August 25, 2025 • 29 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a reformed thief turned detective, solving crimes with wit and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hey man, got sir, lock on park together over east.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wait for a while.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We're here, we're laying concrete here. Have we ready? Part
of time?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Bel had more time?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You gotta start the next floor tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
We're behind schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Honey, fight fall, Honey, I'm fine, look catch up?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh course that was my take.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He needs a new por It comes cond right down.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Come on, fellas, write that stuff down and get.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Some action here.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Don't go down there, Bell, I'm draft too.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You have to mention that.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Ok, Joe, just watch your step up here and you
can live forever on job like that? But who wants
to live forever? There?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You got? Hi?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Bell?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
What tom My? Somebody come up here?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Quait?
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Hell?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Come out?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Let's met Joe?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That was due Jetty?
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I don't know, just fell down like I'd be saying that.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You gotta give me a hand within ask you signal
the elevator to come up at me.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But what's matty?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Look there's a bullet hole in him. Bullet hole, He'll
shout up here in the twentieths fall you crazy? Wish
I was Tom Chris Bill's debt.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Cash Beneficial Finance Company has the cash you want for
any good reason just say, call up, tell us.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
How much you want and when you want it. You're yes,
you're the boss a Beneficial.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Right now you get ready cash at Beneficial, the instant
way to clean up bills. Why the things you need,
do the things you want or service. It's just a
little friendlier and faster. Come to Beneficial for ready cash cash.
Just say, when you want cash for any good reason,
(02:39):
just tell us how much you want, and when you
want it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You're heard.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
You're the boss Facial Beneficial Finance Company.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
And now back to Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who
make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friends.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But farare you have to do something about these parking tickets?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Look, John, you've been telling me that for fifteen minutes,
and for fifteen minutes I've told you there's nothing I
can do. Now we might as well talk about something else.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Well, let's talk about Boston Blackie. I'm on my way
up to see him.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
He's sick, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Look, let's sleeve Blackie out of this.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's a matter of inspective. Don't you want Blackie get along?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
What I think of Blackie is my own business, and
nothing's the matter as long as he can't get out
of bed. You know, you miss him like i'd miss
a toothache. But let's not talk about him.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Good, Let's get back to those parking tickets of money.
Oh no, As I said before, I'm the contract around
that building going up at ten twenty one to fifties.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I know, but that's least say. My trucks are
blocking trapping.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I know, I know. I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, Parody, that's a big construction job, thirty six stories.
My trucks have to park in the street while I'm waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
To one load, John, There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Look, you're a police officer. Can't you handle ordinary park tickets?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
A little while ago you were talking about Blackie. Now
you're talking like him. You know, maybe I'd better suddenly
get busy.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Really, Foraday, isn't there something you can do?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Your tracks are parking illegally, John, And that's that. Excuse me,
Hello Faraday, speaking fag. Your goal just came in from
fiftieth Street. Woman for the Simmons Construction Company was shot to.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Death five minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What yeah, Well he was up on the twentieth floor
laying concrete.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Nobody knows where the shot came from.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, Uh, what's the address? Don't know where the guy
got killed?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Ten twenty one fiftieth the street.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Thanks, get me a squad, cow are you? Yeah? You bet?
What's the matter, inspected?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Maybe I'm gonna work for you after all, John, but
not on those parking tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You've just had a murder in your company. What I murder?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
One of the foremen on that building you're putting up
was just shot to death. Oh no, no, he says, yes, Now,
I don't get too upset about it. Murder's my business.
I solved him every day. Come along, I'm not show
you how I do it. I certainly will. Oh you
were going to see Blackie, weren't you?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yes? But I think that'd better wait this.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I wan't hold you blong. I'm on down to your
building with me, and then we go up and see Blackie.
Bring this up together.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
My foreman murdered.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It take time for me to get over this. And
cheer up. John.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's your foreman who's dead, and he'll never get over it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I was blackly doing in there, short ish.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Miss Worsley's it's sleep.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Google is good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Jump us now, and the way you can't talk. That's
what I call something.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
Oh An, Johnny's something last. He'll get his choice.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
Sex little cheer.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I sure hope so, Miss Weresley, cause unless you're here
with Blackie too, I I ain't got nobody.
Speaker 10 (05:43):
To talk to.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Oh, oh, that's probably a doctor. M come in, Miss
Wrestling well and sec to thirday.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know John Simmons, don't you don't you, Miss Wrestling?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Yes, yes, of course when that several months ago. I'm
glad to see you again. You're looking as probably as ever,
Miss worthwe Well, I'll have to see a photograph of
ever before I'm sure I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I ain't nobody glad to see me.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Sure, as long as Blackie isn't with you, I'm always
glad to see you, Shorty.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Uh you know, mister Simmons. Don't you any guy who
knows Blackie? I know too, hire you, mister Simmons.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
A little puzzled at the moment, Shorty, Uh, Look, John,
will you believe me? It's as simpler murder case as
I've ever worked on.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh you must mean the.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Murder of the foreman on that fiftieth Street building.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
How do you know about that? Why you hide it
on the radio.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
My company is constructing that building.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's why I'm so upset.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Look, John, let me worry about that murder, and let's
not talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Come on, let's go in and see the invite.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
Well just just a minute, mister Simmonds can go in
to see Blackie. But I don't think you ought to
inspect it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All I want to do is cheer him up, missus Wesley,
you know me.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I know Blackie too.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
One look at you and he'll probably strain his vocal
fort trying to out shout you.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
What's the matter with him, miss Whistle.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
He caught a very bad cold last week and he still.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Can't use his voice.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, that's what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Come on, come on, John, let's.
Speaker 9 (07:08):
Go all right, Inspector Paraday, you may both see him,
but only for a few minutes, now, mind you, I'll
wake him up for you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I imagine for once he won't talk back to me.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Oh he's awake already.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Oh Blackie, the Inspector and John Simmons are here.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
To see him.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Money him when see hello, Blackie, you certainly look fine,
Oh John, glad to see him.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh, don't let him catch you, Blankie, you look awfully
sick to me.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
It's looking at ju that's made me sick very you know.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think you better go to a hospital, Blankie. Even
your jokes need a doctor.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Are you, darling?
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Darling?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So you don't talk, no, just listen. You'll be surprised
how much you learned.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
There's been a murder at the building I'm putting up
on fiftieth Street. Blanky, wish you were out of bed
to work on it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
If he gets out of bed and metals in this
murder case, I'll work on him. Right. It's the simplest
a killing. I know the killer already, the guy's wife.
It's got to be a The killer could be anybody,
even you, John, let's hope not An't you a wise guy?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Blackie?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
John here couldn't be the killer. He was in my
office when the foreman was shot.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Excuse me, in sective, But if you found out where
the shot came from.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well you don't have to be excused for that question,
Miss Wesley. The shot was fired from one of the
high buildings in the neighborhood, and we'll probably never know
which one.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The same goes for all your suspects.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Farly that voice of yours sounds awfully silly, Blackie, does it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wait?
Speaker 10 (08:35):
You see how you look and you can't find your killer?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Miss Woods.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I'm I'm sorry to come to your home at a
time like this, but your husband has been murdered, and
it's my job to find out who killed him.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I understand and inspected Paraday, but I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I can do to help. You can tell me who
might have killed your husband, but I don't know. Look,
Missus Woods, A guy doesn't get shot for no reason.
But I can't find a reason. There can't be any reason,
but there has to be.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What did your husband do wrong?
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Hm, you're telling me. I checked into his background.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He was the most popular foreman on the job. He
was a leader of his lodge. He was the best
liked guy in this neighborhood. Once more, he didn't have
an enemy in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Everybody liked him.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Inspect somebody didn't?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
How could anyone ever dislike him?
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Me?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He never did anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
What kind of a husband was he?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
A perfect one?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Mm?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Seems to have been a perfect everything, including a perfect target.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Please inspect her. I can't talk about this any longer.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm sorry, missus Woods.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But this simple murder is getting complicated and I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh look, missus Woods, noware not your husband's family. Was
there any uh, any trouble where joh lets see or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
There was awfully good to his family. He gave them
everything he could.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Where Maybe that's a clue.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Maybe he gave his family too much and you too little,
and you might be the one who killed him.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Did that hit home, Missus Wood.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No, he was shot by a hut poued rifle from
a long distance. Only you could know what he was
wearing and exactly where he'd be and be able to
spot him from far away.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
That's not so.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't expect you to agree with me, Missus Woods.
Did I tell you something you can't expect? Yes, a
complete investigation. And what you were doing at the time
your husband was killed?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I was sleeping.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh so you were sleeping then?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Maybe you're going to have to prove that, Missus Woods,
because I'm wide awake. Now, can I keep on reading?
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Blackie?
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right?
Speaker 9 (11:03):
According to this newspaper, police say it is impossible to
tell from which building the shot was fired because Woods
fellow workmen can't agree in what position the dead man
was standing when he was kidded.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Hm.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
But the police nevertheless are searching all high buildings in
the area in hopes of finding some clue.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Doesn't say what kind of a gun he was killed.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
With, Yo yeo, A high powered rifle. Was probably a
telescopic sight.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
It was shot through the heart.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Any voted no, No putting this paper here.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Police have no idea why he was killed.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
He had no family troubles, no financial troubles, and they're
standing in the community.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Was perfect.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
What are you writing, Darling?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Something I want you to tell parody? Get him on
the phone, don coy here, you are marriage past the parody?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
All right, bless Do you mean what you're saying? This note?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Great?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I do.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Oh this is Mary Westby.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Look don't follow me.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
I'm busy, but I have an important message for you
from Blackie.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
I'm not injured, so you should be.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's about Bill Wood's murder.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Was blinking all about that?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Only this that another workman is going to be killed
in the same place and in the same way.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Smet of time.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Doesn't Jack set their wish? They get that west floodlight.
I don't those lights.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
They're making crazy shadows without a nice center, man, John,
to see if something can be done.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Don't let the shadows get you, John.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But I was thinking, here's the exact spot where Bill
Wood today foreman gets shot.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Today I'm the night foreman.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So what doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Body and ah forget it? Hey, you guys, come on
over here with those forms concrete.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm gonna give you a funny feeling up here now.
I'm gonna have a heck of a feeling in the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yet the boys ask me why we haven't finished this
twentieth four.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Come on, let's get this concrete down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Come on, you buy at even those four cant great, tess,
Come up, I'm elevated, Jack. Get those guys over with
a fans good.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Hey, Holy, he doesn't.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
When you're shopping for a new car, what do you
consider styling, power, miles per gallon?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You know it sure pays to consider.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
All the facts when you're buy a new car, and
the same goes for buying car insurance. Today, nationwide car
insurance offers you the broadest.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Protection in the industry. Claim services past too.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
In fact, Nationwide Mutual of Columbus, Ohio, pays over half
of its auto claims within twenty four hours after notice
a lot, yet Nationwide Greats are among the lowest. It's
you're back by by far, and your Nationwide agent can
tell you all the reasons why call him soon. He's
in the Yellow page and.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Your time, and now back to Boston, Blackie. Boston. Blackie
(14:44):
is confined to his bed with laryngitis, but that hasn't
prevented him from predicting that a second murder would follow
the mysterious killing of Bill Woods, shot to death by a.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
High powered rifle while he was working high over the
city and a building under construction.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Paraday questions bill Woods's wife, only to be a reassured
of what he already knows that Bill Woods had no enemies.
As we returned to our story, it is shortly after
the second killing and Mary Wesley and Shorty are in
Blackie's apartment when Paraday and John Simmons, employer of the
two dead men, break into Blackie's bedroom.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Blangie, I want to talk to you, so why Blacky,
you know something about these quies?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Greet Please, gentlemen, Blackie, He's going to be a lot
sick of when I get through with him, Blanky, how.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Did you know Jack Boynes was going to be killed?
Speaker 10 (15:35):
I didn't solve the job.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Just a guess. Hey, you know something, Blackie? Now, who
told you?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It was just a guess?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I tell you, Well, you tell me a lot of things.
They're not true.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Blackie.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
How did you know the second foreman would be killed?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well? This is serious. Two of my men have been murdered.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Hey, you think you have a serious problem, John, What
about me? I have two murders to solve and no suspect.
I know both Bill Woods and Jack Bonds were killed
by the same How do you know that?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
In sech a Saturday?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I know it, Miss Wisley, because they were both killed
by the same.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Gun, and you have no idea why they were killed.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
If I know why they were killed, I might have
a clue to that killer.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
You know what surprizes us is you don't think he's slacky.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'm beginning to wonder about him. I'll tell you that
he just like Blackie to get out of bed and
kill Jack Quarns just to make your guests come prove.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Not this week's Saturday.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Blackie is not in the mood for murdered.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Hey, Blackie, what are you writing? Maybe I will m
I couldn't have that much luck.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
The paper said there was no reason why Bill Wood
should have been killed in secataurday.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
What about Jack Barn same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He was just as well liked as Woods, if not better.
You know, there's always a reason for a guy getting killed.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
But this time I have two guys and no reasons.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Who did you talk to?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Everybody? Including Bill Woods's wife? Hey, what are you writing, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Yesh infected? What was Bill Wood's wife like?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
A nice looking girl?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
In fact, I'd say she was beautiful. I thought for
a while maybe she killed her husband, but I haven't
found anything to prove it she killed her husband.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Why would she have killed Jack Bond.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I didn't say she killed Jack Bond.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
But you said the same person killed them both.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Eh, that's right, Parr there. You did say that because
they were both killed in the same way and by
the same gun.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Hey, wait a minute. Missus Woods has no alibi. Nobody
saw at the time of her husband's death. She says
she was sleeping Blankie when you stop riding. Oh I
didn't think you would.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
We were talking about Missus Wood.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh yeah, maybe mister and Missus Woods didn't get along.
She could have killed him for that. And maybe she
killed Jack Bonds because Jack knew she was the one
who killed her husband. And I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Where are you're going, inspector.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
See Missus Woods? Maybe she claims she was sleeping again
when Jack Bonds was killed at eight o'clock last night. Uh,
why don't you knock off a little sleep yourselfanking, judging
by your jokes, you need it.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
You, Blackie, Will you do me a favor solve the
to murders for me, not only because the killer ought
to be caught, but my own men on the building
are beginning to get restless.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
I can understand that.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I'll try it, John, Thanks, Blackie, I'd appreciate it. Let
me know if I can help you in any way.
I'll be at home.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
I'll take you to the door Iday.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Thanks nor Miss Wesley. I can find my way out.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Goodbye, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'll be grateful for any help you can give me, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Goodbye, Perry or Shorty the other room.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Uh, Shorty, I have a little job for him. Shorty.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Oh regarding why not.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Let me do us?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You here? Okay, yes, I do what do you want?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Blackie wants you to do something for him.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Oh sure, Blackie, anything you say a short one.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Parody's having trouble with these murders.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Hey, you want me to solve them, boss directly.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
I've written out a few instructions.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
All you've got to do is follow them.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Is this the East Wing? Nice?
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yes, here it is.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I'm inspected Faraday of the Police. I'd like to see
missus Bill Woods.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
She's sleeping now, Inspector. But of course, if it's important,
I'll waken her.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
When was she admitted to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
At six o'clock yesterday evening? According to our record, Inspector's
it's right here on my desk. I'll get it for you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Mmm. She was admitted early last night. She couldn't have
killed the second form.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
What'd you say?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Here you are, inspect Paraday. Missus Woods record MM.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Admitted at six fifteen nervous prostration. I'd like to take
a look in missus Woods's room. That woman and they
might not be Missus Woods.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
You policemen think of everything, don't you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Mum, Well, we have to, you know, m Yeah, I know.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Oh, here's a room. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't
have to wor Oh I won't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, hey, you can close the door.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Again, miss.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Well.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Is that Missus Woods, I'm afraid it is afraid inspector
Why I'm afraid, Boston.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Blackie's gonna stay in bed and find the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
So this before I do.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Well, maybe that's Shorty reporting Blackie.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I'll get it close, Missus Worsley, the shorty. Oh, yes, Shorty,
I'll be finished.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, I don't ever then Blackie, shit.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Just a minute, be finished with your instructions.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Back to it.
Speaker 10 (20:42):
I have him tell you what he found out to
hold the frost so I can hear him too.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Right, Uh, Shorty, Yeah, Uh Blackie is listening to this too,
So tell him what you found out?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
A first that I went to Bill?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
What is hot?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
See?
Speaker 10 (20:54):
His wife wasn't there. She went to the hospital just
after he inspected and.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Talked to her. Yes, and it wasn't nothing long with
Bill Woods, he was okay, just like Faraday said.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
What about Jack Barnes, the second foreman, Well.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'd say he was even more okay to Bill.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What's I I talked to his wife?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Why was she a beautiful tomato, real flicker.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Oh never mind that, shorty.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
What about Jack Barnes himself?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh he was solid, Miss Wesley Swallow, his wife, right
to his kids, at a real ritchy house, all that off,
slick inside, and he was an okay guy.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
What else?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh that's about all I guess.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Well, thanks Shore.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Oh wait, wait, wait a minute, black Heid's written something
he wants you to do. Not just a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Uh, here we are.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
He he needs a photograph of Jack Barn's house.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
What for? I don't know what for, But do it
just the same, will you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh? Sure, shall do it.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
But it short that's crazy. Don't worry about it, shorty.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Maybe Blackie thinks the photograph is about the only thing
this investigation will develop.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, if you won't tell me why you want this photograph, Blackie,
will you at least tell me why you want These
two hunks are concrete. I want to look at them.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Joy, Oh, Blackie, you're getting sand all over your blanket.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Maybe those two former weren't killed because of the sand
and these pieces of concrete. You're chilty guessing. But the
sand and this piece, it's different from the sand and
the other.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Oh, and maybe one isn't as good. Huh. Maybe an
inferior grade of sand could be a motive for this murder, right.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Shorty, Yeah, boys, takes me of concrete to a laboratory
and have a man life.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh sure, boys right away?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Got married?
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Yeah, call Faraday and John Simmons, ask him clump here.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
You never failed to you, Blackie, even flat on your back,
You're gonna.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Put Inspector Faraday back on his seat.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
All right, black everybody is here waiting. Now are you
going to tell me who kill those two men?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
You're trying to tell a spiry audience.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
You're trying to read the answers so I get through
writing it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Nobody knows the answer, Blackie, because her father.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Isn't one well, inspect of Faraday. Maybe you're right about
Missus Woods.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The same person killed both Woods and Bards, and Missus
Woods was in the hospital when Bonds was shot.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Hey, what's this photograph?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
The picture of Jack Barnes home?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
What's it doing here?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I've been trying to find that out. Everything shortly brought
it to us.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Here's the answer to everything, Mary read it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Watch parody week, Blackie. You're just wasting your strength and
my time.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
To ignore the inspector and reading those notes.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Spirit everybody ready, yeah, we're ready, all right, all right,
here's what black He's written. Quote, there are three people
involved in this crime, A, B, and C. I just missed.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
A was the first to.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Die, killed by B. B died next at the hands
of see.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I tell you the same person killed both A and B.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Well, now here's what Blackie writes about that, Inspector. Those
persons were killed in the same way by the same gun,
but not by the same killer. In this case, two
killers used the same gun.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
All right, that's possible. But what about motives?
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Wait a minute, here is the motives paragraph. Inspector A.
Bill Woods was killed by B. Jack Barnes. H Now,
let me finish because Woods told Barnes he thought the
grade of concrete used in the building was inferior. Barnes
knew it was, went to C and received instructions to
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get rid of Woods. He got rid of him by
killing him.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I can check on that trunk, Creed, it's already checked.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Here's the lab before.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Chorty got are you're trying to do my job for me?
How blanking he's done it?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Inspector, listen, to this. After Barnes killed Woods, he went
to c and demanded more money to keep quiet about
the inferior on Creek.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
But so c killed Barnes.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
In other words, there were two different killers, but the
motive for each murder.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Was the same.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, I've read nursery rhymes that solved a crime better
than this. Who's this guy?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
See? Or?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Is a guy named d gonna kill him?
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Hold your breath, Inspector C is in this room, sitting
in the chair beside you, see is the boy John Simmons.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I've heard just about enough of this comedy, haven't you, Inspector?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I certainly have John.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Wait a minute, please, I suppose there's more to that
motorbat there is.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Shorty, Yeah, Shorty, Tell Inspector Faraday what you found in
John Simmon's house.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
A sure, sure, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It was the Morti gun, a high powered automatic rifle
see with a telescope sight.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Prior twice, satisfied Inspector.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
No, not until I see it, sure.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Inspect Inspecta grabbing Saidimon.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
If you're trying to get away, all.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Right, get up, come on, come on up? Oh, oh, Mike,
If you want to talk, John may go a lot
easier on you.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
Why should I talker?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You know about the country, you have the gun. You
don't have to know anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, I know you were lucky enough to be in
my office with a story about traffic tickets at the
time Woods was killed.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
That wasn't luck, Inspector. That was because he knew when
Varnes was going to kill Wood, he planned to be
in your office at that time.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I can figure this out from here, Miss Wesley. Come on, John,
why did you kill Bid?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
The answer to that is easy to inspector.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Mister Simmons was being black mad?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Why at miss Wesley? Come on, John, you've gotta talk.
How did you get the gun that killed the first farm?
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I know that one too, Bonn gave it to him
to hide.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Hey, look where are you getting all these answers?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Clack?
Speaker 9 (26:41):
He wrote them out for me? And here's the last one.
Simmons thought it would mislead police if both men were
killed in the same manner.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
You certainly mislet us plenty, John, But there's nothing misleading
about your going to jail. Hey, Hey, where's Shorty with
that murder gun?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
You'll tell him?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Mary?
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Well, you have a confession, and now so I can't
tell you, inspector, we were just guessing about that gun,
but we know now you'll find it in mister Simmon's house.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, concrete costs two murders. I guess that's that.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
Wait a minute, like he's writing something more here here,
I'll take it, Donny.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What does it say?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
It says vera day. This is one time a murderer
will be convicted on concrete evidence.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Became
Hey man, got sir, lock on park together over east.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wait for a while.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We're here, we're laying concrete here. Have we ready? Part
of time?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Bel had more time?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You gotta start the next floor tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
We're behind schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Honey, fight fall, Honey, I'm fine, look catch up?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh course that was my take.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He needs a new por It comes cond right down.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Come on, fellas, write that stuff down and get.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Some action here.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Don't go down there, Bell, I'm draft too.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You have to mention that.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Ok, Joe, just watch your step up here and you
can live forever on job like that? But who wants
to live forever? There?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You got? Hi?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Bell?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
What tom My? Somebody come up here?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Quait?
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Hell?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Come out?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Let's met Joe?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That was due Jetty?
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I don't know, just fell down like I'd be saying that.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You gotta give me a hand within ask you signal
the elevator to come up at me.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But what's matty?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Look there's a bullet hole in him. Bullet hole, He'll
shout up here in the twentieths fall you crazy? Wish
I was Tom Chris Bill's debt.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Cash Beneficial Finance Company has the cash you want for
any good reason just say, call up, tell us.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
How much you want and when you want it. You're yes,
you're the boss a Beneficial.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Right now you get ready cash at Beneficial, the instant
way to clean up bills. Why the things you need,
do the things you want or service. It's just a
little friendlier and faster. Come to Beneficial for ready cash cash.
Just say, when you want cash for any good reason,
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just tell us how much you want, and when you
want it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You're heard.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
You're the boss Facial Beneficial Finance Company.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
And now back to Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who
make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friends.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But farare you have to do something about these parking tickets?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Look, John, you've been telling me that for fifteen minutes,
and for fifteen minutes I've told you there's nothing I
can do. Now we might as well talk about something else.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Well, let's talk about Boston Blackie. I'm on my way
up to see him.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
He's sick, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Look, let's sleeve Blackie out of this.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's a matter of inspective. Don't you want Blackie get along?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
What I think of Blackie is my own business, and
nothing's the matter as long as he can't get out
of bed. You know, you miss him like i'd miss
a toothache. But let's not talk about him.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Good, Let's get back to those parking tickets of money.
Oh no, As I said before, I'm the contract around
that building going up at ten twenty one to fifties.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I know, but that's least say. My trucks are
blocking trapping.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I know, I know. I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, Parody, that's a big construction job, thirty six stories.
My trucks have to park in the street while I'm waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
To one load, John, There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Look, you're a police officer. Can't you handle ordinary park tickets?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
A little while ago you were talking about Blackie. Now
you're talking like him. You know, maybe I'd better suddenly
get busy.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Really, Foraday, isn't there something you can do?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Your tracks are parking illegally, John, And that's that. Excuse me,
Hello Faraday, speaking fag. Your goal just came in from
fiftieth Street. Woman for the Simmons Construction Company was shot to.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Death five minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What yeah, Well he was up on the twentieth floor
laying concrete.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Nobody knows where the shot came from.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, Uh, what's the address? Don't know where the guy
got killed?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Ten twenty one fiftieth the street.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Thanks, get me a squad, cow are you? Yeah? You bet?
What's the matter, inspected?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Maybe I'm gonna work for you after all, John, but
not on those parking tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You've just had a murder in your company. What I murder?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
One of the foremen on that building you're putting up
was just shot to death. Oh no, no, he says, yes, Now,
I don't get too upset about it. Murder's my business.
I solved him every day. Come along, I'm not show
you how I do it. I certainly will. Oh you
were going to see Blackie, weren't you?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yes? But I think that'd better wait this.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I wan't hold you blong. I'm on down to your
building with me, and then we go up and see Blackie.
Bring this up together.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
My foreman murdered.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It take time for me to get over this. And
cheer up. John.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's your foreman who's dead, and he'll never get over it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I was blackly doing in there, short ish.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Miss Worsley's it's sleep.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Google is good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Jump us now, and the way you can't talk. That's
what I call something.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
Oh An, Johnny's something last. He'll get his choice.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
Sex little cheer.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I sure hope so, Miss Weresley, cause unless you're here
with Blackie too, I I ain't got nobody.
Speaker 10 (05:43):
To talk to.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Oh, oh, that's probably a doctor. M come in, Miss
Wrestling well and sec to thirday.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know John Simmons, don't you don't you, Miss Wrestling?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Yes, yes, of course when that several months ago. I'm
glad to see you again. You're looking as probably as ever,
Miss worthwe Well, I'll have to see a photograph of
ever before I'm sure I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I ain't nobody glad to see me.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Sure, as long as Blackie isn't with you, I'm always
glad to see you, Shorty.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Uh you know, mister Simmons. Don't you any guy who
knows Blackie? I know too, hire you, mister Simmons.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
A little puzzled at the moment, Shorty, Uh, Look, John,
will you believe me? It's as simpler murder case as
I've ever worked on.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh you must mean the.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Murder of the foreman on that fiftieth Street building.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
How do you know about that? Why you hide it
on the radio.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
My company is constructing that building.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's why I'm so upset.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Look, John, let me worry about that murder, and let's
not talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Come on, let's go in and see the invite.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
Well just just a minute, mister Simmonds can go in
to see Blackie. But I don't think you ought to
inspect it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All I want to do is cheer him up, missus Wesley,
you know me.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I know Blackie too.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
One look at you and he'll probably strain his vocal
fort trying to out shout you.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
What's the matter with him, miss Whistle.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
He caught a very bad cold last week and he still.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Can't use his voice.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, that's what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Come on, come on, John, let's.
Speaker 9 (07:08):
Go all right, Inspector Paraday, you may both see him,
but only for a few minutes, now, mind you, I'll
wake him up for you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I imagine for once he won't talk back to me.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Oh he's awake already.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Oh Blackie, the Inspector and John Simmons are here.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
To see him.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Money him when see hello, Blackie, you certainly look fine,
Oh John, glad to see him.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh, don't let him catch you, Blankie, you look awfully
sick to me.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
It's looking at ju that's made me sick very you know.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think you better go to a hospital, Blankie. Even
your jokes need a doctor.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Are you, darling?
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Darling?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So you don't talk, no, just listen. You'll be surprised
how much you learned.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
There's been a murder at the building I'm putting up
on fiftieth Street. Blanky, wish you were out of bed
to work on it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
If he gets out of bed and metals in this
murder case, I'll work on him. Right. It's the simplest
a killing. I know the killer already, the guy's wife.
It's got to be a The killer could be anybody,
even you, John, let's hope not An't you a wise guy?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Blackie?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
John here couldn't be the killer. He was in my
office when the foreman was shot.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Excuse me, in sective, But if you found out where
the shot came from.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well you don't have to be excused for that question,
Miss Wesley. The shot was fired from one of the
high buildings in the neighborhood, and we'll probably never know
which one.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The same goes for all your suspects.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Farly that voice of yours sounds awfully silly, Blackie, does it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wait?
Speaker 10 (08:35):
You see how you look and you can't find your killer?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Miss Woods.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I'm I'm sorry to come to your home at a
time like this, but your husband has been murdered, and
it's my job to find out who killed him.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I understand and inspected Paraday, but I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I can do to help. You can tell me who
might have killed your husband, but I don't know. Look,
Missus Woods, A guy doesn't get shot for no reason.
But I can't find a reason. There can't be any reason,
but there has to be.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What did your husband do wrong?
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Hm, you're telling me. I checked into his background.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He was the most popular foreman on the job. He
was a leader of his lodge. He was the best
liked guy in this neighborhood. Once more, he didn't have
an enemy in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Everybody liked him.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Inspect somebody didn't?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
How could anyone ever dislike him?
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Me?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He never did anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
What kind of a husband was he?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
A perfect one?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Mm?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Seems to have been a perfect everything, including a perfect target.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Please inspect her. I can't talk about this any longer.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm sorry, missus Woods.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But this simple murder is getting complicated and I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh look, missus Woods, noware not your husband's family. Was
there any uh, any trouble where joh lets see or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
There was awfully good to his family. He gave them
everything he could.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Where Maybe that's a clue.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Maybe he gave his family too much and you too little,
and you might be the one who killed him.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Did that hit home, Missus Wood.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No, he was shot by a hut poued rifle from
a long distance. Only you could know what he was
wearing and exactly where he'd be and be able to
spot him from far away.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
That's not so.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't expect you to agree with me, Missus Woods.
Did I tell you something you can't expect? Yes, a
complete investigation. And what you were doing at the time
your husband was killed?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I was sleeping.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh so you were sleeping then?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Maybe you're going to have to prove that, Missus Woods,
because I'm wide awake. Now, can I keep on reading?
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Blackie?
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right?
Speaker 9 (11:03):
According to this newspaper, police say it is impossible to
tell from which building the shot was fired because Woods
fellow workmen can't agree in what position the dead man
was standing when he was kidded.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Hm.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
But the police nevertheless are searching all high buildings in
the area in hopes of finding some clue.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Doesn't say what kind of a gun he was killed.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
With, Yo yeo, A high powered rifle. Was probably a
telescopic sight.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
It was shot through the heart.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Any voted no, No putting this paper here.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Police have no idea why he was killed.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
He had no family troubles, no financial troubles, and they're
standing in the community.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Was perfect.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
What are you writing, Darling?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Something I want you to tell parody? Get him on
the phone, don coy here, you are marriage past the parody?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
All right, bless Do you mean what you're saying? This note?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Great?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I do.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Oh this is Mary Westby.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Look don't follow me.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
I'm busy, but I have an important message for you
from Blackie.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
I'm not injured, so you should be.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's about Bill Wood's murder.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Was blinking all about that?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Only this that another workman is going to be killed
in the same place and in the same way.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Smet of time.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Doesn't Jack set their wish? They get that west floodlight.
I don't those lights.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
They're making crazy shadows without a nice center, man, John,
to see if something can be done.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Don't let the shadows get you, John.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But I was thinking, here's the exact spot where Bill
Wood today foreman gets shot.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Today I'm the night foreman.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So what doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Body and ah forget it? Hey, you guys, come on
over here with those forms concrete.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm gonna give you a funny feeling up here now.
I'm gonna have a heck of a feeling in the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yet the boys ask me why we haven't finished this
twentieth four.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Come on, let's get this concrete down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Come on, you buy at even those four cant great, tess,
Come up, I'm elevated, Jack. Get those guys over with
a fans good.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Hey, Holy, he doesn't.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
When you're shopping for a new car, what do you
consider styling, power, miles per gallon?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You know it sure pays to consider.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
All the facts when you're buy a new car, and
the same goes for buying car insurance. Today, nationwide car
insurance offers you the broadest.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Protection in the industry. Claim services past too.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
In fact, Nationwide Mutual of Columbus, Ohio, pays over half
of its auto claims within twenty four hours after notice
a lot, yet Nationwide Greats are among the lowest. It's
you're back by by far, and your Nationwide agent can
tell you all the reasons why call him soon. He's
in the Yellow page and.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Your time, and now back to Boston, Blackie. Boston. Blackie
(14:44):
is confined to his bed with laryngitis, but that hasn't
prevented him from predicting that a second murder would follow
the mysterious killing of Bill Woods, shot to death by a.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
High powered rifle while he was working high over the
city and a building under construction.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Paraday questions bill Woods's wife, only to be a reassured
of what he already knows that Bill Woods had no enemies.
As we returned to our story, it is shortly after
the second killing and Mary Wesley and Shorty are in
Blackie's apartment when Paraday and John Simmons, employer of the
two dead men, break into Blackie's bedroom.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Blangie, I want to talk to you, so why Blacky,
you know something about these quies?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Greet Please, gentlemen, Blackie, He's going to be a lot
sick of when I get through with him, Blanky, how.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Did you know Jack Boynes was going to be killed?
Speaker 10 (15:35):
I didn't solve the job.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Just a guess. Hey, you know something, Blackie? Now, who
told you?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It was just a guess?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I tell you, Well, you tell me a lot of things.
They're not true.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Blackie.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
How did you know the second foreman would be killed?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well? This is serious. Two of my men have been murdered.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Hey, you think you have a serious problem, John, What
about me? I have two murders to solve and no suspect.
I know both Bill Woods and Jack Bonds were killed
by the same How do you know that?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
In sech a Saturday?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I know it, Miss Wisley, because they were both killed
by the same.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Gun, and you have no idea why they were killed.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
If I know why they were killed, I might have
a clue to that killer.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
You know what surprizes us is you don't think he's slacky.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'm beginning to wonder about him. I'll tell you that
he just like Blackie to get out of bed and
kill Jack Quarns just to make your guests come prove.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Not this week's Saturday.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Blackie is not in the mood for murdered.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Hey, Blackie, what are you writing? Maybe I will m
I couldn't have that much luck.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
The paper said there was no reason why Bill Wood
should have been killed in secataurday.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
What about Jack Barn same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He was just as well liked as Woods, if not better.
You know, there's always a reason for a guy getting killed.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
But this time I have two guys and no reasons.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Who did you talk to?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Everybody? Including Bill Woods's wife? Hey, what are you writing, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Yesh infected? What was Bill Wood's wife like?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
A nice looking girl?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
In fact, I'd say she was beautiful. I thought for
a while maybe she killed her husband, but I haven't
found anything to prove it she killed her husband.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Why would she have killed Jack Bond.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I didn't say she killed Jack Bond.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
But you said the same person killed them both.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Eh, that's right, Parr there. You did say that because
they were both killed in the same way and by
the same gun.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Hey, wait a minute. Missus Woods has no alibi. Nobody
saw at the time of her husband's death. She says
she was sleeping Blankie when you stop riding. Oh I
didn't think you would.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
We were talking about Missus Wood.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh yeah, maybe mister and Missus Woods didn't get along.
She could have killed him for that. And maybe she
killed Jack Bonds because Jack knew she was the one
who killed her husband. And I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Where are you're going, inspector.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
See Missus Woods? Maybe she claims she was sleeping again
when Jack Bonds was killed at eight o'clock last night. Uh,
why don't you knock off a little sleep yourselfanking, judging
by your jokes, you need it.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
You, Blackie, Will you do me a favor solve the
to murders for me, not only because the killer ought
to be caught, but my own men on the building
are beginning to get restless.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
I can understand that.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I'll try it, John, Thanks, Blackie, I'd appreciate it. Let
me know if I can help you in any way.
I'll be at home.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
I'll take you to the door Iday.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Thanks nor Miss Wesley. I can find my way out.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Goodbye, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'll be grateful for any help you can give me, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Goodbye, Perry or Shorty the other room.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Uh, Shorty, I have a little job for him. Shorty.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Oh regarding why not.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Let me do us?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You here? Okay, yes, I do what do you want?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Blackie wants you to do something for him.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Oh sure, Blackie, anything you say a short one.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Parody's having trouble with these murders.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Hey, you want me to solve them, boss directly.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
I've written out a few instructions.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
All you've got to do is follow them.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Is this the East Wing? Nice?
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yes, here it is.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I'm inspected Faraday of the Police. I'd like to see
missus Bill Woods.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
She's sleeping now, Inspector. But of course, if it's important,
I'll waken her.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
When was she admitted to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
At six o'clock yesterday evening? According to our record, Inspector's
it's right here on my desk. I'll get it for you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Mmm. She was admitted early last night. She couldn't have
killed the second form.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
What'd you say?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Here you are, inspect Paraday. Missus Woods record MM.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Admitted at six fifteen nervous prostration. I'd like to take
a look in missus Woods's room. That woman and they
might not be Missus Woods.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
You policemen think of everything, don't you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Mum, Well, we have to, you know, m Yeah, I know.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Oh, here's a room. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't
have to wor Oh I won't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, hey, you can close the door.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Again, miss.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Well.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Is that Missus Woods, I'm afraid it is afraid inspector
Why I'm afraid, Boston.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Blackie's gonna stay in bed and find the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
So this before I do.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Well, maybe that's Shorty reporting Blackie.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I'll get it close, Missus Worsley, the shorty. Oh, yes, Shorty,
I'll be finished.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, I don't ever then Blackie, shit.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Just a minute, be finished with your instructions.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Back to it.
Speaker 10 (20:42):
I have him tell you what he found out to
hold the frost so I can hear him too.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Right, Uh, Shorty, Yeah, Uh Blackie is listening to this too,
So tell him what you found out?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
A first that I went to Bill?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
What is hot?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
See?
Speaker 10 (20:54):
His wife wasn't there. She went to the hospital just
after he inspected and.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Talked to her. Yes, and it wasn't nothing long with
Bill Woods, he was okay, just like Faraday said.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
What about Jack Barnes, the second foreman, Well.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'd say he was even more okay to Bill.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What's I I talked to his wife?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Why was she a beautiful tomato, real flicker.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Oh never mind that, shorty.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
What about Jack Barnes himself?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh he was solid, Miss Wesley Swallow, his wife, right
to his kids, at a real ritchy house, all that off,
slick inside, and he was an okay guy.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
What else?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh that's about all I guess.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Well, thanks Shore.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Oh wait, wait, wait a minute, black Heid's written something
he wants you to do. Not just a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Uh, here we are.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
He he needs a photograph of Jack Barn's house.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
What for? I don't know what for, But do it
just the same, will you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh? Sure, shall do it.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
But it short that's crazy. Don't worry about it, shorty.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Maybe Blackie thinks the photograph is about the only thing
this investigation will develop.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, if you won't tell me why you want this photograph, Blackie,
will you at least tell me why you want These
two hunks are concrete. I want to look at them.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Joy, Oh, Blackie, you're getting sand all over your blanket.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Maybe those two former weren't killed because of the sand
and these pieces of concrete. You're chilty guessing. But the
sand and this piece, it's different from the sand and
the other.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Oh, and maybe one isn't as good. Huh. Maybe an
inferior grade of sand could be a motive for this murder, right.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Shorty, Yeah, boys, takes me of concrete to a laboratory
and have a man life.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh sure, boys right away?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Got married?
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Yeah, call Faraday and John Simmons, ask him clump here.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
You never failed to you, Blackie, even flat on your back,
You're gonna.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Put Inspector Faraday back on his seat.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
All right, black everybody is here waiting. Now are you
going to tell me who kill those two men?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
You're trying to tell a spiry audience.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
You're trying to read the answers so I get through
writing it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Nobody knows the answer, Blackie, because her father.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Isn't one well, inspect of Faraday. Maybe you're right about
Missus Woods.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The same person killed both Woods and Bards, and Missus
Woods was in the hospital when Bonds was shot.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Hey, what's this photograph?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
The picture of Jack Barnes home?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
What's it doing here?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I've been trying to find that out. Everything shortly brought
it to us.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Here's the answer to everything, Mary read it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Watch parody week, Blackie. You're just wasting your strength and
my time.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
To ignore the inspector and reading those notes.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Spirit everybody ready, yeah, we're ready, all right, all right,
here's what black He's written. Quote, there are three people
involved in this crime, A, B, and C. I just missed.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
A was the first to.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Die, killed by B. B died next at the hands
of see.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I tell you the same person killed both A and B.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Well, now here's what Blackie writes about that, Inspector. Those
persons were killed in the same way by the same gun,
but not by the same killer. In this case, two
killers used the same gun.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
All right, that's possible. But what about motives?
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Wait a minute, here is the motives paragraph. Inspector A.
Bill Woods was killed by B. Jack Barnes. H Now,
let me finish because Woods told Barnes he thought the
grade of concrete used in the building was inferior. Barnes
knew it was, went to C and received instructions to
(24:39):
get rid of Woods. He got rid of him by
killing him.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I can check on that trunk, Creed, it's already checked.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Here's the lab before.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Chorty got are you're trying to do my job for me?
How blanking he's done it?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Inspector, listen, to this. After Barnes killed Woods, he went
to c and demanded more money to keep quiet about
the inferior on Creek.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
But so c killed Barnes.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
In other words, there were two different killers, but the
motive for each murder.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Was the same.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, I've read nursery rhymes that solved a crime better
than this. Who's this guy?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
See? Or?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Is a guy named d gonna kill him?
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Hold your breath, Inspector C is in this room, sitting
in the chair beside you, see is the boy John Simmons.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I've heard just about enough of this comedy, haven't you, Inspector?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I certainly have John.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Wait a minute, please, I suppose there's more to that
motorbat there is.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Shorty, Yeah, Shorty, Tell Inspector Faraday what you found in
John Simmon's house.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
A sure, sure, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It was the Morti gun, a high powered automatic rifle
see with a telescope sight.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Prior twice, satisfied Inspector.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
No, not until I see it, sure.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Inspect Inspecta grabbing Saidimon.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
If you're trying to get away, all.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Right, get up, come on, come on up? Oh, oh, Mike,
If you want to talk, John may go a lot
easier on you.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
Why should I talker?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You know about the country, you have the gun. You
don't have to know anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, I know you were lucky enough to be in
my office with a story about traffic tickets at the
time Woods was killed.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
That wasn't luck, Inspector. That was because he knew when
Varnes was going to kill Wood, he planned to be
in your office at that time.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I can figure this out from here, Miss Wesley. Come on, John,
why did you kill Bid?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
The answer to that is easy to inspector.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Mister Simmons was being black mad?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Why at miss Wesley? Come on, John, you've gotta talk.
How did you get the gun that killed the first farm?
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I know that one too, Bonn gave it to him
to hide.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Hey, look where are you getting all these answers?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Clack?
Speaker 9 (26:41):
He wrote them out for me? And here's the last one.
Simmons thought it would mislead police if both men were
killed in the same manner.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
You certainly mislet us plenty, John, But there's nothing misleading
about your going to jail. Hey, Hey, where's Shorty with
that murder gun?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
You'll tell him?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Mary?
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Well, you have a confession, and now so I can't
tell you, inspector, we were just guessing about that gun,
but we know now you'll find it in mister Simmon's house.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, concrete costs two murders. I guess that's that.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
Wait a minute, like he's writing something more here here,
I'll take it, Donny.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What does it say?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
It says vera day. This is one time a murderer
will be convicted on concrete evidence.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Became
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