WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Mystery House. 00:05.000 --> 00:10.000 Mystery House. 00:10.000 --> 00:15.000 Mystery House. 00:28.000 --> 00:33.000 Mystery House. That strange publishing firm owned by Dan and Barbara Glenn, 00:33.000 --> 00:38.000 where each new novel is acted out by the Mystery House staff before it is accepted for publication. 00:38.000 --> 00:43.000 Mystery House. 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 Well, you know, Mystery House has never published a baseball novel, Barbie. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 If we can catch the baseball fans and the mystery fans, we really have something. 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 Well, this baseball story we're trying out tonight has some good mystery elements to it, 00:59.000 --> 01:01.000 and also an exciting baseball game. 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 Yeah, does somebody kill the umpire? 01:03.000 --> 01:06.000 I'm not saying who gets killed. You'll see. 01:06.000 --> 01:09.000 So I wonder why it is everybody at a ball game always yells, kill the umpire. 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 Oh, that's easy, Tom, because his word is law. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 You have to take his decisions whether you like them or not. 01:15.000 --> 01:20.000 Of course, Mr. Glenn. That's one of the few places in America where you are not allowed to make your own decisions. 01:20.000 --> 01:23.000 Now with us, it's a question of stating your case simply and briefly. 01:23.000 --> 01:36.000 The rest is up to our listeners. For example. 01:36.000 --> 01:39.000 Glaciers, everybody. Set the scene, will you, Tom? 01:39.000 --> 01:43.000 Bases loaded. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 Tonight's story opens in the locker room of a baseball club. 01:46.000 --> 01:52.000 It's mid-morning. Woody Sander's star pitcher is rubbing his arm as another member of the team walks in. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 Hi, Woody. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 Oh, hi, Gabe. Just dropped in to limber up the arm a little this morning. 01:57.000 --> 02:02.000 I'm going to pitch this game if it's only to give that louse Garson a load of what I think of him. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 Well, the old suit bone's kind of tied up. 02:04.000 --> 02:07.000 Well, go easy on the workout, Woody. You want to watch yourself. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 Oh, for Pete's sake, Gabe. All I'm going to do is throw a few balls to get rid of the jitters. 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 Sure, sure. I know. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 If we win, it moves us into first place. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 Garson's got a lot of dough up. We don't win. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Yeah, he must have a lot of dough up. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 Offered me 10 Gs, 10,000 bucks to toss a game away. 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 Has Garson seen you again? 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 Yeah, just before I came in. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 Ten grand. Boy, I could use that kind of dough. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 You mean you think I should have took it? 02:32.000 --> 02:36.000 If you keep on trying to get Jenny to marry your kid, you'll need that kind of dough. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 I don't take that kind of chances for anybody, not even Jenny. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.000 Jenny's got what the sports writers call the money touch. 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 Still sore about me beating your time, Gabe? 02:44.000 --> 02:49.000 Me? She's all your son and I wish you luck. 02:49.000 --> 02:54.000 Oh, what do you want, Artie? Look what crept in, Woody. Our number one fan. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 Greetings, boys. I just bought by to boost your morale. 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 You feeling good, Woody? Think you can set him down this afternoon? 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 Listen, punk, even a bug like you don't rate the locker room. This is private. Beat it. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 Oh, yeah? The Swede wouldn't like it if I was to tell him you bounced me from here. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 So the Swede ain't here and we're telling you to scram. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 What do you mean he ain't here? Why, I just left him here. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 He sent me out to see a guy for him. 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 You heard what Gabe said, didn't you? The Swede ain't here. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 Well, he's got to be here. He told me to meet him here so... 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 Yeah, I bet. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 Well, he had me take a message to Gar... to a guy. 03:25.000 --> 03:29.000 You started to say Garcin, Artie. What was the message? 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Um, nothing. 03:31.000 --> 03:37.000 Did it have anything to do with the game, Artie? Anything like making a deal to lose? 03:37.000 --> 03:42.000 The Swede? Say, listen, all I know is I was supposed to tell Garcin to meet the Swede here. 03:42.000 --> 03:46.000 Only... only what? I couldn't find Garcin. 03:46.000 --> 03:50.000 Woody, you don't suppose the Swede's throwing this ballgame, do you? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Making a deal with Garcin. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 He's probably turned him over to the commissioner. 03:53.000 --> 03:56.000 The Swede's the best manager in baseball. Him throw a game? 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 Ha! Don't make me laugh. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 That's telling him, Woody. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 How long you been hanging around here, Artie? 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Only a minute. And the Swede was here. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 I was standing over by his locker talking to him and he sent me to find Garcin. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 And, well, I tried to find him, but I couldn't find the guy. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 So I came back like the Swede said to. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 Well, he ain't here. If he was, his locker would be open, wouldn't it? 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 Well, maybe he's out in a diamond-figuring strategy or something. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 Maybe we ought to open his locker and see if the street clothes are in it. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 How do we open it? We don't know the combination. 04:22.000 --> 04:23.000 I know it. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 You know the combination? How come? 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Oh, he gave it to me so I could get stuff for him. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 Ha! You're practically running the team, ain't you? 04:29.000 --> 04:33.000 Ah, quit that stuff. I know the combination I'll show you, see? 04:33.000 --> 04:38.000 Let's see now. Seven, 14, three. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 Ha! You're bluffing. It won't come open. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Oh, no? See? 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 No! 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 It's the Swede. Dead. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 Yeah. With a hole in his head. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Jenny, lay off. There's no use arguing. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 I'm going to pitch my darners this afternoon. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 I might lose, but it won't be because I was laying down. 05:12.000 --> 05:16.000 Sure. Go right ahead. Be a dumb ball player all your life. 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 What's going to be left of it after Garson gets through with you? 05:19.000 --> 05:20.000 Who are you trying to scare? 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Oh, don't be so dumb, Woody. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 Can't you see? Garson means business. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 He's going to win his bets if he has to kill people to do it. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 You think Garson killed him, huh? 05:29.000 --> 05:30.000 Oh, probably not Garson. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Some of the boys from his gambling syndicate more likely. 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 And if you pitch this afternoon without being nice, they'll try to get you. 05:36.000 --> 05:40.000 Oh, nuts. This is a ball game you're talking about, Jenny, in the ballpark. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 With maybe 30,000 people around. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 You think anybody would try murder in front of that many people? 05:44.000 --> 05:48.000 Okay, go ahead. You're a smart guy. You know all the answers. 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 I've been knocked out of the box, baby, but nobody ever scared me out. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 I'm not scaring you. I'm telling you. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 You could be a dead ball player. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Cut it out. I'm pitching. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 To win? 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 I ought to slap your face for that, Jenny. 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 I never pitched any other way. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 Even if it means you and I are through? 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 What are you talking about? 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 You heard me. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 You wouldn't walk out on me just because I stayed honest. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 You're walking out on me. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 Jenny, get a hold of yourself. Just because a Swede got killed... 06:14.000 --> 06:15.000 Sure, he got killed. 06:15.000 --> 06:18.000 And the police ought to know right now that Garson's boys did it. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 But they won't catch him because he's too smart. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 Too smart for the police and too smart for a dumb ball player. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 I'm no crook. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 If the Swede hasn't reported Garson to the commission, I'm going to. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 Sure. Be big and brave. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 And you know what you'll get for it, don't you? 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 A pat on the back and a slug in the head. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Oh, Garson ain't concentrating on me. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 Wake up, stupid. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 You're the guy with the stuff. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 The fireball artist. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 The toughest pitcher on the team. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 If he can get rid of you, the ball game's in the bag. 06:47.000 --> 06:51.000 You think one pitcher can win a ball game single-handed? 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 Jenny, you're funny. 06:52.000 --> 07:07.000 Go ahead and laugh then while you can. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 Blake, I know you're the police, but we got a ball game to play. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 I ought to be out there right now warming up. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Yeah? Well, maybe I'll warm you up a little, Woody. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 Sweet Benson was murdered. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 You and Gabe were the only people around the locker room. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 The only ones you know, you mean. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 You think we'd have been there if we'd have killed the Swede? 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Get Garson. He's the murderer. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I told you he tried to bribe me to lose the game so I could click a lot of dough. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 What do you need? 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Maybe Blake's afraid of Garson, Woody. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Maybe Garson's got too much pull. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Why, you... 07:33.000 --> 07:37.000 Look, we're watching Garson. Don't worry about that. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 And Woody, your story about Garson sounds good. 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 You had a motive of your own and it'd make a pretty nice cover-up. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 Listen, Blake, there was no reason in the world why I should murder Swede Benson. 07:48.000 --> 07:51.000 He was a good manager and he treated me okay. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 You're ambitious, aren't you, Woody? 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 You'd like to be manager of the club yourself, wouldn't you? 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 Why, you listen up... 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 Yeah, you'll behave yourself. 07:58.000 --> 08:02.000 I can throw you into jail, chum, anytime I want to on suspicion of murder. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Why don't you go ahead and do it? 08:03.000 --> 08:06.000 That'd leave your friend Garson a better chance of collecting his bets. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Woody, don't get the guy sore. 08:08.000 --> 08:12.000 You too and this nut Artie were in the locker room when Swede Benson's body was found. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 Artie showed up and found you two together. 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Woody, you'd have been there alone when Gabe showed up, right? 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 Well, yeah, but... 08:20.000 --> 08:25.000 Right. The coroner says Swede has been dead less than an hour when the body was found. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Say 45 to 50 minutes. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 You and Gabe were talking together about a half an hour. 08:29.000 --> 08:34.000 That leaves 10 to 15 minutes of time for you to kill Swede and stuff his body into the locker. 08:34.000 --> 08:37.000 Yeah, listen, I got there just a minute before Gabe. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 And you can prove it, I suppose. Where were you before? 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 I'd been to see Jenny. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 Blake, you're all wrong. Woody couldn't have... 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 If he didn't kill the Swede, he ought to be able to prove it then. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 He's the one suspect who was on the spot at the time of the murder. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 What about that guy Artie? He was running in and out of the locker room all the time. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 No, Woody, that's a little far-fetched. No motive. 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 Or maybe you can give me one. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Me? Look, all I know is I didn't do it. 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 Sure, sure. You know something, Woody? 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 I've had that answer before from murderers. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Woody's no killer. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 In my business, Gabe anybody's a murderer until you learn different. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 Nice trusting guy. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 But say, we got to get out to the ballpark. Woody's got to warm up. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 Okay, boys, okay. Play a nice game. 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 But don't try any steals. You'll be washed. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Yes, sir, folks. One of the tightest ball games of the season. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 Right up to now, there hasn't been the slightest lull in the game. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 The one thing that everybody's been keeping their fingers crossed about hasn't happened. 09:47.000 --> 09:52.000 Woody Sanders is still in there pitching in spite of the pressure, in spite of being held under suspicion of murder. 09:52.000 --> 09:56.000 Yes, sir, he's been pitching a terrific game, really blazing the ball right in there. 09:56.000 --> 10:01.000 If anything, Woody seems to be inspired today, and the rest of the team's backing him up with their tight ball. 10:01.000 --> 10:06.000 I talked to some of the boys before the game, and they seem to feel that they're playing this one for Swede Benson, 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 trying to put the team into first place to make up for his murder. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 Well, it's the last half for the Knights, and Woody's got a one-run lead, but the bases are loaded 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 as a result of two singles and an intentional pass. 10:16.000 --> 10:20.000 They're two out, and if Woody can take care of this pinch-hitter coming up to bat, he's in. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 But it's still anybody's ball game. 10:22.000 --> 10:27.000 Woody dusts his hands on the rosin bag. Now he steps down to the mound and gets his sign. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 He looks like he has murder in his heart. There's the wind-up, and the pitch. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 Styrack won! 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 Gabe Stewart trots over from short and gives Woody a pat on the back. 10:38.000 --> 10:43.000 Still three men on and two out. Woody still has that murderous look on his face. 10:43.000 --> 10:48.000 Now he's set. Here's the pitch. Ball one, low and outside. 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 Caster fires the ball out to the pitcher. Now Woody steps back onto the mound. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 He's taking plenty of time now. Wind-up, the pitch, strike two! 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 If he can sneak one more across the plate, the game's over. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 He's printing now. He steps back in the box, and just a second, I think he slipped. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Yeah, yes, his foot slipped in. 11:08.000 --> 11:11.000 No? Well, this is a little confusing in the middle of the wind-up. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 The crowd's going wild. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 Ladies and gentlemen, something has happened out there. I don't... 11:16.000 --> 11:20.000 It looks like Woody Sanders has collapsed. Just a minute, I'm getting a report from the field. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 All right, thank you, Johnny. 11:24.000 --> 11:28.000 It, uh... Oh, no. Why, it's fantastic! 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Woody Sanders has been shot! 11:31.000 --> 11:36.000 Yes, I can see now myself. The blood is spreading out on his uniform, and his teammates are carrying him off the field. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 The field! 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 Now, uh, that's what I like in a ball game. 12:02.000 --> 12:06.000 Excitement. But who killed Swede Benson and Woody Sanders? 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 And, uh, I wonder who won that ball game. 12:09.000 --> 12:13.000 Well, the second act of Bases Loaded should solve it. Meanwhile... 12:25.000 --> 12:29.000 And now, act two of Bases Loaded. 12:29.000 --> 12:35.000 We go back to the locker room of the ball club, which has lost its manager and its number one pitcher through murder. 12:35.000 --> 12:42.000 And the coroner says the bullet entered Woody's body at a point between his right shoulder blade and his spine. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 Came out just below his heart. 12:44.000 --> 12:48.000 That means it... it had to be somebody way up in the stands. 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 Yeah, on the second deck. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Yeah, maybe. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 There's the elevated track right alongside the park, too, Gabe. 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 Only 20 feet outside the park and about six feet above the top of the stands. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 Somebody with a rifle. 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 A guy with a rifle that'd look good on the elevated tracks, wouldn't he? 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Yeah, I know it's nuts, but it's all we've got. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 It makes it look like Garson, doesn't it? 13:06.000 --> 13:10.000 Garson was sitting next to me at the game, and not by accident either. 13:10.000 --> 13:13.000 Oh, I don't mean Garson himself. He wouldn't take that kind of a chance. 13:13.000 --> 13:14.000 But one of his boys. 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 Yeah, but who and why? 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 Why? To win his dough. 13:17.000 --> 13:21.000 But he didn't win it. Jones, the relief pitcher, probably did better than Woody could have. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 He saved the game. 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 There had to be some other motive, like jealousy or... 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 Or what? 13:28.000 --> 13:31.000 Well, that guy Artie was wandering around the locker room, wasn't he, before the game? 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 He had the combination to Swede Benson's locker, too. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 What'd his angle be? 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 Well, with a punk like that, it could be anything. Robbery. 13:39.000 --> 13:42.000 Artie doesn't have a job. He likes flashy clothes. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 Swede gave him money sometimes. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 Yeah, I've seen that myself. 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 All right, suppose Artie goes to the Swede for a touch. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 Swede says no, and Artie argues with him. 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 Artie gets tough, pulls a gun, shoots Swede, and stuffs him in the locker. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 And then comes back? 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 No. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 Well, he didn't expect to find you and Woody there. 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 He wanted to see if he'd left any clues. Simple. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Maybe you got something of that. 14:03.000 --> 14:07.000 Yeah, maybe not. It's too easy. It's too simple. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 Where was Artie during the game? 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 I didn't see him. 14:10.000 --> 14:14.000 After I was hit with that liner in the fourth, I didn't pay much attention to anything. 14:14.000 --> 14:18.000 Well, if Artie killed a Swede, he'd have shown up at the game to keep him being suspected. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 And if he wasn't at the game, he couldn't have killed Woody. 14:20.000 --> 14:24.000 Somebody killed him, though. The same somebody who bumped off the Swede. 14:24.000 --> 14:29.000 Uh-huh. And the same somebody who was up on the elevated tracks while the game was being played. 14:29.000 --> 14:32.000 You didn't come to bat in the eights, did you? 14:32.000 --> 14:35.000 Well, listen, I was out there at short when Woody got shot. If you think that... 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 I noticed you weren't in the dugout much of the time, Gabe. 14:38.000 --> 14:41.000 Well, when I got hit by that liner, it just about knocked me goofy. 14:41.000 --> 14:45.000 I went to the locker room to get taped up, and I went back every chance I got. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 I didn't know what was going on. 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 Maybe not. What happened to you after you helped carry Woody off the field? 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 I was kind of stunned, I guess. 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 What, with that jolt in the head, and then Woody? 14:55.000 --> 14:57.000 Well, I kind of drew a blank. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.000 Maybe. 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 What do you mean, maybe? 14:59.000 --> 15:02.000 Listen, I couldn't have fired that shot. I was on the field. You saw me. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 30,000 other people saw me. 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 Don't get excited. I have to suspect everybody. 15:06.000 --> 15:09.000 Well, don't concentrate on me. I'm nervous enough without you. 15:09.000 --> 15:14.000 Nervous? That's fine. I like to make people nervous. Solves murder cases. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 Oh, cut the ribbing. What are you going to do about Artie? 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Yeah, Artie. We still have him. 15:19.000 --> 15:24.000 Mody for killing Swede Benson. Robbery. Mody for killing Woody. 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 What? 15:25.000 --> 15:29.000 He might have figured Woody was dangerous and had kind of been in the locker room. 15:29.000 --> 15:33.000 He didn't know how much Woody figured out about the Swedes' murder, so he got rid of him. 15:33.000 --> 15:38.000 You were in the locker room, too. If Artie is the killer, his next step would be to get you out of the way, then. 15:38.000 --> 15:39.000 Oh, he wouldn't try anything on me. 15:39.000 --> 15:44.000 Maybe not. But if I were you, I wouldn't take too many chances. 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 You already know why I didn't go to the game, Lieutenant Blake. 16:00.000 --> 16:06.000 I told you. I saw it Woody. I warned him about it. I had a feeling something was going to happen. 16:06.000 --> 16:13.000 Oh, psychic, huh? You're quite a baseball fan, though, Jenny. First home game you'd missed, wasn't it? 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 So what? I was mad at Woody. I told him not to... 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 Mad, huh? Mad enough to kill a guy? 16:19.000 --> 16:24.000 No. I just didn't go to the game. I'm here in my apartment all the time. Every minute. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 Alone? 16:25.000 --> 16:32.000 Yes. Oh, well, no. I wasn't going to mention it, but Artie showed up. 16:32.000 --> 16:37.000 Oh, Artie. Now we're getting somewhere. Artie the baseball kid and Jenny the baseball girl. 16:37.000 --> 16:45.000 Oh, stop it. I don't know what you're getting at. All I know is that Artie came in about the beginning of the sixth inning. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 Sixth? 16:45.000 --> 16:54.000 Yes. I was listening to the broadcast. Artie came in and said he hadn't been able to stay at the game after the way he'd seen Swede Benson. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Swede was about the only friend Artie had. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 Mm-hmm. And Artie listened to the rest of the game here, hmm? 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Well, he didn't have anywhere else to go. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 Did he come here when Woody was killed? 17:03.000 --> 17:09.000 No. He got nervous about the eighth inning. Said he couldn't sit still, thinking about Swede. 17:09.000 --> 17:12.000 Ah, so he left about the eighth, huh? Have you seen him since? 17:12.000 --> 17:19.000 No. Said he'd be back, but I suppose he heard what happened to Woody. That must have upset him worse. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 But you're not upset. 17:21.000 --> 17:22.000 What do you mean? 17:22.000 --> 17:29.000 Jenny, you need some time to think up a good story, and I can fix it up for you. Come on. You're going to the station with me. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 The station? The police station? Why? 17:31.000 --> 17:37.000 Well, until we find Artie, your alibi isn't worth a plugged nickel, Jenny. You say you were here in your apartment, but... 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 Eh, without Artie, it doesn't stand up. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Alibi? Listen, I told you I was here. 17:42.000 --> 17:48.000 Yeah, I know. But I've been up on the elevated tracks, Jenny. You were careless enough to drop this letter. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 Elevated tracks? A letter? What letter? 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 This letter from Gabe Stewart. 17:53.000 --> 17:56.000 I don't know what you're talking about. Hey, hey, look out! 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 What the... Oh! 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 Artie! How did you get in behind that curtain? 18:01.000 --> 18:02.000 Shut up, Jenny. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Artie, what are you doing? How did you get in here? 18:04.000 --> 18:05.000 Never mind. Come on. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Artie, maybe you killed him. He's a policeman. 18:07.000 --> 18:12.000 Come on, I said. He was all set to hang you. He had you in a tight spot, Jenny, with that letter. Let's get going, fast! 18:12.000 --> 18:16.000 I'm a reasonable guy, Artie. I don't mind getting whacked over the head with a blackjack if there's some point to it. 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 But I don't see why you did it. You didn't really think you could get away with it, did you? 18:20.000 --> 18:21.000 You think you're smart, don't you? 18:21.000 --> 18:27.000 Ah, never mind that. Point is, we caught you and Jenny, too. And slugging me didn't help any. 18:27.000 --> 18:32.000 But I'm fair, Artie. I'm going to give you one more chance to tell me what you did. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 I'm going to give you one more chance to tell me what you did. 18:35.000 --> 18:42.000 You don't make much of a gal I had, Artie. Now, Jenny... 18:42.000 --> 18:45.000 You quit picking on Jenny. Leave her alone. She didn't have nothing to do with it. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 She's a little bit old for you, isn't she, Artie? 18:47.000 --> 18:52.000 What are you talking about? She's the only friend I've got now that...Sweed... 18:52.000 --> 18:56.000 Why did you kill Sweed, Artie? You could have gotten money from him. Did Jenny put you up to this? 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 I didn't kill Sweed. You think I'd kill the best friend? 18:58.000 --> 19:02.000 Artie, you can't kill me. I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 I didn't kill Sweed. You think I'd kill the best friend? 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 Artie, you killed Sweed Benson because Jenny told you to. 19:07.000 --> 19:10.000 You knew about Garson wanting Sweed to throw the game. 19:10.000 --> 19:14.000 Jenny put you up to it, didn't she? She told you she'd cut you in on the money that Garson promised to pay her. 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 I didn't do it, and Jenny didn't do it, neither. 19:16.000 --> 19:21.000 You killed Sweed, then you got jumpy. You knew Woody was Jenny's boyfriend, and you figured he might find out something. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 So you killed Woody to protect yourself. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 I didn't, you dumb flatfoot! 19:25.000 --> 19:29.000 And then you figured you'd have to get rid of Gabe Stewart next, because Gabe had written Jenny that letter about Woody. 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 What letter? Why do you... 19:30.000 --> 19:35.000 You know, Artie, you know, the one I found on the elevated tracks, the letter you dropped when you shot Woody Sanders. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 You're crazy. I don't know about any letter. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 Oh? Never saw this letter, huh, Artie? 19:40.000 --> 19:45.000 What? Let's see that. That's from Gabe. That's the letter Gabe wrote Jenny. 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 Right, Artie. The letter you read. Made you mad. You stuffed it in your pocket. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 But you got careless and you dropped it when you climbed up onto the elevated tracks. 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 No. I saw that letter, sure, but... 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 Of course, Artie. It has your fingerprints all over the envelope. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 Why, that dirty heel. I'll get him if it's the last thing I do. 20:01.000 --> 20:02.000 Get who? 20:02.000 --> 20:03.000 Gabe Stewart. 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 You won't do any more getting, Artie. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 Listen, Gabe sent me after that letter. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 What? Gabe sent you after it? 20:09.000 --> 20:13.000 Sure. He gave me two bucks and said he'd mail the letter to Jenny and then changed his mind. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 Said he wanted it back before Jenny read it. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Before Jenny read it? 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 Yeah. He mailed it at night and he knew it'd be delivered next morning. 20:19.000 --> 20:23.000 So he gave me the money to wait for the mailman at Jenny's and sneaked the letter out before she saw it. 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 Now look, Artie, don't... 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 That's the truth, honest! 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 I went to Jenny's and got the letter and brought it back to Gabe. Unopened. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 Jenny never saw it. 20:30.000 --> 20:31.000 You're not lying? 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 She never saw it unless, well, maybe Gabe showed her the letter. 20:34.000 --> 20:38.000 Oh. Well, then come along, Artie. We're going for a ride. 20:50.000 --> 20:53.000 I know this is a street where he lives. He's got a one-room apartment. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Maybe you'll get out of the shed, Artie. 20:55.000 --> 20:59.000 Hey, look! That's Gabe getting into his car right in front of the apartment house. Hurry up! 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 We'll have to stop him. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Hey, step on it. He's driving away. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Yeah. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 For Pete's sakes, Lieutenant Blake, he's gonna get away! 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Don't worry, Artie. We'll get him. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 But you've got nothing on Gabe anyway. 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 That letter, Artie. Gabe dropped it on the elevated track on purpose. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 That's kind of crazy. 21:18.000 --> 21:22.000 Sure, like a fox. He sent you after the letter so to have your fingerprints on it. 21:22.000 --> 21:25.000 He wanted to clear himself of suspicion, so he picked on you. 21:25.000 --> 21:29.000 He figured your fingerprints would be a sense to get you hung for the murders of both Sweet and Woody. 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Can't you get any more out of this tub? He's doing over 80. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 We'll get him. This next corner's the quick... 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 Hold on, kid. Hold on. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Okay, Gabe. Come on. Climb out of there. 21:41.000 --> 21:44.000 Hey, what is this? You're trying to run me off the street? You might as well... 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 That'll work so hard being innocent, Gabe. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Huh? Can a guy go for a ride without you? 21:48.000 --> 21:51.000 You're going for a ride, all right, bud. But nothing that convertible. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 You think you can frame me? Listen... 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 I read your letter, Gabe. You made just one mistake. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 You didn't figure on Artie coming to Jenny's rescue. 21:58.000 --> 21:59.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 When Artie hit me over the head in Jenny's apartment, I knew he wasn't the murderer. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 Because no murderer would worry about me trying to catch somebody else. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Oh, no. He'd love that. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 You tried to frame me with that letter. 22:09.000 --> 22:14.000 Yeah. He's right, Gabe. You figured if you wrote a letter to Jenny telling her about your troubles with Sweet Benson, 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 and that you knew she was working on Woody Sanders, 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 it would look like the kind of a letter that would make Artie sore. 22:20.000 --> 22:24.000 So you were trying to get it and then leaving it on the tracks with his fingerprints on it. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 That was kind of cute. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 Oh, you're nuts. I couldn't have killed Woody. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 I was right there on the field. 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 Ah, that was a honey, Gabe. Big league staff, you betcha. 22:32.000 --> 22:37.000 There's only one guy on the baseball field who's always exactly in the same spot when he starts a play. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 And that's the pitcher. 22:38.000 --> 22:42.000 He toes the rubber on the pitching mound, his arms up. A set target. 22:42.000 --> 22:43.000 What are you talking about? 22:43.000 --> 22:46.000 That whole business about the elevated track was a lot of malarkey. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 Just to throw us off the track. Huh? 22:48.000 --> 22:51.000 Sure. You left the letter on the tracks. You had plenty of chance to do it. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 But the shot wasn't fired from there. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 No? Where was it fired from then? 22:55.000 --> 23:00.000 Well, the easiest place to fasten a rifle firmly would be on a light tower on top of the grandstand. 23:00.000 --> 23:03.000 You could sight it right down to the pitcher's mound and wire it there. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 And then I suppose it would go off just by holler and speak to it. 23:07.000 --> 23:12.000 The rifle aimed and wired into place. All you'd need would be a gadget of some kind to set it off. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 Yeah. Quite a gadget. 23:14.000 --> 23:19.000 Not so tough. A gadget like, well, maybe one of Garson's boys sitting up near the radio booth 23:19.000 --> 23:23.000 all set to pull a string at a signal from you from the field. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 A string tied to the trigger of that gun. 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 No, you're nuts. 23:26.000 --> 23:30.000 Maybe. We'll go out and take a look at that light tower anyway. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 And don't ever think Garson's mob will cover you if you're in a jam. 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 They don't play that way. 23:34.000 --> 23:38.000 Why, just a second while I take the keys out of my car. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 Hey, look out! 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Hey, hey! 23:42.000 --> 23:45.000 You. I shoulder you. 23:45.000 --> 23:49.000 Yeah, I'm not a fixed target like a pitcher on a mound, Gabe. 23:49.000 --> 23:52.000 And that revolver of yours wasn't wired into place. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 Sweet Benson and Woody both had it coming to them. 23:55.000 --> 24:00.000 The only reason Woody even talked to Garson was to try to get something on me. 24:00.000 --> 24:03.000 Woody and Sweet were fixing it to throw me out of baseball. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 You dirty crook. I'm trying to hang it on to me. 24:05.000 --> 24:09.000 You. Always in the way. I could have... 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 You could have done a lot. You could. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 One murder wasn't enough. You had to make it a double hitter. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 And you make two hits. 24:15.000 --> 24:43.000 Yeah, two hits and also two errors.