WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:21.000 Night Beat. Hi, this is Randy Stone. I cover the 2 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:24.480 night Beat for the Chicago Star. My story is talking 3 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:27.519 with many different ways. This one began with a kid 4 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.440 and one hundred dollars bill and ended in the death 5 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:31.480 cell of Juliet. 6 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:41.280 Might be starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone. See how 7 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.799 wheaty's at seven can help at eleven? Well, Sure your 8 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.560 Monday morning wheaties might have made today's wash look a 9 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:50.880 lot smaller. Wheedy's tomorrow? Could baby make your iron seem 10 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.399 lighter Wednesday, Thursday, any day. Wheaties sort of make insurance 11 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.399 policies easier to sell and feels easier to plow, and 12 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.159 time fighters easier to punch, because when you've had your wheaties, 13 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.480 you've had the husky whole wheat vitamins and minerals that 14 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.920 help keep you able to trim down big chores right 15 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:12.760 down beside yet making beds or making money. It just 16 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.680 seems a whole lot easier when you've had your wheaties. Surey, 17 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.439 mother beat them up good every morning on those crisp 18 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.120 light whole wheat flakes. It's a wonderful sight a family 19 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:22.920 full of wheaties. 20 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:23.680 What is it? 21 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.640 The man says, see how Wheaty's at seven can help 22 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.599 at eleven? That's it crying. Huh, Wheedy's tomorrow. 23 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.359 It was a great night, chilly as I walked, hunched 24 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.760 against the rain and stopping long enough to catch the 25 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:49.120 sweetness and light in the headlines. H bomb, menace, traffic, 26 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:55.480 tall mounts, murderous to die this morning in the electric chair. Okay, people, 27 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.599 keep it up. You're doing fine. But I had my 28 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.359 own worries, wondering where my a loving story had come from. 29 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.879 Tonight it hit me before I expected it, A little 30 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.200 kid six Maybe he came running at me and into 31 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:11.520 me before I could step aside. Well you think of 32 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.039 those break three line fella. 33 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.039 Let me go, Let me go? 34 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:15.879 Okay, okay, where. 35 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.840 To I I'm running away? 36 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.360 I all right, all right, now you get your breath 37 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:21.439 for the second leaf. 38 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:22.840 They're coming after me. 39 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.560 Oh, I want to go to my mom. 40 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:29.400 I thought you were running away. I uh wait a second, 41 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:33.560 what's this? My money? One hundred dollars bills mine, just 42 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.319 a little loose change. Huh, please give it back to me. 43 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:38.000 I gotta get a bus. 44 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:38.840 Where do you live? 45 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.280 I I wanna. 46 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:47.439 Go to six sixteen Wolverton, Wolburton's quite a piece from here. 47 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:48.280 They're coming. 48 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.240 They're coming after me in the auto. 49 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:58.280 Seem looks like this surrounded kid. Oh, take it easy 50 00:02:58.319 --> 00:02:58.800 for a second. 51 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:03.719 It's here. You've been a bad boy, Marty running away 52 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:04.039 like this? 53 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:08.400 You gonna take me back? Uh, you're a kid, mister. No, 54 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:09.879 what's the angle here? 55 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:12.039 The kid ran away from his old man. 56 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.280 I didn't My father's dead. 57 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:19.159 Sure, he always says that. Now come on, Marty. No, 58 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.159 it seems he doesn't want to go again. He will 59 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:27.000 or maybe not. I'd like to know it. Eddie back 60 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:30.560 big boys. 61 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.120 Yeah, mister, you just forget all about this, Marty. 62 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.159 Get in the car. Get away from that kid, Eddie 63 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:44.000 mac him. That's a sample. Open your trap again and 64 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:52.199 you get the rest. Come on, let's go. Before my 65 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:54.240 eyes closed all the way I saw him hustle the 66 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.319 kid into the car. If hegan to move away, glided 67 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.560 under a street, laughing from the rear window of face 68 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:04.840 looked out Jerry McCallum. The brain's behind almost any illegitimate enterprise. 69 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:07.159 You could name nothing too small or too big for 70 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.039 Jerry if it made a nickel. From what I saw 71 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.520 of McCallum's face, he could have gone in right then 72 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:21.720 for murder mine. A half hour later, after some minor 73 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:24.800 repairs on my face, I dropped in to see Sergeant Kolski. 74 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.759 I asked some questions and I got some answers. McCallum 75 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.079 had never gone in for kidnapping, and no carpet stick 76 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.040 his neck out without positive proof. If I wanted to 77 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.879 go slumming, I was going alone. It wasn't far to 78 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.439 McCallum's place, but knowing where he lived and getting to 79 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.959 see him with two different things. However, I had a 80 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.959 hunch that Jerry McCallum had seen me. I made sure 81 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:47.639 of it by sending him a note with one word 82 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.639 on it. Marty McCallum had me shown in. He smiled 83 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.040 at me from behind a marble top desk, flanked by 84 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.160 two of his boys, one of them my playmate of 85 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:56.920 a little earlier. 86 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.160 Oh, he's glad to see a news favorite boy. 87 00:04:59.240 --> 00:04:59.600 Stone. 88 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:01.639 You fell want to print rough stuff once in a while, 89 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.959 but it makes good for circulation, huh true or not? 90 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.720 Yeah? Sure? You know we make up those things printed 91 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:07.040 about you. 92 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.439 I give us, So what do you want tonight? Stone 93 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:10.360 for a starter? 94 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:12.920 Ten minutes alone with a lover boy, they're the one on. 95 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:17.279 Your right, Willy Bigger. Why yes, Now, Willy hasn't. 96 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.839 Done I know, hasn't been out of your sight for 97 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.160 a week. In fact, about forty minutes ago, he was 98 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:24.120 baking a cake. Okay, forget it, good idea. 99 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.240 Where's the kid, Marny yep? Do you like children? 100 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:29.920 Yeah? Until they grow up, they're nice people. 101 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.000 The kid's none of your business, Stone, Yet I am curious. 102 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:34.959 Along comes a kid with one hundred. 103 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.639 Dollars at all. Well, he took it. I keep lots 104 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.279 of dough around here, and drawers everywhere. The kid grabs 105 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:40.839 some and bed. 106 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:42.920 Why because he wanted to go home? 107 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:44.759 Did he say where? I? 108 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:47.120 No? No, he didn't. 109 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.319 Okay, then this is his home. What would you say 110 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.279 if I told you he was my kid? 111 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:53.839 Nothing? I'd be speechless. 112 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:57.319 Stone, forget this whole thing. You've got nothing nothing. Whatever 113 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:59.240 you're thinking is your idea. And that's as far as 114 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.480 we go. As far as you go, both of us, 115 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:03.279 I'll beat it. Don't crowd your luck. 116 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.160 Okay, there's nothing I can prove, but it makes a 117 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:08.680 good story. It's good reading. 118 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:10.360 You got no finish to it now. 119 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.920 Frank Stockton wrote a story once the Lady and the Tiger. 120 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:14.879 There's no finish to that one either, but it caused 121 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:15.439 more comment. 122 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.360 That way, you're not scaring me Stone. People can ask 123 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.000 all the questions they want after tomorrow. 124 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.480 After tomorrow, mister McCallum, Why after tomorrow. 125 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.720 I'm sick of looking at you. I'm even sicker of 126 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.920 listening to you. Now, get out, Oh, by the way, 127 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:31.360 get out. 128 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.199 Yeah. One thing more, though, A friend of mine, a 129 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.519 cop named Cosky, knows that I came here. I'm telling 130 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.680 you in case my back looks inviting. When I walk 131 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:48.199 out so long on the way down to the street, 132 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:50.639 that tight feeling grabbed my throat, made my nose itch, 133 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.959 in my eyes water. I kept my shoulders hunched against 134 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.040 a bullet or a knife, but nothing came. Why not? 135 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.920 I asked that a thousand times before I hit the street. 136 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:02.800 I know I didn't scare hi McCallum. When I told 137 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.839 him about Kolski, mcallum had a million ways to rub 138 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.519 out anybody who'd got in his way, and a million 139 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:11.079 alibis to keep himself clear. He done it before, but 140 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:15.199 me he let go. Why? He said after tomorrow he 141 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.160 didn't want anything to happen until after tomorrow. I kept 142 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:23.839 thinking he kept walking, and then something began to go 143 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.920 around on the back of my head. McCallum tomorrow, McCallum tomorrow, 144 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:36.759 And suddenly it hit all about the electric Yeah start okay, yeah, eh, 145 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.160 nice morning for somebody to sit in the hot sea. 146 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:44.800 Then Clay looking dame too? Now, why probably something like that. 147 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.600 There's a million dollars that you'd better bring Callum's girlfriend. Mccallums, 148 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.480 where you've been missed? Everybody knows that. Yeah, but you 149 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:56.360 forget things when they're not close to you. Class you're 150 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:58.399 looking dame. Never think a dog like that at bumper 151 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:03.600 husband gonna fry it. Hey, mister, you sick or something 152 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.600 or something? Yeah, but you ever get a great big hunch. 153 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.120 Once I lost, I might too, but it's worth a try. 154 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.360 I grabbed the cab. I thought maybe some of McCallum's 155 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:18.879 boys were tailing me, so I had the driver a 156 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:21.800 cut back and forth. Then when I was sure we 157 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.040 were clean, I had him drive to McCallum's apartment house 158 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:29.519 and park down the street a few doors and it's okay, mister, yeah, oh, 159 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:33.519 turn off your motor. Okay, But I gotta leave the 160 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.120 meat to take it. That's okay. I listen to turn 161 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:39.840 off your lights. Why look, I'm Randy Stone, Chicago Star. 162 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:44.519 Here's my press card. Okay, okay, Hey, wat's up? You 163 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.639 take this newspaper? It's what do I do with it? 164 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:48.679 I pretend you're reading it? 165 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:49.759 All right? 166 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.840 Do you want to stormy Yellow? Hello? Don't pay any 167 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.559 attention to anything. You're just park You're waiting for a fair. 168 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.639 You're reading that paper. I understand, I get it. What 169 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.480 about you? I'll sit back. I think anybody can see 170 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:05.639 me from the outside. Nah. Now if you sit in 171 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:10.320 the corner, Nah, okay, I just sit and read the paper. Okay. 172 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.799 I guess this dame's gonna cook. Hey, yell, do you 173 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.840 think a big shed like McCallan. 174 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:19.120 To be able to get his dollar off a rat? 175 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:19.679 Eh? 176 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.200 But he didn't, you. 177 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.240 Wonder mister at midnight? She gets it? 178 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.600 They pull a switch. Then no more lorrain at hims 179 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:35.960 Eh ain't much to wonder about. Once they hold to 180 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:41.480 pretend to read the paper. And you see, yeah, some 181 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:46.039 guys are coming out. You see yeah, Oh there they're 182 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:46.679 looking this way. 183 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.360 Don't look up. One of them's coming this way. Okay, 184 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.120 start your motor, start pulling out. 185 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:58.679 Yeah, we gotta go right past him. You better squeeze 186 00:09:58.679 --> 00:09:59.840 heart against that back seat. 187 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.399 But don't go too fast, and you know, just as 188 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:07.039 though you're cruising for a fair Okay, it's okay. They 189 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.000 ain't looking at us. Hey, hey, mister Stone, did you 190 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.039 see that day away? Yeah? Yeah, get past then step 191 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.759 on it around the corner. Mister. 192 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.519 I ain't sure what I see, but there was a 193 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:17.559 dame just coming out. 194 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.120 Of the lobby. I you only got a quick look 195 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.799 at her face? Yeah, yes, so did I. What did 196 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.960 you say if that dame was in this doll in 197 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.600 the paper? I'll buy a horse as it were. Even 198 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:35.840 we're both crazy. I saw it too, Lorraine Adams. How 199 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.080 do you convince a Knight editor you haven't suddenly walked 200 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.360 out from under your head? How do you do it 201 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.399 even when you've got proof of something that sounds and 202 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.879 looks crazy? I listened to my editor. I'm at Cammel. 203 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:46.159 You're not. 204 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.080 Both of you stay in out of the night air. 205 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:49.879 But both of us saw the private guy. 206 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.720 Eh, you want to take any bets. 207 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:52.879 Either of you? 208 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.279 I let call come through man, and that call from 209 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.759 Joliet comes through five, will get your tax free. Ten 210 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.600 That Lorraine Adams are sitting in the death sound, Na, 211 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.159 she's not well. You've got a yawn about a kid 212 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.720 wandering around holding one hundred bucks in his half little hand. 213 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.720 There's no record of any kid, nothing and he Look. 214 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:11.840 Look, Lorraine Adams killed her husband because she was McCallum's girlfriend. 215 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.519 You remember the trial. She pleaded not guilty self defense, 216 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:15.480 but it didn't stick. 217 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:17.080 Public sentiment was against her. 218 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.039 Yes, I know, appeal nothing. Jerry mcallum didn't raise a 219 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.639 finger to get her off. Why not? Why not Matt 220 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:26.440 with his battery of high priced lawyers and with his connections. Okay, okay, 221 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.120 what's your best That Lorraine Adams is free right now? 222 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:31.080 I don't know how. I don't know what the kid 223 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:32.120 Marty has to do with it. 224 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.159 But there's a call and he held your hat not 225 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:40.360 common here, Okay, put it through Wendy one putting up 226 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:44.759 a fine oh on the line. Okay, now hello, yeah 227 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:49.279 a look a Stromberg. You're covering the Lorraine Adams electric cuture, 228 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:55.200 aren't you. Uh huh, Well, listen, this is gonna sound nuts. 229 00:11:55.480 --> 00:12:00.559 But is Lorraine Adams still in the death cell? Oh 230 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:05.080 you don't say okay, see I thinks no, that's. 231 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:09.559 All so on, all right, all right, Matt, give you. 232 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:12.879 Know what I'm gonna do with this five spot? Buy 233 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:16.080 you a jacket with sleeves to tie in the back? 234 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:17.600 What did Stromberg City? 235 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:22.480 The Lorraine Adams execution is scheduled tonight as planned. The 236 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.720 chaplain is with Lorraine Adams right now, because at midnight, 237 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:35.440 in exactly two hours and ten minutes she burns. 238 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:47.240 General Mills is bringing you nightbeat starrying Frank Lovejoy as 239 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:52.120 Randy Stone. See how Wheaty's at seven can help at eleven? 240 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.399 Say a friend, Yes, Frank, isn't there some way and 241 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:57.200 you could put a little more umph into that line? 242 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.960 You mean, like this, Maybe see how Wheaty's at seven 243 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.279 can help at eleven? Well, or see how Wheaty's at 244 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:04.799 seven can help at eleven? 245 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:05.840 There, that's it. 246 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.399 See how Wheaty's at seven can help at eleven, because 247 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.879 they really can their whole wheat. You see, I guess 248 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.720 everybody knows about the snap and energy you get from 249 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.519 whole wheat. While you start breakfast with a big bowl 250 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.200 of wheaties in the whole morning just seems to slide 251 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.679 along easier. Big chores don't look so big. Long hours 252 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.720 don't seem so long. People seem pleasanter when you've had 253 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.600 your wheaties, and you know why. It's just that wheaties 254 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.120 have lots of vitamins and minerals, lots of solid nourishment 255 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:37.519 the kind you need to look a tough task right 256 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.279 in the eye. Wheaties tastes good too, crisp and nice 257 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.480 to munch on, A nice sunny nuts sweet taste to them, 258 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.960 a good, satisfying flavor that keeps on tasting like more 259 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.120 no matter how often you eat them. You see, when 260 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:54.840 you eat good, you feel good. It's simple as that. Now, 261 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.759 my friend, would you just try that line again? See 262 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.120 how wheaty's at seven can help at the line of 263 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:04.879 him that way, because they really can, you know, try it, weedy. 264 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.080 I'm now back to night beat. I'm Bramby's throne. 265 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.720 In two hours and ten minutes, Lorraine Adams would go 266 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.200 to the electric chair. What I saw the cab driver 267 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.600 saw right in the middle of Chicago, free as a burden. 268 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.840 I checked some more after I left the office. The 269 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.799 police went along with the gag and checked the prison. Yes, 270 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.120 the girl on the death cell was Lorraine Adams. Her 271 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.960 fingerprints proved it. But then who was the girl the 272 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.000 cab driver? And I saw was McCallum going to work 273 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.360 a switch at the last minute? Fantastic? Sure, but McCallum 274 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.840 might be able to work it. And how did little 275 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.840 Marty tie in? What did a six year old kid 276 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.679 have to do with it? Well? I had until midnight 277 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:55.279 to learn a lot of things. There was only one 278 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.840 place to start. Six one six woven in the address 279 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.519 Marty had given me. It was a cheap boarding house. 280 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.600 I had the drive away. I knocked on the manager's 281 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.759 door until three minutes to get her out of bed. 282 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:12.919 And she wasn't happy. Where you are, sah Randy Stone? 283 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.120 She called the star. I take a news papers? You 284 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.639 selling papers this time in the morning? Oh no, listen 285 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:19.919 to me? Will you magazines? 286 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:20.559 All day? 287 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:22.799 Newspapers in the middle of the night. You take this 288 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.879 and listen? Ten bucks for what does a little kid 289 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.840 live here? His name was Marty about six, brown hair, 290 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:34.000 cute little guy? Are you kidding? That was four or 291 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:36.720 five months ago? But he lived here with his mother. 292 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.159 His mother? What did she look like? Ask my husband? 293 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.840 Where did she go? Well? He was thing. I can tell. 294 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:47.720 She worked at a joint called uh oh, come on, 295 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.279 come on the Blue Heirs. 296 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:53.320 Yeah, I said, blue Heirs. 297 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.759 Your hat, sir, and I check it for you all ranks? Honey? 298 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.120 That clock behind you? Is it right? Sure? Sony can 299 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:13.960 do eleven? The night is young. You want to bed? 300 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.120 How long you been here here? Maybe? 301 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:17.679 Why? 302 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.000 And I won't check my hat, but I'll leave this 303 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.919 with you. With five dollars, you could leave a diving suit. 304 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.399 Who do I kill? A girl used to work here. 305 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.879 She had a little boy, a little boy named Marty. 306 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:30.960 But I remember, Oh, yes you do. 307 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:31.320 Baby. 308 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.159 Your face shows us so I need makeup. You've seen 309 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.840 the kid, haven't you? You knew his mother? Mister? I 310 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.240 don't know anything that goes on. I check hats and coats. 311 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.399 That's why mister McCallum pays me. McCallum. Oh, the Blue 312 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:44.440 heron is one of his friends. I'll go away now, 313 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.679 will you? Did you like the girl? She was a 314 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:51.600 sweet cat? Well, then help her. She's in trouble. I 315 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:53.759 don't know anything. But there was a guy, a knocked 316 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.480 out musician, trombone player. He went for a fine hand. 317 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.639 Where what's his name Harry Ann He used to play here, 318 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.799 but when Peggy left Peggy, yeah, Peggy, Shit, Hey, you 319 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:06.640 don't even know her name. What do you want? Where 320 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.519 can I find Harry Aaron? You get out of here, 321 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.359 beat it, take it easy, get off before I call 322 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:16.480 a bouncer. With the clock getting ahead of me, I 323 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.519 looked up Harry Aaron in the musician's directory. With only 324 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.599 an hour and tenminus left, I tried to find him. Yes, 325 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.400 he played here, he played there. It was a good boy, 326 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.799 but he was always high. I covered one spot after another, time, 327 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.720 running out an hour left, fifty minutes, and then finally 328 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.400 I hit a rooming house, one of those places where 329 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.119 you stay up all day and all night. Anybody goes 330 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.480 to sleep. He's a curiosity. There was a jam session 331 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:51.279 going on, and I headed for the music. Five boys 332 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.680 was swinging high, but the trombone player was the one 333 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:58.039 I wanted. Skinny, pale face over which perspiration drenched hair. 334 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:09.279 I walked over to him, Hi, Harry, Harry, knock yourself out, 335 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:12.400 grab anything, cut in? What are you playing nothing? What 336 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:19.640 are your drink now thing? What are you living for? Harry? Harry? 337 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.759 Come on off the ceiling and you hear me. I 338 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.480 want to talk about Peggy. Peggy. 339 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:29.720 What what you're saying? 340 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:32.279 I want to talk about Peggy? You remember? Where about it? 341 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.720 What about Peggy? Let's get out of here, Harry. There's 342 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.200 a coffee shop down the street. Hey, find me a drink. Huh? 343 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:39.160 All right, all right, but come on huh hey, wait, wait, wait, 344 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.960 wait a second. Wait. Listen to that beef for it's 345 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:52.200 like a train running inside. Grab anything cutting any place? Peggy, Harry, Harry, Peggy, 346 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:57.480 you said, Peggy, Harry, you gotta come with me. You've 347 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.640 got to talk. We got forty minutes, Harry, and after 348 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:07.599 that it's I guess the boys goodbye. I made him 349 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.839 drink coffee strong and black, and I made him walk 350 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:13.079 until his head cleared up a little. But it took time, time, 351 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:15.319 and only thirty minutes I had left before that execution. 352 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.400 And then we sat and talked, what are you why 353 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:20.039 from me? Knocked out? 354 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:20.279 Me? 355 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.559 The top is all going, inside going? What do you 356 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.480 want for Peggy? Where is she? And why did she leave? Who? 357 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:27.799 I'm Stone Chicago star And I listened to me. You 358 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.880 remember Marty, Peggy's kid. I got a picture of her 359 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:35.079 right here. Hey, that's Peggy and that's Marty right there, Peggy. 360 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:39.640 This is Peggy. Dark hair, you bleach it blonde, and look, 361 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.400 Harry talk fast. I don't know what we'll get. But 362 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.160 tell me when you saw Peggy last on what she 363 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:50.759 said she was going away with him? Mcallum, mcallum. Why 364 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:53.680 this one night after the show, she was in the 365 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.359 line she was you know the chorus. You know I 366 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.119 went to see her. I found her pack. I'm packing 367 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.200 a suitcase. Shittn't tell me before that she was walking out. 368 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:09.480 She just looked at by fast Harry, real fast, white kid. 369 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.480 What's all the rush? I can't tell you, Harry, only 370 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.759 you're not gonna see me anymore. Oh, yeah, I get it. 371 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.599 You don't, Harry, you don't at all. Mcallum. I know 372 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:20.680 they talk a long time, he asked. It's nothing to 373 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:22.680 do with mcallum. Sure, that's nothing to do with a 374 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.960 knocked out horn player either. Oh don't talk like that. Okay, 375 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:31.640 I'll play it for you sometimes twenty choruses. I don't 376 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:32.960 blame you, Peggy. 377 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:37.359 I got a kid, Marty, I'm sick. 378 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:38.960 You know that got maybe a year. 379 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:41.880 Doc said, So what happens to the kid? 380 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.559 Then? What happened with me, I could. 381 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:49.480 Maybe I ain't gonna have my eating off trunk, crackers 382 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:50.960 and milk three times a day. 383 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:54.880 Oh what's mcallum gonna do for me? Say goodbye? Harry? Please? 384 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.839 You know what? I love you? 385 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:01.880 Oh that yes. 386 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:05.160 Means nothing alone. 387 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.119 Harry, Get out of here. 388 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.200 Don't stand there just looking at me. I won't be 389 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:10.160 able to go through with it. 390 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:14.599 I won't And I go Harry, my kid. 391 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:29.640 That's all. That's all I know. When did that happen? 392 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:34.039 Five yeah, five months ago, just before Lorrain Adams went 393 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:36.079 to trial for murder. What are you talking about, Louck? 394 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:39.799 This is Lorraine Adams picture on the paper. Hiss Peggy, 395 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.240 say bleach Peggy's hair, and she's Lorrain Adams. McCallum saw that. 396 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:46.480 You're crazy, Stone, You're crazy. McCallum couldn't make the switch 397 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:49.400 before the trial. Lorrain Adams gave herself up a week 398 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:51.799 after she killed her husband. But it wasn't Lorrain. It 399 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:54.759 was Peggy Racy. It's crazy. No less than half an 400 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:56.519 hour Peggy would go to the electric chair in place 401 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:57.359