May 24, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stars as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The chap who goes from his bed to the parlor
isn't always enjoying the comforts of home.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
By parlor, I do mean funeral power.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan in another transcribed
drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective,
Barry Craig Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Larry craikspy in some cases, don't show at all in
your monthly cash.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Receiver, your only comp stations.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The warm feeling you get deep inside the case. That
would be saying uh in the public good and welfare.
The first nudge you gave me was in Dolan's coffee part.
I was having a steak burner free on Dolan. Dolan
was paying off a world series then fifteen at loss.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The nudge came from a girl twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Maybe you ever take a year in a court coat
with a babushka around her head, a scared look to her,
like she just dried her tears.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Mister Craig, if you'll excuse me, oh, I.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do be my guest.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No thanks, All the food's good here, sanitary kitchen.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well a toughly nice of you, But I coffee then.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Uh, hey, Dolan one java piping hot Now, no need
looking so scared.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Miss. People come up to me all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Then it's not unusual for me.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Oh, not one bit.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The day my private life gets too private, friend, make
room on that breadline.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
My name is normal, mister Greek. Well stretch it norma baron.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Your own crisis or a borrowed one.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I I'm here on behalf of my boyfriend, Chris, Chris Jakowski.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Here with his consent and blessing.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
No oh, he'd be furious if uh en upset.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Or a hanmi and nutkin napkin or my stake burger.
I'll wrap it up and finish it under the stars.
My guess is that you'd feel freer without so many
years around.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Uh. It is awfully crowded here.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Everybody's staring at me, stars look down, and the sounds
of the.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
River made like tubers and the kilomonic garden. Norma got
around at the point of a mission.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Chris is wild deliberately been undestroying himself.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm familiar recond youth carrying a chips.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The country doesn't know it, but We've got an undeclared
civil war on our hands, an undeclared civil war, youth
against the grown up, total war and no weapons bars
the Daily paper.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
It is horrible.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We don't come to some solution about it, we'll slip
back into the dark ages.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But uh, get out with Chris.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, he's carrying a gun. He doesn't know. I know.
That's why I came to you.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Why not the regular police?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh? I didn't dare see. I don't want Chris in trouble.
I wanted him understood and helped.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
How close are you to Chris?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
We've been going togethers in school. I've never known any
other boy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Girls will sure pick.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Them deep down Chris is good and gentle and decent.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So okay, who might argue with love? So what sours Chris?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm not too sure. Personality problems? I think a hard
time he's been having his his lack of direction.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Neither of our covers what ails the world? Does Chris worth?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
He keeps losing jobs?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh, tell me about his associations.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They aren't good. Chris goes where he's accepted. He doesn't
uh discriminate what's got him?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Feelings so low down and rejected. Besides his hard luck with.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Jobs, he's always felt second rate. His boyhood was a mess. Parents,
an aunt and.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uncle, not always a satisfactory substitute. Okay, I'll look Chris up.
See what's got the boy toting a gun? I found
Chris Chikowski, only he didn't know it at the time.
I wanted to tail him for a while. I'm the QT.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
See what pattern of movement was typical to him? Average
looking except for his clothes.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The clothes was stylish, the fancy dan cut to them.
His movements for a while were very typical of the
young top lounging in front of a barber shop, then
across the street to lounge some more in front of
the Apollo Vinyard Academy, a little chit chat with a
few young fellows trying to look hard, and then with
the ten pm chimes, Chris took himself a walk, with
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me not far behind him. A short walk turned out
to be to a movie house, the odio, a double
feature playing Death in Spades and Girl of the Manitoba.
Trayal I was right in line with him, buying an
admission to guy buys into a movie house. He generally
finds a seat and settles down for three hours. Now
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not Chris Jakowski, he no sooner got in. He was
leaving by the balcony firing. Follow a guy down on
iron staircase. She can't always be the quiet man? Who
isn't there the staircase on the foot sets up a
wine loud enough.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
For Chris to hear.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I saw him waiting for me in the alley, looking
very suspicious and hostile. Hold on a minute, there, mister
holding on? Yes, two of us on the staircase.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'll come. The picture was from hunger like you. I
decided to leave.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Why the fire exits all the fastest out, no pushing
past people in the lobby. I got my cue from you, sonny,
So what's bothering you?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't like strangers behind me?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Nice persecution complex? Yeah, nothing fancy talk? Uh, all right
for me to keep going, I guess all right?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Sure, yeah, you read about muggers all the time, misst
Sure always.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Suspect a guy creeping behind you. That way you grow
up to be a grandfather someday.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So scram already. Let's don't make it a coffee clotch.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, let's don't. But before I bow out. I've got
something for your nervous system.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
My nervous system. Now what a joke, A real one
this time. Hey, hey, you got a round on me, haven't.
I know you ain't gonna make out. All I got
is one buck in a pack of smokes and a gun.
Come again, I said, you've got a gun? Now, what
makes you think that my X ray vision? Keep your
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bucking cigarettes. Just pass up the hardware. Let's have it.
Sure you know something?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
What you know?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Stick up? You're a cop, know something? What you're so right?
I know an empty warehouse.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
A few blocks out. Let's go to it. Huh what
for privacy? There's a loading platform we can squat on,
have a nice.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Long talk, nice long talk.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hey, what's Arambulate Sonny, or I'll get you there a
hard way. The only company we had around the warehouse
loading platform was a family of cats. I pulled out
all the stuffs and talking to Christyiakowski. You were in
and out of the audience theater to establish a time
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out of I covering three hours.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
In case of a pinch. You know crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You made sure the cash here and the ticket taker
saw you. You went out of your hey to greet
both of them.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
They both know me since I was a kid magazine
and Sam gain is how long don't I know him?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Some cop asked you about where you were tonight. You
show them the ticket stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, then he asked me about to pitch his wise guy.
I can't answer that. You saw me leave right away.
You saw them over his last night.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You got in somehow without being noticed by the cashier,
the ticket taker. Either that or somebody briefed you on
the pictures.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You know them by heart. Go on, make a federal
case out of nothing. Back in the gun is nothing, sonny.
There's a law against it. I found the gun over
on a lot in the weeds. Even at that, granting
the lie, the law is still against it. I didn't
know how to dump it. There's the police station house
for the cops to push me around all. Wouldn't I
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be nuts? There's a sewer on every block, the sewer. Yeah, yeah,
I should have thrown it down the sewer. You should have.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Only thing you You had a robbery all set up
and the gun figured in it.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Say it to what go ahead?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
You got nothing on me? The gun?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, the gun? So pull me in.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You could come clean with me. You could take a
h or I should turn.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
So you're sticking to the cartoon tough Chris Tchaikowski. Don't
you go making fun of me like others have. Huh
what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The laughs at your expense, the laughs that soured you
want people in society and even on yourself.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Nobody been laughing at me, I know, not lately, not
since you've become a sinister figure.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You're crazy and you're as self conscious and unsure as
anybody I've ever met.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now, why do you say that? I'm looking squarely at you.
Oh you're another one like that. That disfigurement in your face,
your right cheek. How did it happen? The fire? I
was a kid. We live five flights up over Leonard Street.
I got burned bad one profile.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You're fine, a handsome gent, But on the other side
you're a scarecrow. Missed a gun and old gun. I'll
break your head up. Sorry, I just wanted to see
how deeply you felt about your looks. I don't think
about it till a wise guy, right, You do think
about it, Chris. It's on your mind and then your eyes,
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and heavy on your soul. It's got your toning a
gun and planning robberies. I'll ask you again, come clean,
Come clean about what the robbery schedule for the night,
Where who?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And the fella's in it with you? Their names? I
got nothing to tell you. Nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The code HRM, the phony code of honor. Don't squeal,
don't even let out a peep in the electric chair.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Where do you live? That's for you to find out.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't think i'll try tood night, good night. You
let me go for now, h you gotta keep hounding me. Yeah,
from here in.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
On the angel over your shoulder, you will never walk alone.
You think I'll get even with you? You watch?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You don't know? Good Toby's just what I didn't bother,
answering that I let the family of cats do it
for me.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
In the morning, I had eggs and coffee.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Still free on dollars meals for a month, on the
house that had been my winning world series.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That was Dolan.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
The morning papers told me what Chris Jikowski you wouldn't
talk about. The night before, mask gunman shoot hotel cashier
and hold them escape with six thousand in cash. The
Everly Hotel, nine blocks from the warehouse, where i'd sat
out the evening with Chris Dchaikowski nine blocks a ten
minute stroll for Chris from the alleyway of the audience fare,
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I'd sure gummed up his plane. Not being able to
find Chris Jikowski, I found his girl, Norma Barren instead.
She was busy at working a glove fact a piece worker.
Norma ran up the side scenes on the machine so
fast I could swear the lady had eight hands.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I can't talk to you now. It's a port, please,
mister Minton. He's the foreman, he's got a production schedule.
He's a fanatic.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He can breed the slaves. Pray can do it all.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Less Jo just inside. I'll be laid off. Please, you'll
only free.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Me to be on imply one's lunch off.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Swell o'clock, I got a box lunch here.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Well quick, now I'll get you another job.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
What at I can't keep yelling over your showing machines.
What at I'll let me see, yeah, receptionist at my dentist,
doc Freedman.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Baldy Parr and all the national geographics you can read
from ten to five.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
You have been dying to get paid for doing nothing. No,
hasn't he already got a receptionist.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, but Hannah's getting married over the weekend from in
love with a roller skating ring.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well you quick, now do it?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Oh, just give me two minutes for what.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
A choice word I've been saving up for the former
mister Minston. Have I been dreaming of this day?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Noma?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's just too nice a girl. I've been making two
hands through the work of eight. I asked her help
in finding Chris.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I'm afraid Chris has gone away. Why do you think
that his room? He wasn't in it this morning? His room,
furnished room at missus Bester's. I ring Chris's bell mornings
and weet breakfast together, and then he walks me to work.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Did you go up to his room?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It it.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It looked like Chris had vacated it. His personal stuff
wasn't around.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
No note for you, note an explanation?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Oh no, no note.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Your nose just lit up my nose, just it always
does when a nice girl stoops to false head.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I'll let me have the note, Hm.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I was always a poor liar here.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Norma going out of town for a while. Maloney's first
chance I get Chris. What does Maloney's first chance? I
get mean in Lover's.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Code where Crystal telephone me Maloney runs the barbershop? Hey,
what trouble is Christian?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The morning papers, however, are full of a hotel shooting
and sticker Chris. No, so happens. I'm his alibi for
last night, thanks to you.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Thanks to me.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
If you hadn't sent me after him. It's my notion
Chris would have been one of the mass gunmen last night.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh, I'm so relieved.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Don't be too relieved.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He's on the lamb. Voluntarily or by force force? Chris
didn't show up with his gun last night. His friends
wanna know why not? They had a job looprinted with
Chris fully informed. That makes Chris the possessor of day
dangerous knowledge. Yeah, Chris might have landed voluntarily or by persuasion.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
You said before, hold up in a shooting. The shooting, the.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Night cashier and the hotel. Everly, he's got a bullet
in him pierced along. First surgery was successful, but a
second might not be. It could be murdered if the
cashier dies. Man of sixty five normal shock alone can kill.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Him What a lucky thing that Chris was pausing.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Your prayers and write out a list of Chris's so
called friends.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Huh, all of them? You know, play good angel and
Dutch uncle to a problem kid. The whole world doesn't
take kindly to it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Sometimes as a sharp protest from persons known and unknown,
in this case person's unknown, some belligerent shooting up street laves. Correction,
shooting up confidential investigators. This shot practically singe my whiskers.
It made the same if you have a shoeshine Coller,
I need a shoe shine even less than I needed
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a hairsay.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
In the shoe shine fall.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The guy shining my shoes kept laughing to himself. Squap,
little guy with a nose built from ear to ear.
The name on his glass window red V Santo. Why
not share the joke, cousin, you're laughing at me or
at the world.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Hey, let's have the other shoe.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Just where would you prefer it? Oh tough, just a
little sensitive right now? Laughing boy, I'm laughing about what
went on when I'm wearing this straight out there.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You're not knowing where all the shots were coming from.
Oh but you knew huh, yeah, I knew. Now I'm
gonna let you hear what's been breaking me up like this?
The joke you asked about, so tell me it so happens.
I know where your next SHOT's coming from. You do, yeah,
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See it's small the size of my hand.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Don't tell me the gun's been in your palm all
the time you've been flipping the chiner it has.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Look. Ill show you how the tricks weak. See, I'm
shining them up all the time. I got the gun, pom. Well,
what are you know?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Very yeah, I ran right.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Under the spiders were light straight in.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Don't suppose we'll get to the other shoe now, n
I'm off that. Don't suppose you want payment for half of.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Jobs on the highs. Thanks? Well, well, what what now?
You come down off that chair? Yeah? Off the chair?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
First things first, sure, okay, coming down to your very
foolish to get your gun down, I said, very foolish.
I only fire one warning shot. That's all that's required
of any cop. You're not too bright, cousin ordering me
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down off a high perch. You should have backed out
of range of my feet. My tomb's blested nothing, faith,
what busted tomb out the way make a living, which
raises the question, just how do you make a living?
I'll answer that for you.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You do our jobs. Maloney to Baba, Maloney to Bob,
Who's he? I like my guess.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I'm that surprised look on your face. I like my
guests very much.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Mess with Maloney, You're a dope. Maloney's a dope.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Rifle isn't standard tons sorial equipment for a hassinge?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Poka shine right jr. And grab your hat. You you
locking me up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm turning you over to a chap named Trav Rogers.
Lieutenant Trav Rodgers. He's locking you up.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What charge conceal weapons for a starter? Let's go, Hey,
that's the yard.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I know the temperature in the street's too sizzling for comfort.
What with Maloney doing is barbering with a rifle. We'll
catch ourselves a nice breeze going out the yard and
over a few fences lead us in our journey Santo
neighborhood hoods organized into a stick up gang like a
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respectable color be able to point to quote the legitimate
gainful employment unquote.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
When the heat is on, I like Maloney to bother
it trim my hair. There you are friends, Oh cot,
hold the merit at the back of my head. Uh yeah, yeah,
sure nice. The line zigs up and zags down. Style
to it. They always give style.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And the sideburns cock eyed. One's over my ear and
one's under.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You've got a lot of complaints my head of hair.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Next time taking someplace else out.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
What barber color did you study? And charm? It's my business,
but I guess sing sync, I take so much needle
and I thank your pardon. What did you do that? Oh,
it's an accident. I was getting off the chair.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I didn't see her big fat stomach in the way.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You knocked the wind out him. Yeah let me oh
uh maloney, yeah, you're conscious. What's got into you? You're
a lousy barber.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
As a matter of fact, I don't even think you
are a baby.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You're crazy. Just fast around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You're a barber like Santo down the street as a
shine boy. Last I saw him, he was being fingerprinted
on your feet. I've already asked around the neighborhood, Maloney
heard all I need to know about you.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Nobody in the neighborhood even to you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No huh, because you've got them intimidated.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Anybody talks to a cop, the next fellow they talk
to is the undertaker.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'm sure listening to a lot of words indulge me.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Stick ups this end of town originate here in your barbershop,
like the one last night in the Everly Hotel, like
twenty others that have gone unsolved the last two months.
Young men in here get a lousy haircut in a
big education and crime words.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
To dress up an indictment.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I've got a list of names with me, Skinny Morrow,
Buck Edwards, Pinky Dodge, dutch O, Melbournie, Red Nof.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You've been copying names out of a telephone book.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Names of young fellas ruined by Maloney, gun totos and.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Stick up artists. Ask me why the fellas I.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Read off a right now being rounded up by the police.
One of the odds that one of them spills the
Maloney story. I want to call my warriors soon soon
as the show is over, show watch your A squad
of cops on their way here, store, back room and basement.
They're gonna take it apart alaiyaza. What they'll find rats
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and road cheets and cameras, radios, rings.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Watches, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Maybe even a big piece of that six thousand taken
at the Everly Hotel last night. Settle down with the comics, maloney,
we've got ten minutes to kill. I beg a lot
of wild games and had the standing Ramoni sign out
of the local quaint, but.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I still had the problem of Chris Chiakowski.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
On my hands.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I thought that went over, and then.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I took my thoughts to a fellow uptown, the fellow
with an odd name who wore a short white coat
with the pomp of a maharaja in the ceremonial role.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
His name Egor Vun Straighter, Doctor Egor V. Straighter.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I had normal Baron along with me to solemnify the occasion.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'd be pleased to do what you ask, Miss Craig. Great,
and I can't tell you how much I appreciate Hisson
has his soul to mister Peig, like your profession.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Then the sum we agreed on here three hundred. You'll
find it all there, and.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I will be pleased to accept nothing. Uh uh. A
two thousand dollar job for a measly three seas is
charity enough. You have got an overhead.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
When will you send the young man to.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Me tomorrow or the next day. I've got to work
over him before you can. That's going over driving away.
Norma could no longer contain herself best man than the
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Are you heard his usual fee?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
The only permanent cure I know for your guy. Fixed
that cheek of his, and you fix hismorrow. His inferiority
feelings began when the fire mutilated his face.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yeah. Yeah, in my heart, I've always known that about Chris.
But but well, gee, three hundred dollars of your own money.
It's it's not fair to you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's not my own money. It's Maloney, the barber's contribution.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Maloney, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I scooped up the contents of this cash register before
the police rate began. I found two hundred and ninety
eight dollars net. I added two bucks on my own
Maloney's doe. So what for the fellow's he's wrong?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I say, let Maloney's money do one fellow some good.
Call it poetic justice.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Oh see, I don't know what to say say this.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
When Chris Chikowski finally rings you on a telephone, come home,
Chris come back to the Old Block. Use every feminine
persuasion you know.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Did you make it sound extra important?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It sure is.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I'm putting on a show for Chris's sister, the show
with fireworks. He'll never forget He's got to do some
suffering before the magic rainbow appears for the good of
his immortal soul. When I'm done with Chris, he'll be
very happy to live happily. Ever after, the phone call
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to Norma came through, and soon enough I watched Kris
Jikowski take a quiet evening.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Stroll down the Old Block on his way to meet Norman.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I let him cross from Santos Shine Power and Maloney's barber.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Shot before I opened fire.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
When he fell based down on the gutter, I gave
him a couple of extra shots. I watched him roll over,
face up with the sky, then go rigid as the
Angel of Death testing on the brow a hysterio reaction
all fure shot. Chris's death was closely exaggerated.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
After all, how could he be dead one.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I've been using blank bullet Soon I listened to Kris
Jukowski talked to himself.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Miracle I wasn't killed. The only hed a rick for
me to be killed. Miracle of bullets passed all around me.
Still feel you all, loyalty to rats. I learn my lesson.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I learned it.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Ready to get it all off your chest now? Yes? Sure,
or anything I know to.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Tell you'll feel better for it. The underworld code is
for suckers, son. The rat you're protecting is generally aiming
a knife at your back.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Done you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I know that now, and the how I know that.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
While Chris Jikowski was getting it all down on police record,
I had a.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Few private words with Norman.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
You faked the attempt on Chris's life?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, show a man the face of death, he develops
a love of life, the good, clean life.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Sorry the shock therapy had to be so well melodramatic.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Huh. I fainted dead away when I heard the shots.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
When Chris gets through with his statement, write him uptown
to doctor vin Strada.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
For that operation.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yes, I will at once, and uh, Norman, Yes, mister Craig,
my trick with Chris is it our secret? Oh yes,
mister Craig, I promise you it will always be our secret.
And thanks, thanks so much for everything.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Barry Craig starring William Gargan is under the direction of
Himond Brown.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
This is Don Pardo speaking
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Um
Stars as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The chap who goes from his bed to the parlor
isn't always enjoying the comforts of home.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
By parlor, I do mean funeral power.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan in another transcribed
drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective,
Barry Craig Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Larry craikspy in some cases, don't show at all in
your monthly cash.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Receiver, your only comp stations.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The warm feeling you get deep inside the case. That
would be saying uh in the public good and welfare.
The first nudge you gave me was in Dolan's coffee part.
I was having a steak burner free on Dolan. Dolan
was paying off a world series then fifteen at loss.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The nudge came from a girl twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Maybe you ever take a year in a court coat
with a babushka around her head, a scared look to her,
like she just dried her tears.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Mister Craig, if you'll excuse me, oh, I.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do be my guest.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No thanks, All the food's good here, sanitary kitchen.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well a toughly nice of you, But I coffee then.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Uh, hey, Dolan one java piping hot Now, no need
looking so scared.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Miss. People come up to me all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Then it's not unusual for me.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Oh, not one bit.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The day my private life gets too private, friend, make
room on that breadline.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
My name is normal, mister Greek. Well stretch it norma baron.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Your own crisis or a borrowed one.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I I'm here on behalf of my boyfriend, Chris, Chris Jakowski.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Here with his consent and blessing.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
No oh, he'd be furious if uh en upset.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Or a hanmi and nutkin napkin or my stake burger.
I'll wrap it up and finish it under the stars.
My guess is that you'd feel freer without so many
years around.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Uh. It is awfully crowded here.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Everybody's staring at me, stars look down, and the sounds
of the.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
River made like tubers and the kilomonic garden. Norma got
around at the point of a mission.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Chris is wild deliberately been undestroying himself.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm familiar recond youth carrying a chips.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The country doesn't know it, but We've got an undeclared
civil war on our hands, an undeclared civil war, youth
against the grown up, total war and no weapons bars
the Daily paper.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
It is horrible.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We don't come to some solution about it, we'll slip
back into the dark ages.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But uh, get out with Chris.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, he's carrying a gun. He doesn't know. I know.
That's why I came to you.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Why not the regular police?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh? I didn't dare see. I don't want Chris in trouble.
I wanted him understood and helped.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
How close are you to Chris?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
We've been going togethers in school. I've never known any
other boy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Girls will sure pick.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Them deep down Chris is good and gentle and decent.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So okay, who might argue with love? So what sours Chris?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm not too sure. Personality problems? I think a hard
time he's been having his his lack of direction.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Neither of our covers what ails the world? Does Chris worth?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
He keeps losing jobs?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh, tell me about his associations.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They aren't good. Chris goes where he's accepted. He doesn't
uh discriminate what's got him?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Feelings so low down and rejected. Besides his hard luck with.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Jobs, he's always felt second rate. His boyhood was a mess. Parents,
an aunt and.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uncle, not always a satisfactory substitute. Okay, I'll look Chris up.
See what's got the boy toting a gun? I found
Chris Chikowski, only he didn't know it at the time.
I wanted to tail him for a while. I'm the QT.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
See what pattern of movement was typical to him? Average
looking except for his clothes.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The clothes was stylish, the fancy dan cut to them.
His movements for a while were very typical of the
young top lounging in front of a barber shop, then
across the street to lounge some more in front of
the Apollo Vinyard Academy, a little chit chat with a
few young fellows trying to look hard, and then with
the ten pm chimes, Chris took himself a walk, with
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me not far behind him. A short walk turned out
to be to a movie house, the odio, a double
feature playing Death in Spades and Girl of the Manitoba.
Trayal I was right in line with him, buying an
admission to guy buys into a movie house. He generally
finds a seat and settles down for three hours. Now
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not Chris Jakowski, he no sooner got in. He was
leaving by the balcony firing. Follow a guy down on
iron staircase. She can't always be the quiet man? Who
isn't there the staircase on the foot sets up a
wine loud enough.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
For Chris to hear.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I saw him waiting for me in the alley, looking
very suspicious and hostile. Hold on a minute, there, mister
holding on? Yes, two of us on the staircase.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'll come. The picture was from hunger like you. I
decided to leave.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Why the fire exits all the fastest out, no pushing
past people in the lobby. I got my cue from you, sonny,
So what's bothering you?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't like strangers behind me?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Nice persecution complex? Yeah, nothing fancy talk? Uh, all right
for me to keep going, I guess all right?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Sure, yeah, you read about muggers all the time, misst
Sure always.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Suspect a guy creeping behind you. That way you grow
up to be a grandfather someday.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So scram already. Let's don't make it a coffee clotch.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, let's don't. But before I bow out. I've got
something for your nervous system.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
My nervous system. Now what a joke, A real one
this time. Hey, hey, you got a round on me, haven't.
I know you ain't gonna make out. All I got
is one buck in a pack of smokes and a gun.
Come again, I said, you've got a gun? Now, what
makes you think that my X ray vision? Keep your
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bucking cigarettes. Just pass up the hardware. Let's have it.
Sure you know something?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
What you know?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Stick up? You're a cop, know something? What you're so right?
I know an empty warehouse.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
A few blocks out. Let's go to it. Huh what
for privacy? There's a loading platform we can squat on,
have a nice.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Long talk, nice long talk.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hey, what's Arambulate Sonny, or I'll get you there a
hard way. The only company we had around the warehouse
loading platform was a family of cats. I pulled out
all the stuffs and talking to Christyiakowski. You were in
and out of the audience theater to establish a time
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out of I covering three hours.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
In case of a pinch. You know crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You made sure the cash here and the ticket taker
saw you. You went out of your hey to greet
both of them.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
They both know me since I was a kid magazine
and Sam gain is how long don't I know him?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Some cop asked you about where you were tonight. You
show them the ticket stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, then he asked me about to pitch his wise guy.
I can't answer that. You saw me leave right away.
You saw them over his last night.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You got in somehow without being noticed by the cashier,
the ticket taker. Either that or somebody briefed you on
the pictures.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You know them by heart. Go on, make a federal
case out of nothing. Back in the gun is nothing, sonny.
There's a law against it. I found the gun over
on a lot in the weeds. Even at that, granting
the lie, the law is still against it. I didn't
know how to dump it. There's the police station house
for the cops to push me around all. Wouldn't I
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be nuts? There's a sewer on every block, the sewer. Yeah, yeah,
I should have thrown it down the sewer. You should have.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Only thing you You had a robbery all set up
and the gun figured in it.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Say it to what go ahead?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
You got nothing on me? The gun?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, the gun? So pull me in.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You could come clean with me. You could take a
h or I should turn.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
So you're sticking to the cartoon tough Chris Tchaikowski. Don't
you go making fun of me like others have. Huh
what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The laughs at your expense, the laughs that soured you
want people in society and even on yourself.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Nobody been laughing at me, I know, not lately, not
since you've become a sinister figure.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You're crazy and you're as self conscious and unsure as
anybody I've ever met.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now, why do you say that? I'm looking squarely at you.
Oh you're another one like that. That disfigurement in your face,
your right cheek. How did it happen? The fire? I
was a kid. We live five flights up over Leonard Street.
I got burned bad one profile.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You're fine, a handsome gent, But on the other side
you're a scarecrow. Missed a gun and old gun. I'll
break your head up. Sorry, I just wanted to see
how deeply you felt about your looks. I don't think
about it till a wise guy, right, You do think
about it, Chris. It's on your mind and then your eyes,
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and heavy on your soul. It's got your toning a
gun and planning robberies. I'll ask you again, come clean,
Come clean about what the robbery schedule for the night,
Where who?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And the fella's in it with you? Their names? I
got nothing to tell you. Nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The code HRM, the phony code of honor. Don't squeal,
don't even let out a peep in the electric chair.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Where do you live? That's for you to find out.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't think i'll try tood night, good night. You
let me go for now, h you gotta keep hounding me. Yeah,
from here in.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
On the angel over your shoulder, you will never walk alone.
You think I'll get even with you? You watch?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You don't know? Good Toby's just what I didn't bother,
answering that I let the family of cats do it
for me.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
In the morning, I had eggs and coffee.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Still free on dollars meals for a month, on the
house that had been my winning world series.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That was Dolan.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
The morning papers told me what Chris Jikowski you wouldn't
talk about. The night before, mask gunman shoot hotel cashier
and hold them escape with six thousand in cash. The
Everly Hotel, nine blocks from the warehouse, where i'd sat
out the evening with Chris Dchaikowski nine blocks a ten
minute stroll for Chris from the alleyway of the audience fare,
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I'd sure gummed up his plane. Not being able to
find Chris Jikowski, I found his girl, Norma Barren instead.
She was busy at working a glove fact a piece worker.
Norma ran up the side scenes on the machine so
fast I could swear the lady had eight hands.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I can't talk to you now. It's a port, please,
mister Minton. He's the foreman, he's got a production schedule.
He's a fanatic.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He can breed the slaves. Pray can do it all.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Less Jo just inside. I'll be laid off. Please, you'll
only free.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Me to be on imply one's lunch off.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Swell o'clock, I got a box lunch here.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Well quick, now I'll get you another job.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
What at I can't keep yelling over your showing machines.
What at I'll let me see, yeah, receptionist at my dentist,
doc Freedman.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Baldy Parr and all the national geographics you can read
from ten to five.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
You have been dying to get paid for doing nothing. No,
hasn't he already got a receptionist.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, but Hannah's getting married over the weekend from in
love with a roller skating ring.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well you quick, now do it?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Oh, just give me two minutes for what.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
A choice word I've been saving up for the former
mister Minston. Have I been dreaming of this day?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Noma?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's just too nice a girl. I've been making two
hands through the work of eight. I asked her help
in finding Chris.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I'm afraid Chris has gone away. Why do you think
that his room? He wasn't in it this morning? His room,
furnished room at missus Bester's. I ring Chris's bell mornings
and weet breakfast together, and then he walks me to work.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Did you go up to his room?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It it.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It looked like Chris had vacated it. His personal stuff
wasn't around.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
No note for you, note an explanation?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Oh no, no note.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Your nose just lit up my nose, just it always
does when a nice girl stoops to false head.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I'll let me have the note, Hm.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I was always a poor liar here.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Norma going out of town for a while. Maloney's first
chance I get Chris. What does Maloney's first chance? I
get mean in Lover's.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Code where Crystal telephone me Maloney runs the barbershop? Hey,
what trouble is Christian?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The morning papers, however, are full of a hotel shooting
and sticker Chris. No, so happens. I'm his alibi for
last night, thanks to you.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Thanks to me.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
If you hadn't sent me after him. It's my notion
Chris would have been one of the mass gunmen last night.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh, I'm so relieved.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Don't be too relieved.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He's on the lamb. Voluntarily or by force force? Chris
didn't show up with his gun last night. His friends
wanna know why not? They had a job looprinted with
Chris fully informed. That makes Chris the possessor of day
dangerous knowledge. Yeah, Chris might have landed voluntarily or by persuasion.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
You said before, hold up in a shooting. The shooting, the.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Night cashier and the hotel. Everly, he's got a bullet
in him pierced along. First surgery was successful, but a
second might not be. It could be murdered if the
cashier dies. Man of sixty five normal shock alone can kill.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Him What a lucky thing that Chris was pausing.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Your prayers and write out a list of Chris's so
called friends.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Huh, all of them? You know, play good angel and
Dutch uncle to a problem kid. The whole world doesn't
take kindly to it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Sometimes as a sharp protest from persons known and unknown,
in this case person's unknown, some belligerent shooting up street laves. Correction,
shooting up confidential investigators. This shot practically singe my whiskers.
It made the same if you have a shoeshine Coller,
I need a shoe shine even less than I needed
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a hairsay.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
In the shoe shine fall.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The guy shining my shoes kept laughing to himself. Squap,
little guy with a nose built from ear to ear.
The name on his glass window red V Santo. Why
not share the joke, cousin, you're laughing at me or
at the world.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Hey, let's have the other shoe.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Just where would you prefer it? Oh tough, just a
little sensitive right now? Laughing boy, I'm laughing about what
went on when I'm wearing this straight out there.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You're not knowing where all the shots were coming from.
Oh but you knew huh, yeah, I knew. Now I'm
gonna let you hear what's been breaking me up like this?
The joke you asked about, so tell me it so happens.
I know where your next SHOT's coming from. You do, yeah,
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See it's small the size of my hand.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Don't tell me the gun's been in your palm all
the time you've been flipping the chiner it has.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Look. Ill show you how the tricks weak. See, I'm
shining them up all the time. I got the gun, pom. Well,
what are you know?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Very yeah, I ran right.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Under the spiders were light straight in.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Don't suppose we'll get to the other shoe now, n
I'm off that. Don't suppose you want payment for half of.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Jobs on the highs. Thanks? Well, well, what what now?
You come down off that chair? Yeah? Off the chair?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
First things first, sure, okay, coming down to your very
foolish to get your gun down, I said, very foolish.
I only fire one warning shot. That's all that's required
of any cop. You're not too bright, cousin ordering me
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down off a high perch. You should have backed out
of range of my feet. My tomb's blested nothing, faith,
what busted tomb out the way make a living, which
raises the question, just how do you make a living?
I'll answer that for you.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You do our jobs. Maloney to Baba, Maloney to Bob,
Who's he? I like my guess.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I'm that surprised look on your face. I like my
guests very much.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Mess with Maloney, You're a dope. Maloney's a dope.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Rifle isn't standard tons sorial equipment for a hassinge?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Poka shine right jr. And grab your hat. You you
locking me up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm turning you over to a chap named Trav Rogers.
Lieutenant Trav Rodgers. He's locking you up.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What charge conceal weapons for a starter? Let's go, Hey,
that's the yard.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I know the temperature in the street's too sizzling for comfort.
What with Maloney doing is barbering with a rifle. We'll
catch ourselves a nice breeze going out the yard and
over a few fences lead us in our journey Santo
neighborhood hoods organized into a stick up gang like a
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respectable color be able to point to quote the legitimate
gainful employment unquote.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
When the heat is on, I like Maloney to bother
it trim my hair. There you are friends, Oh cot,
hold the merit at the back of my head. Uh yeah, yeah,
sure nice. The line zigs up and zags down. Style
to it. They always give style.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And the sideburns cock eyed. One's over my ear and
one's under.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You've got a lot of complaints my head of hair.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Next time taking someplace else out.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
What barber color did you study? And charm? It's my business,
but I guess sing sync, I take so much needle
and I thank your pardon. What did you do that? Oh,
it's an accident. I was getting off the chair.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I didn't see her big fat stomach in the way.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You knocked the wind out him. Yeah let me oh
uh maloney, yeah, you're conscious. What's got into you? You're
a lousy barber.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
As a matter of fact, I don't even think you
are a baby.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You're crazy. Just fast around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You're a barber like Santo down the street as a
shine boy. Last I saw him, he was being fingerprinted
on your feet. I've already asked around the neighborhood, Maloney
heard all I need to know about you.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Nobody in the neighborhood even to you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No huh, because you've got them intimidated.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Anybody talks to a cop, the next fellow they talk
to is the undertaker.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'm sure listening to a lot of words indulge me.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Stick ups this end of town originate here in your barbershop,
like the one last night in the Everly Hotel, like
twenty others that have gone unsolved the last two months.
Young men in here get a lousy haircut in a
big education and crime words.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
To dress up an indictment.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I've got a list of names with me, Skinny Morrow,
Buck Edwards, Pinky Dodge, dutch O, Melbournie, Red Nof.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You've been copying names out of a telephone book.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Names of young fellas ruined by Maloney, gun totos and.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Stick up artists. Ask me why the fellas I.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Read off a right now being rounded up by the police.
One of the odds that one of them spills the
Maloney story. I want to call my warriors soon soon
as the show is over, show watch your A squad
of cops on their way here, store, back room and basement.
They're gonna take it apart alaiyaza. What they'll find rats
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and road cheets and cameras, radios, rings.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Watches, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Maybe even a big piece of that six thousand taken
at the Everly Hotel last night. Settle down with the comics, maloney,
we've got ten minutes to kill. I beg a lot
of wild games and had the standing Ramoni sign out
of the local quaint, but.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I still had the problem of Chris Chiakowski.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
On my hands.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I thought that went over, and then.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I took my thoughts to a fellow uptown, the fellow
with an odd name who wore a short white coat
with the pomp of a maharaja in the ceremonial role.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
His name Egor Vun Straighter, Doctor Egor V. Straighter.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I had normal Baron along with me to solemnify the occasion.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'd be pleased to do what you ask, Miss Craig. Great,
and I can't tell you how much I appreciate Hisson
has his soul to mister Peig, like your profession.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Then the sum we agreed on here three hundred. You'll
find it all there, and.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I will be pleased to accept nothing. Uh uh. A
two thousand dollar job for a measly three seas is
charity enough. You have got an overhead.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
When will you send the young man to.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Me tomorrow or the next day. I've got to work
over him before you can. That's going over driving away.
Norma could no longer contain herself best man than the
(23:44):
Are you heard his usual fee?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
The only permanent cure I know for your guy. Fixed
that cheek of his, and you fix hismorrow. His inferiority
feelings began when the fire mutilated his face.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yeah. Yeah, in my heart, I've always known that about Chris.
But but well, gee, three hundred dollars of your own money.
It's it's not fair to you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's not my own money. It's Maloney, the barber's contribution.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Maloney, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I scooped up the contents of this cash register before
the police rate began. I found two hundred and ninety
eight dollars net. I added two bucks on my own
Maloney's doe. So what for the fellow's he's wrong?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I say, let Maloney's money do one fellow some good.
Call it poetic justice.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Oh see, I don't know what to say say this.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
When Chris Chikowski finally rings you on a telephone, come home,
Chris come back to the Old Block. Use every feminine
persuasion you know.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Did you make it sound extra important?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It sure is.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I'm putting on a show for Chris's sister, the show
with fireworks. He'll never forget He's got to do some
suffering before the magic rainbow appears for the good of
his immortal soul. When I'm done with Chris, he'll be
very happy to live happily. Ever after, the phone call
(25:18):
to Norma came through, and soon enough I watched Kris
Jikowski take a quiet evening.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Stroll down the Old Block on his way to meet Norman.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I let him cross from Santos Shine Power and Maloney's barber.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Shot before I opened fire.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
When he fell based down on the gutter, I gave
him a couple of extra shots. I watched him roll over,
face up with the sky, then go rigid as the
Angel of Death testing on the brow a hysterio reaction
all fure shot. Chris's death was closely exaggerated.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
After all, how could he be dead one.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I've been using blank bullet Soon I listened to Kris
Jukowski talked to himself.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Miracle I wasn't killed. The only hed a rick for
me to be killed. Miracle of bullets passed all around me.
Still feel you all, loyalty to rats. I learn my lesson.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I learned it.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Ready to get it all off your chest now? Yes? Sure,
or anything I know to.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Tell you'll feel better for it. The underworld code is
for suckers, son. The rat you're protecting is generally aiming
a knife at your back.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Done you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I know that now, and the how I know that.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
While Chris Jikowski was getting it all down on police record,
I had a.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Few private words with Norman.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
You faked the attempt on Chris's life?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, show a man the face of death, he develops
a love of life, the good, clean life.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Sorry the shock therapy had to be so well melodramatic.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Huh. I fainted dead away when I heard the shots.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
When Chris gets through with his statement, write him uptown
to doctor vin Strada.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
For that operation.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yes, I will at once, and uh, Norman, Yes, mister Craig,
my trick with Chris is it our secret? Oh yes,
mister Craig, I promise you it will always be our secret.
And thanks, thanks so much for everything.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Barry Craig starring William Gargan is under the direction of
Himond Brown.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
This is Don Pardo speaking
Speaker 3 (28:00):
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