Perry Mason (1957) s05e17 Episode Script
The Case of the Captain's Coins
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- Phil.
Phil Andrews.
- Evans.
What are you doing aboard a Farraday ship? - Looking for a Farraday.
- Oh, no.
Don't worry.
Not Ben.
l'm looking for Evelyn.
They said at the omice she brought some reports and papers down here.
Yes, she did, for the line's esteemed and lovable general manager.
Ben Farraday flew over and joined us in Honolulu.
You've all had a miserable time ever since, if l know Ben Farraday.
Where's Evelyn? With Mr.
High-and-Mighty himself in the owner's cabin.
- Thanks.
- Oh, Phil.
Please, why don't you meet Evelyn on the dock? He cost you your job.
l wouldn't want the same thing to happen to me.
He may be able to keep me away from his fleet of ships but not his niece.
Don't worry, Evans, you never even saw me around.
This all you brought from the omice? There are a number of important letters there for your signature and the report you wanted.
Why wasn't this report foM/arded to me in Honolulu? l gave Carter specific instructions.
lt wasn't completed until a few days ago.
Since you were already on your way back-- Evelyn.
Why, Phil.
Mr.
Farraday, l'd like to speak with Evelyn for a few minutes.
lt's important, or l wouldn't have come here.
You needn't wait for these.
Why don' t you take the rest of the afternoon om? You can bring the company car back in the morning.
Why, thank you, Ben.
Oh, Andrews, we're giving a party aboard ship tomorrow night for one of our passengers, a Mr.
Trevelian.
A preview showing of a most interesting coin collection he plans to exhibit at the museum.
You might enjoy it.
l've already invited Evelyn and her uncle Carter.
Why don't you join us? And she's a Farraday.
Evelyn's from the wrong side of the family-- one of the outs.
Them that have and them that haven't but should have.
l'm sure you remember.
Yes.
Perhaps it's time we resolved that old issue once and for all.
How about it? Tomorrow night? Please, Phil.
Please? Yes, of course, Uncle Ben.
We'll come.
Thank you.
[door closes.]
Darling, what are you doing here? Great news, honey.
l just couldn't wait to tell you.
- The teaching job.
- l got it.
You know what that means for us.
Oh, Phil.
Come on.
Let's go.
We've got some talking to do.
Mr.
Trevelian? - Yes? - l'm Evelyn Farraday.
This is Phil Andrews.
- How do you do? - How do you do, sir? That insurance floater that you wired ahead for - on your coin collection-- - Yes? The Farraday Line omice took care of it for you, and Mr.
Farraday has a copy of the policy endorsement on board ship.
Oh, thank you, Miss Farraday.
[Phil.]
Can we give you a lift? No, thank you.
l have some errands in town, some things to purchase for the party tomorrow night.
Well, then, we'll take you shopping, after which you're going to have a champagne cocMail with us to celebrate.
Well, somebody has to celebrate with us.
Miss Farraday and l just set our wedding date.
Delighted! l'll be very happy to join you.
Onward, girl, onward.
- Wonde_ul afternoon.
- Oh, just wonde_ul.
l enjoyed it so much.
- l'll get the car.
It's out back.
- Righto, boy.
[humming.]
Hey, you! Hey, what's the idea-- Oof! More work, Jane.
Oh, dear.
And more hot comee.
Oh, thanks, Carter.
You're a doll.
Such familiarity.
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk.
Now, if l were your boss, dear Cousin Ben, you'd be all stim and formal.
Yes, Mr.
Farraday.
No, Mr.
Farraday.
lt's a pleasure to work overtime, Mr.
Farraday.
Thank you so very much, Mr.
Farraday.
But you're not that Mr.
Farraday.
Which is why l can call you the doll you are.
[Carter giggles, make squeak noise.]
[phone rings.]
Mr.
Farraday's omice.
Jane, this is Evelyn.
Let me speak to my uncle, please.
Carter? Sure.
He's right here.
No.
Uncle Ben.
He's still on board the ship.
We have a direct line connection, but Mr.
Farraday asked not to be disturbed unless it was e_remely important.
lt's e_remely important.
Hold on, Evelyn.
l'll switch you through to him.
[ring.]
Yes? Yes, what is it? Evelyn? All right, put her on.
He was unconscious for a while.
Somebody searched the inside of the company car, looking for something.
The two of you haven't discussed this with anyone.
You haven't called the police? No, not yet, Uncle Ben, but l think we should.
l've been worried about this for a long time.
The customs people let me drive on and om the dock without even checking the company car.
Somebody must have noticed that, Ben, and taken advantage of it.
l think the company car was used to smuggle something past customs.
[scraping sound.]
Hold on.
l'll be right back.
[rattling.]
Evelyn? There's nothing for you to be concerned about, absolutely nothing at all.
You were right.
Just a clumsy smuggling emort.
l'll handle it myself.
Don't you think Phil and l should go to the customs people, - tell them that-- - No, no, no, no.
l said l'd handle it myself.
l'll notify the authorities.
l want no publicity.
Not now.
l suggest you forget what happened tonight.
What did he say? He-- He sounded almost upset.
- Upset? - Yes.
He wants us to forget about what happened tonight.
He'll handle it himself with no publicity.
No publicity? That doesn't sound like sweet, dear Uncle Ben.
He invited me to a party.
That doesn't sound like him, either.
l thought something strange was going on, and now l'm sure of it.
We're preparing a special Farraday exhibit now, as a matter of fact, for the East Wing of the Museum here.
Mr.
Cosgrove, about the history of the Farraday family and the founding of the line-- has there been anything new uncovered in the last few months? Yes, l remember.
You did a magazine article, didn't you? Some of the material will be new.
Ah, Jonathan Farraday.
Now, there was a romantic figure.
You know, of course, that Jonathan single-handedly saved a Malay king's son in an earthquake.
You can see the original copies of the exclusive trade agreement with the Malay Kingdom he received in gratitude and the letter of credit for half a million dollars in gold.
About the new things? Miss Farraday and l spoke to a man named Mr.
Trevelian.
Nick Trevelian.
Yes, of course.
His Far East coin collection will be shown jointly with the Farraday exhibit.
Mr.
Trevelian mentioned a coin.
Oh.
The Malay States Commemorative? No, not a coin.
A medal.
Mr.
Cosgrove, this is very important.
Did that medal in any way concern the Farraday family? Why, yes.
The medal was struck om in 18T1 , commemorating the act of heroism by which the King's son was saved in that earthquake and the tidal wave which followed.
See, Jonathan wasn't the only Farraday on that ship in 18T1 .
His young cousin Thomas was also aboard as a clerk.
And he wrote a letter to my great-aunt, claiming he'd concluded some sort of arrangement with Jonathan that would make everybody rich.
Carter's right.
That arrangement was a partnership, a partnership Jonathan never honored after Thomas died of cholera on the trip home.
l don't see how a commemorative medal would have any connection with all this.
Mr.
Mason, didn't the old Commodore-- Ben and Edward's father-- hold back some of the company stock and put it in some kind of a trust when he died? Yes.
l have that part of the will right here.
A discretionary trust in the name of Judge Benjamin Penner for the specific purpose of correcting any inequities between the so-called ''have'' and ''have-not'' members of the Farraday family.
This judge has the final say as to who the stock goes to? His decision can't be challenged? Let me read you the provisions.
''Realizing that such a gift in the form of a discretionary trust ''may be declared invalid, ''l give, devise, and bequeath ''to the said Judge Benjamin Penner ''the absolute title to the shares of stock, ''leaving it solely to his conscience and his friendship for me to see that my intentions are carried out.
'' That answer your question? Yes, it does.
Mr.
Mason, you're the attorney for that trust.
That's why l asked Evelyn to bring me here.
Judge Penner doesn't have to let that stock revert to Ben and Edward.
He has the right to turn it over to Evelyn and Carter, hasn't he? Yes, if we find evidence of inequity.
Phil, my agency investigated every claim against that trust during the last five years.
Rumors, vague stories about some of Jonathan's crew being murdered because they were witnesses to such a partnership.
But there was no proof of any partnership or murder or double-dealing of any kind.
You also investigated that fraud l was involved in six months ago, didn't you? You mean old Mrs.
Wilson's story about her grandmother receiving a letter from one of the crew mentioning such a partnership? Mrs.
Wilson remembered that letter almost word-for-word.
But she hadn't seen it for years.
And she was sure that the letter had been lost a long time ago.
lf Uncle Carter hadn't got you all excited about it-- Didn't you claim you found that letter in Mrs.
Wilson's attic? Sure.
And l thought what l found was genuine.
His editor didn't, after Ben Farraday proved it just a clumsy forgery.
A forgery for which you were blamed, Phil.
That issue of the magazine had to be recalled and reprinted.
And Ben Farraday made sure l lost my teaching job, too.
All right, the letter was a forgery.
But Carter and l are both sure that Mrs.
Wilson's memory wasn't.
Phil, every rich family has its Uncle Carters-- the poor relatives who think they should own part of the business.
Nothing's going to change my mind about Carter or about the disputed partnership.
But if it takes every cent l have Or eVer earn, l'll prove l didn't forge Mrs.
Wilson's letter and that the ''have-not'' Farradays should have that stock.
You sure you know what you're doing? l do.
Well, l say it's too risky.
l hadn't counted on reporters.
l thought we could handle it quietly.
After what happened six months ago, l don't think we have a thing to be concerned about.
On the other hand, my dear brother Edward, we could just dump the whole thing in Judge Penner's hands and see what happens-- to us.
Look, l agreed to help you, but this whole business is getting out of hand.
l don't like it, and l can't go along with it.
l'm still running this company.
l know you are, but l'm getting tired of your high-handed, arbitrary decisions.
And l'm getting tired of being walked on.
[knock on door.]
Yes, who is it? This is Nickolas Trevelian, Mr.
Farraday.
Your guests are arriving, and l was wondering if-- l'm just finishing dressing, Mr.
Trevelian.
Why don't you join the others? l'll be along in a few minutes.
Yes, yes, of course, Mr.
Farraday.
You're going to have to go along with this, Edward.
Your neck is as far out as mine.
[knock on door.]
Jane.
Well, come on in.
l've been looking everywhere for you.
You're going to that party tonight on board ship, aren't you? Yes, as soon as l change my clothes.
Why? Phil, l don't believe in being disloyal to my employer, but Evelyn helped me out of a bad jam once.
l owe her something.
As for Carter l've adored that wonde_ully crazy old man ever since l went to work there.
l could never stand to see them hurt the only decent Farraday man in the family.
Go on.
l accidentally overheard Mr.
Farraday-- Ben-- on the phone with his brother Edward.
He said something about finally being able to-- to shut up that nuisance Carter for good.
Shut up Uncle Carter? He wanted to make sure the reporters would be present tonight when he-- he exposed the second fraud by the same man in six months.
Now, that could have been Carter he meant, - or it-- - Or what? l know this sounds silly, Phil, but that same man, that could be you he was talking about.
Oh, where can Phil be? Do you think l should phone his apartment again? No, no, no.
l'd wait a few more minutes.
Uncle Carter, l'm worried.
After what happened last night and the way he spoke to Perry Mason today, l-- l have a feeling he's walking right back into trouble again.
But he's right! Yes, yes, he's right.
We both are.
Just you wait and see.
Oh, please, Uncle Carter-- l knew he wasn't too happy about coming tonight, feeling the way he does about Ben, but somehow l hoped it was all over and done with.
Now l'm not so sure.
Phil! Ben? Ben.
Ben.
l asked Evelyn to call you.
Mr.
Mason, l didn't kill Ben Farraday.
l swear l didn't.
Sure, l came into the room, but he wasn't around, so l sat down and waited.
l happened to glance out of the stateroom window, and there was a man looking in.
He was the same man who slugged me in the parking lot last night.
lt was him, l'm sure of it.
So you ran out after him, but he disappeared.
What makes you think he went ashore, Phil? l'm not sure, but l thought l saw someone running down the gangway, and l figured he'd gone into the warehouse.
That's the reason l was there when the omicers showed up.
l wasn't hiding, Lieutenant Anderson.
You've got to believe me.
[knock on door.]
- Mr.
Trevelian? - Yes.
l understand the coins here on the desk belong to you.
Yes, but what are they doing here? l put them in the safe in the purser's omice shortly after we left Honolulu.
Mr.
Farraday himself suggested it.
The purser tells me Mr.
Farraday took them out of the safe yesterday afternoon.
Any idea why? Well, he was most interested in them.
One in particular-- not actually a coin, but a commemorative medal struck in honor of his grandfather Jonathan Farraday.
An 18T1 Malay States commemorative-- The Malay States.
It's gone.
There's one thing about this job-- it's a lot easier than the one the police have on their hands.
Beats me how they expect to find that medal on a ship this size.
Don't underestimate the police, Mr.
Evans.
Finding things is one of their top specialties.
Right now, l'm more interested in finding the man Phil Andrews saw last night.
Was there anyone in particular who had access to Mr.
Farraday's stateroom? A steward, perhaps? Well, yes.
Anyone of about a half a dozen.
No, wait a minute.
Mr.
Farraday brought his own man on board last night.
Sid Garth, his personal valet.
Used to be one of our best stewards.
l should have a card on him here somewhere.
Yes.
Yes, here it is.
l'm going back to the omice, Paul.
There's some work l want Della to start right away.
Want me to stick around here and see what l can pick up from Lt.
Anderson? No, l've a somewhat bigger job for you.
First, a thorough check on everyone connected with the case-- contacts, associates, their movements.
Go back two or three weeks.
Easy, Perry.
l employ a stam, not an army.
Then you'd better start recruiting.
l want everyone watched right around the clock, particularly, Mr.
Trevelian.
Handle him yourself.
You're spending money like it just went out of style.
Why the 24-hour tail on everybody? Malay States Commemorative Medal 18T1 .
The medal? If it's worth 50 bucks, it's worth a lot.
Yes, if the face on the medal is that of Jonathan Farraday.
Are you saying the face on that medal might be that of Thomas Farraday? ln which case, Paul, Thomas, not Jonathan, saved the King's son, and Thomas, not Jonathan, was given the trade agreement and the half million dollar letter of credit.
But, Perry, l've seen those documents.
They were made out just to the Farraday Company.
So it's possible that before the document was made out simply to the company, the cousins Farraday had agreed to a partnership.
Sure.
Then, when Thomas died on the trip home, Jonathan could have forgotten the partnership and claimed that he was the hero who'd saved the prince.
The Malayan people would never have found out, would never have known the dimerence.
Sure would explain everything-- the mysterious deaths, rumors.
It fits like a glove.
lf the face on the coin is that of Thomas Farraday.
Shame about Ben being killed.
l suppose in a way, it all had to do with those coins.
Oh? In what way? Before Nick Trevelian left the Far East, he sent me a photograph of himself with the coins he'd purchased from lonescu in Hong Kong.
Also a list of the coins.
l agreed to a showing here at the museum.
How did that amect Mr.
Farraday? Well, naturally l knew Ben would be interested in the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal because of its association with the Farraday family history.
l called him.
What did he say? He insisted-- rather peremptorily, as a matter of fact-- that l rush the photograph over to him by messenger immediately.
- And did you? - Yes.
That same afternoon, he called me back, very excited.
Pleaded with me not to release any information on the medal.
Mr.
Cosgrove, do you have photographs of both Thomas and Jonathan Farraday? Twice in the same day.
Yes, l have the photographs.
- l'll get you a set of copies.
- One moment, sir.
You said ''twice''? Mr.
Trevelian was in only a short time ago asking for photographs of Jonathan Farraday and his cousin Thomas.
No, Mr.
Farraday didn't give any reason.
Just told me to get tickets for him and Sid Garth on the first flight to Honolulu over a week ago.
He was very excited-- upset.
Any idea what might have upset him? No, but l think it started when Mr.
Cosgrove phoned.
He's the man at the museum, Perry.
He's an old friend of Ben's.
Go on, Miss Weeks.
Well, he acted very strangely after that.
Nervous, tense.
He had to attend a meeting.
Told me he was expecting an envelope from Mr.
Cosgrove.
l was to let him know immediately when it arrived.
lt arrived about an hour later by special messenger.
What was in the envelope? A photograph.
l didn't get a good look at it.
He asked me if l knew of a photo studio in the neighborhood, and he rushed right out.
And it was on his return that he asked you to phone the airlines.
Yes.
Well.
Good morning.
Good morning, Mr.
Farraday.
Am l interrupting anything, Mr.
Mason? Not at all.
Miss Weeks, will you please see to it that my things are moved in here from the other omice? Why, yes, sir.
l'm taking over Ben's duties.
l don't suppose the medal has turned up, has it, Mr.
Mason? No, no, it hasn't.
Do the police still think Ben was murdered because of that medal? Well, the killer could have taken everything from that coin pouch.
He took only the medal.
Tell me, Mr.
Farraday, when you went aboard ship yesterday, did your brother show you that medal? Why, uh, why, no.
l ask only because he'd taken the coins from the safe shortly after the ship docked.
However, he must have mentioned medal to you.
Well, yes, he did.
The medal was the principal reason for giving the party last night.
And the presence of the reporters at the party? l, uh-- l must ask you to excuse me, Mr.
Mason.
l'm-- l'm very busy.
Miss Weeks, that photo studio you mentioned-- l thought you'd want the address.
lt's just around the corner.
Thank you.
Yeah, it was a week ago, give or take a little.
He came in with this photograph of a guy holding a tray with maybe a dozen coins on it, all arranged like a display, y'know what l mean? What did Mr.
Farraday want you to do? Asked me to make an enlargement-- blow up a particular coin.
Well, actually, it was a medal.
What did this, uh, medal look like? Nothing very unusual about it-- profile of some geezer with a handlebar mustache.
l understand name Farraday was printed on the back.
''Farraday-- Saver of the Prince,'' something like that.
Did he take the enlargement with him? Nope.
He took one look at it and burned it.
Weird, y'know what l mean? Like l told the police after l read about the murder.
lt was a funny thing.
There was another man involved.
He came in a few minutes after Farraday left.
Like you, he was very interested in the photograph.
Would you, uh, happen to know the name of this man? His name was Farraday, too.
Everybody knows him along the street.
They call him Uncle Carter.
Hi.
What are you two doing here? Looking for a photograph of some coins and Nickolas Trevelian.
Speaking of Trevelian, aren't you supposed to be watching him? l am.
He's in there.
ln Ben Farraday's house? Mm-hmm.
Third trip today.
First two times, he couldn't get past the front door.
The houseboy kept shaking his head and wouldn't let him in.
This time, the door was answered by a woman-- the housekeeper, probably.
He's been inside, oh, about five minutes.
What else has our friend been up to this morning, Paul? Well, first om, he hightailed it to the museum.
Saw a man there.
Henry Cosgrove? Why, Mr.
Mason.
Mr.
Trevelian.
ls this why you came here, to recover your photograph? Well, yes, yes.
The housekeeper was good enough to-- But how did you know? l spoke to Mr.
Cosgrove earlier.
He mentioned the fact you had sent it to him.
For publicity purposes, you understand.
Apparently, Mr.
Farraday had borrowed it from him.
May l see it? Tell me, which is the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal? This one in the upper right hand corner.
lt is a little dimicult to distinguish.
Della.
Mm-hmm.
These are copies of the pictures Cosgrove gave you yesterday at the museum.
Jonathan and Thomas Farraday.
Mr.
Trevelian, the face on that medal is not that of Jonathan Farraday.
That's-- That's Thomas Farraday, Jonathan's cousin.
[door opens.]
Oh, we've had Mr.
Trevelian followed, too-- a matter of routine which seems to have paid om.
So it would seem there never should have been any ''have not'' Farradays, huh? - l guess you overheard us.
- Yes.
Those requests for pictures bothered Mr.
Cosgrove, the man at the museum.
He called us, we followed you, and here we all are.
Like l always say, don't underestimate the police.
Now, Lieutenant, all you have to do is arrest the man who stole that medal from the ship, and you'll probably have the murderer.
We picked up a man named Sid Garth.
He admitted stealing a bag of coins, all right, but it's not Sid Garth we're charging with murder, Perry.
lt's your client, Phil Andrews.
Mr.
Noymann, you have stated that the magazine issue in question had already been printed and distributed.
Now, when the decedent challenged the article on the Farraday family, what did you do? Well, naturally, as Phil's editor on the magazine, l had no choice but to recall the issue and delete the article after Mr.
Farraday had proved conclusively that the document in question had been deliberately forged.
What action did you take against the defendant? We had no choice but to fire him.
[Carter.]
There's no question about it.
The face on the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal is that of Thomas Farraday and not Jonathan Farraday.
ln other words, as one of the parties most closely concerned, you feel that this medal, unlike the forged document in the defendant's magazine article, gives you cause to reopen your claim before Judge Penner for the Farraday stock he holds in trust.
No question of it, no, sir.
This medal gives us more than just a claim to some stock.
lt opens up the question of full partnership in the Line.
lt was only a matter of hours after he'd boarded ship in Honolulu that Mr.
Ben Farraday sent for me.
He told me he'd seen the picture of the collection l'd sent to Mr.
Cosgrove at the museum and that he was particularly interested in one item-- the 18T1 Malay States medal.
So you had Mr.
Evans, the purser, remove it from the safe, - and you showed it to him? - Yes.
He was most excited and asked me a great many questions.
l told him that l'd purchased it, among others, from the lonescu estate in Hong Kong.
l left Ben at 9:15.
l returned at 9:45, in time to see Philip Andrews, the defendant, running away from the stateroom corridor.
l went in and found Ben dead.
When you talked with the decedent at 9, did he discuss the medal with you? Yes.
l remember his exact words: ''That medal can't hurt us anymore now.
Neither can Phil Andrews.
He'll get what's coming to him at the party tonight.
'' At that time, Mr.
Farraday, did you know of your own knowledge of anything that had been done in regard to the 18T1 Malay States medal? Yes.
l'd read a copy of the wire Ben sent asking for authentication of the medal.
And to whom was that wire sent? To the person in Hong Kong from whom Trevelian had purchased the medal-- Mrs.
Fidor lonescu.
When l received Mr.
Farraday's wire, l immediately checked through our records for a possible certificate of authentication.
And did you find one, Mrs.
Ionescu? Yes-- a certificate from the Far East Coin Company with whom my late husband had often done business.
Did you check the certificate of authentication with the Far East Coin Company? Yes.
And they denied ever having or selling the medal to my husband.
l don't know where my husband got the medal, but as for the certificate, they sent a man over to examine it.
l have a notarized amidavit from them attesting that the certificate authenticating the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative was a forgery.
For the second time, a forged document relating directly or indirectly to the ownership of the Farraday Lines.
Now l ask you, was Mrs.
Trevelian the only party interested in this particular collection of coins your husband had for sale? No.
Another man had come to see him a month earlier.
l explained Mr.
Ionescu had just died a few weeks ago, that the collection was being inventoried.
He-- this man-- said he had just came from Malaya and asked if the collection included an 18T1 Malay States Commemorative.
And did this other man ask to go through the collection? l told him that my husband had agreed before he died to give Mr.
Trevelian first refusal on anything in the collection.
lf there were such a rare medal, l told him Mr.
Trevelian would unquestionably wish to purchase it.
Mrs.
Ionescu, this man who had traveled from Malaya to Hong Kong, who was interested in some unheard-of medal, who was in Hong Kong at the very time that the bogus medal and the spurious authentication became part of your husband's collection before it was sold to Mr.
Trevelian.
ls this man here now in this courtroom today? Yes.
He is the defendant-- Mr.
Philip Andrews.
Perry.
Perry, do you plan to put on a defense at this preliminary? Please don't misunderstand me.
l'm only asking as a matter of accommodation for one of the witnesses-- Edward Farraday.
Accommodation in what manner? We've decided to release the ship, the farraday _ueen, for its run back to the Orient tomorrow night.
As new president of the line, he feels it a matter of urgent necessity that he sail with his ship.
And l'll be finished for the prosecution by noon tomorrow.
What if the defendant is bound over? That's just the point.
I When the defendant is bound over Perry, we don't plan to go to trial immediately.
All the witnesses from the ship will be under subpoena, and they'll all be back in time.
l had planned to recall a few witnesses.
As for a defense-- l certainly have no objection to your recalling a few witnesses.
And l'm not trying to influence you, counselor.
But if you put on no defense at this hearing, we should be finished by tomorrow afternoon.
l was going to say l have no present plans for a defense at this preliminary.
Thank you, Perry.
Yes, l-- l did go to the Malay States, right after l was fired.
l guess it was pretty stupid of me.
But l had to find proof l was right.
l didn't care what it cost me or where l had to go.
And it was in the Malay States that you heard about the possible existence of the commemorative medal? Yes.
A vague sort of rumor.
l heard that if there were such a medal, the only person who might have it or could locate it was a Mr.
Ionescu in Hong Kong.
You heard the rest.
lonescu was dead, his widow was cataloguing his collection, and Trevelian was expected with the right to buy anything he saw.
Phil, why didn't you tell Evelyn about that trip? Perry, l was not responsible for that forged letter that cost me my job.
And l wasn't going to let it ruin my reputation for the rest of my life.
l couldn't let it ride, even though Evelyn had asked me, had pleaded with me, to drop the whole matter for good.
Look, does it make any dimerence my having gone there? The Prosecution has very definitely made it appear that you were doing the same as you did with that magazine article-- manufacturing evidence.
But why, Perry? Why should he? They've already created the impression that he planted the medal and the authentication in the lonescu collection, expecting Trevelian to pick it up and subsequently make it public.
lf they can also prove that he recovered that medal, along with the coins Garth stole, and returned them to Ben's cabin, then it will certainly appear that he planned the entire thing to fool Judge Penner into turning that stock over to you.
l had a hunch, from the way Mr.
Farraday acted, that those coins might be worth a fortune.
Yes, l-- l stole the bag of coins from Mr.
Ben's stateroom.
The only way l could figure to get them om the ship and past the customs was to hide them in the back of the company station wagon that Miss Evelyn drives to the dock.
So you followed her, Evelyn Farraday, and Mr.
Trevelian and the defendant when they left the dock.
Go on.
Well, they went shopping first.
And every time they shopped, Phil Andrews would take what Mr.
Trevelian bought and put it in the back of the station wagon.
l was getting a little scared.
So, when you figured they'd spend some time in the restaurant, you went up to the station wagon in the parking lot to try to recover the pouch of coins.
Yes, only it wasn't there, in the back or anywhere else in the wagon.
And it wasn't on Phil Andrews.
Did you see anyone else at any time, go near the back of that station wagon? No, sir.
He was the only one.
Him-- Phil Andrews.
He had to be the one who took the pouch and hid it.
- Your Honor-- - Your witness.
Now, you watched that collection of coins aboard ship, made plans to steal it.
Once the ship docked, you did steal it, isn't that so? Yes.
Having stolen it, you hid the collection in the company station wagon and then subsequently tried to recover it, but you were unable to do so.
Now, there was only one purpose for the original theft and the attempted recovery, and that was blackmail, isn't that so? Yes.
Now, you didn't find the bag of coins in the station wagon or on the defendant.
Wasn't that because someone had taken the coins from the station wagon before it left the dock and had returned them to the decedent's stateroom? Your Honor, l object to that.
l'll withdraw the question.
l'm finished with the witness.
Miss Farraday, the court has ruled you a hostile witness.
You will therefore answer my questions yes or no.
ln spite of learned counsel's attempts to insinuate that the stolen coins never left the dock, isn't it a fact that the defendant had ample opportunity during that afternoon to gain possession of those coins from the station wagon and later to return them to the ship himself? Objection, Your Honor.
Mr.
Burger, what is the purpose of your question? Well, Your Honor, when the decedent was found murdered, all the coins were there except the Malay States Medal.
Now, we know that Garth removed all the coins from the ship.
Since they were found at the scene of the crime, it's obvious that somebody returned them to the ship.
Objection overruled.
Proceed, Mr.
Burger.
Very well, Your Honor.
Miss Farraday, do you claim that you and Mr.
Trevelian and the defendant were constantly together every moment that afternoon up to the time of the defendant's encounter with Mr.
Garth in the parking lot? Yes.
Did you stop along the way? Was the defendant ever left in the car at any time? We stopped to shop several times, but Phil was never alone.
- You're certain of that? - Yes.
- Absolutely certain? - Yes! Oh Well, no.
Phil was alone at one time.
When was this? There wasn't any place to park in front of the restaurant, and he told us to go on in, that he'd park in the back.
So he was alone during that time, and he later rejoined you in the restaurant.
He was only alone a few minutes.
Time enough for him to remove those coins from the station wagon and hide them somewhere else until he later returned them to the stateroom of the decedent.
That isn't true.
He didn't.
Thank you, Miss Farraday.
That'll be all.
Your witness.
l have no questions at this time.
You were on duty that afternoon, l believe, at the gangplank.
Now, would you tell us, please, what happened at exactly 2:OO that afternoon? Yes, sir.
The defendant Phil Andrews came aboard and said he was looking for the purser.
ls the purser's omice near the owner's stateroom? Yes, sir, just down the passageway.
When l told him what l'd overheard on the phone about Mr.
Farraday exposing the second fraud in six months by the same man, well, at first Phil was just stunned, - as if he-- he couldn't believe it.
- And then what? And then Phil became angry and ran out of the building.
While the party was in progress elsewhere on the ship, Mr.
Evans, the night the decedent was murdered, would you have any idea who went in and out of Ben Farraday's stateroom and at what time? Yes, sir, l would.
My omice is just down the passageway from the owner's stateroom.
l was working that evening with the door open.
Would you tell the court, please, who went in and out of Ben Farraday's stateroom between 9 and 10 that evening? Mr.
Edward Farraday came in about a little after 9 and left about 15 minutes later.
The defendant, Mr.
Andrews, arrived at about 9:4O and left at about 9:45.
Mr.
Edward Farraday returned at that time, went into the stateroom, and discovered his brother's dead body.
Now, beside the door that you had under observation, was there any other way in or out of that stateroom or its adjoining bedroom? No, sir.
So between the time Edward Farraday left and the time he returned to find his brother dead-- during the exact period when the murder must have been committed-- the one and only person who went in and out of Ben Farraday's stateroom was the defendant Philip Andrews? Yes, sir.
Thank you, Mr.
Evans.
lf it please the court, when Mr.
Mason has completed his cross-examination of this witness, the prosecution will rest and move that the defendant be bound over for trial.
Your witness, Mr.
Mason.
Before cross-examining this witness, Your Honor l should like to recall Nickolas Trevelian to the stand.
Why, yes, Mr.
Mason, l am considered an expert on old coins and historically valuable medals of that nature as well.
Since the forged authentication for the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal was still in Mrs.
Ionescu's files, l take it you did not request such authentication.
Why, Mr.
Trevelian? Could it have been that you as an expert had decided the medal was genuine and needed no authentication? Well, as a matter of fact, l-- l didn't question it for a moment, but that certificate-- The certificate was false, Mr.
Trevelian, but that didn't make the medal false.
Have you by any chance read, uh, Mr.
Koumman's recent coin collector's newsletter-- the one on Far East coins, the one in which he mentions a series of Malay States Commemorative Medals? No, l haven't had a chance yet, but there's no doubt that Koumman is tops in the field.
He further mentions a test for authenticating such medals-- a tiny deathwatch beetle inscribed within the Malayan coat of arms.
- Have you heard of that test? - No, l'm sorry l haven't.
Well, was there such a beetle inscribed on the medal you purchased from the lonescu estate? Why-- l don't know.
l accepted the authenticity of it without looking for such an inscription.
Thank you.
That'll be all.
[Judge.]
Mr.
Burger? No redirect, Your Honor.
The witness is excused.
Your Honor, it's nearly the hour for the noon recess.
Mr.
Mason and l had agreed to an early end to these proceedings.
Therefore, at this time, l should like to move-- One moment, Mr.
Burger.
ln the light of the evidence, l plan to recall two more witnesses before even considering the matter of a defense.
Mr.
Mason, you said yesterday-- [Judge rapping gavel.]
That'll be all.
The court is not interested in personalities.
l suggest, therefore, that you gentlemen meet during the noon hour, and, if there is any matter to be brought before the attention of the court, lt be presented after the noon adjournment.
Court is recessed until 2:OO.
Got it.
You were right, Perry.
The information was there at the passport omice.
[phone rings.]
Yes, Gertie? Put him on.
Right.
Good work.
Thanks, Paul.
Well, Miss Street, we've just about solved the riddle of the Captain's Coins.
Mr.
Farraday, isn't it true that you followed Ben Farraday to a photo shop on the afternoon of the day he left for Honolulu? Yes.
l don't deny that.
lsn't that when you discovered that they'd made an enlarged photograph of the commemorative medal? l was told the photograph was of a medal.
Just a medal, that's all.
l had no way of knowing it was the Malay States medal.
But the photographer described it to you, didn't he? And didn't you then go straight to see Sid Garth? No.
Why should l? To ask Garth, as an old friend, to keep an eye on that coin collection to make sure that Ben Farraday didn't dispose of that medal? Well, all right.
l-- l guess l did go to see Sid, but l didn't know he was going to steal.
l meant no harm.
Just as you meant no harm concerning the fraudulent letter found in Mrs.
Wilson's attic.
No.
First you paid to have that document forged, then you steered Phil Andrews right to it.
That particular maneuver cost Mr.
Andrews his job, yet you meant no harm.
l'm sorry.
You did go down to the docks to meet Sid Garth when the ship arrived in Los Angeles, did you not? Yes, but l didn't see him.
The killer did, Mr.
Farraday.
The killer saw Garth hide those coins in the station wagon.
The killer knew very well the importance of the Malay States medal, so he took the coins from the station wagon, returned the coins and the pouch to Ben Farraday's stateroom, but he kept the Malay States medal.
And that evening, the killer went to Ben Farraday's stateroom, made known his demands for returning that medal.
There was a violent quarrel, and-- l was with Evelyn every minute l was on board ship that night.
And l can prove it.
Why was it so important to you, Mr.
Farraday, to sail to the Orient with your ship tonight? lt was a matter of business urgency, to inspect the branch omices.
After all, l am taking over active management of the Line.
Then it wasn't a matter of getting to Hong Kong to pay om your accomplice? My accomplice? That Malay medal was absolutely authentic.
Ben knew it.
So did you.
Now, Ben flew to Honolulu to intercept Mr.
Trevelian aboard the ship He wanted to get hold of that medal and keep it under wraps until you had done your job.
l don't know what you mean.
You couldn't have hidden the existence of the medal.
There was the picture to the museum.
So you had to do the ne_ best thing-- you had to destroy the value of the medal.
You remembered Phil Andrews and that forged document.
Forgery had saved you once, so you figured it would save you once again, isn't that so? No.
No.
Records in the passport omice will prove that at the same time Ben flew to Honolulu, you flew to Hong Kong.
lt was you, Mr.
Farraday, who hired the accomplice in Hong Kong to place something into the lonescu files which would make it appear that the Malay medal wasn't authentic.
Look here, you can't talk-- Possession of that medal, would have been worth worth millions of dollars.
The murderer killed someone for it.
And unless l'm mistaken, Mr.
Farraday, that medal was carefully hidden aboard the ship.
The ship? This morning in court, l deliberately made it impossible for any of the witnesses in this case to be aboard that ship when she sails tonight.
l described an identifying mark which would authenticate the medal.
l did so to force the killer to try to retrieve or at least have a look at that medal before the ship sailed.
And from the moment of the recess, Mr.
Farraday, l've had every single witness in this case watched carefully.
l didn't go near that ship! No.
But Mr.
Evans did.
No.
l don't know what you're talking about.
You were followed.
You went first to the ship and then to a locker in the bus depot.
When the police further investigate, they'll find that medal hidden in that locker.
Now, in view of further police investigation, and in view of the facts l've just related here, you're certainly not going to deny that you killed Ben Farraday, are you, Mr.
Evans? No, he became furious.
He ordered me to give him the medal and then get out.
Ordered me! Just like l was so much dirt to be ordered and kicked around by the great Ben Farraday.
Well, not me.
Not anymore.
l wouldn't take it.
So when he grabbed for the medal and fought with me l killed him! lt was only me he saw going into that stateroom.
Sure, after he'd killed Ben.
He was aware of the fact that the coins were aboard ship.
They'd been placed in his omice safe.
He could have looked them over at any time.
He certainly would have known the significance of the face on the Malay medal.
And don't forget he also knew that Ben Farraday had removed the coins from the safe and taken them into his stateroom.
But then Garth took them, and somebody saw him put them in the station wagon.
And the ones who were there at the time were Uncle Carter Edward Farraday, Ev_ns, even our little friend Trevelian.
After Perry gave out the information about the deathwatch beetle, we kept an eye on all of them.
l almost forgot.
A messenger left this.
lt's a present for you.
From Mr.
Trevelian and your Uncle Carter.
[Paul.]
That face launched a thousand ships? [laughter.]
Subtitled By J.
R.
Media Services, Inc.
Burbank, CA
- Phil.
Phil Andrews.
- Evans.
What are you doing aboard a Farraday ship? - Looking for a Farraday.
- Oh, no.
Don't worry.
Not Ben.
l'm looking for Evelyn.
They said at the omice she brought some reports and papers down here.
Yes, she did, for the line's esteemed and lovable general manager.
Ben Farraday flew over and joined us in Honolulu.
You've all had a miserable time ever since, if l know Ben Farraday.
Where's Evelyn? With Mr.
High-and-Mighty himself in the owner's cabin.
- Thanks.
- Oh, Phil.
Please, why don't you meet Evelyn on the dock? He cost you your job.
l wouldn't want the same thing to happen to me.
He may be able to keep me away from his fleet of ships but not his niece.
Don't worry, Evans, you never even saw me around.
This all you brought from the omice? There are a number of important letters there for your signature and the report you wanted.
Why wasn't this report foM/arded to me in Honolulu? l gave Carter specific instructions.
lt wasn't completed until a few days ago.
Since you were already on your way back-- Evelyn.
Why, Phil.
Mr.
Farraday, l'd like to speak with Evelyn for a few minutes.
lt's important, or l wouldn't have come here.
You needn't wait for these.
Why don' t you take the rest of the afternoon om? You can bring the company car back in the morning.
Why, thank you, Ben.
Oh, Andrews, we're giving a party aboard ship tomorrow night for one of our passengers, a Mr.
Trevelian.
A preview showing of a most interesting coin collection he plans to exhibit at the museum.
You might enjoy it.
l've already invited Evelyn and her uncle Carter.
Why don't you join us? And she's a Farraday.
Evelyn's from the wrong side of the family-- one of the outs.
Them that have and them that haven't but should have.
l'm sure you remember.
Yes.
Perhaps it's time we resolved that old issue once and for all.
How about it? Tomorrow night? Please, Phil.
Please? Yes, of course, Uncle Ben.
We'll come.
Thank you.
[door closes.]
Darling, what are you doing here? Great news, honey.
l just couldn't wait to tell you.
- The teaching job.
- l got it.
You know what that means for us.
Oh, Phil.
Come on.
Let's go.
We've got some talking to do.
Mr.
Trevelian? - Yes? - l'm Evelyn Farraday.
This is Phil Andrews.
- How do you do? - How do you do, sir? That insurance floater that you wired ahead for - on your coin collection-- - Yes? The Farraday Line omice took care of it for you, and Mr.
Farraday has a copy of the policy endorsement on board ship.
Oh, thank you, Miss Farraday.
[Phil.]
Can we give you a lift? No, thank you.
l have some errands in town, some things to purchase for the party tomorrow night.
Well, then, we'll take you shopping, after which you're going to have a champagne cocMail with us to celebrate.
Well, somebody has to celebrate with us.
Miss Farraday and l just set our wedding date.
Delighted! l'll be very happy to join you.
Onward, girl, onward.
- Wonde_ul afternoon.
- Oh, just wonde_ul.
l enjoyed it so much.
- l'll get the car.
It's out back.
- Righto, boy.
[humming.]
Hey, you! Hey, what's the idea-- Oof! More work, Jane.
Oh, dear.
And more hot comee.
Oh, thanks, Carter.
You're a doll.
Such familiarity.
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk.
Now, if l were your boss, dear Cousin Ben, you'd be all stim and formal.
Yes, Mr.
Farraday.
No, Mr.
Farraday.
lt's a pleasure to work overtime, Mr.
Farraday.
Thank you so very much, Mr.
Farraday.
But you're not that Mr.
Farraday.
Which is why l can call you the doll you are.
[Carter giggles, make squeak noise.]
[phone rings.]
Mr.
Farraday's omice.
Jane, this is Evelyn.
Let me speak to my uncle, please.
Carter? Sure.
He's right here.
No.
Uncle Ben.
He's still on board the ship.
We have a direct line connection, but Mr.
Farraday asked not to be disturbed unless it was e_remely important.
lt's e_remely important.
Hold on, Evelyn.
l'll switch you through to him.
[ring.]
Yes? Yes, what is it? Evelyn? All right, put her on.
He was unconscious for a while.
Somebody searched the inside of the company car, looking for something.
The two of you haven't discussed this with anyone.
You haven't called the police? No, not yet, Uncle Ben, but l think we should.
l've been worried about this for a long time.
The customs people let me drive on and om the dock without even checking the company car.
Somebody must have noticed that, Ben, and taken advantage of it.
l think the company car was used to smuggle something past customs.
[scraping sound.]
Hold on.
l'll be right back.
[rattling.]
Evelyn? There's nothing for you to be concerned about, absolutely nothing at all.
You were right.
Just a clumsy smuggling emort.
l'll handle it myself.
Don't you think Phil and l should go to the customs people, - tell them that-- - No, no, no, no.
l said l'd handle it myself.
l'll notify the authorities.
l want no publicity.
Not now.
l suggest you forget what happened tonight.
What did he say? He-- He sounded almost upset.
- Upset? - Yes.
He wants us to forget about what happened tonight.
He'll handle it himself with no publicity.
No publicity? That doesn't sound like sweet, dear Uncle Ben.
He invited me to a party.
That doesn't sound like him, either.
l thought something strange was going on, and now l'm sure of it.
We're preparing a special Farraday exhibit now, as a matter of fact, for the East Wing of the Museum here.
Mr.
Cosgrove, about the history of the Farraday family and the founding of the line-- has there been anything new uncovered in the last few months? Yes, l remember.
You did a magazine article, didn't you? Some of the material will be new.
Ah, Jonathan Farraday.
Now, there was a romantic figure.
You know, of course, that Jonathan single-handedly saved a Malay king's son in an earthquake.
You can see the original copies of the exclusive trade agreement with the Malay Kingdom he received in gratitude and the letter of credit for half a million dollars in gold.
About the new things? Miss Farraday and l spoke to a man named Mr.
Trevelian.
Nick Trevelian.
Yes, of course.
His Far East coin collection will be shown jointly with the Farraday exhibit.
Mr.
Trevelian mentioned a coin.
Oh.
The Malay States Commemorative? No, not a coin.
A medal.
Mr.
Cosgrove, this is very important.
Did that medal in any way concern the Farraday family? Why, yes.
The medal was struck om in 18T1 , commemorating the act of heroism by which the King's son was saved in that earthquake and the tidal wave which followed.
See, Jonathan wasn't the only Farraday on that ship in 18T1 .
His young cousin Thomas was also aboard as a clerk.
And he wrote a letter to my great-aunt, claiming he'd concluded some sort of arrangement with Jonathan that would make everybody rich.
Carter's right.
That arrangement was a partnership, a partnership Jonathan never honored after Thomas died of cholera on the trip home.
l don't see how a commemorative medal would have any connection with all this.
Mr.
Mason, didn't the old Commodore-- Ben and Edward's father-- hold back some of the company stock and put it in some kind of a trust when he died? Yes.
l have that part of the will right here.
A discretionary trust in the name of Judge Benjamin Penner for the specific purpose of correcting any inequities between the so-called ''have'' and ''have-not'' members of the Farraday family.
This judge has the final say as to who the stock goes to? His decision can't be challenged? Let me read you the provisions.
''Realizing that such a gift in the form of a discretionary trust ''may be declared invalid, ''l give, devise, and bequeath ''to the said Judge Benjamin Penner ''the absolute title to the shares of stock, ''leaving it solely to his conscience and his friendship for me to see that my intentions are carried out.
'' That answer your question? Yes, it does.
Mr.
Mason, you're the attorney for that trust.
That's why l asked Evelyn to bring me here.
Judge Penner doesn't have to let that stock revert to Ben and Edward.
He has the right to turn it over to Evelyn and Carter, hasn't he? Yes, if we find evidence of inequity.
Phil, my agency investigated every claim against that trust during the last five years.
Rumors, vague stories about some of Jonathan's crew being murdered because they were witnesses to such a partnership.
But there was no proof of any partnership or murder or double-dealing of any kind.
You also investigated that fraud l was involved in six months ago, didn't you? You mean old Mrs.
Wilson's story about her grandmother receiving a letter from one of the crew mentioning such a partnership? Mrs.
Wilson remembered that letter almost word-for-word.
But she hadn't seen it for years.
And she was sure that the letter had been lost a long time ago.
lf Uncle Carter hadn't got you all excited about it-- Didn't you claim you found that letter in Mrs.
Wilson's attic? Sure.
And l thought what l found was genuine.
His editor didn't, after Ben Farraday proved it just a clumsy forgery.
A forgery for which you were blamed, Phil.
That issue of the magazine had to be recalled and reprinted.
And Ben Farraday made sure l lost my teaching job, too.
All right, the letter was a forgery.
But Carter and l are both sure that Mrs.
Wilson's memory wasn't.
Phil, every rich family has its Uncle Carters-- the poor relatives who think they should own part of the business.
Nothing's going to change my mind about Carter or about the disputed partnership.
But if it takes every cent l have Or eVer earn, l'll prove l didn't forge Mrs.
Wilson's letter and that the ''have-not'' Farradays should have that stock.
You sure you know what you're doing? l do.
Well, l say it's too risky.
l hadn't counted on reporters.
l thought we could handle it quietly.
After what happened six months ago, l don't think we have a thing to be concerned about.
On the other hand, my dear brother Edward, we could just dump the whole thing in Judge Penner's hands and see what happens-- to us.
Look, l agreed to help you, but this whole business is getting out of hand.
l don't like it, and l can't go along with it.
l'm still running this company.
l know you are, but l'm getting tired of your high-handed, arbitrary decisions.
And l'm getting tired of being walked on.
[knock on door.]
Yes, who is it? This is Nickolas Trevelian, Mr.
Farraday.
Your guests are arriving, and l was wondering if-- l'm just finishing dressing, Mr.
Trevelian.
Why don't you join the others? l'll be along in a few minutes.
Yes, yes, of course, Mr.
Farraday.
You're going to have to go along with this, Edward.
Your neck is as far out as mine.
[knock on door.]
Jane.
Well, come on in.
l've been looking everywhere for you.
You're going to that party tonight on board ship, aren't you? Yes, as soon as l change my clothes.
Why? Phil, l don't believe in being disloyal to my employer, but Evelyn helped me out of a bad jam once.
l owe her something.
As for Carter l've adored that wonde_ully crazy old man ever since l went to work there.
l could never stand to see them hurt the only decent Farraday man in the family.
Go on.
l accidentally overheard Mr.
Farraday-- Ben-- on the phone with his brother Edward.
He said something about finally being able to-- to shut up that nuisance Carter for good.
Shut up Uncle Carter? He wanted to make sure the reporters would be present tonight when he-- he exposed the second fraud by the same man in six months.
Now, that could have been Carter he meant, - or it-- - Or what? l know this sounds silly, Phil, but that same man, that could be you he was talking about.
Oh, where can Phil be? Do you think l should phone his apartment again? No, no, no.
l'd wait a few more minutes.
Uncle Carter, l'm worried.
After what happened last night and the way he spoke to Perry Mason today, l-- l have a feeling he's walking right back into trouble again.
But he's right! Yes, yes, he's right.
We both are.
Just you wait and see.
Oh, please, Uncle Carter-- l knew he wasn't too happy about coming tonight, feeling the way he does about Ben, but somehow l hoped it was all over and done with.
Now l'm not so sure.
Phil! Ben? Ben.
Ben.
l asked Evelyn to call you.
Mr.
Mason, l didn't kill Ben Farraday.
l swear l didn't.
Sure, l came into the room, but he wasn't around, so l sat down and waited.
l happened to glance out of the stateroom window, and there was a man looking in.
He was the same man who slugged me in the parking lot last night.
lt was him, l'm sure of it.
So you ran out after him, but he disappeared.
What makes you think he went ashore, Phil? l'm not sure, but l thought l saw someone running down the gangway, and l figured he'd gone into the warehouse.
That's the reason l was there when the omicers showed up.
l wasn't hiding, Lieutenant Anderson.
You've got to believe me.
[knock on door.]
- Mr.
Trevelian? - Yes.
l understand the coins here on the desk belong to you.
Yes, but what are they doing here? l put them in the safe in the purser's omice shortly after we left Honolulu.
Mr.
Farraday himself suggested it.
The purser tells me Mr.
Farraday took them out of the safe yesterday afternoon.
Any idea why? Well, he was most interested in them.
One in particular-- not actually a coin, but a commemorative medal struck in honor of his grandfather Jonathan Farraday.
An 18T1 Malay States commemorative-- The Malay States.
It's gone.
There's one thing about this job-- it's a lot easier than the one the police have on their hands.
Beats me how they expect to find that medal on a ship this size.
Don't underestimate the police, Mr.
Evans.
Finding things is one of their top specialties.
Right now, l'm more interested in finding the man Phil Andrews saw last night.
Was there anyone in particular who had access to Mr.
Farraday's stateroom? A steward, perhaps? Well, yes.
Anyone of about a half a dozen.
No, wait a minute.
Mr.
Farraday brought his own man on board last night.
Sid Garth, his personal valet.
Used to be one of our best stewards.
l should have a card on him here somewhere.
Yes.
Yes, here it is.
l'm going back to the omice, Paul.
There's some work l want Della to start right away.
Want me to stick around here and see what l can pick up from Lt.
Anderson? No, l've a somewhat bigger job for you.
First, a thorough check on everyone connected with the case-- contacts, associates, their movements.
Go back two or three weeks.
Easy, Perry.
l employ a stam, not an army.
Then you'd better start recruiting.
l want everyone watched right around the clock, particularly, Mr.
Trevelian.
Handle him yourself.
You're spending money like it just went out of style.
Why the 24-hour tail on everybody? Malay States Commemorative Medal 18T1 .
The medal? If it's worth 50 bucks, it's worth a lot.
Yes, if the face on the medal is that of Jonathan Farraday.
Are you saying the face on that medal might be that of Thomas Farraday? ln which case, Paul, Thomas, not Jonathan, saved the King's son, and Thomas, not Jonathan, was given the trade agreement and the half million dollar letter of credit.
But, Perry, l've seen those documents.
They were made out just to the Farraday Company.
So it's possible that before the document was made out simply to the company, the cousins Farraday had agreed to a partnership.
Sure.
Then, when Thomas died on the trip home, Jonathan could have forgotten the partnership and claimed that he was the hero who'd saved the prince.
The Malayan people would never have found out, would never have known the dimerence.
Sure would explain everything-- the mysterious deaths, rumors.
It fits like a glove.
lf the face on the coin is that of Thomas Farraday.
Shame about Ben being killed.
l suppose in a way, it all had to do with those coins.
Oh? In what way? Before Nick Trevelian left the Far East, he sent me a photograph of himself with the coins he'd purchased from lonescu in Hong Kong.
Also a list of the coins.
l agreed to a showing here at the museum.
How did that amect Mr.
Farraday? Well, naturally l knew Ben would be interested in the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal because of its association with the Farraday family history.
l called him.
What did he say? He insisted-- rather peremptorily, as a matter of fact-- that l rush the photograph over to him by messenger immediately.
- And did you? - Yes.
That same afternoon, he called me back, very excited.
Pleaded with me not to release any information on the medal.
Mr.
Cosgrove, do you have photographs of both Thomas and Jonathan Farraday? Twice in the same day.
Yes, l have the photographs.
- l'll get you a set of copies.
- One moment, sir.
You said ''twice''? Mr.
Trevelian was in only a short time ago asking for photographs of Jonathan Farraday and his cousin Thomas.
No, Mr.
Farraday didn't give any reason.
Just told me to get tickets for him and Sid Garth on the first flight to Honolulu over a week ago.
He was very excited-- upset.
Any idea what might have upset him? No, but l think it started when Mr.
Cosgrove phoned.
He's the man at the museum, Perry.
He's an old friend of Ben's.
Go on, Miss Weeks.
Well, he acted very strangely after that.
Nervous, tense.
He had to attend a meeting.
Told me he was expecting an envelope from Mr.
Cosgrove.
l was to let him know immediately when it arrived.
lt arrived about an hour later by special messenger.
What was in the envelope? A photograph.
l didn't get a good look at it.
He asked me if l knew of a photo studio in the neighborhood, and he rushed right out.
And it was on his return that he asked you to phone the airlines.
Yes.
Well.
Good morning.
Good morning, Mr.
Farraday.
Am l interrupting anything, Mr.
Mason? Not at all.
Miss Weeks, will you please see to it that my things are moved in here from the other omice? Why, yes, sir.
l'm taking over Ben's duties.
l don't suppose the medal has turned up, has it, Mr.
Mason? No, no, it hasn't.
Do the police still think Ben was murdered because of that medal? Well, the killer could have taken everything from that coin pouch.
He took only the medal.
Tell me, Mr.
Farraday, when you went aboard ship yesterday, did your brother show you that medal? Why, uh, why, no.
l ask only because he'd taken the coins from the safe shortly after the ship docked.
However, he must have mentioned medal to you.
Well, yes, he did.
The medal was the principal reason for giving the party last night.
And the presence of the reporters at the party? l, uh-- l must ask you to excuse me, Mr.
Mason.
l'm-- l'm very busy.
Miss Weeks, that photo studio you mentioned-- l thought you'd want the address.
lt's just around the corner.
Thank you.
Yeah, it was a week ago, give or take a little.
He came in with this photograph of a guy holding a tray with maybe a dozen coins on it, all arranged like a display, y'know what l mean? What did Mr.
Farraday want you to do? Asked me to make an enlargement-- blow up a particular coin.
Well, actually, it was a medal.
What did this, uh, medal look like? Nothing very unusual about it-- profile of some geezer with a handlebar mustache.
l understand name Farraday was printed on the back.
''Farraday-- Saver of the Prince,'' something like that.
Did he take the enlargement with him? Nope.
He took one look at it and burned it.
Weird, y'know what l mean? Like l told the police after l read about the murder.
lt was a funny thing.
There was another man involved.
He came in a few minutes after Farraday left.
Like you, he was very interested in the photograph.
Would you, uh, happen to know the name of this man? His name was Farraday, too.
Everybody knows him along the street.
They call him Uncle Carter.
Hi.
What are you two doing here? Looking for a photograph of some coins and Nickolas Trevelian.
Speaking of Trevelian, aren't you supposed to be watching him? l am.
He's in there.
ln Ben Farraday's house? Mm-hmm.
Third trip today.
First two times, he couldn't get past the front door.
The houseboy kept shaking his head and wouldn't let him in.
This time, the door was answered by a woman-- the housekeeper, probably.
He's been inside, oh, about five minutes.
What else has our friend been up to this morning, Paul? Well, first om, he hightailed it to the museum.
Saw a man there.
Henry Cosgrove? Why, Mr.
Mason.
Mr.
Trevelian.
ls this why you came here, to recover your photograph? Well, yes, yes.
The housekeeper was good enough to-- But how did you know? l spoke to Mr.
Cosgrove earlier.
He mentioned the fact you had sent it to him.
For publicity purposes, you understand.
Apparently, Mr.
Farraday had borrowed it from him.
May l see it? Tell me, which is the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal? This one in the upper right hand corner.
lt is a little dimicult to distinguish.
Della.
Mm-hmm.
These are copies of the pictures Cosgrove gave you yesterday at the museum.
Jonathan and Thomas Farraday.
Mr.
Trevelian, the face on that medal is not that of Jonathan Farraday.
That's-- That's Thomas Farraday, Jonathan's cousin.
[door opens.]
Oh, we've had Mr.
Trevelian followed, too-- a matter of routine which seems to have paid om.
So it would seem there never should have been any ''have not'' Farradays, huh? - l guess you overheard us.
- Yes.
Those requests for pictures bothered Mr.
Cosgrove, the man at the museum.
He called us, we followed you, and here we all are.
Like l always say, don't underestimate the police.
Now, Lieutenant, all you have to do is arrest the man who stole that medal from the ship, and you'll probably have the murderer.
We picked up a man named Sid Garth.
He admitted stealing a bag of coins, all right, but it's not Sid Garth we're charging with murder, Perry.
lt's your client, Phil Andrews.
Mr.
Noymann, you have stated that the magazine issue in question had already been printed and distributed.
Now, when the decedent challenged the article on the Farraday family, what did you do? Well, naturally, as Phil's editor on the magazine, l had no choice but to recall the issue and delete the article after Mr.
Farraday had proved conclusively that the document in question had been deliberately forged.
What action did you take against the defendant? We had no choice but to fire him.
[Carter.]
There's no question about it.
The face on the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal is that of Thomas Farraday and not Jonathan Farraday.
ln other words, as one of the parties most closely concerned, you feel that this medal, unlike the forged document in the defendant's magazine article, gives you cause to reopen your claim before Judge Penner for the Farraday stock he holds in trust.
No question of it, no, sir.
This medal gives us more than just a claim to some stock.
lt opens up the question of full partnership in the Line.
lt was only a matter of hours after he'd boarded ship in Honolulu that Mr.
Ben Farraday sent for me.
He told me he'd seen the picture of the collection l'd sent to Mr.
Cosgrove at the museum and that he was particularly interested in one item-- the 18T1 Malay States medal.
So you had Mr.
Evans, the purser, remove it from the safe, - and you showed it to him? - Yes.
He was most excited and asked me a great many questions.
l told him that l'd purchased it, among others, from the lonescu estate in Hong Kong.
l left Ben at 9:15.
l returned at 9:45, in time to see Philip Andrews, the defendant, running away from the stateroom corridor.
l went in and found Ben dead.
When you talked with the decedent at 9, did he discuss the medal with you? Yes.
l remember his exact words: ''That medal can't hurt us anymore now.
Neither can Phil Andrews.
He'll get what's coming to him at the party tonight.
'' At that time, Mr.
Farraday, did you know of your own knowledge of anything that had been done in regard to the 18T1 Malay States medal? Yes.
l'd read a copy of the wire Ben sent asking for authentication of the medal.
And to whom was that wire sent? To the person in Hong Kong from whom Trevelian had purchased the medal-- Mrs.
Fidor lonescu.
When l received Mr.
Farraday's wire, l immediately checked through our records for a possible certificate of authentication.
And did you find one, Mrs.
Ionescu? Yes-- a certificate from the Far East Coin Company with whom my late husband had often done business.
Did you check the certificate of authentication with the Far East Coin Company? Yes.
And they denied ever having or selling the medal to my husband.
l don't know where my husband got the medal, but as for the certificate, they sent a man over to examine it.
l have a notarized amidavit from them attesting that the certificate authenticating the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative was a forgery.
For the second time, a forged document relating directly or indirectly to the ownership of the Farraday Lines.
Now l ask you, was Mrs.
Trevelian the only party interested in this particular collection of coins your husband had for sale? No.
Another man had come to see him a month earlier.
l explained Mr.
Ionescu had just died a few weeks ago, that the collection was being inventoried.
He-- this man-- said he had just came from Malaya and asked if the collection included an 18T1 Malay States Commemorative.
And did this other man ask to go through the collection? l told him that my husband had agreed before he died to give Mr.
Trevelian first refusal on anything in the collection.
lf there were such a rare medal, l told him Mr.
Trevelian would unquestionably wish to purchase it.
Mrs.
Ionescu, this man who had traveled from Malaya to Hong Kong, who was interested in some unheard-of medal, who was in Hong Kong at the very time that the bogus medal and the spurious authentication became part of your husband's collection before it was sold to Mr.
Trevelian.
ls this man here now in this courtroom today? Yes.
He is the defendant-- Mr.
Philip Andrews.
Perry.
Perry, do you plan to put on a defense at this preliminary? Please don't misunderstand me.
l'm only asking as a matter of accommodation for one of the witnesses-- Edward Farraday.
Accommodation in what manner? We've decided to release the ship, the farraday _ueen, for its run back to the Orient tomorrow night.
As new president of the line, he feels it a matter of urgent necessity that he sail with his ship.
And l'll be finished for the prosecution by noon tomorrow.
What if the defendant is bound over? That's just the point.
I When the defendant is bound over Perry, we don't plan to go to trial immediately.
All the witnesses from the ship will be under subpoena, and they'll all be back in time.
l had planned to recall a few witnesses.
As for a defense-- l certainly have no objection to your recalling a few witnesses.
And l'm not trying to influence you, counselor.
But if you put on no defense at this hearing, we should be finished by tomorrow afternoon.
l was going to say l have no present plans for a defense at this preliminary.
Thank you, Perry.
Yes, l-- l did go to the Malay States, right after l was fired.
l guess it was pretty stupid of me.
But l had to find proof l was right.
l didn't care what it cost me or where l had to go.
And it was in the Malay States that you heard about the possible existence of the commemorative medal? Yes.
A vague sort of rumor.
l heard that if there were such a medal, the only person who might have it or could locate it was a Mr.
Ionescu in Hong Kong.
You heard the rest.
lonescu was dead, his widow was cataloguing his collection, and Trevelian was expected with the right to buy anything he saw.
Phil, why didn't you tell Evelyn about that trip? Perry, l was not responsible for that forged letter that cost me my job.
And l wasn't going to let it ruin my reputation for the rest of my life.
l couldn't let it ride, even though Evelyn had asked me, had pleaded with me, to drop the whole matter for good.
Look, does it make any dimerence my having gone there? The Prosecution has very definitely made it appear that you were doing the same as you did with that magazine article-- manufacturing evidence.
But why, Perry? Why should he? They've already created the impression that he planted the medal and the authentication in the lonescu collection, expecting Trevelian to pick it up and subsequently make it public.
lf they can also prove that he recovered that medal, along with the coins Garth stole, and returned them to Ben's cabin, then it will certainly appear that he planned the entire thing to fool Judge Penner into turning that stock over to you.
l had a hunch, from the way Mr.
Farraday acted, that those coins might be worth a fortune.
Yes, l-- l stole the bag of coins from Mr.
Ben's stateroom.
The only way l could figure to get them om the ship and past the customs was to hide them in the back of the company station wagon that Miss Evelyn drives to the dock.
So you followed her, Evelyn Farraday, and Mr.
Trevelian and the defendant when they left the dock.
Go on.
Well, they went shopping first.
And every time they shopped, Phil Andrews would take what Mr.
Trevelian bought and put it in the back of the station wagon.
l was getting a little scared.
So, when you figured they'd spend some time in the restaurant, you went up to the station wagon in the parking lot to try to recover the pouch of coins.
Yes, only it wasn't there, in the back or anywhere else in the wagon.
And it wasn't on Phil Andrews.
Did you see anyone else at any time, go near the back of that station wagon? No, sir.
He was the only one.
Him-- Phil Andrews.
He had to be the one who took the pouch and hid it.
- Your Honor-- - Your witness.
Now, you watched that collection of coins aboard ship, made plans to steal it.
Once the ship docked, you did steal it, isn't that so? Yes.
Having stolen it, you hid the collection in the company station wagon and then subsequently tried to recover it, but you were unable to do so.
Now, there was only one purpose for the original theft and the attempted recovery, and that was blackmail, isn't that so? Yes.
Now, you didn't find the bag of coins in the station wagon or on the defendant.
Wasn't that because someone had taken the coins from the station wagon before it left the dock and had returned them to the decedent's stateroom? Your Honor, l object to that.
l'll withdraw the question.
l'm finished with the witness.
Miss Farraday, the court has ruled you a hostile witness.
You will therefore answer my questions yes or no.
ln spite of learned counsel's attempts to insinuate that the stolen coins never left the dock, isn't it a fact that the defendant had ample opportunity during that afternoon to gain possession of those coins from the station wagon and later to return them to the ship himself? Objection, Your Honor.
Mr.
Burger, what is the purpose of your question? Well, Your Honor, when the decedent was found murdered, all the coins were there except the Malay States Medal.
Now, we know that Garth removed all the coins from the ship.
Since they were found at the scene of the crime, it's obvious that somebody returned them to the ship.
Objection overruled.
Proceed, Mr.
Burger.
Very well, Your Honor.
Miss Farraday, do you claim that you and Mr.
Trevelian and the defendant were constantly together every moment that afternoon up to the time of the defendant's encounter with Mr.
Garth in the parking lot? Yes.
Did you stop along the way? Was the defendant ever left in the car at any time? We stopped to shop several times, but Phil was never alone.
- You're certain of that? - Yes.
- Absolutely certain? - Yes! Oh Well, no.
Phil was alone at one time.
When was this? There wasn't any place to park in front of the restaurant, and he told us to go on in, that he'd park in the back.
So he was alone during that time, and he later rejoined you in the restaurant.
He was only alone a few minutes.
Time enough for him to remove those coins from the station wagon and hide them somewhere else until he later returned them to the stateroom of the decedent.
That isn't true.
He didn't.
Thank you, Miss Farraday.
That'll be all.
Your witness.
l have no questions at this time.
You were on duty that afternoon, l believe, at the gangplank.
Now, would you tell us, please, what happened at exactly 2:OO that afternoon? Yes, sir.
The defendant Phil Andrews came aboard and said he was looking for the purser.
ls the purser's omice near the owner's stateroom? Yes, sir, just down the passageway.
When l told him what l'd overheard on the phone about Mr.
Farraday exposing the second fraud in six months by the same man, well, at first Phil was just stunned, - as if he-- he couldn't believe it.
- And then what? And then Phil became angry and ran out of the building.
While the party was in progress elsewhere on the ship, Mr.
Evans, the night the decedent was murdered, would you have any idea who went in and out of Ben Farraday's stateroom and at what time? Yes, sir, l would.
My omice is just down the passageway from the owner's stateroom.
l was working that evening with the door open.
Would you tell the court, please, who went in and out of Ben Farraday's stateroom between 9 and 10 that evening? Mr.
Edward Farraday came in about a little after 9 and left about 15 minutes later.
The defendant, Mr.
Andrews, arrived at about 9:4O and left at about 9:45.
Mr.
Edward Farraday returned at that time, went into the stateroom, and discovered his brother's dead body.
Now, beside the door that you had under observation, was there any other way in or out of that stateroom or its adjoining bedroom? No, sir.
So between the time Edward Farraday left and the time he returned to find his brother dead-- during the exact period when the murder must have been committed-- the one and only person who went in and out of Ben Farraday's stateroom was the defendant Philip Andrews? Yes, sir.
Thank you, Mr.
Evans.
lf it please the court, when Mr.
Mason has completed his cross-examination of this witness, the prosecution will rest and move that the defendant be bound over for trial.
Your witness, Mr.
Mason.
Before cross-examining this witness, Your Honor l should like to recall Nickolas Trevelian to the stand.
Why, yes, Mr.
Mason, l am considered an expert on old coins and historically valuable medals of that nature as well.
Since the forged authentication for the 18T1 Malay States Commemorative Medal was still in Mrs.
Ionescu's files, l take it you did not request such authentication.
Why, Mr.
Trevelian? Could it have been that you as an expert had decided the medal was genuine and needed no authentication? Well, as a matter of fact, l-- l didn't question it for a moment, but that certificate-- The certificate was false, Mr.
Trevelian, but that didn't make the medal false.
Have you by any chance read, uh, Mr.
Koumman's recent coin collector's newsletter-- the one on Far East coins, the one in which he mentions a series of Malay States Commemorative Medals? No, l haven't had a chance yet, but there's no doubt that Koumman is tops in the field.
He further mentions a test for authenticating such medals-- a tiny deathwatch beetle inscribed within the Malayan coat of arms.
- Have you heard of that test? - No, l'm sorry l haven't.
Well, was there such a beetle inscribed on the medal you purchased from the lonescu estate? Why-- l don't know.
l accepted the authenticity of it without looking for such an inscription.
Thank you.
That'll be all.
[Judge.]
Mr.
Burger? No redirect, Your Honor.
The witness is excused.
Your Honor, it's nearly the hour for the noon recess.
Mr.
Mason and l had agreed to an early end to these proceedings.
Therefore, at this time, l should like to move-- One moment, Mr.
Burger.
ln the light of the evidence, l plan to recall two more witnesses before even considering the matter of a defense.
Mr.
Mason, you said yesterday-- [Judge rapping gavel.]
That'll be all.
The court is not interested in personalities.
l suggest, therefore, that you gentlemen meet during the noon hour, and, if there is any matter to be brought before the attention of the court, lt be presented after the noon adjournment.
Court is recessed until 2:OO.
Got it.
You were right, Perry.
The information was there at the passport omice.
[phone rings.]
Yes, Gertie? Put him on.
Right.
Good work.
Thanks, Paul.
Well, Miss Street, we've just about solved the riddle of the Captain's Coins.
Mr.
Farraday, isn't it true that you followed Ben Farraday to a photo shop on the afternoon of the day he left for Honolulu? Yes.
l don't deny that.
lsn't that when you discovered that they'd made an enlarged photograph of the commemorative medal? l was told the photograph was of a medal.
Just a medal, that's all.
l had no way of knowing it was the Malay States medal.
But the photographer described it to you, didn't he? And didn't you then go straight to see Sid Garth? No.
Why should l? To ask Garth, as an old friend, to keep an eye on that coin collection to make sure that Ben Farraday didn't dispose of that medal? Well, all right.
l-- l guess l did go to see Sid, but l didn't know he was going to steal.
l meant no harm.
Just as you meant no harm concerning the fraudulent letter found in Mrs.
Wilson's attic.
No.
First you paid to have that document forged, then you steered Phil Andrews right to it.
That particular maneuver cost Mr.
Andrews his job, yet you meant no harm.
l'm sorry.
You did go down to the docks to meet Sid Garth when the ship arrived in Los Angeles, did you not? Yes, but l didn't see him.
The killer did, Mr.
Farraday.
The killer saw Garth hide those coins in the station wagon.
The killer knew very well the importance of the Malay States medal, so he took the coins from the station wagon, returned the coins and the pouch to Ben Farraday's stateroom, but he kept the Malay States medal.
And that evening, the killer went to Ben Farraday's stateroom, made known his demands for returning that medal.
There was a violent quarrel, and-- l was with Evelyn every minute l was on board ship that night.
And l can prove it.
Why was it so important to you, Mr.
Farraday, to sail to the Orient with your ship tonight? lt was a matter of business urgency, to inspect the branch omices.
After all, l am taking over active management of the Line.
Then it wasn't a matter of getting to Hong Kong to pay om your accomplice? My accomplice? That Malay medal was absolutely authentic.
Ben knew it.
So did you.
Now, Ben flew to Honolulu to intercept Mr.
Trevelian aboard the ship He wanted to get hold of that medal and keep it under wraps until you had done your job.
l don't know what you mean.
You couldn't have hidden the existence of the medal.
There was the picture to the museum.
So you had to do the ne_ best thing-- you had to destroy the value of the medal.
You remembered Phil Andrews and that forged document.
Forgery had saved you once, so you figured it would save you once again, isn't that so? No.
No.
Records in the passport omice will prove that at the same time Ben flew to Honolulu, you flew to Hong Kong.
lt was you, Mr.
Farraday, who hired the accomplice in Hong Kong to place something into the lonescu files which would make it appear that the Malay medal wasn't authentic.
Look here, you can't talk-- Possession of that medal, would have been worth worth millions of dollars.
The murderer killed someone for it.
And unless l'm mistaken, Mr.
Farraday, that medal was carefully hidden aboard the ship.
The ship? This morning in court, l deliberately made it impossible for any of the witnesses in this case to be aboard that ship when she sails tonight.
l described an identifying mark which would authenticate the medal.
l did so to force the killer to try to retrieve or at least have a look at that medal before the ship sailed.
And from the moment of the recess, Mr.
Farraday, l've had every single witness in this case watched carefully.
l didn't go near that ship! No.
But Mr.
Evans did.
No.
l don't know what you're talking about.
You were followed.
You went first to the ship and then to a locker in the bus depot.
When the police further investigate, they'll find that medal hidden in that locker.
Now, in view of further police investigation, and in view of the facts l've just related here, you're certainly not going to deny that you killed Ben Farraday, are you, Mr.
Evans? No, he became furious.
He ordered me to give him the medal and then get out.
Ordered me! Just like l was so much dirt to be ordered and kicked around by the great Ben Farraday.
Well, not me.
Not anymore.
l wouldn't take it.
So when he grabbed for the medal and fought with me l killed him! lt was only me he saw going into that stateroom.
Sure, after he'd killed Ben.
He was aware of the fact that the coins were aboard ship.
They'd been placed in his omice safe.
He could have looked them over at any time.
He certainly would have known the significance of the face on the Malay medal.
And don't forget he also knew that Ben Farraday had removed the coins from the safe and taken them into his stateroom.
But then Garth took them, and somebody saw him put them in the station wagon.
And the ones who were there at the time were Uncle Carter Edward Farraday, Ev_ns, even our little friend Trevelian.
After Perry gave out the information about the deathwatch beetle, we kept an eye on all of them.
l almost forgot.
A messenger left this.
lt's a present for you.
From Mr.
Trevelian and your Uncle Carter.
[Paul.]
That face launched a thousand ships? [laughter.]
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