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The little tarred road that goes across through Santa Moritches and comes out on the other highway Remember when we took last summer? I'll turn off there and duck this pile up I'd like to get as far as possible before that storm hits Why don't you put out your hand? Don't get angry David He cut right in front of me to turn into that gas station Maybe he needed gas Do we have enough? No no I have to stop and get some Turn on the radio huh? See if you can get the news Two warnings to all residents of Long Island to be on the lookout for Nellie Goller A middle aged woman described as dangerous and insane She escaped this morning from Restview Metal Hospital After fatally butchering a doctor, a nurse and a ward attendant with a meat cleaver This is the same Nellie Goller who a year ago Murdered three persons on a Brooklyn street Also using a meat cleaver as a weapon at that time This station will broadcast a full description on our regular newscast Which follows in just a few moments Haha my mother-in-law I'm kidding At least we aren't the only crazy people on Long Island Why'd you change it? I don't want to hear anymore Why don't they just put it to sleep instead of locking her up Where she can escape and kill more people Who? A woman they were talking about on the radio Oh she can't help it she does she's sick What good does that do the people who get chopped up with a meat cleaver? I don't know The laws were made before the doctors knew very much about the human mind Oh I see what it is There's a road block up ahead What's happened? I don't know it cops all over the road I bet they're looking for that crazy woman Yeah I guess so Hold it a minute please What's up officer? Oh just a check up Anything in the back seat? Just a blanket and some fishing tackle We've been surf fishing Yes ma'am Seen any hitchhikers? No no just traffic Okay move right along please Are you looking for the crazy woman? Move it along let's go He's busy What are you doing? All residents and motorists on Long Island Are warned to be on the alert For the escaped insane woman Who is somewhere on the island She is described as tall, broad shoulder Gray-haired and rather heavy She may still be armed with a meat cleaver 100 men are searching the area And they are prepared to shoot on sight Here's another bulletin on the case Which just came in Just a few minutes ago That decapitated bodies of an elderly man And woman were found by police Near Santa Moritz on Long Island I'll repeat that The monies of an elderly couple Have just been following Their car near Santa Moritz On a lonely tarred road Police are certain they were killed By Nellie Goller The insane woman now at large Residents of the area Are warned not to open their doors To screenchairs Motorists are cautioned to Stay off lonely roads And not to pick up any hitchhikers All persons are asked to be On the lookout for this woman Here is her description again They haven't caught her yet No no Turn it off Dorothy Thought you wanted to hear That's enough of it This shortcut will save us a lot of time You turned off the highway Sure sure I told you when I did it We've come over a mile already Saved us a lot of time But didn't you hear what the radio said About staying off lonely roads We just have to go across To the other highway It would take long Are you sure Of course We go past Santa Moritz And take the left road And come out right by the highway bridge Santa Moritz That's where she just killed Those two people Oh Dorothy Stop acting like a child What can happen to us While we're driving Besides the whole island Is full of men looking for this lunatic They'll catch her You're jumping Yes I'm silly David What? Gas gauge says empty There's still a couple of gallons Left when it points to empty How long has it said empty? I don't know I don't know I'll get gas when we get across To the other highway I'm scared Relax honey Rain and wind always Made you nervous as a cat I wish we'd stayed on the highway If I don't yet act like this I would Well it's not my fault Well it's not mine either I'm having trouble enough Trying to see through this storm Oh David What are we fighting about? I don't know Driving through these burned out woods In this kind of weather Is enough to give anyone the willies Got dark so fast I can hardly see ahead Even in the headlights There's something ahead Don't stop David It's only a sign Crazy woman Could be around here you know I'm not picking up anyone I just want to know where I am Don't get out of the car I'm not Now calm down Santa Moritch is that way We'll take this road Santa Moritch is This must be the road Where she killed those people Dorothy please I'm sorry I'm jumpy Turn on the radio What a desolate road Haven't passed the house yet Just miles of woods on both sides of us So dark we wouldn't have seen one If it were there This rain seems to be getting worse Owners in the area are warned Not to open their car doors David Oh now stop it Dorothy That's why the police Had a road blocked by this road That crazy woman might be Anywhere in these woods But not necessarily where we are What's the matter? What a place to run on a gas You're stuck here Well for the time being The crazy woman is in the woods She'll kill us She's nowhere near us Now calm down And David quick Turn off your headlights Why? You see something? David I don't know I don't know I'm scared They should have gotten gas Don't put the headlights on please Why? She'll see us if you do Oh for Pete's sake I'm putting them off Please David turn them off Dorothy I don't want this Silly thing to get the better of you Just look at the headlights Poking into darkness At nothing but wet bushes And trees Rain falling Please David Oh all right There They're off You feel better sitting in the dark? If only the thunder and lightning Would stop And rain Look Dorothy There's no sense sitting here all night It's only a few minutes past 10 o'clock I'm going to walk up the road a bit There might be a house or something there You're not going to leave me here I won't let you go Dorothy we can't sit here In the middle of nowhere For the rest of the night We're safer here Than out there David she's probably hiding in these woods Just waiting for a chance to kill us Oh come on Dorothy Why should she be right here Where we've run out of gas Oh why can't she be here Now please stay in the car Well it's silly but All right Quick lock the doors from the inside Why what is it Well now she can't get in here She's nowhere near us Oh don't be mad at me David I'm so scared If she is out there She can easily smash the window Don't scare me anymore I know I'm acting silly But I can't help it All right come here Let me put my armor on you There Oh Put your hand on my shoulder You forgive me David You go ahead and cry It'll make you feel better Isn't there some popular music I'll see From a Long Island mental hospital Rain and darkness are hampering the search Over 100 police are combing The wooded area near center mortgages It was near there that an elderly couple Was found butchered on a lonely tarred road In making her escape this morning The mad woman killed a doctor A nurse and We'll leave it off for a while It's quiet and lonely here I wish it were morning Look Dorothy I'll I'll run up the road There might be a house No David please David listen Do you hear that What What I don't hear anything There it is I don't hear It's a dog It's a little dog Bartlett David I guess it's only a lost dog Where Maybe there's a house nearby Oh the crazy woman Something hit the back of the car It's hers you'll kill us The door locked on your side Yes yes what if she breaks the window She's got a cleaver In that flash of lightning I saw somebody Is it the crazy woman I can't tell She's lying on the road Can you see her Is she still there It's too dark to see I'll have to wait for the lightning I saw her She's getting up down She'll kill us she'll kill us Calm down Please I don't know I don't know she must have been running She didn't see the car And ran right into it She's at the window David right next to you Oh my lord look at her Get away from that window Let me in She's trying to get in the car Look at that face in her hair Go away Let me in David don't let her in Maybe we can scare her Go away We've got a gun We'll shoot It worked She's staring at us I'm warning you I'll shoot David she's coming back David take your pipe Hold it like a gun It'll look like a gun Where is it Dorothy In the glove compartment Here it is Look I've got a gun I'm gonna shoot She's backing away Keep going before I start shooting Oh David she's gone She disappeared We can't get out now All we can do is sit here all night And wait for help Can't you see her? Where did she go? I don't know She's out there though I'll be planning on how to get in the car David what are we going to do She's the one I know But she didn't have a cleaver She must have dropped it home She ran into the car Her face all twisted And they're hanging down She must be back there Looking for the cleaver now She'll kill us She'll kill us Dorothy stop it David! Autolight is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy With Joan Banks and Jeanette Nolan in On a Country Road Tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills Suspense Say Harlow about this new Autolight special resistor Long reach spark plug For today's high horsepower Overhead valve engines Yes Hap Does it look like a regular spark plug? Well almost Hap Except that it's longer Where it fits into the cylinder head What's different inside Harlow? 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I don't know It seems like miles I've heard about the crazy woman On the radio I was afraid to stay in the car Alone Let me in No, David Go back to your own car No, it's so dark And so lonely And thus couldn't stand it anymore I got out and ran In the rain And not the crazy woman Let me in Please Let me in Dorothy Maybe she isn't the crazy woman Maybe she's just scared And exhausted No, David She's the one I know The crazy woman Had a cleaver Look I'm not armed The three of us will be safer together She makes sense to me, Dorothy We would be safer With one more person Oh, David, I don't know That's the inquest to the skin I'm going to unlock the door, Dorothy David All right, get in Make one move And I'll shoot you Oh Oh It's so good to sit down There's a blanket on the floor back there Try to dry yourself off with it The darkness and the rain There was enough to drive me out of my mind Try and rest I ran and ran All I could hear was feet Chased in after me, hunting me Just take it easy No You live near here? A father out near Rest View I used to live in Brooklyn Rest View That's the mental hospital I know I'm used to the crazy people But not a night in a lonely place like this Not the kind who'll kill people You live at Rest View? No, just near there David We can't sit here not knowing If we could get to a phone A phone? Why? To call the police, get some help No, don't do that Why not? Why don't you want the police? Oh, I do But you'll be killed What do you mean? A woman should kill him If he goes away from this car There's that dog again Don't you hear it? Somebody's out there There might be a house nearby Maybe it's barking to be let in It senses somebody There's something out there There's somebody That's why it's barking The crazy woman is creeping around out there Quick, let's get away before we're caught Look out, David Don't do with me What are you trying to do? Start the car, quick We'll get away We're out of gas Out of gas You don't think we parked here For the fun of it, do you? It doesn't look place to run out of gas What does it mean? David We're so helpless She can kill us easily Can't just sit here We've got to get away I'm not a magician, lady I can't make gasoline out of rain We can't stay here the whole night You hear me? Let go of me There's nothing I can do Try something Anything, don't just sit there He's scaring me, David Stop her Cut it out You'll have us all in hysterics All right All right, I'm sorry Look, I've got an idea Give me a gun Why? Why? I'll tell you I want it What's the matter with her? Listen to me I'm all right But I can't sit here all night I'd go crazy Give me the gun I'll go I won't be afraid of the dark And the noise is the feet following me I'll go, I promise you But give me the gun No, now sit down Please I'll go I promise I can't stand sitting in the dark Can't you stop her, David? I told you to shut up If you don't, I'll... I'll make you get out of the car Oh, you wouldn't Not unarmed Not into the woods again Oh, you're a nice people, aren't you? Or do you want me to leave So you can shoot me? Is that it? No, stop that We're not going to shoot you We haven't got a gun It's only a pipe A pipe? A smoking pipe? David, I'm sorry Then... Then you're unarmed I'm sorry, David It's all right Why did you tell me you had a gun? Why does it make a difference To you whether I'm armed or not? I don't know you Maybe you two Are more dangerous You're a crazy woman Well, I'll tell you what I think I think you are the crazy woman The way you grabbed David When you wanted him to start the car No, no, stop it Don't excite her Don't excite me Why? Maybe you think I'm dangerous An old woman you took into your car Two of you and you're afraid of me We're not afraid of you Now sit back in that seat And don't try anything I'm watching you all the time The storm is stopping Maybe now is the time The time for what? What are you going to do? You two are up to something Shut up My wife met now is the time to go for help I did not I meant now is the time for us to escape David, can't you see it? She's the one She's going to kill you Oh, little Stop it Sit back in that seat You You haven't got a gun No, but I've got a knife David It's my jack knife But it's sharp and strong I don't try any tricks All right Threaten me Watch me While that woman is out there All you can do is sit And wait for her to make the next move She can kill us Like that old man and woman It must have been on this same road They were in their car too They must have let her in We'll leave then The three of us will walk We'll stay close together They will be quiet Anyone hiding in the woods won't hear us Don't you get out of the car, David We'll be killed How would we find our way? It's too dark Oh, we'll find our way Look out there The road is full of shadows Get her out of the car, David She wants to kill us Kill you If you want to go, why don't you leave? You don't need us We're willing to stay here until help comes I'd be helpless alone If I had a gun Oh, I don't know Somebody come Where are the police? I can't stand this Nobody will come There's no one in these woods They're burned out and deserted Dorothy, honey, honey, please Oh, it was your idea To use this road You wouldn't listen to me Stop forgetting I couldn't help it I got lost Do something Not just sit there Waiting and waiting Do something before we I'm going to do something I'll go for help That's it Get help In her hand, I saw it in the moonlight It glittered What is it? Your wife is hysterical She was holding it A long piece of broken glass Long and pointed See, she doesn't act like She's just watching us What's she waiting for? It's from the broken window That's why she got it So what if I have it? I'm not going to sit here defenseless She's going to attack us Don't be silly It was all right for you To have a knife Why can't I be armed For whatever may come Give me that broken glass Give it to you You think I'm crazy? You couldn't protect us from anything David, what are you doing? Why are you climbing over the seat? I warned you I'm through letting my wife be terrified Now give me that glass Get away from me Once I left the car You were going to butcher my wife For that broken glass No, no Give me that glass She's got my arm You scared me Drop that You both gone crazy Like you were going to murder us I can't hold her She's strong Have you? Much longer I'm not crazy Please believe me Just give me the knife That's all She's got my throat She's choking me Your knife I couldn't help it She was choking me She was going to kill us Lights The car is coming Help's coming You're in the car Why are you parked here? Oh, it's the police It's lying We ran out of gas The crazy woman What a night to run out of gas You couldn't have picked a better spot What were that woman running around loose? Obviously Obviously, we want to tell you The farmer up the road called I said his dog's been barking at something We caught her Who'd you catch? The crazy woman She's in the back seat Dead Huh? Oh, she's alive Badly hurt though She was trying to kill us We fought I will get her to a hospital You come with me As lucky you didn't kill her We captured that crazy woman A half hour ago I don't know who this lady is Now come on Give me a hand with her Suspense Presented by AutoLite Tonight's star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy This is Harlow Wilcox Speaking for AutoLite The world's largest independent manufacturer Of automotive electrical equipment In 28 plants from coast to coast AutoLite makes over 400 products For cars, trucks, tractors, planes Boats and industry These products include batteries Such as the famous AutoLite Stayful Ignition engineered AutoLite spark plugs Both standard and resistor types Voltage regulators Wire and battery cable AutoLite bullseye sealed beam units And AutoLite original service parts For all AutoLite electrical systems AutoLite is proud to serve The greatest names in the industry So from bumper to tail light You're always right with AutoLite Next week A story based on fact As we examine a city in terror of its life A dramatic report which we call One Man Crime Wave Our star, Mr. Dana Andrews That's next week on Suspense Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis With music composed by Lucian Morrowick And conducted by Lut Bluskin On a country road Written for suspense by Walter Bazaar In tonight's story, Joan Banks Was heard as Dorothy and Jeanette Nolan As the woman featured in the cast For Joseph Kearns and William Woodson Frank Lovejoy will be seen starring In the forthcoming United Artists Technicolor picture of Beachhead You can buy AutoLite standard Or resistor type spark plugs AutoLite original service parts And AutoLite Stayful batteries At your neighborhood AutoLite dealers Switch to AutoLite This is the CBS Radio Network