1 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:54,360 Okay. 2 00:03:39,530 --> 00:03:41,670 Carl, I've been calling and calling. Are you all right? 3 00:03:42,650 --> 00:03:43,670 Adele, take it easy. 4 00:03:44,250 --> 00:03:45,690 It went off almost perfectly. 5 00:03:46,730 --> 00:03:47,730 Like a dream. 6 00:03:47,750 --> 00:03:50,850 Another couple of weeks and I'll be able to do it in... Mr. Slade is returning 7 00:03:50,850 --> 00:03:52,670 from Europe. He'll be here tomorrow afternoon. 8 00:03:53,730 --> 00:03:56,030 We'll have to give it up now, Carl. It's just too dangerous. 9 00:03:56,910 --> 00:03:57,910 No. 10 00:03:58,190 --> 00:03:59,570 No, we've got no choice. 11 00:04:00,170 --> 00:04:01,930 I'll just have to start the ball rolling tomorrow. 12 00:04:03,190 --> 00:04:04,190 Carl, please. 13 00:04:04,970 --> 00:04:06,290 Tomorrow. We can't wait. 14 00:04:07,350 --> 00:04:09,030 I'll see the doctor in the morning. 15 00:04:11,550 --> 00:04:13,130 It'll be all right, Adele. 16 00:04:13,350 --> 00:04:16,070 I promise you, everything is going to be all right. 17 00:04:18,089 --> 00:04:19,089 Good night, Adele. 18 00:04:19,750 --> 00:04:20,750 Good night. 19 00:04:25,190 --> 00:04:32,030 My parents 20 00:04:32,030 --> 00:04:33,630 wanted to help people hear better. 21 00:04:35,390 --> 00:04:36,470 There is hope. 22 00:04:47,310 --> 00:04:48,310 It's fine, Mr. Addison. 23 00:04:48,430 --> 00:04:49,510 We'll have no trouble. 24 00:04:51,330 --> 00:04:52,890 You'll want me in the hospital tonight. 25 00:04:53,750 --> 00:04:56,770 We'll operate first thing in the morning, if that's agreeable. 26 00:04:57,910 --> 00:05:00,390 How long will I be in the hospital? 27 00:05:00,890 --> 00:05:02,330 Oh, just a couple of days. 28 00:05:03,030 --> 00:05:06,290 After that, we'll let you go home, take things quietly for a week. 29 00:05:07,030 --> 00:05:08,570 But let me warn you again. 30 00:05:08,970 --> 00:05:12,010 For that first week, you'll have to be bandaged. 31 00:05:12,630 --> 00:05:16,370 You'd be blind, in fact, even if you removed the bandages. Completely blind. 32 00:05:17,580 --> 00:05:20,020 But remember, a vacation. 33 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,460 Six months of rest, if you can possibly manage. 34 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,760 Yes, I've already made the arrangements. 35 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,120 A nice long trip. 36 00:05:30,620 --> 00:05:32,940 Just get away from it all. 37 00:05:44,590 --> 00:05:45,610 Good morning, Mr. Harris. 38 00:05:45,830 --> 00:05:46,689 Oh, morning, Edgar. 39 00:05:46,690 --> 00:05:50,410 Mrs. Faraday phoned just a few minutes ago to say that she's most anxious to 40 00:05:50,410 --> 00:05:53,690 those pearl earrings you mentioned to her. I took the liberty of making an 41 00:05:53,690 --> 00:05:55,410 appointment for you for 3 o 'clock this afternoon. 42 00:05:55,890 --> 00:05:58,010 Oh, sorry. I won't be able to make it. Oh? 43 00:05:58,450 --> 00:05:59,450 You take over. 44 00:06:00,250 --> 00:06:04,490 As a matter of fact, you'll have to take over everything for me for about a year 45 00:06:04,490 --> 00:06:05,490 or so. A year? 46 00:06:05,730 --> 00:06:06,689 Yes. 47 00:06:06,690 --> 00:06:07,830 Oh, the operation. 48 00:06:08,570 --> 00:06:09,830 You've decided to have it done. 49 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,220 And I know that Mr. Slade will look to you, as he has to me in the past, to see 50 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:14,220 that things run smoothly. 51 00:06:14,460 --> 00:06:15,460 Thank you, sir. 52 00:06:16,140 --> 00:06:18,020 You've heard that Mr. Slade is coming back? 53 00:06:18,820 --> 00:06:19,820 Yes. 54 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,160 Yes, I heard. 55 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,960 I go into the hospital tonight. 56 00:06:35,860 --> 00:06:36,860 No. 57 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,120 Now, we've been over it a hundred times. You know exactly what you have to do. 58 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:42,920 It'll be three days at the most. 59 00:06:43,180 --> 00:06:44,920 And I'll let you know when I feel well enough. 60 00:06:45,380 --> 00:06:48,000 Oh, Carl, please don't make me do it. I'm scared. 61 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:50,380 Adele, you've got to face the truth. 62 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,700 How long do you think we could go on using the firm to fence stolen jewelry 63 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:56,080 Charles Slade back home again? 64 00:06:56,460 --> 00:06:57,460 We? 65 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,120 Well, you know what's been going on. 66 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,480 Shutting your eyes won't keep you out of jail. 67 00:07:15,310 --> 00:07:16,450 Yes, sir. May I help you? 68 00:07:16,830 --> 00:07:19,130 Yes, I'd like to see Mr. Addison. My name's Ken Cannon. 69 00:07:20,830 --> 00:07:21,910 Well, hello there, Jim. 70 00:07:22,270 --> 00:07:23,270 How are you? 71 00:07:23,590 --> 00:07:26,370 I've tried to call you several times on the phone, but you always seem to be 72 00:07:26,370 --> 00:07:28,090 busy, so I thought I'd better just come down myself. 73 00:07:28,750 --> 00:07:30,810 Well, I have been pretty busy, Jim. 74 00:07:31,510 --> 00:07:32,509 How's your mother? 75 00:07:32,510 --> 00:07:35,330 Fine, but that isn't what I wanted to speak to you about. Well, I'm pretty 76 00:07:35,330 --> 00:07:38,230 right now, as a matter of fact, Jim, but why don't you give me a call later in 77 00:07:38,230 --> 00:07:39,290 the week? Because I have to talk to you now. 78 00:07:40,030 --> 00:07:42,270 It's about our jewelry, our necklace out there, Mr. Addison. 79 00:07:42,610 --> 00:07:43,610 Well, what about it? 80 00:07:45,590 --> 00:07:49,150 Now, you cannot borrow against the collection if that's your trouble again. 81 00:07:49,690 --> 00:07:53,410 Oh, I suppose I could manage a personal loan of a hundred or two, but no more 82 00:07:53,410 --> 00:07:54,410 than that. 83 00:07:54,850 --> 00:07:57,470 I just want to know if your company's changed its mind about selling the 84 00:07:57,470 --> 00:07:58,470 collection. 85 00:07:59,850 --> 00:08:01,710 Are you asking on behalf of your mother, Jim? 86 00:08:02,290 --> 00:08:03,490 I haven't spoken to her, no. 87 00:08:04,290 --> 00:08:09,450 Well, then, I'd say whether or not we've changed our mind happens to be none of 88 00:08:09,450 --> 00:08:10,450 your business, Jim. 89 00:08:10,730 --> 00:08:12,110 Then I'm going to make it my business. 90 00:08:13,330 --> 00:08:14,330 Really? 91 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,460 Jim, you and your mother are flat broke. 92 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,020 Now, the Kincannon jewelry collection displayed out there is your only asset 93 00:08:23,020 --> 00:08:27,480 outside a once socially prominent name, which you've managed to dirty up quite a 94 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:28,580 bit since your father died. 95 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,940 Mr. Addison, I'm not concerned with what you... Now, the jewelry is displayed 96 00:08:31,940 --> 00:08:35,299 out there because you and your mother can't even afford the insurance. 97 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,700 The Slade's contract is with your mother, Jim, not you. 98 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,559 Now, in return for displaying the collection... 99 00:08:42,010 --> 00:08:45,670 We pay the insurance costs plus a monthly rental, which helps support your 100 00:08:45,670 --> 00:08:50,390 mother. Also in that contract is the stipulation that the collection stays in 101 00:08:50,390 --> 00:08:55,610 our hands until such time as we, slaves, recommend a satisfactory sale. Now, 102 00:08:55,610 --> 00:08:59,950 satisfactory, Mr. Kincannon, means for a sum of money which I deem adequate. 103 00:09:00,310 --> 00:09:02,070 You don't think a third of a million dollars is adequate? 104 00:09:02,890 --> 00:09:03,890 A what? 105 00:09:05,170 --> 00:09:08,210 Don't be ridiculous. We could never get any amount like that. 106 00:09:08,550 --> 00:09:11,230 We might. Listen, there's this millionaire up in San Francisco. 107 00:09:11,450 --> 00:09:14,110 All we have to do is get him a new appraisal. Then when he sees the 108 00:09:14,130 --> 00:09:16,130 he'll let us know whether or not he'd like to see the collection personally. 109 00:09:16,510 --> 00:09:17,870 We could hear from him in a day or two. 110 00:09:18,490 --> 00:09:20,510 And if he would pay that much money, my mother might agree. 111 00:09:21,630 --> 00:09:22,870 Well, Jim, that's absolute nonsense. 112 00:09:23,170 --> 00:09:26,050 Now, I've got enough problems without listening to your half -baked schemes. 113 00:09:26,450 --> 00:09:27,850 Mr. Addison, I've got problems, too. 114 00:09:28,730 --> 00:09:29,730 You're going to listen to me? 115 00:09:30,890 --> 00:09:31,890 Get out of here. 116 00:09:31,930 --> 00:09:34,190 Go on, get out of here before I have you thrown out. 117 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:51,700 Adele, get hold of yourself. 118 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,240 There's nothing he can do. 119 00:09:55,380 --> 00:09:56,380 It's going to be all right. 120 00:09:57,300 --> 00:09:59,200 There's nothing he can do to interfere. 121 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:11,900 It's been a long time, Jimmy. 122 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,040 Yeah, well, I meant to come by more than once, but... 123 00:10:18,540 --> 00:10:20,660 But you can't stand cheap saloons of women, hmm? 124 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,780 Helen. Oh, that's what my used -to -be father -in -law called me. 125 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:29,120 Do you agree with Mr. Charles Slade? Am I cheap? 126 00:10:29,860 --> 00:10:30,860 Did I ruin him? 127 00:10:33,060 --> 00:10:35,860 Did I destroy the only thing I ever loved, Jimmy? Did I, huh? 128 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:39,140 Harry Slade was killed in an automobile accident. 129 00:10:39,980 --> 00:10:42,220 You had nothing to do with it, Helen. It wasn't your fault. 130 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,180 Well, maybe he wasn't much of a husband. 131 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:49,020 But I loved him, Jimmy. 132 00:10:50,460 --> 00:10:51,460 I loved him. 133 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:00,260 I've never been like a devil. 134 00:11:03,140 --> 00:11:04,140 I'm sorry. 135 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:07,880 I guess it's just being an old friend. 136 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:12,500 Well, didn't Harry leave you any insurance or anything like that? 137 00:11:13,820 --> 00:11:16,580 Oh, you were always a bad poker player, Jimmy. 138 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:18,900 How much? 139 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,400 How much did Harry owe you? 140 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:26,820 Oh, now, don't be upset. 141 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,580 Harry owed everybody. 142 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:32,400 Helen, I'm in trouble. 143 00:11:33,940 --> 00:11:34,940 Because of Harry? 144 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,780 Never mind that. It doesn't matter now. 145 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:39,220 But I need money, and I need it bad. 146 00:11:39,820 --> 00:11:41,440 But why did you come to me? 147 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,200 I've gone to everyone I know. You're my last resort. 148 00:11:46,340 --> 00:11:47,340 Harry? 149 00:11:50,670 --> 00:11:51,730 Yeah, he owed me some money. 150 00:11:52,650 --> 00:11:56,270 Harry borrowed on his insurance until there wasn't anything left. He had a 151 00:11:56,270 --> 00:11:58,310 passion for racehorses with three left feet. 152 00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:04,170 And as for Daddy Slade, he hated me so much he wouldn't give me the fuzz off a 153 00:12:04,170 --> 00:12:05,170 peach. 154 00:12:07,810 --> 00:12:09,590 Why don't you try, Abby's father? 155 00:12:11,590 --> 00:12:12,990 Sit down, Jim, sit down. 156 00:12:14,470 --> 00:12:16,190 Well, I haven't seen you for some time. 157 00:12:17,369 --> 00:12:23,050 Harry became a stranger to us, too, after he moved away, married that... 158 00:12:23,290 --> 00:12:27,210 you young people move in different circles. You find new friends. 159 00:12:28,950 --> 00:12:31,250 Are you in some sort of trouble? 160 00:12:32,830 --> 00:12:33,830 Money, perhaps? 161 00:12:36,190 --> 00:12:38,550 Yes, I've been hearing disturbing things about you, Jim. 162 00:12:39,370 --> 00:12:40,670 The things I don't want to believe. 163 00:12:41,830 --> 00:12:44,270 Also, there was that argument between you and Mr. Addison. 164 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:46,240 I only wanted to talk to him. 165 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:49,640 Mr. Raddison and I discussed the matter of your mother's necklace before he 166 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:50,640 entered the hospital. 167 00:12:51,140 --> 00:12:52,900 I'm afraid I'll have to rely on his judgment. 168 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,920 Perhaps you'll change your mind when you hear what I have to say. 169 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:58,360 Well, go ahead. 170 00:12:58,800 --> 00:12:59,800 It concerns Harry. 171 00:13:01,340 --> 00:13:04,100 I guess I should have come to you sooner about this, and I meant to right after 172 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,400 Harry was killed, but... Get to the point, Jim. 173 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:13,640 Harry was in trouble at the company where we both worked. 174 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,100 It was a matter of nearly $20 ,000 he couldn't account for. 175 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:20,600 I covered up for him on the books. 176 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,160 Well, what was I supposed to do? Harry was my best friend, Mr. Slade. 177 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:27,520 He promised to repay it, and he did repay some of it. 178 00:13:28,660 --> 00:13:29,660 Then the accident. 179 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:31,480 Harry killed. 180 00:13:34,260 --> 00:13:36,340 Well, there's no way I can prove that I didn't take that money. 181 00:13:36,980 --> 00:13:39,180 You're telling me my son was a thief. 182 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:45,780 Do you recall? 183 00:13:46,980 --> 00:13:48,280 Granted, it was some time ago. 184 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:52,080 You asked your mother to dispose of the Kincannon necklace. 185 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,280 You came up with a story of being blackmailed or some such thing. 186 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:01,580 And all you wanted was money to impress some frowzy little b -girl in champagne. 187 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,540 That was over six years ago. It was a cheap trick you tried to pull then. 188 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:07,620 And it's a cheap trick you're trying to pull now. 189 00:14:08,660 --> 00:14:11,580 Oh, Mr. Slater. You're a filthy liar. Get out. 190 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,520 Get out! 191 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:16,560 Call the police. 192 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Tell me, Jim. 193 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:32,340 Why did you wait so long to contact Mr. Slade Sr.? Well, he went off to Europe 194 00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:34,620 right away. I was supposed to get over the shock of his son's death. 195 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,760 Anyway, I kept figuring that I could get the money, but I couldn't. 196 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,420 Then last week, I found out that my company's going to merge with another 197 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,720 Which would, of course, mean a thorough audit of your company's books. 198 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,320 I got pretty frantic, so I went to see Mr. Addison. 199 00:14:48,620 --> 00:14:51,320 But he refused to approve a sale of either the necklace or the whole 200 00:14:51,940 --> 00:14:56,060 He said that according to the terms of the contract that... Well, you know the 201 00:14:56,060 --> 00:14:57,200 terms of the contract, Mr. Mason. 202 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:58,960 Yes, I drew it up for your mother. 203 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,740 Addison isn't the last word. If in your mother's opinion... I haven't discussed 204 00:15:03,740 --> 00:15:04,740 this with her yet. 205 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:05,800 You may have to. 206 00:15:05,940 --> 00:15:06,940 I can't. 207 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,700 You see, she hasn't been very well. 208 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:14,840 Besides, her living in the memory of the past is about the only enjoyment she 209 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:15,840 has left. 210 00:15:15,850 --> 00:15:17,430 And the collection is her link to it. 211 00:15:18,130 --> 00:15:21,990 Adela, get our office copy of the Kincannon -Slade contract and see if you 212 00:15:21,990 --> 00:15:23,730 reach Mr. Addison on the phone for me, will you please? 213 00:15:24,130 --> 00:15:25,130 Right. 214 00:15:26,070 --> 00:15:30,290 Now, if time's running out for you, Jim, you can't force Addison or Slade to 215 00:15:30,290 --> 00:15:32,390 approve a sale if they think the offer is too low. 216 00:15:32,950 --> 00:15:34,710 But we certainly can investigate it. 217 00:15:35,130 --> 00:15:37,210 If the offer's high enough, we could force a sale then? 218 00:15:37,930 --> 00:15:40,350 I mean, without getting Mother too involved or too upset? 219 00:15:40,890 --> 00:15:42,010 I don't know about that. 220 00:15:42,870 --> 00:15:45,130 But I do know we can have that collection appraised. 221 00:15:45,930 --> 00:15:47,630 And there's still time enough to do that today. 222 00:15:49,810 --> 00:15:52,930 They came in a few minutes ago. We were just about to close. 223 00:15:53,490 --> 00:15:54,710 So they're appraising it. 224 00:15:56,290 --> 00:15:57,290 Odell, listen. 225 00:15:57,330 --> 00:15:58,710 I'll get out of here right away. 226 00:15:59,310 --> 00:16:01,390 Oh, Carl, you're still weak. It's too risky. 227 00:16:02,730 --> 00:16:03,730 We have no choice. 228 00:16:04,490 --> 00:16:06,550 Now, Odell, you know what you have to do. 229 00:16:07,630 --> 00:16:08,910 Carl, I can't. 230 00:16:09,350 --> 00:16:10,930 You have to. I'm blind. 231 00:16:11,310 --> 00:16:13,410 I can't risk touching those wires again myself. 232 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,280 No! 233 00:18:10,030 --> 00:18:11,030 So for Ben. 234 00:18:14,810 --> 00:18:18,690 Mr. Mason, I sent for you right away because I know you represent the King 235 00:18:18,690 --> 00:18:22,070 Cannon. Just a moment. Do I understand you haven't called the police yet? 236 00:18:22,390 --> 00:18:24,490 Perhaps your client should be grateful that I haven't. 237 00:18:25,150 --> 00:18:29,230 I, well, I thought you might help me get the jewelry back even more quickly. 238 00:18:29,830 --> 00:18:31,470 By pulling it out of my pocket? 239 00:18:31,870 --> 00:18:32,870 Oh, not out of your pocket. 240 00:18:33,630 --> 00:18:34,630 James King Cannon. 241 00:18:36,050 --> 00:18:39,430 Why on earth should Jim steal something that already belongs to him? 242 00:18:39,930 --> 00:18:42,470 The collection belongs to his mother, not to him. 243 00:18:43,630 --> 00:18:45,350 He's in some sort of trouble at his company. 244 00:18:45,850 --> 00:18:48,370 He's desperately and urgently in need of money. 245 00:18:49,070 --> 00:18:52,450 Now I can't locate him. Well, even if Kincannon had the motive, Mr. Slade, 246 00:18:52,450 --> 00:18:53,209 about opportunity? 247 00:18:53,210 --> 00:18:55,590 Fixing those wires would seem more like an inside job to me. 248 00:18:55,950 --> 00:18:57,390 James Kincannon was inside. 249 00:18:58,490 --> 00:19:00,450 Yesterday. He was here with you. 250 00:19:01,170 --> 00:19:04,990 But while the appraisal's being made, I understand he made some sort of excuse 251 00:19:04,990 --> 00:19:05,990 to come into this room. 252 00:19:06,450 --> 00:19:07,770 He stayed here a few moments alone. 253 00:19:08,750 --> 00:19:12,190 A closet with a junction box opens from this room. 254 00:19:12,730 --> 00:19:14,210 Paul, I want you to find Kin Cannon. 255 00:19:14,810 --> 00:19:16,090 And get the jewels back? 256 00:19:16,650 --> 00:19:19,650 No, Jim may be a little hot -headed, but somebody else fixed those wires. 257 00:19:20,770 --> 00:19:22,610 Somebody really on the inside, most likely. 258 00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:25,510 That's, for instance, an employee of Slade and Company who might have done 259 00:19:25,510 --> 00:19:26,089 whole job? 260 00:19:26,090 --> 00:19:27,150 Now, gentlemen, see here. 261 00:19:27,410 --> 00:19:29,330 Check them all, Paul, and fast. All right. 262 00:19:34,930 --> 00:19:35,930 Who you called? 263 00:19:36,370 --> 00:19:37,370 Mr. Slade. 264 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,620 I can't very well become an accessory to a felony. I don't think you should 265 00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:42,620 either. 266 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:45,760 Police Department? 267 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,020 Sergeant Ferris, please. 268 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:50,100 Burglary Division. 269 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:55,380 You're aware, Mr. Slade, that these sweepings here, most of them from your 270 00:19:55,380 --> 00:19:57,160 workshop, are full of mineral particles? 271 00:19:57,620 --> 00:19:58,539 Yes, naturally. 272 00:19:58,540 --> 00:20:01,940 My men do a lot of setting work on precious and semi -precious stones. 273 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:03,940 Cutting, grinding, cleaning. 274 00:20:04,510 --> 00:20:07,650 The crime lab boys found traces of these sweepings on the floor. 275 00:20:08,190 --> 00:20:13,910 But the cleaning woman who left this pail here swears she didn't spill any, 276 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:15,230 knock the bucket over last night. 277 00:20:15,890 --> 00:20:18,130 Which means the burglar must have. 278 00:20:18,870 --> 00:20:21,930 If he got any of these particles on his shoes, he left a trail. 279 00:20:22,390 --> 00:20:24,050 That's what we're hoping for, Mr. Mason. 280 00:20:24,330 --> 00:20:25,910 Well, I don't see a mouth on the floor. 281 00:20:26,250 --> 00:20:28,130 Well, they wouldn't be visible to the naked eye. 282 00:20:28,610 --> 00:20:32,650 But this mineral dust may fluoresce, glow under black ray. 283 00:20:38,010 --> 00:20:39,430 Eddie? Start about here. 284 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,640 That's about it, Sergeant. 285 00:21:08,940 --> 00:21:12,640 By the time he came out on the roof, just about all the stuff was gone from 286 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,080 shoes. All right. 287 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,420 Our guy robs the shop, takes the stairway to the roof, crosses over it to 288 00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:23,200 next building, and uses that to get down to the street again. 289 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,980 That penthouse apartment on the next building belongs to the company. 290 00:21:27,540 --> 00:21:29,740 Mr. Addison, our general manager, is using it. 291 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:31,020 Well, let's check. 292 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:33,960 Could be. He saw something last night. Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible, 293 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,300 Sergeant. Mr. 294 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:36,680 Addison is temporarily blind. 295 00:21:37,340 --> 00:21:38,440 He had an operation yesterday. 296 00:21:38,980 --> 00:21:40,720 Look, he can still hear, can't he? 297 00:21:46,020 --> 00:21:48,120 Somebody got a little clumsy around here. 298 00:21:58,100 --> 00:21:59,100 I have a key. 299 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:03,120 Carl said they put him under a pretty heavy sedation. He may be asleep. 300 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:04,540 Open it. 301 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:14,200 Where's the bedroom? 302 00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:15,460 In there. 303 00:22:20,980 --> 00:22:21,980 How? 304 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,300 What in the name of... His bed hasn't even slept in. 305 00:22:26,620 --> 00:22:27,620 Sergeant Ferris? 306 00:22:28,140 --> 00:22:29,140 Yes? 307 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,600 A little rough house here, too. 308 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,400 Someone left a souvenir behind. 309 00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:34,740 That's one of our jewelry boxes. 310 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,120 Hey, Sergeant! 311 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,800 Oh, Perry, so far not a sign of Jim Kincannon. But look, it's far -fetched 312 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,000 enough to figure the kid would steal his own family jewelry. 313 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,620 The police can't possibly be thinking of him for murder, can they? 314 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,380 Mr. Slade didn't quite tell us the truth, Paul. 315 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,860 It seems the reason he came back from Europe was because something funny's 316 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:18,860 going on with his firm. 317 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:21,080 Huh? What kind of funny? 318 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,920 An insurance company reported to him that three separate people who bought 319 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,720 jewelry from his shop had trouble getting those items insured. 320 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,040 What kind of trouble? 321 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,740 The items contained gems which investigators suspected were stolen. 322 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,000 Of course, the people who bought these items were perfectly innocent. 323 00:23:36,340 --> 00:23:39,000 But the shop wasn't. Well, nothing's been proved yet. 324 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,980 But in each and every case, guess who had recommended slaves? 325 00:23:43,940 --> 00:23:44,940 Jim Kincannon? 326 00:23:45,020 --> 00:23:45,859 Mm -hmm. 327 00:23:45,860 --> 00:23:49,080 Well, maybe he did do it. I'll still keep all my men looking for him. 328 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,180 Well, let's wait until we hear Jim's story, Paul. 329 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,240 What we need right now is to get more dope on the other people around Addison. 330 00:23:56,959 --> 00:23:59,700 Well, so far it's pretty sketchy. There is one thing. 331 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:04,280 Addison was a fairly frequent visitor to a dive on Washington called Gibby's 332 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,080 Place. The main attraction there is a tired canary named Helen Slade. 333 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,680 Helen Slade? 334 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:12,020 Married to the old man's son, the boy that was killed in the automobile 335 00:24:12,020 --> 00:24:15,600 accident. However, this Addison -Helen bit is only an occasional thing. 336 00:24:15,820 --> 00:24:18,400 Addison's heavy romance is with a girl right at the office, Adele Bentley. 337 00:24:18,740 --> 00:24:22,380 You'd better follow up on her, Paul. I'll talk with this Slade girl. You stay 338 00:24:22,380 --> 00:24:23,379 with Adele Bentley. 339 00:24:23,380 --> 00:24:24,380 All right, Perry. 340 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,320 After Jimmy left me the other night, I got to thinking. 341 00:24:29,060 --> 00:24:31,960 I mean, he didn't have to be psychic to know he was in trouble. It was written 342 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,960 all over him. 343 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:36,100 He was in trouble, Mrs. Slade. Trouble your husband had made for him. 344 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:38,120 Yeah, but I don't know anything about that. 345 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:40,100 Did you try to help Jim? 346 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,200 Not with money. I couldn't. 347 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:47,420 But something kept nagging at my mind. 348 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:50,520 Something about Jimmy and money and Harry. 349 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,640 And then I remember Carl. 350 00:24:53,230 --> 00:24:54,049 Carl Addison? 351 00:24:54,050 --> 00:24:55,570 Carl and Harry were close friends. 352 00:24:56,750 --> 00:25:01,270 Oh, it was at our place a month or so before, before the accident. 353 00:25:02,330 --> 00:25:06,730 I was bringing ice in from the kitchen, and Carl was handing Harry some money. 354 00:25:07,490 --> 00:25:09,470 What did that have to do with Jim Kincannon? 355 00:25:09,830 --> 00:25:11,450 Well, it was what Carl Addison said. 356 00:25:11,690 --> 00:25:15,050 He said, crumbs for Kincannon, the pigeon. 357 00:25:16,450 --> 00:25:17,710 Here's the sucker's payoff. 358 00:25:18,850 --> 00:25:21,150 Then Harry laughed and answered something about Vegas. 359 00:25:22,380 --> 00:25:24,080 You told all this to Jim? 360 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:25,680 Last night. 361 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,440 Well, he got pretty excited on the phone. 362 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,000 You know, Mr. Mason, I thought that, well, whatever trouble that Jimmy and 363 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,600 were tied up in, maybe Carl was tied up in it, too. 364 00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:36,620 You see, Carl's pretty well fixed. 365 00:25:36,860 --> 00:25:40,360 If Jimmy pushes Carl, he might come through with some money to help him. 366 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:41,360 that's all I thought. 367 00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:44,200 I'm afraid somebody's already pushed Carl. 368 00:25:45,060 --> 00:25:46,060 Too hard. 369 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,960 But what do you mean? 370 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:49,820 Last night he was pushed off his roof. 371 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:51,760 He's dead. 372 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,680 He practiced every night for weeks. 373 00:26:09,060 --> 00:26:13,620 He went over and over every move until he knew how to do it without using his 374 00:26:13,620 --> 00:26:16,620 eyes. You know something? He would have gotten away with it. He just couldn't 375 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:19,560 have been accused. And of course, Miss Bentley had an alibi all set for 376 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:21,540 Let me get something straight, Miss Bentley. 377 00:26:21,780 --> 00:26:25,680 You knew that Addison was using Slade's as a front to sell stolen jewelry, yet 378 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,680 you said nothing about it. 379 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:28,599 That's right. 380 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,640 Who else was involved with Addison in fencing and selling stolen goods? 381 00:26:33,140 --> 00:26:34,160 I don't know. 382 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,740 Honestly, I don't. Oh, I think we can manage to find that out. 383 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,100 Down at police headquarters, Miss Bentley. 384 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,260 I'm sorry to inform you, but you're under arrest as an accomplice in the 385 00:26:46,260 --> 00:26:47,400 of Slade and Company. 386 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,040 If you please. 387 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:50,260 Just a moment, Tragg. 388 00:26:51,020 --> 00:26:52,680 Did you just follow them here? 389 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:56,760 Oh, no, no. I dropped over to have a talk with you about James Kincannon. 390 00:26:57,020 --> 00:27:00,860 Oh, with all the things Miss Bentley has just told us, I doubt if you'll still 391 00:27:00,860 --> 00:27:02,380 be so anxious to see our client. 392 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,560 Oh, we're seeing Concannon right now. 393 00:27:05,020 --> 00:27:06,220 Down at police headquarters. 394 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,080 Well? 395 00:27:15,580 --> 00:27:17,360 That's him. Number three. 396 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,180 Craig, what's this all about? Who is that man? 397 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:39,800 Jack Shaw. 398 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,140 Adrith, Las Vegas. 399 00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:44,180 His profession? 400 00:27:45,220 --> 00:27:46,340 Expert jewelry thief. 401 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,760 That's the man who supplied Addison with some of the stolen jewelry he sold 402 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,040 through Slade's. Then what about Kincannon? 403 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:54,240 Why are you holding him? 404 00:27:54,580 --> 00:27:58,200 Well, we'll hold up on the robbery charges, I suppose. 405 00:27:59,140 --> 00:28:01,780 But what do we want him tried for is the murder of his partner. 406 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,860 Partner? You mean Addison? 407 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:06,520 James Kincannon knew that Addison was stealing that jewelry. 408 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,280 They may have planned it together. Who knows? 409 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:14,060 He must have waited for Addison to come back with the stuff, wrestled it away 410 00:28:14,060 --> 00:28:15,860 from him, and then killed him. 411 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:20,900 Drag of all the wild theories you've ever had. That man, Shaw, is the man who 412 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:22,640 gave Addison the stolen jewelry to sell. 413 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,200 But he just identified your client, James Kincannon, as the man who paid off 414 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,200 the stolen jewelry. 415 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,080 Now, uh... 416 00:28:32,380 --> 00:28:36,020 What was that about, uh, wild theory, uh, counselor? 417 00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:41,420 Now's the best time to... 800 -252 -1988. 418 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,940 Well, I guess it was about seven months ago. 419 00:28:46,660 --> 00:28:51,360 After I deliver this hot stuff to Addison, he calls me and tells me to 420 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,980 guy in a place in Vegas. 421 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:57,720 So it was in Las Vegas that this guy, as you call him, met you and paid you for 422 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,720 the stolen jewelry? 423 00:28:58,780 --> 00:29:00,160 Yeah, five grand. 424 00:29:00,750 --> 00:29:04,270 And is this guy in court, Mr. Shaw? Can you identify him? 425 00:29:05,050 --> 00:29:05,969 That's him. 426 00:29:05,970 --> 00:29:07,010 James Kincannon. 427 00:29:08,190 --> 00:29:09,189 That's all. 428 00:29:09,190 --> 00:29:10,190 Your witness. 429 00:29:14,010 --> 00:29:17,910 When my client was arrested, he was returning from Las Vegas. Now, he'd gone 430 00:29:17,910 --> 00:29:19,630 there the night of the murder looking for you. 431 00:29:20,130 --> 00:29:21,370 But you weren't there, were you? 432 00:29:21,750 --> 00:29:23,290 No. I was out of town. 433 00:29:24,330 --> 00:29:25,970 According to my client... 434 00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:30,820 A man named Harry Slade lost $5 ,000 to you in a Las Vegas card game. 435 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,480 Now, that Las Vegas meeting seven months ago, Mr. Shaw, wasn't that when my 436 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,120 client gave you $5 ,000 to pay off Harry Slade's gambling debt? 437 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,520 You're out of your mind. 438 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,080 Gambling debt? 439 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,020 He gave me five grand to pay off a hot jewelry. 440 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:48,600 Period. 441 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:53,860 Well, it was shortly before 9 o 'clock on the evening when Mr. 442 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,080 Addison was murdered. 443 00:29:55,390 --> 00:29:56,630 that he phoned me at the shop. 444 00:29:57,230 --> 00:30:02,430 I had not quite finished cataloging the new stock that had arrived that day, but 445 00:30:02,430 --> 00:30:04,590 he suggested that I go home. 446 00:30:04,950 --> 00:30:07,510 And it... it puzzled me. 447 00:30:08,010 --> 00:30:09,630 Really? Why, Mr. Whitehead? 448 00:30:10,390 --> 00:30:15,030 With all due respect, Mr. Addison was never particularly concerned about the 449 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:19,170 number of hours he requested the staff to work overtime. 450 00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:21,610 And yet on this one night... 451 00:30:21,930 --> 00:30:26,190 Even though you had not completed your inventory on this night, he asked you to 452 00:30:26,190 --> 00:30:28,230 leave the shop and go home at once. Is that correct? 453 00:30:28,550 --> 00:30:29,389 That's right. 454 00:30:29,390 --> 00:30:31,990 I did so about five minutes later. 455 00:30:32,510 --> 00:30:34,530 Thank you, Mr. Whitehead. Your witness. 456 00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:39,870 Mr. Whitehead, you were present when the defendant, accompanied by Mr. Horace 457 00:30:39,870 --> 00:30:41,770 Welling and myself, visited the shop? 458 00:30:42,410 --> 00:30:43,249 Yes, sir. 459 00:30:43,250 --> 00:30:46,290 Mr. Welling came in to appraise the Kincannon collection. 460 00:30:46,770 --> 00:30:49,090 Isn't it possible that during that appraisal... 461 00:30:49,530 --> 00:30:54,030 The defendant handled that particular jewel box and in doing so placed his 462 00:30:54,030 --> 00:30:55,030 fingerprints on it? 463 00:30:55,330 --> 00:30:58,910 Well, yes, I'm certain that he... Oh, no. 464 00:30:59,870 --> 00:31:02,170 No, I'm sorry, Mr. Mason. 465 00:31:02,690 --> 00:31:05,790 Mr. Kincannon couldn't have handled the necklace case. 466 00:31:06,750 --> 00:31:07,970 Why not, Mr. Whitehead? 467 00:31:09,090 --> 00:31:15,830 Because I personally took the case from the stand and gave the necklace 468 00:31:15,830 --> 00:31:16,990 to Mr. Welling. 469 00:31:17,430 --> 00:31:18,430 And then... 470 00:31:18,620 --> 00:31:20,460 I put the case back on the stand. 471 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,640 Yes. Yes, I'm sure of it. 472 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,600 Thank you, Mr. Whitehead. That's all. 473 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:32,300 And after you had fixed the burglar alarm wires in the afternoon, and after 474 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,080 Whitehead had been sent home so that the store was empty, it was then Carl 475 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,660 Addison himself, despite his temporary blindness, who stole the Ken Cannon 476 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:42,660 collection. 477 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:43,920 Yes, sir. 478 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,960 Thank you, Miss Bentley. 479 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,160 Mr. Mason? 480 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,440 When did you last see Carl Addison? 481 00:31:53,420 --> 00:31:54,620 On the night of his death. 482 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,180 You went to the penthouse? 483 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,780 Yes, around 7 o 'clock. 484 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,620 You had a key. You let yourself in. 485 00:32:02,460 --> 00:32:03,460 Yes. 486 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:06,920 Did he have any other visitors while you were there? 487 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,520 No. Was he expecting any? 488 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,440 No. What time did you leave? 489 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,860 Around 9, a few minutes after. 490 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,200 Then you were there when Addison phoned Mr. Whitehead at the shop. 491 00:32:20,629 --> 00:32:25,010 Yes. The day after the robbery and the murder, you didn't go back to work after 492 00:32:25,010 --> 00:32:26,010 lunch. Why? 493 00:32:26,710 --> 00:32:27,730 I was scared. 494 00:32:28,930 --> 00:32:30,730 Because you had participated in a robbery? 495 00:32:31,630 --> 00:32:32,630 Yes. 496 00:32:33,090 --> 00:32:36,070 Are you sure you left Carl Addison's apartment at 9 o 'clock? 497 00:32:36,490 --> 00:32:38,470 I didn't kill him, I swear it. 498 00:32:40,890 --> 00:32:41,930 I loved him. 499 00:32:43,210 --> 00:32:45,810 No further questions at this time. 500 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:51,340 There was already a search on for King Cannon before homicide got into it. 501 00:32:51,860 --> 00:32:54,260 Before they called me to look at the murder apartment. 502 00:32:54,820 --> 00:32:56,840 Where was the defendant apprehended, Lieutenant? 503 00:32:57,140 --> 00:32:59,000 The highway patrol stopped him. 504 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,780 He was driving back from Las Vegas. 505 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:01,999 Thank you, Lieutenant. 506 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Your witness. 507 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,360 Lieutenant, you testified there was evidence of a struggle inside the murder 508 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:09,940 apartment. That's correct. 509 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,580 A car had been overturned, a lamp broken. 510 00:33:14,330 --> 00:33:17,770 And in your opinion, the struggle continued outside under the roof garden? 511 00:33:18,190 --> 00:33:19,190 Yes, that's right. 512 00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:22,850 Isn't it possible that during the struggle, the case containing the 513 00:33:22,850 --> 00:33:25,890 necklace fell to the floor of the roof garden, spilling its contents? 514 00:33:26,390 --> 00:33:28,690 Well, I suppose it's possible. 515 00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:33,010 The struggle over, the killer could then have picked up the necklace and the 516 00:33:33,010 --> 00:33:37,350 rest of the collection and left the case lying there on the floor. 517 00:33:37,670 --> 00:33:38,670 Yes, sir. 518 00:33:38,810 --> 00:33:40,870 It could have all happened just that way. 519 00:33:41,530 --> 00:33:42,530 Except... 520 00:33:42,879 --> 00:33:47,000 We found the jewelry case inside the locked apartment. 521 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:49,680 Yes, Lieutenant. 522 00:33:50,620 --> 00:33:51,780 We did, didn't we? 523 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,380 Now, let's get this straight, Mr. Slade. Are we to understand that you also were 524 00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,320 at the Addison apartment on the night of the murder? 525 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,540 Yes. I don't recall the exact time. It was around 9 .30. 526 00:34:04,060 --> 00:34:05,400 That's very interesting. Go on. 527 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,320 The apartment was dark. 528 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,560 I rang the bell a number of times, but there was no reply. 529 00:34:11,469 --> 00:34:12,469 I was concerned. 530 00:34:13,110 --> 00:34:15,130 Mr. Addison had just returned from the hospital. 531 00:34:15,870 --> 00:34:16,870 So what did you do? 532 00:34:17,070 --> 00:34:19,550 I went to the phone booth across the street and I phoned him. 533 00:34:19,929 --> 00:34:20,929 He said he'd been asleep. 534 00:34:21,790 --> 00:34:25,770 I apologized for disturbing him, but I told him I wanted to discuss some 535 00:34:25,770 --> 00:34:27,670 information I'd received from the insurance company. 536 00:34:28,389 --> 00:34:32,070 Well, he said he was tired and weak and couldn't have waited until morning. 537 00:34:32,510 --> 00:34:33,510 I agreed. 538 00:34:34,570 --> 00:34:38,170 Go on, sir. I walked back to my car and was about to drive away. 539 00:34:38,909 --> 00:34:42,010 when another car pulled up in front of Mr. Addison's apartment house building. 540 00:34:42,630 --> 00:34:43,830 The driver got out. 541 00:34:44,110 --> 00:34:45,110 He went inside. 542 00:34:45,429 --> 00:34:47,730 And did you recognize the driver of the other car? 543 00:34:48,330 --> 00:34:49,330 Yes. 544 00:34:50,409 --> 00:34:51,929 It was James Kincannon. 545 00:34:54,909 --> 00:34:56,469 And what did you do then, Mr. Slade? 546 00:34:57,290 --> 00:34:58,310 Well, I was curious. 547 00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:02,510 Besides, I wanted to talk to Mr. Kincannon to discuss this business about 548 00:35:02,510 --> 00:35:04,490 steering customers into my shop. 549 00:35:05,010 --> 00:35:07,730 So I waited for him. You waited for the defendant? 550 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,900 How long was he inside the building? 551 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:11,740 Oh, five minutes or so. 552 00:35:12,260 --> 00:35:14,960 I called to him when he came out, but he didn't hear me. 553 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,260 And by the time I'd crossed the street, he'd driven off. 554 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:19,680 Now, let's see. 555 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,740 Addison was killed between 9 .30 and 10 .30. 556 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:25,600 At 9 .40, you talked with Addison on the phone. 557 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,760 At 9 .50, you saw the defendant arrive at the apartment building and go inside. 558 00:35:31,260 --> 00:35:35,120 And at 10 o 'clock, you saw him come out of the building and drive away. Is that 559 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,120 your testimony, sir? 560 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,680 That is right. 561 00:35:38,090 --> 00:35:39,190 Thank you, Mr. Slade. 562 00:35:40,370 --> 00:35:41,370 Your witness. 563 00:35:41,470 --> 00:35:44,150 Gentlemen, it's just about time for adjournment. 564 00:35:44,410 --> 00:35:47,090 The court will recess until 9 .30 tomorrow morning. 565 00:35:57,410 --> 00:35:59,450 Come to preach. Stay for dinner. 566 00:35:59,690 --> 00:36:01,770 We'd be very honored to have you come for dinner. 567 00:36:02,010 --> 00:36:04,830 Well, just relax in the front porch and talk a little business. 568 00:36:05,490 --> 00:36:06,830 Corporation's really growing, isn't it? 569 00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:10,690 Andy Griffith, Sunday mornings at 11 on WGN Channel 9. 570 00:36:27,970 --> 00:36:29,230 A new timeout. 571 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,080 One minute, ten seconds. You? 572 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:34,620 That elevator to Addison's penthouse is slower than a slow boat to you -know 573 00:36:34,620 --> 00:36:37,460 -where. Two minutes, fifteen seconds, street to lobby, lobby to rooftop. 574 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:41,560 Overall time, three minutes, twenty -five seconds. Which is slicing it 575 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,140 thin. I know. Still, the struggle could have been over very quickly. 576 00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:46,000 Yeah, but it doesn't give the killer much time to get away. 577 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,220 Well, suppose he didn't. At least not then. 578 00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:51,380 Killer heard the elevator, ducked back into the penthouse. 579 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,120 Ken Cannon came along, just as he said. 580 00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:56,460 Stumbled over the empty jewelry case, picked it up. 581 00:36:56,890 --> 00:36:59,110 and tossed it in front of the door just before he left. 582 00:36:59,810 --> 00:37:03,830 Oh. Then you figure the killer had to be there to see Kincannon handle the case, 583 00:37:03,910 --> 00:37:05,970 after which the killer planted it inside the apartment. 584 00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:07,570 How else could it have been? 585 00:37:08,390 --> 00:37:10,770 One thing for sure, part of Slade's story is true. 586 00:37:12,810 --> 00:37:15,270 It happened exactly as I testified. 587 00:37:16,130 --> 00:37:20,970 I did phone Mr. Addison from the phone booth, and I did see James Kincannon go 588 00:37:20,970 --> 00:37:21,970 inside. 589 00:37:22,830 --> 00:37:27,010 About five minutes elapsed from the moment you completed your call until the 590 00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:29,350 arrival of James Kincannon at the apartment house? 591 00:37:29,570 --> 00:37:30,650 Please, the court. 592 00:37:30,910 --> 00:37:35,150 Your Honor, I intend to show that the murder took place within those five 593 00:37:35,150 --> 00:37:38,610 minutes and that Addison was dead before my client arrived on the scene. 594 00:37:39,290 --> 00:37:40,410 Go on, Mr. Mason. 595 00:37:42,330 --> 00:37:49,050 Now, Mr. Slade, you went up to Addison's penthouse before you made that call? 596 00:37:49,310 --> 00:37:53,490 Yes. Around 9 .30. When you got up to the penthouse, was there a light inside? 597 00:37:53,850 --> 00:37:55,050 No, the place was dark. 598 00:37:55,730 --> 00:37:59,950 You recall when we visited the penthouse the following morning, we found 599 00:37:59,950 --> 00:38:01,730 evidence of a struggle on the roof garden. 600 00:38:02,850 --> 00:38:03,850 That's right. 601 00:38:04,050 --> 00:38:06,890 I didn't see all that when I was up there at 9 .30. 602 00:38:07,370 --> 00:38:10,390 You then went downstairs to make a call from a phone booth. 603 00:38:11,570 --> 00:38:15,650 During the time you were in the phone booth, did you see anyone enter or leave 604 00:38:15,650 --> 00:38:16,650 that building? 605 00:38:16,730 --> 00:38:17,730 No. 606 00:38:17,990 --> 00:38:21,330 After you'd completed your call, You then walked back to your car. 607 00:38:22,170 --> 00:38:24,990 Did you see anyone enter or leave during that time? 608 00:38:25,810 --> 00:38:30,390 No, it was after I got in my car and was about to drive away that I saw Jim 609 00:38:30,390 --> 00:38:32,050 Kincannon come up and go inside. 610 00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:37,070 Now, Mr. Slade, let's consider the facts as you've related them. 611 00:38:37,990 --> 00:38:43,390 At 9 .30, when you called on Mr. Addison, you found no signs of a 612 00:38:43,390 --> 00:38:45,390 the penthouse doors were locked. 613 00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:46,750 That's right. 614 00:38:47,370 --> 00:38:49,770 About ten minutes later, you spoke to Mr. Addison. 615 00:38:50,650 --> 00:38:55,390 He must have been alive then, and he must have been inside the locked 616 00:38:55,630 --> 00:38:57,170 Yes, I would assume so. 617 00:38:57,430 --> 00:39:01,450 Now, those penthouse doors could be locked only by hand -closing a bolt from 618 00:39:01,450 --> 00:39:04,730 inside the apartment or by using a key from the outside. Is that correct? 619 00:39:05,050 --> 00:39:07,970 Yes. Yes, as a matter of fact, I know you're right. 620 00:39:08,470 --> 00:39:12,970 Mr. Addison often kept valuable merchandise in the apartment. The 621 00:39:12,970 --> 00:39:14,110 was a safety precaution. 622 00:39:14,370 --> 00:39:16,070 On the morning after the murder... 623 00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:20,110 I was with you and Sergeant Ferris when we found the empty jewelry case with 624 00:39:20,110 --> 00:39:22,470 Kincannon's fingerprints on it inside the apartment. 625 00:39:23,710 --> 00:39:26,270 And how did we get into the apartment, Mr. Slade? 626 00:39:27,430 --> 00:39:32,570 Well, it was locked and... Well, I unlocked it. 627 00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:33,870 With your key? 628 00:39:36,570 --> 00:39:37,570 Yes. 629 00:39:38,390 --> 00:39:42,850 Your Honor, I would like to interrupt the testimony of this witness to recall 630 00:39:42,850 --> 00:39:43,850 Lieutenant Tragg. 631 00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:47,980 Yes, Kincannon left the building just before 10. 632 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,620 Our investigation shows that he drove straight to Las Vegas. 633 00:39:52,180 --> 00:39:56,100 Now, the struggle that started inside the penthouse and continued out onto the 634 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:59,260 roof garden must have occurred after 9 .45, is that correct? 635 00:39:59,940 --> 00:40:05,260 Yes. Not before James Kincannon's arrival, not after he departed, but in 636 00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:09,740 was left of the five or seven minutes he was in the building, not including the 637 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,440 time it took him to go up and down in a slow elevator. 638 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:14,280 The way it must have been. 639 00:40:15,630 --> 00:40:18,830 Lieutenant, did James Kincannon have a key to that penthouse? 640 00:40:19,630 --> 00:40:22,450 We searched him, his car, and his home looking for the jewels. 641 00:40:23,550 --> 00:40:25,450 No, he didn't have such a key. 642 00:40:25,810 --> 00:40:28,750 The dead man, did he have his key when you found him? 643 00:40:29,210 --> 00:40:30,210 Yes. 644 00:40:31,110 --> 00:40:36,470 Now, if James Kincannon killed Addison, would you please tell me, Lieutenant, 645 00:40:36,690 --> 00:40:42,310 how his fingerprints got on that empty jewel case found inside a locked 646 00:40:42,310 --> 00:40:44,230 penthouse? Why would he have put it there? 647 00:40:44,710 --> 00:40:48,190 And what, or better still, how could he have locked that door? 648 00:40:49,290 --> 00:40:53,510 Well, I, uh... I guess I don't know. 649 00:40:54,930 --> 00:40:59,210 Addison had a key, Mr. Slade had a key, and... And Adele Bentley had a key. 650 00:41:01,710 --> 00:41:05,630 Yes, when I left at nine, I locked the door behind me. 651 00:41:06,350 --> 00:41:09,930 Now, this is important, Miss Bentley. As one of the three people who had a key 652 00:41:09,930 --> 00:41:12,810 to that apartment, did you or did you not return to that apartment? 653 00:41:13,290 --> 00:41:14,290 Your Honor. 654 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,380 I must protest these harassing tactics. 655 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,300 Since when is it harassment to prove a point? 656 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,800 Well, you've already done that, Mr. Mason, beautifully. 657 00:41:23,420 --> 00:41:26,480 You've already proved that your client has to be the murderer. 658 00:41:27,060 --> 00:41:29,100 Would you clarify that, Mr. Berger? 659 00:41:29,460 --> 00:41:30,460 Certainly, Your Honor. 660 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:31,940 The simple facts are these. 661 00:41:32,660 --> 00:41:36,120 Adele Bentley left the penthouse at 9 p .m. and did not return. 662 00:41:36,780 --> 00:41:42,300 Point number two, Mr. Slade visited there at 9 .30, but saw no signs of a 663 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:45,880 struggle. Point number three, Mr. Slade phoned Mr. 664 00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:50,740 Addison at 9 .40, thus proving that at least at 9 .40 Mr. Addison was still 665 00:41:50,740 --> 00:41:55,460 alive. Point number four, even Mr. Mason admits that his client was there 666 00:41:55,460 --> 00:41:57,440 between 9 .50 and 9 .55. 667 00:41:58,020 --> 00:42:04,100 And point number five, between 9 .40 and 10 o 'clock, Mr. Slade had the front 668 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:06,240 entrance to the apartment under constant surveillance. 669 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:12,020 During that time, only one person went up to the penthouse and came down again. 670 00:42:12,490 --> 00:42:14,770 And that one person was James Kincannon. 671 00:42:15,990 --> 00:42:17,590 Any comment, Mr. Mason? 672 00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:21,650 Your Honor, everything Mr. Berger says is quite true, with one exception. 673 00:42:22,130 --> 00:42:24,870 There was another way to reach that penthouse. 674 00:42:26,030 --> 00:42:31,470 Your Honor, even if someone had landed there by helicopter... One moment, Mr. 675 00:42:31,570 --> 00:42:32,570 Berger. 676 00:42:34,710 --> 00:42:37,270 What other way to the penthouse were you about to describe? 677 00:42:38,030 --> 00:42:41,150 The way Mr. Addison himself got to the penthouse after he'd committed the 678 00:42:41,150 --> 00:42:42,670 robbery. Over the rooftops. 679 00:42:42,990 --> 00:42:45,510 And if a blind man could do it, why not someone else? 680 00:42:47,630 --> 00:42:49,990 You may go ahead with your examination, Mr. Mason. 681 00:42:51,750 --> 00:42:56,810 Now, Miss Bentley, you and the rest of the staff at Slade's took inventory 682 00:42:56,810 --> 00:42:57,549 the robbery. 683 00:42:57,550 --> 00:42:58,950 What records did you use? 684 00:42:59,590 --> 00:43:01,250 A card index system. 685 00:43:01,630 --> 00:43:05,850 Did those cards include the new stock received the day before? Was every item 686 00:43:05,850 --> 00:43:06,850 listed? 687 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,440 Why, yes. 688 00:43:09,540 --> 00:43:14,200 But Mr. Whitehead testified that he did not complete cataloging the new stock 689 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,200 the night of the murder. 690 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,600 That he went home early at 9 o 'clock on Mr. Addison's orders. 691 00:43:20,420 --> 00:43:21,640 That's right. I did. 692 00:43:23,260 --> 00:43:26,940 Isn't it possible, Mr. Whitehead, that you stayed on that night to finish the 693 00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:31,780 cataloging? Isn't it possible that you were an eyewitness when Addison, even 694 00:43:31,780 --> 00:43:33,860 though he was blind, stole the Kincannon collection? 695 00:43:34,810 --> 00:43:38,750 Isn't it possible that you and only you got into the penthouse without being 696 00:43:38,750 --> 00:43:39,750 seen by Mr. Slade? 697 00:43:40,390 --> 00:43:41,710 No. No! 698 00:43:42,930 --> 00:43:45,270 You could have done it by following the blind Addison. 699 00:43:45,810 --> 00:43:48,530 You could have slipped into the penthouse when he was on the phone with 700 00:43:48,630 --> 00:43:49,630 Slade. 701 00:43:50,210 --> 00:43:52,010 A third of a million dollars in jewelry. 702 00:43:52,550 --> 00:43:54,550 And already stolen by someone else. 703 00:43:55,210 --> 00:43:56,930 Was the temptation too much for you? 704 00:43:57,990 --> 00:43:59,870 Didn't you take the jewelry, kill Addison? 705 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,560 Then tried to frame Kincannon after he'd come up to the roof garden, after he'd 706 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:04,800 handled the empty jewelry case. 707 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,020 Only one thing I don't understand, Mr. Whitehead. 708 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:10,440 Addison was blind. 709 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,760 He couldn't see you. 710 00:44:14,620 --> 00:44:16,000 Why did you have to kill him? 711 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,020 He heard me take the necklace from the case. 712 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:22,340 He grabbed me. 713 00:44:23,220 --> 00:44:25,680 He recognized my voice when I cried out. 714 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,920 I had to. 715 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,320 I understand. 716 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,340 I had to kill him. 717 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,140 How fast does Anbasol start to relieve toothache pain? 718 00:44:43,340 --> 00:44:49,300 Before you can say... Whitehead had just struck Addison down when Jimmy came up. 719 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:53,100 He dragged Addison inside the apartment and saw you handle the jewelry case. 720 00:44:53,340 --> 00:44:55,840 In his panic, Whitehead tried desperately to frame Jimmy. 721 00:44:56,350 --> 00:44:59,770 However, when he locked the jewelry case inside the apartment with Addison's key 722 00:44:59,770 --> 00:45:02,630 and put the key back in Addison's pocket before he threw him off the roof, he 723 00:45:02,630 --> 00:45:03,630 made an awful mistake. 724 00:45:04,290 --> 00:45:05,450 I understand that. 725 00:45:05,830 --> 00:45:09,430 But what bothers me is the testimony of that man Shaw from Las Vegas. 726 00:45:09,910 --> 00:45:14,190 But all the things the police blame you for, Jimmy, were done or started by 727 00:45:14,190 --> 00:45:19,210 Harry. I'm afraid it was Harry who was involved with Addison in fencing stolen 728 00:45:19,210 --> 00:45:22,330 jewelry. Harry also embezzled his own company's money. 729 00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:25,450 Jim became involved only because... 730 00:45:28,710 --> 00:45:31,250 Only because he was a very good friend to your son. 731 00:45:33,150 --> 00:45:34,890 I'm afraid I have a lot to make up for. 732 00:45:35,910 --> 00:45:36,910 To both of you. 733 00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:48,570 A Marine commando who refused to take over. 734 00:45:50,550 --> 00:45:54,130 An undercover cop who plays by his own rules. 735 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,520 His parents were murdered. 736 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,480 Call 1 -800 -648 -1199 now.