WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.960 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Fred McMurray in tonight's presentation 00:11.960 --> 00:14.960 of Suspense. 00:14.960 --> 00:24.080 Tonight, Auto Light presents the story about a man who dreamed of someday having all the 00:24.080 --> 00:29.440 money he would ever need, and one day found a way to make his dream come true. 00:29.440 --> 00:38.600 The great train robbery, our star Mr. Fred McMurray. 00:38.600 --> 00:42.000 Well Harlow, the team is all set for the season. 00:42.000 --> 00:46.800 Always have that great Auto Light electrical system in your car designed as a team and 00:46.800 --> 00:48.520 works as a team. 00:48.520 --> 00:53.120 That's because every unit like the coil, distributor, spark plugs, battery, generator, and starting 00:53.120 --> 00:58.880 motor are all related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you 00:58.880 --> 01:01.400 the smoothest performance money can buy. 01:01.400 --> 01:03.880 Harlow, I mean our ball team. 01:03.880 --> 01:07.240 And the electrical system really has to be on the ball. 01:07.240 --> 01:11.600 It goes into action the instant you press the starter and it continues every second 01:11.600 --> 01:12.600 the engine runs. 01:12.600 --> 01:17.380 And it works every time you blow the horn or turn on lights, radio heater, or electric 01:17.380 --> 01:18.380 windshield wiper. 01:18.380 --> 01:20.480 Harlow, I know it's important. 01:20.480 --> 01:25.120 It sure is half and that's why it pays to treat the electrical system of your car to 01:25.120 --> 01:26.960 a periodic checkup. 01:26.960 --> 01:31.200 Be your car dealer or your authorized Auto Light service station. 01:31.200 --> 01:35.880 You can quickly locate your nearest authorized Auto Light service station in the classified 01:35.880 --> 01:40.600 section of your phone book under automobile electrical service. 01:40.600 --> 01:44.880 Or call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:44.880 --> 01:50.320 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:50.320 --> 01:56.840 And now Auto Light presents Transcribed, the great train robbery, starring Mr. Fred McMurray 01:56.840 --> 02:09.240 hoping, once again, to keep you in suspense. 02:09.240 --> 02:10.920 My name is Walter Beaumont. 02:10.920 --> 02:12.760 I'm 42 years old. 02:12.760 --> 02:16.120 I have no prominent marks or features that would distinguish me from any other plain 02:16.120 --> 02:17.120 ordinary citizen. 02:17.120 --> 02:19.800 I live with my wife, Bess, in Oakland. 02:19.800 --> 02:23.600 If you saw me walking down the street, you wouldn't give me a second glance. 02:23.600 --> 02:26.320 The details of my appearance are very important. 02:26.320 --> 02:38.080 You see, they're what convinced me that I could execute a great train robbery. 02:38.080 --> 02:41.720 Bess and I have been married for 16 long and uneventful years. 02:41.720 --> 02:45.200 The year before we were married, I went to work for a toy manufacturing firm. 02:45.200 --> 02:50.360 I've been down there ever since and am now making $62 a week. 02:50.360 --> 02:53.960 Sixteen years ago, I had a lot of dreams and some ambition. 02:53.960 --> 02:57.880 But the necessities and responsibilities of our everyday living have cost me most of those 02:57.880 --> 03:01.360 dreams and what little ambition I had. 03:01.360 --> 03:04.800 Walter, did you remember to pay the rent? 03:04.800 --> 03:05.800 Yes, Bess. 03:05.800 --> 03:06.800 Installment on the washing machine? 03:06.800 --> 03:07.800 Uh-huh. 03:07.800 --> 03:11.000 What about the payment on the car and the box spring and mattress? 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 Those too, Bess. 03:12.000 --> 03:17.800 I wish we had a little money left over, at least enough to buy you a new white shirt. 03:17.800 --> 03:20.600 I've already turned the collars on the only three you own. 03:20.600 --> 03:24.880 Well, maybe we can get you one next month, if we're lucky. 03:24.880 --> 03:27.480 If we're lucky. 03:27.480 --> 03:31.200 For 16 years, it's been the same thing, over and over again. 03:31.200 --> 03:32.200 A new white shirt if we're lucky. 03:32.200 --> 03:33.200 A new pair of hose if we're lucky. 03:33.200 --> 03:34.200 The same thing, it never changes. 03:34.200 --> 03:41.200 Each night at 5.30, I drive up and park in front of a tarnished white stucco house where 03:41.200 --> 03:43.240 we've lived for the last eight years. 03:43.240 --> 03:45.680 And I know that nothing has changed. 03:45.680 --> 03:47.680 But tonight when I got home, there was a change. 03:47.680 --> 03:49.240 A happy change. 03:49.240 --> 03:51.760 Some relief, a new face. 03:51.760 --> 03:54.720 The face of a visiting long-lost relative. 03:54.720 --> 03:55.720 Cousin Eugene. 03:55.720 --> 03:56.720 Uh-huh. 03:56.720 --> 03:59.920 Yes, sirree, cousin Bess. 03:59.920 --> 04:02.320 That's just about the best meal I've had in a long, long time. 04:02.320 --> 04:04.720 Well, I'm glad you like it, Eugene. 04:04.720 --> 04:07.040 One of these days we'll have you over for a real feast, Eugene. 04:07.040 --> 04:09.360 As soon as Walter's ship comes in. 04:09.360 --> 04:10.720 Oh, I'm a plain man. 04:10.720 --> 04:13.520 The simple things in life are good enough for me. 04:13.520 --> 04:14.520 Not for Walter. 04:14.520 --> 04:16.720 He's got ideas high and mighty. 04:16.720 --> 04:17.720 No. 04:17.720 --> 04:18.720 No, not anymore. 04:18.720 --> 04:20.920 He's got a dream world all his own. 04:20.920 --> 04:24.520 Well, cousin Bess, we all do a little dreaming now and then. 04:24.520 --> 04:25.520 Cigar, cousin Walter? 04:25.520 --> 04:26.520 Oh, yes, thanks. 04:26.520 --> 04:27.520 Thanks, Eugene. 04:27.520 --> 04:28.520 Here's a... 04:28.520 --> 04:29.520 A little light. 04:29.520 --> 04:30.520 Hmm. 04:30.520 --> 04:31.520 That tastes good. 04:31.520 --> 04:32.520 Yeah? 04:32.520 --> 04:35.520 There's nothing like a cigar after dinner, say I. 04:35.520 --> 04:38.520 It's the finishing touch. 04:38.520 --> 04:43.520 Do you have any definite plans for the future, Eugene? 04:43.520 --> 04:46.520 Well, Walter, I think I'm just about ready to settle down. 04:46.520 --> 04:48.520 Well, that's good to hear. 04:48.520 --> 04:52.320 I'd like to buy me a farm somewhere and maybe raise some chickens. 04:52.320 --> 04:53.320 I always did like chickens. 04:53.320 --> 04:54.320 Hmm. 04:54.320 --> 04:58.320 You know, I think I would have done something like that one day if... 04:58.320 --> 05:00.320 Go ahead, Walter. 05:00.320 --> 05:01.320 Say it. 05:01.320 --> 05:03.320 If you'd ever had the money. 05:03.320 --> 05:05.320 Well, that's my problem, folks. 05:05.320 --> 05:06.320 Money. 05:06.320 --> 05:08.320 You gotta have money to buy a farm. 05:08.320 --> 05:10.320 Right now, I don't have any. 05:10.320 --> 05:12.320 Well, that's a shame. 05:12.320 --> 05:16.320 See, speaking of money, you ever been up to Reno, Nevada, Walter? 05:16.320 --> 05:17.320 No, no, I've never been there. 05:17.320 --> 05:20.320 Ah, we don't get to go to too many places, Eugene. 05:20.320 --> 05:24.320 Seems like we always have something else more important to do with Walter's vacation money. 05:24.320 --> 05:25.320 Hmm. 05:25.320 --> 05:28.320 Well, you've never seen so much money in all your life as there is in Reno. 05:28.320 --> 05:30.320 Well, I'll bet it's an exciting town, all right? 05:30.320 --> 05:31.320 Oh, it is. 05:31.320 --> 05:33.320 Just about one of the most exciting towns I've ever been in. 05:33.320 --> 05:34.320 Yes, it is. 05:34.320 --> 05:36.320 Lots of excitement. 05:36.320 --> 05:38.320 Lots of money. 05:38.320 --> 05:41.320 I guess our type of people would never get up to a city like Reno. 05:41.320 --> 05:43.320 Oh, I wouldn't say that, cousin Walter. 05:43.320 --> 05:46.320 They get all types of people up in a city like Reno, all types. 05:46.320 --> 05:52.320 You see, people figure there's money to be had there, and money attracts all kinds of people. 05:52.320 --> 05:53.320 Hmm. 05:53.320 --> 05:56.320 I often wondered what Walter'd do if he had a lot of money. 05:56.320 --> 05:59.320 He'd be an interesting man to watch. 05:59.320 --> 06:02.320 Him and all his dreams. 06:02.320 --> 06:04.320 Yeah, I have all types up there. 06:04.320 --> 06:08.320 Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. 06:08.320 --> 06:10.320 What did you say, Eugene? 06:10.320 --> 06:13.320 I said rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. 06:13.320 --> 06:16.320 Ah. Yes, that's what I thought you said. 06:16.320 --> 06:26.320 And then cousin Eugene gave me one of those long, lingering, meaningful looks. 06:26.320 --> 06:30.320 Then he leaned back in his chair, smiled, inhaled deeply on his cigar, 06:30.320 --> 06:35.320 blew the smoke out in a thin stream, and watched it as it fanned up toward the ceiling. 06:35.320 --> 06:39.320 Eugene had made some kind of a decision, and it concerned me. 06:39.320 --> 06:43.320 It concerned me very much. 06:43.320 --> 06:52.320 The following morning, about 11.30, Eugene called me at the office. 06:52.320 --> 06:55.320 He told me he wanted to see me on my lunch hour. 06:55.320 --> 06:59.320 He said he had something very important that he wanted to talk over with me, and could I meet him? 06:59.320 --> 07:03.320 I met him at five minutes after 12 in front of the ferry terminal. 07:03.320 --> 07:08.320 It's not too long a ferry boat ride over to Richmond, and I figured I could be back to work on time. 07:08.320 --> 07:14.320 I'll just eat my lunch while you go ahead and talk, Eugene. Is that all right? 07:14.320 --> 07:17.320 Oh, sure. Go right ahead, Walter. 07:17.320 --> 07:20.320 Best fix your lunch every day? 07:20.320 --> 07:24.320 Oh, yeah, every day. Far back as I can remember. 07:24.320 --> 07:27.320 You'd be surprised how much money it saves. 07:27.320 --> 07:34.320 Walter, what would you do if I gave you one half of, say, $25,000? 07:34.320 --> 07:38.320 $25,000? Excuse me, I... 07:38.320 --> 07:41.320 For a minute, I thought you said $25,000. 07:41.320 --> 07:43.320 I did. 07:43.320 --> 07:45.320 What are you talking about, Eugene? 07:45.320 --> 07:48.320 Well, you're a dreamer, so am I. 07:48.320 --> 07:50.320 There's only one way to make our dreams come true. 07:50.320 --> 07:53.320 We have to buy them, Cousin Walter, with money. 07:53.320 --> 07:55.320 That's why I've picked you. 07:55.320 --> 07:56.320 Picked me? 07:56.320 --> 08:00.320 Last night at the dinner table, I said there was a lot of money in Reno, Nevada. 08:00.320 --> 08:02.320 That's right, you did. 08:02.320 --> 08:05.320 This money stays in Reno, and some of it goes elsewhere. 08:05.320 --> 08:07.320 Do you follow me? 08:07.320 --> 08:08.320 No, not quite. 08:08.320 --> 08:13.320 Well, some of it goes to banks, like banks here in Oakland and San Francisco. 08:13.320 --> 08:15.320 Oh, I see what you mean. 08:15.320 --> 08:18.320 Now, how does it get to these banks? 08:18.320 --> 08:24.320 Well, some of it they drive, some of it they fly, and some of it they load on the mail car of a train. 08:24.320 --> 08:26.320 Do you follow me? 08:26.320 --> 08:27.320 Go ahead, Eugene. Go ahead. 08:27.320 --> 08:32.320 The train they load it on leaves the city of Reno every Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. 08:32.320 --> 08:35.320 It arrives in San Francisco at 4.30 in the afternoon. 08:35.320 --> 08:37.320 Do you follow me now? 08:37.320 --> 08:38.320 Yes, yes. 08:38.320 --> 08:44.320 After the train leaves Reno, it passes through a place called Soda Springs at 10 minutes to 1. 08:44.320 --> 08:49.320 Then there follows a stretch of about 20 minutes before it passes a place called Dutch Flat, 08:49.320 --> 08:51.320 a stretch of nothing but lonely, dry desert. 08:51.320 --> 08:53.320 Go on, Eugene. Go on. 08:53.320 --> 08:58.320 If one gentleman was to get on the train in Reno and another gentleman was to drive a car 08:58.320 --> 09:01.320 to a deserted junction in between Soda Springs and Dutch Flat... 09:01.320 --> 09:03.320 The train could be stopped, the money taken off, 09:03.320 --> 09:07.320 and the gentleman well on their way before the authorities could be warned. 09:07.320 --> 09:11.320 Why, Cousin Walter, do you realize what you've just suggested? 09:11.320 --> 09:23.320 Yes, yes, Eugene. I've just suggested that we rob a train. 09:23.320 --> 09:26.320 The ferry boat pulled into the Richmond Landing and Eugene got off. 09:26.320 --> 09:32.320 As he stepped down the gank, like he turned around, smiled and waved at me and disappeared into the crowd. 09:32.320 --> 09:38.320 The following day at work, I had a hard time trying to concentrate on a new shipment of the toy atomic tanks we'd gotten in. 09:38.320 --> 09:41.320 Right after lunch, the phone on my desk began to ring. 09:41.320 --> 09:49.320 I let it ring a couple of times. I was almost afraid to pick it up, afraid that it might not be Eugene. 09:49.320 --> 09:50.320 Hello? 09:50.320 --> 09:51.320 Hello, Cousin Walter? 09:51.320 --> 09:52.320 Yes. 09:52.320 --> 09:55.320 Done much thinking about that matter we discussed? 09:55.320 --> 10:00.320 Yes, yes, I have. But, Eugene, I was thinking, how can just the two of us... 10:00.320 --> 10:05.320 Oh, it's very simple. I've worked for weeks on this plan. You must have complete faith in me. 10:05.320 --> 10:10.320 Oh, I do, Eugene, I do. But what about Bess? How will I explain it to her? 10:10.320 --> 10:11.320 Oh, now you just leave that to me. 10:11.320 --> 10:12.320 Yes, but eventually I'll go there... 10:12.320 --> 10:15.320 Eventually you can tell her. And, Cousin Walter... 10:15.320 --> 10:16.320 Yes? 10:16.320 --> 10:26.320 What's more, I know she'll understand. 10:26.320 --> 10:31.320 And so it begins. It's the kind of a thrill that comes once in a lifetime. 10:31.320 --> 10:36.320 When I was just a small boy, I had play-acted it out many times, but now it was a reality. 10:36.320 --> 10:40.320 I was going to rob a train of an estimated $25,000. 10:40.320 --> 10:49.320 We decided on a date. The robbery would take place two weeks from the following Thursday. 10:49.320 --> 10:52.320 That would give us ample time to prepare everything. 10:52.320 --> 10:57.320 And every day on my lunch hour, we would go over our plans, step by step. 10:57.320 --> 11:02.320 Now, the baggage car is in between the regular car and the mail car. 11:02.320 --> 11:06.320 There are two guards in the mail car, one man in the baggage car. 11:06.320 --> 11:09.320 Now, once we get past the man in the baggage car, our problem is solved. 11:09.320 --> 11:12.320 But timing is the most important thing, Cousin Walter. 11:12.320 --> 11:16.320 Absolutely. I realize that, Eugene. It must be timed to the split second. 11:16.320 --> 11:20.320 Yes, you see, it takes ten minutes to get to the junction where the man in the automobile should be waiting. 11:20.320 --> 11:21.320 Ten minutes, right. 11:21.320 --> 11:28.320 The emergency cord should be pulled about 30 seconds before the junction has reached. No sense to upset the passengers. 11:28.320 --> 11:33.320 Now, what about your job, Cousin Walter? Will they let you take a week off? 11:33.320 --> 11:38.320 Oh, I'm sure they will. Sure, they'll let me off. But I'm still worried about Bess, Eugene. 11:38.320 --> 11:44.320 Now, don't you worry about her. I'll talk to Bess. You just leave it to me. I'll talk to her. 11:44.320 --> 11:48.320 And he did. He wove Bess around his fingers as if she'd been putty. 11:48.320 --> 11:52.320 By the time he was through with her, she was begging me to take a week off and go somewhere. 11:52.320 --> 11:55.320 We'll find the money to pay for the trip somewhere, she said. 11:55.320 --> 11:58.320 But when Eugene suggested he'd finance the trip, that was the clincher. 11:58.320 --> 12:03.320 He told Bess he was going to take me up to the Hillary Lodge at Lake Tahoe for some fishing. 12:03.320 --> 12:06.320 Only he didn't finance the trip, I did. 12:06.320 --> 12:11.320 With the $178 I drew out of our savings account, he was going to pay me back. 12:11.320 --> 12:15.320 With the $178 I drew out of our savings account at the bank. 12:15.320 --> 12:20.320 We needed money for our hotel room in Reno, the train ticket we had to buy, and for the gun we needed. 12:20.320 --> 12:25.320 The rest of the week went fast. And then it was Friday night and we were ready to leave. 12:25.320 --> 12:29.320 Eugene was waiting out in my car while I was finishing packing. 12:29.320 --> 12:33.320 Oh, Walter. Now, look, Bess, it's only for a week. 12:33.320 --> 12:39.320 I know, I know. But here, Walter, here are your other two shirts. You want to look nice and neat. 12:39.320 --> 12:41.320 Here, put them in the suitcase. 12:41.320 --> 12:47.320 Fine. There. Well, I guess I'm all set. I'd better hurry. 12:47.320 --> 12:49.320 Walter, you will take care of yourself. 12:49.320 --> 12:54.320 Oh, of course I will, Bess. Now, don't you worry, I'll be all right. 12:56.320 --> 12:58.320 Well, all set, Eugene. 12:58.320 --> 12:59.320 Oh, good. 12:59.320 --> 13:00.320 Eugene. 13:00.320 --> 13:01.320 Yes, Cousin Bess? 13:01.320 --> 13:04.320 You take care of my Walter? Where'd you say you were staying? 13:04.320 --> 13:07.320 At the Hillary Lodge. It's near the lake. 13:07.320 --> 13:09.320 Oh, Walter. 13:09.320 --> 13:13.320 Now, look, Bess, if I don't write, please don't get worried. Promise me? 13:13.320 --> 13:15.320 Yes, yes, I promise. 13:16.320 --> 13:18.320 Well, good-bye, dear. 13:18.320 --> 13:22.320 Good-bye, Walter. Gene, take care and have a good time. 13:22.320 --> 13:24.320 Bye. 13:29.320 --> 13:31.320 Well, we're on our way, Eugene. 13:31.320 --> 13:32.320 Yep. 13:32.320 --> 13:35.320 You know, the next time I drive down this street, I'll be a rich man. 13:35.320 --> 13:37.320 Yeah, yep. 13:37.320 --> 13:39.320 People like Bess are wrong, Eugene. 13:39.320 --> 13:40.320 Wrong? 13:40.320 --> 13:43.320 Yeah. Who says dreams don't come true? 13:52.320 --> 13:57.320 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Fred McMurray in The Great Train Robbery, 13:57.320 --> 14:05.320 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:12.320 --> 14:18.320 Say, uh, Hap, talking about the first two-unit, six-volt automotive electrical system used as original equipment. 14:18.320 --> 14:19.320 Talking about what? 14:19.320 --> 14:24.320 Why, about the forerunner of today's modern and precision-made automotive electrical system. 14:24.320 --> 14:25.320 Oh. 14:25.320 --> 14:29.320 And those auto light engineers developed it 42 years ago. 14:29.320 --> 14:33.320 Well, let's talk about baseball, Harlow. 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I'm foot chicken. 16:34.320 --> 16:36.320 Well, day after tomorrow is the day. 16:36.320 --> 16:38.320 Yeah, day after tomorrow. 16:38.320 --> 16:41.320 How do you feel, Cousin Walter? 16:41.320 --> 16:44.320 Excited. I don't know how to thank you, Eugene. 16:44.320 --> 16:46.320 Oh, now there's no need for that. 16:46.320 --> 16:49.320 And you're to be commended, too. Your plan is foolproof. 16:49.320 --> 16:54.320 Of course, I've never handled a gun before, but don't worry about that. 16:54.320 --> 16:58.320 Did you say gun, Cousin Walter? 16:58.320 --> 16:59.320 Yes. 16:59.320 --> 17:02.320 Oh, I'm afraid you won't be handling the gun. I will. 17:02.320 --> 17:06.320 Well, you'll be driving the car. You won't have need for a gun, Eugene. 17:06.320 --> 17:10.320 But the positions are just reversed. I'll be on the train and you'll be in the car. 17:10.320 --> 17:11.320 Me in the car? 17:11.320 --> 17:13.320 I'm sorry, Cousin Walter. 17:13.320 --> 17:14.320 Wait a minute. 17:14.320 --> 17:18.320 Eugene, you've missed the most important part of our plan. 17:18.320 --> 17:20.320 This could very well cause it to fail. 17:20.320 --> 17:21.320 What are you talking about? 17:21.320 --> 17:24.320 Identification. Our descriptions. 17:24.320 --> 17:26.320 Eugene, look at me. 17:26.320 --> 17:27.320 What? 17:27.320 --> 17:29.320 Look at me. All right, now describe me. 17:29.320 --> 17:33.320 Go ahead, describe me. Look at me and describe me. 17:33.320 --> 17:34.320 Well? 17:34.320 --> 17:35.320 Go ahead. 17:35.320 --> 17:37.320 Well, you've got sandy hair. 17:37.320 --> 17:40.320 That's right. And so I have two million other men. Go ahead. 17:40.320 --> 17:42.320 And? 17:42.320 --> 17:45.320 Well, you're just sort of plain looking. 17:45.320 --> 17:48.320 Exactly, Eugene. Exactly. Plain looking. 17:48.320 --> 17:54.320 Now, don't you see, when the guards on the train try to describe me to the authorities, they'll have a very difficult time. 17:54.320 --> 18:01.320 I certainly have no prominent marks or features to single me out from any other plain, sandy-haired man of 42 years, have I? 18:01.320 --> 18:04.320 You know, Cousin Walter, I believe you've brought up a very important point. 18:04.320 --> 18:08.320 Thank you, Eugene. So, I'll handle the gun and you'll drive the car. 18:08.320 --> 18:11.320 Well, you don't think for one minute that you're a colleague? 18:11.320 --> 18:14.320 No, no, of course not. 18:14.320 --> 18:17.320 Wait a minute, Eugene. Let me pull the lever this time. 18:17.320 --> 18:19.320 All right. 18:22.320 --> 18:24.320 What? What do you know about that? 18:24.320 --> 18:29.320 You see, Cousin Eugene, we hit the jackpot. Our luck's already begun. 18:37.320 --> 18:40.320 We had dinner before we went back to the hotel. 18:40.320 --> 18:45.320 When we got back, Cousin Eugene drew out a diagram and we went over the plans again. 18:45.320 --> 18:48.320 All I was to take from the mail car was one money bag. 18:48.320 --> 18:52.320 Eugene figured that each bag ought to contain about $25,000. 18:52.320 --> 18:56.320 And with one half of that, he figured he could start a pretty good-sized chicken farm. 19:04.320 --> 19:07.320 It was close to nine o'clock when Eugene shook me awake. 19:07.320 --> 19:11.320 This was the day. My heart was already starting to beat faster. 19:11.320 --> 19:14.320 I took a shower and shaved and got dressed. 19:14.320 --> 19:16.320 I put on my last clean white shirt. 19:16.320 --> 19:19.320 At breakfast, we went over our plan for the final time. 19:19.320 --> 19:24.320 Then we checked out of our hotel, put the bags in the car, and drove down to the station. 19:24.320 --> 19:28.320 Don't forget to put the money in your suitcase, Cousin Walter. 19:28.320 --> 19:29.320 Yes. 19:29.320 --> 19:30.320 Are you, uh, are you nervous? 19:30.320 --> 19:31.320 Yeah, a little. 19:31.320 --> 19:35.320 Don't fire the gun, whatever you do. We don't want anyone to get hurt. 19:35.320 --> 19:36.320 Yes, yes, I understand. 19:36.320 --> 19:37.320 Good. 19:37.320 --> 19:41.320 Now remember, you've only got ten minutes to get back to the mail car and get the money. 19:41.320 --> 19:44.320 Ten minutes, that isn't very long. Be sure and keep your eye on your watch. 19:44.320 --> 19:46.320 I will. Keep my eye on my watch. 19:46.320 --> 19:49.320 Oh! Oh! 19:49.320 --> 19:51.320 Well, Alex, it's time. 19:51.320 --> 19:52.320 Yes, it's time. 19:52.320 --> 19:53.320 Yes. 19:53.320 --> 19:54.320 I'd better get on. 19:54.320 --> 19:55.320 Well, good luck, Cousin Walter. 19:55.320 --> 20:07.320 Thank you, Eugene. Thank you. 20:07.320 --> 20:11.320 This was it. I found my seat and sat down. 20:11.320 --> 20:14.320 I was lucky. The seat was in the first car after the baggage car. 20:14.320 --> 20:16.320 I wouldn't have far to go. 20:16.320 --> 20:19.320 I could feel the perspiration running down my back. 20:19.320 --> 20:22.320 I was ruining my last clean white shirt. 20:22.320 --> 20:26.320 The fifty minutes before we got to Soda Springs seemed like fifty hours. 20:26.320 --> 20:29.320 Then we reached Soda Springs and the train slowed down. 20:29.320 --> 20:34.320 There were no passengers at the station so the train didn't stop. It just slowed down. 20:34.320 --> 20:41.320 And then we were on our way again. My ten minutes had begun. 20:41.320 --> 20:51.320 I made my way up to the baggage car, carrying the suitcase. 20:51.320 --> 20:53.320 The baggage man was reading a newspaper. 20:53.320 --> 20:55.320 Yes, sir. What can I do for you? 20:55.320 --> 20:58.320 I'd like to check this suitcase. 20:58.320 --> 21:00.320 Ah, forgot to at the station, huh? 21:00.320 --> 21:02.320 All right, hand it over here. I'll give you a baggage check. 21:02.320 --> 21:03.320 Thank you. 21:03.320 --> 21:08.320 Ah, hmm. It feels empty. You sure you wanted a check? 21:08.320 --> 21:10.320 I'd appreciate it if you'd put your hands up. 21:10.320 --> 21:11.320 What is this? 21:11.320 --> 21:13.320 In simple language, a train robbery. 21:13.320 --> 21:15.320 Now let's just start walking that way. 21:15.320 --> 21:16.320 That's the mail car, mister. 21:16.320 --> 21:17.320 I know. 21:17.320 --> 21:18.320 Hey, now look. 21:18.320 --> 21:20.320 Now just do as I tell you and no one will get hurt. 21:20.320 --> 21:26.320 Walk in front of me. 21:26.320 --> 21:29.320 Now knock and yell for the guards to open the door to the mail car. 21:29.320 --> 21:31.320 They won't open it for me? 21:31.320 --> 21:33.320 Oh, yes. I think they will. Now knock. 21:33.320 --> 21:38.320 Okay, mister. It's your funeral. 21:38.320 --> 21:44.320 Hey, Red, open up. It's Harold. 21:44.320 --> 21:45.320 What do you want, Harold? 21:45.320 --> 21:46.320 There's nothing here. 21:46.320 --> 21:48.320 Pardon me, but would you put up your hands? 21:48.320 --> 21:49.320 What are you talking about? 21:49.320 --> 21:51.320 You'll force me to shoot this man. I wouldn't want to do that. 21:51.320 --> 21:52.320 What is this? 21:52.320 --> 21:53.320 A train robbery. 21:53.320 --> 22:01.320 Now I'd appreciate it very much if you gentlemen would back up against that wall. 22:01.320 --> 22:04.320 That's it. Thank you. 22:04.320 --> 22:08.320 Now just remove these guns from your holsters. I dislike bloodshed. 22:08.320 --> 22:11.320 And I'm afraid you gentlemen might be tempted. 22:11.320 --> 22:13.320 There we are. 22:13.320 --> 22:15.320 Now let's see. 22:15.320 --> 22:17.320 Oh, yes. Here they are. 22:17.320 --> 22:19.320 You're making a big mistake, mister. 22:19.320 --> 22:21.320 You sound just like my wife. 22:21.320 --> 22:25.320 Now let's see. Cousin said take just one bag. 22:25.320 --> 22:29.320 Now there's so many. I think I'll take two. One apiece. 22:29.320 --> 22:31.320 I might as well. 22:31.320 --> 22:33.320 One. 22:33.320 --> 22:37.320 Two. 22:37.320 --> 22:39.320 I didn't expect to get off the train, mister. 22:39.320 --> 22:41.320 The emergency cord will take care of that. 22:41.320 --> 22:44.320 Now I have one more favor to ask of you, sir. 22:44.320 --> 22:46.320 Kindly open this side door of the car. 22:46.320 --> 22:48.320 He's going to jump. He's crazy. 22:48.320 --> 22:53.320 No, no, no. Not just yet. We have about 30 seconds to go. 22:53.320 --> 23:00.320 Now the door, please. Open it. 23:00.320 --> 23:02.320 15 seconds. 23:02.320 --> 23:04.320 10 seconds. 23:04.320 --> 23:21.320 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now! 23:21.320 --> 23:41.320 All right. Now remain standing in that corner. Both of you. 23:41.320 --> 23:44.320 I'm fast, sir. Fast. 23:44.320 --> 23:48.320 I've got it on the floor now, Cousin Walra. 23:48.320 --> 23:52.320 That's good enough. You couldn't possibly read our license numbers from this distance. 23:52.320 --> 23:55.320 Doesn't matter. I've got them covered up. 23:55.320 --> 23:57.320 Well, how'd it go? 23:57.320 --> 23:59.320 Perfect, Eugene. Perfect. 23:59.320 --> 24:03.320 I will admit I had a few bad moments, I guess, but otherwise it was perfect. 24:03.320 --> 24:06.320 Look. Look under these dirty shirts. 24:06.320 --> 24:11.320 What? Well, you took two bags. But I told you only to take one. 24:11.320 --> 24:21.320 I know, but I figured it'd be easier dividing it with two bags. 24:21.320 --> 24:26.320 We didn't even bother to start for any sort of refreshments. We drove straight through to Sacramento. 24:26.320 --> 24:29.320 When we got there, Eugene thought we ought to separate, and we did. 24:29.320 --> 24:35.320 I hated to see Eugene go. I'd grown very fond of him in the short time we'd been in business together. 24:35.320 --> 24:39.320 But it was a separation that you might call a necessity. 24:39.320 --> 24:42.320 When I got back to Oakland, it was almost 4.30. 24:42.320 --> 24:44.320 A good time, I thought to myself. 24:44.320 --> 24:48.320 I'll have the whole weekend to rest up before I have to go back to work. 24:48.320 --> 24:54.320 The house looked the same as I drove up. Maybe now I'll have it painted, I thought to myself. 24:54.320 --> 24:58.320 There was a car parked in front of the house. It was probably another salesman. 24:58.320 --> 25:03.320 I took the suitcase with my share of the money in it from the back seat and walked up to the front door. 25:03.320 --> 25:07.320 I had a wonderful feeling inside. 25:07.320 --> 25:09.320 My Walter! Walter, dear! 25:09.320 --> 25:10.320 Hello, Bess. 25:10.320 --> 25:12.320 Oh, Walter, Walter, where have you been? 25:12.320 --> 25:15.320 Where have I been? Why, Bess, you know very well where I... 25:15.320 --> 25:17.320 You look a mess, Walter, but I'm so glad to see you, dear. 25:17.320 --> 25:18.320 Oh, Bess, what's wrong? 25:18.320 --> 25:21.320 Oh, here, dear. Come on into the living room and sit down. 25:21.320 --> 25:24.320 But, Bess, I don't understand why you're acting so hysterical. I... 25:24.320 --> 25:25.320 Hey, I don't. 25:25.320 --> 25:27.320 Here, Walter, put down your suitcase. 25:27.320 --> 25:29.320 Well, I...Bess, who are these? 25:29.320 --> 25:31.320 Oh, these gentlemen are from the police station, Walter. 25:31.320 --> 25:33.320 Hello, Mr. Beaumont. 25:33.320 --> 25:36.320 The police station? Oh. 25:36.320 --> 25:39.320 Look, Bess, I think I'll go upstairs and get cleaned up a bit. 25:39.320 --> 25:41.320 Oh, there's plenty of time for that later. 25:41.320 --> 25:42.320 Well, Bess, I... 25:42.320 --> 25:44.320 Now, you just tell me where you've been. 25:44.320 --> 25:46.320 Yes, your wife has been worried about you. 25:46.320 --> 25:48.320 Oh, well, look, Bess, I couldn't... 25:48.320 --> 25:51.320 Yesterday I read in the paper where two men had been drowned at Lake Tahoe. 25:51.320 --> 25:53.320 They didn't know who they were. 25:53.320 --> 25:57.320 When I tried calling the Hillary Lodge, they told me you and Eugene weren't even registered there. 25:57.320 --> 25:59.320 Oh. Oh, I see. 25:59.320 --> 26:01.320 And I just got worried sick, just worried sick. 26:01.320 --> 26:03.320 So I called the police station. 26:03.320 --> 26:06.320 Oh, Walter, put down that suitcase and tell us what happened. 26:06.320 --> 26:08.320 Well, later, Bess, later. 26:08.320 --> 26:12.320 Oh, look at you, Walter. Your clothes all wrinkled, dirty shirt. 26:12.320 --> 26:14.320 Oh, you look a mess. 26:14.320 --> 26:16.320 Well, Bess, I'm sorry you're worried about me like you did... 26:16.320 --> 26:18.320 Well, I'm glad you're home. 26:18.320 --> 26:21.320 You won't be getting out of my sight again for a long time, I tell you that. 26:21.320 --> 26:24.320 Mrs. Beaumont, we're very happy that your husband arrived home safely. 26:24.320 --> 26:28.320 Oh, yes, I am, too, Officer, but look at the condition he's arrived in. 26:28.320 --> 26:31.320 Oh, I'll bet he doesn't even have a clean shirt for work Monday morning. 26:31.320 --> 26:33.320 Here, Walter, give me that suitcase. 26:33.320 --> 26:34.320 No, no, wait, Bess. 26:34.320 --> 26:37.320 Give it to me. I'll just get your dirty shirts out of this suitcase and get them in the washers. 26:37.320 --> 26:40.320 Well, I guess you won't be needing us anymore, Mrs. Beaumont. 26:40.320 --> 26:44.320 Bess, please. 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