 Mr. District Attorney, starring David Bryan. Mr. District Attorney, champion of the people, defender of truth, guardian of our fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Only to prosecute to the limit of the law all persons accused of crimes perpetrated within this county, but to defend with equal vigor the rights and privileges of all its citizens. In a moment we'll bring you another case from the files of Mr. District Attorney. But first the word from our sponsor. Protecting the citizens of this county from criminal violence is one of my biggest jobs. Unfortunately, such protection isn't always possible. We are always on guard, quick to take preventive measures to ensure the safety of everyone, but often the situation arises that we cannot foresee. A person with no previous criminal record decides to go wrong and in doing so commits bodily harm. In a case of this kind as we're about to see, the remedy can only begin after a victim has paid with his or her life. Is this all right? I told you to stop back there. We're too close. You've got to be able to grab him when he unlocks the door, baby. Too close, he'll see me. Here comes something now. Is that the guy? Yeah. He's looking right at me. He knows me. You don't know him. Look, he's heading for the door. He'd have said hello if he recognized you. He fired me a week ago. Why would he want to say hello? Why don't you relax? Let's go, Pete. Yeah. Sorry, gentlemen. The store won't be open for business for another 30 minutes. I got it. Yeah. And the store is open for us right now. Let's go inside and make the door open. Okay, mister. I head for the safe. But we don't have a safe. We don't keep money here. Do you want a head for the safe or do you want to get hurt? All right. All right. All right. I don't want any trouble. Come on. Let's get moving. Nervous? Yes, I am. Listen, I'll do anything you say. I don't want any trouble. Oh, smart boy. Here it is. All right. Get it open. Sure, sure. It'll only take a minute. Just a minute. It's all up to me. I guess you'll want to tie me up or something. We're going to do more than that, Mr. Deeds. Mrs. Borden, it's crazy. There's something. What are you doing in here? I tell you, this man recognized me, and I intend to do something about it. We're supposed to stay in the car. Give me that now. No. No, don't do that. I won't say anything. I promise I won't say anything. Don Wright, you won't say anything. You're crazy, Dame. Let's get out of here. Ten years getting to be manager of a store. Some trigger-happy punk cut some now with a couple of bullets. Well, there he is, Chief. Suppose there's a family. Yeah. A wife and three kids according to Lieutenant. The oldest kid is ten. Now I'm going to get some really joint without a cracker listed. That goes double. Did anyone witness the hold-up? Yes. Whether your clerk is outside now, nobody was around when it happened. Make a canvas of the neighborhood. See if anyone noticed a car near the place at the time of the crime. Spend the whole day if you have to. Okay. Is there a telephone handy? Yeah, right over there. I'll see you later, Chief. Miss Miller, I'd like you to make a quick check-up on something. We've had a robbery here. I don't know how much money yet, but whoever did it killed the manager of the place at the same time. I want these people, and I want them fast. So get me a police report and any known hold-up artist who might be in this area. Where are you, Mr. Garrett? The Barlow supermarket on Grove Street, but I won't be here long. I'm going into headquarters for a ballistics report as soon as they can give it to me. Then I want to make an unofficial call. There's a family in the neighborhood that's suddenly without a father. I'm going to see if I can be of any immediate help to them. Where can I get you then? I'll call you back in about an hour. What do you think? I had my way. We blow this town right now. Clean. You're getting jumpy. Why wouldn't I be jumpy? Crazy dame. Killing a man for a loss of $700? There'll be other jobs. We'll do better. Where is she? Can I fix her face? You don't fix? Yeah. And it looks real good, baby. Thank you, Lugo. Lugo, I want to tell you something. Yeah, what? I want you to quit calling Donna baby. It's a lot better than what you call her. Never mind what I call her. I'm married to her. Get him. Just because he's married to me, he figures he can call me anything. I'm warning you, Lugo. What's the matter with you anyway? What's wrong with me calling her baby? I don't like it. That's what's wrong. They can knock it off. Why can't we be happy once in a while? We got money, haven't we? $700. Lousy, $700 and you had to kill a man for it. I might have killed that one for a lot less. He didn't like it because I had to go out for a smoke once in a while. He pulled me out in front of everybody. I told you I wouldn't go for any shooting. I told you that before we started. So you told me. What can you do about it? Well, you killed him with my gun, too. What did it do for you to carry a gun? You ain't got nerve enough to use it? Oh, let's cut this out and split the money. I can use my hat. What are you talking about, your hat? I wasn't on this, wasn't I? Well, yeah, but Pete and me originally figured it 50-50. Who set up this job? Who knew where that safe was? Who knew what time that guy would open up? I don't care what you and Pete figured. We split it across the board three ways. Okay, okay. I just assumed you had the dough. Yes, you earned it. I'm going to earn more. Next one's going to be the biggest store in the chain. We'll do a lot better than $700 from that market. Tell the radio, Lugo. Let's have a little music while we divide this money. Yeah. Chief coming yet? Mr. Isle, he's in his office. Good. Hi, Chief. Did you find out anything about that market case? I wait until nine o'clock last night. I finally turned up a couple of people who think they might have seen the car. A grace of heaven, but no license number. No, that's not much to go on. Better check and see if any have been reported stolen. I already checked. There ain't one of them models been stolen in three months. Which is though we're up against the problem. How about picking up the boys who use that MO? Well, the ones we know who use that method of operation aren't working in this area. Not with records. No, we've got to stick with that suburban for our lead, Harrington. And if they didn't steal it, you wouldn't think crooks would be foolish enough to use their own car, but not unless they're real morons. You know, Harrington may have rented that suburban. Yeah, that's a thought. And when you run a car, you have to come up with identification. Yeah, you do. Get started on our car rental agency. You take one phone and have Miss Miller take the other. Right away, Chief. Hey, Card. Well, what else is there to do when you're not around? And I got most of your husband's money. He can't hang out of money. Never could. Who's smoking here? I open the window. You need a ventilator the way you guys smoke. Well, you got new boxes. I bought myself some new clothes. Now, there's something else while I was out, too. What? In case that Grand Street market. You have to find a checker. Just like where I worked, only more volume and a lot more money. Well, when do you think we ought to do it? Why not this week? I think we ought to wait. It's too soon after the other one. What difference does that make? Well, I... I think it's too soon. That's all. If we listened to you, we'd never get anything done. Good. Moke, I've got to open another window. What do you expect to do? Keep on cracking supermarkets every week. Well, we're going to crack this one anyway, and we're going to do it in a couple of days. Back me to our rental agency. This is the district attorney's office. We'd like to know if your office has rented out a great suburban in the last few days. You haven't? I see. Well, thanks anyway. This is the office of the district attorney. We'd like to know if you're renting a great suburb, any time this week. Yeah. All right, I'll... That makes 23 for me and still most suburban. I see. The next one will be Tony's U Drive, Evergreen 3, 4456. I didn't know there were this many car rentals in existence. Me neither. Hello? What's that? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. A great suburb. Oh, good, good. And, uh, what was the name? Mrs. Who? Mrs. Donna Fordney. Mrs. Donna Fordney, 215 Valencia. Okay. Oh, wait. You say they turned the car back? Okay. Thanks very much. You got one. I sure did. Looks like we're in business, Chief. The car rental? Right. A great suburban was rented the day before yesterday to where Mrs. Donna Fordney lives at 215 Valencia Park and 5. Call that address Harrington got, will you? See if they've got a vacancy. Yeah, right away. Valencia Street. 5 or 6 blocks from that market. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Did you get a description of the woman? I did. She's a blonde, about 22, medium height and build. Guy said she was plenty good looking. Got your information, Mr. Garratt. The Carlisle apartments, they do have a vacancy, a double on the ground floor. Good. Call them back, Miss Miller. Tell them you'll take the apartment, then. For your uncle. Her uncle. Well, Chief, I ain't that old. Set up a stakeout, Harrington. Get to know that blonde. Get to know what she does, where she goes, who her friends are. Find out if she works and where. Find out if her husband works. Talk to the women who live around her. They'll tell you. Try to find out if she's throwing money around. If she is, we'll make an arrest right away. A blonde with money? Sounds like a pretty soft assignment, Harrington. Yeah. So up like a 38 caliber bullet. You better watch your step, all right. If that blonde has money, she probably got it because some killer used a gun. And if we get him in a corner, they'll use it again. This is David Bryan. Before we continue with Mr. District Attorney in the case of the supermarket killer, I have an important message I'd like you to hear. Starring is Paul Garrett, Mr. District Attorney. The supermarket had been robbed. $700 had been stolen. And the manager of the store had been murdered in cold blood. My office had been able to come up with only one lead. The car used in the hold-up was the same type as one rented by a Mrs. Donna Fortney, a young woman who lived in an apartment house near the scene of the crime. We knew she was a blonde, and we knew she was good-looking, but so are a lot of other girls. There's a bunch of bourbons driving around the city streets. But you do your best with whatever turns up. You try to add to it. So now, hiring can be staked out in the apartment next door. Hello. Okay, put him on. Hello, Chief. How are you doing? I haven't been able to find out much yet. The girl has a husband, all right. Thanks, Pete. And there's another guy. Seems to be a family friend, comes and goes. Then you get acquainted. I'm going to try that now. The husband is there alone. How much of that course I've been taking? You know, the one on how to make friends and promote people. Hello, Chief. I'll check back with you. I'm the guy in the next apartment. So what? Oh, I'm going nuts rattling around there alone. Let's take a walk. Well, I got bummed dogs. Look, I've got nothing to do. I thought you might like to, you know, come over and shoot a shot. I'm sorry. I've got to hang around here. We could play some cards. How about a little runny? I don't think so. Suit yourself. But it seems kind of silly both of us, knocking ourselves out doing nothing. What's the matter? Don't you like cards? Then sadly we don't have cards. My wife's coming in pretty soon, that's all. Yeah, we'll play till she gets home. Yeah, I guess so. We, uh, we better play in here. Then I'll be around when she gets back. Well, that's okay with me. Hey, you've got a nicer apartment than I have. Oh, those big windows. Hey, as good as it looks, we, uh, we get a lot of traffic noise. You all play for dope? Dope? How much dope? Not enough so you get hurt. I'm practically broke. Oh, that's too bad. Well, I, uh, I got a few things coming up. I'll be all right. Here, shuffle them. Yeah. I, uh, I see your wife going and coming. She's a nice-looking girl. Probably she knows it. There's a lot of guys around here. Yeah, I guess that's a problem. Here, cut up. It's man-busy all the time. Well, and who's your friend? Never mind my friend. What about yours? Every time you go out lately, you come back with that guy. Now, don't get nasty now. Pete, I just met Donna on the way in. You just don't pay any attention to warnings, do you, little girl? What do you want from me? A written invitation? Keep it up, Pete. Keep it up. You're going to give me that dog I once too often. Shut up, both of you. You still haven't told us who your friend is, Pete. He's a guy that lives by himself next door, and if he's smarter, keep on living by himself. My, but we're in a bad mood. Well, I'm not feeling so gay myself, and I'm asking your friend to leave. Now, wait a minute, Donna. You heard me. And I guess we know who pays the rent for this place. Yeah, it's all right, Pete. I'll go. I don't want to make a trouble for anybody. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow. You stupid faggot. What's the idea of taking up with a stranger like that? What's wrong with him? He lives right next door to us. Donna's right, Pete. It's dangerous. You keep out of this, Lugo. Why should I keep out of it? Just as much my neck if anything goes wrong. If you want to know something, we aren't waiting around for anything to go wrong. We're cracking that Grand Street market this afternoon. What? And if you're nervous, you don't need to come along. You're chicken out now. I don't expect me to come back to you. Who's going to chicken out? I'm in this just as much as you are. All right. Let's go. Don't worry. We need a car, don't we? I got the car. Same one. It's out back. Come on. You're the blonde without too much trouble? Oh, I could be wrong, Lowe. Isn't that a new tie you're wearing? Better watch it, Harrington. These blondes can turn out to be real femme fatales. I'm doing all right so far. She's a pippa, looks no kid. She don't like me, though. Order me out of there, apartment. You mean your car, didn't help? Yeah, not a bit. She's got a real cold eye, that's it. Any signs of welfare on her? Nothing I could see. Her husband didn't even have enough dough to play gin and rum. As long as though they're running your apartment, I turn out to be a waste of the taxpayer's money. We could pick them up on suspicion. And the smart attorney would have them out within 24 hours. There's still no evidence against them but the car, and that's pretty flimsy. Besides, we could blow the case if we move too fast. They'd come out and transfer their operation to some other spot. We've just got to keep watching and waiting. Well, it ain't a bad apartment. She'll rattle around with it. And stay with it a little longer. Something might turn up. Okay, Chief. This is it. Turn. Halfway down the block, we'll go around and back. I still think we'd be better off doing it the way we did before. Each time's different. That way we don't take chances. In this alley, Chief. This is the attorney's office. All right, now, Harrington. Wait a second. You just came in. Hold on. For you, Mr. Garrett. Harrington. I'll take it right here. Hello, Harrington. We've got a bad break, Chief. What's that? They flew the coupon. I was out front talking to you. Must have gone out the back way and they were all three together. That could mean something, all right. I'll send out an alert. Stay there, Harrington. We'll keep in touch. Ms. Miller? Yes, sir? Get me Lieutenant Padway right away. I'll take it in my office. Okay. Chief. That's the arrangement. I'm going with you. Let Chief stay here with the car. Hey, maybe that's a good idea. A man and a woman. Not so suspicious looking. Give me your gun, Chief. You've got a promise not to use it. Give me the gun, man. Just be ready to move when we get out of here. Come on, Lugo. That gun not a sight. Sure, sure. Don't be so jumpy. You're not bad as Chief. Boy, you beat me. I've never seen a thing like you. It's about the manager's office? Right where you said. How about the manager? He's in it. Good. Not many people around either. Here we go. Close the door, Lugo. I do something for you? Yes, you can, mister. You can open that safe and don't try anything funny. Bradley, quick. The hold up. He's got an intercom. Oh, Grand Street. All right. I'll tell him at once. There's been another hold up, Mr. Garrett. They let the Barlow supermarket on Grand Street, and they shot the manager. What's that? I'll look for it and get it right away. This time we might be able to grab that bunch. Shut up and get the door open. What are you doing here? Just came over to visit. I'm the door unlocked, so I'll walk you. Well, you can walk right out again. Sure, sure. Wait a second. What's that you got in your hand? The wind was blowing through the open windows. Got it some papers around. I picked them up for you. I can read that. Take a look. There's a money wrapper from the market. You got more of these? Let him alone, Lugo. You don't mean no harm. Look. Look. More of them in his pocket. And look at this. A 38 police special. He's a cop. Get over there, you. Shut the door, please. Yeah. Lousy cop sneaking in here. No sneaking to it, Mrs. Portney. Everything legal. I've got a search warrant on me if you'd like to take a look at it. Keep your hands away from your pockets. What are we going to do with them, Donna? We ain't going to keep them for no pet. You're not going to kill them either, Donna. No more killing. Lugo, you got it done. He tries anything. You know what to do. You can't get away with killing cops, Donna, not cops. Just slug them, Donna, and let's get out of here. He's the only one who can identify us. Get my handbag out of the closet, Lugo. I think I'm ready to blow. You can't beat this thing. You'll be picked up. I'll have to find it first. Got the bag, Lugo? The one with the dough, I got it. You're not going to kill them, Donna. You kill them up, guys. Try to stop me. He's getting it wrecked. All right. Drop those guns. It's all for you, Sister Portney. I am half. I'm fine, Chief. Them slugs all went into my apartment next door. But you got here just right. This trigger-happy young lady was just about to give me the work. Crazy name. She's killed crazy. Maybe you'd like to tell us about it, Mr. He can't tell you nothing. My husband, and he can't testify against me. No, but Lugo can. And if he don't, I'll lay it all on him. Not on me, you won't. I'm not sitting still for any murder app. Here's a break, Chief. You're on this with me. All of you. Right up to your half-bright haircut. Yeah, I'm in it. But I didn't do them killings, and neither did Lugo. You pulled the trigger both times. You crazy stubborn dame. All right. Let's go. All of you. We'll hear the rest of it downtown. This is David Bryan. I hope you enjoy this case from the files of Mr. District Attorney. I'll be back in just a moment after this message from our sponsor. District Attorney, David Bryan. With a word about the program, you have just heard. Perhaps you remember the outcome of this case. 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