1 00:00:02,577 --> 00:00:06,184 Itheme] 2 00:00:45,889 --> 00:00:49,563 90, 95, and 5 makes 2,OOO. 3 00:00:53,331 --> 00:00:57,772 l'm afraid it's not gonna close, Mr. Dalgran, unless you put some in your pocket. 4 00:00:57,901 --> 00:01:03,412 l've got a better idea. You put some in yours. 5 00:01:03,474 --> 00:01:07,048 Now, you know, l always give presents away on my birthday. 6 00:01:07,178 --> 00:01:09,850 Now, Mr. Dalgran, you know you said the same thing last week. 7 00:01:09,981 --> 00:01:12,018 Remember? l told you the bank won't allow it. 8 00:01:12,150 --> 00:01:15,790 l never heard of such a thing. 9 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,647 Now, look here, 10 00:01:17,689 --> 00:01:20,026 you just put that away for your kids. 11 00:01:20,158 --> 00:01:22,496 Mr. Dalgran, you know l'm not married. 12 00:01:22,627 --> 00:01:25,131 Well, same here. 13 00:01:25,263 --> 00:01:29,338 All l've got is a nephew and his wife. 14 00:01:29,467 --> 00:01:33,908 Oh, he's a fine boy. He's going to be all right. 15 00:01:34,038 --> 00:01:37,111 But as far as that wife of his is concerned-- 16 00:01:39,879 --> 00:01:46,191 Now, anytime you want a relative cheap, you just call me at my omice, huh? 17 00:01:47,585 --> 00:01:50,223 Mr. Dalgran. 18 00:01:52,191 --> 00:01:54,328 Dalgran Associates. 19 00:01:54,460 --> 00:01:58,066 No, Mr. Dalgran isn't in yet this morning. 20 00:01:58,197 --> 00:02:03,708 This is his secretary. May l take a message? 21 00:02:03,769 --> 00:02:05,363 Oh, he did? 22 00:02:05,405 --> 00:02:08,978 Yes, sir, thank you very much. 23 00:02:09,109 --> 00:02:10,801 What now, Mrs. Blair? 24 00:02:10,843 --> 00:02:12,469 The old man go pixie again? 25 00:02:12,511 --> 00:02:16,285 Oh, Mr. Fenton. 26 00:02:16,416 --> 00:02:20,323 l'm afraid he signed another letter Napoleon B. Santa Claus. 27 00:02:20,454 --> 00:02:22,826 Well, don't look at me. l'm just a partner, not a psychiatrist. 28 00:02:22,956 --> 00:02:24,956 Let me know when he comes in, will you, Mrs. Blair? 29 00:02:25,058 --> 00:02:26,492 Morley and l want to see him. 30 00:02:26,493 --> 00:02:29,699 Yes, sir. 31 00:02:37,170 --> 00:02:39,642 - Good morning, Martha. - Good morning, Mr. Dalgran. 32 00:02:39,773 --> 00:02:42,712 Have the boys come in, l've got something for them. 33 00:02:42,843 --> 00:02:45,148 Yes, sir. 34 00:02:50,051 --> 00:02:53,825 Morning, boys. How about some Christmas cash? 35 00:02:53,955 --> 00:02:55,414 ln April? 36 00:02:55,456 --> 00:02:58,428 Oh, Morley, now don't be technical. 37 00:02:58,559 --> 00:02:59,785 Mr. Dalgran, 38 00:02:59,827 --> 00:03:02,532 it's time we settled this desert acreage deal once and for all. 39 00:03:02,597 --> 00:03:05,034 Now, we've been omered _1 OO,OOO for that property. 40 00:03:05,166 --> 00:03:08,339 All right, it cost us _200,OOO. 41 00:03:08,470 --> 00:03:13,546 And l'd be selling my dream. Dalgran Valley. 42 00:03:19,181 --> 00:03:23,455 as Toronto, as big as Green River up in Wyoming. 43 00:03:23,584 --> 00:03:28,126 Chemical recovery plants for potash and soda. 44 00:03:28,257 --> 00:03:29,690 Housing for employees. 45 00:03:29,691 --> 00:03:31,961 l'll tell you in a few years-- 46 00:03:32,094 --> 00:03:34,899 A few years is what one of us is likely to spend in jail 47 00:03:35,030 --> 00:03:40,273 if we don't get our hands on _100,OOO now to close the Barlow deal. 48 00:03:40,403 --> 00:03:44,244 l know there's been a mistake. A little mix-up in the account. 49 00:03:44,374 --> 00:03:47,913 A shortage of trust funds of other people's money. 50 00:03:48,043 --> 00:03:53,587 And l've personally assured you the mistakes will be corrected. 51 00:03:53,715 --> 00:03:57,522 That trust fund was specifically for investment in the downtown Barlow block. 52 00:03:57,653 --> 00:04:00,926 Now, our option on the property expires in one week. 53 00:04:01,057 --> 00:04:08,271 All right, our partnership provides that the three of us must agree on a deal. 54 00:04:08,331 --> 00:04:12,272 Well, option or no option, l will not sell that desert acreage. 55 00:04:12,403 --> 00:04:15,040 That 100,OOO didn't just walk out of our accounts. 56 00:04:15,171 --> 00:04:18,578 Now, sick old man or not, you'll have to face the truth. 57 00:04:18,708 --> 00:04:21,914 That money is missing. It may have been pocketed. 58 00:04:22,045 --> 00:04:24,083 lt may have been stolen. 59 00:04:24,214 --> 00:04:25,706 [sighs] 60 00:04:25,748 --> 00:04:29,288 All right, what do you want me to do? 61 00:04:29,420 --> 00:04:33,628 Until we get the matter of the missing trust funds squared away, 62 00:04:33,757 --> 00:04:37,330 you can put your signature on this letter to the bank. 63 00:04:37,461 --> 00:04:41,570 lt approves the desert acreage sale and authorizes them to exercise 64 00:04:41,699 --> 00:04:44,270 the purchase option on the Barlow block. 65 00:04:44,401 --> 00:04:47,106 All right, all right. Leave it, leave it. 66 00:04:47,237 --> 00:04:49,197 l'll-- l'll sign the letter. 67 00:04:49,239 --> 00:04:55,050 As August Dalgran, not Napoleon B. Santa Claus, hmm? 68 00:05:21,740 --> 00:05:24,846 [laughs] 69 00:05:30,549 --> 00:05:34,456 There's still time to call your lawyer. l'm very worried. 70 00:05:34,587 --> 00:05:37,759 Kenny, you're pretty concerned about your old Uncle Gus, aren't you, huh? 71 00:05:37,890 --> 00:05:40,394 Please, Uncle Gus, this could be very serious. 72 00:05:40,526 --> 00:05:44,133 You know what it means to have somebody care for you? 73 00:05:44,263 --> 00:05:45,923 l mean, really care? 74 00:05:45,965 --> 00:05:47,758 You know, somebody who-- 75 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,760 Please, let me call Perry Mason. 76 00:05:49,802 --> 00:05:55,179 lt's nothing, son, nothing. It's no more important than-- 77 00:05:55,307 --> 00:05:57,311 well, than a tramic ticket. 78 00:05:57,444 --> 00:06:00,483 Besides, we're all entitled to one mistake. 79 00:06:00,614 --> 00:06:07,227 Yessiree, boy, especially when you mean well with what you're doing. 80 00:06:07,287 --> 00:06:10,192 The judge is calling for you. 81 00:06:10,323 --> 00:06:15,166 You know, Kenny, it wouldn't surprise me if your wife was hoping that l go to jail. 82 00:06:15,295 --> 00:06:17,833 lf it pleases you to think so, be my guest. 83 00:06:17,964 --> 00:06:20,335 That's a fine thing to say to my uncle. 84 00:06:20,467 --> 00:06:22,227 What should l say? 85 00:06:22,269 --> 00:06:25,509 That he was right to throw _2,OOO in small bills out a window 86 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:26,931 and cause a king-sized tramic jam? 87 00:06:26,973 --> 00:06:29,177 Don't mind her. 88 00:06:29,310 --> 00:06:32,081 She'll never understand me 89 00:06:32,212 --> 00:06:36,788 any more than she would understand you. 90 00:06:38,286 --> 00:06:42,727 Mr. Dalgran, you're charged with a misdemeanor violation of Section 415, 91 00:06:42,856 --> 00:06:45,361 disturbing the peace by throwing-- 92 00:06:45,493 --> 00:06:47,119 Yes, l know, Your Honor. 93 00:06:47,161 --> 00:06:51,402 l didn't know it was illegal to give away your own money if you feel like it. 94 00:06:51,532 --> 00:06:53,325 Now just a minute, Mr. Dalgran. 95 00:06:53,367 --> 00:06:56,372 You have to enter a plea before you can make a statement. 96 00:06:56,505 --> 00:06:59,209 And before you do so, you're entitled to be represented by counsel 97 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:00,467 if you so choose. 98 00:07:00,509 --> 00:07:02,913 Yes, l know. l just want to say-- 99 00:07:02,977 --> 00:07:06,284 Mr. Dalgran, how do you plead, guilty or not guilty? 100 00:07:06,415 --> 00:07:11,591 Oh, guilty. l thought everybody knew that. 101 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,360 Now you may make your statement, Mr. Dalgran. 102 00:07:17,159 --> 00:07:18,318 Statement? 103 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,798 About what? 104 00:07:20,929 --> 00:07:24,268 Your Honor, what he did was just a generous impulse. 105 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:27,304 You see, he gives to l don't know how many charities, 106 00:07:27,436 --> 00:07:28,596 and if you'll be lenient with him-- 107 00:07:28,638 --> 00:07:31,109 One moment, sir. Are you this defendant's attorney? 108 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,849 Oh, no, no, sir. l'm one of his partners, Don Morley. 109 00:07:35,978 --> 00:07:42,157 He must be demented. l've never seen him before in my life. 110 00:07:43,186 --> 00:07:46,225 Oh come on, Sandra. He didn't mean any harm. 111 00:07:46,356 --> 00:07:48,893 You know what kind of an oddball sense of humor he has. 112 00:07:49,025 --> 00:07:50,251 l envy him. 113 00:07:50,293 --> 00:07:52,998 By now l could use a sense of humor myself, 114 00:07:53,129 --> 00:07:55,089 oddball or otheM/ise. 115 00:07:55,131 --> 00:07:58,036 He's confused. When a man gets to be his age-- 116 00:07:58,168 --> 00:08:00,773 Anyhow, we're gonna have to learn to live with it. 117 00:08:00,904 --> 00:08:05,546 Besides, if it weren't for him, what future would l have? 118 00:08:05,609 --> 00:08:10,485 Pretty bleak if he keeps throwing away the money you hope to inherit 119 00:08:10,614 --> 00:08:12,541 in _2,OOO chunks. 120 00:08:12,583 --> 00:08:15,154 And paying hundred-dollar fines for doing it. 121 00:08:15,286 --> 00:08:17,286 [doorbell rings] 122 00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:24,464 - Good evening, Sandra. - Mr. Fenton, Mr. Morley. 123 00:08:24,595 --> 00:08:25,821 Evening. 124 00:08:25,863 --> 00:08:27,289 We're looking for your uncle. Is he here? 125 00:08:27,331 --> 00:08:29,936 Why no. Did you try his apartment? 126 00:08:30,067 --> 00:08:32,067 We've tried everywhere, Ken. 127 00:08:32,169 --> 00:08:35,308 Are you sure you don't know where he is? We-- We've got to get in touch with him. 128 00:08:35,439 --> 00:08:37,099 No, l haven't seen him. 129 00:08:37,141 --> 00:08:39,513 Well, as his executive assistant, 130 00:08:39,644 --> 00:08:42,215 it should't come as any surprise for you to know he's in trouble. 131 00:08:42,346 --> 00:08:44,106 Serious trouble. 132 00:08:44,148 --> 00:08:49,459 And so is that company he plans on leaving in your capable hands. 133 00:08:49,588 --> 00:08:52,994 Did Uncle Gus give you that letter of authorization? 134 00:08:53,124 --> 00:08:54,751 Don't play games, Ken. 135 00:08:54,793 --> 00:08:58,066 You know we're fighting time. You know he didn't sign that letter. 136 00:08:58,196 --> 00:09:02,872 Do you also happen to know what your uncle's up to? 137 00:09:04,302 --> 00:09:07,608 lf you hear from him, let us know, and in a hurry, please. 138 00:09:07,740 --> 00:09:10,411 Let's go, Don. Good night, Sandra. 139 00:09:10,543 --> 00:09:12,543 - Good night. - Good night. 140 00:09:12,612 --> 00:09:17,253 Good night. 141 00:09:17,383 --> 00:09:21,357 Just what is this with the company and your uncle, Ken? 142 00:09:21,487 --> 00:09:22,580 The way he's been acting lately. 143 00:09:22,622 --> 00:09:29,202 Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right. 144 00:09:29,328 --> 00:09:32,734 The court should be looking into his sanity before very long. 145 00:09:32,865 --> 00:09:35,070 Oh, no. Someone would have to bring a-- 146 00:09:37,236 --> 00:09:38,763 Sanity? 147 00:09:38,805 --> 00:09:42,712 August Dalgran in a sanity hearing? 148 00:09:42,843 --> 00:09:44,843 Mr. Mason, l just can't believe Mr. Dalgran's unbalanced. 149 00:09:47,246 --> 00:09:49,851 Just the other day he came out to look at the well l'm drilling. 150 00:09:49,982 --> 00:09:51,843 He acted as rational as anyone. 151 00:09:51,885 --> 00:09:54,390 Now he's back in court on this sanity hearing. 152 00:09:54,521 --> 00:09:57,226 [door opens] 153 00:09:57,357 --> 00:10:01,765 Della-- Della, this is Chuck Blair. You know his mother 154 00:10:01,895 --> 00:10:03,388 Mr. Dalgran's secretary Martha. 155 00:10:03,430 --> 00:10:04,656 [both] How do you do? 156 00:10:04,698 --> 00:10:07,770 Frankly, Chuck, there's nothing l can do. 157 00:10:07,902 --> 00:10:11,041 He sent me definite word that he did not want me to represent him. 158 00:10:11,171 --> 00:10:13,776 Anyway, this isn't actually a sanity hearing. 159 00:10:13,908 --> 00:10:15,801 lt's only a hearing to determine his competency 160 00:10:15,843 --> 00:10:17,302 to handle his own business amairs. 161 00:10:17,344 --> 00:10:19,337 Surely you can come up with something. 162 00:10:19,379 --> 00:10:21,851 l've got some money saved up. l can pay you. 163 00:10:21,982 --> 00:10:24,654 Mr. Mason, he helped put me through school. 164 00:10:24,786 --> 00:10:27,925 He kept us going those three years my ma was sick. 165 00:10:28,055 --> 00:10:30,393 lf he's out of his mind, then so am l. 166 00:10:30,525 --> 00:10:33,497 ln the State of California, Doctor Jackman, any person, whether insane or not, 167 00:10:34,796 --> 00:10:38,303 who by reason of old age, disease, weakness of mind, or other cause, 168 00:10:38,433 --> 00:10:41,739 is unable unassisted to properly manage and take care of himself or his property, 169 00:10:42,770 --> 00:10:44,941 is deemed to be legally incompetent. 170 00:10:45,073 --> 00:10:49,816 l now ask your expert opinion as a licensed and practicing psychiatrist. 171 00:10:49,945 --> 00:10:53,251 Having heard testimony as to Mr. Dalgran's recent behavior, 172 00:10:53,381 --> 00:10:57,055 would you say he exhibited indications of incompetency? 173 00:10:57,185 --> 00:10:58,946 l have not examined Mr. Dalgran, 174 00:10:58,988 --> 00:11:00,988 but l have observed many cases 175 00:11:01,089 --> 00:11:03,427 wherein l found a similar syndrome in the elderly-- 176 00:11:03,492 --> 00:11:05,495 a malfunction of mental process 177 00:11:05,627 --> 00:11:08,265 caused by inadequate distribution of blood to the brain, 178 00:11:08,397 --> 00:11:11,636 creating the condition known as senile psychosis, 179 00:11:11,767 --> 00:11:15,141 certainly the basis for a determination of mental incompetence. 180 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:17,674 And would you state that this to be true of Mr. Dalgran? 181 00:11:17,807 --> 00:11:21,013 Yes, l'd say it's possible, and likely. 182 00:11:21,143 --> 00:11:22,804 How soon would you know for sure? 183 00:11:22,846 --> 00:11:25,685 Oh, l'd say after a few weeks of observation. 184 00:11:25,815 --> 00:11:28,052 Thank you, Doctor, that is all. 185 00:11:28,183 --> 00:11:30,955 Are there any questions of the witness, Mr. Dalgran? 186 00:11:32,489 --> 00:11:36,997 Hmm? Questions? 187 00:11:37,126 --> 00:11:41,635 Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. 188 00:11:41,765 --> 00:11:43,224 l know who said that. 189 00:11:43,266 --> 00:11:45,937 lt was Kipling. 190 00:11:48,405 --> 00:11:51,544 lf it please the court, may l ask permission to approach the bench? 191 00:11:51,674 --> 00:11:54,212 Oh, hello, Mr. Mason, yes. Yes, of course you may. 192 00:11:58,916 --> 00:11:59,975 Your Honor 193 00:12:00,017 --> 00:12:01,409 as you're well aware, 194 00:12:01,451 --> 00:12:04,558 in the appointment of guardians for insane or incompetent persons, 195 00:12:04,622 --> 00:12:09,163 Section 1461 of the California Probate Code provides that 196 00:12:09,293 --> 00:12:12,031 any relative, or friend, of the alleged insane or incompetent person 197 00:12:12,162 --> 00:12:13,889 may appear and oppose such petition. 198 00:12:13,931 --> 00:12:15,557 One moment, Mr. Mason, 199 00:12:15,599 --> 00:12:18,371 you obviously weren't served with the notice of this hearing. 200 00:12:18,502 --> 00:12:20,095 - No, but-- - Had you been so served, 201 00:12:20,137 --> 00:12:23,042 you would know that the petition was filed by Kenneth Dalgran reluctantly 202 00:12:23,174 --> 00:12:25,035 at the express wish of August Dalgran himself. 203 00:12:25,077 --> 00:12:28,383 Mr. Mason, do you wish to oppose the petition? 204 00:12:31,049 --> 00:12:34,723 Not if August Dalgran, here in this open court, 205 00:12:34,853 --> 00:12:37,224 asks me not to, Your Honor. 206 00:12:37,354 --> 00:12:39,354 Mr. Dalgran? 207 00:12:39,891 --> 00:12:46,671 My-- My wife has always liked you, Perry. 208 00:12:46,798 --> 00:12:50,238 l mean, she-- she always said that you're were the smartest, 209 00:12:50,368 --> 00:12:53,373 nicest man she ever knew. 210 00:12:53,505 --> 00:12:58,114 l remember when we started, Sarah and me, 211 00:12:58,243 --> 00:13:01,649 she always said that some day she was gonna stand on a rooftop 212 00:13:01,781 --> 00:13:06,657 and throw hands full of money down into the street below. 213 00:13:06,719 --> 00:13:09,056 l did it for her, you see? 214 00:13:09,187 --> 00:13:11,257 Well, of course we knew 215 00:13:11,389 --> 00:13:15,364 that our Kenny would understand. 216 00:13:15,495 --> 00:13:18,500 You see, she always liked Kenny. 217 00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:24,409 We, uh, we never had any children of our own. 218 00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:26,774 Just the other night she was saying-- 219 00:13:26,906 --> 00:13:28,532 Mr. Dalgran, 220 00:13:28,574 --> 00:13:30,678 Sarah's been dead for more than ten years. 221 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:34,484 Yes, l know. 222 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:47,831 Well Perry, what happens now? 223 00:13:47,961 --> 00:13:53,238 Proceedings are pending to have you declared legally incompetent. 224 00:13:53,367 --> 00:13:56,439 On the court's orders, you're to be placed in the psychiatric institution 225 00:13:56,570 --> 00:13:59,007 for observation and examination. 226 00:13:59,140 --> 00:14:03,949 ln the meantime, for your own protection, the court has appointed a conservative. 227 00:14:04,012 --> 00:14:06,149 You mean my nephew Kenneth? 228 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,488 He'll have all the powers of a legal guardian, 229 00:14:10,617 --> 00:14:14,959 authorized to act in your name and in your behalf. 230 00:14:15,089 --> 00:14:18,996 Suppose the doctors don't find anything wrong with me. 231 00:14:19,127 --> 00:14:23,001 On their certification, the court will probably deny the petition. 232 00:14:23,131 --> 00:14:27,406 Unless, of course, you persist in continuing this ridiculous pe_ormance. 233 00:14:27,535 --> 00:14:29,328 Per-- Pe_ormance? 234 00:14:29,370 --> 00:14:31,098 Oh come om it, Gus. 235 00:14:31,140 --> 00:14:34,546 You're no more mentally incompetent than l'm the Kaliph of Baghdad. 236 00:14:34,676 --> 00:14:35,768 Perry, please. 237 00:14:35,810 --> 00:14:38,015 Rudyard Kipling? 238 00:14:38,147 --> 00:14:41,988 That wasn't bad enough, you had to bring Sarah into the act. 239 00:14:42,117 --> 00:14:46,759 Gus, in all the years l've known you, you never once ran away from a thing. 240 00:14:46,889 --> 00:14:49,694 You are running now. Why? 241 00:14:51,594 --> 00:14:57,706 All right, you know my good friend Ben Hollingsworth? 242 00:14:57,833 --> 00:15:02,107 Well, about a week ago, l endorsed and turned over to him 243 00:15:02,239 --> 00:15:06,814 _100,OOO of my own stocks and bonds. 244 00:15:06,875 --> 00:15:11,017 Now l want him to sell all those securities 245 00:15:11,147 --> 00:15:13,852 and give you the money. 246 00:15:13,984 --> 00:15:15,609 What am l to do with the money? 247 00:15:15,651 --> 00:15:17,654 Take it over to Dalgran Associates 248 00:15:17,787 --> 00:15:21,728 as of monies return, monies borrowed. 249 00:15:21,858 --> 00:15:24,062 Unfortunately, that would be violating 250 00:15:24,194 --> 00:15:27,467 the spirit if not the letter of the court order. 251 00:15:27,597 --> 00:15:29,867 On the other hand, if l could get the cooperation of your nephew. 252 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,072 Oh, well, Kenneth will do anything for me. 253 00:15:33,203 --> 00:15:37,579 There's a fine boy, Perry. Fine boy. 254 00:15:37,707 --> 00:15:41,581 lt's that wife of his-- Oh. 255 00:15:41,711 --> 00:15:44,918 Well-- 256 00:15:45,049 --> 00:15:47,720 All right, Gus. 257 00:15:47,852 --> 00:15:51,558 But now can l assume that this charade is over? 258 00:15:51,689 --> 00:15:55,062 That you've decided to return to the world of sanity? 259 00:15:56,661 --> 00:16:00,835 With everyone else in the world as crazy as they are, 260 00:16:00,965 --> 00:16:06,008 ls there any question that l'm the only one who's sane? 261 00:16:06,070 --> 00:16:09,343 Mason, l realize how close you are to Uncle Gus, Mr. Mason, 262 00:16:09,473 --> 00:16:11,476 and how much he's always depended on you. 263 00:16:11,609 --> 00:16:14,314 l certainly hope that you'll be as much help to me. 264 00:16:14,445 --> 00:16:18,186 Then you will instruct Ben Hollingsworth to dispose of those securities 265 00:16:18,317 --> 00:16:20,317 and turn the money over to Dalgran Associates? 266 00:16:20,384 --> 00:16:23,824 Well, l'm afraid that'll be impossible, Mr. Mason. 267 00:16:23,955 --> 00:16:28,597 You see, as his conservator l felt that it was the court's inten!tion 268 00:16:28,727 --> 00:16:31,031 in no way to dissipate my Uncle Gus' estate. 269 00:16:31,163 --> 00:16:35,839 l've already secured an injunction restraining Ben Hollingsworth 270 00:16:35,967 --> 00:16:37,460 from so much as touching that stock. 271 00:16:37,502 --> 00:16:40,173 l'm sure that you appreciate the necessity of the move? 272 00:16:40,306 --> 00:16:43,311 Yes, l suppose l do. 273 00:16:43,442 --> 00:16:49,620 You're, uh, very concerned about your uncle, aren't you? 274 00:16:49,748 --> 00:16:52,854 He's been like a father to me, Mr. Mason. 275 00:16:52,985 --> 00:16:55,957 l'd do anything rather than to cause him a moment's hurt. 276 00:16:56,089 --> 00:17:01,232 Then l'm correct in assuming that you wouldn't harm or inte_ere 277 00:17:01,361 --> 00:17:03,353 with the most important thing in his life. 278 00:17:03,395 --> 00:17:06,300 This dream of a Dalgran City in the desert? 279 00:17:06,431 --> 00:17:07,892 You won't permit that property to be touched? 280 00:17:07,934 --> 00:17:12,008 Well, l'm a little embarrassed, Mr. Mason. 281 00:17:12,138 --> 00:17:14,910 l'm afraid you don't understand the entire situation 282 00:17:15,041 --> 00:17:18,148 and l can't explain it to you, but-- 283 00:17:18,278 --> 00:17:20,105 But what? 284 00:17:20,147 --> 00:17:22,986 Well, l've already sent a letter to the bank. 285 00:17:23,117 --> 00:17:27,758 As my Uncle Gus' conservator, approving in his behalf, believe me, 286 00:17:27,888 --> 00:17:29,888 the sale of that dessert acreage. 287 00:17:32,492 --> 00:17:34,529 l tell you, l don't believe it. 288 00:17:34,661 --> 00:17:39,336 He wouldn't do this to me, not Kenny. Not Kenny. 289 00:17:39,465 --> 00:17:42,505 Gus, you've got to tell me what's going on. OtheM/ise, l can't help you. 290 00:17:42,636 --> 00:17:46,643 But it's a mistake. l know it, l know it. 291 00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:48,467 He wouldn't do this on his own. 292 00:17:48,509 --> 00:17:50,846 No. No. No. 293 00:17:50,978 --> 00:17:55,120 Mr. Mason, l think that's enough for tonight. 294 00:17:55,250 --> 00:17:58,089 lf he did that me, 295 00:18:01,356 --> 00:18:03,660 l'll kill him. 296 00:18:04,793 --> 00:18:11,038 The suspending of guardianships is covered on pages 338, 334, and 384. 297 00:18:11,166 --> 00:18:13,166 And in this other volume of California Jurisprudence, 298 00:18:13,568 --> 00:18:15,738 - the second, the um-- - [phone rings] 299 00:18:15,870 --> 00:18:19,811 Just a minute. Mr. Mason's omice. Just one minute, please. 300 00:18:19,941 --> 00:18:23,648 Perry, Doctor Jackman. 301 00:18:23,778 --> 00:18:25,915 Hello, Doctor Jackman. 302 00:18:31,753 --> 00:18:34,960 All right, thank you. 303 00:18:35,090 --> 00:18:37,929 What is it? 304 00:18:38,060 --> 00:18:40,899 We'll have to get a hold of Paul fast, Della. 305 00:18:41,030 --> 00:18:43,635 Gus Dalgran escaped from the sanitarium. 306 00:18:48,838 --> 00:18:50,838 Thanks for the lift, boy. 307 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:53,177 l was pretty well pooped when you picked me up. 308 00:18:53,310 --> 00:18:56,683 Don't sweat at all, Pops. Glad to oblige. Good night. 309 00:18:59,782 --> 00:19:02,521 [doorbell chimes] 310 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,965 [doorbell chimes] 311 00:19:16,733 --> 00:19:18,903 Mrs. Dalgran, l'm looking for Kenneth's uncle. 312 00:19:19,035 --> 00:19:20,495 Can you tell me if he's here? 313 00:19:20,537 --> 00:19:24,076 Here? Why, he's in the sanitarium. 314 00:19:24,207 --> 00:19:26,845 No, Mrs. Dalgran, he isn't. 315 00:19:26,977 --> 00:19:28,977 Come in. 316 00:19:32,649 --> 00:19:34,649 When did it happen? Where did he go? 317 00:19:34,751 --> 00:19:35,810 l thought he might have come here to see Kenneth. 318 00:19:35,852 --> 00:19:36,911 Why, no. 319 00:19:36,953 --> 00:19:40,293 l mean not that l know of. l just got in myself. 320 00:19:40,424 --> 00:19:41,917 And Kenneth? 321 00:19:41,959 --> 00:19:44,096 Well, he was here when l went to the movie. 322 00:19:44,228 --> 00:19:47,000 He isn't now, and his station wagon's gone. 323 00:19:47,131 --> 00:19:51,305 - [phone rings] - Excuse me. 324 00:19:51,435 --> 00:19:52,728 Hello? 325 00:19:52,770 --> 00:19:55,909 Yes, he's here, just a minute, please. 326 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:57,933 A Paul Drake for you. 327 00:19:57,975 --> 00:20:00,112 Thank you. 328 00:20:00,244 --> 00:20:01,304 Yes, Paul. 329 00:20:01,346 --> 00:20:04,050 l tried his omice, his apartment, and the other places you mentioned. 330 00:20:04,181 --> 00:20:05,275 No luck. 331 00:20:05,317 --> 00:20:08,623 There's a chance he went out to the desert well young Blair's drilling for him. 332 00:20:08,753 --> 00:20:09,912 He's been concerned over it. 333 00:20:09,954 --> 00:20:11,954 Might be worth a try at that. Want me to meet you? 334 00:20:12,723 --> 00:20:14,723 Good, right away. 335 00:20:27,306 --> 00:20:29,778 - Mr. Dalgran. - Hiya, Chuck. 336 00:20:29,908 --> 00:20:33,682 Say, why didn't l hear the drill rig going when l passed the well? 337 00:20:33,812 --> 00:20:34,771 They ordered me to shut down. 338 00:20:34,813 --> 00:20:36,773 Who? Fenton and Morley? 339 00:20:36,815 --> 00:20:38,309 And Kenneth. 340 00:20:38,351 --> 00:20:42,659 When l went in to make my progress report this afternoon. 341 00:20:42,788 --> 00:20:46,128 Look, boy, l've never been one to beg favors, 342 00:20:46,259 --> 00:20:49,231 but, uh-- 343 00:20:49,362 --> 00:20:51,466 Well, suppose l ask you to do something for me. 344 00:20:51,598 --> 00:20:53,457 All you got to do is ask. 345 00:20:53,499 --> 00:20:56,471 l mean, even though it's a-- 346 00:21:02,141 --> 00:21:03,200 Perry? 347 00:21:03,242 --> 00:21:04,869 Kenneth with you? 348 00:21:04,911 --> 00:21:10,389 Why, no. He wasn't home, and so l-- 349 00:21:10,517 --> 00:21:13,322 Looks like my night for company. 350 00:21:13,454 --> 00:21:15,454 From the looks of it, it's the Sherims department. 351 00:21:28,102 --> 00:21:29,661 - Evening, Chuck. - Sherim. 352 00:21:29,703 --> 00:21:32,775 August Dalgran? 353 00:21:32,906 --> 00:21:33,966 Yes. 354 00:21:34,008 --> 00:21:37,447 Our Lancaster sub-station had a report from the L.A. authorities. 355 00:21:37,579 --> 00:21:39,582 They said we might find you here. 356 00:21:39,713 --> 00:21:44,322 Bowman. 357 00:21:51,092 --> 00:21:53,092 Paul. 358 00:21:57,432 --> 00:21:59,435 [Mason] Kenneth Dalgran. 359 00:21:59,567 --> 00:22:01,567 [Drake] Dead. 360 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,019 You went to you nephew's house. 361 00:22:15,150 --> 00:22:19,359 Blood stains, scum marks, other bits of evidence prove 362 00:22:19,488 --> 00:22:21,725 he was shot to death in his house. 363 00:22:21,856 --> 00:22:24,394 You drove his station wagon out to the desert 364 00:22:24,527 --> 00:22:27,733 with his dead body in the back of the station wagon. 365 00:22:27,862 --> 00:22:30,200 Could be he was killed before l got there. 366 00:22:30,332 --> 00:22:34,139 Somebody put his body in the back of the station wagon. 367 00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:39,213 Could be there was nobody home when l arrived, 368 00:22:39,341 --> 00:22:41,813 and l just borrowed the wagon. 369 00:22:41,944 --> 00:22:44,482 Could be. 370 00:22:44,614 --> 00:22:47,085 As your friend, you can expect me to believe that. 371 00:22:47,216 --> 00:22:50,155 But can you expect a judge and jury to believe it? 372 00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:52,658 They won't try me for murder, Perry. 373 00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:55,160 Remember, l'm incompetent? 374 00:22:55,292 --> 00:22:59,533 l told you before, insanity and incompetency are not the same thing. 375 00:22:59,663 --> 00:23:03,437 lf you were declared incompetent to handle your own business amairs, 376 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:06,940 that doesn't mean you would be immune from punishment for a crime you committed. 377 00:23:07,070 --> 00:23:14,484 Ah. There's a fennel for you, 378 00:23:14,612 --> 00:23:16,204 and columbines. 379 00:23:16,246 --> 00:23:19,418 There's rue for you 380 00:23:20,083 --> 00:23:27,431 and here's some for me. We may call it herb-grace O'Sundays. 381 00:23:30,294 --> 00:23:32,294 You know, Gus, psychiatrists aren't completely stupid. 382 00:23:35,233 --> 00:23:38,672 lt's even possible that some of them may be quite familiar with Hamlet 383 00:23:38,802 --> 00:23:41,007 and Ophelia's mad scene. 384 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,042 Why were you pressuring Gus to sell that desert acreage? 385 00:23:45,243 --> 00:23:49,017 You both know what it meant to him, the dreams he had for a Dalgran City? 386 00:23:49,547 --> 00:23:53,722 Dreams are non-negotiable assets, in the business world, Mr. Mason. 387 00:23:53,851 --> 00:23:58,427 We needed cash-- _100,OOO in cash-- fast. 388 00:23:58,557 --> 00:24:02,865 You see, Mr. Mason, we had an option to buy the downtown Barlow block property 389 00:24:02,927 --> 00:24:04,654 and the option was about to expire. 390 00:24:04,696 --> 00:24:07,234 But the desert acreage would have been just as valuable 391 00:24:07,366 --> 00:24:09,366 possibly even more so with the commercial brine underground. 392 00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:13,341 l suppose Gus told you that. l'm sorry. 393 00:24:13,472 --> 00:24:17,580 Mr. Dalgran appears to have lost the ability to distinguish fiction from true. 394 00:24:17,709 --> 00:24:21,416 We had that well tested and there was nothing, Mr. Mason. 395 00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:25,221 No usable water and no commercially recoverable chemicals. 396 00:24:25,350 --> 00:24:26,450 Now, Gus knew that. 397 00:24:26,451 --> 00:24:30,158 Kenny gave him a copy of the test report. 398 00:24:30,289 --> 00:24:33,061 Kenneth, at least, as Dalgran's guardian, had the good sense to authorize 399 00:24:33,192 --> 00:24:36,465 the sale of that worthless property so we could get the money we needed in time. 400 00:24:36,596 --> 00:24:39,000 l know the Barlow deal. 401 00:24:39,132 --> 00:24:42,805 You had the option, an outside investor put _100,OOO in trust with you 402 00:24:42,935 --> 00:24:44,328 for a 500/o interest. 403 00:24:44,370 --> 00:24:46,364 Now, you had that money. 404 00:24:46,406 --> 00:24:48,777 Why destroy Gus' dream for additional cash? 405 00:24:48,908 --> 00:24:53,817 Our audits show that August Dalgran might very well have stolen _100,OOO 406 00:24:53,947 --> 00:24:55,414 out of that trust account. 407 00:24:55,415 --> 00:24:59,557 He doctored the books so clumsily that even a first year accounting student 408 00:24:59,687 --> 00:25:01,312 could have fingered him for the theft. 409 00:25:01,354 --> 00:25:03,281 - l don't believe that. - No? 410 00:25:03,323 --> 00:25:06,530 Why did he give those stocks and bonds to Ben Hollingsworth? 411 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:08,797 And why did he have you try to get Hollingsworth 412 00:25:08,928 --> 00:25:10,689 to dispose of his personal holdings 413 00:25:10,731 --> 00:25:13,536 and return the money _100,OOO to the company? 414 00:25:13,667 --> 00:25:14,760 [intercom buzzes] 415 00:25:14,802 --> 00:25:16,428 Yes, Mrs. Blair? 416 00:25:16,470 --> 00:25:17,996 [Mrs. Blair] There's a call for Mr. Mason 417 00:25:18,038 --> 00:25:19,097 from a Paul Drake. 418 00:25:19,139 --> 00:25:22,512 l'll take it in the other omice. 419 00:25:27,481 --> 00:25:29,853 Thank you. 420 00:25:29,984 --> 00:25:31,984 Yes, Paul? 421 00:25:34,255 --> 00:25:36,255 Stay there, l'll be right over. 422 00:25:39,494 --> 00:25:41,998 l hope Mr. Dalgran's all right. 423 00:25:42,129 --> 00:25:44,534 ls there anything l can do to help him? 424 00:25:50,205 --> 00:25:52,676 Would you meet me here at 8:OO tonight 425 00:25:52,807 --> 00:25:55,779 and let me go over the company books? 426 00:25:55,912 --> 00:25:57,912 Oh, but, l can't. 427 00:26:00,415 --> 00:26:03,822 At 8:OO tonight, Mr. Mason, 428 00:26:03,886 --> 00:26:06,825 there'll be no one else here. 429 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:10,227 Why did l go there to see him? 430 00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:14,632 Why not, Mr. Mason? 431 00:26:14,764 --> 00:26:19,105 Perhaps l took him some magazines and a container of homemade chicken soup. 432 00:26:19,235 --> 00:26:22,341 But it's no secret that Gus wasn't exactly fond of you, 433 00:26:22,471 --> 00:26:23,998 and l would imagine the feeling was mutual. 434 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,615 lf you want a dimerent answer, l suggest you ask Uncle Gus for it. 435 00:26:28,744 --> 00:26:31,917 May l ask where you went after seeing him? 436 00:26:33,149 --> 00:26:34,910 l went to a movie. Why not? 437 00:26:34,952 --> 00:26:38,726 You know, for a woman who just lost her husband, 438 00:26:38,855 --> 00:26:41,392 you seem singularly unmoved. 439 00:26:41,525 --> 00:26:45,799 l'm no angel, Mr. Mason, also no hypocrite. 440 00:26:45,929 --> 00:26:47,689 l hated Ken Dalgran in life. 441 00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:49,731 l won't cry for him in death. 442 00:26:50,867 --> 00:26:53,505 Mrs. Dalgran, would you mind showing us your Walther .22? 443 00:26:53,637 --> 00:26:54,995 My what? 444 00:26:55,037 --> 00:27:00,114 We're talking about the gun your uncle bought about three weeks ago for you. 445 00:27:00,243 --> 00:27:02,170 Not for me, Mr. Mason. 446 00:27:02,212 --> 00:27:06,486 Perhaps not, but you do know that he bought a gun. 447 00:27:08,151 --> 00:27:10,656 l suppose that is no secret, either. 448 00:27:10,788 --> 00:27:13,325 Yes, Kenny told me Gus bought a gun. 449 00:27:13,457 --> 00:27:16,530 Seems there are too many curious rattlesnakes out by the well. 450 00:27:16,661 --> 00:27:18,253 Well? 451 00:27:18,295 --> 00:27:20,289 That's what Gus told Kenny. 452 00:27:20,331 --> 00:27:23,102 Said that Chuck Blair had asked him to pick up a gun. 453 00:27:23,234 --> 00:27:27,375 Why don't you ask Chuck about it? 454 00:27:27,505 --> 00:27:30,210 Well, here you are, Mr. Mason, a .45 automatic. 455 00:27:30,341 --> 00:27:31,935 l had it ever since l got out of the army. 456 00:27:31,977 --> 00:27:33,904 You never had a Walther .22? 457 00:27:33,946 --> 00:27:35,805 l never even saw one. 458 00:27:35,847 --> 00:27:37,707 Are you sure now, Chuck? 459 00:27:37,749 --> 00:27:40,488 We were given to understand that you asked Gus for a gun. 460 00:27:40,618 --> 00:27:42,621 To kill rattlesnakes. 461 00:27:42,755 --> 00:27:44,447 Gus bought you a German pistol. 462 00:27:44,489 --> 00:27:47,294 l'm sorry, Mr. Mason, but that isn't so. 463 00:27:47,425 --> 00:27:49,963 Why would l ask Mr. Dalgran for a gun if l already had one? 464 00:27:51,663 --> 00:27:53,663 Why, indeed? 465 00:27:56,234 --> 00:27:58,234 Manzanita Realty, Incorporated. 466 00:27:59,137 --> 00:28:01,308 lsn't that the name of Gus' old company, 467 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,946 the one-man operation he ran before he organized Dalgran Associates? 468 00:28:05,011 --> 00:28:06,570 Yes, that's right, Mr. Mason. 469 00:28:06,612 --> 00:28:11,722 There are a few small entries here involving Manzanita Realty. 470 00:28:11,851 --> 00:28:14,455 Well, Mr. Dalgran kept it alive as a holding company 471 00:28:14,586 --> 00:28:19,262 for some inexpensive city parcels that he personally owned. 472 00:28:19,391 --> 00:28:25,269 Kenneth, Mr. Dalgran's nephew, took care of Manzanita for him. 473 00:28:25,398 --> 00:28:28,002 The state and federal taxes, that sort of thing. 474 00:28:28,133 --> 00:28:31,974 Kenneth took care of a good deal of Gus' work, didn't he? 475 00:28:32,104 --> 00:28:36,112 More and more of it, Mr. Mason. 476 00:28:36,242 --> 00:28:39,247 Mr. Dalgran was very proud of Kenneth. 477 00:28:40,447 --> 00:28:42,407 He loved the boy so much, 478 00:28:42,449 --> 00:28:45,889 l don't see how he could he kill him. 479 00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:47,345 Did he? 480 00:28:47,387 --> 00:28:50,694 [phone rings] 481 00:28:53,226 --> 00:28:54,385 Yes. 482 00:28:54,427 --> 00:28:56,932 Paul, Perry, a big fat zero. 483 00:28:57,064 --> 00:29:00,438 Not that l expected to find much after the police went through this stum. 484 00:29:00,568 --> 00:29:01,493 How about you? Any luck? 485 00:29:01,535 --> 00:29:02,895 l'm afraid not, Paul. 486 00:29:02,937 --> 00:29:07,111 l did find a piece of paper on which a guy had written his name 487 00:29:07,241 --> 00:29:08,967 about 50 times, which makes no sense. 488 00:29:09,009 --> 00:29:10,469 Makes no sense? 489 00:29:10,511 --> 00:29:12,548 Why, Paul, it, uh-- 490 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,739 All right, Della. 491 00:29:13,781 --> 00:29:19,459 l'll be back to the omice in about half an hour. 492 00:29:19,587 --> 00:29:22,827 Well, l see you're working on your homework, Perry. 493 00:29:22,958 --> 00:29:24,958 l'm sorry, but l'm afraid this collection 494 00:29:25,026 --> 00:29:27,063 of McGumey's Readers will have to go. 495 00:29:27,194 --> 00:29:30,133 The company ledger books? 496 00:29:30,264 --> 00:29:31,524 That's right. 497 00:29:31,566 --> 00:29:34,103 Subpoenaed by the District Attorney's omice. 498 00:29:34,235 --> 00:29:36,506 What does Mr. Burger hope to learn from them? 499 00:29:36,638 --> 00:29:39,109 Well, perhaps as much as he learned from Mrs. Farnham. 500 00:29:39,241 --> 00:29:42,146 - Mrs. who? - Mrs. Farnham, 501 00:29:42,277 --> 00:29:45,716 Kenneth Dalgran's across-the-street neighbor. 502 00:29:45,847 --> 00:29:49,354 lt seems the night that Kenneth was murdered, she saw a man pushing down 503 00:29:49,484 --> 00:29:54,126 something big and bulky like a body into the back of a station wagon. 504 00:29:54,256 --> 00:29:57,061 A man, Tragg? 505 00:29:57,192 --> 00:29:58,719 A man, Perry. 506 00:29:58,761 --> 00:30:04,204 To be precise your client, August Dalgran. 507 00:30:10,439 --> 00:30:12,165 ln spite of the fact that the defendant 508 00:30:12,207 --> 00:30:16,549 in a devious manner feigned madness to achieve his purposes, 509 00:30:16,679 --> 00:30:20,820 there is now no question, but that he is and has been sane. 510 00:30:20,950 --> 00:30:23,689 You heard Dr. Jackman testify to this. 511 00:30:23,819 --> 00:30:25,379 You also heard the doctor 512 00:30:25,421 --> 00:30:30,732 testify that the defendant, August Dalgran, was highly excited 513 00:30:30,861 --> 00:30:34,167 after Mr. Mason's visit to him at the sanitarium of the night of the murder. 514 00:30:34,297 --> 00:30:36,969 Shortly after that, you visited him. 515 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:40,139 Now, Mrs. Dalgran, what time was it when you left the sanitarium? 516 00:30:40,269 --> 00:30:42,741 About 9:30. 517 00:30:42,873 --> 00:30:47,482 Mrs. Farnham testified that at approximately 1 1 :OO that night, 518 00:30:47,611 --> 00:30:50,516 she saw the defendant stuming what appeared to be a body 519 00:30:50,647 --> 00:30:53,119 into the back of decedent's station wagon. 520 00:30:53,250 --> 00:30:54,776 Mrs. Dalgran, what time was it 521 00:30:54,818 --> 00:30:58,692 when you arrived home, and what did you find there? 522 00:30:58,822 --> 00:31:01,494 l returned home around 1 1 :15. 523 00:31:01,625 --> 00:31:04,230 The front door was open. There was nobody home. 524 00:31:04,294 --> 00:31:05,788 Thank you, Mrs. Dalgran. That'll be all. 525 00:31:05,830 --> 00:31:08,835 Your witness. 526 00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:11,605 You say you left the sanitarium at 9:3O 527 00:31:11,736 --> 00:31:14,040 and arrived home at 1 1 :15. 528 00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:17,111 Your home is less than ten minutes away. 529 00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:19,614 Where were you for that hour and 45 minutes? 530 00:31:19,744 --> 00:31:23,818 l-- l told you that 531 00:31:23,948 --> 00:31:25,942 the night you were looking for Mr. Dalgran. 532 00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:30,259 Oh, yes. You said you'd been to the movies. 533 00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:33,727 And what theatre, Mrs. Dalgran and what did you see? 534 00:31:33,859 --> 00:31:38,667 I saw Too Soon Blues at the Tivoli Theatre. 535 00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:42,598 No further questions at this time. 536 00:31:43,569 --> 00:31:45,562 [Fenton] Well, there's no question of it. 537 00:31:45,604 --> 00:31:50,747 August Dalgran stole _100,OOO from the Barlow block trust funds. 538 00:31:50,876 --> 00:31:54,516 ln your search of company records were you able to discover 539 00:31:54,647 --> 00:31:56,174 what happened to that missing money? 540 00:31:56,216 --> 00:31:57,641 Yes, we were. 541 00:31:57,683 --> 00:32:00,989 The stolen money was used to purchase additional desert acreage, 542 00:32:01,121 --> 00:32:04,527 completely surrounding the property that are company owned at that time. 543 00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:08,230 Was this purchase of additional acreage made in the name of your company? 544 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,065 No, it was purchased by a dimerent company-- 545 00:32:11,197 --> 00:32:12,991 Manzanita Realty, Incorporated. 546 00:32:13,033 --> 00:32:15,638 Who owns Manzanita Realty, Mr. Fenton? 547 00:32:17,837 --> 00:32:21,511 The one, the only, stockholder 548 00:32:21,641 --> 00:32:24,112 is August Dalgran. 549 00:32:24,244 --> 00:32:27,684 August Dalgran had been given a copy of that test report on the well. 550 00:32:27,814 --> 00:32:31,555 He knew that land contained no commercially recoverable chemicals. 551 00:32:31,685 --> 00:32:33,212 Thank you, Mr. Morley. That'll be all. 552 00:32:33,254 --> 00:32:36,026 Your witness. 553 00:32:36,157 --> 00:32:40,131 Mr. Morley, who gave August Dalgran the report on that well? 554 00:32:40,261 --> 00:32:42,498 His nephew, Kenneth Dalgran. 555 00:32:42,629 --> 00:32:45,634 Did you see Kenneth give it to his uncle? 556 00:32:45,766 --> 00:32:46,792 No. 557 00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:49,371 Did you ever hear August Dalgran refer to that report? 558 00:32:49,502 --> 00:32:51,502 No. 559 00:32:53,406 --> 00:32:54,933 No further questions. 560 00:32:54,975 --> 00:32:57,847 Just a moment, Mr. Morley. l have some redirect. 561 00:32:57,978 --> 00:33:01,418 How do you know the defendant, Mr. Dalgran, 562 00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:04,820 was aware of the contents of that report? 563 00:33:04,952 --> 00:33:09,528 l know because Ken told Fenton and me he'd given Mr. Dalgran that report. 564 00:33:09,657 --> 00:33:12,829 And that Gus-- uh, Mr. Dalgran-- 565 00:33:12,961 --> 00:33:14,787 had only looked at it, 566 00:33:14,829 --> 00:33:19,572 and he laughed and threw it away. 567 00:33:19,701 --> 00:33:22,940 Your Honor l move the answer be _tricken out 568 00:33:23,071 --> 00:33:25,074 on the ground that it is purely hearsay. 569 00:33:25,207 --> 00:33:29,849 lf it please the court, l should like this hearsay testimony admitted 570 00:33:29,978 --> 00:33:33,652 for the limited purpose of showing the state of mind of the defendant. 571 00:33:33,782 --> 00:33:38,056 That state of mind is of course why we can't produce the report itself. 572 00:33:38,187 --> 00:33:39,846 The defendant threw it away. 573 00:33:39,888 --> 00:33:42,426 There you are, Your Honor. 574 00:33:42,557 --> 00:33:46,665 The District Attorney wants hearsay evidence permitted to show a state of mind 575 00:33:46,795 --> 00:33:49,801 in order to bring into evidence the contents of a missing report. 576 00:33:49,932 --> 00:33:53,371 Where obviously the report itself is the best evidence 577 00:33:53,502 --> 00:33:55,502 as to the contents of the report. 578 00:33:56,305 --> 00:34:02,150 l think l will sustain the objection at this time and grant the motion to strike. 579 00:34:02,278 --> 00:34:04,750 Yes, l knew about the test. 580 00:34:04,814 --> 00:34:07,151 l knew there wasn't anything worthwhile in that well we were digging. 581 00:34:07,284 --> 00:34:12,427 And l assumed Mr. Dalgran, the defendant, knew it, too. 582 00:34:12,555 --> 00:34:15,661 Why did you assume the defendant knew it, Mr. Blair? 583 00:34:15,792 --> 00:34:18,631 Because of the government man, Mr. Joseph Tayback. 584 00:34:18,761 --> 00:34:21,233 Suppose you tell us about Mr. Tayback? 585 00:34:21,365 --> 00:34:25,774 Well, he surveyed that whole desert area. Something about an Air Force missile base. 586 00:34:25,903 --> 00:34:28,307 l told Ken about it when he came out to the well. 587 00:34:28,439 --> 00:34:31,211 And Ken told Mr. Dalgran. 588 00:34:31,341 --> 00:34:33,135 And how do you know that? 589 00:34:33,177 --> 00:34:36,484 Well, l got a letter that referred to Mr. Tayback and his survey. 590 00:34:36,613 --> 00:34:40,387 lt said that this Air Force missile base would be a real bonanza 591 00:34:40,517 --> 00:34:42,245 to the whole desert area. 592 00:34:42,287 --> 00:34:44,290 lt would be better, for a while, if nobody knew about it. 593 00:34:44,422 --> 00:34:46,793 To go on drilling the well, 594 00:34:46,924 --> 00:34:49,796 even though the test report showed we'd find nothing. 595 00:34:49,927 --> 00:34:51,820 And who signed that letter? 596 00:34:51,862 --> 00:34:53,862 Mr. August Dalgran. 597 00:34:57,168 --> 00:35:01,977 Well, the particular section we wanted was owned by a Manzanita Realty Company. 598 00:35:02,106 --> 00:35:07,650 All of our negotiations consisted of a preliminary series of omers 599 00:35:07,712 --> 00:35:09,949 and counter omers by mail with that company. 600 00:35:10,081 --> 00:35:14,490 Now, Mr. Tayback, in your experience establishing new military bases, 601 00:35:14,619 --> 00:35:19,595 what happens when a military establishment is created in an area like this? 602 00:35:19,724 --> 00:35:24,533 Where bases locate, housing springs up, businesses develop, 603 00:35:24,662 --> 00:35:27,300 cities are born overnight. 604 00:35:27,433 --> 00:35:30,005 Adjacent property is worth millions. 605 00:35:30,135 --> 00:35:33,207 So the real profit, a matter of possibly millions of dollars, 606 00:35:33,339 --> 00:35:36,545 would disappear if Kenneth Dalgran were allowed 607 00:35:36,675 --> 00:35:41,283 to authorize the sale of the company's own property for a mere _100,OOO. 608 00:35:41,413 --> 00:35:44,318 Mr. Tayback, this is vitally important. 609 00:35:44,451 --> 00:35:48,926 ln all your negotiations, did you ever correspond with more than one person? 610 00:35:49,054 --> 00:35:50,113 No, sir. 611 00:35:50,155 --> 00:35:53,929 All these certified photostats will show 612 00:35:54,059 --> 00:35:58,134 that every letter from Manzanita Realty was signed by the same person. 613 00:35:58,265 --> 00:36:01,371 And who was that one person with whom you corresponded? 614 00:36:01,501 --> 00:36:05,475 The one person who could not allow Kenneth Dalgran to sell that land. 615 00:36:05,539 --> 00:36:08,177 The one person whose signature appears on all those letters? 616 00:36:08,308 --> 00:36:11,782 August Dalgran. 617 00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:16,284 Please, Perry, not eating isn't going to help Gus. 618 00:36:16,416 --> 00:36:19,121 lt's only going to hurt you. 619 00:36:19,252 --> 00:36:23,026 Oh, if he'd only tell me the truth. 620 00:36:23,156 --> 00:36:26,161 Stop this pretended mental deterioration. 621 00:36:26,294 --> 00:36:28,297 lt's almost like flying blind. 622 00:36:28,429 --> 00:36:31,501 l can only guess where we are. 623 00:36:31,631 --> 00:36:35,739 Where we're going. 624 00:36:35,869 --> 00:36:39,710 All right, Paul, l suppose you have some more ''happy surprises'' for me. 625 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,883 Well, the operative tailing Sandra Dalgran reports that three days after the murder, 626 00:36:45,012 --> 00:36:47,316 she went to a downtown theatre to see a picture called... 627 00:36:47,448 --> 00:36:49,208 Too Soon Blues. 628 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:51,420 You sound as if you expected that? 629 00:36:51,553 --> 00:36:54,458 No, but l was hoping for it. Go on. 630 00:36:54,590 --> 00:36:58,497 Well, love flew out the window years ago for the Kenneth Dalgrans. 631 00:36:58,626 --> 00:37:02,200 lt appears that Kenneth played the field and not always too carefully. 632 00:37:02,331 --> 00:37:06,038 And if she wasn't completely pure, Sandra was circumspect. 633 00:37:06,101 --> 00:37:09,140 Well, reasonably circumspect anyway. 634 00:37:09,271 --> 00:37:10,964 - Who's the man? - Donald Morley. 635 00:37:11,006 --> 00:37:15,147 One of the local detective agencies was hired to dig up evidence on the romance 636 00:37:15,277 --> 00:37:17,581 for a possible divorce action. 637 00:37:17,713 --> 00:37:21,720 Well, at least part of this is beginning to fit together. 638 00:37:21,850 --> 00:37:23,209 There's one other thing. 639 00:37:23,251 --> 00:37:25,489 That piece of paper you found in the basement. 640 00:37:25,622 --> 00:37:27,213 The one with the repeated signatures? 641 00:37:27,255 --> 00:37:29,426 A handwriting expert checked that paper-- 642 00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:31,352 the signatures of everyone involved in the case 643 00:37:31,394 --> 00:37:33,254 and the signatures on the security endorsements you showed him-- 644 00:37:33,296 --> 00:37:34,355 and you were right. 645 00:37:34,397 --> 00:37:38,271 That paper l found was a practice sheet for forgery. 646 00:37:38,401 --> 00:37:41,173 However, it wasn't just a single forgery. 647 00:37:41,304 --> 00:37:44,878 Somebody inside Dalgran Associates was busy forging two names. 648 00:37:51,714 --> 00:37:56,456 Absolutely sane at all times, the defendant cunningly assumed 649 00:37:56,587 --> 00:38:01,530 a form of mental aberration only to forestall the sale of acreage worth millions 650 00:38:01,659 --> 00:38:04,965 while his attorney replaced some stolen money. 651 00:38:05,028 --> 00:38:08,134 Though his nephew vaguely knew of some government interest, 652 00:38:08,265 --> 00:38:11,604 neither he nor the two Dalgran Associates partners 653 00:38:11,734 --> 00:38:15,475 actually knew of the fabulous windfall due to befall this area. 654 00:38:15,606 --> 00:38:17,199 Therefore acting in good faith. 655 00:38:17,241 --> 00:38:19,067 Urged on by the partners, 656 00:38:19,109 --> 00:38:22,783 Kenneth Dalgran authorized the sale of that land. 657 00:38:22,913 --> 00:38:26,052 Visualizing millions of dollars slipping away from him. 658 00:38:26,183 --> 00:38:29,790 The now enraged defendant, desperate to stop that sale, 659 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,313 broke out of the sanitarium, 660 00:38:31,355 --> 00:38:34,695 rushed to his nephew, fought with him, and killed him. 661 00:38:34,825 --> 00:38:38,732 Your Honor, l move that August Dalgran be bound over for trial in Superior Court 662 00:38:38,862 --> 00:38:40,862 on a charge of murder in the first degree. 663 00:38:40,964 --> 00:38:44,905 Mr. Mason, before l rule on the prosecution motion, 664 00:38:45,035 --> 00:38:47,035 is it your intention to present a defense at this time? 665 00:38:49,974 --> 00:38:50,799 lt is, Your Honor. 666 00:38:50,841 --> 00:38:56,753 Defense waives opening statement and calls as its first witness, Mr.Jay Fenton. 667 00:38:56,881 --> 00:39:01,189 l hold here a list copied directly from the Dalgran firm's ledgers. 668 00:39:01,419 --> 00:39:06,328 We are not now talking of the missing trust funds, 669 00:39:06,391 --> 00:39:08,395 but of your company's own assets. 670 00:39:08,527 --> 00:39:10,287 Are you aware, Mr. Fenton, 671 00:39:10,329 --> 00:39:13,435 that some of those negotiable securities are missing from the company safe? 672 00:39:13,566 --> 00:39:15,392 What? 673 00:39:15,434 --> 00:39:17,361 Well, that can't be. It's impossible. 674 00:39:17,403 --> 00:39:23,047 Ordinarily, there would be no reason to either question or to examine such assets, 675 00:39:23,175 --> 00:39:26,281 but l obtained a court order and had the safe opened last night. 676 00:39:26,412 --> 00:39:29,919 But-- But that would mean that-- 677 00:39:30,049 --> 00:39:34,691 That not only _100,OOO, but other valuable company assets 678 00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:36,820 had been stolen from Dalgran Associates. 679 00:39:38,124 --> 00:39:41,263 [Martha] Yes. Yes, Mr. Mason. 680 00:39:41,393 --> 00:39:44,466 Kenneth had stole _100,OOO 681 00:39:46,132 --> 00:39:48,337 from the trust fund accounts. 682 00:39:48,468 --> 00:39:52,242 l-- l confronted him. 683 00:39:52,372 --> 00:39:53,964 He cried. 684 00:39:54,006 --> 00:39:56,444 He begged me to help him. 685 00:39:56,576 --> 00:40:01,752 He said he'd only borrowed the money to make an investment to impress his uncle. 686 00:40:01,882 --> 00:40:05,321 But he lied. He kept the money. 687 00:40:05,452 --> 00:40:09,293 He threatened to name me as his accomplice if l exposed him. 688 00:40:09,422 --> 00:40:12,796 l was afraid. l didn't say anything. 689 00:40:12,926 --> 00:40:14,653 Yet the accountants were sure 690 00:40:14,695 --> 00:40:17,500 that August Dalgran took that trust fund money. 691 00:40:17,632 --> 00:40:22,641 Mr. Gus found out Kenny had stolen that hundred thousand. 692 00:40:22,770 --> 00:40:26,811 He doctored the books to make it look like he, 693 00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:28,833 not Kenny, had stolen the money. 694 00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:32,182 Why did Kenneth authorize the sale of that desert property? 695 00:40:32,313 --> 00:40:37,656 That's why he wanted the money from the company assets. 696 00:40:37,786 --> 00:40:40,257 With Mr. Gus in the sanitarium, 697 00:40:40,388 --> 00:40:45,030 He sold that land to himself using a dummy, of course. 698 00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:47,531 [Mason] Those company assets, 699 00:40:47,663 --> 00:40:49,523 they were negotiable securities, 700 00:40:49,565 --> 00:40:53,271 securities that could only be used when properly endorsed. 701 00:40:53,402 --> 00:40:55,606 Now, can you tell me how Kenneth, 702 00:40:55,737 --> 00:40:58,442 not an omicer of the company, could use them? 703 00:40:58,574 --> 00:41:05,187 l-- l suppose he forged the endorsements. 704 00:41:05,247 --> 00:41:09,355 The-- The night of the murder, l was-- l was working at the omice. 705 00:41:09,484 --> 00:41:11,521 Alone, Mr. Morley? 706 00:41:11,653 --> 00:41:12,747 Most of the time. 707 00:41:12,789 --> 00:41:14,247 The time you weren't alone, 708 00:41:14,289 --> 00:41:16,326 the person with you was Kenneth Dalgran's wife Sandra? 709 00:41:18,126 --> 00:41:19,386 Yes. 710 00:41:19,428 --> 00:41:22,835 - Are you and Sandra in love with each other? - Yes. 711 00:41:22,965 --> 00:41:24,224 Yes, we are. 712 00:41:24,266 --> 00:41:25,827 But we've done nothing wrong. 713 00:41:25,869 --> 00:41:28,908 That's not what her husband, Kenneth Dalgran, thought, is it? 714 00:41:29,037 --> 00:41:30,431 No. 715 00:41:30,473 --> 00:41:35,049 Ken told me a-- a detective agency had a full file on the two of us. 716 00:41:35,178 --> 00:41:36,470 He threatened to twist the facts 717 00:41:36,512 --> 00:41:39,851 and to sue her for divorce and name me as correspondent. 718 00:41:39,983 --> 00:41:43,022 Kenneth threatened to do all that unless what, Mr. Morley? 719 00:41:43,152 --> 00:41:48,061 Unless l agreed to turn over my share of the Dalgran Associates partnership to him. 720 00:41:48,191 --> 00:41:53,167 So Sandra Dalgran didn't leave the sanitarium to go to the movies that night, 721 00:41:53,296 --> 00:41:57,405 she met you alone in the omice to talk over your problems? 722 00:41:57,534 --> 00:42:02,343 No. No, Sandra didn't know anything about Kenny's threats, or the divorce. 723 00:42:02,473 --> 00:42:06,247 She was so desperately worried about Gus because of the-- 724 00:42:07,411 --> 00:42:09,411 The what, Mr. Morley? 725 00:42:09,513 --> 00:42:12,819 Suicide note. 726 00:42:12,950 --> 00:42:14,953 Ken was working in the den. 727 00:42:15,085 --> 00:42:18,257 l went to hang up his jacket and found the note in the jacket pocket. 728 00:42:18,389 --> 00:42:22,731 lt was sort of rambling, disjointed farewell to life. 729 00:42:22,861 --> 00:42:25,766 The note was typed with a signature on the bottom. 730 00:42:25,897 --> 00:42:27,389 Whose signature? 731 00:42:27,431 --> 00:42:30,036 August Dalgran. 732 00:42:30,167 --> 00:42:31,794 Uncle Gus. 733 00:42:31,836 --> 00:42:35,142 l-- l didn't understand it, why it should be in Kenny's pocket. 734 00:42:35,273 --> 00:42:38,077 l-- l was afraid to ask Kenny about it. 735 00:42:38,209 --> 00:42:40,980 So you went to the sanitarium to ask Gus himself? 736 00:42:41,112 --> 00:42:43,182 Yes, he was furious. 737 00:42:43,315 --> 00:42:45,819 He denied having written or having signed the note. 738 00:42:45,952 --> 00:42:50,293 All but screamed that Kenny planned to kill him and make it look like a suicide. 739 00:42:50,422 --> 00:42:53,796 Why have you lied? Said nothing about the note? 740 00:42:55,327 --> 00:43:00,671 Well, l always liked, really liked Uncle Gus. 741 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,674 But l could never make him believe that Kenny was worthless, no good. 742 00:43:04,737 --> 00:43:07,342 l said nothing because l thought-- 743 00:43:07,473 --> 00:43:10,478 Because you thought August Dalgran had killed his nephew. 744 00:43:10,609 --> 00:43:12,503 No. No! 745 00:43:12,545 --> 00:43:15,217 Because you didn't want the police to know of a forged suicide note 746 00:43:15,348 --> 00:43:18,153 that gave August Dalgran an even stronger motive for murder. 747 00:43:18,284 --> 00:43:20,922 No, he couldn't. He wouldn't. 748 00:43:21,053 --> 00:43:22,914 Why, l know how he felt about Kenny. 749 00:43:22,956 --> 00:43:25,961 Why-- Why, only a couple of months ago, Uncle Gus was telling me-- 750 00:43:26,092 --> 00:43:29,598 Your Honor, l hesitate to object to this, 751 00:43:29,730 --> 00:43:33,637 since learned counsel is actually digging up new evidence 752 00:43:33,767 --> 00:43:37,106 to strengthen his own client's motive for murder. 753 00:43:37,236 --> 00:43:40,208 But we do object to this rambling hearsay 754 00:43:40,340 --> 00:43:43,846 about what Uncle Gus said or felt 755 00:43:43,977 --> 00:43:46,582 There's only one person who can testify to things. 756 00:43:46,713 --> 00:43:48,606 That's the defendant himself. 757 00:43:48,648 --> 00:43:54,393 And even though Mr. Mason seems intent on buttressing the state's case, 758 00:43:54,521 --> 00:43:57,326 l cannot believe he would be so foolhardy-- 759 00:43:57,457 --> 00:43:59,384 Excuse me, Mr. Burger. 760 00:43:59,426 --> 00:44:00,585 Yes, Mr. Mason. 761 00:44:00,627 --> 00:44:03,099 l would like to call as our ne_ witness, the defendant, 762 00:44:03,163 --> 00:44:06,035 August Dalgran. 763 00:44:11,238 --> 00:44:17,517 Well, the door was open so l went in. 764 00:44:17,645 --> 00:44:22,855 And in the den lay my nephew, dead. 765 00:44:22,984 --> 00:44:26,458 The gun was beside the body. 766 00:44:26,587 --> 00:44:29,426 And underneath the body was an envelope 767 00:44:29,557 --> 00:44:33,398 containing a detective agency report 768 00:44:33,528 --> 00:44:37,502 on Sandra and Don Morley. 769 00:44:37,632 --> 00:44:41,741 Well, l don't know how l found the strength 770 00:44:41,870 --> 00:44:44,207 to get his body out through the den door. 771 00:44:44,338 --> 00:44:50,284 And then l struggled with it. Got it in the back of the station wagon. 772 00:44:50,412 --> 00:44:53,049 So l headed for the desert. 773 00:44:53,181 --> 00:44:59,327 You see, l-- l intended to bury Kenneth's body. 774 00:44:59,455 --> 00:45:01,859 l couldn't manage it. 775 00:45:01,991 --> 00:45:07,836 So l drove on to the well hoping that Chuck would help me. 776 00:45:09,866 --> 00:45:14,507 After your arrest, you continued to plead insanity. 777 00:45:14,637 --> 00:45:15,696 Why? 778 00:45:15,738 --> 00:45:19,412 Being wrong about Kenneth was bad enough, 779 00:45:19,542 --> 00:45:24,050 but l was so wrong about his wife. 780 00:45:24,179 --> 00:45:27,084 Because l thought that she had killed Kenny 781 00:45:27,217 --> 00:45:29,321 on account of their divorce business-- 782 00:45:29,452 --> 00:45:32,658 and, well, that gun, that was the one l bought for her. 783 00:45:32,789 --> 00:45:36,696 Let's go over the reasons as to why your nephew wanted to kill you. 784 00:45:36,826 --> 00:45:38,826 We know he stole the _100,OOO 785 00:45:38,896 --> 00:45:41,133 and used it through your Manzanita Company 786 00:45:41,264 --> 00:45:44,403 to buy additional desert acreage. 787 00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:45,794 Now, did you know of this? 788 00:45:45,836 --> 00:45:47,940 No. 789 00:45:48,072 --> 00:45:52,681 Oh, and Kenneth never showed me the test report on the well, never. 790 00:45:52,810 --> 00:45:56,817 But that letter you wrote to Chuck, all the letters you wrote to Mr. Tayback? 791 00:45:56,947 --> 00:45:58,874 l wrote none of them. 792 00:45:58,916 --> 00:46:00,876 Kenneth wrote those letters. 793 00:46:00,918 --> 00:46:03,723 And forged your name. 794 00:46:03,787 --> 00:46:05,647 Why, Mr. Dalgran? 795 00:46:05,689 --> 00:46:11,333 Why would he have used the _100,OOO to put the adjacent property in your name? 796 00:46:11,462 --> 00:46:13,834 You see, Kenneth was my heir. 797 00:46:13,965 --> 00:46:16,970 l guess, that's why he planned my-- my suicide. 798 00:46:17,102 --> 00:46:22,312 So the entire desert property would have ended up in his hands alone. 799 00:46:22,439 --> 00:46:24,911 No, Mr. Dalgran, not quite. 800 00:46:25,043 --> 00:46:26,903 Kenny had a partner. 801 00:46:26,945 --> 00:46:29,684 Somebody had discovered his plan. 802 00:46:29,814 --> 00:46:34,155 Then boldly confronted Kenneth and cut himself in on the deal. 803 00:46:34,286 --> 00:46:36,823 Uh, Mr. Dalgran, 804 00:46:36,955 --> 00:46:41,230 those negotiable assets, who would have had to endorse them 805 00:46:41,359 --> 00:46:43,253 to make them useable as securities? 806 00:46:43,295 --> 00:46:45,122 Morley, Fenton, and myself. 807 00:46:45,164 --> 00:46:50,909 l have here a deposition from an outstanding handwriting expert 808 00:46:51,037 --> 00:46:54,778 who has studied those endorsed securities. 809 00:46:54,907 --> 00:46:58,681 Kenneth forged your signature, but only one other, 810 00:46:58,811 --> 00:47:01,282 that of Donald Morley. 811 00:47:01,414 --> 00:47:03,618 He didn't have to forge his partner's signature. 812 00:47:03,683 --> 00:47:05,853 He didn't have to forge the name of-- 813 00:47:05,985 --> 00:47:07,444 Jay Fenton. 814 00:47:07,486 --> 00:47:09,486 Well, that doesn't prove a thing. 815 00:47:11,158 --> 00:47:14,464 Aren't you forgetting the detective agency, Mr. Fenton? 816 00:47:14,594 --> 00:47:16,864 The one which you prepared that divorce material? 817 00:47:16,997 --> 00:47:20,336 All right, all right, yes! 818 00:47:20,466 --> 00:47:26,311 l was in it with Ken and l hired the agency to force out Morley. 819 00:47:26,439 --> 00:47:31,850 But l swear to you-- l swear, l knew nothing about killing Gus 820 00:47:31,979 --> 00:47:34,784 and making it look like a suicide. 821 00:47:34,915 --> 00:47:39,089 Gus, please-- Gus, believe me. 822 00:47:39,219 --> 00:47:44,062 ls that what you and Ken were fighting over? Killing Gus? 823 00:47:44,192 --> 00:47:49,535 l went to see Ken at his house. 824 00:47:49,663 --> 00:47:53,170 He was in the den. 825 00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:57,742 He remembered something. He left the room. 826 00:47:57,872 --> 00:48:02,748 When he came back, he was like a madman. 827 00:48:02,810 --> 00:48:05,649 He was pointing that gun at me. 828 00:48:05,780 --> 00:48:10,823 And he accused me of having stolen that suicide note that he wrote 829 00:48:10,952 --> 00:48:15,528 and of planning to double-cross him. 830 00:48:15,657 --> 00:48:18,929 He was going to kill me. 831 00:48:19,060 --> 00:48:23,202 So l-- l jumped at him. 832 00:48:23,331 --> 00:48:26,770 And we-- we struggled. 833 00:48:28,536 --> 00:48:30,536 And the gun went om. 834 00:48:33,709 --> 00:48:35,709 And he was dead. 835 00:48:36,912 --> 00:48:39,817 You wouldn't have killed Gus, 836 00:48:39,948 --> 00:48:43,020 but you would have allowed him to go to the gas chamber? 837 00:48:43,152 --> 00:48:46,692 ls that it, Mr. Fenton? 838 00:48:52,394 --> 00:48:55,800 Well, it's no farm area, Gus, and no brine plant, 839 00:48:55,931 --> 00:48:57,292 but with a missile base coming, 840 00:48:57,334 --> 00:48:59,227 it'll still be a city, all right. 841 00:48:59,269 --> 00:49:00,694 Dalgran City. 842 00:49:00,736 --> 00:49:02,063 That would be a pretty good name. 843 00:49:02,105 --> 00:49:05,946 May well be since it's right ne_ to Dalgran Air Force Base. 844 00:49:06,009 --> 00:49:07,869 You see, Gus wants to hand over to the government 845 00:49:07,911 --> 00:49:09,911 a deed for this land as a gift. 846 00:49:10,013 --> 00:49:12,417 A dream come true, Uncle Gus. 847 00:49:12,549 --> 00:49:14,819 You talked enough about it in the past. 848 00:49:14,951 --> 00:49:21,497 You going to just stand there, crying, and not say anything? 849 00:49:22,525 --> 00:49:26,399 Well, l'll say this much. 850 00:49:26,529 --> 00:49:27,822 lt's all right with me 851 00:49:27,864 --> 00:49:32,573 if it's all right with my partners. 852 00:49:45,049 --> 00:49:48,054 Subtitled By J.R. 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