WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.200 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Richard Widmark in a true story of murder. 00:13.200 --> 00:15.580 Tonight's presentation of... 00:15.580 --> 00:16.580 Suspense. 00:16.580 --> 00:27.400 Tonight, you're going to hear a true story, a classic of American crime, as documented 00:27.400 --> 00:33.360 by criminologist Edmund Pearson. The story is called, Mate Bram. Tonight's star, Mr. 00:33.360 --> 00:36.360 Richard Widmark. 00:36.360 --> 00:43.840 Well, Harlow, tomorrow marks the opening of baseball season. 00:43.840 --> 00:47.080 Why, my team has been playing all year, Hap. 00:47.080 --> 00:48.080 What team is that? 00:48.080 --> 00:52.920 The Auto Light Electrical System in every Auto Light equipped car. 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It 02:24.600 --> 02:29.400 was in that birth that in Boston, I signed on the Barqueteen Herbert Fuller from where 02:29.400 --> 02:35.240 I now write you to give you a report of this fatal voyage. As a matter of truth, I myself 02:35.240 --> 02:46.240 might be dead when you read this, if it ever reaches you. 02:46.240 --> 02:50.800 I signed on the master of the vessel being Charles I. Nash and the company of the following 02:50.800 --> 02:54.320 men each important to this account. Henry J. Slyse Seaman. 02:54.320 --> 02:55.320 Aye, aye, sir. 02:55.320 --> 02:56.320 Here, Captain. 02:56.320 --> 02:59.760 Sign this line, Slyse. You'll have the port watch. 02:59.760 --> 03:00.760 Aye, aye, sir. 03:00.760 --> 03:01.760 Charlie Brown, Seaman. 03:01.760 --> 03:02.760 Aye, aye, sir. 03:02.760 --> 03:04.760 This line, Brown. Port watch. 03:04.760 --> 03:05.760 Aye, aye, sir. 03:05.760 --> 03:06.760 Jonathan Spencer, steward. 03:06.760 --> 03:07.760 Yes, sir. 03:07.760 --> 03:08.760 Right here, Spencer. Glad to have you aboard again. 03:08.760 --> 03:09.760 Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. 03:09.760 --> 03:10.760 Thomas Bram, first officer. 03:10.760 --> 03:11.760 Yes, Captain. 03:11.760 --> 03:18.760 This line. First trip, Mr. Bram. Good luck. 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 Thank you, sir. 03:19.760 --> 03:20.760 August Blomberg, second officer. 03:20.760 --> 03:21.760 Aye, aye, sir. 03:21.760 --> 03:22.760 This line, Mr. Blomberg. 03:22.760 --> 03:23.760 Aye, aye, sir. 03:23.760 --> 03:32.760 There are two other names important to this account. Lester H. Monks, who came aboard as 03:32.760 --> 03:16.400 a passenger in the interest of his house, and the 03:16.400 --> 03:31.400 captain of the ship, Mr. Bram. 03:31.400 --> 03:42.160 There are two other names important to this account. Lester H. Monks, who came aboard as 03:42.160 --> 03:46.000 a passenger in the interest of his health, as the nature of our voyage was to be tropical. 03:46.000 --> 03:52.660 The other name is Laura Nash, wife of Captain Nash. If I had known that this woman was going 03:52.660 --> 03:57.360 to sail with us, I never would have signed on. But when I saw her and learned that she 03:57.360 --> 04:05.480 was, I didn't sign off, although I could have. I stayed on because she was compelling, with 04:05.480 --> 04:12.320 a bold look, and because a man is always a hunter. That same day, still in harbor, when 04:12.320 --> 04:16.040 first I saw her, I went to the steward to learn more. 04:16.040 --> 04:23.680 Yes, sir, Mr. Your name is Bram, isn't it? 04:23.680 --> 04:26.480 Yes, my name is Bram. Can I get a cup of tea? 04:26.480 --> 04:32.960 Yes, sir, it's hot. Are you a home man, Mr. Bram, or did you come from another ship? 04:32.960 --> 04:37.480 I came from another ship. What ship was it? 04:37.480 --> 04:42.440 The Antilles. She came in yesterday, we go out tomorrow. 04:42.440 --> 04:47.440 You don't like it shore side, Mr. Bram? Nope, I find it too much trouble. You've 04:47.440 --> 04:51.000 sailed this ship before? Two trips. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.560 What is this woman that goes with us? She's the captain's wife, sir. 04:54.560 --> 04:59.000 I know that. Is she a good wife, Spencer? 04:59.000 --> 05:04.040 I don't know what you mean, sir. Well, she's younger than he is. Why does a young 05:04.040 --> 05:08.720 woman marry with a man like that and go sailing off on a ship with him and 11 other men? 05:08.720 --> 05:13.120 I don't know, Mr. Bram. No lady would do that, would she? 05:13.120 --> 05:18.400 I don't know many ladies, Mr. Bram. You won't find out asking me, you'd better ask her. 05:18.400 --> 05:22.400 Maybe I will. Hello, Blomberg. 05:22.400 --> 05:24.200 More deck cargo ready to load for... 05:24.200 --> 05:26.600 I'll see to it. You want tea, Mr. Blomberg? 05:26.600 --> 05:31.360 Ah, tea time. Spencer, you've sailed this ship before. 05:31.360 --> 05:33.600 What do you know about this woman that goes with us? 05:33.600 --> 05:36.360 Nothing. What kind of woman she is? 05:36.360 --> 05:42.480 The way she looks at a man. I don't know, sir. I don't know anything. 05:42.480 --> 05:46.600 When I left the steward, the second mate was asking the same questions I asked. 05:46.600 --> 05:50.320 I mentioned this to remind you that I was not alone with my thoughts. 05:50.320 --> 05:55.400 The same ones were in the minds of the others, perhaps all of them. 05:55.400 --> 06:10.520 This then, my good friend, was the state and nature of the ship when we made to open sea. 06:10.520 --> 06:15.080 The first day passed in shaking her down, but then evening was upon us and the woman 06:15.080 --> 06:20.240 ate supper in the cabin at the officer's table, which also included the passenger, Mr. Monks. 06:20.240 --> 06:26.280 These meals, there were only six of them, may be exaggerated in my memory, but I think not. 06:26.280 --> 06:32.360 It seems now that nothing was discussed except that I abstained from the wine that was served. 06:32.360 --> 06:37.920 It was difficult because I didn't want to give as my reason for refusal the fact that you know, 06:37.920 --> 06:42.360 sir, that I am a slave to drink unless I abstain entirely. 06:42.360 --> 06:44.640 Your glass, Laura. 06:44.640 --> 06:46.480 Yes. Thank you. 06:46.480 --> 06:51.560 Mr. Monks. 06:51.560 --> 06:52.560 Yes, please. 06:52.560 --> 06:58.120 Thank you, Captain. 06:58.120 --> 06:59.120 Mr. Bram. 06:59.120 --> 07:02.720 No, sir, I don't want any. 07:02.720 --> 07:03.720 Mr. Blomberg. 07:03.720 --> 07:11.680 Yeah, I like good wine. 07:11.680 --> 07:13.920 Are you a religious man, Mr. Bram? 07:13.920 --> 07:15.840 No, sir, not overly so. 07:15.840 --> 07:18.480 That was why you wouldn't have a glass of wine with us. 07:18.480 --> 07:20.400 No, I don't care for wine. 07:20.400 --> 07:23.360 What you drink then, rum like the pirates? 07:23.360 --> 07:25.120 I don't drink at all. 07:25.120 --> 07:29.000 I didn't think that a seafaring man lived that didn't drink, Mr. Bram. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.160 Seafaring men are much like any men, Mr. Monks. 07:31.160 --> 07:33.320 Some of them drink, some of them don't. 07:33.320 --> 07:38.560 Wine with a meal and a good whiskey or brandy at the end of a watch. 07:38.560 --> 07:41.600 Nothing can take their place. 07:41.600 --> 07:44.840 Is there a reason you don't drink, Mr. Bram? 07:44.840 --> 07:48.080 Yes, I don't like to. 07:48.080 --> 07:49.080 Have you ever drunk? 07:49.080 --> 07:51.360 No, I never have. 07:51.360 --> 07:53.480 I don't believe that. 07:53.480 --> 07:58.160 I've heard that some men don't drink because they expose their true selves when they do. 07:58.160 --> 08:00.960 Do you have a true self that you are hiding? 08:00.960 --> 08:03.640 I'm sorry to disappoint you, madam. 08:03.640 --> 08:06.680 You are seeing my true self, a man who doesn't drink. 08:06.680 --> 08:09.280 Oh, there must be a reason. 08:09.280 --> 08:10.280 And I'll find out what it is. 08:10.280 --> 08:11.280 That's enough, Laura. 08:11.280 --> 08:12.280 You're too forward. 08:12.280 --> 08:13.280 Eat your supper. 08:13.280 --> 08:21.080 Eat your supper. 08:21.080 --> 08:26.600 As I stated, my memory of that first supper may now be exaggerated, but I think not. 08:26.600 --> 08:30.800 There was more drinking after the meal, but I left as it was my watch. 08:30.800 --> 08:34.500 I know that the second mate stayed with the woman, though, even after Captain Nash had 08:34.500 --> 08:37.400 retired to his cot in a chart room. 08:37.400 --> 08:41.320 Now this sleeping arrangement must be explained because it's important. 08:41.320 --> 08:45.960 The captain with a cot in the chart room forward in the main house, the woman in the first 08:45.960 --> 08:49.400 cabin starboard, the passenger in the second. 08:49.400 --> 08:55.200 Across the companion way, I in the first cabin port, Mr. Blomberg in the second. 08:55.200 --> 08:59.800 I heard the woman come to her quarters after I'd been relieved. 08:59.800 --> 09:06.600 And I think that night I started dreaming about her and her taunting smile. 09:06.600 --> 09:16.160 And with her, I dreamed of being drunk. 09:16.160 --> 09:19.540 The next day passed the same and the next night. 09:19.540 --> 09:24.400 There's little enough of interest on a ship and anything unusual is left upon. 09:24.400 --> 09:27.560 On this ship, it was my sobriety. 09:27.560 --> 09:31.280 The first sign of trouble came upon us during the third evening. 09:31.280 --> 09:34.700 And I swear upon our friendship, sir, that it was not of my doing. 09:34.700 --> 09:37.200 I was only walking out past the main house. 09:37.200 --> 09:38.400 Mr. Blom. 09:38.400 --> 09:39.400 Yes? 09:39.400 --> 09:41.360 Come in my quarters. 09:41.360 --> 09:43.080 I'm still on watch, Mr. Blomberg. 09:43.080 --> 09:44.080 What do you want? 09:44.080 --> 09:46.840 I think of you too much today. 09:46.840 --> 09:48.200 Now I don't like you. 09:48.200 --> 09:50.200 What you think is your business, not mine. 09:50.200 --> 09:52.100 And that I don't like you? 09:52.100 --> 09:54.640 It's a man's privilege to like or dislike. 09:54.640 --> 09:55.640 You don't care. 09:55.640 --> 09:59.200 There'd be nothing for me to do about it if I did. 09:59.200 --> 10:00.680 There is something. 10:00.680 --> 10:01.680 Oh? 10:01.680 --> 10:04.080 Stop acting like you're better than us, all of us. 10:04.080 --> 10:06.080 I'm no better or worse than anyone. 10:06.080 --> 10:07.080 You think you are. 10:07.080 --> 10:08.960 You think so because we drink and you don't. 10:08.960 --> 10:10.160 You think you're saint or something. 10:10.160 --> 10:11.160 You're wrong. 10:11.160 --> 10:12.360 And I'll thank you to leave me alone. 10:12.360 --> 10:13.360 No. 10:13.360 --> 10:14.360 Let go of me. 10:14.360 --> 10:15.480 I give you a chance to make me wrong. 10:15.480 --> 10:17.240 I give you a chance to act like man. 10:17.240 --> 10:19.920 I ask you now, come in my quarters. 10:19.920 --> 10:20.920 Drink with me like friends. 10:20.920 --> 10:23.440 I don't want to drink, Blomberg. 10:23.440 --> 10:25.520 His insult not to drink when man asks you. 10:25.520 --> 10:26.800 Leave off me. 10:26.800 --> 10:28.160 Take it as an insult if you like. 10:28.160 --> 10:32.040 I say I have my reasons and my rights to do as I choose. 10:32.040 --> 10:33.040 Now mind your own affairs. 10:33.040 --> 10:34.040 There'll be no trouble. 10:34.040 --> 10:35.040 You better run me. 10:35.040 --> 10:36.040 You woman. 10:36.040 --> 10:37.040 Leave off me. 10:37.040 --> 10:38.040 Oh, you. 10:38.040 --> 10:39.040 I. 10:39.040 --> 10:40.040 Blomberg. 10:40.040 --> 10:45.400 I'll kill you next time. 10:45.400 --> 10:47.000 What is the meaning of this? 10:47.000 --> 10:48.600 There were some words, C. 10:48.600 --> 10:49.600 What words? 10:49.600 --> 10:50.600 His woman. 10:50.600 --> 10:51.600 Words about Laura? 10:51.600 --> 10:52.600 No, C. 10:52.600 --> 10:55.360 I've seen the way both of you are mooning about her. 10:55.360 --> 10:57.040 There's an end to that right now. 10:57.040 --> 10:59.960 You'll both eat in your own quarters from this day on. 10:59.960 --> 11:01.480 Stay away from her. 11:01.480 --> 11:03.040 Your officers are on this ship. 11:03.040 --> 11:04.800 Go to your quarters, Mr. Bram. 11:04.800 --> 11:05.800 I see. 11:05.800 --> 11:07.440 There'll be a report on this, Mr. Blomberg. 11:07.440 --> 11:12.520 You'll relieve the watch. 11:12.520 --> 11:14.520 Mr. Bram. 11:14.520 --> 11:16.520 What happened? 11:16.520 --> 11:18.520 There was some trouble. 11:18.520 --> 11:19.520 About what? 11:19.520 --> 11:20.520 Nothing. 11:20.520 --> 11:21.520 Man trouble. 11:21.520 --> 11:22.880 I heard what my husband said. 11:22.880 --> 11:24.800 Were you fighting over me? 11:24.800 --> 11:25.800 No. 11:25.800 --> 11:28.200 Why should you fight over me? 11:28.200 --> 11:30.280 You've hardly looked at me. 11:30.280 --> 11:32.640 You're a married woman, Mrs. Nash. 11:32.640 --> 11:37.600 I think that makes more difference to you than it does to me. 11:37.600 --> 11:40.960 Why are you so good? 11:40.960 --> 11:44.960 You couldn't choose a word farther from the truth, and I think I'd better go inside. 11:44.960 --> 11:45.960 Wait. 11:45.960 --> 11:47.960 Why did you fight? 11:47.960 --> 11:50.760 Because he was teasing you about not drinking, wasn't it? 11:50.760 --> 11:52.120 He told me he was going to. 11:52.120 --> 11:53.120 Yes, that was why. 11:53.120 --> 11:54.640 Are you playing the game with me, too? 11:54.640 --> 11:56.960 I'm intrigued. 11:56.960 --> 11:58.640 You're a man with a past, aren't you? 11:58.640 --> 12:01.960 And you won't drink because you're afraid someone will find out what it is. 12:01.960 --> 12:02.960 Drink what you like. 12:02.960 --> 12:08.280 Don't you know that's a challenge to a woman like me? 12:08.280 --> 12:11.760 Wouldn't you even drink with me? 12:11.760 --> 12:13.760 Yes. 12:13.760 --> 12:17.400 Yes, perhaps with you. 12:17.400 --> 12:18.400 Is that a promise? 12:18.400 --> 12:21.480 No, Mrs. Nash, I promise nothing anymore. 12:21.480 --> 12:22.680 I've been ordered to my quarters. 12:22.680 --> 12:33.320 I'd better go. 12:33.320 --> 12:37.840 Mr. Cooper, sir, I feel as though I should apologize even to you who know me so well, 12:37.840 --> 12:43.280 but I will not, because I must shamelessly recount all details. 12:43.280 --> 12:47.760 There were no more words except ship words between Mr. Blomberg and myself. 12:47.760 --> 12:52.760 We ate in our quarters, and for the three days following the quarrel on deck, Captain Nash 12:52.760 --> 12:56.960 vigilantly allowed his wife no freedom on the ship. 12:56.960 --> 13:04.360 I hope you'll understand that, however wrong, her words to me lived in my mind, and they 13:04.360 --> 13:05.360 grew. 13:05.360 --> 13:09.640 So when I was relieved of watch on the fourth night following, I was very pleased to find 13:09.640 --> 13:13.040 her waiting inside the open door to her quarters. 13:13.040 --> 13:14.040 Mr. Bram? 13:14.040 --> 13:15.040 Yes? 13:15.040 --> 13:16.520 I've been waiting for you. 13:16.520 --> 13:18.240 Won't you come in? 13:18.240 --> 13:19.240 Where's Captain Nash? 13:19.240 --> 13:25.280 In the chart room, asleep. 13:25.280 --> 13:27.320 I knew he wouldn't watch me forever. 13:27.320 --> 13:28.880 What do you want? 13:28.880 --> 13:31.080 Just to talk to someone who's young. 13:31.080 --> 13:33.320 Won't you sit down? 13:33.320 --> 13:35.440 Thank you. 13:35.440 --> 13:36.600 There's no harm. 13:36.600 --> 13:38.880 I want you to know that. 13:38.880 --> 13:44.720 All right, Laura, there's no harm. 13:44.720 --> 13:49.400 Whether I'm married or not, I'm a woman, am I not? 13:49.400 --> 13:50.880 Yes, yes, you are. 13:50.880 --> 13:55.960 And I deserve to have the company that I like? 13:55.960 --> 13:59.240 I brought a bottle of wine. 13:59.240 --> 14:00.720 I see that you have. 14:00.720 --> 14:02.360 I stole it when he wasn't looking. 14:02.360 --> 14:03.360 You took a chance. 14:03.360 --> 14:06.440 I thought it would be nice. 14:06.440 --> 14:07.440 Shall I open it? 14:07.440 --> 14:10.440 Yes, if you like. 14:10.440 --> 14:19.600 Here you are. 14:19.600 --> 14:21.680 Thank you. 14:21.680 --> 14:24.920 You haven't been very nice to me, have you? 14:24.920 --> 14:28.440 I've hardly been able to be anything to you. 14:28.440 --> 14:33.920 Then shall we drink to how nice you can be? 14:33.920 --> 14:34.920 All right. 14:34.920 --> 14:46.640 Oh, I drank, my friend, the bottle of wine. 14:46.640 --> 14:50.760 And when I left her, I went into Mr. Blomberg's quarters and stole what he had and took it 14:50.760 --> 14:52.440 to my own. 14:52.440 --> 14:59.120 The warmth that I remembered in my middle body, the courage I assumed, the eyes that 14:59.120 --> 15:02.080 weren't really mine, seeing things. 15:02.080 --> 15:10.560 The false happiness, the excitement, the great proud feeling of self-satisfaction, the elation, 15:10.560 --> 15:21.320 the slipping away from reality and the wonder of it, the pleasure of numbness, the peace, 15:21.320 --> 15:32.680 and the luxury of knowing that when you went to bed, you'd sleep. 15:32.680 --> 15:40.800 Mr. Brown. 15:40.800 --> 15:46.600 Mr. Brown. 15:46.600 --> 15:51.880 Mr. Brown. 15:51.880 --> 15:57.640 Mr. Brown. 15:57.640 --> 15:58.640 What's the matter? 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19:04.400 --> 19:06.600 What are you doing with that gun? 19:06.600 --> 19:07.800 None of us is safe. 19:07.800 --> 19:12.040 There's a murderer on board. 19:12.040 --> 19:13.040 What are you doing? 19:13.040 --> 19:14.040 Water first. 19:14.040 --> 19:17.040 You're drinking, Mr. Bram. 19:17.040 --> 19:18.040 Yes. 19:18.040 --> 19:21.040 Yes, I have. 19:21.040 --> 19:27.320 You'll have to sober up. 19:27.320 --> 19:28.320 You're in command now. 19:28.320 --> 19:29.320 I'm all right. 19:29.320 --> 19:30.320 I'm all right. 19:30.320 --> 19:31.320 Where are they? 19:31.320 --> 19:32.320 Mrs. Nash is in her cabin. 19:32.320 --> 19:35.320 I'll show you. 19:35.320 --> 19:37.320 There. 19:37.320 --> 19:39.320 Ah. 19:39.320 --> 19:43.320 Yes. 19:43.320 --> 19:44.320 What do you know of this? 19:44.320 --> 19:45.320 Nothing. 19:45.320 --> 19:46.320 Nothing at all. 19:46.320 --> 19:47.320 How did you learn? 19:47.320 --> 19:48.520 Something woke me up. 19:48.520 --> 19:53.080 It was like a scream, but I didn't know with all the sounds of the ship. 19:53.080 --> 19:54.080 When was that? 19:54.080 --> 19:55.200 I can't be sure. 19:55.200 --> 19:56.600 I went to sleep again. 19:56.600 --> 19:58.160 Then I woke up again. 19:58.160 --> 19:59.160 What woke you that time? 19:59.160 --> 20:03.080 I don't know, but I began to worry about the sound I'd heard. 20:03.080 --> 20:04.080 The scream. 20:04.080 --> 20:06.720 I got up and went to tell the captain about it. 20:06.720 --> 20:07.720 He was dead. 20:07.720 --> 20:11.880 I was sure the sound meant something, and I came to Mrs. Nash's cabin. 20:11.880 --> 20:15.800 Then I saw Mr. Blomberg's door open and found him the same way. 20:15.800 --> 20:17.080 There's a maniac on board. 20:17.080 --> 20:18.080 Come with me. 20:18.080 --> 20:23.040 We'll check at the others. 20:23.040 --> 20:25.880 We looked in the quarters of the others and found no weapon. 20:25.880 --> 20:31.000 And I'll state now that when I looked in my locker for my gun, I also looked for bloodstains 20:31.000 --> 20:36.200 on the clothes in there and on the clothes I was wearing as I'd slept fully dressed. 20:36.200 --> 20:38.200 And I found none. 20:38.200 --> 20:46.200 Then pursuing the actions of Mr. Mugson and me, we awoke the steward and went on deck. 20:46.200 --> 20:48.560 Wait. 20:48.560 --> 20:52.800 There's the axe. 20:52.800 --> 20:53.800 That's the one. 20:53.800 --> 20:54.800 That's the one that did it. 20:54.800 --> 20:55.800 Get rid of it, Mr. Brown. 20:55.800 --> 20:57.040 Throw it overboard. 20:57.040 --> 20:58.560 The fiend might use it on us next. 20:58.560 --> 20:59.560 No, Mr. Brown. 20:59.560 --> 21:00.560 We can't do that, sir. 21:00.560 --> 21:01.560 Throw it overboard. 21:01.560 --> 21:02.560 That's the weapon. 21:02.560 --> 21:03.560 We've got to keep it. 21:03.560 --> 21:04.560 By law, we've got to. 21:04.560 --> 21:05.560 All right. 21:05.560 --> 21:06.560 All right. 21:06.560 --> 21:07.560 We'll keep it aboard. 21:07.560 --> 21:08.560 It's sliced at the wheel. 21:08.560 --> 21:14.520 We'll see what he knows. 21:14.520 --> 21:15.520 What is it? 21:15.520 --> 21:16.520 What's that axe? 21:16.520 --> 21:18.760 There's been murder aboard, Slice. 21:18.760 --> 21:20.200 How long have you been at the wheel? 21:20.200 --> 21:21.200 Two hours, sir. 21:21.200 --> 21:22.360 Who is it? 21:22.360 --> 21:24.760 Brown and Cantwell share your watch, don't they? 21:24.760 --> 21:25.760 Yes, sir. 21:25.760 --> 21:26.760 Where are they? 21:26.760 --> 21:27.760 At Forest, sir. 21:27.760 --> 21:28.760 Standing lookout. 21:28.760 --> 21:29.760 Who's dead? 21:29.760 --> 21:30.760 The captain and his wife and Mr. Blomberg. 21:30.760 --> 21:34.360 Have you seen anybody on deck, Slice, while you've been at the wheel? 21:34.360 --> 21:35.840 Only you, Mr. Brann. 21:35.840 --> 21:40.920 I didn't see nobody else. 21:40.920 --> 21:43.360 I didn't remember. 21:43.360 --> 21:47.720 It's a frightful thing to have a man say you were out on deck and not remember. 21:47.720 --> 21:52.920 I tried to carry on without arousing suspicion, and this is what I learned. 21:52.920 --> 21:57.320 That I had come out and asked for Mr. Blomberg, and upon being told that he was tending the 21:57.320 --> 22:01.160 forsook with two deckhands, I'd gone back inside. 22:01.160 --> 22:05.780 And that then Mr. Blomberg had come aft and gone inside, too. 22:05.780 --> 22:14.560 And that he'd never come out again. 22:14.560 --> 22:18.600 I couldn't help feeling guilty, but on the other hand, I couldn't help heeding my instinct 22:18.600 --> 22:20.160 to protect myself. 22:20.160 --> 22:25.280 For example, at my earliest opportunity, when I was not seen, I took that axe and I threw 22:25.280 --> 22:26.280 it overboard. 22:26.280 --> 22:28.080 But that was wrong. 22:28.080 --> 22:32.120 I acted in excitement and fear, and I'm sorry now that I did. 22:32.120 --> 22:36.520 When dawn came, I ordered the ship to come about and set her back toward Boston. 22:36.520 --> 22:39.920 Soon after this was done, the steward came to me. 22:39.920 --> 22:41.920 The crew wants me to talk to you, sir. 22:41.920 --> 22:42.920 Yes, what about? 22:42.920 --> 22:47.280 They all say they'll be afraid to go to sleep tonight for fear of being murdered in their 22:47.280 --> 22:48.280 bunks. 22:48.280 --> 22:49.280 All right. 22:49.280 --> 22:53.520 All right, I'll have them all sleep on deck where a watch can be kept over them. 22:53.520 --> 22:56.640 And if you will, Spencer, you can tell them all to come on deck in an hour for the funeral 22:56.640 --> 22:57.640 services. 22:57.640 --> 22:58.640 Funeral services, sir? 22:58.640 --> 22:59.640 Yes. 22:59.640 --> 23:01.440 We can't put those people over the side, sir. 23:01.440 --> 23:03.040 By law, we've got to take them back. 23:03.040 --> 23:06.560 Oh, yes, yes, of course, Spencer, but it's not good to have them on the ship. 23:06.560 --> 23:09.160 I mean to put them in the longboat and tow it astern. 23:09.160 --> 23:13.360 Now bring them out and with Captain Nash bring his Bible. 23:13.360 --> 23:15.440 It's open on the table next to his cot. 23:15.440 --> 23:24.240 It is, sir? 23:24.240 --> 23:27.240 I don't know why I thought I knew where the captain's Bible was. 23:27.240 --> 23:32.120 I wasn't sure that I did know, but I was afraid to ask Bensie. 23:32.120 --> 23:36.360 So once more on impulse and in fear, I acted. 23:36.360 --> 23:40.120 That night I went after the man at the wheel and ordered him below to get my glass, telling 23:40.120 --> 23:42.400 him I'd seen a light in the distance. 23:42.400 --> 23:47.560 When he was gone lashing the wheel, I turned with a knife to the line towing the longboat 23:47.560 --> 23:52.160 to cut the body's adrift and to finally destroy the evidence. 23:52.160 --> 23:54.360 Mr. Bram! 23:54.360 --> 23:57.160 Mr. Bram, stop there! 23:57.160 --> 23:58.960 Don't do that, Mr. Bram. 23:58.960 --> 24:00.440 Leave off, Spencer. 24:00.440 --> 24:03.080 It's not good to have dead people following along behind. 24:03.080 --> 24:04.080 Leave off! 24:04.080 --> 24:05.080 What's this for? 24:05.080 --> 24:06.080 For killing those people out there. 24:06.080 --> 24:07.080 No. 24:07.080 --> 24:08.080 It was you, Mr. Bram. 24:08.080 --> 24:09.080 No, I didn't. 24:09.080 --> 24:10.360 You were with a wife last night drinking. 24:10.360 --> 24:11.360 Who says that? 24:11.360 --> 24:12.360 Mr. Slice. 24:12.360 --> 24:13.560 Mr. Blomberg told him. 24:13.560 --> 24:14.560 That's no proof. 24:14.560 --> 24:15.840 You knew where his Bible was, sir. 24:15.840 --> 24:17.080 And that's nothing either. 24:17.080 --> 24:20.640 You relieved Slice at the wheel and after that the axe was missing. 24:20.640 --> 24:22.360 Mr. Brown saw you throw it overboard. 24:22.360 --> 24:23.800 I didn't kill them. 24:23.800 --> 24:26.320 Then why were you cutting the longboat free, Mr. Bram? 24:26.320 --> 24:28.160 Hold still, Mr. Bram. 24:28.160 --> 24:29.560 Confess and ease yourself, Mr. Brown. 24:29.560 --> 24:31.200 No, I won't confess. 24:31.200 --> 24:34.040 Nobody saw me kill them because I didn't. 24:34.040 --> 24:35.040 I didn't! 24:35.040 --> 24:36.040 Come along, Mr. Bram. 24:36.040 --> 24:37.840 Who are you taking me? 24:37.840 --> 24:38.920 To lock you up. 24:38.920 --> 24:51.200 By law, we've got to do it. 24:51.200 --> 24:55.640 They put me in irons, locked in my own quarters. 24:55.640 --> 24:58.080 And here I have stayed. 24:58.080 --> 25:02.680 There have been no more murders in the three days past, which does not stand in favor of 25:02.680 --> 25:07.560 another killer being aboard and my being innocent. 25:07.560 --> 25:10.880 What I have written, my good friend, is the whole truth. 25:10.880 --> 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. 25:17.720 --> 25:22.720 In my own mind, I am not convinced that I'm guilty. 25:22.720 --> 25:29.320 For one reason, that however violent I've been, I have never killed before. 25:29.320 --> 25:30.880 Before. 25:30.880 --> 25:33.960 Never killed before. 25:33.960 --> 25:51.560 If I could only remember, if I could just remember, why can't I? 25:51.560 --> 25:54.000 Why can't I? 25:54.000 --> 25:55.000 Why? 25:55.000 --> 26:08.880 Why can't I remember? 26:08.880 --> 26:14.000 As the passenger aboard the Fuller, I was called along with the crew to testify in both 26:14.000 --> 26:16.320 of Mr. Bram's trials. 26:16.320 --> 26:23.960 And each time, I stayed to hear him pronounced guilty by two separate courts of law of a 26:23.960 --> 26:48.280 crime he steadfastly swore that he did not remember committing. 26:53.960 --> 26:54.960 Suspense. 26:54.960 --> 26:59.960 A true story presented by Auto Light. 26:59.960 --> 27:03.320 Tonight's star, Mr. Richard Widmark. 27:03.320 --> 27:05.920 And here he is once again, our star, Richard Widmark. 27:05.920 --> 27:07.960 It's always good to have you aboard, Dick. 27:07.960 --> 27:08.960 Thank you, Harlow. 27:08.960 --> 27:13.240 I sort of feel like one of the family since this is my fourth appearance on Suspense this 27:13.240 --> 27:14.240 season. 27:14.240 --> 27:15.560 Well, you are a member of the family, Dick. 27:15.560 --> 27:20.440 The Auto Light family, which includes 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the 27:20.440 --> 27:26.360 United States, nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to 27:26.360 --> 27:32.040 coast, and the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:32.040 --> 27:34.360 It's a big family, Harlow, and I'm proud to be included. 27:34.360 --> 27:39.160 Now, we're all proud to be members of the Auto Light family, Dick, because Auto Light 27:39.160 --> 27:42.280 serves the greatest names in the industry. 27:42.280 --> 27:46.960 And every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the 27:46.960 --> 27:50.280 highest standards of quality and performance. 27:50.280 --> 28:04.400 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:04.400 --> 28:10.640 Next week, the dramatic recreation of a race, five brave men made with death. 28:10.640 --> 28:14.400 A true story based on the writings of one of those men. 28:14.400 --> 28:16.800 Our star will be Mr. Herbert Marshall. 28:16.800 --> 28:32.920 The story is called The Diary of Captain Scott, presented next week on Suspense. 28:32.920 --> 28:37.980 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawick 28:37.980 --> 28:40.480 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:40.480 --> 28:44.520 Mate Bram was written for Suspense by Gil Dowd. 28:44.520 --> 28:50.400 In the cast were Joan Banks, Joseph Kearns, Ben Wright, Lou Merrill, Steve Roberts, Roy 28:50.400 --> 28:54.480 Glenn, and Robert North. 28:54.480 --> 28:58.800 Richard Widmark appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers of the Technicolor 28:58.800 --> 29:03.160 Musical with A Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward. 29:03.160 --> 29:27.200 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Herbert Marshall in The Diary of Captain Scott. 29:27.200 --> 29:37.560 This is the CBS Radio Network.