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"Secrets Under Green Light" dives into a world of mystery, hidden agendas, and unexpected twists. As the green light glows, dark secrets emerge, and every character must confront truths that could change everything. A gripping thriller full of suspense, intrigue, and deception.
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00:03:10to keep Ames and the rest of those Pelicans in line.
00:03:12Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:14Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:15Come on, Johnny, meet the rest of the game.
00:03:16Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:20That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:22Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm either.
00:03:25I'll go down to the Dutchman's for an egg sandwich.
00:03:26I'll go along with you.
00:03:40Come on, Johnny, you take all day, come on, will you?
00:03:59Don't hurry.
00:04:00Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:04:02I have no other city news, Burris Sergeant.
00:04:04Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:04:05What is this, a gang?
00:04:27It's Walter Bard.
00:04:28Runs a private detective agency in the Equitable building.
00:04:31They picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:33Looks like somebody's trying to give the department of business.
00:04:35Get going, up, Herbert.
00:04:36Yeah.
00:04:47For precious things alive, it's Mr. Bard.
00:04:50Do you know anything about this?
00:04:52Not me.
00:04:53Not me.
00:04:54I just sell him flowers.
00:05:03Take this into the desk.
00:05:04Right.
00:05:05Hey, Sam.
00:05:06What have you got?
00:05:07What do you think?
00:05:08Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:05:10That's the name of the game, gin.
00:05:11Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:12Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can.
00:05:13Then have the car gone over for .
00:05:14Hey, Sam, who's the...
00:05:15Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:16Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:17Couldn't get any closer.
00:05:18Boy, there's gonna be a stink about this.
00:05:19Yeah, he's mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:20He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:21He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:23What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:24Well, I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:26Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:27Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:28Hold on, hold on.
00:05:29I'm not supposed to take a drink.
00:05:30Hold on, hold on.
00:05:31Hold on, hold on.
00:05:32Hold on, hold on.
00:05:33Hold on.
00:05:34Hold on, hold on.
00:05:36Hold on.
00:05:37Hold on.
00:05:39Hold on.
00:05:40Hold on.
00:05:41Hold on.
00:05:42Hold on.
00:05:43Hold on.
00:05:44Hold on.
00:05:45Hold on.
00:05:46Hold on, hold on.
00:05:47Hold on.
00:05:48Hold on.
00:05:50Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:05:52right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:54Evidently a definite slap of the prison administration.
00:05:57You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:01Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:05Huh?
00:06:06Sure, play it up big, lay it on thick.
00:06:08Everybody's going to be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:11and the Express is its only friend.
00:06:15Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:17Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:06:21See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:24Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:25Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:27Okay, Lieutenant.
00:06:28Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the equitable building.
00:06:31Go through his desk and files.
00:06:32Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:34Yes.
00:06:34Well, Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:36Bard used to hang out at Tony's on 2nd Street quite a lot.
00:06:39Good idea.
00:06:40Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:43Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs it.
00:06:45Right, sir.
00:06:47Yes?
00:06:48Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, Lieutenant.
00:06:50She's probably sleeping.
00:06:51Keep on trying.
00:06:52Okay.
00:06:59Hey, Dan.
00:07:00Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:02He covers police for the sun.
00:07:04Also has the policy corner on the side.
00:07:06Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:07Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:09I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:07:13When are you going to get rid of that mort-eating trophy you got on?
00:07:16Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen, noted Indian fighter.
00:07:22Nothing would persuade me to park with it, except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:26Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:27Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:29On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:33Come in, Doc.
00:07:42Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:43The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:46Have you boys found it yet?
00:07:47In the front seat up Hole Street.
00:07:49Discharge from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:50Mm-hmm.
00:07:51His own.
00:07:52There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:07:54Could have been suicide.
00:07:55Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:57The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:59The body was driven there in Bard's car and left there.
00:08:01Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:08:02Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:08:05Could be.
00:08:08Holy mackerel.
00:08:14That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:17Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:19The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reformed candidate for mayor.
00:08:22Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:08:26Send Brewer in.
00:08:27Must be some of the Bradley.
00:08:28Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:08:30Why?
00:08:30The famous Calvert luck, my boy.
00:08:33Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:08:37Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:39Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:41We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:43Okay.
00:08:43Handle her carefully.
00:08:45All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:46Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:48Yes?
00:08:49Mrs. Byers still doesn't answer.
00:08:51Keep trying.
00:08:52Express, I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:58Very important.
00:08:59It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:09:01Hello?
00:09:03Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:09:05Oh, hello, Doc.
00:09:06What's on your mind?
00:09:08Waller Bard.
00:09:09Sure I know him.
00:09:12Well, who shot him?
00:09:13I don't know, but his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:09:18That's right, the police station.
00:09:20And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:22There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:27Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:29Are you sure?
00:09:30Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:38Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:40I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:42Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:43You can count on me.
00:09:45Goodbye.
00:10:00This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:06How do you do?
00:10:08Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Mr. Radlin.
00:10:11Sit down, please.
00:10:16What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:19You knew him?
00:10:21Knew him?
00:10:22He was murdered this evening.
00:10:26In his own car, shot.
00:10:28I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:32You did know him?
00:10:34Yes, I knew him.
00:10:36Seen him recently?
00:10:38This evening.
00:10:39I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:42Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:44No.
00:10:45Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:49I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:51Private?
00:10:55That's not so good.
00:10:58Is your father still in Washington?
00:11:02Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:05This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:11:08Dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:14Maybe.
00:11:15Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:18Is that necessary?
00:11:19Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course, if you'd rather not.
00:11:23Very well.
00:11:25This way, please.
00:11:26Thank you, Lieutenant.
00:11:28Now, the right hand.
00:11:33That's fine.
00:11:35You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:37Oh, thank you.
00:11:39My photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:42Sitting's by appointment only.
00:11:44That's all there is to it.
00:11:45It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:58You don't mind waiting.
00:11:59Of course not.
00:12:00Right in there.
00:12:03You're being swell about this.
00:12:04Yes?
00:12:13Max Carver to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:15Send him in.
00:12:16Thanks, Sam.
00:12:17I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:21I figured you'd be around.
00:12:22Well, I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:12:25Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:27The administration too.
00:12:29The administration's your problem.
00:12:31Oh, no, that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:34Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:37I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:39I know, but a politician sometimes
00:12:41could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:44I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:48So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:49Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:52She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:55I'm not making any statements.
00:12:56And when I do, the Express will get it,
00:12:58along with the other papers.
00:12:59Well, you're not letting a pretty face
00:13:01affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:13:02I'm not letting that tabloid of yours
00:13:04spare that girl's reputation
00:13:05so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:13:07Well, the public has the right
00:13:08to know the facts, Express Princeton.
00:13:10Yeah, anything for a nickel.
00:13:15Look, Sam, how long have you had this job?
00:13:18Long enough.
00:13:20When you first came into this department,
00:13:22I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:13:25Now, I own it.
00:13:27While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:30Now, Mike was your type of copier,
00:13:32and he never played ball.
00:13:33So what did it get him?
00:13:35A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:37Ha, you ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:43Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:47No.
00:13:48Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:50How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:53I'd like it.
00:13:54You know that, Calvert.
00:13:56Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked,
00:14:00it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:05There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:14:08Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:11Not suspicion or material witness.
00:14:13Anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election.
00:14:16Then let her go.
00:14:17She'd be all right.
00:14:19Do that, and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:22Oh, Sam.
00:14:23Now, don't look at it that way.
00:14:25Why, a week after the election,
00:14:27the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:30Think it over.
00:14:30Don't forget, Sam.
00:14:34It always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:39Great guy, wasn't there any time.
00:15:02He sure was.
00:15:03I guess he was just about the greatest cop this city ever had.
00:15:06Yeah.
00:15:06Wanted to get him.
00:15:07Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:15:09See you, William.
00:15:14What did you find at Bard's apartment?
00:15:16Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:15:19Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:22Prints on the gun,
00:15:24on one of the glasses,
00:15:25and Miss Bradley's fingerprints.
00:15:27All checked.
00:15:31Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:33Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:42Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:51All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:51Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:59Oh, yes.
00:16:00He poured a drink for me,
00:16:01but I set it down without tasting it.
00:16:03We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:16:09All right.
00:16:11I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:12I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me.
00:16:23Someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:26He made a business of buying and selling information about people,
00:16:30especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:34Problem people.
00:16:35He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it,
00:16:41but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:17:02Won't you sit down?
00:17:03I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:26Cigarette?
00:17:27Oh, thank you.
00:17:32Well?
00:17:32I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:17:37How much have you raised?
00:17:38$10,000.
00:17:40And I said $20,000.
00:17:42Well, that settles up.
00:17:44Oh, please.
00:17:45Won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:46Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:48You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:51Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:53Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:17:56Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:58And I've got a cash customer who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:18:03I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:18:07Oh, completely.
00:18:08You see, I haven't any.
00:18:09Not since I put on long pants.
00:18:11And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:14I can believe that.
00:18:15But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:18Take it.
00:18:20You look shaky.
00:18:20Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:37You'll find them all there.
00:18:39Don't move.
00:18:40I'd rather enjoy putting it into your activities.
00:18:47Stay where you are.
00:18:50He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:55Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe that chisel will let you take those papers away from him?
00:19:00But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:03What happened to the gun?
00:19:04I threw it in his car when I left.
00:19:06What'd you do with the envelope?
00:19:07Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:09What was in it?
00:19:10I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:12It must have been hot if Bart wanted that kind of dough for her.
00:19:15Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:17What was it about?
00:19:18Your father?
00:19:18It's no use asking me.
00:19:21What was in it?
00:19:22Dirt bar that dug up?
00:19:24Something Calvert could use?
00:19:27Let me help you.
00:19:28You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:30He said he'd take you home.
00:19:30It was raining.
00:19:32You go down to his car.
00:19:33He makes a pass at you.
00:19:34You grab his gun, let him have it, and scram with the envelope.
00:19:36The brakes in the car come loose, and the car starts rolling.
00:19:39Lieutenant, you...
00:19:40You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bart.
00:19:46Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:48You have motive, plenty of it.
00:19:50What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:53I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:57What are you going to do with me?
00:20:00I ought to book you.
00:20:01You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:09I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:12I've learned a great deal about the police department from Father.
00:20:15Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:19Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:21I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:23I'm glad.
00:20:25I've always liked policemen.
00:20:26I should book you.
00:20:31Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:32If you don't mind waiting a little longer,
00:20:35well, something may turn up.
00:20:39You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:41Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:45In here, please.
00:20:45Do you guys mind if I want a hand?
00:20:57Nope.
00:20:58Hello, Doc.
00:21:01Anything new on the bar, Kelly?
00:21:03Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:05Now, we know all about that.
00:21:07Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley,
00:21:09Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:11No.
00:21:12That's right.
00:21:13Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:14She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:17Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:20Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:22That's nice of you.
00:21:23But I'm still running the night shift around here,
00:21:25and I'll give out the information.
00:21:27The express already has it.
00:21:28I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:29So you boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:31Miss Bradley is involved.
00:21:33To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:34She was in Bard's apartment this evening,
00:21:36but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:38Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:39I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.
00:21:42Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:43That would cost no sense.
00:21:45Here's the latest hope on the Bard case.
00:21:47Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:21:50Oh, yes, Mr. Jones.
00:21:51I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:53I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:55Janet Bradley, daughter of the maritalty candidate,
00:21:57is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:22:00Yes.
00:22:01And you'll leave those two tickets for the fellow Monica...
00:22:03You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:05We won't forget.
00:22:06Dr. G.F. Yeager.
00:22:13Now, which one of you is taking my scissors?
00:22:16I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:21If you mooches insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors,
00:22:25I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:26Well, it's about time.
00:22:33Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:35I didn't know you were here.
00:22:36I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:37Long enough.
00:22:38Where have you been?
00:22:39Oh, all over.
00:22:40It's been a very busy night.
00:22:41Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:43Not yet.
00:22:44He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:45I don't trust Carson.
00:22:46He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:49Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room
00:22:50that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:52I want her charged with murder,
00:22:53and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in town.
00:22:56Sooner the better.
00:22:57Oh, thank you.
00:22:59I'll save this one later.
00:23:00I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage
00:23:02any local papers had in years.
00:23:05I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:08Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:10Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:12Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:14I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:17Every appearance at court.
00:23:19I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:22How she looks.
00:23:23With the inference that she's frightened,
00:23:25that she's hiding something that her back's against the wall.
00:23:28Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert,
00:23:29is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:34What did you say?
00:23:36He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:38Who did it?
00:23:39I don't know.
00:23:39You cut him open?
00:23:41I didn't have to.
00:23:42I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:45Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:46Not yet.
00:23:47Well, don't.
00:23:49The trouble is,
00:23:50if Carson ever takes a good look at the body,
00:23:51he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:23:54And he'll know what that means.
00:23:56Then we've got to get rid of the body.
00:23:57Get it out of here fast, tonight.
00:23:59Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:01You can and you're going to.
00:24:03But, Mr. Calvert,
00:24:04you can't just pick up a body
00:24:05and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:06before the chief medical examiner's had a whack at it.
00:24:08Look,
00:24:11have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:13One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:16Well, there's a floater
00:24:17that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:19All right, now,
00:24:20you go down to the morgue
00:24:20and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:23Then make out commitment papers for John Doe.
00:24:26Cremation.
00:24:27And ship it out tonight.
00:24:28But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:24:30If you have to,
00:24:31make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:33These squawks,
00:24:33you send them to me, you understand?
00:24:36Oh,
00:24:36I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:38Your best is to get that body out of here, fast.
00:24:53Yes?
00:24:54Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:25:01Hello?
00:25:03Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:05Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:06You've been ringing for some time, haven't you?
00:25:08I'm sorry.
00:25:10I was sound asleep.
00:25:12I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:16That is impossible.
00:25:18He wasn't at...
00:25:18I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:22We don't know yet.
00:25:24I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:26I know it'll be difficult,
00:25:27but you may be able to help us.
00:25:30Of course, but...
00:25:31But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:34We haven't been living together.
00:25:37Yes.
00:25:40As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:41Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:26:01It's Walter.
00:26:02Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:04Aware?
00:26:05No, Arthur.
00:26:06They've asked me to come down to the station now.
00:26:12Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:16I'll go with you.
00:26:18Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:21Don't worry, darling.
00:26:22Everything will be all right.
00:26:24Yes.
00:26:25Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:27In about 20 minutes.
00:26:29It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:31Oh, here's the lab report
00:26:36on the lipstick on the cigarette stuff.
00:26:39Any calls?
00:26:39No, sir.
00:26:41One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:42The other is a shade called Rochelle,
00:26:43used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:45Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:46Oh, send her in.
00:26:47Will you come in, please?
00:26:50Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:52I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:53This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:56Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:58I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:27:00So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:02Sit down, please.
00:27:07You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:10Well, Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:12We found his car parked in front of this building,
00:27:14his body in it.
00:27:15But that's fantastic.
00:27:16Who did it?
00:27:17Well, we're not prepared to say it yet.
00:27:20Now, Mrs. Bard, I think you told me
00:27:21that you and Bard hadn't lived together
00:27:22for quite some time.
00:27:24Not for over a year.
00:27:25Have you seen him recently?
00:27:27I saw him at a nightclub one evening
00:27:29several weeks ago.
00:27:30I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:32We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:35Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:36Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:38We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:40Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:42No.
00:27:42The papers were ready,
00:27:43but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:44Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:49Repeatedly.
00:27:49He was my husband,
00:27:51and even though he's dead...
00:27:52Nora.
00:27:52I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:27:53He was mean and cruel.
00:27:54He liked to hate people.
00:27:56He did it deliberately.
00:27:57I studied for two years.
00:28:00Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:28:02Yes, I know.
00:28:05Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:07Yes.
00:28:09I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:12You weren't in Bard's apartment
00:28:13at any time during the course of the evening.
00:28:15Mrs. Bard has already answered that question
00:28:16twice before, Carson.
00:28:18I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question
00:28:20and a third time, Arthur.
00:28:22I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:26Were you?
00:28:28No.
00:28:31I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard
00:28:32to identify the remains.
00:28:34Naturally.
00:28:36Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:37Yes, sure.
00:28:38This way, please.
00:28:42Listen, pal.
00:28:43I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:45Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:47Name?
00:28:48I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:50Never heard of you.
00:28:51What's your address?
00:28:53You can't book me, copper.
00:28:54I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:56The annual smoker, see?
00:28:58I go on at one o'clock.
00:29:00What's your address?
00:29:02But what about the Elks?
00:29:03You ain't gonna let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:06I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:08The address, Zachary.
00:29:09You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:11It's my professional reputation.
00:29:13Visit the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:14Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:16You'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:18But I gotta go on at 1 a.m.
00:29:20I'll come back.
00:29:21Honest, I will.
00:29:22Take him away.
00:29:23But...
00:29:23I'll come back.
00:29:53THE END
00:30:23I vote for Louis, he has the best beard
00:30:31What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:33The blonde behind the counter
00:30:53The blonde behind the counter
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00:34:43YES
00:34:45SAM
00:34:46A JOHN DOE
00:34:47THAT WAS BEING TRANSPORTED
00:34:48TO THE WOODBURY CREMATORIUM
00:34:49HAS DISAPPEARED FROM THE AMBULANCE
00:34:50WHAT DO YOU MEAN DISAPPEARED
00:34:52THE BOYS SAY THAT THEY LOADED IT INTO THE AMBULANCE
00:34:54AND WHEN THEY GOT THERE IT WAS GONE
00:34:56WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
00:34:57PULL YOUR RABBITS OUT OF MY HAT
00:34:58THE DOORS MUST HAVE FALLEN OPEN
00:35:00TELL RYLEY TO SEND A PATROL CAR OVER THE ROUTE THE AMBULANCE TOOK
00:35:03I'VE ALREADY TOLD THE CREW TO RETRACE THE ROUTE
00:35:06WELL FIND THAT BODY BEFORE THE PAPERS FIND IT FOR YOU
00:35:11HOLY SMOKE
00:35:21HOLY SMOKE
00:35:26HEY HELLO
00:35:27HELLO THIS IS JOHNNY WILLIAMS
00:35:29LET ME SPEAK TO MR. JONES QUICK
00:35:32I'LL CALL YOU RIGHT BACK
00:35:34YOU'RE NEW AROUND HERE AIN'T YOU
00:35:36WHAT'S YOUR NAME
00:35:37WILLIAMS THE HERALD
00:35:38AND I'M PRETTY BUSY
00:35:39SURE YOU'RE BUSY
00:35:40YOU BRICKLAYERS IS ALWAYS BUSY
00:35:42UNLESS IT'S A BOQUET YOU'RE WANTING ON THE CUFF UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT
00:35:45AND THEN IT'S FLOSSY MY DALLING
00:35:48FLOSSY BE A PAL
00:35:50AND GIVE US A KISS FLOSSY
00:35:52BUT I'M ON TO YOUR BANANA OIL
00:35:54LOOK FLOSSY
00:35:55I'VE GOT TO PHONE MY PAPER
00:35:56THERE'S BEEN A MURDER
00:35:57SURE THERE'S BEEN A MURDER
00:35:58DIDN'T HE GET HISELF KILLED WITH ONE OF ME CARNATIONS IN HIS BUTTON HOLE
00:36:02AND OWING ME A DOLLAR SIX BITS
00:36:05SEVEN OF THEM HE DIED OWING ME FOR
00:36:07OH THAT'S A SHAME FLOSSY
00:36:09BUT YOU'LL GET YOUR MONEY BACK
00:36:10AND WHEN I ASK THE COPS FOR ME DO
00:36:12WHAT DO I GET
00:36:13BIRDS SEED
00:36:15I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU DO FLOSSY
00:36:16YOU GO DOWN TO THE DESK
00:36:17WHEN ALL I WANT IS ME DOLLAR SIX BITS OUT OF THE MONEY HE DIED IN HIS PANTS WITH
00:36:22I'VE BEEN TO THE DESK AND WHAT DO I GET
00:36:25BIRDS SEED SURE
00:36:26BUT THIS TIME YOU TELL A LITTENANT THAT I SENT YOU
00:36:28JOHNNY WILLIAMS OF THE HERALD
00:36:29TELL HIM TO GIVE YOU YOUR DOLLAR SIX BITS AND THE HERALD WILL PAY IT
00:36:32TELL HIM I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE IT
00:36:38HELLO GIVE ME MR. JONES
00:36:39WAIT
00:36:41BIRDS SEED
00:36:43HELLO MR. JONES
00:36:45WILLIAMS
00:36:47I GOT A LULU ON THAT WALTER BARD KILLING
00:36:50AN EXCLUSIVE
00:36:51CLOSED
00:36:52YEAH
00:36:53IN THE PRESS ROOM CLOSED
00:36:54CLOSED
00:36:55HEY WAIT A MINUTE
00:36:57OH I'LL CALL YOU BACK MR. JONES
00:37:00NOW WHERE ARE MY SCISSORS
00:37:04I NEVER SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FIND THEM
00:37:06LAST TIME I FOUND THEM IN MY OVERCOAT POCKET
00:37:12HERE THEY ARE MR. WINNERGREEN
00:37:15OH
00:37:17I'M AWFULLY SORRY MR. WINNERGREEN
00:37:19I WISH PEOPLE WOULD LEAVE MY SCISSORS ALONE
00:37:24THIS TIME I'LL NAIL THEM DOWN
00:37:36MILK
00:37:38HOW MANY YOU GUYS
00:37:40THAT'S MR. RUZINSKI
00:37:41GET A BOTTLE FOR ME WILL YOU
00:37:42YEAH
00:37:43MAKE IT ONE FOR WINNERGREEN
00:37:49HEY IS WINNERGREEN UP THERE
00:37:53YEAH
00:37:55HE'S HERE
00:37:56TELL HIM I WANT TO BUY HIS BUFFALO COAT
00:37:58I'LL BE RIGHT UP
00:37:59HEY YOU KNOW DICE
00:38:00HE DOESN'T WANT TO SELL
00:38:01I NEVER HEARD OF SUCH IMPERTINENCE
00:38:03AS IF I DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF MY OWN PROPERTY
00:38:06LOOK MR. WINNERGREEN
00:38:09YOU CAN'T SELL THAT OVERCOAT
00:38:11I HOPE YOU'D BRING A CHASTENING INFLUENCE TO THIS MENANGERY
00:38:14WHY IT'D BE AN INSULT TO YOUR GRANDFATHER
00:38:15AND TO THE GRAND OLD NAME OF BOO
00:38:17IT'D BE UNPATRIOTIC
00:38:18I'M DREADFULLY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU WILLIAMS
00:38:20WHY THAT OVERCOAT'S MADE HISTORY
00:38:21IT'S PRACTICALLY A NATIONAL MONUMENT
00:38:23YOU CAN'T HAVE A BIG LUG LIKE BRASINSKI DELIVERING MILK IN IT
00:38:26WHY DON'T YOU GET WISE TO WHAT YOU'VE GOT
00:38:28WHY THAT OVERCOAT OUGHT TO BE IN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE
00:38:30THEY'D PAY REAL DOE FOR IT
00:38:32SMITHSONIAN?
00:38:33UH HUH
00:38:34BUT DO YOU REALLY THINK
00:38:36NO WILLIAMS
00:38:38NO MY MIND IS MADE UP
00:38:52GIVE ME MR. JONES QUICK
00:38:57SURE MR. JONES THAT'S WHAT I SAID
00:38:59WALTER BARDS BODY IN A PRESS ROOM CLOTHES CLOSET
00:39:02HEY THERE'S SOMEBODY IN THERE
00:39:03I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY MR. JONES
00:39:05AND I'M NOT DRUNK
00:39:06IT'S TRUE
00:39:07THERE'S A GUY IN THERE I TELL YOU
00:39:08LISTEN TO HIM HOLLOW HIS HEAD OFF
00:39:10YEAH AND I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT KNOWS
00:39:11EXCEPT WINTER GREEN
00:39:12AND I GOT HIM SPIKED
00:39:13ABSOLUTELY MR. JONES
00:39:27YES
00:39:28MR. HAGGERTY
00:39:29CITY EDITOR OF THE HERALD
00:39:30LIEUTENANT
00:39:31RIGHT
00:39:32HELLO HAGGERTY
00:39:36WHAT DID YOU SAY
00:39:37IN THE PRESS ROOM
00:39:39HERE
00:39:40WHAT
00:39:41AS SOON AS I'VE NAILED THE GUY THAT SOLD YOU THAT ONE
00:39:44I'LL BE OVER PERSONALLY TO TELL YOU WHAT KIND OF A JOINT I'M RUNNING AROUND HERE
00:39:48ONE OF THOSE TOSSPOT REPORTERS PHONE HACKERTY AND SAID THAT BOND'S BODY IS HANGING IN THE PRESS ROOM CLOTHES CLOSET
00:39:54SAY
00:39:57YOU DON'T THINK HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE JOHN DOE THAT YEAGER LOST
00:40:00THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT
00:40:02THAT'S WHAT I SAID YOU DOPE WALL WRAPPED UP IN SOMEBODY'S OVERCOAT IN THE PRESS ROOM CLOSET
00:40:11MY OVERCOAT PLEASE
00:40:12CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
00:40:13HEY LOOK YOU GUYS A PERFECT FIT
00:40:16HEY WHAT GOES ON
00:40:17I FOUND BARD
00:40:18ALL WRAPPED UP IN WINNERGREEN'S OVERCOAT IN THE CLOTHES CLOSET
00:40:20NOW HAROLD'S PRINTING IT SO RELAX FELLAS AND SAVE PAPER
00:40:23DON'T YOU THINK THIS IS BEST UP FOR YOUR LATER
00:40:25GIVE ME A REWRITE SWEETEHART
00:40:27HACKERTY WAS RIGHT IT IS BARD
00:40:31SAY
00:40:32THIS GUY DIDN'T BLEED MUCH
00:40:34YOU AGGER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT
00:40:35NOT TO ME
00:40:37HAVE HIM TAKEN BACK SERGEANT
00:40:39GET THEIR ANALLETER
00:40:41JUST A MINUTE
00:40:45JUST A MOMENT
00:40:46JUST A MOMENT
00:40:47LATERN CARSON IS EXAMELING THE BODY NOW
00:40:48YEAH
00:40:5130 YEARS LATERNATE I'VE BEEN PUTTING THEM ON ICE
00:40:54NOBODY EVER DONE THIS TO ME BEFORE
00:40:55WHERE WAS HE?
00:40:56IN HERE
00:40:57PULL IT OUT
00:41:05THAT'S WHAT JOHN DOE WE FISHED OUT OF THE BAY
00:41:07THE ONE DOC EGG WILL COMMITTED TONIGHT FOR CREMATION
00:41:10How'd it get in there? I don't know, Lieutenant. I put him on number seven myself. There's been a switch. Here's Doc Jaeger now.
00:41:15What's this all about, Sam? It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost, only it wasn't John Doe.
00:41:21It was Walter Bard. John Doe was here in Bard's place.
00:41:25Boy, this is absurd, Sam. A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:28You signed a commitment paper, didn't you? Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:32Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake. That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:36Well, so long as it turned out all right. Oh, Malley, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:40Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:42And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner's through with him.
00:41:45Yes, sir.
00:41:54Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:57Hello, Mrs. Bard. This is Ames of the Express.
00:42:00The Express?
00:42:03Oh, I haven't the slightest idea of what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:42:07Shh.
00:42:07In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:14You're welcome.
00:42:15What was it, Horvath?
00:42:16A report on Express.
00:42:18The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:26Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:42:30No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:31If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:34There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:35It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:37In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:39We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:42At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:46I'm not sure of him.
00:42:49Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:50Yes, I do.
00:42:52And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:54I'm not sure of her.
00:42:56Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:59We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:02You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:05We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:07Darling.
00:43:08Hello.
00:43:16Yes.
00:43:17I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:21Sure, I know I got Jaeger.
00:43:22I want someone else.
00:43:24Uh, Bard.
00:43:25For a very particular reason.
00:43:27Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:30As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:35I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:38We've come to make certain orations in our statement,
00:43:44look, Senator.
00:43:45What's happening?
00:43:47We told you we weren't at Bard's apartment this evening.
00:43:50Well, we were.
00:43:51Nora was there when Bard died.
00:43:53I was there later.
00:43:55Go on.
00:43:56I didn't tell Arthur I was going,
00:43:59but I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:44:04There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:06Take off your fingers and stay a while.
00:44:08Have a drink?
00:44:10It's a rainy evening.
00:44:11That's finished, Walter.
00:44:12I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:14We want to get married.
00:44:15So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:17You've no right to say that.
00:44:18You've absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:21Perhaps.
00:44:22But I'm not going to turn you loose
00:44:23so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:25Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:27So long as I'm married,
00:44:28no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:30But, Walter, I...
00:44:31Don't worry.
00:44:33Go into the bedroom.
00:44:35I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:46Well, well.
00:44:47Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:48Did you listen?
00:44:49I heard a little.
00:44:51Walter seemed to have some papers
00:44:52that Miss Bradley wanted to buy.
00:44:53But he was holding out for more money.
00:44:55And then?
00:44:56Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:58I don't know what happened.
00:45:00Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:45:01I got the impression
00:45:02she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:45:05Then a door slammed.
00:45:06Yes?
00:45:08I waited a few minutes.
00:45:09Then I went in.
00:45:12Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:14He took a step toward me.
00:45:17I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:19The muscles of his face
00:45:20were all drawn up
00:45:21as if they were knotted.
00:45:23Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:24When I got to him,
00:45:24he was dead.
00:45:26I was terrified.
00:45:27I rushed out of the place.
00:45:29Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:31I was afraid to.
00:45:35Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:37No.
00:45:40Do you remember if Bard's gun
00:45:42was still in the holster?
00:45:44I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:45But I do remember seeing it there
00:45:47when I first went in.
00:45:48Then who shot Bard?
00:45:50I shot Bard.
00:45:54I went to see Bard
00:45:56for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:57I thought perhaps
00:45:57I could get him to change his mind
00:45:59about the divorce.
00:46:00I just pulled up with a curb
00:46:01opposite his apartment house.
00:46:02Door opened
00:46:03and Nora came running out.
00:46:05She looked frightened.
00:46:06Before I could get around
00:46:06to calling after her,
00:46:07she had jumped into her car
00:46:08and started off.
00:46:09I noticed that the car
00:46:10in front of the apartment
00:46:11was Bard's.
00:46:13I'd asked her never to go
00:46:14to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:15The more I thought about Nora
00:46:16being there,
00:46:17the less I liked it.
00:46:18So how did you order
00:46:19such as cans?
00:46:23Let me in.
00:46:24Damn it.
00:46:25I'm not sure if a woman
00:46:25out of she were
00:46:26to be large.
00:46:31So she does not
00:46:32in heriane
00:46:46The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:51That would be murder.
00:46:55It looked like poison to me.
00:46:58All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:47:01There was only one thing to do, get the body out of the place.
00:47:05I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:16Someone was coming up. I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:28I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:31He was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:47:34No one saw me.
00:47:46Here.
00:48:12Then I saw the gun.
00:48:14If I could fake a suicide, Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:19It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:22I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:26It occurred to me then if Barb's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house,
00:48:30Nora's danger would be still less.
00:48:33I released the brake.
00:48:37I started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house.
00:48:44And that's our story. Nora's and mine.
00:48:48Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bart's story?
00:48:51Yes, I do.
00:48:53And you believe his?
00:48:54Of course I do.
00:48:56You really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:49:00Partly.
00:49:01We had to speak for John and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:49:04I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:07Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:49:08You can wait in the outer office.
00:49:14I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:19See the lieutenant, he says.
00:49:21A dollar six bits.
00:49:23That's stiff dino in me.
00:49:25And he tells me to see the lieutenant.
00:49:28Listen.
00:49:29I'll see the lieutenant.
00:49:31And the chief.
00:49:32And the mayor.
00:49:33And the governor if I have to.
00:49:35I'll have me dollar six bits if I have to see the president himself.
00:49:40Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:49:42You're right.
00:49:43I don't blame your bit.
00:49:46Okay, my lawyer.
00:49:48Birdseed.
00:49:49What have you got?
00:49:51What have you got?
00:50:21Smoke?
00:50:22No, thanks.
00:50:23We've turned up some new evidence.
00:50:24Does it help me?
00:50:25No.
00:50:26Oh.
00:50:27What is it?
00:50:28Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:29He was poisoned.
00:50:30Really?
00:50:31Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey to Cantor.
00:50:34Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:36You don't think I'm going to die?
00:50:37I'm going to die.
00:50:38I'm going to die.
00:50:39I'm going to die.
00:50:40I'm going to die.
00:50:41I'm going to die.
00:50:42I'm going to die.
00:50:43I'm going to die.
00:50:44I'm going to die.
00:50:45I'm going to die.
00:50:46I'm going to die.
00:50:47I'm going to die.
00:50:48I'm going to die.
00:50:49Wait a minute.
00:50:50You don't think I put the poison in his to Cantor.
00:50:53Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:50:55Well, I didn't want it.
00:50:57How do you think that will sound in court?
00:51:02Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:51:05Are you going to book me?
00:51:08If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:12I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:16I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:51:19You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am guilty
00:51:23or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:25If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it
00:51:28because you really believe I killed Walter Bart
00:51:31or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:51:33That's one of the things I'm trying to get straight in my mind.
00:51:38If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat, and another reason,
00:51:43it would have been easy.
00:51:45I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:51:47What other reason?
00:51:49It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else.
00:51:53In my kind of job, your reasons have got to make sense.
00:51:57I suppose so.
00:51:59And that means?
00:52:02I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:52:32Yes, sir.
00:52:59Yes, sir.
00:53:00Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building?
00:53:03In the building? She's practically in my lap.
00:53:06But don't worry, Lieutenant. I'll get rid of her.
00:53:08Don't get rid of her. I want to see her. Send her in.
00:53:11Then see if you can locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:13Okay, Lieutenant.
00:53:14All right, Flossie. The Lieutenant will see you now.
00:53:18Maybe now I'll get me dollar six bits.
00:53:22Sit down, darling.
00:53:23None of that.
00:53:23All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.
00:53:26You mean Bard?
00:53:27He must have died with some assets in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:31Don't worry about that. You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:34Tell me, did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:36Sure I did.
00:53:37When?
00:53:38Six o'clock this evening, just as he was coming out of Simi's bail bond office.
00:53:42Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:43He did not. He never pays you.
00:53:46You've always got to chase him.
00:53:48Up to the present moment, that slicker owes me a dollar six bits.
00:53:52Did you see him after that?
00:53:53I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him.
00:53:55He must have been out to dinner. So I stuck around.
00:53:58Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:54:00Nobody but Doc Yeager.
00:54:01Do I get my money or don't I?
00:54:04Yeager? He was up there?
00:54:06Bard was out to the both of us.
00:54:08What time was this?
00:54:09Oh, I don't know. A past eight, maybe.
00:54:12I knocked on Bard's door and he didn't answer.
00:54:14So I stuck around in the corridor.
00:54:17It was raining out and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:19Then Doc Yeager came.
00:54:20Did Yeager see you?
00:54:21No, he never seen me, but he was there. You ask him.
00:54:24Tell me about Yeager. What happened?
00:54:26I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway landing.
00:54:30I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:54:40Never seen a man so scared.
00:54:41The way he kept looking around.
00:54:42He could hardly find the keyhole.
00:54:55His hand was shaking, so.
00:54:59I don't know how many keys he tried
00:55:01before he got the one that fitted.
00:55:03He shut the door behind him so quiet
00:55:14I could hardly hear it.
00:55:17He couldn't have been in there more than a minute
00:55:18and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.
00:55:22He never seen me, but he was there. You ask him.
00:55:37Doc, come into my office again, will you?
00:55:39Okay.
00:55:40And now do I get my financial reimbursement?
00:55:44There you are.
00:55:45You can always tell a gentleman
00:55:47by the way he treats a lady.
00:55:49Just a minute.
00:55:50I want you to wait in here.
00:56:07Come in, Doc.
00:56:11You don't look well, Doc.
00:56:12Sit down.
00:56:13Oh, I'm all right.
00:56:14Tired, that's all.
00:56:16Too much night work, I guess.
00:56:18I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:19What's up, Sam?
00:56:22Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:25I don't get you.
00:56:26This malpractice case the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:29Bard did some investigating for the medical association, didn't he?
00:56:32Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:34I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up.
00:56:37It isn't in either his apartment or his office.
00:56:39Because there never was any.
00:56:40I heard different.
00:56:42Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:44Oh, you're not insinuating that I...
00:56:47That you got a hold of it?
00:56:49Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:50Boy, that's ridiculous.
00:56:52I haven't been out of the building since the body was found.
00:56:55Maybe you were out before it was found.
00:56:57I was not.
00:56:59You weren't in Bard's apartment earlier this evening?
00:57:01Certainly not.
00:57:02Along about 8.30?
00:57:04No.
00:57:05Suppose I told you you were seen going into Bard's apartment with one of your keys.
00:57:09You stayed there a few minutes, then left, locking the door after you.
00:57:11Whoever said that's a liar?
00:57:13Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:15It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:17I seen you sneaking into the poor murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again
00:57:21with the mark of can all over your face.
00:57:24And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:28Help!
00:57:28Help!
00:57:29Help!
00:57:30Help!
00:57:31Police!
00:57:32Police! Police!
00:57:33Help!
00:57:44Police!
00:57:44Police!
00:58:02There he is!
00:58:04Page in the description.
00:58:23Where'd he come?
00:58:25Where'd they come?
00:58:27Where'd he come from?
00:58:32Take him away.
00:58:41All right, come on.
00:58:42Thanks.
00:58:43Who are you?
00:58:44I'm Zachary.
00:58:45Hey, that's the guy broke jail.
00:58:46Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:48I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:51You got back just in time.
00:58:53Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:55Not exactly.
00:58:56You're still under arrest.
00:58:57Well, if that ain't gratitude.
00:58:59Don't worry, Zachary.
00:58:59I'll be in your corner when the case comes up.
00:59:01Thanks, pal.
00:59:04You can count on both of us.
00:59:06I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:08Much obliged, Lieutenant.
00:59:10There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton,
00:59:12but I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans.
00:59:15You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:17Fine.
00:59:17I'll be there to kiss the bride.
00:59:20Good luck to both of you.
00:59:26Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:59:28Oh, nobody loves a copper.
00:59:31Why don't you ask her?
00:59:33Ask her?
00:59:34Ask who?
00:59:37What?
00:59:38Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you.
00:59:39Sure, I'll be pretty hungry by now.
00:59:40You're nuts.
00:59:41It's been done.
00:59:43After the going-over I gave her?
00:59:44I still say it's been done.
00:59:50Maybe you got something there.
00:59:55You're free to go now.
00:59:57We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
01:00:00I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:02So am I.
01:00:03I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert
01:00:06and informing him that his stooge murdered Walter Bard,
01:00:09which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:13And that's about all.
01:00:15Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard,
01:00:18between ourselves, of course.
01:00:19I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:22I didn't trust you before.
01:00:24You didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do.
01:00:27Thanks.
01:00:28It's quite a story.
01:00:29Suppose I tell you about it some evening, soon.
01:00:34Suppose you do.
01:00:40Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:43He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet,
01:00:45the case might never have been solved.
01:00:47Hey, fellas, look at this.
01:00:50I'll call you back.
01:00:59Here we go.
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