1 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,260 Salinas, five minutes. 2 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,160 Ellen! 3 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:14,600 Ellen, come back here. I did what I had to and you've got to go along with me. 4 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,000 No N -O. That's my answer and it's not going to change. 5 00:01:18,340 --> 00:01:19,340 Ellen, come back here. 6 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:25,600 Bert, you scream at Ellen. She never hears you. It's not Bert, it's Mr. 7 00:01:25,620 --> 00:01:27,800 It's not Ellen, it's Mrs. Payne. And butt out of my business. 8 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,260 Bert, I know better than you, Ellen. 9 00:01:31,310 --> 00:01:36,330 You know, I promised myself that sometime, somehow, I'd eat breakfast to 10 00:01:36,330 --> 00:01:37,330 scrimmage. 11 00:01:37,590 --> 00:01:42,910 Or hit the road. Or get plastered without you hanging over me or 12 00:01:42,910 --> 00:01:43,910 my wife. 13 00:01:49,650 --> 00:01:51,250 Oh, Unc, have you got a dime? 14 00:01:51,910 --> 00:01:52,910 Yes. 15 00:01:54,170 --> 00:01:55,170 Thank you. 16 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:18,300 Operator, this is urgent. 17 00:02:18,740 --> 00:02:23,440 I want to make a collect call to a Mr. Perry Mason at his residence in Los 18 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:24,440 Angeles. 19 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,180 Ellen, there is not much time. 20 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,520 Five after 11. 21 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,800 Train leaves in a few minutes. 22 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:31,340 This is the supervisor. 23 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:34,660 I'm sorry we're not permitted to give out unlisted numbers. 24 00:02:35,260 --> 00:02:37,020 But, operator, this is an emergency. 25 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,400 If you'll give me your name and number, I'll try to contact Mr. Mason and have 26 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,400 him call you back. 27 00:02:42,860 --> 00:02:45,220 I'm Mrs. Burt Payne, Ellen Payne. 28 00:02:46,780 --> 00:02:50,840 Operator, I'm in a train station in Salinas. There's no time for him to call 29 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,320 back. I'll try to reach Mr. Mason and see if he'll speak with you. 30 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,520 No more time. 31 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:02,920 All aboard for Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Surf, Santa Barbara, Ventura, 32 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:06,780 Oxford, Glendale, and Los Angeles. 33 00:03:07,660 --> 00:03:09,100 All aboard! 34 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:18,800 Mr. Mason will speak with you. 35 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 Hello, Ellen. 36 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:22,680 Ellen? 37 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:25,900 Ellen? 38 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,320 Mel? 39 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,180 Well, how about that? 40 00:03:33,820 --> 00:03:35,140 Real Wildcats. 41 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,520 Judd, take a look at the team that's leading the league. 42 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Wildcats? 43 00:03:44,580 --> 00:03:46,240 You're a bunch of pussycats. 44 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,580 Tame, purring, milk -drinking pussycats. 45 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,200 That'll give you an idea of what the rest of the league is like, if these 46 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,200 can head the league. 47 00:03:58,020 --> 00:04:03,920 Bert, old buddy, why don't you make everybody all goose -pimply happy and 48 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:04,920 drop dead? 49 00:04:06,340 --> 00:04:07,920 Ha, ha, ha. 50 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,820 Two platoon powder puffs. 51 00:04:12,809 --> 00:04:16,329 Back when I used to play ball, we used to go out there and we busted our head 52 00:04:16,329 --> 00:04:17,649 and our guts for 60 minutes. 53 00:04:18,870 --> 00:04:21,130 We had a coach that'd get us so fired up. 54 00:04:22,050 --> 00:04:23,050 We're gone, coach. 55 00:04:24,430 --> 00:04:25,870 Haven't hit a soft spot, have I? 56 00:04:26,230 --> 00:04:29,190 You know, the only reason I don't toss you through that window is because it... 57 00:04:29,190 --> 00:04:32,190 Heaven help me, I feel sorry for you. 58 00:04:32,570 --> 00:04:36,710 You and your whole team of pussycats couldn't make one man big enough to take 59 00:04:36,710 --> 00:04:38,290 on. You make me sick. 60 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,400 You've been sick of her since 1940 when they took away your football uniform. 61 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,320 Nothing's going to get you well either unless somebody can make you 25 years 62 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,440 younger. Give you some muscle to take the place of that lard. Maybe get a 63 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,760 to send up a cheer for good old pile driver Payne. 64 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:54,320 You shut up. 65 00:04:55,820 --> 00:04:57,920 Don't make the mistake of swinging at me, Bert. 66 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,020 I'm younger than Unc and I'm bigger than Andy and I got a lot less patience than 67 00:05:02,020 --> 00:05:02,979 your wife. 68 00:05:02,980 --> 00:05:05,020 You really are a sorry slob. 69 00:05:05,340 --> 00:05:07,720 For Ellen's sake, I hope somebody puts you out of your misery. 70 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,440 My wife mailed me for a PTA meeting tonight. 71 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:13,700 You lucked out. 72 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:14,800 You know it. Hi, Ellen. 73 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:17,380 Oh, come on in. Doctor, may I see you for a minute, please? 74 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:18,860 Sure. 75 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:25,340 Doctor, I've never willingly taken a pill in my life. 76 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:26,880 I'm just exhausted. 77 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:29,280 I'll give you something that'll help you sleep. 78 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,700 Now, you take two of these tonight. 79 00:05:32,260 --> 00:05:35,060 If you need them next week before the game, try one at bedtime. 80 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:36,820 Don't worry about them. I'll use them. 81 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:38,680 Thank you very much. 82 00:05:47,340 --> 00:05:48,900 I'm looking for Bert. Is he around? 83 00:05:50,780 --> 00:05:52,760 He's in the lounge car, lapping it up. Where else? 84 00:05:53,660 --> 00:05:55,840 Right now, Casey, he's over his head in trouble. 85 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:58,180 Makes his own trouble. 86 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:03,420 Ellen, look, I'm the coach of the Wildcats. I can make myself taken when 87 00:06:03,420 --> 00:06:05,640 sits on the bench and tells me what plays to run next. 88 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,980 I can make myself taken when he books train instead of plane reservations and 89 00:06:09,980 --> 00:06:15,080 only tells us the last minute, but I... I can't make myself taken when he treats 90 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,200 you... Please, Casey. 91 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,080 You have to know how I feel about you. Not now. 92 00:06:19,780 --> 00:06:20,780 Ellen, honey. 93 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,200 I've been wanting to talk to you. 94 00:06:24,140 --> 00:06:28,580 If Casey don't mind, I'd be obliged if you'd give me maybe five minutes. 95 00:06:30,620 --> 00:06:33,240 Andy, you could talk Notre Dame into kicking on first down. 96 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:35,600 I'll meet you in the lounge. 97 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,300 Oh, and Casey, it's going to be all right. 98 00:06:39,220 --> 00:06:43,660 It's taken me a long time, but I know what I have to do now. 99 00:06:44,260 --> 00:06:45,840 And I made up my mind to do it. 100 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:51,280 Listen, honey. 101 00:06:51,940 --> 00:06:55,100 You and me, we've been catfishing partners for a long time, ain't we? 102 00:06:55,860 --> 00:06:56,860 Our deal. 103 00:06:57,180 --> 00:06:58,240 I'll drink to that. 104 00:06:58,460 --> 00:06:59,900 And practically anything else. 105 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:03,680 Hey, Ski. 106 00:07:07,580 --> 00:07:09,220 Ski, do you know my old fight song? 107 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,160 No, I don't, Mr. Payne. Ski, I'm going to teach you. 108 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:23,600 Around the field our team is marching, forward to the prey. 109 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:32,440 Victory to our alma mater, cheer the blue and gray. 110 00:07:33,540 --> 00:07:37,540 I'm no cop no more, Ellen. You know, I was 50 when I got married, and that was 111 00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:39,240 nine years and five kids ago. 112 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,620 And I ain't saved 40 cents. 113 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,120 I don't know what I'm going to do. 114 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,800 Andy Bird's not going to fire you. 115 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:48,580 That's the liquor talking. 116 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:52,840 No, he says he's made up his mind. When we get to Los Angeles, he's going to 117 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,420 drop me like a hot potato. 118 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,000 He can't. 119 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,700 Down the field our team is marching. 120 00:08:01,660 --> 00:08:04,620 Forward to the fray. 121 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,620 Victory to our alma mater. 122 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,260 Cheer the blue... 123 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:18,360 Everybody sings. 124 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,740 Down the field our team is marching. 125 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:31,360 Forward to the... What's the matter? 126 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:33,960 Can't you sing? 127 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,820 Oh, you're pros. 128 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,700 Spirit doesn't count, huh? 129 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,080 All you're interested in is a buck. 130 00:08:49,890 --> 00:08:52,070 Casey, would you and Aunt get him to bed, please? 131 00:08:58,770 --> 00:09:00,670 You and me have to talk, partner. 132 00:09:06,770 --> 00:09:10,350 Casey, get him to take these. 133 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,580 Your husband tell you why I'm here? 134 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:32,620 He didn't have to. 135 00:09:33,060 --> 00:09:36,520 When I received this telegram from league headquarters saying that somebody 136 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,660 wanted to buy 10 % of my team, I knew who it was. 137 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,320 That you were still after Bert's interests. 138 00:09:43,700 --> 00:09:44,700 No, not me. 139 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,500 The man I work for. 140 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,280 Harvey Scheme. 141 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,680 I have always made it plain that I'd never sell. 142 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,460 And I'd never approve of Bert selling his 10%. So why are you here? 143 00:09:55,860 --> 00:09:57,740 You haven't changed your mind? 144 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,240 Well, why should I? 145 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:04,300 That lousy, no -good, four -flushing... Wait a minute. 146 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,280 You mean Bert told you I had changed my mind? 147 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:11,020 That I approved of him selling out to you? 148 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,640 He got me to stick my neck out ten miles with Harvey Skeen. 149 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,860 I even brought the money in cash like he wanted. 150 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:21,280 You just don't do that with Harvey. 151 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,340 One goof like this and... What are you going to do? 152 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:27,060 I'm going to get to that drunken slob you call a husband. 153 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,200 Before they can get those pills down him. 154 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,460 I'll get some straight answers if I have to shake his head off. 155 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,900 Oh, and you can be sure of one thing, Mrs. Payne. 156 00:10:36,780 --> 00:10:38,600 Bert is going to pay for this. 157 00:10:39,140 --> 00:10:40,140 Not me. 158 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:12,960 Says he's a friend of yours. 159 00:11:13,420 --> 00:11:14,420 Good morning, Steve. 160 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,560 Have you covering fires now? 161 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,760 Well, I could ask you the same question, Perry. 162 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,960 You know the deceased? 163 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,240 The deceased? 164 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,560 Who? Where's Mrs. Payne? 165 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,440 No, it's not Mrs. Payne. It's her husband. 166 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,820 She's standing over there, taking it pretty well, considering this is a 167 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:30,820 mess. 168 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,540 They told me at the L .A. station there'd been a fire. That's all. 169 00:11:35,980 --> 00:11:38,840 Well, it seems the train was five minutes out of Glendale. All at once, 170 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,440 was a big flash, and the whole drawing room went up in flames. 171 00:11:42,260 --> 00:11:45,860 Stopped the train, put out the fire, they went in, found him. 172 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:48,920 Accident? Could be. A little too early to know for sure. 173 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,000 Some kind of a chemical fire. 174 00:11:51,340 --> 00:11:52,820 Was that the extent of it? 175 00:11:53,140 --> 00:11:57,180 No. Found that in addition to Mrs. Payne's dead husband, there was a 176 00:11:57,180 --> 00:12:02,460 passenger. It may mean something, it may not. He's Judson Warner, age 40, 45, 177 00:12:02,740 --> 00:12:04,360 black hair. I've got an APP out for him. 178 00:12:04,780 --> 00:12:07,060 Finished with the pictures. Ready to wrap it up here, Lieutenant. 179 00:12:07,380 --> 00:12:08,880 Listen, I think I'll take one more look. 180 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:10,479 Mind, Steve? 181 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:11,480 Sure, come on. 182 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,440 The fire inspector said it went up like that. 183 00:12:22,460 --> 00:12:24,480 Where was the corpse? In the lower bunk. 184 00:12:25,220 --> 00:12:28,920 From what we can piece together, Perry, the victim must have been drunk last 185 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,880 night. He could have dropped a cigarette on the chemical. 186 00:12:31,260 --> 00:12:33,660 His jewelry, cufflinks, tie clasp. 187 00:12:33,950 --> 00:12:36,690 The belt buckle was protected to some extent by his body. 188 00:12:37,610 --> 00:12:38,850 All found was the remains. 189 00:12:39,330 --> 00:12:41,310 What little there was has gone to the moor. 190 00:12:42,730 --> 00:12:45,090 The chemical fire caused the primary damage. 191 00:12:45,330 --> 00:12:48,610 I don't know for sure how much loss or displacement was made by the high 192 00:12:48,610 --> 00:12:49,610 -pressure hoses. 193 00:12:49,630 --> 00:12:54,290 But for all practical purposes, all we have to work with is the personalized 194 00:12:54,290 --> 00:12:55,290 jewelry. 195 00:12:55,510 --> 00:12:59,010 Well, why would anyone keep flammable chemicals in the drawing room? 196 00:12:59,790 --> 00:13:00,790 I don't know. 197 00:13:01,570 --> 00:13:02,590 I'm going to find out. 198 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,100 Perry, two weeks ago, I never heard of Judson Warner. 199 00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:08,080 What happened two weeks ago? 200 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:11,880 Well, that's when the phone calls started coming. 201 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,780 At first, my secretary took them. 202 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,580 Then he began making threats. 203 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,100 So I agreed to talk to him. 204 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:21,500 What kind of threats? 205 00:13:21,820 --> 00:13:26,400 He said that Burt was in some kind of difficulties, that damaging publicity 206 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,540 could attract the attention of the league and... Well, that's when I should 207 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:32,540 called you. 208 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:35,180 There's no point in worrying about what you should have done, Ellen. 209 00:13:36,380 --> 00:13:40,040 Just give me the essence of what he told you. He said he represented 210 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:41,540 international enterprises. 211 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,540 That Bert wanted to sell his 10 % interest of the Wildcats to them. 212 00:13:47,740 --> 00:13:49,720 That they had made a down payment. 213 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:53,700 But Bert couldn't dispose of his interest without your approval. 214 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,480 And I told Warner that I wouldn't agree to it under any circumstances. 215 00:13:58,260 --> 00:14:00,680 Then why did Warner show up in the train last night? 216 00:14:01,260 --> 00:14:05,320 He said that Bert had assured him I had changed my mind. That I would agree to 217 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,240 him selling his interest to Harvey Skeen. 218 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,260 He even brought the cash to pay Bert. 219 00:14:10,820 --> 00:14:14,100 Your husband must have realized Judd Warner would want it confirmed by you. 220 00:14:15,540 --> 00:14:19,040 So, how could he have hoped to complete the deal? 221 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:20,560 I don't know. 222 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,640 Bert was... Well, I guess he just hadn't figured it out that far ahead. 223 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,380 Maybe that's why Bert got so drunk, because I wouldn't go along with him. 224 00:14:31,660 --> 00:14:33,040 In a way, that killed him. 225 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:36,620 In a way, I was responsible. 226 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,780 Perry, she's on the ragged edge. She should rest. 227 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,260 Ellen. You didn't know Bert when we were in college. 228 00:14:55,660 --> 00:14:58,020 Before the gambling, before the drinking. 229 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,420 Before he got to be a rich woman's husband. 230 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,660 I understand what you're going through, Ellen. 231 00:15:05,340 --> 00:15:06,440 I'll talk with you tomorrow. 232 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,240 Thank you, Perry. 233 00:15:10,380 --> 00:15:15,000 Oh, like you said last week, I clean up your father's workshop. 234 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,700 Mr. Mason, I know a long time. He's friend of your father. 235 00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:21,300 Yes. Oh, one thing more. 236 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,020 Did Lieutenant Drum ask you if you knew Judson Warner prior to last night? 237 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:29,360 No. Well, just remember that he will. 238 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:31,100 I'll show you out. 239 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,760 Remember, Ellen, it's the rent. 240 00:15:51,460 --> 00:15:52,460 Yes. 241 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:54,920 Yes, they just left. 242 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,000 All right, can we be alone? 243 00:16:15,950 --> 00:16:18,450 Looks like I'm keeping just one step ahead of you today. 244 00:16:19,550 --> 00:16:21,610 That's the way it looks. A coincidence, of course. 245 00:16:21,870 --> 00:16:22,870 Of course. 246 00:16:23,730 --> 00:16:25,510 I'm here on business for one of my clients. 247 00:16:26,050 --> 00:16:27,050 I'm sure you are. 248 00:16:27,670 --> 00:16:30,090 And I'm sure you'll find it all very interesting. 249 00:16:31,490 --> 00:16:32,490 I have. 250 00:16:39,170 --> 00:16:42,470 I'd like to see Mr. Judson Warner, please. My name is Mason, Perry Mason. 251 00:16:42,910 --> 00:16:45,330 Mr. Skeen is taking all of Mr. Warner's calls. 252 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:46,720 But did you check Vegas? 253 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:50,520 How do you know, you idiot? 254 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,080 When he gets there, I want to know it. 255 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:55,520 Before the police do. 256 00:16:57,620 --> 00:16:58,620 Moron. 257 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,700 Yes? Mr. Perry Mason for Mr. Warner. 258 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:06,319 Send him in. 259 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:07,880 Mr. Mason? 260 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:10,339 Yes? Mr. Skeen will see you now. 261 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,280 Thank you. 262 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,140 My name is Mason. I'm an attorney. 263 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:29,680 I know that. 264 00:17:30,460 --> 00:17:31,460 State your business. 265 00:17:31,580 --> 00:17:32,680 I'm a very busy man. 266 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,060 I'll give you five minutes. 267 00:17:35,260 --> 00:17:36,260 No more. 268 00:17:39,140 --> 00:17:40,380 Good morning, Mr. Skeen. 269 00:17:41,220 --> 00:17:43,200 Uh, what is your beef? 270 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,920 I have no intention of being timed like a three -minute egg. 271 00:17:48,220 --> 00:17:50,000 All right, Mason. What do you want? 272 00:17:51,860 --> 00:17:54,560 I'm interested in what you want. 273 00:17:55,379 --> 00:17:56,379 The Wildcats. 274 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,440 Sit down, Mr. Mason. 275 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,800 Tell me, do you represent the Wildcat organization? 276 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,120 That's not Shadowbox, Mr. Skeen. 277 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,280 I think we can acknowledge that the sparring is a draw and go on from there. 278 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:17,420 represent Ms. Burt Payne. 279 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,640 Ah, and you already know there's a matter of two, maybe $300 ,000 I expect 280 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:22,640 recover. Mr. Skeen. 281 00:18:23,370 --> 00:18:26,710 How well did you know Burt Payne? Well enough to dislike him. 282 00:18:27,310 --> 00:18:30,430 When did you first approach him about the possible sale of his interest in the 283 00:18:30,430 --> 00:18:31,990 team? Well, he approached me. 284 00:18:32,470 --> 00:18:35,550 A mutual friend brought him around about five or six weeks ago. 285 00:18:36,590 --> 00:18:40,090 Payne had dropped over $200 ,000 and the boys were getting tough on him. He 286 00:18:40,090 --> 00:18:41,090 needed money. 287 00:18:41,150 --> 00:18:42,150 Big money. 288 00:18:42,530 --> 00:18:46,270 You're not going to tell me you handed him $200 ,000 when you knew he had to 289 00:18:46,270 --> 00:18:47,270 have his wife's approval. 290 00:18:47,830 --> 00:18:50,810 And that every owner in the league would have to agree to the sale. 291 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,500 You're not going to tell me you trusted a perfect stranger. 292 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,360 I wouldn't have trusted Bird Payne with a $2 bet. 293 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,000 But I was willing to take my chances for league approval. 294 00:19:01,420 --> 00:19:02,740 What about his wife's approval? 295 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:07,600 Bird agreed to deliver that if Judd Warner could deliver an additional $100 296 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,020 to him in cash last night. 297 00:19:09,340 --> 00:19:12,180 Did you hear from him in person or only through Warner? 298 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:13,500 Yeah, I saw that. 299 00:19:14,860 --> 00:19:16,280 I got it from Judd. 300 00:19:20,270 --> 00:19:25,430 You don't expect to recover $200 ,000 in cash from my client on the basis of 301 00:19:25,430 --> 00:19:26,430 what you've told me. 302 00:19:26,590 --> 00:19:30,490 I have a contract, Mr. Mason, signed and notarized. 303 00:19:31,690 --> 00:19:35,530 Bergpain agreed that if he failed to get his wife's okay, or if I failed to get 304 00:19:35,530 --> 00:19:40,710 league approval, he would pay a 20 % penalty and return the down payment. 305 00:19:42,370 --> 00:19:44,110 I'll admit that's not a bad bargain. 306 00:19:44,410 --> 00:19:46,930 I don't make bad bargains, Mr. Mason. 307 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,000 Unless the police find Judson Warner, you have made one. 308 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,480 Or are you as anxious as I am to have the police find him? 309 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,740 Give yourself five minutes, Mr. Skeen. 310 00:19:58,060 --> 00:19:59,060 Think about that. 311 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,300 Get me Andy Grant. 312 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,420 Harvey Skeen started as a hod carrier. 313 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,080 He built an international business doing $45 million a year gross. 314 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,780 He's a tough customer, Perry, but his record's clean. 315 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:23,940 Anything on Judson Warner? 316 00:20:24,220 --> 00:20:27,580 Yeah, he's Skeen's manager for sports acquisitions. 317 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,880 He makes $40 ,000 a year and spends $50 ,000. He's a hawk up to his ears. He 318 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,920 spends a lot of time in Vegas, and the ladies love him. 319 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,140 Henry, I... Mr. Mason, they take her away. 320 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,460 Ellen! The police, they come to the practice field and they won't talk to 321 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,420 They won't talk to coach. They won't talk to nobody. 322 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:45,700 All right, Hunk. 323 00:20:46,420 --> 00:20:47,420 Now settle down. 324 00:20:50,060 --> 00:20:52,380 Now what was she doing at the practice field? 325 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:53,880 She won't say nothing. 326 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,340 She's frightened like a little girl. 327 00:20:56,700 --> 00:21:00,120 And so I say to her what they are going to do to her. 328 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:01,980 She just shake her head. 329 00:21:02,420 --> 00:21:05,500 And I stand in front of car so she can't go away. 330 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,500 And the police tell me that... 331 00:21:08,010 --> 00:21:09,010 Ellen Kilburg. 332 00:21:14,810 --> 00:21:15,810 No. 333 00:21:16,130 --> 00:21:18,190 Then why are you behaving as if you did? 334 00:21:19,090 --> 00:21:23,310 Why is the district attorney giving me information I'm unable to get from you? 335 00:21:24,090 --> 00:21:25,910 Perry, I've told you everything. 336 00:21:26,130 --> 00:21:27,670 Don't lie to me. I'm not lying. 337 00:21:27,950 --> 00:21:31,490 Why was it you could hardly wait for me to leave your home before you drove to 338 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:32,490 the practice field? 339 00:21:32,730 --> 00:21:36,950 Well, Casey wanted to talk to... 340 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,820 To figure out a plan. 341 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,240 An alibi? 342 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,300 A lie the two of you could agree on? 343 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,160 He only wanted to help. 344 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:48,240 I didn't go along with him. 345 00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:52,880 You must have a better explanation than that for your relationship with Judson 346 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,720 Warner. There was no relationship. 347 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,780 The district attorney thinks there was. 348 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:02,900 He can prove you were together with Warner in a motel a few days before the 349 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:03,900 murder. I checked. 350 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,520 And the police already have their answer. 351 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,080 You went there to meet with your husband's killer. 352 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,320 That's not true. 353 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,840 I went there because Judd Warner insisted. 354 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,080 Unless I agreed to meet him there, he threatened to go to the league, make a 355 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,080 scandal in the newspaper. 356 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,520 Do you think in my position I wanted to go there? 357 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:26,840 I knew how it would look. 358 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,320 I took Unk with me. He waited in the car. 359 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,000 Perry, what more can I tell you? 360 00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:35,820 Everything you know. 361 00:22:37,060 --> 00:22:39,560 Every relationship, every detail, every nuance. 362 00:22:40,140 --> 00:22:44,200 This isn't a football game, Alan. You lose this one, you lose for keeps. 363 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,800 The chemical used in the drawing room was a peroxide catalyst that burns 364 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,220 and ignites with intense heat. It's odorless, tasteless, and inexpensive. 365 00:22:56,700 --> 00:23:00,180 It's available in small quantities in drugstores, hobby shops, and about a 366 00:23:00,180 --> 00:23:01,180 million other places. 367 00:23:01,340 --> 00:23:02,119 Hi, Della. 368 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:03,520 These guys bothering you? 369 00:23:03,850 --> 00:23:05,750 If they do, Sergeant, I'll call a policeman. 370 00:23:06,010 --> 00:23:07,450 I'm your man, gentlemen. 371 00:23:08,850 --> 00:23:11,310 With a connection like that, you can take care of my parking tickets. 372 00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:12,970 Not connections, Paul. 373 00:23:13,590 --> 00:23:14,790 Just beauty and charm. 374 00:23:15,530 --> 00:23:16,530 Now, where were we? 375 00:23:16,610 --> 00:23:18,470 I was about to give you the dope on the motel. 376 00:23:19,350 --> 00:23:22,650 Judson Warner made the reservation for his meeting with Ellen Payne. The 377 00:23:22,650 --> 00:23:25,450 interesting thing is, though, that the same motel was used for other meetings 378 00:23:25,450 --> 00:23:28,310 with Harvey Skeen, Bert Payne, and Andy Grant, the team announcer. 379 00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:30,410 Who made the reservations there? 380 00:23:30,650 --> 00:23:31,850 A fellow named Stuart James. 381 00:23:32,130 --> 00:23:33,150 I'm checking him out now. 382 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,180 Anything on Casey Banks. 383 00:23:35,940 --> 00:23:39,660 Everybody loves the coach. He has a case on Ellen Payne, and he hated Burt 384 00:23:39,660 --> 00:23:40,660 Payne's guts. 385 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:43,740 You know the Stuart James? 386 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:45,560 No. 387 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:49,060 Had you ever seen Judson Warner before Sunday night? 388 00:23:49,540 --> 00:23:51,640 No. Ever hear his name before? 389 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:55,420 Andy Grant may have mentioned him when he told me that Burt Payne had dropped a 390 00:23:55,420 --> 00:23:56,420 bundle in Vegas. 391 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:01,360 You see, Mr. Mason, Burt was betting against the Wildcats. 392 00:24:09,930 --> 00:24:13,570 We've hit every place from Harvey Skeen's hotel to the Vegas dive and just 393 00:24:13,570 --> 00:24:14,570 seem to connect. 394 00:24:14,710 --> 00:24:18,410 Finding a bookie in Las Vegas should be as easy as finding gold in Fort Knox. 395 00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:19,990 Sure. 396 00:24:20,150 --> 00:24:23,750 I'll just check the Chamber of Commerce directory under bookmakers, find one who 397 00:24:23,750 --> 00:24:26,830 took bets for Judson Warner, and see if he'd mind testifying he makes books for 398 00:24:26,830 --> 00:24:27,830 a living. 399 00:24:28,010 --> 00:24:30,350 I detect a wee bit of sarcasm there, Paul. 400 00:24:30,990 --> 00:24:36,150 Anyway, Perry flew up to Oxnard just as soon as you left for Vegas, and he's 401 00:24:36,150 --> 00:24:38,510 riding the train back through Glendale to Los Angeles. 402 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,400 Good. Tell him I'll keep in touch. 403 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,580 Wait a minute, Paul. He just came in. You can tell him yourself. 404 00:24:44,340 --> 00:24:45,239 Yes, Paul. 405 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,400 No leads here yet. 406 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:49,940 But my man in Oxnard is digging in the direction you gave him. Good. 407 00:24:51,020 --> 00:24:54,780 If the killer left Glendale, he must have had transportation. 408 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,000 I may have something from another direction. 409 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,600 Remember Stuart James, the character who reserved those motel rooms? 410 00:25:01,060 --> 00:25:02,960 Well, one of my men checked in San Pedro. 411 00:25:03,260 --> 00:25:06,840 A Stuart James is booked passage on a South America -bound freighter Sunday 412 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,819 night. 413 00:25:07,820 --> 00:25:08,980 Oh, Stuart James again. 414 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,880 I've got a man on the prowl for him, but without a description, it's kind of 415 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,980 rough. I'll call you as soon as I have anything. 416 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,280 So long, Perry. 417 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,760 I'm going to tell you, gentlemen, just once more, I will not stand for personal 418 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,140 exchanges in this courtroom. 419 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:31,180 Proceed, Mr. Berger. 420 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,200 Mr. Skeen, will you please tell this court... 421 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,580 When you last heard from Judson Warner? 422 00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:43,920 Well, he called me from Salinas just to show he was going to get on the train to 423 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,540 make the deal with Mrs. Payne's husband. 424 00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:50,820 I guess he laughed. He said she was standing outside the phone booth then. 425 00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:55,020 Well, he had reason to laugh. He was about to take off with $100 ,000 in 426 00:25:55,940 --> 00:25:56,940 My cash. 427 00:25:57,300 --> 00:26:02,080 And to the best of your knowledge, had Judson Warner ever met Mrs. Payne 428 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:03,500 A couple of weeks ago. 429 00:26:04,340 --> 00:26:05,600 It was at a motel. 430 00:26:08,220 --> 00:26:12,180 Now, Mrs. Fry, you testified that as soon as the defendant arrived at your 431 00:26:12,180 --> 00:26:15,460 motel, she went straight to the room occupied by Judson Warner. 432 00:26:15,820 --> 00:26:19,100 That's right. She went in and closed the door after her. 433 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:20,880 And did you see her again? 434 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,200 Oh, yes. 435 00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:24,480 She was there about half an hour or so. 436 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,600 And then I went to check an adjoining room, and the door opened, and she came 437 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,440 out. And I could see Mr. 438 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:34,700 Warner propped up on the bed with his coat off. And he called out after her, 439 00:26:34,780 --> 00:26:36,380 Come back soon, partner. 440 00:26:38,020 --> 00:26:42,940 Partner. That's what he called her. And then right after that, the lady, the 441 00:26:42,940 --> 00:26:49,500 defendant, told Casey Banks to get her husband to take them pills. 442 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,120 And she gave him the whole bottle. The bottle was nearly full. 443 00:26:55,940 --> 00:27:00,480 Doctor, in all the years you've known the defendant, has she, to your 444 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,460 ever taken sleeping pills before? 445 00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:04,380 Well, no. 446 00:27:04,970 --> 00:27:10,550 And yet last Sunday night, only a few hours before her husband was murdered, 447 00:27:10,550 --> 00:27:11,990 asked you for sleeping pills? 448 00:27:12,990 --> 00:27:15,890 Objection. No proper foundation laid. 449 00:27:16,290 --> 00:27:19,650 No evidence that the decedent took any sleeping pills. 450 00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:21,290 Oh, I'll withdraw the question. 451 00:27:21,610 --> 00:27:23,030 Cross -examine, Mr. Mason. 452 00:27:25,130 --> 00:27:32,070 Doctor, did Mrs. Payne ask you for a full bottle of sleeping pills? 453 00:27:32,350 --> 00:27:33,650 No, she didn't. 454 00:27:33,980 --> 00:27:37,040 But seeing how tired she looked and knowing the strain that she'd be under 455 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,680 during the week prior to a playoff, I gave her enough to carry her through. 456 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:47,860 Well, the train was just out of Salinas, and Ellen and Casey, they 457 00:27:47,860 --> 00:27:49,380 was on the platform of talking. 458 00:27:49,940 --> 00:27:54,160 Now, will you tell this court, please, what you heard the defendant say at that 459 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,160 time? 460 00:27:57,980 --> 00:27:58,980 No. 461 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,780 No, sir, I won't. 462 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,600 Your Honor? 463 00:28:02,910 --> 00:28:04,590 The witness is directed to answer. 464 00:28:04,870 --> 00:28:09,090 Well, Judge, Your Honor, when a district attorney of me was chewing a fat the 465 00:28:09,090 --> 00:28:11,170 other day, I had the notion I could help Ellen. 466 00:28:11,390 --> 00:28:14,590 But now he's trying to turn everything inside out, and it ain't coming out at 467 00:28:14,590 --> 00:28:19,030 all the way I want it. Or did defense counsel possibly suggest to you it would 468 00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:21,630 be more helpful if you didn't tell us what the defendant said? 469 00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:26,650 Your Honor, the district attorney's predilection for baiting counsel has 470 00:28:26,650 --> 00:28:27,750 a point... Mr. Berger. 471 00:28:28,649 --> 00:28:32,110 Because of the close personal relationship between the defendant and 472 00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:35,690 witness, I have given you a great deal of leeway by declaring this witness 473 00:28:35,690 --> 00:28:36,690 unfriendly. 474 00:28:37,490 --> 00:28:41,550 However, the allegations that you have been making have no place whatsoever in 475 00:28:41,550 --> 00:28:42,550 these proceedings. 476 00:28:42,670 --> 00:28:47,370 Now, I'm warning you, and I hope for the last time, I will not tolerate any more 477 00:28:47,370 --> 00:28:49,050 of it. I apologize, Your Honor. 478 00:28:50,650 --> 00:28:53,350 You'll answer the question truthfully and in your own words. 479 00:28:57,290 --> 00:29:03,390 Ellen said to Casey, she said, I know what I gotta do and I'm gonna do it. 480 00:29:04,590 --> 00:29:05,590 Thank you, sir. 481 00:29:09,490 --> 00:29:14,590 Mr. Grant, what was the relationship between yourself and the decedent? 482 00:29:15,570 --> 00:29:18,030 Bert had a mean streak a mile wide. 483 00:29:18,230 --> 00:29:19,770 Always fighting with somebody. 484 00:29:19,990 --> 00:29:21,730 But I worked at getting along with him. 485 00:29:22,030 --> 00:29:25,710 Were you working at it when you introduced him to the right people in 486 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,900 When you helped bail him out by taking him to Harvey Skeen? 487 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,560 When you pretended to the defendant that you didn't know Judson Warner? 488 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,320 Objection, Your Honor. 489 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,080 Counsel is badgering the witness. 490 00:29:36,540 --> 00:29:38,840 I withdraw the question. Tell me this, Mr. Grant. 491 00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:44,340 Is it not a fact that on the night he was murdered, the decedent told you he 492 00:29:44,340 --> 00:29:46,360 going to fire you when you got back to Los Angeles? 493 00:29:46,740 --> 00:29:49,960 Well, you don't kill a man just because he's going to fire you. 494 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:51,520 Answer the question, please. 495 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,180 Well, he threatened to, but he'd been doing that off and on for a year. 496 00:29:56,740 --> 00:30:01,240 Mr. Grant, did he on that night tell you he was going to fire you? 497 00:30:03,420 --> 00:30:04,600 Yes. Yes, sir, he did. 498 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:09,740 Yes, I was in the drawing room with Burt Payne earlier, right after we pulled 499 00:30:09,740 --> 00:30:10,739 out of San Francisco. 500 00:30:10,740 --> 00:30:12,720 I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. 501 00:30:14,340 --> 00:30:17,980 Mr. Banks, I call your attention to People's Exhibit 7. 502 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,200 I asked if you saw a bag similar to this in that drawing room. 503 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:23,659 Yes, I did. 504 00:30:23,660 --> 00:30:24,660 It was on the seat. 505 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,140 And you didn't think it was out of the ordinary? 506 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:28,759 No, sir. 507 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:29,760 Why not? 508 00:30:30,860 --> 00:30:33,840 Well, when Ellen's father was alive, he used a lot of it for preserving 509 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,220 butterflies. He bought it in a hobby craft store in San Francisco. I guess 510 00:30:38,220 --> 00:30:42,140 Ellen... Just happened to buy it there. 511 00:30:42,660 --> 00:30:44,400 And just happened to put it on the train. 512 00:30:44,780 --> 00:30:47,420 And just happened to have it in that drawing room. 513 00:30:47,850 --> 00:30:50,410 where it just happened to be available for an accidental fire. 514 00:30:51,470 --> 00:30:52,790 Objection? Sustained. 515 00:30:53,110 --> 00:30:59,550 Mr. Berger, there's no jury here, and I'm certainly not impressed with these 516 00:30:59,550 --> 00:31:01,430 tactics. I apologize, Your Honor. 517 00:31:02,230 --> 00:31:03,230 Cost examined. 518 00:31:07,270 --> 00:31:11,310 Mr. Banks, did you see the defendant purchase the chemical? 519 00:31:11,590 --> 00:31:12,509 No, sir. 520 00:31:12,510 --> 00:31:16,170 Did you see her carry that 25 -pound bag aboard the train? 521 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:17,979 No, sir. 522 00:31:17,980 --> 00:31:22,160 You said it wasn't out of the ordinary for that chemical to be there. In other 523 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,340 words, there were other occasions when you've known that chemical to be 524 00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:28,900 purchased in San Francisco and brought back to Los Angeles? 525 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,400 Yes, sir, that's right. 526 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:35,140 Once I, well, last year when Ellen missed the San Francisco trip, I picked 527 00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:35,979 up for her. 528 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:40,040 The owner of the hobby craft shop there was a friend of her father's, and since 529 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,560 Ellen took up her father's hobby, I... That's all, Mr. Banks. 530 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,520 Thank you. No further questions. 531 00:31:45,790 --> 00:31:50,890 Lieutenant Drum, would you please describe for us the sequence of events 532 00:31:50,890 --> 00:31:54,090 night on the murder train after it left Glendale? 533 00:31:55,950 --> 00:32:02,370 Well, at 7 .05, the train pulled out. At 7 .10, according to the conductor's 534 00:32:02,370 --> 00:32:06,890 testimony, he had a conversation with Mr. Hazikian in front of the closed 535 00:32:06,890 --> 00:32:09,310 drawing room. No evidence of fire at the time. 536 00:32:09,610 --> 00:32:11,990 At 7 .15, the fire was discovered. 537 00:32:12,190 --> 00:32:13,330 7 .25... 538 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,340 The two cars were on a siding and under surveillance by the Los Angeles Police 539 00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:21,540 Department. And at 7 .30, they were boarded by the Los Angeles Fire 540 00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:23,000 and sealed. 541 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,880 Now, Lieutenant Drum, was it possible, in your expert opinion, for the missing 542 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:34,080 Judson Warner to have left that train after the fire was set and before those 543 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,900 two cars were sealed off by the police? 544 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,179 No, sir. 545 00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:40,680 The man had to get off before the train left the Glendale station. 546 00:32:41,180 --> 00:32:42,180 Thank you, Lieutenant. 547 00:32:43,950 --> 00:32:44,950 Cross -examine. 548 00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:47,770 One moment, please, Your Honor. 549 00:32:49,570 --> 00:32:51,430 Your hunch on the car rental was right. 550 00:32:51,830 --> 00:32:55,490 The man who reserved the motel and reserved space on the freighter out of 551 00:32:55,490 --> 00:33:00,330 Pedro reserved a car just last week to be picked up early Monday morning at 552 00:33:00,330 --> 00:33:01,330 Glendale. 553 00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:03,550 Stuart James. 554 00:33:09,790 --> 00:33:10,790 Lieutenant. 555 00:33:11,690 --> 00:33:12,690 Lieutenant. 556 00:33:16,780 --> 00:33:17,800 questions at this time. 557 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,640 Now, let me be sure I understand you, Mr. Hezekian. 558 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,660 Is that something bad with my English? 559 00:33:25,580 --> 00:33:28,920 No, not at all, sir. I simply want to review your testimony. 560 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,020 You say that you accepted delivery of the bag of chemicals before the train 561 00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:39,620 San Francisco, that the package was given to you by the parcel service, and 562 00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:41,540 it was addressed to Mrs. Burt Payne. 563 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:42,919 That's right. 564 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,820 Perry, I did not order that. 565 00:33:45,710 --> 00:33:46,549 All right, Mr. 566 00:33:46,550 --> 00:33:49,710 Hazekian, now let's go on to the other events of that Sunday night. 567 00:33:50,290 --> 00:33:55,210 Where were you after you and Coach Banks assisted the decedent, Mr. Payne, to 568 00:33:55,210 --> 00:33:56,550 retire? To go to bed. 569 00:33:56,790 --> 00:33:58,030 I know what means retired. 570 00:33:59,670 --> 00:34:00,670 I was with Ellen. 571 00:34:01,650 --> 00:34:06,390 I talked, she talked, I talked, she... Just like when she was a little girl. 572 00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:11,710 I see. But was it customary for Mrs. Payne to spend the night away from her 573 00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:12,710 husband? No. 574 00:34:13,070 --> 00:34:17,030 Well, all right then. She broke with her usual custom that Sunday night, didn't 575 00:34:17,030 --> 00:34:20,130 she? Now, you say you were with her and didn't leave her. 576 00:34:20,429 --> 00:34:21,429 Yes, I stayed. 577 00:34:21,770 --> 00:34:24,949 Except, of course, for that brief period of time you already told us about. 578 00:34:25,389 --> 00:34:29,969 You testified that you left the car in Glendale to look for the conductor 579 00:34:29,969 --> 00:34:31,250 because the lights were out. 580 00:34:31,650 --> 00:34:33,030 Now, who told you to do that? 581 00:34:34,230 --> 00:34:37,350 Ellen, how long would you say you were gone and all? 582 00:34:37,830 --> 00:34:39,110 Maybe only ten minutes. 583 00:34:39,670 --> 00:34:40,929 Ten minutes, but... 584 00:34:41,290 --> 00:34:45,409 That's more than enough time in a deserted car for a man to arrange that 585 00:34:45,409 --> 00:34:47,590 accident and then leave the car unnoticed. 586 00:34:48,250 --> 00:34:52,590 And even after the train had started, there's more than enough time for the 587 00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:57,530 accomplice of that man to drop a lighted match in that drawing room and then 588 00:34:57,530 --> 00:35:00,930 return to her own, where you then joined her. Isn't that correct? 589 00:35:01,750 --> 00:35:02,750 Objection, Your Honor. 590 00:35:04,830 --> 00:35:08,630 It's obvious that the district attorney is not only leading the witness, but 591 00:35:08,630 --> 00:35:09,630 calling for a conclusion. 592 00:35:10,250 --> 00:35:11,250 Jackson sustained. 593 00:35:11,810 --> 00:35:12,810 Pass exam. 594 00:35:15,790 --> 00:35:18,490 Now, I'm interested in the problem with the lights. 595 00:35:19,510 --> 00:35:24,030 Tell me as well as you can remember exactly what happened. 596 00:35:24,930 --> 00:35:27,570 We are in Glendale tram station. 597 00:35:28,010 --> 00:35:30,390 The lights go out. I wait. 598 00:35:30,930 --> 00:35:33,970 They don't go on. I go look for conductor. 599 00:35:34,330 --> 00:35:36,390 Did he return to the car immediately? 600 00:35:37,070 --> 00:35:38,390 He came. 601 00:35:38,910 --> 00:35:39,930 After train start. 602 00:35:41,250 --> 00:35:48,110 And then we go to box where a circuit breaker, a push breaker, and the 603 00:35:48,110 --> 00:35:49,750 lights go on like poof. 604 00:35:50,710 --> 00:35:54,370 Your Honor, I'd like to recall Lieutenant Drum. 605 00:36:00,090 --> 00:36:04,350 I'm sorry, Lieutenant Drum. I don't believe your answer was quite clear. 606 00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,550 Well, I'd be happy to repeat it, Mr. Mason. 607 00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:12,600 We made a complete check of the chemical origin and the phone order received by 608 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,760 the supplier to the residue found on the carpet of the train aisle. 609 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:18,800 Did you determine the properties of the chemical? 610 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:23,780 For instance, what would ignite it? Why, a match would set it off. What about a 611 00:36:23,780 --> 00:36:25,460 spark? Would a spark set it off? 612 00:36:28,180 --> 00:36:29,560 I don't know, Mr. Mason. 613 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:30,900 It may. 614 00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:32,160 It may not. 615 00:36:32,580 --> 00:36:34,740 All right, let's try a little experiment, Lieutenant. 616 00:36:39,340 --> 00:36:44,420 Now, with your Honor's permission, will the bailiff pull the circuit breaker 617 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:46,440 controlling this part of the courtroom? 618 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:47,840 Bailiff? 619 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,340 Your Honor, I object to this. Mr. Mason is simply taking off at another of his 620 00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:54,460 grandstand exhibitions. 621 00:36:56,060 --> 00:36:57,300 Overruled. I want to see this. 622 00:36:58,020 --> 00:36:59,020 Proceed, Mr. Mason. 623 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,360 Bailiff? 624 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,760 to this lamp is off, I'm going to insert these keys. 625 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:19,320 I'm going to put the peroxide catalyst on the keys and 626 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,780 across the asbestos. 627 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:30,000 Now, will the court reporter read back that portion of Mr. 628 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,600 Hezekian's testimony relating to what happened after the lights went out, the 629 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:35,820 conductor returned to the car? 630 00:37:36,330 --> 00:37:37,330 and the train was underway. 631 00:37:44,070 --> 00:37:47,650 We go to box where is circuit breaker. 632 00:37:48,130 --> 00:37:49,590 Keep push breaker. 633 00:37:50,190 --> 00:37:52,590 The lights go on like poof. 634 00:37:53,550 --> 00:37:56,690 Now, would the bailiff please connect the circuit breaker? 635 00:38:06,020 --> 00:38:11,380 Lieutenant, is it possible that after the decedent was immobilized, Judson 636 00:38:11,380 --> 00:38:15,700 Warner spread the chemical, removed a bulb from a lamp socket, and then when 637 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,840 train was still in Glendale, could the killer, without help, have pulled the 638 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,120 breaker, stepped back into the drawing room, dropped the decedent's keys into 639 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,360 the dead socket, and left the train? 640 00:38:26,940 --> 00:38:29,360 Well, I don't... One moment, Lieutenant. 641 00:38:29,580 --> 00:38:34,020 And then when the train was underway again, and the conductor closed the 642 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,020 breaker, 643 00:38:35,050 --> 00:38:38,470 Couldn't something similar to what just happened here have happened in that 644 00:38:38,470 --> 00:38:42,290 drawing room where the decedent's body lay? Could it have happened that way? 645 00:38:42,830 --> 00:38:45,610 Well, it's possible. 646 00:38:46,010 --> 00:38:47,110 No further questions. 647 00:38:53,190 --> 00:38:54,190 Your Honor, 648 00:38:58,930 --> 00:39:02,680 since the... The prosecution's case rests on the demonstrably false 649 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,060 that the defendant helped Judson Warner off the train and started the fire. 650 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:10,560 Your Honor, the prosecution's case does not rest on any single assumption, Your 651 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,460 Honor. And the prosecution is not impressed by Mr. Mason's parlor tricks. 652 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,860 Mr. Berger, it isn't necessary to shout. 653 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:19,180 I'm sorry, Your Honor. 654 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,960 But I will resist any motion by the defense for a dismissal based on an 655 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,860 exhibition of legitimine and fireworks. 656 00:39:26,260 --> 00:39:29,240 If the district attorney would allow me to address the bench. 657 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,400 My intention is to request a continuance of this case. A continuance? On what 658 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:35,400 possible grounds? 659 00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:39,960 Your Honor, earlier today I received information which reinforces what is 660 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,860 admittedly my theory of how the murder was committed. 661 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:47,160 By Monday, I feel I can bring this evidence to the attention of the court. 662 00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:50,960 Well, ordinarily, I don't like to grant a continuance in a preliminary hearing. 663 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,640 However, I can't say where my refusal would further the cause of justice. 664 00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:59,020 Now, Mr. Mason, you have the weekend to get your evidence together. 665 00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:03,230 Yes, Your Honor. This case is continued until Monday morning at 10 .30. 666 00:40:06,790 --> 00:40:09,510 What evidence could he possibly get? 667 00:40:10,950 --> 00:40:12,870 Maybe he's found Judson Warner. 668 00:40:14,530 --> 00:40:15,890 Put a tail on this. 669 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:35,540 I hope he does. 670 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:40,300 My friend the bookie is supposed to deliver under the scoreboard at the 671 00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:41,300 Island. 672 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,780 If he's holding a $100 ,000 bet for the man who calls himself Stuart James, I 673 00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:47,960 think our Mr. James will be there for the payoff. 674 00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:50,640 There's going to be a payoff if the Wildcats can hold. 675 00:41:11,530 --> 00:41:15,490 and our boy Homer Adams pouncing that ball like a catfish going after a 676 00:41:15,490 --> 00:41:16,490 worm. 677 00:41:17,890 --> 00:41:19,290 All right, get going. 678 00:41:19,850 --> 00:41:22,890 If he shows, we'll grab him and get him out of here. We'll try to recover the 679 00:41:22,890 --> 00:41:24,310 money and we'll call you as soon as we're set. 680 00:41:24,950 --> 00:41:26,190 Don't tell me I don't want to know. 681 00:41:26,550 --> 00:41:28,790 I want the money and the story before the police step in. 682 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:06,260 Radio them to close. 683 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:26,960 Well, you've finally gone too far, Counselor. 684 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,160 Well, Hamilton, imagine finding you here. 685 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:31,680 Why the posse? 686 00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:37,200 Your Honor, this crime was committed by only one person. 687 00:43:37,780 --> 00:43:38,780 A man alone. 688 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,020 Desperate. A man who planned every move in infinite detail. 689 00:43:43,580 --> 00:43:46,440 Who saw a chance to escape with a windfall in cash. 690 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:50,240 Who, like every gambler, had to take one more plunge to get even. 691 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:53,500 He had no accomplice, only greed and fear. 692 00:43:54,420 --> 00:43:57,660 Your Honor, I move for the dismissal of the charges against Ellen Payne. 693 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,300 She could not have been involved in murder. 694 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,020 The murder of a man who is not dead. 695 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:05,360 Oh, no. 696 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:26,560 I'm toasting myself because my missus just told me number sixes do come 697 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:27,560 camp time. 698 00:44:29,340 --> 00:44:32,180 And I make a toast to all the wildcats. 699 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,920 I'd ask Paul to make a toast, but he learned his in the Marines. 700 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:41,140 Bella, your beauty is surpassed only by your good judgment. 701 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,400 I pass to Perry. 702 00:44:42,740 --> 00:44:43,740 All right. 703 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:49,500 A toast to the things for which there are no substitutes. Good friends, happy 704 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:51,660 days, and victory. 705 00:44:52,540 --> 00:44:56,580 For myself, and for Casey, and for all of us. 706 00:44:57,020 --> 00:44:58,020 To Mr. 707 00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,040 Perry Mason. 708 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,560 The twelfth wildcat.