Approved | 1h 10min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 22 July 1940 (USA)
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
Director: Robert F. McGowan
Writers: Jack Leonard, Monte Collins, Dorothy Davenport
Stars: Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, George Cleveland
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
Director: Robert F. McGowan
Writers: Jack Leonard, Monte Collins, Dorothy Davenport
Stars: Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, George Cleveland
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00:05:51In fact, there's a lot of things I want to tell you, Mr. Henshaw.
00:05:54A newspaper's supposed to stand for justice.
00:05:57Give the man on the street both sides of a question.
00:05:59But did you do that in the Blake case?
00:06:01No.
00:06:02Well, you wouldn't even print anything that'd help, Olaf.
00:06:04Well, if I had this newspaper, things would be different.
00:06:07Nobody could work for me, it was unfair.
00:06:09I'd fire you and I'd fire Hank, too.
00:06:11Yes, sir, I'd fire both of you.
00:06:13Just like that.
00:06:14And for...
00:06:17Oh.
00:06:18Hello.
00:06:20Oh, don't stop.
00:06:21You were going swell.
00:06:23Gee, you must think I'm crazy or something, Maya.
00:06:26Well, a fella has to let off steam every once in a while.
00:06:29Say, if I didn't once in a while, I'd pop.
00:06:32And after you do, why, everything's okay.
00:06:35Can I do anything for you?
00:06:37Well, thanks.
00:06:38I would like to wait for Mr. Henshaw.
00:06:40Oh, he'll be in court all day.
00:06:42Well, then I'd better run along.
00:06:44Well, maybe I can help you.
00:06:45After all, that's what I'm here for.
00:06:47Won't you come in and sit down?
00:06:52Oh, I'm sorry.
00:06:53Here, I'll take it for you.
00:06:54Thanks.
00:06:59Here you are.
00:07:06I guess I'll have to get that fixed.
00:07:09Well, are you his secretary?
00:07:12Well, not exactly.
00:07:14You see, when he's busy, I sort of look after things for him.
00:07:17Oh, I see.
00:07:18Yeah, you see, it's, it's, well,
00:07:21us newspaper men have to be ready for almost anything nowadays.
00:07:24I'm taking journalism in school next year.
00:07:27Of course, Uncle Albert says a newspaper's no place for a girl, but...
00:07:31Well, that's silly.
00:07:32Boy, there's lots of girls.
00:07:34Uncle Albert?
00:07:35You mean, he's your uncle?
00:07:38Yes, I'm Mildred Henshaw.
00:07:40I've come to spend the summer with him and Aunt Emily.
00:07:43Oh, gee, I'm glad.
00:07:46Well, that is, I guess they'll be glad to have you.
00:07:49Well, I, I'm certainly glad to be here.
00:07:52Say, this is an article for the society column.
00:07:55You being here and all that, gosh.
00:08:02Mr. and Mrs. Henshaw
00:08:07have a visitor from the city.
00:08:09We hope she
00:08:13likes Brownsville
00:08:15and enjoys her summer with us.
00:08:18What's going on here?
00:08:20The boss told you to keep away from his desk and leave that tie fighter alone.
00:08:23But you don't understand.
00:08:24I understand that you're here to work,
00:08:26not to have girls hanging around making eyes at you.
00:08:29I guess you don't know who I am.
00:08:31No, and I don't care who.
00:08:33Just get that out of here and stop wasting this boy's time.
00:08:36And you stop being an old crab, Hank Edwards.
00:08:39I'm ashamed of you.
00:08:41Don't you recognize me yet?
00:08:43I'm Mildred.
00:08:45No, it can't be.
00:08:47Yes, little Millie.
00:08:49And a fine welcome you give me.
00:08:51Well, that's what they get for growing up so.
00:08:54But when did you get here?
00:08:55The folks didn't expect you to this afternoon train.
00:08:58Oh, I caught an earlier one.
00:08:59So I walked over from the station
00:09:01to see if Uncle Albert could take me out to the house.
00:09:03Oh, that's too bad. He'll be in court all day.
00:09:06I can take her in my car, Hank.
00:09:08Well, that'll be fine, Hank.
00:09:09Then I won't have to wait for Uncle.
00:09:11All right. Drive carefully.
00:09:12And see that you get back here to work.
00:09:14I will. Don't worry.
00:09:15I'll be back in a minute.
00:09:20Be sure this gets in the paper.
00:09:25Oh, I'm sorry.
00:09:26My car's an open job.
00:09:28Hope you don't mind getting blown a bit.
00:09:29No, I love open cars.
00:09:32Here it is.
00:09:33Right there.
00:09:37Oh, let me help you down.
00:09:41I'll put your bag in the back.
00:09:47I'm afraid you'll have to climb over there.
00:09:48Doors don't work so good.
00:09:54Better look out for your feet, though.
00:09:55There's a couple of holes in the floor.
00:09:57I had a swell horn, but they swiped that, too.
00:09:59Boy, can this baby travel.
00:10:01Wait till I get her out in the open road,
00:10:02I'll really open her up.
00:10:04Well, what about the tire?
00:10:06Just a slow leak.
00:10:08Say, you mind if I stop at the courthouse a minute
00:10:10and see Olaf?
00:10:11Oh, but who's Olaf?
00:10:13About the best friend I have.
00:10:15He's being held for murder.
00:10:16Murder? How awful.
00:10:19He's a good guy.
00:10:20He's a good guy.
00:10:21He's a good guy.
00:10:22He's a good guy.
00:10:23He's a good guy.
00:10:24He's a good guy.
00:10:25How awful.
00:10:26Yeah, but he didn't do it.
00:10:28It's just they got a lot of evidence
00:10:29to make it look that way.
00:10:30Gee, that's too bad.
00:10:33Can I go to the courthouse with you?
00:10:35I'm not gonna go in,
00:10:36but you can take a peek through the window like I do.
00:10:37So I'll.
00:10:38Say, would you pull the spark down when I turn her over?
00:10:41Where is it?
00:10:42Right there in the steering wheel.
00:10:44No, the other one.
00:10:47This one?
00:10:48That's it.
00:10:50As soon as she starts, why push her up again?
00:10:59See that knob on the dashboard?
00:11:02Here?
00:11:03Yeah. Pump it a couple of times.
00:11:08You better watch out, though. It squirts oil sometimes.
00:11:21Got a kind of baby in these hopped up motors.
00:11:26What's that for? It's not cold.
00:11:28Transmission sort of acts up. It might get a little dirty.
00:11:34Say, are you sure this thing runs?
00:11:36Oh, sure. Of course it runs.
00:11:38I, uh, I done what papers say. I went to pasture in, um, near Creek.
00:11:56And you waited there a long time, but the writer of the note never came to meet you.
00:12:00Mildred, that's him on the witness stand.
00:12:03No, no. Nobody come.
00:12:09Look, Jimmy. He sees you.
00:12:17He certainly doesn't look like a murderer.
00:12:19He isn't. So you went back to the house and found your kind employer lying on the floor, dead.
00:12:25Do you expect us to believe that?
00:12:27I don't know she been dead, Mr. Lawyer.
00:12:31Only awfully bad sick.
00:12:33I hear something say to me in here, uh,
00:12:36Olaf, take her to Dr. Creek.
00:12:39A very touching story.
00:12:41But it isn't going to save you, Olaf Jensen,
00:12:43because in forgetting to destroy this little book
00:12:47from which you got the paper to write your alibi note,
00:12:50you convicted yourself.
00:12:52You murdered Mary Blake in cold blood.
00:12:54Your Honor, I object.
00:12:57Objection sustained.
00:13:01That lawyer sure is nasty.
00:13:03He's got it in for Olaf, all right.
00:13:05I don't see how anybody could believe that who knows Olaf.
00:13:08Knows how good and kind he is.
00:13:10If it isn't a kid or a stray pup in town he hasn't looked after.
00:13:14Couldn't suddenly change into a murderer.
00:13:16Yeah. After seeing him, you couldn't make me believe he killed anyone.
00:13:20I don't think so much of that lawyer of his, either.
00:13:23We better get going. Hank will be sore.
00:13:27I sure feel sorry for Olaf.
00:13:29Hello, Jimmy.
00:13:31Oh, uh, hello, Lucy.
00:13:33Uh, I got to be getting along. I'm in an awful hurry.
00:13:36Uh, oh, meet Mildred Henshaw.
00:13:39This is Lucy Peters.
00:13:40Hello.
00:13:41Hello.
00:13:42Are you related to Mr. Henshaw?
00:13:43Yes, he's my uncle.
00:13:45I just got here, and Jimmy's taking me out to the house now.
00:13:48Oh, I see.
00:13:50Well, I'll see you later.
00:13:52I just got here, and Jimmy's taking me out to the house now.
00:14:06How long you gonna stay?
00:14:08All summer.
00:14:11Hey, Mildred, the spark.
00:14:15You gotta pump that.
00:14:19Yeah, I know.
00:14:23All right.
00:14:43Don't pay attention to Lucy, Mildred. She's always clowning.
00:14:46Oh, that's all right.
00:14:48Gee, I guess I better get you home.
00:14:52All right.
00:14:53All right.
00:14:54All right.
00:14:55All right.
00:15:21Well, Emily, the jury bought you a new spring bonnet today.
00:15:24If Si Burton bet me $5, they'd be out at least an hour.
00:15:27Albert Henshaw, you know very well I'd never touch a penny that came from gambling.
00:15:34Can I have it, Papa? I wanna buy a machine gun.
00:15:38Didn't I tell you to sit in that chair? We'd left the table.
00:15:43You set a very bad example for your son, Albert.
00:15:46And what must Mildred think?
00:15:48Well, judging from the look on her face, she must share your opinion.
00:15:51Oh, it isn't that, Uncle.
00:15:53It's just that I don't see how you can joke in bed about a poor man being convicted.
00:15:57Well, I don't see any reason for a long face, because a murderer got what he deserved.
00:16:02Oh, but he isn't a murderer, Uncle Albert.
00:16:04Why, how can you believe such a thing when you know what a good man he's always been?
00:16:08And how kind he is to children, and animals.
00:16:12Why, Jimmy Atkins taught...
00:16:13Now, listen, child.
00:16:15Jimmy Atkins is a nice boy.
00:16:17And his loyalty to Olaf is fine.
00:16:19And I admire him for it.
00:16:21But don't go to quoting him.
00:16:23I've had about all I can stand from him during the trial.
00:16:26After all, I didn't convict the man. I simply printed the facts in the case.
00:16:30But Jimmy said...
00:16:31Mildred!
00:16:32You heard what your uncle said.
00:16:35Jimmy likes Mildred. Mildred likes Jimmy.
00:16:39Didn't I tell you to sit in that chair?
00:16:41Well, we do. Why did it take him two hours to drive home?
00:16:45Oh, don't be silly, Junior.
00:16:52Jimmy was telling me something.
00:16:54Why, I couldn't be rude and refuse to listen, could I?
00:16:57Of course not, my dear.
00:16:58A lady is never rude.
00:17:00And a little gentleman is never rude either.
00:17:06Well, Jimmy, how's the new story coming?
00:17:08Has the hero found the girl's brother yet?
00:17:11No.
00:17:12I'm not in the mood to work on it tonight, Grandma.
00:17:15What's the matter?
00:17:16You and Lucy had a quarrel?
00:17:18No, why?
00:17:19Well, you usually take her to the movies on Wednesday night.
00:17:22Doesn't mean I always have to, does it?
00:17:24Gee, Grandma, a fella gets tired taking the same girl all the time.
00:17:43Is she pretty, Jimmy?
00:17:45Who?
00:17:46Mildred Henshaw.
00:17:47How did you know about her?
00:17:49Well, my eyes may not be so good, but I can still read typing.
00:17:53Oh, that.
00:17:55Come for a visit, hadn't she?
00:17:57Yeah.
00:17:58I drove her out to her house this afternoon.
00:18:00Oh.
00:18:01Kind of took a liking to her, eh?
00:18:03You will too when you meet her, Grandma.
00:18:05She's so different.
00:18:07I've never met another girl like her.
00:18:10Good morning, Mr. Henshaw.
00:18:15Your niece is certainly a nice girl.
00:18:17How is she this morning?
00:18:19Full of your crazy notions about Olaf.
00:18:21I wish you'd keep them to yourself, Jimmy.
00:18:23Well, she asked me about the troglodyte, and I told her.
00:18:26Well, it's all over now.
00:18:28I don't want to hear any more about it.
00:18:30Yes, sir.
00:18:31Oh.
00:18:32I forgot one more thing.
00:18:34What?
00:18:36Yes, sir.
00:18:37Oh.
00:18:39Forgot my glasses again.
00:18:42102.
00:18:44Yes, yes.
00:18:45102.
00:18:47Hello, Mildred.
00:18:48Uncle Albert.
00:18:50Say, did I leave my reading glasses lying around anywhere?
00:18:53No, I can't wait that long.
00:18:55I've got a lot of work to do.
00:18:56I'll go out and get them for you, Mr. Henshaw.
00:18:58All right.
00:18:59Wait a minute.
00:19:00I'll send Jimmy out for them.
00:19:01And you hurry back here too.
00:19:03Well, yes, sir.
00:19:05Stupid thing for me to do.
00:19:09Oh, I've got to get this chair fixed again.
00:19:11I can see that.
00:19:28Hello, Jimmy.
00:19:29Oh, hello.
00:19:32Uncle phoned about his glasses, so I brought them out to you.
00:19:35Oh, thanks.
00:19:36Nice day, isn't it?
00:19:37Yes, I'll say.
00:19:39Think you're going to like it here?
00:19:40Oh, I do already.
00:19:43Well, I guess I better be getting these back to your uncle.
00:19:45Yes, you better have.
00:19:47Well, goodbye.
00:19:50Must be getting too much gas or something.
00:19:56Want me to do the smart business for you?
00:19:58Yeah, please.
00:20:01All set?
00:20:02Yes, turn her over.
00:20:07Well, I guess I better be going.
00:20:10Oh, what are you waiting for?
00:20:12Huh?
00:20:13Oh, don't you want to take me for a ride?
00:20:16Well, yeah, sure.
00:20:31Darn the luck.
00:20:33Out of gas, huh?
00:20:35Yeah.
00:20:36Well, what are you going to do?
00:20:38Push.
00:20:39There's a gas station down the road a ways.
00:20:41It's pretty hard to push a car alone.
00:20:43Yeah, it sure is.
00:20:54Well, I guess I better be going.
00:20:56Huh?
00:20:57Well, I guess I better be going.
00:20:59Yeah, sure.
00:21:14Hey, Mill, wait for me.
00:21:17Out of gas?
00:21:18Yep, fill her up.
00:21:24Fill her up, Jimmy?
00:21:25Yeah, fill her up.
00:21:47Almost lost you.
00:21:49Yeah, I stubbed my toe.
00:21:51Hello, Eve.
00:21:52Hi, Rue.
00:21:53What can I do for you?
00:21:54Did you find the captain of the gas tank anywhere, Eve?
00:21:57Must have drove off without it.
00:21:58No, I ain't seen it around.
00:22:00When'd you lose it, Rue?
00:22:01Don't know.
00:22:02Must have been the last time I got gas.
00:22:04Oh, I remember.
00:22:05It was a night, Mrs. Blake.
00:22:07Well, come to think of it, you weren't here.
00:22:10Your wife waited on me.
00:22:12That's mighty funny.
00:22:13And Court Eve said he never left here till 9 o'clock
00:22:15after the station was closed.
00:22:17Well, Mandy ain't said nothing about it.
00:22:19I'll have her look around inside.
00:22:21Oh, why, thank you.
00:22:22What's he got to do with Mrs. Blake?
00:22:24She's his aunt.
00:22:25And she was killed on the very same night before 8 o'clock.
00:22:29Gee, Jimmy.
00:22:30Do you think he could have done it?
00:22:32His own aunt?
00:22:33Yeah, there she is, Rue.
00:22:35Well, thank you, Eve.
00:22:36I don't know, but where was he that he
00:22:38couldn't tell the truth in court?
00:22:40He looks like a murderer.
00:22:43What are you going to do?
00:22:44What can I do?
00:22:45See you soon.
00:22:46Yeah.
00:22:47Bye.
00:22:48Get this thing started and follow that car.
00:22:50Come on.
00:22:58Mr. Tyler, Mr. Tyler.
00:22:59Wait.
00:23:09Jimmy?
00:23:11Say, Mr. Tyler.
00:23:12Did Eve's wife say where he went the other night?
00:23:14Huh?
00:23:15What night?
00:23:16The night of the murder.
00:23:17We heard what you said about him being gone from the station.
00:23:19And just who are you?
00:23:21She's Mr. Henshaw's niece.
00:23:23Now look, about Eve.
00:23:24Just a minute.
00:23:25What is all this?
00:23:26Mr. Tyler, a life of an innocent man depends on you.
00:23:30Your family and neighbors are in danger.
00:23:32Huh?
00:23:33Mrs. Blake's murderer hasn't been caught.
00:23:35You mean that Olives broke jail?
00:23:37Oh, no.
00:23:38She means the real murderer.
00:23:39Olives innocent and we can prove it if you help us.
00:23:42And just think of the headlines in the Bugle
00:23:44when Jimmy turns in the story.
00:23:46Public spirited citizen helps reporters solve murder,
00:23:51saves innocent man from the chair.
00:23:53The world needs more men like Rufus Tyler.
00:23:56Well, now, I'll help any way I can.
00:23:59Think hard, Mr. Tyler.
00:24:00Anything she said to you about that night?
00:24:03Let me see.
00:24:05No.
00:24:06I can't remember nothing.
00:24:08I can't remember nothing she said.
00:24:10Well, that's because you're trying too hard.
00:24:12Close your eyes and sort of picture what was going on.
00:24:17Mm-hmm.
00:24:18It is sort of coming back to me.
00:24:20Yep.
00:24:21Amanda was working the pump and I was joshing
00:24:23about how funny it was to be getting gas from our lady.
00:24:27But she weren't in no mind for joshing.
00:24:30Seemed sort of mad about something.
00:24:32Claimed that Olives had to buy the help out of her,
00:24:34but the times have been too poorly since they...
00:24:36You see, Jimmy, the motive.
00:24:38They needed money.
00:24:39Well, that's great, Mr. Tyler.
00:24:41Did she say where Eve had gone that night?
00:24:43Why, Jingo, she sure did.
00:24:45Said he went to town on an errand
00:24:46and he was going to stop by and have a bit of supper
00:24:48at the Chinaman's.
00:24:49I'll say he went on an errand, but it wasn't in town.
00:24:52He went to his aunt's farm to kill her.
00:24:54And to plant the money in poor Olive's room
00:24:56to make it look like he was guilty.
00:24:57Aw, shucks.
00:24:58Wait a minute, kids.
00:24:59Now, why would Eve do such a thing?
00:25:01Didn't Miss Blake's will leave everything to him?
00:25:03And didn't she say they needed money?
00:25:05She sure did.
00:25:06Well, what more reason do you need for a murder?
00:25:09And you can prove that he lied
00:25:10when he was on the witness stand
00:25:11when he said he was at the station
00:25:13when the crime was committed.
00:25:14Now, wait a minute.
00:25:15Maybe he was at the Chinaman's
00:25:17like Amanda said, having supper.
00:25:19Oh, I don't believe it.
00:25:21Let's go now and see.
00:25:22And if he was there, it's nothing but an alibi.
00:25:25Yeah, Mr. Tyler, we'll meet you at Charlie's.
00:25:27All right, I'll be there.
00:25:29Bye.
00:25:30Bye.
00:25:36Sure, him come Charlie's plenty of times,
00:25:38and like a Chinese food, very much.
00:25:40Was he there on the night of May the 4th,
00:25:42about 8 o'clock?
00:25:43Maybe so.
00:25:44We gotta be sure, Charlie.
00:25:45Now, think hard.
00:25:46The night of the murder, remember?
00:25:48You know, Eve's aunt, old Miss Blake.
00:25:50That was Chinese feast day, Charlie's celebrant.
00:25:53Oh, then you know whether Eve was there or not.
00:25:55I don't know.
00:25:56I don't know.
00:25:57I don't know.
00:25:58I don't know.
00:25:59I don't know.
00:26:00I don't know.
00:26:01I don't know.
00:26:02I don't know.
00:26:03I don't know.
00:26:04I don't know whether Eve was there or not.
00:26:05Charlie, no.
00:26:06Nobody here.
00:26:07All having feast at House of Honorable Grandfather.
00:26:09You mean the place was all closed up?
00:26:11Where's he's alibi now?
00:26:13We gotta go and straighten these things out.
00:26:15Now, look.
00:26:16You take Charlie Miller back to Grandma's place
00:26:17and wait for me.
00:26:18I gotta go round up Mr. Henshaw and figure a way
00:26:20to get Eve there so we can face him with the evidence.
00:26:22Oh, Jimmy.
00:26:23Be careful.
00:26:24If he knew what you were up to, he might murder you, too.
00:26:27Now, don't you worry about me.
00:26:28Just don't let these two fellas out of your sight.
00:26:30And when you get to Grandma's, don't talk to anybody
00:26:32till I get there.
00:26:33Well, come on, get in the car. Come on, get in the car. Come on, Charlie.
00:26:44Brownsville, 2244.
00:26:54Crossroad Service Station.
00:26:57Yeah, this is him speaking.
00:26:59Well, who's this?
00:27:01I'm calling for Grandma Atkins. She wants you to come out to her house right away.
00:27:05She's got a very important message for you that can't wait.
00:27:08I got a flat tire on the truck.
00:27:11Well, can't Jimmy bring it out?
00:27:13Oh, no. She wants to give it to you personally.
00:27:16Well, all right, but you better hurry.
00:27:22Did you tell her I was waiting for those glasses?
00:27:25Well, how long ago did they leave?
00:27:27Oh, dear.
00:27:30Emily says Mildred's nowhere to be found.
00:27:32Says she hasn't seen her since she went out on the porch to give Jimmy my glasses.
00:27:35Where do you suppose they can be, Hank?
00:27:37Ah, take it easy, A.P. That wreck of his probably broke down again.
00:27:41I'll break him down.
00:27:43Emily out there close to hysterics and here me with a big desk full of work and can't seem to do it.
00:27:48Mr. Henshaw. Mr. Henshaw.
00:27:52Where's Mildred? Is she hurt?
00:27:54Hurt? No, she's at my house. And we gotta get out there right away.
00:27:57Hey, I got a terrific story.
00:27:59You give me my glasses and get back to your work.
00:28:01Mr. Henshaw, you don't understand. I've discovered the real murderer, Ole Miss Blake.
00:28:05What?
00:28:07You get back to your work.
00:28:08But don't you see, Eve's on his way out there and we gotta be there.
00:28:11Eve killed his aunt and Mildred's out there hanging on to the only two witnesses we got to prove it.
00:28:15Look, if you get my niece mixed up in any of your crazy shenanigans, I'll, I'll, I'll...
00:28:20Please, Mr. Henshaw, listen to me. I'll explain it.
00:28:23Sit down, Rufus, won't you?
00:28:26My, my. You must be Mildred Henshaw.
00:28:30Yes, I am. Jimmy...
00:28:32He told me all about you, my dear.
00:28:34You know what? I think you favor your uncle.
00:28:38Yes, you do.
00:28:46Wait a minute, Mr. Henshaw, and I'll help you out.
00:28:52It's okay. Old Eve isn't here yet.
00:28:55Say, do you think as soon as we get his confession, we'll have to turn him over to the sheriff?
00:28:59Or can we wait till the paper comes out?
00:29:00Well, let's wait till we get the confession.
00:29:02Now, I'll handle this.
00:29:04This could be pretty serious if you're backing up the wrong tree, you know.
00:29:07I'm not. Don't worry.
00:29:08All right.
00:29:10Uh, what's all this about?
00:29:13Well, Jimmy'll be here in a minute, and if you don't mind, we'd rather he told you.
00:29:18Oh, this is sort of mysterious, like a movie.
00:29:23Excuse me.
00:29:26Oh, this is real nice, Mr. Henshaw.
00:29:28I've just been having a nice chat with your pretty niece.
00:29:31Go in, won't you, please?
00:29:33Just a minute, Jimmy Atkins. What's going on around here?
00:29:36Why Rufus and that Chinaman here...
00:29:38Look, Grandma, I haven't got time to tell you about it now.
00:29:41It's awful important.
00:29:42So if you just stay out of the parlor when we're finished, you'll have a big surprise.
00:29:46Mildred, these boys want to talk business,
00:29:49and we'll go in the kitchen and fix some tea and cookies until after they're through, you know?
00:29:53Yes, Mildred. You run around with Grandma Atkins.
00:29:55Oh, but Jimmy, I want to be here when he comes.
00:29:58Maybe he wouldn't talk about it in front of a girl.
00:30:00Perhaps you'd better go.
00:30:02Oh, all right.
00:30:06Well, how do you think you're going to like our little brownfield, my dear?
00:30:10Oh, it's very nice. Of course, I haven't seen much of it yet.
00:30:14Well, look, there isn't much of it to see.
00:30:17Now, Ruf, Jimmy tells me the night of the murder
00:30:22that you were at the service station about 8 o'clock and he wasn't there.
00:30:27That's right.
00:30:28Now, what makes you so sure of the date?
00:30:30Well, I remember it on the 9th.
00:30:32Dear, would you mind getting those cookies out of the tin can, putting them on that dish?
00:30:37Yes, sir.
00:30:38That's right, Mr. Jimmy, that's right.
00:30:40You see, Mr. Henshaw?
00:30:41Yes, I see that Eve wasn't at his service station nor at Charlie's,
00:30:44but that doesn't prove he was killing his aunt.
00:30:46Well, if he had a good alibi, why would he want to lie in court?
00:30:50I'll bet that's Eve now. I'll go let him in.
00:30:56Oh, hello, Eve.
00:30:58Where's your grandma? I've got to see her.
00:31:00Well, sure, come on in. Right there in the parlor.
00:31:04Here we are, Eve.
00:31:05Hello, Henshaw.
00:31:07Hey, what's going on around here anyway?
00:31:10Grandma Atkins sent for me and I walk in on a convention.
00:31:13Grandma didn't send for you. I did.
00:31:16Sit down, Eve.
00:31:20We'd like you to answer a few questions.
00:31:22Now, looky here, Henshaw.
00:31:24I didn't close up my station and break my neck getting here just to answer questions.
00:31:28Well, we want to know where you were the night your aunt was murdered.
00:31:31At the station where I and Amber and I had booked Sunday.
00:31:34Amanda seemed to think you was in town having supper at Charlie's.
00:31:37Well, then maybe that's where I was.
00:31:39Having some of your good chop suey, eh, Charlie?
00:31:41No, no kitchen chop suey.
00:31:43Your alibi's no good, Eve.
00:31:45Alibi? Alibi for what?
00:31:48For murder, that's what.
00:31:49For killing your aunt for money and trying to plant the blame on poor Ola.
00:31:52Why, you young...
00:31:53Now, now, now, wait a minute. Wait a minute, Eve.
00:31:55Losing your temper isn't going to do any good.
00:31:57Oh, that's why you all sent for me.
00:32:00Because you think that I murdered Aunt Mary.
00:32:03Listen, they're fighting.
00:32:05Dear, a cup of tea will calm them down.
00:32:07Oh, may I carry that?
00:32:08No, thank you.
00:32:09I always do this myself.
00:32:10Will you open the door, please?
00:32:12You may own a newspaper,
00:32:13but that doesn't give you the right to put a self-respecting citizen under a third degree.
00:32:18Man, sakes.
00:32:19Can't you boys talk business without getting all head up and yelling at each other?
00:32:23I'm surprised at you.
00:32:24You'd yell, too, if you were in my place, Grandma.
00:32:26Oh, well, sit and have a cup of tea. It'll make you feel better.
00:32:28I'm leaving.
00:32:30Hold your horses a minute, Eve.
00:32:32I want to pay you that money I owe you.
00:32:34What money?
00:32:35Why, the money for the kerosene that you brought me the night your poor Aunt Mary was killed.
00:32:40So it did.
00:32:42Can you remember what time I was here, Grandma?
00:32:46Eight o'clock, wasn't it?
00:32:48Yeah.
00:32:49About eight o'clock, because the Good Neighbor program was on the radio.
00:32:54Well, you ought to remember.
00:32:56You stood right there in the kitchen door and listened to it.
00:32:58You got me in a fine mess.
00:33:00Thanks a lot, Grandma.
00:33:02Well, gentlemen, look as if my lawyer would be asking you some questions.
00:33:08Good afternoon.
00:33:10Wow.
00:33:11What's Eden F.?
00:33:13You're fired.
00:33:15And you come with me.
00:33:21Sorry, Miss Atkins, but I guess I'd better be getting back to the store.
00:33:26Thank you, just the same.
00:33:28Thank you, just the same.
00:33:30I'm sure sorry about the way this turned out, Mr. Tyler.
00:33:32Ah, you.
00:33:34Excuse, please, some honorable tea, Mr. Atkins.
00:33:37Maybe you'll rise cheaper now.
00:33:39I'll go now.
00:33:40I'm sitting on you, I see, all right?
00:33:46Jimmy Atkins, come here.
00:33:52Jimmy Atkins,
00:33:54I have a feeling in my bones that you're at the bottom of all these funny goings-on.
00:34:00Yes, ma'am, I guess I am.
00:34:02Been playing reporter again, huh?
00:34:05And you promised me.
00:34:07Well, we ran into some evidence that made it look like Eve was the one that killed Miss Blake.
00:34:12All I could think of was how to save Olive.
00:34:15Would have been a big story for the bugle, too.
00:34:18How was I to know he was here with you at the time of the murder?
00:34:20Have a cup of tea?
00:34:22No, no thanks, Grandma.
00:34:24Didn't you ever make a mistake when you were young?
00:34:27Yes, and I paid for them, why shouldn't he?
00:34:31Because it was more my fault than it was his.
00:34:33If I hadn't encouraged him, it would never have happened.
00:34:36That's no excuse.
00:34:37He should have had better sense than to listen to a silly girl.
00:34:40Well, what's silly about running down clues on a big story?
00:34:43Big mess, you mean.
00:34:44What writes an office boy butting into things he knows nothing about?
00:34:48Because he doesn't want to be an office boy all his life.
00:34:50He wants to be a big reporter.
00:34:52He's got to learn how, hasn't he?
00:34:53Not at my expense, he doesn't.
00:34:55There wouldn't be anybody worthwhile in the world if someone didn't give him a chance.
00:34:59Why, just look at all the big newspapers.
00:35:01You look at them.
00:35:02I'm looking at a lawsuit.
00:35:03Now, Jimmy's fired and he stays fired, and I don't want to hear anything more about it.
00:35:21Hello, Jimmy.
00:35:23I thought you'd gone home.
00:35:25No, I was at the office with Uncle.
00:35:28He's pretty mad, isn't he?
00:35:30Yeah.
00:35:31I tried everything, but it didn't do any good.
00:35:34Well, thanks, Mildred.
00:35:35But I don't blame him.
00:35:37Guess I'd better forget all about ever being a big newspaper man, too.
00:35:42Well, Jimmy, I'm glad you're here.
00:35:45Guess I'd better forget all about ever being a big newspaper man, too.
00:35:50Well, you can't want to be one very bad.
00:35:52Well, it's the only thing I do want.
00:35:54Well, then go on with it.
00:35:56Don't let anything stop you.
00:35:58Well, that's pretty easy to say, all right,
00:36:00but if the only newspaper in town won't give you a job, what do you do?
00:36:04Well, there must be some way.
00:36:07Yep, there is a way.
00:36:08Then I'm going to do it.
00:36:09Oh, that's the way to talk.
00:36:13Do you know what Horace Greeley said?
00:36:16No, what?
00:36:17He said, go west, young man.
00:36:19Well, not me.
00:36:20I'm going to go east, get a job on a big city newspaper,
00:36:23and really amount to something.
00:36:27You mean you're going away?
00:36:31Well, I'm always planning to someday, and now that this has come up,
00:36:36well, this is the time.
00:36:42Will you be going soon, Jimmy?
00:36:45Yep, tomorrow.
00:36:49Gee, I wish, I mean, I bet Grandma hates to see you go.
00:36:57Oh, I'll be back to visit every once in a while.
00:37:01But, gee, you probably won't be here then, will you?
00:37:05No, I'll be going back to the city pretty soon.
00:37:09Well, but you said you liked it here.
00:37:12Well, I thought I did, but there doesn't seem much to do.
00:37:17Well, do you like to fish or swim?
00:37:20Oh, I love to swim.
00:37:22Well, then I'll show you my own private swimming hole.
00:37:24I'd damn the crick myself.
00:37:26I have one spot that's even deep enough to dive.
00:37:28Oh, that's swell.
00:37:31Oh, but they're going away.
00:37:37Yeah.
00:37:44I thought I fired you, Jimmy.
00:37:46Well, yes, sir, you did.
00:37:47I just came back.
00:37:48If you think you're going to talk me into giving you your job back, you're crazy.
00:37:51Well, I wasn't going to, because I know I don't deserve it.
00:37:54But I would like to say something to Mr. Burton.
00:37:56Go ahead, Jimmy.
00:37:58Well, it's just that my paper didn't have anything to do with what happened yesterday.
00:38:02Nobody did.
00:38:03It was all my fault.
00:38:04Couldn't you explain it to Eve so he wouldn't make any trouble for Mr. Henshaw?
00:38:08I've already talked to Eve, and he's agreed to drop the whole matter.
00:38:11Oh, that's great.
00:38:12Thanks a lot, Mr. Burton.
00:38:13I'm sure glad.
00:38:15Just a minute, son.
00:38:16How would you like to pick up a half dollar and run an errand for me?
00:38:19I'd be glad to do it for you, but I don't want any money.
00:38:22I've got to run over to Midvale, and I just remembered these papers Simpkins has to file at the courthouse.
00:38:27Wait a minute.
00:38:28I'll give you a note of instructions to give Simpkins.
00:38:31I'll tend to it right away.
00:38:39No, no thanks, Mr. Burton.
00:38:40That's okay.
00:38:41I'm sure sorry about everything, Mr. Henshaw.
00:38:43I hope the next job you get you'll watch your P's and Q's and tend to your business.
00:38:48Yes, sir.
00:38:51I didn't know you could sit there and be so hard-hearted.
00:38:54That's a nice boy, A.P.
00:38:57He'll be a whole lot nicer boy and more reliable after he's been without a job for a few days.
00:39:02Good thing he doesn't know what an old bluff you are.
00:39:05Well, I've got to be off.
00:39:07Well, thanks again for smoothing Eve down, sir.
00:39:09Think nothing of it, till I want a favor from you.
00:39:22Oh, Jimmy!
00:39:27I talked to Uncle again last night.
00:39:29I think if you go and see him...
00:39:30I just did.
00:39:32You mean, you asked him to take you back and he wouldn't?
00:39:35He didn't give me a chance to ask.
00:39:37He told me.
00:39:38I felt so sure he would.
00:39:40Not a chance.
00:39:42Well, can we go for a ride or something?
00:39:45Sure, as soon as I do an errand for Mr. Burton.
00:39:47Well, where'd you see him?
00:39:48What'd he say?
00:39:49I'll tell you all about it when I get back.
00:39:50I've just got to take these papers up to his office for him.
00:39:53Wait a minute.
00:39:54You dropped one.
00:39:55Gee, thanks.
00:39:56Wouldn't have been so good if I'd lost this.
00:40:00Anything wrong?
00:40:01It's the same kind of papers an old oaf got.
00:40:04Really, Jimmy?
00:40:05Yeah, and it was torn out of the same kind of a notebook, too.
00:40:08Golly, you don't think?
00:40:10Of course it isn't.
00:40:11It couldn't be.
00:40:12I'll be right back.
00:40:13Wait a minute, Jimmy.
00:40:15Why couldn't it be?
00:40:16Well, Mr. Burton's not that kind of a man.
00:40:19He's been Miss Blake's lawyer for years.
00:40:21Oh, so what?
00:40:22They're the worst kind sometimes.
00:40:24Why, in Jane Travers' last movie, the old family lawyer poisoned three people.
00:40:28Yeah, but...
00:40:30If there was only some way we could compare the two notes.
00:40:34Say, Olaf would remember, wouldn't he?
00:40:37Well, sure, but...
00:40:38Will they let us see him?
00:40:39Well, I guess so.
00:40:41Well, then what are we waiting for?
00:40:42Listen, Mildred, I'm in enough of a jam as it is.
00:40:45Lost my job and everybody's down on me.
00:40:47Grandma's all upset.
00:40:48What'd they think if I got in another mess?
00:40:50Oh, but you won't.
00:40:52We'll be sure this time before we tell anyone.
00:40:54And just think, Jimmy, what it'll mean to you.
00:40:56Why, you'll be sitting on top of the world and Uncle Albert will be begging you to come back.
00:41:01But you don't understand.
00:41:02Mr. Burton couldn't have.
00:41:04Well, will it do any harm to talk to Olaf?
00:41:07Well, maybe not, but...
00:41:09Oh, you evidently don't care about your own future.
00:41:11But what about Olaf?
00:41:12Are you just gonna let him die without giving him every chance?
00:41:15Of course not.
00:41:17Well, I'm only asking you to look into it.
00:41:20All right, let's go.
00:41:25Brought you some collars, sweet.
00:41:27Hello, Olaf.
00:41:28Jimmy!
00:41:30I'm so glad to see you, my boy.
00:41:34Olaf, this is a friend of mine.
00:41:36Any friend of Jimmy is welcome.
00:41:39Please, sit down.
00:41:42We haven't got much time, Olaf, so we'll have to talk fast.
00:41:45We just stumbled onto something that may get you out of here.
00:41:47Oh, it's been too late.
00:41:49The jury says Olaf is guilty.
00:41:51Well, I know you're not, and maybe we can prove it.
00:41:54Here, does this paper mean anything to you?
00:41:56Yeah, it looks like a little black book.
00:41:59Well, it's from a different little black book.
00:42:01Does the writing look the same as it did on the other note?
00:42:04Yeah, it looked like funny letters, you know, like little fella make.
00:42:08Printed, you mean.
00:42:09Sure, he disguised his handwriting.
00:42:11Who did?
00:42:12The real murderer.
00:42:13He wrote this note to you just to keep you away from the farm a while.
00:42:16So he could kill Mrs. Blake and hide the money in your room so that they think you did it.
00:42:21Money's a bad thing.
00:42:23It makes people lie and steal and kill.
00:42:27Iris, Mrs. Blake, she was afraid.
00:42:30But why?
00:42:31She didn't have much money, not even a bank account.
00:42:33That's what they said at the trial.
00:42:35She was afraid of bank too, and she had plenty of money.
00:42:38I have seen it many times.
00:42:40Where?
00:42:41When?
00:42:42When she paid Olaf wages.
00:42:44She took money from iron box, you know.
00:42:47And she put everything down in writing.
00:42:52A little book and how much she spent for seeds and how much for anything.
00:42:58Every penny she spent, she put down.
00:43:01Did you tell anybody about it?
00:43:02Your lawyer or hers or Eve?
00:43:04No, no, I tell nobody.
00:43:05They say Olaf steal that money too.
00:43:08Jimmy, don't you tell nobody.
00:43:10Okay, Olaf, we won't.
00:43:12But couldn't you tell us where she kept that box of money?
00:43:14Uh, no.
00:43:17Do you know how we can get in the house?
00:43:19In the house?
00:43:20Oh, yes.
00:43:21Through cellar window to coal bin.
00:43:24You know, lettuce is loose there.
00:43:27All right, Jimmy, time's up.
00:43:29Okay, Pete.
00:43:30Goodbye, Olaf.
00:43:31Goodbye, Jim.
00:43:32Goodbye.
00:43:33Goodbye, young lady.
00:43:41Isn't there any other way to get in?
00:43:43I don't think so.
00:43:44Everything's locked up.
00:44:11You better wait here.
00:44:12I'll find a better place for you to get down.
00:44:14Nothing doing.
00:44:15If you can make it, I can.
00:44:17Go on.
00:44:18Okay.
00:44:41Are you hurt?
00:44:47Now I have got you to find this.
00:44:49Look at your clothes.
00:44:51Oh, don't worry.
00:44:52We'll watch.
00:45:06Let's get going.
00:45:07Yeah.
00:45:10Come on.
00:45:33Gee, Jimmy.
00:45:34Don't you feel very goose pimply?
00:45:36Of course not.
00:45:38Gee, I do.
00:45:40It's as if Mrs. Blake's ghost were watching us.
00:45:43That's silly.
00:45:44No such things as ghosts.
00:45:49Probably just a cat and a mouse running over the rafters.
00:45:53Maybe better open a window.
00:45:56Okay.
00:46:10I saw a room just like this in a murder mystery once.
00:46:14Only it was an old man that was murdered,
00:46:17and he found his body behind a secret panel
00:46:20that could only be opened when the grandfather's clock struck midnight.
00:46:24Say, I'll bet she's got a secret panel here where she hid the box of money.
00:46:28Maybe.
00:46:30Or maybe there's a wall safe behind one of the pictures.
00:46:33I'll look around.
00:46:35You go look around.
00:46:37I'll look around.
00:46:38You go take a look at her desk and see what you can find.
00:46:59Jimmy, quick!
00:47:00I found something!
00:47:02Gosh, I found a secret compartment,
00:47:05and there's nothing in the darn thing.
00:47:09Hey, wait a minute.
00:47:10I think there's another button on the side here.
00:47:12Well, push it!
00:47:19No, we've got it!
00:47:20Her account book!
00:47:22Now we'll find where she hid the money.
00:47:24Hurry!
00:47:26Boy, look at that.
00:47:28Forty thousand dollars.
00:47:30That's sure an awful lot of money.
00:47:32I'll say it is.
00:47:33Where could she have hidden so much?
00:47:35There must be a clue in the book somewhere.
00:47:37Maybe in code or something.
00:47:38We'll just have to hunt for it.
00:47:40Okay, let's look.
00:47:41I think there's some more in the back here.
00:47:43Here, you take this side, and I'll check this one.
00:48:01Look, Jimmy.
00:48:02A poem.
00:48:03It was pasted on this page.
00:48:05Hey, wait, I think I got something.
00:48:06What?
00:48:07Take a look at this.
00:48:08It says,
00:48:09Due from C.B., July 1st, 1940.
00:48:11Eleven thousand dollars.
00:48:13And down here it says,
00:48:14Check file A in C.B.'s office.
00:48:18Morgan, we've got it!
00:48:20Got what?
00:48:21Who's C.B.?
00:48:22Burton, of course.
00:48:23Cyrus Burton.
00:48:24That proves he did it.
00:48:25You mean that proves that he killed her?
00:48:27It proves the motive for the crime.
00:48:29Look, he was supposed to pay her eleven thousand dollars
00:48:32by the first of next month, right?
00:48:34Well, what if he didn't have it,
00:48:36and he knew that she was going to make trouble?
00:48:38Or, what if he was supposed to invest it for her,
00:48:40but he stole it instead?
00:48:42That'd mean prison for him.
00:48:43So what does he do, but...
00:48:44Kill C.B. and pin it on Ola.
00:48:47Oh, Jimmy, you're wonderful.
00:48:49It was the book that did it,
00:48:51and you found that.
00:48:52Come on, we've got to get a look at that file of Burton's.
00:48:55Well, what about the forty thousand dollars?
00:48:57We haven't got time for that now.
00:48:59I want to get poor Olaf out of jail and put the real murderer in.
00:49:09Say, I wonder what time it is.
00:49:11Oh, it must be nearly two o'clock.
00:49:13Well, duck out of sight and keep your fingers crossed.
00:49:22Hello, Mr. Simpkins.
00:49:23How are you?
00:49:24Busy, can't you see?
00:49:25I brought these over here for Mr. Burton.
00:49:27He said they had to be filed before two o'clock.
00:49:29Two o'clock?
00:49:33I'll have to hurry.
00:49:36Oh, never mind, Mr. Simpkins.
00:49:37I'll answer it for you.
00:49:41Hello?
00:49:44Oh, I'm sorry.
00:49:45You got the wrong number.
00:49:46Wrong number?
00:49:48Yeah, wrong number.
00:49:56We've got to work fast.
00:49:57Somebody might come in any minute.
00:49:59I don't even know what to look for.
00:50:01A file.
00:50:02File A.
00:50:14Find anything?
00:50:15Nothing.
00:50:20What's that?
00:50:22Look, Jimmy, a million of them.
00:50:26Gosh, ours must be one of those.
00:50:28I'll take the ones on this side and you take those.
00:50:30It'll be marked Blake File or File A.
00:50:52And a sign of anything.
00:50:54What about this mess?
00:50:56They probably won't find this for months.
00:50:59I'm going to take that account book to Uncle,
00:51:01because I've got a hunch there's plenty in it
00:51:03to fix Burton without his old file.
00:51:05Come on.
00:51:08He probably burned it so nobody could find it.
00:51:11After killing Miss Blake,
00:51:12he certainly wouldn't want to leave any suspicious evidence.
00:51:15Come on, we'd better get out of here.
00:51:17I don't think so.
00:51:18Gee.
00:51:21File A.
00:51:22Blake Estate.
00:51:23Come on, let's go.
00:51:27We got him!
00:51:28We got him!
00:51:29We got him!
00:51:30Back home!
00:51:31The real murderer!
00:51:32Are you kids telling that all over again?
00:51:34Please, Mr. Hedgehog, listen.
00:51:35It's the real thing this time.
00:51:36We've got evidence and everything.
00:51:37Here, look for yourself.
00:51:39Where'd you get these?
00:51:40I don't know.
00:51:41I don't know.
00:51:42I don't know.
00:51:43I don't know.
00:51:44I don't know.
00:51:45I don't know.
00:51:46I don't know.
00:51:47Where'd you get these?
00:51:48We found them in Miss Blake's house.
00:51:49And here's the files for paper, too.
00:51:51You'll never believe who the murderer is.
00:51:53Of course I won't.
00:51:54And if you kids are stirring up another horribleness around here,
00:51:56I'll tell you both.
00:51:57Well, I like that.
00:51:58After all we've been through to get a story for your old paper.
00:52:01We found the coordinates all in the book.
00:52:03He killed her for $11,000 and there's $40,000 more.
00:52:06But we didn't have time to find it.
00:52:07Look!
00:52:08Look, it's Mildred.
00:52:09Good heavens, what's happened?
00:52:11Look at your face.
00:52:12Mildred, where have you been?
00:52:14Don't you understand, Uncle?
00:52:15We found him.
00:52:16The real murderer.
00:52:17We know why he did it.
00:52:18It's the truth, Mr. Henshaw.
00:52:19It's all in that book in her own handwriting.
00:52:21And it's an iron box full of money.
00:52:23All of it's soft.
00:52:24All of it's scruffy and so are you.
00:52:26Junior, Albert, what are they talking about?
00:52:28We found Miss Blake's personal ledger in a file of her estate papers, too.
00:52:31I'm going to kill you, I bet you.
00:52:33You take these things right back where you got them.
00:52:35You mean you're not even going to look at them?
00:52:36You're going to let Olive go to jail when you know we got the proof that he didn't do it?
00:52:39You heard what I said.
00:52:41Come on, as long as they're not interested, we'll go to the sheriff.
00:52:45Let me see.
00:52:46Get out of the way, Junior.
00:52:47Oh, look where you're going, Junior.
00:52:48Albert, he pushed me.
00:52:50Emily, will you take care of your boy?
00:52:52Junior, come out of there.
00:52:54You just don't listen to us.
00:52:55Give us a chance to explain.
00:52:56Come here, young fella.
00:52:57Tell Mr. Henshaw what time he delivered those papers to you.
00:53:01At a quarter to two, sir.
00:53:02And they had to be filed by noon.
00:53:03He's cost me a client and a $200 fee.
00:53:06Oh, that shouldn't bother you.
00:53:08You've still got $11,000 in Mrs. Blake's money.
00:53:12What?
00:53:13Who is this little brat?
00:53:14Hey, just a minute.
00:53:15You can't talk that way about Mildred.
00:53:17No care person, that little brat, as you call her, happens to be my niece.
00:53:20Then I think you'd be ashamed.
00:53:21She and this good-for-nothing boy just made a shambles of my office.
00:53:24Mildred, what does he mean?
00:53:26I don't know, Uncle, unless shambles means making a mess of things, and we did that all right.
00:53:32How dare you do such a thing?
00:53:33Because he's a murderer, and we had to find file A.
00:53:36What did you say, young woman?
00:53:39She said you murdered Mrs. Blake, and we know you did.
00:53:42That's a rather serious accusation, my boy.
00:53:45You'd better have proof.
00:53:46We have plenty of it.
00:53:48Now, you keep out of this.
00:53:49Jimmy, do you realize this is serious?
00:53:51Well, of course, and we've got proof, too.
00:53:53Here's an note that he gave me to take to Mr. Simpkins.
00:53:56You saw him write it.
00:53:57Well, what about it?
00:53:58It's exactly the same kind of papers that Noel Olive got.
00:54:00That's what started us looking.
00:54:01And we found her book, and in it, it said she had $40,000.
00:54:05If that hasn't been stolen, it must have been hidden someplace.
00:54:07Well, what's that got to do with Mr. Burton?
00:54:09That kid, he probably stole it.
00:54:11Did you, Mr. Burton?
00:54:13Get back to your mother.
00:54:15This is all ridiculous nonsense.
00:54:18Yeah, well, this isn't.
00:54:21It says, due from C.B. July the 1st, $11,000.
00:54:25And down here, she says, see files in C.B.'s office.
00:54:28Well, these are the files, and we found them in Cyrus Burton's office.
00:54:32What was in it, Jimmy?
00:54:33Well, I don't know.
00:54:34We haven't had time to look.
00:54:36We didn't have much time.
00:54:38Open it now, Jimmy.
00:54:39Just a minute, please.
00:54:40Legally, no one has the right to touch that file.
00:54:43But I shall waive that.
00:54:44I shall insist on it being opened here before you.
00:54:47First, though, I want to answer some of the wild statements
00:54:49made by these two misguided youngsters.
00:54:53The similarity of paper, which Jimmy seems to regard
00:54:56as such conclusive evidence.
00:54:59Here's the little notebook from which I tore the note for Simpkins.
00:55:02Anything unusual about it, A.P.?
00:55:04Certainly not.
00:55:05I buy them by the dozen at the general store.
00:55:08Simpkins has one.
00:55:09You have, perhaps.
00:55:10And Hank, and any number of Brownsville's
00:55:12highly respectable citizens.
00:55:15So much for that.
00:55:17As for this other book, I know nothing about it.
00:55:20And if Mrs. Blake had any such amount of money,
00:55:22I only hope it comes to light.
00:55:24My estate fees will be considerably fatter.
00:55:28And last, for the $11,000, Simpkins,
00:55:31open the file and give Mr. Henshaw the envelope marked Pershing.
00:55:36Yes, Mr. Burton.
00:55:48And these are receipts all signed by Mary Blake.
00:55:51Exactly.
00:55:52Totaling in all, I believe, $11,000.
00:55:56That's correct.
00:55:59Well, you two don't seem to be quite as talkative as you were.
00:56:04No, sir.
00:56:05This whole situation is inexcusable, Sy.
00:56:08I can't tell you how humiliated I feel.
00:56:10Oh, forget it, A.P.
00:56:12I was provoked, of course.
00:56:13But it's over and done with now.
00:56:15And no serious damage, except to my pride.
00:56:18Well, I appreciate your attitude, Sy.
00:56:20But that doesn't alter the fact that in the last 24 hours,
00:56:23these two young mischief makers have gone beyond the bounds of reason.
00:56:28And they've got to be taught a lesson.
00:56:29Oh, please, Mr. Henshaw.
00:56:31Don't blame Mildred.
00:56:32It was all my fault.
00:56:33Don't listen to him, Uncle.
00:56:34It was my fault.
00:56:35Don't listen to her, Albert.
00:56:36It's all his doings.
00:56:37He's a menace to the community.
00:56:39What's a menace, Papa?
00:56:41I will be if you don't shut up.
00:56:43Emily, take her home, lock her in a room, and keep her there if she learns to behave.
00:56:47Will we lock her in a cellar?
00:56:49Will she get bread and water?
00:56:51Now, you get out of here.
00:56:53And don't even let me catch you near my office, my home, or my family.
00:56:56And if you see me on the street, you run.
00:56:59Yes, sir.
00:57:01Yes, sir.
00:57:02Do you mind if I go in and get my things?
00:57:05Go and get them and get out.
00:57:26Hello, Jimmy?
00:57:27This is Mildred.
00:57:28I got it.
00:57:29I figured out where Mrs. Blake hid her money.
00:57:31Now, listen.
00:57:33He poised himself grotesquely in an attitude of mirth.
00:57:38Huh?
00:57:39What?
00:57:40I can't understand you.
00:57:43What poem?
00:57:45Oh, that.
00:57:46Yeah, I remember.
00:57:47Look, Jimmy, can't you run out of here?
00:57:49I tell you, this is it.
00:57:50I know what it is.
00:57:52What?
00:57:53Oh, there with the Andersons playing cards.
00:57:56Okay, I'll be on the porch waiting for you.
00:58:01Junior, what's happened?
00:58:03You stay out until Mama comes home and finds out what you've done to me.
00:58:07Okay, but if you make any more noises like that, I'll call the sheriff.
00:58:11And if you spoil any of my things, you'll get something you won't like.
00:58:22See, I was sure glad when you phoned.
00:58:23I thought you were locked up.
00:58:24I was, and I'd still be up there, too,
00:58:26if I hadn't gotten sweet little Junior to fall for a gag.
00:58:29But when I found this, I just had to find a way to tell you about it.
00:58:32Come over here by the light.
00:58:38Look, right here.
00:58:40He poised himself grotesquely in an attitude of mirth
00:58:44on a damned discovered hassack that was sitting on the hearth.
00:58:48It sounds awful silly to me.
00:58:50Sure, but it's a clue, Jimmy, don't you see?
00:58:52Why else would she have the poem in that book of hers?
00:58:58You may be right.
00:59:00I'm sure of it.
00:59:01Yeah, but do you think your uncle will pay any attention to it?
00:59:03Are you crazy, Jimmy Atkins?
00:59:05Nobody would ever have known there was any money
00:59:07if it wasn't for us and our disgraceful behavior.
00:59:10We aren't going to tell anybody.
00:59:11We're going to find the $40,000 ourselves.
00:59:14Then they'll all change their tunes.
00:59:19I don't know, Mildred.
00:59:20I think we ought to tell Mr. Burton.
00:59:22And let him get the credit for nothing doing.
00:59:25I only thought if we told him, why, he might be grateful
00:59:28and sort of try to square things for us.
00:59:30Well, don't you think we ought to be pretty sure the money's really there?
00:59:33The murderer could have taken it, you know.
00:59:36Our Mrs. Blakeline has sort of dreamed up all those figures.
00:59:39Yeah, another false alarm.
00:59:40We would be in a mess.
00:59:42Let's go now and look.
00:59:44Now? It's dark.
00:59:45We couldn't see anything.
00:59:46Well, have you got a flashlight?
00:59:48No, but I got a candle in the car.
00:59:49Come on, we know our way and that's where to look.
00:59:51It's a cinch.
01:00:19It's a cinch.
01:00:49Ah!
01:01:20There's that noise again.
01:01:21Somebody's in this room.
01:01:23Don't be silly.
01:01:24It's just a loose fire or something.
01:01:26Let's get out of here.
01:01:27Stop it, will you?
01:01:28It's only the storm.
01:01:31Where's the Hasek?
01:01:33I don't know.
01:01:34What's a Hasek anyway?
01:01:37I don't know.
01:01:40What about you, dear?
01:01:42Well, they always have to be so fancy in poems.
01:01:46Let's start looking.
01:01:49Let's go.
01:02:19He poised himself grotesquely in an attitude of nurse.
01:02:25How does anyone get in an attitude of nurse?
01:02:27He must think of something funny, I guess.
01:02:29Oh, your help.
01:02:30How can I think of anything funny in this place?
01:02:33But it means something to me, it must.
01:02:49Wait a minute, Jimmy.
01:02:51You're sitting on a bus, the Hasek.
01:03:00Jimmy.
01:03:16You know what I think?
01:03:18That woman was cracked and just dreamt up all those $40,000.
01:03:23It looks like all right.
01:03:24Yeah.
01:03:26Well, I'd better get home before the folks do
01:03:28and see if I can't bribe Jimmy to keep his trap shut.
01:03:32Hasek, you're not even a real fool.
01:03:38Look.
01:03:40A loose brick.
01:03:42You got a knife?
01:03:43Yeah, at least.
01:03:48Let's go.
01:04:18Let's go.
01:04:48Jimmy.
01:05:07Drop it.
01:05:08And keep your hands away from your pockets.
01:05:13I said drop that money.
01:05:16That's better.
01:05:18Now back away from it.
01:05:20Singer?
01:05:21Yes, Mr. Burton.
01:05:23Stupid old Singer.
01:05:25But not so stupid if he's going to let you get the buried treasure.
01:05:28So that's it.
01:05:29You were just about to get your hands on it
01:05:31and my unexpected arrival upset things, eh?
01:05:34Not at all.
01:05:35I was waiting for you.
01:05:37I felt pretty sure the amazing figures in Mrs. Blake's ledger
01:05:40would bring you sneaking around here tonight.
01:05:42Sneaking?
01:05:43Why, it's my duty to try and uncover all possible assets of the estate.
01:05:47So that you can hide them again?
01:05:49In your own pocket?
01:05:51You've been doing that for ten years.
01:05:53You must be mad.
01:05:54I don't know what you're talking about.
01:05:56No?
01:05:57Well, what about old Jasper Dunn's estate?
01:05:59Nakata Girls?
01:06:01Johnson's Widow?
01:06:02You haven't a shred of proof.
01:06:04I didn't have until tonight
01:06:06when I discovered that those receipts of Mrs. Blake's
01:06:09were $11,000 of forgeries.
01:06:11Yes, and the power of attorney, too,
01:06:13with which you've been stealing half her income
01:06:16until she got suspicious.
01:06:18Simpkins, I'm afraid I've underestimated your ability.
01:06:22No.
01:06:23If it hadn't been for the blundering of a couple of children,
01:06:26you would even have gotten away with murder
01:06:28because it was you who killed Mary Blake, not Olaf.
01:06:32Oh, boy!
01:06:33Shh!
01:06:41Oh!
01:06:45Jimmy?
01:06:47Jimmy!
01:06:48Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy!
01:06:52Amy, I'm glad you're out here for nothing, Sheriff.
01:06:54But you need to go on putting Straits story.
01:06:56Jimmy!
01:06:59Sounds like they're here all right.
01:07:03Don't!
01:07:04Stop or I'll shoot!
01:07:05Don't stop me, Sheriff!
01:07:07The thief's getting away!
01:07:09He's a thief and he's trying to get away!
01:07:11Give it! Hold on! What is all this?
01:07:13I'm surprised that he's here. These two attacked me and let him escape.
01:07:15Come on! We're wasting time!
01:07:17It's a trick! Don't listen to him! He was stealing the $40,000 and Simpkins tried to stop him. We saw it all!
01:07:22That's right, Sheriff! Here's Simpkins! He'll tell you!
01:07:24What's this all about, Jenkins?
01:07:26Sheriff, arrest him for the murder of Mary Blake.
01:07:28I told you so! He's been stealing for years and the papers are poached and...
01:07:32They're all mad! You don't believe this!
01:07:34What? It's the truth! And he tried to kill Mr. Simpkins, too!
01:07:37Look here, Sheriff! Shut up! Shut up! Now you listen to me!
01:07:40You're all under arrest until I get to the bottom of this! Come on!
01:07:52Oh, what about the slow leak?
01:07:54Oh, I had that fixed!
01:07:56Listen to this!
01:07:58Starting tomorrow, the Bugle will run a series of articles by Jimmy Atkins, of whom Brownsville is justly proud.
01:08:05Not bad, huh?
01:08:07Uh, I don't suppose you'd care to bother with an item in the society column?
01:08:11For sure! Anything that's news!
01:08:13Miss Mildred Henshaw is giving a dance Saturday evening in honor of Mr. Jimmy Atkins, reporter on the Brownsville Bugle.
01:08:22Gee, honest, Mildred, can I bring a girl?
01:08:25Who?
01:08:26Grandma!
01:08:31You had it fixed.
01:08:33Yeah.
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