Speaker 1: Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis Elliott Lewis,
Speaker 1: two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
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Speaker 1: foremost players and radio's foremost plays. Ladies and gentlemen, Elliott.
Speaker 2: Lewis, good evening, May I present my wife Kathy.
Speaker 3: Good evening, And before we start tonight, thank you all
Speaker 3: very very much for the letters and cards and telegrams
Speaker 3: wishing us well on our wedding anniversary. We do appreciate
Speaker 3: your thoughtfulness. We're very grateful.
Speaker 2: Tonight. We're going to please some of you and make
Speaker 2: others of you angry because the story we're going to
Speaker 2: do is written for us by E Jack Newman.
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Speaker 3: find that you have a remarkable reaction. You're either completely
Speaker 3: charmed by the party and Eddie and Casey at the bat,
Speaker 3: or you take a violent dislike to his plays. Now
Speaker 3: we hope to get a new reaction as we present
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Speaker 4: Facts, Yeah Evergreen three one two nine one.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the long distance operator, Sir.
Speaker 5: Evanston calling my party. We'll speak with anyone who's number.
Speaker 2: Who's calling mister John Bradford.
Speaker 6: All right, Ray, just a moment please, mister Bradford ready
Speaker 6: with your call.
Speaker 2: Who ever greens for any one two nine to one
Speaker 2: and Jackson.
Speaker 5: Hello, Chris, here's your party, go ahead?
Speaker 2: Pee h thank you. Hello Hello, Chris, this is Bradford.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to wake up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: She say, you're calling from Evanston.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, Chris. The sheriff here picked up Ellen
Speaker 5: Dudley half an hour ago. She was hiding in the
Speaker 5: restroom in an all night bus station.
Speaker 2: Ellen Dudley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a friend of mine with the State Highway Patrol
Speaker 5: was in on him. Gave me a ring. Just a
Speaker 5: lucky accident. I found out about it at all. She's
Speaker 5: being held in communicado. Chris.
Speaker 2: You're a friend on the Highway patrol.
Speaker 5: Does he have just a patrolman, Chris, that's out.
Speaker 2: There's something old John Bradford.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's something wrong, Chris.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We have to work fast on this.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, dear cat.
Speaker 6: Whatever it is waiting until morning doesn't he realize you
Speaker 6: need your rest.
Speaker 2: Let's keep quiet for a minute, will you? Sorry?
Speaker 3: Dear?
Speaker 2: Has she sent for anyone?
Speaker 5: I don't think so, not yet. What do you want
Speaker 5: to do, Chris?
Speaker 2: Wait a minute? What time is it? I can drive
Speaker 2: there by four fifteen. What's the sheriff's name.
Speaker 5: Walter Martin?
Speaker 2: You get to him, try, Chris, get to him and
Speaker 2: tell Sheriff Morrow that the district attorney will hold him
Speaker 2: personally responsible for the conduct of his office and his
Speaker 2: offices in this situation. Remind him that the accused is
Speaker 2: the state's prisoner. Chris, he can hold her for forty
Speaker 2: eight Let me worry about that part of it. You
Speaker 2: might certainly understand what I just told you right see
Speaker 2: a little while.
Speaker 6: James, I think it's terrible.
Speaker 2: He should call up Ellen, Randell, Dudley, after Evanston. They'll
Speaker 2: make a spectacle of this thing. Or it can be
Speaker 2: done right. Where's my blue shirt?
Speaker 6: It's in the laundry, Dear, I sent it out this morning.
Speaker 6: Aren't you going to shave?
Speaker 2: What time?
Speaker 6: Would you like some car time?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 6: Christ You can't just rush out of him and stop.
Speaker 2: Please. A million things on my mind.
Speaker 6: I'm only trying to help you down?
Speaker 2: No, you know? Sorry? Here? Thanks?
Speaker 6: Why do you always have to handle these things?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 6: When something had to be done right? You seem to
Speaker 6: be the only one they can count on. Maybe it's
Speaker 6: because you're the only one who get up in the
Speaker 6: middle of the night.
Speaker 2: Flinks cut, flinks there.
Speaker 6: When will you be home?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll get a nap at the club
Speaker 2: this afternoon. Don't worry.
Speaker 6: There was a time when you tell me.
Speaker 2: About these I just haven't time now, Dear, where's my built?
Speaker 6: Who's Ellen Randall Dudley?
Speaker 2: Did you read the papers?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's her.
Speaker 6: She's a very beautiful woman, isn't she?
Speaker 2: So they say? Coat?
Speaker 3: What's she done?
Speaker 2: I thought you read the papers.
Speaker 6: I just noticed a picture on the front page.
Speaker 2: I didn't write.
Speaker 6: I wish I had some idea.
Speaker 2: What you read about it? Dear? It's all over the papers,
Speaker 2: the whole story. All you have to do is read
Speaker 2: about it. You don't have to ask me.
Speaker 6: I'll do that so long, Anne, Chris?
Speaker 2: What now?
Speaker 6: We aren't very happy these days, are we, Chris?
Speaker 2: I don't know what we are? Bye?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 2: Boys? Is Christian? I'd hate to be and missus Dudley's
Speaker 2: shoes when Christian gets through whatever? Alright, hold him as Christian?
Speaker 2: How about a statement, mister Christian comment? Is she crazy?
Speaker 2: It's not for me to say. We've let your opinion.
Speaker 2: Mister Krae have never met missus Dudley. Pardon me? Were
Speaker 2: you presenting indicting against him?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Were you finally indicting, mister Christians And the indictment can
Speaker 2: only be presented and filed by the grand jury. Take
Speaker 2: your hand off my arm?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 8: Does the state have sufficient evidence against Missusdudley.
Speaker 2: To get a conviction as a matter for the jury
Speaker 2: in the superiod courts of the side?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 8: How about one more picture, mister Christian?
Speaker 2: Oh, John, Oh, hello, Chrag, I dig it in a
Speaker 2: miss Sheriff Morrow.
Speaker 1: I told him you were on the way, and he
Speaker 1: called the paper blicity.
Speaker 2: How I'm afraid so, Chris.
Speaker 5: It's the only important arrest he's ever.
Speaker 2: Made, and he could queer everything with these kind of shenanigans.
Speaker 2: How long has he been in office? Oh? Ten years?
Speaker 2: Where is he in there? Where's missus Dudley?
Speaker 5: She's in there with him?
Speaker 2: What I told you?
Speaker 5: This was something for him?
Speaker 10: Here, Missus Morris sent over a tray, the accusing Sheriff
Speaker 10: Morrow having a snack together.
Speaker 2: I'll have you no, come on where she's been these
Speaker 2: last three days. I don't know if mad Any calls yet. No,
Speaker 2: I'm sure of that. Somebody's gonna try and get to her.
Speaker 8: Just a minute, Sheriff Marrow left orders he's not to
Speaker 8: be disturbed.
Speaker 2: What's your name.
Speaker 3: I'm Deputy PJ.
Speaker 2: Taylor. Mister Taylor. I want you to go and stand
Speaker 2: by that door over there. Huh No, one absolutely no
Speaker 2: one has to come through that darn till I say so.
Speaker 2: I'd take my order from Sheriff Morrow. Taylor.
Speaker 5: Hey, I thought I told you I didn't want anyone
Speaker 5: around here.
Speaker 2: Sheriff Morrow. Yes, who are you Dale Christian?
Speaker 10: Oh, mister Bradford here explained you were on the way.
Speaker 10: We can handle this situation, all right, Miss Christian and.
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley in there, he guarded. No need to go there, John,
Speaker 2: don't take your eyes off y all right, Chris. No, look, no,
Speaker 2: you're a here, sir, if you're gonna do what I say, just.
Speaker 10: A minute there, Bradford, he has no right.
Speaker 2: To go in to my own He has every right
Speaker 2: to go in there, and I'll show you why.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: You see this, it's a warrant issued yesterday afternoon for
Speaker 2: the arrest of Ellen Randall Dudley. When you see that
Speaker 2: seal and that's signature, your authority is automatically superseded. No
Speaker 2: one comes in here and tells me how to run
Speaker 2: my job. Telling you you're trying to get your name
Speaker 2: and picture in every newspaper in the country at the
Speaker 2: expense of this case, you've already jeopardized the state's position.
Speaker 2: I'll have no more of it. This is no pressman's holiday.
Speaker 2: If you have any brains at all, you'll take mister
Speaker 2: Taylor here and go outside and get rid of those
Speaker 2: reporters as fast as you can.
Speaker 5: I'll take action against you for this.
Speaker 10: Mister Christian, see if you can get Bert Pellerton out
Speaker 10: of bet Taylor. This man has overstepped his bombs.
Speaker 2: Ellen Randal Dudley, Yes, my name is Christian, Missus Dudley,
Speaker 2: I'm the deputy district attorney. All right, John, what are
Speaker 2: you going to do? Just take a few notes, Missus Dudley,
Speaker 2: what kind of news. Well, mister Bradford's also from my office.
Speaker 2: He's here to take notes on what you say to me,
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley. Oh, I'm obligated to warn you that whatever
Speaker 2: you say right now may be used later in the court.
Speaker 2: You don't have to talk to me unless you want to.
Speaker 2: Do you understand that? Yes, a little later on they'll
Speaker 2: take you into Jackson and you can get some sleep.
Speaker 2: I suppose you're.
Speaker 3: Tired, Yes I am, mister Christian.
Speaker 2: Well, this won't take long. I'd just like to have
Speaker 2: your story in your own words.
Speaker 3: Pardon me, yes, I I don't understand you, mister Christian.
Speaker 3: You just told me that anything I tell you may
Speaker 3: be used against me in court. Yes, then I really
Speaker 3: shouldn't tell you anything.
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley. Listen to me. Listen carefully. Yesterday afternoon I
Speaker 2: attended the coroner's inquest held in Jackson. It was an
Speaker 2: inquest into the death of your husband, Robert Ames Dudley. Yes,
Speaker 2: a coroner's jury there determined that mister Dudley came to
Speaker 2: his death as the result of wounds inflicted by you
Speaker 2: his wife. A hatchet was presented as evidence. Mister Thomas
Speaker 2: Unger of the Police Crime Laboratory positively identified it as
Speaker 2: the murder weapon. He showed the coroner's jury that samples
Speaker 2: of the blood found on the hatchet matched with specimens
Speaker 2: of your husband's blood. Sergeant Victor Manning also testified and
Speaker 2: explained that several finger prints on the murder weapon belonged
Speaker 2: to you. Two witnesses, your maid ethel Lee barth In,
Speaker 2: a neighbor, Missus Frank Thompson, gave testimony that further incriminate you.
Speaker 2: Enough evidence was presented for the coroner's jury to recommend
Speaker 2: that you be taken into custody and held for the
Speaker 2: action of the grand jury. Do you understand what I've
Speaker 2: just told you?
Speaker 3: Yes? I think so.
Speaker 2: In a few days, the grand jury will meet and
Speaker 2: charge you with murdering your husband. There is no doubt
Speaker 2: that they will make that indictment, Missus Dudley. From there
Speaker 2: you will be arraigned and later on taken into a
Speaker 2: court and tried. Do you understand that? Yes? Fine? Now,
Speaker 2: a frank, honest statement on your part before all these
Speaker 2: things take place can save a great deal of pain
Speaker 2: on both sides. Such a statement from you right now
Speaker 2: may determine the disposition and the proper plea to be
Speaker 2: entered on your behalf.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, mister Christian proper plea.
Speaker 2: You murdered Roger Ames Dudley on the night of the thirteenth. Now,
Speaker 2: the sooner you admit that, the better off you'll be.
Speaker 2: You make a full confession here, mister Bradford will take
Speaker 2: it down and you'll sign it. You enter a plea
Speaker 2: of guilty, and I promise you I'll do all I
Speaker 2: can for you with the court. Is that okay?
Speaker 3: Suppose suppose I I don't admit anything, then you can
Speaker 3: expect no clemency.
Speaker 2: That, of course, is entirely up to you, Missus Dudley.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you that the death house
Speaker 2: in the State Penitentiary has been filled with people who
Speaker 2: didn't listen to reason while they still had a chance.
Speaker 2: This is your chance, Missus Dudley, right here and now.
Speaker 3: Well, I I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: I'll just explain what is best for you to do.
Speaker 2: You're hooked and you're going to have to face up
Speaker 2: to it one way or the other. If you don't
Speaker 2: take my advice, they'll hang you. I promise you, Missus Dudley.
Speaker 2: They'll hang you as certainly as you are sitting in
Speaker 2: that chair in front of me. But what do you
Speaker 2: have to say.
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Speaker 8: Couldn't find the aspen around here, mister Christian. The drug
Speaker 8: store is not open yet, but I did find a
Speaker 8: couple of imperant tables.
Speaker 2: I'll be fine, miss Christian. Thank you. Uh. How she feeling.
Speaker 2: She's alright?
Speaker 8: Oh uh, mister Christian, Yes, I thought i'd better tell you.
Speaker 8: Sheriff Morrow ordered me to call mister Pelanton. Oh huh
Speaker 8: uh he ordered me to do it.
Speaker 2: Uh. Mister Pelton's on his.
Speaker 5: Way over here right now.
Speaker 8: Thank you for the information. Uh, mister Christian. I worked
Speaker 8: out of here for Sheriff Morrow ever since. He's been
Speaker 8: in office. I think I ought to tell you i'd
Speaker 8: be a little careful about the way you handle it,
Speaker 8: mister Christian.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I can handle Sheriff Morrow.
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sure you can, Miss Christian. Have never doubted
Speaker 8: that for one second. No, sir, I know you know
Speaker 8: your job. I know you're trying to get a job
Speaker 8: done here and you don't wanna know hocus focus about it.
Speaker 8: I guess I can't blame you one bit. I'd do
Speaker 8: the same thing if I was in your shoes and
Speaker 8: wanted the conviction as fast as I could get it.
Speaker 8: I just want you to know, mister Christian, that I'm
Speaker 8: on your side. I appreciate that when you're a mad
Speaker 8: district attorney and you're appointing special investigators. I hope you
Speaker 8: will remember me, mister Christian. P. J. Taylor, Evanston Sheriff's Office.
Speaker 2: I'll remember you, mister Taylor. M feeling any better.
Speaker 3: I guess so. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Of course, here these will help.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Oh, I hope you've decided to use your head about this,
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3: I want to mister christ.
Speaker 2: Sure you do. Suppose you start right from the beginning.
Speaker 3: Yes, do you have a cigarette oh, sure, here you go.
Speaker 3: Thank you? You smoke my brand?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Sure? Okay? Now, yes, you were married to him eight years,
Speaker 2: is that right?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: I understand you met in Europe.
Speaker 3: Yes, in London during the war. I've read about you
Speaker 3: in the papers, mister Christian. They say you're going to
Speaker 3: be the new district attorney. You don't look much older
Speaker 3: than Roger.
Speaker 2: He was thirty six, I'm thirty four. You and mister
Speaker 2: Dudley had been having trouble for some time.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, for years. I imagine you've had some experiences
Speaker 3: being the position you are. Do you talk to many
Speaker 3: people in a situation like mine.
Speaker 2: Quite a few, Missus Dudley. Last July you had mister
Speaker 2: Dudley arrested when he came home drunk and threatened you.
Speaker 3: Yes, but he got out of that very easily. They
Speaker 3: didn't do a thing to him. Roger was awfully good
Speaker 3: at talking himself out of things.
Speaker 2: You didn't prefer charges against.
Speaker 3: It, No, it wouldn't have done any good. We would
Speaker 3: have gotten out of it anyway.
Speaker 5: He had a law.
Speaker 3: Degree too, you know, so I understand Roger never went
Speaker 3: into practice. He didn't have to. He didn't have to
Speaker 3: do anything. That was his trouble. His father left him
Speaker 3: quite a bit of money, and he simply didn't have
Speaker 3: to do anything at all.
Speaker 2: Shall we get on with this, Missus Dudley. It's past
Speaker 2: five now.
Speaker 3: Why wh I've been up all night long? This makes
Speaker 3: four nights in a row I've gone without.
Speaker 2: So soon as we finish here, you can get some sleep.
Speaker 3: I don't feel one bit sleepy. When I first came here,
Speaker 3: I was dreadfully tired. I thought I could sleep for
Speaker 3: a week. Now I'm not the least bit tired or sleepy.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 11: I if you'll just start with the events that night.
Speaker 11: What is today Friday? I'd be playing bridge this afternoon.
Speaker 11: There's a dog show tomorrow evening I wanted to go to,
Speaker 11: but I won't be able to go anywhere.
Speaker 3: Now do you feel sorry for me? Mister Christian, I
Speaker 3: beg your pardon? Do you feel sorry for me?
Speaker 2: It makes no difference how I feel, Missus Dudley, you're
Speaker 2: an accused prisoner. My job is to get a statement
Speaker 2: of fact from you. That's why I'm here. Oh, I've
Speaker 2: explained this once. I'm your friend. Here in a courtroom,
Speaker 2: I'll represent the prosecution and I'll do everything I can
Speaker 2: to see to it that you hang unless you make
Speaker 2: a complete confession. Now. Is that perfectly clear to you,
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3: Yes, And if you have a record of always getting
Speaker 3: a conviction, that'll help when you run for office Walters.
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley, my professional career has nothing to do with us.
Speaker 2: If I weren't here talking to you, someone else from
Speaker 2: my office would be here. It's a job that has
Speaker 2: to be done. I happen to be the one who
Speaker 2: is doing it.
Speaker 3: But wouldn't it be better for you if you had
Speaker 3: more of an audience than mister Bradford over there wouldn't
Speaker 3: be much better if you had me in a courtroom
Speaker 3: with reporters and.
Speaker 2: Dudley, do you want to talk to me now? Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't mean to make you angry, mister Christian before
Speaker 3: you've told me is true about what happened at the
Speaker 3: Coroner's in question? What will happen when the grand jury meets?
Speaker 3: You can hang me right.
Speaker 2: Now, I certainly can.
Speaker 3: Yet you're here to get my story. You must be
Speaker 3: uncertain about something I told you.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to help you, Missus Dudley, but I warn
Speaker 2: you I am not uncertain about anything where you are concerned.
Speaker 2: Make no mistake about that. I have a duty to
Speaker 2: the people of this state. That is to learn the
Speaker 2: facts of this case and present them before the court.
Speaker 2: I intend to do that with or without your cooperation.
Speaker 3: Well, may I talk to you alone?
Speaker 2: You understand why mister Bradford is here.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I'd like to tell it to you alone.
Speaker 3: It can't possibly hurt anything to talk to you first,
Speaker 3: can it?
Speaker 5: All? Right?
Speaker 2: John? Wait outside, I'll cent Foy when.
Speaker 9: They made you right, Chris, thank you? Alright, Missus Dudley.
Speaker 3: I killed Roger.
Speaker 2: Tell me how it happened.
Speaker 3: I was having some people over for dinner that night.
Speaker 3: I was busy in the kitchen with the maid fixing
Speaker 3: the dinner. When Roger came downstairs. I asked him to
Speaker 3: do a simple thing, just a little thing. I asked
Speaker 3: him to start a fire in the fireplace. It was
Speaker 3: pretty chilly out, and the fire always made that room
Speaker 3: look so warm and nice. Have you seen my house?
Speaker 2: Yes, Missus Dudley, go on, please.
Speaker 3: I heard him down in the basement getting things ready
Speaker 3: for the fire. When I looked at the clock, it
Speaker 3: was past seven. The fire hadn't even been started in
Speaker 3: the fireplace. Our guests were arriving at seven thirty. I
Speaker 3: asked Roger to come up and make some martinis and
Speaker 3: let the fire go for a moment. He called me
Speaker 3: a name. Why I never knew why he did things
Speaker 3: like that. I went dow downstairs to ask him why
Speaker 3: he was so angry he called me another name. Wasn't
Speaker 3: just the name or him being angry. It was all
Speaker 3: the things he'd done to me before, they arguing and
Speaker 3: fighting and the insults. When he started up the stairs,
Speaker 3: I picked up the hatchet and I hit him with it.
Speaker 3: He fell down.
Speaker 2: Then what did you do?
Speaker 3: I ran upstairs and put on my coat and left
Speaker 3: the house.
Speaker 2: Or have you been these last three days?
Speaker 3: Right here in Evanston? I had a room at the
Speaker 3: Evanston Hotel until last night, and I thought I'd try
Speaker 3: to get away, go to another city, Chicago or New York.
Speaker 3: Found out who I was at the bus station.
Speaker 2: Did you ever think about killing your husband before this?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes?
Speaker 2: Did you know you were going to kill him when
Speaker 2: you went down to the basement.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Did he go out with other women not?
Speaker 3: Did I know of?
Speaker 2: Did he ever beat you? Oh? No? It gave you
Speaker 2: a nice home or you needed.
Speaker 3: But he took my life away from me, mister Christian?
Speaker 3: What he took my life away from me? He stole
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 2: I don't understand that, missus Dudley.
Speaker 3: When I was going down the stairs that night, and
Speaker 3: so I'm standing there, I suddenly realized, Oh, he had
Speaker 3: taken from me everything that was young and fresh and wanting,
Speaker 3: and I despised him for it. So I killed him.
Speaker 2: But but why did you have to kill him? You
Speaker 2: could've divorced him, left him.
Speaker 3: Don't you see what he had taken from me, mister Christian?
Speaker 3: There was nothing left for him to steal from me,
Speaker 3: or nothing left for me to give another man. Are
Speaker 3: you married?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Then you know what a man can take from a woman.
Speaker 3: Mister Christian, nam I somewhat you'd want to be married too,
Speaker 3: if this terrible thing hadn't happened. Am I someone you'd
Speaker 3: be proud to have for a wife?
Speaker 2: You might be?
Speaker 3: That's all a woman needs is to be wanted? Am
Speaker 3: I old and ugly and unattractive? My shallow of flighty?
Speaker 3: Look at me, mister Christian, I am no stand up?
Speaker 3: Please look at me close?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Would you want to be loved by me.
Speaker 2: You're very lovely, miss Dunny, would you, yes?
Speaker 3: Well, I was nothing to Roger Dudley, nothing, and my
Speaker 3: love was nothing to him. I was a fixture, a decoration,
Speaker 3: an animal, and he took all of it, my love
Speaker 3: and my life. And then he stood at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the stairway and called me a name.
Speaker 2: Was it Udily, Missus Dudley. Listen to me. Listen to me.
Speaker 2: No one saw this happen. The maid was upstairs in
Speaker 2: the kitchen. Missus Thompson only heard it from next door.
Speaker 2: Listen to me. You can claim that you did it
Speaker 2: in self defense. He came at you when you picked
Speaker 2: up the hatchet and you hit him with it to
Speaker 2: protect yourself. You tell it that way. When mister Bradford
Speaker 2: comes back in here. There are a dozen good men
Speaker 2: in this state would be glad to represent you in
Speaker 2: court with a story like that. I'd be opposite them.
Speaker 2: You can get off. He made you kill him because
Speaker 2: it was either him or you, and you ran afterwards
Speaker 2: because you were frightened. In the end, you'll be charged
Speaker 2: with a second degree murder and the most you get
Speaker 2: a suspended sentence. Don't you understand what I'm telling you
Speaker 2: can be free.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, mister Christcha.
Speaker 2: All right, let's have mister Bradford in here now, please.
Speaker 3: Right, wait a minute, hold him. I can never be free.
Speaker 2: You know what you're saying.
Speaker 3: You have and understood anything I've said. He took my
Speaker 3: life away from me a long time ago, can't you see,
Speaker 3: mister Christian, I don't have any life to live now.
Speaker 2: Missus Dudley, you have everything to live for. Look, you're
Speaker 2: young and beautiful, and you want to need all of
Speaker 2: the things that I that life can give you.
Speaker 3: Too late, mister Christian, you'll get at.
Speaker 2: Least a life sentence. Listen. Listen.
Speaker 3: A few minutes ago, you were telling me about your
Speaker 3: duty to the people of this state. Mister Christian, tell
Speaker 3: me about it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, alright.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to you alone like this to
Speaker 3: make sure I was right. You're no better than he was.
Speaker 3: Mister Christian. You'd take a woman and do the same
Speaker 3: thing to her that he did to me. Until you
Speaker 3: kissed me just then. I wasn't a person to you.
Speaker 3: I was an animal, a trapped animal, and if I'd
Speaker 3: let you help me escape from this trap, I'd just
Speaker 3: be escaping into a smaller one, a worse one. With you,
Speaker 3: you're another Roger Dudley.
Speaker 2: Okay, Chris, Chris, Are you ready to make your stake
Speaker 2: in the fact, Missus Dudley, Yes, alright, yeah, I'll take
Speaker 2: it down from the beginning, Missus Studley, just as you
Speaker 2: told it to me.
Speaker 1: Statement of Fact, starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage.
Speaker 1: In a moment, mister and Missus Lewis will tell you
Speaker 1: about next week's play. This Saturday morning, it's the most
Speaker 1: unusual challenge for Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. The famous
Speaker 1: adventurer of Darkest Africa meets a juvenile delinquent and encounters
Speaker 1: problems of a very different sort in Tarzan and the
Speaker 1: hot Rod Kid. You'll also want to hear the latest
Speaker 1: episode of Gangbusters, CBS Radio's exciting true crime cases that names, names, places,
Speaker 1: and dates in thrilling accounts of police action against the lawless.
Speaker 1: Remember this Saturday night on most of these same CBS
Speaker 1: Radio stations, Tarzan and Gangbusters and now once again Kathy
Speaker 1: and Elliot Lewett.
Speaker 3: And that was another of v Jack Newman's searching studies
Speaker 3: of ourselves, this time set melodramatically.
Speaker 2: He's an excellent writer.
Speaker 3: Some friends new to on stage joined us tonight, Joan
Speaker 3: Danton who was the telephone operator, Jack Krushian, who was
Speaker 3: special Deputy Sailor, and Tyler McVeigh publicity happy Sheriff Marral,
Speaker 3: while Joseph Kerns played my assistant.
Speaker 2: John Bradford, true.
Speaker 3: To Marson rejoined us to play your wife, and Byron
Speaker 3: Kine was the reporter. We thank them all.
Speaker 2: Since this is spring and through the window we can
Speaker 2: see the sun and the green grass and the new
Speaker 2: flowers and the days that have gone by, we thought
Speaker 2: it a good time to present a story that suits
Speaker 2: the season, and.
Speaker 3: So next week we're going to do a dramatization of
Speaker 3: a warm and charming book almost forgotten now that perfectly
Speaker 3: states the season for us. It was written by the
Speaker 3: late Leonard Merrick, and it's called Conrad in Quest of
Speaker 3: his Youth.
Speaker 2: You'll like it until next week. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Good Night, Good Night Music.
Speaker 1: Fortnight's story was composed and conducted by Fred Steiner.
Speaker 2: The Kafi and Alliott theme is by.
Speaker 1: Ray Noble, and the program is transcribed and directed by
Speaker 1: mister Lewis George Walsh, speaking America's forty five million radio
Speaker 1: families listen most to the CBS Radio network