1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,200 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Richard Widmark in a true story of murder. 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,580 Tonight's presentation of... 3 00:00:15,580 --> 00:00:16,580 Suspense. 4 00:00:16,580 --> 00:00:27,400 Tonight, you're going to hear a true story, a classic of American crime, as documented 5 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:33,360 by criminologist Edmund Pearson. The story is called, Mate Bram. Tonight's star, Mr. 6 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,360 Richard Widmark. 7 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:43,840 Well, Harlow, tomorrow marks the opening of baseball season. 8 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,080 Why, my team has been playing all year, Hap. 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,080 What team is that? 10 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,920 The Auto Light Electrical System in every Auto Light equipped car. And that's a real 11 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:57,680 team, because every unit, like the coil, distributor, generator, battery, starting motor, and set 12 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,200 of spark plugs, are related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill 13 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,480 to give you the smoothest performance money can buy. 14 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,800 But that team doesn't play ball, Harlow. 15 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:13,680 Oh, does a lot more, Hap. Why, the Auto Light Electrical System goes to bat every time you 16 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,160 start your car, and it keeps right on working every second your car's running. Works every 17 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,320 time you light your lights, blow your horn, use your electric windshield wiper, radio, 18 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:23,320 or heater. 19 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:25,000 Real major league stuff, eh, Harlow? 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,720 You bet your bat, Hap. So, friends, when your Auto Light equipped car needs replacement 21 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:35,400 parts, always insist on Auto Light original factory parts. It pays. Because from bumper 22 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,200 to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 23 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:45,480 And now with Mate Bram and the performance of Mr. Richard Widmark, Auto Light hopes once 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,480 again to keep you in suspense. 25 00:01:48,480 --> 00:02:05,880 Dear Mr. Cooper, I write to you as my true friend who has given me wise counsel in the 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:13,120 past, who knows of my faults and weaknesses, and who also knows my strength. Respecting 27 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:17,560 the latter, I advise you that during the past year, I have totally abstained from drink 28 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:24,600 in any form. And because of that and hard study, I now have a first mate's ticket. It 29 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,400 was in that birth that in Boston, I signed on the Barqueteen Herbert Fuller from where 30 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:35,240 I now write you to give you a report of this fatal voyage. As a matter of truth, I myself 31 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:46,240 might be dead when you read this, if it ever reaches you. 32 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,800 I signed on the master of the vessel being Charles I. Nash and the company of the following 33 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,320 men each important to this account. Henry J. Slyse Seaman. 34 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:55,320 Aye, aye, sir. 35 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:56,320 Here, Captain. 36 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,760 Sign this line, Slyse. You'll have the port watch. 37 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,760 Aye, aye, sir. 38 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Charlie Brown, Seaman. 39 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:02,760 Aye, aye, sir. 40 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,760 This line, Brown. Port watch. 41 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,760 Aye, aye, sir. 42 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:06,760 Jonathan Spencer, steward. 43 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:07,760 Yes, sir. 44 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:08,760 Right here, Spencer. Glad to have you aboard again. 45 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:09,760 Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. 46 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,760 Thomas Bram, first officer. 47 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:11,760 Yes, Captain. 48 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:18,760 This line. First trip, Mr. Bram. Good luck. 49 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,760 Thank you, sir. 50 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,760 August Blomberg, second officer. 51 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:21,760 Aye, aye, sir. 52 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,760 This line, Mr. Blomberg. 53 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:23,760 Aye, aye, sir. 54 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:32,760 There are two other names important to this account. Lester H. Monks, who came aboard as 55 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:16,400 a passenger in the interest of his house, and the 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:31,400 captain of the ship, Mr. Bram. 57 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:42,160 There are two other names important to this account. Lester H. Monks, who came aboard as 58 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,000 a passenger in the interest of his health, as the nature of our voyage was to be tropical. 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:52,660 The other name is Laura Nash, wife of Captain Nash. If I had known that this woman was going 60 00:03:52,660 --> 00:03:57,360 to sail with us, I never would have signed on. But when I saw her and learned that she 61 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:05,480 was, I didn't sign off, although I could have. I stayed on because she was compelling, with 62 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:12,320 a bold look, and because a man is always a hunter. That same day, still in harbor, when 63 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,040 first I saw her, I went to the steward to learn more. 64 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:23,680 Yes, sir, Mr. Your name is Bram, isn't it? 65 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,480 Yes, my name is Bram. Can I get a cup of tea? 66 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:32,960 Yes, sir, it's hot. Are you a home man, Mr. Bram, or did you come from another ship? 67 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,480 I came from another ship. What ship was it? 68 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,440 The Antilles. She came in yesterday, we go out tomorrow. 69 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,440 You don't like it shore side, Mr. Bram? Nope, I find it too much trouble. You've 70 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,000 sailed this ship before? Two trips. 71 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,560 What is this woman that goes with us? She's the captain's wife, sir. 72 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,000 I know that. Is she a good wife, Spencer? 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,040 I don't know what you mean, sir. Well, she's younger than he is. Why does a young 74 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,720 woman marry with a man like that and go sailing off on a ship with him and 11 other men? 75 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:13,120 I don't know, Mr. Bram. No lady would do that, would she? 76 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,400 I don't know many ladies, Mr. Bram. You won't find out asking me, you'd better ask her. 77 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,400 Maybe I will. Hello, Blomberg. 78 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,200 More deck cargo ready to load for... 79 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,600 I'll see to it. You want tea, Mr. Blomberg? 80 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,360 Ah, tea time. Spencer, you've sailed this ship before. 81 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,600 What do you know about this woman that goes with us? 82 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,360 Nothing. What kind of woman she is? 83 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:42,480 The way she looks at a man. I don't know, sir. I don't know anything. 84 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,600 When I left the steward, the second mate was asking the same questions I asked. 85 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,320 I mentioned this to remind you that I was not alone with my thoughts. 86 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,400 The same ones were in the minds of the others, perhaps all of them. 87 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:10,520 This then, my good friend, was the state and nature of the ship when we made to open sea. 88 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:15,080 The first day passed in shaking her down, but then evening was upon us and the woman 89 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:20,240 ate supper in the cabin at the officer's table, which also included the passenger, Mr. Monks. 90 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:26,280 These meals, there were only six of them, may be exaggerated in my memory, but I think not. 91 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:32,360 It seems now that nothing was discussed except that I abstained from the wine that was served. 92 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,920 It was difficult because I didn't want to give as my reason for refusal the fact that you know, 93 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,360 sir, that I am a slave to drink unless I abstain entirely. 94 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,640 Your glass, Laura. 95 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,480 Yes. Thank you. 96 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,560 Mr. Monks. 97 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:52,560 Yes, please. 98 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:58,120 Thank you, Captain. 99 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,120 Mr. Bram. 100 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,720 No, sir, I don't want any. 101 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:03,720 Mr. Blomberg. 102 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:11,680 Yeah, I like good wine. 103 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,920 Are you a religious man, Mr. Bram? 104 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,840 No, sir, not overly so. 105 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,480 That was why you wouldn't have a glass of wine with us. 106 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,400 No, I don't care for wine. 107 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,360 What you drink then, rum like the pirates? 108 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,120 I don't drink at all. 109 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,000 I didn't think that a seafaring man lived that didn't drink, Mr. Bram. 110 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,160 Seafaring men are much like any men, Mr. Monks. 111 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,320 Some of them drink, some of them don't. 112 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:38,560 Wine with a meal and a good whiskey or brandy at the end of a watch. 113 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,600 Nothing can take their place. 114 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,840 Is there a reason you don't drink, Mr. Bram? 115 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,080 Yes, I don't like to. 116 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:49,080 Have you ever drunk? 117 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,360 No, I never have. 118 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,480 I don't believe that. 119 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:58,160 I've heard that some men don't drink because they expose their true selves when they do. 120 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,960 Do you have a true self that you are hiding? 121 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,640 I'm sorry to disappoint you, madam. 122 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,680 You are seeing my true self, a man who doesn't drink. 123 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,280 Oh, there must be a reason. 124 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,280 And I'll find out what it is. 125 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,280 That's enough, Laura. 126 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,280 You're too forward. 127 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,280 Eat your supper. 128 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:21,080 Eat your supper. 129 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:26,600 As I stated, my memory of that first supper may now be exaggerated, but I think not. 130 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,800 There was more drinking after the meal, but I left as it was my watch. 131 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,500 I know that the second mate stayed with the woman, though, even after Captain Nash had 132 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:37,400 retired to his cot in a chart room. 133 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,320 Now this sleeping arrangement must be explained because it's important. 134 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,960 The captain with a cot in the chart room forward in the main house, the woman in the first 135 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,400 cabin starboard, the passenger in the second. 136 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:55,200 Across the companion way, I in the first cabin port, Mr. Blomberg in the second. 137 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,800 I heard the woman come to her quarters after I'd been relieved. 138 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:06,600 And I think that night I started dreaming about her and her taunting smile. 139 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:16,160 And with her, I dreamed of being drunk. 140 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,540 The next day passed the same and the next night. 141 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:24,400 There's little enough of interest on a ship and anything unusual is left upon. 142 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,560 On this ship, it was my sobriety. 143 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:31,280 The first sign of trouble came upon us during the third evening. 144 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,700 And I swear upon our friendship, sir, that it was not of my doing. 145 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:37,200 I was only walking out past the main house. 146 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,400 Mr. Blom. 147 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,400 Yes? 148 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,360 Come in my quarters. 149 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,080 I'm still on watch, Mr. Blomberg. 150 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,080 What do you want? 151 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,840 I think of you too much today. 152 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,200 Now I don't like you. 153 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,200 What you think is your business, not mine. 154 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,100 And that I don't like you? 155 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:54,640 It's a man's privilege to like or dislike. 156 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:55,640 You don't care. 157 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,200 There'd be nothing for me to do about it if I did. 158 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:00,680 There is something. 159 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:01,680 Oh? 160 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,080 Stop acting like you're better than us, all of us. 161 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,080 I'm no better or worse than anyone. 162 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:07,080 You think you are. 163 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,960 You think so because we drink and you don't. 164 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,160 You think you're saint or something. 165 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,160 You're wrong. 166 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:12,360 And I'll thank you to leave me alone. 167 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,360 No. 168 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:14,360 Let go of me. 169 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:15,480 I give you a chance to make me wrong. 170 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,240 I give you a chance to act like man. 171 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,920 I ask you now, come in my quarters. 172 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:20,920 Drink with me like friends. 173 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,440 I don't want to drink, Blomberg. 174 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,520 His insult not to drink when man asks you. 175 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:26,800 Leave off me. 176 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,160 Take it as an insult if you like. 177 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,040 I say I have my reasons and my rights to do as I choose. 178 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,040 Now mind your own affairs. 179 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,040 There'll be no trouble. 180 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:35,040 You better run me. 181 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,040 You woman. 182 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,040 Leave off me. 183 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,040 Oh, you. 184 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,040 I. 185 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:40,040 Blomberg. 186 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:45,400 I'll kill you next time. 187 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,000 What is the meaning of this? 188 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,600 There were some words, C. 189 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:49,600 What words? 190 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:50,600 His woman. 191 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,600 Words about Laura? 192 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:52,600 No, C. 193 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,360 I've seen the way both of you are mooning about her. 194 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,040 There's an end to that right now. 195 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,960 You'll both eat in your own quarters from this day on. 196 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:01,480 Stay away from her. 197 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,040 Your officers are on this ship. 198 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,800 Go to your quarters, Mr. Bram. 199 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:05,800 I see. 200 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,440 There'll be a report on this, Mr. Blomberg. 201 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:12,520 You'll relieve the watch. 202 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,520 Mr. Bram. 203 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,520 What happened? 204 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,520 There was some trouble. 205 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,520 About what? 206 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:20,520 Nothing. 207 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:21,520 Man trouble. 208 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:22,880 I heard what my husband said. 209 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,800 Were you fighting over me? 210 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:25,800 No. 211 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,200 Why should you fight over me? 212 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,280 You've hardly looked at me. 213 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,640 You're a married woman, Mrs. Nash. 214 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,600 I think that makes more difference to you than it does to me. 215 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,960 Why are you so good? 216 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,960 You couldn't choose a word farther from the truth, and I think I'd better go inside. 217 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:45,960 Wait. 218 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:47,960 Why did you fight? 219 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,760 Because he was teasing you about not drinking, wasn't it? 220 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,120 He told me he was going to. 221 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,120 Yes, that was why. 222 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:54,640 Are you playing the game with me, too? 223 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,960 I'm intrigued. 224 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,640 You're a man with a past, aren't you? 225 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,960 And you won't drink because you're afraid someone will find out what it is. 226 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:02,960 Drink what you like. 227 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:08,280 Don't you know that's a challenge to a woman like me? 228 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,760 Wouldn't you even drink with me? 229 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,760 Yes. 230 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,400 Yes, perhaps with you. 231 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:18,400 Is that a promise? 232 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,480 No, Mrs. Nash, I promise nothing anymore. 233 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,680 I've been ordered to my quarters. 234 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:33,320 I'd better go. 235 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,840 Mr. Cooper, sir, I feel as though I should apologize even to you who know me so well, 236 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,280 but I will not, because I must shamelessly recount all details. 237 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,760 There were no more words except ship words between Mr. Blomberg and myself. 238 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:52,760 We ate in our quarters, and for the three days following the quarrel on deck, Captain Nash 239 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,960 vigilantly allowed his wife no freedom on the ship. 240 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:04,360 I hope you'll understand that, however wrong, her words to me lived in my mind, and they 241 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:05,360 grew. 242 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,640 So when I was relieved of watch on the fourth night following, I was very pleased to find 243 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,040 her waiting inside the open door to her quarters. 244 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:14,040 Mr. Bram? 245 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:15,040 Yes? 246 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,520 I've been waiting for you. 247 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,240 Won't you come in? 248 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,240 Where's Captain Nash? 249 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:25,280 In the chart room, asleep. 250 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,320 I knew he wouldn't watch me forever. 251 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:28,880 What do you want? 252 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,080 Just to talk to someone who's young. 253 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,320 Won't you sit down? 254 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,440 Thank you. 255 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:36,600 There's no harm. 256 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,880 I want you to know that. 257 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:44,720 All right, Laura, there's no harm. 258 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:49,400 Whether I'm married or not, I'm a woman, am I not? 259 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:50,880 Yes, yes, you are. 260 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,960 And I deserve to have the company that I like? 261 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,240 I brought a bottle of wine. 262 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:00,720 I see that you have. 263 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,360 I stole it when he wasn't looking. 264 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,360 You took a chance. 265 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,440 I thought it would be nice. 266 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:07,440 Shall I open it? 267 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,440 Yes, if you like. 268 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:19,600 Here you are. 269 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,680 Thank you. 270 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,920 You haven't been very nice to me, have you? 271 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,440 I've hardly been able to be anything to you. 272 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:33,920 Then shall we drink to how nice you can be? 273 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:34,920 All right. 274 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:46,640 Oh, I drank, my friend, the bottle of wine. 275 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,760 And when I left her, I went into Mr. Blomberg's quarters and stole what he had and took it 276 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,440 to my own. 277 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:59,120 The warmth that I remembered in my middle body, the courage I assumed, the eyes that 278 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,080 weren't really mine, seeing things. 279 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:10,560 The false happiness, the excitement, the great proud feeling of self-satisfaction, the elation, 280 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:21,320 the slipping away from reality and the wonder of it, the pleasure of numbness, the peace, 281 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:32,680 and the luxury of knowing that when you went to bed, you'd sleep. 282 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:40,800 Mr. Brown. 283 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:46,600 Mr. Brown. 284 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:51,880 Mr. Brown. 285 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,640 Mr. Brown. 286 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:58,640 What's the matter? 287 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,640 What's the matter? 288 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:00,640 There's murder. 289 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:01,640 What? 290 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:02,640 What's that you say? 291 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,280 You've got to come up on the deck. 292 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:12,280 The captain and his wife, Mr. Blomberg, they've all been murdered. 293 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:13,280 They're dead. 294 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:26,800 They're dead. 295 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:32,560 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Richard Widmark in Mate Bram, tonight's production in radio's 296 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:40,680 outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 297 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:50,320 Say, Harlow, where do you expect the Auto Light team to finish? 298 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,880 I don't expect it to finish at all, Hap. 299 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,040 That Auto Light electrical system's job is never done. 300 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:00,200 It works when you start your car and every second your engine runs, as well as when you 301 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,040 blow the horn, turn on your lights, electric windshield wiper, radio, or heater. 302 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,480 That Auto Light electrical team must have some real fans, Harlow. 303 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,920 You bet it does have the many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors that 304 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,600 use Auto Light electrical systems as original equipment. 305 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,840 And in that great team, every unit and component part is related by Auto Light engineering 306 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:26,200 design and manufacturing skill to give the finest performance money can buy. 307 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,080 Who manages this team, Harlow? 308 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,200 Your car dealer or authorized Auto Light service station. 309 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,520 You can quickly learn the location of your nearest authorized Auto Light service station 310 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:41,240 in the classified section of your telephone directory under Automobile Electrical Service. 311 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,200 Treat your car to a periodic checkup soon. 312 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:45,200 It pays. 313 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:50,960 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 314 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:57,320 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Richard Widmark, in Elliot 315 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,960 Lewis's production of Mate Bram. 316 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:18,320 A true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 317 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:23,240 It was eight bells midnight when I went into the woman's quarters, some time later when 318 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,680 I left. 319 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,600 I didn't want a drink, but what could I do? 320 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,360 I found myself by telling her about the last time, the fights, the broken windows, the 321 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,680 jail, and the other times. 322 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,280 I should have, but considering the situation, I doubt any man would. 323 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:44,720 I remember leaving, going to Mr. Blomberg's quarters, then to my own. 324 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,440 But there, after another while, my memory stops. 325 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:54,580 I have lost an hour, my good friend, or perhaps two, until Mr. Monks awoke me some minutes 326 00:18:54,580 --> 00:18:56,600 before four with a gun in his hand. 327 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,220 There's a murderer on board. 328 00:18:58,220 --> 00:19:01,560 He killed them all with an axe. 329 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,400 Mr. Bram, what is the matter? 330 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,600 What are you doing with that gun? 331 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:07,800 None of us is safe. 332 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,040 There's a murderer on board. 333 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:13,040 What are you doing? 334 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,040 Water first. 335 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,040 You're drinking, Mr. Bram. 336 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:18,040 Yes. 337 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,040 Yes, I have. 338 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:27,320 You'll have to sober up. 339 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:28,320 You're in command now. 340 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:29,320 I'm all right. 341 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,320 I'm all right. 342 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:31,320 Where are they? 343 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:32,320 Mrs. Nash is in her cabin. 344 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,320 I'll show you. 345 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,320 There. 346 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,320 Ah. 347 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,320 Yes. 348 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:44,320 What do you know of this? 349 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,320 Nothing. 350 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,320 Nothing at all. 351 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:47,320 How did you learn? 352 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:48,520 Something woke me up. 353 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,080 It was like a scream, but I didn't know with all the sounds of the ship. 354 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:54,080 When was that? 355 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:55,200 I can't be sure. 356 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,600 I went to sleep again. 357 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,160 Then I woke up again. 358 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,160 What woke you that time? 359 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,080 I don't know, but I began to worry about the sound I'd heard. 360 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,080 The scream. 361 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,720 I got up and went to tell the captain about it. 362 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:07,720 He was dead. 363 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,880 I was sure the sound meant something, and I came to Mrs. Nash's cabin. 364 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,800 Then I saw Mr. Blomberg's door open and found him the same way. 365 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,080 There's a maniac on board. 366 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,080 Come with me. 367 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:23,040 We'll check at the others. 368 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,880 We looked in the quarters of the others and found no weapon. 369 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:31,000 And I'll state now that when I looked in my locker for my gun, I also looked for bloodstains 370 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:36,200 on the clothes in there and on the clothes I was wearing as I'd slept fully dressed. 371 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,200 And I found none. 372 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:46,200 Then pursuing the actions of Mr. Mugson and me, we awoke the steward and went on deck. 373 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,560 Wait. 374 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,800 There's the axe. 375 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:53,800 That's the one. 376 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:54,800 That's the one that did it. 377 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:55,800 Get rid of it, Mr. Brown. 378 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,040 Throw it overboard. 379 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,560 The fiend might use it on us next. 380 00:20:58,560 --> 00:20:59,560 No, Mr. Brown. 381 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:00,560 We can't do that, sir. 382 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:01,560 Throw it overboard. 383 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,560 That's the weapon. 384 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,560 We've got to keep it. 385 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:04,560 By law, we've got to. 386 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,560 All right. 387 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:06,560 All right. 388 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:07,560 We'll keep it aboard. 389 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,560 It's sliced at the wheel. 390 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:14,520 We'll see what he knows. 391 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,520 What is it? 392 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:16,520 What's that axe? 393 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,760 There's been murder aboard, Slice. 394 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,200 How long have you been at the wheel? 395 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:21,200 Two hours, sir. 396 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,360 Who is it? 397 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:24,760 Brown and Cantwell share your watch, don't they? 398 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 Yes, sir. 399 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Where are they? 400 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:27,760 At Forest, sir. 401 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:28,760 Standing lookout. 402 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,760 Who's dead? 403 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:30,760 The captain and his wife and Mr. Blomberg. 404 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,360 Have you seen anybody on deck, Slice, while you've been at the wheel? 405 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,840 Only you, Mr. Brann. 406 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,920 I didn't see nobody else. 407 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,360 I didn't remember. 408 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:47,720 It's a frightful thing to have a man say you were out on deck and not remember. 409 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:52,920 I tried to carry on without arousing suspicion, and this is what I learned. 410 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,320 That I had come out and asked for Mr. Blomberg, and upon being told that he was tending the 411 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,160 forsook with two deckhands, I'd gone back inside. 412 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,780 And that then Mr. Blomberg had come aft and gone inside, too. 413 00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:14,560 And that he'd never come out again. 414 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,600 I couldn't help feeling guilty, but on the other hand, I couldn't help heeding my instinct 415 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,160 to protect myself. 416 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:25,280 For example, at my earliest opportunity, when I was not seen, I took that axe and I threw 417 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,280 it overboard. 418 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,080 But that was wrong. 419 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,120 I acted in excitement and fear, and I'm sorry now that I did. 420 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:36,520 When dawn came, I ordered the ship to come about and set her back toward Boston. 421 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,920 Soon after this was done, the steward came to me. 422 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,920 The crew wants me to talk to you, sir. 423 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:42,920 Yes, what about? 424 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:47,280 They all say they'll be afraid to go to sleep tonight for fear of being murdered in their 425 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,280 bunks. 426 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:49,280 All right. 427 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,520 All right, I'll have them all sleep on deck where a watch can be kept over them. 428 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,640 And if you will, Spencer, you can tell them all to come on deck in an hour for the funeral 429 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:57,640 services. 430 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:58,640 Funeral services, sir? 431 00:22:58,640 --> 00:22:59,640 Yes. 432 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,440 We can't put those people over the side, sir. 433 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,040 By law, we've got to take them back. 434 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,560 Oh, yes, yes, of course, Spencer, but it's not good to have them on the ship. 435 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,160 I mean to put them in the longboat and tow it astern. 436 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,360 Now bring them out and with Captain Nash bring his Bible. 437 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:15,440 It's open on the table next to his cot. 438 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:24,240 It is, sir? 439 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,240 I don't know why I thought I knew where the captain's Bible was. 440 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:32,120 I wasn't sure that I did know, but I was afraid to ask Bensie. 441 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:36,360 So once more on impulse and in fear, I acted. 442 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:40,120 That night I went after the man at the wheel and ordered him below to get my glass, telling 443 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:42,400 him I'd seen a light in the distance. 444 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,560 When he was gone lashing the wheel, I turned with a knife to the line towing the longboat 445 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:52,160 to cut the body's adrift and to finally destroy the evidence. 446 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,360 Mr. Bram! 447 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:57,160 Mr. Bram, stop there! 448 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,960 Don't do that, Mr. Bram. 449 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,440 Leave off, Spencer. 450 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,080 It's not good to have dead people following along behind. 451 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,080 Leave off! 452 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,080 What's this for? 453 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,080 For killing those people out there. 454 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,080 No. 455 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,080 It was you, Mr. Bram. 456 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,080 No, I didn't. 457 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,360 You were with a wife last night drinking. 458 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,360 Who says that? 459 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,360 Mr. Slice. 460 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,560 Mr. Blomberg told him. 461 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,560 That's no proof. 462 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:15,840 You knew where his Bible was, sir. 463 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,080 And that's nothing either. 464 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,640 You relieved Slice at the wheel and after that the axe was missing. 465 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,360 Mr. Brown saw you throw it overboard. 466 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:23,800 I didn't kill them. 467 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,320 Then why were you cutting the longboat free, Mr. Bram? 468 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,160 Hold still, Mr. Bram. 469 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,560 Confess and ease yourself, Mr. Brown. 470 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,200 No, I won't confess. 471 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,040 Nobody saw me kill them because I didn't. 472 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,040 I didn't! 473 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,040 Come along, Mr. Bram. 474 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,840 Who are you taking me? 475 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:38,920 To lock you up. 476 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:51,200 By law, we've got to do it. 477 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,640 They put me in irons, locked in my own quarters. 478 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,080 And here I have stayed. 479 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,680 There have been no more murders in the three days past, which does not stand in favor of 480 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,560 another killer being aboard and my being innocent. 481 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,880 What I have written, my good friend, is the whole truth. 482 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:17,720 And I beg of you to be my legal counsel when my case comes to trial, as I'm sure it will. 483 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:22,720 In my own mind, I am not convinced that I'm guilty. 484 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:29,320 For one reason, that however violent I've been, I have never killed before. 485 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,880 Before. 486 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,960 Never killed before. 487 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:51,560 If I could only remember, if I could just remember, why can't I? 488 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,000 Why can't I? 489 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Why? 490 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:08,880 Why can't I remember? 491 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:14,000 As the passenger aboard the Fuller, I was called along with the crew to testify in both 492 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,320 of Mr. Bram's trials. 493 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:23,960 And each time, I stayed to hear him pronounced guilty by two separate courts of law of a 494 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:48,280 crime he steadfastly swore that he did not remember committing. 495 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:54,960 Suspense. 496 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,960 A true story presented by Auto Light. 497 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:03,320 Tonight's star, Mr. Richard Widmark. 498 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,920 And here he is once again, our star, Richard Widmark. 499 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,960 It's always good to have you aboard, Dick. 500 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:08,960 Thank you, Harlow. 501 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,240 I sort of feel like one of the family since this is my fourth appearance on Suspense this 502 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,240 season. 503 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:15,560 Well, you are a member of the family, Dick. 504 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,440 The Auto Light family, which includes 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the 505 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:26,360 United States, nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to 506 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:32,040 coast, and the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 507 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,360 It's a big family, Harlow, and I'm proud to be included. 508 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:39,160 Now, we're all proud to be members of the Auto Light family, Dick, because Auto Light 509 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,280 serves the greatest names in the industry. 510 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,960 And every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the 511 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,280 highest standards of quality and performance. 512 00:27:50,280 --> 00:28:04,400 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 513 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:10,640 Next week, the dramatic recreation of a race, five brave men made with death. 514 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,400 A true story based on the writings of one of those men. 515 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,800 Our star will be Mr. Herbert Marshall. 516 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:32,920 The story is called The Diary of Captain Scott, presented next week on Suspense. 517 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,980 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawick 518 00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:40,480 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 519 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,520 Mate Bram was written for Suspense by Gil Dowd. 520 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:50,400 In the cast were Joan Banks, Joseph Kearns, Ben Wright, Lou Merrill, Steve Roberts, Roy 521 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,480 Glenn, and Robert North. 522 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,800 Richard Widmark appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers of the Technicolor 523 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,160 Musical with A Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward. 524 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:27,200 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Herbert Marshall in The Diary of Captain Scott. 525 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:37,560 This is the CBS Radio Network.