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Speaker 1 (00:09):
The witching season. It's here, my dear, and so are you.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Good, good, good good. I'm so glad to hear that.
Why I am very well, positively jubilant. This is the
time of year when I am most free. To you, well,
it's hard to express exactly, but I can assure you

(00:38):
you have nothing to be worried about, not at all.
I know, I know I'm being a bit cryptic, a
bit obtuse. I suppose I am just an odd, odd duck.
But the truth is, if someone were to call me

(01:00):
an odd duck, well I would say guilty as charged.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
PBS Radio Mystery Theater presents come in and welcome. I'm

(01:32):
Tammy Grimes. To me, the nightmare of all time is
to be accused of a crime I didn't commit. One
keeps reading a tons of lookalike falsely identified of men.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Serving time for offenses.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
They had no part in, some too poor to protest legally,
some spending a lifetime behind prison walls, and some even
dying there and recognized unforgiven.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
And able to clear their names.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Our story comes perilously close to such tragedy, too close.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
In fact for comfort.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Time's huh you raise the bail money for your husband,
Missus Fowler.

Speaker 8 (02:13):
Officer, we just don't have it, and there's no one
we can get it from. Is there any way of
letting Jean come home for the night. He's never been
in jail before.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
No, there Isn't you want my advice, Missus Fowler, You
go home and get yourself the best lawyer you can find.
Your husband's in plenty of trouble. Armed robber is no picnic.

Speaker 9 (02:32):
But Jean didn't do it, That's what they all say.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Our mystery drama, Gaiety Is Charged is written especially for
the mystery theater by Jeeves Frederick Louis. It stars Michael
tonin I shall return shortly with that one. Our curtain

(03:18):
rises on a bucolic scene a fall day. Red and
golden leaves cascade upon dirt roads and parkway along one
of these strips of concrete. Gene Powler hardware salesman comes
barreling along at sixty miles an hour.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
It's been a long trip this time.

Speaker 7 (03:38):
And he's almost home.

Speaker 8 (03:40):
Suddenly he hears a sound that makes him look up
into his way view.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Near Oh gone, Oh gone it.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Hi, I guess I was speeding. Huh, take a look
at the scope. Sixty two miles an hour and thirty
mile an hours. Wrong, this parkway is thirty five miles
an hour. That's what SHN says. Oh my lord, it
must be the only parkway in the USA under thirty five.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
I come along here all the time. When did they
change it?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's been thirty five miles an hour over the last
ten years. Driver's license and registration.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Please, Jane, it was a disaster. Even this morning. I
can't get over it.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Ninety dollars fine plus ten for some don surcharge one
hundred bucks.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Do you remember when we were first married, Jean, and
I'd go on the road with you. You remember how
you used to kidney because I wouldn't let your speed
from now you know?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh okay, I thought I could take it easy this morning.

Speaker 8 (04:40):
I'll answered you.

Speaker 10 (04:43):
Hello, Yes, this is she.

Speaker 8 (04:46):
Yeah, he's right here. You want to talk to him, Okay,
I'll tell him. Listen, officer. Don't you think one hundred
dollars for a speeding ticket.

Speaker 11 (04:54):
Is the limit?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Who is it?

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Jane?

Speaker 12 (04:55):
Well?

Speaker 8 (04:55):
I do? I think it's absorbitant.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Who's on the phone.

Speaker 8 (04:59):
It's the police? Yes, yes, of course he will. Well,
I still think it's outlandish air, right, officer, I'll tell
him the police. He wants you to stop by the station.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Huh, I'll be done.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
They get your license, your registration, proof of insurance and
still that's not enough.

Speaker 8 (05:19):
Well, at least it's not the other end of town.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Well, I'm not looking forward to seeing those clowns again.
When do they want to see me?

Speaker 8 (05:26):
Well this morning, the officer said, Ah, well.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
I might as well do it now and get it
over with. Some way to celebrate the first day I
get home. Yes, officer, my name is Jim Fowler. Someone
called me at home and asked me to come over
to the police station.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Is it about the speeding ticket?

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Jack?

Speaker 6 (05:48):
I think this is the man you're looking for.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Somebody wants to see me.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
I'll turn around. Just stand facing the desk and put
your arms behind your back. Hey, hold your risk closure together. Hey,
stay right there, and no.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Why are you putting handcuffs on me?

Speaker 5 (06:05):
What are you doing making sure you're not carrying a gun?

Speaker 6 (06:07):
Is he clean?

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yeah? Write it down on the sheet. You can turn
around now.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Mister Fothera or.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Somebody please tell me what this is all about. What
did I do if father? You're under arrest for armed robbery?

Speaker 13 (06:19):
What?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
What are the charges against me? What did I do
this armed robbery?

Speaker 5 (06:24):
You held up a hardware store and platt Thrill on
September of the age robbed the young woman cashire a
gun point one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's not possible.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I wasn't anywhere near Plattsville on September the eighth. I
was on the road selling and what are yourselves, sir?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Hardware?

Speaker 6 (06:39):
Look?

Speaker 5 (06:39):
How come I'm accused of this hold up? Your photograph
was submitted to the young woman who was robbed.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
What photograph?

Speaker 5 (06:45):
I've never been photographed by the police in my life.
Copies of all motorists photos registered in the state around file.
We assembled fifteen of them, according to Age Building hight
Yours was picked out by the young woman.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
Who was robbed.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
She identified by my picture.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
There'll be a lineup for corroboration. She was sure, definitely,
quite definite in their identifications. It's probably coming along with me.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Take it to me.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Fingerprinted. Hey, wait a minute, can I make one phone call?
I have to call my wife after they have been
a finger printed and book.

Speaker 8 (07:23):
I can't understand it. Jeane on robbery, How can they
say that you've never even owned a god.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
I wouldn't know how to fire if I had one.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
Well, it's just incredible. I don't understand any of it.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Do you think I do?

Speaker 8 (07:35):
How can they say on robbery you were out of
town selling it like it is true?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Is this look?

Speaker 5 (07:42):
A cashier identified me from a photograph.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Listen, Jane. The main thing is I gotta raise bail.

Speaker 8 (07:49):
I know that, Darling. I've called every bail bondsman in
the phone book, but no one answers. Nobody picks up
the phone.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's after six. That's why they're all closed.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
For the day.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
Do you think maybe if I talk to the officer
and charge to the one called Jack and explain it.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Maybe you could call mom and dad. I mean, they'd
only be lending us the money. It's just in case
I try to skip down.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
I thought of that, but they're not here. They went
to visit Philica. They're on a train somewhere out west
of the Rockies.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
Well that's it, then, I'm not going to get out
of here.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Time is up.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
You're raising bail, missus.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
Paller, officer. We just don't have it, and there's no
one we can get it. From. Is there any way
of letting Jean come home for the night. I mean,
he's never been in jail before.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
I whear not. You want my advice, missus Fawler, You
go home and get yourself the best lawyer you can find.
Your husband's in plenty of trouble, but.

Speaker 8 (08:41):
He's done nothing. He's innocent.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
That's what they all say. How your time is up.
You'll have to leave now.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
You have no proof of anything.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yet I don't make the rules, ma'am. No bail means jail.
Saying he's right, so I spend the night here won't
kill me. Look what about Sam Stratt, who run up
both our wills. He's a good lawyer and he knows
your folks.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
We liked him.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
See if you can reach him, tell him everything. Tell
him I'm in jail for somebody else. Wait, wait, hold,
it's Sam. Before we go in. You got to be kidding.
Is this what you got me out of bail for
to bring me here? Look when you said you saw
a way to build a case for me, I didn't
know you meant for me to take a ride Detective

(09:27):
test I'm not a liar, Geene. Nobody said that, So
why don't we need a test to prove I'm telling
the truth? I mean why now wait one minute. You
need all the ammunition you can get. Now. Dave Clark
is a polygraph expert. I thought we could come and
see him, and he agreed. And this is the place
where he works. Look, David's an old friend. He gets
calls from all over the world for his services, polygraph machines,

(09:51):
cape recorders.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Everything he uses.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Now, this isn't some fly by night pie in the
sky business. This is real and it works. Now do
I ring the bell?

Speaker 6 (10:01):
All right? It'll do a lot to establish your credibility.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Doesn't the fact that.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
A man is innocent mean anything anymore?

Speaker 6 (10:09):
It's up to us to prove it.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Oh, I see guilty as charged until I prove myself innocent,
not the other way around.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Sam, Is this mister Fowler? Come in? Please?

Speaker 14 (10:21):
Hello?

Speaker 13 (10:21):
David?

Speaker 5 (10:22):
You look fine and he's been busy. The rights of
the innocent never stopped. Walk right through to the examining room.
Is that the gizmo, the light detector. It's all there
is to it, David. I'd appreciate it if you'd plude
Genie as to how the polygraph works. Ah, certainly. This
control box is portable. The knobs are controls, and there

(10:43):
are four pens.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
See there, Uh huh.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
They record on the moving graph paper as a subject
response to the questions. Two of the pens monitor respiration,
the third pulse reaction, and the fourth what we call galvanic.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Skin responses, Gane.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
The temperature of a person's skin changes if they're under
emotional stress. Look, if I decide to take a chance
with this thing, can we do it right now?

Speaker 8 (11:10):
Not?

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Really? Yeah, you see, I need time.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
First of all. I'll need to know directly from you
what are the facts of the case as you see you.
I need that to prepare my questions. Then I interview
you in that chair. If you permit, we different corner.
You're in the best of hands of the day. Believe me,
it's all standard procedure.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I'm in two minds about this. There's a lot I
don't like. I don't like where you sit. You're in
back of me asking questions. I don't like the wires. Well,
the wires with the rings are placed over your fingers
to measure the responses.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, let me think it over, Geane.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
It doesn't do any good unless you're completely convinced that
this procedure can help clear you.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
How many questions? I mean, I can't sit here for hours.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
There'll be five key questions, that's all.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
And how accurate is this polygraph? Well it could be
anywhere from seventy five to ninety percent.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
Right, it depends, David. I hope I haven't wasted your time.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
You and I know that this is one of the
few aces we have in our hand, But it's up
to Jean to decide if he wants to play this hand.

Speaker 7 (12:18):
Mom, Dad, Yes, yes on the extinction.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Well, thanks to you both for getting up that veil bond.
I'm home with Jane. It's been a crazy ten days.

Speaker 13 (12:28):
We believe you know.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
I spent three nights in a terrible jail. We have
this lawyer who got me.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Out on a promise to the court.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
But it was you who put up the ten percent
cash down payment for the bond. We can't tell you
how much it's meant to Jane and me.

Speaker 10 (12:43):
If you need chess course.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Thanks Mom.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Listen, I had a polygraph test too. Watch that a
light detector. I did, Okay, A lawyer set it up.
I was nervous, but but Jane wasn't at all. Is
Jane fantastic? She's been fantastic. I mean it's been like
Hitler's Germany. You don't have any say in anything. I

(13:08):
was identified as an armed robber and that was it done.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
Is here he wants to talk to you.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Mom, Dad, our lawyer is here. So I'm gonna have
to ring off. I'll call you again, Mom. I love you.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'll be talking to you.

Speaker 15 (13:21):
We love you.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
To bye.

Speaker 13 (13:27):
Jane.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Did he say what he wanted?

Speaker 5 (13:28):
It's offing late, Oh, Geane. I'm sorry about the hour,
but I wanted you to know right away. David has
been looking over the grass again and he's not as
positive as he was when we left him.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
What does that mean?

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, you'd take at least two more tests that on
the basis of what he has. If he were asked
for his testimony tomorrow, he'd have to say that it
was inconclusive.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
You mean he's not sure I was telling the truth.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
That's what it means.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
So I think the best thing is to hold down
there tomorrow and try again. Heck with it, I say, no,
I'm not going to It's asking too much of an
innocent man to make him go on proving himself nothing doing.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
The polygraph operates on the principle the conscious deception triggers
the sympathetic nervous system. As a result, there's a higher
pulse rate, increased blood pressure and breathing and skin resystems. However,
there is still a wide latitude between the technical and
the technique. Crucial is how well the examiner handles his subject.

(14:39):
I shall return shortly with Act two. Jean Fowler, accused

(15:04):
of armed rubbery, as taking a polygraph test to prove
he is not lying. However, the first examination was inconclusive.
His attorney, Sam Strauss, tries to make Gene understand he
needs valid scientific evidence to counter.

Speaker 8 (15:20):
Eyewritteness identification and the.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Only hope he has so far is to get a
clean bill of health from the lie detector.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Jane, will you talk to your husband, try to make
him understand.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I understand enough.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
That's it. I've had it.

Speaker 8 (15:33):
When he's stubborn like this, there's very little I can
do or say.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Let's go to trial. I don't see how what you
go against me. The eyewitness is lying. I'll be cleared.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
You'll see.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
I've handled a lot of cases in my time, and
I can tell you that I have seen innocent men
who today are serving time just because they appear to
be the criminal.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
I'll be sensible.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
The polygraph results won't be accepted one hundred percent, but
it'll help a lot.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Gene.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
I tell you it's very, very important. What did Clarke
mean inconclusive fifty to fifty? Probably? Well, then why woonn't
the court take that into consideration.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
They don't have one hundred percent case against me. If
fifty percent says I.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Wasn't there Isn't that beyond reasonable doubt? No, not, so
long as there is an eye would eyewitnessed my fourteen
Please now, the cashier at the hardwarest or swore up
and down it was you who robbed her. And unless
we have one hundred percent refutation from the polygraph, her
word is enough to convict you. Sam, what happened to

(16:36):
the client of yours was going to come back for
another test. You think a man accused of armed robbery
would do everything he.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
Could to clear himself.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
I got a postponement till the middle of October to
try to round up witnesses to swear to where he
was on that September of the eighth but so far,
no luck.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
Nobody saw him? Or where does he say he was
four miles.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Away from Plattsville? The seam of the hold up only
four miles. Ah, that's not very much, and he can't
even prove that. I've got to find a witness. Now,
my client tells hardware, he takes samples from the distributor
to the stores. Now it was at night. Did he
stop at a diner? If he did, who saw him,
who remembers him? And even if I located someone? How
reliable is a witness?

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Anyway?

Speaker 5 (17:13):
I agree, And if I get the accusing eyewitness on
the stand, it will be practically impossible to break her down.
When they are the victim, they don't budge. All I
can advise is keep working on follow Dave. When you
were testing him, you thought he was innocent. Well, intuitively
I did, but I was only guessing. A polygraph doesn't guess.

(17:35):
It knows. It's easy for an attorney when you have
both the law and your client to convince. In this case,
I knew another test was essential. How to get this
across the gene foller that.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Then one night at his house, trouble struck with a
Capital t Jane. Jane was at the front door.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
There's a state trooper here. Oh, now, what a state trooper?
You know, the ones with the big hats. He just said,
is your husband, mister Jean Fowler? And I said yes?
Is he at home? And I said yes? And he said,
may I talk to him? Please?

Speaker 6 (18:19):
Ah, okay, I might as well see what he wants.
I'll go talk to him, mister Fowler. I'm a state trooper, Carson.
May I come in?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I guess so.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
I have an inquiry here in the description of a
certain party.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
We'd like to verify whether the description.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Fits you, their fits me?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well?

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Why me? Well, as I look at you now, sir,
I would say it certainly as possible.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
How tall are you, sir?

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Five foot nine?

Speaker 8 (18:55):
Jeane?

Speaker 6 (18:56):
You always wear your hair like that in a crew cut?

Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:59):
Sure, Jane.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
Can I see you for a minute?

Speaker 6 (19:02):
Excuse me, my wife, Jean, Jeane.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
Do you think you ought to be answering those questions
without standing?

Speaker 5 (19:08):
He's only asking me how I look. You can see that.
It's okay. Maybe this will help. Come come with me.
But there's no reason why missus Fowler can't stand here
with me.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Well, I don't see why not.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
My wife was just wondering if I should answer your
questions without our attorney present. We've had so much trouble
lightly well, I can understand, mister Fowler. Would you mind
very much on doing your tie and opening your collar?

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
I would what for? Well, just to verify the information
they've given me. I certainly can't forge you.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
But on the other hand, if you've nothing to hide, why.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Not, Well, I don't mind opening my collar. How's that
that opened?

Speaker 6 (19:52):
Father enough?

Speaker 5 (19:54):
I notice you have a mole. Would you say that's
about three inches below your chin. I've had that mall
all my life. I'd never measured it.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
I'd say about three inches.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, huh, that's all, mister Fowler. I appreciate the time
you give it. Trooper Carsons, Yes, ma'am. Can you tell
us what all this is about? I guess there's no
harm in letting you win on it. Let me know
to'll find you in due time. Who will your local police?
There was a robbery and a kidnapping up our way,

(20:26):
and a young woman was robbed and forced to accompany
the perpetrator at the point of a gun.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
But my husband's got nothing to do with that.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
I wouldn't try to leave town if I were you.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
The description of the gunman fits mister Fowler very closely,
right down to the mole on his neck.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Sam, it gets worse and worse.

Speaker 16 (20:52):
What do we do?

Speaker 12 (20:53):
It?

Speaker 8 (20:53):
Is this every crime? It's traced to rob door?

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Jay?

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Let me explain, James, right?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
What is this?

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Does every hold up and look like me?

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Don't I have some rights? I was going to say that,
I'll get.

Speaker 15 (21:04):
In touch with the state police.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
I haven't been formerly charged.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
With anything yet, have you? He didn't tell us a thing,
not where it happened to win just up our way?

Speaker 5 (21:13):
All right, don't excite yourself. I think maybe you're beginning
to realize why another polygraph test could help you. If
I didn't, would we be driving to David Clark's house
right now? Jeanet's the big white house right here, right here, Hayes.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
I'm sorry I hit the brakes like that. I guess
I'm nervous.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
There's nothing to be nervous about.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
Sam. Should I wait in the car? I don't want
to be in the way.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
You won't be You won't even be allowed in the
room with me.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Nobody is. I don't like that either, Jane, there.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Are some magazines that you can read, and you and
I will set up.

Speaker 8 (21:42):
I brought my knitting.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
I'll get through fast now that I know the routine.
The actual test is only a couple of questions. Is
that so five key questions or the limit only?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Fine?

Speaker 5 (21:52):
That's the way it is. David told me they do
it all that way all the examiners.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Are you ready, Jeene? Yeah, Jane.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
If I never really believed in the value of the
total truth, I sure do. Now let's go, Gene. I
think you were distracted last time. You know, the ideal
place to conduct a polygraph test would be a sound
proof room without windows, nothing on the walls, very little furniture,

(22:23):
no pattern on the carpet. Yeah, bare and scary. Oh
I disagree. If it's bare, there's nothing to be frightened of. Okay,
Now back to September when you got picked up for speeding.
Then the next morning when you went to the police
station and we're accused of armed robbery. What about the
eighth of September. Don't you want me to go over

(22:44):
that again? I mean, that's the time you want to
know if I'm telling the truth about where I was
or not.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
We'll get to that. Gene.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
Did Sam Tellia state troopers stop by the house.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
I'm being accused of another armed.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Robbery, and again I was identified by my picture.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
I get this.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
The hold up man had a mole on his neck
like mine.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Boy, this bad dream gets worse and worse. I just
try to calm yourself, Jeane, just stare at that blank
wall and think, David, do you believe I'm innocent? Well,
how can I say anything one way or the other.
This is a scientific study. I can't say that.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
I hope yes, that The only responses you'll give are
the truth.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I try to do that last time.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
I'm sure you did, but the variables between your breathing
hard and blood pressure and skin tension just didn't match up.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
And well, I too have to be truthful.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
You're right, I'm calming down.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
It's only I'm so anxious to convince everyone I'm not
a hold up man.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
David, give me a break. Tell me that you do
believe me.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Okay, I do, But it's the machine you have to convince.
The polygraph can prove it.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yes, Oh, hello, officer, is mister Powler at home?

Speaker 8 (24:15):
Is mister Fowler? Home? Is my husband?

Speaker 17 (24:19):
Home?

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Where do you think he'd be at seven o'clock in
the morning out somewhere holding up a stone?

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Missus Fowler, I only ask he.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
May be upstairs getting dressed. Is that enough information for you?
Two policemen?

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Would you mind calling him downstairs? We'd like to talk
on him.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
Yes, I would mind, I would mind very much. Why
what right do you police come barging in here at
this hour of the morning.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
What's all the rackets down there?

Speaker 8 (24:42):
Would you come to the door, Jean, the secret police
are here.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
High Officer Jack eu Jeene Fowler. You know me, Officer
Drivers and I are taking into custody. We have a warrant.
You're arrest You come with us police? Okay, what is
it this time? I'm robbery kidnapping of a young woman
from d young woman was taken across the state line.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Is that the charge the state trooper came to see
me about.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 8 (25:07):
Muchcla never heard of such a thing. Accusations right and left.
You think Jane was the only hold up man in
the United States?

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Mammy fits the description says here he has an identifying
mark on his throat.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
A thousand people have probably got molds on their throats.
Maybe a million.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Let's go, Palla.

Speaker 8 (25:25):
You're not taking Gene outside this cold weather in his
pajamas as we are.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Man, we have a car outside. You just try to
do that.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
Go on, I dare you, Jean, Gene, you go upstairs
this minute and put your clothes on.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Ma'am.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
No, don't you, Mammy, Jean go upstairs, take it grade.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
One of us will have to go upstairs with your husband.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
I have never heard of such a thing. You're acting
as if Jean were a hardened criminal whould run away
or something. It's too much.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
I'm sorry, missus Fowler, but we have our orders and
you don't take chances with a man who is under arrest.

Speaker 8 (26:05):
Hello, Mom, it's Jane.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
Mom.

Speaker 8 (26:08):
Would you put Dad on the extension so I can
talk to both of you at the same time. Oh, hi, Dad,
it's Janie. Listen Dad. Jeane is out of jail thanks
to you. Now we can concentrate on getting the evidence
to clearing. But yesterday he went to the main office
in Stratton Town to ask if the hardware people would
let him take on extra roots, because he hasn't made

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a sense since all this began. Anyway, he wanted to
thank you. It meant freedom and we love you very much. Yes, Dad,
I'll tell him just as soon as he gets back.
Goodbye Dad, Bye. Mom? Oh is that you Jeane?

Speaker 15 (26:51):
Jeane?

Speaker 18 (26:52):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (26:52):
Gina, I was just on the phone talking to the folks. Jeane,
what is it? What would the man.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
I got fired?

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Jane?

Speaker 8 (27:03):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (27:03):
No.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
I went into Green's office and he said, I'm glad
you're here. Father saves me the trouble of getting in
touch with our district manager. There's been a lot about
you in the newspapers, you know that.

Speaker 8 (27:15):
Well, what did he mean?

Speaker 5 (27:17):
And he said, until this thing blows over, we don't
want anyone to know.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
You worked for us.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Didn't you tell him you were innocent? I mean that
it's all a mistaken identity.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
He believes I'm innocent, But he said, you understand I
have to protect the good name of our business and
hardware is very competitive.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Is this a leave of absence or what it's.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
The or what they gave me a severance paycheck? Or
it isn't gonna last very long? I better tell Sam
what can he do?

Speaker 8 (27:46):
He's still fighting the two cases that have him come
to trial.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
I want him to know that I can't pay him
that it's hopeless. I feel I've come to the end
of everything. Why go on fighting in the air and
I'm going to prison for somebody else's crime.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
We are brought up to believe that man will go
on struggling against injustice to the bitter end.

Speaker 7 (28:20):
But it isn't so, not of everyone.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
There is strength and weakness, and Oliver, you can stretch
a man's will just so far, and then, like a
rubber band pulled beyond its endurance, he just cannot bounce back.
I should return shortly with Actree. Search for truth is

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as old as the first lie, which probably predates Adam
denying he ate the forbidden fruit. Today science points a
pretty accurate finger.

Speaker 12 (29:10):
At the guilty.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yesterday, trials by ordeal were relied on suspects were forced
to eat rice, carry white hot metal, were drowned, or
subjected to such tests as engineered by King Solomon, who
ordered half a child to give into each of two women,
claiming it knowing full well the real mother would rather
have her instant live than die. And it is this

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kind of living death that hangs over Jane and Jane
Fowler as our curtain rises.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
When he told me there was no money to pay me.
I told Gene it didn't matter. Justice did that. I'd
stick it out until he was cleared. Charges of robberies
came in with alarming speed. A total of six we
fought every case. Four were dropped for lack of evidence,
but the first two resulted in the two cashiers pointing

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Gane out in the lineup as the attacker, and he
was bound over for trial.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Jean, Jeane, is that you?

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Hey, Jane, we've got anything strong.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
In the house to drink.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
Wait till you hear the good news, Darling, Sam called.
Two cases against you were dismissed and two withdrawn. The
witnesses refused to testify. Now there are only two less.

Speaker 16 (30:28):
Jean, what are.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
You doing with that chair?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's in my way. Gee, everything's in my way.

Speaker 12 (30:33):
What is the matter with you?

Speaker 8 (30:35):
When you look at yourself? She looks like a wild man, Jean,
look in the mirror.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
I see a wild man in the mirror, and I
don't wish to see him anymore.

Speaker 8 (30:46):
Darling, Darling, come over here with me, Sit down here
with me on the sofa. I know, I know it's
been hard.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
Oh Lord, Lord, it's too much.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
When I came up the driveway, I saw that Officer
Jackie was sitting in his patrol car.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Something came over me. I don't know why.

Speaker 8 (31:06):
It's all right, it's all right, it'll be over soon,
says it'll be all right, Shane.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
It'll never be over. They dis missed one case and
two spring up. I can't stand it anymore.

Speaker 13 (31:18):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 8 (31:19):
You can stand it, my darling. You're very strong.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
I saw him sitting there in his car. I felt
like killing someone. You know you?

Speaker 5 (31:29):
You say to yourself, Am I some kind of psychopath?
Did I commit all those crimes?

Speaker 13 (31:34):
And I don't know it?

Speaker 8 (31:35):
No, of course not.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Don't even see them.

Speaker 8 (31:37):
Who does it?

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Who's doing them?

Speaker 13 (31:39):
Who is this?

Speaker 5 (31:40):
This ghost?

Speaker 6 (31:41):
This, this double I have?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Who's out there right tapping people?

Speaker 6 (31:44):
It's destroying me, destroying you?

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Look I look, I mean this, honey. I really don't
think it's safe for you around me. I don't know
what I'll do next.

Speaker 8 (31:56):
Don't you want me with you?

Speaker 5 (31:57):
I'm beginning to doubt myself. Can I control this? I'm
okay now this minute? But what if I should attack
you like that chair? Please? Will you go and live
with Mom and Dad. Will you please, Jane, I'll.

Speaker 8 (32:13):
Think about it now. You go upstairs and take a shower,
and I'll have a nice dinner on the table for
just the tour.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Will you do as I asked, Jane, and move out
at least for now.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
You are making it so difficult for me. I love you, Darling,
and I want to be with you always, no matter
what happened.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
I think the trial came just in time.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
There was only one. The second case was dismissed, no question.

Speaker 12 (32:46):
Even Jane was beginning to have her doubts as to
her husband's innocence.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
We worked hard. I played up the evidence of no
finger prints, the Robert had worn gloves. I found a
policeman who Gin had talked to the night of the
eighth to get directions miles away. And David's ly detector
one hundred percent favorable helped a great deal in the
m gene follower was acquitted. I went on to my

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next case, which took me out of town for about
a month. Sam, Hey, Jane, look who's here? I can't
think of anyone i'd rather see, especially today.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Where were you?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
We've been trying to.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Call another case, another town, but I come over and
bring a little something today.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Every all days we're celebrating, well, the trials and.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
Over a month and you two are still celebrating. It's
our wedding anniversary five years ago today, five.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
Years ago today, and it doesn't feel any more than
fifty Hi.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Sam, don't mind Jane some days she talks funny. We
haven't seen Sam in a month, and all you can
say is hi, Hi Jane. Well, if i'd known it
was a special day, I'd have brought flowers. But what's
in this paper bag gives us a chance to toast
each other's health.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Yeah, Jane, take it.

Speaker 8 (33:54):
Hell, physical or mental, you name it. What do you
do when you haven't got it?

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Hey, this is pretty fancy wine. Honey, look at the label.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
That's a sweet, sweet thought. Sam. I'll go get some
glasses and a corkscrew.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Honey, Sam, do you notice the change in her? Well,
relief that it's all over. It can be a big
shock to the system. You both went through some real hell.
I think we're coming apart.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Sam.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
It's as if all those horrors are being falsely accused.
Was what held us together? Are you saying that Jane
wants to leave you.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Yes, I am.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
All those months of screaming in the face of injustice
took the heart out of it. That destroyed a a
kind of innocence O marriage. Had you want me to
talk to her, I.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Don't know what good it would do.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
I love Janet and I need her, but I don't
think she loves me or needs me anymore.

Speaker 8 (34:44):
Here we are, three glasses and one corkscrew.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Okay, let me do the honors.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
I'll open it poor Okay, And while you're at it,
I think I ought to tell you both something that
happened right after the trial.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
I thought it could wait, and I thought it should wait.

Speaker 8 (34:58):
What not another mistaken identity?

Speaker 5 (35:02):
You remember Judge Garvey, who presided over the trial, I
sure do.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
A great guy.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Or after the court was cleared and you two went home,
he called me into his chambers. Now I know him,
I've often represented cases before him. He said to me, Strauss,
that young man who was.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Acquitted in the courtroom today.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Were I his attorney, i'd advise him to get some
medical help. When I asked him what he meant, he
wouldn't elaborate medical help.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
That's sunny, all right.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Here we go, three glasses, Sam Jane and me.

Speaker 8 (35:37):
Jean dearest, didn't you hear what Sam just told us?

Speaker 5 (35:41):
I didn't take it as Judge Garvey's personal disstret group
of verdict.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
It was a warning, and perhaps we are to heed it.

Speaker 8 (35:48):
Who needs the psychiatric counseling? Sam, you, Jean or me?

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Well?

Speaker 5 (35:54):
I guess this isn't the time to talk about it.
But there is one thing that I must warn you about.
I know the stressful times aren't over for either of you.
It'll take a while, and I want you to protect
yourselves because until they catch your doumble whoever was committing
all those armed robberies, whenever one occurs, you'll be picked up.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh lord, I try to put it out of my mind.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Now, look where you are anywhere away from home. Let's
say you're on a trip. I want you to keep
a record of every day where you are, what time
you're there, who you see, if they are strangers, do
something just to make sure they remember you.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
Do you understand? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:32):
I sure do.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
I may have been acquitted this week, but next week
I'm a guilty man. Not if you take precautions, but
if the judge thinks I'm such a nut, what do
I have to be afraid of next time.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
You just played in sanity, Jane.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
He was telling me that to help you get over
what happened, there are medicines for that. He didn't mean
that there was anything wrong with you. I'm going to
leave you kids now, so drink up, keep well, and
Gene keep a record at least until they catch with
your doppelgander. What's that a person's ghost to double that

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haunts him through his life?

Speaker 6 (37:06):
Well let him haunt let him. I say, hold on now, Jane,
you want.

Speaker 5 (37:09):
To take me to the door.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
Jane, can you hold out a little longer?

Speaker 8 (37:15):
What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Well, Jeane told me that you were serious about leaving him.

Speaker 8 (37:19):
He hasn't any right to tell you that.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Who else could he tell? You can see what condition
he's in. If you leave him now, you put away
the only prop that he has. And I tell you, Jane,
I wouldn't want to be responsible for a man's crackup.

Speaker 8 (37:33):
It It isn't my fault. I wanted things to be
as they were, but he's changed.

Speaker 6 (37:38):
So Jane, be compassionate. Just hang in there a little longer.
You can help Gene. Would you like your old husband
back again?

Speaker 8 (37:46):
You'll never come back.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
Then at least promise me before you pack one bag
that you'll call me. Can you do that?

Speaker 8 (37:52):
I promise them?

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Okay, goodness.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
Two weeks went by, then three, then four, and I
heard nothing from either Jane or Jean. I hope he
was logging every night in daylight minutes. Strange because his
double whoever he was, had not struck since the trial.
But I knew as the time got longer that the
odds would get shorter. Then my phone rang, Sam Star speaking.

Speaker 8 (38:27):
It's me Sam, Jane.

Speaker 10 (38:28):
Soowler, Sam. We're taking the sales trip together, Jean and me,
just like when we were first married.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
All that's great?

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Where too that finally came away?

Speaker 10 (38:38):
Jean's a boss at Allied Hardware put him back on
the road, and he and I are going to make
that first sales trip together.

Speaker 15 (38:45):
She's Jean Sam.

Speaker 10 (38:46):
He just wants to say hello and goodbye.

Speaker 15 (38:49):
Hello, Sam.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Jane just told me the great news.

Speaker 15 (38:52):
Things worked out pretty good. Make sure it's wasn't for me, sir,
But now I think I can make enough to pray
it for your invaluable services.

Speaker 6 (38:58):
Tell me how are you feeling?

Speaker 15 (39:00):
I think so I stopped having nightmares about being arrested.
I see a future. It's all pretty good.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
When do you leave? About when you be back?

Speaker 15 (39:10):
Oh, four to six weeks. I got a lot of
territory to cover and some brand new eyes at to
sell like hotcake.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
We'll have yourself a real good time. I'll keep track
at this end, and uh, you leave a trail of
witnesses wherever you go.

Speaker 15 (39:25):
If you locate my Doppeldanger, nail them, Sam, will you?

Speaker 3 (39:29):
I sure will?

Speaker 15 (39:30):
And I'll order a double scotch and a rice pudding
in every tavern we hit. People won't forget me.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
Jeane Parlor and Jane did just that. Nature You're a
Waitress and motel Twerk saw them coming and going, having
long conversations with bartenders, ordering unheard of sandwich combinations, anything
so that people wouldn't forget them.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
One night, they pulled up in front.

Speaker 13 (39:56):
Of a diner.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
It looked like every other diner they'd.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Ever been to, only it wasn't when he made some movie.
He'll get one through the head, just like the should
ordered cook. Come on, the lady, you're going for a ride.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
That cashier comes.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
With MEO the car with you. I'm gonna get him.

Speaker 8 (40:18):
Jeem Geez, what are you doing.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
I want to get that guy.

Speaker 19 (40:22):
You saw what he did.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
He shot someone a hold up.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
He's got that girl at the hostage in his car.

Speaker 8 (40:27):
You don't It's not your job that the police get it.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Yeah, I'm still waiting for the police to give me
a fair shake. Look at that guy go but I'm
right on it tail, Jean, don't be crazy.

Speaker 8 (40:39):
He's got a gun. What are you going to do? Raymond?
And then what you'll kill us both?

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Jean?

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Stop, stop the car, Darling. I can stop the car
and let you out if that's what you want. But
I'm going after that guy and following him if it
takes all night.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Gee, we're doing eighty.

Speaker 6 (40:55):
I've been through this.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
I'm not gonna let some other poor jerk get blamed
for what I've seen him do.

Speaker 8 (41:00):
Or be killed. What can you hope to do?

Speaker 6 (41:02):
I'll tell you what. I hope that the police will
see two.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
Cars doing eighty on a highway and they'll stop us.

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Boat. Yeah, somebody up there hurt me. Look at that.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
The cop passed us and went on that he's going
to stop them.

Speaker 15 (41:16):
First.

Speaker 8 (41:17):
Sound that siren I.

Speaker 19 (41:19):
Used to also.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Last time I heard it was when they pulled me
over for streeting.

Speaker 8 (41:24):
They are up ahead. They stopped the hold up man.
He's getting out of his car with his hands up.

Speaker 6 (41:30):
Oh boy, there is some justice after all.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
I guess you could say miracles do have, although the
police maintained in the long run criminals are caught. But
when I talk about miraculous happenings, it's because incredible as
it sounds. That night, Jeanne caught up with his doppelganger,
committing another crime for which he himself would certain we
have been accused. Yes, the man in the car stop

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out the police for speeding was the very one who
all these months had turned Jeanne's life upside down.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Today, Jean Faler has been promoted from salesmen to district manager,
but he and Jane still have time to make trips. However,
they still birth keep an accurate record of where.

Speaker 8 (42:41):
They are and who they meet.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
After all, having been struck by lightning so many times,
who is it to say it could never happen again.

Speaker 6 (42:51):
I should returned shortly.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
The promise exactly at the beginning of the trial, to
tell the whole truth and nothing. But the truth is
not enough of a deterrent to one who wants to
escape justice. Can a scientific instrument forced the truth from
a person bent online? The fact is the lie detector
is used more by a defense counsel to clear the

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wrongly accused.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
That's a great.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Step forward, better than trials by ordeal. The next step
my full proof system to convict the guilty or do
we already have it.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
Trial by jury?

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Our cast included Michael Tolan, Carol titell Mande Kramer, and
Lloyd Batista. The entire production is under the direction of
hiding down.

Speaker 7 (44:07):
And now a preview.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
I'm him, I am the master, you the safe.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
What are you going to do? No, don't com me.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
You will not go any place, you fool and.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
Are you're saying it?

Speaker 8 (44:27):
No?

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Stay away from me.

Speaker 12 (44:31):
Dig your hands from my front, doruise, don't.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
For me down you needio Linca, I am Lincer, I
breed or the jig jar.

Speaker 8 (44:43):
And I wanted to.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Hi ty hi Ti.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
Ty hi to you and this this hector should shut
that im saying mouth O.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Yours is the tummy grinds inviting me to return undis street.
There is another adventure in the car. Until next time,
pleasant team.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Well, my dear wouldn't you say, we've started the witching
season very appropriately? What's that? What's that?

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Well, of course, of course, But don't you worry. They
can't get in here. These walls are over a foot
thick concrete and rear as good at keeping things out
as keeping things in. Do you ever feel an urge

(46:09):
to keep something or someone all to yourself? It can
be so intoxicating, like the seeds of greed.

Speaker 20 (46:23):
Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life
of romantic adventure?

Speaker 6 (46:31):
I want to get away from it all.

Speaker 17 (46:34):
We offer you escape, escape designed to free you from
the four walls of today, for a half hour of
high adventure.

Speaker 20 (46:50):
Tonight, we escape to a small ship off the coast
of Borneo and an exciting tale of murderous greed.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
As Freud A.

Speaker 20 (46:59):
Nelson els that in his strange story Seeds of Greed.

Speaker 19 (47:15):
This is it, the romantic South Pacific, a languid lure
of the tropics, A ship at my command to take
me any place I might choose. A jewel tiara of
sky above and an ocean of emerald velvet below to
my left, the languid coast of Borneo to my right,

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the Sulu Archipelago, such romance, such gentleness, such maddening, unbearable gentleness.
Not long ago I was a carefree, little monument of failure,

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reaping the rewards of my college education and the atmosphere
a hitch in the Navy had taught me to love
and live the waterfront. Maybe it's the atmosphere. Maybe it's
the people you meet, or maybe it's the margin you
can make in the exchange of drinks with guys in
port bat with seapey. Take this guy Lee, for instance,

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an oriental little guy who's correct English. Told you it
was adopted. I had him figured wrong from the beginning,
mister Kenneth Brown. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
My name is Lee, Lead, said Tom. If you prefer
I don't Joanie.

Speaker 19 (48:42):
Sure, surely pull up a buck for a couple of
drinks and sit down. Suddenly, Yeah, our same thing here. Okay,
what's yours?

Speaker 6 (48:52):
Lee?

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Nothing? Thank you, I do not indulge.

Speaker 19 (48:55):
Okay, thanks, al Well, I've got the bait set your hook.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 2 (49:05):
You have pointed out to me as a man who
knows boats just like the Navy, and also as a
man who might be induced to gamble.

Speaker 19 (49:13):
Well, I can't contradict, but if you.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Will pardon me as a man who is more than
casually devoted to.

Speaker 19 (49:20):
Drink, I can take it or leave it. At the
moment my mood says take it your healthy Yes.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
But for that one failing mister Browne, I could up
a very interesting and profitable proposal.

Speaker 19 (49:36):
Mystery. It is considered very poor taste in the accident
to proper drinks with strings attached. A good days, no
one moment.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Please forgive me. I was going to add a feeling
which we could overlook if it were to be controlled
for a short time.

Speaker 19 (49:55):
I said, I take it or leave it.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
I am in the pearl business. Do you know anything
about pilots? Brown?

Speaker 19 (50:02):
Yeah, an oyster gets hold of a bad grain of
sand and he or she or it gets an ulcer
bingo a pearl.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Perhaps we should take us up at another time. I
am stopping at the Case hotel. Good night, Brown and
come see me if you're shot.

Speaker 19 (50:21):
Riconci okay Ley, but don't wait up. I hate the
warm feeling of elegance that takes me over after the
fifth drink. I hate myself. I hate morning. Worst of all,

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I hate waking up without a little hair of the
dog and not a nickel in a poke to supply
it out of the fog of remorse. Came a stolid,
little oriental face. Yeah, yeah, there's a generous soul pearls.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
He said.

Speaker 19 (51:02):
Oh that should be a nice, substantial little proposition. Yeah,
maybe I am ready to talk business.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Bron. I did not expect to see you come in.
This is a pleasant surprise.

Speaker 19 (51:21):
Yeah you were. You mentioned something about a business proposal.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 19 (51:29):
Hotel rooms depress me Lee. Could we go down to
the bar.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
And talk it over or certainly, Bron, if you prefer.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
I prefer.

Speaker 19 (51:47):
You mentioned something about the pearl business.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Yes, Bron, I didn't think that is I thought that
might have slept your mind.

Speaker 19 (51:56):
Oll, things aren't that badly tell me more.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
We could be very useful to each other, Brown, I
have the information and the equipment. You have the experience
without which the equipment is useless to me. Yeah, we
can turn an enormous profit in very short time. Hu,
I have just completed the transaction whereby I become owner
of small ship equipped with certain scientific devices for probing the.

Speaker 19 (52:24):
Ocean floor sonar equipment.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
I believe that is the name I.

Speaker 19 (52:28):
Hate disillusion you ly, But she can't bounce an echo
off an oyster. It'll never work.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
That is not my intention.

Speaker 19 (52:36):
Well, then, how does sonar equipment fit into the pearl business?

Speaker 2 (52:39):
These pearls A great fortune in pearls are all in
one package, hours for the taking salvage.

Speaker 21 (52:48):
Yes, I fell air to chart upon the timely death
of a friend, and that chart is indicated the position
of a vessel sunk during the war somewhere between in
the Sulu Archipelago and the northeast coast of Bonno.

Speaker 13 (53:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I have reason to know that on board at the
time of the sinking was the personal fortune of a
certain sultan, as well as the assets of his constituents.
There was one survivor.

Speaker 19 (53:16):
And you hope to locate that vessel with this sounding gear?
I do, Well, what about getting the stuff up after
it's located.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
I also have diving equipment.

Speaker 19 (53:27):
And you want somebody who knows how to operate the gear?
PCI say, what's your deal?

Speaker 21 (53:33):
Uh, I am prepared to offer you one fourth of
any treasure we may locate.

Speaker 19 (53:40):
Ah for that consideration, I could offer about one half.
What I know about your equipment, I don't understand for
a fifty to fifty share of any loot. I could
offer one hundred percent cooperation.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
See bron you should it surprises me you are not
more prosperous, all right, fifty fifty as you say.

Speaker 19 (54:04):
All right, you've got yourself a boy to you, partner,
Oh one for the road, and we'll go look at
your ship. Okay, partner, Okay, partner. Lee's stubby fefinger pointed

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a great circle course across the harbor to a little
tub laying with her forward quarter scraping paint against the
can of her mooring. She was from the orphan fleet
of subchasers, pressed into service out of desperation during the war,
about one hundred feet, built to roll on a twenty
foot beam. Some dreamer had her rig for fishing. She
still mounted an a frame out riggers in the cargo boom.

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Map Lee didn't speak of her with the pride of
an owner.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
That is, the one with a blunt end towards us.

Speaker 19 (54:55):
When can we go aboard?

Speaker 2 (54:56):
You have the pepper as we can take possession immediately?

Speaker 19 (54:59):
What kind of the shape is the power plant in?

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I'm really not qualified to say I know nothing of ships,
but I am sure she will need work before we
What is it you say, Cassalt.

Speaker 19 (55:10):
Yeah, I'll give me two days to work over the plane,
and i'll have her ship shape and shaken down. If
she's standard, She's got two six seven ones and the
generators and two pancakes on the main plant. A couple
of spare injectors and some baling wire will see her
to Timbuctoo.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
You will need a crew, won't you, an inexpensive crew.

Speaker 19 (55:29):
Yeah, a couple of hands to do the dirty work.
We could get by with one if you could take
a turn at the wheel.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Ipsycond Len Yes, ips, I can lean to drive the
ship good.

Speaker 19 (55:40):
I'll line up a hand. These waterfront bars are full
of guys looking for a chance to go fishing.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
You seem to understand what I want, Bron, I'll leave
everything to you. You may reach me at my hotel.

Speaker 19 (55:51):
Okay, the next time you see her, she will be
overhauled provisioned in man. So long ly see you. In
forty eight hours, she was in surprisingly good shape. Batteries
charged right up on the generators, her oil was clean
and her linkage tight. I replaced a corroded condenser on

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the sonar gear, pressure checked the diving suit and put
new pistons in the compressors. One straight twenty four hour
shift and she was shaken down and ready for a crew.
I set out to meet my man on common ground.
I found him being escorted out of Casey's bar by
Casey himself.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
To me, you'd better get some salt bag it before
you saw something in my place.

Speaker 6 (56:36):
I'll get along with you.

Speaker 22 (56:37):
Don't be coming back.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Your brother on the peak.

Speaker 19 (56:41):
What's the matter say? Let's slippery deck.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
You'll be quite right.

Speaker 19 (56:44):
Stick you all right? Stow the shift kid. The jails
are too full now. I want to let me get
out of my way. Stay out of their kid, and
stow the knife.

Speaker 12 (56:55):
I still get that fattief someday.

Speaker 19 (56:58):
You're you're new around here? Thought you know that you
wouldn't tangle with Casey if you weren't. Where are you from?
It's anata.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
I have papers in my room.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
I have paper.

Speaker 19 (57:08):
I didn't ask you. You didn't ask me either, But
I'd advise you to get rid of that knife. With
a temper like yours, you can cut yourself off a
life sentence. So far, this knife knows only the blood
of fish. If I've never been kicked by a fish.
I can use a man, I can handle a knife.
You're working, No, come on, I'll buy a drink all right? Now,

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what's your name?

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Costa?

Speaker 19 (57:34):
Then you gear Modela Costa. Okay, tony. Two double shots later,
I had my man, a pathetic little guy with no
roots in a barren world. I sent him to stowing
provisions while I cleared the paper and gold braid department
of the Commerce building and picked up a couple hundred

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fathoms of useless sharknet to flake out for effect. Then
I called Lee. He was impressed.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
You'll have accompassed a lot in their short time, bron
You must have worked day and night.

Speaker 19 (58:07):
Yeah, I can sleep under way.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Where is your crew?

Speaker 19 (58:10):
Below? He's stowing provisions in the galley I see.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Does he meet on specification.

Speaker 19 (58:16):
Exactly good back, with not too much above it except
a nasty temper.

Speaker 23 (58:21):
Good.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
He thinks he's going fishing. Let explend his nets partly.

Speaker 19 (58:27):
Also, there's an unwritten law of the sea that gives
fishing craft a wide berth.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Clever, barn y, clever, practical. Is everything in first class condition?

Speaker 19 (58:37):
Everything the diving gear is tight, and the sonar reading's
check right on the nose of the charts. Then we
are ready to cast off anytime.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Then let us go header out west southwest Brown, right
into the sun, right into the sun.

Speaker 17 (59:02):
In just a moment, we will continue with Escape, but first,
Groucho Marx Bing Crosby, Doctor Christian and George Burns and
Gracie Allen will be back with you tomorrow night on
most of these same CBS stations. Al Jolson will join
being in another of their unparalleled exhibits of wit and song.
George Jessel will be the special guest of George and Gracie.

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Stay tuned to CBS for this wonderful midweek Wednesday night listening.
Now we return you to the second act of Escape.

Speaker 19 (59:39):
Three weeks at sea taught me a lot about my
friend Lee. His switch from landlover to combetant mariner was
too fast to be convincing. Something about the whole setup
spoil the taste of my whiskey. The only way it
figured was that he really did me to need me
to operate the gear. Beyond that, beyond that the picture

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change from the first day out. He showed too much
interest in the sonar equipment Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
I think it might be prudent if you were to
teach me the operation of this instrument? Is it very difficult?
Just the operation?

Speaker 19 (01:00:13):
Oh, it's something anyone can pick up in five or
six months of full time instruction.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Surely not to learn just the operation of it.

Speaker 19 (01:00:20):
It's not only complicatedly but delicate. I think we'd be
wise to keep it secured until we need it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Perhaps, yes, perhaps it won't be very long Brown.

Speaker 19 (01:00:30):
When are you going to break out the charts with
the position of the stuff in due time?

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Bron?

Speaker 19 (01:00:34):
And I'll need it when we start taking soundings.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Then you shall have it. It wouldn't be prudent to
a surrender chart that I have been foced to defend
with my very life, would it, Bron?

Speaker 19 (01:00:45):
I get your point.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I might add, Bron, that the chart alone is useless
to anyone but me. The exact position is not indicated.
I took the precaution of committing it to memory lest
the chart should be misplaced. The only value of the
chart is that it indicates sounding lines.

Speaker 19 (01:01:07):
That makes your position clear enough. What about Casta? Do
you think he might be dangerous when he finds out
what we're really after. For a man to be dangerous,
you must first be intelligent. Casta is ignorant. He will
stay ignorant. Sooner or later he's gonna get wise.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Fortunately, Casta is not equipped to get wise, as you say.
He is happy in ignorance. We will not expose him
to the curse. Agreed. What's your plan to turn the
wheel of fortune to my own needs? We must be
a practical brown. A person such as Casta leaves little
impression on the world. He will never be missed. If

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he were to disappear, faith will save him from the curse. Agreed.

Speaker 19 (01:01:59):
Late afternoon of the twenty second day, I saw these
methods put into practice, cold, efficient, ruthless practice. It happened
so fast I was helpless to do anything about it.
Costa was splayed out on the nets near the stern,
sound asleep when Lee appeared from nowhere. Without warning, Lee
let fly a vicious kick. Costa's blade flashed. Lee stood

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motionless until Costa closed. Then Lee grabbed Costa's knife hand
and whirled, twisting Costa's arm into a lever and using
the momentum his rush, cost him effortlessly over the rail
to disappear on the swirling wake. Without even glancing as stern,
Lee gave me the arm signal for straight ahead, a

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signal that pointed accusingly at me, screaming accomplice. His face
was still frozen in trance like serenity when he appeared
on the bridge.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
It is now you and I Brown, Yeah, these things
are just testeful. But on the other handbron itself can
be distasteful.

Speaker 19 (01:03:02):
Wasn't there some other way to handle it? Couldn't we
have put him off somewhere in the island.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Your whole life into high esteam Brown. We could have
put him off at some islands. But then, Braun, we
would have had to wonder about his welfare. Now his
troubles are over, he has peace. He no longer has
to struggle as you and I.

Speaker 19 (01:03:21):
He didn't have much chance to struggle, did he Lee.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
He was not one to struggle intelligently Bron. Struggling not
directed by intelligence can.

Speaker 19 (01:03:30):
Destroy Where is strength muscle fit in the theory?

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
If you will pardon a personal reference, Brown, I long
ago subscribe to the teachings of an Eastern cult, which
believes that the intellectual neutralizes the physical. Therefore, there is
no difference in stature among men, only a difference in
mental power. We do not destroy. We merely expedite the

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adversary's self destruction by his own weakness costa's temper. Huh,
exactly one does not think in temper. He merely acts
and so destroys himself. No, I make myself clear.

Speaker 19 (01:04:11):
Not especially, but I'll think it over. Lee's insidious philosophy
began to prey on my mind. I knew I was
on the last leg of a one way trip. I
knew he was perfectly competent to take over the ship
at any time, but I still felt reasonably safe. It

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would take two men to handle the instruments, to locate
the pearls, and beyond that, two men to get the
stuff up. After that, I would worry about my failings,
in which one Lee would pick to destroy me. I
eliminated the big one by tossing my last two bottles
of whiskey overboard. We were cruising somewhere between the Lower

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Sulu Archipelago in the northeast corner of Borneo when Lee
broke got a dog eared chart of Dutch origin.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Got it back bron No, somewhere within the radius of
this circle. How fuchun waitstill be taken?

Speaker 19 (01:05:11):
And let's see the charts indicate a sandy bottom. That's good.
The currents go southwest. She falls off the deeper water
to the south.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
I understand the charts. Bron start the soundings, man.

Speaker 19 (01:05:24):
Okay, I'll start here at the sixty fathom line and
work towards shallower water. You stand at the bow with
the smoke flare. If I pick up anything, heave a
flare over the market. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
I prefer to stay on the bridge with you. Brh
yeah yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:05:39):
That way we can watch the instruments and each other. Okay, partner.
I worked each depth line half a mile from the
point we established a center, staying parallel to the soundings
indicated on the chart. Three times over, the area showed
nothing but a uniform bottom. Then I took a new

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I set the wheel in a tight circle and secured
it with a lanyard. I figured the current and the
torque of the shaft would take us far enough off
center on each spiral that we wouldn't miss anything big
enough to register. I was beginning to think in circles
when the scope showed a fast drop and then wavered radically.
Lee must have read it in my face.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
It shot something, didn't it? We have found something, haven't we.

Speaker 19 (01:06:21):
Brown, Maybe, what are you going to do? Back it
down and check it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
No, no, drop the anchor. We won't move. We take
no chances of losing it. Drop the anchor.

Speaker 19 (01:06:34):
I settled her bow into the current, dropped the hook,
and backed her down on the scope of the anchorchain
until we were over the spot. Lee expertly rigged the
line from the cargo boom to the cathead and hoisted
the heavy diving gear out of the after hole. His
expression left no question as to.

Speaker 6 (01:06:48):
The division of labor.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Of course you will make the dive Brown.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
We cannot risk losing a life when two men unnecessary
to complete this mission?

Speaker 19 (01:06:59):
Can I not your lifely?

Speaker 8 (01:07:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:07:02):
Yeah, I'll go down there. But just in case you
have any ideas about letting my weaknesses destroy me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Oh come now, Braun, You're not falling prey to the
cuss of greed, are you?

Speaker 16 (01:07:13):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:07:13):
And I don't intend to fall prey to anything if
I can help you don't have faith in me, that's right,
but you must have faith in me. We must work
together up until we locate the stuff and get it up.
After that, Lee, only one man is necessary. That's what
worries me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Mm are you a fred Broun? Does the number among
your weaknesses?

Speaker 19 (01:07:37):
Elly?

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
It does.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
I don't know how to reassure you, Braun. Do you
have solution herey?

Speaker 24 (01:07:45):
I do.

Speaker 19 (01:07:46):
My life is in your hands while I'm down there.
Unfortunately for you, my life is the only link you
have between the pearls and this ship.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
One lare full break that link.

Speaker 19 (01:07:57):
Bron Lee's words echoed in my helmet as I felt
myself being lowered from a sheave at the end of
the cargo boom. Only a fool I knew that I
was pitted against a ruthless maniac, that finding the pearls

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meant that one of us would die. Yet some power
greater than reason forced me on, a power I recognized
as grief. My weighted feet settled on bottom. My headlights
sent a glaring shaft through the murk, serving only to
blind me. Then my eyes adapted. Strange shapes darted in

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and out of the beams, splashing big shadows. I pivoted slowly,
straining my eyes to the burning point. Suddenly the beams
stopped short and reflected upward in a blinding glare. There
she lay a slimy hux turned down in the sand,
her stack and superstructure eroded away, and her places hanging
scab like from her frames, a death ship washed clean

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by gentle currents. I headed for the quarter deck and
leaned on the crumbling vestiges of the hatch.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
It fell away.

Speaker 19 (01:09:11):
My light picked up a single object. There it lay,
its corners worn round from shifting against the bulkheads. A
teak wood chest. Brass bindings radiated from its single big
hinge like the fingers of a giant hand. I felt
a wave of desire grow into a surge of greed
and resolve itself into an overpowering lust. A bent a

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line under the chest and signaled lead a halne up.
I felt as though I was threading my life away
as I paid out the line that would link the
treasure with the surface, knowing that only Lee's ignorance of
what the other end held insured my shedding the heavy
diving suit safe on deck that would put us on
even footing. I lost the fear of Lee's methods and

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thought of my own methods, based on greed that knows
no compart methods of killing to keep. Then my fears passed.
He couldn't kill me. Until the chest was on deck.
Lee was like a man waiting for sentence. When I
climbed out of the diving suit. Well, it's there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Describe it. Describe a chest.

Speaker 19 (01:10:18):
Solid wood, bound in brass. Is that all brass hindes
like a hand?

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
That is it brown? And the Mohammed my reward that last,
the hand of Mohammed.

Speaker 19 (01:10:30):
You mean our reward, of course, ah, a reward.

Speaker 15 (01:10:36):
Yes.

Speaker 19 (01:10:38):
For a brief second we were two animals standing at
bay idle eye, appraising each waiting for the other to move.
Then as one we saw through the cloud of greed
we still needed each other until a chest was on deck.
Lee swung the boom on board while I read the
line attached to the chest through the eye of the sheath.

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He took the running end of the cathead and made
a turn. His narrowed eyes fixed on me, waiting for
the signal to haul away. His hands turned white, bloodless
as he gripped the line. I gave him the signal
to haul in. The line started easily and take it
flow all away. We'll stop it at the surface to
keep the weight off the line. The line threaded through

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the sheave endlessly as time while I strained to catch
the first glimpse of any bulk in the water. Again,
I felt the surge of greed I'd experienced below. Unconsciously,
I drew my sleeve across my mouth. A dark and
distorted mass showed beneath the surface.

Speaker 12 (01:11:35):
Flow it down, leafy, Joy, Floyd Downley, clack off, you'll
break your line, clack off.

Speaker 19 (01:11:41):
Lee was out of control. The heavy chest lost the
buoyancy of the water. The strand of the line snapped
and shot a ragged hand up to the block, but
it was too late. The chest hit the block and
the line snapped, clashing the water log wood against the
ragged metal.

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
Of the top side.

Speaker 19 (01:11:57):
Brass fingers of the giant hand opened to grow tesquely,
spewing a shower of tumbling beads over the surface of
the water.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Joy, your fool, You're American fool.

Speaker 19 (01:12:07):
Here they are, Lee, look at him, float down, your
little white seeds of greed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Oh well, die, illiot.

Speaker 19 (01:12:16):
You felt the pearls at the end of that line, Lee,
They were in your greedy little hands, and you couldn't
let go. You couldn't slack off on the line.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
You couldn't let go, could you?

Speaker 19 (01:12:25):
So the hand of MOI Hammad sowed the ocean with
little seeds of green.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
You would pay brown.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Hey, we are you alive?

Speaker 19 (01:12:31):
All right, intelligent one, there are no odds. Pick a
weakness and destroy me. Take your choice. Come on, you
well die dog and came toward me slowly. Then he
drew back right foot poised. I was ready for it.
But instead of the kick, his thumb shot out at
my eyes, pushing jagged nerve ends right into my brain.

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Blind instinct told me to swing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
What I knew where he was.

Speaker 12 (01:12:54):
You're die not yetly?

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
I like that lecked by a blind the right fist.
How do you like this lead?

Speaker 12 (01:13:04):
How do you like my thumbs?

Speaker 19 (01:13:06):
How do you like a mashing in your master throat?

Speaker 5 (01:13:09):
You're getting weakerly weaker?

Speaker 19 (01:13:13):
Where's your metal power?

Speaker 16 (01:13:14):
Now?

Speaker 19 (01:13:14):
Leave gone?

Speaker 15 (01:13:16):
Is it dead?

Speaker 8 (01:13:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:13:30):
The tropical Pacific, general Pacific rocking me to death and
a cradle of rusty steel. Maybe it's spring or summer
or day or night? Breeze is gentle scent to soothe
my eye is no longer pain? Yeah, it's gentle. Such gentleness,

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such maddening, unbearable gentleness.

Speaker 17 (01:14:05):
Escape is produced and directed by William M.

Speaker 19 (01:14:07):
Robson.

Speaker 17 (01:14:08):
Tonight we have presented Seeds of Greed by Freud A.
Nelson beatured in the cast where Gary Merrill is Brown,
Ben Right is Lee, Bill Conrad as Casey, and Tony
Barrett is Costa. Special music was arranged and conducted by
Del Castillio.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Ah, yes, please please have another cup of tea. It
gets so cold in the fall months, but it's so
delightful to warm back up. I'll find you a blanket
here in a moment as well. Nothing beats a cozy
night in feeling a little fearful and fun. And we

(01:14:47):
have all of that and so much more. What is
that South? Do you hear that? A little skittering racket
moving around the dark empty space? I hope it's not there,

(01:15:08):
but it can't be there. No, no, no, I should
calm myself. I'm sure it's only a.

Speaker 6 (01:15:17):
Spider iron IDs to prevent light out. Everybody h is

(01:15:40):
later and you're.

Speaker 18 (01:15:48):
In h.

Speaker 25 (01:15:57):
Light out brings you a story to the supernatural and
the super normal, dramatizing with sentences and the mysteries of
the unknown. We tell you this frankly, so if you
wish to avoid the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays.
We urge you, calmly but sincerely, to turn off your radio. Now,

(01:16:24):
this is our joblers.

Speaker 26 (01:16:26):
In these days the jungles are full of wine, of
machine gun bullets, and with twenty five caliber automatic rifles.
There was a time, though, when the sound of the
jungle was out of insects and the raucous call of
jungle birds, and when into the tropical forests for high
adventures or to make money. It's of these times that
our story is tonight, and now light out, everybody. The

(01:17:03):
young girls of the leap around my farm.

Speaker 16 (01:17:12):
That three like that tree.

Speaker 6 (01:17:14):
You don't have to show I look, look look.

Speaker 7 (01:17:20):
At it, like that atherttle butterfly, because these wings, look
at them.

Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
They never had wings big as an airplane. To take
us out of this hair hole.

Speaker 7 (01:17:27):
I bet I'll get ten franks for this one.

Speaker 6 (01:17:29):
If we get out of the jungle.

Speaker 7 (01:17:31):
Oh, I'll get out.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
I mean, we wouldn't leave me here. What see?

Speaker 27 (01:17:37):
You get in this with me and you'll get out
with me. It's good to sit down until the end
beginning to feat you.

Speaker 19 (01:17:46):
Cut it that with it?

Speaker 7 (01:17:47):
Can't you do anything but sing?

Speaker 6 (01:17:48):
That blows?

Speaker 27 (01:17:49):
I suppose I should be happy, should sing a song
because the sun has burning me up because he didn't
take to bite me.

Speaker 6 (01:17:54):
Because I'm here in this devilce hole, have the word
away from my home, cut out like I better than you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:00):
Is the only chancey catching these bugs, that only chance
to get a dog and.

Speaker 6 (01:18:04):
Get out of here.

Speaker 7 (01:18:04):
But the sun bigger suns, and they called are working.

Speaker 12 (01:18:06):
On the mind biga suns, and they called us sitting
out there on the beach carrying, And how every time
you see a boat heading back, tell you, Dixie, the
jungle is the only chance we had to get out
of here. And by the devil, I'm taking it. And yeah,
you're right, I know it's just you say. Our only change.
Sure it is not a snap out of it. A

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couple of days like this one would have caught a
number these bugs to head.

Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
Back to the coast. But would we get through this?

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
And Dixie, when I say I'm getting out of here,
I'm getting out.

Speaker 6 (01:18:38):
But the need is, how did I tell you?

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
Nothing's gonna stop me?

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
But if we do good out? How do we know
that mister Runnette will buy the butterflies?

Speaker 12 (01:18:45):
And he said he wouldn't there, Oh what a man says, Yeah,
why shouldn't he buy him gives us a frank a
piece and then sells them all over the world.

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
For plenty of though, But who would wish money on
such things?

Speaker 7 (01:18:55):
Don't you know nothing?

Speaker 12 (01:18:57):
Schools, museums, they pay plenty of dough, but these jungle
But but what shouldn't get him a gatlin t?

Speaker 6 (01:19:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:19:03):
Hot enough without you shoot him out top all of it?
All the time, I still like, I don't forget.

Speaker 6 (01:19:08):
It, alright, I don't forget about.

Speaker 13 (01:19:19):
You.

Speaker 7 (01:19:20):
Yeah, the senior left, You're still bunny, you laugh, that's
you're thinking what I think.

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
Of what you said before.

Speaker 7 (01:19:28):
But a butterfly with wings like an aeroplane.

Speaker 27 (01:19:30):
Yeah, funny, And two big guys like you and me,
guys are shot that works from arsenal murder, both of
us dependent on what they get us out of the
jungle on the back of where we came from, and
full of blue and red and purple butterfly.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
Yeah, that's whee it is. I mean, funny hand.

Speaker 27 (01:19:49):
Anybody told me a couple of years ago i'd be
chasing bugs that I slugged him.

Speaker 7 (01:19:56):
The bugs did all a chance I got now introd. Yeah,
that's a funny thing.

Speaker 12 (01:20:02):
When I was a kid, I used to chase butterflies too,
dinky little white ones all around.

Speaker 27 (01:20:07):
The empty lot, and vaca me that no matter what
you they say, why do you stay at it here?
You didn't see it?

Speaker 6 (01:20:15):
You see? Why? What does that say with it? Ladies?

Speaker 12 (01:20:21):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:20:22):
And why?

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
And why?

Speaker 12 (01:20:26):
Come behind that crew? He looked out at me, he's
all you're talking about it? Who looked out at you?
A spider and the sink it was as large as
a dog.

Speaker 6 (01:20:55):
Go Uh not shrinking? Nuh? I can't sleep either. Uh
so hot.

Speaker 7 (01:21:10):
He used to get nice and cool about this time
of nightlare I used to live.

Speaker 6 (01:21:16):
Jo and that's a man. Did I did I see it?

Speaker 7 (01:21:24):
He was starting that again, But I must have seen it.
I thought I must have seen it. Was also clear
that I said it was nothing but our monkey hanging there?

Speaker 6 (01:21:34):
Spider?

Speaker 7 (01:21:34):
But uh soroun there he's firing.

Speaker 6 (01:21:37):
Your brains hones?

Speaker 7 (01:21:39):
Sleep, yeah, sleep, I would try, okay, uh black mosquit.

Speaker 6 (01:21:59):
I got the end of the netting. You did it
to get on. I got it another one and holding.

Speaker 12 (01:22:11):
The netting some a man, I might as well get
up to fix it, glass and stop it's falling apart
with me?

Speaker 6 (01:22:19):
Joe, Joe, tell you why don't go to goose to play. Yeah,
talking about I'm just gonna fix on that.

Speaker 18 (01:22:25):
And so then.

Speaker 6 (01:22:27):
Joe, what yo, what is it?

Speaker 8 (01:22:30):
Joe?

Speaker 27 (01:22:35):
Okay, yeah, but you you screamed, Yeah, well I saw
it too, sitting at the edge of the turbine in
the moon like, yeah, spider is big.

Speaker 6 (01:23:00):
This is dog.

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Tighter, pull the line tighter.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
Yeah, I done it.

Speaker 12 (01:23:21):
Okay, come on out of the tree now all right,
I watch yourself. Don't take that tree too much. I
sap doors settle, I had trigger. Yeah, I start, Yeah,
that kJ strung out the hole that you go out of.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
Life for us?

Speaker 12 (01:23:36):
But what if it doesn't come here again here by
the tree last two nights, wasn't yea? But well do
it again? Or at this time it's going to stay
by the tree. But what if the trap figure I'll
start that again. Tell you one jerk in the mine
and where we'll sit on the whole cage and fall
right on him.

Speaker 6 (01:23:54):
Then, my friend, I troubled and roll, or I'll send you.

Speaker 12 (01:23:57):
Joy on a free right out what getting out of
here and getting some place where we can live.

Speaker 7 (01:24:00):
Like men, you try to make the money money.

Speaker 12 (01:24:03):
Listen for a spider that big, I could get enough
cash that float home with some shirt, come out back.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
Thank you. A spider that big, we'll clean up with
no Joe knows. Let's get away from you, Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
Kid in dc A.

Speaker 7 (01:24:16):
But I told me, I tell you it's blast the
Jungli stood out of gold knife for.

Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
It with the drift. Are you sure? But sure?

Speaker 12 (01:24:25):
Oh sure, I'm sure we'll catch him and it won't
be butterflies playing our should fay home.

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
They see it'll be the biggest.

Speaker 7 (01:24:31):
Spider in the world.

Speaker 8 (01:24:33):
That all right now, they.

Speaker 27 (01:24:36):
But are you sure of the trap? Duel went strong
and I yeah, I wonder what time it is, stars

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are going?

Speaker 7 (01:25:05):
Yeah, I get none morning.

Speaker 12 (01:25:08):
Yeah, it was always earlier before the trap presing him away. Uh,
but a spider is not all about tratten. You said yourself,
the clever O. Yeah, you said your stuff talk and
that's all. There's a fear in me, cold and sharp
as you wait.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
Into the clearing. It's your color stick quiet, Joe, let
him go, quare hit, don't pull a trap. It's looking
at us. There's stepping you right hundreds.

Speaker 12 (01:25:45):
And there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
I got it.

Speaker 12 (01:25:49):
I got it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:50):
Oh, look I think they try that's mine. The biggest
spider in creation. I'll get all the money I need. Well, gee,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 8 (01:26:00):
Come?

Speaker 7 (01:26:00):
I minded to say, something.

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
Cramped and it doesn't move, just look says sure. And oh.

Speaker 7 (01:26:33):
How many days since? Web say, and since we caught
the big fella?

Speaker 6 (01:26:38):
Three? Yeah, three days? You have 'em? Said me. You're
telling me where do you?

Speaker 12 (01:26:46):
Because I'm playing a smile cause they soon that they
won't be care much about anything, and I'm gonna step up,
buy 'em in that cage, and.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
Off we go.

Speaker 27 (01:26:53):
They say such creatures can live for a long time
without eating, but not one that size. I figured I
sent down out there in that sun all day. Well,
in about a week, it won't care much whatever we
do with it. Oh, how could such a creature be?

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
What do you mean? How could day? You're looking at it? Ancient?

Speaker 27 (01:27:13):
But such a spider. It's there, that's all it means,
anything to make. But such a giant creature, I say,
it's a giant. Well he was seeing giant human beings
and circles as empty, but then he just happened. I
saw that's the way this spider happened.

Speaker 6 (01:27:32):
So black Yeah, the Midnight Special.

Speaker 7 (01:27:37):
Ay, there was big hairy legs once.

Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
Or saw an opis liverish.

Speaker 7 (01:27:44):
Oh yeah, yeah sure, this one looks like a drive
and devil fish is at it.

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
Yeah, oh will I make a billboard? It's like a
side show. Well, we clean up.

Speaker 12 (01:27:54):
The legs, the strength and must hear you m not
when I get you over look at it, Joe, be honest.
Isn't there a strange fascination when you look at a closer?
Are talking about a few charges? Well, ill this shune?
So what as if there was a thought behind he'll
starting out again? Only these three days that success so quietly. Besides,

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like Breton Flames, just walking, cut it.

Speaker 6 (01:28:19):
Out and cut it out. If it is thinking, I'm
afraid of what it just thinking?

Speaker 27 (01:28:39):
Hiding in his spandy Yeah plenty had Yeah, DC couldn't
take it anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:28:44):
He's off looking for a cool spot. But me, uh,
I didn't wanna leave you a lawn span it. I
didn't wanna to leave by a meal ticket. You gonna
be a big time attraction on the boardwalk and some
big time circuit spider. Yeah yeah, you is stry, look

(01:29:05):
at things, spider. They won't but they didn't. Let's see it.
The fella that's.

Speaker 7 (01:29:10):
Gonna cost them plenty before they do see it.

Speaker 12 (01:29:16):
And Spider, watch your move, Spider, not Dad, get to day,
Spidy last year, you're not dead.

Speaker 6 (01:29:31):
You can't be dead. That's the only oash.

Speaker 19 (01:29:34):
You can't be that.

Speaker 6 (01:29:37):
And you know my chance. You can't be dead curled
up with your legs over your last your move which
in the see got sick.

Speaker 18 (01:29:52):
Look gone me? I pat the devil infore me, I
call I go, oh my get away like, oh y
see they see let's I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:30:09):
Come on.

Speaker 6 (01:30:28):
Ye yoe Joe, Joe.

Speaker 28 (01:30:37):
Oh the sounds like suddenly requiet Joe. The man who
said to be there said, buddy, buddy, what.

Speaker 6 (01:30:52):
All right enough? But Joe, Joe, come quickly up on
the body. Joe, come quickly, must see who huhm? Sure
cured you? Tue? How did just what despire? But help

(01:31:15):
gone gone from the cage? Why did you? Joe?

Speaker 16 (01:31:21):
Might come back while I was staying here, might come back.
Got to get out, Yeah, get things together by a
b take a box and get out of me something
move behind that tree. No, won't get me.

Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
Won't get me. Won't get me.

Speaker 29 (01:31:36):
Oh oh.

Speaker 16 (01:31:43):
My foot twisted must have broken one. No, gotta get away,
Oh get away, gotta go away, get away. M oh.

Speaker 6 (01:32:09):
Oh, mothery egg crawls, her father crawlers all day.

Speaker 16 (01:32:21):
So die, never give me know the differty. I did
get away, crawl mothers, I did get away. Care she
wanted to help weak crawling the house. Someone to help me,
so dark, oh child, no strength to cool our crawl

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and find.

Speaker 6 (01:32:54):
Someone to help me and I'll be free. Way up?
Got something? What body go sh you? But how what

(01:33:15):
Back in the camp, I'm back in the camp. Crawl
a night and the stircle back in the camp. No
get out, get out before? Oh then no, no, no,
can't crawl anymore. It sucked behind. It's behind me when

(01:33:44):
you jump on my back. No don't nothing didn't there
but they only crawl again. If I only get away before.

Speaker 16 (01:34:00):
The moon coming up? Right, No, I'll see I don't
see you with not yere, only you Joe empty fresh
over there in the moonlight.

Speaker 6 (01:34:16):
Right you than the devil Joe you brought me here.
You will right to you doub But that's the fider.
Won't get me up? Mean it's gone now, it will
get better. I will get away, yet, I will I.

Speaker 15 (01:34:28):
Should my hair come back?

Speaker 6 (01:34:32):
Oh no, no no, no, no, no, no, no closer,
no closer, no no come back? Wh what oh Joe

(01:34:53):
crowding over him and joy?

Speaker 7 (01:34:58):
Then why did they? Whether is the spider going to.

Speaker 16 (01:35:08):
Spending the web over him, turning him around and around
with the fly covering him with that thick silk, spinning

(01:35:31):
the web of the silk over and drove sleep Son borning.

Speaker 6 (01:35:41):
Wanning to this morning. I'm alive. I'm alive. Someone coming,
get a high hoop? So heavy a walk?

Speaker 16 (01:35:53):
It came to a different spiders mostly wanted the savages
ever helped me see who.

Speaker 6 (01:36:00):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
It is?

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
Joe A lot Joe, Joe. I'm here, Joe, im here,
Wait for me, Joe, Why are you standing there? I
must ahead a dream.

Speaker 16 (01:36:13):
All that happened here has a dream last night. It's
a funny nightmare to tell you, Joe, Why do you
just stand there?

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
Why do you just look at me?

Speaker 7 (01:36:26):
Your eyes the sun shines on them, they hurt me.

Speaker 16 (01:36:30):
Don't look at me like that, Joe, your eyes so dark,
so big, I said, closer, closer, my friend, come closer.
I have such a happy thing.

Speaker 6 (01:36:41):
To tell you. Closer.

Speaker 16 (01:36:43):
I hey, I like what your eyes are singing to me.
Joe Yes, I come closer. You keep telling me that
happy thing. Yeah, I'm close to you now, Joe, tell
me what your eyes?

Speaker 6 (01:37:06):
Your hand?

Speaker 16 (01:37:08):
Why do you grab my arm? The other hand, my
other arm. Why do your fingers hold my arm so
tight they hurt me? Another arm on my shoulder, Joe,
Another arm holding my neck, Shoe, So many arms?

Speaker 6 (01:37:25):
How can it be?

Speaker 13 (01:37:26):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
It is you.

Speaker 16 (01:37:27):
I see your face, But your eyes bigger and bigger, son,
so strong, and my head burning my head inside? Is
that why I see such crazy things?

Speaker 6 (01:37:34):
Joe?

Speaker 16 (01:37:35):
Joe, why don't you say something? Your eyes bigger and bigger,
burning into my head? Now, your face is changing, Joe.

Speaker 6 (01:37:41):
It hears you. And why doesn't your face Joe, that challenge?

Speaker 5 (01:37:46):
Your face, your arm.

Speaker 16 (01:37:49):
Sphy You are the spider, the spider. Your eyes cooled me,

(01:38:10):
didn't They made me think I was seeing joke? But
all the time it was you, mister spider. My wonderful
eyes you have, mister Spider. I'm not afraid anymore. They're
not a joke. Your black arms for me close. I

(01:38:34):
see the poison dipping from your fangs, but I'm not afraid.
It's very funny when the worst thing really happens. You're
not afraid. I'm not afraid your fangs closer, closer, I'm another,

(01:39:01):
said sepp.

Speaker 26 (01:39:19):
Oh, so we're what tomorrow is the night story Stay
away from fighters and especially from black widows. Oh, frank
eye story tonight with justin fun which reminds me of vacations,
of which stew of it they're going to have any
this year. And speaking of vacations, I'd like to tell
you about a very amazing vacation I once had editing
haunted houses. And after that vacation, I was badly in

(01:39:41):
need of something. Our government wants us very much these days. Nurses,
I hear some facts and please listen because they concern
each of you. Unless the nurse part of the entire
nation is reinforced by the enrollment of sixty five thousand
students and schools of nursing for nineteen forty three, all
of us face a real threat civilian health. Therefore, beginning

(01:40:02):
immediately and continuing through the spring and summer months, nursing
must be considered America's number one woman power shortage. I'd
like to say some words that the government said sixty
five thousand young women must dedicate their lives so that
others might live. Now about haunted houses, Well, I visited

(01:40:23):
all the legendary haunt up in New England. But well
I went through the moss covered old piles and queakie
Florida structures and weather beaten homes and all the places
where the souls of the unhappy that part are supposed to.

Speaker 6 (01:40:35):
Walk through the knife. What happened? I collected a violin
coal and met a little old lady. O who she?

Speaker 26 (01:40:41):
Well you meet her next week and a play ty
little old lady. And to all of you, I have
a very very cordial invitation to her, an amazing little
old lady next week. Yes, you had next Tuesday again
for octoberler Zery story.

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
Little old lady.

Speaker 25 (01:40:58):
Is later.

Speaker 6 (01:41:01):
M Ah, very good.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
The tea is almost hot enough to steep.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
There we go there.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
Well, I suppose I'll find something else for us to
fear while we wait. Sorry about panicking a little bit earlier.
I suppose this time of year, when people like me
have more will, it can actually lead to as much

(01:41:43):
fear as elation. Ah. The tea is it's good. Now
here have some. It's delicious, it's warm, it's inviting, it's
kind it's like drinking from Death's goblet.

Speaker 5 (01:42:10):
Murder at midnight.

Speaker 19 (01:42:18):
They'll hang me like a common criminal. And I didn't
mean it, you know, I.

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
Didn't both stop finding Gerald, take your medicine like a man.

Speaker 30 (01:42:25):
What all right, Harvey House, Stop you're responsible for the
whole thing, you know you are.

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
And since they can only hang me once, even for tool.

Speaker 14 (01:42:34):
Murders, Midnight, the witching hour, when the night is darkest,
our fears the strongest, and our strength and it's lowest
him midnight, when the graves gave open and death strikes.

(01:42:56):
How you learn the answer in just a minute In
Death's Goblets and now Murder at Midnight Tales of Mystery

(01:43:26):
and Terror by Radio's Masters of the macab Our story
by Sigmund Miller is Death's Goblets.

Speaker 12 (01:43:38):
It all began at one of Arthur Cunningham's parties. He
always gave a party when he came back from one
of his trips abroad. I went there with Gerald, my partner,
and his wife, Susan. Beautiful Susan. Did I care for her?
People used to say so, But she was too self
centered a woman for me. And I like to look

(01:44:00):
at her just as I like to look at anything.

Speaker 19 (01:44:02):
That's so lovely.

Speaker 25 (01:44:04):
That was all.

Speaker 12 (01:44:05):
As for Gerald, well, he was rich, which was the
only reason he was my partner. But suppose I start
at the beginning, at the moment we got to the
party and Arthur came over. Hell, hello, Harvey, glad you came.
Wonderful to see you're back, Arthur. You know Gerald and
his lovely wife. Of course, Hello, lovely wife, Gerald, I

(01:44:26):
see you again, Arthur, marvelous, and you're just in time
for a drink. Let's get away from this mob. Come
into the study, and so I just opened my last
bottle of Chateau we Albert, here we are.

Speaker 5 (01:44:37):
Oh well, someone get the glasses out of the cabinet.

Speaker 19 (01:44:43):
You hy, what an odd goblet this money?

Speaker 15 (01:44:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
Put that one back, Susan, Why what's wrong Arthur?

Speaker 19 (01:44:53):
Use any of the others, but not that one.

Speaker 31 (01:44:55):
Oh, I'll be careful of it. If that's what you're
worried about.

Speaker 12 (01:44:57):
It's not that I just don't want you to drink.
What's all a mystery about Arthur? Well, you'd all think
I was mad if I told you. Take a look
at it.

Speaker 31 (01:45:06):
It's a very strange looking Glad.

Speaker 5 (01:45:08):
Yes, looks a Venetian passively from Murano.

Speaker 12 (01:45:11):
It is.

Speaker 8 (01:45:12):
It's red spot here on the side.

Speaker 19 (01:45:14):
Yes, it's supposed to be a drop of blood. That's
very odd. How do you know that?

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
Well, Gerald, this goblet has a legend, a terrible legend,
because none of.

Speaker 19 (01:45:24):
You will believe it. But the story is that anyone
who drinks from this goblet will kill someone more.

Speaker 5 (01:45:31):
That's wonderful, and you believe it? Why?

Speaker 12 (01:45:34):
Yes, Gerald, you see I've had proof, good heavens. I well,
I once drink from this goblet.

Speaker 5 (01:45:40):
What you're joking?

Speaker 19 (01:45:44):
Yes, Susan, it was justifiable homicide.

Speaker 12 (01:45:46):
But after I drank from it, I did kill someone
when he was a thief and he attacked me, but
still I killed him when you never told us about that.

Speaker 19 (01:45:53):
It's not anything that I care to remember. Particularly.

Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
How terrible for you, Arthur. Where did you get the god.

Speaker 12 (01:46:00):
From a murderer? A man who killed his wife they
were auctioning off his estate. Hmm, extraordinary? May I look
at the glass, arm, yes, if you like. Everyone stared
at the goblet in silence as I held it to
the light. It had a delicate brown tint, reminding me
of old blood, except that it sparkled and glittered the

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spot of red did looked like a drop of blood
about to roll down the side. It seemed ridiculous that
this inanimate object could make men commit murder, And yet
there was something about it that fascinated me, and suddenly
I wanted to drink out of it.

Speaker 19 (01:46:38):
You seem very interested in my goblet, Harvey.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
Yes, will you pour some wine in it for me?

Speaker 8 (01:46:43):
What?

Speaker 12 (01:46:44):
No, Harvey, this happens to be one superstition. I believe
everyone who has ever put his lips to this goblet
has killed. I don't know why it's so, but it
is silly, of course, But why are faith no nonsense?
General nonsense? I'm going to drink out of it.

Speaker 19 (01:47:00):
To pour the wine yourself, Harvey, all right, I will
well is health and a long wife.

Speaker 12 (01:47:12):
Nor, Susan, you shouldn't have done that. You've spilled some
of Arthur's best burgundy and ruined a good table cloth.

Speaker 19 (01:47:20):
It doesn't matter. I'm glad you did it, Susan.

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
I won't get you or anyone else drink from that glass.
Strange to get so distressed about a ridiculous legend.

Speaker 31 (01:47:27):
I don't think murder is ridiculous.

Speaker 19 (01:47:28):
You know, I'd like to get rid of it.

Speaker 12 (01:47:30):
I was thinking of destroying it. Well, why don't you
just fling it against the fireplace?

Speaker 19 (01:47:34):
So I can't. I've tried several times, but somehow I couldn't. Arthur, Yes,
how about giving it to me? I'd rather not.

Speaker 12 (01:47:45):
Come on, you want to get rid of it, and
I have a fine glass collection I'd like to add
to it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
I'll keep it locked up. You'll be sorry. But if
you want it that badly, Harvey, it's yours.

Speaker 8 (01:47:57):
Arthur.

Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
Please don't give it to him.

Speaker 19 (01:47:59):
Susan, what's the matter with you? You watch over Harvey
as if well as if as if?

Speaker 32 (01:48:03):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:48:04):
Gerald?

Speaker 19 (01:48:05):
Oh, the whole business is absurd.

Speaker 12 (01:48:07):
Of course it is, yes, And if I should drink
out of it and commit a murder, that would be
the most absurd thing of all. I kept the goblet
on the mantelpiece in my library, where the lamplight made
it glitter. I discovered that the red drop was not paint.
It was ingrained in the glass. Oh, very cleverly. One night,

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both Susan and Gerald were at my home. As we chatted,
I got up, went to the mantelpiece and idly toyed
with the goblet.

Speaker 31 (01:48:42):
Ye goblet, it's the one Arthur.

Speaker 19 (01:48:45):
Yes, yes, you remember he gave it to me. Why
don't you smash it? Harvey, get rid of it? Ooh
gives us all screeps with Gerald.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
You aren't really afraid of a piece of glass, are you.

Speaker 31 (01:48:56):
You don't believe Arthur's story at all, do you.

Speaker 19 (01:48:58):
Harvey on the country, Susan and I do believe it,
but not the way you think.

Speaker 8 (01:49:03):
What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (01:49:05):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:49:05):
I mean to say, murder is not in the goblet,
It's in me, in you, even in general.

Speaker 19 (01:49:13):
A silly thing to say, Harvey.

Speaker 12 (01:49:15):
Oh, yes, you don't need a magic goblet to commit
a murder. All you have to do is let yourself go,
Let go of the civilized controls that tie you up. Why, Gerald,
if you had cause, you could murder me or even
your lovely wife. Oh I couldn't kill a fly, Oh,
but you could if the fly gave you enough trouble. Now, supposing,

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just as an example, supposing that you discovered that Susan
was really in love with me and only married you
for your money, wouldn't that make you want a murder?

Speaker 6 (01:49:48):
You're crazy.

Speaker 12 (01:49:49):
That's not very funny, Harvey, even you, Susan, not even
though you have a lovely face and exquisite hands, even
you could commit murder? Why there must have been times
when you hated Gerald, only for a moment, of course,
But in that moment, eh, in that moment, if you
were not so civilized, dub it, Harvey, why you could
even put your lovely hands around my throat? Stop at Harvey,

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You're not that important of her? And then just why
are we on this gruesome subject?

Speaker 5 (01:50:17):
At Harvey's idea of humor?

Speaker 12 (01:50:20):
Susan looked at me, a touch of red at the
point where the cheekbones make the skin taut. She seemed angry,
but she wasn't really.

Speaker 6 (01:50:30):
Oh yeah, she loved me.

Speaker 12 (01:50:32):
I could see it in her face. She looked at
me for a moment and then dropped her eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:50:40):
May I look at the goblet, Harvey?

Speaker 5 (01:50:41):
No, I'm afraid not, Susan. You might accidentally drop it.

Speaker 19 (01:50:45):
You might be a good idea.

Speaker 33 (01:50:47):
Well, I have an even better one, Gerald, and that's
to go home before we get really serious about this
murder business.

Speaker 12 (01:50:57):
I sat there staring at the goblet after they left.
It fascinated me, glittering in the lamplight, and as I
looked at it, it almost seemed as if the red
spot of blood was moving, rolling down its side. Why

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Why shouldn't I drink from it?

Speaker 5 (01:51:19):
Why?

Speaker 19 (01:51:20):
And before I knew it.

Speaker 5 (01:51:21):
I'd taken it down and put it on the table.

Speaker 12 (01:51:24):
I got a bottle of Burgundy, opened it, and I
poured slowly, filling the goblet just up to the red spot,
and then I drank from it. Seemed to me that
the wine had a different taste. Although I had drunk

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this wine often, I knew its tasted well. It was delicious.
I had another It was heady, and it made me
a little dizzy. Although I felt fine and free, his
light and dizzy. But after a while, when the dizziness

(01:52:05):
wouldn't go away, I decided to go for a drive,
even though it was close to midnight. I drove fast.
The speed and power of the car gave me a
feeling of great exhilaration. I took the turns at full speed,
enduring the danger of the sharp curves. Then I came

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to a long, level stretch of row. I pressed down
hard on the gas. The needle of this pedometer slowly
moved upward. Sixty seventy eighty eighty five rolled like a
black ribbon rolled up in front of me, and then
I suddenly saw him, but it was too late.

Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
I fronted with my right fetdom.

Speaker 6 (01:52:45):
He never made a sound.

Speaker 5 (01:52:47):
The car swerved a little from the impact, my heart
in my throat.

Speaker 22 (01:52:51):
I stopped.

Speaker 5 (01:52:52):
Then I packed up, up.

Speaker 24 (01:52:58):
Back up, back up to where the body was lying,
sprawled grotesquely on the edge of the road.

Speaker 12 (01:53:10):
One look was enough.

Speaker 29 (01:53:12):
He was dead, but no one had seen the accident.
I stepped on the gas and drove off Death's Goblet

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and the man who drank from it. A corpse lying
limp by the side of a lonely road, and the
car speeding away as the clock strikes twelve four.

Speaker 19 (01:53:45):
Murder midnight.

Speaker 14 (01:54:12):
And now back to murder at midnight, Harvey challenged the
curse of the Goblet and found it true. He had
just killed a man after drinking from it. Let's listen
to him as he continues the story of Death's Goblet.

Speaker 12 (01:54:30):
I knew now that the story of the Goblet wasn't
a myth, and I also knew what I was going to.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
Do about it.

Speaker 5 (01:54:38):
The next night, I got Gerald to come to my
house to do some work.

Speaker 19 (01:54:44):
Oh, I can't make heater tail out of your cost.

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
Estimates, Harvey.

Speaker 19 (01:54:48):
Now, really, Gerald, is very simple, Just concentrate. Why can't
you take care? But like a good fellow, I'm off retired.

Speaker 5 (01:54:55):
Well, all right, let's stop for a couple of minutes,
have a drink.

Speaker 19 (01:55:00):
What are you doing, Harvey the Goblet? Why you don't
really believe that story of authurs?

Speaker 8 (01:55:06):
Do you?

Speaker 12 (01:55:07):
You're much too intelligent for that. Well you only pretended
in front of Susan, didn't you.

Speaker 6 (01:55:12):
Well, I.

Speaker 12 (01:55:14):
Yes, I had to pretend, you know, women, of course,
And even if you did believe it, I have a
feeling that basically you're pretty reckless.

Speaker 19 (01:55:24):
Aren't you used to be pretty wild when I was
a young fellaw on the motorcycle Linsen. Yes, yes, I know.

Speaker 13 (01:55:31):
Yes.

Speaker 19 (01:55:31):
Well, let's drink up. Find me a victim, will you, Gerald?

Speaker 12 (01:55:37):
Well, you know, according to the legend, I've got to
murder someone.

Speaker 19 (01:55:40):
Maybe even you, Harvey the Murderer. Very nice wine?

Speaker 12 (01:55:51):
How about another? Right, Well, here's to your lovely wife.
And how about switching glasses?

Speaker 19 (01:56:03):
Well you might as well get a.

Speaker 6 (01:56:04):
Kick out of it too.

Speaker 19 (01:56:06):
Well, okay, here goes.

Speaker 12 (01:56:11):
I watched the fools swagger as he drank down the
wine in an hour when he was alone he'd be
shivering with fright at what he'd done.

Speaker 6 (01:56:23):
Well, I did it.

Speaker 12 (01:56:24):
You certainly did, by the way, Gerald, Yes, I checked
Arthur's story about this goblet, and it seems that he's right.

Speaker 19 (01:56:34):
Everyone whoever put his.

Speaker 12 (01:56:35):
Lips to this goblet has committed a murder.

Speaker 5 (01:56:40):
You mean, well, of course it's all coincidence, but then again,
who knows.

Speaker 12 (01:56:52):
All the next week I kept reminding Gerald about his
drinking from the goblet. I wasn't really trying to get
him to kill, but it was amusing to see him
get upset and uneasy. And I noticed he was getting
a little bolder, particularly with Susan, and had developed a temper.
And one night, just as I was about to retire, Hello, Yes, Susan,

(01:57:18):
how are you? I'm fine. I'm just gonna worry about
Gerald about six eleven o'clock.

Speaker 15 (01:57:24):
Now, do you know what he might be?

Speaker 12 (01:57:26):
Right, he's having dinner with a sister. Yes, it's a tall,
dark girl. She was in the office today, and sisters.

Speaker 19 (01:57:34):
He hasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
Oh, I.

Speaker 19 (01:57:39):
I guess I got him mixed up with someone else.

Speaker 5 (01:57:41):
Yes, Yes it was Les Gordon who was meeting his sister. Yes,
Gerald had some business to take care of over in Millford.

Speaker 19 (01:57:49):
I'm coming right over.

Speaker 6 (01:57:55):
I'm good.

Speaker 5 (01:57:56):
Things were beginning to happen. It was becoming very interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:58:00):
Now we'd see.

Speaker 8 (01:58:06):
Harvey.

Speaker 31 (01:58:07):
I want you to tell me everything I must know.

Speaker 33 (01:58:09):
Who is this girl?

Speaker 5 (01:58:10):
Take an easy, sous, come sit down down?

Speaker 31 (01:58:13):
Never mind that what about Gerald?

Speaker 19 (01:58:15):
I don't know anything about Gerald's private life.

Speaker 5 (01:58:18):
And besides, you're not the one to talk.

Speaker 8 (01:58:20):
What on earth you mean?

Speaker 19 (01:58:21):
You know perfectly well what I mean. You don't really
care for Gerald.

Speaker 12 (01:58:26):
Actually, you're in love with me, Harvey.

Speaker 19 (01:58:28):
Who you are? Aren't you?

Speaker 5 (01:58:32):
Maybe?

Speaker 31 (01:58:33):
Sometimes I think I am, But you're too cold blooded.
I'd never be sure I.

Speaker 5 (01:58:39):
Could trust you.

Speaker 12 (01:58:40):
As a matter of fact, you'd like to get rid
of Gerald.

Speaker 5 (01:58:45):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 12 (01:58:46):
Well, I'm just putting your thoughts into words. You never
really loved him, did you, but Harvey? And he's finally
become unbearable, hasn't he?

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
Harvey? If you only knew?

Speaker 19 (01:58:58):
Do you know that the last time Gerald was here
he drank out of that goblet.

Speaker 5 (01:59:02):
Of authors, It's possible that he wants to get.

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
Rid of you too.

Speaker 31 (01:59:08):
Stop stop it you here.

Speaker 19 (01:59:10):
I'm just telling you what I think you ought to know.

Speaker 33 (01:59:12):
We'll see I left word at home that Gerald was
to meet me here and if he does come, well
we'll see.

Speaker 19 (01:59:22):
We sat and waited, not talking much.

Speaker 5 (01:59:25):
Susan's face was pale and agitated.

Speaker 6 (01:59:28):
It was most exciting.

Speaker 12 (01:59:30):
Susan, with all her charm and imbellishments, was really a
fierce animal underneath.

Speaker 5 (01:59:37):
I could almost hear her rage, seething.

Speaker 8 (01:59:40):
Are you expecting anyone?

Speaker 19 (01:59:42):
Just Gerald?

Speaker 5 (01:59:42):
We'll let him in, Harvey, Susan, what's up?

Speaker 6 (01:59:49):
Why did you leave word to meet you here?

Speaker 5 (01:59:51):
It's almost midnight. Where have you been all the evening.

Speaker 19 (01:59:53):
At Milfred with whom?

Speaker 5 (01:59:55):
What's going on anyway?

Speaker 19 (01:59:57):
What are you so excited about, Susan?

Speaker 5 (01:59:58):
What were you doing in mid Why?

Speaker 19 (02:00:00):
I went there on business.

Speaker 31 (02:00:03):
You've been behaving very strangely lately.

Speaker 8 (02:00:05):
Gerald.

Speaker 5 (02:00:05):
If you don't love me, why don't you say so
like a man?

Speaker 8 (02:00:08):
What?

Speaker 5 (02:00:09):
This is all your fault, Harvey, You've been filling her
head with poison. I had nothing to do with this.
I told her that you went to Milford.

Speaker 33 (02:00:16):
All he did was to make me see clearly is
something I felt for a long while, and I think
this is the time to do something about him.

Speaker 19 (02:00:22):
Sure, you out of your mind? Put that gun down?

Speaker 5 (02:00:25):
You remember it, don't you.

Speaker 31 (02:00:27):
You gave it to me, said it might be useful
in an emergency.

Speaker 19 (02:00:30):
Hervey, take that gun away from her.

Speaker 6 (02:00:32):
She's liable to shoot.

Speaker 5 (02:00:33):
She won't show she's only trying to frighten you.

Speaker 24 (02:00:35):
Am.

Speaker 31 (02:00:35):
I let's see for my sworder, Harvey.

Speaker 19 (02:00:47):
She she's dead, yes, Gerald, and you killed her.

Speaker 6 (02:00:52):
But it was an accident.

Speaker 19 (02:00:54):
She shot at me, and I was only trying to
get the gun away from her. You know that's what happened.

Speaker 5 (02:00:58):
I only know that you drank from that goblet and
that you kill them.

Speaker 12 (02:01:02):
But are you you?

Speaker 13 (02:01:04):
Dirty?

Speaker 19 (02:01:05):
Treacherous?

Speaker 30 (02:01:06):
You planned all this so that you get rid of me,
so you could have Susan, you could have the firm
for yourself.

Speaker 5 (02:01:12):
You will have to do better than that to beat
the gallop of Gerald girls.

Speaker 19 (02:01:16):
Please, Harvey, we've been friends for a long time. You
can't let me down.

Speaker 5 (02:01:20):
You wouldn't have pressed the trigger if you hadn't had
murder in your heart.

Speaker 19 (02:01:23):
Gerald. You shot up because you wanted to.

Speaker 5 (02:01:26):
That's what I saw. I believe in telling the truth, Harvey.

Speaker 19 (02:01:29):
I'll turn over the business to you. I'll do anything,
anything if you'll just I.

Speaker 5 (02:01:33):
Don't accept bribes, all right, I'll fool you.

Speaker 30 (02:01:37):
I'll call the police myself the phone. I'll prove my
case in court. Ham won't convict me, operator, operator, give
me the police. Hello, police department, this is Hamilton. I
just accidentally shot my wife and my friend's home.

Speaker 34 (02:01:57):
Yes, she's dead. The addresses for I'll have a Grove Street.
That's right, I killed her accidentally. Yes, I'll be waiting here.

Speaker 19 (02:02:09):
Cigarette Gerald treating me like a condemned man. Huh, Well,
I'm not going to die. All I have to do
is tell the truth about everything, including you.

Speaker 12 (02:02:19):
Ah, but you forget Gerald. There must be fingerprints, your
fingerprints on that gun. I don't look very accidental, will it.
But but Harvey did it? Gerald, I saw you.

Speaker 6 (02:02:31):
She don't back me up.

Speaker 30 (02:02:32):
They'll hang me like a common criminal.

Speaker 19 (02:02:34):
Please, Harvey, don't let them.

Speaker 13 (02:02:35):
Do that to me.

Speaker 19 (02:02:36):
Please stop whining. Gerald, What all right? Harvey?

Speaker 6 (02:02:40):
Phap stop?

Speaker 19 (02:02:41):
You're responsible for this whole thing.

Speaker 12 (02:02:43):
You know you are.

Speaker 19 (02:02:44):
And since they can only hang me once, you.

Speaker 5 (02:02:47):
Raise the gun. But I've been expecting it.

Speaker 12 (02:02:49):
I grabbed his hand, pushed it against his chest, my
finger crest on his hand on the trigger, and suddenly he.

Speaker 19 (02:02:58):
Went in you mmmm, get away, My alibi is perfect.

Speaker 12 (02:03:09):
What I had to do was wait for the police
that he himself had called. Minutes sticked slowly away and then.

Speaker 19 (02:03:22):
Hello, Harvey author.

Speaker 5 (02:03:24):
Where I found you in?

Speaker 12 (02:03:26):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (02:03:27):
Look as if you'd been.

Speaker 19 (02:03:28):
In a fight, Arthur, you'd you'd better not come in.
Why what's the matter? No, no, you'd better not come in.

Speaker 12 (02:03:34):
But why Well, Gerald and Susan they had a quarrel
and he killed a what then he shot himself.

Speaker 19 (02:03:42):
What are you talking about, Harvey? Well, all right, come in,
look for yourself.

Speaker 6 (02:03:49):
Good, good lord.

Speaker 5 (02:03:53):
Tried to kill me too.

Speaker 19 (02:03:55):
But why it doesn't sound like him or like either
of them.

Speaker 6 (02:03:58):
I don't know why?

Speaker 5 (02:04:00):
Fit of insanity?

Speaker 12 (02:04:02):
Oh maybe it was the the goblet, Your goblet he
drank out of it, you know, But goblet, why that's ridiculous.
As he spoke, he picked up the gun. It made
me furious. All those fine fingerprints of Tiros were now erased.
Put that gun down after there are fingerprints on it.

Speaker 19 (02:04:20):
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize.

Speaker 5 (02:04:23):
I tried to get hold of myself, a stupid fool.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
He was going to ruin.

Speaker 5 (02:04:26):
Everything, but I had to keep calm. What what were
you saying about the goblet?

Speaker 19 (02:04:33):
Why it has no curse or magic. I just made
that story up.

Speaker 5 (02:04:38):
You made it?

Speaker 12 (02:04:41):
You mean, of course I bought the goblet in an
antique shop. As a matter of fact, I have a
whole set of.

Speaker 5 (02:04:46):
Them pulses hammered away in my head. A vast, uncontrollable
anger seized me.

Speaker 12 (02:04:55):
Was it because of those precious fingerprints that he'd wiped out,
or because I had believed in the goblet myself.

Speaker 19 (02:05:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:05:02):
I only know that I had to fight to keep
from grabbing them by the throat.

Speaker 12 (02:05:06):
You know, I don't think you're telling me everything you
know about this horrible business, Harvey.

Speaker 5 (02:05:11):
In fact, a red hot wave came over me.

Speaker 19 (02:05:14):
I don't remember exactly what happened.

Speaker 22 (02:05:16):
Me, Go, get your hands off me, all.

Speaker 5 (02:05:28):
Offers.

Speaker 12 (02:05:29):
Buddy is lying there too now, next to Susan's and Gerald's.

Speaker 5 (02:05:35):
But the police will be here any minute, so I
have to hurry.

Speaker 19 (02:05:39):
First the couplet.

Speaker 12 (02:05:43):
That's done that, No, some of the broken fragments still
glit her in the lamplight. I've got to crush them,
grand them to powder under my heels. But there are
always other pieces that I can't find.

Speaker 6 (02:06:00):
Yeah, they're hiding from me.

Speaker 5 (02:06:03):
They're afraid of me, but I'll find every piece.

Speaker 8 (02:06:06):
I'll fight them.

Speaker 22 (02:06:07):
Fight.

Speaker 14 (02:06:19):
Three bodies lying huddled on the floor, and the madman
crushing the fragments of the broken goblet of powder as
the police car drives up when the clock strikes twelve four.

Speaker 19 (02:06:31):
Murder madnle.

Speaker 14 (02:07:04):
Remember to be with us again when death appears at
the door, wearing the face of a friend, and the
clocks strike twelve.

Speaker 13 (02:07:12):
Four Murder.

Speaker 35 (02:07:16):
Midnight.

Speaker 14 (02:07:21):
The Potter Parvey was played by Eric Dressler with music
by Charles Paul. Murder at Midnight was directed by Anton M.

Speaker 13 (02:07:30):
Leader.

Speaker 1 (02:08:03):
Well, the night is getting somehow darker, but I don't
suppose there's any reason to stop just yet. I mean,
how often does the witching season really come? Well, I
mean obviously once a year, But I feel like celebrating

(02:08:25):
with my dear, dear friend. When it comes to life
and death, many things seem to mirror each other, but
usually they're not quite the same. No, no, no, There's
so many intricacies of life and death. But one thing

(02:08:48):
that I've always known for sure is you can never
go wrong with two sharp knives.

Speaker 22 (02:08:58):
Suspense.

Speaker 12 (02:09:13):
Tonight, Columbia brings you as guest star Hollywood's genial character
actor Stuart Irwin. The story is by the author of
The Thin Man and the Maltese Falcon, dashl hemet, one
of americas acknowledged masters of the art of suspense. Suspense
is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. In

(02:09:36):
this series, our story is calculated to intrigue you, to stir.

Speaker 19 (02:09:40):
Your nerves, to offer you a precarious.

Speaker 12 (02:09:43):
Situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. Tonight,
for instance, Stuart Irwin plays for us a pleasant, easygoing
assistant chief of police in a small town who, to
everyone's surprise, was instant mental in solving a murder.

Speaker 5 (02:10:03):
We trust that with this tale we shall keep you in.

Speaker 3 (02:10:08):
Suspense for suspense.

Speaker 5 (02:10:12):
Tonight, CBS presents Stewart Irwin in Two Sharp Knives by
Dashall Hammett.

Speaker 12 (02:10:26):
Shortly after two am, a poker game had just broken
up at Ben Candle's, the doctor coroner of Deerwood City,
Scott Henderson, Dearwood's chief of police, and while they Shane,
his assistant, was standing.

Speaker 36 (02:10:43):
Where are we heading? For Scott Small across the street Wiley.

Speaker 6 (02:10:49):
Road Station.

Speaker 36 (02:10:50):
She aren't you afraid of the excitement.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Chief.

Speaker 5 (02:10:52):
Don't you think that watching the two eleven come in
is have to be too much for your blood pressure?

Speaker 8 (02:10:57):
Well?

Speaker 36 (02:10:57):
It is, Whalley.

Speaker 5 (02:10:58):
You can always carry on. You've been a pretty good
imitation of an assistant to me for some time now.

Speaker 6 (02:11:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 36 (02:11:04):
Yeah, if anything happens to me, you'd be the chief.

Speaker 6 (02:11:08):
I don't worry.

Speaker 5 (02:11:09):
There won't be any heart of a beautiful The public
is chief, hi Amer, Hardy Scott, Hella, welly, and leave
few boys to be around in.

Speaker 36 (02:11:17):
It's no, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:11:19):
We sort of figured we'd put the town to bed tonight.
How's the two eleven on time?

Speaker 23 (02:11:24):
Right on the nose?

Speaker 5 (02:11:25):
If she ought to be blowing for the bend in
just about three seconds now, yep, wouldn't I tell you?
It's her?

Speaker 16 (02:11:31):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:11:34):
Expecting anyone? Owner, Scott, No, I'm not expecting anyone. R
and I just thought we'd come over and watch you
come in, and so you know, Elmer, you never can
tell whom might get off though, Dick Turpin, Henry Morgan, Jesse,
James Jack, Jack the Ripper, or six Officers or Murder Incorporated,
or even you're at Gussie you're right, welly, Well, here

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she be cards. I gotta be roll the wagon out
to the baggage car. Hi, how the guard I can't complain?
Can't complain?

Speaker 19 (02:12:09):
Cap Well maybe you can't, Elmer, but eyes are can
if you hold.

Speaker 5 (02:12:13):
Us up with that fright there? Ain't got much more. Nope,
it's the last piece. Now here you camp, We're done.

Speaker 20 (02:12:21):
Okay, see you Tomorrowlmer.

Speaker 36 (02:12:23):
What hey, Scott?

Speaker 5 (02:12:31):
Do you see what I see?

Speaker 3 (02:12:33):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (02:12:34):
Do I see the man I just got off that train?
Answers yes, well he's a ringer for the guy we
got a picture of.

Speaker 19 (02:12:39):
That is the guy.

Speaker 36 (02:12:40):
Well then what do we do?

Speaker 6 (02:12:41):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:12:42):
We take him money? My guy's at the corner of
the alley. But gone the tail them up the street. Okay, Scott?
There he goes now over toward the taxi. Stand on
that's follow him? Hello, Farming, all right, I don't believe,

(02:13:02):
aren't you?

Speaker 15 (02:13:04):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (02:13:04):
I haven't that out there?

Speaker 36 (02:13:06):
Yes, I'm Scott Anderson.

Speaker 5 (02:13:08):
You please?

Speaker 6 (02:13:12):
What's happened to her?

Speaker 36 (02:13:13):
Happened?

Speaker 12 (02:13:13):
Who?

Speaker 3 (02:13:20):
Wait a minute?

Speaker 5 (02:13:20):
Wait a minutemen?

Speaker 12 (02:13:24):
All I'm sorry for a moment there, I thought you
weren't really a policeman.

Speaker 3 (02:13:29):
Thanks.

Speaker 36 (02:13:30):
Nice to know I look almost human?

Speaker 12 (02:13:32):
Has it?

Speaker 19 (02:13:33):
It was silly of me.

Speaker 6 (02:13:34):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (02:13:35):
Well, let's get going now before anything else happens. Okay
for him and getting the car, I'll drives done.

Speaker 13 (02:13:42):
Anyhow?

Speaker 5 (02:13:51):
All uh are you taking me to police headquarters?

Speaker 6 (02:13:56):
Four?

Speaker 5 (02:13:57):
That out here? I uh, I don't think I understand
you understand that you wanted in Philadelphia?

Speaker 36 (02:14:04):
If I'm murder, don't you murder?

Speaker 5 (02:14:06):
Why?

Speaker 19 (02:14:07):
That's ridiculous. Let's who told you that?

Speaker 36 (02:14:10):
Well, it's a sinch. She didn't make it up.

Speaker 5 (02:14:12):
But wait, they must make it eight now, So we'll
get down the headquarters and I'll show you what I mean.

Speaker 18 (02:14:28):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:14:28):
Then here's the circular on Leicester Furman. It was sent
out by the Trans America Detective Agency in Philadelphia.

Speaker 36 (02:14:35):
Take a look at it.

Speaker 12 (02:14:36):
Oh yeh fifteen hundred dollars reward for the arrest and
conviction of Leicester Furman, Helius Lloyd Fields Helius J. D.

Speaker 5 (02:14:46):
Carpenter for the.

Speaker 12 (02:14:48):
For the murder of Paul Frank Dunlap in Philadelphia on
December eighth, nineteen forty two.

Speaker 36 (02:14:53):
Well, it's a lie a Ferman, aren't you.

Speaker 6 (02:14:56):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:14:56):
Yes, but that's your picture on the circular, isn't it? Yes? Yes,
But Scott, I see you and.

Speaker 23 (02:15:03):
George, you're lucky stiffs. Now you two split a grand
and half reward. I never seen nothing like it, you know,
if it ain't vacations in New York at the city's
expenses reward though.

Speaker 5 (02:15:16):
Judge, someday, if you don't remember, you're the jailer around here,
not the DA. You're going to be.

Speaker 12 (02:15:23):
Wearing your teeth on the outside of your lips. And
I'll be the guys who are ranging that way savvy
just because you're.

Speaker 23 (02:15:29):
Caught a guy who's hot in philadel it's a life,
it's a frame up.

Speaker 5 (02:15:32):
You can't prove anything. There's nothing to prove.

Speaker 19 (02:15:34):
I never killed anybody. I won't refrain, I.

Speaker 5 (02:15:36):
Won't take it easy. You're wasting your breath on save
it for the Philadelphia police.

Speaker 36 (02:15:42):
We're just holding you for them.

Speaker 5 (02:15:44):
But it's not the police. It's the trend of American
detective venue over to the Philadelphia police, misterras and I.

Speaker 23 (02:15:51):
Well, and there's nothing I can.

Speaker 5 (02:15:54):
Do now, nothing any of us can do. In the morning,
you have to say, you know, won't anymore till they
come for you. Why don't you look through his bag.
I'll see what he's got in his pockets. Okay, Scott, Yeah,
all he's got on. I'm on some business cards, a
few letters unwritten written, sixty dollars, a book of checks

(02:16:17):
in the Philadelphia bank, and a few.

Speaker 36 (02:16:18):
Odds and ends, munch with a bag wallly.

Speaker 5 (02:16:21):
Not much, A couple of changes of clothes and toilet articles.

Speaker 36 (02:16:24):
And oh here's a thirty eight loaded pretty little.

Speaker 13 (02:16:28):
Thing, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (02:16:29):
Okay, put those things when I got in the varse.
All right, George, you can take priman now and lock
them up.

Speaker 23 (02:16:34):
This is the most ridiculous early come on, you ain't
had nobody in our little hoo's cover three days runner.
Hey yeah, I'll have it all yourself, just like a
sweet of the rid on in.

Speaker 13 (02:16:49):
Your go.

Speaker 5 (02:16:51):
I tell you you you go making a mistake. I
demand to be allowed to get in touch with my lugger.

Speaker 23 (02:16:56):
Hey, how about you boys cutting me in on a
little of that blood money?

Speaker 5 (02:16:59):
Huh oh sure George, Sure, I'll forget all about that
two and a half.

Speaker 36 (02:17:04):
You've been on me for three months. Make Feminis comfortable
that you can George the good care of me.

Speaker 5 (02:17:09):
He's valuable.

Speaker 23 (02:17:10):
Huh I No, it was some bomb that didn't mean
a nickel to you.

Speaker 5 (02:17:14):
George. Any day now, I'm gonna forget that your uncle
is county chairman and throw you back in the gutter,
just to see how hil bounce.

Speaker 36 (02:17:21):
I'm man of that, oh Scott. I didn't mean nothing,
that's all, George. I'm on arrest. I'm going home now.
Anything's urgent, I can reach there.

Speaker 5 (02:17:31):
But get this. I don't want to be disturbed unless
it is urgent. H hell h, Scott, this is wally h.

(02:17:59):
What's It's five after six in the morning and you'd
better come right down, Scott. That fellow furman's hung himself
right women, humsht.

Speaker 36 (02:18:07):
Yep by his belt from a window bar did or Macro'll.

Speaker 5 (02:18:10):
Be right in, Molly, Oh, Doc Camsley and tell him
I pick him up.

Speaker 36 (02:18:12):
I'm a way down. Oh, doctor's gonna do Ferman any good, Scott.
I don't want have to have him look at you.

Speaker 12 (02:18:16):
Better phone the Corn of Cord if Dougles fell too,
and file a routine report.

Speaker 15 (02:18:19):
Already did that once more, Hold onto your seat.

Speaker 5 (02:18:22):
The DA's on his way over in person, Da, I'll
be ever before you hang up, Billy, come on in, jee, Tad, Carol.

(02:18:43):
The DA's here and he's plenty hot under the collar.

Speaker 36 (02:18:45):
What's he burning about?

Speaker 5 (02:18:46):
Oh, he's just mad, running up quite a phone bill
on us too, been calling Philadelphia every a couple of
minutes as he got here.

Speaker 36 (02:18:52):
What kept you along?

Speaker 5 (02:18:53):
I couldn't get the car started. All right, let's go
in and see the old buzzy. No, Ted, Christen Scott,
what is all this?

Speaker 8 (02:19:02):
What?

Speaker 5 (02:19:03):
There's some funny business going on here? What's funny about it?
Man hangs himself? Just another case of suicide. Sure it
was suicide, But I just telephoned friends America duk a
guy out of bed there, and he said they never
sent out circulars on Furman didn't know about any murder.
He was wondered for. All they could tell me about
him was he used to be a client of theirs.

(02:19:24):
Do not say, Ted, I don't either. Oh a fine
chief a police you are? What on earth kept you
so long? Cast him as quick as it could? Which
is so grabby dead?

Speaker 6 (02:19:35):
Nothing?

Speaker 5 (02:19:36):
I guess it's just the district attorney. Ah, Now, come come, gentlemen.
Nobody'd know you two are staunch admirers of each other. Okay,
worthy jelly, what do you make of it? Well, there's
plenty wrong Scott first, that trans America thing. They never
sent out circulars about Furman. And now get this. I

(02:19:57):
talked to the Philly police just before you came in,
and there wasn't even any Paul Frank Dunlap murdered.

Speaker 13 (02:20:03):
It wasn't no.

Speaker 5 (02:20:05):
What did you get out of Furman before you let
him hang himself?

Speaker 3 (02:20:08):
And he was innocent?

Speaker 5 (02:20:09):
Didn't you grill him? Didn't you find out what he
was doing in town Wall? He didn't shot for he
admitted he was Furman. The description fitted him, the photograph
was him. The Trans America Detective Agency's supposed to be
on the level, ain't it. Philadelphia wanted Furman? We didn't,
but I sure ted, but I known he was going
to hang himself. But then if your aunt or pant

(02:20:30):
should be her uncle? He said, Furman had been a
kind of Transamerica. They tell you what the job they
did for him was his wife left him a couple
of years ago, and he had them hunting for her
for five or six months, but they never found her.
There sending a man up here tonight to look things over. Yeah, uh, yes,
Well I'm going out and grab a quick bite, but

(02:20:50):
I might as well tell you Scott. There's going to
be trouble over this.

Speaker 36 (02:20:54):
That he usually is when somebody dies in the jails.

Speaker 23 (02:21:12):
Yeah, so what's becoming that fifteen hundred fish?

Speaker 6 (02:21:15):
Now that's Scott.

Speaker 36 (02:21:16):
What happened here last night?

Speaker 6 (02:21:17):
George nothing? Firman hung himself.

Speaker 36 (02:21:21):
Did you find him?

Speaker 16 (02:21:22):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:21:22):
Huh.

Speaker 23 (02:21:23):
Wally took a look in here to see how things
was before he went off duty, and he found him.

Speaker 36 (02:21:27):
You're asleep.

Speaker 6 (02:21:27):
I suppose, well I was.

Speaker 23 (02:21:30):
Catching a nap, I guess, But everybody does that sometimes, Scott,
even Wally sometimes when he comes in off his beat
between rounds. But I always wake up when the phone
rings or anything. Oh sure, well, suppose I had been awake.
I can't hear a guy hanging himself, can you?

Speaker 36 (02:21:46):
Doc can't say how long climbing had been dead?

Speaker 23 (02:21:48):
He done at about five o'clock, he said, He guessed, Oh,
you want to look at Romaine, Scott. You're over at
fitz has undertaking Paula. Now, hey, and speaking of Foireman,
what are you going to tell the guys from Transfer
are going to the show up here tonight?

Speaker 36 (02:22:07):
H come in, come in.

Speaker 5 (02:22:17):
They told me I find you here.

Speaker 37 (02:22:18):
You're a chief Anderson, aren't you, and he says, all right,
I'm Carl Racing, assistant manager of the Trans America Detective
Agency in Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 (02:22:25):
This is mister Wheelock, who was Lester Furman's personal attorney.

Speaker 36 (02:22:27):
We had an must Racing. How do you do, mister Wheelock?

Speaker 6 (02:22:30):
How do you do?

Speaker 5 (02:22:31):
I know you, gentlemen, are already in possession of most
of the details concerning mister Furman from the time he
arrived in Deerwood until the time of his death. But
perhaps you don't know that the police of most towns
in our corner of the state have also received copies
of this same reward circular.

Speaker 19 (02:22:45):
Take a look at it.

Speaker 5 (02:22:47):
Oh, I must say, this secular is an excellent forgery.
You're sure it's a forgery, Misterracing. Oh, yes, there's no
doubt about it. But it's an excellent forgery. Tell him,
mister Wheelock, mister fermin in native Philadelphia.

Speaker 38 (02:23:00):
Oh my, yes, he was a well known, respectable, and
prosperous citizen of Philadelphia.

Speaker 36 (02:23:04):
I don believe.

Speaker 38 (02:23:05):
In nineteen thirty four he married a twenty two year
old girl named Ethel Bryan, daughter of a Philadelphia family, and.

Speaker 36 (02:23:11):
The Firman's had a child isn't that right between him?

Speaker 38 (02:23:13):
Yes, born in nineteen thirty six, but the child lived
only a few months.

Speaker 5 (02:23:17):
Mister Firman's wife disappeared after the child's death. Well, what
year was it that she disappeared?

Speaker 19 (02:23:21):
Mister Reason should remember that his agency.

Speaker 2 (02:23:24):
Worked on the matter.

Speaker 37 (02:23:25):
Oh, I'll remember it, well, missus Fairman disappeared in nineteen
thirty seven. We never heard anything of her again, although
Furman spent a lot of money trying to locate her.
What you look like the tercy in just a moment,
I have a picture of her right here in my briefcase.

Speaker 13 (02:23:40):
Here.

Speaker 5 (02:23:40):
It is quite pretty, isn't she?

Speaker 36 (02:23:42):
If you care for that type, you see what you.

Speaker 13 (02:23:45):
Mean was to be there?

Speaker 19 (02:23:46):
She's attracted with?

Speaker 12 (02:23:47):
Then?

Speaker 5 (02:23:49):
Judging by this photo, I'd say that she was a small, featured,
very brown, the weak mountain, large, somewhat stirring eyes. That's
an accurate enough description.

Speaker 36 (02:23:59):
All right, we don't mind.

Speaker 5 (02:24:00):
I'd like to have a copy made of that photograph
with teresing.

Speaker 37 (02:24:02):
Oh, you can keep that one if you like. It's
one that we hadn't made up in trans America. Her
descriptions on the back.

Speaker 36 (02:24:08):
Thanks did the Firman a divorcer no, sir.

Speaker 37 (02:24:11):
He was a lot in love with her, and he
seemed to think that the child's dying made her a
little screwy, so that she didn't know what she was doing.

Speaker 5 (02:24:18):
And that's right, hisn't, mister Wheelock.

Speaker 13 (02:24:19):
That is my belief.

Speaker 2 (02:24:20):
Mister Reeson.

Speaker 36 (02:24:21):
He said Fermin had money, mister Whelock, not how much
did he have?

Speaker 6 (02:24:25):
And who gets it?

Speaker 38 (02:24:27):
I should say his estate will amount to perhaps half
a million dollars left in its entirety to his wife.

Speaker 5 (02:24:34):
It's quite a handy sum for anyone I have. I'd see,
mister Wheelert. Everything shows that somebody framed fermanent to the
day with jail. That frame up drove him the suicide.
But there has to be something else, a lot else. Well,
then what are you going to do?

Speaker 36 (02:24:52):
I'm going across the street to the undertaking part and
I have a look at Furmin.

Speaker 6 (02:24:55):
I'll see you later, m.

Speaker 36 (02:25:17):
Oh doc.

Speaker 5 (02:25:18):
Alright, Scott, I figured you'd come over here to the
undertakers pretty soon. Send you mind, dot Let's get out
of this crowd. I want to tell you something. I
just got rid of you guys in my office. Let's
go back there. Suits me two of those bruises showed

(02:25:38):
this got what bruises Firman were up under the hair?
There were there were two bruises. I'm telling you now, Scott.
You weren't here when I made my examination. This is
the first time i've seen you since then. Didn't you
just moved the stuff about Ferman's bruises when you were
testifying at the inquest?

Speaker 19 (02:25:56):
Then?

Speaker 5 (02:25:58):
I'm a friend of yours. Do I want to put
you on a spot where people can say you drove
this champ to suicide by third degreeing.

Speaker 36 (02:26:06):
Him two rough You want to not how the women?

Speaker 5 (02:26:14):
Well, Scott, that didn't kill him. That's what you mean.
There's nothing the matter with his skull, just a couple
of bruises. Nobody had noticed and unless they parted the hair.
But you ought to know though, Thanks Ben.

Speaker 12 (02:26:34):
Yes, who is it?

Speaker 15 (02:26:35):
Frets?

Speaker 5 (02:26:35):
The undertaker?

Speaker 12 (02:26:36):
Listen, Scott, there's a couple of ladies over here that.

Speaker 15 (02:26:38):
Wanted to take a look at furm him.

Speaker 12 (02:26:40):
Is it all right? Why? I don't know him?

Speaker 5 (02:26:42):
Strangers?

Speaker 36 (02:26:44):
What do they want to see him for?

Speaker 15 (02:26:45):
I don't know? Wait a minute, can I please see him?

Speaker 36 (02:26:51):
Why do you want to see him?

Speaker 5 (02:26:53):
I'm his wife's wife. Yes, Oh, certainly, I'll be right
over song, Ben, I've got to go back.

Speaker 19 (02:27:01):
To the undertakers.

Speaker 5 (02:27:02):
So long, Scott, Hey, Scott, what.

Speaker 26 (02:27:10):
Do you want, Wallly?

Speaker 36 (02:27:11):
I want to talk to you a minute over here
where we won't be seen.

Speaker 6 (02:27:17):
Okay, what is it?

Speaker 3 (02:27:17):
A couple of.

Speaker 5 (02:27:18):
Dames came into Fritz's undertaking place just as I was leaving.
One of them's hot, Charles Randall. A baby with a
record as long as your arm. She's one of that
mob you had me working on in New York last summer.
You know you, sure, but not by my right name.
She thinks I'm a Detroit room runner. I mean that
you recognize you just now. I don't think she saw
me anyway. She didn't give me a tumble. You don't
know the other one. No, she's a blonde, kind of pretty. Okay, Wally,

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stick around a while, but stay out of sight. Maybe
I'll be bringing these dollars back with me whatever you say. Gee,
oh they are Scott. I wondered when you were coming.
This is missus fairmoll and this is missus crowded. And
how do you do?

Speaker 16 (02:27:58):
Chief?

Speaker 5 (02:27:59):
They just saw the missus Crowder. I thought your name
was Randon.

Speaker 32 (02:28:02):
Why do you care, Chief, I'm not hurting you account any.

Speaker 36 (02:28:05):
Don't call me chief who city slickers on the town whitler.

Speaker 32 (02:28:09):
Thank you for letting me see him.

Speaker 5 (02:28:11):
All right, missus Fairman, But I have to ask you
and your friends some questions. So if you've just come
across the street to headquarters, we'll get on with a
routine before I ask any questions. I want to tell

(02:28:35):
you something, missus Fairman. Your husband didn't commit suicide.

Speaker 32 (02:28:42):
He was murdered, ruded, not Chief. We got alibis.

Speaker 5 (02:28:46):
We were in New York, and we can prove it,
and you're likely to get a chance to him. What
brought you down here anyway?

Speaker 6 (02:28:52):
Ruded?

Speaker 39 (02:28:52):
Well, aw's got a better right to come down here.
She was still his wife, wasn't she. She's got a
right to look out for her own interest, hasn't she.

Speaker 5 (02:29:00):
It reminds me of something. Excuse me a second. I've
got to make a phone call. The next room. Off
Is I amil speaking?

Speaker 36 (02:29:14):
Is it Scott?

Speaker 6 (02:29:14):
Yes?

Speaker 36 (02:29:15):
While around?

Speaker 5 (02:29:16):
Oh he's not here. He said you told him to
keep out of sight. I'll find them for you though,
all right, Teller Wally, I want him to go to
New York tonight. Send Mason home to get some sleep,
you'll have to take over Whalley's night trick.

Speaker 32 (02:29:27):
Oh, mister Anderson, Mister Anderson, do you think I had
had anything to do with Leicester's with his death?

Speaker 36 (02:29:40):
I don't know, missus Furman.

Speaker 13 (02:29:42):
I know he was killed.

Speaker 5 (02:29:45):
I also know I left you something like half a
million wow dollars dollars?

Speaker 14 (02:29:50):
All right, gee, let's.

Speaker 39 (02:29:52):
Stop plowing the kid here. Didn't have a thing to
do with whatever you think happened.

Speaker 8 (02:29:55):
Oh no.

Speaker 39 (02:29:57):
We read about Lester Freman committing suicide and yesterday morning's
paper and about there being something funny about it, and
I persuaded her she ought to come down.

Speaker 32 (02:30:04):
To dear Anderson. I wouldn't have done anything to hurt Leicester.
I left him because I wanted.

Speaker 6 (02:30:10):
To leave him.

Speaker 32 (02:30:11):
I wouldn't have done anything to hurt him for money
or anything else. Had I wanted money from him, I
would only have had to ask him for it.

Speaker 5 (02:30:18):
That's the truth.

Speaker 12 (02:30:19):
Chief.

Speaker 32 (02:30:19):
For years, I've been telling her for she was a
chump not to tap him, but she never would. I
wouldn't have hurt him. Well, I don't know how to
say it. The way we lived wasn't the way I
wanted to live. I wanted, Oh, I.

Speaker 6 (02:30:32):
Don't know what.

Speaker 32 (02:30:34):
Anyway, after the baby died, I couldn't stand it anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:30:38):
Excuse me?

Speaker 5 (02:30:40):
Hello, Oh yeah, I'm a hm. You get one of
the message. Yes, yes, I wanted to go to New
York tonight. Okay where is he?

Speaker 2 (02:30:53):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:30:55):
He is?

Speaker 22 (02:30:55):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (02:30:55):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:30:56):
Okay? Thanks?

Speaker 5 (02:30:59):
This is uh woman, this circular. It's got your husband
in the jair? Did you ever see that picture before?

Speaker 32 (02:31:08):
But that's what can't be. It's a snapshot I have.
It's an a margement of it.

Speaker 6 (02:31:14):
Who else is one?

Speaker 32 (02:31:15):
Nobody that I know of. I don't think anyone else
could have one.

Speaker 36 (02:31:19):
You still got yours?

Speaker 32 (02:31:21):
Yes, but remember whether I've seen it recently? With some
old papers and things.

Speaker 8 (02:31:26):
I must have.

Speaker 36 (02:31:26):
It is Ferman and stuff like that. That's got to
be checked up. Neither of us can dodge it. There's
two ways we can play it. Yes, this is Ferman.

Speaker 5 (02:31:36):
I can hold you here on suspicion until I have
had time to investigate things.

Speaker 6 (02:31:40):
All.

Speaker 36 (02:31:41):
I can send one of my men with you to
check up in New York.

Speaker 5 (02:31:44):
Yes, willing to do that, if you'll speed things up
by helping them all you can, if you'll promise you
won't try any tricks, I promise anxious.

Speaker 36 (02:31:51):
All right, all right, how'd you come down?

Speaker 5 (02:31:54):
We drove down. We got a great big car.

Speaker 8 (02:31:57):
That's my car.

Speaker 5 (02:31:57):
See that big green job across the street.

Speaker 36 (02:32:01):
M my man can ride back with you. But no, funny, No,
I don't worry.

Speaker 6 (02:32:08):
Shee.

Speaker 36 (02:32:09):
Come on, we're gonna see while Shane the man is
going to drive.

Speaker 5 (02:32:12):
To the off with you.

Speaker 36 (02:32:27):
While who is it, Scott Money?

Speaker 19 (02:32:31):
I say this is first.

Speaker 5 (02:32:36):
Anthels Oh you out out?

Speaker 23 (02:32:38):
He was reaching with that gun.

Speaker 5 (02:32:39):
Molly already got your covered. I guess you win ssconce Yeah,
I guess I do.

Speaker 36 (02:32:46):
Come along back.

Speaker 5 (02:32:46):
There, cause it will be like, good little boy, Holly,
you're under arrest for murder. Well, And that's how I

(02:33:08):
knew it was all up, Scott. The minute I saw
those two dames going into Fritz's. And when I was
dugging on a side, I ran into you, and I
was afraid you'd take me over there with you, So
I had to tell you one of them knew me,
figuring you didn't want to keep me under cover for
a little while anyhow, long enough for me.

Speaker 36 (02:33:23):
To get out of town. Why didn't you get out, Willie?

Speaker 23 (02:33:26):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:33:27):
I dropped in home to pick up a couple of
things before I scram and that phone call of Hamil
sketches me. And when I fall for it, You see, Scott,
I figured you're not on to me yet, and I're
gonna send me back to New York to see what
dope I can get out of the dames. Well, you
fool me, brother, And I thought it for for that.

Speaker 36 (02:33:45):
And you didn't just stumble into all this accidentally, did you?

Speaker 8 (02:33:48):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (02:33:49):
I didn't, Wally. I figured Fiman had to be murdered.

Speaker 5 (02:33:52):
By a copper.

Speaker 36 (02:33:53):
No reward circuit was well enough to make a good
job of forging one.

Speaker 5 (02:33:57):
What's it ensy? We printed that fire secular way, Wally. Now,
I'm not dragging anyone in with me. There's only a
poor mugg that needed dough.

Speaker 36 (02:34:06):
Okay, Why.

Speaker 5 (02:34:08):
You see, I knew only a Copple would be sure
enough of the routine, you know how things would be handled.
Only one of my coppers to be able to walk
in the Ferman's cell, hang them across the hat and
string them up on the Those bruises showed you know
what they did. I guess I should have wrapped two
towels around that black jack. Oh, jeez, Scott, I seemed

(02:34:30):
to have slipped up on a lot of things, so
that narrows it down to my coppers.

Speaker 36 (02:34:34):
And well, you told me you knew the random woman.

Speaker 2 (02:34:39):
There it was.

Speaker 36 (02:34:41):
I figured you were working with him.

Speaker 5 (02:34:44):
I got you like this wally, same thing that gets
most SAPs into jams a yen free easy dough. And
I was in New York Sea, Scott, working that Dutton
job for you, paling around with big shot racketeers, passing
for one of them. And yeah, well I got to
figure in that my work takes more brains than theirs,
and they're taking in big money and I'm working for
coffee and cakes. That kind of stuff gets scut anyway,

(02:35:08):
had gotten me, and I ran into this Ethel Furman
and she goes for me like a house afire.

Speaker 36 (02:35:15):
I liked her too, see, so that's dandy.

Speaker 5 (02:35:18):
But one night she tells me about how much do
her husband's got and how he feels about her, And
I get to thinking, thinking, what I think she's nuts
enough about me to marry me. So I got to
think him suppose he died and left her his role?

Speaker 6 (02:35:33):
I see.

Speaker 36 (02:35:34):
So I ran down to Philly.

Speaker 5 (02:35:35):
A couple of afternoons and looked firming up and everything
looks fine. I took my time working out the details,
meanwhile writing to her through a fellow in Detroit, go
on finish one well, I decided to do it. I
sent those circulars out to a lot of places, not
want to point too much to this one. And then
when I was ready, I phoned Furman telling him to

(02:35:56):
come to Deer with hotel that night. And sometime before
the next night he'd hear from his wife Ethel. I
knew he'd fall for any trap that was baited with her.
Only I guess I'm not as sharp as I thought
I was. Scott, maybe, oh maybe, yeah, there'sn't always have.
Old Man Kemsley, Ben's father used to have a saying

(02:36:20):
to a sharp knife from was a tough stick.

Speaker 13 (02:36:25):
He how you did it?

Speaker 6 (02:36:27):
Why?

Speaker 36 (02:36:29):
I always liked you. I know you did, Scott. I
was counting on that, And.

Speaker 12 (02:37:07):
So ends Dashel Hammett's Two Sharp Knives, starring Steward Owen.

Speaker 5 (02:37:13):
Tonight's story of.

Speaker 12 (02:37:16):
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Speaker 1 (02:37:30):
I can't help but think about perspective, how those two
knives could be a weapon for harm or for defense.
That's the way life is, my dear. Sometimes you have
to take a closer look at what you hold, dear,

(02:37:56):
and hope that maybe you can find the truth before
it finds you. Because just when you think you have
it all figured out, when you believe that nothing could
sneak up on you, well that could be because you

(02:38:17):
didn't notice something. A dark pattern.

Speaker 13 (02:38:25):
The whistlers.

Speaker 12 (02:38:36):
Presented by the United States Air Forces in Europe. I
am the whistler, and I know many things.

Speaker 3 (02:38:46):
Or I walk by night.

Speaker 12 (02:38:48):
I know many strange tales getting in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yeah,
I know the nameless terrors of which they there and
not speak.

Speaker 5 (02:39:01):
And now the whistlers, strange story, dark patterns.

Speaker 12 (02:39:12):
Normal wells. Paced nervously back and forth across the living
room of her bel air homes stop now at the
window to glance out into the night. The surrounding hills
bathed in bright moonlight, still and quiet except for the
barking of a dog nearby, and the barking stirs a strange,
uneasy feeling within you doesn't something you can't explain, but

(02:39:36):
it's there building slowly.

Speaker 3 (02:39:41):
You whirl in the sound.

Speaker 12 (02:39:44):
Yes, normal, darling?

Speaker 8 (02:39:46):
Is it grin? Oh Glen?

Speaker 12 (02:39:48):
How are you splendid?

Speaker 11 (02:39:49):
The Allison's came out to pick it up and we're
all going over to their pace for dinner.

Speaker 31 (02:39:54):
Would you join us?

Speaker 11 (02:39:54):
Un Gwen, if you don't mind, I'd rather not.

Speaker 31 (02:39:58):
It's nothing wrong.

Speaker 8 (02:40:00):
He's on stream.

Speaker 11 (02:40:02):
I don't suppose you've read the papers.

Speaker 12 (02:40:04):
Oh heaven, no, have we been much too busy getting about?

Speaker 8 (02:40:07):
Why?

Speaker 12 (02:40:08):
What's happened? Benji?

Speaker 40 (02:40:12):
Benjie your business?

Speaker 5 (02:40:13):
Pardon it?

Speaker 11 (02:40:14):
Yes, there was an accident at Indian Lake last night.
Benji was killed. You know, good?

Speaker 12 (02:40:24):
Heaven's done well?

Speaker 11 (02:40:26):
How in the wound is gone up there for the weekend?
Took his boat out on the lake and there was
an explosion? Oh Darling, how frights you?

Speaker 15 (02:40:36):
Poor dear?

Speaker 11 (02:40:37):
It was quite a shock.

Speaker 4 (02:40:40):
You and Benji were such a good trin.

Speaker 2 (02:40:43):
What a perfectly awful thing to happen.

Speaker 15 (02:40:46):
Is there anything we can do?

Speaker 11 (02:40:48):
Thanks, Glenn?

Speaker 32 (02:40:49):
No, you're certain now.

Speaker 12 (02:40:52):
Carrying out be more than happened?

Speaker 11 (02:40:53):
No, no, really, but it's sweet of you, Glen.

Speaker 12 (02:41:11):
A moment after you hang up, the phone. You return
to the window. The dog is started barking and howling again.

Speaker 6 (02:41:17):
Hasn't been normous?

Speaker 12 (02:41:18):
Yes, and you wonder why if there's someone out there.
You move quickly to the sliding glass door leading to
the patio, open it.

Speaker 2 (02:41:29):
And you turn on the floodlight.

Speaker 12 (02:41:32):
Patio is empty, step outside and glanced around, and then.

Speaker 19 (02:41:36):
Hurry down the driveway, and.

Speaker 12 (02:41:38):
You're suddenly aware that your heart is beating furiously, that
the tight, dry feeling in your throat isn't there normal now?
As you reach the road, Hello there, you recognize the
man as Arthur Morris, the neighbors, and then he hurries
towards you.

Speaker 35 (02:41:55):
Good evening, Miss Well, hellous.

Speaker 12 (02:41:57):
I don't know what's gotten into that dog that night
and hiring that way. I'm sorry if he started you.
I put him on the port again, but I don't
know how long did you stay, just that he doesn't
usually carry on that way unless there is someone around
this course of fowler. Did you see anyone? No, I haven't.

Speaker 6 (02:42:19):
That's funny.

Speaker 12 (02:42:21):
Of course, it might be an animal down from the hills,
and the possum. Probably he had to try. No need
for alarm, I suppose, oh, miss well, Yes, sorry to
read about what happened to your partner, mister Sloan. I
met him only once. They copy ill party you had
last all seems like an awfully nice fellow he was.

Speaker 5 (02:42:51):
Yes, Norma, you owe your entire success the Benjamin Sloane.
Don't a fine home, money, a string of smart fashion cellar.
You owe it all to Benji, the partnership you've formed with,
and now that he's gone, everything you have owned jointly.

Speaker 3 (02:43:07):
Will be all yours.

Speaker 12 (02:43:09):
As you're about to re enter the house, you hear a.

Speaker 3 (02:43:11):
Car approach it.

Speaker 12 (02:43:13):
You turn, watch it pull up in the driveway. You
recognize the man as he gets out. It's Fred Lake,
the sheriff from Indian Lake. Good Evening its walls, Good Evening.
Had to make a business trip to la I thought
I'd dropped in to sea on the way back to
the lake.

Speaker 13 (02:43:34):
I brusted this too. I forget it might be important.

Speaker 11 (02:43:37):
Oh yeah, from my office files.

Speaker 12 (02:43:40):
Founded in mister Sloane's suite as a large Yes, Benji just.

Speaker 11 (02:43:44):
Loan often took the fold of business. Let it whilake.

Speaker 12 (02:43:47):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 13 (02:43:48):
It's okay.

Speaker 11 (02:43:49):
Tell me have you have you found him yet?

Speaker 13 (02:43:52):
Afraid not as well? We've had men dragging the lake
since early.

Speaker 36 (02:43:55):
This morning, but no sign of the body.

Speaker 8 (02:43:58):
I see.

Speaker 12 (02:43:59):
Strange. Yes, I was sure we'd have found him long
before this. Yeah, strange, very strange. You watched the sheriff
drive away, then turn and walk slowly into the house.
There's been no sign of Benjamin Plown's body in armor,

(02:44:21):
and that nervous, uneasy feeling with then you continues to grow.

Speaker 2 (02:44:25):
You hurry to the.

Speaker 12 (02:44:26):
Telephone and call a malible number. Hello is mister Mason,
and change.

Speaker 13 (02:44:34):
This is Miss well Before is all Palmers?

Speaker 11 (02:44:37):
Will I know that he was to be back this afternoon.

Speaker 13 (02:44:40):
Come back, miss Wilf.

Speaker 11 (02:44:41):
I see all right, Jane, have him call me the minute.

Speaker 23 (02:44:44):
He gets in Williams, who will tell me?

Speaker 12 (02:44:47):
So it's too cold, something wrong, you can sense it,
cancer armor. You start pacing the room again, nervously, twisting
the handkerchief in your hands. The dog is blocking again,
and then suddenly you'll hear something else, a noise out
in the patio. Quickly you turn off the living room lights,

(02:45:09):
stand in the darkness for a moment. There's someone out
there norma.

Speaker 2 (02:45:14):
Yeah, a man.

Speaker 12 (02:45:16):
You can see him moving towards you.

Speaker 13 (02:45:18):
You want to turn and run.

Speaker 12 (02:45:19):
But you can't.

Speaker 19 (02:45:20):
You can't move at all.

Speaker 35 (02:45:24):
Norma you remember, oh, Rick, tell me, Rick, that's the
idea of turning off the light.

Speaker 11 (02:45:34):
I heard a noise, didn't know who it was.

Speaker 8 (02:45:38):
Why haven't you called me?

Speaker 13 (02:45:39):
I just got back from the lake.

Speaker 12 (02:45:41):
I was coming here when I saw the sheriff's car
turn into your driveway, So I drove down the block,
walked back.

Speaker 6 (02:45:46):
What do you want?

Speaker 11 (02:45:47):
Just saw some business letters and you've taken with him
to the lake. He also told me they've been dragging
the lake and they haven't found Benjie's body yet.

Speaker 13 (02:45:56):
I know that's why I sit up there as long
as I did. Don't worry. They'll find it soon.

Speaker 11 (02:46:01):
Are you sure?

Speaker 13 (02:46:02):
But sure? I'm sure. Look, everything went just the way
we planned.

Speaker 12 (02:46:06):
I set up the booby trap, saw Benji take the
boat out.

Speaker 13 (02:46:08):
Saw the explosion.

Speaker 6 (02:46:10):
Everything is okay.

Speaker 13 (02:46:11):
Normal.

Speaker 12 (02:46:12):
Nobody could have survived that explosion.

Speaker 11 (02:46:14):
And why haven't they recovered the body?

Speaker 13 (02:46:17):
I don't know, Give them time.

Speaker 11 (02:46:18):
I don't like it, Rick, I don't like this at all.

Speaker 5 (02:46:23):
Something's wrong, Gop, take it easy.

Speaker 13 (02:46:26):
Normal.

Speaker 11 (02:46:28):
Suppose Benji is alive.

Speaker 32 (02:46:30):
Rick alive, and he suspects we set that trap.

Speaker 13 (02:46:34):
Point now if I haven't say, stopped talking like.

Speaker 8 (02:46:35):
That, I can't help it.

Speaker 11 (02:46:38):
Just stop stealing that he's alive.

Speaker 13 (02:46:55):
He couldn't.

Speaker 12 (02:46:56):
I tell you, Benji couldn't have survived that explosion. All right, they.

Speaker 11 (02:47:02):
Have I mistaken my nurse say same fix Sometimes you're
right and he couldn't be alive.

Speaker 13 (02:47:11):
I saw it with my own eyes.

Speaker 6 (02:47:13):
Explosion.

Speaker 13 (02:47:14):
It happened in the middle of the lake. He couldn't
have lived through.

Speaker 12 (02:47:16):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 (02:47:17):
I got to upset.

Speaker 7 (02:47:20):
Come, let's have a drink.

Speaker 13 (02:47:22):
Yeah, and I could use one.

Speaker 11 (02:47:24):
Sure, you'll have a drink, Rick, They get empty.

Speaker 12 (02:47:28):
There's nothing to worry about, but there is normal, Yes,
a lot to worry about. You can't explain the feeling
you have that something is wrong, but you know you've
got to calm Rick, showing you're not afraid that everything's
all right. Long after he's gone, you think about what's happened,

(02:47:49):
try to convince yourself that perhaps it really is only
your imagination.

Speaker 3 (02:47:53):
Because your nerves are on edge.

Speaker 12 (02:47:56):
Still, you spend the sleepless night, aware of every resound outside, wondering, waiting, watching.
Early the following morning, you get into your car and
drive up to Indian Lake to the Sheriff's office. Oh,
good morning, well, good morning.

Speaker 13 (02:48:16):
I'm glad you're here.

Speaker 6 (02:48:20):
I was about to call you.

Speaker 2 (02:48:21):
Oh.

Speaker 12 (02:48:22):
Yes, we we found mister Sloan. Oh you you have
and recovered his body less than an hour ago. I
see he taking his course that it's positive, found all
the identification we needed on the body. I don't see
you want no tell me miss well, did mister Sloan

(02:48:45):
have any enemies enemy? Yes, you see a guess that
the Lord just returned from my honting trip up into
the mountains. When he heard about mister Sloane's accident, he
came straight to us. Seems that he happened to see
someone hanging around mister Sloane's boat on the night of
the accident, is acting suspiciously. He didn't think too much

(02:49:05):
about it then, of course, but when he got back
this morning heard what had happened.

Speaker 11 (02:49:10):
You mean you think that perhaps it wasn't an accident,
that someone deliberately planned to kill mister Sloane.

Speaker 13 (02:49:17):
Is that possibility?

Speaker 8 (02:49:18):
But that's incredible.

Speaker 13 (02:49:19):
Perhaps still, if.

Speaker 12 (02:49:21):
We can find the man who was seen hanging around
the boat, you you have a description of him, Oh,
vaguely yes. Kirtland thinks he might recognize the man if he.

Speaker 23 (02:49:32):
Saw him again.

Speaker 12 (02:49:36):
Benjamin Sloan is out of your way, isn't he not.
You're certain of that now, and that's the relief. But
there's something else to worry about. Rick. Yeah, he was
seen near Benji's boat on the night of the accident,
and there's a man who can perhaps identify him. A
two minutes later, you leave the office, the sheriff walks
with you out to the street.

Speaker 11 (02:50:00):
Going to stay on here at the village for a
long well, yes, I'll be checking in at the lodge
if I can give any.

Speaker 6 (02:50:06):
Help in here.

Speaker 12 (02:50:07):
Oh. Incidentally, I talked with mister Sloan's brother this morning
over the phone. Thanks, that's right. He gave me a
list of some of mister Sloan's friends acquaintances tee. He
didn't seem to know very much about his brother's activities. However,
he said they hadn't seen one another too often during
the past several years. Yes, that's true, nothing wrong between them,

(02:50:28):
I suppose. No, they were on the best of terms.

Speaker 11 (02:50:31):
It was just as well they had different interests, and
Frank did spend a great deal.

Speaker 12 (02:50:37):
Of time back heat uh huh. He mentioned that anyway.
Here's a list of names he gave me mutual friends
of theirs. I think you could add to it as well.

Speaker 8 (02:50:47):
May I ask what this list his poet?

Speaker 12 (02:50:50):
Oh, we're just checking.

Speaker 13 (02:50:51):
That's all routine, and like to talk.

Speaker 12 (02:50:53):
With some of these people, see if we can dig
up something.

Speaker 11 (02:50:57):
You really think that mister Sloan's accident it wasn't an accident, don't.

Speaker 12 (02:51:02):
You As I said before, its well it's a possibility.
You spend the greater part of the day in your
room with the lodge, thinking over your next move, don't
you know, wondering how much the police really know, if

(02:51:24):
the sheriff has told you everything.

Speaker 6 (02:51:26):
And then late that afternoon, there's a knock on your door.

Speaker 12 (02:51:33):
Hello, sweight Nick, What are you doing here? Well, you
don't seem very glad to see him. Come in. I
heard about Benji on the radio. That's why I drove
up here to be with you. Come on, smile, everything's over.

Speaker 6 (02:51:47):
You gotta wait for me.

Speaker 13 (02:51:49):
What's the matter, honey?

Speaker 12 (02:51:50):
You maybe what's wrong with words everything?

Speaker 11 (02:51:55):
Someone saw you hanging around Benji's boat the other night.

Speaker 12 (02:51:59):
What Oh, it can't be take the Sheriff's word for it.

Speaker 6 (02:52:04):
Someone saw me.

Speaker 13 (02:52:07):
Wait a minute.

Speaker 12 (02:52:07):
I I better get out of here as fast as
you can.

Speaker 5 (02:52:10):
Rick.

Speaker 13 (02:52:11):
This isn't good, not good at all. I'm gonna jam.

Speaker 12 (02:52:14):
Huh what am I gonna do?

Speaker 13 (02:52:16):
Norma?

Speaker 12 (02:52:16):
I take it easy. They don't know who you are,
they just have a descript.

Speaker 11 (02:52:21):
Yeah, but if they start trying, I know you got
to get back to Malibu right away.

Speaker 13 (02:52:26):
Norma. You're gonna stick by me.

Speaker 12 (02:52:28):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (02:52:28):
Of course we don't figure something out, Sure, Sure, we'll
figure something, Norma.

Speaker 11 (02:52:34):
Now go on, we'll talk this all out later.

Speaker 13 (02:52:37):
Okay, okay, but when Norma.

Speaker 12 (02:52:41):
Tonight, I'll be at your place in Malibour around nine
or so.

Speaker 8 (02:52:59):
Yeah, Nick, it's normal.

Speaker 13 (02:53:06):
Oh, Norma.

Speaker 12 (02:53:10):
King James out for the evening. I said him out
so I could talk to you alone. It's a serious business.
Normal set down.

Speaker 8 (02:53:20):
Rick has been thinking things over?

Speaker 13 (02:53:22):
Have you normal?

Speaker 32 (02:53:24):
So have I?

Speaker 12 (02:53:25):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (02:53:27):
Here?

Speaker 12 (02:53:28):
Have you got to look at the night's paper? The
story is on page one about Benji, so so there's
nothing there about a witness say, nothing about someone being
seen around Benji's Both the police know what they're doing.

Speaker 13 (02:53:43):
Really normal?

Speaker 7 (02:53:45):
What are you getting that?

Speaker 12 (02:53:46):
You said you've been thinking things over?

Speaker 13 (02:53:49):
What are you a plan.

Speaker 12 (02:53:51):
I think you better leave town, Rick, I suggest Mexico.

Speaker 13 (02:53:56):
Yeah, sure, that's exactly what I figured you had in mind.

Speaker 16 (02:53:59):
What do you mean?

Speaker 13 (02:54:00):
The lady says the cops are looking for you. They
will be who says, so you look?

Speaker 12 (02:54:05):
Rick?

Speaker 8 (02:54:06):
I'm only telling you what the sheriff told me. Someone
saw you hanging around Benjie's boat.

Speaker 12 (02:54:12):
It's the truth, is it, Norma.

Speaker 13 (02:54:14):
I think you're lying what I think you're taking me
for a ride.

Speaker 12 (02:54:17):
See sure, you're crazy about me. So I do your
dirty work, get rid of your partner so you can
have the business all yourself only. I think you're springing
a little old Rick.

Speaker 11 (02:54:27):
I don't follow this at all.

Speaker 12 (02:54:28):
Like I said, I do your dirty work, and then
you dream up a little yre and to scare me
out of town.

Speaker 32 (02:54:32):
Why would I do that?

Speaker 36 (02:54:34):
Maybe there's another guy you're interested in.

Speaker 13 (02:54:36):
Huh, Harry Grayson. Maybe Harry, don't be a fool.

Speaker 11 (02:54:42):
When's my best friend?

Speaker 6 (02:54:43):
Oh? Sure?

Speaker 13 (02:54:44):
If that would stop you?

Speaker 3 (02:54:47):
Is it?

Speaker 13 (02:54:47):
Harry?

Speaker 8 (02:54:47):
You're talking like a child, am I?

Speaker 13 (02:54:49):
Norm Rick?

Speaker 6 (02:54:52):
Listen to me.

Speaker 11 (02:54:54):
I'm not making all this up.

Speaker 12 (02:54:56):
What I've told you is the truth.

Speaker 11 (02:54:58):
Someone did see you hanging around Benji's boat, someone who
might be able to identify you.

Speaker 13 (02:55:04):
Sure, so now I'm supposed to clear up Mexico.

Speaker 12 (02:55:08):
Uh, why it's safe? Rick?

Speaker 6 (02:55:10):
Please?

Speaker 13 (02:55:10):
Sorry, it won't work. Normal, I'm not going anywhere. I'm
staying right here.

Speaker 8 (02:55:16):
You're being a fool, Rick, Now listen.

Speaker 13 (02:55:18):
To they've your breast. Normal, I'm staying right here.

Speaker 6 (02:55:30):
It's no use, Norma.

Speaker 12 (02:55:32):
Rick is made up his mind think you're going to
double cross it, and he refuses to listen to you.
You drive on back to your home to think things out.
It's only a matter of time before the police get
around to him, and.

Speaker 13 (02:55:44):
Then it'll be all over.

Speaker 5 (02:55:46):
You're certain that Rick will crack tell everything, and that's
something you've got to prevent from happening. There is a way,
isn't it, Norma. Yes, And suddenly you realize how little
Rick actually.

Speaker 6 (02:55:58):
Means to you.

Speaker 12 (02:56:00):
Rick was only a means for you to get what
you wanted, and now that you have it, he's no
longer important. It's on your mind all that night what
you must do. But the following morning, you receive a
telephone call from Sheriff Layton.

Speaker 40 (02:56:14):
Do you happen to know a man named Reagan as
well as Mike Reagan used to be mister sloan chauffeur.

Speaker 11 (02:56:19):
Why, yes, but mister Sloan fired him quite some time ago.

Speaker 40 (02:56:23):
Reagan, I understand it was pretty sore about that. He
threatened mister Sloan.

Speaker 11 (02:56:28):
Yes, now that you mentioned it, he did.

Speaker 40 (02:56:32):
Reagan was seen hanging around Indian Lake by several people
on the night of mister Sloan's accident.

Speaker 7 (02:56:37):
He won.

Speaker 40 (02:56:38):
Yes, and the description we have of the man seen
near the boat fits Reagan pretty well.

Speaker 11 (02:56:45):
I don't know what to say, Sheriff. I wouldn't want
to throw suspicion on anyone unfairly, but Reagan was frightfully
angry when mister Sloan discharged him. Reagan said he'd get
mister Sloan if it was the last thing he ever did.

Speaker 40 (02:56:59):
Any idea where we I'd locate him?

Speaker 11 (02:57:01):
Yes, As a matter of fact, I do you see?
After missus Long fired him, Reagan came to me and
asked me to help him find a job. I felt
sorry for him and told him I'd see what I
could do with you. Yes, he did the arch Motel
Ocean View.

Speaker 12 (02:57:35):
Well, hello, no, I'm matter what brings you around this
since normal mind?

Speaker 8 (02:57:38):
If I come in.

Speaker 12 (02:57:39):
I've got some music come in.

Speaker 11 (02:57:41):
I got to talk to Hookwick. Completely sure positive Remember
Mike Reagan, Benji's chauffeur.

Speaker 13 (02:57:49):
Reagan.

Speaker 11 (02:57:49):
Yes, Sheriff Layton called me this morning and told me
Reagan was seen at Indian Lake the night of Benji's accident.

Speaker 12 (02:57:55):
Well that was all I needed.

Speaker 6 (02:57:57):
What do you mean?

Speaker 11 (02:57:57):
I gave the sheriff a story that will convict Mike
for Benji's killing as sure as if he'd done it normally.
I told him Reagan had threatened to get Benjie if
it was the last thing he ever did.

Speaker 12 (02:58:07):
He adds a beautifully rick.

Speaker 8 (02:58:09):
Someone saw him near the scene of the accident.

Speaker 11 (02:58:11):
His reputation is not too good.

Speaker 12 (02:58:13):
In my story.

Speaker 11 (02:58:14):
Supplied the motive.

Speaker 12 (02:58:30):
You're certain you're in the clear, now, aren't you, Norma
you and Raing, Yes, because a man named Mike Reagan
was seen at Indian Lake on the night of Benjamin
Sloan's accident. And now that you've told the sheriff your
little story, you're certain that Reagan will be picked up
by the police because they know that he had threatened
Sloan at one time.

Speaker 13 (02:58:51):
Normal, do you think they'll find Reagan?

Speaker 12 (02:58:53):
I'm sure of it warn him. Wait a minute, that accident,
I said, I rigged up a booby trap on Benji's boat.
I didn't do it what I wanted to normal for you,
But at the last minute I lost my nerve.

Speaker 13 (02:59:07):
I couldn't go through with it.

Speaker 11 (02:59:08):
I couldn't.

Speaker 13 (02:59:10):
I didn't want to tell you because of what you
think of me that I was soft weed. I am
norm I am What are you trying to tell me?

Speaker 2 (02:59:18):
Rick?

Speaker 13 (02:59:19):
I knew how much Reagan I hated Sloan, so so
I hired him to do the job.

Speaker 12 (02:59:24):
You you're still with fool? Okay, okay, So now I've
got to get to Reagan water and.

Speaker 5 (02:59:31):
The COT's level is still everything in that.

Speaker 18 (02:59:34):
But what's the matter?

Speaker 8 (02:59:35):
What?

Speaker 4 (02:59:37):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:59:37):
Miss?

Speaker 13 (02:59:37):
Well?

Speaker 12 (02:59:39):
This I gathered and see Rick Mason. I'm Sheriff Layton,
mister Mason, and this is the.

Speaker 5 (02:59:45):
Time, Kincaid.

Speaker 13 (02:59:46):
Are you going somewhere?

Speaker 8 (02:59:48):
Why?

Speaker 12 (02:59:49):
Yes, it is Reagan.

Speaker 13 (02:59:50):
You ought to see.

Speaker 12 (02:59:51):
We'll be glad to take it to him at police headquarters.

Speaker 19 (02:59:55):
He told us the whole story.

Speaker 12 (03:00:01):
More.

Speaker 1 (03:00:06):
Well, now, my dear, I suppose a little lighthearted music
is in order as we wrap up our fun evening.
I do so appreciate your time and energy, and I
hope you enjoyed yourself too. Now, of course, I'll be
right here anytime you want to see me, same time,

(03:00:28):
same place, although I have felt the desire to get
out a little bit more than perhaps I used to. Well,
we'll see. But for now you know where to find me.
And now, if I may ask, before you go back
to your home and I head back to where it
is I come from, do me this one favor. As

(03:00:51):
you head home through the dark streets and sidewalks covered
in fall leaves, and as you lay your head head
on that soft pillow in your warm comfybag, take one
moment and be thankful.

Speaker 32 (03:01:07):
For what you have.

Speaker 1 (03:01:09):
I'll be seeing you

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