1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,920 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Cornell Wilde in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,920 of Suspense. 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:23,880 Tonight, Auto Light combines fact and fiction. 4 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,160 The fact, the murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New York City. 5 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:33,840 The fiction, Edgar Allan Poe's solution of that crime, which he called the mystery of 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:43,040 Marie Roget, our star Mr. Cornell Wilde. 7 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,400 You seen any engines around Harlow? 8 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:46,400 Engines, Sheriff? 9 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,400 I've seen thousands of engines all equipped with Auto Light's staple batteries for purring, 10 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,160 powerful and pleasing starts in all kinds of weather. 11 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,680 Well, these engines are off the reservation. 12 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,760 There are no reservations about an Auto Light staple battery. 13 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,840 It states right on the case, needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 14 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,080 Well, these engines didn't like life on the reservation. 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,080 Life? 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,520 Why, the Auto Light staple battery has long life. 17 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:16,040 Fiberglass retaining mats protect the power of every positive plate to reduce shedding 18 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,240 and flaking and give that Auto Light staple longer life, as proved by tests conducted 19 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,720 according to accepted life cycle standards. 20 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,480 To quickly locate your nearest Auto Light battery dealer who services all makes of batteries, 21 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,920 just call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 22 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,440 I'll tell you where you can get an Auto Light staple, the battery that needs water only 23 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,800 three times a year in normal car use. 24 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:46,520 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:52,560 Mary Cecilia Rogers was murdered in the vicinity of New York City in the summer of 1842. 26 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:59,120 It was still an unsolved crime in November when the Mystery of Marie Roger was published. 27 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,240 The author, Edgar Allan Poe. 28 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:07,320 It paralleled in every essential detail the murder of Mary Rogers. 29 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:12,600 Poe wrote it far from the scene of the atrocity with only the newspaper reports of the day. 30 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:18,400 Nevertheless, the subsequent confession connected with the murder of Mary Rogers confirmed not 31 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:26,160 only the killer named by Poe, but all the chief details by which he arrived at his identification. 32 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:33,160 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery of Marie Roger, starring 33 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:46,000 Mr. Cornell Wilde, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 34 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,240 Good evening. 35 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,200 My name is Dupin. 36 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,560 I should like to extend an invitation. 37 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:58,680 Regard first a certain event which truly occurred in New York City on a warm summer night in 38 00:02:58,680 --> 00:02:59,680 1842. 39 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:07,320 Secondly, I invite you to employ your imagination and displace that same event intact with all 40 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:14,200 of the essential facts to a cobbled old world Paris on an identical warm and fragrant summer 41 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,600 night in the same year. 42 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Lastly, and most interesting, I should like to invite you to attend that event. 43 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:44,360 It is a murder. 44 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,360 The general design and the mental character of the atrocity, indeed the first knowledge 45 00:03:49,360 --> 00:04:01,360 of its occurrence, came to my attention on Wednesday night, the 25th day of June. 46 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,040 Who is the Prefect of Police? 47 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,040 I am, Monsieur. 48 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,040 Dupin? 49 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:07,040 Yes, Monsieur. 50 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,200 Oh, thank you for coming, Monsieur. 51 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,560 I wasn't certain my messenger would find you. 52 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,560 This way, Monsieur. 53 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:14,560 Please. 54 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:22,200 The Andre, Andre de Lantern from Monsieur Dupin. 55 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,200 She died harshly. 56 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,200 Yes. 57 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,200 Beaten, choked, frowned. 58 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,960 Yes, quite harshly. 59 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:33,720 She was beautiful, Monsieur. 60 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,720 Once perhaps, yes. 61 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,880 Still, Mademoiselle What. 62 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,680 In life she had a name, in death she must also have a name. 63 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,680 Any of you? 64 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,480 I have asked, Monsieur, but none of them know her. 65 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,400 But her clothes and jewels say she was known, Dupin. 66 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,480 Good clothes, torn and disordered, her terrible struggle, but good. 67 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,480 And the jewelry, not expensive, but tasteful. 68 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,840 This woman, in my opinion, Dupin, was known. 69 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:01,760 And loved, Monsieur the Prefect. 70 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:02,760 No doubt. 71 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,080 Dupin, Dupin, this is why I sent for you. 72 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,360 I've been through these things before. 73 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,720 The newspapers will write stories, the reporters will make conjecture. 74 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,920 Although there is no name for her now, there will eventually be a name. 75 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,640 And then, Monsieur, I will be called upon to produce her assassins. 76 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,160 There is so little to go on. 77 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,440 The eyes of the public will be upon me. 78 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:26,720 My honor is at stake. 79 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,920 And my honor too, Monsieur, if I am involved in the investigation. 80 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,240 Dupin, listen. 81 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:39,240 There is a fund at the Prefecture, a sizable fund, which I am authorized to use when circumstances 82 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:40,240 arise. 83 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:46,240 And for your services, I am willing to make a direct and liberal proposition. 84 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:52,120 Dupin, you will help me find the answer to this woman's death. 85 00:05:52,120 --> 00:06:03,360 I cannot refuse. 86 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,400 No form about the mouth, as in the case of the merely drowned Monsieur. 87 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:13,240 Here, bruises, impressions of fingers. 88 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:19,000 It was a fanguration by hand and by this cord, Monsieur. 89 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Yes. 90 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Doctor. 91 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Yes, Dupin. 92 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,800 An ingenious knot in that cord, don't you think? 93 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,880 This is a slip knot, a sailor's knot. 94 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,560 Sailor's knot, which was found in water. 95 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,920 Why did she die, Monsieur? 96 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,620 For her beauty, perhaps, for her love, her hate. 97 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:42,620 It was Sunday. 98 00:06:42,620 --> 00:06:43,620 Hmm? 99 00:06:43,620 --> 00:06:49,080 Observe, Doctor, there are no marks to prove she was weighted and then shaken loose. 100 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:56,320 Yes, she quit life on Sunday, murdered in the dark, thrown into the river, unweighted. 101 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,880 Monday, Tuesday, she remained as a corpse will on the bottom. 102 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:07,040 And then on the third day, tonight, as a corpse will, she rose and the fishermen saw her. 103 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,080 It is the way of corpses violently made, sir. 104 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:14,820 Not only violent, but quick, near the river bank somewhere. 105 00:07:14,820 --> 00:07:18,720 For what assassins could carry a burden like this long undiscovered? 106 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,640 From a dark bridge, perhaps. 107 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,160 No, no, too much light and people. 108 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,180 There had to be a boat, Doctor. 109 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:29,340 If she was dropped from a bridge or pushed in from the shore, the current might press 110 00:07:29,340 --> 00:07:33,120 her aside to be caught in the vegetation of the shallow water. 111 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,200 She was murdered on the bank and then taken out to her grave in a boat. 112 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,800 And there had to be a man who knew how to handle a boat in the tricky current. 113 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:41,800 Who is there? 114 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,120 It is I, the Prefect. 115 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,960 I have someone who thinks he may know her. 116 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:48,960 Hmm. 117 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,960 Come in, Monsieur. 118 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:55,560 Ahead of me, please. 119 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,000 With your permission, Doctor, Monsieur Dupont. 120 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Monsieur Beauvais, Monsieur. 121 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 How do you do? 122 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,200 Monsieur Beauvais has been searching since Monday for news of a Marie Roget. 123 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,200 Mademoiselle Roget is an employee of Monsieur Beauvais. 124 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,200 Correct, Monsieur? 125 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:09,200 Correct. 126 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,200 I am a parfumer. 127 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,120 I called on her mother, Madame Roget, Monday when Mary did not appear at my shop. 128 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,480 Madame informed me that Mary had left Sunday morning to visit her aunt at Rue des Drômes. 129 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,480 She has not yet returned. 130 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:20,480 I see. 131 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,480 And what else? 132 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:22,480 I cannot say, Monsieur. 133 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,840 So far I have ascertained that she never arrived at Rue des Drômes. 134 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,560 And indeed, no one has seen her since Sunday. 135 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,440 Can you describe Marie Roget? 136 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:36,960 But of course, dark hair, almost black, dark eyes, tall, young, vibrant, a woman, Monsieur, 137 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:37,960 of great promise. 138 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:42,000 Jacques Saint-Tustache, the last to see her, mentioned to me that Mademoiselle was a frock 139 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,320 of fine muslin, deep blue. 140 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:45,320 I knew it well. 141 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:46,640 A bonnet to match goes with it. 142 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,640 Je parle. 143 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:49,920 Who is Jacques Saint-Tustache, Beauvais? 144 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,960 Monsieur Saint-Tustache is the accepted tutor of Marie Roget. 145 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,640 He lodges and takes meals at the pension kept by Madame Roget. 146 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,280 He was to have gone for his betrothed at dusk Sunday and to have escorted her home. 147 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,000 In the afternoon it rained heavily and supposing that she would remain at her aunt's, he did 148 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,560 not think it necessary to keep his promise. 149 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:10,480 She has stayed there under similar circumstances. 150 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,160 And where is Jacques Saint-Tustache at this moment? 151 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,280 Searching and anxious as I am for Marie Roget. 152 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,560 It is three days since Sunday. 153 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,640 Four days really, but three that Marie Roget has been considered missing. 154 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:24,120 Your search is tardy. 155 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,120 I know, Monsieur. 156 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,960 Well, I am at your mercy. 157 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,680 She has disappeared twice. 158 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:34,560 Ah, the first time she disappeared was about three years ago. 159 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:37,560 Her mother, her friends were unable to account for her disappearance. 160 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:40,240 I was distracted with anxiety and terror. 161 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,000 Did you notify the police? 162 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,080 In that case, immediately, Monsieur. 163 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,960 But suddenly, Marie reappeared one fine morning after being absent a week. 164 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,700 She was in good health and held with somewhat the sad and air. 165 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:56,200 She explained she had spent the missing week with her relative in the country. 166 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,520 Madame Roget, who was and still is infirm, recalled this to be a fact. 167 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,680 And the matter was forgotten, until now. 168 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:07,400 So you did not call the police the second time she disappeared? 169 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,320 What has happened once can happen again. 170 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,280 What did happen that week she was away? 171 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,280 I do not know. 172 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,160 I do not honestly know. 173 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,120 But you doubt the story of visiting a relative? 174 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,000 I will not say. 175 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,620 Show him what we have, Doctor. 176 00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:25,040 If you will kindly step over here, Monsieur Beauvais. 177 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,240 No, Monsieur Beauvais, if you please. 178 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,320 Do you know this woman, Monsieur? 179 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:34,320 It is her. 180 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,320 It is Marie Roget. 181 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,320 It is her. 182 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,320 Poor little Beauvais. 183 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:38,320 Poor Marie. 184 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:43,320 Why does Beauvais cry, duain? 185 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:49,600 The girl only worked for him. 186 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,280 He has not told us all. 187 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,000 He is suspect, duain, and I will have a word with him. 188 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Say. 189 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,360 But, duain, why does he weep for a shop girl, a cruisette who has promised to another? 190 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:08,680 He weeps for youth and beauty. 191 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:21,640 Yes, Monsieur? 192 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,680 I am Dupin, Madame Roget. 193 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:24,680 May I come in? 194 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:25,680 Oh, come. 195 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:26,680 Come. 196 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,240 No, no, please sit, Madame. 197 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,920 I understand you are not well. 198 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,280 I have been invalid ten years now. 199 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,120 I will not consume a great deal of time. 200 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:47,360 May I ask, did your daughter often visit relatives in other distant parts of the city? 201 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,360 Often. 202 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,960 And stay overnight? 203 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:50,960 Often. 204 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,240 With your approval, Madame? 205 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:58,920 She was and has been free of me since her sixteenth year. 206 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,760 That is a very frank answer, Madame. 207 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,720 I can tell you nothing of what has happened to her. 208 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,960 She leaves me on a morning with no enemies I know of. 209 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,080 And do you know of her friends? 210 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,960 I understand the intention of your remark. 211 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,800 You refer to those besides Jacques. 212 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,320 No, I know of none. 213 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,040 I understand that Jacques Saint-Eustache keeps rooms here. 214 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,040 That is true? 215 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,480 Yes, but he is no longer here. 216 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:38,480 He left once he was informed of Marie's death, where I do not know. 217 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,720 But surely he understood that we would be by to question him? 218 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,840 He was beside himself with grief. 219 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,840 I cannot blame him. 220 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:47,840 I see. 221 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:54,640 Oh, I have been of no assistance where I would like to be. 222 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:59,840 And yet I knew something that morning. 223 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:06,560 I knew she would not come back to her mama again. 224 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:09,200 You knew she would not be back, Madame? 225 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,840 Did she take clothes, bid her a longer goodbye? 226 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,240 How did you know? 227 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:14,240 I knew. 228 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:15,240 I knew, Monsieur. 229 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:21,840 Death was very close to her that day. 230 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,640 If you knew this, Madame, why did you allow her to venture out? 231 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,640 I stop her? 232 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,640 No, no. 233 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:36,040 If it is not met, Death will arrange a meeting. 234 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:42,840 If the meeting had been here, Death might have visited me too. 235 00:13:42,840 --> 00:14:02,960 And I am yet afraid to die. 236 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:07,840 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Cornell Wilde in Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie 237 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:24,840 Roger, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 238 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,080 I got him, Harlow. 239 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,320 An Indian, Sheriff? 240 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,640 Nope, an auto light staple. 241 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:34,520 The battery that says right on the case needs water only three times a year in normal car 242 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:35,520 use. 243 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,640 That's the brand of battery for my car, by Ginger. 244 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:43,280 You mean buy auto light staple batteries and you buy Ginger and Pep for a fast dependable 245 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:44,920 start every time. 246 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,720 Fiberglass retaining mats surround each positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking and give 247 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,800 the auto light staple longer life, as proved by life cycle standards. 248 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,720 Sounds like you couldn't buy a better battery with a pocket full of nuggets. 249 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:03,200 So friends, see your expert auto light battery dealer for an auto light staple, the battery 250 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,380 that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 251 00:15:07,380 --> 00:15:12,400 To quickly locate your nearest auto light battery dealer who services all makes of batteries, 252 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,800 phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 253 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,200 That's right, I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest auto light battery dealer. 254 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:25,360 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 255 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:31,040 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Cornell Wilde in Elliot Lewis's 256 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:38,160 production of Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roger, a tale well calculated to 257 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,440 keep you in suspense. 258 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:53,400 DuPin again, you will recall the event we have been attending in Paris. 259 00:15:53,400 --> 00:16:00,920 I invite you now to keep in mind the solemn fact that Marie Roger died violently. 260 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,520 And her lover Jacques Santostache is missing. 261 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:13,880 Where she died, who administered her death, for what reason remain to be known. 262 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:19,520 Attend at this point another event, if you will, which was arranged by that zealous and 263 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:24,160 righteous man, the prefect of police. 264 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,360 Thank you for coming DuPin. 265 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,720 You have located the lover Santostache. 266 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:29,720 Santostache? 267 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,120 Oh, he is unimportant, I assure you. 268 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,480 Somewhere right now he drinks and tries to forget. 269 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,720 But what I have here is important, most important. 270 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,720 Madame Dulac, if you please. 271 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,720 Good evening, gentlemen. 272 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:48,720 Good evening. 273 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:49,720 This is Madame Dulac. 274 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,080 She has something of interest to tell you. 275 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,680 And I have something of interest to show you. 276 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:57,800 Good evening, madame. 277 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:02,880 I have maintained this tavern many years, right here, close to the bank of the river. 278 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:03,880 No, no, no. 279 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,640 No fear with me, madame. 280 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,600 I have no authority to do anything but respect your person and your thoughts. 281 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,600 What is this information? 282 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,200 I saw a young woman here some day. 283 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,320 Monsieur said it was Marie Roger. 284 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:18,320 It was, definitely. 285 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,320 Just a moment. 286 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,320 Sunday, madame. 287 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:21,320 Yes. 288 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:22,320 Mid-afternoon, later perhaps. 289 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,320 Where? 290 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:26,800 Right here in my tavern. 291 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,880 She arrived accompanied by a young man of dark, swore the complexion. 292 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,280 The two remained here for some time. 293 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,280 On their departure, they took the road through some thick woods that way. 294 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:38,600 Toward the river, du par. 295 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,720 And this is a secluded neighborhood. 296 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:42,720 Go on, madame. 297 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:43,720 Go on. 298 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,960 Soon after they left, a gang of miscreants made their appearance at my place of business. 299 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:49,960 They behaved boisterously. 300 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,960 They ate and drank without payment. 301 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:58,160 Then left and followed the route of the young girl and the young man that same way. 302 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,160 I see. 303 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,760 About dusk, the same gang reappeared and we crossed the river in great haste. 304 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,240 I see. 305 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,480 And you are certain it was Marie Roger? 306 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,640 Never fear. 307 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,800 My men spoke with an unnoticed driver, a man named Valence, who knew Marie Roger. 308 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:20,240 He claims he saw her cross the Seine on the Sunday afternoon in question with the swarthy 309 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,920 man who fits the exact description of madame. 310 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,520 And what else, monsieur? 311 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,520 I will show you. 312 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:29,520 Come. 313 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:40,840 I followed him through the back of the tavern into the thick woods which lined the Seine 314 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:41,840 at that point. 315 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:49,360 He stopped when we had come to a close thicket, within which were three or four large stones 316 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:53,160 forming a kind of seat with a back and footstool. 317 00:18:53,160 --> 00:19:03,160 Note du Parme, a white petticoat here, here a silk scarf, parasol, gloves, pocket handkerchief, 318 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,400 inspector handkerchief du Parme. 319 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400 Thank you. 320 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,800 You note the name Marie Roger embroidered there? 321 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:10,800 Yes, yes. 322 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,760 So this is the place she met her death. 323 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:15,280 Well, of course it is. 324 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:16,280 I have found it. 325 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:22,360 Look, look, the earth is crumpled where she struggled and over here, here a bush is still 326 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:24,120 broken. 327 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,440 Every evidence of a terrible struggle. 328 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,520 And here, here, the fence has been taken down and the ground shows that some heavy burden 329 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,680 was dragged along it toward the river. 330 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,280 Well, come, come, look for yourself. 331 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,560 What say you now? 332 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,160 I am wondering. 333 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,160 Wonder? 334 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,200 Well, we have facts now, sir, important facts. 335 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:50,200 Do you recall a strip of one of the unfortunate girls' petticoat had been tied about her mouth 336 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,960 probably to prevent her screams? 337 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:52,960 I do. 338 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,720 This was done by fellows who had no pocket handkerchiefs. 339 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,760 Miscreants du Parme, miscreants such as those who visited Madame Duloc's tavern and later 340 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:06,600 went the same way as Marie Roger and her companion. 341 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,880 There are many such gangs about here. 342 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,400 All we have to do is locate them. 343 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:22,240 And I know how to do that. 344 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:28,080 That night, the shrill cries of the Paris newsboys proclaimed the prefect's resolve. 345 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:34,600 He offered a reward of 20,000 francs and a full pardon for any king's evidence. 346 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:41,800 It was an accepted conclusion that Marie Roger had been waylaid and slain by a gang of miscreants 347 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,440 in the vicinity of Madame Duloc's tavern. 348 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:53,280 Ah, well, are you defeated, Monsieur du Parme, now that I have solved the mystery of Marie 349 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,280 Roger? 350 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,280 No, Monsieur. 351 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Ho, ho. 352 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,080 I have doubled the reward. 353 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,200 Soon one of the miscreants will come forward, then you'll see. 354 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,160 40,000 francs should be temptation enough. 355 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,800 Twenty thousand was temptation enough. 356 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,000 No one will come forward, Monsieur. 357 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,480 A gang such as it's hoped for would be composed of men who have never seen more than a hundred 358 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,880 francs at one time. 359 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:23,760 Twenty thousand would bring all of them if, if they had any knowledge of Marie Roger's 360 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:24,760 murder. 361 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 Oh, they're just waiting. 362 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760 You know that. 363 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:27,760 Waiting. 364 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,880 When each is in jeopardy because of the other. 365 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,440 Ho, ho, ho. 366 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,960 We shall see du Parme wait. 367 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,480 It was one man. 368 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:36,480 Huh? 369 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,040 A man who dragged the body of Mademoiselle to the river's edge. 370 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,800 A gang, even two men, could have carried it. 371 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:45,800 Oh. 372 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:51,880 A gang would have lifted it over the fence easily instead of taking a fence down as it 373 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,640 was taken down. 374 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,600 One man labored hard. 375 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,120 Well, my conjecture is as good as yours. 376 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:00,920 Are you talking of Saint-Eustache? 377 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:01,920 No. 378 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:02,920 No. 379 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:03,920 He is quite unguilty. 380 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:10,960 Monsieur, allow me to point out that the newspapers, the police, all have identified themselves 381 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,560 with what apparently happened. 382 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,520 We must consider what did not happen. 383 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,320 First, a gang did not set upon her and murder her. 384 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:26,160 Secondly, Marie Roger had no intention of visiting her aunt at Rue des Drommes when 385 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,720 she left her mother-in-law last Sunday morning. 386 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,440 Du Parme, if you have confident information, explain yourself. 387 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,640 I have the same information as you. 388 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:36,640 Nothing else. 389 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,720 You said she had no intention of visiting her aunt that day. 390 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,720 Why do you say that? 391 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,280 Monsieur, consider what might have happened if her intended Jacques Saint-Eustache had 392 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,560 called for her at her aunt's and discovered she was not there, that she had not been there 393 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:52,680 all day. 394 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,600 He would have been chagrined, suspicious, angry. 395 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,200 Saint-Eustache would have been all these. 396 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,360 Nothing for Marie Roger to worry about when she returned home. 397 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:08,520 But nothing to worry about if Marie did not intend to return home. 398 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,000 Well, a point to consider, perhaps. 399 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Go on. 400 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,480 Consider that she kept a rendezvous instead. 401 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,120 This we know, a rendezvous with a swarthy man. 402 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:22,240 We have been told that by two witnesses who saw him. 403 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:29,120 Now, Monsieur, I ask you, as I have asked myself, did this swarthy companion allow Marie 404 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,400 to be slain before his eyes? 405 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,800 Or was he himself slain trying to help her? 406 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,240 If so, where is his body? 407 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,360 Well, he left her before she was set upon, obviously. 408 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,760 Did he leave her alone in such a dark district? 409 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:43,760 They quarreled. 410 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:44,760 Indeed they did. 411 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:45,760 Another question. 412 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:51,360 Marie Roger's death is known everywhere in France. 413 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,880 Why has he not come forward to help us clear up the mystery? 414 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,880 Many reasons. 415 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,880 Perhaps he is married. 416 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,280 He's left. 417 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,720 He's uninformed. 418 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:06,960 He has a swarthy complexion, a sea complexion, a well-attested fact. 419 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:12,240 Now, accumulate that with the cord that was tied about her neck in a sailor's knot. 420 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,960 Monsieur Dupin, I have not the sl... 421 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:20,560 And the need of a skilled boatman to handle a boat on the river to dispose of the body. 422 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,880 But it could be anyone. 423 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,640 No, it could not. 424 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,640 What? 425 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,200 Marie Roger was a gay, not an abject girl. 426 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,080 No common seaman for her. 427 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,080 An officer, a naval officer, monsieur. 428 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:39,840 Like the one who might have led her into a false elopement the first time she disappeared. 429 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,680 Three years passed. 430 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:46,720 The approved time for a French man of war to consume encircling the globe. 431 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:52,720 The officer returns, thinking of the same coquette, Marie Roger. 432 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,120 The same bargain. 433 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:59,440 What he has managed to do once, he can do again. 434 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,320 Marie meets him Sunday for this purpose. 435 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,960 Then she thinks the better of an elopement and refuses to accompany him. 436 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,840 Santa Stash has captured her love. 437 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,120 Her former lover slays her in quick anger. 438 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,720 He drags her body to the river, commandeers a boat. 439 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,720 Where do I find him? 440 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,400 On whatever ship has arrived from the world cruise. 441 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,400 His name? 442 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:21,760 What is his name, du Par? 443 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:26,520 Enquire for the name of the young officer who has applied for leave to get married. 444 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,040 But there must be many such among a ship's complement returning after a long cruise. 445 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,040 Agreed. 446 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:37,960 But, monsieur le Prefect, there is only one naval officer who has returned to his ship 447 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,000 without a bride. 448 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Andre! 449 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Andre! 450 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:54,200 We leave at once for the naval yards. 451 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,320 It has been an interesting evening. 452 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,160 And now I issue a last invitation, my friends. 453 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:08,100 I invite you to retain all that you have heard and employ this time, instead of your imagination, 454 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,440 your sense of reality. 455 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,960 The title of Marie Roget of Paris was truthfully Mary Rogers of New York. 456 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:21,360 Let your reality move you back to New York City on a winter day some months after the 457 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:23,640 event described. 458 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:30,640 In the darkening afternoon inside a gray stone building, I invite you to attend another event 459 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,840 I think you will find significant. 460 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:49,240 Ensign Robert Bryant Wilson, you have been found guilty of the murder of Mary Cecilia 461 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,240 Rogers. 462 00:26:50,240 --> 00:27:18,280 It is the judgment of this court that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead. 463 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:32,800 This evening has been a life tones day but there's no dole. 464 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:47,320 There's no one to change these지만ches, on this day not a single man will go to court 465 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,320 ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, both standard and resistor types, 466 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:57,320 voltage regulators, wire and battery cable, Auto Light bullseye sealed beam units, 467 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,320 and Auto Light original service parts for all Auto Light electrical systems. 468 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,320 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 469 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,320 So, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 470 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:22,320 Next week, one of the most terrifying half hours ever presented on Suspense, 471 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:28,320 a young couple and a mad woman, and what happened to them on a country road. 472 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:34,320 Our star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy, that's next week on Suspense. 473 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:43,320 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 474 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:49,320 Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roget was adapted for Suspense by E. 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