 This is Conrad Nagel inviting you to stay tuned for the next half hour for one of radio's outstanding dramatic productions on Proudly We Hail Proudly We Hail and now another Proudly We Hail one of radio's outstanding dramatic half hours transcribe coast to coast in cooperation with this station and presented by your army and your Air Force From Radio City, New York. Here is your host and star on Proudly We Hail the distinguished star of the theater screen radio and television Conrad Nagel Thank you, thank you. Hard. Hello everyone. Welcome again to Proudly We Hail Conrad I believe you said that this was one of the most frightening stories you've ever read indeed it is Ken It's a tale of terror Well, these are the best words. I can think I have to describe it the title of our play is The Trial and our first act curtain will rise in a few minutes after this very important message Air Force enlistments have been restricted for a long time, but they're open again now Go to your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and enlist in the United States Air Force Today and now with your star Conrad Nagel in the role of Roger Lewis your army and your Air Force present the Proudly We Hail production the Trial This is a story about two emotions anger and fear How one developed the other and how one became the other It concerns mainly Roger Lewis a lawyer and Leo Collier a man. He sent to prison for life Now remember darling drive carefully. Yes, sir. And you remember to take care of yourself Oh, Mary will come in the Queen on Thursday Tom will be around to take care of the lawn and things on Saturday. There's plenty of food in the eyes Stop worrying will you I'd give your mother My best I'll write you a letter. I may even call you up. You're good. That'll be nice I'll miss you miss you too sweet be kind of lonely around this joint without you So I call her until I can't come. Oh, you promised your Paula. I lost 10 days. Don't worry You know, I'm awfully busy anyway. I suppose you spend most of your time in the city. Yeah, good part of it That's where I've got to get now. We've got a beautiful day to drive. So take off sweet And I love you darling. I'll miss you. I'll see you in 10 days kiss Couldn't I go tomorrow you scat Yes, mr. Lewis captain O'Neill is on the phone. He'd like to speak to you. Nice miss Cole. Put him on Hello, Ned, what do you know? Hi, right? How's the defender of truth and justice? Well, I can't complain Sherlock. Yeah, listen, right? Remember a guy named Leo Collier. Well, I should about a year ago wasn't he killed his brother open and shut case He got life. I got a good memory Well, there's no need to get worried, but I thought you ought to know Collier and two other lads escaped from state prison About two hours ago. Well, why should that worry me Ned? I just think you and your boys would do the worrying Oh, we'll catch him soon enough. All right, but Collier swore he'd break out and when he did he'd get you why because I Proved he was guilty of a crime that was obvious. Don't ask me boy Where you staying now staying where I always stay at home It might be a good idea if you and your wife moved into the city until we caught Collier No point in taking any chances. Don't be silly Ned My gosh, you don't think a man who just broke out of prison is going to be interested in tracking down the lawyer Who sent him there look he's going to be spending all these time trying to get away Maybe true, but why take a chance with your wife my wife is perfectly safe Ned She went to visit her mother and I assure you Collier and all the criminals in the world wouldn't stand a chance against that woman Too bad. She didn't come to stay with you. Hey, you really want to frighten me now look Ned Go catch Collier and don't worry about me if I need any help. I'll holler Well, if you do I hope I can hear you calling stop sounding so melodramatic Look if there's anything under the bed, I'll send up a red rocket. How about lunch sometime? Hey, who's that? It's me, Mr. Lewis. Oh, Tom What are you doing here? It's kind of late to be working isn't it? I thought you weren't coming till Saturday It's going to blow tonight, Mr. Lewis Thought I'd better get the lawn chairs in a few things like that I knew the wife was away and didn't know when you'd get back from the city Well, that's money thoughtful of you, Tom It makes you think it's going to blow tonight The sky looks clear Oh, I can tell Mr. Lewis going to blow hard Well, I'll take your word for it, Tom. Thanks I'm glad to be blind. Night, Mr. Lewis Good night, Tom What, what, what? Oh, for the love of Pete You might know It's three o'clock Tom wasn't kidding He closed everything and locked it He didn't stay shut and let a tired man sleep Oh, hey Say, one of the pains has broken Some wind Locked themselves That's right, Lewis They don't Well, you won't turn on the light again Kyle Even in the dark, you know me, don't you, Lewis? You'll forgive my little prank I thought it might upset you So that meeting me would upset you even more I see that I've gained the desired effect Well, I don't know what you have in mind, Kyle If you've got any sense at all, you give yourself up That's a rather ridiculous statement on the face of it Do you know why I'm here? I can guess You want to kill me for doing my duty Duty, pal You're now in the courtroom now You did your duty all right You saw to it that I was doomed to the life of a caged animal You saw to it that I was buried alive In a tomb of gray rock and iron bars What do you know of the days and nights The endless days and nights without hope And without future You should have thought of that before you killed your brother Listen, I killed my brother Because if anyone needed killing, he did But you and no one else cared about that All you were interested in Was to see that your precious laws were upheld What happens to be my job? I don't make the laws, Carlier A cold-blooded killer, you called me You were very eloquent What did you know of Ben? He was twisted and evil and he killed things All his horrible life Well, not the way I did directly with a gun He was too smart Oh, that's right You're her twisted, Carlier You hated him because he was successful and you weren't You hated him because he married the woman you wanted You hated him because he was the man you could never be Shut your face What do you expect to gain by this? Two things I'll have them both Revenge And freedom And you'll get neither We'll see, Mr. Lawyer I'll wager, I'll change your mind On first score soon enough Why don't you kill a judge in the jury as well? I'll settle for you I suppose too much I suppose two murders on your conscience is no worse than one Not a bit But who said I was going to kill you? No, I'm not going to kill you You're going to kill yourself when I'm through with you You see, Lewis, I was lying out there in the bushes When your wife left I know that Mary comes on Thursday and Tom on Saturday And I know we've got ten days and nights ahead of us You've forgotten I have a job You know, my office is going to wonder what's happened to me Oh, no, they're not Because you're calling them in the morning You're going to tell them your wife isn't well And you'll be out of town You're going to tell Mary the same thing It won't be necessary for her to come and clean As for Tom, he can mow the lawn all he likes He won't bother us The police will trace you here This is the last place they'll trace me Things are going to work out very nicely And I guarantee when the ten days are over I've made you suffer what I've suffered in a year You'll be very happy to die, Mr. Lewis Lewis Davis and Platt, Miss Brown speaking Hello Hello, Miss Brown, it's Mr. Lewis Yes, sir, good morning Miss Brown, I won't be in My wife called us and she's not feeling well I'm going up to Sear I probably won't be back for ten days Oh, I'm sorry, sir I hope it's nothing serious No, nothing serious, thanks But I think I better go If anything important comes up, should I call you there? Mr. Lewis No, no, that won't be necessary I think I'll make it a kind of a vacation Yes, sir I hope your wife will be feeling better Thank you, Miss Brown I'm sure she will Goodbye Goodbye Very convincing Not quite up to your best courtroom style But not bad considering You know, your face doesn't look very good After you've picked yourself up, we'll call Mary But Mr. Lewis, the house will need cleaning You can leave a key on the back porch And then when you come home, the house will be nice and clean No, no, no, that won't be necessary We'll call you when we give back, Mary Oh, you'll get in the doghouse for sure, Mr. Lewis Well, I'll have to take that chance Goodbye, Mary Ha! The doghouse That's a good one You know, I'm hungry After I've had some breakfast, we're going to have a workout And I'm going to use you for a punching bag And then we're going to have a talk I'm going to tell you what it's like to be in a real doghouse Come on And stay on your feet Time to wake up Didn't you sleep well? Boy, you're a mess here Sit up I've been listening to the radio You know where I was seen? In Philadelphia It's a good place for me to be The city of brotherly love Ha! Kyle, you won't get away with this Now, what do you think I'm doing? Where's your law and justice now? Still believing them, Lewis? You can beat me to a pulp But you can't change what I believe Oh, no Suppose I was to give you this gun Would you shoot me? Or call a cop? Give it to me You'll find out I'll give it to you all right Right in the kitchen The flesh is weak, but the spirit is strong, eh, Lewis? Listen, you poor fool Your laws won't do you any good here I am the law And every time you break one of my laws I'll punish you And I'll punish you until the laws you know become nothing I'll teach you to become an animal And the only laws you'll know will be fear and hate I'll break you bit by bit, do you hear? Bit by bit Did you think I'd let you get away that easily, you crazy fool? When you've picked yourself up down there Come back up here to bed You need your sleep Those starring in the role of Roger Lewis In the proudly-we-held production The Trial Will return in just a moment for the second act I have a message for the young men of America Enlist in the United States Air Force By doing this right now when the Air Force is expanding You have the opportunity to really get ahead The Air Force needs specialists in radar, radio, weather, aircraft maintenance And numerous other technical fields Yes, the Air Force can train you For one of its many technical jobs Go to the nearest Army and Air Force recruiting station Have a talk with the recruiting sergeant Find out for yourself the advantages you can gain By enlisting in the Air Force now You are listening to Proudly We Hail And now with your star, Conrad Nagel In the role of Roger Lewis, we present the second act Of The Trial Who's that? I don't know Get in that closet Come on, on your feet I can't Can't, eh? Get you in that closet Yes, what is it? Mr. Lewis, my name is Jeb I'm on the school board here in town My name isn't Lewis Mr. Lewis is away I'm living here until he and his wife return Oh, I see I beg your pardon Can you tell me when he'll be back? Today's Saturday He'll be back in five days On Thursday I see time has arrived to cut the lawn You and I will just go upstairs Where we won't disturb him Tonight we'll write your dear wife a letter Just like you promised And us tomorrow Sunday we'll call her up And see how she feels Hi, darling Oh, how nice of you to call How are you? Roger, are you all right? You sound sick Probably the connection I'm fit as a fiddle Are you working too hard? No Sound like you've been drinking Mother Nothing wrong with her Listen, you take care of yourself Maybe I better come home tomorrow No There's somebody at the door, honey I gotta go Take care of yourself Roger, wait a minute I gotta go Bye, honey Roger What's matter, Paula? No, no Sounded like he was half alone When the cat's away Don't be silly, mother I think I better go home tomorrow Oh, that's ridiculous He's a big grown man He can take care of himself I don't care I'm worried I'm going home tomorrow How do you feel about your precious laws now, Lewis? Do you still call the police if I gave you a gun? Or would you shoot me like I shot Ben? Well, you give me a gun I'll show you I said you'd change I said you'd come to see it my way I'm teaching you new laws, aren't I? You know, Carter, I... I learned how to use a bullweb when I was a kid To kill rattlesnakes I had a bullweb, I'd show you What would the court say to that? Oh, and to your own hands I think you said that was the right of no man You're not a man of convictions Although you're able to get lots of convictions No, no, stay away from me Not on your life, George On your feet Now, you know fear, don't you? Well, you'll know it a lot better By the time I'm through with you I promise you by the time I'm through with you You'll be begging me on hands and knees Paula, you're acting like a silly child If you're so worried about him What's the point in leaving before you have to? You came down here to rest All right, I'll call him Imagine he'll be at the office now Mother, your phone is out of order Well, it doesn't mean the end of the world, dear When we drive into town, we'll stop and tell them about it After all, when you live out in the country like this You have to expect all sorts of things to happen Well, tell you Why don't you kill me and get it over with? Now you'd like that, wouldn't you? Now before I leave, you'll kill yourself Never, I'll make you do it Would you like a mirror? I hardly think you'd recognize yourself You know anyone who'd be calling you? Answer me, you're out No, no, I don't You remind me of a crab trying to scuttle away Well then, we'll just let it ring And pretend we're not here You'll fear now, don't you? You fear the sound of my footsteps You fear my look, my words, my touch, don't you? You fear me as you've never feared anything in this world You've become a creature of terror and hate I've made you into what you tried to make me But I was too strong, Lewis I turned my hate into a sword And I broke down a prison wall with it So I could get you You know what we're going to do, Lewis? We're going to have a trial I'm going to be the judge, the jury, and the plaintiff Now, you're accused of breaking the law My law You've tried to crucify Kalia That's a terrible thing A horrible crime How do you plead? I said how do you plead? Speak up or I'll get rough No, no, I plead, I plead Not guilty Not guilty, eh? Well, Mr. Lawyer, get up on your feet And let's hear you plead your case Let's hear you really plead Be convincing No, I can't We'll see about that You see this? I think he's really fainted Well, there's always tomorrow He'll be in bed of voice in the morning He's gone to the kitchen The kitchen, eh? They're going to find that whip Find that whip Where? Thank, thank The whole closet No, no attic Up to the attic Get there Pull myself up to the banister And I must hurry I must hurry, he'll come back Just one more flight One more flight There it is They're on the wall Right from me I'll find you Up here, Kalia Up here Come up and get me Whatever that'll like Here I am, Kalia You gave me a scare Thought you might have gotten away You'd have been smart if you tried I'll have to punish you for this You broke another one of my laws What are you doing up there? Come up those stairs and find out Remember, I have a gun But I don't think I'll need it You want me to plead my case, Kalia? All right, I'm ready Well, sing out Listen to my voice Listen to my voice and feel its lice You'd kill me You won't do that now He's up on the second floor Watch him I guess I didn't honor quite a lot enough, man I... Grab him Well, like yourself and when I saw your last Yeah, it was quite a sight, wasn't I? Want to tell me about it? Oh, it'll keep What about Kalia? I don't think he's gonna make it Yeah Poor devil You can feel pity after what he did to you Well... Yes Yes, I can, Ed Nothing else to feel He wasn't responsible He couldn't be blamed for a twisted mind I suppose not He sent you a message Well, what is it? He said, if we hadn't come If your wife hadn't gotten suspicious and called He would have won No No, not he could never have won, no matter what he did to me You know, you can break the law And you can break people But you can never really destroy either Star Conrad Nega will return in just a moment With a word about next week's show You Air Force veterans listening to our show Here's some good news for you For you veterans with experience And special training are needed now You can enlist with your old grade or better Skip basic training and be assigned Initially to a nearby Air Force base And this deal holds good for veterans Of other branches of the service too If they've had the kind of special training The Air Force needs If you had training and experience In such fields as radio, radar Maintenance, weather, armament, photography And many others You can build a fine future in our Fast growing Air Force But why not get all the facts Just stop at your nearest army And Air Force recruiting station And find out where you are needed In the world's greatest Air Force Enlist now This has been another program on Proudly We Hail Presented transcribed in cooperation With the station by the United States Army And the United States Air Force recruiting service Proudly We Hail stars Conrad Nagel Supporting Mr. Nagel in the role Of Leo Collier with Joe DeSantis The trial was written by DeWitt Cop This program was produced under the Supervision of Charles and Roger's Productions And directed by Charles Wilkes This is Kenneth Banghart speaking And here again is your host and star Conrad Nagel Well friends, next week over this same station On Proudly We Hail Journey with us for an adventure story Into the wilds of the jungle in South America Our play is entitled In The Dead of the Night Until then, goodbye