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00:03:29The Danger of Sudden Death
00:03:30Dropping Mysteriously
00:03:31Out of the Night
00:03:32Upon Unsuspecting Victims
00:03:33Dribble
00:03:34You see Wally
00:03:35I happen to know
00:03:35That Jason Sloan
00:03:36Is not the second one
00:03:37Of the Horton Jurors
00:03:38To have died recently
00:03:38He's the fourth
00:03:39What?
00:03:40The possibilities
00:03:41Of this kind of story
00:03:42Should be obvious
00:03:42To any real newspaper editor
00:03:44Joe
00:03:44Can't you see the headlines?
00:03:46Can't you see the headlines?
00:03:47Revenge from beyond the grave
00:03:48Members of the jury
00:03:50Quaking in fear
00:03:51Cut out the ham acting
00:03:52What's this about
00:03:53Four members of the jury
00:03:53Being dead?
00:03:54And a fifth one is missing
00:03:55Come on
00:03:56We'll talk this over
00:03:57In my office
00:03:57Put what I owe you
00:03:58On my ticket, Wally
00:03:59And that includes my coffee
00:04:01Now I see the whole thing
00:04:02As a feature series
00:04:03The jury with a dying man's
00:04:04Curse on it
00:04:05Four have died already
00:04:06Who'll be next?
00:04:07Come on
00:04:07Let's get this cab
00:04:08Now there's your Wharton jury
00:04:10The first to go was Baxter
00:04:11The next was Winstead
00:04:12Then Lewis
00:04:13Now Sloan
00:04:13With Ezra Chinning missing
00:04:14Headline
00:04:15Who will be next?
00:04:16That's a good angle
00:04:17The Wharton case
00:04:18Has sold more papers
00:04:19Than any murder trial
00:04:20In the past ten years
00:04:21What if somebody's trying
00:04:22To bump off
00:04:23The entire Wharton jury?
00:04:24Now wait a minute
00:04:25The fact the four members
00:04:26Of the jury
00:04:26That mistakenly convicted
00:04:28Harry Wharton of murder
00:04:29Have all died accidental deaths
00:04:30In the past six months
00:04:31His good human interest
00:04:33Will sell a lot of papers
00:04:34But don't make yourself ridiculous
00:04:35By implying that you have
00:04:37A private hookup
00:04:38With what's going to happen tomorrow
00:04:39All right
00:04:40It's just a thought
00:04:40You know me and my hunches
00:04:42Let me have the stuff
00:04:42As fast as you can get it out
00:04:43By the way Willard
00:04:44I'll have to have a dictaphone
00:04:45What's the matter
00:04:46With dictating to a secretary?
00:04:47Now Mr. Apple
00:04:48You know if I'm dictating
00:04:49To a pretty secretary
00:04:50My mind is apt to wander
00:04:52And a pretty secretary
00:04:53Taking dictation from me
00:04:54I know
00:04:55Her mind's liable to wander
00:04:56Well if you want the stuff
00:04:58In a hurry
00:04:58Oh
00:04:58Once again
00:05:01The tragic story
00:05:02Of Harry J. Wharton
00:05:03Finds its way
00:05:03To the pages
00:05:04Of this newspaper
00:05:05Harry Wharton
00:05:06Rich young man about town
00:05:07Who was tried for his life
00:05:08For the murder of
00:05:09Marie Chappelle
00:05:10Convicted by a jury
00:05:12Of his peers
00:05:12And sentenced to be hanged
00:05:14For a crime
00:05:15He did not commit
00:05:16Marie Chappelle
00:05:18Was one of those
00:05:19Who neither toiled
00:05:20Nor spun
00:05:20She was from a different
00:05:22Social stratton
00:05:22Than Harry Wharton
00:05:23But somehow
00:05:24She caught the young man's fancy
00:05:26Then one night
00:05:27Marie
00:05:32Wake up
00:05:34Who's there?
00:05:36Who's there?
00:05:36But Harry Wharton
00:05:42Was convicted of a crime
00:05:43He did not commit
00:05:45Mr. George Sazbo
00:05:51The D.A. is using
00:06:05George Sazbo
00:06:06As a surprise witness
00:06:07To place you
00:06:07At the seat of the crime
00:06:08Do you know anything
00:06:09About him?
00:06:11I don't think
00:06:12I ever saw him before
00:06:13Mr. Sazbo
00:06:15Am I to understand
00:06:17You actually heard
00:06:18The fatal shots?
00:06:19Yes sir
00:06:19I was outside
00:06:20The apartment house
00:06:21When I heard the shots
00:06:22Miss Marie Chappelle
00:06:24The deceased
00:06:24Had hired me
00:06:25To tail Mr. Wharton
00:06:26Follow him
00:06:27That's my business
00:06:28I'm a private detective
00:06:29Mr. Sazbo
00:06:30Why did Miss Chappelle
00:06:31Ask to have
00:06:32Mr. Wharton followed?
00:06:33Marie
00:06:34Miss Chappelle
00:06:35Was afraid
00:06:36He'd run out on her
00:06:37And not go through
00:06:37With his promise of marriage
00:06:38I object
00:06:39Mr. Wharton
00:06:45Did you
00:06:47Or did you not
00:06:47Fire the shots
00:06:48That took Marie Chappelle's life?
00:06:50I did not
00:06:51Was there any reason
00:06:52For you to desire
00:06:53The death of the girl?
00:06:54None whatsoever
00:06:55Now tell us
00:06:58In your own words
00:06:59Mr. Wharton
00:07:00Exactly what happened
00:07:02And where
00:07:03On the evening
00:07:03The crime was committed
00:07:05I was having dinner
00:07:06At the athletic club
00:07:07And
00:07:07What time was that?
00:07:09I'd say it was about
00:07:098.15
00:07:11Or quarter of nine
00:07:12You know
00:07:18I'd like to see
00:07:19That poor guy
00:07:19Get a break
00:07:20And that's on the level
00:07:21Not a chance
00:07:22They got enough on Wharton
00:07:23To hang him twice
00:07:23Yeah maybe so
00:07:25But there's something
00:07:25Too pat about this case
00:07:27Yeah
00:07:27Uh oh
00:07:28Here they come
00:07:29Please rise
00:07:51Please rise
00:07:53Be seated
00:08:00Court will come to order
00:08:06The prisoner will rise
00:08:09And face the jury
00:08:10Ladies and gentlemen
00:08:17Of the jury
00:08:17Have you agreed upon
00:08:19The verdict
00:08:19We have
00:08:22Your honor
00:08:23The clerk
00:08:24Will read the verdict
00:08:25We the jury
00:08:34Find the defendant
00:08:35Guilty
00:08:36As charged
00:08:37If that's requested
00:08:39The jury be pulled
00:08:40Your honor
00:08:40The clerk
00:08:42Will poll the jurors
00:08:44Jerome K. Bentley
00:08:46Is this your verdict?
00:08:47Yes
00:08:48Peter Jackson
00:08:50Is this your verdict?
00:08:51Yes
00:08:51But I am innocent
00:08:52I am innocent
00:08:55Emily Stagler
00:08:57Is this your verdict?
00:08:58Yes
00:08:58Charles Winston
00:09:00Is this your verdict?
00:09:01Yes
00:09:02Avery Nordic
00:09:03Is this your verdict?
00:09:04Yes
00:09:05Alice Hill
00:09:06Is this your verdict?
00:09:07Yes
00:09:08Guilty
00:09:10Guilty
00:09:11Guilty
00:09:12Those words seem to
00:09:14Burn their way
00:09:15Into Wharton's mind
00:09:16Hello
00:09:17Hello
00:09:18Hello Cherry Blossom
00:09:19Just in time
00:09:20For the first installment
00:09:21Type those up
00:09:22Like a good girl
00:09:22Will you
00:09:23And tell old
00:09:23Fallstaff
00:09:23I'm going right ahead
00:09:24It takes a long time
00:09:30To hang a man
00:09:31In this great state
00:09:31Of ours
00:09:32The sovereign people
00:09:33Are careful
00:09:34They don't want
00:09:35To make any mistakes
00:09:36Friends of Wharton
00:09:37Rallied to his aid
00:09:39There were motions
00:09:44And appeals
00:09:45And interviews
00:09:45With the governor
00:09:46All to no avail
00:09:47Harry Wharton
00:09:48Had been found guilty
00:09:49By a jury of his peers
00:09:51Twelve tried and true
00:09:53Men and women
00:09:53Sitting in legal judgment
00:09:54And the law
00:09:56Must take its course
00:09:57He comes down
00:10:09As for service
00:10:11Amnes noses
00:10:12Hesus Christi
00:10:13Di absolve
00:10:13Diabso
00:10:15Absoyes
00:10:16Diabso
00:10:17Diabso
00:10:17Diabso
00:10:17Diabso
00:10:18Diabso
00:10:22Diabso
00:10:24Diabso
00:10:25Why don't they hang me?
00:10:36What are they waiting for?
00:10:39Hang me!
00:10:41Hang me!
00:10:48I guess I was the only one who continued to believe in Harry Wharton's innocence.
00:10:52With nothing stronger than my own personal hunch,
00:10:54I kept up the uneven fight.
00:10:56Then, on the night before Harry Wharton was to hang,
00:10:59I made my way toward Wally's Grotto.
00:11:04Hello, Mr. Keats.
00:11:09Hello there, Mr. Sazboa.
00:11:11Make mine coffee.
00:11:13I've been looking for you.
00:11:15I thought I might do an interview on you.
00:11:17You know, something about the feelings of the guy
00:11:19whose testimony put the rope around the other man's neck
00:11:21the night before the other fella hangs.
00:11:24I don't give out interviews.
00:11:27I don't know what your game is, Keats.
00:11:29But let me give you a little advice.
00:11:32Snooping around where you're not wanted
00:11:33is liable to earn you a hole in the head.
00:11:42Here you are, Wally.
00:11:44The joint's getting crowded.
00:11:45Sounds kind of touchy.
00:11:55I don't know what you're going to do.
00:11:56I don't know what you're going to do.
00:11:57I don't know what you're going to do.
00:11:58I don't know what you're going to do.
00:11:59I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:00I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:01I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:02I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:03I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:04I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:05I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:06I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:07I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:08I don't know what you're going to do.
00:12:09Come on.
00:12:39This time, they got me.
00:12:44Got me for keeps.
00:12:46Who was it, Sazbo? Who shot you?
00:12:48The dirty double-crosser.
00:12:50This is the way he pays me off.
00:12:52I knew too much, see?
00:12:54But bullets are cheaper than...
00:12:56How bad am I?
00:12:57I can't tell, George. How do you feel?
00:12:59I don't feel nothing. I'm numb.
00:13:01I'm afraid that's pretty bad, then, George.
00:13:04You got something you want to get off your chest?
00:13:05Yeah.
00:13:06About Wharton?
00:13:07Yeah.
00:13:08He was framed.
00:13:11Framed by a guy named Gordon Cook.
00:13:14Framed by Gordon Cook.
00:13:16Marie Chappelle was his gal.
00:13:19The rat.
00:13:20He was supposed to give me the rest of my dough tonight.
00:13:24Hey, I'll need some witnesses to this confession.
00:13:26Listen.
00:13:27Then followed a race against time.
00:13:30Only a few hours stood between Harry Wharton and Eternity.
00:13:32There were lawyers to see, depositions to be made, last-minute appeals to the governor.
00:13:37The wheels of justice were made to turn backward.
00:13:41Then, as the cold, gray light of dawn crept into Harry Wharton's death cell,
00:13:45the warden broke the news of his pardon.
00:13:47Don't you understand, Harry?
00:13:49Harry, you're a free man.
00:13:51Mr. Keats here discovered new evidence in your case, and the governor acted immediately.
00:13:55I'm not going to hang.
00:13:59I'm not going to hang.
00:14:02Why, I've been hanged a hundred times already.
00:14:05I'm a dead man.
00:14:07One of the living dead.
00:14:08Every time somebody marched down those stairs, I marched with him.
00:14:14I've hanged so many men in the gallows, the rope no longer chokes me.
00:14:21That's funny, isn't it?
00:14:23Let's go down to my office, Harry.
00:14:24Just a minute, Wharton.
00:14:26Did you know that everything in these cells is done by 12s?
00:14:29There are 12 bars from the ceiling to the floor.
00:14:32It's exactly 12 steps around the inside of this.
00:14:34The guard takes just 12 steps from the stairs to here.
00:14:40Everything, everywhere, in 12s.
00:14:43Like a jury.
00:14:4512, 12, 12!
00:14:48Come on, Harry.
00:14:54The story of Harry Wharton, gentle reader, deserves a happy ending.
00:14:58But such was not to be.
00:15:00The man's mind had crumbled away during those dark months in the death house.
00:15:04When he was freed, he went directly to a private hospital for treatment.
00:15:10For a while, his condition seemed to improve.
00:15:12He received visitors.
00:15:14Some of them members of the jury who had convicted him.
00:15:16Anxious to make amends for the suffering they'd caused him.
00:15:19You have a visitor downstairs, Mr. Wharton.
00:15:28Would you like to see him?
00:15:29Certainly.
00:15:29I'll send him right up.
00:15:32Oh, I'm going off duty now.
00:15:34If you need anything, just ring for the floor, nurse.
00:15:37Thank you, nurse.
00:15:37I have everything I need.
00:15:52A few hours later, a nurse heard strange crackling noises coming from Harry Wharton's room.
00:15:57Help!
00:16:04Hospital attendants rushed to smash their way into the room, but to no avail.
00:16:08Weary of living within the sort of mental twilight which was his existence,
00:16:12Harry Wharton had taken 12 feet of clothesline from the hospital laundry,
00:16:16set fire to his room, and hanged himself.
00:16:18When the flames were extinguished, it was discovered that Harry Wharton's body had been burned beyond recognition.
00:16:32Harry Wharton died for the last time.
00:16:35This time of his own choice, and by his own hand.
00:16:43Good morning, Willard.
00:16:45Morning.
00:16:46Just read the first stuff.
00:16:47Sounds pretty good.
00:16:49Pretty good?
00:16:50The trouble with you, Mr. Apple, can be summed up in one word.
00:16:52Worms.
00:16:53Worms?
00:16:53Yes, worms.
00:16:54You're full of holes.
00:16:55You're eaten with jealousy.
00:16:56Look, Joe, I don't want you to give me a rehash on the Wharton case.
00:16:59I want reader interest.
00:17:01The ghost of Harry Wharton stalking the 12 people who convicted him.
00:17:04Say, whose idea is this?
00:17:05I'm going to personally interview each and every one of those jurors.
00:17:08I'll get statements and pictures and life stories.
00:17:10And incidentally, scare the pants off of them.
00:17:12That's the stuff.
00:17:13Now you're talking like...
00:17:14Like your favorite reporter, I know.
00:17:16And before I get through, I hope you get sued for violating somebody's privacy.
00:17:21Say, how's that for a publicity angle?
00:17:23Let me worry about the exploitation.
00:17:25You just get the stories.
00:17:27Would you like my coffee?
00:17:28I don't mean to seem rude, but your attempts to capitalize on a series of coincidences, to sensationalize them, are both, well, cheap and revolting.
00:17:45Just tell me what your first reaction was when you read in the record herald that five of your fellow jurors had been accidentally killed.
00:17:51Mr. Keats, you compelled me to repeat that I did not read in the record herald where five of my fellow jurors were dead.
00:17:56I don't read the record herald.
00:17:58I told you that yesterday, and I told you that the day before.
00:18:00All right, Miss Hill, but what if there is something back of all these coincidental deaths?
00:18:05Rubbish.
00:18:05You say that now, but what if tonight or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, another juror dies strangely and suddenly, what would you say then?
00:18:17I'd say good afternoon, Mr. Keats.
00:18:21Now, if you don't mind, I have an appointment.
00:18:23By the way, do you have a new photograph for yourself?
00:18:26The ones taken when you're on the jury are terrible.
00:18:27I warned you I wouldn't be a party to any of your cheap publicity stunts.
00:18:33No picture, no interview, no story.
00:18:35You make a newspaper man's life very difficult, Miss Hill.
00:18:38I'm sorry.
00:18:40A picture of you would have looked nice, too.
00:18:42Sort of dressed up the page.
00:18:45Couldn't you spare even a little snapshot?
00:18:47So big.
00:18:49Goodbye.
00:18:57You mustn't mind her.
00:19:09She's really been terribly upset about the whole thing.
00:19:12Tell her to forget it.
00:19:13She's a pretty girl.
00:19:14She'll wrinkle.
00:19:15I tell her that all the time.
00:19:17But she's so serious.
00:19:19Says her conscience has never given her a minute's peace since that poor old Mr. Walton hung himself.
00:19:24She'll have to relax.
00:19:25Oh, Mr. Keats, here's something for your personal files.
00:19:31Hey, thanks.
00:19:34Oh, Tex, did you call about that shipment of glass?
00:19:37Why, yes, Alice.
00:19:39Well, goodbye again.
00:19:40Goodbye.
00:19:43Goodbye.
00:19:45Well, goodbye.
00:19:47Goodbye.
00:19:55Nothing quite as fresh as a fresh newspaperman.
00:19:59Oh, I've got to run and have a date for tea.
00:20:01Who, Ed?
00:20:02Jerome K. Bentley.
00:20:04Who?
00:20:04He was foreman of the Wharton jury.
00:20:06He wants to talk to me about furnishing an old house he bought up near Buckminster.
00:20:09Called this morning.
00:20:10Haven't seen or heard of him since the trial.
00:20:13Well, I'll see you later, Tex.
00:20:15So long, honey.
00:20:16I remembered from our jury acquaintance that you were a dear in antiques.
00:20:33When I bought my old house, I thought of you at once.
00:20:35That's very nice of you, Mr. Bentley.
00:20:37I'm sure we'll have some things for it you'll like.
00:20:39I'm anxious to see your house.
00:20:40You shall see it, Miss Hill.
00:20:41I promise you.
00:20:43Very soon.
00:20:44Shall we go?
00:20:48Yes.
00:20:57One moment, sir.
00:20:59You forgot your gloves.
00:21:14Don't read over my shoulder.
00:21:17It makes me nervous.
00:21:18Sorry.
00:21:19I was just trying to avoid looking at your face.
00:21:21What's the matter?
00:21:21Hangover?
00:21:22Haven't had a drink for four days.
00:21:24You must be in love.
00:21:26Look, I've been thinking maybe we ought to wind up the articles on the Wharton case.
00:21:29Are you crazy?
00:21:30This is the best feature we've had since the trial.
00:21:32It's just cheap sensationalism.
00:21:34Who are we trying to fool?
00:21:35I've interviewed all but two of those people who are on the jury.
00:21:38They're nice folks, minding their business, doing their job.
00:21:40What civilian sobsister has been talking to you?
00:21:43Snap out of it, Joe.
00:21:43This is the newspaper business.
00:21:45Or am I correct in suspecting that you've been seeing too much of a certain lady juror?
00:21:49Look, let's cut the kidding about Alice.
00:21:51I'm serious.
00:21:51Okay, but do me a favor, will you?
00:21:53Go on down to Wally's.
00:21:54Need a good breakfast.
00:21:55It'll cheer you up.
00:21:56Why don't you concentrate on your own waistline and leave mine alone?
00:22:02Hello, Marcy.
00:22:03Hello.
00:22:06He's a way off his feet.
00:22:08No, it's terrible.
00:22:09The things a woman can do to a man.
00:22:11The mayor has been calling you, Mr. Apple.
00:22:13I promised him you'd call him right back.
00:22:14Oh, yeah.
00:22:26Wally, you're an authority on women.
00:22:33Tell me something.
00:22:34I don't know a thing about them.
00:22:35I don't even let them in the place.
00:22:37That, my friend, proves you're an authority.
00:22:39I want to ask your advice on a purely hypothetical case.
00:22:41A friend of mine.
00:22:43This friend of mine got interested in a girl.
00:22:45He never intended to get interested in her.
00:22:47He met her in line of duty and sort of fell for her.
00:22:50Pardon me.
00:22:53Hello.
00:22:54Oh, hello, Mr. Apple.
00:22:56Yes, yes, he's here.
00:22:57It's your boss, Joe.
00:22:58Tell him I'm seeing a man about a steam shovel.
00:23:01It's funny.
00:23:02He seems to have stepped out for a second, Mr. Apple.
00:23:07Yes.
00:23:08Yes, okay, I'll tell him.
00:23:09You bet.
00:23:11Joe, he's pretty excited.
00:23:12He said another juror on the warden case had been killed.
00:23:15This time, a woman.
00:23:16A woman?
00:23:18Was it Alice Hill?
00:23:19He didn't say.
00:23:20Just said for you to get over to the morgue as fast as you can.
00:23:22The morgue?
00:23:26Hello, Joe.
00:23:30Hello, Inspector.
00:23:35All right, Mike.
00:23:44Name of deceased, Mrs. Emile Stagler.
00:23:46Occupation, housewife.
00:23:48Cause of death, strangulation.
00:23:50Where'd they find her, Inspector?
00:23:51Out on Highway 9.
00:23:52Whoever strangled it, drove her there in her own car.
00:23:55Then he ran the car over an embankment and tried to set fire to it.
00:23:58It wouldn't burn much because the gas tank was nearly empty.
00:24:02And you're the guy who's been writing those articles about Harry Wharton and that stuff
00:24:05about vengeance from beyond the grave.
00:24:07That's right.
00:24:07How does this make you feel?
00:24:09You mean, do I feel like I've been peering into a crystal ball?
00:24:12Foretelling the future and all that?
00:24:13No.
00:24:14I mean, how does it feel being responsible for a nice, fresh crime wave?
00:24:17Everything was going along nice and quiet until you decided to revive the Wharton case.
00:24:20Then some harmless crank turns homicidal maniac because he thinks he ought to avenge a miscarriage
00:24:24of justice.
00:24:25Take it easy, Inspector.
00:24:26Don't try to pin this on me.
00:24:28There were several members of the Wharton jury who died before I even started writing the
00:24:31articles.
00:24:32Remember?
00:24:32Those were just coincidences.
00:24:34They died accidentally.
00:24:35But that red ring around the lady's neck, that didn't come from wearing a necklace.
00:24:39That's a rope burn.
00:24:40This woman was hung before she was ever driven off the road.
00:24:44Okay, Mike, put her away.
00:24:50But it's ridiculous to think that a newspaper story would inspire someone to go out and start
00:24:55to kill an entire jury without any reason.
00:24:57What's so ridiculous about it?
00:24:58This is a big town.
00:24:59There are a lot of cranks in it.
00:25:00Suggest something like this to a nut and right away he runs amok.
00:25:02He wants to become an avenger.
00:25:03You mean there's no other possible motive for this killing?
00:25:06Mrs. Stagler didn't have an enemy in the world.
00:25:12Excuse me, boys.
00:25:13I've got to make a call.
00:25:17Read all about it.
00:25:18Read all about it.
00:25:19Get your evening paper here.
00:25:20Killer eludes police.
00:25:22Get your evening paper here.
00:25:23Killer eludes police.
00:25:25Here you are, sir.
00:25:27Killer eludes police.
00:25:27Get your evening paper here.
00:25:29Night final.
00:25:30Thank you, sir.
00:25:32Paper, mister.
00:25:32Thank you, sir.
00:25:34Get your evening paper here.
00:25:36Read all about it.
00:25:37Read all about it.
00:25:38Get your evening paper here.
00:25:39Killer eludes police.
00:25:40Just a moment, please.
00:25:41Are you Jerome K. Bentley?
00:25:43Yes.
00:25:43I'm Garrett.
00:25:44Homicide detail.
00:25:45Inspector David sent me over here to kind of keep an eye on things.
00:25:47Sort of a bodyguard until the excitement quiets down.
00:25:49Hope you don't mind.
00:25:50Not at all, officer.
00:25:51In fact, it's quite reassuring.
00:25:53Killer eludes police.
00:25:54Oh, boy, but I'm tired.
00:25:56What got into you, Mr. Jerome K. Bentley, that he suddenly decided he want all this stuff shipped tomorrow?
00:26:03He wants to move to the country as soon as his house is ready.
00:26:06We should be glad, Texas.
00:26:07The biggest order we've had in months.
00:26:09Oh, I'll be glad when I've slept about 12 hours.
00:26:12Right now, I'm too tired.
00:26:15Okay, honey.
00:26:17One thing about Mr. Bentley that struck me as rather odd was that he kept asking if we had 12 of everything.
00:26:26I wonder what he wanted 12 of everything for.
00:26:42Quarter past 12.
00:26:51Look, take it easy.
00:26:51You're making me nervous.
00:26:53I'm making you nervous.
00:26:54How do you suppose it makes me feel to see you standing there munching your gum while some homicidal maniac is probably strangling my girl?
00:27:00Your girl?
00:27:01She doesn't know it yet, but she is.
00:27:03Well, can't you do something?
00:27:04About making her your girl?
00:27:06No, about finding her.
00:27:07I was told to watch the house, and I'm watching it.
00:27:09You've been watching it for four hours.
00:27:11She isn't here.
00:27:13Nobody knows where she is.
00:27:14I could hazard a guess.
00:27:15Yeah, where?
00:27:16Coming across the street.
00:27:18Girls, don't do this, Uncle Joe.
00:27:20I worry.
00:27:21Well, look who's been standing on our doorstep.
00:27:22Our favorite newspaper man.
00:27:24We worked until midnight and decided to walk home.
00:27:26Who decided?
00:27:28Haven't you heard what's happened?
00:27:29No, we didn't even leave the shop to eat.
00:27:31That policeman standing on your doorstep is there because an insane killer is trying to murder every man and woman who served on the Wharton jury.
00:27:37He may have chosen you as his next victim.
00:27:39Oh, I thought you were going to quit trying to scare people.
00:27:42Here's our runaway, Regan.
00:27:44I'm Sergeant Regan, ma'am.
00:27:45We've been instructed to keep an eye on your apartment until the killer is apprehended.
00:27:48The killer?
00:27:49Mrs. Stagler, who was on the jury with you, has been murdered.
00:27:52Mrs. Stagler.
00:27:53Say, all the way home I had the feeling we were being followed.
00:27:57How are you talking silly, Tex?
00:27:58Let's go to make a cup of coffee.
00:28:00Would you like a cup, Sergeant?
00:28:01You bet.
00:28:02Mm-hmm.
00:28:02Tex, I must have misplaced my key. Do you have yours?
00:28:16Why, clutched in my lily-white hand, sugar.
00:28:19Stand aside.
00:28:20Was I presumptuous to have let myself in?
00:28:43Do you know this man?
00:28:48Yes, this is Mr. Bentley. He's a customer of mine.
00:28:50I'm sorry, Miss Hill. I saw him into the apartment, but I thought he was going to...
00:28:52That's all right, officer. I've known Mr. Bentley for some time.
00:28:55I found Miss Hill's key in my own pocket, of all places, and dropped him to return it.
00:29:00I must have picked it up off your desk this morning, by mistake.
00:29:04Thank you so much. I'm glad to have it back. I'm always losing it.
00:29:06I also brought these, in case my unexpected visit should have displeased you.
00:29:11Oh, not at all. Thank you.
00:29:13You know Miss Tuttle, and this is Mr. Keats and Officer Regan.
00:29:16You remember Mr. Bentley. He was foreman of our jury.
00:29:19Mr. Bentley, I've been wanting to get in touch with you.
00:29:21Well, that's quite a coincidence, because I've been thinking of getting in touch with you, Mr. Keats.
00:29:25It's fate, that's what it is.
00:29:27Alice, you brought Joe and Mr. Bentley together.
00:29:29Now, I'll go bring some coffee and water together and see what comes of that.
00:29:33Want to help, Sergeant?
00:29:34Sure thing.
00:29:35Tex, would you put these in water, please?
00:29:37Sit down, won't you?
00:29:39It was Joe who dug up all the evidence that saved Harry Wharton.
00:29:42Yes, I know.
00:29:43I've been reading Mr. Keats' recent articles with considerable interest.
00:29:47In fact, I've been wondering why the police haven't arranged some sort of protection for him.
00:29:52What for?
00:29:53It merely occurred to me the mysterious killer might decide to hold you responsible for making his task more difficult.
00:30:00No, that's where you're wrong.
00:30:02The man's obviously a maniac with one fixed idea.
00:30:04He wants to do away with the jury because they mistakenly convicted the wrong man.
00:30:09He's bound to know that it was I who saved Harry Wharton from the gallows.
00:30:12Yes, so he could hang himself in an insane asylum a little later.
00:30:20I really must go, Miss Hill.
00:30:22You won't forget to ship my things tomorrow, will you?
00:30:24They're all packed and ready.
00:30:26Won't you stand and have some coffee with us?
00:30:27No, thanks.
00:30:28Will you say goodbye to the others for me?
00:30:29Of course.
00:30:30I'm sorry.
00:30:30You have to hurry.
00:30:31Good night.
00:30:31Good night.
00:30:32Don't forget about the talk we're going to have.
00:30:34I'm looking forward to it, Mr. Keats.
00:30:36I'm looking forward to it.
00:30:42If you were to ask me, I'd say the guy had his nerve walking into your house and making himself at home like that.
00:30:46Oh, I don't mind.
00:30:47He's nice and a very good customer.
00:30:49Besides, he was doing me a favor.
00:30:50Yeah.
00:30:52He doesn't seem a bit scared, either, wandering around alone at night.
00:30:55He was foreman of the jury, you know.
00:30:57Yes, I know.
00:30:58Rather quiet, but very nice.
00:31:01Oh.
00:31:02All right, break it up.
00:31:03If this coffee's so strong now, it ought to be carrying me instead of vice versa.
00:31:07Well, what happened to our little browlin'?
00:31:09Oh, he has to be excused.
00:31:11Want to know a secret?
00:31:13I think Mr. Benton is kind of sweet on a certain young lady.
00:31:16Oh, Tex, you're talking nonsense.
00:31:17Well, he certainly scooted out of here fast enough when two other men showed up.
00:31:21That confirms my good taste in women.
00:31:23To prove I have no hard feelings, I propose a toast to Mr. Bentley.
00:31:27May the killer never discover that he likes to prowl by night
00:31:30and deliver posies to pretty ladies.
00:31:40Good night, Regan.
00:31:41Keep a sharp eye on my chickens.
00:31:43I will, Joe.
00:31:43That girl from Texas makes good coffee.
00:31:45See that it keeps you awake.
00:31:46Good night.
00:31:47Good night.
00:31:47Good night.
00:32:16Hello, Black Magic.
00:32:30Say, are you following me?
00:32:32Look, Blackie, why don't you run on along home?
00:32:35You're making me nervous.
00:32:37Hello again, Mr. Keats.
00:32:39Oh, hello, Mr. Bentley.
00:32:41May I join you?
00:32:42I think we're going the same way.
00:32:43Certainly, but I thought you were probably home in bed by now.
00:32:46I have a confession to make, Mr. Keats.
00:32:48I've been waiting for you.
00:32:50That's funny.
00:32:50Back there, I had the feeling I was being followed.
00:32:52Now, you tell me you were waiting for me all the time.
00:32:55I guess that makes me psychic.
00:32:56Everyone is psychic to a more or less degree, Mr. Keats.
00:32:59Well, I don't carry a spare crystal ball around with me, but I do play hunches.
00:33:02When you're always on the lookout for news, you develop a sort of a sixth sense.
00:33:06Perhaps I've developed a sixth sense, too.
00:33:08Because I have a hunch, as you call it, that the identity of the unknown killer will be revealed today.
00:33:14What makes you think so?
00:33:16Because I know who the murderer is.
00:33:18Are you sure?
00:33:19Reasonably so.
00:33:20Well, if you have any information, you shouldn't be withholding it from the police, you know.
00:33:23That makes you an accessory.
00:33:25For a newspaper man, you are most naive.
00:33:27I said I had a hunch.
00:33:29If you wish to accompany me and see if my hunch is correct, I think you may run across a most unusual story.
00:33:34At least I can promise you a most interesting experience.
00:33:38I don't see how I can pass up a chance like this.
00:33:40Where do we go?
00:33:41When do we start?
00:33:43We start now.
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00:34:14I come every night at this time.
00:34:21I like to watch the police lineup.
00:34:23Do you expect to find our mutual friend here?
00:34:25Keep the change.
00:34:27If one attends the police lineup often enough,
00:34:29one is apt to meet almost anyone.
00:34:32Do you know what interests me most, Mr. Keats?
00:34:34No, Mr. Bentley.
00:34:35This is getting to sound a little like an old-time minstrel show.
00:34:37What interests you most?
00:34:39As I watch the men in the lineup,
00:34:40I wonder how many evil ones are turned loose
00:34:43and how many innocent ones are found guilty.
00:34:46That's enough to keep almost anyone awake all night.
00:34:53Albert Leonard, alias Albert Lichter, alias Alfred Link.
00:34:57Age 37.
00:34:58Height 5 feet 8 and 1 quarter.
00:35:00Weight 151 pounds.
00:35:02Previous arrests 12.
00:35:03Convictions 2.
00:35:04Grand theft auto, larceny.
00:35:09William Black.
00:35:10Night after night.
00:35:11Never-ending hunt goes on.
00:35:15Searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack.
00:35:18Sifting each human straw to find the one that looks guilty.
00:35:23What started you on this night prowling, Mr. Bentley?
00:35:26Oh, I have no family.
00:35:28No business affairs that require my attention in the daytime.
00:35:31Have you always had these nocturnal habits or did you acquire them after Harry Wharton was convicted?
00:35:37After.
00:35:39Truth is, I haven't slept since Mr. Wharton was convicted.
00:35:43I spend my nights exploring the jungles of this great city.
00:35:46I find it fascinating.
00:35:49The battle of good versus evil.
00:35:51I could take you places, show you things that would surprise even a man of your white acquaintance.
00:35:57Maybe later.
00:35:58Don't forget our date to meet the killer.
00:36:00At dawn, my dear friend.
00:36:01That's several hours away.
00:36:03Let me make a telephone call first.
00:36:05A telephone call?
00:36:07Yes, I always keep in touch with the paper.
00:36:09They like to know if I'm on the job.
00:36:10Interest, one.
00:36:11I'll only be a minute.
00:36:12Conviction's one.
00:36:27Give me the desk.
00:36:29Who's this?
00:36:31Mac, listen.
00:36:32Yeah, yeah, I heard what you said.
00:36:34Jerome K. Bentley is crazy in the head.
00:36:35He's going to introduce you to the killer at daybreak.
00:36:37Well, I don't know who's the crazy, or him for telling you, or you for believing him.
00:36:42Don't be funny.
00:36:44I've got a hunch that Jerome K. Bentley may be the killer.
00:36:47Well, good luck.
00:36:49Yeah, I thought that'd make you sit up and take notice.
00:36:52This is what I want you to do.
00:36:53Be nice if you can crack this story, but don't stick your neck into anything tighter than a horse collar.
00:37:00You check in every hour so we know you're okay.
00:37:03And look, kid, if anything happens to you, we'll bury you with honors.
00:37:07In Potter's Field.
00:37:09Yeah.
00:37:16I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye
00:37:19upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky
00:37:23and at every drifting cloud that went with sails of silver by.
00:37:27Where'd you learn that, Cully?
00:37:29Mr. Bentley.
00:37:30He taught it to me.
00:37:31He likes to have me recite while I'm massaging his neck.
00:37:33It's Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Jail.
00:37:36Go on, Cully.
00:37:37Some kill their love when they are young, and some when they are old.
00:37:43I don't remember that verse, Mr. Bentley.
00:37:45I like the one.
00:37:47He does not die at death of shame, on a day of dark disgrace,
00:37:51nor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his face,
00:37:56nor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty space.
00:38:00This is quite a way to round out an evening of revelry.
00:38:03You mean to tell me you come here every night to have your neck massaged?
00:38:05That's right.
00:38:07One hour with Cully fixes me up for another 24 hours.
00:38:10How do I feel now, Mr. Bentley?
00:38:11Your hands work miracles, Cully.
00:38:13These hands can fix anything.
00:38:15It's a gift my mother gave me, rubbing pain away.
00:38:17It's not the usual sort of pain, Mr. Keats.
00:38:19It starts as a small, dull ache in the back of the neck sometime after midnight.
00:38:25In an hour, the pain is so intense, it's unbearable.
00:38:28Then I come to Cully.
00:38:30He rubs the ache away.
00:38:32Haven't you seen a doctor about it?
00:38:34That'll be enough, Cully.
00:38:36Thanks.
00:38:37Why should I see a doctor?
00:38:39There's nothing a doctor can do.
00:38:42I know what causes it.
00:38:44It's what's known to the medical profession as sympathism, or sympathy pains.
00:38:49I've had these attacks ever since the night Harry Wharton was to be hanged.
00:38:53They've blown more and more violent.
00:38:56The steam is on, gentlemen.
00:38:58Thank you, Cully.
00:39:00Can you make it extra hot tonight?
00:39:01Sure.
00:39:23Say, this gets down to par-boiling you in a hurry.
00:39:29Just tell me if you find the heat oppressive, Mr. Keats.
00:39:32When my skin begins to peel off, I'll yell.
00:39:34Uh-huh.
00:39:35Uh-huh.
00:39:36Let's go.
00:40:06Let's go.
00:40:36You know, I was just thinking about that case.
00:40:53Bentley!
00:40:55Bentley!
00:40:57Bentley!
00:41:06Bentley!
00:41:10Bentley!
00:41:12Bentley!
00:41:23Bentley!
00:41:24Got a little hot in there for me, Cully.
00:41:41How about running down to the corner and bringing us back a pot for coffee?
00:41:45Sure, it's daybreak. Time for coffee.
00:41:47Thank you, Cully.
00:41:54I'll just be a minute, Mr. Bentley.
00:42:06Uh, take your time, Cully.
00:42:10Smells like steam miscaping.
00:42:15Don't stop it.
00:42:16I'll cut the steam valve.
00:42:24Here he is.
00:42:38I'd better call an ambulance.
00:42:41He's alive.
00:42:43Steam rises.
00:42:44He was lying on the floor next to the door.
00:42:46He probably got some air that way.
00:42:49He'll be all right.
00:42:50Don't you think a doctor ought to look at him?
00:42:52Of course, Cully.
00:42:53I'll call the emergency hospital.
00:43:00Operator, give me the emergency hospital, please.
00:43:03I wish to report an accident.
00:43:14How is he, Doc?
00:43:15I'll tell him, Doctor.
00:43:16Never mind. If he can talk, he's all right.
00:43:19I rushed right over just as soon as I got the news.
00:43:21Didn't even stop to have breakfast.
00:43:23Now, my little steam clam.
00:43:25What's this all about?
00:43:26What have you been up to?
00:43:27He must really believe I have a story if he missed eating to come over here.
00:43:30Excuse me.
00:43:31Going, Doctor?
00:43:32I'll drop back a little later.
00:43:33Now, I want you to rest, Joe.
00:43:44Don't feel badly about missing out on the story you were telling Mac about.
00:43:47Why, if this accident hadn't happened, you'd have scooped the town.
00:43:50Wait a minute.
00:43:51Maybe you know what you're talking about, but I don't.
00:43:53What happened to me last night was no accident.
00:43:55I was deliberately locked in that steam room by the same man who's trying to kill off the Wharton jury.
00:43:59Sure, Joe.
00:44:00Mac told me about your tip from Bentley.
00:44:02Evidently, Mr. Bentley knew what he was talking about when he said he'd introduce you to the killer.
00:44:07Look, I've been sopping up liquid like a bar towel, but I'm beginning to believe you're wetter than I am.
00:44:11I'm trying to tell you Jerome K. Bentley is the killer.
00:44:14You'll have a little trouble making that charge stick.
00:44:16I've got the guy dead to rights.
00:44:18Oh, no, you haven't.
00:44:19What do you mean, I haven't?
00:44:20Because the real killer has already confessed.
00:44:22What?
00:44:23The murderer walked into police headquarters this morning and gave himself up.
00:44:26The police are questioning him now.
00:44:28And that's not Bentley?
00:44:29No.
00:44:30This guy seems to know all about the killings.
00:44:32Stuff that he couldn't possibly have picked up from the paper.
00:44:36He's the one, all right, Joe.
00:44:39Not Bentley.
00:44:40Look, Willard, you know I play my hunches.
00:44:44I don't know anything about this guy who's confessed, but, well, there's something phony about it.
00:44:49But, Joe, he knows every angle, every detail.
00:44:51He's got to be the killer.
00:44:53No one but the killer could possibly have all the information he has.
00:44:55Don't fall for that confession.
00:44:57I've got to get out of here.
00:44:58You've got to take care of yourself.
00:45:00But you don't understand.
00:45:01As soon as those people on the jury hear the killers confess, they'll come out of hiding.
00:45:04They won't have any more protection.
00:45:06Behave yourself.
00:45:07Do you want to be strapped to your bed?
00:45:08Well, somebody's got to warn them.
00:45:11That's more like it.
00:45:12Now you're my favorite newspaper man again.
00:45:15Yeah.
00:45:17I guess I got a little excited.
00:45:19Will you go to sleep?
00:45:20If I leave you alone for a while?
00:45:23Sure.
00:45:24I'm half asleep already.
00:45:26That's the stuff.
00:45:28A little rest, and you'll be on your feet in no time.
00:45:30I'll see you later.
00:45:31Close the door, please.
00:45:57Sorry, Sergeant.
00:46:01I'm Joe Keats, Record Herald.
00:46:02I want to see Inspector Davis.
00:46:04It's important.
00:46:05I'm sorry.
00:46:05The inspector's busy, Mr. Keats.
00:46:07What's it about?
00:46:08I've got some information on the Wharton case.
00:46:10Important information.
00:46:15Hello, Jimmy.
00:46:16Let me speak to Inspector Davis, please.
00:46:17Inspector, Sergeant Luton.
00:46:22Joe Keats is here.
00:46:23Says he has some information on the Wharton case.
00:46:26All right.
00:46:27Tell him I'll come out.
00:46:29Have him repeat that list of jurors he killed.
00:46:32I'll be back in a minute.
00:46:39Tell us once more, Mr. Pearson,
00:46:41in exactly what order you killed the seven jurors.
00:46:44This guy, Pearson, doesn't talk like any crank.
00:46:48He's giving us chapter and verse on every one of the killings.
00:46:51I know I sound crazy, Inspector.
00:46:53I'm playing another hunch.
00:46:55There's something screwy about this whole setup.
00:46:58I can't ignore the evidence of a man who insists he's the killer
00:47:00and then proves it.
00:47:01The boys are in there now trying to break him down,
00:47:03but his story is solid.
00:47:05Meanwhile, innocent people think they're safe again
00:47:07and start going about their business.
00:47:09I'd like to have a look at this self-confessed killer.
00:47:11Come on in.
00:47:12The last time you spoke of Mr. Sloan,
00:47:18you called him Joseph.
00:47:19His real name happens to be Jason.
00:47:22What difference does that make,
00:47:24Joseph or Jason?
00:47:25He's just as dead, whichever name he had.
00:47:27I tell you again.
00:47:29I killed them.
00:47:31All seven of them.
00:47:33And I was going to kill the rest.
00:47:37Let me ask him a question, Inspector.
00:47:41You've named the seven you killed, Mr. Pearson,
00:47:43and the order in which you killed them.
00:47:45Now tell me the names of the other five jurors
00:47:47and the order in which you intended to kill them.
00:47:48The other five?
00:47:53That's quite irrelevant.
00:47:54I intended to kill them.
00:47:56That's the important thing.
00:47:57Who is this?
00:47:58This is Mr. Keats.
00:48:00A lawyer.
00:48:00I want no lawyer.
00:48:01I'll defend myself.
00:48:03He's not a lawyer.
00:48:03He's a newspaper man.
00:48:05Joe Keats.
00:48:05Oh, Joe Keats.
00:48:11I almost feel like I know you, Mr. Keats.
00:48:15I think I've read every word you've written
00:48:18on the Wharton case.
00:48:20It was all very interesting, too.
00:48:22Sometimes your guesses were right.
00:48:25Sometimes wrong.
00:48:26But then I'm the only one who knows
00:48:30all about the killings.
00:48:32Did you read what the other reporters wrote?
00:48:34Oh, yes, every word.
00:48:36But I liked your articles best.
00:48:39They were much more vivid.
00:48:42I see.
00:48:43I know why you're here.
00:48:46You want a feature article, don't you?
00:48:48And you will get it.
00:48:50You will get it just before they hang me.
00:48:54I'll make it exclusive to you, Mr. Keats.
00:48:58I'm more interested in people's innocence
00:49:00than in their guilt.
00:49:01You don't believe I killed them, do you?
00:49:08What more proof do you want?
00:49:17All right.
00:49:18Turn me loose.
00:49:29See what happens to the rest of them.
00:49:33All right, take over.
00:49:35All right, Mr. Pearson.
00:49:36Now let's go over it again.
00:49:38Inspector, that guy's mad as a mad hatter.
00:49:44You see how he stalled when I asked him to name the other five jurors?
00:49:48He's a phony, a crank.
00:49:50Maybe you're right, Joe.
00:49:51I'll admit that he couldn't name the other jurors
00:49:53and he didn't recognize you,
00:49:54but I can't take the risk of letting this man go.
00:49:56If he's a crank, the boys will break him down sooner or later.
00:49:59Meanwhile, the real killer can take his time to choose another victim.
00:50:02Joe would be reasonable.
00:50:03It'd cost me my job if I let that nut in there go.
00:50:05He knows a lot of the details
00:50:06and it's a 50-50 chance he's the man we want.
00:50:09And don't forget the other killer,
00:50:10assuming that there is another killer,
00:50:12is just as crazy as this guy.
00:50:13What does that prove?
00:50:15That proves that I can't let this man go
00:50:16when he claims to be the killer
00:50:17just because he's crazy.
00:50:19Now, can I?
00:50:20No, I suppose not.
00:50:22Do me a favor, though, Inspector.
00:50:23Don't give out the story that you have a confession just yet.
00:50:26If the press gets hold of this,
00:50:27all the other jurors are going to think the danger is over.
00:50:29I'll do what I can,
00:50:30but as a newspaper man,
00:50:31you want to know how hard it is to keep anything
00:50:33from the gentlemen of the press.
00:50:34They have a way of digging up the real facts.
00:50:37I'll be seeing you.
00:50:49I'll be seeing you.
00:51:19Peter Jackson.
00:51:38Juror number eight.
00:51:40I'd like to speak to
00:51:49Mr. Peter Jackson, please.
00:51:51This is Mrs. Jackson.
00:51:53Mr. Jackson isn't here.
00:51:55Who did you say this was?
00:51:56Joe Keats of the Record Herald.
00:51:58I don't want to cause you any alarm, Mrs. Jackson,
00:52:00but there's a possibility
00:52:01the man who's confessed the killings is a crank.
00:52:04The real murderer may still be at large.
00:52:06Is there any place your husband can be reached?
00:52:08All I know, Mr. Keats,
00:52:10is that he went to a house
00:52:11near the village of Buckminster.
00:52:12Oh.
00:52:14Thank you, Mrs. Jackson.
00:52:15Hello, Mrs. Jackson.
00:52:33Thank you, Mrs. Jackson.
00:52:37Mrs. Jackson.
00:52:37Huh.
00:52:38Come on.
00:52:39Come on.
00:52:39Come on.
00:52:40Come on.
00:52:41Come on.
00:52:41Come on.
00:52:42Come on.
00:52:42Oh, my God.
00:53:12Mr. Apple, secretary.
00:53:32Joe Keats, where are you?
00:53:34Mr. Apple's been trying to find you everywhere.
00:53:36Never mind about that. Where's the boss?
00:53:39Well, you got to find him, Marcy, quick.
00:53:40This is something terribly important.
00:53:43Yeah, that's a good girl. Have him call me back here.
00:53:46I'm at Buckminster 28. It's the jail.
00:53:49No, I'm not under arrest. I'll explain later.
00:53:52You newspaper fellow said quite a story
00:53:54about who gets a murder story on the street first, don't you?
00:53:57Yeah, we do.
00:53:58Thought you wanted to tell him about finding that body.
00:54:00Well, that's my boss's secretary.
00:54:01I want to give this story to my editor direct.
00:54:03Did you find it, boys?
00:54:09No.
00:54:11You didn't find Peter Jackson's body?
00:54:14No.
00:54:15We didn't find Jackson's or any other dead body hanging there.
00:54:18But I saw it hanging from a beam.
00:54:20Well, maybe it climbed down after you left.
00:54:23Locked all the doors and went for a swim down the river.
00:54:27We got a bad taste for practical jokes up here, Mr. Newspaper Man.
00:54:31Look, I didn't just dream up a body hanging there.
00:54:34I came up here because I was afraid something had happened to Peter Jackson.
00:54:38He was one of the Wharton jurors.
00:54:44Hello?
00:54:44Yeah, he's here.
00:54:48Is that for me?
00:54:49What'd you say your name was?
00:54:51Oh, come on.
00:54:52Let me talk to him.
00:54:54I'll do the talking temporarily.
00:54:56Yeah, he came in here a half hour ago.
00:54:59Said he found a body hanging in an old house on the outskirts of town.
00:55:02When we went there to investigate, there wasn't a sign of a dead body.
00:55:07Oh, I see.
00:55:09I see.
00:55:10Sure, sure.
00:55:12I will.
00:55:13Till you get here.
00:55:14Okay.
00:55:17Lock him up, then.
00:55:18Lock me up?
00:55:18Wait a minute.
00:55:19You can't lock me up.
00:55:20What's the charge?
00:55:21Get in there.
00:55:25I demand to talk to my editor.
00:55:27I forgot to tell you.
00:55:29That was your editor I was talking to.
00:55:31Fellow named Apple.
00:55:34That's a funny name.
00:55:35Apple.
00:55:38I bet he's a Peter.
00:55:39This came for you at the shop.
00:55:51I was pretty sure it wasn't business, so I brought it over.
00:55:53That's very thoughtful of you, Tex.
00:55:56Maybe from...
00:55:57It's from Joe.
00:55:58I knew my hunches were hitting on all cylinders.
00:56:01What does our wandering boy have to say for himself?
00:56:03He wants me to meet him in Glenlock and to come alone.
00:56:05Is that all?
00:56:06That's all except that he says it's very important.
00:56:10Glenlock?
00:56:10Well, I've been through there.
00:56:11That's a whistle-stop den to all whistle-stops.
00:56:14Say, what are you doing?
00:56:15I'm going to Glenlock.
00:56:16But it'll be dark by the time you get there.
00:56:18Maybe I'd better go along.
00:56:19I'll be all right.
00:56:19Joe says to come alone.
00:56:20He must have a reason.
00:56:21Just keep your fingers crossed, and don't tell anyone where I've gone.
00:56:25They're crossed, baby, and they'll stay that way till you get back.
00:56:35Hello?
00:56:37Yes, Mr. Apple.
00:56:38Tell her I've found Joe.
00:56:40He's up in a little town called Buckminster.
00:56:42They're holding him at the jail.
00:56:44Hey, say that again.
00:56:45Buckminster?
00:56:47That's not what his telegram says.
00:56:49Glenlock?
00:56:51Oh, there must be some mistake.
00:56:54Say, I don't like the looks of it.
00:56:56You wait there, or I'll be right over.
00:57:07Hello?
00:57:08Speaking.
00:57:10If that's my editor, I demand to talk to him.
00:57:12Keep your shirt on, newspaper man.
00:57:14It ain't your editor.
00:57:15Go ahead.
00:57:18Wait a minute.
00:57:20Where'd you say this was?
00:57:22Hold the phone.
00:57:23What's happened?
00:57:26A plan.
00:57:27Glen Poskin.
00:57:28Come here, quick.
00:57:31What'd you say that fellow's name was?
00:57:33That fellow you said you saw hanging in the Lacey house?
00:57:35Peter Jackson.
00:57:36Why?
00:57:38We'll be right over.
00:57:39What's the excitement?
00:57:40Some kids just found a man's body down by the river.
00:57:43The man's name is Peter Jackson.
00:57:44He had business cards saying he was in the real estate business.
00:57:47Maybe there was somebody hanging in the Lacey house like he said.
00:57:50This is a job for the sheriff.
00:57:52Well, I'm glad you two finally got wise to yourselves.
00:57:54Now, how about letting me out of here?
00:57:56Well, put me through to the sheriff, will you?
00:57:59Make it snappy on that telephone, will you?
00:58:01Maybe I got some important calls to make myself.
00:58:02Hello?
00:58:27Yes, Joe.
00:58:29He's on his way up there now.
00:58:31He left here to pick up tax.
00:58:33They're driving up to get you.
00:58:34Now, give me a rewrite.
00:58:37Rewrite?
00:58:38Joe Keats, take this.
00:58:41Today, another member of the Wharton jury met his death.
00:58:44While Metropolitan Police concentrated upon a crank who professed to be the murderer,
00:58:48the real killer struck again.
00:59:01Here's the latest flash on the Wharton jury case.
00:59:20Police have broadcast a warning to be on the lookout for Jerome K. Bentley,
00:59:24foreman of the jury which convicted Harry Wharton.
00:59:27He's believed still to be in the vicinity of New York.
00:59:29It is believed that Bentley is responsible for...
00:59:31someone meeting you, ma'am?
00:59:42Yes, thank you.
00:59:43Thank you, ma'am.
00:59:44Joe, I was beginning to be frightened.
01:00:13Just because I'm so glad to see you...
01:00:17Joe?
01:00:18Joe, where are you?
01:00:22Harry Wharton!
01:00:23Don't look so startled, Miss Hill.
01:00:25I'm really Harry Wharton.
01:00:26I'm not a ghost.
01:00:28Or did you like me better as Jerome K. Bentley?
01:00:30Then Joe was right.
01:00:31No, Miss Hill, I'm dead.
01:00:33Legally.
01:00:34I hanged myself in the sanitarium, remember?
01:00:36It's Jerome K. Bentley the police are looking for.
01:00:40Have you forgotten?
01:00:42I promised to show you my new house.
01:00:45The drawing room especially will interest you.
01:00:48It has a beam ceiling.
01:00:50You know,
01:00:51you hang things from beams.
01:00:54There's no answer at the Glenlock depot.
01:01:21Those little out-of-the-way places.
01:01:23The station is only open part-time.
01:01:25There won't be anybody there until tomorrow morning.
01:01:31If anything happens to that girl.
01:01:34Long distance.
01:01:35I want to put a call through to Buckminster.
01:01:37I don't know the number,
01:01:38but it's the town jail.
01:01:45Yes?
01:01:45Oh, it's you.
01:01:49Marcy told me about Jackson.
01:01:51Yes.
01:01:51The story will be on the street in a few minutes.
01:01:55I know I'm...
01:01:56Yes, yes.
01:01:58Anything you want to call me.
01:02:00But Joe,
01:02:00what I telephoned you about is Alice.
01:02:02She received a wire to meet you
01:02:04at a little place called Glenlock.
01:02:07Joe didn't send that telegram.
01:02:09Right, we'll be there
01:02:10as fast as a motor escort can bring us.
01:02:12Come on.
01:02:14Now you know
01:02:22why I ordered everything in 12s.
01:02:26Call it what you will.
01:02:28Obsession,
01:02:29insanity,
01:02:30murder complex.
01:02:32Do you believe that by destroying others
01:02:34you can bring ease to your own mind?
01:02:35I must try.
01:02:36I can't go on this living death.
01:02:39I must find myself.
01:02:40Over the bodies of your innocent victim.
01:02:42Innocent.
01:02:42Was it innocent to send me to the death house?
01:02:46Have you any conception
01:02:47what it's like inside those cold walls?
01:02:49Waiting.
01:02:50Eternally waiting.
01:02:52To fall asleep.
01:02:54And wake a night after night
01:02:55with that choking sensation in your throat.
01:02:57You and the others die only once.
01:03:00I died a hundred times.
01:03:01A thousand times.
01:03:03I must find myself.
01:03:06Can you find yourself?
01:03:08Through murder,
01:03:08through cruelty?
01:03:10I remember they said at your trial that...
01:03:12That I was the gentlest of men.
01:03:14I am.
01:03:16But only when the 12 are hanged
01:03:17can I return to the land of the living.
01:03:20To the beautiful things I loved.
01:03:24Stand up, Alice.
01:03:26It's no use screaming.
01:03:43No one will hear you.
01:03:44No one will hear you.
01:04:05That's pretty good shooting.
01:04:18Any one of them three bullets would have killed him.
01:04:28She's all right.
01:04:30They're lucky we're here in time.
01:04:32Where's Bentley?
01:04:33Not Bentley, Willard.
01:04:34If you turn him over, you'll find that's Harry Wharton.
01:04:37Wharton, now, wait a minute.
01:04:38This is another one of your hunches.
01:04:42A careful check of the sanitarium records
01:04:44showed Jerome K. Bentley visited Harry Wharton
01:04:47on the day of the latter's supposed suicide.
01:04:50It was Bentley's body that was found
01:04:52hanging in the hospital room, not Wharton's.
01:04:55What do you know about that?
01:04:56It was a miracle, Wally, absolutely a miracle.
01:04:59Another second, and it wouldn't have been too late.
01:05:04You know, you're the first woman Wally's ever allowed down here.
01:05:08Am I?
01:05:08I'm flattered.
01:05:10Yeah, I used to have to dance down here by myself.
01:05:12You hungry?
01:05:13Couldn't eat a bite.
01:05:17Anyway, three's an awful crowd.
01:05:19Well, Mr. Apple,
01:05:31you think Joe will stay with the record, Harold?
01:05:33No, I don't know.
01:05:33I guess so.
01:05:35Unless he's thinking of going in the antique business.
01:05:37Hey, Joe.
01:05:38Come on, you two.
01:05:40Your dinners are getting cold.
01:05:43Now, where'd they disappear, too?
01:05:45I think he took that other job.
01:05:48Ah.
01:05:50Love's a stuff twill not endure.
01:05:52But food, food goes on forever.
01:05:56Now, give me a little more steak sauce, will you?
01:05:58And some mustard and some horseradish and some pickles.
01:06:01Let's go.
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