Murder! Page #7

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of guilty,

and sentence of death

was passed on Diana Baring.

And that

is all the news.

But here is an S.O.S.,

which has just been

brought into the studio.

We've been asked by the

commissioner of police

to broadcast

the following--

The brandy cocktail

you ordered, sir.

Right.

Ring up mr. Bennett,

will you?

And ask him to bring me the

details of the receipts

for the last 3 nights.

Also,...booking...

With New Scotland Yard to

telephone Victoria 7000

or with

any police station.

This is

the national program.

Our concert tonight

is an orchestral one,

given by the radio

symphony orchestra.

They start by playing

the overture

to Tristan und Isolde

by Wagner.

Funny that S.O.S.

Coming on top of that other.

Save her soul.

Save her.

If I'd stood up longer,

I might have worn them down.

Why couldn't they see

the girl as I did...

The rest of the fellows

on the jury.

But anyone standing

in the dark

on a charge like that...

Probably looks different

from the same person

somewhere else.

Ah, amusing the way

she stood up to everybody.

There's no doubt

that did her a lot of harm.

Yet, it was that

manner of hers that...

Very attractive I thought.

And I wonder what

her feelings are now.

Who drank that brandy?!

Why didn't I force

that point home to them?

Easy to figure these

things out afterwards.

The girl said

she didn't drink it.

Yet she admits she might

have killed Edna Druce.

That's queer.

Why admit a big

thing like that

and yet be sure she

didn't do a small thing

such as drink

a drop of brandy?

All that came

to light to me today.

I'm sure I was right

when I raised that.

Quite frankly,

more certain now.

How do we know that someone else

didn't drink the brandy?

Perhaps there

was someone else,

that's the whole thing.

Whoever drank that brandy!

Mr. Bennett has come up

to see you, sir John.

Bennett.

Glad you're back,

sir John.

Been reading

about it all.

Plenty of publicity.

Been awful

for you, though.

You having

met days before.

Well, she wanted

to become a star,

a year ago that was.

I suppose you can say

in a sense that she has.

A star in a murder--

Bennett, please.

Look here.

Get hold of my understudy.

Tell him he has

to go on again tonight.

Pray god that I give him

a better role.

Get on the telephone

straight away

to my lawyer,

mr. Vice senior.

Oh, I can give it to you.

Temple bar.

5-9-9-3.

Yes.

I want you, as well,

to get hold of

as many as you can

of the members

of that company.

You know,

the touring company

at the time

of the murder.

In particular,

the, um...

funny little man,

the stage manager.

I forget his name.

I'll see him at the

office in the morning.

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