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90, 95, and 5 makes 2,OOO.
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l'm afraid it's not gonna close, Mr.
Dalgran, unless you put some in your pocket.
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l've got a better idea.
You put some in yours.
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Now, you know, l always give presents away
on my birthday.
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Now, Mr. Dalgran, you know
you said the same thing last week.
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Remember?
l told you the bank won't allow it.
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l never heard of such a thing.
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Now, look here,
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you just put that away for your kids.
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Mr. Dalgran, you know l'm not married.
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Well, same here.
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All l've got is a nephew and his wife.
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Oh, he's a fine boy.
He's going to be all right.
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But as far as that wife
of his is concerned--
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Now, anytime you want a relative cheap,
you just call me at my omice, huh?
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Mr. Dalgran.
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Dalgran Associates.
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No, Mr. Dalgran isn't in yet this morning.
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This is his secretary.
May l take a message?
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Oh, he did?
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Yes, sir, thank you very much.
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What now, Mrs. Blair?
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The old man go pixie again?
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Oh, Mr. Fenton.
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l'm afraid he signed another letter
Napoleon B. Santa Claus.
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Well, don't look at me.
l'm just a partner, not a psychiatrist.
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Let me know when he comes in,
will you, Mrs. Blair?
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Morley and l want to see him.
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Yes, sir.
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- Good morning, Martha.
- Good morning, Mr. Dalgran.
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Have the boys come in,
l've got something for them.
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Yes, sir.
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Morning, boys.
How about some Christmas cash?
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ln April?
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Oh, Morley, now don't be technical.
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Mr. Dalgran,
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it's time we settled this desert acreage deal
once and for all.
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Now, we've been omered _1 OO,OOO
for that property.
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All right, it cost us _200,OOO.
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And l'd be selling my dream.
Dalgran Valley.
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as Toronto, as big as Green River
up in Wyoming.
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Chemical recovery plants
for potash and soda.
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Housing for employees.
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l'll tell you in a few years--
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A few years is what one of us
is likely to spend in jail
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if we don't get our hands on _100,OOO
now to close the Barlow deal.
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l know there's been a mistake.
A little mix-up in the account.
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A shortage of trust funds
of other people's money.
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And l've personally assured you
the mistakes will be corrected.
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That trust fund was specifically
for investment in the downtown Barlow block.
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Now, our option on the property
expires in one week.
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All right, our partnership provides
that the three of us must agree on a deal.
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Well, option or no option,
l will not sell that desert acreage.
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That 100,OOO
didn't just walk out of our accounts.
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Now, sick old man or not,
you'll have to face the truth.
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That money is missing.
It may have been pocketed.
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lt may have been stolen.
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[sighs]
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All right, what do you want me to do?
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Until we get the matter
of the missing trust funds squared away,
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you can put your signature
on this letter to the bank.
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lt approves the desert acreage sale
and authorizes them to exercise
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the purchase option on the Barlow block.
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All right, all right. Leave it, leave it.
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l'll-- l'll sign the letter.
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As August Dalgran,
not Napoleon B. Santa Claus, hmm?
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[laughs]
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There's still time to call your lawyer.
l'm very worried.
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Kenny, you're pretty concerned
about your old Uncle Gus, aren't you, huh?
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Please, Uncle Gus,
this could be very serious.
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You know what it means to have
somebody care for you?
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l mean, really care?
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You know, somebody who--
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Please, let me call Perry Mason.
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lt's nothing, son, nothing.
It's no more important than--
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well, than a tramic ticket.
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Besides, we're all entitled to one mistake.
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Yessiree, boy, especially when you
mean well with what you're doing.
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The judge is calling for you.
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You know, Kenny, it wouldn't surprise me
if your wife was hoping that l go to jail.
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lf it pleases you to think so, be my guest.
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That's a fine thing to say to my uncle.
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What should l say?
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That he was right to throw _2,OOO
in small bills out a window
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and cause a king-sized tramic jam?
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Don't mind her.
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She'll never understand me
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any more than she would understand you.
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Mr. Dalgran, you're charged
with a misdemeanor violation of Section 415,
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disturbing the peace by throwing--
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Yes, l know, Your Honor.
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l didn't know it was illegal to give away
your own money if you feel like it.
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Now just a minute, Mr. Dalgran.
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You have to enter a plea
before you can make a statement.
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And before you do so, you're entitled
to be represented by counsel
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if you so choose.
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Yes, l know. l just want to say--
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Mr. Dalgran, how do you plead,
guilty or not guilty?
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Oh, guilty.
l thought everybody knew that.
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Now you may make your statement,
Mr. Dalgran.
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Statement?
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About what?
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Your Honor, what he did
was just a generous impulse.
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You see, he gives to
l don't know how many charities,
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and if you'll be lenient with him--
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One moment, sir.
Are you this defendant's attorney?
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Oh, no, no, sir.
l'm one of his partners, Don Morley.
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He must be demented.
l've never seen him before in my life.
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Oh come on, Sandra.
He didn't mean any harm.
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You know what kind
of an oddball sense of humor he has.
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l envy him.
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By now l could use a sense of humor myself,
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oddball or otheM/ise.
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He's confused.
When a man gets to be his age--
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Anyhow, we're gonna
have to learn to live with it.
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Besides, if it weren't for him,
what future would l have?
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Pretty bleak if he keeps throwing away
the money you hope to inherit
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in _2,OOO chunks.
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And paying hundred-dollar fines for doing it.
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[doorbell rings]
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- Good evening, Sandra.
- Mr. Fenton, Mr. Morley.
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Evening.
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We're looking for your uncle.
Is he here?
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Why no. Did you try his apartment?
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We've tried everywhere, Ken.
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Are you sure you don't know where he is?
We-- We've got to get in touch with him.
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No, l haven't seen him.
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Well, as his executive assistant,
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it should't come as any surprise
for you to know he's in trouble.
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Serious trouble.
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And so is that company he plans
on leaving in your capable hands.
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Did Uncle Gus give you that letter
of authorization?
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Don't play games, Ken.
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You know we're fighting time.
You know he didn't sign that letter.
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Do you also happen to know
what your uncle's up to?
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lf you hear from him, let us know,
and in a hurry, please.
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Let's go, Don. Good night, Sandra.
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- Good night.
- Good night.
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Good night.
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Just what is this with the company
and your uncle, Ken?
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The way he's been acting lately.
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Don't worry.
Everything's going to be all right.
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The court should be looking
into his sanity before very long.
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Oh, no. Someone would have to bring a--
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Sanity?
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August Dalgran in a sanity hearing?
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Mr. Mason, l just can't believe
Mr. Dalgran's unbalanced.
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Just the other day he came out to look
at the well l'm drilling.
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He acted as rational as anyone.
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Now he's back in court
on this sanity hearing.
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[door opens]
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Della-- Della, this is Chuck Blair.
You know his mother
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Mr. Dalgran's secretary Martha.
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[both]
How do you do?
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Frankly, Chuck, there's nothing l can do.
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He sent me definite word
that he did not want me to represent him.
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Anyway, this isn't actually a sanity hearing.
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lt's only a hearing
to determine his competency
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to handle his own business amairs.
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Surely you can come up with something.
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l've got some money saved up.
l can pay you.
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Mr. Mason,
he helped put me through school.
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He kept us going those three years
my ma was sick.
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lf he's out of his mind, then so am l.
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ln the State of California, Doctor Jackman,
any person, whether insane or not,
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who by reason of old age, disease,
weakness of mind, or other cause,
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is unable unassisted to properly manage
and take care of himself or his property,
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is deemed to be legally incompetent.
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l now ask your expert opinion
as a licensed and practicing psychiatrist.
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Having heard testimony
as to Mr. Dalgran's recent behavior,
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would you say he exhibited indications
of incompetency?
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l have not examined Mr. Dalgran,
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but l have observed many cases
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wherein l found a similar syndrome
in the elderly--
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a malfunction of mental process
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caused by inadequate distribution
of blood to the brain,
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creating the condition
known as senile psychosis,
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certainly the basis for a determination
of mental incompetence.
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And would you state that this
to be true of Mr. Dalgran?
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Yes, l'd say it's possible, and likely.
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How soon would you know for sure?
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Oh, l'd say after a few weeks of observation.
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Thank you, Doctor, that is all.
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Are there any questions of the witness,
Mr. Dalgran?
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Hmm? Questions?
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Them that asks no questions
isn't told a lie.
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l know who said that.
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lt was Kipling.
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lf it please the court, may l ask permission
to approach the bench?
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Oh, hello, Mr. Mason, yes.
Yes, of course you may.
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Your Honor
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as you're well aware,
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in the appointment of guardians for insane
or incompetent persons,
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Section 1461 of the California Probate
Code provides that
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any relative, or friend,
of the alleged insane or incompetent person
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may appear and oppose such petition.
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One moment, Mr. Mason,
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you obviously weren't served
with the notice of this hearing.
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- No, but--
- Had you been so served,
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you would know that the petition
was filed by Kenneth Dalgran reluctantly
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at the express wish
of August Dalgran himself.
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Mr. Mason, do you wish
to oppose the petition?
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Not if August Dalgran,
here in this open court,
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asks me not to, Your Honor.
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Mr. Dalgran?
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My-- My wife has always liked you, Perry.
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l mean, she-- she always said
that you're were the smartest,
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nicest man she ever knew.
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l remember when we started,
Sarah and me,
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she always said that some day
she was gonna stand on a rooftop
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and throw hands full of money
down into the street below.
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l did it for her, you see?
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Well, of course we knew
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that our Kenny would understand.
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You see, she always liked Kenny.
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We, uh, we never had
any children of our own.
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Just the other night she was saying--
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Mr. Dalgran,
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Sarah's been dead for more than ten years.
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Yes, l know.
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Well Perry, what happens now?
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Proceedings are pending
to have you declared legally incompetent.
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On the court's orders, you're to be placed
in the psychiatric institution
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for observation and examination.
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ln the meantime, for your own protection,
the court has appointed a conservative.
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You mean my nephew Kenneth?
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He'll have all the powers
of a legal guardian,
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authorized to act in your name
and in your behalf.
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Suppose the doctors
don't find anything wrong with me.
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On their certification,
the court will probably deny the petition.
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Unless, of course, you persist in continuing
this ridiculous pe_ormance.
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Per-- Pe_ormance?
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Oh come om it, Gus.
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You're no more mentally incompetent
than l'm the Kaliph of Baghdad.
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Perry, please.
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Rudyard Kipling?
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That wasn't bad enough,
you had to bring Sarah into the act.
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Gus, in all the years l've known you,
you never once ran away from a thing.
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You are running now. Why?
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00:14:51,594 --> 00:14:57,706
All right, you know my good friend
Ben Hollingsworth?
242
00:14:57,833 --> 00:15:02,107
Well, about a week ago,
l endorsed and turned over to him
243
00:15:02,239 --> 00:15:06,814
_100,OOO of my own stocks and bonds.
244
00:15:06,875 --> 00:15:11,017
Now l want him to sell all those securities
245
00:15:11,147 --> 00:15:13,852
and give you the money.
246
00:15:13,984 --> 00:15:15,609
What am l to do with the money?
247
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Take it over to Dalgran Associates
248
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as of monies return, monies borrowed.
249
00:15:21,858 --> 00:15:24,062
Unfortunately, that would be violating
250
00:15:24,194 --> 00:15:27,467
the spirit if not the letter
of the court order.
251
00:15:27,597 --> 00:15:29,867
On the other hand, if l could get
the cooperation of your nephew.
252
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,072
Oh, well, Kenneth will do anything for me.
253
00:15:33,203 --> 00:15:37,579
There's a fine boy, Perry. Fine boy.
254
00:15:37,707 --> 00:15:41,581
lt's that wife of his-- Oh.
255
00:15:41,711 --> 00:15:44,918
Well--
256
00:15:45,049 --> 00:15:47,720
All right, Gus.
257
00:15:47,852 --> 00:15:51,558
But now can l assume
that this charade is over?
258
00:15:51,689 --> 00:15:55,062
That you've decided to return
to the world of sanity?
259
00:15:56,661 --> 00:16:00,835
With everyone else in the world
as crazy as they are,
260
00:16:00,965 --> 00:16:06,008
ls there any question
that l'm the only one who's sane?
261
00:16:06,070 --> 00:16:09,343
Mason, l realize how close
you are to Uncle Gus, Mr. Mason,
262
00:16:09,473 --> 00:16:11,476
and how much he's always
depended on you.
263
00:16:11,609 --> 00:16:14,314
l certainly hope that you'll
be as much help to me.
264
00:16:14,445 --> 00:16:18,186
Then you will instruct Ben Hollingsworth
to dispose of those securities
265
00:16:18,317 --> 00:16:20,317
and turn the money
over to Dalgran Associates?
266
00:16:20,384 --> 00:16:23,824
Well, l'm afraid that'll be impossible,
Mr. Mason.
267
00:16:23,955 --> 00:16:28,597
You see, as his conservator
l felt that it was the court's inten!tion
268
00:16:28,727 --> 00:16:31,031
in no way to dissipate my Uncle Gus' estate.
269
00:16:31,163 --> 00:16:35,839
l've already secured an injunction
restraining Ben Hollingsworth
270
00:16:35,967 --> 00:16:37,460
from so much as touching that stock.
271
00:16:37,502 --> 00:16:40,173
l'm sure that you appreciate
the necessity of the move?
272
00:16:40,306 --> 00:16:43,311
Yes, l suppose l do.
273
00:16:43,442 --> 00:16:49,620
You're, uh, very concerned
about your uncle, aren't you?
274
00:16:49,748 --> 00:16:52,854
He's been like a father to me, Mr. Mason.
275
00:16:52,985 --> 00:16:55,957
l'd do anything rather than
to cause him a moment's hurt.
276
00:16:56,089 --> 00:17:01,232
Then l'm correct in assuming
that you wouldn't harm or inte_ere
277
00:17:01,361 --> 00:17:03,353
with the most important thing in his life.
278
00:17:03,395 --> 00:17:06,300
This dream of a Dalgran City in the desert?
279
00:17:06,431 --> 00:17:07,892
You won't permit that property
to be touched?
280
00:17:07,934 --> 00:17:12,008
Well, l'm a little embarrassed, Mr. Mason.
281
00:17:12,138 --> 00:17:14,910
l'm afraid you don't understand
the entire situation
282
00:17:15,041 --> 00:17:18,148
and l can't explain it to you, but--
283
00:17:18,278 --> 00:17:20,105
But what?
284
00:17:20,147 --> 00:17:22,986
Well, l've already sent a letter to the bank.
285
00:17:23,117 --> 00:17:27,758
As my Uncle Gus' conservator,
approving in his behalf, believe me,
286
00:17:27,888 --> 00:17:29,888
the sale of that dessert acreage.
287
00:17:32,492 --> 00:17:34,529
l tell you, l don't believe it.
288
00:17:34,661 --> 00:17:39,336
He wouldn't do this to me, not Kenny.
Not Kenny.
289
00:17:39,465 --> 00:17:42,505
Gus, you've got to tell me what's going on.
OtheM/ise, l can't help you.
290
00:17:42,636 --> 00:17:46,643
But it's a mistake. l know it, l know it.
291
00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:48,467
He wouldn't do this on his own.
292
00:17:48,509 --> 00:17:50,846
No. No. No.
293
00:17:50,978 --> 00:17:55,120
Mr. Mason, l think that's enough for tonight.
294
00:17:55,250 --> 00:17:58,089
lf he did that me,
295
00:18:01,356 --> 00:18:03,660
l'll kill him.
296
00:18:04,793 --> 00:18:11,038
The suspending of guardianships
is covered on pages 338, 334, and 384.
297
00:18:11,166 --> 00:18:13,166
And in this other volume
of California Jurisprudence,
298
00:18:13,568 --> 00:18:15,738
- the second, the um--
- [phone rings]
299
00:18:15,870 --> 00:18:19,811
Just a minute. Mr. Mason's omice.
Just one minute, please.
300
00:18:19,941 --> 00:18:23,648
Perry, Doctor Jackman.
301
00:18:23,778 --> 00:18:25,915
Hello, Doctor Jackman.
302
00:18:31,753 --> 00:18:34,960
All right, thank you.
303
00:18:35,090 --> 00:18:37,929
What is it?
304
00:18:38,060 --> 00:18:40,899
We'll have to get a hold of Paul fast, Della.
305
00:18:41,030 --> 00:18:43,635
Gus Dalgran escaped from the sanitarium.
306
00:18:48,838 --> 00:18:50,838
Thanks for the lift, boy.
307
00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:53,177
l was pretty well pooped
when you picked me up.
308
00:18:53,310 --> 00:18:56,683
Don't sweat at all, Pops. Glad to oblige.
Good night.
309
00:18:59,782 --> 00:19:02,521
[doorbell chimes]
310
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,965
[doorbell chimes]
311
00:19:16,733 --> 00:19:18,903
Mrs. Dalgran,
l'm looking for Kenneth's uncle.
312
00:19:19,035 --> 00:19:20,495
Can you tell me if he's here?
313
00:19:20,537 --> 00:19:24,076
Here? Why, he's in the sanitarium.
314
00:19:24,207 --> 00:19:26,845
No, Mrs. Dalgran, he isn't.
315
00:19:26,977 --> 00:19:28,977
Come in.
316
00:19:32,649 --> 00:19:34,649
When did it happen?
Where did he go?
317
00:19:34,751 --> 00:19:35,810
l thought he might have come here
to see Kenneth.
318
00:19:35,852 --> 00:19:36,911
Why, no.
319
00:19:36,953 --> 00:19:40,293
l mean not that l know of.
l just got in myself.
320
00:19:40,424 --> 00:19:41,917
And Kenneth?
321
00:19:41,959 --> 00:19:44,096
Well, he was here when l went to the movie.
322
00:19:44,228 --> 00:19:47,000
He isn't now, and his station wagon's gone.
323
00:19:47,131 --> 00:19:51,305
- [phone rings]
- Excuse me.
324
00:19:51,435 --> 00:19:52,728
Hello?
325
00:19:52,770 --> 00:19:55,909
Yes, he's here, just a minute, please.
326
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:57,933
A Paul Drake for you.
327
00:19:57,975 --> 00:20:00,112
Thank you.
328
00:20:00,244 --> 00:20:01,304
Yes, Paul.
329
00:20:01,346 --> 00:20:04,050
l tried his omice, his apartment,
and the other places you mentioned.
330
00:20:04,181 --> 00:20:05,275
No luck.
331
00:20:05,317 --> 00:20:08,623
There's a chance he went out to the desert
well young Blair's drilling for him.
332
00:20:08,753 --> 00:20:09,912
He's been concerned over it.
333
00:20:09,954 --> 00:20:11,954
Might be worth a try at that.
Want me to meet you?
334
00:20:12,723 --> 00:20:14,723
Good, right away.
335
00:20:27,306 --> 00:20:29,778
- Mr. Dalgran.
- Hiya, Chuck.
336
00:20:29,908 --> 00:20:33,682
Say, why didn't l hear the drill rig going
when l passed the well?
337
00:20:33,812 --> 00:20:34,771
They ordered me to shut down.
338
00:20:34,813 --> 00:20:36,773
Who? Fenton and Morley?
339
00:20:36,815 --> 00:20:38,309
And Kenneth.
340
00:20:38,351 --> 00:20:42,659
When l went in to make
my progress report this afternoon.
341
00:20:42,788 --> 00:20:46,128
Look, boy, l've never been one to beg favors,
342
00:20:46,259 --> 00:20:49,231
but, uh--
343
00:20:49,362 --> 00:20:51,466
Well, suppose l ask you
to do something for me.
344
00:20:51,598 --> 00:20:53,457
All you got to do is ask.
345
00:20:53,499 --> 00:20:56,471
l mean, even though it's a--
346
00:21:02,141 --> 00:21:03,200
Perry?
347
00:21:03,242 --> 00:21:04,869
Kenneth with you?
348
00:21:04,911 --> 00:21:10,389
Why, no. He wasn't home, and so l--
349
00:21:10,517 --> 00:21:13,322
Looks like my night for company.
350
00:21:13,454 --> 00:21:15,454
From the looks of it,
it's the Sherims department.
351
00:21:28,102 --> 00:21:29,661
- Evening, Chuck.
- Sherim.
352
00:21:29,703 --> 00:21:32,775
August Dalgran?
353
00:21:32,906 --> 00:21:33,966
Yes.
354
00:21:34,008 --> 00:21:37,447
Our Lancaster sub-station had a report
from the L.A. authorities.
355
00:21:37,579 --> 00:21:39,582
They said we might find you here.
356
00:21:39,713 --> 00:21:44,322
Bowman.
357
00:21:51,092 --> 00:21:53,092
Paul.
358
00:21:57,432 --> 00:21:59,435
[Mason]
Kenneth Dalgran.
359
00:21:59,567 --> 00:22:01,567
[Drake]
Dead.
360
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,019
You went to you nephew's house.
361
00:22:15,150 --> 00:22:19,359
Blood stains, scum marks,
other bits of evidence prove
362
00:22:19,488 --> 00:22:21,725
he was shot to death in his house.
363
00:22:21,856 --> 00:22:24,394
You drove his station wagon
out to the desert
364
00:22:24,527 --> 00:22:27,733
with his dead body in the back
of the station wagon.
365
00:22:27,862 --> 00:22:30,200
Could be he was killed before l got there.
366
00:22:30,332 --> 00:22:34,139
Somebody put his body
in the back of the station wagon.
367
00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:39,213
Could be there was nobody home
when l arrived,
368
00:22:39,341 --> 00:22:41,813
and l just borrowed the wagon.
369
00:22:41,944 --> 00:22:44,482
Could be.
370
00:22:44,614 --> 00:22:47,085
As your friend, you can expect me
to believe that.
371
00:22:47,216 --> 00:22:50,155
But can you expect a judge
and jury to believe it?
372
00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:52,658
They won't try me for murder, Perry.
373
00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:55,160
Remember, l'm incompetent?
374
00:22:55,292 --> 00:22:59,533
l told you before, insanity and incompetency
are not the same thing.
375
00:22:59,663 --> 00:23:03,437
lf you were declared incompetent
to handle your own business amairs,
376
00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:06,940
that doesn't mean you would be immune
from punishment for a crime you committed.
377
00:23:07,070 --> 00:23:14,484
Ah. There's a fennel for you,
378
00:23:14,612 --> 00:23:16,204
and columbines.
379
00:23:16,246 --> 00:23:19,418
There's rue for you
380
00:23:20,083 --> 00:23:27,431
and here's some for me.
We may call it herb-grace O'Sundays.
381
00:23:30,294 --> 00:23:32,294
You know, Gus, psychiatrists
aren't completely stupid.
382
00:23:35,233 --> 00:23:38,672
lt's even possible that some of them
may be quite familiar with Hamlet
383
00:23:38,802 --> 00:23:41,007
and Ophelia's mad scene.
384
00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,042
Why were you pressuring Gus
to sell that desert acreage?
385
00:23:45,243 --> 00:23:49,017
You both know what it meant to him,
the dreams he had for a Dalgran City?
386
00:23:49,547 --> 00:23:53,722
Dreams are non-negotiable assets,
in the business world, Mr. Mason.
387
00:23:53,851 --> 00:23:58,427
We needed cash-- _100,OOO in cash-- fast.
388
00:23:58,557 --> 00:24:02,865
You see, Mr. Mason, we had an option
to buy the downtown Barlow block property
389
00:24:02,927 --> 00:24:04,654
and the option was about to expire.
390
00:24:04,696 --> 00:24:07,234
But the desert acreage
would have been just as valuable
391
00:24:07,366 --> 00:24:09,366
possibly even more so
with the commercial brine underground.
392
00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:13,341
l suppose Gus told you that. l'm sorry.
393
00:24:13,472 --> 00:24:17,580
Mr. Dalgran appears to have lost the ability
to distinguish fiction from true.
394
00:24:17,709 --> 00:24:21,416
We had that well tested
and there was nothing, Mr. Mason.
395
00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:25,221
No usable water
and no commercially recoverable chemicals.
396
00:24:25,350 --> 00:24:26,450
Now, Gus knew that.
397
00:24:26,451 --> 00:24:30,158
Kenny gave him a copy of the test report.
398
00:24:30,289 --> 00:24:33,061
Kenneth, at least, as Dalgran's guardian,
had the good sense to authorize
399
00:24:33,192 --> 00:24:36,465
the sale of that worthless property so we
could get the money we needed in time.
400
00:24:36,596 --> 00:24:39,000
l know the Barlow deal.
401
00:24:39,132 --> 00:24:42,805
You had the option, an outside investor
put _100,OOO in trust with you
402
00:24:42,935 --> 00:24:44,328
for a 500/o interest.
403
00:24:44,370 --> 00:24:46,364
Now, you had that money.
404
00:24:46,406 --> 00:24:48,777
Why destroy Gus' dream for additional cash?
405
00:24:48,908 --> 00:24:53,817
Our audits show that August Dalgran
might very well have stolen _100,OOO
406
00:24:53,947 --> 00:24:55,414
out of that trust account.
407
00:24:55,415 --> 00:24:59,557
He doctored the books so clumsily
that even a first year accounting student
408
00:24:59,687 --> 00:25:01,312
could have fingered him for the theft.
409
00:25:01,354 --> 00:25:03,281
- l don't believe that.
- No?
410
00:25:03,323 --> 00:25:06,530
Why did he give those stocks and bonds
to Ben Hollingsworth?
411
00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:08,797
And why did he have you
try to get Hollingsworth
412
00:25:08,928 --> 00:25:10,689
to dispose of his personal holdings
413
00:25:10,731 --> 00:25:13,536
and return the money _100,OOO
to the company?
414
00:25:13,667 --> 00:25:14,760
[intercom buzzes]
415
00:25:14,802 --> 00:25:16,428
Yes, Mrs. Blair?
416
00:25:16,470 --> 00:25:17,996
[Mrs. Blair]
There's a call for Mr. Mason
417
00:25:18,038 --> 00:25:19,097
from a Paul Drake.
418
00:25:19,139 --> 00:25:22,512
l'll take it in the other omice.
419
00:25:27,481 --> 00:25:29,853
Thank you.
420
00:25:29,984 --> 00:25:31,984
Yes, Paul?
421
00:25:34,255 --> 00:25:36,255
Stay there, l'll be right over.
422
00:25:39,494 --> 00:25:41,998
l hope Mr. Dalgran's all right.
423
00:25:42,129 --> 00:25:44,534
ls there anything l can do to help him?
424
00:25:50,205 --> 00:25:52,676
Would you meet me here at 8:OO tonight
425
00:25:52,807 --> 00:25:55,779
and let me go over the company books?
426
00:25:55,912 --> 00:25:57,912
Oh, but, l can't.
427
00:26:00,415 --> 00:26:03,822
At 8:OO tonight, Mr. Mason,
428
00:26:03,886 --> 00:26:06,825
there'll be no one else here.
429
00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:10,227
Why did l go there to see him?
430
00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:14,632
Why not, Mr. Mason?
431
00:26:14,764 --> 00:26:19,105
Perhaps l took him some magazines
and a container of homemade chicken soup.
432
00:26:19,235 --> 00:26:22,341
But it's no secret that Gus
wasn't exactly fond of you,
433
00:26:22,471 --> 00:26:23,998
and l would imagine the feeling was mutual.
434
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,615
lf you want a dimerent answer,
l suggest you ask Uncle Gus for it.
435
00:26:28,744 --> 00:26:31,917
May l ask where you went after seeing him?
436
00:26:33,149 --> 00:26:34,910
l went to a movie. Why not?
437
00:26:34,952 --> 00:26:38,726
You know, for a woman
who just lost her husband,
438
00:26:38,855 --> 00:26:41,392
you seem singularly unmoved.
439
00:26:41,525 --> 00:26:45,799
l'm no angel, Mr. Mason,
also no hypocrite.
440
00:26:45,929 --> 00:26:47,689
l hated Ken Dalgran in life.
441
00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:49,731
l won't cry for him in death.
442
00:26:50,867 --> 00:26:53,505
Mrs. Dalgran, would you mind showing us
your Walther .22?
443
00:26:53,637 --> 00:26:54,995
My what?
444
00:26:55,037 --> 00:27:00,114
We're talking about the gun your uncle
bought about three weeks ago for you.
445
00:27:00,243 --> 00:27:02,170
Not for me, Mr. Mason.
446
00:27:02,212 --> 00:27:06,486
Perhaps not, but you do know
that he bought a gun.
447
00:27:08,151 --> 00:27:10,656
l suppose that is no secret, either.
448
00:27:10,788 --> 00:27:13,325
Yes, Kenny told me Gus bought a gun.
449
00:27:13,457 --> 00:27:16,530
Seems there are too many
curious rattlesnakes out by the well.
450
00:27:16,661 --> 00:27:18,253
Well?
451
00:27:18,295 --> 00:27:20,289
That's what Gus told Kenny.
452
00:27:20,331 --> 00:27:23,102
Said that Chuck Blair
had asked him to pick up a gun.
453
00:27:23,234 --> 00:27:27,375
Why don't you ask Chuck about it?
454
00:27:27,505 --> 00:27:30,210
Well, here you are, Mr. Mason,
a .45 automatic.
455
00:27:30,341 --> 00:27:31,935
l had it ever since l got out of the army.
456
00:27:31,977 --> 00:27:33,904
You never had a Walther .22?
457
00:27:33,946 --> 00:27:35,805
l never even saw one.
458
00:27:35,847 --> 00:27:37,707
Are you sure now, Chuck?
459
00:27:37,749 --> 00:27:40,488
We were given to understand
that you asked Gus for a gun.
460
00:27:40,618 --> 00:27:42,621
To kill rattlesnakes.
461
00:27:42,755 --> 00:27:44,447
Gus bought you a German pistol.
462
00:27:44,489 --> 00:27:47,294
l'm sorry, Mr. Mason, but that isn't so.
463
00:27:47,425 --> 00:27:49,963
Why would l ask Mr. Dalgran
for a gun if l already had one?
464
00:27:51,663 --> 00:27:53,663
Why, indeed?
465
00:27:56,234 --> 00:27:58,234
Manzanita Realty, Incorporated.
466
00:27:59,137 --> 00:28:01,308
lsn't that the name of Gus' old company,
467
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,946
the one-man operation he ran
before he organized Dalgran Associates?
468
00:28:05,011 --> 00:28:06,570
Yes, that's right, Mr. Mason.
469
00:28:06,612 --> 00:28:11,722
There are a few small entries here
involving Manzanita Realty.
470
00:28:11,851 --> 00:28:14,455
Well, Mr. Dalgran kept it alive
as a holding company
471
00:28:14,586 --> 00:28:19,262
for some inexpensive city parcels
that he personally owned.
472
00:28:19,391 --> 00:28:25,269
Kenneth, Mr. Dalgran's nephew,
took care of Manzanita for him.
473
00:28:25,398 --> 00:28:28,002
The state and federal taxes,
that sort of thing.
474
00:28:28,133 --> 00:28:31,974
Kenneth took care of a good deal
of Gus' work, didn't he?
475
00:28:32,104 --> 00:28:36,112
More and more of it, Mr. Mason.
476
00:28:36,242 --> 00:28:39,247
Mr. Dalgran was very proud of Kenneth.
477
00:28:40,447 --> 00:28:42,407
He loved the boy so much,
478
00:28:42,449 --> 00:28:45,889
l don't see how he could he kill him.
479
00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:47,345
Did he?
480
00:28:47,387 --> 00:28:50,694
[phone rings]
481
00:28:53,226 --> 00:28:54,385
Yes.
482
00:28:54,427 --> 00:28:56,932
Paul, Perry, a big fat zero.
483
00:28:57,064 --> 00:29:00,438
Not that l expected to find much
after the police went through this stum.
484
00:29:00,568 --> 00:29:01,493
How about you? Any luck?
485
00:29:01,535 --> 00:29:02,895
l'm afraid not, Paul.
486
00:29:02,937 --> 00:29:07,111
l did find a piece of paper
on which a guy had written his name
487
00:29:07,241 --> 00:29:08,967
about 50 times, which makes no sense.
488
00:29:09,009 --> 00:29:10,469
Makes no sense?
489
00:29:10,511 --> 00:29:12,548
Why, Paul, it, uh--
490
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,739
All right, Della.
491
00:29:13,781 --> 00:29:19,459
l'll be back to the omice
in about half an hour.
492
00:29:19,587 --> 00:29:22,827
Well, l see you're
working on your homework, Perry.
493
00:29:22,958 --> 00:29:24,958
l'm sorry, but l'm afraid this collection
494
00:29:25,026 --> 00:29:27,063
of McGumey's Readers will have to go.
495
00:29:27,194 --> 00:29:30,133
The company ledger books?
496
00:29:30,264 --> 00:29:31,524
That's right.
497
00:29:31,566 --> 00:29:34,103
Subpoenaed
by the District Attorney's omice.
498
00:29:34,235 --> 00:29:36,506
What does Mr. Burger
hope to learn from them?
499
00:29:36,638 --> 00:29:39,109
Well, perhaps as much as he learned
from Mrs. Farnham.
500
00:29:39,241 --> 00:29:42,146
- Mrs. who?
- Mrs. Farnham,
501
00:29:42,277 --> 00:29:45,716
Kenneth Dalgran's
across-the-street neighbor.
502
00:29:45,847 --> 00:29:49,354
lt seems the night that Kenneth was murdered,
she saw a man pushing down
503
00:29:49,484 --> 00:29:54,126
something big and bulky like a body
into the back of a station wagon.
504
00:29:54,256 --> 00:29:57,061
A man, Tragg?
505
00:29:57,192 --> 00:29:58,719
A man, Perry.
506
00:29:58,761 --> 00:30:04,204
To be precise your client, August Dalgran.
507
00:30:10,439 --> 00:30:12,165
ln spite of the fact that the defendant
508
00:30:12,207 --> 00:30:16,549
in a devious manner feigned madness
to achieve his purposes,
509
00:30:16,679 --> 00:30:20,820
there is now no question,
but that he is and has been sane.
510
00:30:20,950 --> 00:30:23,689
You heard Dr. Jackman testify to this.
511
00:30:23,819 --> 00:30:25,379
You also heard the doctor
512
00:30:25,421 --> 00:30:30,732
testify that the defendant, August Dalgran,
was highly excited
513
00:30:30,861 --> 00:30:34,167
after Mr. Mason's visit to him
at the sanitarium of the night of the murder.
514
00:30:34,297 --> 00:30:36,969
Shortly after that, you visited him.
515
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:40,139
Now, Mrs. Dalgran, what time was it
when you left the sanitarium?
516
00:30:40,269 --> 00:30:42,741
About 9:30.
517
00:30:42,873 --> 00:30:47,482
Mrs. Farnham testified that
at approximately 1 1 :OO that night,
518
00:30:47,611 --> 00:30:50,516
she saw the defendant stuming
what appeared to be a body
519
00:30:50,647 --> 00:30:53,119
into the back of decedent's station wagon.
520
00:30:53,250 --> 00:30:54,776
Mrs. Dalgran, what time was it
521
00:30:54,818 --> 00:30:58,692
when you arrived home,
and what did you find there?
522
00:30:58,822 --> 00:31:01,494
l returned home around 1 1 :15.
523
00:31:01,625 --> 00:31:04,230
The front door was open.
There was nobody home.
524
00:31:04,294 --> 00:31:05,788
Thank you, Mrs. Dalgran.
That'll be all.
525
00:31:05,830 --> 00:31:08,835
Your witness.
526
00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:11,605
You say you left the sanitarium at 9:3O
527
00:31:11,736 --> 00:31:14,040
and arrived home at 1 1 :15.
528
00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:17,111
Your home is less than ten minutes away.
529
00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:19,614
Where were you for that hour
and 45 minutes?
530
00:31:19,744 --> 00:31:23,818
l-- l told you that
531
00:31:23,948 --> 00:31:25,942
the night you were looking for Mr. Dalgran.
532
00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:30,259
Oh, yes.
You said you'd been to the movies.
533
00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:33,727
And what theatre, Mrs. Dalgran
and what did you see?
534
00:31:33,859 --> 00:31:38,667
I saw Too Soon Blues
at the Tivoli Theatre.
535
00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:42,598
No further questions at this time.
536
00:31:43,569 --> 00:31:45,562
[Fenton]
Well, there's no question of it.
537
00:31:45,604 --> 00:31:50,747
August Dalgran stole _100,OOO
from the Barlow block trust funds.
538
00:31:50,876 --> 00:31:54,516
ln your search of company records
were you able to discover
539
00:31:54,647 --> 00:31:56,174
what happened to that missing money?
540
00:31:56,216 --> 00:31:57,641
Yes, we were.
541
00:31:57,683 --> 00:32:00,989
The stolen money was used
to purchase additional desert acreage,
542
00:32:01,121 --> 00:32:04,527
completely surrounding the property
that are company owned at that time.
543
00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:08,230
Was this purchase of additional acreage
made in the name of your company?
544
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,065
No, it was purchased
by a dimerent company--
545
00:32:11,197 --> 00:32:12,991
Manzanita Realty, Incorporated.
546
00:32:13,033 --> 00:32:15,638
Who owns Manzanita Realty, Mr. Fenton?
547
00:32:17,837 --> 00:32:21,511
The one, the only, stockholder
548
00:32:21,641 --> 00:32:24,112
is August Dalgran.
549
00:32:24,244 --> 00:32:27,684
August Dalgran had been given a copy
of that test report on the well.
550
00:32:27,814 --> 00:32:31,555
He knew that land contained
no commercially recoverable chemicals.
551
00:32:31,685 --> 00:32:33,212
Thank you, Mr. Morley.
That'll be all.
552
00:32:33,254 --> 00:32:36,026
Your witness.
553
00:32:36,157 --> 00:32:40,131
Mr. Morley, who gave August Dalgran
the report on that well?
554
00:32:40,261 --> 00:32:42,498
His nephew, Kenneth Dalgran.
555
00:32:42,629 --> 00:32:45,634
Did you see Kenneth give it to his uncle?
556
00:32:45,766 --> 00:32:46,792
No.
557
00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:49,371
Did you ever hear August Dalgran
refer to that report?
558
00:32:49,502 --> 00:32:51,502
No.
559
00:32:53,406 --> 00:32:54,933
No further questions.
560
00:32:54,975 --> 00:32:57,847
Just a moment, Mr. Morley.
l have some redirect.
561
00:32:57,978 --> 00:33:01,418
How do you know the defendant,
Mr. Dalgran,
562
00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:04,820
was aware of the contents of that report?
563
00:33:04,952 --> 00:33:09,528
l know because Ken told Fenton and me
he'd given Mr. Dalgran that report.
564
00:33:09,657 --> 00:33:12,829
And that Gus-- uh, Mr. Dalgran--
565
00:33:12,961 --> 00:33:14,787
had only looked at it,
566
00:33:14,829 --> 00:33:19,572
and he laughed and threw it away.
567
00:33:19,701 --> 00:33:22,940
Your Honor
l move the answer be _tricken out
568
00:33:23,071 --> 00:33:25,074
on the ground that it is purely hearsay.
569
00:33:25,207 --> 00:33:29,849
lf it please the court, l should like this
hearsay testimony admitted
570
00:33:29,978 --> 00:33:33,652
for the limited purpose of showing
the state of mind of the defendant.
571
00:33:33,782 --> 00:33:38,056
That state of mind is of course
why we can't produce the report itself.
572
00:33:38,187 --> 00:33:39,846
The defendant threw it away.
573
00:33:39,888 --> 00:33:42,426
There you are, Your Honor.
574
00:33:42,557 --> 00:33:46,665
The District Attorney wants hearsay evidence
permitted to show a state of mind
575
00:33:46,795 --> 00:33:49,801
in order to bring into evidence
the contents of a missing report.
576
00:33:49,932 --> 00:33:53,371
Where obviously the report itself
is the best evidence
577
00:33:53,502 --> 00:33:55,502
as to the contents of the report.
578
00:33:56,305 --> 00:34:02,150
l think l will sustain the objection
at this time and grant the motion to strike.
579
00:34:02,278 --> 00:34:04,750
Yes, l knew about the test.
580
00:34:04,814 --> 00:34:07,151
l knew there wasn't anything worthwhile
in that well we were digging.
581
00:34:07,284 --> 00:34:12,427
And l assumed Mr. Dalgran,
the defendant, knew it, too.
582
00:34:12,555 --> 00:34:15,661
Why did you assume
the defendant knew it, Mr. Blair?
583
00:34:15,792 --> 00:34:18,631
Because of the government man,
Mr. Joseph Tayback.
584
00:34:18,761 --> 00:34:21,233
Suppose you tell us about Mr. Tayback?
585
00:34:21,365 --> 00:34:25,774
Well, he surveyed that whole desert area.
Something about an Air Force missile base.
586
00:34:25,903 --> 00:34:28,307
l told Ken about it
when he came out to the well.
587
00:34:28,439 --> 00:34:31,211
And Ken told Mr. Dalgran.
588
00:34:31,341 --> 00:34:33,135
And how do you know that?
589
00:34:33,177 --> 00:34:36,484
Well, l got a letter that referred
to Mr. Tayback and his survey.
590
00:34:36,613 --> 00:34:40,387
lt said that this Air Force missile base
would be a real bonanza
591
00:34:40,517 --> 00:34:42,245
to the whole desert area.
592
00:34:42,287 --> 00:34:44,290
lt would be better, for a while,
if nobody knew about it.
593
00:34:44,422 --> 00:34:46,793
To go on drilling the well,
594
00:34:46,924 --> 00:34:49,796
even though the test report
showed we'd find nothing.
595
00:34:49,927 --> 00:34:51,820
And who signed that letter?
596
00:34:51,862 --> 00:34:53,862
Mr. August Dalgran.
597
00:34:57,168 --> 00:35:01,977
Well, the particular section we wanted
was owned by a Manzanita Realty Company.
598
00:35:02,106 --> 00:35:07,650
All of our negotiations consisted
of a preliminary series of omers
599
00:35:07,712 --> 00:35:09,949
and counter omers by mail
with that company.
600
00:35:10,081 --> 00:35:14,490
Now, Mr. Tayback, in your experience
establishing new military bases,
601
00:35:14,619 --> 00:35:19,595
what happens when a military establishment
is created in an area like this?
602
00:35:19,724 --> 00:35:24,533
Where bases locate, housing springs up,
businesses develop,
603
00:35:24,662 --> 00:35:27,300
cities are born overnight.
604
00:35:27,433 --> 00:35:30,005
Adjacent property is worth millions.
605
00:35:30,135 --> 00:35:33,207
So the real profit, a matter
of possibly millions of dollars,
606
00:35:33,339 --> 00:35:36,545
would disappear
if Kenneth Dalgran were allowed
607
00:35:36,675 --> 00:35:41,283
to authorize the sale of the company's
own property for a mere _100,OOO.
608
00:35:41,413 --> 00:35:44,318
Mr. Tayback, this is vitally important.
609
00:35:44,451 --> 00:35:48,926
ln all your negotiations, did you ever
correspond with more than one person?
610
00:35:49,054 --> 00:35:50,113
No, sir.
611
00:35:50,155 --> 00:35:53,929
All these certified photostats will show
612
00:35:54,059 --> 00:35:58,134
that every letter from Manzanita Realty
was signed by the same person.
613
00:35:58,265 --> 00:36:01,371
And who was that one person
with whom you corresponded?
614
00:36:01,501 --> 00:36:05,475
The one person who could not allow
Kenneth Dalgran to sell that land.
615
00:36:05,539 --> 00:36:08,177
The one person whose signature
appears on all those letters?
616
00:36:08,308 --> 00:36:11,782
August Dalgran.
617
00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:16,284
Please, Perry, not eating
isn't going to help Gus.
618
00:36:16,416 --> 00:36:19,121
lt's only going to hurt you.
619
00:36:19,252 --> 00:36:23,026
Oh, if he'd only tell me the truth.
620
00:36:23,156 --> 00:36:26,161
Stop this pretended mental deterioration.
621
00:36:26,294 --> 00:36:28,297
lt's almost like flying blind.
622
00:36:28,429 --> 00:36:31,501
l can only guess where we are.
623
00:36:31,631 --> 00:36:35,739
Where we're going.
624
00:36:35,869 --> 00:36:39,710
All right, Paul, l suppose you have
some more ''happy surprises'' for me.
625
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,883
Well, the operative tailing Sandra Dalgran
reports that three days after the murder,
626
00:36:45,012 --> 00:36:47,316
she went to a downtown theatre
to see a picture called...
627
00:36:47,448 --> 00:36:49,208
Too Soon Blues.
628
00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:51,420
You sound as if you expected that?
629
00:36:51,553 --> 00:36:54,458
No, but l was hoping for it. Go on.
630
00:36:54,590 --> 00:36:58,497
Well, love flew out the window years ago
for the Kenneth Dalgrans.
631
00:36:58,626 --> 00:37:02,200
lt appears that Kenneth played the field
and not always too carefully.
632
00:37:02,331 --> 00:37:06,038
And if she wasn't completely pure,
Sandra was circumspect.
633
00:37:06,101 --> 00:37:09,140
Well, reasonably circumspect anyway.
634
00:37:09,271 --> 00:37:10,964
- Who's the man?
- Donald Morley.
635
00:37:11,006 --> 00:37:15,147
One of the local detective agencies
was hired to dig up evidence on the romance
636
00:37:15,277 --> 00:37:17,581
for a possible divorce action.
637
00:37:17,713 --> 00:37:21,720
Well, at least part of this
is beginning to fit together.
638
00:37:21,850 --> 00:37:23,209
There's one other thing.
639
00:37:23,251 --> 00:37:25,489
That piece of paper you found
in the basement.
640
00:37:25,622 --> 00:37:27,213
The one with the repeated signatures?
641
00:37:27,255 --> 00:37:29,426
A handwriting expert checked that paper--
642
00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:31,352
the signatures of everyone
involved in the case
643
00:37:31,394 --> 00:37:33,254
and the signatures on the security
endorsements you showed him--
644
00:37:33,296 --> 00:37:34,355
and you were right.
645
00:37:34,397 --> 00:37:38,271
That paper l found
was a practice sheet for forgery.
646
00:37:38,401 --> 00:37:41,173
However, it wasn't just a single forgery.
647
00:37:41,304 --> 00:37:44,878
Somebody inside Dalgran Associates
was busy forging two names.
648
00:37:51,714 --> 00:37:56,456
Absolutely sane at all times,
the defendant cunningly assumed
649
00:37:56,587 --> 00:38:01,530
a form of mental aberration only to forestall
the sale of acreage worth millions
650
00:38:01,659 --> 00:38:04,965
while his attorney replaced
some stolen money.
651
00:38:05,028 --> 00:38:08,134
Though his nephew vaguely knew
of some government interest,
652
00:38:08,265 --> 00:38:11,604
neither he nor
the two Dalgran Associates partners
653
00:38:11,734 --> 00:38:15,475
actually knew of the fabulous windfall
due to befall this area.
654
00:38:15,606 --> 00:38:17,199
Therefore acting in good faith.
655
00:38:17,241 --> 00:38:19,067
Urged on by the partners,
656
00:38:19,109 --> 00:38:22,783
Kenneth Dalgran authorized
the sale of that land.
657
00:38:22,913 --> 00:38:26,052
Visualizing millions of dollars
slipping away from him.
658
00:38:26,183 --> 00:38:29,790
The now enraged defendant,
desperate to stop that sale,
659
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,313
broke out of the sanitarium,
660
00:38:31,355 --> 00:38:34,695
rushed to his nephew,
fought with him, and killed him.
661
00:38:34,825 --> 00:38:38,732
Your Honor, l move that August Dalgran
be bound over for trial in Superior Court
662
00:38:38,862 --> 00:38:40,862
on a charge of murder in the first degree.
663
00:38:40,964 --> 00:38:44,905
Mr. Mason, before l rule
on the prosecution motion,
664
00:38:45,035 --> 00:38:47,035
is it your intention to present
a defense at this time?
665
00:38:49,974 --> 00:38:50,799
lt is, Your Honor.
666
00:38:50,841 --> 00:38:56,753
Defense waives opening statement and calls as
its first witness, Mr.Jay Fenton.
667
00:38:56,881 --> 00:39:01,189
l hold here a list copied directly
from the Dalgran firm's ledgers.
668
00:39:01,419 --> 00:39:06,328
We are not now talking
of the missing trust funds,
669
00:39:06,391 --> 00:39:08,395
but of your company's own assets.
670
00:39:08,527 --> 00:39:10,287
Are you aware, Mr. Fenton,
671
00:39:10,329 --> 00:39:13,435
that some of those negotiable securities
are missing from the company safe?
672
00:39:13,566 --> 00:39:15,392
What?
673
00:39:15,434 --> 00:39:17,361
Well, that can't be. It's impossible.
674
00:39:17,403 --> 00:39:23,047
Ordinarily, there would be no reason
to either question or to examine such assets,
675
00:39:23,175 --> 00:39:26,281
but l obtained a court order
and had the safe opened last night.
676
00:39:26,412 --> 00:39:29,919
But-- But that would mean that--
677
00:39:30,049 --> 00:39:34,691
That not only _100,OOO,
but other valuable company assets
678
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:36,820
had been stolen from Dalgran Associates.
679
00:39:38,124 --> 00:39:41,263
[Martha]
Yes. Yes, Mr. Mason.
680
00:39:41,393 --> 00:39:44,466
Kenneth had stole _100,OOO
681
00:39:46,132 --> 00:39:48,337
from the trust fund accounts.
682
00:39:48,468 --> 00:39:52,242
l-- l confronted him.
683
00:39:52,372 --> 00:39:53,964
He cried.
684
00:39:54,006 --> 00:39:56,444
He begged me to help him.
685
00:39:56,576 --> 00:40:01,752
He said he'd only borrowed the money
to make an investment to impress his uncle.
686
00:40:01,882 --> 00:40:05,321
But he lied. He kept the money.
687
00:40:05,452 --> 00:40:09,293
He threatened to name me
as his accomplice if l exposed him.
688
00:40:09,422 --> 00:40:12,796
l was afraid. l didn't say anything.
689
00:40:12,926 --> 00:40:14,653
Yet the accountants were sure
690
00:40:14,695 --> 00:40:17,500
that August Dalgran
took that trust fund money.
691
00:40:17,632 --> 00:40:22,641
Mr. Gus found out Kenny had stolen
that hundred thousand.
692
00:40:22,770 --> 00:40:26,811
He doctored the books
to make it look like he,
693
00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:28,833
not Kenny, had stolen the money.
694
00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:32,182
Why did Kenneth authorize the sale
of that desert property?
695
00:40:32,313 --> 00:40:37,656
That's why he wanted the money
from the company assets.
696
00:40:37,786 --> 00:40:40,257
With Mr. Gus in the sanitarium,
697
00:40:40,388 --> 00:40:45,030
He sold that land to himself
using a dummy, of course.
698
00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:47,531
[Mason]
Those company assets,
699
00:40:47,663 --> 00:40:49,523
they were negotiable securities,
700
00:40:49,565 --> 00:40:53,271
securities that could only be used
when properly endorsed.
701
00:40:53,402 --> 00:40:55,606
Now, can you tell me how Kenneth,
702
00:40:55,737 --> 00:40:58,442
not an omicer of the company,
could use them?
703
00:40:58,574 --> 00:41:05,187
l-- l suppose he forged the endorsements.
704
00:41:05,247 --> 00:41:09,355
The-- The night of the murder,
l was-- l was working at the omice.
705
00:41:09,484 --> 00:41:11,521
Alone, Mr. Morley?
706
00:41:11,653 --> 00:41:12,747
Most of the time.
707
00:41:12,789 --> 00:41:14,247
The time you weren't alone,
708
00:41:14,289 --> 00:41:16,326
the person with you
was Kenneth Dalgran's wife Sandra?
709
00:41:18,126 --> 00:41:19,386
Yes.
710
00:41:19,428 --> 00:41:22,835
- Are you and Sandra in love with each other?
- Yes.
711
00:41:22,965 --> 00:41:24,224
Yes, we are.
712
00:41:24,266 --> 00:41:25,827
But we've done nothing wrong.
713
00:41:25,869 --> 00:41:28,908
That's not what her husband,
Kenneth Dalgran, thought, is it?
714
00:41:29,037 --> 00:41:30,431
No.
715
00:41:30,473 --> 00:41:35,049
Ken told me a-- a detective agency
had a full file on the two of us.
716
00:41:35,178 --> 00:41:36,470
He threatened to twist the facts
717
00:41:36,512 --> 00:41:39,851
and to sue her for divorce
and name me as correspondent.
718
00:41:39,983 --> 00:41:43,022
Kenneth threatened to do all that
unless what, Mr. Morley?
719
00:41:43,152 --> 00:41:48,061
Unless l agreed to turn over my share
of the Dalgran Associates partnership to him.
720
00:41:48,191 --> 00:41:53,167
So Sandra Dalgran didn't leave the sanitarium
to go to the movies that night,
721
00:41:53,296 --> 00:41:57,405
she met you alone in the omice
to talk over your problems?
722
00:41:57,534 --> 00:42:02,343
No. No, Sandra didn't know anything
about Kenny's threats, or the divorce.
723
00:42:02,473 --> 00:42:06,247
She was so desperately worried
about Gus because of the--
724
00:42:07,411 --> 00:42:09,411
The what, Mr. Morley?
725
00:42:09,513 --> 00:42:12,819
Suicide note.
726
00:42:12,950 --> 00:42:14,953
Ken was working in the den.
727
00:42:15,085 --> 00:42:18,257
l went to hang up his jacket
and found the note in the jacket pocket.
728
00:42:18,389 --> 00:42:22,731
lt was sort of rambling,
disjointed farewell to life.
729
00:42:22,861 --> 00:42:25,766
The note was typed
with a signature on the bottom.
730
00:42:25,897 --> 00:42:27,389
Whose signature?
731
00:42:27,431 --> 00:42:30,036
August Dalgran.
732
00:42:30,167 --> 00:42:31,794
Uncle Gus.
733
00:42:31,836 --> 00:42:35,142
l-- l didn't understand it,
why it should be in Kenny's pocket.
734
00:42:35,273 --> 00:42:38,077
l-- l was afraid to ask Kenny about it.
735
00:42:38,209 --> 00:42:40,980
So you went to the sanitarium
to ask Gus himself?
736
00:42:41,112 --> 00:42:43,182
Yes, he was furious.
737
00:42:43,315 --> 00:42:45,819
He denied having written
or having signed the note.
738
00:42:45,952 --> 00:42:50,293
All but screamed that Kenny planned
to kill him and make it look like a suicide.
739
00:42:50,422 --> 00:42:53,796
Why have you lied?
Said nothing about the note?
740
00:42:55,327 --> 00:43:00,671
Well, l always liked,
really liked Uncle Gus.
741
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,674
But l could never make him believe
that Kenny was worthless, no good.
742
00:43:04,737 --> 00:43:07,342
l said nothing because l thought--
743
00:43:07,473 --> 00:43:10,478
Because you thought August Dalgran
had killed his nephew.
744
00:43:10,609 --> 00:43:12,503
No. No!
745
00:43:12,545 --> 00:43:15,217
Because you didn't want the police
to know of a forged suicide note
746
00:43:15,348 --> 00:43:18,153
that gave August Dalgran
an even stronger motive for murder.
747
00:43:18,284 --> 00:43:20,922
No, he couldn't. He wouldn't.
748
00:43:21,053 --> 00:43:22,914
Why, l know how he felt about Kenny.
749
00:43:22,956 --> 00:43:25,961
Why-- Why, only a couple of months ago,
Uncle Gus was telling me--
750
00:43:26,092 --> 00:43:29,598
Your Honor, l hesitate to object to this,
751
00:43:29,730 --> 00:43:33,637
since learned counsel
is actually digging up new evidence
752
00:43:33,767 --> 00:43:37,106
to strengthen
his own client's motive for murder.
753
00:43:37,236 --> 00:43:40,208
But we do object to this rambling hearsay
754
00:43:40,340 --> 00:43:43,846
about what Uncle Gus said or felt
755
00:43:43,977 --> 00:43:46,582
There's only one person
who can testify to things.
756
00:43:46,713 --> 00:43:48,606
That's the defendant himself.
757
00:43:48,648 --> 00:43:54,393
And even though Mr. Mason seems intent
on buttressing the state's case,
758
00:43:54,521 --> 00:43:57,326
l cannot believe he would be so foolhardy--
759
00:43:57,457 --> 00:43:59,384
Excuse me, Mr. Burger.
760
00:43:59,426 --> 00:44:00,585
Yes, Mr. Mason.
761
00:44:00,627 --> 00:44:03,099
l would like to call as our ne_ witness,
the defendant,
762
00:44:03,163 --> 00:44:06,035
August Dalgran.
763
00:44:11,238 --> 00:44:17,517
Well, the door was open so l went in.
764
00:44:17,645 --> 00:44:22,855
And in the den lay my nephew, dead.
765
00:44:22,984 --> 00:44:26,458
The gun was beside the body.
766
00:44:26,587 --> 00:44:29,426
And underneath the body was an envelope
767
00:44:29,557 --> 00:44:33,398
containing a detective agency report
768
00:44:33,528 --> 00:44:37,502
on Sandra and Don Morley.
769
00:44:37,632 --> 00:44:41,741
Well, l don't know how l found the strength
770
00:44:41,870 --> 00:44:44,207
to get his body out through the den door.
771
00:44:44,338 --> 00:44:50,284
And then l struggled with it.
Got it in the back of the station wagon.
772
00:44:50,412 --> 00:44:53,049
So l headed for the desert.
773
00:44:53,181 --> 00:44:59,327
You see, l-- l intended to bury
Kenneth's body.
774
00:44:59,455 --> 00:45:01,859
l couldn't manage it.
775
00:45:01,991 --> 00:45:07,836
So l drove on to the well
hoping that Chuck would help me.
776
00:45:09,866 --> 00:45:14,507
After your arrest,
you continued to plead insanity.
777
00:45:14,637 --> 00:45:15,696
Why?
778
00:45:15,738 --> 00:45:19,412
Being wrong about Kenneth was bad enough,
779
00:45:19,542 --> 00:45:24,050
but l was so wrong about his wife.
780
00:45:24,179 --> 00:45:27,084
Because l thought
that she had killed Kenny
781
00:45:27,217 --> 00:45:29,321
on account of their divorce business--
782
00:45:29,452 --> 00:45:32,658
and, well, that gun,
that was the one l bought for her.
783
00:45:32,789 --> 00:45:36,696
Let's go over the reasons as to why
your nephew wanted to kill you.
784
00:45:36,826 --> 00:45:38,826
We know he stole the _100,OOO
785
00:45:38,896 --> 00:45:41,133
and used it through
your Manzanita Company
786
00:45:41,264 --> 00:45:44,403
to buy additional desert acreage.
787
00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:45,794
Now, did you know of this?
788
00:45:45,836 --> 00:45:47,940
No.
789
00:45:48,072 --> 00:45:52,681
Oh, and Kenneth never showed me
the test report on the well, never.
790
00:45:52,810 --> 00:45:56,817
But that letter you wrote to Chuck,
all the letters you wrote to Mr. Tayback?
791
00:45:56,947 --> 00:45:58,874
l wrote none of them.
792
00:45:58,916 --> 00:46:00,876
Kenneth wrote those letters.
793
00:46:00,918 --> 00:46:03,723
And forged your name.
794
00:46:03,787 --> 00:46:05,647
Why, Mr. Dalgran?
795
00:46:05,689 --> 00:46:11,333
Why would he have used the _100,OOO
to put the adjacent property in your name?
796
00:46:11,462 --> 00:46:13,834
You see, Kenneth was my heir.
797
00:46:13,965 --> 00:46:16,970
l guess, that's why he planned my--
my suicide.
798
00:46:17,102 --> 00:46:22,312
So the entire desert property would
have ended up in his hands alone.
799
00:46:22,439 --> 00:46:24,911
No, Mr. Dalgran, not quite.
800
00:46:25,043 --> 00:46:26,903
Kenny had a partner.
801
00:46:26,945 --> 00:46:29,684
Somebody had discovered his plan.
802
00:46:29,814 --> 00:46:34,155
Then boldly confronted Kenneth
and cut himself in on the deal.
803
00:46:34,286 --> 00:46:36,823
Uh, Mr. Dalgran,
804
00:46:36,955 --> 00:46:41,230
those negotiable assets,
who would have had to endorse them
805
00:46:41,359 --> 00:46:43,253
to make them useable as securities?
806
00:46:43,295 --> 00:46:45,122
Morley, Fenton, and myself.
807
00:46:45,164 --> 00:46:50,909
l have here a deposition
from an outstanding handwriting expert
808
00:46:51,037 --> 00:46:54,778
who has studied those endorsed securities.
809
00:46:54,907 --> 00:46:58,681
Kenneth forged your signature,
but only one other,
810
00:46:58,811 --> 00:47:01,282
that of Donald Morley.
811
00:47:01,414 --> 00:47:03,618
He didn't have to forge
his partner's signature.
812
00:47:03,683 --> 00:47:05,853
He didn't have to forge the name of--
813
00:47:05,985 --> 00:47:07,444
Jay Fenton.
814
00:47:07,486 --> 00:47:09,486
Well, that doesn't prove a thing.
815
00:47:11,158 --> 00:47:14,464
Aren't you forgetting
the detective agency, Mr. Fenton?
816
00:47:14,594 --> 00:47:16,864
The one which you prepared
that divorce material?
817
00:47:16,997 --> 00:47:20,336
All right, all right, yes!
818
00:47:20,466 --> 00:47:26,311
l was in it with Ken and l hired
the agency to force out Morley.
819
00:47:26,439 --> 00:47:31,850
But l swear to you-- l swear,
l knew nothing about killing Gus
820
00:47:31,979 --> 00:47:34,784
and making it look like a suicide.
821
00:47:34,915 --> 00:47:39,089
Gus, please-- Gus, believe me.
822
00:47:39,219 --> 00:47:44,062
ls that what you and Ken were fighting over?
Killing Gus?
823
00:47:44,192 --> 00:47:49,535
l went to see Ken at his house.
824
00:47:49,663 --> 00:47:53,170
He was in the den.
825
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:57,742
He remembered something.
He left the room.
826
00:47:57,872 --> 00:48:02,748
When he came back, he was like a madman.
827
00:48:02,810 --> 00:48:05,649
He was pointing that gun at me.
828
00:48:05,780 --> 00:48:10,823
And he accused me of having stolen
that suicide note that he wrote
829
00:48:10,952 --> 00:48:15,528
and of planning to double-cross him.
830
00:48:15,657 --> 00:48:18,929
He was going to kill me.
831
00:48:19,060 --> 00:48:23,202
So l-- l jumped at him.
832
00:48:23,331 --> 00:48:26,770
And we-- we struggled.
833
00:48:28,536 --> 00:48:30,536
And the gun went om.
834
00:48:33,709 --> 00:48:35,709
And he was dead.
835
00:48:36,912 --> 00:48:39,817
You wouldn't have killed Gus,
836
00:48:39,948 --> 00:48:43,020
but you would have allowed him
to go to the gas chamber?
837
00:48:43,152 --> 00:48:46,692
ls that it, Mr. Fenton?
838
00:48:52,394 --> 00:48:55,800
Well, it's no farm area, Gus,
and no brine plant,
839
00:48:55,931 --> 00:48:57,292
but with a missile base coming,
840
00:48:57,334 --> 00:48:59,227
it'll still be a city, all right.
841
00:48:59,269 --> 00:49:00,694
Dalgran City.
842
00:49:00,736 --> 00:49:02,063
That would be a pretty good name.
843
00:49:02,105 --> 00:49:05,946
May well be since it's right ne_
to Dalgran Air Force Base.
844
00:49:06,009 --> 00:49:07,869
You see, Gus wants to hand over
to the government
845
00:49:07,911 --> 00:49:09,911
a deed for this land as a gift.
846
00:49:10,013 --> 00:49:12,417
A dream come true, Uncle Gus.
847
00:49:12,549 --> 00:49:14,819
You talked enough about it in the past.
848
00:49:14,951 --> 00:49:21,497
You going to just stand there, crying,
and not say anything?
849
00:49:22,525 --> 00:49:26,399
Well, l'll say this much.
850
00:49:26,529 --> 00:49:27,822
lt's all right with me
851
00:49:27,864 --> 00:49:32,573
if it's all right with my partners.
852
00:49:45,049 --> 00:49:48,054
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