WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Victor Mature in tonight's presentation 00:12.000 --> 00:17.000 of Suspense. 00:17.000 --> 00:25.320 Tonight, Auto Light presents a true story, the tragic and mysterious history of the most 00:25.320 --> 00:32.000 famous early California bandit, as told in The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta, our 00:32.000 --> 00:35.680 star Mr. Victor Mature. 00:35.680 --> 00:40.320 Hello, Harlow. 00:40.320 --> 00:42.920 Hi, Senator. 00:42.920 --> 00:44.280 How's life in the legislature? 00:44.280 --> 00:48.000 Well, it's all right there, but not in my automobile. 00:48.000 --> 00:49.000 How's that, Senator? 00:49.000 --> 00:53.200 My car bucks like a canned tankerous constituent, Harlow. 00:53.200 --> 00:55.520 It sounds like spark plug trouble, Senator. 00:55.520 --> 00:59.400 You know, if spark plugs aren't functioning properly, you just can't get the smooth and 00:59.400 --> 01:01.840 economical performance you expect from your car. 01:01.840 --> 01:04.080 Well, how do I veto the trouble? 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03:03.120 --> 03:06.120 Joaquin, I need you. 03:06.120 --> 03:10.120 Come to me, Joaquin. 03:10.120 --> 03:15.120 Carmen, Carmen, what have they done to you? 03:15.120 --> 03:16.120 Help me. 03:16.120 --> 03:17.120 Take me home. 03:17.120 --> 03:22.120 That I would die in our home. 03:22.120 --> 03:23.120 Yes. 03:23.120 --> 03:26.120 Help me up. 03:26.120 --> 03:27.120 No! 03:27.120 --> 03:29.120 I cannot. 03:29.120 --> 03:32.120 Carmen, the moving is not good. 03:32.120 --> 03:34.120 Help me. 03:34.120 --> 03:37.120 Help me. 03:37.120 --> 03:41.120 Carmen, Carmen. 03:41.120 --> 03:48.120 Joaquin, Joaquin, Joaquin. 03:48.120 --> 04:01.120 Joaquin, Joaquin, Joaquin. 04:01.120 --> 04:22.120 Joaquin, you were hurt, man. 04:22.120 --> 04:24.120 What fighting have you done? 04:24.120 --> 04:26.120 They've killed Carmen. 04:26.120 --> 04:29.120 What is this? 04:29.120 --> 04:32.120 They fought and they killed her. 04:32.120 --> 04:34.120 But why, man? 04:34.120 --> 04:36.120 But nothing. 04:36.120 --> 04:39.120 We were where we were. 04:39.120 --> 04:40.120 That is why. 04:40.120 --> 04:42.120 At our claim. 04:42.120 --> 04:45.120 I was working and they came. 04:45.120 --> 04:47.120 I recognized one. 04:47.120 --> 04:49.120 That O'Brien from down the stream. 04:49.120 --> 04:52.120 He said to me, we want this claim. 04:52.120 --> 04:54.120 You have no right to it. 04:54.120 --> 04:58.120 And I said to him, clearly I have right. 04:58.120 --> 05:00.120 All in California have rights. 05:00.120 --> 05:03.120 It's written down that way. 05:03.120 --> 05:08.120 But they left their horses and O'Brien beat me for my words. 05:08.120 --> 05:13.120 Two of them holding me and O'Brien with his fist and then his gun. 05:13.120 --> 05:15.120 In great braveness. 05:15.120 --> 05:20.120 When I went down, it took me much time to get up. 05:20.120 --> 05:23.120 So much I don't know. 05:23.120 --> 05:26.120 But I heard Carmen calling me. 05:26.120 --> 05:28.120 Then I came to her. 05:28.120 --> 05:30.120 And they had heard her. 05:30.120 --> 05:32.120 And she died. 05:32.120 --> 05:35.120 What did you do with her, Joaquin? 05:35.120 --> 05:40.120 First I cried with her until now my tears are gone. 05:40.120 --> 05:45.120 Then I swore to her that never would I rest until I avenged her. 05:45.120 --> 05:47.120 Avenge her? 05:47.120 --> 05:50.120 The life that will lead to? 05:50.120 --> 05:52.120 That is what you want, truly? 05:52.120 --> 05:53.120 Yes. 05:53.120 --> 05:55.120 More than anything. 05:55.120 --> 05:57.120 There is nothing else left? 05:57.120 --> 06:00.120 I know your feeling. 06:00.120 --> 06:03.120 I am with you, Joaquin. 06:03.120 --> 06:05.120 How did she die? 06:05.120 --> 06:07.120 By this knife. 06:07.120 --> 06:09.120 That of O'Brien. 06:09.120 --> 06:11.120 Yes. 06:11.120 --> 06:13.120 I remember him. 06:13.120 --> 06:15.120 Here it is. 06:15.120 --> 06:18.120 And I plan to return it. 06:18.120 --> 06:20.120 Joaquin, help me. 06:20.120 --> 06:22.120 Help me. 06:22.120 --> 06:25.120 Help me. 06:25.120 --> 06:27.120 Help me. 06:32.120 --> 06:35.120 Now as part of the justification, 06:35.120 --> 06:38.120 I remark that my wife Carmen and I left Sonora, Mexico 06:38.120 --> 06:40.120 to go to the California gold fields 06:40.120 --> 06:43.120 with dreams of happiness and wealth. 06:43.120 --> 06:47.120 When we arrived in that country, we found it invaded by many 06:47.120 --> 06:51.120 without faith or decency of law to govern them. 06:51.120 --> 06:54.120 They wore their evilness as they wore their beards 06:54.120 --> 06:57.120 without shame professing only hatred for our people, 06:57.120 --> 07:02.120 seeing in us only a conquered race without any right or privilege. 07:02.120 --> 07:07.120 Thus came about the death of my wife 07:07.120 --> 07:11.120 and bad fortune, not my own instead. 07:17.120 --> 07:19.120 I believe that I died partly 07:19.120 --> 07:22.120 the night she died fully. 07:22.120 --> 07:25.120 Part of my mind went with her. 07:25.120 --> 07:29.120 And that which I kept would allow nothing but hate 07:29.120 --> 07:32.120 and desire for revenge to come to it. 07:32.120 --> 07:36.120 Later that same night on the road to the place where I was sleeping, 07:36.120 --> 07:39.120 I saw a figure riding towards me. 07:39.120 --> 07:43.120 This was the first time I was sure that part of my mind had gone with Carmen. 07:43.120 --> 07:46.120 The moon was high and white. 07:46.120 --> 07:50.120 When I saw this man, it was one of them. 07:50.120 --> 07:53.120 I knew it was O'Brien. 07:59.120 --> 08:03.120 Amigo, Amigo, I'm lost. 08:03.120 --> 08:05.120 Which is the way to Calvary's? 08:05.120 --> 08:07.120 You're way off, way off. 08:07.120 --> 08:09.120 What is this way off? 08:09.120 --> 08:12.120 You're going in the wrong direction. Calvary's is that way. 08:12.120 --> 08:14.120 Which way? The shadows, Amigo. 08:14.120 --> 08:16.120 It's hard to see which way you point. 08:16.120 --> 08:20.120 I don't see why it should be right back there. 08:20.120 --> 08:23.120 What's the matter, Amigo O'Brien? 08:23.120 --> 08:25.120 My name's not O'Brien. 08:25.120 --> 08:28.120 I've got my bridle. 08:28.120 --> 08:31.120 What do you want? You don't need a knife to find the way. 08:31.120 --> 08:33.120 No, Amigo. No. 08:36.120 --> 08:38.120 No, leave me go. 08:38.120 --> 08:41.120 You stay, Amigo O'Brien. 08:41.120 --> 08:44.120 Leave me go. I've done nothing to you. 08:44.120 --> 08:46.120 What you've done to me. 08:46.120 --> 08:49.120 What have you done? You've killed half of me. 08:49.120 --> 08:52.120 Now you will do something else for me. 09:00.120 --> 09:02.120 And then I looked at him. 09:02.120 --> 09:08.120 And with the moon right, I saw it was not O'Brien. 09:08.120 --> 09:11.120 And then I knew I was a killer. 09:11.120 --> 09:14.120 And that a price would be put on my head. 09:18.120 --> 09:21.120 Those things were true. 09:21.120 --> 09:25.120 And I quickly drew around me those who had been hurt also. 09:25.120 --> 09:27.120 Though none so deeply. 09:27.120 --> 09:30.120 Though none so deeply. 09:43.120 --> 09:45.120 We have come, Joaquin. 09:45.120 --> 09:46.120 You were cautious. 09:46.120 --> 09:49.120 We never rode together until we were near this place. 09:49.120 --> 09:51.120 That's good. Who came with you? 09:51.120 --> 09:53.120 Manuel Garcia? 09:53.120 --> 09:57.120 Come on. 09:57.120 --> 09:59.120 Greetings, Joaquin. 09:59.120 --> 10:02.120 What I hear of you must have been very hard. 10:02.120 --> 10:03.120 Of very much emotion. 10:03.120 --> 10:05.120 That part's finished. 10:05.120 --> 10:07.120 You choose to ride with us, Manuel. 10:07.120 --> 10:09.120 I am here, Joaquin. 10:09.120 --> 10:11.120 For what other reason? 10:11.120 --> 10:13.120 To smell the night air? 10:13.120 --> 10:15.120 What they did to your brother, is it enough? 10:15.120 --> 10:17.120 Enough. 10:17.120 --> 10:19.120 He bought a horse from them. 10:19.120 --> 10:22.120 And committed the crime of riding him home. 10:22.120 --> 10:25.120 On the way, others stopped him, accused him of stealing the horse. 10:25.120 --> 10:28.120 They tied him to a tree and horse-whipped him. 10:28.120 --> 10:31.120 Then, without the privilege of being conscious, 10:31.120 --> 10:34.120 they hanged him from the same tree. 10:34.120 --> 10:36.120 Would you judge that to be enough? 10:36.120 --> 10:38.120 Welcome, man. 10:38.120 --> 10:40.120 I will kill well, Joaquin. 10:40.120 --> 10:41.120 Who else, Manuel? 10:41.120 --> 10:42.120 Luis Guerra. 10:42.120 --> 10:44.120 Yes, Manuel. 10:44.120 --> 10:49.120 Here is one you do not know, Joaquin, but he is conditioned. 10:49.120 --> 10:50.120 Luis Guerra. 10:50.120 --> 10:52.120 Good evening. 10:52.120 --> 10:54.120 You are young, Luis. 10:54.120 --> 10:57.120 Young enough to come to California with my mother and father. 10:57.120 --> 10:59.120 The land of gold. 10:59.120 --> 11:01.120 What you found instead? 11:01.120 --> 11:03.120 They are dead. 11:03.120 --> 11:05.120 Our claim is worked by others. 11:05.120 --> 11:07.120 Is it enough, boy? 11:07.120 --> 11:09.120 To ride with us? 11:09.120 --> 11:14.120 You are young and none of us know how long we will ride or how long we will live. 11:14.120 --> 11:17.120 I saw them die. 11:17.120 --> 11:18.120 It was enough. 11:18.120 --> 11:22.120 Pedro Gonzalez and Fernando Fuentes. 11:30.120 --> 11:34.120 And there were more, lots more, all carrying hate in their hearts. 11:34.120 --> 11:37.120 We left that place all pledged to do the same thing. 11:37.120 --> 11:49.120 Revenge for the wrongs done to us. 11:49.120 --> 12:09.120 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Victor Mature in The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta. 12:09.120 --> 12:26.120 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:26.120 --> 12:31.120 Say, Harlow, you mentioned both Auto Light standard and resistor type spark plugs. 12:31.120 --> 12:35.120 Right, Senator, and both are ignition engineered by the same Auto Light engineers 12:35.120 --> 12:42.120 who design complete ignition systems used as original equipment on many of our finest makes of cars, trucks and tractors. 12:42.120 --> 12:46.120 Well, what's the Auto Light resistor spark plug, Harlow? 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You do not drink with us. You do not laugh. 14:52.120 --> 14:55.120 In seriousness, Lewis, and I have been speaking of this. 14:55.120 --> 15:00.120 You're not like before. In the raids, you only watch. You do not fight. 15:00.120 --> 15:02.120 There's nothing. I have good men. 15:02.120 --> 15:07.120 And a leader who listens for the call of a bird. There has been talk of this. 15:07.120 --> 15:08.120 Let them think what they wish. 15:08.120 --> 15:11.120 What is it, Joaquin? We are your friends. Tell us. 15:11.120 --> 15:14.120 Look, I have no stomach for it anymore. 15:14.120 --> 15:15.120 For what, man? 15:15.120 --> 15:17.120 For all the killing. 15:17.120 --> 15:22.120 This? This I hear from you. You who brought us together. 15:22.120 --> 15:25.120 Who was something very barbarous in the beginning. 15:25.120 --> 15:27.120 Was something very brave in the beginning. 15:27.120 --> 15:31.120 Yes, yes, Juan. From that one you hear all this. I'm going back to Calvary's. 15:31.120 --> 15:38.120 Oh, yes. To listen for the bird or to fight the posse that was so cowardly as to drive us away. 15:38.120 --> 15:40.120 My mind is set. 15:40.120 --> 15:44.120 Back to Calvary's? Why? 15:44.120 --> 15:50.120 Is it truly the bird, Joaquin? 15:50.120 --> 15:56.120 In this, to me, there is something more personal and terrible. 15:56.120 --> 15:59.120 More than to any of you. 15:59.120 --> 16:05.120 In the beginning it was part of me. Yes, yes, call it the bird. 16:05.120 --> 16:09.120 But now this general killing. One camp than another. 16:09.120 --> 16:12.120 To me it only builds a reputation for our people that's not good. 16:12.120 --> 16:15.120 There is much gold that builds too. It has a reputation. 16:15.120 --> 16:19.120 I didn't start for gold. I started to kill a man and I haven't found him. 16:19.120 --> 16:20.120 You have found many. 16:20.120 --> 16:25.120 None who is personal. And that I don't like. 16:25.120 --> 16:28.120 The O'Brien. Whose knife you carry. 16:28.120 --> 16:34.120 Yes, O'Brien. If I could go back and find him, then I would join you again. 16:34.120 --> 16:35.120 You go alone? 16:35.120 --> 16:38.120 That is not my choice. One to go with me. 16:38.120 --> 16:42.120 If your mind is set, I will go. 16:42.120 --> 16:47.120 There is a smaller price on Luis's head. He is not known so well. 16:47.120 --> 16:50.120 I'll go, Joaquin. If that is what you want. 16:50.120 --> 16:55.120 Thanks, Luis. I waited many weeks so that I would not have to ask you. 16:55.120 --> 16:58.120 If I had known, Joaquin. 16:58.120 --> 17:05.120 Thanks. I wish the morning would come so that we could leave. 17:05.120 --> 17:10.120 Luis. Listen, Luis. Juan. 17:10.120 --> 17:15.120 What, Joaquin? What is there to hear? 17:15.120 --> 17:20.120 Nothing, my friends. Nothing. You do not comprehend. 17:20.120 --> 17:25.120 I knew my thinking was right from the omen of the next morning. 17:25.120 --> 17:28.120 A golden sunrise and a soft south wind. 17:28.120 --> 17:32.120 Luis and I did our journey in leisure and without hiding. 17:32.120 --> 17:35.120 And in four days we reached Calvarez. 17:35.120 --> 17:39.120 Which had increased to a city of tents and rough buildings. 17:39.120 --> 17:41.120 And the sun was shining. 17:41.120 --> 17:43.120 And the sun was shining. 17:43.120 --> 17:45.120 And the sun was shining. 17:45.120 --> 17:47.120 And the sun was shining. 17:47.120 --> 17:52.120 Which had increased to a city of tents and rough buildings during the time we had been gone. 18:02.120 --> 18:05.120 This place has missed us. We had it burned to the ground. 18:05.120 --> 18:07.120 Perhaps we'll come back someday. 18:07.120 --> 18:09.120 I hope so. 18:09.120 --> 18:13.120 For now, look around for anyone who seems to recognize us. 18:13.120 --> 18:18.120 I am looking, my friend. But for anyone who would not know Joaquin Murrieta. 18:18.120 --> 18:21.120 The town was filled with strangers. 18:28.120 --> 18:30.120 We clearly found this to be the truth. 18:30.120 --> 18:34.120 All had heard of Joaquin Murrieta. But none alive had seen him. 18:34.120 --> 18:38.120 Luis and I found sleeping room on the border of the town. 18:38.120 --> 18:41.120 And for three days I searched for O'Brien. 18:41.120 --> 18:45.120 On the fourth night I heard news of him. 18:58.120 --> 19:00.120 Luis. Wait. 19:02.120 --> 19:05.120 Luis. We'll have a drink in this place. 19:05.120 --> 19:11.120 Come. 19:11.120 --> 19:14.120 Before I got here, and I'm glad of that. 19:14.120 --> 19:18.120 You get crazy people like Murrieta out killing nobody safe. 19:18.120 --> 19:21.120 Well, he was chased out of here. He'll be chased till he's dead. 19:21.120 --> 19:23.120 Will I, Luis? Who knows? 19:23.120 --> 19:26.120 I heard he had a pretty good reason for going on the warpath. 19:26.120 --> 19:29.120 That his wife was killed. Joaquin? 19:29.120 --> 19:31.120 That ain't true. He was trespassing where he didn't belong. 19:31.120 --> 19:33.120 Working a claim that didn't belong to him. 19:33.120 --> 19:36.120 Joaquin, help me. Help me. 19:36.120 --> 19:37.120 Luis. No. 19:37.120 --> 19:38.120 Joaquin, no. 19:38.120 --> 19:40.120 I didn't hear that part of it. 19:40.120 --> 19:42.120 Well, I did from a man that ought to know. 19:42.120 --> 19:45.120 Matt O'Brien. He knew him. Was there when it started. 19:45.120 --> 19:47.120 Says Murrieta was a born killer. 19:47.120 --> 19:50.120 O'Brien, he's in a new posse now that's going to start out hunting for him. 19:50.120 --> 19:53.120 Well, I'm glad it's O'Brien and not me going out to hunt Murrieta. 19:53.120 --> 19:54.120 Joaquin, no. 19:54.120 --> 19:55.120 Let go, Luis. 19:55.120 --> 19:58.120 What I hear, he's got a bunch of cut throats big enough to beat it. 19:58.120 --> 19:59.120 Oh. 19:59.120 --> 20:03.120 Buenas noches, senors. Pardon the intrusion. 20:03.120 --> 20:06.120 I heard you speak of two things close to me. 20:06.120 --> 20:07.120 Well? 20:07.120 --> 20:12.120 This Matt O'Brien, who is a friend of mine and the other is Joaquin Murrieta. 20:12.120 --> 20:13.120 What about Murrieta? 20:13.120 --> 20:17.120 I've just come from the south and I heard where this Murrieta is. 20:17.120 --> 20:20.120 I would like to tell Senor O'Brien. 20:20.120 --> 20:23.120 There's a price on Murrieta's head. 20:23.120 --> 20:25.120 Why should you want to help somebody else get it? 20:25.120 --> 20:28.120 Senor, I am of the same people. 20:28.120 --> 20:30.120 And I don't sell my people. 20:30.120 --> 20:33.120 Murrieta, he was sent crazy by what happened. 20:33.120 --> 20:36.120 The rest of us are not crazy. 20:36.120 --> 20:38.120 Where did you hear he was? 20:38.120 --> 20:40.120 At the ranch San Sopateros. 20:40.120 --> 20:41.120 You know where? 20:41.120 --> 20:44.120 See, but I tell only Senor O'Brien. 20:44.120 --> 20:47.120 Senor, there's no reason for that gun. 20:47.120 --> 20:50.120 I know who you are. You all look the same. 20:50.120 --> 20:52.120 Come on, Sam, keep him covered with me. Take his gun. 20:52.120 --> 20:53.120 Yeah. 20:53.120 --> 20:57.120 All right. You want to go to Matt O'Brien, do you? 20:57.120 --> 20:58.120 Si, Senor. 20:58.120 --> 21:00.120 Then Sam and me will take you. 21:00.120 --> 21:01.120 Go on. 21:10.120 --> 21:13.120 You say it was south. Why? 21:13.120 --> 21:15.120 They were selling horses. 21:15.120 --> 21:16.120 Where? 21:16.120 --> 21:18.120 Los Angeles. 21:18.120 --> 21:20.120 How did you hear about Murrieta? 21:20.120 --> 21:23.120 I'm a friend of mine. 21:23.120 --> 21:24.120 You don't talk straight. 21:24.120 --> 21:27.120 We'll see what Matt O'Brien has to say about this. 21:27.120 --> 21:31.120 Help me. Help me. Help me! 21:39.120 --> 21:42.120 It was a rare situation with many possibilities. 21:42.120 --> 21:46.120 I'd seen Louis slipping away when I went to the table to these men. 21:46.120 --> 21:49.120 And I knew clearly that he was a man of the heart. 21:49.120 --> 21:52.120 And I knew clearly that he would come to my aid if he could. 21:52.120 --> 21:55.120 But my worry was that he would come too soon 21:55.120 --> 21:58.120 before these men could take me to O'Brien. 21:58.120 --> 22:01.120 Then my worry was that he would not come at all. 22:04.120 --> 22:07.120 Lamp's on. You must be home. 22:07.120 --> 22:17.120 Hey! What? 22:17.120 --> 22:18.120 Thank you, Luis. 22:18.120 --> 22:19.120 For nothing. 22:19.120 --> 22:21.120 O'Brien will come out with this noise. 22:21.120 --> 22:22.120 You want my gun? 22:22.120 --> 22:25.120 No, friend. I have his knife. 22:25.120 --> 22:27.120 And that's as it should be. 22:27.120 --> 22:29.120 Oh, what's the matter? 22:29.120 --> 22:31.120 There. Stay here, Luis. 22:31.120 --> 22:33.120 What happened? 22:33.120 --> 22:34.120 Help me. 22:34.120 --> 22:37.120 What happened? 22:37.120 --> 22:39.120 There's been some trouble, senor. 22:39.120 --> 22:41.120 What are they shooting for? 22:41.120 --> 22:44.120 Some man. They took my gold, senor. I'm shot. 22:44.120 --> 22:47.120 Get out of those shadows where I can see you. 22:47.120 --> 22:49.120 Si, senor, but don't shoot. 22:49.120 --> 22:50.120 Keep coming. 22:50.120 --> 22:52.120 Si, senor. 22:52.120 --> 22:54.120 Murrieta! 22:58.120 --> 23:00.120 Remember well, O'Brien. 23:00.120 --> 23:02.120 Remember well. 23:02.120 --> 23:30.120 Look in! 23:32.120 --> 23:36.120 From that moment to this, Luis and I have been only a jump in front of the posse. 23:36.120 --> 23:39.120 But last night we heard them ride by as we lay hidden. 23:39.120 --> 23:42.120 And all this day we have heard or seen nothing. 23:42.120 --> 23:45.120 We've rested, feeling safe. 23:45.120 --> 23:50.120 And I've used the time for the writing of this history, which now has ended. 23:50.120 --> 23:54.120 I know the debt can never be paid. 23:54.120 --> 23:57.120 There is no way ever to avenge Carmen's death fully. 23:57.120 --> 24:02.120 But I've done my best. 24:02.120 --> 24:04.120 But now I've had enough. 24:04.120 --> 24:07.120 I hope to follow this letter soon to senor. 24:07.120 --> 24:11.120 And take up the peaceful life of the gentleman again. 24:11.120 --> 24:13.120 My loss will never be. 24:13.120 --> 24:15.120 What is it? 24:15.120 --> 24:17.120 I think I heard something. I don't know. 24:17.120 --> 24:18.120 Where? 24:18.120 --> 24:19.120 From below. 24:19.120 --> 24:20.120 How close? 24:20.120 --> 24:22.120 I don't know. 24:22.120 --> 24:27.120 There, look, a horseman. 24:27.120 --> 24:29.120 Won't we ever stop running? 24:29.120 --> 24:30.120 Come on. 24:34.120 --> 24:36.120 Luis, above us. 24:36.120 --> 24:37.120 Look. 24:37.120 --> 24:38.120 This is no good, man. 24:38.120 --> 24:39.120 That way, Luis. 24:39.120 --> 24:40.120 Then towards the grove. 24:43.120 --> 24:44.120 Wait. 24:44.120 --> 24:48.120 They're there, too. 24:48.120 --> 24:51.120 What did this day of rest do to us? 24:58.120 --> 24:59.120 Watch it. 24:59.120 --> 25:11.120 Oh, man. 25:11.120 --> 25:16.120 Perhaps that was the end of the history that was written there in a canyon, 25:16.120 --> 25:20.120 which is now a residential section of Los Angeles. 25:20.120 --> 25:26.120 But supporting details are scarce, and rumors are many and varied. 25:26.120 --> 25:32.780 There were many rumors about the man who was killed in the 25:32.780 --> 25:41.320 last night of the last night of Los Angeles, but supporting details are scarce, 25:41.320 --> 25:44.320 and rumors are many and varied. 25:44.320 --> 25:49.320 There were those who said that Murrieta did die that day. 25:49.320 --> 25:52.320 There were others who said that only one body was found, 25:52.320 --> 25:56.320 and that there was some doubt as to who it was. 25:56.320 --> 26:00.320 And there are others who said that during the following days, 26:00.320 --> 26:05.320 traveling by night, it could have been Murrieta, they said, 26:05.320 --> 26:13.320 moving toward Mexico, perhaps following the sound of a bird, 26:13.320 --> 26:42.320 but it was no longer a voice. 26:42.320 --> 26:44.320 Suspense. 26:44.320 --> 26:45.320 Presented by Auto Light. 26:45.320 --> 26:48.320 Tonight's star, Mr. Victor Matur. 26:48.320 --> 26:52.320 This is Harlow Wilcox again, speaking for Auto Light, 26:52.320 --> 26:57.320 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:57.320 --> 27:01.320 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:01.320 --> 27:06.320 That's why during these early months of 53, the Auto Light family joins together 27:06.320 --> 27:10.320 in saluting the leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products 27:10.320 --> 27:11.320 as original equipment. 27:11.320 --> 27:15.320 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women 27:15.320 --> 27:18.320 in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast, 27:18.320 --> 27:22.320 and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 27:22.320 --> 27:26.320 Our family also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested 27:26.320 --> 27:28.320 a portion of their savings in Auto Light, 27:28.320 --> 27:33.320 as well as 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States 27:33.320 --> 27:36.320 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:36.320 --> 27:40.320 Our Auto Light family will salute the Plymouth Division of Chrysler Corporation 27:40.320 --> 27:43.320 on the next Auto Light Suspense television program. 27:43.320 --> 27:48.320 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of suspense on television 27:48.320 --> 27:51.320 so that you'll be sure to see this program. 27:51.320 --> 27:58.320 Music 27:58.320 --> 28:03.320 Next week, the roaring 20s and the violent people who occupied them. 28:03.320 --> 28:07.320 As with song and story, we tell about St. James Infirmary. 28:07.320 --> 28:10.320 Our star, Miss Rosemary Clooney. 28:10.320 --> 28:14.320 That's next week on Suspense. 28:14.320 --> 28:23.320 Music 28:23.320 --> 28:26.320 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. 28:26.320 --> 28:30.320 With music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 28:30.320 --> 28:32.320 Portions of the program were transcribed. 28:32.320 --> 28:37.320 The love and death of Joaquin Murrieta was adapted for Suspense by Gil Dowd. 28:37.320 --> 28:39.320 The guitarist was Jose Barroso. 28:39.320 --> 28:45.320 In tonight's story, Harry Bartel was heard as Luis, William Conrad as the narrator, 28:45.320 --> 28:48.320 Virginia Gregg as Carmen, Joseph Kearns as O'Brien, 28:48.320 --> 28:50.320 Harley Bear as Juan, 28:50.320 --> 28:52.320 Hi Aberback as Joe, 28:52.320 --> 28:55.320 and Jack Crouchon as Manuel. 28:55.320 --> 28:59.320 Victor Mature appeared by arrangement with 20th Century Fox, 28:59.320 --> 29:03.320 producers of Taxi, starring Dan Daly. 29:03.320 --> 29:10.320 And remember next week, Miss Rosemary Clooney in St. James Infirmary. 29:10.320 --> 29:15.320 Tonight, Autolite is pleased to congratulate the Boy Scouts of America and their leaders 29:15.320 --> 29:22.320 on their 43rd year of guiding boys to a future of fine citizenship. 29:22.320 --> 29:33.320 This is the CBS Radio Network.