May 24, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
William Gargan stars as Barry Craig. Confidential Investigators.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Refer to a guy as the ghost of his former self.
Looked twice at the get up he's wearing. He might
be sporting a bed sheet.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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 (00:39):
Harry Craig speaking, there's generally a lot more to show
business than what people finally get to see from the
four to eighty sets, the backstage, behind the scenes Shenanigans
of what is delicately referred to as the free production phases. Brother,
can it get wild? Wild and very homicidal? The particular
case I have in mind began innoc it commenced up
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near Yonker in a rebble strewn area that looked like
an a bomb testing grounds in the Nevada Flats. The
ground floor door I went through read Luther Bassett, Canine Dentistry,
Canine dentistry. Inside there was a guy in a short
white medical coat, a pretty patch of hair on his
chin in the style of old Vienna. Luther Bassett. I
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had figured him to be right off, I'd never seen
a go tea on a jone. The dog with him
was on the operating payment. A while later, in a
cubicle off the operating room, Doctor Bassett and I tried
to reach an understanding.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I thank you for coming, so promplamed Craig.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, you phoned me, you said urgent, you said liberal payments.
I liked your language, especially liberal payment. Now skultched my curiosity. First,
what do you fill a dog's teeth with a t
bone steak? The same as with you, amalgaan Gold. The
one you watched had lower bridgework done, lower bridgework. Huh.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh that dog is a Broadway star, Oh Flood, you
must surely know him.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
When I go to the dogs, I do it on
the East side of town, never on Broadway. Oh what
play the.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Hit comedy mister Galulei's ghost, Oh fluff plays a big part.
Oh he gets a tremendous salary.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oooh high livings roarin his choppers. Huh. So what's the
nature of my employment to be Bassett? Something to do
with dogs of the human variety in shellbusiness? Yes, Oh,
you're also in Shelburn.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Only as an investor.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Uh huh, how much? And what theatrical I.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Have invested twenty thousand dollars in a proposed musical fantasy
called twenty fifty five. Twenty fifty five the calendar year
one hundred years from now. It is a fantasy about
the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Poor amusing thought, most producing it? Stanton Bishop and what's
your particular get anxiety? Rumors that I have heard that
the shoe is over financed? Is that banned?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, perhaps I'm not using the right way.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I think. I know a man has one hundred percent
to sell to investors, but he sells one hundred and
fifty percent. The show opens, flops, loses. It's not but
Stanton Bishop isn't a bit worry. He has a load
of sucker money, salt of the way.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
If Stanton Bishop is a splinter and not a legitimate producer,
I must know. You must investigate for me discreetly. Do
you want to retain a foolish question? Money in front
shoppens my talent. I found Stanton Bishop.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
In a rented rehearsal hall on a side street along
the main stem black Hamburg. Pink cheeks, yellow teeth swede shoe.
When I found him. He was pulling producer's rank on
a lot of long stem dolls and dancing types girls.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Tomorrow, I want to see more bounds, bort jump. The
title of the number is and your World is Born.
That means leaps and ecstasy. You've got to prove it
to the customer dismissed for the day.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I listened while.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He complimented the baritone, and mister Eduardo Bernard, you sang
and all I heard was a television commercial for a
mouthwash before signing as a lead baritone. You should first
have your adnoid removed. You're fired from this show.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When Bishop finished throwing his weight around, I tried abusing him.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
By what authority do you inquire into my private business affairs?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This badge?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Hmm, chicken inspector.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
If I were a more sensitive man, that could get
you a punch on the nose.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now now I'm a heartcakee. You punched me, and you're
a murderer.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The book, please book?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What book?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The one you keep for your own information? The record
of investors and money? Who and how much? Now? Where
do you keep it?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Are you in my safety vault?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Not here in your desk?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Here in my desk, huh. Why to accommodate sneaks.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like you that laugh sounded very falsetto to me.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You stay out of my desk.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Gets.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's personal, it's sacred to me.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, I'll bet Oh would this be it?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You give me that ledger?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He wrestle with me? Buster, Okay, if you must be placated, Oh,
don't oversleep, Buster, I get through this book, my hunches.
We'll have things to talk over. Bishop had his swindle
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written down in his personal ledger so plainly it looked
like a confession to the DA. Bishop came too, and
we talked it over. Your musical is budgeted to cost
three hundred thousand dollars. You've accepted investors cash totaling over
four hundred thousand dollars, well money for contingencies in beloney.
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Who is a show angel named Eloise Pinchley. She's in
for a cool one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
She can afford it. Oh, I would imagine, Uh, Craig,
what Eloise Finchley's investment. It isn't exactly a straight.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Stop for you on the show, then what is it?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
More of a personal loan to me?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You should have thought that little dodge up fast.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So that balances my books? Doesn't it take away Elouise
Finsley's money and the cash I have so far? Except
it is less less, mind you, than my proposed budget.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'll believe the personal loan dodge after I've talked to
Eloise Frenchley.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So what's her phone number? I don't want you telephoning her.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Craig, how many times a day must you be rocked asleep?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm making a change in that script if you'll notice, Craig, uh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh, and where was that gun up till now?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Never mind, you look more like a hood now than
a show produce.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Eh, boring your natural element?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't force me to shoot, Hang up that phone and
get out.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Bishop's violent burg to get me out of his office
at that moment was nothing impulsive, as I soon found out.
It was strategy, plain and simple. Nor did he go
far just to motor ride to the nearest Gretna Greene,
Gretna Greene being shorthand for any place where marriage could
be completed as fast as the couple could chirp, I do.
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I read all about it in the morning papers. It
was Broadway impresario Stanton Bishop marries socialized Eloise Finchley. In
surprise and open. At my first opportunity, I paid my
respects to the bride in a fancied bridal suite almost
as close to Central Park as the statue.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Of Sherman's horse Champaigne.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Mister Craig, conversation, Missus Bishop.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You disapprove of my marriage?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Your mister will never get through the pearly gates?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is there a man without vices? Really? Mister Gray?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
How come you elope with Bishop immediately with my investigation
of him?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
How come now let me see? Mm? Yes, he invited
me on a motor ride. It was perfect weather, the.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Moon, mister Craig, You've never seen such a gorgeous moon,
and that was it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Love doesn't stop to reason.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Mister Craik, I've heard Bishop married you as a cover
up for his lossoing. The marriage takes you off his
books as an outside investor and puts it in the family.
It uh balances his books.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Must we really be so dull, mister Craig, So pro sae,
I'm a bride, I'm in heavenly raptures.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, you're heading for one big hangover.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
M hm. I adore Champagne.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'll leave sounding one last dull and prosaic note, must
you the sudden opement, specks of conspiracy, conspiracy to frustrate
an investigation of Bishop's peculiar theatrical financing. Sweet matrimony was
only a device for Whitewashington. How about that?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You don't really expect me to testify against my husband,
mister Craig.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay, I know what I'm like, And you forget one.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the total on Stanton's
books was my own money anyhow?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
My own money is to create.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, and frankly, that angle of it has me be fuddled, perplexed,
confused and listified. I reported back to my clients, the
canine dentist Luthor Bassett. Well, who's the dampipation now Bassett?
Now the famous dog actor?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh yes, this is Rinky ten ten. Ranky ten ten
reputed to be a grand nephew of rin tin Tin.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Wow. Wow, genuine aristocracy? And what show is ranking in
the world and the Egg?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's a play about reincarnation?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What does Rinky play in it?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Napoleon the Dog is the twentieth century reincarnation of Napoleon ye,
mind you it is an allegonical.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yes, I get you. Well, you can lead if you're
twenty thousand with Bishop or not as you please. You
mean the operation is legitimate nowadays, I think I scared
him into legitimate producing. I mean, if Bishop actually has
the show business know how for producing musical but he was.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
First contemplating a swindle with every breath in his body,
then I will withdraw my investment.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, you won't get all of it, not at this date.
Bishop has had some pre production costs already, But so
is what you can go ahead? Well, my cost to
you is three hundred bucks. Pay me off basset. End
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of case. Only it wasn't. It was just the beginning.
As it turned out, the blissfully newly weed Stanton Bishops
were doomed to make more headlines gruesome ones. This time
I saw it first on a street newstand, Missus Stanton Bishop.
I can only see that much. Hey, give me that
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paper part. The whole headline read Missus Stanton Bishop killed
in street mugging. It had sure have been a short honeymoon.
I let official sources amplify the newspaper details for me.
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In this case, the first grade detective in homicide named Scotty.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
What's your interest in the late missus Stanton Bishop Craig?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I am on her passage? How did she go? A
street of Sault and what was taken?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
So far as we know? A purse of diamonds, rots
and her wedding ring according to who Stanton Bishop when
he identified the body?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Oh what police results?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
So for none?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
No clue to the alleged mugger. You hit the word
alleged Why because frankly I'm skeptical for your reason? Nothing concrete,
so I won't give it yet. What was the cause
of debt? Strangulation?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
A broken neck? She'd been hit with the side of
the palm. A rabbit punch, it's a favorite blow with
mugging or a keller.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Tried to make it look like a standard mugging. Oh
why did it happen?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Fifty fourth and ninth? We found the victim in an
area way.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oooh hard to believe. What is a lady of her
style being at fifty fourth and night To begin with,
Eloise Finchley Bishop was Park Avenue, very perfumed, very upper class,
not always what would that be?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Our check into her pedigree turned up some interesting facts.
She was posing as a social lite and her maiden
name Finchley was an assumed one.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Then who was she really?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Eloise Burkie father was a railroad brakeman. Parents now both dead.
Eloise herself was a dress model when she worked. Not
that there's any law against posing as society.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Folks, No, there isn't. Only one thing really has me confused?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Now, Yeah, what's that great?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well? Where would it? Sometimes? Dress model get one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for a theatrical investment. I was
around the rehearsal hall to give my condolences to Stanton Bishop. Personally,
he looked a little different to me this visit. The
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pink cheeks were sallow, deep lines in his face like
he'd had some new worries at it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What do you want here, Craig?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
What was missus Stanton doing on the wrong side of tone?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
How should I know?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Or what was stolen from her?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I've already told the police. Tell me her pocket book,
a diamond wristwatch in her wedding ring. Craig, You're not
going to maliciously persecute me, shouldn't I? And in the
morning I I experienced a horrible tragedy. I think of
how wellow he's died. I I have nightmares. I'm in
a cold sweat. Said, what's happened to our one hundred
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and fifty thousand, Craig, Please not at a time like
this tough day.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Answer.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Look, I'm straight, clean as a new baby. Maybe I
had ideas once, wrong ideas, but all right, you cured me,
now let me live.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That depends on how your wife really died.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
He was attacked, she was robbed, her neck was broken
by some homicidal maniac, or that's how.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It was made to appear.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Then you are going to persecute me maliciously, at.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Least until you explain to me how an extress model
was able to invest a fortune in your show. Also,
what really was the attraction that got you too married?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Heckle me or embarrass me with the police in the public,
You'll only make trouble for yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Did you marry your wife and fathered off as I'm
mugging by a person A person's unknown? No, I tell
you no, I tell you no. I did a further
check into the background of the corpse, with the grudging
connivance of first grade Detective Scott.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It Craig, I can get reprimanded for this or promoted,
promoted for letting you into an apartment officially sealed to
the public.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Now look, I saw this. I quietly turned the information
over to you. I don't take a bow. You get
a promotion and.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
A race bore, you get a dangling sucker bait.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Eh Heloise Bertie Helleness Finchley extress model. Where did she
ever get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars? Well, squat somewhere, Scottie.
While I look around, I came up with a ton
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of stuff hidden away in bureau drawers, driven packages, and
a steamer truck. The personal stuff nobody ever throws away.
Old letters, diaries, a high school pen and picture album,
lots of picture albums, the recent alowise that collected the
history of her life and snapshots.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah she's in it from the first baby pools on
a bear rug right that made.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah eloise and pigtails in her school graduation dress. How
she looked at sweet sixteen on her first date as
a slim chick in a one piece bathing suit. How
she looked as a dress.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Beholded, Craig or what strikes you that page of snapshots.
The two shots Elowise pos with a guy. Six pictures
the same guy.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What about it? Well, study the face of the guy.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
How you recognize him?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, I've seen him. Why, Sure, he's famous, notorious. He's ardy, Anzac,
big gun, ardy, Anzac big.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Gun used to be. Oh, he's responsible now retired from
the rackets. He's had it, served twenty years eleven worth
for tax evasion.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
This page of pictures Anzac and Eloise, they look like
very recent photographs.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Watch out with Anzac Craig. He's still king to a
big piece of Gangland.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I'll be most respectful. I've got a thing about royal.
Anzac lived like royalty should. Heavily worded the state on
the outskirts of the city, with a high stone wall
around it like the side of a mountain. I found
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him practicing golfing putts on a library rug. I talked
while Anzac concentrated on his stance. When he figured out
his answers, he gave them to me. Sure I know, Elouise,
sweet kid, sweet dead kid.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yeah, ain't it a shame out? Walking and that's it?
Still everybody dies, So I'm just go sooner.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
What was she to you?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
En Zac, I babe.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I bought her a coat, I bought one of them
foreign cars, and then I moved on to another.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Baby period period. I'm not poor.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Spread the wealth.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I figured, did it bother you? When Eloise married Stanton Bishop,
I'm not a bit I'm for marriage.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
My mother was married.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I even sent them a wire of congratulations with a
load of flowers that cost me a sea note, Craig,
I already had another babe there, you said.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Now, I'd like to get back to my part.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'm in a tournament tomorrow, but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Through talking what else did while I'm at the point
now mentioning one hundred and fifty thousand dollars not a dough.
Aloise invested that much in Bishop's musical production.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Now where would a babe get that kind of cabbage?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think from you?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Hey, I'm not that generous.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think Alois invested it for you idle money, hot money,
undeclared income. She was your front, so tax officials wouldn't
be the wiser. You'd already served time for tax evasion.
You'd had enough of that.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hey, that's quite an idea you've got.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh, I'm loaded with ideas. I also think Aloise double
crossed you, that she invested the money for herself, and
that Bishop knew the source of the money and what
Aloise was up to, and that Bishop used that knowledge
as a weapon to make Aloise marry him. Why would
he do that? Oh, he had to make Aloise marry him.
I'd been investigating Bishop. I'd found a regularities enough for
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me to alert the district attorney. Bishop had to find
a device for shutting me off.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I got practice in the new Craig.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm an attornement tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I think you murdered Aloise to pay her off for
the double cross and as an object lesson for Bishop.
So Bishop will respect you a one hundred and fifty
thousand dollar piece of his musical production. I think you're
the killer ANZACs.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Watch this pot.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Beautiful? Huh?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I left Anzac to drive home. Anzac's wanted the state
to join the famous state park popular with campers, hikers,
and hunters. Signs on roadside trees advertised the two week
open hunting season. Deer was the big game. I almost
a rifle shot through my side window that almost skinned
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my scalp. A wild shot, I wondered, or was it
a devoted anzac subject trying to please the king. It
was one of the things in life I'd never known.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Stanton
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Bishop figured to be the weak link, an easy mark
for a trick designed to get corroborating evidence against a
suspected killer. I found them alone in the rehearsal hall,
chewing on a dead cigar.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Craig, you soured my whole life.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh sad, I wonder how nervous you'll be, Bishop, strapped
in the electric chair, strapped me, Craig for what? The
murder of your wife? I've got evidence against you, evidence
those articles supposedly stolen from Eloise. So so I've got
them locked up in my office.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Where could you get them?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Right out of your wife's bureau.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's a trick. You're lying to me. You're trying to
track me in something, but you can't be sure.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You had lived a story of stolen articles to make
the alleged mugging plausible. Why were you so anxious to
have it written off as an unsolved mugging? Who are
you afraid of? You clam up, You'll only be a
fall guy. Bishop, who's the somebody else? Bishop. Come on,
it's trembling on your lips.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Handsack already Anzac. He murdered Delouise. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't bother to I already know why. Now the
guy answering this phone will be Scotty of homicide. Tell
your story to him from here on.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
It's his case.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Hello, Scotti, this is Barry Craig. Scottie, I've got a
guy here who's gonna mean your raise and promotion. Yes,
a Craig promise is always redeemable in cash.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You have been listening to William Gargan in another exciting
transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Tonight's story, Corpse on the Town was written by John Robert.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Next Week.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's the strange story of the Golden Touch, about which
Barry Craig has this to say. In The Golden Touch,
a doll with amnesia forgets everything but her alibi when
her partner in unholy matrimony takes a second fatal leap
out of her arms and into eternates. The National Broadcasting
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William Gargan stars as Barry Craig. Confidential Investigators.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Refer to a guy as the ghost of his former self.
Looked twice at the get up he's wearing. He might
be sporting a bed sheet.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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 (00:39):
Harry Craig speaking, there's generally a lot more to show
business than what people finally get to see from the
four to eighty sets, the backstage, behind the scenes Shenanigans
of what is delicately referred to as the free production phases. Brother,
can it get wild? Wild and very homicidal? The particular
case I have in mind began innoc it commenced up
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near Yonker in a rebble strewn area that looked like
an a bomb testing grounds in the Nevada Flats. The
ground floor door I went through read Luther Bassett, Canine Dentistry,
Canine dentistry. Inside there was a guy in a short
white medical coat, a pretty patch of hair on his
chin in the style of old Vienna. Luther Bassett. I
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had figured him to be right off, I'd never seen
a go tea on a jone. The dog with him
was on the operating payment. A while later, in a
cubicle off the operating room, Doctor Bassett and I tried
to reach an understanding.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I thank you for coming, so promplamed Craig.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, you phoned me, you said urgent, you said liberal payments.
I liked your language, especially liberal payment. Now skultched my curiosity. First,
what do you fill a dog's teeth with a t
bone steak? The same as with you, amalgaan Gold. The
one you watched had lower bridgework done, lower bridgework. Huh.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh that dog is a Broadway star, Oh Flood, you
must surely know him.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
When I go to the dogs, I do it on
the East side of town, never on Broadway. Oh what
play the.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Hit comedy mister Galulei's ghost, Oh fluff plays a big part.
Oh he gets a tremendous salary.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oooh high livings roarin his choppers. Huh. So what's the
nature of my employment to be Bassett? Something to do
with dogs of the human variety in shellbusiness? Yes, Oh,
you're also in Shelburn.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Only as an investor.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Uh huh, how much? And what theatrical I.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Have invested twenty thousand dollars in a proposed musical fantasy
called twenty fifty five. Twenty fifty five the calendar year
one hundred years from now. It is a fantasy about
the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Poor amusing thought, most producing it? Stanton Bishop and what's
your particular get anxiety? Rumors that I have heard that
the shoe is over financed? Is that banned?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, perhaps I'm not using the right way.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I think. I know a man has one hundred percent
to sell to investors, but he sells one hundred and
fifty percent. The show opens, flops, loses. It's not but
Stanton Bishop isn't a bit worry. He has a load
of sucker money, salt of the way.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
If Stanton Bishop is a splinter and not a legitimate producer,
I must know. You must investigate for me discreetly. Do
you want to retain a foolish question? Money in front
shoppens my talent. I found Stanton Bishop.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
In a rented rehearsal hall on a side street along
the main stem black Hamburg. Pink cheeks, yellow teeth swede shoe.
When I found him. He was pulling producer's rank on
a lot of long stem dolls and dancing types girls.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Tomorrow, I want to see more bounds, bort jump. The
title of the number is and your World is Born.
That means leaps and ecstasy. You've got to prove it
to the customer dismissed for the day.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I listened while.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He complimented the baritone, and mister Eduardo Bernard, you sang
and all I heard was a television commercial for a
mouthwash before signing as a lead baritone. You should first
have your adnoid removed. You're fired from this show.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When Bishop finished throwing his weight around, I tried abusing him.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
By what authority do you inquire into my private business affairs?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This badge?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Hmm, chicken inspector.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
If I were a more sensitive man, that could get
you a punch on the nose.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now now I'm a heartcakee. You punched me, and you're
a murderer.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The book, please book?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What book?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The one you keep for your own information? The record
of investors and money? Who and how much? Now? Where
do you keep it?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Are you in my safety vault?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Not here in your desk?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Here in my desk, huh. Why to accommodate sneaks.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like you that laugh sounded very falsetto to me.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You stay out of my desk.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Gets.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's personal, it's sacred to me.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, I'll bet Oh would this be it?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You give me that ledger?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He wrestle with me? Buster, Okay, if you must be placated, Oh,
don't oversleep, Buster, I get through this book, my hunches.
We'll have things to talk over. Bishop had his swindle
(05:32):
written down in his personal ledger so plainly it looked
like a confession to the DA. Bishop came too, and
we talked it over. Your musical is budgeted to cost
three hundred thousand dollars. You've accepted investors cash totaling over
four hundred thousand dollars, well money for contingencies in beloney.
(05:52):
Who is a show angel named Eloise Pinchley. She's in
for a cool one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
She can afford it. Oh, I would imagine, Uh, Craig,
what Eloise Finchley's investment. It isn't exactly a straight.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Stop for you on the show, then what is it?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
More of a personal loan to me?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You should have thought that little dodge up fast.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So that balances my books? Doesn't it take away Elouise
Finsley's money and the cash I have so far? Except
it is less less, mind you, than my proposed budget.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'll believe the personal loan dodge after I've talked to
Eloise Frenchley.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So what's her phone number? I don't want you telephoning her.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Craig, how many times a day must you be rocked asleep?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm making a change in that script if you'll notice, Craig, uh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh, and where was that gun up till now?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Never mind, you look more like a hood now than
a show produce.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Eh, boring your natural element?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't force me to shoot, Hang up that phone and
get out.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Bishop's violent burg to get me out of his office
at that moment was nothing impulsive, as I soon found out.
It was strategy, plain and simple. Nor did he go
far just to motor ride to the nearest Gretna Greene,
Gretna Greene being shorthand for any place where marriage could
be completed as fast as the couple could chirp, I do.
(07:22):
I read all about it in the morning papers. It
was Broadway impresario Stanton Bishop marries socialized Eloise Finchley. In
surprise and open. At my first opportunity, I paid my
respects to the bride in a fancied bridal suite almost
as close to Central Park as the statue.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Of Sherman's horse Champaigne.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Mister Craig, conversation, Missus Bishop.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You disapprove of my marriage?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Your mister will never get through the pearly gates?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is there a man without vices? Really? Mister Gray?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
How come you elope with Bishop immediately with my investigation
of him?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
How come now let me see? Mm? Yes, he invited
me on a motor ride. It was perfect weather, the.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Moon, mister Craig, You've never seen such a gorgeous moon,
and that was it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Love doesn't stop to reason.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Mister Craik, I've heard Bishop married you as a cover
up for his lossoing. The marriage takes you off his
books as an outside investor and puts it in the family.
It uh balances his books.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Must we really be so dull, mister Craig, So pro sae,
I'm a bride, I'm in heavenly raptures.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, you're heading for one big hangover.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
M hm. I adore Champagne.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'll leave sounding one last dull and prosaic note, must
you the sudden opement, specks of conspiracy, conspiracy to frustrate
an investigation of Bishop's peculiar theatrical financing. Sweet matrimony was
only a device for Whitewashington. How about that?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You don't really expect me to testify against my husband,
mister Craig.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay, I know what I'm like, And you forget one.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the total on Stanton's
books was my own money anyhow?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
My own money is to create.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, and frankly, that angle of it has me be fuddled, perplexed,
confused and listified. I reported back to my clients, the
canine dentist Luthor Bassett. Well, who's the dampipation now Bassett?
Now the famous dog actor?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh yes, this is Rinky ten ten. Ranky ten ten
reputed to be a grand nephew of rin tin Tin.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Wow. Wow, genuine aristocracy? And what show is ranking in
the world and the Egg?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's a play about reincarnation?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What does Rinky play in it?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Napoleon the Dog is the twentieth century reincarnation of Napoleon ye,
mind you it is an allegonical.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yes, I get you. Well, you can lead if you're
twenty thousand with Bishop or not as you please. You
mean the operation is legitimate nowadays, I think I scared
him into legitimate producing. I mean, if Bishop actually has
the show business know how for producing musical but he was.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
First contemplating a swindle with every breath in his body,
then I will withdraw my investment.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, you won't get all of it, not at this date.
Bishop has had some pre production costs already, But so
is what you can go ahead? Well, my cost to
you is three hundred bucks. Pay me off basset. End
(10:39):
of case. Only it wasn't. It was just the beginning.
As it turned out, the blissfully newly weed Stanton Bishops
were doomed to make more headlines gruesome ones. This time
I saw it first on a street newstand, Missus Stanton Bishop.
I can only see that much. Hey, give me that
(11:00):
paper part. The whole headline read Missus Stanton Bishop killed
in street mugging. It had sure have been a short honeymoon.
I let official sources amplify the newspaper details for me.
(11:21):
In this case, the first grade detective in homicide named Scotty.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
What's your interest in the late missus Stanton Bishop Craig?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I am on her passage? How did she go? A
street of Sault and what was taken?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
So far as we know? A purse of diamonds, rots
and her wedding ring according to who Stanton Bishop when
he identified the body?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Oh what police results?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
So for none?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
No clue to the alleged mugger. You hit the word
alleged Why because frankly I'm skeptical for your reason? Nothing concrete,
so I won't give it yet. What was the cause
of debt? Strangulation?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
A broken neck? She'd been hit with the side of
the palm. A rabbit punch, it's a favorite blow with
mugging or a keller.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Tried to make it look like a standard mugging. Oh
why did it happen?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Fifty fourth and ninth? We found the victim in an
area way.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oooh hard to believe. What is a lady of her
style being at fifty fourth and night To begin with,
Eloise Finchley Bishop was Park Avenue, very perfumed, very upper class,
not always what would that be?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Our check into her pedigree turned up some interesting facts.
She was posing as a social lite and her maiden
name Finchley was an assumed one.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Then who was she really?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Eloise Burkie father was a railroad brakeman. Parents now both dead.
Eloise herself was a dress model when she worked. Not
that there's any law against posing as society.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Folks, No, there isn't. Only one thing really has me confused?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Now, Yeah, what's that great?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well? Where would it? Sometimes? Dress model get one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for a theatrical investment. I was
around the rehearsal hall to give my condolences to Stanton Bishop. Personally,
he looked a little different to me this visit. The
(13:21):
pink cheeks were sallow, deep lines in his face like
he'd had some new worries at it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What do you want here, Craig?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
What was missus Stanton doing on the wrong side of tone?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
How should I know?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Or what was stolen from her?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I've already told the police. Tell me her pocket book,
a diamond wristwatch in her wedding ring. Craig, You're not
going to maliciously persecute me, shouldn't I? And in the
morning I I experienced a horrible tragedy. I think of
how wellow he's died. I I have nightmares. I'm in
a cold sweat. Said, what's happened to our one hundred
(13:56):
and fifty thousand, Craig, Please not at a time like
this tough day.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Answer.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Look, I'm straight, clean as a new baby. Maybe I
had ideas once, wrong ideas, but all right, you cured me,
now let me live.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That depends on how your wife really died.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
He was attacked, she was robbed, her neck was broken
by some homicidal maniac, or that's how.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It was made to appear.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Then you are going to persecute me maliciously, at.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Least until you explain to me how an extress model
was able to invest a fortune in your show. Also,
what really was the attraction that got you too married?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Heckle me or embarrass me with the police in the public,
You'll only make trouble for yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Did you marry your wife and fathered off as I'm
mugging by a person A person's unknown? No, I tell
you no, I tell you no. I did a further
check into the background of the corpse, with the grudging
connivance of first grade Detective Scott.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It Craig, I can get reprimanded for this or promoted,
promoted for letting you into an apartment officially sealed to
the public.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Now look, I saw this. I quietly turned the information
over to you. I don't take a bow. You get
a promotion and.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
A race bore, you get a dangling sucker bait.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Eh Heloise Bertie Helleness Finchley extress model. Where did she
ever get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars? Well, squat somewhere, Scottie.
While I look around, I came up with a ton
(15:37):
of stuff hidden away in bureau drawers, driven packages, and
a steamer truck. The personal stuff nobody ever throws away.
Old letters, diaries, a high school pen and picture album,
lots of picture albums, the recent alowise that collected the
history of her life and snapshots.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah she's in it from the first baby pools on
a bear rug right that made.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah eloise and pigtails in her school graduation dress. How
she looked at sweet sixteen on her first date as
a slim chick in a one piece bathing suit. How
she looked as a dress.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Beholded, Craig or what strikes you that page of snapshots.
The two shots Elowise pos with a guy. Six pictures
the same guy.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What about it? Well, study the face of the guy.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
How you recognize him?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, I've seen him. Why, Sure, he's famous, notorious. He's ardy, Anzac,
big gun, ardy, Anzac big.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Gun used to be. Oh, he's responsible now retired from
the rackets. He's had it, served twenty years eleven worth
for tax evasion.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
This page of pictures Anzac and Eloise, they look like
very recent photographs.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Watch out with Anzac Craig. He's still king to a
big piece of Gangland.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I'll be most respectful. I've got a thing about royal.
Anzac lived like royalty should. Heavily worded the state on
the outskirts of the city, with a high stone wall
around it like the side of a mountain. I found
(17:16):
him practicing golfing putts on a library rug. I talked
while Anzac concentrated on his stance. When he figured out
his answers, he gave them to me. Sure I know, Elouise,
sweet kid, sweet dead kid.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yeah, ain't it a shame out? Walking and that's it?
Still everybody dies, So I'm just go sooner.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
What was she to you?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
En Zac, I babe.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I bought her a coat, I bought one of them
foreign cars, and then I moved on to another.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Baby period period. I'm not poor.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Spread the wealth.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I figured, did it bother you? When Eloise married Stanton Bishop,
I'm not a bit I'm for marriage.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
My mother was married.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I even sent them a wire of congratulations with a
load of flowers that cost me a sea note, Craig,
I already had another babe there, you said.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Now, I'd like to get back to my part.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'm in a tournament tomorrow, but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Through talking what else did while I'm at the point
now mentioning one hundred and fifty thousand dollars not a dough.
Aloise invested that much in Bishop's musical production.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Now where would a babe get that kind of cabbage?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think from you?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Hey, I'm not that generous.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think Alois invested it for you idle money, hot money,
undeclared income. She was your front, so tax officials wouldn't
be the wiser. You'd already served time for tax evasion.
You'd had enough of that.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hey, that's quite an idea you've got.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh, I'm loaded with ideas. I also think Aloise double
crossed you, that she invested the money for herself, and
that Bishop knew the source of the money and what
Aloise was up to, and that Bishop used that knowledge
as a weapon to make Aloise marry him. Why would
he do that? Oh, he had to make Aloise marry him.
I'd been investigating Bishop. I'd found a regularities enough for
(19:06):
me to alert the district attorney. Bishop had to find
a device for shutting me off.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I got practice in the new Craig.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm an attornement tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I think you murdered Aloise to pay her off for
the double cross and as an object lesson for Bishop.
So Bishop will respect you a one hundred and fifty
thousand dollar piece of his musical production. I think you're
the killer ANZACs.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Watch this pot.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Beautiful? Huh?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I left Anzac to drive home. Anzac's wanted the state
to join the famous state park popular with campers, hikers,
and hunters. Signs on roadside trees advertised the two week
open hunting season. Deer was the big game. I almost
a rifle shot through my side window that almost skinned
(20:04):
my scalp. A wild shot, I wondered, or was it
a devoted anzac subject trying to please the king. It
was one of the things in life I'd never known.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Stanton
(20:27):
Bishop figured to be the weak link, an easy mark
for a trick designed to get corroborating evidence against a
suspected killer. I found them alone in the rehearsal hall,
chewing on a dead cigar.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Craig, you soured my whole life.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh sad, I wonder how nervous you'll be, Bishop, strapped
in the electric chair, strapped me, Craig for what? The
murder of your wife? I've got evidence against you, evidence
those articles supposedly stolen from Eloise. So so I've got
them locked up in my office.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Where could you get them?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Right out of your wife's bureau.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's a trick. You're lying to me. You're trying to
track me in something, but you can't be sure.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You had lived a story of stolen articles to make
the alleged mugging plausible. Why were you so anxious to
have it written off as an unsolved mugging? Who are
you afraid of? You clam up, You'll only be a
fall guy. Bishop, who's the somebody else? Bishop. Come on,
it's trembling on your lips.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Handsack already Anzac. He murdered Delouise. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't bother to I already know why. Now the
guy answering this phone will be Scotty of homicide. Tell
your story to him from here on.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
It's his case.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Hello, Scotti, this is Barry Craig. Scottie, I've got a
guy here who's gonna mean your raise and promotion. Yes,
a Craig promise is always redeemable in cash.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You have been listening to William Gargan in another exciting
transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Tonight's story, Corpse on the Town was written by John Robert.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Next Week.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's the strange story of the Golden Touch, about which
Barry Craig has this to say. In The Golden Touch,
a doll with amnesia forgets everything but her alibi when
her partner in unholy matrimony takes a second fatal leap
out of her arms and into eternates. The National Broadcasting
(23:08):
Company has just brought to an NBC Radio Network production
with William Gargan starring as Barry Craig, confidential investigator. Directed
by Andrew C. Love, the cast included Parley Bear, Frank Gersteal,
Vivi Janis, and Joe Forte. This is the NBC Radio
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