Boomerang! Page #4

Hello? Who? Oh, yeah.

Go ahead, Ohio.

Yeah. Yeah.

From here? Yeah!

Yeah! Wow!

Listen, Sarge, hang on.

Yeah, any charge.

And don't say anything to him.

Right.

- I'll call you back in 10 minutes.

- What's up?

- Go away.

- I'm not listening.

Chief, Dugan.

Listen, Chief.

Ohio State Police say they got a guy

that tallies with our circular.

Yeah. Only this guy admits

he left here three days ago...

and he's packing

a.32 revolver.

Okay. Right. Extradition.

Thanks, Dugan.

Next time you get pie.

Stand up straight, all of you.

Keep your heads up.

Come on.

Get your heads up.

I want you to look

at them again carefully.

I don't want any mistakes

about this.

You're all sure

that's the man?

All right.

Let the rest of them go.

- That's all. Come on. Get outta here.

- That's all. Thank you.

- Here's his stuff, Chief.

- Book it.

- Get that gun to a ballistics man.

- No chance on that till morning.

- All right. Well, get it there early.

- Okay.

Okay, take him away.

How about it, Robbie?

- I don't know. We'll have to see.

- What do you mean?

We just got a guy.

What do I know about him?

- Seven people recognized him.

- Seven people recognized him.

- So what?

- If you weren't the bullheadedest old goat-

Just a little more

experienced. That's all.

Well, take plenty of time.

Go ahead

and get started.

It's gonna be a lot easier all around

if you just tell us the whole story.

But I don't even know

what you're holding me for.

- Just because I was carrying a gun-

- No, it's not the gun.

Then why did you bring me

all the way back from Ohio for?

- I got a right to travel, ain't I?

- Sure.

What do you

want from me?

We're holding you

on a murder charge, Waldron.

- What?

- Sit down. Sit down.

You're crazy.

I never murdered anybody.

Yeah.

Seven witnesses identified you as the man

who shot Father Lambert...

on the night of September 29

on Main Street.

- You're crazy, I tell you! Let go!

- Sit down!

Cut it out.

Take it easy, son.

Sit down.

If you didn't do it,

we'll find out.

If you did do it,

we'll find that out too.

- I want a lawyer.

- You'll get one later.

Let's start

from the beginning.

You have plenty of time...

and nowhere to go.

And you never saw Father Lambert

in your life?

No. I never even heard of him

till I saw his name in the paper.

You were just passing through town,

you were never in the neighborhood...

- and you never saw him before?

- No, I tell you. I-

- Did you ever see that man before?

- Yes, I have.

- When?

- It was that week.

- Before Father Lambert was killed?

- Yes, one afternoon.

Did he do it?

We don't know yet, ma'am.

Thank you. That's all, ma'am.

- So you never saw him before, huh?

- That dame is nuts.

- No, she isn't.

- All right. I saw him.

He gave me a lecture and a pamphlet,

but that don't mean-

- Why didn't you tell us before?

- I don't know.

- I was afraid.

- Afraid of what?

- I don't know. I was just afraid.

- Afraid of what?

I don't know!

Chief, there's an easier way

of doing this.

- No.

- We're wasting a lot of time.

- No!

- Okay, you're the boss.

But it'll make it much easier on him

in the long run.

- We're losing a lot of sleep.

- I thought maybe he'd give me a line on a job.

- Did he?

- No. He said he didn't know of anything.

Then he gave me

a lecture and a pamphlet.

- Is that what got you sore at him?

- No, of course not.

- What did?

- Nothing, I tell you. I wasn't sore at him.

What are you trying

to make me say?

You say you came home

from the bowling alley...

washed up and then had dinner

at the White Spot.

- Andy's, I told you.

- Then you rode over to Main Street.

- I didn't ride over. I walked over.

- You walked. Then what?

- I went to the movies.

- The Plaza?

- No. Yes.

- What movie did you see?

- A Western.

- What time did you go in?

- 7:
00. A little after-

- Double feature?

- Yes.

- What was the other picture?

- Murder.

- You say you were just passing through town.

- Yes, I was just passing through.

- A fellow at the gas station...

says you were working

for him two months ago!

I meant- I-

- What are you trying to do to me?

- Why do you keep lying, son?

You know they've got

your whole background.

They can trip you every time.

Besides, you're a dead giveaway.

Every time you lie,

you put your hand up to your mouth.

- You can't get away with anything.

- You're crazy.

Let's talk about the gun again.

You say you bought it just before you left town.

Yes, just before I left town.

I was going on the road, and-

- Oh, what's the use?

- You bought it a week before the murder.

The pawnbroker

you bought it from told us that.

We have his own statement

to prove it.

- What do we do, Chief?

- Get him up. Keep it going.

Let's start

right from the beginning.

- Come on. Stop stalling.

- I got a 9:
00 deadline.

It ain't gonna do you guys

no good to hang around here.

- I don't know nothing.

- You can say that again.

Always picking up some cluck

with two dollars and seven cents in his pocket.

Why don't you ever grab a guy

with white piping on his vest?

- I don't know.

- Mr. Harvey, what about it?

- What do you think?

- I'm trying to find out myself.

- See me later.

- You know what I think?

I think you guys just got desperate

and picked up some tramp.

We wouldn't have gone

to Ohio for no tramp.

- We got plenty around here.

- Right.

And at least one of them

in a uniform.

Any luck, Robbie?

No, we've been trying all night.

Wanna look at this stuff?

No. What do you think?

Pretty hard to say.

You know Rainsford, don't you?

- Oh, yes. You're the alienist, aren't you?

- Psychiatrist.

- What do you think of him?

- Pretty hard to tell.

- He's under a lot of stress.

- Yes, I know.

But does he sound

like a murderer or not?

Well, he lies, of course,

but he's frightened...

and he seems to be more

than usually bitter and resentful.

Is he bitter and resentful enough

to commit murder?

I couldn't say.

He's just out of the army.

That might account

for his bitterness a little.

The difficulty of readjustment

or possibly-

Or possibly,

it's something else.

What I want to know is

whether he's a homicidal type or not.

I'm afraid I can't answer that.

I'm not sure there is such a thing.

Haven't you ever-

Maybe I'd better not ask that.

Perhaps not. But to get back to a more

exact science, what about the gun, Robbie?

I don't know yet.

It's pretty early.

Do you suppose if I went downstairs,

I could hurry him up a little bit?

Why don't you do that?

Tell him we're waiting for his report.

- You know where his office is.

- Hello, Mr. Harvey.

Good morning.

Tough night, huh?

You ain't kidding.

We're knocking off, Chief.

He's a tough nut to crack.

- Maloney and Herron are with him now.

- Boys need a little sleep, huh?

- What about you?

- I'm all right.

- A shave's as good as a night's sleep.

- Chief.

Hmm?

This young lady claims she

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