August 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a reformed thief turned detective, solving crimes with wit and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Everybody say to everybody, please lucky.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So this is what it looks like, backs bags caroused.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's right, Shorty, I mean it's carousel, same.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thing, only you've pronounced it off for funny.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Say Faraday would like it here. He's been on the
merry ground for years.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And we're really going to see a big star in
short she's a.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Star in my book, Shorty.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Actually she's understudied the leading later is that good and
the biggest musical.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Hit on Broadway? And nothing is bad. Here's all we want.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Gee, really going to see a really live broad want
me to hold job?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Shorty?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Ivera mind a visitor or too?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Blackie? How are you money?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Thanks? II? This is my friend Shorty, Shorty, I have
a widow.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
Oh yeah, ge real broadways star, Not exactly Shorty, Blackie.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
You remember my cousin Dick Ainsley, don't you?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh yes, Blacky.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I think I'll have a look all.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Right, but don't go far away. Well I you miss me?
Speaker 7 (01:31):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's what I like? A nice direct answer. How things
that swank jewelry store of you? I think?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh all right, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
When they have a really nice big stone and stock deck,
just let me know, and for half the take, I'll
steal it for you.
Speaker 8 (01:45):
That's not very funny, Blackie. I was going either, Wait,
what's the matter of David.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's the matter with him Ivan.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
That remark you made about stealing a.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Diamond White, Dick Corder no better than too.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
You don't understand, Blackie. There was a robbery at the store.
Dick was under suspicion. Probably still is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I see.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Everything's all right now, though, But Dick feels funny about it.
He's always thought a lot about you, Blackie. Maybe you
could find out something about the robberies.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh no, I haven't got that.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I've given up all interest in stolen diamonds and must
of course I'm the one of.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Stole and now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those
who have no friends.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
I'm sorry I had to refuse your check this morning,
mister Bernard, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
All right, young man.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
Twenty five thousand dollars in cash wasn't easy to get,
but it wasn't hard. Well, here's your bracelet, sir, Thank you.
I want to look at it, Tom, Yeah, yes, i'd
like to. I'll be careful now it cost me twenty
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh it's worth it, said, I believe me. It was beautiful.
That's beautiful, Harry. In mind if I take it over
to the window.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right ahead, I'll wait for my receipt.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I've really never seen such luster and diamonds.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
In my life.
Speaker 10 (03:07):
It is beautiful, mister Bernard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hey, you had what I wanted, young man, what I
want I get? It certainly is lovely, Harry. I don't
I don't blame you for wanting you here, But do
you want me to rabbit?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Sir?
Speaker 9 (03:18):
No, I'll just put the box in my pocket. Goodbye, goodbye, sir,
all said Tom.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Anytime you are heady.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
I'll open the door for hire. Twenty five thousand dollars.
Bracelet's desert some consideration. Thank you on behalf of me
and the bracelet. Goodbye, good bye.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
After you, Tom?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
All right?
Speaker 9 (03:34):
Oh, by the way, young man, in case I want
to buy something here again, whom shall I ask for?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, my name is Ainsley, Sir Richard ains.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Fine, fine, I'll come and see you goodbye, Thank you, goodbye, well, Harry.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I hope you're happy, way too.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Now across the street to Gallagher's to have the bracelet
a priest.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I think I made a good purchase, but I'd just like.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
To make sure.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You bought this at Marger's.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Gentlemen, I bought it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
My friend here believes you can take it with you.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I'm going to try.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It's a beautiful piece of work, very beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, what would you people here at Gallagher.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Say us worse?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
For what?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It is a great deal.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
It's a magnificent piece of craftsmanship. Of course you know
it's an imitation. It's what a lovely one. It's worth
at least four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Coming coming.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Hello, Blackie Hiver, come in.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
How nice of you to return my visit so soon?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
This isn't exactly a visit, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
What's not you seem upset?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
It's my cousin Dick. He's in awful.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Trouble because that robbery, asks.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Me, not that Blackie, something even worse.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We'll tell me all about it, but I hear said
down first. Thanks, Now what's this all about?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Well? Dick sold a twenty five thousand dollars bracelet to
a man this morning. Ten minutes later, the man came
back into the store and claiming the bracelet was in
imitation worth no more than four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Uh, uh, you'll switcheroo.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's an old game either.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Your cousin sold a legitimate bracelet to his customer, but
somewhere during the transaction the good bracelet was switched for
an imitation.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Where's your cousin now?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I don't know. The store has sworn out a warrant
for his rist. He called me on the phone just
a few minutes ago. He's hiding. Who was the customer,
a man by the name of Harry Bernard.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Where did Bernard take a bracelet to find out it
was an imitation?
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Just across the street from Marches to Gallagher's.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
He was back in ten minutes. That proves the imitation
was made to order, long before the bracelet was bought.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
That doesn't prove Dick isn't guilty.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
But I won't be able to prove anything until I
find out who made that imitation.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Who are you calling?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
My friend Shorty, he knows just about every off the
record Preston in town. He might be able to tell
me what I want to know.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Lacky, You're going to help Dick if I.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Can joy Yeah, Shorty, this is Blackie a you boss Shody?
Who is the best maker of paste jewels in tan
on a level or off it off? I'd like to
know who could make an imitation of a twenty five
thousand dollars break that's so good it could get by
anybody but an.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Expertez onny one guy and talk to do a thing
like that, boys, says Sam Watkins.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He's got a shop at eleven Front Street where he
makes paste jewelry.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Okay, Shorty, I know him, and I'll find out who
paid him to make a certain imitation, even if I
have to paste him.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Very day speaking hooray. So it's Blacky. Look leave me alone, right,
I have enough trouble already.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You'll have a whole lot less if he listened to me.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A whole lot less. What brains look black he I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Busy doing what making more mistakes.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
My only mistake was not slapper get charge on you
years ago and make it stick. So whever you're gonna
tell me, I don't want to hear now, listen to me.
I said I didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's important.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't care what it is. I don't bother me
all right, Brankie, Wait for what what do you want
to tell me?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, come on, Blankie, don't hold out on me. And
what do you know? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Inspected?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I know you're driving me nuts. Now, look, I don't
have all day.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, Fardy, it's about this stick Ainsley case.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What do you know about that?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You're looking for Ainsley as the man who engineered the switch.
That's right as usual, Farday, You're wrong. Yeah, I suppose
you know who switched that bracelet. No, but I'm gonna
find out and you're gonna find out at the same time.
See how good I am to you?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not yet, I don't. What do I have to do
is if I didn't know, I was going to be
sorry about the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You have to meet me at the corner of River
Boulevard in Front Street for thirty minutes and off hand,
I'd say it was pretty important for you to be
in hand. Yeah, always Boston, Blankie, you got the wrong place.
(08:09):
I am looking for Sam Watkins.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, George Luckman's gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Say that way.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Open up, Sam, I know what.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You Oh, we'll expect that fire day, Blacky.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm in this wold.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hello, Sam, Hey, that door was locked. I know, wasn't
it awful? How locks can get picked?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
What do you want, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A little information?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I understand you made a pretty good imitation of a
twenty five thousand dollars bracelet.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Maybe you understand I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
An artist ought to be proud of his work. Sam,
you don't have to be modest with me. I know
you're good, sure right good, But.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I don't know nothing about it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It was a march bracelet. Sam.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You know what I mean. You made the imitation, didn't you. No,
I guess you've got to be coaxed.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Take your hands off of meat?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Do you make that imitation?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Take your hands off of me?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You want to play house rough as?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Oh? Take wise guy. I'm gonna take you up.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
To do a dance before you fall apart.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh come on, Yeah, get what I'm saying. Talk while
you still have teeth. You made that imitation, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
So what?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So? Who ordered it?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
That's something you have to point out for yourself. I
don't know nothing about why it was made of. Who
wanted it?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Couldn't be A fellow by the name of Harry Bernard
got it, oo Sie. He bought the bracelet from a
clerk at Marches.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I never had him. You work out of here all right?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Will Unless I get an answer from you, you won't
be able to walk at all. Who pays you to
make that copy?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Okay? As long as she's getting tough? It was to
click at much? It is a guy named Dick Ainsley.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Girl's carus USA? Please girls? Cars come in?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Oh Blackie? What took you so long?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I caught you just ten minutes ago?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
It seemed like ten hours. I'm supposed to be rehearsing,
but I've been trying to get Dick on the phone.
I can't find him anywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Have you tried jail?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Have they arrested him already?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I don't know the wise guy that I am. I
had inspected Friday listening outside Watkins door, and.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
The inspector said he was going to arrest it.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
He probably has done it already. You have your hair sick.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
All over town?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Police are looking for me everywhere.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
I've got a hide.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You've just got to hide me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I didn't stay like.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
We know you didn't take We know you didn't, but
maybe you ought to give yourself up just till we
prove it done.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
On how I want.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
I'm in enough disgrace already. Before I go to jail,
I'll kill myself. You understand, I'll kill myself.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And I'll back to Boston Blackie. When Blackie went backstage
to see his friend, I have A Withers Broadway hit Carousel,
he didn't expect trouble, but now he has plenty of it.
Trying to prove that Iva's cousin, Richard Ainsley, is innocent
of selling an imitation bracelet in place of a real one.
(11:22):
With Faraday listening outside, Blackie forced the man who made
the fake bracelet to tell who ordered it from him,
and he named Richard Ainson. Blackie returned to Carousel to
see iv A Withers when Richard rushed in and demanded
to be hidden from the police. As we return to
our story, we are still backstage and I Withers is
on stage rehearsing made in the way that he is.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Whether he's all.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Sorts gigging the thing sad?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Are he.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
One of those things?
Speaker 10 (12:03):
You? He wants your kissas.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
He will give him to the Lord, and then anywhere
he leads you, you will.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Time he need you, you'll.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Go roun like man.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
Wool and heed your fall.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
This yes with us like they want me to give
a message. I'm true. Now he wants you to come
back to thank you. I'll run through that again in
a half hour.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Tom, Okay, I won't go to jail, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm innocent and I won't go to jail.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Not so loud, Dick, come one might hear you?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Glad you're back? I tell me something, Dick. Was Bernard
alone when he bought the bracelet?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, he was with a fellow he called Tom Wood.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Did Ward handle a bracelet? No? No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
In zambious Bernard made the switch himself, pretty clever, switching
his own bracelet.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Away, Blackie. Ward did handle a bracelet. He took it
over to the window for a moment to look at
it in the.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Light, long enough to have made the switch. Hey, I
think so well, and I think for me to do
first is to see this funnel the nod and ask
him a few things about Ward. Well, what do I
do in the meantime? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
You're going to be a problem. Oh, I got to
ask what is I'm all right?
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Inspect the paraday of the police.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Please tell him?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
The wait a minute, Just a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Did I see you were going to be a problem, Dick.
You're a problem right now.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You've got to hide me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Hey, that's going on earth?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Just a minute, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
What do we do.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's a long shot, but maybe it'll work. Dick, grab
one of those dressing ganns.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Put it on quick, Blackie.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
That way, Hey, god, wait all day, just a minute, Okay, I.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Have the robe on.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
No, I sit at this pressing table.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, put that towel around your head and stop putting
grease paint on your face.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'll left Paraday in Hey, o not, this is the police,
I said, Oh for not this, Blankie.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You you do everything backwards, don't you, Faraday?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
You want to see carousel? So you come backstage? What
are you doing here for the moment?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Annoying you?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I thought you were smart when you had me listening
to you and Sam Wakins.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I had the goods on Antsy in the first place.
You were just starting so he could get away.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Faraday.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Don't tell me somebody got away from you, Franky. It's
a funny thing when you interfere in a case of mine.
Everybody gets lost, but not you And that's what bothers me.
So it bothers you. Where's this girl? I but with us?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I'm right here, inspector.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Who's the other girl?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
He's in the chorus?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
He dresses with me? Have you had any word from
your cousin miss with us?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And not even a sound?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I was talking to Miss Withers. Oh, never mind, I
know all I need to know, Blackie. And let me
warn you. If you hide Ansley, I'll slap both you
and jail for harboring a criminal. I don't forget that.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Thank goodness, he's gone.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Can I get out from under this now?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Better not Dick? You make him back? You stay here
as long as you can. I'll get in touch with
you by phone.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Where you're going back to.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
See Harry Bernard? A tom Ward? Maybe both one of
them switched that bracelet or maybe both?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Does a tom Ward live.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
Here, mister Thomas Boynton Ward?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Who's calling Boston? Blackie?
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Step inside? I see visiting, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Thank you this way, sir. So what is this a
home or a museum?
Speaker 10 (15:54):
It's mister Ward's townhouse.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Townhouse is right, pulled a good size tom We like it.
We like it, we servant, sir oh, brother.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Mister Walsh had in the library here and mister Boston
Bleckie to see you.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You may goin, sir, when you tell me. That makes
it official.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
Thanks mister Boston Blecky, sir, Yes, sir, you wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
To see me. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're not sure.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I am looking for a men named tom Ward. Six
of them in the city.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I'm trying all of them, trying all of them for
what I am looking for. The Tom Ward who was
with Harry Bernard when he bought a twenty five thousand
dollars bracelet at Marches yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Then you found him, you, Yes, I only met Bernard recently,
but I was with him. I was with him when
he bought it, when he headed to praise do when
he took it back to Marches.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Say, I've seen you before, haven't I? You're the president
of the Avenue City Banks.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Aren't you named worselet chairman of the board, which means
I have to work for a living too.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Why, I guess I owe you an apology, mister Ward,
for what well. I came up here hoping to prove
that you switched the bracelet mister Bernard bought you know,
I haven't been able to find Bernard at all.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He isn't in the phone book. His phone's unlisted. I
see whose idea was it to have the bracelet praised?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
He is?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Could he possibly have switched the bracelet on the way
to the appraises?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't see how all we did was go across
the street.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Did he carry the bracelet in his hand or put
it in his pocket?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Why? Yea in his pocket?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
He could have hand that duplicate bracelet and then march
his box already in that pocket.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Couldn't he Well, I really couldn't answer that.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
But that is the answer to how the phony bracelet
was substitute for the good one?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What is Benard leve? Mister Ward?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
He has Apartment nine A at one oh one one
river View. But look here, I believe the clerk at
Marches is the thief.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
That theory is n G no good, mister Ward, because
the clerk is n G not guilty.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
That his science says Apartment I's done its.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Way, Blackie, Thanks Schorny.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Come on, Farney, I don't know why I let you
waste my time.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Lacky Dick Ainsley is the man I want.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
You want? Harry Bernard, and you're gonna get him thanks
to me.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't explain why Sam Watkins said he made the phony
for Rangeley.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
That needs explaining only to someone as dumb as you.
He was covering up for his partner.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What partner, Bernard? That was a tough bracelet to copy.
He wouldn't do the work for less than half the cut.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, it was a tough bracelet to copy. The phony
one look like it was worth a million dollars use
Apartment ninety.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Surety, your friends, I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Am now you let me handle this.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh no, I want this done right and maybe maybe
nobody's fall. The girl on the desk downstairs said, Bernard
hadn't left all day. I think I can handle this doing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Hmm. You picked the lock so quick, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Amazing what I can do when I try? Isn't it faraday? Besides,
it wasn't like, go on, let's go in, boy.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Sure is a swell jurny Hope.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
I've enjoyed it because where he's going to spend the
next five years, the great cause.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Look, he looks a little dead.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Surely there's no such thing as a little dead, Like
there's no such thing as a little garlic.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's Harry Bernard for any of identification.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
All right, now, wait a minute, Friday, wait a minute.
This is one time you can't say I killed him.
I brought you up here so you can arrest him.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, that's right, arrest him, arrest him. How can I
arrest that dead man?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You can't. But you can grab the guy who fired
the shot into Bernard.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, let's call him.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Hold everything. I'm going to see him first. Sure you
stay here.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
With a dead guy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'll be here to keep your company.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
The corps will be more entertaining. Surety, listen. In about
half an hour, the phone will ring. Here's what I
want to do. Yeah, I always boss and Blackie.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
What do you want in? I don't want you in?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Then you have to throw meat it.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'm already all right.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Oh what close it on? I think we ought to
talk in private.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Okay, it's private.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You're a professional jeweler, Sam, but you're a very amateur liar.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You didn't make that phony bracelet for Dick Ainsley. You
made it for Harry Bernard.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
What makes you think so?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I always thought so. So.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I looked up Bernard just now and persuaded him to
tell me the truth.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
All right.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
So what if I did make it for Bernard, I
didn't know what he wanted it for.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I'm in the clear. You'd be in the clear if
I weren't.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
No, Eh, what do you know?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Mind? If I use your phone? So thanks? Well, you
call it your friend, Harry Bernard. But a Feld date
seven to seven nine hour? Is that the right number?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
What you call it him for?
Speaker 10 (21:12):
It?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Tell him a little bedtime story that should put both
of you to sleep in jail tonight.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
I'm not bluffing Sam. Hello, Harry Bernard. SUI, Oh Harry,
this is Boston Blackie. I'm down here talking to that
friend of you. Are Sam Watkins. He made that phony
bracelet for you. Remember you had told him you wanted
to copy of the diamond bracelet in the window of Marches,
(21:43):
but he wanted more than the usual fee for phony
Jewelrisso you told him your whole scheme. You said you
were very friendly with Thomas Boyton Ward, and you were
taking Ward with you when you bought the bracelet and
went to the Praises, so that you'd have a reputable
citizen as a witness from start to finish. And all
the time you had a phony bracelet in your pocket.
Put that telephone down just a minute, Harry. Yeah, I
(22:05):
guess I'll have to hang up now. Your friend Sam
has a gun on me. Telephone down, Blackie, Why so belligerent.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
All of a sudden talking to How do you know?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I know?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I know you're right, Sam.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I wasn't talking to Harry because Harry is dead and
you kill him. And I know why too.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
He refused to give you big enough cutting the deal,
so you killed him, took the real bracelet from him
and probably have to have it right here in the shop.
Put that telephone down, all right, Sam, off of it,
dam on top of that gun you're holding.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, I'll get you with my hands.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Keep me first. Bow.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Oh Sam, he was so good at making rocks. Let
me assure you that from now on you'll be breaking him.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Everything you did for Wade.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I want to thank Blackie myself.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I don't want any thanks for either. Want to just
do me a favor.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
When you dick anything, you say, Blake, don't get yourself
into a spot where you have to look like a
girl again.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
She looked terrible.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
You know, if I'd use my head, I'd never have
gotten into trouble. I noticed that fella Sam Watkins hanging
around outside the store for a week, looking at the
bracelet in the window.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I thought he was doing a sketch too, doing a
sketch man.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Well, beginning pretty soon he's going to be doing a
stretch
Everybody say to everybody, please lucky.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So this is what it looks like, backs bags caroused.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's right, Shorty, I mean it's carousel, same.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thing, only you've pronounced it off for funny.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Say Faraday would like it here. He's been on the
merry ground for years.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And we're really going to see a big star in
short she's a.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Star in my book, Shorty.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Actually she's understudied the leading later is that good and
the biggest musical.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Hit on Broadway? And nothing is bad. Here's all we want.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Gee, really going to see a really live broad want
me to hold job?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Shorty?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Ivera mind a visitor or too?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Blackie? How are you money?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Thanks? II? This is my friend Shorty, Shorty, I have
a widow.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
Oh yeah, ge real broadways star, Not exactly Shorty, Blackie.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
You remember my cousin Dick Ainsley, don't you?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh yes, Blacky.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I think I'll have a look all.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Right, but don't go far away. Well I you miss me?
Speaker 7 (01:31):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's what I like? A nice direct answer. How things
that swank jewelry store of you? I think?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh all right, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
When they have a really nice big stone and stock deck,
just let me know, and for half the take, I'll
steal it for you.
Speaker 8 (01:45):
That's not very funny, Blackie. I was going either, Wait,
what's the matter of David.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's the matter with him Ivan.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
That remark you made about stealing a.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Diamond White, Dick Corder no better than too.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
You don't understand, Blackie. There was a robbery at the store.
Dick was under suspicion. Probably still is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I see.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Everything's all right now, though, But Dick feels funny about it.
He's always thought a lot about you, Blackie. Maybe you
could find out something about the robberies.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh no, I haven't got that.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I've given up all interest in stolen diamonds and must
of course I'm the one of.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Stole and now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those
who have no friends.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
I'm sorry I had to refuse your check this morning,
mister Bernard, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
All right, young man.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
Twenty five thousand dollars in cash wasn't easy to get,
but it wasn't hard. Well, here's your bracelet, sir, Thank you.
I want to look at it, Tom, Yeah, yes, i'd
like to. I'll be careful now it cost me twenty
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh it's worth it, said, I believe me. It was beautiful.
That's beautiful, Harry. In mind if I take it over
to the window.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right ahead, I'll wait for my receipt.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I've really never seen such luster and diamonds.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
In my life.
Speaker 10 (03:07):
It is beautiful, mister Bernard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hey, you had what I wanted, young man, what I
want I get? It certainly is lovely, Harry. I don't
I don't blame you for wanting you here, But do
you want me to rabbit?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Sir?
Speaker 9 (03:18):
No, I'll just put the box in my pocket. Goodbye, goodbye, sir,
all said Tom.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Anytime you are heady.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
I'll open the door for hire. Twenty five thousand dollars.
Bracelet's desert some consideration. Thank you on behalf of me
and the bracelet. Goodbye, good bye.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
After you, Tom?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
All right?
Speaker 9 (03:34):
Oh, by the way, young man, in case I want
to buy something here again, whom shall I ask for?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, my name is Ainsley, Sir Richard ains.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Fine, fine, I'll come and see you goodbye, Thank you, goodbye, well, Harry.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I hope you're happy, way too.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Now across the street to Gallagher's to have the bracelet
a priest.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I think I made a good purchase, but I'd just like.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
To make sure.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You bought this at Marger's.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Gentlemen, I bought it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
My friend here believes you can take it with you.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I'm going to try.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It's a beautiful piece of work, very beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, what would you people here at Gallagher.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Say us worse?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
For what?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It is a great deal.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
It's a magnificent piece of craftsmanship. Of course you know
it's an imitation. It's what a lovely one. It's worth
at least four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Coming coming.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Hello, Blackie Hiver, come in.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
How nice of you to return my visit so soon?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
This isn't exactly a visit, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
What's not you seem upset?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
It's my cousin Dick. He's in awful.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Trouble because that robbery, asks.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Me, not that Blackie, something even worse.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We'll tell me all about it, but I hear said
down first. Thanks, Now what's this all about?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Well? Dick sold a twenty five thousand dollars bracelet to
a man this morning. Ten minutes later, the man came
back into the store and claiming the bracelet was in
imitation worth no more than four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Uh, uh, you'll switcheroo.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's an old game either.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Your cousin sold a legitimate bracelet to his customer, but
somewhere during the transaction the good bracelet was switched for
an imitation.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Where's your cousin now?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I don't know. The store has sworn out a warrant
for his rist. He called me on the phone just
a few minutes ago. He's hiding. Who was the customer,
a man by the name of Harry Bernard.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Where did Bernard take a bracelet to find out it
was an imitation?
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Just across the street from Marches to Gallagher's.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
He was back in ten minutes. That proves the imitation
was made to order, long before the bracelet was bought.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
That doesn't prove Dick isn't guilty.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
But I won't be able to prove anything until I
find out who made that imitation.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Who are you calling?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
My friend Shorty, he knows just about every off the
record Preston in town. He might be able to tell
me what I want to know.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Lacky, You're going to help Dick if I.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Can joy Yeah, Shorty, this is Blackie a you boss Shody?
Who is the best maker of paste jewels in tan
on a level or off it off? I'd like to
know who could make an imitation of a twenty five
thousand dollars break that's so good it could get by
anybody but an.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Expertez onny one guy and talk to do a thing
like that, boys, says Sam Watkins.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He's got a shop at eleven Front Street where he
makes paste jewelry.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Okay, Shorty, I know him, and I'll find out who
paid him to make a certain imitation, even if I
have to paste him.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Very day speaking hooray. So it's Blacky. Look leave me alone, right,
I have enough trouble already.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You'll have a whole lot less if he listened to me.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A whole lot less. What brains look black he I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Busy doing what making more mistakes.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
My only mistake was not slapper get charge on you
years ago and make it stick. So whever you're gonna
tell me, I don't want to hear now, listen to me.
I said I didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's important.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't care what it is. I don't bother me
all right, Brankie, Wait for what what do you want
to tell me?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, come on, Blankie, don't hold out on me. And
what do you know? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Inspected?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I know you're driving me nuts. Now, look, I don't
have all day.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, Fardy, it's about this stick Ainsley case.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What do you know about that?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You're looking for Ainsley as the man who engineered the switch.
That's right as usual, Farday, You're wrong. Yeah, I suppose
you know who switched that bracelet. No, but I'm gonna
find out and you're gonna find out at the same time.
See how good I am to you?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not yet, I don't. What do I have to do
is if I didn't know, I was going to be
sorry about the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You have to meet me at the corner of River
Boulevard in Front Street for thirty minutes and off hand,
I'd say it was pretty important for you to be
in hand. Yeah, always Boston, Blankie, you got the wrong place.
(08:09):
I am looking for Sam Watkins.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, George Luckman's gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Say that way.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Open up, Sam, I know what.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You Oh, we'll expect that fire day, Blacky.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm in this wold.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hello, Sam, Hey, that door was locked. I know, wasn't
it awful? How locks can get picked?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
What do you want, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A little information?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I understand you made a pretty good imitation of a
twenty five thousand dollars bracelet.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Maybe you understand I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
An artist ought to be proud of his work. Sam,
you don't have to be modest with me. I know
you're good, sure right good, But.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I don't know nothing about it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It was a march bracelet. Sam.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You know what I mean. You made the imitation, didn't you. No,
I guess you've got to be coaxed.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Take your hands off of meat?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Do you make that imitation?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Take your hands off of me?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You want to play house rough as?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Oh? Take wise guy. I'm gonna take you up.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
To do a dance before you fall apart.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh come on, Yeah, get what I'm saying. Talk while
you still have teeth. You made that imitation, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
So what?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So? Who ordered it?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
That's something you have to point out for yourself. I
don't know nothing about why it was made of. Who
wanted it?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Couldn't be A fellow by the name of Harry Bernard
got it, oo Sie. He bought the bracelet from a
clerk at Marches.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I never had him. You work out of here all right?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Will Unless I get an answer from you, you won't
be able to walk at all. Who pays you to
make that copy?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Okay? As long as she's getting tough? It was to
click at much? It is a guy named Dick Ainsley.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Girl's carus USA? Please girls? Cars come in?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Oh Blackie? What took you so long?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I caught you just ten minutes ago?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
It seemed like ten hours. I'm supposed to be rehearsing,
but I've been trying to get Dick on the phone.
I can't find him anywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Have you tried jail?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Have they arrested him already?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I don't know the wise guy that I am. I
had inspected Friday listening outside Watkins door, and.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
The inspector said he was going to arrest it.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
He probably has done it already. You have your hair sick.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
All over town?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Police are looking for me everywhere.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
I've got a hide.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You've just got to hide me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I didn't stay like.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
We know you didn't take We know you didn't, but
maybe you ought to give yourself up just till we
prove it done.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
On how I want.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
I'm in enough disgrace already. Before I go to jail,
I'll kill myself. You understand, I'll kill myself.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And I'll back to Boston Blackie. When Blackie went backstage
to see his friend, I have A Withers Broadway hit Carousel,
he didn't expect trouble, but now he has plenty of it.
Trying to prove that Iva's cousin, Richard Ainsley, is innocent
of selling an imitation bracelet in place of a real one.
(11:22):
With Faraday listening outside, Blackie forced the man who made
the fake bracelet to tell who ordered it from him,
and he named Richard Ainson. Blackie returned to Carousel to
see iv A Withers when Richard rushed in and demanded
to be hidden from the police. As we return to
our story, we are still backstage and I Withers is
on stage rehearsing made in the way that he is.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Whether he's all.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Sorts gigging the thing sad?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Are he.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
One of those things?
Speaker 10 (12:03):
You? He wants your kissas.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
He will give him to the Lord, and then anywhere
he leads you, you will.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Time he need you, you'll.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Go roun like man.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
Wool and heed your fall.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
This yes with us like they want me to give
a message. I'm true. Now he wants you to come
back to thank you. I'll run through that again in
a half hour.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Tom, Okay, I won't go to jail, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm innocent and I won't go to jail.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Not so loud, Dick, come one might hear you?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Glad you're back? I tell me something, Dick. Was Bernard
alone when he bought the bracelet?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, he was with a fellow he called Tom Wood.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Did Ward handle a bracelet? No? No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
In zambious Bernard made the switch himself, pretty clever, switching
his own bracelet.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Away, Blackie. Ward did handle a bracelet. He took it
over to the window for a moment to look at
it in the.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Light, long enough to have made the switch. Hey, I
think so well, and I think for me to do
first is to see this funnel the nod and ask
him a few things about Ward. Well, what do I
do in the meantime? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
You're going to be a problem. Oh, I got to
ask what is I'm all right?
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Inspect the paraday of the police.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Please tell him?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
The wait a minute, Just a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Did I see you were going to be a problem, Dick.
You're a problem right now.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You've got to hide me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Hey, that's going on earth?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Just a minute, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
What do we do.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's a long shot, but maybe it'll work. Dick, grab
one of those dressing ganns.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Put it on quick, Blackie.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
That way, Hey, god, wait all day, just a minute, Okay, I.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Have the robe on.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
No, I sit at this pressing table.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, put that towel around your head and stop putting
grease paint on your face.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'll left Paraday in Hey, o not, this is the police,
I said, Oh for not this, Blankie.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You you do everything backwards, don't you, Faraday?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
You want to see carousel? So you come backstage? What
are you doing here for the moment?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Annoying you?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I thought you were smart when you had me listening
to you and Sam Wakins.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I had the goods on Antsy in the first place.
You were just starting so he could get away.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Faraday.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Don't tell me somebody got away from you, Franky. It's
a funny thing when you interfere in a case of mine.
Everybody gets lost, but not you And that's what bothers me.
So it bothers you. Where's this girl? I but with us?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I'm right here, inspector.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Who's the other girl?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
He's in the chorus?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
He dresses with me? Have you had any word from
your cousin miss with us?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And not even a sound?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I was talking to Miss Withers. Oh, never mind, I
know all I need to know, Blackie. And let me
warn you. If you hide Ansley, I'll slap both you
and jail for harboring a criminal. I don't forget that.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Thank goodness, he's gone.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Can I get out from under this now?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Better not Dick? You make him back? You stay here
as long as you can. I'll get in touch with
you by phone.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Where you're going back to.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
See Harry Bernard? A tom Ward? Maybe both one of
them switched that bracelet or maybe both?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Does a tom Ward live.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
Here, mister Thomas Boynton Ward?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Who's calling Boston? Blackie?
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Step inside? I see visiting, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Thank you this way, sir. So what is this a
home or a museum?
Speaker 10 (15:54):
It's mister Ward's townhouse.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Townhouse is right, pulled a good size tom We like it.
We like it, we servant, sir oh, brother.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Mister Walsh had in the library here and mister Boston
Bleckie to see you.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You may goin, sir, when you tell me. That makes
it official.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
Thanks mister Boston Blecky, sir, Yes, sir, you wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
To see me. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're not sure.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I am looking for a men named tom Ward. Six
of them in the city.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I'm trying all of them, trying all of them for
what I am looking for. The Tom Ward who was
with Harry Bernard when he bought a twenty five thousand
dollars bracelet at Marches yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Then you found him, you, Yes, I only met Bernard recently,
but I was with him. I was with him when
he bought it, when he headed to praise do when
he took it back to Marches.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Say, I've seen you before, haven't I? You're the president
of the Avenue City Banks.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Aren't you named worselet chairman of the board, which means
I have to work for a living too.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Why, I guess I owe you an apology, mister Ward,
for what well. I came up here hoping to prove
that you switched the bracelet mister Bernard bought you know,
I haven't been able to find Bernard at all.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He isn't in the phone book. His phone's unlisted. I
see whose idea was it to have the bracelet praised?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
He is?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Could he possibly have switched the bracelet on the way
to the appraises?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't see how all we did was go across
the street.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Did he carry the bracelet in his hand or put
it in his pocket?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Why? Yea in his pocket?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
He could have hand that duplicate bracelet and then march
his box already in that pocket.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Couldn't he Well, I really couldn't answer that.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
But that is the answer to how the phony bracelet
was substitute for the good one?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What is Benard leve? Mister Ward?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
He has Apartment nine A at one oh one one
river View. But look here, I believe the clerk at
Marches is the thief.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
That theory is n G no good, mister Ward, because
the clerk is n G not guilty.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
That his science says Apartment I's done its.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Way, Blackie, Thanks Schorny.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Come on, Farney, I don't know why I let you
waste my time.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Lacky Dick Ainsley is the man I want.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
You want? Harry Bernard, and you're gonna get him thanks
to me.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't explain why Sam Watkins said he made the phony
for Rangeley.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
That needs explaining only to someone as dumb as you.
He was covering up for his partner.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What partner, Bernard? That was a tough bracelet to copy.
He wouldn't do the work for less than half the cut.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, it was a tough bracelet to copy. The phony
one look like it was worth a million dollars use
Apartment ninety.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Surety, your friends, I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Am now you let me handle this.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh no, I want this done right and maybe maybe
nobody's fall. The girl on the desk downstairs said, Bernard
hadn't left all day. I think I can handle this doing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Hmm. You picked the lock so quick, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Amazing what I can do when I try? Isn't it faraday? Besides,
it wasn't like, go on, let's go in, boy.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Sure is a swell jurny Hope.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
I've enjoyed it because where he's going to spend the
next five years, the great cause.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Look, he looks a little dead.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Surely there's no such thing as a little dead, Like
there's no such thing as a little garlic.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's Harry Bernard for any of identification.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
All right, now, wait a minute, Friday, wait a minute.
This is one time you can't say I killed him.
I brought you up here so you can arrest him.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, that's right, arrest him, arrest him. How can I
arrest that dead man?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You can't. But you can grab the guy who fired
the shot into Bernard.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, let's call him.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Hold everything. I'm going to see him first. Sure you
stay here.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
With a dead guy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'll be here to keep your company.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
The corps will be more entertaining. Surety, listen. In about
half an hour, the phone will ring. Here's what I
want to do. Yeah, I always boss and Blackie.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
What do you want in? I don't want you in?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Then you have to throw meat it.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'm already all right.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Oh what close it on? I think we ought to
talk in private.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Okay, it's private.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You're a professional jeweler, Sam, but you're a very amateur liar.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You didn't make that phony bracelet for Dick Ainsley. You
made it for Harry Bernard.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
What makes you think so?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I always thought so. So.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I looked up Bernard just now and persuaded him to
tell me the truth.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
All right.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
So what if I did make it for Bernard, I
didn't know what he wanted it for.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I'm in the clear. You'd be in the clear if
I weren't.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
No, Eh, what do you know?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Mind? If I use your phone? So thanks? Well, you
call it your friend, Harry Bernard. But a Feld date
seven to seven nine hour? Is that the right number?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
What you call it him for?
Speaker 10 (21:12):
It?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Tell him a little bedtime story that should put both
of you to sleep in jail tonight.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
I'm not bluffing Sam. Hello, Harry Bernard. SUI, Oh Harry,
this is Boston Blackie. I'm down here talking to that
friend of you. Are Sam Watkins. He made that phony
bracelet for you. Remember you had told him you wanted
to copy of the diamond bracelet in the window of Marches,
(21:43):
but he wanted more than the usual fee for phony
Jewelrisso you told him your whole scheme. You said you
were very friendly with Thomas Boyton Ward, and you were
taking Ward with you when you bought the bracelet and
went to the Praises, so that you'd have a reputable
citizen as a witness from start to finish. And all
the time you had a phony bracelet in your pocket.
Put that telephone down just a minute, Harry. Yeah, I
(22:05):
guess I'll have to hang up now. Your friend Sam
has a gun on me. Telephone down, Blackie, Why so belligerent.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
All of a sudden talking to How do you know?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I know?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I know you're right, Sam.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I wasn't talking to Harry because Harry is dead and
you kill him. And I know why too.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
He refused to give you big enough cutting the deal,
so you killed him, took the real bracelet from him
and probably have to have it right here in the shop.
Put that telephone down, all right, Sam, off of it,
dam on top of that gun you're holding.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, I'll get you with my hands.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Keep me first. Bow.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Oh Sam, he was so good at making rocks. Let
me assure you that from now on you'll be breaking him.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Everything you did for Wade.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I want to thank Blackie myself.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I don't want any thanks for either. Want to just
do me a favor.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
When you dick anything, you say, Blake, don't get yourself
into a spot where you have to look like a
girl again.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
She looked terrible.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
You know, if I'd use my head, I'd never have
gotten into trouble. I noticed that fella Sam Watkins hanging
around outside the store for a week, looking at the
bracelet in the window.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I thought he was doing a sketch too, doing a
sketch man.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Well, beginning pretty soon he's going to be doing a
stretch
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