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You're always right with auto light and now Auto light presents transcribed pigeon in the cage starring. Mr. Dick Hames hoping once again to keep you in suspense I'm Gerald Brewer, and I'm 31 years old. I'm a paper hanger, and I've got a wife I got a kid on the way, and I'd like to be home now. I wish I were out of here Right under the button here it says for emergency ring so nothing happens I've been ringing this bell for the last hour or nothing happens Nobody's home. I know that But I don't know what else to do except ring this bell I'm stuck in an elevator between the first and second floor The overhead light went out a few minutes ago. I can hardly see This elevator isn't very big. It'd hold three or four people There's a lever here for floor stops But something's going wrong the elevator won't move There are two buttons here one that rings the bell the other for emergency stops Overhead maybe about eight feet from the floor is a little door Maybe about six inches square. I don't know what that's for It's a pretty old elevator in a pretty old house. I can't squeeze out of it. That's for sure Three walls of this thing's a cherry wood in front of it is a folding iron gate. I Got on it on the fourth floor where I was papering That was five o'clock. I was quit and work And the elevator got stuck and nobody's home been yelling my lungs out ringing on the bell calling for Mrs. Rogers who owns this house pounding on the wall, but nobody's home Nobody's home, and I'm stuck The elevator stuck right on the first floor above the living room So lying down like this I can I can see into it through a gap no bigger than a quarter inch We're a little about my wife because she'll worry But there's nothing I can do but wait and relax And wait that's what woke me Someone was home and talking and I was gonna yell out and let them know I was stuck in the elevator right above their heads You're satisfied now. Aren't you? That's the only way to do it. All right. All right You're nervous you agree to it once killer. I'll kill her when she gets home You all right. You're all right Janice when your wife's dead. I'll be all right Hey, I'll put on some records relax you help the waiting. What about the gun? Don't worry Do me a favor. Will you Harry? Let me worry. Let me know The guns upstairs second floor my bedroom Listen to you don't don't even have to be here when it happens When's your wife coming home soon? Look one drink Baby, I don't know. Come on. Let's go to the kitchen. I don't know who the girl is. I never saw her before But I could make out of her looking through the gap that she's a lot younger than mr. Rogers Oh, that was mr. Rogers. I knew that right away without looking at him I Remembered his voice because we'd had a discussion about wallpaper pattern 1216 B Sunday strollers in the park for the library on the fourth floor Well, if he was gonna kill his wife and I just heard about it What do you think he'd do to me All I had to do was yell out and let him know I'd heard Listen, I got a wife and a kid on the way. I'm a guy who figures on hanging a lot more paper before he dies My family expects it of me Besides, what am I supposed to do yell out? Hey, I'm hanging up here in the elevator and I just heard what you said How do I know mr. Rogers wouldn't kill me? What do I do? Just I'll just stay here and hope I can think of something better Better Janice the drink did it. I'm fine. What should we do? What do you mean waiting? No, I don't mind. I feel fine. We left the party. We were we were dancing. I feel fine Hey What's the matter? Nothing. Let's not laugh. That's all it's not doing anything to make the other one. Why now who's nervous she ought to be coming home soon Like go me now look nothing wrong Harry. Just right now Okay, okay, I'll go upstairs and get the gun. Come on That thing stuck again. What are the elevator the door down the basement keeps swinging it open stops it Darn things stuck. I'm sure it's stuck. Hmm. Look right over your head. Oh, yeah Suppose someone's in that elevator. Oh you kidding Suppose someone's in that elevator. How could anyman? We'll tell you how it got stuck How do I know how it got stuck someone's on that elevator and heard everything we said Look, it's happened a hundred times before suppose the elevator were upstairs And I stood here and rang for it the elevator'd start But if the basement door swung open the elevator to stop you all right, you're satisfied all right Happen to my wife. She walked instead of closing the door in the basement happens all right. All right Guns in the bedroom. I'll walk upstairs Mr.. Rogers went to get the gun. I could hear him go into his bedroom where yesterday. I papered with the hunters on horseback pattern I watched the girl he called Janice She sat on the sofa for a little while and she got up folded her arms and walked around the room She stopped in front of the elevator anybody in there anybody in there She kept looking at the gap where the floor of the elevator was a quarter inch above the top of the door But the light was out in the elevator and it was black And I hugged the far wall and she couldn't see me Mr.. Rogers came back then Still not satisfied are you what do you mean looking at the elevator? Oh, I'm satisfied. I tell you I'm okay Would it make you feel better if I went down the basement shut the door down there and start the elevator and you'd see forget it Make you feel better wouldn't leave me alone with you Janice stop it Harry. Please you want to forget it Janice Do you go back to the party? No? No? No? No? Listen Harry. I told you listen. I'll go down and close the elevator door down the basement Yes, that's what's upsetting. Isn't it you're afraid someone's in there? Yes Well, why didn't you say so? Please go downstairs and close the Harry That's her you wait Yes, she's got open the garage door make it look like a robbery. All right, Harry. She keeps her jewels in the safe Watch out Janice. Don't push me standing in the way Saves behind that picture. Tell me to move and I'll move don't push me anymore. All right. I'm sorry Talks the right I know it's gone answer what? Answer it say your mrs. Rogers get rid of whoever it is in a hurry One say you'll call back Yes, goodbye. Was there a paper hanger here? Place is being papered. That was his wife mrs. Brewer He's not home She expected him home hours ago She knew he was here. Well, what about a brewer? You in there? Okay, Brewer. Don't bother to answer I'll find out whether you're in there And if you are you're dead All right is bringing you mr. 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You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage mr. Dick Hames In Elliott Lewis's production of pigeon in the cage a tail well calculated to keep you in suspense I'm not sure he's in there. He's in that elevator and he knows what we did Harry second will you Hey bro, you heard what I said, didn't you? You're in there. I'll kill you Janice give me a chair. Maybe I stand on I can see him Brewer Brewer you won't be able to hide in there for very long Brewer. I don't know Black in there in this slit. I have to look through turn off that music with you We're getting panicky both of us maybe I'm wrong maybe you're wrong Maybe the paper hanger just stopped at the corner bar and got loaded never got home. We got to find out We've got a We've got to get out of here Janice get back to the party I'll walk down the basement close the elevator door and bring it down. All right. You wait here. All right One pull yourself a drink Janice. You look terrible. Why didn't you just wait to hear what I have to say? All right, what do you want? Take the gun with you in case he's there sometimes Sometimes well when I was gonna say it was my wife's fault for calling For being worried for being such a good wife But she hadn't called mr. Rogers and that girl would have gone away Isn't it a shame the way we always blame somebody else when we're in trouble? One thing I was sure of mr. Rogers had a gun in his hand and the other thing I was sure of he wasn't kidding Positive he wasn't kidding a man who's just killed his wife in the garage isn't a kidding type Here's what he was about to do close the basement elevator gate push the button and bring the elevator down And he was gonna open the door see me and shoot me I'm a man with a family like I said and I got a going business paper hanging a lot of things. I enjoy in life So I don't want to die You know what my life depended on in that instant The button marked emergency stop mr. Rogers closes the gate and tries to bring the elevator down to the basement And me inside the elevator. I keep my finger on the emergency stop button And nothing happens The elevator doesn't move I mean What what do you mean pressing a button or anything? I'm not doing anything Harry Something wrong what oh the motor I don't know Just in case I'm gonna leave this door open. Yeah, I'm coming up. Mr. If you're in there Elevator, and you know what's happened? And if there's some way the three of us can get together so that nobody has to get hurt anymore Listen, all right. We kill his wife. You don't know what she was. You don't know what she was. She's What do you do? Maybe we can reason with him if he's in there Maybe all we have to do is explain why it happened and maybe Tell him tell him we're not so bad. You know what Janice? There's no one in there. There is there is. I know it Harry All right, I'll find out for sure. Come on. We'll go upstairs after the second floor. I got a way to make sure I'll climb down into the elevator from the second floor. There's a little trap door on top I'll open it strike a match. I'll find out come on. I'm going to have to She's in there John season there. He grabbed my arm. I reached it with the light. He's in there Kill him kill him kill him Get away from me. Let me alone. We've got to get away from me. You're all right now Janice Janice It's all right now. It's all right that he's in there What do you mean? We killed my wife. We were gonna take her jewelry. It didn't make it look like robbery and murder It didn't make it look like she surprised a thief. She was coming home when the thief was leaving yet Don't you see I'll bring my wife up here I'll be to the bedroom then I'll throw the jewels in the elevator empty the gun throw it in He'll be the thief the murderer trapped in the elevator. Hey, how do you like that bro? Or you'll be the murderer. How do you like that? Just do it Harry. Yeah, it's gonna be all right. Just do it. We're in there mister. That's a couple of feet below Listen, what do you want? And if you think If you think you can get away with this I tried to reason with you all I wanted you to do is go away. I talked to your wife She was worried. Wasn't she you'd listen to me? You could have been home now How could I listen to you? What you did I tried to explain it to you and you wouldn't listen mr. Rogers was a married man You carried on with him and what you did You know what what he shot his wife But you're as much a murderer I know how can you expect me to listen to you? I don't want anybody else to get hurt Yeah, yeah, I know honest the way you said kill him kill him meaning me What about that? Because you had to act so smart Because you didn't answer when I talked to you. I saw you What do you mean when you were downstairs in the living room? Was lying down on the floor in here and I saw you I Can't understand how anybody who looks like you can do what you did What is your wife look like? Why What do you look like? See you don't even know You don't care what a man looks like you're gonna do what you're gonna do. Yes, I am Mr Mr. All right, all right take the rest of the bullets out of this gun. That's all Yeah, wait a minute. Stop acting like a baby. Why did you have to do that for now? There's no more bullets in the gun bullets in the wall You okay Janice now, what do you have to do just climb down there again on top of the elevator that's all Told you to all be over in a minute. Hey Hey, you Brewer not talking, huh? Well, I don't mind. I'm going to give you something Brewer here Jewelry bracelet and necklace with a lot of money Brewer, and here's a gun too Empty because it's the one you killed my wife with Goodbye Brewer. Oh now look what's happened to me. I Was papering a house and I got caught in an elevator Now they're gonna blame me for a murder mr. Rogers and that girl And here I am stuck in an elevator and there's nothing I can do about it They're on the first floor now, and he's helping her with her coat. She still looks shaky I Can lie down on the floor and look out through that gap and I can see them And hey They're starting to leave hey mr. Rogers You're not gonna get away with it mr. Rogers For you go you'd better think about something. What about the fingerprints? What about the fingerprints on the gun mr. Rogers? Well, I guess you did huh? Guess you forgot to wipe them off Now she'd have walked out of here instead of Hello mr. Rogers I'm lying down on the floor of the elevator, and I'm looking out of the gap, and I can see you Hello miss I'm in here, and you're out there But you're the one who's trapped now Mr.. Brewer. What is it you want mr. Rogers? Mr.. Brewer How are you right isn't it? Your fingerprints are on the gun mr. Brewer guess we better make some arrangement shouldn't we And Janice what go down to the basement shut the elevator door, then mr. Brewer will be able to bring the elevator down Go ahead Janice go on hurry How does it feel? the First thing I want to tell you is that You can keep the jewel. How does it feel to be trapped? Really now we'll we'll talk this over. It's terrible doesn't it when you come out of the elevator. I don't think so I Don't know whether I'm gonna come out or not Not now Well come on up all I have to do is keep my finger on this emergency stop button, and you can't move this elevator an inch now Let's be reason you killed your wife mr. Rogers How do I know what else you got down there you might kill me with? Do you think I'd? Now you know what a silly question that is don't you? Look I got this gun of yours, and it's proof you killed her No amount of arguing you can think of can change that Money do you want money? I don't think money's important right now. Oh, why is he he won't come out No, sir. I'm not coming out. I Got you to where I want you, and I'm not moving Janice tell him how rich I am tell him what I can do for him Come on tell him tell him all the things I can do for You're all right aren't you are you dead hello Norma Jerry dear No, no everything's fine Yeah, just a little while No, really everything's fine I'll tell you about it when I get home. Well, I got stuck in an elevator zone I said I got stuck in an elevator No, really Suspense Presented by auto light tonight star mr. Dick Hames This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for auto light world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment Auto light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry They are members of the auto light family as well as other 98,000 auto light distributors and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great auto light plants from coast to coast and Auto light plants in many foreign countries as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in auto light Every auto light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest standards of quality and Performance so remember from bumper to tail light. You're always right with auto light next week a Terrifying tale about a man who was able to foresee the future and found in it his own violent death It's called vision of death our star mr. Ronald Coleman That's next week on suspense Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis the music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin Pigeon in the cage was written for suspense by Morton fine and David Friedkin in tonight's play Charlotte Lawrence was Janice and Joseph Curran's was Harry and Remember next week mr. Ronald Coleman in Vision of death you can buy auto light electrical parts auto light stay full batteries and auto light resistor or standard type Spark plugs at your neighborhood auto light dealers switch to auto light. Good night This is the CBS radio network