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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade,
Detective fam' say Detective Agency, the Sweethearts. Yeh, where have
you been? I don't know what to tell them. Tell who,
the repliers, everybody? They all say you the first proptytective
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and he used me of samentist so to get rich. Honestly,
Oh it's Sam. When I think of.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
All the back salary, I'll be getting the third coach.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Easy girl, easy, prepare yourself. Yeah, the fifty thousand dollars
is not available to employees of a network or sponsor, which,
unfortunately I happen to be. Yeah, what cheer up, girl?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Think of the taxes? We'll say.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, make everything fast.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm on my way.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Meanwhile, puzzle me this.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You're ready?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All right? Whine is a man who is going to
blow his brains out. Set his mant o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I had four hours?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Can it does make Sam? But it does Marlon Ponder's Sweetheart.
I'll be down in a Trice nineteen through one model
with an intellectual type report to challenge serious thinkers everywhere.
So it's the Biddle Riddle Caper for n DC. William
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Spear Radio's outstanding producer, director of history and crime drama
brings you the greatest private detective of them all. In
the Adventures of Sam's Faith Microphone Ippieam, I just can't
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get with it. Never kick on a third down, chirrup,
give it another trial. I'm mentally through. Well, you know
that I just give up. Sam, funny little brunze on
your cheeks.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Go ahead, Yes, you get warm.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's what happens when somebody hits you with a microphone.
Sleep now, if you look closer, just above the marks
under my eyes, clearly and distinctly in reverse of course,
the three letters of a network known far and wide
for its hospitality to unemployed private detectivesh not here, girl, pow.
He's a pencil who knows a sponsor may be listening.
Ready to mister Tracy Abbott. Drake Carlton Hotel copied of
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Dundeet Homicide Farm, Samuel Spade, licensed number one three seven
five nine six, subject the Biddle riddlekper Dear Tracy. It
had a nice conventional start, this one, a nice conventional
phone call telling me to drop.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Up to room four oh two of the Drake Carlton
around three in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
But when I got there. I found that over the
nice conventional number on the door was hung a temporary
sign reading Olympic Radio Productions, Tracy Abbott, Editor, director and producer,
fitting farewell to a nice conventional part I made bold
end of the door. Abbot five foot eight of solid
Hollywood was waltzing with what I took to be a musician, composer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Or some such.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We opened coal bunny like this now killer at large,
banging with the thing see.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Bomba bump bump bump bum bum bum form a great, big,
wonderful cord the bunny check check, and then the teaser quote,
don't go away you out there, stick right close to
that radio set of yours, because the next half hour
might put fifty thousand dollars in your pocket.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, fifty thousand dollars will be paid by the sponsors
of this program for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of a killer at large. Bat Tonight, I said,
sustain the cord tonight, the murder Tramlo Tremlo tonight, the
murder of Carold Stevens. Then got a boo boom bum
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brim bum bum form checksh what's that simple crash? Do
it again?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Don't need it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Check check big wonderful lush. That's the word lush, with
scope and sweep and power. I got it. Well, I'll
get as lush as I can with eight scopes. Importance,
got a sound important check check and oh oh, I'm
Sam Spade, mister rabbit. Ah, yes, yes, Spade, glad to
see you. Please it on. And on the other hand,
you'd better stand up. No time to lose. You have
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twenty four hours to find a man farming.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well that's pretty short notice. How lets a.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Spade killer at large? Is real? We keep a sensitive
finger on the pulse of the people.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
When that's nice.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
We deal in real facts, real people, real crimes, and
real criminals.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Check. Just how do you do this?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
How do you accomplish all this on the radio budget
of today? Now you see before you stay the mechanical
marble which makes this possible. The tape recorder. You're familiar with,
the tape recorder. Oh moral check tomorrow night at nine
pm PSD. With the aid of the tape recorder, we
shall reconstruct one of San Francisco's more sensational unsolved crimes,
the murder of Carol Stephens.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You mean the burless Dame three years.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Ago, two years, eight months and twenty nine days.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You remember much about it? Let me see, she turned
up dead on the floor of her apartment, didn't she check?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Victim of the well known blunt instrument, in this case
a bronze bookend carrying the base room of Abraham Lincoln.
Much ado, much you do? Headlines by the yard, a
parade of witnesses, but no arrest. Spirri it fine?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Now what about me?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Our show's stayed is made up of the simple, honest,
spontaneous statements of the witnesses themselves. We're set on this
one except for one man, the most important one in
the case, of course, Jimmy Biddle, the doorman at the
Broadway Burlesque at the time the Stevens girl was killed.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Ah knew her.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Some say he loved her. Top suspect until he came
up with an alibi. Our advents men have combed the
city for two weeks trying to find him, but no luck.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So he's born time.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's what I thought until this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You mean you've heard from him. I heard from someone.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Who said he was Biddle. He also said he knew
who killed Carol Stevens. Andy wanted the fifty thousands, right,
I mean check a fair enough. Well, that's what you advertise,
isn't it not two people who hang up when you
get curious. If it was Biddle, I've got to record
his story. I want him here by eight tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Check where else? Since you keep bringing it up?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Check yes, you can make it out for a hundred
bucks at homicide, I cased the files on the Stephens
sing San Francisco's answer to the Black Dad, a cheek
killing of a cheap day.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And a chief apartment that used a lot of expensive newsprints.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She'd taken a last turn under the blue spot around
ten thirty, left the theater and hustled straight home because
at eleven shop, according to the neighbor across the hall,
someone had tried the Abraham Lincoln bookend on Carolverside.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
She hit the floor just as.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The eleven o'clock news came on. Biddle's alibi had to
be good, and it was. It came, as a matter
of fact, from the greatest little alibi factory in tom
Biddle was drinking old fashions with Joseph P. Norgard, the
well known criminal lawyer at the time of the killing.
So I trotted over to Norguard's office on Market Street.
Bottom tied up and settled down in the waiting room
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next to a gimlidied youth and a neon striped suit
who looked like he made a living sticking up crap games.
He was filing his nails. Buddy, yeah, buddy, you are
you sure you're in your right of office? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Positive?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Buddy, I just stood I might save you some trouble,
and so damn staate, ain't it? Hey?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You're a smart kid.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I try hard. I still think you'd be wise to
blow now.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
This is quite a turn you do, buddy, study nice
with Richard Woodmark.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Damn, I told you I want to save you a
bad time. You're a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Thank you must be a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Things you can do around time to make a buck
when not coming in. I why don't you lift it
on that chair. I'm not going to do it just
to nod, and that's why I'll get with you later.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Bye, buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The guy who busts a lot of Norguard's office was flabby, florid,
and flight. Penstride gave me a last baleful look and
sidled out into the hall after room which was nice
because I was running out of a punchline. I thought
I told you too. Oh, mister Norgarden, I'm sorry to
barge in on.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Ain't spade. I'm a private the tech of.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Course you are, and a hungry one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well we're polite in here too.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Why do you say that you're the fourth Today I'm
about to prefar a mimiographs statement entitled what I know
about the Stephens case? Or you two can make fifty
thousand dollars like a copy? You know I can't remember
one of them? Treated so nice? What do you know
about the Stephens case, mister Longard, It's all.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
In a homicide file.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
On the Faithful Night, I ran into Jimmy Biddles. I
was coming out of a bar in Chinatown. He hit
the kids, but he used to be a useful friend,
so I asked him up to my apartment for a drinks,
sat him in a chair, made him.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
An old fashion, loaned him five.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Bucks, and hustled him out throt in lapse time forty
five minutes from ten forty five to eleven thirty PM.
And that is all I have to say at this time.
Have you seen Biddles since? Not? Since the investigation I
don't know where he is now. I don't know who
killed Carol Stephens period paragraph.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Do you think Jimmy knows who killed him? Maybe? Well,
he says he does. Oh, where did you see him?
He's hungry too. We worked the same bloodline, and so
I said that speed, who are you working for? Olympic
Radio Productions? Kill her at large?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yes, they will become of the studio tonight, record a
statement for them. I wonder if I ought to tell
them what I really think. What's that about Biddle? There's
no point in talking around it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I think he killed it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, that's a k neat trick if he was drinking
your liquor at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh, I think he did it after he left my place.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Two things place the time of death, the medical examiners report,
which could be off as much as three hours, and
the neighbor who thinks he heard the girl fall as
the news came on.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
How reliable is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I usually think of those things during an investigation, but
they didn't think hot enough.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You say you talk to Biddle? He called my client. Why?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
He had fifty thousand good reasons according to him. You know,
funny things happen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
When the dog gets into it. Bought people don't stay bought.
Lost people get found.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, well I've told you, Alino speed.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
If you have no more questions, just one more. Who's
the little weasel on the penstrike You mean Luke? Yeah,
I put him out there to scare off the hungry ones.
Nothing to do with you, and the fat character he's
sailing has nothing to do with me either. Huh.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You really want to know? Love to he's a pastry cook.
I'm representing his wife in a divorce section. Thinks she's
Casanova pressure cooker. Eh, shoving norguard pinstripe on the flabby
pastry cook and the look up later section of my
hat band. I took off for Biddle's last known address,
a boarding house on Pacific Avenue. There I held hands
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with a land lady long enough to learn that A
she hadn't seen Biddle since a few weeks after the murder,
but b when last heard of Biddle had gone on
from the burlesqu dame to something even more extremely female.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
According to the landlady name Rosalie.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Understand she's spoken on the line at the Pacific Ballroom.
Red hair, blue eyes, and boom booms, get me, I
got you Pacific Ballroom.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Eh, would you do that last again?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Boom?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, just checking. Thanks Smister's Lane lady. Hello, Hi, a
lot of the lucky girls. And you look like your
name Onnabie Rosalie for your side.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Got your ticket?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Hey, let me let me know when I used up?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Huh, don't worry. May you know you're a pretty good dancer.
I for Murray class of nineteen oh six. Told me
I didn't come here to dance. Oh, I'm looking for
Jimmy Billy. I know. Yeah, yeah, I know you're a cop.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Not exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
No, it's a difference cop or no cop. You'll find
him one of these days where I'm the day, maybe
with a morgue. He knows it's a funny part. He
knows it, and you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's got him Roseie baby.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Look, I mean that's about Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Let's dance. That's what you're paying for, isn't it. Well,
come on, where is he?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You're wasting your time.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I won't sell him up.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I'm through with him, but I won't sell him out.
Oh he heed the tickets. I sought it over to
the soft drink pump and the moll the problem over
a coat for a minute or two. There are ways
of dealing with dames like Rosalie.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Some of them are a little cruel, as this one
was going to have to be.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The time was of the essence. I kept out of
sight for twenty minutes or so, watching her dancing in
the arms of our moon struck plumber and Siddle into
a phone booth. The Pacific Ballroom does not permit telephone
conversations while the girls are working. When I said it
with the police, the plumber was turned over to a
new candidate, and Rosalie came to the phone. Who this
is Sam's fade, Rosalie, I was dancing with you a
little while ago. What is it? I uh?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I found Jimmy Biddle's apart from well, what's the matter
with her? That's right, I'm afraid so he wants to
see you. Okay, I'll be right over.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He didn't sound for a rat, just caught a zigzag
parow through the mob of the main door and climbed.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Into a cab at the curb. The driver must have
been an old fan of.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Hers, because they were almost out of sight by the
time my.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Cab got rolling, and that's the way. It was across
Market Street and all the way. Our van asked the marina.
Her cab was pulled up in front of an apartment.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
On Jefferson Street, and she just gotten out when we
slid in behind him.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Fya you want to go up together?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But you said you. I'm sorry, honey, I know, with
a dirty trick, but now that's no way to do
you shut up. A gold card holder by the doorbell
list of the tenants as W. R.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Mister Smith was evidently not home. A lady manager in
the apartment next to his was, and after the usual license.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Showing and more than the usual sweet talk, she came
up with the keys.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Little wasn't wealthy, but he wasn't hungry either, you said
the well fixed man about Tom. Look right down to
the last crystal Martini glass in the portable bar in
the living room. Next to it was a mahogany desk,
in which were sundry checkbooks and deposit slips, indicating Biddle
had found a phosphorous widow or had been doing rather
well at canasta. A cross shined four in the next room.
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Since it was after ten, I wondered.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Why when I had to take a look. Maybe I
was psychic, like the girl said.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
There was a tape recorder against one wall, the same
kind I'd seen in your office, Tracy, with a microphone and.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
A roll of tape, and it half used up.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Holding the microphone of one hand was Jimmy Biddle in
the other hand of thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
He wasn't hurt, as I'd told her, he was dead.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Stade. This Sunday, there's another outstanding production
by Theatre Guild on the Air. It's a one hour
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adaptation of the thrilling Tale of Intrigue in post War Vienna.
The Third Man, Joseph Cotton and Senior Hasso star in
this Theatre Guild on the Air broadcast and Sunday over
most of these NBC stations also means The Big Show,
an hour and a half of the finest in comedy,
music and drama. Tilulu will be your hostess and just
listen to a few of the stars, Fred Allen, Marlina Dietrich,
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Danny Thomas, and fran Warren. There will be many more, too,
so tune in this Sunday and every Sunday for the
big Show. Now back to the Biddle Riddle Caper Tonight's
adventure with Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
In accordance with.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Chapter five of the Plant Detective's Manual entitled How to
Keep Your License, I called homicide and gave him the
facts and figures, then went back to a study.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Jimmy Biddle was surrounded.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
By pops like part one of the porta Fine Puzzle.
I carefully reached over his shoulder and pressed the button
on the tape recorder.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
My name is Jimmy Biddle. The DA will remember me.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We saw a lot of each other during the week
after Carol Stevens hit the deck in her apartment three
years ago, at just about this time of night.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I fooled him.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Then I could probably go on fooling him, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Tired of it. I'm tired of living this way. So
here it is.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I knew Carol Stephens well. I was crazy about her,
and I was telling us too.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's why I killed her.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Thought I could go on and on playing Hide and
go Seek for the rest of my life, But sooner
or later, this kind of thing gets still heavy to.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Pack around it. You gotta get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One way or another.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Period end of report.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I roused at the landlady again, and we went over
the room together, a helpful type landlady, and she contributed
a thousand odd bits of gossip about Jimmy Biddle, only one.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Of which struck me as interesting. She'd come in this morning,
she said, to.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Clean his apartment, and among other things, had wound and
set the eight day clock on the mantel, the same
clock which was now exactly four hours fast.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Looking closer at.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The paper corder, I saw a small label pasted above
one of the knobs, reading more Gas and Reed recording technicians.
Next scene a manufacturing section of Sansum Street, a five
story building, all dark at this hour except for a
light in the office on the second floor back, which
happily turned out.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
To be the one.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I guess three anybody?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh what do you want? Well? A pastry cook?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I'm sorry, we're closed. You see office hours nine to five.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Now wait a minute, just a minute, pastry cook.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm not a pastry cook, sir.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
My name is Murgus. I am one of the proprietors
year just a moment, so I all right, Sorry, it
was getting cold out in the hall. Oh, so you're murgers.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I am, and I don't care who you are. I
know all about it, sir. I know it was a
practical joke.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What wasn't a practical joke that tape?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You can march right back to the man you're working
for him, tell him he can't find me off? Is
that clear? Not? Very?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
There's no use denying it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I saw you in his office this afternoon when he when.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
He threatened me, what is it all?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I pulled out on a fire and staved in time
to see my buddy in the pinstripe suit hit the
bottom the alley praised.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He was blind of one end, so Luke took off
toward the street. I caught him in one leg.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
He stumbled, fell, smacked his head against the brick wall
of the alley, and took the comp I was frisking
him when a plowl.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Cough who heard the shots moved up.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I convinced him I wasn't rolling a drunk and let
him to run back upstairs. Fergus Margus, I'm going to
get you to a hospital. Who why, Sam Spade?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I don't work for nor guide Right now, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
To hang a murder rap on him told me it
was practical joke, a gag fine.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Tape, Jimmy's biggle tape. Jimmy rented the machine from you
and made the tape himselves. Right, Yes, no God, what about?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
God tried to beat me.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Into it, beat beat me. Wouldn't give it to him.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Give what tape?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He tried to point to the desk if he passed out,
And so did this already bubbling stew We had a
crucial typewriter while waiting for the ambulance.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I tasted it and found leaving and stuck a.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Piece of paper into it and began to type four
quick drownd foxes that jumped over four lazy dogs. When
a sound came, I looked closer and then tackled A
messy job. I always lead to my secretary. I hate
to play with typewriter ribbons, but this wasn't a typewriter rhybon.
Since said ribbon had I'm to an end and I
was pecking away at a piece of sound tape.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come on, leslie. Yeah, I don't want to, but come on,
might be to read more tired than they were an
hour ago. Okay you first, All right, Now.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm sorry to say it. I thought you were lying
when you said Jimmy was hurt.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Look, let's not go into that now.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
He was blackmailing nor Guard, right, I don't even know
who Norguid is. You know Jimmy was shaking someone down.
Didn't she never know where he got his money? I
just knew it was dirty money.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He'd laughed and said he was living high, not to move.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
He never mentioned nor Guard.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
No. I just said he was going to make fifty
thousand dollars in a radio program.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Did he say how sing?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I thought he was kidding when he showed.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Up with a tape of when he wasn't kidding then what.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
He wanted to be alone? He said he was going
to make an audition instead of do a sponsor. That's
where he made the mistake. He sent it to the
wrong sponsor. He figured they hit Norguard for the biggest
touch of all. Thought hearing it might make him dig deeper.
So he recorded his statements and Norgrade for a sample.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But there was something he didn't think of.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What do you mean he should have studied up on
his tape recorders. Baby with a pair of scissors and
a good technician. Jimmy's eyewitness account turned into a first
class confession. The final phase of the Biddle Viddle was,
as you will recall, Tracy enacted on one of the
sound stages of a nation's leading network.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Whereas you will also recall, you were busily.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Transcribing the testimony of various witnesses on the Carol Stephens case.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
All you got him there.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'll never know, but there he was, as big and
legal looking as ever, perjuring himself.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Once more into one of your microphones.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I walked out of the Twins Dragon on Grand Avenue
as I remember it now, Biddle.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Was across the street.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
He apparently recognized me, though, excuse me, will your fellas?
What slade? You idiots?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You're ruined it. I'm sorry, Tracy. Oh, we'll have to
start it over.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Again, mister Norgu, Would you mind if I record a
few remarks? Spade, Please understand my position. Biddle's confession has
changed everything. The killer is not at law. Yeah, yeah,
twenty four hours I spent recording the show. Now it'll
all have to be done over again. These people at
this out litsen Tracy. All right, Spade, what is it?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'm only trying to help now, where's Biddle's confession.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
On the machine? There, We're going to double onto the
main tape.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Good now, be a good lad and show me where
your starting to stop it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Huh right there?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, what is this space? This is going to interest you,
mister Norguard.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Now let us turn to the tape, keeping our eyes
on the spool as it slowly feeds Jimmy Biddle's last state.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
My name is Jimmy Biddle.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The DA will remember mey. We saw a lot of
each other during the week after Carol Stephens hit the
deck in her apartment three years ago at just about
this time of night.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I fooled him.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Then. I could probably go on fooling him, but I'm
tired of it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm tired of living this way.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
So here it is.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I knew Carol Stephens.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, I was crazy about it, and I will tell
us two. That's why, Ike, there's a riddle for you,
nor Guard. He said, the girl died quote at just
about this time of night, unquote. But the clock struck
three times. We know she died at eleven. What happened
to the other eight chimes? Be patient with me, Tracy,
what about it?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Nor Garden?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Well, how do I know that the man was crazy? Maybe? No?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
No, no, no, he wasn't crazy. Stupid, but not crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So we take this spool of tape off, and what's
this one?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
What's that? This is the part that was cut out.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Got it from a guy who did the spicing job
for you, thinking it was a practical joke or something,
And do you know what you're saying? Yeah? But Biddle
says it better. The last thing we heard was I
was crazy about her and I was jealous too. That's
why I killed her. Only he didn't say killed her,
just that's why I was standing outside in the hall
way of her apartment could night she died. I'd seen
her leave the theater with a guy I recognized her,
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and I followed them home to her place, heard the
argument everything, But.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I had no idea kill her until I heard her
hit the floor.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Door busted open then, and he came out looking like
a crazy man. They didn't even see me, just ran
down the backstairs as fast as he could go, and
I went in and saw her lying on the floor dead,
And I could have killed him then.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But I thought of something. But he's good.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Pay The cash comes right on time. But I'm tired
of living this way. So there's the story. The man
who killed Carol's steeper.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
This is as far as Biddle's God.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Then Norguard had glad to stand mike and slanted it
into the recording machine and the rubab which followed. He
also slanted into my face, which is why I carry
the implant of the nation's number one network just below
my right eye. That's about the clock, Tracy, nor Guard
and Pinstride now lie cheek by jowel and the jail
hospital trying to think of an honest lawyer will defend them.
Why are you, Tracy, with a third round of interviews
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before you are considering pausing out Carol Stephens and doing
the shooting of Dan McGrew, period.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And the report was unfortunate, that ext thing about the class.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It was four hours, song.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
My sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That's self explanatory. The clock said four, you see, but
it was twelve. It will have been dead an hour,
which makes it eleven. Carry one once for tracting four
from at least seven, and assuming he'd been there and
o before, that makes six.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Daven what relentless logic.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Get the crease Effie on this program, we do not
plug rival products.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'll go and type that up while I figure this out.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Three Chimes mean Good Times On NBC. There's mystery and
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There's a man without a name who travels the world
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Music Tomorrow, your Hit Parade brings you the top tunes
in the land, played by Raymond Scott's Orchestra and with
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vocals by Snookye Lanson and Eileen Wilson. Thank you, dear one,
I see by the pearls in your brow that you
have not as yet solved the matter of the missing chime.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh why nor God set the clock ahead when he
shot Jimmy Bibbles?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
How to approach this?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Do you realize Norguard cut a hunk out of the tape,
removing Biddle's eye witness account, setting them up.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
As a suicide.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Right, don't make me change my low. Biddle, by his
own statement, made the recording at the time of the
murder of Carol Stevens to win eleven o'clock now. In
cutting out the crucial words. Nor Guard also had to
cut out eight chimes. This, he realized would be noticed,
so he set the clock ahead to make the number
of chimes gibe.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Chime's gibe chime, jibe, nice.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Ring, Sam.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
We're gonna be all right with you if I just
say I understand what I really don't sure, sweetheart, I'll
just type an answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And you you just see and your and together we'll
end up, I know, with good night, good night.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Sweet art.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen title is Effie. Script Fortnite's Adventure by Harold Swanton,
Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrister. Join
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