August 11, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Hey, Blacky, Blacky, come on, wake up, gome on, wake
up Blackie.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
H Oh, that's a matter of sure.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Nothing's the matter of Blackie. There's an insurance man here
wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh, tell him.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I don't want any I told him that, but he
says he don't want to sell you nothing. He wants
to give you something.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, I said, ten thousand dollars, Blackie. H uh, Loulia.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He's the insurance guy, Blake.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm sorry to disturb you so early in the morning, Blackie,
but i'm Emo Bonds agent for the Rodley Insurance Company.
Let this sound like any reason to wake me up?
And I'm going back to sleep. Perhaps you'll open your
eyes for ten thousand dollars for that, I wouldn't even
open what eye now, Now go away, little man. I'm sleeping.
(01:11):
I realize that, and I hate to be so persistent,
But Blackie, I want you to do something for me.
I want you to do something for me to leave
me alone. I won't offer you money again, Blackie. Instead,
I'll offer you a mystery, a mystery i'll guarantee you
can't solve.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston. Blackie enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Who have no friend funds. You think there is a
mystery I can't solve. Hell solving this one calls for
an expert, Blackie. Is that so, oh, shorty? Should I
be modest or should I admit? He came to the
right man.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Just be yourself, boss and solved for him.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Thank you, Sheldy and now bonds. What's this mysterious mystery
I can't solve? H Well, it's this, Blackie. My company
carries the theft insurance for the winter of Jewelry Company. Now,
almost every day for the last month, a diamond has
been stolen from the workroom where the diamonds are sat
into uh rings, cliffs, brooches and so forth. Now there
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are three diamond setters in the shop, and we know
one of the three is guilty. Which one, Well that
we don't know, Blackie, nor do we know how the
diamonds are stolen. You see, all three of the men
in the shop are searched when they leave. They're searched
at the end of the day. You mean, yes, oh uh,
what about when they go out to lunch. They don't
go out to lunch. All three of them bring their
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lunches to work and eat in the shop. They never
go out during working hours, and no visitors are allowed
to come in.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Hey, I know a way to stop the diamonds from disappearing.
Fire all three diamond centers.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Uh. Well, I suggested that to mister Winthrop, the owner
of the company, but he doesn't think that it's fair
to the two men who are not taking diamonds. Here's
a point there. Oh, what do you want me to do?
Find out how the diamonds are being taken out of
the shop. Now understand, all three men are thoroughly searched.
Not one of them has ever had a diamond on him,
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yet almost every day a diamond is missing. That's Bryan Shriguing.
Who are these three men? Well er, there's Hans van Houten.
He's an expert diamond center from Holland. He's been with
the Winthrop company for twenty years. Uh huh. And then
there's uh, let's see, oh uh, young John Glass, he's
van Hooton's protege. And the newest member of the tree,
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who is Jim Aldrich, a young man from Georgia. I see, well,
I'd say you have two mysteries mister Bonds. Yes, who
is taking those diamonds? And how are they being smuggled out?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Blackie, I've uh, I've made plans for you to go
to the shop later today as an employee of the
Winster Company under another name. Of course you'll be John Jones.
You've made plans for me already. Pretty sure I take
this case, won't you?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was. The method of stealing those diamonds has to
be ingenious. It must interest a man like you, well,
doesn't it? Pooh, not much? Bonds. Give me thirty seconds
to get dressed, and I'll be right with you here.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's in order for three two carrot diamonds to be
set in the platinum ring.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Jim, this job I will give to you.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Man Hootin, soonce I'm through with this polishing machine, think
you are to trust him with diamonds, Man houten By,
not John. I know why he says not to trust me.
Glass here thinks that I'm the guy who's stealing the diamonds. John,
you should not see such steep.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well, one of us has taken it diamonds out of here,
and I know I'm not and I don't think it's sealed,
mister van Houton.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
So who's left?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm left, but either you or your pal van Houghton
can be taking them, maybe both. How much are you
selling for? Why you'll turn your hands off? It's no fighting,
no good to right.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Fighting will not bring Maxis stolen diamonds.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Fighting will not prove who is guilty of this terrible thing.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We must not fight.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Good afternoon, mister Winds, he mis winter closing times. Gentlemen,
you'll go out to be searched as usual, Francis. But
before you go, I'd like you to meet a new employee,
mister John Jones. He'll work in here with you, of course, Jones.
This is van Houton. How do you do, mister Jones?
He's in charge here. And this is prolage John Glass,
and this is Jim Oldrich.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
How do you do, sig Jim. You're sure going to
like it here, mister Jones. We get searched like a
bunch of thieves every time we leave work, but the
diamonds keep disappearing just the same. Well, gentlemen, mister Burns
and the insurance companies in the other room, and he'll
search you. This won't go on much longer though, no,
quite not. You know who's taking the diamonds.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Mister Barnes told me this morning that he's on the
verge of naming the guilty one thinks the case is
as good as solf. Oh, no, you'd better go in
and be searched.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
See in the morning. Fellas right, it's along all right, Blackie.
You're free to look around now, thanks, mister winterp. But
I'd like to look around my way if you don't
mind not a door. Would you send my assistant Shorty
in right away? Thanks, and let me know as soon
as Barnes has finished, said she knows three will, I
certainly will.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
It'll be some time, though we make the search very thorough,
even use a fluoroscoop.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh, Shorty, you may go in now.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Oh thanks, Hi, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hey, this is some swell joint.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Huh these giants go, Shorty. I'll let's look around, okay, boss,
But for what?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Nothing much? Mainly are close to how one of the
three men who work in this room managed to steal
a diamond almost every day without being caught.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Maybe the thief swallows it, No.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Shoret one not that ways to put under a fluoroscope.
That would detect a diamond if they swallowed it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh, well, where do we start looking, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Right here and see now the wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We right here in the middle of a room.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And what do we see?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I see a small safe, a work bench, and a door.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's the washroom according to the sign.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And I see two windows, Blacky, the windows. That's how
the thief gets the diamonds out. He throws them out
the window.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Maybe you should have stayed home, shorty. You know where
we are.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
We're sure in this room.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know where this room is. It's on the twelfth
floor and this side of the building faces the river.
Oh so, so I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Not so smart.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Anything thrown out the window would drop into the river.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now you're being a little bit smarter.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hey, what's this on the little wall here?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I said, a luxury.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh just cold hangers.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh yes, the shelf. This is weabon hood and glance
and order to put their lunch boxes.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Lunchboxes.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, surety, they have their lunches right here. That proves
the diamonds aren't taken out during the lunch hour.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Hey, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That means the only time they could carry out a
diamond is after work and that's now, huh.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And now they're being searched, but thoroughly, just as they're
always searched, but thoroughly. Hey, what's this thing here?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Looks like a piece of corn, Blackie, I can.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Just get it out of this crack on the floor.
Eh Ah, it is corn.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Oh, I know how that'd got there.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
One of the three guys who work here had corn
on a cob for lunch, which reminds me, Blackie, I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
How much longer are we going to stay here?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That much longer? I've looked the place over from top
to bottom. I haven't found anything. All we have to
do now is wait for a report that Bond is
finished searching than Hoot and glass and all rich and
that should be very soon.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Cheap boss, how was that guy getting the diamonds out
of here?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I don't know, Shorty. This mystery is everything Bond said
it would be. The diamonds can't be thrown out the window.
They'd be lost in the river.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And they can't be carried out because all three guys
are searched.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
They can't be hidden in here because there's no place
to hide them.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Bond's himself figured that at a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh blecki.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh yes, Miss Windsorp has bonds finished searching those three. Yes,
he's already left. You could probably catch him if you wanted, though,
when he found nothing on the man, the fluoroscope showed
nothing on him. Other thing. Do you know how this
has been done? You've searched them and found nothing? Uh huh,
you can search me.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
What's the trouble here? What's the trouble? All right?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Step back again? Let me see here, let me see
shot to death? What's the love hair off?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Sudden? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Stand back instead. This fella has been shot. That's Bond's email.
Bonds from the insurance company. Why you know him? Huh,
only slightly, Officer. He was doing a little investigation for
the Winterrop Jewelry Company. Oh you don't say that, the
Windsor company just now?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yes, and so did I. I was trying to catch
up with him, but it looks like somebody caught up
with him before I did.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Mister Winswip, I have Faraday Police Inspector. I'd like to
talk to you about the murder of Amian Barns. Of course, inspector,
Hello Faraday, Pranky, what are you doing here, Believe it.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Or not, Paraday. I work here. It's right.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Inspector work here, Blankie, you never did a liqu of
work in your life.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I haven't done anything since I first met you.
I haven't had time. I'm too busy solving your cases.
Come on, why are you here? He's employed. Your inspector
is a diamond sitter. What It's all very simple, Paraday,
even you should be able to understand it. You're here
to investigate the death of Emal Bonds, don't you Yes?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And I suppose you know who kill him?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I do one of three men, Paraday, then Hooten Glass
or Aldrich, because one of these three are stealing diamonds
from the diamond setting room.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Stealing diamonds. What's that got to.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Do with Bard's death? Everything? Bonds was trying to find
out how the diamonds were being stolen. He couldn't do it,
so he asked me to try. I just started working.
But I suppose you've solved the case already. No, I
haven't any idea how it's done. The diamond setting room
is on the twelfth floor facing the river, and all
three diamond setters are thoroughly searched. Before they leave the shop.
But the diamonds keep on disappearing inspected, now they do?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And what about today?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Today, Faturday. I'll guarantee one thing, A diamond isn't missing, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You just guaranteed, Inspector Faraday, a diamond would not be missing.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Why not see how one could be?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I don't either, but my inventory report shows that another
diamond has been stolen today.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Now back to Boston, Blackie. Blackie is involved in a
mystery which even he feels that he cannot solve. Three
men work in a diamond setting shop from which a
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diamond disappears almost every day. The three men are searched
every time they leave the shop, but no diamond is
ever found on them. No visitors are allowed in the shop,
and the only windows in the room, which is on
the twelfth floor, face on a river. To add to
Blackies troubles, Amil Barnes, insurance agent investigating the thefts, is murdered,
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obviously by one of the three suspects.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
As we return to.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Our story, Blackie and Murray Wesley are in a small
cafe having a midnight snack.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Cheer up, Blackie, after you've had something to eat, you.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't deserve to eat. Mary. I'm sure this case
isn't as tough as I'm making it. If I could
just find a clue.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
First, find something on the menu, and you can look.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
For a fool. All right, what are you going to have?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Well?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I don't know, I am Mary.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I told you about Ben hootin Glass and Aldrich, didn't
I know which one of those three might be a
thief and a killer?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I think better after I eat, honey, child?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Now what are you going to have?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You eat? Mary? I don't feel like it. I have
all the food I want, and it's all for thought.
There's a kernel of corn, for instance, Darling.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
You can stare at that piece of corn if you
want to. But if you're gonna feed more than that,
to me, that is bird food. And I'm a growing girl.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Order the biggest steak in the house of it. Bird food? Mary,
I've got it. What the answer? I know? How it's done?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
How?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
What was done?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Where's the telephone?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right back up, you come on, I'll tell you on
Fririday at the same time.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Well, hey, wait for me, Oh, come on, honey, honey,
did do you think it's smart to call it expect
parody in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'm smart at all. I was married modest, No, just happy. Okay,
Hello Friday, this is Blackie. You're old pal, Blackie, Wake up, Friday,
fy up in the middle of the night. Sorry Powell,
but I can't solve your cases at your convenience? What
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pace of your So do you think I know how
those diamonds get out of the setting room at the
Winthrop Company?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Oh you do? Huh? I suppose they fly out the window?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
They sure do, Friday, did you wake me up to
tony jokes? No, Friday to tell you the case is solved.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
The diamonds fly out the window.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yes, attached to homing pigeon's legs. Sure, the guy ties
a diamond to the leg, and the pigeon flies home
because that's what it's trained to do.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Hey, you might have something there.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I think I've got the answer. Those guys aren't searched
when they go into the shop, only when they go out.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I know that. How does the homing pigeon get into
the shop.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, the thief brings them in a lunch box, and
the lunch box is empty when the guy leaves, because
by that time the pigeon and the diamond have also
gone out the window. Look, Friday, I want you to
come up to the shop at Winthrops tomorrow morning early
and search those lunchboxes. Okay, what if I don't fight
a pigeon, Well then I have a second plan in
that case. But you'll find a pigeon, I'm sure. And
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when you do, the little birdie will also tell you
who killed Emil Buns.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You are having trouble punishings the diamond, mister Jones, I
may head it field perhaps.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
No thanks for hooting, I'm getting it, hey Jones. Yes,
mister Vance, what was that inspect of Faraday doing here.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
A little while ago?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I don't know, I know, do you? Ordrich? I think
he was looking through our coats and lunchboxes for a clue.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
No matter, Aldrich got a.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Gilly conscience, had especially much.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Boys poison must not argue.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
You will not help any one.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
If one of us is stealing the diamonds, the police
will answered the phone.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Somebody, how can it?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Hello, mister Jones, just a minute for you?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
John's thanks? Yeah, Oh, Linda's get to work as much. Hello.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Oh, yes, you wanted me to look at the lunchboxes.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Huh, yeah, he said, I find a pigeon in one
of them. Yes, what do you think I found in
those lunchboxes?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
What lunch?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Look, where are you in the next office? Okay, I
want to try one more thing. What I told you
to do last night?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Check?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yes, I know what I ought to do. Forget you
even exist. I guess I'll go through with the rest
of your plan. When when now you go back to
your work bench just s If nothing happens, I'll come
in and throw you.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Up as well, but make it look good.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Oh, don't worry. I'll be enjoying every minute of it. Goodbye.
Who was that Jude?
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
One of the guys in a counting office downstairs, and
he thinks that.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I wicky, What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Wicky Boston Blackie. I don't know what you'll be glass,
but I'll be going.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I'll say you would have blaky. I told you last
night to get out of this case.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Why you are wrong? You're just getting in my way.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And I was just leaving to inspector.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Your name is Joel?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Was spying on us? Huh? Also?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Was we do not like spies, mister Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh, never mind, that plan.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Holden, I don't like guys who waste my time, and
this guy's been wasting my time with a phony idea
how those diamonds were being stolen. Now get out of here, Lanky,
get out and stay up.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Okay, Friday, you win. I was wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
You wouldn't meet it. You must be sick.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I am sick, Friday, sick of trying to help you
out of jams. You get to the bottom of this
your own way. I'm going someplace and get well.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Oh Blackie, I'm glad you got back to your apartment
before I did. I was afraid I'd have to wait
out here in the hall.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I just had to look around all which is house Mary.
No pigeons. What did you find out about class?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
He lives at forty seven Eastern Street. No pigeons, not
a sign of any not even a feather.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Then everything depends on what sure he finds it, Ben.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Hootin's well, let's hope you find something.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He has to find pigeons, Mary. I'm sure I'm right,
because if I'm not, there's no way in the world
for those diamonds to disappear out of that room. Van
Hooton has to have pigeons or the hope? Oh what oh?
This is the slickest jewel robbery and the toughest case
I've ever heard of.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Oh, I hope that's Shorty, I hope.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
So hello, Hey Blacky, this is Shorty.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, Shorty. What did you find out about Ben Hooten?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Well, he lives at five three Eastern Street.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Five three Eastern Street. Huh that's just a couple of
dollars away from where Glass lives. Yeah, yeah, but never
mind that. What did you find out about Ben Hooton?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Happen? I couldn't get into his place?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Why not? The joint was not well did you see
any pigeons in the neighborhood?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Sure, Blackie, but they was all over the church and
the firehouse across the street, not.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Around Ben Holten's all right, Shorty? Thanks? Uh where are
you gonna be? I may want to get in touch
with you later. I'll be at halt, Blacky, all right, goodbye?
Speaker 7 (18:49):
So Ben Houghton had no pigeons?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Surety couldn't find out Mary, which means that Ben Hooton
is still a possible suspect. In fact, he's our only
one we know. Glass and Aldrich don't have pigeons.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yeah, but Blackie, you know you may be wrong entirely.
You said Inspector Faraday didn't find a pigeon in any
one of the three lunchboxes this morning.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh, I haven't answer to that one. Mary Ben Hooton,
if he's our man, was playing it smart. While the
heat was on. He decided not to bring a pigeon
with him.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
But you think maybe he'll bring a pigeon tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Huh, he might. I had Faraday throw me off the
case so he would figure that the heat was off.
At least that's what I wanted him to figure. I'll
see you let him marry.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Where are you going to see how I.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Can get our Holland friend missed up in Hooton in Dutch.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Hey, Blackie, it's miserable up here. Why didn't you tell
me we was gonna stand up on a roof at
this hour of the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The janitor he had told me yesterday that Van Houton
kept pigeons await it or watch his pigeon coat, And
surely anyone with any sense would know that it'd be
on the roof.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'd rather have no sense and not be here.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You've got something, there's Jadwin.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Hey, what time is it?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Fourth thirty?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
See? Still plenty dark, and those noises of pigeons are making.
They're plenty scary.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know what I mean too? Now stand behind that
chimney here, no telling one. Ben Hooton will come up.
Press pigeon.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He lives downstairs, Blackie. How does he get up here
on the.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Roof through that door by the sky like that?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh well, I better get back here behind the chimney
with you, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You might be able to see me standing here.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I got it. It's too dark. Look out, don't push, sorry, Blackie.
If you'd push a little harder, I'd be sorry and
also dead. Look once behind us.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Ain't there another building next to this one?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yes, but it's a good ten foot jump across through
space to the next roof, and if you're slept, it's
a sixth story drop through space.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Don't talk about that, Blackie. Don't make me feel so good.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
See what are we doing? Van Hooton shows.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Where he gets his pigeon and grab him?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh hey, Blackie, I'm smaller on you. I can sneak
up without him seeing me. Let me grab hi mane.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
All right, But wait until he has the pigeon and
then hey, humm.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Look somebody on the roof. But where'd he come from through.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That door there?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I didn't see him.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They were looking the other way, talking about falling down
between this building and the next.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh, he's old by the pigeon coat a pigeon.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, sh.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Can you see if he's doing shorty.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, he's got his arm in that pigeon thing coat
the coat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Now what's he doing?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, nothing yet. Yeah, he's reaching in a cubby hole
and grabbing a pigeon. Good, I grab him now, Blake, no, no,
Andley comes out. He's coming out.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now where's the pigeon? I don't see it. I guess
it's in his lunch box. Hey, he'sitting to the door
down into the building.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We'll grabbing shorty quick.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Okay, you don't get away from me.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He's getting let's say, I have a lot. I'm coming. Hey, surey,
that wasn't manhooting. That was John Glass. Come on, let's
get okay, but he ain't hitting for the door. No,
he's gonna jump to the roof of the next building
like he didn't make it. I know, step back, Shorty,
you make Wow, that's the end of John blass.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh gosh, Blakie six stories don hey Blakey, please stay
awake that edge. Do you want to go down here?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Room?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah? Sure I do, but I think I'll do it
the long way. I'm gonna walk down Blackie.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
How many pigeons are there in this park?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I have no? Mary?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, I want to know how many more pigeons you're
gonna feed before you feed me.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh, You're not only hungry, but I'm grateful, Mary. Thanks
to a pigeon, I saw the most baffling jewel robbery
I've ever come across.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
I take it all back. Uh. That John Glass certainly
had a clever idea, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
A little too clever? He got the idea when he
became friendly with Van Hooton and saw how the homing
pigeons came back from wherever he released them. He used
Van Hooton's pigeons to fly the diamonds back here. Van
Hooton didn't know a thing about it.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Say what did you use for the pigeons to carry
the diamonds in?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
A small round capsule? Found several of them in the
uh pigeon coat and one of the diamonds still in it.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Well, that certainly proved what you already knew, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Did?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Too bad? Windsor's made that remark in front of glass
about Barnes insurance man having the case almost solved. That's
why a glass killed Barns. Hm.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
That's too bad. And Barnes was just preferring to your
opinion on the case, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes? A shame.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Hey, But there's one thing I would like to know. Well,
you worked with those three diamontetors for a whole day
and a half. How'd you get away with it? You
don't know anything about diamonds.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Are you kidding? I don't know anything about diamonds.
Hey, Blacky, Blacky, come on, wake up, gome on, wake
up Blackie.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
H Oh, that's a matter of sure.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Nothing's the matter of Blackie. There's an insurance man here
wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh, tell him.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I don't want any I told him that, but he
says he don't want to sell you nothing. He wants
to give you something.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, I said, ten thousand dollars, Blackie. H uh, Loulia.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He's the insurance guy, Blake.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm sorry to disturb you so early in the morning, Blackie,
but i'm Emo Bonds agent for the Rodley Insurance Company.
Let this sound like any reason to wake me up?
And I'm going back to sleep. Perhaps you'll open your
eyes for ten thousand dollars for that, I wouldn't even
open what eye now, Now go away, little man. I'm sleeping.
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I realize that, and I hate to be so persistent,
But Blackie, I want you to do something for me.
I want you to do something for me to leave
me alone. I won't offer you money again, Blackie. Instead,
I'll offer you a mystery, a mystery i'll guarantee you
can't solve.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston. Blackie enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Who have no friend funds. You think there is a
mystery I can't solve. Hell solving this one calls for
an expert, Blackie. Is that so, oh, shorty? Should I
be modest or should I admit? He came to the
right man.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Just be yourself, boss and solved for him.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Thank you, Sheldy and now bonds. What's this mysterious mystery
I can't solve? H Well, it's this, Blackie. My company
carries the theft insurance for the winter of Jewelry Company. Now,
almost every day for the last month, a diamond has
been stolen from the workroom where the diamonds are sat
into uh rings, cliffs, brooches and so forth. Now there
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are three diamond setters in the shop, and we know
one of the three is guilty. Which one, Well that
we don't know, Blackie, nor do we know how the
diamonds are stolen. You see, all three of the men
in the shop are searched when they leave. They're searched
at the end of the day. You mean, yes, oh uh,
what about when they go out to lunch. They don't
go out to lunch. All three of them bring their
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lunches to work and eat in the shop. They never
go out during working hours, and no visitors are allowed
to come in.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Hey, I know a way to stop the diamonds from disappearing.
Fire all three diamond centers.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Uh. Well, I suggested that to mister Winthrop, the owner
of the company, but he doesn't think that it's fair
to the two men who are not taking diamonds. Here's
a point there. Oh, what do you want me to do?
Find out how the diamonds are being taken out of
the shop. Now understand, all three men are thoroughly searched.
Not one of them has ever had a diamond on him,
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yet almost every day a diamond is missing. That's Bryan Shriguing.
Who are these three men? Well er, there's Hans van Houten.
He's an expert diamond center from Holland. He's been with
the Winthrop company for twenty years. Uh huh. And then
there's uh, let's see, oh uh, young John Glass, he's
van Hooton's protege. And the newest member of the tree,
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who is Jim Aldrich, a young man from Georgia. I see, well,
I'd say you have two mysteries mister Bonds. Yes, who
is taking those diamonds? And how are they being smuggled out?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Blackie, I've uh, I've made plans for you to go
to the shop later today as an employee of the
Winster Company under another name. Of course you'll be John Jones.
You've made plans for me already. Pretty sure I take
this case, won't you?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was. The method of stealing those diamonds has to
be ingenious. It must interest a man like you, well,
doesn't it? Pooh, not much? Bonds. Give me thirty seconds
to get dressed, and I'll be right with you here.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's in order for three two carrot diamonds to be
set in the platinum ring.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Jim, this job I will give to you.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Man Hootin, soonce I'm through with this polishing machine, think
you are to trust him with diamonds, Man houten By,
not John. I know why he says not to trust me.
Glass here thinks that I'm the guy who's stealing the diamonds. John,
you should not see such steep.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well, one of us has taken it diamonds out of here,
and I know I'm not and I don't think it's sealed,
mister van Houton.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
So who's left?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm left, but either you or your pal van Houghton
can be taking them, maybe both. How much are you
selling for? Why you'll turn your hands off? It's no fighting,
no good to right.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Fighting will not bring Maxis stolen diamonds.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Fighting will not prove who is guilty of this terrible thing.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We must not fight.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Good afternoon, mister Winds, he mis winter closing times. Gentlemen,
you'll go out to be searched as usual, Francis. But
before you go, I'd like you to meet a new employee,
mister John Jones. He'll work in here with you, of course, Jones.
This is van Houton. How do you do, mister Jones?
He's in charge here. And this is prolage John Glass,
and this is Jim Oldrich.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
How do you do, sig Jim. You're sure going to
like it here, mister Jones. We get searched like a
bunch of thieves every time we leave work, but the
diamonds keep disappearing just the same. Well, gentlemen, mister Burns
and the insurance companies in the other room, and he'll
search you. This won't go on much longer though, no,
quite not. You know who's taking the diamonds.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Mister Barnes told me this morning that he's on the
verge of naming the guilty one thinks the case is
as good as solf. Oh, no, you'd better go in
and be searched.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
See in the morning. Fellas right, it's along all right, Blackie.
You're free to look around now, thanks, mister winterp. But
I'd like to look around my way if you don't
mind not a door. Would you send my assistant Shorty
in right away? Thanks, and let me know as soon
as Barnes has finished, said she knows three will, I
certainly will.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
It'll be some time, though we make the search very thorough,
even use a fluoroscoop.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh, Shorty, you may go in now.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Oh thanks, Hi, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hey, this is some swell joint.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Huh these giants go, Shorty. I'll let's look around, okay, boss,
But for what?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Nothing much? Mainly are close to how one of the
three men who work in this room managed to steal
a diamond almost every day without being caught.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Maybe the thief swallows it, No.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Shoret one not that ways to put under a fluoroscope.
That would detect a diamond if they swallowed it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh, well, where do we start looking, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Right here and see now the wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We right here in the middle of a room.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And what do we see?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I see a small safe, a work bench, and a door.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's the washroom according to the sign.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And I see two windows, Blacky, the windows. That's how
the thief gets the diamonds out. He throws them out
the window.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Maybe you should have stayed home, shorty. You know where
we are.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
We're sure in this room.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know where this room is. It's on the twelfth
floor and this side of the building faces the river.
Oh so, so I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Not so smart.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Anything thrown out the window would drop into the river.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now you're being a little bit smarter.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hey, what's this on the little wall here?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I said, a luxury.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh just cold hangers.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh yes, the shelf. This is weabon hood and glance
and order to put their lunch boxes.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Lunchboxes.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, surety, they have their lunches right here. That proves
the diamonds aren't taken out during the lunch hour.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Hey, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That means the only time they could carry out a
diamond is after work and that's now, huh.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And now they're being searched, but thoroughly, just as they're
always searched, but thoroughly. Hey, what's this thing here?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Looks like a piece of corn, Blackie, I can.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Just get it out of this crack on the floor.
Eh Ah, it is corn.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Oh, I know how that'd got there.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
One of the three guys who work here had corn
on a cob for lunch, which reminds me, Blackie, I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
How much longer are we going to stay here?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That much longer? I've looked the place over from top
to bottom. I haven't found anything. All we have to
do now is wait for a report that Bond is
finished searching than Hoot and glass and all rich and
that should be very soon.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Cheap boss, how was that guy getting the diamonds out
of here?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I don't know, Shorty. This mystery is everything Bond said
it would be. The diamonds can't be thrown out the window.
They'd be lost in the river.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And they can't be carried out because all three guys
are searched.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
They can't be hidden in here because there's no place
to hide them.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Bond's himself figured that at a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh blecki.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh yes, Miss Windsorp has bonds finished searching those three. Yes,
he's already left. You could probably catch him if you wanted, though,
when he found nothing on the man, the fluoroscope showed
nothing on him. Other thing. Do you know how this
has been done? You've searched them and found nothing? Uh huh,
you can search me.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
What's the trouble here? What's the trouble? All right?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Step back again? Let me see here, let me see
shot to death? What's the love hair off?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Sudden? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Stand back instead. This fella has been shot. That's Bond's email.
Bonds from the insurance company. Why you know him? Huh,
only slightly, Officer. He was doing a little investigation for
the Winterrop Jewelry Company. Oh you don't say that, the
Windsor company just now?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yes, and so did I. I was trying to catch
up with him, but it looks like somebody caught up
with him before I did.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Mister Winswip, I have Faraday Police Inspector. I'd like to
talk to you about the murder of Amian Barns. Of course, inspector,
Hello Faraday, Pranky, what are you doing here, Believe it.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Or not, Paraday. I work here. It's right.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Inspector work here, Blankie, you never did a liqu of
work in your life.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I haven't done anything since I first met you.
I haven't had time. I'm too busy solving your cases.
Come on, why are you here? He's employed. Your inspector
is a diamond sitter. What It's all very simple, Paraday,
even you should be able to understand it. You're here
to investigate the death of Emal Bonds, don't you Yes?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And I suppose you know who kill him?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I do one of three men, Paraday, then Hooten Glass
or Aldrich, because one of these three are stealing diamonds
from the diamond setting room.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Stealing diamonds. What's that got to.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Do with Bard's death? Everything? Bonds was trying to find
out how the diamonds were being stolen. He couldn't do it,
so he asked me to try. I just started working.
But I suppose you've solved the case already. No, I
haven't any idea how it's done. The diamond setting room
is on the twelfth floor facing the river, and all
three diamond setters are thoroughly searched. Before they leave the shop.
But the diamonds keep on disappearing inspected, now they do?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And what about today?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Today, Faturday. I'll guarantee one thing, A diamond isn't missing, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You just guaranteed, Inspector Faraday, a diamond would not be missing.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Why not see how one could be?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I don't either, but my inventory report shows that another
diamond has been stolen today.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Now back to Boston, Blackie. Blackie is involved in a
mystery which even he feels that he cannot solve. Three
men work in a diamond setting shop from which a
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diamond disappears almost every day. The three men are searched
every time they leave the shop, but no diamond is
ever found on them. No visitors are allowed in the shop,
and the only windows in the room, which is on
the twelfth floor, face on a river. To add to
Blackies troubles, Amil Barnes, insurance agent investigating the thefts, is murdered,
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obviously by one of the three suspects.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
As we return to.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Our story, Blackie and Murray Wesley are in a small
cafe having a midnight snack.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Cheer up, Blackie, after you've had something to eat, you.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't deserve to eat. Mary. I'm sure this case
isn't as tough as I'm making it. If I could
just find a clue.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
First, find something on the menu, and you can look.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
For a fool. All right, what are you going to have?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Well?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I don't know, I am Mary.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I told you about Ben hootin Glass and Aldrich, didn't
I know which one of those three might be a
thief and a killer?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I think better after I eat, honey, child?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Now what are you going to have?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You eat? Mary? I don't feel like it. I have
all the food I want, and it's all for thought.
There's a kernel of corn, for instance, Darling.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
You can stare at that piece of corn if you
want to. But if you're gonna feed more than that,
to me, that is bird food. And I'm a growing girl.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Order the biggest steak in the house of it. Bird food? Mary,
I've got it. What the answer? I know? How it's done?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
How?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
What was done?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Where's the telephone?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right back up, you come on, I'll tell you on
Fririday at the same time.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Well, hey, wait for me, Oh, come on, honey, honey,
did do you think it's smart to call it expect
parody in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'm smart at all. I was married modest, No, just happy. Okay,
Hello Friday, this is Blackie. You're old pal, Blackie, Wake up, Friday,
fy up in the middle of the night. Sorry Powell,
but I can't solve your cases at your convenience? What
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pace of your So do you think I know how
those diamonds get out of the setting room at the
Winthrop Company?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Oh you do? Huh? I suppose they fly out the window?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
They sure do, Friday, did you wake me up to
tony jokes? No, Friday to tell you the case is solved.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
The diamonds fly out the window.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yes, attached to homing pigeon's legs. Sure, the guy ties
a diamond to the leg, and the pigeon flies home
because that's what it's trained to do.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Hey, you might have something there.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I think I've got the answer. Those guys aren't searched
when they go into the shop, only when they go out.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I know that. How does the homing pigeon get into
the shop.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, the thief brings them in a lunch box, and
the lunch box is empty when the guy leaves, because
by that time the pigeon and the diamond have also
gone out the window. Look, Friday, I want you to
come up to the shop at Winthrops tomorrow morning early
and search those lunchboxes. Okay, what if I don't fight
a pigeon, Well then I have a second plan in
that case. But you'll find a pigeon, I'm sure. And
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when you do, the little birdie will also tell you
who killed Emil Buns.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You are having trouble punishings the diamond, mister Jones, I
may head it field perhaps.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
No thanks for hooting, I'm getting it, hey Jones. Yes,
mister Vance, what was that inspect of Faraday doing here.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
A little while ago?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I don't know, I know, do you? Ordrich? I think
he was looking through our coats and lunchboxes for a clue.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
No matter, Aldrich got a.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Gilly conscience, had especially much.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Boys poison must not argue.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
You will not help any one.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
If one of us is stealing the diamonds, the police
will answered the phone.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Somebody, how can it?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Hello, mister Jones, just a minute for you?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
John's thanks? Yeah, Oh, Linda's get to work as much. Hello.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Oh, yes, you wanted me to look at the lunchboxes.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Huh, yeah, he said, I find a pigeon in one
of them. Yes, what do you think I found in
those lunchboxes?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
What lunch?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Look, where are you in the next office? Okay, I
want to try one more thing. What I told you
to do last night?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Check?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yes, I know what I ought to do. Forget you
even exist. I guess I'll go through with the rest
of your plan. When when now you go back to
your work bench just s If nothing happens, I'll come
in and throw you.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Up as well, but make it look good.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Oh, don't worry. I'll be enjoying every minute of it. Goodbye.
Who was that Jude?
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
One of the guys in a counting office downstairs, and
he thinks that.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I wicky, What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Wicky Boston Blackie. I don't know what you'll be glass,
but I'll be going.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I'll say you would have blaky. I told you last
night to get out of this case.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Why you are wrong? You're just getting in my way.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And I was just leaving to inspector.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Your name is Joel?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Was spying on us? Huh? Also?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Was we do not like spies, mister Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh, never mind, that plan.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Holden, I don't like guys who waste my time, and
this guy's been wasting my time with a phony idea
how those diamonds were being stolen. Now get out of here, Lanky,
get out and stay up.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Okay, Friday, you win. I was wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
You wouldn't meet it. You must be sick.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I am sick, Friday, sick of trying to help you
out of jams. You get to the bottom of this
your own way. I'm going someplace and get well.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Oh Blackie, I'm glad you got back to your apartment
before I did. I was afraid I'd have to wait
out here in the hall.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I just had to look around all which is house Mary.
No pigeons. What did you find out about class?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
He lives at forty seven Eastern Street. No pigeons, not
a sign of any not even a feather.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Then everything depends on what sure he finds it, Ben.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Hootin's well, let's hope you find something.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He has to find pigeons, Mary. I'm sure I'm right,
because if I'm not, there's no way in the world
for those diamonds to disappear out of that room. Van
Hooton has to have pigeons or the hope? Oh what oh?
This is the slickest jewel robbery and the toughest case
I've ever heard of.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Oh, I hope that's Shorty, I hope.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
So hello, Hey Blacky, this is Shorty.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, Shorty. What did you find out about Ben Hooten?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Well, he lives at five three Eastern Street.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Five three Eastern Street. Huh that's just a couple of
dollars away from where Glass lives. Yeah, yeah, but never
mind that. What did you find out about Ben Hooton?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Happen? I couldn't get into his place?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Why not? The joint was not well did you see
any pigeons in the neighborhood?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Sure, Blackie, but they was all over the church and
the firehouse across the street, not.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Around Ben Holten's all right, Shorty? Thanks? Uh where are
you gonna be? I may want to get in touch
with you later. I'll be at halt, Blacky, all right, goodbye?
Speaker 7 (18:49):
So Ben Houghton had no pigeons?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Surety couldn't find out Mary, which means that Ben Hooton
is still a possible suspect. In fact, he's our only
one we know. Glass and Aldrich don't have pigeons.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yeah, but Blackie, you know you may be wrong entirely.
You said Inspector Faraday didn't find a pigeon in any
one of the three lunchboxes this morning.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh, I haven't answer to that one. Mary Ben Hooton,
if he's our man, was playing it smart. While the
heat was on. He decided not to bring a pigeon
with him.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
But you think maybe he'll bring a pigeon tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Huh, he might. I had Faraday throw me off the
case so he would figure that the heat was off.
At least that's what I wanted him to figure. I'll
see you let him marry.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Where are you going to see how I.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Can get our Holland friend missed up in Hooton in Dutch.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Hey, Blackie, it's miserable up here. Why didn't you tell
me we was gonna stand up on a roof at
this hour of the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The janitor he had told me yesterday that Van Houton
kept pigeons await it or watch his pigeon coat, And
surely anyone with any sense would know that it'd be
on the roof.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'd rather have no sense and not be here.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You've got something, there's Jadwin.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Hey, what time is it?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Fourth thirty?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
See? Still plenty dark, and those noises of pigeons are making.
They're plenty scary.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know what I mean too? Now stand behind that
chimney here, no telling one. Ben Hooton will come up.
Press pigeon.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He lives downstairs, Blackie. How does he get up here
on the.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Roof through that door by the sky like that?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh well, I better get back here behind the chimney
with you, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You might be able to see me standing here.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I got it. It's too dark. Look out, don't push, sorry, Blackie.
If you'd push a little harder, I'd be sorry and
also dead. Look once behind us.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Ain't there another building next to this one?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yes, but it's a good ten foot jump across through
space to the next roof, and if you're slept, it's
a sixth story drop through space.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Don't talk about that, Blackie. Don't make me feel so good.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
See what are we doing? Van Hooton shows.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Where he gets his pigeon and grab him?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh hey, Blackie, I'm smaller on you. I can sneak
up without him seeing me. Let me grab hi mane.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
All right, But wait until he has the pigeon and
then hey, humm.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Look somebody on the roof. But where'd he come from through.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That door there?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I didn't see him.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They were looking the other way, talking about falling down
between this building and the next.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh, he's old by the pigeon coat a pigeon.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, sh.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Can you see if he's doing shorty.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, he's got his arm in that pigeon thing coat
the coat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Now what's he doing?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, nothing yet. Yeah, he's reaching in a cubby hole
and grabbing a pigeon. Good, I grab him now, Blake, no, no,
Andley comes out. He's coming out.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now where's the pigeon? I don't see it. I guess
it's in his lunch box. Hey, he'sitting to the door
down into the building.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We'll grabbing shorty quick.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Okay, you don't get away from me.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He's getting let's say, I have a lot. I'm coming. Hey, surey,
that wasn't manhooting. That was John Glass. Come on, let's
get okay, but he ain't hitting for the door. No,
he's gonna jump to the roof of the next building
like he didn't make it. I know, step back, Shorty,
you make Wow, that's the end of John blass.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh gosh, Blakie six stories don hey Blakey, please stay
awake that edge. Do you want to go down here?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Room?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah? Sure I do, but I think I'll do it
the long way. I'm gonna walk down Blackie.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
How many pigeons are there in this park?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I have no? Mary?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, I want to know how many more pigeons you're
gonna feed before you feed me.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh, You're not only hungry, but I'm grateful, Mary. Thanks
to a pigeon, I saw the most baffling jewel robbery
I've ever come across.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
I take it all back. Uh. That John Glass certainly
had a clever idea, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
A little too clever? He got the idea when he
became friendly with Van Hooton and saw how the homing
pigeons came back from wherever he released them. He used
Van Hooton's pigeons to fly the diamonds back here. Van
Hooton didn't know a thing about it.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Say what did you use for the pigeons to carry
the diamonds in?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
A small round capsule? Found several of them in the
uh pigeon coat and one of the diamonds still in it.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Well, that certainly proved what you already knew, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Did?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Too bad? Windsor's made that remark in front of glass
about Barnes insurance man having the case almost solved. That's
why a glass killed Barns. Hm.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
That's too bad. And Barnes was just preferring to your
opinion on the case, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes? A shame.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Hey, But there's one thing I would like to know. Well,
you worked with those three diamontetors for a whole day
and a half. How'd you get away with it? You
don't know anything about diamonds.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Are you kidding? I don't know anything about diamonds.
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