WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.920 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Cornell Wilde in tonight's presentation 00:11.920 --> 00:14.920 of Suspense. 00:14.920 --> 00:23.880 Tonight, Auto Light combines fact and fiction. 00:23.880 --> 00:28.160 The fact, the murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New York City. 00:28.160 --> 00:33.840 The fiction, Edgar Allan Poe's solution of that crime, which he called the mystery of 00:33.840 --> 00:43.040 Marie Roget, our star Mr. Cornell Wilde. 00:43.040 --> 00:45.400 You seen any engines around Harlow? 00:45.400 --> 00:46.400 Engines, Sheriff? 00:46.400 --> 00:51.400 I've seen thousands of engines all equipped with Auto Light's staple batteries for purring, 00:51.400 --> 00:54.160 powerful and pleasing starts in all kinds of weather. 00:54.160 --> 00:57.680 Well, these engines are off the reservation. 00:57.680 --> 01:00.760 There are no reservations about an Auto Light staple battery. 01:00.760 --> 01:04.840 It states right on the case, needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:04.840 --> 01:08.080 Well, these engines didn't like life on the reservation. 01:08.080 --> 01:09.080 Life? 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04:03.040 --> 04:05.040 I am, Monsieur. 04:05.040 --> 04:06.040 Dupin? 04:06.040 --> 04:07.040 Yes, Monsieur. 04:07.040 --> 04:09.200 Oh, thank you for coming, Monsieur. 04:09.200 --> 04:11.560 I wasn't certain my messenger would find you. 04:11.560 --> 04:13.560 This way, Monsieur. 04:13.560 --> 04:14.560 Please. 04:14.560 --> 04:22.200 The Andre, Andre de Lantern from Monsieur Dupin. 04:22.200 --> 04:25.200 She died harshly. 04:25.200 --> 04:26.200 Yes. 04:26.200 --> 04:28.200 Beaten, choked, frowned. 04:28.200 --> 04:31.960 Yes, quite harshly. 04:31.960 --> 04:33.720 She was beautiful, Monsieur. 04:33.720 --> 04:35.720 Once perhaps, yes. 04:35.720 --> 04:38.880 Still, Mademoiselle What. 04:38.880 --> 04:42.680 In life she had a name, in death she must also have a name. 04:42.680 --> 04:43.680 Any of you? 04:43.680 --> 04:45.480 I have asked, Monsieur, but none of them know her. 04:45.480 --> 04:49.400 But her clothes and jewels say she was known, Dupin. 04:49.400 --> 04:53.480 Good clothes, torn and disordered, her terrible struggle, but good. 04:53.480 --> 04:56.480 And the jewelry, not expensive, but tasteful. 04:56.480 --> 04:59.840 This woman, in my opinion, Dupin, was known. 04:59.840 --> 05:01.760 And loved, Monsieur the Prefect. 05:01.760 --> 05:02.760 No doubt. 05:02.760 --> 05:07.080 Dupin, Dupin, this is why I sent for you. 05:07.080 --> 05:09.360 I've been through these things before. 05:09.360 --> 05:13.720 The newspapers will write stories, the reporters will make conjecture. 05:13.720 --> 05:17.920 Although there is no name for her now, there will eventually be a name. 05:17.920 --> 05:20.640 And then, Monsieur, I will be called upon to produce her assassins. 05:20.640 --> 05:23.160 There is so little to go on. 05:23.160 --> 05:25.440 The eyes of the public will be upon me. 05:25.440 --> 05:26.720 My honor is at stake. 05:26.720 --> 05:30.920 And my honor too, Monsieur, if I am involved in the investigation. 05:30.920 --> 05:33.240 Dupin, listen. 05:33.240 --> 05:39.240 There is a fund at the Prefecture, a sizable fund, which I am authorized to use when circumstances 05:39.240 --> 05:40.240 arise. 05:40.240 --> 05:46.240 And for your services, I am willing to make a direct and liberal proposition. 05:46.240 --> 05:52.120 Dupin, you will help me find the answer to this woman's death. 05:52.120 --> 06:03.360 I cannot refuse. 06:03.360 --> 06:08.400 No form about the mouth, as in the case of the merely drowned Monsieur. 06:08.400 --> 06:13.240 Here, bruises, impressions of fingers. 06:13.240 --> 06:19.000 It was a fanguration by hand and by this cord, Monsieur. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Yes. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Doctor. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 Yes, Dupin. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.800 An ingenious knot in that cord, don't you think? 06:26.800 --> 06:29.880 This is a slip knot, a sailor's knot. 06:29.880 --> 06:34.560 Sailor's knot, which was found in water. 06:34.560 --> 06:36.920 Why did she die, Monsieur? 06:36.920 --> 06:41.620 For her beauty, perhaps, for her love, her hate. 06:41.620 --> 06:42.620 It was Sunday. 06:42.620 --> 06:43.620 Hmm? 06:43.620 --> 06:49.080 Observe, Doctor, there are no marks to prove she was weighted and then shaken loose. 06:49.080 --> 06:56.320 Yes, she quit life on Sunday, murdered in the dark, thrown into the river, unweighted. 06:56.320 --> 07:01.880 Monday, Tuesday, she remained as a corpse will on the bottom. 07:01.880 --> 07:07.040 And then on the third day, tonight, as a corpse will, she rose and the fishermen saw her. 07:07.040 --> 07:10.080 It is the way of corpses violently made, sir. 07:10.080 --> 07:14.820 Not only violent, but quick, near the river bank somewhere. 07:14.820 --> 07:18.720 For what assassins could carry a burden like this long undiscovered? 07:18.720 --> 07:20.640 From a dark bridge, perhaps. 07:20.640 --> 07:23.160 No, no, too much light and people. 07:23.160 --> 07:25.180 There had to be a boat, Doctor. 07:25.180 --> 07:29.340 If she was dropped from a bridge or pushed in from the shore, the current might press 07:29.340 --> 07:33.120 her aside to be caught in the vegetation of the shallow water. 07:33.120 --> 07:37.200 She was murdered on the bank and then taken out to her grave in a boat. 07:37.200 --> 07:40.800 And there had to be a man who knew how to handle a boat in the tricky current. 07:40.800 --> 07:41.800 Who is there? 07:41.800 --> 07:44.120 It is I, the Prefect. 07:44.120 --> 07:47.960 I have someone who thinks he may know her. 07:47.960 --> 07:48.960 Hmm. 07:48.960 --> 07:49.960 Come in, Monsieur. 07:49.960 --> 07:55.560 Ahead of me, please. 07:55.560 --> 07:58.000 With your permission, Doctor, Monsieur Dupont. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Monsieur Beauvais, Monsieur. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 How do you do? 08:00.000 --> 08:04.200 Monsieur Beauvais has been searching since Monday for news of a Marie Roget. 08:04.200 --> 08:07.200 Mademoiselle Roget is an employee of Monsieur Beauvais. 08:07.200 --> 08:08.200 Correct, Monsieur? 08:08.200 --> 08:09.200 Correct. 08:09.200 --> 08:10.200 I am a parfumer. 08:10.200 --> 08:14.120 I called on her mother, Madame Roget, Monday when Mary did not appear at my shop. 08:14.120 --> 08:18.480 Madame informed me that Mary had left Sunday morning to visit her aunt at Rue des Drômes. 08:18.480 --> 08:19.480 She has not yet returned. 08:19.480 --> 08:20.480 I see. 08:20.480 --> 08:21.480 And what else? 08:21.480 --> 08:22.480 I cannot say, Monsieur. 08:22.480 --> 08:25.840 So far I have ascertained that she never arrived at Rue des Drômes. 08:25.840 --> 08:28.560 And indeed, no one has seen her since Sunday. 08:28.560 --> 08:30.440 Can you describe Marie Roget? 08:30.440 --> 08:36.960 But of course, dark hair, almost black, dark eyes, tall, young, vibrant, a woman, Monsieur, 08:36.960 --> 08:37.960 of great promise. 08:37.960 --> 08:42.000 Jacques Saint-Tustache, the last to see her, mentioned to me that Mademoiselle was a frock 08:42.000 --> 08:44.320 of fine muslin, deep blue. 08:44.320 --> 08:45.320 I knew it well. 08:45.320 --> 08:46.640 A bonnet to match goes with it. 08:46.640 --> 08:47.640 Je parle. 08:47.640 --> 08:49.920 Who is Jacques Saint-Tustache, Beauvais? 08:49.920 --> 08:52.960 Monsieur Saint-Tustache is the accepted tutor of Marie Roget. 08:52.960 --> 08:56.640 He lodges and takes meals at the pension kept by Madame Roget. 08:56.640 --> 09:01.280 He was to have gone for his betrothed at dusk Sunday and to have escorted her home. 09:01.280 --> 09:05.000 In the afternoon it rained heavily and supposing that she would remain at her aunt's, he did 09:05.000 --> 09:07.560 not think it necessary to keep his promise. 09:07.560 --> 09:10.480 She has stayed there under similar circumstances. 09:10.480 --> 09:13.160 And where is Jacques Saint-Tustache at this moment? 09:13.160 --> 09:16.280 Searching and anxious as I am for Marie Roget. 09:16.280 --> 09:18.560 It is three days since Sunday. 09:18.560 --> 09:22.640 Four days really, but three that Marie Roget has been considered missing. 09:22.640 --> 09:24.120 Your search is tardy. 09:24.120 --> 09:26.120 I know, Monsieur. 09:26.120 --> 09:28.960 Well, I am at your mercy. 09:28.960 --> 09:30.680 She has disappeared twice. 09:30.680 --> 09:34.560 Ah, the first time she disappeared was about three years ago. 09:34.560 --> 09:37.560 Her mother, her friends were unable to account for her disappearance. 09:37.560 --> 09:40.240 I was distracted with anxiety and terror. 09:40.240 --> 09:42.000 Did you notify the police? 09:42.000 --> 09:44.080 In that case, immediately, Monsieur. 09:44.080 --> 09:48.960 But suddenly, Marie reappeared one fine morning after being absent a week. 09:48.960 --> 09:52.700 She was in good health and held with somewhat the sad and air. 09:52.700 --> 09:56.200 She explained she had spent the missing week with her relative in the country. 09:56.200 --> 10:01.520 Madame Roget, who was and still is infirm, recalled this to be a fact. 10:01.520 --> 10:03.680 And the matter was forgotten, until now. 10:03.680 --> 10:07.400 So you did not call the police the second time she disappeared? 10:07.400 --> 10:10.320 What has happened once can happen again. 10:10.320 --> 10:12.280 What did happen that week she was away? 10:12.280 --> 10:13.280 I do not know. 10:13.280 --> 10:15.160 I do not honestly know. 10:15.160 --> 10:18.120 But you doubt the story of visiting a relative? 10:18.120 --> 10:20.000 I will not say. 10:20.000 --> 10:21.620 Show him what we have, Doctor. 10:21.620 --> 10:25.040 If you will kindly step over here, Monsieur Beauvais. 10:25.040 --> 10:30.240 No, Monsieur Beauvais, if you please. 10:30.240 --> 10:33.320 Do you know this woman, Monsieur? 10:33.320 --> 10:34.320 It is her. 10:34.320 --> 10:35.320 It is Marie Roget. 10:35.320 --> 10:36.320 It is her. 10:36.320 --> 10:37.320 Poor little Beauvais. 10:37.320 --> 10:38.320 Poor Marie. 10:38.320 --> 10:43.320 Why does Beauvais cry, duain? 10:43.320 --> 10:49.600 The girl only worked for him. 10:49.600 --> 10:52.280 He has not told us all. 10:52.280 --> 10:56.000 He is suspect, duain, and I will have a word with him. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 Say. 10:57.000 --> 11:02.360 But, duain, why does he weep for a shop girl, a cruisette who has promised to another? 11:02.360 --> 11:08.680 He weeps for youth and beauty. 11:08.680 --> 11:21.640 Yes, Monsieur? 11:21.640 --> 11:23.680 I am Dupin, Madame Roget. 11:23.680 --> 11:24.680 May I come in? 11:24.680 --> 11:25.680 Oh, come. 11:25.680 --> 11:26.680 Come. 11:26.680 --> 11:30.240 No, no, please sit, Madame. 11:30.240 --> 11:34.920 I understand you are not well. 11:34.920 --> 11:38.280 I have been invalid ten years now. 11:38.280 --> 11:41.120 I will not consume a great deal of time. 11:41.120 --> 11:47.360 May I ask, did your daughter often visit relatives in other distant parts of the city? 11:47.360 --> 11:48.360 Often. 11:48.360 --> 11:49.960 And stay overnight? 11:49.960 --> 11:50.960 Often. 11:50.960 --> 11:53.240 With your approval, Madame? 11:53.240 --> 11:58.920 She was and has been free of me since her sixteenth year. 11:58.920 --> 12:02.760 That is a very frank answer, Madame. 12:02.760 --> 12:06.720 I can tell you nothing of what has happened to her. 12:06.720 --> 12:10.960 She leaves me on a morning with no enemies I know of. 12:10.960 --> 12:14.080 And do you know of her friends? 12:14.080 --> 12:17.960 I understand the intention of your remark. 12:17.960 --> 12:20.800 You refer to those besides Jacques. 12:20.800 --> 12:24.320 No, I know of none. 12:24.320 --> 12:28.040 I understand that Jacques Saint-Eustache keeps rooms here. 12:28.040 --> 12:29.040 That is true? 12:29.040 --> 12:32.480 Yes, but he is no longer here. 12:32.480 --> 12:38.480 He left once he was informed of Marie's death, where I do not know. 12:38.480 --> 12:41.720 But surely he understood that we would be by to question him? 12:41.720 --> 12:44.840 He was beside himself with grief. 12:44.840 --> 12:46.840 I cannot blame him. 12:46.840 --> 12:47.840 I see. 12:47.840 --> 12:54.640 Oh, I have been of no assistance where I would like to be. 12:54.640 --> 12:59.840 And yet I knew something that morning. 12:59.840 --> 13:06.560 I knew she would not come back to her mama again. 13:06.560 --> 13:09.200 You knew she would not be back, Madame? 13:09.200 --> 13:11.840 Did she take clothes, bid her a longer goodbye? 13:11.840 --> 13:13.240 How did you know? 13:13.240 --> 13:14.240 I knew. 13:14.240 --> 13:15.240 I knew, Monsieur. 13:15.240 --> 13:21.840 Death was very close to her that day. 13:21.840 --> 13:25.640 If you knew this, Madame, why did you allow her to venture out? 13:25.640 --> 13:27.640 I stop her? 13:27.640 --> 13:29.640 No, no. 13:29.640 --> 13:36.040 If it is not met, Death will arrange a meeting. 13:36.040 --> 13:42.840 If the meeting had been here, Death might have visited me too. 13:42.840 --> 14:02.960 And I am yet afraid to die. 14:02.960 --> 14:07.840 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Cornell Wilde in Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie 14:07.840 --> 14:24.840 Roger, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:24.840 --> 14:26.080 I got him, Harlow. 14:26.080 --> 14:27.320 An Indian, Sheriff? 14:27.320 --> 14:29.640 Nope, an auto light staple. 14:29.640 --> 14:34.520 The battery that says right on the case needs water only three times a year in normal car 14:34.520 --> 14:35.520 use. 14:35.520 --> 14:37.640 That's the brand of battery for my car, by Ginger. 14:37.640 --> 14:43.280 You mean buy auto light staple batteries and you buy Ginger and Pep for a fast dependable 14:43.280 --> 14:44.920 start every time. 14:44.920 --> 14:49.720 Fiberglass retaining mats surround each positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking and give 14:49.720 --> 14:53.800 the auto light staple longer life, as proved by life cycle standards. 14:53.800 --> 14:57.720 Sounds like you couldn't buy a better battery with a pocket full of nuggets. 14:57.720 --> 15:03.200 So friends, see your expert auto light battery dealer for an auto light staple, the battery 15:03.200 --> 15:07.380 that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 15:07.380 --> 15:12.400 To quickly locate your nearest auto light battery dealer who services all makes of batteries, 15:12.400 --> 15:15.800 phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 15:15.800 --> 15:20.200 That's right, I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest auto light battery dealer. 15:20.200 --> 15:25.360 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 15:25.360 --> 15:31.040 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Cornell Wilde in Elliot Lewis's 15:31.040 --> 15:38.160 production of Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roger, a tale well calculated to 15:38.160 --> 15:42.440 keep you in suspense. 15:42.440 --> 15:53.400 DuPin again, you will recall the event we have been attending in Paris. 15:53.400 --> 16:00.920 I invite you now to keep in mind the solemn fact that Marie Roger died violently. 16:00.920 --> 16:05.520 And her lover Jacques Santostache is missing. 16:05.520 --> 16:13.880 Where she died, who administered her death, for what reason remain to be known. 16:13.880 --> 16:19.520 Attend at this point another event, if you will, which was arranged by that zealous and 16:19.520 --> 16:24.160 righteous man, the prefect of police. 16:24.160 --> 16:26.360 Thank you for coming DuPin. 16:26.360 --> 16:28.720 You have located the lover Santostache. 16:28.720 --> 16:29.720 Santostache? 16:29.720 --> 16:34.120 Oh, he is unimportant, I assure you. 16:34.120 --> 16:38.480 Somewhere right now he drinks and tries to forget. 16:38.480 --> 16:42.720 But what I have here is important, most important. 16:42.720 --> 16:45.720 Madame Dulac, if you please. 16:45.720 --> 16:47.720 Good evening, gentlemen. 16:47.720 --> 16:48.720 Good evening. 16:48.720 --> 16:49.720 This is Madame Dulac. 16:49.720 --> 16:53.080 She has something of interest to tell you. 16:53.080 --> 16:56.680 And I have something of interest to show you. 16:56.680 --> 16:57.800 Good evening, madame. 16:57.800 --> 17:02.880 I have maintained this tavern many years, right here, close to the bank of the river. 17:02.880 --> 17:03.880 No, no, no. 17:03.880 --> 17:05.640 No fear with me, madame. 17:05.640 --> 17:10.600 I have no authority to do anything but respect your person and your thoughts. 17:10.600 --> 17:12.600 What is this information? 17:12.600 --> 17:15.200 I saw a young woman here some day. 17:15.200 --> 17:17.320 Monsieur said it was Marie Roger. 17:17.320 --> 17:18.320 It was, definitely. 17:18.320 --> 17:19.320 Just a moment. 17:19.320 --> 17:20.320 Sunday, madame. 17:20.320 --> 17:21.320 Yes. 17:21.320 --> 17:22.320 Mid-afternoon, later perhaps. 17:22.320 --> 17:23.320 Where? 17:23.320 --> 17:26.800 Right here in my tavern. 17:26.800 --> 17:30.880 She arrived accompanied by a young man of dark, swore the complexion. 17:30.880 --> 17:33.280 The two remained here for some time. 17:33.280 --> 17:37.280 On their departure, they took the road through some thick woods that way. 17:37.280 --> 17:38.600 Toward the river, du par. 17:38.600 --> 17:41.720 And this is a secluded neighborhood. 17:41.720 --> 17:42.720 Go on, madame. 17:42.720 --> 17:43.720 Go on. 17:43.720 --> 17:48.960 Soon after they left, a gang of miscreants made their appearance at my place of business. 17:48.960 --> 17:49.960 They behaved boisterously. 17:49.960 --> 17:52.960 They ate and drank without payment. 17:52.960 --> 17:58.160 Then left and followed the route of the young girl and the young man that same way. 17:58.160 --> 17:59.160 I see. 17:59.160 --> 18:04.760 About dusk, the same gang reappeared and we crossed the river in great haste. 18:04.760 --> 18:06.240 I see. 18:06.240 --> 18:08.480 And you are certain it was Marie Roger? 18:08.480 --> 18:09.640 Never fear. 18:09.640 --> 18:14.800 My men spoke with an unnoticed driver, a man named Valence, who knew Marie Roger. 18:14.800 --> 18:20.240 He claims he saw her cross the Seine on the Sunday afternoon in question with the swarthy 18:20.240 --> 18:23.920 man who fits the exact description of madame. 18:23.920 --> 18:26.520 And what else, monsieur? 18:26.520 --> 18:28.520 I will show you. 18:28.520 --> 18:29.520 Come. 18:29.520 --> 18:40.840 I followed him through the back of the tavern into the thick woods which lined the Seine 18:40.840 --> 18:41.840 at that point. 18:41.840 --> 18:49.360 He stopped when we had come to a close thicket, within which were three or four large stones 18:49.360 --> 18:53.160 forming a kind of seat with a back and footstool. 18:53.160 --> 19:03.160 Note du Parme, a white petticoat here, here a silk scarf, parasol, gloves, pocket handkerchief, 19:03.160 --> 19:05.400 inspector handkerchief du Parme. 19:05.400 --> 19:06.400 Thank you. 19:06.400 --> 19:09.800 You note the name Marie Roger embroidered there? 19:09.800 --> 19:10.800 Yes, yes. 19:10.800 --> 19:13.760 So this is the place she met her death. 19:13.760 --> 19:15.280 Well, of course it is. 19:15.280 --> 19:16.280 I have found it. 19:16.280 --> 19:22.360 Look, look, the earth is crumpled where she struggled and over here, here a bush is still 19:22.360 --> 19:24.120 broken. 19:24.120 --> 19:26.440 Every evidence of a terrible struggle. 19:26.440 --> 19:30.520 And here, here, the fence has been taken down and the ground shows that some heavy burden 19:30.520 --> 19:32.680 was dragged along it toward the river. 19:32.680 --> 19:36.280 Well, come, come, look for yourself. 19:36.280 --> 19:39.560 What say you now? 19:39.560 --> 19:41.160 I am wondering. 19:41.160 --> 19:42.160 Wonder? 19:42.160 --> 19:45.200 Well, we have facts now, sir, important facts. 19:45.200 --> 19:50.200 Do you recall a strip of one of the unfortunate girls' petticoat had been tied about her mouth 19:50.200 --> 19:51.960 probably to prevent her screams? 19:51.960 --> 19:52.960 I do. 19:52.960 --> 19:56.720 This was done by fellows who had no pocket handkerchiefs. 19:56.720 --> 20:02.760 Miscreants du Parme, miscreants such as those who visited Madame Duloc's tavern and later 20:02.760 --> 20:06.600 went the same way as Marie Roger and her companion. 20:06.600 --> 20:09.880 There are many such gangs about here. 20:09.880 --> 20:12.400 All we have to do is locate them. 20:12.400 --> 20:22.240 And I know how to do that. 20:22.240 --> 20:28.080 That night, the shrill cries of the Paris newsboys proclaimed the prefect's resolve. 20:28.080 --> 20:34.600 He offered a reward of 20,000 francs and a full pardon for any king's evidence. 20:34.600 --> 20:41.800 It was an accepted conclusion that Marie Roger had been waylaid and slain by a gang of miscreants 20:41.800 --> 20:45.440 in the vicinity of Madame Duloc's tavern. 20:45.440 --> 20:53.280 Ah, well, are you defeated, Monsieur du Parme, now that I have solved the mystery of Marie 20:53.280 --> 20:54.280 Roger? 20:54.280 --> 20:55.280 No, Monsieur. 20:55.280 --> 20:56.280 Ho, ho. 20:56.280 --> 20:58.080 I have doubled the reward. 20:58.080 --> 21:01.200 Soon one of the miscreants will come forward, then you'll see. 21:01.200 --> 21:04.160 40,000 francs should be temptation enough. 21:04.160 --> 21:07.800 Twenty thousand was temptation enough. 21:07.800 --> 21:10.000 No one will come forward, Monsieur. 21:10.000 --> 21:15.480 A gang such as it's hoped for would be composed of men who have never seen more than a hundred 21:15.480 --> 21:17.880 francs at one time. 21:17.880 --> 21:23.760 Twenty thousand would bring all of them if, if they had any knowledge of Marie Roger's 21:23.760 --> 21:24.760 murder. 21:24.760 --> 21:25.760 Oh, they're just waiting. 21:25.760 --> 21:26.760 You know that. 21:26.760 --> 21:27.760 Waiting. 21:27.760 --> 21:29.880 When each is in jeopardy because of the other. 21:29.880 --> 21:31.440 Ho, ho, ho. 21:31.440 --> 21:33.960 We shall see du Parme wait. 21:33.960 --> 21:35.480 It was one man. 21:35.480 --> 21:36.480 Huh? 21:36.480 --> 21:41.040 A man who dragged the body of Mademoiselle to the river's edge. 21:41.040 --> 21:44.800 A gang, even two men, could have carried it. 21:44.800 --> 21:45.800 Oh. 21:45.800 --> 21:51.880 A gang would have lifted it over the fence easily instead of taking a fence down as it 21:51.880 --> 21:53.640 was taken down. 21:53.640 --> 21:55.600 One man labored hard. 21:55.600 --> 21:59.120 Well, my conjecture is as good as yours. 21:59.120 --> 22:00.920 Are you talking of Saint-Eustache? 22:00.920 --> 22:01.920 No. 22:01.920 --> 22:02.920 No. 22:02.920 --> 22:03.920 He is quite unguilty. 22:03.920 --> 22:10.960 Monsieur, allow me to point out that the newspapers, the police, all have identified themselves 22:10.960 --> 22:13.560 with what apparently happened. 22:13.560 --> 22:16.520 We must consider what did not happen. 22:16.520 --> 22:21.320 First, a gang did not set upon her and murder her. 22:21.320 --> 22:26.160 Secondly, Marie Roger had no intention of visiting her aunt at Rue des Drommes when 22:26.160 --> 22:28.720 she left her mother-in-law last Sunday morning. 22:28.720 --> 22:32.440 Du Parme, if you have confident information, explain yourself. 22:32.440 --> 22:35.640 I have the same information as you. 22:35.640 --> 22:36.640 Nothing else. 22:36.640 --> 22:39.720 You said she had no intention of visiting her aunt that day. 22:39.720 --> 22:41.720 Why do you say that? 22:41.720 --> 22:47.280 Monsieur, consider what might have happened if her intended Jacques Saint-Eustache had 22:47.280 --> 22:51.560 called for her at her aunt's and discovered she was not there, that she had not been there 22:51.560 --> 22:52.680 all day. 22:52.680 --> 22:56.600 He would have been chagrined, suspicious, angry. 22:56.600 --> 22:59.200 Saint-Eustache would have been all these. 22:59.200 --> 23:03.360 Nothing for Marie Roger to worry about when she returned home. 23:03.360 --> 23:08.520 But nothing to worry about if Marie did not intend to return home. 23:08.520 --> 23:11.000 Well, a point to consider, perhaps. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 Go on. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.480 Consider that she kept a rendezvous instead. 23:15.480 --> 23:19.120 This we know, a rendezvous with a swarthy man. 23:19.120 --> 23:22.240 We have been told that by two witnesses who saw him. 23:22.240 --> 23:29.120 Now, Monsieur, I ask you, as I have asked myself, did this swarthy companion allow Marie 23:29.120 --> 23:31.400 to be slain before his eyes? 23:31.400 --> 23:34.800 Or was he himself slain trying to help her? 23:34.800 --> 23:37.240 If so, where is his body? 23:37.240 --> 23:40.360 Well, he left her before she was set upon, obviously. 23:40.360 --> 23:42.760 Did he leave her alone in such a dark district? 23:42.760 --> 23:43.760 They quarreled. 23:43.760 --> 23:44.760 Indeed they did. 23:44.760 --> 23:45.760 Another question. 23:45.760 --> 23:51.360 Marie Roger's death is known everywhere in France. 23:51.360 --> 23:54.880 Why has he not come forward to help us clear up the mystery? 23:54.880 --> 23:55.880 Many reasons. 23:55.880 --> 23:57.880 Perhaps he is married. 23:57.880 --> 23:59.280 He's left. 23:59.280 --> 24:00.720 He's uninformed. 24:00.720 --> 24:06.960 He has a swarthy complexion, a sea complexion, a well-attested fact. 24:06.960 --> 24:12.240 Now, accumulate that with the cord that was tied about her neck in a sailor's knot. 24:12.240 --> 24:14.960 Monsieur Dupin, I have not the sl... 24:14.960 --> 24:20.560 And the need of a skilled boatman to handle a boat on the river to dispose of the body. 24:20.560 --> 24:21.880 But it could be anyone. 24:21.880 --> 24:23.640 No, it could not. 24:23.640 --> 24:24.640 What? 24:24.640 --> 24:29.200 Marie Roger was a gay, not an abject girl. 24:29.200 --> 24:31.080 No common seaman for her. 24:31.080 --> 24:34.080 An officer, a naval officer, monsieur. 24:34.080 --> 24:39.840 Like the one who might have led her into a false elopement the first time she disappeared. 24:39.840 --> 24:41.680 Three years passed. 24:41.680 --> 24:46.720 The approved time for a French man of war to consume encircling the globe. 24:46.720 --> 24:52.720 The officer returns, thinking of the same coquette, Marie Roger. 24:52.720 --> 24:55.120 The same bargain. 24:55.120 --> 24:59.440 What he has managed to do once, he can do again. 24:59.440 --> 25:02.320 Marie meets him Sunday for this purpose. 25:02.320 --> 25:06.960 Then she thinks the better of an elopement and refuses to accompany him. 25:06.960 --> 25:09.840 Santa Stash has captured her love. 25:09.840 --> 25:12.120 Her former lover slays her in quick anger. 25:12.120 --> 25:15.720 He drags her body to the river, commandeers a boat. 25:15.720 --> 25:16.720 Where do I find him? 25:16.720 --> 25:19.400 On whatever ship has arrived from the world cruise. 25:19.400 --> 25:20.400 His name? 25:20.400 --> 25:21.760 What is his name, du Par? 25:21.760 --> 25:26.520 Enquire for the name of the young officer who has applied for leave to get married. 25:26.520 --> 25:31.040 But there must be many such among a ship's complement returning after a long cruise. 25:31.040 --> 25:32.040 Agreed. 25:32.040 --> 25:37.960 But, monsieur le Prefect, there is only one naval officer who has returned to his ship 25:37.960 --> 25:40.000 without a bride. 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 Andre! 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 Andre! 25:42.000 --> 25:54.200 We leave at once for the naval yards. 25:54.200 --> 25:57.320 It has been an interesting evening. 25:57.320 --> 26:01.160 And now I issue a last invitation, my friends. 26:01.160 --> 26:08.100 I invite you to retain all that you have heard and employ this time, instead of your imagination, 26:08.100 --> 26:10.440 your sense of reality. 26:10.440 --> 26:15.960 The title of Marie Roget of Paris was truthfully Mary Rogers of New York. 26:15.960 --> 26:21.360 Let your reality move you back to New York City on a winter day some months after the 26:21.360 --> 26:23.640 event described. 26:23.640 --> 26:30.640 In the darkening afternoon inside a gray stone building, I invite you to attend another event 26:30.640 --> 26:34.840 I think you will find significant. 26:34.840 --> 26:49.240 Ensign Robert Bryant Wilson, you have been found guilty of the murder of Mary Cecilia 26:49.240 --> 26:50.240 Rogers. 26:50.240 --> 27:18.280 It is the judgment of this court that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead. 27:18.280 --> 27:32.800 This evening has been a life tones day but there's no dole. 27:32.800 --> 27:47.320 There's no one to change these지만ches, on this day not a single man will go to court 27:47.320 --> 27:51.320 ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, both standard and resistor types, 27:51.320 --> 27:57.320 voltage regulators, wire and battery cable, Auto Light bullseye sealed beam units, 27:57.320 --> 28:02.320 and Auto Light original service parts for all Auto Light electrical systems. 28:02.320 --> 28:06.320 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 28:06.320 --> 28:10.320 So, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:10.320 --> 28:22.320 Next week, one of the most terrifying half hours ever presented on Suspense, 28:22.320 --> 28:28.320 a young couple and a mad woman, and what happened to them on a country road. 28:28.320 --> 28:34.320 Our star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy, that's next week on Suspense. 28:34.320 --> 28:43.320 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 28:43.320 --> 28:49.320 Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roget was adapted for Suspense by E. 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