1 00:00:02,651 --> 00:00:04,651 Itheme] 2 00:00:48,065 --> 00:00:51,639 [Man] Yeah, yeah, yeah. l understand, Irene. 3 00:00:51,768 --> 00:00:55,475 Now, look, Irene, please, l... l can't. 4 00:00:55,606 --> 00:00:58,010 l won't. 5 00:00:58,142 --> 00:01:00,142 [sighs] 6 00:01:00,344 --> 00:01:03,950 - Yeah, yeah. l understand. - [door opens] 7 00:01:04,982 --> 00:01:07,955 Your husband just walked in. l'll call you later. 8 00:01:13,091 --> 00:01:14,750 - Hello, Mr. Chase. - Len. 9 00:01:14,792 --> 00:01:18,198 Uh, l want another one of those water purifier kits. 10 00:01:18,328 --> 00:01:20,700 Oh. Going to South America again? 11 00:01:20,832 --> 00:01:23,437 You've still got them down in the basement, haven't you? 12 00:01:23,568 --> 00:01:26,273 Well, sure. l'll get one for you. 13 00:01:51,764 --> 00:01:53,257 Here you are, Mr. Chase. 14 00:01:53,299 --> 00:01:55,703 You need a gun this time? Little side trip to the jungle? 15 00:01:55,834 --> 00:01:58,941 No. Uh, just tell Tony to charge this. 16 00:01:59,072 --> 00:02:00,297 Yeah. Sure. 17 00:02:00,339 --> 00:02:03,511 [door opens, closes] 18 00:02:09,783 --> 00:02:11,783 lrene? 19 00:02:23,965 --> 00:02:26,269 lrene, are you home yet? 20 00:02:52,627 --> 00:02:57,938 Irene, good night 21 00:03:11,413 --> 00:03:14,085 [footsteps approaching] 22 00:05:17,078 --> 00:05:19,078 You see, you're my children, 23 00:05:19,147 --> 00:05:22,620 and, uh, l want you to come home. 24 00:05:22,749 --> 00:05:24,749 lrene's there. 25 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:28,458 Well, Irene wants you to come home, too. 26 00:05:29,456 --> 00:05:31,083 She's not our real mother 27 00:05:31,125 --> 00:05:33,864 so we won't come home as long as she's there, Daddy. 28 00:05:33,995 --> 00:05:35,255 Will we, Anne? 29 00:05:35,297 --> 00:05:37,297 No, we won't. 30 00:05:38,367 --> 00:05:43,610 But, uh, l love you, and l miss you. 31 00:05:44,605 --> 00:05:45,966 We miss you, too. 32 00:05:46,008 --> 00:05:49,849 You could take Irene out and drown her. 33 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:53,517 Well, you could. 34 00:05:53,649 --> 00:05:57,423 Girls, why don't you go out and ask Martha for tea, hmm? 35 00:05:57,553 --> 00:05:59,790 Yeah. Uh... 36 00:05:59,922 --> 00:06:02,360 Will you stay here for tea, Daddy? 37 00:06:02,425 --> 00:06:04,428 We won't talk about Irene anymore. 38 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,432 - All right. - We're afraid of her all the same. 39 00:06:07,563 --> 00:06:11,804 Well, l'll stay, so you go ahead and get the tea, and... 40 00:06:11,935 --> 00:06:14,439 You know, Ted, you're going to have to choose 41 00:06:14,570 --> 00:06:17,075 between your children and that woman. 42 00:06:17,207 --> 00:06:19,311 Why did l ever marry her? 43 00:06:20,410 --> 00:06:23,450 You didn't. She married you. 44 00:06:23,580 --> 00:06:25,650 But you're not the first man 45 00:06:25,782 --> 00:06:28,521 who ever got caught at his first wife's funeral. 46 00:06:28,651 --> 00:06:32,258 Oh, divorce Irene, Ted. Get rid of her. 47 00:06:32,389 --> 00:06:35,963 Ellen... Ellen, you're, uh... 48 00:06:36,093 --> 00:06:39,566 you're forgetting that crazy financial agreement l made. 49 00:06:39,696 --> 00:06:42,803 You see, a divorce would wreck the company 50 00:06:42,933 --> 00:06:44,626 and ruin us... 51 00:06:44,668 --> 00:06:47,840 you, the kids, Mother, Dad, everybody. 52 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,033 But, you know... 53 00:06:51,075 --> 00:06:54,182 you know, maybe... just maybe... there's another way, 54 00:06:54,312 --> 00:06:55,804 a way that's even more legal. 55 00:06:55,846 --> 00:06:58,384 Only l don't want to use the company lawyers. 56 00:06:58,517 --> 00:07:01,122 Do you know a man named Perry Mason? 57 00:07:01,253 --> 00:07:03,213 Well, l've never met him. 58 00:07:03,255 --> 00:07:05,255 Well, he's a friend of mine. 59 00:07:05,357 --> 00:07:07,116 Go and talk to him, 60 00:07:07,158 --> 00:07:09,328 and then take a vacation, Ted. 61 00:07:09,461 --> 00:07:11,461 Just you and the children somewhere. 62 00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:15,070 That Mr. Vale can run things down at the place while you're away, can't he? 63 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,538 Ellen, l don't need a vacation. 64 00:07:17,669 --> 00:07:19,672 Yes, you do. 65 00:07:19,804 --> 00:07:22,342 Ted, have you seen a doctor lately? 66 00:07:22,475 --> 00:07:26,349 The way you perspire and get dizzy and... 67 00:07:26,479 --> 00:07:31,121 You see, there's really nothing wrong with me that can't be cured 68 00:07:31,250 --> 00:07:33,722 in one way or another. 69 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:38,694 You're trying to say that you now believe 70 00:07:38,824 --> 00:07:40,824 your first wife did not commit suicide? 71 00:07:40,927 --> 00:07:43,465 Yes. Yes, that's right. 72 00:07:43,596 --> 00:07:46,033 You mean she was murdered? 73 00:07:46,166 --> 00:07:49,572 Look, Mr. Mason, let me tell you something about Betty, my wife... 74 00:07:49,702 --> 00:07:52,174 uh, my first wife. 75 00:07:52,306 --> 00:07:54,476 You know how some people save string? 76 00:07:54,607 --> 00:07:56,468 Betty saved paper. 77 00:07:56,510 --> 00:08:00,084 Uh, she would write shopping lists on old envelopes. 78 00:08:00,213 --> 00:08:02,317 She saved paper bags. 79 00:08:02,382 --> 00:08:06,156 She would answer letters on the letter itself. 80 00:08:07,154 --> 00:08:11,496 Here. Now, here's a note that she wrote me. 81 00:08:11,625 --> 00:08:13,618 lt's dated the day before she died. 82 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:19,038 ''Darling, l've tried and tried to make you listen to me about Irene. 83 00:08:19,167 --> 00:08:22,072 You won't believe me. But now''... 84 00:08:23,972 --> 00:08:24,997 That's all. 85 00:08:25,039 --> 00:08:30,383 l found that just a few days ago between the blotter and the pad on Betty's old desk. 86 00:08:30,512 --> 00:08:32,582 Now, she must have hidden it there for a reason. 87 00:08:32,714 --> 00:08:36,288 But whatever it was she was trying to tell me, she never finished. 88 00:08:36,418 --> 00:08:38,755 l frankly don't see the significance. 89 00:08:39,854 --> 00:08:42,559 Mr. Mason, why should Betty try to kill herself? 90 00:08:42,690 --> 00:08:45,228 She had everything. At least, materially speaking, she did. 91 00:08:45,361 --> 00:08:47,766 Your wife left a suicide note. 92 00:08:47,896 --> 00:08:50,735 Also on the back of an old envelope. 93 00:08:50,866 --> 00:08:53,938 Oh, it just said she had had all she could stand, 94 00:08:54,069 --> 00:08:55,496 and she was going to put an end to it. 95 00:08:55,538 --> 00:08:57,642 ln fact, the police still have it, l suppose. 96 00:08:58,807 --> 00:09:00,767 Where was Irene at that time? 97 00:09:00,809 --> 00:09:03,181 She was on her way to Catalina. 98 00:09:03,246 --> 00:09:05,450 She proved that, l guess. 99 00:09:05,582 --> 00:09:07,887 Oh, actually, all we have is this note 100 00:09:08,018 --> 00:09:10,255 indicating a vague desire to tell you something. 101 00:09:10,387 --> 00:09:13,861 - [slams hand on desk] - But why didn't she finish the note? 102 00:09:13,990 --> 00:09:15,993 Mr. Mason, Betty did not kill herself. 103 00:09:16,126 --> 00:09:19,566 The coroner must have based his verdict on good evidence, 104 00:09:19,696 --> 00:09:23,837 plus the suicide note and the fact that no one else was in the apartment at the time. 105 00:09:23,967 --> 00:09:26,605 Now, l can reexamine the matter in the light of this... 106 00:09:26,736 --> 00:09:29,308 You... You just do what you want. 107 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,646 Maybe the answer isn't in a law book anyway. 108 00:09:34,478 --> 00:09:37,383 [door opens, closes] 109 00:09:37,515 --> 00:09:39,515 [knocking] 110 00:09:41,620 --> 00:09:42,646 Who is it? 111 00:09:42,688 --> 00:09:44,688 lrene, darling. 112 00:10:06,144 --> 00:10:08,582 These will be ready for tomorrow, won't they, darling? 113 00:10:08,715 --> 00:10:10,574 No. No, they won't. 114 00:10:10,616 --> 00:10:12,208 Oh, but they will. 115 00:10:12,250 --> 00:10:15,690 We made a deal, Irene, and you said when it was over, it was over. 116 00:10:15,821 --> 00:10:20,197 Have you forgotten that l still have that little old piece of paper, Herman? 117 00:10:20,326 --> 00:10:23,665 My name is Len. Leonard Dykes. 118 00:10:23,795 --> 00:10:28,237 What a nice little job you have here, working for Tony. 119 00:10:28,367 --> 00:10:33,343 And such a nice little apartment for you and your unsuspecting little wife. 120 00:10:36,643 --> 00:10:39,782 But only for Leonard Dykes. 121 00:10:40,780 --> 00:10:43,719 Not for Herman Dickson. 122 00:10:43,850 --> 00:10:46,689 You'd hurt anybody, wouldn't you? 123 00:10:48,689 --> 00:10:50,860 Tomorrow, then, darling? 124 00:10:51,859 --> 00:10:57,202 Or would you rather take the third-time trip? 125 00:10:57,331 --> 00:11:01,238 You know, one of these days, you're going to push somebody too far, Irene, 126 00:11:01,368 --> 00:11:02,695 and they'll kill you. 127 00:11:02,737 --> 00:11:06,311 l know, darling, but it isn't going to be you. 128 00:11:06,441 --> 00:11:11,050 So be sweet now. l'll see you tomorrow. 129 00:11:27,829 --> 00:11:30,568 [laughing] 130 00:11:32,967 --> 00:11:34,861 So he says if it would've happened one minute sooner 131 00:11:34,903 --> 00:11:37,575 l'd have had a fractured skull. 132 00:11:44,180 --> 00:11:46,180 More? 133 00:11:47,717 --> 00:11:49,717 Hi, Irene. Uh, look, 134 00:11:49,786 --> 00:11:52,658 my wife has been sick, and l let the insurance lapse. 135 00:11:52,789 --> 00:11:54,926 But l'll take care of everything in a week or two. 136 00:11:55,057 --> 00:11:58,831 Well, Cecil, darling, you make me feel like Shylock. 137 00:11:58,961 --> 00:12:02,335 You know, l've never pressured you for the payments. 138 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:04,503 l'm just here looking for my wandering husband. 139 00:12:04,634 --> 00:12:07,306 Oh. Oh, well, he didn't come in tonight. 140 00:12:07,437 --> 00:12:09,675 lt's the first time he's missed in a week. 141 00:12:09,807 --> 00:12:12,946 He didn't come home, either. 142 00:12:13,076 --> 00:12:15,213 l worry so much about his health. 143 00:12:15,345 --> 00:12:18,117 He's going away on a business trip soon. 144 00:12:18,248 --> 00:12:20,753 You are taking care of him for me, aren't you, darling? 145 00:12:20,884 --> 00:12:24,691 Oh, sure. That's easy. He'll be okay. 146 00:12:24,822 --> 00:12:26,825 Thanks, darling. 147 00:12:37,535 --> 00:12:39,261 You don't have to tell me. 148 00:12:39,303 --> 00:12:42,075 l know. Irene. 149 00:12:42,206 --> 00:12:45,078 Gee, a guy tries to be nice and not wake his wife up 150 00:12:45,209 --> 00:12:47,380 and she gives him this Irene business. 151 00:12:47,512 --> 00:12:49,406 - Irene who? - Irene Chase. 152 00:12:49,448 --> 00:12:51,752 You reek of her. 153 00:12:51,884 --> 00:12:55,191 l was going to buy you some perfume and this girl tried it on me. 154 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,490 You've been with her again. 155 00:12:57,623 --> 00:12:59,794 l wouldn't touch that woman with a 10 foot pole. 156 00:12:59,925 --> 00:13:02,095 - Don't you yell at me. - Anyway, Irene is my cousin. 157 00:13:02,227 --> 00:13:04,364 Kissing cousin. 158 00:13:05,632 --> 00:13:08,371 - She came here this evening. - Here? 159 00:13:08,501 --> 00:13:10,705 When l told her you were still at the store, she said, 160 00:13:10,837 --> 00:13:13,475 ''lf you knew your husband as well as l do,'' 161 00:13:13,606 --> 00:13:15,533 and then she laughed in my face. 162 00:13:15,575 --> 00:13:17,034 Well, l was there. 163 00:13:17,076 --> 00:13:19,881 She said it would be terrible for me if you got into trouble. 164 00:13:20,013 --> 00:13:22,550 What sort of trouble would l be in? 165 00:13:22,682 --> 00:13:26,891 All l do is engrave fancy pictures on rich men's guns. 166 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:28,346 Come on. Let's go to bed. 167 00:13:28,388 --> 00:13:30,181 Forget about Irene. 168 00:13:30,223 --> 00:13:31,249 How? 169 00:13:31,291 --> 00:13:34,665 That kind of woman l could kill with my bare hands. 170 00:13:36,864 --> 00:13:39,135 So could l. 171 00:14:05,993 --> 00:14:08,231 Tony? Hi, darling. 172 00:14:08,363 --> 00:14:11,970 Wonderful news. He's going back to cha-cha land. 173 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:13,993 Come to me the moment he leaves. 174 00:14:14,035 --> 00:14:15,863 Now, why take a chance, Irene? 175 00:14:15,905 --> 00:14:17,497 We've only got to wait a little while longer. 176 00:14:17,539 --> 00:14:19,744 But l want you here with me now. 177 00:14:19,875 --> 00:14:22,212 l want to see you and talk to you. 178 00:14:22,344 --> 00:14:26,486 Good idea. Only l've got other things l have to do tonight. 179 00:14:26,615 --> 00:14:28,785 Not too many things, darling, 180 00:14:28,918 --> 00:14:31,923 or you might not be quite so welcome next time. 181 00:14:32,054 --> 00:14:34,014 You know, if we didn't love each other so much, 182 00:14:34,056 --> 00:14:36,560 l'd think you didn't trust me, sweet. 183 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,563 But now l really must say good night. 184 00:14:42,866 --> 00:14:44,936 [Man on radio] And now, the latest weather report. 185 00:14:45,067 --> 00:14:47,572 a fast moving front which will bring thunderstorms and rain 186 00:14:47,704 --> 00:14:50,141 is expected to pass over the area around midnight. 187 00:14:50,272 --> 00:14:52,744 However, tomorrow will be clearer and cooler. 188 00:14:52,876 --> 00:14:54,876 [radio oM 189 00:14:59,984 --> 00:15:03,156 Now, l'm gonna ask you once more, and this is the last time. Will you... 190 00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:05,220 The answer's still no. 191 00:15:05,990 --> 00:15:07,990 And if you want to divorce me, 192 00:15:08,091 --> 00:15:10,663 l'll hold you to the agreement you made when you married me. 193 00:15:10,795 --> 00:15:14,502 Well, then, l'll have to hold you to that other agreement, remember? 194 00:15:14,632 --> 00:15:17,471 Everything l've given you goes into a trust fund for my children. 195 00:15:17,602 --> 00:15:21,242 That's only in case l die, darling. 196 00:15:23,941 --> 00:15:26,713 [door opens, closes] 197 00:15:26,844 --> 00:15:28,839 [loud jazz] 198 00:15:28,881 --> 00:15:33,022 [thunderclap] 199 00:15:34,118 --> 00:15:35,545 Turn it om. 200 00:15:35,587 --> 00:15:36,780 [radio oM 201 00:15:36,822 --> 00:15:40,261 What are you listening to, Mr. Chase? What do you want to hear? 202 00:15:44,029 --> 00:15:46,701 - l want to hear the wrath of God. - [thunderclap] 203 00:15:46,832 --> 00:15:49,170 Hear who? 204 00:15:51,203 --> 00:15:53,240 [thunderclap] 205 00:16:19,199 --> 00:16:21,570 [thunderclap] 206 00:16:38,886 --> 00:16:41,926 [thunderclap] 207 00:16:56,638 --> 00:16:59,243 [thunderclap] 208 00:17:27,603 --> 00:17:31,912 You know, it's not what happens today 209 00:17:32,042 --> 00:17:34,312 that breaks a man down, Cecil. 210 00:17:40,449 --> 00:17:43,254 lt's the remorse over what happened yesterday 211 00:17:44,555 --> 00:17:47,394 and the dread of tomorrow. 212 00:17:56,633 --> 00:18:01,142 l was supposed to catch a plane tonight, Cecil, 213 00:18:01,271 --> 00:18:03,271 l think. 214 00:18:06,678 --> 00:18:09,115 Cecil... 215 00:18:09,246 --> 00:18:13,622 Cecil, am l mad, Cecil? 216 00:18:13,751 --> 00:18:15,751 A mad man? 217 00:18:20,192 --> 00:18:23,331 IMan on radio] We interrupt this program to bring you this news bulletin. 218 00:18:23,461 --> 00:18:26,935 Police report the apparent murder of the wife of socialite Theodore Chase, 219 00:18:27,066 --> 00:18:29,026 President of the Chase Enterprises. 220 00:18:29,068 --> 00:18:32,274 The beautiful Mrs. Irene Chase was found shot to death in her apartment 221 00:18:32,403 --> 00:18:33,764 Iess than an hour ago. 222 00:18:33,806 --> 00:18:35,843 Police are now searching for the missing husband. 223 00:18:35,975 --> 00:18:37,975 We return you know to our r_ular pr_ram. 224 00:18:38,043 --> 00:18:40,248 [jazz] 225 00:18:47,453 --> 00:18:51,594 Hey, you missed your... If you wait a minute, l'll get you a cab to the airport. 226 00:18:51,724 --> 00:18:53,995 No. 227 00:19:03,069 --> 00:19:07,076 Ellen, l'm sober now and sane, l think. 228 00:19:07,208 --> 00:19:08,866 All l need is a little more time. 229 00:19:08,908 --> 00:19:12,682 Listen to me, Ted. Wait. Go see Perry Mason. 230 00:19:12,812 --> 00:19:16,553 Look, the only thing that's important is that you and my children are taken care of, 231 00:19:16,683 --> 00:19:17,943 and l haven't got much time. 232 00:19:17,985 --> 00:19:21,959 But we don't need help, you do. 233 00:19:22,089 --> 00:19:25,729 Don't you realize this is all that guy Vale needs to wipe you out? He'll ruin you. 234 00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:27,286 So listen to me. 235 00:19:27,328 --> 00:19:30,767 There'll be a package for you at the Santa Monica post omice. 236 00:19:30,898 --> 00:19:32,898 General delivery. 237 00:19:32,967 --> 00:19:35,405 Go get it and keep it and keep quiet about it. 238 00:19:35,536 --> 00:19:39,210 - [phone clicks] - Ted? Ted! 239 00:19:39,340 --> 00:19:41,878 [phone buttons rattle] 240 00:19:43,611 --> 00:19:47,385 - Yeah. Yeah. Fine. Good. - [camera shutter clicks] 241 00:19:52,621 --> 00:19:55,727 He did? Fine. Good work. 242 00:19:56,725 --> 00:19:58,385 Yeah. 243 00:19:58,427 --> 00:20:01,432 [knocking] 244 00:20:01,563 --> 00:20:03,667 They found a rifle on the building across the way. 245 00:20:03,799 --> 00:20:05,358 Morning, Andy. 246 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,670 Oh, good morning, Counselor. 247 00:20:07,804 --> 00:20:10,776 You couldn't possibly be looking for a client? 248 00:20:10,907 --> 00:20:15,048 That depends upon whether you mean finding one or getting one, Lieutenant. 249 00:20:15,178 --> 00:20:18,685 And your client couldn't possibly be Mr. Theodore Chase? 250 00:20:18,815 --> 00:20:20,007 What've you got, Charlie? 251 00:20:20,049 --> 00:20:21,942 Well, l found the slug that killed her, Lieutenant, 252 00:20:21,984 --> 00:20:24,456 but it's sure going to be tough to trace. 253 00:20:24,587 --> 00:20:27,492 Hitting that fireplace afteM/ards didn't help any. Look. 254 00:20:27,623 --> 00:20:30,762 All right. You'll run it down, Charlie. Oh, and tell your boys to make real sure 255 00:20:30,894 --> 00:20:33,465 about any powder burns or gun powder residue. 256 00:20:33,596 --> 00:20:38,138 All right. But l'm almost sure the gun wasn't fired from in here, Lieutenant. 257 00:20:38,268 --> 00:20:40,338 How did you find out about the murder, Lieutenant? 258 00:20:40,471 --> 00:20:41,830 Simple deduction, Perry. 259 00:20:41,872 --> 00:20:45,279 A woman, identity unknown, called and reported it at 1 :1T a.m. 260 00:20:46,277 --> 00:20:49,216 - She was here, waiting for you? - She was not. 261 00:20:49,347 --> 00:20:52,486 Why are you so anxious about my client? 262 00:20:52,616 --> 00:20:57,827 l have a feeling you'll be discussing that with him soon...in jail. 263 00:20:57,956 --> 00:21:01,529 Ellen, what time was it when Ted called you from Mexico? 264 00:21:01,659 --> 00:21:03,863 About T:OO a.m. 265 00:21:03,928 --> 00:21:08,370 He said he was going to hide down there until the police found the person who killed her. 266 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:11,539 - You don't think he did? - Oh, Perry. 267 00:21:11,669 --> 00:21:13,629 l've watched my brother... 268 00:21:13,671 --> 00:21:17,345 a good man, a kind, intelligent man... 269 00:21:17,475 --> 00:21:20,147 endure tortures beyond human endurance, 270 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:22,449 but he did not kill her. 271 00:21:22,580 --> 00:21:25,519 And if your law and justice can't prove that...- 272 00:21:25,651 --> 00:21:27,721 Our justice isn't barbaric, Ellen. 273 00:21:27,853 --> 00:21:30,324 lt won't accept any eye for an eye. 274 00:21:30,456 --> 00:21:33,562 lt only wants those truly guilty to be punished. 275 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:36,163 And any man who can run away like a thief in the night, 276 00:21:36,296 --> 00:21:38,933 leaving his little children to think that their father is a murderer 277 00:21:39,064 --> 00:21:41,335 is not, in my mind, a good, kind, intelligent man. 278 00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:43,871 He did not run away! 279 00:21:44,004 --> 00:21:45,629 Ellen, where is he? 280 00:21:45,671 --> 00:21:48,009 Your brother is sick, Ellen. 281 00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:50,278 Help me find him before the police do. 282 00:21:51,745 --> 00:21:55,519 Well, l think he... he might go to the omice. 283 00:21:55,649 --> 00:21:57,475 On Sunday? 284 00:21:57,517 --> 00:21:59,345 He wanted to get some money for his children 285 00:21:59,387 --> 00:22:02,359 before Charles Vale has everything in the company tied up. 286 00:22:02,423 --> 00:22:05,395 Vale's the new vice president l told you about. 287 00:22:05,525 --> 00:22:08,297 And apparently there's some stocks down there, 288 00:22:08,429 --> 00:22:13,405 some of Ted's own securities that his children are entitled to. 289 00:22:15,203 --> 00:22:18,375 [drawers rattling, papers rustling] 290 00:22:32,454 --> 00:22:34,381 Good morning. 291 00:22:34,423 --> 00:22:36,560 Good morning. And who might you be? 292 00:22:37,558 --> 00:22:40,698 My name is Mason. l'm an attorney. 293 00:22:40,829 --> 00:22:43,200 Miss Chase gave me permission to come here. 294 00:22:43,332 --> 00:22:46,237 l feel so sorry for her. Such a tragedy. 295 00:22:46,368 --> 00:22:48,840 l'm going to have trouble saving this corporation. 296 00:22:48,971 --> 00:22:50,298 For whom? 297 00:22:50,340 --> 00:22:53,813 For the stockholders, of course. l'm Charles Vale. 298 00:22:53,942 --> 00:22:55,945 l understand some of the major stockholders 299 00:22:56,079 --> 00:22:59,185 are violently opposed to you as an omicer of the firm, Mr. Vale. 300 00:22:59,315 --> 00:23:03,723 Some firms need vice presidents the stockholders violently oppose. 301 00:23:03,786 --> 00:23:05,179 This was one of them. 302 00:23:05,221 --> 00:23:07,926 l was brought in to pump some life into it. 303 00:23:08,057 --> 00:23:09,984 l'm afraid to salvage anything. 304 00:23:10,026 --> 00:23:12,831 l'm going to have to be given complete control. 305 00:23:12,962 --> 00:23:16,769 And if you are not given control? 306 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:18,659 lt will be. 307 00:23:18,701 --> 00:23:23,210 You see, Mr. Mason, in addition to murder, there is now theft. 308 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:26,646 Some very valuable assets of this corporation have been stolen from that safe. 309 00:23:26,776 --> 00:23:28,603 You feel Mr. Chase may have taken them? 310 00:23:28,645 --> 00:23:31,450 Of course. They were stock certificates in his name. 311 00:23:31,581 --> 00:23:35,221 But he'd promised that we could use them Iater on as collateral 312 00:23:35,352 --> 00:23:37,352 for an essential loan for the corporation. 313 00:23:37,422 --> 00:23:40,961 But if you had stock powers and a third-party release, 314 00:23:41,091 --> 00:23:45,032 the stocks could actually be used by you now, right? 315 00:23:45,163 --> 00:23:48,702 His sister will certainly verify that Mr. Chase 316 00:23:48,832 --> 00:23:50,970 never gave me any such authority. 317 00:23:51,102 --> 00:23:53,406 l wasn't suggesting he gave them to you. 318 00:23:53,538 --> 00:23:55,608 - [Drake] Perry. - Excuse me, Mr. Vale. 319 00:24:01,079 --> 00:24:04,051 - What do you have, Paul? - Something that might be interesting. 320 00:24:04,115 --> 00:24:06,820 lrene Chase was formerly married to a man named Tony Benson, 321 00:24:06,952 --> 00:24:09,857 but she didn't use that name when she went to work for Chase, 322 00:24:09,988 --> 00:24:12,393 and she didn't tell anyone there she was married. 323 00:24:12,525 --> 00:24:13,924 Know anything about Benson? 324 00:24:13,925 --> 00:24:15,925 Yeah, he has a sporting goods store over on Barclay Street. 325 00:24:15,995 --> 00:24:17,521 Has a guy by the name of Len Dykes working for him. 326 00:24:17,563 --> 00:24:18,789 And here's another item: 327 00:24:18,831 --> 00:24:21,569 a week after Chase's first wife committed suicide, 328 00:24:21,701 --> 00:24:25,608 Tony Benson divorced Irene in Mexico. 329 00:24:25,738 --> 00:24:27,566 All right. 330 00:24:27,608 --> 00:24:29,878 We better see Mr. Benson. 331 00:24:32,579 --> 00:24:34,579 [knocking] 332 00:24:36,716 --> 00:24:38,853 Oh. Tony. 333 00:24:41,388 --> 00:24:44,026 You look like something that came up on the well rope. 334 00:24:44,157 --> 00:24:45,584 What's the matter, Sylvia? 335 00:24:45,626 --> 00:24:47,285 Haven't you heard? 336 00:24:47,327 --> 00:24:50,634 Sure. Only where's Len? l've got to see him. 337 00:24:50,764 --> 00:24:54,237 l don't know. l thought you knew. 338 00:24:54,369 --> 00:24:56,473 Did Len kill her, Tony? 339 00:24:56,604 --> 00:24:58,604 Now, why should Len shoot her? 340 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,414 Well, he was playing around with her. 341 00:25:03,478 --> 00:25:06,817 The paper said she was killed at 12:OO last night. 342 00:25:07,814 --> 00:25:09,641 He didn't get home till 1 :OO. 343 00:25:09,683 --> 00:25:12,121 lf l were you, Sylvia, l'd forget all about that. 344 00:25:12,253 --> 00:25:13,746 You think Len did it, don't you? 345 00:25:13,788 --> 00:25:16,125 Forget it, l said. 346 00:25:22,598 --> 00:25:24,598 [doorknob clicking] 347 00:25:25,501 --> 00:25:27,571 [stomping] 348 00:25:31,739 --> 00:25:33,739 Ah, there you are. 349 00:25:35,477 --> 00:25:37,477 What's the idea of locking me out of my own store? 350 00:25:37,579 --> 00:25:38,805 Oh, sorry. 351 00:25:38,847 --> 00:25:40,608 l want those stock powers, Len. 352 00:25:40,650 --> 00:25:41,742 What? 353 00:25:41,784 --> 00:25:43,611 You know what l'm talking about. 354 00:25:43,653 --> 00:25:46,792 l've got the release forms at home, and now l want those stock powers, too. 355 00:25:46,922 --> 00:25:50,429 Tony, l wouldn't keep those things around here, 356 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,560 not with the cops crawling all over the place. 357 00:25:52,629 --> 00:25:54,629 l, uh... 358 00:25:55,298 --> 00:25:58,404 l've got them in a bus station Iocker downtown. 359 00:25:58,535 --> 00:26:00,228 Main station. 360 00:26:00,270 --> 00:26:01,896 Signed? 361 00:26:01,938 --> 00:26:04,743 l know when l'm over a barrel, Tony. 362 00:26:04,808 --> 00:26:06,710 Okay. 363 00:26:06,711 --> 00:26:08,236 You going home now? 364 00:26:08,278 --> 00:26:11,585 Sure. Nothing else to do. 365 00:26:11,716 --> 00:26:14,388 Just because she's dead, that doesn't purify you, Len. 366 00:26:15,386 --> 00:26:17,386 Remember that. 367 00:26:17,954 --> 00:26:20,159 Yeah, l'll remember that. 368 00:27:00,999 --> 00:27:03,671 [door closes] 369 00:27:05,605 --> 00:27:08,344 Well, that's the number. That's Benson's place. 370 00:27:08,474 --> 00:27:12,782 The only solution to the parking problem in Los Angeles is to get rid of the cars. 371 00:27:12,912 --> 00:27:14,912 Try around the corner. 372 00:27:19,552 --> 00:27:21,552 [door buzzer buzzes] 373 00:27:27,427 --> 00:27:29,898 Mr. Benson? My name is Mason. l'm an attorney. 374 00:27:30,029 --> 00:27:31,389 This is Mr. Paul Drake. 375 00:27:31,431 --> 00:27:33,968 l've heard a lot about you, Mr. Mason. 376 00:27:34,101 --> 00:27:36,973 l think l know why you're here, and l'll try and help you all l can. 377 00:27:37,104 --> 00:27:41,512 A terrible thing, isn't it? Won't you come in? 378 00:27:47,515 --> 00:27:50,754 Mrs. Chase was once your wife, l believe. 379 00:27:50,884 --> 00:27:53,990 Legally, yes. She bought me om. 380 00:27:54,121 --> 00:27:56,326 Bought a divorce the way you buy a loaf of bread. 381 00:27:56,457 --> 00:27:59,062 So she could make a play for Ted Chase? 382 00:27:59,194 --> 00:28:01,194 Him and his company. 383 00:28:02,463 --> 00:28:04,500 Mr. Mason, if Irene had lived a little longer, 384 00:28:04,632 --> 00:28:06,526 she'd have gained control of the Chase Enterprises, 385 00:28:06,568 --> 00:28:07,960 lock, stock and barrel. 386 00:28:08,002 --> 00:28:09,630 What did she buy you om with? 387 00:28:09,672 --> 00:28:11,709 A sporting goods store. 388 00:28:11,841 --> 00:28:13,340 That all? 389 00:28:13,341 --> 00:28:16,614 Well, there was to be a little more after she married Chase. 390 00:28:25,154 --> 00:28:27,147 Here's the rest of the payment. 391 00:28:27,189 --> 00:28:30,461 They're stocks. She gave them to me a couple of days ago. 392 00:28:32,161 --> 00:28:34,699 Roughly a hundred thousand dollars' worth. 393 00:28:34,831 --> 00:28:38,270 But these are registered in the name of Ted Chase. 394 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,507 Even if you could sell them, the money would have to go into his account. 395 00:28:41,638 --> 00:28:43,498 Here's the release form. 396 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:45,366 l don't know how she made him sign that, 397 00:28:45,408 --> 00:28:48,747 but it authorizes the money from the sale of his stock to go to me. 398 00:28:48,879 --> 00:28:52,653 This is still useless without stock powers to go with each of the certificates. 399 00:28:52,782 --> 00:28:55,654 She was going to get Chase to sign those, too. 400 00:28:55,786 --> 00:28:58,557 She was trying to keep Vale from finding out about it. 401 00:28:58,689 --> 00:28:59,890 Only now... 402 00:28:59,891 --> 00:29:03,965 Mr. Benson, you have a gunsmith working for you named Len Dykes. 403 00:29:04,027 --> 00:29:06,399 Did you know that his real name was Herman Dickson? 404 00:29:06,530 --> 00:29:08,530 That he served two terms for forgery? 405 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,272 lf Len Dykes did forge some papers for Irene, 406 00:29:12,403 --> 00:29:14,403 then her death leaves him unprotected. 407 00:29:14,472 --> 00:29:17,644 He must have thought she'd given them to me. 408 00:29:17,775 --> 00:29:21,149 l'd just barely opened the door when you came in. 409 00:29:31,022 --> 00:29:33,761 Ted Chase. 410 00:29:45,337 --> 00:29:47,130 What's the matter with that man? 411 00:29:47,172 --> 00:29:49,844 - He was hit on the head. - There's only a bump. 412 00:29:49,975 --> 00:29:52,847 That couldn't cause him to react as though he had been drugged. 413 00:29:52,978 --> 00:29:56,150 But there's no evidence of any drug. 414 00:29:56,281 --> 00:29:59,554 Well, it could be some form of shock, couldn't it? 415 00:29:59,686 --> 00:30:03,493 After all, he was knocked out, and he is suspected of murder. 416 00:30:03,623 --> 00:30:07,397 Perhaps. l'll run some tests later, if you like. 417 00:30:08,795 --> 00:30:10,798 You want me to make that call now? 418 00:30:11,865 --> 00:30:14,469 l don't know what hit me or who. 419 00:30:16,402 --> 00:30:20,343 l couldn't find some stock certificates in my omice or any place else. 420 00:30:20,474 --> 00:30:22,811 Finally, l... 421 00:30:23,844 --> 00:30:27,484 l came up here to Tony Benson's to see if he had them. 422 00:30:27,614 --> 00:30:29,408 The door was already open. 423 00:30:29,450 --> 00:30:34,593 And when l came into this room... 424 00:30:37,658 --> 00:30:39,618 That's all l remember. 425 00:30:39,660 --> 00:30:41,453 Did you kill Irene? 426 00:30:41,495 --> 00:30:44,535 Mason, have you ever lived in a nightmare? 427 00:30:44,666 --> 00:30:48,172 ln a dream where you couldn't tell right from wrong? 428 00:30:48,302 --> 00:30:50,874 Did you ever live with a woman who killed your wife, 429 00:30:51,006 --> 00:30:55,482 terrified your children, and stolen your belongings? 430 00:30:55,610 --> 00:31:01,288 Ted, you do admit that you made elaborate plans to kill Irene. 431 00:31:01,416 --> 00:31:04,355 No. No, the plans were for me, not her. 432 00:31:04,419 --> 00:31:08,493 So you went through all this just so you could be faced with the final test... 433 00:31:08,624 --> 00:31:10,794 would you pull the trigger or wouldn't you? 434 00:31:10,926 --> 00:31:13,898 l guess l was deeper in the dream than l thought, huh? 435 00:31:16,365 --> 00:31:20,573 Was l... Was l insane? 436 00:31:20,703 --> 00:31:23,341 You know, it doesn't do me much good now to know 437 00:31:23,472 --> 00:31:27,346 to know that... to know that l never could kill anyone. 438 00:31:27,476 --> 00:31:32,118 Because what if someone else watched me, 439 00:31:32,248 --> 00:31:34,141 followed me, 440 00:31:34,183 --> 00:31:36,488 and when l didn't pull the trigger, they did? 441 00:31:36,620 --> 00:31:39,659 You see, l can't even ask you to defend me, Mason. 442 00:31:39,790 --> 00:31:44,766 Because suppose that l made it possible for someone else to kill? 443 00:31:46,064 --> 00:31:48,768 Perry, l got Paul's phone call. 444 00:31:48,899 --> 00:31:52,907 Thanks for being willing to cooperate with us, Mr. Chase. 445 00:31:53,037 --> 00:31:56,510 Your Honor, in spite of the fact that this bullet was so damaged 446 00:31:56,641 --> 00:31:59,045 by striking the stone fireplace 447 00:31:59,176 --> 00:32:01,848 that it's impossible to make a positive connection 448 00:32:01,979 --> 00:32:04,784 between this bullet and this rifle ballistically. 449 00:32:04,849 --> 00:32:07,788 Nevertheless, would you tell me this, sir? 450 00:32:07,919 --> 00:32:11,559 What is the weight of this bullet you found in the defendant's apartment? 451 00:32:11,689 --> 00:32:13,690 158 grains. 452 00:32:13,691 --> 00:32:16,229 And what weight bullet is fired by this rifle fire? 453 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,798 158 grains. 454 00:32:18,931 --> 00:32:21,568 [Lawyer] Then Is it your opinion that this bullet, 455 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:25,641 fired from this rifle could have killed Irene Chase? 456 00:32:25,771 --> 00:32:28,008 [Man] Well, she was killed by a bullet. 457 00:32:28,139 --> 00:32:31,913 That's the only one we found in the apartment, so...yes. 458 00:32:32,044 --> 00:32:33,937 Thank you, sir. l think that'll be all. 459 00:32:33,979 --> 00:32:36,117 Your witness, Mr. Mason. 460 00:32:39,052 --> 00:32:41,623 Now, forgetting that rifle for the moment, 461 00:32:41,753 --> 00:32:44,125 could you tell me what weight bullet is used 462 00:32:44,256 --> 00:32:46,256 in the .35T Magnum handgun? 463 00:32:46,325 --> 00:32:48,429 A 158-grain bullet. 464 00:32:48,561 --> 00:32:51,065 And how many .35T Magnum handguns, 465 00:32:51,196 --> 00:32:53,091 revolvers or automatics have been made? 466 00:32:53,133 --> 00:32:55,093 Ten? A hundred? A thousand? 467 00:32:55,135 --> 00:32:56,561 Thousands. 468 00:32:56,603 --> 00:32:59,275 Then that bullet could have been fired not only by the rifle, 469 00:32:59,405 --> 00:33:01,575 but by any one of thousands of handguns? 470 00:33:01,708 --> 00:33:04,013 Conceivably, yes. 471 00:33:04,078 --> 00:33:06,515 Now, you've established the trajectory of that bullet 472 00:33:06,646 --> 00:33:10,286 through the decedent, the chaise and on to the fireplace. 473 00:33:10,416 --> 00:33:12,621 ls it your opinion, as an expert, 474 00:33:12,753 --> 00:33:16,727 that the decedent must have been either sitting or reclining on that chaise 475 00:33:16,857 --> 00:33:18,817 at the time she was killed? 476 00:33:18,859 --> 00:33:20,719 She couldn't have been anyplace else. 477 00:33:20,761 --> 00:33:25,470 No, our medical examination of the flesh and clothing of the decedent 478 00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:29,673 disclosed no residue of burned or unburned gun powder. 479 00:33:29,803 --> 00:33:32,508 That means that that rifle must've been fired 480 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,600 from a considerable distance away from Mrs. Chase? 481 00:33:34,642 --> 00:33:38,082 No. But it could not have been close to her 482 00:33:38,212 --> 00:33:40,382 or there would have been evidence of gun powder residue. 483 00:33:40,515 --> 00:33:43,286 Now, Doctor, were you able to establish the time of death? 484 00:33:43,418 --> 00:33:46,022 [Doctor] Between 1 1 :OO p. m. and midnight, l'd say. 485 00:33:46,154 --> 00:33:48,792 Thank you. That'll be all. Your witness. 486 00:33:50,225 --> 00:33:54,199 Doctor, in this matter of powder burns or residue, 487 00:33:54,329 --> 00:33:57,936 about how far away would a gun have to be so as not to leave such residue? 488 00:33:58,067 --> 00:34:01,139 Could it have been fired, say, from 15 feet away? 489 00:34:01,269 --> 00:34:05,043 At that distance, there would have been no residue on the body of the decedent. 490 00:34:05,107 --> 00:34:08,112 But 15 feet in the established line of trajectory 491 00:34:08,243 --> 00:34:10,481 would've put the gun way outside the window. 492 00:34:10,613 --> 00:34:12,850 Any closer inside the window, 493 00:34:12,982 --> 00:34:15,153 there would have been residue on the carpeting 494 00:34:15,284 --> 00:34:17,078 between the window and chaise. 495 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,125 The police examined that area very carefully. 496 00:34:20,256 --> 00:34:23,930 There was not a trace of gun powder residue anywhere. 497 00:34:24,061 --> 00:34:26,800 When the thunder really got loud, he left my bar. 498 00:34:26,930 --> 00:34:28,455 Was he drunk? 499 00:34:28,497 --> 00:34:31,770 No. No. He'd been drinking, but l wouldn't say he was drunk. 500 00:34:31,902 --> 00:34:35,074 ln other words, he'd had enough drinks to deaden his inhibitions, 501 00:34:35,205 --> 00:34:37,410 but he wasn't too drunk to shoot straight? 502 00:34:38,542 --> 00:34:40,302 Strike that question. 503 00:34:40,344 --> 00:34:42,104 You know better than that, Mr. Burger. 504 00:34:42,146 --> 00:34:45,051 l beg the court's pardon, Your Honor. 505 00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:48,355 That'll be all. Your witness. 506 00:34:48,485 --> 00:34:51,190 l have no questions at this time, Your Honor 507 00:34:51,321 --> 00:34:53,525 but if the prosecutor will permit, 508 00:34:53,658 --> 00:34:58,099 l would like the privilege of recalling this witness later on. 509 00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:01,969 Now, Mrs. Dykes, you've stated that you live on the top floor 510 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:05,273 of the apartment building where that rifle was found. 511 00:35:05,336 --> 00:35:08,942 What did you see there the night that Irene Chase was murdered? 512 00:35:09,074 --> 00:35:12,613 Well, as l was came out of my apartment at quarter of 12:OO that night, 513 00:35:12,744 --> 00:35:16,351 l saw Mr. Chase get out of the elevator and walk down the hall 514 00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:18,986 to the door that leads to the roof. 515 00:35:19,118 --> 00:35:20,844 [Lawyer] Thank you, Mrs. Dykes. That'll be all. 516 00:35:20,886 --> 00:35:23,357 Cross-examine, Mr. Mason? 517 00:35:24,857 --> 00:35:27,963 Mrs. Dykes, you say you left your apartment at 1 1 :45. 518 00:35:28,093 --> 00:35:29,753 What time did you return? 519 00:35:29,795 --> 00:35:31,832 A little before 1 :OO, l guess. 520 00:35:31,964 --> 00:35:33,964 Where did you go during that time? 521 00:35:34,067 --> 00:35:37,941 l... l went to the neighborhood drugstore, 522 00:35:38,071 --> 00:35:41,544 and a couple of bars and places... 523 00:35:41,674 --> 00:35:44,513 l... l was looking for my husband. 524 00:35:46,646 --> 00:35:48,816 Was one of those places Irene Chase's apartment? 525 00:35:48,948 --> 00:35:50,948 - No. - Did you find your husband? 526 00:35:54,621 --> 00:35:58,395 No, l didn't. 527 00:35:58,525 --> 00:36:03,067 You say you went to the Chase apartment shortly after midnight? 528 00:36:03,130 --> 00:36:06,102 l manage pretty well, in spite of the wheelchair. 529 00:36:06,233 --> 00:36:09,038 You had a key to the murdered woman's apartment? 530 00:36:12,139 --> 00:36:16,180 Miss Chase, as a hostile witness, you must answer. 531 00:36:16,310 --> 00:36:18,682 l had a key to my brother's apartment, yes. 532 00:36:18,813 --> 00:36:20,372 And what did you find when you went in? 533 00:36:20,414 --> 00:36:23,953 l found that... that woman dead. 534 00:36:24,086 --> 00:36:27,192 Then returned to your home, and over an hour later 535 00:36:27,322 --> 00:36:29,249 you phoned the police, anonymously. 536 00:36:29,291 --> 00:36:31,395 Why did you wait so long? 537 00:36:31,525 --> 00:36:33,219 l was waiting for my brother. 538 00:36:33,261 --> 00:36:36,233 You were waiting to give your brother time to hide, weren't you? 539 00:36:36,365 --> 00:36:38,365 Your Honor 540 00:36:39,901 --> 00:36:44,209 this sort of heckling goes beyond the leading questions allowed to prosecution. 541 00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:45,932 Objection sustained. 542 00:36:45,974 --> 00:36:48,179 Your witness, Mr. Mason. 543 00:36:50,512 --> 00:36:54,553 As you say, Miss Chase, you seem quite able to get around despite your condition. 544 00:36:54,683 --> 00:36:57,856 Now, are you also able to fire a gun? 545 00:36:57,987 --> 00:36:59,987 l'm a good shot with a pistol. 546 00:37:00,089 --> 00:37:01,982 But a rifle is a little too much for me. 547 00:37:02,024 --> 00:37:05,698 Did you go to that apartment with the intention of killing your sister-in-law? 548 00:37:06,796 --> 00:37:09,100 l thought about it, yes. 549 00:37:09,233 --> 00:37:12,372 But l did not find it necessary. 550 00:37:12,502 --> 00:37:15,908 About two weeks before Mrs. Chase was murdered, 551 00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:20,113 the defendant made certain accusations against you and his wife. 552 00:37:20,244 --> 00:37:21,870 What were these accusations? 553 00:37:21,912 --> 00:37:25,886 He accused me and his wife of plotting to ruin his corporation. 554 00:37:26,016 --> 00:37:28,955 Can you remember any specific words he used? 555 00:37:29,086 --> 00:37:31,891 To Irene, yes. 556 00:37:32,022 --> 00:37:34,827 He said, ''You're doing this. 557 00:37:34,958 --> 00:37:37,129 You're doing everything. l'll kill you.'' 558 00:37:37,262 --> 00:37:41,770 He said, ''Someday l'm going to kill you.'' 559 00:37:44,269 --> 00:37:46,539 Perry, you're going to buy my lunch. 560 00:37:46,670 --> 00:37:50,912 - Did that doctor get you that lab report? - No. Take a look at this. 561 00:37:51,042 --> 00:37:53,379 lt looks like a burned... 562 00:37:54,379 --> 00:37:57,051 Della, do we have a blank stock power handy? 563 00:37:58,483 --> 00:37:59,876 Where'd you get this, Paul? 564 00:37:59,918 --> 00:38:02,122 The workshop in Tony Benson's store. 565 00:38:02,254 --> 00:38:04,254 [footsteps approaching] 566 00:38:08,427 --> 00:38:12,803 Well, the bridle and the saddle, 567 00:38:12,932 --> 00:38:14,457 and all we need is the horse. 568 00:38:14,499 --> 00:38:15,559 Huh? 569 00:38:15,601 --> 00:38:16,960 l'm afraid you'll have to forego lunch. 570 00:38:17,002 --> 00:38:18,529 l want you to stay right on that suicide... 571 00:38:18,571 --> 00:38:21,342 the death of the first Mrs. Chase. 572 00:38:21,475 --> 00:38:24,781 Well, l found this rifle was missing from the store 573 00:38:24,910 --> 00:38:28,584 the day after Mr. Chase was in, carrying this big flower box. 574 00:38:28,714 --> 00:38:32,588 See, it was one of several guns that l'd been checking the sights on, so l noticed. 575 00:38:32,718 --> 00:38:36,092 And there sure wasn't anybody else who could have taken it during that time. 576 00:38:36,223 --> 00:38:38,116 Can you tell us, of your own knowledge, 577 00:38:38,158 --> 00:38:40,696 if Ted Chase is a good shot with a rifle? 578 00:38:40,827 --> 00:38:42,720 Oh, he's one of the best. 579 00:38:42,762 --> 00:38:45,299 That'll be all. Your witness. 580 00:38:47,435 --> 00:38:51,342 Tell me, when you checked the sights on those guns, did you also test-fire them? 581 00:38:51,472 --> 00:38:55,313 Yeah. We got a range in the basement. That's how you do it. 582 00:38:55,443 --> 00:38:58,315 And you hadn't yet cleaned the gun you believed Mr. Chase took? 583 00:38:58,446 --> 00:39:00,683 Well, no, l guess not. 584 00:39:00,815 --> 00:39:04,856 Now, Mr. Dykes... or Mr. Dickson, whichever... 585 00:39:04,919 --> 00:39:07,858 you've twice been convicted of forgery. 586 00:39:07,989 --> 00:39:12,498 l'm sure you know that a third conviction could lead to life in prison? 587 00:39:12,627 --> 00:39:14,627 Yeah, yeah. l know that. 588 00:39:17,064 --> 00:39:20,204 l show you this release 589 00:39:20,335 --> 00:39:24,843 that authorizes that money from the sale of Mr. Chase's stock 590 00:39:24,973 --> 00:39:26,166 to be paid to Tony Benson. 591 00:39:26,208 --> 00:39:30,750 Now, did you forge Mr. Chase's signature to this release? 592 00:39:30,879 --> 00:39:33,618 May l remind you, Mr. Mason, it is not a crime 593 00:39:33,749 --> 00:39:35,642 to write someone's name on a piece of paper 594 00:39:35,684 --> 00:39:39,157 unless that piece of paper is used legally to amect the rights of others? 595 00:39:39,289 --> 00:39:41,693 l accept the reminder, Mr. Burger. 596 00:39:41,823 --> 00:39:43,860 And thank you, on behalf of the witness, 597 00:39:43,992 --> 00:39:47,099 for rushing to his aid with a suggested answer. 598 00:39:47,230 --> 00:39:50,402 Then you did forge the signature? 599 00:39:50,533 --> 00:39:53,071 Well, l was just fooling around. 600 00:39:54,404 --> 00:39:58,345 l show you now 601 00:39:58,474 --> 00:40:00,946 a remnant of a burned stock power. 602 00:40:01,077 --> 00:40:03,382 Now, were you just fooling around 603 00:40:03,514 --> 00:40:05,851 when you forged that signature? 604 00:40:05,982 --> 00:40:08,019 Yeah, l guess l was. 605 00:40:08,152 --> 00:40:11,091 And at the first opportunity after the death of Irene Chase, 606 00:40:11,221 --> 00:40:14,260 you burned the stock powers you'd forged, did you not? 607 00:40:14,391 --> 00:40:16,728 Well, l didn't wanna leave them Iying around. 608 00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:18,619 Of course not. 609 00:40:18,661 --> 00:40:21,400 But you still had to find this release, did you not? 610 00:40:21,532 --> 00:40:24,872 Because you knew that it's discovery by anyone else 611 00:40:25,002 --> 00:40:26,695 could send you back to prison. 612 00:40:26,737 --> 00:40:30,778 Let's go back to the night of the death of Irene Chase. 613 00:40:30,908 --> 00:40:32,801 Did you, that night, go to her apartment 614 00:40:32,843 --> 00:40:35,315 looking for another one of your forgeries... 615 00:40:35,447 --> 00:40:38,753 a forgery with which she had been blackmailing you? 616 00:40:38,882 --> 00:40:41,354 No. No, l never went near Irene. 617 00:40:41,486 --> 00:40:44,926 I Well, sure, l saw her earlier but not that late. 618 00:40:45,056 --> 00:40:49,598 Your Honor, l object to all this wild exploration. 619 00:40:49,728 --> 00:40:52,733 Mr. Mason himself has helped bring out testimony 620 00:40:52,864 --> 00:40:57,206 that the total lack of any trace of powder residue in the murder apartment 621 00:40:57,336 --> 00:41:01,277 proves conclusively that the decedent could not have been shot at close range. 622 00:41:01,407 --> 00:41:04,045 - Therefore... - [Judge] Objection sustained. 623 00:41:05,411 --> 00:41:08,216 Since it is approaching the hour for evening adjournment, l... 624 00:41:08,347 --> 00:41:11,419 Very well, Your Honor. However, with the court's permission, 625 00:41:11,550 --> 00:41:14,422 l would like to postpone further cross-examination of this witness 626 00:41:14,554 --> 00:41:18,127 until l can present other evidence which may prove that he's perjured himself. 627 00:41:21,428 --> 00:41:24,333 Perry, this is Miss Mabel Richmond. 628 00:41:24,464 --> 00:41:27,403 Well, it all happened some time ago. 629 00:41:27,534 --> 00:41:30,273 You see, l work in the beauty shop Irene went to. 630 00:41:30,404 --> 00:41:33,076 And once she told me she was hiding from her husband, 631 00:41:33,206 --> 00:41:36,078 so she gave me a round-trip ticket to Catalina. 632 00:41:36,209 --> 00:41:37,570 So l went. 633 00:41:37,612 --> 00:41:39,437 She asked me to use her name. 634 00:41:39,479 --> 00:41:40,573 So l did. 635 00:41:40,615 --> 00:41:43,454 Didn't the simultaneous death of Betty Chase 636 00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:48,025 make you realize that Irene might have been using you for some sort of alibi? 637 00:41:48,155 --> 00:41:49,781 But l didn't even know about it. 638 00:41:49,823 --> 00:41:52,795 And l sure didn't know Irene needed any alibi. 639 00:41:52,926 --> 00:41:57,201 Mabel, you admitted you were pretty nervous when a man came around asking questions. 640 00:41:57,331 --> 00:41:58,924 A man named Smathers. 641 00:41:58,966 --> 00:42:02,472 Oh, yeah. But that wasn't any policeman or anything. 642 00:42:02,537 --> 00:42:05,844 lt was just a guy who dated me and got sorta curious. 643 00:42:05,973 --> 00:42:08,712 This man Smathers. Where is he now? 644 00:42:08,843 --> 00:42:11,415 Search me. He never came back. 645 00:42:11,547 --> 00:42:13,240 All right. Thank you. 646 00:42:13,282 --> 00:42:15,552 Uh, you'll be ready at court tomorrow. 647 00:42:25,194 --> 00:42:28,366 Perry, l also got the lab analysis. 648 00:42:28,497 --> 00:42:30,190 Any comee, Della? 649 00:42:30,232 --> 00:42:32,025 A woman's work is never done. 650 00:42:32,067 --> 00:42:33,927 l-131. 651 00:42:33,969 --> 00:42:35,396 What's the matter? 652 00:42:35,438 --> 00:42:37,642 That's radioactive iodine. 653 00:42:37,773 --> 00:42:39,032 Like in the fallout? 654 00:42:39,074 --> 00:42:43,082 Used for metabolic diseases, thyroid, and angina. 655 00:42:43,213 --> 00:42:47,454 And the doc said it's an odorless, colorless, tasteless liquid. 656 00:42:47,584 --> 00:42:49,789 And enough of it can reduce a human being 657 00:42:49,919 --> 00:42:53,425 to nothing more than a vegetable. 658 00:42:53,556 --> 00:42:57,464 Sure, Mr. Chase came to my bar almost every evening. 659 00:42:57,595 --> 00:42:59,732 Not that he drank much. 660 00:42:59,863 --> 00:43:04,872 But he'd sit there with a whiskey and soda just... just thinking, l guess. 661 00:43:04,934 --> 00:43:08,841 Now tell us this: did you or the relief bartender 662 00:43:08,973 --> 00:43:12,512 ever put anything into the defendant's drinks other than whiskey and soda? 663 00:43:12,643 --> 00:43:13,902 l don't follow you. 664 00:43:13,944 --> 00:43:17,550 When my investigators talked to your relief man, he mentioned that... 665 00:43:17,682 --> 00:43:19,919 Oh, sure. You must mean the vitamins. 666 00:43:20,050 --> 00:43:23,322 Chase's wife asked me to do it, because he needed them... 667 00:43:23,455 --> 00:43:25,455 that he would never remember to take them at home. 668 00:43:29,294 --> 00:43:31,498 ls this the vitamins to which you refer? 669 00:43:31,630 --> 00:43:33,630 Yeah, it looks like it. 670 00:43:35,467 --> 00:43:40,410 Your Honor this bottle contain_ l-131 , 671 00:43:40,539 --> 00:43:44,313 a radioactive iodine which, if given in small doses over a period of time, 672 00:43:44,442 --> 00:43:46,980 can render a man's mind incapable of sound decisions, 673 00:43:47,112 --> 00:43:49,316 even incapable of telling right from wrong. 674 00:43:49,448 --> 00:43:51,518 Well, had the defendant been given this regularly? 675 00:43:51,651 --> 00:43:53,788 [Mason] He'd been given it regularly, Your Honor, 676 00:43:53,919 --> 00:43:56,023 without his knowledge or consent. 677 00:43:56,155 --> 00:43:58,259 But Irene said it was only vitamins. 678 00:43:58,391 --> 00:44:02,098 She swore to me it wasn't really anything that could hurt him. 679 00:44:02,228 --> 00:44:04,088 l tasted it. 680 00:44:04,130 --> 00:44:06,902 Honest, l didn't know it wasn't vitamins. 681 00:44:07,033 --> 00:44:09,033 That's enough. Mr. Burger. 682 00:44:11,437 --> 00:44:14,443 l think l should adjourn this hearing until your omice can look into this. 683 00:44:14,575 --> 00:44:17,881 And also, Mr. Mason, l want to consider the legal aspects 684 00:44:18,010 --> 00:44:20,382 of a plea of insanity due to destructive drugs. 685 00:44:20,514 --> 00:44:23,052 You've only one more witness, haven't you, Mr. Burger? 686 00:44:23,183 --> 00:44:25,183 - That's right. - And, Your Honor 687 00:44:25,285 --> 00:44:27,722 may l suggest that we complete this hearing 688 00:44:27,856 --> 00:44:30,995 just in case we find it not necessary to enter such a plea? 689 00:44:31,124 --> 00:44:34,764 Very well. But l wonder if it's in the best interests of the defendant. 690 00:44:35,763 --> 00:44:39,236 Mr. Benson you acquired the ownership of your sporting goods store 691 00:44:39,366 --> 00:44:42,406 the time of your divorce from your first wife, the deceased Irene Chase. 692 00:44:42,537 --> 00:44:44,263 - Is that correct? - Yes, sir. 693 00:44:44,305 --> 00:44:47,344 - And you hired Len Dykes? - Yes. 694 00:44:47,475 --> 00:44:49,712 Because of his skill as an engraver. 695 00:44:49,844 --> 00:44:53,017 Now, you tell us that Len Dykes reported to you 696 00:44:53,147 --> 00:44:56,520 the theft of the rifle by Mr. Chase. 697 00:44:56,651 --> 00:44:59,223 Why didn't you report that theft to the police? 698 00:44:59,354 --> 00:45:03,463 Ted Chase was a friend of mine and a good customer. 699 00:45:03,525 --> 00:45:05,519 l knew if he'd taken it, he'd pay for it. 700 00:45:05,561 --> 00:45:07,898 All right. So that will be all. Your witness. 701 00:45:10,064 --> 00:45:12,067 Mr. Benson, 702 00:45:12,201 --> 00:45:17,477 going back to the time of the suicide of the first Mrs. Chase, 703 00:45:17,606 --> 00:45:22,783 did you ever wonder why Irene, your wife at that time, 704 00:45:22,913 --> 00:45:26,219 wasn't aboard a certain plane to Catalina as she said she was? 705 00:45:26,348 --> 00:45:28,586 l don't quite get the question. 706 00:45:28,718 --> 00:45:31,390 Does the name Smathers mean anything to you? 707 00:45:31,521 --> 00:45:33,791 - Did you ever use that name? - No. 708 00:45:33,924 --> 00:45:37,731 A young woman by the name of Mabel Richmond is waiting outside that door. 709 00:45:37,861 --> 00:45:40,199 Didn't Mabel Richmond once admit to you 710 00:45:40,330 --> 00:45:44,939 that she used Irene's name on that Catalina plane trip? 711 00:45:45,068 --> 00:45:49,911 And didn't you then wonder why Irene wanted to conceal her own whereabouts? 712 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,834 Or did you perhaps think that someday 713 00:45:51,876 --> 00:45:54,815 you might blackmail Irene over the murder of Betty Chase? 714 00:45:54,946 --> 00:45:57,116 l don't know anything about any murder. 715 00:45:57,247 --> 00:46:02,157 lrene later risked a very secure position as Chase's wife by stealing from him. 716 00:46:02,286 --> 00:46:06,627 She also risked imprisonment as an accomplice to a forgery. 717 00:46:06,757 --> 00:46:09,797 Now, would a woman as shrewd and intelligent as she was 718 00:46:09,928 --> 00:46:12,767 have risked all these things without being forced to do it by you? 719 00:46:12,898 --> 00:46:14,658 We made a bargain. 720 00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:16,737 lt didn't concern me where the money came from. 721 00:46:16,868 --> 00:46:19,840 That's right. You had the stolen stock certificates. 722 00:46:19,972 --> 00:46:23,446 You had the third-party release. All you needed were the stock powers. 723 00:46:23,575 --> 00:46:26,414 So on the night of Irene's death, 724 00:46:26,545 --> 00:46:28,682 you went to her apartment to force her to give them to you. 725 00:46:28,814 --> 00:46:30,307 When she wouldn't, you killed her. 726 00:46:30,349 --> 00:46:33,254 No. l'm not a fool. 727 00:46:33,385 --> 00:46:37,459 l would have lost _1 OO,OOO by killing her. 728 00:46:37,589 --> 00:46:39,115 Why should l kill her? 729 00:46:39,157 --> 00:46:41,261 Perhaps because she wanted to kill you. 730 00:46:41,393 --> 00:46:44,332 As long as you were alive, you were a threat to her. 731 00:46:44,464 --> 00:46:47,302 Maybe the two of you fought. 732 00:46:47,433 --> 00:46:48,759 Objection, Your Honor. 733 00:46:48,801 --> 00:46:53,310 lt's been established, repeatedly and beyond question, 734 00:46:53,439 --> 00:46:56,745 that there was no trace of powder burned or unburned 735 00:46:56,876 --> 00:47:00,116 on the body of the decedent or anywhere in the murder room. 736 00:47:00,246 --> 00:47:02,683 and that therefore, the gun that killed her 737 00:47:02,750 --> 00:47:05,287 could not have been fired inside that apartment. 738 00:47:05,418 --> 00:47:07,756 That's well taken, Mr. Burger. 739 00:47:07,888 --> 00:47:10,660 Mr. Mason, l agree. Much of your evidence does seem to be irrelevant. 740 00:47:10,791 --> 00:47:14,498 Your Honor l'll attempt to show the relev! ancy right now. 741 00:47:14,628 --> 00:47:18,168 Suppose that inside the apartment that night, 742 00:47:18,298 --> 00:47:20,535 lrene suddenly pulled a gun on you, 743 00:47:20,667 --> 00:47:22,704 and you grabbed her... 744 00:47:22,836 --> 00:47:25,174 No, no, you can't pin this thing on me. 745 00:47:25,305 --> 00:47:27,777 Suppose you were both on the chaise at the time. 746 00:47:27,909 --> 00:47:29,234 You struggled for the gun. 747 00:47:29,276 --> 00:47:30,970 No, l tell you. 748 00:47:31,012 --> 00:47:32,638 Suppose that gun went om. 749 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,554 You just heard Mr. Burger say the shot couldn't have been fired in there. 750 00:47:36,684 --> 00:47:38,243 Suppose Mr. Burger's wrong. 751 00:47:38,285 --> 00:47:40,823 Suppose your right arm... 752 00:47:42,223 --> 00:47:44,083 No, it's not true. 753 00:47:44,125 --> 00:47:46,462 lt is your right arm, isn't it? 754 00:47:47,529 --> 00:47:49,666 [gasps] 755 00:47:54,870 --> 00:47:57,809 Your Honor upon a doctor's exam' ination, 756 00:47:57,940 --> 00:48:00,445 l'm sure we'll find a bullet wound in this man's arm. 757 00:48:00,576 --> 00:48:03,848 There's your missing powder residue, Mr. Burger. 758 00:48:03,913 --> 00:48:06,083 Every single bit of it. 759 00:48:10,352 --> 00:48:13,057 Now, l have the gun. 760 00:48:13,189 --> 00:48:15,393 Ow. Oh, be careful. Ouch! 761 00:48:15,524 --> 00:48:19,531 All right. Pow! The gun goes om right against my arm. 762 00:48:19,663 --> 00:48:21,255 All right. Now what do l do? 763 00:48:21,297 --> 00:48:22,757 You fall down. You're dead. 764 00:48:22,799 --> 00:48:24,802 [Anderson] Aw, what a pity. 765 00:48:26,302 --> 00:48:29,842 Perry, l just dropped by for a lesson in deduction. 766 00:48:29,973 --> 00:48:32,845 What started you on the suicide of Betty Chase? 767 00:48:32,976 --> 00:48:35,214 l wish l could call it deduction, Andy. 768 00:48:35,345 --> 00:48:38,184 Let me read you these notes of Betty Chase's. 769 00:48:38,315 --> 00:48:42,022 ''Darling, l've tried to make you listen to me about Irene 770 00:48:42,152 --> 00:48:45,591 and you won't believe me, but now''... 771 00:48:45,723 --> 00:48:47,083 This is the suicide note. 772 00:48:47,125 --> 00:48:49,930 ''l can't stand it any longer. 773 00:48:50,061 --> 00:48:54,102 Darling, l know these are horrible words to write, but it is the only way left. 774 00:48:54,231 --> 00:48:56,231 Forgive me.'' 775 00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:59,239 Well, they're both part of one note. 776 00:48:59,370 --> 00:49:01,330 And it's still not even finished. 777 00:49:01,372 --> 00:49:04,544 She was just about to tell him she was going to expose Irene, somehow. 778 00:49:04,609 --> 00:49:07,247 But Irene found the last half of it, 779 00:49:07,378 --> 00:49:09,582 saw that she could use it as a suicide note. 780 00:49:09,715 --> 00:49:12,620 The rest is rather ugly history. 781 00:49:12,751 --> 00:49:14,751 l'm just thanMul that the whole thing is over 782 00:49:14,820 --> 00:49:17,458 and that Ted and his sister and children are going to be all right. 783 00:49:17,589 --> 00:49:19,589 [Drake] How about Vale? 784 00:49:19,658 --> 00:49:22,263 This will be news to all of you. 785 00:49:22,394 --> 00:49:24,731 While Ted's vacationing, 786 00:49:24,863 --> 00:49:29,974 the Chase family has asked me to represent them in their corporation. 787 00:49:30,103 --> 00:49:33,676 Well, that will take care of Mr. Charles Vale. 788 00:49:43,116 --> 00:49:46,121 Subtitled By J.R. 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