1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Cornell Wilde in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:16,520 of Suspense. 3 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:23,520 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story based on fact, the dramatic report of a murderer, 4 00:00:24,260 --> 00:00:29,380 and how he spent seven hours with a young lady before he killed her. It's called Somebody 5 00:00:29,380 --> 00:00:36,380 Help Me, our star Mr. Cornell Wilde. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,080 How would you like to feel that you have been responsible for your church, hospital, local 7 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:50,080 YMCA, or other local or national recognized charity sharing in $100,000? 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I'm lonely for you honey, like all day 25 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:34,760 to day, like now honey. 26 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,480 Making a little whimpering sound busting in here like you did when you got no right. 27 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,480 I've got it right Shirley, being a husband to you like I was for so long I've got to 28 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,480 ... 29 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,920 Husband, husband. Eddie, gentle talking Eddie who made my life miserable and ugly because 30 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:49,920 he said... 31 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:54,120 You tell me honey, what am I? 32 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,200 What you are I don't have to think about anymore, or worry about, or get ashamed about. 33 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,160 You don't want to understand do you Shirley? You're not even trying to honey. 34 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,800 It's over Eddie, I don't have to try anymore. We're divorced, three months now. And I'm 35 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:14,800 doing great, doing fine. So who needs you Eddie? I don't care what happens to you anymore. 36 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,480 Don't say a thing like that honey, all you've got to do is like me again, like if you stay 37 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:22,480 away from me. 38 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:28,440 Don't talk like that. Your throat goes hard when you talk like that, hard instead of soft 39 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,440 the way I remember... 40 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,440 Don't do that Cheryl. 41 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:56,000 The scissor Eddie, you touch me once more I'll kill you. So help me I'll kill you. 42 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,560 The murderer, who then got into his car and drove through the city, through drifting twilight 43 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:07,560 of early autumn, through the ending of a quiet Sunday, and into a street lined with maple. 44 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,160 At the corner, a girl waiting for a bus. 45 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,160 Hey Eileen. 46 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,160 Eileen, victim. 47 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:27,160 Eileen, Eileen Hall. It's me, Ed, Eddie Franklin. Not you some guy trying to pick up. 48 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:34,960 Ed, I'm sorry. I really did think you were some fresh kid or something. 49 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,560 Can I drive you some place Eileen? 50 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:37,560 Well... 51 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,960 It's no trouble, honest. I was just driving around, no special place to go, no one to 52 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,960 see. You give me a real pleasure. 53 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,200 Well if you're sure it's no trouble. 54 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,760 My pleasure, honest. Come on, my pleasure. Hop in, hop in. 55 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,760 Eileen, Eileen dear, wait. 56 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:53,760 Who's that? 57 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,360 It's just Lois Anderson, a girlfriend of mine I was visiting with today. I just left her 58 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,160 house a few minutes ago. Do you mind if I... 59 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:06,560 No, no, no. Not one little bit. You go right ahead Eileen. I'll wait. 60 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:07,560 What is it Lois? 61 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,160 Something I forgot to give you dear. A little present I had for you. I wrapped it nice. 62 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,360 You can open it when you get home. 63 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,360 Oh thanks Lois. 64 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:19,160 Don't keep your fellow waiting dear. Whoever he is. Anyone I know? 65 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,160 I don't think so. 66 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,160 Thanks again Lois. 67 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,360 I was just coming out of my house and I saw the car drive up to stop and I thought... 68 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,360 It's alright, I know it. She's a friend. Good night Lois. 69 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,360 Hmm, all set. 70 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:34,360 Yeah, thanks for... 71 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:35,360 I don't mention it. 72 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:36,360 Where to Miss? 73 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:41,360 Well, I was just waiting for the bus to go home. 74 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,360 Oh, you have to do that to go home? 75 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,360 No. Really, I thought I'd get to better early. 76 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,360 I was just going to say... 77 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,360 Well, I was just going to say if you don't really have to go home... 78 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:59,360 Well, there's a driving up the road and I thought maybe we'd stop and have a sandwich before... 79 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,360 I mean if you want to Eileen. 80 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,360 Very sweet of you. I'd like to. 81 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:20,360 Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure, Eileen. 82 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:26,360 Your sandwiches, folks, and the coke. If you'll just adjust your windham. 83 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:34,360 Thanks. I'll just screw this tray on tight. There you are, folks. Be happy. 84 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:41,360 Well, thanks, honey. Now, let's see. This is your sandwich, Eileen, and this is mine. 85 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,360 You want a straw for your drink? 86 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,360 No, thanks. I like to crunch the ice. 87 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:56,360 Ed? Your wife, has she... 88 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:01,360 Oh, that's done and finished. Eileen, I told her off good today. 89 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,360 I said stop bothering me. Stop hanging around. Stop calling me. 90 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,360 Now we're divorced, I said, and if that doesn't mean anything to you, it sure does to me, I said. 91 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,360 Why? Did you think that I... 92 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:18,360 I don't know what I thought, Ed. I just wondered. A couple of times I met you, you talked about her, and I... 93 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,360 Eileen. 94 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,360 Yes? 95 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:32,360 I'm glad I happened to see you waiting there on the corner tonight. You know, I was just driving around, and nothing to look forward to. There you were in the twilight. 96 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Oh, Ed. 97 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,360 What's the matter? 98 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:42,360 Well, nothing. Nothing to matter. The way you said that, I didn't suspect you could... 99 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,360 Oh, well, I've got a million of them. A whole million. 100 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,360 You're fine, Ed. I think I like being with you. 101 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,360 Well, me too, Eileen. You know, I wanted to call on you so many times, but... 102 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,360 What? 103 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:03,360 Hey, pal. Want to move your car a little bit? So I can park in that space next to you. 104 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,360 You hear me, pal? 105 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,360 Oh, one of those, huh? 106 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,360 Shut up! Shut up! 107 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Ed, all you've got to do is just pull over a little. 108 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,360 He's got no right to. 109 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,360 I'll show him. I'll show that loudmouth. 110 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,360 Now what's with you, big mouth? You figure I own the world or something? 111 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,360 Oh. Oh, I got me one of those. 112 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,360 What are you, a miser kid? You collect parking spaces? All you've got to do is move your car a little? 113 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:39,360 I'm not going to, big mouth. I got there first. Me and my girl, we don't want to move. We're not going to move. 114 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Yes, you will, kiddo. 115 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,360 Stop it! Stop that! Stop it! You too crazy or something? 116 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,360 Well, you heard him, Eileen. You saw him. He shoved. 117 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,360 Stop it, you hear? 118 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,360 Ed, let's get out of here. Let's go someplace else. 119 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,360 You want to? You really want to? 120 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,360 Tell him you want to, lady. All I am is hungry for a cheeseburger, so get him away from me. 121 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,360 Let's go somewhere else, Ed. Maybe where we can dance. Someplace that... 122 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,360 I know a place on the highway where there's a jukebox. 123 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,360 That sounds like fun. Let's go there, Ed. 124 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:25,360 Oh, my pleasure. My pleasure, Eileen. 125 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,360 Pardon me. Sorry. Can we get through here, please? 126 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Can we get through here, please, says the man. 127 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,360 Says the man. Says the man. Says the man. 128 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,360 Come on, come on. Let the lady and I through here. 129 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,360 Lady, lady. 130 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,360 Ed, let's get out of here. Let's not... 131 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Now listen, you punk, you little punk. Let us through here. We want to sit down. 132 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:48,360 Please, Ed. 133 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Hi, lady. To you I'll apologize. 134 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:51,360 Ed. 135 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,360 Now listen, you... 136 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,360 I'm apologizing. You want to get through, I'll get you through. 137 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:04,360 Get out of the way. Out of the way. Let these two good people by. Let them by. Let them by. 138 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,360 Table you wanted, lady? 139 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,360 Thank you. 140 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,360 Sit down, lady. 141 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:17,360 Now, mister, what about me being a punk before you sit down? That is, you tell me that. 142 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Oh, well, I... 143 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,360 Before you sit down, let it... 144 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,360 Oh, no. Forget it. No offense. You know, all those people and bumping and all. 145 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,360 Sure. And you know what? 146 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Huh? 147 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,360 Hi, I'm Bernie. 148 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:31,360 Hi. 149 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Hi, lady. I'm Bernie. 150 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,360 Eileen. And I'm Ed. 151 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Hi. Mind if I do? 152 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,360 I knew you wouldn't. 153 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,360 Sit down, Ed, and join along. 154 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,360 Hi. 155 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,360 Hello. 156 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,360 What's the matter with you? 157 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,360 Get him. 158 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:58,360 Hey, Eileen. Eileen. 159 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,360 What? What do you want? What are you laughing at? 160 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,360 Both of you. 161 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,360 A long face in this kind of place. 162 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:08,360 In form. 163 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,360 You're friendly, Eileen. Now, we've forgotten. Come on. 164 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,360 Sure. 165 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Sure it is. 166 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:15,360 Eileen. 167 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:16,360 Hi. 168 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,360 You see? You see, Eileen? 169 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Hi, Bernie. 170 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,360 Yeah, me too. 171 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:25,360 Hi, Ed. 172 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,360 Yeah. 173 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,360 You know what you ought to do, Ed? 174 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,360 Hold up three fingers and yell, beer, so Eileen and me can finish out the dance. 175 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,360 Yeah. 176 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:36,360 Come on. 177 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:37,360 All right. 178 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:58,360 Hey, three beers. Hey, you, three beers. 179 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,360 Hey, hi, hi. 180 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Hi, Ed. 181 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:25,360 I'll tell you what. You unroll the window on your side, and I'll unroll the windows on mine. 182 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,360 To let the country air in. 183 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,360 Yeah, to let the country air in. 184 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:35,360 Like we said. 185 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:36,360 Eileen. 186 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:37,360 Uh-huh. 187 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,360 No, no, no. When you're finished. 188 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,360 I'm finished. You want to talk to me. 189 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,360 Oh, that's his right. His right can be. His right can be. That's how right it is. 190 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,360 All right. Come here. 191 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:50,360 Ed. 192 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,360 Ed, you drunk? 193 00:12:53,360 --> 00:13:01,360 Oh, I would be, but I'm out with Eileen tonight, and when I lift up a glass, she pulls down my arm, pats my cheek, and says, now, Ed. 194 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,360 And Eileen. 195 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,360 Oh, I had a beer, Ed. 196 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Have a good time. 197 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,360 I guess. 198 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,360 I guess? 199 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Uh-huh. 200 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,360 I guess she says, did you see the way she was dancing? 201 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,360 Ed. 202 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:16,360 What? 203 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,360 I'm kind of ashamed. 204 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:18,360 Of what? 205 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,360 Of the kid, Bernie, dancing all those dances, and I've never done anything like that in my whole life. 206 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:28,360 Oh, come here. Come here. Come here. 207 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:29,360 Ed. 208 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,360 Huh? What's the matter? 209 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:33,360 Look. 210 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,360 What's the matter? 211 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,360 Nonsense. 212 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,360 What? 213 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,360 This. 214 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,360 Better we go home. 215 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,360 No, no, better we don't, baby. 216 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,360 Baby? 217 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:52,360 Me? Baby? 218 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,360 Home, Ed. 219 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:56,360 Oh, no. 220 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,360 Well, you picked me up. 221 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,360 You did do that, didn't you? 222 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,360 Picked me up. 223 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,360 I must have been. 224 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Out of your mind? 225 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:08,360 Better go home. 226 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,360 Oh, no. Now listen, I'm lonely. I'm lonely. 227 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:13,360 Stay away from me. 228 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,360 Come here, you. 229 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,360 And all the rest of them. 230 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:18,360 Ed. Ed. 231 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:19,360 Come here. 232 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:20,360 Ed. 233 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:49,360 Huh? 234 00:14:50,360 --> 00:15:05,360 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Cornell Wilde in Somebody Help Me, a story based on fact, 235 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:24,360 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 236 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:25,360 Hello, Harlow. 237 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,360 Why, hello, Jim. 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Tell your dealer, by the way, that Auto Light is proud of its long association with Chrysler and Chrysler dealers everywhere. 250 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:35,360 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage the remarkable characterization of Mr. Cornell Wild in Elliot Lewis's presentation of 251 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:56,360 Somebody Help Me, a story based on fact and well calculated to keep you in suspense. 252 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Eileen Hall was missing. 253 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:05,360 Four days after her disappearance, two boys were walking across a field in the outskirts of town and came across a body. 254 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:10,360 Identification was made by fingerprint and it was established that this was the missing girl. 255 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:15,360 Her friends were questioned and it became known that three men had been interested in Eileen. 256 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:18,360 The first was a corporal at a nearby boot camp. 257 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:24,360 He stated he was on duty on the night of September 10th, charge of quarters, which checked with post records. 258 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:30,360 Then a former shipyard worker who it was recalled had pursued Eileen without success. 259 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:33,360 She found out I was married. I told her I was right off the bat. 260 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,360 Politely, in the nice way she had, she told me to beat it. 261 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,360 I was playing poker on the night of September 10th. 262 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:40,360 Which checked. 263 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:44,360 A neighbor was questioned, a young man who had had several dates with her. 264 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:49,360 Maybe five or six dates. We got along, I guess, but she got tired of going out with me. 265 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:51,360 I guess we ran out of things to say to each other. 266 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:56,360 The last time I saw her it was pretty miserable. That was in July sometime. 267 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:00,360 September 10th I was out with Barbara. We got along fine. 268 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:06,360 Two on the basis of the identification, Mrs. Lois Anderson came forward, made a statement. 269 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:10,360 Eileen was visiting with me. She left my house and walked to the corner to the bus stop. 270 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:14,360 I ran after her to give her a little something I'd made for her. 271 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,360 She was just about to get into an automobile that had stopped for her. 272 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:25,360 Oh no, I never saw the man before. He, um, he wore glasses. That's all I can remember. 273 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:35,360 Medical authorities who performed an opsy reported that Eileen had been strangled somewhere around midnight. 274 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:39,360 From scraping under her nails that she had scratched her murderer. 275 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,360 And that she had eaten a ham sandwich about an hour before her death. 276 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:46,360 Therefore a check was made of every restaurant and drive-in in the area. 277 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:51,360 And one car hop said, I'm pretty sure it's the same girl. She was with a man with glasses on. 278 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,360 Got into some kind of fight with another customer. I can't remember just what it was about. 279 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:56,360 I see. 280 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,360 I remember though at first I thought it was my boyfriend driving up. 281 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:02,360 Same kind of car and it was fancied up the same way. 282 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:03,360 What kind of car was that? 283 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,360 Convertible, black convertible, plaid top. 284 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:10,360 Detective Tomasino had his men circulate through auto accessory stores. 285 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:15,360 Asking questions about a man who wore glasses and owned a black convertible with a plaid top. 286 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:19,360 They were told that the description matched that of a man named Ed Franklin. 287 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:22,360 And they furnished the policeman with an address. 288 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:24,360 He moved out when we got divorced. 289 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:25,360 Where'd he go? 290 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:26,360 I don't know. 291 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:28,360 Have you heard from him recently? 292 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,360 Oh, a couple weeks ago. Let me see. 293 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:34,360 Two Sundays before last? 294 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:36,360 Maybe, I don't know. 295 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,360 Did he act nervous? 296 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,360 He acted like he wanted to kill me. 297 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:42,360 Then he was a violent man. 298 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:46,360 I'm lucky. I've taken his last bruise. 299 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:50,360 The former Mrs. Franklin furnished the police with a detailed description. 300 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:55,360 Finally, Ed Franklin was picked up in a cheap rooming house in Seattle, Washington. 301 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:58,360 Extradited to the town where the crime was committed. 302 00:19:58,360 --> 00:19:59,360 Her name was what? 303 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,360 Eileen Hall. 304 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:02,360 I don't know anyone by that name. 305 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:03,360 Gilchrist. 306 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:06,360 Yes, sir. 307 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:11,360 Mrs. Anderson. 308 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:17,360 Now, Mrs. Anderson, is this the man who picked up Eileen Hall? 309 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:21,360 Well, I...let me rock around here, so... 310 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:24,360 You know, the way he was sitting in the car... 311 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:29,360 Well, I...I don't know. I just don't know. 312 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:30,360 Mr. 313 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,360 Yeah, what do you want? 314 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:34,360 She was a very nice girl. 315 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,360 Never got into any kind of trouble. 316 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,360 Well, hey, what is this? 317 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,360 You recognize this man, Mrs. Anderson? 318 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:45,360 No, but he might be the man. 319 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:49,360 I'm not going to put him in jeopardy because I'm not sure it is he. 320 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:52,360 No, I...I don't recognize him. 321 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:58,360 All right, thank you. 322 00:20:58,360 --> 00:20:59,360 You see... 323 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:00,360 See what? 324 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,360 Well, she saw the killer and she said I'm not the one. 325 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:04,360 Tell me something, Mr. Franklin. 326 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360 Well, any old thing. 327 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,360 What were you doing in Seattle? 328 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:09,360 Well, what's that got to do with... 329 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,360 This is your home, Mr. Franklin. You were married here. Your job is here. 330 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:15,360 Why did you go away? 331 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:16,360 A wrestler. 332 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:17,360 Why? 333 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,360 Well, why does a man get wrestled? 334 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:21,360 Tired of the same old thing. 335 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:22,360 Well, that's right. 336 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:23,360 Job, routine. 337 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:24,360 Right. 338 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,360 And the man gets lonesome. 339 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:27,360 And the man gets lonesome, too. 340 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:29,360 For your wife? 341 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:30,360 Well, what about her? 342 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,360 I just asked if you got lonesome for her. 343 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:34,360 Divorced her. 344 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,360 Why? 345 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,360 Well, nothing was good enough for her. 346 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:39,360 We didn't get along. We got divorced. 347 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:40,360 Did you ever beat her? 348 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:41,360 No. 349 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:43,360 Got along fine, then. 350 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:45,360 I just told you we didn't get along. 351 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:46,360 What line of work are you in? 352 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,360 I'm a salesman. Play the good. 353 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:50,360 Wallets, belts, things like that? 354 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:51,360 Yeah, that's right. 355 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:52,360 Pretty good at it, too, huh? 356 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:53,360 Sure, sure. 357 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,360 Then how come you were practically a vagrant in Seattle? 358 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,360 Huh? 359 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:00,360 Practically a vagrant in Seattle. 360 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:01,360 Well, I... 361 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,360 Upset about something? Running away from something? 362 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:05,360 No. 363 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:06,360 Then what? 364 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:08,360 Well, just no, that's all. 365 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:11,360 Eh, get that boy, Gilchrist. 366 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,360 Hey, uh, boy's name is Bernie, Mr. Franklin. 367 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:23,360 You know him? 368 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:24,360 No. 369 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:26,360 What about it, Bernie? 370 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:28,360 It's him. 371 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:30,360 How do you know him, Bernie? 372 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:34,360 I stood up to him in a duke joint once, and he fell down. 373 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:36,360 Then there was a girl he was with. 374 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:38,360 He watched me dance with her. 375 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:39,360 Hi, Ed. 376 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:42,360 Okay, Bernie. 377 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:43,360 Gilchrist. 378 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:44,360 Yes, sir? 379 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:45,360 The two from the drive-in. 380 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:47,360 This way, Bernie. 381 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,360 Okay, you two. 382 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:58,360 Ever see this man before? 383 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,360 Yeah, that's him. Doc's driving. 384 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:01,360 Almost had a fight with him. 385 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:02,360 I served him. 386 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:03,360 Girl with him when you saw him? 387 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:06,360 According to a picture in the paper, the one who was murdered. 388 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,360 Yes, sir. 389 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:08,360 Thank you. 390 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:15,360 Well? 391 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:16,360 Well what? 392 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,360 We got the middle of it, Franklin. 393 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,360 You went to a drive-in and had a ham sandwich. 394 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,360 You almost had a fight there. 395 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:26,360 Then you went to a duke joint, and you watched Eileen Hall dance with that boy. 396 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:29,360 All we need is the beginning and the end. 397 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:35,360 Now look, I no more killed Eileen than... well, all right, sure, I knew Eileen, but what does that prove? 398 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,360 Nothing, except you said a few minutes ago that you didn't know her. 399 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,360 Well, I didn't, not really. 400 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,360 She must have known you, else why would she get into your car? 401 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:45,360 I picked her up. 402 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:49,360 Maybe, but I doubt it. I don't think she's the kind of girl who gets picked up. 403 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:52,360 What? Where you been? Every girl gets picked up. 404 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:53,360 Oh? 405 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,360 For sure, where you been? 406 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:57,360 How did you meet your wife, Franklin? 407 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,360 Hey, now wait a minute, mister, you... 408 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:02,360 I just asked you a simple question, how did you meet your wife? 409 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:03,360 Now leave her out of it! 410 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:08,360 Can't do that anymore, Franklin. Can't leave anything out of it. 411 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:12,360 Come in, please. 412 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:17,360 Sit down, please. 413 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,360 I was just telling... 414 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:21,360 Hello, Ed. 415 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:22,360 Shirley, honey. 416 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:24,360 You're in a lot of trouble, aren't you? 417 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:25,360 Yes. 418 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,360 Yes, I am, honey, but don't you worry about it. 419 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:29,360 I'm not gonna worry about it, Ed. 420 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,360 I don't want you to, honey. I don't want you to worry about anything. 421 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:34,360 I'm gonna get out of this, we'll start all over. 422 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:35,360 Huh? 423 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,360 Oh boy, am I glad to see you here. 424 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:38,360 Ed. 425 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,360 I can handle anything that's throwing at me now. 426 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:41,360 Ed. 427 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,360 Oh, it's true, honey, I'm not gonna deny it. 428 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:48,360 I was out with this girl, we went to a drive-in, and we went to a beer place. 429 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:50,360 They had music there, you know, I didn't even dance with her, honey. 430 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,360 Ed! 431 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,360 Take it easy. 432 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:54,360 Will you listen to me? 433 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,360 What, what, what, honey? 434 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:57,360 Ed. 435 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,360 Sure, honey, what do you want? 436 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,360 I don't care what happens to you. 437 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,360 Listen to her, listen to her. 438 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:10,360 For what you've done, they can put you in the electric chair and they can flip the switch. 439 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,360 You don't care, do you? You really don't. 440 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:19,360 Shirley, please, please, please, I am in trouble now, and I'm frightened, and you remember, you remember how... 441 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:25,360 I want, when it started, you and me, remember how we said we'd beat each other, Shirley! 442 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,360 Who needs her? Who needs her? 443 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:35,360 I can get girls anytime I want. 444 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,360 Pick a night, pick a time, come on, honey, come on, hop in, honey. 445 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:39,360 Eileen? 446 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,360 Eileen? 447 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:42,360 Franklin. 448 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,360 What, what do you want? 449 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:47,360 You were the man Lois Anderson saw, weren't you? The woman Eileen was visiting. 450 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:48,360 Yeah. 451 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,360 And the man who had the fight in the drive-in. 452 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:51,360 Now listen, that guy's... 453 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,360 The man who had the fight in the drive-in. 454 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:54,360 Okay. 455 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:58,360 And took her to the juke joint, and it was just like that boy Bernie said. 456 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:00,360 Okay, okay. 457 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:02,360 Why did you kill Eileen Hall? 458 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:03,360 Why? 459 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:04,360 Why? 460 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:09,360 Well, I'm just like any other guy, I'm a good guy. 461 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:15,360 But lonely sometimes, but I'm just like any other guy, not any different. Why did I kill her? 462 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:22,360 She was close to me, she wanted to go away, and I got lonesome, so I held on to her forever. 463 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:23,360 You understand? 464 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:24,360 Yeah. 465 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:31,360 For the rest of her life. Listen, listen, that's what a fellow wants from a girl. I'm no different, no different at all. 466 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,360 Ed Franklin was executed for the murder of Eileen Hall. 467 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:50,360 It is interesting to note that the clue, the final, irrevocable clue that trapped him was his only act of kindness to his victim. 468 00:26:50,360 --> 00:27:18,360 The sandwich he fed her before he put his hands about her throat and strangled her. 469 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:24,360 Suspense. Presented by Autolight. Tonight's star, Mr. Cornell Weill. 470 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:33,360 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 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Raiden. 481 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:07,360 In tonight's story, Kathy Lewis was heard as Eileen, Mary Jane Croft as Shirley, and Joseph Kearns as Tomasino. 482 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:13,360 Featured on the cast were Paula Winslow, Charlotte Lawrence, Larry Thor, Hiavra Vak, Sam Edwards, and Charles Calvert. 483 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:30,360 This is the CBS Radio Network.