WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:23.000 Mystery House. 00:23.000 --> 00:41.000 Mystery House. 00:41.000 --> 01:02.000 Mystery House. 01:02.000 --> 01:18.000 Mystery House. 01:18.000 --> 01:29.000 Mystery House. 01:29.000 --> 01:34.000 Okay boys and girls, you all have your parts. Places everybody, except the scene Tom. 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 Death House Blues. 01:37.000 --> 01:42.000 Tonight's story opens in the Governor's office in the state capital of a distant state. 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 Governor Burruss is sitting at his desk as the dynamic Terry Rogan, criminal lawyer, speaks. 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 The Governor doesn't seem to like what he hears and says so. 01:51.000 --> 01:58.000 Great Scott Rogan, you act as if sending this client of yours, this Eddie Banks, to the chair was a personal pleasure to me. 01:58.000 --> 02:05.000 Well I think it is Governor. You feel it's a popular thing to do. You think you'll get votes by letting this kid be killed for a murder he didn't commit. 02:05.000 --> 02:13.000 Oh please now Rogan, I'm not quite that bad. Just because you and I belong to different political parties. 02:13.000 --> 02:20.000 It's politics that keeps you from granting executive clemency Burruss, and you know it. The word has come to you that Eddie Banks is supposed to fry. 02:20.000 --> 02:24.000 Listen Rogan, if you're insinuating that anybody tells me how to run my office. 02:24.000 --> 02:30.000 Well take the stuffing out of your shirt Governor. It's too late for me to be polite. The kid's supposed to go to the chair in an hour. 02:30.000 --> 02:38.000 I've been fair and patient with you Rogan. I've granted two stays of execution. I've examined all the evidence thoroughly. I've... 02:38.000 --> 02:46.000 You've played to the grandstand all through the appeal and you know it. You granted two stays because you knew it would keep the case alive in the papers and keep you in the spotlight. 02:46.000 --> 02:52.000 Now let's not be nasty about this Rogan. That isn't a sporting thing to say and you know it. 02:52.000 --> 02:58.000 Sporting? You can talk about being sporting when a man's life's about to be taken. You're darned right I'm not sporting. 02:58.000 --> 03:03.000 As his lawyer I'll hit with anything I have. If I could put you in that chair in his place I'd do it. 03:03.000 --> 03:10.000 I'm sorry Rogan, honestly I am. I rather liked your client the time I talked to him. 03:10.000 --> 03:18.000 Of course his background isn't conducive to belief in his integrity and I couldn't blame him for lying anyway from his own necks. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.000 He isn't lying Burris. Try to get that through your head will you? Look, the kid hasn't got a dime. 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 I've been working day and night for the past two weeks trying to break this thing. Why do you think I'm doing it? 03:28.000 --> 03:38.000 A very touching speech Rogan. I think you're doing it because you have political aspirations and you saw a good chance for a tango with me. 03:38.000 --> 03:42.000 You as the champion of the oppressed, a fighter for the underdog. 03:42.000 --> 03:47.000 Oh that's rotten and you know it. Eddie Banks was convicted on circumstantial evidence. He didn't have a... 03:47.000 --> 03:54.000 You like screaming about circumstantial evidence don't you? There's nothing whatsoever wrong with circumstantial evidence. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 For some reason there's a popular belief that circumstantial evidence is bad. 03:59.000 --> 04:05.000 When circumstances combine to indicate that a man is a killer, he usually is. 04:05.000 --> 04:12.000 The court comes back. I wish you wouldn't walk in here unannounced like that. After all this is the governor's office. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 Oh so it Burris. I knew you and you were running for alderman. I've just been up to the big house. 04:17.000 --> 04:24.000 You saw Eddie Banks Comstock? Yeah, he's taking it big. Got a last hour story for him. The boy's heart is nailed Rogan. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 What do you want here Comstock? 04:26.000 --> 04:30.000 I figured there'd be another last minute stay. Maybe. 04:30.000 --> 04:37.000 Then you'll think it wrong. Eddie Banks was tried by a competent jury and I'd be tampering with justice if I... 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 Oh I'm not. You don't need to make a speech for me Burris. And if you think I'd quote a line like that you're crazy. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 Some of our readers might have sensitive stomachs. 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 Now I see here Comstock you presume on your position as a reporter. What do you want here? 04:50.000 --> 04:58.000 Why I've got a photographer outside. I thought maybe you boys could give me a good pose with Rogan banging his fist on the august desk. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Clash of legal minds. You know. 05:00.000 --> 05:11.000 Now listen. Alan. I don't know. You go straight. I suppose we might as well do with the press. Eh Rogan? 05:11.000 --> 05:17.000 Oh you go straight. Look Burris. I told you this is no cheap political trick with me. I'm arguing for this kid's life. 05:17.000 --> 05:22.000 He didn't kill that dirty rat Bickford and you know it just as well as I do. Well the evidence Rogan. 05:22.000 --> 05:26.000 Somebody framed Eddie. Framed him with phony evidence that doesn't even hold together. 05:26.000 --> 05:31.000 The cry of the man who gets caught from time immemorial. I was framed. 05:31.000 --> 05:35.000 Expecting anything that might make a good human interest I'd like Governor. 05:35.000 --> 05:42.000 Why Eddie Banks street artist supposed to see me at the 1130. Last minute request. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 He's waiting outside now but who's the dirty little guy with us? 05:46.000 --> 05:51.000 What? Madeline's out there? Why didn't you say so? I thought you knew. Send her in. 05:51.000 --> 05:57.000 Okay. There's a true blue lue for you that girl. The way she's stuck by Eddie is. Is what? 05:57.000 --> 06:02.000 Well it's proof that Banks is innocent. No girl would be as loyal as that unless she actually believed that he was. 06:02.000 --> 06:07.000 Oh hello Madeline. Hi Rogan. I brought along his character. A little late for new evidence Madeline. 06:07.000 --> 06:13.000 I know. This is Patti Lasker Rogan. Hi. He has some bearing on the case has he? 06:13.000 --> 06:18.000 Sure. Just like a lot of other people have had. If you'd believe him. I'll listen to his story. 06:18.000 --> 06:23.000 Go ahead Patti. The night Bickford was killed I fell in the mob in front of the club mirror door see. 06:23.000 --> 06:27.000 Yeah well what of it? I see a guy I later learned is Eddie Banks coming out with a dame. 06:27.000 --> 06:32.000 This dame who brung me here tonight. That was established in the trial that Eddie had taken Madeline to the club. 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 There was never any argument about that. And he had a fight with Bickford on the dance floor over Madeline. 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 Hold still Rogan. This little guy's got some new stuff whether you think it's important or not. 06:41.000 --> 06:46.000 Alright. Go ahead. Banks and his dames. They kind of edge their way into the crowd. 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 Banks is dressed in super 50 and I bump into him a little hard. 06:50.000 --> 06:56.000 I don't see. When I bump into him my hand brushes against his side and he ain't carrying any gun when he left the club mirror door. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 How do you know? I'd stake my professional reputation on it. 06:59.000 --> 07:02.000 Your what? Patti is a professional pickpocket Rogan. 07:02.000 --> 07:07.000 If I got to be blunt about it I was flicking the guy. And there's no rod. That's for sure. 07:07.000 --> 07:12.000 I'm sorry Miss Martin. It is an important testimony for one thing. Not important Governor. 07:12.000 --> 07:17.000 They never found the murder weapon. Bickford was shot and they said it was Eddie who shot him but they never found the gun. 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 Bickford followed Eddie and me home. He was shot after Eddie dropped me at my apartment. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 Eddie wouldn't have had time to pick up a gun anywhere. 07:24.000 --> 07:29.000 This man though. He couldn't possibly know whether or not Eddie Banks had a gun on his person. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 No. Have a look at this. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Yeah. What is it? 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 It's Eddie's wallet. Patti got it in the crowd. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 Hmm. Rather neat trick. I'm afraid it won't help us any. 07:38.000 --> 07:43.000 But it shows definitely if they'll believe Patti that Eddie couldn't have killed Bickford. 07:43.000 --> 07:47.000 The testimony of an admitted pickpocket hardly strikes me Miss Martin. 07:47.000 --> 07:50.000 See Miss Martin. It's like I told you. I wouldn't have done any good. 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 Just got myself into trouble by getting spotted by cops in the courtroom. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 I suppose you left the money in this wallet. 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 A great list that was. Five bucks in it. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 But that's not true Patti. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Honest. Five bucks. 08:03.000 --> 08:08.000 When Eddie and I were in the cab going to the club he said to me how would you like to take a look at real dough. 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 And he pulled out his wallet and showed me five thousand dollars. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Oh look lady. I never got no five thousand. 08:13.000 --> 08:18.000 I believe you Patti. And I'm pretty sure I know who got it. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 Who? 08:19.000 --> 08:23.000 Bickford. He was the guy who received the dough for the crooked pollication. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 That fight between Eddie and Bickford was a fake. 08:25.000 --> 08:30.000 It gave him a chance to wrestle around just long enough for Eddie to drop the five thousand in Bickford's pocket. 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 Eddie was paying off. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 If such a thing were true it seems questionable. 08:34.000 --> 08:43.000 I mean if there is a political payoff why didn't Eddie Banks say something about it when he had his day in court. 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 I don't know. But I'm going to find out. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 Yes how? 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 Hello. Warden. This is Madeleine Martin at the governor's office. 08:56.000 --> 08:59.000 It's terribly important for me to talk to Eddie Banks right now. 08:59.000 --> 09:03.000 Oh thank you. I'll have him call me right back. Goodbye. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 This is as thick as yours Rogan. 09:05.000 --> 09:08.000 I didn't even know about it. I never heard of this pickpocket before. 09:08.000 --> 09:12.000 My name is Patti Lasker Mr. Rogan. You don't need to keep calling me a pickpocket. 09:12.000 --> 09:16.000 The credibility of Eddie Banks' witnesses have been bad all through this case. 09:16.000 --> 09:22.000 Well what do you expect? Eddie was working for Spike Polto. Spike owns gambling joints all over the country. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 Who do you expect Eddie's witnesses to be except the people who know him? 09:25.000 --> 09:33.000 My dear how did an attractive young lady like you ever become acquainted with a person like Banks? 09:33.000 --> 09:41.000 I'm not so high class myself. Eddie's a swell guy and he didn't like the idea of my waiting tables in a gambling joint. 09:41.000 --> 09:45.000 He talked me into getting a job for less money slinging hash in a restaurant. 09:45.000 --> 09:49.000 And he was going to stick on with Polto until we had enough money to get married. 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 Excuse me. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 That's for me. I'll get it. 09:52.000 --> 09:59.000 Hello? Eddie? Darling, you've got to tell me the truth. This is terribly important. 09:59.000 --> 10:06.000 Did you really have a fight with Victor that night or were you paying him off some pay off money for Polto? 10:06.000 --> 10:19.000 What? Five thousand dollars? I knew it. But why? Why didn't you tell me? What? Oh. 10:19.000 --> 10:31.000 Oh. No, I'm afraid I don't understand. Oh. Well, there's no time to discuss it dear. I'll call you later. Goodbye. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.000 Well? 10:32.000 --> 10:37.000 Eddie says he gave Victor five thousand dollars and the fight was all a foe. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 The fight was supposed to be over you, wasn't it, Ms. Martin? 10:39.000 --> 10:45.000 I don't know what it was supposed to be over. The prosecuting attorney said Eddie was jealous of me, but that wasn't so. 10:45.000 --> 10:50.000 That scuffle was Eddie's way of flicking Victor the five thousand dollars pay off right out in public. 10:50.000 --> 10:55.000 The place for that to have come out was at the trial. Why didn't you talk about it there? 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 He says Rogan told him not to mention it. 10:58.000 --> 11:06.000 What? You mean to say that Rogan would deliberately perjure a client? You admit that you told him not to mention it, Rogan? 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 I didn't ask him about it in court. Neither did the prosecuting attorney. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 The prosecuting attorney had no knowledge of what happened. He couldn't ask. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 But you deliberately withheld evidence. 11:15.000 --> 11:20.000 No, don't look so pious. You can't deliberately run evidence into a case that makes your client look bad. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Look bad? 11:21.000 --> 11:25.000 If I'd have asked Eddie Banks about that pay off in court, he'd have been in the electric chair by now. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Are you insinuating that our courts aren't honest? 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 I'm insinuating that Bickford was playing with the party in power. 11:31.000 --> 11:35.000 We've started talking about pay off money. They'd have framed us with everything in the books. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 Besides, the pay off just gave another motive they could throw against Eddie Banks. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 But that's not so. What motive? 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 Well, you had testified that Eddie was trying to get enough money to marry you. 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 He knew that Bickford had $5,000 on him. He knew it because he'd given it to him. 11:48.000 --> 11:51.000 But so must a lot of other people, bad people. 11:51.000 --> 11:56.000 Poldo gave Eddie the money to give to Bickford. Poldo could have told some of his hoodlums about it. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Look, Madeline, I appreciate that you're desperate. So am I. 11:59.000 --> 12:03.000 But the story about the pay off money doesn't help a bit. Now really it doesn't. 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 I think the governor will agree with me that it's better left out of the picture. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 How about that, governor? 12:08.000 --> 12:13.000 If you're insinuating that any bribe money gets to me, I resent it, Rogan. 12:13.000 --> 12:18.000 And the Bar Association's going to hear about your counseling of defendants to perjure himself. 12:18.000 --> 12:24.000 I did no such thing. I merely advised him not to, well, not to talk about things that would get him into trouble. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 Watch yourself. What are you... 12:26.000 --> 12:31.000 Pardon me, mister. Sorry I bumped you. There you are, lady. Is this what you wanted? 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 What? You stole my wallet right out of my pocket. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 Yeah. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Well, give it to me. You have no right to... 12:35.000 --> 12:41.000 Maybe I'm beginning to see a few things, Rogan. This is kind of interesting. 12:41.000 --> 12:42.000 What is it? 12:42.000 --> 12:49.000 Poto's private phone number. By any chance are you working for Poto too, Rogan? You and Eddie both? 12:49.000 --> 12:53.000 That'd make everything that's happened kind of interesting, wouldn't it? 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 Come, sir. You back again? I do wish you'd knocked before... 12:57.000 --> 13:03.000 I don't have to knock when I have news like this, fellow. It'll knock you right off of your seat. 13:03.000 --> 13:09.000 And, uh, I guess you might as well call the big house and tell them to get Eddie Banks off the electric chair. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 You know, they're due to turn it on in 25 minutes. 13:11.000 --> 13:14.000 What is this big news you're talking about, gunshot? 13:14.000 --> 13:17.000 They just found Spike Poto with a knife through his heart. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 What? 13:18.000 --> 13:21.000 Yeah. And a note on his chest that said, 13:21.000 --> 13:46.000 This is for Eddie Banks. A right guy who got a wrong rap. 13:46.000 --> 13:52.000 Is Eddie Banks guilty of Bickford's murder? And who killed Spike Poto, the gambling king? 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 We'll find out in the second act of tonight's story. 13:55.000 --> 14:13.000 Meanwhile, here's a brief message from our sponsor. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 And now, Act Two of Death House Blues. 14:18.000 --> 14:23.000 The Phoenix field is open. And the clock says 20 minutes till midnight. 14:23.000 --> 14:28.000 Ted Comstock's reporter is questioning Rogan, the lawyer for Eddie Banks. 14:28.000 --> 14:35.000 So, uh, it was because you were looking out for Eddie Banks that you didn't bring the payoff money into the trial, huh? 14:35.000 --> 14:40.000 And Madeline finds you were working for Spike Poto. Ha ha. That's very funny. 14:40.000 --> 14:45.000 I don't like the way you say that, Comstock. Sure, Poto hired me to defend Eddie Banks. 14:45.000 --> 14:50.000 Eddie was one of his boys. You've been spouting about how Eddie didn't have a dime. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 And that this was a labor of love, as far as you were concerned. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 Why, you practically had me in tears. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 Look, what difference does it make whether I get paid or not? 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 Important thing is to get the kid off. Now, he didn't kill Bickford. 15:02.000 --> 15:07.000 It looks as things now, one of Poto's boys did it, and Poto picked Eddie for the fall guy. 15:07.000 --> 15:11.000 I like your methods of operation less and less, Rogan. 15:11.000 --> 15:16.000 I, uh, well, I was listening to you with some little favor. 15:16.000 --> 15:20.000 But now, you're just against the lawyer. 15:20.000 --> 15:27.000 A lawyer who covers up evidence not to defend his client, but to defend the man who's paying the bill. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 What you think of me doesn't make much difference, Burr. 15:30.000 --> 15:36.000 As long as the kid gets to live, and you better start making up your mind fast, because there's only about 15 minutes left. 15:36.000 --> 15:40.000 You'll kill him, Eddie. Rogan's been working for Poto, not for Eddie. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 He's been letting Eddie take the rap. 15:42.000 --> 15:46.000 That phrase, take the rap, Miss Martin. 15:46.000 --> 15:52.000 Was there something like that in the note that Comstock says the police found on Poto's body? 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 What do you mean? 15:54.000 --> 15:58.000 You came up here only a short time ago, and you had a criminal with you. 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 Me? I never hurt anybody in my life. 16:01.000 --> 16:05.000 I'm wondering if you might not have visited Poto before you came here. 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 Are you trying to say that I killed Poto? 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 Somebody killed him. 16:10.000 --> 16:17.000 As soon as this execution is over, I'm going to ask the police to check your movements this evening prior to your coming here. 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Governor, why should I kill Poto? 16:19.000 --> 16:24.000 You fancied this gangster Poto was responsible for your sweetheart seeing the dead house. 16:24.000 --> 16:31.000 You thought perhaps that his murder, together with the note, would throw suspicion on somebody else, 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 would make it look like somebody knew that Eddie Banks was innocent. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 That wrong rap phrase. 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 It's not too difficult to pick up the draft. 16:41.000 --> 16:45.000 Oh, for heaven's sake, Governor, it's just 12 minutes until they'll trap Eddie into the electric chair. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 There's plenty of time to talk about Poto's murder later. 16:48.000 --> 16:54.000 I'm talking about it right now because I think it applies to the case under discussion. 16:54.000 --> 17:00.000 My guess is that Poto's murder was a daring effort on somebody's part to confuse and distract me. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 Do you think I killed somebody just to get you mixed up? 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 I don't want you mixed up. 17:05.000 --> 17:09.000 I want you to have one thing clear that Eddie didn't murder Bixby. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 But the note on Poto's chest. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 For heaven's sake, Poto, can't you forget the note? 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 In 11 minutes, the man I love is going to the electric chair. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 He's a nice kid. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 Even if he was working for Chris, he enjoyed life. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 He loved each other. 17:23.000 --> 17:28.000 I'm sorry for you, my dear, but I can't let my personal TV's allow me to tend to a man 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 who should pay for his crimes. 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 I've always felt there was a place for sentiment in law enforcement, 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 but it isn't right or just to let any man get away with murder. 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Eddie didn't murder anyone, you fool. 17:40.000 --> 17:41.000 Can't you see what's happened? 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 Maybe you better go outside, Madeline. 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 You're getting hysterical. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 I'm going to have to work fast to get Eddie off now. 17:46.000 --> 17:49.000 You'll get him off? You never wanted to get him off. 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 You never tried to get him off. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 Take her outside, Comstock. 17:51.000 --> 17:52.000 Well, yes, she's cracking that door. 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 I guess you'd better, Comstock, at that. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 Pardon me, Jinks. 17:55.000 --> 17:59.000 I come here with the little lady, and she ain't leaving until she's done good and ready. 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 You have the ambassador to pull a gun in my office? 18:02.000 --> 18:03.000 Kind of funny, ain't it? 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Me, who always died away from force. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 Who got into the dip racket because it didn't have no violence. 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 Me, holding a gun. I'm the governor of the state. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 Well, I'll have you thrown in the jay for this. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Okay, keep yourself. 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 I've been in jail before, but the little lady's going to stay here as long as she likes. 18:20.000 --> 18:21.000 Thanks, Peggy. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 Now, I want you to listen to me, Governor. 18:23.000 --> 18:26.000 Rogan showed Eddie Banks out. 18:26.000 --> 18:30.000 He put on a great show trying to help him, and all the time he just kind of hurt him. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 Rogan wants Eddie to go to the chair. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Total pay him to do what, then? 18:34.000 --> 18:39.000 The one really important point of evidence that could have helped Eddie, Rogan held out. 18:39.000 --> 18:42.000 He's given Eddie wrong advice right from the start. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 I'm leaving, Barrett. 18:43.000 --> 18:47.000 It's five minutes at 12, and this thing looks like a hot story to me. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 Boy, I can just see it. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 Gun crazy pickpocket holds Governor at bay while killer fries. 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 Barrett, don't talk like that. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 You ain't leaving, bud. Not yet. 18:57.000 --> 19:02.000 If I had an opportunity to kill Poe, so did Rogan, before I came up to your office tonight. 19:02.000 --> 19:06.000 Oh, you're out of your head, and you're wasting time that I could be spending in pleading Eddie's case. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 There's only three minutes to go. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Governor, you've just got to see it. 19:10.000 --> 19:14.000 Rogan's been tied up to Poe, so he deliberately put Eddie where he is. 19:14.000 --> 19:18.000 Why, looking for Poe, Rogan could have even been the one who killed Bickford. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 Governor, there's only two and a half minutes. 19:20.000 --> 19:23.000 For the love of heaven, I'm going to grab and call the warden right now. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 I'll dial the number. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 He's got to do it. He's got to. 19:27.000 --> 19:32.000 If you just hold off a few minutes, I think to you that it's Rogan who should be there and not Eddie. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 Put that phone down, Miss Martin. 19:35.000 --> 19:39.000 I'll make my own telephone call if there's any help from you. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 And this show of hysteria isn't helping the case at all. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 I have to consider facts, not the emotional outburst. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 You have to consider yourself too, don't you? 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 You're going to have to live with yourself after Eddie Banks is dead. 19:51.000 --> 19:56.000 After I proved that Rogan framed him into the elected chair for a rotten crooked cancer. 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 And you're going to be guiltier of murder than Eddie ever was. 19:59.000 --> 20:03.000 How do you try to feel when you discover you've killed an innocent man? 20:03.000 --> 20:06.000 I'm sorry, my dear. It's nice to have you on the show. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 One minute, only one minute, Eddie will be fat enough to not do something. 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 Don't sit there like a bird. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 He's a human being and it's a human life you're playing with. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 You're not changing your mind, Governor? 20:18.000 --> 20:21.000 If you laid this thing close, Rogan, it slipped back to you. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Oh, what difference does it make how it left? 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 Listen, Rogan, you were at the club mid-a-door the night of the murders. 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 You saw the fight when Eddie set the money in the victim's pocket. 20:30.000 --> 20:34.000 You'd have been the one person there who realized what was happening. You... 20:34.000 --> 20:39.000 Wait. You say he was at the club mid-a-door? 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 Hasn't anything been said about that before? 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 There was. I mentioned that to Rogan right at the start. 20:44.000 --> 20:47.000 He said neither Eddie nor I should ever say anything about it 20:47.000 --> 20:50.000 or folks on the jury would think Eddie had a lawyer 20:50.000 --> 20:53.000 planted in the club to establish an alibi of himself. 20:53.000 --> 20:57.000 Oh, you grab that boy, grab it, only ten seconds, and you might make it. 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 I'm afraid it's too late, Miss Martin. I couldn't possibly get through in time. 21:01.000 --> 21:05.000 I'm afraid you'll be out there, Fred, and don't let this sick part of you 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 down in the building while I'm going to attend to him. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 Okay, Governor. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 You know, I am so sure... 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 I didn't ask you to be sure of anything, Constance. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 Get them out of here. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 I want to talk to Rogan. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 I'll tell him. 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 Don't tell him that! You're a murderer! 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 Well, in the name of the state, 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 I'm going to have to put you under arrest, Rogan. 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Yeah? On that perjury business? 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 No. 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 You killed Bigford. 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 You don't say. 21:35.000 --> 21:41.000 You killed him for $5,000, I suppose, and Poto finally tumbled at what had happened 21:41.000 --> 21:45.000 when he saw how you handled Eddie's bank defense. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 So you had to kill him too. 21:48.000 --> 21:52.000 You left that note about Eddie Banks to throw anybody off the fence. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 You have a good imagination, Governor. 21:54.000 --> 21:59.000 I don't think I have, Rogan. I'm quite unimaginative, as you know. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 So unimaginative that I'm going to have a handwriting test 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 to compare that note with your handwriting. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 I'm going to have fingerprints expressed. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 Look for your fingerprints. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 They're the first denotes they found in Poto's heart. 22:12.000 --> 22:17.000 And I imagine I'll find some very interesting things. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Yes, I imagine you will, Governor. 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 It's too bad you won't be able to do anything about them, isn't it? 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 Yes, what do you mean? 22:23.000 --> 22:27.000 You try to do anything to me for killing Poto and I'll ruin your whole career. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 You haven't touched this object, Governor. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 But you're going to see a great light. 22:31.000 --> 22:35.000 You don't dare touch me on Poto's murder because the minute you do, 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 I confess Bickford's murder. 22:37.000 --> 22:40.000 So you really did kill Bickford. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 Sure, I killed him. And that's why you can't touch me for killing Poto. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 Just how do you figure that one? 22:45.000 --> 22:49.000 The minute I confess I killed Bickford, you're so washed up in politics you're a bum. 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Yes? 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Sure. The girl gave you all the dope straight. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 And you let an innocent man go to the elected chair. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 How does that make you look to the public, Governor? 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 You not only look like a sap, but a vicious sap, a dangerous one. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 You can't touch me without smacking your whole career. 23:04.000 --> 23:08.000 You've been very smart about this, have you? 23:08.000 --> 23:11.000 Or maybe sharp is the word. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 You played every angle, didn't you? 23:13.000 --> 23:16.000 I always play every angle, Governor. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 There's only one little thing we overlook. 23:18.000 --> 23:19.000 What? 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 This. 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 What? 23:22.000 --> 23:25.000 I don't get it. You wouldn't have the nerve. 23:25.000 --> 23:29.000 And putting you under arrest for the murders of Bickford and Poto. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Just a minute. 23:36.000 --> 23:39.000 Hello. Warden? 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Cancel everything. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 You can turn any banks loose now. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Thank you. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Huh? I don't get it. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 He was to be elected to that one minute past midnight. 23:49.000 --> 23:50.000 I know. 23:50.000 --> 23:51.000 Well, it's eight minutes past now. 23:51.000 --> 23:55.000 Eight minutes past midnight by my clock, Logan. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 That's? 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 I set my clock fifteen minutes ahead tonight, Logan. 23:59.000 --> 24:02.000 Fifteen minutes past. 24:02.000 --> 24:07.000 I had my doubts about the boy's guilt even in spite of your bad pleading that is so factual. 24:07.000 --> 24:08.000 You could. 24:08.000 --> 24:09.000 Yes, you could. 24:09.000 --> 24:12.000 Yes, that's the case. 24:12.000 --> 24:18.000 You know, going to be fun letting that reporter, Comstock, know about this. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 He said I was stuffy. 24:21.000 --> 24:24.000 I don't think I'm stuffy at all. 24:24.000 --> 24:51.000 Do you, Logan? 25:24.000 --> 25:49.000 Yes, I do. 25:49.000 --> 26:07.000 I don't think I'm stuffy.