WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.620 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Joseph Cotton in tonight's presentation 00:10.620 --> 00:17.780 of Suspense. 00:17.780 --> 00:23.820 Tonight Auto Light presents a story based on fact, an American legend of love and death 00:23.820 --> 00:30.680 as we recreate the tragic history of Tom Dooley, our star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. 00:30.680 --> 00:39.840 Hey, Wilcox, where you rushing like a loco coyote? 00:39.840 --> 00:40.840 Hi, Sheriff. 00:40.840 --> 00:45.200 Well, I've got a date to tell folks that for the swellest, sweetest, and smoothest performance 00:45.200 --> 00:50.440 money can buy, you just can't beat those world famous ignition engineered auto light spark 00:50.440 --> 00:51.440 lights. 00:51.440 --> 00:54.280 Well, even an ignorant critter like me knows that. 00:54.280 --> 00:55.360 Sure, Sheriff. 00:55.360 --> 00:59.680 And I'll bet you also know that if your present spark plugs aren't functioning properly, your 00:59.680 --> 01:02.200 car won't give you the performance it should. 01:02.200 --> 01:06.920 Have those spark plugs checked by your auto light spark plug dealer, the expert in cleaning 01:06.920 --> 01:08.200 and adjustment. 01:08.200 --> 01:12.600 And if replacements are needed, he'll recommend ignition engineered auto light spark plugs, 01:12.600 --> 01:14.400 either standard or resistor type. 01:14.400 --> 01:15.400 Yep. 01:15.400 --> 01:17.880 Why, they're smoother than grandma's flapjacks. 01:17.880 --> 01:18.960 Right you are. 01:18.960 --> 01:21.760 So see your nearest auto light spark plug dealer. 01:21.760 --> 01:26.840 To quickly locate him, phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:26.840 --> 01:33.320 Remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 01:33.320 --> 01:40.440 And now, auto light presents Tom Dooley, starring Mr. Joseph Cotton, hoping once again 01:40.440 --> 01:44.440 to keep you in suspense. 01:44.440 --> 01:50.160 Bow down your head, Tom Dooley. 01:50.160 --> 01:52.560 Bow down your head and cry. 01:52.560 --> 01:55.160 Bow down your head, Tom Dooley. 01:55.160 --> 02:05.240 You know you're bound to die. 02:05.240 --> 02:06.240 You wait here, Noah. 02:06.240 --> 02:07.240 You're a fool, Tom. 02:07.240 --> 02:08.240 You ought to do it. 02:08.240 --> 02:11.080 You're going to stop me, cousin. 02:11.080 --> 02:12.080 Just watch the horses. 02:12.080 --> 02:15.080 Open. 02:15.080 --> 02:18.080 Yes? 02:18.080 --> 02:20.920 What? 02:20.920 --> 02:24.960 You be Paul, Cabot. 02:24.960 --> 02:25.960 Yes, I'm Cabot. 02:25.960 --> 02:26.960 What? 02:26.960 --> 02:27.960 Get up. 02:27.960 --> 02:30.760 Maybe I ain't going to kill you. 02:30.760 --> 02:31.760 I don't know. 02:31.760 --> 02:32.760 Get up. 02:32.760 --> 02:48.400 Let's go, cousin. 02:48.400 --> 03:04.440 How do I look, cousin? 03:04.440 --> 03:06.400 Dirty? 03:06.400 --> 03:09.800 She won't mind. 03:09.800 --> 03:11.080 She is what you just did. 03:11.080 --> 03:13.200 She won't mind. 03:13.200 --> 03:14.440 Don't need you anymore, Noah. 03:14.440 --> 03:15.440 Go home. 03:15.440 --> 03:16.440 I'm waiting. 03:16.440 --> 03:20.080 You're liable to wait right long. 03:20.080 --> 03:21.840 Laura. 03:21.840 --> 03:23.840 Laura. 03:23.840 --> 03:27.920 Hello, Tom. 03:27.920 --> 03:32.680 Oh, darling. 03:32.680 --> 03:37.520 Still a darling. 03:37.520 --> 03:38.520 Pretty as a... 03:38.520 --> 03:39.520 Let go of me. 03:39.520 --> 03:41.520 You better come in. 03:41.520 --> 03:43.520 I better. 03:43.520 --> 03:48.640 Well, well, my darling. 03:48.640 --> 03:50.400 I thought you were dead, Tom. 03:50.400 --> 03:52.160 Dead they were, piled high. 03:52.160 --> 03:54.600 But not Tom Dooley. 03:54.600 --> 04:01.200 Months ago, at the Gettysburg, when the men came drifting back home, nobody had seen you, 04:01.200 --> 04:02.200 Tom. 04:02.200 --> 04:03.200 Some said they heard you were dead. 04:03.200 --> 04:04.200 Died early, at Manassas. 04:04.200 --> 04:05.200 What the talking fool are. 04:05.200 --> 04:06.200 What's all this talking for? 04:06.200 --> 04:07.200 Don't, Tom. 04:07.200 --> 04:08.200 Pretty mouth. 04:08.200 --> 04:13.680 Wasting on talk. 04:13.680 --> 04:14.680 Don't. 04:14.680 --> 04:20.720 And teasing and trembling in a way I remember. 04:20.720 --> 04:23.240 I'm sorry, Tom. 04:23.240 --> 04:28.760 Whatever you do after now, Laura, don't hit no more. 04:28.760 --> 04:31.760 Gentle me. 04:31.760 --> 04:32.760 You do that and that. 04:32.760 --> 04:34.760 Four years you've been away, Tom Dooley. 04:34.760 --> 04:35.760 I'm back now. 04:35.760 --> 04:36.760 You're back. 04:36.760 --> 04:39.120 And I thought you were dead. 04:39.120 --> 04:40.520 Over a year now. 04:40.520 --> 04:42.280 And I grieve for you, like I had to do. 04:42.280 --> 04:45.400 And a man came along and gently, like I heard he did. 04:45.400 --> 04:46.400 Yes. 04:46.400 --> 04:47.400 Paul Cabot. 04:47.400 --> 04:48.400 I love him. 04:48.400 --> 04:49.400 That's the way things are now. 04:49.400 --> 04:50.400 A doctor. 04:50.400 --> 04:51.400 A Yankee. 04:51.400 --> 04:52.400 The war's done, Tom Dooley. 04:52.400 --> 04:53.400 And the killing's done. 04:53.400 --> 04:54.400 And the hate's done. 04:54.400 --> 04:55.400 And what's happened to the loving, Laura? 04:55.400 --> 04:56.400 Yours to me. 04:56.400 --> 04:57.400 Over, Tom. 04:57.400 --> 05:00.400 There was grieving, like I told you, and it's over. 05:00.400 --> 05:06.040 And I love a Yankee doctor named Paul Cabot. 05:06.040 --> 05:07.040 I love him. 05:07.040 --> 05:08.640 Come on, I'll take you to him. 05:08.640 --> 05:09.640 Your what? 05:09.640 --> 05:11.880 Where he's laying on the floor. 05:11.880 --> 05:15.480 I think it was whimpering when I left him like a sugar candy baby. 05:15.480 --> 05:16.480 Come on, I'll show you. 05:16.480 --> 05:17.480 Get out of here. 05:17.480 --> 05:19.480 Maybe I will, but I don't know that yet. 05:19.480 --> 05:23.840 First, I want you to remember something, Laura. 05:23.840 --> 05:24.840 Get out. 05:24.840 --> 05:27.400 I want you to remember you hanging on my horse and wailing. 05:27.400 --> 05:33.200 The tears on you four years ago when I rode out to join with Beb Vance and his cavalry. 05:33.200 --> 05:34.200 You remember, Laura? 05:34.200 --> 05:35.200 I grieve. 05:35.200 --> 05:36.280 The tears on you. 05:36.280 --> 05:37.280 That was your grieving. 05:37.280 --> 05:38.280 Listen to mine. 05:38.280 --> 05:43.520 The fighting and the blood and the screaming and bull running, Manassas and the Yankees. 05:43.520 --> 05:45.240 Killing them and they always coming. 05:45.240 --> 05:49.280 Virginia and Pennsylvania and the killing and leaving your own blood every place you 05:49.280 --> 05:50.280 go. 05:50.280 --> 05:51.280 Tom. 05:51.280 --> 05:54.280 But you go because as long as you're going, you're coming back. 05:54.280 --> 05:57.280 Back here to the Smokies. 05:57.280 --> 06:00.280 Back here to Laura Foster. 06:00.280 --> 06:03.280 That pretty mouth. 06:03.280 --> 06:04.280 Laura. 06:04.280 --> 06:08.160 No, I don't love you no more, Tom. 06:08.160 --> 06:09.160 I don't love you. 06:09.160 --> 06:10.520 You're not going to love me. 06:10.520 --> 06:11.520 You'll remember how you... 06:11.520 --> 06:12.520 Tom, Tom, not you. 06:12.520 --> 06:14.520 You ain't worth those four years. 06:14.520 --> 06:15.520 No. 06:15.520 --> 06:18.520 I thought you couldn't wait for your man. 06:18.520 --> 06:21.520 You better go, cousin. 06:21.520 --> 06:27.200 Get out of here, Noah. 06:27.200 --> 06:30.360 You're my blood cousin and I'm holding a gun on you. 06:30.360 --> 06:31.960 And I'm saying you got to go. 06:31.960 --> 06:35.440 I'll kill you where you stand, Tom. 06:35.440 --> 06:38.440 No matter blaming. 06:38.440 --> 06:40.960 I would, Tom. 06:40.960 --> 06:42.240 Yeah. 06:42.240 --> 06:44.240 I think you would. 06:44.240 --> 07:12.400 Good night, Laura. 07:12.400 --> 07:15.320 You still know how to play a tune on the fiddle, don't you, Tom? 07:15.320 --> 07:16.320 Sure do. 07:16.320 --> 07:18.840 Nobody plays like you play, Tom. 07:18.840 --> 07:19.840 Thank you, Jess. 07:19.840 --> 07:22.680 I don't miss you here on the stove. 07:22.680 --> 07:24.080 Why all of us thought you... 07:24.080 --> 07:25.920 Thought I was dead. 07:25.920 --> 07:26.920 What kept you, Tom? 07:26.920 --> 07:30.640 All of us come back soon as we hear General Lee surrendering. 07:30.640 --> 07:32.200 What happened to you? 07:32.200 --> 07:34.360 I had never seen Pennsylvania. 07:34.360 --> 07:35.360 Walked around it. 07:35.360 --> 07:36.720 With a gal? 07:36.720 --> 07:37.900 Just walked. 07:37.900 --> 07:41.360 You walked too slow, Tom. 07:41.360 --> 07:42.920 You walked a lot too slow. 07:42.920 --> 07:44.920 Laura Foster passed you right by. 07:44.920 --> 07:45.920 Yeah, I heard. 07:45.920 --> 07:49.280 Tell me she's learning how to read and write. 07:49.280 --> 07:50.640 I heard that too. 07:50.640 --> 07:51.640 Doctor. 07:51.640 --> 07:52.640 Yankee. 07:52.640 --> 07:54.640 War's over, Jess. 07:54.640 --> 07:56.320 Fighting, hating. 07:56.320 --> 07:58.560 Why you laughing? 07:58.560 --> 08:01.360 I heard you almost killed the Yankee, Dr. Tom. 08:01.360 --> 08:03.160 You heard it, so I guess I did. 08:03.160 --> 08:04.160 Hey, Noah. 08:04.160 --> 08:05.160 What you want, Jess? 08:05.160 --> 08:06.160 Pass that jug over here. 08:06.160 --> 08:07.160 Give your cousin a drink. 08:07.160 --> 08:10.160 Ain't drinking no more, Jess. 08:10.160 --> 08:12.440 Hey, now. 08:12.440 --> 08:14.200 Reasons you ain't doing a lot of things. 08:14.200 --> 08:16.000 Well, you changed, Tom. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.840 What rank did I have? 08:17.840 --> 08:20.960 You going to learn how to read and write? 08:20.960 --> 08:23.400 Doctor say he can teach anybody who wants to learn. 08:23.400 --> 08:27.200 Here is how you can learn a lot from that doctor. 08:27.200 --> 08:28.200 Stop it, Jess. 08:28.200 --> 08:31.000 Those Yankees are smart fellas. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.520 Reckon that's why they won the war. 08:32.520 --> 08:34.560 Won everything, those Yankees. 08:34.560 --> 08:38.080 You heat up my cousin, your tongue's going to be real cold, Jess. 08:38.080 --> 08:40.080 Oh, be it now? 08:40.080 --> 08:42.640 What are you going to say about that, Tom? 08:42.640 --> 08:43.640 Keep talking. 08:43.640 --> 08:44.640 I don't mind. 08:44.640 --> 08:49.680 All I can say is my gal start cheeking with somebody else. 08:49.680 --> 08:51.880 Hi, Yankee. 08:51.880 --> 08:53.360 Hello. 08:53.360 --> 08:58.280 What are you on? 08:58.280 --> 08:59.280 I've got a list here. 08:59.280 --> 09:00.280 I need some groceries. 09:00.280 --> 09:01.840 We've just been talking about you. 09:01.840 --> 09:04.880 Me, Zach, Herman, Josh, all of us. 09:04.880 --> 09:08.480 Noah Dooley, his cousin Tom, too. 09:08.480 --> 09:10.360 Here's the list. 09:10.360 --> 09:11.360 You read it to me, doctor. 09:11.360 --> 09:14.360 I ain't got the lining. 09:14.360 --> 09:15.360 Sack of potatoes? 09:15.360 --> 09:17.600 Like I said, we've been talking. 09:17.600 --> 09:19.600 Wondering. 09:19.600 --> 09:21.600 Sack of sugar? 09:21.600 --> 09:22.600 Wondering. 09:22.600 --> 09:25.200 You like North Carolina Yankee? 09:25.200 --> 09:27.360 Carolina Knights? 09:27.360 --> 09:28.360 Green beans and flour. 09:28.360 --> 09:31.800 How about North Carolina women? 09:31.800 --> 09:32.800 Pretty ain't they? 09:32.800 --> 09:33.800 Bizarre. 09:33.800 --> 09:34.800 Wait on him, Jess. 09:34.800 --> 09:37.200 And law's pretty stuff them all, ain't she? 09:37.200 --> 09:38.760 Wait on him. 09:38.760 --> 09:39.760 Ain't she? 09:39.760 --> 09:42.120 Tom Dooley here used to think so. 09:42.120 --> 09:45.720 If a man wants to buy something, shopkeeper, sell it to him. 09:45.720 --> 09:49.920 I seen you walking, Yankee, trying to get yourself lost with Laura. 09:49.920 --> 09:50.920 Jess. 09:50.920 --> 09:53.320 What do you want, Tom? 09:53.320 --> 09:56.760 Why'd you knock him down, Mr. Dooley? 09:56.760 --> 09:57.760 Mace up for things. 09:57.760 --> 09:58.760 I'm apologizing. 09:58.760 --> 10:02.880 I want to shake your hand. 10:02.880 --> 10:03.880 I'd be pleased. 10:03.880 --> 10:08.040 It's all right about the other night I'd forgotten about it. 10:08.040 --> 10:09.200 I want to be your friend. 10:09.200 --> 10:11.560 That's what you are right now, Mr. Cabot. 10:11.560 --> 10:12.920 I want to tell you this. 10:12.920 --> 10:13.920 What? 10:13.920 --> 10:16.520 Laura loves you and that's all right. 10:16.520 --> 10:17.520 We're getting married, Mr. Dooley. 10:17.520 --> 10:18.960 I'm not saying you can't. 10:18.960 --> 10:22.560 I'm saying I hope you'll be very happy. 10:22.560 --> 10:25.360 Laura will be very glad to hear that. 10:25.360 --> 10:26.360 Mr. Dooley. 10:26.360 --> 10:27.360 Yes? 10:27.360 --> 10:29.320 Laura says you play the fiddle. 10:29.320 --> 10:32.480 I hear you're having a betrothal party tomorrow night. 10:32.480 --> 10:34.000 Yes, that's right. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.400 I'll play the fiddle for you. 10:36.400 --> 10:45.400 For you and Laura. 10:45.400 --> 10:53.840 It's the black, black heart within you, a scheming for a life. 10:53.840 --> 11:03.520 Then you'd play the fiddle while feeling along your knife. 11:03.520 --> 11:06.960 Hey, Noah. 11:06.960 --> 11:09.840 Come here. 11:09.840 --> 11:14.240 Come here a minute. 11:14.240 --> 11:15.240 What you want, Tom? 11:15.240 --> 11:17.040 Spell me on the fiddle a little bit, Noah. 11:17.040 --> 11:18.040 Sure. 11:18.040 --> 11:19.040 Man, I bet you're tired. 11:19.040 --> 11:20.520 Fiddling two hours, I'd let him up. 11:20.520 --> 11:21.520 Spell me, cousin. 11:21.520 --> 11:22.520 Take the fiddle. 11:22.520 --> 11:23.520 Where you going, Tom? 11:23.520 --> 11:24.920 I'll play the fiddle, pretty cousin. 11:24.920 --> 11:29.920 Don't worry about me. 11:29.920 --> 11:31.960 Laura. 11:31.960 --> 11:47.480 I didn't mean to frighten you, Laura. 11:47.480 --> 11:48.480 That's all right. 11:48.480 --> 11:49.920 Noah's playing me my fiddle. 11:49.920 --> 11:51.680 I saw you come out here. 11:51.680 --> 11:54.600 I wanted to say something to you. 11:54.600 --> 11:55.600 Tom. 11:55.600 --> 11:56.600 Yes. 11:56.600 --> 11:57.600 I'm glad. 11:57.600 --> 12:01.320 I wanted to talk to you, too. 12:01.320 --> 12:03.360 Paul told me what you did. 12:03.360 --> 12:05.760 They teased me and called me Yankee. 12:05.760 --> 12:06.880 And you... 12:06.880 --> 12:07.880 That's all right. 12:07.880 --> 12:10.360 And I've been hearing other things, Tom. 12:10.360 --> 12:11.360 What? 12:11.360 --> 12:12.360 How you're different. 12:12.360 --> 12:17.880 How you ease down and not so wild so much no more. 12:17.880 --> 12:18.880 I'm glad, Tom. 12:18.880 --> 12:21.920 But it don't make no difference to you, does it, Laura? 12:21.920 --> 12:23.920 How I feel, you mean? 12:23.920 --> 12:24.920 No. 12:24.920 --> 12:29.200 Why are you out here by yourself? 12:29.200 --> 12:31.400 Because I'm so happy, Tom. 12:31.400 --> 12:33.680 Because I danced a lot. 12:33.680 --> 12:36.400 Because my heart's pounding so much. 12:36.400 --> 12:38.080 Because Paul's in there. 12:38.080 --> 12:39.080 When I look at him... 12:39.080 --> 12:41.080 I know, Laura. 12:41.080 --> 12:42.080 Laura. 12:42.080 --> 12:43.080 Yes? 12:43.080 --> 12:45.000 Walk with me. 12:45.000 --> 12:46.560 That wouldn't be right, Tom. 12:46.560 --> 12:47.560 Things I've got to tell you. 12:47.560 --> 12:49.680 It wouldn't be right to listen, Tom. 12:49.680 --> 12:51.200 Just a fave, I'm asking. 12:51.200 --> 12:52.200 I'm pleading. 12:52.200 --> 12:53.200 I changed. 12:53.200 --> 12:54.200 You heard that. 12:54.200 --> 12:55.200 A little walk, Laura. 12:55.200 --> 12:56.200 A little walk. 12:56.200 --> 12:57.200 Yes. 12:57.200 --> 13:04.200 And my heart will settle down. 13:04.200 --> 13:06.280 You remember we used to come this way? 13:06.280 --> 13:07.280 No talk of that, Tom. 13:07.280 --> 13:08.280 I remember we used to... 13:08.280 --> 13:09.280 I'm going back. 13:09.280 --> 13:10.280 No, no. 13:10.280 --> 13:11.280 I'm sorry. 13:11.280 --> 13:12.280 Tom. 13:12.280 --> 13:13.280 Tom, you'll find you a girl. 13:13.280 --> 13:20.280 There's no bitterness now, is there, Tom? 13:20.280 --> 13:21.280 Tom. 13:21.280 --> 13:31.000 The way that water runs from the top of the mountains to who knows where. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.960 You'll find you a girl and you'll be happy. 13:33.960 --> 13:35.960 A man like me, Laura. 13:35.960 --> 13:38.440 Tom, why the knife? 13:38.440 --> 13:41.440 Because a man like me never be happy. 13:41.440 --> 13:43.440 You the cause, Laura. 13:43.440 --> 13:44.440 You the cause. 13:44.440 --> 13:45.440 I'll take the fiddle now, Noah. 13:45.440 --> 14:13.200 Here you are. 14:13.200 --> 14:14.200 You feel better, Tom? 14:14.200 --> 14:35.320 I feel a lot better. 14:35.320 --> 14:40.040 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Joseph Cotton in Tom Dooley. 14:40.040 --> 14:54.240 It's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:54.240 --> 14:56.920 This is Harlow Wilcock speaking for Auto Light. 14:56.920 --> 15:02.200 And I have here as our special guest, Lieutenant Colonel Sherman D. Cosgrove of the United 15:02.200 --> 15:03.200 States Army. 15:03.200 --> 15:08.120 Colonel Cosgrove, I understand that the Army has special relief funds that are made available 15:08.120 --> 15:13.040 to officers and enlisted personnel and their families in time of distress. 15:13.040 --> 15:14.740 We do, Mr. Wilcox. 15:14.740 --> 15:17.400 It's administered by the Army Emergency Relief in Washington. 15:17.400 --> 15:21.160 Now, where do these funds come from, Colonel Cosgrove? 15:21.160 --> 15:25.640 The money comes from voluntary contributions by the men and women in the services and from 15:25.640 --> 15:30.620 proceeds of a very few special outside events approved by the officers in charge of these 15:30.620 --> 15:32.560 three relief organizations. 15:32.560 --> 15:35.680 That's the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. 15:35.680 --> 15:40.040 One of these events, by the way, is the supper party and reception to be given by the Auto 15:40.040 --> 15:44.440 Light family at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on April 7. 15:44.440 --> 15:49.120 Well, tell me, how are these funds made available to those in distress? 15:49.120 --> 15:53.920 After thorough investigation, allocation of funds is handled by chaplains under the supervision 15:53.920 --> 15:55.240 of their commanding officers. 15:55.240 --> 15:59.720 It must require a huge sum of money to take care of all the needs that develop over a 15:59.720 --> 16:01.280 period of a year. 16:01.280 --> 16:03.480 It surely does, Mr. Wilcox. 16:03.480 --> 16:08.680 Since its incorporation in February 1942, Army Emergency Relief alone has dispersed 16:08.680 --> 16:15.840 over $24 million in rendering financial assistance to over 250,000 members of the Army and their 16:15.840 --> 16:16.840 families. 16:16.840 --> 16:18.320 Well, thank you very much, Colonel Cosgrove. 16:18.320 --> 16:22.920 Tonight, we've been privileged to have as our guest Colonel Sherman D. Cosgrove, who 16:22.920 --> 16:30.520 has brought you a special message on behalf of the Armed Services Emergency Relief Funds. 16:30.520 --> 16:36.320 Now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Joseph Cotton in Elliot Lewis's 16:36.320 --> 16:44.560 production of Tom Dooley, based on fact and well calculated to keep you in suspense. 16:44.560 --> 16:54.200 Bow down your head, Tom Dooley. 16:54.200 --> 16:58.160 Bow down your head and cry. 16:58.160 --> 17:02.120 You killed poor Laura Foster. 17:02.120 --> 17:06.600 You know you're bound to die. 17:06.600 --> 17:09.720 Hello, Mr. Dooley. 17:09.720 --> 17:15.760 Nice party you got going, Mr. Cabot. 17:15.760 --> 17:16.760 Talk to you for a minute? 17:16.760 --> 17:17.760 Sure. 17:17.760 --> 17:19.760 Hey Noah, spell me again, will you? 17:19.760 --> 17:21.080 Yeah, sure, Tom. 17:21.080 --> 17:23.760 What can I do for you? 17:23.760 --> 17:24.760 Have you seen Laura? 17:24.760 --> 17:27.760 Oh, a while ago when I was fiddling. 17:27.760 --> 17:28.760 Oh, she looks pretty tonight. 17:28.760 --> 17:31.280 There's something else I got to tell you. 17:31.280 --> 17:32.280 Yes? 17:32.280 --> 17:34.080 You Yankees know how to give parties too. 17:34.080 --> 17:35.080 How long ago did you see Laura? 17:35.080 --> 17:36.520 Oh, like I told you, when I was... 17:36.520 --> 17:37.520 How long ago was that? 17:37.520 --> 17:38.520 Half an hour, maybe. 17:38.520 --> 17:39.520 Why, what's the matter? 17:39.520 --> 17:40.520 Well, she's not here. 17:40.520 --> 17:41.520 Well, outside maybe. 17:41.520 --> 17:42.520 Not that I could find. 17:42.520 --> 17:43.520 Well, maybe you could... 17:43.520 --> 17:44.520 Would you come help me look for her? 17:44.520 --> 17:45.520 Oh, she don't need looking for her. 17:45.520 --> 17:46.520 She'll be around. 17:46.520 --> 17:47.520 Enjoy yourself, Mr. Dooley. 17:47.520 --> 17:48.520 I'll do that, Mr. Cabot. 17:48.520 --> 17:49.520 Aaron? 17:49.520 --> 17:50.520 Yes, Paul? 17:50.520 --> 17:51.520 See Laura? 17:51.520 --> 17:52.520 I saw her go outside a while ago. 17:52.520 --> 17:53.520 She's been out for a while. 17:53.520 --> 18:00.080 Get a few of the boys. 18:00.080 --> 18:01.800 Let's go outside and look for her. 18:01.800 --> 18:02.800 Sure. 18:02.800 --> 18:03.800 Hey, Betty Lou. 18:03.800 --> 18:18.800 Come on, give me a dance. 18:18.800 --> 18:20.760 Tom. 18:20.760 --> 18:23.920 Tom, wake up. 18:23.920 --> 18:24.920 Come on, Tom, come on. 18:24.920 --> 18:25.920 Wake up. 18:25.920 --> 18:26.920 Get on your feet. 18:26.920 --> 18:29.760 Why are you waking me, cousin? 18:29.760 --> 18:30.760 You listen to me. 18:30.760 --> 18:34.080 Why are you waking me when it's still black outside? 18:34.080 --> 18:35.720 You killed Laura, Tom. 18:35.720 --> 18:36.720 What? 18:36.720 --> 18:39.640 They found Laura snagged on a rock right under the North Falls. 18:39.640 --> 18:40.640 She was stabbed. 18:40.640 --> 18:41.880 What are you saying, over? 18:41.880 --> 18:44.040 I'm saying it and everybody else is saying it. 18:44.040 --> 18:45.160 Saying what? 18:45.160 --> 18:46.360 You put a knife to Laura. 18:46.360 --> 18:47.640 Oh, you saw me dancing. 18:47.640 --> 18:49.560 Oh, everybody saw me dancing. 18:49.560 --> 18:52.200 Everybody's seen you go outside, too. 18:52.200 --> 18:53.560 They're coming after you, Tom. 18:53.560 --> 18:55.080 Saying I killed her? 18:55.080 --> 18:56.080 Knowing it. 18:56.080 --> 18:57.720 Knowing you're the only person who had reason. 18:57.720 --> 18:58.720 But I... 18:58.720 --> 18:59.720 You're talking and they're coming after you. 18:59.720 --> 19:00.720 They're going to hang you, cousin. 19:00.720 --> 19:03.560 They're going to hang you for sure. 19:03.560 --> 19:05.520 You killed her, didn't you? 19:05.520 --> 19:06.760 You got to help me. 19:06.760 --> 19:11.400 You put on all the gentle and there was nothing but black inside you. 19:11.400 --> 19:12.400 You're my cousin. 19:12.400 --> 19:14.560 And I'm your cousin and you got to help me. 19:14.560 --> 19:15.560 Killer. 19:15.560 --> 19:17.080 Pretty thing like Laura. 19:17.080 --> 19:19.200 You're blood killing me, Noah, and you're going to help me. 19:19.200 --> 19:20.200 You're going to do what I tell you. 19:20.200 --> 19:21.200 No, I'm not, Tom. 19:21.200 --> 19:22.760 I'm doing nothing to help you. 19:22.760 --> 19:25.640 You're talking like a man who don't care if you die. 19:25.640 --> 19:28.560 You're going to wait till I get out of this cabin, till I get on your horse and start 19:28.560 --> 19:29.560 riding to a Tennessee. 19:29.560 --> 19:31.440 And you're going to wait some more. 19:31.440 --> 19:34.880 Till you hear them coming, then you're going to get on my horse and wear my hat and you're 19:34.880 --> 19:38.120 going to start riding the other direction. 19:38.120 --> 19:44.280 When you leave, I got the length of this room to decide whether to shoot you in the back. 19:44.280 --> 19:47.280 Now you get going. 19:47.280 --> 19:50.280 Stay here. 19:50.280 --> 19:51.280 Tick-tock. 19:51.280 --> 19:52.280 Tick-tock. 19:52.280 --> 19:53.280 Tick-tock. 19:53.280 --> 19:54.280 Tick-tock. 19:54.280 --> 19:55.280 Tick-tock. 19:55.280 --> 20:02.600 Tom Dooley rode the morning. 20:02.600 --> 20:15.340 Tom Dooley galloped west and when the sun was gone, he laid him down to rest. 20:15.340 --> 20:18.340 The rest. 20:23.600 --> 20:24.600 Who's there? 20:26.300 --> 20:27.300 Who's there? 20:30.180 --> 20:31.640 I see you. I'm going to shoot. 20:32.680 --> 20:35.760 That's my friend, Salman, you might see me. 20:36.140 --> 20:38.100 You can't see at all because I'm at your back. 20:38.760 --> 20:40.840 Now, you just stand where you're standing. 20:40.920 --> 20:41.640 What do you want? 20:41.640 --> 20:45.480 Stand where you're standing and you're going to feel something. 20:45.560 --> 20:47.600 Feel it? My gun to your back. 20:48.940 --> 20:51.100 All right, Salman, take his gun. 20:51.180 --> 20:53.140 Give it to him. Give it to him. 20:53.220 --> 20:54.220 That's it. 20:55.140 --> 20:57.900 You come out too, George. You too, Dawson. 20:57.980 --> 20:59.360 I don't know you men. Who? 20:59.440 --> 21:00.560 Yankees. 21:00.640 --> 21:01.440 What do you want me for? 21:01.520 --> 21:03.440 Well, we don't know, Johnny Reb. 21:03.520 --> 21:05.240 We just come down here on a visit. 21:05.320 --> 21:06.200 You want my money, that's why. 21:06.280 --> 21:08.700 Now, there's a thought. 21:08.780 --> 21:09.820 Where's your money, Reb? 21:09.900 --> 21:10.440 I've got none. 21:10.440 --> 21:12.900 Oh, you've got none. You've got none. 21:14.820 --> 21:16.440 Where you come from, Reb? 21:16.520 --> 21:17.560 From back there. 21:17.640 --> 21:20.020 You're still wearing the rebel jacket. 21:20.100 --> 21:21.240 Don't you know the war's over? 21:21.320 --> 21:22.320 The war's over and you still... 21:22.400 --> 21:25.660 Enjoying it. Living off the fat of southern land. 21:25.740 --> 21:28.360 Won a war, we did, Reb, and we're enjoying it. 21:28.440 --> 21:30.160 I've got no quarrel with you now. 21:30.240 --> 21:32.240 Once you had a quarrel. 21:33.080 --> 21:34.780 Where'd you fight, Reb? 21:34.860 --> 21:36.080 Manassas. 21:36.160 --> 21:36.580 Get his... 21:36.660 --> 21:37.660 Manassas. 21:37.660 --> 21:41.580 Now, you take a look at the wood I wear for a leg, Reb. 21:41.660 --> 21:43.660 I changed him at Manassas. 21:43.740 --> 21:45.660 A Reb bullet. 21:45.740 --> 21:47.740 You shoot that bullet? 21:47.820 --> 21:49.040 Maybe I did. 21:49.120 --> 21:51.880 You got us a brave one, settlement. 21:51.960 --> 21:53.960 Make him cry a little bit. 21:54.920 --> 21:55.920 Go. 22:01.180 --> 22:02.800 Get up, Reb. 22:02.880 --> 22:03.880 Get up. 22:03.880 --> 22:05.640 Get up. 22:07.060 --> 22:09.400 You crying? 22:09.480 --> 22:10.900 You smiling? 22:10.980 --> 22:14.600 Can't tell with that face, settlement made for you. 22:14.680 --> 22:17.060 Now, let me look real close. 22:17.140 --> 22:18.820 Why, you ain't doing nothing at all. 22:18.900 --> 22:20.980 Just... just let me get out of here. 22:21.060 --> 22:22.360 Night's entertainment. 22:22.440 --> 22:23.700 That's what we're looking for, Reb. 22:23.780 --> 22:24.740 And you don't do nothing. 22:24.820 --> 22:27.120 Laugh, cry, nothing. 22:27.200 --> 22:29.120 Ah, you dance, I bet. 22:29.200 --> 22:29.960 You Rebs. 22:30.040 --> 22:30.920 I tell you what. 22:31.000 --> 22:32.700 You dance for us. 22:32.700 --> 22:33.960 Dawson, get us a rope. 22:34.040 --> 22:35.460 You've got no cause to hang me. 22:35.540 --> 22:36.960 For dancing purposes. 22:37.040 --> 22:40.580 You do us a do-si-do on the air from that tree over there. 22:40.660 --> 22:42.000 Thank you kindly, Dawson. 22:42.080 --> 22:43.260 No cause at all. 22:43.340 --> 22:44.880 Don't like to dance? 22:44.960 --> 22:47.800 Then what you gonna do for us, Reb? 22:47.880 --> 22:49.340 I know a thing. 22:49.420 --> 22:51.020 Sing us a tune. 22:51.100 --> 22:52.520 Nice Yankee tune. 22:52.600 --> 22:54.300 Reb, you know one? 22:54.400 --> 22:56.060 Sure you do. 22:56.140 --> 22:58.060 I'll help you, Reb. 22:58.140 --> 23:00.520 Yankee doodle, keep it up. 23:00.520 --> 23:01.520 Sing. 23:01.600 --> 23:03.020 Let him alone. 23:03.100 --> 23:04.900 Who are you? 23:04.980 --> 23:07.400 A Yankee, like you. 23:07.480 --> 23:08.780 Isn't that right, Tom? 23:08.860 --> 23:11.620 Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Mr. Cabot. 23:11.700 --> 23:14.120 A Yankee, gentlemen. 23:14.200 --> 23:17.540 Who says with this rifle that the hating's over. 23:17.620 --> 23:20.500 Now leave this man alone and get out. 23:22.120 --> 23:23.920 All right. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.380 All right, men. 23:25.460 --> 23:26.460 Get. 23:26.540 --> 23:28.340 Oh, Mr. Cabot. 23:28.340 --> 23:31.520 Mr. Cabot, they were gonna kill me. 23:31.600 --> 23:33.180 I'm grateful. 23:33.260 --> 23:34.680 Grateful? 23:34.760 --> 23:36.180 For saving your life? 23:36.260 --> 23:39.060 You're going back right where you came from, Tom Dooley. 23:39.140 --> 23:41.820 To where you killed Laura. 23:41.900 --> 23:45.280 Walk ahead of me, Tom Dooley, or I'll shoot you where you stand. 23:45.360 --> 23:46.820 Doctor. 23:46.900 --> 23:48.160 Yankee doctor. 23:48.160 --> 24:01.500 Who's going to see that you die legal, Tom Dooley. 24:01.580 --> 24:03.540 Carts ready for you, Tom. 24:03.540 --> 24:22.540 Time for hanging. 24:22.620 --> 24:33.260 Ooh. 24:33.260 --> 24:39.840 Come on, Tom. 24:39.920 --> 24:47.180 To that scrub oak tree. 24:47.260 --> 24:51.800 Get up on your horse, Tom. 24:51.880 --> 24:54.260 Rope tight to the branch up there. 24:54.340 --> 24:55.840 Yeah, real tight. 24:55.940 --> 24:58.220 Mr. Cabot. 24:58.300 --> 25:01.900 Reckon you want to fit the noose to Tom's neck? 25:01.900 --> 25:03.860 Yes. 25:03.940 --> 25:09.700 Lean down, Tom Dooley. 25:09.780 --> 25:11.700 All right, it's done. 25:11.780 --> 25:17.540 You got anything to say, Tom, before we slap your horse out from under you? 25:17.620 --> 25:23.760 Bow down your head, Tom Dooley. 25:23.840 --> 25:29.840 Bow down your head and cry. 25:29.840 --> 25:33.600 Goodbye, Tom. May your soul rest in peace. 25:33.680 --> 25:39.680 You killed poor Laura Foster. 25:39.780 --> 25:48.660 You know you're bound to die. 25:48.660 --> 26:05.460 Get. 26:05.540 --> 26:07.540 Suspense. 26:07.620 --> 26:08.800 Presented by Auto Light. 26:08.880 --> 26:13.340 Tonight's star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. 26:13.420 --> 26:16.220 Suspense has again been brought to you by Auto Light. 26:16.220 --> 26:21.020 World's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:21.100 --> 26:25.360 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 26:25.440 --> 26:30.440 That's why during these early months of 1953, the Auto Light family has again 26:30.520 --> 26:36.060 saluted the leading manufacturers who install Auto Light products as original equipment. 26:36.140 --> 26:40.740 Next week as a climax to this salute series, our show will originate from the Easter 26:40.740 --> 26:46.580 Parade of Stars Auto Show in the Grand Ballroom of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. 26:46.660 --> 26:52.660 Our story will be a dramatization of the first and only round the world auto race ever held. 26:52.740 --> 26:55.000 Our star will be Van Johnson. 26:55.080 --> 27:01.080 So be sure to be with us next week for the auto race that stirred the world. 27:01.080 --> 27:05.080 Next week, a story based on fact as we recreate the first international automobile race. 27:05.160 --> 27:07.160 The time, 1908. 27:07.240 --> 27:09.240 The story around the world. 27:09.320 --> 27:13.320 Our star, Mr. Van Johnson. 27:13.400 --> 27:19.400 That's next week on Suspense. 27:19.480 --> 27:25.480 Next week, a story based on fact as we recreate the first international automobile race. 27:25.560 --> 27:27.560 The time, 1908. 27:27.560 --> 27:31.560 Suspense. 27:45.640 --> 27:50.640 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 27:50.720 --> 27:52.720 and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 27:52.720 --> 27:58.720 Tom Dooley was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 27:58.800 --> 28:04.800 Featured in tonight's cast were Sammy Hill, William Conrad, Joseph Kearns and Bill Bissell. 28:04.880 --> 28:10.880 The singer was Harry Stanton. 28:10.960 --> 28:16.960 Joseph Cotton may currently be seen in the 20th Century Fox picture, Niagara. 28:16.960 --> 28:22.960 And remember, next week, Mr. Van Johnson in Around the World. 28:22.960 --> 28:38.960 This is the CBS Radio Network.