June 26, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bargin stars as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A sudden loss of weight might be caused for anxiety,
but one good thing. At least it makes the pall
bearers job a whole lot lighter. A National Broadcasting Company
presents William Gargan in another transcribed drama of mystery and
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adventure with America's number one detective, Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator
Barry Craig speaking once every year, an epidemic of lunacy
sweeps across the nation. Some call it Midsummer madness. You
get sunstroked by day and moon struck by night. I
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got my dose of it the resort Hotel Jubilee Vella.
The big neon signs across the roof, said Jubilee Vella,
where days were given to pinochle and golf, the nights
were given to lawn dancers under big sheltering pines. Like
everybody else, I was dancing. Unlike everybody else, I had
a genuine, non died, natural blonde babe.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
In my arm.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh you dance divinely Bury mm, you'd only put that
in writing, Blundie writing.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I collect testimony.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Lundy was a vacation guest with a ruby mouth and
a slim trim Panitella chessis got an extra ounce of
butterfat or a chocolate bonbon anywhere on earth. The name
she gave was Linda Paris. I was kicking my heels
at Jubilee Villa at Linda's own request. She'd phoned me
to please come what she had on her lovely mind.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I didn't know yet.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I was too busy totally up what she had on
me outside.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I suppose the time has come to.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Talk, Barrys.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You've probably been wondering why I telephoned and dragged you
up here.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I stopped wondering after the second high ball down that path.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
There, there's a there's a great barber. We can be
alone there.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You've enticed me.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Only to talk about my problem old I really do
have a problem there.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, I know with men, you've had that same one
problem since the age of three. I'll bet, but leave
us sojourant. A great barber under the moon, with the
witching blonde at hand means all things to all men,
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but to a confidential cop it only means work, police work.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You have facilities for finding out about people.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I do now who do you want to find out
about Stuart Stoner?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Who's he a guest here at the hotel?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So you want a confidential police check on him?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, I want to do the conservative thing before I
before getting too a missed, before getting engaged.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And you're afraid Stewart is a low down fortune? Is
that the number of it?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, he led me to believe that he too is rich.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm assigned one of the vital statistics are on Stuart
Stoner hometown, family, business, et cetera, and so forth.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I know nothing except that his people are supposed to
be in Milwaukee society.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know more when I'm through Milwaukee. Here I come
one thing about a long train ride and catch up
on your back reading came the day after tomorrow. I
returned to Jubilee Villa full of news from Milwaukee, bad
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news for Blundie's.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's also incomprehensible to me.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Then let me repeat myself. There is no Stoner family
in Milwaukee society, and no young aristocrat named Stuart Stoner.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Then Stuart is a masquerader.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It would seem, And so are you too, a masquerader, Blundee.
I hate checked both. Then of the matrimonial question mark.
I'm a bug for thirtists, Linda Paris of Brockton, Massachusetts.
No such she animal. Now what's the real name?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Blundie Mary ranser Off, a working girl, a wage slave.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Department store, ribbon counter.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I'm a man of curist.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You're putting on quite a big show here at Jubilee Villa.
Where'd you get the wardrobe and the fifty five.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Dollars a day?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
My savings?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Your pitch to snag a rich husband.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's just as easy to love a rich man to shame.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
All right, assignment completed, Pay me off and kiss me goodbye.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
No, no, I still want to know about Stuart.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Like you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He's fortune hunting.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Oh well, well you see.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You go for him nevertheless and notwithstanding. Okay, then I'll
stick around a while. On the day I go, you
can call me the guy who murdered Cupid. I didn't
buck Stewart's stoner right away and made a study of
him first from afar. Watched his behavior like a guinea
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pig behind glass, a guinea pig with a pencil line mustache.
I watched him like a tennis ball. Well nace, I
joined in the gallery. Applause I watched him el all
up to the oval bar in the cafe lounge, much
too green in the gills for Nathalie, and a haunted
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look around his eyes, like sleep came tough and ordering
the type of drink guaranteed to drown anyone solid.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Double.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I watched him playing cards in the casino, a two
handed game for stakes that could lift the national debt
in Pongo pongo.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Oh that beats me, Yes, it's not my night, Better
luck tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That's what you said yesterday. I'm afraid I'm a little
short of cash.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Check his fine stone and if you're overdrawn of the bank,
and I who used just as good.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Six thousand dollars loss for the afternoon's play. But what
made it especially interesting for me was the face of
the winner.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I knew the face.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'd seen it around on the streets and in the
rogues gallery. Lou Latimer, a con man, card shop and
plain crook. The question I asked myself was why was
a card sharp accepting iouse from a phony vacation Opposing
as a son of wealth. Ladimer worked like a cupwork.
He checked the pedigree of every sucker. He sat down
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to cards with a loatim. I had to know that
Stuart Stoner was a made up name, So why was
Latimer accepting paper instead of cash? That evening after a
supperagi of boushed and bake herrying, I tackled Stuart stone
in person. He was sprawled on a hammock letting the
supper digest evening Hella, Craig's the name, Barry Craig. You
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don't feel sociable, Frankly, I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's a surprise. Why is it surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I've watched you around the clock, tennis, cars and chit chat.
I've seldom seen a more gregarious and sociable guy. Or
maybe it's a question of the kind of company that remark,
meaning you interpret it, you draw the line where I'm concerned. Now,
if you don't mind, you want to be alone, mister Craig,
I have an absolute right. Don't let your thermometerize buster
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who warned you off me?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Because that's my guess about our unfriendly little situation.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So who was it? A friend of mine?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Your card partner, Ladimer? What did Laimer tell you that
I was an unsavory character or something?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You're very astute alright.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
He warned me that you were on someome kind of operator, underhanded,
a type.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That works vacation resorts, words to that effect.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, what have I now told you? Latimer was describing himself,
and i'd.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Expect you to say that you would.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Latimer also told me you'd lie if trapped, and you'd
reverse everything.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But you were clever like.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That, luck buster. Latimer is a card shop and a crook.
And let's settle a question of my veracity. Wants it
for keeps? I'm a detective here, squinch your eyes of
my credentials.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The badge is authentic.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Did Latimer also warn you that I'd flash your phony
chicken inspector's badge?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'm confused, so am I.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What particularly confuses me is why a smart boy like
Latimer would collect your worthless io use my worthless your
hair using a Natius. The name Stuart Stunner is made up.
You've been handing a down named Linda Parris, a lineup bunk.
You let the impressions circulate that you're loaded, filthy rich,
but the odds are one hundred to one. You haven't
even got it cash enough to pay your board bill.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You were saying, I have nothing to say. Don't please
heckle me anymore. I'm I'm spinning.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah you are the steaming sweat and your eyes rolling
you subject of fits.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
No no, no, no fits, just just every now and
then a feeling of suffocation.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
L like now, I blank, blank out, Stoner.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Blank God he did, big eyes staring blindly, and not
a fluttered to him, hardly a pulse, and his face
contorted an ugly red foes like it was an outside
picture of some deep agony inside. I left him as
he was and went for help. The house doctor had
been gone for almost twenty minutes before Stoner could put
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words together coherently.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Please don't broadcast what you saw tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You seemed to slip into a fog, Ben Stoner. I
got the feeling your eyes were seeing sights you were trying.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
To shut out. My eyes were seeing sights.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The eyes of memory, let's say, like you were looking
over your shoulder into yesterday, like you are an amneesy
what's in yesterday that gets you by the throat?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Stone? Oh, you're talking talk. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Stewart's Stoneer you call yourself, but what's your right name?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Some other time huh if you insist on this sort
of weird interrogation right now, I just I just want to.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Go to bed. I want to help getting upstairs. No,
I want nothing from you.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'll help do it.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
To his room, Margot, the house doctor told me you'd fainted.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I came to introduce me Stoner, mister Craig, Margo Swift. Hello,
mister Craig.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You want him, lady, He's all your Margot, if I
can just have your arm. I watched them move away slowly,
her arm around his waist and a lovelight in her
eyes tightly trust look to her figure, cold black hair,
colored gypsy kerchiefs around her neck, and a look of
experience to her older than Stewart. But you'd need her
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birth to to get to prove it. She was that preserved.
Linda and Margot, blonde and brunette. Stoner was doing okay
with the ladies. A while later, in my room, while
wrestling with a knot in my tires the prelude to
showering before bed, I found a typewritten note propped against
my bureau mirror. The management regrets the need to terminate
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your stay due to a prior reservation made for room
to eleven. Room two eleven was my room. It was
a deadline noted on the bottom of the eviction note.
We would appreciate possession of Groom two eleven by nine pm.
Nine pm was one minute away. Correction, it was nine pm.
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I acted calm in the emergency. I tore up the note.
That night I had a crazy dream. I dreamed there
was a load of iron hanging from the sea like
a chandelier, hanging on a line, with my head ready
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to drop, with the length of wire holding itever snap.
I lay there making book the wire I wouldn't snap.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was wrong. It did snap, and.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The iron dropped. I promptly stopped dreaming. Wake up from
the midsummer's night's dream. You can find yourself and straight
and surrounding. I imagine I found myself on the bottom
of lakes. But that was too crazy even for midsummer.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
What was a fact?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Was I a lake lay around.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Me only ankle height.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I was plopped in reeds that were taller than me,
kind of reeds you find around the edge of country lakes.
I had water in my nose and ears, the stagnant
pool of slop in my stomach. If I survived by him,
I'd need a stomach pump. I lay where I was
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listening to owl hoots. The owl had hooted himself hoarse
before I became aware of the lump on my head.
What had actually happened dawned on me very slowly. I'd
been slug senseless in Room two eleven, carried to a
nearby lake, and tossed in attempted murder. Somebody was very
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careless about whether I lived or died.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
When I was up to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It, I had questions to put to the friendly management
of Jubilee Villa. The guy managing Jubilee Villa looked like
a wax museum exhibit, the skin you'd hate to touch
unless you were a fellow zombie, and horn rimmed glasses
with lenses so thick as eyes magnified into the size
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of golf balls. A brass name played on the desk,
red Otto Henzer. His attitude towards me was downright contemptuous.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Mister Craig, you expect me to give credence to this
fantastic story.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I do expect, mister Craig. You suffer from sunstroke. I
wear a visor cap in the sun.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well, then it is too much to drink, and then,
with your imagination, should never drink. I've been on buttermilk
since I arrived here, block hencer. I don't imagine being
slugged and thrown into a lake where.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Then at least thank your stars that you are alive.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
No fault of my assailants, My guess there is he
didn't figure i'd land in a shallow bed.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Then you insist on this preposterous store.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Top of my lungs. Someone in Jubilee Villas. That's my
being around. I'm a meddler. There's some scheme of foot
and wait, yes, mister Craig, the management of Jubilee Villa,
that's you wanted me out of the place at nine
pm to night. Why hens a a prior reservation for
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room two eleven.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Sure, that's the reason. It is the reason.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Of course, I didn't comply with the vacate request. I
went to bed. From there I was forcibly evicted. I
woke up in a lake.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Mister Craig, there is no connection between our simple request
that you give up your room in this disillucination.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm getting off retired of you insinuating I'm a nuthole.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Right, then I will accept your story.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And your explanation of it on that basis a prowl.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
There I have another incidents.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Come to think of it, A trespasser entered your room,
your assaulted.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And carried a half mile from my room to the lake.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Mister Craig, the criminal mind is something unpredictable that there
is no logical patterl.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You sure have been trying to sell me one idea
after another. Hanswer why?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Because I'm perplexed like you are perplexed.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I think one thing and then I think another.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let's see right now, Hans, I'm thinking one thing and
what is that?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You could be a Grade A fourteen carrot phony. The
next day I let the con man and card shop
blue Latimer tell me.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
A few lies.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Man has a right to live down his past. Cray,
no question, I had a few brushes with the low ones.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Sure I don't deny it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You served a few sentences, one sentence, Pardon the slander.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I'm a change man, did they pillar of the.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Community, San Quentin community? The way you cops love to
write a guy.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Beastly of us.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Look, I'm a respectable businessman today what business salesman selling
Bunco machine tools. What are you doing here at Jubilee
Vella vacationing with a deck of cards in every pocket?
I don't play cards the same old way.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Meaning I play for pastime for profit.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
So I played a win.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who doesn't, Which brings me to a basic question. What
and I owe you? I saw Stuart Stone, I give
you a six thousand dollar piece of paper I wanted fairly,
even supposing you did. How come you're accepting paper from
a mascuarader? What a mascarader? The name Stuart Stoner's anatis.
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The young man is here representing himself fraudulent.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Oh wit, hi minute, Craig Stone has loaded from a
rich klan. The Stone is a Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
He is not.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's only a cardboard front. Stoner is a phony and
you know it, Latimer.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
How would I know it?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Because that's how you operate.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Before skinning a sucker, You check every detail of its
pedigree back to the day he was born. You know
how much he's worked or how little, so you can
judge how much to take him for.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Well, Oh, what you say is a fact that Stone
is a phony. Then I've been rooked. I'm holding worthless paper. Well,
that's time me it would appear.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But I still wonder, Alatimer, what see the giant egg
building in my skull up here?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Looks nasty? Want to claim credit for it?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Oh the way you try to cut me down?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You some surface polish.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You look distinguished in your Bermuda shorts, but you're a
mug underneath.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And a thud. Look chum.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
If this hackling session is over, I've.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Got another insult killer killer till you convince me. Otherwise
I'll go on thinking you try to drown me last night?
One minute, Latimer, Oh, what token of my very high
regard for you?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Love either conquers all.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Or its surrenders My client Linda Paris Born playing Mary
Randaha ran up the white play.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I'm leaving for home after dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Goodbye to Julie Villa.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yes, I'm already impact.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Say goodbye to Stone yet.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh we had a long talk over breakfast, and the
gist of it you admitted to having assumed the name
of Stuart Stoner.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What is his real name?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
He couldn't say there he didn't seem to know.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Really offering himself was an amneasy huh. Look, Blundy, I'm
here on your account. I can't follow your example, pack up,
scram and forget, leave everything unresolved. I'm a cop at
heart and by profession. I want to know who, what
and why is Alis Stewart Stoner. I want to know
what lou Latimer's game is and where the management Otto
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Henser fits into the scheme. And Margot, I'm glad you
brought her up. What about the lady Margo?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
She and Stuart were close when I first arrived. I
suppose I cut Margo out. Stuart began to chase me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I can't blame him now, I've seen Margo.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
In clandestine meetings with that man Latimer down at Prippet Lake.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Anything else you've tucked away in your lovely mind as
a significant detail.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes, Henser kept trying to involve me with other male guests,
as if he could.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Preserve Stoner for Margo in line with a three way partnership. Otto, Henser,
Latimer and Margo.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I don't understand a three way scheme.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Can loot wolves sharing a lamb? But where's the possible
profit in Stuart's Stoner? What's the bait for Henser, Latimer
and Margot? Stoner's a phony and masquerader a dead bee.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Maybe Henser, Latimer, and Margot don't actually know Stoneer's a masquerader.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
If they didn't know, impossible to believe, as that is,
they suck at themselves in some attempted badger game. They
do know now, I told Latimer that Stoner was a phony.
Now do you want to quit or follow through?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm a fool not to mind my all?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Search every inch of Stoner's room and effects. You play
lookout while I play Burglar. The results of searching Stoner's
effects were a little frightening. Later, in a woodsy hideout,
Lender and eyes shivered over what we firmed.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Berrio then toastic lengths.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Of copper wire, all cut down, a convenient sign the
tools of a strangler. I just can't believe, and try
believing Stone's amazing collection of newspaper clippings. These mystery strangler
terrorizes East End date line Minneapolis, and this one strangler
claims elderly victim date line Seattle, and these similar clippings
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date line the Ark Boston, Shreevesport one man operate east,
northwest and south all over the map the scoop of it.
But this isn't one man's autobiographic collection of himself.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
It isn't.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The dates on the clips cover almost four years. They
represent a lot of stranglings and a lot of stranglers,
a lot of stranglers, some of who have been caught
in jailed. I recognize a few of the cases.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Then this is just a collection of clippings. Fetish is
the word.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I think the pleasure of the collector, call him psychopath
gets it comes from the clippings themselves. Let's say the
Joy and some other fellow's crimes.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Stewart is a madman.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It would appear a madman, or or that's what somebody
wants us to think. Mainly wants you to think me
so you'd scream and run, glad to escape a fate
worse than all.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
This is part of the scheme.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's my surmiind For what fasis do you have? The
character of Henser Latimer and company. There are going canivers
who play to win. They knew the company would sooner
or later send me up to Stoner's room. This stuff
was planted for me to find, enough to disillusion me
in Stoner, but not enough to pinch him. No real
evidence of a crime or an actual criminal personality. What now, Oh,
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let Henser, Latimer in company horse themselves into believing they
hold trumps, that you're scared of that, I'm disinterested in
any further to do with a nut.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
We make our fun farewells.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
We leave you believe villa.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Officially only unofficially we're still around. We're hold up somewhere
with our eye on this place, watching to see the
next move of the gang against Stoner.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
But what can they want of Stuart?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I finally come to the conclusion about that one Stoner
is an amnesiac, isn't sure of who he is and
where from, et cetera. Two he is not a poor masquerader,
but a rich.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
One after all, Stuart rich uh huh.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Do position and a good marital catch for Margo. Also
profitable game for Latimer to account for the IOUs, also
a klondike for Henser.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Otherwise there be no reason.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
At all for a plot that means they know Stuart's
true identity.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
They do, but Stuart doesn't. So will you join me
in hiding down? Where do you hide with a blonde?
Not being able to find a tree house, we settle
pern auto camp or quit two miles from Jubileevella adjoining cabins.
After two days of keeping Jubileevella under surveillance, we finally
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got a look at how Henser, Latimer and Margo planned
to play the trump cart, the kind of trap they
had baited for weak minded Stone. Sweet music in the
cool of the evening, piped into the grape offer the
grapeather set with into the table. It's a canopy of
freshly cut flowers. A few picked guests and the local parson.
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A marriage was taking place Margot and Stone, with Latimer
hens there to give the bride away.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You're not going to let him get married, shouldn't, I
shouldn't bear your keys?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Ish not stop it, Blundie, but only at a strategic moment.
The strategic moment came. The man in the high collar
was reaching the end of his text.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
If any man knows some reason why this bears should
not be joined in the bonds of matrimony, letting.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Nasty speaking, stop the wedding. I'd played cop at Jubilee
Villa five, but I hadn't played Cupid.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So good.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Linda left in my company, as it turned out, and
not in Stuart Stoner's. That is alias Stuart Stoner.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Stuart is really Fabian Carlisle, So.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Latimer confessed the Carlisles of Honolulu, big shipping family. Willis amnesia,
might disappear, might reoccur. I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I suppose I'll always regret it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Letting the rich one get away?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yes, so why did you Stoner looked like he could
be coaxed all over again?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh, I'm sure I'll regret it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
What a last piece of advice. What when you married,
have eight kids? With eight kids around dow, you're too
busy for regrets.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You have a listening to William Gargan and another exciting
transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Tonight's story, Midsummer Lunacy was written by John Robert. Next
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week it's the strange story of Blood Money, about which
Barry Craig has this to say. In next week's story
Blood Money, an Oriental rug dealer finds himself as snug
as a bug in a casket when a killer comes
calling with gold in his eye.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Good Night, folks, see you next week.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
A national broadcasting company has just brought you an NBC
Radio Network production with William Gargan starring as Barry Craig,
Confidential Investigator, directed by Arthur Jacobson. Also heard Hillary Hall
as Linda, Alice Bacchus as Margot, Tony Barrett as Latimer,
George Nice as Stuart, and Herb Ellis as henser Eddie
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King speaking. Within the next twenty seconds, a fire will
break out somewhere in the United States. Lives may be lost,
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property damaged, homes or buildings destroyed. Yes, there are four thousand,
six hundred fires in America each day of the year.
They kill eleven thousand persons and disfigure or severely burn
thousands more. The unfortunate part of this picture is that
most of these fires could have been avoid For example,
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ninety percent of all fires which start in the home
can be traced to human carelessness. By obeying a few
simple rules of fire prevention. From now on, you and
I can protect ourselves and our families from this devastating menace.
Rule one is don't smoke in bed or discard lighted
cigarettes carelessly.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Rule two clean out.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
All newspapers, magazines, and other inflammable debris. Rule three promptly
repair defective wiring as soon as you notice it fire
won't wait until tomorrow. Rule four, use only those cleaning
fluids which will not burn. And last but not least,
be careful with matches. Keep them out of the reach
of small children. Remember it doesn't pay to gamble with fire.
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The odds are against you. Every time there's another exciting
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Bargin stars as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A sudden loss of weight might be caused for anxiety,
but one good thing. At least it makes the pall
bearers job a whole lot lighter. A National Broadcasting Company
presents William Gargan in another transcribed drama of mystery and
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adventure with America's number one detective, Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator
Barry Craig speaking once every year, an epidemic of lunacy
sweeps across the nation. Some call it Midsummer madness. You
get sunstroked by day and moon struck by night. I
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got my dose of it the resort Hotel Jubilee Vella.
The big neon signs across the roof, said Jubilee Vella,
where days were given to pinochle and golf, the nights
were given to lawn dancers under big sheltering pines. Like
everybody else, I was dancing. Unlike everybody else, I had
a genuine, non died, natural blonde babe.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
In my arm.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh you dance divinely Bury mm, you'd only put that
in writing, Blundie writing.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I collect testimony.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Lundy was a vacation guest with a ruby mouth and
a slim trim Panitella chessis got an extra ounce of
butterfat or a chocolate bonbon anywhere on earth. The name
she gave was Linda Paris. I was kicking my heels
at Jubilee Villa at Linda's own request. She'd phoned me
to please come what she had on her lovely mind.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I didn't know yet.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I was too busy totally up what she had on
me outside.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I suppose the time has come to.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Talk, Barrys.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You've probably been wondering why I telephoned and dragged you
up here.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I stopped wondering after the second high ball down that path.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
There, there's a there's a great barber. We can be
alone there.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You've enticed me.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Only to talk about my problem old I really do
have a problem there.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, I know with men, you've had that same one
problem since the age of three. I'll bet, but leave
us sojourant. A great barber under the moon, with the
witching blonde at hand means all things to all men,
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but to a confidential cop it only means work, police work.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You have facilities for finding out about people.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I do now who do you want to find out
about Stuart Stoner?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Who's he a guest here at the hotel?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So you want a confidential police check on him?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, I want to do the conservative thing before I
before getting too a missed, before getting engaged.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And you're afraid Stewart is a low down fortune? Is
that the number of it?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, he led me to believe that he too is rich.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm assigned one of the vital statistics are on Stuart
Stoner hometown, family, business, et cetera, and so forth.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I know nothing except that his people are supposed to
be in Milwaukee society.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know more when I'm through Milwaukee. Here I come
one thing about a long train ride and catch up
on your back reading came the day after tomorrow. I
returned to Jubilee Villa full of news from Milwaukee, bad
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news for Blundie's.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's also incomprehensible to me.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Then let me repeat myself. There is no Stoner family
in Milwaukee society, and no young aristocrat named Stuart Stoner.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Then Stuart is a masquerader.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It would seem, And so are you too, a masquerader, Blundee.
I hate checked both. Then of the matrimonial question mark.
I'm a bug for thirtists, Linda Paris of Brockton, Massachusetts.
No such she animal. Now what's the real name?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Blundie Mary ranser Off, a working girl, a wage slave.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Department store, ribbon counter.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I'm a man of curist.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You're putting on quite a big show here at Jubilee Villa.
Where'd you get the wardrobe and the fifty five.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Dollars a day?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
My savings?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Your pitch to snag a rich husband.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's just as easy to love a rich man to shame.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
All right, assignment completed, Pay me off and kiss me goodbye.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
No, no, I still want to know about Stuart.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Like you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He's fortune hunting.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Oh well, well you see.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You go for him nevertheless and notwithstanding. Okay, then I'll
stick around a while. On the day I go, you
can call me the guy who murdered Cupid. I didn't
buck Stewart's stoner right away and made a study of
him first from afar. Watched his behavior like a guinea
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pig behind glass, a guinea pig with a pencil line mustache.
I watched him like a tennis ball. Well nace, I
joined in the gallery. Applause I watched him el all
up to the oval bar in the cafe lounge, much
too green in the gills for Nathalie, and a haunted
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look around his eyes, like sleep came tough and ordering
the type of drink guaranteed to drown anyone solid.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Double.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I watched him playing cards in the casino, a two
handed game for stakes that could lift the national debt
in Pongo pongo.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Oh that beats me, Yes, it's not my night, Better
luck tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That's what you said yesterday. I'm afraid I'm a little
short of cash.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Check his fine stone and if you're overdrawn of the bank,
and I who used just as good.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Six thousand dollars loss for the afternoon's play. But what
made it especially interesting for me was the face of
the winner.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I knew the face.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'd seen it around on the streets and in the
rogues gallery. Lou Latimer, a con man, card shop and
plain crook. The question I asked myself was why was
a card sharp accepting iouse from a phony vacation Opposing
as a son of wealth. Ladimer worked like a cupwork.
He checked the pedigree of every sucker. He sat down
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to cards with a loatim. I had to know that
Stuart Stoner was a made up name, So why was
Latimer accepting paper instead of cash? That evening after a
supperagi of boushed and bake herrying, I tackled Stuart stone
in person. He was sprawled on a hammock letting the
supper digest evening Hella, Craig's the name, Barry Craig. You
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don't feel sociable, Frankly, I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's a surprise. Why is it surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I've watched you around the clock, tennis, cars and chit chat.
I've seldom seen a more gregarious and sociable guy. Or
maybe it's a question of the kind of company that remark,
meaning you interpret it, you draw the line where I'm concerned. Now,
if you don't mind, you want to be alone, mister Craig,
I have an absolute right. Don't let your thermometerize buster
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who warned you off me?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Because that's my guess about our unfriendly little situation.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So who was it? A friend of mine?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Your card partner, Ladimer? What did Laimer tell you that
I was an unsavory character or something?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You're very astute alright.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
He warned me that you were on someome kind of operator, underhanded,
a type.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That works vacation resorts, words to that effect.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, what have I now told you? Latimer was describing himself,
and i'd.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Expect you to say that you would.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Latimer also told me you'd lie if trapped, and you'd
reverse everything.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But you were clever like.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That, luck buster. Latimer is a card shop and a crook.
And let's settle a question of my veracity. Wants it
for keeps? I'm a detective here, squinch your eyes of
my credentials.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The badge is authentic.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Did Latimer also warn you that I'd flash your phony
chicken inspector's badge?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'm confused, so am I.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What particularly confuses me is why a smart boy like
Latimer would collect your worthless io use my worthless your
hair using a Natius. The name Stuart Stunner is made up.
You've been handing a down named Linda Parris, a lineup bunk.
You let the impressions circulate that you're loaded, filthy rich,
but the odds are one hundred to one. You haven't
even got it cash enough to pay your board bill.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You were saying, I have nothing to say. Don't please
heckle me anymore. I'm I'm spinning.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah you are the steaming sweat and your eyes rolling
you subject of fits.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
No no, no, no fits, just just every now and
then a feeling of suffocation.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
L like now, I blank, blank out, Stoner.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Blank God he did, big eyes staring blindly, and not
a fluttered to him, hardly a pulse, and his face
contorted an ugly red foes like it was an outside
picture of some deep agony inside. I left him as
he was and went for help. The house doctor had
been gone for almost twenty minutes before Stoner could put
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words together coherently.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Please don't broadcast what you saw tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You seemed to slip into a fog, Ben Stoner. I
got the feeling your eyes were seeing sights you were trying.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
To shut out. My eyes were seeing sights.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The eyes of memory, let's say, like you were looking
over your shoulder into yesterday, like you are an amneesy
what's in yesterday that gets you by the throat?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Stone? Oh, you're talking talk. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Stewart's Stoneer you call yourself, but what's your right name?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Some other time huh if you insist on this sort
of weird interrogation right now, I just I just want to.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Go to bed. I want to help getting upstairs. No,
I want nothing from you.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'll help do it.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
To his room, Margot, the house doctor told me you'd fainted.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I came to introduce me Stoner, mister Craig, Margo Swift. Hello,
mister Craig.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You want him, lady, He's all your Margot, if I
can just have your arm. I watched them move away slowly,
her arm around his waist and a lovelight in her
eyes tightly trust look to her figure, cold black hair,
colored gypsy kerchiefs around her neck, and a look of
experience to her older than Stewart. But you'd need her
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birth to to get to prove it. She was that preserved.
Linda and Margot, blonde and brunette. Stoner was doing okay
with the ladies. A while later, in my room, while
wrestling with a knot in my tires the prelude to
showering before bed, I found a typewritten note propped against
my bureau mirror. The management regrets the need to terminate
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your stay due to a prior reservation made for room
to eleven. Room two eleven was my room. It was
a deadline noted on the bottom of the eviction note.
We would appreciate possession of Groom two eleven by nine pm.
Nine pm was one minute away. Correction, it was nine pm.
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I acted calm in the emergency. I tore up the note.
That night I had a crazy dream. I dreamed there
was a load of iron hanging from the sea like
a chandelier, hanging on a line, with my head ready
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to drop, with the length of wire holding itever snap.
I lay there making book the wire I wouldn't snap.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was wrong. It did snap, and.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The iron dropped. I promptly stopped dreaming. Wake up from
the midsummer's night's dream. You can find yourself and straight
and surrounding. I imagine I found myself on the bottom
of lakes. But that was too crazy even for midsummer.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
What was a fact?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Was I a lake lay around.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Me only ankle height.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I was plopped in reeds that were taller than me,
kind of reeds you find around the edge of country lakes.
I had water in my nose and ears, the stagnant
pool of slop in my stomach. If I survived by him,
I'd need a stomach pump. I lay where I was
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listening to owl hoots. The owl had hooted himself hoarse
before I became aware of the lump on my head.
What had actually happened dawned on me very slowly. I'd
been slug senseless in Room two eleven, carried to a
nearby lake, and tossed in attempted murder. Somebody was very
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careless about whether I lived or died.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
When I was up to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It, I had questions to put to the friendly management
of Jubilee Villa. The guy managing Jubilee Villa looked like
a wax museum exhibit, the skin you'd hate to touch
unless you were a fellow zombie, and horn rimmed glasses
with lenses so thick as eyes magnified into the size
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of golf balls. A brass name played on the desk,
red Otto Henzer. His attitude towards me was downright contemptuous.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Mister Craig, you expect me to give credence to this
fantastic story.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I do expect, mister Craig. You suffer from sunstroke. I
wear a visor cap in the sun.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well, then it is too much to drink, and then,
with your imagination, should never drink. I've been on buttermilk
since I arrived here, block hencer. I don't imagine being
slugged and thrown into a lake where.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Then at least thank your stars that you are alive.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
No fault of my assailants, My guess there is he
didn't figure i'd land in a shallow bed.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Then you insist on this preposterous store.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Top of my lungs. Someone in Jubilee Villas. That's my
being around. I'm a meddler. There's some scheme of foot
and wait, yes, mister Craig, the management of Jubilee Villa,
that's you wanted me out of the place at nine
pm to night. Why hens a a prior reservation for
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room two eleven.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Sure, that's the reason. It is the reason.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Of course, I didn't comply with the vacate request. I
went to bed. From there I was forcibly evicted. I
woke up in a lake.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Mister Craig, there is no connection between our simple request
that you give up your room in this disillucination.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm getting off retired of you insinuating I'm a nuthole.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Right, then I will accept your story.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And your explanation of it on that basis a prowl.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
There I have another incidents.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Come to think of it, A trespasser entered your room,
your assaulted.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And carried a half mile from my room to the lake.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Mister Craig, the criminal mind is something unpredictable that there
is no logical patterl.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You sure have been trying to sell me one idea
after another. Hanswer why?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Because I'm perplexed like you are perplexed.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I think one thing and then I think another.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let's see right now, Hans, I'm thinking one thing and
what is that?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You could be a Grade A fourteen carrot phony. The
next day I let the con man and card shop
blue Latimer tell me.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
A few lies.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Man has a right to live down his past. Cray,
no question, I had a few brushes with the low ones.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Sure I don't deny it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You served a few sentences, one sentence, Pardon the slander.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I'm a change man, did they pillar of the.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Community, San Quentin community? The way you cops love to
write a guy.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Beastly of us.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Look, I'm a respectable businessman today what business salesman selling
Bunco machine tools. What are you doing here at Jubilee
Vella vacationing with a deck of cards in every pocket?
I don't play cards the same old way.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Meaning I play for pastime for profit.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
So I played a win.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who doesn't, Which brings me to a basic question. What
and I owe you? I saw Stuart Stone, I give
you a six thousand dollar piece of paper I wanted fairly,
even supposing you did. How come you're accepting paper from
a mascuarader? What a mascarader? The name Stuart Stoner's anatis.
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The young man is here representing himself fraudulent.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Oh wit, hi minute, Craig Stone has loaded from a
rich klan. The Stone is a Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
He is not.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's only a cardboard front. Stoner is a phony and
you know it, Latimer.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
How would I know it?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Because that's how you operate.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Before skinning a sucker, You check every detail of its
pedigree back to the day he was born. You know
how much he's worked or how little, so you can
judge how much to take him for.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Well, Oh, what you say is a fact that Stone
is a phony. Then I've been rooked. I'm holding worthless paper. Well,
that's time me it would appear.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But I still wonder, Alatimer, what see the giant egg
building in my skull up here?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Looks nasty? Want to claim credit for it?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Oh the way you try to cut me down?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You some surface polish.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You look distinguished in your Bermuda shorts, but you're a
mug underneath.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And a thud. Look chum.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
If this hackling session is over, I've.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Got another insult killer killer till you convince me. Otherwise
I'll go on thinking you try to drown me last night?
One minute, Latimer, Oh, what token of my very high
regard for you?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Love either conquers all.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Or its surrenders My client Linda Paris Born playing Mary
Randaha ran up the white play.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I'm leaving for home after dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Goodbye to Julie Villa.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yes, I'm already impact.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Say goodbye to Stone yet.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh we had a long talk over breakfast, and the
gist of it you admitted to having assumed the name
of Stuart Stoner.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What is his real name?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
He couldn't say there he didn't seem to know.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Really offering himself was an amneasy huh. Look, Blundy, I'm
here on your account. I can't follow your example, pack up,
scram and forget, leave everything unresolved. I'm a cop at
heart and by profession. I want to know who, what
and why is Alis Stewart Stoner. I want to know
what lou Latimer's game is and where the management Otto
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Henser fits into the scheme. And Margot, I'm glad you
brought her up. What about the lady Margo?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
She and Stuart were close when I first arrived. I
suppose I cut Margo out. Stuart began to chase me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I can't blame him now, I've seen Margo.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
In clandestine meetings with that man Latimer down at Prippet Lake.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Anything else you've tucked away in your lovely mind as
a significant detail.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes, Henser kept trying to involve me with other male guests,
as if he could.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Preserve Stoner for Margo in line with a three way partnership. Otto, Henser,
Latimer and Margo.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I don't understand a three way scheme.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Can loot wolves sharing a lamb? But where's the possible
profit in Stuart's Stoner? What's the bait for Henser, Latimer
and Margot? Stoner's a phony and masquerader a dead bee.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Maybe Henser, Latimer, and Margot don't actually know Stoneer's a masquerader.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
If they didn't know, impossible to believe, as that is,
they suck at themselves in some attempted badger game. They
do know now, I told Latimer that Stoner was a phony.
Now do you want to quit or follow through?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm a fool not to mind my all?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Search every inch of Stoner's room and effects. You play
lookout while I play Burglar. The results of searching Stoner's
effects were a little frightening. Later, in a woodsy hideout,
Lender and eyes shivered over what we firmed.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Berrio then toastic lengths.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Of copper wire, all cut down, a convenient sign the
tools of a strangler. I just can't believe, and try
believing Stone's amazing collection of newspaper clippings. These mystery strangler
terrorizes East End date line Minneapolis, and this one strangler
claims elderly victim date line Seattle, and these similar clippings
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date line the Ark Boston, Shreevesport one man operate east,
northwest and south all over the map the scoop of it.
But this isn't one man's autobiographic collection of himself.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
It isn't.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The dates on the clips cover almost four years. They
represent a lot of stranglings and a lot of stranglers,
a lot of stranglers, some of who have been caught
in jailed. I recognize a few of the cases.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Then this is just a collection of clippings. Fetish is
the word.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I think the pleasure of the collector, call him psychopath
gets it comes from the clippings themselves. Let's say the
Joy and some other fellow's crimes.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Stewart is a madman.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It would appear a madman, or or that's what somebody
wants us to think. Mainly wants you to think me
so you'd scream and run, glad to escape a fate
worse than all.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
This is part of the scheme.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's my surmiind For what fasis do you have? The
character of Henser Latimer and company. There are going canivers
who play to win. They knew the company would sooner
or later send me up to Stoner's room. This stuff
was planted for me to find, enough to disillusion me
in Stoner, but not enough to pinch him. No real
evidence of a crime or an actual criminal personality. What now, Oh,
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let Henser, Latimer in company horse themselves into believing they
hold trumps, that you're scared of that, I'm disinterested in
any further to do with a nut.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
We make our fun farewells.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
We leave you believe villa.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Officially only unofficially we're still around. We're hold up somewhere
with our eye on this place, watching to see the
next move of the gang against Stoner.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
But what can they want of Stuart?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I finally come to the conclusion about that one Stoner
is an amnesiac, isn't sure of who he is and
where from, et cetera. Two he is not a poor masquerader,
but a rich.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
One after all, Stuart rich uh huh.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Do position and a good marital catch for Margo. Also
profitable game for Latimer to account for the IOUs, also
a klondike for Henser.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Otherwise there be no reason.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
At all for a plot that means they know Stuart's
true identity.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
They do, but Stuart doesn't. So will you join me
in hiding down? Where do you hide with a blonde?
Not being able to find a tree house, we settle
pern auto camp or quit two miles from Jubileevella adjoining cabins.
After two days of keeping Jubileevella under surveillance, we finally
(23:57):
got a look at how Henser, Latimer and Margo planned
to play the trump cart, the kind of trap they
had baited for weak minded Stone. Sweet music in the
cool of the evening, piped into the grape offer the
grapeather set with into the table. It's a canopy of
freshly cut flowers. A few picked guests and the local parson.
(24:20):
A marriage was taking place Margot and Stone, with Latimer
hens there to give the bride away.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You're not going to let him get married, shouldn't, I
shouldn't bear your keys?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Ish not stop it, Blundie, but only at a strategic moment.
The strategic moment came. The man in the high collar
was reaching the end of his text.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
If any man knows some reason why this bears should
not be joined in the bonds of matrimony, letting.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Nasty speaking, stop the wedding. I'd played cop at Jubilee
Villa five, but I hadn't played Cupid.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So good.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Linda left in my company, as it turned out, and
not in Stuart Stoner's. That is alias Stuart Stoner.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Stuart is really Fabian Carlisle, So.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Latimer confessed the Carlisles of Honolulu, big shipping family. Willis amnesia,
might disappear, might reoccur. I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I suppose I'll always regret it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Letting the rich one get away?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yes, so why did you Stoner looked like he could
be coaxed all over again?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh, I'm sure I'll regret it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
What a last piece of advice. What when you married,
have eight kids? With eight kids around dow, you're too
busy for regrets.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You have a listening to William Gargan and another exciting
transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Tonight's story, Midsummer Lunacy was written by John Robert. Next
(26:26):
week it's the strange story of Blood Money, about which
Barry Craig has this to say. In next week's story
Blood Money, an Oriental rug dealer finds himself as snug
as a bug in a casket when a killer comes
calling with gold in his eye.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Good Night, folks, see you next week.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
A national broadcasting company has just brought you an NBC
Radio Network production with William Gargan starring as Barry Craig,
Confidential Investigator, directed by Arthur Jacobson. Also heard Hillary Hall
as Linda, Alice Bacchus as Margot, Tony Barrett as Latimer,
George Nice as Stuart, and Herb Ellis as henser Eddie
(27:20):
King speaking. Within the next twenty seconds, a fire will
break out somewhere in the United States. Lives may be lost,
(27:41):
property damaged, homes or buildings destroyed. Yes, there are four thousand,
six hundred fires in America each day of the year.
They kill eleven thousand persons and disfigure or severely burn
thousands more. The unfortunate part of this picture is that
most of these fires could have been avoid For example,
(28:02):
ninety percent of all fires which start in the home
can be traced to human carelessness. By obeying a few
simple rules of fire prevention. From now on, you and
I can protect ourselves and our families from this devastating menace.
Rule one is don't smoke in bed or discard lighted
cigarettes carelessly.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Rule two clean out.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
All newspapers, magazines, and other inflammable debris. Rule three promptly
repair defective wiring as soon as you notice it fire
won't wait until tomorrow. Rule four, use only those cleaning
fluids which will not burn. And last but not least,
be careful with matches. Keep them out of the reach
of small children. Remember it doesn't pay to gamble with fire.
(28:44):
The odds are against you. Every time there's another exciting
dragnet adventure. To night on most NBC radio stations.
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