WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.000 You are about to hear a story based on actual events to protect the innocent. 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 Names and places have been changed. 00:10.000 --> 00:22.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. William Holden in a story taken from life. 00:22.000 --> 00:26.000 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:26.000 --> 00:35.000 Tonight, Auto Light presents Report on the Jolly Death Riders. 00:35.000 --> 00:41.000 A story about the tragic misuse of hot rod automobiles starring Mr. William Holden. 00:41.000 --> 00:47.000 Well, hi, a half. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 Hi, Harlow. How was the vacation? 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 Oh, Auto Light, I guess. 00:52.000 --> 00:53.000 Auto Light? 00:53.000 --> 00:54.000 Sure, perfect. 00:54.000 --> 00:57.000 Just like the Auto Light electrical system in your Auto Light equipped car. 00:57.000 --> 00:58.000 Why bring that up? 00:58.000 --> 00:59.000 Well, why not? 00:59.000 --> 01:09.000 Your Auto Light electrical system is the willing and wondrous working whiz that produces and stores electricity right under the hood of your car to enable you to start your engine, use your lights, horn, radio, heater. 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 Sure, Harlow, but the vacation... 01:11.000 --> 01:18.000 Oh, there's never a vacation half for the thousands of component parts that go to make up the complete Auto Light electrical system. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 So that's why my Auto Light equipped car is ready to go every time I turn the switch. 01:22.000 --> 01:30.000 Right, you are half, and that's why Auto Light electrical systems are used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 You've sold me, Harlow. 01:31.000 --> 01:37.000 So friends, take a tip from me and specify Auto Light original factory parts when replacements are needed. 01:37.000 --> 01:42.000 You'll find it pays because you're always right with Auto Light. 01:42.000 --> 01:53.000 And now with report on the jolly death riders and the performance of Mr. William Holden, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 02:03.000 --> 02:04.000 Hi, Harlow. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 Oh, hi, Cap. 02:06.000 --> 02:07.000 Hey, you look tired. 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 I look tired and I got a right to look tired. 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 Wrap it up. 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 Ask me sometime when I'm not so beat. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 I hate them like this. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 We all do. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 Just kids, Cap. 02:17.000 --> 02:20.000 Just a bunch of punk kids that should have had more sense. 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 They need a good lesson. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 They've had a good one. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 Look, I'll be in the other office making out my report in case anybody wants me. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 I'll relay the information. 02:28.000 --> 02:41.000 Thanks. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 Let's see now. 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 Accident report. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Oh. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Murder. 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 Yeah, that'd be a better word for it. 02:51.000 --> 02:59.000 From Lieutenant Harbor, San Francisco Police Department to Traffic Division, August 27th, 1951. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Report on the jolly high riders. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 Jolly death riders might be more appropriate. 03:06.000 --> 03:19.000 At approximately 8.35 p.m., August 22nd, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Milford of 3589 Glendon Drive, Berkeley, California, were driving in their 1949 sedan along the Bay Flats, 03:19.000 --> 03:23.000 approaching the ramp into the Oakland Bay Bridge. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Brackets. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Special note. 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 August 22nd, with the 10th anniversary of the Milfords. 03:30.000 --> 03:36.000 Warren Milford had arranged for a surprise party at his sister-in-law's home in the Marina District. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 And brackets. 03:38.000 --> 03:48.000 As the Milfords passed through the tunnel on the Yerba Gwena Island and approached the bay half of the bridge, traffic at that time of evening was extremely light. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 I think we should have telephoned them, Warren. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Huh? Why? 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 They might not be home. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 Well, I'm enjoying the ride anyway. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 Nice night? 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Yes, it is. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 No fog. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 Clear as a bell. 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 Listen, Warren, I don't want you and that brother of yours to get started on that baseball. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 That's all the two of you ever talk about. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Gladys, what are you talking about? 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Well, from the minute we get together, it's baseball. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 Seals here, seals there. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 You think that's all there was in the... 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 Hey, hey, look at those two cars coming this way. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Sure are going awfully fast. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 But they must be crazy. 04:25.000 --> 04:26.000 They're racing. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 Warren, they're right in the middle of the bridge. 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Oh, the schools. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 Look at those hot rods piled up with a bunch of youngsters. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Warren, they're not moving over. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Hey, you darn fools, get over. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Warren. 04:39.000 --> 04:53.000 What? 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 In order to avoid a head-on collision with one of the hot rods, 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Warren Milford swerved his car to the right, 04:58.000 --> 05:03.000 but he lost control and crashed into one of the steel beam supports of the bridge. 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 Neither one of the rod-hot cars involved stopped 05:06.000 --> 05:09.000 and not one of the other passing motorists who stopped to render assistance 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 was able to give any specific information to the officers at the scene of the accident. 05:14.000 --> 05:18.000 In view of that fact, no general alarm was spread. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Results of the accident. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Warren Milford was thrown clear of the crash. 05:23.000 --> 05:27.000 He miraculously only suffered cuts and bruises. 05:27.000 --> 05:32.000 His wife, Gladys, died of internal injuries in the ambulance. 05:32.000 --> 05:36.000 Warren Milford was informed of his wife's death at the receiving hospital. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Our tenth wedding anniversary. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 She didn't know a thing. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 I'm so sorry. 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 Mr. Milford, I'd like you to try to answer just a few questions for me. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 Oh, things she probably thought I hadn't remembered, but I did. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 I know it's hard for you, Mr. Milford. 05:50.000 --> 05:55.000 I know it's awfully hard, but you think you would be able to identify either one of the cars? 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 Cars? 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 Oh, kids. They were just kids. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Kids? 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 The upper Joyride. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 Could you identify any one of them if you saw them again? 06:05.000 --> 06:08.000 No. No, I didn't see any faces. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 They weren't all boys, though. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Some girls, I think. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Just a bunch of jolly high riders. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 What about the cars, Mr. Milford? What kind were they? 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 Well, you've seen them. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 All over town, all the young high school kids have them. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 Hot rods. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Hot rods? 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Could you identify just one of them? 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 Jolly high riders took her. 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 What was that? 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 It was in white letters on a gold background. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Just for a second I saw it. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 What did you see? 06:37.000 --> 06:42.000 Jolly high riders painted on the side of one of the cars. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 They took her. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 The jolly high riders? 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 Yes, it was white letters on a gold background. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 All right, Mr. Milford, you can rest now. Sergeant? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Kids, just young kids. 06:55.000 --> 07:03.000 Out for a joy ride. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 The following morning I assigned Detective Sergeant Boyle 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 to locate the whereabouts of the hot rod club 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 known as the Jolly High Riders. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 It was a simple matter. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 They were listed in one of the national hot rod magazines. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 The address turned out to be a cheap gymnasium 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 located up on West Docton. 07:20.000 --> 07:24.000 The gym was up on flight of stairs. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 You look inquisitive. You want something? 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 Yeah, the Jolly High Riders. I understand they meet here. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Maybe they do. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Who's in charge? 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 You want a lot of information for that? 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 Yeah. 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 Uh-oh. John Darm, huh? I should have smelled you. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Where's the club meet, mister? 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 I manage the gym, John Darm. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 I'm the head boy. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 The Jolly High Riders use the back room. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 Over there. See the sign? 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 The Jolly High Riders. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 The club meet room. No harm, is it? 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 No harm. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 They got five charter members. 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 Five in the whole club. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Just five? 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Yeah. Just five, John Darm. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 That's a big word with you. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Real big. I learned it young. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 I bet you did. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Who are the charter members, head boy? 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 What's this all about? It's a legitimate club. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 I want names. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Me? Larch Brisson. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 That's a name for you. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Who else besides you, Larch? 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 Oh, Mickey. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Mickey holds it from a parking garage. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 His girlfriend, Julie. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 And Wanda Lake. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 A sweet girl. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 Sweet to me all the time. 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 And Wally. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Fat Bergman, we call him. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Wally the Fat Boy. He's over there. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Hey, look at him. Skipped rope. 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 He wants to lose weight. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 What a laugh, huh, John Darm? 08:39.000 --> 08:40.000 Look at him. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Don't die laughing. Come on. 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 Take it easy, you. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 Bergman? 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Yeah? 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 John Darm, Wally. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 A great big John Darm. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 Oh, yeah. 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 That's nice. I'm glad to know you, sir. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 Yes, sir. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Wally, do any of you boys own a hot rod? 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Yeah, somebody owns a hot rod, John Darm. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 Who? 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 The whole club owns a car. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 What do you think of that? 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 Wally, where were you last night, about 8.30? 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 Last night? 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Last night? Where was I last night? 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 I got such a bad memory. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 You went to a meeting in that room, Wally. 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 You went to a meeting at the club. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Oh, yeah. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 That's right, sir. We had a meeting. 09:25.000 --> 09:29.000 We discussed how come somebody stole our club car. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 What joker stole our car with the name on the side, 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 the Jolly Highriders? 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 And right before the big race on Saturday. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 How come? 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 The Jolly Highriders. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Larch Brisson was a hard boy. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 He managed the cheap gymnasium 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 and lived in one of its back rooms. 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 Walter Bergman, just out of school, lived with his family. 09:52.000 --> 09:56.000 It was Bergman who later volunteered the address of Wanda Lake 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 and of the garage where Mickey Holzer worked. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 The garage supervisor told me that Mickey was downstairs 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 working in the mechanic shop. 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 He was working on the frame of a car. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 It was a familiar frame. 10:11.000 --> 10:12.000 Mickey? 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 I spotted you, mister. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 What do you want? 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 Lieutenant Harbour, San Francisco Police Department. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Getting ready for the race? 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 Maybe, maybe not. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 What are those things you're working on? 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 I'm putting on single acting shocks. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Against the law? 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 No. 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 Is this your car, Mickey? 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 Part of it, when it's finished. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 Oh, that's right. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 You and your girlfriend Julie are charter members 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 of the Jolly High Riders. 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 So? 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 This must be the club car. 10:41.000 --> 10:43.000 The new one. 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 Oh? 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 What happened to the old one? 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Somebody stole it. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Yesterday afternoon, somebody glommed it. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 Can you imagine? 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Why didn't you report the theft to the police? 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 No, because, you know, 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 we thought maybe one of the other rod clubs 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 had made a big joke on us. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 Like for the big race coming up Saturday. 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 Last night, Mickey, your old hot rod car 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 caused a big accident on the Oakland Bay Bridge. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.000 Oh, that's awful. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 That's terrible. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 The driver's in the hospital. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 I'm sorry. 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 His wife's in the city more. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 What's the matter, Mickey? 11:17.000 --> 11:20.000 Nothing, I just hate talk like that. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 Hate talk about killing. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 Is it wrong to hate talk like that? 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 After having spoken with the three male members 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 of the High Riders, 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 I knew I had a tough one on my hands. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 All three boys were lying. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 It was obvious. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Wanda Lake was home when I rang the doorbell 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 of her apartment on Kearney. 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 I took one look at her and understood 11:47.000 --> 11:49.000 why she was sweet. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 Place Lieutenant Harbor, Miss Lake. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 Hey, I'll talk to you for a few minutes. 11:53.000 --> 11:54.000 Uh-huh. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Don't mind my curlers, huh? 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Want some curl for tonight, or just practicing 11:58.000 --> 11:59.000 to dance the gym. Come on in. 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 Thank you. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 I'd offer you a drink, only I can't keep it 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 in the house with Hazel around. 12:05.000 --> 12:06.000 Hazel? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Yeah, she's my older sister. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 She takes care of me ever since my folks died. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 It's a laugh, huh, taking care of me? 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 How old are you, Wanda? 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 Seventeen. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 Rightful age? 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 Yeah. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 What are we going to talk about, Lieutenant? 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 Oh, about the jolly High Riders? 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 Hey, I'm a chariot member. What do you know? 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 That's fine. 12:27.000 --> 12:29.000 I understand your club car was stolen yesterday afternoon. 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 Yeah. Ain't it dreadful? 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 Uh-huh. And it caused a big accident 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 last night, Wanda. 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 You mean our hot rod? 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 That's right. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Hey, how dreadful. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 Where were you last night? 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 Two meeting of our club at the gym. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 We talked all about our dance tonight. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Did you talk about anything else? 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Oh, he sure did. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 We talked all about our club car being stolen 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 right before the big race. 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 Somebody stole it right off the street. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 Wasn't that just dreadful, Lieutenant? 12:55.000 --> 12:59.000 Wanda, just dreadful. 12:59.000 --> 13:07.000 The High Riders had built a solid alibi. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 Whichever one of them had masterminded it 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 had done it with careful planning. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 We had no lead on the other hot rod involved, 13:13.000 --> 13:17.000 so I had to follow through with what I had. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 I had one member yet to talk to, 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Mickey's girlfriend, Julie. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 I made plans to see her last night 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 and the next morning. 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 But a break in the case came sooner than I expected. 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 It was late that same night. 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 I was in the office going over some reports 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 when the call came in. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 Lieutenant Harbour speaking. 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 This is Wally Bergman, the Fat Boy Lieutenant. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 You know Wally? 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 Yeah, Wally. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 I'm so mad. Everybody's gone. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 They're going to meet again in an hour for another race. 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 Where, Wally? 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 The bridge. I'll show them. 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Meet me at the traffic island, Mr. Harbour. 13:49.000 --> 13:51.000 I'll be there. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 I'm so mad. They think they're so smart. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Straight away onto the bridge 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 was practically deserted when we got there. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 As we drew up to the curb of the traffic island, 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 I saw that something was wrong. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 Lying doubled up on the grass was Wally Bergman. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 He had bruises and cuts all over his face 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 and was bleeding at the mouth. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 And standing next to him, 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 hands outstretched, 14:17.000 --> 14:21.000 was Mickey Holson. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 Another meeting, Mickey? 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Look, somebody called me. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 I came to meet somebody. 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Save it, Mickey. Save it. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Tell it to somebody who'll believe you. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 All right, Cap. 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After Bergman 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 had been treated at the clinic, I questioned 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 him. I got no quarters. 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 And I knew that I'd get none 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 from Mickey either. But nevertheless, 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 I had him brought into my office. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Mickey, you're in a bad way. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 It looks like it, doesn't it? 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 A charge of assault and battery can be a bad 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 thing. You gotta prove it. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 Mickey, tell me who was 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 driving the car. 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 You're so smart, figured it out for yourself. 16:43.000 --> 16:45.000 No, I'm not so 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 smart. Just trying to see that 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 things are done right. It's the job 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 of any police officer. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 I wonder if Julie will 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 tell me, Mickey. Ask 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 her. Go ahead. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Ask her. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 What about your mother? 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 You try everything, don't you, copper? 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 You're bitter, Mickey. All right, bitter. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 Is that against the law, too? 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 I'm holding you for 48 hours. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 I'm gonna find that car. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 Go ahead. Be bitter 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 for all 48 hours. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 It seems that every cop over a long 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 period of time develops a sense of intuition. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 I was like any cop. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 And my intuition told me that 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 Mickey Holster was not the real 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 assaulter of Wally Bergen. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 The following morning I had a visitor. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 She was a small, graying 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 old woman. I told her 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 the whole story. Not 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 Mickey, Mr. Policeman. 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 Oh, no, not him. He wouldn't 17:43.000 --> 17:45.000 even hurt a little thing. 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 Tell me, has Mickey ever 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 gotten into any trouble before? Oh, 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 no. His papa died 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 when he was only nine years old. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 Mickey promised his papa he would never 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 lie to me. Mrs. Holster, 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 all I want to know is the name 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 of the person who was driving the car that 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Mickey was in. If I know that person, 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 I'll know who beat up Wally Bergen. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 But Mickey refuses to tell me. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 Oh, maybe I will talk to Mickey. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Maybe he won't lie to me. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 All right, we'll try it. 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 Sergeant, bring in Mickey 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 Holster. As soon as you bring him in, 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 I'll leave you two alone. I have faith 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 in my son. All the faith in 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 the whole world. He promised his 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 papa he wouldn't go back on his 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 word. Mickey is not that kind of 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 a boy. I believe you, Mrs. Holster. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 All right, inside, please. 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 Ma. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 Ma, what are you doing here? 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 My son. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 My son. All right, 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 I'll wait outside. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 What are you doing here? 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 Why'd you come? I came because 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 I have to help you, Mickey. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 Go home. Go home. This is no place 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 for you. Mama should be by her son 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 when he's in trouble. Who called you? 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Nobody called me. I came because 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 I want to help you. Nobody can help me. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 Me alone. You got no business 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 here. Well, I got a lot of business. 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 Mickey, 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 the policeman told me you're in a lot 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 of trouble. He told me that 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 if you would only tell him the name of the 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 boy who was driving the car, 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 he said if you told him that 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Mickey, there would be no more trouble. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 There'd be lots of trouble. Mickey, 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 Mickey, if you won't for your mama, maybe 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 you will for papa. Papa 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 loves you, Mickey. Mark, 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 leave. Papa, for papa, 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Mickey, for him. Mark, 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 get out. Get out. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Papa. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Papa. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 Papa. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 Papa. 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 I'm sorry, Mrs. Holster. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Don't leave. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 Papa. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 Papa. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 I knew my break had to come from within 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 the members of the Gildy Club. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 And Julie, Mickey's girlfriend, 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 was my last chance for that break. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 She worked in a dime store 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 on Mission Street. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 On her lunch hour, I asked her to walk over to the 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 park with me. We sat down 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 on one of the benches. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 I know that somebody 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 in the club has told you not to talk, Julie. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Who told you? 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 Mickey? Please. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 All right, all right. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 Can you tell me who started the High Riders, 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 Julie? 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 Surely you can tell me that. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Mickey went to the gym to work out. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 He got to know the fellas, they all 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 talked. The club got started that 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 way. Who bought the hot rod? 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 They all pitched in. A few dollars from 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 everybody. Where's the car, Julie? 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 We all told you it was stolen. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Yes, yes, I know you told me. But it's a lie. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 You're all lying for no good reason. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 It isn't so much what's been 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 done, Julie. A terrible thing, yes. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 But we want to see that it doesn't happen again. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Can you understand that 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 was 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Mickey driving, Julie? No, he... 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 I mean... I... What do you mean, 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Julie? I told you what you wanted to know. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Someday when you're older, Julie, you'll understand 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 how important this is. I know you will. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 You're not a bad girl, 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 but it's up to me right now to make you 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 understand. Young as you are. Please, 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 I don't want to talk about it. It's because you're afraid. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Please, Mr. Harbor... Julie, someday 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 you and Mickey will be man and wife. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Marriage is the happiness of 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 two people. A long time ago, 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 this man, Warren Milford, and his wife were 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 just like you and Mickey. Mr. Harbor... 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 They made the same plans, they thought the same thoughts, 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 and in each other's arms they felt the same feelings. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 There was then no difference 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 than there is now between you 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 and Mickey. Mr. Harbor, I... 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 You've taken a silly pledge dictated by a person 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 who in the cool of evening strikes down another person 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 in death and thinks nothing about it. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Do you know what a person like this is called, 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 Julie? Do you know? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 I'm afraid. A murderer, Julie, a murderer. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 And if you and I let them go, it can happen 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 again. What they did was wrong 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 and we don't want it to happen again. 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 Tell me, Julie, 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 tell me. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Help Mickey. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 It was Wanda. She was driving 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 it. It was a race with a flying 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 fleet from Oakland. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 On the bridge, Wanda wanted to drive and Lark said 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 it was all right. And the hot rod, 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 where is it? I don't know, I don't 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 know. When we got back to the club, 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Lark said not to worry. He made 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 up the story. He told us not 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 to worry about the car. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 All right, Julie, 22:27.000 --> 22:35.000 it's all right. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 The case of the Jolly High Riders was broken. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 I needed one last item, 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 the car in question. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 I poured over every last 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 bit of testimony by the kids. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 And then it hit me. The big 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 race on Saturday. It was a hunch 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 and I played it. A local paper 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 gave me the location of where the speed 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 test trials were being held. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 A long, sandy stretch of beach 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 on the west end near the peninsula. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 The trials were already in progress 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 when I got there. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 The two of them weren't hard to 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 spot. They were racing in a 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 low, cut down blue car. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 The frame had looked familiar 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 as it whizzed by me. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 I recognized the single shocks 23:19.000 --> 23:25.000 that Mickey had been working on. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Hey, come to the races, huh, 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 John Donne? Hi. Nice looking 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 rod, Larch. The latest. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 46 block, member mountain for the 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 master cylinder, floor ship transmission. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Great for drag. And single acting 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 shocks. Right. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Nice paint job. When are you 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 going to put your club name on the side? 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Soon. Right now. Oh, sure you will. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Right about here, Larch. Hey, 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 don't scratch the paint job with that knife. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 Gold, underneath the blue. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 And I bet if I scratch the rest of it off 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 you copper. Letters J-O. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 You got no right to touch me. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 I played a hunch, Larch. Yeah, you crazy. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 My hunch was that you boys couldn't resist this race. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 Lousy, lousy when a guy can't live his own life. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 I'm arresting you for assault and battery, 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 Larch. And Wanda, you for manslaughter. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 Larch, we can't race. Yeah. 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 That's right, Wanda, you can't race. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 And it may be a long time before you race 24:13.000 --> 24:17.000 again. 24:17.000 --> 24:29.000 I later found out Wally Bergman's reason for wanting to volunteer information. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 The boy had a crush on Wanda. 24:31.000 --> 24:35.000 She encouraged him and then laughed him off. 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 Wanda Lake, not yet 18, will be turned over to juvenile authorities. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Larch Brisson, just 21, 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 and facing a charge of assault and battery, 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 may have some time to think over his mistake. 24:45.000 --> 24:49.000 Actually, the only mistake he made was in trying to cover up the accident. 24:49.000 --> 24:53.000 Hot rods are not really bad things. 24:53.000 --> 24:57.000 They're not wrong. In fact, in some respects, they're healthy. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 For kids to take them apart and put them back together again, 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 to see how fast they can make them run. 25:01.000 --> 25:05.000 It gives them a direction in which to toss a lot of extra energy. 25:05.000 --> 25:09.000 But there's that one important thing. 25:09.000 --> 25:13.000 Hot rods should be driven in places like that stretch of beach on the peninsula. 25:13.000 --> 25:19.000 Places set aside for them, like Murock and the Bonneville Salt Plats in Utah. 25:19.000 --> 25:23.000 Not on the highways. 25:23.000 --> 25:47.000 End of report. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 Suspense. 25:49.000 --> 25:53.000 Highway Auto Light. 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