WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.360 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:21.360 --> 00:26.440 Tonight we bring you a story of a man's life and his defeat at the hands of his greatest 00:26.440 --> 00:27.560 enemy. 00:27.560 --> 00:30.080 We call it, This Will Kill You. 00:30.080 --> 00:57.840 So now starring Sam Edwards, here is tonight's Suspense play, This Will Kill You. 00:57.840 --> 01:05.200 Listen, get a load of this. 01:05.200 --> 01:06.360 This will kill you. 01:06.360 --> 01:09.400 I got a story that should be written up by one of those big magazine writers. 01:09.400 --> 01:10.680 Only mine is true. 01:10.680 --> 01:13.400 Yeah, the whole thing is true, so help me. 01:13.400 --> 01:16.120 They say the truth is stranger than fiction, don't they? 01:16.120 --> 01:18.000 Well get this. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.240 I was working down at Acme Engineering, an outfit making hydraulic valves for all the 01:22.240 --> 01:23.560 big airplane companies. 01:23.560 --> 01:28.200 We had a foreman named Charlie Harris, one of those big good looking guys who thought 01:28.200 --> 01:30.360 he was a big shot because he was boss. 01:30.360 --> 01:33.640 Well, this guy was always picking on me. 01:33.640 --> 01:40.160 Like for instance, one morning I came to work a few minutes late and this Harris says, well, 01:40.160 --> 01:41.760 good afternoon Jordan. 01:41.760 --> 01:45.040 Oh, save those gags for Jack Benny, it's only a quarter after eight. 01:45.040 --> 01:47.600 Well get here at eight and you'll be spared my sense of humor. 01:47.600 --> 01:50.720 Ain't a guy got a right to get here a couple of minutes late once in a while? 01:50.720 --> 01:53.760 Sure, once in a while Joe, but not every other day. 01:53.760 --> 01:57.000 Oh gee Charlie, my alarm clock's on the bump. 01:57.000 --> 01:58.260 Save that for the teacher. 01:58.260 --> 02:03.320 Come on Joe, get on the ball. 02:03.320 --> 02:05.800 Save that for the teacher he said. 02:05.800 --> 02:09.680 Always throwing up to me that he graduated from engineering school and I never even got 02:09.680 --> 02:11.960 a chance to go to high school. 02:11.960 --> 02:14.800 As if you need an education to be a smart guy. 02:14.800 --> 02:18.840 Why I could tell you a hundred guys who never even went to school and they could buy and 02:18.840 --> 02:21.800 sell that guy. 02:21.800 --> 02:23.960 That's another story. 02:23.960 --> 02:27.600 Anyway this Charlie Harris kept giving me the needle. 02:27.600 --> 02:34.860 Joe, can I talk to you a minute? 02:34.860 --> 02:35.860 What is it now chief? 02:35.860 --> 02:36.860 Quit calling me chief. 02:36.860 --> 02:41.080 Now look kid, I don't know what's wrong but you're slowing up. 02:41.080 --> 02:44.400 The other boys are turning out a hundred parts a day and you're only averaging 80. 02:44.400 --> 02:45.400 Now what's the trouble? 02:45.400 --> 02:48.000 Oh gee, I don't know. 02:48.000 --> 02:49.640 My eyes hurt. 02:49.640 --> 02:52.740 This works tough on the peeps and I gotta stop once in a while. 02:52.740 --> 02:53.740 My eyes hurt bad. 02:53.740 --> 02:58.200 You complained last week too Joe and the company doctor's report said there was nothing wrong. 02:58.200 --> 02:59.760 Oh what is that quack, no. 02:59.760 --> 03:04.680 Quit the complaints and get on the job. 03:04.680 --> 03:05.680 Get on the job. 03:05.680 --> 03:07.640 Did you get that? 03:07.640 --> 03:10.960 Just because he's bucking for promotion by being the first one in and the last one to 03:10.960 --> 03:14.560 leave so the big boss will think he's a hot shot. 03:14.560 --> 03:16.160 Could I help it if my eyes hurt bad? 03:16.160 --> 03:19.520 Oh he had to make a big thing out of it. 03:19.520 --> 03:22.880 Just because I got in the habit of having a couple of drinks every night and he found 03:22.880 --> 03:23.880 out. 03:23.880 --> 03:27.600 Ain't a guy got a right to have a little fun once in a while? 03:27.600 --> 03:29.440 So my eyes hurt a little the next day. 03:29.440 --> 03:31.880 Is that so terrible? 03:31.880 --> 03:34.780 Well anyway he kept picking on me. 03:34.780 --> 03:37.200 One day I was knocking my brains out. 03:37.200 --> 03:44.200 Let me go, let me go, let me go lover. 03:44.200 --> 03:49.920 Let me go, let me go. 03:49.920 --> 03:50.920 Yeah. 03:50.920 --> 03:53.520 You know there's oil and gasoline all over the place. 03:53.520 --> 03:54.520 Yeah. 03:54.520 --> 03:56.160 And that a cigarette could burn the plant down. 03:56.160 --> 03:57.160 So what? 03:57.160 --> 03:59.200 So read the sign beside your machine. 03:59.200 --> 04:00.800 I can read it Charlie. 04:00.800 --> 04:02.200 Read it. 04:02.200 --> 04:04.440 No smoking. 04:04.440 --> 04:06.480 Put out that cigarette. 04:06.480 --> 04:07.480 What cigarette? 04:07.480 --> 04:08.680 Why you stupid give me that cigarette. 04:08.680 --> 04:09.680 I'll break your hand. 04:09.680 --> 04:18.640 I'll break your hand. 04:18.640 --> 04:22.480 I would have murdered the guy but he hit me a lucky punch. 04:22.480 --> 04:28.120 Never would have happened again in a million years but he knocked me out. 04:28.120 --> 04:31.320 Charlie was standing by the cot when I came to looking worried. 04:31.320 --> 04:34.680 He started to apologize but I gave him a quick brush. 04:34.680 --> 04:37.100 The stinking rat. 04:37.100 --> 04:38.100 He was scared of me. 04:38.100 --> 04:40.560 That's why he didn't report me to the front office. 04:40.560 --> 04:43.720 He acted as if he was doing a big thing by not snitching. 04:43.720 --> 04:46.880 But it was because he was scared of me. 04:46.880 --> 04:48.880 He thought I'd forget. 04:48.880 --> 04:51.880 Oh no. 04:51.880 --> 04:53.920 Joe Jordan never forgets nothing. 04:53.920 --> 04:55.600 Remember that. 04:55.600 --> 04:57.920 And Joe Jordan always gets even. 04:57.920 --> 05:00.720 But I played my cards right. 05:00.720 --> 05:03.660 I didn't let him know I was still sore. 05:03.660 --> 05:05.400 That was smart wasn't it? 05:05.400 --> 05:07.680 I went on working as if nothing happened. 05:07.680 --> 05:10.280 Even though the rest of the guys started picking on me too. 05:10.280 --> 05:11.280 Because he was boss. 05:11.280 --> 05:13.800 And they was trying to get in good with him. 05:13.800 --> 05:17.480 They kept after me every day until I thought my head would explode. 05:17.480 --> 05:18.480 Always rubbing it in. 05:18.480 --> 05:23.480 Hey Rocky, still leading with your chin? 05:23.480 --> 05:28.400 Hey Joe, quit using my tools all the time. 05:28.400 --> 05:29.400 You're not smoking again buddy. 05:29.400 --> 05:34.400 You're asking for another one of those lucky punches from Charlie you know. 05:34.400 --> 05:47.240 Quit throwing your shavings on my machine Joe. 05:47.240 --> 05:51.400 I used to get splitting headaches from the pounding on my brain. 05:51.400 --> 05:57.080 Oh you were too getting it from all sides like that wouldn't you? 05:57.080 --> 05:59.240 It wasn't so bad during the day. 05:59.240 --> 06:01.480 The machine drowned out the noise in my head. 06:01.480 --> 06:06.920 But at night that pounding would start steady like my machine banging away all the time 06:06.920 --> 06:09.600 so I couldn't sleep. 06:09.600 --> 06:11.520 It might have got another guy but not me. 06:11.520 --> 06:12.520 I'm too tough. 06:12.520 --> 06:15.040 Yeah and I got plans for Joe Jordan. 06:15.040 --> 06:21.440 Be a big guy some day with my brains no foreman of some small time outfit. 06:21.440 --> 06:27.000 I'd be head man of the biggest shop in town with a classy car, big house with servants 06:27.000 --> 06:30.200 and a beautiful wife. 06:30.200 --> 06:36.880 And I had her all picked out. 06:36.880 --> 06:39.280 Her name was Harriet. 06:39.280 --> 06:42.280 She was a stenographer at Acme. 06:42.280 --> 06:44.160 All the guys was on the make for her. 06:44.160 --> 06:45.720 But she had a yen for me. 06:45.720 --> 06:48.400 Oh not that she ever said anything but I could tell. 06:48.400 --> 06:50.840 I know dames. 06:50.840 --> 06:54.880 Once we had a long talk at the water cooler and I knew I could take her out whenever I 06:54.880 --> 06:55.880 got good and ready. 06:55.880 --> 07:00.560 When I heard about the company dance I was good and ready. 07:00.560 --> 07:04.320 I didn't want her to think I was too anxious so I just waited. 07:04.320 --> 07:08.580 And a week before the dance I met her at the water cooler again and managed to bump her 07:08.580 --> 07:10.120 as I got a paper cup. 07:10.120 --> 07:11.680 Oh pardon me. 07:11.680 --> 07:13.160 Oh you speak French? 07:13.160 --> 07:14.480 You know a little. 07:14.480 --> 07:17.960 I knew a guy from Paris, France once and he taught me a couple of things. 07:17.960 --> 07:21.360 Cherche la femme, comatel la veu. 07:21.360 --> 07:22.360 That's quite an accent. 07:22.360 --> 07:24.480 Excuse me Joe I got to get back to you. 07:24.480 --> 07:26.440 Oh wait a minute, wait a minute. 07:26.440 --> 07:28.720 I got a lot of accomplishments. 07:28.720 --> 07:30.680 I'm a good dancer too. 07:30.680 --> 07:34.160 Did you know I took second place in the bop contest at Ocean Park last year? 07:34.160 --> 07:35.160 No I didn't. 07:35.160 --> 07:37.720 Do you do the New Yorker? 07:37.720 --> 07:39.680 No I'm sort of on the conservative side. 07:39.680 --> 07:41.560 Oh I can do the square stuff too. 07:41.560 --> 07:43.600 Well we must dance sometime. 07:43.600 --> 07:44.600 Excuse me Joe really. 07:44.600 --> 07:48.120 Oh wait I just happened to think. 07:48.120 --> 07:50.000 How about going to the company dance with me Friday? 07:50.000 --> 07:52.440 Well I'm very sorry but I can't. 07:52.440 --> 07:53.440 Aren't you going? 07:53.440 --> 07:57.560 Yes but I have a date with Charlie. 07:57.560 --> 07:58.560 Charlie who? 07:58.560 --> 08:02.160 Charlie Harris. 08:02.160 --> 08:05.440 Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris, Charlie Harris. 08:05.440 --> 08:09.160 He moved into my life, then he moved into my head and started it banging. 08:09.160 --> 08:11.160 And now he moved in with my girl. 08:11.160 --> 08:13.920 That guy was doing everything he could to burn me up. 08:13.920 --> 08:17.440 He knew I was going to ask Harriet to the dance and he beat me to it. 08:17.440 --> 08:21.680 Okay I said to myself okay I can wait a week. 08:21.680 --> 08:24.800 But I'll get to dance with the little lady. 08:24.800 --> 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 08:28.240 --> 08:29.240 again. 08:29.240 --> 08:33.280 It was a long week. 08:33.280 --> 08:37.160 I kept hearing reports that Charlie and Harriet were engaged. 08:37.160 --> 08:40.640 But that was just to burn me see. 08:40.640 --> 08:41.920 And then came the dance. 08:41.920 --> 08:45.040 Didn't you bring a girl Joe? 08:45.040 --> 08:47.120 I got a doll here pal. 08:47.120 --> 08:48.360 Where is she? 08:48.360 --> 08:50.160 Dancing with some other guy? 08:50.160 --> 08:52.680 Yeah dancing with some other guy. 08:52.680 --> 08:54.480 Well don't stand there with your teeth in your mouth. 08:54.480 --> 08:58.560 If my girl was dancing with another guy you can bet I'd cut in. 08:58.560 --> 09:05.840 That's a good idea. 09:05.840 --> 09:07.600 Pardon me I'm cutting in. 09:07.600 --> 09:09.360 No you're not Joe. 09:09.360 --> 09:12.200 I wasn't asking the pleasure of you Charlie. 09:12.200 --> 09:13.200 Now if you don't mind. 09:13.200 --> 09:15.280 This is our favorite number Joe. 09:15.280 --> 09:17.240 Why can't I cut in once? 09:17.240 --> 09:19.480 Just because he's a big foreman? 09:19.480 --> 09:25.880 Because you're the little jerk. 09:25.880 --> 09:35.080 Jerk! 09:35.080 --> 09:36.360 Did you get that? 09:36.360 --> 09:38.080 He called me a jerk. 09:38.080 --> 09:41.760 But he didn't know how smart I was. 09:41.760 --> 09:45.280 All good things aren't on the surface you know. 09:45.280 --> 09:46.920 I went home and I tried to sleep. 09:46.920 --> 09:50.760 But the pounding on my brain was coming like a sledge hammer. 09:50.760 --> 09:51.760 Bang, bang, bang. 09:51.760 --> 09:55.480 And I could hear Harriet laughing at me. 09:55.480 --> 09:57.680 That dirty double crossing dame laughing at me. 09:57.680 --> 09:58.680 Laughing at me. 09:58.680 --> 10:01.680 The banging in my head coming louder and louder. 10:01.680 --> 10:04.680 Crashing against my brain. 10:04.680 --> 10:05.680 Exploding! 10:05.680 --> 10:08.200 And then the pounding stopped. 10:08.200 --> 10:13.240 For the first time in weeks it was silence in my head. 10:13.240 --> 10:18.440 That soft, cool quiet. 10:18.440 --> 10:24.120 Like Sunday morning when you were a kid and no one was awake in the house but you. 10:24.120 --> 10:30.400 Like Christmas night after the excitement was over and you went to bed and thought about 10:30.400 --> 10:33.000 the new sled and the wonderful dinner you just ate. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.720 And outside you heard the tinkling sleigh bells. 10:35.720 --> 10:41.160 And there was peace on earth. 10:41.160 --> 10:44.440 And then I got the idea. 10:44.440 --> 10:47.740 No more pounding in my head now. 10:47.740 --> 10:50.720 I was going to eliminate the cause of the pounding. 10:50.720 --> 10:52.720 Kill the root. 10:52.720 --> 10:58.000 Yeah, I was going to kill two birds with one stone. 10:58.000 --> 11:02.160 Charlie Harris was going to burn for murder. 11:02.160 --> 11:04.660 And the murder? 11:04.660 --> 11:18.560 The murder of Harriet Slate. 11:18.560 --> 11:21.360 You are listening to This Will Kill You. 11:21.360 --> 11:33.500 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:33.500 --> 11:38.060 This Thursday, December 1st will be the second annual SD Day, Safe Driving Day. 11:38.060 --> 11:39.500 Its purpose very simple. 11:39.500 --> 11:43.480 To demonstrate that on any given day on which all motorists redouble their efforts to avoid 11:43.480 --> 11:46.960 accidents there will be drastically fewer accidents. 11:46.960 --> 11:50.960 Doesn't this fact that last year's SD Day resulted in a great reduction in accidents 11:50.960 --> 11:56.120 suggest that everybody cooperate in every way to make SD Day a success again? 11:56.120 --> 12:00.440 This has been a public service reminder from CBS Radio. 12:00.440 --> 12:06.040 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage Sam Edwards starring in tonight's production, 12:06.040 --> 12:07.040 This Will Kill You. 12:07.040 --> 12:16.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:16.000 --> 12:27.520 Are you still with me? 12:27.520 --> 12:32.440 Well listen, like I was telling you, I decided to kill Harriet and pin the rap on Charlie. 12:32.440 --> 12:34.200 Fooled you didn't I? 12:34.200 --> 12:36.400 You thought I was going to knock off Charlie myself didn't you? 12:36.400 --> 12:39.240 Oh no, no the law was going to do the job. 12:39.240 --> 12:40.960 You get the switch? 12:40.960 --> 12:43.240 I planned it carefully so there'd be no slip ups. 12:43.240 --> 12:44.960 I took plenty of time. 12:44.960 --> 12:48.040 I worked it all out to the smallest detail. 12:48.040 --> 12:49.960 And then I did a real smart thing. 12:49.960 --> 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. 12:54.320 --> 12:58.320 But the only thing missing was the motive, understand the motive. 12:58.320 --> 13:01.760 So before I killed her I started supplying the motive. 13:01.760 --> 13:05.680 Every day down at the plant I dropped something here and there to the guys. 13:05.680 --> 13:10.480 Hey Marty, I just heard Charlie and Harriet had an argument down the hall. 13:10.480 --> 13:12.040 I love us but probably. 13:12.040 --> 13:14.400 I understand things aren't so hot between those two. 13:14.400 --> 13:16.360 Ah you're crazy Joe. 13:16.360 --> 13:21.800 Well that's what I heard. 13:21.800 --> 13:24.000 Charlie's been doing a lot of bowling these nights hasn't he? 13:24.000 --> 13:25.520 Yeah he loves it. 13:25.520 --> 13:29.040 He didn't seem to when he and Harriet were so palsy-wellsy. 13:29.040 --> 13:32.320 I heard something about that but I don't believe it. 13:32.320 --> 13:33.480 I do. 13:33.480 --> 13:39.800 I heard them arguing plenty in the hall the other day. 13:39.800 --> 13:43.360 Did you hear that Charlie and Harriet had a big blow off last night? 13:43.360 --> 13:44.360 Something about another guy. 13:44.360 --> 13:48.120 Yeah, yeah I heard things weren't going so hot with those two lately. 13:48.120 --> 13:55.360 Say listen, you hear that Harriet and Charlie had a big scrap the other night? 13:55.360 --> 13:57.800 Old news Marty, old news. 13:57.800 --> 14:00.720 I understand she's got a guy up north and Charlie is burning it. 14:00.720 --> 14:02.920 Ah he ought to bust her head wide open. 14:02.920 --> 14:05.640 It would serve her right for two-timing a nice guy like Charlie. 14:05.640 --> 14:11.420 You said it Marty. 14:11.420 --> 14:12.420 There was the motive. 14:12.420 --> 14:17.480 Signed, sealed, wrapped up in a big red ribbon and ready to be delivered. 14:17.480 --> 14:22.960 The next afternoon I heard Charlie making a date with her for that night. 14:22.960 --> 14:26.920 He didn't know it but it was going to be his last date. 14:26.920 --> 14:32.640 Well when the five o'clock whistle blew and Charlie went in to wash his hands, I slipped 14:32.640 --> 14:33.920 over to his workbench. 14:33.920 --> 14:38.520 I grabbed the steel pipe he used on his drill press and slipped it under my coat. 14:38.520 --> 14:41.760 I wore gloves so my fingerprints wouldn't show on it. 14:41.760 --> 14:42.760 Smart huh? 14:42.760 --> 14:46.360 Only Charlie's fingerprints were on the pipe. 14:46.360 --> 14:50.820 I waited outside the plant and in a little while Charlie walked by. 14:50.820 --> 14:53.560 I walked alongside him and started to talk. 14:53.560 --> 14:55.200 You got a minute Charlie? 14:55.200 --> 14:57.080 Oh sure, what's on your mind? 14:57.080 --> 15:01.640 Well there's an idea I've been working on that can speed production in our department. 15:01.640 --> 15:03.640 Can I talk to you tonight for an hour or so? 15:03.640 --> 15:05.640 Sorry Joe, can't tonight, I got a date. 15:05.640 --> 15:10.120 But with my idea each man can turn out 150 valves a day easy. 15:10.120 --> 15:12.000 I got it all worked out in a model in my room. 15:12.000 --> 15:13.000 Can't you make it tonight? 15:13.000 --> 15:15.240 I told you I've got a date. 15:15.240 --> 15:19.200 You're always giving me that company spirit stuff when it doesn't cost you anything. 15:19.200 --> 15:21.000 Okay Charlie, I took you up on it. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.080 I've been giving up my nights to work on this idea. 15:23.080 --> 15:24.760 I didn't expect nothing out of it. 15:24.760 --> 15:27.640 But when I asked you to give up a measly hour you're too busy. 15:27.640 --> 15:29.120 Why can't you come over after your date? 15:29.120 --> 15:30.120 Take it easy. 15:30.120 --> 15:33.880 I didn't know you were so hot about all this. 15:33.880 --> 15:37.400 Okay if it means so much to you, suppose I leave my girl about 11 and get to your room 15:37.400 --> 15:38.400 a few minutes later. 15:38.400 --> 15:39.840 Ah that's swell Charlie. 15:39.840 --> 15:41.400 I'll be waiting for you. 15:41.400 --> 15:45.160 I may be out for a minute or two but the door will be open so wait for me huh? 15:45.160 --> 15:46.480 See you later. 15:46.480 --> 15:52.760 You bet. 15:52.760 --> 15:55.160 Everything was working like I planned. 15:55.160 --> 15:57.120 Pretty good for a dumb guy huh? 15:57.120 --> 16:02.160 Well I grabbed a bite of dinner and then dropped over to Charlie's boarding house. 16:02.160 --> 16:04.400 He lived on the first floor on the back. 16:04.400 --> 16:05.400 I looked at his window. 16:05.400 --> 16:07.400 It was open a little. 16:07.400 --> 16:08.400 Perfect. 16:08.400 --> 16:13.120 I waited until dark, crushed up the window and dropped in. 16:13.120 --> 16:15.320 Took only a few seconds to find what I wanted. 16:15.320 --> 16:18.680 A handkerchief with Charlie's initials on it. 16:18.680 --> 16:22.840 I was outside and walking down the street before I even had time to get nervous. 16:22.840 --> 16:27.840 I killed time until about 10.30 and drove over to Harriet's house and waited across 16:27.840 --> 16:28.840 the street. 16:28.840 --> 16:34.160 In a little while Harriet and Charlie walked up, talked for a little while. 16:34.160 --> 16:40.240 Then Charlie looked at his watch and kissed her good night. 16:40.240 --> 16:47.640 And I waited for a few minutes after he left and then I walked up to her room. 16:47.640 --> 16:53.280 Who's there? 16:53.280 --> 16:55.000 It's me Harriet, Joe Jordan. 16:55.000 --> 16:56.400 I got to tell you something about Charlie. 16:56.400 --> 16:57.400 Joe, what is it? 16:57.400 --> 16:58.760 Ah, don't get nervous. 16:58.760 --> 16:59.760 Nothing happened. 16:59.760 --> 17:02.120 I'm just playing a little trick on Charlie. 17:02.120 --> 17:05.400 Oh, here I'm a bit scared for a second. 17:05.400 --> 17:06.400 Come on in Joe. 17:06.400 --> 17:11.040 I was just making a little home recording of the song, singing along with the radio. 17:11.040 --> 17:13.760 I know Charlie will get a big kick out of it. 17:13.760 --> 17:14.760 Yeah. 17:14.760 --> 17:18.360 That's your favorite song, isn't it? 17:18.360 --> 17:19.520 Charlie's too. 17:19.520 --> 17:20.520 We love it. 17:20.520 --> 17:24.240 You really go for that guy, don't you? 17:24.240 --> 17:25.840 Any question about it? 17:25.840 --> 17:29.680 Joe, we were going to tell everyone in a few days anyway, so you may as well know right 17:29.680 --> 17:30.680 now. 17:30.680 --> 17:34.560 Charlie and I are going to be married in three weeks when we get our vacation. 17:34.560 --> 17:35.560 Isn't that wonderful? 17:35.560 --> 17:36.560 Yeah, that's wonderful. 17:36.560 --> 17:42.360 Only you're taking your vacation a little sooner than that, baby. 17:42.360 --> 17:44.000 What do you mean? 17:44.000 --> 17:46.160 You're not marrying him or anybody else, see? 17:46.160 --> 17:47.160 Are you kidding? 17:47.160 --> 17:49.160 Get out of here, you little jerk. 17:49.160 --> 17:50.160 I'm a little jerk, am I? 17:50.160 --> 17:51.160 Joe! 17:51.160 --> 17:52.160 Joe, what are you going to do with it? 17:52.160 --> 17:53.160 Joe, no, no! 17:53.160 --> 17:54.160 I did it. 17:54.160 --> 17:55.160 It was done. 17:55.160 --> 17:56.160 I looked at it again and it was done. 17:56.160 --> 17:57.160 I'm going to go home. 17:57.160 --> 17:58.160 I'm going to go home. 17:58.160 --> 17:59.160 I'm going to go home. 17:59.160 --> 18:00.160 I'm going to go home. 18:00.160 --> 18:01.160 I'm going to go home. 18:01.160 --> 18:02.160 I'm going to go home. 18:02.160 --> 18:03.160 I'm going to go home. 18:03.160 --> 18:04.160 I'm going to go home. 18:04.160 --> 18:05.160 I'm going to go home. 18:05.160 --> 18:06.160 I looked at the clock. 18:06.160 --> 18:07.160 It was 11.10. 18:07.160 --> 18:10.800 He'd just be getting to my room now. 18:10.800 --> 18:12.840 Five minutes to kill. 18:12.840 --> 18:15.840 I dropped Charlie's handkerchief on the floor, then messed up the joint. 18:15.840 --> 18:17.440 It looked like a struggle. 18:17.440 --> 18:22.400 I waited till 11.15, then smashed the clock. 18:22.400 --> 18:24.080 It stopped dead. 18:24.080 --> 18:27.960 I dropped the steel pipe on the floor, blew the place fast and raced home. 18:27.960 --> 18:32.320 I ran up the stairs, worried that maybe Charlie had left. 18:32.320 --> 18:35.400 Where have you been, Joe? 18:35.400 --> 18:37.720 I was just getting ready to leave. 18:37.720 --> 18:38.920 Oh, I'm sorry, Charlie. 18:38.920 --> 18:39.920 I got stuck. 18:39.920 --> 18:41.240 All right. 18:41.240 --> 18:43.200 Where's the model you were talking about? 18:43.200 --> 18:47.520 Oh, gee, I'm sorry to have dragged you all the way over here for nothing. 18:47.520 --> 18:48.960 It's still at the welders. 18:48.960 --> 18:51.600 I thought it would sure be here by tonight. 18:51.600 --> 18:52.600 Let's make it tomorrow. 18:52.600 --> 18:53.960 You're a great one. 18:53.960 --> 18:55.800 You messed up my whole evening. 18:55.800 --> 19:01.440 Oh, I'm sorry. 19:01.440 --> 19:05.720 I poured a couple of drinks into him so he wouldn't get home till late. 19:05.720 --> 19:09.960 And then I dropped off to a nice restful sleep. 19:09.960 --> 19:12.960 The next morning, I was on the job at 8 on the dot. 19:12.960 --> 19:15.800 Charlie was there already, but that didn't worry me. 19:15.800 --> 19:17.280 It wouldn't be for long. 19:17.280 --> 19:22.840 About an hour later, the kid from the front office came up and said something to Charlie 19:22.840 --> 19:25.040 and he left the shop. 19:25.040 --> 19:26.320 That was it. 19:26.320 --> 19:27.960 Those were the cops. 19:27.960 --> 19:29.760 And Charlie was a dead pigeon. 19:29.760 --> 19:35.640 Well, I went on with my work, not doing very much, just faking, because I knew I was next. 19:35.640 --> 19:36.640 And I was. 19:36.640 --> 19:41.560 The same kid came at lunchtime and told me I was wanted at the front gate. 19:41.560 --> 19:45.680 I got a little nervous when I saw the two big coppers, but as soon as they spoke, I 19:45.680 --> 19:47.160 felt it was going to be all right. 19:47.160 --> 19:48.160 George Jordan? 19:48.160 --> 19:49.160 Yeah, that's me. 19:49.160 --> 19:52.160 I'm Lieutenant Sullivan, Homicide Squad. 19:52.160 --> 19:54.080 Hope you don't mind coming down to headquarters with us. 19:54.080 --> 19:56.080 I want to ask you a couple of questions. 19:56.080 --> 19:59.080 No, I don't mind. 19:59.080 --> 20:04.480 What's it all about? 20:04.480 --> 20:06.840 Where were you last night, Jordan? 20:06.840 --> 20:07.840 Last night? 20:07.840 --> 20:09.800 Oh, I hit the hay early. 20:09.800 --> 20:10.800 What time? 20:10.800 --> 20:14.160 Well, I was awful tired and I had a tough day at the shop yesterday. 20:14.160 --> 20:16.320 I guess about nine thirty. 20:16.320 --> 20:19.280 Did you see Charlie Harris last night? 20:19.280 --> 20:23.680 No, I saw him when we left the plant yesterday, about five. 20:23.680 --> 20:26.800 Hey, where's Charlie now? 20:26.800 --> 20:28.360 He left the shop about ten this morning. 20:28.360 --> 20:32.000 Never mind, but he says he was in your room at eleven fifteen. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.920 Well, maybe he was. 20:34.920 --> 20:37.200 Charlie Harris is a nice guy and he don't lie. 20:37.200 --> 20:39.280 If he says so, then it's probably right. 20:39.280 --> 20:41.520 I thought you said you went to bed about nine thirty. 20:41.520 --> 20:43.640 No, I did. 20:43.640 --> 20:45.160 Maybe I was asleep when he came in. 20:45.160 --> 20:47.960 Maybe I was talking in my sleep when he was there. 20:47.960 --> 20:50.160 I wouldn't want to louse up Charlie. 20:50.160 --> 20:53.360 So what are you guys trying to pin on me? 20:53.360 --> 20:55.680 If Charlie's in a jam, I got to know what he said. 20:55.680 --> 20:56.680 I got to back him up. 20:56.680 --> 20:57.680 Save it, kid. 20:57.680 --> 21:00.000 Tell me, do you know Harriet Slate? 21:00.000 --> 21:05.160 That no good two time and dame double crossing a good guy like Charlie. 21:05.160 --> 21:08.320 Why, he was just telling me when we left the plant yesterday that he was going to get it 21:08.320 --> 21:10.120 settled last night once and for all. 21:10.120 --> 21:14.200 So what are you smiling at? 21:14.200 --> 21:15.200 Did I say something? 21:15.200 --> 21:16.200 Smart, huh? 21:16.200 --> 21:18.200 I handled that smart, didn't I? 21:18.200 --> 21:26.440 Do you see now how I worked the whole thing out, every little detail? 21:26.440 --> 21:29.600 Remember how I planned it that night in bed when the pounding stopped like I told you 21:29.600 --> 21:31.280 before? 21:31.280 --> 21:33.040 The trial was a cinch. 21:33.040 --> 21:36.720 The D.A. had all the evidence he needed and a little more. 21:36.720 --> 21:38.640 Charlie was with her that night. 21:38.640 --> 21:39.640 Proved. 21:39.640 --> 21:42.600 The steel pipe was his, wasn't it? 21:42.600 --> 21:43.600 Proved. 21:43.600 --> 21:46.600 It was his fingerprints, wasn't it? 21:46.600 --> 21:47.720 Proved. 21:47.720 --> 21:48.720 And the motive? 21:48.720 --> 21:50.960 The boys in the plant furnished that. 21:50.960 --> 21:52.480 They were perfect witnesses. 21:52.480 --> 21:55.780 They liked Charlie, tried to help him. 21:55.780 --> 21:58.760 But they had to admit the stories that were going around. 21:58.760 --> 22:04.120 And the piece de resistance, that's French, you know, was the way I knocked his alibi 22:04.120 --> 22:06.200 for a loop. 22:06.200 --> 22:09.520 Now you see why I smashed the clock at 1115? 22:09.520 --> 22:15.240 Boy, you should have seen that guy when the jury came in with the verdict. 22:15.240 --> 22:23.080 Charles Herons, will you rise and come before the court? 22:23.080 --> 22:37.280 Charles Herons, the jury of your peers has found you guilty of murder in the first degree. 22:37.280 --> 22:40.280 And I hear... 22:40.280 --> 22:44.280 Oh, boy, what a day. 22:44.280 --> 22:45.280 You should have seen him. 22:45.280 --> 22:49.640 He stood there trying to put on that big shot stuff even then. 22:49.640 --> 22:51.240 Trying to act like he wasn't scared to die. 22:51.240 --> 22:55.000 I could tell he was ready to faint right there and then. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.860 But the newspaper guys were taking in and they said he stood straight and fine and brave 22:58.860 --> 23:03.880 in that courtroom like a soldier facing a firing squad. 23:03.880 --> 23:05.500 That's what they said, the dopes. 23:05.500 --> 23:06.500 But I knew he was yellow. 23:06.500 --> 23:11.200 Or else why wouldn't he have picked on me just because he was boss, huh? 23:11.200 --> 23:16.180 So you see, I was smarter than he thought, than anybody thought. 23:16.180 --> 23:19.360 Even the DA and those cops. 23:19.360 --> 23:21.520 That was a funny situation, wasn't it? 23:21.520 --> 23:25.080 The real murder was in court, first in the testimony that convicted that forced lob. 23:25.080 --> 23:27.120 And no one knew it. 23:27.120 --> 23:28.120 That's a good one, huh? 23:28.120 --> 23:32.720 That's a good one. 23:32.720 --> 23:34.640 It's time, Joe. 23:34.640 --> 23:36.600 Be brave now, Joseph. 23:36.600 --> 23:37.600 We must go. 23:37.600 --> 23:41.480 All right, Father, but let me tell you the punch line. 23:41.480 --> 23:42.960 Come on, Joe. 23:42.960 --> 23:43.960 It's time. 23:43.960 --> 23:44.960 Oh, quit it. 23:44.960 --> 23:48.400 So we'll be a minute late, so you'll pay the guy who pulls the switch a minute overtime. 23:48.400 --> 23:50.520 The state can afford it. 23:50.520 --> 23:52.240 I've been telling Father the whole story. 23:52.240 --> 23:54.000 I've got to tell him the snapper, don't I? 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 Let him finish. 23:55.000 --> 23:59.200 Go on, my son. 23:59.200 --> 24:00.480 It was a fluke, Father. 24:00.480 --> 24:03.760 A million to one shot. 24:03.760 --> 24:06.640 They never would have gotten me if not for one thing. 24:06.640 --> 24:09.160 One little mistake, Father. 24:09.160 --> 24:11.640 If not for that, it would have been a perfect crime. 24:11.640 --> 24:17.680 It would have been me walking around here free now, not Charlie. 24:17.680 --> 24:22.320 You see, the night I knocked the doll off, she up and told me she was making a recording 24:22.320 --> 24:24.920 of that song on the radio. 24:24.920 --> 24:26.720 She told me, you hear? 24:26.720 --> 24:28.840 And I forgot all about it. 24:28.840 --> 24:33.160 So all the time I was spilling my guts to Harriet, that machine was taking down every 24:33.160 --> 24:36.880 word and I forgot all about it. 24:36.880 --> 24:42.640 If I'd smashed the record, if I'd only smashed it that night. 24:42.640 --> 24:46.160 But Harriet's old lady got her things. 24:46.160 --> 24:49.480 And a few weeks later decided to play the records. 24:49.480 --> 24:54.520 And she heard the whole thing, my whole confession, just as if I spilled to the cops. 24:54.520 --> 24:58.120 Father, we must go now, Joseph. 24:58.120 --> 25:03.080 Okay, Father, I'm coming. 25:03.080 --> 25:15.200 Come on and watch a real man walk down the last mile. 25:15.200 --> 25:18.240 You've seen plenty of guys walking down this road, didn't you, Warden? 25:18.240 --> 25:24.920 I bet none of them took it as good as me, did they? 25:24.920 --> 25:27.840 They say guys crack up on this little walk, don't they? 25:27.840 --> 25:30.560 Not me, I got guts. 25:30.560 --> 25:34.360 I bet Charlie would have cracked up by now, hey, Warden, he'd be screaming his yellow 25:34.360 --> 25:35.360 head off. 25:35.360 --> 25:38.760 He wouldn't be taking it like me. 25:38.760 --> 25:41.200 There's nothing to be scared of. 25:41.200 --> 25:44.200 Guy pulls a little switch and it's all over. 25:44.200 --> 25:46.880 They say you don't feel a thing. 25:46.880 --> 25:48.360 You don't feel nothing, do you, Warden? 25:48.360 --> 25:51.000 Oh, you should know, you've seen plenty get it. 25:51.000 --> 25:56.720 It doesn't hurt, does it? 25:56.720 --> 25:58.800 I could have been a big man in this town. 25:58.800 --> 26:00.800 With a classy car. 26:00.800 --> 26:04.400 A big house with servants and a beautiful wife. 26:04.400 --> 26:07.040 You have a beautiful wife. 26:07.040 --> 26:12.160 I got a tough break, one in a million, I tell you. 26:12.160 --> 26:13.660 But it's all in the game, see? 26:13.660 --> 26:15.600 Come see, come saw. 26:15.600 --> 26:18.360 That's French, you know. 26:18.360 --> 26:20.800 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I? 26:20.800 --> 26:24.360 Not many take it like me, do they, Warden? 26:24.360 --> 26:29.000 You think the papers will say I sit up straight and fine and brave, huh? 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 Like a guy facing a firing squad? 26:32.000 --> 26:34.000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I, Warden? 26:34.000 --> 26:35.000 Ain't I, Father? 26:35.000 --> 26:38.000 I'm taking it pretty good, ain't I? 26:38.000 --> 26:39.880 I'm not afraid. 26:39.880 --> 26:40.880 You know that, don't you? 26:40.880 --> 26:41.880 Don't you? 26:41.880 --> 26:42.880 I'm not! 26:42.880 --> 26:45.320 ци omme éa cê aacht et me, Ma de,I j'ij o b3$, min, g3cause l'im d'en kindergarten' 26:45.320 --> 26:46.800 No l've had none of it! 26:46.800 --> 27:04.440 Gone in a hundred plus breastcoachers' 27:04.440 --> 27:12.440 No, not only me. 27:12.440 --> 27:17.440 in which Sam Edwards starred in tonight's presentation of This Will Kill You. 27:18.080 --> 27:23.420 Listen again next week when we again bring you another story in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 27:24.740 --> 27:26.740 Suspense. 27:26.740 --> 27:31.500 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 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