April 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis Elliott Lewis,
two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
week in their own theaters, starring in a repertory of
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francecribe stories of their own, and you are choosing radio's
foremost players and radio's foremost plays. Ladies and gentlemen, Elliott.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Lewis, good evening, May I present my wife Kathy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Good evening, And before we start tonight, thank you all
very very much for the letters and cards and telegrams
wishing us well on our wedding anniversary. We do appreciate
your thoughtfulness. We're very grateful.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Tonight. We're going to please some of you and make
others of you angry because the story we're going to
do is written for us by E Jack Newman.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And whenever we've done one of Jack's radio plays, we
find that you have a remarkable reaction. You're either completely
charmed by the party and Eddie and Casey at the bat,
or you take a violent dislike to his plays. Now
we hope to get a new reaction as we present
E Jack Newman's new radio play Statement of.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Facts, Yeah Evergreen three one two nine one.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes, this is the long distance operator, Sir.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Evanston calling my party. We'll speak with anyone who's number.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Who's calling mister John Bradford.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
All right, Ray, just a moment please, mister Bradford ready
with your call.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Who ever greens for any one two nine to one
and Jackson.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Hello, Chris, here's your party, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pee h thank you. Hello Hello, Chris, this is Bradford.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'm sorry to wake up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
She say, you're calling from Evanston.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, that's right, Chris. The sheriff here picked up Ellen
Dudley half an hour ago. She was hiding in the
restroom in an all night bus station.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Ellen Dudley.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, a friend of mine with the State Highway Patrol
was in on him. Gave me a ring. Just a
lucky accident. I found out about it at all. She's
being held in communicado. Chris.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're a friend on the Highway patrol.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Does he have just a patrolman, Chris, that's out.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There's something old John Bradford.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Oh, there's something wrong, Chris.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
We have to work fast on this.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I know, I know, dear cat.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Whatever it is waiting until morning doesn't he realize you
need your rest.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let's keep quiet for a minute, will you? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Has she sent for anyone?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I don't think so, not yet. What do you want
to do, Chris?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Wait a minute? What time is it? I can drive
there by four fifteen. What's the sheriff's name.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Walter Martin?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You get to him, try, Chris, get to him and
tell Sheriff Morrow that the district attorney will hold him
personally responsible for the conduct of his office and his
offices in this situation. Remind him that the accused is
the state's prisoner. Chris, he can hold her for forty
eight Let me worry about that part of it. You
might certainly understand what I just told you right see
a little while.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
James, I think it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
He should call up Ellen, Randell, Dudley, after Evanston. They'll
make a spectacle of this thing. Or it can be
done right. Where's my blue shirt?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
It's in the laundry, Dear, I sent it out this morning.
Aren't you going to shave?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What time?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Would you like some car time?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Man?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Christ You can't just rush out of him and stop.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Please. A million things on my mind.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I'm only trying to help you down?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, you know? Sorry? Here? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Why do you always have to handle these things?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
When something had to be done right? You seem to
be the only one they can count on. Maybe it's
because you're the only one who get up in the
middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Flinks cut, flinks there.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
When will you be home?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't know. I'll get a nap at the club
this afternoon. Don't worry.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
There was a time when you tell me.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
About these I just haven't time now, Dear, where's my built?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Who's Ellen Randall Dudley?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Did you read the papers?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's her.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
She's a very beautiful woman, isn't she?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So they say? Coat?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What's she done?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I thought you read the papers.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I just noticed a picture on the front page.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I didn't write.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I wish I had some idea.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What you read about it? Dear? It's all over the papers,
the whole story. All you have to do is read
about it. You don't have to ask me.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I'll do that so long, Anne, Chris?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What now?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
We aren't very happy these days, are we, Chris?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't know what we are? Bye?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Why?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Why?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Boys? Is Christian? I'd hate to be and missus Dudley's
shoes when Christian gets through whatever? Alright, hold him as Christian?
How about a statement, mister Christian comment? Is she crazy?
It's not for me to say. We've let your opinion.
Mister Krae have never met missus Dudley. Pardon me? Were
you presenting indicting against him?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Were you finally indicting, mister Christians And the indictment can
only be presented and filed by the grand jury. Take
your hand off my arm?
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Does the state have sufficient evidence against Missusdudley.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
To get a conviction as a matter for the jury
in the superiod courts of the side?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
How about one more picture, mister Christian?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, John, Oh, hello, Chrag, I dig it in a
miss Sheriff Morrow.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I told him you were on the way, and he
called the paper blicity.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
How I'm afraid so, Chris.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's the only important arrest he's ever.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Made, and he could queer everything with these kind of shenanigans.
How long has he been in office? Oh? Ten years?
Where is he in there? Where's missus Dudley?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
She's in there with him?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What I told you?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
This was something for him?
Speaker 10 (06:18):
Here, Missus Morris sent over a tray, the accusing Sheriff
Morrow having a snack together.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'll have you no, come on where she's been these
last three days. I don't know if mad Any calls yet. No,
I'm sure of that. Somebody's gonna try and get to her.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Just a minute, Sheriff Marrow left orders he's not to
be disturbed.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
What's your name.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I'm Deputy PJ.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Taylor. Mister Taylor. I want you to go and stand
by that door over there. Huh No, one absolutely no
one has to come through that darn till I say so.
I'd take my order from Sheriff Morrow. Taylor.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Hey, I thought I told you I didn't want anyone
around here.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Sheriff Morrow. Yes, who are you Dale Christian?
Speaker 10 (06:53):
Oh, mister Bradford here explained you were on the way.
We can handle this situation, all right, Miss Christian and.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Missus Dudley in there, he guarded. No need to go there, John,
don't take your eyes off y all right, Chris. No, look, no,
you're a here, sir, if you're gonna do what I say, just.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
A minute there, Bradford, he has no right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
To go in to my own He has every right
to go in there, and I'll show you why.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You see this, it's a warrant issued yesterday afternoon for
the arrest of Ellen Randall Dudley. When you see that
seal and that's signature, your authority is automatically superseded. No
one comes in here and tells me how to run
my job. Telling you you're trying to get your name
and picture in every newspaper in the country at the
expense of this case, you've already jeopardized the state's position.
I'll have no more of it. This is no pressman's holiday.
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If you have any brains at all, you'll take mister
Taylor here and go outside and get rid of those
reporters as fast as you can.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I'll take action against you for this.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
Mister Christian, see if you can get Bert Pellerton out
of bet Taylor. This man has overstepped his bombs.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Ellen Randal Dudley, Yes, my name is Christian, Missus Dudley,
I'm the deputy district attorney. All right, John, what are
you going to do? Just take a few notes, Missus Dudley,
what kind of news. Well, mister Bradford's also from my office.
He's here to take notes on what you say to me,
Missus Dudley. Oh, I'm obligated to warn you that whatever
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you say right now may be used later in the court.
You don't have to talk to me unless you want to.
Do you understand that? Yes, a little later on they'll
take you into Jackson and you can get some sleep.
I suppose you're.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Tired, Yes I am, mister Christian.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, this won't take long. I'd just like to have
your story in your own words.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Pardon me, yes, I I don't understand you, mister Christian.
You just told me that anything I tell you may
be used against me in court. Yes, then I really
shouldn't tell you anything.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Missus Dudley. Listen to me. Listen carefully. Yesterday afternoon I
attended the coroner's inquest held in Jackson. It was an
inquest into the death of your husband, Robert Ames Dudley. Yes,
a coroner's jury there determined that mister Dudley came to
his death as the result of wounds inflicted by you
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his wife. A hatchet was presented as evidence. Mister Thomas
Unger of the Police Crime Laboratory positively identified it as
the murder weapon. He showed the coroner's jury that samples
of the blood found on the hatchet matched with specimens
of your husband's blood. Sergeant Victor Manning also testified and
explained that several finger prints on the murder weapon belonged
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to you. Two witnesses, your maid ethel Lee barth In,
a neighbor, Missus Frank Thompson, gave testimony that further incriminate you.
Enough evidence was presented for the coroner's jury to recommend
that you be taken into custody and held for the
action of the grand jury. Do you understand what I've
just told you?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yes? I think so.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
In a few days, the grand jury will meet and
charge you with murdering your husband. There is no doubt
that they will make that indictment, Missus Dudley. From there
you will be arraigned and later on taken into a
court and tried. Do you understand that? Yes? Fine? Now,
a frank, honest statement on your part before all these
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things take place can save a great deal of pain
on both sides. Such a statement from you right now
may determine the disposition and the proper plea to be
entered on your behalf.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
What do you mean, mister Christian proper plea.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You murdered Roger Ames Dudley on the night of the thirteenth. Now,
the sooner you admit that, the better off you'll be.
You make a full confession here, mister Bradford will take
it down and you'll sign it. You enter a plea
of guilty, and I promise you I'll do all I
can for you with the court. Is that okay?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Suppose suppose I I don't admit anything, then you can
expect no clemency.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That, of course, is entirely up to you, Missus Dudley.
But I'm going to tell you that the death house
in the State Penitentiary has been filled with people who
didn't listen to reason while they still had a chance.
This is your chance, Missus Dudley, right here and now.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, I I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I'll just explain what is best for you to do.
You're hooked and you're going to have to face up
to it one way or the other. If you don't
take my advice, they'll hang you. I promise you, Missus Dudley.
They'll hang you as certainly as you are sitting in
that chair in front of me. But what do you
have to say.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now you are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on
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stage Tonight's play.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Statement of Fact.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
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radio stations.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Couldn't find the aspen around here, mister Christian. The drug
store is not open yet, but I did find a
couple of imperant tables.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll be fine, miss Christian. Thank you. Uh. How she feeling.
She's alright?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Oh uh, mister Christian, Yes, I thought i'd better tell you.
Sheriff Morrow ordered me to call mister Pelanton. Oh huh
uh he ordered me to do it.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh. Mister Pelton's on his.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Way over here right now.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Thank you for the information. Uh, mister Christian. I worked
out of here for Sheriff Morrow ever since. He's been
in office. I think I ought to tell you i'd
be a little careful about the way you handle it,
mister Christian.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Thank you. I can handle Sheriff Morrow.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Oh, I'm sure you can, Miss Christian. Have never doubted
that for one second. No, sir, I know you know
your job. I know you're trying to get a job
done here and you don't wanna know hocus focus about it.
I guess I can't blame you one bit. I'd do
the same thing if I was in your shoes and
wanted the conviction as fast as I could get it.
I just want you to know, mister Christian, that I'm
on your side. I appreciate that when you're a mad
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district attorney and you're appointing special investigators. I hope you
will remember me, mister Christian. P. J. Taylor, Evanston Sheriff's Office.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I'll remember you, mister Taylor. M feeling any better.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I guess so. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Of course, here these will help.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, I hope you've decided to use your head about this,
Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I want to mister christ.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Sure you do. Suppose you start right from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, do you have a cigarette oh, sure, here you go.
Thank you? You smoke my brand?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Really?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Sure? Okay? Now, yes, you were married to him eight years,
is that right?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I understand you met in Europe.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yes, in London during the war. I've read about you
in the papers, mister Christian. They say you're going to
be the new district attorney. You don't look much older
than Roger.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He was thirty six, I'm thirty four. You and mister
Dudley had been having trouble for some time.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh, yes, for years. I imagine you've had some experiences
being the position you are. Do you talk to many
people in a situation like mine.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Quite a few, Missus Dudley. Last July you had mister
Dudley arrested when he came home drunk and threatened you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yes, but he got out of that very easily. They
didn't do a thing to him. Roger was awfully good
at talking himself out of things.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You didn't prefer charges against.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
It, No, it wouldn't have done any good. We would
have gotten out of it anyway.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
He had a law.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Degree too, you know, so I understand Roger never went
into practice. He didn't have to. He didn't have to
do anything. That was his trouble. His father left him
quite a bit of money, and he simply didn't have
to do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Shall we get on with this, Missus Dudley. It's past
five now.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Why wh I've been up all night long? This makes
four nights in a row I've gone without.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So soon as we finish here, you can get some sleep.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I don't feel one bit sleepy. When I first came here,
I was dreadfully tired. I thought I could sleep for
a week. Now I'm not the least bit tired or sleepy.
That's funny.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
I if you'll just start with the events that night.
What is today Friday? I'd be playing bridge this afternoon.
There's a dog show tomorrow evening I wanted to go to,
but I won't be able to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Now do you feel sorry for me? Mister Christian, I
beg your pardon? Do you feel sorry for me?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It makes no difference how I feel, Missus Dudley, you're
an accused prisoner. My job is to get a statement
of fact from you. That's why I'm here. Oh, I've
explained this once. I'm your friend. Here in a courtroom,
I'll represent the prosecution and I'll do everything I can
to see to it that you hang unless you make
a complete confession. Now. Is that perfectly clear to you,
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Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yes, And if you have a record of always getting
a conviction, that'll help when you run for office Walters.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Missus Dudley, my professional career has nothing to do with us.
If I weren't here talking to you, someone else from
my office would be here. It's a job that has
to be done. I happen to be the one who
is doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But wouldn't it be better for you if you had
more of an audience than mister Bradford over there wouldn't
be much better if you had me in a courtroom
with reporters and.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Dudley, do you want to talk to me now? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I don't mean to make you angry, mister Christian before
you've told me is true about what happened at the
Coroner's in question? What will happen when the grand jury meets?
You can hang me right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Now, I certainly can.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yet you're here to get my story. You must be
uncertain about something I told you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm trying to help you, Missus Dudley, but I warn
you I am not uncertain about anything where you are concerned.
Make no mistake about that. I have a duty to
the people of this state. That is to learn the
facts of this case and present them before the court.
I intend to do that with or without your cooperation.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, may I talk to you alone?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You understand why mister Bradford is here.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yes, but I'd like to tell it to you alone.
It can't possibly hurt anything to talk to you first,
can it?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
All? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
John? Wait outside, I'll cent Foy when.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
They made you right, Chris, thank you? Alright, Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I killed Roger.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Tell me how it happened.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I was having some people over for dinner that night.
I was busy in the kitchen with the maid fixing
the dinner. When Roger came downstairs. I asked him to
do a simple thing, just a little thing. I asked
him to start a fire in the fireplace. It was
pretty chilly out, and the fire always made that room
look so warm and nice. Have you seen my house?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yes, Missus Dudley, go on, please.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I heard him down in the basement getting things ready
for the fire. When I looked at the clock, it
was past seven. The fire hadn't even been started in
the fireplace. Our guests were arriving at seven thirty. I
asked Roger to come up and make some martinis and
let the fire go for a moment. He called me
a name. Why I never knew why he did things
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like that. I went dow downstairs to ask him why
he was so angry he called me another name. Wasn't
just the name or him being angry. It was all
the things he'd done to me before, they arguing and
fighting and the insults. When he started up the stairs,
I picked up the hatchet and I hit him with it.
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He fell down.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Then what did you do?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I ran upstairs and put on my coat and left
the house.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Or have you been these last three days?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right here in Evanston? I had a room at the
Evanston Hotel until last night, and I thought I'd try
to get away, go to another city, Chicago or New York.
Found out who I was at the bus station.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Did you ever think about killing your husband before this?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Did you know you were going to kill him when
you went down to the basement.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Did he go out with other women not?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Did I know of?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Did he ever beat you? Oh? No? It gave you
a nice home or you needed.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
But he took my life away from me, mister Christian?
What he took my life away from me? He stole
my life.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I don't understand that, missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
When I was going down the stairs that night, and
so I'm standing there, I suddenly realized, Oh, he had
taken from me everything that was young and fresh and wanting,
and I despised him for it. So I killed him.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
But but why did you have to kill him? You
could've divorced him, left him.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Don't you see what he had taken from me, mister Christian?
There was nothing left for him to steal from me,
or nothing left for me to give another man. Are
you married?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Then you know what a man can take from a woman.
Mister Christian, nam I somewhat you'd want to be married too,
if this terrible thing hadn't happened. Am I someone you'd
be proud to have for a wife?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You might be?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's all a woman needs is to be wanted? Am
I old and ugly and unattractive? My shallow of flighty?
Look at me, mister Christian, I am no stand up?
Please look at me close?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Would you want to be loved by me.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You're very lovely, miss Dunny, would you, yes?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, I was nothing to Roger Dudley, nothing, and my
love was nothing to him. I was a fixture, a decoration,
an animal, and he took all of it, my love
and my life. And then he stood at the bottom
of the stairway and called me a name.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Was it Udily, Missus Dudley. Listen to me. Listen to me.
No one saw this happen. The maid was upstairs in
the kitchen. Missus Thompson only heard it from next door.
Listen to me. You can claim that you did it
in self defense. He came at you when you picked
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up the hatchet and you hit him with it to
protect yourself. You tell it that way. When mister Bradford
comes back in here. There are a dozen good men
in this state would be glad to represent you in
court with a story like that. I'd be opposite them.
You can get off. He made you kill him because
it was either him or you, and you ran afterwards
because you were frightened. In the end, you'll be charged
with a second degree murder and the most you get
a suspended sentence. Don't you understand what I'm telling you
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can be free.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yes, yes, mister Christcha.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
All right, let's have mister Bradford in here now, please.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Right, wait a minute, hold him. I can never be free.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You have and understood anything I've said. He took my
life away from me a long time ago, can't you see,
mister Christian, I don't have any life to live now.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Missus Dudley, you have everything to live for. Look, you're
young and beautiful, and you want to need all of
the things that I that life can give you.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Too late, mister Christian, you'll get at.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Least a life sentence. Listen. Listen.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
A few minutes ago, you were telling me about your
duty to the people of this state. Mister Christian, tell
me about it now.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, alright.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I wanted to talk to you alone like this to
make sure I was right. You're no better than he was.
Mister Christian. You'd take a woman and do the same
thing to her that he did to me. Until you
kissed me just then. I wasn't a person to you.
I was an animal, a trapped animal, and if I'd
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let you help me escape from this trap, I'd just
be escaping into a smaller one, a worse one. With you,
you're another Roger Dudley.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Okay, Chris, Chris, Are you ready to make your stake
in the fact, Missus Dudley, Yes, alright, yeah, I'll take
it down from the beginning, Missus Studley, just as you
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told it to me.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
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Speaker 2 (27:28):
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Speaker 3 (27:47):
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Speaker 2 (28:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
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Speaker 4 (01:25):
Facts, Yeah Evergreen three one two nine one.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes, this is the long distance operator, Sir.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Evanston calling my party. We'll speak with anyone who's number.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Who's calling mister John Bradford.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
All right, Ray, just a moment please, mister Bradford ready
with your call.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Who ever greens for any one two nine to one
and Jackson.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Hello, Chris, here's your party, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pee h thank you. Hello Hello, Chris, this is Bradford.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'm sorry to wake up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
She say, you're calling from Evanston.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, that's right, Chris. The sheriff here picked up Ellen
Dudley half an hour ago. She was hiding in the
restroom in an all night bus station.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Ellen Dudley.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, a friend of mine with the State Highway Patrol
was in on him. Gave me a ring. Just a
lucky accident. I found out about it at all. She's
being held in communicado. Chris.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're a friend on the Highway patrol.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Does he have just a patrolman, Chris, that's out.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There's something old John Bradford.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Oh, there's something wrong, Chris.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
We have to work fast on this.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I know, I know, dear cat.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Whatever it is waiting until morning doesn't he realize you
need your rest.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let's keep quiet for a minute, will you? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Has she sent for anyone?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I don't think so, not yet. What do you want
to do, Chris?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Wait a minute? What time is it? I can drive
there by four fifteen. What's the sheriff's name.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Walter Martin?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You get to him, try, Chris, get to him and
tell Sheriff Morrow that the district attorney will hold him
personally responsible for the conduct of his office and his
offices in this situation. Remind him that the accused is
the state's prisoner. Chris, he can hold her for forty
eight Let me worry about that part of it. You
might certainly understand what I just told you right see
a little while.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
James, I think it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
He should call up Ellen, Randell, Dudley, after Evanston. They'll
make a spectacle of this thing. Or it can be
done right. Where's my blue shirt?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
It's in the laundry, Dear, I sent it out this morning.
Aren't you going to shave?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What time?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Would you like some car time?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Man?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Christ You can't just rush out of him and stop.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Please. A million things on my mind.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I'm only trying to help you down?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, you know? Sorry? Here? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Why do you always have to handle these things?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
When something had to be done right? You seem to
be the only one they can count on. Maybe it's
because you're the only one who get up in the
middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Flinks cut, flinks there.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
When will you be home?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't know. I'll get a nap at the club
this afternoon. Don't worry.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
There was a time when you tell me.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
About these I just haven't time now, Dear, where's my built?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Who's Ellen Randall Dudley?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Did you read the papers?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's her.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
She's a very beautiful woman, isn't she?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So they say? Coat?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What's she done?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I thought you read the papers.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I just noticed a picture on the front page.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I didn't write.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I wish I had some idea.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What you read about it? Dear? It's all over the papers,
the whole story. All you have to do is read
about it. You don't have to ask me.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I'll do that so long, Anne, Chris?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What now?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
We aren't very happy these days, are we, Chris?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't know what we are? Bye?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Why?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Why?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Boys? Is Christian? I'd hate to be and missus Dudley's
shoes when Christian gets through whatever? Alright, hold him as Christian?
How about a statement, mister Christian comment? Is she crazy?
It's not for me to say. We've let your opinion.
Mister Krae have never met missus Dudley. Pardon me? Were
you presenting indicting against him?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Were you finally indicting, mister Christians And the indictment can
only be presented and filed by the grand jury. Take
your hand off my arm?
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Does the state have sufficient evidence against Missusdudley.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
To get a conviction as a matter for the jury
in the superiod courts of the side?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
How about one more picture, mister Christian?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, John, Oh, hello, Chrag, I dig it in a
miss Sheriff Morrow.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I told him you were on the way, and he
called the paper blicity.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
How I'm afraid so, Chris.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's the only important arrest he's ever.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Made, and he could queer everything with these kind of shenanigans.
How long has he been in office? Oh? Ten years?
Where is he in there? Where's missus Dudley?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
She's in there with him?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What I told you?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
This was something for him?
Speaker 10 (06:18):
Here, Missus Morris sent over a tray, the accusing Sheriff
Morrow having a snack together.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'll have you no, come on where she's been these
last three days. I don't know if mad Any calls yet. No,
I'm sure of that. Somebody's gonna try and get to her.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Just a minute, Sheriff Marrow left orders he's not to
be disturbed.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
What's your name.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I'm Deputy PJ.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Taylor. Mister Taylor. I want you to go and stand
by that door over there. Huh No, one absolutely no
one has to come through that darn till I say so.
I'd take my order from Sheriff Morrow. Taylor.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Hey, I thought I told you I didn't want anyone
around here.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Sheriff Morrow. Yes, who are you Dale Christian?
Speaker 10 (06:53):
Oh, mister Bradford here explained you were on the way.
We can handle this situation, all right, Miss Christian and.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Missus Dudley in there, he guarded. No need to go there, John,
don't take your eyes off y all right, Chris. No, look, no,
you're a here, sir, if you're gonna do what I say, just.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
A minute there, Bradford, he has no right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
To go in to my own He has every right
to go in there, and I'll show you why.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You see this, it's a warrant issued yesterday afternoon for
the arrest of Ellen Randall Dudley. When you see that
seal and that's signature, your authority is automatically superseded. No
one comes in here and tells me how to run
my job. Telling you you're trying to get your name
and picture in every newspaper in the country at the
expense of this case, you've already jeopardized the state's position.
I'll have no more of it. This is no pressman's holiday.
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If you have any brains at all, you'll take mister
Taylor here and go outside and get rid of those
reporters as fast as you can.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I'll take action against you for this.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
Mister Christian, see if you can get Bert Pellerton out
of bet Taylor. This man has overstepped his bombs.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Ellen Randal Dudley, Yes, my name is Christian, Missus Dudley,
I'm the deputy district attorney. All right, John, what are
you going to do? Just take a few notes, Missus Dudley,
what kind of news. Well, mister Bradford's also from my office.
He's here to take notes on what you say to me,
Missus Dudley. Oh, I'm obligated to warn you that whatever
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you say right now may be used later in the court.
You don't have to talk to me unless you want to.
Do you understand that? Yes, a little later on they'll
take you into Jackson and you can get some sleep.
I suppose you're.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Tired, Yes I am, mister Christian.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, this won't take long. I'd just like to have
your story in your own words.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Pardon me, yes, I I don't understand you, mister Christian.
You just told me that anything I tell you may
be used against me in court. Yes, then I really
shouldn't tell you anything.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Missus Dudley. Listen to me. Listen carefully. Yesterday afternoon I
attended the coroner's inquest held in Jackson. It was an
inquest into the death of your husband, Robert Ames Dudley. Yes,
a coroner's jury there determined that mister Dudley came to
his death as the result of wounds inflicted by you
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his wife. A hatchet was presented as evidence. Mister Thomas
Unger of the Police Crime Laboratory positively identified it as
the murder weapon. He showed the coroner's jury that samples
of the blood found on the hatchet matched with specimens
of your husband's blood. Sergeant Victor Manning also testified and
explained that several finger prints on the murder weapon belonged
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to you. Two witnesses, your maid ethel Lee barth In,
a neighbor, Missus Frank Thompson, gave testimony that further incriminate you.
Enough evidence was presented for the coroner's jury to recommend
that you be taken into custody and held for the
action of the grand jury. Do you understand what I've
just told you?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yes? I think so.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
In a few days, the grand jury will meet and
charge you with murdering your husband. There is no doubt
that they will make that indictment, Missus Dudley. From there
you will be arraigned and later on taken into a
court and tried. Do you understand that? Yes? Fine? Now,
a frank, honest statement on your part before all these
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things take place can save a great deal of pain
on both sides. Such a statement from you right now
may determine the disposition and the proper plea to be
entered on your behalf.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
What do you mean, mister Christian proper plea.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You murdered Roger Ames Dudley on the night of the thirteenth. Now,
the sooner you admit that, the better off you'll be.
You make a full confession here, mister Bradford will take
it down and you'll sign it. You enter a plea
of guilty, and I promise you I'll do all I
can for you with the court. Is that okay?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Suppose suppose I I don't admit anything, then you can
expect no clemency.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That, of course, is entirely up to you, Missus Dudley.
But I'm going to tell you that the death house
in the State Penitentiary has been filled with people who
didn't listen to reason while they still had a chance.
This is your chance, Missus Dudley, right here and now.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, I I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I'll just explain what is best for you to do.
You're hooked and you're going to have to face up
to it one way or the other. If you don't
take my advice, they'll hang you. I promise you, Missus Dudley.
They'll hang you as certainly as you are sitting in
that chair in front of me. But what do you
have to say.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now you are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on
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stage Tonight's play.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Statement of Fact.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
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Speaker 8 (13:01):
Couldn't find the aspen around here, mister Christian. The drug
store is not open yet, but I did find a
couple of imperant tables.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll be fine, miss Christian. Thank you. Uh. How she feeling.
She's alright?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Oh uh, mister Christian, Yes, I thought i'd better tell you.
Sheriff Morrow ordered me to call mister Pelanton. Oh huh
uh he ordered me to do it.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh. Mister Pelton's on his.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Way over here right now.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Thank you for the information. Uh, mister Christian. I worked
out of here for Sheriff Morrow ever since. He's been
in office. I think I ought to tell you i'd
be a little careful about the way you handle it,
mister Christian.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Thank you. I can handle Sheriff Morrow.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Oh, I'm sure you can, Miss Christian. Have never doubted
that for one second. No, sir, I know you know
your job. I know you're trying to get a job
done here and you don't wanna know hocus focus about it.
I guess I can't blame you one bit. I'd do
the same thing if I was in your shoes and
wanted the conviction as fast as I could get it.
I just want you to know, mister Christian, that I'm
on your side. I appreciate that when you're a mad
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district attorney and you're appointing special investigators. I hope you
will remember me, mister Christian. P. J. Taylor, Evanston Sheriff's Office.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I'll remember you, mister Taylor. M feeling any better.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I guess so. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Of course, here these will help.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, I hope you've decided to use your head about this,
Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I want to mister christ.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Sure you do. Suppose you start right from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, do you have a cigarette oh, sure, here you go.
Thank you? You smoke my brand?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Really?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Sure? Okay? Now, yes, you were married to him eight years,
is that right?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I understand you met in Europe.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yes, in London during the war. I've read about you
in the papers, mister Christian. They say you're going to
be the new district attorney. You don't look much older
than Roger.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He was thirty six, I'm thirty four. You and mister
Dudley had been having trouble for some time.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh, yes, for years. I imagine you've had some experiences
being the position you are. Do you talk to many
people in a situation like mine.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Quite a few, Missus Dudley. Last July you had mister
Dudley arrested when he came home drunk and threatened you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yes, but he got out of that very easily. They
didn't do a thing to him. Roger was awfully good
at talking himself out of things.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You didn't prefer charges against.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
It, No, it wouldn't have done any good. We would
have gotten out of it anyway.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
He had a law.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Degree too, you know, so I understand Roger never went
into practice. He didn't have to. He didn't have to
do anything. That was his trouble. His father left him
quite a bit of money, and he simply didn't have
to do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Shall we get on with this, Missus Dudley. It's past
five now.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Why wh I've been up all night long? This makes
four nights in a row I've gone without.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So soon as we finish here, you can get some sleep.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I don't feel one bit sleepy. When I first came here,
I was dreadfully tired. I thought I could sleep for
a week. Now I'm not the least bit tired or sleepy.
That's funny.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
I if you'll just start with the events that night.
What is today Friday? I'd be playing bridge this afternoon.
There's a dog show tomorrow evening I wanted to go to,
but I won't be able to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Now do you feel sorry for me? Mister Christian, I
beg your pardon? Do you feel sorry for me?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It makes no difference how I feel, Missus Dudley, you're
an accused prisoner. My job is to get a statement
of fact from you. That's why I'm here. Oh, I've
explained this once. I'm your friend. Here in a courtroom,
I'll represent the prosecution and I'll do everything I can
to see to it that you hang unless you make
a complete confession. Now. Is that perfectly clear to you,
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Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yes, And if you have a record of always getting
a conviction, that'll help when you run for office Walters.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Missus Dudley, my professional career has nothing to do with us.
If I weren't here talking to you, someone else from
my office would be here. It's a job that has
to be done. I happen to be the one who
is doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But wouldn't it be better for you if you had
more of an audience than mister Bradford over there wouldn't
be much better if you had me in a courtroom
with reporters and.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Dudley, do you want to talk to me now? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I don't mean to make you angry, mister Christian before
you've told me is true about what happened at the
Coroner's in question? What will happen when the grand jury meets?
You can hang me right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Now, I certainly can.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yet you're here to get my story. You must be
uncertain about something I told you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm trying to help you, Missus Dudley, but I warn
you I am not uncertain about anything where you are concerned.
Make no mistake about that. I have a duty to
the people of this state. That is to learn the
facts of this case and present them before the court.
I intend to do that with or without your cooperation.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, may I talk to you alone?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You understand why mister Bradford is here.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yes, but I'd like to tell it to you alone.
It can't possibly hurt anything to talk to you first,
can it?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
All? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
John? Wait outside, I'll cent Foy when.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
They made you right, Chris, thank you? Alright, Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I killed Roger.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Tell me how it happened.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I was having some people over for dinner that night.
I was busy in the kitchen with the maid fixing
the dinner. When Roger came downstairs. I asked him to
do a simple thing, just a little thing. I asked
him to start a fire in the fireplace. It was
pretty chilly out, and the fire always made that room
look so warm and nice. Have you seen my house?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yes, Missus Dudley, go on, please.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I heard him down in the basement getting things ready
for the fire. When I looked at the clock, it
was past seven. The fire hadn't even been started in
the fireplace. Our guests were arriving at seven thirty. I
asked Roger to come up and make some martinis and
let the fire go for a moment. He called me
a name. Why I never knew why he did things
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like that. I went dow downstairs to ask him why
he was so angry he called me another name. Wasn't
just the name or him being angry. It was all
the things he'd done to me before, they arguing and
fighting and the insults. When he started up the stairs,
I picked up the hatchet and I hit him with it.
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He fell down.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Then what did you do?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I ran upstairs and put on my coat and left
the house.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Or have you been these last three days?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right here in Evanston? I had a room at the
Evanston Hotel until last night, and I thought I'd try
to get away, go to another city, Chicago or New York.
Found out who I was at the bus station.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Did you ever think about killing your husband before this?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Did you know you were going to kill him when
you went down to the basement.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Did he go out with other women not?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Did I know of?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Did he ever beat you? Oh? No? It gave you
a nice home or you needed.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
But he took my life away from me, mister Christian?
What he took my life away from me? He stole
my life.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I don't understand that, missus Dudley.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
When I was going down the stairs that night, and
so I'm standing there, I suddenly realized, Oh, he had
taken from me everything that was young and fresh and wanting,
and I despised him for it. So I killed him.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
But but why did you have to kill him? You
could've divorced him, left him.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Don't you see what he had taken from me, mister Christian?
There was nothing left for him to steal from me,
or nothing left for me to give another man. Are
you married?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Then you know what a man can take from a woman.
Mister Christian, nam I somewhat you'd want to be married too,
if this terrible thing hadn't happened. Am I someone you'd
be proud to have for a wife?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You might be?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's all a woman needs is to be wanted? Am
I old and ugly and unattractive? My shallow of flighty?
Look at me, mister Christian, I am no stand up?
Please look at me close?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Would you want to be loved by me.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You're very lovely, miss Dunny, would you, yes?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, I was nothing to Roger Dudley, nothing, and my
love was nothing to him. I was a fixture, a decoration,
an animal, and he took all of it, my love
and my life. And then he stood at the bottom
of the stairway and called me a name.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Was it Udily, Missus Dudley. Listen to me. Listen to me.
No one saw this happen. The maid was upstairs in
the kitchen. Missus Thompson only heard it from next door.
Listen to me. You can claim that you did it
in self defense. He came at you when you picked
(23:18):
up the hatchet and you hit him with it to
protect yourself. You tell it that way. When mister Bradford
comes back in here. There are a dozen good men
in this state would be glad to represent you in
court with a story like that. I'd be opposite them.
You can get off. He made you kill him because
it was either him or you, and you ran afterwards
because you were frightened. In the end, you'll be charged
with a second degree murder and the most you get
a suspended sentence. Don't you understand what I'm telling you
(23:41):
can be free.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yes, yes, mister Christcha.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
All right, let's have mister Bradford in here now, please.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Right, wait a minute, hold him. I can never be free.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You have and understood anything I've said. He took my
life away from me a long time ago, can't you see,
mister Christian, I don't have any life to live now.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Missus Dudley, you have everything to live for. Look, you're
young and beautiful, and you want to need all of
the things that I that life can give you.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Too late, mister Christian, you'll get at.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Least a life sentence. Listen. Listen.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
A few minutes ago, you were telling me about your
duty to the people of this state. Mister Christian, tell
me about it now.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, alright.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I wanted to talk to you alone like this to
make sure I was right. You're no better than he was.
Mister Christian. You'd take a woman and do the same
thing to her that he did to me. Until you
kissed me just then. I wasn't a person to you.
I was an animal, a trapped animal, and if I'd
(25:16):
let you help me escape from this trap, I'd just
be escaping into a smaller one, a worse one. With you,
you're another Roger Dudley.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Okay, Chris, Chris, Are you ready to make your stake
in the fact, Missus Dudley, Yes, alright, yeah, I'll take
it down from the beginning, Missus Studley, just as you
(26:03):
told it to me.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Statement of Fact, starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage.
In a moment, mister and Missus Lewis will tell you
about next week's play. This Saturday morning, it's the most
unusual challenge for Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. The famous
adventurer of Darkest Africa meets a juvenile delinquent and encounters
problems of a very different sort in Tarzan and the
hot Rod Kid. You'll also want to hear the latest
(26:40):
episode of Gangbusters, CBS Radio's exciting true crime cases that names, names, places,
and dates in thrilling accounts of police action against the lawless.
Remember this Saturday night on most of these same CBS
Radio stations, Tarzan and Gangbusters and now once again Kathy
and Elliot Lewett.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
And that was another of v Jack Newman's searching studies
of ourselves, this time set melodramatically.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
He's an excellent writer.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Some friends new to on stage joined us tonight, Joan
Danton who was the telephone operator, Jack Krushian, who was
special Deputy Sailor, and Tyler McVeigh publicity happy Sheriff Marral,
while Joseph Kerns played my assistant.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
John Bradford, true.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
To Marson rejoined us to play your wife, and Byron
Kine was the reporter. We thank them all.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Since this is spring and through the window we can
see the sun and the green grass and the new
flowers and the days that have gone by, we thought
it a good time to present a story that suits
the season, and.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
So next week we're going to do a dramatization of
a warm and charming book almost forgotten now that perfectly
states the season for us. It was written by the
late Leonard Merrick, and it's called Conrad in Quest of
his Youth.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
You'll like it until next week. Thank you for listening.
Good Night, Good Night Music.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Fortnight's story was composed and conducted by Fred Steiner.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
The Kafi and Alliott theme is by.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Ray Noble, and the program is transcribed and directed by
mister Lewis George Walsh, speaking America's forty five million radio
families listen most to the CBS Radio network
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