1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:20,520 Tonight, we bring you a story of a killer and the family which he held in a night of 3 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:21,520 fear. 4 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,680 We call it, Strange for a Killer. 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:48,600 So now, starring Mr. John Danaer, here is tonight's Suspense play, Strange for a Killer. 6 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:49,600 How's this, Henry? 7 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:50,600 Oh, swell. 8 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,160 Anywhere along here. 9 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,400 Oh, thanks, Buck. 10 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,960 So you're sure you don't want to stop in for a minute? 11 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:01,680 You haven't seen the kid yet, have you? 12 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,880 Gee, I'd like to, but I have to get home early myself tonight. 13 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,000 The wife's got some kind of meeting and I'll have to take care of my own. 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Okay. 15 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 See you tomorrow. 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Yeah. 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Night, Hank. 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:26,640 All right. 19 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:27,640 Hold it right there. 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,720 Oh, I didn't see you, officer. 21 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:32,720 What's wrong? 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:33,720 You'll have to wait a while. 23 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,520 You can't go down that street. 24 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:36,520 But that's where I live. 25 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,520 My wife's waiting for me. 26 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:39,520 You'll be a little late. 27 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:40,520 Well, now, wait a minute. 28 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,120 Look, will you keep your voice down and stay back? 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,240 You'll get hurt if you don't. 30 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,880 Oh, are you after someone? 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:48,880 Roy Gileska. 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:49,880 Gileska? 33 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:50,880 That's right. 34 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,080 And he's been living in this neighborhood? 35 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,080 Where? 36 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,360 Right across the street, down three doors. 37 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,560 There's a cop every 10 feet from here to the river. 38 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,200 You better go back in that drug store and wait. 39 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:02,200 Call your wife if you want. 40 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,200 Yeah, I think I'd better. 41 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,200 Where'd you say he was? 42 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,200 Across and down three doors. 43 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,200 Yeah. 44 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,920 Well, we're in the apartment house right next to her. 45 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,720 You don't think there'll be any shooting? 46 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,400 Just tell her to stay inside and keep her door locked. 47 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,400 She'll be all right. 48 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,400 Oh. 49 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Thanks. 50 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Henry. 51 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,400 Hi, Charlie. 52 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:29,400 Hey, it's that Chaliski guy there after, you know. 53 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,520 He's been living in the boarding house right next to you. 54 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:35,520 Yeah, I know. 55 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:36,520 How long has it been going on? 56 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,560 They've been here almost half hour now. 57 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:39,560 Half hour? 58 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:40,560 What are they waiting for? 59 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,560 Don't ask me. 60 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,720 I got here about 5.30 when the police were just coming in. 61 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,040 It only took about five minutes to cover the whole block. 62 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,080 And a party of six or seven of them went in after him. 63 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,080 And they haven't come out? 64 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,080 No. 65 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,080 No, I've been watching. 66 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,080 Why, I wonder. 67 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,080 You haven't heard any shooting, have you? 68 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,080 No. 69 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,000 We ought to hear something by now. 70 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,840 Hey, that's seem funny, doesn't it? 71 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,640 Unless he got out of his room. 72 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:04,640 Ah, he couldn't get far. 73 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:05,640 Oh. 74 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:07,760 Well, I want to get Jessie on the phone. 75 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,760 She'll be wondering why I'm late. 76 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,760 Yeah, sure. 77 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:37,840 How is it? 78 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,840 Huh. Funny. 79 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,840 Hello? 80 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,840 What's the matter, honey? I thought you weren't going to answer. 81 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,840 I was looking after Johnny. 82 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,840 Are you okay? Just getting hungry. 83 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,840 Well, go ahead with this supper. I'm going to be late. 84 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,840 Jess, I don't want to scare you, but there's going to be a little trouble next door. 85 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,840 Now, I don't want you to leave our apartment. 86 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,840 Yes. 87 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,840 The police are after someone who's been hiding out in the boarding house next to us. 88 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,840 Now, the whole block is surrounded, and I won't be able to get home until it's over, and you're not to come out. 89 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:22,840 Yes. 90 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:24,840 There's nothing to be afraid of, Jesse. 91 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:26,840 All right. 92 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:28,840 Just stay inside. Keep the door locked. 93 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,840 There's no need for that now. Goodbye, dear. 94 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:33,840 What? 95 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,840 Jesse? Hello? Hello? 96 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:42,840 Hey, Charlie. 97 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:44,840 Yeah? 98 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,840 How high is that boarding house? Is it three stories? 99 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:49,840 Yeah, that's right. Just like your place. 100 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:51,840 And that alley between them, how wide is it? 101 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,840 It's pretty narrow, I guess. But there's a cop on both ends. 102 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,840 On the roof. 103 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:00,840 Charlie, could anyone make the jump across? Is it too wide for that? 104 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:04,840 I don't know. Why? 105 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,840 She didn't sound right, Charlie. 106 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:09,840 Like... 107 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,840 Yeah? 108 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:14,840 Like there was someone with her, Charlie. 109 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,840 I tell you, I spoke to her on the phone about ten minutes ago, 110 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:32,840 and I'm sure there's something wrong up there, Captain. 111 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:34,840 What makes you sure? 112 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,840 Well, she was afraid of something. I know she was. 113 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,840 Something right there in the room with her. 114 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:40,840 Where do you live? In the boarding house? 115 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,840 No, the apartment house next door on the third floor. 116 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,840 Reeder? Yes, sir? 117 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:47,840 The Ferrell's got some men going into the apartment house 118 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:49,840 next to the Jalesco stop-in. Yeah. 119 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,840 He's in there with her, isn't he? 120 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:53,840 He's in with my wife. I don't know, fella. 121 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:56,840 He could be anywhere now. You didn't find him in his room? 122 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:58,840 No, he's not in the boarding house. I knew it. 123 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,840 He's with Jesse and my son. Take it easy, Hayden. 124 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,840 We got across the roof, didn't we? Our apartment is on the top floor. 125 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,840 He could get in easy enough. Maybe. 126 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:08,840 Look, let me go up there, Captain. 127 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:10,840 Please, let me go up there. 128 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:12,840 No, I want to be with my wife and kid. 129 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,840 I'm sorry, Hayden. If it's true he'll use them as hostages 130 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:17,840 to make us hold our fire, it's better that they're only two. 131 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,840 What difference does it make? Look, we're not even sure he's there. 132 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:22,840 You haven't given us any real proof. 133 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:24,840 It's the only way you can make sure. 134 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,840 Now, look, if everything's all right, 135 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,840 if he isn't there, I'll call the drug store and have them tell you so. 136 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,840 If he is, I'll... 137 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,840 Well, I'll let you know somehow. 138 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,840 We can think of some kind of signal. 139 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:38,840 You can't stop me anyway. 140 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:41,840 It's my home, my wife that's in danger. 141 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,840 I have a right to be there. 142 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,840 I could stop you, mister. I should stop you. 143 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:48,840 But you won't. 144 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:53,840 I can go? 145 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:57,840 All right, listen to me. 146 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:59,840 You may be wrong about this... 147 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:01,840 No, what do you want me to do? 148 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:03,840 Go straight to your wife. 149 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,840 Don't do any investigating on the way, no looking down the alley or around corners. 150 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:08,840 Get in your apartment, lock the door behind you. 151 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:10,840 He's trapped, Hayden, and he's scared now, 152 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,840 and he'll kill you if he thinks you're on to him. 153 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:13,840 I know it. 154 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,840 If he's not in your place when you get there, 155 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,840 call headquarters and ask for Grimes. 156 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,840 I'll flash the message to my car. 157 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,840 If he is there, 158 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,840 well, there's nothing I can tell you. 159 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,840 You'll be on your own, but don't try to signal. 160 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Now, if I don't get your call ten minutes after you go in, we'll know. 161 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,840 Yes, sir. 162 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,840 I can say this, Hayden. 163 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,840 If he's there, don't try anything brave. 164 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:38,840 You know what I mean? 165 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:39,840 Yeah. 166 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,840 Well, that's about all. 167 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,840 Just be careful. We want this man, Hayden. 168 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,840 We want him immediately, but we don't want anyone hurt getting him. 169 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,840 You understand? 170 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,840 I do. Thanks. 171 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,840 Okay, Captain. Farrell's holding up his men, but he wants to know the score. 172 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,840 Get over to my car, Reader. 173 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,840 Have his men surround the apartment house, block every exit, 174 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,840 put someone on the fire escape and on the first floor, but no mis... 175 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,840 No noise. 176 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:05,840 Do it quietly. 177 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,840 Okay, Hayden. 178 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,840 You can get going. 179 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,840 If he's not there, get the call in right away. 180 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,840 Yes, sir. 181 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:16,840 I'll be sure. 182 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,840 Jesse? 183 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,840 Jesse? 184 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,840 Jesse? 185 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,840 Oh, honey. Honey, is everything okay? Is it? 186 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,840 Come in, Henry. 187 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:52,840 You sounded funny over the phone. I thought there was something wrong. 188 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,840 It's okay, isn't it? 189 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,840 Why don't you answer me, Jess? 190 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,840 Henry. Henry. 191 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,840 Where? 192 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,840 Where... 193 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,840 Where is it? 194 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,840 Get your hands over your head. 195 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,840 Get up against the wall. 196 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,840 Don't make any noise or I'll kill you. 197 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,840 You are listening to Strange for a Killer, 198 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:36,840 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 199 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,840 The money you meant to save but never actually did 200 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,840 will never see you through an emergency. 201 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,840 Start immediately to put regular sums aside 202 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,840 through your bank's bond-a-month plan 203 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,840 or through weekly payroll savings deductions. 204 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,840 United States savings bonds are safe to invest in 205 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,840 because they're as sure as Uncle Sam. 206 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,840 And when you need them, you've got them. 207 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,840 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage 208 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,840 Mr. John Dana starring in tonight's production 209 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:14,840 Strange for a Killer, 210 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:30,840 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 211 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,840 I know what you're thinking, but don't you try it, mister. 212 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,840 This is a.45. 213 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,840 I'm not afraid of your gun. 214 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,840 That's because you've never been hit. 215 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,840 You're bigotting me and I know what you're thinking, 216 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,840 but don't you try it. I'm warning you. 217 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,840 You won't ever know what it means to wish you could die 218 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,840 till you get a slug in your stomach. 219 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:52,840 Henry... 220 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,840 No, it's all right. 221 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,840 I know what you mean. 222 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,840 I didn't mean it. 223 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,840 It won't do any good, you know. 224 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,840 No matter what happens to us, no matter how long you stay here, 225 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:03,840 they'll get you. 226 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,840 Listen, it guys, just like me, 227 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,840 those blue suits don't make them Superman. 228 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,840 They make mistakes like everyone else. 229 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,840 They've already made a big one. 230 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,840 How? 231 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,840 They shouldn't have sent you. 232 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,840 My wife didn't sound right when I spoke to her over the phone. 233 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:19,840 I came up to find out why. 234 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,840 Yeah, she gave it away. 235 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,840 She's sorry about that. 236 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:25,840 Jesse... 237 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:27,840 It's all right, Henry. Please, it's all right. 238 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:29,840 Did he hurt you, Jess? 239 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:30,840 Never mind that. 240 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:31,840 She just got out of the hospital. 241 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,840 Would you like to see her go back? 242 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,840 I hope they kill you. 243 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:39,840 They might. 244 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,840 I thought about it. 245 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,840 I guess maybe you better start thinking about it too, 246 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,840 because it's gonna happen the next time you make a crack like that. 247 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:48,840 Henry, don't, don't. 248 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,840 I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions, 249 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,840 and you're gonna give me the right answers, the right answers, mister. 250 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,840 The first time you get hurt bad. 251 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,840 What do you want to know? 252 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,840 Where were you when you made that phone call? 253 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,840 Drugstore, across the street. 254 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,840 And your wife don't sound right. 255 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:07,840 Do you think maybe something is wrong? 256 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:08,840 Yes. 257 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,840 You want to get up here, you want to find out why. 258 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:13,840 Yes. 259 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,840 What takes you so long? 260 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:17,840 What? 261 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,840 We don't hear you coming up the stairs till almost 15 minutes after she hangs up. 262 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,840 What are you doing all that time, huh? 263 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,840 Oh, no, no, no. 264 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,840 At first I wasn't sure she did sound like there was something wrong. 265 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,840 It was only after I hung up and got to thinking about it 266 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,840 that I started to worry, and then I made up my mind to come up. 267 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:37,840 But that was later. 268 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,840 You don't stop to talk it over with the cops? 269 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,840 Why should I? 270 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,840 How could I know it was you in here? 271 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,840 Cops all over the block looking for me, searching every building, 272 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,840 streets probably closed off, and your wife sounds scared over the phone, 273 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,840 but you won't say why. 274 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,840 Sounds like someone's with her, she don't say who. 275 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,840 But you don't think it might be me? 276 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,840 Well, yes. 277 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,840 Maybe I began to... 278 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:03,840 Yeah, but you don't say nothing to the cops, though. 279 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:04,840 No. 280 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,840 Just come up all by yourself. 281 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:08,840 Yes. 282 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:10,840 You sure of that? 283 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,840 Yes, I... 284 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:14,840 Okay... 285 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,840 No! Oh, please! 286 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,840 Please don't! Leave him alone! 287 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,840 Oh, Henry! Henry! 288 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,840 It's all right. 289 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:27,840 I'm all right, Jesse. 290 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,840 All right. What's the big plan with you and the cops? 291 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,840 I don't know. 292 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,840 I don't know about their plan. 293 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,840 I don't know what they're going to do. 294 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:39,840 But they know you're in here. 295 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:40,840 Don't stop, mister. 296 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,840 I did go to the police when I thought it was you here with my wife. 297 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,840 I don't think they believed me at first, 298 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,840 but I talked the captain into letting me come anyway. 299 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,840 If you weren't here, I was supposed to call him right away. 300 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:55,840 And if I was? 301 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,840 Nothing. 302 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,840 Just wait, and if they didn't hear in ten minutes, 303 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,840 it meant... 304 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,840 It meant I couldn't call. 305 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,840 You were in this room. 306 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:10,840 You old lady. 307 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:11,840 Go get the kid. 308 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:12,840 No. 309 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,840 Why do you want him? 310 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,840 We'll do anything you say. You don't need to touch our kid. 311 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,840 You look okay. 312 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,840 You don't want to hurt the kid. 313 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:21,840 Get him, lady. 314 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:22,840 Henry! 315 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,840 It's all right. I'm sure of it. 316 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,840 You haven't got much time, Gileska. 317 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,840 You know it. 318 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,840 Killing our baby is something you wouldn't do. 319 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,840 You can bring him in, Jessie. 320 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,840 If you say so. 321 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,840 You're so sure this is the end of the line for me? 322 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:42,840 And those cops down there, they're so sure. 323 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,840 Well, I'm telling you, I got lots of time, 324 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,840 and you're going to help me take it. 325 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:47,840 Yeah. 326 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,840 I'll back up to the wall and peel off that jacket. 327 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:50,840 What? 328 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,840 Come on, take off the jacket. It's all on the floor. 329 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,840 Sure. 330 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,840 Why not? 331 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,840 What are you going to do? 332 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,840 I'm not going to do anything. 333 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,840 You're going to take it for a while. 334 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:08,840 What do you mean? 335 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,840 You don't see it, huh? 336 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,840 I'm kind of surprised. 337 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,840 Well, I don't see any way out for you. That's what you mean. 338 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:16,840 They know you're here. 339 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,840 Yeah, yeah, they know I'm here. 340 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,840 You made sure of that, didn't you? 341 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,840 So they're covering every way out. 342 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:23,840 Doors, windows, alleys. 343 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,840 What do you suppose would happen if I tried one of them? 344 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,840 I think they'd kill you. 345 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,840 Yeah, yeah. 346 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:32,840 I start out that window, and every cop down there 347 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,840 comes to make sure I don't finish the trip. 348 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,840 Maybe a couple come running up here. 349 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,840 That leaves lots of cops down on the bottom of the fire escape 350 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,840 and a couple of cops up here in the room. 351 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,840 But not many anywhere else, huh? 352 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,840 In the alley or in the streets or down near the river? 353 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,840 They'll all be watching the guy in the fire escape, won't they? 354 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,840 And the guy in the fire escape, 355 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,840 he don't need to be me, does he? 356 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,840 No, he won't work. 357 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,840 You're crazy to think that'll work. 358 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,840 I gotta take that chance now. 359 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,840 You're going out on a window, mister, 360 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,840 and you're gonna take your time doing it. 361 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,840 They've seen me. They know what I look like. 362 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,840 They saw a guy in a leather jacket right close up. 363 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,840 Now you're a guy in a white shirt, 364 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,840 three stories over the street, coming down a fire escape. 365 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,840 That makes you a different guy. 366 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,840 That makes you Roy Gileska. 367 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,840 Ha-ha. A little guy, huh? Bring him in. 368 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,840 He's asleep. You won't... 369 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,840 He's asleep. 370 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:29,840 What's his name? 371 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:30,840 Johnny. 372 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,840 Johnny? 373 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,840 That's a nice original name. 374 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,840 He's a cute little kid, too. 375 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:44,840 I don't guess you're gonna put up any arguments, huh, mister? 376 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,840 No. 377 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:47,840 No arguments. 378 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,840 Yeah. I'll be right here with the wife and the kid 379 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:52,840 until I see our little scheme is working, 380 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,840 so don't you try no tricks on the way down. 381 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:55,840 No. 382 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,840 What does he mean? Henry, what's gonna happen? 383 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,840 You can read about it in the papers, lady. 384 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:00,840 Now go turn out the light. 385 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:01,840 The light? 386 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:02,840 Turn it off. 387 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,840 But don't you try nothing. Neither one of you. 388 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:05,840 You got your kid in here now, 389 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,840 and there's no telling who'd get hit if I had to shoot wild. 390 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:09,840 Turn it out, Jesse. 391 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:10,840 Henry, I... 392 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:12,840 Come on. 393 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,840 Now you. The window. 394 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:17,840 Okay. 395 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,840 They're all waiting. 396 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:20,840 Get going. 397 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:21,840 You can't let him go out there. 398 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,840 Jesse, it's all right. 399 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,840 Hold on to Johnny and wait for me. 400 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:30,840 It'll be all right. 401 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:31,840 Henry. 402 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,840 I stepped out onto the street 403 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,840 and saw a man standing there. 404 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:43,840 I thought he was a man. 405 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,840 I stepped out onto the iron platform. 406 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,840 Below on the street, 407 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,840 I could feel every eye on me. 408 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,840 Hold up, Jalaska! 409 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,840 We see you! 410 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,840 Don't take another step! 411 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,840 And then I knew there was a part of the plan 412 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:01,840 he hadn't told me. 413 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,840 I jumped back against the wall, 414 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:04,840 but it was already too late. 415 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:05,840 From the window behind me, 416 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,840 Jalaska fired down into the police. 417 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:08,840 Their guns flew up automatically, 418 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,840 and everyone was aimed at me. 419 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,840 There's pain. 420 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:16,840 Pain. 421 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,840 People everywhere. 422 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,840 There are waves of pain. 423 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:22,840 Voices. 424 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,840 Voices I knew. 425 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:26,840 Don't touch him. 426 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:27,840 Don't touch him. 427 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:28,840 Let him alone. 428 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:29,840 He's losing blood. 429 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:30,840 I've got to get a doctor. 430 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:31,840 You'll get a doctor, lady. 431 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:32,840 Why don't you go? 432 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:33,840 What are you waiting for? 433 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,840 Haven't you done enough? 434 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:36,840 He's been shot. 435 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:37,840 He's hurt. 436 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:38,840 And you just stand there. 437 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,840 I thought you wanted to get out. 438 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:41,840 Well, get out! Get out! 439 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:42,840 Get out. 440 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,840 Henry, Henry, it'll be all right. 441 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Don't try to move, darling. 442 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:46,840 You'll be all right. 443 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:47,840 Is he gone? 444 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:48,840 Please. 445 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,840 No, mister, no, he ain't gone. 446 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:52,840 A little scheme. 447 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,840 It don't look like it's going to work. 448 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,840 It should have. 449 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,840 No reason it shouldn't. 450 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,840 But they're moving up on the stairs right now. 451 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:02,840 Don't move, Henry. 452 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,840 We'll get a doctor. 453 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,840 It'll all be over in a minute. 454 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,840 Yeah, you're glad, huh? 455 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:09,840 No. 456 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,840 No, I'm not glad. 457 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,840 It's ugly, all of this. 458 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,840 I feel sorry for you. 459 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,840 Don't, lady. 460 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,840 I've been running for a long time. 461 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,840 I think it's going to feel good to stop. 462 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,840 It's a funny thing when they're after you, 463 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,840 when you're running away. 464 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:31,840 You look the same, you act the same as you always did, 465 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,840 but it's different on the inside. 466 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,840 You're tight and twisted. 467 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,840 No matter what you're doing, you can't relax. 468 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,840 You can't get a good deep breath. 469 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,840 Yeah, I think I'm glad. 470 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Gillesca? 471 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:49,840 Roy Gillesca? 472 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,840 Those guys are going to do a lot of brag in the morrow. 473 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,840 We know you're in there. 474 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,840 Come out with your hands up, or we're coming after you. 475 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,840 So, they finally get me. 476 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,840 You killed a man? 477 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,840 Yeah. 478 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Yeah, one day you're just a guy, 479 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,840 and something happens, and you're a killer. 480 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,840 Won't you go now, please? 481 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,840 Sure, sure I'll go. 482 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,840 Why not? 483 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,840 Don't make much difference now. 484 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,840 Buddy, listen to me. 485 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,840 You know what I mean, don't you? 486 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,840 You're just a guy. 487 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,840 Yeah. 488 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,840 Put your gun down. 489 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,840 Maybe they'll give you a chance. 490 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,840 What chance? I've been waiting for a chance all my life. 491 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,840 Give her the gun. 492 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,840 It'll be better. 493 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,840 Look, forget it, will you? Get out of the way, lady. 494 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:47,840 I'm going out. 495 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:48,840 You wouldn't try. 496 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Oh, why don't you let me have your gun? 497 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,840 Get back, get way back. 498 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:53,840 Jesse? 499 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:54,840 It's all right, Henry, it's all right. 500 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:55,840 That's it. 501 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,840 Stay there. 502 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,840 I'm... 503 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,840 You'll stay just like that. 504 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,840 Oh, Henry. 505 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,840 Okay, son, hold it right there. 506 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,840 Don't come any farther. 507 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,840 There are six guns on you, Jaliska. 508 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,840 You haven't got a chance. 509 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:28,840 Now drop that thing and come down with your hands over your head. 510 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,840 Jesse. 511 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:31,840 Yes? 512 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,840 Why didn't it work? 513 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,840 They shot at me. 514 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,840 And then there was at least a half minute when he could have got out that door. 515 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,840 Why didn't he? 516 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:45,840 What made him wait? 517 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,840 Oh, don't talk, darling, it's all over now. 518 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,840 No, no, no, what happened? Tell me. 519 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,840 When the police fired, he started for the door. 520 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,840 But he came back, Henry. 521 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,840 He went out into the fire escape and lifted you in the room. 522 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,840 Then he started for the door again, but it was too late. 523 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:04,840 Is he all right? 524 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:05,840 I don't know, I think so. 525 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,840 Will you get a doctor, please? 526 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,840 The one's on his way. 527 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:11,840 All right, take it easy, mister, you're going to be okay. 528 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,840 Just lie easy. 529 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,840 Yeah. 530 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,840 Sure. 531 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:19,840 It's funny. 532 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,840 Huh? 533 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:26,840 No, it's not funny. 534 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,840 Strange. 535 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:55,840 Strange for a killer. 536 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:03,840 Suspense, in which Mr. John Dana starred in tonight's presentation of Strange for a Killer. 537 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:23,840 Next week, tune in again for radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 538 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,840 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 539 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,840 Tonight's script was written by Robert Essam. 540 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,840 The music was composed by René Guéregao and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 541 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:43,840 Featured in the cast were Tony Barrett, Eve McVeigh, Jack Crouchon, Leonard Weinrib, Charles Seale, and Tom McKee. 542 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Tomorrow night on CBS Radio, hear the scientific touch on the FBI in Peace and War. 543 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,840 A new wrinkle in criminology and an exciting wrinkle in countermeasures. 544 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:59,840 Remember on most of these stations every Wednesday night, the FBI in Peace and War. 545 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:09,840 Stay tuned now for Douglas Edwards with the news, followed by Disc Derby. 546 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Thursday night, The Whistler brings mystery on the CBS Radio Network.