> 01:24.000 Quickly. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Alice! 01:25.000 --> 01:26.000 Claude! 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 What? 01:27.000 --> 01:28.000 Claude! 01:28.000 --> 01:29.000 What's the matter? 01:29.000 --> 01:30.000 What happened? 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 Look. 01:31.000 --> 01:32.000 Look at this. 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 Look at it. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 There must be thousands of dollars in this bundle. 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 Seventy-five, perhaps a hundred thousand. 01:38.000 --> 01:39.000 But where? 01:39.000 --> 01:40.000 How? 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 I stopped, you know, the way I stop. 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 I stop for a white flowers for the office. 01:44.000 --> 01:46.000 The way I do sometimes. 01:46.000 --> 01:47.000 It was there. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 It must have been there for months. 01:49.000 --> 01:50.000 Call the police. 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 You can tell it was there for months by the faded bills and... 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 Police? 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 Why the police? 01:56.000 --> 01:57.000 Because it isn't ours. 01:57.000 --> 01:58.000 Someone lost it. 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 I don't know. 02:00.000 --> 02:01.000 What if I do? 02:01.000 --> 02:03.000 Isn't there money? 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Let anyone with a good enough story come along. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 Anyone and they would turn it over to him. 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 They wouldn't be out anything. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 Claude, you have to turn it over to the police. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 How could we explain it? 02:14.000 --> 02:17.000 We'll move away, go to the Pacific coast or something. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 This is our home. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 The children have their friends here. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 Our friends. 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 Yes, you're right. 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 Fine. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Just allow me one thing. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 Let me protect our interest. 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 Isn't that reasonable? 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 To protect our rights? 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 How do you mean? 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Well, I'll go and see Dom Haskell. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 All right. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 But how can a lawyer help? 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 What for? 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 You said all right. 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 You said you would let me look after our interest in this. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 And then you'll give it to the police. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 I'll do the right thing. 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 You know that, Alice. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 Now give me a statue. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 A small one. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 When I found that money, I had looked around quickly. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 Like a fugitive. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Like I had done something wrong. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 Why? 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 I don't know. 03:06.000 --> 03:11.000 Just know it was more cash than I had ever seen at one time. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 $98,000 is a lot of money. 03:14.000 --> 03:21.000 Especially to a man who is 46 years old and hasn't made more than $7,000 a year. 03:21.000 --> 03:26.000 A man who is scrimmed and saved like any other man who loves his family. 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 That's why I had to know my rights and responsibilities for my family. 03:30.000 --> 03:35.000 Dom Haskell told me it would take 12 months to get the money. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 12 months? 03:37.000 --> 03:42.000 Well, Claude, either you keep the money in your possession or turn it over to the police. 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Either one. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 But with either one, you have to give an affidavit to the police within three days. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 And at the end of a year? 03:50.000 --> 03:54.000 The law says it's yours if no one presents valid proof to the contrary. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Hey, mister, who is to say it's valid? 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 Who is to say that the proof is strong enough? 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 The police, if you turn the whole thing over to them. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Don't I have a voice in this? 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 Don't I have any rights? 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Oh, it's your choice, Claude. 04:06.000 --> 04:10.000 Now look, possession is nine-tenths of the law. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 That's what the book says. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 I don't have to give the police the money as long as I tell them, is that it? 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 Is that what you want me to do? 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 You're asking me to tell you exactly what you should do. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Well, Claude, I can't. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Now both ways are legal. 04:25.000 --> 04:26.000 Both ways are right. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 What would you do? 04:28.000 --> 04:29.000 If I'd found the money? 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 Yes, if you had to decide. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 I'm asking you as a friend. 04:33.000 --> 04:38.000 If you had to decide between keeping it or turning it over to the police. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Well, I don't know. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 No one could know if it's worth the risk. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 No one but the man who actually had to make such a decision. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 If it's worth the risk, what did he mean? 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 What risk? 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 I had a feeling he meant something evil. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 I didn't want to hear it. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 He had given me legal advice. That was all I wanted. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 I didn't want to hear about risks. 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 I have taken risks for much less, much less. 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 But I am a believer in law, doing everything by the law. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 You learn that in real estate business. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.000 That it is best to do everything by the law. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Anything else, Mr. Bourget? 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 Well, I think that's all, Lieutenant. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 Get all of it, Joe. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 That one part Mr. Bourget mentioned, the money. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 I didn't quite get where he was keeping it. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 Clarify that, Mr. Bourget? 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 Just keeping it. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 You know what you're letting yourself in for? 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 Now look, I came here voluntarily, Lieutenant. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 I came to the police of my own free will. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Oh, I said you didn't. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 But you imply things I do not like. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 It's not me. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 I'm sure you're straight because I know you a little. 05:48.000 --> 05:52.000 But there are strangers who won't believe you actually found 98,000. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 There aren't many who do that. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 But it doesn't take many. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 Never has. 05:57.000 --> 05:58.000 You attempt to frighten me. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Why, I don't know. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 I don't understand. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 I'm trying to protect you. 06:01.000 --> 06:02.000 From nothing. 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 From nothing at all. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 This will be in the papers, every paper in the country. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 I expect it to. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 There is no other way the owner can be found. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 I want everyone to know. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 And everyone will. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 Every grifter and fast con man. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Every boiler room spiel artist. 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 Now, is there anything illegal in my keeping the money? 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 No. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 Well, then you have my number, Lieutenant. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.000 And I'll refer any legitimate claim to you for investigation. 06:26.000 --> 06:27.000 Bourget. 06:27.000 --> 06:28.000 Yes? 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 98,000 will buy a lot of things. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 But one of them isn't a new neck. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 I hate Lieutenant Gaston. 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 He hasn't done anything to me, but I hated him. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 He had made me afraid. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 No, he had made me realize I was afraid. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 Why do we hate people who make us realize we are afraid? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 But the months passed and nothing happened. 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 Just torrents of lies and hysterical claims. 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 A few threats. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Some I turned over to Gaston. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Nothing, nothing at all. 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 Claude. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Claude. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Claude. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 What? 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 The phone. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 No, what time is it? 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 Almost dawn. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 Claude, don't answer it. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 Oh, please, Claude. 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 Who's called? 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Yes? 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Mr. Claude Bourget? 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 Yes? 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Kansas City calling. 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 Here's your party. 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 In the city? 07:39.000 --> 07:40.000 Bourget? 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 Who is this? 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 That's not important right now. 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 I won't speak unless you identify yourself. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 You don't have to. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 I'll do the talking. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 That's better. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Now, if it is about the money, the police investigate all... 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 Shut up. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 And listen. 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 I will not be talked to like that. 07:56.000 --> 07:57.000 What was it, dear? 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 Nothing. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Nothing at all. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Another one of those fanatics. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Come to bed, Claude. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Claude, come to bed. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 I'm sorry, sir. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 Your party was disconnected. 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Go ahead, please. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 I'll make it simple and clear. 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 Until I see you, don't spend any of that money. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.000 Don't recognize anybody's claim to it. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Don't contact the police. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 It'll be easier for you. 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 A lot easier if you follow my instructions. 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 No, no, listen. 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 Listen. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 Hey, come back. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 What is it? 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Claude, come to bed. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 Nothing, Elise. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 Nothing. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 Now, what would you do if you had found something valuable 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 and the crook wanted it? 08:48.000 --> 08:52.000 What would you do if a threatening call came in the middle of the night? 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 That's when it's worst. 08:54.000 --> 08:55.000 In the middle of the night. 08:55.000 --> 09:00.000 If the sun were shining, the worst would not have been so frightening. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 And then do you know what you do? 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 What I did. 09:03.000 --> 09:11.000 I watched each crab listen for its car, waited for its sigh of the wind. 09:11.000 --> 09:15.000 And as time passed, yes, a month, a whole month, 09:15.000 --> 09:20.000 I knew the man was waiting, watching, watching and waiting, 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 waiting for the safe time to come to me. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 I became so tense. 09:24.000 --> 09:28.000 I even jumped when the mailman walked into my office abruptly. 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 Oh, well, well. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Oh, it's you. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 And you keep coming. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 There must be about 20 letters in this bag. 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 Any more? 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 No. 09:38.000 --> 09:42.000 Funny, you'd think after all these months there'd be somebody to claim it. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Really? 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Well, look at these letters. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 All of them, all the same. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Lying, cheating, blackmail. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Not one legitimate claim. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Not one. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Not even one? 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 What? 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 Claude, you've lived here how long? 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 15 years? 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 18? 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 18 years in this community. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 That's right. 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 And most people like you. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 But you know, a few of them get whacked up sometimes. 10:06.000 --> 10:11.000 Sometimes they'll let a guy who talks like they do take their silverware. 10:11.000 --> 10:16.000 But an honest guy with an accent can't be honest because he has an accent. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 You know what I mean? 10:17.000 --> 10:18.000 Yes. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Well, if he has $98,000. 10:20.000 --> 10:23.000 Especially if he's got $98,000. 10:23.000 --> 10:28.000 They say if you were playing straight, somebody would have come along with a legitimate claim. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 I have been honest. 10:30.000 --> 10:31.000 By the law. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.000 Honest by the law. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 I know, I know. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Only say all these letters. 10:36.000 --> 10:37.000 Hundreds of letters. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 And I won't read any more of those. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 Tell them that. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 See? 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 Into the wastebasket. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 Tell them! 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 I knew I shouldn't have shouted at him. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 I knew it. 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 He was a friend. 10:54.000 --> 10:57.000 But even friends became a burden while I waited. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 I lost interest in my work. 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 Didn't pay attention to it. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 I began driving around the town looking for something. 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 For someone. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 For the man phoned. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 I know it sounds crazy because I didn't even know what he looked like. 11:09.000 --> 11:13.000 Yet, I thought maybe something somehow would give him away. 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 All the while knowing nothing would. 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 That's why my friends were becoming a burden. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 That's why I was hard to talk to them. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 Hard to talk to anybody. 11:24.000 --> 11:28.000 Oh, I don't care what the reason is, Claude. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 You can't treat friends like that. 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 People would just stop inviting us to part. 11:33.000 --> 11:34.000 I was getting on my nerves. 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 The past weeks everybody does. 11:36.000 --> 11:37.000 Everybody. 11:37.000 --> 11:38.000 All right, all right. 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 Go inside. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 I'll get the paper. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Bourget. 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 Who is it? 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 My name is Kronick. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 I hope you followed my instructions. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Now, if you have a legitimate claim, why are you sneaking around? 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 Keep your voice down. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 You're frightened, Bourget. 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 That's good. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 Of you? 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 Now, just tell me what you want. 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 The money. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 You'll never get it. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 It's in the bank. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Then you'll take it out. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 You'll never make me. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 I think you'll want to. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 Now, listen fast, Bourget. 12:18.000 --> 12:21.000 A year and a half ago there was a big upstate payroll job. 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 The money is mine. 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 Four hundred thousand. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 Half of it's been found. 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Only half. 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 Three men pull that job off. 12:27.000 --> 12:28.000 One's in South America. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 No, no, it belongs to me. 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 And one's in jail. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 The third one, nobody saw him. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 So he could be anybody. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 No. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 Me, you, anybody. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.000 Leave me alone. 12:37.000 --> 12:40.000 And that one guy in jail, they wanted him to talk for a long time. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 He's ready to now. 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 He's ready to say Claude Bourget was number three. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 That Claude Bourget killed the payroll guard. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 That Claude Bourget is responsible. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 I don't believe you. 12:50.000 --> 12:51.000 I don't believe a word you say. 12:51.000 --> 12:52.000 He sent a letter to the police in this town. 12:52.000 --> 12:53.000 I'm known here. 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 I'm respected. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 I'm known. 12:55.000 --> 12:59.000 What judge would believe a man just happened to find ninety-eight thousand dollars in a 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 field? 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 Come now, Mr. Bourget. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 What judge would believe that? 13:02.000 --> 13:03.000 For years, I'm known here. 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 The man in jail can't say he made a mistake. 13:04.000 --> 13:05.000 When I tell him to, good night, Bourget. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.000 I'm known. 13:06.000 --> 13:07.000 I'm known. 13:07.000 --> 13:34.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Charles Boyer with Irene Tedrow in another man's house. 13:34.000 --> 13:38.000 Charles Boyer with Irene Tedrow in another man's poison. 13:38.000 --> 13:51.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:51.000 --> 13:58.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Charles Boyer in Elliot Lewis's 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 production of another man's poison. 14:00.000 --> 14:09.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 14:09.000 --> 14:21.000 In just a few hours, overnight, everything had gone crazy. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.680 Nothing was what it had been. 14:23.680 --> 14:29.920 I couldn't make my wife understand why I couldn't go to the police, why it was different now. 14:29.920 --> 14:33.760 I couldn't make her realize the terrible predicament we were in. 14:33.760 --> 14:38.560 That the money was ours and Krainick, or anyone else, had a right to it. 14:38.560 --> 14:42.200 But it wasn't time to plan, not a moment. 14:42.200 --> 14:44.720 The letter came, I knew it had come. 14:44.720 --> 14:50.720 I knew it the moment I saw the squad car pull up in front of my house to take me to police 14:50.720 --> 14:51.720 headquarters. 14:51.720 --> 14:54.920 I know it will straighten out, Mr. Bourget, I'm sure of it. 14:54.920 --> 14:56.680 Well, it had better straighten out. 14:56.680 --> 14:58.640 I've never heard of anything so preposterous. 14:58.640 --> 15:03.920 You must realize this robbery was and is a great embarrassment to the police, Mr. Bourget. 15:03.920 --> 15:06.680 Why should I be made to suffer for police inefficiency? 15:06.680 --> 15:12.720 A criminal, a common thief, a convict, writes a letter, is his work better than mine? 15:12.720 --> 15:14.560 I've been a respectable citizen. 15:14.560 --> 15:17.040 We didn't choose to believe you, we want to believe you. 15:17.040 --> 15:18.040 Well, then goodbye. 15:18.040 --> 15:19.360 I have a lot of work to do. 15:19.360 --> 15:21.800 You're making it tough for us to go along with you. 15:21.800 --> 15:22.800 Are you accusing me? 15:22.800 --> 15:25.160 It's a request, I'm asking you. 15:25.160 --> 15:28.120 Just bring in the money, we'll check it. 15:28.120 --> 15:29.960 Check the money? 15:29.960 --> 15:33.240 Why would you check the money? 15:33.240 --> 15:36.400 Some of the serial numbers in that stick up are registered. 15:36.400 --> 15:38.040 You suspect me, that's it? 15:38.040 --> 15:41.040 Just bring in the money. 15:41.040 --> 15:50.200 There, Lieutenant, I hope this satisfies you. 15:50.200 --> 15:52.640 Five bills, Bourget, I ask you for all of them. 15:52.640 --> 15:55.600 Oh, five or five hundred, what difference does it make? 15:55.600 --> 15:58.960 If they are registered, if you can tell you what you want to know. 15:58.960 --> 16:01.520 These are the old bills, you're not being very cooperative. 16:01.520 --> 16:03.120 Went with some new bills? 16:03.120 --> 16:05.760 Well, just check the serial numbers. 16:05.760 --> 16:09.240 I've had enough of this, this inquisition. 16:09.240 --> 16:10.240 Okay. 16:10.240 --> 16:14.400 Well, what is it? 16:14.400 --> 16:15.400 They're not listed. 16:15.400 --> 16:16.400 Ah, now let me alone. 16:16.400 --> 16:17.400 Sit down. 16:17.400 --> 16:18.400 What? 16:18.400 --> 16:19.400 I said sit down. 16:19.400 --> 16:22.520 You don't seem to realize your position, Bourget. 16:22.520 --> 16:23.520 Don't try to intimidate me. 16:23.520 --> 16:25.320 Where's the paper the money was wrapped in? 16:25.320 --> 16:26.320 The paper? 16:26.320 --> 16:27.320 Where is it? 16:27.320 --> 16:28.320 I don't know. 16:28.320 --> 16:29.320 Burns? 16:29.320 --> 16:30.320 Maybe, how should I know? 16:30.320 --> 16:31.320 Why? 16:31.320 --> 16:32.320 Where should I know? 16:32.320 --> 16:33.320 Why should I have kept it? 16:33.320 --> 16:36.320 When you first found the money, you saw your attorney before you came to me today. 16:36.320 --> 16:37.320 No, no, no, wait a minute. 16:37.320 --> 16:38.320 Why'd you do that? 16:38.320 --> 16:39.320 I don't have to tell you. 16:39.320 --> 16:40.320 You don't have to, true. 16:40.320 --> 16:41.320 But why don't you want to? 16:41.320 --> 16:44.320 Well, it seemed like the right thing to do. 16:44.320 --> 16:48.320 The mailman on your office roof was heard to say you threw away several letters unopened. 16:48.320 --> 16:49.880 That's a lie. 16:49.880 --> 16:52.680 I opened and I've had everyone, always, all of them. 16:52.680 --> 16:53.680 Think hard. 16:53.680 --> 16:54.680 All of them. 16:54.680 --> 16:58.240 Well, yes, except one day, well, it was nothing. 16:58.240 --> 17:01.560 It was this kind of idiotic talk which made me do it. 17:01.560 --> 17:05.760 Why should a man in jail name you as one of the holdup men he pulled off a job with? 17:05.760 --> 17:07.160 I want to talk to my lawyer. 17:07.160 --> 17:08.160 Why? 17:08.160 --> 17:09.160 It's my legal right. 17:09.160 --> 17:10.160 It is. 17:10.160 --> 17:11.440 And you didn't have to answer any of these questions. 17:11.440 --> 17:15.760 I just wanted you to understand why it would help if you brought in all the money. 17:15.760 --> 17:19.800 Well, all right, yes, all of it. 17:19.800 --> 17:23.560 Because even more than a robbery is involved in this, there's a murder. 17:23.560 --> 17:24.560 What? 17:24.560 --> 17:25.560 The murder of the payroll guard. 17:25.560 --> 17:31.000 You can go now, Mr. Berger. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 I said you can go now. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 Yes. 17:34.000 --> 17:35.000 Yes. 17:35.000 --> 17:44.280 A feedback no one would keep, I also threw away. 17:44.280 --> 17:47.520 As any man would see a lawyer first, I too saw one. 17:47.520 --> 17:51.320 As any human being would have become angered, I tore up the letters. 17:51.320 --> 17:55.160 But these all meant something else when Gaston put them together. 17:55.160 --> 18:02.720 They meant I too must add them up and find the exact, the perfect answer. 18:02.720 --> 18:05.080 It had to be perfect. 18:05.080 --> 18:10.560 One misstep, one error, and my life, my business, everything would be gone. 18:10.560 --> 18:12.520 It had to be perfect. 18:12.520 --> 18:14.760 Call Tom Haskell. 18:14.760 --> 18:16.240 You need a lawyer, Claude. 18:16.240 --> 18:17.240 You must have a lawyer. 18:17.240 --> 18:18.880 Oh, I went to him once. 18:18.880 --> 18:20.880 Did he anticipate anything? 18:20.880 --> 18:22.480 Did he tell me what to do? 18:22.480 --> 18:23.960 Well, you need him now. 18:23.960 --> 18:24.960 The money. 18:24.960 --> 18:28.760 They registered any of the serial numbers of that money. 18:28.760 --> 18:30.240 I'm through, I'm finished. 18:30.240 --> 18:31.240 Well, maybe it is the... 18:31.240 --> 18:32.240 It must be. 18:32.240 --> 18:33.240 Everything fits together. 18:33.240 --> 18:38.280 The robbery north of here, the amount of money, its age, Granick's story. 18:38.280 --> 18:39.280 Give the money to the police. 18:39.280 --> 18:42.520 Yes, yes, and if I do, Granick will not recall the letter. 18:42.520 --> 18:45.960 But Claude, if the money isn't registered, there's nothing to fear if the money... 18:45.960 --> 18:48.040 And if it is, what shall I do? 18:48.040 --> 18:49.560 There must be something. 18:49.560 --> 18:50.560 There has to be something. 18:50.560 --> 18:51.560 But you're innocent, Claude. 18:51.560 --> 18:56.920 Oh, yes, except that thousands of innocent men have gone to jail or been executed. 18:56.920 --> 18:57.920 All innocent, all of them. 18:57.920 --> 18:59.920 Oh, don't, Claude, don't say that. 18:59.920 --> 19:00.920 They're circumstantial. 19:00.920 --> 19:02.840 It's all circumstantial. 19:02.840 --> 19:08.200 Most cases are money, the letter, or wrapping paper, and the serial numbers. 19:08.200 --> 19:10.200 I don't even know what I was doing on the day of the robbery. 19:10.200 --> 19:11.200 It was so long ago. 19:11.200 --> 19:12.200 Why do you have to remember? 19:12.200 --> 19:13.200 This is crazy. 19:13.200 --> 19:14.200 You don't have to remember. 19:14.200 --> 19:15.200 Well, I do, though. 19:15.200 --> 19:16.600 That's what it's come to. 19:16.600 --> 19:17.600 I must. 19:17.600 --> 19:18.600 Well, then let's remember. 19:18.600 --> 19:19.600 Let's try to remember. 19:19.600 --> 19:20.600 Well, it was July. 19:20.600 --> 19:23.760 Yes, that's what I was told. 19:23.760 --> 19:26.000 The robbery was July of last year. 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Well, we went away for the weekend. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 Claude, remember that weekend we went away. 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 No, no, no, no, later. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.880 Toward the end of the month, the last week in July. 19:32.880 --> 19:33.880 The last week? 19:33.880 --> 19:34.880 Yes. 19:34.880 --> 19:35.880 The last week of July. 19:35.880 --> 19:36.880 Yes. 19:36.880 --> 19:37.880 We... 19:37.880 --> 19:38.880 We, I don't remember. 19:38.880 --> 19:39.880 Oh, I can't remember, Claude, I can't remember. 19:39.880 --> 19:40.880 We have to. 19:40.880 --> 19:41.880 Oh, Claude, don't. 19:41.880 --> 19:42.880 Get, get, get rid of it. 19:42.880 --> 19:43.880 We managed before. 19:43.880 --> 19:44.880 We had what we wanted. 19:44.880 --> 19:45.880 Get rid of it. 19:45.880 --> 19:46.880 We had what we wanted. 19:46.880 --> 19:47.880 We had what we wanted. 19:47.880 --> 19:48.880 We had what we wanted. 19:48.880 --> 19:49.880 We wanted to get rid of the money. 19:49.880 --> 19:50.880 It's too late. 19:50.880 --> 19:51.880 Don't you understand? 19:51.880 --> 19:52.880 It's too late. 19:52.880 --> 19:53.880 Oh, the newspapers. 19:53.880 --> 19:54.880 What? 19:54.880 --> 19:55.880 The newspapers. 19:55.880 --> 19:56.880 The newspapers from that date. 19:56.880 --> 19:57.880 The exact date. 19:57.880 --> 19:58.880 Everything would be in them. 19:58.880 --> 19:59.880 If I saw them... 19:59.880 --> 20:00.880 Yes, you'd remember when you saw them. 20:00.880 --> 20:01.880 You would. 20:01.880 --> 20:02.880 I'll be back in an hour. 20:02.880 --> 20:03.880 Now, don't answer the phone or the door until I get back. 20:03.880 --> 20:04.880 I tell you, I tell you, you know when you are being hunted. 20:04.880 --> 20:19.880 It wasn't Granick following me. 20:19.880 --> 20:23.880 It was another pursuer. 20:23.880 --> 20:26.880 A new one. 20:26.880 --> 20:27.880 The police. 20:27.880 --> 20:32.760 If I didn't know it, why did I glance over my shoulder when I entered the newspaper building? 20:32.760 --> 20:35.960 I knew it and I saw him. 20:35.960 --> 20:37.520 I went back to the fire room. 20:37.520 --> 20:41.280 But as soon as I got there, I wanted to get out. 20:41.280 --> 20:46.080 I felt something terrible would happen to me if I stayed. 20:46.080 --> 20:50.200 I filled out a request slip and I saw... 20:50.200 --> 20:52.800 Yes, I saw the girl. 20:52.800 --> 20:59.440 Surreptitiously give it to the officer. 20:59.440 --> 21:04.000 I waited like a stone image. 21:04.000 --> 21:11.320 And finally, when the papers were given to me, I frantically searched them and found it. 21:11.320 --> 21:16.800 As I found the paper and the date of the terrible information. 21:16.800 --> 21:17.800 And then I had to get home. 21:17.800 --> 21:18.800 Home. 21:18.800 --> 21:19.800 I would be saved there. 21:19.800 --> 21:20.800 Yes, home was a place to think, to figure things out, to save my life. 21:20.800 --> 21:29.800 Are you sure, Claude? 21:29.800 --> 21:36.120 Are you sure someone was following you? 21:36.120 --> 21:38.680 I know, I've seen him before. 21:38.680 --> 21:39.680 I know it was a detective. 21:39.680 --> 21:40.680 I know you're too upset. 21:40.680 --> 21:41.680 You think he was. 21:41.680 --> 21:42.680 You imagine. 21:42.680 --> 21:45.080 I tell you, the police are after me too. 21:45.080 --> 21:46.080 No, Claude, they can't. 21:46.080 --> 21:47.080 A year and a half. 21:47.080 --> 21:51.960 They've waited a year and a half to get someone, anyone for that hold up. 21:51.960 --> 21:52.960 Didn't seeing the papers help? 21:52.960 --> 21:53.960 Certainly a lot. 21:53.960 --> 21:54.960 You remember? 21:54.960 --> 21:55.960 Do you remember? 21:55.960 --> 21:56.960 What? 21:56.960 --> 22:00.720 That week, the Laval farmland I went to see about. 22:00.720 --> 22:01.720 I don't understand. 22:01.720 --> 22:02.720 Upstate. 22:02.720 --> 22:04.720 I had to go upstate that weekend. 22:04.720 --> 22:05.720 Oh no. 22:05.720 --> 22:07.480 Yes, of all weekends, that one. 22:07.480 --> 22:09.200 I had to go upstate that one. 22:09.200 --> 22:10.200 What can we do? 22:10.200 --> 22:13.200 The money, the money, it's the only proof. 22:13.200 --> 22:14.200 The only real proof. 22:14.200 --> 22:15.200 They'll find it. 22:15.200 --> 22:16.200 No they won't. 22:16.200 --> 22:17.200 They'll never find it. 22:17.200 --> 22:18.200 Give it to Kranick. 22:18.200 --> 22:19.200 Give him the money. 22:19.200 --> 22:20.200 Kranick? 22:20.200 --> 22:23.960 But he's the only one of the three murderers who is alive and free. 22:23.960 --> 22:29.160 Do you think he would let me live for 24 hours once he had the money? 22:29.160 --> 22:31.160 Then burn it. 22:31.160 --> 22:32.160 Burn it? 22:32.160 --> 22:33.160 They'd never find it. 22:33.160 --> 22:36.160 The proof, one way or the other, the proof would be gone. 22:36.160 --> 22:37.160 Burn it? 22:37.160 --> 22:38.160 A payroll guard was killed. 22:38.160 --> 22:39.160 Come. 22:39.160 --> 22:40.160 You have to. 22:40.160 --> 22:41.160 Yes, of course. 22:41.160 --> 22:42.160 Yes, I have to. 22:42.160 --> 22:43.160 Yes, I have to. 22:43.160 --> 22:49.900 See with this, I'll get the money. 22:49.900 --> 22:54.400 Strange, your cloth. 22:54.400 --> 22:58.080 Don't open the door. 22:58.080 --> 22:59.080 Kranick? 22:59.080 --> 23:01.080 He's the killer. 23:01.080 --> 23:04.120 Tell him I'm out. 23:04.120 --> 23:09.120 Keep him away from the backyard. 23:09.120 --> 23:14.120 Just a minute, please. 23:14.120 --> 23:19.120 Hold it up. 23:19.120 --> 23:24.120 Who's there? 23:24.120 --> 23:29.120 He hasn't gone, Claudagon. 23:29.120 --> 23:30.120 Don't burn it. 23:30.120 --> 23:31.120 Put it out, you idiot. 23:31.120 --> 23:32.120 It's gone, Kranick. 23:32.120 --> 23:33.120 It's gone. 23:33.120 --> 23:34.120 Out of my way. 23:34.120 --> 23:35.120 Let go. 23:35.120 --> 23:40.120 The gun. 23:40.120 --> 23:48.120 I got it away from, it went off. 23:48.120 --> 23:51.120 Beje, what the siffle did you... 23:51.120 --> 23:52.120 Keep away, Lieutenant. 23:52.120 --> 23:53.120 Keep away from me. 23:53.120 --> 23:54.120 Put that gun down. 23:54.120 --> 23:55.120 Doctor, give me. 23:55.120 --> 23:56.120 Doctor. 23:56.120 --> 23:57.120 This is Beje. 23:57.120 --> 23:58.120 Call emergency. 23:58.120 --> 23:59.120 Stay where you are, Alice. 23:59.120 --> 24:00.120 The cloth. 24:00.120 --> 24:03.120 If he dies, you'll have two murders on your Beje. 24:03.120 --> 24:05.120 Kranick, listen. 24:05.120 --> 24:06.120 You'll bleed to death. 24:06.120 --> 24:07.120 Kranick, listen to me. 24:07.120 --> 24:11.120 There won't be any doctor unless you tell them. 24:11.120 --> 24:12.120 Tell them, Kranick. 24:12.120 --> 24:13.120 Doctor. 24:13.120 --> 24:16.120 Tell them, you idiot. 24:16.120 --> 24:17.120 Tell them. 24:17.120 --> 24:18.120 The frame. 24:18.120 --> 24:19.120 The frame. 24:19.120 --> 24:20.120 The letter. 24:20.120 --> 24:21.120 The frame up. 24:21.120 --> 24:22.120 A doctor. 24:22.120 --> 24:23.120 Please. 24:23.120 --> 24:24.120 Go on. 24:24.120 --> 24:25.120 I've seen Beje. 24:25.120 --> 24:26.120 I've seen Beje. 24:26.120 --> 24:33.120 The letter. 24:33.120 --> 24:36.120 It was a lie. 24:36.120 --> 24:37.120 Thank you, Kranick. 24:37.120 --> 24:38.120 Now, Alice. 24:38.120 --> 24:39.120 Now, call a doctor. 24:39.120 --> 24:40.120 Call a doctor. 24:40.120 --> 25:07.120 Call a doctor. 25:07.120 --> 25:11.120 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 25:11.120 --> 25:22.120 Tonight's star, Mr. Charles Boyer. 25:22.120 --> 25:29.120 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Jeff Chandler in Fresh Air, Sunshine, and 25:29.120 --> 25:30.120 Murder. 25:30.120 --> 25:37.120 Followed by Mr. Dick Powell in Overdrawn on Suspense. 25:37.120 --> 25:42.120 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowek 25:42.120 --> 25:44.120 and conducted by Lutte Gluskin. 25:44.120 --> 25:47.120 Another Man's Poison was written for Suspense by Arthur Ross. 25:47.120 --> 25:52.120 In tonight's story, Irene Tedrow was heard as Alice and Paul Fries as Kranick. 25:52.120 --> 25:58.120 Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield, Joseph Kearns, Trude Marson, and Russell Simpson. 25:58.120 --> 26:00.120 All the other portions of this program were transcribed. 26:00.120 --> 26:06.120 Charles Boyer may soon be seen starring in the Paramount picture, Rage of the Vulture. 26:06.120 --> 26:13.120 And remember, next week on Suspense, Mr. Jeff Chandler in a tale we call Fresh Air, Sunshine, 26:13.120 --> 26:18.120 and Murder. 26:18.120 --> 26:22.120 You can buy Auto Light, Staple Batteries, Auto Light, Standard or Resistor-type Spark 26:22.120 --> 26:25.120 Plugs, Auto Light, Electrical Parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 26:25.120 --> 26:27.120 Switch to Auto Light. 26:27.120 --> 26:29.120 Good night. 26:29.120 --> 26:33.120 This Saturday is Armed Forces Day, the day on which America pays special tribute 26:33.120 --> 26:37.120 to the active members of her five services. 26:37.120 --> 26:41.120 The men and women of our armed forces deserve our deepest gratitude. 26:41.120 --> 26:46.120 We salute them as America's finest citizens. 26:46.120 --> 26:50.120 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 26:50.120 --> 26:57.120 KNX Los Angeles.