1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,720 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Jeff Chandler in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:19,200 of Suspense. 3 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,840 Tonight Auto Light presents a true story, the report of two murders and the heroic man 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,800 responsible for these necessary atrocities. 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:37,080 It's called Death at Scrakerood Pond, our star Mr. Jeff Chandler. 6 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,380 One hundred thousand dollars in cash. 7 00:00:39,380 --> 00:00:44,200 This is Harlow Wilcox asking if you've signed up for the great Auto Light family charity 8 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,200 drawing. 9 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,440 One hundred thousand dollars will be given away to the churches, hospitals, or other 10 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:56,520 recognized local or national charities picked by the 25 persons selected in this huge drawing. 11 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,040 There's no obligation except writing your name and address. 12 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,360 Before we tell you how to enter, here's what Mr. Bruce Palmer, executive chairman of the 13 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,680 United Defense Fund, has to say about this Auto Light family drawing. 14 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,000 This offer deserves the attention of everyone interested in helping his fellow man. 15 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,920 I hope that the United Defense Fund, which includes the USO activities, will benefit 16 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:18,920 too. 17 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,480 But no matter what your favorite charity, I urge you to enter this Auto Light drawing. 18 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,480 Thank you, Mr. Palmer. 19 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,240 And friends, just visit any of the following Auto Light family car dealer showrooms. 20 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:35,840 DeSoto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard, Kaiser, or Chrysler. 21 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:41,160 Fill out the registration form at any of these dealers and you may help your favorite recognized 22 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:46,840 charity get a major share of one hundred thousand dollars. 23 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,720 And now, Auto Light presents Transcribed, Death at Scrakerood Pond, a true story, starring 24 00:01:52,720 --> 00:02:00,880 Mr. Jeff Chandler as Arnie, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 25 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,120 Mother. 26 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,120 Mother. 27 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,120 Mother. 28 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,120 Mother. 29 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:23,120 Mother. 30 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,120 Mother. 31 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,120 Mother. 32 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:40,120 Who is it? 33 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:47,120 There's no one. 34 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,120 It's all right. 35 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:59,120 It's all right. 36 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:04,120 You're hurt. 37 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,120 You're hurt. 38 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,120 George! 39 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,120 Train full of Nazis. 40 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,120 George! George, do you hear me? 41 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,120 I'm not badly hurt, Father. 42 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,120 Let me see. 43 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,120 No? No, you're not. 44 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,120 Seems... 45 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,120 Yes, the bullet has gone through your shoulder, 46 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,120 and the blood you've lost. 47 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,120 Get him up. Get him from the floor. 48 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,120 Yes. 49 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,120 Put your arm above my neck, George. 50 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,120 I'm not here. 51 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,120 Now, what have you done? 52 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,120 I've helped to blow up a train. 53 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,120 A Nazi troop train. 54 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,120 And in running away, you were shot. 55 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,120 Yes. 56 00:03:47,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Let him alone. 57 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,120 Arnie. 58 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,120 Come in, Arnie. 59 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,120 He's there. 60 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:12,120 How are you, George? 61 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,120 Weak. That's all. 62 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,120 You are recognized, George. 63 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,120 I'm sorry, I can't... 64 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,120 Can you walk? 65 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,120 Yes. Yes, I think so. 66 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Then come. Come on. I'll help you. 67 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,120 Mrs. Helmand, Mrs. Helmand. 68 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:26,120 We're taking him out of the country. 69 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,120 First to a doctor, and then outside. 70 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,120 The underground. 71 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,120 The underground. 72 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,120 When there's victory, Mother. 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,120 Papa. 74 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,120 No! Get off! 75 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,120 Nick, last... 76 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,120 Let them go. Let them go. 77 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:46,120 There was a trail of blood. I followed it here. 78 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,120 Ah, come. 79 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,120 We'll go back to bed. 80 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,120 To shiver with fright. 81 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Yes. 82 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,120 Go to bed and stare at the dark 83 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,120 and wait for the knock on the door in the Gestapo. 84 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,120 Stare in the dark and think gambits. 85 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,120 Think of clever things to say to the Gestapo, such as what? 86 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,120 My son, a member of the underground? My son? 87 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,120 Surely there is a mistake. 88 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,120 Or I have no son, Lieutenant. 89 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,120 Therefore, you cannot arrest me for something this boy has done. 90 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,120 Will these be your thoughts too, Anna, when you go to bed? 91 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,120 The same. 92 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,120 For surely they will come. 93 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,120 There will come a knock on the door, 94 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,120 and they will drag us from our home and send us where? 95 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Perhaps to Germany and Dachauana to burn. 96 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,120 Miklas, these are the thoughts I have. 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,120 Because of our son. Anna, because of our son. 98 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:45,120 Yes. 99 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,120 Now he's been recognized. Anna said. 100 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,120 Yes. 101 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,120 They will come here. 102 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,120 They will come. 103 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,120 We can go to bed now and stare at the dark. 104 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,120 At least now we know this will be the last time. 105 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,120 No. 106 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,120 What are you doing? 107 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,120 Fire! 108 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,120 12,000 Kroner. 109 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,120 This is all the money in the house? 110 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,120 Yes, but the bank, we have so much more. 111 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,120 12,000 Kroner. 112 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,120 Suddenly I am a pauper. 113 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,120 Anna. 114 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:27,120 What is it? 115 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,120 Your jewelry, get it. 116 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,120 But why? 117 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,120 All of it. Get your things together. 118 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,120 We are going to get out of here, across the border. 119 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,120 They will take us across the underground. 120 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,120 They have to, they have to. 121 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Do you understand me, Anna? 122 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,120 You are the patriots. 123 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,120 And you are the sellers of freedom. 124 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,120 And Mrs. Hellman and I have come to bargain and buy. 125 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,120 I told you the borders are closed. 126 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,120 The Nazi patrols swarmed. 127 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,120 I don't know, Mr. Hellman. 128 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,120 You don't know. 129 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,120 Your underground has helped hundreds to escape. 130 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,120 Less worthy. 131 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,120 Yet you balk at us. Why? 132 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,120 What do you think, Hansel? 133 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,120 I think this, Arnie. 134 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,120 The Gestapo has searched for us two years now. 135 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,120 These people coming here have made it easy for them. 136 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,120 Let's have nothing to do with them. 137 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,120 And I think this. 138 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,120 If you do not help us. 139 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,120 If you do not lead us across the border into Sweden. 140 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,120 Then I will report you to the Gestapo. 141 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,120 I personally will tell them who you are, where you are. 142 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,120 No, wait. Wait. 143 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,120 No, he did not mean that, my husband. 144 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,120 Miklas did not. 145 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,120 You heard him. 146 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,120 He did not mean it. 147 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,120 He is frightened and he is desperate. 148 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,120 And he does not know what he said. 149 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,120 Do not beg of them, Anna. 150 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,120 We are not their beggars. 151 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,120 Please, Miklas. 152 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,120 I will not beg. 153 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,120 I will tell them of us. 154 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,120 Thirty years we have lived in your country, Mr. Arnie, Mr. Hansen. 155 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,120 With pride, with respect, with love for the things of your country. 156 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,120 And because my son has spilled blood for this country. 157 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,120 We now must flee it and begin another life. 158 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,120 And we are not young. 159 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,120 But we are rich. 160 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,120 And we will pay you well for this new life. 161 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,120 More than any of the others. 162 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,120 We are rich. 163 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,120 We will pay you well. 164 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,120 We are not in this to make profit on sorrow, Mrs. Hellman. 165 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,120 Heroes then is what you are. 166 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:36,120 Listen to me. 167 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:37,120 It is not good, Arnie. 168 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,120 I tell you it is not good. 169 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,120 Listen to me. 170 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:47,120 This new life you want, it lies through bitter wilderness and savage hardships and swamp and cold. 171 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,120 Be eloquent, Arnie. Be eloquent. 172 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:59,120 Let the words spill slow and thoughtful from your mouth while the Gestapo searches for us, for you, comes nearer and nearer. 173 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,120 We could try, Hansen. 174 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,120 How? 175 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,120 I know a way through the forest, a way unused before, where Skrykerud pond is. 176 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,120 Maybe we could. 177 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:11,120 Yes, I think we could. 178 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:12,120 Good. 179 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,120 Then it is settled. 180 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,120 You see, Arnie, it is simply a matter of bargaining. 181 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,120 One knows how to bargain. One lives... 182 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,120 Get your things together. We are getting out right now. 183 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,120 Quickly. 184 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,120 At your command, Arnie. At your command. 185 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,120 Wait. Wait for us. 186 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,120 Wait here, Hansen. I will go back to them. 187 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,120 What's the matter? 188 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,120 I cannot go, Father. I cannot. 189 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,120 You have to keep going, Mrs. Zuhörder. We will rest here. 190 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,120 Listen to me. It has taken us almost seven hours to go three miles. 191 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,120 There is still twenty miles to the Swedish border and there are Nazi patrols that will be late in the hour. 192 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,120 You take us for animals, for beasts? 193 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,120 We will rest here and we will eat something. 194 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Do you hear me? We will rest and we will eat. Where is the food? 195 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,120 Hansen. 196 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,120 Arnie, we have to keep moving. 197 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,120 We are going to rest here, Froh. Get some of the food out of your pack. 198 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,120 Look, Arnie. 199 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,120 Get it. 200 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,120 Here, take this, Mrs. Hellman. Mr. Hellman. 201 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,120 This is food? 202 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,120 This that one throws to pigs, the livings of the gutter. 203 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,120 This you ask us to eat? 204 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,120 It is all we have. Do you want it? 205 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,120 No. No. 206 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:48,120 I have much better here. Here in my flask. 207 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:53,120 Get up. Get up. It is nearly light and twenty miles to go. 208 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:54,120 No. 209 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,120 The patrol will be by here soon. We are still... 210 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,120 We live with it then, Arnie. We cannot move. 211 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,120 You must. In this way you endanger the lives of hundreds of others. 212 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,120 You destroy the underground. You play into Nazi hands. 213 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,120 And if we do, I will save my life and my wife's life. 214 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,120 For what I can tell them. 215 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,120 All right. We rest here. 216 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,120 We will rest here for a while. 217 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:26,120 Thoughtful hero. Generous hero. 218 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,120 Hansen, come over here. 219 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,120 Hansen. 220 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,120 Yes? 221 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,120 They can destroy us and the underground. 222 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,120 The lives of other men and women who believe with us. 223 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,120 Yes. 224 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,120 Destroy what their own son has fought for in the blade. 225 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:44,120 Yes. 226 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Enemies then. 227 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:46,120 Yes. 228 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,120 We are at war. 229 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,120 I have fought these things. 230 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,120 When I carried her on my back and then him. 231 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,120 And I wondered how long for you to think also. 232 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,120 Now. 233 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,120 Now. 234 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,120 There's a rock under the snow there, Hansen. 235 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,120 Take it from the snow. 236 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,120 It's wonderful, me. 237 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:13,120 And when we are across the border, Miklas, they will be for us. 238 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,120 Where are you? 239 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,120 Old man who is dead. 240 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,120 And with you, your old woman. 241 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,120 And I am sorry. 242 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,120 And for them the border reached. 243 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,120 And an end to wilderness. 244 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,120 And freedom. 245 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,120 Vast stillness. 246 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,120 Understand, old man, old woman. 247 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,120 The only stillness we can give you. 248 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:55,120 Because this time is what it is. 249 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,120 It is done, Hansen. Now quickly we go home. 250 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:19,120 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Jeff Chandler in Death at Skrykerud Pond. 251 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:25,120 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 252 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,120 Say, Harlow, who gets that big Auto Light salute tonight? 253 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:44,120 Well, Hab, tonight it's our privilege to honor distinguished truck manufacturing members of the Auto Light family. 254 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,120 And along with them, the entire trucking industry. 255 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,120 That covers a lot of ground, Harlow. 256 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:53,120 And so do America's trucks, Hab. Over 90 billion miles last year alone. 257 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,120 Why, Hab, do you know that trucks move more tons of goods than any other form of transportation? 258 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:05,120 Yes, Harlow, and did you know that the trucking industry recently celebrated its 50th anniversary of service to America? 259 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:10,120 Right, and during those 50 years our trucks have become marvels of ruggedness and dependability. 260 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:16,120 That's due to the unique design and manufacturing skills of the truck manufacturers we salute tonight. 261 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,120 And let's not forget the men who drive those trucks, Harlow. 262 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,120 They've got the world's finest safety record. 263 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:27,120 They sure do, Hab, and that's another reason why Auto Light wishes to take this opportunity 264 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:36,120 to express appreciation for our many years of close association to truck manufacturer members of the Auto Light family and their dealers everywhere. 265 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:45,120 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Jeff Chandler of Death at Skrykerood Pond. 266 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:50,120 A true story, well calculated to keep you in suspense. 267 00:14:50,120 --> 00:15:06,120 Suspense. 268 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,120 Do not drink alone, Arnie. Drink with me. 269 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,120 Yes, Helga. 270 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:17,120 Victory drink, Arnie, for the end of war and again a time of peace we once knew. 271 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,120 And you and my brothers, then Hanson, to live as you were meant to live. 272 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,120 The bells of our village, the small bells and the great, you hear them, Arnie? 273 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,120 Yes, I hear them. 274 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:32,120 And you and my brothers, then Hanson, to live as you were meant to live. 275 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,120 The bells of our village, the small bells and the great, you hear them, Arnie? 276 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:40,120 Yes, as once long ago they rang. 277 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,120 To you, Arnie, and to my brother. 278 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,120 To your brother, then Hanson. 279 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:53,120 Who is brave and a good man and who fought for us, for the women and the children of women, who fought and bled and blessed us again with peace. 280 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:57,120 My brother and you, Arnie. 281 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:58,120 There were others. 282 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:03,120 My brother and you. Drink with me, Arnie. 283 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:09,120 And may I also drink to you, Arnie, as Helga drinks to you, as all do in your house. 284 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,120 You are welcome here, Kurt. Drink, dance, whatever thing your joy will be. 285 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:19,120 To you, Arnie, and to your fine house and your warm friends. 286 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:27,120 But I look about and I do not see a certain warm friend, soldier friend, underground friend. 287 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,120 Who? 288 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,120 The friend of the sabotage train of many years ago. 289 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,120 The friend, George Hellman. 290 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,120 Where is he, Arnie? 291 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,120 I don't know. 292 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:45,120 And a lost son brings to mind the father and the mother. 293 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:51,120 The old people and their money, jewels they had, it is said, and many kroner. 294 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:56,120 And now the old people are lost and there is wonder of them. 295 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:02,120 And you have fine things in your house. 296 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,120 The kroner, Arnie. 297 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:07,120 The kroner and jewels of the Hellmans. 298 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:08,120 Where, Arnie? 299 00:17:08,120 --> 00:17:16,120 That you bought with them, the lamp, and that, the silver. 300 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:20,120 And now I must teach you another thing. 301 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:31,120 Not to lay your murderous hands upon me. 302 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:34,120 Enough, Arnie. 303 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:37,120 Enough. 304 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:39,120 Get out. 305 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:55,120 Get out. 306 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:56,120 Sven. 307 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,120 Yes? 308 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,120 The old days. 309 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:03,120 Dead. 310 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:07,120 The old days of war, shouts and sobbing. 311 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:08,120 Dead. 312 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,120 Many years now. 313 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:15,120 Of underground and explosion, bright as sunburst. 314 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,120 Child crying alone in a snow field. 315 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,120 Wandering alone in a snow field. 316 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:21,120 They are dead. 317 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,120 You hear me, Arnie? 318 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:24,120 The old days are dead. 319 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,120 Forgotten. 320 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,120 Helga. 321 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:28,120 Quickly. 322 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:30,120 I have brought you extra clothing and food. 323 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,120 Why, Helga? 324 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,120 Why do you... 325 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:36,120 The body of Miklas Hellman and of Anna, the old woman, his wife. 326 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:39,120 The villager found them at Skraka-Ru pond. 327 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,120 He's gone to the police. 328 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,120 You bring clothes and food for us? 329 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:43,120 Why? 330 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:48,120 Warrants have been issued for the arrest of their murderers. 331 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:49,120 It's not murder. 332 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:51,120 It is what they have named it. 333 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:55,120 They too have forgotten the old days, the days of war. 334 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:56,120 They call it murder. 335 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:57,120 I've told you. 336 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:58,120 I'll tell them. 337 00:18:58,120 --> 00:18:59,120 Run, hide. 338 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:00,120 No. 339 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:01,120 Take my brother with you and go. 340 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,120 I'll tell them what happened. 341 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:03,120 I'll convince them. 342 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,120 You'll not convince them. 343 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:07,120 These are other days and they have forgotten how it was. 344 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:08,120 Sven and I did what had to be done. 345 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,120 There was no shame in it. 346 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,120 Then tell Sven to go, my brother. 347 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:13,120 Tell him. 348 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:14,120 Sven. 349 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:19,120 What you say, Arnie, that I will do as in the old days. 350 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,120 Go, Sven. 351 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:21,120 Go. 352 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:24,120 What Arnie said, there was no shame in it. 353 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,120 It was a thing of war, of need. 354 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,120 Then we stay. 355 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:40,120 Let them come. 356 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,120 Arnie Leuken, how do you plead? 357 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:48,120 I confess freely to having caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Helman. 358 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:54,120 However, to the charge of murder, I plead not guilty. 359 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:57,120 And Sven Hansen, how do you plead? 360 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:59,120 I was with Arnie Leuken. 361 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,120 The Helmans died because of me. 362 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:09,120 Yet I did not commit murder. 363 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,120 There was nothing else we could do. 364 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:12,120 So we did it. 365 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,120 Why couldn't you let them try to reach the border themselves? 366 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:16,120 They would never have made it. 367 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:17,120 Oh, come now, Mr. Hansen. 368 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,120 Men have crossed Greenland on foot. 369 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,120 Those old people. 370 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:22,120 Consider what you have said. 371 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,120 Those old people. 372 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:27,120 Yet you killed them. Something obscene. 373 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:28,120 Not so. 374 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,120 There is nothing else we could do. 375 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:32,120 Nor could they have crossed another hundred yards on foot. 376 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,120 That, of course, is your opinion. 377 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:39,120 I suggest, Mr. Hansen, that you had other motives that made it necessary to kill. 378 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:49,120 I suggest that these motives correspond with that which is most base. 379 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:53,120 Because the war is over, because the mass killing is done. 380 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,120 And the death of two solitary people is important. 381 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,120 It's forgotten now that the Helmans were our enemy. 382 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:02,120 Enemy? How? 383 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,120 They would have betrayed us. 384 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,120 It would have meant the end of the whole underground. 385 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:09,120 Which, of course, is conjecture. 386 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:12,120 Mr. Leuken. Arnie Leuken. 387 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:13,120 Tell me a thing. 388 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,120 It concerns motive, Mr. Leuken. 389 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:16,120 I told you. 390 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,120 It concerns motive, Mr. Leuken. 391 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:23,120 Both you and Mr. Hansen have repeatedly stated that your only motive was to silence the Helmans. 392 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:24,120 Is that correct? 393 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:25,120 Yes. 394 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,120 Truly? 395 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:27,120 Yes. 396 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:28,120 Not to rob them? 397 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,120 No. 398 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:31,120 Not to rob this unfortunate couple of the money they had brought with them? 399 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:32,120 No. 400 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:33,120 Nor their jewels? 401 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:36,120 Nor their jewels, Mr. Leuken? 402 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:38,120 Mr. Leuken? 403 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:42,120 Forgotten. Forgotten. Forgotten. 404 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,120 What? 405 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:53,120 Days of wrath. Days of how long ago, Mr. Prosecutor, when death leaned close to every man and beckoned. 406 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,120 When death was a Nazi, when to trick the brown-shirted men with a club was a... 407 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,120 You are quite right, sir. It was long ago. Now it is done with. 408 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:06,120 Now the return to dignity. Which is why you are here. 409 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:10,120 Prosecutor respectfully requests the court to grant recess until tomorrow. 410 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:14,120 Court will adjourn until tomorrow. 411 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,120 And struck them down in cold blood. 412 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:24,120 Then did you or did you not go through their belongings and search for the money? 413 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,120 Over a hundred thousand kroner. 414 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:27,120 No. 415 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,120 You did not go through their belongings? 416 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:32,120 We... we searched them for... for papers. 417 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:36,120 We wanted to destroy their papers so they could not be identified if they were found. 418 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,120 And you found the money? 419 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,120 And we found the money. 420 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:44,120 And not being murderers, not being killers with malicious motives, rather gentle people, 421 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:50,120 layers to rest of old folk who by some misadventure of age happen not to be able to walk 20 miles, 422 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:53,120 therefore you did not take the money. 423 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,120 What do you want me to say? What? What? 424 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,120 That you did not take the money. 425 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:58,120 We took the money. 426 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,120 Oh? 427 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,120 We took the money. 428 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:05,120 There was not a lot of it. Only... only 12,000 kroner. Listen. 429 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:06,120 The real motive then. 430 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:07,120 Listen to me. 431 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,120 Silence them, take their money, throw them into the lake. 432 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,120 That is not true. 433 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,120 Well then forgive me. Which part of it is not true? 434 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:18,120 That you did not take their money? That you did not throw them in the lake? 435 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:19,120 That you did not kill them? 436 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:20,120 Listen. 437 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,120 Kill them. 438 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:25,120 There will be silence in my courtroom. 439 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:26,120 Kill them. 440 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:27,120 Who is it who speaks? 441 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:31,120 Olsen. Canute Olsen and well you know me. 442 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:36,120 And since it is you respected citizen, there is no need to tell you that as a spectator... 443 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:41,120 No longer spectator sir. Man with compulsion to speak certain facts. 444 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,120 I request permission to address the court. 445 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,120 Very well. 446 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:49,120 Kill them I say. 447 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:54,120 These two men killed the Hellmans, took their lives from them. No doubt of it. 448 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:55,120 Mr. Olsen is here. 449 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:58,120 Mr. Olsen. Mark what you said sir. Mr. 450 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,120 The Q to it all. 451 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,120 And what was my fanciful name when there was war here? 452 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:08,120 Myself I can hardly remember. Avenger was it or Snowhawk? 453 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:12,120 I cannot remember all of them. Code names that changed each week. 454 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:17,120 Head of the underground myself with childish names to help fight a war. 455 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,120 To shield me so to live in the... 456 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,120 All of those here remember that you were... 457 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:26,120 Heroic? Did you want to say that? A soldier, fighter for liberty? 458 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:30,120 No less than these two men who killed. 459 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:34,120 Heroes, soldiers, fighters for liberty. 460 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:40,120 Killed because they were under orders to kill those who brought liberty into jeopardy. 461 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:44,120 And I gave those orders. 462 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:58,120 This is what I needed to say. 463 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:10,120 The prisoners will face the jury. 464 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:13,120 Foreman, has your jury reached the verdict? 465 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,120 Yes sir we have. 466 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:19,120 On the charge of murder of Mr. and Mrs. Miklas Hellman. 467 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:26,120 We find the defendants Arnie Leuken and Sven Hansen not guilty. 468 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,120 It is customary sir. 469 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:43,120 That the accused upon his acquittal offer thanks to the foreman of the jury which tried him. 470 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:46,120 So I wish to do this thing. 471 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:49,120 From my heart I thank you. 472 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:53,120 And this too I must say. 473 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,120 What happened at Skrykerud pond. 474 00:25:56,120 --> 00:26:01,120 What was done there was done on the face of a bleeding world. 475 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,120 A world at war. 476 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:10,120 I was caught up in it and Sven and those two old people and you and all of us. 477 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:13,120 Now it is done. 478 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:15,120 A trial was held here today. 479 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:19,120 Proof that humanity is with us again. 480 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,120 I will go home now and make prayer. 481 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:27,120 Let no one ever be called upon to do what I did. 482 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:33,120 Let the world live in peace. 483 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:04,120 Suspense presented by Auto Light tonight's star Mr. Jeff Chandler. 484 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:07,120 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 485 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:19,120 Don't forget you may help your favorite church, hospital, March of Dimes, United Defense Fund or any other local or national charity to share in the $100,000 Auto Light family charity drawing. 486 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:27,120 If you're one of 25 persons selected you will name any recognized charity you wish for a big share of this huge sum. 487 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,120 There's nothing to buy, write or solve. 488 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:34,120 So if you're 18 years or over visit any of the following dealer showrooms. 489 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:41,120 De Soto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard, Kaiser or Chrysler. 490 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:43,120 Fill out a registration form and have the dealer sign it. 491 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:50,120 That's all, but your favorite charity may have you to thank for a big part of $100,000. 492 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:57,120 Those dealers are De Soto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard, Kaiser or Chrysler. 493 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:01,120 Help your favorite charity sign up tomorrow. 494 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,120 Next week we will dramatize an astounding experience. 495 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:14,120 A man and a machine flung at a barrier of sound. 496 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,120 It's called The Outer Limit. 497 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:19,120 Our star Mr. William Holden. 498 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:23,120 That's next week on Suspense. 499 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:30,120 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick. 500 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:37,120 Death at Strangerood Fond was adapted for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin 501 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,120 with James P. Cavanaugh from Theodore Olson's report. 502 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,120 Featured in tonight's cast were Paula Winslow, Herb Butterfield, Kathy Lewis, 503 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:50,120 Byron Cain, Lou Merrill, Jack Crouchon, Joseph Kearns and Herb Ellis. 504 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,120 Jeff Chandler may currently be seen co-starring with Maureen O'Hara 505 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,120 in Universal International's Technicolor production War Arrow. 506 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:03,120 And remember next week Mr. William Holden in The Outer Limit. 507 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:24,120 This is the CBS Radio Network.