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00:02:31Carey, see if these two girls get home, will you?
00:02:33Yes, sir.
00:02:36Hiya, Sam. Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:02:38Hi.
00:02:39Meet Johnny Williams, the Herald's gift to the police department.
00:02:41This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:02:43Hi, young fella.
00:02:44It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:02:45You love him when you get to know him better.
00:02:47Johnny's fixing to clean up the department.
00:02:49I thought you ought to look him over.
00:02:50Oh, cut it out, eh?
00:02:51The Herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:02:53That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:02:54The Herald has ideals.
00:02:55Only the truth is fit to print.
00:02:57I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:59Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:03:00It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:03:02Yeah. Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:03:04You won't.
00:03:06Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:03:08Maybe I'll come up with a scoop order these days
00:03:10just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:03:12Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:14Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:15Come on, Johnny, meet the rest of the gang.
00:03:16Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:20That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:22Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:25I'm going down to Dutchman's for an examination.
00:03:27I'll go along with you.
00:03:29All right.
00:03:30Come on.
00:03:31John.
00:03:32Yeah?
00:03:33Can I get a drink?
00:03:34You go ahead.
00:03:35No, I ain't got time, John.
00:03:36Go ahead.
00:03:37Thanks a million.
00:03:38You bet yourself.
00:03:39See you.
00:03:40I'll see you later.
00:03:41Bye.
00:03:42All right, John.
00:03:43See you later.
00:03:44You be careful.
00:03:45Thanks.
00:03:46Bye.
00:03:47Get home safe.
00:03:48Yes, I will.
00:03:49Thanks.
00:03:50Have a good day.
00:03:51Yeah.
00:03:52All right, John.
00:03:53See you.
00:03:54Nice to meet you.
00:03:55No, I can't.
00:03:56I've got a guy running around town.
00:03:57What's he doing?
00:03:58He's running around town?
00:03:59I've got to get home.
00:04:00What the hell, Harry?
00:04:01Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:04:03This is Mr. Taylor of the City News Bureau, Sergeant.
00:04:05Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:04:10What is this, a gang?
00:04:28It's Walter Bard.
00:04:29Runs a private detective agency in the Ecuador building.
00:04:32And they picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:34Looks like somebody's trying to give
00:04:35the department a business.
00:04:36Get going out there.
00:04:37Yeah.
00:04:48Gracious sakes alive, it's Mr. Bard.
00:04:51Do you know anything about this?
00:04:53Not me, not me.
00:04:55I just sell him flowers.
00:05:00Take this into the desk.
00:05:01Right.
00:05:04Hey, Sam, what have you got?
00:05:07What do you think?
00:05:08Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk
00:05:11in front of the station.
00:05:12That's the name of the game, gin.
00:05:14Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:17Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can.
00:05:19Then have the car gone over for fingerprints.
00:05:21Hey, Sam, who's the?
00:05:22Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:23Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:24I couldn't get any closer.
00:05:25He's got a gun.
00:05:26He's got a gun.
00:05:27He's got a gun.
00:05:29I couldn't get any closer.
00:05:30Boy, there's going to be a stink about this.
00:05:32He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:34He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:36He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:39What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:40I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:46Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:48Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:50Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death
00:05:52in his car right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:54Evidently a definite slap at the prison administration.
00:05:57You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum
00:05:59war that's been going on.
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:01Say that it's gangland's despairing reply
00:06:04to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:05Huh?
00:06:06Sure, play it up big.
00:06:07Lay it on thick.
00:06:08Everybody's going to be taking potshots
00:06:10of the administration over this little deal.
00:06:11And the express is its only friend.
00:06:15Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:17Bring back any letters or photographs
00:06:19that might look hot.
00:06:21See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:24Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:25Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:27OK, Lieutenant.
00:06:28Harper, you chase up to Bard's office
00:06:29in the equitable building.
00:06:31Go through his desk and files.
00:06:32Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:33Yes.
00:06:34Well, Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:36Bard used to hang out at Tony's on 2nd Street quite a lot.
00:06:39Good idea.
00:06:40Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard
00:06:42met anyone there tonight.
00:06:44Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs to.
00:06:45Right.
00:06:46Yes?
00:06:48Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, Lieutenant.
00:06:50She's probably sleeping.
00:06:50Keep on trying.
00:06:51OK.
00:06:56Hey, Dan.
00:06:58Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:00He covers police for the sun.
00:07:01Also has the policy corner on the side.
00:07:03Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:05Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:06I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff
00:07:08that infests this mortuary.
00:07:10When are you going to get rid of that Moore
00:07:12thieving trophy you got on?
00:07:13Sir, this Buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather,
00:07:16Daniel Boone Wintergreen, a Nordic Indian fighter.
00:07:19Nothing would persuade me to partner with it,
00:07:21except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:23Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:24Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:26On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards
00:07:29in the south wind.
00:07:38Come in, Doc.
00:07:39Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:40The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:43Have your boys found it yet?
00:07:44In the front seat of Holstreet.
00:07:46Discharged from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:48Mm-hmm.
00:07:48His own.
00:07:49There were plenty of bullets in the car.
00:07:51Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:52The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:54The body was driven there in Bart's car and left there.
00:07:56Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:07:57Do you think someone's trying to discredit
00:07:59us in the administration?
00:08:01Could be.
00:08:04Holy mackerel.
00:08:09That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:12Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:15The daughter of Luther Bradley, the ruffian
00:08:17who killed his father.
00:08:20Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:08:23Send Brewer in.
00:08:24Must be some other Bradley.
00:08:25Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:08:27Why?
00:08:28The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:08:30Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley
00:08:33house on Carlisle.
00:08:34Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:36Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:38We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:39OK.
00:08:40Handle her carefully.
00:08:41All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:43Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:45Yes?
00:08:47Keep trying.
00:08:51Express?
00:08:52I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:53Very important.
00:08:54It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:08:57Hello?
00:08:58Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:09:00Oh, hello, Doc.
00:09:01What's on your mind?
00:09:03Walter Bard?
00:09:05Sure I know him.
00:09:07Well, who shot him?
00:09:08I don't know.
00:09:09But his body was found in his own garage.
00:09:11I don't know who shot him.
00:09:13I don't know.
00:09:14But his body was found in his own car right in front
00:09:16of the police station here.
00:09:18That's right, the police station.
00:09:20And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:22There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book
00:09:24that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:27Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:29Are you sure?
00:09:33Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:38Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:40I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:41Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:42You can count on me.
00:09:44Goodbye.
00:10:03This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:10:05Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:06How do you do?
00:10:07Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night,
00:10:09Miss Bradley.
00:10:10Sit down, please.
00:10:12What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:16You knew him?
00:10:18Knew him?
00:10:19He was murdered this evening.
00:10:22Oh.
00:10:23In his own car, shot.
00:10:26I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:29You did know him?
00:10:31Yes, I knew him.
00:10:33Seen him recently?
00:10:36This evening.
00:10:37I had an appointment with him.
00:10:39Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:41No.
00:10:42Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:46I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:48Private?
00:10:53That's not so good.
00:10:57Is your father still in Washington?
00:10:59Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:02This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father,
00:11:04Miss Bradley.
00:11:06A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing
00:11:08for the department, too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:11Maybe.
00:11:12Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:15Is that necessary?
00:11:16Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course,
00:11:18if you'd rather not.
00:11:21Very well.
00:11:23This way, please.
00:11:26Now the right hand.
00:11:31That's fine.
00:11:33That's fine.
00:11:35You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:37Oh, thank you.
00:11:39My photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:42Sitting's by appointment only.
00:11:44That's all there is to it.
00:11:51Nothing classified on him.
00:11:56It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:58You don't mind waiting?
00:11:59Of course not.
00:12:00Right in there.
00:12:03You're being swell about this.
00:12:12Yes?
00:12:13Max Calvert to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:15Send him in.
00:12:16Thanks, Sam.
00:12:19I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:21I figured you'd be around.
00:12:22Well, I don't wonder.
00:12:23You're sore, Sam.
00:12:25Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:28The administration, too.
00:12:30The administration's your problem.
00:12:31Ah, now that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:34Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:37I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:39I know, but a politician sometimes can do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:44I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:48So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:50Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:53She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:55I'm not making any statements.
00:12:56And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:12:59Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:13:03I'm not letting that tabloid of yours spill that girl's reputation
00:13:05so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:13:07Well, the public has the right to know the facts.
00:13:09Express prints them.
00:13:10Yeah.
00:13:11Anything for a nickel.
00:13:16Look, Sam.
00:13:17How long have you had this job?
00:13:19Long enough.
00:13:21When you first came into this department, I 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 cop here.
00:13:32He never played ball.
00:13:34So what did it get him?
00:13:36A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:38You 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.
00:13:51How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:53I'd like it.
00:13:54You know that, Calvert.
00:13:56Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked, it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:06There 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 a material witness, anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election.
00:14:16Then let her go.
00:14:18She'd be all right.
00:14:20Do that and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:22Oh, Sam.
00:14:23Now, don't look at it that way.
00:14:25Why, a week after the election, the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:30Think it over.
00:14:34Don't forget, Sam, it always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:56Great guy, wasn't he, Lieutenant?
00:14:58He sure was.
00:15:00I guess he was just about the greatest cop the city ever had.
00:15:02Yeah.
00:15:03Wanted to get him.
00:15:04Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:15:06See you later.
00:15:10What'd you find in Bard's apartment?
00:15:12Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:15:15Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:18Prints on the gun, on one of the glasses.
00:15:22Prints on the gun, on one of the glasses.
00:15:26And Miss Bradley's fingerprints.
00:15:27All check.
00:15:31Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:37Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:43Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:51All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:56Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:59Oh, yes, he poured a drink for me, but I set it down without tasting it.
00:16:04We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:16:09All right.
00:16:11I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:18I 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,
00:16:34prominent people.
00:16:36He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:17:02Won't you sit down? I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one, thank you.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:26Cigarette?
00:17:27Oh, thank you.
00:17:32Well?
00:17:34I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:17:37How much have you raised?
00:17:39$10,000.
00:17:40And I said $20,000.
00:17:42Well, that settles that.
00:17:44Oh, please, won'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, not since I put on long pants.
00:18:11And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:14I can believe that.
00:18:16But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:19Take it.
00:18:20You look shaky.
00:18:23Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:34You'll find them all there.
00:18:35Don't move.
00:18:37I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:44Stay where you are.
00:18:48He was a good man.
00:18:51He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:55Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe that chisel
00:18:58let 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 did you do with the envelope?
00:19:07Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:09What was in it?
00:19:10I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:12It must have been hot if Bard wanted that kind of dough for it.
00:19:15Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:17What was it about? Your father?
00:19:20It's no use asking me.
00:19:21What was in it?
00:19:22Dirt Bard had 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. It was raining.
00:19:32You go down to his car.
00:19:33He makes a pass at you.
00:19:34You grab his gun, let him have it, and scram with the envelope.
00:19:37The brakes on the car come loose and the car starts rolling.
00:19:39Lieutenant, you...
00:19:42You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
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?
00:19:54I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:58What are you going to do with me?
00:20:00I ought to book you.
00:20:03You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:10I 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
00:20:17if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:19Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:20I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:23I'm glad.
00:20:25I've always liked policemen.
00:20:29I should book you.
00:20:30Otherwise I can't hold you.
00:20:32If you don't mind waiting a little longer.
00:20:35Well, something may turn up.
00:20:38You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:41Put it any way you like.
00:20:45In here, please.
00:20:56You guys mind if I want a hand?
00:20:57Nope.
00:21:00Hello, Doc.
00:21:01Anything new on the Bard killing?
00:21:03Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:05Well, we know all about that.
00:21:07Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley,
00:21:09Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:11No kidding?
00:21:12That's right. Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:14She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:17Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:20Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:22That's nice of you.
00:21:23But I'm still running the night shift around here
00:21:25and I'll give out the information.
00:21:27The Express already has it.
00:21:28I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:30You boys might as well have it too.
00:21:32Miss Bradley is involved.
00:21:33To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:35She was in Bard's apartment this evening,
00:21:36but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:38Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:39I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you, fellas.
00:21:42Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:43That would cost no silver.
00:21:44Yeah.
00:21:45Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:47Miss Janet Bradley.
00:21:48Junior league, active in everything.
00:21:50Oh, yes, Mr. Jones.
00:21:51I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:52I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:55Janet Bradley, daughter of the Maryland candidate,
00:21:57is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:21:59Yes.
00:22:00And you leave those two tickets for the Philharmonic.
00:22:02You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:05We won't forget.
00:22:06Dr. G.F. Yeager.
00:22:08Now, which one of you has taken my scissors?
00:22:10I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:16If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks
00:22:18with my scissors,
00:22:19I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:25Well, it's about time.
00:22:28Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:29I didn't know you were here.
00:22:30I hope you haven't been worried about me.
00:22:32No, I haven't.
00:22:33I haven't.
00:22:34Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:35I didn't know you were here.
00:22:36I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:38Long enough.
00:22:39Where have you been?
00:22:40Oh, all over.
00:22:41It's been a very busy night.
00:22:42Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:44Not yet.
00:22:45He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:46I don't trust Carson.
00:22:47He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:49Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room
00:22:51that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:53I want her charged with murder,
00:22:54and I want it spread all over the front page
00:22:56of every paper in town.
00:22:57Sooner the better.
00:22:58Oh, thank you.
00:22:59I'll save this for later.
00:23:01I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage
00:23:03any local papers had in years.
00:23:05I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:08Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:11Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:12Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:14I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance
00:23:16at the inquest.
00:23:17Every appearance in court.
00:23:19I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:22How she looks.
00:23:23With the inference that she's frightened,
00:23:25that she's hiding something,
00:23:26that her back's against the wall.
00:23:28Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert,
00:23:30is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:35What did you say?
00:23:36He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:38Who did it?
00:23:39I don't know.
00:23:40You 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?
00:23:47Not yet.
00:23:48Well, don't.
00:23:49The trouble is,
00:23:50if Carson ever takes a good look at the body,
00:23:52he'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.
00:23:58Get out of here, fast, tonight.
00:24:00Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:02You can and you're going to.
00:24:04But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body
00:24:06and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:07before the chief medical examiner's had a whack at it.
00:24:11Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:14One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:17Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay
00:24:19a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:20All right, now you go down to the morgue
00:24:21and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:24Then make out commitment papers for John Doe.
00:24:26Cremation.
00:24:27And ship it out tonight.
00:24:28But is it sure to be found out sooner or later?
00:24:30If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:33These squawks, you send them 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.
00:24:53Yes?
00:24:54Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:25:01Hello?
00:25:03Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:05Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:07You've been ringing for some time, haven't you?
00:25:09I'm sorry.
00:25:10I was sound asleep.
00:25:12I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:16That is impossible.
00:25:18He wasn't at...
00:25:19I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:22We don't know yet.
00:25:25I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:27I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:30Of course, but...
00:25:32But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:34We haven't been living together.
00:25:38Yes.
00:25:40As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:53Yes?
00:25:55Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:25:57It's Walter.
00:25:59Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:01Or where?
00:26:02No, Arthur.
00:26:04No.
00:26:05They've asked me to come down to the station now.
00:26:09Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:13I'll go with you.
00:26:15Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:18Don't worry, darling.
00:26:19Everything will be all right.
00:26:21Yes.
00:26:22Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:24In about 20 minutes.
00:26:26It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:32Here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stubs.
00:26:36Any calls?
00:26:37No, sir.
00:26:38One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:39The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:42Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:44Oh, send her in.
00:26:45Will you be so kind as to let me in?
00:26:47Oh, send her in.
00:26:48Will you come in, please?
00:26:50Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:52I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:54This 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.
00:27:08You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:10Well, Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:12We found his car parked in front of this building.
00:27:14His body in it.
00:27:15But that's fantastic.
00:27:16Who did it?
00:27:17Well, we're not prepared to say as yet.
00:27:19Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:23Not for over a year.
00:27:25Have you seen him recently?
00:27:27I saw him in a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:30I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:32We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:34Well, 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?
00:27:41No.
00:27:42The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:44Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:48Repeatedly.
00:27:49He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:51Nora.
00:27:52I'm going to say it all.
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?
00:28:07Yes.
00:28:09I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:11You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening?
00:28:14Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:28:17I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:28:21I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:25Were you?
00:28:27No.
00:28:29I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:28:33Naturally.
00:28:34Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:36Yeah, sure.
00:28:37This way, please.
00:28:42Listen, pal.
00:28:43I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:45Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:47Name?
00:28:48I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:50Never heard of you.
00:28:51What's your address?
00:28:52You can't book me, copper.
00:28:54I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:56The annual smoker, see?
00:28:57I go on at one o'clock.
00:28:59What's your address?
00:29:01But what about the Elks?
00:29:03You ain't gonna let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:06I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:07The address, Zachary.
00:29:09You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:10It's my professional reputation.
00:29:12Visit the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:14Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:16He'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:18But I gotta go on at 1 a.m.
00:29:20I'll come back.
00:29:21Honest, I will.
00:29:22Take him away.
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00:33:04Woodbury Crematorium.
00:33:06This one burns, huh?
00:33:07Yep.
00:33:08Give him an easy ride.
00:33:09It's his last one.
00:33:35The stiff's gone.
00:33:37Are you sure you ever had one?
00:33:39Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself.
00:33:41Let me use your pole.
00:33:44Yeah, Doc.
00:33:45The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.
00:33:48Well, go back over your route.
00:33:49Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.
00:33:51If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as you get here.
00:33:54Well...
00:34:01Hello.
00:34:02Hello.
00:34:05What?
00:34:08Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?
00:34:13Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:34:15They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.
00:34:19Well, I don't believe it.
00:34:20You make him cough up the truth.
00:34:22I want to know who else wants that body.
00:34:25Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter.
00:34:27Both for the administration and for the police department and, incidentally, for you.
00:34:31But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.
00:34:34Everything you asked me to.
00:34:35You find that body and get rid of it.
00:34:44Yes?
00:34:45Sam, a John Doe that was being transported to the Woodbury crematorium
00:34:49has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:34:51What do you mean, disappeared?
00:34:53The boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance
00:34:55and when they got there, it was gone.
00:34:57Well, what am I supposed to 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!
00:35:23Hello? Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:25Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:29I'll call you right back.
00:35:31You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:33What's your name?
00:35:34Williams, the Herald.
00:35:35I'm pretty busy.
00:35:36Sure you're busy.
00:35:37You bricklayers is always busy.
00:35:39Unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:35:42And then it's, Flossie, my darling.
00:35:45Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:47And give us a kiss.
00:35:49Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:51And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:35:53But 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.
00:36:00Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:36:03And owin' me a dollar six bits.
00:36:06Seven of them he died owin' me for.
00:36:08Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:36:09But you'll get your money back.
00:36:11And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get?
00:36:14Bird seed!
00:36:16I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:17You go down to the desk.
00:36:18When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:23I've been to the desk.
00:36:25And what do I get?
00:36:26Bird seed, sure.
00:36:27But this time you tell Lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:29Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:30Tell him to give you your dollar six bits and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:33Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:38Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:40Wait.
00:36:42Bird seed!
00:36:44Hello.
00:36:45Mr. Jones?
00:36:46Williams.
00:36:48I got a Lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:36:51An exclusive?
00:36:52Yeah.
00:36:53In the press room clothes closet?
00:36:56Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:58Oh, I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:04Now where are my scissors?
00:37:06I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:10Last 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. Rosinski. Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:42Yeah.
00:37:48Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:52Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:54Yeah, he's here.
00:37:56Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat. I'll be right up.
00:37:59Hey, no dice. He 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.
00:38:07Look, Mr. Wintergreen, you can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:10I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:38:13Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:16It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:17I am dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:19Why, that overcoat's made history. It's practically a national monument.
00:38:22You can't have a big lug like Rosinski delivering milk in it.
00:38:25Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:27Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:29They'd pay real dough for it.
00:38:31The Smithsonian?
00:38:33Uh-huh.
00:38:34But do you really think...
00:38:36No, Williams. No, my mind is made up.
00:38:42Oh! Oh! Oh!
00:38:45Get me out of here! Get me out of here!
00:38:47Get me out of here! Get me out of here!
00:38:50Get me out of here!
00:38:51Give me Mr. Jones, quick.
00:38:56Sure, Mr. Jones. That's what I said.
00:38:58Walter Bard's body in the press room clothes closet.
00:39:01Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:39:02I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk. It's true.
00:39:05There's a guy in there, I tell you. Listen to him holler his head off.
00:39:08Yeah, and I'm the only one who knows except Wintergreen.
00:39:10I got him spiked.
00:39:11Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:13Get out!
00:39:21Oh, my. Oh, my.
00:39:25Yes?
00:39:26Mr. Haggerty, city editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:39:28Right.
00:39:29Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:33What did you say?
00:39:35In the press room?
00:39:36Here?
00:39:38What?
00:39:40As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:39:42I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:39:46One of those tosspot reporters phoned Haggerty
00:39:48and said that Bard's body is hanging in the press room clothes closet.
00:39:54Say, you don't tell me you're in the press room.
00:39:57Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Jaeger lost.
00:40:02There's only one way to find out.
00:40:09That's what I said, you dope.
00:40:10All wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:40:12My overcoat, please. Credit where credit is due.
00:40:14Hey, look, you guys, a perfect fit.
00:40:17Hey, what goes on?
00:40:18I found Bard.
00:40:19All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:21Now, Herald's printing it, so relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:25Give me a rewrite, sweetheart. Hurry up.
00:40:27Haggerty was right. It is Bard.
00:40:31Say, this guy didn't bleed much.
00:40:34Jaeger say anything about that?
00:40:35Not to me.
00:40:37I have him taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:42Mr. Jones again.
00:40:43Okay, you'll get him.
00:40:46Lieutenant Carson, examine the body now.
00:40:48Yeah.
00:40:49Thirty years, Lieutenant, I've been putting him on ice.
00:40:51Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:40:53Where was he?
00:40:54In here.
00:40:55Pull it out.
00:41:03That's the John Doe we fished out of the bay.
00:41:05The one Doc Jaeger committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:07How'd it get in there?
00:41:08I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:09I put him on number seven myself. There's been a switch.
00:41:11Here's Doc Jaeger now.
00:41:12What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:14It looks as if someone went outside and killed him.
00:41:16Only it wasn't John Doe, it was Walter Bard.
00:41:18John Doe was here in Bard's place.
00:41:20Boy, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:22A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:24You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:25Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:27Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:30That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:32Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:34Well, Mallory, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:36Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:37And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner is through with him.
00:41:40Yes, sir.
00:41:41I'll be back in a minute.
00:41:43Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:45Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:47This is Ames of the Express.
00:41:49The Express?
00:41:51Oh, I haven't the slightest idea of what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:41:56Shh.
00:41:57In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with the case.
00:42:01Oh, I'm sorry.
00:42:02I'm sorry.
00:42:03I'm sorry.
00:42:04I'm sorry.
00:42:05I'm sorry.
00:42:06I'm sorry.
00:42:07I'm sorry.
00:42:08I'm sorry.
00:42:09I'm sorry.
00:42:10I'm sorry.
00:42:11I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:15You're welcome.
00:42:16What was it, Martha?
00:42:17A report on the Express.
00:42:18The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:27Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:42:30No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:32If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:34There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:36It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:38In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:40We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:43At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:47I'm not sure of him.
00:42:50Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:51Yes, I do.
00:42:53And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:55I'm not sure of her.
00:42:57Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:59We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:03You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:05We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:08Darling.
00:43:11Hello.
00:43:13Yes.
00:43:15I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:18Sure, I know I got Jaeger.
00:43:20I want someone else.
00:43:22Bard, for a very particular reason.
00:43:25Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:27As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:32I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:35We've come to make certain alterations
00:43:37in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:39What's happened?
00:43:41We told you we weren't at Bard's apartment this evening.
00:43:44Well, we were.
00:43:45Nora was there when Bard died.
00:43:47I was there later.
00:43:49Go on.
00:43:51I didn't tell Arthur I was going,
00:43:53but I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:43:59I don't know what you're talking about.
00:44:02There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:04Take off your things and stay a while.
00:44:06Have a drink?
00:44:08It's a rainy evening.
00:44:09That's finished, Walter.
00:44:10I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:12We want to get married.
00:44:13So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:15You have no right to say that.
00:44:16You have absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:18Perhaps.
00:44:19But I'm not going to turn you loose
00:44:21so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:23Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:25So long as I'm married, no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:28Don't worry.
00:44:29Go into the bedroom.
00:44:31I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:43Well, well.
00:44:44Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:46Did you listen?
00:44:47I heard a little.
00:44:48Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy,
00:44:51but he was holding out for more money.
00:44:53And then?
00:44:54Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:56I don't know what happened.
00:44:57Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:44:59I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:45:02Then a door slammed.
00:45:04Yes?
00:45:05I waited a few minutes, then I went in.
00:45:10Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:12He took a step toward me.
00:45:14I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:16The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:45:20Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:22When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:24I was terrified.
00:45:25I rushed out of the place.
00:45:27Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:29I was afraid to.
00:45:33Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:35No.
00:45:38Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:45:41I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:43But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:45:46Then who shot Bard?
00:45:48I shot Bard.
00:45:49I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:51I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:45:54I just pulled over the curb opposite his apartment house.
00:45:56Door opened, and Nora came running out.
00:45:59She looked frightened.
00:46:00Before I could get around to calling after her,
00:46:02she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:46:04I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:46:07I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:10The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:13I thought I'd never see her again.
00:46:15The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:46The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:50That would be murder.
00:46:55It looked like poison to me.
00:46:58All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:47:01There was only one thing to do.
00:47:03Get the body out of the place.
00:47:05I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:16Someone was coming up.
00:47:18I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:21I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:23He was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:47:26No one saw me.
00:47:45No one saw me.
00:47:47No one saw me.
00:48:14Then I saw the gun.
00:48:16I could fake a suicide.
00:48:18Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:20It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:23I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:27It occurred to me then if Bard'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.
00:48:38Started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house.
00:48:42And that's our story.
00:48:44Nora's and mine.
00:48:47Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bard's story?
00:48:50Yes, I do.
00:48:52And you believe his?
00:48:53Of course I do.
00:48:55You really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:48:59Partly.
00:49:00We had to speak for Johnny and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:49:04I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:06Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:49:07You can wait in the outer office.
00:49:16I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:20See the lieutenant, he says.
00:49:22A dollar six bits.
00:49:24That stiff died owing me and he tells me to see the lieutenant.
00:49:29Listen.
00:49:31I 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.
00:49:48Okay, my lawyer.
00:49:49All right, see you, darling.
00:49:51What have you got?
00:50:06I'll see you later, John.
00:50:28Smoke?
00:50:29No, thanks.
00:50:31We've turned up some new evidence.
00:50:34Does it help me?
00:50:36Oh.
00:50:39What is it?
00:50:40Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:42He was poisoned.
00:50:43Really?
00:50:44Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey decanter.
00:50:48Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:50You don't think I put the poison in his decanter.
00:50:54Why 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?
00:51:01Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:51:04Are you going to book me?
00:51:07If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:12I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:15I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:51:18You have to decide whether I'm guilty
00:51:20because I really am guilty or because I'm
00:51:23Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:25If you book me now, you'll never be sure
00:51:27whether you did it because you really believe me.
00:51:29You did it because you really believe I killed Walter Bard
00:51:31or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:51:36That's one of the things I'm trying
00:51:37to get straight in my mind.
00:51:40If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat and another reason,
00:51:45it would have been easy.
00:51:46I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:51:48What other reason?
00:51:52It 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.
00:52:29I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:52:59Yes, sir.
00:53:00Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers
00:53:02still in the building?
00:53:03In the building?
00:53:04She's practically in my lap.
00:53:05But don't worry, Lieutenant.
00:53:06I'll get rid of her.
00:53:07Don't get rid of her.
00:53:08I want to see her.
00:53:09Send her in.
00:53:10Then see if you can locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:12OK, Lieutenant.
00:53:14All right, Flossie.
00:53:15The lieutenant will see you now.
00:53:18Maybe now I'll get me daughter six bits.
00:53:21Sit down, darling.
00:53:22None of that.
00:53:23All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.
00:53:26You mean Bard?
00:53:28He must have died with some assets
00:53:29in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:31Don't worry about that.
00:53:32You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:34Tell me, did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:36Sure I did.
00:53:37When?
00:53:386 o'clock this evening.
00:53:39Just as he was coming out of Simmy's bail bond office.
00:53:41Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:43He did not.
00:53:44He never pays you.
00:53:45You've always got to chase him.
00:53:47Up to the present moment, that slicker owes me
00:53:50a dollar six bits.
00:53:51Did you see him after that?
00:53:53I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him.
00:53:55He must have been out to dinner.
00:53:57So I stuck around.
00:53:58Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:54:00Nobody but Doc Yeager.
00:54:01Do I get my money or don't I?
00:54:04Yeager?
00:54:05He was up there?
00:54:06Bard was out to the both of us.
00:54:08What time was this?
00:54:09Oh, I don't know.
00:54:10Half past 8 maybe.
00:54:12I knocked on Bard's door, and he didn't answer.
00:54:14So I stuck around in the corridor.
00:54:17It was raining out, and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:19Then Doc Yeager came up.
00:54:20Did Yeager see you?
00:54:21No, he never seen me.
00:54:22But he was there.
00:54:23You ask him.
00:54:24Tell me about Yeager.
00:54:25What happened?
00:54:27I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway landing.
00:54:30I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:54:40Never seen a man so scared, the way he kept looking around.
00:54:44He could hardly find the keyhole.
00:54:46His hand was shaking so.
00:54:50I don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fit it.
00:55:04He shut the door behind him, so he wouldn't open it again.
00:55:08I don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fit it.
00:55:13He shut the door behind him so quiet, I could hardly hear it.
00:55:18He couldn't have been in there more than a minute,
00:55:20and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.
00:55:32He never seen me, but he was there.
00:55:34You ask him.
00:55:38Doc, come into my office again, will you?
00:55:40Okay.
00:55:41How do I get my financial reimbursement?
00:55:44There you are.
00:55:46You can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady.
00:55:50Just a minute.
00:55:51I want you to wait in here.
00:56:07Come in, Doc.
00:56:11You don't look well, Doc.
00:56:12Sit down.
00:56:13Oh, I'm all right.
00:56:14Tired, that's all.
00:56:16Too much night work, I guess.
00:56:18I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:21What's up, Sam?
00:56:22Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:25I don't get you.
00:56:27This malpractice case the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:29Bard did some investigating for the medical association, didn't he?
00:56:32Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:34I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up.
00:56:37It isn't in either his apartment or his office.
00:56:39Because there never was any.
00:56:40I heard different.
00:56:42Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:45Oh, you're not insinuating that I...
00:56:47That you got a hold of it?
00:56:49Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:50Boy, that's ridiculous.
00:56:52I haven't been out of the building since the body was found.
00:56:55Maybe you were out before it was found.
00:56:57I was not.
00:56:59You weren't in Bard's apartment earlier this evening?
00:57:01Certainly not.
00:57:02Along about 8.30?
00:57:03No.
00:57:05Suppose 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?
00:57:13Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:15It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:17I seen you.
00:57:18Sneaking into the poor, murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again.
00:57:22With the mark of can all over your face.
00:57:24And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:27Help!
00:57:28Help!
00:57:29Help!
00:57:30Help!
00:57:31Police!
00:57:32Police!
00:57:33Help!
00:57:38Help!
00:57:44I'm a healer.
00:58:08I'm a healer.
00:58:24There he is!
00:58:25Stop him!
00:58:28Where the hell?
00:58:38Take him away.
00:58:39God, come on.
00:58:40Thanks.
00:58:41Who are you?
00:58:42I'm Zachary.
00:58:43Hey, that's the guy broke jail.
00:58:44Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:46I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:49You got back just in time.
00:58:51Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:53Not exactly.
00:58:54You're still under arrest.
00:58:55Well, if that ain't gratitude.
00:58:57Don't worry, Zachary.
00:58:58I'll be in your corner when the case comes up.
00:59:00Thanks, pal.
00:59:02You can count on both of us.
00:59:04I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:06Won't you oblige, Lieutenant?
00:59:08There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton,
00:59:10but I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans.
00:59:13You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:15Fine.
00:59:16I'll be there.
00:59:17To kiss the bride.
00:59:19Good luck to both of you.
00:59:25Now, 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.
00:59:36She ought to be pretty hungry by now.
00:59:38You're nuts.
00:59:39It's been done.
00:59:41After the going over I gave her?
00:59:43I still say it's been done.
00:59:48Maybe you've got something there.
00:59:53You're free to go now.
00:59:55We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
00:59:57Oh.
00:59:58I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:00So am I.
01:00:01I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert
01:00:03and informing him that his stooge murdered Walter Bard,
01:00:06which of course ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:09And that's about all,
01:00:11unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard,
01:00:14between ourselves, of course.
01:00:16I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:18I didn't trust you before.
01:00:20You didn't seem to be yourself,
01:00:22but now you do.
01:00:24Thanks.
01:00:25It's quite a story.
01:00:27Suppose I told you I was going to kill myself.
01:00:29I'm sorry.
01:00:31Suppose I tell you about it some evening, soon.
01:00:35Suppose you do.
01:00:40Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:43He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet,
01:00:46the case might never have been solved.
01:00:48Hey, fellas, look at this.
01:00:50I'll call you back.
01:00:59I'll call you back.
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