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Call Northside 777 Page #8
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give you any trouble.
I'd just like to ask you
a few questions.
You want to cry
in my beer?
All I want to know is this:
Is there any possibility
that you might have been mistaken...
when you identified Wiecek?
No.
Well, if you're so positive, we can prove it.
Will you take a lie test?
A lie test? You think I'm crazy?
Look, will you give me
a sworn statement?
I did my swearin' in court.
How many times did you see Frank
before you identified him?
- Never.
- You didn't see him
before the police show up?
No. Only when he killed the cop.
Look, I said all I got to say.
That's all there is, see?
What do you mean, "That's all there is"?
There's a lot more than that.
This kid's been up
in the pen for 11 years.
Now, look. I got to go before
the Pardon Board day after tomorrow.
Frank's got a good chance
to get off if you help him.
I got no reason
to help Wiecek...
and I got no reason
to help you, neither.
You're the one that wrote them lies about me.
I've been thinking of suing for libel!
That's the reason I wrote 'em.
I called you a liar...
and a bootlegger
and a finger woman.
And I'm gonna keep on
doin' it, see?
Go ahead and sue us for libel.
I'd just like to get you
up on a witness stand under oath--
Yeah, and you still
wouldn't get nothin' out of me!
Why you bother her?
Put that down!
You want to go tojail?
Now, you get out of here!
Now, listen, maybe there's
something you didn't think of.
- There's a $5,000 reward, you know.
- Five thousand dollars!
And what's more, you don't
Just tell me enough to clear things up,
get Wiecek out, and you get the 5,000.
- So what do I gotta do?
-Just tell the truth.
Who got you to identify him?
Who are you afraid of?
Nobody. Nothin'. Nobody.
I ain't afraid of nobody,
and I ain't got nothin' to say.
Wanda, it's $5,000.
Shut up!
Now, you get out of here!
You ain't gonna get
nowhere.
I identified him.
I told the truth. It's him!
I ain't never gonna change my mind.
It's him! Now, get out of here!
- Boris!
a clear picture of the situation.
the Pardon Board...
if the board has no authority
to subpoena her...
the power to make her talk,
then we're helpless.
What do we do now?
The thing for us to do now
is for me to appear...
before the Pardon Board
of Springfield this afternoon...
present our apologies,
and ask that the case be withdrawn.
Will that appear
on Frank's record?
Will it spoil his chances
when he becomes eligible for a parole?
No. His name simply
will not come before the board.
All right. That's it, then.
I'm sorry, Mr. Palmer.
I want to apologize
to you, too, Mr. Burns.
I thought if I found this woman, I could
make her talk, but I missed it. I'm sorry.
Okay, Mac. Kelly,
write a finish story...
on this Wanda Skutnik
and end the whole thing.
Get the paper off the hook.
I can get a train for Springfield
in about a half-hour.
Good.
Big day for the Wieceks.
"Write a finish story."
"Get the paper off the hook."
How do you end it?
First, you better go out
and see Wiecek's mother.
I couldn't do that.
I just couldn't do that, Kelly.
What do you want her to do,
read it in the paper?
- [ Children Chattering ]
[ Knocking ]
- Mr. McNeal! Come in.
- Thank you.
Oh! [ Chuckles ]
I've got to excuse myself.
I was not expecting company.
Oh, you mustn't regard me
as company, Tillie.
I was baking a pie for Frank.
Please sit down.
I get you some coffee.
l-I really can't stay, Tillie.
I just came out to talk
to you about something.
About the Pardon Board, yes?
Oh, I pray for this day!
I want to tell you about it.
Come over here and sit down.
And now--
now it has come! It is here!
- Tillie, I must tell you this.
- Yeah?
We're going to
call off the hearings.
We don't have a chance in the world
- No chance?
- No.
But you work so hard.
You do everything.
Everything I could.
You got lawyers.
He tell Pardon Board.
We have the best.
But don't you see, Tillie?
If we go before
it'll just be hurting Frank's chances
We can't get a thing
out of Wanda Skutnik...
and without her,
we have nothing.
I saw her at the trial.
She will never tell.
Like a rock.
She will never tell.
But she knows.
Yes, she's afraid.
She will not talk. Never.
And without her,
we have no evidence.
"Evidence"?
They got no evidence
when they sent my Frank to prison...
for 99 years.
I got no evidence
when I scrub floors every night.
Go without supper.
Walk to work...
so I save a nickel for Frank.
"Evidence."
What is this "evidence"?
I can't tell you
how sorry I am, Tillie.
You try to help.
You're a good man.
But if this thing happen...
then we fight some more.
We fight more and more. Yes?
No, Tillie.
We're calling off the hearing.
The Times is dropping the case.
No.
But if you go,
I got no friend left.
Sorry.
[ Weeping ]
No friends left.
No friends no more.
Big fool, me.
Sure I got a friend.
- [ Horn Honking ]
Where to?
Ah, the Chicago Times.
You're the fellow
that's writing those stories, ain't you?
- [ Mouths Word ]
- Seen the paper?
[ Bell Ringing ]
Hey, change that, will ya? Get me down
to police headquarters fast as you can!
Right away!
McNeal of the Chicago Times.
First door on your left,
Mr. McNeal.
Say, uh, did you make the enlargement of
the photograph of this forged check here?
Yes. Why?
I got a picture here.
I just wondered...
could you blow that section
of the picture up right there?
- Sure.
- Would all the details come out on it?
- That depends. You got the negative?
- No, that's all I got.
- Well, then, I'd have to make a dupe.
- How long would that take?
- Oh, couple of hours.
- What do you think?
Could you get started
on it right away?
Yes.
But you're McNeal
at the Times, aren't ya?
- Been working on that Wiecek case.
- That's right. I'm McNeal.
At first, I thought
this guy was guilty.
Now I don't know.
Let me take a look at it.
- Hey, could I use your phone?
- Sure. Right over there.
I want to put in a person-to-person call
to Mr. Martin J. Burns.
He's up at the state capitol
in Springfield, Illinois.
That's right. Yeah.
Sorry, gentlemen.
The Pardon Board
is in special session.
The case of Frank Wiecek.
Gentlemen, I feel
somewhat at a loss...
because I came here to ask that
the petition of Frank Wiecek be withdrawn.
However, about an hour ago,
I received a telephone call...
from James McNeal
of the Chicago Times...
who informs me he has uncovered
the evidence we have been seeking.
It is conclusive evidence...
that supports the petition
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