Other plagues were only mentioned in the dialogue: lice, flies, sickness, boils, and three days of darkness.There, a cool-headed Spade talks with plainclothes Police Sergeant Tom Polhaus (Ward Bond), who shows him the location of Miles"" body sprawled near some rocks and the murder weapon.[Note: Dreiser based his story upon the sensational Chester Gillette and Grace Brown 1906 murder case in the state of New York." The giant Non struggled to duplicate Ursa""s vision powers that he had not yet mastered.On the outskirts of East Houston, Idaho (a "Middle-American town"), the three Kryptonites blocked the road, denying passage to a police car carrying the paunchy local Sheriff (Clifton James) and his deputy Dwayne (Peter Whitman).