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...leaving the housemaid
in a very tough spot.
It seems a baby was on the way.
Now, the dead playboy had a big brother.
But brother wanted no part of it.
So the housemaid had to go to a county
hospital in Boston to have her baby.
And the records show that later she placed
him in the children's home there...
...under the name of Peter Berton.
Shall I go on, Mr. Ronson?
No. No, you win, Nick.
Perhaps you'd rather tell us
about it yourself.
I tried to help her. But she was so...
So irrational.
The boy grew up in the orphanage.
When he was of age, I sent for him
and got him a job here in the plant.
He didn't seem
quite well-balanced to me.
Crazy Mary kept hounding me.
I didn't want any scandal
for my daughter's sake.
Well, everything went on all right
until Crazy Mary discovered...
...that her boy was
mixed up in a racket...
...to copy some propeller designs.
She wanted to stop him.
But she was helpless without revealing
to him that she was his mother.
However...
...when the boy up and got himself killed,
there was something she could do.
She could protect his good name.
So she blackmailed Mr. Ronson into
removing the evidence against her boy.
This painting.
He took it to her last night after
he removed it from Mrs. Draque's room.
- Is that true, Mr. Ronson?
- Yes. But I didn't kill Crazy Mary.
No, but you slugged me.
- Why, you small-town thug!
- Here!
Now, now, Mrs. Draque!
Keep on doing what you've been doing.
I'll have the cocoa in a few minutes.
Well...
Now, we know the technique that was
used to deliver the paintings.
Berton copied the plans,
painted over them...
...and placed the paintings for sale
with Willie Crump.
...and, through her husband, they were
delivered at Tony Croner's in New York.
A nice, safe arrangement.
Very little danger...
...and lots of money in it
for everybody. Thousands.
What?
- Does that surprise you, Mrs. Draque?
- Tell him nothing, honey.
You mean you haven't told your honey
how many thousands...
...Croner gave you every time
you delivered one of these?
- That's a lie.
- Well, I just don't think...
...you should have been cheated,
Mrs. Draque. After all, you took a big risk.
And now you're involved in a murder.
Oh, no.
I didn't have anything to do with that.
I only bought the paintings...
...and turned them over to Edgar...
- Shut up.
- You're blabbing like he wants you to.
- I'm not getting mixed up in any murder.
You didn't tell me it was
gonna be anything...
Someone's always hitting
that poor Mrs. Draque.
Draque, you arranged the scheme
...through someone here
in Sycamore Springs.
Someone who lives here and is
well-regarded in the community.
- When we find who that individual was...
- Nick! Look out!
Gracious me!
Here you are, Nick. It was exactly where
you said. There's one cartridge missing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is a rifle called the Nambu.
It's used by Japanese snipers
in the Southwest Pacific.
It has long range and great accuracy.
And this one's equipped with a silencer.
Many of them were brought back
by our boys as souvenirs.
- My brother Tom brought that gun back.
- Right.
- You're not trying to imply he...?
- I'm not implying anything.
- I agree that it was his gun.
- I think that's as good as implying it.
I agree with Bruce, Nick.
These people are my friends.
A little while ago, you had us believing
Sam Ronson was guilty.
- Ronson's just a red herring.
- I don't care if he is a red herring.
killed anybody.
He didn't kill Mary, Dad. When he arrived
at her shack, she was already dead.
How do you know that?
He took the painting to her.
That was the evidence she wanted.
Had she been alive, she would have
destroyed it immediately.
- She never got her hands on it.
- Let go of me.
You got no right to bring me here.
I haven't done anything.
Tom, I tried to get away.
They wouldn't let me.
- What's the big idea?
- Come in, Tom, and join the party.
We're trying to catch a murderer.
Bruce, according to your autopsy report...
...Peter Berton was shot
with a.45 revolver.
The bullet entering the large left rhomboid,
puncturing the posterior lobe...
...of the left lung and the lower lobe
of the right, lacerating the parenchyma...
...grazing the aorta and lodging
against the 12th right costal rib.
- That's your boy.
- In other words...
...it entered about here, passed
all the way through his body...
...and ended up down there. Is that right?
- That's right.
Well, that's very strange.
Because for a.45 revolver to get
that amount of penetration...
...it would have to be
fired almost point-blank.
And for a bullet to have traveled
downward at such an angle...
...the revolver would have to have
been fired...
...by some little gremlin hanging
from our porch roof.
Well, there was no little gremlin.
So he couldn't have been shot
with a revolver. No.
The bullet that killed Peter Berton
was fired from a rifle.
From a distance and at an elevation.
A rifle equipped with a silencer.
A rifle like yours, Tom.
Which has one bullet missing.
- What are you driving at, Nick?
- Simply this.
Bruce, you switched bullets on us
at the autopsy.
It was a Japanese rifle bullet
you removed from Berton's body...
...but it was a.45 revolver bullet
you handed MacGregor.
What's the answer?
Well, I did that to protect Tom.
Because everybody knew how jealous
he was of Berton on account of Laurabelle.
- You thought Tom might've killed Berton?
- No. But what was I to think?
He had been raving
around the house that night.
Oh, indeed.
Mrs. Hobby, on the night of the murder...
...when I phoned Dr. Clayworth
to come over, where was he?
- He was upstairs, sir.
- You're quite sure of that?
Yes, sir. I remember distinctly
of going to the stairs to call him.
How long before that
had Mr. Berton left the house?
- Well, just a few minutes, sir.
- That's all. Thank you.
So I was right, Bruce.
- Berton was at your house.
- Well, I told you I had a patient, Nick.
But you withheld the fact
that the patient was Berton.
It seems that you were not downstairs
in your study as you said.
Well, I might have, for a minute...
Are you trying to blame this on me?
Bruce, when we went out
to visit Crazy Mary the first time...
...you stood outside and called to her.
- What's the matter with that?
- That's the only way you can get in.
- But last night you didn't call.
- You just barged right in. Why was that?
- I didn't just barge in. I...
Well, I was excited, I guess.
I don't know why I didn't.
I'll tell you why. Because it would
have been silly to call to a dead woman.
You knew she was dead.
Because you'd killed her.
- I think you're crazy.
- What was your business with Draque?
- I never had any business with Draque.
- You called on him at his hotel.
- I checked on that.
- Well, that is professional.
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