WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.100 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Broderick Crawford in tonight's presentation 00:10.100 --> 00:11.100 of... 00:11.100 --> 00:12.100 Suspense. 00:12.100 --> 00:22.500 Tonight, Auto Light invites you to return to the 30s as we chronicle the true account 00:22.500 --> 00:30.000 of those turbulent years with a report called Dutch Schultz, our star Mr. Broderick Crawford. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.400 Say, Harlow, October's great, isn't it? 00:37.400 --> 00:40.600 Yes, Sir Hap, great for football, long drives. 00:40.600 --> 00:43.200 And for checking spark plugs, too. 00:43.200 --> 00:47.680 That's right, Johnny Plug Check, now's the time to get that car winterized. 00:47.680 --> 00:51.920 And along with that antifreeze, change of oil and grease, don't forget the spark plugs. 00:51.920 --> 00:54.400 How could anyone forget, Harlow? 00:54.400 --> 00:57.480 Spark plugs are the very heart of the car's ignition system. 00:57.480 --> 00:58.480 They sure are, Hap. 00:58.480 --> 01:03.080 And when they're right, you will start quicker and surer every time, even in the coldest 01:03.080 --> 01:04.440 winter weather. 01:04.440 --> 01:05.600 So don't delay, friends. 01:05.600 --> 01:08.440 Visit your Auto Light spark plug dealer now. 01:08.440 --> 01:11.600 He's a specialist in spark plug cleaning and adjustment. 01:11.600 --> 01:15.960 If replacements are needed, he'll recommend a set of ignition-engineered Auto Light spark 01:15.960 --> 01:20.080 plugs, like the amazing Double Life Resistor spark plug. 01:20.080 --> 01:24.000 You quickly locate your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer, phone Western Union by 01:24.000 --> 01:27.040 number and ask for operator 25. 01:27.040 --> 01:32.120 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:32.120 --> 01:38.120 And now, Auto Light presents Dutch Schultz, starring Mr. Broderick Crawford, hoping once 01:38.120 --> 01:50.840 again to keep you in suspense. 01:50.840 --> 02:12.240 Give me a packet of cigarettes, sir. 02:12.240 --> 02:13.240 Yes, sir. 02:13.240 --> 02:15.840 That'll be 11 cents, sir. 02:15.840 --> 02:16.840 11 cents? 02:16.840 --> 02:17.840 Yesterday, there was 10. 02:17.840 --> 02:18.840 Sorry, mister. 02:18.840 --> 02:22.080 As of midnight, all major brands went up to 11 cents. 02:22.080 --> 02:24.280 This is 1935, you know, not 1932. 02:24.280 --> 02:25.280 Yeah, yeah. 02:25.280 --> 02:27.480 Things are looking up and going up, that's what I say. 02:27.480 --> 02:28.480 You say that, huh? 02:28.480 --> 02:29.480 Yeah. 02:29.480 --> 02:30.480 Ginch. 02:30.480 --> 02:31.480 Why? 02:31.480 --> 02:32.480 Outside, I got something. 02:32.480 --> 02:33.480 Okey-dokey. 02:33.480 --> 02:34.480 So? 02:34.480 --> 02:40.480 Certain parties is meeting tonight up at the hotel. 02:40.480 --> 02:41.480 Are you kidding? 02:41.480 --> 02:42.480 Hey, Flot, you kidding me? 02:42.480 --> 02:43.480 No, Ginch, I wouldn't kid you. 02:43.480 --> 02:44.480 You know that. 02:44.480 --> 02:45.480 What parties? 02:45.480 --> 02:52.800 The big brokers, you know, Harry and Lepke and Lucky and Albert. 02:52.800 --> 02:53.800 He's going to be there. 02:53.800 --> 02:56.080 And Gura and the boys from Chicago, Milwaukee, Casey. 02:56.080 --> 02:58.080 Oh, nobody said nothing to my boss. 02:58.080 --> 02:59.840 I just thought you ought to know. 02:59.840 --> 03:01.840 The Dutchman ain't going to like this, Flot. 03:01.840 --> 03:03.240 He's still got you running numbers. 03:03.240 --> 03:04.240 Yeah. 03:04.240 --> 03:05.240 Why don't you quit him? 03:05.240 --> 03:06.240 I can't. 03:06.240 --> 03:07.240 Why not? 03:07.240 --> 03:09.480 More Weinberg quit, Dutch Schultz stuck an ice pick in his ear. 03:09.480 --> 03:11.120 Yeah, I heard about that. 03:11.120 --> 03:12.920 He's kind of a screwball, huh? 03:12.920 --> 03:13.920 Screwball? 03:13.920 --> 03:16.320 Well, wait till he hears you're holding another meeting without him. 03:16.320 --> 03:18.080 But boy, he'll be banging all over the place. 03:18.080 --> 03:20.080 Maybe you better not go back to Newark today. 03:20.080 --> 03:21.360 And who'll he be banging? 03:21.360 --> 03:22.360 Me. 03:22.360 --> 03:23.360 So take a rest. 03:23.360 --> 03:26.080 Tell you what, Ginch, I'll blow you to a show. 03:26.080 --> 03:27.080 What's playing? 03:27.080 --> 03:28.080 Shirley Temple. 03:28.080 --> 03:29.880 I already seen it, but I'll see it again. 03:29.880 --> 03:30.880 Shirley Temple, huh? 03:30.880 --> 03:31.880 Yeah. 03:31.880 --> 03:34.360 She's the cutest little thing, just like a doll. 03:34.360 --> 03:36.360 I tell you, Ginch boy, I cried. 03:36.360 --> 03:37.360 I honestly did. 03:37.360 --> 03:57.680 Are you Harry, Lucky, boys? 03:57.680 --> 03:59.360 All right, gentlemen. 03:59.360 --> 04:01.400 I think we are all assembled. 04:01.400 --> 04:02.640 Somebody turn that radio off. 04:02.640 --> 04:04.200 Yeah, you're looking just fine. 04:04.200 --> 04:05.880 Hey, Harry, how was the vacation? 04:05.880 --> 04:07.840 It was very charming, very charming. 04:07.840 --> 04:09.120 The missus enjoy yourself? 04:09.120 --> 04:13.560 Her bag gave her a few, what do you call it, twinges, but taken by and large, it was a 04:13.560 --> 04:14.560 charming vacation. 04:14.560 --> 04:15.560 That's nice. 04:15.560 --> 04:16.920 But enough of this pleasantries. 04:16.920 --> 04:18.360 To business, gentlemen. 04:18.360 --> 04:23.520 The question we have met to deliberate about is this new fella in the DA's office. 04:23.520 --> 04:25.720 That bum has got to be banging their head. 04:25.720 --> 04:27.520 Please, a little consideration? 04:27.520 --> 04:30.560 Hey, girl, don't be interrupting, Harry. 04:30.560 --> 04:31.560 Sorry. 04:31.560 --> 04:32.560 Apologies, accepted. 04:32.560 --> 04:38.080 Now then, this new fella has been investigating some matter which might prove embarrassing 04:38.080 --> 04:41.480 to we fellows if all the facts should become known. 04:41.480 --> 04:46.200 I am referring in particular to the stuff he is investigating about the numbers business. 04:46.200 --> 04:49.960 Now, since we decided to get smart and form the syndicate... 04:49.960 --> 04:56.440 What do you mean I don't go in? 04:56.440 --> 04:57.440 How are you, boys? 04:57.440 --> 04:58.440 Dutch Schultz. 04:58.440 --> 05:01.520 Yes, Albert, it's the Dutchman. 05:01.520 --> 05:04.320 How come all of my good friends here, the people I've been doing business with for years, 05:04.320 --> 05:06.600 how come they're holding councils without the Dutchman, huh? 05:06.600 --> 05:09.200 Please, act like a civilized being, will you? 05:09.200 --> 05:11.120 Act like you didn't grow up in a barn or somewhere. 05:11.120 --> 05:13.200 And you, Harry, you my pal, what is this? 05:13.200 --> 05:17.800 This is a matter concerning New York City, Mr. Schultz, not New Jersey or Newark, which 05:17.800 --> 05:18.800 is why you weren't invited. 05:18.800 --> 05:22.520 Well, the way I heard it was, you was going to discuss the new guy in the DA's office. 05:22.520 --> 05:24.800 Which is correct, but please, no name. 05:24.800 --> 05:27.200 That DA, he's done a lot of bad things to me. 05:27.200 --> 05:28.800 I think I ought to be in on the discussion. 05:28.800 --> 05:32.640 Frankly, I didn't think you'd be interested, but since you seem fit to come busting in 05:32.640 --> 05:33.640 here, you can stay. 05:33.640 --> 05:35.400 Yeah, that's more like it, Harry, thanks. 05:35.400 --> 05:36.400 One thing, though. 05:36.400 --> 05:37.400 What? 05:37.400 --> 05:38.400 What's that? 05:38.400 --> 05:40.680 You're not on the board of the syndicate, Mr. Schultz, so you don't get to vote. 05:40.680 --> 05:42.600 Wait a minute, what is this? 05:42.600 --> 05:46.320 A bunch of lead pipe hoots and you're trying to make like big businessmen, big operators. 05:46.320 --> 05:48.160 We are businessmen, Dutch. 05:48.160 --> 05:51.360 You can sit down and shut up and get out of here. 05:51.360 --> 05:53.960 All right, that's more like it. 05:53.960 --> 05:56.600 Now then, Harry, you were saying? 05:56.600 --> 06:00.800 Ever since that runaway grand jury took out Mr. Dodge, we have had great difficulties 06:00.800 --> 06:03.220 keeping the DA's office in line. 06:03.220 --> 06:05.800 We got plenty of grease, but nobody will pay it to. 06:05.800 --> 06:07.600 This new fella, he's incorrigible. 06:07.600 --> 06:10.680 So the question is, what are we going to do about him? 06:10.680 --> 06:12.560 Just give him a treatment he wouldn't forget, that's all. 06:12.560 --> 06:15.840 That's what I say, the bummer's got to be banged in the head. 06:15.840 --> 06:22.000 Now, please, gentlemen, a little consideration. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Thank you. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.440 You see, Mr. Schultz, times are changing. 06:25.440 --> 06:27.720 We don't operate with those tactics anymore. 06:27.720 --> 06:29.200 This is big business. 06:29.200 --> 06:32.760 We got to operate with a modicum of intelligence. 06:32.760 --> 06:33.960 Modicum? 06:33.960 --> 06:35.640 What gives with that there modicum? 06:35.640 --> 06:37.080 It means a itty bit... 06:37.080 --> 06:38.080 Why don't they say so? 06:38.080 --> 06:41.080 A itty bit intelligence, that I can understand, but modicum... 06:41.080 --> 06:46.480 Please, Mr. Schultz, let me remind you, you're here as an observer only. 06:46.480 --> 06:50.520 Oh, please proceed, I was carried away, a modicum. 06:50.520 --> 06:54.640 Oh, yes, operate with intelligence. 06:54.640 --> 07:00.640 It seems to me that there is a definite possibility that we may have to resort to drastic measures 07:00.640 --> 07:02.040 in dealing with this fella. 07:02.040 --> 07:03.040 Yeah. 07:03.040 --> 07:06.920 And so I am deputizing Albert here to investigate the situation. 07:06.920 --> 07:09.580 This is no ordinary contract, Albert. 07:09.580 --> 07:14.720 I want you to figure out how it can be done so nobody gets fingered and nobody gets hurt, 07:14.720 --> 07:16.280 except for that fella, me. 07:16.280 --> 07:17.280 Will do. 07:17.280 --> 07:18.280 The perfect contract. 07:18.280 --> 07:19.280 Yeah, and I'll help you. 07:19.280 --> 07:21.080 I got a lot of ideas and experience in that line. 07:21.080 --> 07:22.080 No. 07:22.080 --> 07:24.960 And you don't know how much I hate that new DA. 07:24.960 --> 07:27.080 And all, no. 07:27.080 --> 07:30.320 This calls for finesse, and please, no names. 07:30.320 --> 07:32.480 Albert, I'm counting on you. 07:32.480 --> 07:37.360 Gentlemen, we'll meet here in one week for Albert's report, and in the meantime, don't 07:37.360 --> 07:38.960 worry about the future. 07:38.960 --> 07:40.880 You know the old saying? 07:40.880 --> 07:41.880 Keep smiling. 07:41.880 --> 07:53.240 Five thirty-four, twenty-three. 07:53.240 --> 07:59.120 Seventy-eight, fifty. 07:59.120 --> 08:02.120 Twenty-three, forty-six. 08:02.120 --> 08:06.120 Eight hundred ninety-one. 08:06.120 --> 08:07.640 And four hundred fifteen, sixty-seven. 08:07.640 --> 08:11.640 Annette, my good friend, winds it up for the night. 08:11.640 --> 08:15.360 Really, a very nice little take, Ginch, if I do say so myself. 08:15.360 --> 08:19.480 Yeah, well, just don't you plan on taking any of it for yourself, affidavit. 08:19.480 --> 08:20.480 Who can be so stupid? 08:20.480 --> 08:23.280 You needn't speak to me like that, Ginch. 08:23.280 --> 08:24.280 I know Mr. Schulz. 08:24.280 --> 08:26.280 Yeah, but you don't know him like I know him. 08:26.280 --> 08:27.920 Yeah, what's the food on the table for? 08:27.920 --> 08:28.920 Mr. Schulz. 08:28.920 --> 08:29.920 He's back from the meeting. 08:29.920 --> 08:33.400 Ah, I was hoping he'd stay in New York, see a show or something. 08:33.400 --> 08:34.400 Hi, boss. 08:34.400 --> 08:35.400 Hello, Mr. Schulz. 08:35.400 --> 08:36.400 Hi, boys. 08:36.400 --> 08:37.400 OK, Berman, what's the tally? 08:37.400 --> 08:40.400 Oh, very good, Mr. Schulz. 08:40.400 --> 08:44.080 $1,561.13 for the day. 08:44.080 --> 08:45.080 That's because of you, affidavit. 08:45.080 --> 08:46.080 It was nothing. 08:46.080 --> 08:49.080 Yeah, so they think I'm slippin', do they? 08:49.080 --> 08:51.360 You, Ginch, what do you think? 08:51.360 --> 08:53.280 Well, I think you're on top of the world, Dutch. 08:53.280 --> 08:54.280 Yeah, and you know why? 08:54.280 --> 08:55.280 Because I use my brains. 08:55.280 --> 08:57.480 When I ain't got them, I buy them. 08:57.480 --> 09:00.760 Those knuckleheads in New York, those big businessmen. 09:00.760 --> 09:01.760 They got a numbers racket. 09:01.760 --> 09:03.800 Me, I got a numbers racket. 09:03.800 --> 09:05.400 Mine pays off the players, but hardly ever. 09:05.400 --> 09:06.960 Theirs, it's paying off all the time. 09:06.960 --> 09:07.960 And why? 09:07.960 --> 09:10.240 Because mine is superior, that's why, because I use my head. 09:10.240 --> 09:11.760 I went out and bought me a vabba dabba here. 09:11.760 --> 09:13.520 Oh, but I was glad to get the job. 09:13.520 --> 09:14.520 I liked the money. 09:14.520 --> 09:15.520 Shut up! 09:15.520 --> 09:18.400 I think, why isn't the numbers paying me more money? 09:18.400 --> 09:19.760 Because it's too honest, that's why. 09:19.760 --> 09:20.760 It's like a bad slot. 09:20.760 --> 09:23.080 When a slot's bad and paying off too much, what do you do? 09:23.080 --> 09:24.080 You fix it. 09:24.080 --> 09:28.600 So I went over to that college there and I brought me a student, a mathematical genius. 09:28.600 --> 09:32.280 I said to him, kid, you fix this and I'll take care of you. 09:32.280 --> 09:36.040 You were very generous and was really a fascinating problem. 09:36.040 --> 09:38.680 Ginch, what's the matter with South Bayonne? 09:38.680 --> 09:41.600 The school kids, we're losing their business. 09:41.600 --> 09:43.640 One of their principals is working against our runners. 09:43.640 --> 09:44.640 Oh, principal, huh? 09:44.640 --> 09:45.640 I hate principals. 09:45.640 --> 09:48.640 I had a principal once, his name was Jafsy Condon. 09:48.640 --> 09:49.920 Have you ever heard of him? 09:49.920 --> 09:50.920 By the Lindbergh kids? 09:50.920 --> 09:51.920 Yeah, yeah, that's the one. 09:51.920 --> 09:53.920 He used to beat my ears off and I was a defenseless kid too. 09:53.920 --> 09:55.880 Look, I'll tell you what. 09:55.880 --> 09:58.200 Ginch, you give this principal a workout. 09:58.200 --> 10:01.120 Oh, Dutch, he's an old man. 10:01.120 --> 10:02.840 I don't think you heard me good, Ginch. 10:02.840 --> 10:04.400 I heard you, Dutch. 10:04.400 --> 10:05.400 Only working guys, over. 10:05.400 --> 10:07.520 Well, you've got plenty of guys who do that sort of stuff. 10:07.520 --> 10:11.520 But I want you to do this one, Ginch. 10:11.520 --> 10:13.200 Let me show you a trick, Ginch. 10:13.200 --> 10:14.280 Come here. 10:14.280 --> 10:15.280 Put your hand on the table. 10:15.280 --> 10:16.280 What, Dutch? 10:16.280 --> 10:17.280 Put it on the table there. 10:17.280 --> 10:18.280 All right. 10:18.280 --> 10:19.280 Dutch, you broke it. 10:19.280 --> 10:20.280 You broke my thumb. 10:20.280 --> 10:21.280 Yeah, that was pretty neat, wasn't it? 10:21.280 --> 10:22.280 I know a lot of those kind of tricks, Ginch. 10:22.280 --> 10:27.280 So I'll tell you what now. 10:27.280 --> 10:33.880 Every week that passes without you doing what I tell you, like when I tell you to give 10:33.880 --> 10:37.280 the principal a workout, I'm going to break another finger for you. 10:37.280 --> 10:40.080 What are you staring at? 10:40.080 --> 10:41.080 Nothing, sir. 10:41.080 --> 10:42.080 All right, that's good. 10:42.080 --> 10:45.080 I don't like people to stare at me. 10:45.080 --> 10:46.080 How about it, Ginch? 10:46.080 --> 10:47.080 How do you feel? 10:47.080 --> 10:48.080 Oh, Dutch. 10:48.080 --> 10:50.880 I... shouldn't he get that fixed, Mr. Schultz? 10:50.880 --> 10:51.880 Yeah, he should. 10:51.880 --> 10:52.880 Ginch, here's 50. 10:52.880 --> 10:55.080 Go down to the drugstore and get that fixed up. 10:55.080 --> 10:59.720 Oh, Ginch, do me a favor. 10:59.720 --> 11:00.720 Get me a present for my mother. 11:00.720 --> 11:03.720 Something nice, a big bottle of two-jewel-amor. 11:03.720 --> 11:05.320 You know what I mean? 11:05.320 --> 11:06.320 Yeah, for your mother. 11:06.320 --> 11:07.320 Sure, Dutch. 11:07.320 --> 11:09.280 Do you want us to get her some perfume or toilet water? 11:09.280 --> 11:12.280 I'll kill you for saying that. 11:12.280 --> 11:13.280 Where does he take his ears? 11:13.280 --> 11:18.920 Where does he get off talking like that? 11:18.920 --> 11:19.920 Stop that. 11:19.920 --> 11:22.160 Everything's going crazy around here. 11:22.160 --> 11:25.120 My own boys are talking out against me and those businessmen. 11:25.120 --> 11:26.120 Just a simple contract. 11:26.120 --> 11:29.800 Hit the DA on the head and they're going to meet with the board of directors like, oh, 11:29.800 --> 11:30.800 that's a big deal. 11:30.800 --> 11:33.040 Keep smiling, he says. 11:33.040 --> 11:34.040 Keep smiling. 11:34.040 --> 11:50.440 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Bronner Crawford in Dutch Schultz. 11:50.440 --> 11:57.920 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:57.920 --> 12:08.240 Say, Hap, have you had your car winterized yet? 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13:43.560 --> 13:45.800 Look, Schultz, I don't want all trouble with you tonight. 13:45.800 --> 13:47.520 Okay, Mr. Businessman, okay. 13:47.520 --> 13:49.520 Let's hear the report, huh? 13:49.520 --> 13:50.520 All right. 13:50.520 --> 13:52.600 I want quiet. 13:52.600 --> 13:55.720 I don't want to have to tell this twice. 13:55.720 --> 13:56.720 Here it is. 13:56.720 --> 14:00.880 The subject under discussion is no DA. 14:00.880 --> 14:04.760 This guy has guarded 24 hours around, two plain clothesmen all the time. 14:04.760 --> 14:08.080 They watch his building, they escort him everywhere. 14:08.080 --> 14:09.560 There's no way to get at him. 14:09.560 --> 14:11.640 I mean no ordinary way. 14:11.640 --> 14:12.640 Use a truck. 14:12.640 --> 14:15.160 You get a big garbage truck, see it comes speeding down the street. 14:15.160 --> 14:17.600 Mr. Schultz, do we have to have you ejected? 14:17.600 --> 14:20.000 All right, all right, go on. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.440 My cousin, he's got a little kid five years old. 14:23.440 --> 14:27.840 So what I did, I borrowed this kid, bought him a tricycle, see. 14:27.840 --> 14:31.960 Every morning when this fellow comes walking out with his bodyguards, there I am, Joe Citizen, 14:31.960 --> 14:36.560 typical square, taking my morning physical with my little boy right there by the door. 14:36.560 --> 14:38.560 Very nice, good, yeah. 14:38.560 --> 14:39.560 Yeah, yeah. 14:39.560 --> 14:44.240 He comes walking out, he smiles at the kid, sort of tips his hat to me. 14:44.240 --> 14:46.720 I swear that guy's going to be a politician someday. 14:46.720 --> 14:48.960 And then he walks down to the corner drug store. 14:48.960 --> 14:49.960 Drug store? 14:49.960 --> 14:50.960 Yeah, yeah. 14:50.960 --> 14:55.960 And the way I figure it, everybody in City Hall is trying to tap his phone, so he uses 14:55.960 --> 14:58.680 the drug store's public pay station. 14:58.680 --> 15:02.040 He goes inside, the two bodyguards keep out in the street. 15:02.040 --> 15:04.920 He stays in an average of three minutes, alone, see. 15:04.920 --> 15:08.000 Then he comes out, gets in the city limousine and goes downtown. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.520 Very nice information, Albert. 15:09.520 --> 15:11.720 Now, how do you work it? 15:11.720 --> 15:14.280 He's very precise, this fellow. 15:14.280 --> 15:17.640 Goes into the drug store at 8.05 precisely every morning. 15:17.640 --> 15:21.680 The fellows who are handling the contract get there early. 15:21.680 --> 15:24.160 Bang the drug us with silences, wait. 15:24.160 --> 15:25.160 He comes in. 15:25.160 --> 15:29.400 Guards are outside, he goes into the booth, they bang him, stroll out. 15:29.400 --> 15:32.280 We got two, two and a half minutes to get away. 15:32.280 --> 15:33.840 The guns get left in the drug store. 15:33.840 --> 15:34.840 That's good, let's do it. 15:34.840 --> 15:39.000 Listen, Albert, I think it's a very compact and neat way to handle a contract, and I only 15:39.000 --> 15:43.960 wish I still had you working for me in this, in your old capacity. 15:43.960 --> 15:44.960 Yeah, yeah. 15:44.960 --> 15:49.360 Maybe the guns I already arranged for, a pair of brand new untraceable government 45s. 15:49.360 --> 15:52.120 We lifted them out of a crate down at the federal warehouse. 15:52.120 --> 15:55.160 Yeah, it's perfect, nice work, Albert. 15:55.160 --> 15:58.680 I've been giving this entire matter a lot of thought during the past week. 15:58.680 --> 16:02.360 Now, really, I tell you honestly, I haven't slept. 16:02.360 --> 16:06.840 Now, please, gentlemen, I beg of you, a little consideration. 16:06.840 --> 16:09.880 All right, all right, move on. 16:09.880 --> 16:12.240 A lot I care. 16:12.240 --> 16:13.240 You wouldn't listen. 16:13.240 --> 16:18.520 That's better, now, you know me, I got only your best interests at heart, and I have come 16:18.520 --> 16:23.760 to the conclusion that it is in all our best interests that this fellow from the DA's office 16:23.760 --> 16:24.760 stays alive. 16:24.760 --> 16:26.000 Harry, what are you, a buggy or something? 16:26.000 --> 16:27.000 This guy's got to go. 16:27.000 --> 16:33.440 All right, all right, boys, you can just quiet down and listen to me. 16:33.440 --> 16:35.880 Yeah, Lucky, what do you say? 16:35.880 --> 16:38.760 I say Harry's right, the guy lives. 16:38.760 --> 16:42.880 Now, we've got to look at this with the long view. 16:42.880 --> 16:45.200 We've got to think of the syndicate. 16:45.200 --> 16:46.600 You and a syndicate can drop that. 16:46.600 --> 16:48.600 Albert's got the perfect plan, let's use it. 16:48.600 --> 16:51.520 Listen, Shorts, I want you to shut up. 16:51.520 --> 16:57.800 And now, Harry's right, and here's why. 16:57.800 --> 16:59.400 What can this DA investigate? 16:59.400 --> 17:01.400 Manhattan, nothing else. 17:01.400 --> 17:04.120 All right, so we're going to let him. 17:04.120 --> 17:07.400 We got a nationwide business to take care of. 17:07.400 --> 17:11.920 We ain't going to sacrifice that just to serve a couple of times square number runner can 17:11.920 --> 17:14.600 stare at a can. 17:14.600 --> 17:15.600 The syndicate come first. 17:15.600 --> 17:19.080 Yeah, but that fellow, he's investigating pretty high up. 17:19.080 --> 17:22.520 He could even get some of we fellows in this room. 17:22.520 --> 17:23.520 No, Gura. 17:23.520 --> 17:24.520 No? 17:24.520 --> 17:29.740 Any lawyer would tell you they can't get an indictment unless they got a solid case. 17:29.740 --> 17:34.360 And they can get a solid case unless they got two witnesses. 17:34.360 --> 17:38.080 And that is where we pass out the contracts. 17:38.080 --> 17:43.160 You mean instead of taking this one fellow, we're going to have to take 10, maybe 20. 17:43.160 --> 17:44.320 Yeah, yeah. 17:44.320 --> 17:45.680 And here's why. 17:45.680 --> 17:49.400 Take this fellow and it becomes a federal case. 17:49.400 --> 17:53.520 It gets out of Manhattan, it gets out of hand. 17:53.520 --> 17:59.040 And you boys are from Chicago and Milwaukee in case you know what I mean. 17:59.040 --> 18:01.200 And you too, Dodge. 18:01.200 --> 18:05.160 You're the one this investigation is spreading all over in New Jersey. 18:05.160 --> 18:08.200 I'm sure Mr. Schultz is beginning to see the light. 18:08.200 --> 18:10.280 Now let's take a vote. 18:10.280 --> 18:14.760 Anybody against the notion that we let the little fellow go ahead with this investigation? 18:14.760 --> 18:18.960 Well, it seems a long way around the bond to have to kill all those witnesses instead 18:18.960 --> 18:20.360 of just one fellow. 18:20.360 --> 18:23.240 We can get them before they start to be news. 18:23.240 --> 18:25.240 There's no problem in there. 18:25.240 --> 18:27.280 I'm with you. 18:27.280 --> 18:28.280 Well I'm not. 18:28.280 --> 18:29.280 Leaving us, Mr. Schultz? 18:29.280 --> 18:30.280 Yeah, yeah. 18:30.280 --> 18:33.640 I'm going back to Jersey where the air don't stink from chicken. 18:33.640 --> 18:36.080 I take it you don't like the way we operate. 18:36.080 --> 18:39.760 Look, Albert here comes up with a perfect contract and you fancy pants are too chicken 18:39.760 --> 18:40.760 to carry it out. 18:40.760 --> 18:44.040 Well, listen, lucky Albert, Henry, all the rest of you. 18:44.040 --> 18:46.400 Maybe there's somebody in this world who ain't too chicken. 18:46.400 --> 18:48.240 That's just a little thought, gentlemen. 18:48.240 --> 18:49.240 Just a little thought. 18:49.240 --> 19:04.680 What you want, Skinch? 19:04.680 --> 19:14.800 Stand up at the shoe store there? 19:14.800 --> 19:15.800 Yeah. 19:15.800 --> 19:17.520 Are you going to want me any more today, Dutch? 19:17.520 --> 19:18.520 No, go back to Newark. 19:18.520 --> 19:19.520 Sure, Dutch. 19:19.520 --> 19:20.520 Hello, Mr. Schultz. 19:20.520 --> 19:21.520 Are you the fellow? 19:21.520 --> 19:22.520 Yeah. 19:22.520 --> 19:23.520 Toy is the name. 19:23.520 --> 19:24.520 This here's my partner, Murray. 19:24.520 --> 19:25.520 You fellas want to make a little? 19:25.520 --> 19:26.520 Depends on the contract. 19:26.520 --> 19:27.520 That's an easy contract. 19:27.520 --> 19:28.520 I got it all figured out so there'll be no problem. 19:28.520 --> 19:29.520 Who's the mark? 19:29.520 --> 19:30.520 Just a fella. 19:30.520 --> 19:31.520 I got to know who. 19:31.520 --> 19:32.520 What's the matter? 19:32.520 --> 19:33.520 What's it to you who? 19:33.520 --> 19:34.520 It's just a job, that's all. 19:34.520 --> 19:35.520 Well, I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:35.520 --> 19:36.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:36.520 --> 19:37.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:37.520 --> 19:38.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:38.520 --> 19:39.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:39.520 --> 19:40.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:40.520 --> 19:41.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:41.520 --> 19:48.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 19:48.520 --> 20:01.520 I'm going to go back to Jersey. 20:01.520 --> 20:04.280 You want to know who the fella is? I'll tell you, I got nothing to hide. 20:04.280 --> 20:06.820 It's the new D.A. in New York. 20:06.820 --> 20:08.480 Come on, Murray. 20:08.480 --> 20:10.360 Wait a minute. Where you going? 20:10.360 --> 20:12.980 You got the wrong parties, Mr. Schultz. 20:12.980 --> 20:16.020 Haven't you heard? The D.A. lives. 20:16.020 --> 20:17.820 That's the word from the syndicate. 20:17.820 --> 20:19.820 The D.A. 20:30.780 --> 20:31.940 Hey, Ginch. 20:31.940 --> 20:33.280 Ah, hello, Flot. 20:33.280 --> 20:35.620 What happened to your arm? What's with the sling? 20:35.620 --> 20:37.280 Dutch. 20:37.280 --> 20:41.200 First the thumb, then the wrist, something he thought I said about his mother. 20:41.200 --> 20:43.080 He's a animal, that's what. 20:43.080 --> 20:45.580 Another year with Dutch, I'm going to be in very bad condition. 20:45.580 --> 20:47.740 And you can't quit? That's right. 20:47.740 --> 20:50.960 He will let me go. Bo quit, Dutch stuck an ice pick in his ear. 20:50.960 --> 20:54.340 Ginch, I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but... 20:54.340 --> 20:56.300 I tell you something, would you tell Dutch? 20:56.300 --> 20:59.260 I wouldn't tell him if his hat was on fire. 20:59.260 --> 21:02.140 Certain parties is having a meeting tonight. 21:02.140 --> 21:03.500 Six o'clock. 21:03.500 --> 21:16.740 Oh, that's one he really don't know about. 21:16.740 --> 21:21.080 Gentlemen, the situation is fraught with danger to us all. 21:21.080 --> 21:22.080 I don't know. 21:22.080 --> 21:25.620 If it was anybody else, I would say forget about it. 21:25.620 --> 21:28.740 It being the Dutchman, he's just scrowing up to follow through. 21:28.740 --> 21:30.620 My boys never lied to me. 21:30.620 --> 21:33.740 They say he's out shopping for a man to take the contract right now. 21:33.740 --> 21:35.740 I've been talking about it for almost a week. 21:35.740 --> 21:37.340 There's only one thing to do. 21:37.340 --> 21:41.420 We got to take Dutch before he takes that fellow from the DS office. 21:41.420 --> 21:44.660 Albert, you got any ideas? 21:44.660 --> 21:46.620 Dutchman is kind of scrowy, but he ain't crazy. 21:46.620 --> 21:48.620 You know what I mean. 21:48.620 --> 21:51.540 He's not the kind of a fellow you just walk up to and do it. 21:51.540 --> 21:53.180 He's covered all the time. 21:53.180 --> 21:55.500 I know where he's hanging out this week. 21:55.500 --> 21:57.620 Where's that, Lucky? 21:57.620 --> 21:59.980 The Palace Chop House over in Newark. 21:59.980 --> 22:01.460 I know that place. 22:01.460 --> 22:04.140 It's got a little private dining room in the back there. 22:04.140 --> 22:06.780 I thought it'd have to be screwy to try it in there. 22:06.780 --> 22:09.780 Yeah, I got just the man. 22:09.780 --> 22:13.740 Bug, Mandy, in here. 22:13.740 --> 22:16.700 Got a job for you, Bug. 22:16.700 --> 22:17.700 Contract. 22:17.700 --> 22:18.700 Yeah. 22:18.700 --> 22:19.700 Who? 22:19.700 --> 22:20.700 Dutch. 22:20.700 --> 22:21.700 OK. 22:21.700 --> 22:24.140 It's got to be fast. 22:24.140 --> 22:25.140 Sure. 22:25.140 --> 22:26.140 Fast. 22:26.140 --> 22:27.140 I mean tonight. 22:27.140 --> 22:28.140 OK. 22:28.140 --> 22:29.140 Tonight. 22:29.140 --> 22:31.860 Monday, you drive. 22:31.860 --> 22:32.860 Come on. 22:32.860 --> 22:36.860 Walk you down to the car. 22:36.860 --> 22:37.860 Parable business. 22:37.860 --> 22:38.860 Yeah. 22:38.860 --> 22:45.420 Well, gentlemen, we got nothing more to talk about tonight, so I would suggest we get out 22:45.420 --> 22:59.620 and get seen if you follow me. 22:59.620 --> 23:03.620 483.11. 23:03.620 --> 23:06.620 6851. 23:06.620 --> 23:09.740 1739. 23:09.740 --> 23:13.980 550 even. 23:13.980 --> 23:15.900 745. 23:15.900 --> 23:16.900 Stop that creepy whistling, will you? 23:16.900 --> 23:19.300 I'll fix your whistle so it'll never blow again. 23:19.300 --> 23:22.700 All right now. 23:22.700 --> 23:23.700 775.15. 23:23.700 --> 23:24.700 That does it. 23:24.700 --> 23:29.100 What am I going to do to that Ginch when he gets back? 23:29.100 --> 23:30.300 I told him to go back to Newark. 23:30.300 --> 23:31.620 Where is he? 23:31.620 --> 23:33.100 Maybe he missed the train. 23:33.100 --> 23:34.100 Or something. 23:34.100 --> 23:38.620 Look, Berman, I need you around here to handle my books and keep my numbers business functioning. 23:38.620 --> 23:39.620 I don't like it. 23:39.620 --> 23:42.420 You should be talking all the time and whistling like a boy, like a schoolboy. 23:42.420 --> 23:43.900 Sorry, Mr. Schultz. 23:43.900 --> 23:45.860 I'm going to be in business for a long time, Berman. 23:45.860 --> 23:46.860 Remember that. 23:46.860 --> 23:48.060 You want to get rich? 23:48.060 --> 23:49.060 Stick with me. 23:49.060 --> 23:50.060 Yes, sir. 23:50.060 --> 23:51.060 I'm with you, Mr. Schultz. 23:51.060 --> 23:52.060 But keep your mouth shut, see? 23:52.060 --> 23:53.060 Tight shut. 23:53.060 --> 23:54.060 Now get those tallies added up. 23:54.060 --> 23:55.060 I'm going to wash my hands. 23:55.060 --> 23:56.060 Yeah, OK. 23:56.060 --> 24:20.940 Hey, kid. 24:20.940 --> 24:23.940 You with the glasses. 24:23.940 --> 24:27.100 Who are you addressing, may I ask? 24:27.100 --> 24:28.100 Where's Dutch? 24:28.100 --> 24:29.900 He went to the bathroom. 24:29.900 --> 24:32.420 But you, you haven't answered my question. 24:32.420 --> 24:41.300 Kid, you bother me. 24:41.300 --> 24:42.900 I'm sorry it's busy. 24:42.900 --> 24:43.900 So am I. 24:43.900 --> 24:44.900 Busy. 24:44.900 --> 24:45.900 Busy as a bee. 24:45.900 --> 25:07.780 What do you say, get your boy, get your boy. 25:07.780 --> 25:10.020 Was it a hutsie tutsie or was it a hutsie tutsie? 25:10.020 --> 25:11.020 Oh, it was a hutsie tutsie. 25:11.020 --> 25:12.020 All right, flat old boy. 25:12.020 --> 25:17.700 Oh boy, I sure want you to talk me in Stan in New York. 25:17.700 --> 25:19.540 Dutch is really going to be sorry now. 25:19.540 --> 25:20.540 Forget it. 25:20.540 --> 25:21.540 Come on, come on. 25:21.540 --> 25:22.540 We'll go up to Lindy's. 25:22.540 --> 25:23.540 Have a couple of drinks. 25:23.540 --> 25:24.540 You stand around. 25:24.540 --> 25:28.980 Listen, I'm in so much trouble now. 25:28.980 --> 25:29.980 What's that? 25:29.980 --> 25:30.980 Listen. 25:30.980 --> 25:34.980 Dutch Schultz gunned to death by a mystery figure. 25:34.980 --> 25:38.980 Baby, I actually got the New York Journal of America. 25:38.980 --> 25:39.980 Did you hear that? 25:39.980 --> 25:40.980 Come on, let's buy a paper. 25:40.980 --> 25:41.980 Let's buy all the papers. 25:41.980 --> 25:42.980 We're running out of time. 25:42.980 --> 25:43.980 Yeah, we'll take them up to Lindy's. 25:43.980 --> 25:44.980 And have a drink. 25:44.980 --> 25:45.980 And have a party. 25:45.980 --> 26:06.220 Hey boy, hey news boy. 26:06.220 --> 26:07.220 Suspense. 26:07.220 --> 26:12.260 Presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Broderick Crawford. 26:12.260 --> 26:14.180 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 26:14.180 --> 26:19.400 Tomorrow, members of the American Trucking Association, attending the annual convention 26:19.400 --> 26:24.540 in Los Angeles, will see a new three cent stamp being issued by the post office department. 26:24.540 --> 26:28.640 This stamp commemorates the 50th anniversary of the trucking industry. 26:28.640 --> 26:34.420 In the years since they first proved themselves as winning competitors over horse drawn vehicles, 26:34.420 --> 26:37.340 trucks have become the backbone of our transportation system. 26:37.340 --> 26:42.060 Their versatility and dependability in war and peace, and their economy of operation, 26:42.060 --> 26:46.660 have made trucks the finest carrying vehicles any civilization has ever known. 26:46.660 --> 26:52.140 Today, over nine million of these modern beasts of burden serve us in countless ways, and 26:52.140 --> 26:56.820 give work to some six million Americans who make, drive, and service them. 26:56.820 --> 27:02.600 Auto Light has been associated with this industry for 42 years, and is privileged to salute 27:02.600 --> 27:14.580 the American Trucking Association on this important occasion. 27:14.580 --> 27:20.500 Next week, another true story, as we dramatize the diary of a man whose unfortunate task it 27:20.500 --> 27:24.660 was to set down a report on the death of his friends. 27:24.660 --> 27:27.260 Ordeal in Donner Pass. 27:27.260 --> 27:29.900 Our star, Mr. Edmund O'Brien. 27:29.900 --> 27:44.060 Next week on Suspense. 27:44.060 --> 27:48.920 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawick 27:48.920 --> 27:51.180 and conducted by Lut Gloskin. 27:51.180 --> 27:55.260 Dutch Schultz was adapted for Suspense by James Poe. 27:55.260 --> 28:00.220 Starring in tonight's cast were Jane O'Mello, Herb Butterfield, Hi Aberback, Paul Fries, 28:00.220 --> 28:05.300 Sidney Miller, Jack Moyles, Benny Rubin, and Anthony Barrett. 28:05.300 --> 28:11.580 Roderick Crawford will soon be seen in Night People, a 20th Century Fox picture. 28:11.580 --> 28:26.180 And remember, next week, Mr. Edmund O'Brien in Ordeal in Donner Pass. 28:26.180 --> 28:30.740 You can buy Auto Light resistor or standard type spark plugs, Auto Light electrical parts, 28:30.740 --> 28:34.700 and Auto Light stay full batteries at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 28:34.700 --> 28:35.700 Switch to Auto Light. 28:35.700 --> 28:36.700 Good night. 28:36.700 --> 28:46.980 This is the CBS Radio Network.