WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 You are about to hear a story suggested by actual events. 00:06.000 --> 00:16.000 So that no innocent person shall suffer, names and places have been changed. 00:16.000 --> 00:21.480 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you a story transcribed from the front pages of 00:21.480 --> 00:23.840 our great metropolitan newspapers. 00:23.840 --> 00:25.920 A story taken from life. 00:25.920 --> 00:30.920 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:30.920 --> 00:41.160 Tonight, Auto Light presents Mr. Gregory Peck, who's going to tell you the truth about Jerry 00:41.160 --> 00:48.560 Baxter, a story of juvenile use of narcotics in the United States today. 00:48.560 --> 00:56.560 Hey, Hap, do you remember starting your car engine by a hand crank? 00:56.560 --> 00:58.240 I sure do, Harlow. 00:58.240 --> 00:59.560 I worked like a horse. 00:59.560 --> 01:04.000 Well, you'd work like three horses to start today's modern engines, Hap. 01:04.000 --> 01:08.400 But now electricity does it and other jobs like running your heater, radio, lights and 01:08.400 --> 01:09.400 horn. 01:09.400 --> 01:11.560 Electricity is pretty important to a car, eh? 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02:30.640 --> 02:38.680 Shut up! 02:38.680 --> 02:41.560 Shut up! 02:41.560 --> 02:42.560 It's not your fault. 02:42.560 --> 02:43.560 Go on, call them. 02:43.560 --> 02:44.560 Let them know. 02:44.560 --> 02:45.560 Shut up! 02:45.560 --> 02:46.560 I've got the gun. 02:46.560 --> 02:49.080 If they come in this room, I'll kill you. 02:49.080 --> 02:50.480 You make a sound, I'll kill you. 02:50.480 --> 02:51.960 I'm just down the hall now. 02:51.960 --> 02:54.640 You know they'll come in here. 02:54.640 --> 02:56.640 Come on, kid, do as I say. 02:56.640 --> 02:58.640 It's too hot. 02:58.640 --> 03:00.680 I can't breathe. 03:00.680 --> 03:02.680 Open the door. 03:02.680 --> 03:04.960 Now look at me. 03:04.960 --> 03:06.680 Look at me. 03:06.680 --> 03:09.980 Look at your head. 03:09.980 --> 03:13.320 I warned you. 03:13.320 --> 03:14.320 I warned you. 03:14.320 --> 03:16.520 Now I've got to kill them all. 03:16.520 --> 03:17.520 I will. 03:17.520 --> 03:18.520 I will. 03:18.520 --> 03:19.520 I've got to get our own. 03:19.520 --> 03:31.480 I've got to get our own. 03:31.480 --> 03:34.880 There was a lot of pain and a sick feeling. 03:34.880 --> 03:38.280 I could hear him crying and I knew that I had to try and do something before he started 03:38.280 --> 03:39.280 shooting. 03:39.280 --> 03:41.400 That would be the end. 03:41.400 --> 03:46.840 Then sounds faded away and I remembered everything that happened as if it was a dream, only it 03:46.840 --> 03:47.840 wasn't a dream. 03:47.840 --> 03:48.840 It happened all right. 03:48.840 --> 03:56.920 With Jerry it started at home, a mother and father who didn't have time, who didn't care. 03:56.920 --> 04:01.400 Next in high school, smoking a smoke that wasn't a cigarette. 04:01.400 --> 04:07.280 Then keep up with the gang until it was costing him nearly $50 a day to escape reality for 04:07.280 --> 04:08.280 a few hours. 04:08.280 --> 04:13.920 It was all in your newspapers a few weeks ago, how they arrested Jerry Baxter and sent 04:13.920 --> 04:19.000 him to a correction school for peddling narcotics in the high school yard. 04:19.000 --> 04:26.800 That was only the beginning. 04:26.800 --> 04:31.160 I'm a juvenile investigator, state of California, but this could have happened in any state. 04:31.160 --> 04:33.240 My name, McIntyre. 04:33.240 --> 04:36.680 I know Jerry better than his parents, which is bad. 04:36.680 --> 04:40.360 I got talking to him in correction school and asked him to tell me what happened after 04:40.360 --> 04:42.080 he'd been arrested. 04:42.080 --> 04:44.000 I want to talk about it. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 Why not Jerry? 04:45.000 --> 04:48.520 Because it's like remembering what happens when you die. 04:48.520 --> 04:50.840 That's what it's like when all of a sudden they don't let you have this stuff. 04:50.840 --> 04:53.120 Well, I want to know Jerry. 04:53.120 --> 04:54.120 What do you want to know? 04:54.120 --> 05:00.320 Yeah, you go nuts, they tie you down because you want to kill anybody yourself. 05:00.320 --> 05:03.760 You want to try it for six months then see what happens when you can't get anymore? 05:03.760 --> 05:07.160 You were 16 when you started using narcotics, weren't you? 05:07.160 --> 05:08.160 Yeah. 05:08.160 --> 05:10.520 When did you start peddling? 05:10.520 --> 05:13.120 When I didn't have enough money to buy anymore. 05:13.120 --> 05:16.160 Fell in high school, put me onto someone. 05:16.160 --> 05:18.960 I got all I wanted by selling marijuana to the kids. 05:18.960 --> 05:20.360 That's when they arrested you? 05:20.360 --> 05:21.360 Yeah. 05:21.360 --> 05:23.600 You got into a fight here a few months ago. 05:23.600 --> 05:24.600 Yeah. 05:24.600 --> 05:25.600 You want to tell me? 05:25.600 --> 05:27.160 Don't give me that, you know. 05:27.160 --> 05:29.160 I'd like to hear your side. 05:29.160 --> 05:30.960 Why did you fight? 05:30.960 --> 05:32.560 The other kid was getting out. 05:32.560 --> 05:34.760 He kept talking about it. 05:34.760 --> 05:36.880 Sent me crazy, I guess. 05:36.880 --> 05:37.880 So you beat him up? 05:37.880 --> 05:38.880 No. 05:38.880 --> 05:41.440 He had a knife and I got cut. 05:41.440 --> 05:43.440 They sent me to the infirmary. 05:43.440 --> 05:46.360 Did they treat you all right there? 05:46.360 --> 05:48.160 I guess so. 05:48.160 --> 05:50.240 I don't know. 05:50.240 --> 05:52.000 Why don't they let me alone? 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 Let you alone? 05:53.000 --> 05:54.000 Who? 05:54.000 --> 05:55.000 Everybody. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 Just let me alone. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.800 I haven't been able to locate your family, Jerry. 05:57.800 --> 05:59.920 Neither have I. 05:59.920 --> 06:02.600 They threw me out of the house two years ago and I haven't seen them since. 06:02.600 --> 06:03.600 Have you tried? 06:03.600 --> 06:04.600 Did you look? 06:04.600 --> 06:05.600 Ah, who needs them? 06:05.600 --> 06:12.880 He told me a lot more and I got to know him well. 06:12.880 --> 06:16.120 That's when I was sure that this was a sick kid, not an habitual criminal. 06:16.120 --> 06:18.520 But he'd learned to hate. 06:18.520 --> 06:21.480 It was in his face, his manner. 06:21.480 --> 06:24.360 It was a furious hate, the stuff killings made of. 06:24.360 --> 06:25.840 That's what I wanted to stop. 06:25.840 --> 06:28.760 So I took him before the parole board. 06:28.760 --> 06:31.360 I've been telling these people about you, Jerry. 06:31.360 --> 06:32.360 Yeah. 06:32.360 --> 06:35.800 Mr. McIntyre feels that yours is a special case, Jerry. 06:35.800 --> 06:39.640 The fact that you gave evidence against the man who supplied you with narcotics, even 06:39.640 --> 06:43.960 though we couldn't prove anything against him, still it's in your favor. 06:43.960 --> 06:44.960 So? 06:44.960 --> 06:49.640 However, we feel you should know that we don't altogether agree with Mr. McIntyre. 06:49.640 --> 06:51.920 Your record here hasn't been very promising. 06:51.920 --> 06:54.560 So let's get it over with. 06:54.560 --> 06:58.480 The recommendation has been made that you be released from correction school. 06:58.480 --> 07:02.680 Now if we grant a parole, Mr. McIntyre has arranged for you to work in a department store 07:02.680 --> 07:03.680 in Oakland. 07:03.680 --> 07:06.000 I didn't ask a favor. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.560 In view of the boy's attitude, Mr. McIntyre... 07:08.560 --> 07:10.280 I know, he's got a chip. 07:10.280 --> 07:12.520 But isn't that enough for you to see what I meant in my report? 07:12.520 --> 07:15.400 We have a responsibility to the citizen, to the community. 07:15.400 --> 07:16.800 I don't say the boy's incorrigible. 07:16.800 --> 07:18.520 Then give him a chance. 07:18.520 --> 07:21.760 You know the background, he's lived with punishments all his life. 07:21.760 --> 07:23.600 More of it won't cure anything. 07:23.600 --> 07:25.920 Let's try a little understanding and kindness. 07:25.920 --> 07:27.480 Very well, Mr. McIntyre. 07:27.480 --> 07:33.520 The board will make its decision this afternoon. 07:33.520 --> 07:37.560 Jerry Baxter was released the following week and after being warned about association with 07:37.560 --> 07:42.200 former friends, was given $50 to get to Oakland and rent a room. 07:42.200 --> 07:46.600 I arranged a weekly report date with him and gave him $20 more for luck. 07:46.600 --> 07:51.880 He left the correction school at 10.30 and five minutes later was in the worst trouble 07:51.880 --> 07:53.880 he'd ever found in his life. 07:53.880 --> 07:55.880 Get in. 07:55.880 --> 07:59.560 Going as far as Oakland? 07:59.560 --> 08:00.560 Sure. 08:00.560 --> 08:07.560 Well, saves me bus fare. 08:07.560 --> 08:09.560 You live in Oakland? 08:09.560 --> 08:11.120 I got a job there. 08:11.120 --> 08:13.000 I used to live in San Francisco. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.520 Big hop across the bay. 08:16.520 --> 08:17.520 Yeah. 08:17.520 --> 08:19.520 Do you mind driving fast? 08:19.520 --> 08:20.520 I don't mind. 08:20.520 --> 08:21.520 I'm in a hurry. 08:21.520 --> 08:22.520 Okay with me. 08:22.520 --> 08:29.520 Jerry sat in the car and tried to watch the countryside flashing by. 08:29.520 --> 08:32.520 He didn't want to look at a woman. 08:32.520 --> 08:34.320 He said that. 08:34.320 --> 08:38.000 She was pretty, well dressed, wearing a reddish fur coat. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.040 He knew she had plenty of money. 08:40.040 --> 08:44.560 It would have been easy to make her stop the car, put her out and take whatever she had. 08:44.560 --> 08:46.560 It would have been easy. 08:46.560 --> 08:48.560 But he didn't do it. 08:48.560 --> 08:49.560 Just sat. 08:49.560 --> 08:50.560 That's what he said he did. 08:50.560 --> 08:56.280 Well, we'll be in Oakland in a couple more miles. 08:56.280 --> 08:59.160 I'm going to stop at the drug store in the next corner. 08:59.160 --> 09:00.160 Make a phone call, okay? 09:00.160 --> 09:03.160 All right with me. 09:03.160 --> 09:05.640 Gee, parking's getting awful. 09:05.640 --> 09:06.640 Look at this. 09:06.640 --> 09:08.640 That is a place right outside the store. 09:08.640 --> 09:10.120 Oh no, that's not good. 09:10.120 --> 09:11.120 It's a fire plug. 09:11.120 --> 09:12.120 Oh, that's all right. 09:12.120 --> 09:13.120 I won't be a minute. 09:13.120 --> 09:14.800 You slide over behind the wheel. 09:14.800 --> 09:15.800 You can drive, can't you? 09:15.800 --> 09:16.800 Sure, but I... 09:16.800 --> 09:17.800 It's okay. 09:17.800 --> 09:20.800 If you get a ticket, it's on me. 09:20.800 --> 09:28.600 I'll be right back. 09:28.600 --> 09:29.600 He was alone in the car. 09:29.600 --> 09:30.600 The keys were in the ignition. 09:30.600 --> 09:31.600 It would have been easy. 09:31.600 --> 09:35.800 If he ever thought of doing it, that was the time. 09:35.800 --> 09:37.240 But he didn't think of it. 09:37.240 --> 09:38.720 He said he didn't. 09:38.720 --> 09:42.640 He was just sitting there waiting for her to come out when the squad car came around 09:42.640 --> 09:44.640 the corner and stopped. 09:44.640 --> 09:48.280 Two patrolmen got out. 09:48.280 --> 09:52.160 Know where you parked, son? 09:52.160 --> 09:53.160 Yeah. 09:53.160 --> 09:54.160 How about moving it? 09:54.160 --> 09:55.640 Look, I don't see no fire. 09:55.640 --> 09:57.200 There's no place else in the block. 09:57.200 --> 09:58.200 It's just for a minute. 09:58.200 --> 09:59.200 Better move it anyway. 09:59.200 --> 10:00.200 Oh. 10:00.200 --> 10:01.200 Hold it. 10:01.200 --> 10:02.200 Is this your car? 10:02.200 --> 10:03.200 No, something's in the store. 10:03.200 --> 10:04.200 I'm making a call. 10:04.200 --> 10:05.200 How come you're driving? 10:05.200 --> 10:06.200 I'm not. 10:06.200 --> 10:07.200 She asked me to sit behind the wheel. 10:07.200 --> 10:08.200 Stolen? 10:08.200 --> 10:09.200 Yeah. 10:09.200 --> 10:10.200 Better get out, kid. 10:10.200 --> 10:11.200 What for? 10:11.200 --> 10:12.200 I haven't done anything. 10:12.200 --> 10:13.200 Come on. 10:13.200 --> 10:14.200 I tell you, it's not mine. 10:14.200 --> 10:15.200 Ask her. 10:15.200 --> 10:16.200 She's right in the drug store. 10:16.200 --> 10:18.800 A red fur coat and yellow hair. 10:18.800 --> 10:19.800 Ask her. 10:19.800 --> 10:20.800 What's your name? 10:20.800 --> 10:21.800 Jerry Baxter. 10:21.800 --> 10:22.800 Where do you live? 10:22.800 --> 10:23.800 I'm in Oakland. 10:23.800 --> 10:24.800 The dress? 10:24.800 --> 10:25.800 Yeah. 10:25.800 --> 10:28.200 I haven't got one yet. 10:28.200 --> 10:29.200 I got a job. 10:29.200 --> 10:30.200 Listen. 10:30.200 --> 10:31.200 What do you got? 10:31.200 --> 10:32.200 Glove compartment. 10:32.200 --> 10:35.200 Loaded 38 in this package. 10:35.200 --> 10:36.200 That ain't mine. 10:36.200 --> 10:37.880 I never even seen it. 10:37.880 --> 10:38.880 Sure. 10:38.880 --> 10:39.880 Hey. 10:39.880 --> 10:41.760 This is for the narcotics squad. 10:41.760 --> 10:42.760 What is this? 10:42.760 --> 10:43.760 That stuff belongs to her. 10:43.760 --> 10:45.680 Why don't you go in the store and get her? 10:45.680 --> 10:47.120 I was only hitching a ride. 10:47.120 --> 10:48.120 I don't know anything about... 10:48.120 --> 10:49.120 Take a look. 10:49.120 --> 10:50.120 Okay. 10:50.120 --> 10:51.120 Look, give me a break, will you? 10:51.120 --> 10:52.120 She picked me up. 10:52.120 --> 10:54.480 I don't know about a gunner or that stuff. 10:54.480 --> 10:56.480 Uh-huh. 10:56.480 --> 10:57.480 Okay. 10:57.480 --> 10:58.480 Let's go. 10:58.480 --> 10:59.480 You find her? 10:59.480 --> 11:03.160 The manager didn't see any woman in a fur coat come in. 11:03.160 --> 11:04.360 She went in there. 11:04.360 --> 11:05.840 I tell you, she did. 11:05.840 --> 11:06.840 You come with me. 11:06.840 --> 11:07.840 Mel, you drive this car. 11:07.840 --> 11:08.840 Right. 11:08.840 --> 11:16.160 I'll take you to the store. 11:16.160 --> 11:18.040 They brought Jerry into Oakland and locked him up. 11:18.040 --> 11:19.760 They kept him there all night. 11:19.760 --> 11:23.200 I was notified and the next morning was in the office with two detectives when they brought 11:23.200 --> 11:24.200 him in. 11:24.200 --> 11:25.200 Mr. McIntyre. 11:25.200 --> 11:26.200 How do you feel, Jerry? 11:26.200 --> 11:27.200 Sit down. 11:27.200 --> 11:28.200 I didn't do it. 11:28.200 --> 11:29.200 I didn't. 11:29.200 --> 11:30.200 Maybe you didn't. 11:30.200 --> 11:31.200 They locked me up. 11:31.200 --> 11:32.200 They didn't give me a chance. 11:32.200 --> 11:33.200 You'll get a chance. 11:33.200 --> 11:34.200 Have you seen this gun before? 11:34.200 --> 11:35.200 Oh, no. 11:35.200 --> 11:36.200 I don't know. 11:36.200 --> 11:37.200 I don't know. 11:37.200 --> 11:38.880 Have you seen this gun before? 11:38.880 --> 11:39.880 I guess so. 11:39.880 --> 11:40.880 It was in the car. 11:40.880 --> 11:41.880 I told you. 11:41.880 --> 11:42.880 Narcotics too? 11:42.880 --> 11:43.880 Just in the car? 11:43.880 --> 11:44.880 Yeah. 11:44.880 --> 11:45.880 What about this woman, Jerry? 11:45.880 --> 11:46.880 I don't know. 11:46.880 --> 11:48.000 She didn't say her name. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.840 I was hitching a ride and she picked me up on my way to Oakland. 11:50.840 --> 11:53.240 Why didn't you take the bus? 11:53.240 --> 11:56.600 Oh, maybe because like you said, I was on my own. 11:56.600 --> 11:57.600 I was free. 11:57.600 --> 12:00.920 Anyhow, I thought I'd save a couple of bucks. 12:00.920 --> 12:04.040 You didn't tell the officers yesterday you were just out of corrections school. 12:04.040 --> 12:05.040 Okay, I didn't. 12:05.040 --> 12:07.960 Look, we know it was a stolen car. 12:07.960 --> 12:10.880 We find narcotics in a gun. 12:10.880 --> 12:12.760 Didn't take you long to get back to peddling, did it? 12:12.760 --> 12:13.760 I'm not. 12:13.760 --> 12:14.760 I didn't. 12:14.760 --> 12:15.760 It was the woman. 12:15.760 --> 12:19.120 She had a red fur coat and blue shoes and yellow hair. 12:19.120 --> 12:20.720 Why don't you look for her? 12:20.720 --> 12:21.720 Where were you taking it? 12:21.720 --> 12:23.440 Who sold it to you? 12:23.440 --> 12:24.440 Jerry? 12:24.440 --> 12:27.680 I'm not lying, Mr. McIntyre. 12:27.680 --> 12:28.680 But I got a record. 12:28.680 --> 12:29.680 They won't believe me. 12:29.680 --> 12:33.000 If you're telling the truth, I'll believe you. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 Lock him up. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 What's the story? 12:35.000 --> 12:37.160 You're gonna lock me up? 12:37.160 --> 12:38.760 Take it easy, Jerry. 12:38.760 --> 12:39.760 Easy? 12:39.760 --> 12:41.720 You ever been locked up? 12:41.720 --> 12:43.280 I gotta find that woman. 12:43.280 --> 12:45.520 She framed me. 12:45.520 --> 12:46.760 You gotta let me find her. 12:46.760 --> 12:47.760 She'll tell you. 12:47.760 --> 12:48.760 I'll try. 12:48.760 --> 12:49.760 I'll do what I can. 12:49.760 --> 12:51.720 Yeah, and I rot. 12:51.720 --> 12:52.720 You got me. 12:52.720 --> 12:53.720 That's all you want. 12:53.720 --> 12:54.720 No sense talking to him. 12:54.720 --> 12:55.720 Come on. 12:55.720 --> 12:56.720 You're not locking me up again. 12:56.720 --> 12:57.720 No, no. 12:57.720 --> 12:58.720 Jerry! 12:58.720 --> 12:59.720 Get back! 12:59.720 --> 13:00.720 Put the gun down. 13:00.720 --> 13:01.720 Get back, all of you. 13:01.720 --> 13:02.720 Listen to me, Jerry. 13:02.720 --> 13:03.720 Don't try it. 13:03.720 --> 13:04.720 Not even you, Mr. McIntyre. 13:04.720 --> 13:05.720 I mean it. 13:05.720 --> 13:06.720 You crazy little dope. 13:06.720 --> 13:07.720 Get away from that door. 13:07.720 --> 13:08.720 I'm going out. 13:08.720 --> 13:09.720 You try and stop me, and I'll kill you. 13:09.720 --> 13:15.480 Auto-Lite is bringing you back to the office of the 13:15.480 --> 13:37.920 truth about Jerry Baxter. 13:37.920 --> 13:43.080 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 13:43.080 --> 14:10.400 Dream嘻's 14:10.400 --> 14:15.240 distributor, generator, and the starting motor work together like a team, Hap, to give you 14:15.240 --> 14:18.800 the smoothest performance money can buy. 14:18.800 --> 14:23.080 That's why Auto Light electrical systems are used as original factory equipment on many 14:23.080 --> 14:26.160 leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 14:26.160 --> 14:27.760 You've sold me, Harlow. 14:27.760 --> 14:28.760 Fine. 14:28.760 --> 14:32.680 And friends, insist on Auto Light original factory parts when your Auto Light equipped 14:32.680 --> 14:34.760 car needs replacements. 14:34.760 --> 14:39.020 You can get them at your nearest authorized Auto Light service station listed in the classified 14:39.020 --> 14:43.720 section of your phone book under automotive electrical service, or at the car dealer who 14:43.720 --> 14:49.700 sells your make of car, or wherever you see the Auto Light original factory parts sign. 14:49.700 --> 14:53.480 And remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 14:53.480 --> 14:59.640 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Mr. Gregory Peck, in Elliot 14:59.640 --> 15:06.240 Lewis's production of The Truth About Jerry Baxter, a tale well calculated to keep you 15:06.240 --> 15:10.800 in suspense. 15:10.800 --> 15:21.320 He got away, and it was all headlined in the afternoon editions. 15:21.320 --> 15:26.360 Teenage addict breaks out for details, see page two. 15:26.360 --> 15:27.360 Details. 15:27.360 --> 15:29.760 A frightened boy ran away. 15:29.760 --> 15:34.280 He didn't want to be locked up for something he said he hadn't done. 15:34.280 --> 15:36.480 He had a loaded gun, and that was bad. 15:36.480 --> 15:40.240 But there was something else that was worse. 15:40.240 --> 15:42.040 Any news, Sergeant? 15:42.040 --> 15:43.120 No. 15:43.120 --> 15:44.880 That kid knows the city is going to be tough. 15:44.880 --> 15:45.880 He knows it. 15:45.880 --> 15:46.880 San Francisco, too. 15:46.880 --> 15:47.880 He was born there. 15:47.880 --> 15:48.880 He's got a gun. 15:48.880 --> 15:49.880 He's going to try and get narcotics. 15:49.880 --> 15:50.880 Maybe not. 15:50.880 --> 15:51.880 Are you kidding? 15:51.880 --> 15:55.680 You want a crazy kid running around loose shooting up to town? 15:55.680 --> 15:56.680 No. 15:56.680 --> 15:57.680 Well. 15:57.680 --> 15:58.680 Sergeant Holley. 15:58.680 --> 15:59.680 Where? 15:59.680 --> 16:00.680 Wait a minute. 16:00.680 --> 16:01.680 Bannister, get this. 16:01.680 --> 16:02.680 Yeah. 16:02.680 --> 16:05.680 Yeah, okay, give it to me again. 16:05.680 --> 16:06.680 Right. 16:06.680 --> 16:07.680 Be right over. 16:07.680 --> 16:08.680 Bannister, you got to cross the bay. 16:08.680 --> 16:09.680 We're going over. 16:09.680 --> 16:10.680 You coming, Mac? 16:10.680 --> 16:11.680 All right. 16:11.680 --> 16:12.680 Oh, Holley. 16:12.680 --> 16:13.680 They won't shoot, will they? 16:13.680 --> 16:14.680 I don't know. 16:14.680 --> 16:15.680 We got to get them. 16:15.680 --> 16:16.680 We crossed the bridge to San Francisco. 16:16.680 --> 16:17.680 A drug addict on Market Street had reported that a boy answering Jerry's description had 16:17.680 --> 16:18.680 held him up. 16:18.680 --> 16:19.680 Forced him to hand over a gun to the police. 16:19.680 --> 16:20.680 He was shot. 16:20.680 --> 16:21.680 He was shot. 16:21.680 --> 16:22.680 He was shot. 16:22.680 --> 16:23.680 He was shot. 16:23.680 --> 16:24.680 He was shot. 16:24.680 --> 16:25.680 He was shot. 16:25.680 --> 16:26.680 He was shot. 16:26.680 --> 16:27.680 He was shot. 16:27.680 --> 16:28.680 He was shot. 16:28.680 --> 16:29.680 He was shot. 16:29.680 --> 16:30.680 He was shot. 16:30.680 --> 16:31.680 He was shot. 16:31.680 --> 16:32.680 He was shot. 16:32.680 --> 16:33.680 He was shot. 16:33.680 --> 16:34.680 I forced him to hand over a supply of drugs. 16:34.680 --> 16:37.660 I stayed with Sergeant Holley because I wanted to be there if they found him. 16:37.660 --> 16:40.460 I wanted to find him myself. 16:40.460 --> 16:41.720 Night came and we kept on looking. 16:41.720 --> 16:44.920 The search always led us to the South City. 16:44.920 --> 16:47.220 It was narrowing down as we got calls. 16:47.220 --> 16:50.460 And we knew that he must be nearby. 16:50.460 --> 16:55.320 Anything in there, Bannister? 16:55.320 --> 16:56.320 No. 16:56.320 --> 16:57.320 Dead end. 16:57.320 --> 16:58.320 Right. 16:58.320 --> 17:00.380 We'll try the warehouse across the street. 17:00.380 --> 17:01.440 Check in the car. 17:01.440 --> 17:02.440 See if anything's come in. 17:02.440 --> 17:03.440 Okay. 17:03.440 --> 17:05.640 He's got friends down here, Holly. 17:05.640 --> 17:07.440 There's a million places to hide. 17:07.440 --> 17:09.080 Yeah, I know it. 17:09.080 --> 17:11.040 I'm just wondering if he told the truth. 17:11.040 --> 17:12.040 What do you mean? 17:12.040 --> 17:14.280 How about that woman? 17:14.280 --> 17:16.760 I got him a parole because I believed in him. 17:16.760 --> 17:17.760 So? 17:17.760 --> 17:18.760 We all make mistakes. 17:18.760 --> 17:19.920 Oh, you don't understand. 17:19.920 --> 17:21.720 Suppose he wasn't lying. 17:21.720 --> 17:23.600 Suppose he did hitch a ride and it was the truth. 17:23.600 --> 17:25.160 It's a lot of coincidence, Mac. 17:25.160 --> 17:27.480 He's got a record of peddling. 17:27.480 --> 17:30.440 He's picked up in a stolen car, doped in the glove compartment. 17:30.440 --> 17:32.520 What does that sound like? 17:32.520 --> 17:33.520 Yeah, sure. 17:33.520 --> 17:36.960 Well, there's another alley around the side. 17:36.960 --> 17:37.960 I'll take a look. 17:37.960 --> 17:38.960 Be careful. 17:38.960 --> 17:40.960 Just yell and run if you see him. 17:40.960 --> 17:41.960 All right. 17:41.960 --> 18:04.400 Hi, Mr. Mac. 18:04.400 --> 18:12.840 Hello, Jerry. 18:12.840 --> 18:14.680 I got a gun. 18:14.680 --> 18:18.240 Don't you call us cops out there because I feel bad if I had to kill you. 18:18.240 --> 18:20.140 And I don't want to feel bad. 18:20.140 --> 18:21.140 Give me the gun, Jerry. 18:21.140 --> 18:22.720 You know they'll get you. 18:22.720 --> 18:23.720 Nobody can get me. 18:23.720 --> 18:25.840 Why did you run away? 18:25.840 --> 18:27.360 I told you I'd help. 18:27.360 --> 18:28.360 You? 18:28.360 --> 18:29.360 You'd help? 18:29.360 --> 18:31.280 Now give me the gun, Jerry. 18:31.280 --> 18:32.280 I'll stand by you. 18:32.280 --> 18:33.760 You trust me, don't you? 18:33.760 --> 18:35.680 You didn't believe me when I told you about that dame. 18:35.680 --> 18:36.680 You didn't believe me. 18:36.680 --> 18:39.200 Well, I know who she is now. 18:39.200 --> 18:40.800 A friend told me. 18:40.800 --> 18:42.320 She's a friend of a friend. 18:42.320 --> 18:43.320 What's her name? 18:43.320 --> 18:44.320 Oh, no, no, no. 18:44.320 --> 18:45.320 I'm too smart. 18:45.320 --> 18:48.080 You know something? 18:48.080 --> 18:50.760 I think maybe I'm going up there to kill myself, a dame. 18:50.760 --> 18:51.940 Oh, Jerry, no. 18:51.940 --> 18:52.940 Give up. 18:52.940 --> 18:53.940 Let the police take care of it. 18:53.940 --> 18:54.940 They'll have to believe you now. 18:54.940 --> 18:57.080 I've never shot one of these. 18:57.080 --> 18:59.240 Kind of heavy, huh? 18:59.240 --> 19:00.240 Kid, come on. 19:00.240 --> 19:01.240 Come with me. 19:01.240 --> 19:02.240 I've got to go get her. 19:02.240 --> 19:05.240 Then you'll believe me. 19:05.240 --> 19:09.000 Jerry, let me come with you. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.520 Don't go out there alone. 19:11.520 --> 19:12.520 Sure. 19:12.520 --> 19:13.520 Okay. 19:13.520 --> 19:18.160 Don't start anything, Mr. Mack. 19:18.160 --> 19:20.720 I don't want to hurt you. 19:20.720 --> 19:25.640 You know? 19:25.640 --> 19:29.040 I was hoping when we got on the street that Holly or Bannister would be there, but they 19:29.040 --> 19:30.040 weren't. 19:30.040 --> 19:33.320 I saw the man with the prowl car across at the corner, empty. 19:33.320 --> 19:35.840 I couldn't take a chance, not only for my own skin, but Jerry's. 19:35.840 --> 19:36.840 They'd be shooting. 19:36.840 --> 19:37.840 So I walked with him. 19:37.840 --> 19:40.240 I wasn't able to get near enough to grab the gun. 19:40.240 --> 19:46.120 As we passed under a street lamp, I saw his face, pale and tight, but his eyes were clear. 19:46.120 --> 19:48.120 I knew he'd taken none of the stolen narcotics. 19:48.120 --> 19:50.120 He hadn't taken it yet. 19:50.120 --> 19:51.120 We didn't go far. 19:51.120 --> 19:56.640 He stopped at a rundown hotel and, signaling me to walk ahead, went up the back stairs. 19:56.640 --> 20:03.160 I remember the smell of that place, old and rotten. 20:03.160 --> 20:07.480 306. 20:07.480 --> 20:10.280 How come you want your kind of job, Mr. Mack? 20:10.280 --> 20:13.200 You should have been something else, a nice guy like you. 20:13.200 --> 20:15.040 Give me the gun, Jerry. 20:15.040 --> 20:16.040 Don't do it. 20:16.040 --> 20:17.040 Don't be scared. 20:17.040 --> 20:18.040 Yes? 20:18.040 --> 20:27.040 Telegram, Miss. 20:27.040 --> 20:30.920 Oh, you kidding? 20:30.920 --> 20:31.920 Go away. 20:31.920 --> 20:34.920 Open up or I'll shoot through the door. 20:34.920 --> 20:35.920 Okay. 20:35.920 --> 20:38.920 What do you want? 20:38.920 --> 20:39.920 You. 20:39.920 --> 20:41.920 I want to talk to you. 20:41.920 --> 20:42.920 Hi, Peggy. 20:42.920 --> 20:43.920 Hey. 20:43.920 --> 20:44.920 You're the kid that... 20:44.920 --> 20:45.920 I'm the kid. 20:45.920 --> 20:46.920 Get inside. 20:46.920 --> 20:47.920 Mr., are you a cop? 20:47.920 --> 20:48.920 This is a kid... 20:48.920 --> 20:49.920 Shut up. 20:49.920 --> 20:50.920 What a dump. 20:50.920 --> 20:51.920 Drop it, Jerry. 20:51.920 --> 20:52.920 Drop it. 20:52.920 --> 20:53.920 Harry. 20:53.920 --> 20:54.920 Move over there. 20:54.920 --> 20:55.920 You too, mister. 20:55.920 --> 21:02.920 Here's the last pedal of the stuff for me, Mr. Mack. 21:02.920 --> 21:03.920 Remember? 21:03.920 --> 21:04.920 Harry Richards. 21:04.920 --> 21:07.440 I told you about him. 21:07.440 --> 21:09.840 His wife's a lass, too. 21:09.840 --> 21:10.840 Didn't know you were married, Harry. 21:10.840 --> 21:13.840 You didn't think you'd get away with it, did you, kid? 21:13.840 --> 21:15.280 Business has been bad since you squealed. 21:15.280 --> 21:17.000 I had to lay low and it's cost me plenty. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 This your wife? 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 Yeah. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 You sent her out to pick up Jerry and frame him? 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 That's it. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Smart little punk to find us. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.760 No, dumb. 21:26.760 --> 21:28.160 I think I'll kill you too, Harry. 21:28.160 --> 21:29.160 Oh, sure you will. 21:29.160 --> 21:32.560 I don't know what you're going to do, Richards, but a narcotics rap is better than murder. 21:32.560 --> 21:34.040 I'll be safe on both counts. 21:34.040 --> 21:35.040 Jerry will be. 21:35.040 --> 21:36.040 Hey, you little... 21:36.040 --> 21:37.040 Cut it out. 21:37.040 --> 21:38.040 You'll kill him. 21:38.040 --> 21:39.040 Him? 21:39.040 --> 21:40.040 You, mister. 21:40.040 --> 21:41.040 I'm gonna shoot you. 21:41.040 --> 21:46.920 Stick your bolt in the closet and put the gun in little Jerry's hand. 21:46.920 --> 21:48.920 When he wakes up, he can explain it to all your pals. 21:48.920 --> 21:49.920 What about us, Harry? 21:49.920 --> 21:50.920 They'll figure something's wrong. 21:50.920 --> 21:51.920 You got a better idea? 21:51.920 --> 21:54.080 What do I do, let this guy go and get sent up for life? 21:54.080 --> 21:55.720 No, we're going to take a long trip. 21:55.720 --> 21:57.720 By the time they figure it out, we can be in Mexico anywhere. 21:57.720 --> 21:58.720 Now go on, get packed. 21:58.720 --> 21:59.720 All right. 21:59.720 --> 22:10.240 The woman threw things into a suitcase and Harry Richards leaned against the wall. 22:10.240 --> 22:12.680 Didn't take his eyes off me. 22:12.680 --> 22:15.000 Jerry groaned once, but didn't come out of it. 22:15.000 --> 22:18.880 There was a bad cut on his head where the barrel with the gun had hit him. 22:18.880 --> 22:19.880 Then they were ready. 22:19.880 --> 22:24.800 He dragged the boy to a closet, put him in, turned around to me and... 22:24.800 --> 22:28.080 All right, mister, turn around. 22:28.080 --> 22:29.080 Turn around, I said. 22:29.080 --> 22:30.080 No thanks. 22:30.080 --> 22:56.400 Police, ma'am, would you like to search the room, please? 22:56.400 --> 23:02.240 My shoulder hurt, and my head. 23:02.240 --> 23:05.520 I heard banister and holly down the hall. 23:05.520 --> 23:11.840 I tried to talk to the boy, but he was almost out of his mind with fear. 23:11.840 --> 23:15.640 Then when I tried to get the gun, he hit me. 23:15.640 --> 23:20.120 It was a long way off that sound. 23:20.120 --> 23:23.440 It faded, then came back. 23:23.440 --> 23:27.200 I had to get my head clear before they came in. 23:27.200 --> 23:29.400 Jerry had tried to shoot it out with him. 23:29.400 --> 23:30.400 Open up. 23:30.400 --> 23:31.400 Police. 23:31.400 --> 23:34.400 It's not locked. 23:34.400 --> 23:39.440 Hey, smell something? 23:39.440 --> 23:40.440 Quartite. 23:40.440 --> 23:42.440 Gun's been fired. 23:42.440 --> 23:43.440 Closet. 23:43.440 --> 23:44.440 Must be. 23:44.440 --> 23:47.440 What do you think? 23:47.440 --> 23:51.440 Wait a minute. 23:51.440 --> 23:57.760 Jerry, come out with your hands up. 23:57.760 --> 23:58.760 Come out. 23:58.760 --> 23:59.760 I can't. 23:59.760 --> 24:00.760 I can't stand it anymore. 24:00.760 --> 24:01.760 It's killing me. 24:01.760 --> 24:02.760 I gotta get out. 24:02.760 --> 24:03.760 I got to. 24:03.760 --> 24:04.760 I got to. 24:04.760 --> 24:05.760 Get me out. 24:05.760 --> 24:06.760 Get me out. 24:06.760 --> 24:07.760 All right, drop the gun, quick. 24:07.760 --> 24:22.760 Mac, Mac, you okay? 24:22.760 --> 24:23.760 Yeah, he didn't do it. 24:23.760 --> 24:24.760 Grab him. 24:24.760 --> 24:25.760 Get away from that window. 24:25.760 --> 24:26.760 I'll jump. 24:26.760 --> 24:27.760 I'll jump. 24:27.760 --> 24:28.760 You'll kill me. 24:28.760 --> 24:29.760 I'll jump. 24:29.760 --> 24:30.760 Jerry, no. 24:30.760 --> 24:31.760 You're not gonna put me in a world, jump. 24:31.760 --> 24:32.760 I'll jump. 24:32.760 --> 24:33.760 I want to. 24:33.760 --> 24:36.760 They'll shut me up, and I'll die. 24:36.760 --> 24:37.760 Oh, no, kid, no. 24:37.760 --> 24:38.760 Why? 24:38.760 --> 24:39.760 He's not, Jerry. 24:39.760 --> 24:40.760 It's the truth. 24:40.760 --> 24:41.760 You believe me. 24:41.760 --> 24:42.760 They know. 24:42.760 --> 24:43.760 You didn't do anything. 24:43.760 --> 24:44.760 Richards did. 24:44.760 --> 24:45.760 So, Mr. McIntire, please, don't. 24:45.760 --> 24:46.760 I'll jump. 24:46.760 --> 24:47.760 We'll see. 24:47.760 --> 24:48.760 I shot you. 24:48.760 --> 24:49.760 Jerry, Jerry, listen to me. 24:49.760 --> 24:50.760 Don't you see? 24:50.760 --> 24:51.760 You're cleared now. 24:51.760 --> 24:52.760 I can tell them about Richards. 24:52.760 --> 24:53.760 You're all right. 24:53.760 --> 24:54.760 No, stay away, please. 24:54.760 --> 24:55.760 Please. 24:55.760 --> 24:56.760 Listen, listen, Jerry. 24:56.760 --> 24:57.760 Listen to me. 24:57.760 --> 24:59.760 We're gonna take care of you. 24:59.760 --> 25:00.760 Not in a cell. 25:00.760 --> 25:01.760 No more cells. 25:01.760 --> 25:02.760 I give you a chance. 25:02.760 --> 25:03.760 You're a good friend. 25:03.760 --> 25:04.760 I'll do it. 25:04.760 --> 25:05.760 You're a good friend. 25:05.760 --> 25:06.760 I'll do it. 25:06.760 --> 25:07.760 I'll do it. 25:07.760 --> 25:08.760 No more cells. 25:08.760 --> 25:09.760 I give you my word. 25:09.760 --> 25:10.760 A hospital where it's clean and quiet. 25:10.760 --> 25:11.760 They won't tie you down. 25:11.760 --> 25:12.760 You can rest. 25:12.760 --> 25:13.760 Listen to me, Jerry. 25:13.760 --> 25:14.760 They'll take care of you. 25:14.760 --> 25:15.760 When you feel better, you can try again. 25:15.760 --> 25:16.760 From scratch. 25:16.760 --> 25:17.760 That'll be it, won't it, Holly? 25:17.760 --> 25:18.760 Won't it? 25:18.760 --> 25:19.760 Oh, sure. 25:19.760 --> 25:20.760 Sure, kid. 25:20.760 --> 25:21.760 We're not lying. 25:21.760 --> 25:22.760 That'll be it. 25:22.760 --> 25:23.760 Help me. 25:23.760 --> 25:24.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:24.760 --> 25:25.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:25.760 --> 25:26.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:26.760 --> 25:27.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:27.760 --> 25:28.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:28.760 --> 25:29.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:29.760 --> 25:30.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:30.760 --> 25:31.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:31.760 --> 25:32.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:32.760 --> 25:33.760 Mr. McIntire. 25:33.760 --> 25:35.760 Help me, Mr. Mc. 25:35.760 --> 25:38.760 You've got to help me. 25:38.760 --> 25:40.560 Sure, Jerry. 25:40.560 --> 25:41.560 Sure. 25:41.560 --> 25:43.320 I got you. 25:43.320 --> 25:46.240 You're okay now. 25:46.240 --> 25:49.260 You'll help me. 25:49.260 --> 25:52.040 You'll believe me. 25:52.040 --> 25:54.120 You will. 25:54.120 --> 25:57.640 You'll help me. 25:57.640 --> 26:00.600 Oh, please. 26:00.600 --> 26:02.400 Please. 26:02.400 --> 26:13.280 We took him with us, not to a cell, but to a hospital room where he could get rest and 26:13.280 --> 26:14.280 quiet. 26:14.280 --> 26:18.080 We caught the Richards that same night at the airport. 26:18.080 --> 26:22.960 We caught the Richards, but two days later I had another youngster to talk to. 26:22.960 --> 26:26.200 This time a 16-year-old girl. 26:26.200 --> 26:29.840 Her mother was with her and wouldn't believe it when I showed her the marijuana we'd taken 26:29.840 --> 26:31.760 from her daughter. 26:31.760 --> 26:34.400 She bought it from a friend in school. 26:34.400 --> 26:36.840 She told me all about it. 26:36.840 --> 26:39.600 And as I listened I thought of Jerry. 26:39.600 --> 26:58.640 And I wondered where it would end. 26:58.640 --> 27:02.560 The Spence, presented by Auto Light. 27:02.560 --> 27:06.920 Tonight's star, Mr. Gregory Peck. 27:06.920 --> 27:11.480 Today we honor our flag, symbol of American freedom. 27:11.480 --> 27:16.280 And on this day it is appropriate that we also honor an American city which typifies 27:16.280 --> 27:18.960 the heritage of our great country. 27:18.960 --> 27:24.800 That city is Detroit, which this year celebrates its 250th anniversary. 27:24.800 --> 27:30.920 Since July 24th, 1701, when Antoine de la Mote Cadillac first set his standard on the 27:30.920 --> 27:36.080 shore of Ville de Troyes, Detroit has never ceased to progress. 27:36.080 --> 27:39.760 Here was developed our greatest tool, the automobile. 27:39.760 --> 27:44.520 And from this arsenal of democracy came many of the sinews of defense which helped keep 27:44.520 --> 27:48.160 our country free through two world conflicts. 27:48.160 --> 27:53.560 And as surely as Detroit has achieved in material sense, so has it contributed to international 27:53.560 --> 27:58.440 understanding and to the cultural and spiritual life of America. 27:58.440 --> 28:02.720 Auto Light is proud to have known and worked with the people of Detroit and gladly takes 28:02.720 --> 28:17.320 this opportunity to extend to them best wishes on their 250th anniversary of their fine city. 28:17.320 --> 28:23.320 Next week on Suspense, Mr. James Mason in another story suggested by Actual Events. 28:23.320 --> 28:28.040 The story of a man whose life was more fantastic than any fiction. 28:28.040 --> 28:39.480 A story we call the greatest thief in the world, presented on Suspense. 28:39.480 --> 28:43.560 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawek 28:43.560 --> 28:45.800 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:45.800 --> 28:50.240 The truth about Jerry Baxter was written for Suspense by Anthony Ellis from a story by Forest 28:50.240 --> 28:52.480 Barnes and Roxy Roth. 28:52.480 --> 28:57.680 In tonight's play, William Tracy was heard as Jerry and John Denner as Sergeant Holley. 28:57.680 --> 29:03.720 Featured in the cast were Clayton Post, Joan Banks, Shep Menken, Hiafrabak and Joseph Kearns. 29:03.720 --> 29:08.280 Gregory Peck will soon be seen in the Warner Brothers picture, Captain Horatio Hornblower. 29:08.280 --> 29:17.480 You can buy world famous Auto Light standard type or resistor type spark plugs, Auto Light 29:17.480 --> 29:22.520 staple batteries, Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 29:22.520 --> 29:25.520 Switch to Auto Light. 29:25.520 --> 29:26.520 Good night. 29:26.520 --> 29:34.800 And remember next week, Mr. James Mason in a tale we call the greatest thief in the world. 29:34.800 --> 29:49.160 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.