August 16, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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criminologist Edmund Pearson.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The story is called Mate Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Tonight's star Mister Richard Whitmark.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
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Speaker 2 (02:01):
Dear mister Cooper, I write to you as my true friend,
who has given me wise counsel in the past, who
knows of my faults and weaknesses, and who also knows
my strength. Respecting the latter, I advise you that during
the past year I have totally abstained from drink in
any form, and because of that and hard study, I
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now have a first mates ticket. It was in that
berth that in Boston I signed on the Barcantine Herbert Fuller,
from where I now write you to give you a
report of this fatal voyage. As a matter of truth,
I myself might be dead when you read this, if
it ever reaches you. I signed on the master of
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the vessel being Charles I. Nash and the company of
the following men, each important to this account.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Enry J.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Sly Seamen, As you captain sign this line slies, you'll
have the watch Charlie Brown, saman this line Brown port
watch a, Sir, Jonathan Spencer Steord, Yes, sir, all right here, Spencer,
glad to have.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Your board again, Yes, sir, thank you, Sir.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Thomas Brown, first officer, Yes, Captain the line, first trip,
mister Brown, good luck, Thank you, sir. August Blomberg, second officer,
I sir, this line, mister Blomberg, I.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Have, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
There are two other names important to this account. Lester H. Monks,
who came aboard as a passenger and the interests of
his health as the nature of our voyage was to
be tropical. The other name is Laura Nash, wife of
Captain Nash. If I had known that this woman was
going to sail with us, I never would have signed on.
But when I saw her and learned that she was,
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I didn't sign up off. Although I could have. I
stayed on because she was compelling with a bold look,
and because a man is always a hunter. That same day,
still in harbor, when first I saw her, I went
to the steward to learn more.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Yes, sir, mister uh, your name is Bram, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, my name is Bram. Can I get a cup
of tea.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Yes, sir, it's hot. Are you a home man, mister
bram Or? Did you come from another ship?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I came from another ship?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
What ship?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The Antilles?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
She came in yesterday, We go out tomorrow. You don't
like it, sure side, mister bram.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Nope, I find it too much trouble. You've sailed this
ship before.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Two trips.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
What is this woman that goes with us?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
She's the captain's wife, Sir.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I know that? Is she a good wife? Spencer?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
I don't know what mean, sir?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh, she's younger than he is. Why does a young
woman marry with a man like that and go sailing
off on a ship with him and eleven other men?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't know, mister Brahm.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No lady would do that, would she?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I don't know many ladies, mister Brahm. You won't find
out asking me. You better ask her?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Maybe I will.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Hello Blomberg, pore deck cargo ready to look forward.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'll see to it.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
You want to, mister Blumberg, Ah at tea time, Spencer,
you sailed this ship before.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
What do you know about this woman that goes with us? Nothing?
What kind of woman she is? Alway? She looks at
a man. I don't know, sir, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
When I left the steward, the second mate was asking
the same questions I asked. I mentioned this to remind
you that I was not alone with my thoughts. The
same ones were in the minds of the others, perhaps
all of them. This, then, my good friend, was the
state and nature of the ship. When we made to
open sea. The first day passed in shaking her down,
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But then evening was upon us and the woman ate
supper in the cabin at the officer's table, which also
included the passenger. Mister Monks. These meals, there were only
six of them, may be exaggerated in my memory, but
I think not. It seems now that nothing was discussed
except that I abstained from the wine that was served.
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It was difficult because I didn't want to give as
my reason for refusal the fact that you know, sir,
that I am a slave to drink unless I abstain entirely.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Your glass Laura, Yes, thank you, mister Monks, yes, please,
thank you. Captain mister Bryan, No, Sir, I don't want
any hmm mister Blomberg.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Yeah, ill like good wine.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Ah, are are you a religious man, mister Brown, No, sir,
not overly so, wondering that's why you wouldn't have a
glass of wine with us.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, I don't care for wine.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
What do you drink, then, rum Like the pirates.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't drink at all.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
I didn't think that a seafaring man lived that didn't drink,
mister Brown.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Seafaring men are much like any men, mister monks. Some
of them drink, some of them don't.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Wine. With a meal and a good whiskey or brandy
at the end of a watch, nothing can take their place.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
Is there a reason you don't drink, mister Brown.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, I don't like to have you ever drunk. No,
I never have.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
I don't believe that. I've heard that some men don't
drink because they expose their true selves when they do.
Do you have a true self?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm sorry to disappoint you, madam. You are seeing my
true self, a man who doesn't drink.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
There must be reason, and I'll find out what it is.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Enough, Flora, you're two forward, eat your supper.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
As I stated. My memory of that first supper may
now be exaggerated, but I think not. There was more
drinking after the meal, but I left as it was
my watch. I know that the second mate stayed with
the woman though, even after Captain Nash had retired to
his cot in the chart room. Now this sleeping arrangement
must be explained because it's important. The captain with a
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cot in the chart room forward in the main house,
the woman in the first cabin starboard, the passenger in
the second across the companion way. I in the first
cabin port mister Blomberg in the second. I heard the
woman come to her quarters after I'd been relieved, and
I think that night I started dreaming about her and
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her taunting smile, and with her I dreamed of being drunk.
The next day passed the same, and the next night.
There's little enough of interest on a ship, and anything
unusual is left upon on this ship. It was my sobriety.
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The first sign of trouble came upon us during the
third evening, and I swear upon our friendship Sir, that
it was not of my doing. I was only walking
at past the main house.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Mister Brown. Yes, I'm in my quarters.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm still on watch, mister Blomberg, what do you want.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I think of you too much today, No I don't
like you. What you think is your business, not mine,
and that I don't like you. It's a man's privilege
to like or dislike.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
You don't care.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
There'd be nothing for me to do about it if
I did.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Harry is something. Oh, stop acting like you better than us,
all of us. I'm no better or worse than anyone
you think you are. You think so because we drink
and you don't. You think you saint or so wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And I'll thank you to leave me alone, let go.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
I give you a chance to make me wrong. I
give you a chance to act like man. I ask
you now, come in my quarters, drink with me like friends.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I don't want to drink Plumper.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
He's insult not to drink.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
When man ask you leave off me, take it as
an insult. If you like I say, I have my
reasons and my rights to do as I choose. Now
mind your own affairs. There'll be no trouble. Don't try
to run me.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You women, leave off me. I kill you next time.
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
There were some words?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
What were he is? Woman?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Words about Laura? No Sie, I've seen the way both
of your moaning about her. That's an end to that.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Right now, you will both eat in your own quarters,
and the stay on stay away from her, your.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Officers on the ship.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I'll go to your quarters, mister Brown.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I see now be a pot on this, mister Bromberg,
you'll relieve the watch.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Mister Brown?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
There was some trouble about what? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Man?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Trouble?
Speaker 10 (11:19):
I heard what my husband said? Were you fighting over me?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Why should you fight over me? You've hardly looked at me.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're a married woman, missus Nash.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
I think that makes more difference to you than it
does to me. Why are you so good?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Hmhm? You couldn't choose a word, father from the truth,
and I think I'd better go inside.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Why did you fight? Because he was teasing you about
not drinking, wasn't it he told me he was going.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
To Yes, that was fire. Are you playing the game
with me too?
Speaker 10 (11:53):
I'm intrigued. You're a man with a past, aren't you,
And you won't drink because you're afraid someone will find
out what it is?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Think what you're like.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Don't you know that's a challenge to a woman like me.
Wouldn't you even drink with me?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yes? Yes, perhaps with you is that a promise, No,
Missus Nash, I promise nothing anymore. I've been ordered to
my quarters. I'd better go, mister Cooper, Sir. I feel
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as though I should apologize, even to you, who know
me so well, but I will not because I must
shamelessly recount all details. There were no more words except
ship words between mister Blomberg and myself. We ate in
our quarters, and for the three days following the quarrel
on deck, Captain Nash vigilantly allowed his wife no freedom
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on this ship. I hope you'll understand that, however wrong,
her words to me lived in my mind, and they
grew so. When I was relieved of watch on the
fourth night following, I was very pleased to find her
waiting inside the open door to her quarters.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Mister Brad, Yes, I've been waiting for you. Won't you
come in?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Where's Captain Nash.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
In the chart room asleep? I knew he wouldn't watch
me forever?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What do you want?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Just to talk to someone who's young? Won't you sit down?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 10 (13:33):
There's no harm. I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That, all right, Laura, There's no harm.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Whether I'm married or not. I'm a woman am I not? Yes,
yes you are, and I deserve to have the company
that I like.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
M I brought.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
A bottle of wine.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I see that you have.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
I stole it when he wasn't looking, took a chance.
I thought it would be nice. Shall I open?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
If you like.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Here you are?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
You haven't been very nice to me.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I have hardly been able to be anything to you.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Then shall we drink too? How nice you can be?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
All right?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I drank my friend the bottle of wine, and when
I left her, I went into mister Blomberg's quarters and
stole what he had and took it to my own.
The warmth that I remembered in my middle body, the
courage I assumed, the eyes that weren't really mine, seeing things,
the false happiness, the excitement, the great proud feeling of
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self satisfaction, the elation, the slipping away from reality, and
the wondrous the pleasure of numbness, the peace, and the
luxury of knowing that when you went to bed you'd sleep.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
What is satisfice?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What? What's the matter? What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
There's murder?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What's as you say?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You've got to come up on the deck.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
The captain and his wife, mister Blomberg, they've all been murdered.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
They're dead.
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Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was eight bells midnight when I went into the
woman's quarters. Some time later when I left, I didn't
want a drink. But what could I do? Explain myself
by telling her about the last time, the fights, the
broken windows, the jail, and the other times I should have.
But considering the situation, I doubt any man would I
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remember leaving going to mister Blomberg's quarters than to my own.
But there after another while my memory stops. I have
lost an hour, my good friend, or perhaps two, until
mister Monks awoke me some minutes before four with a
gun in his hand.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
There's a murderer on board.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
He killed them all with an axent.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Mister Brad, what is the matter?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
What are you doing with that gun?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
None of us is safe. There's a murderer on board.
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Water first?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Yeah, you'll be drinking, mister brand Yes, yes, I have.
You'll have to sober up. You're in command.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I'm all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Where are they?
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Missus Nash is in her cabin.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
There. H What do you know of this?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
How did you learn?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Something woke me up? It was like a scream, but
I didn't know with all the sounds of the ship,
when was that, I can't be sure. I went to
sleep again. Then I woke up again.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
What woke you that time?
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I began to worry about the sound.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I'd heard the scream. I got up and went to
tell a captain about it.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
He was dead.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I was sure the sound meant something, and I came
to Missus Nash's cabin. Then I saw mister Blomberg's door
open and found him the same way.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
There's a maniac on board.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Come with me. We'll look at the others. We looked
in the quarters of the others and found no weapon.
And I'll state now that when I looked in my
locker for my gun, I also looked for bloodstains on
the clothes in there, and on the clothes I was
wearing as I'd slept, fully dressed, and I found none. Then,
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pursuing the actions of mister Munks and me, we awoke
the steward and went on deck. Wait, that's the axe.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
That's the one, that's the one that did it.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Get rid of it, mister Brown.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Throw it overboard.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
The fiend might use it on us next.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
No, mister Brown, we can't do that, sir. Throw it overboard.
That's the weapon. We've got to keep it by law.
We've got all.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Right, all right, we'll keep it up. It's Slice at
the wheel. We'll see what he knows?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
What is he? What's that?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Ex there's been murder aboard Slights.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
How long have you been at the wheel?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Two hours?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Who is he? Brown?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And can't we'll share your watch, don't they?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yes, sir, where are they forcer standing? Look at who's dead?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
The captain and his wife and mister Blomberg.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Have you seen anybody on deck? Slice, while you've been
at the wheel.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Only you, mister brand I didn't see nobody else.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I didn't remember. It's a frightful thing to have a
man say you were out on deck and not remember.
I tried to carry on without arousing suspicion, And this
is what I learned. That I had come out and
asked for mister Blomberg, and upon being told that he
was tending the fossil with two deckhands, I'd gone back inside,
and that then mister Blomberg had come aft and gone
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inside too, and that he'd never come out again. I
couldn't help feeling guilty, But on the other hand, I
couldn't help heeding my instinct to protect myself. For example,
at my earliest opportunity, when I was not seen, I
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took that axe and I threw it overboard. But that
was wrong. I acted in excitement and fear, and I'm
sorry now that I did. When dawn came, I ordered
the ship to come about and set her back toward bust.
Soon after this was done, the steward came to me.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
The crew wants me to talk to you, sir. Yes,
what about They all say they'll be afraid to go
to sleep tonight for fear of being murdered in their bunks.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
All right, all right, I'll have them all sleep on
deck where a watch can be kept over them. And
if you will, Spencer, you can tell them all to
come on deck in an hour for the funeral services.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Funeral services, sir, Yes, we can't put those people over
the side, sir, by law, We've got to take them back.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yes, yes, of course, Spencer. But it's not good to
have them on the ship. I mean to put them
in the longboat and toward a stern. I'll bring them
out and with Captain Nash bring his bible. It's open
on the table next to his cot.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
It is, Sir.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I don't know why I thought I knew where the
captain's bible was. I wasn't sure that I did know,
but I was afraid to ask Spencer. So once more,
on impulse and in fear, I acted. That night. I
went after the man at the wheel and ordered him
below to get my glass, telling him I'd seen a
light in the distance. When he was gone lashing the wheel,
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I turned with a knife to the line towing the
longboat to cut the bodies adrift and to finally destroy
the evidence.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
With Ram.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Leave off, Spencer. It's not good to have dead people
following along behind.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Leave Off?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
What's this for?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
For killing those people? Pull out there?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
No it was you, mister Bram. No, I didn't you
were with a wife last night drinking. Who says that,
mister Slice, Mister Blomberg told him.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That's no proof.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
You know where his bible worth their and that's nothing either.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
You relieve Slice at the wheel. And after that the
axe was missing, mister Brown, saw you throw it overboard?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I didn't kill them?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Then?
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Why were you cutting the longboat? Free mister Bram? Bram
confess and he's yourself, mister Brow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I won't confess. Nobody saw me kill them because I didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I didn't come along, mister Bram. What are you taking
me to lock you up?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
By law?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
We've got to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
They put me an eye on us, locked in my
own quarters, and here I have stayed. There have been
no more murders in the three days past, which does
not stand in favor of another killer being a board
and my being innocent. What I have written, my good friend,
is the whole truth. And I beg of you to
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be my legal counsel when my case comes to trial,
as I'm sure it will. In my own mind, I
am not convinced that I'm guilty for one reason that.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
However violent I've been, I have never killed before, before, never.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Killed before. If I could only remember, if I could
just remember White tri Te.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Whit truth Tye, Why.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Why can't I remember?
Speaker 9 (26:03):
As the passenger aboard the Fuller, I was called along
with the crew to testify in both of mister Bram's trials,
and each time I stayed to hear him pronounced guilty
by two separate courts of law of a crime, he
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Speaker 2 (02:01):
Dear mister Cooper, I write to you as my true friend,
who has given me wise counsel in the past, who
knows of my faults and weaknesses, and who also knows
my strength. Respecting the latter, I advise you that during
the past year I have totally abstained from drink in
any form, and because of that and hard study, I
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now have a first mates ticket. It was in that
berth that in Boston I signed on the Barcantine Herbert Fuller,
from where I now write you to give you a
report of this fatal voyage. As a matter of truth,
I myself might be dead when you read this, if
it ever reaches you. I signed on the master of
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the vessel being Charles I. Nash and the company of
the following men, each important to this account.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Enry J.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Sly Seamen, As you captain sign this line slies, you'll
have the watch Charlie Brown, saman this line Brown port
watch a, Sir, Jonathan Spencer Steord, Yes, sir, all right here, Spencer,
glad to have.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Your board again, Yes, sir, thank you, Sir.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Thomas Brown, first officer, Yes, Captain the line, first trip,
mister Brown, good luck, Thank you, sir. August Blomberg, second officer,
I sir, this line, mister Blomberg, I.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Have, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
There are two other names important to this account. Lester H. Monks,
who came aboard as a passenger and the interests of
his health as the nature of our voyage was to
be tropical. The other name is Laura Nash, wife of
Captain Nash. If I had known that this woman was
going to sail with us, I never would have signed on.
But when I saw her and learned that she was,
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I didn't sign up off. Although I could have. I
stayed on because she was compelling with a bold look,
and because a man is always a hunter. That same day,
still in harbor, when first I saw her, I went
to the steward to learn more.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Yes, sir, mister uh, your name is Bram, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, my name is Bram. Can I get a cup
of tea.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Yes, sir, it's hot. Are you a home man, mister
bram Or? Did you come from another ship?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I came from another ship?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
What ship?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The Antilles?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
She came in yesterday, We go out tomorrow. You don't
like it, sure side, mister bram.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Nope, I find it too much trouble. You've sailed this
ship before.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Two trips.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
What is this woman that goes with us?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
She's the captain's wife, Sir.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I know that? Is she a good wife? Spencer?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
I don't know what mean, sir?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh, she's younger than he is. Why does a young
woman marry with a man like that and go sailing
off on a ship with him and eleven other men?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't know, mister Brahm.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No lady would do that, would she?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I don't know many ladies, mister Brahm. You won't find
out asking me. You better ask her?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Maybe I will.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Hello Blomberg, pore deck cargo ready to look forward.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'll see to it.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
You want to, mister Blumberg, Ah at tea time, Spencer,
you sailed this ship before.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
What do you know about this woman that goes with us? Nothing?
What kind of woman she is? Alway? She looks at
a man. I don't know, sir, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
When I left the steward, the second mate was asking
the same questions I asked. I mentioned this to remind
you that I was not alone with my thoughts. The
same ones were in the minds of the others, perhaps
all of them. This, then, my good friend, was the
state and nature of the ship. When we made to
open sea. The first day passed in shaking her down,
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But then evening was upon us and the woman ate
supper in the cabin at the officer's table, which also
included the passenger. Mister Monks. These meals, there were only
six of them, may be exaggerated in my memory, but
I think not. It seems now that nothing was discussed
except that I abstained from the wine that was served.
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It was difficult because I didn't want to give as
my reason for refusal the fact that you know, sir,
that I am a slave to drink unless I abstain entirely.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Your glass Laura, Yes, thank you, mister Monks, yes, please,
thank you. Captain mister Bryan, No, Sir, I don't want
any hmm mister Blomberg.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Yeah, ill like good wine.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Ah, are are you a religious man, mister Brown, No, sir,
not overly so, wondering that's why you wouldn't have a
glass of wine with us.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, I don't care for wine.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
What do you drink, then, rum Like the pirates.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't drink at all.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
I didn't think that a seafaring man lived that didn't drink,
mister Brown.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Seafaring men are much like any men, mister monks. Some
of them drink, some of them don't.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Wine. With a meal and a good whiskey or brandy
at the end of a watch, nothing can take their place.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
Is there a reason you don't drink, mister Brown.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, I don't like to have you ever drunk. No,
I never have.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
I don't believe that. I've heard that some men don't
drink because they expose their true selves when they do.
Do you have a true self?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm sorry to disappoint you, madam. You are seeing my
true self, a man who doesn't drink.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
There must be reason, and I'll find out what it is.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Enough, Flora, you're two forward, eat your supper.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
As I stated. My memory of that first supper may
now be exaggerated, but I think not. There was more
drinking after the meal, but I left as it was
my watch. I know that the second mate stayed with
the woman though, even after Captain Nash had retired to
his cot in the chart room. Now this sleeping arrangement
must be explained because it's important. The captain with a
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cot in the chart room forward in the main house,
the woman in the first cabin starboard, the passenger in
the second across the companion way. I in the first
cabin port mister Blomberg in the second. I heard the
woman come to her quarters after I'd been relieved, and
I think that night I started dreaming about her and
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her taunting smile, and with her I dreamed of being drunk.
The next day passed the same, and the next night.
There's little enough of interest on a ship, and anything
unusual is left upon on this ship. It was my sobriety.
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The first sign of trouble came upon us during the
third evening, and I swear upon our friendship Sir, that
it was not of my doing. I was only walking
at past the main house.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Mister Brown. Yes, I'm in my quarters.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm still on watch, mister Blomberg, what do you want.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I think of you too much today, No I don't
like you. What you think is your business, not mine,
and that I don't like you. It's a man's privilege
to like or dislike.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
You don't care.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
There'd be nothing for me to do about it if
I did.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Harry is something. Oh, stop acting like you better than us,
all of us. I'm no better or worse than anyone
you think you are. You think so because we drink
and you don't. You think you saint or so wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And I'll thank you to leave me alone, let go.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
I give you a chance to make me wrong. I
give you a chance to act like man. I ask
you now, come in my quarters, drink with me like friends.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I don't want to drink Plumper.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
He's insult not to drink.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
When man ask you leave off me, take it as
an insult. If you like I say, I have my
reasons and my rights to do as I choose. Now
mind your own affairs. There'll be no trouble. Don't try
to run me.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You women, leave off me. I kill you next time.
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
There were some words?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
What were he is? Woman?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Words about Laura? No Sie, I've seen the way both
of your moaning about her. That's an end to that.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Right now, you will both eat in your own quarters,
and the stay on stay away from her, your.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Officers on the ship.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I'll go to your quarters, mister Brown.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I see now be a pot on this, mister Bromberg,
you'll relieve the watch.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Mister Brown?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
There was some trouble about what? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Man?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Trouble?
Speaker 10 (11:19):
I heard what my husband said? Were you fighting over me?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Why should you fight over me? You've hardly looked at me.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're a married woman, missus Nash.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
I think that makes more difference to you than it
does to me. Why are you so good?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Hmhm? You couldn't choose a word, father from the truth,
and I think I'd better go inside.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Why did you fight? Because he was teasing you about
not drinking, wasn't it he told me he was going.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
To Yes, that was fire. Are you playing the game
with me too?
Speaker 10 (11:53):
I'm intrigued. You're a man with a past, aren't you,
And you won't drink because you're afraid someone will find
out what it is?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Think what you're like.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Don't you know that's a challenge to a woman like me.
Wouldn't you even drink with me?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yes? Yes, perhaps with you is that a promise, No,
Missus Nash, I promise nothing anymore. I've been ordered to
my quarters. I'd better go, mister Cooper, Sir. I feel
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as though I should apologize, even to you, who know
me so well, but I will not because I must
shamelessly recount all details. There were no more words except
ship words between mister Blomberg and myself. We ate in
our quarters, and for the three days following the quarrel
on deck, Captain Nash vigilantly allowed his wife no freedom
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on this ship. I hope you'll understand that, however wrong,
her words to me lived in my mind, and they
grew so. When I was relieved of watch on the
fourth night following, I was very pleased to find her
waiting inside the open door to her quarters.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Mister Brad, Yes, I've been waiting for you. Won't you
come in?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Where's Captain Nash.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
In the chart room asleep? I knew he wouldn't watch
me forever?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What do you want?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Just to talk to someone who's young? Won't you sit down?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 10 (13:33):
There's no harm. I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That, all right, Laura, There's no harm.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Whether I'm married or not. I'm a woman am I not? Yes,
yes you are, and I deserve to have the company
that I like.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
M I brought.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
A bottle of wine.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I see that you have.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
I stole it when he wasn't looking, took a chance.
I thought it would be nice. Shall I open?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
If you like.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Here you are?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
You haven't been very nice to me.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I have hardly been able to be anything to you.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Then shall we drink too? How nice you can be?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
All right?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I drank my friend the bottle of wine, and when
I left her, I went into mister Blomberg's quarters and
stole what he had and took it to my own.
The warmth that I remembered in my middle body, the
courage I assumed, the eyes that weren't really mine, seeing things,
the false happiness, the excitement, the great proud feeling of
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self satisfaction, the elation, the slipping away from reality, and
the wondrous the pleasure of numbness, the peace, and the
luxury of knowing that when you went to bed you'd sleep.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
What is satisfice?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What? What's the matter? What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
There's murder?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What's as you say?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You've got to come up on the deck.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
The captain and his wife, mister Blomberg, they've all been murdered.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
They're dead.
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Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was eight bells midnight when I went into the
woman's quarters. Some time later when I left, I didn't
want a drink. But what could I do? Explain myself
by telling her about the last time, the fights, the
broken windows, the jail, and the other times I should have.
But considering the situation, I doubt any man would I
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remember leaving going to mister Blomberg's quarters than to my own.
But there after another while my memory stops. I have
lost an hour, my good friend, or perhaps two, until
mister Monks awoke me some minutes before four with a
gun in his hand.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
There's a murderer on board.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
He killed them all with an axent.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Mister Brad, what is the matter?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
What are you doing with that gun?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
None of us is safe. There's a murderer on board.
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Water first?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Yeah, you'll be drinking, mister brand Yes, yes, I have.
You'll have to sober up. You're in command.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I'm all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Where are they?
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Missus Nash is in her cabin.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
There. H What do you know of this?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
How did you learn?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Something woke me up? It was like a scream, but
I didn't know with all the sounds of the ship,
when was that, I can't be sure. I went to
sleep again. Then I woke up again.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
What woke you that time?
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I began to worry about the sound.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I'd heard the scream. I got up and went to
tell a captain about it.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
He was dead.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I was sure the sound meant something, and I came
to Missus Nash's cabin. Then I saw mister Blomberg's door
open and found him the same way.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
There's a maniac on board.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Come with me. We'll look at the others. We looked
in the quarters of the others and found no weapon.
And I'll state now that when I looked in my
locker for my gun, I also looked for bloodstains on
the clothes in there, and on the clothes I was
wearing as I'd slept, fully dressed, and I found none. Then,
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pursuing the actions of mister Munks and me, we awoke
the steward and went on deck. Wait, that's the axe.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
That's the one, that's the one that did it.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Get rid of it, mister Brown.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Throw it overboard.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
The fiend might use it on us next.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
No, mister Brown, we can't do that, sir. Throw it overboard.
That's the weapon. We've got to keep it by law.
We've got all.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Right, all right, we'll keep it up. It's Slice at
the wheel. We'll see what he knows?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
What is he? What's that?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Ex there's been murder aboard Slights.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
How long have you been at the wheel?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Two hours?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Who is he? Brown?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And can't we'll share your watch, don't they?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yes, sir, where are they forcer standing? Look at who's dead?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
The captain and his wife and mister Blomberg.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Have you seen anybody on deck? Slice, while you've been
at the wheel.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Only you, mister brand I didn't see nobody else.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I didn't remember. It's a frightful thing to have a
man say you were out on deck and not remember.
I tried to carry on without arousing suspicion, And this
is what I learned. That I had come out and
asked for mister Blomberg, and upon being told that he
was tending the fossil with two deckhands, I'd gone back inside,
and that then mister Blomberg had come aft and gone
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inside too, and that he'd never come out again. I
couldn't help feeling guilty, But on the other hand, I
couldn't help heeding my instinct to protect myself. For example,
at my earliest opportunity, when I was not seen, I
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took that axe and I threw it overboard. But that
was wrong. I acted in excitement and fear, and I'm
sorry now that I did. When dawn came, I ordered
the ship to come about and set her back toward bust.
Soon after this was done, the steward came to me.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
The crew wants me to talk to you, sir. Yes,
what about They all say they'll be afraid to go
to sleep tonight for fear of being murdered in their bunks.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
All right, all right, I'll have them all sleep on
deck where a watch can be kept over them. And
if you will, Spencer, you can tell them all to
come on deck in an hour for the funeral services.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Funeral services, sir, Yes, we can't put those people over
the side, sir, by law, We've got to take them back.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yes, yes, of course, Spencer. But it's not good to
have them on the ship. I mean to put them
in the longboat and toward a stern. I'll bring them
out and with Captain Nash bring his bible. It's open
on the table next to his cot.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
It is, Sir.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I don't know why I thought I knew where the
captain's bible was. I wasn't sure that I did know,
but I was afraid to ask Spencer. So once more,
on impulse and in fear, I acted. That night. I
went after the man at the wheel and ordered him
below to get my glass, telling him I'd seen a
light in the distance. When he was gone lashing the wheel,
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I turned with a knife to the line towing the
longboat to cut the bodies adrift and to finally destroy
the evidence.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
With Ram.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Leave off, Spencer. It's not good to have dead people
following along behind.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Leave Off?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
What's this for?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
For killing those people? Pull out there?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
No it was you, mister Bram. No, I didn't you
were with a wife last night drinking. Who says that,
mister Slice, Mister Blomberg told him.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That's no proof.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
You know where his bible worth their and that's nothing either.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
You relieve Slice at the wheel. And after that the
axe was missing, mister Brown, saw you throw it overboard?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I didn't kill them?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Then?
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Why were you cutting the longboat? Free mister Bram? Bram
confess and he's yourself, mister Brow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I won't confess. Nobody saw me kill them because I didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I didn't come along, mister Bram. What are you taking
me to lock you up?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
By law?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
We've got to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
They put me an eye on us, locked in my
own quarters, and here I have stayed. There have been
no more murders in the three days past, which does
not stand in favor of another killer being a board
and my being innocent. What I have written, my good friend,
is the whole truth. And I beg of you to
(25:06):
be my legal counsel when my case comes to trial,
as I'm sure it will. In my own mind, I
am not convinced that I'm guilty for one reason that.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
However violent I've been, I have never killed before, before, never.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Killed before. If I could only remember, if I could
just remember White tri Te.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Whit truth Tye, Why.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Why can't I remember?
Speaker 9 (26:03):
As the passenger aboard the Fuller, I was called along
with the crew to testify in both of mister Bram's trials,
and each time I stayed to hear him pronounced guilty
by two separate courts of law of a crime, he
steadfastly swore that he did not remember committing.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Sal spens A true story presented by Auto Light Tonight
star mister Richard Whitmark. And here he is, once again,
our star, Richard Mark. It's always good to have you aboard, Dick.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Thank you, Harlo. I sort of feel like one of
the family since this is my fourth appearance on Suspense
this season.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Now you are a member of the family, Dick, the
Autolite family, which includes ninety eight thousand auto light distributors
and dealers in the United States, nearly thirty thousand men
and women in twenty eight great Autolite plants from coast
to coast, and the eighteen thousand people who have invested
a portion of their savings in Autolite.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's a big family, Harlow, and I'm proud to be included.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Now we're all proud to be members of the Autolite family,
Dick because auto LIGHTE serves the greatest names in the
industry and every auto Light product is backed by constant
research and precisions, built of the highest standards of quality
and performance. So remember, from bumper to tail light, You're
always right with Autolite. Next week, dramatic recreation of a
(28:01):
race five brave men made with death, a true story
based on the writings of one of those men. Our
star will be mister Herbert Marshall. The story is called
The Diary of Captain Scott, presented next week on.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Sal Suspence.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Gluskin. Mate
Bram was written for Suspense by gildowd. Featured in the
cast were Joan Banks, Joseph Kerns, Ben Wright, Lou Merrill,
Steve Roberts, Roy Glenn and Robert North. Richard Widmark appeared
(28:50):
through the courtesy of twentieth Century Fox producers of the
technical or musical with A Song in My Heart starring
Susan Hayward and Remember. Next week on Suspense, Mister Herbert
Marshall in the Diary of Captain Scott.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
You can buy auto lighted electrical parts, autolized staple batteries,
autolized standard or resist type spark plugs at your neighborhood.
Auto light dealers switch to autolight.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Good night.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
This is the CBS Radio network.
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