1 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:22,839 Speaker 1: Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. Our story is 2 00:00:22,879 --> 00:00:26,960 about a man named Will Crawford, imprisoned for a daring 3 00:00:27,079 --> 00:00:31,239 theft which he did not commit. Can you imagine being 4 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:36,200 confined to a cell for years, thrown in with thieves, phelans, 5 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,640 addicts and dangerous criminals? What would you think about? How 6 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:44,039 would you preserve your sanity? And what would you do 7 00:00:44,799 --> 00:00:49,920 if you were released? Will Crawford new our mystery drama, 8 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,320 The Corpse wrote shorthand was written especially for the mystery 9 00:00:54,359 --> 00:00:58,799 theater by Roy Windsor and stars Mandel Kramer. It is 10 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,960 sponsored in part Bysteren Lossages and view It Motor Division. 11 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:19,359 I'll be back shortly with that one false arrest, false imprisonment. 12 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:25,239 Within ourselves, each of us in imagination can visualize just 13 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,159 about anything that can happen to another person. We can 14 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:33,400 dream about love because it has touched us, about hate 15 00:01:33,879 --> 00:01:38,719 because we have hated about success, failure, hunger and pain. 16 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:44,719 But I, for one, cannot imagine being arrested and imprisoned 17 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,799 for a crime I didn't commit. And that is what 18 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,159 happened to one honest man named Will Crawford. 19 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:55,159 Speaker 2: He will change your mind, I've explained, Mom, yes, you 20 00:01:55,239 --> 00:01:55,760 certainly have. 21 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 3: All right, I'll drive about the last. I'll explain couldn't 22 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,239 take the day off. He'll understand. 23 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: Shoot, you make me feel like I don't care? Do 24 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:07,000 you care? 25 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: Well? 26 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: Sure, it's just well, I'm new at this job and 27 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,199 I don't like to have to ask for a day 28 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,599 off to drive up there. 29 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: It's not so bad up there, nick, I've been going 30 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,560 up once a week for five years. 31 00:02:19,719 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: I know I've been up too. It's just it just 32 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:24,199 makes me feel funny. 33 00:02:24,159 --> 00:02:25,159 Speaker 4: Hotty because if the prison. 34 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 3: Well, sure that I understand you. 35 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:30,719 Speaker 4: You will be. 36 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: Here when we come home. 37 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: Who sure? I wish you wouldn't make me feel this way, Mom. 38 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,520 I am not guilty of anything, No worry about it. 39 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,919 It's just that it's been so awful. Mom. You don't 40 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,800 know what I went through. Kids in high school, boy, 41 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,159 they can be pretty nasty. You think i'd stolen the money. 42 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:51,719 My senior year just fell apart, you remember. 43 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 3: Yes, I do. 44 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: Now. 45 00:02:54,439 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 3: It's heartsick when he left. 46 00:02:56,599 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: So as your father, well, help you go on to 47 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,360 college and for one lousy job after another, couldn't get 48 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,840 a decent one. I'd say, I'm Mick Crawford, and that's it. 49 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:08,680 You're the son of a man who stole all that 50 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,120 money from the Pendleton Bank. Well, I made a lot 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,800 of laws. No one worried i'd steal that power mowers. Nick, 52 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,240 you should have left River Falls and gone someplace else, 53 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,520 changed our name started. 54 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 3: Fresh, Nika, I must get ready. 55 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:27,199 Speaker 1: You still believe, don't you? Mom? 56 00:03:27,439 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 3: I know your father. He's an honest man. He says 57 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,159 he did not and does a little money from the 58 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:35,159 Penderson Bank, and I believe him. 59 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: What happens now, I don't know. Why don't we sell 60 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,400 a house, move away. 61 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:42,599 Speaker 3: And admit your father's guilt. 62 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,639 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, he was found guilty. He was the bookkeeper. 63 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:48,240 The books have been tampered with. Over one hundred thousand 64 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,759 dollars is mincing and someone has it, but not your father. 65 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,000 What's he gonna do when he comes home? He can't 66 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,280 get a job in River Falls. Who take a chance 67 00:03:56,319 --> 00:03:57,240 on him? 68 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: I believe your father is innocent. 69 00:03:59,080 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: Nick. 70 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: That is giving me the strength to hold my head 71 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:04,080 up to all those customers who come into the Variety 72 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,759 store and buy out and ends and give me kitty 73 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,000 and looks. I know you've been embarrassed by what happened 74 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:15,039 to your father. So you don't have to be here 75 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:15,919 when I came home. 76 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: Now I'll be here to say hello, and then I 77 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,600 think I will clear out. I I just can't go 78 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:36,720 on living like this, Mom, I I just can't. Uh well, 79 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,680 wish to Crawford. You're free, so I am. I'm glad 80 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,639 to see you get out. Not that you ever gave 81 00:04:42,639 --> 00:04:44,560 me any trouble. That's not what I meant. I know. 82 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:46,879 And if you thought i'd bet a man like you. 83 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,920 The kind of mission is to Crawford. But it's been 84 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,720 there five years now, commuted to five for good behavior. 85 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,439 Now it's gonna do. Now, what would you do if 86 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,439 you'd been sentenced to prison for a crime you didn't 87 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:04,000 commitsh still saying that it's true. Yeah, I'd like to 88 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,959 believe you, but I don't know I had up at 89 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,240 the time. And how they proved you jubbed your book. 90 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,800 Someone juggled the books. I didn't. If you say so 91 00:05:12,959 --> 00:05:15,879 much the Crawford. Let me ask you again, if you'd 92 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,959 been sentenced to prison for a crime you didn't commit. 93 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,160 What would you do if I'd been given a bum 94 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,680 rap and then got out, I'd go after the double 95 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,759 cost they've committed the crime and bring the truth out 96 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:31,480 of it. MM, guess what I'm going to do. Yeah, 97 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:33,319 I can see it in your eyes. I don't care 98 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:35,720 if it takes the rest of my life's planting. I 99 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:38,600 didn't embezzle the money from the bank. I have never 100 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,000 seen a hundred thousand dollars. I don't know where it is, 101 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,000 where it went, but I'm going to find out and 102 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,120 when I do. Yeah, I've been labeled a thief. I've 103 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,079 been in prison for five years. Think about this is 104 00:05:50,079 --> 00:05:52,639 done to my wife and to my son, how they've suffered. 105 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,839 I can't give them back those five years of humiliation, 106 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,720 but I can create a future for us. All I 107 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:02,759 have to do is discover who friends. Good luck, mister Crawford, 108 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,199 Thank you, plancy y. You know whether Wharton's up? Oh sure, sure, 109 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:09,240 I'll see him and listen to his little speech. You 110 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:11,399 uh committed a crime against society for which you were 111 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,600 tried and found guilty. You've paid your debt. Now you're 112 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,399 a free man again. Then he wished me good luck 113 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:18,800 and give me some money. He's performed his job. Next 114 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,519 game doesn't make any difference so that the person was 115 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:24,160 guilty or innocent. The warden makes the same speech. It's 116 00:06:24,199 --> 00:06:26,120 like dealing with a machine. It performs a function, but 117 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,800 it has no judgment, no heart, just punctures you in 118 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,800 or out. But he's not a bad guy, mister Crawford. 119 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:35,680 I know that he's just a cipher in our equation 120 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:41,560 of justice. Goodbye, plenty, so long, mister Crawford. If I 121 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,399 sound bitter, it's because I am. I've been robbed of 122 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:48,240 five years in my life. I can't get them back, 123 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,600 but somebody's going to pay for starting. 124 00:06:52,279 --> 00:07:04,439 Speaker 2: Now, old help mod Stone may have times I can't help. 125 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 1: You'll get us thrown out of explains it? 126 00:07:07,879 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 3: It doesn't. I I can't believe you'll see I'm not duly, 127 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,399 what the look fright and stuff? 128 00:07:16,399 --> 00:07:17,839 Speaker 1: You just dry your eyes and listen to me and 129 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,759 let me try and explain it. Of course, first I 130 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:24,240 thank God for you. Oh well, no, let me finish. 131 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:26,839 I do thank God for a wife like you. I 132 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:29,480 know what you've gone through, like I paced that celebrity 133 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,279 for five years, knowing what life was like for you 134 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,399 here in River Falls, having to work and meet the 135 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,839 sulfarch as hypocrites who were curious about or missus Crawford, 136 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,000 how she could hold her head up after her husband 137 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,439 was sent to prison friend besling a hundred thousand dollars 138 00:07:43,439 --> 00:07:46,920 in the bank. I know, don I know the embarrassment 139 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,920 and the hurt, and still you believed in me. You're 140 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:55,160 the only one who did yes. Does thank your doughter? 141 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:56,879 Speaker 2: Well? 142 00:07:56,959 --> 00:07:58,439 Speaker 3: You you don't have me crying again? 143 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:00,959 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no more crying Stone. I didn't make 144 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:03,800 that speech to make your cry. I just wanted to 145 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,879 say something you except to you and Nick and what 146 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:08,560 I've done to both of you. I wouldn't have cared 147 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,079 if I had a lot of the death in that prison, 148 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,079 cause I love you and I can deeply about both 149 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:16,480 of your art. From this very time, I had one 150 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:19,680 goal in my life. I'm going to prove my innocence. 151 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,600 I'd rather be dead. Well, don't fight in it. I'd 152 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,279 rather be dead than be marked for the rest of 153 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:27,040 my life as a thief. I didn't embezzle that money. 154 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: I know that. 155 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 3: Don't dwell on it, though you're fraid. Together that's what counts, 156 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:34,559 that's what take point. 157 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,519 Speaker 1: And that's not enough for me or for you or Nick. 158 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,000 But we've talked all this out before. I didn't know 159 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:39,440 we have. 160 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 3: I ain't know it and. 161 00:08:44,799 --> 00:08:48,879 Speaker 1: How I don't quite know how. 162 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 3: I know in my heart that you didn't dilate money, 163 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,639 because I know you, But how do. 164 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: We prove it? 165 00:08:56,519 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 3: Somebody took the money? 166 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 1: Who that is? 167 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,799 Speaker 3: A know all the dependences attired? His sound is the president? 168 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:07,919 Now it's a long time ago in age. I thought 169 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,559 about it night after a. 170 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,639 Speaker 1: Lone light about poor Darling married to a fall guy. 171 00:09:14,039 --> 00:09:16,799 Honest Will Crawford set up for a fall right into 172 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:19,559 wood prison, Celler I could kill the swine hood goodness 173 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,960 to us. I'm gonna find him. Still, I'll find him 174 00:09:22,039 --> 00:09:22,399 when I do. 175 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,639 Speaker 3: You know, let's cux saint, I am talking. 176 00:09:25,919 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: No, you're not. 177 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 3: Those of us are angry. Let let's just look at 178 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:37,039 the fat coldly. You were accused and tried and convicted 179 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:37,720 by a jury. 180 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: Yes, because some securities were found to be missing them, 181 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:42,399 because someone had made false entries in my books. 182 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:44,399 Speaker 3: You didn't and there's a lot money. 183 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: But how was it done? I think, well, there are 184 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:53,519 two ways. At least what about the security. Adam Rossano 185 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,559 a contracted I tried it. Rossano borrowed seventy thousand dollars 186 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,639 from the bank and gave us securities this collateral about 187 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,600 ninety thousand dollars moving when he paid off his loan, 188 00:10:04,159 --> 00:10:09,120 he wanted his securities returned. They were missing, they'd been sold. 189 00:10:10,159 --> 00:10:11,919 They were traced to a book of Johnson, New York, 190 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,440 but the seller couldn't be found. 191 00:10:14,879 --> 00:10:17,159 Speaker 3: You wrote that check for seventy thousand dollars. 192 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: That's right, and I placed the securities in the safe. 193 00:10:19,639 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 3: And when the investigation began, the auditor also found that 194 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,440 your books are overdrawn by almost ten thousand dollars. 195 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:28,879 Speaker 1: I can't deny that. Styll Now, what happened? 196 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 3: I mean, what do you think happened? 197 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,879 Speaker 1: Someone? Some officers probably stole the securities. 198 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 3: But then what about your overdrawn books? 199 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: Still, let me get an example of embezzlement. Now, a 200 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:45,879 teller can enter a deposit and put the money in 201 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:49,440 his pocket, but nothing as large as ten thousand dollars. Now, 202 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:52,519 it must have been a series of false centuries. Well, 203 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,840 how well, let's say somebody mails in his paycheck for 204 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,399 say two hundred dollars from the part using. That amount 205 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,159 is entered in that person's account, but clerk reports the 206 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,600 deposit to me and I under it in my books. However, 207 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,240 but clerk does not stamp the check for a deposit. 208 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,080 He or she steals the check and neither cashes it 209 00:11:16,639 --> 00:11:19,120 or deposits it in a secret account in some other bank. 210 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,559 That bank cancels the check and returns it to the 211 00:11:23,639 --> 00:11:24,799 depositors employer. 212 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 3: But what about what about the endorsement must stamp. 213 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: In a number both look official and hardly ever would 214 00:11:32,039 --> 00:11:32,559 be challenged. 215 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 3: But a she as well, how could a scheme like 216 00:11:38,279 --> 00:11:39,240 that ever be traced? 217 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,639 Speaker 1: Well, I'll hand out Anon. Both the securities and the 218 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:46,919 cash have vanished, just us. 219 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,559 Speaker 3: No, it's not billan or how do you begin? 220 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:51,519 Speaker 1: Very carefully? 221 00:11:53,039 --> 00:11:53,759 Speaker 3: What do you mean by that? 222 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: Still? Someone work that's frame up on me, maybe more 223 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,639 than one person. I'm gonna ask questions. I'll pick up 224 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:05,080 a astray of Marquere or another there, and in time 225 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,879 I'll put them together and I'll have an indication of 226 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,159 who's behind the embezzlement. Then I'm I'll invest to get it. 227 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,879 Oh well, let see, oh hope, let's sell. When I 228 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,080 was in prison, I read something. It stuck in my mind. 229 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,039 Forget where I read it or who wrote it. And 230 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,720 it's just a line. But what it is is, you know, 231 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:31,600 really just cause the weak conquered or strong, I believe that. Still, 232 00:12:32,799 --> 00:12:37,080 it may take a long time, but I'll get the truth. Oo. 233 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,519 Those lines from Shakespeare's A Fellow come to mind? Who 234 00:12:49,639 --> 00:12:55,879 steals my purse? Steals trash? Did something nothing? Cause mind 235 00:12:56,159 --> 00:13:00,559 is his and has been slaves a thousands. But he 236 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,080 that fo shows from me my good name, robs me 237 00:13:04,279 --> 00:13:09,639 of that which not enriches him and makes me poor. Indeed, 238 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:15,200 Will Crawford's sentiment exactly, I'll return shortly were that too, 239 00:13:15,279 --> 00:13:18,080 and then we will find out if the former bookkeeper 240 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:32,000 can exonerate himself. The title of our play, The Corpse 241 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:36,159 wrote Shorthand a provocative title. What in the world can 242 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,480 it mean? Will Crawford was in prison for embezzlement, then 243 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,679 what's this about a corpse? And how in Heaven's name 244 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,559 could a corpse write shorthand? Well, an honest story should 245 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,720 have an honest title. Let's find out just what this 246 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:57,399 title means. Good morning, mister Pendleton. Ah Crawford, thank you 247 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,320 for seeing me. Yes, I must say'm surprised by your visit. 248 00:14:02,159 --> 00:14:04,440 My father tried to visit him, but he refused to 249 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:05,960 talk to me, So I'm grateful to you for these 250 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,600 few minutes. Ah. Yes, yes, I saidam how much time? 251 00:14:11,919 --> 00:14:16,759 Thank you? I came home last night. Yes, there was 252 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:18,960 a scripting of Forlim yesterday that you had been released. 253 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:22,480 What did you to me, Crawford? I should think it 254 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,720 would be embarrassing for you to walk him to the bank. 255 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,639 Not at all. I spent many productive years in the 256 00:14:28,679 --> 00:14:30,320 bank as you're a bookkeeper, and I have nothing to 257 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:35,000 be embarrassed about. You don't, No, I didn't embezzle that money. 258 00:14:36,399 --> 00:14:39,120 I'm a forgiving man, Crawford. That I am not stupid 259 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:43,120 and arrogance makes me angry. You made a mistake and 260 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,720 have paid for it. I'm willing to forget the damage 261 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,320 you did to the bank's reputation. But when you declare 262 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,440 bluntly that you did not embezzle, you sound demented. I'm 263 00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:55,279 telling the truth. You were arrested, tried, and convicted. 264 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,559 Speaker 5: How dare you waste my time in saying that you're innocent? 265 00:14:58,159 --> 00:14:58,919 Speaker 4: Now, if you'll. 266 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:00,759 Speaker 1: Excuse me, if I've told those all in securities and 267 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:02,960 juggled my books for ten thousand dollars, where is it, 268 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:07,080 mister Pendleton? Where is the one hundred thousand dollars? So 269 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,639 that's your game? The money will turn up. Oh, not here, 270 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,759 not in River Falls. Now that you've been freed, you'll 271 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:18,759 leave town. But wherever you go, you'll be watched and 272 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:21,799 the money will be recovered. I'm not leaving River Falls 273 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,559 and you're going to starve to death. Just what do 274 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,080 you propose to do? Crawford that has some ideas. I 275 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,320 was a victim of a clever's scheme. Some person or 276 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,600 person's tween me, and I'll find out who they were. 277 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:38,840 You astonish me, Please leave and don't come back. One question? 278 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,360 What happened to Doris Conroy? Who the assistant bookkeeper? She's 279 00:15:44,399 --> 00:15:50,240 no longer with the bank. Doris Conroy, I don't really remember. Well, 280 00:15:50,279 --> 00:15:52,639 that's surprising. I beg your pardon. When you were second 281 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,879 vice president you worked with her a lot. Rather pretty girl, 282 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,320 dark haired, nice skin. You were the loan officer at 283 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,399 the time. Oh go go yes, yes to put it 284 00:16:02,519 --> 00:16:04,919 under her. All about her? Well, I just I could 285 00:16:04,919 --> 00:16:07,080 talk to her, that's all. She was my assistant. I 286 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,360 have no idea what happened to her. When did you 287 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,559 leave the bank? I don't know. That's mister Baker and personnel. 288 00:16:12,679 --> 00:16:15,120 You'll oh, I don't. Well, thank you for your time, 289 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:27,840 mister Pendleton. Good morning. Hello will I Tim, Hey, I 290 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,600 really appear go thanks you good news. It may be 291 00:16:31,679 --> 00:16:34,600 a story in it for me, that's my business. I uh, 292 00:16:34,799 --> 00:16:36,759 I got the information you wanted. You know where I 293 00:16:36,759 --> 00:16:39,279 can find Dorris connel in. Yeah, but it won't do 294 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,600 you any good. She's dead. Oh oh, I didn't know. 295 00:16:44,639 --> 00:16:48,200 I'm sorry. Yeah. Two years ago she left New York 296 00:16:48,279 --> 00:16:50,360 on her cruise with the Caribbean. They found her body 297 00:16:50,399 --> 00:16:53,799 in the hunt and she fell overboard. That's the story. 298 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,039 The personnel man at the bank, mister Baker, said that 299 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,240 she left the pendicltuon bank just about two years ago. 300 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,200 What's important to you about Doris Conroy, Well, she was 301 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:05,599 my assistant at the bank for one thing, for another, 302 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:08,759 Why why would she quit her job? And for the 303 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:10,759 third times upon her is that she could afford to 304 00:17:10,759 --> 00:17:15,319 go on the crudes. Uh huh. You sounds skeptical, Well 305 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,559 maybe a little wine. Look at it this way, Will, Yeah, 306 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,440 everyone's convinced you embezzled the money. Okay, you say you didn't, 307 00:17:24,519 --> 00:17:27,079 but are you sure you aren't trying to create a 308 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,720 mystery where there isn't one. Doris Convoy saves her money, 309 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:34,000 quits her job, goes on a cruise, she falls over board. 310 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:38,119 She's drowned. A tragedy, but to a natural one. Maybe 311 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,759 she had too many drinks. Dolls didn't drink. Oh, I 312 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,319 forget about Doris Conroy. I guess you'll have to with 313 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,680 that unless you can communicate with her in the grave 314 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,680 in Rose Hill Cemetery in Oakton. Yes, that's what she 315 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:53,480 was from oakon one. If her mother's still alive, well 316 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:56,920 that's easy to find out. No, tim, hold it, I'm 317 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,319 gonna drive up and talk to her. Well, unless her 318 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,480 mother's dead. Oh, I couldn't be that. I'm lucky. 319 00:18:02,079 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 2: Uh. 320 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,079 Speaker 1: The mother's name is missus fred Convoy A eight hundred 321 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:12,160 hillside drive, hillside Dunn. That's pretty fancy, dun, the best. 322 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:13,839 Speaker 5: Hm. 323 00:18:15,319 --> 00:18:19,559 Speaker 1: What's it mean? Hey? Down? What are you thinking? Oh? 324 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:34,240 I'll tell you later. Just a little idea, I tell him. Yeah, 325 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:36,759 h Mr Pebbleton and River Falls told me that. 326 00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 3: I oh, yeah it cat he considered it. 327 00:18:39,799 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: Man, you come in, thank you. 328 00:18:43,279 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 3: Oh we can talk in the leading room. 329 00:18:46,039 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: I don't know he's here. 330 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:50,039 Speaker 3: Identicate the city here very much? 331 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: Which a lovely room? 332 00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 4: Oh skeept you can't it now, mister Kendrington. A gentleman. 333 00:18:55,599 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 3: She's got nice of him, just sending you out. 334 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,799 Speaker 4: Oh he must think my kind of picky. 335 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: I do wonder I wasn't for. 336 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 4: Your fire, so considerate to warn me. 337 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:06,759 Speaker 3: I I love forget. 338 00:19:07,319 --> 00:19:09,839 Speaker 1: Oh we all are from time to time. Oh, ain't 339 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:10,599 got to choose. 340 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 3: Oh, mister Pendleton chick, is that embassilor called on me? 341 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:16,599 Speaker 4: I why didn't you talk to him? 342 00:19:17,279 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 3: I see he said he's crazy. 343 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: Oh I guess he is. Oh he's crazy? 344 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 4: Or I teach you never stole the money? He got 345 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,079 out of prison, and now he's trying. 346 00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:28,759 Speaker 1: To stir up trouble. 347 00:19:29,319 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 4: Is that right? 348 00:19:30,759 --> 00:19:33,319 Speaker 1: Is that why mister Penderton sends you out to suming 349 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:35,160 he's trying to stir up trouble? Alright? 350 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 4: Oh, I've had nice share of trouble. 351 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:41,039 Speaker 1: I know you have your poor daughter. She got down, Yes, 352 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,640 I I remember. I was awfully sorry to hear about that. 353 00:19:43,759 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 3: But I couldn't Label look after her. 354 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,559 Speaker 1: Uh yes, neighbor, Well, I I really don't know. 355 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,599 Speaker 4: Label was all broken up. 356 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, Mabel maybel I I I can't seem to remember 357 00:19:58,279 --> 00:19:59,440 Mabel's last name. 358 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,039 Speaker 4: Now I've godfully remember him. Oh, every once in a while, 359 00:20:05,279 --> 00:20:06,720 I thinking that he gone. 360 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: Mabel Scully of course, of course do you ever see her? 361 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:12,559 Missus gonnod Wall. 362 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 4: She sends me a Christmas card every Christmas. 363 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 3: I never seen her? 364 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:18,839 Speaker 1: No, nice? Does she still live in Oakton? 365 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: This is dad? 366 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 4: She fell off that boat. 367 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:26,559 Speaker 1: Yes, we're all still very sad about that, including Mabel Scully. 368 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,839 Speaker 4: Oh that text me to talk about? 369 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: Don I understand? Well, I'll be on my way. 370 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 3: She's such a nice room. 371 00:20:35,279 --> 00:20:36,599 Speaker 1: Does like this room? 372 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 4: She had her friends over and they liked it very much. 373 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,680 Mabel liked too. 374 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: Hello Darling, Oh well can you kiss m my faithful, 375 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,680 trusting wife. You know something. 376 00:20:59,319 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 3: We haven't got much, but we got each other. 377 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:02,079 Speaker 1: That's enough for me. 378 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:04,799 Speaker 3: Nick not home. 379 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:08,839 Speaker 1: No, we don't worry about it. I mean there, I understand. 380 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:13,680 He telephoned that he'd be late. I see most and why, 381 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,720 and I can't blame him. I'm an embarrassment to him. 382 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:19,079 You know this is going to get worse before it 383 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:19,599 gets better. 384 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 3: Still, you know what do you mean by that? 385 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,519 Speaker 1: Well? I imagine that Tim Dieger at the Forum will 386 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:26,160 have a story about me and tomorrow's paper. 387 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 3: Then he wasn't willing to see you. Oh, I'm glad 388 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:30,079 he's a nice man. 389 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: Well, he's got an open mind. That's why he's a 390 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,359 good reporter. I don't know what he'll write, but I 391 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,400 I'm sure that it'll stir up trouble, you know, the 392 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,279 kind of thing. Crawford still insists he's innocent. People at 393 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:42,640 the store will look at you and know we're both 394 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,200 loose in the top story. Oh to that, forget it. 395 00:21:46,039 --> 00:21:47,279 Speaker 3: But how it's time helpful. 396 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,839 Speaker 1: Okay. From the beginning, I saw see Palmer Pendleton there. 397 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,559 He'll let you come here. When I showed up at 398 00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:56,319 the bank, I caused a big stir Most of the 399 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,160 persons I worked with are still there, and they looked 400 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,440 at me as if they'd seen a ghost. Get awful. Well, 401 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,039 it wasn't easy now, and some of them talked to 402 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,359 me as if I was contagious. One or two just 403 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,240 bury their heads in their work and ignored me. But 404 00:22:09,319 --> 00:22:13,160 my arrival was disruptive. That's why Pendleton saw me, and 405 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,240 he was his old sanctimony itself, suggested that we leave 406 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,440 River Falls. He'd have an eye on us, of course, 407 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,319 to catch me with the money that I've got stashed 408 00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:22,039 away somewhere. 409 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 3: He got shape hit the crip. 410 00:22:23,599 --> 00:22:25,279 Speaker 1: All of that When I told him I was staying 411 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,359 right here in river Falls, he got red and the 412 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,720 face told me flatly I'd never be employed again. Now 413 00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:34,680 I asked him about Doris Conroy. Oh she drawn it. Well, yes, 414 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,119 I know that now, but I didn't till Tim told me, well, 415 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,640 I'm sure I must have told you. Well, maybe it did. 416 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:42,799 I guess I can remember. Maybe I've forgotten. If I 417 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:44,160 didn't know, it didn't mean it didn't give me at 418 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,799 the time, and now it does. Why. First I learned 419 00:22:47,839 --> 00:22:50,799 that Doris had left the bank two years ago. Then 420 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,920 from Tim I learned that at the same time she 421 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,960 book the cruise to the Caribbean. Now, the night of 422 00:22:56,039 --> 00:22:59,640 the sailing, she fell overboard and next morning her body 423 00:22:59,759 --> 00:23:03,640 was I'm floating in the Hudson floating stell. Keep that 424 00:23:03,759 --> 00:23:06,519 in mind. Now, I wanted to find out more about 425 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:07,920 what happened to Dart, so I went to see her 426 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,480 mother in Oakton. And you wouldn't believe it. We'll go on. 427 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,880 She thought Pendleton had sent me from the bank to 428 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,039 make sure that she didn't admit Will Crawford to her house, 429 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:21,839 and he must have telephoned her after I left his office. 430 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000 She's so adleminded to a thing that she thought I'd 431 00:23:24,039 --> 00:23:25,640 come out to reaffirm his advice. 432 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 3: So now why I would tender and burn her against you? 433 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:32,319 Speaker 1: I wanted about that too. Does the old lady know 434 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,079 something that I shouldn't find out? The answer is no. 435 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:40,960 But and this is a very big but she lives 436 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:46,160 elegantly on Hillside Drive in a very fine house. Now 437 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,839 how can she afford it? The answer is that doors 438 00:23:50,079 --> 00:23:53,279 could afford it. And with Donna's dead, Missus Conroy has 439 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:57,160 committed Darns's money because the setup just doesn't ran cool. 440 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,039 Speaker 3: Then then you think that Doris, how well, he was 441 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:02,039 mixed up in the indevil. 442 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,559 Speaker 1: That's my theory. Now I mean to pursue it. 443 00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 3: But how I I mean with doris dad and her mother. 444 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: Well, that all depends upon what happens tomorrow. Tomorrow, dons 445 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,640 wasn't alone on that boat. She was taking the cruise 446 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,079 of a friend of hers. Now I dragged the name 447 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,119 out of missus Conroy. Doris's friend was Mabel Scully. She 448 00:24:20,279 --> 00:24:22,480 lived in Oakton, and Tim's going to see her tomorrow. 449 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,039 Speaker 3: But what can you learn from her? 450 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,519 Speaker 1: I don't know off hand. But if you get a 451 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:30,240 person talking after the fact things come out. At the 452 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:32,359 time the drowning. I'm sure Mabel was hysterical of the 453 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,359 ship but the port and was saving out to sea. 454 00:24:35,079 --> 00:24:37,440 Where was dons I mean, I C I can just 455 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:39,920 imagine the confusion on shipboard. Because it wasn't until the 456 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,279 next morning that the tragedy was discovered. Then it must 457 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:43,279 have been his hysteria. 458 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 3: Yes, of course, what a frightful experience in Mabel Scully. 459 00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: Then she probably was questioned and browbeaten and then finally released. 460 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,680 Now that's two years ago. The hysteria of that moment 461 00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:57,599 has passed. Two years have gone by. Now perhaps Mabel 462 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,559 Scully will be able to reconstruct what happened though Nightdwes 463 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:07,920 Conrad rowned, which she didn't What she didn't sell because 464 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,440 if she had, her body would have sunk to the 465 00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:13,519 bottom of the Hudson and have been swept out to sea. 466 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,440 Now that we've established a corpse, what about that shorthand 467 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,000 curious story. Indeed, a man is judged innocent until he 468 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,960 is proven guilty. And here is a man proven guilty 469 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,319 who is innocent. How can that happen? In these wonderful 470 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:41,079 days of law and order? Read the newspapers On a 471 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,680 quite regular basis, I read about persons being released from 472 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:51,799 prisons who are innocent when imprisoned. Laws like cobwebs entangle 473 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:56,440 the weak, but are broken by the storm, as Will 474 00:25:56,519 --> 00:26:00,160 Crawford is about to prove. I'll be back shortly with 475 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:15,119 that sweet One man's innocence simply must be another man's guilt. 476 00:26:16,079 --> 00:26:19,759 If Will Crawford did not embezzle fifty thousand dollars from 477 00:26:19,799 --> 00:26:23,960 the Pendleton Bank, who did? He was found guilty and 478 00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:27,799 imprisoned for five years, and the money still hasn't been found, 479 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:33,000 and he insists he is innocent, Well, we have a 480 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,480 corpse on our hands. One that writes shorthand. Is that 481 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:41,480 the clue mister Crawford needs to understand before he proves 482 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,519 his innocent. His reporter friend Tim is going to try. 483 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:47,759 Thanks for seeing me, miss Gully. 484 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:53,039 Speaker 4: Oh that's all right, I'll break it down, mister g Right. 485 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 1: Scandal Manga Supreme for the River Falls Forum. Though most 486 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,799 of our scandals pretty much of a yarn. Now he's 487 00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:01,599 crazy have here. 488 00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:02,519 Speaker 4: Oh it's all right. 489 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,279 Speaker 1: I got the stuff with the settlement, ah and took 490 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,480 back your maiden name. 491 00:27:08,079 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 4: And you didn't ask to see me. You talk about 492 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,400 me and the egg. Uh it's almost six and nine days. 493 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 3: Take up it happened? 494 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,319 Speaker 1: How sorry, missus Scully. A man has just been released 495 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,880 from prison after serving five years. Were in battle. 496 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, will cross it. I read your story and it's happened. 497 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 3: His papers change is anything, no way. 498 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,279 Speaker 1: He's trying to find a way and I am in't 499 00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:32,079 trying to go along with him. Now that's where you 500 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,119 wented a picture me. Yeah, you and Doris Convoy. 501 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 4: Oh Dorry. Oh, yes, that was horrible. 502 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 3: I can imagine shipped halfway down the Hudson and I 503 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,039 was still looking for Dolly. 504 00:27:46,799 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 4: It wasn't until the next morning that we found out. 505 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,880 They found her body floating in the Hudson. 506 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:53,279 Speaker 1: She groaned and that's what they said at the time. 507 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 4: Well that's what happened. 508 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,599 Speaker 1: I wonder. Apparently she fell overboard, her head hit something 509 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,559 and she that drying. Of course, Uh, drownd isn't quite right. 510 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,400 How now she died from that smash on the head. 511 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,079 There was no water in her lungs. If there had been, 512 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,680 she might have been swept out to sea. Oh it's 513 00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:16,960 so ugly even could think about could become uglier still, 514 00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:19,440 what does that mean? Well, let me come to that 515 00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:21,680 in the moment. I'm here because I hope you will 516 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,839 weakenstruck that night. 517 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 4: For me, it's very good at a tell. 518 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 1: Now, you and Doris had been friends for a long time. 519 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,319 Speaker 4: Ride We knew each other since high school. 520 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,759 Speaker 6: She went to business school and got a job in 521 00:28:31,839 --> 00:28:34,720 liver Falls at the penalty bank, and I attended junior college. 522 00:28:35,319 --> 00:28:37,359 I went to work here in Oakton and the officers 523 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,960 of hometown in Shoance I'm still there. 524 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: And you went on the cruise two years ago. Yes, 525 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,519 And Doris quit her job at the same time, right. 526 00:28:46,799 --> 00:28:49,279 Speaker 4: Yeah, she did. I never knew why. 527 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 6: I asked her, of course, but all she'd say was 528 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:55,240 that she was tired of being an assistant bookkeeper and 529 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:56,440 she had plenty of money. 530 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,559 Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about that. Believe what you must have. 531 00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 2: For you. 532 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 4: Doris and her mother lived in a four room flat 533 00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:06,200 above a grocery store. Then he bought that place on 534 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:06,839 the hillside. 535 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 6: Oh that's a really fancy residential eliot, those houses off 536 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,119 a long Did missus Conroy have money, Oh no. 537 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 4: No, no, she worked at a dress shop. Mister Conroy 538 00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:20,599 died about four years ago. But oh, I can't imagine 539 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,119 him leaving a bundle of inchurince. 540 00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: So how did Doors and her mother move into that 541 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:27,359 your fine house? Where'd the money come from? Oh? I 542 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,759 do know? And two years later Doris quit the job, 543 00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:34,000 goes on a cruise. You get to admit it. It's 544 00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:35,359 all pretty strange. 545 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 4: Well, I know it did. 546 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:39,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think about it us and no, then it 547 00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:40,559 goes out of my head. 548 00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 4: I don't like to dwell on what happened? 549 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,119 Speaker 1: What did happen? Miss Kelly? I mean, looking back now, calmly, well, 550 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,240 what do you remember about that night on the ship? 551 00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:51,359 Who instance w What do you remember about the cabin? Oh? 552 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,119 Speaker 4: Which was lovely? 553 00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:53,519 Speaker 1: Had both of you unpacked? 554 00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, we left our bags. 555 00:29:55,359 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 4: And went right up on deck to watch the ship's sail. 556 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 1: Had friends come to see you off? The older bonvoyage guardy. 557 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,359 Speaker 3: Now, just the man I made the mistake of marrying 558 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:04,200 a Door. 559 00:30:04,359 --> 00:30:06,039 Speaker 4: Stayed out of the way, though she did a load 560 00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:07,720 of him, but then she sort of dripped it off. 561 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: That's the last I heard of her, And no one 562 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,599 came to see her off. 563 00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 4: No, her boss expected to, but he was in Providence. 564 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,319 He's got a telegram. I gave it to the police. 565 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,759 Speaker 1: Now you also turned over to them the teeth pack 566 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,400 watch with the engraving on it. Yes, that's right. 567 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 4: Oh boy, that watch must have cost a fortune. 568 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 3: On the back it said with gratitude Charlie. 569 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who is Charlie? Stood to me? 570 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:38,359 Speaker 4: I saw that watched that night for the first time. 571 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 3: I don't know what Dora did for him, but that 572 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,720 watch was a lot of gratitude. 573 00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:46,079 Speaker 1: There's so much gratitude. I'm a little suspicious of it. 574 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,599 What do you mean, well, had Doris become engaged as 575 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,599 some rich guy you No, she didn't go with anyone, 576 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:56,480 and still someone gives her a watch that probably cuts 577 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,240 to what eight hundred dollars? 578 00:30:58,359 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 2: Now? 579 00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: What does that to get to you? Miss Cully? 580 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 4: I oh, I can't believe it. 581 00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: I can blackmail. I'll get it a self. That might 582 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,160 be Tim Yeager ah luck yeah, funny. I think come 583 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,799 on and buy your drinks. So I'm taking a drinks 584 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,359 one for you too. Maybe we've got something to celebrate. O. 585 00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:31,119 Speaker 3: Tim, Do you have any news? 586 00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? 587 00:31:31,559 --> 00:31:32,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's a mixed bag. 588 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 3: Oh hee, you pick don We're very grateful, so you 589 00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:38,359 tend to take it. That's an anxiously wealth case. 590 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,559 Speaker 1: Who I'm happy I did now I know he's an 591 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:44,000 innocent man. Oh cheers. Why all this wasn't gone into 592 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:46,480 at the time of her death? I don't know. Somebody 593 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,359 should have seen the connection. 594 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 3: Well wait a year you lost here, said Jod thanks him. 595 00:31:50,799 --> 00:31:54,359 Speaker 1: Teams can say why didn't anyone see the connection between 596 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,039 Doors Conroy's mysterious death and the embezzlement charge against you 597 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,000 will waiting? No, wait, slow down? What is the connection? 598 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:04,279 Where are several? First? About four years ago, Doris and 599 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:06,680 her mother moved from a dump over a grocery store 600 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:11,480 at a hillside drive. That means money run sect. Doris 601 00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:14,200 quits her job just at the time she decided to 602 00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:17,880 go on a cruise. Third, there's a bon voyage message 603 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,839 from Providence in her stateroom from her boss, see Palmer Pendleton, 604 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:29,440 hold it, I got it, I got the watch. Watch 605 00:32:29,559 --> 00:32:31,480 what are you talking about? The eight hundred dollars he 606 00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:33,799 put the company named Charlie gave to her and in 607 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,599 great We're glad to be back there. Charlie, Judge, Charlie 608 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,759 is the sea in c Palmer Pendleton. Then it was 609 00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:43,519 Pendleton and DAWs Conroy who embezzled the money and set 610 00:32:43,599 --> 00:32:44,440 me up for the ball guy. 611 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,359 Speaker 4: I never would have greened. 612 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: Thedleton and Doris the car. I'm gonna pin this on 613 00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:51,680 that sanctimonious money lender and send him up the liver 614 00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:53,839 for a way long string. I want that more than 615 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:55,960 anything in life to him. But how are we going 616 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,200 to do it. You're saying that he murdered Doris Conroy? 617 00:32:58,519 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 4: Why would you do that? 618 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: My great stockpile of cliches? How about this one? Thieves 619 00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:06,880 fall out and go to blackmailers. Pendleton spood with Doris, 620 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,440 then she wanted more. He could stand just so much 621 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:13,759 pressure and danger. He killed her and made it seem 622 00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:16,480 like accurdled round it, which it wasn't. That smash on 623 00:33:16,599 --> 00:33:18,240 her head was not made by something she hit when 624 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,039 she fell into that Philly doc tyed water. Pendleton hit 625 00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:23,440 her with something and jumped her over the side. All right, 626 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:26,480 but the telegram in the case. But he was in problem. 627 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,960 Yeah not well, well that's the stickler. Let me dig 628 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,160 into it. The forum's got all kinds of connections. I'll 629 00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:35,480 go after the telegram company first thing in the morning. 630 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:37,960 And what you might do will is to go to 631 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:40,400 New York trace that teeth put to the jeweler a 632 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,720 jove a picture of Pendleton, asked him if Pendleton's the 633 00:33:43,839 --> 00:33:47,759 guy who bought it? And all? Not a word about 634 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:51,039 this to anyone. We don't want a bird to fly 635 00:33:51,240 --> 00:34:03,200 the coop. Yeah, oh I, I is it too? 636 00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:03,559 Speaker 3: Really? 637 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 1: From the bank, Hello, missus Conroy, may we come in? 638 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,840 Who's that mister Yager from the River Falls Forum, friends 639 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,559 and newspapers? Yes? Oh, what do you know? Oh? 640 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:20,280 Speaker 3: Peas, come in? This too weird? 641 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: Miss Conroy. I'm afraid we have some bad news for 642 00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:24,800 you about your daughter Doris. 643 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,159 Speaker 3: Oh she's good, she said off a boat. 644 00:34:28,079 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: Yes, and we think that maybe it wasn't an accident 645 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,840 and we're investigating her dank. 646 00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:37,599 Speaker 3: Oh, mister Pendleton has always been so kising well. 647 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:40,559 Speaker 1: The police now suspect that maybe somebody pushed her over 648 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:41,519 the side of the boat. 649 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,559 Speaker 3: Doris was a good swimming. 650 00:34:44,039 --> 00:34:48,320 Speaker 1: We think that Doris had an enemy and knew it really, so, 651 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,920 I wonder if Doris left anything behind her about this 652 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,360 this enemy of hers. Have you kept all of her things, 653 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,119 missus Conroy? 654 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 3: Holtely? 655 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: Just the way it was when she went away two 656 00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:08,960 years ago? Could we see the room? Well? 657 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 4: Well, come quickly, good heaven. He's got easy. 658 00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: We've got her diary, Estelle Will says, you read shorthand 659 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,400 can you make some sense out of this fort Who 660 00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:19,760 got Conroy's It's a five year diary going back to 661 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,440 nineteen seventy. Now, maybe some place in this thing there's 662 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,119 a true to her relationship with Pendleton. If there is, 663 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,159 we've got the factual proof to reopen my case. And 664 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:30,519 we've got a hurry, Estelle, missus Conroy just may take 665 00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:32,719 it into her head to telephone Pendleton. We don't want 666 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,239 him to skip. We want to confront him. 667 00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 3: I do my death, but nice, sure we got a ruste. 668 00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 4: She needs a lot in this guy. 669 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 1: Just do the best you can of telephone Providence. Maybe 670 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:43,880 the paper up there has found out what I want 671 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:52,280 to know about the telegram? Hello Timmy agen River Falls? 672 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:57,639 Any luck where to locate him doing graduate work? I see? Yeah, 673 00:35:57,679 --> 00:36:01,280 now he admitted sending the telegram. Why did he send it? 674 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,960 I get it? Yeah? Yeah, I think there's Jake about 675 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,039 shows it up. I I'm very grateful to your mark 676 00:36:10,119 --> 00:36:15,159 and to the newspaper. Uh, I'll telephone you tomorrow morning. Okay, yeah, goodbye? 677 00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 4: And I liked him. 678 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,559 Speaker 1: We have got mister Pendleton. By that's what great. 679 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 3: It's here, will I? 680 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 4: I I found a boy and you had to marche 681 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:24,800 I hear it, though. 682 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,320 Speaker 3: The entry is stated March nineteen seventy, Dear Diary, after 683 00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:36,400 for today, I had cocktails with mister Pendleton at the pub. 684 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:37,519 Speaker 1: I like him. 685 00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:43,079 Speaker 3: He's such a considerate man. I almost fainted when he 686 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:45,719 told me about a plan he's been thinking about it. 687 00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:49,800 I listened with a great deal of interest because there's 688 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,199 money in it for me, more money than I can imagine, 689 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,360 Dear Diary. M he's an officer in the bank, so 690 00:36:57,519 --> 00:36:59,679 he knows just how to put his plan into his 691 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,360 set that he needs someone he can trust to work 692 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,199 with him and iron it. We can get our hands 693 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,679 on at least one hundred thousand dollars and the bookkeeper, 694 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,800 Will Profford won't be able to six. 695 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 1: That's a big day for you, Will, Thanks to you, Tim. 696 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,960 That just another story to anyhow, if you hadn't believed 697 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,280 in me, let's go get you a high sign. Now 698 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:37,599 you need a talking it's your story. Good morning, mister Pendleton. 699 00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:40,639 But I was told with the Yegger of the forum 700 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,960 asked to see me. Yes, I'm Jegger with this jailbird 701 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,280 doing with you. He wants to witness and record your admissions. 702 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,159 Mister Pendleton, what god here? If you don't always security 703 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,280 arrest you. There'll be an arrest, all right, but it'll 704 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,960 be yours for embezzling one hundred thousand dollars from your 705 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,400 father's bank and for murdering Doris because she blackmailed you. 706 00:38:01,519 --> 00:38:02,360 You're insane. 707 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,599 Speaker 5: You and Doris stole the money and made me the 708 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,440 fall guy. Two years ago she put the bite on 709 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,719 you for more money, left her job and planned a cruise. 710 00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:11,840 Speaker 1: You hit her on the head and tore her overboard. 711 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 4: That's a lie, not a lie. 712 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: You sent her a telegram from Providence. 713 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 4: How can I murdered someone in New York? 714 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,760 Speaker 1: No heard, mister Pendleton. Your telephoned your son, a student 715 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,360 in Providence, dictated the telegram to him, and he sent 716 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:23,800 it for you. 717 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,400 Speaker 5: Both the newspaper and the police have checked that out. 718 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,840 Then you left River Falls and went to New York. 719 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,880 You met Doris on shipboard, murdered her and threw overboard. 720 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,599 Speaker 1: And you're the charlie whose name was engraved in the 721 00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:39,400 back of our peacock watch along with ingratitude. You gave 722 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,320 it to Doris. The jewel identified you from a picture. 723 00:38:42,559 --> 00:38:47,880 You proved those charges, the embezzling scheme in Doris's decision 724 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,280 to demand more money from you two years ago. Both 725 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,480 are written down in shorthand in her diary. Mister Pendleton, 726 00:38:56,559 --> 00:39:00,519 the River Falls police are waiting outside for you. I 727 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,719 denied the embezzlement charges against me, mister Pundleton, but I 728 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,920 was jailed for five years. The charges against you can't 729 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,119 be denied. They're based on facts. The murder charges based 730 00:39:11,119 --> 00:39:14,639 on circumstential evidence. By that statement, you just come yourself. 731 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,280 You've admitted that there is a murder charge. Tim asked 732 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:27,199 the police to come in. Oh. An ancient Roman writer 733 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:33,559 named Juvenile asked what man was ever content with one crime? 734 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:39,480 Mister Pendleton and Loris Conroy connived to embezzle a fortune. 735 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,800 She was not content with her share, so she resorted 736 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:49,119 to blackmail, and she was murdered. Many crimes are detected, 737 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,440 persons are prosecuted for them, but when an innocent person 738 00:39:53,599 --> 00:39:59,519 is charged and sentenced, justice has miscarried. But an innocent person, 739 00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:04,599 given time and courage, very often can clear his name, 740 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:20,239 as we have seen. I'll be back shortly. Modern justice 741 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,079 dates back to the year twelve fifteen, when the Magna 742 00:40:24,159 --> 00:40:28,360 Carter guaranteed that no subject should be kept in prison 743 00:40:28,599 --> 00:40:33,920 without trial and judgment by his peers. The Western world 744 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,920 has lived by that precept for almost eight hundred years. 745 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:43,519 Sometimes justice may be unjust or slow, but in the 746 00:40:43,559 --> 00:40:46,559 long run, it is not only the sum of all 747 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,159 moral duty, it is also what makes each of us equals. 748 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:56,360 Our cast included Mandel Kramer, Joan Lovejoy, Russell Horton, Joan Shay, 749 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,840 and Barry Koger. The entire production was under the direction 750 00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:03,719 of Hymon Brown Radio. 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