 Now the Roma wine company of Fresno, California presents Suspense tonight Roma wines bring you mr. Peter lorry a star of nobody loves me a Suspense play produced edited and directed for Roma wines by William Spear Suspense Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. That's R.O.M.A. Roma wines those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live To your happiness and entertaining guests to your enjoyment of everyday meals Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Peter lorry in a remarkable tale of suspense Hello Are you guys in charge of this prison? Who's in charge here just a minute. How did you get in? I walked in who's the top man here? There's the squad room son. If you have a complaint give it to the death sergeant. No, I don't want to bother him Sleeping jank and sleeping. Why don't I tell you better sit down? Take a cello. He's got a gun. Yeah, I got a gun Sit down. Hey son you you you must be crazy. Maybe but I think I know what I'm doing You can't hold up a police station, mister. No, there's no dough here. No no no look son. Look keep your hands up I didn't move. Hey you Shift that chair over for me. Yeah. Yeah, okay, mister Yeah, I have a lot to talk about and I I want to be comfortable Come to tell you cups a story Look, mister This isn't funny. Just tell you a story and and give you a present. How's that? What do you mean a present? Why I'm a regular Santa Claus Going to give you $10,000 now now look there is $10,000 reward for the kidnap of Peggy Stewart. Am I right? You worry she was the girl You forget this gun. You also forget I said I was going to tell you a story first Sit down captain. You you mean you're confessing. Yeah Story of my life You get plenty of thrills, you know, I look son look plenty of thrills Because my name is Reese Joe Reese then you you killed are you you killed you have heard about me? Yes killer Reese killer Reese captain Then you admit I got a story. Ha ha. I'm going to tell it in my own way first things first last things last and Peggy Stewart comes last look just tell us up. Did you kill her Joe? I started at the beginning The beginning when I when I was born and and don't interrupt. Okay Okay, we won't interrupt cause you see I I think a lot about when I was born Maybe somebody loved me then Maybe when I when I sucked in my first breath of air and let out a yell Maybe my mother loved me Maybe she wished I was dead. She didn't live long enough for me to find out But after she died Was like I was just shoved clean out of the world shoved off to an aunt in an uncle who had the meanest Grimiest Stinking as little souls even you fellows could hope to meet Yeah And Ella and Uncle Walter. Oh, they were a pain Why do you look to like? Faces like rotting cabbages and their mean little mouths Yapping away in the middle of them Those two would have eaten the heart out of a saint But I was so little when I went there. I I didn't even know what I was missing Until one day and I was about nine I I found a kitten Dirty sick little kitten Joe Joe Reeves what you got there? Just a little cat. How do you speak to me? I Mean ma'am We found it down the alley mother back of the fish store. Well, you get it out of here Joe You get it out quick. I told you Joe, please ma'am. You hear me. It won't eat much Please oh hear me. You'll get it out of here Dirty thing if I see it again Uncle wall will beat the stuff on out of you. Yes ma'am Want to kill it? Would too, but it'd turn my stomach now get both of you. Yes, mother What you're gonna do with it Joe? I don't know Nothing we can have some fun. I bet tie something to its tail. No, I Don't want to might as well. We could have some fun No, I said say Feel yeah, what about it? It's buzzing inside Like machinery. Oh, that's purring purring sure has to do that when they're glad it's glad About what better thing. She's gonna feed it. Oh, yes What do cats eat cousin Alex you ain't gonna keep it sure I'm gonna keep it I'm gonna keep it somewhere. She don't know you're crazy. I'm not I'm gonna keep it It likes me. That's why I like you a cat Then why is it buzzing purring? Sure, it likes me. I doesn't it's hungry. I'll stop it purring Look what you do on Alex and watch when I twist its tail. No, don't hey Hey, now look what you done see now it ain't purring Joe Don't you don't it clawed me? It clawed me and now it's scared. It's clawed me You ever feel a kitten what it's really like skinny little kitten Why it's nothing but fur Solved and in a head and it's backbones. It's like a thin string of beads Curl just so When it's scared, it's I stare Oh one collar and it's neck is thin thinner than a match Like a string of beads Just nothing between your fingers Just nothing Oh Suspense Roma wines are bringing you as star mr. Peter Laurie in Nobody Loves Me by Herbert Clyde Lewis and Sylvia Richards Roma wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Between the acts of suspense. 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Yes, but Joe Where did you leave the girl Peggy? Didn't I tell you not to interrupt? I am telling you what I have to tell cats first and girls last I Sat in a backyard holding the dead kitten and it was soft for a long time Next day it was stiff and hard and it's fair Funnier a kid nine years old even knew about killing, but I knew cause When I was more than four I I saw uncle Walter kill a chicken. I saw his mean Stringy shoulders jump when he brought the axe down You know, that's how I knew because Because watching uncle Walter I I could tell he he liked to kill liked it way down inside of him and I hated him So whenever I killed anything or anybody after that I I was killing uncle Walter and Everybody like him. I hated him. I Hated him till he died Joe come here Your poor uncle Walt is passing on and I want you to see him before he goes Joe yes, ma'am. Don't say a word unless he speaks to you. I want Listen to the blessed man fighting for his life. Just listen to him Yes, I listen Oh Did I listen and I only wished he knew he was dying. I wanted to tell him I wanted to see You are dying uncle Walter and I'm wishing you dead That's why I'm strangling the wind out of your turkey neck. I'm burying a knife in your filthy heart I am doing it me Joe Look at him. I I think he's going to speak No, he's not. Oh, he's dead. He's gone Yeah, he's gone. Oh and blessed saintly man Joe, you'll never know how much he did for you. You'll never be able to thank him He's in heaven now. Yeah, I bet Don't you understand Joe your poor uncle Walt is dead sure I understand then can't you say something sure Uncle Walter is dead 15 years too late for me One day after that I Mashed a toad under a rock And there was a white dog I caught in a fence Corner and through stones city dozens of stones Each day I killed one thing and some things died quick and some died slow But I I always felt the same. I Felt good. I found there was room in the world for a bright young fellow like me There was work to spare for a man who didn't mind killing and a box of job I could get Sometimes more Hey pick up that pencil fatty. Yeah, you sergeant. I'll give you a list Well, yeah, it was the Bresco brothers all three of them Oh a guy named lions who was two-timing somebody's wife Oh in that chorus, babe, Daisy me Yeah, yeah, yeah, she got her fingers in a wrong pie Is it turnbull the weasel an old codger named Haskett Yeah, yeah, that's enough of them Joe now, please where'd you leave the girl? I'll get her around to her Oh, where'd you kill her Joe? I am telling this. It's my story. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure, Joe Cuz it all happened different with Peggy Stewart See I wasn't supposed to kill her the boy sent me around to case the Stuart house for a kidnapping Was all I was supposed to do find out who was in the house and when the girl was alone. It was a big job Why with her father owning half the state and holding a mortgage on the rest we we expected it to pay off plenty Yes, sir, I'm looking for work. There's nothing here Oh, I thought maybe raking the yard or I can drive. No, there's an anything. Oh, is there anyone else here? I could ask It's a young fellow miss Peggy looking for work What kind of work well anything man anything at all you see I'm going to college and I Just want some work for the summer and I have a bad back. So I I can't do anything heavy. Oh, I see Well, maybe we have something I'll ask my father. Let's pick father's in home right now But if you want to wait, oh sure sure I wait you can come inside mr. Sanders Joe Sanders. Well come in Joe Of course was about to give me my lunch. Maybe you like to eat with me So for more than an hour I was on the inside looking out Just for once it did things to me that room all Sunshiney where we eat blue dishes the food cooked in little dabs and so good I was just boiling with hate. I couldn't look at her at the girl would talk She didn't seem to notice what was happening to me. That's what really got me She didn't once look scared Hey, you you ever see miss Peggy? She's little all curved and little and bright and soft Even her voice is soft I'd never known anybody like her except people in books. I read in a in a modern library, you know, I Couldn't take it. I I want to make her let the other girls. I'd known Make her get that look in her eyes You're not eating Joe, huh? Oh I've been thinking oh Aren't you scared scared being alone like this with a The fellow you don't even know scared of you lots of girls are why are you dangerous? I don't know Lots of girls think I am It must be something in it You you mean you're a wolf. No, no, I I don't mean it that way Well, if you are I think you're a nice wolf the nicest I know it's not what I mean Anyway, you you just don't know me. It's funny. I feel like I do I Feel I've known you for a long time What's the matter Joe? Nothing nothing is the matter Guess I better be going. Why aren't you going to wait for father? He'll be here pretty soon. No, I I guess I better not wait But but you said you you see I I just remember I I got to be someplace at two o'clock. Oh Well, if you come back tomorrow, I that's it. Yes, I'll come back tomorrow Maybe that'll be even better. I can talk to father tonight about you then. I'm sure he'll give you a job Sure, you you do that. That'll be swell, but you will come back promise. Oh sure sure I'll come back Figure it out how a girl like her could be with me and not be scared And after I practically warn her to you you can see how I tried to warn her But but she she she just looked at me at my eyes my eyes And hers stay just the same blue and soft Like she was looking at anyone Hey there there is killing in my eyes Lots of killing or anyone can see that then And it hit me I Had to make her scared. I had to get her to look at me and I'd be all beautiful Naked way from back deep in her head her blue eyes all glazed all over One color Well, I I got my car out and drove back to her house Night already and give her lights on and windows were open and this time. I went right to the front door Joe Miss Peggy. What did did you come to see father tonight? I haven't talked to him yet No, I I came to see you. Well, that's nice Joe. I I came to get you Get me sure. Don't you remember? I came back like you said Going to take your way like I said. Yes, see Now you're getting that look Now you're beginning to look at me the right way Don't you Hearding me. No, no, I'm not hurting you Peggy not much yet Just enough so you look up at me like something in a trap You won't hurt much more when I kill you when you Joe Joe, please. That's what I said when I kill you. Oh, no I dumped her in a front seat And after I got the car in hire she didn't move anymore. She said there with her big eyes Staring at the road. I didn't talk anymore. I I thought fast and I drove fast I I thought how it was going to be Killing her and I was still thinking when we got to the hideout Where it is or It's up in the mountains and I like it there. It's nothing but a shed but someone had a house there once and But they are still lilac bushes Roses lots of roses When I lifted her out of the car to carry her into the shed I could smell the lilacs And it was just enough moon to see your face You don't have to carry me. I Can walk just the same I I carry you That's that's part of the fun for me You don't want to spoil my fun Where are we? What difference does it make? No difference And don't ask so many questions you you won't see much of it anyway, okay? Inside Walk straight ahead and stand still. It's it's dark. I got a candle there Now get over there and sit down on the floor. Yes on a floor What do you want all the comforts of home of your beautiful clean bright wonderful home Well, why don't you tell me what you want Joe? What's the matter? What did I do to you? Nothing you did nothing to me Then why are you? Why Joe go on say it? Why am I going to kill you? Yes, it's a very foolish question. I got to kill you But why I got to talk to you Watch your eyes and tell you a lot of things And I got to hold you please Joe got to know how are you feeling before you die? Hold you like this Do you love me Peggy? Do you love you sure? That's what I asked of course not Of course, I don't love you. You see Nobody loves me Nobody ever loved me Maybe a cat once Everyone hates me Peggy, but I don't hate you either say That's funny. I I just thought of something. You know one Joe. How can you know this is important lesson? It's this way. I used to live here in a shack week sometimes and I'd read books Oh good books modern library. Do you know about him? Yes? I know while you you can get any book And it's only a block. It's less than a buck the best see yes, so I read something by a man We has called Oscar wide and he says Each man kills the thing he loves It's in a modern library each man Kills the thing he loves Maybe that's what I am doing. No Joe You don't love me. You don't get it Like I said, nobody loves me, but I get love anyway I get something like love because when I start to kill you Peggy there There won't be anyone else in the world for you, but to me No one else will matter and then And your eyes they'll get shiny. Oh So shiny And they'll blaze and and the blue will spread out That's why I'm going to kill you Peggy. Oh, it'll be it'll be so easy There won't be anything in them, but to me all I've got to do is Take you and Nick in my hands Hey Peggy, I'm going to kill you you heard me say that I'm going to kill you now Why don't your eyes? Poor Joe What did you say? You've been hurt You've been terribly hurt Poor Joe I'm sorry. Oh, well, that's it, but Where did you leave the body Joe? What are you talking about? After you killed her who said I killed her while you said that you listen you bonehead That's what it's all about. That's why I came in here to give myself up see See nobody ever loved me except except that cat and When he got scared it clawed me and I had to kill it Miss Piggy she she wasn't scared. I Don't get it. Miss Piggy looked at me and and into me and threw me and she knew what I was rotten But she said poor Joe To me Joe reason I Figured that it was as close as I'd ever get to love why I figured it was enough Go ahead answer it sergeant. I guess that's her father saying she's home Then you can lock me up cap I need sleep. 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Won't you? This is Peter Laurie. I want to remind you to be sure not to miss next Thursday's suspense show Will be a repeat performance by popular demand Sorry wrong number. That's the famous radio player about the woman on the telephone in which Miss Agnes Moorhead Give such an overwhelming performance Peter Laurie appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers and will soon be seen in their production three strangers a word from our government Despite the lifting of some restrictions travel is still tight in many parts of the country and over many railroads used with the armed forces Play safe by staying off crowded trains during the coming Labor Day holiday next Thursday You will hear Agnes Moorhead as star of suspense radio's outstanding theater of thrill Presented by Roma Wines R.O.M.A made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system