WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Adam Hatt presents... 00:02.000 --> 00:04.000 The Strange Dr. Weird. 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 Good evening. Come in, won't you? 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Why, what's the matter? Your hand is shaking. 00:14.000 --> 00:16.000 Surely you're not afraid of me? 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 I'm not afraid of you. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 I'm afraid of you. 00:20.000 --> 00:22.000 I'm afraid of you. 00:22.000 --> 00:24.000 I'm afraid of you. 00:24.000 --> 00:26.000 I'm afraid of you. 00:26.000 --> 00:28.000 I'm afraid of you. 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 Surely you're not afraid of me? 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 Perhaps it's the cemetery outside my house that has upset you. 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 Speaking of cemeteries, it reminds me of a story I want to tell you. 00:39.000 --> 00:44.000 A strange murder and a strange burial. 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 The strangest ever known. 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 I call the story... 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 Murder 1 Million D.C. 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 The Strange Dr. Weird. 00:57.000 --> 01:02.000 In a spirit of reverence, we of Adam Hatt join our fellow Americans and allies everywhere 01:02.000 --> 01:08.000 in a tribute of humble gratitude to the brave men and women in our armed forces. 01:08.000 --> 01:15.000 Let us pray that they who have brought us so far along the road to freedom have not sacrificed in vain. 01:15.000 --> 01:21.000 And finally, let us hope that the end is near, that Japan will soon be defeated, 01:21.000 --> 01:28.000 that our men and women overseas will return to a safe home in a peaceful world. 01:28.000 --> 01:34.000 And I'll fore the story on tonight's Adam Hatt program as told by Dr. Weird. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.000 My story, Murder 1 Million D.C. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 begins in a house on the outskirts of a small city in New Mexico. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 The home of Professor Timothy Jordan, a renowned scientist. 01:50.000 --> 01:55.000 Inside his laboratory, engaged upon a mysterious experiment. 01:55.000 --> 02:00.000 In the living room, his wife, Florence, and his financial advisor, Harry Smith, 02:00.000 --> 02:04.000 confer with each other apprehensively. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 But, Flo, you say you don't know why Timothy asked me to be here at 11 this morning? 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 No, Harry, I haven't any idea. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 I'm sure he doesn't suspect anything about it, I guess. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 It must be about his money. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 Money? What do you mean? 02:17.000 --> 02:21.000 Well, you know, I've been handling all his business affairs for the last two years. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 Yes? 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 Well, a lot of money's been coming in from those new X-ray machines he invented. 02:26.000 --> 02:29.000 So much that I didn't think he'd miss a little of it. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 You mean you've been taking it? 02:31.000 --> 02:35.000 Well, just borrowing some of it for some investment, but making a wish. 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 Harry! 02:36.000 --> 02:40.000 If he finds out I'm stuck, he'll send me to jail. He will, too. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 What are you going to do? 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 I don't know, but... 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 If we were only out of the way, 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 there could be you and me together always. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 Be careful. Here he comes. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 Oh, Harry! Is that you? 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 Yes, Tim. Harry just got here. 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Oh, good, good. Excellent. 02:58.000 --> 03:03.000 Harry, Flo, I'm about to show you the most amazing thing science has ever achieved. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 What do you mean, Tim? 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 I'm going to show you why I've had to ask you for all that money lately 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 and why I'll need another 100,000 immediately. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 Another? 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 Come along, both of you, in here in my laboratory. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Tim, what's this all about? 03:17.000 --> 03:21.000 Tim, darling, his room. All his machinery. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 What have you been doing in here? 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 Suppose I told you that I've been building a time machine. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 A time machine? Yes, yes. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 Look, both of you, you see this big archway of white waves? 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 A doorway that leads back into the unknown past 03:36.000 --> 03:40.000 as far as the year 1 million B.C. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Tim, you're not serious. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 I'm perfectly serious. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 All I have to do is to close this switch. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Now... watch. 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 The archway. It seems to be getting all misty. 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 Yes. That's a sign the current flowing through these coils 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 is only a hole in the past. 04:04.000 --> 04:07.000 A hole we can step through as if it were a doorway. 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 Now, come. Follow me, and in ten seconds 04:12.000 --> 04:18.000 you'll find yourself on this earth as it was a million years ago. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 Startled, Harry and Florence saw Professor Jordan 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 step into the amazing machine he had built and vanish. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 Then, fearfully, they followed him and abruptly found themselves 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 standing at his side on hot, dry desert sand. 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 A brilliant sun burned in the sky overhead 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 and strange birds flew through the air above them. 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 Half a mile away to their left, their vast body of water, 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 in which monstrous, nightmarish creatures were flashing. 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 Harry and Florence stared about them 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 as if they could not believe their eyes. 04:59.000 --> 05:04.000 Tim! Tim, is this real? 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 This is New Mexico as it was a million years ago. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 Tim, I don't know what to say. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 Well, I just can't believe it. 05:13.000 --> 05:17.000 The past! We've come a million years into the past. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 And just by stepping back the way we came, 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 we'll be in the present again in my laboratory in the year 1940 A.D. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Think what that means. 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 Think of being able to watch the burning of Rome, 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 see Columbus discover America, 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 view the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 But it'll all be possible as soon as I can get more radium. 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 More radium? 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 Yes, radium provides the power my time machine needs. 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 That's why I have to have $100,000 at once, Harry. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 Yes, I see. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Excuse me, Tim, this... 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 Huh? 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 Stone. 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 What's this thing? 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 Stone? Oh, that's just sandstone covered with clay. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 Harry, about the money. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 There isn't any money. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 No money? 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 What do you mean? 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Just what I say. 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 You've stolen it, embezzled it. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 You'll go to jail, do you hear? 06:05.000 --> 06:08.000 I'll send you to the jail if it's the last thing I do. 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 Oh, no, you won't. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 No, Harry, don't! 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 His head, it's all crushed in. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 I had to kill him. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 Was that a good jail? 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Oh, what are we going to do? 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 I'll tell you what we're going to do. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 We're going to bury him right here. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 But his body, it may be found. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 And then... 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 Oh, listen, don't you understand? 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 This is the world a million years in the past. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 We'll bury Timothy here in the sand, 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 then step back through the time machine into the laboratory. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 When we get there, he'll have been dead for a million years. 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Don't you see? 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 He'll have been dead and buried for a million years, 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 and there won't be any body left to be found. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 There won't be any evidence at all. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 After Harry had struck down Professor Jordan, 06:53.000 --> 06:57.000 he and Flo hastily dug a deep grave in the sand with their hands. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 They put the body and the blood-stained rock into this grave 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 and covered both with sand. 07:03.000 --> 07:07.000 Then hastily they stepped back through the time machine into the laboratory 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 and partly dismantled the machine 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 so no one else could stumble on the secret. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Then, after waiting, 07:15.000 --> 07:19.000 they announced Professor Jordan's disappearance. 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 Everything went just as Harry planned. 07:22.000 --> 07:26.000 It was true that the Inspector Leroy of the local police department 07:26.000 --> 07:31.000 seemed a little suspicious of Professor Jordan's disappearance, 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 but of course he had no evidence. 07:34.000 --> 07:38.000 So in due time, Harry and Flo were married. 07:38.000 --> 07:42.000 As they were returning from a long honeymoon, Harry said, 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 Flo, I've been thinking about that time machine of Timothy's. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 What about it, Harry? 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 That machine can make me the richest man on earth. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 For example, suppose I took it to New York 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 and used it to go back a hundred years. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 Then suppose I bought up all the land where time's square now. 07:56.000 --> 07:57.000 Harry! 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 What is it? 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 This clipping Grace Miller sent me. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 I just opened a letter and look at it. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Let me see. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 Bones of ancient man found near residence of late Professor Jordan. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 While excavating for Highway 37, 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 workmen today found fragments of the skeleton of an ancient man 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 buried in a formation of sand and rock. 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 Robert Thompson, state geologist, states geological formation 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 indicates the bones between 500,000 and a million years old 08:20.000 --> 08:23.000 have been preserved by the extreme dryness of the soil. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 The great scientists expect that a rock 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 found beside the crushed in skull of the skeleton 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 was apparently the weapon with which the prehistoric man was killed. 08:32.000 --> 08:36.000 Timothy's bones and the rock you killed him with! 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 Harry, you said there wouldn't be any evidence left after a million years. 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 We have nothing to worry about. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 Even if they did find a few old bones. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 Just the same, Harry. Let's not go back home. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Let's get off the train. Turn around. Go someplace far away. 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 That's absurd. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 In the first place, we'd look suspicious if we didn't go back. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 In the second place, we've got to go back to get that time machine. 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 Because it's going to make me the richest man in the world. 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 Harry succeeded in calming Florence's fears. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 The next morning they arrived home. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.000 They were having breakfast when an unannounced caller, 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Inspector Leroy, walked in. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 Good morning, folks. Welcome home. 09:18.000 --> 09:21.000 What's the idea of barging in like this, Inspector? 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Mrs. Smith, do you recognize this locket 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 which was found and turned into the police department? 09:26.000 --> 09:27.000 Locket? 09:27.000 --> 09:30.000 Well, that's my gold locket that's been missing for months. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 But what happened to it? 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 It's a warren scratch. Looks a million years old. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 Yes, doesn't it? 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 Oh. 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 And we found an inscription inside, as good as new, 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 indicating your former husband gave it to you for a birthday present. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 All right, so it's Florence's locket, so hot. 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 As a matter of fact, I want to talk to you about that skeleton 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 which was found out back of this house last week. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 You know about it, I suppose? 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Yes, we know about it, so hot. 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 It was a very interesting skeleton, Mrs. Smith. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 A million years old, the scientists say. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 But this locket was found lying underneath it. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Oh, no! 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Hot? It's impossible. 10:06.000 --> 10:10.000 Another thing about that skeleton which is puzzling the scientists, 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 it has gold fillings in its teeth. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 Gold fillings, Professor Jordan's dentist identifies 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 as fillings he put into the professor's teeth himself. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 You're crazy. 10:19.000 --> 10:23.000 No, it's the scientists who are going crazy trying to figure out the answers. 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 But I'm no scientist, so I didn't have any trouble. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 My answer is that that body is Professor Jordan's 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 and you two killed him and buried him there. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 And Mrs. Smith, that's when you lost that locket. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 No! No, it isn't true! It isn't true! 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 I said you're crazy and I mean it. 10:39.000 --> 10:42.000 Not crazy enough to believe dentists were putting gold fillings 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 in people's teeth a million years ago. 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 Those are Professor Jordan's bones, Smith, 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 and I can prove that you murdered him. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 You can't! I didn't! 10:50.000 --> 10:54.000 Yes. You see, that rock that killed him just fits the wound in the skull. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 And you know what? 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 The killer left his fingerprints on that rock. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 Fingerprints? It's not possible. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 But it is. 11:01.000 --> 11:05.000 The scientists say that a million years ago, that rock was covered with clay 11:05.000 --> 11:10.000 and that the murderer left four nice, clear fingerprints in the clay. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Since then, the clay has hardened to become part of the rock itself. 11:13.000 --> 11:17.000 And those four fingerprints there in that solid rock 11:17.000 --> 11:20.000 match specimens of your prints that I got from your office. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 How's that for evidence? 11:22.000 --> 11:26.000 Fingerprints embedded for all eternity in the solid rock 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 with which a murderer struck down his victim. 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 The jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 Without even leaving the box, the evidence was so conclusive. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 Of course, nobody believed that Professor Jordan's bones 11:47.000 --> 11:51.000 actually had been buried for a million years before they were found. 11:51.000 --> 11:55.000 But nobody could explain how Harry's fingerprints 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 came to be embedded in a solid chunk of rock. 11:58.000 --> 12:02.000 Perhaps Harry could have, but he didn't dare to, 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 for fear of making matters worse. 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 I remember another scientist who... 12:09.000 --> 12:12.000 Oh, you have to go now. 12:12.000 --> 12:16.000 Perhaps you'll drop in again soon. 12:16.000 --> 12:24.000 Just look for the house on the other side of the cemetery of Dr. Weird. 12:29.000 --> 12:33.000 Dr. Weird returns shortly to tell you about next week's story. 12:33.000 --> 12:36.000 Meanwhile, here's a thought for all of us. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 While the war in Europe is over, 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 the war in the Pacific is far from won. 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 Our land troops still have many hundreds of miles 12:44.000 --> 12:46.000 of tough island hopping to go 12:46.000 --> 12:50.000 and may even have to fight Japan's armies in China. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 That means we must continue to keep up the flow of ships, 12:53.000 --> 12:58.000 guns, munitions, and food to our far-flung Pacific outposts. 12:58.000 --> 13:02.000 And that means we must continue to buy bonds. 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 The mighty seventh war loan drive is now on. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 Let's support it to the utmost. 13:07.000 --> 13:11.000 Buy till it hurts and then some. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 Now, let us hear again from Dr. Weird. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 I hope you plan to drop in on me again next week. 13:18.000 --> 13:23.000 I want to tell you a story I call Picture of a Killer. 13:23.000 --> 13:28.000 It's an unusual tale about a killer who had never had his picture taken. 13:28.000 --> 13:33.000 And when a photographer finally did snap his picture, it was... 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 But the rest of the story will have to wait until your next visit. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 Good night. 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 Join us again next week at this same time 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 for another visit with the strange Dr. Weird. 13:55.000 --> 13:59.000 The Strange Dr. Weird, directed by Jacques McGregor, 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 is written by Bob Arthur and David Cogan. 14:01.000 --> 14:04.000 It's presented by the makers of Adam Hatch, 14:04.000 --> 14:08.000 the hats that are always top in quality. 14:08.000 --> 14:32.000 This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.