April 25, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
That's your tomb yap.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I we have time, ya. We just high ball broughtnvill
Ooh what count of that bad curve?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's not the curve, it's bad time. It's a great
crossing just around it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I hope they make an underpass out of it pretty soon.
Where you been back in the baggage car. And I've
never seen so many armed guards.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
In my life. What do we carrying?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Gold?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Money of it? We gave it a horse to carry
because we got none to stop. From the capitol all
the way to the city go there.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. Well, I guess if this was in the day
that Jesse jays, we'll be worrying about being stopped.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hey, Bob, cover to that curb. Yes, and they're not crossing.
Better whistle for.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It, okay, carrying a load of gold. I right, boy,
it must be some load.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All the guys they guys guards.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
We guyanst it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hey, Bob, looks go it great cross I know, I
say it. Well, I wait a quick.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Wow, we come in time.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Oh we couldn't you coming round with that curb.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We're gonna hit that pard, We're gonna hit the harms.
Hold on time, hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And now on to Dick Comer as Boston Blackie, enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Who have no friends.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, Harry, there she goes. That's right, And here he comes,
walking towards us, just as if he knew where we'll
hide him. Then again, why shouldn't he know? He had
his instructions same as we had us. He knew we'd
be in these bushes. Yeah, I know this is gonna
give a hundred people ahead there. Wait'll I try and
(02:37):
find out what this is all about. I got news
for you. Yeah, I don't know either. You don't have
to know. All you gotta know is you're gonna get paid.
You can't figure this out. Nobody's gonna figure this out,
but somebody is gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Be very happy.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Believe me, somebody's gonna be very happy.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hello, Hello, Mary, this is Blackie.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hello Blackie.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Are you back in town? O?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Mary? And I'm still down here in Danville. I'm glad
of metropolis. It's nothing more than a crossroads with a
railroad station. And what love it down? Eddan?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
When are you coming back?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, that's why I called you, Mary. I've just finished
my business here, but there's not another train out of
here for six hours, so I won't see until late tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What did you say, just stam, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I said, come in and someone just knocking the door.
I'll see you tonight then late Mary, Bye.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Bye Boston, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, hello beautiful. Are you miss Danville or missus Danville.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm Margaret Perkins, Blackie. I've heard about you and I
need your help.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's what I like, the subtle approach. But I'm sorry,
I'm a little out of my territory.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
In this town of huy doctor Hill me, Blackie, I'm
afraid my brother is in some kind of trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Sounds to me like he's the one who needs the help.
Then sorry, Miss Perkins acky.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Please hmm.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's the kind of logic I like. You think your
brother is in trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
This note he left me when he disappeared yesterday morning.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
What was it saying?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Please read it?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Okay? Mmmm? Says goodbye Margaret. I'm leaving this town for
good and with enough money to keep me going for
a long time. Don't try to find me. You never will,
signed Harry.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You notice what this note was written.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
On I suppose, yes, yes, the back of a railroad
time table.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Mm hmm, there's a ring drawn around a special train,
the Metropolitan Flyer.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yes, I noticed that.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well it's obvious, miss Perkins, your brother is going to
the city. There's no point looking for him around here.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well that's what I thought.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Daniel's too small for him to be here without my
knowing about it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'll tell you what I'll do, miss Perkins. I can't
get a train out of here for another six hours,
but I'm going down to the railroad station to pick
up my ticket. Maybe that's a good place to pick
up something on your brother too. One way ticket to
(05:15):
the city, please heah to the city, young fellow in
the train out of Danville today again for another five
and a half hours. Yes, I know that, but I'll
get my ticket now, that is, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
The only thing I mind is marheumatism. One way, you see,
and there'll be a dollar and fifty cents fifty okay, hey, yeah,
thank you, and here's your ticket, young fellow.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Thank you. Say, by the way, you didn't see this
young lady's brother and here yesterday? Did you hello, mister
wash blank or how do you there?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Margaite? Didn't see you looking for Harry, are you yes, Nope,
I ain't seen him.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We think he took the Metropolitan Flyer out of here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Flyer you mean the non stop from the Capitol.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yes, I have an idea.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, the idea is bad, Sonny, fly don't stop here.
Never hasn't fifty years. Yes, never came was yesterday when
it hit an order up at the crossing mile on
the quarter past.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He is, Oh, how terrible was anyone in the car?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Hurts anybody hurt? Nope? And you know that was the
funniest thing about it. There weren't nobody in the car.
There weren't nobody around. Even this order was just setting
on the tracks all by itself.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And no one ever claimed the wreck.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Nope. I guess whoever owned the thing just walked off
and left it. Made a funny place to leave it though,
on the main line tracks for the Metropolitan Flyer coming through.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Apparently it stopped the Flyer, that didn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, sure did. Flyer was standing out there in the
middle of nowhere for twenty minutes. But that don't have
nothing to do with your brother, Margaret. And I ain't
seen him, not in a couple of days.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Well, thanks, mister Washburn.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Thanks a lot, Yes, thanks all time. It's all right,
young fellow that same as Pikins. Is there a place
in time where we can borrow a car?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Why? Yes, we can use my uncle.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Good. Let's get your uncle's car. Go have a look
at that wreck that stopped the flyer yesterday.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well if you want to, but I don't speaking.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Your brother put a ring around the Metropolitan Flyer on
the timetable for a reason. I'd like to take a
flyer a looking at that wreck for a reason too.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Here's the wreck black here in the ditch beside the
track and water wreck.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Too, Miss Perkins. Good thing was no one in it? Well,
let's get out and have a look at that car.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I don't know what it has to do with finding
my brother, but if you say so, I don't say so.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I just have a hunch that's all. Something very strange
about an empty car being left on a grade crossing.
If it were out of gas, it'd been pushed off
before it was abandoned. Look at this message.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It's hard to believe it was once an automobile, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I don't think that it's been classed as much of
an automobile for a long time. It must be ten
or twelve years old. Say here's a door frame with
a body number on it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Does that mean anything?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Means I might be able to find out who owned
this car? I think i'll write it down.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Two good heavens. What's this terrible mess?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That miss Pilkins was the engine? Hmmm? The motor number
is still visible. I think I'll write that down too.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I thought license plates were the best means of a
car identification.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They're fairly good and not much help in this case.
This car doesn't have plates.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Oh so it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That convinces me more than ever that say, look at this?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Look at what?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
See this round hole in the motor block here? Yes,
well that's where the carburetor belongs. And this engine had
no carburetor?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Is that bad?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, it isn't good if you expect to do any
driving an engine can't run with that one.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh well, maybe it was knocked off in the accident.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh no, this motor hasn't had a carburetor for years.
The place it should be attached to is all rusted
over here. This car was pushed atop here and purposely
left on the tracks.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Why That means someone wanted it to be hit by
the train.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But why why to stop the train, of course? But
why did someone want to stop that flyer?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I don't either. This might have nothing to do with
your brother, but it has me puzzled. The first thing
I want to find out is who owned this car.
There's an automobile dealer in dan Villa.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Isn't it, yes, mister Boswell.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Mister Boswell knows a lot about cars, I'm sure. Let's
go see how much he knows about people who buy them.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
There's Blackie Shure that car yesterday morning at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
At nine o'clock yesterday morning, and mister Boswell and the
Metropolitan Flyer comes through dan Villa ten Yeah, sure, black clockwork.
That means the car was bought just one hour before
the flyer hit it and wrecked it. This is getting
more interesting every minute.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But that means the car was bought to stop the train,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It wasn't bought for any cross country tour. It wasn't
even in running condition, is it, mister Bosball? No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Black Ain't two men who bought it had a tore away.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Two men bought the car. Huh did you know them? No?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
One of them was your brother, Harry, Miss Perkins, my brother. Yes,
she came in with a fellow I've seen before, but
don't know her name. Think your brother called him speak
door Pete or.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Something like that. Well, so Harry and his friend bought
that car, has stopped the Metropolitan Flyer. Okay, here's where
I stopped finding out why that train was stopped. Give
me a keys, Miss Perkins. I'll unlocked the door for you.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
People in small towns never locked doors, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You'll come in a while.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yes, it's still several hours before my train leaves, and
there's nothing I can do about your brother till I
get to the city.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You think that's obviously where he's gone.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I think that more than ever now. I think he
used the car to stop the Metropolitan Flyer and got
on it. Let's go in and talk this over. Yes, Harry,
always been.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Harry. What happened?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Who did this to you?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh? Tell me, darling, who did this?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Harry? Harry? What is it? I got it? Got to
tell tell why why we stopped?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Stop the dread?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I got to It's no use, Miss Pepkins. I'm awfully sorry,
but he's dead.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes, I know it. You're black.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Here, go ahead cry if you want to, it'll do
you good. What's this my shirt pocket? Yeah? Must like
a newspaper clipping. This is what Harry was trying to
get us. This newspaper clipping says the Metropolitan flyer was
carrying gold, a million dollars in gold. I thought it
(11:56):
was something like that. Operator. Get me Inspector Faraday at
police headquarters in the city right away.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Vera day speaking.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh, Finny, this is Blackie. I have a case you're
working on. Salt for you already?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh you have?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Have you all?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What makes you think you've solved it? And how did
you even know I was working on a case.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh? I didn't say we're working, pal. I don't expect miracles.
I just said you've got a case that probably has
you stopped for once.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You know what you're talking about. It's the toughest, biggest
case I've heading years, and if I don't crack it soon,
the Commission is going to make a traffic carp out
of me or who did it? Blackie?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Harry Perkins and a fellow named Skeet or.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Pete Perkins a fellow named Skeet. Who are they?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The two men who robbed that ship and the gold,
gold worth gold, the goal that was supposed to come
in from the Capitol on the Metropolitan Fly yesterday morning.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You must be crazier than I thought, Blackie. That gold
arrived on schedule yesterday and a safe and sound in
the National Bank. No, yes, I'm not looking for any
gold beg barn of stolen. I'm looking for the guy
who killed Roger Roger Laine.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Who's he?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
He's the guy who's murder you want letting me find
because you're bothering me.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
That's hope nol is missing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
If you had any in your teeth, it would be
missing because I knock it out. Now, hang up and
don't bother me, Blackie. I got something on my mind.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
On it, but not in it. Okay, Parney, maybe you
do have a problem of believe me, trying to figure
out when a train was stopped has me stopped too?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Harry Perkins and a man not yet promptly identified bought
an old automobile and placed it on a grade crossing,
where it was hit and demolished by a non stop
railroad train carrying a shipment of gold, but though the
train was stopped, it was not robbed. Later, Harry is
shot to death by an unknown assailant Boston. Blackie, working
on the case for the dead man's sister and searching
(13:59):
for a reason why the train was stopped, comes to
the city in search of clues with him. As he
knocks on Mary Wesley's doors, the dead man's.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Sister, Hello, Mary, Oh, come in.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'm so glad. Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh, it's not what you're thinking Mary, Miss Perkins, Miss Wesley, Well,
I don't have to say it the other way too,
do I?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh, of course you don't.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Miss Perkins? Is the girl I told you about on
the phone just before I left Nnville.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Mary, Oh, oh, I see, Oh, Miss Perkins. I'm awfully
sorry about your brother, and I know that Blackie will
find out who killed it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
So won't you come in?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Both of you?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We will, And Mary, I'm going to ask you a favor,
of course, Blackie. I want you to keep Miss Perkins
here with you for a day or two until I
find out who killed a brother. I'm sure as death
had something to do with the stopping of that Metropolitan
flyer Harry and his killer stopped that train together for
a reason I can't understand yet.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Maybe the train I was wrong, But that's what we
both thought, Miss Wesley, until black he found out the
gold that was carrying wasn't stolen.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, I wondered about that. Maybe it was stolen, and
Faraday just won't admit it. Well, make miss Perkins comfortable,
William Murray, I'm gonna make Inspector Faraday uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So you think the shipment of gold was stolen off
that train?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Do you have?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Lankan?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yes, Faraday, and I think it's such a big case
the authorities decided to leave you out.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh is that so? Well, let me tell you something,
wise guy. This afternoon I talked to the bank that
was supposed to receive that though, and they got it.
You hear they got it? Now beat it, Bran. Yeah,
I got problems.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You always have problems.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Now listen, I'm not like going to do anything. I've
got a murder to worry about. Roger Lane was killed
this morning at about seven o'clock, and I know who
killed it.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, that's fine, Rest the killer and then let's try
to figure out the thing. That's got me style if I.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Get it, will you. I've got a killer and I
know his name, Sam Baldwin. I know he killed Roger
Lane Yead. I can't break his alibi.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Maybe that's because he isn't your killer. Oh look, Faraday,
there was the Metropolitan Flyer standing out there in the
country with a couple of million dollars in gold in
the bankage car. It was stopped on purpose, but it
wasn't for the gold. What was it stopped for?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I don't know, and I don't care. Maybe it was
on the wrong track. All I know is if you
think that fly would stop for the gold, you're on
the wrong track too. Luck Baldwin, sit there and smirk
till your face freezes in a grin if you want to.
(16:36):
But I know you kiss your partner, you know it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't spake the very day.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Then why don't you arrest me? Because I don't make
arrest until I have proof, until I can slap a
charge on him man and make that charge stakement.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Why do you bother me?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Can you prove I killed Roger?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
But I can prove you had a motive?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yes? Layam? Bezn't from the company. He stole plenty from you.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
M M, so he did.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I can also prove it was your gun the killer,
can I?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yes, yes, you can, Inspector, I admit it was my
gun that killed him.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
But does that mean that I was the one who.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Fired that gun? I say it does. Oh, but how
can that be, Inspector?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You forget I was in the Capitol or I was
on my way back from the Capitol when Roger was shot.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Wasn't there?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah? You were.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That's why you aren't under arrest yet and why I'll
never be under arrest. Do you think a jury would
believe that I shot and killed Roger Lane this morning
at seven o'clock when I boarded the flyer in the
Capitol at midnight last night and arrived here at eleven Oh, man,
I was four hours outside the city.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
When Roger was killed. You checked with a conductor he
told you when I got on and off. Yes, yes,
he remembers you're getting off. That's why, say, Boston Blackie
said something about a train that gives me an idea.
You think you have a fool proof out of the
idea borrown?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well, it does prove I couldn't possibly have murdered my
friend Roger.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh, it does, does it? I'm gonna find Blankie, and
when I do, I think maybe I'll find a hole
in that out of my yours. I'll see you later, Bolwan.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You will uh.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Hello, Jeter Johnson, please speaking? Oh Jede, Inspector Faraday was
here again. So what, Baldwin, what are you worried about?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Plenty?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
But why I took care of the only guy who
could rid of us? Harry Perkins is dead. Yes, yes,
I know you took care of him, all right, and
that was good work. But Jeet, you're gonna have to
take care of somebody else the same way. Oh, Boston, Blackie, Boston, Blackie.
I don't want to mess with that guy. Look, you
want to go to the chair for killing Harry Perkins? No,
(18:49):
But what does Blackie know about who killed Harry? Nothing yet,
but he will pretty soon because he seems to know
something about why you and Harry stopped that train at
Danville this morning. What he knows why we stop it?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I think he does, And.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
If he gets to the police with it, they'll be
able to prove that I killed my partner, Ah and Jeed.
If I go to the chair for killing Lane. You'll
go there too, for killing Harry, I'll.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Say to it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So don't you think you ought to take care of Blackie?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Eh, I'll get it, Margaret, it's probably Blackie, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You don't think he has any news? Do you?
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Marry?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He might?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Blackie solves very difficult cases awful fast sometimes.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Hello Blackie?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh hello, Hi.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Your voice?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And Blackie's girl?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is he here? No?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
No, he's not, but.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
He's expected any minutes. Good.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I got a tip.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
If he wasn't home, he be here at your apartment.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I'll wait for him.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, all right, come in.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Thanks, Hey, nice place you got here?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Why Jeter, Jeter Johnson, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, Margaret, what are you doing out of Danville? I
thought you weren't ever going to leave the place.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I'm here because of Harry.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
He was murdered this morning, Jeters murdered.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Oh, sir, I know how you feel.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Jeter.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You were one of his best friends. Oh excuse me,
miss Wesley. It's mister Johnson.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
How do you doing, mister Johnson?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Jeter and I are old friends. He lives in Thomasville,
just three miles from Danville. Oh, I see, and you're
an old friend of Blackie's.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Too. Yeah, well this is Oh they tell me you
don't mind if I wait for him.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Huh No, not at all, mister Johnson.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
But do you have to wait for him with a gun?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
A gun?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
The outline of a gun, and it's pretty evident in
your coat pocket?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay, So what if I am packing a gun? Just
stand right, both, jee, I'm waiting for Blackie, And what
do you want with him? I just want to find
out what he knows. My boss thinks it might be
too much. That's why I'm waiting for him with, like
you say, miss Wesley, a gun in my pocket. Now,
(21:21):
if he doesn't know anything, the gun stays there, simple,
isn't it. Well?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
What is it that Blackie is supposed to know about.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Why the Metropolitan Flyer was stopped?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I'm sure he doesn't know a thing about that, now,
believe me.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I believe you're right away.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
But there's Blacky.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Now he'll tell you this, Westley.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm getting behind that door in the other room. Let
Blackie in, but don't.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Say I'm here.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'll let all three of you have it. Don't forget,
don't worry. I wish I could, okay, let Blackie in, Yes.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
But in for what, Margaret crossed your fingers that Blackie
doesn't know anything. They're crossed, hood. Oh, come in my goodness,
you don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I've got it. I've got it. I've got the answer
to the whole case.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Oh for goodness, that you mean the Afghanistan case, don't you.
That's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But I'm talking about Afghanistan, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
You know I do not. But I do know why
that train was stopped just north of Danvillis.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh that who cares about that?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Who cares about it? I do? And Farday is going
to care about it too. Look at this clipping I
found in the afternoon paper, says Thomas Baldwin of the Capitol,
brother of Sam Baldwin of the city, bought a small
building today.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Blackie.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
That doesn't mean anything. It really doesn't, does it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Mary stopped making no silly face. I'm serious about this.
It's a clue to the whole thing. I know why
that train would stopped this morning to let Thomas bald
won't get off and go back to the Capitol, and
let sambald wouldn't get on in his place.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But Blackie, that doesn't make any kind of sense.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Don't you see that?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I certainly do see Miss Perkins. Sam bald When phoned
his brother in the Capital is to take the Metropolitan
Flyer to the city at midnight last night. At seven
this morning, he killed Roger Lane.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Shacky.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You don't know what you're saying, don't I listen?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
By eight thirty or nine he was near Danville, fifty
miles from here where Harry Perkins and his friends stopped
the Metropolitan fly without old Geloppe, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I don't think my brother had anything to.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Do with that. Let's be finished, will you. The whole
thing works out perfectly. When the train was stopped and
the passengers got out to look at the wreck, Thomas
bald One got off and went back to the Capitol
by Busser Karr and his brother Sam ball One got
on the train in his place.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
That's right, Blacky, who's that slucky?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I tried to stop you, oh, man.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
With a gun.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, a man with a gun, and you're a man
with no future.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You're the man who killed Harry Perkins, aren't you. That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I bought the Gilope with him. Only the dealer knew him,
so I had to knock off Harry. The name's Johnson,
Geeter Juddson, Blacky.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I tried to warn you that he was here and
tell you not to let on you know anything about
that train.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh that was the Afghanistan gang. We're good.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I wish you were in Afghanistan in a minute, Blackie,
come on out the door. You gots too, were all
going bye bye, No copy now without copying you?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Why have you both?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Miss Faraday? I've got you to you haven't bank?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Oh flyshy, what a suck?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Mary? Please? Such a language? Well here he is Faraday,
all yours, and Sam Baldwin is gonna be yours too,
you know that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah? I came looking for you, Blankie, to get more
information about that train. I heard it all while I
went outside that door.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And you know how Baldwin could have murdered his partner
at seven this morning and still come in on the
Metropolitan Flyer at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Sure, but don't forget you thought the flyer was stopped
because it was carrying gold.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yes I did. And one of these days somebody is
gonna mistake me for a train. I've been carrying you
for years
That's your tomb yap.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I we have time, ya. We just high ball broughtnvill
Ooh what count of that bad curve?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's not the curve, it's bad time. It's a great
crossing just around it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I hope they make an underpass out of it pretty soon.
Where you been back in the baggage car. And I've
never seen so many armed guards.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
In my life. What do we carrying?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Gold?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Money of it? We gave it a horse to carry
because we got none to stop. From the capitol all
the way to the city go there.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. Well, I guess if this was in the day
that Jesse jays, we'll be worrying about being stopped.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hey, Bob, cover to that curb. Yes, and they're not crossing.
Better whistle for.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It, okay, carrying a load of gold. I right, boy,
it must be some load.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All the guys they guys guards.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
We guyanst it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hey, Bob, looks go it great cross I know, I
say it. Well, I wait a quick.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Wow, we come in time.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Oh we couldn't you coming round with that curb.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We're gonna hit that pard, We're gonna hit the harms.
Hold on time, hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And now on to Dick Comer as Boston Blackie, enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Who have no friends.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, Harry, there she goes. That's right, And here he comes,
walking towards us, just as if he knew where we'll
hide him. Then again, why shouldn't he know? He had
his instructions same as we had us. He knew we'd
be in these bushes. Yeah, I know this is gonna
give a hundred people ahead there. Wait'll I try and
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find out what this is all about. I got news
for you. Yeah, I don't know either. You don't have
to know. All you gotta know is you're gonna get paid.
You can't figure this out. Nobody's gonna figure this out,
but somebody is gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Be very happy.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Believe me, somebody's gonna be very happy.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hello, Hello, Mary, this is Blackie.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hello Blackie.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Are you back in town? O?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Mary? And I'm still down here in Danville. I'm glad
of metropolis. It's nothing more than a crossroads with a
railroad station. And what love it down? Eddan?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
When are you coming back?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, that's why I called you, Mary. I've just finished
my business here, but there's not another train out of
here for six hours, so I won't see until late tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What did you say, just stam, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I said, come in and someone just knocking the door.
I'll see you tonight then late Mary, Bye.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Bye Boston, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, hello beautiful. Are you miss Danville or missus Danville.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm Margaret Perkins, Blackie. I've heard about you and I
need your help.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's what I like, the subtle approach. But I'm sorry,
I'm a little out of my territory.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
In this town of huy doctor Hill me, Blackie, I'm
afraid my brother is in some kind of trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Sounds to me like he's the one who needs the help.
Then sorry, Miss Perkins acky.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Please hmm.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's the kind of logic I like. You think your
brother is in trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
This note he left me when he disappeared yesterday morning.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
What was it saying?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Please read it?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Okay? Mmmm? Says goodbye Margaret. I'm leaving this town for
good and with enough money to keep me going for
a long time. Don't try to find me. You never will,
signed Harry.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You notice what this note was written.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
On I suppose, yes, yes, the back of a railroad
time table.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Mm hmm, there's a ring drawn around a special train,
the Metropolitan Flyer.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yes, I noticed that.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well it's obvious, miss Perkins, your brother is going to
the city. There's no point looking for him around here.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well that's what I thought.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Daniel's too small for him to be here without my
knowing about it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'll tell you what I'll do, miss Perkins. I can't
get a train out of here for another six hours,
but I'm going down to the railroad station to pick
up my ticket. Maybe that's a good place to pick
up something on your brother too. One way ticket to
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the city, please heah to the city, young fellow in
the train out of Danville today again for another five
and a half hours. Yes, I know that, but I'll
get my ticket now, that is, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
The only thing I mind is marheumatism. One way, you see,
and there'll be a dollar and fifty cents fifty okay, hey, yeah,
thank you, and here's your ticket, young fellow.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Thank you. Say, by the way, you didn't see this
young lady's brother and here yesterday? Did you hello, mister
wash blank or how do you there?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Margaite? Didn't see you looking for Harry, are you yes, Nope,
I ain't seen him.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We think he took the Metropolitan Flyer out of here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Flyer you mean the non stop from the Capitol.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yes, I have an idea.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, the idea is bad, Sonny, fly don't stop here.
Never hasn't fifty years. Yes, never came was yesterday when
it hit an order up at the crossing mile on
the quarter past.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He is, Oh, how terrible was anyone in the car?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Hurts anybody hurt? Nope? And you know that was the
funniest thing about it. There weren't nobody in the car.
There weren't nobody around. Even this order was just setting
on the tracks all by itself.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And no one ever claimed the wreck.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Nope. I guess whoever owned the thing just walked off
and left it. Made a funny place to leave it though,
on the main line tracks for the Metropolitan Flyer coming through.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Apparently it stopped the Flyer, that didn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, sure did. Flyer was standing out there in the
middle of nowhere for twenty minutes. But that don't have
nothing to do with your brother, Margaret. And I ain't
seen him, not in a couple of days.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Well, thanks, mister Washburn.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Thanks a lot, Yes, thanks all time. It's all right,
young fellow that same as Pikins. Is there a place
in time where we can borrow a car?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Why? Yes, we can use my uncle.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Good. Let's get your uncle's car. Go have a look
at that wreck that stopped the flyer yesterday.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well if you want to, but I don't speaking.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Your brother put a ring around the Metropolitan Flyer on
the timetable for a reason. I'd like to take a
flyer a looking at that wreck for a reason too.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Here's the wreck black here in the ditch beside the
track and water wreck.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Too, Miss Perkins. Good thing was no one in it? Well,
let's get out and have a look at that car.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I don't know what it has to do with finding
my brother, but if you say so, I don't say so.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I just have a hunch that's all. Something very strange
about an empty car being left on a grade crossing.
If it were out of gas, it'd been pushed off
before it was abandoned. Look at this message.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It's hard to believe it was once an automobile, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I don't think that it's been classed as much of
an automobile for a long time. It must be ten
or twelve years old. Say here's a door frame with
a body number on it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Does that mean anything?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Means I might be able to find out who owned
this car? I think i'll write it down.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Two good heavens. What's this terrible mess?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That miss Pilkins was the engine? Hmmm? The motor number
is still visible. I think I'll write that down too.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I thought license plates were the best means of a
car identification.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They're fairly good and not much help in this case.
This car doesn't have plates.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Oh so it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That convinces me more than ever that say, look at this?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Look at what?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
See this round hole in the motor block here? Yes,
well that's where the carburetor belongs. And this engine had
no carburetor?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Is that bad?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, it isn't good if you expect to do any
driving an engine can't run with that one.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh well, maybe it was knocked off in the accident.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh no, this motor hasn't had a carburetor for years.
The place it should be attached to is all rusted
over here. This car was pushed atop here and purposely
left on the tracks.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Why That means someone wanted it to be hit by
the train.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But why why to stop the train, of course? But
why did someone want to stop that flyer?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I don't either. This might have nothing to do with
your brother, but it has me puzzled. The first thing
I want to find out is who owned this car.
There's an automobile dealer in dan Villa.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Isn't it, yes, mister Boswell.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Mister Boswell knows a lot about cars, I'm sure. Let's
go see how much he knows about people who buy them.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
There's Blackie Shure that car yesterday morning at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
At nine o'clock yesterday morning, and mister Boswell and the
Metropolitan Flyer comes through dan Villa ten Yeah, sure, black clockwork.
That means the car was bought just one hour before
the flyer hit it and wrecked it. This is getting
more interesting every minute.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But that means the car was bought to stop the train,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It wasn't bought for any cross country tour. It wasn't
even in running condition, is it, mister Bosball? No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Black Ain't two men who bought it had a tore away.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Two men bought the car. Huh did you know them? No?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
One of them was your brother, Harry, Miss Perkins, my brother. Yes,
she came in with a fellow I've seen before, but
don't know her name. Think your brother called him speak
door Pete or.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Something like that. Well, so Harry and his friend bought
that car, has stopped the Metropolitan Flyer. Okay, here's where
I stopped finding out why that train was stopped. Give
me a keys, Miss Perkins. I'll unlocked the door for you.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
People in small towns never locked doors, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You'll come in a while.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yes, it's still several hours before my train leaves, and
there's nothing I can do about your brother till I
get to the city.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You think that's obviously where he's gone.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I think that more than ever now. I think he
used the car to stop the Metropolitan Flyer and got
on it. Let's go in and talk this over. Yes, Harry,
always been.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Harry. What happened?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Who did this to you?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh? Tell me, darling, who did this?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Harry? Harry? What is it? I got it? Got to
tell tell why why we stopped?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Stop the dread?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I got to It's no use, Miss Pepkins. I'm awfully sorry,
but he's dead.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes, I know it. You're black.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Here, go ahead cry if you want to, it'll do
you good. What's this my shirt pocket? Yeah? Must like
a newspaper clipping. This is what Harry was trying to
get us. This newspaper clipping says the Metropolitan flyer was
carrying gold, a million dollars in gold. I thought it
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was something like that. Operator. Get me Inspector Faraday at
police headquarters in the city right away.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Vera day speaking.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh, Finny, this is Blackie. I have a case you're
working on. Salt for you already?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh you have?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Have you all?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What makes you think you've solved it? And how did
you even know I was working on a case.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh? I didn't say we're working, pal. I don't expect miracles.
I just said you've got a case that probably has
you stopped for once.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You know what you're talking about. It's the toughest, biggest
case I've heading years, and if I don't crack it soon,
the Commission is going to make a traffic carp out
of me or who did it? Blackie?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Harry Perkins and a fellow named Skeet or.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Pete Perkins a fellow named Skeet. Who are they?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The two men who robbed that ship and the gold,
gold worth gold, the goal that was supposed to come
in from the Capitol on the Metropolitan Fly yesterday morning.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You must be crazier than I thought, Blackie. That gold
arrived on schedule yesterday and a safe and sound in
the National Bank. No, yes, I'm not looking for any
gold beg barn of stolen. I'm looking for the guy
who killed Roger Roger Laine.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Who's he?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
He's the guy who's murder you want letting me find
because you're bothering me.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
That's hope nol is missing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
If you had any in your teeth, it would be
missing because I knock it out. Now, hang up and
don't bother me, Blackie. I got something on my mind.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
On it, but not in it. Okay, Parney, maybe you
do have a problem of believe me, trying to figure
out when a train was stopped has me stopped too?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Harry Perkins and a man not yet promptly identified bought
an old automobile and placed it on a grade crossing,
where it was hit and demolished by a non stop
railroad train carrying a shipment of gold, but though the
train was stopped, it was not robbed. Later, Harry is
shot to death by an unknown assailant Boston. Blackie, working
on the case for the dead man's sister and searching
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for a reason why the train was stopped, comes to
the city in search of clues with him. As he
knocks on Mary Wesley's doors, the dead man's.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Sister, Hello, Mary, Oh, come in.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'm so glad. Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh, it's not what you're thinking Mary, Miss Perkins, Miss Wesley, Well,
I don't have to say it the other way too,
do I?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh, of course you don't.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Miss Perkins? Is the girl I told you about on
the phone just before I left Nnville.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Mary, Oh, oh, I see, Oh, Miss Perkins. I'm awfully
sorry about your brother, and I know that Blackie will
find out who killed it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
So won't you come in?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Both of you?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We will, And Mary, I'm going to ask you a favor,
of course, Blackie. I want you to keep Miss Perkins
here with you for a day or two until I
find out who killed a brother. I'm sure as death
had something to do with the stopping of that Metropolitan
flyer Harry and his killer stopped that train together for
a reason I can't understand yet.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Maybe the train I was wrong, But that's what we
both thought, Miss Wesley, until black he found out the
gold that was carrying wasn't stolen.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, I wondered about that. Maybe it was stolen, and
Faraday just won't admit it. Well, make miss Perkins comfortable,
William Murray, I'm gonna make Inspector Faraday uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So you think the shipment of gold was stolen off
that train?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Do you have?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Lankan?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yes, Faraday, and I think it's such a big case
the authorities decided to leave you out.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh is that so? Well, let me tell you something,
wise guy. This afternoon I talked to the bank that
was supposed to receive that though, and they got it.
You hear they got it? Now beat it, Bran. Yeah,
I got problems.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You always have problems.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Now listen, I'm not like going to do anything. I've
got a murder to worry about. Roger Lane was killed
this morning at about seven o'clock, and I know who
killed it.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, that's fine, Rest the killer and then let's try
to figure out the thing. That's got me style if I.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Get it, will you. I've got a killer and I
know his name, Sam Baldwin. I know he killed Roger
Lane Yead. I can't break his alibi.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Maybe that's because he isn't your killer. Oh look, Faraday,
there was the Metropolitan Flyer standing out there in the
country with a couple of million dollars in gold in
the bankage car. It was stopped on purpose, but it
wasn't for the gold. What was it stopped for?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I don't know, and I don't care. Maybe it was
on the wrong track. All I know is if you
think that fly would stop for the gold, you're on
the wrong track too. Luck Baldwin, sit there and smirk
till your face freezes in a grin if you want to.
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But I know you kiss your partner, you know it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't spake the very day.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Then why don't you arrest me? Because I don't make
arrest until I have proof, until I can slap a
charge on him man and make that charge stakement.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Why do you bother me?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Can you prove I killed Roger?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
But I can prove you had a motive?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yes? Layam? Bezn't from the company. He stole plenty from you.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
M M, so he did.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I can also prove it was your gun the killer,
can I?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yes, yes, you can, Inspector, I admit it was my
gun that killed him.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
But does that mean that I was the one who.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Fired that gun? I say it does. Oh, but how
can that be, Inspector?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You forget I was in the Capitol or I was
on my way back from the Capitol when Roger was shot.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Wasn't there?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah? You were.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That's why you aren't under arrest yet and why I'll
never be under arrest. Do you think a jury would
believe that I shot and killed Roger Lane this morning
at seven o'clock when I boarded the flyer in the
Capitol at midnight last night and arrived here at eleven Oh, man,
I was four hours outside the city.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
When Roger was killed. You checked with a conductor he
told you when I got on and off. Yes, yes,
he remembers you're getting off. That's why, say, Boston Blackie
said something about a train that gives me an idea.
You think you have a fool proof out of the
idea borrown?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well, it does prove I couldn't possibly have murdered my
friend Roger.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh, it does, does it? I'm gonna find Blankie, and
when I do, I think maybe I'll find a hole
in that out of my yours. I'll see you later, Bolwan.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You will uh.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Hello, Jeter Johnson, please speaking? Oh Jede, Inspector Faraday was
here again. So what, Baldwin, what are you worried about?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Plenty?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
But why I took care of the only guy who
could rid of us? Harry Perkins is dead. Yes, yes,
I know you took care of him, all right, and
that was good work. But Jeet, you're gonna have to
take care of somebody else the same way. Oh, Boston, Blackie, Boston, Blackie.
I don't want to mess with that guy. Look, you
want to go to the chair for killing Harry Perkins? No,
(18:49):
But what does Blackie know about who killed Harry? Nothing yet,
but he will pretty soon because he seems to know
something about why you and Harry stopped that train at
Danville this morning. What he knows why we stop it?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I think he does, And.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
If he gets to the police with it, they'll be
able to prove that I killed my partner, Ah and Jeed.
If I go to the chair for killing Lane. You'll
go there too, for killing Harry, I'll.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Say to it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So don't you think you ought to take care of Blackie?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Eh, I'll get it, Margaret, it's probably Blackie, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You don't think he has any news? Do you?
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Marry?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He might?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Blackie solves very difficult cases awful fast sometimes.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Hello Blackie?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh hello, Hi.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Your voice?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And Blackie's girl?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is he here? No?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
No, he's not, but.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
He's expected any minutes. Good.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I got a tip.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
If he wasn't home, he be here at your apartment.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I'll wait for him.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, all right, come in.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Thanks, Hey, nice place you got here?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Why Jeter, Jeter Johnson, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, Margaret, what are you doing out of Danville? I
thought you weren't ever going to leave the place.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I'm here because of Harry.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
He was murdered this morning, Jeters murdered.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Oh, sir, I know how you feel.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Jeter.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You were one of his best friends. Oh excuse me,
miss Wesley. It's mister Johnson.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
How do you doing, mister Johnson?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Jeter and I are old friends. He lives in Thomasville,
just three miles from Danville. Oh, I see, and you're
an old friend of Blackie's.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Too. Yeah, well this is Oh they tell me you
don't mind if I wait for him.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Huh No, not at all, mister Johnson.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
But do you have to wait for him with a gun?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
A gun?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
The outline of a gun, and it's pretty evident in
your coat pocket?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay, So what if I am packing a gun? Just
stand right, both, jee, I'm waiting for Blackie, And what
do you want with him? I just want to find
out what he knows. My boss thinks it might be
too much. That's why I'm waiting for him with, like
you say, miss Wesley, a gun in my pocket. Now,
(21:21):
if he doesn't know anything, the gun stays there, simple,
isn't it. Well?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
What is it that Blackie is supposed to know about.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Why the Metropolitan Flyer was stopped?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I'm sure he doesn't know a thing about that, now,
believe me.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I believe you're right away.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
But there's Blacky.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Now he'll tell you this, Westley.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm getting behind that door in the other room. Let
Blackie in, but don't.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Say I'm here.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'll let all three of you have it. Don't forget,
don't worry. I wish I could, okay, let Blackie in, Yes.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
But in for what, Margaret crossed your fingers that Blackie
doesn't know anything. They're crossed, hood. Oh, come in my goodness,
you don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I've got it. I've got it. I've got the answer
to the whole case.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Oh for goodness, that you mean the Afghanistan case, don't you.
That's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But I'm talking about Afghanistan, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
You know I do not. But I do know why
that train was stopped just north of Danvillis.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh that who cares about that?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Who cares about it? I do? And Farday is going
to care about it too. Look at this clipping I
found in the afternoon paper, says Thomas Baldwin of the Capitol,
brother of Sam Baldwin of the city, bought a small
building today.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Blackie.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
That doesn't mean anything. It really doesn't, does it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Mary stopped making no silly face. I'm serious about this.
It's a clue to the whole thing. I know why
that train would stopped this morning to let Thomas bald
won't get off and go back to the Capitol, and
let sambald wouldn't get on in his place.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But Blackie, that doesn't make any kind of sense.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Don't you see that?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I certainly do see Miss Perkins. Sam bald When phoned
his brother in the Capital is to take the Metropolitan
Flyer to the city at midnight last night. At seven
this morning, he killed Roger Lane.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Shacky.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You don't know what you're saying, don't I listen?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
By eight thirty or nine he was near Danville, fifty
miles from here where Harry Perkins and his friends stopped
the Metropolitan fly without old Geloppe, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I don't think my brother had anything to.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Do with that. Let's be finished, will you. The whole
thing works out perfectly. When the train was stopped and
the passengers got out to look at the wreck, Thomas
bald One got off and went back to the Capitol
by Busser Karr and his brother Sam ball One got
on the train in his place.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
That's right, Blacky, who's that slucky?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I tried to stop you, oh, man.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
With a gun.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, a man with a gun, and you're a man
with no future.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You're the man who killed Harry Perkins, aren't you. That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I bought the Gilope with him. Only the dealer knew him,
so I had to knock off Harry. The name's Johnson,
Geeter Juddson, Blacky.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I tried to warn you that he was here and
tell you not to let on you know anything about
that train.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh that was the Afghanistan gang. We're good.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I wish you were in Afghanistan in a minute, Blackie,
come on out the door. You gots too, were all
going bye bye, No copy now without copying you?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Why have you both?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Miss Faraday? I've got you to you haven't bank?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Oh flyshy, what a suck?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Mary? Please? Such a language? Well here he is Faraday,
all yours, and Sam Baldwin is gonna be yours too,
you know that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah? I came looking for you, Blankie, to get more
information about that train. I heard it all while I
went outside that door.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And you know how Baldwin could have murdered his partner
at seven this morning and still come in on the
Metropolitan Flyer at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Sure, but don't forget you thought the flyer was stopped
because it was carrying gold.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yes I did. And one of these days somebody is
gonna mistake me for a train. I've been carrying you
for years
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