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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Radios outstanding. Peter A.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Frills brings you an hour our full sixty minutes of
Suspence too night. Cross Fire Our stars Robert Young, Robert Mitchum,
Robert Ryan, and Sam Levine, with George Cooper and William Fitts,
all playing their original roles from the current RKO radio

(00:24):
picture in an adaptation for Suspence produced and directed by
Anton m Leader Crossfire.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Robert Young stars as Captain Finley, Robert Mitcham is Keeley,
Robert Ryan is Maty, Sam Levine is Samuels.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
And Marla Dwyer as Jinny.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
With these performances and with Crossfire, we again hope to
keep you in. Sus Ben, my name is Finley. Captain

(01:11):
Detective Thomicide Washington, d C. I was the cop on
the case. The call came in at nine forty five
a girl. I told her to stay there and we
went up. It was an apartment on East Street, the
third floor, number three oh seven. The girl was still
there and let us in. The place didn't look too bad,
considering there was a chair knocked over and a lamp

(01:32):
and a little laquor slopped around, but aside from that,
not bad, except there was a man lying in the
middle of the floor. A man named Joseph Samuels, and
he was dead beating detad.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
God.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, take it easy, miss Lewis, I got right. Was
Samuel's drunk when you left him in this bar, miss Lewis?

Speaker 5 (01:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Had he been drinking?

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Yes, but he was all right.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
What was he arguing with a soldier? Boy?

Speaker 7 (02:02):
They weren't arguing, they were just talking. I sent Sammy
over to talk to the soldier myself. The kid seems
so upset about something.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Here's a man's water. Captain found it behind the cushions
on the sofa. How it's having Corporal Art and Mitchell?
What rank was the soldier? Miss Lewis, Oh, I didn't notice.
I left them. Where did you go? I went up
to my room.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
It was the bar in my hotel.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
I had a change, so I told Sammy i'd meet
him here in his apartment.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
We had a date for dinner.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
I rested a while, and then I fell asleep. When
I woke up, I phoned the apartment to say i'd
be a little late.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
I think wasn't any answer.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
I came over as soon as I could find a cab.
Then I called, you do I have to stay.

Speaker 8 (02:51):
Here any longer.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, I'll get somebody to drive you home. I'd take
miss Lewis home and check in the bar at her hotel.
I want to do, moniss, Oh, wait a minute, to
take this wallet to the Provo Marshal's office and see
if they can locate this man. That's sure. Well what
do you want? Oh? I'm sorry, I must have the

(03:15):
wrong place. What place are you looking for? Well? I
thought it was this apartment. I was looking for a
buddy of mine. Your cops, Yeah, we're cops. Has something happened?
Tell us about your buddy? Yes, sir, well, we was here.
He left before we did. He wasn't feeling good. He
said he'd be right back. Who was we? Men? Another

(03:37):
buddy of mine? Who did you come here with? What's
these two buddies of mine? And this fella? What fellow?
This fellow we met.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
In the bar and miss Lewis?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, So do you recognize this young lady? Come on,
did you see this young lady in the bar? Yes, sir,
miss Lewis, is this the man who was with Samuels
when you left?

Speaker 6 (03:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
It was another what's it all about? Come in the
soldier and give a look, geez, that's tough. Yeah, isn't it.
Somebody killed him? Could you identify him? Same fellow you
met in the bar?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, that's that's him. What's your name Montgomery?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Sir?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Were you drunk tonight?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well? I had a couple, but I can handle that.
And I see how well long have you been out
of the service? Two weeks? About live here?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
No, sir, what are you doing in Washington?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I just came back to see some of my buddy.
Where you're staying at the Stewart Hotel. That's where I
used to be stationed. I'm splenging a free bike from
one of my buddy. What's your buddy's name? This one
who was sick, the one who was coming back, Mitchell, Mitch,
we call him. No, I hand me that wallet here here,
Corporal Arthur Mitchell. Yeah, that's him. Ever see this wallet? Soldier?

(04:55):
Where did you find it? In the sofa? I must
have dropped out of his But believe me, Mitch cook,
what's his up? Same as mine?

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Was?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
What were you in? Signal card attachment? It's a Stewart Hotel? Oh, harol,
let's clean it up. Get the corner up here and
give me a full report. Okay, boy, let's go on gummy. Sure,
but where are we going to the headquarters? See what

(05:27):
I mean? Routine, just routine. I put a man on
the finding this Mitchell, the one who belonged to the wallet,
and I talked some more to Montgomery and nothing. The
cooperative type but nothing. Pretty soon my man came back.
He couldn't find Mitchell, but he had his roommate, a
guy named Keeley, the uncooperative type. Harry's captain. Oh, thanks

(05:50):
you are Keeley? Sergeant Kelley.

Speaker 9 (05:52):
Yeah, I'm Kelley.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm sorry to break up your Saturday night game.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Sagan.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
You want to see me about something, Captain?

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yes, when I see you about Mitchell?

Speaker 9 (06:01):
What about Mitchell?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
About Mitchell killing a guy? Killing my guy? You know Mitchell,
don't you?

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah? But who's he's supposed to have killed? Sit down, sorry,
you're going to talk about it. When did you see
Mitchell last this afternoon two o'clock? Where was he going? Crawling? Where? Nowhere?

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Soldiers don't have anywhere to go, un Lets you tell
him where they go when they're off duty, they go
crawling or they go crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
What did you do.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Before you've got the army?

Speaker 1 (06:29):
What's that got to do with it. It might help
me understand your answers. I worked on newspapers. What sort
of a job you're doing now?

Speaker 9 (06:39):
Ink job?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Purple ink instead of the purple hardly get purple ink.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Mitchell too, and.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
He's an artist.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
See he used to do cows eating grass. He's branched
out now he does signs. Keep this washroom clean. If
he killed anybody, you're crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
He's not the tight. Everybody's the tight.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
He couldn't kill anybody, could you. I have where where
you get medals for it?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I see Mitchell boy couldn't do that either.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know? Tell me about this afternoon when Mitchell left.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
There wasn't anything to tell he left.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
What did you talk to missus Mitchell about?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
What is according to the hotel chart slip. You called
Chicago at two.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Thirty and talked to missus Mitchell, his mother, his wife.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was personal. It wouldn't interest you.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
What did you call missus Mitchell about?

Speaker 9 (07:32):
She called me first last week.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
She was worried about him.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
He hadn't written.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Ye, I don't know. And yes, he's homesick. His wife's sick.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
I don't know anyway, he's got.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Snakes, he's been nuts, but not nuts enough.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
To kill anybody. How was he this afternoon? Oh, he
was trying.

Speaker 9 (07:48):
To act like a soldier.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think he went out to.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Look for a girl.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's your name anyway, Finley, But Finley.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
This sort of laf doesn't bother some soldiers. I haven't
seen my wife for two years. When I do, maybe
we'll pick right up again.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Maybe we won't, but I don't worry about it now.

Speaker 9 (08:05):
Mitchell's not like that.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
He's he's not tough.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
He needs his wife.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
I called us afternoon, told her to hop a plane
and come cheer him up.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Here's her wire. She's on her way. She'll be here tonight.
That's good.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
I still don't know what this is all about.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Why did you pick me up? You're Mitchell's closest friend,
don't you. I don't advertise it. No, Mitchell's other friend
told us about.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
You, his other friends.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Let's have Montgomery back. Where does Montgomery come in?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
He was with Mitchell and a boy named Floyd Bowers
this afternoon in the bar. They met a mister Samuel
was there and went up to his apartment. Mitchell left first.
He told Montgomery to be back. We were looking at
Samuel's body when Montgomery came back looking for Mitchell.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
You were taking Money's word for all.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
This not entirely ever, See this, mitchus Wallace, how do
you get it? We found it and Samuel's a fucking
down behind the sofa.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Christians, where's Bowers the jazz money?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm asking yourself, Hey, Kiley, do you hear all this?
Are trying to pin on Mitch part of it? This
is serious or crucifying the kid. You know, Mitch, he
won't have a chance. What do you mean by that,
oh Captain? I just mean that Mitch is not the
kind of guy who knows a scoop on things like this.
He's an artist, He's sens it and you know all

(09:29):
about things like this. Well sure, Like I told you,
I've been a cop myself in Saint Louis four years
in the jungle on the East Side. I know the
score well, and you can understand my problem. Why I
need your help. I'm not helping anybody stake my pal
in trouble. I'm not asking you to. I'm just asking
for facts. How did all this get started in the
bar with Samuel's Like always a bunch of people in

(09:52):
a bar something happens and the first thing you know,
you're talking to somebody. What happened? We or not could
drink all over this what you say? Name was, Miss Louis.
You didn't tell me about LeRoy's. He's just a dumb
hill but he's a friend of Floyd. He come in
with Floyd, but he didn't stay long. Go on, tell

(10:12):
me about it. Well, like I said, we was talking
to me and Floyd and Mitch. Only Mitch was getting
high and clamming up. I was worried about Mitch. I'm
eating you, Mitch, nothing's eating me. Come on, man, let's go.
Let's still Floyd. You don't get to meet people going
and out of one bar after another.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Hey, look on, Leroy that tray.

Speaker 10 (10:39):
I'm sorry, lady. I didn't mean to silly hill billy.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Why don't you watch what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
That's all right.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
There was an accident lady with you.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, I'm sure sorry about my buddy. Oh, that's all right. Here, honey, here,
here's an act waiter. Give me that time. Here, miss
you'll have to forgive Leroy. Here. LeRoy's in Tennessee. He
just started wearing shoes. Apologize to the lady. Leroy, I said,
I'm sorry, he was just an accident. Soldier. LeRoy's all right,
he's just dumb. We won the war with him by
by not letting him go across the crowds had caught him,

(11:09):
and he right, where are going? I'll see you right? Well?

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now, look there I heard LeRoy's steeling.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
I'd been a change. Let me come at your place, Sammy.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Sure, sure, take a time, hey, soldier, Yeah, buy a drink? Sure,
why not?

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Here?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's well, Captain is Samuels and Mitch went out to
the other end of the bar and me and Floyd
was just sitting there talking. I don't know how long
this flight can really talk when he gets got in
the man, what I couldn't do with a thousand buckers?
What would you do with a thousand bucks? All right, man,
with a thousand bucks, I'd go to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'd fish and live on the beach and eating that beach.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I've been to Mexico.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Them guys down there and have your thousand bucks before
you was there a week? Yeah, not my thousand bucks.
They wouldn't. I'd steal me in their cool machine gunning. Hey, Floyd, look, Mitch,
ms Pat come on, let's go. Why do we have
to go? The jew boy is setting up to drink someplace?

Speaker 3 (12:11):
The Jew Boy the Jew Boy.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, Captain, we followed them to Samue's place and just
walked in. We all had a couple of drinks. Next
thing I knew, Mitch was getting a little green, and
pretty soon he left. Floyd was getting kind of stinker too,
So after a while I got him out of there
and started walking him back to the Stewart Hotel. But
then I got worried about Mish, so I put Floyd

(12:46):
in a cab and went back to look some more
for Mitch. And that's when I met you, Captain, and.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You came up to Samuel's apartment.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Even though you saw the police cars outside, Well, how
did I know they had anything to do with Samuels.
You're just a bunch of hit cops down here. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
You'll never pin anything on Mitch, not in a hundred years.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I'm sorry, I'm just worried sick about Mitch. Did you
have any sort of an argument with Samuels? What was
here to argue about? What was here to argue about?
Liquor was good, Everything was okay. Had you ever seen
him before. No, I told you I just met him
in the bar. I never seen him before. You're sure, sure,

(13:27):
I'm sure, of course. I've seen a lot of guys
like him, meaning what you know, guys that played it
safe during the war, scroundings around, keeping themselves in cities.
They got swell apartments, swell dames. You know the kind. No,

(13:48):
I'm not sure that I do, just what kind?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Some of them are named Samuels, some of them got
funnier names. I'll be at the Stewart, sure, I got
nowhere else to go. I'm just punging a bunk from
one of the boys. You come and Killian.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
There are one or two more.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Questions I want to ask Sargant Kelly, Well, so on, Captain,
there's anything else this car? I mean he should look
at a casualty list.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Sometimes there are a lot of funny names there too,
I said, Monty's alliterate, I said, if you ought to
read more, I was just philosophized.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm not interested in philosophy. I'm trying to solve them.
Order to pardon me, Mitchell was in a strange mood tonight.
If you'd admit that he left Samuel's apart and intending
to come back. We arrive and find Samuel's beating to debt.
We find Mitchell's wallet and the sofa. I say Mitchell
did come back. Some sort of an argument developed, I say,
that's fine, or don't you think Mitchell would kill Samuels

(14:49):
that way? I don't think Mitchell would kill anybody anyway.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
You still don't know where he is?

Speaker 1 (14:53):
No, I don't.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
I didn't know when I came in here, and I
haven't suddenly gotten any brit you don't believe you did
it yourself.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
He could. Heavy was there, so were Money and Floyd,
but they left. Mitchell said he was coming back according
to Money. According to Money, Money's a liar with Mikes.
Your believe his story. It just happens to be the
only story I've got. Then, why did you let him go?
Did I?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
You don't really think he alleged to Floyd Boers?

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Do you? I don't know? Said all for me? Yeah,
I guess so?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Now, okay, you know where to find me. I'm keey.
You've hurt from me already. I was Mitch's friend and brother.

(15:44):
When I walked out of that Smart Cops office, I
knew if I didn't find him before the fuzz, and
after me was a dead pigeon.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I got back to the.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Hotel, the lobby was so full of cops and mvs
they were dancing with each other.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
So I rounded up a couple of my scouts, told.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Him Mitch was ups in trouble, and I say them
around the lobby to keep out on keep an eye
out for him. I also told him to keep on
the lookout for Floyd Bauers, he might know something. And
I waited at the corner of the coffee shop where
I could see the streets in the window. Sure enough, about
half an hour I saw Mitch cutting.

Speaker 9 (16:15):
Across the street for the hotel entrance.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
I managed to get outside and put the snatch on
him before the cops.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Knew what I was up to, And ten minutes later we.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
Were sitting in the balcony of an all night movie
house with.

Speaker 9 (16:26):
Nobody around, a few drunks and bums, and I gave him.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
The pitch chili.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I couldn't have kid them. Not the point. You've got
to have a story for the cops. I've got moneys and.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
It sounds pretty, but not for you.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I want you to tell me everything you did tonight.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
How drunk were you? I don't know, pretty drunk.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I guess how long we with this girl? Oh?

Speaker 1 (16:49):
You ought to know? Was it one hour? Two hours,
three hours? I can't remember. My shit hurts. I can't
remember anything very well, So it hurts.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
You've got to remember he ran into money and Leroy
and Floyd, didn't you, Yes, and he went in.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
The bar with them. That's right, it's okay.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
I'll take it from the bar.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Take it slow and remember everything you can. Well, we
were there quite a while. I guess.

Speaker 11 (17:13):
I got restless, and I wanted to show I was
sick of money, and I was sick of Floyd. I
wanted to be somewhere else, so I drifted off to
the other end of the barn. The fellow sandals came over,
and he sat next to the men and began to talk. First,
I didn't pay much attention. I was feeling so low myself.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
My girl was worried.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
About you I drinking.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
She says, you're not drinking, but you're getting drunk anyway.

Speaker 8 (17:39):
Anybody who can do that has got a problem.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
So what It's a funny thing, isn't it. How it
gets worse at night?

Speaker 12 (17:49):
I think maybe it's suddenly not having a lot of
enemies to hate anymore.

Speaker 8 (17:54):
The war is over, and now we don't know what
we're supposed to do. We don't know what's supposed to happen.
We're who used to fighting, but we don't know just
what to fight, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I guess so you can.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Feel the tension in the air right here in this.

Speaker 12 (18:14):
Bond, A lot of fight and hate us a way
to go. The guy like you may start hating himself
one of these days. Maybe we'll all stop.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Hating and start liking things again. Huh.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
What sort of an artist are I did a mural
once for the WPA. All lot of.

Speaker 11 (18:36):
Fine artists, gaples, I saw one of this. He seemed
like a nice fellow. This Samuel, a real nice fellow.
I think he must have been on a newspaper or something.
We talked a while, then we decided to go up
to his place.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
He was going to meet his girl there. May and
Floyd must have followed us, because after we got to
the apartment they walked in.

Speaker 11 (18:58):
I guess I must have been getting pretty tight, because
I don't remember exactly what we talked about up there.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
How long it was before money, Floyd King. All my
remember is that the radio was on playing some nice music.
Did you see?

Speaker 11 (19:12):
I think Money was yamming away doing most of the talking, right.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Floyd, Yeah, don't all right, Mitch kidd, Sammy, let me
tell you something that many Sivilians who take a soldier
into his house like this required talk. Is that right? Vood?
That's right?

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Mine?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well let me tell you something. Guys afraid to take
a soldier into his house he stinks, Hey guy, I
have that screws puts him? Am I right? Or? Am
I all right? Soldier? Don't you say? I ask you
a question? Sammy? What was that? You know? What was that?
Am I right? Or?

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Am I right?

Speaker 1 (19:49):
You're right side?

Speaker 4 (19:50):
You can say that again.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
You're all right, Sammy, boy, you're okay? Mitch? Are you
all right? I'm all right.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
I just needed to lay.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Can I get you anything?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
No, I'm all right. I'll be right back. I'm all right.
He's all right. You heard him say he's all right.
Love to have another round. I'm afraid there isn't time,
so I shouldn't heard a pressure. What's the matter you boy?
Bring up? You know how I am Chiley?

Speaker 11 (20:26):
I hate to hear anybody yelling at anybody, So I
decided not to go back. When I got out, the
air felt good. I must have started to walk. I
don't remember how far in what direction. But the next
thing I knew I was a joint called the Red Dragon.
I was talking to this girl named Ginny and buying
her drinks.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Do I have to tell you my name again?

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Well it's Ginny because I'm from Virginia.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (20:53):
Oh yeah, all this joint thing, I sure get tired
of it here.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
You work here for them, for last year, for last
every night, every night.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
Come on, but your glass here's for nothing. You work
here until one, until we close.

Speaker 13 (21:14):
Then what then I sleep, me and myself and my
great big badly sleep because you know I could have
killed my roommates the other morning.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Sure you got that in quick, didn't you drink?

Speaker 6 (21:28):
That can be nice?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
You know what I'd like to do?

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah? Yeah, well I'd like to take you dance.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
Oh let's put that music for I work here?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I mean really take you dancing.

Speaker 11 (21:40):
The two of us going somewhere eating something, talking about
our yare exist?

Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'm serious? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (21:49):
Yeah, no, I remind you of your sisters.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
You remind me of my wife.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Look, look, be nice. Arted some more drinks, then we'll dance.

Speaker 11 (21:57):
I've had enough to drink to wait, Jenny, don't go,
I've got some things to do.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I was looking all over for you, Jenny, What did
you leave for?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
You didn't want to drink? All you wanted to do
is yet I don't.

Speaker 13 (22:20):
Make money on that.

Speaker 11 (22:21):
You're not getting so rich out here on the terrasol
by yourself.

Speaker 13 (22:24):
Oh no, it's nicer out here on the terraceol by myself.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
What's wrong with me? Anyway?

Speaker 6 (22:29):
You're a carney?

Speaker 1 (22:31):
What did I say? We were just talking?

Speaker 14 (22:33):
How is that?

Speaker 1 (22:34):
What that was?

Speaker 6 (22:36):
You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to
take you dance. You remind me of my wife. That's
the idea of saying a thing like that.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
You know something, I haven't really been dancing for almost
two years? Why not because I haven't? Why because I've
been working for a living.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
What do you do when you're not working for a living?

Speaker 13 (22:58):
I live?

Speaker 1 (23:00):
How much would you charge to dance with me? Here?

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Alas here a smooth dance?

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Tony?

Speaker 6 (23:09):
Can you not at yourself?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
You're nice? Out here.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yeah, yeah, you know this used to be a spaghetti
restaurant with tables out here. I don't use the sherriff anymore, saying.

Speaker 14 (23:21):
Saying, how would you like me to make you some spaghetti?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
You mean here?

Speaker 6 (23:25):
No, silly, I live.

Speaker 13 (23:28):
At the Regal Apartments on Southern Street.

Speaker 14 (23:30):
You could wait for me.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
Well, I won't be there for a couple.

Speaker 13 (23:33):
Of hours, but you could sleep or something here the key, Jenny,
will you let me kiss you?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (23:44):
You're nice? Look up. I'll try to get away early.

Speaker 13 (23:49):
But but if you don't want to wait for me,
you could just lock the door and put the tea
in the nailbox.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I'll wait.

Speaker 11 (24:06):
I guess it was a crazy thing to do, keeling,
but it made sense of the time.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Besides that, I thought I could.

Speaker 11 (24:11):
Use a little shut eye, so I walked around some more.
Then I went up to Jenny's apartment. I must have
fallen asleep, because the next thing I remember.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Somebody was knocking on the door.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
How about some night?

Speaker 1 (24:23):
H Sure.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Had she come home yet?

Speaker 1 (24:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
I don't think so you mean Jenny, don't you What
do you mean?

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I guess I mean, Jenny, do you belong here? Or
something or something? How long you've been waiting? I don't know.
That's great, have a cigarette, thanks, I just woke up.
I don't even know what time it is. I've got
a key here somewhere.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
She again. Now I saw you with her to Jenny.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh, who are you? I'm a man who's waiting for
said all right?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sure coffee?

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Sure, I'm a husband.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
I'm Jinny's husband.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was a soldier to it. But I can't up.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I guess you're wondering about this setup, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
I guess I am.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well ask her about it. Then she was a tramp
when I married her.

Speaker 15 (25:22):
I didn't know it at first, but I knew it
before we were married. It's one of the reasons I enlisted.
To let's get away from her. I couldn't wait to
get out and come back to her.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
When I did.

Speaker 15 (25:34):
You didn't want me, funny hit, and I still want her.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
I still love her.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
How's that coffee doing.

Speaker 15 (25:44):
We'll be ready in a minute. You know what I
just told you? What's a lie? I see, I'm not
a husband. I'm metter the same as you did the drink.
I can't keep away from her.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
I want to marry you. She won't have me.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
I see, can you believe that? And that's a lie too,
Hi does love.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I don't want to marry you.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
She makes good money, then got any money on you.

Speaker 11 (26:21):
While this screwball goes now with this double talk, I
suddenly remember you Kieley about having to meet you at
the hotel at midnight.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
So I decided to get out of there. I went
straight back to the.

Speaker 11 (26:31):
Hotel, and the next thing I knew, you were pushing
me around, hauling me off to this joint.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
I don't like all my movie houses any more than
you do, but you're in a jam.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
How long was it from the time you left Saguels.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
From the time you met this jinny? I don't know.
That's a help. How long were we going to apartment
all together?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well?

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I think you want to be coup of a cage chili.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
What's happened?

Speaker 6 (26:55):
Is everything suddenly crazy?

Speaker 11 (26:57):
I don't mean this, I mean everything?

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Or is it just no? It's not just snake foods.
Anybody can get them.

Speaker 9 (27:04):
I got put their friends in mine.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I think Samuel's understood, and.

Speaker 9 (27:10):
Maybe he did it.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
That you're still in love with your wife, I guess
I am.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
She's still in love with you.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's a screwy thing to ask Hill.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
Maybe it is, but she's here now as it should be.
I got to figure out how much of this to
tell him.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Mary here. He doesn't know anything yet. He was coming anywhere,
why to see you.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I talked to her this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Maybe she's here now.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
She was supposed to be on a plane.

Speaker 9 (27:33):
I used to ted, I'll go see if I can
find him.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Ki. I couldn't have killed this guy Clay here there's Leebroy.

Speaker 9 (27:39):
I wonder what he wants.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Kelly, listen.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
I found fly Floyd where in a room and a
place down on mallon street ways hiding out.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
He just phoned me and tried to raise some dopus.
I sound love with scared you get the address. I
don't want to have nothing to do with this. I
shouldn't have told you. I don't want to get it
in trouble. Keeley.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
If you won't get in trouble, all you have to
do is tell us where Floyd is, and.

Speaker 9 (27:59):
You can go back to the hotel and stay there
and forget it.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
And you mate, you just keep right on watching the
picture and don't move, don't even move to another seat.

Speaker 9 (28:07):
Want Lee Roy to bring you a sandwich or something.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
No, but Teei, where are you going? Where? See Floyd? Fothers?

Speaker 5 (28:22):
I didn't have any trouble finding Floyd.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
He was just where Leroy said he was from me.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
A little room on the second floor, and he was scared,
scared to death and wanting to get rid of me
the worst way.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Why.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I didn't know. Then. I talked to him for quite
a while.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
But I couldn't get a thing out of him.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Well, I didn't have all night to waste either, so
after fifteen or twenty minutes, I got.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Up to leave. Well, thanks for dropping around, Kelley. It's okay,
I'm sure you haven't got anything on your mind. No, No,
it's not a thing, Killy.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
I'll be seeing him, sure, Sure, So long Keeling not Floyd.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
I went on out and downstairs. I couldn't figure it out.

Speaker 9 (29:04):
Of course I couldn't, because what.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
I didn't know was that all the time i'd been
in that room, Maddy had been there too.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
After I left, he was still there. It's okay, Money,
he's gone now, I know he's gone. Money.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
I didn't call Keey up here, No, Funny, don't.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Told you not to go out anywhere. Floyd.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
You went out, Floyd, you didn't do.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Like I said. You went out and got in touch
with Kili. You shouldn't have done that. So I didn't money.
I didn't get in touch with Killey. I called Leroy.
Leroy must have told him try any money. Oh I
did try to get some dough. Now, look, you got
plenty of dough. Money, give me some dough. I had
everything figured out, just what we was going to do.
I told you to stay here. You went out and phone.

(29:50):
You spoil everything. I didn't.

Speaker 7 (29:52):
Money, I didn't spoil nothing.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
I told Killy I hadn't seen you.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
You personally say that nobody can put anything on you.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
That's right, Floyd, nobody can put anything on me. Oh look, Money,
I'll go to Mexico. I'll never come back. I didn't
have nothing to do with it. I don't want to
get mixed up in it. Money, craving it money. You
were crazy or something. Samuels didn't do nothing to you.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
You you were crazy.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
I couldn't do nothing to Samuel's either, except I like
like that that's got hurt. Maybe more like that. That
not hard enough to hurt anybody.

Speaker 10 (30:28):
I forget nothing against that.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
He chose don't like Joe and I don't like nobody
who like you.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
In tonight's full hour of Suspense, our stars are Robert
Young as Captain Findley, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, and Sam
Levine in Crossfire. Tonight study in Suspense. In just a moment,
we will return with Act two of Suspense.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
And now back to our Hollywood soundstage and Act two
of Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitcham, Robert Ryan, and
Sam Levine with George Cooper, William Phipps, and Marrow Dwyer
in a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Like I said before, I'm just a cop. By this time,
I was a tired cop, dog tied. I've been doing
a lot of.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Work for the last six hours, most of the leading nowhere.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Because still no Mitchell. But by this time I had
missus Mitchell right in my office. Figuring maybe she might
be anxious to see her husband too. I asked O'Hara
to locate that helpful character Keeley okay and bring him
in right. Why Hey, Sage and Keey Captain come on
in sagean. Captain Finley was just sending me out to

(32:35):
find you. I've been waiting to see him. Hello, Keeley, very,
what are you doing here? We picked up missus Mitchell
at the airport.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Oh, well, what.

Speaker 9 (32:45):
Do you want me for?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Floyd Bowers is dead, Sar. It's dead. He was alive
a couple of hours ago. I just saw him. When
I saw him about twenty minutes ago, he was good
and dead, strung up by the necktie.

Speaker 9 (32:57):
I just came here, Captain to tell you.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
I if you'd come here right away, Sergeant, as soon
as you found out.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Where Floyd was, I could have talked to him myself
and he'd.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Still be alive.

Speaker 9 (33:07):
You win, kid.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Don't you think you'd better tell me where Mitchell is? Sergeant? Why?

Speaker 3 (33:13):
I don't want anybody else killed.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
If I can help it, might as well work with
me now, if you really want to help Mitchell, because
you're in custody. In case you didn't know it, I
listen to anything constructive you have to say, but I
won't stand for any more interference. You've got a mind
like a dog catcher.

Speaker 9 (33:28):
Okay, I'm in custody. Everybody's in custody. What does that prove,
except that you've got a big jail. You want Mitchell
so bad, you can go out.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
And find him, all right, I was just hoping it
was an easier way.

Speaker 9 (33:41):
I talked to Mitchell a little while ago.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Where is he?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
I said, I'd.

Speaker 5 (33:44):
Talked to Mitchell. Kept he couldn't have killed Samuels. He
didn't go back to Samuel's apartment.

Speaker 9 (33:50):
After he went out for some area. He went straight
to it.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
He went straight to a joint where.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
He met a girl.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Oh take it easy, Mary, Mitchell was in this girl's
apartment for the next couple of What does that prove?
Prusey went to a joint, me met a girl, but
a man who just killed somebody to do a thing
like that, I'm sorry, Mary, And.

Speaker 9 (34:07):
It proves where he was for two hours?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Which two hours he doesn't remember.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
What all you have to do is ask the girl
who is she?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
She's a girl.

Speaker 9 (34:14):
She calls herself Ginny.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Mitch knows where she lives.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
When did he tell you all of this?

Speaker 9 (34:19):
Just before I went to see Floyd?

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Did he know where you were going? Then he could
have killed Floyd himself.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
He didn't know the dress. He could have followed you
Captain Finley.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
If Kelley tells you where Mitch is, will you let
him go? And and would you promise to let me
see Mitch first by myself.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
No, I won't let Chili go, but I'll let you
talk to your husband alone. I'll be waiting outside wherever you.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
Please tell him Kelley, please, he's.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
In the balcony of an all night movie, the Regent,
about four blocks from the hotel.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
I took Missus ma So to the Regent Theater and
waited downstairs by the popcorn machine while she had her
private talk with her husband. I don't know what they
said to each other, but it wasn't hard to imagine
a guy and his wife separated for four years and
then suck on this field. But you could tell them
the way they looked at each other when they came out,
that whatever came between them from now on, it wasn't

(35:20):
going to be that other girl. I put Mitchell in
the squad car with aar and then Missus Mitchell and
I went on to pay our call. Mitchell had given
his wife the address Regal Apartments, Southern Street, to name
Jinny Captain Finley.

Speaker 7 (35:35):
Yes, Missus Mitchell, can I go in and talk to
Ginny first, I mean going alone.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
Why, well, she might tell me more than she'd tell you.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
All right, and I see the transoms open. I guess
I won't miss anything.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
What is it, Jinny? Who's there?

Speaker 7 (35:55):
I'm missus Mitchell's.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
Great, mister Mitchell, my husband.

Speaker 16 (36:01):
Look, what do you want anyway? It's late, I'm sorry.
I wanted to talk to a girl named Jinny. My
husband's a soldier who was here tonight. Well, there aren't
any soldiers here now, just nick. I don't have anything
to do with soldiers. Sorry, good night. Please wait, please,
I've got to talk to you. It's terribly important. I

(36:24):
know it's late, but you've got to help me. Can
I come in for just a minute, please?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
All right?

Speaker 6 (36:33):
My husband's in trouble.

Speaker 13 (36:35):
Look I don't know anything about your husband, honest, Why
don't you go home?

Speaker 6 (36:40):
Maybe he's waiting for you.

Speaker 14 (36:41):
Even in jail they say he killed a man, but
he didn't. Okay, then there isn't any problem.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
What do you want from me? Anyway? A character reference?

Speaker 7 (36:50):
All I want you to do is to say that
he was with.

Speaker 13 (36:52):
You tonight, tonight A long time ago. I wouldn't be
able to remember. You would remember, Mitch, why does he
have two heads or something?

Speaker 7 (37:01):
You danced with You danced with him mountain back of
where you work in a sort of a terrorist garden.
You gave him your key and you told him you're
a dress. He told you that he was up here
with me knife. Yes, well, well he lied to you
if he was.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Here, I didn't know about it. And I don't know
where you got my name and address. I can't tell
you anything else. You better go now?

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
How are you? What do you want? I want to
talk to you? What's your name?

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Are you a cop or something?

Speaker 1 (37:33):
What's your name? I don't like cops. Nobody likes cops.
What's your name?

Speaker 6 (37:39):
Virginia Tremaine?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Why where are you from?

Speaker 13 (37:42):
From here?

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Before? You were from here?

Speaker 14 (37:45):
Pennsylvania, Wilkesbury.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
So what what you do?

Speaker 6 (37:49):
I work well the Red Dragon? Well what's wrong about
working there? Does that make me a criminal or something?

Speaker 7 (37:56):
Does that give you the right to bust into my
house and start asking a lot of questions?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Is that where you met Mitchell with the Red Dragon?

Speaker 6 (38:03):
That's right, But I meet a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
I never heard of this, Mitchell? Do you live here alone? Sure?

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Is there's something wrong? In that ny, Jenny. The police
won't hurt.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
You, he promised me.

Speaker 14 (38:15):
All we want you to do is to tell the truth.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Sit down, Virginia.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Now, about missus Mitchell's husband, he's in pretty deep Virginia.
Looks like he killed a man, maybe two.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Missus Mitchell doesn't think he did, of course, but.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
That's only natural, Jenny. Don't you see? I know he
was here, he told me. But that doesn't matter anymore.
Never mind me, you've got to think of him, Oh brother,
listen to that.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
Never mind me, you've got to think of him. A No,
isn't bad?

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Sweet, isn't bad?

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Just too sweet?

Speaker 1 (38:57):
He wasn't here with me?

Speaker 14 (38:58):
See, he could have him that he wasn't. He could
have come up, I could have cooked him something and
we could have talked.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
And what would have been wrong with that?

Speaker 6 (39:07):
What's the matter with me being.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
With her precious husband?

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Does he break or something?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Where was she?

Speaker 6 (39:14):
Okay? Where were you when he needed you?

Speaker 14 (39:17):
Maybe you were someplace having beautiful thoughts?

Speaker 6 (39:20):
Well I wasn't.

Speaker 13 (39:22):
I was in a sinking gin mill where all he
had to do to see me was walk in, sit
down at the table and buy.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Me a drink.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
And that's all I know about us.

Speaker 14 (39:30):
I didn't ask it if he killed anybody.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Virginia, listen, you're not involved in this murder, so nothing's
going to happen to you. That's the first point.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Got it, you bet?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
I got it? Okay?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Now, when was I mean, what time?

Speaker 1 (39:43):
What time was Mitchell with you with the red Dragon?
I don't know. We found the body of this man,
this Samuel was about ten. He'd only been dead about
a half hours. So if Mitchell was with you from say,
nine to.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Ten, he's all right?

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Tell me the truth?

Speaker 13 (40:01):
No, oh no, I gave him my key. I don't know,
maybe eight thirty. I liked him, I felt sorry for him.
I was sick of the sticking joint. I was going
to ditch early, only I couldn't. I didn't get home
until one or maybe two.

Speaker 6 (40:19):
He wasn't here. He had been here and he'd gone.
He left the key.

Speaker 14 (40:22):
But I don't know what time, Ginny.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
Is that the truth? I said, it's the truth. What
do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Right up?

Speaker 6 (40:30):
Like a Christmas tree?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
We're wasting our time. This is my chill. This isn't
going to help your husband. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
By the time I got to my office.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
It was dawn, gray and dirty, which is how I felt.
I was disgusted.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Mitchell and I were going around in circles.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I didn't murder anybody. Why would I murder him? What
motive would I have? Maybe you didn't like him, Maybe
you hated him, hates a good motive. Why would I
hate him. I hardly knew him.

Speaker 11 (41:08):
I only talked him for a couple of hours. He
seemed like a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
You know he was a Jew? No, I mean to say,
you didn't know he was Jewish? No, I didn't think
about it. Well, what would that have to do with it?
I'm Montgomery for you, all right, I'll see him in
a minute. I'm through here with Mitchell. But I want
to talk to Kelly again. Okay, boy, that though MITCHELLI
hopefully here the papers you want from the water department

(41:37):
on Samuel's Oh yeah, hit On Okinawa got a medical
discharge last summer.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Let's give a look.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Samuels, Joseph ASN three nine two three two eight A
zero Army in the United States. Joseph Samuels was discharged
twenty eight August nineteen forty five upon recommendation of a
medical board because of disability from wounds received at Okanawa.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
So that's our stinking civilian.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
All right, let's have money, Okay, come on in money. Okay?
Do you want to see me? Captain? I figured it
must be important. I want to help all I can. Yeah,
sit down? Yes, started, How did you know Samuels hadn't
been in the army When I talked earlier this evening,

(42:25):
you were sure that Samuels had never been in uniform.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
How did you know that?

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Well, like I said, you could tell, you could see.
Those kind of guys got ways of keeping themselves from
getting dirty. Why do you ask that, Captain? I was
just curious you know who killed him? Yet? Yes? I
think I do? Was that all, captain? Didn't you want

(42:50):
to ask me something else?

Speaker 9 (42:51):
No?

Speaker 1 (42:52):
That's all I can go now, Yeah? Okay, then captain
oh Montgomery, Yes, you haven't seen anything in this friend.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Of yours that h Floyd Bauers, have you?

Speaker 1 (43:04):
No, Sir, I haven't.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
I can't figure.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Let me know when you do you Yes, sir, that's
a honest I'd Killian. Well now you look all in Keeley.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Thanks for the concern. Sunday morning, missus Finley is just
about leaving for early mass.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Now that I know that, can I go back to bed?

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Now? What's the matter?

Speaker 4 (43:38):
I thought you're going to have this all solved by
Now I'm.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
In the cage.

Speaker 9 (43:41):
I'm not doing anything except breathing.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
You've got, Mitchell, You've got your little fairy tale over it.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Come ible at home. Can't tell a.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
Clear story, open and shut?

Speaker 1 (43:50):
What's holding your back? Is that all? That's all? All right?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
You really want to help me wind this up.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
But you didn't like me. You talk to me much.
Sometimes we're repeating to my better side. Yes, ta give
me some sort of a proposition. Yes, I like to
sleep on You can sleep all day when we're finished. Okay.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Then you usually have to know.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Something about him man to have a reason to kill him.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
That's killing. Yeah, I guess you have to know him
well enough to be in love with his wife, or
well enough to know he has some money. Samuels didn't
have any money, didn't even have a wife. So this
None of these men knew that or anything else about Samuels.
They hadn't known him well enough for long enough to
have an ordinary motive for killing him. Mitch'll talk to.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Him for maybe an hour or the others less.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
So it had to be something else, a motive inside
the killer himself. The killer had to be someone who
could hate Samuels without knowing him, who could hate him
enough to kill him under the right circumstances, not for
any real reason, but mistakenly and ignorantly. You interest me
kept I figured that out. The rest wasn't too hard.

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I looked around at my suspects. I thought back over
the answers I'd had tonight. Some of them fit. I
knew who killed Samuel, get booked him. No, that shaid,
I'm taking the chance that you're smart enough to know
what I'm talking.

Speaker 9 (45:18):
You don't have to draw me pictures.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
I know what you're getting at. I think you're right.

Speaker 9 (45:22):
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 (45:23):
I have nothing out of Montgomery, nothing at all.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
I might never get anything.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
I want to take a long chance on nailing him quick.
How well do you know him? Well?

Speaker 4 (45:32):
I've tried to like him, but he's not my type.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Does he have many close friends?

Speaker 1 (45:36):
He had one Bowers. I think he killed him so
to way. What about that the southern boy Leroy, No,
I don't think so. He was in Money's platoons. Just
how do you think he feels about money.

Speaker 9 (45:46):
You're getting ahead of me.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Well, I was hoping he didn't like money.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I think he's scared to death of him. Is he
really as dumb as Money says? Oh, he's pretty young.

Speaker 9 (45:54):
He doesn't always know which end is up.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Money doesn't think he's smart enough to lie. I told
Marty a fantastic story with Money, believing he might. I'll
risk you, Ah, Kelley's on his way out. I don't
want to see anything in the papers about Floyd Bower's killing.
Not a word. As far as we know, he's still alive.
We've never heard of him. We'll do you, Kelley. I

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want you to get the Roy out of the Stewart
Hotel without.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Being seen and bring him here.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Can you do it?

Speaker 9 (46:21):
If I have to sandbag it?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
In an hour?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
On the nose, Keey was back at headquarters of Leroy,
but it wasn't going to be easy.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Leroy was suspicious and he was scared.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
It isn't don't want to help Captain. It's well, I don't.

Speaker 10 (46:44):
Well, I've never been around with mont In Floyd much
Money never wanted me around, he.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Says, I'm stupid.

Speaker 10 (46:50):
I guess I am, sir how do you know he
really killed him?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Like you say, we don't. That's what we want you
to help us prove.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Keelia, I told you I didn't want to get anything.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
You're not going to get in any trouble and stop
ring about money. Captain said they won't let anything happen
to you.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
Maybe you're right, sir, but I can't think you'd do
a thing like that. It's not no reason. He thought
he had a reason.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
You know the way, Mandy Fields.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
You've heard the things he says.

Speaker 10 (47:13):
Well, yes, I guess I heard him say a couple
of times about Jewish people living off the fat of
the land while he was out there.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
And you say that's all lives. I guess it is.

Speaker 10 (47:24):
I don't know, but look, maybe Monty rough this guy
up a little and.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
That was all that was all he started out to do. Yes,
he didn't have a plan or anything like that. This
business of hating Jews counts a lot of different sizes.
There's the you can't join our country club kind, you
can't live around here kind, yes, and you can't work
here kind. Because we stand for all of these, we

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get Money's kind. He's just one guy. We don't get
him very often, but he grows out of all the rest. Look, Leroy,
you know we have a law against carrying a gun.
Should we have that law because a gun is dangerous? Well,
hate Mandy's kind of hate is like a gun. If
you carry it around with you, you can go off and

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kill somebody. It kills.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Samuel was last night, Monkey was in my outset killed Floyd.

Speaker 10 (48:16):
I hate to think of anything like that happened in
to Floyd, and I hate to see money get away
with anything. But look, I'm getting out soon. I might
get in trouble, and I don't see this as any
of my business anyway.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Has Money ever made fun of your accent?

Speaker 1 (48:29):
I should lots of times? Why? I don't know. He
calls your.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Hillbilly, doesn't.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
He says you're dumb. He laughs at you because you're
from Tennessee. He's never even been in Tennessee. Ignorant men
are afraid of things they don't understand. They end up
hating them. You get me home mixed up. How do
I know what you're trying to do? How do I
know you are a Jewish person? Yourself or something? You don't?

Speaker 3 (48:54):
It wouldn't make any difference, I guess nuts.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Well, right, Roy, but just thing then you can go
if you want to. A thought up one hundred years
ago in Ireland the potato crop failed. A lot of
Irish immigrants came over here. Their talk was different, like
yours of Roy. There were Catholics, most of them, one
of my knew about stayed in Boston. He thought of

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himself as just another American until suddenly one day he
looked around and saw that something had happened. It frightened him,
fear and hatred of all Irish Catholics. It developed and
spread like a terrible disease. He saw he wasn't an
American anymore. He was a dirty Irish mick. He didn't understand,

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he didn't know what to do. But one day, when
a bunch of men attacked his parish priest on the street,
he waded in to help him. That night, on the
way home from work, he stopped off for a beer.
When he left the bar, two men followed him carrying
empty whiskey bottles. They didn't mean to kill, and they
were just kind of rough him up a little. They
just started out hating the way money started out. But

(50:05):
twenty minutes later my grandfather was dead look, grandfather, that's history, Leroy.
They don't teach it in school, but it's real American history,
just the same. Thomas Finley was killed in eighteen forty
eight just because he was an irishman and a Catholic,
and last night Joseph Samuels was killed just because he

(50:25):
was a Jew. Do you see any difference, Leroy? Hating
is always the same, always senseless. One day it kills
Irish Catholics, the next day Jews. It's hard to stop.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
It can end up killing men who were striped.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Neck tires or people from Tennessee. Will you tell me
exactly what to say?

Speaker 17 (50:48):
Yep, I'll tell you exactly what to say.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
It would work at all. I knew it would be
just the same as if I'd been listening in on him.
I already knew what Leroy was going to say, and
I thought I'd sized up Montgomery well enough. But it's
time to figure him out too. That Roy cornered him
in the hotel washroom while he was shaving.

Speaker 10 (51:15):
How are you, Monty? You heard about everything that happened, Monty?
I heard they got Keeley and Mitchell and there holding him.
I guess it's a good thing. I left the bar
when I didn't, for I'd be mixed up in it too.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Floyd didn't have anything to do with it, did he, Monty?

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Not at all?

Speaker 10 (51:32):
What's the matter, Monty Hondy, No kidding? Floyd couldn't have
done it, could he. Floyd wouldn't bump anybody off, would he?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I don't know. He sure acted funny when I saw
him last night. When did you see him?

Speaker 10 (51:48):
I saw him after after what after all that happened?
He wants to see you, Monty. He asked me to
tell you wanted to see you. He did, honest, money,
I didn't know what I would have tell you're not
if you don't want to get mixed up in anything
anymore in the yard. But he was acting crazy, Money.
He gave me a crazy thing to tell you. He said,

(52:08):
Tell Monnie, the necktie wasn't any good.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
What do you mean by that? Monty? What was this
you saw?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Floyd Leroy? How did you happen to see him?

Speaker 1 (52:17):
He called me and asked me to come over to
where he was.

Speaker 10 (52:20):
Where was he some old place down on Maryland Street
on the second floor.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I wrote down the address. What I'd do with it?

Speaker 10 (52:29):
It was a little piece of paper must have been
my other pocket guyish money. Floyd was really acting crazy.
He said you shouldn't come to day. He said to
come the night before ten. Oh it is for oh,
for Maryland Avenue.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Let's say it. Huh where you go see Floyd money?
Where you give him some money. I wouldn't say anything
about this if I was you, Leroy, I understand say
a word to anyone.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
It was a long shot, but what else could I do?

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Oh? Haara and I went down to the Maryland Avenue
place and waited. We've been waiting about twenty minutes when
we heard steps on the stairs. They stopped on the landing,
then started shuffling along the hall. They stopped again outside
the door. Somebody was pumbling at the door knob and
the door open. What's Montgomery? I? Oh, hello, my gun

(53:33):
ray hello. I was looking for Floyd Blowers from somebody
said he was here. Well that's too bad, Sargean. Floyd
was here, but he isn't anymore. What's wrong is something happened.
Captain Flowers is dead dead, he's killed a day. Do
you know who killed him? Not yet?

Speaker 3 (53:51):
How did you know he was here? When I talked
to you last night.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
You didn't know where he was. I didn't then I
didn't know. I didn't where he was.

Speaker 5 (53:57):
It.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
I fell back at the hotel. He told me Flight
was here, and Floyd.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Was scared me.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
He wanted to see me about something. I just kindly.
I didn't even know which room it was. I was
looking for the right room. He was knocked off in
this room, the same guy who knocked off Samuel's. Maybe
who could be? I like Floyd Kitton. I like Floyd
a lot. I naturally came to help him. This fellow

(54:23):
said he needed some dough for something. He should have
come right away. Well, this fella said, Floyd said not
to not till tonight. I figured if Floyd said that,
he must have got a reason.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Wow, it looks like somebody was stringing you along.

Speaker 12 (54:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
What was this fellow's name, the one who told you
Floyd wanted to see her.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Look, Captain, I don't want to be a pigeon. This guy,
what was his name, Leroy something? He was a friend
of Floyd's. Maybe you remember me mentioning it. Yeah, you
never been to this house before? No, no, no, I
never been here. I never even been in this part
of town. I didn't know which rumor it was, except
it was on the second floor. Like Leroy said, I

(55:06):
was looking for the right door. It seems like you
have a lot of trouble with doors, sergeant. First time
we met, you were looking for the right door. That's
that's right, sir. But you knew the address. You knew
which house to come to. Sure, LeRoi, give me the address.
Was it written down on the piece of paper? Yeah,
you still have this piece of paper. Yeah, I guess
so here it is. Let me say it. Okay, I'll

(55:35):
have to arrest you, Montgomery. Why would you arrest me? Kept?
What would you arrest me for?

Speaker 3 (55:40):
For the murder of Samuels and Bowers?

Speaker 1 (55:43):
For your kidding, Captain, I never even been here before.
The way, you didn't look at this paper carefully. This
is the address of the house next door. I wrote
it down myself. You made a mistake, Sergeant. You came
to the right house anyway. Jeki got this all wrong.
Just let me explain. He just set the country. The

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next thing I knew, I was on the floor and
no hair on top of me.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Montgomery hit he was a hearty.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Bowled me over like a ten pin, and o' hara
was up going down the stairs after him, and I
was over at the window and time to see him
come out under the street. I tried to get the
window up, but it wouldn't budge. I smashed the glass
with the butt of my gun. Then I took a
Montgomery shop Montgomery. That was all. By the time I

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got down to the street and Montgomery was dead. The
crowd was gathering and Heally was standing there looking down
at what lay in the streets. Right now. He's sort
of shaking his head. Break it up, now, break it up,
set behind everybody. Fraid he was a bad boy, bad
maybe little ignorant with it to the cheek with us,
and the day was born.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
Yeah, all right, don't have clean it up?

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Okay, Captain? How's Mitch? Who's why I want to see him?

Speaker 3 (57:16):
I guess that's can't a drop you anywhere?

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Oh good I kid, you're nice Arton, and good luck

(58:00):
our sincere thanks to a wonderful cast.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
To Robert Young who was Captain Finley, Robert Mitcham in
the role of Keighley, Robert Ryan who played Monty, and
to Sam Levine as Samuels.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
To George Cooper as Mitchell and.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
William Phipps as Leroy Tomorrow Dwyer as Ginny, Julie Bennett
as Mary, Bill Johnstone as O'Hara, Bill Lally as Floyd,
and Louis Van Ruten as the man Our. Thanks for
your superb performances in this suspense adaptation of Crossfire.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Robert Young may currently be seen in Relentless, Robert Mitcham
will soon be seen in the r k O Radio
picture Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Ryan will soon appear
in Berlin Express, and George Cooper in Blood on the Moon,
both r k O Radio productions. Sam Levine's next picture
is the Babe Ruth story.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Crossfire, based on the original.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Novel The Brick Fop by Richard Brooks, was adapted for
suspense by Robert L. Richards and Henriette Martin, and was
produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. Bludd Gluskin is
our musical director and conductor, and Lucio and Marilach composes
the original scores for radio's outstanding Theater of Thrills one

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Hour of r Spain