October 22, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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mister Jeff Chandler, into Night's presentation of suspense. Tonight, Autolite
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
And now Auto Life presents Transcribed Death at Skreikerood Pond,
a true story starring mister Jeff Chandler as Arnie, hoping
once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Mother, mother, mother, Who is it?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Who is there?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
George, son, your sons?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Sorry, you're hurt, your heart blooded? Listen, train yourself being
hear it?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Yes, and the train is not moving you and the
blood and the tree ain is not moving, but screams
like something.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Close the door, close the door, say.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Train full of Nazis.
Speaker 9 (03:14):
God, do you hear me?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
I'm not badly heard father?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Let me see.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
Oh no, you're not, it seems yes, the bullet has
gone through your shoulder and the blood you've lost.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Get him from the floor. Yes, put your arm above
my neck.
Speaker 11 (03:32):
Georger Yeah, and I hear. Now, what have you done?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
I helped to blow up a train, Nazi troop train,
and in.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Running away you were shocked.
Speaker 10 (03:48):
To let him alone, Annie, Come in, Annie, he's there.
Speaker 11 (04:11):
How are you, George? That's all you will recognize, George.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
I'm sorry, I can walk. Yes, yes, I think so.
Speaker 11 (04:19):
Well, come come on, I'll help you. Helm and missus Helmon.
We're taking him out of the country, first to a
doctor and then outside there on the great.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Und when there's victory, Mother, Papa last, let them go,
Let them go.
Speaker 11 (04:40):
There was a tale of blood. I followed it here.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Mm hmmm. Come we'll go back to bed.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
To shivel with fright. Yes, go to bed and stare.
Speaker 12 (04:54):
At the dark and wait for the knock on the door,
and they get stoppo. Stare in the dark and think ambits,
think of clever things to say to the Gestapo, such as,
what my son a member of the underground, My.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Son, surely there is a mistake, or I have no son.
Speaker 10 (05:13):
Lieutenant, therefore you cannot arrest me for something this boy
has done.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
Will these be your thoughts to Anna when you.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Go to bed the same, For surely they will come.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
They will come, and knock on the door, and they
will drag us from our home and send us where,
perhaps to Germany and Dacawanna to bo.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yeah, these are the thoughts I.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Have because of our son.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
And because of our son.
Speaker 10 (05:44):
Yes, now he's been recognized, and he said, yes, they.
Speaker 13 (05:50):
Will come here, they will come.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
We can go to bed now and stare at the dark.
At least now we know this will be the last time.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
What are you doing? Twelve thousand?
Speaker 14 (06:15):
This is all the money in the house, Yes, but
the bank we have so much more.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
Twelve thousand, Prona, Suddenly I am a pauper.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Anna, what is it?
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Your jewelry?
Speaker 15 (06:27):
Get it?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
But were all of it?
Speaker 11 (06:29):
Get your things together.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
We're getting out of here. Across the border. They'll take
us across the under ground.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They have to, they have to.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
You understand me, honey, you are the patriots, and you
the sellers of freedom.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
And missus Hellman and I have come to Baghan and.
Speaker 11 (06:57):
Bat have told you the borders are closed. The note
put will swarm. I don't know, mister help.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
You don't know your underground that's helped hundreds to escape
less worthy, Yet you balk at us.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
Why what do you think cancer? I think this, honey.
The Gestapo has searched for us two years now. These
people coming here have made it easy for them. Let's
have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
And I think this.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
If you do not help us, if you do not,
leaders across the border into Sweden, and I will report
you to the Gestapo. I personally will tell them who
you are, where you are. Way.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
No, he did not mean that, My husband, Mickles, you
heard him.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
He did not mean it.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
He is frightened and he is desperate, and he does
not know what he said.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Do not beg of them, and we are not their beggars.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I will not beg I will tell them of us.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
There years we have lived in your country, mister Arnie,
mister Hanson, with pride, with respect, with love for the
things of your country, and because my son has spilled
blood for this country, we now must flee it and
begin another life. And we are not young, but we
are rich and we will pay you well for this
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new life, more than any.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Of the others.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
We are rich, we will pay you well.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
We are not in this to make profit on sorrow, missus.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Helmer heroes, then is what.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
You are Listen to me, It's not good Arnie, I
tell you it's not good. Listen to me. This you life, you,
and it lies through bitter wilderness and savage hardships, and
and swamp and cold.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Eloquent, Arnie, be eloquent.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Let the words spill slow and thoughtful from your mouth,
while the Gestapo such is for us, for you comes
nearer nearer.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
Try and some how I know a way through the
forest away unused before, where Striker Rude ponds. Maybe we could, Yes,
I think.
Speaker 15 (09:10):
We could have good.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Then it is settled.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
You see, Ana, it is simply a matter of bargaining.
One knows how to bargain. One live.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Get your things together. We're getting out right now, quickly.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
At your command, Annie, at your command.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Wait, wait for it. Wait here, hands, and I'll go
back to me.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
What's the matter, Hi, I cannot go farther. I cannot
have to keep.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Going, missus. You heard her.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
We will rest here.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
To listen to me. It's taken us almost seven hours
to go three miles twenty miles to the Swedish border,
and there are Nazi patrols. It will be light and allow.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
It will take us for animals, for beasts. We will
rest here and we will eat something, do hear me?
We will rest and we will eat. Where is the food,
handsome Barnie.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
We've got to keep moving here, going to rest here,
for I'll get some of the food out of your pack. Look,
get it here.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Take this, missus Helmer, mister Helman, this is food. This
that one throws top pigs, leavings of the gutter.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
This you ask us to eat all we have?
Speaker 11 (10:41):
You want it now?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
No, I have much better here here in my flask.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
Get up, Get up. It is nearly light and twenty
miles to go. No, the patrol will be by here soon.
We still live with it.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Then, Anie, we cannot move.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
We must in this way, you endanger the lives of
hundreds of weathers. You destroy the underground, you play into nad.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
If we do, I will save my life and my
wife's life for what I can tell them.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
All right, we rest here. We will rest here for
a while.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
With thoughtful hero, generous.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Hero, handsome come over here, handsome. Yes, they can destroy
us and the underground, the lives of other men and
women who believe with us, Yes, destroy with their own
son has fought for in the plant. Yes, enemies, then yes,
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we are at war. I have thought these things when
I carry her on my back, and then him, and
I wondered, how long for you to think? Oh? Now,
now there's a rock under the snow. There, hands and
take it from the snow, and this one for me.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
And when we are across the border, mignas, they will
be for us.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
A ha, where are you, old man who is dead?
And with you your old woman? And I am sorry?
Speaker 11 (12:31):
And for them the border reached, and an end to
wilderness and freedom, vast stillness. Understand, old man, old woman,
The only stillness we can give you, cause this time
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is what it is. It is done, handsome, how quickly
be gone?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
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Speaker 13 (15:16):
Do not drink alone, Arnie, drink with me. Yes, hell
gud victory, drink Arnie for the end of war and
again the time of peace we once knew and you
and my brothers then handsome to live as you were
meant to live. The bells of our village, the small
bells and the great you hear the.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Money, Yes, it's once long ago. They rang.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
To you, Arnie, and to my brother, to your friend Hanson, who.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Is brave and a good man, and who fought for us,
for the women and the children of women, who fought
and bled and blessed us. Again with these my brother,
and you are my brother, and you drink with me, And.
Speaker 16 (16:03):
May I also drink to you, Arnie, as Helga drinks
to you as all do.
Speaker 11 (16:08):
In your house. Welcome here, Kurt, drink, dance, whatever thing
your joy will have to.
Speaker 16 (16:13):
You, Arnie, and to your fine house and your warm friends.
But I look about, and I do not see a
certain warm friend, soldier, friend, underground friend, oh who the
friend of the sabotage train of many years ago, the
friend George Hellman.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
Where is he arning? I don't know.
Speaker 16 (16:40):
And the lost son brings to mine the father and
the mother, the old people and their money jewels they had,
it is said, and Mini Kroner, and now the old
people are lost, and.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
There is wonder of them.
Speaker 16 (16:56):
And you have fine things in your house, the coroner, Ny,
the coroner, and jewels of the helmets, where.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Nie, that you bought with them the lamp?
Speaker 11 (17:10):
And that's just now.
Speaker 16 (17:16):
I must teach you not a thing, not to lay
your murderous hands upon me.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
You know, honey, you know?
Speaker 14 (17:35):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
Get out, Get out of my house. Same, yes, see,
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old days dead, the old days of war, shouts.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
And sobbings dead, many years now of underground.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
An explosion, brighter sunburst, child crying alone in a snowfield,
wandering alone in a snowfield. They are dead, you hear me, Annie,
The old days are dead, forgotten, Helga quickly.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I have brought you extra clothing and food.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why hell, why do you get the.
Speaker 13 (18:32):
Body of Miklas hellman and Avanna the old woman, his wife.
The villagers found them at Scraggero Pond's God to the police.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
You bring clothes and food for us?
Speaker 13 (18:42):
Why warrants have been issued for the arrest of their murderers.
It is what they have named it.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
And they too have forgotten the old days, the days
of war.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
They call it murder.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I told you, Hotel, run high, take my brother with you.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
God, tell them what happened. I'll convince you.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You will not convince them.
Speaker 13 (19:04):
These are other days, and they have forgotten how it
was Fenn.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
And I did what had to be done to her.
There was no shame in it.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
And tell spin to go, my brother, Tell him, sir,
what you.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Say Annie, that I will do as in the old days.
Go what Annie said. There was no shame in it.
It was a thing of war of need. Then I stay.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Let them come, Na Liken, how do you please?
Speaker 11 (19:43):
I confess freely to having caused the death of mister
and missus Hellman. However, to the charge of murder, I
plead not guilty.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
And Sven Hansen, how do you please?
Speaker 11 (19:57):
I was with Annie, liking the Hellman's because of me.
Yet I did not commit murder. There was nothing else
we could do, so we did it.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
I couldn't you let them try to reach the border themselves.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
They would never have made it.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Oh, come now, mister Hanson, men have crossed Greenland on foot,
those old people. Consider what you have said, those old people.
Yet you kill them something obscene.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
So there is nothing else we could do. Nor could
they have crossed another one hundred yards on foot?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
That, of course, is your opinion.
Speaker 14 (20:35):
I suggest, mister Hanson that you had other motives that
made it necessary to kill. I suggest that these motives
correspond with that which is most.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
Base, because the war is over, because the mass killing
is done, and.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
The death of two solitary people is important. It's forgotten
now that the Helmets were our enemy, as me how.
Speaker 14 (21:02):
How they would have betrayed us. It would have meant
the end of the whole underground, which of course is conjecture.
Mister lichn onni Liken, tell me a thing. It concerns motive,
mister like likein I told you, it concerns motive, mister Liken.
Both you and mister Hanson have repeatedly stated that your
only motive was to silence the Helmans.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Is that correctness?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Truly? Yes? Not to rob them?
Speaker 14 (21:27):
No, not to rob this unfortunate couple of the money
they had brought with them, all their joels, all their joels,
mister Liken, mister Lican.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
God.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
Got huh.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Days of wrath, the days of how long ago, mister prosecutor,
when death leaned close to every man had beckoned when
death was a Nazi went to trick the brown shirted
men with the club.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
With You are quite right, sir, it was long ago.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Now it is done with.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Now the return to dignity, which is why you are here.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
Prosecutor respectfully requests the court to grand process until tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Caught from adjourn until tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
And struck them down in cold blood. Then did you
or did you not go through their belongings and search
for the money over one hundred thousand kroner. No, you
did not go through their belongings.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
We we searched them for papers. We wanted to destroy
their papers so they could not be identified if they
were found. And you found the money, and we found
the money.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
And not being murderers, not being killers with malicious motives,
rather gentle people, layers to rest of old folks who
buy some misadventure of age.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
Happened not to be able to walk twenty miles. Therefore,
you did not take the money.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
What do you want me to say? What?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
What that? You did not take the money?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
We took the money. Oh, we took the money. There
was not a lot of it, only only twelve thousand kroner.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Listen the real motive.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
Listen to silence them, take their money, throw them into
the ladies. True will, then forgive me which part of
it is not true that you did not take their money,
that you did not throw them in the lake, that
you did not kill them.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Heal them?
Speaker 9 (23:23):
There will be silence in my courtroom.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Heal them?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Who is its Olson? Can you Olson?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
And well you know me?
Speaker 16 (23:31):
And since it is you, respected citizen, there is no
need to tell you there is a spectator no.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Longer spectator, sir man.
Speaker 17 (23:38):
With compulsion to speak certain facts, I request permission to
address the court.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
Very well.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Killed them, I.
Speaker 17 (23:48):
Say, these two men killed the Helmans, took their lives
from them, no doubt of it, mister Olson.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
Mark what you said, sir mister? The cue to it all?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
And what was my fanciful name?
Speaker 14 (24:02):
When there was war here?
Speaker 11 (24:04):
Myself?
Speaker 17 (24:04):
I can hardly remember Avenger was it? Or snow Hawk?
I cannot remember all of them colde names that changed
each week, head of the underground, myself with childish names
to help.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Fight a war, to shield me, so delivered all of
those here.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
Remember that you were heroic?
Speaker 17 (24:22):
Did you want to say that the soldier fighter for
liberty no less than these two men who killed heroes
soldiers fighters for liberty, killed because they were under orders
to kill those who brought liberty into.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Jeopardy, and I gave those orders.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
This is what I needed to say.
Speaker 16 (24:52):
A the prisoners will face the jury. Woman, as your
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jury reached the verdict.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Yes, sir, we have I'm the charge of murder of
mister and missus Nicholas Hellman. We find the defendants, Arnie
Luychan and Sven Hansen not guilty.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
It is customary, sir, that the accused, upon his acquittal,
offered thanks to the foreman of the jury which tried him.
So I wish to do this thing from my heart,
I thank you, and this too, I must say what
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happened at Striker Root Pond. What was done here was
done on the thing face of a bleeding world, a
world at war. I was caught up in it, and
Swen and those two old people, and you and all
of us. Now it is done. A trial was held
here today, proof that humanity is with us again. I
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will go home now and make prayer. Let no one
ever be called upon to do what I did. Let
the world live in peace.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
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And now Auto Life presents Transcribed Death at Skreikerood Pond,
a true story starring mister Jeff Chandler as Arnie, hoping
once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Mother, mother, mother, Who is it?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Who is there?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
George, son, your sons?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Sorry, you're hurt, your heart blooded? Listen, train yourself being
hear it?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Yes, and the train is not moving you and the
blood and the tree ain is not moving, but screams
like something.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Close the door, close the door, say.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Train full of Nazis.
Speaker 9 (03:14):
God, do you hear me?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
I'm not badly heard father?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Let me see.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
Oh no, you're not, it seems yes, the bullet has
gone through your shoulder and the blood you've lost.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Get him from the floor. Yes, put your arm above
my neck.
Speaker 11 (03:32):
Georger Yeah, and I hear. Now, what have you done?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
I helped to blow up a train, Nazi troop train,
and in.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Running away you were shocked.
Speaker 10 (03:48):
To let him alone, Annie, Come in, Annie, he's there.
Speaker 11 (04:11):
How are you, George? That's all you will recognize, George.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
I'm sorry, I can walk. Yes, yes, I think so.
Speaker 11 (04:19):
Well, come come on, I'll help you. Helm and missus Helmon.
We're taking him out of the country, first to a
doctor and then outside there on the great.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Und when there's victory, Mother, Papa last, let them go,
Let them go.
Speaker 11 (04:40):
There was a tale of blood. I followed it here.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Mm hmmm. Come we'll go back to bed.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
To shivel with fright. Yes, go to bed and stare.
Speaker 12 (04:54):
At the dark and wait for the knock on the door,
and they get stoppo. Stare in the dark and think ambits,
think of clever things to say to the Gestapo, such as,
what my son a member of the underground, My.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Son, surely there is a mistake, or I have no son.
Speaker 10 (05:13):
Lieutenant, therefore you cannot arrest me for something this boy
has done.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
Will these be your thoughts to Anna when you.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Go to bed the same, For surely they will come.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
They will come, and knock on the door, and they
will drag us from our home and send us where,
perhaps to Germany and Dacawanna to bo.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yeah, these are the thoughts I.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Have because of our son.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
And because of our son.
Speaker 10 (05:44):
Yes, now he's been recognized, and he said, yes, they.
Speaker 13 (05:50):
Will come here, they will come.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
We can go to bed now and stare at the dark.
At least now we know this will be the last time.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
What are you doing? Twelve thousand?
Speaker 14 (06:15):
This is all the money in the house, Yes, but
the bank we have so much more.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
Twelve thousand, Prona, Suddenly I am a pauper.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Anna, what is it?
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Your jewelry?
Speaker 15 (06:27):
Get it?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
But were all of it?
Speaker 11 (06:29):
Get your things together.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
We're getting out of here. Across the border. They'll take
us across the under ground.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They have to, they have to.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
You understand me, honey, you are the patriots, and you
the sellers of freedom.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
And missus Hellman and I have come to Baghan and.
Speaker 11 (06:57):
Bat have told you the borders are closed. The note
put will swarm. I don't know, mister help.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
You don't know your underground that's helped hundreds to escape
less worthy, Yet you balk at us.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
Why what do you think cancer? I think this, honey.
The Gestapo has searched for us two years now. These
people coming here have made it easy for them. Let's
have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
And I think this.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
If you do not help us, if you do not,
leaders across the border into Sweden, and I will report
you to the Gestapo. I personally will tell them who
you are, where you are. Way.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
No, he did not mean that, My husband, Mickles, you
heard him.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
He did not mean it.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
He is frightened and he is desperate, and he does
not know what he said.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Do not beg of them, and we are not their beggars.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I will not beg I will tell them of us.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
There years we have lived in your country, mister Arnie,
mister Hanson, with pride, with respect, with love for the
things of your country, and because my son has spilled
blood for this country, we now must flee it and
begin another life. And we are not young, but we
are rich and we will pay you well for this
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new life, more than any.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Of the others.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
We are rich, we will pay you well.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
We are not in this to make profit on sorrow, missus.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Helmer heroes, then is what.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
You are Listen to me, It's not good Arnie, I
tell you it's not good. Listen to me. This you life, you,
and it lies through bitter wilderness and savage hardships, and
and swamp and cold.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Eloquent, Arnie, be eloquent.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Let the words spill slow and thoughtful from your mouth,
while the Gestapo such is for us, for you comes
nearer nearer.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
Try and some how I know a way through the
forest away unused before, where Striker Rude ponds. Maybe we could, Yes,
I think.
Speaker 15 (09:10):
We could have good.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Then it is settled.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
You see, Ana, it is simply a matter of bargaining.
One knows how to bargain. One live.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Get your things together. We're getting out right now, quickly.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
At your command, Annie, at your command.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Wait, wait for it. Wait here, hands, and I'll go
back to me.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
What's the matter, Hi, I cannot go farther. I cannot
have to keep.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Going, missus. You heard her.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
We will rest here.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
To listen to me. It's taken us almost seven hours
to go three miles twenty miles to the Swedish border,
and there are Nazi patrols. It will be light and allow.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
It will take us for animals, for beasts. We will
rest here and we will eat something, do hear me?
We will rest and we will eat. Where is the food,
handsome Barnie.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
We've got to keep moving here, going to rest here,
for I'll get some of the food out of your pack. Look,
get it here.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Take this, missus Helmer, mister Helman, this is food. This
that one throws top pigs, leavings of the gutter.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
This you ask us to eat all we have?
Speaker 11 (10:41):
You want it now?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
No, I have much better here here in my flask.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
Get up, Get up. It is nearly light and twenty
miles to go. No, the patrol will be by here soon.
We still live with it.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Then, Anie, we cannot move.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
We must in this way, you endanger the lives of
hundreds of weathers. You destroy the underground, you play into nad.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
If we do, I will save my life and my
wife's life for what I can tell them.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
All right, we rest here. We will rest here for
a while.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
With thoughtful hero, generous.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Hero, handsome come over here, handsome. Yes, they can destroy
us and the underground, the lives of other men and
women who believe with us, Yes, destroy with their own
son has fought for in the plant. Yes, enemies, then yes,
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we are at war. I have thought these things when
I carry her on my back, and then him, and
I wondered, how long for you to think? Oh? Now,
now there's a rock under the snow. There, hands and
take it from the snow, and this one for me.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
And when we are across the border, mignas, they will
be for us.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
A ha, where are you, old man who is dead?
And with you your old woman? And I am sorry?
Speaker 11 (12:31):
And for them the border reached, and an end to
wilderness and freedom, vast stillness. Understand, old man, old woman,
The only stillness we can give you, cause this time
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is what it is. It is done, handsome, how quickly
be gone?
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Speaker 3 (14:39):
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Speaker 13 (15:16):
Do not drink alone, Arnie, drink with me. Yes, hell
gud victory, drink Arnie for the end of war and
again the time of peace we once knew and you
and my brothers then handsome to live as you were
meant to live. The bells of our village, the small
bells and the great you hear the.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Money, Yes, it's once long ago. They rang.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
To you, Arnie, and to my brother, to your friend Hanson, who.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Is brave and a good man, and who fought for us,
for the women and the children of women, who fought
and bled and blessed us. Again with these my brother,
and you are my brother, and you drink with me, And.
Speaker 16 (16:03):
May I also drink to you, Arnie, as Helga drinks
to you as all do.
Speaker 11 (16:08):
In your house. Welcome here, Kurt, drink, dance, whatever thing
your joy will have to.
Speaker 16 (16:13):
You, Arnie, and to your fine house and your warm friends.
But I look about, and I do not see a
certain warm friend, soldier, friend, underground friend, oh who the
friend of the sabotage train of many years ago, the
friend George Hellman.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
Where is he arning? I don't know.
Speaker 16 (16:40):
And the lost son brings to mine the father and
the mother, the old people and their money jewels they had,
it is said, and Mini Kroner, and now the old
people are lost, and.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
There is wonder of them.
Speaker 16 (16:56):
And you have fine things in your house, the coroner, Ny,
the coroner, and jewels of the helmets, where.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Nie, that you bought with them the lamp?
Speaker 11 (17:10):
And that's just now.
Speaker 16 (17:16):
I must teach you not a thing, not to lay
your murderous hands upon me.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
You know, honey, you know?
Speaker 14 (17:35):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
Get out, Get out of my house. Same, yes, see,
(18:00):
old days dead, the old days of war, shouts.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
And sobbings dead, many years now of underground.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
An explosion, brighter sunburst, child crying alone in a snowfield,
wandering alone in a snowfield. They are dead, you hear me, Annie,
The old days are dead, forgotten, Helga quickly.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I have brought you extra clothing and food.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why hell, why do you get the.
Speaker 13 (18:32):
Body of Miklas hellman and Avanna the old woman, his wife.
The villagers found them at Scraggero Pond's God to the police.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
You bring clothes and food for us?
Speaker 13 (18:42):
Why warrants have been issued for the arrest of their murderers.
It is what they have named it.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
And they too have forgotten the old days, the days
of war.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
They call it murder.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I told you, Hotel, run high, take my brother with you.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
God, tell them what happened. I'll convince you.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You will not convince them.
Speaker 13 (19:04):
These are other days, and they have forgotten how it
was Fenn.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
And I did what had to be done to her.
There was no shame in it.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
And tell spin to go, my brother, Tell him, sir,
what you.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Say Annie, that I will do as in the old days.
Go what Annie said. There was no shame in it.
It was a thing of war of need. Then I stay.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Let them come, Na Liken, how do you please?
Speaker 11 (19:43):
I confess freely to having caused the death of mister
and missus Hellman. However, to the charge of murder, I
plead not guilty.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
And Sven Hansen, how do you please?
Speaker 11 (19:57):
I was with Annie, liking the Hellman's because of me.
Yet I did not commit murder. There was nothing else
we could do, so we did it.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
I couldn't you let them try to reach the border themselves.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
They would never have made it.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Oh, come now, mister Hanson, men have crossed Greenland on foot,
those old people. Consider what you have said, those old people.
Yet you kill them something obscene.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
So there is nothing else we could do. Nor could
they have crossed another one hundred yards on foot?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
That, of course, is your opinion.
Speaker 14 (20:35):
I suggest, mister Hanson that you had other motives that
made it necessary to kill. I suggest that these motives
correspond with that which is most.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
Base, because the war is over, because the mass killing
is done, and.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
The death of two solitary people is important. It's forgotten
now that the Helmets were our enemy, as me how.
Speaker 14 (21:02):
How they would have betrayed us. It would have meant
the end of the whole underground, which of course is conjecture.
Mister lichn onni Liken, tell me a thing. It concerns motive,
mister like likein I told you, it concerns motive, mister Liken.
Both you and mister Hanson have repeatedly stated that your
only motive was to silence the Helmans.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Is that correctness?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Truly? Yes? Not to rob them?
Speaker 14 (21:27):
No, not to rob this unfortunate couple of the money
they had brought with them, all their joels, all their joels,
mister Liken, mister Lican.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
God.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
Got huh.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Days of wrath, the days of how long ago, mister prosecutor,
when death leaned close to every man had beckoned when
death was a Nazi went to trick the brown shirted
men with the club.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
With You are quite right, sir, it was long ago.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Now it is done with.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Now the return to dignity, which is why you are here.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
Prosecutor respectfully requests the court to grand process until tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Caught from adjourn until tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
And struck them down in cold blood. Then did you
or did you not go through their belongings and search
for the money over one hundred thousand kroner. No, you
did not go through their belongings.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
We we searched them for papers. We wanted to destroy
their papers so they could not be identified if they
were found. And you found the money, and we found
the money.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
And not being murderers, not being killers with malicious motives,
rather gentle people, layers to rest of old folks who
buy some misadventure of age.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
Happened not to be able to walk twenty miles. Therefore,
you did not take the money.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
What do you want me to say? What?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
What that? You did not take the money?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
We took the money. Oh, we took the money. There
was not a lot of it, only only twelve thousand kroner.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Listen the real motive.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
Listen to silence them, take their money, throw them into
the ladies. True will, then forgive me which part of
it is not true that you did not take their money,
that you did not throw them in the lake, that
you did not kill them.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Heal them?
Speaker 9 (23:23):
There will be silence in my courtroom.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Heal them?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Who is its Olson? Can you Olson?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
And well you know me?
Speaker 16 (23:31):
And since it is you, respected citizen, there is no
need to tell you there is a spectator no.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Longer spectator, sir man.
Speaker 17 (23:38):
With compulsion to speak certain facts, I request permission to
address the court.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
Very well.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Killed them, I.
Speaker 17 (23:48):
Say, these two men killed the Helmans, took their lives
from them, no doubt of it, mister Olson.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
Mark what you said, sir mister? The cue to it all?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
And what was my fanciful name?
Speaker 14 (24:02):
When there was war here?
Speaker 11 (24:04):
Myself?
Speaker 17 (24:04):
I can hardly remember Avenger was it? Or snow Hawk?
I cannot remember all of them colde names that changed
each week, head of the underground, myself with childish names
to help.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Fight a war, to shield me, so delivered all of
those here.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
Remember that you were heroic?
Speaker 17 (24:22):
Did you want to say that the soldier fighter for
liberty no less than these two men who killed heroes
soldiers fighters for liberty, killed because they were under orders
to kill those who brought liberty into.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Jeopardy, and I gave those orders.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
This is what I needed to say.
Speaker 16 (24:52):
A the prisoners will face the jury. Woman, as your
(25:12):
jury reached the verdict.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Yes, sir, we have I'm the charge of murder of
mister and missus Nicholas Hellman. We find the defendants, Arnie
Luychan and Sven Hansen not guilty.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
It is customary, sir, that the accused, upon his acquittal,
offered thanks to the foreman of the jury which tried him.
So I wish to do this thing from my heart,
I thank you, and this too, I must say what
(25:54):
happened at Striker Root Pond. What was done here was
done on the thing face of a bleeding world, a
world at war. I was caught up in it, and
Swen and those two old people, and you and all
of us. Now it is done. A trial was held
here today, proof that humanity is with us again. I
(26:20):
will go home now and make prayer. Let no one
ever be called upon to do what I did. Let
the world live in peace.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Suspense presented by Autolite to night Star mister Jeff Chandler.
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Next week we will dramatize an astounding experience a man
in a machine flung in a barrier of sound. It's
called the Outer Limit. Our star, mister William Holden. That's
next week on Suspense. Suspense is transcribed and directed by
Elliott Lewis with music composed by Lucian Marrol Wicken conducted
(28:32):
Death strankrud Bomb was adapted for suspense by Martin Fine
and David Friedkin with James P. Kavanagh from Theodore Olsen's report.
Featured in tonight's cast were Paula Winslow, Herb Butterfield, Kathy Lewis,
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