April 8, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
Just over. Miya wasn't around, so I closed the gas
station earlier that day and started home. I wasn't feeling
very well. I walked along, thinking of different things. Past
the high school where I'd gone last year and when
Miss Wilson was still teaching. Past the movie theaters where
there was still showing the Humphrey Bogode picture I'd seen
last night, but maybe I'd go again tonight. Then I
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cut through the alley to the rickety old frame building
where we lived on the second floor over the store.
I hated that place. Every time I got near it.
I hated it worse. It was no kind of a
place for us to be living. I went up the backstairs.
I could hear Mom and Sis in the kitchen, so
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I went straight to my own room and locked the door.
I pulled up the old floorboard and got out my
things and spread them on the bed. I pinned on
the flyer's watch, that is, his wings, and strapped on
the chronograph type watch.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
It said to.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Jimmy from Jane on it. I looked at myself in
the mirror. I could have been a famous flyer. I
took off the watch and wings and looked over the
other things. There was the old fountain pen that I
had only a week. It said, l I'd be on it.
It was the kind that big executive used to sign
important papers. I tried it out a few times in
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front of a mirror. Yesilhood, all right, mother, all right?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
For early? Did you get fired?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
No, I just closed up a little early.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Well you will get fired, mister obermar Ketches. You're closing
up early.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Oh no, I won't.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Don't think you're gonna lie around this house when you do.
Your sister and I have a hard enough time as
it is without having you on our next line.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't feel very well today, mom, don't feel very well?
His supper ready?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Is that all you can think about when you come home?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Food? There isn't much else? Is there?
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So well?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Anytime you get tired of using this place as a boarder,
not forget it?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Mom? What's this?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Leave it alone?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Do you have to look at everything?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
An old album of snapshot?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I down in the trunk today, didn't know I still
had it?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Shee is this me?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Let me see?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Mm hmmm?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
At you?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
How old was I?
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Then?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't let me see?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
About six? You were real cute?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Then?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Are there any pictures of dad?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No? See?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I remember this place. This is where we lived just
before we came to Fairfield. Wasn't it quite a while before?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
You're about eight?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Then? Who's this? Who's this man?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
You ought to remember him?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
You're almost nine when he he went away?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I don't who was he?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
He was your stepfather? What's the idea of tearing that out?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Nus?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I want to hurry it out.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
You got a right to tear off that picture.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The lard knows.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I got no use for that man, but you got
no right to tear it up.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You had no right to marry him.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Get out of here before I hitch you ack in.
Get out of here, Get out.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I went back to my room. I got my things
out from under the floorboard again. But somehow they didn't
make me feel very good the way they usually did.
I had an awful headache. Pretty soon. I put on
my hat and went out.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Is the oil and water all right, Miss Wilson?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I think it is Elwood?
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Yes, well that'll be.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
A dollar eighty then.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
All right, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
How's the new term going, Miss Wilson?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
All fine so far. I am sorry you're not with
us tho Elwood. I was so looking forward to having
you in my class.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Well, some things just can't be helped, that's see. I guess.
Do the students like your course, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
They seem to like it fine.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I wish I could be there. Is there anything about
abnormal psychology, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
We touch on it towards the end of the course.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I read something about it. I read some of the
Freud nadlers stuff too.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Sometimes I think you get more real education staying out
of school, and the rest of them do staying well.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I try to keep up with what's going on in
the world.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You're aware of most people, Elwood. I hope someday you
can get away from this time someplace where you can
really use your ability. You can go a long way.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
All I'm going to I'm going to do something about
it someday. All right, I know you are.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Maybe between us we can figure out something.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Can Can I come over and listen to your records
again sometime, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Of course you can't, Elwood, anytime you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Feel hey, what's the matter? Herowood?
Speaker 10 (06:09):
We got a phone for doctor Parker, and what's up?
Why has mister Granby? They just found him over there
in the lock Yes, her phone? You you you go
on over, Elmwood. Maybe you can do all right?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You want to come, Miss Wilson, Yes, I will.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I guess it must be over there on the corner
where the people are.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
People crowd around awful quick at something like this, don't
they Maybe you don't want to look? Oh that's mister Granby.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
All right, Calwood, what happened to him?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There's not much use in calling a doctor. There is
he well, you can see he's been strangled, Miss Wilson,
he's dead. Or suspense.
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Eddie Bracken in Ellwood, a tale well calculated to keep
you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Finding mister Graham be murdered created a terrific emotion. At first,
they thought some tramp did it, but they couldn't find
anything missing except for five beta kapakey, So they figured
someone in town must have done it. Because there were
quite a lot of people who didn't like mister Gramby
at all. You can imagine how that made them feel.
A little town like Oz where everybody knew everybody else,
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and someone someone you might say hello to a dozen
times a day was a murderer. Righty was my afternoon off,
and I was walking around town. I ran into Miss
Wilson and Winnie Hawkshi, Hello Elwood, Oh, Hello Miss Wilson.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
High Winnie Elwood Parsons, I do wish stop calling me Winnie.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
My name is Winnifred. In fact, it's ms Hawks Mira quaitns.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I always used to call you Winnie.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That was years ago, when I was just a time
Winnifred seventeen, now Elwood, she's a young lady.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Well at least I'm old enough to be a best
buy my right name, Okay, Wonnie?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
All right, then, Ellie, say Whinnie? Uh? What's that? What
that hanging on your bracelet?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
That that's just a little gold football. And he saw
you gave it to me.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Geez, that's nice.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh, it's all right. The whole varsity got them. Anybody
might have one.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
Anybody, yes, even you, if you'd ever taken the trouble
to go out to the team.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
The football equipment course too much? Say hear anything new
about the murder?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
New?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
My father says.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
If the police can't do anything, it's high time the
citizens took things into their own hands. He's forming a
vigilantic commit Oh well, we have to do something, don't we.
After all, there's a murderer running around loose. How do
we know what might be anybody?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sure it might be anybody?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Well, of course I suppose it might. But both you
swear enough to tell us to.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
A living soul what my father thinks he knows who
did it? The murder, does he He thinks it's the
old man crass. In the first place, there's something wrong
with him living up there in that old shack all alone.
And in the second place, he's a foreigner.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
If what's that got to do with it.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
I could have done it, my father didn't. He's somebody
who was crazy.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's the craziest thing I ever heard, Oh, Man krans
a fiend. Jessica, your pa, tell your father to guess again.
When the old man Krantz wouldn't hurt anybody, k he
wouldn't hurt a fly, He wouldn't dare. Old man Krantz
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was a little funny, all right, but it was funnier
still am thinking that he'd done it. That gave me
the idea to go up and see him. His big
dog Bismock started making an awful push the way he
always did. But I just flanged on the door. Anyway.
It's me, mister Krantz.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
El what I didn't see.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Bismarck, old fella A sure, And.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
They come up to see you, old man Crantz again.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Man, I brought you some all horse shoes. I'll just
put him down here, say I I thought I ought
to tell you. I heard the screwiest thing at town today.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Sure, what was that?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
You know about the murder?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Somebody said you did it?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh they did?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Uh huh. They're getting up a vigilanti committee.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
Let him come at a vigilante committee. I got my shotgun.
I take care of myself.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Oh, they won't bother you, mister Krantz. I told him
they were crazy. Better as far as that goes, I
don't think they'll ever find out who did it. I
don't think so, do you. Well somebody did do it, Oh, sure,
somebody did. It was strangled here. I saw him take
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a strong pair of hands to do that. Yeah, I
guess it would. Well what have you been doing lately,
mister Krantz, Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Nothing, reading philosophy this last few days.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
No more.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh sure, but now I read the little Philosophy just
for a change. Been reading Chopenhau. You know how he
says it's the only way to escape the world.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Suicide suicide.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But he's crazy. My way of living is better than
his way of dying.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, why do you want to escape from the world,
mister Krantz?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Right, look at it, Just look at it and tell
me why. I shouldn't want to escape.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
From Well, I don't know, mister Krantz, are a lot
of things wrong with the world.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Wrong. You just show me one thing that's right, Just
one thing.
Speaker 12 (13:28):
I'll go back. That's right, I'll go back. But in
the meantime, but you've got nothing else to do with
play a game of horseshoes. Come on, I got the
stakes all lay down.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
What kind of horseshoes are these? They're all bend Well.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I didn't want to ask Charlie Vander for new ones.
They're old ones that he takes off the horses. They
just have to be straightened out a little.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You got a hammer in next.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You think I'm an old man and I'm weak. Huh.
You don't know how much strength I got. Hell, look
I straightened my bare hat.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Shucks, I bet I can do it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Huh, go ahead, try all right there?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
See, Yeah, it's just as straight as yours.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, so it takes a strong pair of hands to
do that.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I didn't feel very well that night. I tried on
my five bata kapake that I had in front of
a mirror, and then I put it back in the
place under the floor, and then I put on my
hat and went out.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The next day they found Winnie Hawk's she was dead.
Somebody had strangled.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Hello, Ellwood, come in.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I haven't seen you for quite a while.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
And I thought everyone's been so upset. It was such
an awful thing. What about Winnifred? Oh, yes, it's strange
what fate does. Oh, it's something a little more horrible
than fate. I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I thought maybe you wouldn't want to go out. I
thought maybe you might like to listen to some music tonight,
miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh, yes, i'd love to. As a matter of fact,
I've just got a new album of Stravinsky. They say
it's very good.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh, Stravinsky's wonderful. I think it's terribly exciting and emotional,
don't you well.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yes, and so imaginative. I'll get out the records. If
you were stuck? What s that you got there?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Ill with?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
What that thing you're tossing up down your hand?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Oh, that's just a little watch charm I found. I
carried it in my pocket sort of for luck.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It was a gold football, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah? I found it. I guess some fella lost it.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh, okay, ses, I'm leaving.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh hello, Dick. Oh all right, Dad's here, so don't
worry going hunting.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Oh the rifle hunting, you bet? I am.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Half the town is tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Didn't know, Elwood, the committee's patrolling the streets because of
the murderer.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh yes, I heard something about it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You ought to join up. It's every man's duty.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
With a fiend like that on the loose. Well maybe
I will, well, so long, can I, Dick? Shall I
put on the first record? Miss Wilson?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yes, all right, Elwood? Yes, where did you find that
gold football?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Done by the railroad tracks? I guess some fellow lost
it who is passing through? I sort of collect things
like that, you know. Oh oh that music, it's wonderful.
It makes me want to do things, big things. You've
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been a wonderful help to me, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I like to help people, but I think will benefit
by it, so perhaps someday they can accomplish something.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'm going to accomplish something someday, Miss Wilson, In a
way I already have. Sometimes I thought if I were
only a little bit older, or you were a little younger.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That's one thing we know we can't accomplish, isn't it.
We can't change our ages.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No, we can't accomplish. That's a that's a lovely watch
you have on, miss Wilson. I've never seen you wear
that one before.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
A friend of mine brought it back from Europe.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
May I see it? Of course, it's kind of complicated,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yes, it's one of those Swiss ones tails the day
of the month too.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Oh, it's really lovely.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I'd like to have a watch like that, Elwood.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I can't listen anymore. I hope you'll excuse me.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What's my name, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm very sorry. Suddenly I have a very bad hitdache.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Oh well, of course I understand, Miss Welson.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh you have nothing to thank me for, Miss Wilson.
I'll go now, all right, good night, good night, Miss Wilson.
I went home and put the gold football in the
place under the floor. I thought i'd go to sleep,
but I felt worse that night than I ever had.
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So after a while I put on my hat and
went out. I walked around for quite a while. Once
I saw some of the fellows driving around on a
hopped up board, all with rifles and shotguns, aren't they Elwood?
I just waved at them and kept on walking. I
was down around the station, just says the eleven forty
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was pulling out. A man had gotten off and was
crossing the tracks to take the shortcut. It was dark.
I couldn't see who he was, but he had a
brand new briefcase, a lovely one, the kind they call
a dispatch case. I followed him. The shortcut is a
path up over the ridge below mister Krantz's shack. It
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whines cried alive tone. At first, he didn't notice I
was following him pretty close. Before he didn't, he turned
his head. He began walking faster, and so did I.
And the minute he looked back again and had must
have come to him who I was, because he started
to run. Then I ran to it. When he saw
he couldn't get away all at once, he made a
quick turn off the hell towards the lights and all
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man Kranz's shack. He didn't yell at anything, but he
dropped his briefcase now and he was running as hot
as he could.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
So was I.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And I didn't stop for a second. I was afraid
he might wake up all Man Kranz's dog. Before I
caught up with him.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
He tripped over something and felt and I was there
before he could get up with him.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He turned his face.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Then suddenly it happened again, the same thing that happened
with Winnie Hawk's and mister Gramby.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
It wasn't his.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Face that I saw.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
It was the face in that picture, the face of
my stepfather.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
My hands were closing around his.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
The next day, the sun was shining, and I was
pleased because it was my day off again. I slept late,
but when I started over into town, I saw a
lot of kids running up towards the ridge, so I
guess they'd found him. Followed alonger When I got there,
I saw they were going up further to all Man
Krantz a shack. There was a big crowd there, and
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the sheriff and three or four cops. They didn't seem
to be doing much. It was some other men, like
mister Wilson's brother that seemed to be in charge. One
of them had a rope and he was slinging an
over tree. And then I saw the dog. Somebody had
shot Bizmock and he was lying there in the grass,
all covered with blood. And then they were dragging old
man trans out of his shot.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I have an old man, boys, I don't do it
under the old man like he wanted to do a
thing like that.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Shut up, listen here, man quiet.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I gotta warn you. What you're doing is you're legally
contrary the Lord. We're in George now, sheriff, and let
me warn you. Don't try to interfere. It's this. What
have you done that far?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Come?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
He? Come on? No, wait, he didn't do it. How
do you know?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well he couldn't have it. There's the one who did
it right there.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I was down the hill before they even had time
to fire a shot.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
That's all that had taken, just those few words, and they.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Knew, but it was too late. Now there was a
great train coming through.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Just as I got to the tracks, I got across.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Ahead of it.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
That cut them off for a minute and gave me
time to think. But I knew i'd never get very
far in the open.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Daylight, and I saw an oil tank cost standing on
the siding with the top up. I scrambled up onto
it and down the little ladder inside.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
It was empty.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I was barely inside when they were across the tracks
after me.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I'm hardly bad breathe.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
Standing there in the darkness, with the oil on the
bottom of the car seeping into my shoes, I go
almost faining, thinking of what would happen somebody got the
idea of looking a tank car.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It was good and dark about eight o'clock, I guess.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Before I dared to climb out. I was still frightened,
but I was excited too. They were looking for me.
Everybody in a couple of days, the whole country would
be looking for me. If they wouldn't find me, they'd
never find me for years. They'd wonder how I got away.
And then then I saw two men walking up the
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track to the freight agent Gyptiss. I was frightened all
over again.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I just wish I had I got old.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Were all over and everywhere, but just the same I
had to get to see Miss Wilson somehow.
Speaker 14 (23:46):
I just had to get to Cigure. I started back
over the ridge. I figured that would be the last
place they'd be looking, but at every little sound in
the bresh I'd go week all over from fear.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I got there though, through the backyard, and I was
just hiding in the bushes alongside the house, and I
saw him out the front door with Dick.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
I'll walk you do.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
We're patrolling the streets by the school anyway, so you'll
be all right. Keep plenty of lights on though.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
It's so brutal. Brutal, yes, and you enjoy it, all
of you, hunting him down like an animal.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What good, Lord, Sis?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He is an animal? So I was an animal?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Hell all right?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Then I was an animal.
Speaker 15 (24:35):
But I was a lot smarter animal than any of them.
I knew she was going to the school, and I
knew how to get into the basement. It was awful easy, really,
and I was already inside when I heard her arrive.
She had the place blazing with lights.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
But her room was right next to the basement stairway,
and there was a fuse box just at the head
of the stairs. It was almost too easy. Of course,
I could see her in there when I opened the door.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Who's there, Miss Wilson. Don't be afraid, Miss Wilson. Oh what,
I just want to talk to you, Miss Wilson. I
just wanted to tell you why I did those things.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You're a psychologist, you'll understand. It was those things like
the gold football like your watch. You have you watch
with you tonight, mister, I know you have it. Nobody
ever gave me a watch. They wouldn't even if I
asked them for me. They try to keep it from me,
so I just have to take it. I just take it.
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They were coming down the hall, the lights around. All
of a sudden there was only one way out the window.
I was cut some when I hit the ground, but
I was all right. I shot it around and then
I saw someone in front of me.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He was amy right at me, and I ran the
other way.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I felt or something hit me. I tried to get up.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Huh, something hit me again.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That's all I can remember. They say I'm once called
a criminal psychopath. They say I took those things because
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they were symbols of love that I never had. They
say I killed those people because they represented my stepfather
and I thought he'd kept me from being left. They
say they don't know whether I should be sent to
an asylum or go to a trial. But I don't
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see where they go to all this trouble, because they say, anyway,
I am going to die.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
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Even though murder is a bit out of your line,
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Speaker 4 (27:47):
Can I really enjoyed playing Ellwood? Say that's a handsome
watch you're wearing.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You mind if I Elwood? I mean Eddie, Don't don't
let go my wrist. The play's over.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
But I like nice things, valuable things.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
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Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well, Gie, thanks kennot I'll have to remember that routine.
It pays dividends and remember this, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
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Speaker 3 (28:27):
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Speaker 4 (28:48):
Well, I know how popular Roma port is.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
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Speaker 4 (29:10):
Charlid Kin, Charlotte, thank you and good night.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Eddie Bracken may be heard on his own program for
Texico and is currently being seen in the paramount production
Ladies Man.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert Richards.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Next Thursday, same time you will hear mister Howard de Silva,
a star of Suspense.
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In the coming week, Suspense will present such stars as James.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
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Speaker 2 (29:49):
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Speaker 3 (29:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
Just over. Miya wasn't around, so I closed the gas
station earlier that day and started home. I wasn't feeling
very well. I walked along, thinking of different things. Past
the high school where I'd gone last year and when
Miss Wilson was still teaching. Past the movie theaters where
there was still showing the Humphrey Bogode picture I'd seen
last night, but maybe I'd go again tonight. Then I
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cut through the alley to the rickety old frame building
where we lived on the second floor over the store.
I hated that place. Every time I got near it.
I hated it worse. It was no kind of a
place for us to be living. I went up the backstairs.
I could hear Mom and Sis in the kitchen, so
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I went straight to my own room and locked the door.
I pulled up the old floorboard and got out my
things and spread them on the bed. I pinned on
the flyer's watch, that is, his wings, and strapped on
the chronograph type watch.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
It said to.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Jimmy from Jane on it. I looked at myself in
the mirror. I could have been a famous flyer. I
took off the watch and wings and looked over the
other things. There was the old fountain pen that I
had only a week. It said, l I'd be on it.
It was the kind that big executive used to sign
important papers. I tried it out a few times in
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front of a mirror. Yesilhood, all right, mother, all right?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
For early? Did you get fired?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
No, I just closed up a little early.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Well you will get fired, mister obermar Ketches. You're closing
up early.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Oh no, I won't.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Don't think you're gonna lie around this house when you do.
Your sister and I have a hard enough time as
it is without having you on our next line.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't feel very well today, mom, don't feel very well?
His supper ready?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Is that all you can think about when you come home?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Food? There isn't much else? Is there?
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So well?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Anytime you get tired of using this place as a boarder,
not forget it?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Mom? What's this?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Leave it alone?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Do you have to look at everything?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
An old album of snapshot?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I down in the trunk today, didn't know I still
had it?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Shee is this me?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Let me see?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Mm hmmm?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
At you?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
How old was I?
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Then?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't let me see?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
About six? You were real cute?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Then?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Are there any pictures of dad?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No? See?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I remember this place. This is where we lived just
before we came to Fairfield. Wasn't it quite a while before?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
You're about eight?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Then? Who's this? Who's this man?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
You ought to remember him?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
You're almost nine when he he went away?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I don't who was he?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
He was your stepfather? What's the idea of tearing that out?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Nus?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I want to hurry it out.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
You got a right to tear off that picture.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The lard knows.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I got no use for that man, but you got
no right to tear it up.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You had no right to marry him.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Get out of here before I hitch you ack in.
Get out of here, Get out.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I went back to my room. I got my things
out from under the floorboard again. But somehow they didn't
make me feel very good the way they usually did.
I had an awful headache. Pretty soon. I put on
my hat and went out.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Is the oil and water all right, Miss Wilson?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I think it is Elwood?
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Yes, well that'll be.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
A dollar eighty then.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
All right, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
How's the new term going, Miss Wilson?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
All fine so far. I am sorry you're not with
us tho Elwood. I was so looking forward to having
you in my class.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Well, some things just can't be helped, that's see. I guess.
Do the students like your course, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
They seem to like it fine.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I wish I could be there. Is there anything about
abnormal psychology, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
We touch on it towards the end of the course.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I read something about it. I read some of the
Freud nadlers stuff too.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Sometimes I think you get more real education staying out
of school, and the rest of them do staying well.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I try to keep up with what's going on in
the world.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You're aware of most people, Elwood. I hope someday you
can get away from this time someplace where you can
really use your ability. You can go a long way.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
All I'm going to I'm going to do something about
it someday. All right, I know you are.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Maybe between us we can figure out something.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Can Can I come over and listen to your records
again sometime, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Of course you can't, Elwood, anytime you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Feel hey, what's the matter? Herowood?
Speaker 10 (06:09):
We got a phone for doctor Parker, and what's up?
Why has mister Granby? They just found him over there
in the lock Yes, her phone? You you you go
on over, Elmwood. Maybe you can do all right?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You want to come, Miss Wilson, Yes, I will.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I guess it must be over there on the corner
where the people are.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
People crowd around awful quick at something like this, don't
they Maybe you don't want to look? Oh that's mister Granby.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
All right, Calwood, what happened to him?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There's not much use in calling a doctor. There is
he well, you can see he's been strangled, Miss Wilson,
he's dead. Or suspense.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
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Eddie Bracken in Ellwood, a tale well calculated to keep
you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Finding mister Graham be murdered created a terrific emotion. At first,
they thought some tramp did it, but they couldn't find
anything missing except for five beta kapakey, So they figured
someone in town must have done it. Because there were
quite a lot of people who didn't like mister Gramby
at all. You can imagine how that made them feel.
A little town like Oz where everybody knew everybody else,
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and someone someone you might say hello to a dozen
times a day was a murderer. Righty was my afternoon off,
and I was walking around town. I ran into Miss
Wilson and Winnie Hawkshi, Hello Elwood, Oh, Hello Miss Wilson.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
High Winnie Elwood Parsons, I do wish stop calling me Winnie.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
My name is Winnifred. In fact, it's ms Hawks Mira quaitns.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I always used to call you Winnie.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That was years ago, when I was just a time
Winnifred seventeen, now Elwood, she's a young lady.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Well at least I'm old enough to be a best
buy my right name, Okay, Wonnie?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
All right, then, Ellie, say Whinnie? Uh? What's that? What
that hanging on your bracelet?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
That that's just a little gold football. And he saw
you gave it to me.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Geez, that's nice.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh, it's all right. The whole varsity got them. Anybody
might have one.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
Anybody, yes, even you, if you'd ever taken the trouble
to go out to the team.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
The football equipment course too much? Say hear anything new
about the murder?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
New?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
My father says.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
If the police can't do anything, it's high time the
citizens took things into their own hands. He's forming a
vigilantic commit Oh well, we have to do something, don't we.
After all, there's a murderer running around loose. How do
we know what might be anybody?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sure it might be anybody?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Well, of course I suppose it might. But both you
swear enough to tell us to.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
A living soul what my father thinks he knows who
did it? The murder, does he He thinks it's the
old man crass. In the first place, there's something wrong
with him living up there in that old shack all alone.
And in the second place, he's a foreigner.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
If what's that got to do with it.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
I could have done it, my father didn't. He's somebody
who was crazy.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's the craziest thing I ever heard, Oh, Man krans
a fiend. Jessica, your pa, tell your father to guess again.
When the old man Krantz wouldn't hurt anybody, k he
wouldn't hurt a fly, He wouldn't dare. Old man Krantz
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was a little funny, all right, but it was funnier
still am thinking that he'd done it. That gave me
the idea to go up and see him. His big
dog Bismock started making an awful push the way he
always did. But I just flanged on the door. Anyway.
It's me, mister Krantz.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
El what I didn't see.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Bismarck, old fella A sure, And.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
They come up to see you, old man Crantz again.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Man, I brought you some all horse shoes. I'll just
put him down here, say I I thought I ought
to tell you. I heard the screwiest thing at town today.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Sure, what was that?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
You know about the murder?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Somebody said you did it?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh they did?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Uh huh. They're getting up a vigilanti committee.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
Let him come at a vigilante committee. I got my shotgun.
I take care of myself.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Oh, they won't bother you, mister Krantz. I told him
they were crazy. Better as far as that goes, I
don't think they'll ever find out who did it. I
don't think so, do you. Well somebody did do it, Oh, sure,
somebody did. It was strangled here. I saw him take
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a strong pair of hands to do that. Yeah, I
guess it would. Well what have you been doing lately,
mister Krantz, Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Nothing, reading philosophy this last few days.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
No more.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh sure, but now I read the little Philosophy just
for a change. Been reading Chopenhau. You know how he
says it's the only way to escape the world.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Suicide suicide.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But he's crazy. My way of living is better than
his way of dying.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, why do you want to escape from the world,
mister Krantz?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Right, look at it, Just look at it and tell
me why. I shouldn't want to escape.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
From Well, I don't know, mister Krantz, are a lot
of things wrong with the world.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Wrong. You just show me one thing that's right, Just
one thing.
Speaker 12 (13:28):
I'll go back. That's right, I'll go back. But in
the meantime, but you've got nothing else to do with
play a game of horseshoes. Come on, I got the
stakes all lay down.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
What kind of horseshoes are these? They're all bend Well.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I didn't want to ask Charlie Vander for new ones.
They're old ones that he takes off the horses. They
just have to be straightened out a little.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You got a hammer in next.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You think I'm an old man and I'm weak. Huh.
You don't know how much strength I got. Hell, look
I straightened my bare hat.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Shucks, I bet I can do it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Huh, go ahead, try all right there?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
See, Yeah, it's just as straight as yours.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, so it takes a strong pair of hands to
do that.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I didn't feel very well that night. I tried on
my five bata kapake that I had in front of
a mirror, and then I put it back in the
place under the floor, and then I put on my
hat and went out.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The next day they found Winnie Hawk's she was dead.
Somebody had strangled.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Hello, Ellwood, come in.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I haven't seen you for quite a while.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
And I thought everyone's been so upset. It was such
an awful thing. What about Winnifred? Oh, yes, it's strange
what fate does. Oh, it's something a little more horrible
than fate. I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I thought maybe you wouldn't want to go out. I
thought maybe you might like to listen to some music tonight,
miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh, yes, i'd love to. As a matter of fact,
I've just got a new album of Stravinsky. They say
it's very good.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh, Stravinsky's wonderful. I think it's terribly exciting and emotional,
don't you well.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yes, and so imaginative. I'll get out the records. If
you were stuck? What s that you got there?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Ill with?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
What that thing you're tossing up down your hand?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Oh, that's just a little watch charm I found. I
carried it in my pocket sort of for luck.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It was a gold football, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah? I found it. I guess some fella lost it.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh, okay, ses, I'm leaving.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh hello, Dick. Oh all right, Dad's here, so don't
worry going hunting.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Oh the rifle hunting, you bet? I am.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Half the town is tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Didn't know, Elwood, the committee's patrolling the streets because of
the murderer.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh yes, I heard something about it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You ought to join up. It's every man's duty.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
With a fiend like that on the loose. Well maybe
I will, well, so long, can I, Dick? Shall I
put on the first record? Miss Wilson?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yes, all right, Elwood? Yes, where did you find that
gold football?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Done by the railroad tracks? I guess some fellow lost
it who is passing through? I sort of collect things
like that, you know. Oh oh that music, it's wonderful.
It makes me want to do things, big things. You've
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been a wonderful help to me, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I like to help people, but I think will benefit
by it, so perhaps someday they can accomplish something.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'm going to accomplish something someday, Miss Wilson, In a
way I already have. Sometimes I thought if I were
only a little bit older, or you were a little younger.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That's one thing we know we can't accomplish, isn't it.
We can't change our ages.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No, we can't accomplish. That's a that's a lovely watch
you have on, miss Wilson. I've never seen you wear
that one before.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
A friend of mine brought it back from Europe.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
May I see it? Of course, it's kind of complicated,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yes, it's one of those Swiss ones tails the day
of the month too.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Oh, it's really lovely.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I'd like to have a watch like that, Elwood.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I can't listen anymore. I hope you'll excuse me.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What's my name, Miss Wilson.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm very sorry. Suddenly I have a very bad hitdache.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Oh well, of course I understand, Miss Welson.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh you have nothing to thank me for, Miss Wilson.
I'll go now, all right, good night, good night, Miss Wilson.
I went home and put the gold football in the
place under the floor. I thought i'd go to sleep,
but I felt worse that night than I ever had.
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So after a while I put on my hat and
went out. I walked around for quite a while. Once
I saw some of the fellows driving around on a
hopped up board, all with rifles and shotguns, aren't they Elwood?
I just waved at them and kept on walking. I
was down around the station, just says the eleven forty
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was pulling out. A man had gotten off and was
crossing the tracks to take the shortcut. It was dark.
I couldn't see who he was, but he had a
brand new briefcase, a lovely one, the kind they call
a dispatch case. I followed him. The shortcut is a
path up over the ridge below mister Krantz's shack. It
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whines cried alive tone. At first, he didn't notice I
was following him pretty close. Before he didn't, he turned
his head. He began walking faster, and so did I.
And the minute he looked back again and had must
have come to him who I was, because he started
to run. Then I ran to it. When he saw
he couldn't get away all at once, he made a
quick turn off the hell towards the lights and all
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man Kranz's shack. He didn't yell at anything, but he
dropped his briefcase now and he was running as hot
as he could.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
So was I.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And I didn't stop for a second. I was afraid
he might wake up all Man Kranz's dog. Before I
caught up with him.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
He tripped over something and felt and I was there
before he could get up with him.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He turned his face.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Then suddenly it happened again, the same thing that happened
with Winnie Hawk's and mister Gramby.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
It wasn't his.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Face that I saw.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
It was the face in that picture, the face of
my stepfather.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
My hands were closing around his.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
The next day, the sun was shining, and I was
pleased because it was my day off again. I slept late,
but when I started over into town, I saw a
lot of kids running up towards the ridge, so I
guess they'd found him. Followed alonger When I got there,
I saw they were going up further to all Man
Krantz a shack. There was a big crowd there, and
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the sheriff and three or four cops. They didn't seem
to be doing much. It was some other men, like
mister Wilson's brother that seemed to be in charge. One
of them had a rope and he was slinging an
over tree. And then I saw the dog. Somebody had
shot Bizmock and he was lying there in the grass,
all covered with blood. And then they were dragging old
man trans out of his shot.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I have an old man, boys, I don't do it
under the old man like he wanted to do a
thing like that.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Shut up, listen here, man quiet.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I gotta warn you. What you're doing is you're legally
contrary the Lord. We're in George now, sheriff, and let
me warn you. Don't try to interfere. It's this. What
have you done that far?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Come?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
He? Come on? No, wait, he didn't do it. How
do you know?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well he couldn't have it. There's the one who did
it right there.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I was down the hill before they even had time
to fire a shot.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
That's all that had taken, just those few words, and they.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Knew, but it was too late. Now there was a
great train coming through.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Just as I got to the tracks, I got across.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Ahead of it.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
That cut them off for a minute and gave me
time to think. But I knew i'd never get very
far in the open.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Daylight, and I saw an oil tank cost standing on
the siding with the top up. I scrambled up onto
it and down the little ladder inside.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
It was empty.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I was barely inside when they were across the tracks
after me.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I'm hardly bad breathe.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
Standing there in the darkness, with the oil on the
bottom of the car seeping into my shoes, I go
almost faining, thinking of what would happen somebody got the
idea of looking a tank car.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It was good and dark about eight o'clock, I guess.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Before I dared to climb out. I was still frightened,
but I was excited too. They were looking for me.
Everybody in a couple of days, the whole country would
be looking for me. If they wouldn't find me, they'd
never find me for years. They'd wonder how I got away.
And then then I saw two men walking up the
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track to the freight agent Gyptiss. I was frightened all
over again.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I just wish I had I got old.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Were all over and everywhere, but just the same I
had to get to see Miss Wilson somehow.
Speaker 14 (23:46):
I just had to get to Cigure. I started back
over the ridge. I figured that would be the last
place they'd be looking, but at every little sound in
the bresh I'd go week all over from fear.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I got there though, through the backyard, and I was
just hiding in the bushes alongside the house, and I
saw him out the front door with Dick.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
I'll walk you do.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
We're patrolling the streets by the school anyway, so you'll
be all right. Keep plenty of lights on though.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
It's so brutal. Brutal, yes, and you enjoy it, all
of you, hunting him down like an animal.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What good, Lord, Sis?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He is an animal? So I was an animal?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Hell all right?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Then I was an animal.
Speaker 15 (24:35):
But I was a lot smarter animal than any of them.
I knew she was going to the school, and I
knew how to get into the basement. It was awful easy, really,
and I was already inside when I heard her arrive.
She had the place blazing with lights.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
But her room was right next to the basement stairway,
and there was a fuse box just at the head
of the stairs. It was almost too easy. Of course,
I could see her in there when I opened the door.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Who's there, Miss Wilson. Don't be afraid, Miss Wilson. Oh what,
I just want to talk to you, Miss Wilson. I
just wanted to tell you why I did those things.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You're a psychologist, you'll understand. It was those things like
the gold football like your watch. You have you watch
with you tonight, mister, I know you have it. Nobody
ever gave me a watch. They wouldn't even if I
asked them for me. They try to keep it from me,
so I just have to take it. I just take it.
(25:48):
They were coming down the hall, the lights around. All
of a sudden there was only one way out the window.
I was cut some when I hit the ground, but
I was all right. I shot it around and then
I saw someone in front of me.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He was amy right at me, and I ran the
other way.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I felt or something hit me. I tried to get up.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Huh, something hit me again.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That's all I can remember. They say I'm once called
a criminal psychopath. They say I took those things because
(26:39):
they were symbols of love that I never had. They
say I killed those people because they represented my stepfather
and I thought he'd kept me from being left. They
say they don't know whether I should be sent to
an asylum or go to a trial. But I don't
(27:00):
see where they go to all this trouble, because they say, anyway,
I am going to die.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Suspense presented by Roma Wines r O M. A Roma
America's favorite wines. This is Ken Niles bringing back to
our suspense microphone, the brilliant star of tonight's play, Eddie Bracken. Eddie,
Even though murder is a bit out of your line,
you were superbly convincing as a villain tonight.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Can I really enjoyed playing Ellwood? Say that's a handsome
watch you're wearing.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You mind if I Elwood? I mean Eddie, Don't don't
let go my wrist. The play's over.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
But I like nice things, valuable things.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
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It's a present from Roma, your host tonight, with compliments
on a most realistic performance.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well, Gie, thanks kennot I'll have to remember that routine.
It pays dividends and remember this, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
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add warmth to their welcome with glasses of that delicious
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Speaker 3 (28:27):
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Speaker 1 (28:31):
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of millions for smart entertaining and at dinner time, fragrant
Roma Port is so good, so gracious with dessert. Yes,
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Speaker 4 (28:48):
Well, I know how popular Roma port is.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
Can well, Eddie, Here's the reason you see in all
Roma wines you enjoy an important difference, an extra goodness
born of fuller bouquet, rich her body and better taste.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
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Speaker 4 (29:10):
Charlid Kin, Charlotte, thank you and good night.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Eddie Bracken may be heard on his own program for
Texico and is currently being seen in the paramount production
Ladies Man.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert Richards.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Next Thursday, same time you will hear mister Howard de Silva,
a star of Suspense.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
In the coming week, Suspense will present such stars as James.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Stewart, Nancy Kelly and others.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
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Radio's outstanding theater of thrill.
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