1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,360 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,440 Tonight we bring you a story of a man's life and his defeat at the hands of his greatest 3 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:27,560 enemy. 4 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,080 We call it, This Will Kill You. 5 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:57,840 So now starring Sam Edwards, here is tonight's Suspense play, This Will Kill You. 6 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:05,200 Listen, get a load of this. 7 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,360 This will kill you. 8 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,400 I got a story that should be written up by one of those big magazine writers. 9 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:10,680 Only mine is true. 10 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,400 Yeah, the whole thing is true, so help me. 11 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,120 They say the truth is stranger than fiction, don't they? 12 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,000 Well get this. 13 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,240 I was working down at Acme Engineering, an outfit making hydraulic valves for all the 14 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:23,560 big airplane companies. 15 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,200 We had a foreman named Charlie Harris, one of those big good looking guys who thought 16 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,360 he was a big shot because he was boss. 17 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,640 Well, this guy was always picking on me. 18 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:40,160 Like for instance, one morning I came to work a few minutes late and this Harris says, well, 19 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,760 good afternoon Jordan. 20 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,040 Oh, save those gags for Jack Benny, it's only a quarter after eight. 21 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,600 Well get here at eight and you'll be spared my sense of humor. 22 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,720 Ain't a guy got a right to get here a couple of minutes late once in a while? 23 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,760 Sure, once in a while Joe, but not every other day. 24 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,000 Oh gee Charlie, my alarm clock's on the bump. 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,260 Save that for the teacher. 26 00:01:58,260 --> 00:02:03,320 Come on Joe, get on the ball. 27 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,800 Save that for the teacher he said. 28 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,680 Always throwing up to me that he graduated from engineering school and I never even got 29 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,960 a chance to go to high school. 30 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,800 As if you need an education to be a smart guy. 31 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,840 Why I could tell you a hundred guys who never even went to school and they could buy and 32 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,800 sell that guy. 33 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,960 That's another story. 34 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,600 Anyway this Charlie Harris kept giving me the needle. 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:34,860 Joe, can I talk to you a minute? 36 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:35,860 What is it now chief? 37 00:02:35,860 --> 00:02:36,860 Quit calling me chief. 38 00:02:36,860 --> 00:02:41,080 Now look kid, I don't know what's wrong but you're slowing up. 39 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,400 The other boys are turning out a hundred parts a day and you're only averaging 80. 40 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:45,400 Now what's the trouble? 41 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,000 Oh gee, I don't know. 42 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,640 My eyes hurt. 43 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,740 This works tough on the peeps and I gotta stop once in a while. 44 00:02:52,740 --> 00:02:53,740 My eyes hurt bad. 45 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:58,200 You complained last week too Joe and the company doctor's report said there was nothing wrong. 46 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,760 Oh what is that quack, no. 47 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,680 Quit the complaints and get on the job. 48 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,680 Get on the job. 49 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,640 Did you get that? 50 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,960 Just because he's bucking for promotion by being the first one in and the last one to 51 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,560 leave so the big boss will think he's a hot shot. 52 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,160 Could I help it if my eyes hurt bad? 53 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,520 Oh he had to make a big thing out of it. 54 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,880 Just because I got in the habit of having a couple of drinks every night and he found 55 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:23,880 out. 56 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,600 Ain't a guy got a right to have a little fun once in a while? 57 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,440 So my eyes hurt a little the next day. 58 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,880 Is that so terrible? 59 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,780 Well anyway he kept picking on me. 60 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:37,200 One day I was knocking my brains out. 61 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:44,200 Let me go, let me go, let me go lover. 62 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:49,920 Let me go, let me go. 63 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:50,920 Yeah. 64 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,520 You know there's oil and gasoline all over the place. 65 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:54,520 Yeah. 66 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,160 And that a cigarette could burn the plant down. 67 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 So what? 68 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,200 So read the sign beside your machine. 69 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:00,800 I can read it Charlie. 70 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,200 Read it. 71 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,440 No smoking. 72 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,480 Put out that cigarette. 73 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,480 What cigarette? 74 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,680 Why you stupid give me that cigarette. 75 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:09,680 I'll break your hand. 76 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:18,640 I'll break your hand. 77 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,480 I would have murdered the guy but he hit me a lucky punch. 78 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:28,120 Never would have happened again in a million years but he knocked me out. 79 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,320 Charlie was standing by the cot when I came to looking worried. 80 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,680 He started to apologize but I gave him a quick brush. 81 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,100 The stinking rat. 82 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:38,100 He was scared of me. 83 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:40,560 That's why he didn't report me to the front office. 84 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,720 He acted as if he was doing a big thing by not snitching. 85 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,880 But it was because he was scared of me. 86 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,880 He thought I'd forget. 87 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,880 Oh no. 88 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:53,920 Joe Jordan never forgets nothing. 89 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,600 Remember that. 90 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,920 And Joe Jordan always gets even. 91 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,720 But I played my cards right. 92 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,660 I didn't let him know I was still sore. 93 00:05:03,660 --> 00:05:05,400 That was smart wasn't it? 94 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,680 I went on working as if nothing happened. 95 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,280 Even though the rest of the guys started picking on me too. 96 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:11,280 Because he was boss. 97 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:13,800 And they was trying to get in good with him. 98 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,480 They kept after me every day until I thought my head would explode. 99 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:18,480 Always rubbing it in. 100 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,480 Hey Rocky, still leading with your chin? 101 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,400 Hey Joe, quit using my tools all the time. 102 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:29,400 You're not smoking again buddy. 103 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,400 You're asking for another one of those lucky punches from Charlie you know. 104 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:47,240 Quit throwing your shavings on my machine Joe. 105 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,400 I used to get splitting headaches from the pounding on my brain. 106 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:57,080 Oh you were too getting it from all sides like that wouldn't you? 107 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,240 It wasn't so bad during the day. 108 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,480 The machine drowned out the noise in my head. 109 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,920 But at night that pounding would start steady like my machine banging away all the time 110 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,600 so I couldn't sleep. 111 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,520 It might have got another guy but not me. 112 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,520 I'm too tough. 113 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,040 Yeah and I got plans for Joe Jordan. 114 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Be a big guy some day with my brains no foreman of some small time outfit. 115 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:27,000 I'd be head man of the biggest shop in town with a classy car, big house with servants 116 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,200 and a beautiful wife. 117 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:36,880 And I had her all picked out. 118 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,280 Her name was Harriet. 119 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,280 She was a stenographer at Acme. 120 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:44,160 All the guys was on the make for her. 121 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,720 But she had a yen for me. 122 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,400 Oh not that she ever said anything but I could tell. 123 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,840 I know dames. 124 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:54,880 Once we had a long talk at the water cooler and I knew I could take her out whenever I 125 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:55,880 got good and ready. 126 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,560 When I heard about the company dance I was good and ready. 127 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,320 I didn't want her to think I was too anxious so I just waited. 128 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,580 And a week before the dance I met her at the water cooler again and managed to bump her 129 00:07:08,580 --> 00:07:10,120 as I got a paper cup. 130 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:11,680 Oh pardon me. 131 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,160 Oh you speak French? 132 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,480 You know a little. 133 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,960 I knew a guy from Paris, France once and he taught me a couple of things. 134 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,360 Cherche la femme, comatel la veu. 135 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 That's quite an accent. 136 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,480 Excuse me Joe I got to get back to you. 137 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,440 Oh wait a minute, wait a minute. 138 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,720 I got a lot of accomplishments. 139 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,680 I'm a good dancer too. 140 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,160 Did you know I took second place in the bop contest at Ocean Park last year? 141 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,160 No I didn't. 142 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,720 Do you do the New Yorker? 143 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,680 No I'm sort of on the conservative side. 144 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,560 Oh I can do the square stuff too. 145 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,600 Well we must dance sometime. 146 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:44,600 Excuse me Joe really. 147 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,120 Oh wait I just happened to think. 148 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,000 How about going to the company dance with me Friday? 149 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,440 Well I'm very sorry but I can't. 150 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:53,440 Aren't you going? 151 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,560 Yes but I have a date with Charlie. 152 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:58,560 Charlie who? 153 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,160 Charlie Harris. 154 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,440 Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris. 155 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,160 He moved into my life, then he moved into my head and started it banging. 156 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,160 And now he moved in with my girl. 157 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,920 That guy was doing everything he could to burn me up. 158 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,440 He knew I was going to ask Harriet to the dance and he beat me to it. 159 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,680 Okay I said to myself okay I can wait a week. 160 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,800 But I'll get to dance with the little lady. 161 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,240 Once I get her in my arms and show her a couple of steps she won't want to dance with him 162 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,240 again. 163 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,280 It was a long week. 164 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,160 I kept hearing reports that Charlie and Harriet were engaged. 165 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,640 But that was just to burn me see. 166 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:41,920 And then came the dance. 167 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,040 Didn't you bring a girl Joe? 168 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,120 I got a doll here pal. 169 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,360 Where is she? 170 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,160 Dancing with some other guy? 171 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,680 Yeah dancing with some other guy. 172 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,480 Well don't stand there with your teeth in your mouth. 173 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,560 If my girl was dancing with another guy you can bet I'd cut in. 174 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:05,840 That's a good idea. 175 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,600 Pardon me I'm cutting in. 176 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,360 No you're not Joe. 177 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,200 I wasn't asking the pleasure of you Charlie. 178 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,200 Now if you don't mind. 179 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,280 This is our favorite number Joe. 180 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,240 Why can't I cut in once? 181 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,480 Just because he's a big foreman? 182 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:25,880 Because you're the little jerk. 183 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:35,080 Jerk! 184 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:36,360 Did you get that? 185 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,080 He called me a jerk. 186 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,760 But he didn't know how smart I was. 187 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,280 All good things aren't on the surface you know. 188 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:46,920 I went home and I tried to sleep. 189 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,760 But the pounding on my brain was coming like a sledge hammer. 190 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:51,760 Bang, bang, bang. 191 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,480 And I could hear Harriet laughing at me. 192 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,680 That dirty double crossing dame laughing at me. 193 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:58,680 Laughing at me. 194 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,680 The banging in my head coming louder and louder. 195 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,680 Crashing against my brain. 196 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:05,680 Exploding! 197 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,200 And then the pounding stopped. 198 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,240 For the first time in weeks it was silence in my head. 199 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,440 That soft, cool quiet. 200 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:24,120 Like Sunday morning when you were a kid and no one was awake in the house but you. 201 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:30,400 Like Christmas night after the excitement was over and you went to bed and thought about 202 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,000 the new sled and the wonderful dinner you just ate. 203 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,720 And outside you heard the tinkling sleigh bells. 204 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:41,160 And there was peace on earth. 205 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,440 And then I got the idea. 206 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,740 No more pounding in my head now. 207 00:10:47,740 --> 00:10:50,720 I was going to eliminate the cause of the pounding. 208 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:52,720 Kill the root. 209 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:58,000 Yeah, I was going to kill two birds with one stone. 210 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,160 Charlie Harris was going to burn for murder. 211 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,660 And the murder? 212 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:18,560 The murder of Harriet Slate. 213 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,360 You are listening to This Will Kill You. 214 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:33,500 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 215 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:38,060 This Thursday, December 1st will be the second annual SD Day, Safe Driving Day. 216 00:11:38,060 --> 00:11:39,500 Its purpose very simple. 217 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:43,480 To demonstrate that on any given day on which all motorists redouble their efforts to avoid 218 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,960 accidents there will be drastically fewer accidents. 219 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,960 Doesn't this fact that last year's SD Day resulted in a great reduction in accidents 220 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,120 suggest that everybody cooperate in every way to make SD Day a success again? 221 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,440 This has been a public service reminder from CBS Radio. 222 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:06,040 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage Sam Edwards starring in tonight's production, 223 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,040 This Will Kill You. 224 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:16,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 225 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:27,520 Are you still with me? 226 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:32,440 Well listen, like I was telling you, I decided to kill Harriet and pin the rap on Charlie. 227 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,200 Fooled you didn't I? 228 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,400 You thought I was going to knock off Charlie myself didn't you? 229 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,240 Oh no, no the law was going to do the job. 230 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,960 You get the switch? 231 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,240 I planned it carefully so there'd be no slip ups. 232 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:44,960 I took plenty of time. 233 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,040 I worked it all out to the smallest detail. 234 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,960 And then I did a real smart thing. 235 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,320 Now get this, I knew how I was going to knock off the dame and how to pin the blame on Charlie. 236 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,320 But the only thing missing was the motive, understand the motive. 237 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,760 So before I killed her I started supplying the motive. 238 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,680 Every day down at the plant I dropped something here and there to the guys. 239 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:10,480 Hey Marty, I just heard Charlie and Harriet had an argument down the hall. 240 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,040 I love us but probably. 241 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,400 I understand things aren't so hot between those two. 242 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,360 Ah you're crazy Joe. 243 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:21,800 Well that's what I heard. 244 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,000 Charlie's been doing a lot of bowling these nights hasn't he? 245 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,520 Yeah he loves it. 246 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,040 He didn't seem to when he and Harriet were so palsy-wellsy. 247 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,320 I heard something about that but I don't believe it. 248 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,480 I do. 249 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:39,800 I heard them arguing plenty in the hall the other day. 250 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,360 Did you hear that Charlie and Harriet had a big blow off last night? 251 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:44,360 Something about another guy. 252 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,120 Yeah, yeah I heard things weren't going so hot with those two lately. 253 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:55,360 Say listen, you hear that Harriet and Charlie had a big scrap the other night? 254 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,800 Old news Marty, old news. 255 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,720 I understand she's got a guy up north and Charlie is burning it. 256 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,920 Ah he ought to bust her head wide open. 257 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,640 It would serve her right for two-timing a nice guy like Charlie. 258 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:11,420 You said it Marty. 259 00:14:11,420 --> 00:14:12,420 There was the motive. 260 00:14:12,420 --> 00:14:17,480 Signed, sealed, wrapped up in a big red ribbon and ready to be delivered. 261 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:22,960 The next afternoon I heard Charlie making a date with her for that night. 262 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,920 He didn't know it but it was going to be his last date. 263 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:32,640 Well when the five o'clock whistle blew and Charlie went in to wash his hands, I slipped 264 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,920 over to his workbench. 265 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,520 I grabbed the steel pipe he used on his drill press and slipped it under my coat. 266 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,760 I wore gloves so my fingerprints wouldn't show on it. 267 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:42,760 Smart huh? 268 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,360 Only Charlie's fingerprints were on the pipe. 269 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,820 I waited outside the plant and in a little while Charlie walked by. 270 00:14:50,820 --> 00:14:53,560 I walked alongside him and started to talk. 271 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,200 You got a minute Charlie? 272 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,080 Oh sure, what's on your mind? 273 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:01,640 Well there's an idea I've been working on that can speed production in our department. 274 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,640 Can I talk to you tonight for an hour or so? 275 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,640 Sorry Joe, can't tonight, I got a date. 276 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,120 But with my idea each man can turn out 150 valves a day easy. 277 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,000 I got it all worked out in a model in my room. 278 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Can't you make it tonight? 279 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,240 I told you I've got a date. 280 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,200 You're always giving me that company spirit stuff when it doesn't cost you anything. 281 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,000 Okay Charlie, I took you up on it. 282 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,080 I've been giving up my nights to work on this idea. 283 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,760 I didn't expect nothing out of it. 284 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,640 But when I asked you to give up a measly hour you're too busy. 285 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,120 Why can't you come over after your date? 286 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Take it easy. 287 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,880 I didn't know you were so hot about all this. 288 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,400 Okay if it means so much to you, suppose I leave my girl about 11 and get to your room 289 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:38,400 a few minutes later. 290 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,840 Ah that's swell Charlie. 291 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,400 I'll be waiting for you. 292 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,160 I may be out for a minute or two but the door will be open so wait for me huh? 293 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,480 See you later. 294 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:52,760 You bet. 295 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,160 Everything was working like I planned. 296 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,120 Pretty good for a dumb guy huh? 297 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:02,160 Well I grabbed a bite of dinner and then dropped over to Charlie's boarding house. 298 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,400 He lived on the first floor on the back. 299 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:05,400 I looked at his window. 300 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,400 It was open a little. 301 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:08,400 Perfect. 302 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:13,120 I waited until dark, crushed up the window and dropped in. 303 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,320 Took only a few seconds to find what I wanted. 304 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,680 A handkerchief with Charlie's initials on it. 305 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,840 I was outside and walking down the street before I even had time to get nervous. 306 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:27,840 I killed time until about 10.30 and drove over to Harriet's house and waited across 307 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:28,840 the street. 308 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:34,160 In a little while Harriet and Charlie walked up, talked for a little while. 309 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:40,240 Then Charlie looked at his watch and kissed her good night. 310 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:47,640 And I waited for a few minutes after he left and then I walked up to her room. 311 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:53,280 Who's there? 312 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,000 It's me Harriet, Joe Jordan. 313 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,400 I got to tell you something about Charlie. 314 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,400 Joe, what is it? 315 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:58,760 Ah, don't get nervous. 316 00:16:58,760 --> 00:16:59,760 Nothing happened. 317 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,120 I'm just playing a little trick on Charlie. 318 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,400 Oh, here I'm a bit scared for a second. 319 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:06,400 Come on in Joe. 320 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:11,040 I was just making a little home recording of the song, singing along with the radio. 321 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,760 I know Charlie will get a big kick out of it. 322 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:14,760 Yeah. 323 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:18,360 That's your favorite song, isn't it? 324 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:19,520 Charlie's too. 325 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,520 We love it. 326 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:24,240 You really go for that guy, don't you? 327 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:25,840 Any question about it? 328 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,680 Joe, we were going to tell everyone in a few days anyway, so you may as well know right 329 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:30,680 now. 330 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,560 Charlie and I are going to be married in three weeks when we get our vacation. 331 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:35,560 Isn't that wonderful? 332 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:36,560 Yeah, that's wonderful. 333 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:42,360 Only you're taking your vacation a little sooner than that, baby. 334 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:44,000 What do you mean? 335 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,160 You're not marrying him or anybody else, see? 336 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:47,160 Are you kidding? 337 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,160 Get out of here, you little jerk. 338 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:50,160 I'm a little jerk, am I? 339 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,160 Joe! 340 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,160 Joe, what are you going to do with it? 341 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,160 Joe, no, no! 342 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:54,160 I did it. 343 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,160 It was done. 344 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,160 I looked at it again and it was done. 345 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:57,160 I'm going to go home. 346 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:58,160 I'm going to go home. 347 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,160 I'm going to go home. 348 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,160 I'm going to go home. 349 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,160 I'm going to go home. 350 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,160 I'm going to go home. 351 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:03,160 I'm going to go home. 352 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:04,160 I'm going to go home. 353 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,160 I'm going to go home. 354 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:06,160 I looked at the clock. 355 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,160 It was 11.10. 356 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,800 He'd just be getting to my room now. 357 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,840 Five minutes to kill. 358 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,840 I dropped Charlie's handkerchief on the floor, then messed up the joint. 359 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,440 It looked like a struggle. 360 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,400 I waited till 11.15, then smashed the clock. 361 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,080 It stopped dead. 362 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,960 I dropped the steel pipe on the floor, blew the place fast and raced home. 363 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,320 I ran up the stairs, worried that maybe Charlie had left. 364 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,400 Where have you been, Joe? 365 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,720 I was just getting ready to leave. 366 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:38,920 Oh, I'm sorry, Charlie. 367 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:39,920 I got stuck. 368 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,240 All right. 369 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,200 Where's the model you were talking about? 370 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,520 Oh, gee, I'm sorry to have dragged you all the way over here for nothing. 371 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:48,960 It's still at the welders. 372 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,600 I thought it would sure be here by tonight. 373 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:52,600 Let's make it tomorrow. 374 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:53,960 You're a great one. 375 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,800 You messed up my whole evening. 376 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:01,440 Oh, I'm sorry. 377 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,720 I poured a couple of drinks into him so he wouldn't get home till late. 378 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,960 And then I dropped off to a nice restful sleep. 379 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,960 The next morning, I was on the job at 8 on the dot. 380 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,800 Charlie was there already, but that didn't worry me. 381 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,280 It wouldn't be for long. 382 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:22,840 About an hour later, the kid from the front office came up and said something to Charlie 383 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,040 and he left the shop. 384 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:26,320 That was it. 385 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:27,960 Those were the cops. 386 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,760 And Charlie was a dead pigeon. 387 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:35,640 Well, I went on with my work, not doing very much, just faking, because I knew I was next. 388 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:36,640 And I was. 389 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:41,560 The same kid came at lunchtime and told me I was wanted at the front gate. 390 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,680 I got a little nervous when I saw the two big coppers, but as soon as they spoke, I 391 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,160 felt it was going to be all right. 392 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,160 George Jordan? 393 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,160 Yeah, that's me. 394 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,160 I'm Lieutenant Sullivan, Homicide Squad. 395 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,080 Hope you don't mind coming down to headquarters with us. 396 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,080 I want to ask you a couple of questions. 397 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,080 No, I don't mind. 398 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:04,480 What's it all about? 399 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,840 Where were you last night, Jordan? 400 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:07,840 Last night? 401 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,800 Oh, I hit the hay early. 402 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:10,800 What time? 403 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,160 Well, I was awful tired and I had a tough day at the shop yesterday. 404 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,320 I guess about nine thirty. 405 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,280 Did you see Charlie Harris last night? 406 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,680 No, I saw him when we left the plant yesterday, about five. 407 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,800 Hey, where's Charlie now? 408 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,360 He left the shop about ten this morning. 409 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,000 Never mind, but he says he was in your room at eleven fifteen. 410 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,920 Well, maybe he was. 411 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,200 Charlie Harris is a nice guy and he don't lie. 412 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,280 If he says so, then it's probably right. 413 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,520 I thought you said you went to bed about nine thirty. 414 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,640 No, I did. 415 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,160 Maybe I was asleep when he came in. 416 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,960 Maybe I was talking in my sleep when he was there. 417 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,160 I wouldn't want to louse up Charlie. 418 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,360 So what are you guys trying to pin on me? 419 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:55,680 If Charlie's in a jam, I got to know what he said. 420 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:56,680 I got to back him up. 421 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:57,680 Save it, kid. 422 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,000 Tell me, do you know Harriet Slate? 423 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,160 That no good two time and dame double crossing a good guy like Charlie. 424 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,320 Why, he was just telling me when we left the plant yesterday that he was going to get it 425 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,120 settled last night once and for all. 426 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:14,200 So what are you smiling at? 427 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,200 Did I say something? 428 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,200 Smart, huh? 429 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,200 I handled that smart, didn't I? 430 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:26,440 Do you see now how I worked the whole thing out, every little detail? 431 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,600 Remember how I planned it that night in bed when the pounding stopped like I told you 432 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,280 before? 433 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,040 The trial was a cinch. 434 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,720 The D.A. had all the evidence he needed and a little more. 435 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,640 Charlie was with her that night. 436 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,640 Proved. 437 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,600 The steel pipe was his, wasn't it? 438 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:43,600 Proved. 439 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,600 It was his fingerprints, wasn't it? 440 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:47,720 Proved. 441 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:48,720 And the motive? 442 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,960 The boys in the plant furnished that. 443 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,480 They were perfect witnesses. 444 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,780 They liked Charlie, tried to help him. 445 00:21:55,780 --> 00:21:58,760 But they had to admit the stories that were going around. 446 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:04,120 And the piece de resistance, that's French, you know, was the way I knocked his alibi 447 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:06,200 for a loop. 448 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,520 Now you see why I smashed the clock at 1115? 449 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:15,240 Boy, you should have seen that guy when the jury came in with the verdict. 450 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:23,080 Charles Herons, will you rise and come before the court? 451 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:37,280 Charles Herons, the jury of your peers has found you guilty of murder in the first degree. 452 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,280 And I hear... 453 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,280 Oh, boy, what a day. 454 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,280 You should have seen him. 455 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,640 He stood there trying to put on that big shot stuff even then. 456 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,240 Trying to act like he wasn't scared to die. 457 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,000 I could tell he was ready to faint right there and then. 458 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,860 But the newspaper guys were taking in and they said he stood straight and fine and brave 459 00:22:58,860 --> 00:23:03,880 in that courtroom like a soldier facing a firing squad. 460 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,500 That's what they said, the dopes. 461 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:06,500 But I knew he was yellow. 462 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:11,200 Or else why wouldn't he have picked on me just because he was boss, huh? 463 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,180 So you see, I was smarter than he thought, than anybody thought. 464 00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:19,360 Even the DA and those cops. 465 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:21,520 That was a funny situation, wasn't it? 466 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,080 The real murder was in court, first in the testimony that convicted that forced lob. 467 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,120 And no one knew it. 468 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:28,120 That's a good one, huh? 469 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,720 That's a good one. 470 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,640 It's time, Joe. 471 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,600 Be brave now, Joseph. 472 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,600 We must go. 473 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,480 All right, Father, but let me tell you the punch line. 474 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,960 Come on, Joe. 475 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:43,960 It's time. 476 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:44,960 Oh, quit it. 477 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,400 So we'll be a minute late, so you'll pay the guy who pulls the switch a minute overtime. 478 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,520 The state can afford it. 479 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,240 I've been telling Father the whole story. 480 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,000 I've got to tell him the snapper, don't I? 481 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Let him finish. 482 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,200 Go on, my son. 483 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,480 It was a fluke, Father. 484 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,760 A million to one shot. 485 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,640 They never would have gotten me if not for one thing. 486 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,160 One little mistake, Father. 487 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,640 If not for that, it would have been a perfect crime. 488 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:17,680 It would have been me walking around here free now, not Charlie. 489 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:22,320 You see, the night I knocked the doll off, she up and told me she was making a recording 490 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,920 of that song on the radio. 491 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,720 She told me, you hear? 492 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,840 And I forgot all about it. 493 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,160 So all the time I was spilling my guts to Harriet, that machine was taking down every 494 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,880 word and I forgot all about it. 495 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,640 If I'd smashed the record, if I'd only smashed it that night. 496 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,160 But Harriet's old lady got her things. 497 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,480 And a few weeks later decided to play the records. 498 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,520 And she heard the whole thing, my whole confession, just as if I spilled to the cops. 499 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,120 Father, we must go now, Joseph. 500 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:03,080 Okay, Father, I'm coming. 501 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:15,200 Come on and watch a real man walk down the last mile. 502 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,240 You've seen plenty of guys walking down this road, didn't you, Warden? 503 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:24,920 I bet none of them took it as good as me, did they? 504 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,840 They say guys crack up on this little walk, don't they? 505 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,560 Not me, I got guts. 506 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,360 I bet Charlie would have cracked up by now, hey, Warden, he'd be screaming his yellow 507 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:35,360 head off. 508 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,760 He wouldn't be taking it like me. 509 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,200 There's nothing to be scared of. 510 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,200 Guy pulls a little switch and it's all over. 511 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,880 They say you don't feel a thing. 512 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,360 You don't feel nothing, do you, Warden? 513 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,000 Oh, you should know, you've seen plenty get it. 514 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,720 It doesn't hurt, does it? 515 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,800 I could have been a big man in this town. 516 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,800 With a classy car. 517 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,400 A big house with servants and a beautiful wife. 518 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,040 You have a beautiful wife. 519 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,160 I got a tough break, one in a million, I tell you. 520 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,660 But it's all in the game, see? 521 00:26:13,660 --> 00:26:15,600 Come see, come saw. 522 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,360 That's French, you know. 523 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,800 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I? 524 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,360 Not many take it like me, do they, Warden? 525 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:29,000 You think the papers will say I sit up straight and fine and brave, huh? 526 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Like a guy facing a firing squad? 527 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I, Warden? 528 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Ain't I, Father? 529 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I? 530 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,880 I'm not afraid. 531 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:40,880 You know that, don't you? 532 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:41,880 Don't you? 533 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:42,880 I'm not! 534 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,320 ци omme éa cê aacht et me, Ma de,I j'ij o b3$, min, g3cause l'im d'en kindergarten' 535 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:46,800 No l've had none of it! 536 00:26:46,800 --> 00:27:04,440 Gone in a hundred plus breastcoachers' 537 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:12,440 No, not only me. 538 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,440 in which Sam Edwards starred in tonight's presentation of This Will Kill You. 539 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:23,420 Listen again next week when we again bring you another story in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 540 00:27:24,740 --> 00:27:26,740 Suspense. 541 00:27:26,740 --> 00:27:31,500 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by Peter Ashley. 542 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,500 The music was composed by Rene Gerrigang and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 543 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:41,500 Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, Charles Seal, Leonard Weinrib, Lillian Biaf and Barney Phillips. 544 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:47,500 The music was composed by Rene Gerrigang and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 545 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:52,500 Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, Charles Seal, Leonard Weinrib, Lillian Biaf and Barney Phillips. 546 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:59,500 Don't reach for your holster. 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