i'll call.
it's a simple story. earl williams works for the e.j. mcclosky manufacturing company as a bookkeeper for fourteen years. he starts in at twenty dollars a week and gradually works his way up to twenty-two fifty. a year ago the mcclosky company goes out of business and williams loses his job. take it away, fred wilson!
you fight it cut.
what are you going to do with all that money, hildy?
your poker's improved a lot, hildy. lend me two bucks, will you?
for you, hildy.
certified, eh? who is it -- your milkman?
say, i've been a reporter twenty years and never heard any hooey like that. where'd you get it?
why?
well, well -- miss mollie malloy.
probably went out without his hankie and wants mamma to wipe his nose.
so long, hildy.
holy ---! gimme that telephone! hurry! hurry up! this is important!
look out!
hello, hildy. i thought you were gone.
mccue speaking. mrs. phoebe dewolfe, eight-sixty-one and a half south state street, colored, gave birth to a pickaninny in a patrol wagon with sheriff hartman's special rifle squad acting as nurses. well -- phoebe was walking along the street when all of a sudden she began -- that's right. so the police coaxed her into the patrol wagon and they started a race with the stork. when the pickaninny was born the rifle squad examined him carefully to see if it was earl williams who they knew was hiding somewhere.
did you get that, hildy?
okay, hildy. well, we can't get any official statement --
oh, wait a minute -- here's the mayor. maybe he'll give us one.
his honor won't say anything.
it's hard to say, your honor. the place is so full of cockroaches.
what a chase!
where? harrison street station? all right, connect me.
yeah, hold the line. hey, this looks good. an old lady just called the detective bureau and claims williams is hiding in her cellar. well - we've looked every other place. want to go out on it?
okay. forget it.
come clean, mollie.
you ain't gettin' out o' here!
get the cops, somebody.
say, hildy.
what's your hurry?
we know what you're up to.
what's the use of fighting, hildy?
williams in a rolltop --
williams put up a desperate struggle but the police overpowered --