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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 -4600

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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