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Kersh there you know miss Manning of colossal no I haven't had the pleasure oh you're the famous lawyer Clifford Kersh there I've heard so much about you no one you've ever defended has ever been convicted of course Madeline how silly of me naturally you didn't worry with mr. Kersh they're defending David may you flatter me the evidence freedom not I tell me mr. Kersh there is it merely evidence that frees all your clients naturally however the most important factor is careful preparation every contingency must be taken care of ahead of time of course in a sense the verdict is in before the case ever comes to court then it must be confusing if the criminal messed up the crime to start with I mean before you could take a hand in arranging the evidence well naturally miss Manning I try to avoid taking cases that are too confused however no cases perfect legally that is because no defendant ever considers the legal angle before the circumstances arise the perfect crime will never be committed until the lawyer can handle the chain of evidence from the beginning of the crime even before its commission but of course that is impossible unless he were to commit a crime that would hardly be ethical miss Manning besides he'd be unable to defend himself and thus the whole theory breaks down but before we embark upon our life of crime miss Manning you'll find the bar in the library at the end of my honor miss Manning oh what a delightful European bow wait Madeline yes you don't seem very happy I I thought this was to be our night our night to celebrate David's acquittal don't be absurd darling oh what could I do Maddie my professional reputation was at stake our love to darling don't forget our love that was at stake it was me or your reputation in Kansas City I think you would have chosen differently Kansas City was ten years ago Maddie isn't it enough that I still love you without having to give up everything that I've gained to prove it oh if you were my only hope if David had been convicted today I would have been free and we could have been married for the first time since my divorce from Jack I was going to be happy with you but this way oh you won your case but I've lost mine no I've lost to Madeline what I've loved you for a long time even in Kansas City even when you left me to marry Jack need we talk about that now yes Jack was the handsome of the younger the more promising so you married him even loving me and still I loved you your love has strange ways of showing itself then and now you set yourself out to break my husband you had him disbarred ruined his career was that long I knew you'd leave him after he was no longer a shiny new prize I didn't leave Jack he left me after the automobile accident the night you had him disbarred he said he didn't want me to be saddled with a cripple so he just disappeared I couldn't come back to you then that would have been crawling and I won't crawl for any man but you'd crawl to David to save your career to keep your beautiful face in front of the public that's something else something you could have saved me from if you'd love me instead of having David acquitted today you'll be quite safe now Maddie you see David is dead you mean you something like that yes with the prologue of murder is legal the signal oil company brings you another of the strange tales of the 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Jack your former husband committed the murder Jack I don't understand is he here how did you how could he one at a time sweet yes yes he's here in Los Angeles I saw him last week I had occasion to cut through pushing square on my way to see a client he was he was sitting with his wooden leg cropped on a bench feeding the pigeons he's changed Madeline I hardly recognized him he didn't see me but I made inquiries I can find him when I need him I still don't understand if you killed David I well you did though so why should the police very simple elementary matter of preparation Faraday was shot with a gun registered to your husband you've had it for years but no one will know that also there are the marks of a peg leg on the balcony the room was broken into he had plenty of motive and besides I think I can persuade him to confess that is if I make it sufficiently profitable no Cliff no we can't do it between us we wreck Jack's life we can't make him pay for our crimes too don't be silly he won't be convicted none of my clients ever is your glamorous friend was quite right I've wanted to arrange my own crime set the evidence beforehand and I have this is perfect Madeline it'll be a clear case of self-defense with me as his attorney Jack is a cinch for acquittal it's precious this darling you're a genius you arrange everything the way you want it don't you it's wonderful and so funny so terribly funny yes you've planned the perfect crime haven't you Mr. Carstass Madeline thinks it's very funny funny and clever Mr. Carstass yes Madeline Lorraine's husband her first husband that is is a cinch for acquittal that is if he cooperates and he will won't he Mr. Carstass you know he will glad to see you again I'll bet you were pretty sure of me weren't you Carstass pretty sure I'd come and you sent for me you came I see the great Carstass wins again someday you'll overstep yourself like I did I'm waiting why be so bitter Jack I've always liked you personally you know that sure you only broke my career had me disbarred for one little slip and I get drunk and lose a leg in Madeleine that's all there was in my life my career in Madeleine I'd be dead now but for two things watching her rise in the world and waiting for you well that was a long time ago Jack why don't you forget it I did what I had to do there was no ranker in it it was nothing personal won't you believe that maybe I was Madeleine I guess she's going to marry that Hollywood heel too bad Carstass looks like you lose out again I've got the hander to you though you protected him I thought you had so many scruples Carstass he was my client I had to protect him I have another client now though and I need your help well I never thought I'd hear the great Carstass yelling for help you should have thought of that before you had me disbarred sorry Chum well I told Madeleine you wouldn't be any good to us but she insisted that I contact you why didn't you say so in the first place I didn't consider it was necessary you know I see Madeleine I know you still love her the story please you do don't you Jack story fast and good well Madeleine like all figures in the public eye had some things in her past that the fans might not have approved of it was essential that she keep them secrets though now David Faraday knew of these things and was using them to black mail her into marrying him late this afternoon she met him at his apartment the colored boy was out no one saw her they quarreled she had that old gun of yours in her bag he shot him Jack poor fool poor little fool is there any chance for a car steer if it comes to open court not one in a million I'd do what I could naturally but there's not one chance in a million of getting off with less than life how can you keep it from coming to court by acting fast they haven't found the body yet when they do the newspapers will be howling for a conviction it's election year the DA will take a fast confession and not ask too many embarrassing questions that's where you come in wait a minute I'm not burning for anyone else's murders wooden leg and all I'm not asking you to burn for it Jack you see I know this DA he won't even fight a self-defense plea but looks good at all with Maddie there's too much supplemental evidence they'd have to make it second degree with you it's a cinch I'm Faraday's lawyer my victim form will show his reactions to your being in town how he wanted to send for you how he was afraid of you clear-cut self-defense Madeline would never chance but I'd stake my reputation even my life and getting you off scot-free what makes you think they'll believe this confession even if he did have a motive for getting me there in the first place that gun was registered to you in the second I've checked over the scene he had a paper knife in his hand I arranged the room to look as if a fight had occurred also there are marks of a peg leg in the soft ground outside his balcony in other words if I don't cooperate police will probably pick you up anyway precisely if I do I am empowered to offer you the sum of ten thousand dollars fifteen I won't haggle very car stair I can't see it it's a fine deal I go to the chair for Madeline's murder and you pay fifteen thousand dollars over to my widow maybe you'll even throw in a crypt at the cemetery but it's not enough let me restate my position Jack perhaps I didn't make it clear on the one hand you confess the circumstances of Faraday's death and I'll guarantee to get you off on the other I tip off the district attorney and ninety to one they indict you anyway without my support I don't think you'd have much chance of acquittal especially when the blackmail attempts that you made on Faraday come out I never tried to blackmail Faraday and you know it no as his lawyer I be in a position to know these details don't you think I ever tell you I hated your guts frequently in Kansas City I didn't say it long enough car stair you've got me over a barrel there's not much I can do good but I want it in writing don't you think that's too risky and besides it wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on maybe but that way I know you won't double cross me I trust Maddie if you were in it alone with you I want a contract you might say something to hold over your head very well we'll make it out right now okay you phrase it but put in the money in that you guarantee my acquittal hmm we don't trust one another or even like one another but in this you have my word well car stair we're partners now we've a contract for crime shall we drink to our new venture and how much I hate your guts yes our good legal partnership practically a corporation if you add it Madeline and three such brilliant people do they're sure to make a go of it wouldn't you say quiet it's me jack I have to be on the set at six can't you wait I heard what you said the first time let me on the French door haven't come near me for 10 years tonight I thought maybe you needed me I do Jack I have for a long time I sent for you often you never I wanted you to have your chance I didn't have my you've got everything now you're a big star you've a fine home jewels what more could you want well safety I'll give you that darling was what car stair told me true yes but nothing's going to happen I just wanted to tell you that this is one case car stair won't dare lose I know but that's not what I want what do you want manny do I have to tell you Jack after all this time do I have to say it yes I guess I don't belong in Hollywood Jack I'm a fake I go around being Madeline Lorraine hard indiscreet sophisticated just as Hollywood as I can be but underneath I'm just Mrs. John Tenant from Kansas City you mean that Madeline don't you know when you're being proposed to and don't say this is so sudden not no darling I've tried so hard to be tough that's all I was until tonight and when this happened I couldn't put on the act any longer what about car stair oh he wants to marry me when this is over and you not anymore you know what I want all right Madeline if that's what you want truly tell no one anything we'll go through with this when it's over I'll have $15,000 we'll go away someplace Brazil's a good spot start over 10,000 should see us through I need the rest I have a debt to pay a 10 year old debt yes you'll go through with a jack the papers next morning have the story David Faraday's washbooking movie star was killed in a drunken brawl his confess player is John Tenant ex-husband of actress Madeline Lorraine Tenant allegedly came to the stars apartment at the request of Faraday's lawyer to sign an affidavit regarding his divorce with Miss Lorraine which took place in Kansas City eight years ago an argument ensued and Faraday according to Tenant seemed intoxicated attacking with a paper knife in the struggle that followed the actor was killed the renowned clippard car stair is representing Tenant gentlemen of the jury the defense rests firm in the knowledge that no American would convict a man for defending his life from a foul murder you were wonderful clear thanks Maddie let's walk down the hall a minute it's a good policy for me to leave the room now and science I want to talk to you all right please well please or what will you wanted to walk and talk you said well yes I I well I want the date for our wedding set Maddie oh don't rush me so clear rush you why it's been two months since David to death you just keep putting me off you think that's fair Maddie well to tell you the truth I haven't given it very much thought well you still love me don't you that hasn't changed has it everything changes clear there's nothing certain except of course a car stair verdict you always win clear you always win except this time I told you the verdict was a cinch no I didn't mean the trial I meant me you lose me Maddie you can't do this to me I don't see that I'm doing anything for you I'm just doing something for me not for put you with no I public nor David you just me I'm going back to Jack after the first in there is over we're going to go away and start all over Madeline you you owe me more than this do I I'm sorry I only killed a man for your sake that was your idea Cliff not mine and then that night when you told me about it and about how you were going to use Jack to protect us well it was suddenly so horribly funny that I last remember in that instant faced with a murder I realized what I really wanted there wasn't you at all Cliff wasn't a Hollywood or my name in life by the Jack I'm going back to being simple being just his wife and it was so tragically funny it doesn't amuse me Maddie what if I were to expose your connection with Faraday in the killing remember the contract you signed with Jack dear you can't touch him without putting yourself in the chair as for me I don't want my public anymore they can think what they please about me I'm a different woman clear than the one who came to your party that night and if I've been foolish I'll atone for it and that's my answer Cliff and it won't change I'm sorry the great cost here has lost this but that's not all of this strange story the Western will be back to tell you what really happened meantime I want to answer a question which judging by the number of inquiries must be puzzling a lot of drivers today it's this since certain gasoline ingredients have gone to war aren't all of today's gasoline the same no indeed if you've tried many brands in your car you've already noticed the difference in performance and I'll tell you why each oil company has its own refining method for its own brand of gasoline well as thousands of Western drivers who keep a close record of their gasoline mileage no the signal refining method has for years been famous for its extra mileage signal is frank in telling you that with certain ingredients reserved for fighting planes signal can't promise all the brilliant performance you enjoyed with pre-war signal 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frame-up they call it don't say hello car stare remember me Reynolds district attorney's office I want to ask you a few questions sit down thank you always glad to help you boys good and answer this one why did you kill David Faraday what the colored man says you came in that afternoon as you paid him to say he was out as he was scared to talk before why that's ridiculous he wasn't anywhere around and you admit you were there I admit nothing how about the gunsmith downtown he says you paid him a thousand dollars to file that identification number on a gun you haven't got a chance cost here I've been framed it's an open and shut case funny we'd never have thought of it we got the tip from that guy you forced to confess to the crime he skipped to Brazil prayed we'd make him stand trial for perjury we wouldn't go in our business we know how easy it is for a smart lawyer like you to frame a guy and force him into a confession I've been framed I tell you it was his gun tell that to the judge maybe he'll believe you no cost there even you can't talk your way out of this one yes cost there framed but in this case frame for a murder you did commit next Monday at nine o'clock the whistler will bring you another strange tale the curious story of the bells of Aberdovie the whistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer this program directed by George W. 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