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Dana Andrews auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense The call had come in from the police call box 12 minutes before I come to headquarters been transferred to me Johnny Stilano if I'm a lieutenant New York police Things like this and my job It had taken me maybe five minutes to get there and already the crowd was there crowd a ring of shifting compressing changing faces looking down at the dead man Watching the shape of death in his face And back Have you gone to this man's pockets? You know who he is? Die Hi Let him through come on through Here and there on the fringes of the crowd a man detests himself from it It is lip and left even the spectacle of death can't compete with a time clock Get back to work and tell your friends about it Then the sound of death fading away Then the crowd And a little while the only thing left of it was an unconvinced passerby who looked over his shoulder to spot and hurried on Then the leavings of the crowd a dead man Identified from a warm leather wallet as Edgar Dale was 32nd Street name and address Go there dig into a life that was done as quiet And Edgar Dale's rooming house a woman opened the door only halfway touched her cotton wrap around high on her throat shook her head to most of my questions Edgar Dale had no family lived alone and a shrug to What friends you work that's all at the Becker sign painting company on 1st Avenue Maybe there mr. I Went Something I can do for you. I'm a police officer Johnny Stilano. Oh, how do you do? My name is Becker Elliot Becker a man worked for you Dale And good day. I just put the phone down on the police a minute ago that they called Told me what happened and you know why I'm here. I believe so you'll want to know all about Edgar I'll help all I can tell me about him Edgar Edgar was like anybody looked like anybody talked like anybody Kept to himself. He did his job a man who sat in the supply room and back and read science fiction magazines when he didn't go outside to have lunch What else I Don't know and only judge a solitary man by the things he did to give you that impression He listened to jokes but never told one He clipped pictures of movie stars and bathing suits and pasted them over his workbench Crossword puzzles contests the newspapers ran those things friends Girl friends. I don't know mr. Stilano Wondered sometimes who might enjoy Edgar as a friend, but I don't know Where was he killed two blocks from here this morning? I saw the people running. I couldn't get away. That's too bad How was he killed it in it? What did he look like? What's up reading your phone calls five all together come home. I don't know I tried to weedle it out of him, but the man just wouldn't say he said he keep trying though He has to talk to you personally what else? This envelope came addressed the especial delivery. It's Mark personal open it Says personal open it What is it a picture Johnny clip from this afternoon's extra in the news I saw it there myself a picture of the man who was stabbed to death on the street with the crowd around him. That's it Look what's written under it Johnny I did well didn't I police next time it will be even better Honest Solano speaking. Oh, I finally got you in lieutenant. I read in the papers You were assigned to the case the man found dead on the sidewalk Yes, I just called to ask you if you got the clipping I sent you the one of the dead man lying on the street Special oh I just got in I haven't had a chance to look at the mail. Well, you hold on just a minute while I check I Yes, I have it here The words written underneath did you write them? Oh, yes, and I meant every word There will be a next time lieutenant. There will be another murder. Oh, I believe you I won't be so foolish as to think you're some kind of a crank. I can see you're a very intelligent man It was very clever. How are you committed the murder broad daylight on the street? Oh the next one will be even more spectacular far more Well, tell me about it There's no need. There'll be a crowd. You'll read about it. I'll send you a picture Iranian I got it Johnny Gilbert sure pair. It's right around the corner from here. I got the blotter on my desk Gilbert sure Gilbert hey Gilbert Turn off that machine. I want to talk to you turn off that machine. Oh sure Johnny Oh, we want to choose Johnny even in this so long I was going to put him in the window with a for sale under him I don't want to talk to you about shoes Not about shoes There's something else we can talk about about a man He just made a phone call from here Listen to me Gilbert just a couple of minutes ago a man came in here. I don't know what man He made a phone call from here use my phone. Yeah, maybe he did. All right, so he did You don't understand do you this man was a murderer two minutes ago? He was in here using your phone. So what am I supposed to do about I'm a shoemaker Look out through the window Johnny see all those people every now and then one of them breaks off comes in once He shoes fakes wants to use the phone Two minutes ago when I'm did come in he asked use my phone Well, I didn't notice anything about it. I never notice anything about any and they're all like some are men some are women This one was a man Then back into the street again and into the swarm crowd into the wash of anonymous faces the blob And somewhere in it murder Then back into the office sit down again stare at Reardon again reared and stares back Then Get up walk to the window Dare at the crowd drink and Johnny No, I'm honest to Lana speaking. You don't run so fast lieutenant You know, you know, you almost knocked me down when you ran across the street into that shoemaker shop I'm close by lieutenant in the payphone in the subway any force street run fast lieutenant Hello, hello Never mind Reardon Again him again He even told me where he was so I'd go there and close my eyes and point a finger at the five o'clock subway crowd and say you You're a killer. I almost knocked him down. They talked to him. We chat on the phone. I Can give you a category for this murderer these phone calls are boasting of his killing. I'm not a doctor and I know he's crazy Sure, sure you do I don't know where to start. Where do I start Reardon? I take it easy The lonely little man is stabbed to death on the street in New York City for all I know this killer is standing right beside me looking down at the Dead man the killer sends me a picture killer calls me on the phone The killer tells me he's in a subway at 34th Street station the killer Lieutenant yeah, call box report just came in man was pushed in front of a subway 34th Street station And the pattern repeated itself But with variation now the body of a man broken crushed without form like a child's drawing of death Lay on a beer of railroad ties of glistening steel rails Over him the shroud of a subway car and deep in the cavern the lament of hurtling steel The crowd the crowd watching on the platform no variation here Same crowd that gathers and watches it all that's My way Light is bringing you mr. 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See there was another dead man Crowd much better than the first much Much better the man said much better how good does death have to be This time the murderer had chosen to push a man under a subway train the crowd seemed to like this one better, too They stayed longer after we got the body out from under the train Like work questions the dead man Adam tripled the Bronx Inquiries married three children and it's the supermarket More inquiries. No motive for his murder. No one wanted him dead. Everybody said so Johnny thanks And the symbol of just came for you special delivery marked personal Give it to me like the last time like the last time newspaper picture This is a triple under the subway train with the crowd around Look at him and look at this one the first one I got when Edgar Dale was stabbed Why don't people always hang around other people's hurt? I'll pour you some coffee. You want coffee done? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Johnny Johnny This man standing here in the picture right in front of the crowd around Edgar Dale This man here not very clear So the other picture the one on the subway this man also in the front row of the crowd Also, not very clear. So look at him. Will you I'm looking Hey, the same man reared the same man in both pictures. I won't say no me neither because it's the same It could have been a coincidence It could have just happened that way one chance at 50,000 in a hundred thousand a thousand thousand But it could have happened One man a part of a crowd having his picture taken as a spectator of violent death on a crowded street in a subway One man pushing his way to the front of the crowd to have his picture taken just because it happened to him twice in the same day By some sly smile of fortune it was arranged for two people to die just where he happened to be Just where there was a man with a camera to take a picture to a picture that would give him a name in his neighborhood make people look up to it Don't tell me how it was. He was there twice Then there was the other chance That he was the murderer. That's the one a policeman had to put his money in He could do that by talking to a man He knew in the newspaper office and in charge of the morgue and a Marty Powell You slumming lieutenant Don't you ever open a window in here Marty? Who wants fresh air fresh air is for the bird. You don't like it here Go away still sour her Marty you come from out there anything happening what out there just before you came in no I didn't think so when it does when it dries up and blows away out there I might sweeten up if I feel like it. What can I do for you lieutenant? I want to look at some pictures Don't we all pictures where people were killed very look lieutenant. I got files and files of those to the ceiling see Be more explicit. How were they killed accident war by a wife the jealous lover Suicide stop me anytime you like I tire easy unloaded revolver was hard to explain Marty, but Pictures like these local let me see Mm-hmm Pictures like unsolved murders on lieutenant where the killing was violent to violent for you boys to solve I'll get some for you How far back Three years maybe Yeah, I made a selection for you the most artistic the most captivating several of these one prizes We are very proud of this one for example To your taste More this one Hold that one out Marty not the one with the guy who fell out of the window or the other one the window. I'll see some more You've been here for two hours little ten and I told you I tire easy more Okay That one I'll take these these two goodbye, Marty See on that projector here then I'll pull the screen down Okay, turn out the lights That's how the first one This is a picture of a man pulled out of the river. He was shot. This picture was taken in December 1948 Notice the crowd notice this spectator the one in the front row not wearing a hat That's how number two Picture of a man who was pushed or fell out of a window from a ten story building Joan this year again Notice the crowd and the man in the right hand corner of the crowd being pushed back by a policeman Now on the slides of the ones we had made from the newspaper clipping a crowd around Edgar Dale Notice that man up front on the end Okay, the crowd around Adam Treppel notice the fourth man down in the front row What do you think we're in all the same man sure the same man It took an hour for the newspapers to hit the streets for the front page picture of a man wanted for murder a man in The crowd who for two or three years and quietly committed murder or killings to our knowledge Now we knew what he looked like what went on inside his mind He'd like to kill like to stand with a crowd over his kill with the crowd like to see death up close That man is my husband Where's your husband now he's in bed. He pretends he's an invalid been lying there for five years But I know he sneaks out at night when I'm asleep Waiting on him hand and foot for five years and I know We checked it the man was an invalid paralyzed then I'm the man. I'm the man. You want I did all those killings This picture of you we have you don't look the same. You've changed. That's right. I've changed. I change all the time Don't you think that's clever of me? Yes, it is. Well, you wait here a moment Rude as a man in my office taken to the psycho ward for observation I'm just a lot of speaking please Can you come here quickly? Who is this? I'm Mrs. Jane Shirley. I I have a rooming house at 12 16 He's 38. Well, what is it? You want Mrs. Shirley the man who's pictures in the paper the man You're looking for he has a room in my house. Is he there now? No, but I expect him home any minute Please will you come quickly right away? His name is Charles Turner. Mr. Solano at least that's what he told me it was He's been living here for the past seven years I don't know much more about him than that. He comes and he goes take me to his room, Mrs. Shirley. Yeah, right down the hall Turn on the light This is his room These pictures on the wall a man in a subway on a street corner a man who fell out of a building Yes, they all belong to Mr. Turner. He hung around the wall. I Never asked him Do you have a room near the front of the house my room We'll wait for mr. Turner there Don't worry about it. Will you look at me like that for I told you to wait in the squad car Well, Cole just comes through a guy's holding our killer what yeah greasy spoon lunchroom down the corner Mr. Turner always eats right down the corner the guy who runs a joint phone dinner our man is eating this supper there right now Let's go. There's a crowd. That's funny. The street was deserted less than a minute ago. Let's go Let us through here What happened to you You you police that's right. I own this place He saw me making the phone call Ran out. I ran after him. He had a knife and He's dead rearden just fainted I said he's dead One of you people in the crowd go in a store and call an ambulance this man's dead That's him Johnny this man Is he dead what happened to him anybody know what happened? Would you like to see him mister? Do you like to see him up close? The photographers will be here in a few minutes. Why don't you stick around and have your picture taken mr. Turner? Well, you're wrong. My name is not Turner. I just wanted to know whether the man was dead That's all I I want to get out of here back here Turner Come back here Johnny Johnny Look at him look at him Yeah Here comes the crowd Sent it by auto light tonight star Dana Andrews She will catch your Taylor has led his satisfied customers, huh? 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You're always right with auto light next week on suspense Mr. Joseph cotton as star of fly-by-night and in the weeks to come you will hear such famous stars as Miriam Hopkins Milton Burl and Howard Duff all appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense tonight suspense play was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lut Bluskin Parts of this program were transcribed the crowd by Ray Bradbury was adapted for suspense by Morton fine and David Friedkin Dana Andrews appeared through the courtesy of Samuel Goldwin He may currently be seen in the Goldwin production edge of doom and remember next week on suspense mr. Joseph cotton in fly-by-night You can buy world-famous auto light resistor or standard spark plugs auto light stay for batteries Auto light electrical part at your neighborhood auto light dealers switch to auto light. Good night. This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system