The Naked City Page #5

Bright lights and theaters

and furs and nightclubs.

That's why she's dead now.

Dear God, why wasn't she born ugly?

Mrs. Batory -

Oh, what a heartache.

You nurse a child, you raise it...

pet it, you love it...

and it ends like this.

Another day...

another ball of fire

rising in the summer sky.

The city is quiet now...

but it will soon be pounding with activity.

This time yesterday, Jean Dexter

was just another pretty girl...

but now she's the marmalade

on 10,000 pieces of toast.

Hey, Mac. What's doin'?

Why all the people here?

"What's doin'?" What's the matter?

You live in Canarsie or somethin'?

This is the place

where that model was killed.

You don't mean it. The bathtub girl, huh?

So why didn't she take showers?

There's no pattern yet to the Dexter case.

Just a number of loose threads.

When boys go swimming

in the East River, for example...

why report it to the Homicide Squad?

Look! Hey, look!

Just routine. The morgue will take care of it.

Nevertheless,

some things are moving forward.

There'll be a report on this.

- Dan.

- This is Dexter's address book.

Contact every name I listed in it.

Keep asking if they heard her talk about Henderson.

- Okay.

- Dan, I -

Start in on this ring of Dexter's.

Canvass every expensive jewelry shop

in the city.

Maybe Henderson bought it for her.

- Oh, my poor feet.

- Your poor feet?

Be glad you're not a horseback cop.

Well, what's with you?

Niles sold this about an hour ago

to a jeweler on Madison Avenue.

- Got $600 for it.

- Well!

Dave, where's that list of stuff

that was stolen from Dexter?

No, it couldn't be.

No. Not here.

It's a man's item anyway.

An interesting man, that Niles.

He operates very strange.

Say, how about

I check this cigarette case...

with the department list

of all jewelry stolen in the last year or so?

All right. I don't think

you'll get anything though.

He'd be crazy to unload a stolen item

in the middle of a hot case like this.

Maybe he is crazy.

Not that one.

Hiya, Halloran. Here's a question for you.

How many jewelry shops

in the city of New York?

Be patient. You're about to find out.

Hi, Officer. Just keep checking.

Henderson didn't

weave those pajamas himself.

Hello, Constantino.

A detective finds himself in odd places,

doesn't he?

How about a mudpack? No?

Well, how about a permanent?

Or, uh, how about those eyebrows?

Ever have them plucked?

Ask a question, get an answer.

Ask another.

If Jean Dexter isn't remembered here,

check it off.

You've got her address book, Constantino.

Get going.

How are your feet holding out, Halloran?

How are you doing with that ring?

Would you be interested to learn...

that there was a confession

in the Dexter case only 10 minutes ago?

Lieutenant Muldoon, what's your hurry?

There's been a confession.

The case is all washed up, isn't it?

He's in there, Lieutenant. I caught him trying

to get in the kitchen by the back door.

He's a grocery boy in the neighborhood.

Yes, I did it.

I killed her.

I want to be punished.

I'm guilty.

My hands are stained with her blood.

Why'd you kill her?

She deserved it.

For months I've been watching her.

I'd come in here with packages,

and there she'd be, in her negligee.

Beautiful. But no soul.

Immoral.

So I did it. I rid the world ofher.

The knife you stabbed herwith -

where is it?

You'll never find it.

Never.

I buried it.

I buried it.

Call Bellevue Hospital,

Psychiatric Department.

It's 7:
30 in the evening now.

It's been a great day on the Dexter case.

Developments:
none.

New clues:
none.

Progress:
none.

Ever try to catch a murderer?

It has its depressing moments.

I can't see you've m issed anything.

Boss, I can always trust you

to comfort a man.

- Any word today from Baltimore?

- No.

And Henderson's pajamas

were bought last week in a shop on 34th Street.

- Huh?

- But not by Henderson.

ByJean Dexter.

- A heavy case.

- It is that.

That Niles fella is crazy.

The cigarette case Niles sold this morning -

it's hot.

- It was stolen from Dr. Lawrence Stoneman.

- Dexter's physician.

Yeah. He reported a burglary

in his apartment in March.

$2,800 worth of stuff.

None of it has ever shown up.

Here it is on the department list

of stolen jewelry for the past year.

And that's not all. Niles bought

a plane ticket for Mexico City - one way.

- Leavin' when?

- Tomorrow noon. Want me to pick him up?

- No. What else he do today?

- Had lunch with Ruth Morrison.

They held hands for an hour.

She went back to the shop.

He went to the Park Central

and had a swim.

- He's at Toots Shor's now.

- Buyin' a plane ticket...

pawnin' a stolen cigarette case -

that's not smart.

What is this man?

An amateur or something?

That's it. That's what's in his heart.

Now I know.

He's had no experience at bein' a crook.

He's a scared college boy

way out in deep water.

He's beginning to thrash around now.

He's in a panic.

- Panic over what?

- I don't know yet, Sam. I don't know yet.

And how does this man Stoneman figure?

Why should Niles pawn a cigarette case

belonging to him?

Dan! Dan. Captain.

- I got somethin' maybe.

- About what?

The black star sapphire that Dexter

was wearing when she was killed -

- it didn't belong to her.

- Huh?

She didn't buy it, and Henderson

didn't buy it for her.

It belongs to a Mrs. Hylton, 478 Park Avenue.

I found a jeweler who repaired it for her.

Start in a murder case

and we're up to our neck in stolen jewelry.

Mrs. Edgar Hylton. There it is.

Black star sapphire.

Part of a $6,200 robbery of her apartment.

- Did you see this Mrs. Hylton?

- I thought you might wanna see her.

Well, now, that was

considerate ofyou,Jimmy.

We'll telephone the lady,

and we'll both go and see her.

Have a beer on me, Sam,

and throw a pinch of salt over your shoulder.

This case is beginnin' to move.

Lieutenant Muldoon, police department.

Mrs. Hylton is expecting you.

Come in, won't you?

My, what a nice-looking young man.

You're the lieutenant who telephoned me,

aren't you?.

- Did you get my jewels back?.

- Is this one of them?.

Oh, yes, it is.

Oh, wonderful!

Oh, you're wonderful men.

Where's the rest?.

That's all we have.

I'm so disappointed.

Oh, but this is wonderful.

I gave it to my daughter

when she graduated from college.

She was heartbroken when -

Oh, isn't it precious?.

I love to glitter.

It's a fixation.

You're such a nice young man.

Oh, sit down, gentlemen.

Get comfortable.

Young man, sit by me.

Mrs. Hylton, is your daughter here?

I'd like to speak to her.

She's due any minute for dinner.

It's her night with Mama.

One of those career girls -

has her own apartment, works.

That's what you get when you

send them to Vassar.

Mrs. Hylton, if she doesn't live with you...

how is it her ring was stolen from here?

But that was last December.

She was living with me then.

I see.

Now, I wonder if, by any chance -

Mother? I'm here.

Hello, Margaret.

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