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00:00:53Hello, Bill.
00:00:58Evening, Mikey.
00:01:01How's the newspaper racket?
00:01:04Dull.
00:01:05How's the poker racket?
00:01:08Rotten.
00:01:10Care for a drink?
00:01:12No, thanks.
00:01:13I'm not much for drinking when I'm working.
00:01:16You know, we don't care much about publicity here.
00:01:19You needn't worry.
00:01:20I'm not offering you any.
00:01:22Where's Lillian?
00:01:24Fine.
00:01:25I want to see her.
00:01:28Say, what's the matter with you?
00:01:30There's no law against me seeing her, is there?
00:01:34Certainly not.
00:01:36She's got a chemistry examination tomorrow.
00:01:38She's studying for it.
00:01:41I'll only keep her a few minutes.
00:01:42Is she in one of the back rooms?
00:01:44Yeah.
00:01:45Second door to the right.
00:01:47Thanks.
00:01:50Say, are you troubled with interjections?
00:01:54No.
00:02:18Hello, Bill.
00:02:19Come in.
00:02:21How's my little sweetheart?
00:02:23I don't know.
00:02:24Have you got one?
00:02:25You bet.
00:02:26One of the best.
00:02:27She's looking very beautiful.
00:02:29Say, Lillian, what's the matter with Blackie?
00:02:32Why?
00:02:33I don't know.
00:02:34He acted very hostile when I told him I wanted to see him.
00:02:37Perhaps it's your imagination.
00:02:41Listen, precious.
00:02:43I'm doping up a story about college girls
00:02:45working their way through school.
00:02:47The one who sells magazines.
00:02:49And I was thinking I'd like to use Miss Lillian Vaughn
00:02:52who's working her way through college
00:02:53by singing in the nightclub.
00:02:57Sorry, Bill, it's out.
00:02:59Why?
00:03:00Well, for one thing, I have a lot of friends at college.
00:03:02Some of them know I sing here and some of them don't.
00:03:04Well, I won't mention the Lido.
00:03:06But you'll have to mention my name.
00:03:08Oh, I'd have to do that.
00:03:09And I'd have to have a picture.
00:03:11You take a blamesweet picture, you know that.
00:03:13Flattery won't get you anywhere, Bill.
00:03:15I'd rather you wouldn't say anything about it.
00:03:17Listen, sweet.
00:03:18Is anything wrong?
00:03:20Why, of course not, Bill.
00:03:21I don't believe you.
00:03:22You talk too fast, lady.
00:03:24Has Blackie been annoying you?
00:03:26Blackie's one of my very best friends.
00:03:28Well, you might take better.
00:03:29He's nothing but a tin horn gambler.
00:03:31I told you he was one of my best friends, didn't I?
00:03:33I'm sorry.
00:03:35I wish there was something I could do for him.
00:03:37You can.
00:03:38Drive me over to the campus.
00:03:39All right.
00:03:40I'll get my hat and coat.
00:03:41Meet me outside.
00:03:46In a hurry?
00:03:47Yes, I'd like to be there by 9.15.
00:03:49Be there at 9.
00:03:51Are you meeting someone?
00:03:52Yes.
00:03:53Malcolm Janning?
00:03:55Uh-huh.
00:03:56Pick out the rummiest friend.
00:03:58What's the matter with Mal?
00:03:59Oh, he's no good.
00:04:00You brought him all the way out here from Minnesota
00:04:02for the track team.
00:04:03You got him a soft job bringing the chimes and the campanile.
00:04:06And what's he done?
00:04:07Down every night, gambling.
00:04:08Don't you think you've said enough against my friends?
00:04:11OK, I'll pipe down.
00:04:14OK, I'll pipe down.
00:04:25Sorry I couldn't drive you over the campanile,
00:04:27but you know the campus gates are closed after 9 o'clock.
00:04:30Want me to wait for you here, Charlie?
00:04:32No.
00:04:33Foolish question.
00:04:35Well, I'm going over to the daily office for a little while.
00:04:39Listen, I'll be glad to drive you back to Lido if you want.
00:04:42No, I won't bother you anymore.
00:04:44I'll sit here until about 9.15 and then I'll walk over.
00:04:47Well, you're a good girl.
00:04:49I'll do my best, darling.
00:05:39Hey, you stay away from that door.
00:05:41What happened, fellas?
00:05:42How should I know?
00:05:43Well, it was a shot.
00:05:44So I heard.
00:05:45Well, somebody had to call the police.
00:05:47The police have been called.
00:05:48How could they?
00:05:49It just happened.
00:05:50Well, somebody will call.
00:05:51I mean, after a shot there.
00:05:53What happened?
00:05:55Well, well, Bilbo.
00:05:56Where'd you come from?
00:05:57I didn't come from any place.
00:05:58I was here.
00:05:59What's the loadout?
00:06:00Well, the time stopped ringing all of a sudden.
00:06:02There was a silence and then a shot.
00:06:04From the tower?
00:06:05Yes.
00:06:06And you were right here?
00:06:07About 20 feet away.
00:06:08Well, that's good.
00:06:09Well, let's go.
00:06:10Come on.
00:06:11Come on.
00:06:12Come on.
00:06:13Come on.
00:06:14Come on.
00:06:15Come on.
00:06:16Come on.
00:06:17Come on.
00:06:18Come on.
00:06:19Come on.
00:06:20Come on.
00:06:21Come on.
00:06:22Come on.
00:06:23About 20 feet away.
00:06:24And no one came down?
00:06:25Not a soul.
00:06:26The elevator stopped.
00:06:27This door here to the stairs hasn't been opened.
00:06:29Megs, run over to the office superintendent and get the key.
00:06:32Right.
00:06:33You're sure no one came down?
00:06:34Absolutely.
00:06:35Whoever's up there must still be there.
00:06:36There's no other way down.
00:06:37Anyone know who plays the chimes?
00:06:39Yeah, a fellow by the name of Malcolm Jennings.
00:06:41You know, the sprinter.
00:06:42Oh, I heard of him.
00:06:43Not much good, was he?
00:06:44He couldn't run an errand.
00:06:45Wait a minute.
00:06:46I'll be right back.
00:06:47Why don't we get the kids around here?
00:06:50Listen, sweet, what do you know about this?
00:06:51Nothing, Bill.
00:06:52What did you do when I left you?
00:06:53I stayed in the car for about five minutes,
00:06:55and then I started to walk over here.
00:06:57Did you hear that shot?
00:06:58Of course I did.
00:06:59Any suspicions?
00:07:00No.
00:07:01Could I go up to the police?
00:07:02Oh, you're crazy, girl.
00:07:03I'm not.
00:07:04I want to go.
00:07:05If anything is happening there, I don't know what I'll do.
00:07:07You think a lot of that guy, don't you?
00:07:09Now listen, if you've got any brains,
00:07:11that pretty little head of yours, you'll stay out of this.
00:07:13It's a police case, and you don't want to get mixed up in it, do you?
00:07:15Of course I don't, but...
00:07:16Never mind no buts about it.
00:07:18You stay out.
00:07:19Oh, here comes Megs with the keys.
00:07:20I'm going up with him.
00:07:22Oh, Megs.
00:07:27All right.
00:07:28Megs, you and Alice stay here and keep the crowd back.
00:07:30Don't let anybody in or out.
00:07:31Get it?
00:07:32Yes, sir.
00:07:33All right.
00:07:34Come on, Larimer.
00:07:35Bill, if you want to, come on.
00:07:36All right.
00:07:37Come on.
00:07:38All right.
00:07:39All right.
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00:07:41All right.
00:07:42All right.
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00:08:04Just a plain case of suicide.
00:08:06Sure, but where's the gun?
00:08:10Right through the left temple.
00:08:12Looks like a .32.
00:08:18Say, have you ever seen him play baseball or tennis?
00:08:20Oh, I get you. He was right-handed.
00:08:30No pot of burns. Plain case of murder.
00:08:35Those buildings aren't anywhere near tall enough to reach over this balustrade with a rifle.
00:08:41Those hills are high enough, but they're too far away.
00:08:44Then the guy that did it must be somewhere about.
00:08:47You swear nobody came down?
00:08:49We didn't meet anybody coming up.
00:08:52He's either up in there or hiding in the elevator shaft.
00:08:56A hiding place. The belfry is out.
00:08:59Maybe he had a parachute. He could drop over the side of this rail here.
00:09:02Sure. Nobody'd see him.
00:09:05Well, maybe he used a rope.
00:09:07Well, if he did, where is he?
00:09:09You suppose he can get up on the roof of the tower?
00:09:12Yeah, he might have. A gang of carpenters built him a scaffold.
00:09:16How about the elevator shaft?
00:09:18No, he left there. We won't find anyone.
00:09:20Where do you suppose he could go?
00:09:22The guy couldn't come up here and knock this bird over and just vanish into thin air.
00:09:26I don't get it. That's all. I don't get it.
00:09:31So who do you suppose did it, Chief?
00:09:33I don't care who did it now.
00:09:35Show me how he did it, and I'll tell you who did it.
00:09:37Well, it just ain't possible. That's all. It just ain't possible.
00:09:46Captain.
00:09:48Well, this man here runs the elevator.
00:09:50He lives near here. He heard the shot, and he came right over.
00:09:53You take Jannings up on top tonight?
00:09:55No, sir. I make my last trip at 8 o'clock. He always walks.
00:09:59Who'd you take up on your last trip?
00:10:02Uh, two ladies and a man.
00:10:04Say, Bill, give us a load on, will you?
00:10:06Ask Larimer. He's got all the dope.
00:10:09Mr. Larimer.
00:10:10Mr. Larimer.
00:10:11Bad news, Lillian.
00:10:13Is he dead?
00:10:14Yeah. Shot through the temple.
00:10:16Who killed him, Bill?
00:10:17All I know is he was murdered. Whoever did it got away.
00:10:20Got away? Why, that's impossible.
00:10:22Nobody left there after the shot.
00:10:24Here, Lillian. You know more about this than you're passing out.
00:10:27What makes you say that?
00:10:28I don't know. Ever since I stepped into the club tonight,
00:10:30the way Blackie acted, your nervousness, the whole business.
00:10:33I just knew something was going to happen.
00:10:34It's not going to happen.
00:10:36It's not going to happen.
00:10:37It's not going to happen.
00:10:39It's not going to happen.
00:10:40I just knew something was going to happen.
00:10:41If you knew something was going to happen,
00:10:43you knew more than I did.
00:10:44Pretty cool, aren't you?
00:10:46Is there any reason why I shouldn't be?
00:10:47All right, all right. Let it go at that.
00:10:54Anything wrong, Bill?
00:10:55Oh, nothing connected with the case.
00:10:57Where to now?
00:10:58Delacai House.
00:11:07Which one of you fellas in charge?
00:11:10Well?
00:11:11I suppose you could say I'm in charge.
00:11:13I'm house manager.
00:11:14You're the man I want to see. Come on inside.
00:11:16Let him stay out.
00:11:17Hey, what's up?
00:11:25You hear anything about what happened to Campanelli tonight?
00:11:27Yes. One of the brothers called up.
00:11:29Who killed him, Captain?
00:11:31I'm not offering an opinion yet.
00:11:41Suppose you tell me what you know about Jannings.
00:11:45Well, one of our alumni suggested we urge Jannings to come here.
00:11:49Find him a job and all that.
00:11:52Well, Jannings arrived.
00:11:54When he got him a job, he was a time master.
00:11:56He had a fair knowledge of music.
00:11:58Well, anyway, he went out for a track.
00:12:00It proved a big disappointment.
00:12:01Yes, yes. Let's get to the man himself.
00:12:03Well, he was a likable chap.
00:12:05Good mixer, good company.
00:12:06But he had nothing to do with it.
00:12:08Well, he lacked the cultural background a college man should have.
00:12:12In your opinion, had he ever been to college before?
00:12:14I don't think he's had more than two years of high school.
00:12:17Any parents? Relatives?
00:12:19He never mentioned any.
00:12:21Did he go out much?
00:12:22Quite a bit.
00:12:24Very often he stayed away all night.
00:12:26Who were his friends?
00:12:27I haven't any idea.
00:12:29How about girls?
00:12:30I don't believe he was greatly interested in women.
00:12:33When did you have your last house party?
00:12:35About ten days ago.
00:12:37Who did he bring?
00:12:40Come on, come on. You're wasting time. I want to know.
00:12:43He brought Ann Michaels.
00:12:44Oh.
00:12:45Did he rush her much?
00:12:47Yes, quite a bit.
00:12:49What kind of a girl is she?
00:12:51She's a very charming young lady.
00:12:53Where'd she live?
00:12:55Number 12, Addison Way.
00:12:56Sorority house, huh?
00:12:58No.
00:12:59Does she belong to a sorority?
00:13:00No.
00:13:01Does she belong to a sorority?
00:13:03No.
00:13:03Does she belong to a sorority?
00:13:05No.
00:13:06Why not?
00:13:07Perhaps you'd better ask her.
00:13:08Oh.
00:13:10Don't worry, my boy.
00:13:11I will.
00:13:14Larmor.
00:13:15See that he doesn't get to her telephone. I want to surprise her.
00:13:18Okay, Chief.
00:13:19I got you.
00:13:20Sit down, young fellow.
00:13:30Say, what did you think about this fellow Wilson?
00:13:32I gather he hated Mel Jennings worse than poison, for one thing.
00:13:35He had a crush on Ann Michaels for another, that's enough.
00:13:38Plenty.
00:13:41Miss Michaels.
00:13:42I'm Captain Kine of the Police Department.
00:13:44This is Mr. Buckley with the Times-Star.
00:13:46How do you do?
00:13:47I'd like to talk to you a minute.
00:13:49Please come in.
00:14:00Nice place you have here, Miss Michaels.
00:14:06Why don't you live in one of the sorority houses?
00:14:09Because I prefer to live alone.
00:14:11Oh.
00:14:15Don't you think you had better tell me the purpose of your visit?
00:14:19Mel Jennings was murdered about an hour ago.
00:14:22Murdered?
00:14:23Mel?
00:14:25Oh, it's horrible.
00:14:27Friend of yours, was he?
00:14:29Yes.
00:14:30Been out to dances with him?
00:14:33Just once or twice.
00:14:35Ever jealous of him?
00:14:38I think you're making a mistake in our relations, Captain.
00:14:41Why, Mel was no more to me than a dozen other men.
00:14:45Well, well, well.
00:14:47Tell me this.
00:14:49When did you first learn he'd been killed?
00:14:52Didn't you just tell me yourself?
00:14:54I said, when did you first learn he'd been killed?
00:14:56When you told me.
00:14:58You took it pretty cool, didn't you?
00:15:00What did you expect me to do, go into hysterics or something?
00:15:02Miss Michaels, where were you this evening?
00:15:04Particularly around nine o'clock.
00:15:08I had an eight o'clock seminar in English tonight in Baltic Hall.
00:15:13I guess I left there about two minutes to nine and I happened to meet Hawley.
00:15:18Dr. C. Edson Hawley?
00:15:19Yes, I had a class in chemistry with him.
00:15:22We walked out the west gate together and his car was parked there, so he drove me home.
00:15:29You got into Dr. Hawley's car about six or seven minutes after nine?
00:15:33Yes.
00:15:34Drive straight home?
00:15:36The clock on the table there said exactly 20 minutes after nine when I came in.
00:15:47Clock keeps a pretty good time.
00:15:53Did Dr. Hawley come up to your apartment with you?
00:15:55Certainly not.
00:15:56How long did you talk out front?
00:15:59I merely thanked him and he came upstairs.
00:16:02Of course you realize, Miss Michaels, that if you know anything, now is the time to spill it.
00:16:07I told you, Captain, I know nothing!
00:16:17Very well.
00:16:29Don't tell me she don't know something.
00:16:31And how do you figure that swell apartment?
00:16:33Well, maybe she has money. There's no law against it.
00:16:36And that meeting with Hawley. Boy, I'd love to get something on that bird.
00:16:40Say, I forgot my hat. Wait for me in the car, will you?
00:16:42Sure.
00:16:44I'm going over to the faculty club. You want to trade along?
00:16:46Oh, I'll only be a minute.
00:16:48Oh, I'm sorry to bother you. I left my hat.
00:16:50I'll get it for you.
00:16:52I said I'd get it for you.
00:16:54I'll get it myself.
00:16:56Do you realize you forced your way into my apartment?
00:16:58I'll call it what you want.
00:17:03Well, it didn't take you long to get here, did it?
00:17:05I wish you'd mind your own business, Bill.
00:17:07Perhaps this is my business.
00:17:09You have no right to drag me into this mess.
00:17:12You're already in it, Lillian.
00:17:14That's not true, Bill.
00:17:15All right, I'm wrong.
00:17:17Wouldn't be the first time.
00:17:18Anyway, I want to see you later.
00:17:20Where'll you be?
00:17:21I may be home. I may be at the club.
00:17:23You can look for me.
00:17:26All right. I'll find you.
00:17:39A most unpleasant business, isn't it?
00:17:41There must have been dozens of people around the company when it happened.
00:17:44I was there myself, and no one came out of the tower.
00:17:47Lucky boy.
00:17:48The paper says that Jannings couldn't have killed himself.
00:17:51Did you happen to know him, Dr. Hawley?
00:17:53He was in my class in chemistry.
00:17:56A poor student.
00:17:57I was about ready to drop him.
00:17:59Was Miss Ann Michaels in the class, too?
00:18:01Yes, Captain.
00:18:02Surely you're not intimating that Miss Michaels is involved in the case.
00:18:05Just talk to this Ann Michaels.
00:18:07I'll bet my star she held out on me.
00:18:11Miss Michaels did know Jannings.
00:18:13And I believe went out with him now and then.
00:18:15I don't think so.
00:18:16And I believe went out with him now and then.
00:18:18But as far as her being in any way,
00:18:20either willingly or inadvertently involved in the murder of my wife,
00:18:23it's absurd.
00:18:25Say, you seem to think a lot of this Ann Michaels.
00:18:27You're ready to take a great deal for granted, Mr. Kimes.
00:18:30I suppose Miss Michaels told you that I drove her home?
00:18:33Yes.
00:18:34I did drive her home.
00:18:35But if you assume that my meeting with her was anything but accidental, you're wrong.
00:18:38Miss Michaels means no more to me than any other girl in my class.
00:18:43Is there anything else, Captain?
00:18:45No.
00:18:47I just want to know where she was when Jannings was shot.
00:18:50We drove to her home slowly.
00:18:52I dare say any number of witnesses could be found who saw us.
00:18:55That's not necessary.
00:18:57Not now, anyhow.
00:19:05Hummingbill?
00:19:07Oh, my car's only a block from here.
00:19:09I might as well pick it up while I'm out this way.
00:19:11Hmm.
00:19:13Thank you, Doctor.
00:19:14Good night.
00:19:18The Captain's a bit worked up, isn't he, Bill?
00:19:20Well, who wouldn't be?
00:19:23First, an impossible murder.
00:19:25And second, how'd he get away?
00:19:27I'm not good at guessing.
00:19:29You'd like to tackle this case, wouldn't you, Dr. Hawley?
00:19:31Frankly, yes.
00:19:33Well, why don't you?
00:19:34I haven't been asked to.
00:19:35Well, is that necessary?
00:19:36I have no more right to investigate this affair than any other private citizen.
00:19:39Oh, but you're a well-known criminologist.
00:19:41Personally interested, Bill?
00:19:44Professionally interested, Doc.
00:19:46Well, when the time comes,
00:19:48when you can prove to me that Captain Kine is bungling things,
00:19:51perhaps I shall take it up.
00:19:52It might not be long.
00:19:54Good night.
00:19:56Good night.
00:20:00Hello, Williams.
00:20:02Hello.
00:20:04Thanks.
00:20:06Listen, kid.
00:20:07You know you can trust me, don't you?
00:20:10I think so.
00:20:11You know you can.
00:20:14You know I'm all for you, too, don't you?
00:20:17Yes.
00:20:20Come here.
00:20:23I'm crazy about you.
00:20:36It's a dirty shame to interrupt you like this, Bill.
00:20:39Oh, what a swell friend you turned out to be.
00:20:41Oh, listen, darling, I didn't have any...
00:20:43Now, children, be good, be good.
00:20:44You know where you can go.
00:20:46Now, I want to ask the young lady some questions.
00:20:48And while I'm asking them, I want you to keep your trap shut.
00:20:50I may or may not. What do you think of that?
00:20:52I may bust you on the jaw.
00:20:54You think twice before you do.
00:20:55Don't want me to put my bracelets on them, Chief?
00:20:57No, go ahead and search the apartment.
00:21:01Now, you're too good for me.
00:21:04Now, you two sit down. I want to ask some questions.
00:21:06I don't want a quarrel with you, Bill.
00:21:08You did me a good turn tonight.
00:21:10I don't get it.
00:21:12You wouldn't.
00:21:13You don't have to be so upstage, Mr. Owen.
00:21:15Oh, come on, Ed. Quit stalling and get to the point.
00:21:18I will.
00:21:20When you left the club after talking to Holly,
00:21:22I put a tail on you.
00:21:24On me?
00:21:26Yeah.
00:21:27Going back to that hat didn't fool me any.
00:21:30Ha ha.
00:21:31I don't blame you for being burned up.
00:21:33Why did you want me tailed?
00:21:35Because you knew something about this case that I didn't.
00:21:39Read this.
00:21:50Found it in Jennings' pocket a while ago.
00:21:53I suppose you've decided who wrote it.
00:21:56When I found that note, I had the slightest idea
00:21:58who Lillian was.
00:21:59But when you visited here,
00:22:01I put two and two together,
00:22:03and nice reasoning for a flat foot, eh, Bill?
00:22:06Beautiful, kind, beautiful.
00:22:08But how do you know that Lillian's the one that wrote that note?
00:22:21Want to see?
00:22:22I'm not a handwriting expert, and I'm sure you're not.
00:22:25I don't think a handwriting expert is necessary.
00:22:28Oh, he isn't, Miss Boyd?
00:22:29If you're asking if I wrote that note,
00:22:31the answer is yes.
00:22:37Now,
00:22:39want to sit down and talk to me a while?
00:22:41I don't want to.
00:22:43I suppose I shall have to.
00:22:44You don't have to say a word, Lillian.
00:22:46Suppose, Miss Boyd, you tell me exactly what your relations were with this man.
00:22:50Relations?
00:22:51Oh, I didn't mean that.
00:22:53Just how well did you know Mal Jennings?
00:22:55He was a casual friend.
00:22:56And you're accustomed to writing notes like this to casual friends?
00:22:59Oh, if I wanted to see a man,
00:23:02I'd be very likely to write and ask him to meet me.
00:23:04Why'd you want to see him about?
00:23:05That's my business.
00:23:07Eh, it don't get you anywhere.
00:23:09What makes you think I want to get anywhere?
00:23:11Don't you want to get out from under suspicion?
00:23:13Are you telling me that I'm suspected of murdering Mal Jennings?
00:23:16Right.
00:23:21Miss Boyd, where were you at nine o'clock tonight?
00:23:24Lie to him if you want to, darling. I'll back you up.
00:23:27I was in Bill's car in front of Charlie's place.
00:23:30Did you know she had a date with Jennings?
00:23:32Yes, I knew that.
00:23:33Funny, Bill, you didn't tell me anything about it.
00:23:36Miss Boyd, where were you immediately after nine o'clock?
00:23:40I sat in the car until a few minutes after nine.
00:23:42Then I walked around the block and went over to the cafeteria.
00:23:46I was there when I heard the shot.
00:23:48Where was Bill?
00:23:50You'll have to ask him.
00:23:52Where were you, Bill?
00:23:54Where do you suppose I was?
00:23:55I was at the top of the Campanile.
00:23:57I used a .32 caliber revolver.
00:23:59The motive was jealousy.
00:24:00After committing the crime, I jumped over the side and landed in a fireman's net.
00:24:04Anything else you want to know?
00:24:06I still want to know where you were ten minutes after nine.
00:24:09I left Lillian in the car at nine o'clock.
00:24:12I walked over to the campus daily, stayed there a while in the office, and then I started back.
00:24:20Two empty carriages, Captain. The other four chambers are loaded.
00:24:23Well, well, where did you find it?
00:24:25Something in the dressing room.
00:24:27In the bottom drawer underneath a pile of underwear.
00:24:29.32 caliber.
00:24:31Same kind of a gun Jannings was killed with.
00:24:33You don't know if that gun was the one that killed Jannings?
00:24:35Oh, we'll find out.
00:24:36As soon as a bullet fired from this gun is compared with one taken from the body.
00:24:40Miss Boyne, is this your gun?
00:24:42Yes.
00:24:44When did you fire it last?
00:24:45I've never fired it.
00:24:47That gun was given to me.
00:24:48I put it in my drawer and I never touched it again.
00:24:52Was it fully loaded when it was given to you?
00:24:53I have every reason to believe that it was.
00:24:57Who gave it to you?
00:24:58My father.
00:24:59Why?
00:25:01My home's in Nevada.
00:25:02My father, a rancher, was a bit worried about my being alone here without any protection.
00:25:07That was his idea of protection.
00:25:09I don't even know how to fire it.
00:25:12You say you were brought up on a ranch?
00:25:14Yes.
00:25:15And you never even learned how to fire a six-shooter?
00:25:17No. I've never learned anything about any kind of a gun.
00:25:21Well, that'll be about all for tonight.
00:25:23Let me warn you.
00:25:25Don't try and leave the city.
00:25:32Listen, darling.
00:25:37All right.
00:25:47No hard feelings, Annabelle?
00:25:48No.
00:26:03Well, I guess I'll go home. I've got a headache.
00:26:06If you went home an hour ago, you wouldn't have a headache.
00:26:08I'll go jump in the lake. I'll see you in the morning.
00:26:10All right.
00:26:18I'll see you in the morning.
00:26:43Now, we'll call it off, can't you?
00:26:46Well, somebody had to be there to do the shooting.
00:26:49Or did they, Bill?
00:26:50Absolutely. Someone was there and shot him.
00:26:53How'd he get away then?
00:26:54Well, he couldn't have got away.
00:26:56Oh, you think he's still there, eh?
00:26:57Oh, he couldn't still be there.
00:26:59All right, go ahead and call me crazy. I've plenty of company on the police force.
00:27:03But Dr. Hawley isn't going to handle the case, is he?
00:27:05Not unless he gets someone to retain him.
00:27:07That's good stuff about that boy and girl.
00:27:09That gun.
00:27:11Probably no connection with the case.
00:27:13Did you meet her?
00:27:14Yes.
00:27:15Good looking?
00:27:17She's swell.
00:27:18Listen, Grimes. I want to be taken off the police beat and devote all my time to this case.
00:27:22All right, Bill. The keys to the city are yours.
00:27:24Good luck.
00:27:25Thanks.
00:27:28Hey, Spud.
00:27:29Yes?
00:27:30I want to give you a phone number.
00:27:32I'll be there in about an hour.
00:27:34If anything breaks on a Jannings case, give me a ring, will you?
00:27:36Okay.
00:27:37Hey, and keep that number under your hat, too.
00:27:38Right.
00:27:45Good morning.
00:27:46Did I get you up?
00:27:48Oh, I've been up for some time.
00:27:49May I come in?
00:27:50If you wish.
00:27:51Doesn't seem to be any law against men crashing into my apartment.
00:27:56You know, if you're going to keep on treating me like a heel, maybe you'll tell me why.
00:28:01Oh, listen, Lillian, break down.
00:28:02Please don't try to make love to me, Bill.
00:28:04Who the diggings is trying to make love?
00:28:06All I want you to do is act human.
00:28:09How did you know I was at Ann's?
00:28:10Well, I saw your purse on the table, and I came back to make sure.
00:28:12What difference does it make if I was there?
00:28:14Ann's a very dear friend of mine.
00:28:16And I suppose your visit had nothing to do with what happened earlier in the evening.
00:28:20Oh, we did talk about Mal Jannings, if that's what you mean.
00:28:22Lillian, what about that gun?
00:28:24Bill, you know just as much about it as I do.
00:28:26I told Mr. Kine all there is to tell about it.
00:28:28Is there a chance it was used last night?
00:28:30Are you here for an interview for your paper,
00:28:32or did you come hoping I'd confess to the murder?
00:28:34Listen, you crazy little fool, this is serious.
00:28:36It's gone far enough.
00:28:37I want to help you.
00:28:39I don't need your help.
00:28:40Hello?
00:28:42Yes.
00:28:44Just a minute.
00:28:46For you, Bill.
00:28:48You were pretty sure I got you in, weren't you?
00:28:50A little bit.
00:28:51Hello?
00:28:53Say, Bill, there's been another murder.
00:28:54What? Another murder?
00:28:56Who?
00:28:57Don't know. The call just came in.
00:28:59201 Bell Building.
00:29:00You want me to go over there?
00:29:02No, no, stay where you are. I'm on my way.
00:29:04Bill, who?
00:29:05I don't know who you are.
00:29:06Bill, who?
00:29:08I don't know, Lillian. I've got to run.
00:29:10Bill! Bill!
00:29:37I suppose you are from the police?
00:29:44Well?
00:29:47Who's the gentleman on the floor?
00:29:49Are you a policeman?
00:29:51No, no, I'm from the Times-Star.
00:29:53Oh.
00:29:54Well, I have nothing to say until the police arrive.
00:29:58Well, you'd better start talking, lady. Here they are.
00:30:07I suppose you haven't been strolling by this time, huh?
00:30:10Something like that.
00:30:11You're too smart.
00:30:14Well, I was only four blocks from here when Spud gave me the call.
00:30:18Is it my fault I got here ahead of you?
00:30:23Who is he?
00:30:25Mr. James Smythe.
00:30:28And who are you?
00:30:29Miss Hilda Lunn, secretary to Mr. Smythe.
00:30:32I'm the secretary to Mr. Smythe.
00:30:33And who are you?
00:30:35Miss Hilda Lunn, secretary to Mr. Smythe and Mr. Brock.
00:30:42Why don't you tell us all about it?
00:30:44Well, I opened the office as usual, then I came in here.
00:30:47I came upon the body of Mr. Smythe. I knew at once he was dead.
00:30:51I immediately telephoned the police, and I haven't touched anything.
00:30:54See anything of a gun?
00:30:56I saw nothing except what's before you right now.
00:31:00Not suicide?
00:31:02Looks to me like he was shot with a .32, same as the other fellow.
00:31:06The bullet went in the left ear and came out behind the right ear.
00:31:08See?
00:31:28.32, all right.
00:31:30Might get the coroner, fellas.
00:31:35Miss Lunn, do you mind stepping in the other room? I have a few questions.
00:31:47Miss Lunn, do you have any idea who killed your employer?
00:31:50Yes.
00:31:51Who?
00:31:52By a gambler named Blackie Atwater.
00:31:57Larimer?
00:31:59Find out when Smythe was last seen alive.
00:32:02Get the elevator operator, scrub woman, the tenants on this floor,
00:32:06clerks in the candy shop on the ground floor.
00:32:09Get all the information you can.
00:32:11Say, Chief, about this Atwater, I know that bird.
00:32:14He hangs out at the Lido where I can get...
00:32:16Never mind him as I told you.
00:32:18Yes, sir.
00:32:23Sit down.
00:32:30Miss Lunn, perhaps you can tell me why you suspect this man,
00:32:34Atwater, of killing Mr. Smythe.
00:32:36I heard him threaten to kill him if he didn't...
00:32:39Well, that was all that I heard.
00:32:41What was all that you heard?
00:32:42Just what I told you.
00:32:44This Atwater came to the office day before yesterday,
00:32:47and he was very angry, and I told him Mr. Smythe was busy.
00:32:50Snapped at me in a most ungentlemanly way.
00:32:52Snapped at you?
00:32:53Yes.
00:32:54Anyway, when Miss Smythe was free, this Atwater, he went in,
00:32:58and I went to the door and listened.
00:33:01Yes?
00:33:02I heard him say, why, you dirty...
00:33:04I can't repeat what I heard.
00:33:06It's unnecessary. What are they quarreling about?
00:33:08Well, I don't know. I didn't hear enough of the conversation.
00:33:11Come, come, I want to know.
00:33:13What was it? Gambling debts, perhaps?
00:33:16I don't know.
00:33:18Where'd he live?
00:33:20At the Bellevue Hotel, just around the block.
00:33:22The coroner will be here in a few minutes to take the body.
00:33:25You better look through your files, let me know if anything is missing.
00:33:29Oh, yes.
00:33:31Where is his partner, Mr. Brock?
00:33:33Mr. Smythe received a telegram from Mr. Brock yesterday morning,
00:33:36saying that he'd be in this morning on the statesman,
00:33:38and he'd like to have a car at the station to meet him.
00:33:4110.20 now. That gives me 15 minutes.
00:33:43Mind if I go with you?
00:33:45Meet Brock?
00:33:46Yes.
00:33:47Suit yourself.
00:33:50Ed.
00:33:51How much do you think she held out on you?
00:33:53Plenty.
00:34:00Mr. Brock.
00:34:01Yes, sir.
00:34:02Keep us up away from the town. They may want to ask us more questions.
00:34:05Yes, sir.
00:34:17Did you get anything out of him?
00:34:18As far as I can learn, he knew nothing about the murderers.
00:34:21Oh, come on, you got something.
00:34:22Come on, kick in, Ed. What do you got?
00:34:24Established an airtight alibi.
00:34:26Stayed in the washroom all night.
00:34:28Trainsick.
00:34:29Conductor and porter both swear to his story.
00:34:31Don't you think he deliberately manufactured that alibi?
00:34:33No.
00:34:35What do you know about the reputation of these guys?
00:34:38Oh, cheap little chices.
00:34:39They'll take anything from bootleggers to shady divorces.
00:34:42You know, that sort of thing.
00:34:43Oh.
00:34:47Send him in.
00:34:53Come in, Wilson.
00:34:57Captain, I believe I've learned something you'd like to know.
00:35:00Right, shoot.
00:35:01Well, two of my fraternity brothers,
00:35:03who wish to keep their identity as secret as possible,
00:35:05they're in training.
00:35:06We're out with Mal Jannings Thursday night.
00:35:08Now you're going to tell me these two men heard Jannings quarreling with a certain party, right?
00:35:12Well, how did you know?
00:35:14Guessed it.
00:35:15And the certain party is a gambler named Blackie Atwater.
00:35:18Yes.
00:35:19I believe this Blackie threatened Jannings' life.
00:35:21Exactly.
00:35:22Thanks very much.
00:35:23Anything else?
00:35:24No.
00:35:25That's all.
00:35:31Are you going to pick up that water?
00:35:32I've already given the order.
00:35:33That's for publication?
00:35:34For obvious reasons.
00:35:35Keep it to yourself, will you?
00:35:36Hey, Chief, I've just been over-talking to the night clerk over Smyth's hotel.
00:35:39He tells me that Smyth received a phone call about ten minutes to twelve.
00:35:42And the clerk had nothing to do with it.
00:35:44He sort of listened in well.
00:35:45What'd he hear?
00:35:46Well, he heard a party ask Smyth to come over his office right away.
00:35:48Then he couldn't wait until morning.
00:35:49Did the party that called give any name?
00:35:51Said it was a woman.
00:35:52Her name was Lillian Boyne.
00:35:54Well, well.
00:35:56Hmm.
00:35:57Did Smyth leave right away?
00:35:58Well, he left a few minutes after twelve.
00:36:00Oh, the coroner sent that over.
00:36:02Said they took it out of Jannings'.
00:36:05J for Jannings', huh?
00:36:07Yeah.
00:36:09S for Smyth and V for Boyne.
00:36:12Shot this one into a bucket of sand out of the gun we found in her apartment.
00:36:16See here, Ed, you're all wrong.
00:36:17That call came for Smyth around twelve o'clock.
00:36:20And at twelve exactly, I was walking up the steps to Lillian's apartment.
00:36:23And I stayed there until you two guys came busting in.
00:36:25You sure you haven't set your watch since last night?
00:36:27What I've just told you, I'd swear to on any witness stand.
00:36:29Don't doubt your word, Bill.
00:36:30But that gun...
00:36:31That gun was in her apartment from twelve until you took it away with you.
00:36:35And Smyth couldn't have been killed with that gun?
00:36:36Absolutely impossible.
00:36:38All right, Bill, we'll see.
00:36:40Wait till we photograph these slugs.
00:36:42Come in.
00:36:43Hey, Bill, the office wants you on the phone.
00:36:46Thanks.
00:36:47Mind if I use your phone, Ed?
00:36:48Oh, yeah.
00:36:49No, no.
00:36:50Listen, I got them on the booth out here.
00:36:53Better take them to the booth, Bill.
00:37:14Hello?
00:37:15Thought you'd like to know that I'm investigating the Jannings case.
00:37:18Well, I'm glad you've thrown your hat in the ring at last.
00:37:20The president of the university threw it in for me.
00:37:22Bill, you know how I stand with the police.
00:37:24They probably won't cooperate with me.
00:37:26I'm a little late in getting started, and I'd like to ask you a few questions.
00:37:29Glad to help you. I'll be right over, doctor.
00:37:38What kind of arm have I got?
00:37:40One of the dicks just brought in Smyth and Jannings' fingerprints.
00:37:42And they're in there checking them now.
00:37:44Kine's got a hunch that one of them may be an ex-con or something.
00:37:51Listen, Smyth.
00:37:53Did you see Kine take anything out of that top drawer?
00:37:55He never even touched it.
00:37:59Bill, you can't do that.
00:38:00No?
00:38:01Watch me.
00:38:03Gee, Bill, Captain Kine'll freeze you for this.
00:38:06Where did you get those bullets?
00:38:09Stole them.
00:38:11Stole them?
00:38:12You must be crazy.
00:38:14Those bullets are evidence of the most important kind.
00:38:18If you get caught, it might mean a term in prison.
00:38:20Yeah, I know that.
00:38:22But I had to find out if they were all fired from the same gun.
00:38:26We'll know that just as soon as I can check the rifle.
00:38:32The old man's wild. Say, what are you going to do about him?
00:38:34Does he know who got him?
00:38:35Well, he has suspicions, and he's not a bit backward about voicing them, either.
00:38:39Well, there's nothing to do but beard the liar and his well-known death.
00:38:42Come on, give him moral support, will you?
00:38:43Not me, fella.
00:38:45But tell the boys I died fighting.
00:38:47I'll tell them you died talking.
00:38:52Oh, it's you, huh?
00:38:53In the flesh, not a picture.
00:38:54Anything new, Ed?
00:38:55Yeah, in about two minutes, there's going to be a new murder.
00:38:57Oh, maybe I'd better phone the office.
00:38:59That's enough kidding. Where are those slugs?
00:39:01What slugs?
00:39:02You know what slugs. Where are they?
00:39:03Well, the last time I saw them, you put them in the top drawer.
00:39:05Well, here they are, right under these papers.
00:39:07That's where you left them.
00:39:09You better put them in the safe.
00:39:11Think you're smart, don't you?
00:39:13I don't know what you're driving at.
00:39:15I had to hunch these slugs and check.
00:39:18If they don't, I'll know you switched them on.
00:39:21You know very well Smythe couldn't have been killed with that gun
00:39:23while it was in Lillian's apartment.
00:39:25You've got to crush him, this girl.
00:39:28And you'd swear your life away to protect her, wouldn't you?
00:39:30I'd do anything for Lillian.
00:39:31I'd do anything for Lillian.
00:39:33And you'd swear your life away to protect her, wouldn't you?
00:39:37More than to crush her.
00:39:41I'm in love with her.
00:39:47Where'd you take those slugs when you took them out?
00:39:49Dr. Hawley.
00:39:50The chick?
00:39:51Yes.
00:39:52All three of them?
00:39:55Have to bring her in.
00:39:57Sorry, Bill.
00:39:59You're taking this pretty much to heart, Bill.
00:40:02Who wouldn't?
00:40:03Don't jump to conclusions.
00:40:05The girl probably had nothing to do with the actual killings.
00:40:07Certainly she had nothing to do with the actual killings.
00:40:09She's mixed up in it, Bill.
00:40:11What's the use? There's nothing logical about the whole case.
00:40:14Not much, I'll admit.
00:40:15You'll have a sweet time getting a conviction
00:40:17without more evidence than you've got now.
00:40:19Let me tell you something.
00:40:21I'll have a lot more evidence than I've got now
00:40:23before I even try for an indictment.
00:40:25You'll need it.
00:40:27You'll have to excuse me now, Bill.
00:40:28I've got some work to do.
00:40:32Where are you going? See Lillian Boyne?
00:40:34She's home, I'm going to say.
00:40:36Better tell her not to take a run-out, Potter.
00:40:39She wouldn't, even if I asked her to.
00:40:50Come in, Bill.
00:40:51Come in, Bill.
00:40:58Hello.
00:41:00Oh, hello.
00:41:06How's sleuthing today?
00:41:07Rotten.
00:41:08Any new murders this afternoon?
00:41:10Not a murder.
00:41:12They'll be able to fix something up for you tonight.
00:41:22Anything new, Bill?
00:41:23Yes, several things.
00:41:25Dr. Hawley started an investigation.
00:41:28Anything else?
00:41:30Yes.
00:41:31That gun.
00:41:33Mine, you mean?
00:41:34Mm-hmm.
00:41:35What about it?
00:41:36It was used to kill both Jannings and Smythe.
00:41:39Well, how do they know?
00:41:41They compared a bullet from your gun with the others.
00:41:44There must be some mistake.
00:41:45No, no mistake possible.
00:41:47The grooves on the slugs checked.
00:41:49Want some more?
00:41:51Yes, go on.
00:41:52Police are looking for Blacky Atwater.
00:41:55No.
00:41:56They can't.
00:41:57Why not?
00:41:58Not Blacky.
00:41:58Be quiet, Ann.
00:41:59Why not Blacky?
00:42:00That's enough, Bill.
00:42:01What do you mean, that's enough?
00:42:02If I want to ask her questions, that's my business.
00:42:04And don't get the idea you can stop me.
00:42:05What do you mean by that?
00:42:06Well, I will stop you.
00:42:07Oh, dry up, will you, a little?
00:42:08I'm not taking orders from you.
00:42:11What's that?
00:42:12I guess it's someone at the door.
00:42:14Who's that?
00:42:16What's that?
00:42:17I guess it's someone at the door.
00:42:24Hello, Lillian.
00:42:25Can I come in?
00:42:26Yes.
00:42:32Ann, you little fool, get out of here.
00:42:36Go on, get out.
00:42:38Take a taxi.
00:42:39Go home and stay there.
00:42:46I'd like a drink, Lillian.
00:42:48May I help myself?
00:42:49Please do.
00:42:59Mind if I have a look in your dressing room?
00:43:00Why?
00:43:01Well, here's the idea.
00:43:02I got here at midnight last night, and Smythe was killed soon afterwards.
00:43:05Now, I want to find out if anybody planted that gun in there while I was here.
00:43:08Go ahead, look.
00:43:10Have you locked that window since last night?
00:43:12No.
00:43:13Then that gun must have been there all the time I was here.
00:43:15That's what I told you last night.
00:43:17Ed must have been lying when he told me that third bullet was from your gun.
00:43:20Did you ever know a Dickford was honest?
00:43:22Yeah, several of them.
00:43:23They're as common as honest gamblers.
00:43:25Very, very clever.
00:43:30What's the latest dirt on my wife?
00:43:32I don't know.
00:43:33I don't know.
00:43:34I don't know.
00:43:35I don't know.
00:43:36I don't know.
00:43:37I don't know.
00:43:38What's the latest dirt on the murders?
00:43:40Anyone under suspicion?
00:43:42Yes.
00:43:43Who?
00:43:44You, Blackie.
00:43:45You're a liar, Bartlett.
00:43:47Go ahead.
00:43:48Have it your own way.
00:43:50But if you're thinking of blowing this town, you'd better guess again.
00:43:54Who's going to stop me?
00:43:55I am, indirectly.
00:43:56How?
00:43:58The minute you leave this apartment, I'm going to telephone the police.
00:44:01And if you don't think I won't, there's the door.
00:44:03Go ahead, try me.
00:44:04You won't telephone for my apartment.
00:44:06Why won't I?
00:44:07I asked you not to.
00:44:09And in the meantime, what am I supposed to do?
00:44:12You're supposed to stay right here and keep your mouth shut.
00:44:15All afternoon?
00:44:17Until the police get here.
00:44:18Just what do you mean by that?
00:44:21Captain Kine will be coming up here shortly.
00:44:23He's coming after Lily.
00:44:25And he won't be broken-hearted when he finds you here.
00:44:28Did you arrange this little coup?
00:44:30How could I?
00:44:31I didn't know you were expected.
00:44:32But it will be quite a feather in your cap, won't it?
00:44:34I'm not in the market for feathers.
00:44:36Quite a comedian, aren't you?
00:44:37Well, what about it?
00:44:51It's a .32.
00:44:54Fully loaded.
00:44:57You might have got me.
00:44:59Give me the police station, quick.
00:45:08Well, Bill?
00:45:09He tried to get me.
00:45:10Here's his gun.
00:45:11.32, huh?
00:45:13Take him down to the station.
00:45:14Lock him up.
00:45:19Want to make an assault on me?
00:45:20No, sir.
00:45:21Take him down to the station.
00:45:22Lock him up.
00:45:23Take him down to the station.
00:45:24Lock him up.
00:45:26Want to make an assault with a deadly weapon, Bill?
00:45:28No.
00:45:29It might be easier to hold him in case some shyster tries to spring him on a rip.
00:45:32Well, I got him for you.
00:45:33If you can't hold him, that's your fault.
00:45:35Come on, Bucky.
00:45:37Come back for me.
00:45:38I want to ask this young lady some questions before I bring her in.
00:45:41All right, sir.
00:45:49Miss Boyne?
00:45:51What does this man add water to you?
00:45:53A very good friend.
00:45:54Nothing more?
00:45:55Nothing more.
00:45:57Relation?
00:45:58No.
00:45:59Sweetheart?
00:46:00Certainly not.
00:46:01I met him about a year ago, just before I went into the club.
00:46:04As a matter of fact, he got me my job.
00:46:06And Janice?
00:46:07I met him about three months ago.
00:46:09In fact, you met him when he first came here to college, didn't you?
00:46:11Yes.
00:46:12He was in my chemistry class.
00:46:13Miss Boyne?
00:46:14Just what kind of legal work did Smythe and Brock do for you?
00:46:17I never met Mr. Smythe or Mr. Brock.
00:46:20Sure?
00:46:21Quite.
00:46:23And yet, just before midnight, you phoned Smythe to meet you in his office, didn't you?
00:46:27Lillian, you don't have to answer a single question if you don't want to.
00:46:30Now, Miss Boyne, I don't want to put you in jail.
00:46:33I'm doing my best to give you a chance to get out of this.
00:46:35Come now.
00:46:36You must know something about these murders you haven't told.
00:46:38I know nothing whatever about them.
00:46:40But that phone call, you know something about that, don't you?
00:46:42Or do you?
00:46:44Which is it?
00:46:47All right.
00:46:48Have it your own way.
00:46:49You leave nothing for me to do but place you under arrest.
00:46:51Oh, wait a minute, Ed.
00:46:52You're going too far.
00:46:54You can't arrest her without a warrant.
00:46:56I searched her apartment without a warrant.
00:46:57Well, that was different.
00:46:58If you arrest her now without a warrant and can't make the charges stick, you'll be in hot water.
00:47:01I don't mind being in hot water.
00:47:08Murder.
00:47:09You've charged her with murder.
00:47:10Yes.
00:47:11Sure.
00:47:12Sure, you cops have to do something to save your face.
00:47:15So you pick on an innocent girl.
00:47:16Innocent?
00:47:17Why, she had no more to do with those murders than you did.
00:47:19I'm not so sure of that.
00:47:21All right.
00:47:22Go ahead.
00:47:23Drag her off to jail.
00:47:24Hold her without bail and see how much good it'll do you.
00:47:26I'll have her out before night.
00:47:34Get me State 4705.
00:47:36I'll get your things.
00:47:37You don't have to wait.
00:47:40City Desk.
00:47:42Well, Grimes.
00:47:43Well, get this.
00:47:44Here's a flash for your final.
00:47:45Lillian Vaughn has been served with a warrant charging murder.
00:47:47The gun was found in her apartment last night, according to Captain Kine.
00:47:50Any evidence besides that?
00:47:52No.
00:47:53The old fool hasn't got a leg to stand on.
00:47:55What?
00:47:57Well, I know, because I was in her apartment last night.
00:48:00What do you think I was doing?
00:48:02Interviewing her, of course.
00:48:04Now, listen.
00:48:05I want you to get Bailey, the paper's attorney.
00:48:07The time star is going to the bat for this girl.
00:48:09How do you know she's innocent?
00:48:11Well, because she's innocent.
00:48:13How do you know she's innocent?
00:48:15Well, take my word for it.
00:48:16I've never let you down before.
00:48:18I'm right, and I'm going to prove it.
00:48:22Oh, thanks, Grimes.
00:48:23I'll be in later.
00:48:27Why wait for Lorimer?
00:48:28I'll drive you down to my car.
00:48:29We'll wait for Lorimer.
00:48:31He'll be in here in a few minutes.
00:48:32We'll send for the wagon.
00:48:33Sure, that's right.
00:48:34Drag her down there like she was a common drunk.
00:48:36Common drunks are no worse than common murderers.
00:48:38Stop it!
00:48:39Stop calling me a...
00:48:40Oh, that's all right.
00:48:41Don't pay any attention to him.
00:48:43He's just trying to bait you.
00:48:45I'm not a murderer.
00:48:47Of course you're not.
00:48:48I know it, and so does that.
00:48:50He's just trying to pull a fast one.
00:48:54See, now I...
00:48:55Well, that boy put it over on me.
00:48:56I was rolling down the main drag about 40 miles an hour
00:48:58when he piled out, and he rolled over about 20 times.
00:49:00Before I could get the car stopped, he was gone.
00:49:02Well, you big fat head.
00:49:04Come on.
00:49:12Hello, doctor.
00:49:14Oh, William.
00:49:16Glad you came.
00:49:18I, uh...
00:49:19I just identified some lint.
00:49:21Lint?
00:49:22Yes, from the bottom of Jennings' trousers.
00:49:25Did you ever notice the color of the rug
00:49:27in Brock and Smiles' office?
00:49:29Yeah.
00:49:31It's, uh...
00:49:33It's a hair, isn't it?
00:49:34Exactly.
00:49:36Jennings was in that office recently.
00:49:38What else did you find?
00:49:40I'm looking at some dust from the floor
00:49:42where Jennings was found.
00:49:44And I also found and photographed a woman's footprints
00:49:46in the company of their stairs.
00:49:50Is that unusual?
00:49:52In this case, yes.
00:49:54Those stairs are swept every day.
00:49:56And that footprint was superimposed on one of Jennings'.
00:49:59This woman went up and did not come down.
00:50:02What about the elevator?
00:50:04The elevator stopped running.
00:50:06From this footprint and other evidence that I have found,
00:50:08I'm convinced that it was a woman
00:50:10who killed Jennings and Smiles.
00:50:14Find anything else?
00:50:16I'm not ready to make anything public just yet.
00:50:18Doctor, what woman do you suspect?
00:50:22There were only three women involved in the case.
00:50:25It was one of them.
00:50:33Excuse me, I'm Brock.
00:50:35Oh, yes, Mr. Brock.
00:50:37What can I do for you?
00:50:39Well, I want to talk to you.
00:50:41Yes?
00:50:42About Jim Smythe.
00:50:44Oh, yes. Please come in.
00:50:50Well, I'd like to talk to you alone.
00:50:55Very well. Come into my office.
00:51:02Oh, excuse me a moment, Bill.
00:51:27Brock, I can also read you.
00:51:43The bullet must have pierced his heart.
00:51:45He never moved after he fell.
00:51:48I had a hunch something like this was going to happen.
00:51:51Gee, when I heard that shot, I thought you were a goner.
00:51:53Oh, why did the fool have to pick up my office to kill himself?
00:51:56The whole thing is going to be a mess.
00:51:58Publicity.
00:51:59People will flock up here.
00:52:01They'll make curious people.
00:52:03And they'll do a lot of talking.
00:52:04Oh, don't touch the gun or the body, Bill.
00:52:06Leave everything just as it is.
00:52:07All right, Doctor.
00:52:08Oh, hello.
00:52:09This is Dr. Hawley.
00:52:11Please come immediately.
00:52:12Mr. Brock has just killed himself in my office.
00:52:14Yes, thank you.
00:52:17Oh, shall we go into the laboratory?
00:52:20I don't imagine we'll be bothered until the police get here.
00:52:23The building is usually deserted at this time of the day.
00:52:31Your last edition got a press?
00:52:33Yes.
00:52:35As long as anything's happening on this case, I've got to stay on the job.
00:52:40Wish things would quiet down.
00:52:42I wish they'd quieted down 15 minutes ago.
00:52:50Oh.
00:53:02The heartbeat of a housefly.
00:53:10He flew away.
00:53:11Want some more?
00:53:12Oh, that's plenty.
00:53:14Oh, I want those flat feet to hurry up.
00:53:24Oh, Captain.
00:53:26Yes, Doctor.
00:53:27Just happened to be on the spot again, Bill?
00:53:29Well, I was in the next room.
00:53:31I wish I had your faculty being around when these things take place.
00:53:37What happened, Doctor?
00:53:38Well, Brock came and insisted on talking to me alone.
00:53:41He was very nervous and right away demanded to know who had killed his partner.
00:53:46Afraid that whoever killed Smile might kill him, huh?
00:53:48Yes, I took it that way.
00:53:50He was half hysterical as he accused me of murder.
00:53:53Yes, I took it that way.
00:53:55He was half hysterical as he accused me of holding out on him.
00:53:58I finally got a little bit hot under the collar myself.
00:54:01I told him he'd have to leave my office.
00:54:03He jumped up from his chair and cried, all right, I leave.
00:54:05Before I had time to realize what was in his mind, he pulled a gun from his pocket, held it to his side.
00:54:09I shouted at him, hoping to startle him into pausing for a moment.
00:54:13But he pulled the trigger, fell instantly and never moved.
00:54:16Must have been afraid of the police.
00:54:18Tied up pretty tight with those other murderers.
00:54:21He and his partner are both ex-cons.
00:54:23Is that so?
00:54:24Served time in Joliet and Elmira.
00:54:26Both times blackmail.
00:54:28We have a motive to work on now.
00:54:30Have you decided that Brock killed both Smite and Jannings?
00:54:34Don't you remember that Atwater threatened to kill both of them?
00:54:37Sure, I remember that.
00:54:39We have the trains and roads watched.
00:54:41Blackie can't get out of this town.
00:54:43If he could get out of that camp on Ely, he can get out of this town all right.
00:54:48Maybe.
00:54:52You're glad Blackie got away, aren't you?
00:54:54Yes.
00:54:55Wouldn't you be if he was a friend of yours and was kind to you?
00:54:58I suppose I would.
00:54:59But I haven't forgotten he tried to shoot me.
00:55:01He wouldn't have done that, Bill.
00:55:03How do you know he wouldn't?
00:55:04Because he knows that I like him.
00:55:08Lillian, why didn't you tell me that Ann Michaels and Malcolm Jannings were married?
00:55:13How did you know that?
00:55:15Captain Kine found a wedding ring and a marriage license in her apartment.
00:55:18It wasn't my secret, Bill.
00:55:20I promised Ann I wouldn't tell anyone.
00:55:22Why did she want a marriage kept secret?
00:55:25You see, Bill, shortly after she married Mal, she realized that she'd made a mistake.
00:55:29She was going to have it annulled after the semester was over.
00:55:32Oh.
00:55:34Listen to him.
00:55:36You know, I might be able to help you more if you'd start in my telling me
00:55:39why you made that date to meet Smythe in his office last night.
00:55:43I didn't.
00:55:44You told Captain Kine you did.
00:55:46Oh, I just did that to protect Ann.
00:55:49Did she use your name and phone Smythe?
00:55:51Yes.
00:55:52Why didn't she give her own name?
00:55:54She tried to see Smythe several times and he wouldn't see her.
00:55:57What'd she want to see him about?
00:55:59Smythe was Mal's attorney.
00:56:02Why'd you write that note to Mal asking him to meet you?
00:56:05I wanted to see if I couldn't persuade him to be kinder to Ann.
00:56:08He was treating her terribly.
00:56:11Where does Blacky Atwater come in this?
00:56:16Why do you want to know that, Bill?
00:56:17Because I have to, Lillian.
00:56:18Where does Blacky Atwater come in?
00:56:21Miss, if you wouldn't just speak to his office.
00:56:33Captain Kine, I insist that you establish a reasonable possibility of guilt.
00:56:38Show me how this young woman could have shot Malcolm Jennings
00:56:40at the top of the camp in Ely
00:56:42and then made her escape without being seen
00:56:44by dozens of people who were gathered around the base.
00:56:47Show me that and I'll deny this written.
00:56:49Well, there's the three bullets.
00:56:52I didn't ask you anything about that.
00:56:54I asked you to show me how this young woman
00:56:56could have committed the crime in question.
00:56:58If you can't, then I shall have to release the prisoner.
00:57:01Well, I...
00:57:06Then I shall dismiss the warrant.
00:57:10You win.
00:57:13Thank you very much, Judge.
00:57:14Don't thank me.
00:57:18Miss Boyne, let me be the first to congratulate you.
00:57:22I guess you know how much we appreciate what you did for us, Bailey.
00:57:24Thanks. If you ever need me again, look me up.
00:57:28Now, Lillian, I guess you know you can trust me, don't you?
00:57:31Yes, I do, Bill.
00:57:32And the next time I ask you a question, you...
00:57:34Listen, dear, can you get home all right?
00:57:36Yes, sure.
00:57:37I've got to get a story.
00:57:38I'll be up a little later. Wait for me there, will you?
00:57:40Yes, I will.
00:57:45Good evening, Sergeant.
00:57:48Is the captain in?
00:57:50I've come to give myself up.
00:57:52Got a gun?
00:57:57Come out with me.
00:57:58Oh, come on, get moving.
00:58:00Get in.
00:58:01Hey, Chief, got a visitor.
00:58:06I understand you wanted to see me, Captain.
00:58:08Yeah.
00:58:09Sit down, Edward. Sit down.
00:58:12Sit down, Edward. Sit down.
00:58:18Let's see.
00:58:19You broke away from Lorimer this afternoon, didn't you?
00:58:22Yes, and I just now walked in and gave myself up.
00:58:25Hmm.
00:58:26You might explain yourself.
00:58:28I didn't care to be arrested this afternoon.
00:58:31Why?
00:58:32Well, I thought you might check up on my fingerprints and find I'd served time in San Quentin.
00:58:36And I didn't want that made public.
00:58:38Why not?
00:58:39I didn't want my right name to get out.
00:58:42What is your right name?
00:58:43Michaels.
00:58:44Michaels?
00:58:46Yeah.
00:58:47Ann's father.
00:58:49Oh, you are.
00:58:52Believe that to protect her name and keep her friends from finding out that her father was a convict,
00:58:57you risked your life by diving out of that car.
00:59:00You may.
00:59:01I wanted to personally see her on Bonobo, found for Europe.
00:59:05That's where she is right now.
00:59:09Atwater, did you kill Jannings?
00:59:10If I did, do you think I'd be in here right now?
00:59:12You threatened him a few days ago. What is the argument about?
00:59:14About the way he was treating my daughter.
00:59:17I had information that he was cooking up some sort of a plot to ruin her reputation.
00:59:22He and those two shysters.
00:59:23Is that why you threatened to kill Smythe?
00:59:25If I had threatened to kill him, that would have been the reason.
00:59:27Hmm.
00:59:29Your daughter went around with other men, although married to Mal Jannings, I believe.
00:59:33She was very popular on the campus.
00:59:35No one knew of a marriage.
00:59:37They weren't living together.
00:59:39What did you find out about Wilson?
00:59:41It's perfect.
00:59:42What's perfect?
00:59:43The alibi. He said he was down at the fraternity house all evening.
00:59:46Four and a half dozen guys to prove it.
00:59:48He have any money?
00:59:49Well, he drives a big cab, real sir.
00:59:52That wouldn't indicate he's rich enough to be blackmailed.
00:59:54Say, you know, Captain, in spite of his alibi, I've always suspected that Wilson's not for it.
00:59:58Oh, sit down, Sergeant, sit down.
01:00:00Take a load off your feet.
01:00:02Anyone else interested in your daughter particularly?
01:00:04Who had money?
01:00:05Not that I know of.
01:00:08Where are you going, Bill?
01:00:09I'm going over to the office.
01:00:10I've heard enough to make the paper want to get out on extra.
01:00:19Hello, Doc.
01:00:21Oh, it's you, Bill.
01:00:27Well, what's on your mind?
01:00:28A whole lot of things.
01:00:30A whole lot of things, Doc.
01:00:33I wanted to talk them over with you.
01:00:35I'm pretty busy just now, Bill.
01:00:37Are you?
01:00:38Surely you're not too busy.
01:00:42What are you driving at?
01:00:44I'll tell you in a minute.
01:00:46The sedan, Doc.
01:00:47I got it all doped out.
01:00:49Doped what out, Bill?
01:00:51Now, the man who killed Jannings escaped from the Campanile.
01:00:55Oh, I see.
01:00:57Yep. Here are the facts as I have them figured.
01:01:01Number one, nobody left the camp.
01:01:04Number two, no one left the camp.
01:01:07Number three, no one left the camp.
01:01:10Number four, no one left the camp.
01:01:13Number five, no one left the camp.
01:01:15Number one, nobody left the Campanile between the time the shot was fired
01:01:20and the time I started up the stairs with Captain Kine.
01:01:23So, Jannings must have been killed before the shot was heard.
01:01:26Probably before nine o'clock.
01:01:29If he wasn't, the murderer couldn't have escaped.
01:01:32Got it so far?
01:01:35Second, the chimes were not rung last night.
01:01:39That's all very well, Bill.
01:01:41There were plenty of people who heard those chimes.
01:01:43You yourself, in fact.
01:01:45We only thought we heard them.
01:01:48Are you following me, Doc?
01:01:50No.
01:01:52Someone hung a microphone in a window around here
01:01:55and made an electrical transcription of those chimes.
01:01:58Are you listening?
01:02:00I'm listening.
01:02:02Got it?
01:02:04No.
01:02:06It's so simple.
01:02:08That transcription was amplified many times
01:02:10and sent out through a powerful loudspeaker
01:02:12located in a window in some building near the Campanile.
01:02:15Huh?
01:02:17And perhaps the cleverest part of the whole scheme
01:02:19was a time mechanism to start that phonograph at nine o'clock.
01:02:22It seems to me that that shot was heard
01:02:24after the chimes had stopped ringing.
01:02:26Of course. That shot was on the electrical transcription.
01:02:29It was recorded in the laboratory
01:02:31for the purpose of establishing the time of the crime
01:02:33at ten minutes after nine,
01:02:35when our murdering friend was known
01:02:37to have been driving up College Avenue
01:02:39with a certain popular co-ed.
01:02:41A very ingenious theory, Bill.
01:02:43But there's one thing you haven't explained.
01:02:45How could that improvised broadcast
01:02:47have been arranged by Miss Lillian Voyne?
01:02:50I have a good mind to let you have it.
01:02:53There's only one person who had the facilities
01:02:55and the location to arrange such a broadcast,
01:02:58and that person is Dr. C. Edson Hawley.
01:03:05There's only one thing the matter with your theory, Bill.
01:03:08You haven't a scrap of evidence to support it.
01:03:10Wait and see.
01:03:12There's that .45 you shot Brock with, for instance.
01:03:15And what about those fingerprints, doctor?
01:03:17Did you have time to wipe those off?
01:03:19And what about the serial number?
01:03:21Perhaps that number has been filed off.
01:03:23You know, men of science have a method
01:03:25of bringing back serial numbers that have been filed off.
01:03:28Well, Bill, what's the program now?
01:03:31How about a little jaunt down to City Hall?
01:03:34Kine, I suppose, doesn't know of your visit here?
01:03:37No. I doped it all out myself,
01:03:39and I'm going to see that my paper gets full...
01:03:42What's that you've got in your hand?
01:03:43Just glance behind yourself quickly, Bill.
01:03:46I won't move.
01:03:53Did you see it?
01:03:55See what?
01:03:57Those two test tubes piled beneath that pile of rubbish.
01:03:59What about them?
01:04:01Barrels of a shotgun, Bill.
01:04:03Aimed right at your chair.
01:04:05I've only to press this button to discharge both barrels.
01:04:08If you move, I let you have it.
01:04:10Well...
01:04:12You've got the drop on me.
01:04:14Very definitely so.
01:04:18Say, Doc,
01:04:20would you mind telling me the whole story?
01:04:24What is it you want to know, Bill?
01:04:26Suppose we start with the motive.
01:04:28The motive was self-preservation.
01:04:30It was an effort to combat,
01:04:32by the only means at my disposal,
01:04:34a blackmail plot that would have meant my ruination.
01:04:36That plot was engineered by
01:04:38Jannings and those two shyster lawyers.
01:04:42After Jannings was admitted to the university,
01:04:44his first move was to get acquainted with Ann Michaels.
01:04:47He did, and finally married her.
01:04:49How he did that, I don't know.
01:04:51Perhaps she fell in love with him.
01:04:53Perhaps he knew that her father was a gambler,
01:04:55the next convict, and forced her into the marriage.
01:04:57But he married her for just one purpose.
01:05:00He knew that I was interested in the girl,
01:05:02and he planned to blackmail me,
01:05:04knowing that I was a fairly wealthy man.
01:05:06It was his intention to sue for a divorce
01:05:08and name me as correspondent.
01:05:09Well, that divorce case would have never reached court.
01:05:11No, not as long as I paid.
01:05:13But I knew it was in the offing.
01:05:15And that's why you killed Smythe.
01:05:17Smythe caught me in his office
01:05:19while I was searching for papers
01:05:21that might have any bearing on this case.
01:05:23I had to kill him.
01:05:25What about Brock?
01:05:27I counted on his keeping quiet,
01:05:29because he couldn't have aired his suspicions
01:05:31without incriminating himself.
01:05:33But Brock got panicky.
01:05:35He came to my office this afternoon,
01:05:37demanded $50,000.
01:05:39And those bullets, how did you work that?
01:05:42A week or so ago, I went to Lillian's apartment,
01:05:44stole the gun, fired two bullets out of it,
01:05:46and then returned the gun.
01:05:48And you used another gun to kill Janney?
01:05:50Yes, a .32 with a silencer.
01:05:52Then I put the bullets where they were found.
01:05:54So you admit you were going to frame her.
01:05:56I was going to build up a case against her
01:05:58founded on circumstantial evidence.
01:06:00No jury would have convicted her.
01:06:02Just enough of a case so she'd be convicted
01:06:04in the eyes of the world.
01:06:06Just enough evidence so that the police
01:06:07wouldn't be looking for the real murderer.
01:06:09Doc, you're a rat.
01:06:11Anything further you want to know, Bill?
01:06:13No, I guess that's about all.
01:06:16It's just as well that you have no more questions to ask.
01:06:19I'm tired of talking.
01:06:21What are you going to do now?
01:06:23First, I'm going to get your gun.
01:06:28All right.
01:06:30Come and get it.
01:06:38Listen, Chief.
01:06:40I followed Bartlett over to Doc Hawley's place.
01:06:42He stayed there a long time,
01:06:44and all of a sudden, Hawley comes running out
01:06:46with a sort of a crazy expression on his face.
01:06:48He stopped dead when he seen me
01:06:50and tried to pass it off by saying something
01:06:52about it being a nice night.
01:06:54Well, Bill ain't come out of there yet,
01:06:56and the doors are locked up for the night.
01:06:58Call the riot squad.
01:07:00Get the bed wagon.
01:07:02Get the bed wagon.
01:07:04Get the bed wagon.
01:07:05Get the bed wagon.
01:07:07No, better make the animals.
01:07:09All right, come on.
01:07:20Smack those windows.
01:07:22Let some air in here.
01:07:36Look out there, Vance.
01:07:39Well, you're alive and kicking.
01:07:41Boy, you gave me a scare that time.
01:07:43You don't know what it is.
01:07:45It is to be scared.
01:07:47That crazy guy started a fire with some stuff.
01:07:49Yeah, I know.
01:07:51Gas like they used in the war.
01:07:53Come on.
01:07:55Now, take it easy.
01:07:57You're all in.
01:07:59Go get a stretcher.
01:08:01I don't want a stretcher.
01:08:03I'm all right.
01:08:05I'll call the ambulance in a minute.
01:08:07Hostile, ain't he, Chief?
01:08:09Yeah, hard to lick.
01:08:11But he'll go in the ambulance just the same.
01:08:13He won't get me in any ambulance.
01:08:15You may think you're all right,
01:08:17but it's the aftereffects we've got to look out for.
01:08:19Come on, boys.
01:08:21Get him by the feet and shoulders.
01:08:23No, I'm all right.
01:08:25I'm all right.
01:08:27Wait a minute.
01:08:29Never mind.
01:08:31How'd you come to be up in that chemistry building?
01:08:33I had to trail since last night.
01:08:35I figured you'd be in on it somewhere.
01:08:37Say, Ed,
01:08:39you haven't heard nothing like what I found out.
01:08:41I got all the dope on this bird, Holly.
01:08:43I know why he killed him and how.
01:08:46How'd you find that out?
01:08:48I wormed it out of him.
01:08:50We've got a committee out after him
01:08:52and he ought to be at the station when we get there.
01:08:54I'll do a little worming myself.
01:09:06Thanks for the ride, boys.
01:09:08My girl lives down the block and I'd like to see her.
01:09:10You big fat head.
01:09:12Hey, tell me how he rang those chimes.
01:09:14Take a look at the morning paper, Ed.
01:09:16Night.