All language subtitles for PENGUIN POOL MURDER 1932

I want to talk to Parker himself. No one

else.

What you tell Mr. Parker he'd better

talk to me if he knows what's good for

him.

>> Mr. Hemingway insists on speaking to

you.

>> I told you I didn't want to. All right,

I'll talk to you.

>> Hello, Hemingway. That's too bad about

your stock. Had to let it go.

>> Too bad. You cheap swindler. You You

sold me off of THE STOCK DOWN FIVE

POINTS AND CHARGED ME WITH A WHOLE 20

POINT LOSS.

>> OH, YOU'RE CRAZY, MAN. I've been swamped

with selling orders. I took care of YOU

IN TURN. [clears throat]

>> LIAR. CHEAT. YOU RUIN ME. You'll rob me.

And when I see you,

>> if Hemingway calls again, all comes

here. I'm not in.

>> Very well. We are taking Mrs. Parker to

dinner in the theater this evening. It's

5:30 now. Oh, yes. When? I've forgotten.

I'll have to hurry.

>> Oh, I know you need the money, darling.

But jury's sunk everything in the

market. We're broke.

Oh, of course. I love you, darling. I'd

do anything. But where can I get $5,000

by Wednesday?

>> Oh, no, no, no. It's impossible. All he

has left is his insurance, and that's no

help unless

Hello.

Hello. Hello.

Phillip. Yes, it's really Gwen.

A lifetime. You can still say those nice

things, can't you, Phillip?

You once told me that if I ever needed

help, I only had to call you. But I must

see you someplace where we won't be

noticed.

>> Oh, I knew you wouldn't fail me.

Goodbye, Phillip. The uh

>> Oh, hello, Jerry. You're late.

>> We're talking to Philip Seymour.

>> I can't help it if he calls me up, can

I?

>> You swore to me you'd never see him

again.

>> I didn't see him.

>> You're lied.

>> I'm sick of your suspicions and

jealousies. I wish I'd never married

you. Never met

I'm through. Do you hear me? I'm through

with you.

>> Where?

Well, Mrs. Parker

Phil, I've broken with Jerry for good.

>> What's happened?

>> Oh, he's been a beast ever since the day

I married him. But last night he he

struck me.

>> struck you?

>> I wish I'd been there.

>> Phil, I should have married you probably

and all.

>> When, darling?

>> Serves me right that you've been so

successful, but Oh, Phil, you've got to

help me. I made up my mind. I'm going to

divorce him.

>> Well, of course I'll help you. Let me

telephone the office that I won't be

back today and we can talk it all over.

>> Wait right here. I won't be a minute.

>> What's that? My wife. Who is this

talking? Hello. Hello.

Why don't you watch where you're going,

cozy fool?

>> Thanks.

>> I'd leave him today, but but he's put

all my money into the market trying to

save himself.

>> Well, I can let you have whatever you

>> What are you doing here with this man?

>> Well, we just happen to be here.

>> He's your lover, isn't he? Philip

Seymour. He was your lover before you

married me.

>> No, that's not true.

>> Here, you fool. You don't know what

you're talking about.

>> You think you can break up my home,

steal my wife? Why you

steady?

>> What have you done?

>> Nothing. You'll come out of it.

>> Walk slowly to the entrance. I'll meet

you there.

>> What are you going to do? Go on.

Oh, Mrs. Coxman, what funny looking

sardines? [laughter]

>> Help. Stop it. YOU GOT MY BAG. STOP IT.

YOU GOT MY

A LITTLE MAN WITH A DARK blue coat on.

He took my bag. I was standing RIGHT

THERE WITH ALL MY MONEY ON. I DON'T

KNOW. STOP IT.

>> YEAH. CHILDREN, you see,

>> never try to obey the law with an

umbrella between your legs.

>> Honesty, young man, is the best policy.

Come, get up. Get up. Get up. Here's the

door.

>> Here's the door. Pick up that pocket

book.

>> Yes, ma'am.

>> Come, come. You're not lending money on

it. Hand it over to Snake.

>> Uhhuh.

A pickpocket, eh?

>> The man's a born detective. [laughter]

What's all the fuss about?

>> Hello, Frank. What's up? It's a pickp

packet.

>> It's Kaloo. Huh?

Him. All right. We've been looking for

him for two months. He's deaf and dumb.

>> Just a minute, Dunovan. If there's a

reward, I lay claim to it here now.

>> I'm arresting you, mate. I I RECOGNIZE

HIM, DIDN'T I?

>> Makes no difference. He's mine. I'll

leave it to anybody here.

>> Seems to be some argument about the

reward. May I say, it was my young

brother that tripped him. But this is no

time for squabbbling. Can't you see this

man is badly hurt?

>> He's gone.

>> Well, that ends the reward business now.

Nobody gets it.

>> We must go now. This is not what I had

in mind when I brought you to see the

fish. Eddie, you come back here. Where

do you think you're going?

>> I want to see the monkey.

>> Oh, well, monkeys are about the only

things you haven't seen here today. You

come right back here. You've seen

enough.

My headpin. It's gone. It's gone. Well,

children, why don't you do something?

Don't stand there like a lot of

grown-ups. Teachers lost their headpin.

Oh, it was a very bad old one. My mother

gave it to me years ago. It had a garnet

in it.

>> What's a garnet, teacher?

>> Don't quibble. Now everybody go right

back to where we started and look

everywhere on the floor in the fish

tanks. In the fish look everywhere. I'll

give a prize to the first one who spent

>> a prize. What's a prize teacher?

>> Oh well, no homework tomorrow.

>> A prize? No homework? Such a prize.

Bill.

>> Well, where have you been? I've been

waiting.

>> What'd you do with it? She'll be all

right.

>> Mrs. Parker. Mrs. Parker. This is a

pleasure, Mrs. Parker. I

>> I I don't believe I remember.

>> I am Veteran B. Hemingway, the director

here. Of course, I can't expect you to

remember all of your admirers. I met you

in your Hudson office.

>> Yes.

>> Now, you must let me show you my office.

I'm sure you'll find it most unusual.

>> Well, really, I will not take no for an

answer. You must come to Mr. uh

>> Seymour.

>> Mr. Seymour, a friend of your husbands,

I presume.

>> Yes.

>> Uh this way, if you please, Mr. Seymour.

YOU MAY HAVE

YOU'RE A good boy, Abraham.

No homework for you tomorrow.

>> Oh, I've done my homework already. Two

days ahead.

>> Oh, that's too bad, Abraham. We'll have

to think of something else for you.

Well, now we must hurry, children,

before any more criminals come in. Are

we all here? Perhaps I'd better count

noses. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. It's one nose

missing. Where's the door? M. Is it? Is

a dog?

>> Oh, yes,

>> Come along, Isad. Come. Is it? You mind

me?

Come along. Is it?

>> Oh, this dog is acting so funny.

>> I told you again and again that is not a

duck. It's a penguin.

>> But look how he is hopping up and then

down. Is it Max? You mind me? You me.

YOU

[clears throat]

TEACHER.

This is a celebrated fine manifer

anthropous.

You think she is lonesome?

>> You're wrong. Only this morning she

killed her husband and ate him bones,

fins, and all. Nowadays the bald wife

seeks the divorce court or uses the

revolver but not so malispectful

anthropoagus.

Would you know this little lady uses her

teeth?

There's a man in the penguin tank.

What's the man doing in the penguin

tank? Make him get out at once. But but

this man is dead.

Come on.

most extraordinary. I've never had a

thing like this happen before in all

years I've been director here. NOW, GET

THIS BACK. GET THESE PEOPLE OUT of here.

Come get instead of ordering these

people out. I'd lock them in. I've

already sent for the police. One of them

may be A MURDERER.

>> LET GO.

NO, you don't. No, you don't. I got the

Every word of you might be guilty. Stand

back.

>> General Parker, your husband.

>> What have we done?

It's all right, madam. Don't be

frightened. Costello is the name. Barry

Costello. I may be able to help you. I'm

a lawyer.

>> I'll be needing a man to help you here.

Maybe some life left in this corporette.

Here, young man. Come on. Come here.

Step back here, folks. Don't be

speech piper. Some kid called up and

said there was a dead man in swimming

with the ducks over there. Inspector

Donovan, what do you think you're doing?

>> Oh, hello inspector. I'm just trying to

bring him through according to rules.

>> Mom. Huh? Who is he?

>> Director here. I identified him as Mr.

Gerald Parker.

>> Gerald Parker used to be my broker. You

must have been drunk and chilled in the

tank. Got it all figured out, haven't

you?

Bump on the back of the head.

>> Bruise in the chin.

>> So, director, this looks to me like a

clear case of homicide.

>> I realized that a half an hour ago.

That's why I had one of my pupils call

the police.

>> I'm surprised you thought the police

necessary.

>> Yes,

>> Mr. Director, I'm going to need your

help. I want everyone that was here when

the thing happened taken to your office.

Go ahead, Donovan. Get their addresses.

>> All right. Come on. Follow me,

everybody. Come on.

Madam, will you make up your mind? Did

you or did you not see Seymour hit the

deceased?

>> Big pun, inspector, she answered that

question a few moments ago.

I did not.

>> What are you doing? Writing a letter

home?

>> Well, I'm taking down the minutes of the

meeting.

Not a bad idea.

All right, you can go.

Now, listen. I've still got a lot of

questions, and somebody here has got the

answers. Who was the first one to see

the body?

>> I was.

Go on, young man.

>> Were you alone?

>> I was with my class of pupils.

>> Where are those pupils? What do you mean

by letting them go home?

>> Letting them? I see you have no children

of your own, Inspector. The moment you

ordered everybody to stay, they uh I

believe the word is scar.

>> You seem to have authority over everyone

except your own pupils.

>> By the way, what's your full name?

>> Hildigard Martha with us.

>> Occupation.

>> Well, really, inspector, what do you

suppose I was doing here with my class

of pupils? Entertaining the fish. I'm a

school teacher, and I might have done

wonders with you if I'd caught you young

enough. acquainted

with a deceased

>> only by sight. I saw him for the first

time in the tank today.

>> That'll do for you.

>> What's your name?

>> Seymour. Philip Seymour.

Come on. What are you doing here?

Why have you ever told me that again?

Come on. Let's go down and see the

inspector. Come on.

It's as clear as day what happened.

You're in love with Mrs. Parker and you

murdered an unconscious, defenseless

man.

>> You can't bully me into anything,

Inspector. I don't think I killed

Parker. And if I did, it was an

accident.

>> You killed him. All right.

If Mrs. Parker was mixed up in it, we'll

find that out, too.

>> Looks like another Snider Gray killing

to me.

>> All right. What's this, gentlemen? I

found this worm hiding behind one of the

tanks.

>> Well, that's the man I caught with my

umbrella. Chicago Lou.

>> Hiding behind the tanks, eh? Well, you

know something and you're going to spoon

it.

>> GP Gerald Parker.

The murdered man's watch.

Come on. Where'd you get that watch?

Pick up.

>> Can't you see the man? The death mute.

You won't talk, huh?

All right. Get him out of here. Lock him

up. Sing him to sleep.

Well, Mrs. Parker, after Seymour knocked

your husband down and you left him, what

did you do?

>> I I I just wandered around the exhibits

waiting for him.

>> But when Seymour reached the front

entrance, he had to wait for you.

How long did it take you to wander

around?

>> About

10 minutes. And while Seymour waited,

there was time for you to slip back

where your husband was lying unconscious

and kill him.

>> I didn't. I didn't.

>> Look here. Mrs. Parker doesn't have to

answer these questions.

>> No. Who are you?

>> I'm a lawyer. I offered my services to

Mrs. Parker and I was detained just a

little while ago.

>> A lawyer? I Well, it looks like she's

going to need you.

>> Mrs. Parker, we sent a woman to the

electric chair in New York a short while

ago. Maybe you saw the pictures in the

papers.

Well, yes. I

>> Now, Mrs. Pler, I'm only trying to find

out the truth. What do you think a woman

should do if she's tied to a man she

hates? A man who frightens her and

abuses her.

>> She had to get rid of him. Get away from

him.

>> And you feared and hated your husband,

didn't you? His death would mean freedom

for you, wouldn't it?

>> Wait a minute. You win, Viper. There's

no need to go any further. I'll confess

to the murder of Gerald Parker.

I killed Parker. There's no one else

mixed up in it but me.

I kind of thought you'd talk, Seymour.

>> All right, let's have it. How'd you kill

him?

>> Well, I carried his body up onto the

runway and uh

>> And you thought how easy it would be to

push him off in the water while it was

knocked out. Is that it? That's it. I

pushed him into the water and held his

head under. There was a lot of bubbles

for a while and then they stopped

coming. I knew he was dead.

>> Yeah, but why?

>> At the moment, young man, I don't

believe he did. I saw the body fall into

the pool and nobody was holding it

under. Besides, this young man doesn't

look like a murderer.

>> They never do.

>> Just the same, I know bubbles when I see

them, and I didn't see any.

>> Now it's no use, Miss Williams.

>> I've taught school long enough,

Inspector, to know when someone is

telling the truth or not. Mr. Seymour is

shielding someone and

I know who it is.

>> You've got your confession, Inspector.

Isn't that enough?

>> All right, take him out of here, Casey.

>> Goodbye, Phillip.

>> And that's that.

The quickest Mo case I ever saw.

Now the rest of you can

I'll take that. Hemingway

Piper speaking.

What?

Say that again.

All right.

Well, that confession isn't as good as

it sounds.

Philip Seymour killed Parker, all right,

but not the way he told it. Doc Blow, my

medical examiners found that Parker

wasn't drowned.

There isn't a drop of water in his

lungs. He was thoroughly dead before he

ever hit the water.

>> I told you so. Bubbles.

>> All right, you can go, Mrs. Parker, but

don't try to leave town or I'll have it

dragged off the train.

Come. You need a rest.

>> Just a minute. Costello.

Will you wait a moment, please?

>> What are you doing hanging around this

fish house?

>> Well, it's Friday, isn't it?

>> It isn't Friday for wise cracks. Come

on. What are you doing here? Well, as it

so happens, I like penguins.

>> You like penguins?

>> Yes. They're very comical. It may sound

silly, but I come down here quite often

to watch them and get a laugh. I have

quite a valuable collection of penguins

at home.

>> You keep penguins in your own house. You

live alone, I take it.

>> I don't mean real ones. I mean,

have you ever noticed them? They're like

funny little old men in dinner jackets,

slightly drunk. They're human without

being offensive.

You sound like a case for the

psychopathic ward rather than a nice

clean jail.

>> What's your full name?

>> Barry Costello, Journey at Law.

>> Acquainted with the deceased.

>> Never saw him before in my life.

>> Acquainted with his wife, Mrs. Parker.

>> Not until I was lucky enough to catch

her when she fainted.

>> Well, all right. You can go, Castella,

but don't leave town and lay off the

penguins. They'll probably get you into

trouble.

I'd never trust a man who was a penguin

fencier.

>> Well, I wouldn't want to live with one

if he kept bringing them home with him,

but I guess he's harmless. He doesn't

look like a murderer.

>> Who? They never do.

Did you notice Gwen Parker's uh legs,

Inspector?

>> Who didn't?

>> I mean her stocking. They both had

stains on them. Stains.

>> Good. I'll look into that.

>> Say, Inspector, I'm a busy man. You're

taking up a lot of my time.

>> I'm going to take up a lot more of your

time, Mr. Director. You may have

authority over the fish, but you haven't

any over the police department. Not when

you're a murder suspect.

>> A murder suspect?

>> McDonald,

you were on the door when Parker came

in. Do you recall anything about him? I

do. He came in like he was angry,

looking for somebody. He bumped into a

man. His hat was knocked off. It was a

derby hat. I picked it up for him. Get

that with us. Vera wore a derby. Get it?

Nothing else? No, sir. He went on into

the building. All right. So,

way, there's a question I didn't ask

you. Did you ever have a quarrel with

Gerald Parker?

>> No. Why? No, we never qualled. I I

haven't seen him or talked to him in 3

months.

>> Inspector, I think you should read this.

It's addressed to Mr. Hemingway from

General Parker.

>> THAT'S MY FRIEND CORRESPONDENT.

>> JUST a minute. Just a minute.

>> So, he sold you out yesterday, eh? What'

you mean when you said you hadn't seen

Parker in three months?

>> I was afraid.

>> Afraid of what? The consequences of what

YOU DID TO

>> NO, I DIDN'T KILL HIM. YOU CAN trick me

into confessing you can. What are you

afraid of then?

>> I was afraid of losing my position. If

the board of trustees learned that I was

gambling in the market, then you don't

know our board of trustees. I didn't

even know you had a board of trustees in

an aquarium.

What are they, fish?

All right, I want to have another look

behind those tanks.

Can I stick here, sir?

>> Those are yours, weren't they? What's

you afraid of ghosts or something? Well,

>> I got a strange feeling there's somebody

here that don't belong here. There are

rustling and a whispering and soft

footsteps.

>> Oh, get a chair and sit down. This must

be your first job of the homicide squad,

isn't it?

>> Yeah. And I hope it's the last.

I give a lot to know how that murder was

committed.

Let's see.

Seymour would have stood about here

lay the body on the catwalk.

And the murderer, supposing it wasn't

Seymour, would have come on Park Pler

from this direction. He'd have dragged

Parker over

held his head down here for as long as

he thought was possible. And after Well,

I'm sorry, Miss Wii, but I love this

hat. I've worn it for 5 years.

>> Just a moment, young man. You remember

the hat that was floating in this same

pool when Dunovan was trying to revive

the C?

>> Didn't see any hat. I saw it. A grave

fedora. What kind of a hat was it that

McDonald said Papa wore when he came in?

>> A derby. And the hat that was floating

in here was a murderer's hat.

>> Murderer wore the dead man's try derby

instead.

>> Well, I'm glad I always wear a derby.

>> You always wear a derby.

>> Winter and summer. Every employee in the

aquarium can tell you that. That hat is

at the bottom right now.

>> Not enough light. There's a flashlight

in the guard room. Should I get it?

>> Maybe that would be a good idea.

Take a look at Chicago loose hiding

place.

Maybe you better wait here.

Not I

I want a creepy place.

>> Well, you would insist on being a

detective.

>> Hemingway, what are you doing down

there? Bring a flashlight up here.

Hemingway.

Looks to me as though the murderer came

back to get his head out of the pool.

Donovan

or Donovan?

>> Well, the man just can't disappear in

thin air. He must be somewhere.

Inspector,

I'd look everywhere for that flashlight,

Inspector. But it's gone.

>> Never mind that. Donovan, the officer,

was he here when you went after the

flashlight?

>> Why? Why? No, but but I never thought

anything about it. When you hear a man

put on duty and 10 minutes later he's

disappeared, you don't think anything

about it. You're a fool.

>> Well, he's alive anyway.

>> You scolded him for thinking he heard

footsteps.

>> Line of duty. Call the guards. coming

away with it.

Well,

I was just sitting there and something

hit me on the head. It's a good thing it

was your head.

All right, McDonald. Take care, buddy.

>> Oh, thank take him to the police car.

All right, Hemingway, you can go.

>> Good night, maker. I

>> Good night, Mr.

>> That Penguin could talk, I'll bet he'd

tell us who did it.

>> And if he could laugh, I know whom he'd

be laughing at.

>> You know, I can't quite make you laugh,

Miss Withers.

This is a busy day for you, Inspector.

Now you have two mysteries to solve.

When I called up about those notes, I

never expected a layout like this.

>> Well, you may as well have something on

your stomach. You've got a hard day

ahead. Have a little more coffee.

>> No thanks. You do all right by yourself.

on the way of vet, don't you?

>> I suppose you thought school teachers

lived on chalk and old blotting paper.

>> Well, to be frank, I never gave it much

thought what school teachers did.

I must go into it further someday. Now,

about those notes. I suppose you got

them all fried up with clean gravy.

>> No, I typed them out for you instead.

Well, you've got everything in here,

haven't you? Coughs, fish noises, and

everything.

>> You know, you want to be a school

teacher, Miss Withers. You want to be a

>> detective.

>> Well, no, I wouldn't say a detective.

You see, it takes a certain type to be a

detective.

>> I've noticed that.

>> What I mean is that a woman detective

always looks like a woman detective.

>> What about a woman detective that looks

like a school teacher?

You've got all those kids to teach about

all those fish.

>> Well, I I could get a substitute.

>> I'm sorry, Miss Withers. You've been a

big help. See, these things have to be

solved in a certain way.

>> What do you mean solved?

>> Well, anyway, thanks for the notes, and

thanks for the waddle.

>> Thank you for nothing.

teacher.

Hello.

Inspector Piper. Just a moment. Just

Inspector. Inspector.

Inspector.

INSPECTOR PIPER. INSPECTOR PIPER.

Headquarters on the phone.

Piper speaking.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Okay. Goodbye.

That was Dark Bloom, our medical

examiner.

He knows now how Parker was killed.

>> Now all we have to do is find out who

killed him.

Are you being so dramatic, Paul? Out

with it. I won't faint.

While Gerald Parker was lying

unconscious on the runway, he was killed

by some sort of devil skewer, forced

through the right eardrum of the skull

and into the brain.

>> Skewer, you say? A stiletto?

>> Yes.

Doc Bloom says the weapon made a hole

less than a 16th of an inch through the

skull.

What's the matter with you? You're

acting just like a detective. What are

you looking at?

>> I was looking at your hat pin.

>> My hat pin?

What?

It could have been done with this.

>> Just what I was thinking. You're a mind

readader.

>> I'm a what reader?

I suppose this is exhibit A. Inspector,

you're acting more and more like a

detective every moment. If you're

harboring the delusion that I did it,

you'd better snap the bracelets on me.

>> Will you shut up a moment, please? I'm

trying to think.

>> Sounds bad. You mind if I sit down while

you do it?

Suppose I'll turn out to be General

Parker's deserted hometown sweetheart.

>> Nobody's accusing you, ma'am.

I suppose a matter of form. We ought to

see if this fits the hole in the skull.

>> Charming idea. You think of everything,

don't you?

Now I'm riled. I started in this affair

because it was exciting. Now that I'm in

it, I'm going to stay in it until we

find out who did kill him.

>> Listen, lady,

you're going to stay in it whether you

want to or not.

Good morning, miss. Good morning, miss.

And you've got your disguise on. I'd

like to ask you a few questions. That

is, if you can talk through all that

makeup.

Do you remember handling a call

yesterday afternoon to Mr. partner about

four just before he went out to to be

killed.

>> So, what are you a police woman?

>> In so far as it concerns you, I am. I'm

connected with the the detective bureau.

Not very pleasantly, but still

connected.

>> What are you trying to do? Put the bee

on me?

>> I'm trying to put nothing on you. You

have enough on already. Now, if you'll

answer my questions, you can go right

back to your artwork.

>> Sure. I remember a call was a man. He

said Mrs. Parker was in trouble, so I

put him right through.

>> Are you sure it was a man's voice?

>> Well, it ain't likely a woman would be

calling me baby, is it?

>> No, not so far downtown as this. Now,

baby, I mean,

get the chief operator to trace that

call. Tell her to report to Inspector

Piper at police headquarters.

Oh, next time, use a lighter shade.

That's a little vulgar.

Okay. Lydia Pinkham.

>> I miss Withers. I'd like to see

Inspector Piper, please.

>> Uh, just take a

>> ch

Mr.

Oh, well, what? No penguin.

>> I'm giving the penguins a day off.

Yesterday was quite a lot of excitement

for one little old man.

>> Well, yesterday was quite a lot of

excitement for one little old school

teacher, too.

>> I suppose the mastermind has everything

well in hand this morning.

>> Not so well in hand that he couldn't

take a few tips from you, Miss Withers.

>> Oh, you penguin fancers. You're such

flatterers.

>> That's the secret of our success with

penguins. Well, some good woman is

losing a very pleasant husband by it.

>> Come in, Miss Withers.

>> Thank you.

>> See you later, Mr. Costello.

>> I hope so, Miss With us.

>> Oh, hello, Miss Withers. What's on your

chest?

>> None of your business. Since I'm honored

with being one of two dozen murder

suspects already lined up, I presume I

have the privilege of trying to clear

myself.

>> People don't grant you privileges, Miss

Withers, you take them.

>> That's neither here nor there, young

man. What I want to know is just how

many people know how Parker was killed

with a hat pin. I mean, through the

right ear.

>> You and I and the medical examiner

>> and the murderer.

>> And the murderer. I was going to give it

to the newspapers today.

Well, uh,

suppose you tell the newspapers the

hatpin was thrust through the left ear

>> and then let the murderer betray himself

>> or herself.

>> Miss Withers, I think we've hit on

something there.

>> We've hit on something. Next, you'll be

claiming you did half the murder. Good

day, Inspector.

Oh, if you want us to hit on anything

more, just let me know.

>> Oh, come on back, Miss Withers. I think

maybe we can get together on something

at that.

>> Costella was here just now. He says if

I'll give Gwen Clark a chance, she'll

turn state evidence on Seymour.

>> That ought to be an interesting little

tidbit of news for Mr. Seymour.

>> Miss Withers, you took the very words

right out of my mouth. Don't worry,

you'll have plenty left.

>> And if I haven't, you've got a couple.

Okay, let's try it.

>> Oh, hello, Max. This is Miss Withers.

Max is the finest laboratory expert any

criminal bureau ever had.

>> I've analyzed Ben Parker's stockings.

>> Great. Casey the cop got them from her

maid. What'd you find? Any traces of

blood?

>> Nine. No blood, but much more stranger.

A spot stiff with dried water. Water

tainted with big slime.

>> The kind of water that might come from

an aquarium tank.

>> Only in an aquarium you could find water

like that.

>> I guess that bust Gwen Parker's story

that she didn't go behind the tanks.

>> Maybe.

>> Maybe nothing. This case is ripe for

grand jury. No wonder Gwen was so

willing to save her skin by pinning it

on a Seymour. All right, let's go, Miss

Withers. Great work, Max.

Don't you say same more she's just

pinning a wrap on you just like Ruth

Snder tried to do to Jud Gray. She wants

you to suffer while she goes free. Now

come on. After you left Parker's body on

the runway, where was Gwen?

>> Right where she's always been, looking

after Gwen. But this isn't the first

time that beautiful little devil has

made a fool out of me.

>> Well, then will you help us, Seymour?

Will you help us pin the murder on her?

How can I help? I left Parker

unconscious on the runway. I think Gwen

went back to kill him, but I didn't see

her. That's all I know.

>> Oh, perhaps you're too hard on her.

>> Can't we take her any message for you?

>> You can tell her for me that her name

should have been Cersei.

>> District Attorney Roach makes arrest

condemning failure of police department

to act.

>> Which is us,

>> which is me.

>> What are you going to do about it? What

can I do?

>> Gwen will incriminate Seymour. Seymour

will incriminate Gwen and the district

attorney will send them both up the

river. See?

>> I see. I see that old bulldog spirit of

yours is weakening. You're going to

quit.

>> I'm not going to quit. I'm going to be

ordered to quit.

>> Well, nobody can order me to quit. My

business is giving orders. If I can

handle a classroom of children, one

district attorney ought to be easy.

>> Piper speaking.

A call came from a public station in the

aquarium. What call?

>> I thought you'd like to know what

brought Parker to the aquarium.

>> Uh oh. Thank you.

>> Hemingway again?

>> Might be anybody. Gwen and Seymour both

had motive and opportunities as well as

Hemingway.

>> Do you really believe they guilty?

>> Certainly. What's the use in kidding

ourselves any longer?

>> And you're willing to send them to the

chair on the evidence you have.

>> Loving couples are not always reunited

in the last chapter, Miss Withers.

You've taught too much, Sir Walter

Scott.

>> Well, if I've taught too much, Sir

Walter Scott, you've read too many

detective stories. All you're after is a

conviction. Anybody's conviction. I

never saw such a man.

>> How many men have you seen?

>> Plenty of them. That is

>> Well, maybe if you'd seen more men held

a guard with us.

>> I've seen men enough today, Oscar Piper,

to know that if this murder is to be

solved, a woman's got to do it.

boy.

And she can cook, too.

>> [screaming]

>> Glad you came. This place looks spooky.

Well, spooks are no spooks. If we can

save Gwen, we're going to do it.

I'll never eat fish again as long as I

live.

>> [screaming]

>> Wait here.

>> Where are you going?

>> Going up there.

>> I'm going with you, young man.

>> What are you doing?

>> Get away, you meddling fool. I'M TRYING

TO SAVE A penguin's life.

Well, after this paddle wings, old girl,

perhaps you'll not be so eager to eat

everything in sight. The penguin was

choking to death on something that she

had swallowed. What was it she

swallowed? Let's see. I take a lot from

the police. I don't have to take

anything from you. It was a bit of cloth

that had fallen into the tank.

>> It's important. The penguin was in the

tank during the murder.

I have every reason to believe that this

is the ban from the hat worn by the

murder of Gerald Parker. The hand of the

murderer.

>> Just that. I'm going to phone Inspector

Piper.

Spring 73100 and hurry.

Hello. Hello, Inspector Piper. This is

Miss Withers. Can you come to the

aquarium at once? I found more evidence.

Evidence that ought to send Parker's

murderer to the electric chair.

What did I find? I found but

>> emergency caring

way. I got you. Got to light somebody.

MISS WITHERS, ARE YOU THERE?

>> I'M HERE. What's up? There are matches

in my pocket. Miss Withers.

>> Not necessarily.

My eyes thought I had when that rat

there kicked against the light cord. You

know who kicked out the light cord and

you know that it wasn't I

>> Well, if heaven is my witness, it wasn't

me.

>> The headband. It's gone.

It's the piper. It's the piper.

>> What happened? You dropped the phone. I

heard you scream.

>> The penguin swallowed the hatband. The

murderous hatband. Mr. Hemingway got it

by operating. That's what I was trying

to tell you. When one of these three men

put the lights out and stole it.

>> Oh, hey there. Did they? Now, will all

of you ever submit freely to a search or

do I have to persuade you?

>> Start with me, Inspector.

>> You bet your life I will. Miss Withers,

I'll have to ask you to step outside for

a few moments.

>> You don't think you're going to search

me?

>> I'm playing no favorites. You'll have to

have that hatband yourself.

>> I suppose I swallowed it this time.

>> I found it. I found it. What? Give me

that. Totally burned. Whose pipe is

this?

>> IT'S MR. HEMINGWAY. PLAN. SOMEONE ELSE

PUT IT THERE.

>> OH, they did. E. All right, Casey. Take

him away and lock him up.

>> I tell you, IT'S A PLAN. I HAVE NOTHING

to do with it. Someone else put it

there.

They got nothing out of Hemingway yet?

>> No, sir. They were at him all night, but

he still swears that hatband was a

plant.

>> Stubborn, eh? The little guys are like

that.

>> Mr. Costello has been calling. Says it's

important.

>> Good morning, Inspector.

>> Oh, sure. Well, I'm busy this morning,

my friend.

>> Not too busy, I hope, inspector. I've

just come from the tombs. I got a

statement out of Chicago loo.

>> You what? Come in. Sorry.

>> How'd you get in that cell?

>> The district attorney gave me permission

to interview the witnesses on behalf of

my client.

>> He did. Eh. Well, what'd you get out of

Chicago law?

>> This in his own handwriting.

I know the man who killed Parker. I will

tell everything if I am let off. It's my

fourth offense and that means life, Lou.

So, it was a man that killed Parker, eh?

>> Well, this looks like you might have

found a way out. But Gwen Parker,

>> I'd do anything to save her, Inspector.

>> I can't blame you for that.

>> Thanks.

>> The next thing to do is to get a

complete statement out of Lou.

>> Call Miss Withers. Tell her to meet me

at the tombs right away.

>> I want to let her in on this. She's

worked hard.

>> But why let an outsider in on it? She'll

only delay us.

>> Not her. You don't know that girl. Come

on, let's go.

Inspector Murder is rolly and Chicago

are the only Chicago is in the last on

the left.

M. Come here. Hurry up. Open the door.

Jack.

All right. Put him on the bed.

Well, Chicago Lo is dead. Apparently

hung himself with this length of copper

wire. And I thought Gwen's troubles were

over.

>> If I were you, inspector, I'd try and

find out how that wire got in the

pickpocket cell.

>> Have you searched every visitor to this

place?

>> I have.

>> How was it? You forgot to search Mr.

Costello this morning.

>> I did search him. Show us how.

You could go in now. That search always

shows up weapons or saws.

>> Certainly it does. But suppose he had 15

ft of wire wound around his leg or

waist.

>> Well, I guess you could go in, ma'am. I

didn't think about the wire.

>> Well, you better think next time. Now,

I've got to contact every hardware store

in the city. Try and identify the person

that bought this wire.

>> You didn't even do that, Inspector. I

smuggled that wire in here.

>> You? Why?

>> For the same reason I've done everything

else to save Gwen Parker.

>> Yeah. How'd you think the pickpocket

suicide was going to help her?

>> I don't think the pickpocket committed

suicide. I brought that wire in here

because Philip Seymour begged me to.

>> That's a lie. IT'S A DIRTY LIE.

>> Shut up, you.

Now, what is this?

>> The district attorney allowed me to see

Seymour several days ago. He told me he

wanted to end his life and I figured

that his suicide would be the same as a

confession of guilt.

>> You smuggled a wire to Seymour and the

man down the corridor in another cell

committed suicide with it.

Really, Mr. Costello?

>> But I just told you I don't think

Chicago was a suicide. I think Seymour

killed him because he saw Seymour KILLED

PARKER.

>> HE'S LYING. I TOLD YOU HE'S LYING.

Take Seymour out of there and search

him. Search every corner of a cell. I

want to find out if there's any way he

could have gotten out.

>> It's a dirty framer.

>> I tell you, I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT

IT. HE'S LYING. THAT'S WHAT HE'S DOING.

HE'S JUST LYING.

>> Suppose Seymour could get out. He comes

down here to the pickpocket cell

>> and here he stops because he couldn't

get into Lucell.

>> Yes, I guess you're right at that.

Inspector,

look at that pipe.

You notice anything?

I can't understand how a wire could make

such a scar with just a man's weight

hanging on it.

I've got it. Now I know how it was done

and made to look like suicide.

Inspector, may I take that wire, please?

Will you step inside? Inspector, excuse

me.

Seamour never got inside this cell.

Somehow he persuaded the pickpocketer to

step over to the door and then he

throttled him by slipping this wire

around his neck like this.

>> Well, I'll be

>> Come on, young man. You're doing

splendidly.

>> Yeah, go ahead.

>> Well, supposing this end of the wire is

around the dead man's neck. They're on

the floor here. You play the dead man.

Now hold on to it.

Now

he passes the other end of the wire

over the pipe.

Then pass the elbow

over to where the scar is on the pipe.

Now all Seamore has to do is make a loop

around his hands and pull like a very

devil and lift the little fell up into

the air. Then he just tied the wire

right here.

>> You cut your hand?

>> Yes. So I have the inspector's no

lightweight.

>> Your theory is all right, Castella, but

you haven't shown us yet how Seymour got

out of his cell.

>> We found an inspector.

>> The key that Seymour used to get out of

his cell. How'd you find us? You can see

more shot bucket

broken. Eh,

>> that's all right, but I can't get good

enough on it to see if it works.

>> If Semmore could make a key as good as

that, he can make a better one if he

wanted to.

>> I guess you're right at that.

>> The important thing is that I've got a

surefire defense for Gwen. No jury in

the world will convict her now.

>> You've convinced me. All right,

Castella. I've got a hand of Thanks,

Inspector. And now, if it's all right

with you, I'll run along. I want to tell

Gwen.

>> Go ahead. Good luck to you.

>> Well, now what's eating you?

>> I see no reason for being vulgar,

Inspector. I was wondering if you

noticed Seymour's hands.

>> What's so extraordinary about Seymour's

hands?

>> Nothing. That's just the point. Costello

cut his hands until they bled.

>> You think of everything, don't you? Keep

on and you'll think us out of a

conviction in this case. See more as

guily or I'll turn in my badge.

>> You turn in a badge every time you

suspected the wrong person in this case.

Department would have to have a special

trophy room for them.

>> Never mind the badge situation. I can

take care of that.

>> Order the court.

Mr. Hemingway, these are the stockings

worn by Mrs. Gwen Parker on the day that

her husband was murdered. Perhaps you

remember them.

>> I remember admiring the appearance of

Mrs. Parker's

limb.

>> The prosecution claims that the fish

stains on these stockings prove that

Mrs. Parker must have gone behind the

tanks in the aquarium. Do you remember

dropping a fishbowl in your office when

you first heard about the murder? Yes, I

remember the finalist Vexilifer had just

eaten her husband for breakfast.

>> Then the water from that bowl might have

splashed on Mrs. Parker's stockings.

>> Yes, I think so.

>> That's all, Mr. Hemingway.

>> This guard Martha Withers.

You solemnly swear to tell the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing but the

truth. So help you, God?

>> I do.

>> Miss Withers, throughout your testimony,

you have persisted in declaring same or

innocent when all the evidence points to

the contrary.

>> Circumstantial evidence. Now, please

confine yourself to answering the

questions. You have testified that you

were born in Deuke Isle. You're aware

that the murdered man was also a native

of that state, practically a neighbor of

yours,

>> young man, we don't consider people

across the width of the state neighbors

in Iowa.

>> Miss Withers, did you ever have a love

affair with Gerald Parker?

>> I did not, and I'll be thank you. On the

night of September 1st, 15 years ago,

didn't you meet Gerald Parker on the eve

of his departure for an Eastern college

and beg him to marry you?

>> I did not. Do you think

>> Didn't you write letter after letter to

Gerald Parker begging him to come back

to you?

>> I never saw him until I came on him in

the aquarium tank.

>> And isn't it true that you came to New

York in order to try and find Gerald

Parker?

>> I refuse to answer. The questions all

have one answer. No.

>> I don't see where this is getting the

defense in cross-examination. The

witness is not on trial for the murder

of Gerald Parker. Your honor, I beg the

court's pardon for this delay, but I

assure the court I have a definite plan

in mind, one that will contribute to the

case of my client, Mrs. Gwen Parker. May

I go on?

>> Proceed.

Miss Withers, you have identified this

hatin as your own and admitted that you

are wearing it on the day of the murder.

>> I have. You also told the court that you

sent your pupils on a hunt for this

hatfin there in the aquarium.

>> That's what I did.

>> But you lagged behind in the search,

Miss Withers, so that no one knows

exactly where you were during those 20

minutes or so. And there's no one who

can testify as to just what you were

doing at that time.

>> Yes, I did lag behind. I don't know

whether anybody saw me or not.

>> Are you willing to swear you didn't have

this hatkin tucked away in your dresser

hidden in your hand at the time?

>> I certainly did not.

>> You didn't notice the defendant in this

case, Mr. Samore. dragged the

unconscious body of the man you had once

loved and then hated behind the tanks

and come out. You didn't seize your

opportunity to send your little charges

on a wild goose chase and then steal

behind the tanks with your deadly

stiletto of a hat pin and drive it most

cruy and fily into the right ear of the

unconscious man.

>> Silence. Silence in the court.

Your honor, I finished with the witness.

>> You may be finished with the witness,

Mr. Perry Costello, but the witness is

not finished with you.

Well,

Mr. Gerald Parker was stabbed in the

right ear, was he?

Only four people knew that Mr. Parker

was stabbed in the right ear, young man.

The medical examiner, Dr. Bloom, is one.

Inspector Piper and I who gave the

stories to the newspapers at the left

ear are numbers two and three. The

fourth person who knew is the murderer

and there he sits stranded by his own

tongue.

>> I'll be as soon

you killed him.

>> Yes, he did it. He killed Jerry. I see

it now. He did it. Harry Castello was my

lover. He needed money desperately. He

told me he'd have to leave the country

if he didn't get money or credit before

the end of the month. Boy, I couldn't

bear to see him go. That's why I hunted

up Philip Seymour to get the money. The

day before the murder, Barry found out

that my husband carried a large life

insurance. He must have followed me to

the aquarium. And when he saw Phil,

take him away. Take him away.

Oh, don't don't bother with me, man. Go

get Costello.

>> He's got ma'am. He's hard and fast

behind the bars and he'll stay there.

>> Oh, good.

Thank you.

>> How is she, Riley?

>> That is a fiddle, Inspector.

>> That's fine. Okay, Riley, you can go

now.

>> So, you got him.

>> Thanks to you, ma'am.

>> Oh, that's very handsome of you,

Inspector. Oh, not at all.

>> What about the broken key they found in

Seymour's cell?

>> Costella is boasting about that. He

planted it there when Seymour was asleep

in his bunk.

>> Oh, the same way he planted the hatband

in Hemingway's pipe.

>> Yeah, they killed Chicago because the

pickpocket saw him. Evidently, Chicago L

been trying to blackmail him.

>> Funny how simple the answers are when

you know them.

>> Uhhuh. Well, they're going to free Gwen

Parker and Seymour in a few minutes. You

want to see it?

>> I certainly do. You know, I've taken a

personal interest in that young couple.

>> Lucky for them, you're dead.

>> Well, I'll see more now.

>> Look, he's waiting for her.

>> Waiting at the old prison gate. Leave it

to you to get a sob into it.

>> I'm not the emotional type, Mr. Piper.

that even you must get a little thrill

out of the thought that we, you

help those young people to this

happiness.

That boy, that baby's had that coming to

a long time.

>> And I thought they'd forget and forgive.

What a pity.

They're such a nice looking couple.

>> What's good looks got to do with

romance? Young man, uh, have you ever

looked at yourself in the mirror?

>> Sure. Have you?

>> I was in hopes you wouldn't bring that

up.

>> All right. So, what? I'm convinced that

you and me should incorporate.

>> Are you proposing that we start a

detective bureau?

>> No, I'm just proposing. What are you

doing?

>> Well, well, I'm just accepting.

>> Okay. The license bureau closes in 15

minutes.