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I never saw him before. |
What's he want of you? |
Wanted to tell me he didn't kill Julia Wolf. |
What's that to you? |
Nothing. |
What'd he think it was to you? |
Ask him. I don't know. |
I'm asking you. |
Keep on asking. |
Not without a warrant. |
So you say Go on, Bob. |
Have you got a pistol permit? |
No. |
Ever heard of the Sullivan Act? |
This gun yours? |
No. |
Who's is it? |
I'll have to try to remember. |
Okay. There's plenty of time. I guess we got to ask you a lot more questions than we counted on. We'll come up tomorrow when you're feeling better. Come on. |
You oughtn't to play this trick on me. Running out when I was giving you time to rest up before I asked you those questions. |
You mean about that gun? |
That ain't a gun any more. The firing pin's busted the Don't waste time talking about that. |
Man to man, Mr. Charles, are you working on this case? |
Man to man, I'm not. |
So would I. |
It's a bargain then. Anything you want to know? |
What about the suicide? |
Oh, that's a phoney. The men didn't even have to go down. |
I thought it might be. From now on, they're going to think that every thin man over six feet with white hair is Wynant. |
You've been there? |
Yeah. Couldn't find a thing. This is the way we figure it. Wynant goes to Julia's apartment. He finds Morelli there... sees she's two timing him. They have a fight. But he figures he don't want to do anything then.... Morelli might squeal. So he goes away. He don't let his lawyer know anything has happened... he lets him go ahead and and hand over money to Julia to give to him, so that Julia will think it's all blown over. Then, when she don't expect it... he lets her have it. |
No proof? |
Nothing yet to cinch it. |
Fifty will get you a hundred that he didn't do it. |
What do you mean? |
For one thing, he was too absent minded to hold a grudge. |
Who's your candidate? |
I haven't got that far yet. But I don't think that everything points to Wynant. What about the alibis? |
They're all O.K. Mrs. Jorgensen, the boy, Dorothy, Macaulay... even Morelli... we had to let him go. |
What about Jorgensen? |
I'll check on that. I'm afraid this is kinder dull for you. |
What about this Nunheim? |
Oh, he's all right. We know all about him. He does a little stooling for us every once in a while. |
Did you know he was hanging around Julia? |
No. |
He's holding out on you. |
Let's go and see. Taxi! |
Well, what'd you think? |
I think we're on the right track. |
Who're you calling? |
I'm calling your office so you can send out a man to trail him. I want to see where he goes. |
Trail him! Trail who? |
Nunheim! |
Get anything? |
She's ready to talk. It won't do any harm, though to find out where he is. |
I guess that cinches it, eh, Mr. Charles? He killed them both Julia Wolf and Nunheim. |
Fifty will still get you a hundred. |
This is enough for me. |
Just rolled them up and threw them in. |
Lucky thing for us they weren't in that lime. |
Extraordinarily lucky. |
"D.W.R." That case you worked on... the guy who threatened to kill Wynant... what what was his name? |
Rosebreen. |
Could this be him? |
I never saw him. I don't think anyone saw him. |
He said Wynant tried to steal an invention. |
Yes. But we figured it was just blackmail... |
Just the same, Wynant wouldn't mind having him out of the way, would he? How long should you say this body'd been here, Doc? |
What're you doing here? |
I'll take care of him. |
Are you kidding? |
No. |
Why didn't you tell me? .... Why didn't you hold him? |
Because I found out for certain that he didn't commit the murders. |
You mean that body? |
was Wynant's. |
Shut up. |
You see, he'd been very clever. Everybody, even our astute friend Guild, thought that Wynant was alive and that he was the murderer. But our hero had just one weak link in his chain. The telegrams, wires and telephones were all very well but no one had seen Wynant. So he picked on poor Mimi here to strengthen his case. Mimi is the only one at the table who can tell us who the real murderer is. Mimi, who was it that told you to say you'd seen Wynant? |
What is it, Gilbert? Tell mother! What did he say? |
He said that father's in town. He's been seeing Julia right along. |
That woman! |
She could tell you where father is. |
Did they find any clues... a gun or fingerprints or anything? |
Not a thing. |
Was there much blood? |
Did you kill her? |
Gilbert! |
Why not? You had a perfectly good motive. |
I hope you won't talk that way to the police when they come here. |
Well, I've got my alibi. I was at the Public Library. Where were you? |
Children, will you go into the next room? I want to talk to Chris alone. |
I saw him too... he was wearing a green suit with a white tie... |
What are you talking about, Gilbert? You weren't there! |
know. But I saw him |
You can take that out to the car. |
Going to run him through the fluoroscope? |
Yes. |
Do you mind if I come down and see it? |
Not at all. |
I'm very interested in that body. |
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