1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,440 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,400 Tonight we bring you a story of lost and found. 3 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,280 The found being a wallet, the lost being a life. 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,280 We call it love, honor, or murder. 5 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,800 So now, starring Miss Charlotte Lawrence with William Conrad, here is tonight's Suspense 6 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:47,840 play, Love, Honor, or Murder. 7 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:52,800 Seven years of wedded bliss and the only thing to show for it is this stinking place. 8 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,040 Believe me kid, if I ever got my hands on a thousand bucks I'd get out of here so fast 9 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,800 I could...oh hold it a minute Alice, someone came in. 10 00:00:58,800 --> 00:00:59,800 Is that you Harry? 11 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:00,800 Yeah, it's me, I came home early. 12 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,800 Well if you expect a fine dinner at this hour you're going to be disappointed. 13 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:06,800 Oh, it's Harry, Alice. 14 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,800 What was I saying? 15 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:08,800 Oh yeah, the same old... 16 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:09,800 Honey, will you cut the conversation if something's happening? 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:10,800 What? 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:11,800 Cut the conversation...here, give me the phone. 19 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:12,800 Well if all the... 20 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:13,800 Alice, Helen will call you back later, goodbye. 21 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:14,800 Baby, you know what I got here? 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:15,800 Twelve thousand dollars. 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:16,800 Are you out of your mind Harry? 24 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:17,800 Helen, I found this wallet, my god. 25 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:18,800 I'm going to get it. 26 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:19,800 I'm going to get it. 27 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:20,800 I'm going to get it. 28 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:21,800 I'm going to get it. 29 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:22,800 I'm going to get it. 30 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,560 Are you out of your mind Harry? 31 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:28,560 Helen, I found this wallet in my cab just a few minutes ago. 32 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:29,560 What? 33 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:30,560 Here, look inside, open it up, go on. 34 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:31,560 Harry, hundred dollar bills. 35 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:38,560 The fifties and twenties and tens, more than twelve thousand dollars. 36 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,560 Twelve thousand dollars? 37 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,560 Now I was all right to come home early, huh? 38 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,960 Well, gee, I don't know what to say. 39 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:52,160 Well you just take it easy baby, don't get too excited, I got to give it back. 40 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,920 Well yeah, look at the name inside the wallet there. 41 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:55,920 But you brought... 42 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,520 Well it belongs to a regular customer of mine, Sidney Walker, the news commentator, you know. 43 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,520 I take him around town every afternoon, he calls up for me personally. 44 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:03,520 Twelve thousand dollars? 45 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,800 Yeah, but as far as we're concerned, it's not worth twelve cents. 46 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,160 If they don't turn it into the company before Walker calls about it, well they can throw 47 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,800 me in the pen for five years. 48 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,800 And why did you bring it home? 49 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:22,840 I don't know, I guess I shouldn't have a doubt. 50 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,760 It's just that I never saw so much money before, and I wasn't very far away, and I just had 51 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:28,760 to bring it home short. 52 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,800 You had to bring it home and wave it under my nose, that's like you. 53 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,760 That's just like you, Harry. 54 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,040 Give me the money, Helen, before Walker's gonna remember leaving the money in my cab, 55 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,040 he'll call up the company. 56 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,880 Wait a second, Harry. 57 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,080 How long ago did you find the money? 58 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,440 About twenty minutes ago, I guess, I came straight home. 59 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,120 Now what's the hurry? 60 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,120 What? 61 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,160 Well, as long as you're home. 62 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,080 Why don't you wash up and I'll fix your supper. 63 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,280 I'll make you a fine supper. 64 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,320 Oh, I don't know, Helen, I ought to get back. 65 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,000 Go on, honey, wash up. 66 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Well, give us a chance for a little while to kind of pretend that money belongs to us. 67 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:17,960 Ah, that coffee really hits the spot. 68 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,680 Why didn't you eat, honey? 69 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,280 I was thinking. 70 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,040 Yeah, well, someday we'll have it too, baby. 71 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,600 We got it right now, Harry. 72 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,560 Yeah, for about five more minutes. 73 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,600 Well, I guess I'd better report in now, it's almost been an hour. 74 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,880 Walker'll be calling the company pretty soon, I want the money to be in the safe when he 75 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:37,880 does. 76 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:38,880 I'll call him, Helen. 77 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,040 How do you know Walker will call the company? 78 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,200 We gone all through that, he'll call, because he remembers the ride with me. 79 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,120 We went over a bumpy stretch, easy for his wallet to pop out, then he'll probably remember 80 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,120 me. 81 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,840 He could have lost it so many other places, he may not even think of the cab ride. 82 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,440 If he doesn't, won't you feel like a fool? 83 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,480 Well, that's better than cooling my heels in some jail. 84 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,240 I know what I would do if I were you. 85 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:06,760 What? 86 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:11,480 I'd take the chance that Walker wouldn't remember that he wouldn't call, I'd keep the money. 87 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,720 Well, Helen, stop that. 88 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,840 That's what I would do, but not you. 89 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:20,160 You've always been afraid to take a chance, you've always been content to be nothing. 90 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,320 Well, I'm sorry I ever came here with the money. 91 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,760 Now, you give it back to me, I'm going to turn it in the company. 92 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:26,960 Do you love me, Harry? 93 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:27,960 That's got nothing to do with it. 94 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,160 Oh, but it has everything to do with it. 95 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:40,360 If you leave this house with the money, when you come back, I'll be gone. 96 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,680 You're talking like a sap now. 97 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:42,680 I mean it. 98 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,880 Give me the wallet, Helen. 99 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,760 Here it is, Harry. 100 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,600 When you come back, I'll be gone. 101 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,360 Yeah, I'll bet you will. 102 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,960 Well, I gotta be going now. 103 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,760 I'll see you later, honey. 104 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 I'll be home later. 105 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:03,160 It doesn't matter when you come home, you won't find me here. 106 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:07,640 Helen, stop talking like that, huh? 107 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,800 So long, Helen. 108 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,040 It's really goodbye, Harry. 109 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:21,360 I mean it. 110 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,080 You know, from the first day we were married, you've been twisting me around your little 111 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:29,080 finger because you know how much I love you and how much I need you. 112 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,080 I guess you'll never stop doing that, will you, Helen? 113 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,080 Well? 114 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,080 What do you want me to do? 115 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,080 Nothing, darling. 116 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,080 Nothing. 117 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:54,440 You owe everything to me. 118 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:59,520 Dear, this is Cab Company. 119 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,680 This is Mr. Sidney Walker's personal secretary calling. 120 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Well, don't tell me that Cab Mr. Walker ordered hasn't got there yet. 121 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:07,400 I sent it out hours ago. 122 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:08,400 Oh, it got here all right. 123 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:09,400 It's not that. 124 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:10,400 I... 125 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,520 We're trying to locate Mr. Walker. 126 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,800 I just wondered if by any chance you might have heard from him. 127 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,800 Huh? 128 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,600 Well, no, if he got his cab all right, why should he have called us? 129 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,480 Of course, you're right. 130 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,200 Well, thank you very much. 131 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,200 Well? 132 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,800 He hasn't reported anything yet. 133 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:29,800 What? 134 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,600 That don't make sense. 135 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,200 $12,000 bucks, a lot of money even for Walker. 136 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,200 Give me the phone book. 137 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,800 Who are you going to call now? 138 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,800 Why, Mr. Walker, of course. 139 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,600 Got to find out why he hasn't reported losing his wallet. 140 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,640 Look, Helen, why don't you let me take the money back? 141 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,040 Maybe you'll give us a good reward, huh? 142 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,040 You're not going to do anything. 143 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,600 Let's see. 144 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,800 Oh, here we are. 145 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,560 Helen, you're going to get us in a lot of trouble. 146 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,560 I know what I'm doing. 147 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,960 Helen, please, you're going to get us... 148 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Hello? 149 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,360 Hello, I'd like to speak to Mr. Walker, please. 150 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,360 He's not in right now. 151 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,360 This is Mr. Walker's housekeeper. 152 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:18,360 Could I take a message? 153 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,360 No, this is a personal matter. 154 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,360 Where could I be certain of reaching him? 155 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,360 Nowhere, until 10 o'clock. 156 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:25,360 10 o'clock? 157 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,360 Yes, that's when he does his nightly broadcast, you know. 158 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,360 Oh, yes, of course. 159 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,360 And what time does he reach the station? 160 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Five minutes to 10. 161 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,360 You're quite sure he'll be there then? 162 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,360 My heavens, you could stake your life on it. 163 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,360 That's been his schedule for a good many years. 164 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,360 Who is this talking? 165 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,360 Are you a friend of Mr. Walker? 166 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,360 Oh, yes, my husband and I have known Sydney for a long time. 167 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:55,360 Well, as long as you're a friend, I can tell you Mr. Walker has a busy evening ahead of him. 168 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,360 Oh? 169 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,360 He lost his wallet an hour or so ago. 170 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,360 It contained a lot of money. 171 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,360 That's too bad. 172 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,360 I do hope he finds it. 173 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,360 Oh, he'll find the wallet all right. 174 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,360 He's out looking for it right now. 175 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,360 Does he have any idea where he might have lost it? 176 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Oh, yes, and he's mighty disappointed it hasn't been returned. 177 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,360 He knows who found the wallet? 178 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,360 Not exactly. 179 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,360 I think he knows who should have found it. 180 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,360 He didn't say who. 181 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:24,360 Oh. 182 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,360 He's too kind and easygoing, that's what he is. 183 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,360 I'd have called the police right away. 184 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,360 Why hasn't he? 185 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,360 Oh, he doesn't want to cause any embarrassment or hard feelings, you know. 186 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,360 So first he's going to look everywhere else he's been this evening. 187 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,360 And if it still doesn't turn up? 188 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:45,360 Well, he says that this fella he suspects hasn't come by the apartment to return the money by the time he gets home. 189 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,360 Then he'll report it all right. 190 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:53,360 If we want to reach Sydney before he gets home, you say he will arrive at the radio station just before ten. 191 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,360 At five minutes to ten. 192 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:56,360 On the dot. 193 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:57,360 Then we'll contact him there. 194 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,360 Thank you. 195 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,360 That was his housekeeper. 196 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,360 By what she said, he knows he left the wallet in your cab. 197 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:05,360 See, I told you. 198 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,360 But he hasn't reported it yet. 199 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,360 Mr. Walker is a very fair man. 200 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,360 Then I'll have time to take it back down to the company. 201 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,360 We've got to decide what we can do to keep Walker from reporting his loss. 202 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,360 There's nothing we can do, Helen. 203 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,360 You just said he knows that he left the money in my cab. 204 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:21,360 That's right. 205 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:26,360 Then what's there to decide? 206 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,360 What are you smiling about? 207 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,360 Oh, was I smiling? 208 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:30,360 I was thinking of something. 209 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,360 Of what? 210 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:37,360 You know, there's really only one way in all the world to keep Walker from telling about that wallet. 211 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,360 What are you talking about? 212 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:45,360 The only way to keep Walker from telling would be to kill him. 213 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,360 Look, Helen, we've got to decide what we're going to do now. 214 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Let's stop the jokes. 215 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,360 Do I look like I'm joking? 216 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,360 No. 217 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,360 No, you don't. 218 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,360 There's that gun in the dresser drawer. 219 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,360 Helen, what are you talking about? 220 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,360 You've got to kill him. 221 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,360 It's simpler, isn't it? 222 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:05,360 How can I, Helen? 223 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,360 He's never done me any harm. 224 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,360 If he lives, you'll call the police and tell them you've stolen his money. 225 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:10,360 That's why I've got to return the money. 226 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,360 And if you do that, you'll lose your wife. 227 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,360 But, Helen... 228 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,360 Look how simple it is. 229 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,360 At five minutes to ten, you can be absolutely certain that he will be going in the broadcasting studio. 230 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,360 You were waiting outside for him, and there are so many quiet places you could take him with a gun. 231 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:26,360 But, Helen, listen to me. 232 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Even if I... 233 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,360 Even if I wanted to kill him, I couldn't. 234 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,360 I haven't got the nerve. 235 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Oh, but you have. 236 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:41,360 Every man, even a man like you, can kill once. 237 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,360 If he's got to kill to get rid of the thing that'll destroy him. 238 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,360 No, Helen. 239 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,360 I can't do it. 240 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,360 You can, Harry. 241 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:50,360 You can do it for me. 242 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,360 Look, why don't you just let me take the money back? 243 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,360 It'd be so much better that way, Helen. 244 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:55,360 What time is it? 245 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:55,360 What? 246 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:56,360 What time is it? 247 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,360 Oh. 248 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,360 Ten minutes after nine. 249 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,360 You couldn't take the money back now, even if I let you? 250 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:03,360 Why couldn't I? 251 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,360 What time should you have reported in with your cab? 252 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,360 Half past eight. 253 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,360 What difference does that... 254 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,360 Oh. 255 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Oh, so that's it. 256 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:15,360 See what I mean? 257 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,360 If Walker reports his loss now, you're in trouble no matter what you do. 258 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,360 They'll know you were thinking of keeping the money. 259 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,360 And in their eyes, that's almost as bad as really keeping it. 260 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:25,360 Helen, but... 261 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,360 You know the rules of the company. 262 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,360 You're supposed to inspect your cab after every fare. 263 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,360 If they don't arrest you, they'll fire you and blackball you 264 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,360 so you'd never get another job. 265 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,360 That's why you kept me here, huh? 266 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,360 Made supper for me, stalled around. 267 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,360 You figured that one out, too, didn't you, Helen? 268 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,360 Walker will get to the station at five to ten. 269 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,360 You've got 45 minutes. 270 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,360 Start out and act as if you were on a regular run. 271 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:50,360 That'll be your alibi later. 272 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,360 Stop at all the usual places, talk to the boys. 273 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,360 Act as if it were just another night. 274 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,360 What about my schedule? 275 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,360 I was supposed to be in at eight thirty. 276 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,360 Well, you can always tell them business was so good you couldn't come in. 277 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:10,360 Shall I get the gun, Harry? 278 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,360 Yes. 279 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:22,360 You are listening to Love, Honor or Murder, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 280 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:36,360 Tomorrow night there's action and excitement when on most of these same CBS radio stations, the FBI in Peace and War unravels another thrilling case involving crime and racketeers. 281 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,360 Stand by for thrills tomorrow evening on CBS. 282 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:52,360 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage Miss Charlotte Lawrence starring in tonight's production Love, Honor or Murder, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 283 00:12:52,360 --> 00:13:09,360 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage Miss Charlotte Lawrence starring in tonight's production Love, Honor or Murder, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 284 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:28,360 Harry, is it you? 285 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:29,360 Huh? 286 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,360 Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was my husband. 287 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,360 What do you want? 288 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,360 Oh, you must be Mrs. Black Harry's wife, huh? 289 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,360 Yes, what do you want? 290 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,360 Say, have I talked to you on the phone before? 291 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,360 Why? 292 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,360 Your voice sounds kind of familiar. 293 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,360 You may have, who is it? 294 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,360 This is Dave Harris over at Peerless Cab Company. 295 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,360 Peerless Cab Company? 296 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,360 Yeah, see, have you seen Harry in the last couple hours? 297 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,360 Why, no, he's out working. 298 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,360 Well, he should have been through with his shift at 8.30, it's 25 to 10 already, it's not like Harry. 299 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,360 Is something wrong? 300 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:06,360 I don't know, one of Harry's regular customers, Sidney Walker, called a few minutes ago from a restaurant on one of that broadcasts of his. 301 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Yes? 302 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,360 He thinks he left a wallet in Harry's cab. 303 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,360 I said he thinks he left a wallet. 304 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:14,360 I heard you. 305 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:21,360 Well, it was $12,000 in the wallet, Mrs. Blake, and according to Walker, he looked everywhere else, he might have lost it and it hasn't turned up. 306 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,360 He just wants me to contact Harry as soon as possible and tell him to look in the back of his cab. 307 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,360 If Harry should call, I'll tell him to get in touch with you right away. 308 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,360 What did you say before? 309 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:33,360 Huh? 310 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,360 Walker called and told all this before he started for the station? 311 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,360 What are you talking about, Mrs. Blake? 312 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:49,360 Nothing, nothing! 313 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:55,360 Walker called before he reached the station and Harry will be waiting at the station to kill him. 314 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,360 But now, now Walker's already told them that maybe Harry took the wallet. 315 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,360 Everything will point to Harry. 316 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,360 They'll arrest him ten minutes after he's killed Walker and Harry will tell them everything. 317 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,360 He's weak, he'll try to blame me, he'll tell them I made him do it. 318 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,360 I've got to call him back. 319 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,360 I've got to stop him before he kills Walker. 320 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,360 Twenty-five to ten. 321 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,360 Twenty minutes to reach him. 322 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,360 I've got to reach him. 323 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,360 I told Harry to make all the regular stops so everyone would remember him. 324 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,360 He'll stop for gas at the taxi garage. 325 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:32,360 I've reached him there before. 326 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Seven. 327 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,360 Oh. 328 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,360 Nine. 329 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:46,360 Nine. 330 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:47,360 Feel this garage, right? 331 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:48,360 This is Mrs. Blake calling. 332 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,360 Harry Blake's wife. 333 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:51,360 Oh yeah, Mrs. Blake. 334 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,360 Has Harry been there yet? 335 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,360 To get his gas, I mean. 336 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,360 Nope, he hasn't been here all night. 337 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,360 Say, what's he been up to? 338 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:00,360 What do you mean? 339 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,360 I just got a call from the main office to hold him here when he does show up. 340 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,360 Look, Harry always told me you were his friend. 341 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:07,360 He's in trouble. 342 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Terrible trouble. 343 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,360 I haven't time to explain, but if I don't reach him right away, I don't know what'll happen. 344 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,360 Well, I don't know what I could do, Mrs. Blake. 345 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:20,360 You can tell me the names and telephone numbers of some of the places cabbies like Harry stop at while they're on their runs. 346 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,360 Well, the boys stop at Gus's coffee shop on 670 McCall. 347 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:24,360 What's their number? 348 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,360 Randolph 67098. 349 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,360 Randolph 67098. 350 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,360 All right, where else? 351 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,360 Maybe if he had a few minutes to spare he'd go into Frank's Tavern on Washington Boulevard. 352 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:36,360 I don't know the number now. 353 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:37,360 I'll look it up. 354 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:38,360 Where else? 355 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,360 Oh, of course he might go up to Union headquarters to shoot a rag with the boys. 356 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,360 Union headquarters? 357 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:45,360 Where else? 358 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,360 There's lots of places he might stop off at. 359 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,360 Gotta reach him by 10 o'clock, huh? 360 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,360 That doesn't leave you much time. 361 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,360 No, it doesn't leave me much time. 362 00:16:54,360 --> 00:17:05,360 I'll start calling. 363 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:07,360 What can I do now? 364 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:09,360 I've tried everywhere. 365 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:12,360 I've got to stop him, but how? 366 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:14,360 15 minutes to 10. 367 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:16,360 10 minutes. 368 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,360 Only 10 minutes. 369 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:20,360 But let me think. 370 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:22,360 Radio station's on 6th and Main. 371 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:23,360 It's two miles away. 372 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:26,360 Maybe I could get to Harry before Walker reaches there. 373 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:28,360 I've got to try. 374 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:30,360 I've got to try. 375 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:44,360 I've got to stop him. 376 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:48,360 Driver, when I got into your cab you told me you could get me to the radio station in 10 minutes. 377 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:49,360 I don't give you no guarantees, lady. 378 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:50,360 I'm doing the best I can. 379 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,360 But I've got to get there before 5 of 10. 380 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:53,360 You told me you could make it. 381 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:56,360 It don't do no good to holler in my ear, lady. 382 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:58,360 There must be some better way to make time. 383 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:01,360 Can't you take side streets or something? 384 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:02,360 Oh, again you're stopping. 385 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,360 It's the traffic, lady. 386 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,360 But you told me... 387 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:08,360 I know what I told you, but I didn't think about so much traffic. 388 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:09,360 Please hurry. 389 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:10,360 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 390 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:16,360 Look, I'll pay you anything if you can get me there in time. 391 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:17,360 Oh, now what's wrong? 392 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:18,360 The traffic is lousing us up. 393 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:20,360 What time is it now? 394 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:21,360 Oh, about 10 minutes to 10. 395 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:22,360 Don't tell me about. 396 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:23,360 I want the exact time. 397 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:24,360 Exact time. 398 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:27,360 Seven minutes to 10. 399 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:28,360 Seven minutes to 10. 400 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:30,360 How much farther is it to the station? 401 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:32,360 Well, I can tell you this. 402 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:34,360 We're not going to make it in two minutes. 403 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:37,360 Then there's no need to make it at all. 404 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:39,360 Take me home. 405 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:51,360 Just a minute or two before 10. 406 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:54,360 They'll be coming home soon. 407 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,360 They'll trace the killing to him fast enough. 408 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:00,360 They'll come here and take us both away. 409 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:03,360 And the money, too. 410 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,360 The money, too. 411 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:07,360 Wait. 412 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:09,360 Why? 413 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:11,360 Why should they come here? 414 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,360 Why should they get the money? 415 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,360 Why do I have to take the blame for what Harry did? 416 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,360 I didn't commit the murder. 417 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:20,360 If that money had to get away, they wouldn't look for me too hard. 418 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:38,360 I'm not going to suffer for what Harry did. 419 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:41,360 Police department. Sergeant Graham speaking. 420 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,360 I want to report a murder. 421 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:43,360 What's that? 422 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,360 You're too late to stop the murder, but you can still catch the killer. 423 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,360 Wait a second. 424 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,360 His name is Harry Blake. 425 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:50,360 He drives a taxi cab. 426 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:52,360 The taxi number is 365. 427 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,360 You should find him somewhere around the radio station on Sixth Avenue. 428 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,360 Who did he kill? 429 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:02,360 He killed... 430 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,360 Hello, Helen. 431 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:06,360 Go on. 432 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:10,360 Finish your conversation. 433 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:14,360 Did you get back here so soon? 434 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,360 A good cabbie can make time when he has to. 435 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,360 You killed him, huh? 436 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:24,360 It's just after 10 o'clock. Turn on the radio and find out. 437 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,360 No, but you're talking on the phone. 438 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:29,360 I'll turn the radio on for you. 439 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:31,360 The police will come here and look for you. 440 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,360 They'll catch you, Harry. 441 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:35,360 Did anyone see you do it? 442 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:36,360 Did they try to... 443 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,360 Mr. Sidney Walker. 444 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,360 Ladies and gentlemen, this is Sidney Walker. 445 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,360 Tonight I'm going to bring you a report on a recent interview I had 446 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,360 with one of the most prominent industrialists in America. 447 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:48,360 That's all I want to hear. 448 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,360 Turn it off. 449 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:57,360 So you didn't kill him after all. 450 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:59,360 I should have known. 451 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:02,360 I should have known. 452 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:06,360 I actually thought you went through with it. 453 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,360 But you didn't have the nerve. 454 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,360 No, I didn't kill him. 455 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,360 But I did have the nerve, Helen. 456 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,360 You gave me the nerve. 457 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,360 That pep talk before I left, it was very true, you know. 458 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:22,360 What are you talking about? 459 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:24,360 You remember? 460 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:27,360 Even someone like me can kill once. 461 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,360 If he's got a kill to get rid of the one that'll destroy him. 462 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,360 Now those were your very words, Helen. 463 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,360 Now why did you kill Walker? 464 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,360 Because I got to thinking about what you said and how right you were. 465 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:41,360 The more I thought about it, the more I realized it. 466 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:44,360 Realized what? 467 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:48,360 That I was headed in the wrong direction. 468 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:52,360 What do you mean by that? 469 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:54,360 Put that gun away, Harry. 470 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:59,360 In order to rid myself of the one thing in the world that can destroy me, 471 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:03,360 I had to come back here to you. 472 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:08,360 Helen. 473 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,360 Hello? Hello? Hello? 474 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:17,360 Hello. This is the police department, isn't it? 475 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,360 I heard her talking to you. 476 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,360 Yeah, sure, it's the police department. 477 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,360 What's going on there? What were those shots? 478 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,360 Wasn't my wife reporting a murder? 479 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,360 Yeah, but she didn't tell us who was killed. 480 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:38,360 Well, you see, officer, until this very moment, she really didn't know. 481 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:45,360 Suspense, in which Miss Charlotte Lawrence with William Conrad 482 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:50,360 starred in tonight's presentation of Love, Honor, or Murder. 483 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:55,360 Next week, the story of betrayal and retribution on Devil's Island. 484 00:22:55,360 --> 00:23:08,360 We call it The Stool Pigeon. 485 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:30,360 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 486 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:32,360 Tonight's script was written by Larry Marcus. 487 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:37,360 The music was composed by René Garagin and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 488 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:45,360 Featured in the cast were Barney Phillips, Helen Klebe, Charles Seale, Jack Prusian, and William Justine. 489 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:55,360 Listen while you work. Perry Mason is here on the CBS Radio Network. 490 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:22,360 The Stool Pigeon 491 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,420 you