WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:07.440 State your name and prison number herald Edgerton, the second 2 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.160 prison number two to one to oh dash three seven 3 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:15.080 and your age please forty six last month. You don't 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:17.920 look at Edgerton. Prison life agrees with you. 5 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.719 No, sir, I just tried to take care of myself. Sir, 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.480 I feel the years even if I don't. 7 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:25.800 Look at chargers in which you were convicted. 8 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.960 Armed robbery, defrauding an insurance. 9 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.960 Company sentence now being served ten to twenty years, You 10 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:36.920 may proceed, having served three years and seven months, and 11 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.560 having the kind permission of Warden Holliday, I am up 12 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:42.280 for parole. 13 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:51.960 Up for parole tonight. 14 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.960 Another in the exciting new crime series based on authentic 15 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.119 cases actually heard by parole boards, are now state prisons 16 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.000 re enacted here for the first time. 17 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.840 Now, Harry Marble, you are about. 18 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.319 To sit in judgment on another human being's freedom to 19 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.159 decide whether he shall become your neighbor, your employee, perhaps 20 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.200 your friend, or whether he shall remain where you society 21 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.400 have put him behind prison bars. Well, that human being 22 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:30.719 is a social offender, a criminal up for parole. The 23 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.239 story you're about to hear is taken from the official 24 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.359 records of Harold Edgerton, the second prison number two one 25 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:39.920 oh dash three seven, now pleading before the parole Board 26 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.200 and before you for his freedoms. 27 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.439 Opportunity as a privilege or a prisoner, to be able 28 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.439 to present his case as he sees it with honesty 29 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.280 and frankness, is in my opinion, what makes this democracy 30 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:56.799 of ours strong and great. I hope that you will 31 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:58.799 accept my statement in the spirit in which it is 32 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.480 delivered with full frankness and the full honesty of which 33 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:06.359 I'm capable. That is precisely what we're interested in. Until 34 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.240 three and a half years ago, well four years ago, 35 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.199 I was a respected, and I might say in all modesty, 36 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:14.680 a well liked human being. 37 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:19.120 I owned my own home, mortgage free. I had a 38 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.439 business I inherited it from my father, Herold Edgerton Associates 39 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:28.120 real Estate. I had not one outstanding obligation, and I 40 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.560 accounted my friends. I think it's accurate to say in 41 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:31.199 the hundreds. 42 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.639 Well, these facts are all known to us, Edgerton. But 43 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.400 what we want to know from you is why did you, 44 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:42.919 a respected, responsible, dependable family man, commit armed robbery and 45 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:44.520 a fraud and insurance company. 46 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:50.599 The answer, perhaps is that I had too good a life, 47 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.680 had life, gentlemen, can you understand it? 48 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:56.039 It was fine, but it was dull, dull. 49 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.520 I know, I know it sounds like a schoolboy talking, 50 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:03.800 But I always read the magazines, gentlemen, Time, Fortune, the 51 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:08.360 story of the giants of America. They took chances, they gambled, 52 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:12.080 and they won, a little audacity, a little vision. This 53 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.960 is the difference between mediocrity and greatness. 54 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.560 Call it Eurotic if you like. But I had this drive. 55 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:23.039 Then It wasn't speculation. It wasn't business deals that got 56 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:23.759 you started on. 57 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.719 This, No, sir, would that it were. It was something 58 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:32.879 much more common, much more vulgar. It was gambling. How 59 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.960 many times I stood at the gambling tables and watched 60 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:41.360 without betting a dime, And finally I had some excess cash. 61 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:45.319 I sat down at the table roulette in the house 62 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.560 of the notorious Gambler, differed Chasen and lost six thousand dollars. 63 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.080 And I got up to leave. Jason asked me to 64 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:55.960 come into his office. 65 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:02.360 So now I'm mister region stretched and I've been watching 66 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.400 you six thousand dollars. There's a lot of money to 67 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.319 lose one who's never gambled before. But I've studied up 68 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:13.360 on you. You have a fine real estate business, matter 69 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.879 in appearance or everything that could be desired. 70 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:19.519 We're just what are you getting at, sir? 71 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:21.319 How would it be if you were to pay that 72 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.879 debt to me without an expenditure from your own pocket the. 73 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:28.160 Six thousand What are you driving at? Just this? 74 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:34.879 I speak carefully and confidentially to you, sir. Supposing one night, 75 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:39.360 say tomorrow night, you had occasion to leave in your safe. 76 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:41.879 Be one in your inside office. 77 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.560 Security is in the amount of six thousand dollars, and 78 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:50.279 supposing quite by accident you're safe was robbed. Go on, 79 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.480 supposing three armed bandits would a rifle you're safe tomorrow night, 80 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:54.800 find those securities and. 81 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:55.800 Make off with them. 82 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:57.120 You were. 83 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.279 You carry insurance, don't you, of course? But then the 84 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.240 debt would be settled, insurance company would be out some 85 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.000 six thousand dollars, and you won't lose a penny. It's 86 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:12.240 quite simple. It's been done before. But that's robbery, sir. 87 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.839 Defrauding the insurance company, that's criminal. You prefer to pay 88 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.079 the money out of your own pocket and shoot yourself, 89 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:22.519 mister Regidon, It's up to you. 90 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.959 You don't have much vision do you, mister Rigdon. 91 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.120 What shall I say, gentlemen of the board, to explain 92 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.199 what I did. I was weak, I was avaricious, I 93 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:42.480 was grasping. I could scarcely afford the six thousand dollar loss, 94 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.759 and so later that night I called Jason on the 95 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.879 phone and said, there would be sixty six hundred dollars 96 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:50.959 in railroad stocks in the safe. 97 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:01.120 You see how easy it was? Heyes, and heir six 98 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:02.040 hundred dollars. 99 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:03.600 I don't understand. 100 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:06.920 The debt was six thousand, the securities came to six thousand, 101 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:07.519 six hundred. 102 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:09.519 The difference is yours. 103 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:12.639 Well, sir, I've got to get home. 104 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.560 Oh stay, I'm ament. You see, we aren't quite finished. 105 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:19.079 I am quite finished. Just an idea I had, mister Egdon, 106 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.639 see what you think of it. After all, one doesn't 107 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.600 need a gambling debt to make such an arrangement as 108 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:24.439 we made last night. 109 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:26.920 I suppose it was just to happen without the gambling debt. 110 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:28.800 And suppose I was to offer you thirty percent of 111 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.480 whatever we found in somebody. 112 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.839 Else's safe the next time. What do you mean simply this? 113 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:36.920 I know that you're friendly with quite a number of 114 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:41.040 real estate firms, you have an idea. I'm certain which 115 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.519 ones keep securities and they're safe. All I need to 116 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:48.600 know my organization, that is, is where and when and 117 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:54.040 roughly how much seventy percent is my share, thirty percent 118 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:54.560 is yours. 119 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:56.160 I won't do it. 120 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:57.920 You don't have to answer right now. Why don't you 121 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.199 think it over? I mean I want to decide in 122 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:00.839 the morning. 123 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:10.720 Eh, gentlemen of the board. 124 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.040 I should have gone to the police right then and there. 125 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.240 I should have called a stop to the filthy business 126 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:15.800 at that moment. 127 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.240 Why didn't you driton? That's what this board wants to know. 128 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.800 What can I say? Sir? Men are weak? 129 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.360 I was weak, and there was a kind of intoxication, 130 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.759 a tremendous kind of excitement. 131 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.240 Many would have resisted it. I couldn't you ever stop 132 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:35.160 to think of your family? 133 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.279 Oh, yes, sir, I did. My wife is fine, a 134 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:42.720 woman as man could ever have. My son, herold Edgerton 135 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.040 the third, he bears my father's name as I do. 136 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.959 I thought of them, and I thought, if they find out, 137 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.839 the disgrace will ruin them, shame them. And there were 138 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.920 my clients, people dependent upon me, small investors, They too 139 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:56.680 would be ruined. 140 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.959 So I never went to the police. 141 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.439 And now you see the false wisdom of that decision. 142 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.319 Oh yes, of course, But which of us, if he 143 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.920 thinks he sees a way out, will face the music. 144 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:11.839 In Jason's gang, I. 145 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:15.839 Was called the chief. I was the frontman. He, of course, 146 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.399 was the real power. We bought a cabin cruiser. It 147 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.959 was docked in Lake Michigan, and after a job was over, 148 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.360 we would meet aboard the boat, cruise out into the 149 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:27.800 lake and divide the loot. It was a magnificent ruse, 150 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.680 a floating headquarters for who would think to look for 151 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.720 criminals aboard a sixty thousand dollars cruiser rigged for deep 152 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:38.320 sea fishing, a pleasure boat. And so my career as 153 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:47.799 chief began. Not bad, Chief, No, I'd say it was 154 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:51.200 very good. Jason, My guess is that this jewelry's white 155 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:52.399 nineteen thousand dollars. 156 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:55.279 Whatever you say, Ah, whatever. 157 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:57.600 You say, Chief, I think the next thing you want 158 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:03.320 to say is the vague that the realty. 159 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.840 It was the most efficient operation I had ever seen, 160 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:24.039 the farmer's realty. The take twenty two thousand dollars. I think, Chief, 161 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:27.960 a private home on the north side. Maybe the Grappith mansion. 162 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.440 Oh, this has got to stop, Jason. 163 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:31.399 When never use the same pattern, do we? 164 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.639 Chief robbery today, a hoist in a bank tomorrow, cabbing 165 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:35.799 a private home the next day. 166 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.279 That's your right, isn't it cheap? 167 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:40.759 I won't do it. Tom Griffin is a friend of mine. 168 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:42.480 It's friendlier with friends. 169 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:44.799 I went along with you two three jobs, but one 170 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.159 is going to stop. I'll tell you I won't do it. Jason, 171 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:47.960 what I've. 172 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:53.120 Got on you wedget and you'll do it. 173 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.720 I was trapped, hopelessly trapped, and then chasing put forth 174 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:01.399 the next step. 175 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.399 We understand each other. Do we have to we have 176 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.600 to achieve. There's the finest insurance in the world. 177 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:10.399 Just be sure you do it right. 178 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:20.519 Oh, Harold, it was a lovely play, a lovely evening. 179 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:22.519 Didn't you adore the music? 180 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:23.720 Yes, that was fine. 181 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.000 Helen, come in the living room, Darling. 182 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:26.840 Let's never drink. 183 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:29.159 Hell. 184 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.399 I pitch to saving. 185 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:38.799 The patent, the bonds, my earrings, my necklace. Harold, this 186 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:44.559 is horrible, my dear, I'll handle this. Give me the 187 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:49.519 police immediately. Hello, hello, police, my house. 188 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:57.519 Has been robbed. I thought, gentlemen of the board, that 189 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:00.840 with the robbery of my own home. I had reached 190 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.519 the lowest point in my life, Yes, Edgerton, and I found, 191 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.039 gentlemen that I had not. 192 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:08.720 Kevin helped me. It was only the beginning. 193 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.080 What you may ask can be more heinous than defrauding 194 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.559 an insurance company, armed robbery of a friend's home, in 195 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:22.759 robbing your own home. And I answered, gentlemen, what I 196 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:23.399 did next? 197 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:24.200 What are you saying? 198 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:30.519 I mean murder, sir, cold, brutal, calculated murder. 199 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.000 We will return to our file in just a moment, 200 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.360 but first, the King of the Cowboys gene Autry will 201 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.240 be riding high with song and Western drama on CBS 202 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.559 again tomorrow night, and Vornman Rose Caravan will also be 203 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:51.879 riding along with the five top tunes of the week, 204 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.840 plus favorites of another college fraternity. The gene Autry Show 205 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.360 and Vornman Rose Caravan are regular Saturday features of most 206 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:06.159 of these same CBS stations. Back to the true story 207 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.919 of Harold Edgeddon the Second the present case number two 208 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.240 one oh dash three seven, The Man who is up 209 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:13.480 or Parole? 210 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.639 All right, now, Jititon, you made a shocking statement of 211 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.559 this board. You said the next step in your career 212 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:22.440 was murder, yes, sir, just a moment. 213 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.559 Now, you were never charged with murder? Sir? What are 214 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.039 you saying? What are you trying to tell this board? 215 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.519 I am saying, sir, that I might as well have 216 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:34.919 been charged with murder, because I, in my own mind, 217 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.480 that's what I committed murder. It began with the biggest 218 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.919 haul in the gang's existence. It began as everything did 219 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.559 with Chason. He had me call the gang together on 220 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.000 the boat. 221 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.519 All right now, absolute client, absolute attention. 222 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.000 JP will explain the plan. 223 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:57.360 Wor's yours? Jee? 224 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:03.399 Well, the building is the Mercantile Trusted, it's south and 225 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:05.279 it's seventh was mater? 226 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:06.039 Chief? What is it? 227 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:08.919 You better go on cheese and I Chief isn't feeling 228 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:10.559 too good. Just sit back and take it easy. Chief, 229 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.159 stop me if I say anything wrong? Okay, okay, can 230 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.279 I get you something maybe nice? 231 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:15.120 Right, It'll be all right. 232 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:15.600 Just listen. 233 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.759 This time it's going to be the top fifteen floors 234 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:25.519 of the entire building. No more wants sweet jobs. Fifteen floors. Wow, 235 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:26.159 that's right. 236 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:27.080 Wow. 237 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.679 The Chief cooks up a planet. It's a plan. 238 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.919 At eleven o'clock at night, the eight people in the 239 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:37.240 building six cleaning women. One elevator operator one God God 240 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:38.159 is about sixty five. 241 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:38.840 They call him Pop. 242 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:40.840 You'd be a seat, gotcha out? 243 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:43.320 One O five. The six cleaning women leave and all 244 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.720 that's left is the operator and Pop. Right, the operator 245 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.840 is off duty at two am before he does regularly 246 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.759 check me on this cheef. It brings a container of 247 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.279 coffee for Pop, who was the only man in the 248 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:55.240 building after two am. 249 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:56.080 It's correct. 250 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:01.360 Now, if there was something in the coffee, say maybe 251 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:02.639 a pillar something, gotcha. 252 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.399 That's terrific how you're feeling out, Chief, I'm all right. 253 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.519 You'll be a lot better when the job's done, won't you. 254 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.320 That's right, Okay, we do it. We meet back here 255 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.840 in a bout at three twenty. Job's done, the boat 256 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.080 kicks off. I get everything right. 257 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.840 Cheap, fine, jeez, just fine. 258 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:36.559 Hey, I hop he's the off he's the coffee shame well, 259 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:40.559 I'm knocking off tough day. See if nobody walks off 260 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:41.559 of the build, nipp hop. 261 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:51.279 He's not like a light chas he'll be sleeping till 262 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:54.320 tomorrow morning. All right, tony, come on, let's go. 263 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:05.080 Hey, hold it down. 264 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.639 That's allowed that something like call on iesay want Tony, 265 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.519 this place blocks to us. Did you get the thirty 266 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:15.080 face floor? Okay, Tony, get them going on? Twenty seven hours, right, 267 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.559 twenty seventh floor, securities. 268 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:28.840 Ninety flour two thousand. 269 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:29.720 You've been able to figureut? 270 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.080 How much? Where do we get to the bout? 271 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:31.360 Tony? 272 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:33.519 Don't count your chickens hair in the elevator shop keeps 273 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.039 as one of this nothing to worry about. 274 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.200 Look at Pop, sleep like a baby. 275 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:43.279 Good night Pop. 276 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.120 Yeah, you read about it in the papers tomorrow. Now 277 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.960 let's get back to the boat. 278 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.000 Yes, three o'clock. I hope this doesn't grow into a 279 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.200 real storm. What are you worried about? 280 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:03.639 Ejeton? 281 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.279 Wind is blowing in the rain? Said, dreadful night to 282 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:07.919 be out in the water. 283 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.879 Ah, yes, help and drink. I ought to be right 284 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.039 to catch the nose man. We ought to be on it. 285 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.799 I hope Tony's all right. I sent him out on 286 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.200 deck to get some air. He's awful sea set here? 287 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:21.759 Who comes the embassy announced tonight and that's the news 288 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:25.360 on the international seat and now at home. Police have 289 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.519 just announced one of the most daring robberies in the 290 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:30.159 history of the city. It is fourteen offices in the 291 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.000 merchantild trust building were stripped between the hours of two 292 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.759 and three am this morning of jewelry, merchandise, and securities 293 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:38.799 estimated at six hundred thousand dollars. 294 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:39.399 They're wrong. 295 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:40.840 This up is what a million dollars. 296 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.720 Autant clue with the local airports, which indicated the band 297 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.360 of robbers had left the city by plane. An earlier 298 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.000 rest is expected, and in Washington today the Senate. 299 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:55.399 Announced yes, an arrest is expected shortly at the airport. 300 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.159 Great, you never. 301 00:16:58.039 --> 00:16:59.360 See anything like it in your life. 302 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.720 We made mister Tony in here, chief, I said, a 303 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:04.960 lout on deck a few minutes ago. 304 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:06.839 Isn't he out there on the boat? I looked over? 305 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.640 Is it blowing batter hurrying on? He show up? 306 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:11.920 What could he fall over? Maybe that's what happened. Stop 307 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.039 hins and Tony's gone over. We gotta find it. Get 308 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:14.480 out of here. 309 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:16.759 That's right, chilling out. Stop the angle with the chiefs 310 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.839 out the matter with you're chasing a man falls overboard? 311 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:20.400 What are you gonna do? 312 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:23.799 Just go off right, forget about him? What do you 313 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.119 think I'm gonna do? Start shining sight rights on the water, 314 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:26.759 threwing him on it. 315 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.319 But we can't let him drown. 316 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.440 Oh, we can just get ourselves picked up by the 317 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.839 coast guard of the place. Patrol's murder cheasing, do me 318 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:40.720 a favor, edgitant forget them morality. 319 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:40.400 It doesn't take come. 320 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:47.720 Yet, gentlemen. 321 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:50.799 As clearly as if I had put a gun to 322 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:54.279 that boy's head and pulled the trigger, I murdered him. 323 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.880 He was a decent kid. A robber, yes, but a 324 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:01.200 decent person. Shortly after that that you were picked. That's right, sir, 325 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:02.640 It was about a month later. 326 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:09.319 How I lived during that month, What rationalizations and justifications 327 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:13.799 I gave to myself, it's impossible to describe, but I 328 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:15.640 hoped what happened would happen. 329 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:17.160 Did you be arrested, Yes, sir. 330 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.799 Tony's body was washed ashore and he was tied in 331 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:26.759 with Chasen as Toolpigeon did that. As you know, Chasen 332 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.559 was the first member of the gang arrested. And for 333 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.920 whatever reasons, I can't presume to know what goes on 334 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.720 inside the mind of a man like Chasen, but he 335 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.079 kept his mouth shut about my connection with the operation. 336 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:42.880 Then they found Tony's. 337 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:44.920 Hat inside the hat band of phoneem. 338 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.279 That's correct, sir, My private number in case he got 339 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:51.759 into trouble, gentlemen, with the arrest. When the arresting officers came, 340 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.920 I knew relief for the first time in the many 341 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:56.880 months I had been part of Chasin's gang. 342 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:59.240 And in the years that followed. 343 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.559 These years here in prison, I have spent that time 344 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.839 atoning for the many guilts which I freely admit, the 345 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.920 guilt of my wife, my. 346 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:17.200 Son, my daughter, my clients told me to society. Ah, 347 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:19.559 that's how it happened. 348 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:25.599 Yes, sir, Now, if you like, if it pleases the board, 349 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.200 I would like to make one final statement. 350 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:34.359 I am reluctant to do this, but what is an engine? 351 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:36.720 I want to read a letter from my wife, Sir, 352 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:44.279 you may read it, dear herald at the time of 353 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.759 the trial, when I learned for the first time that 354 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.839 you were involved in those terrible things. You know how 355 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:58.079 shocked I was that a gentle, generous, fine man like 356 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:03.759 yourself could have this side of his character. Shall I continue, gentlemen, yes, 357 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:08.319 finish the letter please. But now I've had time to think, 358 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.640 and I begin to understand how such a thing is possible. 359 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.720 Let me tell you now, my darling, for your own. 360 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:21.880 Peace of mind, when you come out, and I know 361 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:24.480 no parole board in the land will ask you to 362 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:27.240 serve your full term when they have heard your story. 363 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:32.000 Then when you come out, my darling, we shall be 364 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:43.759 waiting Helen, Herald Third and Helen. That's all, gentlemen. 365 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:48.559 You were a victim, then, dritan of human fraily ordinary 366 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.359 human weakness. 367 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:52.759 Is that what we're to understand? I tried to say 368 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:54.559 it as honestly as I knew Howser. 369 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:57.160 Having made the initial air of involvement with Chasen, you 370 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:01.079 became his victim, his tool, and the rest flowed logically 371 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:03.000 from this terrible premise. 372 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.400 I would like not to repeat myself, sir, that is 373 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:07.039 what happened. 374 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.720 As you're well aware, there's another inmate inside this prison, 375 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:14.079 well known to you, Clifford Chasin. 376 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:16.279 Yes, sir, I know as. 377 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:18.160 None of this board that you have during your imprisonment 378 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:21.279 stayed away from Chasen, never exchanged a word with him 379 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:22.319 in the past three and a half year. 380 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:23.519 I tried my best, Sir. 381 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:25.960 I'm going to take a liberty with the normal procedure 382 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:27.519 of this board and bring this man into the hearing 383 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:31.880 God show Chasen, and I want to caution you, sir, 384 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.240 this man is a fantastic liar. 385 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:38.000 With that, Jason, thanks to the chairman. 386 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.839 Jason, you're aware that you were picked up in connection 387 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.440 with the Mercantile Trust theft on the word of a 388 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:45.160 stool pigeon. 389 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:46.200 That's right. 390 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:49.000 You're also aware, probably by now, the name of that 391 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:49.759 stool pigeon. 392 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.400 That's right. Ready, Galande from Detroit. 393 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.319 Let me add to your store of information, Jason, the 394 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.200 name of the man who informed on you was Harold 395 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:03.759 edrit in the second. That's the list, and the question 396 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.839 is addressed to you. Answer otherwise absolute silence. Now, Chasen, 397 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:12.400 who masterminded the gang? Whose gang wasn't? Who in fact 398 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.720 was the chief? So you s told on me? You're 399 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.359 the one all these years. I kept my mouth shut 400 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:23.160 all these years. What have you been telling him? 401 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:24.960