August 6, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, mister Kingston, you must be lucky that everything else.
You certainly have no luck at all with card.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You don't have to tell me that, miss games I
goes you want the diamond right away?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh you I oh, you will be good enough until morning.
I trust you, mister Kingston, until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Come in, Do you want to put something this game?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yes, Harry, come in, both of you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, you're good though.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Want this guy watch this game?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Either you're not daily to let him one of your sights,
one of your stays with him all the time. He
yuh just lost the Westfield diamond to me. Boys and
uh he doesn't have it with him.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, look here, there's no need to have these men
guard me him for morning. This game. I can get
the Westfield diamonds for you tonight then you. I left
it with Boston Black at this afternoon, but they steep you.
I can get it on him tonight right away.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
In back why they explained it. But there's no real rush,
mister Kingston. Suppose you go out into the dining room
and have dinner anything you want. It's on the hot.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It will still be an awfully expensive meal, but thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Then later tonight, Harry Andville will go with you to
get the diamond from your friend Blackie.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
See, if you'll excuse me, how mister Kingston, I have
to go out and see how the game the table
you're doing. I'll see you later, of course, Harry, you
or they'll stay with him during dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and nobody likes to eat along.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now, you lost the Westfield Diamond, mister Kingston, but you haven't.
But the appetite as you no, I don't think so Okay,
come on, let's see, alright.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Let's go. Yeah, it's soon as I make a phone call. Alright,
what will begin with? Kase?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Don't you got a dog?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
All right? A hello, Spars and Flaky, Yes, I wanna
give you a little tips. Your friend Charlie Kinkton gambled
the Westfield Diamond in the game with Elizabeth Games and lost.
(02:33):
And at eleven o'clock he's coming to your apartment with
a couple of guys to get that diamond. Yeah, yeah,
I uh get an idea how you and me could
make some money, Flaky, the fall is win Kingston, and
these guys get up to your apartments. The Westfield Diamond
isn't there. And now let the palmer as Boxton blackies,
(03:02):
enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to
those who have no friends.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Fifty one time to get tile quagged e beans.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh my, for just a minute, I mean eleven DM.
I'll call you back later. The boy jump a Disney
right now.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Fifty ones Then at taile quagged e beings.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh they're out just now you're welcome. Oh it's something
I can do for you.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Say, yeah, blessed than black even No he isn't Where
is he?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You know now?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You were not just a few minutes ago, tonla letters right,
what's all.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I wanted to know? M alright, like you don't know? Well,
(04:11):
inspect sturday. I'm well. But when I get through and
he was like, you're not gonna be You'll live here,
don't you I can sess arrest me, I do it here.
Don't be smart. Look over there at that switchboard. HM says,
matter with throws them the same thing as the matter
with any cough. She's dead, stab right through the heart
and the other way. The man says, you were the
(04:32):
last person you start talking to her. Maybe you know something,
Maybe you don't. Butt you're gone up to your pop'am
stay there. Can I clue up this murder? You mean
I'm not to get out of this building for ten
or twenty years. Uh, it's not jokes, wise guy. And
no trick escapes either. I've got copscounting every exit, so
don't get left. Listen, do any walking. If I do
any walking Saturday, it'll be in my sleep. I've got
(04:54):
a bad cold and I'm going to bed. Alright, alright, alright,
I'm tell me. I'm I mean, how old are he? Uh? Oh? Oh, George,
(05:16):
what time is it?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Not?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Late?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
About?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Half out at midnight? Sorry about him? Oh that's for ocurre.
Come on police, still don't think Yes, but I don't
care about the police. I want that stuff of mine
you put in your safe. Oh sure, you two men
wait out here, I think will come in. Who are
your friends, Joey? They worked for Elizabeth Games. I lost
the Westfield Diamonds, Elizabeth Gaines and the cad then tonight. Yeah,
we're here to see if he gets it? Like he
(05:40):
open your safe? Will you sure, Joey? I don't forget
the combination and open the safe by heart? Yeah? Yes, thanks, Bucky.
There's a stuff Answers from the safe one. I I
don't want these papers, just the diamonds. What Germonds? The
Westfield diamond I gave it you that afternoon. Well, wait
(06:00):
a minute, Charlie, who you kidding? Black He By heaven sake?
Will you give me my diamond? The diamond I left
with you? You'll put it in the safe here. I
saw you do it. You must be out of your mind. Charlie.
You didn't give me any diamond. You put it in
this safe. I saw you do it for yourself. It
isn't here, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
This is hereio is I have to have that diamond?
I think we'd all better be serious.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Still, Yeah, Harry, I'm taking Kingston back to miss game.
Just get this place of going over until you're find
way black He's hitting that stone?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Sure, I thank come on, Kanks.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Wait wait in mind, wait, Blackie, please, where's the diamond?
I'm sorry, Charlie, I don't know. I never saw it
mine gangs you well waste some time, all right, But
I don't understand this. I just don't understand.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Find that diamond. Bill. If you have to get his
place to plot.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You'll betch. Well, where do you wanna begin pairing? Though?
And I you don't know. I'm not gonna waste my
time doing that, like we not after my phone conversation.
Wait to hide the diamond? What diamond? What diamond? Take
(07:07):
thanks diamond? I called you up and tippy if he
lost it, they might pause, Oh you were the one
who called Yeah, wait you hide a blanky. I know
where we can get maybe fifty grands for it. Well
that's fine though, except for one thing. I don't have
the stone. Ah, love, I don't like double crosses. I'll
(07:31):
start hitting yourself right away. Then. Oh oh, kind of
quick of the gun, don't you. Bill. You'd better be
tested as quick with that diamond. It's gonna make a
haul in one one fourth and flanking mm mm. Just
fin lead the lucky life. Don't you have to help?
Just that court is uh h? Is it? Faraday? Inspect
(07:52):
the baradave dork you what I mean? Jim inspect the
firday of the police. Oh but that's right, okay, you lucky.
It's time I get not there's a black exit through
the kitchen and out into the service all I'm not
wady right away right away? It was about a thurday.
Were you afraid I'd skip down? I want to talk
to you, lonesome luck wise guy. Howbody kill that girl downstairs?
(08:16):
I'm trying to find out who he is. Saturday. You
have trouble finding out who you are. Don't bother me,
will you? Well, let's just bother on me. I've been
checking into the girl's life and she didn't know any wrong. Guys.
You you me, but only to speak to Look Blankie,
this isn't funny. Where were you to night? You won't
believe me if I tell you. Man at there's somebody
will be telling me something. Maybe I didn't enjoy you
(08:37):
here in a good story. Charlie Kingston played cards with
Elizabeth Games tonight and lost to Westfield Diamond. Ha ha
watch the punchline. Well, the game had to be cooking.
So when one of this games little playmates called me
up and told me Charlie had lost the stone, I
put the diamond in an envelope and mailed it to
myself and care of General Delivery. Is that what you
(08:58):
were doing? Just to play? It came in the night.
I was going about a lover, That's why I mailed
the letter. I went to a newsreel theater. But cheer
up Paraday as soon as I get Charlie and his
diamond straightened out, I'll solve the girl's murder for you.
You're not so smart, Riking. You mailed that diamond to
yourself to keep it away from the game's girls little boys.
But what are you gonna do with it next? All?
(09:19):
I sat right down and wrote myself a letter. When
I get the diamond, I'll think of your question, sit
right down and write myself and answer yes. Come in, hello, Kaston. Oh,
(09:40):
well he'll come in. Oh's everything, Kayston, Uh, everything's just fine.
You seem a little nervous. What's the matter and nothing
I've Uh, I've got company in the next room. Well,
I've got a little surprise for you. Oh, I am
ready to buy back my diamond. When can I have it? Well,
I I don't know, you don't know. Look here, what's wrong?
(10:05):
I don't know what's wrong Westfield. The diamond's loss. Well,
it isn't lost, really. I know where he should be,
but I don't know where it is. Look here, Kingston,
I told you that diamond for a hundred thousand dollars worth,
a provision that I could buy it back at a
prop at any time within six months. We made that
a written agreement. Well, I a woman name Elizabeth Games
owns it? Now, how can she own it? You had
(10:26):
no right to sell it to anyone until my option
ran out. She understands about the option that you have
on a Westfield. You can buy it back from arounder
the same arrangement. A woman named Elizabeth Games owns my
diamonds now, oh yes, yes, but it won't be any
good to see a Westfield. He doesn't have it. She
doesn't have it either, or here Kingston, what's going on?
I don't know, well I do. You're trying to hold
(10:47):
out on me. That diamond is rightfully mine and I
won't stop on anything to get it back. Good in
the morning, planky, Hello Faraday? What are you doing at
the post office trying to find the cause of death
(11:07):
and the dead letter department? It's not your pull of
class from It didn't your blanking, but I wasn't there.
What isn't where? Fast time? I just said, you sent
your south last night and tear a general delivery? I
just asked first, say good boy Saturday. You never disappoint me.
You always do exactly what I think of I M.
I don't known you were lying I wasn't flying. It's
there now, but under the name of John Q. Jones.
(11:28):
Come on, man, I'll show you. How are you doing
on the murder of the switchboard operator. I'm a bad
Ready to my clap one, I'm served. I can't find
one clue. Well done market yet Saturday, if I have
ten minutes to spare this afternoon off salvatory, here's a
general delivery went up? Yep U. Do you have a
letter here for John Q. Jones, John Q Jones, Yes,
(11:51):
John Q. Jones, Well we didn't have the John Q.
John's call for is let a half hour ago. And
now back to Boston. Blackie, in an effort to keep
(12:16):
Charlie Kingston from delivering a diamond he lost in a
crooked card game, Blackie nailed the diamond to himself in
care of general delivery, but when he went to the
post office the next morning, the letter had already been
picked up. Meanwhile, the original owner of the diamond has
demanded that he'd be allowed to buy the diamond back
as Kingston promised, and the switchboard operator in Blackie's apartment
(12:37):
building has been murdered too. Our story continues in the
office of Elizabeth Games professional gambler to whom Kingston left
the diamond.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Near Elizabeth Games. Yes, I'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
We'll go ahead, he talks.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Who are you Rogers? Is my name Rabbit Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All right, miss Rogers, what's your business?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Well, we's field diamonds. I wanna make a deal with you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You don't look like the type pool makes deals.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
My money is the right type. You have a diamond,
I have the money. We'll swapt well.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In the first place, I wouldn't sell the diamond if
you offered me all the money in the National Bank.
In the second place, I don't have the diamond.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't like women, A lot of men.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't have the diamond.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
My uh friends tell me you do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Your uh friends don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You won the diamond from Job's Kingston division.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yes, And what's more, I sent two of my men
with Kingston, who collect the stone from Boston, Blackie, and
you want to have it. I don't though. One of
my men, Harry, brought Kingston back. The other one, Bill,
stayed in Blackey's apartment to search for the diamonds.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I haven't seen Bills since uh huh, you know where
Bill lived.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Maybe we go up to the place national.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If he has the diamonds, yes, I know where he is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And if he has got it and hasn't reported to me,
he's one Bill. I'm going to pay personally.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Oh sure that it's his rumors?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Game.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I keep track of my man Rogers. They've lived here
for two years.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Maybe he's asleep, or he skipped for the diamond.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Let's saw the door.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Well there's Bill, just as dead as he was when
I saw him a couple of hours ago.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You knew he was dead when you brought me up here.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's right. I followed him all over town today, lost
him for a while, then found him like this. Now,
what are you trying to do at present?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Trying to get my hands on the Westfield diamond? And
and so maybe we'd better work together now, I'm as games.
We both want the same thing, don't we. Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
But if I get my hands on that diamond, that
doesn't mean I'll sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Ooh, but I think he will with games, I think
you will.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Ooh, I wears that diamond back not here, it's black.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He's hiding in his apartment somewhere. If I, oh, somebody's coming.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You behind the curtain looking at something. Yeah, well maybe
I can help you. I live here. You're bought some blacking.
Don't move. I have a gun on him. Let's see
the wife.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Name's Rogers, Robert Rogers.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The Westfield Diamonds?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh, Elizabeth's James, little boys, I'm don't move, Rogers.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Look, maybe we'd better sit down and talk this over.
And you sit on the sofa there. I'll sit here
on the deck. Okay, now what now, let's get t Hey,
what's this on my desk? Brand new blodder? Used one
apparently the blott of the letter addressed to John Q.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Jones, care of General Delivery. You know I have a
theory about that bladder.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You have more than a theory, Rogers. You know exactly
what it means. You knew what it meant when you
were here last night to ransack my apartment.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You know all about me, don't you.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I know that you're working for Elizabeth Gaines. Last night
you came up here to get the Westfield diamonds. I
wasn't here, but you found this blodder on my desk
and guessed that I had mailed the diamond to myself,
so why not bad? But to make sure your theory
was right, you slipped out the back way, walked around
the front into the lobby and as the switchboard operator
where I was, and she said you'd gone to mail
(16:45):
a letter, which is all you needed to know you've
killed the girl. And then this morning you beat me
to the post office.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's great, it's set that down.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Have the diamonds you told me how I was killed
them from me, and I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I but I'm not the one.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who did it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I were, I wouldn't be here looking for it now.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Logical much too, that's my think. Someone up to go
to sit school. I mean Boston Blackie here. Yes, I'm
Boston Blackie. I'm John Westfield.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I oh Roger collom with to Westfield.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You know this nor Mios Westfield. Ah, yes, he's a
private detective. I hired him to find my diamond for me.
Mister Westfield is the original loan of Blackie. He still
does the friend Kingston, with an option to buy it
back at the Prophet.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Within six months.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Kingston says he doesn't know where it is. You have it,
don't you, Blackie? Now? Westfield, I uh he's telling the truth.
Mister Whitsteld, Well, I'm willing to pay two hundred thousand
dollars to get my diamonds back. That's a lot of money.
But I guess the Westfield there's a lot of diamonds,
and I think I know who has it now for
(17:54):
a lot of reasons, rug, Miss Games, forget the west
Scale diamond and settle Charlie Kingston's debts for cash? Will you?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I want the diamond, Blackie, that's all.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I want. A hundred and fifty five thousand in cash.
Will you settle for them?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'll settle to the Westfield diamonds and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do you think you'll ever get it? And sure.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You have it, Blackie. One of my men made a
deal with you over the phone, and night Kingston lost
the diamonds. My switchboard operator, listen, didn't you told me
all about it?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't make fields like that, Miss Games.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You make them, but you don't live up to them.
You killed Bill. Later on he said you ought to
know you kill him and you have the diamonds.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Wrong and all three times, but say you could have
killed them.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I don't like to be talked to like that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
No, we'll start getting used to it. Your kind makes
me stick your field.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Keep mud, Jacky, Oh, I'll have you shut up.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I saw you push that button. You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
That is good, do happy? Was beginning to use a
little la unpleasant language, Marty take a sere mis gage.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So this is Martin. You have a lot of little
boys running around, don't you, beautiful? Where's Harry? And he's busy?
And just so you don't get reckless, Blackie, take a
look at this. Oh a nice man. I haven't seen
one of you guys in years. We do alright, it's
quick and it's quiet.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, Blackie, about.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The diamond, let's not start that again. When you settle
Charlie's that's for cash. How much a hundred and twenty
five thousand?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Make it a hundred and eighty thousand minutes? A deal?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Alright, it's the dealing. Here's your money.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, But uh, this doesn't mean I won't try to
get the diamond no matter where it is.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm gonna trying to get my hands on it. Too, beautiful,
I could use it, but pay well. A fellow named
John Westfield owned the diamond originally, so what so he's
offering to buy us back for two hundred thousand. If
I could sell it to him, I could give Charlie
back the money he's paying you and make a few
bucks for myself.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, you going to get me an to the diamond? Irons.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Whoever gets it first sells it to Westfield. I understand
it's at the Victor Hotel. They'll buy it from anyone
and uh, no questions asked? Hellout John Westfield. Yes, this
(20:46):
is John Wetfield. Where you've been on a calone you
for the last that far? Oh, I'm sorry, I was out.
Who is it?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Don't mind what it is? I uh understand you want
your diamond's back.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I certainly do you have it?
Speaker 7 (20:58):
No, but somebody who does is on there to see it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Wonderful, wonderful. Uh but who is this? You have a mind?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Guys, get up that two hundred thousand for that diamond
and don't ask questions.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Hello, Hello, Hello mister west Feld. So you're calling yourself
John Westfield. I was like, Hey, that's the idea, A brilliance,
idea faurday. But I've got an idea. You're going to jail.
What's for a murder? I found Bill Smith's party in
this room. A while ago, Elizabeth James said he made
a deal with you to Steel west Field Diamonds Saturday.
You were smart enough to follow me here, and I
was smart enough to let you. Now, don't be your
(21:30):
usual stupid self and spoil every man. Come out with
waste some time. Look, give me two or three minutes
and I'll show you who has the west Steel diamond
and the killer you're looking for. Well, so I'm it's
only one, uh camera, I' blanky, We're gonna go to Storday.
Please hide the next one. Well you quick, alright, I've
got a gun on you. Don't forget it, Allen.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm looking for mister John Westley.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
He isn't here, Miss James. Likely you I thank you better.
They go on like, go on, well, stop struggling with games.
I know you have a Diamond's alright.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You're a tape liar, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh take that purse if you don't mine.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Do you think I'm fooling enough to have the diamond
with you?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
M Maybe it's not your purse, but I can dump
everything out of it just to make sure. O one
Westfield Diamond. Give me that purse jacket you want leaving
are you.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Why not a little while ago you gave me a
hundred and thirty thousand dollars. You've got the diamond now?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Were even not quite How about the murder of that
man Bill who worked for you, and the killing and
the fitchboard operator in my apartment building.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Martin Aston killed that girl and on his own I
had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Mh the knife man, huh? Why did he kill him?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I sent him to your apartment to look for the diamonds?
He saw that blodder on your desk and thought you'd
nailed the diamond. Don't he take to the operator if
she told him you had mailed the letter before. Was
afraid she'd remember him, so he killed her. And incidentally, Blackie,
he got the diamond for me from the post office
his wife.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Thanks, Miss Games, Friday, I haven't heard enough. I quite
like as the police the police, Miss Games. But I
also want to know who kills you A man Phillis plays.
I don't know, I do, Friday, Martin acton. I'm this
lovely lady's orders.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You're aw play smart, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Miss Time. Maybe you're a good gamble of Miss Games,
and you know sometimes you gotta lose this just happens
to be one of those. Sometimes sai
Well, mister Kingston, you must be lucky that everything else.
You certainly have no luck at all with card.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You don't have to tell me that, miss games I
goes you want the diamond right away?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh you I oh, you will be good enough until morning.
I trust you, mister Kingston, until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Come in, Do you want to put something this game?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yes, Harry, come in, both of you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, you're good though.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Want this guy watch this game?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Either you're not daily to let him one of your sights,
one of your stays with him all the time. He
yuh just lost the Westfield diamond to me. Boys and
uh he doesn't have it with him.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, look here, there's no need to have these men
guard me him for morning. This game. I can get
the Westfield diamonds for you tonight then you. I left
it with Boston Black at this afternoon, but they steep you.
I can get it on him tonight right away.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
In back why they explained it. But there's no real rush,
mister Kingston. Suppose you go out into the dining room
and have dinner anything you want. It's on the hot.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It will still be an awfully expensive meal, but thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Then later tonight, Harry Andville will go with you to
get the diamond from your friend Blackie.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
See, if you'll excuse me, how mister Kingston, I have
to go out and see how the game the table
you're doing. I'll see you later, of course, Harry, you
or they'll stay with him during dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and nobody likes to eat along.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now, you lost the Westfield Diamond, mister Kingston, but you haven't.
But the appetite as you no, I don't think so Okay,
come on, let's see, alright.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Let's go. Yeah, it's soon as I make a phone call. Alright,
what will begin with? Kase?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Don't you got a dog?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
All right? A hello, Spars and Flaky, Yes, I wanna
give you a little tips. Your friend Charlie Kinkton gambled
the Westfield Diamond in the game with Elizabeth Games and lost.
(02:33):
And at eleven o'clock he's coming to your apartment with
a couple of guys to get that diamond. Yeah, yeah,
I uh get an idea how you and me could
make some money, Flaky, the fall is win Kingston, and
these guys get up to your apartments. The Westfield Diamond
isn't there. And now let the palmer as Boxton blackies,
(03:02):
enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to
those who have no friends.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Fifty one time to get tile quagged e beans.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh my, for just a minute, I mean eleven DM.
I'll call you back later. The boy jump a Disney
right now.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Fifty ones Then at taile quagged e beings.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh they're out just now you're welcome. Oh it's something
I can do for you.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Say, yeah, blessed than black even No he isn't Where
is he?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You know now?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You were not just a few minutes ago, tonla letters right,
what's all.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I wanted to know? M alright, like you don't know? Well,
(04:11):
inspect sturday. I'm well. But when I get through and
he was like, you're not gonna be You'll live here,
don't you I can sess arrest me, I do it here.
Don't be smart. Look over there at that switchboard. HM says,
matter with throws them the same thing as the matter
with any cough. She's dead, stab right through the heart
and the other way. The man says, you were the
(04:32):
last person you start talking to her. Maybe you know something,
Maybe you don't. Butt you're gone up to your pop'am
stay there. Can I clue up this murder? You mean
I'm not to get out of this building for ten
or twenty years. Uh, it's not jokes, wise guy. And
no trick escapes either. I've got copscounting every exit, so
don't get left. Listen, do any walking. If I do
any walking Saturday, it'll be in my sleep. I've got
(04:54):
a bad cold and I'm going to bed. Alright, alright, alright,
I'm tell me. I'm I mean, how old are he? Uh? Oh? Oh, George,
(05:16):
what time is it?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Not?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Late?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
About?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Half out at midnight? Sorry about him? Oh that's for ocurre.
Come on police, still don't think Yes, but I don't
care about the police. I want that stuff of mine
you put in your safe. Oh sure, you two men
wait out here, I think will come in. Who are
your friends, Joey? They worked for Elizabeth Games. I lost
the Westfield Diamonds, Elizabeth Gaines and the cad then tonight. Yeah,
we're here to see if he gets it? Like he
(05:40):
open your safe? Will you sure, Joey? I don't forget
the combination and open the safe by heart? Yeah? Yes, thanks, Bucky.
There's a stuff Answers from the safe one. I I
don't want these papers, just the diamonds. What Germonds? The
Westfield diamond I gave it you that afternoon. Well, wait
(06:00):
a minute, Charlie, who you kidding? Black He By heaven sake?
Will you give me my diamond? The diamond I left
with you? You'll put it in the safe here. I
saw you do it. You must be out of your mind. Charlie.
You didn't give me any diamond. You put it in
this safe. I saw you do it for yourself. It
isn't here, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
This is hereio is I have to have that diamond?
I think we'd all better be serious.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Still, Yeah, Harry, I'm taking Kingston back to miss game.
Just get this place of going over until you're find
way black He's hitting that stone?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Sure, I thank come on, Kanks.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Wait wait in mind, wait, Blackie, please, where's the diamond?
I'm sorry, Charlie, I don't know. I never saw it
mine gangs you well waste some time, all right, But
I don't understand this. I just don't understand.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Find that diamond. Bill. If you have to get his
place to plot.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You'll betch. Well, where do you wanna begin pairing? Though?
And I you don't know. I'm not gonna waste my
time doing that, like we not after my phone conversation.
Wait to hide the diamond? What diamond? What diamond? Take
(07:07):
thanks diamond? I called you up and tippy if he
lost it, they might pause, Oh you were the one
who called Yeah, wait you hide a blanky. I know
where we can get maybe fifty grands for it. Well
that's fine though, except for one thing. I don't have
the stone. Ah, love, I don't like double crosses. I'll
(07:31):
start hitting yourself right away. Then. Oh oh, kind of
quick of the gun, don't you. Bill. You'd better be
tested as quick with that diamond. It's gonna make a
haul in one one fourth and flanking mm mm. Just
fin lead the lucky life. Don't you have to help?
Just that court is uh h? Is it? Faraday? Inspect
(07:52):
the baradave dork you what I mean? Jim inspect the
firday of the police. Oh but that's right, okay, you lucky.
It's time I get not there's a black exit through
the kitchen and out into the service all I'm not
wady right away right away? It was about a thurday.
Were you afraid I'd skip down? I want to talk
to you, lonesome luck wise guy. Howbody kill that girl downstairs?
(08:16):
I'm trying to find out who he is. Saturday. You
have trouble finding out who you are. Don't bother me,
will you? Well, let's just bother on me. I've been
checking into the girl's life and she didn't know any wrong. Guys.
You you me, but only to speak to Look Blankie,
this isn't funny. Where were you to night? You won't
believe me if I tell you. Man at there's somebody
will be telling me something. Maybe I didn't enjoy you
(08:37):
here in a good story. Charlie Kingston played cards with
Elizabeth Games tonight and lost to Westfield Diamond. Ha ha
watch the punchline. Well, the game had to be cooking.
So when one of this games little playmates called me
up and told me Charlie had lost the stone, I
put the diamond in an envelope and mailed it to
myself and care of General Delivery. Is that what you
(08:58):
were doing? Just to play? It came in the night.
I was going about a lover, That's why I mailed
the letter. I went to a newsreel theater. But cheer
up Paraday as soon as I get Charlie and his
diamond straightened out, I'll solve the girl's murder for you.
You're not so smart, Riking. You mailed that diamond to
yourself to keep it away from the game's girls little boys.
But what are you gonna do with it next? All?
(09:19):
I sat right down and wrote myself a letter. When
I get the diamond, I'll think of your question, sit
right down and write myself and answer yes. Come in, hello, Kaston. Oh,
(09:40):
well he'll come in. Oh's everything, Kayston, Uh, everything's just fine.
You seem a little nervous. What's the matter and nothing
I've Uh, I've got company in the next room. Well,
I've got a little surprise for you. Oh, I am
ready to buy back my diamond. When can I have it? Well,
I I don't know, you don't know. Look here, what's wrong?
(10:05):
I don't know what's wrong Westfield. The diamond's loss. Well,
it isn't lost, really. I know where he should be,
but I don't know where it is. Look here, Kingston,
I told you that diamond for a hundred thousand dollars worth,
a provision that I could buy it back at a
prop at any time within six months. We made that
a written agreement. Well, I a woman name Elizabeth Games
owns it? Now, how can she own it? You had
(10:26):
no right to sell it to anyone until my option
ran out. She understands about the option that you have
on a Westfield. You can buy it back from arounder
the same arrangement. A woman named Elizabeth Games owns my
diamonds now, oh yes, yes, but it won't be any
good to see a Westfield. He doesn't have it. She
doesn't have it either, or here Kingston, what's going on?
I don't know, well I do. You're trying to hold
(10:47):
out on me. That diamond is rightfully mine and I
won't stop on anything to get it back. Good in
the morning, planky, Hello Faraday? What are you doing at
the post office trying to find the cause of death
(11:07):
and the dead letter department? It's not your pull of
class from It didn't your blanking, but I wasn't there.
What isn't where? Fast time? I just said, you sent
your south last night and tear a general delivery? I
just asked first, say good boy Saturday. You never disappoint me.
You always do exactly what I think of I M.
I don't known you were lying I wasn't flying. It's
there now, but under the name of John Q. Jones.
(11:28):
Come on, man, I'll show you. How are you doing
on the murder of the switchboard operator. I'm a bad
Ready to my clap one, I'm served. I can't find
one clue. Well done market yet Saturday, if I have
ten minutes to spare this afternoon off salvatory, here's a
general delivery went up? Yep U. Do you have a
letter here for John Q. Jones, John Q Jones, Yes,
(11:51):
John Q. Jones, Well we didn't have the John Q.
John's call for is let a half hour ago. And
now back to Boston. Blackie, in an effort to keep
(12:16):
Charlie Kingston from delivering a diamond he lost in a
crooked card game, Blackie nailed the diamond to himself in
care of general delivery, but when he went to the
post office the next morning, the letter had already been
picked up. Meanwhile, the original owner of the diamond has
demanded that he'd be allowed to buy the diamond back
as Kingston promised, and the switchboard operator in Blackie's apartment
(12:37):
building has been murdered too. Our story continues in the
office of Elizabeth Games professional gambler to whom Kingston left
the diamond.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Near Elizabeth Games. Yes, I'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
We'll go ahead, he talks.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Who are you Rogers? Is my name Rabbit Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All right, miss Rogers, what's your business?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Well, we's field diamonds. I wanna make a deal with you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You don't look like the type pool makes deals.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
My money is the right type. You have a diamond,
I have the money. We'll swapt well.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In the first place, I wouldn't sell the diamond if
you offered me all the money in the National Bank.
In the second place, I don't have the diamond.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't like women, A lot of men.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't have the diamond.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
My uh friends tell me you do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Your uh friends don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You won the diamond from Job's Kingston division.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yes, And what's more, I sent two of my men
with Kingston, who collect the stone from Boston, Blackie, and
you want to have it. I don't though. One of
my men, Harry, brought Kingston back. The other one, Bill,
stayed in Blackey's apartment to search for the diamonds.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I haven't seen Bills since uh huh, you know where
Bill lived.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Maybe we go up to the place national.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If he has the diamonds, yes, I know where he is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And if he has got it and hasn't reported to me,
he's one Bill. I'm going to pay personally.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Oh sure that it's his rumors?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Game.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I keep track of my man Rogers. They've lived here
for two years.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Maybe he's asleep, or he skipped for the diamond.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Let's saw the door.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Well there's Bill, just as dead as he was when
I saw him a couple of hours ago.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You knew he was dead when you brought me up here.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's right. I followed him all over town today, lost
him for a while, then found him like this. Now,
what are you trying to do at present?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Trying to get my hands on the Westfield diamond? And
and so maybe we'd better work together now, I'm as games.
We both want the same thing, don't we. Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
But if I get my hands on that diamond, that
doesn't mean I'll sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Ooh, but I think he will with games, I think
you will.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Ooh, I wears that diamond back not here, it's black.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He's hiding in his apartment somewhere. If I, oh, somebody's coming.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You behind the curtain looking at something. Yeah, well maybe
I can help you. I live here. You're bought some blacking.
Don't move. I have a gun on him. Let's see
the wife.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Name's Rogers, Robert Rogers.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The Westfield Diamonds?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh, Elizabeth's James, little boys, I'm don't move, Rogers.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Look, maybe we'd better sit down and talk this over.
And you sit on the sofa there. I'll sit here
on the deck. Okay, now what now, let's get t Hey,
what's this on my desk? Brand new blodder? Used one
apparently the blott of the letter addressed to John Q.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Jones, care of General Delivery. You know I have a
theory about that bladder.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You have more than a theory, Rogers. You know exactly
what it means. You knew what it meant when you
were here last night to ransack my apartment.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You know all about me, don't you.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I know that you're working for Elizabeth Gaines. Last night
you came up here to get the Westfield diamonds. I
wasn't here, but you found this blodder on my desk
and guessed that I had mailed the diamond to myself,
so why not bad? But to make sure your theory
was right, you slipped out the back way, walked around
the front into the lobby and as the switchboard operator
where I was, and she said you'd gone to mail
(16:45):
a letter, which is all you needed to know you've
killed the girl. And then this morning you beat me
to the post office.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's great, it's set that down.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Have the diamonds you told me how I was killed
them from me, and I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I but I'm not the one.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who did it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I were, I wouldn't be here looking for it now.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Logical much too, that's my think. Someone up to go
to sit school. I mean Boston Blackie here. Yes, I'm
Boston Blackie. I'm John Westfield.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I oh Roger collom with to Westfield.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You know this nor Mios Westfield. Ah, yes, he's a
private detective. I hired him to find my diamond for me.
Mister Westfield is the original loan of Blackie. He still
does the friend Kingston, with an option to buy it
back at the Prophet.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Within six months.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Kingston says he doesn't know where it is. You have it,
don't you, Blackie? Now? Westfield, I uh he's telling the truth.
Mister Whitsteld, Well, I'm willing to pay two hundred thousand
dollars to get my diamonds back. That's a lot of money.
But I guess the Westfield there's a lot of diamonds,
and I think I know who has it now for
(17:54):
a lot of reasons, rug, Miss Games, forget the west
Scale diamond and settle Charlie Kingston's debts for cash? Will you?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I want the diamond, Blackie, that's all.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I want. A hundred and fifty five thousand in cash.
Will you settle for them?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'll settle to the Westfield diamonds and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do you think you'll ever get it? And sure.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You have it, Blackie. One of my men made a
deal with you over the phone, and night Kingston lost
the diamonds. My switchboard operator, listen, didn't you told me
all about it?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't make fields like that, Miss Games.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You make them, but you don't live up to them.
You killed Bill. Later on he said you ought to
know you kill him and you have the diamonds.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Wrong and all three times, but say you could have
killed them.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I don't like to be talked to like that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
No, we'll start getting used to it. Your kind makes
me stick your field.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Keep mud, Jacky, Oh, I'll have you shut up.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I saw you push that button. You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
That is good, do happy? Was beginning to use a
little la unpleasant language, Marty take a sere mis gage.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So this is Martin. You have a lot of little
boys running around, don't you, beautiful? Where's Harry? And he's busy?
And just so you don't get reckless, Blackie, take a
look at this. Oh a nice man. I haven't seen
one of you guys in years. We do alright, it's
quick and it's quiet.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, Blackie, about.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The diamond, let's not start that again. When you settle
Charlie's that's for cash. How much a hundred and twenty
five thousand?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Make it a hundred and eighty thousand minutes? A deal?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Alright, it's the dealing. Here's your money.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, But uh, this doesn't mean I won't try to
get the diamond no matter where it is.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm gonna trying to get my hands on it. Too, beautiful,
I could use it, but pay well. A fellow named
John Westfield owned the diamond originally, so what so he's
offering to buy us back for two hundred thousand. If
I could sell it to him, I could give Charlie
back the money he's paying you and make a few
bucks for myself.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, you going to get me an to the diamond? Irons.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Whoever gets it first sells it to Westfield. I understand
it's at the Victor Hotel. They'll buy it from anyone
and uh, no questions asked? Hellout John Westfield. Yes, this
(20:46):
is John Wetfield. Where you've been on a calone you
for the last that far? Oh, I'm sorry, I was out.
Who is it?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Don't mind what it is? I uh understand you want
your diamond's back.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I certainly do you have it?
Speaker 7 (20:58):
No, but somebody who does is on there to see it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Wonderful, wonderful. Uh but who is this? You have a mind?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Guys, get up that two hundred thousand for that diamond
and don't ask questions.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Hello, Hello, Hello mister west Feld. So you're calling yourself
John Westfield. I was like, Hey, that's the idea, A brilliance,
idea faurday. But I've got an idea. You're going to jail.
What's for a murder? I found Bill Smith's party in
this room. A while ago, Elizabeth James said he made
a deal with you to Steel west Field Diamonds Saturday.
You were smart enough to follow me here, and I
was smart enough to let you. Now, don't be your
(21:30):
usual stupid self and spoil every man. Come out with
waste some time. Look, give me two or three minutes
and I'll show you who has the west Steel diamond
and the killer you're looking for. Well, so I'm it's
only one, uh camera, I' blanky, We're gonna go to Storday.
Please hide the next one. Well you quick, alright, I've
got a gun on you. Don't forget it, Allen.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm looking for mister John Westley.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
He isn't here, Miss James. Likely you I thank you better.
They go on like, go on, well, stop struggling with games.
I know you have a Diamond's alright.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You're a tape liar, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh take that purse if you don't mine.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Do you think I'm fooling enough to have the diamond
with you?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
M Maybe it's not your purse, but I can dump
everything out of it just to make sure. O one
Westfield Diamond. Give me that purse jacket you want leaving
are you.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Why not a little while ago you gave me a
hundred and thirty thousand dollars. You've got the diamond now?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Were even not quite How about the murder of that
man Bill who worked for you, and the killing and
the fitchboard operator in my apartment building.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Martin Aston killed that girl and on his own I
had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Mh the knife man, huh? Why did he kill him?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I sent him to your apartment to look for the diamonds?
He saw that blodder on your desk and thought you'd
nailed the diamond. Don't he take to the operator if
she told him you had mailed the letter before. Was
afraid she'd remember him, so he killed her. And incidentally, Blackie,
he got the diamond for me from the post office
his wife.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Thanks, Miss Games, Friday, I haven't heard enough. I quite
like as the police the police, Miss Games. But I
also want to know who kills you A man Phillis plays.
I don't know, I do, Friday, Martin acton. I'm this
lovely lady's orders.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You're aw play smart, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Miss Time. Maybe you're a good gamble of Miss Games,
and you know sometimes you gotta lose this just happens
to be one of those. Sometimes sai
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