August 9, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Detective wop neaghbele on the phone.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
He works in the sleek shop, you know, next to
the knobby necks.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, and she says they advise their nightmare customers to
put a heating pat on the kidneys and a set
of milk foakes, just a little bead of broth and
some warm wine and fine oil wine. No in the broth,
I mean the brass a bash, Samy, look at you,
black eyes and cratches, your lips caught.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You didn't go home at all when you promised me
you were going straight home for that much need to drift.
And all the time you knew you were going to
speak to some sort of barns get into a bra
I even bought these things from the sleep show.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Next short of the Nobby to Detective Lieutenant Dundee homicide
detailed San Francisco Police medical.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Authorities agreed that lost sleep can never be made.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Up from Samuel Spade license.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Number finanic fatigue is jumulated subject the Insomnia Caper.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Dear Dundee, Honest, Lieutenant, this is how I got into
that mess last night. Honest, I've been feeling a little
rocky for two or three days. There was nothing much
wrong with me, but as my secretary, the ineffable Miss
Freen said.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Saying, what you need is a good night, please.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Which, Lieutenant, is how I happened to be at home
in bed at ten point thirty and the PM, wearing
a sleep shade, ear plugs and quiet pajamas. At ten
forty five, my right arm went to sleep. I turned over.
That's when one of the ear plugs fell out. I
tore off the sleep shape, dug the plug out of
my other ear, stuck my head under the pillow.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Was just beginning to drowse off, but.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I sat up and lit a cigarette. The city plunged
again into the silences of the night. The fog was
creeping in on a little cat's feet. Then all was
(02:44):
peace and quiet again in Post Street, I think, with
the sound of fog horns way out on the bay
and the rhythmic prow of the cable car mechanism under
the California Street end clime. This time I almost made it,
and then I went over to the window and peered out.
(03:13):
The room was on a level with mine and a
building just across the alley. I had had occasions a
scrutin said room and.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's occupant on happier occasion. She was young, red haired, and.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Also had a nice profile, which I had observed in
silhouette against the window blind which she did her nightly
setting up exercises.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I now observed that she had a boyfriend, and he
seemed to be angry, not wishing to pry into her affairs.
I closed my window.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Through the blind, went back to bed. It was stuffy
with the window down, the quieter. I actually fell asleep.
I dreamed I was home in bed and somebody was
knocking on my.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Door out through Who is it? Hevy? Yes, okay, okay, oh.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
What Please don't be angry. I mean I came in
for a minute.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
You're in, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
I know this seems peculiar.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
A perfect stranger saw you in the window.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
That makes I have the apartment across the alley.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
And you saw him You saw him strikeing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, you must have heard. I heard a lot of
stuff breaking for my ship models.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
He threw them all over the room, broke them the
bits they weren't especially valuable, and besides, they were present
from him.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Now I get it.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Now, you came here to tell me all about your
collection of ship models. I think that that's real neighborly
of you.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Miss du Bar dream du Bar.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, well, it was nice meeting. You dropped in again
some time and I'll show you my collection the shop flies.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Please don't send me away. I'm definitely afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
His name is Dan McCrae, the merchant seaman, his boat
that got into day.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, but why me?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I've seen you and window so many times I somehow
felt I knew you. I don't even know your name.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Look, sweetheart, if you think you're gonna rope me in
as a witness of that lover's.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Quad, please no, it's more than that. I believe me.
I can't tell you everything.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But why tell me anything?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Okay, I'm sorry, pardon me for living. I know it's
wrong with me.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
You want to say a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I don't want to be hard hearted about it. But
if you're really afraid of the guy, you ought to
go to the cop Dan Badger, no doubt, and the
game was Sam. Before you say anything, let me put
you straight. You picked the wrong sucker.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So you're the guy the.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Old lady said you were good looking at that cheap
sort of way. Well, I think I'll fix that part
of it right now.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hey, wait a minute, so you're gonna make.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
It easy for me?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Hey, okay, what have you done? He'll be all right?
Losen this pie? How you'll get some water?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Is he coming around? Where'd she go? Hey? Uh? Hey, Dan,
wake up? Come on, swallow it. H what'd you hit
me with? Well?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Where's Doreen?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
She dissolved?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Come on, get up?
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Okay, okay, Shepherd, this is you around?
Speaker 11 (06:38):
Who not?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Didn't matters, Danny boy?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But who you're?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Frank Shepherd? Ain't you you to?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Can't you read the names on the door? Spade? Here's
my card? Huh a detective?
Speaker 10 (06:52):
What was she doing here?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Her story was that she was running away from you,
and I baited, Well, it can't.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Be too fast for me. I'm sorry. I've been at
sea too long. I guess the old lady over there
told me Goreen was seeing the sky every night channel
fever or something. I blew my cop Yeah no, hut feven.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Spade, I forget it.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
But when you do catch up with that guy, Shepherd,
watch your left. You telegraph it, I'm saying, Shepherds Pa reach.
Speaker 11 (07:37):
Chip chickhus oh boy, I look at me and thoes.
Don't answer that baby.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Ring. Huh Spade, this is Den the Crane. Oh the
guy you beat up one.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Look, look, I just got to sleep. Call back tomorrow.
Better yet, don't call.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
Listen, you gotta listen to me. I found Shepherd, that
bunch of a fighter. I mock him up a little anyhow, just.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
To scare him back to the bar. I have one
for me.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Listen.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
I'm okay now, I soaked up like a shot. I
only came back to the phone.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Makes sense.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
When I got back to the ship, he was there
in my cabin.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
What he's dead, Oh, Shepherd, Yeah he's dead. Get him
too high?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
I don't think so. But I've got to know you're
a detective.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Now.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
Look, I haven't got.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Much money and start earning, so this is gonna cost you.
Hello man, but you got here quick. I'm a real
fast sleep walker ship.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Yeah yeah, come on, I'll take your board.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Give me the run down.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Shepherd took your girl while you're away at sea.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
You slapped her around the little broker toy boats and generally,
if I had like a bad boy, we'll skipped out
of little exhibition match in my apartment. Then what come on,
that's this ladder about those ship models?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
One was missing.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
She acted funny about it, and guess where it was?
In Shepherd's hotel room. Yeah, the Boston Hotel up on Broadway,
crumb dump. I shook the addressed out of that old lady.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Never mind that now, so you weren't there, went up
to his room, worked him over.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
But he was alive when I left there, that's clear.
Then I had drinks in a lot of different faces.
I think I was in some other fights.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, you're looking.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
I don't know who with just faces, a lot of blurs.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't even know where all I went.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Then I don't remember anything till I'm in an all
night beanery down here on the Imbaccaderol and a cab
driver's holding me up on the school, pouring coffee to me.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Then I came aboard. Yeah, come on, come on in, Kevin,
I'll show you.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
There were a few bruises and ring marks in the
face that they had been cleaned up and smeared from
the piolid. I know you're not supposed to touch anything
until homicide gets the lieutenant, but this one had obviously
already been tampered with, so I didn't think you'd mind
if I rolled them over just enough to pig at.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The back of his head.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
There was a tiny cut on his scalp near the
base of the skull, not more than a quarter of
an inch long, that hardly bled.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I flisked the pockets and his wallet.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Thirty eight dollars identification card Frank R. Shepherd, Boston Hotel,
San Francisco, and a snapshot of Doreen sailing a model
Chinese junk in a pond someplace in his cigar case,
cigars around his middle A tooled leather belt with hammet
silver buckle. It was a popular type hiccock belt, but
something about the buckle didn't quite figure. The prong of
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the silver buckle. It wasn't sober. It was tempered steel,
and instead of being pointed, the end was flattened out
and ground or.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
A shop cutting head. There were two notches on either
side of it.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
It didn't look like they've been put there a decoration.
I took the belt off, rolled it up and put
it in my coat pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well what do you make of it? You touch it? No?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Why a man falls forward not back? The cops will
say he was killed someplace else.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And brought here, then I'm in the clear.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, unless they form a theory that you brought the
body down here.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
To dispose of it, then why didn't I Maybe you
lost your nerve, maybe you sober it up. How what
killed him? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Maybe internal injuries, maybe a head injury or both from
that beating you gave. Maybe just dropped dead heart attack.
That's for the police medical examiner to find out.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You mean you're going to call the police. I have to,
But I told you that I thought you.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Could tree me to Wait a minute. You told me yourself.
You drew a blank. You don't know where you were
or what you were doing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
What are you going to do? Called the police? Wait?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yes, I suppose, yes, I do you fish?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I'll say you're taking it pretty well.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I had a small dream, abstractions, you know, cubes and circles,
nothing worth describing. But after I'd given homicide the rumble
and crawled home to my own trundle, I did better.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I dreamed.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I was while Bill Hickock, the belt Tycoon, I was
working on a promotion scheme for a new combination belt buckle,
toothpick and murder weapon, Sam Spade Sleepyhead.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
The United States Armed Forces Radio Service is presenting the
Weekly Adventure of Dashall Hammett's famous private detective, Sam Spade.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Nuts, Sam, you need garage, Harry speaking. Yeah, this is Dundee, Sam,
Okayler and that you got me? What time is it?
Ten after three?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Any sign up?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Dangerous?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Dan McCrae. That rated my client?
Speaker 13 (13:39):
Another with about that girl, Sam Dubar Dorene L. Balbour
apartment Center Street. Give me that description again.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Go over and take a look at her.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
I'm in her apartment now. She says she never heard
of h and she doesn't know anybody named Dan McCrae.
And she says she only went out once tonight to
a drug store to get some battery for hearing it
ath the elastic stock.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
All right, dundee, if you want to swallow a pack
of eyes, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Check the drug store. And she's wearing them now.
Speaker 11 (14:11):
I bring her over there, Sam, but she's a little feeble, Okay, Dundee,
I'll be right over.
Speaker 14 (14:16):
Hello, Dundee, come in, Sam.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I want you to make sure, sir, this is your pardon.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, that's my window just opposite.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
You can see the bed that I just got out
of to come over here in response to your untimely call.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Will you come in here, miss Dubar.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm very anxious to make that man's a quaintance.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
She was about sixty five years old, with a pleasant
motherly face, gold rimmed bifocals, hearing aid, and snow white
hair over his shoulder. I could see unto the kitchen.
Sitting at a table facing away from me was an
old man. In front of him, on the bench were
three ship models in various stages of disrepair, broken masts, rudders.
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With a mallet and a tiny chisel, he was shaping
a piece of wood. I guess that it was a
broken spar from one of the hose.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Well, Sam, still say, this is the same apartment.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Yeah, same apartment, different people.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
This must be mistaken, young men.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
My brother and I have lived in the same apartment
for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
She's lying, Dundee. If you checked the janitor, the building manager,
anybody and it, he's.
Speaker 13 (15:50):
Been living here since he took the job in forty one.
We're trying to locate the building manager now. According to
your story, Sam, the girl McCrae had a big row
in here of a lot of funky stuff.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I don't see any sign of it. They could have
cleaned it up.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Okay, I drained the whole thing. But those ship models.
I didn't brain them. Mccrane mentioned them. The girl mentioned them.
Busted ship models.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
There they are on the table in the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
They goodness, seems to be the trouble now, Dorry, just
play a young man so excited about my model.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I'm a cares then I can't leave. Had a tale
of it, something about the girl with the same name
as mine and a young man a to.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Get his name, who seems to kill somebody named Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I believe it was.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
You're so thorted about the ship models, young man, Dorry.
Could it be the girl who brought these over to
me to repair?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
What was her name?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
It's just on chip a knife tongue.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Who did she say?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Send her?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Then?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Wasn't that Shepherd there at all?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Do respect your age, nuts, I'm getting out of here,
tondy Well, I can still remember my own name.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I gotta get some sleep. Hey, wake up, Oh oh Sam,
get out of my bed. I'm sorry. I was beat.
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I didn't know where else to go.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
You can go to jail. Their beds don't have inner springs.
But it's a free floss.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
And I had to make that break.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It would have been a murder rap for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I mean, your memory came back.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
I had a funny feeling I'd seen that guy Shepherd
somewhere before, and just before I slugged you. While we
were standing there in the companion way, it came back
to me. That guy Shepherd, he came aboard shipped yesterday
when we docked. He flashed a badge on the gangway
watch and asked to see the ship's.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Carpenter, the one who made those ship models for you.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, but don't you see?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Manslaughter is one thing, cop killing is another. The ship's
carbonal What does he look like?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Oh then around sixty five Lane Fox like a swede anymore?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Maxie, Sam spay that the stiff tagged Shepherd Shepherd?
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Yes, Sam, just come back. I think it's all there.
Those Automsey boys kiless.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
What killed them? Maxie?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Punt your wound place of the skull, small shop instrument
anything knowing his ID.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Wow, Shepherd seems to be a phony handle Sam, But
it'll have to do.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
The revel comes along target Pole House and dropped of
the boys at his hotel. Thought he was a detective.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
A funny thing about Sheppy boy Sam No belt goos, suspenders,
very loose trousers.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
How you keep them up?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
At the time I got to him, it didn't matter.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
I think it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He wore a building and somebody swiped it off.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
That's an interesting theory, Maxie. I'll see what I can
do with it. I tucked Danny Boy back into my bed,
locked them in, and gum shoot around the block of
the bell Bo apartment, just to be me and I
woke up the janitor and checked his statement on the
old car in Dorian's apartment. He worked three buildings. Was
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sure of the old woman that backed down a little
on the man, which is what I expected.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Was sure of the floor, but not of the apartment
of it.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Didn't know any tenants by name, which goes to show
Lieutenant what police statements are sometimes worth. I thanked him,
stole his pass key, and went upstairs. I didn't expect
to find anybody home in Dorian's apartment. I was half
right spen. The old carpenter was sitting in a chair,
staring straight ahead of him. He looked as though we
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were in a daze. I walked over to him. Even
close up.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He didn't look dead, but he was body.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Still warm, no visible wounds. But he was wearing a
tool leather belt with a hammered silver buckle. The prong
of the buckle was tempered steel and had the same
peculiar shape as the one in my pocket, the one
I had taken off of Shepherd's body. The ship models
were gone. What was left to them I found in
the fireplace, and in the charred remnants of what had
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once been the hull of the toy China He's junk,
I found something that hadn't burned. It was a small
metal cylinder with two pins projecting from it on either
side about the middle of it. It looked like a
miniature lock mechanism, which it was exactly the key you guessed.
It was the prong of that belt buckle.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The cylinder was empty except for a few white grains
that looked like sugar. I tasted them.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
It was not sugar, but in the dope traffic they
sometimes call it that. About then I heard footsteps outside
in the hall. I ducked him with a closet, leaving
the door cracked enough to see out.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Stand over there, Dolie, don't tie anything.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I won't shoot you unless i'm forced you.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, you didn't shoot, thank shepherded.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
You don't ever mention that name again.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, then don't just sit there staring.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
It's just time to catch the boat.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Then time to me.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't think he can answer you, missus Brownery. Oh
what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Then then.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
He's dead.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Hand over, handed over, Grandma. You won't need it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You don't get it.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yes, I'm a desperate character. Hand it over, come and
get it.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
You'd be easy for you're a strong young man.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I'm such a week old.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Now look, you don't have your glasses on him. This
forty five is too heavy for an elderly tried criminal.
Now sit down and keep quiet.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I thought you'd forgotten all about me.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm trying to all night. Where were you?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
They locked me in a crosset in her apartment next door.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
They were gonna take me with them, get rid of
me on the boat.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
After what they did the frank they had to get
upset Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Who was Shepherd? Anyway? I can't tell you that it
was a federal narcotics agent wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
How did you know?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You just told me, not telling me the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Honestly, I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Tim.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
About a month ago, I was dusting the ship models
and knocked one off the show. It broke and something
spilled out of it. Missus Brownrigg was here when it happened.
She rushed for it and ran out of the room
with it.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
She said she'd take it and get it repaired for me.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
And then this girlfriend of mine came by while I
was sweeping the white powder up. She's a nurse.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
She tasted it, told me it was dope.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Well, I didn't want to do anything till I talked
to Danny, but she reported it, and that's when Frank
Shepherd came to see me from the narcotic squad.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He told you to play along with them.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The arrested the man.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Missus Brownrigg was telling it too, and Shepherd told her
he was taking the man's place so you could fine
and get evane shee.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
She believed it because of the belt.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
This the belt, Yeah, that thing on the belt, it's
really a little key that fits into a rout.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, that sets in a little lock that releases the
little mechanism that makes the false bottom fall out of
the little boat. Why didn't you find out that Shepherd
is a narcotics agent?
Speaker 9 (22:52):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
I saw them together so much that I began to
think they might double cross you.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Then I thought about that, says Dann, that rough nick
boyfriend of hers. So I went to Dan and told
him I thought it's girl had taken up with Shepherd while.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
He was the way at sea.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And I had to let Dan think the worse because
I was born to secrecy. But Dan's so violent and jealous.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
He said he'd kill Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So I came to you.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You were a witness that Dan hit me, and I
thought we.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Might have him erected so nobody else would get hurt.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
But I guess you were too sleepy to care.
Speaker 15 (23:30):
Sorry, Sorry, I must have dropped off for sleep period
and the report.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But Sam, yes, Angel.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Didn't you arrest that terrible old missus earweed.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Brown wig Ethie?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Wasn't it brown Wigs?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
One of her alias? Is no doubt? And reply to
your previous question, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Who killed mister Shepherd?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Sam? And how look?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
If you will recall that Spen was shaping a piece
of wood with a small chisel and a mallet.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
The fatal wound you.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Recall, Oh, and who kills them?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Saddan, I want to.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Have a serious talk with you over here. Stop twisting
your handkerchiefs. E Sometimes I think you've been a detective
secretary too long.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Whops the outlook, em Are you trying to tell me
that my services are no longer requires you?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
See? That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
You had jumped the conclusion, as in the instance of
the death of friends.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I only asked who killed him?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Exactly did it ever occur to you that some feeble,
especially old feeble people just die quietly, sitting in a chair,
sometimes sometimes in bed, in that sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Sick. But it did happen to Spen.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Perhaps the excitement of his criminous activities, fear of discovery
has impending flight were too much for his heart. On
the other hand, it might have just been old age.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
The point is that he it does happen never in
detective stories, only in real Well, I guess that's all.
Good night, then you're not sleep Nevertheless, I'm going home
to bed.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Good night, good night, sweeze.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the
voice of Information and education
The Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Detective wop neaghbele on the phone.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
He works in the sleek shop, you know, next to
the knobby necks.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, and she says they advise their nightmare customers to
put a heating pat on the kidneys and a set
of milk foakes, just a little bead of broth and
some warm wine and fine oil wine. No in the broth,
I mean the brass a bash, Samy, look at you,
black eyes and cratches, your lips caught.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You didn't go home at all when you promised me
you were going straight home for that much need to drift.
And all the time you knew you were going to
speak to some sort of barns get into a bra
I even bought these things from the sleep show.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Next short of the Nobby to Detective Lieutenant Dundee homicide
detailed San Francisco Police medical.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Authorities agreed that lost sleep can never be made.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Up from Samuel Spade license.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Number finanic fatigue is jumulated subject the Insomnia Caper.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Dear Dundee, Honest, Lieutenant, this is how I got into
that mess last night. Honest, I've been feeling a little
rocky for two or three days. There was nothing much
wrong with me, but as my secretary, the ineffable Miss
Freen said.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Saying, what you need is a good night, please.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Which, Lieutenant, is how I happened to be at home
in bed at ten point thirty and the PM, wearing
a sleep shade, ear plugs and quiet pajamas. At ten
forty five, my right arm went to sleep. I turned over.
That's when one of the ear plugs fell out. I
tore off the sleep shape, dug the plug out of
my other ear, stuck my head under the pillow.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Was just beginning to drowse off, but.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I sat up and lit a cigarette. The city plunged
again into the silences of the night. The fog was
creeping in on a little cat's feet. Then all was
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peace and quiet again in Post Street, I think, with
the sound of fog horns way out on the bay
and the rhythmic prow of the cable car mechanism under
the California Street end clime. This time I almost made it,
and then I went over to the window and peered out.
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The room was on a level with mine and a
building just across the alley. I had had occasions a
scrutin said room and.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's occupant on happier occasion. She was young, red haired, and.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Also had a nice profile, which I had observed in
silhouette against the window blind which she did her nightly
setting up exercises.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I now observed that she had a boyfriend, and he
seemed to be angry, not wishing to pry into her affairs.
I closed my window.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Through the blind, went back to bed. It was stuffy
with the window down, the quieter. I actually fell asleep.
I dreamed I was home in bed and somebody was
knocking on my.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Door out through Who is it? Hevy? Yes, okay, okay, oh.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
What Please don't be angry. I mean I came in
for a minute.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
You're in, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
I know this seems peculiar.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
A perfect stranger saw you in the window.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
That makes I have the apartment across the alley.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
And you saw him You saw him strikeing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, you must have heard. I heard a lot of
stuff breaking for my ship models.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
He threw them all over the room, broke them the
bits they weren't especially valuable, and besides, they were present
from him.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Now I get it.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Now, you came here to tell me all about your
collection of ship models. I think that that's real neighborly
of you.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Miss du Bar dream du Bar.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, well, it was nice meeting. You dropped in again
some time and I'll show you my collection the shop flies.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Please don't send me away. I'm definitely afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
His name is Dan McCrae, the merchant seaman, his boat
that got into day.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, but why me?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I've seen you and window so many times I somehow
felt I knew you. I don't even know your name.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Look, sweetheart, if you think you're gonna rope me in
as a witness of that lover's.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Quad, please no, it's more than that. I believe me.
I can't tell you everything.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But why tell me anything?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Okay, I'm sorry, pardon me for living. I know it's
wrong with me.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
You want to say a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I don't want to be hard hearted about it. But
if you're really afraid of the guy, you ought to
go to the cop Dan Badger, no doubt, and the
game was Sam. Before you say anything, let me put
you straight. You picked the wrong sucker.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So you're the guy the.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Old lady said you were good looking at that cheap
sort of way. Well, I think I'll fix that part
of it right now.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hey, wait a minute, so you're gonna make.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
It easy for me?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Hey, okay, what have you done? He'll be all right?
Losen this pie? How you'll get some water?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Is he coming around? Where'd she go? Hey? Uh? Hey, Dan,
wake up? Come on, swallow it. H what'd you hit
me with? Well?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Where's Doreen?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
She dissolved?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Come on, get up?
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Okay, okay, Shepherd, this is you around?
Speaker 11 (06:38):
Who not?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Didn't matters, Danny boy?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But who you're?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Frank Shepherd? Ain't you you to?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Can't you read the names on the door? Spade? Here's
my card? Huh a detective?
Speaker 10 (06:52):
What was she doing here?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Her story was that she was running away from you,
and I baited, Well, it can't.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Be too fast for me. I'm sorry. I've been at
sea too long. I guess the old lady over there
told me Goreen was seeing the sky every night channel
fever or something. I blew my cop Yeah no, hut feven.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Spade, I forget it.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
But when you do catch up with that guy, Shepherd,
watch your left. You telegraph it, I'm saying, Shepherds Pa reach.
Speaker 11 (07:37):
Chip chickhus oh boy, I look at me and thoes.
Don't answer that baby.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Ring. Huh Spade, this is Den the Crane. Oh the
guy you beat up one.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Look, look, I just got to sleep. Call back tomorrow.
Better yet, don't call.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
Listen, you gotta listen to me. I found Shepherd, that
bunch of a fighter. I mock him up a little anyhow, just.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
To scare him back to the bar. I have one
for me.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Listen.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
I'm okay now, I soaked up like a shot. I
only came back to the phone.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Makes sense.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
When I got back to the ship, he was there
in my cabin.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
What he's dead, Oh, Shepherd, Yeah he's dead. Get him
too high?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
I don't think so. But I've got to know you're
a detective.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Now.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
Look, I haven't got.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Much money and start earning, so this is gonna cost you.
Hello man, but you got here quick. I'm a real
fast sleep walker ship.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Yeah yeah, come on, I'll take your board.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Give me the run down.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Shepherd took your girl while you're away at sea.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
You slapped her around the little broker toy boats and generally,
if I had like a bad boy, we'll skipped out
of little exhibition match in my apartment. Then what come on,
that's this ladder about those ship models?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
One was missing.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
She acted funny about it, and guess where it was?
In Shepherd's hotel room. Yeah, the Boston Hotel up on Broadway,
crumb dump. I shook the addressed out of that old lady.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Never mind that now, so you weren't there, went up
to his room, worked him over.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
But he was alive when I left there, that's clear.
Then I had drinks in a lot of different faces.
I think I was in some other fights.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, you're looking.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
I don't know who with just faces, a lot of blurs.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't even know where all I went.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Then I don't remember anything till I'm in an all
night beanery down here on the Imbaccaderol and a cab
driver's holding me up on the school, pouring coffee to me.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Then I came aboard. Yeah, come on, come on in, Kevin,
I'll show you.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
There were a few bruises and ring marks in the
face that they had been cleaned up and smeared from
the piolid. I know you're not supposed to touch anything
until homicide gets the lieutenant, but this one had obviously
already been tampered with, so I didn't think you'd mind
if I rolled them over just enough to pig at.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The back of his head.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
There was a tiny cut on his scalp near the
base of the skull, not more than a quarter of
an inch long, that hardly bled.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I flisked the pockets and his wallet.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Thirty eight dollars identification card Frank R. Shepherd, Boston Hotel,
San Francisco, and a snapshot of Doreen sailing a model
Chinese junk in a pond someplace in his cigar case,
cigars around his middle A tooled leather belt with hammet
silver buckle. It was a popular type hiccock belt, but
something about the buckle didn't quite figure. The prong of
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the silver buckle. It wasn't sober. It was tempered steel,
and instead of being pointed, the end was flattened out
and ground or.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
A shop cutting head. There were two notches on either
side of it.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
It didn't look like they've been put there a decoration.
I took the belt off, rolled it up and put
it in my coat pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well what do you make of it? You touch it? No?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Why a man falls forward not back? The cops will
say he was killed someplace else.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And brought here, then I'm in the clear.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, unless they form a theory that you brought the
body down here.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
To dispose of it, then why didn't I Maybe you
lost your nerve, maybe you sober it up. How what
killed him? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Maybe internal injuries, maybe a head injury or both from
that beating you gave. Maybe just dropped dead heart attack.
That's for the police medical examiner to find out.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You mean you're going to call the police. I have to,
But I told you that I thought you.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Could tree me to Wait a minute. You told me yourself.
You drew a blank. You don't know where you were
or what you were doing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
What are you going to do? Called the police? Wait?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yes, I suppose, yes, I do you fish?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I'll say you're taking it pretty well.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I had a small dream, abstractions, you know, cubes and circles,
nothing worth describing. But after I'd given homicide the rumble
and crawled home to my own trundle, I did better.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I dreamed.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I was while Bill Hickock, the belt Tycoon, I was
working on a promotion scheme for a new combination belt buckle,
toothpick and murder weapon, Sam Spade Sleepyhead.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
The United States Armed Forces Radio Service is presenting the
Weekly Adventure of Dashall Hammett's famous private detective, Sam Spade.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Nuts, Sam, you need garage, Harry speaking. Yeah, this is Dundee, Sam,
Okayler and that you got me? What time is it?
Ten after three?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Any sign up?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Dangerous?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Dan McCrae. That rated my client?
Speaker 13 (13:39):
Another with about that girl, Sam Dubar Dorene L. Balbour
apartment Center Street. Give me that description again.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Go over and take a look at her.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
I'm in her apartment now. She says she never heard
of h and she doesn't know anybody named Dan McCrae.
And she says she only went out once tonight to
a drug store to get some battery for hearing it
ath the elastic stock.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
All right, dundee, if you want to swallow a pack
of eyes, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Check the drug store. And she's wearing them now.
Speaker 11 (14:11):
I bring her over there, Sam, but she's a little feeble, Okay, Dundee,
I'll be right over.
Speaker 14 (14:16):
Hello, Dundee, come in, Sam.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I want you to make sure, sir, this is your pardon.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, that's my window just opposite.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
You can see the bed that I just got out
of to come over here in response to your untimely call.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Will you come in here, miss Dubar.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm very anxious to make that man's a quaintance.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
She was about sixty five years old, with a pleasant
motherly face, gold rimmed bifocals, hearing aid, and snow white
hair over his shoulder. I could see unto the kitchen.
Sitting at a table facing away from me was an
old man. In front of him, on the bench were
three ship models in various stages of disrepair, broken masts, rudders.
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With a mallet and a tiny chisel, he was shaping
a piece of wood. I guess that it was a
broken spar from one of the hose.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Well, Sam, still say, this is the same apartment.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Yeah, same apartment, different people.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
This must be mistaken, young men.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
My brother and I have lived in the same apartment
for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
She's lying, Dundee. If you checked the janitor, the building manager,
anybody and it, he's.
Speaker 13 (15:50):
Been living here since he took the job in forty one.
We're trying to locate the building manager now. According to
your story, Sam, the girl McCrae had a big row
in here of a lot of funky stuff.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I don't see any sign of it. They could have
cleaned it up.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Okay, I drained the whole thing. But those ship models.
I didn't brain them. Mccrane mentioned them. The girl mentioned them.
Busted ship models.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
There they are on the table in the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
They goodness, seems to be the trouble now, Dorry, just
play a young man so excited about my model.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I'm a cares then I can't leave. Had a tale
of it, something about the girl with the same name
as mine and a young man a to.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Get his name, who seems to kill somebody named Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I believe it was.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
You're so thorted about the ship models, young man, Dorry.
Could it be the girl who brought these over to
me to repair?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
What was her name?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
It's just on chip a knife tongue.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Who did she say?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Send her?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Then?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Wasn't that Shepherd there at all?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Do respect your age, nuts, I'm getting out of here,
tondy Well, I can still remember my own name.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I gotta get some sleep. Hey, wake up, Oh oh Sam,
get out of my bed. I'm sorry. I was beat.
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I didn't know where else to go.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
You can go to jail. Their beds don't have inner springs.
But it's a free floss.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
And I had to make that break.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It would have been a murder rap for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I mean, your memory came back.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
I had a funny feeling I'd seen that guy Shepherd
somewhere before, and just before I slugged you. While we
were standing there in the companion way, it came back
to me. That guy Shepherd, he came aboard shipped yesterday
when we docked. He flashed a badge on the gangway
watch and asked to see the ship's.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Carpenter, the one who made those ship models for you.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, but don't you see?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Manslaughter is one thing, cop killing is another. The ship's
carbonal What does he look like?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Oh then around sixty five Lane Fox like a swede anymore?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Maxie, Sam spay that the stiff tagged Shepherd Shepherd?
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Yes, Sam, just come back. I think it's all there.
Those Automsey boys kiless.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
What killed them? Maxie?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Punt your wound place of the skull, small shop instrument
anything knowing his ID.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Wow, Shepherd seems to be a phony handle Sam, But
it'll have to do.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
The revel comes along target Pole House and dropped of
the boys at his hotel. Thought he was a detective.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
A funny thing about Sheppy boy Sam No belt goos, suspenders,
very loose trousers.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
How you keep them up?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
At the time I got to him, it didn't matter.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
I think it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He wore a building and somebody swiped it off.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
That's an interesting theory, Maxie. I'll see what I can
do with it. I tucked Danny Boy back into my bed,
locked them in, and gum shoot around the block of
the bell Bo apartment, just to be me and I
woke up the janitor and checked his statement on the
old car in Dorian's apartment. He worked three buildings. Was
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sure of the old woman that backed down a little
on the man, which is what I expected.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Was sure of the floor, but not of the apartment
of it.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Didn't know any tenants by name, which goes to show
Lieutenant what police statements are sometimes worth. I thanked him,
stole his pass key, and went upstairs. I didn't expect
to find anybody home in Dorian's apartment. I was half
right spen. The old carpenter was sitting in a chair,
staring straight ahead of him. He looked as though we
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were in a daze. I walked over to him. Even
close up.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He didn't look dead, but he was body.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Still warm, no visible wounds. But he was wearing a
tool leather belt with a hammered silver buckle. The prong
of the buckle was tempered steel and had the same
peculiar shape as the one in my pocket, the one
I had taken off of Shepherd's body. The ship models
were gone. What was left to them I found in
the fireplace, and in the charred remnants of what had
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once been the hull of the toy China He's junk,
I found something that hadn't burned. It was a small
metal cylinder with two pins projecting from it on either
side about the middle of it. It looked like a
miniature lock mechanism, which it was exactly the key you guessed.
It was the prong of that belt buckle.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The cylinder was empty except for a few white grains
that looked like sugar. I tasted them.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
It was not sugar, but in the dope traffic they
sometimes call it that. About then I heard footsteps outside
in the hall. I ducked him with a closet, leaving
the door cracked enough to see out.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Stand over there, Dolie, don't tie anything.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I won't shoot you unless i'm forced you.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, you didn't shoot, thank shepherded.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
You don't ever mention that name again.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, then don't just sit there staring.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
It's just time to catch the boat.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Then time to me.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't think he can answer you, missus Brownery. Oh
what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Then then.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
He's dead.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Hand over, handed over, Grandma. You won't need it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You don't get it.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yes, I'm a desperate character. Hand it over, come and
get it.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
You'd be easy for you're a strong young man.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I'm such a week old.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Now look, you don't have your glasses on him. This
forty five is too heavy for an elderly tried criminal.
Now sit down and keep quiet.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I thought you'd forgotten all about me.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm trying to all night. Where were you?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
They locked me in a crosset in her apartment next door.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
They were gonna take me with them, get rid of
me on the boat.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
After what they did the frank they had to get
upset Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Who was Shepherd? Anyway? I can't tell you that it
was a federal narcotics agent wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
How did you know?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You just told me, not telling me the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Honestly, I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Tim.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
About a month ago, I was dusting the ship models
and knocked one off the show. It broke and something
spilled out of it. Missus Brownrigg was here when it happened.
She rushed for it and ran out of the room
with it.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
She said she'd take it and get it repaired for me.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
And then this girlfriend of mine came by while I
was sweeping the white powder up. She's a nurse.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
She tasted it, told me it was dope.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Well, I didn't want to do anything till I talked
to Danny, but she reported it, and that's when Frank
Shepherd came to see me from the narcotic squad.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He told you to play along with them.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The arrested the man.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Missus Brownrigg was telling it too, and Shepherd told her
he was taking the man's place so you could fine
and get evane shee.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
She believed it because of the belt.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
This the belt, Yeah, that thing on the belt, it's
really a little key that fits into a rout.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, that sets in a little lock that releases the
little mechanism that makes the false bottom fall out of
the little boat. Why didn't you find out that Shepherd
is a narcotics agent?
Speaker 9 (22:52):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
I saw them together so much that I began to
think they might double cross you.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Then I thought about that, says Dann, that rough nick
boyfriend of hers. So I went to Dan and told
him I thought it's girl had taken up with Shepherd while.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
He was the way at sea.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And I had to let Dan think the worse because
I was born to secrecy. But Dan's so violent and jealous.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
He said he'd kill Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So I came to you.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You were a witness that Dan hit me, and I
thought we.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Might have him erected so nobody else would get hurt.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
But I guess you were too sleepy to care.
Speaker 15 (23:30):
Sorry, Sorry, I must have dropped off for sleep period
and the report.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But Sam, yes, Angel.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Didn't you arrest that terrible old missus earweed.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Brown wig Ethie?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Wasn't it brown Wigs?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
One of her alias? Is no doubt? And reply to
your previous question, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Who killed mister Shepherd?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Sam? And how look?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
If you will recall that Spen was shaping a piece
of wood with a small chisel and a mallet.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
The fatal wound you.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Recall, Oh, and who kills them?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Saddan, I want to.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Have a serious talk with you over here. Stop twisting
your handkerchiefs. E Sometimes I think you've been a detective
secretary too long.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Whops the outlook, em Are you trying to tell me
that my services are no longer requires you?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
See? That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
You had jumped the conclusion, as in the instance of
the death of friends.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I only asked who killed him?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Exactly did it ever occur to you that some feeble,
especially old feeble people just die quietly, sitting in a chair,
sometimes sometimes in bed, in that sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Sick. But it did happen to Spen.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Perhaps the excitement of his criminous activities, fear of discovery
has impending flight were too much for his heart. On
the other hand, it might have just been old age.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
The point is that he it does happen never in
detective stories, only in real Well, I guess that's all.
Good night, then you're not sleep Nevertheless, I'm going home
to bed.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Good night, good night, sweeze.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
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