1 00:00:49,770 --> 00:00:52,870 Sit down, John Chek. I'll let you know when you may go. 2 00:00:54,530 --> 00:00:59,570 Senator Cord, the subcommittee is recessed for lunch. We are not now in 3 00:00:59,730 --> 00:01:02,990 So is Mr. John Chek's counsel. May I point out... You may not. 4 00:01:03,510 --> 00:01:07,490 I subpoenaed you out of a federal penitentiary because it occurred to me 5 00:01:07,490 --> 00:01:11,330 after having served almost all of a 20 -year sentence, you might have undergone 6 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:13,190 at least the rudiments of reformation. 7 00:01:13,630 --> 00:01:17,390 It was my hope that you would cooperate with this committee in its efforts to 8 00:01:17,390 --> 00:01:20,230 expose the organized criminality existing in this country today. 9 00:01:20,550 --> 00:01:22,110 Fat chance, Buster. 10 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:26,790 Instead of cooperating, you have blocked us at every turn. 11 00:01:27,110 --> 00:01:31,690 In the course of this first day's hearing, you have evaded, you have lied, 12 00:01:31,690 --> 00:01:35,310 have seen fit to plead the Fifth Amendment no less than 27 times. 13 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:38,750 I didn't ask to come here. Your attitude may be different when you face a 14 00:01:38,750 --> 00:01:42,170 federal grand jury on charges of perjury and contempt of a United States Senate 15 00:01:42,170 --> 00:01:43,190 committee. But... 16 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,600 Marshal. 17 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:45,999 Yes, Senator. 18 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,880 Have this man return to the penitentiary. I don't want to see him 19 00:01:49,340 --> 00:01:50,560 Now, wait a minute. 20 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,120 What's this about a grand jury? What's going on here? 21 00:01:53,340 --> 00:01:55,640 You've been parroting your counsel's advice. Ask him. 22 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,140 All right, let's have it. What was he talking about in there? 23 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,640 Well, stay here for lunch. Never mind him. I asked you a question. 24 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,780 They had you cold, Steve. Every time you lied to that committee, they were 25 00:02:10,780 --> 00:02:12,460 looking down your throat with documented proof. 26 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,060 I didn't say anything but what you told me to say. Oh, 27 00:02:16,860 --> 00:02:22,480 you knew about that proof before you... Big Steve John Jack. 28 00:02:22,940 --> 00:02:23,899 I'm elected. 29 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:25,980 Public patsy number one. That's it, huh? 30 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,480 Well, the boys upstairs, the ones who pay me, Steve, they get the odds, that's 31 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,480 all. Sure, sure. 32 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:33,800 Let's not open any new canopies. 33 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,080 Let Big Steve take the rap, huh? 34 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,300 Let him rot a couple of more years in jail. Why not? 35 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:41,800 Well, I'll tell you why not. 36 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,840 I got dough waiting for me, big dough. I'm not the lamb out of this country. I 37 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:46,960 live like a king. That's why not. 38 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,000 Now, be smart, Steve. If you get a bankroll set aside, it'll wait. It'll 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,080 be there. That's where you're wrong. It won't. I can't wait. 40 00:02:54,340 --> 00:02:56,240 Steve, the answer is no. 41 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,680 It's got to be this way. I won't sit still with this. I won't. I won't. 42 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:03,900 Don't do it, Steve. 43 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,640 Steve, they'll throw the buck at you! Steve! 44 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:08,960 Yeah. 45 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:10,560 John Gregory. 46 00:03:11,460 --> 00:03:14,920 G -R -E -G -O -R -Y. 47 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:19,440 1416 North La Brea Boulevard. 48 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,220 Los Angeles, California. 49 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:24,000 Night letter, that's right. 50 00:03:38,650 --> 00:03:40,810 Relax, Nick. I never saw you so jumpy. 51 00:03:41,770 --> 00:03:42,770 Relax, he says. 52 00:03:43,690 --> 00:03:48,210 You the captain of one little tuna boat? Look at me. I've got 25 just like her 53 00:03:48,210 --> 00:03:50,510 and 10 more on lease purchase. You don't see me sweating it? 54 00:03:50,710 --> 00:03:52,230 No, I'm sweating for you. 55 00:03:53,230 --> 00:03:56,530 I should have my head examined suggesting this deal in the first place. 56 00:03:57,850 --> 00:04:01,210 You know what happens if just one single step goes haywire, don't you, John? 57 00:04:01,490 --> 00:04:02,850 You lose your shirt. 58 00:04:03,630 --> 00:04:06,730 I'll make the tonnage and that means my merge with Bickle's Cannery will go 59 00:04:06,730 --> 00:04:08,710 through. Then I'll pay for my books. 60 00:04:09,390 --> 00:04:12,070 If you deliver as much fish as you signed up for. 61 00:04:12,470 --> 00:04:14,350 If you don't, you're dead. 62 00:04:14,770 --> 00:04:15,770 We'll see. 63 00:04:23,010 --> 00:04:25,750 Daddy? Hello, baby. 64 00:04:26,550 --> 00:04:28,110 Oh, you didn't shave. 65 00:04:28,670 --> 00:04:30,330 Just like when you were a little kid. 66 00:04:30,970 --> 00:04:33,550 Go in a couple of weeks and you complain about your old daddy's wish. 67 00:04:33,770 --> 00:04:34,770 Well, they scratch. 68 00:04:35,260 --> 00:04:37,040 I missed you, you big hunyack. 69 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:38,600 What you got rigged for me today? 70 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,980 Some shopping? Stuff for a trousseau, maybe? 71 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:44,840 Nothing so extravagant. We're going to hear Van speak at a women's club rally. 72 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:49,400 It isn't bad enough I'm losing my daughter to a rising young politician. 73 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,360 got to listen to his campaign speeches and the bargain. 74 00:04:52,540 --> 00:04:53,900 I stopped by your office. 75 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,240 Nothing urgent. 76 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:58,480 Except, uh, maybe this telegram. 77 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:14,540 Anything the matter, Fisherman? 78 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,240 No, no, it's just that I'm... Well, I can't go to the rally with you, Helen. 79 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,080 Tell Van I'm sorry I couldn't make it, but I just remembered I've got to see 80 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,200 somebody on business. Go on. 81 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:26,280 I'll use the company car here on the dock. 82 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:40,220 The story on Janczek's escape is almost a week old. It's buried way in the back 83 00:05:40,220 --> 00:05:41,139 of the paper. 84 00:05:41,140 --> 00:05:46,100 What? Don't be alarmed. Mr. Gregory, I only wish to speak to you. My name is 85 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:49,880 Moray. I'm not looking for work. I am retired. 86 00:05:50,540 --> 00:05:51,540 What do you want? 87 00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:56,260 From the Boston office of the Swiss Federated Bank of Zurich. 88 00:05:56,860 --> 00:05:58,800 Look, Mr. Moray, I'm a busy man. 89 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,760 Did you say Swiss? 90 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:07,800 Federated Bank of Zurich. For the past 20 years, I personally handled your 91 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,960 daughter's trust fund. 92 00:06:09,610 --> 00:06:12,990 Yes, I remember your name now. I've seen your name on correspondence. 93 00:06:13,470 --> 00:06:14,570 $200 ,000. 94 00:06:14,810 --> 00:06:20,010 Half of the trust fund paid when your daughter was 10. The other half is due 95 00:06:20,010 --> 00:06:22,990 when she's 21 in less than a year. 96 00:06:23,970 --> 00:06:26,950 Not an unusual trust fund at all, sir. 97 00:06:27,330 --> 00:06:30,530 Except for the difference in the names. 98 00:06:31,830 --> 00:06:38,250 See, a trust fund set up by another man for his daughter being paid to your 99 00:06:38,250 --> 00:06:39,250 daughter. 100 00:06:39,420 --> 00:06:43,940 The girl you call Helen Greger. You don't know what you're talking about. 101 00:06:44,460 --> 00:06:48,740 A trustee of the trust fund, you've already accepted $100 ,000. 102 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:55,960 And I assume you plan to accept the remaining $100 ,000 for your own 103 00:06:56,100 --> 00:07:00,940 despite the fact that the money was left to someone else. 104 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:02,740 Get out of here. 105 00:07:03,220 --> 00:07:07,220 The young man who's about to marry your daughter is running for Congress. 106 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:13,060 What would happen to him and your daughter if I lodged a criminal 107 00:07:13,060 --> 00:07:14,060 against you? 108 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:15,240 For what? 109 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,600 Felony fraud. 110 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,540 $100 ,000. 111 00:07:19,860 --> 00:07:22,260 And you'll never see or hear from me again. 112 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:29,180 There is a way, papers I can sign, put me in your control to make sure that you 113 00:07:29,180 --> 00:07:35,900 make only this one pension payment if you go along with me now. 114 00:07:37,719 --> 00:07:39,520 Every cent I own is tied up. 115 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,540 Where am I going to come up with that much cash? 116 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,520 That's your problem. 117 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:46,460 I'll call you later. 118 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,680 Good days. 119 00:07:58,510 --> 00:08:02,570 As Mr. Gregory's attorney, I appreciate your coming here on such short notice, 120 00:08:02,650 --> 00:08:04,650 Mr. Bickle. You trying to renege on the merger? 121 00:08:04,950 --> 00:08:06,950 No, certainly not. In fact, as Mr. 122 00:08:07,190 --> 00:08:09,150 Bickle, we'd like to ask for a postponement. 123 00:08:09,550 --> 00:08:14,090 As you know, Mr. Gregory has $300 ,000 of his own company stock in escrow. 124 00:08:14,290 --> 00:08:16,570 I have an equal amount tied up in case you've forgotten. 125 00:08:17,070 --> 00:08:18,190 We realize that. 126 00:08:18,850 --> 00:08:23,850 But Mr. Gregory finds himself in urgent need of ready funds for another purpose. 127 00:08:24,070 --> 00:08:26,930 For what other purpose? It's something I can't talk about. I haven't discussed 128 00:08:26,930 --> 00:08:27,930 it with Mr. Mason. 129 00:08:28,170 --> 00:08:30,470 I don't know what you're trying to pull, but I don't like the smell of it. 130 00:08:31,090 --> 00:08:35,630 Either this merger goes through and on the date specified, or it doesn't go 131 00:08:35,630 --> 00:08:36,630 through at all. 132 00:08:36,909 --> 00:08:38,830 And if that happens, you forfeit your escrow. 133 00:08:39,570 --> 00:08:41,809 You ought to know the penalty clause. You helped write the contract. 134 00:08:42,110 --> 00:08:45,170 Look, Bickle, you won't lose anything by letting me off the hook for a couple of 135 00:08:45,170 --> 00:08:48,410 days. If I could only explain... You wouldn't do one bit of good. 136 00:08:49,450 --> 00:08:50,930 The answer would still be no. 137 00:08:53,730 --> 00:08:57,810 Nick, how much money is in that special account you've been keeping for me? 138 00:08:58,140 --> 00:09:01,660 Well, as near as I can remember, a little over 100 ,000. I want you to draw 139 00:09:01,660 --> 00:09:02,599 out. 140 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:03,640 All of it? In cash. 141 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:04,880 Now, today. 142 00:09:05,060 --> 00:09:07,800 I thought you told me you could swing the new fleet and the cannery merger 143 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,020 without touching that money. What's wrong? 144 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:11,620 Don't push me. Don't push. I'll tell you if I could. 145 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:13,980 Okay, John, anything you say. 146 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,820 I'll call and tell you what to do with it. 147 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,660 Just get the money for me. 148 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:19,140 Don't ask why. 149 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,680 Stefan. You get my telegram? 150 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:35,340 Make all the arrangements? 151 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:39,920 Don't be scared. 152 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:42,540 Nobody knows about us or I'm here. 153 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:44,480 They're looking for me in Boston. 154 00:09:45,180 --> 00:09:46,320 It won't work, Stefan. 155 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:47,779 Why not? 156 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:48,780 You got the boats? 157 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,880 You put the two of us on one, take us down to Mexico. I got contacts there. 158 00:09:53,740 --> 00:09:57,360 I'll need some dough, porch passports, plane fare to Switzerland. 159 00:09:57,860 --> 00:09:58,920 The two of you. 160 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,740 Sure, me and my daughter. Who else? She knows she's going with me. 161 00:10:03,460 --> 00:10:04,460 20 years. 162 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,480 Not a word. Not a letter. 163 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,140 How is she? What is she? 164 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,680 Now you want her to pack up and run off to Switzerland with you. Why? 165 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,560 You want me to draw pictures for you? Why do you think? 166 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,180 The trust fund, 100 ,000 bucks. She don't sign for it, I don't get it. 167 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:21,600 why. You set up that trust fund for her. 168 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:22,860 Oh, sure. 169 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,500 For some brat I never even saw. 170 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,640 What I even didn't care two cents for, I set it up for her, yeah. 171 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,700 She's already got a hundred thousand bucks. Or you have, what's the 172 00:10:35,140 --> 00:10:39,120 The rest of that dough I always figured is my own private nest egg. For me, Big 173 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,120 Steve, alone. 174 00:10:40,780 --> 00:10:41,780 I wasn't sure. 175 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,240 But I'd have bet my life that was exactly how you felt. What you would 176 00:10:47,780 --> 00:10:48,780 No, Stefan. 177 00:10:49,180 --> 00:10:51,380 Even if she were alive, I wouldn't let her go with you. 178 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:52,820 You wouldn't, you... 179 00:10:54,910 --> 00:10:56,650 Even if she were alive, what are you talking about? 180 00:10:57,250 --> 00:10:58,250 Your daughter's dead. 181 00:10:59,890 --> 00:11:02,970 You lie to me, I'll cut your heart out. There was a nix up in the hospital 182 00:11:02,970 --> 00:11:04,890 records. I didn't know about it until years later. 183 00:11:05,310 --> 00:11:06,810 Your daughter's dead, Stephon, dead. 184 00:11:07,070 --> 00:11:09,210 You cheap, chiseling thief. 185 00:11:09,830 --> 00:11:12,230 What about the money, the money from the trust fund? What did you do with it? 186 00:11:12,390 --> 00:11:13,390 Held it for you. 187 00:11:14,050 --> 00:11:17,790 Ten years ago, the first $100 ,000, I put it in a special account for you for 188 00:11:17,790 --> 00:11:18,970 when you were released as untouched. 189 00:11:19,270 --> 00:11:22,150 And what about the other $100 ,000? With the kid dead, how do I get it? 190 00:11:22,510 --> 00:11:25,130 I've got everything you need. Notarized statements, records, everything. 191 00:11:25,610 --> 00:11:27,990 You'll give me a hundred grand in cash? 192 00:11:28,810 --> 00:11:32,610 Get me out of the country in one of your boats? Fix me up with papers so I can 193 00:11:32,610 --> 00:11:34,090 collect the other hundred grand myself? 194 00:11:34,470 --> 00:11:35,470 Yes, yes. 195 00:11:36,330 --> 00:11:37,330 When? 196 00:11:37,850 --> 00:11:39,030 I'll need a couple of days. 197 00:11:39,270 --> 00:11:41,410 Nah, nah. It's too risky. Tonight. I want it tonight. 198 00:11:44,110 --> 00:11:45,110 That's the cops. 199 00:11:46,270 --> 00:11:47,270 Hello. 200 00:11:47,570 --> 00:11:50,050 This is Prince Murray, Mr. Gregory. 201 00:11:50,670 --> 00:11:51,670 Hold on a minute, please. 202 00:11:53,290 --> 00:11:55,510 Somebody's coming over now. You'd better get out of here. 203 00:11:55,870 --> 00:11:58,350 Tonight. I want that money tonight. 204 00:11:59,070 --> 00:12:00,070 All right. 205 00:12:00,610 --> 00:12:01,670 San Pedro Harbor. 206 00:12:01,910 --> 00:12:03,330 The tuna clipper, Helen G. 207 00:12:03,810 --> 00:12:04,810 Near the oil dock. 208 00:12:05,010 --> 00:12:06,010 It'll be empty. 209 00:12:06,510 --> 00:12:08,050 Meet me on board in the galley. 210 00:12:08,310 --> 00:12:09,310 9 .30. 211 00:12:09,370 --> 00:12:11,610 Don't fool with me, I warn you. 212 00:12:12,510 --> 00:12:13,510 9 .30. 213 00:12:19,050 --> 00:12:20,050 All right. 214 00:12:20,530 --> 00:12:21,530 Listen. 215 00:12:22,890 --> 00:12:23,890 The money? 216 00:12:24,230 --> 00:12:25,230 You can have it. 217 00:12:25,830 --> 00:12:26,830 Tonight, sir. 218 00:12:26,990 --> 00:12:29,470 Tonight. One hundred thousand dollars. 219 00:12:29,990 --> 00:12:30,990 Cash. 220 00:12:31,290 --> 00:12:32,290 Tonight. 221 00:12:32,970 --> 00:12:34,210 You know where we talked? 222 00:12:35,410 --> 00:12:36,410 The dock? 223 00:12:36,430 --> 00:12:38,010 My boat? The LNG? 224 00:12:39,170 --> 00:12:40,870 There won't be anyone on board. 225 00:12:41,990 --> 00:12:42,990 Meet me there. 226 00:12:43,810 --> 00:12:44,810 Ten o 'clock. 227 00:13:01,710 --> 00:13:02,710 The money, the papers? 228 00:13:03,510 --> 00:13:05,170 You'll get them, I promise. Promise? 229 00:13:05,410 --> 00:13:08,970 What are you pulling off here? Nothing, believe me. I told you it'd take time. 230 00:13:09,610 --> 00:13:10,610 You've got to help me. 231 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:11,569 Now, listen. 232 00:13:11,570 --> 00:13:12,570 Here's what I figured. 233 00:13:13,030 --> 00:13:16,290 You stay here, out of sight a couple of days, then I'll be able to... I said 234 00:13:16,290 --> 00:13:18,590 tonight. Listen to reason. Listen to reason. 235 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,340 What's going on here, Gregory? 236 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:52,060 Mr. Bickle, I've got to talk to you. 237 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:53,560 Mr. 238 00:13:54,180 --> 00:13:55,380 Bickle, wait. 239 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:57,500 Listen. 240 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,500 It's nothing. Nothing at all. Just one of my sailors. 241 00:14:10,140 --> 00:14:12,000 Drunk, that's all. Drunk. I had to hit him. 242 00:14:13,140 --> 00:14:14,220 You hit him all right. 243 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:16,180 He's dead. 244 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,380 Well, Lieutenant, homicide, Perry. All we have to find out now is why he was 245 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:33,620 killed. Plus who he is, what he was doing here, and why Mr. 246 00:14:33,860 --> 00:14:36,740 Bickle just happened along at so opportune a time. 247 00:14:37,620 --> 00:14:40,220 Don't start hinting that I've got anything to sweep under the rug. 248 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,860 I wanted to talk to Gregory, but he wasn't home when I phoned him. 249 00:14:44,540 --> 00:14:47,460 I knew that he had a habit of coming to whichever of his boats happened to be in 250 00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:48,480 port whenever he was upset. 251 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:50,940 Why should I be upset, Mr. Bickle? 252 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,059 Why not? 253 00:14:52,060 --> 00:14:54,860 That man was trying to extort money from you. You know what you're saying? 254 00:14:55,580 --> 00:14:56,960 Very much so, Mr. Mason. 255 00:14:57,980 --> 00:15:00,600 I was curious when he wanted me to extend that escrow. 256 00:15:01,340 --> 00:15:04,600 And tonight I received a telephone call from someone who calls himself Moray. 257 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,520 He said he had information on Gregory that could be disastrous. 258 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:10,240 He suggested that I ask him about it. 259 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:14,170 Well, Lieutenant, if that doesn't suggest extortion, then I don't know 260 00:15:14,170 --> 00:15:16,750 Look here, Bickle. Sorry, Mr. Gregory, I'm afraid I'll have to take you in. 261 00:15:17,070 --> 00:15:18,070 What's the charge, Lieutenant? 262 00:15:18,770 --> 00:15:19,990 Suspicion of murder, Counselor. 263 00:15:21,090 --> 00:15:22,250 I'll see you downtown, John. 264 00:15:28,250 --> 00:15:32,430 We're into his effect. His name was Franz Moray, formerly of the Boston 265 00:15:32,430 --> 00:15:33,910 of the Swiss Federated Bank of Zurich. 266 00:15:36,150 --> 00:15:39,850 Paul, I'd like you to... I know, be on the next plane to Boston. 267 00:15:41,870 --> 00:15:44,330 No, I don't know why my father went down to the harbor tonight. 268 00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:49,490 I don't know anything, except my father isn't a murderer. 269 00:15:51,090 --> 00:15:52,590 I'll go along with that, Mr. Mason. 270 00:15:53,350 --> 00:15:56,590 In all my life, I've never met a man less capable of killing. 271 00:15:57,470 --> 00:16:00,290 And neither have you ever heard of this Franz Morey? 272 00:16:01,430 --> 00:16:04,870 No, not until I got that crazy phone call at my campaign headquarters. 273 00:16:06,530 --> 00:16:09,070 Mr. Gregory shrugged it off as a practical joke. 274 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,700 I'd say it was anything but a joke. 275 00:16:13,660 --> 00:16:17,760 Helen, do you know of any business dealings your father had with the 276 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:18,840 Swiss Bank of Zurich? 277 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:21,300 If he had, he never spoke of it. 278 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:25,800 I must know the truth about his relationship to Maury. 279 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:31,840 If the man was an extortionist, I want to find out what hold he had over your 280 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,260 father. Can you recall anything at all? 281 00:16:35,140 --> 00:16:39,200 Any possible occurrence in your father's life that might furnish us with a lead? 282 00:16:40,230 --> 00:16:41,270 No, nothing. 283 00:16:41,950 --> 00:16:48,430 My father never harmed anyone in his life except... No, that couldn't be. 284 00:16:48,430 --> 00:16:50,430 couldn't be, Helen? The automobile accident. 285 00:16:51,070 --> 00:16:53,150 Back east in Boston 20 years ago. 286 00:16:53,650 --> 00:16:55,970 I don't remember it. I was only a few months old. 287 00:16:56,510 --> 00:16:58,930 My mother and baby sister were both killed. 288 00:17:00,190 --> 00:17:01,570 Helen's told me all about it. 289 00:17:02,350 --> 00:17:06,810 You see, Mr. Gregory was driving, but the accident wasn't his fault. The other 290 00:17:06,810 --> 00:17:07,810 car ran into him. 291 00:17:08,109 --> 00:17:10,829 So there couldn't possibly be any basis for extortion there. 292 00:17:11,990 --> 00:17:15,890 Besides, Mr. Gregory is the one who suffered losing his wife and child. 293 00:17:16,490 --> 00:17:18,970 I think the tragedy still weighs on his mind. 294 00:17:19,490 --> 00:17:22,950 The fact that they both died and we came out without a scratch. 295 00:17:23,369 --> 00:17:24,930 We? Dad and myself. 296 00:17:25,569 --> 00:17:29,590 And the nurse who was staying with us, taking care of us. Can you remember the 297 00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:30,549 nurse? 298 00:17:30,550 --> 00:17:31,970 No, I don't remember her. 299 00:17:35,950 --> 00:17:37,670 There's a picture of me in an album. 300 00:17:38,750 --> 00:17:40,330 As a baby in her lap. 301 00:17:40,790 --> 00:17:42,410 The name underneath the picture. 302 00:17:45,710 --> 00:17:46,710 Stone. 303 00:17:47,610 --> 00:17:48,610 That was it. 304 00:17:49,930 --> 00:17:51,450 Mrs. Margaret Stone. 305 00:17:58,010 --> 00:18:00,370 Operator, this is Paul Drake from 806. 306 00:18:00,890 --> 00:18:03,930 I'd like to place a long -distance call to Los Angeles, please. 307 00:18:05,230 --> 00:18:06,390 Come on in. It's open. 308 00:18:07,610 --> 00:18:10,350 Yes, I'd like to speak person to person to Perry Mason. 309 00:18:10,590 --> 00:18:11,590 What about, Paul? 310 00:18:11,750 --> 00:18:18,210 Perry, I want to... Never mind, operator. Thank you. 311 00:18:20,170 --> 00:18:22,390 What are you doing here? Hi, beautiful. 312 00:18:22,950 --> 00:18:24,590 How'd you make out at the Swiss bank office? 313 00:18:24,890 --> 00:18:25,890 Oh, just fine. 314 00:18:26,070 --> 00:18:29,290 Talk to a stuffed shirt named Corby who wouldn't give me the time of day except 315 00:18:29,290 --> 00:18:33,310 that Franz Murray, the dead man, worked there but retired over a month ago. 316 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,720 Well, we'll have to see Mr. Corby again. 317 00:18:36,180 --> 00:18:40,280 But before we do that, I want you to do some ambulance chasing, Paul. 318 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,080 We're checking all the hospitals near the waterfront. The man's name was 319 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,260 Gregory. And when did this accident happen? 320 00:18:49,580 --> 00:18:50,579 About 20 years ago. 321 00:18:50,580 --> 00:18:51,600 If you don't mind waiting. 322 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,660 They were transferred to a private ambulance and taken to the hospital. 323 00:18:57,260 --> 00:19:00,620 This can't be the only clipping, Perry. It doesn't say what hospital. 324 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,700 I know, Donald, but we can follow it up in some other newspaper office. 325 00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:08,640 Well, Paul. Hi. Pay dirt. I found the hospital where the car crash victims 326 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,940 taken. And it turns out to be the same hospital where Gregory's daughter was 327 00:19:11,940 --> 00:19:12,859 born. Here. 328 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:14,140 Look at this maternity record. 329 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,100 Notice it lists the birth of a pre -opera female infant, Susan Gregory. 330 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:21,880 Susan? 331 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,380 Susan, but I thought... Yeah, well, this is the auto accident admittance record, 332 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,260 dated exactly two months later. 333 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:29,740 It lists the... 334 00:19:29,980 --> 00:19:32,000 Mother and baby Susan is dead on arrival. 335 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,560 The survivors, Gregory, the father, a nurse named Mrs. Stone, and a baby 336 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,480 daughter, Helen, three months old. 337 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:39,700 How could that be? 338 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,480 I mean, if Susan was... Exactly, Della. 339 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,440 If Susan was a firstborn infant, then how could the Gregories have another 340 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,200 only a month older? 341 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,880 You think that might be necessary? 342 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:54,920 Yes, Mr. Corby. 343 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,700 I'll have to examine your records. 344 00:19:57,230 --> 00:19:59,770 The man's life is at stake. To defend him, I must know the facts. 345 00:20:00,770 --> 00:20:04,570 The head office in Switzerland would, I'm sure, be most disturbed that the 346 00:20:04,570 --> 00:20:09,410 Boston records and personnel should be introduced as evidence into a Los 347 00:20:09,410 --> 00:20:10,410 court. 348 00:20:10,770 --> 00:20:14,550 That wouldn't be necessary if I were to be given the information I needed. I 349 00:20:14,550 --> 00:20:15,550 suppose you're right. 350 00:20:15,890 --> 00:20:19,710 I haven't the file here, but I can probably answer your questions. 351 00:20:20,830 --> 00:20:24,210 Susan was the name of the Gregory's real daughter, but of course you know that 352 00:20:24,210 --> 00:20:26,970 already. Yes, she was the only child that Gregory's had. 353 00:20:27,370 --> 00:20:31,790 According to the records, Helen was adopted as an infant about the time 354 00:20:31,790 --> 00:20:35,710 was born. At least the adoption papers were prepared and being processed. 355 00:20:36,210 --> 00:20:40,770 And as you said before, that trust fund, that $200 ,000 trust fund, was set up 356 00:20:40,770 --> 00:20:42,350 for the adopted child by her real father. 357 00:20:42,550 --> 00:20:44,810 The adoption was started before Helen was born. 358 00:20:45,210 --> 00:20:48,170 You see, the mother didn't want the child. 359 00:20:48,630 --> 00:20:51,170 Would you please give me the name of the real father? 360 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,620 Well, it's been in the headlines often enough since he escaped from the Senate 361 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:55,620 committee. 362 00:20:56,100 --> 00:20:57,100 John Check. 363 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:00,020 Stefan Big Steve John Check. 364 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,340 If I'd wanted you to know, Perry, I'd have told you. 365 00:21:04,060 --> 00:21:06,940 What actually happened the night of your automobile accident, John? 366 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:11,400 There was a mix -up in the hospital admittance records. 367 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,580 Somebody made a mistake. 368 00:21:14,980 --> 00:21:18,620 The death certificate was made out in my daughter's name, Susan. 369 00:21:19,230 --> 00:21:21,790 But it was really Stefan's child, Helen, who was killed. 370 00:21:22,030 --> 00:21:23,330 You knew all this? 371 00:21:24,570 --> 00:21:26,530 Yet you didn't make any attempt to correct it. 372 00:21:26,770 --> 00:21:27,729 I didn't know. 373 00:21:27,730 --> 00:21:28,730 Not right away. 374 00:21:29,770 --> 00:21:33,810 But when I learned about the truth of the mix -up two years later, I corrected 375 00:21:33,810 --> 00:21:34,809 it. 376 00:21:34,810 --> 00:21:36,770 Except for the name. I didn't think that was important. 377 00:21:37,230 --> 00:21:41,290 But you didn't correct that mix -up with the Swiss bank that handled Helen's 378 00:21:41,290 --> 00:21:42,290 trust fund. 379 00:21:42,810 --> 00:21:44,630 Now, as trustee... 380 00:21:45,590 --> 00:21:49,930 Knowing your own daughter, Susan, had no legal right to that trust fund, you 381 00:21:49,930 --> 00:21:52,450 still accepted the first installment of $100 ,000. 382 00:21:53,170 --> 00:21:55,570 Perry, that money hasn't been touched. Not a cent of it. 383 00:21:56,770 --> 00:21:58,290 Whom did you fight aboard the Clipper? 384 00:21:59,110 --> 00:22:03,690 Nobody. Nobody. I just had too much to drink, fell down, and got messed up. 385 00:22:03,970 --> 00:22:05,750 You told Bickle you fought with a sailor. 386 00:22:06,510 --> 00:22:09,970 No, I just made that up about the sailor. I didn't know what I was saying. 387 00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:13,090 Why? Because you just left Maury dead on the galley floor? 388 00:22:13,550 --> 00:22:17,850 No, I never saw Moray. He wasn't here on board to... You did have an appointment 389 00:22:17,850 --> 00:22:18,549 with him. 390 00:22:18,550 --> 00:22:19,930 To pay extortion money. 391 00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:23,470 I didn't kill Moray. 392 00:22:23,810 --> 00:22:27,050 You started adoption proceedings before Helen was born. 393 00:22:27,390 --> 00:22:29,710 And that was a month before your own daughter was born. 394 00:22:30,710 --> 00:22:34,250 Now, why would a gangster like John Check ask you to adopt his baby? 395 00:22:34,710 --> 00:22:38,330 Because he and I... Look, Perry. 396 00:22:39,170 --> 00:22:40,870 25 years ago in Boston... 397 00:22:41,290 --> 00:22:43,030 Stefan was a waterfront hoodlum. 398 00:22:43,330 --> 00:22:45,590 He smeared dirt on the name of John Check. 399 00:22:46,170 --> 00:22:48,130 Such dirt that it made me ashamed. 400 00:22:48,590 --> 00:22:52,950 I changed my name from Gregor John Check to John Gregory. 401 00:22:55,330 --> 00:22:56,610 Stefan is my brother. 402 00:22:58,370 --> 00:23:02,110 I only wish I could help you, Mr. Mason, but I don't know anything. 403 00:23:02,890 --> 00:23:07,070 Not about the murder, perhaps, but there are other areas where you might be of 404 00:23:07,070 --> 00:23:08,070 assistance. 405 00:23:09,310 --> 00:23:11,980 Matter of... Mr. Gregory's real name, for example. 406 00:23:13,260 --> 00:23:15,560 Okay, Mr. Mason, for whatever good it does. 407 00:23:16,020 --> 00:23:18,820 I knew John Gregory when he was Gregor John Chick. 408 00:23:19,380 --> 00:23:20,640 He's been my closest friend. 409 00:23:21,140 --> 00:23:23,840 There's nothing he wouldn't do for me, and there's nothing I wouldn't do for 410 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,440 him. Does that include hiding his brother from the police? 411 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,280 You think Big Steve's aboard this tub? You're dreaming, you must be. 412 00:23:31,420 --> 00:23:33,540 Better place for a wanted man to take cover. 413 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,000 Scene of a murder when the police have come and gone. 414 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,740 You're wrong, Mr. Mason. 415 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,040 Absolutely wrong. 416 00:23:40,580 --> 00:23:42,500 John Check is not on this boat. 417 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,620 You'll have no objection to my going aboard and looking around. 418 00:24:15,150 --> 00:24:17,270 You're just like my brother, a double -crosser. 419 00:24:17,610 --> 00:24:20,490 That's a lie, and you'll know that, Steve. He's never double -crossed you in 420 00:24:20,490 --> 00:24:22,490 life. He's been doing it for 20 years. 421 00:24:22,930 --> 00:24:26,590 I gave him my kid to adopt. I set up a trust fund for her. And when she gets 422 00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:29,830 killed in an accident, he puts his kid in her place so he can collect the 423 00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:31,650 You make it sound like he was crooked. 424 00:24:31,990 --> 00:24:34,350 I'll give you something else to worry about, that Murray guy. 425 00:24:34,810 --> 00:24:37,550 He must have known about the automobile accident and the switching of the kids. 426 00:24:37,690 --> 00:24:40,190 He must have used it to put the squeeze on my dear brother. 427 00:24:41,169 --> 00:24:44,490 John Check, you say those things in court, you'll send your brother to the 428 00:24:44,490 --> 00:24:46,150 chamber. You are so right. 429 00:24:48,610 --> 00:24:50,550 I'll send him straight to the gas chamber. 430 00:24:54,150 --> 00:24:57,310 Lieutenant Anderson, I show you this wrench, People's Exhibit 1. 431 00:24:57,590 --> 00:24:59,310 I ask if you've ever seen it before. 432 00:25:00,070 --> 00:25:01,610 Yes, sir. It has my mark on it. 433 00:25:01,810 --> 00:25:03,950 We found it on the galley floor near the body. 434 00:25:04,290 --> 00:25:07,590 And did you have this wrench subjected to laboratory analysis, Lieutenant 435 00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:09,790 Anderson? It was looked over carefully by the lab. 436 00:25:10,220 --> 00:25:14,960 There were many sets of smudged and obliterated fingerprints, and over them, 437 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,360 the handle, one clear set. 438 00:25:16,580 --> 00:25:18,260 And whose fingerprints were these? 439 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:19,780 The defendant's. 440 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,520 John Gregory's. Thank you, Lieutenant Anderson. That'll be all, sir. Yours, 441 00:25:23,580 --> 00:25:24,580 Mason. 442 00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:29,000 Lieutenant Anderson, where on board the Clipper Helen G where the wrench is 443 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,140 kept? In a rack in the machine shop adjacent to the galley. Was there a 444 00:25:33,140 --> 00:25:34,140 missing from this rack? 445 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,720 Yes, sir, there was. 446 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:36,920 Just one, Lieutenant? 447 00:25:38,140 --> 00:25:39,820 No, sir, there were two wrenches missing. 448 00:25:40,420 --> 00:25:41,680 Did you look for the other one? 449 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:43,540 We looked. 450 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,640 Did you find it? 451 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:45,760 No, sir. 452 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,120 No further questions. 453 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,040 Oh, by the way, Captain Paolo, you are aware, are you not, that charges are 454 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,280 being brought against you for harboring a fugitive? 455 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,160 Okay, okay, so I admit it, okay? 456 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,420 Sure, I knew Steve Johnshack. 457 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,660 I knew he was my boss's brother, and I let him hide out on the boat, okay? 458 00:26:04,220 --> 00:26:07,080 As your boss's close and accommodating friend. 459 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:11,420 Were you aware of the meeting between the decedent and John Gregory the night 460 00:26:11,420 --> 00:26:12,680 the murder on board your boat? 461 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:16,340 The first I knew of that was when the police got me out of bed at home and 462 00:26:16,340 --> 00:26:19,480 brought me down to the boat in the middle of the night. Your landlady is 463 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,600 to testify that you received a phone call late that afternoon from John 464 00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:24,940 Do you deny that? 465 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,320 No. 466 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,540 And you immediately thereafter went down to the docks and ordered the shore 467 00:26:31,540 --> 00:26:35,660 watch of the Helen Gee off the boat, explaining that the owner... 468 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,040 had insisted that he wanted no one on board the boat that night. Do you deny 469 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,040 that? 470 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:43,880 No. 471 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:46,940 I wish I could. 472 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,400 Well, Moray, on the phone, intimated rather than stated that he could make 473 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,700 trouble for Gregory because of certain information he had. 474 00:26:55,140 --> 00:27:00,800 And Moray suggested that if I wanted to protect our business deal, that I should 475 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,980 urge Gregory to be... I think the word he used was cooperative. 476 00:27:04,650 --> 00:27:06,410 Yes, I think that explains it, Mr. Bickle. 477 00:27:06,850 --> 00:27:11,250 You were worried about your merger deal with the defendant, and you became more 478 00:27:11,250 --> 00:27:14,870 worried as a result of this strange phone call from Maura. Isn't that 479 00:27:15,610 --> 00:27:19,170 I tried to get Gregory at home a few times. 480 00:27:19,790 --> 00:27:24,030 As I told the lieutenant, I knew that whenever Gregory was worried, he always 481 00:27:24,030 --> 00:27:27,630 went to one of his ships. And I went looking for him down at the docks. It's 482 00:27:27,630 --> 00:27:30,370 perfectly legitimate. Well, of course it is, Mr. Bickle. You don't have to 483 00:27:30,370 --> 00:27:32,890 worry, sir. You're not on trial here. Well, I should hope not. 484 00:27:33,370 --> 00:27:38,050 Now, after you discovered the body of the decedent, did John Gregory make a 485 00:27:38,050 --> 00:27:42,530 statement to you? Oh, he rambled on with some nonsense about a drunken sailor. 486 00:27:42,550 --> 00:27:45,170 And then he said, and I remember his words exactly. 487 00:27:45,530 --> 00:27:47,510 Then he said, I hid it. 488 00:27:52,530 --> 00:27:53,529 Any luck? 489 00:27:53,530 --> 00:27:57,310 Nope. And I had a small army looking for her. Mrs. Stone is either dead or out 490 00:27:57,310 --> 00:27:57,909 of the country. 491 00:27:57,910 --> 00:27:59,110 Is she that important, Barry? 492 00:27:59,350 --> 00:28:00,910 I have a feeling she's very important. 493 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,720 An elderly nurse who was involved in an accident almost 20 years ago. 494 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,680 What can she tell you? 495 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,760 What my stubborn client has refused to tell me. 496 00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaking of clients, Bickle's story certainly didn't do John Gregory any 497 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,840 He sounded almost as if he hated him. 498 00:28:20,420 --> 00:28:22,220 Or stood to gain financially. 499 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,639 Can he? 500 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,800 Aside from the escrow, Gregory sank most of his capital into those fishing boats 501 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,740 on lease purchase to meet the merger terms. 502 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,600 I think we ought to look into that lease purchase transaction, Paul. 503 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,360 Find out if Pickle's involved. 504 00:28:35,860 --> 00:28:36,860 We'll get a man right on it. 505 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:39,920 Gertie, this is Paul. 506 00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:41,220 Will you ring my office, please? 507 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,000 Seal, is Jack Farnham there? I want... He has. 508 00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:49,180 All right, let's have him. 509 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,200 Okay, Seal, thanks. 510 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,940 Well, no wonder we couldn't find the missing nurse, Mrs. Stone. 511 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:00,960 Berger's had her on ice for days. 512 00:29:01,260 --> 00:29:04,720 He plans to spring her in court tomorrow as a prosecution surprise witness. 513 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,680 Mrs. Stone, approximately 20 years ago, you were involved in an automobile 514 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,060 accident in Boston. 515 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:15,280 Do you remember that? 516 00:29:15,820 --> 00:29:20,100 Well, it started out a pretty happy day, as I remember. 517 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:25,800 You see, Mr. Gregory was coming home after three months at sea, and they were 518 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,220 going to meet him at the dock. 519 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:28,640 They, Mrs. Stone? 520 00:29:29,150 --> 00:29:35,610 Mrs. Gregory, of course, their infant daughter, Susan, and the infant child 521 00:29:35,610 --> 00:29:37,890 they had adopted, Helen. 522 00:29:38,370 --> 00:29:42,730 Now, Helen was a month older than Susan, I believe. 523 00:29:43,090 --> 00:29:48,890 I say believe, Mr. Berger, because I didn't know. You see, I was hired by 524 00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:50,290 Gregory that very morning. 525 00:29:50,570 --> 00:29:52,190 Mrs. Stone, let's get this very clear. 526 00:29:52,810 --> 00:29:57,030 When he stepped off his ship 20 years ago, John Gregory had never seen his own 527 00:29:57,030 --> 00:29:58,870 daughter? Or his adopted daughter? 528 00:29:59,250 --> 00:30:03,730 No, sir, he hadn't. Now, what happened, Mrs. Stone, after you picked John 529 00:30:03,730 --> 00:30:04,730 Gregory up at the dock? 530 00:30:05,250 --> 00:30:09,750 Mr. Gregory was driving home when we had the accident. 531 00:30:10,310 --> 00:30:13,170 Mrs. Gregory and one of the children were killed. 532 00:30:14,030 --> 00:30:16,790 The other child and I were not injured. 533 00:30:17,270 --> 00:30:18,810 But you all went to the hospital? 534 00:30:19,150 --> 00:30:21,290 Yes. With Mr. 535 00:30:21,590 --> 00:30:25,630 Gregory unconscious, I had to make the identifications. 536 00:30:26,910 --> 00:30:33,150 I'm afraid, Mr. Berger, it was then I made my mistake. I improperly identified 537 00:30:33,150 --> 00:30:36,910 the dead infant and the live one. 538 00:30:37,550 --> 00:30:40,850 Helen, not Susan, had been killed. 539 00:30:41,190 --> 00:30:47,310 Well, I really wasn't sure of it myself until two years later. 540 00:30:47,670 --> 00:30:49,310 And what happened two years later? 541 00:30:49,810 --> 00:30:54,270 Mr. Gregory was moving from Boston out here to California. 542 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,600 I couldn't leave with them, but before they left, I told Mr. 543 00:30:59,820 --> 00:31:05,320 Gregory of my doubts, of the remote possibility that the surviving child was 544 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,940 really his own daughter. 545 00:31:07,140 --> 00:31:12,840 Then, of course, he took some sort of steps to check out the true identities 546 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,719 the girls. 547 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,940 And what did he find out? 548 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,060 Susan, his daughter, was alive. 549 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,020 Helen, his adopted child, had been killed. 550 00:31:23,260 --> 00:31:24,500 Before Mr. 551 00:31:24,740 --> 00:31:30,840 Gregory went to California, he had me swear out some notarized statements and 552 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,160 things corroborating her identity. 553 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,360 And did you keep in touch with the Gregories after that? 554 00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:38,520 No, I didn't. 555 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:45,620 It wasn't until five years ago, when I came out here myself on a sort of 556 00:31:45,620 --> 00:31:48,800 semi -retired basis, that I looked Mr. 557 00:31:49,060 --> 00:31:50,060 Gregory up. 558 00:31:50,170 --> 00:31:52,930 My appearing seemed to bother him a great deal. 559 00:31:53,270 --> 00:32:00,010 So much so, he paid me $5 ,000 if I promised never to see him 560 00:32:00,010 --> 00:32:01,430 or his daughter again. 561 00:32:01,910 --> 00:32:08,150 Acting as trustee for Helen Gregory, the defendant accepted $100 ,000 on the 562 00:32:08,150 --> 00:32:09,490 occasion of her 10th birthday. 563 00:32:09,730 --> 00:32:16,590 When he had you sign those statements 18 years ago, did John Gregory say to you 564 00:32:16,590 --> 00:32:21,230 that among the records he had to set straight, was the matter of a $200 ,000 565 00:32:21,230 --> 00:32:25,490 trust fund which his daughter Susan was not entitled to receive? 566 00:32:25,950 --> 00:32:26,950 Why, no. 567 00:32:28,130 --> 00:32:31,050 I never knew anything about a trust fund. 568 00:32:31,310 --> 00:32:33,130 Thank you very much, Mrs. Still. 569 00:32:33,650 --> 00:32:34,650 Counselor? 570 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,880 Your Honor, I would like to request that you adjourn these proceedings and grant 571 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,160 a brief conference in chambers. 572 00:32:55,260 --> 00:32:57,280 You can't go on with it, John. 573 00:32:57,860 --> 00:32:59,740 Every step you've made gives you away. 574 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,720 You call the girl who lives with you Helen because that's really her name. 575 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,440 There was no baby mix -up after your automobile accident. 576 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:08,920 But it really was your child that was killed. 577 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,120 That Helen is your adopted daughter. 578 00:33:11,420 --> 00:33:12,420 No, Perry. 579 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,780 No, you mustn't say that. 580 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,860 Why mustn't be if it's true? 581 00:33:16,380 --> 00:33:17,920 Oh, the bereaved father. 582 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,060 Your heart bleeds, doesn't it, Brother Stefan? 583 00:33:22,340 --> 00:33:23,460 You never wanted her. 584 00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:25,160 You never cared for her. 585 00:33:25,580 --> 00:33:28,960 All she ever meant to you was a gimmick, a clever way to bury money you could 586 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,480 get your hands on when they let you out of jail. 587 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:33,460 I'm gonna see you fried. All right, John, check. That's enough. 588 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:38,500 Mr. Mason, I permitted this highly unorthodox hearing in chambers on your 589 00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:40,340 assurances that it would help solve the case. 590 00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:44,020 But if the record's gonna show nothing more than a vituperative exchange of 591 00:33:44,020 --> 00:33:47,720 insults... I shall deem none of it in evidence, strike it off from the record, 592 00:33:47,780 --> 00:33:49,000 and reconvene back in the courtroom. 593 00:33:49,460 --> 00:33:52,800 If your honor will just be patient for a moment, I believe we can get at the 594 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:53,800 truth. 595 00:33:54,580 --> 00:33:57,040 John, why this deception over identities? 596 00:33:58,340 --> 00:34:01,520 Was it because you wanted to get the money and still claim Helen as your 597 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,620 daughter? I love that girl more than anything in the world. Too much to let 598 00:34:05,620 --> 00:34:08,920 be hurt knowing her real father is a gangster, a criminal. 599 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,280 And the $100 ,000 from the trust fund. 600 00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:15,270 You put it aside for her in a special account. 601 00:34:15,650 --> 00:34:18,770 I also know that you borrowed against it. 602 00:34:19,429 --> 00:34:20,830 As against all your assets. 603 00:34:21,770 --> 00:34:23,710 In order to close that cannery merger. 604 00:34:24,050 --> 00:34:27,130 You were lying when you told me you'd give me that money. You were lying! 605 00:34:27,409 --> 00:34:29,889 No, no, you don't understand. There were two accounts. 606 00:34:31,469 --> 00:34:35,730 I couldn't rob Helen of the money you set up for her. The special account in 607 00:34:35,730 --> 00:34:36,730 name is my money. 608 00:34:37,429 --> 00:34:40,150 Money I've saved over the years to match what you left her. 609 00:34:40,370 --> 00:34:41,570 Well, what happened to my money? 610 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:43,100 That was the second account. 611 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:44,840 The one Paolo kept for me. 612 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:46,960 Your money, Stefan. 613 00:34:47,980 --> 00:34:52,600 Untouched. He was to leave it for me on the boat. There was Moray. He wanted the 614 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,800 money. You wanted the money. 615 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,060 I didn't know what to do. 616 00:34:56,980 --> 00:35:01,400 I thought you would help, would wait. Your Honor, I... I fail to see the 617 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:02,339 of all this. 618 00:35:02,340 --> 00:35:04,060 It really doesn't have anything to do with the murder. 619 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:09,920 Even if this man did rig himself into this impossible situation for the sake 620 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:10,859 the girl. 621 00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:15,100 We're still faced with the fact that the situation led to an extortion and the 622 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:16,460 extortion led to a murder. 623 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,320 Judge, I'm willing to plead guilty. 624 00:35:18,780 --> 00:35:22,100 Well, I find your offer quite paradoxical, Mr. Gregory. 625 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,780 In order to keep your adopted daughter from learning that her true father is a 626 00:35:27,780 --> 00:35:31,860 convicted felon, you're willing to expose yourself to a possible murder 627 00:35:31,860 --> 00:35:35,420 conviction. Now, wouldn't that have the same effect upon her future? 628 00:35:35,820 --> 00:35:37,000 Maybe. I don't know. 629 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,900 You see, my fine brother is quite a guy. 630 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:46,620 His wife didn't die when Helen was born for the simple reason she wasn't his 631 00:35:46,620 --> 00:35:51,040 wife. He hadn't even bothered to marry her. Neither of them wanted the child. 632 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:56,540 The least I could do was to give her a home where she was wanted and a name 633 00:35:56,540 --> 00:35:58,220 was not only clean but legally hers. 634 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,340 Will everybody please rise? 635 00:36:08,650 --> 00:36:12,790 Mr. Mason, I believe we recessed before you had an opportunity to cross -examine 636 00:36:12,790 --> 00:36:13,790 Mrs. Stone. 637 00:36:13,830 --> 00:36:15,850 I have no questions of Mrs. Stone, Your Honor. 638 00:36:16,270 --> 00:36:19,690 All right, well, Mr. Berger, you may call your next witness. 639 00:36:20,110 --> 00:36:25,930 If it please the court, to anticipate, Mr. Mason, and to make it abundantly 640 00:36:25,930 --> 00:36:29,550 clear for the record exactly how the district attorney's office feels on this 641 00:36:29,550 --> 00:36:35,250 matter, let me state now that it is with extreme distaste and reluctance. 642 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,320 that the state finds it necessary to call his final witness a notorious 643 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:40,660 convicted felon. 644 00:36:41,020 --> 00:36:45,300 Now serving time in a federal penitentiary, I call Stefan Janczyk to 645 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,000 Yeah, that's the statement I gave to the cops. 646 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,400 So what? 647 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:53,500 It's not true. 648 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:54,960 Not true? 649 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,980 Don't you try to play games with me, Janczyk. It's not true that you thought 650 00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:02,260 your brother lied to you and double -crossed you? 651 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,980 It's not true that you wanted $100 ,000 that you thought he stole from you? 652 00:37:06,020 --> 00:37:07,020 Those things are not true? 653 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,200 No. 654 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:12,040 I asked him for enough cash to get out of the country, that's all. 655 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,940 You expect me to believe a story like that, a fantastic story like that? 656 00:37:17,180 --> 00:37:20,560 Well, just a few minutes ago in the judge's chambers, you said that... 657 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:21,560 enough. 658 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:22,960 I told you the truth. 659 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:27,120 Mr. Janczyk, do you know what the penalty for perjury is? 660 00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:29,180 Yeah. 661 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:32,460 They send you to jail, don't they? 662 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,020 No further questions. 663 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,040 What time on the night of the murder did you go aboard the tuna clipper? 664 00:37:44,300 --> 00:37:47,640 No time on the night of the murder. I went down there the next morning after 665 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:48,538 cops had left. 666 00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:52,420 A little after ten that night, the man was seen in a Gregory Company power 667 00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:56,220 launch drifting from the oiling dock to another dock some distance away. 668 00:37:57,020 --> 00:37:59,240 Now, he tied the launch there and went ashore. 669 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,740 I can produce a witness to swear to that fact. 670 00:38:02,420 --> 00:38:07,440 Shall we call that witness now and ask him if you were the man in that launch? 671 00:38:10,420 --> 00:38:11,420 All right. 672 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,860 So I went down to the waterfront. 673 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,220 When I no sooner got aboard the clipper than I heard someone coming along the 674 00:38:17,220 --> 00:38:22,660 dock. I was scared, so I scrammed. You were scared because someone was coming. 675 00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:27,420 Yet you had gone there for the express purpose of collecting $100 ,000 from 676 00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:31,640 brother. All right. All right, all right. So I was there at a quarter to 677 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:32,760 satisfied. 678 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,680 John Gregory was marked up from a fight. It wasn't a fight with Moray. It was a 679 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,680 fight with you, was it not? 680 00:38:38,940 --> 00:38:41,400 Yeah. I tried to hit him with a wrench. 681 00:38:42,220 --> 00:38:45,760 But he knocked it out of my hand and we wrestled. Then he got hold of it and he 682 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,680 hit me with it. But I wasn't out, see? 683 00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:49,700 Just stunned when he went up on the deck. 684 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:52,380 Then you heard Bickle shouting to your brother? 685 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:54,680 Well, how did I know some cop hadn't come along? 686 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,380 I couldn't go back in the dock, so I went the other side. 687 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,760 And I saw this motorboat tied up to the clipper and... Just a minute. 688 00:39:01,860 --> 00:39:06,020 Are you saying that that motor launch just happened to be tied up alongside 689 00:39:06,020 --> 00:39:07,020 clipper? 690 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:09,120 Sure. How else would it be there? 691 00:39:09,420 --> 00:39:12,940 Because it was left there by the man who planned to use it to get to the boat 692 00:39:12,940 --> 00:39:14,820 and to leave the boat without being seen. 693 00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:16,180 Nah. 694 00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:18,520 I saw the launch. I took it. 695 00:39:18,780 --> 00:39:21,480 But I didn't bring it there. I don't know where it come from. 696 00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:25,720 Your Honor, if I'm allowed to recall a witness... 697 00:39:26,140 --> 00:39:29,100 I think we might determine the truth about this motor launch. 698 00:39:29,380 --> 00:39:35,600 Your Honor, this motor launch has nothing to do with the issue. I must 699 00:39:36,060 --> 00:39:42,520 I believe the use of the motor launch by Stefan Johnczek is the key to the 700 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:43,740 entire murder, Your Honor. 701 00:39:43,980 --> 00:39:45,400 Well, you may recall your witness. 702 00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:52,300 Captain Powell, when not in use, the motor launch is kept at the marina? 703 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:53,640 Yes, always. 704 00:39:55,220 --> 00:40:00,780 Mr. Johncheck stated that he called you for permission to hide aboard the 705 00:40:00,780 --> 00:40:04,140 Clipper. Now, may I take this to mean that you gave him permission? 706 00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:08,940 Yes. Did you tell him he could take the power launch from the marina and bring 707 00:40:08,940 --> 00:40:09,940 it to the Clipper? 708 00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:14,700 Absolutely not. You have heard testimony that the decedent, Franz Morey, made 709 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:18,180 phone calls to many of Mr. Gregory's friends and associates in an effort to 710 00:40:18,180 --> 00:40:20,540 exert greater pressure for his planned extortion. 711 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,560 Now, did Morey ever phone you? 712 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:24,920 Did he, Captain? 713 00:40:26,420 --> 00:40:27,420 I guess. 714 00:40:28,180 --> 00:40:29,900 Then you knew about Maury. 715 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,380 And you knew that Mr. Gregory was meeting someone at 10 o 'clock that 716 00:40:34,380 --> 00:40:37,000 the tuna boat, and you correctly guessed that it was Maury. 717 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:42,120 Did you not then phone Maury and tell him to be there earlier than 10 at 9, 718 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,138 or 9 .15? 719 00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:44,140 No. 720 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:45,520 Why should I? 721 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,340 Did you bring the motor launch alongside the clipper so you could get away 722 00:40:49,340 --> 00:40:50,340 without being seen? 723 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:51,900 Me? 724 00:40:52,270 --> 00:40:53,530 What is this, Mr. Mason? 725 00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:55,570 You're talking about a killer. 726 00:40:56,330 --> 00:40:57,790 I'm Gregory's best friend. 727 00:40:58,470 --> 00:41:01,030 Would I commit a murder and then let him take the blame? 728 00:41:01,290 --> 00:41:02,490 You may not have meant to. 729 00:41:02,970 --> 00:41:06,970 But when John Check and Gregory unexpectedly arrived and had the fight, 730 00:41:06,970 --> 00:41:09,550 already killed Maury with that wrench that is still missing. 731 00:41:09,990 --> 00:41:13,410 And you were hiding with the body of the man you had killed in the machine shop 732 00:41:13,410 --> 00:41:14,490 right next to the galley. 733 00:41:14,830 --> 00:41:15,788 You're crazy. 734 00:41:15,790 --> 00:41:19,490 John Check panicked and took away the launch, so you had no alternative but 735 00:41:19,490 --> 00:41:23,430 to... Leave your victim's body in the galley, slip off the stern of the boat 736 00:41:23,430 --> 00:41:24,830 the shadows, and hurry home. 737 00:41:25,830 --> 00:41:27,450 How wrong can you get? 738 00:41:28,410 --> 00:41:31,430 I worked like a slave to keep that outfit going for John. 739 00:41:31,790 --> 00:41:32,970 For yourself, Captain. 740 00:41:33,550 --> 00:41:34,690 Not for John Gregory. 741 00:41:35,930 --> 00:41:40,310 My investigator has discovered that it was you acting through a dummy 742 00:41:40,310 --> 00:41:44,150 corporation who furnished the defendant with ten tuna boats on a lease purchase 743 00:41:44,150 --> 00:41:45,150 agreement. 744 00:41:46,450 --> 00:41:47,450 Okay. 745 00:41:48,290 --> 00:41:51,870 Okay, so Gregory pays for those boats and I make a profit. 746 00:41:52,390 --> 00:41:53,390 Is that illegal? 747 00:41:54,170 --> 00:41:59,250 This trust fund, which you kept in a special account under your own name, 748 00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:00,770 that why you had to get Maury out of the way? 749 00:42:01,730 --> 00:42:05,330 Because Gregory had asked you for that money to pay off Maury, asked you to 750 00:42:05,330 --> 00:42:07,850 bring it to the boat that night, but you couldn't, could you? 751 00:42:08,850 --> 00:42:12,510 You'd already used that money to get control of the ten tuna boats. 752 00:42:20,009 --> 00:42:21,050 Captain? Why not? 753 00:42:24,090 --> 00:42:25,090 Why not? 754 00:42:26,890 --> 00:42:30,230 Why should I be the skipper of one lousy tunable while he gets rich? 755 00:42:31,630 --> 00:42:32,630 Sure. 756 00:42:33,030 --> 00:42:34,990 Sure, I used the money to tie up the boat. 757 00:42:36,050 --> 00:42:40,730 If that cannery deal went through, John would pay plenty to get those boats. 758 00:42:41,410 --> 00:42:44,430 I could put the money back and still make a fortune. 759 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,900 And then came the extortionist and Gregory wanted the money. 760 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:50,920 And the money wasn't there. 761 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:58,440 I... I only meant to knock Maury out and 762 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,240 ferry him to a freighter. 763 00:43:03,220 --> 00:43:07,060 I was going to have him kept on one of the salt -bound tuna boats. 764 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,700 I... I never... never figured to kill him. 765 00:43:14,110 --> 00:43:15,930 I never meant to kill him. You must believe that. 766 00:43:17,170 --> 00:43:19,850 I... I hit him too hard. 767 00:43:21,350 --> 00:43:22,670 I hit him too hard. 768 00:43:23,230 --> 00:43:24,550 I hit him too hard. 769 00:43:29,970 --> 00:43:31,910 Congratulations. I'll see you later. Right. 770 00:43:35,810 --> 00:43:37,790 Well, was it worth it, John? 771 00:43:38,750 --> 00:43:39,850 What do you think, Perry? 772 00:43:41,970 --> 00:43:42,970 Step on. 773 00:43:45,550 --> 00:43:48,750 In the judge's chambers, you said you'd see me executed. 774 00:43:50,150 --> 00:43:52,830 But on the witness stand, you deliberately lied. 775 00:43:54,170 --> 00:43:55,170 Why? 776 00:43:56,010 --> 00:43:57,010 Wise up. 777 00:43:57,210 --> 00:43:58,610 I gotta be nice. 778 00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:02,890 You're still holding my 200 ,000 bucks, brother.