:03:00
I was questioned
by Sergeants McAvity and Schultz...
:03:04
and I stated...
:03:06
"On Friday night, Laura had a dinner
engagement with me...
:03:09
"after which she was ostensibly
going out of town.
:03:12
"She phoned and canceled
our engagement at exactly 7:00.
:03:17
- After that I-''
- You "ate a lonely dinner...
:03:19
then got into the tub to read.''
:03:22
Why did you
write it down?
:03:24
Afraid you'd forget it?
:03:26
I am the most widely
misquoted man in America.
:03:30
When my friends do it,
I resent it.
:03:33
From Sergeants McAvity and Schultz,
I should find it intolerable.
:03:36
Hand me that washcloth,
please, Mr.-
:03:39
Mr.-
:03:41
McPherson.
:03:43
McPherson. McPherson.
:03:46
Mark McPherson-
the siege of Babylon, Long Island.
:03:49
The gangster with the machine gun.
Killed three policemen.
:03:51
I told the story over the air
and wrote a column about it.
:03:54
Are you the one
with the leg full oflead...
:03:56
- the man who walked right in and got him?
- Yeah.
:03:58
Well, well.
Hand me my robe, please.
:04:05
You have a pretty good memory,
Mr. Lydecker.
:04:08
I always liked that detective
with the silver shinbone.
:04:12
Thanks. I hope you won't have any reason
to change your mind about me.
:04:17
- Have you any more questions?
- Yeah,just one.
:04:20
Two years ago,
in your October 17 column...
:04:22
you started out
to write a book review...
:04:24
but at the bottom of the column, you
switched over to the Harrington murder case.
:04:28
Are the processes of the creative mind
now under thejurisdiction of the police?
:04:32
You said Harrington was rubbed out with
a shotgun loaded with buckshot...
:04:37
the way Laura Hunt was murdered
night before last.
:04:40
- Did I?
- Yeah.
:04:42
But he was really killed
with a sash weight.
:04:45
How ordinary.
My version was obviously superior.
:04:49
I never bother
with details, you know.
:04:51
I do. Well, so long.
:04:55
Mind if I go with you?
:04:58
- What for?
- Murder is my favorite crime.