WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.120 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Miss Linda Donnell in tonight's presentation 00:12.120 --> 00:15.120 of Suspense. 00:15.120 --> 00:24.880 Tonight, Auto Light presents the story of a woman who knew her husband was trying to 00:24.880 --> 00:27.880 kill her and was powerless to stop it. 00:27.880 --> 00:34.120 A dramatic report we call A Killing in Las Vegas, starring Miss Linda Donnell. 00:34.120 --> 00:38.280 Hi, a Hap. 00:38.280 --> 00:41.800 Oh, hello Harlow. 00:41.800 --> 00:47.320 Boy, you really gave me a powerful start. 00:47.320 --> 00:51.320 Just like the powerful starts you can be sure of getting from your Auto Light Staple Battery, 00:51.320 --> 00:52.320 Hap. 00:52.320 --> 00:56.360 And an Auto Light Staple needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 00:56.360 --> 00:57.560 I know, Harlow. 00:57.560 --> 01:02.640 And Hap, do you also know that the Auto Light Staple gives longer life, as proved by tests 01:02.640 --> 01:05.200 conducted according to accepted life cycle standards? 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02:09.400 --> 02:11.560 I'd like to see the policeman in charge, please. 02:11.560 --> 02:12.960 Maybe I can help you, ma'am. 02:12.960 --> 02:14.400 What is it? 02:14.400 --> 02:16.640 My husband is trying to kill me. 02:16.640 --> 02:17.640 I see. 02:17.640 --> 02:21.920 You'd better come with me. 02:21.920 --> 02:29.680 Oh, Hank, I think you'd better talk with this lady. 02:29.680 --> 02:31.600 Oh, yes, ma'am. 02:31.600 --> 02:32.600 Come in. 02:32.600 --> 02:36.560 Now, have a seat. 02:36.560 --> 02:37.560 Thank you. 02:37.560 --> 02:40.800 Now, what is it you want to see me about, Miss... 02:40.800 --> 02:43.000 Mrs. Evans, Dixie Evans. 02:43.000 --> 02:44.840 I'm a dancer over at the Oasis Club. 02:44.840 --> 02:46.640 Oh, yeah, the Oasis. 02:46.640 --> 02:47.640 You must be one of the new acts. 02:47.640 --> 02:48.640 I don't believe I've seen you. 02:48.640 --> 02:50.840 Well, I just started my run this week. 02:50.840 --> 02:54.600 Well, what's your trouble, Mrs. Evans? 02:54.600 --> 02:57.120 My husband is trying to kill me. 02:57.120 --> 02:58.840 Your husband? 02:58.840 --> 03:02.400 Yes, twice in the last 24 hours. 03:02.400 --> 03:05.720 Well, maybe you'd better start at the beginning. 03:05.720 --> 03:10.880 Well, my husband Charlie and I arrived here in Las Vegas about a week ago. 03:10.880 --> 03:15.800 Frankie Parris, a booking agent in Los Angeles, had gotten me a six-week run at the Oasis 03:15.800 --> 03:17.120 Club over on the main highway. 03:17.120 --> 03:18.600 Yeah, I know the place. 03:18.600 --> 03:23.120 Well, Charlie doesn't usually bother to travel with me when I go out on road bookings, but 03:23.120 --> 03:25.240 this time he did. 03:25.240 --> 03:26.240 Charlie likes to gamble. 03:26.240 --> 03:28.680 I guess that's why he came with me. 03:28.680 --> 03:34.120 Well, last night, Charlie didn't show up at the club at 1.30 to pick me up like he usually 03:34.120 --> 03:37.160 does, so I waited for him. 03:37.160 --> 03:41.840 And by 2 o'clock, the club had been emptied and everybody had gone home. 03:41.840 --> 03:46.800 I was still in the back waiting for him. 03:46.800 --> 03:50.800 Who is it? 03:50.800 --> 03:56.800 Oh, it's you, Dixon. 03:56.800 --> 03:58.800 Hi, Barney. 03:58.800 --> 04:04.240 What are you doing out here all alone? 04:04.240 --> 04:06.280 Well, I'm waiting for my husband. 04:06.280 --> 04:07.280 He's late. 04:07.280 --> 04:08.280 Sure is. 04:08.280 --> 04:09.280 It's almost 2.30. 04:09.280 --> 04:10.280 You know where he is? 04:10.280 --> 04:11.280 No. 04:11.280 --> 04:12.280 Getting lucky, I hope. 04:12.280 --> 04:15.320 That's what I call wishful thinking. 04:15.320 --> 04:17.280 Did the house get much play tonight? 04:17.280 --> 04:18.280 About usual. 04:18.280 --> 04:21.280 Hey, would you like me to give you a lift downtown to your hotel? 04:21.280 --> 04:22.640 Oh, no, no thanks, Barney. 04:22.640 --> 04:23.880 I'd better wait for him. 04:23.880 --> 04:25.720 He'd have called me if he wasn't coming. 04:25.720 --> 04:26.720 He'll be along any minute. 04:26.720 --> 04:28.760 Yeah, if nothing happened to him. 04:28.760 --> 04:30.820 I know him like a book. 04:30.820 --> 04:33.280 After living with him for seven years, I should know. 04:33.280 --> 04:34.280 He'd have called. 04:34.280 --> 04:36.200 You've been married that long, huh? 04:36.200 --> 04:41.280 Well, uh, look, Dixie, I don't like to leave you out here all alone like this. 04:41.280 --> 04:42.280 Oh, don't be silly. 04:42.280 --> 04:44.880 Well, if I can't offer you a lift to town... 04:44.880 --> 04:45.880 No, thanks. 04:45.880 --> 04:46.880 Just the same, Barney. 04:46.880 --> 04:47.880 Tell you what I'll do. 04:47.880 --> 04:48.880 I'll wait around until he gets here. 04:48.880 --> 04:49.880 I don't want you to get lonesome. 04:49.880 --> 04:50.880 Oh, no. 04:50.880 --> 04:52.520 You go on home and get some sleep. 04:52.520 --> 04:53.680 I won't be lonesome. 04:53.680 --> 04:57.360 I've got all those wide open spaces of Nevada just to keep me company. 04:57.360 --> 04:58.720 Okay, Dixie. 04:58.720 --> 05:01.160 And besides that, I've got a strong pair of lungs. 05:01.160 --> 05:02.720 I can always scream for help. 05:02.720 --> 05:04.800 Sure, but who'd hear you? 05:04.800 --> 05:07.640 Like you said, those are wide open spaces out there. 05:07.640 --> 05:09.840 Are you trying to scare me? 05:09.840 --> 05:10.840 Nope. 05:10.840 --> 05:11.840 I'm just tired. 05:11.840 --> 05:12.840 I'll see you tomorrow night. 05:12.840 --> 05:13.840 Good night, Dixie. 05:13.840 --> 05:14.840 Good night, Barney. 05:14.840 --> 05:40.400 Bears. 05:40.400 --> 05:42.600 Charlie? 05:42.600 --> 05:45.200 Charlie? 05:45.200 --> 05:50.560 Is that you? 05:50.560 --> 05:55.160 Who is it? 05:55.160 --> 05:57.260 Charlie? 05:57.260 --> 06:07.280 Then before I could move, I felt someone grab me from behind. 06:07.280 --> 06:08.280 It was a man. 06:08.280 --> 06:09.280 He twisted me. 06:09.280 --> 06:12.920 He twisted my arms and yanked me back in the shadows. 06:12.920 --> 06:17.520 I kicked and spit and tried to fight myself loose, but it was no use. 06:17.520 --> 06:20.520 His hands were like steel. 06:20.520 --> 06:39.440 I tried to scream, but his hands glommed around my throat. 06:39.440 --> 06:42.960 When I came to, I was lying on the gravel back of the club. 06:42.960 --> 06:44.960 It was still dark. 06:44.960 --> 06:49.040 I took a deep breath and my lungs felt as if they were going to burst. 06:49.040 --> 06:51.680 And my throat ached. 06:51.680 --> 06:56.600 I staggered to my feet and ran around in front of the club onto the main highway. 06:56.600 --> 07:02.480 It wasn't long before a passing cab picked me up and took me back downtown to the hotel. 07:02.480 --> 07:05.480 When I let myself into the room, Charlie was in bed. 07:05.480 --> 07:09.280 I sat down and started to cry. 07:09.280 --> 07:15.480 He got up, came over, and put his arms around me. 07:15.480 --> 07:20.360 It's when I should have known, when he put his arms around me. 07:20.360 --> 07:25.280 Look, Dixie baby, come on, get a hold of yourself now. 07:25.280 --> 07:27.280 I take hold, honey. 07:27.280 --> 07:29.320 You shake me like a leaf. 07:29.320 --> 07:30.320 What is it? 07:30.320 --> 07:31.320 Oh, Charlie. 07:31.320 --> 07:32.320 Charlie, it was terrible. 07:32.320 --> 07:33.320 Someone, someone tried to kill me. 07:33.320 --> 07:34.320 Oh, baby. 07:34.320 --> 07:35.320 Oh, Charlie. 07:35.320 --> 07:42.320 Look, will you stop crying while you have to tell me what you're talking about? 07:42.320 --> 07:43.320 Someone tried to kill you? 07:43.320 --> 07:44.320 Yes, yes. 07:44.320 --> 07:45.320 Where? 07:45.320 --> 07:49.640 In the back of the club, the Oasis. 07:49.640 --> 07:51.080 I was waiting for you and... 07:51.080 --> 07:53.080 Didn't she get my telephone message? 07:53.080 --> 07:54.080 Message? 07:54.080 --> 07:57.000 Yeah, I left a message for you. 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 Well, no. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.480 Oh, well, what happened? 08:00.480 --> 08:04.040 Well, I was back there waiting for you. 08:04.040 --> 08:06.960 I heard a noise and first I thought it was you. 08:06.960 --> 08:12.840 I called your name and then this man rushed up behind me, grabbed me around the throat 08:12.840 --> 08:13.840 and I... 08:13.840 --> 08:14.840 Did you see what he looked like? 08:14.840 --> 08:15.840 No, I couldn't see his face. 08:15.840 --> 08:16.840 It was too dark, but he tried to choke me, Charlie. 08:16.840 --> 08:17.840 Look, Dixie... 08:17.840 --> 08:18.840 Oh, it was terrible. 08:18.840 --> 08:19.840 His hands were around my throat. 08:19.840 --> 08:20.840 Well, what happened after that? 08:20.840 --> 08:21.840 I don't know. 08:21.840 --> 08:22.840 I passed out. 08:22.840 --> 08:23.840 I guess he thought I was dead. 08:23.840 --> 08:24.840 But why did he want to kill me? 08:24.840 --> 08:25.840 Just wait a minute, Dixie. 08:25.840 --> 08:26.840 How do you know he wanted to kill you? 08:26.840 --> 08:27.840 I don't know. 08:27.840 --> 08:28.840 Was anyone from the club around here? 08:28.840 --> 08:29.840 Oh, no. 08:29.840 --> 08:30.840 Everybody was there. 08:30.840 --> 08:31.840 I don't know. 08:31.840 --> 08:32.840 I don't know. 08:32.840 --> 08:33.840 I don't know. 08:33.840 --> 08:34.840 I don't know. 08:34.840 --> 08:35.840 I don't know. 08:35.840 --> 08:36.840 I don't know. 08:36.840 --> 08:37.840 I don't know. 08:37.840 --> 08:38.840 I don't know. 08:38.840 --> 08:39.840 I don't know. 08:39.840 --> 08:40.840 I don't know. 08:40.840 --> 08:44.840 I don't know. 08:44.840 --> 08:45.840 I don't know. 08:45.840 --> 08:46.840 I don't know. 08:46.840 --> 08:47.840 Was anyone from the club around here? 08:47.840 --> 08:48.840 Oh, no. 08:48.840 --> 08:49.840 Everybody had gone home. 08:49.840 --> 08:50.840 I see. 08:50.840 --> 08:51.840 Oh, it could have been someone trying to rob the club. 08:51.840 --> 08:52.840 Huh? 08:52.840 --> 08:53.840 Yeah, sure, that might have been it. 08:53.840 --> 08:54.840 Some guy was going to break in and rob the club. 08:54.840 --> 08:55.840 He thought everybody had gone home. 08:55.840 --> 08:58.840 When he got around and back, he found you. 08:58.840 --> 09:01.840 He got scared and he attacked you. 09:01.840 --> 09:04.840 Well, maybe... maybe a rider. 09:04.840 --> 09:06.840 Of course I'm right. 09:06.840 --> 09:07.840 You say you called me? 09:07.840 --> 09:08.840 Yeah, I sure did. 09:08.840 --> 09:10.840 I was having a run of luck at the club Crackwheel. 09:10.840 --> 09:13.840 I still want about 500 bucks, baby. 09:13.840 --> 09:14.840 I didn't want to leave. 09:14.840 --> 09:17.840 So I called the club and told them to tell you to take a cab on home. 09:17.840 --> 09:18.840 But I didn't get the message. 09:18.840 --> 09:19.840 No, didn't I? 09:19.840 --> 09:22.840 I guess somebody just forgot to give it to you. 09:22.840 --> 09:26.840 Charlie, maybe I ought to call the police. 09:26.840 --> 09:27.840 What for? 09:27.840 --> 09:28.840 To tell them what happened. 09:28.840 --> 09:31.840 Oh, it's late now, honey. 09:31.840 --> 09:34.840 I'm going to get up in the morning. 09:34.840 --> 09:37.840 All right, Charlie. 09:37.840 --> 09:39.840 You won $500, Charlie? 09:39.840 --> 09:40.840 Yeah. 09:40.840 --> 09:41.840 Isn't that great? 09:41.840 --> 09:43.840 Can I see it? 09:43.840 --> 09:45.840 Oh, I didn't want to carry a lot of money with me. 09:45.840 --> 09:48.840 I told them to make it out to me in a check and pick it up tomorrow. 09:48.840 --> 09:50.840 Oh. 09:50.840 --> 09:51.840 Now you get to sleep, Dixie. 09:51.840 --> 09:53.840 You get a good night's rest. 09:53.840 --> 09:54.840 You need it. 09:54.840 --> 09:56.840 Okay, Charlie, I will. 09:56.840 --> 10:03.840 I am tired. 10:03.840 --> 10:05.840 I had a very restless night. 10:05.840 --> 10:07.840 I didn't get much sleep. 10:07.840 --> 10:11.840 But the next morning, the more I thought about what Charlie had said, 10:11.840 --> 10:14.840 the more I began to believe that maybe he was right. 10:14.840 --> 10:18.840 Maybe it had been somebody just wanting to rob the club. 10:18.840 --> 10:22.840 We got up late and had lunch at one of the restaurants along 5th Street, 10:22.840 --> 10:24.840 then played some bingo at the palace. 10:24.840 --> 10:30.840 Then we walked around town for a while and went back to our hotel about 2.30. 10:30.840 --> 10:33.840 Hey, Dixie, why don't you go upstairs and take a nap, huh? 10:33.840 --> 10:35.840 I've got to get some rest. You had a pretty restless night there. 10:35.840 --> 10:37.840 Yeah, I know. 10:37.840 --> 10:38.840 Oh, Charlie, you're not going to... 10:38.840 --> 10:41.840 Oh, no, honey. 10:41.840 --> 10:43.840 I'll go on over and pick up the check at the club card room. 10:43.840 --> 10:44.840 You should be ready for me. 10:44.840 --> 10:46.840 You can get yourself a half hour of sleep. It'll do you good. 10:46.840 --> 10:47.840 Maybe I will. 10:47.840 --> 10:48.840 Have you got your key? 10:48.840 --> 10:49.840 Uh-huh. 10:49.840 --> 10:52.840 Good. Okay, I'll come wake you up in about half an hour. 10:52.840 --> 10:53.840 All right. 10:53.840 --> 10:54.840 Oh, Charlie. 10:54.840 --> 10:55.840 Yeah, Dixie? 10:55.840 --> 10:57.840 Lay off the dice table, huh? 10:57.840 --> 11:04.840 Oh, sure. 11:04.840 --> 11:05.840 Yes, ma'am? 11:05.840 --> 11:06.840 Three, please. 11:06.840 --> 11:14.840 Yes, ma'am. 11:14.840 --> 11:25.840 Three outs. 11:25.840 --> 11:39.840 Oh, brother, this feels good. 11:39.840 --> 11:44.840 I didn't even bother to take my clothes off. I was too tired. 11:44.840 --> 11:52.840 All I could think about was getting some sleep, and the bed felt soft and good. 11:52.840 --> 11:56.840 I started to drift off into a dream. 11:56.840 --> 11:59.840 It was a terrible dream. 11:59.840 --> 12:02.840 I saw the man in the back of the club in my dream. 12:02.840 --> 12:08.840 He was chasing me now. I tried to run away, but he caught me and tied me up. 12:08.840 --> 12:14.840 Then he picked me up in his arms and carried me over to where a train engine stood and laid me down in front of it. 12:14.840 --> 12:19.840 The train in my dream hadn't started to move yet, but I could hear the hissing of the engine. 12:19.840 --> 12:25.840 And it seemed that the louder the hissing got, the harder it was for me to breathe. 12:25.840 --> 12:33.840 I tried to wake up, but it was hard, and then finally I did. 12:33.840 --> 12:37.840 But the hissing of the train didn't disappear with the rest of my dream. 12:37.840 --> 12:43.840 The hissing became the gas jet in the corner of the room. 12:43.840 --> 12:46.840 Oh, the window. 12:46.840 --> 12:49.840 The window. 12:49.840 --> 12:52.840 I've got to break it. 12:52.840 --> 13:20.840 I've got to break my show off. 13:20.840 --> 13:25.840 The Auto Light is bringing you Miss Linda Darnell in our killing in Las Vegas. 13:25.840 --> 13:41.840 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, South Spence. 13:41.840 --> 13:46.840 Harlow, I've told you before that I have an Auto Light stay full battery. 13:46.840 --> 13:48.840 What do you think of it, Hap? 13:48.840 --> 13:51.840 It's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great. 13:51.840 --> 13:52.840 And it's protected too. 13:52.840 --> 13:53.840 Protected? 13:53.840 --> 14:08.840 Yep, every positive plate in the Auto Light stay full is protected by fiberglass retaining mats to reduce shedding and flaking and give the Auto Light stay full longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 14:08.840 --> 14:11.840 And the Auto Light stay full needs water. 14:11.840 --> 14:14.840 Only three times a year in normal car use. 14:14.840 --> 14:19.840 So friends, visit your auto light battery dealer, the man who services all makes of batteries. 14:19.840 --> 14:23.840 To quickly learn his location, just call Western Union by number. 14:23.840 --> 14:30.840 And ask for me, Operator 25, I'd gladly tell you the name and address of your nearest auto light battery dealer, 14:30.840 --> 14:37.840 where you can get an auto light staple, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 14:37.840 --> 14:42.840 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 14:42.840 --> 14:48.840 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, 14:48.840 --> 14:54.840 Miss Linda Darnell in Elliot Lewis's production of A Killing in Las Vegas. 14:54.840 --> 15:00.840 A dramatic report, well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:05.840 --> 15:09.840 All right, Mrs. Evans, just try to finish your story if you can. 15:09.840 --> 15:13.840 You say you tried to break the window with your shoe. 15:13.840 --> 15:18.840 Yes, it finally broke and I got some fresh air. 15:18.840 --> 15:20.840 And this was how long ago? 15:20.840 --> 15:21.840 About an hour. 15:21.840 --> 15:24.840 Then what happened after you were able to revive yourself? 15:24.840 --> 15:34.840 I was scared. I asked myself, what have I done so bad that someone wants to kill me for it? 15:34.840 --> 15:38.840 Because now I believe that someone was trying to kill me. 15:38.840 --> 15:43.840 I tried to get hold of Charlie, my husband, to tell him to come back to the hotel right away. 15:50.840 --> 15:52.840 Main desk. 15:52.840 --> 15:55.840 Would you ring the club cartwheel for me, please? 15:55.840 --> 15:57.840 Just a moment. 15:57.840 --> 16:00.840 Club cartwheel, Julio Coles speaking. 16:00.840 --> 16:03.840 My name is Evans, Mrs. Dixie Evans. 16:03.840 --> 16:05.840 My husband was coming in to pick up a check. 16:05.840 --> 16:07.840 Can you tell me if he's still there? 16:07.840 --> 16:09.840 Pick up a check? Does he do work here? 16:09.840 --> 16:11.840 No, no, he came in there last night. 16:11.840 --> 16:13.840 He had a run of locking. 16:13.840 --> 16:15.840 He said he told you to make out a check for him. 16:15.840 --> 16:17.840 What was that name again? Evans? 16:17.840 --> 16:19.840 Yes, yes, Charlie. 16:19.840 --> 16:21.840 He's in the club. 16:21.840 --> 16:23.840 He's in the club. 16:23.840 --> 16:27.840 He said he told you to make out a check for him. 16:27.840 --> 16:29.840 What was that name again? Evans? 16:29.840 --> 16:31.840 Yes, yes, Charles Evans. 16:31.840 --> 16:33.840 Just a second. 16:33.840 --> 16:36.840 Does anybody know anything about a check for Evans? 16:38.840 --> 16:39.840 No. 16:39.840 --> 16:40.840 You mean he hasn't picked it up yet? 16:40.840 --> 16:42.840 No record of a check waiting for him. 16:42.840 --> 16:44.840 But he told me. 16:44.840 --> 16:46.840 Yeah, lady, sure, he told you. 16:46.840 --> 16:49.840 I'm sorry I bothered you. 16:49.840 --> 16:53.840 I'm sorry I bothered you. 16:53.840 --> 16:55.840 Main desk. 16:55.840 --> 16:57.840 Would you get me the Oasis Club, please? 16:57.840 --> 17:00.840 The number is 4062. 17:00.840 --> 17:02.840 One moment. 17:11.840 --> 17:13.840 Oasis Club. 17:13.840 --> 17:15.840 This is Dixie Evans. 17:15.840 --> 17:18.840 I was wondering if there were any messages left there for me last night. 17:18.840 --> 17:22.840 Oh, boy, wait a minute. I'll look. 17:22.840 --> 17:26.840 Uh-uh. Not a one, Mrs. Evans. 17:26.840 --> 17:28.840 Thank you. 17:33.840 --> 17:40.840 And just like that, I find out that my husband, Charlie, is the person who's been trying to kill me. 17:40.840 --> 17:43.840 My own sweet, loving husband. 17:43.840 --> 17:46.840 He didn't win a pile at the club cartwheel. 17:46.840 --> 17:50.840 And he didn't leave a message for me at the Oasis Club. 17:50.840 --> 17:54.840 I guess I must have surprised him when I walked into the hotel room last night. 17:54.840 --> 17:56.840 He'd left me for dead. 17:56.840 --> 17:58.840 So he'd had to try again. 17:58.840 --> 18:00.840 Sleep, Dixie. 18:00.840 --> 18:01.840 Get some rest. 18:01.840 --> 18:06.840 So he could turn on the gas jet in the room and try again. 18:06.840 --> 18:11.840 What does a woman do when she finds out that her husband is trying to murder her? 18:11.840 --> 18:13.840 What does she do? 18:13.840 --> 18:15.840 What would any other woman do? 18:15.840 --> 18:17.840 She'd go to the police. 18:17.840 --> 18:20.840 So I came to talk to you. 18:20.840 --> 18:23.840 Oh, is that all of it, Mrs. Evans? 18:23.840 --> 18:25.840 Yes. Isn't it enough? 18:25.840 --> 18:27.840 Mrs. Evans, tell me something. 18:27.840 --> 18:31.840 A man who tried to choke you back at the club, did you see his face? 18:31.840 --> 18:33.840 Well, I didn't see his face. 18:33.840 --> 18:35.840 You didn't see his face? 18:35.840 --> 18:36.840 No, but... 18:36.840 --> 18:38.840 Then how do you know it was your husband, Mrs. Evans? 18:38.840 --> 18:41.840 Because I told you he'd tried it again. 18:41.840 --> 18:43.840 Only a little while ago up in our hotel room, 18:43.840 --> 18:46.840 I found the gas jet in the room turned on. 18:49.840 --> 18:51.840 You don't believe me, do you? 18:51.840 --> 18:53.840 Does your husband own a gun? 18:53.840 --> 18:54.840 Yes. 18:54.840 --> 18:56.840 Has he ever threatened you with it? 18:56.840 --> 18:57.840 Well, no. 18:57.840 --> 18:59.840 Has he ever threatened you at all? 18:59.840 --> 19:02.840 No. No, but don't you understand... 19:02.840 --> 19:04.840 Why are you so certain that the man who tried to choke you 19:04.840 --> 19:06.840 in back of the Oasis Club was your husband? 19:06.840 --> 19:07.840 You didn't see his face. 19:07.840 --> 19:08.840 I know, but... 19:08.840 --> 19:09.840 Well, then you can't be sure. 19:09.840 --> 19:11.840 But up in the hotel room... 19:11.840 --> 19:14.840 You'd be quite surprised at the number of people who die every year 19:14.840 --> 19:17.840 by accidentally bumping against a gas jet 19:17.840 --> 19:19.840 and turning it on and never knew they did. 19:19.840 --> 19:22.840 I tell you, my husband is trying to kill me. 19:22.840 --> 19:23.840 Why? 19:25.840 --> 19:26.840 Why? 19:26.840 --> 19:29.840 Can you tell me why your husband wants to kill you? 19:30.840 --> 19:33.840 Well, I don't know why. 19:34.840 --> 19:36.840 I don't know. I haven't the slightest idea. 19:36.840 --> 19:39.840 There, you see, you can't tell me why. 19:39.840 --> 19:41.840 Now, look, Mrs. Evans, why don't you go back to your hotel now 19:41.840 --> 19:44.840 and get some rest? We'll look into it for you. 19:44.840 --> 19:45.840 Look into it? 19:45.840 --> 19:48.840 But aren't you going to arrest him or something? 19:48.840 --> 19:49.840 Well, I'll see how we can. 19:49.840 --> 19:52.840 You haven't given us any kind of substantial evidence 19:52.840 --> 19:54.840 that it'll prove your husband is trying to kill you. 19:54.840 --> 19:57.840 In fact, you can't even tell me why he wants to kill you. 19:57.840 --> 20:00.840 I can't tell you why. I don't know myself. 20:00.840 --> 20:02.840 Well, you'd better get back to your hotel, Mrs. Evans. 20:02.840 --> 20:05.840 Get some rest. We'll get on this right away. 20:05.840 --> 20:08.840 Yes. Maybe you're right. 20:09.840 --> 20:11.840 I'll go back to my hotel. 20:15.840 --> 20:16.840 Thank you, Lieutenant. 20:16.840 --> 20:17.840 Not at all. 20:20.840 --> 20:22.840 You get taken care of, lady? 20:22.840 --> 20:35.840 Oh, yes. Yes, thank you. 20:35.840 --> 20:36.840 Dixie. 20:36.840 --> 20:37.840 John. 20:40.840 --> 20:41.840 Hello, Dixie. 20:42.840 --> 20:45.840 Why get in the car, my dancing wife? 20:45.840 --> 20:55.840 I've come to take you home. 21:01.840 --> 21:04.840 Charlie, I thought we were going back to the hotel. 21:04.840 --> 21:09.840 This isn't the way. What are we doing on the highway? 21:10.840 --> 21:13.840 Charlie, what's the matter? What's wrong? 21:13.840 --> 21:18.840 Oh, don't turn the radio louder, Charlie. I want to talk to you. 21:20.840 --> 21:23.840 Charlie, you're mad at me, aren't you? 21:23.840 --> 21:25.840 What have I done that's made you mad? 21:27.840 --> 21:31.840 Charlie, take me back to our hotel. Let's get home. 21:31.840 --> 21:34.840 I want to go home. I don't want to go for a ride. 21:34.840 --> 21:37.840 I'm tired now. I'm awfully tired, Charlie. 21:38.840 --> 21:41.840 Please don't turn it louder. It makes my head hurt. 21:41.840 --> 21:43.840 Please, Charlie. 21:47.840 --> 21:50.840 Charlie, don't I mean anything to you anymore? 21:51.840 --> 21:55.840 What is it? What are you mad at me about? 21:59.840 --> 22:01.840 Is it the divorce, Charlie? 22:01.840 --> 22:04.840 I don't want to hear you talk. 22:04.840 --> 22:09.840 That's everything. That's what you're mad at me about, the divorce. 22:09.840 --> 22:15.840 But I can't give it to you, Charlie. I can't. 22:18.840 --> 22:20.840 Look, it doesn't matter anymore. 22:21.840 --> 22:25.840 She's married now. She wouldn't wait any longer. 22:26.840 --> 22:28.840 Yesterday she got married. 22:32.840 --> 22:37.840 Oh, Charlie, I didn't know it meant so much to you. 22:37.840 --> 22:40.840 I only tried to do what I thought was best for the both of us. 22:40.840 --> 22:42.840 We're not getting any younger. 22:42.840 --> 22:45.840 And when two people were married for as long as we were married, 22:45.840 --> 22:48.840 I thought maybe we should try to make something of it. 22:49.840 --> 22:52.840 You thought that? What about me? 22:52.840 --> 22:54.840 You? 22:54.840 --> 22:56.840 What about what I thought? 22:59.840 --> 23:02.840 Oh, you're right, Charlie. 23:03.840 --> 23:05.840 But you can't kill me now. 23:05.840 --> 23:07.840 Why can't I? 23:07.840 --> 23:09.840 I told the police. 23:10.840 --> 23:12.840 You told them what? 23:12.840 --> 23:14.840 That you were trying to kill me. 23:14.840 --> 23:17.840 That it was you in back of the club. 23:17.840 --> 23:20.840 That you turned on the gas jet. 23:20.840 --> 23:23.840 Oh, no. You can't kill me, Charlie. 23:23.840 --> 23:26.840 They'll pick you up in a minute. 23:28.840 --> 23:30.840 Okay, Dixie. 23:30.840 --> 23:34.840 Shall we go back to the hotel now? 23:34.840 --> 24:00.840 Okay, Dixie. 24:00.840 --> 24:04.840 What do we do now? 24:04.840 --> 24:07.840 There's nothing to do, Charlie. 24:07.840 --> 24:11.840 We just go on, I guess. Like we have. 24:12.840 --> 24:14.840 You do that? 24:14.840 --> 24:18.840 You stay with me, married to me, knowing I want you dead? 24:18.840 --> 24:21.840 I have to, Charlie. 24:21.840 --> 24:24.840 Because I won't give you a divorce. 24:24.840 --> 24:31.840 Well, like chess, Dixie, we're stalemated, aren't we? 24:31.840 --> 24:34.840 Looks that way. 24:35.840 --> 24:39.840 You know how much I hate you. 24:40.840 --> 24:42.840 Now I know. 24:42.840 --> 24:44.840 Up to now, it's been a game of cat and mouse. 24:44.840 --> 24:47.840 You were the mouse and I was the cat, ready for the kill. 24:47.840 --> 24:50.840 But you tricked me, my pretty wife. 24:50.840 --> 24:54.840 Must feel pretty proud. 24:54.840 --> 24:56.840 But look, the game's gonna change, Dixie. 24:56.840 --> 25:00.840 Work hard. You make lots of money because I'm gonna spend it all. 25:01.840 --> 25:02.840 Charlie. 25:02.840 --> 25:04.840 Have I been a good husband to you, Dixie? 25:04.840 --> 25:08.840 And think back. Remember all the soft, sweet things that we ever held between us? 25:08.840 --> 25:12.840 Think about them, because those soft, sweet things will become just a memory. 25:12.840 --> 25:15.840 From now on, I'm gonna make life hard for you, Dixie. 25:15.840 --> 25:20.840 I'm gonna make it so hard for you, you'll wish that I had killed you. 25:20.840 --> 25:22.840 I'm tired, Charlie. 25:22.840 --> 25:24.840 I'm gonna try to get some rest. 25:24.840 --> 25:28.840 Yeah, get some rest. 25:30.840 --> 25:34.840 Get a lot of rest, Dixie. You're gonna need it. 25:34.840 --> 25:38.840 Did you tell the police why I wanted to kill you, Dixie? 25:38.840 --> 25:43.840 Did you tell them how I asked you in a civilized manner for a divorce? 25:43.840 --> 25:45.840 You tell them that. 25:47.840 --> 25:49.840 Goodbye, Charlie. 25:50.840 --> 25:52.840 Dixie! 25:52.840 --> 25:54.840 Dixie, what did you do? 25:54.840 --> 25:56.840 Dixie! 25:56.840 --> 25:58.840 Don't die! 26:00.840 --> 26:04.840 The police, Dixie, they'll think I did it. 26:05.840 --> 26:07.840 Dixie! 26:07.840 --> 26:11.840 Please, Dixie, don't die! 26:11.840 --> 26:14.840 Dixie, don't die! 26:41.840 --> 26:43.840 Suspense! 26:43.840 --> 26:48.840 Presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Miss Linda Darnell. 26:48.840 --> 26:52.840 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, 26:52.840 --> 26:57.840 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:57.840 --> 27:01.840 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:01.840 --> 27:08.840 And during these early months of 52, the Auto Light family joins in saluting the leading car manufacturers 27:08.840 --> 27:12.840 who install Auto Light products as original equipment. 27:12.840 --> 27:16.840 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women 27:16.840 --> 27:19.840 in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast 27:19.840 --> 27:23.840 and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 27:23.840 --> 27:29.840 It also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light, 27:29.840 --> 27:34.840 as well as 96,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States 27:34.840 --> 27:37.840 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:37.840 --> 27:41.840 Our Auto Light family will salute the De Soto Division of Chrysler Corporation 27:41.840 --> 27:44.840 on the next Auto Light Suspense television program. 27:44.840 --> 27:48.840 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on television 27:48.840 --> 27:51.840 so that you'll be sure to see this program. 27:51.840 --> 27:57.840 And remember, be with us next week for another thrilling Auto Light Suspense program on radio. 27:57.840 --> 28:10.840 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Herbert Marshall 28:10.840 --> 28:15.840 in a radio dramatization of the true story of the 39 steps. 28:15.840 --> 28:31.840 In weeks to come, we shall also present Ray Milan and Frank Lovejoy, all on Suspense. 28:31.840 --> 28:36.840 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick 28:36.840 --> 28:38.840 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:38.840 --> 28:43.840 A Killing in Las Vegas was written for Suspense by Richard George Petticini. 28:43.840 --> 28:49.840 In tonight's story, Lamont Johnson was heard as Charlie and Joseph Kearns as the lieutenant. 28:49.840 --> 28:56.840 Featured in the cast were Jerry Hausner, Charles Calvert, Eve McVeigh, and Jim Nusser. 28:56.840 --> 29:04.840 Linda Darnall will soon be seen in David E. 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