WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:06.879 Your name, poor Butler, your age twenty six, charge against 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.359 you stealing vehicles, pack. 3 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:13.160 Up, stealing vehicles, conspiracy to rob. 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:19.679 And burgulary sentence five ten years prosed. 5 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.640 Having served two and a half years at the state prison, 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.359 and having received the permission of the warden, and before 7 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:30.039 this board up for. 8 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:43.600 Parole tonight again another in the exciting new crime series 9 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:48.600 Up for parole, Authentic Cases is actually presented before the 10 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.479 parole boards in your state prisons, and told here for 11 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:53.320 the first time. 12 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:57.920 Ladies and gentlemen, you're about to sit in judgment on 13 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.920 another human being, whether he shall become your neighbor, your employee, 14 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.519 perhaps your friend, or remain where you society have put 15 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.719 him behind prison bars. Well, that human being is a 16 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:26.319 social offender, a criminal now up or parole. Remember, at 17 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.439 the close of tonight's broadcast, you can compare your own 18 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.879 judgment with the official decision of an actual state parole board. 19 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:37.079 I ask you, therefore, to listen and consider seriously the 20 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.959 story you are about to hear, told from the official 21 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.519 records of Paul Botwin, prison number eight two four dashed 22 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:47.120 three seven one, now pleading before the parole board and 23 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.319 before you or his freedom on. 24 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:56.519 The way things happen. I I didn't think at the 25 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:58.840 time I did it when I stole a car and 26 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:02.040 the rest at the this was a crime not only 27 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:07.840 against society, but against myself too. But gentlemen of the board, 28 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.159 since I got in a stir, I had a lot 29 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:15.639 of time to think. I followed all the regulations and 30 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.520 stayed away from influences. I think therefore, gentlemen, I am 31 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:30.960 eligible for your kind consideration. Well that's about it. 32 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.039 Who wrote that speech for you? 33 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.599 But one, sir, you can pick up one like that 34 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.199 from an a jail house lawyer for a buck. 35 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:41.199 Is that what they told you that we wanted to hear. 36 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.960 Nobody coached me, nobody told me to say anything. 37 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.919 That's how I had the point first. I think we 38 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:53.479 better start from the beginning, yes, sir. Now, the warden's 39 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.560 report here says that you refuse to see visitors, especially 40 00:02:58.680 --> 00:02:59.879 refused to see your mother. 41 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.400 Oh look, you gotta bring. 42 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:02.520 In a letter to the warden. 43 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.159 Your mother writes, what difference of what does it make 44 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:05.719 what you write? 45 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.360 He says, you used to stand in front of a 46 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.840 picture of your father, your dead father, a picture in 47 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:12.840 the living room and talk to him. 48 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:14.879 Get it out with you as if he were alive. 49 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.680 Okay, okay, okay, it with her and him, my mother 50 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:21.840 and my old man, my girl too, and her old man, 51 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:26.120 all of them. They made me like this. They wanted 52 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.800 me to be like this. They wanted a liar and 53 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.439 a crook, and they got it. They made me do it. 54 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:34.159 I can tell you the way they made me do it. 55 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:42.360 They got just exactly what they asked for. Is that 56 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:46.000 what you wanted to know? That what you wanted me 57 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:51.280 to say? Okay, I said it. 58 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.080 Well, if you said your piece but one, you can 59 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.560 leave now. The board will make its decision. Or if 60 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.280 you want to, you can tell us what that outburst 61 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.360 is all about. Yeah, what it means standing in front 62 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:03.400 of your father's picture. 63 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:09.479 Okay, okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you the whole thing. 64 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:17.160 Six years ago, I was the good kid in my neighborhood. 65 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.639 People used to say to their own kids, there goes 66 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.079 poor but one. Why can't you be like him? I 67 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:33.079 was nineteen going on twenty going to mechanics school at 68 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:37.079 the time. I got the good news about five o'clock, 69 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:43.279 so I came home in surprise. Mind, who is that? 70 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:45.920 Did you? 71 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:50.279 Paul? Why did you take off your apron mind no, 72 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.079 but no questions. Just take off the apron, mom, and 73 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.680 get on your new dress and pin these on. 74 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.959 Of course, I why, Paul, you and me. 75 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.560 We're gonna paint the town mob. We're going out the 76 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.800 best Chinese restaurant. There is anything you want on the menu. 77 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.560 It happened, It happened and more. Remember I told you. 78 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:11.600 At the end of the turn, the specialists come down 79 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.680 from that electronics company and so on, big shots to 80 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.920 pick three men for jobs, sure fire jobs. Well I 81 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.120 got tapped number two men start at thirty nine to 82 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:26.040 seventy five the first week. Paul, Oh my, I'm cut 83 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.680 that out. They'll take you an extra half hour to 84 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:33.079 fix up your face. Come on, Oh, Paul, go ahead, 85 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:36.519 get your coat. Ma I already ordered the table. 86 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:42.199 Tell him, Paul, he was a man with standards. 87 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:50.079 He'd be proud if only he were alive. Now, all right, Mama, 88 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:55.240 I'll tell him you you go ahead and get ready. 89 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.040 I went into the living room where his picture hung, 90 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:09.319 my father's picture right over the piano, big photo colored 91 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:13.879 by an artist, and I stood there like I did 92 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:14.680 ever since he died. 93 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:15.480 When he was poor. 94 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.839 High your pie, my thought you ought to know about 95 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.879 me being picked out for the job and all that. 96 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:32.399 It may not be much, but I'll work hard. I'll 97 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:33.120 make you proud of me. 98 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:37.199 Pa. 99 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.360 I'm ready for you. 100 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:43.160 Sure, sure, Ma. 101 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:55.000 You know it's almost like he was smiling. Man, I know, song, Pa, 102 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:57.519 it was a lion. 103 00:06:58.160 --> 00:06:59.959 The whole thing was a dirty. 104 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.319 Loved Hold on, now about her. 105 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.240 If you can control yourself, we will listen to the 106 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:06.800 rest of your story. 107 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:14.000 All right, all right, I'll try. It was just one 108 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:19.079 month later, the day I graduated. I was to start 109 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.000 to work. The next day I came home. Ma wasn't there. 110 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:26.720 I was going out with Matha that night. She was 111 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:38.759 my girl, and I I started to get ready. Who's there? Yeah? 112 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:41.120 Can I help you? 113 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:41.399 Hey? 114 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.079 Look, Mac, this is my house. Who are you? 115 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:47.800 Ain't changed? 116 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:48.240 Hey? 117 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:49.959 And where do you think you're going? 118 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:52.800 You got a drink in the house. 119 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.319 Hey, wait a minute, I don't mind a guy walking 120 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.279 in it. Look, Mac just told you would think you 121 00:07:58.319 --> 00:07:59.360 were blood. 122 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.759 Take a good long look, boy. Maybe you can answer 123 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:17.000 your question yourself. You want. Ah, that's just who I am. 124 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.360 What she told you? 125 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:21.120 You can't be. 126 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:26.199 Leave it to Emma, good old Emma. 127 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.560 Always tell the truth. Never lie ever steal. 128 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:36.159 She told you I was dead, didn't she? She never 129 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:42.279 told you about him over the piano? Then, well, he 130 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:47.120 was in state prison for an lawfulantry burglar reviolation of 131 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:51.559 the Sullivan Act fifteen to twenty years. She never told you, then, 132 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.440 she never told you your old man was a con. 133 00:08:57.639 --> 00:08:59.919 We'll take a good long look, sonny, because you're old 134 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.440 man has come home. Now, how about a drink? How 135 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:13.600 about a good long drink reunited you? 136 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:18.240 Oh no, no, no, no, it's impossible. 137 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:19.799 You can't be. 138 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.440 She wouldn't do a thing like that, telling me that 139 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:32.799 you are him, You are him. 140 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.360 Look at the picture, say, mom ie, you wouldn't hear me. 141 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.080 You're the same, the same. 142 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.240 The same quard where you're gone? 143 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:47.399 Who cares? 144 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:49.080 Who wants to know? 145 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:51.360 You're gonna stop me? 146 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:04.600 Next twenty four hours, the whole world fell on top 147 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:08.879 of me, a whole life, a life of a life 148 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:09.399 of lies. 149 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:14.519 Everything I thought was facing was phony. Everything I believed 150 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.639 there was a lie. I didn't know who I hated more, 151 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:18.879 my father or my mother? 152 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:20.320 But what did I care? 153 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.200 What happened my job? That didn't matter. 154 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.960 People I knew were saying things behind my back, lives 155 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:26.879 saying they knew it all along. 156 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:34.240 That was too good to be true. Okay, I said, okay, 157 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.600 I'll be what I am, the son of a convict. 158 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:45.000 I changed, I got hard. Never again was I going 159 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.799 to be soft, get sucked in by lies. I'd showed them. 160 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:50.440 I don't think it's a good idea for. 161 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.519 My girl, Martha. She didn't understand yet, that's how big 162 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:57.519 the change was. Even she didn't understand. We were talking 163 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.960 together in a drug store, in a back booth, safe place. 164 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:01.559 You sure it's a good idea for. 165 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:03.759 What am I going to do? Go back and live there, 166 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.279 look at him every morning and her listen to the 167 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.120 explanations and all that kind of stuff. Look now, I'm 168 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.000 on my own and I got plans, kid, I got 169 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:17.840 real plans. I don't you go soft on me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 170 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.279 I know. Your old man says it. If I see you, 171 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.679 he'll he'll break my neck. Well, i'd like to see 172 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.159 him try. He's still with me, aren't you? 173 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:26.759 Of course? 174 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.960 Okay with you. I can look at them up, every 175 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.159 stinking one of them, the neighborhood, my job, my own man, 176 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.639 and her. What's wrong? 177 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:38.960 My father, Arthur? 178 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.200 Get up and get out of here. Now, look, mister, 179 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.120 see him again, and here you are hiding. We're you 180 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.360 know who he's been hanging out with, the kind of 181 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:52.120 company he keeps, the things he's been doing. But when 182 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:53.480 what did I tell you I do to you? If 183 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:56.399 I caught you again with my daughter? I told you 184 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:01.559 I'd break. 185 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.360 I'll get out here. 186 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:06.879 And if I ever catch you so much as looking 187 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.120 at her again, well, what you just got is only 188 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.799 a sample, Botwin, just a sample. 189 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.519 It made me look like thirty in front of Martha. 190 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:26.759 They made that happen, my old man in my mother. Okay, 191 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.879 I thought before I knew where I was heading. Now 192 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:38.720 I knew for sure, but absolute sure, Yo, Lefty, you 193 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.360 got a straight and Tenny closes up the store. He's 194 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.480 been averaging two fifty two seventy five a night Friday night. 195 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.360 You ought to have at least three hundred. Now you 196 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.799 take a look out, Vince, Lefty, you're going to the 197 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.679 store first, and I'll handle the heavy work. Come on, 198 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:56.080 let's go. It's parked on a corner of one hundred 199 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.840 and thirty seventh in Treeline, a Cadillac with white wall tires. 200 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.120 The keys were in the club comparted now I'll meet 201 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.039 chat Samuche's garage at fifteen minutes a grand at least 202 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:09.440 it split three ways. Look, but I said everything in 203 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.960 the registers. But I already told you, told me enough 204 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:21.639 how I'm feeling you. And then came the best, the 205 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.559 best of the whole bunch. I was watching my step, 206 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:30.519 staying in a friend's place, and he found me. Oh, 207 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:37.000 I don't know. He got the right knock and I 208 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:44.120 opened the door. My old man, Well, how do you 209 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:49.279 like that? Come on, get in, shut the door? Were 210 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:50.000 you following? No? 211 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.679 I was careful. Paul, I got to talk to you. 212 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:54.000 What do you got to say to me? 213 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.879 Paul, I'm on parole. You know then, I'm good behavior. 214 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.799 What you've been doing it sin. It's been getting around. 215 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.159 They're blaming me, boy, They say if I ad a 216 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.879 fit father, I ineligible anymore to be on parole. They're 217 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:06.039 gonna send me back to the pen. That's five years. 218 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.399 You don't know what that means, boy, I waited sixteen 219 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:10.519 years for this to get. 220 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:12.240 Out and have a chance. You're lost me up. 221 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:16.080 Oh brother, that's the best I ever heard. Thin. Gonna 222 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.960 send you back for being a bad father because your 223 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:20.559 son is doing jobs in the neighborhood. 224 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:22.879 But what are you gonna do? Marsus and shut up? 225 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.559 And I'll tell you. Do I care about you going 226 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:27.200 back to prison? 227 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:28.679 Sure? 228 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:32.679 I care a part. I care so much that if 229 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:36.120 I had an ese spit to waste, I'd spit right 230 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:47.039 in your eye. Okay, that's what they wanted. They made 231 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.919 me a crook, my own man, Martha's father and neighbors, 232 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:56.320 and her he's so called mother. They got just what 233 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:02.440 they asked for. Is is that what you wanted to know, 234 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:05.000 gentlemen of the pro boy? 235 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.080 That wasn't the end, was it? But that was just 236 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:12.080 a beginning. There was arrest too for the carthef sentence 237 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.279 to Pine Hill. It was the first prison term, and 238 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:16.039 then there was more. 239 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:24.559 You want to hear that too, all right, I'll tell you. 240 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.240 We'll return to our file in just a moment. But first, 241 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:38.759 this Sunday night, Genial Horace Height will hold his first 242 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:43.240 quarter finals of nineteen fifty on his CBS Youth Opportunity Program. 243 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.080 During these first months of the year, Horse has been 244 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.080 making the rounds of the towns and cities finding new 245 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.480 and fine young entertainers, and the pick of these will 246 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.399 compete this Sunday night when Horace Heights original Youth Opportunity 247 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.559 program comes round on most of these same CBS networkstation. 248 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.039 Now back to the true story of Paul Botwin. Prisen 249 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.480 number eight two four dash three seven one The man 250 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.480 who is up for parole proceed Bodwin. 251 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.559 I did my time as best they could at pine Hill. 252 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:22.559 They treated me fairy. You try to give you a break. 253 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.840 I served my time and after a year I got out. 254 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.480 You were at pine Hill, an institution for first defenders, 255 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:31.360 a Wallace prisoner. 256 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:35.120 I got schools there, no hard labor. Warden wrote me 257 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:35.519 a letter. 258 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.279 He said that when you finally finished serving your term, 259 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.960 you were offered three jobs. Two were in your own 260 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:46.039 line telephone repairment. You turned them down. The other one 261 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.440 was in a silkhouse as a shipping clerk. Why did 262 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:50.480 you take that job? 263 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.200 Well, while I was at Pine Hill, I met two 264 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:56.559 guys who told me I was a sucker if I 265 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:59.840 didn't take the job at the silk warehouse, because because 266 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:02.039 it was an easy money deal. If I made my 267 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:05.640 plans right. You see, Martha left home and I could 268 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.640 see her anytime I wanted, and she'd marry me no 269 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:12.559 matter what. Her all man said, So I wanted to 270 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.559 make money quick, big money, so we could get married. Well, 271 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.880 when I did get out, I took the job and 272 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:23.839 in a month I had the place all case. 273 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.359 That's what we want to hear about when the truth. Now, 274 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:28.279 tell me, did you see this girl Martha? 275 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:30.599 Yeah? Yeah, I saw quite a bit of her, But 276 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:34.039 I didn't tell her what I was up to. I 277 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.319 only told her that soon we'd have some money and 278 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:38.920 we'd go out west, somewhere, get out of town. 279 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:42.480 Oh, I still don't understand what you're doing. 280 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.319 Well here, you have a good job to get out 281 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.880 of this town. You just lead everything to me. It's 282 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:49.240 big things coming, baby, real big paul. 283 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.319 I don't care. The main thing is you and me. 284 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.400 Oh why don't we stay here? Well? 285 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:54.160 What can you build on? 286 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.720 A family? A father or mother like yours and mine? 287 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.160 You want to see your mother, paw? 288 00:17:58.319 --> 00:17:59.039 Keep her out of it. 289 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:02.200 Look, paw, she's worked all this time, she saved the 290 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:03.799 little money. She's ready to give it to you. We 291 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:05.279 could maybe start a business or. 292 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.599 Oh Martha, you're still on that. Look, make up your mind. 293 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.039 You're with me or against me? Oh she's your mother, 294 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.319 she's a liar. That's what she is. She's the one 295 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:15.640 that started the whole thing. You know that I won't. 296 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.000 She's been waiting half an hour. 297 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.119 She's here, she's outside. 298 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.119 She just wants to tell you how sorry she is. 299 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:31.599 All right, Martha, go ahead, open the door, tell her 300 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:40.119 to come in. Martha said, my mother was coming to 301 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:45.119 see me. Well, I got news for you. My mother's dead. 302 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.160 She died when I was a little boy of four. 303 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.960 She was a fine woman with standards, but she died. 304 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:59.799 That's right. My mother's dead. Now, go on, get out. 305 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.359 But when yes, mister chairman board, i'd like to know 306 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:15.759 if that's still your attitude. 307 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:19.359 Oh, I know she's alive. If that's what you mean. 308 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.680 I also meant that during your stay in the state prison, 309 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:25.559 you've consistently refused to see her, open her letters, put 310 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:26.240 her right to her. 311 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.279 That's the way I feel right now. I just said it. 312 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:32.039 Go ahead. 313 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:37.240 So I went on with the plans. I had a 314 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.440 heist job at the Silk Plan because that's what they 315 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:44.400 wanted me to do. Okay, that's what what's gonna do. 316 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:47.319 First I saw the fence. 317 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.319 You got the truck tag right right, you're doing delivery 318 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:54.720 on the truck right in the back. Yeah, that's right, Okay, 319 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.480 trucks do with the plant in Coopersville forty seven minute 320 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:01.400 run time to the second she blows the tie and 321 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:04.839 to turn out over near Fremont Road. While you're fixing 322 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.319 it at trucks drive up. Tom's in at the company driver. 323 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.720 You take care of our boys will slide the silk 324 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:13.519 into the trucks. One hits for the Inner City Bridge, 325 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.279 the other takes the North End Tunnel. 326 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.720 You get ten grand for the job. The risk goes 327 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:28.960 to me. Oh it was smooth, flat tire taking Caro 328 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.920 of Zana. The company driver transfer the goods to the 329 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:36.359 Fencer's two trucks, one smooth as silk. One filled up 330 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.960 and headed for the Inner City Bridge, the other one 331 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:43.000 for the tunnel. Me on it, Me and the fence's driver. 332 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.759 Ten thousand was a good start and they'd be more 333 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:51.200 plenty more. Well. We took the Extension Highway, turned north 334 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:54.720 at River Street, and then I saw the lights in 335 00:20:54.799 --> 00:21:03.000 the tunnel. They were blinking on and off. What's the matter, 336 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:04.599 what's the matter they're blinking? 337 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:06.279 I don't know what was it for us? 338 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:07.920 Maybe a traffic. 339 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:09.160 Smart we'll get your foot on the gas. 340 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:12.119 What do you think I'm doing when. 341 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.519 They're closing it up, it is us. It's no good. 342 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:22.599 It's not that trap. I'll carry out, not tricks. 343 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:32.440 They gave me the business in court, I took a 344 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:37.680 plea guilty. What did I care? Because the first thing 345 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:39.319 they told me when they got me in the station, 346 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:41.119 the very first thing we. 347 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.000 Had allow good looking kid too, the name of Martha Collins. 348 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:49.319 After that, what did I care? She was like ma, 349 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.319 a liar, like all of them. 350 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:55.000 That said button. That's all there is. 351 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.920 Yes, sir, except I've been serving my time. I never 352 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.720 got no marks against spy report. 353 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:05.680 That's all you think that warrants parole. 354 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:08.920 That's up to you. 355 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.680 No, it's up to you too, because your records have 356 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:13.920 a couple of other things on it too, Like that 357 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:15.759 course you start to take and layth of the work 358 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.480 and would work out of motive repair course. 359 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:20.599 That you start, Uh, what's that got to do with anything? 360 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:21.519 What's the matter? You're shamed? 361 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.480 You shamed that there's any decency left in you? Is 362 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:27.039 that what you're ashamed of? Ashamed of? Maybe the world 363 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.519 won't think that you're tough hard Paul, butwin number eight 364 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.039 two four three seven one is that what you're ashamed of. 365 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:34.880 I got nothing to say. 366 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.119 Oh, yes, it's okay. 367 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.319 But when you've got two visitors, Principal Keeper wants to 368 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:41.519 know whether you will see them. 369 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:44.000 No, don't you want to know who they are. 370 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.640 I know who they are. 371 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:48.400 Ward's going to pass judgment on your case within the 372 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.359 next hour. We're sending you out now, but one because 373 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:52.960 we have to hear another case. That'll take about a 374 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:57.000 half an hour. Then we'll decide yours send for you. 375 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:17.160 You can go now, Helloma, Alo Martha. 376 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:18.240 Paul. 377 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:22.720 It's just one thing. I never chipped off the police. 378 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.119 They just said I did it so you'd tell about 379 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:25.839 the rest of the king. 380 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:28.200 I thought you want to know. 381 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:31.559 Thanks, But that's not important. 382 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.799 The important thing is, Paul, I feel so guilty about 383 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:40.440 how little I made you understand. I wanted you the 384 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:43.119 way you were before. I didn't want you and me 385 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:46.039 against the whole world. I wanted to be part of 386 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:51.119 the world with you. That's all I ever wanted. Can 387 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:52.039 you understand that? 388 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:59.480 Yeah, Paul, can I say something in my own stupid 389 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.839 way up, I'll save him. I'll save my boy by 390 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:07.799 keeping the truth from him. But you can't build a 391 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:12.559 life on a line like that, And now the only 392 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:16.200 thing I care about is well, I hope you don't 393 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:18.400 hate me too much and you won't. 394 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:19.119 Hate me forever. 395 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:23.359 Oh and one thing too, You to. 396 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.240 Know, Paul, your you're Papaul. 397 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:27.880 He died. 398 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:33.759 He died because he had nothing, not you, not me, nothing, 399 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:38.480 And well I was the cause of that. 400 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:45.200 Too, that's all, Martha, Wait. 401 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.039