WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Adam Hatch, prevent. 00:02.000 --> 00:04.000 The strange Dr. Weird. 00:04.000 --> 00:06.000 Good evening. 00:06.000 --> 00:08.000 Come in, won't you? 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 Why, what's the matter? 00:10.000 --> 00:12.000 Your hand is shaking. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Surely you're not afraid of me? 00:14.000 --> 00:16.000 What? 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 I'm 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 I'm afraid of you. 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 Perhaps the cemetery outside my house 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 is a good place to be. 00:34.000 --> 00:36.000 Speaking of cemeteries, 00:36.000 --> 00:38.000 reminds me of a story I want to tell you. 00:38.000 --> 00:40.000 A strange murder 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 and a strange burial. 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 The strangest ever known. 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 I call the story 00:46.000 --> 00:50.000 Murder 1 Million D.C. 00:50.000 --> 00:56.000 In a spirit of abruptness, 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 we of Adam Hatch join our fellow Americans 00:58.000 --> 01:00.000 and the lives everywhere 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 in a tribute of humble gratitude 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 to the brave men and women 01:04.000 --> 01:06.000 in our armed forces. 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 Let us pray that they who have brought us 01:08.000 --> 01:10.000 so far along the road to freedom 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 have not sacrificed in vain. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 And finally, 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 let us hope that the end is near, 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 that Japan will soon be defeated, 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 and that our men and women overseas 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 will return to a safe home 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 in a peaceful world. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 And now for the story on tonight's Adam Hatch program 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 as told by Dr. Weirich. 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 My story Murder 1 Million D.C. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 begins in a house on the outskirts 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 of a small city in New Mexico. 01:34.000 --> 01:36.000 The home of Professor Timothy Jordan, 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 a renowned scientist. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 Inside his laboratory, 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 engaged upon a mysterious experiment 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 that was not known to the world. 01:44.000 --> 01:46.000 The story begins in a house 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 on the outskirts of a small city in New Mexico. 01:48.000 --> 01:50.000 The home of Professor Timothy Jordan, 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 a renowned scientist. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 Inside his laboratory, 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 engaged upon a mysterious experiment 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 in the living room, his wife Florence 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 and his financial advisor Harry Smith 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 confer with each other apprehensively. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 But, Flo, will you say you don't know 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 why Timothy asked me to be here at 11 this morning? 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 No, no, I have no idea. 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 I'm sure he doesn't suspect anything about her. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 I'm sure he doesn't suspect anything about her. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 It must be about his money. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 Money? What do you mean? 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Well, you know, I've been handling all his business affairs 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 for the last two years. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Well, a lot of money's been coming in 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 from those new X-ray machines he invented. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 So much that I didn't think he'd miss 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 a little of it. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 You mean you've been taking it? 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Well, just borrowing some of it for some investment. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 That might be rich. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Harry! 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 He'll find out I'm tough. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 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 --> 02:48.000 I could be doing it together all the way. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 You can't, you can't. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Oh, Harry! Is that you? 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Yes, Dan, I'm Harry Dufcamiere. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Oh, good, good, excellent. 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Harry Flo, 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 I'm about to show you the most amazing 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 thing science has ever achieved. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 What do you mean, Tim? 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 I'm going to show you why I've had to ask you 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 for all that money lately, 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 and why I'll need another hundred thousand immediately. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Another? 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 Come along, both of you, in here, in my laboratory. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 Tim, what's this all about? 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 Tim, darling, is ruined. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 All his machinery. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 What have you been doing in here? 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 Suppose I told you 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 that I've been building a time machine. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 A time machine? 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 Yes, yes. Look, both of you, 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 you see this big archway of one way, 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 a doorway that leads back into the unknown past, 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 as far as the year 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 one million B.C. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Tim, you're not serious. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 I'm perfectly serious. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 All I have to do is to close this switch 03:44.000 --> 03:50.000 and now watch. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 The archway, 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 it seems to be getting on me. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Yes, that's a sign the current 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 flowing through the clean coil 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 is only a hole in the past, 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 a hole we can step through 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 as if it were a doorway. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Now come, follow me, 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 and in ten seconds 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 you'll find yourself on this earth 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 as the time machine 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 that was built a million years ago. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 A million years ago. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 A million years ago. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 A million years ago. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 A million years ago. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Startled, Harry and Florence 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 thought Professor Jordan 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 stepped into the amazing machine he had built 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 and vanished. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Then, fearfully, they followed him 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 and abruptly found themselves 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 standing at his side 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 on hot, dry, desert sand. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 A brief sun burned in the sky overhead 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 and strange birds flew 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 through the air above them. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Half a mile away to their left 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 lay a vast body of water 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 in which monstrous, 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 nightmarish creatures 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 were flashing. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Harry and Florence scared about them 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 as if they could not believe their eyes. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Ah, Tim! 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 Tim, is this real? 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 This is New Mexico 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 as it was a million years ago. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Tim, I don't know what to say. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 I just can't believe it. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 The past! 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 We've come a million years into the past. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 And just by stepping back the way we came, 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 we'll be in the present again, in my laboratory, 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 in the year 1940 A.D. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Think what that means. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 Think of being able to watch the burning of Rome, 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 see Columbus, discover America, 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 view this timing of the Declaration of Independence. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 What will all be possible 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 as soon as I can get more radium. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 More radium? 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 Yes, radium provides the power 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 my time machine needs. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 That's why I have to have $100,000 at once, Harry. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Yes, I see. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 Excuse me, Tim, but... 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 Stone. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 Stone? 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Oh, that's just sandstone 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 covered with clay. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 Well, Harry, how about the money? 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 There isn't any money. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 No money? 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 What do you mean? 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 That's what I'd say. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 You've stolen it, embezzled it. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 You've sent me to jail 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 if it's the last thing I do. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Oh, no, you haven't. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Harry, no! 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 His head, 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 it's all crushed in. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 We've got to kill him. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 We've got to go to jail. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 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 --> 06:26.000 We're going to bury him right here. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 But his body, it may be found. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Listen, don't you understand? 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 It's the world a million years in the past. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Step back through the time machine in the laboratory. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 When we get there, he'll have been dead 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 for a million years, don't you see? 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 He'll have been dead and buried for a million years 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 and there won't be any body left to be found. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 There won't be any evidence at all. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 After Harry had struck down 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 Professor Jordan, he and Flo 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 hastily dug a deep grave in the sand 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 with their hands. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 They put the body and the blood-stained rock 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 into this grave and covered both with sand. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Then hastily they stepped back 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 through the time machine into the laboratory 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 and partly dismantled the machine 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 so no one else could stumble on the pieces. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Then, after waiting, 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 they announced Professor Jordan's disappearance. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Everything went just as Harry planned. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 It was true that the 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 impeccable roar of the local police department 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 seemed a little suspicious 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 of Professor Jordan's disappearance. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 But of course, 07:24.000 --> 07:04.780 the 07:04.780 --> 07:19.660 We showed Harry that x-ray 07:19.660 --> 07:17.900 autochain traded beastid 07:20.000 --> 07:31.620 machine and 07:31.600 --> 07:34.080 Photo Sımı 07:34.080 --> 07:36.420 and then flow a man. 07:36.420 --> 07:40.620 As they were returning from a long honeymoon, Harry said. 07:40.620 --> 07:43.180 Hello, I've been thinking about that time machine of Timothy's. 07:43.180 --> 07:44.220 What about it, Harry? 07:44.220 --> 07:47.020 That machine can make me the richest man on earth. 07:47.020 --> 07:48.620 For example, suppose I took it to New York 07:48.620 --> 07:50.980 and used it to go back 100 years. 07:50.980 --> 07:53.260 Then suppose I bought up all the land, were time square. 07:53.260 --> 07:54.580 Harry. 07:54.580 --> 07:55.620 What is it? 07:55.620 --> 07:56.860 It's a clip from Grace Miller sent me. 07:56.860 --> 07:58.980 I just opened a letter and look at it. 07:58.980 --> 08:01.060 Let me see. 08:01.060 --> 08:04.260 Bones of an ancient man found near residence of late Professor 08:04.260 --> 08:05.260 Jordan. 08:05.260 --> 08:07.420 While excavating for Highway 37, workmen today 08:07.420 --> 08:10.220 found fragments of a skeleton of an ancient man buried 08:10.220 --> 08:12.460 in a formation of sand and rocks. 08:12.460 --> 08:14.960 Robert Thompson, a pathologist, states theological formation 08:14.960 --> 08:17.460 indicates the bones between 500,000 and a million years old 08:17.460 --> 08:19.060 have been preserved under extreme dryness 08:19.060 --> 08:23.460 of the soil, creating scientists who suspect that a rock found 08:23.460 --> 08:25.460 beside the crushed in skull of the skeleton 08:25.460 --> 08:28.060 was apparently the weapon with which the prehistoric man was 08:28.060 --> 08:28.860 killed. 08:28.860 --> 08:30.060 Timothy's bones. 08:30.060 --> 08:31.060 What do you want? 08:31.060 --> 08:33.060 You killed him with? 08:33.060 --> 08:35.060 Harry, you said there wouldn't be any evidence 08:35.060 --> 08:36.860 left after a million years. 08:36.860 --> 08:38.260 We have nothing to worry about. 08:38.260 --> 08:40.060 Even if they did find a few old bones. 08:40.060 --> 08:40.860 Just the same, Harry. 08:40.860 --> 08:42.060 Let's not go back home. 08:42.060 --> 08:43.060 Let's get off the train. 08:43.060 --> 08:43.860 Turn around. 08:43.860 --> 08:44.660 Go someplace far away. 08:44.660 --> 08:45.960 That's absurd. 08:45.960 --> 08:47.260 In the first place, we look suspicious 08:47.260 --> 08:48.860 if we get to go back. 08:48.860 --> 08:50.460 In the second place, we've got to go back 08:50.460 --> 08:52.060 to get that time machine. 08:52.060 --> 08:54.860 Because it's going to make me the richest man in the world. 08:54.860 --> 09:01.660 Harry, you're going to be treated in charming foreign cibiers. 09:01.660 --> 09:04.060 And next morning, they arrived home. 09:04.060 --> 09:06.260 They were having breakfast when an unannounced call 09:06.260 --> 09:09.260 up from Inspector Leroy walked in. 09:09.260 --> 09:10.260 Good morning, folks. 09:10.260 --> 09:11.260 Welcome home. 09:11.260 --> 09:14.060 What's the idea of barging in like this, Inspector? 09:14.060 --> 09:17.060 Mrs. Smith, do you recognize this locket which was found 09:17.060 --> 09:18.660 and turned into the police department? 09:18.660 --> 09:19.860 Locket? 09:19.860 --> 09:21.860 Well, that's my gold locket. 09:21.860 --> 09:25.060 It's been living for months. 09:25.060 --> 09:27.060 It's a war handprint. 09:27.060 --> 09:28.060 It's a million years old. 09:28.060 --> 09:29.060 Yes, it does, doesn't it? 09:29.060 --> 09:30.060 Oh. 09:30.060 --> 09:33.060 And we found an inscription inside, as good as new, 09:33.060 --> 09:35.060 indicating your former husband gave it to you 09:35.060 --> 09:36.460 for a birthday present. 09:36.460 --> 09:37.060 All right. 09:37.060 --> 09:38.460 So it's Florence's locket. 09:38.460 --> 09:39.060 So hot. 09:39.060 --> 09:42.260 As a matter of fact, I want to talk to you about that skeleton 09:42.260 --> 09:45.260 which was found out back of the house last week. 09:45.260 --> 09:47.060 You know about it, I suppose. 09:47.060 --> 09:48.260 Yes, we know about it. 09:48.260 --> 09:49.060 So hot. 09:49.060 --> 09:52.260 It was a very interesting skeleton, Mr. Smith. 09:52.260 --> 09:54.460 A million years old, the scientists say. 09:54.460 --> 09:57.060 But this locket was found lying underneath it. 09:57.060 --> 09:57.860 Oh, no. 09:57.860 --> 09:58.660 It's hot? 09:58.660 --> 09:59.260 Impossible. 09:59.260 --> 10:00.660 Another thing about that skeleton, 10:00.660 --> 10:02.660 which is puzzling the scientists, 10:02.660 --> 10:04.860 it has gold fillings in its teeth. 10:04.860 --> 10:07.260 Gold fillings, Professor Jordan's dentist 10:07.260 --> 10:09.860 identified the fillings he put into the professor's teeth 10:09.860 --> 10:10.260 himself. 10:10.260 --> 10:10.860 Oh, have they? 10:10.860 --> 10:11.660 You're crazy. 10:11.660 --> 10:13.860 No, it's the scientists who are going crazy 10:13.860 --> 10:15.860 trying to figure out the answers. 10:15.860 --> 10:16.660 What? 10:16.660 --> 10:19.860 I'm no scientist, so I didn't have any trouble. 10:19.860 --> 10:22.660 My answer is that that body is Professor Jordan's 10:22.660 --> 10:24.660 and you two killed him and buried him there. 10:24.660 --> 10:27.260 And Mr. Smith, that's when you lost that locket. 10:27.260 --> 10:28.260 No. 10:28.260 --> 10:29.260 No, it isn't true. 10:29.260 --> 10:29.860 It isn't true. 10:29.860 --> 10:31.660 I said you're crazy and I mean it. 10:31.660 --> 10:33.460 Not crazy enough to believe dentists 10:33.460 --> 10:35.260 were putting gold fillings in people's teeth 10:35.260 --> 10:36.860 a million years ago. 10:36.860 --> 10:38.660 Those are Professor Jordan's bones, Smith, 10:38.660 --> 10:40.460 and I can prove that you murdered him. 10:40.460 --> 10:41.060 You can't. 10:41.060 --> 10:41.660 I didn't. 10:41.660 --> 10:42.860 Yes. 10:42.860 --> 10:44.260 You see that rock that killed him? 10:44.260 --> 10:46.860 Just hit the wound in the skull and you know what? 10:46.860 --> 10:49.860 The killer left his fingerprints on that rock. 10:49.860 --> 10:51.060 Fingerprints? 10:51.060 --> 10:53.060 It's not possible, but it is. 10:53.060 --> 10:55.060 The scientists say that a million years ago, 10:55.060 --> 10:56.860 that rock was covered with clays 10:56.860 --> 11:00.260 and that the murderer left four nice, clear fingerprints 11:00.260 --> 11:01.660 in the clays. 11:01.660 --> 11:03.060 Since then, the clay has hardened 11:03.060 --> 11:04.860 to become part of the rock itself 11:04.860 --> 11:08.860 and those four fingerprints there in that solid rock 11:08.860 --> 11:12.260 match specimens of your prints that I got from your office. 11:12.260 --> 11:14.460 How's that for evidence? 11:14.460 --> 11:17.460 Fingerprints embedded for all eternity in the solid rock 11:17.460 --> 11:20.060 with which a murderer struck down his victim. 11:20.060 --> 11:21.860 The jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:21.860 --> 11:23.860 Who loved even leaving the box? 11:23.860 --> 11:25.860 The evidence was so conclusive. 11:25.860 --> 11:28.860 Of course, nobody believed that Professor Jordan's bones 11:28.860 --> 11:30.460 actually had been buried. 11:30.460 --> 11:32.860 But the jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:32.860 --> 11:34.860 The jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:34.860 --> 11:36.860 The jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:36.860 --> 11:38.860 The jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:38.860 --> 11:40.860 The jury found Harry and Florence guilty. 11:40.860 --> 11:42.660 The evidence of the murder of Professor Jordan's bones 11:42.660 --> 11:44.860 actually had been buried for a million years 11:44.860 --> 11:46.060 before they were found. 11:46.060 --> 11:49.860 But then nobody could explain how Harry's fingerprints 11:49.860 --> 11:53.860 came to be embedded in a solid chunk of rock. 11:53.860 --> 11:55.460 Perhaps Harry could have, 11:55.460 --> 11:57.060 but he didn't dare to, 11:57.060 --> 12:00.060 before fear of making matters worse. 12:00.060 --> 12:04.060 I remember another scientist too. 12:04.060 --> 12:07.060 Oh, you'll have to go now. 12:07.060 --> 12:10.660 And perhaps you'll drop in again soon. 12:10.660 --> 12:16.500 the house on the other side of the cemetery of Dr. Weird. 12:16.500 --> 12:25.500 Dr. Weird returns shortly to tell you about next week's story. 12:25.500 --> 12:28.740 Meanwhile, here's a thought for all of us. 12:28.740 --> 12:33.740 While the war in Europe is over, the war in the Pacific is far from won. 12:33.740 --> 12:38.740 Our land troops still have many hundreds of miles of tough island hopping to go, and may 12:38.740 --> 12:42.100 even have to fight Japan's armies in China. 12:42.100 --> 12:47.340 That means we must continue to keep up the flow of ships, guns, munitions, and food to 12:47.340 --> 12:50.100 our far-flung Pacific outpost. 12:50.100 --> 12:53.420 And that means we must continue to buy barns. 12:53.420 --> 12:56.940 The mighty seventh war loan drive is now on. 12:56.940 --> 12:59.020 Let's support it to the utmost. 12:59.020 --> 13:02.540 Buy till it hurts, and then some. 13:02.540 --> 13:05.940 Now let us hear again from Dr. Weird. 13:05.940 --> 13:09.220 I hope you'll plan to drop in on me again next week. 13:09.220 --> 13:13.820 I want to tell you a story I call Picture of a Killer. 13:13.820 --> 13:18.980 It's an unusual tale about a killer who had never had his picture taken. 13:18.980 --> 13:23.500 And when a photographer finally did snap his picture, it would... 13:23.500 --> 13:27.780 But the rest of the story will have to wait until your next week. 13:27.780 --> 13:28.780 Good night. 13:28.780 --> 13:34.020 Yup.