" On the phone, he lies to one of his disgruntled clients, jazz-club owner Joe Robard (Joseph Leon), insisting with sweet-talk that he purposefully asked Hunsecker towithholdan item until he could give it a "fine, fat paragraph.As they panicked, Myers appeared and stabbed Will to death in the back(# 6 death)- holding him up by the knife-point as his body trembled.I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants.On the level! It actually happened.Nobody bought a paper that day.They just followed me around over town and read the news on he seat of my pants.While he is engaged in an altercation with the driver, Ellie quickly takes the seat that he has cleared off.She was terribly upset about how she had her heart broken by her male suitor, and threatened to commit suicide by cutting her throat.