All language subtitles for Perry Mason s04e12 Larcenous Lady

I'll put it to you bluntly, Mayor.

Ever since the death of Roger Pearson,
the governor's been looking for a

replacement.

To head up the Crime Commission? That's
right.

Well, that's a very responsible job.

Sure it is.

Oh, thank you.

That's why the governor hasn't made the
appointment as yet.

Now it comes down to two men.

You mean I'm one of them?

That's right.

Arnold Webley's the other.

A fine man.

A great attorney.

Yes, he is.

I understand you're a friend.

Yes, good friend.

Although most of his legal practice is
in Los Angeles, he still lives here in

town.

Of course, he has the advantage of being
free to take the job.

I'm still mayor here in Upton.

Well, your term is up this year, Jim.

This is a once -in -a -lifetime
opportunity.

The job would wait.

Of course, I'm only the governor's bird
dog to sound you out.

The governor still has to make the
decision.

But he wants to know if you're
interested, Henderson.

What do you say?

It's up to you, Jim.

You know I wouldn't interfere.

But it is a big step up, isn't it, Mr.
Carter?

A big step.

Yes, yes, I'm interested.

Good, good.

Now, why don't you come along with me
and we'll talk this thing out, huh? Very

well. The governor wants to attack the
narcotics problem.

You've no delinquency. I'd be very happy
to talk with the governor.

It's been a great pleasure meeting you,
Mrs. Henderson.

We think a great deal of your husband in
Sacramento.

Thank you.

We think a great deal of him here in
Upton, too.

Our deal's off. Something's come up. I'm
sorry.

I can't afford to take any chances now.

My husband's career is at stake.

My mom died a few months ago. 800 -352
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Yes, Tom.

Mona, I don't know what you're up to
now, but you can't pull out on me. I

stand still for it.

I've got more than $70 ,000 tied up in
options.

I'll have to make it up to you in some
other way.

We're going ahead.

Just as soon as the information I need
reaches the mayor's office, you're going

to pass it on to me, as per our
agreement.

Or I go right to the newspapers and dump
the whole thing on their front pages.

Make up your mind, Mona.

All right.

But you haven't even paid me for what
I've done so far.

I've got it. Ten thousand in cash right
here, waiting for you.

No, I can't come to you.

I'll have to arrange something.

Let me see.

The Highway Hotel on 101.

After you register in your room, wait
for me there.

Or I may send Jim's secretary.

Susan Connolly?

I have to be very careful, Tom.

All right. What time?

Well, uh... Make it about half past one.

Highway Hotel.

One moment, please.

Yes, ma 'am. May I help you? Yes. I was
supposed to meet a Mr.

Stratton here. Would you have him page
for me, please?

Are you Miss Connolly? Yes.

The message was left to have you meet
Mr. Stratton in his room.

Room 204.

Thank you.

Are you Susan Connelly? Yes, sir.

You'd better sign this receipt, Miss
Connelly. All right.

Right there.

$10 ,000?

Didn't you know what you were picking
up?

Oh, no, I didn't.

You'd better count it, Miss Connelly. I
wouldn't want any misunderstandings.

Here it is.

You never saw two more surprised people.
Who are they, anyway?

Never mind.

You did say $100.

That's right.

$100. Thank you.

Thank you. What are you going to do with
that photograph, anyway?

That $100 answers all questions, Frank.
I have one question I've been meaning to

ask you for a long time.

And I've had one answer I've been
meaning to tell you for a long time.

I don't know how you mean that.

Now you know?

What did you do after the photograph was
taken?

Nothing. I was bewildered.

I still don't understand what it's all
about.

Did you take the money?

No. What about the receipt you signed?

Oh, no.

Mr. Stratton has it.

Not very smart, Miss Connolly.

Well, I was confused.

I didn't know what I was doing.

What did you do after you left the hotel
room?

I went back to the office.

I tried to reach Mr. Henderson and
couldn't. He was with Mr. Carter

Then I tried to get in touch with Mrs.
Henderson.

You said she told you she had a golf
date.

I called the club.

The starter said she didn't keep her
appointment.

Well, then, I just couldn't stand it
anymore, Mr. Mason, and I came here to

for help.

Do you know of any connection between
Mrs. Henderson and this Thomas Stratton?

No, I didn't even know who he was until
I looked him up.

What did you find out?

Just that he's a real estate dealer.

Now, you mentioned Henderson was seeing
a man by the name of Carter.

Yes, well, that's another thing.

Mr. Henderson's up for an appointment to
head the governor's new crime

commission.

And if a word of scandal or anything
unethical were to be connected with him,

would... It would hurt.

Yes. And you wouldn't want that.

No, of course not.

Now, other than what you've told me, did
Stratton give you any clue to all of

this?

Well, he did say a very curious thing.

He said...

I wonder what else Mona Henderson has to
cover up.

Julia. Oh.

You must know about the governor's
appointment by now.

Makes us sort of competitors after all
these years.

Well, this is the putter that won you
the Reno Women's Open, isn't it? Mm

Oh, you played splendidly.

I remember when you went to Reno for the
tournament.

Or was it for the tournament?

What do you mean?

Oh, I remember how positively brilliant
Arnold was as the attorney in the

Brigham Putnam civil case.

Well, that was right around the time you
went to Reno for the tournament, wasn't

it, Julie?

Well, yes, that was his biggest case.
Put him right in the big league.

Noted lawyer, unearthed surprise
witness.

What are you getting at?

The surprise witness name was Bonanova.

A striking looking man.

Hunchback, if I recall.

Mona.

Isn't it odd?

He didn't come forward with his
sensational testimony until after you

little talk with him in Reno.

Are you suggesting I did something wrong
in Reno?

You met Mr.

Bonanova in Reno on June 14th last year.

On June 15th, he appeared in Los Angeles
with sensational testimony for

your husband.

How do you know all this?

I've got evidence.

You're accusing me of suborning perjury.

That's right.

It's not true.

Well, the question is, since this is
such a delicate period in your husband's

public life, what will the newspapers
believe?

I've done nothing wrong.

You're twisting the circumstances
around.

Arnold had been looking for Bonanova for
a long time.

I just happened to see him there.

He had just returned from Europe and he
didn't even know Arnold was looking for

him.

Think it over, Julia.

I'm sure you don't want the slightest
hint of scandal to touch your husband.

True or not, it will hurt him.

Mona.

Mona, I can't believe this.

We've been such good friends.

What do you want?

I want your husband to tell William
Carter that he is not interested in the

governor's appointment.

The city of Upton is 27 ,000 strong,
give or take a few. And during the last

years, the population explosion has been
fourfold.

Fourfold?

What does that mean?

It means that at a special election, the
citizens voted in school and sewer

bonds.

And Mr. Stratton? Has been buying up
options on certain parcels of land.

Has the planning commission selected
sites and so on?

I don't know. What do you think?

I think it's quite possible that Mr.
Stratton might have a direct line right

into the planning commission's office.

Or through Mona Henderson directly into
the mayor's office.

Getting a picture of Susan Connelly in
that badger setup could have been Mona

Henderson's way of clearing her own
skirts.

making it appear that the defection came
from the mayor's secretary and not the

mayor or the mayor's wife.

Adela. Yes, Perry, right here.

Adela, keep trying the Henderson home,
will you, please?

I'd like to make an appointment with
Mrs. Henderson. Make it about 8 o

Oh, hello.

My name is Mason. I'm an attorney.

I have an appointment with your wife,
that is, if you're James Henderson.

Yes, I am.

Well, come along. I haven't spoken to my
wife in the last few hours.

What was that?

Sounded like a shot.

Order!

It must have been... It must have been
who?

Henderson, you were just going to tell
me who was here. Who fired that shot?

No.

No, Mr. Mason.

I was going to do no such thing.

Didn't you say we'd better call the
police?

Hey, kids, join Cubs manager Jim
Lafitte.

I was home all evening, Mr. Mason.

I heard about Mrs. Henderson on the
radio.

I called you at 8 .30 last night.

I must have gone out for a paper.

I called you at 9 o 'clock and again at
9 .30.

If you were at home, why didn't you
answer your telephone?

What kind of a car do you drive, Miss
Connolly?

A two -tone hardtop.

Red and gray?

Yes.

I saw your car at 8 o 'clock last night.

In front of the house next door to the
Henderson.

I heard the shot.

I heard someone running behind a hedge
out into the street.

I saw your car pull out and drive away.

What did you do with the shoes you'd
been wearing?

What do you mean?

You left your footprints in the walkways
you ran.

Why did you kill Mona Henderson?

But I didn't. I didn't.

But you did fire that shot before you
ran out of the house.

Yes. Why?

Because of Mr. Henderson's appointment
to the crime committee.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Mason. I only wanted
to help.

The police want to talk to me.

What should I tell them?

I think you'd better tell them the
truth.

All of it?

Everything?

Including the firing of the shot and the
shoes. Everything.

Susan.

Are you in love with him?

He doesn't even know I'm alive.

Oh, hello, Mr. Mason.

Sergeant, I'd like to see James
Henderson.

Yes, he's in the study. You can go on
in. We've finished our investigation.

Thank you.

I know this tragedy can be the cause of
some embarrassment at the Capitol.

I also know that Arnold Weberly would
make a fine appointee.

Oh, come in.

Sorry to intrude. Perry Mason, Julia
Weberly.

Mrs. Weberly. How do you do?

William Carter.

Mr. Mason. Mr. Carter, a privilege.

State committee man, aren't you? That's
right, Counselor.

Oh, I've been told what good personal
friends the Weberlys and the Hendersons

have been, despite the present rivalry.

Jim, I know how dreadful this has been
for you. Please let me know if there's

anything I can do to help.

Thank you, Julia.

I'll run along.

Goodbye, gentlemen.

Weber there?

As far as withdrawing Henderson, well, I
sleep on it a bit.

Of course, I haven't spoken to the
governor, but unless I'm mistaken, I

think he's going to be influenced unless
there's really something to be

influenced about.

All right.

I'll pick it over. Good.

Always wanted to meet you, Counselor.

Sorry it had to be like this.

Got it.

Jim?

Still nothing to tell me, Mr. Henderson?

Nothing.

What have you told the police?

Just the truth, Mr. Mason.

Now, I have so many things to take care
of. Yes, of course.

How many years have you been married,
Mr. Henderson?

Oh, about six years.

No children? No.

Is that your car, Mr. Henderson?

No, no, it's Julia Webber.

I'm looking for something, Jim. I didn't
want to bother you about it, but I left

it here last week.

A glove.

Must be a pretty important glove.

You think Mrs. Henderson deliberately
hid it?

Oh, I'm sorry.

What are you looking for, Mrs. Webley?

My glove.

Were you here looking for it last night?

Or perhaps your husband came here for
the glove.

My husband is in San Francisco on a
case. He's been there for several days.

Mrs. Weberle, if you've nothing to hide,
it's better to be cooperative.

In a courtroom, sometimes the wrong
impression... I have nothing to hide.

But you were searching for something in
here.

My glove, Mr. Mason.

That's all.

Just my glove.

I'm sorry, Jim.

Mrs. Weverly.

Frank, I'd like to talk to you.

Sure.

Isn't it terrible about Mona Henderson?

Yes.

It's about Mona. I'm here.

Just think.

She had an appointment with me just the
other day for some golf lessons. One of

the corrective backswing.

Frank, do you remember last year in Reno
when I won the tournament?

Oh, of course I remember.

Well... At the dinner when they
presented the cup.

Oh, wasn't that something?

Well, there's the picture right there.

That girl photographer did a fine job.

Oh, I'll treasure that picture as a
classic.

All the fanfare of the trophy
presentation.

The only thing missing was the winner.

Of course, you couldn't be seen in the
background there talking with someone.

I'd like that picture, Frank.

Of course.

Take it.

I've got some copies.

Copies?

Why? Oh, I'm a sentimental guy.

Not all of my pupils win golf
tournaments.

Well, thanks for the picture.

Seems to me I remember that hunchback,
Mrs. Webley.

Didn't he figure in that civil case your
husband was trying?

Got a sensational verdict the day after
that picture was taken?

Worth millions in publicity and money?

Some people could say it was more than
luck, you running into that witness.

Even though you and I both know it was
really innocent.

How's your backswing, Mrs. Weverly?

Need some lessons?

Do I?

Oh.

About half a dozen should fix you up all
right.

Why, extra special one, but $1 ,000 a
lesson.

You don't know me, Mrs. Stratton, but I
saw you yesterday with a young woman

named Susan Conley.

In room 204 of the Highway Hotel.

What do you want?

Well, I happen to know you were engaged
in a business deal with Mona Henderson.

Now, I'm not greedy.

I wasn't in any hotel room with any
young woman.

I'm not engaged in any deal with anyone.

And nobody's going to blackmail me. Do
you understand, fella? Nobody.

That's too bad.

Along with you, it's the Conley girl
who's going to be hurt, Stratton.

The district attorney's office, please.

The state will prove that Susan
Connolly's descendants did use the good

of her employer, Mayor James Henderson,
to obtain classified information to

dispose of same for illegal profit.

and did coerce, blackmail is a more
appropriate word, lied, cheat, and

and when discovered at her nefarious
practices by the deceased Mona

did murder her without pity or
compunction.

Arnold Weberle.

You can adjudge me a hostile witness all
you like. I categorically deny I had

any business dealings with the mayor,
James Henderson, or his wife.

Or what about the mayor's secretary,
Susan Connolly? Or with her.

Now, isn't it true that you met with the
defendant in a hotel room, the Highway

Hotel, for the purpose of giving her $10
,000 in exchange for confidential

information relating to the land site
selected for civic development?

No.

Did you purchase options to buy certain
lots and rights of ways as enumerated

here on these locations?

Yes, I do have options on them.

Fourteen of them. All fourteen of them
were recommended by the planning

commission. And from this group, four
will be purchased.

Don't you think it's strange, Mr.
Stratton, that you have options on all

fourteen locations?

No. Real estate's my business. I'm good
at it.

Besides, that's what I went to see
Henderson about that night.

To make a deal to save the city some
money since I owned all the options.

What night was this?

The Wednesday Mrs. Henderson was killed.

And what time was that, Mr. Stratton?

About seven o 'clock.

And did you see Mr. Henderson?

No, he wasn't home.

Was anybody at home?

Mrs. Henderson.

But I only stayed there a few minutes.

Mrs. Henderson didn't know what time the
mayor would arrive, and she was

expecting someone any minute.

Was she?

At approximately 7 o 'clock on the
evening of March 22nd, the evening of

murder, she expected a visitor. Did she
say who, Mr. Stratton?

Miss Connolly.

Susan Connolly.

Thank you. Cross -examine.

This deal you spoke of, Mr. Stratton.

Now, why would you have made a deal with
the city when you held all the lots?

Wouldn't the city have to come to you?

I just wanted to expedite the whole
thing.

Directly with the mayor?

Aren't there other agencies of the civic
government that would have taken care

of that?

I thought the mayor could set the wheels
in motion.

Why would you go to his home and not to
his office?

I wanted to make sure I'd see him.

Then you called the mayor before going
to his home?

No. Why not?

I just assumed he'd be there.

I suggest, Mr. Stratton, that you went
to the mayor's home not to see him, but

to see his wife, Mona Henderson.

No, what would I want to see her for?

A photograph.

Isn't it true that you were photographed
in a hotel room in the midst of what

could be interpreted as an illegal
payoff?

I said it before, there is no photograph
of me in any hotel room.

What happened to that photograph, Mr.
Stratton?

Did you buy it from the deceased?

Did you destroy it?

No.

Did you kill for it, Mr. Stratton?

No.

That's all.

Yes, sir, I knew Mrs. Henderson.

Please tell the court what happened on
the morning of March 22nd.

Well, she came to my cottage.

She was all upset.

She said she had just found out that her
husband's secretary had been selling

some information to a real estate
dealer.

And why did Mrs. Henderson tell this to
you? Well, she was worried about the

mayor's reputation. He was up for some
kind of an appointment.

And she said she had just overheard
something in the office about a date

Miss Connolly had made with a Stratton
at the Highway Hotel.

Go on, Mr. Sykes.

Well, she knew I took pictures of some
of the golfing events and wanted me to

get a photograph of the meeting.

To get the proof on Susan Conley.

I show you this photograph and ask if
you can identify it. Yes, sir.

That's the picture I took, all right.
That's Susan Conley and that's Thomas

Stratton.

I ask this photograph be marked States
Exhibit G.

Mr. Mason?

No objection, Your Honor.

Now, Mr. Sykes, what else did the
decedent say to you? She said that she

found out that Susan Connolly was in
love with her husband and was

Mrs. Webley.

How could the defendant blackmail Mrs.
Webley?

Well, I'll have to explain the
background.

Go right ahead.

Mrs. Webley won a women's golf
tournament in Reno last year.

At the presentation dinner, she happened
to catch sight of a man that her

husband needed as a witness in a civil
case in Los Angeles.

It was just a lucky accident.

She excused herself and went to plead
with this fellow to help her husband.

And at that moment, one of those girls
in the short skirts took a picture at

table. And in back of us, Mrs. Webley
was talking with this fellow.

And as a memento of this tournament, did
you keep one of the pictures? Yes,

along with a lot of others that I keep
on my wall in the living room.

I see. Go on, Mr. Sykes.

Well, that witness turned up in Los
Angeles the very next day and helped

Webley's husband win a handsome verdict.

And that's why she came to me on that
day.

Would you please explain that, Mr.
Sykes?

She said she had been approached by
Susan Conley.

who told her the picture could be
interpreted as suborning perjury.

You know, buying false testimony.

And unless her husband declared himself
unavailable as head of the new crime

commission, she would send a copy of the
picture to the papers.

Object, Your Honor.

Most of this testimony has been pure
hearsay. I've refrained from objecting

because I wanted to hear the extent of
the testimony.

But now I ask that it be stricken from
the record.

I further ask that the court admonish
the district attorney.

and assign the question to misconduct.

I agree.

Objection sustained.

The answer will be stricken.

I'd like to ask Mr. Thorne why he's not
presenting best evidence.

We are trying to reach Mrs.

Webley, Your Honor.

This evidence only came to our attention
an hour before court convened this

morning.

If the court please, I am asking this
witness to recount what Mrs. Webley told

him only for the purpose of showing
background.

I will stipulate that this present
testimony will go only to the state of

of Mr. Sykes at that time and will not
be held as evidence of actions on the

part of Susan Connolly, the defendant.

I will promise the court, however, that
we intend to put Mrs. Weberle on the

stand to prove the conversation at first
hand.

We are not finished with this witness.

Since this is a hearing addressed
entirely to the discretion of the court,

will refrain from ruling on the motion
to strike until Mrs. Weberle has been

placed on the stand.

Cross -examine, Mr. Mason.

Well, under the circumstances, I would
like to defer my cross -examination of

this witness until Mrs. Weberle has
testified, Your Honor.

Unless there is vigorous opposition from
the District Attorney, I will permit

this unusual procedure.

No opposition at all, Your Honor.

You may step down.

Call your next witness.

Sergeant Ralph Reynolds to the stand.

Defendant's fingerprints were found on
the sill of the service room window and

on the window pane itself.

Now, I show you this revolver and ask if
you can identify it.

Yes, it's the murder weapon.

Registered to James M. Henderson.

It was found in the murder room.

Now, this box of cartridges?

32s for the revolver. We found it in a
drawer in the murder room.

The defense will stipulate the fatal
bullet came from that box of cartridges.

Now, I show you these mulages and ask if
you can identify them.

Defense will further stipulate the...

Defendant, was that the scene of the
murder?

I have no more questions.

Your witness?

Sergeant, the revolver holds how many
cartridges?

Six.

How many unexploded cartridges within
the gun?

There were five unexploded cartridges
and one empty cartridge case.

There seems to be seven cartridges
missing from this new box.

Perhaps, uh...

Two bullets were fired from the gun.

Well, only one bullet was found.

Perhaps after the first bullet was
fired, the gun was reloaded.

We found only one bullet in deceased
body.

There is a window in the murder room
that looks onto the rear of the house,

there not, Sergeant?

Yes. A shot could have been fired from
the gun out through that window, could

not?

Well, yes, I suppose.

Thank you, Sergeant. That'll be all.

James Henderson to the stand.

You swear to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth?

I do.

State your name.

James Henderson.

Be seated.

I call your attention, Mr. Henderson, to
the evening of Wednesday, March 22nd.

Yes, sir.

Please tell the court what transpired
when you arrived at about 8 o 'clock,

approximately the same time as Perry
Mason, the defense attorney.

I was about to open my front door when I
heard something that sounded like a

shot from inside the house.

What did you do?

I went inside.

Mason stayed at the front door.

I found my wife in the study.

Dead.

I went back for Mason.

Are you familiar with your secretary's
automobile, Mr. Henderson?

Yeah.

I asked if you noticed anything in the
front of your home on the street at that

moment.

Mr. Henderson, you will answer the
question.

Yes.

What did you see?

A car driving away.

Did you recognize the car?

Yes.

It was Susan.

Did you know Miss Connolly would be at
your home?

No.

Had you reason to believe she would be
at your home?

Now, I have refrained from indulging in
legal theatrics.

I could put the defense attorney himself
on the stand to corroborate all the

evidence surrounding this particular
time of evening at your home. But this

evidence has been a juice for the court
without it. Now, I ask you, Mr.

Henderson, did you have reason to
believe your secretary, Susan Connolly,

be at your home?

Yes.

Yes, she phoned me.

She told me she was going to be there.

Secret ways burglars break into homes.

Outcomes close.

Hi, Perry.

He went in his house about 45 minutes
ago.

What about the police?

Well, Sergeant Reynolds has been in
there for about five minutes now.

Wait a minute, he's just coming out.

Which probably means that Julia Weberly
is not there.

But Arnold Weberly is.

No, no, you stay right where you are,
Paul.

We need Julia Weberly.

All right, Perry.

No sign of her yet.

Perry, if we do get her to testify,
she'll prove Frank Sykes is lying, won't

she? And that would mean that it wasn't
Susan who did the blackmailing. It was

Mona. That's where Sykes has been so
clever, Dallin.

He's given Weberly a clean bill of
health.

He said to Julia, in effect, Here, I've
cleared you.

I've established the innocence of that
meeting in Reno.

Now you've got to back me up on the
story I told.

So all Julia has to do is go along with
Mike's story.

Then her husband will probably get the
appointment.

It's my guess that right now she's
making a decision.

One way or the other, we'll find out
what it is in court.

I'd like a complete picture of what
happened, Mr. Henderson.

You said the defendant told you she was
going to your home.

Yes, she did.

When and how did she tell you?

At about quarter past seven, on the
phone.

And where were you at the time?

In my office.

After the call, what did you do?

Finished up some work and went home.

Met you there.

That revolver shot we both heard, did
you suspect that it was Susan who fired

it?

Let me hypothesize, Mr. Henderson.

How long does it take you to drive from
your office to your home?

Oh, about ten minutes.

Takes Miss Scunnelly about a half an
hour from her place.

What does that mean?

Well, hadn't she told you what really
happened concerning Mr. Stratton, your

wife, and the hotel room?

Yes, she had.

You then realized your own wife had
deceived you.

Now, isn't it possible that when Miss
Connolly arrived at your home and found

your wife dead, she jumped to the
conclusion that you had killed her?

And isn't that why when she saw us at
the front door, she fired a shot to

confuse the issue, to protect you, to
cover you with an alibi?

No further questions.

Must have been there all the time,
Perry. Seen her husband came out

Call you next week.

Your Honor, the prosecution rests its
case. We have proved a murder was

committed, and we've established a grave
probability that it was perpetrated by

the defendant.

We therefore ask Ms. Susan Connolly be
bound over for trial by jury.

Mr. Mason?

Well, Your Honor, it was my
understanding that the prosecution was

Julia Weberle on the stand.

The prosecution feels this case is
concluded.

But, Your Honor... Just a moment, Mr.
Mason.

Now, Mr. Thorne, you will call Mrs.
Julia Weberle to the stand.

I recall your promise to produce her.

Your Honor, we are not prepared at this
time to examine Mrs. Weberle.

I'm not inclined to argue with you, Mr.
Thorne.

I want Mrs. Julia Weberle on the stand.

I want the defense to have the
opportunity to cross -examine her.

If you make no direct examination, I
will permit the cross the greatest

latitude.

Now, what do you say, Mr. Thornton?

The prosecution does not wish to examine
Mrs. Webley at this time.

Junior Webley, come to the stand.

Swear the witness in.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

I was frightened.

If the newspapers printed this story,
true or not, I felt I could never

anyone that it was all innocent and
aboveboard and... Well, at the time,

just a happy coincidence.

And then my husband told me what Frank
Sykes said in court this morning.

And I realized that Frank was giving me
a chance to make sure the governor's

appointment for Arnold.

All I had to do was corroborate his
story.

But it was a lie, Mr. Mason.

There wasn't a word of truth in Frank
Sykes' testimony.

Then it wasn't Susan Connolly who
blackmailed you with the photograph,

Weverly?

No.

It was Mona Henderson first.

And second?

Frank Sykes.

You understand the blackmail this time
was purely for money.

Six thousand dollars.

Thank you, Mrs. Wimberly.

That'll be all.

Now, Your Honor, I would like to cross
-examine Frank Sykes, as stipulated this

morning.

Frank Sykes to the stand.

I will remind you, Mr. Sykes, you're
still under oath.

Well, you can't hang a guy for trying to
make a living, can you?

The truth is, then, is that it was Mona
Henderson and not the defendant who...

Had this illegal deal with Thomas
Stratton. Well, you'll have to ask

about that yourself.

Well, I intend to.

Now, how did Mona Henderson get the
photograph of Julia Weberly in Bolanova?

saw it in my room. Took it right out
from under my nose.

How did you find out about it, Mr.
Sykes?

Well, I got a call from Mrs. Weberly.

About the photograph?

That's right. She was pretty upset.

What time was that call?

It was that evening about, oh, six o
'clock, I guess.

And at that time, it occurred to you
that this photograph could be an

for blackmail?

I guess it did. Kind of late.

Well, I could never put two and two
together like Mona Henderson.

After Mrs. Weberly spoke to you, what
did you do?

What was there to do?

I would think that you might have tried
to find out what Mona Henderson had seen

in this photograph.

What it was about it that upset Mrs.
Weberly so much.

Well, I did phone Mona.

And she told you what you wanted to know
on the telephone.

That's right.

Then you went to see her.

No.

Then how did you get this photograph
back?

You did get it back, did you not? You
showed it to Mrs. Weberly later on.

Yes, that's right. I got the photograph
back the next morning.

At the Henderson home?

That's right.

But I was at the Henderson home the next
morning, Mr. Sykes.

So were the police. Now, how could
you... I guess it was the same

I just don't recall exactly.

But it couldn't have been that same
afternoon.

Now, you testify you'd first heard about
it when Mrs. Weberly called you about 6

o 'clock that evening.

So it must have been after 6 o 'clock
that evening when you called Mona

Henderson.

Yes, I guess it was.

It must have been close to 7 o 'clock
when you arrived at the Henderson home.

I don't know the exact time.

Well, it was probably between 7 o 'clock
and a quarter to 8.

Because at a quarter to 8, you'd already
left.

And Mrs. Henderson had already been
shot.

Now, it was between 7 o 'clock and a
quarter to 8.

Was it not, Mr. Sykes?

What happened during that time? Nothing
happened.

I asked her for the photograph back, and
she gave it to me.

And she just handed the photograph over
to you, just like that. What else could

she do?

Oh, any number of things. She could have
laughed at you, for instance. Laughed?

No, she didn't laugh. She could have
told you to go peddle your golf lessons.

She could have said no to your blackmail
demands.

Sending your dreams of getting your
hands on a lot of money right out the

window. Now, what did she say to you,
Mr. Sykes? She got angry.

She threatened you?

She tried to shoot me.

She went for the gun and I grabbed it
from her. It went off.

She just stood there looking at me with
the queerest look, not believing it, if

you know what I mean. Not believing that
I'd really shoot her.

Rotten luck.

Everything's going fine.

Rotten luck.

To stop a friend from drinking and
driving, try explaining things. Drop me

and pick me up when I can drop you off,
shop, and be back in time to pick you

up.

Take the keys, call a cab, take a stand.
Friends don't let friends drive drunk.

Nighttime backache?

Try Momentum Muscular Backache Formula.

Momentum has a... I told Carter I'm not
available for the appointment.

And I think the governor couldn't do
better than Arnold Weberle.

It was a brave thing you did, Susan.

Even if it was illegal.

She will have to face charges, won't
she, Mr. Mason?

Carter indicated he would use whatever
influence he has to get the court to

grant Susan probation.

That, uh, gun.

How'd it get into your home, Mr.
Anderson?

Oh, I brought it home.

From the office.

And the box of cartridges, too.

Certainly had me guessing for a while.

You thought that I killed Mona?

The details fit so well.

Any plans, Susan?

Not for a while.

Mr. Henderson?

Oh, my job is waiting for me.

And speaking of jobs, thank you so much,
Mr. Henderson.

Thank you, Mr. Mason.

Bye. Bye.

Good luck.

I've got some.

I'm not talking about our jobs.

I am.

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