WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.880 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in tonight's presentation 00:12.880 --> 00:16.880 of Suspense. 00:16.880 --> 00:26.720 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story based on fact, terrifying in its truth. 00:26.720 --> 00:32.880 The dramatic report of a man returned home to find he now lives in a frightened city. 00:32.880 --> 00:37.240 Our star Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 00:37.240 --> 00:42.800 Hi, Harlow. 00:42.800 --> 00:43.800 What's the matter? 00:43.800 --> 00:45.520 Hap, I'm in love. 00:45.520 --> 00:47.240 Oh, what's your name? 00:47.240 --> 00:50.560 It's not a her, it's the famous Auto Light Stay Full. 00:50.560 --> 00:54.280 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 00:54.280 --> 00:57.880 Why millions of drivers go for the Auto Light Stay Full, Harlow. 00:57.880 --> 01:02.000 Sure, Hap, because it's the great battery with the fiberglass retaining mats protecting 01:02.000 --> 01:04.800 every positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking. 01:04.800 --> 01:09.800 And that means longer life for the Auto Light Stay Full battery, as proved by tests conducted 01:09.800 --> 01:12.240 according to accepted life cycle standards. 01:12.240 --> 01:15.720 Tell other drivers how to meet this lovable battery, Harlow. 01:15.720 --> 01:19.520 All right, friends, your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer services all makes of 01:19.520 --> 01:24.920 batteries and he will gladly show you the Auto Light Stay Full battery for your car. 01:24.920 --> 01:28.360 To quickly learn his location, call Western Union by number. 01:28.360 --> 01:33.480 And ask for me, operator 25, I'll give you the location of your nearest Auto Light battery 01:33.480 --> 01:36.040 dealer where you can get an Auto Light Stay Full. 01:36.040 --> 01:40.620 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:40.620 --> 01:46.120 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:46.120 --> 01:53.560 And now, Auto Light presents, The Frightened City, starring Mr. Frank Lovejoy, hoping once 01:53.560 --> 02:10.760 again to keep you in suspense. 02:10.760 --> 02:14.280 The train pulled out of Easton at 1.20 in the afternoon. 02:14.280 --> 02:17.240 It pulled in three minutes earlier. 02:17.240 --> 02:20.280 It was a simple thing I had to do then. 02:20.280 --> 02:23.680 Watch it cross the bridge over the Wabash, watch it grow smaller. 02:23.680 --> 02:31.320 And when it was out of sight, I was finally home. 02:31.320 --> 02:36.240 And home was pick up the barracks bag and walk up the small hill from the depot, down 02:36.240 --> 02:40.120 in a main street on an autumn afternoon. 02:40.120 --> 02:44.960 Train left on Sycamore down three blocks, where the houses are painted white and has 02:44.960 --> 02:49.560 rockers on the porches and wide elm trees in November color. 02:49.560 --> 02:54.840 And the far off sound of a dog barking and the smell of smoldering leaves. 02:54.840 --> 02:57.720 And 595 Sycamore Street. 02:57.720 --> 03:00.720 Up the path, up the steps. 03:00.720 --> 03:01.720 Jane? 03:01.720 --> 03:02.720 Janey? 03:02.720 --> 03:05.720 Who is it? 03:05.720 --> 03:06.720 Janey? 03:06.720 --> 03:07.720 Sis? 03:07.720 --> 03:10.720 Nick? 03:10.720 --> 03:16.920 Oh Nicky, Nicky, Nicky. 03:16.920 --> 03:17.920 How's the baby, Sis? 03:17.920 --> 03:18.920 Oh fine. 03:18.920 --> 03:21.560 He was teething, but he's all right now. 03:21.560 --> 03:22.560 I haven't seen him yet. 03:22.560 --> 03:23.560 Oh he's beautiful. 03:23.560 --> 03:24.560 How's Janey? 03:24.560 --> 03:27.560 How's Janey, Sis? 03:27.560 --> 03:28.560 What? 03:28.560 --> 03:30.800 Janey, how is he? 03:30.800 --> 03:33.560 Your husband, my brother-in-law, Janey, how... 03:33.560 --> 03:36.360 What's the matter with you? 03:36.360 --> 03:37.720 How'd you get my letter? 03:37.720 --> 03:39.600 I was aboard ship the last two weeks, so... 03:39.600 --> 03:42.120 Johnny is dead. 03:42.120 --> 03:43.760 Johnny went walking one night and he's dead. 03:43.760 --> 03:46.200 One night Johnny said he was going to walk down the main street. 03:46.200 --> 03:48.200 He told me he wanted to stop in the police station. 03:48.200 --> 03:50.200 He had something to tell the chief of the police. 03:50.200 --> 03:51.200 Janey, Janey. 03:51.200 --> 03:54.200 He went out and he was walking along, walking along. 03:54.200 --> 03:56.200 Walking along. 03:56.200 --> 03:57.200 Baby. 03:57.200 --> 03:58.200 Baby. 03:58.200 --> 04:06.200 A car drove by and someone shot a gun at Johnny. 04:06.200 --> 04:09.200 Johnny's dead. 04:09.200 --> 04:10.200 Who? 04:10.200 --> 04:13.720 Who shot Johnny, Sis? 04:13.720 --> 04:15.600 Janey, I'm talking to you. 04:15.600 --> 04:17.600 Who shot Johnny? 04:17.600 --> 04:18.600 Janey. 04:18.600 --> 04:21.600 Come with me, Nick. 04:21.600 --> 04:26.600 There's your nephew. 04:26.600 --> 04:32.160 He's sleeping and he's my son. 04:32.160 --> 04:33.920 He's pink and he's fat and he says mama. 04:33.920 --> 04:37.560 He can say dada too, but it's a word he won't need. 04:37.560 --> 04:40.000 He's a good baby. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 I love him as much as a mother can love a child. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.520 Now I want to show you something else. 04:44.520 --> 04:47.000 I've had it here in my apron and I've been wondering what to do about it. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.040 I found it under my door about a week ago, the day after Johnny was shot. 04:50.040 --> 04:52.560 I'll read it to you. 04:52.560 --> 04:54.440 Don't talk to strangers. 04:54.440 --> 04:56.720 What happened to daddy can happen to sonny. 04:56.720 --> 04:57.720 Give it to me. 04:57.720 --> 04:58.720 My little boy is going to grow up. 04:58.720 --> 05:02.400 He's going to play with other boys and laugh and cry when he scrapes his knee on the sidewalk 05:02.400 --> 05:03.400 and go to school. 05:03.400 --> 05:04.400 And live a life. 05:04.400 --> 05:05.400 No. 05:05.400 --> 05:06.400 No, no, Nicky. 05:06.400 --> 05:07.400 These pieces get burned, get forgotten. 05:07.400 --> 05:08.400 It gets forgotten like everything else that's happened. 05:08.400 --> 05:09.400 Who did it, Janey? 05:09.400 --> 05:10.400 You're back from a war. 05:10.400 --> 05:11.400 Let everything be peaceful now. 05:11.400 --> 05:12.400 Look at my son, Nick. 05:12.400 --> 05:13.400 The way he wakes up. 05:13.400 --> 05:14.400 So peaceful. 05:14.400 --> 05:41.480 Then the infinite gentleness as she lifted the child held him close and kissed him. 05:41.480 --> 05:49.440 And the room was stillness and anguish and the bitter fear and the emptiness. 05:49.440 --> 05:57.520 And this was homecoming. 05:57.520 --> 06:01.960 Outside it was November, a long quiet avenue. 06:01.960 --> 06:06.360 And the glimpse of the coat-sweated woman in her backyard, gathering in her wash, feeling 06:06.360 --> 06:10.040 in at the starch of cold autumn wind. 06:10.040 --> 06:13.800 Walk to a cross street and three blocks east. 06:13.800 --> 06:15.680 Police headquarters. 06:15.680 --> 06:17.760 Give a murdered man's name and yours. 06:17.760 --> 06:19.800 Ask for the chief of police. 06:19.800 --> 06:22.240 And in less than an hour be shown into him. 06:22.240 --> 06:25.000 Hello, Mr. Crawford. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.160 Have a seat. 06:27.160 --> 06:28.160 You know why I'm here? 06:28.160 --> 06:30.480 Yeah, yeah, I do. 06:30.480 --> 06:33.120 I just came from my sister. 06:33.120 --> 06:34.120 She's scared. 06:34.120 --> 06:37.720 She, she gets threatening notes and burns them up. 06:37.720 --> 06:39.160 Why? 06:39.160 --> 06:40.560 I don't know. 06:40.560 --> 06:41.960 Who killed her husband? 06:41.960 --> 06:42.960 I don't know. 06:42.960 --> 06:47.160 Now look, you, this happened to my sister and now it's happening to me. 06:47.160 --> 06:50.120 A week ago a man walked down the street. 06:50.120 --> 06:51.960 He was on his way to see you and he got murdered. 06:51.960 --> 06:56.440 Easy, easy, I've got some things to tell you. 06:56.440 --> 06:57.560 Tell me. 06:57.560 --> 07:00.120 Four people saw it happen to your brother-in-law. 07:00.120 --> 07:04.200 That night one of them, a woman, was brutally beaten, tossed into a vacant lot. 07:04.200 --> 07:06.360 Kid playing in the trash found her there. 07:06.360 --> 07:10.560 Two days later another witness got a bomb thrown through his nice new house and almost 07:10.560 --> 07:12.240 killed his wife. 07:12.240 --> 07:14.240 That's two. 07:14.240 --> 07:19.400 The other two won't talk either, like your own sister won't talk. 07:19.400 --> 07:23.320 I'm tired, Mr. Crawford. 07:23.320 --> 07:25.920 I got a lot of things to clear away. 07:25.920 --> 07:28.240 I want their names and addresses. 07:28.240 --> 07:30.320 They'll talk to you, huh? 07:30.320 --> 07:32.000 They'll talk to me. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.440 I want those names. 07:33.440 --> 07:34.760 All right. 07:34.760 --> 07:39.600 Tell the sergeant in the next office I said you can have them. 07:39.600 --> 07:40.600 Mr. Crawford. 07:40.600 --> 07:41.600 What? 07:41.600 --> 07:42.720 Things have changed in this town. 07:42.720 --> 07:44.200 It's different. 07:44.200 --> 07:51.400 Hang around, you'll see. 07:51.400 --> 07:54.840 Hello. 07:54.840 --> 08:01.200 Good evening. 08:01.200 --> 08:05.120 Mr. Osborne? 08:05.120 --> 08:07.640 Mr. Osborne, something I can do for you? 08:07.640 --> 08:10.720 They tell me down at your place of business you'd be home. 08:10.720 --> 08:11.720 It's about Jimmy Stewart. 08:11.720 --> 08:14.720 Mind if I sit down? 08:14.720 --> 08:17.720 Not at all. 08:17.720 --> 08:20.400 Johnny Stewart, a friend of yours? 08:20.400 --> 08:21.680 He was married to my sister. 08:21.680 --> 08:22.680 Your sis? 08:22.680 --> 08:23.680 Oh, then you must be Nick. 08:23.680 --> 08:27.440 Heard a lot about you from Johnny, how you were soldiering. 08:27.440 --> 08:29.320 Welcome home, Nick. 08:29.320 --> 08:30.720 Johnny worked for you, didn't he? 08:30.720 --> 08:32.520 Good accountant, nice guy, Johnny. 08:32.520 --> 08:33.520 One of the best. 08:33.520 --> 08:36.080 You were with him the night he was killed? 08:36.080 --> 08:38.200 That's right, I was with him. 08:38.200 --> 08:40.520 You want to tell me about it? 08:40.520 --> 08:44.240 Johnny was walking by my store just as I was closing up. 08:44.240 --> 08:45.440 I told him to wait a minute. 08:45.440 --> 08:46.440 I'd walk with him. 08:46.440 --> 08:47.440 We walked, we talked. 08:47.440 --> 08:48.440 Got to a corner. 08:48.440 --> 08:55.080 I told Johnny to wait for me while I went into the drugstore to buy some cigarettes. 08:55.080 --> 09:01.000 As I came out, a car turned the corner, shot him down, drove away. 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 That's how it was. 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 What kind of car? 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 I wouldn't know. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Sedan, convertible, old, new? 09:06.000 --> 09:08.280 A week ago they put me through this. 09:08.280 --> 09:10.680 I didn't know then, I don't know now. 09:10.680 --> 09:13.040 Well, he worked for you. 09:13.040 --> 09:14.720 He was your friend. 09:14.720 --> 09:16.880 You knew all about him and me and his wife. 09:16.880 --> 09:20.360 Nick, I like it here on my port swing. 09:20.360 --> 09:22.960 It reminds me I'm alive. 09:22.960 --> 09:33.720 Don't spoil it for me, Nick. 09:33.720 --> 09:38.600 Mrs. Mason, you were sitting right here at your window and you saw it happen. 09:38.600 --> 09:41.440 You saw Johnny killed. 09:41.440 --> 09:44.000 I didn't see it. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.400 What kind of a car? 09:45.400 --> 09:47.400 Just tell me that. 09:47.400 --> 09:49.040 Nothing. 09:49.040 --> 09:52.320 Well the men who beat you up, did you identify them? 09:52.320 --> 09:57.000 There were weeds, dirty old tin cans. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Please. 09:58.000 --> 10:03.520 And they threw me down and kicked me in my throat. 10:03.520 --> 10:04.520 Go away. 10:04.520 --> 10:16.400 What are you doing in my house? 10:16.400 --> 10:18.240 You listen to me, Nick. 10:18.240 --> 10:22.960 I can remember when Johnny Stewart was a kid and he stole penny candy from me, right here 10:22.960 --> 10:24.200 in this same drug store. 10:24.200 --> 10:29.680 Yeah, and he grew up to be shot down right on this corner, right outside this store. 10:29.680 --> 10:31.600 What happened that night, Mr. Nolan? 10:31.600 --> 10:35.360 Nick, I built up a nice business here, twenty years. 10:35.360 --> 10:36.360 What did you see? 10:36.360 --> 10:42.560 Nick, Nicky, it was me had to scrub his blood off the sidewalk. 10:42.560 --> 10:44.560 What did you see? 10:44.560 --> 10:45.560 Nothing. 10:45.560 --> 10:52.560 Nothing, that's what I saw, Nick. 10:52.560 --> 10:55.240 Nothing. 10:55.240 --> 10:58.360 Hi. 10:58.360 --> 11:02.320 Hello there. 11:02.320 --> 11:04.960 Breaking leaves, you can work up a sweat, even in November. 11:04.960 --> 11:08.440 Yeah, big tree, a lot of leaves, Indian summer evening, you sweat. 11:08.440 --> 11:09.440 I know. 11:09.440 --> 11:11.760 You're Tom Rockston, aren't you? 11:11.760 --> 11:12.760 That's right. 11:12.760 --> 11:13.760 I'm Nick Crawford. 11:13.760 --> 11:14.760 Glad to know you. 11:14.760 --> 11:15.760 I'm Tom. 11:15.760 --> 11:17.760 Johnny Stewart was my brother-in-law. 11:17.760 --> 11:19.880 Oh, really? 11:19.880 --> 11:23.760 You got a nice house, Tom. 11:23.760 --> 11:25.240 Thanks. 11:25.240 --> 11:29.960 I understand your wife was almost killed when they tossed a bomb into it. 11:29.960 --> 11:33.200 That's right, Hazel was out back, lucky. 11:33.200 --> 11:39.320 That bomb was tossed into your house because you were a witness to a murder, wasn't it? 11:39.320 --> 11:40.680 House looks OK now. 11:40.680 --> 11:43.760 Got nice neighbors, helped me, we fixed it up ourselves. 11:43.760 --> 11:46.600 No kill, Johnny. 11:46.600 --> 11:48.920 You're scared to death, aren't you? 11:48.920 --> 11:52.840 I've got a pretty good house here, mister, a tract house, GI loan. 11:52.840 --> 11:55.600 Once I had a nice uniform, just like you. 11:55.600 --> 11:58.680 Now what I've got is a wonderful wife and anybody asks me, I'll say Hazel's a wonderful 11:58.680 --> 12:00.640 wife and I love her. 12:00.640 --> 12:04.040 Like I said, scared. 12:04.040 --> 12:06.560 Right now, mostly of you, and whatever you're carrying around with you, I don't want to 12:06.560 --> 12:07.560 rub off on Mia Hazel. 12:07.560 --> 12:18.640 So I'll tell you something, leave me alone. 12:18.640 --> 12:21.640 When I went outside, it was evening in Easton. 12:21.640 --> 12:26.400 The air was chill and the dew was turning to light frost on the lawns. 12:26.400 --> 12:30.080 I walked for a while and I noticed a thing. 12:30.080 --> 12:35.480 The people on the streets, their stares, their looks over the shoulder at me, the whispers 12:35.480 --> 12:39.160 and the turning aside to let me pass. 12:39.160 --> 12:43.120 The word had gotten around that Johnny Stewart's brother-in-law was back in town and he was 12:43.120 --> 12:45.440 asking questions. 12:45.440 --> 12:49.600 I was being pointed out and walked away from. 12:49.600 --> 13:09.960 I'd come home and I'd come home to a frightened city. 13:09.960 --> 13:15.720 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in the Frightened City. 13:15.720 --> 13:30.600 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:30.600 --> 13:33.160 Hey Hap, isn't that wonderful? 13:33.160 --> 13:37.120 Well Harlow, it looks just like an auto light stay full battery to me. 13:37.120 --> 13:39.360 Hap, I'm surprised at you. 13:39.360 --> 13:43.140 Don't you realize that this is the battery that needs water only three times a year in 13:43.140 --> 13:44.960 normal car use? 13:44.960 --> 13:49.600 Don't you know that the auto light stay full is protected by fiberglass retaining mats 13:49.600 --> 13:53.240 around every positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking? 13:53.240 --> 13:57.980 Aren't you aware of its longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life 13:57.980 --> 13:58.980 cycle standards? 13:58.980 --> 13:59.980 Well sure Harlow. 13:59.980 --> 14:04.960 Well then Hap, you'll agree when I say money can't buy a better battery. 14:04.960 --> 14:07.980 So friends, visit your nearest auto light battery dealer. 14:07.980 --> 14:12.980 He services all makes of batteries and he's got an auto light stay full for your car in 14:12.980 --> 14:15.280 case a replacement is needed. 14:15.280 --> 14:19.600 To quickly locate your nearest auto light battery dealer, call Western Union by number 14:19.600 --> 14:21.320 and ask for operator 25. 14:21.320 --> 14:24.520 I'll tell you where you can get an auto light stay full. 14:24.520 --> 14:28.960 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 14:28.960 --> 14:34.600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 14:34.600 --> 14:41.380 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Frank Lovejoy in Elliot Lewis's 14:41.380 --> 14:44.400 production of The Frightened City. 14:44.400 --> 15:01.960 A dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:01.960 --> 15:06.320 The next morning in Easton, clear, bright. 15:06.320 --> 15:12.200 Look out the window of an upstairs room where you slept in an almost forgotten bed. 15:12.200 --> 15:17.120 And the glint of sunlight is autumn leaves wet with melting frost. 15:17.120 --> 15:21.480 And three houses down, the man on the bathrobe darting out of his front door to where the 15:21.480 --> 15:24.880 morning paper had been tossed into an evergreen bush. 15:24.880 --> 15:29.760 Watch him stalk it, retrieve it, scurry back. 15:29.760 --> 15:33.400 Trace a design on a pane of steamed window. 15:33.400 --> 15:36.520 And it's almost the way you remembered it. 15:36.520 --> 15:37.520 Almost. 15:37.520 --> 15:39.520 Nikki, you up? 15:39.520 --> 15:42.040 Yeah, come on in. 15:42.040 --> 15:43.040 Hi. 15:43.040 --> 15:44.040 Hi. 15:44.040 --> 15:46.040 You sleep good? 15:46.040 --> 15:47.040 Yeah. 15:47.040 --> 15:50.160 I heard the kid balling a little while ago woke me up. 15:50.160 --> 15:51.160 He was hungry. 15:51.160 --> 15:52.160 He's all right now. 15:52.160 --> 15:53.160 Nikki. 15:53.160 --> 15:54.160 What? 15:54.160 --> 15:56.400 Got home real late last night. 15:56.400 --> 15:59.800 I waited up a long time then I got tired and went to sleep. 15:59.800 --> 16:04.640 My brother's first night home in three years, you'd think you could have managed to get 16:04.640 --> 16:06.920 home early enough for us to talk. 16:06.920 --> 16:09.560 Oh, what do we talk about, Jane? 16:09.560 --> 16:10.560 You. 16:10.560 --> 16:12.800 What's happened to you in three years? 16:12.800 --> 16:15.320 But Johnny. 16:15.320 --> 16:17.320 Dead Johnny, murdered Johnny. 16:17.320 --> 16:18.800 Your husband, the man you had the kid with. 16:18.800 --> 16:20.360 We don't talk about that, huh, sister? 16:20.360 --> 16:21.360 Shut up. 16:21.360 --> 16:22.360 Janey. 16:22.360 --> 16:23.360 I told you, shut up. 16:23.360 --> 16:24.800 You're going to yell me into keeping quiet, Janey. 16:24.800 --> 16:26.660 I told you. 16:26.660 --> 16:28.360 I don't want my baby killed. 16:28.360 --> 16:29.360 Johnny was enough. 16:29.360 --> 16:31.400 You hate me for wanting to know why Johnny's dead. 16:31.400 --> 16:34.600 You hate me for that, Janey. 16:34.600 --> 16:37.280 My baby gets hurt. 16:37.280 --> 16:41.680 I'll hate you to your grave. 16:41.680 --> 16:44.440 You've got lots of new things in the house, Jane. 16:44.440 --> 16:46.840 New furniture, new carpets. 16:46.840 --> 16:47.840 Looks nice. 16:47.840 --> 16:48.840 Looks expensive. 16:48.840 --> 16:49.840 Are you coming down for breakfast? 16:49.840 --> 16:52.160 How much did Johnny make working as an accountant for Osmond? 16:52.160 --> 16:53.160 Fifty? 16:53.160 --> 16:54.160 Sixty a week? 16:54.160 --> 16:55.160 How much? 16:55.160 --> 16:56.160 Leave me alone. 16:56.160 --> 16:59.520 New sofa, big green leather chair, new carpet. 16:59.520 --> 17:01.220 That costs a lot of money. 17:01.220 --> 17:03.400 How did you get them, Jane? 17:03.400 --> 17:04.840 Installment plan? 17:04.840 --> 17:07.520 Somebody give you a birthday present? 17:07.520 --> 17:08.520 How'd you do it, Jane? 17:08.520 --> 17:10.040 You got a home hobby? 17:10.040 --> 17:12.760 You take telephone subscriptions for latest magazine? 17:12.760 --> 17:15.840 How did Johnny do it? 17:15.840 --> 17:16.840 Is that it? 17:16.840 --> 17:17.840 How? 17:17.840 --> 17:18.840 He steal, he rob, he kill? 17:18.840 --> 17:19.840 Nicky. 17:19.840 --> 17:20.840 Tell me. 17:20.840 --> 17:21.840 Ask Osmond. 17:21.840 --> 17:22.840 Osmond? 17:22.840 --> 17:23.840 Ask him what? 17:23.840 --> 17:24.840 What? 17:24.840 --> 17:26.520 Ask him what? 17:26.520 --> 17:27.800 How we suddenly became rich. 17:27.800 --> 17:31.000 How Johnny left a bank account with $30,000 in it. 17:31.000 --> 17:32.000 What are you talking about? 17:32.000 --> 17:33.200 You said you walked the town last night. 17:33.200 --> 17:35.240 Didn't you see what's happened to it? 17:35.240 --> 17:36.240 See what? 17:36.240 --> 17:37.240 People walking into back rooms. 17:37.240 --> 17:38.920 Shops with no customers, open late. 17:38.920 --> 17:41.520 Men paying newsboys with bills and not taking change. 17:41.520 --> 17:42.900 Or newspapers. 17:42.900 --> 17:44.080 People walking into back rooms. 17:44.080 --> 17:45.080 Card rooms. 17:45.080 --> 17:46.080 Dice tables. 17:46.080 --> 17:47.080 Numbers. 17:47.080 --> 17:50.320 And Johnny was part of it? 17:50.320 --> 17:54.120 Johnny worked for Osmond. 17:54.120 --> 17:57.760 And Johnny got sick of it and was on his way to tell the cop? 17:57.760 --> 18:01.240 Oh, Nicky. 18:01.240 --> 18:07.240 Oh, Janie, what's the matter? 18:07.240 --> 18:12.200 If you tell anybody what I said, I'll swear you're lying. 18:12.200 --> 18:17.840 My baby Nick, my son. 18:17.840 --> 18:21.200 I just died. 18:21.200 --> 18:24.400 That's what you did to me. 18:24.400 --> 18:27.400 It just died. 18:27.400 --> 18:32.760 Hi, Nick. 18:32.760 --> 18:43.960 What are you? 18:43.960 --> 18:47.040 Hey, what's a big idea busting up my office? 18:47.040 --> 18:49.640 I'll tell you the idea, Osmond. 18:49.640 --> 18:51.960 I reached across that desk to grab you by the throat. 18:51.960 --> 18:55.480 And I was going to try to break you in half, but a thing stopped me. 18:55.480 --> 18:57.080 You want to know what stopped me, Osmond? 18:57.080 --> 18:58.080 What's the matter with your neck? 18:58.080 --> 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. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.800 And you say to yourself, here's a man who might reach across the desk and kill me. 19:05.800 --> 19:08.400 He hasn't made up his mind yet. 19:08.400 --> 19:09.400 On your feet, Osmond. 19:09.400 --> 19:11.920 On your feet! 19:11.920 --> 19:12.920 Why did you kill Johnny? 19:12.920 --> 19:13.920 You're crazy! 19:13.920 --> 19:14.920 Talk to me, talk! 19:14.920 --> 19:15.920 Tell me why did you kill Johnny? 19:15.920 --> 19:17.880 I was walking with him, son. 19:17.880 --> 19:18.880 Walking with him. 19:18.880 --> 19:20.240 How could you set him up as a pigeon? 19:20.240 --> 19:21.920 It's real simple. 19:21.920 --> 19:24.360 Walk with him, then go into a drug store and wait until he's killed. 19:24.360 --> 19:25.360 Now you know how. 19:25.360 --> 19:26.360 Now tell me why. 19:26.360 --> 19:28.320 You talking to your sister, son? 19:28.320 --> 19:30.680 Osborne, you send your boys down to see my sister. 19:30.680 --> 19:33.240 They might live through what happened to them, but I doubt it. 19:33.240 --> 19:34.240 Tough boy. 19:34.240 --> 19:35.240 Soldier boy. 19:35.240 --> 19:37.320 Here's what's else, Osborne. 19:37.320 --> 19:39.280 This town suddenly stinks. 19:39.280 --> 19:44.080 Dice rooms, card rooms, numbers and everything that goes with it. 19:44.080 --> 19:48.840 My brother-in-law gets a shiny garbage disposal, a new grand piano, real fine rugs and a large 19:48.840 --> 19:51.800 bank account on how much a week? 19:51.800 --> 19:54.160 Seventy-five accountants make about that, don't they? 19:54.160 --> 19:56.240 We could start you at about three hundred. 19:56.240 --> 19:59.080 Be polite, Mr. Osborne, to a guy who's talking. 19:59.080 --> 20:00.080 Five hundred. 20:00.080 --> 20:04.360 Polite, Mr. Osborne, that's the word for just now. 20:04.360 --> 20:07.000 I could kill you, Osborne. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.200 Think about it with me. 20:09.200 --> 20:12.920 Here we are in this room, you the man who's got the whole town of Easton so scared that 20:12.920 --> 20:14.400 nobody has a friend anymore. 20:14.400 --> 20:18.640 It takes a powerful man to frighten almost twenty thousand people, but you did it. 20:18.640 --> 20:22.400 If anything happens to me, Nicky boy, you'd get one block from here. 20:22.400 --> 20:24.080 Let's think about that, too, huh? 20:24.080 --> 20:25.960 That's what I'm coming to. 20:25.960 --> 20:29.760 Then there's me in this room and you're afraid of me and that makes me pretty big, too. 20:29.760 --> 20:35.040 But I'm not going to kill you because this is my town and it used to be a pretty good 20:35.040 --> 20:36.040 town. 20:36.040 --> 20:38.920 The uniform and the flag and the fist, that's all you need? 20:38.920 --> 20:43.960 And there's law and there's people who need to know what's happening here. 20:43.960 --> 20:45.840 I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. 20:45.840 --> 20:47.120 Get proof, Nicky? 20:47.120 --> 20:48.120 How? 20:48.120 --> 20:50.920 At five o'clock tonight, I'm going to take a walk and I'm going to take the same walk 20:50.920 --> 20:52.800 that Johnny did. 20:52.800 --> 20:55.880 And I'm going into that drug store and I'm going to make a phone call. 20:55.880 --> 21:00.360 A long distance call to St. Louis to a newspaper guy I know. 21:00.360 --> 21:04.960 And then it's going to be in the papers about a frightened city and the reporters will come 21:04.960 --> 21:07.960 here and they'll find out, Osborne. 21:07.960 --> 21:10.880 You're getting real scared, baby. 21:10.880 --> 21:13.480 You mean it about taking that walk tonight, Nick? 21:13.480 --> 21:14.480 I mean it. 21:14.480 --> 21:16.900 Maybe we'll bump into each other. 21:16.900 --> 21:30.040 We will. 21:30.040 --> 21:33.680 And on the way home, stop at Lane's Sporting Goods Store. 21:33.680 --> 21:36.760 Buy a gun, buy cartridges. 21:36.760 --> 21:38.080 And Mr. Lane is all business. 21:38.080 --> 21:39.080 No good evenings. 21:39.080 --> 21:41.520 No, how have you been, Nicky? 21:41.520 --> 21:44.800 Just ring it up on the cash register and not look at you and walk quickly away from you 21:44.800 --> 21:47.440 when it was done. 21:47.440 --> 21:50.200 And the walk home. 21:50.200 --> 21:54.360 Small town held in November twilight. 21:54.360 --> 22:03.600 Inside the house, try the new piano. 22:03.600 --> 22:05.720 The room where the baby is. 22:05.720 --> 22:07.200 Play with him. 22:07.200 --> 22:10.560 And Jane comes in and takes him away from you and tells you there's supper in the kitchen 22:10.560 --> 22:12.700 if you want it. 22:12.700 --> 22:16.320 And eat alone, paper propped against water pitcher. 22:16.320 --> 22:17.560 Alone. 22:17.560 --> 22:25.880 From now on, everything alone because the police wouldn't let you be a pigeon. 22:25.880 --> 22:30.440 Glance at the kitchen clock and it's time. 22:30.440 --> 22:35.960 You going out, Nick? 22:35.960 --> 22:36.960 Yeah. 22:36.960 --> 22:37.960 Where? 22:37.960 --> 22:39.880 Just for a walk. 22:39.880 --> 22:42.360 Will you be late? 22:42.360 --> 23:12.320 Don't wait up for me. 23:12.320 --> 23:13.760 Something for you, Nick? 23:13.760 --> 23:14.760 Some change. 23:14.760 --> 23:15.760 I want to use your phone. 23:15.760 --> 23:18.760 Sure, Nick. 23:18.760 --> 23:26.760 Here, Nick. 23:26.760 --> 23:33.680 Thanks. 23:33.680 --> 23:46.480 Long distance. 23:46.480 --> 23:48.800 Oh, long distance. 23:48.800 --> 23:51.000 What's the station to station charge to St. Louis? 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 Just a moment, please. 23:52.000 --> 23:53.000 That will be a dollar twenty including the tax. 23:53.000 --> 23:54.000 What number do you wish, please? 23:54.000 --> 24:09.640 What number are you calling in St. Louis, please? 24:09.640 --> 24:13.600 Pick a number. 24:13.600 --> 24:15.040 I'm sorry, sir, but you must... 24:15.040 --> 24:16.360 Don't be sorry. 24:16.360 --> 24:18.200 Get anybody you want to talk to in St. Louis. 24:18.200 --> 24:19.760 Have a talk on me. 24:19.760 --> 24:21.200 I will return your money, sir. 24:21.200 --> 24:22.200 Now don't do that. 24:22.200 --> 24:25.840 There's somebody I want to call in St. Louis, but I can't think of who it is. 24:25.840 --> 24:26.840 I will give you information. 24:26.840 --> 24:27.840 No, no. 24:27.840 --> 24:28.840 Just talk to me. 24:28.840 --> 24:30.840 I'm sorry, sir, but I can't do that. 24:30.840 --> 24:34.400 Operator, I've got to talk into this phone for just a little while longer just to let 24:34.400 --> 24:37.240 somebody think I'm not kidding in case somebody's watching. 24:37.240 --> 24:38.240 I don't understand, sir. 24:38.240 --> 24:39.240 Would you like information? 24:39.240 --> 24:40.240 About what? 24:40.240 --> 24:44.080 Do you wish to talk to St. Louis, sir? 24:44.080 --> 24:45.080 Do you think I should? 24:45.080 --> 24:47.280 I'm afraid I'm going to have to return your money. 24:47.280 --> 24:48.280 No, no. 24:48.280 --> 24:49.280 Don't do that. 24:49.280 --> 24:50.280 I've got a number. 24:50.280 --> 24:54.280 It's the, uh, Venden 64373 in St. Louis. 24:54.280 --> 24:57.280 One moment, please. 24:57.280 --> 25:00.280 Nick! 25:00.280 --> 25:03.280 Osborne. 25:03.280 --> 25:20.280 Nick. 25:20.280 --> 25:34.280 Oh, Nick. 25:34.280 --> 25:37.280 Sorry, soldier. 25:37.280 --> 25:43.280 And just think, you could have died on a battlefield, not in your home town. 25:43.280 --> 25:57.280 Osborne didn't die. 25:57.280 --> 26:00.280 He lived quite a long time, five months. 26:00.280 --> 26:03.280 Hospital, trial, confession, sentence. 26:03.280 --> 26:05.280 And in five months it was spring in Eastern. 26:05.280 --> 26:07.280 It was a good spring. 26:07.280 --> 26:08.280 And you know how people are. 26:08.280 --> 26:10.280 They react to the weather. 26:10.280 --> 26:11.280 Hi, Nick. 26:11.280 --> 26:13.280 The tree's starting to bud already. 26:13.280 --> 26:14.280 You notice? 26:14.280 --> 26:19.280 They get friendly and they smile a lot, like winter was a long time, a dark time, and it 26:19.280 --> 26:20.280 was over. 26:20.280 --> 26:22.280 Come on over to the house when you have a chance, Nick. 26:22.280 --> 26:23.280 You'll do that, you hear? 26:23.280 --> 26:27.280 Grass grows in the springtime, but babies grow all the time. 26:27.280 --> 26:28.280 Did you see him? 26:28.280 --> 26:29.280 Did you see him? 26:29.280 --> 26:30.280 Nick, he walked. 26:30.280 --> 26:31.280 My son walked. 26:31.280 --> 26:32.280 Sure. 26:32.280 --> 26:33.280 Sure I saw him, sis. 26:33.280 --> 26:34.280 He's growing up. 26:34.280 --> 26:36.280 That happens, sis. 26:36.280 --> 26:37.280 And you know what? 26:37.280 --> 26:38.280 He's lucky. 26:38.280 --> 26:41.280 He's got a good town to grow up in. 26:41.280 --> 27:10.200 Suspense. 27:10.200 --> 27:14.820 And now, we're joined by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 27:14.820 --> 27:18.840 This is Harlow Wilcox, and here once again is our star, Frank Lovejoy. 27:18.840 --> 27:22.920 This was your first appearance of our new season, Frank, and we wanted to know we enjoyed 27:22.920 --> 27:23.920 every minute. 27:23.920 --> 27:27.640 Thank you, Harlow, and thanks to Auto Light for making it possible. 27:27.640 --> 27:31.400 You had some wonderful shows this season, and next week's promises to be one of the 27:31.400 --> 27:32.400 best. 27:32.400 --> 27:37.460 Ladies and gentlemen, if I may, I recommend that you be sure to listen to Death and Miss 27:37.460 --> 27:39.680 Turner, starring Miss Agnes Moorhead. 27:39.680 --> 27:44.200 Yes, Frank, it should be a great show, brought to you by one of the great names in American 27:44.200 --> 27:50.520 industry, Auto Light, and its family of 98,000 distributors and dealers in the United States, 27:50.520 --> 27:54.040 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:54.040 --> 27:59.160 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants 27:59.160 --> 28:04.200 from coast to coast, and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 28:04.200 --> 28:09.580 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 28:09.580 --> 28:14.920 The Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 28:14.920 --> 28:17.720 standards of quality and performance. 28:17.720 --> 28:29.920 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:29.920 --> 28:34.920 Next week, a new radio play by the originator of suspense, Mr. William Spear. 28:34.920 --> 28:40.160 The story is called Death and Miss Turner, and it will star the First Lady of Suspense, 28:40.160 --> 28:41.880 Miss Agnes Moorhead. 28:41.880 --> 28:48.000 That's next week on Suspense. 28:48.000 --> 28:52.280 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawak 28:52.280 --> 28:54.560 and conducted by Ludd Gluskin. 28:54.560 --> 29:00.640 The Frightened City was written for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 29:00.640 --> 29:05.240 And in tonight's cast were Joan Banks, Lou Merrill, Herb Butterfield, Paula Winslow, 29:05.240 --> 29:07.640 Hi Aberback, and Charles Calvert. 29:07.640 --> 29:11.240 Frank Lovejoy appeared to the courtesy of Warner Brothers, whose current release is 29:11.240 --> 29:12.800 Operation Secret. 29:12.800 --> 29:20.160 Remember next week, Miss Agnes Moorhead in Death and Miss Turner. 29:20.160 --> 29:24.400 You can buy Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light electrical parts, and Auto Light resistor 29:24.400 --> 29:27.800 or standard type spark plugs at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 29:27.800 --> 29:29.240 Switch to Auto Light. 29:29.240 --> 29:30.240 Good night. 29:30.240 --> 29:32.120 This is the CBS Radio Network.