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00:00:00The End
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00:01:00Hey, Cookie
00:01:04Uh-huh
00:01:05Will you play Beautiful Baby for me?
00:01:07Sure thing, Elsie
00:01:08Let's go
00:01:08You must have been a beautiful baby
00:01:17Why, you must have been a wonderful child
00:01:21When you were only startin' to go to kindergarten
00:01:25I'll bet you drove the little boys wild
00:01:28And when it came to winnin' blue ribbons
00:01:31You must have showed the other kids how
00:01:35Why, I can see the judge's eyes as he handed you the prize
00:01:39I'll bet you made the kids bow
00:01:42Cause you must have been a beautiful baby
00:01:45Cause baby, look at you now
00:01:49Why, you must have been a beautiful baby
00:01:52Why, you must have been a wonderful child
00:01:56Cause when you were only startin' to go to kindergarten
00:02:00I'll bet you drove the little boys wild
00:02:03And when it came to winnin' blue ribbons
00:02:07Why, I'll bet you show why
00:02:08I can see the judge's eyes as he handed you the prize
00:02:12That she made the cutest bow
00:02:14Cause you must have been a beautiful baby
00:02:18Cause baby, look at you now
00:02:21Theч
00:02:40Day
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00:02:51I'm in.
00:03:08Hello, Elizabeth.
00:03:10What's on your mind?
00:03:15Heavens.
00:03:16What have you been doing?
00:03:16Hijacking somebody?
00:03:18May I sit down?
00:03:19By all means.
00:03:21There you are.
00:03:25Now.
00:03:27Well, who from, how come, and what for?
00:03:30Tony Guido and Nick Cavalli.
00:03:32Hmm.
00:03:33I smell trouble.
00:03:34Their gang just pulled a big job.
00:03:37The Peacock robbery.
00:03:38Smells like one of their jobs.
00:03:41They keep me on the anxious seat, all right.
00:03:43Well, what do they want?
00:03:45A little party in the private apartment upstairs after the joint closes tonight.
00:03:49That's easy.
00:03:50It's for rent for such purposes.
00:03:52With a half dozen of our girls to entertain them, including Elsie.
00:03:56Hmm.
00:03:57That's what I was expecting.
00:03:59And what I feared.
00:04:01There goes the big dough.
00:04:03With 300 more on the line on delivery of Elsie.
00:04:07500 bucks gone with the wind.
00:04:09You know she won't go, so I...
00:04:11Because I want the place to make money.
00:04:13Why do you let her kid you?
00:04:15Well, you want us to kid ourselves?
00:04:16Nonsense.
00:04:17You're paying a handsome manager to look after such things, aren't you?
00:04:21It's 200 without her, 500 with her.
00:04:24300 dollars ought to be enough to get you to make that manager do his duty.
00:04:28500 is almost enough to make me use a gun.
00:04:31But I don't think they could persuade that girl to go up to that apartment if they offered
00:04:34it ten times that much.
00:04:35It's amazing to me how you let that pair play you.
00:04:39If you had the right kind of manager, you'd soon see how quickly Elsie'd be persuaded
00:04:43to sit in on these parties.
00:04:45Darn it, why rub it in?
00:04:47The girl is 100% for the joint for what she's been hired for.
00:04:50No.
00:04:51I just can't tell any girl to do what I know isn't just right or get out.
00:04:56I'm a gangster, but I still haven't sunk that low.
00:04:59Rats, if you'll make my brother manager, I'll guarantee that Elsie Bellwood will be doing
00:05:04just what the joint wants her to do in ten days or...
00:05:07Nothing doing, Elizabeth.
00:05:08I beat up men.
00:05:10I'll never win for getting rough with a woman.
00:05:20Oh, Mr. Farina.
00:05:22Yes?
00:05:23Step here a minute, please.
00:05:27Get a load of that specialty.
00:05:29Some of these days, babe, you're going to miss me, honey.
00:05:41Some of these days, babe, you're going to feel so lonely.
00:05:45You're going to miss my hugging.
00:05:47You're going to miss my kissing.
00:05:49You're going to miss me, baby.
00:05:50When I'm gone away, you're going to feel so lonely, babe.
00:05:55Just for me only.
00:05:57For you know, baby, you done had your day.
00:06:01And if you leave me, you know you're going to grieve me.
00:06:05You're going to miss your little brown skate chocolate, mama, some of these.
00:06:08You're going to miss me.
00:06:11You're going to miss me.
00:06:13You're going to miss me.
00:06:15Ow.
00:06:15What is that?
00:06:18What's it, boys?
00:06:19You're going to miss your little brown skate chocolate, mama, some of these days.
00:06:33A manager should be able to entertain in case you come up shorter than that some night.
00:06:37You saw that.
00:06:39Think it over, Mr. Farina.
00:06:40As I started to say, Elsie's a good performer and they like her.
00:06:50But she's too high-hat.
00:06:52What do you mean, too high-hat?
00:06:53Well, I mean that she should sit in on some of these parties.
00:06:56Many of our customers are always asking her to.
00:06:58You understand, eh, had not?
00:07:01And?
00:07:01But is that just right?
00:07:03You know that not Elwood.
00:07:04She's a good performer.
00:07:06Pleases everybody with her singing and dancing.
00:07:08So don't you think that's quite enough?
00:07:09Of course.
00:07:10But the other girls go in for her, so why not her?
00:07:13That's her business.
00:07:14I hired her to do just what she's doing.
00:07:16If she wasn't, I couldn't stop her.
00:07:18But if she doesn't...
00:07:19I understand all that.
00:07:21But if we could promise some of them a date with Elsie?
00:07:23Say, many would be willing to spend more dough.
00:07:27As I said, that's up to Elsie.
00:07:29But you mustn't expect me to try to persuade her.
00:07:31And I hope, too, that the Poodle Dog Cafe hasn't sunk so low until a decent girl can't work here.
00:07:36Ah, don't be so arbitrary, hard not.
00:07:38But many of the people who come here call themselves slumming.
00:07:40And if they want to date up a few of the girls for a little party afterwards, it means more dough for the joy.
00:07:47You understand?
00:07:48Of course I do, Frida.
00:07:50And they do it right along.
00:07:51But you were speaking about Miss Bellwood.
00:07:53And I merely said that if she doesn't want to go out on any, I'm not going to argue and abuse her about it.
00:07:59Good evening, Mr. Grotty.
00:08:00What's the matter?
00:08:05Oh, nothing much.
00:08:07I was just trying to show Hadnett that if Elsie would consent to sit in on some of these parties, it would help the business.
00:08:11Of course it would.
00:08:13What did Hadnett say about it?
00:08:14He said it was up to her.
00:08:16Well, he should make it.
00:08:18Who is she if she can't help us make more money?
00:08:21The other girls are always willing.
00:08:23That's what I tried to show him.
00:08:24But all I could get is, it's up to her.
00:08:27I'll talk to Hadnett myself.
00:08:32Oh, Mr. Hadnett.
00:08:34Yes?
00:08:34Will you please step in here a moment?
00:08:36Of course.
00:08:43Have a seat.
00:08:48Cigarette?
00:08:49No, thanks.
00:08:50Mr. Hadnett, my cousin tells me you don't like the way we run our place.
00:08:54Yeah, Hadnett don't think that we ought to try to persuade Elsie to go out on parties if she don't want to.
00:08:59I said that I wouldn't try to.
00:09:01Now, this Elsie girl, she's very attractive.
00:09:06Some of our customers will sit in a little party now and then, you understand, after the place closes.
00:09:12Now, we like to oblige our customers.
00:09:16So we think that you should...
00:09:17Listen, Mr. Grotty, your partner and I have just a party, it's up to her.
00:09:21But I hired her to sing and dance here in the place, not to go out on private parties.
00:09:25Now, if you want to try to persuade her to, that's your business, but I won't.
00:09:28Oh, you won't, eh?
00:09:30Well, what do you think we got you hired for besides managing the place?
00:09:33We can do the managing.
00:09:34We will.
00:09:35That is, you know the girls better than we do.
00:09:39You talk the same language.
00:09:42Now, we've been after this girl to help us out a long time.
00:09:46Now, we say, you get her to or...
00:09:49Well, that's okay by me.
00:09:52Now, now, Hadnett.
00:09:53You don't have to do that.
00:09:54Let's talk it over.
00:09:55You see, I tried to get...
00:09:56Both made your positions very clear.
00:09:58There's no alternative but to do what you want me to or resign.
00:10:01I'm resigning.
00:10:02You can get plenty of men in my race to do anything you ask them to.
00:10:05So why waste your time on me?
00:10:07As far as Miss Bell was concerned, she's a lady.
00:10:10I have too much respect for her, for myself, to try to persuade her to do what you know and I know is wrong.
00:10:15As to you two, if you had any respect for the unfortunate members of my race,
00:10:19especially the girls who were forced to work here,
00:10:21you wouldn't try to make them do ugly things.
00:10:23But since you haven't, I don't like your attitude.
00:10:26I am quitting.
00:10:27Good day.
00:10:34I was coming in to see Mr. Farina,
00:10:36and I couldn't help overhearing what was going on inside.
00:10:39What does he mean?
00:10:45It means that I'm leaving, Miss Bellwood.
00:10:47You leaving?
00:10:48But why?
00:10:49If you overheard much of the conversation, you ought to know.
00:10:51It's because of you.
00:10:52I'm sorry.
00:10:53But you mustn't.
00:10:54You can't.
00:10:55I won't let you give up your job on account of me.
00:10:58Now, I...
00:10:59The only way I could get it back and keep it would be for you to do what they wanted me to make you do.
00:11:03And if you did, I would hate both you and myself.
00:11:05Oh, you're so fine and noble, and jobs are scarce.
00:11:09I could never feel comfortable or happy knowing that you gave up yours because you wanted me to stay decent.
00:11:15Why, I...
00:11:16Oh, let's not take it so seriously.
00:11:18I don't belong in that place anyhow.
00:11:19Neither do I.
00:11:20If you just must quit, then I will too.
00:11:23You'll do nothing of the kind.
00:11:24There's nothing wrong with your job.
00:11:26And you don't have to change your ways just because some drunk and depraved customer wants to go flying around with you.
00:11:31Meantime, the customer's like you.
00:11:33And you're making more money now than it is possible for you to make anywhere else.
00:11:37What about me and the cheap job I had?
00:11:39But don't you understand that?
00:11:40I...
00:11:40I understand all about what you want to say.
00:11:42But the fact is, I've been appointed to a job on the detective force.
00:11:46I was going to quit the first month anyhow.
00:11:48The prosecuting attorney is anxious to break up the cabaret rack.
00:11:51And that happens to force you to be bad whether you want to or not.
00:11:54It should be a part of it.
00:11:55Anyway, I've got a better job.
00:11:56So go in there and do your work and keep on being nice.
00:12:00I like you that way.
00:12:01There's a certain something in this world that I like best.
00:12:17I depend on one thing for my total happiness.
00:12:22No, it isn't money.
00:12:24No, it isn't fame.
00:12:26You may think it's funny when I start to explain.
00:12:30I ain't got no shoes on my feet.
00:12:33Ain't got nothing to read.
00:12:35But I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:12:39Not a dime to my name.
00:12:42But I'm rich just the same.
00:12:44For I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:12:48Now when the skies are gray and everything's wrong.
00:12:53I find my way by singing a song.
00:12:57That's a great thing I'm small.
00:12:59I'll laugh at them all.
00:13:01Because I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:13:05I've got no shoes on my feet.
00:13:08Ain't got nothing to read.
00:13:10But I've got a heart that's full of rhythm.
00:13:13Not a dime to my name.
00:13:16But I'm rich just the same.
00:13:19For I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:13:22Now when the skies are gray and everything's wrong.
00:13:28I find my way by singing a song.
00:13:32That's a great thing I'm small.
00:13:34I'll laugh at them all.
00:13:36For I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:13:39I'm rich just the same.
00:13:40I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:13:41And I'm rich just the same.
00:13:42I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:13:43I'm rich just the same.
00:13:44I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:13:48Now let the great thing I'm small.
00:13:51I'll laugh at them all.
00:13:55But I've got a heart full of rhythm.
00:14:12I'd be very happy when I think of you being without your job on account of me.
00:14:17I tell you, Elsie, I may call you that.
00:14:20You may, of course.
00:14:22Thanks.
00:14:23That makes it easier.
00:14:25Getting back to what we were talking about, I was trying to tell you that I didn't care.
00:14:31You see, I've been studying for detective work for two years.
00:14:35It comes under civil service.
00:14:37I took the examination.
00:14:38The thing is all right.
00:14:39I don't have to worry about a job for me any longer.
00:14:43With a better job, I can do more good.
00:14:47Naturally, I'm glad that I can now be more independent and stand up when the occasion rises for a decent year old like you.
00:14:55I sure like you for that.
00:14:56And I shall always respect you.
00:14:59I hated to think that you had to suffer any inconvenience or embarrassment on my account.
00:15:03However, I like to think that the new race have such a terrible time.
00:15:07If we had a few more girls like you, maybe it wouldn't be as hard as it seems.
00:15:13By the way, did you happen to notice anyone hanging around to take my place?
00:15:18Yes.
00:15:19Those Landry boys.
00:15:21Incidentally, distant relatives of mine.
00:15:24They're made to order for dirty work.
00:15:26They'd hardly stop and murder.
00:15:28So, I may have to quit after all.
00:15:30No.
00:15:31The customer would like you too well.
00:15:34Just you stand pat and they'll soon quit trying to persuade you.
00:15:38I hope you're right.
00:15:39It was bad enough for the help while you were there.
00:15:42But with those outfit like my relatives in charge, why shudder when I think what those poor girls will have to put up with now.
00:15:49Oh, you don't need to.
00:15:54I'm on the getting outside.
00:15:55I can be out in a jiffy and upstairs before you can get around on this side.
00:16:03I want to thank you for a fine evening.
00:16:06But if I find out that you're lying about that detective job,
00:16:11I'm going to make you let me do something that I never thought I'd ever do.
00:16:16Take care of a man.
00:16:19I don't want to thank you for making.
00:16:23Oh, Auntie, oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:16:53You're playing possum on me tonight, Auntie, but why all the light?
00:16:58It'll hurt your eyes.
00:17:23Oh, Auntie, oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:17:28Oh, Auntie, oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:17:33Oh, Auntie, oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:18:03Oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:18:08Oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:18:12Oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:18:17Yeah.
00:18:19Oh, Auntie.
00:18:21Oh, Auntie, are you asleep?
00:18:23Oh, Auntie.
00:18:24Well, Benny, my man, I saw you give up your job tonight to defend a girl's honor.
00:18:50A girl almost estranged you to you. But she's a good girl, Benny. And you stood up for her and believed in her at the price of your job. That's what I call a man.
00:19:04You're all right, Mr. Hadnacht. I'd like to see some other colored man give up his job on account of any girl. Why, he'd throw her at anybody that would show him 50 cents, I'm sorry to say, and then take her back for him.
00:19:17Hmm. Pretty rotten setup. But you, you're out of a job, Benny. You've got to live and get along until you find another one.
00:19:29Now, you may have this job that you mentioned, and you may have just said it to console me. But I'll find out.
00:19:38I've seen plenty of women taking care of men. Worthless, trifling, good-for-nothing men. And I've hated them for it.
00:19:48Isn't that funny? I want to take care of one now. It's you, Benny. But you're such a good man, Benny.
00:19:55But this is different. You've just got to be all right. I've just got to do this. I want to give you
00:20:04everything that I make and let you give me what you want me to have. Will you promise me you'll do this, dear?
00:20:10It'll make me so happy.
00:20:22The phone. That's strange. I wonder who could be calling at such an hour.
00:20:31What do you say we start the session with a little drink, yes?
00:20:35Okay, boss, boss.
00:20:36What can you want to talk to my aunt about at this hour?
00:20:44Please give me the message. She's a standard.
00:20:48But if you say that it's a matter of life and death, I guess I'll have to call her.
00:20:52Oh, auntie. Auntie. Someone wants you over the phone. Do you hear me?
00:21:10Poor auntie. You're tired. I just won't do it.
00:21:14Whoever it is has got to give me the message or wait until you wake up.
00:21:18Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
00:21:41Hello?
00:21:44That's strange.
00:21:45Oh, Auntie
00:21:56Auntie
00:21:57Wake up
00:21:59Please wake up
00:22:13Oh!
00:22:14Oh!
00:22:15Oh!
00:22:15Oh, operator, operator
00:22:35Send me the police station
00:22:37Please, quick
00:22:38You say you arrived home
00:22:41About 3 a.m.
00:22:42I thought upon seeing
00:22:43Your Aunt Lane
00:22:44As we discovered her
00:22:45That she was asleep
00:22:46I thought she was asleep
00:22:47When did you discover
00:22:48That she was dead
00:22:50Had been murdered?
00:22:51As I was finishing my bath
00:22:53The phone rang
00:22:54Yes?
00:22:55I left the bath
00:22:56And went to answer it
00:22:57You answered the phone?
00:22:59I answered the phone
00:23:00And?
00:23:01The person calling
00:23:02Wanted to speak to my aunt
00:23:03They insisted upon speaking to her
00:23:05I asked them to give me the message
00:23:07So, finally
00:23:09When they insisted
00:23:10That it was a matter of life and death
00:23:12I told them to hold the phone
00:23:14And I would go and call her
00:23:15Then?
00:23:16Then
00:23:17I went to my aunt's room
00:23:19And called her
00:23:19But she didn't awaken
00:23:21She didn't awaken?
00:23:23Did you shake her?
00:23:25We usually do so
00:23:26When someone is hard to awaken
00:23:27No, I didn't shake her
00:23:29She was sleeping so peacefully
00:23:31That I decided
00:23:32That I would go back to the phone
00:23:34And insist upon them
00:23:35Giving me the message
00:23:36So you went back to the telephone
00:23:38And
00:23:38I went back to the telephone
00:23:39And I didn't get any response
00:23:41The person calling had hung up
00:23:44Had hung up?
00:23:45I tried and tried
00:23:46But I couldn't get any answers
00:23:48You're quite sure
00:23:49That no one answered
00:23:50Positive
00:23:51That aroused my curiosity
00:23:54I began to feel suspicious
00:23:56So
00:23:57Finally
00:23:58I went back to my aunt's room
00:24:00And called her
00:24:01And shook her
00:24:02And it was then
00:24:03That I discovered
00:24:05That she had been shot
00:24:06That
00:24:07That she was dead
00:24:09Well, what do you think of her story?
00:24:25Sounds truthful
00:24:25It does and it may be
00:24:27But in cases like these
00:24:29One can never tell
00:24:30It always pays to reserve decision
00:24:32Until you learn more
00:24:34That's true
00:24:35Who is the girl?
00:24:36Her name is Elsa Bellwood
00:24:38Do you know her?
00:24:39In a general way
00:24:40I've talked with her
00:24:42She's considered a very good singer and dancer
00:24:44And works at the Food Law Cabaret
00:24:46I see
00:24:47Do you know anything about her reputation?
00:24:49Her character?
00:24:50She's in the show business, you know
00:24:52This case seems to offer something
00:24:55It is unusual
00:24:56For instance
00:24:58Someone calls over the telephone
00:25:00And insists upon talking to a woman
00:25:02You can see it
00:25:03Who has been dead for hours
00:25:04And times a call
00:25:06When he knew the girl
00:25:06Would have returned from her work
00:25:08And at such a late hour
00:25:09If the girl is innocent in this murder
00:25:11Then someone who called
00:25:13Knew something about who did it
00:25:16If they did not kill her themselves
00:25:18Now if the girl killed her aunt
00:25:21She would have had to leave the cabaret
00:25:23I guess
00:25:25Say between the 10.30pm and midnight
00:25:29Go home
00:25:31Shoot her aunt while she was asleep
00:25:34Go back to the cabaret
00:25:36Go on with her work
00:25:38And then
00:25:39Come back here in an hour
00:25:42And call the police station
00:25:43It's too complicated
00:25:47For the arresting officer
00:25:48There's only one thing to do
00:25:50We'll have to take her downtown
00:25:51And hold her
00:25:52I'm sorry
00:25:53She seems like a very nice girl
00:25:56And truthful
00:25:57But somebody killed that woman
00:26:00Now as the girl was the only one here
00:26:03There's only one thing to do
00:26:05Take her downtown and book her
00:26:07Come on
00:26:10Does this mean that
00:26:14That I'm under arrest?
00:26:16I'm awful sorry
00:26:17But you are
00:26:18Oh
00:26:18And
00:26:20And it means that
00:26:21That you're gonna lock me up?
00:26:23Put me in jail?
00:26:25Yes
00:26:25I'm awful sorry
00:26:26I'm not blaming you
00:26:29There's been a murder
00:26:31And the Lord's got to find out who did it
00:26:33Well
00:26:34There's no one else to hold it this time
00:26:36But me
00:26:37So
00:26:38If you have an idea who did it
00:26:40No
00:26:40Not the least
00:26:42I
00:26:42Not the least
00:26:43I
00:26:44Why
00:26:45I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill my aunt
00:26:47Poor auntie
00:26:49I
00:26:55I
00:26:56I was thinking of myself
00:26:57I
00:26:58I've never been arrested before
00:27:01And
00:27:02And now they're holding me for something that
00:27:05That I don't know anything about
00:27:07But
00:27:12I
00:27:14I'm under arrest
00:27:16And
00:27:17They're gonna put me in jail
00:27:20Well
00:27:25Well
00:27:25Once if you're sure
00:27:26I'm not sure of anything
00:27:27I may only feel that the girl is innocent
00:27:28And we should go easy on until we get some more evidence
00:27:31Well
00:27:31I'll speak to the matron
00:27:32But you understand
00:27:33She cannot leave
00:27:34But at least
00:27:35The room isn't a cell
00:27:37Thank you
00:27:37I've talked to the matron
00:27:41Has a room here with a bed in it
00:27:42So we're gonna let you have it
00:27:44So you can get some sleep
00:27:45Then when you're brought before the dear this afternoon
00:27:47You'll be more rested and composed
00:27:49And think more clearly
00:27:50You must be awful tired after such a night
00:27:54And all this
00:27:54Thanks
00:27:55You're very kind
00:27:56I am tired
00:27:58Very tired
00:27:59I feel
00:28:01Oh I guess I just don't feel anything anymore
00:28:04I'll call the matron now
00:28:06Do you know a lawyer?
00:28:09Have you some friends?
00:28:11I have no lawyer
00:28:12I know a lot of people
00:28:13But I'm afraid they won't understand this
00:28:16I
00:28:18I just don't know what to tell them
00:28:20Do you have a boyfriend?
00:28:24No
00:28:24A pretty girl like you?
00:28:26You must have somebody you like
00:28:28Or who like
00:28:29Oh I didn't say that I
00:28:31I didn't know anybody
00:28:32I know a man
00:28:34But I don't think he would come closer to under
00:28:36Than anybody else
00:28:37If you have a pencil
00:28:39I'll give you his name and address
00:28:40Hello, Alonzo
00:28:50Hello, Adonis
00:28:51Come in
00:28:52Have a seat
00:28:59If Miss Bellwood didn't want to go on these private parties
00:29:05And you know what that means
00:29:07I wouldn't make her go
00:29:08Say, if I had my way
00:29:10I'd clean up every cabaret like the food log in this town
00:29:13I stay so annoyed
00:29:15When I have to look upon other girls
00:29:16Forced to put up with all they have to
00:29:18That it just makes my blood boil
00:29:20Well, that was the trouble
00:29:23And why I lost my job
00:29:24Miss Bellwood is a good girl
00:29:27She's a good performer
00:29:28And the people like her
00:29:30So I was thumbs down on making her do anything
00:29:33Other than the work she had been hired to do
00:29:35For her to hold a job
00:29:36So that's why I'm out of the poodle dog
00:29:39That's too bad, Adonis
00:29:41But what about your appointment to the detective force?
00:29:44That's gone through
00:29:46And I'm starting to work the first of the month
00:29:47Good
00:29:48I'll be glad to welcome you
00:29:50Thanks
00:29:51But getting back to the girl
00:29:52Can you imagine her committing a murder?
00:29:56We couldn't even force her to go on a private party
00:29:58I'm positive that she doesn't know anything about it
00:30:00But this is the law
00:30:01So you'll see what we are off against
00:30:03Sure, I understand
00:30:04Well, get your things on
00:30:05And come on down to the station with me
00:30:06And we'll see what we can do
00:30:07Of course
00:30:08I'll be ready in a few minutes
00:30:09Come in
00:30:15Oh, Elsie
00:30:21Benny, I mean
00:30:23Can you imagine such a terrible happening?
00:30:25And to you
00:30:26Mr. Wanzer brought me the news
00:30:28I'm so sorry for you
00:30:30Oh, yes
00:30:31Mr. Wanzer has been very kind
00:30:33Let me thank you again, Mr. Wanzer
00:30:35I'm glad to have been of little help
00:30:37I imagine you and the young lady would prefer to discuss this between yourselves
00:30:42So you will please excuse me
00:30:44Thanks
00:30:44Now let's have a seat
00:30:47And you can tell me all about it
00:30:48As I understand it
00:30:55She had been dead several hours when you found her
00:30:58After your arrival home
00:31:00Oh, it was too terrible for words
00:31:02Well, I walked about the house talking to her
00:31:05At intervals
00:31:06For about 15 minutes
00:31:08After I
00:31:09And called
00:31:10Or maybe had called
00:31:11To see if I had returned home
00:31:14And when they found that I had
00:31:16And didn't know that she was dead
00:31:18Then that's the way it all ends
00:31:20I can't even imagine beyond that
00:31:23She was shot between 11 and 12 o'clock last night
00:31:27Now what time were you called?
00:31:29Between 3 and 4 a.m.
00:31:31She must have been dead at least three hours before the girl, according to her story, discovered the body
00:31:36Just about
00:31:37You know, this case offers something
00:31:39There are two colored women living alone together
00:31:42Who one finds the other mysteriously murdered
00:31:44Now what?
00:31:46I've detailed Wanzer to investigate it
00:31:49That's sensible
00:31:49Being a colored man
00:31:51He might be able to find out things that one of our other officers could not
00:31:54And I expect him to uncover something by this afternoon
00:31:57Come in
00:31:59Now tell Mr. Eckert, the district attorney, how you're related to Miss Bellwood and what you know about her arm
00:32:17Well, I don't know that I ought to
00:32:19Go ahead, sister, tell them all about it
00:32:22Well, all we know about the murder is what we read in the morning papers
00:32:26Of course we know, um, that is, we knew the victim, Josephine Hawkins
00:32:31In fact, she was a cousin of ours
00:32:33Oh, you're a cousin
00:32:35So you were related
00:32:36All right, go on
00:32:38And this Miss Bellwood was her niece and lived with her
00:32:41That we have already found out
00:32:43Miss Bellwood told us that one went to her house this morning
00:32:46Of course, I merely mentioned the fact so that you'd understand
00:32:49Now, what did this Mrs. Hawkins do?
00:32:53How did she live?
00:32:54You mean Miss Hawkins
00:32:55She wasn't married, had never been married
00:32:57Oh
00:32:58No, she owned a beauty parlor that she ran downstairs in the same building
00:33:02Have you any knowledge or idea how the expenses of the apartment were shared?
00:33:06No, I don't know
00:33:08But I do remember once talking to her
00:33:11And of her saying that she had an awful lot of insurance for a woman
00:33:14But that Elsie, her niece, had taken it out on her and was paying the premiums
00:33:18So she was heavily insured
00:33:20And her niece, whom we are holding here, paid the premiums
00:33:24Even had the insurance taken out
00:33:26That's what she told me
00:33:27Just when did she tell you that?
00:33:31Oh, three or four months ago, I'd say
00:33:33That, of course, could be a motive for the murder
00:33:36But we want to know more, Mrs. Green
00:33:39The whole story
00:33:40All you know
00:33:41It's all right, Mrs. Ron, tell them all you know
00:33:45Well, I...
00:33:46Now, just a minute
00:33:47Come here
00:33:48You keep telling her to talk
00:33:51How about you doing some talking yourself?
00:33:53What are you ordering her to tell?
00:33:55What do you know?
00:33:57Well, you see
00:33:57You see, I just got a job to manage the Poodle Dog Cafe last night
00:34:01Oh, I see
00:34:03You got a job to manage the Poodle Dog Cafe
00:34:05And you got it last night
00:34:07So what?
00:34:08Yes, you must tell all he knows
00:34:10A murder has been committed
00:34:11And the law must find the guilty persons
00:34:13So tell all you know, if anything, about it
00:34:16Well, we don't know anything much, mister
00:34:20But you said the murder was committed
00:34:22Between 11 and 12 o'clock last night
00:34:25We were at the Poodle Dog Cafe
00:34:27From 9 o'clock last night
00:34:29Waiting to see Mr. Farini
00:34:31And Mr. Garotti about this job
00:34:33At around...
00:34:3511 o'clock
00:34:37I...
00:34:38I...
00:34:39I...
00:34:39I...
00:34:41I...
00:34:41I...
00:34:42The End
00:35:12The End
00:35:42Gee whiz, I wonder when are those guys going to get around to me.
00:36:03We've been waiting here for two hours.
00:36:04I'm getting tired.
00:36:08Well, go on outside and catch some air.
00:36:10But we're going to keep on waiting until they send for you if it takes all night.
00:36:16All right, I'm going outside.
00:36:18I'll go along with you.
00:36:22What time is it, anyhow?
00:36:25Eight minutes to eleven.
00:36:27Now, how long are you going to stay out there in case they send for you?
00:36:30Oh, I don't know.
00:36:31Five or ten minutes.
00:36:33All right.
00:36:33I'll expect you back in ten minutes.
00:36:36Be sure you're back in ten minutes, however.
00:36:38And I hope you get back before they send for you.
00:36:42So do I.
00:36:43The End
00:38:18Oh, taxi?
00:38:27Drive me to 1415 Yandy Street, please.
00:38:31Quick.
00:38:31I sent my brother back inside and asked him to call me if I was sent for.
00:38:40It was pleasant outside and I hung around half an hour.
00:38:44It was perhaps 25 or 30 minutes later when...
00:38:48I'm ready to see you now.
00:39:13Okay.
00:39:17When I entered Mr. Garrod in Farina's office, I happened to look up at the clock and remember that it was 11.35.
00:39:24Yes, sir?
00:39:29Bring Miss Bellwood to my office at once.
00:39:31Yes, sir.
00:39:32I thank you people for the information you have given me.
00:39:37I'll take your address and if and when we need you, we'll send for you.
00:39:40You may go now.
00:39:41I sure hope you don't send for me.
00:39:42Oh, what an awful story.
00:39:49Why, I didn't leave the cabaret from the time I went to work until Mr. Hadnot picked me up and drove me home shortly after 2 o'clock that morning.
00:39:56Why has the man chose to lie like that?
00:39:59Perhaps he's trying to, uh, shield a real murder.
00:40:02Would he have any motive for killing her himself?
00:40:04Oh, I don't know.
00:40:05The whole thing has become so confused until I can't think clearly anymore.
00:40:10But I can't see where he would have had any motive.
00:40:13And why are they trying to put it on me?
00:40:15These cousins of your aunt seem to have hated her or you both.
00:40:19Can you prove that you didn't leave the place at the time he said you did?
00:40:23I'll try to.
00:40:25Now, let me think.
00:40:30I remember.
00:40:32After the first show, or I should say between shows, we always do two shows, I went to my dressing room and had a nap.
00:40:40I always do.
00:40:41If someone saw you go to your dressing room and could swear you stayed there until the second show,
00:40:47that would count as evidence which Landry will no doubt repeat when he's placed on the stand at the trial.
00:40:53That's it, Miss Bellwood.
00:40:54You took the words out of my mouth.
00:40:57I see.
00:40:58No, because I always lock myself in.
00:41:01And I don't recall seeing anybody when I went in or when I came out.
00:41:06That will make his statement about seeing you leave the place hard to this prove.
00:41:10But we've got to produce evidence to prove that he's lying.
00:41:14Oh, boy.
00:41:19Come on.
00:41:19Come on.
00:41:19Come on.
00:41:19Come on.
00:41:20Come on.
00:41:37Don't.
00:41:38There's no use, Benny. Why give me false hope? Just leave me here to slowly succumb to this living death. I want to forget that I was ever born, and that I ever had any hope, and that I was ever a free person, once happy and hopeful.
00:41:59Well, I can both understand and appreciate your hopelessness and despair of it, but I want to tell you, dear, that I love you, have loved you long before you even knew it, and that I've dedicated my life to righting this great wrong and setting you free. Since you didn't kill your auntie, somebody else did. So you see, I must ultimately succeed, and I will succeed.
00:42:21Oh, what you say sounds so beautiful, Benny. But I'm only a convict now, and I shall always be pointed out as a convict. I...
00:42:33You're a victim of circumstances, Elsie, and you're not the first person to suffer this misfortune. When the guilty persons are brought to justice, you'll be a martyr, and no person can point a finger of guilt or spawn at you.
00:42:44I'm going to help you, dear, but you must help me to enable me to help you.
00:42:50Help you, Benny? How can I?
00:42:52Easily and simply. I believe Mrs. Green and her brothers either killed her aunt or hired somebody to do it. At least know who did.
00:43:01Either way, the truth is not before very long. Some Negro mixed up in this is going to talk. They always talk, and they can never keep a secret, especially one so important as a murder.
00:43:11Maybe. But why haven't they talked? They know...
00:43:14Don't you catch my point, dear? You had to be convicted first. They've kept so busy telling lies to put you here that they couldn't start talking up to now.
00:43:24But with you convicted and here in prison, they'll soon relax. They'll think they've been smart in putting you here, and don't know enough to realize that you can be gotten out.
00:43:32Their first move now will be to try to get the insurance money. I'll bet I'll be able to write you in less than a week that they've made application for it.
00:43:42I love you, dear. You're my great incentive. Kiss me.
00:43:53Well, how are you, Mr. Wonset? Would you have a chance? Sit down here.
00:43:57You told me once that Mrs. Green's husband had been in love with your aunt many years before, back in the South.
00:44:06And he loved her dearly. And he was still in love with her when she was killed, and would come to see her often.
00:44:12But he's disappeared. I haven't seen or heard of him since the night she was murdered.
00:44:17That's strange. I'm sorry you didn't tell me that before.
00:44:22I didn't think it was that important. Maybe he just went away and will come back some time.
00:44:28He may, and he may not.
00:44:30Meantime, this might prove a connection. It might turn out to be the link that's missing.
00:44:36Maybe you'll find out something when you go to the city from, uh, Reverend Bryson.
00:44:41He knew us all before we came from the South.
00:44:44Maybe you'll find out something from him about Mrs. Green's husband.
00:44:48Although it has been a long time since we came North.
00:44:52This looks like a lead. I'm going to follow.
00:44:55I have a feeling we'll get somewhere.
00:44:58Now that this Elsa Bellwood has been convicted of murder and sent to prison for life,
00:45:03who will the company pay the money to?
00:45:05Oh, that will be decided by the court.
00:45:07In the meantime, this Green family, Elizabeth, John, and Clyde, have applied to it of next of kin.
00:45:13Oh, they have. So soon?
00:45:15Yes, I have the application papers here.
00:45:19You won't be paying them the money.
00:45:21Not until authorized by the court, and that will take considerable time.
00:45:25I'm glad to hear you say that.
00:45:28Did they give me the impression when they filed the application
00:45:30that they understood it would be some time before the matter would be settled?
00:45:34Since you've come to speak to it, I think that will be settled very shortly.
00:45:39Thank you. That is all I wanted to know.
00:45:43By that, you can see that they're counting on the money much sooner than it is even possible for the claims to be paid.
00:45:49This case isn't going to be long before something cracks.
00:45:52When this outfit finds that they can't lay hands on the money as quick as they had planned,
00:45:57some of them are going to get impatient and drop some.
00:45:59And I'll be Johnny on the spot to pick it up and land all three of them in jail right quick.
00:46:04Well, I'm depending on you to keep checked up on them and help them to get somewhere.
00:46:07I have a feeling that there's a story yet to tell.
00:46:10In the meantime, let's get over to this Reverend Bryson's and see what we can find out.
00:46:14You said something, brother.
00:46:15Be seated, gentlemen.
00:46:26You're nothing but a whiskey head and no good.
00:46:30We have liquor here to sell to customers, not to be soaked up by the manager.
00:46:34You stay drunk. Nobody likes you.
00:46:37So you're through.
00:46:38Now get out.
00:46:39Yes, I know everybody that's involved in this unfortunate affair.
00:46:54I knew Josephine Hawkins when she was just a pretty young girl having bows for the first time.
00:47:03I knew Elizabeth Landry when she pulled the trick on Ned Green that made the man and wife.
00:47:14She said that she's going to have a baby and that I'm his father.
00:47:19Who are you?
00:47:19Well, maybe I am and maybe I ain't.
00:47:25You know I ain't the only one that's been running around with her.
00:47:28Well, that's the chance you take, young man.
00:47:31She has your charge with the fatherhood.
00:47:34There's no alternative.
00:47:36What do you mean there's no alternative?
00:47:38Well, I mean that you must marry the girl.
00:47:41But I don't love her.
00:47:43Never did and never will.
00:47:45You know who my girl is.
00:47:47You know who I've been going around with.
00:47:50And I ain't afraid to tell you that I love Josephine Hawkins.
00:47:55She wouldn't come up with no tale like this.
00:47:58Why should she want me to marry her when she knows that I'm in love with her cousin?
00:48:04Well, then I don't know, young man.
00:48:05Now you admit that you've been having clandestine affairs with that girl.
00:48:09She charges you with being the father of her unborn child.
00:48:12Now, if you do not marry the girl, she'll have you arrested and put you in jail.
00:48:20You have a very good reputation.
00:48:22And you shouldn't permit either yourself or the girl to be scandalized.
00:48:26When you get ready for the ceremony, bring the girl here to me.
00:48:35Well, I married the couple.
00:48:38And three months later...
00:48:38She lied.
00:48:47She's no more to become a mother than you are.
00:48:49She tricked me into marrying her.
00:48:51The dirtiest trick a woman could pull on a man.
00:48:54That's why I came to you to find out what could be done by her.
00:48:58Well, you might ask for a doctor's examination.
00:49:02And if the examination proves what you say,
00:49:05I think the court would grant you an annulment.
00:49:08I don't want to wait that long.
00:49:10I can't be bothered with no nothing.
00:49:12I'm leaving town.
00:49:13I'm afraid if I stayed here, I'd kill her.
00:49:17I ain't got time to be bothered.
00:49:19I am leaving town tonight.
00:49:21Goodbye.
00:49:25Heartbroken, Josephine Hawkins had left town.
00:49:29Gone north.
00:49:31And Elizabeth, after Green had left her,
00:49:34she left shortly afterward also for the north.
00:49:37And feeling that Green had followed Josephine,
00:49:40which perhaps he had,
00:49:42Elizabeth took her brothers,
00:49:43whose reputation was rather unsavory,
00:49:47north with her.
00:49:48Ten years later,
00:49:49I was transferred to my present charge.
00:49:52And when I came here,
00:49:54I learned that under the threat of death,
00:49:56Elizabeth's brothers had virtually forced Green to live with her.
00:50:01And in the meantime,
00:50:03Green's love for Josephine had never died.
00:50:06And he insisted upon seeing her whenever he had a chance.
00:50:09I think you have given us a key, Doctor,
00:50:11to the missing leg in this tragedy.
00:50:13And we'll start from here and run this thing down.
00:50:16You can bet.
00:50:16Here we are,
00:50:24broke,
00:50:24strapped.
00:50:25It may be months before we get this money, if at all,
00:50:28and you must keep pouring liquor down your dirty throat
00:50:31until the Italians get disgusted with you
00:50:33and kick you out.
00:50:34Oh, you make me sick.
00:50:36Well, what do you expect?
00:50:38You planned this whole thing.
00:50:41For 20 years,
00:50:42I've been a slave to your design.
00:50:45Ever since the time you tricked Nate Green into marrying you,
00:50:48everything has been subordinated to your convenience.
00:50:51And the only way I've been able to keep up
00:50:54is to keep pouring a lot of rotten liquor in me.
00:50:57And I couldn't quit drinking,
00:50:59no,
00:51:00because I had that cheap job at the Poodle Dog Cafe.
00:51:04And just as soon as you get this money,
00:51:07I'll go out of your life forever.
00:51:08And you won't never need be bothering me again.
00:51:12I'm sick and tired of the whole thing.
00:51:15And I'll be glad when it's through and all over with.
00:51:21And I'll be glad when it's through and all over with.
00:51:51And always, dear one,
00:51:53that I love you.
00:51:55Love you.
00:51:56Benjamin.
00:52:08We'll wait right here till somebody comes out or goes in.
00:52:11I have a feeling we won't have to wait long.
00:52:16Hey, son, come here.
00:52:18Yes, sir?
00:52:20Live around here?
00:52:21Right across the street in that house with the yellow shade.
00:52:24How about the house next door?
00:52:27Mrs. Green lives there.
00:52:29Mrs. Green?
00:52:30Yes, sir, and her two brothers, John and Clyde.
00:52:32Nobody else?
00:52:33Well, her husband used to stay there,
00:52:35but he don't know more.
00:52:36He doesn't anymore?
00:52:37Why?
00:52:37I don't know.
00:52:38I don't know.
00:52:38He just don't.
00:52:39He ain't been there in a long time.
00:52:41I think he went away somewhere.
00:52:43Anyway, he ain't there no more.
00:52:45But Mrs. Green's brothers, do they still live there?
00:52:47Oh, yes, sir.
00:52:48One of them's there now.
00:52:49He always is.
00:52:51The other one will be coming along soon.
00:52:53They eat about this time.
00:52:54The other one will be coming along soon for his dinner.
00:52:56Which one's there now?
00:52:58John.
00:52:59He sleeps up until about this time.
00:53:01Then he gets up and eats.
00:53:02And then he goes down to the Maple Leaf Social Club.
00:53:04Maple Leaf Social Club, eh?
00:53:06Well, what time does he get back?
00:53:08He's never back before I go to bed,
00:53:10so I guess he gets back kind of late.
00:53:12Now, this brother John that you mentioned,
00:53:13does he work?
00:53:14They say he does.
00:53:15My papa says they gamma down there.
00:53:17And he does something.
00:53:18Thank you, son.
00:53:19Oh, there's something for you.
00:53:22Oh, thank you, sir.
00:53:24Now, what time do you go to bed?
00:53:25About 9 o'clock, sir.
00:53:27About 9 o'clock.
00:53:28I see.
00:53:29How would you like to meet us?
00:53:31Say, right here at 8 o'clock.
00:53:32We want you to carry a note.
00:53:34We'll give you another quarter.
00:53:35Oh, I'll be glad to, sir.
00:53:36Right here at 8 o'clock.
00:53:38Right here at 8 o'clock.
00:53:39But remember, don't tell anybody.
00:53:41We won't be able to meet you
00:53:42and give you that other quarter.
00:53:43Oh, I know how to keep my mouth shut.
00:53:45I'm studying to be a G-Man.
00:53:47I won't tell nobody.
00:53:48Be sure that you don't.
00:53:50You can go now.
00:53:51I'll meet us back here at 8 o'clock.
00:53:52At 8 o'clock?
00:53:53Don't tell nobody.
00:53:54I'll get you, mister.
00:53:55Goodbye.
00:53:58What's the idea, anyhow?
00:53:59I want to have a little talk
00:54:01with Brother John.
00:54:02A little private talk.
00:54:03And I need the boy
00:54:04to help me to arrange it.
00:54:05Let's go down to Morrison
00:54:06and offer a glass of beer
00:54:07and I'll tell you the rest
00:54:07when we get there.
00:54:10Now, that's the way we'll work it.
00:54:12Sir, that's a clever plan
00:54:14to have thought up all by yourself.
00:54:15Why didn't you think of it before?
00:54:16And why didn't Napoleon
00:54:17do anything of airplanes
00:54:18and how is this?
00:54:19He could have really
00:54:20conquered your offense.
00:54:24You go love the men
00:54:25into two cars
00:54:26and stop in the next block.
00:54:27They don't need you to know
00:54:28what we're doing
00:54:29until we're doing it.
00:54:30I got you, Steve.
00:54:31Now, when I drive up,
00:54:33be sure and have your hand
00:54:34on your gun
00:54:34and be ready to get in the car
00:54:36and cover it.
00:54:36Understand?
00:54:37I got you twice.
00:54:38Okay, now I'm going.
00:54:51All right, mister.
00:54:52Here I am.
00:54:53Sir, I see.
00:54:54Johnny on the spot.
00:54:56Always be on time
00:54:57and you'll get somewhere
00:54:58by the time you become a man.
00:54:59Yes, sir.
00:55:00Say, do you know
00:55:01where the Maple Leaf Club is?
00:55:02Sure.
00:55:03I want you to show me this.
00:55:04Sir, you drive up
00:55:05to the next corner
00:55:06and you turn right
00:55:07and there you are.
00:55:09All right, here it goes.
00:55:16That's the club there, mister.
00:55:18Yeah?
00:55:19Well, go in there
00:55:20and see this man, John,
00:55:21and tell him that his brother
00:55:22wants to see him
00:55:23down there right away.
00:55:24Understand?
00:55:24Yes, sir.
00:55:25When you bring him here,
00:55:26I'll give you the other quarter.
00:55:28Now, when he's sitting here by me,
00:55:30you come around
00:55:30on this side of the car
00:55:31and I'll give it to you easy like.
00:55:32Yes, sir.
00:55:34Now, if you do,
00:55:34just as I say
00:55:35and keep your mouth shut,
00:55:36it may be two quarters
00:55:37or half a dollar
00:55:38that I'll be giving you.
00:55:39Yes, sir.
00:55:40You can go now.
00:56:04Hello, John.
00:56:29Well, hello, Hadnock.
00:56:30Ain't seen you in a long time.
00:56:31Been kind of busy
00:56:32since I left the poodle, dog.
00:56:33Yes.
00:56:36Say, where's my brother?
00:56:37You'll soon see you,
00:56:38you contemptible liar.
00:56:39I'll give you an excuse
00:56:39to get you out here.
00:56:40I wanted to see you.
00:56:41What's the mean of this?
00:56:43We should try to hope
00:56:43somebody...
00:56:43All right, I got him covered.
00:56:46Say, what's the mean of this, fellas?
00:56:47I ain't done nothing.
00:56:48What y'all gonna do with me?
00:56:50We're taking you
00:56:51for a little ride
00:56:52and you won't be coming back.
00:56:53I ain't coming back.
00:56:55How come?
00:56:56Ever heard of Tolstin Manor?
00:56:58You mean that
00:56:59headed house
00:57:00we out there
00:57:00on Tolstin Point?
00:57:01Yeah.
00:57:03Who said that dude
00:57:03me?
00:57:04You're taking you there.
00:57:05For a little seance
00:57:06with the ghost of the manor.
00:57:08Not if I knows
00:57:09anything about it.
00:57:10Oh, no,
00:57:11my good fellow.
00:57:13Not only are we
00:57:14taking you there,
00:57:15we are going to
00:57:16tie you up
00:57:17and leave you there
00:57:18to starve to death
00:57:19and die.
00:57:21You've been
00:57:22telling lies.
00:57:23and have done
00:57:24an innocent person
00:57:25a great wrong.
00:57:27So we're going
00:57:28to take you up
00:57:29to meet the ghost
00:57:29of Tolstin Manor
00:57:30and all his end ghosts
00:57:32after which you die.
00:57:33Oh, bloody.
00:57:34Come on.
00:57:35Say, what's the mean of this?
00:57:36Come on.
00:57:37What y'all gonna do with me?
00:57:39I ain't done nothing.
00:57:41Get on it now.
00:57:43Come on.
00:57:50Come on.
00:57:53All right, Wander.
00:57:57Make a light, please.
00:58:05Ghosts, working by
00:58:06control.
00:58:07I hear that the only living
00:58:14things to visit here
00:58:15are huge buzzards
00:58:17with pink necks
00:58:18and white gills
00:58:20who fly down
00:58:21through the chimney
00:58:22and pick the bones
00:58:23of liars
00:58:24like John here
00:58:25whose lips
00:58:26have caused
00:58:26great suffering.
00:58:28They tie them
00:58:29to that post
00:58:30over there.
00:58:31And when the buzzards
00:58:34fly down
00:58:35and devoured our bodies,
00:58:37old Tolstin
00:58:39turn their soul
00:58:40into imp ghosts.
00:58:41and every night
00:58:44at twelve
00:58:45great goodness
00:58:49is midnight now.
00:58:54When that hand
00:58:55reaches twelve
00:58:56the ghost I've heard
00:58:57appear.
00:58:58at the stroke
00:59:02of twelve
00:59:02now watch.
00:59:09Well, that's
00:59:10settles it.
00:59:11The party over
00:59:11for a while
00:59:12so we'll tie
00:59:13John up
00:59:13and leave him
00:59:14here and...
00:59:15please man
00:59:16please don't.
00:59:17Of course
00:59:17if you care
00:59:18to do a little
00:59:18talking
00:59:19tell us
00:59:20who killed
00:59:20Josephine Hawkins
00:59:22we might decide
00:59:24to wait a while.
00:59:26If you promise
00:59:27them hands
00:59:27won't come back
00:59:28I'll tell you
00:59:29anything
00:59:29everything
00:59:30just don't
00:59:32leave me here.
00:59:33You're such
00:59:33a rotten
00:59:34dirty liar
00:59:34until I hesitate
00:59:35to believe
00:59:35anything you say.
00:59:37You swore in court
00:59:38under oath
00:59:38so how do you
00:59:39expect us
00:59:39to believe
00:59:40you out here?
00:59:41But I'll tell you
00:59:42why we brought
00:59:43you here
00:59:43and why we're
00:59:44going to leave
00:59:44you here
00:59:45with these ghosts
00:59:45you killed
00:59:47Josephine Hawkins
00:59:48I killed who?
00:59:49Josephine Hawkins
00:59:50and you lied
00:59:50about Miss Bellwood
00:59:51when you swore
00:59:52she left the cabaret
00:59:53and went home
00:59:54and shot her out.
00:59:55I didn't
00:59:56I didn't
00:59:56What do you mean?
00:59:57I means I did
00:59:58lie about Miss Bellwood
00:59:59so did my brother
01:00:00but I didn't
01:00:02kill her and
01:00:02neither did my brother
01:00:04I don't believe you
01:00:05but we're going
01:00:05to tie you up
01:00:06and leave you here
01:00:07for the dirty lies
01:00:08you told on that
01:00:08poor innocent girl
01:00:09We didn't kill her
01:00:10I swear we didn't
01:00:12but we did lie
01:00:13about seeing Miss Bellwood
01:00:14and if you won't
01:00:15leave me here
01:00:15I'll tell you
01:00:16all about it
01:00:17Well
01:00:18what do you think
01:00:18about it?
01:00:19Oh I wouldn't
01:00:20believe this guy
01:00:20on a stack of
01:00:21bibles
01:00:21I don't see any
01:00:23use in wasting
01:00:24more time
01:00:24listening to this
01:00:25dirty liar
01:00:26for if it lie
01:00:27enough to put
01:00:28an innocent girl
01:00:29into the penitentiary
01:00:30we certainly
01:00:31can't afford
01:00:32to listen to him
01:00:33now
01:00:33please man
01:00:34won't you
01:00:35give me a chance
01:00:36I didn't
01:00:37kill my cousin
01:00:37but I did
01:00:38lie about
01:00:39I admit that
01:00:40and if you
01:00:41promise you
01:00:42won't leave me
01:00:43here
01:00:43I'll tell you
01:00:44all about
01:00:44how it was
01:00:44done
01:00:45shut up
01:00:45you lying
01:00:46skunk
01:00:47I don't
01:00:48what you say
01:00:49wait a minute
01:00:50after all
01:00:50we can listen
01:00:51to his story
01:00:52and if we
01:00:52still don't
01:00:53believe it
01:00:53we can tie
01:00:54him up
01:00:54and leave
01:00:54him here
01:00:55oh well
01:00:56if you insist
01:00:57all right
01:00:58you rascal
01:00:58but the moment
01:00:59I'm convinced
01:01:00that you're lying
01:01:00we're gonna
01:01:01tie you up
01:01:02and leave you
01:01:02here
01:01:03I thank you
01:01:03mister
01:01:04I ain't gonna
01:01:05lie
01:01:05you can keep
01:01:06me here
01:01:06until you
01:01:07prove everything
01:01:07I says
01:01:08all right
01:01:09we're going
01:01:10to listen
01:01:10to your story
01:01:11but we warn
01:01:12you that the
01:01:13moment it
01:01:13begins to
01:01:13sound fishy
01:01:14it ends
01:01:15and right
01:01:15here you
01:01:16stay
01:01:16I'm gonna
01:01:17tell you
01:01:18the whole
01:01:18story
01:01:18and there
01:01:19ain't one
01:01:19way
01:01:20there ain't
01:01:20gonna be
01:01:20a lie
01:01:21all right
01:01:21start from
01:01:22the beginning
01:01:23way back
01:01:24in the south
01:01:25before any
01:01:25of you
01:01:25came north
01:01:26yes sir
01:01:27I sure
01:01:28will
01:01:28well
01:01:29it started
01:01:30like this
01:01:31my sister
01:01:32Elizabeth
01:01:32took Ned
01:01:34Green
01:01:34into mind
01:01:34her
01:01:35he was
01:01:36going with
01:01:36my cousin
01:01:36Josephine
01:01:37and was
01:01:38playing to
01:01:38marry her
01:01:39but when
01:01:40Green learned
01:01:41the truth
01:01:41he hauled
01:01:42off and left
01:01:43her and
01:01:43came north
01:01:44Josie found
01:01:45out somehow
01:01:46Green was mad
01:01:46so she hauled
01:01:47off and left
01:01:48too
01:01:48my sister
01:01:49then followed
01:01:50Ned up
01:01:50north
01:01:51and brought
01:01:52me and my
01:01:52brother along
01:01:53with her
01:01:53and lo and
01:01:54behold
01:01:54she found
01:01:55Ned up
01:01:56here
01:01:56chasing around
01:01:57after Josie
01:01:58that made
01:01:59him mad
01:01:59so she
01:02:00had us
01:02:01go get
01:02:01him and
01:02:01scare
01:02:02him into
01:02:02living with
01:02:02again
01:02:03he tried
01:02:04to
01:02:04poor fella
01:02:05but it
01:02:05just couldn't
01:02:06get along
01:02:06somehow
01:02:07you see
01:02:08Ned was
01:02:08still in
01:02:09love with
01:02:09Josie
01:02:09and was
01:02:10always
01:02:11slipping
01:02:11out and
01:02:11seeing her
01:02:12then
01:02:13just before
01:02:14the murder
01:02:14you've
01:02:15you've
01:02:15made a
01:02:15slave
01:02:16out
01:02:16of
01:02:16me
01:02:16all
01:02:16of
01:02:17my
01:02:17life
01:02:17why
01:02:18don't
01:02:18you
01:02:18let
01:02:18me
01:02:18be
01:02:19and give
01:02:19me a divorce
01:02:20so I can
01:02:21go and marry
01:02:22Josie
01:02:22you know I love
01:02:24Josie and have
01:02:25loved her always
01:02:26we would have been
01:02:27happy if it hadn't
01:02:28been for your
01:02:29lying lips
01:02:30I'll not
01:02:32let you
01:02:32alone
01:02:33and I dare you
01:02:34to try to get
01:02:34a divorce
01:02:35if you even as
01:02:36much as start
01:02:36to try
01:02:37I'll have my
01:02:38brothers break
01:02:39your ugly neck
01:02:40same thing
01:02:41year after year
01:02:43the same thing
01:02:44well
01:02:44you ain't never
01:02:45made me love you
01:02:46and I ain't gonna
01:02:47try no longer
01:02:49I'm leaving you
01:02:50for good
01:02:51and I'm going
01:02:51to Josie
01:02:52and if she won't
01:02:53run away
01:02:53and live with me
01:02:54I'll steal into
01:02:55the house
01:02:56some night
01:02:57and kill her
01:02:58shoot her in the
01:02:59head
01:02:59then kill
01:03:00myself
01:03:01that's what
01:03:02I'm going to do
01:03:03no dumb
01:03:11Negro like you
01:03:12ever had nerve
01:03:13enough to shoot
01:03:14anybody
01:03:15and as for
01:03:15killing yourself
01:03:16you make me
01:03:19laugh
01:03:19but my sister
01:03:22was mistook
01:03:23in that time
01:03:24for the very
01:03:25next night
01:03:25that was the
01:03:26night of the
01:03:27murder
01:03:27when we returned
01:03:28home from the
01:03:29cavalry where we
01:03:29testified
01:03:30we saw
01:03:31as to leave
01:03:31then come back
01:03:33we found a
01:03:34note
01:03:34hey sis
01:03:50where's the
01:03:51bottle
01:03:51what about a little
01:03:52drink
01:03:52oh go chase
01:03:53yourself
01:03:53you had enough
01:03:54liquor tonight
01:03:55say what's this
01:04:03there's a letter
01:04:04to my wife
01:04:15I have done it
01:04:18there is nothing
01:04:20to live for
01:04:22to live for
01:04:22so tonight
01:04:23I went to
01:04:24Josie's house
01:04:25and shot her
01:04:26through the
01:04:27head
01:04:27while she slept
01:04:31and turned on
01:04:33the light
01:04:33so her soul
01:04:35could find the
01:04:36way to heaven
01:04:37with Josie dead
01:04:40when you find
01:04:42this note
01:04:43I will be
01:04:44dead too
01:04:44I am going
01:04:48to tie a rock
01:04:49around my
01:04:50neck
01:04:50and jump
01:04:52off
01:04:52Tyndall's
01:04:53bridge
01:04:53if you care
01:05:04to bury me
01:05:05you will find
01:05:06my body
01:05:07at the bottom
01:05:08of the river
01:05:09under the bridge
01:05:10unhappily
01:05:13Ned
01:05:14my sister
01:05:17then sat down
01:05:18and planned
01:05:18the rest
01:05:19we knew
01:05:20exactly what
01:05:21time
01:05:21Elsie would
01:05:21come home
01:05:22so she
01:05:23called up
01:05:23cousin
01:05:24Josephine's
01:05:24house
01:05:25every 10
01:05:26minutes
01:05:26starting at
01:05:272am
01:05:27she finally
01:05:29got Elsie
01:05:30she could
01:05:31tell them
01:05:31that the girl
01:05:32didn't know
01:05:32her aunt
01:05:32was dead
01:05:33when she
01:05:33said
01:05:34I'll go
01:05:34and call
01:05:35her
01:05:35and when
01:05:35she did
01:05:36literally
01:05:36hung up
01:05:37on her
01:05:37she knew
01:05:38then that Elsie
01:05:39would find
01:05:39out that her
01:05:40aunt was
01:05:40dead
01:05:41had been
01:05:42killed
01:05:42Lizzie stayed
01:05:44up all night
01:05:44long
01:05:45making up
01:05:45that lie
01:05:46about Miss
01:05:46Elsie
01:05:47leaving the
01:05:47cavalry
01:05:47and coming
01:05:48back
01:05:48so as to
01:05:49make it
01:05:49look like
01:05:50Elsie
01:05:50did it
01:05:51then she
01:05:51rehearsed me
01:05:52and Clyde
01:05:52on how
01:05:53to tell it
01:05:53we were
01:05:54scared
01:05:54they would
01:05:55mix us
01:05:55up
01:05:55all the time
01:05:56we was
01:05:57at the
01:05:57district
01:05:57attorney's
01:05:58office
01:05:58Lizzie
01:05:59kept on
01:05:59pinching me
01:06:00and Clyde
01:06:00to make
01:06:01us tell
01:06:01it
01:06:01like she
01:06:02rehearsed
01:06:02it
01:06:02you see
01:06:03she was
01:06:03after that
01:06:04Sean's
01:06:04money
01:06:04and she
01:06:05figured
01:06:05if she
01:06:06could get
01:06:06Elsie
01:06:07convicted
01:06:07while she
01:06:08did it
01:06:09well
01:06:09what do
01:06:11you think
01:06:11of it
01:06:12well I guess
01:06:13we'll put him
01:06:13under arrest
01:06:14while we check
01:06:15on his story
01:06:15and if we find
01:06:17Green's body
01:06:17that'll reopen
01:06:18the case
01:06:18and set
01:06:19Miss Bellwood
01:06:19free
01:06:20alright fella
01:06:21we're calling
01:06:22the party
01:06:22off
01:06:22taking you
01:06:23back to town
01:06:24and locking
01:06:24you up
01:06:24until we can
01:06:25see if your
01:06:26story's true
01:06:26let's get
01:06:27going
01:06:27they're yours
01:06:57I'm giving
01:06:58them to you
01:06:59giving them
01:07:00to me
01:07:00well what do
01:07:01you mean
01:07:01just what I
01:07:02say
01:07:02they're yours
01:07:03my darling
01:07:05husband
01:07:05but I'll
01:07:06well I'll
01:07:07explain
01:07:08to begin
01:07:09with
01:07:09I wouldn't
01:07:10have had
01:07:11them at all
01:07:11if you had
01:07:12dedicated your
01:07:13life to the
01:07:13solution of
01:07:14the crime
01:07:14which set
01:07:15me free
01:07:16and next
01:07:17for some
01:07:18strange reason
01:07:19when I thought
01:07:20that you had
01:07:21lost your job
01:07:21on my account
01:07:22I developed
01:07:23a man
01:07:24to give you
01:07:25my money
01:07:25to take care
01:07:27of you
01:07:27if needed
01:07:27until you
01:07:28got another
01:07:29job
01:07:29then suddenly
01:07:31all I had
01:07:32been through
01:07:33began to
01:07:34happen
01:07:34you saved
01:07:36me
01:07:36you loved
01:07:37me
01:07:37and you
01:07:37married
01:07:38and I
01:07:39love you
01:07:40now after
01:07:41all this
01:07:42if you want
01:07:43to make
01:07:43me happy
01:07:44please take
01:07:45these checks
01:07:45fifteen thousand
01:07:47dollars worth
01:07:47and do whatever
01:07:49you want to do
01:07:49with
01:07:50will you promise
01:07:51me dear
01:07:51such a peculiar
01:07:53request
01:07:54such a strange
01:07:55desire
01:07:56but since you
01:07:57insist on making
01:07:58me a sort of
01:07:59guardian
01:07:59I'll take the
01:08:00checks and
01:08:01establish a trust
01:08:02fund
01:08:02for our
01:08:03children
01:08:04will that be
01:08:05all right
01:08:05you
01:08:07you
01:08:08you
01:08:10you
01:08:12you
01:08:13you
01:08:15you
01:08:17you
01:08:17You