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It was foggy in Los Angeles. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 My partner's Bill Lockwood. The boss is Captain Lorman. My name's Friday. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 It was 11.28 p.m. when we got to the third floor at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 Dr. Terrell's office. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 Friday, glad to see you. Been waiting for you. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 We made it as soon as we could, Doctor. 02:14.000 --> 02:17.000 I'd like to have you meet my new partner, Bill Lockwood. Dr. Terrell, Bill. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 How are you? I think I've seen you around, Lockwood. 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 Yes, sir. How are you? 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 I understand you got a problem, Doc. What's the story? 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 An odd one. Happened a few minutes after 11. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 You want to sit down a minute? I'll fill you in before we go back 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 and take a look at the body. 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Thank you very much. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 I understand it's a woman, that right? 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Yeah. Grace Morgan. She's a night nurse on duty. 02:32.000 --> 02:36.000 She told me she was sitting at the desk checking over some patients' cards. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 It was about five, ten minutes after 11 when she heard the elevator come up. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 She heard the elevator stop and the doors open. 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 Kept on checking the cards there. Didn't pay any attention to it. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 And then she realized nobody got out of the elevator. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 She looked up and the elevator doors were still open. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 She saw this young woman slumped over in a wheelchair 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 sitting there in the elevator. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 The woman was alone, was she? 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 That's right. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 The nurse went over and wheeled her out of the elevator. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 The woman was wearing a nightgown, bathroom over that. 02:59.000 --> 03:00.000 She was unconscious. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 Nurse called me. The two of us took the woman into a treatment room. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 I examined her. She was dead. 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Any indication how long? 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 Body was still warm. She'd only been dead a short time. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Any idea of the cause of death? 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 I noticed a couple of abrasions on her right shoulder. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 Another one in the right temporal region. Not positive. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 But I don't think any of them were severe enough to cause death. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 No other markings at all? 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 No. She seemed to have been in good physical condition. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 I noticed a strong smell of alcohol, though. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 Could be she'd been drinking. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.000 Is the nurse pretty sure the woman came up the elevator alone? 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Possibility one of the attendants might have brought her up? 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 No. I checked with the attendant on duty down in the first floor lobby. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Ray Collins. He didn't bring her up. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 He said a man came in the lobby about 11 o'clock. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Said he had a sick woman out in his car. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 He asked for a wheelchair to bring her in. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 Ray asked if he could help, but the man said he'd take care of it. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 That's all Ray knows about it. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 He let the man have a wheelchair, then he went in the back room... 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 to change some linens on the ambulance stretcher. 03:52.000 --> 03:56.000 Any possibility one of the other attendants might have brought her up in the elevator? 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 No. Collins was the only attendant on duty. 03:58.000 --> 04:01.000 I'd like to talk to him. Is he still around? 04:01.000 --> 04:05.000 Yeah. I knew you'd want to see him. He was off duty 11.30. I held him over. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 He's down at the corner having a sandwich. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 He ought to be back in a few minutes. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 What do you figure, Doctor? Think the woman could have operated the elevator herself? 04:11.000 --> 04:15.000 Possible. Not too probable, though. It's a self-operating elevator, automatic. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 Someone could have wheeled the woman into the elevator... 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 pushed the button for the third floor and then stepped back. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Would have taken her straight up. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 The nurse is sure the elevator didn't go back down after it got up here. 04:25.000 --> 04:29.000 Positive. She heard the elevator doors open. They stayed that way. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 She kept waiting for someone to come out. That's what attracted her attention. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 How about identification? 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 The woman have a purse with her or anything like that, Doc? 04:36.000 --> 04:40.000 No. All she had was what she was wearing. Nightgown, slippers and bathrobe. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Let's go back and have a look. I'll show you. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 Okay. Thank you. 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 You say the only markings on the body are those abrasions on the shoulder and the forehead. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 Yeah. Yeah, that's right. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 And you don't think that's why she's dead? Any ideas at all? 04:52.000 --> 04:55.000 I wouldn't want to say, Lockwood. Strange one. 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 Gonna have to wait for the autopsy. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 How about the wheelchair the woman came up in, Doc? Where is it now? 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 Back here in the same room with the body. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 I gave notice it wasn't to be touched. I knew you'd want to check. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Oh, fine. In here. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 All right. You smoke in here? Yeah. Sure. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Fine. Want a cigarette? 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 No, thanks. Bill? No. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 Over here on the table. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 Nurse put the woman's clothing over there. Nightgown, slippers, bathroom. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 I see. Seems to be a fairly young woman. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 I'd say in her early 30s. Nice-looking girl. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 Well-groomed. Notice her hair and fingernails. Well-kept. 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 And the bruise there on her head. Took a pretty good blow to cause that, wouldn't you say? 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 Yeah. Might even be worse than it looks. Hard to say right now. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 Other abrasions I was telling you about, right here along the clavicle, 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 seem to be fairly distinct. Three or four of them. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 That's all of them, huh? That's it. 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 Like I say, we'll know more after they post the body. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 Take a look at the clothing over here. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 Want to check over the bathrobe, Bill? Yeah. 05:59.000 --> 06:03.000 No label here. Size marking, though. Size 34. 06:03.000 --> 06:07.000 Just an ordinary rayon nightgown. Seems to be fairly new. It's not damaged. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Nothing on the bathrobe, Joe. Both pockets empty. No visible markings. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 Manufacturers' label here. Fairly common trade name. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 Laundry marks? No, none showing. We can have the crime lab check them over. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 How about the slippers? No, it's the same. Nothing. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 You fellas want me to notify the coroner? No, we'll get it, Doc. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 We have to call in for the crime lab crew anyway. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Looks like a rough one. We don't even know what we've got. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 I can't figure it. If somebody murdered the woman, why'd they bring her here to die? 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 Yeah. If she was sick or hurt and they were worried enough about it to bring her here, 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 why'd they want to get rid of her? Leave her alone in an elevator. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 Yeah. Doesn't make sense. Somebody's got something to hide. 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 Sure could use a lead. Man puts her on the elevator and sends her up three floors. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 Don't know who she is, how she died. Don't even know where she came from. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 There's no choice. We'll just start at the beginning. Yeah. Ground floor. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 11.52 p.m. The receiving hospital attendant Ray Collins returned, 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 and we interviewed him in Dr. Terrell's office. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 He told us substantially the same thing the doctor had told us. 06:59.000 --> 07:02.000 At a few minutes past 11 o'clock that night, a man entered the lobby of the hospital 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 and asked for a wheelchair to move a patient up to the third floor. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Collins stated he gave the man the wheelchair. 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 The man refused his offer of assistance, and Collins went on about his work. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 He didn't see the patient, and he didn't see any car parked outside, 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 and he was able to give us only a partial description of the man himself, 07:18.000 --> 07:23.000 a male Caucasian, about 35 years old, short, heavy-billed, dark hair. 07:23.000 --> 07:27.000 The crew from the crime lab arrived and began their investigation. 07:27.000 --> 07:32.000 The body was photographed and fingerprinted, and the wheelchair was also dusted for prints. 07:32.000 --> 07:36.000 The clothing was packed up to be taken downtown for further examination. 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 After the men from the crime lab left, Bill Lockwood began a canvas 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 of the immediate neighborhood for possible witnesses. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 Meantime, I checked with the rest of the hospital personnel and the patients. 07:44.000 --> 07:50.000 They could tell me nothing. 12.30 a.m. I met Bill back at Dr. Terrell's office. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 How'd you do, Joe? Any luck? 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 I talked to the nurses and some of the other attendants. They couldn't help any. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 Checked with the dispatcher on incoming and outgoing ambulances. Nothing there. 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 What about you? 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 No good. Most of the business places around here are locked up. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Talked to the newsboy down at the corner. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 He was about the only one on the street. He didn't see anything. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 Sure going slow, isn't it? Might give Bergman a call, 08:06.000 --> 08:09.000 see if he's got the woman's prints classified there. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 How about the coroner? Show up yet? 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Yeah, I think he's in there now. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Yes, ma'am. Give me station 2557. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 Yeah, that's right. Layton prints. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Hi. Let me talk to Bergman, please. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 Right. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Yeah, Dean, Joe Friday. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 No, we're still over at the hospital. You do any good on those prints? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Yeah, that's what we figured. How about her prints? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Okay, Dean, thanks. Yeah, right. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 We're still betting a thousand. 08:38.000 --> 08:39.000 What'd he say? They make her prints? 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 Nothing in record zone. Her dean's gonna send along a set to Washington, 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 see if they got anything. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 How about the wheelchair? Any prints there? 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Well, the nurses and Dr. Terrell's, that's all. We figured on that, didn't we? 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 How's he luck? 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Sure is. I checked with missing persons while you were out. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 There's nothing there either. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Well, that about finishes up here, huh? 08:54.000 --> 08:55.000 Yeah, we better get back to the office. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 Joe? 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 Yeah, Don? 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 I think I got something for you here. 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 Yeah? 08:59.000 --> 09:01.000 Nurse at the switchboard got a call a minute ago. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Man's voice wanted to know the condition of Carla Cheswick. 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 Mm-hmm. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 Nurse checked the list of patients, didn't find anyone by that name. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 The man insisted she's here. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 The nurse asked him what time the woman was admitted to the hospital. 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 He told her 11 o'clock tonight. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 Yeah. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 The man said, I know she's there. I brought her myself. 09:15.000 --> 09:20.000 Along with Dr. Terrell, Bill Lockwood and I went down the hall 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 and talked to the nurse who'd received the phone call. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 She told us that she tried to question the caller 09:24.000 --> 09:28.000 as to his name and his relationship to the alleged patient Carla Cheswick, 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 but the man refused and hung up. 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 We put in a call to R&I and asked him to run the name for us. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 There was no one by that name in the files. 09:35.000 --> 09:39.000 We went back to the doctor's office and started checking through the telephone directories. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 In the northwestern section, we found a listing for a Mrs. Carla Cheswick. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 We called the number, but there was no answer. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Then we checked with the office, told them what we had, 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 and that we were going to follow through on it. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 1 18 a.m. It was only a possibility, but it had to be checked out. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Bill Lockwood and I left Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 got in the car and drove out to the address on North Capitol Avenue. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 It was a large apartment house, fairly new. 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 The name on the mailbox for apartment 18 was Mrs. Carla Cheswick. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 We rang, but there was no answer. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 We finally had to get the manager to call the number. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 We identified ourselves and explained the reason for our visit. 10:13.000 --> 10:17.000 She got a passkey, showed us upstairs to the second floor, and led us in apartment 18. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 There was no one there, but there was evidence of a recent party within a matter of hours. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 Half-filled cocktail glasses, an empty whiskey bottle, 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 a glass bowl containing partially-melted ice cubes. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 An end table in the corner had been overturned. 10:30.000 --> 10:34.000 In the bedroom, women's clothing was scattered on the floor and on the dressing table. 10:34.000 --> 10:39.000 On the mantel in the living room, there was a picture of a woman. 10:39.000 --> 10:42.000 Did you notice anything unusual about her at that time, Ms. Herbert? 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 I mean, anything out of the ordinary? 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 No, don't think so. She'd been drinking some. 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 I'm pretty sure of that, but that's not unusual for Mrs. Cheswick. 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 She drinks quite a bit, parties and things, runs around a lot. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 Yes, ma'am. You didn't notice anything about her face, no cuts, bruises, anything like that? 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 No, nothing like that. Why? 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 You told us she had quite a few men friends. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Do you know any of their names, where they live? 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 No, can't say to do. She was just one of the tenants. 11:05.000 --> 11:08.000 I didn't try to get acquainted, didn't have much in common with her. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 The other tenants didn't either, matter of fact. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 She kept pretty much to herself, her and her friends. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 Mm-hmm, I see. Now, about this party she had last night, Ms. Herbert, 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 you say you don't know who was there with her? 11:18.000 --> 11:22.000 No, I'm afraid I don't. When I called her on the phone to ask her to quiet things down, 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 I heard that one man's voice talking. That's about all, though. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 I couldn't tell you who was there. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Well, is there anyone at all that you know that was close to her? 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 I mean, someone we could talk to about her? 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 Well, her husband, I suppose. He's the only one close to her I know. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 He comes around every month and takes care of the rent. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Kind of a peculiar thing, but I never questioned it. 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 I figured it's their business, live and let live. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 Do you have any idea where we can find the husband, ma'am? 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 No, I'm not sure. He works at a machine shop out near Glendale. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 I have his home address and my rent booked downstairs if you want it. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Yes, ma'am, we'd like to have that if we could. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 Would you happen to know how Mrs. Cheswick and her husband got along? 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 I mean, the separation of theirs, was it friendly or did they still quarrel quite a bit? 11:58.000 --> 12:03.000 No, as far as I know, they got along all right, as long as they didn't have to live together. 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 Poor Mr. Cheswick, I feel sorry for him. He's going to take it hard. 12:07.000 --> 12:09.000 His wife, I don't know whether to blame or pity her. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 She was a terrible disappointment to him. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 That so? 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 I had a long talk with him once, seemed like such a nice man, hard worker. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 And his wife, he was so disgusted. 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 I mean, drinking all the time, going out with different men. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 Bitter disappointment. He told me how he felt. 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 Or did he seem violent on the subject? I mean, did he feel anger toward his wife? 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 No, just pity. He said he'd rather have her dead than go on the way she was. 12:34.000 --> 12:39.000 We checked through the dead woman's apartment for names and addresses of some of her men friends, but we found nothing. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 The crew from the crime lab went over the apartment thoroughly. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 The only evidence found were fingerprints on some of the cocktail glasses. 12:46.000 --> 12:53.000 Along with the apartment manager, Mrs. Herbert, we went downstairs and she gave us Mr. Cheswick's home address and also his place of employment. 12:53.000 --> 12:59.000 It was 2.30 a.m. We got to a phone and called Cheswick's home, but the people he was staying with told us that he wasn't there. 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 He was working the all-night shift at a farm implement factory on Glendale Boulevard. 13:03.000 --> 13:09.000 3.05 a.m. Bill and I drove out to the factory and checked with the night personnel superintendent. 13:09.000 --> 13:13.000 He directed us to the factory repair shop where Cheswick was employed as a welder. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 The foreman at the repair shop pointed him out for us. 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 Cheswick was working on the welding line, a tall, thin man, slight build. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 Bill Lockwood and I went back and introduced ourselves. 13:22.000 --> 13:25.000 Yes, sir, Ernie Cheswick. That's my name. What can I do for you? 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes if we could. It's about your wife. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Carla? What's the matter? Is she in trouble again? 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 It might be better if we could step outside and talk. It won't take very long. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 All right, I got to finish up this little job here if you don't mind waiting. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 A couple of pieces of tubing. It won't take a minute. 13:38.000 --> 13:39.000 Sure, you go right ahead. 13:39.000 --> 13:42.000 You might stand back a couple of steps. This thing pops a little. 13:42.000 --> 13:43.000 Okay, thanks. 13:43.000 --> 13:47.000 Not too much oxygen. I have to light it again. 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Yeah, that does it. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 Don't look at the flames, Joe. They're bad for your eyes. 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 Yeah, I know. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 They're sure on their money, don't they? 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 Yeah, they seem to. A lot of work. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 Finish this thing in here. 14:04.000 --> 14:12.000 Okay, that's got it. Now, what's this about my wife, Sergeant? What's the matter? 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 We understand you're separated from her, Mr. Cheswick. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 Yeah, that's right. About a year ago now. 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 I finally gave it up as a bad job. It wasn't anything I could do for her. 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 Nothing anybody could do for her. Hopeless. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 Well, when's the last time you saw her? 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 First of the month. I went by to pay her rent. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 Dropped in to say hello, that's all. I stay away as much as I can. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 No good bum. That's about all you can do. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 Seemed to admit I was even married to her. 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 Why do you ask, anyway? 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 Your wife's dead, Mr. Cheswick. 14:37.000 --> 14:38.000 Huh? 14:38.000 --> 14:42.000 Yes, sir. She died late last night. Found her at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 14:42.000 --> 14:46.000 Oh. Guess I've been expecting something like that. 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 I can't feel sorry. Probably the best thing for her. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 How did it happen? 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 Well, we're not sure. I wonder if we could step outside. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 It sure would be a lot easier to talk with her. 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 Yeah, all right. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.000 Fine. 14:58.000 --> 15:01.000 Over here, we can dug out the back way. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 Okay. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 You say they found her at Georgia Street, huh? 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 What was it? She in an accident? 15:10.000 --> 15:13.000 It doesn't look like that. We're gonna have to wait for the coroner's report. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 What time do you check in at night for work, Mr. Cheswick? 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 They're supposed to be on the job by 10 o'clock. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 I punched in before that tonight. Why? 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 Routine question. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 I suppose the men around the plant will vouch for you. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 You checked in at 10 and you've been here ever since? 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 Yeah, that's right. You're right. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 You can ask any of them. What's the pitch? 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 You think I had something to do with it? Carla getting killed? 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 Well, we didn't say that, Cheswick. Your wife's dead. 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 We have to check on all the leads, all the possible suspects. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 Well, I don't know how it happened, but I didn't have anything to do with it. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 She wasn't why I lived nine years with her. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 Lousiest nine years of my life. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 Boos, parties, going out all the time. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 She wasn't a wife. She didn't know what the word meant. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 I understand she'd been running around with different men lately. 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 Do you happen to know any of them? 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 No, I don't know. I couldn't care less. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 Stupid dame, Sergeant. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 That's the easiest way you can let her off. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 I tried to make a go of it. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 It wasn't any good. I worked for her, tried to give her everything she wanted. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Didn't make any difference. Yeah. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 She was a bum. Some of them must be born that way, a bum dame. 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 I could have killed her. I had reason enough to. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 I didn't. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 How about your wife's drinking habits? 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 She do most of it at home, or did she go out to bars? 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 Always at the bar. Only one place she ever went to. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 Place on 8th and Rosewood, right on the corner. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Went there all the time, six, seven nights a week. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 She'd hang over the bar all night. 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 I'd like to put up with that for nine years. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 Drinking, going off somewhere on weekends. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 How come it lasted that long, Cheswick? 16:27.000 --> 16:30.000 I don't know. I guess I should have had my head examined. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Just a bum. I figured I could change her. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 Kept trying. Never worked out. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 After the drinking, she'd have these terrific headaches that'd make her sick. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 I'd stay home from work and take care of her, 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 wait on her hand and foot. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 She always made promises. Nothing but a liar. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 As soon as she got well, she'd start it all over again. Same thing. 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Yeah. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 Just a bum, a tramp. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 No good at all. No good. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 A tramp. No good tramp. 16:59.000 --> 17:02.000 Cheswick? Mr. Cheswick, is there anything we can do? 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 Carla. She's dead. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 Carla. 17:10.000 --> 17:20.000 Carla. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 When the dead woman's husband, Ernest Cheswick, recovered, 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 we continued questioning him, but we got nowhere. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 Before we left the plant, we checked his time card, 17:29.000 --> 17:32.000 talked to the machine shop foreman and some of the men Cheswick worked with. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 We got the same story all along the line. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 Cheswick had showed up for work at 9.46 p.m. the night before 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 and had not left the plant since that time. 17:40.000 --> 17:44.000 4.35 a.m. Bill and I got in the car, drove back to the office 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 and typed up a 15.7 report for Captain Lorman. 17:47.000 --> 17:52.000 8.30 a.m. Over in the county morgue, the body of Mrs. Cheswick was being posted. 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 A few minutes past 10 a.m., Bill Lockwood and I drove out to a bar 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 on the corner of 8th and Rosewood, 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 the same bar where Ernest Cheswick told us his wife did most of her drinking. 18:00.000 --> 18:03.000 It was a typical neighborhood cocktail lounge in the early morning. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 Two customers sipping beer at the far end of the bar. 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 The manager busy washing glasses and bringing in supplies. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 We called him over and identified ourselves. 18:12.000 --> 18:16.000 Popular girl, married old Ernie Cheswick. 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She got up and left by herself. I didn't go with her. 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 And Joe? 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 Yeah? 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 Gabels here was just telling me he did see Mrs. Cheswick in the bar last night, 21:02.000 --> 21:03.000 had a couple of drinks with her. 21:03.000 --> 21:06.000 Why'd you hold out, Gabels? Why couldn't you tell us that when we asked you? 21:06.000 --> 21:10.000 I didn't remember then. You came up to me in the bar, started asking questions, I got all rattled. 21:10.000 --> 21:11.000 Mm-hmm. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 It didn't make any difference, though. I didn't even know her name. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 Just had those couple of drinks with her, and then she got up and left. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 That's all. I didn't go out with her. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 The bartender says you did. He's sure of it. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Says he can get half a dozen other people to back him up. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 He's wrong. He's got to be. He's thinking of somebody else. 21:22.000 --> 21:25.000 Well, if you didn't leave the bar with Mrs. Cheswick, when did you leave? 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 I don't know. About five or ten minutes later, I guess. 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Where'd you go then? 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 I walked around a little bit, got a little fresh air. 21:31.000 --> 21:32.000 Mm-hmm. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 And I went to a show. 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 Which one? 21:34.000 --> 21:38.000 I don't remember the name of the place. It's in Rosewood, a couple of blocks down from the bar. 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 What picture did you see? 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 I'm not sure. I had a couple of drinks. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 You went to the movies. You don't even know what you saw. 21:43.000 --> 21:47.000 I told you I had a couple of drinks. I'm feeling pretty good. I just don't remember that, so... 21:47.000 --> 21:48.000 Not much of an alibi, Gables. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 What are you talking about? I don't need an alibi. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 A woman's dead, mister. You were with her the last time she was seen alive. 21:52.000 --> 21:55.000 I wasn't with her. I don't care what anybody tells you. I wasn't with her. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 This movie you say you went to, what time did you get out? 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 After midnight, I think. I don't remember. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 Where'd you go after that? 22:01.000 --> 22:04.000 Bar. Had a few more drinks. Then I went back to my hotel. 22:04.000 --> 22:05.000 Which bar was that? 22:05.000 --> 22:08.000 Place on West Seventh. I go there sometimes. I know the bartender. 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 What time did you leave there? 22:09.000 --> 22:12.000 Closing time. Two o'clock. And then I went back to my hotel. 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 You say you know the bartender there. I guess he'd be glad to vouch for you. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 I mean, that you were there when you said you were. 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 I don't know. Maybe not. He was pretty busy last night. Maybe didn't notice me. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 How about your hotel? Huh? 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 The desk clerk. Somebody like that. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 They should be able to tell what time you got in, don't you think? 22:25.000 --> 22:28.000 They wouldn't know. I always carry my key with me. I go in the side door. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 They wouldn't know what time I got in. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 What are you trying to sell, mister? 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 What are you talking about? 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 You knocked around town from eight o'clock last night till past two o'clock this morning. 22:35.000 --> 22:38.000 You can't think of anyone that could vouch for you, where you were, what time you got there, what time you left. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 I can't think of anybody right now. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 I don't take down names and addresses every time somebody looks at me. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 What's the difference, anyway? I didn't have anything to do with a girl. 22:45.000 --> 22:49.000 This difference, Gables. The attendant at the hospital, he got a good look at the man who came in and asked for that wheelchair. 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 He gave us a man's description. It fits you pretty close. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 So what? It doesn't mean anything. He could make a mistake, too, just like that bartender. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 They're all wrong but you. Is that what you're trying to say? 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Look, as far as I'm concerned, I only got one thing to say. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 I had a couple of drinks with Carla last night, and that's all. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 She left by herself. I didn't even go near the apartment. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 How'd you know she had an apartment? 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Well, you told me. You said so. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 No, we didn't say anything like that. 23:08.000 --> 23:11.000 Then I guess I heard it around the bar. Maybe she mentioned to me. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 Yeah, that's probably it. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 Why don't you come off it, Gables? 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 Come off what? I don't even know what you're getting at. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 We want a straight story, and we're not getting it. 23:17.000 --> 23:20.000 You told us you didn't even know the Cheswick woman before last night. You didn't even know her name. 23:20.000 --> 23:21.000 That's right. 23:21.000 --> 23:24.000 Then why'd you say Carla just a minute ago? You said I had a couple of drinks with Carla. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 I say that? 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 That's what you're saying. 23:26.000 --> 23:30.000 Maybe I just haven't remembered. I was drinking quite a bit, talking to her. Maybe I just remembered it. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 Won't do, Gables. Story doesn't hold water. How about it? 23:33.000 --> 23:36.000 I don't know. I was drinking quite a bit. A lot of things I don't remember. 23:36.000 --> 23:39.000 How about giving it to us straight? What do you remember? 23:39.000 --> 23:42.000 I thought about it. Thought about it all night. 23:42.000 --> 23:45.000 The more I went over it, the worse it got. I just couldn't remember. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 I knew what it would sound like in court. I couldn't tell it that way. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 You couldn't tell what? 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 I didn't kill her. I didn't even touch her. You gotta believe that. 23:51.000 --> 23:54.000 I left the bar with her about 8.15, 8.30. 23:54.000 --> 23:58.000 She invited me up to her apartment. She was pretty well gone. Had quite a few drinks. 23:58.000 --> 24:03.000 We got there, had some more to drink, and then Carla got up and started for the kitchen to get some more ice. 24:03.000 --> 24:06.000 She tripped, I think, stumbled a little bit, and then she fell down. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 I think that's the way it was. 24:08.000 --> 24:09.000 All right, go on. 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 She tried to get up, and then she fell again. 24:11.000 --> 24:14.000 Wasn't a bad fall, though. I figured she'd just passed out. 24:14.000 --> 24:18.000 Got some cold towels, ice, water. I tried to bring her around. It wasn't any good. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 She was white as a sheet. I got scared. I didn't know what happened. 24:21.000 --> 24:22.000 What'd you do then? 24:22.000 --> 24:25.000 I don't remember. I just kept trying to bring her around. 24:25.000 --> 24:28.000 I don't remember any of it very well. I don't even know why she fell down. 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 You think you could have hit her, Gables? You think maybe that's why she fell down? 24:31.000 --> 24:35.000 No. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think I was mad at her for anything. 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 I think we were having a pretty good time. I just don't remember, that's all. 24:39.000 --> 24:43.000 I'm not sure about any of it. Lousy booze, no good at all. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 Did you kill her, Gables? 24:44.000 --> 24:47.000 No, Sergeant. I swear it. As far as I can remember, I didn't. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 We were having a good time. That's all I know. I know I wasn't mad. 24:50.000 --> 24:53.000 I'm not a nasty drunk, not as far as I can remember, anyway. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 What'd you do when you couldn't revive Mrs. Cheswick? You brought her to the hospital? 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 Yeah, the shape I was in, I couldn't figure anything else to do. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 I got her in the car, drove her down to Georgia Street, put her in the elevator, 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 pressed the button and sent her up. 25:04.000 --> 25:08.000 I'm a married man, you know. I didn't want any scandal. I didn't want to get involved. 25:08.000 --> 25:10.000 You didn't kill her. Is that what you want us to believe? 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 I don't know what to tell you. I don't remember. 25:13.000 --> 25:16.000 If I killed her, I think I'd know it. I'm sure I would. I just don't remember. 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 I'll get it. 25:19.000 --> 25:22.000 Interrogation room, Friday talking. Yeah, Arthur. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 That's so. Just a second. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 All right, I got a pencil now. Go ahead. 25:30.000 --> 25:33.000 Are you sure? How was that? 25:34.000 --> 25:38.000 I see. No possibility, huh? 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 Yeah, I see. OK, Arthur, thanks a lot. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 Yeah, sure, we'll pick it up later. Bye. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Yeah, Jim? 25:48.000 --> 25:52.000 Coroner's report just finished the autopsy. It's all right, Gables. 25:52.000 --> 25:54.000 It's all right. It's all cleared up. 25:54.000 --> 25:57.000 What do you mean? Well, you're free to go if you like. We're not going to hold you. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 What's the pitch, Joe? Coroner's report. 25:59.000 --> 26:02.000 Primary cause of death was a massive cerebral hemorrhage, hemorrhage into the ventricle. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 Could have been a blow on the head, couldn't it? You figure that could have done it? 26:05.000 --> 26:08.000 No. Secondary cause was a brain tumor, a big one. 26:08.000 --> 26:11.000 Coroner says she's had it for years. It must have caused her a lot of pain. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 Probably would have counted for the drinking. 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 And the tumor wrote on the hemorrhage. That's what's killed her. 26:16.000 --> 26:21.000 What's in? Coroner says erosion of the blood vessel by brain tumor 26:21.000 --> 26:26.000 probably grew, caused pressure on the blood vessel, finally gave way, caused a hemorrhage, and that killed her. 26:26.000 --> 26:31.000 And she just died. I didn't have anything to do with it. She died and I didn't kill her. 26:31.000 --> 26:33.000 Yes, sir, that's right. You're free to go if you want. 26:33.000 --> 26:37.000 Thank God. You know, officers, I'll tell you the truth. 26:37.000 --> 26:41.000 I didn't know the answer. I didn't know if I killed her or not. I really didn't. 26:41.000 --> 26:45.000 Drinking so much, I came to, and there she was dead. I didn't know what happened. I really didn't. 26:45.000 --> 26:47.000 I didn't know the answer. 26:47.000 --> 26:51.000 Well, you went up on us, Gables. We thought we did. 26:58.000 --> 27:03.000 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:03.000 --> 27:07.000 On Thursday, November 10th, the meeting was held in the office of Captain of Homicide. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 In a moment, the results of that meeting. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:11.000 --> 27:16.000 Thank you. 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