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Police lieutenant Sam Carson looks into a political killing after the victim is left right at the entrance of police headquarters.
Genre: Romance, Drama
Release Date: 1946
Director: Otto Brower
Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane
Genre: Romance, Drama
Release Date: 1946
Director: Otto Brower
Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane
Category
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00:00:00. . .
00:00:26Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:00:28Well, make sure those negatives are in here, too.
00:00:42The Herald stands pretty well on the police run, Johnny,
00:00:44so I don't think you'll have much difficulty contacting the various departments.
00:00:47These cops are good guys, but they got belly aches like you and me,
00:00:50so name them and give them a break whenever you can.
00:00:52They pay cops off with peanuts the way they do newspaper men.
00:00:55No, I want you to get it off without breaking it.
00:00:59Your wife can't steal your car. That's community property.
00:01:02Yeah, I know, Chief, but she done took it out of the community.
00:01:08Come on, Johnny, I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:01:10He's a good egg.
00:01:12What do you like to do? Dance? Harry James?
00:01:16Sure.
00:01:17Yes, sir.
00:01:18Well, why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:01:20Fix yourself some doughnuts and coffee and stuff.
00:01:23Hanging out in a joint like the one Carrie pulled you out,
00:01:25it'll buy you nothing but trouble.
00:01:28Carrie, see if these two girls get home, will you?
00:01:30Yes, sir.
00:01:33Hiya, Sam.
00:01:34Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:01:35Hi.
00:01:36Meet Johnny Williams, the Herald's gift to the police department.
00:01:38This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:01:40Hi, young fella.
00:01:41It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:01:42You love him when you get to know him better.
00:01:44Johnny's fixing to clean up the department.
00:01:46I thought you ought to look him over.
00:01:47Oh, cut it out, eh.
00:01:48The Herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:01:49That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:01:51The Herald has ideals.
00:01:52Only the truth is fit to print.
00:01:54I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:01:56Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:01:57It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:01:59Yeah.
00:02:00Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:02:02You won't.
00:02:03Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:02:05Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days
00:02:07just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:02:10Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:02:11Gee, I sure need one.
00:02:12Come on, Johnny.
00:02:13Meet the rest of the gang.
00:02:14Okay, I'll see you later.
00:02:15Bye.
00:02:16Bye.
00:02:17That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:02:19Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:02:20Won't do us any harm, either.
00:02:22I'll go down to the Dutchman's for an egg sandwich.
00:02:24I'll go along with you.
00:02:41Come on, Jimmy.
00:02:42You take all day.
00:02:43Come on, we'll...
00:02:44So hurry.
00:02:45Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:02:46I've known you as the News Burris, Sergeant.
00:02:47Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:02:49You take all day. Come on, we're there.
00:02:57Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:03:00Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:03:07What is this, a gag?
00:03:19It's Walter Bard, a private detective agency in the Equitable building.
00:03:29They picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:03:31Looks like somebody's trying to give the department of business.
00:03:33Keep going, Merriman.
00:03:45Precious things alive, it's Mr. Bard.
00:03:48Do you know anything about this?
00:03:50Not me, not me.
00:03:52I just sell him flowers.
00:04:02Take this into the desk.
00:04:03Right.
00:04:06Hey, Sam.
00:04:08What have you got?
00:04:09What do you think?
00:04:10Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:04:13That's the name of the game, gin.
00:04:16Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:04:18Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can, then have the car gone over for fingerprints.
00:04:22Hey, Sam, who's the...
00:04:22Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:04:23Dumped right in front of the station.
00:04:25I couldn't get any closer.
00:04:26Boy, there's gonna be a stink about this.
00:04:28He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:04:30He was mixed up on everything.
00:04:32He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:04:34What's the matter, Johnny?
00:04:36What's the matter, Johnny?
00:04:38I never saw a dead man before.
00:04:44Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:04:45Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:04:47Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car, right at the front door of the joint.
00:04:51Evidently a definite slap of the prison administration.
00:04:54You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:04:58Yeah, say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:05:02Huh?
00:05:03Sure, play it up big.
00:05:04Lay it on thick.
00:05:05Everybody's gonna be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:05:09and the Express is its only friend.
00:05:12Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:05:14Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:05:19See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:05:21Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:05:22Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:05:24Okay, Lieutenant.
00:05:25Hopper, you chase up to Bard's office in the equitable building.
00:05:28Go through his desk and files.
00:05:30Check his appointment calendar.
00:05:31Yes.
00:05:32Well, Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:05:33Bard used to hang out at Tony's on Second Street quite a lot.
00:05:36Good idea.
00:05:37Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:05:41Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs to.
00:05:42Right.
00:05:45Yes?
00:05:45Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, Lieutenant.
00:05:47She's probably sleeping.
00:05:48Keep on trying.
00:05:49Okay.
00:05:56Hey, Dan.
00:05:58Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:05:59He covers police for the sun.
00:06:01Also has the poesy corner on the side.
00:06:03Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:06:05Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:06:06I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:06:10When are you going to get rid of that moth-eating trophy you got on?
00:06:13Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:06:18Not an Indian fighter.
00:06:19Nothing would persuade me to park with it, except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:06:23Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:06:25Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:06:26On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:06:38Come in, Doc.
00:06:39Well, here it is, Sam.
00:06:41The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:06:43Have you boys found it yet?
00:06:44In the front seat up Hole Street.
00:06:46Discharge from the gun that was in the car?
00:06:47Mm-hmm, his own.
00:06:49There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:06:51Could have been suicide.
00:06:53Not a chance, Doc.
00:06:54The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:06:56The body was driven there in Bart's car and left there.
00:06:58Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:07:00Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:07:03Could be.
00:07:06Holy mackerel.
00:07:12That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:07:14Well, this is very interesting.
00:07:16The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reform candidate for mayor.
00:07:20Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:07:23Send Brewer in.
00:07:24Must be some of the Bradley.
00:07:25Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:07:27Why?
00:07:28The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:07:31Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:07:34Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:07:36Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:07:38We want to ask her a few questions.
00:07:40Okay.
00:07:41Handle her carefully.
00:07:41All we want is her cooperation.
00:07:43Stress that, Brewer.
00:07:46Yes?
00:07:47Mrs. Barstool doesn't answer.
00:07:48Keep trying.
00:07:53Express?
00:07:53I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:07:55Very important.
00:07:56It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:07:59Hello?
00:08:00Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:08:02Oh, hello, Doc.
00:08:03What's on your mind?
00:08:05Walter Barst.
00:08:07Sure I know him.
00:08:09Well, who shot him?
00:08:10I don't know.
00:08:11But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:08:15That's right.
00:08:16The police station.
00:08:18And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:08:19There was a notation in Barst's memorandum book that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:08:24Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:08:26Are you sure?
00:08:27Oh, this is beautiful.
00:08:35Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:08:37I'll keep in touch with you.
00:08:38Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:08:40You can count on me.
00:08:41Bye-bye.
00:08:57This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:09:02Lieutenant Carson.
00:09:03How do you do?
00:09:04Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Mr. Bradley.
00:09:07Sit down, please.
00:09:12What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:09:15You knew him?
00:09:16Knew him?
00:09:17He was murdered this evening.
00:09:20In his own car.
00:09:24Shot.
00:09:25I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:09:28You did know him?
00:09:29Yes, I knew him.
00:09:30Seen him recently?
00:09:33This evening.
00:09:35I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:09:38Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:09:40No.
00:09:41Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:09:43I'm sorry, I can't.
00:09:45Private?
00:09:47That's not so good.
00:09:53Is your father still in Washington?
00:09:58Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:10:01This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:10:05A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:10Maybe.
00:10:12Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:10:14Is that necessary?
00:10:16Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course, if you'd rather not.
00:10:20Very well.
00:10:23This way, please.
00:10:26Now, the right hand.
00:10:30That's fine.
00:10:32You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:10:35Oh, thank you.
00:10:36My, uh, photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:10:39Sitting's by appointment only.
00:10:41That's all there is to it.
00:10:46It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:10:51You don't mind waiting.
00:10:52Of course not.
00:10:53Right in there.
00:10:54You're being swell about this.
00:10:55Yes?
00:10:56Max covered to see you, Lieutenant.
00:10:57Send him in.
00:10:58Thanks, Sam.
00:10:58I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:11:00I figured you'd be around.
00:11:01Well, I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:11:03Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:11:05The administration, too.
00:11:06The administration's your problem.
00:11:07Ah, no, that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:11:08Don't forget, we've got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:11:09Yes?
00:11:10Max covered to see you, Lieutenant.
00:11:11Yes?
00:11:12Max covered to see you, Lieutenant.
00:11:13Yes?
00:11:14Max covered to see you, Lieutenant.
00:11:15Yes?
00:11:16Max covered to see you, Lieutenant.
00:11:18I figured you'd be around.
00:11:19Well, I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:11:21Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:11:24The administration, too.
00:11:26The administration's your problem.
00:11:28Ah, no, that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:11:30Don't forget, we've got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:11:33I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:11:35I know, but a politician sometimes could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:11:39I understand you've got the Bradley girl down here.
00:11:43So you know all about that, huh?
00:11:46Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:11:49She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:11:51I'm not making any statements.
00:11:53And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:11:56Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:11:59I'm not letting that tabloid of yours spare that girl's reputation
00:12:02so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:12:04Well, the public has the right to know the facts express Prince them.
00:12:07Yeah, anything for a nickel.
00:12:12Look, Sam, how long have you had this job?
00:12:15Long enough.
00:12:17When you first came into this department, I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:12:22Now, I own it.
00:12:24While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:12:27Now, Mike was your type of copier. He never played ball.
00:12:30So where did it get him?
00:12:32A load of lead in the belly.
00:12:34You ought to be smart, Sam.
00:12:36Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:12:42No.
00:12:43Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:12:46How'd you like to be chief?
00:12:48I'd like it. You know that, Calvert.
00:12:51Could be arranged.
00:12:53How?
00:12:54Well, if this Bradley girl were booked, it might please some very important people very much.
00:12:59And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:13:02There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:13:04Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:13:07Not suspicion or material witness, anything you like.
00:13:10Until after the election.
00:13:12Then let her go.
00:13:13She'd be all right.
00:13:15Do that and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:13:18Oh, Sam. Now, don't look at it that way.
00:13:22Why, a week after the election, the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:13:27Think it over.
00:13:30Don't forget, Sam. It always pays to cooperate.
00:13:34Always pays.
00:13:48Great guy wasn't in the town.
00:13:59He sure was.
00:14:00I guess he was just about the greatest cop the city ever had.
00:14:03Yeah. Wanted to get him.
00:14:04Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:14:06See you with him.
00:14:11What'd you find in Bard's apartment?
00:14:13Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:14:16Two glasses with prints on both.
00:14:19Prints on the gun, on one of the glasses, and Miss Bradley's fingerprints.
00:14:24All checked.
00:14:28Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:14:34Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:14:40Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:14:48All right, Oppenheimer.
00:14:53Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:14:57Oh, yes. He poured a drink for me, but I set it down without tasting it.
00:15:01We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:15:07All right.
00:15:08I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:15:16I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me.
00:15:20Someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:15:23He made a business of buying and selling information about people.
00:15:26Especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:15:31Problem with people.
00:15:33He had come to me with certain information.
00:15:36He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:15:40Only $10,000.
00:15:50Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:15:59Won't you sit down?
00:16:00I'll fix you a drink.
00:16:01Oh, I really don't care for one. Thank you.
00:16:03I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:16:10A cigarette?
00:16:24Oh, thank you.
00:16:29Well?
00:16:31I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:16:34How much have you raised?
00:16:36$10,000.
00:16:37And I said $20.
00:16:39Well, that settles that.
00:16:41Oh, please.
00:16:42Won't you give me a little more time?
00:16:43Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:16:45You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:16:48Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:16:50Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:16:53Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:16:56And I've got a cash customer who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:17:01I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:17:04Oh, completely.
00:17:05You see, I haven't any.
00:17:06Not since I put on long pants.
00:17:08And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:17:11I can believe that.
00:17:13But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:17:16Take it.
00:17:17You look shaky.
00:17:23Now, give me that envelope.
00:17:25You'll find them all there.
00:17:36Don't be rude.
00:17:37I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:17:44Stay where you are.
00:17:45He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:17:51Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe that chisel will let you take those papers away from him?
00:17:57But I've told you the exact truth.
00:18:00What happened to the gun?
00:18:01I threw it in this car when I left.
00:18:03What did you do with the envelope?
00:18:04Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:18:06What was in it?
00:18:06I can't possibly tell you.
00:18:09It must have been hard if Bard wanted that kind of dough for her.
00:18:11Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:18:13What was it about, your father?
00:18:16It's no use asking me.
00:18:17What was in it?
00:18:18Dirt bar that had dug up?
00:18:20Something Calvert could use?
00:18:22Let me help you.
00:18:24You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:18:26He said he'd take you home, it was raining.
00:18:28You go down to his car, he makes a pass at you.
00:18:30You grab his gun, let him have it and scram with the envelope.
00:18:32The brakes in the car come loose and the car starts rolling.
00:18:35Lieutenant, you...
00:18:38You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:18:42Your prints are on the gun.
00:18:45You have motive, plenty of it.
00:18:47What do you expect me to believe?
00:18:51I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:18:55What are you going to do with me?
00:18:56I ought to book you.
00:18:58You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:19:07I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:19:09I've learned a great deal about the police department from Father Bard.
00:19:12Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:19:17Leave Calvert out of this.
00:19:18I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:19:21I'm glad.
00:19:22I've always liked policemen.
00:19:27I should book you, otherwise I can't hold you.
00:19:29If you don't mind waiting a little longer,
00:19:32something may turn up.
00:19:35You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:19:38Put it anywhere you like.
00:19:40Get in here, please.
00:19:52You guys mind if I want a hand?
00:19:54No.
00:19:55Hello, Doc.
00:19:56Anything new on the board, Kelly?
00:19:57Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:20:00Yeah, we know all about that.
00:20:02Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:20:08No.
00:20:09That's right.
00:20:10Carson has her downstairs now.
00:20:11She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:20:13A regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:20:16Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:20:19That's nice of you.
00:20:20But I'm still running the night shift around here, and I'll give out the information.
00:20:23The Express already has it.
00:20:25I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:20:26So you boys might as well have it, too.
00:20:28Miss Bradley is involved.
00:20:29To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:20:31She was in Bard's apartment this evening, but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:20:35Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:20:36I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.
00:20:39Did you get that jolly?
00:20:40That was cost no sale.
00:20:42I'll give you, Mr. Jones.
00:20:43Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:20:45Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:20:48Oh, yes, Mr. Jones, I'm sticking right on the job.
00:20:50I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:20:52Janet Bradley, daughter of the maritalty candidate, is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:20:57Yes.
00:20:58And you'll leave those two tickets for the Philharmonic.
00:21:00You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:21:02We won't forget.
00:21:03Dr. G. F. Yeager.
00:21:09Now, which one of you is taking my scissors?
00:21:13I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:21:19If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors,
00:21:22I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:21:28Well, it's about time.
00:21:31Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert, I didn't know you were here.
00:21:33I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:21:35Long enough. Where have you been?
00:21:36Oh, all over. It's been a very busy night.
00:21:38Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:21:40Not yet. He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:21:42I don't trust Carson. He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:21:45Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:21:49I want her charged with murder and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in town.
00:21:53Sooner the better.
00:21:54Oh, thank you. I'll save this one later.
00:21:57I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage any local papers had in years.
00:22:01I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:22:04Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:22:07Diagrams of Bard's apartment. Pictures of the murder car.
00:22:11I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:22:14Every appearance in court.
00:22:16I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:22:19How she looks.
00:22:20With the inference that she's frightened that she's hiding something that her back's against the wall.
00:22:25Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert, is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:22:32What did you say?
00:22:33He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:22:35Who did it?
00:22:36I don't know.
00:22:37You cut him open?
00:22:38I didn't have to. I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:22:42Well, have you told Carson?
00:22:43Not yet.
00:22:44Well, don't.
00:22:45The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body, he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:22:51And he'll know what that means.
00:22:53Then we've got to get rid of the body.
00:22:55Get it out of here fast, tonight.
00:22:56Before the inquest, I can't.
00:22:58You can and you're going to.
00:22:59But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body and drag it out of the morgue before the chief medical examiner's had a whack at it.
00:23:05Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:23:09One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:23:12Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:23:15All right, now you go down to the morgue and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:23:19Then make out commitment papers for John Doe. Cremation.
00:23:23And ship it out tonight.
00:23:24But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:23:26If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:23:29These squawks, you send them to me, you understand?
00:23:32I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:23:34Your best is to get that body out of here fast.
00:23:49Yes?
00:23:50Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:23:56Hello?
00:23:58Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:24:01Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:24:03You've been ringing for some time, haven't you? I'm sorry.
00:24:06I was sound asleep.
00:24:08I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:24:12That is impossible. He wasn't at...
00:24:15I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:24:17We don't know yet.
00:24:19I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:24:22I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:24:25Of course, but...
00:24:27But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:24:30We haven't been living together.
00:24:34Yes.
00:24:35As soon as I've dressed.
00:24:38Yes?
00:24:53Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:24:54It's Walter.
00:24:55Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:24:57Aware?
00:24:58No, Arthur.
00:24:59No.
00:25:01They've asked me to come down to the station.
00:25:02No.
00:25:03Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:25:06I'll go with you.
00:25:08Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:25:10Don't worry, darling.
00:25:11Everything will be all right.
00:25:13Yes.
00:25:14Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:25:16In about 20 minutes.
00:25:18It won't take me long to dress.
00:25:20Yes.
00:25:21Yes.
00:25:22It won't take me long to dress.
00:25:23Yes.
00:25:24It won't take me long to dress.
00:25:25Oh, here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stuff.
00:25:31Any calls?
00:25:32No, sir.
00:25:33One of them is Janet Bradleys.
00:25:34The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:25:37Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:25:38Oh, send her in.
00:25:39Will you come in, please?
00:25:40Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:42I understand, Lieutenant.
00:25:44This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:25:46Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:25:48I'm happy.
00:25:49I'm happy.
00:25:50I'm happy.
00:25:51I'm happy.
00:25:52I'm happy.
00:25:53Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:25:55I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:25:57So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:25:59Sit down, please.
00:26:05You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:26:07Well, Bard was shot through the heart.
00:26:09We found his car parked in front of this building, his body in it.
00:26:12But that's fantastic.
00:26:13Who did it?
00:26:14Well, we're not prepared to say it yet.
00:26:16Now, Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:26:20Not for over a year.
00:26:22Have you seen him recently?
00:26:24I saw him in a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:26:27I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:26:29We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:26:31Well, I hope you will be.
00:26:33Nora and I are going to be married.
00:26:35We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:26:37Had the proceedings begun?
00:26:38No.
00:26:39The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:26:41Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:26:45Repeatedly.
00:26:46He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:26:48Nora!
00:26:49I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:26:50He was mean and cruel.
00:26:52He liked to hate people.
00:26:53He did it deliberately.
00:26:54I studied for two years.
00:26:56Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:26:59Yes, I know.
00:27:00Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:27:04Yes.
00:27:05I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:27:08You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening.
00:27:12Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:27:15I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:27:19I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:27:22Were you?
00:27:24No.
00:27:27I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:27:31Naturally.
00:27:32Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:27:34Yes, sure.
00:27:35This way, please.
00:27:35Listen, pal, I didn't bust that mirror.
00:27:42Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:27:44Name?
00:27:45I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:27:47Never heard of you.
00:27:48What's your address?
00:27:49You can't book me, copper.
00:27:51I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:27:53The annual smoker, see?
00:27:54I go on at one o'clock.
00:27:56What's your address?
00:27:58But what about the Elks?
00:28:00You ain't gonna let the Elks down, are you?
00:28:03I'm an odd fellow.
00:28:04The address, Zachary.
00:28:06You can't do it to me, pal.
00:28:07It's my professional reputation.
00:28:09This is at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:28:11Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:28:13You'll see the judge in the morning.
00:28:14But I gotta go on at one a.m.
00:28:17I'll come back.
00:28:18Honest, I will.
00:28:19Take him away, but...
00:28:34Why don't do it?
00:28:36THE END
00:29:06I vote for Louis, he has the best beer
00:29:29What's the best dish in the joint?
00:29:30The blonde behind the counter
00:29:36The end of the counter
00:30:06Oh, my God.
00:30:36Oh, my God.
00:31:06Oh, my God.
00:31:36Oh, my God.
00:32:06It's his last one.
00:32:07Oh, my God.
00:32:37Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself.
00:32:39Let me use your phone.
00:32:42Yeah, Doc.
00:32:43The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.
00:32:46Well, go back over your route.
00:32:47Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.
00:32:48If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as you get here.
00:32:52Well...
00:32:53Hello.
00:33:00Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?
00:33:08Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:33:12They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.
00:33:14Well, I don't believe it.
00:33:17You make them cough up the truth.
00:33:19I want to know who else wants that body.
00:33:22Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter, both for the administration and for the police department and, incidentally, for you.
00:33:28But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.
00:33:31Everything you asked me to.
00:33:32You find that body and get rid of it.
00:33:42Yes?
00:33:43Sam, a John Doe that was being transported to the Woodbury crematorium has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:33:48What do you mean, disappeared?
00:33:50The boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance and when they got there, it was gone.
00:33:54Well, what am I supposed to do, pull your rabbits out of my hat?
00:33:56The doors must have fallen open.
00:33:58Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:34:01I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:34:04Well, find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:34:18Holy smoke!
00:34:24Hello.
00:34:25Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:34:26Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:34:28I'll call you right back.
00:34:31You're new around here, ain't you?
00:34:34What's your name?
00:34:34Williams, the Herald.
00:34:36And I'm pretty busy.
00:34:37Sure you're busy.
00:34:38You bricklayers is always busy.
00:34:40Unless it's a bouquet, you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:34:43And then it's Flossie, my darling.
00:34:46Flossie, be a pal.
00:34:48And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:34:50But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:34:52Look, Flossie, I gotta phone my paper.
00:34:54There's been a murder.
00:34:55Sure there's been a murder.
00:34:56Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:35:00And owing me a dollar six bits.
00:35:03Seven of them he died owing me for.
00:35:05Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:35:06But you'll get your money back.
00:35:07And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get?
00:35:12Birdseed.
00:35:13I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:35:14You go down to the desk.
00:35:15When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:35:20I've been to the desk.
00:35:22And what do I get?
00:35:23Birdseed, sure.
00:35:24But this time you tell a lieutenant that I sent you.
00:35:26Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:35:27Tell him to give you your dollar six bits and the Herald will pay it.
00:35:30Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:35:35Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:35:38Wait.
00:35:40Birdseed.
00:35:40I got a lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:35:48An exclusive.
00:35:49Yeah.
00:35:50In the press room clothes closet.
00:35:53Hey, wait a minute.
00:35:55I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:36:00Now, where are my scissors?
00:36:02I never seem to be able to find them.
00:36:06Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:36:10Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:36:15I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:36:18I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:36:22This time I'll nail them down.
00:36:34Milk!
00:36:36How many, you guys?
00:36:37That's Mr. Rosinski.
00:36:38Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:36:40Yeah.
00:36:45Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:36:50Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:36:52Yeah, he's here.
00:36:54Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat.
00:36:56I'll be right up.
00:36:57Hey, no dice.
00:36:58He doesn't want to sell.
00:36:59I never heard of such impertinence.
00:37:01As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:37:06Mr. Wintergreen, you can't sell that overcoat.
00:37:09I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:37:12Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:37:15It'd be unpatriotic.
00:37:16I'm dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:37:18Why, that overcoat's made history.
00:37:19It's practically a national monument.
00:37:21You can't have a big lug like Brzezinski delivering milk in it.
00:37:24Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:37:26Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:37:28They'd pay real dough for it.
00:37:30The Smithsonian?
00:37:31Uh-huh.
00:37:32But do you really think?
00:37:35No, Williams.
00:37:36No, my mind is made up.
00:37:41Oh!
00:37:41Oh!
00:37:42Oh!
00:37:43Get out of here!
00:37:44Get out of here!
00:37:45Get out of here!
00:37:46Get out of here!
00:37:48Get out of here!
00:37:49Give me Mr. Jones, quick!
00:37:55Sure, Mr. Jones.
00:37:56That's what I said.
00:37:57Walter Bard's body in the press room clothes closet.
00:37:59Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:38:01I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk.
00:38:03It's true.
00:38:04There's a guy in there, I tell you, listen to him holler his head off!
00:38:07Yeah, and I'm the only one that knows except Wintergreen, and I got him spiked.
00:38:11Absolutely, Mr. Jones!
00:38:25Yes?
00:38:25Mr. Haggerty, City Editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:38:27Right.
00:38:29Hello, Haggerty.
00:38:33What did you say?
00:38:35In the press room?
00:38:37Here?
00:38:38What?
00:38:40As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one, I'll be over personally to tell you
00:38:43what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:38:45One of those toss-pot reporters phoned Haggerty and said that Bard's body is hanging in the
00:38:50press room clothes closet.
00:38:52Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Yeager lost?
00:38:58There's only one way to find out.
00:39:00That's what I said, you dope, all wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:39:10My overcoat, please.
00:39:11Credit where credit is due.
00:39:12Hey, look, you guys.
00:39:13A perfect fit.
00:39:14What goes on?
00:39:15I found Bard.
00:39:16All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:39:18Now, Harold's printing it, so relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:39:21Don't you think this is best for you later?
00:39:22Give me a rewrite, sweetheart.
00:39:23Hurry up.
00:39:24Haggerty was right.
00:39:25It is Bard.
00:39:26Say, this guy didn't believe much.
00:39:31Did Yeager say anything about that?
00:39:33Not to me.
00:39:34Have him taken back, Sergeant.
00:39:36Get the iron out, Lieutenant.
00:39:40Mr. Jones again.
00:39:41Okay, you'll get it, Mr. Jones.
00:39:43Lieutenant, let's examine the body now.
00:39:46Yeah.
00:39:4730 years, Lieutenant, I've been putting him on ice.
00:39:51Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:39:53Where was he?
00:39:54In here.
00:39:55Pull it out.
00:40:02That's the John Doe we fished out of the bay.
00:40:04The one Doc Yeager committed tonight for cremation.
00:40:07How'd it get in there?
00:40:08I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:40:09I put him on number seven myself.
00:40:10There's been a switch.
00:40:11It's Doc Yeager now.
00:40:12What's this all about, Sam?
00:40:14It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost.
00:40:17Only it wasn't John Doe, it was Walter Bard.
00:40:19John Doe was here in Bard's place.
00:40:21Well, this is absurd, Sam.
00:40:23A lot of things are tonight.
00:40:25You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:40:27Yes, for John Doe.
00:40:28Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:40:31That's the only way it could have happened.
00:40:33Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:40:35O'Malley, get that John Doe out of here.
00:40:37Put Bard back in the right place.
00:40:39And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner's through with him.
00:40:42Yes, sir.
00:40:43Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:40:53Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:40:55This is Ames of the Express.
00:40:57The Express?
00:40:59Oh, I haven't the slightest idea of what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:41:04Oh, shh.
00:41:05In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:41:10You're welcome.
00:41:12What was it, Harlan?
00:41:13A report on Express.
00:41:14The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:41:24Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:41:26No, we've got to sit tight.
00:41:28If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:41:30There'd always be that doubt.
00:41:32It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:41:34In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:41:36We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:41:39At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying, I'm not sure of him.
00:41:46Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:41:48Yes, I do.
00:41:49And maybe there's a voice inside you saying, I'm not sure of her.
00:41:53Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:41:56We couldn't live together like that.
00:42:00You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:42:02We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:42:04Darling.
00:42:05Darling.
00:42:11Hello.
00:42:13Yes.
00:42:14I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:42:18Sure, I know I got Jaeger. I want someone else.
00:42:21Uh, Bard.
00:42:23For a very particular reason.
00:42:24Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:42:27As soon as you can get him down here.
00:42:32I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:42:35We've come to make certain orations in our statement, look, Senator.
00:42:42What's happening?
00:42:45We told you we weren't at Bard's apartment this evening.
00:42:47Well, we were.
00:42:48Nora was there when Bard died.
00:42:50I was there later.
00:42:52Go on.
00:42:54I didn't tell Arthur I was going,
00:42:56but I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:43:01There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:43:03Take off your fingers and stay a while.
00:43:06Have a drink?
00:43:07It's a rainy evening.
00:43:08That's finished, Walter.
00:43:10I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:43:11We want to get married.
00:43:12So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:43:13You have no right to say that.
00:43:15You have absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:43:18Spass.
00:43:19But I'm not going to turn you loose so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:43:22Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:43:24So long as I'm married, no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:43:27But, Walter.
00:43:29Don't worry.
00:43:30Go into the bedroom.
00:43:32I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:43:43Well, well.
00:43:44Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:43:45Did you listen?
00:43:46I heard a little.
00:43:47Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy.
00:43:50But he was holding out for more money.
00:43:52And then?
00:43:53Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:43:55I don't know what happened.
00:43:56Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:43:58I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:44:01Then a door slammed.
00:44:03Yes?
00:44:05I waited a few minutes.
00:44:06Then I went in.
00:44:10Walter had just taken a drink.
00:44:11He took a step toward me.
00:44:14I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:44:16The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:44:19Then he fell into a chair.
00:44:20When I got to him, he was dead.
00:44:23I was terrified.
00:44:24I rushed out of the place.
00:44:26Why didn't you call the police?
00:44:28I was afraid to.
00:44:33Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:44:34No.
00:44:38Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:44:41I'm sure it wasn't.
00:44:43But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:44:46Then who shot Bard?
00:44:47I shot Bard.
00:44:52I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:44:54I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:44:56I just pulled up with a curb opposite his apartment house.
00:44:59Door opened.
00:45:00And Nora came running out.
00:45:01She looked frightened.
00:45:03Before I could get around to calling after her,
00:45:04she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:45:06I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:45:10I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:45:12The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:45:17The latter was to find a man, the more he disappeared.
00:45:19The more he is Yukon and the more he is worth missing,
00:45:20was to find a man.
00:45:21The more he is, the more he is, the more he's worth missing,
00:45:22the more he is, the more he is.
00:45:23Shhh.
00:45:44The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora
00:45:46to killing him took hold of me.
00:45:49That would be murder.
00:45:53It looked like poison to me.
00:45:56All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:45:59There was only one thing to do, get the body out of the place.
00:46:03I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:46:04Someone was coming up.
00:46:08I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:46:11I'd have to carry him down.
00:46:13He was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:46:18No one saw me.
00:46:19No one saw me.
00:46:33Let's go.
00:47:03Then I saw the gun.
00:47:12If I could fake a suicide, Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:47:17It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:47:20I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:47:24It occurred to me then if Barb's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house, Nora's danger would be still less.
00:47:31I released the brake.
00:47:33It started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house.
00:47:42And that's our story.
00:47:43Nora's and mine.
00:47:46Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bart's story?
00:47:49Yes, I do.
00:47:51And you believe his?
00:47:52Of course I do.
00:47:53You really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:47:58Partly.
00:47:58We had to speak for John and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:48:02I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:48:04Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:48:05You can wait in the outer office.
00:48:07I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:48:17See the lieutenant, he says.
00:48:19A dollar six bits.
00:48:21That's stiff dino in me.
00:48:22And he tells me to see the lieutenant.
00:48:25Listen, listen, I will see the lieutenant and the chief and the mayor and the governor if I have to.
00:48:33I'll have me dollar six bits if I have to see the president himself.
00:48:38Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:48:40You're right.
00:48:42I don't blame you a bit.
00:48:45Okay, Malloy.
00:48:47Birdseed.
00:48:48What have you got?
00:48:49Birdseed.
00:49:19Smoke?
00:49:24No, thanks.
00:49:27We've turned up some new evidence.
00:49:29Does it help me?
00:49:31No.
00:49:33Oh.
00:49:35What is it?
00:49:37Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:49:39He was poisoned.
00:49:40Really?
00:49:41Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey decanter.
00:49:45Oh, wait a minute.
00:49:47You don't think I put the poison in his decanter.
00:49:51Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:49:53Well, I didn't want it.
00:49:55How do you think that'll sound in court?
00:50:00Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:50:04Are you going to book me?
00:50:05If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:50:11I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:50:14I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:50:17You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am guilty,
00:50:21or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:50:23If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it
00:50:26because you really believe I killed Walter Bard,
00:50:28or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:50:33That's one of the things I'm trying to get straight in my mind.
00:50:37If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat,
00:50:40and another reason,
00:50:41it would have been easy.
00:50:43I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:50:45What other reason?
00:50:46It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else.
00:50:52In my kind of job,
00:50:53your reasons have got to make sense.
00:50:56I suppose so.
00:50:59And that means?
00:51:01I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:51:16Right.
00:51:18I'll have to book you then.
00:51:19And there's Michael David Miles.
00:51:20Here we go.
00:51:44Good morning.
00:51:44yes sir say is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building in the building
00:52:01she's practically in my lap but don't worry lieutenant i'll get rid of her don't get rid
00:52:06of her i want to see her send her in then see if you can locate oppenheimer okay lieutenant
00:52:11all right flossy the lieutenant will see you now maybe now i'll get me dollar six bits sit down
00:52:19darling none of that all i want is the money that stiff owes me you mean bard he must have died with
00:52:26some assets in his pants lieutenant don't worry about that you'll get your dollar six bits tell
00:52:31me did you sell this to bard sure i did when six o'clock this evening just as he was coming out
00:52:37to simmy's bail bond office didn't he pay you for it he did not he never pays you you've always got
00:52:44to chase him up to the present moment that slicker owes me a dollar six bits did you see him after
00:52:50that i went to his apartment to collect but i didn't see him he must have been out to dinner so i stuck
00:52:55around did you see anyone else when you were up there nobody but doc yeager do i get my money or
00:53:00don't i yeager he was up there bard was out to the both of us what time was this oh i don't know
00:53:08half past eight maybe i knocked on board's door and he didn't answer so i stuck around in the corridor
00:53:14it was raining out and i was wet to me pelt then doc yeager came did yeager see you no he never seen
00:53:19me but he was there you ask him tell me about yeager what happened i was drying myself with the radiator
00:53:26on the stairway land i was down half a flight so he didn't see me never seen a man so scared the way
00:53:39he kept looking around he could hardly find the keyhole his hand was shaking so
00:53:56i don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fitted
00:54:00he shut the door behind him so quiet i could hardly hear it he couldn't have been in there more
00:54:15than a minute and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow
00:54:19he never seen me but he was there you ask him
00:54:35doc come into my office again will you okay and now do i get my financial reimbursement
00:54:41there you are you can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady
00:54:47just a minute i want you to wait in here
00:55:04come in doc
00:55:08you don't look well doc sit down oh i'm all right tired that's all
00:55:13too much night work i guess i'm not as young as i was
00:55:18what's up sam bar's death is a lucky break for you isn't it doc i don't get you this malpractice
00:55:25case the grand jury's got on you bar did some investigating for the medical association didn't
00:55:29he oh he's got nothing on me i wonder what happened to the evidence he dug out it isn't in either his
00:55:35apartment or his office because there never was any i heard different funny how it disappeared isn't it doc
00:55:42oh you're not insinuating that i that you got a hold of it yes i am doc boy that's ridiculous
00:55:49i haven't been out of the building since the body was found maybe you were out before it was found
00:55:55i was not you weren't in bard's apartment early this evening certainly not along about 8 30
00:56:01no suppose i told you you were seen going into bard's apartment with one of your keys
00:56:05you stayed there a few minutes then left locking the door after you whoever said that's a liar
00:56:10who's calling me a liar it's yourself that's the liar i seen you a sneaking into the poor murdered
00:56:17boy's apartment and sneaking out again with the mark of can all over your face and that's how the
00:56:22poison got in bard's whiskey
00:56:34the
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00:57:00Let's go!
00:57:22There it is! Savage!
00:57:25Where are they?
00:57:30There it is!
00:57:38Take him away!
00:57:39Ah, come on!
00:57:40Thanks! Who are you?
00:57:41I'm Zachary!
00:57:42Hey, that's the guy broke jail!
00:57:43Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom!
00:57:45I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back!
00:57:48You got back just in time!
00:57:50Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:57:52Not exactly, you're still under arrest!
00:57:54Well, if that ain't gratitude!
00:57:56Don't worry, Zachary, I'll be in your corner when your case comes up!
00:57:58Thanks, pal!
00:58:00You can count on both of us!
00:58:02I think Jager's confession will be sufficient!
00:58:04Much obliged, Lieutenant!
00:58:06There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton!
00:58:08But I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans!
00:58:11You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant!
00:58:13Fine!
00:58:14I'll be there!
00:58:15To kiss the bride!
00:58:16Good luck to both of you!
00:58:17Thank you!
00:58:18Thank you!
00:58:23Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:58:26Oh, nobody loves a copper!
00:58:28Why don't you ask her?
00:58:29Ask her?
00:58:30Ask who?
00:58:31What?
00:58:32Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you, she ought to be pretty hungry by now!
00:58:37You're nuts!
00:58:38It's been done!
00:58:39After the going-over I gave her?
00:58:41I still say it's been done!
00:58:43Maybe you've got something there!
00:58:44You're free to go now!
00:58:45We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager!
00:58:46Oh!
00:58:47I'm glad you didn't touch that drink!
00:58:48So am I!
00:58:49I just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert and informing him that his stooge murdered
00:58:52Walter Bard, which of course ruins his front page on Janet Bradley!
00:58:53And that's about all!
00:58:54Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard, between ourselves, of course!
00:58:55I feel I can tell you now!
00:58:56I didn't trust you before, you didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do!
00:58:59Thanks!
00:59:00I'm glad you didn't touch that drink!
00:59:01I'm glad you didn't touch that drink!
00:59:02So am I!
00:59:03I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert and informing him that his stooge murdered
00:59:06Walter Bard, which of course ruins his front page on Janet Bradley!
00:59:10And that's about all!
00:59:12Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard, between ourselves, of course!
00:59:17I feel I can tell you now!
00:59:19I didn't trust you before, you didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do!
00:59:24Thanks!
00:59:25It's quite a story!
00:59:27Suppose I tell you about it some evening, soon!
00:59:30Suppose you do!
00:59:33Thank you!
00:59:36Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones!
00:59:39He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet, the case might never have been solved!
00:59:44Hey fellas!
00:59:45Look at this!
00:59:46I'll call you back!
00:59:54Come on...
00:59:56Let's go!
00:59:57Well, soon you got there!
01:00:06You're welcome!
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