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00:23Good evening.
00:25Tonight, I'm going to tell you another strange and unusual story of the unexplainable which
00:33lies behind the veil.
00:39Down through the ages, man has continually struggled to pierce the veil, behind which
00:46lies the unbelievable.
00:49Many things which were completely beyond our comprehension as recently as a hundred years
00:54ago are readily understood today.
00:58Maybe not then assume that happenings for which we have no explanation now will in time
01:04be understood by those who follow after us.
01:09Our story tonight is again based on an actual account from this dark world which lies beyond
01:16our knowledge.
01:18Edward Page, like almost everybody else in New York, was not concerned with anything more
01:24profound than the ever-present oppressive summer heat.
01:38Good evening, Mrs. Fowley, good evening, Mrs. Fowley, it's awful hot, isn't it?
01:45The humidity, Mrs. Fowley, that's what's bothering you, the humidity.
01:49Maybe, but this heat ain't doing me much good either.
02:07Probably gone to put on soup for his supper again.
02:10Always hot soup.
02:13Oh, in weather like this too.
02:17Oh.
02:22Oh.
02:23Oh.
02:31Oh.
02:35Oh.
02:36Oh.
02:40Oh.
02:44Oh.
02:53Oh.
02:56Oh.
02:59Oh.
02:59Oh.
03:02Oh.
03:05Oh.
03:16No, don't, don't do that.
03:30It's murder.
03:31I saw a man kill a woman.
03:32Where?
03:33Apartment across the way, third floor back on the corner.
03:35I've got to get the police.
03:36Murder, police.
03:52You sure that's the right apartment?
03:54I'm positive, lieutenant.
04:04It's empty.
04:06It's a woman.
04:07She isn't here.
04:08Maybe it's the wrong apartment, huh?
04:13No, it's the right one.
04:14There's my room right opposite this window.
04:16Look around you, Paige.
04:17There's nobody, no sign of a crime.
04:19I don't care.
04:19It happened.
04:20I know.
04:20I saw it.
04:21But I don't know what happened to the furniture.
04:25I don't know what happened to the furniture.
04:28Please, Sergeant, I know.
04:29I saw it.
04:31The woman was blonde.
04:32She was brushing her hair.
04:33It was very pretty.
04:36She fell right over there.
05:06The killer was hiding right there.
05:07He was hiding with what?
05:08Murder and robbery.
05:09He robbed her purse and he took the jewelry out of the box.
05:12It was right there.
05:13Her purse was on the couch.
05:15Let's go back to your place, huh?
05:16We'll leave the lights on in here so we should get the right apartment.
05:30That's the one.
05:31See where you left the light on?
05:33That's where I saw the woman.
05:35She had on a pale blue dressing gown.
05:41Please, Lieutenant Davis, say you believe me.
05:44Say that I really saw what I saw.
05:47Mr. Page, it's been a hot day.
05:48Now, you were tired.
05:49What, we're just coming home from work and all?
05:51You heard what the janet at the apartment house said?
05:54No blonde.
05:56And nobody in that apartment for the past month.
05:58It's for rent.
05:58I saw it.
06:01You didn't eat your dinner.
06:03Lots of times I get lightheaded when I'm real hungry.
06:07Now, why don't you be a good fellow and sit down and finish your dinner
06:09and you'll forget all about it.
06:10You'll feel better.
06:13We better get back.
06:14What about a report?
06:15Do we make one up?
06:17Yeah, I suppose we'll have to.
06:18Just say that it's been a hot day.
06:21Blame it on the heat.
06:23It's not the heat.
06:24I saw it.
06:26If you won't believe me, I'll find someone who will.
06:33Calm down, Mr. Page.
06:34What's going on here?
06:35What are you doing to Mr. Page?
06:37Tell him, Mrs. Foley.
06:38Tell him that I saw the murder, that I really saw it.
06:40But I didn't see it.
06:42Let me go.
06:42I've got to tell someone about the murder.
06:44Find someone who'll believe me.
06:45You better come along with us, Mr. Page.
06:47We'll talk it over.
06:56I beg your pardon.
06:58I'm trying to find the apartment that's for rent.
07:00Uh, 345 48th Street.
07:02Oh, it's in the next block, honey.
07:04Right back of this building.
07:06Thanks so much.
07:09In the next block, she wants an apartment.
07:21Now, tell me the whole story.
07:23Right from the beginning, everything that you can remember.
07:26I'll record it.
07:29All right, sir.
07:32I came...
07:33Not so close to the microphone.
07:35Just as though you were talking to me.
07:37Yes, sir.
07:41Well, I came home with my groceries.
07:45Soup.
07:45I always have soup.
07:47I like...
07:47I like soup.
07:50And Mrs. Foley was...
07:53That's my landlady.
07:54She was sitting on the front steps.
07:57She looked awful.
07:59She always does.
08:01Well, she complained of the heat.
08:07I ran out of the room to get the police.
08:11That's all?
08:12Yes, sir.
08:17Mr. Fade, you have an amazing eye for detail and the most pretentive memory.
08:22Doctor, when it's murder, you see, you remember.
08:24You keep on using the word murder.
08:26Now, how do you know the woman was dead?
08:28She was hit on the head.
08:29That's true.
08:30But she might only have been unconscious.
08:32She must have been dead.
08:34He hit her hard.
08:35It was a flashlight.
08:39Doctor, when can I get out of here?
08:41I'll send you home as soon as possible.
08:43What sort of work do you do?
08:46Well, I'm just a shipping clerk.
08:49But they count on me.
08:51I keep track of things.
08:53Mr. Wonder, he's my boss, says I have a fine memory, like you said.
08:58You can go back to your room now, Mr. Page.
09:04And you won't need any more sedation.
09:13Send Lieutenant Davis and Sergeant Fenton in.
09:25Morning, Vector.
09:26Morning.
09:27Lieutenant, Sergeant.
09:30Page come out of it yet?
09:31I'm afraid Page isn't going to come out of it, as you call it.
09:35Well, that's too bad.
09:35He's a nice little guy.
09:37Nothing for him to come out of.
09:38He's as sane as you and I.
09:40Wait a minute, Doc.
09:41Suppose you speak for yourself.
09:43There's no form of dementia that I've ever seen or studied.
09:46I'm convinced that Page saw something.
09:48Something real.
09:49I've been around a long time, Doc.
09:51Some guys sit around looking in other people's windows.
09:53They see quite a bit.
09:55But most of it isn't murder.
09:57Page didn't seem like that kind of man.
09:59He was worried and scared by what he saw.
10:01I don't think he's that kind of man either.
10:04Page is an oddball.
10:06He doesn't add up.
10:08Everything says he's honest.
10:09And he tells us a story we can't believe.
10:13We'll keep him here a little longer.
10:14I'll run some tests on him.
10:16I've never seen a case like this before.
10:20That's your worry, Doctor.
10:21Ours is over.
10:23We go on the facts and there aren't any in this case.
10:32Doctor, what am I going to do?
10:36Try to forget it.
10:37Go home.
10:38Go back to your job.
10:41I guess that's the only thing to do.
10:45If you can't tell me what I saw, how can I figure it out?
10:47Go home.
13:55What's the matter, Lieutenant?
13:57That murder, Paige told us about it.
13:59It just happened.
14:03Dr. Mason, please.
14:05Blue dressing gown.
14:06She's brushing your hair.
14:08It's real pretty, too.
14:10Fell right there.
14:10Well, Dr. Mason, this is Sergeant Fenton.
14:13Lieutenant Davis would like to know when Paige was released.
14:17Oh, I see.
14:18He was released over three hours ago.
14:20I want to pick up fast.
14:23Two African masks over the fireplace.
14:30Sergeant Fenton, I'll call you right back.
14:35I'll call you right back.
14:42I'll call you right back.
14:53Lieutenant.
14:54Lieutenant.
14:54Hey, Doc.
14:56Hot night.
14:57Miserable weather.
15:02Good looking, woman.
15:10Here's your old blunt instrument.
15:13Here's your old blunt instrument.
15:13How about a flashlight?
15:17How about a flashlight?
15:33That time.
15:34There was no way he could have seen it.
15:36Sounded like you need some salt tablets.
15:38This heat's murder.
15:40Yeah, there's nothing I can do.
15:42I'll send the boys out.
16:01It happened.
16:04Just like I told you.
16:06That's right, Paige.
16:08Just like you told us.
16:11Everything's the way I saw it.
16:13You left the hospital three hours ago.
16:15Did you come right straight here?
16:17I walked for quite a while.
16:18I just got home.
16:19I don't mean that.
16:20I meant here, this apartment.
16:23Why would I come here?
16:25Nobody believed you when you told us a story about the murder.
16:28It's upset you.
16:29Made you mad.
16:30You decided you're going to show us.
16:31You came home.
16:32You saw the apartment was rented.
16:33So you came over here and you killed her.
16:34No, no.
16:35I didn't come over here.
16:37Paige, why don't you make things easy for everybody?
16:39We both know you can't see a killing.
16:41And then suddenly three days later it happens.
16:43But it did.
16:44I described the killer for you.
16:46And the killer is you.
16:51Quit stalling.
16:52Why don't you admit what you did.
16:53Tell us what you did with the flashlight and the gloves you used.
16:55Lieutenant Davis.
16:57These bills.
16:58They're for this furniture.
16:59From three different stores.
17:02Sergeant, let's stick to what we're doing.
17:04There's no other answer.
17:06Paige, you killed her.
17:07But Paige described this furniture before the woman even bought it.
17:10And she was in Chicago three days ago.
17:13She's never been in New York before in her life.
17:16How could Paige have described her?
17:18I'm willing to admit I can't explain how he could describe the furniture or the woman.
17:25But I do know how he had a chance to come over here and kill her.
17:28But I didn't, Lieutenant.
17:29I didn't kill her.
17:31If we don't all keep calm around here, I'm the one that's going to wind up in Bellevue.
17:35Let's face it, Paige.
17:37You could have prevented all this.
17:38If you guarded the apartment, you might have saved her life.
17:40Nonetheless, you're still my number one suspect.
17:43I saw the killer.
17:45That means you can find him.
17:46I gave you a description.
17:47I know I have.
17:49But it's not enough.
17:50Let's get out of here.
17:52Let's get out of here.
18:11Nothing, Sergeant.
18:12Nothing so far.
18:14It's a tough job looking through all those pictures, Mr. Paige.
18:17You get so they all look alike.
18:19Stay with it.
18:25It's a pretty good description you got of him, Doc.
18:27Better than I could do.
18:28Very few witnesses of the power of observation Mr. Paige has.
18:33I'll say that for him.
18:34He saw plenty.
18:35There's still not enough.
18:37How about the way the crime was committed?
18:39The nature of it.
18:40Oh, it's pretty standard.
18:41Look for an open door, wrap on the head, take the valuables.
18:44A dime a dozen.
18:46It's the smart ones we nail.
18:47The ones that figure out their own clever way to commit a crime.
18:52Well, if that's all the help he can give us, I guess he'll have to do.
18:55Let's see how they're doing in there.
19:02That might be.
19:04The face might be the same.
19:07I don't know.
19:08The nose isn't the same up there.
19:09At the bridge, the killer's nose was flattery.
19:11That's Ben Burton.
19:13He's out of circulation.
19:14He's got five years to save before parole.
19:17I don't think it's any use.
19:19Of course it's some use.
19:20A woman's been murdered here.
19:21Let's start all over again.
19:22Now, gentlemen, gentlemen, please relax.
19:25Now, there's a very good idea.
19:27Let's all have a cup of coffee.
19:29Perhaps it'll clear our thinking.
19:31Now, Mr. Page, you've been most cooperative, but if we could help you to remember just one
19:36more thing.
19:37All right, Doctor.
19:38When you saw him hit her, what did you do?
19:43I hollered.
19:45I hollered, no, don't, don't do that.
19:49Did he hear you?
19:50Well, no, he couldn't hear me because the window was closed and his ear...
19:57Wait a minute.
19:59His ear, his left ear, it was, um, uh, uh, what do you call it?
20:05Prize fighters have them.
20:06Cauliflower ear?
20:07That's it.
20:08His left ear, he had one.
20:09That does it.
20:09That's what I need.
20:10Something to work on.
20:10Come on, Fenton.
20:11We'll get out the new description.
20:12This time we'll add a cauliflower left ear.
20:17Well, Mr. Page, I think you can go home.
20:19No.
20:20I'd rather not.
20:22I couldn't sleep now.
20:25Not until the job's finished.
20:27I need to talk to that man.
20:29It may be some time before the police can find him.
20:33I'll wait a while.
20:35It'll be easier.
20:38You see, Dr. Mason, you want to know what this is about because you're a psychiatrist.
20:44I have to know just to be able to live with myself.
21:15Mr. Page.
21:18Mr. Page.
21:19Mr. Page, we have a man in here we want you to see.
21:23You mean you actually found a man who...
21:27He matches your description exactly.
21:31Everything is the same.
21:33You see?
21:35As soon as Lieutenant Davis sends for us, he wants to question him first.
21:41We're holding you as a surprise to force him into confessing.
21:45You see, actually, we have nothing on him except your testimony.
21:49We have to prove that he killed that woman.
21:51Yes, of course.
21:54When we go in, don't say anything about it.
21:58About saying it before it happened?
22:01Don't worry.
22:03Like I said, cop, I don't know what you're talking about.
22:06Either book me or turn me loose.
22:09You won't hang it on me with a witness.
22:11You need more than that and you know it.
22:13You'll need the stuff that was stolen and maybe even the weapon the guy used.
22:17Yeah, you're right.
22:18I need all of that.
22:20And you're going to tell me where it is.
22:22Okay, okay.
22:22So stop talking and show me.
22:24Bring on your witness.
22:25Let's see what you've got.
22:34Don't go away.
22:35Don't worry.
22:36I can't wait to see how this turns out.
22:44That's him.
22:45That's the man.
22:46That's him.
22:47That's the man.
22:48Sit down, Kerwin.
22:49See?
22:49See the ear?
22:50Tell him.
22:51Tell him, Paige.
22:51Tell him what he did.
22:52He knows.
22:54But he doesn't believe I saw him.
22:56Is that it?
22:56That's it, Dan.
22:58I think you're a liar looking for a big charge or something.
23:02You wore shiny black leather gloves, dark gray pants, and a dark blue shirt.
23:07No hat.
23:08You hid behind the chair when the woman came into the room.
23:11She was blonde and very pretty.
23:13She wore a blue dressing gown, light blue.
23:15You had a flashlight in your hand.
23:17You hit her and she fell.
23:19The hairbrush fell, too.
23:20You turned and took the jewelry out of the jewelry box, stuffed it in your pocket, went
23:23over to the couch, emptied her purse, and you left.
23:25It's a frame-up.
23:27Nobody see me do anything.
23:30You're trying to scare me.
23:32This guy's a fake.
23:35You brought him in just to work on me.
23:37The arm.
23:39When he put his left arm around her neck, she bit him.
23:43That's why he rubbed his arm.
23:45Maybe the bite mark's still there.
23:47Pull up the sleeve, honey.
23:54It's there.
23:56I know.
23:58You didn't mean to kill her.
24:03Well, she caught me in the room.
24:06I couldn't get out.
24:09Take him away, Fenton.
24:22Try to forget it, huh, Paige?
24:25Go back to work and stop thinking about it.
24:30Are you going to stop thinking about it, Lieutenant?
24:35No, I guess not.
24:48Edward Paige returned to work two days later.
24:51But he was not, nor would he ever be, the same man who left work such a short time before.
24:58Paige's experience was an example of what is defined as precognition, the ability to foresee the future.
25:07Throughout history, there have been many such instances reported and documented.
25:13How does it happen?
25:15Why?
25:16I'm afraid the explanation is still beyond our understanding, at least for the moment.
25:25Please join me again for another journey into that real but unexplainable world which lies behind the veil.
25:33Good night.
25:34Good night.
26:07Good night.