1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,880 of Suspense. 3 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:26,720 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story based on fact, terrifying in its truth. 4 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:32,880 The dramatic report of a man returned home to find he now lives in a frightened city. 5 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,240 Our star Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 6 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,800 Hi, Harlow. 7 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:43,800 What's the matter? 8 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,520 Hap, I'm in love. 9 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,240 Oh, what's your name? 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,560 It's not a her, it's the famous Auto Light Stay Full. 11 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,280 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 12 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,880 Why millions of drivers go for the Auto Light Stay Full, Harlow. 13 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,000 Sure, Hap, because it's the great battery with the fiberglass retaining mats protecting 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,800 every positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking. 15 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,800 And that means longer life for the Auto Light Stay Full battery, as proved by tests conducted 16 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,240 according to accepted life cycle standards. 17 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,720 Tell other drivers how to meet this lovable battery, Harlow. 18 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,520 All right, friends, your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer services all makes of 19 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,920 batteries and he will gladly show you the Auto Light Stay Full battery for your car. 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,360 To quickly learn his location, call Western Union by number. 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:33,480 And ask for me, operator 25, I'll give you the location of your nearest Auto Light battery 22 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,040 dealer where you can get an Auto Light Stay Full. 23 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,620 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 24 00:01:40,620 --> 00:01:46,120 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:53,560 And now, Auto Light presents, The Frightened City, starring Mr. Frank Lovejoy, hoping once 26 00:01:53,560 --> 00:02:10,760 again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,280 The train pulled out of Easton at 1.20 in the afternoon. 28 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,240 It pulled in three minutes earlier. 29 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,280 It was a simple thing I had to do then. 30 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,680 Watch it cross the bridge over the Wabash, watch it grow smaller. 31 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:31,320 And when it was out of sight, I was finally home. 32 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:36,240 And home was pick up the barracks bag and walk up the small hill from the depot, down 33 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,120 in a main street on an autumn afternoon. 34 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,960 Train left on Sycamore down three blocks, where the houses are painted white and has 35 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,560 rockers on the porches and wide elm trees in November color. 36 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,840 And the far off sound of a dog barking and the smell of smoldering leaves. 37 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,720 And 595 Sycamore Street. 38 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,720 Up the path, up the steps. 39 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:01,720 Jane? 40 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:02,720 Janey? 41 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,720 Who is it? 42 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:06,720 Janey? 43 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:07,720 Sis? 44 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,720 Nick? 45 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,920 Oh Nicky, Nicky, Nicky. 46 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:17,920 How's the baby, Sis? 47 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:18,920 Oh fine. 48 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:21,560 He was teething, but he's all right now. 49 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,560 I haven't seen him yet. 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:23,560 Oh he's beautiful. 51 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:24,560 How's Janey? 52 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,560 How's Janey, Sis? 53 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:28,560 What? 54 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,800 Janey, how is he? 55 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,560 Your husband, my brother-in-law, Janey, how... 56 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,360 What's the matter with you? 57 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:37,720 How'd you get my letter? 58 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,600 I was aboard ship the last two weeks, so... 59 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,120 Johnny is dead. 60 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,760 Johnny went walking one night and he's dead. 61 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,200 One night Johnny said he was going to walk down the main street. 62 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,200 He told me he wanted to stop in the police station. 63 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,200 He had something to tell the chief of the police. 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:51,200 Janey, Janey. 65 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,200 He went out and he was walking along, walking along. 66 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,200 Walking along. 67 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,200 Baby. 68 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,200 Baby. 69 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:06,200 A car drove by and someone shot a gun at Johnny. 70 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,200 Johnny's dead. 71 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,200 Who? 72 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,720 Who shot Johnny, Sis? 73 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,600 Janey, I'm talking to you. 74 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,600 Who shot Johnny? 75 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,600 Janey. 76 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,600 Come with me, Nick. 77 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,600 There's your nephew. 78 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:32,160 He's sleeping and he's my son. 79 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:33,920 He's pink and he's fat and he says mama. 80 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,560 He can say dada too, but it's a word he won't need. 81 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,000 He's a good baby. 82 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I love him as much as a mother can love a child. 83 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,520 Now I want to show you something else. 84 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,000 I've had it here in my apron and I've been wondering what to do about it. 85 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,040 I found it under my door about a week ago, the day after Johnny was shot. 86 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,560 I'll read it to you. 87 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,440 Don't talk to strangers. 88 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,720 What happened to daddy can happen to sonny. 89 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:57,720 Give it to me. 90 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,720 My little boy is going to grow up. 91 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,400 He's going to play with other boys and laugh and cry when he scrapes his knee on the sidewalk 92 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:03,400 and go to school. 93 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,400 And live a life. 94 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:05,400 No. 95 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:06,400 No, no, Nicky. 96 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,400 These pieces get burned, get forgotten. 97 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,400 It gets forgotten like everything else that's happened. 98 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,400 Who did it, Janey? 99 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:10,400 You're back from a war. 100 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,400 Let everything be peaceful now. 101 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:12,400 Look at my son, Nick. 102 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,400 The way he wakes up. 103 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:14,400 So peaceful. 104 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:41,480 Then the infinite gentleness as she lifted the child held him close and kissed him. 105 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:49,440 And the room was stillness and anguish and the bitter fear and the emptiness. 106 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:57,520 And this was homecoming. 107 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,960 Outside it was November, a long quiet avenue. 108 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,360 And the glimpse of the coat-sweated woman in her backyard, gathering in her wash, feeling 109 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,040 in at the starch of cold autumn wind. 110 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,800 Walk to a cross street and three blocks east. 111 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,680 Police headquarters. 112 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,760 Give a murdered man's name and yours. 113 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,800 Ask for the chief of police. 114 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,240 And in less than an hour be shown into him. 115 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,000 Hello, Mr. Crawford. 116 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,160 Have a seat. 117 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,160 You know why I'm here? 118 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,480 Yeah, yeah, I do. 119 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,120 I just came from my sister. 120 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:34,120 She's scared. 121 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,720 She, she gets threatening notes and burns them up. 122 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,160 Why? 123 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:40,560 I don't know. 124 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,960 Who killed her husband? 125 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:42,960 I don't know. 126 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,160 Now look, you, this happened to my sister and now it's happening to me. 127 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,120 A week ago a man walked down the street. 128 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,960 He was on his way to see you and he got murdered. 129 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,440 Easy, easy, I've got some things to tell you. 130 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:57,560 Tell me. 131 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,120 Four people saw it happen to your brother-in-law. 132 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,200 That night one of them, a woman, was brutally beaten, tossed into a vacant lot. 133 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,360 Kid playing in the trash found her there. 134 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,560 Two days later another witness got a bomb thrown through his nice new house and almost 135 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,240 killed his wife. 136 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,240 That's two. 137 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,400 The other two won't talk either, like your own sister won't talk. 138 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,320 I'm tired, Mr. Crawford. 139 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,920 I got a lot of things to clear away. 140 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,240 I want their names and addresses. 141 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,320 They'll talk to you, huh? 142 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,000 They'll talk to me. 143 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,440 I want those names. 144 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,760 All right. 145 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:39,600 Tell the sergeant in the next office I said you can have them. 146 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:40,600 Mr. Crawford. 147 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:41,600 What? 148 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:42,720 Things have changed in this town. 149 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,200 It's different. 150 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:51,400 Hang around, you'll see. 151 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,840 Hello. 152 00:07:54,840 --> 00:08:01,200 Good evening. 153 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,120 Mr. Osborne? 154 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,640 Mr. Osborne, something I can do for you? 155 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,720 They tell me down at your place of business you'd be home. 156 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:11,720 It's about Jimmy Stewart. 157 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,720 Mind if I sit down? 158 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,720 Not at all. 159 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,400 Johnny Stewart, a friend of yours? 160 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,680 He was married to my sister. 161 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:22,680 Your sis? 162 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:23,680 Oh, then you must be Nick. 163 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,440 Heard a lot about you from Johnny, how you were soldiering. 164 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,320 Welcome home, Nick. 165 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,720 Johnny worked for you, didn't he? 166 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,520 Good accountant, nice guy, Johnny. 167 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:33,520 One of the best. 168 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,080 You were with him the night he was killed? 169 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,200 That's right, I was with him. 170 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,520 You want to tell me about it? 171 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,240 Johnny was walking by my store just as I was closing up. 172 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,440 I told him to wait a minute. 173 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:46,440 I'd walk with him. 174 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,440 We walked, we talked. 175 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,440 Got to a corner. 176 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:55,080 I told Johnny to wait for me while I went into the drugstore to buy some cigarettes. 177 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:01,000 As I came out, a car turned the corner, shot him down, drove away. 178 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 That's how it was. 179 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 What kind of car? 180 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I wouldn't know. 181 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Sedan, convertible, old, new? 182 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,280 A week ago they put me through this. 183 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,680 I didn't know then, I don't know now. 184 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:13,040 Well, he worked for you. 185 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,720 He was your friend. 186 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,880 You knew all about him and me and his wife. 187 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,360 Nick, I like it here on my port swing. 188 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,960 It reminds me I'm alive. 189 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:33,720 Don't spoil it for me, Nick. 190 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,600 Mrs. Mason, you were sitting right here at your window and you saw it happen. 191 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,440 You saw Johnny killed. 192 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,000 I didn't see it. 193 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,400 What kind of a car? 194 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,400 Just tell me that. 195 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,040 Nothing. 196 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,320 Well the men who beat you up, did you identify them? 197 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:57,000 There were weeds, dirty old tin cans. 198 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Please. 199 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,520 And they threw me down and kicked me in my throat. 200 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,520 Go away. 201 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:16,400 What are you doing in my house? 202 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,240 You listen to me, Nick. 203 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,960 I can remember when Johnny Stewart was a kid and he stole penny candy from me, right here 204 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,200 in this same drug store. 205 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,680 Yeah, and he grew up to be shot down right on this corner, right outside this store. 206 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:31,600 What happened that night, Mr. Nolan? 207 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,360 Nick, I built up a nice business here, twenty years. 208 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,360 What did you see? 209 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:42,560 Nick, Nicky, it was me had to scrub his blood off the sidewalk. 210 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:44,560 What did you see? 211 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:45,560 Nothing. 212 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:52,560 Nothing, that's what I saw, Nick. 213 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:55,240 Nothing. 214 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,360 Hi. 215 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,320 Hello there. 216 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,960 Breaking leaves, you can work up a sweat, even in November. 217 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,440 Yeah, big tree, a lot of leaves, Indian summer evening, you sweat. 218 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,440 I know. 219 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,760 You're Tom Rockston, aren't you? 220 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:12,760 That's right. 221 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:13,760 I'm Nick Crawford. 222 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:14,760 Glad to know you. 223 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:15,760 I'm Tom. 224 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,760 Johnny Stewart was my brother-in-law. 225 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,880 Oh, really? 226 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,760 You got a nice house, Tom. 227 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,240 Thanks. 228 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:29,960 I understand your wife was almost killed when they tossed a bomb into it. 229 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,200 That's right, Hazel was out back, lucky. 230 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:39,320 That bomb was tossed into your house because you were a witness to a murder, wasn't it? 231 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:40,680 House looks OK now. 232 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:43,760 Got nice neighbors, helped me, we fixed it up ourselves. 233 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,600 No kill, Johnny. 234 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,920 You're scared to death, aren't you? 235 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,840 I've got a pretty good house here, mister, a tract house, GI loan. 236 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,600 Once I had a nice uniform, just like you. 237 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,680 Now what I've got is a wonderful wife and anybody asks me, I'll say Hazel's a wonderful 238 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:00,640 wife and I love her. 239 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,040 Like I said, scared. 240 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,560 Right now, mostly of you, and whatever you're carrying around with you, I don't want to 241 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:07,560 rub off on Mia Hazel. 242 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:18,640 So I'll tell you something, leave me alone. 243 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,640 When I went outside, it was evening in Easton. 244 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:26,400 The air was chill and the dew was turning to light frost on the lawns. 245 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,080 I walked for a while and I noticed a thing. 246 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:35,480 The people on the streets, their stares, their looks over the shoulder at me, the whispers 247 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,160 and the turning aside to let me pass. 248 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,120 The word had gotten around that Johnny Stewart's brother-in-law was back in town and he was 249 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,440 asking questions. 250 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,600 I was being pointed out and walked away from. 251 00:12:49,600 --> 00:13:09,960 I'd come home and I'd come home to a frightened city. 252 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:15,720 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in the Frightened City. 253 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:30,600 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 254 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,160 Hey Hap, isn't that wonderful? 255 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,120 Well Harlow, it looks just like an auto light stay full battery to me. 256 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,360 Hap, I'm surprised at you. 257 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,140 Don't you realize that this is the battery that needs water only three times a year in 258 00:13:43,140 --> 00:13:44,960 normal car use? 259 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,600 Don't you know that the auto light stay full is protected by fiberglass retaining mats 260 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,240 around every positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking? 261 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,980 Aren't you aware of its longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life 262 00:13:57,980 --> 00:13:58,980 cycle standards? 263 00:13:58,980 --> 00:13:59,980 Well sure Harlow. 264 00:13:59,980 --> 00:14:04,960 Well then Hap, you'll agree when I say money can't buy a better battery. 265 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,980 So friends, visit your nearest auto light battery dealer. 266 00:14:07,980 --> 00:14:12,980 He services all makes of batteries and he's got an auto light stay full for your car in 267 00:14:12,980 --> 00:14:15,280 case a replacement is needed. 268 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,600 To quickly locate your nearest auto light battery dealer, call Western Union by number 269 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,320 and ask for operator 25. 270 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,520 I'll tell you where you can get an auto light stay full. 271 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,960 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 272 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:34,600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 273 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:41,380 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Frank Lovejoy in Elliot Lewis's 274 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:44,400 production of The Frightened City. 275 00:14:44,400 --> 00:15:01,960 A dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 276 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:06,320 The next morning in Easton, clear, bright. 277 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:12,200 Look out the window of an upstairs room where you slept in an almost forgotten bed. 278 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,120 And the glint of sunlight is autumn leaves wet with melting frost. 279 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:21,480 And three houses down, the man on the bathrobe darting out of his front door to where the 280 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,880 morning paper had been tossed into an evergreen bush. 281 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,760 Watch him stalk it, retrieve it, scurry back. 282 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,400 Trace a design on a pane of steamed window. 283 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,520 And it's almost the way you remembered it. 284 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:37,520 Almost. 285 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,520 Nikki, you up? 286 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,040 Yeah, come on in. 287 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,040 Hi. 288 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,040 Hi. 289 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,040 You sleep good? 290 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,040 Yeah. 291 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,160 I heard the kid balling a little while ago woke me up. 292 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,160 He was hungry. 293 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,160 He's all right now. 294 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,160 Nikki. 295 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:54,160 What? 296 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,400 Got home real late last night. 297 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,800 I waited up a long time then I got tired and went to sleep. 298 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:04,640 My brother's first night home in three years, you'd think you could have managed to get 299 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,920 home early enough for us to talk. 300 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,560 Oh, what do we talk about, Jane? 301 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,560 You. 302 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,800 What's happened to you in three years? 303 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,320 But Johnny. 304 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Dead Johnny, murdered Johnny. 305 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:18,800 Your husband, the man you had the kid with. 306 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,360 We don't talk about that, huh, sister? 307 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:21,360 Shut up. 308 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,360 Janey. 309 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,360 I told you, shut up. 310 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:24,800 You're going to yell me into keeping quiet, Janey. 311 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,660 I told you. 312 00:16:26,660 --> 00:16:28,360 I don't want my baby killed. 313 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,360 Johnny was enough. 314 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,400 You hate me for wanting to know why Johnny's dead. 315 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,600 You hate me for that, Janey. 316 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,280 My baby gets hurt. 317 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,680 I'll hate you to your grave. 318 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,440 You've got lots of new things in the house, Jane. 319 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,840 New furniture, new carpets. 320 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:47,840 Looks nice. 321 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:48,840 Looks expensive. 322 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:49,840 Are you coming down for breakfast? 323 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,160 How much did Johnny make working as an accountant for Osmond? 324 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,160 Fifty? 325 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,160 Sixty a week? 326 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:55,160 How much? 327 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:56,160 Leave me alone. 328 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,520 New sofa, big green leather chair, new carpet. 329 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,220 That costs a lot of money. 330 00:17:01,220 --> 00:17:03,400 How did you get them, Jane? 331 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:04,840 Installment plan? 332 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,520 Somebody give you a birthday present? 333 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:08,520 How'd you do it, Jane? 334 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,040 You got a home hobby? 335 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,760 You take telephone subscriptions for latest magazine? 336 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,840 How did Johnny do it? 337 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:16,840 Is that it? 338 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:17,840 How? 339 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:18,840 He steal, he rob, he kill? 340 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:19,840 Nicky. 341 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:20,840 Tell me. 342 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:21,840 Ask Osmond. 343 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:22,840 Osmond? 344 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:23,840 Ask him what? 345 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:24,840 What? 346 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:26,520 Ask him what? 347 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:27,800 How we suddenly became rich. 348 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,000 How Johnny left a bank account with $30,000 in it. 349 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 What are you talking about? 350 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,200 You said you walked the town last night. 351 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,240 Didn't you see what's happened to it? 352 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:36,240 See what? 353 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:37,240 People walking into back rooms. 354 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:38,920 Shops with no customers, open late. 355 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,520 Men paying newsboys with bills and not taking change. 356 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:42,900 Or newspapers. 357 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:44,080 People walking into back rooms. 358 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,080 Card rooms. 359 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:46,080 Dice tables. 360 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,080 Numbers. 361 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,320 And Johnny was part of it? 362 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,120 Johnny worked for Osmond. 363 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:57,760 And Johnny got sick of it and was on his way to tell the cop? 364 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,240 Oh, Nicky. 365 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:07,240 Oh, Janie, what's the matter? 366 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:12,200 If you tell anybody what I said, I'll swear you're lying. 367 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:17,840 My baby Nick, my son. 368 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,200 I just died. 369 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,400 That's what you did to me. 370 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,400 It just died. 371 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,760 Hi, Nick. 372 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:43,960 What are you? 373 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,040 Hey, what's a big idea busting up my office? 374 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,640 I'll tell you the idea, Osmond. 375 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,960 I reached across that desk to grab you by the throat. 376 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,480 And I was going to try to break you in half, but a thing stopped me. 377 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,080 You want to know what stopped me, Osmond? 378 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,080 What's the matter with your neck? 379 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,000 I want you to look at me and I want you to say to yourself, here's a man who's angry. 380 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,800 And you say to yourself, here's a man who might reach across the desk and kill me. 381 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,400 He hasn't made up his mind yet. 382 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,400 On your feet, Osmond. 383 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,920 On your feet! 384 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:12,920 Why did you kill Johnny? 385 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,920 You're crazy! 386 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:14,920 Talk to me, talk! 387 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:15,920 Tell me why did you kill Johnny? 388 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,880 I was walking with him, son. 389 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:18,880 Walking with him. 390 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,240 How could you set him up as a pigeon? 391 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:21,920 It's real simple. 392 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,360 Walk with him, then go into a drug store and wait until he's killed. 393 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:25,360 Now you know how. 394 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:26,360 Now tell me why. 395 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:28,320 You talking to your sister, son? 396 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,680 Osborne, you send your boys down to see my sister. 397 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,240 They might live through what happened to them, but I doubt it. 398 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:34,240 Tough boy. 399 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,240 Soldier boy. 400 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,320 Here's what's else, Osborne. 401 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,280 This town suddenly stinks. 402 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:44,080 Dice rooms, card rooms, numbers and everything that goes with it. 403 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,840 My brother-in-law gets a shiny garbage disposal, a new grand piano, real fine rugs and a large 404 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,800 bank account on how much a week? 405 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,160 Seventy-five accountants make about that, don't they? 406 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,240 We could start you at about three hundred. 407 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,080 Be polite, Mr. Osborne, to a guy who's talking. 408 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,080 Five hundred. 409 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,360 Polite, Mr. Osborne, that's the word for just now. 410 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,000 I could kill you, Osborne. 411 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,200 Think about it with me. 412 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,920 Here we are in this room, you the man who's got the whole town of Easton so scared that 413 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,400 nobody has a friend anymore. 414 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,640 It takes a powerful man to frighten almost twenty thousand people, but you did it. 415 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,400 If anything happens to me, Nicky boy, you'd get one block from here. 416 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,080 Let's think about that, too, huh? 417 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,960 That's what I'm coming to. 418 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,760 Then there's me in this room and you're afraid of me and that makes me pretty big, too. 419 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:35,040 But I'm not going to kill you because this is my town and it used to be a pretty good 420 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,040 town. 421 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,920 The uniform and the flag and the fist, that's all you need? 422 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,960 And there's law and there's people who need to know what's happening here. 423 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,840 I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. 424 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,120 Get proof, Nicky? 425 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:48,120 How? 426 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,920 At five o'clock tonight, I'm going to take a walk and I'm going to take the same walk 427 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,800 that Johnny did. 428 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,880 And I'm going into that drug store and I'm going to make a phone call. 429 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,360 A long distance call to St. Louis to a newspaper guy I know. 430 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:04,960 And then it's going to be in the papers about a frightened city and the reporters will come 431 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,960 here and they'll find out, Osborne. 432 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,880 You're getting real scared, baby. 433 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,480 You mean it about taking that walk tonight, Nick? 434 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,480 I mean it. 435 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,900 Maybe we'll bump into each other. 436 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:30,040 We will. 437 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,680 And on the way home, stop at Lane's Sporting Goods Store. 438 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,760 Buy a gun, buy cartridges. 439 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,080 And Mr. Lane is all business. 440 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,080 No good evenings. 441 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,520 No, how have you been, Nicky? 442 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,800 Just ring it up on the cash register and not look at you and walk quickly away from you 443 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,440 when it was done. 444 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,200 And the walk home. 445 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,360 Small town held in November twilight. 446 00:21:54,360 --> 00:22:03,600 Inside the house, try the new piano. 447 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,720 The room where the baby is. 448 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,200 Play with him. 449 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,560 And Jane comes in and takes him away from you and tells you there's supper in the kitchen 450 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,700 if you want it. 451 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:16,320 And eat alone, paper propped against water pitcher. 452 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:17,560 Alone. 453 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:25,880 From now on, everything alone because the police wouldn't let you be a pigeon. 454 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,440 Glance at the kitchen clock and it's time. 455 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:35,960 You going out, Nick? 456 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:36,960 Yeah. 457 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:37,960 Where? 458 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,880 Just for a walk. 459 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,360 Will you be late? 460 00:22:42,360 --> 00:23:12,320 Don't wait up for me. 461 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,760 Something for you, Nick? 462 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:14,760 Some change. 463 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:15,760 I want to use your phone. 464 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,760 Sure, Nick. 465 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:26,760 Here, Nick. 466 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:33,680 Thanks. 467 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:46,480 Long distance. 468 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,800 Oh, long distance. 469 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,000 What's the station to station charge to St. Louis? 470 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Just a moment, please. 471 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 That will be a dollar twenty including the tax. 472 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000 What number do you wish, please? 473 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:09,640 What number are you calling in St. Louis, please? 474 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,600 Pick a number. 475 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,040 I'm sorry, sir, but you must... 476 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:16,360 Don't be sorry. 477 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:18,200 Get anybody you want to talk to in St. Louis. 478 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,760 Have a talk on me. 479 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,200 I will return your money, sir. 480 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,200 Now don't do that. 481 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,840 There's somebody I want to call in St. Louis, but I can't think of who it is. 482 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:26,840 I will give you information. 483 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:27,840 No, no. 484 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:28,840 Just talk to me. 485 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,840 I'm sorry, sir, but I can't do that. 486 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,400 Operator, I've got to talk into this phone for just a little while longer just to let 487 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,240 somebody think I'm not kidding in case somebody's watching. 488 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,240 I don't understand, sir. 489 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,240 Would you like information? 490 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,240 About what? 491 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,080 Do you wish to talk to St. Louis, sir? 492 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,080 Do you think I should? 493 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,280 I'm afraid I'm going to have to return your money. 494 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,280 No, no. 495 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,280 Don't do that. 496 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,280 I've got a number. 497 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,280 It's the, uh, Venden 64373 in St. Louis. 498 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,280 One moment, please. 499 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,280 Nick! 500 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,280 Osborne. 501 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:20,280 Nick. 502 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:34,280 Oh, Nick. 503 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,280 Sorry, soldier. 504 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:43,280 And just think, you could have died on a battlefield, not in your home town. 505 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:57,280 Osborne didn't die. 506 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,280 He lived quite a long time, five months. 507 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,280 Hospital, trial, confession, sentence. 508 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,280 And in five months it was spring in Eastern. 509 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,280 It was a good spring. 510 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,280 And you know how people are. 511 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,280 They react to the weather. 512 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,280 Hi, Nick. 513 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,280 The tree's starting to bud already. 514 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,280 You notice? 515 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:19,280 They get friendly and they smile a lot, like winter was a long time, a dark time, and it 516 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,280 was over. 517 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,280 Come on over to the house when you have a chance, Nick. 518 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,280 You'll do that, you hear? 519 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,280 Grass grows in the springtime, but babies grow all the time. 520 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:28,280 Did you see him? 521 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,280 Did you see him? 522 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,280 Nick, he walked. 523 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,280 My son walked. 524 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,280 Sure. 525 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,280 Sure I saw him, sis. 526 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,280 He's growing up. 527 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,280 That happens, sis. 528 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:37,280 And you know what? 529 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,280 He's lucky. 530 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,280 He's got a good town to grow up in. 531 00:26:41,280 --> 00:27:10,200 Suspense. 532 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:14,820 And now, we're joined by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 533 00:27:14,820 --> 00:27:18,840 This is Harlow Wilcox, and here once again is our star, Frank Lovejoy. 534 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,920 This was your first appearance of our new season, Frank, and we wanted to know we enjoyed 535 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,920 every minute. 536 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,640 Thank you, Harlow, and thanks to Auto Light for making it possible. 537 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,400 You had some wonderful shows this season, and next week's promises to be one of the 538 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,400 best. 539 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:37,460 Ladies and gentlemen, if I may, I recommend that you be sure to listen to Death and Miss 540 00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:39,680 Turner, starring Miss Agnes Moorhead. 541 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,200 Yes, Frank, it should be a great show, brought to you by one of the great names in American 542 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:50,520 industry, Auto Light, and its family of 98,000 distributors and dealers in the United States, 543 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,040 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 544 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:59,160 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants 545 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:04,200 from coast to coast, and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 546 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:09,580 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 547 00:28:09,580 --> 00:28:14,920 The Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 548 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,720 standards of quality and performance. 549 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:29,920 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 550 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,920 Next week, a new radio play by the originator of suspense, Mr. William Spear. 551 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:40,160 The story is called Death and Miss Turner, and it will star the First Lady of Suspense, 552 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,880 Miss Agnes Moorhead. 553 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:48,000 That's next week on Suspense. 554 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,280 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawak 555 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,560 and conducted by Ludd Gluskin. 556 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:00,640 The Frightened City was written for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 557 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,240 And in tonight's cast were Joan Banks, Lou Merrill, Herb Butterfield, Paula Winslow, 558 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,640 Hi Aberback, and Charles Calvert. 559 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,240 Frank Lovejoy appeared to the courtesy of Warner Brothers, whose current release is 560 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,800 Operation Secret. 561 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:20,160 Remember next week, Miss Agnes Moorhead in Death and Miss Turner. 562 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,400 You can buy Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light electrical parts, and Auto Light resistor 563 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,800 or standard type spark plugs at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 564 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,240 Switch to Auto Light. 565 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,240 Good night. 566 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,120 This is the CBS Radio Network.