August 18, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
And a second.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Joe, there's my phone all right, Harden's Meat Market. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I think you have a.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Lamb road for me today.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
This is missus Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You can have anything you want, Miss Brown. You know
that anything I have you can have.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
How many puns?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh? Eleven twelve?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'll fix you up to send it right over?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Ms Brown?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Goodbye, Hell Joe, I'm ready for you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Huh, good enough to stick the package with you?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay, heads of stuff I talked to you about on
the phone, right and.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
A big but will handle it. How's everything out at
the phone?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's fine.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Mom and dad said, say long, tell him alone for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So okay, thanks, Well i'll say tomorrow. Good bye.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Joe by is riding.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Oh that's gonna be something.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
To carry into the bank room. Hey, hey, Bill, open
the door.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
It's a matter of and catch it.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
Oh yeah, let me let me.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh no, it's all right. I'll just jump it on
the table here. Okay, Joe is just here.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Huh yeah, come on, let's open this thing up.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Better close the door first though.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yeah, that's all closed.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Boy, that's a big package that kid lugged in this time.
Let's see what's in it.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Hey, there's gold candlesticks alone on herself with plenty. He
costs me plenty if they're gonna cost somebody else more.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Oh, look at this.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Here a bracelet. Wow, hey, get a load of those diamonds.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, we'll get a loaded door for that bracelet when
we sell it to something sucker.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, hey, what else did Joe bring us this?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What's in this case?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Per match purst the first looking necklace I've seen in years.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's not bad, we get for it won't be bad either.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Joe delivered the goods again.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And yeah, smart boy, That Joe, smart boy. We must
remember to take care of him.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
And now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to
those who have no friends.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
You can yell all you like about it, Sylvia, but
I'm not going to see you for a while.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And that's that. Oh that is it? Joe? Well it's
not that simple.
Speaker 9 (02:49):
You promised me I wouldn't have to run the filling
station much longer.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Do you think I like the kind of life?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Things will be all right for you and me one
of these days, only not now.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
I'm in a spark, So what is it?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What's the matter.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
I don't want you to know.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Anything about this.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I want to know why you're running out of I'm
not running out on you.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I'm just not going to see you for a while.
You may even have to go away.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What why, Sylvia? I can't tell you why. Somebody outside
wants Guessowine let him.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
Go someplace hill.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I want to know what you're trying to do. I've
got to know.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
I can't tell you, so listen to me.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I've worked like a slave for three years in this place.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I've saved my money.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I've done everything i could so that we could.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Get married and have a little security in back of it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm not gonna let you walk on me like this.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Why doesn't that guy out there go away?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Sylvia, I'm not walking out on you.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
I'm just taking a vacation, caught that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You can call it that if you want to. I say,
you're trying to get rid of me.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We just can't get married now.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
In fact, it's not even right for us to see
each other for a while, Sylvia.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Go on out and see what he wants. Have you
walked out the back way?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Okay, I'll go out, Joe, But if you do walk
out on me, you'll be awful.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Sorry, you did.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well here stiff to my sunset parkway. Mother, This is
where Boston Blackie is supposed to live. Old model Tea
made it, didn't it?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
John? Are you sure we should go to Blackie?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
We gotta see him. Well, look we're in luck. Mother.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
There he is standing over there talking to that girl
recognizing from his pictures.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Maybe we shouldn't have come, John.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
O, Mother, I must talk to him.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know that that Blackie's a real nice looking fella.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Certainly is what I'm gonna call him.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Oh Blackie, Boston Blackie.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, sir, Please could I see you a minute?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yes, I guess. Do you want to see me about something?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, name's Barton Brackley, John Barton. This is my wife, Martha.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
How you got us, bun, Blackie?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I need your.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Help doing one? Is the Barton buying a new car?
Yours looks as if it was twenty years old?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, Harney is, but it runs.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I haven't seen a model T outside a museum in
ten years.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
John, Maybe we'd better not bother Blackie with this.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
We got her, mother, Blackie? My son is missing? Yes,
son is missing? How long been gone.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
For twenty four hours.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
He's an adopted son, Blackie and a little wild, but
he's a good boy.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
He's never done this to us before.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Well, it's probably not serious, but even if it is,
I'm not the one to say, you want to go
to the police.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Oh we're going to the police, all right, Blackie. But
we wanted to come to you first. You see, we
run a small motel, you know, tourist Cabins, out on
Highway nineteen, about ten miles side of town.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I say, Joe, that's your boy.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
There's certain duties around the place every evening, and he's
never failed to show up for work until now.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
But what does your son look like?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He's tall, slender, straight, black hair, rather nice looking.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
He's pale though he suffers from asthma, something awful. He
has to carry a bottle of pills around with him
all the time.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I don't know how that would help. Well, look, do
you know of any reason why he might have run away?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
He seemed perfectly contented at the tourist cabins.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Might have been because of Sylvia though Sylvia, he's girl.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
She runs a filling station down the road from us.
They had a terrible fight yesterday. Then yesterday afternoon she
got a phone call from some man who told her
Joe was at the bus terminal buying a ticket.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, that should make it obvious to you that he's
run away.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
No, no, we don't think so. Joe couldn't ride on buses.
He said, it bothered his asthma. Blackly, you've got to
do something for us.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Well, i'll try. I'll do something for you, providing nobody's
done anything to your son.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Ramp six for Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
And Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm backing. What else did I do for you?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I don't know. You told me you didn't sell a
bus ticket yesterday afternoon to anyone answering that description I
just gave you.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Oh I didn't, sir. I'm sorry. I can't help you.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh, I'll ask one of the other regents.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
You might have bought a ticket to some other window.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I've asked at all the other windows.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
If your man bought a ticket anywhere between noon and
night in the evening, he bought it for one of us.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Oh, thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Come on, Mary, come on.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Where and what did we accomplish here?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
We learned a great deal. Either someone was pulling Joe's
girl Sylvia when he phoned and said Joe was here
buying a ticket or Sylvia was pulling all men button.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I know what that means. We're going out to see her.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Uh huh, we know the answer to who is Sylvia? Now,
let's see if we can find out what is she?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
There? You are mister, thanks?
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Could, thanks?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Here's your money, check your oil? Thanks, water battery? Hey,
sure you got the cap in the gust tank. Couldn't
take That's.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The first thing I learned in this business.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
That's okay, Hey, you're next.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How many?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
They're not too many? There's too many questions. I mean,
is your name Sylvia? Yeah, Well, I'm Boston Blackie. This
is miss Wesley.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Hello, Boston Blackie.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I heard of you, you too, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Look Sylvia, and you're Joe Barkin's girl, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I was so yesterday. How did you know?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
His mother and father told me they're afraid something's happened
to him, and I'm trying to find him.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Well, it'll be easy to spot if you get close
enough to him. He's always taken a pill for his asthma.
He never goes any place without a bottle of those pills.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They don't do him no good though.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Look, Sylvia, did Joe give you any reason why he
had to run away?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah? Yeah he did kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He said he was in a jant? What kind Sylvia?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Did he say? No? No, miss Wesley, that's all he says.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But he acted scared, so I guess he is in
a jam, a bad one that's.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Getting more obvious every minute. Who phones you and told
you Joe is buying a ticket at the bus terminal?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
He didn't say.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Would you recognize the voice if you heard it again?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Hm?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Maybe? I'm not sure. It's a funny thing though.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
While the guy was talking to me, I heard a
clock strike three, but it was four o'clock.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
M h. I'll fill her up with him. I think
he'll take about twelve or thirteen gallons.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, check your oil battery.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, you might as well say how far is it
to the motel that Joe's dad and mother run? Your mouth?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Takes a back road to save time. Nobody travels it,
but it cuts off about half a mile.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I won't ask Lackie. I know that's where they're going next.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
We've gone a mile Mary, we'll just take away there.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's a beautiful day for a drive in the country,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yeah? Perfect. We weren't looking for that, she was.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
We just stopped in time, didn't We just went off
the road. That was too close.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I'm shaking, I'm burning. We ran over something back there
on the road. That's hire.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Come on and see what it was, Okay, I I
think I heard the noise of whatever it was. It
sounded like breaking glass.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, I think it was, too, But it must have
been a small piece of glass. I didn't see anything
on the road.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Oh where was it to think about?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Here? No, a little father back I think about there.
But all those little white.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Things are yep, I sea broken glass? Blackie.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, yeah, here's what the damage. It was a bottle
all and two, but the bottom stayed.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
In one piece. That's what cut through the tires.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Look look at there's no white things on the road.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You know what they are? Their pills? Huh pills.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I don't know what kind of their.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Pills, all right, say I'll say they are.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And look what I found here the label off the bottle,
and look at the name on it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Joe Barton.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Joe Barton.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, that means he was down this road and not
so long ago either or somebody else would have hit
that bottle.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Mary, and I'm saying that's my guess. We're not far
from Joe Boughten right now. Look at the twigs on
the bush by the side of the road. They're freshly broken.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The bush looks as if it was trampled down, Blackie,
or broken by a body being dragged.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh oh, golly, come on.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Look Ah, I'm kind of afraid to no.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I may be wrong. We might not find anything. Okay, yuh,
something was dragged through here, all right. Look that next
bush is broken too.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Come on, I'll stay behind you.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
If it was a good idea, just in case Joe,
I mean it. Uh oh oh, what we've found him.
The case of the missing Joe Barden has closed, Mary,
but the case of the murdered Joe.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Boden is open.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And now back to Boston, Blackie. Joe Barton brings a
package to a butcher shop, but in the package are
stolen jewels and silverware. Shortly after this, Joe tells his fiancee,
Sylvia that he's in a jam and won't see her
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for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Then he disappears.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Joe's parents come to Blackie and ask him to find
their son. Stop by a flat tire on the highway,
not far from the motel run by Joe's family. Black
and Merry find Joe in a thicket off the road.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
As we return to our story, Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Is the Metropolitan Police is talking to the local police.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
I look, Chief Fisher, I'm here because I've got an idea.
Joe Barton was killed in the city and his body
hauled out here to be disposed of.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Any idea who killed him?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No, I can't say as I do. Inspect parade all right,
have him under arrest and practically convicted right now?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, Chief of police.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Here, you know better get off on the road. Is
a car put on up?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I see it?
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Thanks, Say it's turning in here. Hello, Bernie, it's Boston. Plackie, Blacky,
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm not sure yet. Stay in the car, Mary, this's
gonna take him him?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
What Hi?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Chief is him? Hello? Blackie? Chief? Any luck yet in
finding out who kill Joe? Butden not a bit of blucklay.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
You stay out on this flaky.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
The Chief told me you found the body that's enough.
I'll find a killer.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Hey, look at this fellow coming down the road. But
you're trying to do get arrested.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Sturnning in the side road. He must know his way
around here.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Never seen his car before.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
You must beck up.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He's gonna hit that much puddle. I find time to
tell me, Look at me.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I'm coming with my.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What's a matter of inspector? Don't you city folks ever
get money?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Did you see he was driving that car? Was Harold Walsh,
a big time operator and stolen jewelry?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
H Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yes? I got a good look at him, jew chief.
What's down that back road? Anything particular?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Only Arden's butcher shop. Hm.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I wonder if Walsh would drive that fast just to
get a steak.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
He might be just driving through town and taking this
road is a short cun.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yes he might. And I've got a hunch he is
going to that butcher shop and that this is tied
up in some way with Joe's murder. You know what
they say about one man's meat being another man's poison.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
All right, mister Walsh, you want the candlesticks and the
bracelet of the necklace, and it'll be ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Now, good god, that's too much. Ten thousand is my price.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Look, I come a long way for this stuff. I
intend taking it back with me. Pay my price to
get out, and you'll get tough with.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Put that gun away. I will when we've made our deal.
If you want to take reasonable, do for it. I'll
take it for nothing. And you don't squawk. You got
hands off that stuff. Oh you got a gun too?
Have you drop it?
Speaker 10 (15:30):
I said, drop it? The next time I shoot, I
won't miss.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's a good boy. Now turn your back and face
the water. It prepped up in back a murful quiet,
and you sure hit.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
A muffled hard guys, got alright, you got bent this
piece of pipe on it.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Come on, let's pick him up and get him out
of there.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Hey, wait a minute, what's the matter? Ready? They hit
him too hot? He's dead.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
This is the Arden butcher Shop, all right, blackie.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
There's the sign said, I see it, Mary. But look
at the sign in the window there. It says the
shop will be closed till five.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Oh dear, that's just a little laughter.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Four point thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now, well what do we do?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Wait? No, that's nothing but a waste of time. Let's
go back down the highway and see mister missus Barton.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
What for we've got nothing to tell them about their
son's murdering.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Maybe not, Maybe they've got something to tell us.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
He's push hard up failure.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
He'll have Wah in his car over the cliff, flushing
as hot as I can hunt. Hey, sure you got
the car out of gear.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's out of gear, and watsh is behind the wheel,
just as if he was driving. Let's look like an
accident shore.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, she goes over the cliff. How can I go? Yeah,
that's some dropping. That's some dropper. That's that we're Blackie.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
You and miss Wesley have seen all around our tourist camps.
Kept a little better when Joe's around.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
How'd you like it?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Nice place you have it? Button?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I like those little cabins under the pine trees best
of all.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Oh there everybody's favorite. Well, come out of the house,
both of you. Mother and I are having milk and biscuits. Mother, Yes,
we're having company.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Oh it's Blacky. Come right here, missus, Missus Barton, Allo.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Missus, nice to know it. Go right in the living
room and make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
I'll fetch you.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Some milk and just no quite from a farm that's
supply and demand all in one place.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm a homemade cookie fan myself. I hope you'll like.
Oh oh, look who's coming across the yard. It's mister Fisher,
the chief of police.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
He looks excited too. Hello looking for someone, Chief Fishing? Yeah, blackey,
I show your car out front. I got something to
tell you. What a fellow Walsh and the big car
that splashed muddle over inspected pair day she had an
accident where on the curve by the cliff went clean
over and dropped all the way down. Half and fifteen
minutes ago, about a quarter to five. Fella heard the crash,
Call me, Walsh is dead. We never got to the
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butcher shopping, you know, we mightter, but he went over
the cliff heading in this direction. Wherever he was coming from. Well,
it's only a guess.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Fisher and I think Walsh was heading for that butcher
shop when he passed us before. And that's where I'm
headed for right now.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Right we're closing up this butcher shop. I think we
better get rid of that stuff back. I'm nervous about
war will.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I'd be nervous about him.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Look like an accident, all right?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Maybe so over, let's lock up and blow the joint.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Boston Blacky's in town Susan inspector Paraday, both working on
Joe's murder.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hey wait, I lock up this front door.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
That's that I'll pull down the shades and let's go
in back.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Come on, come on, make it say hey, you share
the jeniitu right, I won't have since we get that
stuff out of the back room.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What are we gonna do with it? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Come on in back and let's figure out what to do. Okay,
close the door.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Shayeah.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Maybe we should let Walsh have that stuff at his
price and we wouldn't do so much worrying about it
right now?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Maybe? Oh you Austin Blackie.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know me, don't Jordan?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, how'd you get in here?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Outside?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Door was locked where the.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Lock of amateur could pick And I'm no amateur.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I want to know why your store was closed just
before five this afternoon? Right because a man named Walsh
went over the cliff and it's car just before five
this afternoon and he was dead before he went off
the road. And I think you one and your friend
here killed Walsh and pushed him in his car off
that cliff. What's more, I can prove.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It, Bill, Blackie isn't fluffing. You'd better.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Oh you play with knives? Do your bill play with
us for a while? All right on, you want some
of the same treatment, I just keep Bill.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Don't try to give it to me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Blackie.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I'll give you a little medicine for miss gun.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Oh you play with guns, do you?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
And of course, when he dropped around the floor.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Blackie like, now, she Fisher, where'd you come from coming?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
He came in with Blackie kind of waded around a bit.
Nice were chief?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Wrap that gun?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Harden?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Don't make me do nothing.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'd like nothing better than to do.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, that's being a nice boy.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I'll take care of these two now, Blackie. I heard
enough to prove to me they're the killers we weren't good.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Make mister missus.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Barton feel good, Blackie, run up and tell him that
we've caught their son's killer.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, black he's found out who killed Joe.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Miss Wesley are here to tell us.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
All about it? I told you he'd find out, and
he did.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I'm glad it doesn't bring Joe back to us. But
I wanted his killer to be caught.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Did you just find out, Blakey.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I've known for just about an hour, Missus Barton, she
Fisher and I caught the killers at six o'clock, which
is just an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Who killed him, Blackie? And why was he killed?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, mister Barton, you thought your son Joe was a
good boy. Well he was and he wasn't. But I'll
start from the beginning. It'll be easy to explain that way.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
What do you mean by Joe wasn't a good boy, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Missus Barton? He was mixed up in the sale of
stolen goods. He was in a racket. I found thousands
of dollars worth of stolen jewels and silverware an Orden's
butcher's shop where Joe took them for Arden.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Will go on, Blackie, I'll.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Go on, Mary, But I'm going to have to change
what I was about to say.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Why what do you mean, Blackie?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
It seems I am I was a little wrong about
who killed Joe Barton. I thought it was Odd and
his friend Bill. But I don't anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Then you don't know who killed my boy.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I didn't say that, Missus Barton. I do know you
and your husband kill your son.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's no way to joke, Blakie.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I'm not building any last mister Barton. I'm building a
murder case against you, and I guarantee I can make
it stick.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Mother, but your price, Blackie, you.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Know better than that. Missus Barton, you should and don't
go for that gun. Mister Barton, you know better than that.
You should here well now anyway, miss Barton, I bought
just mixed your wrists, So stop whining.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Black You don't mean that mister and missus Barton killed
their son.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
No, I think I can and they know I can
improve it.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
We're still ready to make a deal.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
We've got a lot of money we took out of
selling stolen stuff to Arden.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Have you Well take my word for it. It won't
do any good where you're going. You don't have a
chance in the world of spending it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Lucky, it's question time. How did you know that mister
and missus Barton killed Joe Button.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Well, it was seven o'clock when I was talking to
the Bartons and the clock struck six. That means the
clock was haywire. Oh. Sylvia received a phone call in
regard to Joe's being at the bus station at four
the previous day, she heard a clock strike three. That
means the call about Joe came from the motel. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Why did mister Barton tell Sylvia that Joe was at.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
The bus station so Sylvia would give us a false
lead and keep us away from the Barton motel as
long as possible? It was at the motel the Bartons
bought stolen goods, people with goods to sell to one
of their cabins late at night, and the Boughtons bought
the stuff from them.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Then satisfied, satisfied, Why was Joe killed?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Well, he finally found out he was hauling stolen goods
to Orden's butcher shop and he was going to the police.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Now are he happy?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Not completely? Why did mister and missus Barton come to
you for help?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
They wanted me to think them innocent. And the event
that Joe's friend Sylvia came to meet for help now
is not the last question, that is all? Okay? You know, Mary,
the bottle of pills we ran over in the road
gave us a flat tire, but it also punctured a
hole in what was almost a perfect crime, any enemy,
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an
And a second.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Joe, there's my phone all right, Harden's Meat Market. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I think you have a.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Lamb road for me today.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
This is missus Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You can have anything you want, Miss Brown. You know
that anything I have you can have.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
How many puns?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh? Eleven twelve?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'll fix you up to send it right over?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Ms Brown?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Goodbye, Hell Joe, I'm ready for you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Huh, good enough to stick the package with you?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay, heads of stuff I talked to you about on
the phone, right and.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
A big but will handle it. How's everything out at
the phone?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's fine.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Mom and dad said, say long, tell him alone for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So okay, thanks, Well i'll say tomorrow. Good bye.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Joe by is riding.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Oh that's gonna be something.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
To carry into the bank room. Hey, hey, Bill, open
the door.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
It's a matter of and catch it.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
Oh yeah, let me let me.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh no, it's all right. I'll just jump it on
the table here. Okay, Joe is just here.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Huh yeah, come on, let's open this thing up.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Better close the door first though.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yeah, that's all closed.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Boy, that's a big package that kid lugged in this time.
Let's see what's in it.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Hey, there's gold candlesticks alone on herself with plenty. He
costs me plenty if they're gonna cost somebody else more.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Oh, look at this.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Here a bracelet. Wow, hey, get a load of those diamonds.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, we'll get a loaded door for that bracelet when
we sell it to something sucker.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, hey, what else did Joe bring us this?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What's in this case?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Per match purst the first looking necklace I've seen in years.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's not bad, we get for it won't be bad either.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Joe delivered the goods again.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And yeah, smart boy, That Joe, smart boy. We must
remember to take care of him.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
And now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to
those who have no friends.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
You can yell all you like about it, Sylvia, but
I'm not going to see you for a while.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And that's that. Oh that is it? Joe? Well it's
not that simple.
Speaker 9 (02:49):
You promised me I wouldn't have to run the filling
station much longer.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Do you think I like the kind of life?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Things will be all right for you and me one
of these days, only not now.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
I'm in a spark, So what is it?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What's the matter.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
I don't want you to know.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Anything about this.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I want to know why you're running out of I'm
not running out on you.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I'm just not going to see you for a while.
You may even have to go away.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What why, Sylvia? I can't tell you why. Somebody outside
wants Guessowine let him.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
Go someplace hill.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I want to know what you're trying to do. I've
got to know.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
I can't tell you, so listen to me.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I've worked like a slave for three years in this place.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I've saved my money.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I've done everything i could so that we could.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Get married and have a little security in back of it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm not gonna let you walk on me like this.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Why doesn't that guy out there go away?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Sylvia, I'm not walking out on you.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
I'm just taking a vacation, caught that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You can call it that if you want to. I say,
you're trying to get rid of me.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We just can't get married now.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
In fact, it's not even right for us to see
each other for a while, Sylvia.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Go on out and see what he wants. Have you
walked out the back way?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Okay, I'll go out, Joe, But if you do walk
out on me, you'll be awful.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Sorry, you did.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well here stiff to my sunset parkway. Mother, This is
where Boston Blackie is supposed to live. Old model Tea
made it, didn't it?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
John? Are you sure we should go to Blackie?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
We gotta see him. Well, look we're in luck. Mother.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
There he is standing over there talking to that girl
recognizing from his pictures.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Maybe we shouldn't have come, John.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
O, Mother, I must talk to him.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know that that Blackie's a real nice looking fella.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Certainly is what I'm gonna call him.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Oh Blackie, Boston Blackie.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, sir, Please could I see you a minute?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yes, I guess. Do you want to see me about something?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, name's Barton Brackley, John Barton. This is my wife, Martha.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
How you got us, bun, Blackie?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I need your.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Help doing one? Is the Barton buying a new car?
Yours looks as if it was twenty years old?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, Harney is, but it runs.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I haven't seen a model T outside a museum in
ten years.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
John, Maybe we'd better not bother Blackie with this.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
We got her, mother, Blackie? My son is missing? Yes,
son is missing? How long been gone.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
For twenty four hours.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
He's an adopted son, Blackie and a little wild, but
he's a good boy.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
He's never done this to us before.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Well, it's probably not serious, but even if it is,
I'm not the one to say, you want to go
to the police.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Oh we're going to the police, all right, Blackie. But
we wanted to come to you first. You see, we
run a small motel, you know, tourist Cabins, out on
Highway nineteen, about ten miles side of town.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I say, Joe, that's your boy.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
There's certain duties around the place every evening, and he's
never failed to show up for work until now.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
But what does your son look like?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He's tall, slender, straight, black hair, rather nice looking.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
He's pale though he suffers from asthma, something awful. He
has to carry a bottle of pills around with him
all the time.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I don't know how that would help. Well, look, do
you know of any reason why he might have run away?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
He seemed perfectly contented at the tourist cabins.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Might have been because of Sylvia though Sylvia, he's girl.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
She runs a filling station down the road from us.
They had a terrible fight yesterday. Then yesterday afternoon she
got a phone call from some man who told her
Joe was at the bus terminal buying a ticket.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, that should make it obvious to you that he's
run away.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
No, no, we don't think so. Joe couldn't ride on buses.
He said, it bothered his asthma. Blackly, you've got to
do something for us.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Well, i'll try. I'll do something for you, providing nobody's
done anything to your son.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Ramp six for Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
And Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm backing. What else did I do for you?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I don't know. You told me you didn't sell a
bus ticket yesterday afternoon to anyone answering that description I
just gave you.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Oh I didn't, sir. I'm sorry. I can't help you.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh, I'll ask one of the other regents.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
You might have bought a ticket to some other window.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I've asked at all the other windows.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
If your man bought a ticket anywhere between noon and
night in the evening, he bought it for one of us.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Oh, thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Come on, Mary, come on.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Where and what did we accomplish here?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
We learned a great deal. Either someone was pulling Joe's
girl Sylvia when he phoned and said Joe was here
buying a ticket or Sylvia was pulling all men button.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I know what that means. We're going out to see her.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Uh huh, we know the answer to who is Sylvia? Now,
let's see if we can find out what is she?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
There? You are mister, thanks?
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Could, thanks?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Here's your money, check your oil? Thanks, water battery? Hey,
sure you got the cap in the gust tank. Couldn't
take That's.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The first thing I learned in this business.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
That's okay, Hey, you're next.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How many?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
They're not too many? There's too many questions. I mean,
is your name Sylvia? Yeah, Well, I'm Boston Blackie. This
is miss Wesley.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Hello, Boston Blackie.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I heard of you, you too, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Look Sylvia, and you're Joe Barkin's girl, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I was so yesterday. How did you know?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
His mother and father told me they're afraid something's happened
to him, and I'm trying to find him.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Well, it'll be easy to spot if you get close
enough to him. He's always taken a pill for his asthma.
He never goes any place without a bottle of those pills.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They don't do him no good though.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Look, Sylvia, did Joe give you any reason why he
had to run away?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah? Yeah he did kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He said he was in a jant? What kind Sylvia?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Did he say? No? No, miss Wesley, that's all he says.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But he acted scared, so I guess he is in
a jam, a bad one that's.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Getting more obvious every minute. Who phones you and told
you Joe is buying a ticket at the bus terminal?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
He didn't say.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Would you recognize the voice if you heard it again?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Hm?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Maybe? I'm not sure. It's a funny thing though.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
While the guy was talking to me, I heard a
clock strike three, but it was four o'clock.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
M h. I'll fill her up with him. I think
he'll take about twelve or thirteen gallons.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, check your oil battery.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, you might as well say how far is it
to the motel that Joe's dad and mother run? Your mouth?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Takes a back road to save time. Nobody travels it,
but it cuts off about half a mile.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I won't ask Lackie. I know that's where they're going next.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
We've gone a mile Mary, we'll just take away there.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's a beautiful day for a drive in the country,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yeah? Perfect. We weren't looking for that, she was.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
We just stopped in time, didn't We just went off
the road. That was too close.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I'm shaking, I'm burning. We ran over something back there
on the road. That's hire.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Come on and see what it was, Okay, I I
think I heard the noise of whatever it was. It
sounded like breaking glass.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, I think it was, too, But it must have
been a small piece of glass. I didn't see anything
on the road.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Oh where was it to think about?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Here? No, a little father back I think about there.
But all those little white.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Things are yep, I sea broken glass? Blackie.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, yeah, here's what the damage. It was a bottle
all and two, but the bottom stayed.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
In one piece. That's what cut through the tires.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Look look at there's no white things on the road.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You know what they are? Their pills? Huh pills.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I don't know what kind of their.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Pills, all right, say I'll say they are.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And look what I found here the label off the bottle,
and look at the name on it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Joe Barton.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Joe Barton.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, that means he was down this road and not
so long ago either or somebody else would have hit
that bottle.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Mary, and I'm saying that's my guess. We're not far
from Joe Boughten right now. Look at the twigs on
the bush by the side of the road. They're freshly broken.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The bush looks as if it was trampled down, Blackie,
or broken by a body being dragged.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh oh, golly, come on.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Look Ah, I'm kind of afraid to no.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I may be wrong. We might not find anything. Okay, yuh,
something was dragged through here, all right. Look that next
bush is broken too.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Come on, I'll stay behind you.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
If it was a good idea, just in case Joe,
I mean it. Uh oh oh, what we've found him.
The case of the missing Joe Barden has closed, Mary,
but the case of the murdered Joe.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Boden is open.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And now back to Boston, Blackie. Joe Barton brings a
package to a butcher shop, but in the package are
stolen jewels and silverware. Shortly after this, Joe tells his fiancee,
Sylvia that he's in a jam and won't see her
(12:46):
for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Then he disappears.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Joe's parents come to Blackie and ask him to find
their son. Stop by a flat tire on the highway,
not far from the motel run by Joe's family. Black
and Merry find Joe in a thicket off the road.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
As we return to our story, Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Is the Metropolitan Police is talking to the local police.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
I look, Chief Fisher, I'm here because I've got an idea.
Joe Barton was killed in the city and his body
hauled out here to be disposed of.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Any idea who killed him?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No, I can't say as I do. Inspect parade all right,
have him under arrest and practically convicted right now?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, Chief of police.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Here, you know better get off on the road. Is
a car put on up?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I see it?
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Thanks, Say it's turning in here. Hello, Bernie, it's Boston. Plackie, Blacky,
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm not sure yet. Stay in the car, Mary, this's
gonna take him him?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
What Hi?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Chief is him? Hello? Blackie? Chief? Any luck yet in
finding out who kill Joe? Butden not a bit of blucklay.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
You stay out on this flaky.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
The Chief told me you found the body that's enough.
I'll find a killer.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Hey, look at this fellow coming down the road. But
you're trying to do get arrested.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Sturnning in the side road. He must know his way
around here.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Never seen his car before.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
You must beck up.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He's gonna hit that much puddle. I find time to
tell me, Look at me.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I'm coming with my.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What's a matter of inspector? Don't you city folks ever
get money?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Did you see he was driving that car? Was Harold Walsh,
a big time operator and stolen jewelry?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
H Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yes? I got a good look at him, jew chief.
What's down that back road? Anything particular?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Only Arden's butcher shop. Hm.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I wonder if Walsh would drive that fast just to
get a steak.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
He might be just driving through town and taking this
road is a short cun.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yes he might. And I've got a hunch he is
going to that butcher shop and that this is tied
up in some way with Joe's murder. You know what
they say about one man's meat being another man's poison.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
All right, mister Walsh, you want the candlesticks and the
bracelet of the necklace, and it'll be ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Now, good god, that's too much. Ten thousand is my price.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Look, I come a long way for this stuff. I
intend taking it back with me. Pay my price to
get out, and you'll get tough with.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Put that gun away. I will when we've made our deal.
If you want to take reasonable, do for it. I'll
take it for nothing. And you don't squawk. You got
hands off that stuff. Oh you got a gun too?
Have you drop it?
Speaker 10 (15:30):
I said, drop it? The next time I shoot, I
won't miss.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's a good boy. Now turn your back and face
the water. It prepped up in back a murful quiet,
and you sure hit.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
A muffled hard guys, got alright, you got bent this
piece of pipe on it.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Come on, let's pick him up and get him out
of there.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Hey, wait a minute, what's the matter? Ready? They hit
him too hot? He's dead.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
This is the Arden butcher Shop, all right, blackie.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
There's the sign said, I see it, Mary. But look
at the sign in the window there. It says the
shop will be closed till five.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Oh dear, that's just a little laughter.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Four point thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now, well what do we do?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Wait? No, that's nothing but a waste of time. Let's
go back down the highway and see mister missus Barton.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
What for we've got nothing to tell them about their
son's murdering.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Maybe not, Maybe they've got something to tell us.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
He's push hard up failure.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
He'll have Wah in his car over the cliff, flushing
as hot as I can hunt. Hey, sure you got
the car out of gear.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's out of gear, and watsh is behind the wheel,
just as if he was driving. Let's look like an
accident shore.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, she goes over the cliff. How can I go? Yeah,
that's some dropping. That's some dropper. That's that we're Blackie.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
You and miss Wesley have seen all around our tourist camps.
Kept a little better when Joe's around.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
How'd you like it?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Nice place you have it? Button?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I like those little cabins under the pine trees best
of all.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Oh there everybody's favorite. Well, come out of the house,
both of you. Mother and I are having milk and biscuits. Mother, Yes,
we're having company.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Oh it's Blacky. Come right here, missus, Missus Barton, Allo.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Missus, nice to know it. Go right in the living
room and make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
I'll fetch you.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Some milk and just no quite from a farm that's
supply and demand all in one place.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm a homemade cookie fan myself. I hope you'll like.
Oh oh, look who's coming across the yard. It's mister Fisher,
the chief of police.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
He looks excited too. Hello looking for someone, Chief Fishing? Yeah, blackey,
I show your car out front. I got something to
tell you. What a fellow Walsh and the big car
that splashed muddle over inspected pair day she had an
accident where on the curve by the cliff went clean
over and dropped all the way down. Half and fifteen
minutes ago, about a quarter to five. Fella heard the crash,
Call me, Walsh is dead. We never got to the
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butcher shopping, you know, we mightter, but he went over
the cliff heading in this direction. Wherever he was coming from. Well,
it's only a guess.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Fisher and I think Walsh was heading for that butcher
shop when he passed us before. And that's where I'm
headed for right now.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Right we're closing up this butcher shop. I think we
better get rid of that stuff back. I'm nervous about
war will.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I'd be nervous about him.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Look like an accident, all right?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Maybe so over, let's lock up and blow the joint.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Boston Blacky's in town Susan inspector Paraday, both working on
Joe's murder.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hey wait, I lock up this front door.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
That's that I'll pull down the shades and let's go
in back.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Come on, come on, make it say hey, you share
the jeniitu right, I won't have since we get that
stuff out of the back room.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What are we gonna do with it? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Come on in back and let's figure out what to do. Okay,
close the door.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Shayeah.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Maybe we should let Walsh have that stuff at his
price and we wouldn't do so much worrying about it
right now?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Maybe? Oh you Austin Blackie.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know me, don't Jordan?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, how'd you get in here?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Outside?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Door was locked where the.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Lock of amateur could pick And I'm no amateur.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I want to know why your store was closed just
before five this afternoon? Right because a man named Walsh
went over the cliff and it's car just before five
this afternoon and he was dead before he went off
the road. And I think you one and your friend
here killed Walsh and pushed him in his car off
that cliff. What's more, I can prove.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It, Bill, Blackie isn't fluffing. You'd better.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Oh you play with knives? Do your bill play with
us for a while? All right on, you want some
of the same treatment, I just keep Bill.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Don't try to give it to me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Blackie.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I'll give you a little medicine for miss gun.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Oh you play with guns, do you?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
And of course, when he dropped around the floor.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Blackie like, now, she Fisher, where'd you come from coming?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
He came in with Blackie kind of waded around a bit.
Nice were chief?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Wrap that gun?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Harden?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Don't make me do nothing.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'd like nothing better than to do.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, that's being a nice boy.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I'll take care of these two now, Blackie. I heard
enough to prove to me they're the killers we weren't good.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Make mister missus.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Barton feel good, Blackie, run up and tell him that
we've caught their son's killer.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, black he's found out who killed Joe.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Miss Wesley are here to tell us.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
All about it? I told you he'd find out, and
he did.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I'm glad it doesn't bring Joe back to us. But
I wanted his killer to be caught.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Did you just find out, Blakey.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I've known for just about an hour, Missus Barton, she
Fisher and I caught the killers at six o'clock, which
is just an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Who killed him, Blackie? And why was he killed?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, mister Barton, you thought your son Joe was a
good boy. Well he was and he wasn't. But I'll
start from the beginning. It'll be easy to explain that way.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
What do you mean by Joe wasn't a good boy, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Missus Barton? He was mixed up in the sale of
stolen goods. He was in a racket. I found thousands
of dollars worth of stolen jewels and silverware an Orden's
butcher's shop where Joe took them for Arden.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Will go on, Blackie, I'll.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Go on, Mary, But I'm going to have to change
what I was about to say.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Why what do you mean, Blackie?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
It seems I am I was a little wrong about
who killed Joe Barton. I thought it was Odd and
his friend Bill. But I don't anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Then you don't know who killed my boy.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I didn't say that, Missus Barton. I do know you
and your husband kill your son.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's no way to joke, Blakie.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I'm not building any last mister Barton. I'm building a
murder case against you, and I guarantee I can make
it stick.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Mother, but your price, Blackie, you.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Know better than that. Missus Barton, you should and don't
go for that gun. Mister Barton, you know better than that.
You should here well now anyway, miss Barton, I bought
just mixed your wrists, So stop whining.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Black You don't mean that mister and missus Barton killed
their son.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
No, I think I can and they know I can
improve it.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
We're still ready to make a deal.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
We've got a lot of money we took out of
selling stolen stuff to Arden.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Have you Well take my word for it. It won't
do any good where you're going. You don't have a
chance in the world of spending it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Lucky, it's question time. How did you know that mister
and missus Barton killed Joe Button.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Well, it was seven o'clock when I was talking to
the Bartons and the clock struck six. That means the
clock was haywire. Oh. Sylvia received a phone call in
regard to Joe's being at the bus station at four
the previous day, she heard a clock strike three. That
means the call about Joe came from the motel. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Why did mister Barton tell Sylvia that Joe was at.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
The bus station so Sylvia would give us a false
lead and keep us away from the Barton motel as
long as possible? It was at the motel the Bartons
bought stolen goods, people with goods to sell to one
of their cabins late at night, and the Boughtons bought
the stuff from them.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Then satisfied, satisfied, Why was Joe killed?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Well, he finally found out he was hauling stolen goods
to Orden's butcher shop and he was going to the police.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Now are he happy?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Not completely? Why did mister and missus Barton come to
you for help?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
They wanted me to think them innocent. And the event
that Joe's friend Sylvia came to meet for help now
is not the last question, that is all? Okay? You know, Mary,
the bottle of pills we ran over in the road
gave us a flat tire, but it also punctured a
hole in what was almost a perfect crime, any enemy,
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