1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: Theater present, Come in. 2 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:21,519 Speaker 2: Welcome. 3 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm e. G. Marshall. 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 3: Of all the murder mysteries, the plot which most intrigues 5 00:00:28,679 --> 00:00:32,399 me is the locked Room. And when you take that 6 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,560 as an ingredient and add to it elements of the supernatural, 7 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:41,000 both sacred and profane, then you have a tale to 8 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,159 tantalize and terrify, such as the one I bring you now. 9 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 4: Now, look, doctor, the law is excuse me, hello, the 10 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,520 sure this star looks good of you? Seems like I'm 11 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,000 going to have a use for it right away. However, 12 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,920 Ben James, my deputyes wrote in helpful other after the 13 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,920 dock here left Doomdorf, seems the preacher came by, headed 14 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,040 for Doomsdorf's place, breathing fire and trying his gun. Looks 15 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:20,239 like all hell has finally read. Break loose up there. 16 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,439 Speaker 3: Our mystery drama, The Thewed Room Murder was adapted. 17 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 5: From the MD Post story The Doomdorf Murder. 18 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 3: Especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars 19 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:38,200 Howard DaSilva and Fred Gwynn. It is sponsored in part 20 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:39,719 by Bwick Motor Division. 21 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: Ivy back shortly with that one. 22 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,599 Speaker 3: Evil and violence go with a pioneer state. But the 23 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,920 counterbalance had kept us viable as a nation, brought us 24 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:08,319 to leadership around the world. Compassion, share mindedness, and the 25 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:13,159 essential ingredient of America. A shrewd and pragmatical eye tempered 26 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:16,919 by religion, has built up a keel which so far 27 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,639 has kept our ship of state steady. So much for 28 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,520 philosophy as for the story, Let Judge Randolph tell us that. 29 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,319 Speaker 4: The Pioneer was not the only man in the great 30 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,240 mountains behind Virginia. Strange Indians drifted in after the colonial wars. 31 00:02:39,039 --> 00:02:42,759 Adventurers were with Braddock and Lesal and rode out of 32 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,159 Mexico after her. 33 00:02:44,199 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 2: Many empires went to pieces. Doundorff was one of them. 34 00:02:49,039 --> 00:02:51,199 Speaker 4: I shall never forget that first day he walked into 35 00:02:51,199 --> 00:02:55,719 the land office, huge black beards, with broad, thick hands, 36 00:02:56,159 --> 00:03:00,159 with square fingers. Even Abner's bulk seemed to diminish in 37 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:04,240 front of him, and the child who followed Doundorff diminished 38 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:10,039 to think me, it's the place where I buy because 39 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,879 I want for that I'm I reckon, depends on what 40 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:22,680 you wanted for, mister Dundah and jereous Dundal. Oh excuse me, uh, 41 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:26,039 this is mister Rondog, I should say, one of our 42 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,039 foremost lawyers in time, save and only that's all we 43 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:34,719 got right now. One, I'm out of the Dale County clerk. 44 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,199 Speaker 2: I reckon you tell me? And uh what would you 45 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,039 want this land for? 46 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: To leave? 47 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 6: On? 48 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: Uh? Huh you and your daughter me? 49 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:50,319 Speaker 4: And uh, yes, well now I got a copy of the 50 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,680 Washington survey and the original Crown grant here, I have 51 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:54,960 that peak already. 52 00:03:56,479 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 7: Oh you're here on surday I got from Capital. 53 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,879 Speaker 2: You know, say there that's it? You sure there's land 54 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:05,439 you want? Sir. 55 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,319 Speaker 4: I think what happening means to say is this wedge 56 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,400 of rock has never been worth even running the line? 57 00:04:11,039 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: Do you know what you're getting into? Have you seen 58 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,000 this peace property? 59 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 4: It's a forbidding pile of rock, mister doomdwarf and isolated 60 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,319 and this mine I want it well pretty mean up 61 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:27,040 there right now with the wind and no shelter, I. 62 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 3: Have ten sleeping back on my life finally, rough. 63 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 4: Well, that's all very well for you, But for the 64 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:34,000 little girl. 65 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 2: He's good for me, he's good for her. 66 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 4: I don't think you quite understand. As a lawyer, I 67 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:43,680 should not like to see you taking advantage job. The 68 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,879 parcel of land which you have bought was never surveyed 69 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,319 because it is not worth surveying. It consists almost entirely 70 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:50,759 of rock. 71 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 2: I know what he's like. He's right for me. 72 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 4: How are you gonna feed? Ain't much game running up 73 00:04:57,199 --> 00:04:58,399 in that part of western Virginia? 74 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:06,879 Speaker 3: I make god all right here here he's floored and I. 75 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: Hey, love. 76 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,639 Speaker 4: They are the pieces of eight duckets English guineas American dollars. 77 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,480 You're quite a traveler, mister doomdog. 78 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: What I do is my business. I mind my own business. 79 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 3: I don't like anyone who'll stick his nose in my fairs. 80 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,439 He'll take the money and give me the tapo so 81 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:27,959 I can go. 82 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 2: No offense is trying to be friendly. That's uh. Angela's 83 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:40,720 a M G E l us All right? Ye want 84 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,759 to spell your other name? God don't know you're right? 85 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:50,199 You'll tell me the O O M D O r F. 86 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:52,160 That was right. 87 00:05:53,439 --> 00:05:58,079 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's coming on the winter, sir, Because anyway 88 00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:00,560 we can help you build your house, right my. 89 00:06:01,879 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 3: Weak enough gold anything coming don you? We'll see are 90 00:06:07,519 --> 00:06:08,439 you finished. 91 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,759 Speaker 2: Up paper saying oh yeah? 92 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 4: I reckon? You sign right here? And me and mister 93 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:20,079 Randolph will witness it. Yeah, yep right, I make my heart. 94 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:23,879 Speaker 2: That he's legal. 95 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,959 Speaker 4: No, miss Randolph his mark. I think we can witness that. 96 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,759 Let us not to learn mister Doomdorf and his daughter further. 97 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:40,600 I'll add my John Hancock to that they are signed, 98 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,560 field and delivered. You need a possession of what we 99 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,680 call the Devil's Hump and welcome to our community. 100 00:06:48,879 --> 00:06:52,879 Speaker 2: Do not come to me a pop of it? I told, 101 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:01,639 I said, come yo, Well is that don't bet all? 102 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 4: A hard man, evil man, one who's done a lot 103 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,680 of living. Notice the scars, Yeah, wager he has bullet 104 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,319 ones underneath his shirt to go with the knife tracks. 105 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: I sure wish he hadn't chosen arnack of the. 106 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:18,639 Speaker 4: Words to hide out him hide out? What else would 107 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,199 you figure? The devil hump is no place for a 108 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:23,560 man to make his home. That's the place for a 109 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,120 man to set his back against the wall to fight 110 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:29,480 off what he knows is coming after him. I suppose 111 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:35,120 you're right, An, The more's the pity, Why oh, that 112 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,079 that innocent child should be dragged along to share such 113 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:38,759 an exile. 114 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 2: You get a real close look at her? What was 115 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,279 she dumb, and she couldn't speak. I doubt it. 116 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 4: Afraid now you got it, afraid and beaten? 117 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 2: Well I did here. That's a hard man. Uh, for all, for. 118 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 4: All he seeks solitude, I doubt he'll find it. We 119 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,199 have not seen the end of mister Dundorff, only the beginning. 120 00:08:05,199 --> 00:08:10,759 I'll stake my life on it. But it was not 121 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,759 my life there was to be staked, but others. For 122 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,480 a while, my uneasy feelings seemed just to be based 123 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,240 on a negative reaction to Doomdorf himself. He squatted on 124 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:25,040 the rock, troubling no one, seeking no help, while, by 125 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,399 hiring Old Robert Stewart's slaves. 126 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: He built a stone house on the rock. 127 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 4: Then, in the handfuls of earth wherever a root would hold, 128 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:39,480 he started to plant the mountain with peach trees. Then 129 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:44,000 the beginning of the end began to start. 130 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,159 Speaker 2: Here, or won a day of here. 131 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 4: Uh, you're new in town. So the lady behind the 132 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,000 bar is the owner, a widow lady. Her name is 133 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,840 missus Cambridge. Here should be in the carroll. 134 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:04,879 Speaker 7: Grass, laddam Okay, I do not want to make her 135 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,720 of his I am looking for his friend. 136 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 8: He's a friendly can. 137 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,159 Speaker 4: Who he is another migo de la guerra, A big 138 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,080 man with his black beard, big luck so and. 139 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,799 Speaker 7: This strange accent. I think maybe his real name is 140 00:09:18,919 --> 00:09:21,279 the boom Door like that. 141 00:09:22,039 --> 00:09:26,279 Speaker 2: Don't Mary, what is this two? We are old camarados. 142 00:09:27,039 --> 00:09:29,759 I do just want to find him to settle. You 143 00:09:29,919 --> 00:09:32,360 know that I owe him. Well, why don't I let 144 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,440 him know you here and you can meet him in town. 145 00:09:34,879 --> 00:09:38,200 He's too weird. It's no Nather, but why not? I 146 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,639 just go see him. He's kind of queer like, like 147 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:47,519 he don't take the mixing. So good him Dante. You 148 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,759 see him, you tell him. Jose Garcia was look for him, 149 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,399 but I have not so much time. 150 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 7: Maybe on my way back I look him up then 151 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,480 Ataras and I say it. 152 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 8: Why didn't you tell him where to find Doomdorf? 153 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 4: Just a crazy notion maybe, but I got a set 154 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,279 in my mind that he wanted to see him, to put. 155 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: A bullet in him. 156 00:10:15,519 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 4: We found the man who said his name was ose Garcia, 157 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,519 snagged on a rock at the Devil's Elbow, two to 158 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:24,000 three miles below Doomdorf's mountain Iriy. 159 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,399 Speaker 2: His neck was broken. That was the first of the 160 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,240 Doomdorf incidents so many during the next ten years, I 161 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:35,039 wouldn't wear your patience to recount them. Only the highlights. 162 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 4: There was the night before we knew what use Doomdorf 163 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,360 was putting his peach crop to when he arrived at 164 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:46,320 missus Cambridge's in primed with flickor an insensate beast. 165 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 3: Ah er. 166 00:10:51,879 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 8: Not enough so fifteen, I think you've had enough to drink, 167 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:58,240 mister Doomdorff. 168 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 2: I'm must ask you to leave, God said thrust the 169 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:02,320 two too runs. 170 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 4: That comes You not ask me to leave the lady 171 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,440 I asked you to ride out. Mister Betty, you go 172 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,279 easy by yourself. 173 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 2: You mean I don't go. 174 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 4: You'll make me no cause for inieructions you've been drinking. 175 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,600 Oh you'll want no night Troddle, not me. I just 176 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:25,720 want to keep the peace. 177 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:32,639 Speaker 2: Then snap hell twenty five? Okay, that does it? Open 178 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:39,399 and no play? Leave fight now outside. I don't want 179 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:45,200 to fight what for? You'll fight me here or outside? 180 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:51,679 One way or order. There were two big men. 181 00:11:51,799 --> 00:11:54,519 Speaker 4: But Avenue It was a peaceful man and sought only 182 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,360 to protect himself. Well, Doomdorff was a maniac. He gouged 183 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,240 but It and finally took six of us to put 184 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,039 him off and lodge him in the jail for the night. 185 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:07,639 Speaker 2: Abnah took it in the stride, and he did everything. 186 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,799 Speaker 4: He was better than bruised, and just maybe if he'd 187 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:13,879 used his whole strength, he could have broken to him off. 188 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,919 But Admir's strength was in the mind as well as 189 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:20,600 a new dulk. The next highlight in the career of 190 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:24,120 the man whose names spelled his future was the arrival 191 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,639 of a circuit rider the days. 192 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 9: A silent tomorrow hasna here's the man who thinks the 193 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,320 fruit of his field, and me likely with fury to 194 00:12:35,519 --> 00:12:39,279 destroy him in's mind and their soul, and who is 195 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,080 ready to bring in your daughter and your women like 196 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,919 black or the use of any internalist fean. 197 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:52,879 Speaker 2: But the town was not yet ready to make any 198 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:56,720 move again to him. Is still was popular. He made 199 00:12:56,759 --> 00:12:57,840 a fair brand. 200 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 4: Of white lightning until the ultimate the unforgivable. A certain 201 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:04,879 shame all those of us who knew or at least 202 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,399 scent the truth. Brought everything to a head. On a wild, 203 00:13:09,879 --> 00:13:13,080 rainy night, while Doc Jeffers and I were playing chess 204 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,279 at his house, there came a hammering at his arm. 205 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 2: Well, let me dun dwarf, Come on in what is 206 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,279 he's a woman? She was in labor. 207 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 3: I had tried, hovering, Lombino, No good, you don't come. 208 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 2: Yes, of course, of course I'll get a fine own 209 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:33,679 sad on my horse. 210 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:38,799 Speaker 4: I waited all night for doct Jeffers to return. It 211 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,559 was long as sunrise, with the rain still coming down. 212 00:13:42,639 --> 00:13:44,559 That he did well. 213 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:48,519 Speaker 2: Now, I am a pragmatic man, and I subscribed to 214 00:13:48,639 --> 00:13:49,120 no religion. 215 00:13:49,159 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 10: But fine, damn I wish this moment I had God 216 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,840 to pray too. Why he left that child to a board, 217 00:13:55,919 --> 00:13:59,600 a dead baby? The miracles she hasn't shot and set 218 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:00,080 to see. 219 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,039 Speaker 2: He didn't want a baby. I'm a judge now already. 220 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,919 Maybe I can help. No, no, no one can help. 221 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 3: He's a beast, unprincipled and without pity or even the 222 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:12,639 simple human warms. 223 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 2: But he has papers to protect him. 224 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: The girl was Mexican born, literally literally sold into slavery, 225 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:19,960 and she's. 226 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 2: My lord. She can't be any older than my teenage. 227 00:14:23,879 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 3: Daughter, but she's his to do with as he wants 228 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:31,600 and as he wants. Oh he damn near succeeded him 229 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:32,279 killing her. 230 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: Excuse me well, Hello, sheriff, new star looks good. 231 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 4: On you, seems how I'm gonna have to use for 232 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,759 it right away. 233 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,759 Speaker 2: Oh, my Deputy Ben James has rode in here health 234 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:48,919 a leather. After the dock here left Doomdorf. 235 00:14:49,519 --> 00:14:52,679 Speaker 4: Seems the preacher came by headed for the Devil's hum, 236 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,159 preaching fire and trying his gun. Looks like all hell 237 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:09,080 is finally ready to break loose up there, All hell 238 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:15,480 break loose, all right, but for whom? For poor little 239 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:20,919 Now there's a sad thing, poor little who we don't 240 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:24,720 even know her name. Now she has one or has 241 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,039 retribution caught up with Doomdorf. 242 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:34,559 Speaker 5: And if so, how and why and where? I'll return 243 00:15:34,679 --> 00:15:35,679 shortly with that too. 244 00:15:47,159 --> 00:15:49,559 Speaker 3: It is a long ride out to the Devil's Hump, 245 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:54,679 and the afternoon sun was burning hot and steaming above 246 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,639 the great chestnut trees that shaded the trail, a trail 247 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:02,600 so narrow that Judge his horse had to follow behind Abner's. 248 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:05,639 Abner had his Winchester out of the holster. 249 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: Across his saddle. 250 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 3: Whatever hell had broken loose, he was ready for it. 251 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:14,799 And now I'll turn the story back to Judge Randolph. 252 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:16,440 He can tell it better. 253 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:22,799 Speaker 4: He was there, I suppose, seeing Abner. I should have 254 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:25,720 had my own rifle out, But I'm in a different shot, 255 00:16:26,639 --> 00:16:29,240 and Abner for all her loaves violence in part of 256 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,360 twiggle one hundred yards, I reckon, I ain't no sense, 257 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,519 of course. The horse is got that rock trail dridge. 258 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,360 We'll dismount here and climb up the rest by foot. 259 00:16:38,919 --> 00:16:42,399 Speaker 2: Seems quiet enough up there. I don't know. 260 00:16:43,399 --> 00:16:46,159 Speaker 4: Look at them brushes up there, you know when they 261 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:46,919 start wheeling. 262 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:50,279 Speaker 2: There's only one good reason. Well, maybe we should have 263 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,039 brought some men. No, I doubt it. 264 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 4: Fears to me whatever hell broke loose is pure gone 265 00:16:56,399 --> 00:17:01,399 and burns south out. We had made a detour through 266 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,279 a grove of peach trees before we set the horses 267 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:05,000 out to graze. 268 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:07,839 Speaker 2: But now we were climbing in the open under the 269 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,039 burning sun. When I saw that gaunt. 270 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,319 Speaker 4: Old circuit rider Bronson was sitting bareheaded, hands on the 271 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,480 pommel of his saddle in a paved court for the door. 272 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,519 His big red horse was dripping with sweat. I braced 273 00:17:21,559 --> 00:17:22,400 myself for anything. 274 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 2: He seemed in a kind of chance. Bronson, where's doomdar? 275 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 7: Surely he's covered his feet in his summer chamber. 276 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 4: Now look here, Bronson. No leave me, He's in his 277 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,640 own world. Not ours him on, Judge. 278 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 2: Hate. Mister Doomdar is. 279 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,799 Speaker 4: Signor it's Sheriff avenuer Dale and I'm Judge Randolph. 280 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 2: Where's mister Doomdark? Oh? 281 00:17:53,759 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 8: He went to lie down in his south room upstairs 282 00:17:56,599 --> 00:17:57,640 after the midday meal. 283 00:17:58,720 --> 00:17:59,559 Speaker 2: Was he feeling all right? 284 00:18:00,039 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 9: Yes? 285 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 8: That is what he does every day. It is his custom. 286 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 2: So did you send Ben James Ross send photo? 287 00:18:09,279 --> 00:18:16,599 Speaker 8: No, singer, but coming, I will take you upstairs. I'm 288 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:17,319 glad you're here. 289 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 2: Why man? 290 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 8: But I was in the orchard to gather some fruit, 291 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,400 if it was right. But when I came back, this 292 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,440 is his door. I cannot wake him. 293 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 2: Can you open the door? Oh no? Why why are 294 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:36,559 you afraid to? 295 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 8: I could not. 296 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 5: If he's bolted. 297 00:18:39,799 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: Does he always bolt it. 298 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,519 Speaker 8: When it goes to lie down, yes, or whenever he 299 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,960 sleeps anywhere? 300 00:18:46,519 --> 00:18:47,839 Speaker 2: Why because he's afraid of something? 301 00:18:48,599 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 8: Oh? 302 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:49,039 Speaker 3: Yes? 303 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:50,079 Speaker 1: Who? 304 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:51,799 Speaker 8: Those men? 305 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 2: What man? 306 00:18:53,319 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 8: The ones he stole from that he fought with in 307 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:56,559 Mexico for the. 308 00:18:56,599 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 4: Revolution and then he he run, leaving them to die. 309 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 5: I think not all. 310 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:08,759 Speaker 8: They still come after him, but he's too careful here. 311 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:10,480 He cannot be surprised. 312 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 4: Maybe just for once. He wasn't so careful, and they 313 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:20,519 did knock on the door. Sure, I think, don't dark, 314 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,240 don't dark, wake up? You're man, Let me, let me 315 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:32,480 don't dark. It's all right, this is Judge Randolph. Don't 316 00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:34,200 dark come out. 317 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 8: If he could come out, he would. 318 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: I do not think he can come out any other 319 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:43,799 doors to this room. No windows. 320 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 8: The house is built on the cliff. No way in 321 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:48,599 from the outside. 322 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 2: All right, an, let's break it down. Stand back, Judge, 323 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:52,480 I'll get it. 324 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 4: This time. Keep back until I make sure the coast 325 00:20:03,319 --> 00:20:07,599 is clear. Doom dark, doom dark? 326 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 2: What is it? 327 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 8: She's dead? 328 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:15,039 Speaker 2: I'm afraid, so. 329 00:20:18,279 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 4: I'd better go after her. 330 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:29,079 Speaker 2: No need, where can she go? No, we better look 331 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:35,640 at him first. I'll close the door. He's been shot, Yeah, 332 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,319 pretty near ripped him in a half. 333 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,839 Speaker 4: Looked at the size of that hole in his waistcoat. 334 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,000 Smells like burnt powder in here. You're sure we're alone? 335 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,039 See if yourself, Judge. 336 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,759 Speaker 2: Not in the room, but some chairs, couch. He's lying 337 00:20:51,839 --> 00:20:54,759 on that table with a bottle on it. 338 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 4: No doors, windows, shutters thrown back, but the windows closed. 339 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,319 Well at least we though he wasn't shot from outside. 340 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,519 Speaker 2: Kind of looks that way. You sure he's dead? He 341 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,079 he's cold in the macro. Even something coming him couldn't 342 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,400 keep him warm. Where's the weapon? 343 00:21:14,759 --> 00:21:18,759 Speaker 4: Well, right behind you, I'd say, I'm them two dogwood 344 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:21,960 farks on the wall. Those be made to rest it 345 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:27,400 on the shot gun. Yes, it's been fired quite recently. 346 00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:29,359 There's a freshly exploded cap right. 347 00:21:29,319 --> 00:21:30,839 Speaker 2: Under a hammerk. Yeah, it's all that. 348 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: Mm. 349 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:38,839 Speaker 4: He'd been drinking some heavy I'd say, you think it's suicide. 350 00:21:39,519 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 2: I don't hardly think after he got a whole blow 351 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,519 of that size in him, then he'd get up and 352 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:48,279 hang up that gun nice neat. No, I don't hardly 353 00:21:48,319 --> 00:21:51,160 think so. Neither of this is murder. 354 00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 4: The woman took that gun down and shut doomed door 355 00:21:54,759 --> 00:21:56,079 while he was sleeping on that couch. 356 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 2: Could be, I suppose. 357 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,519 Speaker 4: But what about Bronson. He came in here breathing death 358 00:22:01,599 --> 00:22:04,599 and destruction, or he's just a mid old circuit preacher 359 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,960 who's been preaching a crusade far and wide through the 360 00:22:07,079 --> 00:22:08,880 hills against Doomdar for furnishing. 361 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,279 Speaker 2: There's here, moonshine. 362 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 4: We have a murder on our hands, and you think 363 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,240 the woman is guilty? Or what else well, let's go 364 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,279 ask Bronson first who killed him? 365 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:19,839 Speaker 9: Mm. 366 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 2: But by the time we got to the outer courtyard, the. 367 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,039 Speaker 4: Old man had disappeared, although his red horse stood tethered 368 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,960 to a rail. I hesitated for a moment or two, 369 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,480 turning the strange and tragic event that had taken place 370 00:22:35,039 --> 00:22:38,640 over and over in my mind. Come with me, Judge, 371 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,359 around the other side of the house. Huh, very well, 372 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:44,839 you have a stay behind me for cover, cover. 373 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 2: From what Who knows? There's a murder around here somewhere. 374 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 4: Well, a woman is already fro first, and I think 375 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,480 she's not quite right in the. 376 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:54,799 Speaker 2: Head, after all, she's gone through hate hold it. 377 00:22:55,279 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 4: But the back of the house flush with the edge 378 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,799 of the cliff over a hundred foot dropped of the river. 379 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,559 Speaker 2: Judge, Doomdorf was his sojore right, Well, how do you 380 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,279 reckon that? For certain? Any good general. 381 00:23:09,079 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 4: First make sure his rare is protected, and he couldn't 382 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,519 be franked. The only way to flush Doomdorf out was 383 00:23:15,599 --> 00:23:17,880 up that goat path we climbed to the house. He 384 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:19,880 knew what he was doing when he made this. 385 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:20,559 Speaker 2: His canceled. 386 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 4: Yes, I recognized that years ago when that matter called 387 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,279 themselves God see it came looking for him. 388 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,319 Speaker 2: I'm sure there were others who came. After all. 389 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 4: That goal he brought strap of his money built only 390 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,920 one difference with them, or maybe two. Well, they didn't 391 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,359 ask questions, and we never found their bodies. 392 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 2: I suppose you're right. I hold no brief for Doomdorf, 393 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,240 the man reeked of evil. 394 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 4: For the fact is, as officers of the law, we 395 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,200 do have a body, and there are things to be done. 396 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,440 Right enough, for the sun is getting low in the sky. 397 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:58,240 You expect me to arrest the woman, Well, at least 398 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:02,680 we must question her. Come we should question Bronson too. 399 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,400 Why it's a notion I got just make. 400 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 2: It all neat and tidy. Yeah, there he is now, Bronson. 401 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:15,599 Speaker 3: I cannot tell your brother I am about the Lord's work. 402 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 4: Where are you going to that damnable still with this accent? 403 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 3: In the name of Him who is my shield and 404 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:24,640 my strength, I shall destroy the evil work that immoral 405 00:24:24,759 --> 00:24:25,759 Doomdorf has rocked. 406 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,839 Speaker 2: Bronson? What who killed Doondorf? Why do you have to ask? 407 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:31,319 I killed him. 408 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 3: I cut him down in the prime of his fling 409 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,200 fight the almighty? 410 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 2: What is this? Saddener? Everybody couldn't have killed him. Who 411 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:41,880 can tell how many had a hand in it? 412 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,799 Speaker 4: Are you deliberately trying to mystify me? The thing is impossible. 413 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:52,720 The impossible here looks like the truth. Come with me, Judge, 414 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:58,079 and I will show you a thing more impossible than all. 415 00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:04,880 I followed Abner. 416 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,839 Speaker 2: Back into the house and up the stair again, up 417 00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:07,279 to the room. 418 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,079 Speaker 4: The door swung open, the shuttered edge of it with 419 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,799 a luck hanging half out, and Abner closed it carefully 420 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:19,079 behind us after we entered. I want to show you something, Judge, 421 00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:22,440 the boat. They kept the door closed, Yes, sir. 422 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,039 Speaker 2: But I want you to see that it is no 423 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,480 way connected with the lock itself. Heh. And it is 424 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,559 on the inside. 425 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 4: Now, how could the one who killed Doomdorf get into 426 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,480 the room when we know the door was bolted and 427 00:25:35,599 --> 00:25:38,440 we had to break it down to enter only one 428 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,599 other way through the windows. And well, let's look it 429 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:47,359 down now. Remember we have seen from the outside that 430 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,319 there is a sheer drop of at least a hundred 431 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,680 feet of the river, and the rock is as smooth 432 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:52,240 as glass. 433 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,079 Speaker 2: Now try try looking out. 434 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 4: Oh, just as you said, the wall of the houses 435 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,279 plum with a rock face. You know that is not. 436 00:26:03,519 --> 00:26:07,480 You can't open these windows. He examined the frames. They're 437 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:11,319 cemented into their casement with dust, and they're bound along 438 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:12,480 the edges with cobwebs. 439 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 2: That's right, these windows have never been opened. And then 440 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,039 how did the assassin enter? 441 00:26:20,319 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 4: Well he, of course the answer is evident. Whoever killed 442 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,519 Doomdorf hid in the room. 443 00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 2: Till he was asleep, then he shot him and went out? 444 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,960 Where could he hide? 445 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 4: And even supposing he could when he left, how did 446 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,839 the assassin boat the door behind him? When the boat 447 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,119 was on the inside of the door. Then who knows? 448 00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 2: Maybe Doomdorf did kill himself. No, we ruled that out yesterday. 449 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,319 Speaker 4: Then there's only one open road out of the mystery. 450 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,680 Both the woman and Bronson claim they killed Doomdorf. Let 451 00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:58,480 us go down and ask them question. In the law 452 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,480 cart that procedure, it could. 453 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 2: Be considered sounds sense. But Judge, we are in God's court. 454 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,079 Things are done in a somewhat stranger way. 455 00:27:09,799 --> 00:27:11,039 Speaker 3: In what way do you mean? 456 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:14,079 Speaker 2: In a way that still must be put to the proof, 457 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,279 And for that we need to borrow time. 458 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,759 Speaker 4: But I have every faith that time will show us 459 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:28,160 exactly who murdered or perhaps the better word might be executed. 460 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 2: The man who lies dead before. 461 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 3: Us, I said in the beginning a story to terrify 462 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:46,559 and tantalize and tantalizing, it must be a man, alive 463 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,119 and alone by himself in a locked room, has met 464 00:27:50,279 --> 00:27:54,599 death by the blast of a shotgun, neatly returned to 465 00:27:54,759 --> 00:27:56,200 its place on the wall. 466 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 5: By whose hand? 467 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:00,759 Speaker 2: In what way? 468 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 3: These are the questions and others to be answered. When 469 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,559 I returned shortly with Act three. 470 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:20,319 Speaker 1: In the room with the dead man. 471 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,319 Speaker 3: Judge Randolph faces Sheriff Abnerdale, a frown of puzzlement on 472 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,880 his patrician face. His eyes searched the expression of the great, 473 00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:33,319 lumbering young man in front of him, whose whole physical 474 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,680 appearance suggests a man of action rather than one of 475 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:41,119 thought or mental ability. The judge is the first to 476 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,559 break the silence posed by the seemingly insoluble problem they face. 477 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 2: What do you mean? 478 00:28:46,799 --> 00:28:49,359 Speaker 4: We are in God's court and things are done in 479 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,079 a somewhat stranger way. 480 00:28:51,359 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 2: Before we go. 481 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:54,279 Speaker 4: Question those who are so anxious to be convicted of 482 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:57,599 the assassination of Doundorff. Let us find out, if we can, 483 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,359 at what hour he actually died, how and I seem 484 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,960 to remember he wore a watch. Yeah, here it is 485 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,920 in the westcoat pocket, broken by the shot. That's what 486 00:29:09,119 --> 00:29:13,359 ours stand the hands just past one o'clock. By the 487 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,160 look at Bronson when we found him here, he must 488 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,079 have been far off. 489 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 2: Still in his way to his place. 490 00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:21,359 Speaker 4: And the woman, by her story, was down the mountains 491 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,839 picking fruit among the peach trees. 492 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:24,119 Speaker 2: That's how I had it. Take it. 493 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 4: But why waste time on speculation anymore? 494 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,319 Speaker 2: We know who did this thing. 495 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:30,759 Speaker 4: Let us go down and get the story of it 496 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,079 out of their own mouths. Either Bronson or the woman 497 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,559 killed the man. I could better believe it, but for 498 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:43,400 the inevitability of a certain awful law. All day that 499 00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:47,279 take the sword shall perish with the sword or the 500 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:50,880 good book, Matthew, we reap what we sow. 501 00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 2: Thus we receive what we give, and nothing else. That 502 00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:59,759 is God's law very well in a sense. But in 503 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:02,079 this this case, by all means, let us go try 504 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,160 the method of your law, courts, your faith, lies, and 505 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,160 the wisdom of their ways. 506 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 4: We came down the stairs together abnor, calm and reflective, 507 00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:16,200 myself tortured and mystified. 508 00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 2: Bronson, how did you kill Dundorf? 509 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,759 Speaker 3: I killed him as the Elijah killed the captains of 510 00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:27,119 Isaiah in their fifties. But not by the hand of 511 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,640 any man did I pray the Lord God to destroy 512 00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:31,079 him with the fire from heaven. 513 00:30:31,839 --> 00:30:34,839 Speaker 4: I prayed him to destroy Dundorf. Give me the action 514 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:41,200 in your hands, so now explain yourself. His hands were 515 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:42,000 red with blood. 516 00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,359 Speaker 3: The widow and the orphan cried to heaven against him. 517 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,960 I will surely hear their cry, as the promise written 518 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:49,480 in the book. 519 00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 2: And you were the instrument raised up to heed their cry. 520 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:53,559 And the land was weary of him. 521 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 3: And I prayed the Lord God to destroy him with 522 00:30:57,039 --> 00:30:58,000 fire from Hiven. 523 00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 2: Because he destroyed the prince. 524 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 4: There is a gamar in their palaces with fire from heaven. 525 00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:10,200 Come Abner, we waste our time here a moment. Bronson, Bronson, 526 00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:13,720 you hear me, I hear you, Avenue Gale. A little 527 00:31:13,759 --> 00:31:16,359 while ago, when we came, I asked you where Doomdorf was, 528 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,559 and you answered me in the third chapter of the 529 00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:19,279 Book of Judges. 530 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,079 Speaker 2: Why do you answer me like that? 531 00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 3: When I said, surely he covereth his feet in his 532 00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:28,759 summer chamber. Yeah, the woman told me he had not 533 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,559 come down from the chamber where he had gone up 534 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,559 to sleep. It was then I knew that he was 535 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:37,839 dead in his summer chamber, like egg Long king of 536 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:38,880 moab Ow. 537 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,039 Speaker 2: Could you know? I look you off there to the south. 538 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,839 I came here from the Great Valley to cut down 539 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:45,960 these groves are. 540 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,519 Speaker 9: Valid to empty outter speaking abomination. 541 00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:52,559 Speaker 3: But I did not know that the Lord has heard 542 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,200 my prayer and visited his raft on Doomedorf until I 543 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,920 was come up the mountain to his door. 544 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,799 Speaker 2: But when the woman throw, I knew it. Now work 545 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:02,559 here is done. 546 00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 4: I must ride where's a larger cowls? 547 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:09,079 Speaker 2: Just a minute? Why it's happened? You're right, you're right. 548 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,319 That was only a waste of time. 549 00:32:11,319 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 4: Bronson did not kill Doomdorf, but new realized judge how 550 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,960 he did die, at least not by Bronson and not 551 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,440 by fire from heaven. Doomdorf was dead before Bronson got. 552 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 2: Here with his fire breathing scripture. The woman must be 553 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:30,880 the guilty One. 554 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 4: Knight had entered the valley with the setting of the sun, 555 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,839 and there were other things to do before the inquisition 556 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,160 of the woman. By candlelight, the shadows weird and fearsome on. 557 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,079 Speaker 2: The wall we made a coffin. 558 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,599 Speaker 4: We put Doomdorf in it, straightened out his limbs and 559 00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:54,440 folded his arms across his shutout heart. And we set 560 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,119 the coffin on benches. 561 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 2: In the hall. 562 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,839 Speaker 4: Then we kindled the fire in the living room, where 563 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,319 the woman had put some meat and golden cheese and a. 564 00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 2: Loaf on the table. You'll have eaten enough, as much 565 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:08,319 as is fitting. 566 00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:11,279 Speaker 8: I believe it as it is, in case you should 567 00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:16,920 want more. I am going now where to the sea 568 00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:24,039 and the sheep. He is dead and I am free. 569 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:28,319 Speaker 4: Not quite, there's a question still to be settled. Who 570 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,119 killed your Who killed doom Darth? 571 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 8: But I have told you I killed him. 572 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,319 Speaker 2: It was fair fair. 573 00:33:38,359 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 8: I remember an old old man sitting against a sunny wall, 574 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,960 and a little girl who plucked yellow flowers from the 575 00:33:48,079 --> 00:33:51,720 grass and put them in her hair. She laughed and 576 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,960 she was happy because she was twelve years old, and 577 00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,119 in a few days she would be thirteen, and she 578 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,799 would make her novena. But they were bad times, and 579 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,559 the big stranger with the black beard and the hard 580 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,719 hands came to the old man and talked, And after 581 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,360 he had talked a long time, they gave the old 582 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,239 money a gold chain and some money, and he took 583 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,719 the little girl away. He used her in a way 584 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,360 she did not know. And if she tried to run 585 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,000 away or kick him away. You like to look at the. 586 00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 9: Scars on my back. 587 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,599 Speaker 8: You want to ask the doctor he was too late 588 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:36,800 to save my baby. Oh, it was fair to kill him. 589 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:38,760 Speaker 2: But where will you go? 590 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,039 Speaker 8: My abuelo will be gone by now. My grandfather was 591 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:48,639 dying ten years ago. But the wall will still be there, 592 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,119 and maybe the sun and the yellow flowers. It is 593 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:56,400 all right that I gone. 594 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 2: It's up with the judge. I cannot find it in 595 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,079 my heart to hold you or in the law. Not 596 00:35:06,159 --> 00:35:08,400 a jury in Virginia, it would convict you for shooting 597 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,159 a beast like that. 598 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 8: I thank you, judge, But I I have not shoot. 599 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,599 Speaker 2: Him, not shooting him. And the man is riddled. 600 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:22,199 Speaker 8: I kill him, but I have not shoot him. I 601 00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:26,760 kill him with which words I remembered from my mother. 602 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 2: Hey, you can't kill a man with words. 603 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,639 Speaker 8: Man, Oh, I know, sen you. That is why I 604 00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:37,800 make a doll in wax, and I put a needle 605 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:43,920 through his breast, and you die very quickly. No, senor, 606 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:46,199 I may go. 607 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,679 Speaker 4: It was good that you let her go, judge, No, 608 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,840 it was pathetic, a homocidal dream to rid herself of 609 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:03,079 a monster with a enchanted strong man. I think she 610 00:36:03,159 --> 00:36:05,800 had money in her saddle bag, but I slipped some 611 00:36:06,159 --> 00:36:07,360 extra gist in chase. 612 00:36:08,639 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 2: And now where are we waiting like her for the dawn? 613 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 4: This was the strangest thing that ever happened. Someone shot 614 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,119 the man, But who and how did the killer get out. 615 00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 2: Of that shut up room? For that matter, how did 616 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,239 he get in through the window? 617 00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:33,559 Speaker 4: Through the window here yourself have showed me that was impossible. 618 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,360 Speaker 2: You proved it could never have been open. I did 619 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,760 it never was open, Amner. What are you trying to 620 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,119 tell me how Doomdorf died. 621 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,559 Speaker 4: You're trying to say that the one who killed him 622 00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:53,079 climbed that sheer wall, got in through a closed window 623 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,239 without even disturbing a crumb of dust or breaking a cobweb. 624 00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:59,239 I'm telling you the murderer of doom Dark did even more. 625 00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:05,239 What we must wait for tomorrow when the assassin returns. 626 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:12,039 There are shy who killed doom Darth and how? I 627 00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:14,199 could have argued, But I knew that set look on 628 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,920 Abner's face too well to waste my time. I could 629 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,360 not have believed that I could sleep with the thoughts 630 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,320 spinning in my brain. 631 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 2: But I did. We ate, and through the morning dug 632 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,519 a gray for the dead man in silence. 633 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,599 Speaker 4: By the time the last spadeful of earth was thrown back, 634 00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:36,280 it was high noon, and Abner squinted. 635 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,519 Speaker 2: Up at the sun. 636 00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:41,440 Speaker 4: Time to throw our space down. Go lay an ambush 637 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,800 for the assassin. He's already on the way here. Judge, 638 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:48,519 where do we go? Back the house and up to 639 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:57,519 Dundarf's room. Now we must make certain preparations. 640 00:37:59,039 --> 00:37:59,679 Speaker 2: What are you doing? 641 00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 4: I'm loading the shotgun as it was before it took 642 00:38:03,519 --> 00:38:08,440 Doom's door. It's life, and now I place it back 643 00:38:08,519 --> 00:38:12,239 on its rack, exactly as I found it. 644 00:38:13,039 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 2: What do you wanna do with this pillow? And just cold? 645 00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,679 The blood is not entirely dry. Here, give it to me. 646 00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:20,840 We'll wrap the. 647 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,719 Speaker 4: Coat around the pillow as if it were a body, 648 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,639 and place it here on the couch, just. 649 00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:32,159 Speaker 2: Where Doomed door lay. Now, look out the window. Is 650 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,199 the day still clear? Not like flowered in the sky? 651 00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:35,800 Speaker 1: Huh? 652 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:37,159 Speaker 2: Just like yesterday? 653 00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 4: It's not hotter now for the moonshine or this bottle 654 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:48,960 of still liquor let's see good. You can see by 655 00:38:49,039 --> 00:38:51,000 the dust ring on the table that it sets just 656 00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:53,480 where it did yesterday as I return it to its 657 00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:54,159 resting place. 658 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,599 Speaker 2: Whatever you say, but but I I still don't see. 659 00:38:57,679 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 3: Hi. 660 00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 1: What sh. 661 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 2: We are about to trick the murderer in the act. 662 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,639 But we came without guns. How can we protect ourselves? 663 00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:11,440 We need no protection, judge, it is all in the 664 00:39:11,559 --> 00:39:16,679 hands of the Lord. Look, the assassin is creeping along 665 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:17,239 the wall. 666 00:39:18,039 --> 00:39:19,119 Speaker 5: Where should look? 667 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,119 Speaker 2: That point a light? 668 00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:26,280 Speaker 6: I followed the line of his extended finger and saw 669 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,800 what he meant, A tiny disc of focused, white hot 670 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,039 sunlight moving slowly across the wall toward the shotgun. 671 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 2: He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword. 672 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,079 Speaker 4: The water bobble full of doom d'orfliquor is focus in 673 00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:48,000 the sun to the heat of a lighted match as. 674 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,519 Speaker 2: It travels to the lock and fire and pin of 675 00:39:50,639 --> 00:39:57,239 the shotgun. The answer to Bronson's prayer the fire from heaven. 676 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,079 Now Watch. 677 00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:10,679 Speaker 4: Now, as the pinpoint of sunlight reached the percussion cap 678 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,280 and the gun exploded as though the trigger. 679 00:40:13,039 --> 00:40:16,320 Speaker 2: Had been pulled. The pillow wrapped in the dead man's. 680 00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 4: Coat, lying on the couch where the man himself had 681 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,559 lain some twenty four hours before, leaped and shuddered like 682 00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:25,480 a living thing, and collapsed in earthly. The room was 683 00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:29,000 still echoing with the sound of the explosion. My own 684 00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:33,119 voice sounded cramped and hoarse, as I said, and we 685 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,519 mistrust coincidence? Why it is a world filled with the 686 00:40:38,679 --> 00:40:39,840 joinder of accidents. 687 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:45,079 Speaker 2: It is a world filled with the mysterious justice of God, 688 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,400 the answer to the mystery of the doom, dwarf murder. 689 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,679 Our fate well deserved and. 690 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,760 Speaker 3: Brought only on himself by the dead man, who had 691 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,639 little right or reason to live. Wouldn't have been nice 692 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,360 if an equal fate could be the lot of so 693 00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:10,760 many people, each of us know except U. 694 00:41:11,679 --> 00:41:15,400 Speaker 2: Who are we to be the judge that. 695 00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:20,679 Speaker 3: Belongs, thank God, to the higher power I inadvertently named. 696 00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,639 Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly. 697 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,760 Speaker 3: It seems to me necessary in conclusion to put a 698 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,400 quote used in this story in its exact context. When 699 00:41:42,519 --> 00:41:45,599 Jesus had been betrayed by Judas, and when the High 700 00:41:45,679 --> 00:41:48,920 Priest's men came to take him by force, one of 701 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:53,480 those with him struck out against the attackers, wounding him. 702 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,320 It was then that Jesus spoke the full quote saying, 703 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,400 put up again thy sword into its place, for all 704 00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:07,519 they that take up the sword shall perish with the sword. 705 00:42:08,639 --> 00:42:11,119 Speaker 2: As you see, it was still and. 706 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,599 Speaker 5: Always the Prince of Peace who spoke. 707 00:42:16,199 --> 00:42:19,599 Speaker 3: Our cast included Howard da Silva, Fred Gwynn, Bryana Raeburn, 708 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,760 Ian Martin and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under 709 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:30,679 the direction of Hymond Brown. And now a preview of 710 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:31,800 our next tale. 711 00:42:32,199 --> 00:42:35,239 Speaker 11: It's the sign. It's the sign we saw out on 712 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:35,800 the main road. 713 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,199 Speaker 8: Oh, maybe it's one like it, an old one. 714 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,440 Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's the same sign. 715 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 11: So the one that pointed to the two ruts through 716 00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:43,440 the field. 717 00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:45,920 Speaker 8: Why would mister Broker have it in here? 718 00:42:47,119 --> 00:42:49,000 Speaker 11: It wasout the sign out there. You could go right 719 00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:51,800 past that field, go right past. 720 00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:52,920 Speaker 2: Grahamville'll never know it was here. 721 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,199 Speaker 8: Is Is that what they want? 722 00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 11: Maybe your suspicions weren't so wrong. 723 00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:03,320 Speaker 8: Jane, Oh, Mike, what does it mean? 724 00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 11: I want to ask some questions, but don't let on. 725 00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:07,920 Speaker 2: We found this. Huh. 726 00:43:09,519 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 11: Come on, Let's get out of here fast before Broker 727 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:11,840 gets back. 728 00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:14,400 Speaker 8: Let's leave this town right away. 729 00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:15,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. I only hope we can. 730 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,519 Speaker 8: Jim Egan did oh did he you. 731 00:43:19,559 --> 00:43:21,280 Speaker 11: Were suspicious about that sudden departure. 732 00:43:21,679 --> 00:43:24,360 Speaker 5: Now I'm beginning to wonder he departed. 733 00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:27,280 Speaker 2: But I'd like to know where this is. 734 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:27,599 Speaker 8: E g. 735 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,159 Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for 736 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,400 another adventure in the macabre. 737 00:43:34,559 --> 00:43:38,639 Speaker 5: Until next time, pleasant dreams.