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00:00:00THE END
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00:01:29Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:01:31I'll make sure those negatives are in here, too.
00:01:45The Herald stands pretty well on the police run, Johnny,
00:01:47so I don't think you'll have much difficulty contacting the various departments.
00:01:50These cops are good guys, but they got belly aches like you and me,
00:01:53so name them and give them a break whenever you can.
00:01:55They pay cops off with peanuts the way they do newspaper men.
00:01:58No! I want you to get it off without breaking it.
00:02:01Your wife can't steal your car. That's community property.
00:02:04Yeah, I know, Chief, but she done took it out of the community.
00:02:10Come on, Johnny. I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:02:12It's a good egg.
00:02:14What do you like to do? Dance? Harry James?
00:02:18Sure.
00:02:19Yes, sir.
00:02:20Why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:02:22Fix yourself some donuts and coffee and stuff.
00:02:25Hanging out in a joint like the one Carrie pulled you out of will buy you nothing but trouble.
00:02:30Carrie, see if these two girls get home, will you?
00:02:32Yes, sir.
00:02:35Hiya, Sam.
00:02:36Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:02:37Hi.
00:02:38Meet Johnny Williams, the Herald's gift to the police department.
00:02:40This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:02:42Hi, young fella.
00:02:43It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:02:44You love him when you get to know him better.
00:02:46Johnny's fixing to clean up the department. I thought you ought to look him over.
00:02:49Oh, cut it out.
00:02:50The Herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:02:51That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:02:53The Herald has ideals. Only the truth is fit to print.
00:02:56I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:58Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:02:59It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:03:01Yeah.
00:03:02Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:03:04You won't.
00:03:05Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:03:07Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:03:11Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:12Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:14Come on, Johnny. Meet the rest of the game.
00:03:15Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:16Bye.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:18That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:21Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:24I'll go down to the Dutchman's for an egg sandwich.
00:03:26I'll go along with you.
00:03:48Come on, Jimmy.
00:03:49You take all day. Come on, will you?
00:03:50Whatever.
00:03:51You take all day. Come on, will you?
00:03:52Don't hurry.
00:03:53Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:03:54This is what you tell me about.
00:03:55I have no city news, Burris Arjun.
00:03:56Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:03:57What is this, a gag?
00:03:58What is this, a gag?
00:03:59Oh, no.
00:04:00Oh, no.
00:04:01Oh, no.
00:04:02Oh, no.
00:04:03Oh, no.
00:04:04Oh, no.
00:04:05Oh, no.
00:04:06Oh, no.
00:04:07Oh, no.
00:04:08Oh, no.
00:04:09Oh, no.
00:04:10Oh, no.
00:04:11Oh, no.
00:04:12Oh, no.
00:04:13Oh, no.
00:04:14Oh, no.
00:04:15Oh, no.
00:04:16Oh, no.
00:04:17Oh, no.
00:04:18Oh, no.
00:04:20Oh, no.
00:04:27It's Walter Barred.
00:04:28He runs a private detective agency in the Equitable building.
00:04:31They picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:33Looks like somebody's trying to give the department the business.
00:04:35Get going up, Herbert.
00:04:36Yeah.
00:04:37It's Mr. Bard.
00:04:39Do you know anything about this?
00:04:41Not me.
00:04:43Not me.
00:04:45I just sell him flowers.
00:04:49Take this into the desk.
00:04:51Right.
00:04:53I just sell him flowers.
00:05:01Take this into the desk.
00:05:03Right.
00:05:05Right.
00:05:07Hey, Sam.
00:05:09What have you got?
00:05:11What do you think?
00:05:13Hey, Sam Carson's first gonna step on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:05:15That's the name of the game, gin.
00:05:17Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:21Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can,
00:05:23then have the car gone over for fingerprints.
00:05:25Hey, Sam, who's the...
00:05:26Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:27Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:29I couldn't get any closer.
00:05:30Boy, there's gonna be a stink about this.
00:05:32He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:34He's a big step on everything.
00:05:35He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:38What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:40I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:46Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:47Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:49Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:05:52right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:53Evidently a definite slap at the prison administration.
00:05:56You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:05:59Yeah.
00:06:00Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:04Huh?
00:06:05Sure, play it up big.
00:06:06Lay it on thick.
00:06:07Everybody's gonna be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:10and the Express is its only friend.
00:06:12Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:16Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:06:19Yes, sir.
00:06:20See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:22Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:24Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:25Okay, Lieutenant.
00:06:26Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the equitable building.
00:06:29Go through his desk and files.
00:06:31Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:32Yes.
00:06:33Well, Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:35Bard used to hang out at Tony's on Second Street quite a lot.
00:06:37Good idea.
00:06:38Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:42Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs to.
00:06:44Right, sir.
00:06:46Yes?
00:06:47Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, Lieutenant.
00:06:49She's probably sleeping.
00:06:50Keep on trying.
00:06:51Okay.
00:06:58Hey, Dan.
00:06:59Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:01He covers police for The Sun.
00:07:03Also has the policy corner on the side.
00:07:05Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:06Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:08I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this scene.
00:07:11When are you going to get rid of that moth-eaten trophy you got on?
00:07:14Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:19Not an Indian fighter.
00:07:20Nothing would persuade me to park with it, except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:24Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:26Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:28On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:32Come in.
00:07:40Come in, Doc.
00:07:41Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:42The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:45Have you boys found it yet?
00:07:46In the front seat up Hole Street.
00:07:47Discharge from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:49Mm-hmm.
00:07:50His own.
00:07:51There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:07:53Could have been suicide.
00:07:54Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:55The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:57The body was driven there in Bard's car and left there.
00:07:59Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:08:01Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:08:04Could be.
00:08:07Holy mackerel.
00:08:13That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:15Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:18The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reform candidate for mayor.
00:08:21Boy, what the Express will do with this.
00:08:24Send Brewer in.
00:08:26Must be some other Bradley.
00:08:27Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:08:29Why?
00:08:30The famous Calvert luck, my boy.
00:08:32Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:08:36Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:38Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:40We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:41Okay.
00:08:42Handle her carefully.
00:08:43All we want is a cooperation.
00:08:45Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:46Yes?
00:08:48Mrs. Byers still doesn't answer.
00:08:50Keep trying.
00:08:51Express?
00:08:52I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:53Very important.
00:08:54It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:08:55Hello?
00:08:56Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:08:57Oh, hello, Doc.
00:08:58What's on your mind?
00:08:59Well, a bard.
00:09:00Sure I know him.
00:09:01Well, who shot him?
00:09:02I don't know.
00:09:03But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:09:05That's right.
00:09:06The police station.
00:09:07And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:08There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley
00:09:09this evening.
00:09:10Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:11Are you sure?
00:09:12Oh, no.
00:09:13No.
00:09:14No.
00:09:15No.
00:09:16No.
00:09:17No.
00:09:18No.
00:09:19No.
00:09:20No.
00:09:21No.
00:09:22No.
00:09:23No.
00:09:24No.
00:09:25No.
00:09:26No.
00:09:27No.
00:09:28No.
00:09:29No.
00:09:30No.
00:09:34This is beautiful.
00:09:37Look, Doc.
00:09:38You stay there.
00:09:39Keep your eyes open.
00:09:39I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:40Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:42You can count on me.
00:09:43Goodbye.
00:10:00This is Ms. Bradley, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:05How do you do?
00:10:06Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Mr. Bradley.
00:10:09Sit down, please.
00:10:15What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:17You knew him?
00:10:19Knew him?
00:10:21He was murdered this evening.
00:10:25In his own car, shot.
00:10:27I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:30You did know him?
00:10:32Yes, I knew him.
00:10:34Seen him recently?
00:10:36This evening.
00:10:38I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:40Were you a friend of his, Ms. Bradley?
00:10:42No.
00:10:44Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:46I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:49Private?
00:10:54That's not so good.
00:10:56Is your father still in Washington?
00:11:00Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:03This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Ms. Bradley.
00:11:07A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:12Maybe.
00:11:14Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:16Is that necessary?
00:11:17Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course if you'd rather not.
00:11:20Very well.
00:11:24This way, please.
00:11:25Now, the right hand.
00:11:32That's fine.
00:11:33You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:36Oh, thank you.
00:11:37My, uh, photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:40Sitting's by appointment only.
00:11:42That's all there is to it.
00:11:43I'll be classified, huh?
00:11:44It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:57You don't mind waiting.
00:11:58Of course not.
00:11:59Right in there.
00:12:00You're being swell about this.
00:12:11Yes?
00:12:12Max Carver to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:13Send him in.
00:12:14Thanks, Sam.
00:12:16I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:19I figured you'd be around.
00:12:21Well, I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:12:23Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:25The administration, too.
00:12:26The administration's your problem.
00:12:27Oh, no.
00:12:28That's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:29Don't forget.
00:12:30We got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:31I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:32I know, but a politician sometimes could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:37I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:40So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:41Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:43She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:44I'm not making any statements, and when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:12:51Well, you're not letting a pretty face effect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:12:53I'm not letting that tableau de yours free that girl's reputation so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:12:57Well, the public has the right to know the facts. Express prints them.
00:12:59Yes.
00:13:00So you could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:13:02I don't understand you've got the Bradley girl down here.
00:13:03I don't understand you've got the Bradley girl down here.
00:13:05So you're not making all about that, huh?
00:13:07Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:13:08Fax Express Princeton.
00:13:10Yeah, anything for a nickel.
00:13:15Look, Sam, how long have you had this job?
00:13:18Long enough.
00:13:20When you first came into this department,
00:13:22I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:13:25Now, I own it.
00:13:27While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:30Now, Mike was your type of copier.
00:13:32He never played ball.
00:13:33So what did it get him?
00:13:35A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:37Ah, you ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:43Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:47No.
00:13:48Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:50How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:53I'd like it.
00:13:54You know that, Calvert.
00:13:55Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked,
00:14:00it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:05There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:14:08Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:11Not suspicion or material witness, anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election.
00:14:16Then let her go.
00:14:17She'd be all right.
00:14:19Do that and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:22Oh, Sam, now don't look at it that way.
00:14:25Why, a week after the election,
00:14:27the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:28Don't forget, Sam, it always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:39Great guy, wasn't there any time.
00:15:02He sure was.
00:15:03I guess he was just about the greatest cop this city ever had.
00:15:05Yeah, wanted to get him.
00:15:07Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:15:09See you with him.
00:15:14What did you find in Bard's apartment?
00:15:16Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:15:19Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:22Prints on the gun,
00:15:23on one of the glasses,
00:15:25and Miss Bradley's fingerprints, all check.
00:15:31Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:33Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:43Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:51All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:55Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:59Oh, yes, he poured a drink for me,
00:16:01but I set it down without tasting it.
00:16:03We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:16:09All right.
00:16:10I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:12I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me.
00:16:23Someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:26He made a business of buying and selling information about people,
00:16:30especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:34Problem people.
00:16:35He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it,
00:16:41but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:16:55Won't you sit down?
00:17:03I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:25Well, I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:17:37How much have you raised?
00:17:38$10,000.
00:17:40And I said $20,000.
00:17:42Well, that settles up.
00:17:44Oh, please.
00:17:45Won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:46Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:48You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:51Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:53Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:17:56Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:59And I've got a cash customer who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:18:04I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:18:07Oh, completely.
00:18:08You see, I haven't any.
00:18:09Not since I put on long pants.
00:18:11And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:14I can believe that.
00:18:15But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:18Take it.
00:18:20You look shaky.
00:18:22Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:37You'll find them all there.
00:18:39Don't be.
00:18:40I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:47Stay where you are.
00:18:48He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:55Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe that chisel will let you take those papers away from him?
00:19:00But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:03What happened to the gun?
00:19:04I threw it in his car when I left.
00:19:06What'd you do with the envelope?
00:19:07Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:09What was in it?
00:19:09I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:12It must have been hard if Bart wanted that kind of dough for him.
00:19:15Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:17What was it about?
00:19:18Your father?
00:19:19It's no use asking me.
00:19:21What was in it?
00:19:22Dirt bar that dug up?
00:19:24Something Calvert could use?
00:19:27Let me help you.
00:19:28You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:30He said he'd take you home.
00:19:30It was raining.
00:19:31You go down to his car.
00:19:33He makes a pass at you.
00:19:34You grab his gun, let him have it, and scram with the envelope.
00:19:36The brakes in the car come loose, and the car starts rolling.
00:19:39Lieutenant, you...
00:19:40You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bart.
00:19:46Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:48You have motive, plenty of it.
00:19:50What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:53I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:57What are you going to do with me?
00:20:00I ought to book you.
00:20:02You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:06I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:12I've learned a great deal about the police department from father.
00:20:15Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:19Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:21I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:23I'm glad.
00:20:25I've always liked policemen.
00:20:29I should book you.
00:20:31Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:32If you don't mind waiting a little longer.
00:20:34Well, something may turn up.
00:20:39You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:41Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:45In here, please.
00:20:45Do you guys mind if I want a hand?
00:20:57Nope.
00:20:58I'll leave this character over.
00:21:00Hello, Doc.
00:21:01Anything new on the board, Kelly?
00:21:03Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:05Now, we know all about that.
00:21:07Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:11No.
00:21:12That's right.
00:21:13Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:14She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:17Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:20Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:22That's nice of you.
00:21:23But I'm still running the night shift around here, and I'll give out the information.
00:21:27The express already has it.
00:21:28I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:29So you boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:31Miss Bradley is involved.
00:21:33To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:34She was in Bard's apartment this evening, but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:38Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:39I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.
00:21:42Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:43That was Costno's son.
00:21:44I'll get in, Mr. Jones.
00:21:45Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:47Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:21:50Oh, yes, Mr. Jones.
00:21:51I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:53I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:55Janet Bradley, daughter of the maritalty candidate, is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:22:00Yes.
00:22:00And you leave those two tickets for the Philharmonica.
00:22:03You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:05We won't forget.
00:22:06Dr. G. F. Yeager.
00:22:13Now, which one of you has taken my scissors?
00:22:16I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:21If you mooches insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors, I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:30Well, it's about time.
00:22:33Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:35I didn't know you were here.
00:22:36I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:37Long enough.
00:22:38Where have you been?
00:22:39Oh, all over.
00:22:40It's been a very busy night.
00:22:41Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:43Not yet.
00:22:44He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:45I don't trust Carson.
00:22:46He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:49Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:52I want her charged with murder, and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in town.
00:22:56Sooner the better.
00:22:57Oh, thank you.
00:22:59I'll save this one later.
00:23:00I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage any local paper's had in years.
00:23:05I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:08Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:10Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:12Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:14I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:17Every appearance at court.
00:23:19I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:21How she looks.
00:23:23With the inference that she's frightened, that she's hiding something that her back's against the wall.
00:23:28Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert, is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:34What did you say?
00:23:36He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:38Who did it?
00:23:38I don't know.
00:23:39You cut him open?
00:23:41I didn't have to.
00:23:42I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:45Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:46Not yet.
00:23:47Well, don't.
00:23:49The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body, he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:23:54And he'll know what that means.
00:23:56Then we've got to get rid of the body.
00:23:57Get it out of here fast, tonight.
00:23:59Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:01You can and you're going to.
00:24:03But, Mr. Calvert, 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.
00:24:10Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:13One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:16Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:19All right.
00:24:19Now, you go down to the morgue and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:23Then make out commitment papers for John Doe.
00:24:26Cremation.
00:24:27And ship it out tonight.
00:24:28But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:24:30If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:33If he squawks, you send him to me, you understand?
00:24:36Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:38Your best is to get that body out of here fast.
00:24:45Yes?
00:24:54Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:25:01Hello?
00:25:02Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:05Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:07You've been ringing for some time, haven't you?
00:25:08I'm sorry.
00:25:10I was sound asleep.
00:25:12I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:16But that is impossible.
00:25:18He wasn't at...
00:25:18I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:22But we don't know yet.
00:25:24I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:26I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:30Of course, but...
00:25:31But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:34We haven't been living together.
00:25:35Yes.
00:25:40As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:57Yes?
00:25:59Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:26:01It's Walter.
00:26:02Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:04You're aware?
00:26:05No, Arthur.
00:26:07No.
00:26:08They've asked me to come down to the station now.
00:26:12Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:16I'll go with you.
00:26:18Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:21Don't worry, darling.
00:26:22Everything will be all right.
00:26:24Yes.
00:26:25Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:27In about 20 minutes.
00:26:29It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:31It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:35Oh, here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stuff.
00:26:39Any calls?
00:26:39No, sir.
00:26:41One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:42The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:45Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:46Oh, send her in.
00:26:47Will you come in, please?
00:26:50Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:52I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:53This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:56Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:58I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:27:00So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:02Sit down, please.
00:27:07You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:10Well, Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:12We found his car parked in front of this building, his body in it.
00:27:15But that's fantastic.
00:27:16Who did it?
00:27:17Well, we're not prepared to say it yet.
00:27:20Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:24Not for over a year.
00:27:25Have you seen him recently?
00:27:27I saw him at a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:30I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:32We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:35Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:36Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:38We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:40Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:42No.
00:27:42The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:44Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:49Repeatedly.
00:27:49He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:52Nora.
00:27:52I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:27:53He was mean and cruel.
00:27:54He liked to hurt people.
00:27:56He did it deliberately.
00:27:57I studied for two years.
00:28:00Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:28:02Yes, I know.
00:28:05Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:08Yes.
00:28:09I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:12You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening.
00:28:15Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:28:18I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:28:22I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:26Were you?
00:28:28No.
00:28:30I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:28:34Naturally.
00:28:35Uh, Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:37Yeah, sure.
00:28:38This way, please.
00:28:39Listen, pal.
00:28:43I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:45Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:47Name?
00:28:48I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:50Never heard of you.
00:28:51What's your address?
00:28:53You can't book me, copper.
00:28:54I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:56The annual smoker, see?
00:28:58I go on at one o'clock.
00:29:00What's your address?
00:29:02But what about the Elks?
00:29:03You ain't going to let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:06I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:08The address, Zachary.
00:29:09You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:11It's my professional reputation.
00:29:13This is at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:14Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:16You'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:18But I gotta go on at one a.m.
00:29:20I'll come back.
00:29:21Honest, I will.
00:29:22Take him away.
00:29:23But...
00:29:24I'll come back.
00:29:54I'll come back.
00:30:24I vote for Louis.
00:30:31He has the best beard.
00:30:32What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:33The blonde behind the counter.
00:30:54The blonde behind the counter.
00:31:04I'll come back.
00:31:05The blonde behind the counter.
00:31:06THE END
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00:34:57to do, pull your rabbits out of my hat.
00:34:59The doors must have fallen open.
00:35:01Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:35:04I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:35:06Well, find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:35:21Holy smoke!
00:35:22Hello. Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:29Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:32I'll call you right back.
00:35:34You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:36What's your name?
00:35:37Williams, the Herald, and I'm pretty busy.
00:35:39Sure you're busy.
00:35:41You bricklayers is always busy,
00:35:43unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:35:46And then it's Flossie, my darling.
00:35:49Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:50And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:35:52But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:35:55Look, Flossie, I gotta phone my paper.
00:35:57There's been a murder.
00:35:58Sure there's been a murder.
00:35:59Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:36:03And owing me a dollar six bits.
00:36:05Seven of them he died owing me for.
00:36:07Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:36:09But you'll get your money back.
00:36:10And when I ask the cops for me, dude,
00:36:12what do I get?
00:36:14Bird seeds.
00:36:15I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:16You go down to the desk.
00:36:18When all I want is me dollar six bits
00:36:20out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:23I've been to the desk.
00:36:24And what do I get?
00:36:26Bird seed, sure.
00:36:27But this time you tell a lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:29Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:30Tell him to give you your dollar six bits
00:36:31and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:32Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:38Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:40Wait.
00:36:42Bird seed.
00:36:43I got a lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:36:50An exclusive.
00:36:52Yeah.
00:36:53In the press room clothes closet.
00:36:55Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:58I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:03Now, where are my scissors?
00:37:05I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:07Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:14Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:18I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:21I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:25This time, I'll nail them down.
00:37:37Milk!
00:37:39How many, you guys?
00:37:40That's Mr. Ruszynski.
00:37:41Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:43Yeah.
00:37:48Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:53Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:54Yeah, he's here.
00:37:56Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat.
00:37:58I'll be right up.
00:38:00Hey, no dice.
00:38:01He doesn't want to sell.
00:38:02I never heard of such impertinence.
00:38:04As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:38:08Look, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:38:10You can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:11I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:38:14Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather
00:38:16and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:17It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:18I am dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:20Why, that overcoat's made history.
00:38:22It's practically a national monument.
00:38:24You can't have a big lug like Brzezinski delivering milk in it.
00:38:27Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:29Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:31They'd pay real dough for it.
00:38:33The Smithsonian?
00:38:34Uh-huh.
00:38:35But do you really think?
00:38:37No, Williams.
00:38:39No, my mind is made up.
00:38:44Oh!
00:38:44Oh!
00:38:45Oh!
00:38:46Get out of here!
00:38:47Get out of here!
00:38:48Get out of here!
00:38:49Get out of here!
00:38:51Get out of here!
00:38:52Give me Mr. Jones, quick!
00:38:57Sure, Mr. Jones.
00:38:59That's what I said.
00:39:00Walter Bard's body in the press room clothes closet.
00:39:02Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:39:03I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk.
00:39:06It's true.
00:39:07There's a guy in there, I tell you.
00:39:08Listen to him holler his head off!
00:39:10Yeah, and I'm the only one that knows except Wintergreen,
00:39:12and I got him spiked.
00:39:14Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:16Get out!
00:39:18Oh, my God.
00:39:23Oh, my.
00:39:24Oh, my.
00:39:24Oh, my God.
00:39:27Yes?
00:39:28Mr. Haggerty, city editor of the Herald, lieutenant.
00:39:30All right.
00:39:32Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:36What did you say?
00:39:38In the press room?
00:39:39Here?
00:39:41What?
00:39:41As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:39:45I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:39:49One of those toss-pot reporters phoned Haggerty and said that Bard's body is hanging in the
00:39:53press room clothes closet.
00:39:57Say,
00:39:58you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Yeager lost?
00:40:01There's only one way to find out.
00:40:03That's what I said,
00:40:09you dope all wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:40:12My overcoat, please.
00:40:13Credit where credit is due.
00:40:14Hey, look, you guys.
00:40:15A perfect fit.
00:40:16Hey, what goes on?
00:40:17I found Bard.
00:40:18All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:21Now, Herald's printing it.
00:40:22So relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:24Don't you think this is messed up for your lady?
00:40:26Give me a rewrite, sweetheart.
00:40:28Hurry up.
00:40:28Haggerty was right.
00:40:29It is Bard.
00:40:32Thanks.
00:40:33This guy didn't bleed much.
00:40:35Haggerty was right.
00:40:35Haggerty was right.
00:40:35Did he say anything about that?
00:40:36Not to me.
00:40:38I haven't taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:40Get the iron out, Lieutenant.
00:40:43Mr. Jones again.
00:40:44Okay, you'll get it.
00:40:45Just a moment, Mr. Jones.
00:40:47Lieutenant Carson's example of the body now.
00:40:49Yeah.
00:40:5230 years, Lieutenant.
00:40:53I've been putting him on ice.
00:40:54Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:40:56Where was he?
00:40:57In here.
00:40:58Pull it out.
00:40:59That's the John Doe we fished out of the bay.
00:41:08The one Doc Yager committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:10How'd it get in there?
00:41:11I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:12I put him on number seven myself.
00:41:14There's been a switch.
00:41:15Here's Doc Yager now.
00:41:15What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:17It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost.
00:41:20Only it wasn't John Doe.
00:41:21It was Walter Bard.
00:41:23John Doe was here in Bard's place.
00:41:25Boy, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:26A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:28You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:30Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:32Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:34That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:36Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:38O'Malley, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:40Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:41And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner's through with him.
00:41:45Yes, sir.
00:41:54Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:57Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:58This is Ames of the Express.
00:42:00The Express?
00:42:03Oh, I haven't the slightest idea of what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:42:07Shh.
00:42:07In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:14You're welcome.
00:42:15What was it, Harlan?
00:42:16A report on Express.
00:42:18The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:26Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:42:30No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:31If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:34There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:35It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:37In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:39We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:42At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:46I'm not sure of him.
00:42:49Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:51Yes, I do.
00:42:52And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:54I'm not sure of her.
00:42:56Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:59We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:02You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:05We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:07Darling.
00:43:14Hello.
00:43:16Yes.
00:43:17I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:19Sure, I know I got Jaeger.
00:43:22I want someone else.
00:43:24Uh, Bard.
00:43:25For a very particular reason.
00:43:27Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:30As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:35I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:41We've come to make certain orations in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:45What's happening?
00:43:45We told you we weren't at Bard's apartment this evening.
00:43:50Well, we were.
00:43:51Nora was there when Bard died.
00:43:53I was there later.
00:43:55Go on.
00:43:56I didn't tell Arthur I was going,
00:43:59but I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:44:04There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:06Take off your fingers and stay a while.
00:44:08Have a drink?
00:44:10It's a rainy evening.
00:44:11That's finished, Walter.
00:44:12I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:14We want to get married.
00:44:15So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:17You've no right to say that.
00:44:18You've absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:21Perhaps.
00:44:22But I'm not going to turn you loose
00:44:23so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:25Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:27So long as I'm married,
00:44:28no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:30But, Walter, I...
00:44:31Shh, shh, shh.
00:44:32Don't worry.
00:44:33Go into the bedroom.
00:44:35I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:37Well, well.
00:44:47Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:48Did you listen?
00:44:49I heard a little.
00:44:51Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy,
00:44:53but he was holding out for more money.
00:44:55And then?
00:44:56Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:58I don't know what happened.
00:44:59Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:45:02I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:45:05Then a door slammed.
00:45:06Yes?
00:45:08I waited a few minutes, then I went in.
00:45:12Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:14He took a step toward me.
00:45:17I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:19The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:45:23Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:24When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:26I was terrified.
00:45:27I rushed out of the place.
00:45:29Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:30I was afraid to.
00:45:35Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:37No.
00:45:40Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:45:44I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:45But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:45:48Then who shot Bard?
00:45:50I shot Bard.
00:45:54I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:57I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:45:59I just pulled up with a curb opposite his apartment house.
00:46:02Door opened and Nora came running out.
00:46:05She looked frightened.
00:46:06Before I could get around to calling after her, she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:46:09I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:46:13I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:15The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:18Very good at that.
00:46:19The man Stephan, now I know about how to defend her, they've helped me out.
00:46:23Hello?
00:46:25Shh.
00:46:26Pshh!
00:46:47The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:51That would be murder.
00:46:56It looked like poison to me.
00:46:59All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:47:02There was only one thing to do, get the body out of the place.
00:47:05I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:08Someone was coming up.
00:47:09I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:10I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:11He was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:47:13No one saw me.
00:47:14No one saw me.
00:47:15No one saw me.
00:47:16Someone was coming up.
00:47:26I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:29I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:31He was taking a big chance, but it was late, and luck was with me.
00:47:35No one saw me.
00:47:46Then I saw the gun.
00:48:14If I could fake a suicide, Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:20It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:22I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:26It occurred to me then, if Barb's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house,
00:48:31Nora's danger would be still less.
00:48:34I released the brake.
00:48:38I started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house.
00:48:44And that's our story.
00:48:46Nora's and mine.
00:48:49Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Barth's story?
00:48:52Yes, I do.
00:48:53And you believe his?
00:48:54Of course I do.
00:48:56You really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:49:00Partly.
00:49:01We had to speak for Johnny and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:49:05I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:07Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:49:08Well, you can wait in the outer office.
00:49:15I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:20See the lieutenant, he says.
00:49:22A dollar six bits.
00:49:23That stiff died owing me, and he tells me to see the lieutenant.
00:49:28Listen.
00:49:29I will see the lieutenant, and the chief, and the mayor, and the governor if I have to.
00:49:36I'll have me dollar six bits if I have to see the president himself.
00:49:41Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:49:43You're right.
00:49:45I don't blame you a bit.
00:49:47Okay, Malloy.
00:49:49Bird seed.
00:49:51What have you got?
00:49:52I don't blame you a bit.
00:50:22Smoke?
00:50:27No, thanks.
00:50:29We've turned up some new evidence.
00:50:32Does it help me?
00:50:34No.
00:50:36Oh.
00:50:38What is it?
00:50:40Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:41He was poisoned.
00:50:43Really?
00:50:44Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey decanter.
00:50:48Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:49You don't think I put the poison in his decanter.
00:50:53Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:50:56Well, I didn't want it.
00:50:58How do you think that'll sound in court?
00:51:03Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:51:06Are you going to book me?
00:51:07If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:14I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:17I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:51:20You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am guilty,
00:51:23or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:25If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it because you really believe
00:51:30I killed Walter Bard, or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:51:36That's one of the things I'm trying to get straight in my mind.
00:51:39If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat.
00:51:42And another reason.
00:51:45It would have been easy.
00:51:46I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:51:48What other reason?
00:51:51It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else.
00:51:55In my kind of job, your reasons have got to make sense.
00:51:59I suppose so.
00:52:01And that means?
00:52:03I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:52:17Okay.
00:52:35Okay.
00:52:40Okay.
00:52:44Okay.
00:52:45What's that?
00:52:45yes sir say is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building in the building
00:53:04she's practically in my lap but don't worry lieutenant i'll get rid of her don't get rid
00:53:08of her i want to see her send her in then see if you can locate oppenheimer okay lieutenant
00:53:13all right flossy the lieutenant will see you now maybe now i'll get me dollar six bits sit down
00:53:22darling none of that all i want is the money that stiff owes me you mean bard he must have died with
00:53:29some assets in his pants lieutenant don't worry about that you'll get your dollar six bits tell
00:53:34me did you sell this to bard sure i did when six o'clock this evening just as he was coming out
00:53:40of simmy's bail bond office didn't he pay you for it he did not he never pays you you've always got
00:53:47to chase him up to the present moment that slicker owes me a dollar six bits did you see him after
00:53:53that i went to his apartment to collect but i didn't see him he must have been out to dinner
00:53:57so i stuck around did you see anyone else when you were up there nobody but doc yeager do i get my
00:54:03money or don't i yeager he was up there bard was out to the both of us what time was this oh i don't
00:54:10know half past eight maybe i knocked on bard's door and he didn't answer so i stuck around in the
00:54:16corridor it was raining out and i was wet to me pelt then doc yeager came did yeager see you no he
00:54:22never seen me but he was there you ask him oh tell me about yeager what happened i was drying myself
00:54:28with the radiator on the stairway landing i was down half a flight so he didn't see me
00:54:33never seen a man so scared the way he kept looking around
00:54:43he could hardly find the keyhole his hand was shaking so
00:54:57i don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fitted
00:55:03he shut the door behind him so quiet i could hardly hear it he couldn't have been in there more
00:55:18than a minute and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow
00:55:22he never seen me but he was there you ask him
00:55:33doc come into my office again will you okay and now do i get my financial reimbursement
00:55:43there you are you can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady
00:55:49just a minute i want you to wait in here
00:55:52come in doc
00:56:07you don't look well doc sit down oh i'm all right tired that's all
00:56:15too much night work i guess i'm not as young as i was
00:56:20what's up sam
00:56:22bard's death is a lucky break for you isn't it doc
00:56:25i don't get you this malpractice case the grand jury's got on you
00:56:29bard did some investigating for the medical association didn't he oh he's got nothing on me
00:56:33i wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up
00:56:36it isn't in either his apartment or his office because there never was any i heard different
00:56:42funny how it disappeared isn't it doc oh you're not insinuating that i that you got a hold of it
00:56:48yes i am doc
00:56:50boy that's ridiculous i haven't been out of the building since the body was found
00:56:54maybe you were out before it was found i was not
00:56:58you weren't in bard's apartment early this evening
00:57:00certainly not
00:57:01along about 8 30
00:57:03no
00:57:04suppose i told you you were seen going into bard's apartment with one of your keys
00:57:08you stayed there a few minutes then left locking the door after you
00:57:11whoever said that's a liar
00:57:12who's calling me a liar it's yourself that's the liar
00:57:16i seen you a sneaking into the poor murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again
00:57:21with the mark of can all over your face
00:57:23and that's how the poison got in bard's whiskey
00:57:27help help help help
00:57:30police police
00:57:32help
00:57:33police
00:57:34help
00:57:43i'm ahead
00:57:44i'm ahead
00:58:12Oh
00:58:14There it is!
00:58:24There it is!
00:58:40Take him away.
00:58:41Ah, come on.
00:58:42Thanks. Who are you?
00:58:43I'm Zachary.
00:58:44Hey, that's the guy who broke jail.
00:58:45Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:47I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:50You got back just in time.
00:58:52Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:54Not exactly. You're still under arrest.
00:58:56Well, if that ain't gratitude...
00:58:58Don't worry, Zachary. I'll be in your corner when your case comes up.
00:59:00Thanks, pal.
00:59:03You can count on both of us.
00:59:05I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:07Much obliged with terms.
00:59:09There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton,
00:59:11but I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans.
00:59:14You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:16Fine. I'll be there to kiss the bride.
00:59:20Good luck to both of you.
00:59:22Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:59:28Oh, nobody loves a copper.
00:59:30Why don't you ask her?
00:59:32Ask her?
00:59:33Ask who?
00:59:34What?
00:59:35Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you. She'll be pretty hungry by now.
00:59:39You're nuts.
00:59:40It's been done.
00:59:41After the going over I gave her?
00:59:43I still say it's been done.
00:59:49Maybe you got something there.
00:59:54You're free to go now.
00:59:56We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
00:59:58Oh.
00:59:59I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:01So am I.
01:00:02I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert
01:00:05and informing him that his stooge murdered Walter Bard.
01:00:08Which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:12And that's about all.
01:00:14Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard.
01:00:16Between ourselves, of course.
01:00:18I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:21I didn't trust you before.
01:00:23You didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do.
01:00:26Thanks.
01:00:27It's quite a story.
01:00:30Suppose I tell you about it some evening.
01:00:32Soon.
01:00:34Suppose you do.
01:00:39Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:42He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet,
01:00:44the case might never have been solved.
01:00:46Hey, fellas.
01:00:47Look at this.
01:00:49I'll call you back.
01:00:57On the phone.
01:00:58Open your phone.
01:00:59Come on, come on.
01:01:00Go.
01:01:01Come on, come on.
01:01:02Come on, come on.
01:01:03Let's go.
01:01:04Let's go.
01:01:05I'll come on.
01:01:06Come on.
01:01:07Let's go.
01:01:08In the room.
01:01:09Come on.
01:01:11Come on.
01:01:12Come on.
01:01:13Come on.
01:01:14Come on, Jim!
01:01:16Give us a thousand minutes of the night.
01:01:17Come on.
01:01:18Come on.
01:01:19Come on.
01:01:20THE END
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