Murder on the Campus (1934)

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0:58 Hello, Bill.
0:59 Evening, Mikey.
1:02 How's the newspaper racket?
1:04 No.
1:06 How's the poker racket?
1:08 Rotten.
1:11 Care for a drink?
1:13 I'm not much for drinking when I'm working.
1:17 You know, we don't care much about publicity here.
1:19 You didn't worry.
1:21 I'm not offering you any.
1:23 Where's Lillian?
1:25 Why? I want to see it.
1:29 Say, what's the matter with you?
1:30 There's no law against me seeing you, is there?
1:35 Certainly not.
1:37 She's got a chemistry examination tomorrow. She's studying for it.
1:41 How long do we keep her for a few minutes? Is she in one of the back room?
1:44 Yeah.
1:46 Second door to the right.

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1:50 Say, are you trouble with indigestion?
1:55 No.
1:58 One of the best ways to do that.
2:18 Hello, Bill.
2:19 Come in.
2:22 I'm a little sweetheart.
2:23 I don't know. Have you got one? You bet. One of the best.
2:26 She's looking very beautiful.
2:29 Say, Lily, what's the matter with Blackie?
2:32 Why?
2:34 I don't know. He acted very hostile when I told him I wanted to see you.
2:37 Perhaps it's your imagination.
2:41 Listen, precious.
2:43 I'm doping up a story about college girls working their way through school.
2:47 I found one who sells magazines.
2:49 And I was thinking I'd like to use Miss Lillian Vaughn.
2:52 working her way through college by singing in a nightclub.
2:57 Sorry, Bill. It's out.
2:59 What?
2:59 Well, for one thing, I have a lot of friends at college.
3:02 Some of them know I sing here and some of them don't.
3:04 Well, I won't mention the Lido.
3:06 But you'll have to mention my name.
3:08 Oh, I'd have to do that, and I'd have to have a picture.
3:11 You take a blame, sweet picture, you know that.
3:13 Laddery won't get you anywhere, Bill.
3:15 I'd rather you wouldn't say anything about it.
3:18 Pesace wait.
3:19 Is anything wrong?
3:20 Why, of course not, Bill.
3:22 I don't believe you. You talk too fast, lady.
3:24 Is black even annoying you.
3:26 Blackie's one of my very best friends.
3:28 You might take better. He's nothing but a tin horn gambler.
3:31 I told you one of my best friends didn't I I'm sorry.
3:36 I wish there was something I could do for you. You can. Drive me over to the campus.
3:39 All right, I'll get my hat coat.
3:42 Keep me outside.
3:45 In a hurry? Yes, I'd like to be there by 9.15. Be there at 9.00. Are you meeting someone? Yes. Malcolm Janning? Uh-huh. Pick out the rummiest friend. What's the matter with Mal? Oh, he's no good. You brought him all the way out here from Minnesota for the track team. They got him a soft job bringing the chimes and the campanile, and what's he done? He's out every night, gambling. Don't you think you said enough against my friends?
4:15 down. I could drive you over the camp and nearly with another campus gates are closed after nine o'clock.
4:30 Want me to wait for you here, Charlie? No.
4:32 foolish question.
4:34 Well, I'm going over to the daily office for a little while.
4:40 Listen, I'll be glad to drive you back to Lido if you want. No, I won't bother you anymore.
4:45 I'll sit here until about 9:15 and then I'll walk over.
4:48 Wow.
4:49 - You're a good girl. - I'll do my best, darling.
5:35 Oh, my God.
5:43 Hey, you stay away from that door. What happened, boss? How shall I know? Well, there was a shot.
5:52 So I heard. Well, somebody ought to call the police.
5:55 The police have been called. How could they? It just happened.
6:12 Well, well, Bill. Where'd you come from? I didn't come from any place. I was here. What's the lowdown? Well, the chimes stopped ringing all of a sudden. There was a silence and then a shock.
6:21 From the tower? Yes.
6:22 You were right here, not 20 feet away.
6:24 And no one came down? Not a soul. The elevator's done this.
6:27 This door here to the stairs hasn't been opened.
6:30 Mags, run over to the office, superintendent. Get the key. Right.
6:33 You're sure no one came down? Absolutely. Whoever's up there must still be there. There's no other way down.
6:38 Anyone know who plays the chimes?
6:39 Yeah, a man named Malcolm Jennings. You know, the sprinter.
6:42 Oh, I heard him. Not much good was he.
6:44 He couldn't run an errand. Wait a minute, Dad. I'll be right back.
6:47 I know what kids around it.
6:50 This is sweet when you know about this. Not a thing Bill. What did you do when I left you. I stayed in the car for about five minutes.
6:56 Then I started to walk over here.
6:57 Did you hear that shot?
6:58 Of course I did. Any suspicions? No.
7:00 Could I go up to the police? Oh, you're a crazy girl. I'm not. I want to go.
7:04 If anything is happening there, I don't know what I'll do. You think a lot of that guy, don't you?
7:10 Now, listen, if you've got any brains that pretty little head of yours, you'll stay out of this. It's a police case, and you don't want to get mixed up in it, do you? Of course I don't, but...
7:16 Never mind no but about it. You stay out.
7:19 Well, here comes Megs with the keys.
7:20 I'm going up with him now. Stay right here. I'll be right there.
7:24 Why that? One second.
7:26 All right, Mags, you and Alice stay here and keep the crowd back.
7:30 Don't let anybody in or out. Get it?
7:32 Yes, sir. All right, come on, Alarmor. Bill, if you want to, come on.
8:04 Just a plain case of suicide.
8:06 Sure.
8:07 But where's the gun?
8:10 Right to the left temple.
8:12 Looks like a 32.
8:17 Say.
8:19 Ever see him play baseball or tennis? Oh, I guess you.
8:21 He was right-handed.
8:30 No powder burns. Plain case of murder.
8:35 Those buildings aren't anywhere near tall enough to reach over this balustrade with a rifle.
8:40 Those hills are high enough, but they're too far away.
8:44 And the guy that did it must be somewhere about.
8:47 You swear nobody came down.
8:49 We didn't meet anybody coming up.
8:52 He's either up in there or hiding in the elevator shaft.
8:55 A hiding place, the belfry is out.
8:58 Maybe he had a parachute.
9:00 He could drop over the side of this rail here.
9:02 Sure, nobody's seen.
9:04 None.
9:05 Well, baby, use the rope.
9:06 Well, if he did, where is it?
9:09 You suppose he can get up on the roof of the tower?
9:12 Yeah, he might have a guy. I'm a careful.
9:17 How about the elevator chair?
9:18 No way left there. We won't find another one.
9:21 I suppose he could go.
9:23 Guy couldn't come up here and map this bird over and...
9:25 Just vanishing the thin air.
9:27 I don't get it.
9:28 That's all.
9:29 I don't get it.
9:32 Who do you suppose did it, Chief? I don't care who did it now.
9:36 Show me how he did it and I'll tell you who did it. Well, it's just very possible.
9:39 That's all.
9:40 If you say it's possible.
9:52 Captain.
9:54 This man there runs the elevator. He lived near here, he heard the shot and he came right over.
9:59 We take Jannings up on top tonight?
10:00 No, sir. I make my last trip at 8 o'clock. He always walks.
10:05 Who'd you pick up on your last trip?
10:07 Uh...
10:08 Two ladies and a man.
10:10 Hey, Bill, give us the load on, will you? Yeah, Bill. Ask Lama. He's got all the dope.
10:14 Let's go on!
10:19 - Bad news, Lily. - Is he dead?
10:21 Yeah, shot through the temple.
10:22 Who killed him, Bill?
10:24 All I know is he was murdered. Whoever did it got away. Got away? Why, that's impossible.
10:28 Nobody left there after the shot.
10:30 Be here, Lillian.
10:31 You know more about this than your passing out. What makes you say that?
10:34 I don't know, ever since I stepped in the club tonight...
10:37 The way Blackie acted, your nervousness, the whole business. I just knew something was going to happen. If you knew something was going to happen, you knew more than I did.
10:44 Pretty cool, aren't you? Is there any reason why I shouldn't be? All right, all right. Let it go at that.
10:54 Anything wrong, Bill? Oh, nothing connected with the case.
10:56 Where to now? Delicai House.
11:00 I'm going to go.
11:05 Mm-hmm.
11:07 What's wrong with you fellas in charge?
11:09 Well?
11:11 I suppose you could say I'm in charge.
11:12 I'm house manager. You're the man I want to see. Come on inside.
11:15 Roger, stay up. Hey, what's up? All those trouble not holding on.
11:24 Hear anything about what happened to Captain Ellis, right? Yes.
11:27 One of the brothers called up.
11:29 Who killed him, Captain?
11:30 I'm not offering an opinion yet.
11:43 I suppose...
11:44 You tell me
11:46 What do you know about Jan?
11:47 Well...
11:48 One of our alumni suggested we urge Janice to come here.
11:51 Find him a job and all that.
11:54 while Jennings arrives.
11:56 We got him a job as a Time Master.
11:58 He had a fair knowledge of music.
12:00 Well, anyway, he went out for track.
12:02 proved a big disappointment. Yes yes let's get to the man himself.
12:06 Well, he was a likeable chap. Good mixer, good company.
12:09 But he hadn't any...
12:10 Well, he lacked the cultural background a college man should have.
12:15 In your opinion, had he ever been to college before,
12:17 I don't think he's had more than two years of high school.
12:20 Any parents, relatives?
12:22 He never mentioned any.
12:24 Thank you very much.
12:25 Quite a bit.
12:26 Very often he stayed away all night.
12:29 Who were his friends?
12:30 I haven't any idea.
12:32 How about girls?
12:33 I don't believe he was greatly interested in women.
12:36 When did you have your last house party?
12:38 About 10 days ago.
12:41 Who'd he bring?
12:44 Come on, come on, you're wasting time, I want to know.
12:47 She bought Ann Michaels.
12:49 Oh.
12:50 Did you rush very much?
12:51 Yes, quite a bit.
12:53 What kind of a girl is she?
12:55 She's a very charming young lady.
12:58 Where'd she live?
12:59 Number 12, Addison Way.
13:01 Sorority house, huh? No.
13:03 Does she blonde her sorority? No.
13:05 Why not?
13:06 Perhaps you'd better ask her.
13:07 Oh.
13:09 Don't worry, my boy.
13:11 I will.
13:13 Baltimore.
13:14 See that he doesn't get to a telephone. I want to surprise him.
13:17 OK, Chief.
13:18 I got you.
13:19 Come on, Nelspah.
13:29 What did you think about this fellow Wilson?
13:32 I gather the head of the mouth of Johnny's worse than poison, for one thing.
13:35 You got a crush on Ann Michaels for another, that's not...
13:38 Money.
13:41 - Michael?
13:42 I'm Captain Kine of the police department.
13:44 Mr. Barton with the Times Star.
13:46 How are you doing?
13:47 I'd like to talk to you a minute.
13:49 Please come in.
14:00 Nice place you have here, Michael.
14:05 Why don't you live in one of the sorority houses?
14:09 because I prefer to live alone.
14:11 Oh.
14:15 Don't you think you had...
14:16 Better tell me the purpose of your visit.
14:18 Mal Jennings was murdered about an hour ago.
14:21 Murdered?
14:22 Bad?
14:25 Which column?
14:26 Friend of yours, Lottie.
14:29 Yes.
14:30 Turn out to dances with them.
14:33 Just once or twice.
14:35 Ever jealous of him?
14:37 I think you're making a mistake in our relations, Captain.
14:42 Mal was no more to me than a dozen other men.
14:47 Tell me this.
14:49 When did your first learning been killed?
14:52 Just tell me yourself.
14:53 I said, when did you first learn he'd been killed?
14:56 When you told me
14:57 You took it pretty cool, didn't you?
14:59 What did you expect me to do, go in hysterics or something?
15:02 Miss Michaels, where were you this evening?
15:04 particularly around nine o'clock.
15:08 I had an 8:00 seminar in English tonight in Baltic Hall.
15:13 I guess I left there about two minutes to nine and...
15:16 I have one beneath Haly. Dr. Seattson, Haly.
15:19 Yes, I have a class in chemistry, Little.
15:22 We walked out the west gate together
15:25 The car was parked there, so...
15:27 You drove me home.
15:29 You could enter Dr. Hawley's car...
15:30 about six or seven minutes after nine.
15:33 Yes.
15:34 Drive straight home.
15:36 The clock on the table there said exactly 20 minutes after 9 when I came in.
15:47 Clock keeps pretty good time.
15:52 Can Dr. Hawley come up to your apartment with you?
15:55 Certainly not.
15:56 How long to talk out front?
15:58 merely thanked him and came upstairs.
16:02 Of course you realize, Miss Michaels.
16:04 But if you know anything...
16:05 Now is the time to spill it.
16:07 I told you, Captain, I know nothing.
16:17 Very well.
16:28 Don't tell me she don't know something.
16:30 And how do you figure that swell apart?
16:33 Well, maybe she has money.
16:34 There's no law against it.
16:35 And that meeting with Holly. Oh yeah I'd love to get something on that bird.
16:39 I forgot my hat.
16:41 Wait for me in the car, will you?
16:42 Sure.
16:43 I'm going over to the faculty club. You want to trade along? Oh, I'll only be a minute.
16:48 Oh, I'm sorry to bother you. I left my hat.
16:50 I'll get it for you.
16:52 I said I'd get it for you. I'll get it myself.
16:57 Do you realize you forced your way into my apartment? I'll talk about what you want.
17:04 Well, it didn't take you long to get here, did it?
17:06 I wish you'd mind your own business, Bill. Perhaps this is my business.
17:10 You've no right to drag me into this mess.
17:13 You're already in it, Lilian.
17:15 That's not true, Bill.
17:17 All right, I'm wrong.
17:18 Wouldn't be the first time.
17:19 Anyway, I want to see you later.
17:21 Why, dear, babe?
17:23 I may be home, I may be at the club.
17:26 You can look for me.
17:29 All right.
17:30 I'll find it.
17:42 A most unpleasant business, isn't it?
17:44 There must have been dozens of people around the company when it happened.
17:47 I was there myself.
17:48 No one came out of the tower. Lucky boy.
17:52 The paper says that Jannings couldn't have killed him.
17:54 Did you happen to know him, Dr. Harley?
17:57 He was in my class in chemistry.
17:59 A poor student.
18:00 I was about ready to drop him.
18:02 Miss Ann Michaels in the class too.
18:04 Here, Captain.
18:05 Surely you're not intimating that Mrs. Michaels is involved in this?
18:08 Just talk with us, Ann Michaels.
18:11 I'll bet my star she.
18:12 Hold out on me.
18:14 Miss Michaels did know Jenny.
18:16 And I believe went out with him now and then.
18:18 But as far as our being in any way
18:20 either willingly or inadvertently involved in the murder of White.
18:23 service.
18:24 Say, you seem to think a lot of this, Ann Michaels.
18:27 You're ready to take great deal for granted, Mr. Kyle.
18:30 I suppose Miss Michaels told you that I drove her home.
18:32 Yes.
18:33 I did drive a home.
18:35 But if you assume that my meeting with her was anything but accidental, you're wrong.
18:38 Mr. Michaels means no more to me than any other girls in my class.
18:43 Anything else, Captain?
18:45 No.
18:47 I just want to know where she was when Jenny was shot.
18:50 We drove to her home slowly.
18:52 I dare say any number of witnesses could be found at the source.
18:55 That's not necessary.
18:57 Not now, anyhow.
19:05 Having built?
19:06 Oh, my car is only a block from here.
19:08 I might as well pick it up while I'm out this way.
19:13 Thank you, Doctor.
19:14 Good night.
19:18 Captain's a bit worked up, isn't he, Bill?
19:20 Well, who wouldn't be?
19:23 First, an impossible murder.
19:25 And second, how'd he get away?
19:27 I'm not good at guessing.
19:29 You'd like to tackle this case, wouldn't you, Dr. Holley?
19:31 Frankly, yes.
19:32 Well, why don't you?
19:33 I haven't been asked to.
19:34 Is that necessary?
19:36 I have no more right to investigate this affair than any other pilot.
19:39 Oh, but you're a well-known criminologist.
19:41 personally interested bill
19:44 professionally interested
19:46 Well, when the time comes when you can prove to me that Captain Kine is bungling things,
19:50 Perhaps I shall take it.
19:52 It might not be long.
19:54 Night.
19:55 Good night.
20:00 Hello, William.
20:08 Let me get.
20:09 You know you can trust me, don't you?
20:12 I think so.
20:14 You know you can.
20:16 You know I'm all for you, too, don't you?
20:19 Yes.
20:22 Come here.
20:25 I'm crazy about you.
20:38 Dirty shame to interrupt you like this, Bill.
20:42 Oh, what a swell friend you turned out to be. Oh, listen, darling, I didn't have any... Oh, Karen Baker, Baker...
20:47 You know where you can go?
20:48 I want to ask the young lady some questions. And while I'm asking them, I want you to keep your traps shut. I may or may not. What do you think of that? I may bust you on the jaw. You'll think twice before you do.
20:57 You want me to put the pressure on him, Chief?
21:00 Now go ahead and search the apartment.
21:04 Now you two sit down. I want to ask some questions.
21:06 I want to quarry with you, Bill.
21:08 Give me a good turn tonight. I don't care.
21:11 No, I wouldn't.
21:13 You don't have to be so upstate, Mr. Moyne. Oh, come on, Ed. Quit stalling and get to the point.
21:18 I will.
21:20 When you left the club after talking to Holly,
21:22 I put a tail on you.
21:24 On me?
21:25 Yes.
21:27 Going back to that hat didn't fool me, any of you.
21:30 Ha ha!
21:32 I don't blame you for being burned up.
21:34 Why should you want me to help?
21:36 Because you knew something about this case that I didn't.
21:40 Read this.
21:50 Found it in Janik's pocket a while ago.
21:54 I suppose you've decided who wrote it.
21:56 When I found that note, I hadn't the slightest idea who Lillian was.
22:00 But when you visit here,
22:02 I put two and two together.
22:04 and
22:05 Nice reasoning for a flatwood, eh, Bill?
22:07 Beautiful time beautiful, but how do you know this Williams the one that wrote that note? I
22:21 Wanna see?
22:22 I'm not a handwriting expert, and I'm sure you're not.
22:26 i don't think you have a nice part of that three of my
22:29 You're asking if I wrote that note.
22:31 The answer is yes.
22:37 Now,
22:39 Want to sit down and talk to me a while?
22:41 I don't want to.
22:43 - I shall have to. - You don't have to say a word, Lily.
22:46 Suppose, Miss Boyne, you tell me exactly what your relations were with this man.
22:50 - Relations. - I didn't mean that.
22:52 Just how well do you know, Maritain?
22:55 He's a casual friend.
22:56 You're accustomed to writing notes like this to casual friends?
23:00 If I wanted to see a man, I'd be very likely to write and ask him to meet me.
23:04 What do you want to say about it?
23:05 That's my business.
23:07 I don't know don't get anywhere.
23:09 What makes you think I want to get anywhere? Don't you want to get out from under suspicion?
23:13 Are you telling me that I'm suspected of murdering Mal Jannings? Right.
23:21 Miss Vaughan.
23:22 Where were you at 9 o'clock tonight?
23:24 Lie to him if you want to, darling. I'll back you up.
23:27 I was in the middle of the car, but I'll tell you.
23:30 You know Sheriff Aitle-Jarnings?
23:32 Yes, I knew that.
23:33 Funny failure didn't tell me anything about it.
23:36 Miss Boyd?
23:37 Where were you immediately after 9 o'clock?
23:39 I sat in the car until a few minutes after nine.
23:42 I walked around the block and...
23:44 We're going to the cavernilles.
23:46 I was there when I heard he shot.
23:48 Where would Bill?
23:50 We have to ask you.
23:52 Where were you, Bill?
23:54 Where do you suppose I was? I was at the top of the Campanile Act.
23:57 I used a .32 caliber revolver.
23:59 The motive was jealousy.
24:00 After committing the crime, I jumped over the side and landed in a fireman's net.
24:04 Anything else you want to know?
24:06 I still want to know where you are at ten minutes after nine.
24:10 I left Lillian in the car at 9 o'clock.
24:12 i walked over the campus daily they've got a while the office and then i started back
24:20 You want the cottages, Captain? The other four chambers are loaded. Well, well, where'd you find it?
24:25 Suffering in the dressing room.
24:26 The bottom drawer underneath a pile of underwear.
24:29 32 caliber.
24:30 Same kind of a gun Jannings was killed with.
24:32 You don't know that gun was the one that killed Jannings? Oh, we'll find out.
24:36 As soon as a bullet fired from this gun is compared with one taken from the body.
24:39 Advoi him.
24:41 Is this your gun?
24:42 Yes.
24:43 When did you fire it last?
24:45 I've never fired him.
24:46 That gun was given to me.
24:48 I put it in my drawer and I never touched it again.
24:52 Was the polylord when it was given to you?
24:54 I have every reason to believe that it was.
24:57 Who gave it to you?
24:58 My father.
24:59 Why?
25:01 My home's in Nevada.
25:02 My father...
25:03 a rancher
25:04 was a bit worried about my being alone here without any protection.
25:07 That was his idea of protection.
25:09 I don't even know how to fire it.
25:12 You say you're brought up on a ranch? Yes.
25:14 And you'll never even learn how to fire a six-shooter?
25:17 No.
25:18 I've never learned anything about any kind of a gun.
25:22 Well, that'll be what I offer tonight.
25:24 Let me warn you.
25:26 Don't try and leave the city.
25:33 - Question, darling.
25:38 All right.
25:48 No hard feelings, huh, Bill?
25:51 No.
26:05 Well, I guess I'll go home. I've got a headache. If you went home an hour ago, you wouldn't have a headache. I'll go jump in the lake. I'll see you in the morning. All right. All right.
26:41 Now, we'll call it off. We can't see it. Somebody had to be there to do the shooting.
26:49 Or did they, Bill? Absolutely. Someone was there and shot him.
26:53 How'd he get away, then? Well, he couldn't have got away. Oh, you think he's still there, eh? Oh, he couldn't still be there.
26:59 All right, go ahead and call me crazy. I've plenty of company on the police force. But Dr. Hawley isn't going to handle the case, is he? Not unless he gets someone to retain him.
27:06 That's good stuff about that boring girl.
27:09 That gun.
27:11 Probably no connection with the case. Did you meet her?
27:14 Yes.
27:15 Good looking.
27:16 This one.
27:17 Listen, Grimes.
27:19 I want to be taken off the police beat and devote all my time to this case. All right, Bill. The keys, the city are yours.
27:24 - Good luck. - Bye.
27:27 Hey, Spock. I want to give you a phone number.
27:32 I'll be there about an hour. If anything breaks on a Jannings case, give me a ring, will ya? Okay! Hey, and keep that number under your hat. Right.
27:40 - Oh, God.
27:45 That mine.
27:46 - Did I get you up? - Oh, I've been up for some time.
27:49 May I come in?
27:50 If you wish.
27:51 Doesn't seem to be any law against men crashing into my apartment.
27:56 You know, if you're gonna keep on treating me like a heel...
27:58 Maybe you'll tell me why.
28:01 Oh, listen, Lillian, break down. Please don't try to make love for me, Bill. Who the Diggins is trying to make love?
28:06 All I want you to do is act human.
28:09 How did you know I was at Anne's?
28:11 I saw your purse on the table and I came back to make sure.
28:14 What difference does it make if I was there and a very dear friend of mine?
28:17 And I suppose your visit had nothing to do with what happened earlier in the evening.
28:22 You did talk about Mal Jannings, if that's what you mean.
28:24 Lou Anne what about that gun. Bill you know just as much about it as I do.
28:28 I told Mr. Kyn all there is to tell about it.
28:30 Is there a chance it was used last night?
28:32 Are you here for an interview for your paper, or did you come hoping I confess to the murder?
28:36 Listen, you crazy little fool. This is serious. It's gone far enough. I want to help you. I don't need your help.
28:43 Hello?
28:44 Yes.
28:46 Just a minute.
28:48 for you, Bill.
28:50 I was pretty sure I let you in, weren't you?
28:52 A little bit.
28:53 Hello? Say, Bill, there's been another murder.
28:55 What?
28:56 Another murder?
28:58 Who?
28:58 Don't know the call just came in.
29:00 201 Bell building.
29:02 You want me to go over there? No, no, stay where you are. I'm on my way.
29:06 - Phil, who? - I don't know, Lillian.
29:08 I've got to run. Bill! Bill!
29:38 *whistling*
29:40 I suppose you are from the police?
29:46 Well?
29:48 Who's the gentleman on the floor?
29:51 Are you a policeman?
29:53 No, no, I'm from the Times Star.
29:55 Oh.
29:56 Well, I have nothing to say until the police arrive.
30:01 Well, you better start talking, lady. Here they are.
30:12 I suppose you haven't been strolling by this time, huh?
30:15 Something like that.
30:17 Here's who's
30:17 Mark.
30:20 Well, I was only four blocks from here when Spud gave me the call.
30:23 Is it my fault I got here ahead of you?
30:28 Who are they?
30:29 Mr. James Smythe.
30:32 Who are you?
30:34 Miss Hilda Lund.
30:35 Secretary to Mr. Smythe and Mr. Brock.
30:42 Boy, you tell us all about it.
30:43 Well, I opened the office as usual, then I came in here.
30:47 I came upon the body of Mr. Smyth. I knew at once he was dead.
30:50 I immediately telephoned the police and I haven't touched anything.
30:53 See anything of a gun?
30:55 I saw nothing except what's before you right now.
31:00 Not suicide.
31:02 Looks to me like he was shot with a .32, same as the other fella.
31:05 Bullets were in the left, came out behind the right ear.
31:08 Jay.
31:28 32, all right.
31:30 Might get the corner, fellas.
31:35 That's land.
31:37 You mind stopping the other room? I have a few questions.
31:47 It's wonderful.
31:48 Any idea who killed your employer? Yes.
31:51 Who?
31:52 by a gambler named
31:54 Blackie aphora.
31:57 Larimer?
31:59 Find out when Smythe was last seen alive.
32:02 Get the elevator operator.
32:03 Scrab woman.
32:05 Tenant on this floor.
32:06 Clark's in the candy shop on the ground floor.
32:09 Get all the information you can.
32:12 Say, Chief, about to stop with. I know that word. He hangs out at the Lido where I can... Have a mind to what I told you.
32:17 Yes.
32:24 Sit down.
32:30 Nice one.
32:31 Perhaps you can tell me why you suspect this man.
32:34 Atwater of killing Mr. Smyne. I heard him threaten to kill him if he didn't
32:39 Well, that was all that I heard.
32:41 What was all that you heard?
32:42 Just what I told you.
32:44 Miss Atwater came to the office the day before yesterday, and she was very angry when I told him Mr. Smythe was busy.
32:50 snapped at me in a most ungentlemanly way.
32:51 I'm snapping, huh?
32:53 Yeah.
32:54 Anyway, when...
32:55 Miss Pike was...
32:56 Breathe.
32:57 ...and he went in.
32:59 I went to the door and listened.
33:01 Yes.
33:02 I heard him say, "Why you dirty?"
33:04 I can't repeat what I heard. Didn't necessary. What are they quenning about?
33:08 Well, I don't know. I didn't hear enough of the conversation. Come, come. I want to know.
33:12 What was it gambling debts perhaps?
33:16 I don't know.
33:19 Where'd he live?
33:20 The Bellevue Hotel, just around the block.
33:22 The coroner will be here in a few minutes to take the body.
33:26 You better look through your files. Let me know if anything is missing.
33:29 Oh, yes.
33:31 Where is his partner, Mr. Brock?
33:33 Mr. Smyth received a telegram from Mr. Buck yesterday morning, saying that he'd be in this morning on the Statesman. He'd like to have a car at the station immediately.
33:41 10:20 now. That gives me 15 minutes.
33:43 Mind if I go with you?
33:45 Meet Brock again.
33:46 Sit yourself.
33:50 Amen.
33:51 How much do you think he held out on you?
33:53 Finally.
34:01 Mr. Brock. Yes, sir.
34:02 Keep it somewhere in the town and they won't ask you some more questions.
34:05 Yes, sir.
34:17 Get everything out of here.
34:19 As far as I can learn, he knew nothing about the murderers.
34:21 Oh, come on, you got something. Come on, kick in, Ed. What do you got?
34:24 Establish the near tight alibi.
34:27 Stayed in the washroom all night, train sick.
34:29 Conductor and Porter both swear to a story.
34:31 Don't you think he deliberately manufactured that alibi? No.
34:35 What do you know about the reputation of these guys?
34:38 Oh cheap little sizes. They'll take anything from bootleggers to shitty divorces.
34:42 You know, that sort of thing.
34:48 Send them in.
34:53 Come in, Wilson.
34:57 Captain, I've learned something you'd like to know.
35:00 Right, sure.
35:01 Well, two of my fraternity brothers.
35:03 who wish to keep their identity as secret as possible,
35:05 They're in training.
35:07 We're out with Mal Jannings Thursday night.
35:09 Now you're gonna tell me these two men heard Jannings quarreling with a certain party, right?
35:13 - How did you know? - Guessed it.
35:15 And a certain party is a gambler named Blacky Atwater.
35:18 Yes.
35:19 I believe this Blackie threatened Janning's life. Exactly.
35:22 Thanks very much. Anything else?
35:24 No.
35:25 That's all.
35:31 - Are you going to pick up that water? - I've already given the order. - That for publication? - Yes.
35:35 For obvious reasons, keep it yourself, will you?
35:37 Hey, Chief, I've just been over-talking to the night clerk over Smyth's Hotel. He tells me that Smyth's received a phone call in about 10 minutes to 12.
35:43 And the quake have nothing to do, I sort of listen in well. What do you hear?
35:46 Well, he heard a party asked Mike to come over his office right away.
35:48 That I couldn't wait until morning.
35:50 The party that called give any name?
35:52 I thought it was a woman.
35:53 It was Lillian Vaughn.
35:55 Well, well.
35:56 Hmm.
35:57 Did Smiles leave right away? Well, he left a few minutes after 12:00.
36:01 Oh the car and I sent that over but they took it out of Germany.
36:06 Jay for Jannings, huh?
36:07 Yeah.
36:10 S for "Smith" and B for "Voyne."
36:13 Shot this one into a bucket of sand out of the gun we found in her apartment.
36:17 Here, Ed, you're all wrong.
36:19 That call came to Smythe around 12 o'clock.
36:21 And at 12 exactly, I was walking up the steps to Lillian's apartment.
36:24 And I stayed there until you two guys came busting in.
36:26 Sure you haven't set your watch since last night? What I've just told you I'd swear to on any witness stand.
36:31 Don't doubt your word, Bill.
36:32 But that guy that gun was in her apartment from 12 until you took it away with you
36:36 And Smythe couldn't have been killed with that gun. Absolutely impossible.
36:40 All right, Bill. We'll see.
36:42 Wait till we photograph these slugs.
36:44 Come in.
36:47 Hey, Bill, the office wants you on the phone.
36:50 - Do you mind if I use your phone, Hector? - Go ahead.
36:53 No, no.
36:54 Listen, I got him on the booth out here.
36:57 Better take it in the boat, Bill.
37:14 Hello, thought you'd like to know that I'm investigating the Jannings case.
37:17 Well, I'm glad you've thrown your hat in the ring at last. President of the university threw it in for me.
37:22 Bill, you know how I stand with the police.
37:24 The public won't cooperate with him.
37:26 I'm a little late in getting started, and I'd like to ask you a few questions.
37:29 Glad to help you. I'll be right over, Doctor.
37:38 What kind of Larmagol?
37:39 One of the dicks just brought in Smythe and Jannings fingerprints and they're in there checking them now.
37:44 Kynes got a hunch that one of them may be an ex-con or something.
37:51 This is fine.
37:53 You see kind take anything out of that top drawer. He never even touched it.
37:59 You can't do that.
38:00 No? Watch me.
38:02 She built Captain Pranel's freezer for this.
38:06 Where did you get those bullets?
38:09 Stolen.
38:11 Stole them?
38:12 You must be crazy.
38:14 Those bullets of reverence.
38:15 the most important kind.
38:18 If you get caught it might mean a term in prison.
38:20 Yeah, I know that.
38:22 But I had to find out if they were all fired from the same gun.
38:25 We'll know that just as soon as I can check the writing.
38:31 He's old man's wild. What are you going to do about it? Does he know who got him?
38:35 Well, he has suspicions and he's not a bit backward about voicing them either.
38:38 Well, it's nothing to do but beard the lion and his well-known death.
38:42 Come on, give me more all support, will you? Not me, fellas.
38:45 but the boys I I fight I'll tell you I
38:49 Talking.
38:52 Oh, it's you, huh? In the flesh, not a picture.
38:55 Anything new, Ed? Yeah. In about two minutes there's gonna be a new murder.
38:58 Maybe I'd better call me off.
38:59 That's enough kidding. Where are those slugs? What slugs? You don't know what slugs. Where are they?
39:03 Well, the last time I saw them, you put them in the top drawer.
39:10 Well, here they are, right under these papers. This way you left them.
39:14 Better put him in the safe.
39:16 Think you're smart, don't you?
39:18 I don't know what you're driving at.
39:20 I had a hunch these slugs would check.
39:23 They don't.
39:25 I know you switched them on. You know very well Smythe couldn't have been killed with that gun while it was in Lillian's apartment.
39:30 You got a crush on this girl.
39:32 And you'd swear your life away to protect her, wouldn't you?
39:37 More than a crush, Ed.
39:41 in love with it.
39:42 Huh?
39:47 Where'd you take those slugs when you took them out?
39:49 Dr. Hawley.
39:50 The check?
39:51 Yes. All three of them?
39:55 I have to bring her in.
39:57 Sorry, Bill.
40:01 You're taking this pretty much to heart, Bill. Who wouldn't? Don't jump at conclusions.
40:07 The girl probably had nothing to do with the actual killing. Certainly she had nothing to do with the actual killing. She's mixed up in it, Bill. Oh, what's the use? There's nothing logical about the whole case.
40:16 Not much, I'll admit. And you'll have a sweet time getting a conviction without more evidence than you've got now.
40:21 Let me tell you something.
40:23 I'll have a lot more evidence than I've got now before I even try for an indictment.
40:27 You'll need it.
40:30 Have to excuse me now, Bill. I've got some work to do.
40:35 Wait on.
40:37 He's home, I'm going to say.
40:39 Better tell her not to take a run out powder.
40:42 She wouldn't even if I asked her to.
40:52 Come in, Bill.
40:59 Hello.
41:01 Oh, hello.
41:07 I was looking today.
41:09 Right now.
41:10 Any new murders this afternoon?
41:11 Not a murder.
41:13 They'd be able to fix something up for you tonight.
41:24 Maybe new bill?
41:27 Dr. Hawley started an investigation.
41:30 Anything else?
41:32 Yes.
41:33 Black gun.
41:35 Monument.
41:37 What about it?
41:38 It was used to kill both Jannings and Smythe.
41:41 How do they know?
41:43 They compared a bullet from your gun with the others.
41:46 - There must be some mistake. - No, no mistake possible. The grooves on the slugs checked.
41:54 Want some more?
41:56 Yes, go on.
41:57 Police are looking for Black Yat Water.
41:59 No.
42:01 They can't. Why not? Not Blackie. Be quiet, Ann. Why not, Blackie? That's enough, Bill. What do you mean, that's enough? If I want to ask her questions, that's my business. And don't get the idea you can stop me. What do you mean by that? Well, I will stop you. Oh, dry up, will you, Lell? I'm not taking orders from you.
42:15 What's that?
42:16 I guess there's someone at the door.
42:23 Hello, Lillian.
42:24 Here I come in.
42:26 Yeah.
42:31 I am.
42:32 You little fool, get out of here.
42:35 Go on, get out!
42:37 Take a taxi. Go home and stay there.
42:48 I'd like a drink, Lillian.
42:50 May I hug myself?
43:01 - What if I had a look in your dressing room? - Why? Well, here's the idea.
43:04 I got here at midnight last night, and Smythe was killed soon afterwards.
43:07 Now I want to find out if anybody planted that gun in there while I was here. Go ahead, look.
43:17 Have you locked that window since last night? No.
43:20 That gun must have been there all the time I was here. That's what I told you last night.
43:24 Ed must have been lying when he told me that third bullet was from your gun.
43:27 Did you ever know a dick that was honest? Yeah, several of them. They're as common as honest gamblers.
43:32 Very, very clever.
43:37 What's the latest dirt on the murders?
43:40 Anyone under suspicion?
43:41 Yes.
43:42 Oh.
43:43 You, Blackie.
43:45 You're a liar, Bartlett.
43:46 Go ahead.
43:48 Have it your own way.
43:50 But if you're thinking of blowing this town, you'd better guess again.
43:54 Who's gonna stop me?
43:55 I am, indirectly.
43:56 How?
43:58 The minute you leave this apartment, I'm going to telephone the police.
44:00 If you don't think I won't...
44:02 There's the door. Go ahead. Try me.
44:04 You won't telephone for my apartment.
44:05 - Why won't I? - Because I asked you not to.
44:09 And in the meantime what am I supposed to do?
44:12 You're supposed to stay right here and keep your mouth shut.
44:15 All afternoon until the police get here.
44:18 Just what do you mean by that?
44:20 Captain Kahn will be coming up here shortly.
44:23 He's coming after Louie.
44:24 And he won't be broken hearted when he finds you here.
44:28 Did you arrange this little coop?
44:29 How could I?
44:30 I didn't know you were expected.
44:32 But it will be quite a feather in your cap, won't it? I'm not in the market for feathers.
44:36 Quite a comedian, aren't you? Well, what about it?
44:40 What?
44:51 It's a 32.
44:54 Fully loaded.
44:57 Glad I got me.
45:05 Give him the police station quick.
45:15 Well, Bill...
45:17 He tried to get me. Here's his gun.
45:18 Thirty-two, huh?
45:21 Take him down station and lock him up.
45:27 Want to make an assault with deadly weapon, Bill? No.
45:29 Might be easier to hold them in case some shyster tries to spring them on a rip.
45:33 Well, I got him for you. If you can't hold him, that's your fault. Come on, buddy.
45:38 Come back for me.
45:40 I want to ask this young lady some questions before I bring her in.
45:42 All right, dude.
45:50 Miss Boyne?
45:53 What does this man not water you?
45:54 A very good friend.
45:56 - Nothing more? - Nothing more.
45:58 - Relation? - No.
46:00 - Sweetheart. - Certainly not.
46:02 I met him about a year ago, just before I went into the club.
46:05 As a matter of fact, he got me my job. And Janik's.
46:08 I met him about three months ago.
46:10 In fact, you met him when he first came here to college, didn't you? Yes.
46:13 He was in my chemistry class.
46:14 Miss Vaughan?
46:16 Just what kind of legal work could Smythe and Brock do for you?
46:19 I never met Mr. Smyther, Mr. Brock. Sure. Quite.
46:23 Yes, just before midnight.
46:25 You phoned Smythe to meet you in his office, didn't you? Lillene, you don't have to answer a single question if you don't want to. No, Miss Vaughn.
46:31 I don't want to put you in jail.
46:33 I'm doing my best to give you a chance to get out of this. Come now.
46:36 You must know something about these murders you haven't told. I know nothing whatever about them. But that phone call, you know something about that, don't you?
46:42 Or do you?
46:44 Which is it?
46:47 All right.
46:48 Have it your own way.
46:50 You leave nothing for me to do but place you under arrest. Oh, wait a minute, Ed.
46:53 You're going too far.
46:55 You can arrest her without a warrant. I searched her apartment without a warrant. That was different.
46:59 If you arrest him now without a warrant and can't make the charges tick, you'll be in hot water. I don't mind being in hot water.
47:09 Murder.
47:10 You've charged her with murder. Yes.
47:12 Sure.
47:13 Sure you cops have to do something to save your face.
47:16 So you pick on an innocent girl. Innocent?
47:18 Why, she had no more to do with those murders than you did.
47:20 I'm not so sure of that.
47:22 All right.
47:24 Go ahead.
47:24 Drag her off the jail. Hold her without bail and see how much good it'll do you.
47:28 I'll have her out before night.
47:36 Get me State 4705.
47:38 Well, I'm yet to think.
47:42 I need that.
47:44 Oh, Grant?
47:45 Well, get this. Here's a flash for your final.
47:47 Lillian Boyne has been served with a warrant charging murder.
47:50 The gun was found in her apartment last night according to Captain Kine.
47:53 Any evidence besides that?
47:55 No, the old fool hasn't got a leg to stand on.
47:58 What?
48:00 Well, I know because I was in her apartment last night.
48:03 What do you think I was doing?
48:05 Interviewing her, of course.
48:07 Now listen.
48:08 I want you to get Bailey the paper's attorney.
48:10 The Time Star's going to the bat for this girl. How do you know she's innocent?
48:14 Well, take my word for it. I've never let you down before.
48:18 I'm right and I'm going to prove it.
48:23 I'll be in later.
48:26 I wait for Laura I'll drive it out my car
48:29 Wait a wait for Lorimer.
48:30 In here in a few minutes, we'll send for the wagon. Sure, that's right. Drag her down there like she was a common drunk.
48:35 Common drunks are no worse than common murderers, are they? Stop it!
48:38 Stop calling me a... Oh, that's all right, girl. Oh, that's all right.
48:41 Don't pay attention to him.
48:43 trying to bait you.
48:45 - He's not a murderer. - Of course he is not.
48:48 I know it and so does that.
48:50 is trying to pull a fast one.
48:54 Now what? Well, that's what put it over on me. I was going down the main drag about 40 miles an hour when he piled out and he rolled over about 20 times.
49:01 Before I get the car stopped, he was gone. Well, you big fathead. Well...
49:11 Hello, Rebecca.
49:14 What are William's...
49:16 to have a game
49:18 I, uh...
49:19 I just identified some links.
49:21 Live.
49:22 Yes, from the bottom of Janning's trousers.
49:25 Did you ever notice the colour of the rug in Brock and Smythe's office?
49:29 Yeah.
49:30 It's--
49:33 It's a hell of it, isn't it? Exactly.
49:35 Jennings was in that office recently.
49:38 What else did you find?
49:39 I'm looking at some dust from the floor where Jennings was found.
49:43 And I also found and photographed a woman's footprints in the company they spared.
49:50 Is that unusual?
49:51 In this case, yes.
49:53 Those stairs are swept every day.
49:55 And that footprint was superimposed on one of genuinely...
49:58 This woman went up and did not come down.
50:02 What about the elevator?
50:03 The elevator had stopped running
50:06 From this footprint, another evidence that I have found,
50:08 I'm convinced that it was a woman who killed Jennings and Smythe.
50:14 Find anything else?
50:15 I'm not ready to make anything public just yet.
50:18 Doctor.
50:20 What woman do you suspect?
50:22 There were only three women involved in the case.
50:24 It was one of them.
50:34 Pardon me, I'm Brock.
50:37 Oh yes, Mr. Brock.
50:38 What can I do for you?
50:40 Why?
50:41 I want to talk to you.
50:42 Yes.
50:43 About Jim Smythe.
50:46 Oh, yes. Please come in.
50:52 Why?
50:53 I'd like to talk to you alone.
50:56 Very well. Come into my office.
51:02 Oh, excuse me a moment, Bill.
51:11 there for each
51:27 I give up your reason.
51:30 BANG!
51:42 The bullet must have pierced his heart.
51:44 He had a move, a café fair.
51:48 I had a hunch something like this was going to happen.
51:50 Gee, when I heard that charl I thought you were a goner.
51:52 Oh, why did the fool have to pick up my office to kill himself?
51:56 The whole thing's going to be a mess.
51:57 Publicity.
51:58 People of Flack up here.
52:00 morbidly curious people and they'll do a lot of talking.
52:03 Oh, don't touch the gun at the barley bill. Leave everything just as dear.
52:06 All right, Doctor.
52:07 Oh, hello.
52:09 This is Dr. Hawley.
52:10 He's come immediately.
52:11 Mr. Brock has just killed himself in my office.
52:16 A way.
52:18 Shall we go into the laboratory?
52:20 I don't imagine we'll be bothered until the police get here.
52:22 The building is used as deserted this time of the day.
52:30 Your last edition got a phrase?
52:32 Yes.
52:34 As long as anything's happening on this case, I've got to stay on the job.
52:39 Wish things would quiet down.
52:42 I wish they'd quieted down 15 minutes ago.
52:49 Oh.
53:05 The heartbeat of a house.
53:06 *Mario plays*
53:12 You're awake.
53:13 Want some more?
53:14 Oh, that's plenty.
53:16 Oh, I got those flat feet, hurry up.
53:26 Oh, Captain.
53:28 Hi, Doctor.
53:31 This happened to be on the spot again Bill?
53:34 I was in the next room.
53:36 I wish I had your faculty being around when these things take place.
53:42 What happened, Doctor?
53:43 Well, Brock came and insisted on talking to me alone.
53:46 He was very nervous and right away demanded to know who had killed his partner.
53:51 Afraid that whoever kills Smythe might kill him, huh?
53:53 Yes, I took it that way.
53:55 He was half hysterical as he accused me of holding out on it.
53:58 I finally got a little bit of hot one over the collar myself.
54:01 I told him he'd have to leave my office.
54:03 He jumped up from his chair and cried, "All right, I leave."
54:05 Before I had time to realize what was in his mind, he pulled a gun from his pocket, held it to his side.
54:09 I shouted at him.
54:10 ...hoping to startle him to pause him for a moment.
54:13 But he pulled the trigger...
54:15 I fell instantly and never moved.
54:16 Must have been afraid of the police.
54:18 Tied up pretty tight with those other murderers.
54:21 He and his partner, both ex-cons.
54:23 Is that so?
54:24 Surf time in Joliet and Elmira.
54:26 Both times blackmail.
54:28 We have a motive to work on now.
54:30 Have you decided that Brock killed both Smite and Jannings?
54:33 Mm-hmm.
54:34 Don't you remember that Atwater threatened to kill both of them?
54:37 I don't remember that.
54:38 We have the trains and roads watched.
54:41 Blackie can't get out of this town.
54:42 If he could get out of that camp, he can get out of this town all right.
54:47 Maybe.
54:52 You're glad Blackie got away, aren't you? Yeah.
54:55 Wouldn't you be if he was a friend of yours and was kind to you? I suppose I would.
54:59 But I haven't forgotten he tried to shoot me.
55:01 He wouldn't have done that, Bill.
55:02 How do you know he would?
55:04 Because he knows that I like him.
55:08 Lillian.
55:09 Why didn't you tell me that Ann Michaels and Malcolm Jannings were married?
55:13 How did you know that?
55:14 Captain Kind found a wedding ring and a marriage license in her apartment.
55:18 It wasn't my secret bill.
55:20 I promised Dan I wouldn't tell anyone.
55:22 Why did she want a marriage kept secret?
55:25 You see, Bill, shortly after she married Mal, she realized that she'd made a mistake.
55:29 She was going to have it annulled after the semester was over.
55:33 Listen to him.
55:35 You know, I might be able to help you more if you'd start in my telling me.
55:39 Why you made that date to meet Smythe in his office last night.
55:42 I didn't.
55:43 You told Captain Kind you did.
55:45 Oh, I just did that to protect the hand.
55:49 Did she use your name in phone, Smile?
55:51 Yeah.
55:52 Why don't you give her own names?
55:54 She tried to see Smythe several times and he wouldn't see her.
55:56 What you want to see him about?
55:59 My Smith was Mel's attorney.
56:02 Why'd you write that note to Mal asking him to meet you?
56:05 I wanted to see if I couldn't persuade him to be kinder to Anne.
56:07 He was treating her terribly.
56:10 Where does Blacky Atwater come in there?
56:16 Why do you want to know that, Bill? Because I have to, Lillian. When does Blacky Atwater come in?
56:21 If you want it in your speech, please offer.
56:26 Wait a minute.
56:28 All good.
56:29 I can tell you.
56:30 I think they better get their hand.
56:33 Captain Kind, I insist that you establish a reasonable possibility of guilt.
56:38 Show me how this young woman could have shot Malcolm Jennings atop of the Campanile
56:42 and then made her escape without being seen by dozens of people who were gathered around the base.
56:47 Show me that.
56:48 And I'll deny this ring.
56:49 Well...
56:51 There's the three bullets. I didn't ask you anything about that.
56:54 I asked her to show me how this young woman could have committed the crime in question.
56:58 If you can't...
56:59 then I shall have to release the prisoner.
57:01 Well, I...
57:04 Uh...
57:06 Then I shall dismiss the warrant.
57:10 You win.
57:13 Thank you very much, Judge. Don't fight me.
57:18 Miss Boyne, let me be the first to congratulate you. Thank you. I guess you know how much we appreciate what you did for us, Bailey. Thanks. If you ever need me again, look me up.
57:28 Now, Lillian, I guess you know you can trust me, don't you? Yes, I do, Bill. And the next time I ask you a question, you're...
57:35 Bless him dear.
57:35 Can you get home all right?
57:37 Yes, sure. I've got to get a story.
57:38 I'll be up a little later. Wait for a minute, will you? Yes, I will.
57:45 Good evening, Sergeant.
57:50 Is it Captain M?
57:52 I've come to give myself up.
57:53 Got a gun?
57:58 Well, it may.
57:59 Oh, come on, just move it.
58:02 Get in.
58:03 Hey, chief.
58:04 Got a visit.
58:08 I understand you wanted to see me, Captain.
58:10 Yeah.
58:11 Sit down, underwater. Sit down.
58:17 Let's see.
58:19 You broke away from Lorimer this afternoon, didn't you?
58:21 Yes, and I just now walked in and gave myself up.
58:24 Hmm.
58:25 You might explain yourself.
58:27 I didn't care to be arrested this afternoon.
58:30 Why?
58:32 Well, I thought you might check up on my fingerprints and find I'd serve time in San Quentin. And I didn't want that made public. Why not?
58:39 I didn't want my right name to get out.
58:42 What is your right name?
58:43 Michael.
58:44 mindfulness.
58:46 Yeah.
58:47 and father.
58:49 Oh, you are?
58:52 Believe you.
58:53 But to protect her name...
58:54 And keep a friend from finding out that her father was a convict.
58:57 You risk your life with adding out of that car.
59:00 May...
59:01 I wanted to personally see her on board a boat found for Europe.
59:05 That's where she is.
59:06 is right now.
59:08 Atwater, did you kill Jannings?
59:10 If I did do you think I'd be in here right now. You threatened him a few days ago. What is the argument about about the way he was treating my daughter.
59:17 I had information that he was cooking up some sort of a plot to ruin her reputation.
59:22 He and those two shysters.
59:23 That way I threatened to kill Smythe if I had threatened to kill him that would have been the reason.
59:29 Your daughter went around with other men, although married to Mel Jannings, I believe.
59:33 very popular on the campus.
59:35 No one knew of a marriage.
59:37 They weren't living together.
59:39 What did you find out about Wilson?
59:41 Oh, huh?
59:41 It's perfect.
59:42 What's perfect?
59:43 The alibi. He said he was down to fraternity house all evening.
59:46 What in the habit of the guys to prove it? You have any money?
59:49 Well, he drives a big cab road, sir.
59:52 That wouldn't indicate he's rich enough to be blackmailed.
59:54 Say, you know, Captain...
59:55 It's part of his alibi I've always suspected that wasn't enough for it all sit down so I can sit
1:00:00 Take a load off your feet.
1:00:05 Anyone else interested in your daughter particularly?
1:00:07 Want money?
1:00:08 Not that I know of.
1:00:11 Where you going, Bill? I'm going over to the office. I've heard enough to make the paper want to get out on the next door.
1:00:21 Hello, Doc.
1:00:24 Oh, it's you, Bill.
1:00:29 Well, what's on your mind?
1:00:32 A whole lot of things.
1:00:35 A whole lot of things, Doc.
1:00:37 I wanted to talk them over with you.
1:00:39 I'm pretty busy just now, Bill.
1:00:41 Are you?
1:00:43 Surely you're not too busy.
1:00:46 What are you driving at?
1:00:49 I'll tell you in a minute.
1:00:51 The sedan, ah.
1:01:00 I got it all doped down. What up, Bill?
1:01:04 Now, the man who killed Jannings escaped
1:01:07 happening.
1:01:09 Oh, I see.
1:01:10 Yep.
1:01:11 The error of the facts is I have them figured.
1:01:14 Number one.
1:01:16 Nobody left the Campanile between the time the shot was fired.
1:01:19 and the time I started up the stairs with Captain Kahn.
1:01:22 so Jannings must have been killed before the shot was heard.
1:01:26 Probably before 9 o'clock.
1:01:28 If he wasn't,
1:01:29 The murderer couldn't have escaped.
1:01:32 Got it so far.
1:01:34 Second.
1:01:36 The chimes were not rung last night.
1:01:39 That's all very well, Bill.
1:01:40 There are plenty of people who heard those chimes.
1:01:43 You yourself, in fact. We only thought we heard them.
1:01:47 Are you following me, Doc?
1:01:49 No.
1:01:51 Someone hung a microphone in the window around here and made an electrical transcription of those chimes.
1:01:57 Are you listening?
1:01:58 I'm listening to you.
1:01:59 Got it?
1:02:01 know
1:02:02 It's so simple.
1:02:04 That transcription was amplified many times.
1:02:07 and sent out through a powerful loudspeaker.
1:02:09 Located in a window in some building near the Campanile.
1:02:14 Well, huh?
1:02:16 And perhaps the cleverest part of the whole scheme was a time mechanism to start that phonograph at nine o'clock.
1:02:21 It seems to me that that shot was heard after the chimes had stopped ringing.
1:02:25 Of course that shot was on the electrical transcription.
1:02:28 was recorded in the laboratory for the purpose of establishing the time of the crime at 10 minutes after 9:00.
1:02:34 when our murdering friend was known to have been driving up College Avenue with a certain popular co-ed.
1:02:39 A very ingenious theory, Bill.
1:02:42 But there's one thing you haven't explained.
1:02:45 How could that improvised broadcast have been arranged by Miss Lillian Boyne?
1:02:50 I have a good mind to let you have it.
1:02:53 There's only one person who had the facilities and the location to arrange such a broadcast.
1:02:58 And that person is Dr. C. Edson Hollings.
1:03:05 There's only one thing the matter with your theory, Bill.
1:03:08 You haven't a scrap of evidence to support him. Wait and see.
1:03:11 Is that 45 you shot Brock with, for instance?
1:03:14 And what about those fingerprints, Doctor?
1:03:16 Did you have time to wipe those off?
1:03:18 And what about the serial number?
1:03:20 Perhaps that number has been filed off. You know, men of science have a method of bringing back serial numbers that have been filed off.
1:03:28 Well, Bill, what's the program now?
1:03:31 How about little John down at the city hall?
1:03:33 Kyn, I suppose, doesn't know of your visit here?
1:03:36 No.
1:03:37 I doped it all out myself.
1:03:38 And I'm going to see that my paper gets full.
1:03:41 What's that you've got in your hand?
1:03:43 Just glance behind yourself quickly, Bill.
1:03:46 I won't move.
1:03:53 Did you see it?
1:03:54 See what?
1:03:55 Those two test tubes filed beneath that pile of robber.
1:03:58 What a bond.
1:04:00 barrels of a shotgun bill,
1:04:02 Aimed right at your chair.
1:04:04 I've only to press this button to discharge both arrows.
1:04:07 If you move, I let you have it.
1:04:09 Well...
1:04:12 and got the drop on me.
1:04:14 Very definitely.
1:04:18 Say, Doc.
1:04:20 Would you mind telling me the whole story?
1:04:24 What is it you want no bill?
1:04:26 Suppose we start with a motive.
1:04:28 The motive was self-preservation.
1:04:30 It was an effort to combat by the only means at my disposal a blackmail plot that would have meant my ruination.
1:04:35 That plot was engineered by
1:04:38 Jannings and those two shyster lawyers.
1:04:41 After Jannings was admitted to the university,
1:04:44 His first move was to get acquainted with Anne Michaels.
1:04:47 He did and finally married her.
1:04:48 How he did that, I don't know.
1:04:51 Perhaps she fell in love with him.
1:04:52 Perhaps he knew that her father was a gambler, an ex-convict, and fostering the marriage.
1:04:57 But he married her for just one purpose.
1:04:59 He knew that I was interested in the girl.
1:05:02 And he planned to blackmail me knowing that I was a fairly wealthy man.
1:05:05 It was his intention to sue for a divorce and name me as correspondent.
1:05:08 Well, that divorce case would have never reached court.
1:05:11 No, not as long as I paid.
1:05:13 But I knew it was in the office.
1:05:15 And that's why you killed Smythe.
1:05:17 Smythe caught me in his office while I was searching for papers that might have any bearing on this case.
1:05:22 I have to kill him. What about Brock?
1:05:24 I counted on his keeping quiet.
1:05:26 because he couldn't have aired his suspicions without incriminating himself.
1:05:30 But Brock got panicked.
1:05:31 He came to my office this afternoon, demanded fifty thousand dollars.
1:05:34 I whipped a gun out of my desk.
1:05:36 Shut him through the heart.
1:05:37 and then toss the gun down to the side of it.
1:05:39 Those bullets.
1:05:40 How did you work that? A week or so ago, I went to Lillian's apartment and stole the government.
1:05:45 fire two bullets out of it and then return with them.
1:05:47 And you used another gun to kill Janney? Yes, a .32 with a silencer.
1:05:52 Then I put the bullets where they were found.
1:05:54 So you admit you were going to frame her.
1:05:56 I was going to build up a case against her founded on circumstantial evidence.
1:05:59 No jury would have convicted her.
1:06:01 just enough of a case so she'd be convicted in the eyes of the world.
1:06:04 Just enough evidence so that the police would lay off looking for the real murderer.
1:06:08 Doc, you're a rat.
1:06:10 Anything further you want to know, Bill?
1:06:13 No, I guess that's about all.
1:06:15 just as well that you have no more questions to ask.
1:06:18 I'm tired of talking.
1:06:20 What are you gonna do now?
1:06:22 Thust.
1:06:23 I'm going to get your gun.
1:06:27 All right.
1:06:29 Come and get it.
1:06:47 Listen, Chief.
1:06:48 I followed Ronald over to Doc Horley's place.
1:06:50 He stayed there a long time and all of a sudden Holly comes running out with a sort of a crazy expression on his face.
1:06:55 He stopped dead when he seen me.
1:06:57 and try to pass it off by saying something about it.
1:06:58 Been a nice night.
1:07:00 Well, Bill ain't come out of there yet.
1:07:01 And the doors are locked up for the night.
1:07:04 Call the right one.
1:07:05 Get the bed right.
1:07:06 Now, I'd better make the animals. Hope's first.
1:07:08 All right, come on.
1:07:16 Oh.
1:07:17 Ha!
1:07:19 Smite those windows by the mayor in here.
1:07:28 up
1:07:41 Good night, brother.
1:07:43 Well, you're alive and kicking.
1:07:45 Boy, you gave me a scare that time.
1:07:48 You don't know what it is. It is to be scared. That crazy guy started a fire in us and stuff. Yeah, I know.
1:07:53 Gaslight fields in the war.
1:07:56 Come on.
1:07:57 I'll take it easy you're on it. Okay.
1:08:00 I don't want to stretch air.
1:08:02 I'm all right.
1:08:03 I'll be able to walk around in a minute. Hostile lady, Chief.
1:08:06 Yeah, hard to lick.
1:08:08 But he'd go in the ambulance just the same. You'll get me in any ambulance.
1:08:11 You may think you're all right, but it's the after effects we've got to look out for. See, come on, boys.
1:08:15 Get them by the feet and shoulders. Take them out. All right, I'm all right.
1:08:19 Take him out of the way. I'm all right. Wait a minute. Never mind.
1:08:22 How'd you come to be up in that chemistry building? I had you trailed since last night. You what? I had you trailed. You were too conspicuous that things were happening. I figured you'd be in on it somewhere. Say, Ed, you haven't heard nothing like what I found out. I got all the dope on this bird, Holly. I know why he killed him and how. How'd you find that out? I worked it out. We've got a committee out after him,
1:08:52 I'll do a little warming myself.
1:09:08 Thanks for the ride, boys. My girl lives down the block, and I'd like to see her. You big, fathead. Hey!
1:09:13 Tell me how I rang those chives. Take a look at the morning paper, Ed.
1:09:17 Back!