1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Victor Mature in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,000 of Suspense. 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:25,320 Tonight, Auto Light presents a true story, the tragic and mysterious history of the most 4 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:32,000 famous early California bandit, as told in The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta, our 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,680 star Mr. Victor Mature. 6 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,320 Hello, Harlow. 7 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,920 Hi, Senator. 8 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:44,280 How's life in the legislature? 9 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,000 Well, it's all right there, but not in my automobile. 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 How's that, Senator? 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,200 My car bucks like a canned tankerous constituent, Harlow. 12 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,520 It sounds like spark plug trouble, Senator. 13 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,400 You know, if spark plugs aren't functioning properly, you just can't get the smooth and 14 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,840 economical performance you expect from your car. 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,080 Well, how do I veto the trouble? 16 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,240 Just visit your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer. 17 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,520 He's an expert on cleaning and adjustment, and he services all makes of cars. 18 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,560 But suppose my spark plugs are worn out and need replacing, Harlow. 19 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,080 Why, then your Auto Light spark plug dealer will replace them with a set of super smooth, 20 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:25,920 world famous ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, either standard or resistor type. 21 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,000 So friends, pick up your phone and call Western Union by number. 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,640 Ask for operator 25, and she'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light 23 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,760 spark plug dealer, the man with ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 24 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:45,840 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:51,360 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed, The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta, a 26 00:01:51,360 --> 00:02:12,600 true story starring Mr. Victor Matur, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,160 To whomever it may concern. 28 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:21,760 I leave this letter to explain how with justification, the son of a grandee in Mexico, the son of 29 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:28,600 wealth and prestige and courtesy can be turned into an outlaw and a killer. 30 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,880 The beginning was near Calvary's in a peaceful summer evening, given over to the singing 31 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:39,520 of birds and the peaceful occupation of such as I, a peace which was interrupted. 32 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,520 Joaquin! 33 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:41,520 Joaquin, help me! 34 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,920 She's going to die. 35 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:52,120 Let's get away from here. 36 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,120 Joaquin! 37 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,120 Help me! 38 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,120 Help me, Joaquin! 39 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,120 Joaquin, where are you? 40 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,120 Joaquin, I need you. 41 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Come to me, Joaquin. 42 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,120 Carmen, Carmen, what have they done to you? 43 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,120 Help me. 44 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:17,120 Take me home. 45 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,120 That I would die in our home. 46 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,120 Yes. 47 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,120 Help me up. 48 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:27,120 No! 49 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,120 I cannot. 50 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,120 Carmen, the moving is not good. 51 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Help me. 52 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,120 Help me. 53 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,120 Carmen, Carmen. 54 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:48,120 Joaquin, Joaquin, Joaquin. 55 00:03:48,120 --> 00:04:01,120 Joaquin, Joaquin, Joaquin. 56 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Joaquin, you were hurt, man. 57 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,120 What fighting have you done? 58 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,120 They've killed Carmen. 59 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,120 What is this? 60 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,120 They fought and they killed her. 61 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,120 But why, man? 62 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,120 But nothing. 63 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,120 We were where we were. 64 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:40,120 That is why. 65 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,120 At our claim. 66 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,120 I was working and they came. 67 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,120 I recognized one. 68 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,120 That O'Brien from down the stream. 69 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,120 He said to me, we want this claim. 70 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,120 You have no right to it. 71 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,120 And I said to him, clearly I have right. 72 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,120 All in California have rights. 73 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,120 It's written down that way. 74 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,120 But they left their horses and O'Brien beat me for my words. 75 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:13,120 Two of them holding me and O'Brien with his fist and then his gun. 76 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,120 In great braveness. 77 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,120 When I went down, it took me much time to get up. 78 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,120 So much I don't know. 79 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,120 But I heard Carmen calling me. 80 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,120 Then I came to her. 81 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,120 And they had heard her. 82 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,120 And she died. 83 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,120 What did you do with her, Joaquin? 84 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:40,120 First I cried with her until now my tears are gone. 85 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,120 Then I swore to her that never would I rest until I avenged her. 86 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,120 Avenge her? 87 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,120 The life that will lead to? 88 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,120 That is what you want, truly? 89 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,120 Yes. 90 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,120 More than anything. 91 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,120 There is nothing else left? 92 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,120 I know your feeling. 93 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,120 I am with you, Joaquin. 94 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,120 How did she die? 95 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,120 By this knife. 96 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,120 That of O'Brien. 97 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,120 Yes. 98 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,120 I remember him. 99 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,120 Here it is. 100 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,120 And I plan to return it. 101 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,120 Joaquin, help me. 102 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,120 Help me. 103 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,120 Help me. 104 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,120 Help me. 105 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,120 Now as part of the justification, 106 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,120 I remark that my wife Carmen and I left Sonora, Mexico 107 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,120 to go to the California gold fields 108 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,120 with dreams of happiness and wealth. 109 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,120 When we arrived in that country, we found it invaded by many 110 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,120 without faith or decency of law to govern them. 111 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,120 They wore their evilness as they wore their beards 112 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,120 without shame professing only hatred for our people, 113 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:02,120 seeing in us only a conquered race without any right or privilege. 114 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Thus came about the death of my wife 115 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,120 and bad fortune, not my own instead. 116 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,120 I believe that I died partly 117 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,120 the night she died fully. 118 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,120 Part of my mind went with her. 119 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,120 And that which I kept would allow nothing but hate 120 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,120 and desire for revenge to come to it. 121 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,120 Later that same night on the road to the place where I was sleeping, 122 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,120 I saw a figure riding towards me. 123 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,120 This was the first time I was sure that part of my mind had gone with Carmen. 124 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,120 The moon was high and white. 125 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,120 When I saw this man, it was one of them. 126 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,120 I knew it was O'Brien. 127 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,120 Amigo, Amigo, I'm lost. 128 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,120 Which is the way to Calvary's? 129 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,120 You're way off, way off. 130 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,120 What is this way off? 131 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,120 You're going in the wrong direction. Calvary's is that way. 132 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,120 Which way? The shadows, Amigo. 133 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,120 It's hard to see which way you point. 134 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,120 I don't see why it should be right back there. 135 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,120 What's the matter, Amigo O'Brien? 136 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,120 My name's not O'Brien. 137 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,120 I've got my bridle. 138 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,120 What do you want? You don't need a knife to find the way. 139 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,120 No, Amigo. No. 140 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,120 No, leave me go. 141 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,120 You stay, Amigo O'Brien. 142 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,120 Leave me go. I've done nothing to you. 143 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,120 What you've done to me. 144 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,120 What have you done? You've killed half of me. 145 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,120 Now you will do something else for me. 146 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,120 And then I looked at him. 147 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:08,120 And with the moon right, I saw it was not O'Brien. 148 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,120 And then I knew I was a killer. 149 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,120 And that a price would be put on my head. 150 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,120 Those things were true. 151 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,120 And I quickly drew around me those who had been hurt also. 152 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,120 Though none so deeply. 153 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,120 Though none so deeply. 154 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,120 We have come, Joaquin. 155 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:46,120 You were cautious. 156 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,120 We never rode together until we were near this place. 157 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,120 That's good. Who came with you? 158 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,120 Manuel Garcia? 159 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,120 Come on. 160 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,120 Greetings, Joaquin. 161 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,120 What I hear of you must have been very hard. 162 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,120 Of very much emotion. 163 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,120 That part's finished. 164 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,120 You choose to ride with us, Manuel. 165 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,120 I am here, Joaquin. 166 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,120 For what other reason? 167 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,120 To smell the night air? 168 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,120 What they did to your brother, is it enough? 169 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,120 Enough. 170 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,120 He bought a horse from them. 171 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,120 And committed the crime of riding him home. 172 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,120 On the way, others stopped him, accused him of stealing the horse. 173 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,120 They tied him to a tree and horse-whipped him. 174 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,120 Then, without the privilege of being conscious, 175 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,120 they hanged him from the same tree. 176 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,120 Would you judge that to be enough? 177 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,120 Welcome, man. 178 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,120 I will kill well, Joaquin. 179 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:41,120 Who else, Manuel? 180 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Luis Guerra. 181 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,120 Yes, Manuel. 182 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:49,120 Here is one you do not know, Joaquin, but he is conditioned. 183 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,120 Luis Guerra. 184 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,120 Good evening. 185 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,120 You are young, Luis. 186 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,120 Young enough to come to California with my mother and father. 187 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,120 The land of gold. 188 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,120 What you found instead? 189 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,120 They are dead. 190 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,120 Our claim is worked by others. 191 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,120 Is it enough, boy? 192 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,120 To ride with us? 193 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,120 You are young and none of us know how long we will ride or how long we will live. 194 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,120 I saw them die. 195 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,120 It was enough. 196 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,120 Pedro Gonzalez and Fernando Fuentes. 197 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:34,120 And there were more, lots more, all carrying hate in their hearts. 198 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,120 We left that place all pledged to do the same thing. 199 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:49,120 Revenge for the wrongs done to us. 200 00:11:49,120 --> 00:12:09,120 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Victor Mature in The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta. 201 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:26,120 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 202 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,120 Say, Harlow, you mentioned both Auto Light standard and resistor type spark plugs. 203 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,120 Right, Senator, and both are ignition engineered by the same Auto Light engineers 204 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:42,120 who design complete ignition systems used as original equipment on many of our finest makes of cars, trucks and tractors. 205 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,120 Well, what's the Auto Light resistor spark plug, Harlow? 206 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:52,120 Why, Senator, it's the greatest advance in spark plugs for automotive use in the past 25 years. 207 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,120 It is? 208 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,120 It surely is. 209 00:12:54,120 --> 00:13:00,120 The built-in Auto Light resistor makes possible such amazing advantages as double spark plug life, 210 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,120 smoother engine performance and quick starts, 211 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:08,120 and the resistor spark plug is only one of a complete line of Auto Light spark plugs for every use. 212 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:12,120 And the nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer has them, eh, Harlow? 213 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,120 You can bet your Homburg on it, Senator. 214 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,120 Friends, see your Auto Light spark plug dealer for a spark plug checkup soon. 215 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:26,120 To learn his location, just phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 216 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:33,120 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 217 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,120 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Victor Mature, 218 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:44,120 in Elliot Lewis's production of The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta, 219 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:49,120 a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 220 00:13:49,120 --> 00:14:06,120 There was much killing near Calvary's and soon much looting. 221 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,120 I searched for O'Brien, whose knife I carried, but found him not. 222 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,120 Then there was more killing in many places, San Jose, Marysville and many others. 223 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,120 In the beginning, I had an excitement so great that I cannot tell it. 224 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:23,120 But during that time, I listened and I didn't hear the bird. 225 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,120 The excitement started to pass away. 226 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,120 And I found that I followed my men instead of leading them. 227 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:35,120 It was after an attack near Orr's Timbers that Manuel Garcia and boy, Lewis, 228 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,120 came to me when we were at camp near the ranch of San Cepatero. 229 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:47,120 They knew I no longer received satisfaction. 230 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:52,120 What is it, Joaquin? You do not drink with us. You do not laugh. 231 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,120 In seriousness, Lewis, and I have been speaking of this. 232 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:00,120 You're not like before. In the raids, you only watch. You do not fight. 233 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,120 There's nothing. I have good men. 234 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:07,120 And a leader who listens for the call of a bird. There has been talk of this. 235 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,120 Let them think what they wish. 236 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,120 What is it, Joaquin? We are your friends. Tell us. 237 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,120 Look, I have no stomach for it anymore. 238 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:15,120 For what, man? 239 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,120 For all the killing. 240 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,120 This? This I hear from you. You who brought us together. 241 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,120 Who was something very barbarous in the beginning. 242 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,120 Was something very brave in the beginning. 243 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,120 Yes, yes, Juan. From that one you hear all this. I'm going back to Calvary's. 244 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:38,120 Oh, yes. To listen for the bird or to fight the posse that was so cowardly as to drive us away. 245 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,120 My mind is set. 246 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,120 Back to Calvary's? Why? 247 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:50,120 Is it truly the bird, Joaquin? 248 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:56,120 In this, to me, there is something more personal and terrible. 249 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,120 More than to any of you. 250 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:05,120 In the beginning it was part of me. Yes, yes, call it the bird. 251 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,120 But now this general killing. One camp than another. 252 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,120 To me it only builds a reputation for our people that's not good. 253 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,120 There is much gold that builds too. It has a reputation. 254 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,120 I didn't start for gold. I started to kill a man and I haven't found him. 255 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:20,120 You have found many. 256 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:25,120 None who is personal. And that I don't like. 257 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,120 The O'Brien. Whose knife you carry. 258 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:34,120 Yes, O'Brien. If I could go back and find him, then I would join you again. 259 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,120 You go alone? 260 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,120 That is not my choice. One to go with me. 261 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,120 If your mind is set, I will go. 262 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:47,120 There is a smaller price on Luis's head. He is not known so well. 263 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,120 I'll go, Joaquin. If that is what you want. 264 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:55,120 Thanks, Luis. I waited many weeks so that I would not have to ask you. 265 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,120 If I had known, Joaquin. 266 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:05,120 Thanks. I wish the morning would come so that we could leave. 267 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:10,120 Luis. Listen, Luis. Juan. 268 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:15,120 What, Joaquin? What is there to hear? 269 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:20,120 Nothing, my friends. Nothing. You do not comprehend. 270 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:25,120 I knew my thinking was right from the omen of the next morning. 271 00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:28,120 A golden sunrise and a soft south wind. 272 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:32,120 Luis and I did our journey in leisure and without hiding. 273 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,120 And in four days we reached Calvarez. 274 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:39,120 Which had increased to a city of tents and rough buildings. 275 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,120 And the sun was shining. 276 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:43,120 And the sun was shining. 277 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,120 And the sun was shining. 278 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:47,120 And the sun was shining. 279 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:52,120 Which had increased to a city of tents and rough buildings during the time we had been gone. 280 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:05,120 This place has missed us. We had it burned to the ground. 281 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,120 Perhaps we'll come back someday. 282 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:09,120 I hope so. 283 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:13,120 For now, look around for anyone who seems to recognize us. 284 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:18,120 I am looking, my friend. But for anyone who would not know Joaquin Murrieta. 285 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:21,120 The town was filled with strangers. 286 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:30,120 We clearly found this to be the truth. 287 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:34,120 All had heard of Joaquin Murrieta. But none alive had seen him. 288 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:38,120 Luis and I found sleeping room on the border of the town. 289 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:41,120 And for three days I searched for O'Brien. 290 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:45,120 On the fourth night I heard news of him. 291 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,120 Luis. Wait. 292 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,120 Luis. We'll have a drink in this place. 293 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:11,120 Come. 294 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:14,120 Before I got here, and I'm glad of that. 295 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:18,120 You get crazy people like Murrieta out killing nobody safe. 296 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,120 Well, he was chased out of here. He'll be chased till he's dead. 297 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,120 Will I, Luis? Who knows? 298 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:26,120 I heard he had a pretty good reason for going on the warpath. 299 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,120 That his wife was killed. Joaquin? 300 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,120 That ain't true. He was trespassing where he didn't belong. 301 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,120 Working a claim that didn't belong to him. 302 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:36,120 Joaquin, help me. Help me. 303 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:37,120 Luis. No. 304 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:38,120 Joaquin, no. 305 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:40,120 I didn't hear that part of it. 306 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,120 Well, I did from a man that ought to know. 307 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:45,120 Matt O'Brien. He knew him. Was there when it started. 308 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:47,120 Says Murrieta was a born killer. 309 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:50,120 O'Brien, he's in a new posse now that's going to start out hunting for him. 310 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:53,120 Well, I'm glad it's O'Brien and not me going out to hunt Murrieta. 311 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,120 Joaquin, no. 312 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:55,120 Let go, Luis. 313 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,120 What I hear, he's got a bunch of cut throats big enough to beat it. 314 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,120 Oh. 315 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:03,120 Buenas noches, senors. Pardon the intrusion. 316 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:06,120 I heard you speak of two things close to me. 317 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,120 Well? 318 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:12,120 This Matt O'Brien, who is a friend of mine and the other is Joaquin Murrieta. 319 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:13,120 What about Murrieta? 320 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:17,120 I've just come from the south and I heard where this Murrieta is. 321 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:20,120 I would like to tell Senor O'Brien. 322 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:23,120 There's a price on Murrieta's head. 323 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:25,120 Why should you want to help somebody else get it? 324 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:28,120 Senor, I am of the same people. 325 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,120 And I don't sell my people. 326 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:33,120 Murrieta, he was sent crazy by what happened. 327 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:36,120 The rest of us are not crazy. 328 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,120 Where did you hear he was? 329 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:40,120 At the ranch San Sopateros. 330 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:41,120 You know where? 331 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:44,120 See, but I tell only Senor O'Brien. 332 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:47,120 Senor, there's no reason for that gun. 333 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,120 I know who you are. You all look the same. 334 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,120 Come on, Sam, keep him covered with me. Take his gun. 335 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:53,120 Yeah. 336 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:57,120 All right. You want to go to Matt O'Brien, do you? 337 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:58,120 Si, Senor. 338 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,120 Then Sam and me will take you. 339 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:01,120 Go on. 340 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:13,120 You say it was south. Why? 341 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,120 They were selling horses. 342 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:16,120 Where? 343 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,120 Los Angeles. 344 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:20,120 How did you hear about Murrieta? 345 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,120 I'm a friend of mine. 346 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:24,120 You don't talk straight. 347 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,120 We'll see what Matt O'Brien has to say about this. 348 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:31,120 Help me. Help me. Help me! 349 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:42,120 It was a rare situation with many possibilities. 350 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:46,120 I'd seen Louis slipping away when I went to the table to these men. 351 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:49,120 And I knew clearly that he was a man of the heart. 352 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:52,120 And I knew clearly that he would come to my aid if he could. 353 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,120 But my worry was that he would come too soon 354 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:58,120 before these men could take me to O'Brien. 355 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,120 Then my worry was that he would not come at all. 356 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:07,120 Lamp's on. You must be home. 357 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:17,120 Hey! What? 358 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,120 Thank you, Luis. 359 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:19,120 For nothing. 360 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:21,120 O'Brien will come out with this noise. 361 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:22,120 You want my gun? 362 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,120 No, friend. I have his knife. 363 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:27,120 And that's as it should be. 364 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,120 Oh, what's the matter? 365 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:31,120 There. Stay here, Luis. 366 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:33,120 What happened? 367 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:34,120 Help me. 368 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:37,120 What happened? 369 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,120 There's been some trouble, senor. 370 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,120 What are they shooting for? 371 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,120 Some man. They took my gold, senor. I'm shot. 372 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:47,120 Get out of those shadows where I can see you. 373 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,120 Si, senor, but don't shoot. 374 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:50,120 Keep coming. 375 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:52,120 Si, senor. 376 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:54,120 Murrieta! 377 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,120 Remember well, O'Brien. 378 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,120 Remember well. 379 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:30,120 Look in! 380 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:36,120 From that moment to this, Luis and I have been only a jump in front of the posse. 381 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:39,120 But last night we heard them ride by as we lay hidden. 382 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:42,120 And all this day we have heard or seen nothing. 383 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,120 We've rested, feeling safe. 384 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:50,120 And I've used the time for the writing of this history, which now has ended. 385 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:54,120 I know the debt can never be paid. 386 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:57,120 There is no way ever to avenge Carmen's death fully. 387 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:02,120 But I've done my best. 388 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,120 But now I've had enough. 389 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:07,120 I hope to follow this letter soon to senor. 390 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:11,120 And take up the peaceful life of the gentleman again. 391 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,120 My loss will never be. 392 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,120 What is it? 393 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,120 I think I heard something. I don't know. 394 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,120 Where? 395 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,120 From below. 396 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:20,120 How close? 397 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,120 I don't know. 398 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:27,120 There, look, a horseman. 399 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,120 Won't we ever stop running? 400 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:30,120 Come on. 401 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:36,120 Luis, above us. 402 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:37,120 Look. 403 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:38,120 This is no good, man. 404 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:39,120 That way, Luis. 405 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:40,120 Then towards the grove. 406 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:44,120 Wait. 407 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:48,120 They're there, too. 408 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:51,120 What did this day of rest do to us? 409 00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,120 Watch it. 410 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:11,120 Oh, man. 411 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:16,120 Perhaps that was the end of the history that was written there in a canyon, 412 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:20,120 which is now a residential section of Los Angeles. 413 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:26,120 But supporting details are scarce, and rumors are many and varied. 414 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:32,780 There were many rumors about the man who was killed in the 415 00:25:32,780 --> 00:25:41,320 last night of the last night of Los Angeles, but supporting details are scarce, 416 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,320 and rumors are many and varied. 417 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:49,320 There were those who said that Murrieta did die that day. 418 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,320 There were others who said that only one body was found, 419 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,320 and that there was some doubt as to who it was. 420 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:00,320 And there are others who said that during the following days, 421 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:05,320 traveling by night, it could have been Murrieta, they said, 422 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:13,320 moving toward Mexico, perhaps following the sound of a bird, 423 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:42,320 but it was no longer a voice. 424 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,320 Suspense. 425 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,320 Presented by Auto Light. 426 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,320 Tonight's star, Mr. Victor Matur. 427 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,320 This is Harlow Wilcox again, speaking for Auto Light, 428 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,320 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 429 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:01,320 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 430 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:06,320 That's why during these early months of 53, the Auto Light family joins together 431 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,320 in saluting the leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products 432 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,320 as original equipment. 433 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,320 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women 434 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,320 in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast, 435 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them. 446 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,320 As with song and story, we tell about St. James Infirmary. 447 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,320 Our star, Miss Rosemary Clooney. 448 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,320 That's next week on Suspense. 449 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:23,320 Music 450 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,320 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. 451 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,320 With music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 452 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,320 Portions of the program were transcribed. 453 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:37,320 The love and death of Joaquin Murrieta was adapted for Suspense by Gil Dowd. 454 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,320 The guitarist was Jose Barroso. 455 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:45,320 In tonight's story, Harry Bartel was heard as Luis, William Conrad as the narrator, 456 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,320 Virginia Gregg as Carmen, Joseph Kearns as O'Brien, 457 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,320 Harley Bear as Juan, 458 00:28:50,320 --> 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