WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.680 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Charles Lawton. 00:10.680 --> 00:13.200 In tonight's presentation of... 00:13.200 --> 00:14.200 Suspense. 00:14.200 --> 00:24.800 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story about a man whose name was synonymous with death. 00:24.800 --> 00:33.800 A true story which we call Jack Ketch, our star, Mr. Charles Lawton. 00:33.800 --> 00:40.160 Hey, Sheriff, are you shooting at me? 00:40.160 --> 00:41.440 Sure am, Wilcox. 00:41.440 --> 00:43.560 You know someone who fires faster than me? 00:43.560 --> 00:44.560 I'm the fastest car... 00:44.560 --> 00:45.800 No, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. 00:45.800 --> 00:48.080 Not someone, Sheriff, something. 00:48.080 --> 00:49.080 A spark plug. 00:49.080 --> 00:50.080 A spark plug? 00:50.080 --> 00:53.720 Sure, a spark plug must fire at the rate of a thousand times a minute at normal driving 00:53.720 --> 00:58.080 speeds to give you the smooth performance and economy you expect from your car. 00:58.080 --> 01:01.760 And that's why you should have your spark plugs in your car checked regularly by your 01:01.760 --> 01:03.160 Auto Light spark plug dealer. 01:03.160 --> 01:05.680 Well, suppose he finds they aren't in perfect shape, Wilcox. 01:05.680 --> 01:10.040 Well, if they're worn out or wrong for your style of driving, he will replace them with 01:10.040 --> 01:12.560 ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 01:12.560 --> 01:15.840 The spark plugs that are world famous for quality and performance. 01:15.840 --> 01:19.560 How do I locate my nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer? 01:19.560 --> 01:24.120 Just look for the dealer displaying the Auto Light spark plug sign or call Western Union 01:24.120 --> 01:27.440 by number and ask for operator 25. 01:27.440 --> 01:31.800 She will gladly tell you the name of your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 01:31.800 --> 01:37.480 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:37.480 --> 01:44.880 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed Jack Ketch, starring Mr. Charles Lawton and hoping 01:44.880 --> 01:51.160 once again to keep you in suspense. 01:51.160 --> 01:58.960 Evening, Mr. Price. 01:58.960 --> 02:01.000 Evening, William. 02:01.000 --> 02:02.000 Old enough. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.240 Hard day for you, Mr. Price. 02:04.240 --> 02:06.320 I must say I'm fair wore out. 02:06.320 --> 02:09.400 What you need is a bit of the old warm and for the cockles. 02:09.400 --> 02:11.560 How true, how true. 02:11.560 --> 02:14.040 It's cruel work for a man in this weather. 02:14.040 --> 02:16.840 You walk down to the blue ball, Mr. Price. 02:16.840 --> 02:17.840 Have yourself a dollar. 02:17.840 --> 02:20.760 I thought of it but I happen to be a little short of funds tonight, William. 02:20.760 --> 02:21.760 I wonder if you... 02:21.760 --> 02:22.760 Oh, here. 02:22.760 --> 02:25.760 Have one for me, Mr. Price. 02:25.760 --> 02:28.440 Oh, it's very nice of you, I must say, William. 02:28.440 --> 02:29.440 Very nice. 02:29.440 --> 02:30.440 Good night. 02:30.440 --> 02:34.480 Nasty little rat that William Hartley. 02:34.480 --> 02:40.680 Got to keep an eye on him. 02:40.680 --> 02:42.320 Hartley. 02:42.320 --> 02:45.600 What rights he got to look at me like that. 02:45.600 --> 02:46.600 I know what he's thinking. 02:46.600 --> 02:48.120 Get my job, fat chance of it. 02:48.120 --> 02:50.120 I'll see him turned off first. 02:50.120 --> 02:52.680 Goal, I got a thirst. 02:52.680 --> 02:55.240 Should go home, I suppose. 02:55.240 --> 02:57.640 Bet he'll be grassy out of all Nick leather grass. 02:57.640 --> 02:59.000 I got my rights. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Blue ball for me. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.200 Evening, one and all. 03:06.200 --> 03:07.200 Evening. 03:07.200 --> 03:12.720 Evening, Mr. White. 03:12.720 --> 03:16.320 Mrs. White. 03:16.320 --> 03:19.600 Mrs. Lone. 03:19.600 --> 03:24.440 Oi, Granny, surprise ever. 03:24.440 --> 03:26.440 Here. 03:26.440 --> 03:30.040 Here, watch all this. 03:30.040 --> 03:31.040 Somebody dead? 03:31.040 --> 03:37.120 So that's the way it is, is it? 03:37.120 --> 03:40.240 Hey, people. 03:40.240 --> 03:41.240 Aile. 03:41.240 --> 03:43.080 I said Aile. 03:43.080 --> 03:47.800 Aile, perhaps you didn't hear me the first time. 03:47.800 --> 03:49.280 Can you pay for it? 03:49.280 --> 03:51.520 Yeah, I can pay for it. 03:51.520 --> 03:54.360 And more, don't worry about me, I can pay for anything. 03:54.360 --> 03:55.360 You hear that? 03:55.360 --> 03:56.360 All of you. 03:56.360 --> 04:00.000 I don't need a bloody one of you. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.040 You'll all come to me one of these days. 04:03.040 --> 04:04.040 Aile. 04:04.040 --> 04:07.280 I heard the watchman are looking for somebody. 04:07.280 --> 04:11.600 He don't pay his debts and he's going to Marshall C. Prison for it. 04:11.600 --> 04:14.600 Who said that? 04:14.600 --> 04:15.600 Who said it? 04:15.600 --> 04:19.800 I wonder who's going to get Jack Ketchy's job when he's out of this. 04:19.800 --> 04:21.600 Who called me that? 04:21.600 --> 04:23.200 My name is Price. 04:23.200 --> 04:24.800 John Price. 04:24.800 --> 04:25.800 John Price. 04:25.800 --> 04:26.800 John Price. 04:26.800 --> 04:27.800 You hear what I say? 04:27.800 --> 04:28.800 John Price. 04:28.800 --> 04:34.240 Oh, I have such an horrible thing in me throat, Mr. Ketchy. 04:34.240 --> 04:37.240 Do you have a cure? 04:37.240 --> 04:41.680 Have you got any old clothes for sale today, Mr. Ketchy? 04:41.680 --> 04:42.680 Jack Ketchy. 04:42.680 --> 04:43.680 Jack Ketchy. 04:43.680 --> 04:44.680 Shut your faces, a lot of you. 04:44.680 --> 04:45.680 Stop all, do you, a mess, if that's what you hear. 04:45.680 --> 04:46.680 You, you, you, stop it. 04:46.680 --> 04:47.680 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that's enough. 04:47.680 --> 04:48.680 I mean, not that near. 04:48.680 --> 04:57.680 You watcher, I'll come over to the table and drink it. 04:57.680 --> 05:04.120 I'm sorry I lost my temper. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.120 I'm sorry. 05:05.120 --> 05:09.140 He gets very tired tonight. 05:09.140 --> 05:11.240 Except my apologies, keeper. 05:11.240 --> 05:14.280 I don't accept nothing from you, except your money. 05:14.280 --> 05:16.720 I have to do that because I have to serve you. 05:16.720 --> 05:18.640 My daughter says so. 05:18.640 --> 05:20.520 Any trouble from you and out. 05:20.520 --> 05:27.920 That's a fact and don't forget it. 05:27.920 --> 05:28.920 Why do they do that? 05:28.920 --> 05:29.920 Why? 05:29.920 --> 05:30.920 It's always like this. 05:30.920 --> 05:36.760 Either they won't say a blinking word or behave in that awful way. 05:36.760 --> 05:37.760 Can't they understand? 05:37.760 --> 05:39.600 I'm just like anyone else. 05:39.600 --> 05:43.320 I do me job, same as anyone. 05:43.320 --> 05:49.080 It gets lonely, a man sitting by himself, swilling ale all by himself. 05:49.080 --> 05:52.720 I wish I had some money. 05:52.720 --> 05:54.880 I mean, some of the actual coppers. 05:54.880 --> 05:58.600 I'd have friends, then lots of them. 05:58.600 --> 06:01.160 What was it they were saying about the watchman looking for me? 06:01.160 --> 06:03.640 They can't do that. 06:03.640 --> 06:05.640 I'll pay the debts what I owe. 06:05.640 --> 06:13.640 If I could only get a good job or two, why don't they let a man alone? 06:13.640 --> 06:17.440 It's not fair. 06:17.440 --> 06:23.160 It ain't fair, Mr. Price. 06:23.160 --> 06:24.160 Who's that? 06:24.160 --> 06:27.160 Oh, William, William Artley. 06:27.160 --> 06:28.160 You, eh? 06:28.160 --> 06:30.400 Got off late tonight, didn't you? 06:30.400 --> 06:31.400 That's right, Mr. Price. 06:31.400 --> 06:33.920 Having a bit of a guzzle, eh? 06:33.920 --> 06:40.920 I will not stand familiarity, William Artley, and kindly remember your place and station. 06:40.920 --> 06:41.920 No offence intended. 06:41.920 --> 06:42.920 None taken, I owe. 06:42.920 --> 06:43.920 Granted. 06:43.920 --> 06:46.920 Mind if I sit down with me mug? 06:46.920 --> 06:48.880 I don't mind. 06:48.880 --> 06:52.720 How long hours short pay. 06:52.720 --> 06:56.520 That's the way of it. 06:56.520 --> 07:01.040 William Artley, why do you talk to me? 07:01.040 --> 07:02.520 Why not, Mr. Price? 07:02.520 --> 07:04.840 You're my superior, ain't you? 07:04.840 --> 07:08.680 In a way, I have to talk to you. 07:08.680 --> 07:13.200 I don't want you to have to. 07:13.200 --> 07:15.520 I want you to want to. 07:15.520 --> 07:16.520 I simply thought. 07:16.520 --> 07:17.960 I want a friend. 07:17.960 --> 07:23.200 I want people to smile at me on the streets and talk to me and like me. 07:23.200 --> 07:28.000 Oh, you've got a burden, Mr. Price, and no mistake. 07:28.000 --> 07:34.160 William, how would you like to lend me five sovereigns? 07:34.160 --> 07:37.320 I could pay you back with interest. 07:37.320 --> 07:39.880 I've got one or two odd debts to pay. 07:39.880 --> 07:42.560 I heard about that, Mr. Price. 07:42.560 --> 07:44.000 Abbey White was saying... 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 Abbey White wants to know. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.400 I'm not going after my job like you, William Artley. 07:47.400 --> 07:49.360 You don't pull the wool over my eyes. 07:49.360 --> 07:50.360 I know. 07:50.360 --> 07:51.360 I know. 07:51.360 --> 07:55.000 How could you think such a thing, Mr. Price? 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 Remember, I'm not out of office yet. 07:59.000 --> 08:04.840 Remember, you stay nice to me, William, because I have a position. 08:04.840 --> 08:08.920 How about a couple of sovereigns? 08:08.920 --> 08:10.280 I know you've got it, so there's no... 08:10.280 --> 08:13.560 I'd like to oblige, Mr. Price, or help me, I would. 08:13.560 --> 08:18.880 But my wife's expecting to gain, and you know how it is with another mouth to feed. 08:18.880 --> 08:20.960 How about a copper's worth of ale, then? 08:20.960 --> 08:25.560 You know, I was going to buy one for you, Mr. Price, but when I reached into my pocket, 08:25.560 --> 08:28.360 I found I'd just enough for me own mug. 08:28.360 --> 08:33.400 William Artley, you're a dirty, sneaking little liar. 08:33.400 --> 08:35.680 Oh, Mr. Price. 08:35.680 --> 08:39.280 Don't you never find yourself in trouble. 08:39.280 --> 08:48.520 Of course, if you do, it's John Price is going to be there, taking loving care of you. 08:48.520 --> 08:51.000 Oh, Harry, you are a one. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 Now, you stop it. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Anyone would think that we... 08:54.000 --> 08:55.600 Hello, Mr. White. 08:55.600 --> 08:56.600 Mrs. White. 08:56.600 --> 08:57.600 Good evening. 08:57.600 --> 08:58.600 Come on, Elizabeth. 08:58.600 --> 09:01.600 Time to be going home. 09:01.600 --> 09:04.120 All right, Harry. 09:04.120 --> 09:06.920 I said hello, that's all. 09:06.920 --> 09:10.560 I didn't do no harm, just hello. 09:10.560 --> 09:13.360 Oh, hello. 09:13.360 --> 09:16.200 That's all. 09:16.200 --> 09:26.720 William Artley, he come to the Blue Board to laugh at me. 09:26.720 --> 09:27.720 That's how he gets his pleasure. 09:27.720 --> 09:28.720 They all do. 09:28.720 --> 09:33.200 When I go down, it's going to be the same. 09:33.200 --> 09:34.200 Wish I was dead. 09:34.200 --> 09:37.200 John Price, that you? 09:37.200 --> 09:40.200 Where you been? 09:40.200 --> 09:47.200 I had a piece of mutton on the table at six o'clock. 09:47.200 --> 09:49.640 Hello, Bette, how's the kid? 09:49.640 --> 09:50.640 Where you been? 09:50.640 --> 09:51.640 Why, I should have known. 09:51.640 --> 09:54.640 You've been boozing at the Blue Boar. 09:54.640 --> 09:55.640 Spent every blessed penny. 09:55.640 --> 09:56.640 I was tired, Bette. 09:56.640 --> 09:58.640 I thought a sup would help. 09:58.640 --> 09:59.640 Sup? 09:59.640 --> 10:04.640 Sweetheart, we got a few shillings put by, haven't we? 10:04.640 --> 10:06.640 Oh, no, you don't. 10:06.640 --> 10:07.640 He's desperate, Bette. 10:07.640 --> 10:09.320 Girl, they'll have me in debtors' prison. 10:09.320 --> 10:10.320 I had the talk tonight. 10:10.320 --> 10:11.320 Do your good. 10:11.320 --> 10:12.320 Don't say that, love. 10:12.320 --> 10:16.640 I only need it for a week or two at the most. 10:16.640 --> 10:18.960 I've got to raise every penny I can. 10:18.960 --> 10:21.120 That money's for me and the kid. 10:21.120 --> 10:22.120 You don't touch your father. 10:22.120 --> 10:24.520 I lose me job. 10:24.520 --> 10:26.560 Don't make me laugh. 10:26.560 --> 10:27.560 Your job. 10:27.560 --> 10:30.240 Ha! Call that a job? 10:30.240 --> 10:31.240 I'm ashamed. 10:31.240 --> 10:33.600 I'm ashamed to have people know me name. 10:33.600 --> 10:34.600 Now, Bette, I'm your husband. 10:34.600 --> 10:35.920 It's your duty to repay me. 10:35.920 --> 10:38.160 You give me what money you've got in the house or I... 10:38.160 --> 10:39.160 Or what? 10:39.160 --> 10:40.160 What'll you do, Jack Ketch? 10:40.160 --> 10:41.160 Betty! 10:41.160 --> 10:44.320 What'll you do to Mrs Jack Ketch? 10:44.320 --> 10:45.320 You murderer! 10:45.320 --> 10:46.320 Murderer! 10:46.320 --> 10:47.320 My husband! 10:47.320 --> 10:48.880 What's he do for an honest living? 10:48.880 --> 10:49.880 Why, he's a murderer. 10:49.880 --> 10:50.880 Mother, what does Daddy do? 10:50.880 --> 10:51.880 He's got a lovely job, sonny. 10:51.880 --> 10:52.880 Didn't you know? 10:52.880 --> 10:53.880 Don't, don't, don't, don't. 10:53.880 --> 10:54.880 Yes, dear old debt turns people off. 10:54.880 --> 10:57.880 For our bread. 10:57.880 --> 11:02.880 Yes, Jack Ketch, the groom of the ladder, the public hangman. 11:02.880 --> 11:03.880 Hangman! 11:03.880 --> 11:04.880 Hangman! 11:04.880 --> 11:21.880 I'll smash ya! 11:21.880 --> 11:27.480 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Charles Lawton in Jack Ketch. 11:27.480 --> 11:43.280 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:43.280 --> 11:47.000 Say Wilcox, what's this I hear about the Auto Light resistor spark plug? 11:47.000 --> 11:51.640 Why, Sheriff, it's acclaimed as the most able, amazing, and ambitious advance in spark plugs 11:51.640 --> 11:53.960 for automotive use in the past 20 years. 11:53.960 --> 11:55.760 Yes, well inform me why, Wilcox. 11:55.760 --> 12:00.720 Well, you see, Sheriff, the Auto Light resistor spark plug has something extra. 12:00.720 --> 12:06.280 That extra is the exclusive Auto Light 10,000 ohm resistor that's built right into the spark 12:06.280 --> 12:09.280 plug for extra advantages important to every motorist. 12:09.280 --> 12:11.120 But what's that mean to me, Wilcox? 12:11.120 --> 12:16.040 It means that the built in resistor in the Auto Light resistor spark plug permits a wider 12:16.040 --> 12:22.120 gap setting, which makes possible advantages such as smoother engine performance, quickstarts, 12:22.120 --> 12:24.680 and double spark plug life. 12:24.680 --> 12:29.660 That's why Auto Light resistor spark plugs are used as original equipment on many leading 12:29.660 --> 12:31.840 makes of our finest cars. 12:31.840 --> 12:35.840 So friends, visit your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 12:35.840 --> 12:40.240 He carries a complete line of Auto Light spark plugs for every use. 12:40.240 --> 12:45.640 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 12:45.640 --> 12:52.680 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Charles Lawton in Elliot Lewis's 12:52.680 --> 13:01.680 production of Jack Ketch, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:01.680 --> 13:17.720 I suppose it was wrong to beat her like that, but what's a man to do? 13:17.720 --> 13:21.400 So what with me debts and what I don't bet? 13:21.400 --> 13:24.880 Here I am in Marshall City Prison, not the first time I've been here. 13:24.880 --> 13:26.880 What a stinking hole. 13:26.880 --> 13:32.200 All of us together, the muckalund and men, women and dogs. 13:32.200 --> 13:35.120 There's one lad, the late Sir Bed, coming yesterday. 13:35.120 --> 13:37.480 He's got learning, a gentleman, you can see that. 13:37.480 --> 13:39.800 Thomas Lovelace, his name. 13:39.800 --> 13:41.920 He's in debt to his eyes, £2,000. 13:41.920 --> 13:45.160 I'll be here until I rot, Christ. 13:45.160 --> 13:46.160 I wouldn't say that, sir. 13:46.160 --> 13:47.160 There's always hope. 13:47.160 --> 13:49.000 You've been here before. 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 Three times, sir. 13:50.000 --> 13:51.440 This is my fourth and always for dead. 13:51.440 --> 13:55.040 Of course, there was the matter of my wife, Betty, this time. 13:55.040 --> 13:57.480 What did you do for a living, Christ? 13:57.480 --> 13:58.880 Why, what's the matter? 13:58.880 --> 13:59.880 Hadn't you noticed the others? 13:59.880 --> 14:00.880 They never talked to me, sir. 14:00.880 --> 14:01.880 Hadn't you noticed? 14:01.880 --> 14:02.880 No, not particularly. 14:02.880 --> 14:03.880 I'll tell you why. 14:03.880 --> 14:11.880 Because I was in the employ of his Majesty in service to the Crown, that's why. 14:11.880 --> 14:13.680 That's why they don't talk to you? 14:13.680 --> 14:17.720 I suppose you won't either, sir, when I tell you, but you'll find out in a day or so, 14:17.720 --> 14:18.720 anyhow. 14:18.720 --> 14:19.720 What's the use? 14:19.720 --> 14:20.720 I'm the hangman. 14:20.720 --> 14:21.720 Hangman? 14:21.720 --> 14:22.720 Hangman? 14:22.720 --> 14:26.760 But I thought that Jack... 14:26.760 --> 14:27.760 Shh! 14:27.760 --> 14:28.760 That's what they call me. 14:28.760 --> 14:29.760 Oh. 14:29.760 --> 14:30.760 I thought so. 14:30.760 --> 14:31.760 Go on, sir. 14:31.760 --> 14:32.760 I won't trouble you. 14:32.760 --> 14:33.760 You're a gentleman. 14:33.760 --> 14:34.760 You don't want the likes of me. 14:34.760 --> 14:37.760 You haven't got a very savoury reputation, you know, Christ. 14:37.760 --> 14:38.760 It was my job. 14:38.760 --> 14:39.760 Somebody had to do it. 14:39.760 --> 14:40.760 I've heard that you rather enjoyed it. 14:40.760 --> 14:41.760 That is a lie. 14:41.760 --> 14:42.760 And what about the poor devils who paid you to put them out of their misery quickly? 14:42.760 --> 14:43.760 Oh, I'm sorry. 14:43.760 --> 14:44.760 I'm sorry. 14:44.760 --> 14:45.760 I'm sorry. 14:45.760 --> 14:46.760 I'm sorry. 14:46.760 --> 14:47.760 I'm sorry. 14:47.760 --> 14:48.760 I'm sorry. 14:48.760 --> 14:49.760 I'm sorry. 14:49.760 --> 14:50.760 I'm sorry. 14:50.760 --> 14:51.760 I'm sorry. 14:51.760 --> 14:52.760 I'm sorry. 14:52.760 --> 14:53.760 Hey, John. 14:53.760 --> 14:56.320 I was happy to oblige. 14:56.320 --> 14:58.480 Poor souls. 14:58.480 --> 15:05.000 Sometimes they give me a few pence to help them through the awful passage to heaven. 15:05.000 --> 15:06.600 But Lord bless you. 15:06.600 --> 15:08.180 I did my best. 15:08.180 --> 15:09.680 And if they didn't have any money? 15:09.680 --> 15:11.800 Well, I wouldn't hold it against them. 15:11.800 --> 15:18.640 You know, of course, I'm not denying that a nice neat rack or press job was worth a 15:18.640 --> 15:20.080 few shillings extra. 15:20.080 --> 15:23.680 Wouldn't you have taken the money I asked you now, wouldn't you? 15:23.680 --> 15:25.880 I wouldn't have had your job, sir. 15:25.880 --> 15:27.380 Not for a million pounds. 15:27.380 --> 15:30.380 Oh, well, that's the way of it. Each man to what he knows. 15:30.380 --> 15:35.380 Right, Mr. Lovelace, my profession is Angman. 15:35.380 --> 15:38.380 Yours is to be a gentleman. Am I right, sir? 15:38.380 --> 15:40.880 And we're both in debtors' prison. 15:40.880 --> 15:47.880 That gave him something to think about. He wasn't so iron-mighty after that. 15:53.880 --> 15:59.880 He never had visitors and I didn't neither. That is not till one day, three months after I first come here. 15:59.880 --> 16:06.880 And it was William Artley. I didn't like the nasty weasel smile on him. 16:06.880 --> 16:11.880 Well, Price, I heard about your misfortune and I came to sympathise. 16:11.880 --> 16:12.880 How thoughtful, William. 16:12.880 --> 16:14.880 How do they treat you in here, eh? 16:14.880 --> 16:16.880 Like a blooming earl, can't you see? 16:17.880 --> 16:20.880 Whew, nasty smell down here. 16:20.880 --> 16:23.880 Well, they haven't brought in the fresh roses yet. 16:23.880 --> 16:28.880 Ah, yes. What about your debts, Price? Any luck? 16:28.880 --> 16:38.880 Well, it's only a matter of five pounds. William, William Artley, you didn't you... 16:38.880 --> 16:45.880 You came here to help me? You're going to lend me the money? Have I misjudged you, William, my good friend? 16:45.880 --> 16:49.880 You haven't misjudged me, Price. I didn't come here to lend you anything. 16:49.880 --> 16:55.880 I came here to see you had your elft and spirits and I brought you a prayer book for your poor soul to feed on. 16:55.880 --> 16:57.880 Oh, bloody arse! 16:57.880 --> 17:00.880 Change your ways, Price! Change your ways before it... 17:00.880 --> 17:03.880 I'll change or I'll change the shape of your... 17:05.880 --> 17:08.880 I'm going to turn you off, part of us, William Artley. 17:08.880 --> 17:10.880 Price, let him go. 17:10.880 --> 17:13.880 You hear me? Let him go. You'll get away with it. Stop it! 17:15.880 --> 17:18.880 Have you gone mad? You know what they'll do to you with this. 17:20.880 --> 17:23.880 I know. I've given it to others. 17:23.880 --> 17:28.880 You shouldn't have done that, Price. I won't forget. You pay for that. 17:34.880 --> 17:39.880 I paid 30 lashes and slum gullion for a month. 17:39.880 --> 17:43.880 I wasn't going to forget William Artley, never in my life. 17:43.880 --> 17:48.880 It was Mr. Lovelace who saved me a crusted two a bread when I was brought up from the black hole. 17:48.880 --> 17:53.880 It was the best meal I ever had. Then things were the same again. The weeks went by. 17:53.880 --> 17:58.880 I wrote a song ballad. Mr. Lovelace did the words in writing for me. 17:58.880 --> 18:00.880 I called it... 18:00.880 --> 18:04.880 The Man of Destiny's Hard Fortune 18:04.880 --> 18:10.880 Whereby his hopeful harvest is like to be blasted. 18:10.880 --> 18:14.880 Nobody bought it though and I still didn't have the money to pay my debts. 18:14.880 --> 18:18.880 When I heard about Betty and the kid, they'd run off and left me. 18:18.880 --> 18:22.880 That's when I made up my mind to get out of Marshall, see? That and William Artley. 18:22.880 --> 18:27.880 I'd pay a little call on him. I told my idea to Mr. Lovelace one night. 18:29.880 --> 18:32.880 Mr. Lovelace. Yes? Come closer. 18:32.880 --> 18:39.880 Listen, I'm getting out, see? Now you've treated me right. I'm willing to take you with me. 18:39.880 --> 18:42.880 But how can you? We've got these chains. It's impossible. 18:42.880 --> 18:48.880 No, we don't. They take them off in the afternoon when we exercise, don't they? 18:48.880 --> 18:50.880 All right. That's the time. 18:50.880 --> 18:51.880 But how? 18:51.880 --> 18:53.880 Leave it to me. You want to go with me? 18:53.880 --> 18:55.880 I'd rather die trying instead. 18:55.880 --> 19:00.880 All right, so here's what we do. There's a woodshed next to the gate in the yard. 19:00.880 --> 19:08.880 Doors always open. When we have our constitutional tomorrow, we hop in there and wait till it's dark. 19:08.880 --> 19:09.880 One of the keepers will see us. 19:09.880 --> 19:15.880 Yeah, there's a new one on. I've been watching him. He's been drunk for a week. Easy as pie. You wait. 19:20.880 --> 19:24.880 The next day we did it. Stayed hiding behind the wood until night. 19:24.880 --> 19:30.880 Felt funny without the chains on after so long. And about ten o'clock we started out of the shed. 19:30.880 --> 19:33.880 I took a thick stick from the woodpile. 19:33.880 --> 19:43.880 Come on. The gate will be locked. Have to do a bit of climbing then, eh? 19:43.880 --> 19:45.880 All clear. 19:49.880 --> 19:54.880 Look, the keeper is asleep. We have to pass him. Supposing he wakes up. 19:54.880 --> 20:04.880 He won't. Look, you... 20:04.880 --> 20:08.880 You give me a hand up first and I'll pull you over. 20:08.880 --> 20:09.880 Right. 20:09.880 --> 20:12.880 All right. Give me your hand. 20:12.880 --> 20:14.880 All right. 20:14.880 --> 20:16.880 Here come. 20:16.880 --> 20:28.880 Here come. And there's London. Ain't that the loveliest sight? William Artley's out there in it. Come on. 20:35.880 --> 20:40.880 We stayed together until we were well out of sight of the prison. Then Mr. Lovelace said goodbye. 20:40.880 --> 20:44.880 I'll leave you here, Price. I can't thank you enough for helping me. 20:44.880 --> 20:50.880 We shan't meet again, I suppose, but I'll always remember you. Goodbye. 20:51.880 --> 20:58.880 And he went his way. A couple of minutes later I found a broom-maker going home from selling his wares. 20:58.880 --> 21:08.880 And after a short argument, I had two silver shillings in me pocket. I tossed for it William Artley now. 21:08.880 --> 21:17.880 All later. My first one. And that took me to the nearest ale house in Bunil Fields. 21:17.880 --> 21:25.880 Artley would have to wait, but not for long. I was going to do him a mischief, pay the little scut back before the night was out. 21:25.880 --> 21:39.880 It was two hours later that I left the ale house with a lovely swishing in me belly and happiness in me head. 21:39.880 --> 21:47.880 Being drunk, I couldn't on me life remember what it was I had to do. I knew there was something. 21:47.880 --> 21:58.880 Oh, his grounds was dreadful for to hear as the stones they pressed upon him are. 21:58.880 --> 22:08.880 And Jack stood solemn, not shedding a tear when the orphan allows that. 22:08.880 --> 22:17.880 It's me, Elizabeth White. Is that you, John Price? I thought you were in Marshallsea. 22:17.880 --> 22:25.880 Elizabeth White? Well, I never have. What you doing in Bunil Fields this time of night? 22:25.880 --> 22:30.880 I had an order of gingerbread to deliver. You frightened me. 22:30.880 --> 22:40.880 Who, me? I'm all right, you know. I've had one or two, but nobody can say. John Price can't behave like a gentleman. 22:40.880 --> 22:43.880 Oh, you are wicked. 22:43.880 --> 22:51.880 Oh, I wish I was married to a sweet woman like you. How I envy your husband. 22:51.880 --> 23:00.880 Now, now, Mr. Price. I apologize, humbly. Do you hate me? 23:00.880 --> 23:05.880 Of course not. I never hated you. It was Harry didn't want me to talk to you. 23:05.880 --> 23:10.880 I mean you now because I'm Angman. Well, you're not anymore, anyway. 23:10.880 --> 23:17.880 I'm really very gentle at heart, you know, just misunderstood by one and all. 23:17.880 --> 23:23.880 I suppose. Elizabeth, I've always had a liking for you. Mr. Price. 23:23.880 --> 23:32.880 Have you got a little money put away? We could make it a business arrangement, just you and me. I'd pay you next month. How's that? 23:32.880 --> 23:37.880 I haven't got anything, Mr. Price. Hold on, maybe you're shilling it too tucked. 23:37.880 --> 23:43.880 Well, you must have copped something for the gingerbread. Please, Mr. Price, my Harry, you'll be awful. 23:43.880 --> 23:51.880 It ain't honorable for a man in my position to be in debt. There's no one to turn to. Come on. I'll pay you back. I swear it's desperate. 23:51.880 --> 23:57.880 No, Mr. Price. Where do you keep it, eh? Stop it. You're not the watchman, darling. Stop it. 23:57.880 --> 24:00.880 Where is it? Give it over, you hear me? 24:00.880 --> 24:14.880 I think you don't. I need this. I need it. I told her I'd pay her back. Shut it off! Shut it off! Shut it off! 24:14.880 --> 24:31.880 Well, here we are again. Newgate this time. The watchman got me, but it was too late for Elizabeth White. 24:31.880 --> 24:46.880 I'm afraid I've done her in. Poor soul. I'm too angry for it, so there you are. I can hear them coming for me now. It's like a last swig or something to see me on my way. 24:46.880 --> 25:05.880 Goor! William Artley! Are you ready, John Price? You nasty little winkle. You mean you're the Angman? I am. 25:05.880 --> 25:21.880 Goor Blarney, I was coming back to turn you off, you maggoty worm, and I forgot you wouldn't be here now. I bear you no malice, John Price. You won't make no Angman, not for long, you won't. You wait. They'll start calling you Jack Kitsch. You wait. 25:21.880 --> 25:39.880 It's my duty. I always knew that someday I'd find McCollin to protect the people from such poor wretches as you. I have found it. Oh Blarney, on my denoted bar me too. Well, I've got a brass farthing for you and me clothes won't fetch tapins, so blast you. 25:39.880 --> 25:59.880 I don't want neither. It's me job, John Price. Turning you off is me job, and that's what I'm about to do. You've come to a wicked end, as I knew you would. Well, if I am going to nab the stifles and it's William Artley's going to do it, I'd better off dead. 25:59.880 --> 26:11.880 Here, William, you write something for me on the wall. I've got some charcoal. What? What do you want me to write? 26:11.880 --> 26:34.880 Here died John Price, public Angman of London. He was turned off upon that gallows which he had served so well in his day. God save the King in the year 1686. 26:41.880 --> 27:05.880 Suspense. A true story presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star, Mr. Charles Lawton, will return in just a moment. 27:05.880 --> 27:26.880 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 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