August 11, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Auto Light and it's ninety six thousand dealers. Bring you
mister Joseph Cotton. In Tonight's presentation.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Of Suspends, Tonight Auto Light presents the story of a
man who craved power, position and money and destroyed himself
accomplishing it, a tale we call a watery grave, starring
mister Joseph Cotton.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
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Speaker 6 (01:58):
How did it happen? When everything was so good? How
did it get destroyed in five short hours? How did
I start to die in our city? A district attorney
is an important man. Our city is an important city
(02:19):
in the nation. Therefore I am important as its district attorney.
The logic of law, the deductive reasoning that leads to everything.
It was only reasonable that such powerful interest should have
come to me. I had a case against mcneelie which
could have destroyed him.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
What is it, mister mcneelie.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
I'm not in the habit of making these colds myself.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Mister Keller, it's obvious. But then you're not in this
position very often either. It's a daring thing You've done,
only a question of getting a sufficiently strong case against.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
I've broken other district attorneys for attempting.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It till they never had the evidence I do. I
don't think you'd want to try breaking me. I can
send you to prison.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
For life, You're right, And yet where I can't destroy you,
I can prevent you from advancing, getting to a greater position,
a more prominent position in political lives. That means, it
means that it's no longer a question of can you
be bought, but how much you want.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I've waited a long time for this moment to be
able to bargain with you.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I respect your strength and perception. It's worth a great
deal to me, mister Kellan.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
That's the matter of my chief witness.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
If I don't prosecate you, he'll go to the state
district attorney, perhaps to the federal government.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
And that is part of what you will give me
in exchange for the wealth you're going to receive. Who
is your chief witness?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I can guarantee you he'll not testify.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
I would rather give myself my own guarantee on that matter.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Mean his death, wasn't.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It, mister Callen, All of us, any of us, even
the most nobler persons, must look the other way.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Sometimes it's easy for you to say that it's easy
for you to do.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
To look the other way becomes the easiest thing in
the world. After a while, all you have to know
is why you're doing it and what you have to gain.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
How does one look the other way? How does one
achieve the facility for turning around it precisely the right moment?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
A trip to Europe. My wife has always.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Wanted to go to Europe. She likes things like that.
His name, trip to Europe is something that is dreamed of,
spoken of it often.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
His name Bartell.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
A yes, yes, my good trusted friend, Bartell h Thank you,
mister Callen.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Who was Bartel?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
A man from the streets who had muscled his way
into life?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Who was Bartel?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Circumstance had made him a witness to mcneili's worst plans.
Destiny had placed him in a position of value to
the District Attorney's office. This valueless man, Bartel happenstance and
coincidence had made him the keeper of dark secrets and
illegal events which could have smashed an empire. An empire
I was now partner to merely because I told them
(05:31):
a name and looked the other way. The first night out,
I waited on deck after dinner and waited for Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
To come out, and we would go to the main saloon. Oh,
it felt good to know your way in the world,
to know when to look the other way.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Sometimes you only have to do it once if you
plan right, and could have everything a bigger house, another
servant in the house, up up, moving up, So secure
I didn't even hear his footsteps approaching, so positive all
was going well, I didn't even think of caution, so
certain of success, everything for Betty, I was so pleased.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You're the only man I ever trusted. But tell the
only man and a da besides, and you can still
trust me even after you said my name.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I'm getting rid of mcneelily for you?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Are you? You turn state's evidence? If you didn't believe
I could get rid of mcneelie, you wouldn't have dead
turned state's evidence.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I believed you.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I trusted you.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Let's stop the game.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Why did I ever think I could trust you? I'll
tell me. You're a smart man. You went to college.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Because it was to your advantage, because if the law
could get rid of mcneeliy for you, that was better
and safer.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
So I don't have any llusions about trusting me. You
never did. You needed me, that's different.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And you needed me. We needed each other. We still do.
Nothing's different.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
You're at the bond by tel. You're leaving the country
without permission.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
McNeely gave me permission. He had me shot at and
I was wounded. See my shoulder fat on this side,
fat from bandages.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
You don't have a passport.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't need that either.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I have money. How'd you get a board?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It's simple, easy to stay hidden for a day, a
second and third day. That's something else.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I can fix it so you won't be let off.
So you'll be sent right back.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Mister Callan, I can put you in prison if I'm
sent back.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
A word would prevail against yours in any court of.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Law, maybe against my word alone, not Mcneely's hired gun
soil both our words against yours. You have him, some
of my men do. Yeah, he's save at home.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I could discredit your testimony.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Ah, then why argue I have nothing to do with you?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You got no choice, mister.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Callan, warning you by tel.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
What do you do?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Kill me?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah? Not the kind of things like that. You killed
by law, the legal way, and I'll find a way
by law once I'm in Europe. They have different.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Laws, all right.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I'm a realist, Bartell, so I only take calculated risks.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
What's your price?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I have more money than you do, Callun You couldn't.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Bind and what do you want?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But you have more prestige than I do. You like
you know your way around the talkers. Well, talk me
off this ship impossible. Find a way.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I'll be discovered before we dock.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Not if you put me up in your cabin, Bartell.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Wherever I'm involved, I listen and meet a man halfway,
but me me alone, not my wife. If you involve
my wife, I won't do a thing for you. Not
if my wife's involved in any way, not a thing.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I'm in a squeeze, Callan, I'm finished unless you help
me get into Europe. But you'll be finished with me.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I've got enough.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Power for that.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I'll find a way, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I'll go with you.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
No meet me here in one hour. I walked away calm.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I made a point of walking away, confident, but my
stomach fell sick. Maybe I'd thought of trying to kill
him then and didn't know it. I'd been raised to
respect human life. I've been educated to be decent to forgive.
But Bartel wasn't human. He was a beast. And is
there anything in the effic which says we cannot protect
our lives? When attacked, Bartel was destroying me, pulling me
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carefully built world down about me, a world Betty must
know nothing about, a world I had built to protect
Betty law school, to ward politics, to assistant district attorney.
It's long, lay up the hardest minds, to fight the
most realistic men, to please only the toughest, stay with it.
Only the toughest and shrewdest get to my position, because
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my position leads to the highest offices. If you're smart,
if you look the other way, maybe I knew I
wanted to kill him. Then the sea was calm, the
ship wasn't pitching, yet my stomach was sick. Half an
(10:17):
hour was gone, and still no plan. Where to go,
who to turn to, what to ask? Nothing anywhere? My
mind posed questions for which there were no answers. Would
I lose all I owned in the world, problems for
which there were no solutions?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
If I lost everything, would Betty go to?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Were the two things inseparable, my success and Betty?
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Are you ready in a minute?
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Where is that you?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Who is it?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Oh, Robert? You didn't answer?
Speaker 6 (10:52):
There, drink helps helps you go to the darning saloon yourself.
I'll be long soon.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
You mind if I ask what's throw I have it? Yes,
of course, I'll be in the dining salon.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Wait a minute, come back, all right? What is it?
You were going to leave, weren't you. I don't understand
you'd have left me.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You saw I was troubled, very troubled, and I wanted
to talk to you, but you made me ask you.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Oh, please, don't get angry, Robert, Please, don't you.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Always make me ask you for your attention? Always, ever
since we've been married.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Not always, Robert, not ever since we were married.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Most of the time it changed. You got quiet.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
You never wanted to talk about things I was doing.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
You never accepted my suggestions.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
You didn't understand the legal profession, the workings of law.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
That's why I stopped giving suggestions.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Wasn't suggestions I wanted. It was encouragement to have you
believe in me, but you never did. The more I
gave you, the more I tried to give you, the
less you seem to care. Please, you think all these
things come out of the sky. Do you think they
were given to me. I had to fight for them,
to fight to get things for you.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
I never asked for them.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Oh, but you took them. You never refused them. You
never said no, I don't want a lot of clothes. No,
I don't want a fair coat. You never said no.
Stop shout everything for you, but you give nothing in return,
no love or affection or like, not even liking.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Why didn't you ask.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
For a divorce. I'll give you a divorce easy, simple.
Is that what you want?
Speaker 9 (12:19):
Oh, I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
You're not going to leave now. You know why you
want to divorce me. You know why you.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Won't because of these comforts, that's.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
All you want. You'd lose them, You'd lose them overnight.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Why do you do this.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I've paid for everything in my life, for everything. Everything
you have well, and now it's time for you to
pay too. To kill a man is the easiest thing
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in the world to do, to kill a man who
would take your.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Wife from you. I know the logic. I know it's wrong.
Bartel wasn't taking my wife.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
From me, but he was taking position and wealth, and
those things kept my wife to me. I thought I
knew Bartel had to be destroyed.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And she would have to be partner to it. That way,
she'd never leave. That way, I'd achieve everything.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
That's why I told her the story as if I'd
memorized it, as if it was the only thing I'd
ever thought about, as if Bartel's death was the last obstacle.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
In our life.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
No, Robert, please don't rob it.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
You'll distract him up there on the deck, at the
dark place on the deck.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Don't ask me, don't make me part of this together.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
We plan it together. We need him together. Come on,
better the hours up. Bar Tell's ours up.
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Speaker 6 (16:14):
How did I start to die then? At that moment
as we walked along the deck? Did I start to
die then? Because I knew I would kill Bartel? Does
one die a little if one.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Plans to kill a human being?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
And die more when one does it, and to compound
it your honor. Funny to think your honor funny to
think that way. Now to compound it by knowing your
wife hates you more than anything in the world because
she's terrified, infuriated by her hate, but pleased with her terror.
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How can she hate me so in so short a time?
I gave her everything. I tried to be something important
for her and rich for her, and kill for her.
As we walked along the deck, I had no real
idea how I would kill Bartel, no exact idea, but it.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Had to be done.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I held that his arm tightly as we approached the
dark part of the deck near the railing, the place
where Bartel was not actually a railing, an entrance for
a ramp with only a chain across it.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Bar Tell.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Bartell, this is my wife.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
What did you decide.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I've been talking to her. I've been explaining to her.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
What did you decide?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Don't talk to me.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Like that, Bartel, Don't ever talk to me like that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Do you put me in your stateroom? Yes, yes, of course,
and guarantee to get me off the ship.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I couldn't guarantee guarantees and things like this are impossible.
That are officials to get at ship's offices and finding
the right people are.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You're good at putting in a fixed mistic call, and
you've been putting in fixes all away from the slums
up to the penthouses. Ships shouldn't stop.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You don't say things like that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Why not everybody knows how McNeely pays off when you're
one of mcneely's boys. Now, anytime he wants to put
his fingers in a dirty deal, he'll use your hands
to do it.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Don't talk like that in front of my wife.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
As she get used to it. McNeely doesn't care who
knows about his dirty handed man.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Shut up, Shut up, my lunch daddy. I didn't even
reach with gunn he was counting.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I didn't think I was capable of doing it. Back
was against the chain, his good arms flailing wildly over
the chain, over in into the water. I didn't see
in the darkness. I didn't know until I heard the scream.
It was too late for Bartel to let go. We
got a grip on my wife's arms before I.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Could move, before I could do anything. It was insane.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
She was pulled over the side, too over into the water.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Had to save it.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
There was little I could do to save her would
be to save Bartel. But I didn't hesitate. I know that,
I'm sure of it. I grabbed the nearest life preserve
and hurled it over the side, and I could barely
see them struggling in the water with the ship's propellers
coming nearer. And then I knew I would have to jump.
I would go over. I could still finish Bartel and
say that is still I could have everything, and it
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would be called an accident. I went over the side.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Get the live flat.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Don't try to swim the what from the propellers now.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But help, don't fight boot.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
On the back watch boat.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Suddenly it was quiet, Suddenly the terror was gone, and
I could see Betty staying afloat near the light preserver,
and beyond that Bartel struggling with one good arm, struggling
to get to the light preserver. First, I forgot about Betty.
I forgot everything except that I had to get him
before he took the lfe preserver.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You'll never get it.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Keep keep back, I have a kund nothing.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Now, keep away from me.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Now Bartell trying to talk and.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Tell me, tell your story under water?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Tell him.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Well from the sea tell your story.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Tell it from the sea. It was Bartello us take
the preservant, hold onto it. Don't you understand? It was
Bartell Horas.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
I never knew you.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
The ship will turn around and pick us up soon.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
You must have the stand.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I never really knew you. It takes something to kill
a man.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Bartel was the killer, a ruthless man.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I know.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I was the one who forced him to turn state's evidence.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Something horrible in you. Maybe that's why we've been growing apart.
Maybe I saw it but didn't recognize that. I've never
seen it before.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
You see it every day in the eyes of the people.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
That's a lot.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Look at the murderers, Look at war. Can't make people
kill each other if they don't want to.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
How could you. I'll never forget the look on his
face when he knew he was going to be drowned.
What you were going to do? Terrible?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Crying?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Crying for him, crying for a hoodlum, a killer, crying
for a gangster.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yes, cheers for him.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I don't preserve it.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
Why should he be cried over?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Why him?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
You never wept for me.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I wait for you too.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I don't need pity, I don't need your pity.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I'm not giving you. Pile trying to find a way
to forgive you.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Hold on to the life preserver.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Let go, wait for me, clot me.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Don't come near me. You only want the life.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Presents, all right.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You want to believe it. It's true, and I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I've taught you. I tore your eyes.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Never have a chance.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
The water carried me faster. You'll never catch up to me.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I'll catch Oh, Betty, don't be a fool. Come back, Betty,
come back.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
The ship will turn around. M A ship will save us.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Die like you let anyone die for you, die for yourself.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I don't need a light per server.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I can hold out until the ship turns around.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
They're still going for the harah sh They'll turn around.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I have the biggest suite on this ship. They'll miss
us and turn around in a few minutes.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
What makes you think you're so important? What makes you
think you'd be missing?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I am important?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
What makes you want to be so big? So much? Ah?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It was.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
For you what I've struggled so hard to get, for you.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
For yourself, getting rich, to please yourself. But you never
enjoyed it either.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You would have left me.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
If i'd stopped, stop me so much.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I only wanted love, only wanted the family, your love,
your children, Holy.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Youth, You mean that, you do mean that it's.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Too late, too late.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Oh we can.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
In time, we can forget.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Oh how can I forget? How can you?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You're right?
Speaker 11 (24:31):
It was for me, And it wasn't for me, bunny,
for the wealth. It was for power, not not even that, Oh, darling, Dolly,
my darling, Betty.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I wanted to be.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
The ship of ten. Hold on up right, can and
I'll come to you the life preserver.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Did I start to dye?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Daddy, I'm dying now?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
When did I stop to die?
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Don't don't talk to hold up property?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Hold When I knew I would kill Bartel?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Oh, it was sooner when I said, I will look
the other way. Yes, mister mcneee, you can kill Bartel.
I will look fair enough way. Hold up, yes, mister McNeely. Well, ye,
I started to die long before, years before. Maybe I've
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been killing myself all my life. A slow way, the
subtle way.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Oh whatlease hold on a minute? Longer, hold me a minute?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I kind of.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
My darling, I loved.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I well.
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Speaker 6 (01:58):
How did it happen? When everything was so good? How
did it get destroyed in five short hours? How did
I start to die in our city? A district attorney
is an important man. Our city is an important city
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in the nation. Therefore I am important as its district attorney.
The logic of law, the deductive reasoning that leads to everything.
It was only reasonable that such powerful interest should have
come to me. I had a case against mcneelie which
could have destroyed him.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
What is it, mister mcneelie.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
I'm not in the habit of making these colds myself.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Mister Keller, it's obvious. But then you're not in this
position very often either. It's a daring thing You've done,
only a question of getting a sufficiently strong case against.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
I've broken other district attorneys for attempting.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It till they never had the evidence I do. I
don't think you'd want to try breaking me. I can
send you to prison.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
For life, You're right, And yet where I can't destroy you,
I can prevent you from advancing, getting to a greater position,
a more prominent position in political lives. That means, it
means that it's no longer a question of can you
be bought, but how much you want.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I've waited a long time for this moment to be
able to bargain with you.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I respect your strength and perception. It's worth a great
deal to me, mister Kellan.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
That's the matter of my chief witness.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
If I don't prosecate you, he'll go to the state
district attorney, perhaps to the federal government.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
And that is part of what you will give me
in exchange for the wealth you're going to receive. Who
is your chief witness?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I can guarantee you he'll not testify.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
I would rather give myself my own guarantee on that matter.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Mean his death, wasn't.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It, mister Callen, All of us, any of us, even
the most nobler persons, must look the other way.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Sometimes it's easy for you to say that it's easy
for you to do.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
To look the other way becomes the easiest thing in
the world. After a while, all you have to know
is why you're doing it and what you have to gain.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
How does one look the other way? How does one
achieve the facility for turning around it precisely the right moment?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
A trip to Europe. My wife has always.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Wanted to go to Europe. She likes things like that.
His name, trip to Europe is something that is dreamed of,
spoken of it often.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
His name Bartell.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
A yes, yes, my good trusted friend, Bartell h Thank you,
mister Callen.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Who was Bartel?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
A man from the streets who had muscled his way
into life?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Who was Bartel?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Circumstance had made him a witness to mcneili's worst plans.
Destiny had placed him in a position of value to
the District Attorney's office. This valueless man, Bartel happenstance and
coincidence had made him the keeper of dark secrets and
illegal events which could have smashed an empire. An empire
I was now partner to merely because I told them
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a name and looked the other way. The first night out,
I waited on deck after dinner and waited for Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
To come out, and we would go to the main saloon. Oh,
it felt good to know your way in the world,
to know when to look the other way.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Sometimes you only have to do it once if you
plan right, and could have everything a bigger house, another
servant in the house, up up, moving up, So secure
I didn't even hear his footsteps approaching, so positive all
was going well, I didn't even think of caution, so
certain of success, everything for Betty, I was so pleased.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You're the only man I ever trusted. But tell the
only man and a da besides, and you can still
trust me even after you said my name.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I'm getting rid of mcneelily for you?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Are you? You turn state's evidence? If you didn't believe
I could get rid of mcneelie, you wouldn't have dead
turned state's evidence.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I believed you.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I trusted you.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Let's stop the game.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Why did I ever think I could trust you? I'll
tell me. You're a smart man. You went to college.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Because it was to your advantage, because if the law
could get rid of mcneeliy for you, that was better
and safer.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
So I don't have any llusions about trusting me. You
never did. You needed me, that's different.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And you needed me. We needed each other. We still do.
Nothing's different.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
You're at the bond by tel. You're leaving the country
without permission.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
McNeely gave me permission. He had me shot at and
I was wounded. See my shoulder fat on this side,
fat from bandages.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
You don't have a passport.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't need that either.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I have money. How'd you get a board?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It's simple, easy to stay hidden for a day, a
second and third day. That's something else.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I can fix it so you won't be let off.
So you'll be sent right back.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Mister Callan, I can put you in prison if I'm
sent back.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
A word would prevail against yours in any court of.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Law, maybe against my word alone, not Mcneely's hired gun
soil both our words against yours. You have him, some
of my men do. Yeah, he's save at home.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I could discredit your testimony.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Ah, then why argue I have nothing to do with you?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You got no choice, mister.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Callan, warning you by tel.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
What do you do?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Kill me?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah? Not the kind of things like that. You killed
by law, the legal way, and I'll find a way
by law once I'm in Europe. They have different.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Laws, all right.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I'm a realist, Bartell, so I only take calculated risks.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
What's your price?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I have more money than you do, Callun You couldn't.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Bind and what do you want?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But you have more prestige than I do. You like
you know your way around the talkers. Well, talk me
off this ship impossible. Find a way.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I'll be discovered before we dock.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Not if you put me up in your cabin, Bartell.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Wherever I'm involved, I listen and meet a man halfway,
but me me alone, not my wife. If you involve
my wife, I won't do a thing for you. Not
if my wife's involved in any way, not a thing.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I'm in a squeeze, Callan, I'm finished unless you help
me get into Europe. But you'll be finished with me.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I've got enough.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Power for that.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I'll find a way, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I'll go with you.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
No meet me here in one hour. I walked away calm.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I made a point of walking away, confident, but my
stomach fell sick. Maybe I'd thought of trying to kill
him then and didn't know it. I'd been raised to
respect human life. I've been educated to be decent to forgive.
But Bartel wasn't human. He was a beast. And is
there anything in the effic which says we cannot protect
our lives? When attacked, Bartel was destroying me, pulling me
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carefully built world down about me, a world Betty must
know nothing about, a world I had built to protect
Betty law school, to ward politics, to assistant district attorney.
It's long, lay up the hardest minds, to fight the
most realistic men, to please only the toughest, stay with it.
Only the toughest and shrewdest get to my position, because
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my position leads to the highest offices. If you're smart,
if you look the other way, maybe I knew I
wanted to kill him. Then the sea was calm, the
ship wasn't pitching, yet my stomach was sick. Half an
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hour was gone, and still no plan. Where to go,
who to turn to, what to ask? Nothing anywhere? My
mind posed questions for which there were no answers. Would
I lose all I owned in the world, problems for
which there were no solutions?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
If I lost everything, would Betty go to?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Were the two things inseparable, my success and Betty?
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Are you ready in a minute?
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Where is that you?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Who is it?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Oh, Robert? You didn't answer?
Speaker 6 (10:52):
There, drink helps helps you go to the darning saloon yourself.
I'll be long soon.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
You mind if I ask what's throw I have it? Yes,
of course, I'll be in the dining salon.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Wait a minute, come back, all right? What is it?
You were going to leave, weren't you. I don't understand
you'd have left me.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You saw I was troubled, very troubled, and I wanted
to talk to you, but you made me ask you.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Oh, please, don't get angry, Robert, Please, don't you.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Always make me ask you for your attention? Always, ever
since we've been married.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Not always, Robert, not ever since we were married.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Most of the time it changed. You got quiet.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
You never wanted to talk about things I was doing.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
You never accepted my suggestions.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
You didn't understand the legal profession, the workings of law.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
That's why I stopped giving suggestions.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Wasn't suggestions I wanted. It was encouragement to have you
believe in me, but you never did. The more I
gave you, the more I tried to give you, the
less you seem to care. Please, you think all these
things come out of the sky. Do you think they
were given to me. I had to fight for them,
to fight to get things for you.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
I never asked for them.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Oh, but you took them. You never refused them. You
never said no, I don't want a lot of clothes. No,
I don't want a fair coat. You never said no.
Stop shout everything for you, but you give nothing in return,
no love or affection or like, not even liking.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Why didn't you ask.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
For a divorce. I'll give you a divorce easy, simple.
Is that what you want?
Speaker 9 (12:19):
Oh, I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
You're not going to leave now. You know why you
want to divorce me. You know why you.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Won't because of these comforts, that's.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
All you want. You'd lose them, You'd lose them overnight.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Why do you do this.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I've paid for everything in my life, for everything. Everything
you have well, and now it's time for you to
pay too. To kill a man is the easiest thing
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in the world to do, to kill a man who
would take your.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Wife from you. I know the logic. I know it's wrong.
Bartel wasn't taking my wife.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
From me, but he was taking position and wealth, and
those things kept my wife to me. I thought I
knew Bartel had to be destroyed.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And she would have to be partner to it. That way,
she'd never leave. That way, I'd achieve everything.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
That's why I told her the story as if I'd
memorized it, as if it was the only thing I'd
ever thought about, as if Bartel's death was the last obstacle.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
In our life.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
No, Robert, please don't rob it.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
You'll distract him up there on the deck, at the
dark place on the deck.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Don't ask me, don't make me part of this together.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
We plan it together. We need him together. Come on,
better the hours up. Bar Tell's ours up.
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Speaker 6 (16:14):
How did I start to die then? At that moment
as we walked along the deck? Did I start to
die then? Because I knew I would kill Bartel? Does
one die a little if one.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Plans to kill a human being?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
And die more when one does it, and to compound
it your honor. Funny to think your honor funny to
think that way. Now to compound it by knowing your
wife hates you more than anything in the world because
she's terrified, infuriated by her hate, but pleased with her terror.
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How can she hate me so in so short a time?
I gave her everything. I tried to be something important
for her and rich for her, and kill for her.
As we walked along the deck, I had no real
idea how I would kill Bartel, no exact idea, but it.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Had to be done.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I held that his arm tightly as we approached the
dark part of the deck near the railing, the place
where Bartel was not actually a railing, an entrance for
a ramp with only a chain across it.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Bar Tell.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Bartell, this is my wife.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
What did you decide.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I've been talking to her. I've been explaining to her.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
What did you decide?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Don't talk to me.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Like that, Bartel, Don't ever talk to me like that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Do you put me in your stateroom? Yes, yes, of course,
and guarantee to get me off the ship.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I couldn't guarantee guarantees and things like this are impossible.
That are officials to get at ship's offices and finding
the right people are.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You're good at putting in a fixed mistic call, and
you've been putting in fixes all away from the slums
up to the penthouses. Ships shouldn't stop.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You don't say things like that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Why not everybody knows how McNeely pays off when you're
one of mcneely's boys. Now, anytime he wants to put
his fingers in a dirty deal, he'll use your hands
to do it.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Don't talk like that in front of my wife.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
As she get used to it. McNeely doesn't care who
knows about his dirty handed man.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Shut up, Shut up, my lunch daddy. I didn't even
reach with gunn he was counting.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I didn't think I was capable of doing it. Back
was against the chain, his good arms flailing wildly over
the chain, over in into the water. I didn't see
in the darkness. I didn't know until I heard the scream.
It was too late for Bartel to let go. We
got a grip on my wife's arms before I.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Could move, before I could do anything. It was insane.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
She was pulled over the side, too over into the water.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Had to save it.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
There was little I could do to save her would
be to save Bartel. But I didn't hesitate. I know that,
I'm sure of it. I grabbed the nearest life preserve
and hurled it over the side, and I could barely
see them struggling in the water with the ship's propellers
coming nearer. And then I knew I would have to jump.
I would go over. I could still finish Bartel and
say that is still I could have everything, and it
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would be called an accident. I went over the side.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Get the live flat.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Don't try to swim the what from the propellers now.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But help, don't fight boot.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
On the back watch boat.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Suddenly it was quiet, Suddenly the terror was gone, and
I could see Betty staying afloat near the light preserver,
and beyond that Bartel struggling with one good arm, struggling
to get to the light preserver. First, I forgot about Betty.
I forgot everything except that I had to get him
before he took the lfe preserver.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You'll never get it.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Keep keep back, I have a kund nothing.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Now, keep away from me.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Now Bartell trying to talk and.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Tell me, tell your story under water?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Tell him.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Well from the sea tell your story.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Tell it from the sea. It was Bartello us take
the preservant, hold onto it. Don't you understand? It was
Bartell Horas.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
I never knew you.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
The ship will turn around and pick us up soon.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
You must have the stand.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I never really knew you. It takes something to kill
a man.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Bartel was the killer, a ruthless man.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I know.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I was the one who forced him to turn state's evidence.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Something horrible in you. Maybe that's why we've been growing apart.
Maybe I saw it but didn't recognize that. I've never
seen it before.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
You see it every day in the eyes of the people.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
That's a lot.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Look at the murderers, Look at war. Can't make people
kill each other if they don't want to.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
How could you. I'll never forget the look on his
face when he knew he was going to be drowned.
What you were going to do? Terrible?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Crying?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Crying for him, crying for a hoodlum, a killer, crying
for a gangster.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yes, cheers for him.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I don't preserve it.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
Why should he be cried over?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Why him?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
You never wept for me.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I wait for you too.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I don't need pity, I don't need your pity.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I'm not giving you. Pile trying to find a way
to forgive you.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Hold on to the life preserver.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Let go, wait for me, clot me.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Don't come near me. You only want the life.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Presents, all right.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You want to believe it. It's true, and I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I've taught you. I tore your eyes.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Never have a chance.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
The water carried me faster. You'll never catch up to me.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I'll catch Oh, Betty, don't be a fool. Come back, Betty,
come back.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
The ship will turn around. M A ship will save us.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Die like you let anyone die for you, die for yourself.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I don't need a light per server.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I can hold out until the ship turns around.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
They're still going for the harah sh They'll turn around.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I have the biggest suite on this ship. They'll miss
us and turn around in a few minutes.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
What makes you think you're so important? What makes you
think you'd be missing?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I am important?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
What makes you want to be so big? So much? Ah?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It was.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
For you what I've struggled so hard to get, for you.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
For yourself, getting rich, to please yourself. But you never
enjoyed it either.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You would have left me.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
If i'd stopped, stop me so much.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I only wanted love, only wanted the family, your love,
your children, Holy.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Youth, You mean that, you do mean that it's.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Too late, too late.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Oh we can.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
In time, we can forget.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Oh how can I forget? How can you?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You're right?
Speaker 11 (24:31):
It was for me, And it wasn't for me, bunny,
for the wealth. It was for power, not not even that, Oh, darling, Dolly,
my darling, Betty.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I wanted to be.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
The ship of ten. Hold on up right, can and
I'll come to you the life preserver.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Did I start to dye?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Daddy, I'm dying now?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
When did I stop to die?
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Don't don't talk to hold up property?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Hold When I knew I would kill Bartel?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Oh, it was sooner when I said, I will look
the other way. Yes, mister mcneee, you can kill Bartel.
I will look fair enough way. Hold up, yes, mister McNeely. Well, ye,
I started to die long before, years before. Maybe I've
(25:35):
been killing myself all my life. A slow way, the
subtle way.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Oh whatlease hold on a minute? Longer, hold me a minute?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I kind of.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
My darling, I loved.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I well.
Speaker 12 (26:00):
M hmm, yeah, sal Spence presented by auto LIGHTE to
(26:45):
night Star mister Joseph Coutton.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for auto LIGHTE, world's largest
independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. Auto LIGHTE is proud
to serve the greatest name in the industry, and during
these early months of fifty two, the auto LIGHTE Family
joins in saluting the leading manufacturers who install auto light
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of the nearly thirty thousand men and women in twenty
eight great auto light plants from coast to coast, and
in still other auto light plants in many foreign countries.
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Speaker 5 (27:35):
And throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
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suspense program on radio. Next week, our star will be
(28:05):
mister Frank Lovejoy in the Recreation of an Historical Puzzle,
a radio dramatization of the Wreck of the Old ninety seven,
a story based on fact and presented on suspence. Suspense
is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed
(28:27):
by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Bluskin. A Watery
Grave was written for suspense by Arthur Ross. In tonight's story,
Mary Jane Croft was heard as Betty stan Waxman as
Mcneelye and Joseph Kerns as Bartel. Joseph Cotton may soon
be seen in the untamed Universal International Picture co starring
(28:48):
Shelley Winters and Remember. Next week on Suspense, mister Frank
Lovejoy in the Wreck of the Old ninety seven. Last July,
the nation's worst flood in a decade smashed through Kansas
and Missouri. The Red Cross was on the job to
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