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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,810 Mr. John Fair, please come 2 00:00:10,810 --> 00:00:12,810 to the ticket reservation counter. 3 00:00:13,310 --> 00:00:17,320 Mr. John Fair, go to the ticket reservation counter, please. 4 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:24,570 Mr. Mannix? 5 00:00:24,570 --> 00:00:27,380 I'm, uh, Viewcola. Conrad Viewcola. 6 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:29,380 Sheriff here in Manzana County. 7 00:00:29,380 --> 00:00:30,830 Well, how do you do, Sheriff? 8 00:00:32,170 --> 00:00:33,880 Subpoena. 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,590 To appear and testify in the case 10 00:00:35,590 --> 00:00:37,890 of The People v. Harry Barlow. 11 00:00:37,890 --> 00:00:39,390 Moving a little fast for me, friend. 12 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:41,390 I just came in from out of state 13 00:00:41,390 --> 00:00:43,390 to meet a client, a Mr. Dobie Dobson. 14 00:00:43,390 --> 00:00:44,760 He was supposed to meet me here 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,650 at the airport. He won't be here. Let's go. 16 00:00:46,650 --> 00:00:48,850 Flight 19 from Phoenix departing on schedule... 17 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:51,850 I received a special delivery letter 18 00:00:51,850 --> 00:00:53,150 last night in Los Angeles. 19 00:00:53,150 --> 00:00:55,440 There was a $1,000 cash advance in it, 20 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:56,440 a round-trip ticket to Manzana, 21 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,940 and a note from a man I never met, 22 00:00:58,940 --> 00:01:00,410 a desperate man asking me for help. 23 00:01:00,410 --> 00:01:02,860 Well, the letter was from the district attorney. 24 00:01:02,860 --> 00:01:04,780 The cash is your experts fee 25 00:01:04,780 --> 00:01:06,080 for testifying. 26 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,000 You can't subpoena out of state, you know. 27 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,870 The D.A. couldn't risk your refusing. 28 00:01:09,870 --> 00:01:12,170 I came here to meet Mr. Dobie Dobson. 29 00:01:12,170 --> 00:01:13,920 I don't leave until I see him. 30 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,710 Well, you may have a long wait. 31 00:01:17,210 --> 00:01:19,210 The man at whose trial you're supposed to testify, 32 00:01:19,210 --> 00:01:22,100 Harry Barlow, is charged with the murder of Dobie Dobson. 33 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:24,020 Flight 23 from Tulsa... 34 00:01:24,020 --> 00:01:27,300 Is this your D.A.'s idea of some kind of a joke? 35 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,520 Well, you're here, aren't you? 36 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,400 ♪ ♪ 37 00:02:51,050 --> 00:02:54,560 Mr. Mannix, so that the court will know 38 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,060 that you are an expert witness, 39 00:02:57,060 --> 00:02:59,060 would you please state... 40 00:02:59,060 --> 00:03:00,810 If the Court please. 41 00:03:00,810 --> 00:03:02,110 Yes, Miss Richards? 42 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,620 Your Honor, the defense stipulates acceptance 43 00:03:04,620 --> 00:03:06,450 of Mr. Mannix as an expert witness. 44 00:03:06,450 --> 00:03:07,820 Thank you, counsel. 45 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:09,620 Let the record so indicate. 46 00:03:09,620 --> 00:03:11,960 You may proceed, Mr. Bartlett. 47 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,880 Thank you, Your Honor. 48 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,750 Mr. Mannix, it is an accepted scientific fact 49 00:03:17,750 --> 00:03:19,550 in the field of criminology is it not, 50 00:03:19,550 --> 00:03:22,390 professional criminals tend to limit their activities 51 00:03:22,390 --> 00:03:24,890 to special kinds of crimes, 52 00:03:24,890 --> 00:03:26,260 special methods used 53 00:03:26,260 --> 00:03:27,170 in committing these crimes? 54 00:03:27,170 --> 00:03:28,510 In short, they develop 55 00:03:28,510 --> 00:03:31,340 a pattern in relation to the crime, 56 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:34,230 a modus operandi, a method of operation, 57 00:03:34,230 --> 00:03:35,570 isn't that correct? 58 00:03:35,570 --> 00:03:37,070 Yes, referred to as an "M.O." 59 00:03:37,070 --> 00:03:40,070 Uh-huh. 60 00:03:40,070 --> 00:03:44,570 Now I have here three police photographs. 61 00:03:45,070 --> 00:03:48,110 People's exhibits six through eight, 62 00:03:48,110 --> 00:03:52,580 illustrating the pattern of a specific burglary. 63 00:03:52,580 --> 00:03:55,870 Now, Mr. Mannix, where there is a burglary, 64 00:03:55,870 --> 00:03:58,590 with the glass from a rear window is cut 65 00:03:58,590 --> 00:04:02,340 and a rubber suction cup is used to remove the glass. 66 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,180 And where the burglar uses white gloves, 67 00:04:07,180 --> 00:04:10,220 cheap white gloves, to cover his fingerprints, 68 00:04:10,220 --> 00:04:13,050 and then he leaves the gloves at the scene of the crime. 69 00:04:15,050 --> 00:04:18,520 And where distinctive drill patterns are used here 70 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,860 to insert TNT into the safe. 71 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:23,730 And where foam rubber is used 72 00:04:23,730 --> 00:04:25,560 to deaden the explosion. 73 00:04:25,570 --> 00:04:27,370 Would you say, Mr. Mannix, 74 00:04:27,370 --> 00:04:29,870 that from this method of operation, 75 00:04:29,870 --> 00:04:31,740 you could identify the probable burglar 76 00:04:31,740 --> 00:04:34,490 as one that you previously had apprehended, 77 00:04:34,490 --> 00:04:36,330 and caused to be brought to justice 78 00:04:36,330 --> 00:04:37,330 for the crime of burglary? 79 00:04:37,330 --> 00:04:38,740 Objection, Your Honor. 80 00:04:38,740 --> 00:04:40,630 The prosecution may not introduce 81 00:04:40,630 --> 00:04:42,500 evidence of a prior criminal act 82 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:44,420 for the express purpose of discrediting 83 00:04:44,420 --> 00:04:45,720 the defendant's character. 84 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,050 Your Honor, the question 85 00:04:48,050 --> 00:04:49,890 is not an issue of character, but rather 86 00:04:49,890 --> 00:04:52,180 the method of operation of a burglary. 87 00:04:52,180 --> 00:04:54,890 The defendant is on trial for murder, not for burglary. 88 00:04:54,890 --> 00:04:58,350 Murder committed during a burglary. 89 00:04:58,350 --> 00:05:01,320 In this case, two inseparable crimes. 90 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,570 The District Attorney means two answers to one question. 91 00:05:05,570 --> 00:05:08,240 One question raises the probability 92 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,990 that if the defendant committed a prior burglary, 93 00:05:10,990 --> 00:05:13,200 then perhaps he committed this one. 94 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,280 And if he committed this burglary, 95 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:17,950 then chances are that he also committed the murder. 96 00:05:17,950 --> 00:05:20,950 When an expert witness identifies a probable burglar 97 00:05:21,450 --> 00:05:23,960 from his method of operation, then simultaneously, 98 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,880 he identifies the murderer. 99 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,630 I assume both counsels are arguing this legal point 100 00:05:29,630 --> 00:05:31,850 for the benefit of the bench. 101 00:05:31,850 --> 00:05:35,220 Your Honor, the evidence to be adduced 102 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:36,720 is totally inadmissible. 103 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,690 Not only the answer, but the question itself 104 00:05:38,690 --> 00:05:39,690 is highly prejudicial. 105 00:05:39,690 --> 00:05:41,640 The defense moves these proceedings 106 00:05:42,140 --> 00:05:43,110 be declared a mistrial. 107 00:05:43,110 --> 00:05:45,060 Your motive is good, Miss Richards, 108 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,530 but your law is wrong. 109 00:05:46,530 --> 00:05:47,730 Your Honor... 110 00:05:47,730 --> 00:05:49,030 Motion denied. 111 00:05:49,030 --> 00:05:50,030 Objection overruled. 112 00:05:50,030 --> 00:05:51,480 But, Your Honor... 113 00:05:56,910 --> 00:06:01,210 Now, Mr. Mannix, from this method of operation, 114 00:06:01,210 --> 00:06:03,880 this modus operandi, this M.O., 115 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,750 could you identify the probable burglar? 116 00:06:06,750 --> 00:06:07,670 Yes. 117 00:06:07,670 --> 00:06:09,000 In all your years of investigating, 118 00:06:09,550 --> 00:06:11,550 have you ever seen a method of operation like this before? 119 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:12,970 Yes. 120 00:06:12,970 --> 00:06:15,420 In more than one person? No. 121 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:18,930 Now, isn't this true, Mr. Mannix, that seven years ago 122 00:06:18,930 --> 00:06:20,930 you represented an insurance company, 123 00:06:20,930 --> 00:06:23,180 and during that time, you investigated, 124 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:24,980 pursued and apprehended a burglar 125 00:06:24,980 --> 00:06:26,440 with this method of operation? 126 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:27,740 Yes, I did. 127 00:06:27,740 --> 00:06:30,020 And is that man in this courtroom? 128 00:06:30,020 --> 00:06:31,740 Yes. 129 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:33,490 And would you point him out, please? 130 00:06:33,490 --> 00:06:35,940 The gentleman sitting at the table. 131 00:06:35,950 --> 00:06:38,410 Let the record show that the expert witness 132 00:06:38,410 --> 00:06:41,200 is identifying the defendant, Harry Barlow. 133 00:06:51,130 --> 00:06:53,300 No further questions, Your Honor. 134 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:54,960 The defense may cross-examine. 135 00:06:56,270 --> 00:06:58,180 I have no questions, Your Honor. 136 00:06:58,180 --> 00:07:00,190 May I please approach the bench? 137 00:07:00,190 --> 00:07:02,690 Why, yes, Miss Richards. 138 00:07:10,230 --> 00:07:11,400 Mr. Bartlett. 139 00:07:16,620 --> 00:07:18,450 Yes, Miss Richards? 140 00:07:18,450 --> 00:07:20,820 With the Court's permission, I respectfully 141 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:22,710 request to retire from this case. 142 00:07:22,710 --> 00:07:25,080 As the Court appointed me, it can appoint 143 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,380 substitute counsel for the indigent defendant. 144 00:07:27,380 --> 00:07:30,000 Why, Miss Richards? 145 00:07:31,830 --> 00:07:34,340 This is my first appearance in court 146 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:36,840 as an attorney in a criminal case. 147 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,340 If I keep making mistakes about the law, 148 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:41,340 I can only lose the case, but the defendant 149 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:42,760 could lose his life. 150 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,100 You've placed his life in my hands, and it would seem 151 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,930 that they are not competent hands. 152 00:07:47,930 --> 00:07:50,820 It takes a great deal of courage 153 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:53,270 to make an admission like that, Miss Richards. 154 00:07:53,270 --> 00:07:55,190 The same kind of courage 155 00:07:55,190 --> 00:07:57,110 that made your late father, 156 00:07:57,110 --> 00:07:59,530 Jack Richards, one of the finest 157 00:07:59,530 --> 00:08:01,360 trial lawyers in this state. 158 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,750 For his sake, for your own sake, 159 00:08:05,750 --> 00:08:08,200 I want you to think this over. 160 00:08:14,130 --> 00:08:17,130 The defense is granted a 24-hour continuance. 161 00:08:17,130 --> 00:08:18,460 Court adjourned. 162 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,390 Miss Richards, I'm very sorry... 163 00:08:41,870 --> 00:08:42,870 She doesn't want to talk to you 164 00:08:43,370 --> 00:08:44,370 even off the stand. 165 00:08:44,370 --> 00:08:46,380 I called and made a reservation for you 166 00:08:46,380 --> 00:08:47,880 on the next plane back to L.A. 167 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,380 You can just make it if I drive you to the airport now. 168 00:08:50,380 --> 00:08:51,880 Thanks, Sheriff. 169 00:08:52,380 --> 00:08:54,380 It is a little chilly here in Manzana. 170 00:09:01,420 --> 00:09:04,430 That lady lawyer's old man, 171 00:09:04,430 --> 00:09:06,430 Big Jack Richards, ever known him? 172 00:09:06,430 --> 00:09:07,930 I've seen him in court once or twice. 173 00:09:07,930 --> 00:09:09,430 Mr. Advocate. 174 00:09:09,430 --> 00:09:11,430 Fighter, ooh-wee. 175 00:09:11,430 --> 00:09:13,440 He was the kind you took your hat off to 176 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,440 even while he was beating the tar right out of you, 177 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:16,940 which was mostly all of the time. 178 00:09:16,940 --> 00:09:20,690 In fact, he never once lost a criminal case. 179 00:09:20,690 --> 00:09:23,360 That's more than they'll be able to say for his daughter. 180 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:24,750 Yeah, it's a shame. 181 00:09:24,750 --> 00:09:27,250 The girl lives only for the memory of her father. 182 00:09:27,250 --> 00:09:29,420 Well, they're loading the plane. 183 00:09:29,420 --> 00:09:33,010 Have a nice trip, and no hard feelings. 184 00:09:34,210 --> 00:09:37,960 My usual expert witness fee is $300 for the day. 185 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,180 You can return the balance 186 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:40,630 to the D.A. 187 00:09:43,130 --> 00:09:44,630 I changed my mind. 188 00:09:44,630 --> 00:09:46,140 I'd like to cancel off Flight 31. 189 00:09:46,140 --> 00:09:47,640 May I see your ticket, please? 190 00:09:52,730 --> 00:09:54,530 Taken care of right away, sir. 191 00:09:54,530 --> 00:09:56,530 Thank you. 192 00:09:59,530 --> 00:10:00,480 Easy, Mannix. 193 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,820 Let's go back the way you came. 194 00:10:11,130 --> 00:10:13,460 Hold it. 195 00:10:13,460 --> 00:10:16,420 In there. 196 00:10:16,420 --> 00:10:20,840 Mr. George Sperling, Mrs. George Sperling, 197 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,170 please report to the car rental desk. 198 00:10:29,090 --> 00:10:31,100 You missed one plane to L.A., 199 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,600 there'll be another in about an hour. 200 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,100 Be on it. 201 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,370 My signed resignation from the case. 202 00:10:50,370 --> 00:10:51,370 If you think that's news, 203 00:10:51,370 --> 00:10:53,370 Vera, you're free to print it. 204 00:10:53,370 --> 00:10:55,370 As a newspaperwoman, I'll print it, 205 00:10:55,370 --> 00:10:57,370 but as a friend, I've got to tell you, 206 00:10:57,370 --> 00:10:59,880 I think you're making a mistake, Phyllis. 207 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,880 This is an admission of incompetence. 208 00:11:03,380 --> 00:11:04,380 It's a confession. 209 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,880 I failed. 210 00:11:07,350 --> 00:11:08,880 I failed my father. 211 00:11:09,390 --> 00:11:10,850 What about your client? 212 00:11:10,850 --> 00:11:14,310 Harry Barlow, did you fail him? 213 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,310 What could I do after your testimony? 214 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,820 You know, if you'd been less concerned with yourself, 215 00:11:25,820 --> 00:11:27,820 and more concerned with your client, 216 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:30,620 you might have cross-examined me instead of passing. 217 00:11:30,620 --> 00:11:31,910 You would have asked questions 218 00:11:31,910 --> 00:11:33,410 the D.A. didn't and wouldn't. 219 00:11:33,410 --> 00:11:36,410 You might have got the fact into the record 220 00:11:36,410 --> 00:11:39,420 that Harry Barlow, as a burglar for 20 years, 221 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,300 never once resorted to violence, 222 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:43,090 even when he was caught in the act. 223 00:11:46,510 --> 00:11:49,010 You know... 224 00:11:49,010 --> 00:11:51,510 I saw your father argue a case once. 225 00:11:51,510 --> 00:11:52,430 And he was scared. 226 00:11:52,430 --> 00:11:53,900 You could tell the way he fought 227 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:55,400 to keep his hands from shaking, 228 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,400 the way the sweat stained 229 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,400 through the back of his jacket on a cool day. 230 00:11:59,850 --> 00:12:00,690 But he had guts. 231 00:12:00,690 --> 00:12:02,820 Not because he had no fear, but because 232 00:12:02,820 --> 00:12:05,160 he fought hard, despite the fear. 233 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:06,530 But you... 234 00:12:06,530 --> 00:12:09,410 you're afraid, so you run. 235 00:12:09,410 --> 00:12:12,360 Tomorrow morning, early, 236 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,170 I want to see your client, 237 00:12:14,170 --> 00:12:15,750 Harry Barlow. 238 00:12:20,010 --> 00:12:22,010 You all right? 239 00:12:22,010 --> 00:12:24,010 I'm Vera Hillsman. 240 00:12:24,010 --> 00:12:25,460 I write for the Morning News. 241 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:27,430 Well, do me a favor, 242 00:12:27,430 --> 00:12:28,680 keep this out of the paper, huh? 243 00:12:30,470 --> 00:12:32,470 It's bad for business. 244 00:12:50,370 --> 00:12:51,870 I put you away once, Harry. 245 00:12:51,870 --> 00:12:53,870 You keep that collar-ad face of yours shut now, 246 00:12:53,870 --> 00:12:55,870 and I'm going to put you away for good. 247 00:12:55,870 --> 00:12:57,380 Now were you in on that Dobson heist? 248 00:12:57,380 --> 00:13:01,880 I... I think so. 249 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,380 You "think so"? 250 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:05,670 You don't know? 251 00:13:05,670 --> 00:13:08,500 Not for sure, no. 252 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:12,340 Some guy, a drifter I ran into, said he had an easy mark. 253 00:13:12,340 --> 00:13:14,230 So I agreed to meet him out of town 254 00:13:14,230 --> 00:13:16,010 and help pull off the heist. 255 00:13:16,010 --> 00:13:19,650 I... I never met him. 256 00:13:19,650 --> 00:13:22,400 Handsome Harry passed up an easy mark? 257 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,770 Yeah, I passed it up. 258 00:13:24,770 --> 00:13:28,270 I stopped in a bar before I left to have a drink and I... 259 00:13:28,270 --> 00:13:30,280 You met a pretty face. 260 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,280 She didn't even belong in there. 261 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,700 Pretty, all right, but square. 262 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:40,590 On the level, just all mixed up. 263 00:13:40,590 --> 00:13:42,920 Some kind of family problem. 264 00:13:44,870 --> 00:13:46,380 Okay, so you parked in the hill 265 00:13:46,380 --> 00:13:48,880 and psychoanalyzed your unhappy housewife. 266 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,880 You got back to your place late. What then? 267 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,350 The cops were waiting for me. 268 00:13:52,350 --> 00:13:54,130 Searched me, the car. 269 00:13:54,130 --> 00:13:57,300 Found five grand in bills hidden in my trunk. 270 00:13:57,550 --> 00:13:59,140 Which means you want me to believe that somebody 271 00:13:59,140 --> 00:14:02,390 planted that stolen money in your car before you left, 272 00:14:02,610 --> 00:14:04,440 before the robbery was committed? 273 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,730 So help me, I never laid eyes on that dough before. 274 00:14:08,230 --> 00:14:09,730 I wasn't even near this Dobson's place. 275 00:14:09,730 --> 00:14:11,730 Didn't even know who Dobson was. 276 00:14:11,730 --> 00:14:12,740 Now, I swear that! 277 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:14,150 You've got to believe me. 278 00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:34,090 This woman Barlow says he was with, 279 00:14:34,510 --> 00:14:36,590 what about her? 280 00:14:36,590 --> 00:14:38,430 Well, he gave us her description and her name: 281 00:14:38,730 --> 00:14:39,810 Bonnie. 282 00:14:39,810 --> 00:14:42,260 We turned the town upside down looking for her. 283 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,680 Mr. Mannix, if it wasn't Barlow, 284 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,690 if there was this woman named Bonnie, 285 00:14:47,690 --> 00:14:50,990 then the cash in Barlow's car really was planted, 286 00:14:51,190 --> 00:14:52,610 and Barlow is being framed. 287 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,950 Why would anyone want to frame Harry Barlow? 288 00:14:56,110 --> 00:14:58,700 Because... 289 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:01,200 Because there was another motive for the murder. 290 00:15:01,620 --> 00:15:03,090 Exactly how do you know that? 291 00:15:03,540 --> 00:15:05,620 Well, you don't "know" it, you just kind of smell it. 292 00:15:05,620 --> 00:15:09,630 By setting up an ex-con with an easy-to-copy M.O. as patsy, 293 00:15:09,630 --> 00:15:11,130 kept anybody else from looking in another direction 294 00:15:11,130 --> 00:15:14,380 for another motive and another murderer. 295 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,430 That still doesn't tell us who or why. 296 00:15:17,630 --> 00:15:20,220 Yeah. 297 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:22,220 Just who is Dobie Dobson, 298 00:15:22,220 --> 00:15:24,190 and why would anybody want to kill him? 299 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,140 Well, that's got to be it. 300 00:15:27,140 --> 00:15:29,650 There's nothing else that even comes close to adding up. 301 00:15:29,650 --> 00:15:31,650 The Max Taylor Ranch? 302 00:15:31,650 --> 00:15:33,650 How do you add up a piece of cheap real estate 303 00:15:34,150 --> 00:15:35,150 to a utility company 304 00:15:35,150 --> 00:15:37,150 and come up with a murder? 305 00:15:37,150 --> 00:15:39,660 One, Old man Max Taylor died. 306 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:43,460 No will, no heirs and the state took over his property, right? 307 00:15:43,740 --> 00:15:44,290 Dig. 308 00:15:44,630 --> 00:15:47,710 Two, the late, Dobie Dobson, 309 00:15:47,710 --> 00:15:50,720 was vice president of the Tri-State Power Company. 310 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,720 Now the company needed a location 311 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,170 for a new multi-million dollar nuclear power plant. 312 00:15:55,590 --> 00:15:57,090 Right? Still digging. 313 00:15:57,470 --> 00:16:00,560 Three, Vice President Dobson 314 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,060 finds the old Taylor Ranch, recommends it to his company. 315 00:16:03,060 --> 00:16:05,060 His company buys it. 316 00:16:06,570 --> 00:16:07,430 Well, that's it. 317 00:16:07,730 --> 00:16:11,820 One plus two plus three equals murder? 318 00:16:11,820 --> 00:16:13,740 Sorry, I've just stopped digging. 319 00:16:14,110 --> 00:16:16,190 You forgot to add two and a half. 320 00:16:16,190 --> 00:16:19,190 Now could Dobson have bought the Taylor Ranch 321 00:16:19,190 --> 00:16:20,700 himself at auction, very cheap? 322 00:16:21,110 --> 00:16:24,120 And then sell it back to his company at say, ten, 20, 323 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:25,580 maybe a hundred times more than he paid for it? 324 00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:27,090 No, of course he couldn't. 325 00:16:27,090 --> 00:16:28,090 That's illegal in this state. 326 00:16:28,090 --> 00:16:29,590 It's conflict of interest. 327 00:16:29,590 --> 00:16:31,460 Dobson would be crazy to try a thing like that. 328 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,340 Sure, under his own name. 329 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,340 But what if he used a dummy middleman 330 00:16:35,340 --> 00:16:36,210 to buy and sell it for him? 331 00:16:36,550 --> 00:16:38,600 Wow! Illicit profits. 332 00:16:38,930 --> 00:16:41,520 And fraud. Which could add up to murder. 333 00:16:41,930 --> 00:16:44,020 Yes, but you're still guessing about this 334 00:16:44,020 --> 00:16:46,020 two and a half link in your chain, aren't you? 335 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,940 Say, girl reporter, do you have any influence 336 00:16:49,940 --> 00:16:51,780 on that paper you work for? Sometimes. 337 00:16:51,780 --> 00:16:55,280 Now, if Harry Barlow's attorney couldn't find 338 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,780 this so-called woman, Bonnie, 339 00:16:56,780 --> 00:16:58,650 then chances are the murderer couldn't find her either. 340 00:16:58,650 --> 00:17:00,990 She's the one witness who can destroy this frame-up. 341 00:17:00,990 --> 00:17:02,790 If she knows that, and she must, 342 00:17:02,790 --> 00:17:04,710 she's hiding to protect her life. 343 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,660 I want you to run a personal ad in the classified section, 344 00:17:07,660 --> 00:17:09,330 carefully worded asking this Bonnie woman 345 00:17:09,330 --> 00:17:11,630 to contact me, here. 346 00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:12,630 Will do. 347 00:17:12,630 --> 00:17:13,580 Oh, and keep running 348 00:17:13,580 --> 00:17:15,500 that every day. Right. 349 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,420 Now, if you'll take me to the county recorder's office, 350 00:17:18,420 --> 00:17:20,420 we'll see just how much of a pipe dream 351 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,430 that number two-and-a-half is. 352 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,260 Here's what you're looking for. 353 00:17:28,260 --> 00:17:31,270 The Max Taylor Ranch sold to the Amos Smith Real Estate Company 354 00:17:31,770 --> 00:17:34,600 with a court order passing title after a Sheriff's sale. 355 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,940 Smith Real Estate to Tri-State Power, 1,500 acres. 356 00:17:37,940 --> 00:17:39,410 Is there an address there 357 00:17:39,910 --> 00:17:41,330 for the Amos Smith Real Estate Company? 358 00:17:41,330 --> 00:17:43,250 Sure thing. 359 00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:44,750 Wilshireville. Small town, north of here. 360 00:17:44,750 --> 00:17:46,250 Thanks. 361 00:17:46,250 --> 00:17:49,080 Shame you had to waste your time coming here for the information. 362 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,420 Probably got it all sitting in your files. 363 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,760 In my files? 364 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,090 Well, your father's, I guess. 365 00:17:57,090 --> 00:17:59,010 He was in here getting the same information, 366 00:17:59,010 --> 00:18:00,760 about a week or so, I guess, 367 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,300 before he was killed in that accident. 368 00:18:13,140 --> 00:18:16,950 As a lawyer, I maintain quite a few companies. 369 00:18:16,950 --> 00:18:19,820 The Amos Smith Real Estate Company is only one of them. 370 00:18:19,820 --> 00:18:21,620 It acted as a go-between 371 00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:24,400 for the purchase and subsequent resale of the Max Taylor Ranch. 372 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:25,910 There's no secret about it. 373 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:27,790 We bought 1,500 acres at ten dollars an acre. 374 00:18:27,790 --> 00:18:30,830 The land was practically worthless, 375 00:18:30,830 --> 00:18:32,330 not good for farming or cattle grazing-- 376 00:18:32,330 --> 00:18:34,330 actually good for nothing. 377 00:18:34,330 --> 00:18:36,330 Oh not "nothing", Mr. Smith. 378 00:18:36,330 --> 00:18:38,750 It apparently was an ideal site for a nuclear power plant. 379 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:41,640 Not ideal, sir. 380 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,140 It was the only site in the whole state 381 00:18:44,140 --> 00:18:45,640 for that kind of plant. 382 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:46,590 The power company knew this. 383 00:18:46,590 --> 00:18:48,140 They willingly paid the asking price 384 00:18:48,140 --> 00:18:49,510 without batting an eyelash. 385 00:18:49,510 --> 00:18:53,900 Not only the fattest commission I ever earned, it was the easiest. 386 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:56,240 What did the power plant pay for the 1,500 acres? 387 00:18:56,230 --> 00:19:02,360 Now, that's a matter between the buyer, the seller and me. 388 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,690 Mr. Smith, the Tri-State Power Company 389 00:19:05,690 --> 00:19:08,080 is a public utility as well as being a private corporation. 390 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,370 I don't have to tell you as an attorney, 391 00:19:10,370 --> 00:19:12,120 that with a company like that, 392 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,090 the details of any financial transaction 393 00:19:14,590 --> 00:19:15,870 are available on proper inquiry. 394 00:19:18,170 --> 00:19:19,930 $1,000 an acre. 395 00:19:22,930 --> 00:19:24,430 Not bad. 396 00:19:24,430 --> 00:19:27,770 Bought for $15,000, sold for a million and a half. 397 00:19:27,770 --> 00:19:30,640 You say you acted as go-between, Mr. Smith. 398 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:31,890 Go-between for whom? 399 00:19:31,890 --> 00:19:34,690 I don't have to answer that question, Miss Richards. 400 00:19:34,690 --> 00:19:37,190 As an attorney... there is, you know, 401 00:19:37,190 --> 00:19:39,560 the matter of a lawyer-client privilege. 402 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,950 A lawyer and client conspiring to break the law 403 00:19:41,950 --> 00:19:43,950 and hiding it under the technicality 404 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:47,950 of a lawyer-client relationship is not my idea of privilege. 405 00:19:47,950 --> 00:19:50,370 Just you try to abuse that privilege, Mr. Smith. 406 00:19:50,370 --> 00:19:54,080 You let me subpoena you, and just you try it. 407 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,830 Like father, like daughter. 408 00:19:57,830 --> 00:19:59,710 Big Jack Richards-- 409 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,920 pious, mealy-mouthed Jack Richards. 410 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,750 He tried the same thing, right here in this office! 411 00:20:05,750 --> 00:20:06,720 A shakedown-- 412 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,170 naked extortion! 413 00:20:09,170 --> 00:20:11,090 There was nothing illegal about it-- nothing to hide. 414 00:20:11,090 --> 00:20:12,900 Big Jack Richards didn't collect 415 00:20:12,890 --> 00:20:14,760 a cent of blackmail money from me 416 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,350 and neither will you. 417 00:20:16,350 --> 00:20:18,570 I'll tell you the same thing I told him. 418 00:20:18,570 --> 00:20:22,400 Get out! Both of you! 419 00:20:36,870 --> 00:20:39,840 I don't believe it. 420 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,870 Not my father. 421 00:20:42,870 --> 00:20:47,380 The county recorder said something about an accident. 422 00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:50,380 Exactly how did your father die? 423 00:20:50,380 --> 00:20:52,890 An auto accident. 424 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,390 He, uh, went off the highway and over an embankment. 425 00:20:55,390 --> 00:20:57,890 Where? 426 00:20:58,390 --> 00:21:02,390 On this highway-- a few miles from here. 427 00:21:02,390 --> 00:21:05,900 He was on his way back from Wilshireville-- 428 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:09,400 from seeing Amos Smith. 429 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,910 Hmm. 430 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:14,910 Well, shall we go? 431 00:21:45,570 --> 00:21:48,520 ♪ ♪ 432 00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:08,190 Are you all right? 433 00:23:08,190 --> 00:23:10,160 I... 434 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,160 I know what you're thinking. 435 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,990 My father tried to blackmail him and they killed him. 436 00:23:15,990 --> 00:23:17,280 And they think we tried to blackmail them 437 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,580 and they're going to kill us. 438 00:23:18,580 --> 00:23:20,420 Well, I'll tell you something, 439 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:21,920 my father never blackmailed anybody. 440 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:22,870 My father never blackmailed anybody! 441 00:23:22,870 --> 00:23:24,790 Phyllis... I know he didn't! 442 00:23:24,790 --> 00:23:26,200 Stop it! I know he didn't! 443 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,090 Phyllis! 444 00:23:58,950 --> 00:24:02,460 We found the truck that tried to force you off the road. 445 00:24:02,460 --> 00:24:03,960 Abandoned. 446 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,410 Any registration? 447 00:24:05,410 --> 00:24:06,410 No help. 448 00:24:06,410 --> 00:24:07,960 Truck was stolen earlier. 449 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:08,960 What about fingerprints? 450 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:09,970 No help either. 451 00:24:09,970 --> 00:24:11,380 They were wiped clean. 452 00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:14,340 I wonder how that driver knew that we would be going along 453 00:24:14,340 --> 00:24:16,640 that highway at that precise time? 454 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,930 Obviously, somebody followed you from Smith's 455 00:24:20,430 --> 00:24:22,810 to the highway diner, then phoned ahead when you left. 456 00:24:22,810 --> 00:24:24,650 And that, as far 457 00:24:24,650 --> 00:24:26,150 as the authorities are concerned, is that? 458 00:24:26,150 --> 00:24:28,150 Any suggestions? 459 00:24:28,150 --> 00:24:32,600 Yeah. You find some poor innocent slob of an ex-convict 460 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,440 like Harry Barlow and frame the rap on him. 461 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,240 Hey, now wait a minute, Mannix. 462 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,580 It's all right, Sheriff. It's all right. 463 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:47,040 Miss Richards, first Mr. Mannix is assaulted, 464 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,250 and now the both of you are, 465 00:24:49,540 --> 00:24:51,620 but I can't tell anything from these facts 466 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,130 which leads me to believe that these assaults 467 00:24:54,130 --> 00:24:56,010 had anything-- anything to do with the murder 468 00:24:56,260 --> 00:24:58,100 of Dobie Dobson by your client. 469 00:24:58,300 --> 00:24:59,880 That's for the jury to decide 470 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,880 once they get the evidence. 471 00:25:02,380 --> 00:25:05,350 Yes, Mr. Mannix, 472 00:25:05,350 --> 00:25:10,360 all the evidence, including this letter. 473 00:25:14,650 --> 00:25:16,650 "Mr. Dobson, you promised 474 00:25:16,650 --> 00:25:18,650 "to call back and set up an appointment. 475 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:19,990 "You didn't. 476 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,820 "I tried to get you on the phone three times today. 477 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,290 "By now, I can recognize a stall when it's tried on me. 478 00:25:26,710 --> 00:25:29,790 "You're going to pay, and pay through the nose. 479 00:25:29,790 --> 00:25:31,800 "And the longer you refuse to face that fact, 480 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,080 the more it's going to cost you." 481 00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:42,640 Dobson received that letter 482 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,480 on the day that the man who sent it died. 483 00:25:44,730 --> 00:25:47,650 He turned it over to me, charging attempted blackmail. 484 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:50,350 I thought it best just to forget the whole thing. 485 00:25:50,650 --> 00:25:53,230 But I'm sorry, I can't sit on it any longer. 486 00:25:53,650 --> 00:25:57,740 Miss Richards, if you enter any evidence 487 00:25:57,740 --> 00:25:59,740 regarding the Taylor Ranch, 488 00:25:59,740 --> 00:26:02,690 I shall be forced to enter this letter 489 00:26:03,030 --> 00:26:04,530 as evidence. 490 00:26:04,860 --> 00:26:08,450 Two dead men will be libeled, their reputations smeared: 491 00:26:08,950 --> 00:26:11,700 your father and Dobie Dobson. 492 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:17,380 You see, your father sent this letter to Mr. Dobson. 493 00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:44,320 Do you still have your father's files? 494 00:27:00,590 --> 00:27:02,090 Thanks. 495 00:27:10,090 --> 00:27:14,600 Here's a copy of all the proceedings involved 496 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,520 in the sale of the Max Taylor Ranch. 497 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,400 There's a copy of the letter that Bartlett read us 498 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,770 from my father to Dobie Dobson, 499 00:27:21,770 --> 00:27:25,690 a letter to my father and my father's reply. 500 00:27:25,690 --> 00:27:26,610 From whom? 501 00:27:26,610 --> 00:27:31,920 Mm, some woman in Chicago, a cousin of Max Taylor. 502 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,870 But I thought the State took over the property 503 00:27:35,370 --> 00:27:36,870 because there was no will, no heirs. 504 00:27:36,870 --> 00:27:38,170 Isn't a cousin an heir? 505 00:27:38,170 --> 00:27:42,380 An heir, yes, but too late under the law to inherit. 506 00:27:42,380 --> 00:27:47,300 You mean, by the time the cousin found Max Taylor was dead 507 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:48,800 and got in touch with your father, 508 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,800 the state legally owned the property 509 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,270 and had a right to sell it? 510 00:27:51,270 --> 00:27:54,720 In nonlegal terms, that's what happened. 511 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,190 That's what my father told her. 512 00:27:56,190 --> 00:28:00,200 He could only get her the auction price: $15,000. 513 00:28:02,060 --> 00:28:05,070 Would that still be true if he knew and could prove 514 00:28:05,070 --> 00:28:07,570 that the sale of the ranch was a fraud? 515 00:28:07,570 --> 00:28:12,910 Why don't you ask what you really want to know? 516 00:28:12,910 --> 00:28:15,710 Did my father know enough to have the sale set aside? 517 00:28:15,710 --> 00:28:17,710 Did he know enough to blackmail Dobson? 518 00:28:17,710 --> 00:28:20,470 I didn't ask that, you did. 519 00:28:20,470 --> 00:28:22,750 Well, what's the difference who asked it? 520 00:28:22,750 --> 00:28:25,250 The answer's the same. 521 00:28:25,250 --> 00:28:28,260 Yes, he knew enough to blackmail Dobson. 522 00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:35,180 If he were capable of being a blackmailer. 523 00:28:54,670 --> 00:28:57,170 Martinis always make you thoughtful? 524 00:28:57,170 --> 00:28:59,540 Pretty mixed-up thoughts this time... 525 00:28:59,540 --> 00:29:03,960 about a little man who wasn't there, who couldn't know. 526 00:29:04,460 --> 00:29:05,460 You're late. 527 00:29:05,460 --> 00:29:08,930 Mannix, has anybody answered the ad I ran this afternoon 528 00:29:09,430 --> 00:29:12,430 about Barlow's girlfriend Bonnie? 529 00:29:12,430 --> 00:29:13,380 No, not a word. 530 00:29:13,380 --> 00:29:15,890 Some hausfrau who was out on the town 531 00:29:15,890 --> 00:29:16,890 for the first time in her life, 532 00:29:17,390 --> 00:29:19,390 afraid her husband and her family might find out. 533 00:29:19,390 --> 00:29:21,390 More scared of being hurt, I guess. 534 00:29:21,390 --> 00:29:23,900 No, I think we can just scratch that lead for now. 535 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:24,810 I'm not so sure. 536 00:29:24,810 --> 00:29:27,730 I just got a phone call, anonymous. 537 00:29:27,730 --> 00:29:29,620 I think I know where she's hiding. 538 00:29:29,620 --> 00:29:31,490 Wish me luck! 539 00:29:36,490 --> 00:29:38,290 You tired of living? 540 00:29:38,290 --> 00:29:40,050 But she's a story. 541 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,330 And she's a witness you've got to have. 542 00:29:42,330 --> 00:29:44,630 And she's dynamite that could blow up in anybody's face 543 00:29:44,630 --> 00:29:45,550 that gets close to her. 544 00:29:45,550 --> 00:29:48,840 Sugar'n spice and everything nice? 545 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,670 That's not what girl reporters are made of. 546 00:29:50,670 --> 00:29:52,470 Now, why find out the hard way? 547 00:29:52,470 --> 00:29:55,260 Okay, so what do we do? 548 00:29:55,260 --> 00:29:56,640 Call the sheriff? 549 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,560 You give me the keys to your car, the address, 550 00:30:00,060 --> 00:30:01,900 and then you go back to Phyllis Richards' office 551 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:04,020 and keep her company with the doors locked tight 552 00:30:04,020 --> 00:30:05,770 to everybody but me. 553 00:30:35,270 --> 00:30:37,220 ♪ ♪ 554 00:31:00,910 --> 00:31:02,910 ♪ ♪ 555 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,430 ♪ ♪ 556 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:34,250 ♪ ♪ 557 00:32:47,270 --> 00:32:49,520 ♪ ♪ 558 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:40,480 ♪ ♪ 559 00:34:04,810 --> 00:34:07,810 Don't you think you ought to have a doctor look at this? 560 00:34:07,810 --> 00:34:09,310 No, it's just a scratch. 561 00:34:09,310 --> 00:34:10,820 You know, Harry Barlow's girlfriend wasn't there, 562 00:34:10,820 --> 00:34:12,320 never had been there. 563 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,820 That so-called newspaper tip was just bait 564 00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:16,320 for you and me and Phyllis, maybe all three of us. 565 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,820 But kill us? Why? 566 00:34:18,820 --> 00:34:20,110 'Cause we're digging too deep. 567 00:34:20,110 --> 00:34:22,740 Did you get the name of that man out there? 568 00:34:22,740 --> 00:34:24,580 Driver's license. 569 00:34:24,580 --> 00:34:27,450 His name is... name was Edward Lewis. 570 00:34:27,450 --> 00:34:29,120 Edward Lewis? 571 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,370 You know him? 572 00:34:30,370 --> 00:34:32,790 He used to work for the D.A.'s office. 573 00:34:32,790 --> 00:34:35,290 He got a little rough with his hands, 574 00:34:35,290 --> 00:34:37,170 and they fired him about a year ago. 575 00:34:37,170 --> 00:34:41,050 He, uh, he was involved in a couple of Dad's cases. 576 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:45,550 Violence, murder for a price. 577 00:34:45,550 --> 00:34:47,050 Well, that doesn't help us. 578 00:34:47,050 --> 00:34:49,050 Anybody with a little dough could have hired him. 579 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,560 I went through those files we brought up from the cellar. 580 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,060 And? 581 00:34:58,060 --> 00:35:01,400 I went through the transcript of the trial 582 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,030 with a fine tooth comb. 583 00:35:03,030 --> 00:35:06,370 I was looking for mistakes and inconsistencies 584 00:35:06,370 --> 00:35:07,660 and writing them down. 585 00:35:07,660 --> 00:35:09,410 Question, counselor: 586 00:35:09,410 --> 00:35:11,910 When court reconvenes tomorrow morning, 587 00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:14,380 are you going to keep on representing Harry Barlow? 588 00:35:18,750 --> 00:35:22,250 I'm not going to just represent him, 589 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,810 I'm going to fight for him. 590 00:35:26,310 --> 00:35:29,310 Even if it means destroying your father's image? 591 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,270 My father was no blackmailer. 592 00:35:35,270 --> 00:35:38,270 And if he was... 593 00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:40,270 I'm still my father's daughter. 594 00:35:40,270 --> 00:35:44,110 Big Jack or Dirty Jack, 595 00:35:44,110 --> 00:35:46,910 I still love him. 596 00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:53,580 But I'm a lawyer with a client to defend. 597 00:36:15,020 --> 00:36:16,890 Based on your investigation, Sheriff, 598 00:36:16,890 --> 00:36:20,400 would you please describe to the court the chain of events 599 00:36:20,390 --> 00:36:22,900 leading up to and including the murder of Dobie Dobson, 600 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,230 insofar as the authorities have been able to reconstruct 601 00:36:25,230 --> 00:36:27,480 that chain through the evidence? 602 00:36:28,990 --> 00:36:32,990 Well, after the safe was blown, 603 00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:36,490 the burglar reached inside and took out a metal cash box. 604 00:36:36,490 --> 00:36:39,410 Now, Dobson, who must have heard the burglar earlier, 605 00:36:39,410 --> 00:36:42,830 approached the burglar and pointed a gun at him. 606 00:36:42,830 --> 00:36:46,340 The burglar was surprised and turned to face Dobson 607 00:36:46,340 --> 00:36:49,220 still holding the metal cash box in his hand. 608 00:36:49,220 --> 00:36:52,890 Dobson stepped closer, the burglar panicked, 609 00:36:52,890 --> 00:36:56,400 swung down with the metal cash box he had in his hand, 610 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,320 striking Dobson on the head and, uh, killed him. 611 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,740 Thank you, Sheriff. 612 00:37:01,740 --> 00:37:03,070 No further questions. 613 00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:06,860 Mr. Mannix, 614 00:37:06,860 --> 00:37:09,690 as an expert witness qualified to this court, 615 00:37:09,690 --> 00:37:12,200 do you find the facts in the sheriff's testimony 616 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,080 consistent with the inference that Harry Barlow 617 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,420 struck and killed Dobie Dobson? 618 00:37:16,420 --> 00:37:17,620 No, I don't. 619 00:37:17,620 --> 00:37:19,950 Why not, Mr. Mannix? 620 00:37:19,950 --> 00:37:22,420 If it's all right with Your Honor, 621 00:37:22,420 --> 00:37:23,930 I'd like to demonstrate physically to the court. 622 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,800 Proceed with your demonstration, Mr. Mannix. 623 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,350 Thank you. 624 00:37:33,350 --> 00:37:35,850 Miss Richards, if you'll take the part of the burglar, 625 00:37:35,850 --> 00:37:38,360 I will play the part of the late Mr. Dobson. 626 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,360 Now if you will turn your back and kneel 627 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,860 as if you were pulling a cash box out of a safe. 628 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,900 What are you doing at that safe? 629 00:37:48,530 --> 00:37:49,820 I'll take the cash box. 630 00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:51,150 Hold it. 631 00:37:51,150 --> 00:37:52,950 Now, the coroner's report 632 00:37:52,950 --> 00:37:54,790 lists as the cause of Dobson's death 633 00:37:54,790 --> 00:37:56,960 a depressed fracture of the lateral parietal region, 634 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,290 the right lateral parietal region. 635 00:37:59,290 --> 00:38:01,800 Now would you hit me on this side of the head 636 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,250 where Dobson was struck. 637 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:08,050 I-I can't. 638 00:38:08,050 --> 00:38:09,750 As long as I'm holding the box this way, 639 00:38:09,750 --> 00:38:11,340 I can only hit your head on the left side. 640 00:38:11,340 --> 00:38:13,590 If you wanted to hit me on the right side, what would you do? 641 00:38:17,810 --> 00:38:18,650 Right. 642 00:38:19,150 --> 00:38:20,150 Now would the defendant 643 00:38:20,150 --> 00:38:21,930 show his left hand to the court, please. 644 00:38:34,580 --> 00:38:37,000 Partial paralysis of the left hand. 645 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,200 Harry Barlow can't pick up or even hold a book of matches. 646 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,500 If his life depended on it, he couldn't pick up anything 647 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:44,620 as big and as heavy as that metal cash box. 648 00:38:44,620 --> 00:38:46,510 Let the record show that the defendant 649 00:38:46,510 --> 00:38:48,880 has a congenital deformity of the left hand. 650 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,590 You may sit down. 651 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,800 Mr. Mannix, is it possible that Dobson had his back turned 652 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,600 to the burglar when the blow was struck? 653 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,390 A man with a gun interrupts a burglar 654 00:39:01,390 --> 00:39:02,890 kneeling before an open safe 655 00:39:02,890 --> 00:39:04,890 and then turns his back on that burglar? 656 00:39:04,890 --> 00:39:06,360 I don't think that's very likely. 657 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:09,900 Thank you, Mr. Mannix. 658 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,870 You may return to the stand. 659 00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:18,660 Mr. Mannix, 660 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:20,710 is there any other theory 661 00:39:21,210 --> 00:39:22,710 which you could present at this time 662 00:39:22,710 --> 00:39:25,000 which would be consistent with the facts in this case? 663 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,300 Objection, Your Honor. 664 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:28,220 Counsel is asking the witness to speculate. 665 00:39:28,220 --> 00:39:31,640 The prosecution called this man to be an expert witness. 666 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,420 If he has been certified by this court as an expert 667 00:39:34,420 --> 00:39:36,260 to create inference for the prosecution, 668 00:39:36,260 --> 00:39:40,090 he is equally qualified to do the same for the defense. 669 00:39:40,090 --> 00:39:42,400 Objection overruled. 670 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,400 The witness will answer the question. 671 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,400 Now, Mr. Mannix, is there any other theory 672 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,400 which is consistent with the facts in this case? 673 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:51,910 Yes. 674 00:39:51,910 --> 00:39:53,360 And what is that theory? 675 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,860 That Harry Barlow was deliberately framed 676 00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:58,360 for a murder that he did not commit. 677 00:40:02,170 --> 00:40:04,950 Is there anything in the record 678 00:40:04,950 --> 00:40:07,460 or any knowledge which you personally have access to 679 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,370 which would corroborate this theory? 680 00:40:09,370 --> 00:40:11,760 Yes, the facts concerning the acquisition 681 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,180 of the Max Taylor Ranch by the power company. 682 00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:33,230 Mr. Mannix, you were with me 683 00:40:33,230 --> 00:40:34,280 last night in the sheriff's office 684 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,200 when the district attorney gave me a letter. 685 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,990 Is this the letter? 686 00:40:43,820 --> 00:40:44,830 Yes. 687 00:40:44,830 --> 00:40:47,750 Your Honor, I'd like to have this letter marked 688 00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:49,660 for purposes of identification only. 689 00:40:49,660 --> 00:40:52,050 Mm-hmm. 690 00:41:04,730 --> 00:41:06,730 Let the exhibit be so marked. 691 00:41:20,490 --> 00:41:22,000 All right, Mr. Mannix, 692 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000 will you please read this letter? 693 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,500 "Mr. Dobson, you promised to call back 694 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:31,460 "and set up an appointment. You didn't. 695 00:41:31,460 --> 00:41:34,380 "I tried to get you on the phone three times today. 696 00:41:34,380 --> 00:41:37,800 "By now, I can recognize a stall when it's tried on me. 697 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,010 "You're going to pay and pay through the nose. 698 00:41:40,010 --> 00:41:42,770 "And the longer you refuse to face that fact, 699 00:41:42,770 --> 00:41:44,050 the more it's going to cost you." 700 00:41:44,050 --> 00:41:46,470 The letter is signed by Jack Richards. 701 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,140 Thank you. 702 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,610 The district attorney characterized this letter 703 00:41:56,150 --> 00:42:02,150 as an attempt by my father to blackmail Dobie Dobson. 704 00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:05,660 Is that consistent with your theory? 705 00:42:05,660 --> 00:42:08,490 Consistent, but unlikely. 706 00:42:08,490 --> 00:42:11,080 Why "unlikely," Mr. Mannix? 707 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,830 Jack Richards was not a blackmailer. 708 00:42:14,830 --> 00:42:16,670 He was a good lawyer, fighting for a client, 709 00:42:16,670 --> 00:42:18,840 fighting to dig out the truth. 710 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,640 I believe he was deliberately killed 711 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,510 because he was getting close to that truth. 712 00:42:22,510 --> 00:42:23,810 What truth? 713 00:42:23,810 --> 00:42:26,730 The purchase of the Max Taylor Ranch was a fraud 714 00:42:26,730 --> 00:42:29,230 engineered by Dobie Dobson for an illegal profit 715 00:42:29,230 --> 00:42:30,680 of well over a million dollars. 716 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,600 Again, as an expert witness, 717 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,940 what about the death of Dobie Dobson? 718 00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:38,690 I believe Mr. Dobson had an accomplice 719 00:42:39,190 --> 00:42:41,020 in the fraudulent sale of that ranch. 720 00:42:41,020 --> 00:42:43,360 The accomplice killed Jack Richards. 721 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,830 Dobson refused to go along with the murder 722 00:42:45,830 --> 00:42:46,750 and threatened exposure. 723 00:42:46,750 --> 00:42:48,620 The accomplice killed Dobson 724 00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:51,330 and then framed Harry Barlow for that murder. 725 00:42:51,340 --> 00:42:53,700 I have no further questions. 726 00:43:02,010 --> 00:43:06,470 Mr. Mannix, this, uh, excursion of yours 727 00:43:06,470 --> 00:43:08,940 into the Never-Never Land of theory... 728 00:43:11,940 --> 00:43:14,940 is it not possible that this theory of yours 729 00:43:14,940 --> 00:43:19,280 is based on the fact that, if the defendant is innocent, 730 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,480 then somebody else must be guilty? 731 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,370 Put in those words... 732 00:43:23,370 --> 00:43:25,070 Yes, Mr. Mannix, put in those words. 733 00:43:25,070 --> 00:43:27,740 I suppose so, yes. 734 00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:29,710 And this theatrical demonstration of yours 735 00:43:29,710 --> 00:43:31,710 with the left hand and the right hand, 736 00:43:32,210 --> 00:43:35,710 can you state in fact and in law 737 00:43:35,710 --> 00:43:41,720 that the defendant couldn't have struck and killed the decedent 738 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:45,220 by raising the cash box 739 00:43:45,220 --> 00:43:47,730 with both hands? 740 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:49,590 It's possible. And, Mr. Mannix, 741 00:43:49,590 --> 00:43:52,430 have you any proof, any tangible shred of evidence 742 00:43:52,430 --> 00:43:54,400 that this theory of yours is anything more 743 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,230 than a figment of your imagination? 744 00:43:56,230 --> 00:43:57,900 It's what I believe happened. 745 00:44:00,070 --> 00:44:02,320 No further questions, Your Honor. 746 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,830 Mr. Mannix, 747 00:44:05,330 --> 00:44:06,660 to your knowledge, 748 00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:08,450 is there any such proof-- 749 00:44:08,450 --> 00:44:11,450 proof that Harry Barlow was framed, 750 00:44:11,450 --> 00:44:14,870 proof that your theory is fact and not 751 00:44:14,870 --> 00:44:16,750 fiction? Yes. 752 00:44:16,750 --> 00:44:18,710 What is that proof, please? 753 00:44:18,710 --> 00:44:20,120 The testimony of a witness, 754 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,630 a woman who was with Harry Barlow 755 00:44:21,630 --> 00:44:25,180 miles from the Dobson house at the time Dobson was killed. 756 00:44:25,180 --> 00:44:27,100 Is that witness and her testimony 757 00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:28,380 available to this court? 758 00:44:28,380 --> 00:44:29,680 I hope to have her here in the morning 759 00:44:30,180 --> 00:44:31,140 when the court reconvenes. 760 00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:39,280 Court is adjourned until 10:00 tomorrow morning. 761 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,290 I'm proud of you, Counselor. 762 00:44:51,070 --> 00:44:54,070 You know, whoever this Bonnie is, wherever she is, 763 00:44:54,070 --> 00:44:56,080 you just made a target of her. 764 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,410 The murderer will kill her if he can, to stop her 765 00:44:58,410 --> 00:45:00,160 from testifying. I know. 766 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,130 I hope you've got a rabbit to pull out of that hat. 767 00:45:03,130 --> 00:45:05,390 If you'll hold the hat. 768 00:45:18,570 --> 00:45:19,570 Yeah? 769 00:45:19,570 --> 00:45:21,570 Out of town call, Sheriff. 770 00:45:21,570 --> 00:45:24,070 Woman says it's an emergency, won't talk to anybody but you. 771 00:45:24,070 --> 00:45:26,070 Put her through. 772 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,440 Sheriff Viewcola. 773 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,280 Sheriff, this is Bonnie. 774 00:45:32,580 --> 00:45:35,670 Well, now the world is just full of Bonnies, ma'am. 775 00:45:35,670 --> 00:45:37,170 Which one are you? 776 00:45:37,170 --> 00:45:38,670 Say, wait a minute, 777 00:45:38,670 --> 00:45:41,510 you're not the woman who was with Harry Barlow, are you? 778 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,340 Oh, Harry couldn't have killed that man. 779 00:45:44,340 --> 00:45:45,790 He couldn't. 780 00:45:46,180 --> 00:45:48,550 Well, why didn't you come forward and testify, ma'am? 781 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,350 'Cause I'm scared, Sheriff. 782 00:45:51,350 --> 00:45:53,270 I'm scared that real killer's going to come after me. 783 00:45:53,850 --> 00:45:54,680 I'm scared. 784 00:45:54,940 --> 00:45:57,020 Well, scared or not scared, ma'am, 785 00:45:57,020 --> 00:45:58,520 you've got to testify. 786 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,310 A man's life depends on it. 787 00:46:00,470 --> 00:46:03,060 That's what Mr. Mannix told me 788 00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:04,560 when I talked to him on the phone. 789 00:46:05,060 --> 00:46:08,900 I said I'd come in tonight, but I'm frightened. 790 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,780 Ma'am, there's nothing to be afraid of. 791 00:46:10,780 --> 00:46:12,290 You just relax. 792 00:46:12,290 --> 00:46:13,790 Supposing that I come and get you? 793 00:46:13,790 --> 00:46:15,240 Now you wouldn't be afraid then, would you? 794 00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:16,790 Well, I... 795 00:46:16,790 --> 00:46:17,620 Well, where are you? 796 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,040 Well, I... 797 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,050 I'm north of town. 798 00:46:22,050 --> 00:46:25,000 Out by Grace Farms. 799 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,970 Is there someplace I could hide 800 00:46:28,970 --> 00:46:30,970 till you got here and be safe? 801 00:46:31,310 --> 00:46:33,840 North of town, there's not much out there. 802 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,390 Wait a minute, do you know where the old Penner house, 803 00:46:36,390 --> 00:46:37,810 the one that's half burnt out is? 804 00:46:38,180 --> 00:46:41,650 Well, is it safe? 805 00:46:41,980 --> 00:46:44,070 Oh, it's safe, ma'am. It's very safe. 806 00:46:44,570 --> 00:46:46,570 You just go there and wait for me. 807 00:46:46,570 --> 00:46:48,570 And try to stay out of sight. 808 00:46:48,570 --> 00:46:50,570 All right? 809 00:46:50,570 --> 00:46:52,080 Good-bye. 810 00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:24,230 ♪ ♪ 811 00:47:40,660 --> 00:47:41,660 Bonnie? 812 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,130 Bonnie? 813 00:47:54,550 --> 00:47:55,810 Bonnie? 814 00:47:56,010 --> 00:47:57,930 This is Sheriff Viewcola. 815 00:48:01,730 --> 00:48:03,100 Is it safe, Sheriff? 816 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,930 Well, not as safe as if you'd never called me. 817 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,900 I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm really sorry. 818 00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:09,270 I just don't have a choice. 819 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:23,030 It's all over, Sheriff. 820 00:48:30,170 --> 00:48:31,210 Hold your fire! 821 00:49:01,070 --> 00:49:03,070 ♪ ♪ 822 00:49:09,910 --> 00:49:11,380 Well, I figured 823 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:13,670 only a law enforcement officer would think 824 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,500 of framing an ex-con with a phony M.O. 825 00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:16,890 and an expert witness. 826 00:49:17,170 --> 00:49:19,590 That could have been me. 827 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,930 But it was Viewcola who mentioned the fact 828 00:49:22,930 --> 00:49:24,430 that Phyllis and I had gone to see Amos Smith, 829 00:49:24,430 --> 00:49:26,260 and only Amos Smith knew that. 830 00:49:26,510 --> 00:49:29,100 And Smith telephoned Viewcola. 831 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:30,100 Right. 832 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,100 Viewcola and Dobson were partners 833 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:33,600 and using Amos Smith as a front. 834 00:49:34,020 --> 00:49:35,610 Which gives me a pretty good reason 835 00:49:35,610 --> 00:49:37,570 to pay a call to Mr. Smith. 836 00:49:52,670 --> 00:49:54,760 I'm just so glad it's all over. 837 00:49:59,180 --> 00:50:02,180 You know, I've got a feeling 838 00:50:02,180 --> 00:50:04,050 Big Jack would have liked your style. 61848

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