1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Jeff Chandler in a story taken from life. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,720 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 3 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:27,280 Tonight, Auto Light presents The Case Against Lou Dock, a factual document concerning the 4 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:33,000 San Francisco Tongue Wars, starring Mr. Jeff Chandler. 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,040 Hello, Harlow. 6 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,800 Hi, Hap. 7 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,440 How's it going? 8 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,720 Oh, horrible, if you mean my car. 9 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:43,720 It wastes gas. 10 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,200 It's tough to start. 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,200 Uh-huh. 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,200 Yeah. 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:48,200 Well, why don't you go straight, Hap? 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,200 Straight, Harlow? 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,200 Sure. 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,280 Straight to your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer for a spark plug checkup. 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,200 You see, Hap, the spark plugs are the heart of your car's ignition system, and they've 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:57,440 got to be right. 19 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,760 Now he's got the exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator that tells in an instant whether 20 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,440 your spark plugs are right for your style of driving. 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,720 Well, suppose my plugs only need cleaning. 22 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,720 Why, Hap, your Auto Light spark plug dealer has the specialized equipment to do the job 23 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:11,720 properly. 24 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:16,040 And if replacements are needed, he'll recommend ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, 25 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:22,040 resistor or standard type, to give you smoother performance, quick starts, and gas savings. 26 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,280 So friends, see your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 27 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:31,920 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:38,040 And now, with the case against Lou Dock and the performance of Mr. Jeff Chandler, Auto 29 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:47,640 Light hopes once again to keep you in... 30 00:01:47,640 --> 00:02:01,280 Lieutenant Sunjack, take your men to the other end of the alleyway. 31 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:02,280 Plan them back in the doorway. 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:03,280 It's plenty dark and they won't be seen. 33 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,280 I'll do the same down at this end. 34 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,680 The signal to move will be a sharp flash of a whistle. 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:08,680 You got that? 36 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:09,680 Right. 37 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:10,960 All right, man, you heard the captain. 38 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:11,960 Where's the DA? 39 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:12,960 Over there. 40 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:13,960 Oh, yeah. 41 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:14,960 Hanson, let's get this thing back. 42 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,960 Looks like I'm right on time. 43 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,400 Oh, oh, Glasgow, I'm glad you got here. 44 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,600 This must be an important one. 45 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,560 Looks like the whole San Francisco police force is here. 46 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:23,840 It's a big one, believe me. 47 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,480 Oh, you know Captain of Detective Zubin? 48 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:26,480 Yeah, yeah, we've met. 49 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:27,480 And this is Lieutenant Sunjack. 50 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,480 Glad to meet you. 51 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,480 Glasgow? 52 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,480 The men all have their instructions, the eight. 53 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,480 Good. 54 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,480 Then take your positions. 55 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,480 Okay, men, let's go. 56 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,480 All right, Thompson. 57 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,400 You want to come along with me, Glasgow? 58 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,440 Our stakeout's down about midway in the alley. 59 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:39,440 All right, will you? 60 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:40,440 It's a laundry. 61 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,440 There's a vacant storeroom upstairs. 62 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,880 We can watch it from up there. 63 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,760 The message you left for me back at the newspaper office wasn't too explicit, Mr. D.A. 64 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,560 Well, tonight's the night we've been waiting for. 65 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,880 More murder and mayhem. 66 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,880 Perhaps. 67 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,760 Look, you've arrested hundreds of Chinese before all members of some town. 68 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,760 What good did it do? 69 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Well, none. 70 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,320 Just arresting the hatchet man isn't the answer. 71 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:05,920 Oh, sir. 72 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:12,520 Well, this is it. 73 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,520 Smells empty. 74 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:18,160 The Chinese launderman who ran this shop was hacked to death in the last Tong battle they 75 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,160 held along here. 76 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,160 Come along. 77 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,160 Up those stairs. 78 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,160 Who's having it out tonight? 79 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,760 The Hop Ying Tong and the On Sing. 80 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:28,760 Well? 81 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,040 Kum Jee Ho and Lou Dock. 82 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,120 Yeah, the two most popular and powerful Tong leaders. 83 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,840 I agree with you as far as Kum Jee Ho is concerned, but as for Lou Dock... 84 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,160 I'm more determined than ever to get him. 85 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:44,760 This man was a double-live Glasgow. 86 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,480 By day, a sweet, smiling and innocent silk merchant. 87 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,360 By night, a ruthless murder of his countrymen. 88 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,080 He won't stop the Tongs by convicting Lou Dock. 89 00:03:54,080 --> 00:04:01,520 Well, we'll be able to see everything from this window. 90 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Clear night? 91 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:03,520 Yeah. 92 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:10,240 A million stars in the sky. 93 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,240 We stood next to the open window above the laundry shop, fearless District Attorney Redmuchir 94 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,960 and I, and we waited. 95 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,960 From the window, we could see down into the dimly lit street called Sporefoot Alley. 96 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,960 A narrow street lined on either side with butcher markets, curio shops, tea parlors 97 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,960 and more laundries. 98 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,760 Some of those shops fronts for hidden gambling dens. 99 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,040 Sultry, air-opressed opium dens. 100 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,600 Lou Dock, the man the DA accused of being the most notorious Tong leader in San Francisco, 101 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,600 was all of that. 102 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,800 But he was more. 103 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,200 Lou Dock was my friend. 104 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,960 He was a man of principles. 105 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,800 Born in San Francisco and wanting to adapt himself to the ways of his Western brothers, 106 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,760 he'd learned to speak, read and write a pronounced English. 107 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,000 He'd educated himself from the thoughts and ideas of the Western world. 108 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I knew Lou Dock. 109 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,840 I had my doubts that he was going to show up in Sporefoot Alley tonight. 110 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:10,840 Cigarette Glasgow? 111 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:13,840 Yeah, yeah, thanks. 112 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:21,480 What makes you so sure Lou Dock and Kum Ji Ho are going to show tonight? 113 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:22,480 They're bitter enemies. 114 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:27,360 When Kum Ji Ho learned that Lou Dock's brother was in love with one of his favorite sing-song 115 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,480 girls, he challenged the Hoppies. 116 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:31,480 What's the girl's name? 117 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:32,480 Hot Toy. 118 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,360 She's a dancer at the Golden Lamp. 119 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,720 On surface, the incident is just a spark to ignite the flame, Glasgow. 120 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,120 You know that as well as I do. 121 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,600 The real battle is being fought for supremacy. 122 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:54,960 Almost 12, any minute now. 123 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:00,480 We didn't have long to wait because at exactly 12 o'clock a loud shrill cry rang out at one 124 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,920 end of Sporefoot Alley and at the other end of the alleyway the reply. 125 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:10,760 And another full-scale Kong War began. 126 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:20,760 There were at least 50 black-suited Chinese with their plates shoved under dark slouched 127 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,760 hats that met head-on in the alley. 128 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,400 Their hats just reflected the moonlight as they crashed open enemy heads and long, gleaming 129 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,840 daggers found their marks in soft, easy flesh. 130 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:32,680 And as the police moved in, they scattered in every direction, stumbling over the dead 131 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,680 and wounded. 132 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,600 But the police were efficient. 133 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,880 They'd hold up both ends of the alley and it looked like they'd rounded up every one 134 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,360 of the Bu Hao Doi that was alive. 135 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:47,600 The district attorney paced the floor of the storeroom, his hands nervously twisting behind 136 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,920 him as he waited for his captain of detectives to report to him. 137 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,520 Then we heard heavy steps coming up the stairs. 138 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,800 In a few moments, three men appeared at the head of the landing. 139 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:04,040 Captain Wilburn, his lieutenant, Son Jack, and a smiling dark-head Chinese with his hands 140 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,600 tied behind him. 141 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,520 Well, D.A. 142 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,400 Oh, where's the other one? 143 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,640 He, uh, he disappeared. 144 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:13,880 What do you mean he disappeared? 145 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:14,880 I don't know, D.A. 146 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,120 He was in mixing it up with the rest of them. 147 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,120 I know. 148 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,120 I saw him. 149 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:20,720 But after we had the rest of them rounded up, I couldn't find him. 150 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,440 How did you know it was Lou Dark, Captain? 151 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:23,440 The big head. 152 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:24,440 I recognize his big head. 153 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:25,440 You can't accuse him of having... 154 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,040 Bring that other one over here. 155 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,040 Okay. 156 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,040 You, move. 157 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,480 This is the one they call Kum Ji Ho. 158 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,080 I know why you started this one, Kum Ji Ho. 159 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,080 Oh, yes. 160 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,160 How did Lou Dark manage to escape? 161 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,160 Oh, yes. 162 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,160 Lou Dark. 163 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,160 Very fine silk merchant. 164 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:43,160 Yes. 165 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,160 Don't stall with me. 166 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,160 It'll go a lot easier on you. 167 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:46,160 You know you're not going to get this man to talk. 168 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,160 We'll see about that. 169 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,160 Now, I want the names of every Bu Hao Doi that fought in the alley tonight. 170 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:51,160 Chang, Tao Lu, D.A. 171 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,160 What was that? 172 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,160 I can't remember. 173 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:54,160 I don't know. 174 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,160 I don't know. 175 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,160 I don't know. 176 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,160 I don't know what was that. 177 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,560 I think he said he wants his lawyer before he speaks another word. 178 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:02,560 Correct. 179 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:03,560 A lawyer? 180 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,560 Yes. 181 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:05,560 Thank you. 182 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,560 I never heard of any... 183 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,120 Looks like tonight wasn't the night you thought it was going to be, D.A. 184 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:22,640 I'm afraid your net results are zero. 185 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,400 Judge Attorney Muccia wasn't going to get come Ji Ho to inform on Lou Dark, no matter 186 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,240 how hard he tried. 187 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:34,080 For a Tong member to testify or inform on another, even your most hated enemy, which 188 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:38,220 was a rival Tong, was certain death. 189 00:08:38,220 --> 00:08:42,440 And in most cases, members of your own Tong would carry out the death sentence. 190 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:46,840 In the wild confusion of that battle, it would have been impossible to tell whether Lou Dark 191 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,200 had taken part in it. 192 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,120 Captain of Detective sworn he'd seen him. 193 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:57,160 I wanted to know for sure, so the following morning I went to his house of business. 194 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:02,800 A little old Chinese sitting behind the counter didn't even glance up at me as I entered. 195 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,400 I walked over to the door of Lou's office and knocked. 196 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,280 A voice yelled, enter in Chinese, and I did. 197 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,080 I opened the door. 198 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Seated behind a bleached rattan desk sat the man with his big head, rocking back and forth. 199 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:18,760 Lou Dark. 200 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:19,760 Hello, Dan. 201 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,800 It is nice to see you again. 202 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,400 It's nice to see you. 203 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:25,400 Pleased to sit. 204 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,760 I was just about to serve tea. 205 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:28,760 Thanks. 206 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,320 Oh, I beg your pardon. 207 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:35,640 This Dan is my beloved brother, Tommy, Mr. Dan Glasgow of San Francisco Tribune. 208 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:36,880 How do you do, Mr. Glasgow? 209 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:37,880 Hello, Tommy. 210 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,400 You take tea with lemon, I believe. 211 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:41,600 Right. 212 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,680 I am most happy of this surprise visit, Dan. 213 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:46,880 Here you are. 214 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:47,880 Thanks. 215 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,840 Most delicious. 216 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,120 There were seven men killed in last night's Tong Walu, Doc. 217 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,360 Tell me, Dan, do you prefer the Chinese or Indian tea? 218 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,680 I said seven men were killed in last night's Tong battle. 219 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:03,680 Tommy. 220 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:04,680 What's the matter? 221 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:16,240 My words too strong for your brother's sensitive ears? 222 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,640 And if you were not a true friend, I would easily kill you with my own hand for such 223 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,640 a remark. 224 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,360 I'm sorry, Doc. 225 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,080 You as I believe in righteous principles. 226 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,840 It was upon this discovery that I grow very fond of you. 227 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,320 I've honored our friendship. 228 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,880 In the ways of your Western world are many things that my people do not understand. 229 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,480 Among my people are certain things which the Occidental does not understand. 230 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,560 But cold-blooded murder is not a way that either world should have to understand. 231 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:43,560 True. 232 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:47,760 As I read in the Western world books, I read of organization called California Vigilance 233 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:48,760 Committee. 234 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,160 Oh, look, that committee is to protect the innocent from the guilty. 235 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:53,960 Yes, no argument. 236 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,040 But for the protection? 237 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,800 In Hap Ying Tong is protection for my people. 238 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,720 Now comes time when most beloved brother falls in love with Sing Song girl named A Toi. 239 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,520 He wishes to marry with her. 240 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,360 She returns this love. 241 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,200 It must be so. 242 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,440 And so in order to bring about this marriage, hundreds of men may lose their lives. 243 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,200 If it is, it is the God's design. 244 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,200 Yes. 245 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,600 There's nothing that I can say that can convince you to settle the whole thing peaceably? 246 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,960 In China, perhaps by tribunal, but in San Francisco, then, it is not probable. 247 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,000 We must settle this difference by other means. 248 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,720 Oh, and I'm sorry, Lou, Doc. 249 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,160 I'm sorry for your people. 250 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:40,120 There is no one upon whose heart this sorrow hangs heavier than mine. 251 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:51,640 And with that, Lou, Doc rose up from his chair, stood staring at me for a moment through tear-filled 252 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:52,640 eyes. 253 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:57,840 Then he turned and strode majestically out of the room, his large head bent as if in 254 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:04,840 prayer. 255 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,880 In the weeks that followed, for some unknown reason or other, the Tong wars slowed down 256 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,000 to practically a standstill. 257 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,960 Had been only a couple of hatchet murders in two months. 258 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,840 It seemed almost too good to be true. 259 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:23,560 Then on January 4th, I received a phone call from the DA's office about four in the afternoon. 260 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:25,040 His voice had a smile in it. 261 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,960 Well, it took someone else to do it, Glasgow, but it was done. 262 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:29,960 What was done? 263 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,160 About an hour ago in Ross Alley, two Tong men shot a man and then hacked his face to ribbons 264 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:35,160 with their hatchets. 265 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,840 When Captain Wilburn got down there, he identified the man. 266 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,320 Who was it? 267 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,840 The man we've been after. 268 00:12:43,840 --> 00:13:01,080 Your good friend, Lou Doc. 269 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:06,160 Autolight is bringing you Mr. Jeff Chandler in The Case Against Lou Doc. 270 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:15,520 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Sal's Spend. 271 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:27,000 Say, Harlow, just what does ignition engineered mean? 272 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,280 Well, Hap, it means that autolight spark plugs are tops in quality and performance. 273 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,280 That's because they're designed by the same autolight engineers who designed the coil, 274 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:41,120 distributor, and all the other important parts that make up complete ignition systems, used 275 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,680 as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 276 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:48,200 That's a pretty good reason to use them, Harlow. 277 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:49,440 It's the best, Hap. 278 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,320 So have your autolight spark plug dealer replace worn out spark plugs with either standard 279 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,440 or resistor type autolight spark plugs for smoother performance, quick starts, and gas 280 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:00,440 savings. 281 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,120 They just don't come any better than autolight. 282 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:08,720 Autolight spark plug dealers offer the best spark plug service money can buy, too, Harlow. 283 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,840 Right you are, Hap. 284 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:15,680 So friends, to quickly learn his address, call Western Union by number and ask for operator 285 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:16,680 25. 286 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:21,640 She'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest autolight spark plug dealer. 287 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:27,160 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with autolight. 288 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:33,320 And now, autolight brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Jeff Chandler, in Elliot Lewis's 289 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:39,360 production of The Case Against Lou Dock, a dramatic report well calculated to keep you 290 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:52,960 in suspense. 291 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:57,840 Lou Dock had been my friend, and the realization of what an impact his death would have on 292 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,480 his following hit me. 293 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,200 It was to be a great loss for them. 294 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,280 I hung up the phone and decided to go down to the police station. 295 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,960 When I got there, the desk sergeant lifted a tired finger and told me that Captain Wilburn 296 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,400 was back in the morgue with Lieutenant Sonjak. 297 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Come in, Glasgow. 298 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,680 The DA said you might be down. 299 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,440 So you finally got Lou Dock. 300 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:23,440 We didn't. 301 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,160 There was a couple of rival Tongmen that did the job. 302 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:26,720 Did you pick him up? 303 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:27,720 Nope. 304 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:28,720 He got away. 305 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,360 Want to take a look at him? 306 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:31,360 The bloody? 307 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:32,360 Yeah. 308 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Over here. 309 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,600 All right, Sonjak. 310 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,480 Turn down the sheet. 311 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,000 See what I mean when I say bloody? 312 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,760 His own mother wouldn't recognize him. 313 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,000 How do you know it's Lou Dock? 314 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 By the head. 315 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Take a look at the head. 316 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 What's left of it. 317 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,320 Dock had a big head, almost out of proportion to the rest of his body. 318 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,480 That's how I know it's him. 319 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,480 But still I... 320 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,160 Look, Glasgow, the DA told me how you feel about this guy. 321 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,160 I don't want any trouble from you. 322 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,400 This man is Lou Dock. 323 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,160 I positively identify him as the notorious Tong leader of the Hop Yings. 324 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,560 Do you care to challenge that statement? 325 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,560 No. 326 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,360 No, of course not. 327 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,560 Then you will admit this is Lou Dock. 328 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:16,720 Sure, Captain. 329 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:17,800 I admit it. 330 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:25,040 That's Lou Dock. 331 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,040 I admitted it because the thought suddenly occurred to me that here was the opportunity 332 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,240 I'd been waiting for. 333 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,880 The dead man lying on the slab in the police morgue was not Lou Dock. 334 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,800 The police had no positive identification as to who the man was, but it looked like a 335 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,640 perfect way to ease the pressure that was being brought to bear on them. 336 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:56,200 Captain Wilbur knew that faceless man was not Lou Dock as well as I did. 337 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:01,160 The following morning I went to the business house of Lou Dock, the silk merchant. 338 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,760 Just as I'd expected, the name on the door had been changed. 339 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,560 Next door was a gambling parlor. 340 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,400 I gave the password at the door and was admitted. 341 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,280 I sat down at one of the fantan tables and began playing. 342 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,240 I hadn't been playing long when I suddenly felt the presence of someone familiar standing 343 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,240 next to me. 344 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:22,640 Three. 345 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,000 Sheep. 346 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,440 Hello, Lou Dock. 347 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,200 Hello, Dan. 348 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:29,760 Happy to meet with you. 349 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,800 Is there somewhere we can talk? 350 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:32,800 Come. 351 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,320 Owner of this establishment is a good friend of mine. 352 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:36,320 We shall use his office. 353 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,280 All right, you lead the way. 354 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:39,280 Come. 355 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,280 In here. 356 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:50,520 Now, we are alone. 357 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,720 You're still hailing Hardy even though you're dead. 358 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,760 That is not good joke. 359 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,760 Take it you read the morning papers. 360 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,160 Oh, yes. 361 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,700 In time to change the name on your place of business. 362 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:07,360 You were pleased to see elimination of Lou Dock, weren't you, my friend? 363 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:09,120 You want the truth? 364 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,360 Our most precious bond, Dan. 365 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:17,880 Yes, Lou Dock, I was because now it's no longer necessary for you to work with any tongue. 366 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,840 It surprises me that you, of all persons I respect, should think that way. 367 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,160 There's great work yet to be done among my people. 368 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,160 Forget the work, Lou. 369 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,800 The battle that won't be won until every tongue is disbanded. 370 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,880 And if I leave, what then? 371 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,320 Kum Ji Ho and his tongue take over leadership in San Francisco? 372 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,880 The terror that exists now will seem, my friend, a mere particle? 373 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:39,880 What about the police? 374 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,200 The police are satisfied, you know that. 375 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,160 The notoriety and publicity that have gone before will no longer continue to follow me. 376 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,080 Hap Yings will continue to exist and you still behind them. 377 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,440 Yes, my friend, to make decisions. 378 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:58,160 I will set up puppet leader, but the arrival of Kum Ji Ho will always know that still sitting 379 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:05,440 on the throne of the Hap Yings is Lou Dock, the man he fears. 380 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,040 I'm a newspaper man, I have to print the truth, you know that? 381 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,920 Yes, my friend, I know. 382 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,760 I also know something else. 383 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,240 You know? 384 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:29,800 I also know, San Francisco, you are a true friend of Lou Dock. 385 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,800 And he was right. 386 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,020 I knew the fight within myself had begun. 387 00:19:35,020 --> 00:19:39,960 To know that he was still alive, yet never to print that fact. 388 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,360 Because in doing so, I'd have to betray his friendship. 389 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:46,920 A windy night in February, I was working late in the office. 390 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,440 It was about eight o'clock when one of the reporters came in and told me that Tommy Yu 391 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:55,760 Shu, Lou Dock's brother, had been trapped in the cafe of his dancer girlfriend, Art 392 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:56,760 Toy. 393 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,160 I rushed down to Dagger Alley. 394 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,840 There wasn't a soul in sight. 395 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,440 I started to walk. 396 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:08,640 It was cold and heavy wind was blowing, but my hands were soaking wet with perspiration 397 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,640 as I made my way up the cobblestone walk to the golden lamp. 398 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:20,600 I imagined a hundred eyes staring at me from dark doorways. 399 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,080 Then I was in front of the cafe. 400 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,880 I walked up to the door. 401 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,280 It was bolted. 402 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:37,200 Tommy, Tommy Yu Shu, it's me, the newspaper man, Dan Glasgow, let me in. 403 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,160 Let me in, Tommy. 404 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,560 Hurry, hurry. 405 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:42,560 Thanks. 406 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,160 What are you doing here? 407 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,240 Word leaked out the onsings had you holed up here. 408 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,480 They sure do. 409 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,360 You took an awful chance coming up that alleyway. 410 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:53,560 Well, why'd you risk your neck here for coming here? 411 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,600 Art Toy, Mr. Glasgow. 412 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,240 Oh, I see. 413 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,840 We planned to leave tonight, secretly. 414 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,240 Somehow they learned of our plans. 415 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,920 It was Art Toy's father who betrayed us. 416 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:07,920 He was a murderer. 417 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:08,920 He was a murderer? 418 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,920 A murderer of fire? 419 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:10,920 Please, Tommy. 420 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:11,920 My father was threatening me. 421 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:12,920 There was nothing he could do. 422 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,920 I'm willing to die with Tommy. 423 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,680 Does Lou Dock know you're here? 424 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:17,680 No. 425 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:18,680 Then call him. 426 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:19,680 Tell him to call the police. 427 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,000 You have talked with my brother, Mr. Glasgow. 428 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,600 You know he would never do that. 429 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,560 But you'll never get out of here alive. 430 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,560 Then it must be so. 431 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,480 Joy, I don't understand it. 432 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,840 You'd be willing to commit suicide because of some silly superstitious and clannish idea 433 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,520 that the only way to deal out justice is through force. 434 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,960 Well, you and your brother and everybody who thinks that way, Tommy, are wrong. 435 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,440 Maybe the idea of tongs originally were good ideas, but the goodness has gone out of them. 436 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,680 I'm gonna call the police. 437 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,840 One moment, Mr. Glasgow. 438 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,080 I am sorry, but I cannot allow you to do that. 439 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,080 All right, Tommy. 440 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,640 You can put away the gun. 441 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,680 I won't call him. 442 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,680 Can I call your brother? 443 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,680 Perhaps that is best. 444 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:10,720 Tommy gave me a number to call. 445 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,600 Lou Dock answered the phone himself. 446 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,520 His voice remained strangely calm when I told him what the situation was. 447 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,480 He told me he was coming right down, warned me to stay in the cafe. 448 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,480 Then I hung up. 449 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:30,280 The three of us, Tommy, Youshu, the sing-song girl, Atoy, and myself, sat down and waited. 450 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,680 Twenty minutes later, I heard a car screech to a halt down at the end of Dagger Alley. 451 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,760 I opened one of the small windows, stuck my head out, and looked down the narrow street. 452 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,400 A long black car was parked at the curb. 453 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,120 Then the car door opened, and Lou Dock stepped out, alone. 454 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:56,120 And he began his long walk up the cobblestones to the cafe. 455 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,240 He walked slowly, staring straight ahead. 456 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,040 His body firm, rigid, in one position. 457 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,160 It was just the movement of his legs. 458 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,240 Wearing a long black coat, he looked like a giant as he took long strides, holding his 459 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,240 oversized head high. 460 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,240 Lou! 461 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,600 Hello, Doc. 462 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,600 You better get inside. 463 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,280 There must be at least 25 of them out there. 464 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:20,280 I'm all right. 465 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,080 Tell Tommy to come out, Doc. 466 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,520 But, Lou, you don't have a chance. 467 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,000 They won't attack me. 468 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 They haven't the nerve. 469 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Tell Tommy to come out. 470 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,600 Tommy, he wants you to go with him. 471 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,600 I've got to go, Atoy. 472 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,560 But I'll be back for you. 473 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,560 Do not fear, my beloved one. 474 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:38,560 Tommy! 475 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:39,560 I'm going. 476 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,560 Hello, my brother. 477 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:41,560 And you. 478 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:42,560 Good-bye, Doc. 479 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,560 I see you soon again. 480 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:44,560 Soon, Lou Dock. 481 00:23:44,560 --> 00:24:04,240 The two of them began their long walk back to the end of Dagger Alley. 482 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:10,120 Lou Dock's hand closed tightly around his brother's arm, walking slowly but steadily 483 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,320 toward the black car. 484 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,120 They weren't 10 feet from it, when from out of one of the dark doorways a figure jumped 485 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,120 into view. 486 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,120 It was Kum Ji Ho. 487 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:24,360 Kum Ji Ho let go with four wild shots, Lou Dock whirled, covering his brother at the 488 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,760 same time whipping out a gun and firing. 489 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,000 Tommy opened the door of the car, got in and started it up. 490 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Then Lou Dock fell to his knees, still firing. 491 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,240 Tommy gunned the car away. 492 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,840 Lou Dock pitched forward on his face, emptying his gun. 493 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,520 Kum Ji Ho dropped to the pavement, clawing at his bloody face. 494 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,880 He twitched for just a moment. 495 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:49,360 And then he lay still. 496 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:53,280 When I got to Lou Dock, he was still alive but bleeding badly. 497 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,720 He looked up at me. 498 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,760 Much pain, my friend. 499 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,760 Much pain. 500 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,120 Will there be an ambulance any minute now, Lou? 501 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,120 Just hold on. 502 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:13,240 This is not death I prayed my ancestors to give me then. 503 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:20,960 I died lying on wet pavement in dark alley at night. 504 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,160 My wounds bleed freely. 505 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:29,520 Lou, you're not gonna die, Lou. 506 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:37,120 Our most precious bond, truth in our friendship. 507 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:47,480 Promise me, promise as you hold me in your arms, my friend, that in stories that will 508 00:25:47,480 --> 00:26:06,120 be written, in one of them, someone will write, someone will write that beneath, that... 509 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:13,360 Beneath the cloak of the legend of his notorious reputation, there existed a man who believed 510 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:20,560 in the principles of righteousness for all his fellow men. 511 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:31,080 Who is there who can sit in judgment and proclaim that there was any case but goodness against 512 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:44,600 a man named Lou Dock? 513 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:58,600 Suspense. 514 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,440 And by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Jeff Chandler. 515 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,280 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 516 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,680 automotive electrical equipment. 517 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,980 During the early months of 1952, the Auto Light family will join together in saluting 518 00:27:15,980 --> 00:27:20,560 the leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products as original equipment 519 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,880 right on their assembly lines. 520 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,920 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light 521 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:33,720 plants from coast to coast and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 522 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,900 Our family also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their 523 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:43,280 savings in Auto Light, as well as 96,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United 524 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,040 States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 525 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,600 The Auto Light family will have the privilege of saluting the Plymouth Division of Chrysler 526 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,160 Corporation on the next Suspense television program. 527 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,720 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on television so 528 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,720 that you won't miss this program. 529 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:13,280 And remember, from bumper to taillight, you're always right with Auto Light. 530 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:18,280 Next week, our star will be the first lady of Suspense, Ms. Agnes Moorhead as Lizzie 531 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:24,640 Borden in a dramatization of the most famous unsolved American murder mystery, a true story 532 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,240 we call the Fall River tragedy. 533 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,360 In weeks to come, we shall also present Mr. Clifton Webb, Mr. Charles Boyer, and Mr. 534 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:41,480 J. Carroll Nash, all on Suspense. 535 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,640 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 536 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,920 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 537 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,680 The case against Ludoch was written for Suspense by Richard George Pedicini. 538 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,360 In tonight's story, William Conrad was heard as Ludoch and Joseph Kearns as Mucil. 539 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:02,160 Featured in the cast were Lillian Bajoff, Sam Edwards, Herb Butterfield, Byron Cain, 540 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,400 and Jack Crouchon. 541 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,680 Jeff Chandler can now be seen in the Flame of Araby, a Universal International Technicolor 542 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,100 production co-starring Maureen O'Hara. 543 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:15,560 And remember next week, the first lady of Suspense, Ms. Agnes Moorhead as Lizzie Borden 544 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,280 in the Fall River tragedy. 545 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:27,720 This is the CBS Radio Network.