1 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:39,680 Oh. 2 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,320 Hadn't you better go help Lillian? 3 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,620 After all, he's thought of a relative. 4 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,480 In a minute. 5 00:02:35,860 --> 00:02:37,600 Go see what happened, Mrs. Summers. 6 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:39,000 Yes, Mr. Branson. 7 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,600 What is it, Sandy? What happened? A bending grip took a hit into an 8 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:46,600 mine shaft. 9 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,180 Did? You ought to know better than that now. 10 00:02:49,620 --> 00:02:52,440 Take more than a fall to kill a tough old mountain goat like me. 11 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:54,320 Get me off of here, Sandy. 12 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,720 You just wait here, Ben, and we'll get some help. Don't tell me what might be 13 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,680 broken. A little on my head, so how could anything be broken? 14 00:03:01,260 --> 00:03:02,720 Jason, come on, let's get him upstairs. 15 00:03:03,140 --> 00:03:04,140 Come on, Miss Nell. 16 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,240 Just take it easy. Take good care. 17 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:12,180 Seems to me, at your age, I ought to have enough pants not to go falling down 18 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:13,180 the mountain, Jack. 19 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:15,900 What did happen here? 20 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:17,720 How should I know? 21 00:03:20,460 --> 00:03:22,520 You said yesterday that, um... 22 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,440 Mr. Grant's next step after investigating the mine that Sandy Bowen 23 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,020 Jim would be to investigate the gold mine you sold him. 24 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,440 So? 25 00:03:32,420 --> 00:03:35,420 So maybe you decided it would be better if Mr. 26 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,400 Grant didn't report that they were worthless too. 27 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,740 So I shot him or something, is that it? 28 00:03:44,620 --> 00:03:47,480 Look, what do I care what the old man reports? 29 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:49,220 I'm a mining broker. 30 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,420 But if Jim, as president of the Grant Mining Company, wants to buy worthless 31 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:56,280 mines from me, I sell them to him. There's nothing illegal in that. 32 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,060 Nor are you and Jim splitting the proceeds afterwards. 33 00:03:59,620 --> 00:04:01,660 Well, the old man's never going to find out about that. 34 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,040 What is all this, Lillian? 35 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,000 You gave your husband the idea to begin with. It worked out just fine. 36 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,120 Nearly 200 ,000 so far, and more to come. Now, don't tell me you're getting 37 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,000 feet. Then you didn't do anything to Mr. Grant. 38 00:04:17,339 --> 00:04:19,160 No, and neither did anybody else. 39 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:21,160 Oh, they're crazy. 40 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:23,980 Then why did it happen just when he started moseying around? 41 00:04:26,180 --> 00:04:30,580 I couldn't talk to Mr. Grant, but they say he had an accident, that's all. 42 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,220 He took a tumble. 43 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,600 No ladder gave way and the big chance mine. 44 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:42,220 Well, I'd better see if there's anything I can do. 45 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,900 You wait for me? If you want. 46 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,240 Wasn't Mr. Brattison supposed to be here this morning? 47 00:04:54,860 --> 00:04:58,720 Jim Telephone said he'd be late. Said he wanted to check on one of the new mines 48 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,720 he bought. 49 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:02,020 Not the big chance. 50 00:05:03,540 --> 00:05:04,540 He didn't say. 51 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,860 I was sent here by... By... That's all right, Mr. Bowen. Mr. Street is my 52 00:05:14,860 --> 00:05:15,860 confidential secretary. 53 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:17,360 Now, you were sent here by whom? 54 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,719 Banning Grant. 55 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:19,980 He said you knew him. 56 00:05:20,260 --> 00:05:21,280 Yes, I do. Quite well. 57 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:22,720 He's sort of laid up. 58 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,840 He'd like for you to come to see him in Gold Gulch. 59 00:05:26,460 --> 00:05:29,140 Mr. Bowen, Mr. Grant is a good friend of mine. 60 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:32,520 But I can't leave for the Mojave now, not just like that. 61 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:34,960 Tell him when he's better to come and see me. 62 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,420 Well, the trouble is that he's liable to get worse instead. 63 00:05:39,020 --> 00:05:40,020 He's that ill? 64 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,320 No. 65 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,880 But it appears somebody's of a mind to see that he is. 66 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,540 Sure beats me where Sandy got a local idea like that. 67 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,600 Nobody's trying to kill me. 68 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:55,960 Accident, pure and simple. 69 00:05:56,580 --> 00:05:59,760 No harm done, according to Doc Evans, just shaken up a little. 70 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:03,160 When was the big chance mine abandoned, Mr. Grant? 71 00:06:03,740 --> 00:06:05,560 About 1932 or 3. 72 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,660 You have been in a mine recently, of course. 73 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 No, I haven't. 74 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,120 What made you ask that? 75 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:14,520 With all your experience, wouldn't you have checked the ladder carefully unless 76 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,960 you had reason to believe it was sound? 77 00:06:16,620 --> 00:06:19,970 Well... I was wool -gathering, Mr. Mason, that's all. 78 00:06:20,450 --> 00:06:21,810 Now, let's get down to business. 79 00:06:22,410 --> 00:06:26,370 What I really want you for is to represent Sandy Bowen in a fraud suit. 80 00:06:26,830 --> 00:06:27,830 Fraud suit? 81 00:06:27,890 --> 00:06:29,410 Over the Big Chance mine. 82 00:06:30,170 --> 00:06:34,950 Seems he salted it with some high -grade gold ore and then flim -flammed the 83 00:06:34,950 --> 00:06:36,630 Grant Mining Company into buying it. 84 00:06:36,970 --> 00:06:40,250 Now, just a minute. The Grant Mining Company is your company. 85 00:06:40,750 --> 00:06:44,450 Are you trying to retain me so you can control both sides of the litigation? 86 00:06:45,050 --> 00:06:46,910 No, no, it's not my company anymore. 87 00:06:47,150 --> 00:06:48,770 I'm only a minor stockholder. 88 00:06:49,410 --> 00:06:56,150 My late wife's son, my stepson, I guess he is technically, Jim Braddison, 89 00:06:56,370 --> 00:06:57,710 he's head man now. 90 00:06:58,430 --> 00:07:00,070 He's the one that got flim -flammed. 91 00:07:00,410 --> 00:07:01,410 Flim -flammed. 92 00:07:02,370 --> 00:07:04,790 Sounds as though you think Sandy hasn't much of a defense. 93 00:07:05,430 --> 00:07:07,430 Hasn't. They got him dead to rights. 94 00:07:08,470 --> 00:07:10,830 What I want you to do is settle. 95 00:07:11,770 --> 00:07:13,550 Does Sandy want to settle? 96 00:07:13,790 --> 00:07:18,150 Yep. I'm willing to advance whatever it takes, right up to the $5 ,000 he got. 97 00:07:18,470 --> 00:07:22,990 Only don't let Brattison or his lawyer mock it. No, I'm bankrolling things, or 98 00:07:22,990 --> 00:07:24,210 they'll think there's something fishy. 99 00:07:24,770 --> 00:07:26,390 Is there something fishy, Mr. Grant? 100 00:07:27,010 --> 00:07:30,550 You mean, why should I go to bat for Sandy? 101 00:07:31,650 --> 00:07:33,170 Well, I wouldn't normally. 102 00:07:33,990 --> 00:07:37,050 We're friends, even prospected together once. 103 00:07:37,370 --> 00:07:39,830 But he's not what you might call an upstanding citizen. 104 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,000 He's been salting and selling old minds to unsuspecting folk for years. 105 00:07:45,580 --> 00:07:47,940 He even tried me a couple of times. 106 00:07:48,180 --> 00:07:50,000 But I was too cute for him. 107 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,740 I figure I owe him something. 108 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,100 Why? Because he may have saved your life yesterday? 109 00:07:56,420 --> 00:07:57,420 One reason. 110 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,400 The other is that I was the one who told Brattison he'd been suckered by Sandy. 111 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,500 Figured he'd just ask for his money back. 112 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:07,020 But Sandy's already blown it. 113 00:08:07,420 --> 00:08:09,160 Now Brattison's talking jail. 114 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:12,380 I'd like to be killed, Sandy, and I wouldn't want that. 115 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,160 All right. 116 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,800 I'll see what I can do. 117 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,539 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you. 118 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,220 Is Mr. Braddison here? 119 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:37,940 No, sir. He isn't. 120 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,419 Perhaps I can help, Mr. Mason. 121 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,080 George Moffat, company attending. 122 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,620 We've met before, Mr. Moffat? 123 00:08:47,340 --> 00:08:50,800 Hardly. Corporation, not criminal law, is my field. 124 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:53,180 But I've seen your picture in the newspapers. 125 00:08:54,140 --> 00:08:55,640 Is there something I can do? 126 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,700 Call off your suit against Sandy Bowen. 127 00:08:58,060 --> 00:08:59,060 Oh? 128 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,400 In return for what, Mr. Mason? 129 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,280 I'm prepared to refund the purchase price of the mine your company bought 130 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,160 it. The entire $5 ,000? 131 00:09:07,850 --> 00:09:08,850 That's right. 132 00:09:09,050 --> 00:09:10,530 But where's the money coming from? 133 00:09:10,790 --> 00:09:13,750 It's my understanding Bowen is broke. He spent all the money. 134 00:09:13,970 --> 00:09:16,330 Does it matter where the money comes from, Mr. Moffat? 135 00:09:16,550 --> 00:09:17,550 No. 136 00:09:18,790 --> 00:09:19,830 I guess it doesn't. 137 00:09:20,250 --> 00:09:21,990 All right, you've got a deal, Mr. Mason. 138 00:09:22,310 --> 00:09:27,170 The suit is called off in return for a certified check, shall we say? 139 00:09:28,770 --> 00:09:30,710 I'll have it for you later today. 140 00:09:32,090 --> 00:09:33,090 That'll be fine. 141 00:09:34,810 --> 00:09:35,830 And Mr. Mason? 142 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:41,780 I must say, your reputation has been greatly exaggerated. 143 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:43,300 My reputation? 144 00:09:43,980 --> 00:09:46,820 As being a difficult man to come to terms with. 145 00:09:47,620 --> 00:09:51,200 When the occasion requires it, Mr. Musket, I can be difficult. 146 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:53,160 Quite difficult. 147 00:09:59,660 --> 00:10:00,660 Information. 148 00:10:02,460 --> 00:10:04,520 The lady with you tells me you're a lawyer. 149 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:05,760 Yes, I am. 150 00:10:06,090 --> 00:10:08,350 Are you representing Jim Brattison or old Mr. Grant? 151 00:10:08,930 --> 00:10:09,930 Why do you ask that? 152 00:10:10,170 --> 00:10:13,950 If you're representing Brattison, I think I should warn you. People here in 153 00:10:13,950 --> 00:10:16,830 aren't too happy about him. Or anybody associated with him. 154 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:36,020 What would you figure has been nibbling on these ladder -cross pieces, Mr. 155 00:10:36,060 --> 00:10:37,120 Mason? Termites? 156 00:10:38,180 --> 00:10:39,320 Certainly not termites. 157 00:10:40,180 --> 00:10:43,220 I'd say an individual with a very sharp cross -cut saw. 158 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,800 Then somebody really did try to kill Mr. Grant. 159 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:48,400 Well, he sure wasn't trying to improve his health, Mr. Reed. 160 00:10:49,220 --> 00:10:51,960 It's funny he told you he hadn't been down to mine before. 161 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,360 Why? 162 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,000 Well, I'm right sure he had. 163 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,840 Now, my camp's over there. 164 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:02,660 A couple of nights ago, I saw a light here. 165 00:11:03,470 --> 00:11:05,030 But it was gone when it come over. 166 00:11:06,010 --> 00:11:08,510 Down in the shaft, I heard a mosquito buzzing. 167 00:11:09,230 --> 00:11:10,230 Mosquito buzzing? 168 00:11:10,430 --> 00:11:12,430 Yeah, that's the sound the mineral light makes. 169 00:11:13,050 --> 00:11:14,770 What in the world is a mineral light? 170 00:11:15,050 --> 00:11:16,170 It's a black light, Dillon. 171 00:11:16,670 --> 00:11:18,930 An electrical device that prospectors use. 172 00:11:20,110 --> 00:11:24,230 It sends out rays that makes any metal embedded in the rock fluoresce. 173 00:11:24,790 --> 00:11:25,850 Grant's got one, too. 174 00:11:26,650 --> 00:11:30,230 Might be broke up a little from the fall, but... Did you talk to Mr. Grant 175 00:11:30,230 --> 00:11:32,630 this? Maybe get myself shot if it wasn't him. 176 00:11:33,689 --> 00:11:34,689 No. Ask your dad. 177 00:11:35,290 --> 00:11:36,910 All right, we'd better be doing the same thing. 178 00:11:50,390 --> 00:11:51,390 Mr. Branson. 179 00:11:52,890 --> 00:11:54,450 I'd like you to meet Mr. 180 00:11:54,910 --> 00:11:56,130 Branson, our company president. 181 00:11:56,570 --> 00:12:00,350 How do you do? How are you? My secretary, Mr. Reed. Mr. Branson, Mr. 182 00:12:00,370 --> 00:12:01,370 Reed. Hello. 183 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,340 See, I have some good news for you, Mason. We're calling off the suit 184 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:05,139 Sandy Pond. 185 00:12:05,140 --> 00:12:05,939 That so? 186 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:08,420 Well, we decided to let the deal stand as it is. 187 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:09,720 What made you decide that? 188 00:12:10,580 --> 00:12:11,580 What made us? 189 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:18,420 In going over our financial statement, preparatory to the director's meeting, 190 00:12:18,420 --> 00:12:23,800 decided that tax -wise, the write -off is worth more to us than the cash. 191 00:12:24,180 --> 00:12:26,480 But dang it, Mason, that's not what I wanted. 192 00:12:27,020 --> 00:12:28,520 I wanted to get a hold of... 193 00:12:29,110 --> 00:12:32,950 Well, I wanted... What you wanted was to get hold of the big chance mine 194 00:12:32,950 --> 00:12:33,950 yourself, Mr. Grant. 195 00:12:35,190 --> 00:12:39,530 Sandy told me that you had him sign it over to you contingent upon the suit 196 00:12:39,530 --> 00:12:40,530 being quashed. 197 00:12:41,330 --> 00:12:48,210 Now, shouldn't you have told me what you really wanted and that there really was 198 00:12:48,210 --> 00:12:49,530 an attempt made on your life? 199 00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:51,870 Well, that part I don't understand. 200 00:12:52,730 --> 00:12:56,050 Miss Street, would you mind handing me that duffel bag under the bed? 201 00:12:56,430 --> 00:12:59,720 Oh. Big chance mine's no good of itself. 202 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:05,600 But last week, while I was prowling around the same property to see how big 203 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,740 job a salt and sandy had done, I found these. 204 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:10,900 Old Indian arrow. 205 00:13:12,820 --> 00:13:14,460 And nearby, I found another. 206 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:20,360 A little further along, I stumbled on the start of an old shaft hidden by 207 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,620 about the size of a coyote hole. 208 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:24,680 And in it, I found these. 209 00:13:27,790 --> 00:13:29,030 It's gold, all right. 210 00:13:30,370 --> 00:13:33,390 And this old single -action colt. 211 00:13:33,990 --> 00:13:36,690 The owner's name notched on the handle. 212 00:13:41,870 --> 00:13:42,870 Bowler. 213 00:13:44,430 --> 00:13:45,430 Oh. 214 00:13:46,510 --> 00:13:48,150 That name seems familiar. 215 00:13:48,430 --> 00:13:49,430 It should. 216 00:13:49,570 --> 00:13:52,250 Name of one of the most famous lost mines in the country. 217 00:13:52,990 --> 00:13:55,090 Old Bowler made his strike in 74. 218 00:13:55,980 --> 00:14:00,300 brought in some of the richest gold ore ever assayed hereabouts, told the folks 219 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:04,100 there was a million dollars more of it back in the hills, staged a celebration, 220 00:14:04,420 --> 00:14:07,520 then sneaked out of town and was never seen again. 221 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,400 Sandy don't know it, but right spang in the middle of the property he was 222 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,760 salting is the million -dollar bowl of mine that nobody's ever been able to 223 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:17,760 until now. 224 00:14:25,450 --> 00:14:26,450 other answer possible. 225 00:14:26,670 --> 00:14:29,870 The old boy found something while he was checking on the mine Bowen sold us. 226 00:14:30,730 --> 00:14:31,730 Something big. 227 00:14:31,870 --> 00:14:33,550 Now he's trying to get it for himself. 228 00:14:34,030 --> 00:14:35,150 You sure it's Grant? 229 00:14:35,570 --> 00:14:38,950 Oh, it can't be Bowen. He spent every cent he got from us. And the lawyer 230 00:14:38,950 --> 00:14:41,250 conferred with Grant just before he made his offer. 231 00:14:42,350 --> 00:14:43,350 Isn't that so now? 232 00:14:44,450 --> 00:14:48,790 Yes, but it isn't like banning Grant to do anything underhanded. 233 00:14:49,110 --> 00:14:51,590 Oh, don't forget. He feels we took the company away from him. 234 00:14:52,650 --> 00:14:55,090 Well, didn't you? The point is... 235 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,560 We can't force him to tell us what he found. 236 00:14:58,300 --> 00:14:59,500 Ah, but we can. 237 00:15:00,340 --> 00:15:04,220 He's still a minor stockholder, so we can elect him a director. 238 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:10,520 And by law, a director must reveal anything he knows that might affect the 239 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:11,520 corporate assets. 240 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,480 Uh, which means we'll have him over a barrel. 241 00:15:15,140 --> 00:15:16,140 Are we all in favor? 242 00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:17,620 Aye. 243 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,200 Somers. 244 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,120 You know I always vote the way you say, Mr. Radisson. 245 00:15:24,650 --> 00:15:25,650 Aye. 246 00:15:27,250 --> 00:15:28,250 No. 247 00:15:29,070 --> 00:15:32,010 Oh, I suppose I'll have to go along if it'll help the company. 248 00:15:32,370 --> 00:15:33,309 Carried unanimously. 249 00:15:33,310 --> 00:15:34,310 Banning grant is now directed. 250 00:15:36,630 --> 00:15:37,630 Any other business? 251 00:15:38,250 --> 00:15:39,850 What about the quarterly dividend? 252 00:15:40,270 --> 00:15:45,230 You have our heavy responsibilities for our new properties. Any dividends out of 253 00:15:45,230 --> 00:15:46,230 the question? 254 00:15:47,510 --> 00:15:51,630 Don't you realize that practically every soul in town owns stock? 255 00:15:52,140 --> 00:15:55,520 And they count on the income to try to make ends meet. Then they'll just have 256 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:56,520 uncount this time. 257 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:58,480 Meeting's adjourned. 258 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,520 Mood, the townspeople are in, thinking this is what you might do. 259 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,100 They just may decide to uncount you, Braddison. 260 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,560 And I'll be right with them. 261 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,940 You know, we should have voted her off the board to make way for Grant. We'll 262 00:16:19,940 --> 00:16:20,940 that next time. 263 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,920 Well, Mr. Mason, I'm afraid you're too late. 264 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,139 Too late? 265 00:16:28,140 --> 00:16:31,040 There's no need to play it cozy any longer, Counselor. 266 00:16:31,420 --> 00:16:35,120 We know Grant has found something valuable somewhere on Bowen's ex 267 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,360 And we've just arranged it, so he'll have to tell us where. 268 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:40,320 How did you do that? 269 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:42,660 By voting him in as a company director. 270 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,920 Don't your bylaws require directors to be stockholders, Mr. Moffat? 271 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:48,640 Grant is a stockholder. 272 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,000 I'm afraid you're wrong about that. 273 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:58,280 He's sold his voting to me, which of course makes his election to the board 274 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,280 invalid. 275 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:06,160 However, if you're actually in need of another director, I'd be happy to make 276 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,160 myself available. 277 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,420 Harry, why wasn't the dividend paid? 278 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,859 Well, according to Grant, Brattison and the others have been bleeding the 279 00:17:19,859 --> 00:17:23,839 company of its cash through phony mining deals. The broker named Hayward Small, 280 00:17:24,140 --> 00:17:29,340 a gentleman whom I suspect is presently sitting with Mrs. Brattison. Well, Grant 281 00:17:29,340 --> 00:17:32,960 made the mistake of giving his late wife a majority stock interest. 282 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,740 She made the mistake of willing it to her ne 'er -do -well son by a previous 283 00:17:36,740 --> 00:17:39,220 marriage, namely one James Brattison. 284 00:17:39,620 --> 00:17:42,020 Well, why didn't Mr. Grant contest the will? 285 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:43,740 Well, he didn't care at the time. 286 00:17:44,350 --> 00:17:46,990 He was comfortably well off and the company was in good shape. 287 00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:49,190 It was only when he realized it. 288 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:51,110 Only when he realized what? 289 00:17:51,510 --> 00:17:56,010 That his gold goat's friends, whom he'd talked and cajoled into buying stock, 290 00:17:56,170 --> 00:17:58,950 knowing it would take care of them, were being built. 291 00:17:59,390 --> 00:18:00,590 Then he began to worry. 292 00:18:00,890 --> 00:18:04,690 And so his friends are why he doesn't want the bowler mine to go to the 293 00:18:05,010 --> 00:18:09,250 Yes. The ironic part is he can't tell them about it for fear Braddison will 294 00:18:09,250 --> 00:18:10,189 out. 295 00:18:10,190 --> 00:18:11,770 There's still one thing that isn't clear. 296 00:18:12,490 --> 00:18:14,010 Why the attempt on Mr. 297 00:18:14,230 --> 00:18:15,049 Grant's life? 298 00:18:15,050 --> 00:18:16,730 I can think of only one possibility. 299 00:18:17,510 --> 00:18:18,510 What's that? 300 00:18:19,110 --> 00:18:22,550 Someone else knows where the Boulder mine is and wants to keep the 301 00:18:22,550 --> 00:18:23,550 to himself. 302 00:19:00,199 --> 00:19:01,199 Mr. Grant. 303 00:19:04,220 --> 00:19:05,220 Harry. 304 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:07,440 It's Mr. Grant. 305 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:22,880 I thought for a minute there I was a goner. 306 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:29,280 Are you positive, Mr. Grant, you got no idea who was doing the shooting? 307 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:30,960 I already told you I hadn't. 308 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,080 More to the point, have you? 309 00:19:34,380 --> 00:19:37,100 All I know about him is he owns a .30 -30 rifle. 310 00:19:37,460 --> 00:19:41,220 At least according to these expended shells I found on the balcony where he 311 00:19:41,220 --> 00:19:44,200 from. I seem to recollect you have a .30 -30, Bowen. 312 00:19:44,780 --> 00:19:46,040 Sure, but still in camp. 313 00:19:47,580 --> 00:19:50,600 Say, you ain't suspicioning me, are you? 314 00:19:51,380 --> 00:19:54,400 I told you I was wheeling into town when the shots expired. 315 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,320 Let her go after the varmint load what he's up to. 316 00:19:58,740 --> 00:19:59,740 Miss Street? 317 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:05,020 Well, I only caught a glimpse of the man, but I'm sure he was taller than Mr. 318 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,580 Bowen. All right. 319 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,540 Tall man with a .33 rifle. 320 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:11,300 Maybe I'll have something more in the morning. 321 00:20:21,660 --> 00:20:22,740 What are you going to do, Dan? 322 00:20:23,450 --> 00:20:24,870 What do you mean, what am I going to do? 323 00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:28,270 If you was me, instead of playing fit and duck, I'd make myself scarce. 324 00:20:28,790 --> 00:20:29,790 Well, how? 325 00:20:29,990 --> 00:20:31,050 Why not hold up a me? 326 00:20:31,850 --> 00:20:34,750 My camp's where nobody can get in two miles without our knowing it. 327 00:20:35,270 --> 00:20:37,970 And I'll let you have keeps of the 30 -30 if you want. 328 00:20:39,090 --> 00:20:40,130 What do you think, Mason? 329 00:20:40,390 --> 00:20:41,830 I think it's an excellent idea. 330 00:20:42,550 --> 00:20:44,730 And it fits in with something I have in mind. 331 00:20:45,330 --> 00:20:46,330 Well, what's that? 332 00:20:46,630 --> 00:20:48,970 Well, something which would take the pressure off you. 333 00:20:49,730 --> 00:20:50,730 Permanently. 334 00:21:01,350 --> 00:21:02,350 Yeah, this is Paul Drake. 335 00:21:02,910 --> 00:21:03,930 Person of person from who? 336 00:21:05,050 --> 00:21:06,850 Oh. Hi, Perry. What's cooking? 337 00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:10,030 When did I shave last? 338 00:21:10,590 --> 00:21:11,870 Yesterday morning, like always. 339 00:21:12,410 --> 00:21:17,250 Don't tell me you're calling me long distance to find out... How would I like 340 00:21:17,250 --> 00:21:18,250 do what? 341 00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:20,070 Find a gold mine. 342 00:21:48,810 --> 00:21:50,610 What's wrong next door? Where's the assay agent? 343 00:21:51,450 --> 00:21:54,770 There hasn't been one here in 20 years. 20 years? 344 00:21:55,050 --> 00:21:56,050 Well, how do you like that? 345 00:21:56,170 --> 00:21:58,510 Me with a fine of the... Well, where do I have to go? 346 00:21:59,690 --> 00:22:00,690 Bakersfield. 347 00:22:00,890 --> 00:22:05,090 Only by the time you get there, the office will be closed. 348 00:22:07,190 --> 00:22:08,590 You're not a prospect, are you? 349 00:22:09,550 --> 00:22:13,870 No, just a weekend rockhound, that's all. Semi -precious stones, stuff like 350 00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:17,530 that. But I know gold when I see it. Brother, do I know it. 351 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:19,380 Where can I get a drink? 352 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,480 There's a saloon in the hotel. 353 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:23,540 I'm away. 354 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,180 Oh, uh, could you keep this stuff of mine in that safe of yours till 355 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,020 I'll, uh, have to ask Mr. Bradson. 356 00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:38,620 Oh, well, uh, forget it. I've been seeing too many movies. I'll probably 357 00:22:38,620 --> 00:22:39,760 in the saloon anyway. Thanks a lot. 358 00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:52,020 Who was that, Thomas? 359 00:22:52,180 --> 00:22:53,180 A rockhound. 360 00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:56,100 And I think he's found the lost bowler mine. 361 00:22:59,140 --> 00:23:01,280 Whiskey. Old bottle of it. Best you got in the house. 362 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,720 Got cash for it, prospector? Well, I got something just as good. Here. 363 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,640 What would you say that? 364 00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:10,380 What is it, Jason? 365 00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:13,280 Gold nugget. Worth four to fifty bucks, I'd say. 366 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,280 I'll then start pouring. 367 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,620 For me and the gentleman here. All of them. 368 00:23:18,020 --> 00:23:19,020 Yourself, too, if you like. 369 00:23:19,650 --> 00:23:20,650 Now look what I've done. 370 00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:27,630 Bowler? 371 00:23:29,050 --> 00:23:30,050 Where'd you get that? 372 00:23:30,090 --> 00:23:33,070 That? Oh, I bought that in a second -hand store. 373 00:23:33,490 --> 00:23:35,170 Saw the name on it and thought it'd bring me luck. 374 00:23:35,530 --> 00:23:36,630 Sure looks as though it had. 375 00:23:37,070 --> 00:23:37,989 Could be. 376 00:23:37,990 --> 00:23:38,990 Come on, drink up. 377 00:23:49,060 --> 00:23:50,680 Biggest crowd since Christmas holidays. 378 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,480 Christmas for a lot of people if you let slippers bind you. 379 00:24:00,660 --> 00:24:02,700 Jason, how about some service here? 380 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,120 Here. Try some of this. 381 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,020 Don't mind if I do. 382 00:24:09,020 --> 00:24:10,020 What are you doing here? 383 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,240 Stop by to see how he's making out. 384 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,640 Where's Mr. Grant? 385 00:24:13,820 --> 00:24:15,980 Back in camp. Don't worry, he's got the rap. 386 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:18,340 He's sure gonna hit the spot. 387 00:24:30,540 --> 00:24:31,540 Mr. Grant? 388 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Mr. Grant? 389 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,100 Well, I told you not to come out here, Summers. 390 00:24:37,660 --> 00:24:40,720 Well, there's something you ought to know, Mr. Grant. 391 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,980 There's a rock hound in town that's found something big. Most likely the 392 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:46,779 boulder mine. 393 00:24:46,780 --> 00:24:48,660 And he's staging a celebration. 394 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,040 Well, that doesn't surprise you? 395 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,620 No, because I'm paying for it. 396 00:25:03,679 --> 00:25:08,660 Why? Well, I realize Paul's pretending to have also found the bowler mine is 397 00:25:08,660 --> 00:25:14,600 just to protect Mr. Grant, but what if that same man should try to kill Paul? 398 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,200 He won't, Della. 399 00:25:16,860 --> 00:25:17,860 How do you know? 400 00:25:18,020 --> 00:25:19,200 Because of those bullet holes. 401 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,600 Harry. In here, Paul. 402 00:25:25,580 --> 00:25:28,440 Well, I'm clearing out now, but don't think it hasn't been fun. 403 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,320 I'm sure no one followed me. Wouldn't make much difference if I was. 404 00:25:31,740 --> 00:25:33,360 My camp's a good three miles from Grants. 405 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,700 Well, I'll be seeing you. Be careful, Paul. 406 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:37,440 Always am. 407 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,840 Now that the coroner's jury has been selected, there's something I'd like to 408 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:50,920 say. The county coroner and the sheriff, too, are attending a law enforcement 409 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:55,160 meeting in Salt Lake, so I've been delegated to take charge here, even if, 410 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,300 though, I'm only a sort of an honorary deputy coroner. It's my understanding 411 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:03,880 that a hearing like this is just to determine if the deceased James Madison 412 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,380 his death by accident or by intent. 413 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,880 And if by intent, the impairment is possible. 414 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:12,560 Person or persons responsible. 415 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:17,020 To that end, with the approval of Mr. Northridge, the assistant district 416 00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:21,520 attorney, and with Mr. Perry Mason, counsel for Mr. 417 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,620 Grant, we're going to hear a number of witnesses. 418 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:30,760 Pretending to have found the lost bowler mine, Mr. Drake, but why were you doing 419 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:31,760 that? 420 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,920 Two attempts had been made on Mr. Grant's life. 421 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:38,000 Someone who'd already found the bowler mine knew that Mr. 422 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,740 Grant had also found it and consequently wanted to eliminate him. 423 00:28:41,070 --> 00:28:44,870 So it was decided that I'd find it, too, which would make it pointless to kill 424 00:28:44,870 --> 00:28:45,549 Mr. Grant. 425 00:28:45,550 --> 00:28:48,170 Now, tell me what happened when you got back to camp that night. 426 00:28:48,430 --> 00:28:52,030 I just climbed out of my Jeep when three shots were fired. I took cover. 427 00:28:52,310 --> 00:28:54,590 Then I heard someone running away through the underbrush. 428 00:28:54,790 --> 00:28:57,530 I went to my tent and found Mr. Braddison dead. 429 00:28:58,210 --> 00:28:59,450 What time was this? 430 00:28:59,930 --> 00:29:01,810 Exactly 11 .34 by my wristwatch. 431 00:29:03,390 --> 00:29:04,410 What did you do next? 432 00:29:04,810 --> 00:29:07,390 Before I could do anything, Deputy Connors drove up and took over. 433 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,700 No, sir. The .30 -30 rifle lying by the body wasn't the one that fired the 434 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:13,140 shots. The barrel was cold. 435 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,500 But you did find the rifle that had fired the shots. 436 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,980 Yes, in the brush about 50 feet from camp. 437 00:29:19,460 --> 00:29:21,260 It was also a .30 -30. 438 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,440 Sandy Bowen's rifle with his name carved on the stock. 439 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,020 What else did you find that night, Deputy? 440 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,240 Mr. Grant about midway between the two camps. 441 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,540 We're approximately three miles apart. 442 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,280 What was Mr. Grant doing? 443 00:29:34,830 --> 00:29:37,430 Running hard towards his camp, so I took him into custody. 444 00:29:37,790 --> 00:29:41,750 You must answer, Mr. Bowen. Did you or did you not leave your rifle with Grant 445 00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:42,750 when you went into town? 446 00:29:43,930 --> 00:29:46,030 I, uh... I just remember. 447 00:29:47,210 --> 00:29:49,050 I might have, and I might have not. 448 00:29:49,370 --> 00:29:51,930 May I point out something to the witness, Mr. Shoots? 449 00:29:52,930 --> 00:29:58,190 Mr. Bowen, your lack of memory may well result with your being charged with the 450 00:29:58,190 --> 00:30:00,810 murder of James Braddison. How do you want that? Well, no. 451 00:30:01,470 --> 00:30:02,530 Me and Dan... 452 00:30:02,940 --> 00:30:04,480 Had a trouble, but we're friends. 453 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,860 So I hate to say this. 454 00:30:08,020 --> 00:30:09,240 I did leave the rifle. 455 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,180 Your memory seems to have returned most conveniently, Sandy. 456 00:30:16,020 --> 00:30:20,060 Perhaps now you can remember the previous night when you fired three 457 00:30:20,060 --> 00:30:22,580 the same rifle at Banning Grant from across the street. 458 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:27,260 But I didn't. I told you I was just driving into town when that happened. 459 00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:30,060 just approaching the Big Chance Mine when he had his fall there. 460 00:30:30,740 --> 00:30:32,140 Did you engineer that, too? 461 00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:34,380 Was that crosscut saw? 462 00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:37,320 That's your name carved on the handle, isn't it? 463 00:30:37,780 --> 00:30:38,780 Well, yes. 464 00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:41,400 All right, I did so on the ladder. 465 00:30:41,620 --> 00:30:42,800 But it wasn't to get banned. 466 00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:44,740 Who was it to get then? 467 00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:47,020 Too many fellas snooping around. 468 00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:49,540 I just wanted to discourage them. 469 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,800 Keep them from finding out I'd salted the mine before I sold it to the grant 470 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:54,800 company. 471 00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:58,620 Never occurred to me a smart old coot there like Ben wouldn't take a letter 472 00:30:58,620 --> 00:31:03,220 before we went down. After I told Mr. Grant about the man supposed to have 473 00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:07,680 the bowler mine, we talked for a few minutes and then I drove back to town. 474 00:31:08,940 --> 00:31:10,400 What time was all this? 475 00:31:11,340 --> 00:31:16,260 About 10 .30 when I left Mr. Grant and about 11 when I got back to town. 476 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,460 How was it, Mr. Summers, you were able to find Mr. Grant? 477 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,240 Go ahead. 478 00:31:26,179 --> 00:31:31,400 Well, I'd been helping Mr. Grant try to get back his company, giving him 479 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,400 information on the deals made by Mr. Branson. 480 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:38,720 So before he left town on the night he was shot at, he told me where he'd be in 481 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,720 case I wanted to reach him. 482 00:31:39,980 --> 00:31:43,820 And why were you, an employee of the company, helping Mr. Grant? 483 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,240 On account of the townspeople, Mr. Mason. 484 00:31:46,540 --> 00:31:48,700 Good friends being victimized. 485 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,140 And Mr. Grant their only hope. 486 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:57,080 Now, could it be that night you thought of a... A quicker way of helping your 487 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,160 friends? By killing Mr. Brattison, you mean? Oh, no. 488 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,340 You knew Mr. Grant had found the lost bowl of mine, didn't you? 489 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,200 Yes. And didn't he tell you that night in camp what Mr. Drake was doing and 490 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,800 where he was camped? Yes. 491 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,660 And didn't you then drive there and, finding Brattison already there, use 492 00:32:12,660 --> 00:32:16,140 opportunity to kill him? But I drove straight home, Mr. Mason. 493 00:32:16,460 --> 00:32:17,760 Straight back to town. 494 00:32:18,140 --> 00:32:19,140 And you proved that? 495 00:32:19,540 --> 00:32:20,760 No, but I did. 496 00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:23,380 I did. 497 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,740 Mr. Mason says I don't have to testify, but I want to tell my side. 498 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,040 First, about the rifle. 499 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,280 Maybe Sandy left it, but I didn't see it. 500 00:32:34,340 --> 00:32:36,420 Second, the business of being between the two camps. 501 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:41,300 After Summers left, I got to thinking maybe I shouldn't have told him what 502 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,580 was doing or where he was camped. 503 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:46,280 Supposed to be a secret between me and Sandy. 504 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:51,420 So I set out for the other camp to wait for Drake to come back from town. 505 00:32:52,110 --> 00:32:53,870 So I could tell him what I'd done. 506 00:32:54,290 --> 00:32:56,050 Just about there when I heard shots. 507 00:32:57,130 --> 00:32:59,530 Figured he's heading into trouble, so I turned around. 508 00:33:00,050 --> 00:33:02,710 And soon after that, Deputy Connors found you. 509 00:33:03,210 --> 00:33:05,910 Running because I didn't know who he was or what he was up to. 510 00:33:06,390 --> 00:33:07,390 And that's it. 511 00:33:07,690 --> 00:33:09,070 Not quite it, Mr. Grant. 512 00:33:09,850 --> 00:33:14,230 Since the lost boulder mine appears to be the important element in all this, I 513 00:33:14,230 --> 00:33:17,630 suggest you tell us where and on whose property the mine is located. 514 00:33:18,350 --> 00:33:19,350 No, sir. 515 00:33:19,710 --> 00:33:21,390 Bad minds are the folks here in town. 516 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,300 And nobody else is getting it. 517 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:24,840 Mr. Shoot. 518 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:29,080 That's not my province to make him talk if he doesn't want to. 519 00:33:29,660 --> 00:33:33,620 Seems like it's getting near lunchtime. Suppose we break off until two o 'clock. 520 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,740 Well, what comes to the mind, Mr. Grant, if anything happens to you? 521 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,600 You tell Sandy a mosquito will tell him where it is. 522 00:33:46,580 --> 00:33:47,860 You'll know what that means. 523 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,060 A little mosquito. 524 00:33:55,139 --> 00:33:57,500 Grant hadn't used the old asphalt road. 525 00:33:57,780 --> 00:34:01,640 His footprints would prove he never reached Drake's camp. Unfortunately, he 526 00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:07,100 As apparently did Brattison and anyone else who drove or walked there since no 527 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:09,100 tire tracks or footprints have been found. 528 00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:15,800 I'd say to a fair of the law doing legwork for you, Mr. Mason. 529 00:34:16,420 --> 00:34:18,739 I'm afraid what I have to report is of unhelp, Mr. Grant. 530 00:34:18,940 --> 00:34:20,440 All the ballistics tests are back. 531 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,500 And there's no doubt that Brattison was killed with Fanny Bowen's rifle. 532 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,719 And the shells Deputy Conner found across from the hotel, from the same 533 00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:29,920 No, they were fired from Brattison's rifle. 534 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,440 Which gives Grant a real first -class motive. 535 00:34:33,940 --> 00:34:35,199 Brattison trying to kill him. 536 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,139 The news I got's not so good either. 537 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,360 Somers is out as a suspect. 538 00:34:39,780 --> 00:34:40,638 How's that? 539 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,600 Well, in question, as you suggested, I found that when he drove out to see Mr. 540 00:34:44,780 --> 00:34:48,179 Grant, he picked up his jalopy at the local garage where he'd just been 541 00:34:48,179 --> 00:34:49,179 with oil. 542 00:34:49,739 --> 00:34:53,239 The speedometer reads 94 ,368 now. 543 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:59,480 And according to the garage records, it read 94 ,337 when the servicing was 544 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,480 done. That means he only drove 31 miles. 545 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:05,960 Enough to take him to and from Bowen's camp. 546 00:35:06,580 --> 00:35:08,880 But not enough for the detour to the other camp. 547 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,980 He came straight back to town like he said. 548 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,280 Could he have done something to the speedometer? 549 00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:18,100 What hasn't been tampered with is... 550 00:35:18,410 --> 00:35:20,210 Rust all over a quarter -inch thick. 551 00:35:26,470 --> 00:35:29,870 Good or bad news, Paul? Well, two of your hunches were right, but whether 552 00:35:29,870 --> 00:35:30,870 good or bad, I wouldn't know. 553 00:35:34,050 --> 00:35:35,770 I want to see when the inquest resumes. 554 00:35:36,070 --> 00:35:37,070 Many thanks. 555 00:35:41,010 --> 00:35:44,470 Madison first tries to meet Grant, a company director, and then shoots him. 556 00:35:46,090 --> 00:35:47,090 Doesn't make sense. 557 00:35:47,370 --> 00:35:49,870 Could he have learned the whereabouts of the Boulder mine in between? 558 00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:53,270 We might help answer that, Della, if we could find the mine ourselves. 559 00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:55,250 Let's try. 560 00:35:55,830 --> 00:35:57,570 We still have an hour and a half left. 561 00:35:57,990 --> 00:36:02,670 Perry, that mine's been lost for 90 years. How do you expect to find it in 562 00:36:02,670 --> 00:36:03,670 hour and a half? 563 00:36:04,730 --> 00:36:05,730 What is this, Paul? 564 00:36:06,370 --> 00:36:07,670 Mr. Grant's little mosquito. 565 00:36:23,660 --> 00:36:24,800 This is the big chance mine. 566 00:36:25,020 --> 00:36:27,700 The one Sandy sold us. The poor mine can't be here. 567 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:30,400 No, but this is where Mr. Grant was going the day he fell. 568 00:36:30,780 --> 00:36:32,360 The day Sandy rescued him. 569 00:36:32,820 --> 00:36:33,820 All right, Paul. 570 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,380 Let's get going on that ladder. 571 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,200 How dark. 572 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:42,980 It wouldn't affect street light. 573 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,340 While I move this around, keep your eyes open. All right. 574 00:37:05,260 --> 00:37:06,238 What is it? 575 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,960 What we're looking for, I think. 576 00:37:12,460 --> 00:37:17,520 The arrow must point to the starting point, which would be the mine shaft to 577 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,520 build it. 578 00:37:19,020 --> 00:37:22,280 I'm pointing in a direction about 15 degrees east of due north. 579 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:24,480 If up means north, as it should. 580 00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:26,540 And the cross at the top? 581 00:37:27,540 --> 00:37:28,540 El Dorado. 582 00:37:29,940 --> 00:37:31,400 Lost bull in mine, Della. 583 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,120 Still on the right variant, Paul? Yep. 584 00:37:41,620 --> 00:37:45,220 Has it occurred to either of you that the cross could be five or five hundred 585 00:37:45,220 --> 00:37:47,480 miles from here, for all I told you down in the mine? 586 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,560 It has to be on the Big Chance property, Della. Mr. Grant told us that. He also 587 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,920 told... There. 588 00:37:57,260 --> 00:38:00,720 That could be the brush hiding the coyote shaft, as Mr. Grant described it. 589 00:38:07,460 --> 00:38:08,460 Hold it there! 590 00:38:11,050 --> 00:38:13,270 Mr. Mason, how'd you get here? 591 00:38:13,630 --> 00:38:15,330 I can think of a better question, Sandy. 592 00:38:16,050 --> 00:38:17,050 How did you get here? 593 00:38:20,930 --> 00:38:24,030 Sandy, I'd like to show you three objects. 594 00:38:24,490 --> 00:38:25,950 One is your crosscut saw. 595 00:38:26,710 --> 00:38:27,790 One is your rifle. 596 00:38:29,250 --> 00:38:33,370 And the third is the old single -action colt Mr. Grant found in the bowl of 597 00:38:33,370 --> 00:38:35,430 chaff. Now, do you see anything similar about them? 598 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,800 I don't know what you mean, Mr. Mason. I mean the B in Bowen on this, the B in 599 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,120 Bowen on this, and the B in Bowler on this. 600 00:38:43,620 --> 00:38:46,120 All quite obviously carved by the same hand. 601 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:47,680 Your hand, Sandy. 602 00:38:48,220 --> 00:38:49,220 Oh, yes. 603 00:38:49,380 --> 00:38:50,580 I carved them all. 604 00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:54,460 So then this revolver never did belong to Bowler. 605 00:38:55,660 --> 00:39:00,500 Nope. And like the arrows and the old buckskin poke was planted by you on the 606 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:01,500 Big Chance property. 607 00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:06,050 Yep. Why, you swindling old... Hold on a minute, Ben. 608 00:39:06,870 --> 00:39:09,070 Does this mean the bowler mine hasn't been found? 609 00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:11,230 That's right. 610 00:39:11,270 --> 00:39:13,410 Why did you pull a stunt like that, Sandy? 611 00:39:14,390 --> 00:39:20,070 Well, my old friend Ben Grant was always nosing around for proof that I'd sold 612 00:39:20,070 --> 00:39:23,030 the Big Chance property before sold it to Gladys. 613 00:39:23,970 --> 00:39:29,430 So I decided to sell it again, figuring if he thought the bowler mine also was 614 00:39:29,430 --> 00:39:32,630 on the property that any suit against me would be called off. 615 00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:35,890 Sure worked that way, didn't it, Dan? 616 00:39:36,170 --> 00:39:39,510 Grant certainly didn't tell Brattison where Drake's camp was, and neither did 617 00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:40,510 Sandy Bowen. 618 00:39:40,810 --> 00:39:42,430 So that leaves you, Mr. Summers. 619 00:39:43,090 --> 00:39:45,450 Now, when did you tell Brattison? When you got back to town? 620 00:39:45,930 --> 00:39:51,390 Yes. He had found out about me helping Mr. Grant and was waiting for me with 621 00:39:51,390 --> 00:39:55,230 rifle. So it was either tell him or get shot, Mr. Mason. 622 00:39:55,650 --> 00:39:57,590 Did he say then that he was going out there? 623 00:39:58,590 --> 00:39:59,590 He just went away. 624 00:39:59,930 --> 00:40:01,110 Jim didn't tell me. 625 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:03,920 I never even saw him that night. 626 00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:06,480 He told you about shooting at Mr. Grant, didn't he? 627 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:08,240 Yes. 628 00:40:08,340 --> 00:40:11,660 But he wasn't trying to kill him. He just wanted to frighten him so he would 629 00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:13,560 come to terms with us on his new find. 630 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:18,920 If your husband told you about that, Mrs. Braddison, he certainly would have 631 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,100 told you about Mr. Paul Drake. 632 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,280 But I didn't see Jim that night. 633 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:26,720 But I think you did. 634 00:40:27,230 --> 00:40:30,270 When he told you he was going out to force Drake at gunpoint to reveal what 635 00:40:30,270 --> 00:40:31,910 knew about the bowler mine, you followed. 636 00:40:32,850 --> 00:40:33,990 But I didn't. 637 00:40:35,250 --> 00:40:36,270 Hayward, tell him. 638 00:40:37,250 --> 00:40:38,250 Tell him. 639 00:40:39,510 --> 00:40:41,390 All we did was try to follow Drake. 640 00:40:42,010 --> 00:40:43,450 Like everybody else in town. 641 00:40:44,270 --> 00:40:46,570 And like everybody else, we lost him. 642 00:40:46,790 --> 00:40:52,830 Mr. Small, the records of the Bank of Indio show a safety deposit vault shared 643 00:40:52,830 --> 00:40:54,410 by you and James Brattison. 644 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,200 Then I'm quite sure when it's opened by the inheritance tax appraiser, it will 645 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:03,060 be found that it contains some $200 ,000 obtained by bilking the Grant Company 646 00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:04,740 through fraudulent mining operations. 647 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,560 Now, did you think killing Brattison, perhaps with the connivance of his wife, 648 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,220 would give you sole possession of that money? 649 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:12,520 No, it wouldn't. 650 00:41:13,020 --> 00:41:14,860 Because Moff gets in on the deal, too. 651 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,440 And he'd never let me get away with it. 652 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,080 I'm not about to testify here. 653 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,840 But in case you have an idea that I killed Brattison, let me straighten you 654 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:27,840 on something. 655 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,360 Brattison never forced Summers to tell him where Drake's camp was. 656 00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:32,620 How do you know that? 657 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:33,720 On two counts. 658 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,000 First, he didn't have to. 659 00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:39,860 Brattison found out Summers had been juggling the company's books for years. 660 00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:44,560 Little sums, but enough to send him to prison. So he had him under his thumb. 661 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,320 And the other count? 662 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,760 I was the only one who didn't take out after Drake. 663 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,440 As a result, I was in town when Summers came in. 664 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,740 Not at 11, as he said, but at 12 .15. 665 00:42:00,660 --> 00:42:02,100 12 .15, Mr. Summers? 666 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:08,240 That means you must have met Braddison long before getting back to town. 667 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:11,540 Now, did he wait down the road in his car while you talked to Mr. Grant? 668 00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:16,420 No. And when you came and told him where Drake was camped, did he send you on 669 00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:17,420 home? No. 670 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,280 But instead of going back to town, you followed him, didn't you? 671 00:42:21,540 --> 00:42:26,360 No. Three miles there and three miles back. Why, I couldn't have walked it in 672 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:27,900 hours. You had your car. 673 00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:29,960 Yes, but the speedometer. 674 00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:31,340 31 miles. 675 00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:35,240 Just enough to drive to Mr. Grant's camp and back. Now, you can't get around 676 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:36,600 that. Oh, but I can. 677 00:42:37,260 --> 00:42:39,120 By remembering the same thing you did. 678 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:43,400 That speedometers on some cars of the vintage of yours take off mileage in 679 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,400 reverse. 680 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:45,840 Driving backwards, you mean? 681 00:42:46,190 --> 00:42:50,470 No, no, I couldn't. I couldn't have backed up six miles in so short a time. 682 00:42:50,830 --> 00:42:51,990 Not at night. 683 00:42:52,270 --> 00:42:56,890 You could have driven six feet or six miles, day or night, simply by propping 684 00:42:56,890 --> 00:42:58,170 the rear wheels, Mr. Summers. 685 00:42:58,670 --> 00:43:01,370 Letting the engine turn them and the speedometer backwards. 686 00:43:01,710 --> 00:43:02,710 What? 687 00:43:06,130 --> 00:43:07,130 Recognize this? 688 00:43:10,090 --> 00:43:11,370 My car jack. 689 00:43:11,690 --> 00:43:12,690 Yes. 690 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,340 I finally figured out one thing. 691 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:31,720 What's that, Della? 692 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,300 How you knew Paul was in no danger. 693 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:40,860 You mean the close grouping of bullet holes in Mr. Grant's window, fired by an 694 00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:43,940 excellent marksman who obviously wanted to frighten but not to kill. 695 00:43:44,860 --> 00:43:46,660 There's one thing I can't understand, though. 696 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:52,140 Why Mr. Grant put his map, if you can call it that, to the Bowler Mine in the 697 00:43:52,140 --> 00:43:53,140 Big Chance Mine? 698 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,360 Well, right after he made his discovery, someone started to follow him. 699 00:43:56,730 --> 00:44:00,290 It was Sandy, of course, but Mr. Grant didn't know that, so he ducked into the 700 00:44:00,290 --> 00:44:01,288 big chance. 701 00:44:01,290 --> 00:44:04,090 And rather than putting the directions on paper, which could have been taken 702 00:44:04,090 --> 00:44:06,330 from him, he put them on the mine shaft. 703 00:44:06,950 --> 00:44:10,210 And was going back to look at them when he had his fall. 704 00:44:11,410 --> 00:44:14,390 Well, I found out that he'd bought a new mosquito to replace the one that was 705 00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:17,090 broken in the fall, the one you, Della, heard the night of the hotel shooting. 706 00:44:17,430 --> 00:44:18,910 You began to suspect what it was for. 707 00:44:19,190 --> 00:44:20,190 That's right. 708 00:44:20,490 --> 00:44:22,010 One thing still puzzles me. 709 00:44:22,310 --> 00:44:23,590 What was Summer's real motive? 710 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:27,120 He claims it was for the townspeople who now get their dividend. 711 00:44:27,980 --> 00:44:31,080 But I think that Braddison threatening him with prison had a good deal more to 712 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,080 do with it. 713 00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:35,780 Well, I guess that kind of wraps it up. Get in. At least I can take you back as 714 00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:36,780 far as Gold Gulch. 715 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:40,100 As far as Gold Gulch? Don't tell me you're going to stay there. 716 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,160 Yeah, I might. 717 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,040 I'm kind of thinking of going into the mining business. 718 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,380 This morning, Sandy Bowen showed me a mine he had for sale. 719 00:44:47,740 --> 00:44:49,380 Gold is lying around all over the place.