August 20, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Sam Stay Detective Agency, be sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh Sam, I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Why I know?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Was it a good jaser?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I didn't like it?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Mark SAMONTEO.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh somebody killed?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, but you know who did it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh that's bad bad Believe it or not. Half I
wish I didn't know who killed who?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I understand? Oh, Sam, you sound so downhearted.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well I'm sorry, I'm trying to listen up. Stay way here,
a sweetheart. I'll be right down to dictate my report
on a champion caper. Nash ol Hammets, America's leading detective
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Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, oh, Sam, I read the afternoon paper.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I didn't understand that either.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Stop that.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Really, after all this time, you think I'd get acclimatized
to all kinds of human storms. I've got my pencil already,
I myself again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm ready, Sam Sam Date date August seventh, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
To Doom Sam Jack Manelly.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Two Detective Lieutenant Manelly.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Detail Sana Telo police from Samuel.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Stay license in my went to stop. Are you listening, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Subject the Champion Caper, Jim Manelle. You were there for
the end of it, and I was there the start
of it, which is in the reception office of Elliott
Champions Brokerage House and Sam Matteo and where I first
met Mildred Champion. Remember that old Sam how a woman
in love is always beautiful. I went, and I had
no idea she was in love, and no ideas she
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was beautiful, not because she had lately been crying. But
her sallow face without makeup, framed and a whisper of
blond hair wasn't flattered by the shapeless black dress, cotton stockings,
and low heeled shoes she was wearing. Certainly not the
going idea of beauty. Nor did her conversation reveal anything
to indicate love.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh yes, may.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I help you, mister Elliott Champion. My name's Spade staid.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Stad.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You don't have to write it. He's expecting me.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Your business is to stay private. I have to have
a little more than that. I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Always this hot here.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Mister Champion can't stand fresh year. I mean that's what
makes it so warm in here.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'm sorry, Yeah it is hot. Just foot the sweatch
and tell him I'm here.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Well, I was just going out. Mister Stade is here,
says you're expecting him, but I don't find him listed
in your appointment book.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Don't be an idiot, centimen sentimen. You may go in now,
mister Spade, he always liked that.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
He's nice today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Sorry, Moldy, that's your name, and.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
His office is the first john the ring.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Don't bother, I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Find him, Thank you all.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I'll just go to munch.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Mister champion.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Hell, don't just stand there, comm in and shut the door.
But I have to discuss with he was private. I
don't want that snoopy niece of mine listening to our conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
She's not the lunch now, But does she listen in
on him all the time? Why she didn't know who
I was?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
I out smarter to there. I called you from the
drug store on the corner. I don't want anyone to
know who you are while you're here.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh no, where did.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I put that light?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Oh yeah, I'm a dangerous man to play games with.
Joseph's found that out once, and if he gets his
business up, he's going to find it out again.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No games, you had dangerous?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Say?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Are you mocking me?
Speaker 8 (05:10):
Spade?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Just wondering what you're talking about. I just told you
you got his, haven't just?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Jo Josephs is back in town and I'm not going
to fool around with him.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Mildon told me you were nice today.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Oh she did, did she?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Mildred talks too much.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's what's the matter with her. She talks too much,
and you'd fire unless she's your niece. You'd have to
pay somebody else three times what you pay her to
take everything she has to take.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Get out of my office. Oh no, no, wait a minute, Spade,
it's just hot.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I guess I. Uh, who has turned on the heat?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
It's Jojoseph's. He was relieved from San Quentin this week
and I've been receiving telephone calls from him telling me
to beware and to watch.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Out and a lot of other nuns.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
So was he doing at sam Quinton two to five
on an embezzling count?
Speaker 8 (05:46):
He's done.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Grateful scoundrel, that's what he is. I took him into
my office as a junior executive and six months lait.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He got tired of the twenty dollars a week you
were probably paying him at the side of the deep
end of the bin. Only he did a bad job,
got caught, you testified against him. Now he's out and
he saw and he's rightning.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
And every time he yelled clop around this time there's
always some snoopy reporter hanging around the sargeant's desk. That's
the true Listen, speed, I've got a half a million
dollars tied up in this business, and I don't want
anybody thinking I might get knocked over by some looney
with a grut.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And that's why it didn't tell the police. Don't you
believe me? It'll Joe, for now you'll think of something batter.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I'll see your impertinence is twenty five a day, and no,
that'll be forty five a day in expenses. I want
you to find Joe Josephs and bring.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Him to me Nisen's wan.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
More than that, I've got enough stuff in that droader
sending back to Quentin. If I have to, oh, what
kind of stuff left over from his trial, it'll be
grand gloss in me this time. And they don't stop
at five years for that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You withheld evidence. I worthheld us down. My bank is
only eight feet from the window, and it came through
from the other building across the court. The talents hurried
the ruin, the marshman tamer. It is just a bad
shot because out of six five he didn't connect with
a thing with the dust clamp and a waste basket.
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I that fan champion and I were both in the
flotsamping on top of me. I kicked out to get loose,
and he kicked me back. I gave that up and
put it around for my gun. Across the corner window
was open about six inches, one corner of which was
full of a dark sleeved hand and a gun arm.
I fired at it from what was known his number
six position. It can't get me with bait, get him
with free. What do you think I hired some before.
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I didn't bother the answer, and I went through the window,
hunted the fire escape, and all over the next building.
I did more. I went in that building, which is
apparently bacont down the stairs and started out the back entrance.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Hey, sorry, he looks a big guy.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He came out of this building which way he goes.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
O game out of what building?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This building? Right here? Just a second? Agoo him? Who
the guy who just ran down the other ll wuk
it up?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I can't rugge it up by who?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Where?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Don't fish your curly anytime.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I couldn't tell her what he looked like because I
hadn't seen him. After a careful search of the building,
which was biled nothing, I decided my suspect to eluded
me for good, and I returned to the arbics of
Elliot Champion. He was sitting on his green leather chair,
wearing an expression to match missed him speed. What does
Joseph look like?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Oh, I've got a couple of snapshots here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Eyes, Oh, yes, here, let's have a look. I was
later to regret having those snapshots in my person. They
showed a tall, thin face, hearted looking guy, an old
looking twenty eight good face, shock of black hair, and
dark eyes. I've seen plenty of cons and bezzler type,
and he wouldn't have been cast in the pot in
my movie. There's nothing about him to indicate that he'dnbuzzled
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two thousand dollars to us a silence around a gun.
I dug two thirty eight slugs out of Champion's wall
and went down on the street. Faid he was a
heavy set man in a dirty white panama hat and
see a sucker suit that didn't fit him around the middle.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Just a minute, spirit, just a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
He crawled out of a black sedan, jammed a cigar
in his mouth, and began sweating. He needed a shave.
He'd always need a shave.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Hot afternoon, Yes, for sure is hot.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Sure he's hot here here in my card, lem you
will drigger confidential investigations.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, I should not have some new ones sprinted up.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Huh. I guess you should order Lamb and change the name.
You're at it. Eh, the commission a bounch and nine
years ago for rolling a pack before you did the booking. Oh,
let buy guns be Bygne Spade. I'm in business for
myself now. It is business Lamb Punk, try another racket,
Lamb and Spade. You've been in to see old man Champion.
Maybe maybe I was just going to go in and
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see him myself. When I spot you pulled up. I
recognize you in.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The pictures in the paper last week.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I figured maybe you and me are to talk. What
did you figure you and maybe ought to talk about Limb.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Oh, you make it.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Tough for a guy, Spade.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
We're we're in the same business.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know what'd you go see him about? So long?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Lamb?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Hey, wait a minute, I'm an old gum boot.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Huh's that old gum boot whouldn't get quick as the
house paper or tailing the punk as that is?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Okay, Spain, Okay, you're full.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Of vindergar now, but just you keep my card, you'll.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
I'm to see Lembgriger before Joe turned up.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Don't want to see.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Me cruel, But he was right.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I did want to say him because when I got
down to the chronicle office and looked up a mark
on the Joe Joseph's trial, the first thing that jumped
out at me was the name Lemuel Trigger. Lemuel Trigger,
private detective who had been employed when mister Champion had
become suspicious of Joseph's the counterregularity, and who together was
mister Champion caught Joseph's red handed, and who willingly offered
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his testimony the same at the trial which convicted Joe
Joseph to San Quentin for five years. The file also
gave the name of Joseph's lawyer, a man named Anthony Speezer.
The phone book showed an apartment address on Geary.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Did you, Aggy?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Hold on a man?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And I was just trying to get dinner over before
you showed up.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I guess I'm late tonight for you, mister Speezey.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
My name's Spade. I'm a private investigator. I'm trying to
locate a former client of years, a man named Joseph.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
I was expecting Aggie, but come in.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thanks.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
I always fix my on dinner coached egg and half
and half. Ulcer's name Spade?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, want an egg? No thanks, I'm un dirty.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Nine to five.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's up to you.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Who's your client? Spade?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Elliott Champion Joe josephs is back in time and he's
been making telephone frats and throwing thirty eighth around.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Eh, you know where he is.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Joe was a nice kid, but a calendar job born
with one war going on a depression on deck and
another war in the whole makes a difference. The calendar
got him. Everything was against him at the trial too.
I couldn't do anything, he thought. I let him down,
told me so he got real sore when they read
the book at him. Thurtn Champion and that private dick
little gregger and everybody else said he was railroaded.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Your is it turning?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
I know, I know, but he didn't have a chance
to meet in a beating that rap. He thought I
ratted when I took the guilty plea in court's mercy,
all for a lousy two grand. Well he's done his
time and he's out now.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He hasn't gotten in touch with him? No, no threats, nope,
have a right to you from prison?
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Any idea where he'd BELLI in time?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Possibly as a mother?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And I guess I'll leave you at a Aggie were
playing records.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Aggie used to be a violinist.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Violence up to her Spade?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Uh, Spade, Yeah, if you find Joe, tell him where
I live. I'd like to see him. Why No, maybe
I just want to see what five years and the
pandas to a kid like that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I'll bet you do. Uh Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Is this you, mister Spade? This is no good Champion
remember me and my uncle's office.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I remember, Spade.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You're looking for Joe, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I know you are you don't have to answer me.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I think I can help you find him. I must
talk to you right away before something terrible happens.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Please come out to the house before something terrible happens.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
He's right in the corner.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I got out to the house as fast as I could,
but not before something terrible had happened. Hey. Hey, the
front door was open and all the lights were on,
and Elliot Champion was lying at the foot of the
stairs in the front hall holding his palace. If it
would get away front me.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Hey, don't touch me.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Don't try to move me.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
It's in my lung somewhere.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I never thought it didn't look like they'd be much used,
but I beat it up the stairs to the hall
phone to call emergency ambulance. Oh what's this is? Joel?
So you hired a private eye and look me up high? Well,
he'll never find me, but I'll find you. Yeah, mister Champion,
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I'll be.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Seeing you real soon.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I didn't get it then, but I got it a
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the top railing. A pair of hands held me up
long enough to go through my pockets and then let
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And now back to the Champion Caper tonight's adventure with
Sam Spade. The neighbors had complained of gunshots, which was
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fortunate to me. I still might have been lying at
the bottom of those stairs and Champions House, Lieutenant, if
you hadn't walked in, applied first aid, asked me my
name and listen to my story. You considered the threatening
phone call after my client's death as a cover up
and promptly sent out a general alarm on Joe Joseph's
I's like an aspen and a taxi cab for home.
Half way uptown, I discovered the pictures of Joe Joseph's
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were missing from my wallet, and that is why I
was absent at the medical Examiner's inquest this morning. Instead
of going home, I went out to Sam Mateo Jimmy
Delocke Champion's office and violated City Ordinance number three fifty
two B. My dead client's desk revealed one important item,
an income tax boucher dated August seventeen, nineteen forty four,
noting him delinquent. Then I found another important item. Same
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for nineteen forty three. His secretary's desk was even more interesting.
But I found there led me to one call her
home result no answer, and two to revisit attorney Speezer.
I found him poaching another egg.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
All right, all right, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's late.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
He what's the idea unless it's rage over nine? All spade?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You give a show?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Yeah? Left early, it has worked tomorrow. What were you
still looking for? Joels? Yep, and he leads if I
could help your speed?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Elliott Champion was shot and killed in his home tonight. No,
that all you have to say, Joe, do it? Maybe
what you don't seem scared for a mouthpiece Joe didn't like.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
If you mean? Should I be next? No, I'm not scared.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Speed.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
The kid should realize at this time I liked him
that all he could.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You've been here all evening, Haggie. Could you prove it? Yeah?
You may have to. Did you know Mildred Champion was married.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
To Joe Joseph?
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, how'd you know? The secret?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I found this marriage license and a desk drawers. I
found something else. Champion didn't pay his income taxes all
the time.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
A lot of people are like that. Spade.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Meg testified against Joe at the trial. So the Champion
note that worked in the office, but she didn't testify it.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
WFE can't testify against husband. Real good stories, Spade, But
what about Joe?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Champion had something on Lem Dragger and Drager had something
on Champion. Joe's in between. You tell me, huh huh,
All right, I'll tell you. It's all about a green
kid hired into a brokerage firm to be framed on
a phony embezzling charge to cover up a tax delinquency.
You want to finish it, I can.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
I don't know. You've got is though, Yeah, yes, Fade,
You're right, I've got ideas, and all of them make
me sick inside. That kid stood there and told me
he was innocent. He said it a million times if
he said it once. And he told me he thought
Champion was short with the income tax people.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And the Champion was short. He gets Funny up a
book and get a worn out private detective like Dregg
had to testify that they had been a fraud, and
Joe takes.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
The rep is that's what happened. They did it pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Did you mention anything like this at the trial.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Surmise is not admissible, and there was no way to
investigate it and no way to prove it. Joe was
a nice kid, Spade, and he told a good story.
I've been fooled a lot of times.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
What do you think.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I haven't met him yet.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
All right, he's done his five years, he came out.
Now they want him for killing the man as Enema.
His whole life's gone, and for what, Spade. I hope
you don't find them. I hope nobody ever finds them.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But we did find Joe. Joseph Manity was right under
our noses all the time, and I called Julia, told
me to come on down to the morgue, the county hospital.
We both stood and looked at Joe josephs.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
It's a funny thing, Simon. We had an alarm out
for an hour on this guy. We've been looking all
over for him, and he turns up right here and
he's dead. He's been dead since last night, about.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Seven seven, same time Champion was killed.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
TB just got the whole story. Had an awful bat
in prison on a sick quarter the last two years,
wanted out, awful bad when his time was up last week.
He made him release him, but he wound.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Up here died in the hospital. He looks awful young
to be a corner off.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I don't know, Sam, He's just a kid, is me.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I've been tell Nan you had some kind of case
against Joe Josephs. But when the medical examiner reported that
Mike Klan had been shot at the thirty two, the
rest of it began to fall into place. Lemn Bigger's
office was a dirty room over a shoe repair shop
on Mission Street. The glance on the door hadn't been
washed in five years, and neither than anything else you
can how they tell where the office left off and
lemb began. Hello, Spade, I have been waiting for you.
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I thought you'd get over for some talk talk. What
makes you think that? Lamb? Can you hear?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Ain't you all right?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Let's make talk talk? Did the silence are ruin your gun?
Come on? Come on? I want it all. Hey, you
your phone to night after Champion was killed. You've been
phoning them right along, saying it was Joe. Just a minute, Spade,
we're in the same run shot at him with a
silence r on your thirty eight. This afternoon and make
it look real good. You can't prove anything. I didn't
kill it one slug out of your gun on match
set up every cop carries at thirty eight, you were
a cop once, Spade. You got this all wrong because
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you thought he'd called you in for protection. He called
you in once on another job.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Listen, I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
But I was so bad.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You had to draum it up, didn't you. Jesus was
released from president. It was unnatural. Only it didn't work.
Champion called me instead, and you tried to shake me down.
He only thought we could kind of work together. You
don't make it a good thing. And I thought you
once you should try another racket, but you didn't take
my advice. Now you're gonna have to What do you mean,
because your license will be revoked pretty quick. You got
into a lot of trouble about two minutes from now,
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I did.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
I was right here.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
What do you try to go out and complain on
you for assault and battery? Wait a minute, I ain't
done nothing, do you?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Champion instead in this.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Said lamb, you tried to strike me and I had
a friend play and I sent my guy a complaint.
Lieutenant I phoned your office, and two of your men
were on the way out to pick him up. When
I heard a footstep outside the door. I knew who
was there and what she was there for. And I
did the only thing I could think of at the moment.
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And it was lucky. I did it. Her own thirty
two was in her hand when she came in the door.
She looked at me and limb, smoking gun in my hand,
looked at him stretched out on the floor. Then she
looked back at me, and the gun fell from her
hand as she began to cry, Hello.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I wanted to do it. I came here to do it.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I know why?
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Why did you to stop you?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Why?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
My bullets went over the sailing He just knocked out.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
No he ought to be dead, dead.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
No, no, no, not anymore, Milly.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You take me.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You knew I was coming here, and you know he
should die.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I won't bring Joe back.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
How many real tramps have you met in your life.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Mister Spade?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Lots and suddenly just.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Thought they were Well, you met the genuine product yesterday.
My uncle, for example, he stole money from himself and
made it look like Joe did it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I know about that and this one. Why didn't you
let me kill him too?
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Why I went over to see him in the hospital
the first time I knew he was dying.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
He had that look in his eyes, helpless, and he
knew what they'd done to him, and he couldn't do
anything about it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
But you figgured that you could, So you killed your
uncle when you found out Joe died, and you came
here to kill him.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
They killed him.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
They killed Joe when they sent him to prison.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Five years I waited for him to get out of
that awesome toy.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I waited to hold him in my arms and tell
him it was all over.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Five years.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I waited to help him forget his hat.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
My hat.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Five years.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I loved him so much every day, and then he
came back to me to wait. Those pictures were all
I had left of him after five years.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Of waiting loving him.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Now he's dead.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
What can you or I or anybody do about what
they've done to him? Look at me, mister Spade, Go ahead,
look at me.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm not what you'd call it beautiful. I'm not even
very pretty. Nobody would ever look at me. Twice Well,
Joe looked at me, and he loved me. Now he's
dead and I'm dead inside.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
I'm dead inside, and I'll be glad when I'm dead outside.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Period and a report there was Yeah, I had a
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Too didn't make any mistakes, cause you didn't.
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Are you retty serious about getting out of town for
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Speaker 1 (24:58):
I am. The world's too much with you, Sam, Effie.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I know it's potter Sam, and it seems kind of
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Speaker 2 (25:06):
I don't care if she did kill those two minutes
you'll sorry for it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
What's I've got to do with?
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What's kind of justice? Why did she dressed the way
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Form of penancy. It's a morning absence of her missing lover.
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Sam Stay Detective Agency, be sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh Sam, I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Why I know?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Was it a good jaser?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I didn't like it?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Mark SAMONTEO.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh somebody killed?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, but you know who did it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh that's bad bad Believe it or not. Half I
wish I didn't know who killed who?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I understand? Oh, Sam, you sound so downhearted.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well I'm sorry, I'm trying to listen up. Stay way here,
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Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, oh, Sam, I read the afternoon paper.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I didn't understand that either.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Stop that.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Really, after all this time, you think I'd get acclimatized
to all kinds of human storms. I've got my pencil already,
I myself again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm ready, Sam Sam Date date August seventh, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
To Doom Sam Jack Manelly.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Two Detective Lieutenant Manelly.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Detail Sana Telo police from Samuel.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Stay license in my went to stop. Are you listening, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Subject the Champion Caper, Jim Manelle. You were there for
the end of it, and I was there the start
of it, which is in the reception office of Elliott
Champions Brokerage House and Sam Matteo and where I first
met Mildred Champion. Remember that old Sam how a woman
in love is always beautiful. I went, and I had
no idea she was in love, and no ideas she
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was beautiful, not because she had lately been crying. But
her sallow face without makeup, framed and a whisper of
blond hair wasn't flattered by the shapeless black dress, cotton stockings,
and low heeled shoes she was wearing. Certainly not the
going idea of beauty. Nor did her conversation reveal anything
to indicate love.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh yes, may.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I help you, mister Elliott Champion. My name's Spade staid.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Stad.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You don't have to write it. He's expecting me.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Your business is to stay private. I have to have
a little more than that. I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Always this hot here.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Mister Champion can't stand fresh year. I mean that's what
makes it so warm in here.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'm sorry, Yeah it is hot. Just foot the sweatch
and tell him I'm here.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Well, I was just going out. Mister Stade is here,
says you're expecting him, but I don't find him listed
in your appointment book.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Don't be an idiot, centimen sentimen. You may go in now,
mister Spade, he always liked that.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
He's nice today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Sorry, Moldy, that's your name, and.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
His office is the first john the ring.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Don't bother, I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Find him, Thank you all.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I'll just go to munch.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Mister champion.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Hell, don't just stand there, comm in and shut the door.
But I have to discuss with he was private. I
don't want that snoopy niece of mine listening to our conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
She's not the lunch now, But does she listen in
on him all the time? Why she didn't know who
I was?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
I out smarter to there. I called you from the
drug store on the corner. I don't want anyone to
know who you are while you're here.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh no, where did.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I put that light?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Oh yeah, I'm a dangerous man to play games with.
Joseph's found that out once, and if he gets his
business up, he's going to find it out again.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No games, you had dangerous?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Say?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Are you mocking me?
Speaker 8 (05:10):
Spade?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Just wondering what you're talking about. I just told you
you got his, haven't just?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Jo Josephs is back in town and I'm not going
to fool around with him.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Mildon told me you were nice today.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Oh she did, did she?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Mildred talks too much.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's what's the matter with her. She talks too much,
and you'd fire unless she's your niece. You'd have to
pay somebody else three times what you pay her to
take everything she has to take.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Get out of my office. Oh no, no, wait a minute, Spade,
it's just hot.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I guess I. Uh, who has turned on the heat?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
It's Jojoseph's. He was relieved from San Quentin this week
and I've been receiving telephone calls from him telling me
to beware and to watch.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Out and a lot of other nuns.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
So was he doing at sam Quinton two to five
on an embezzling count?
Speaker 8 (05:46):
He's done.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Grateful scoundrel, that's what he is. I took him into
my office as a junior executive and six months lait.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He got tired of the twenty dollars a week you
were probably paying him at the side of the deep
end of the bin. Only he did a bad job,
got caught, you testified against him. Now he's out and
he saw and he's rightning.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
And every time he yelled clop around this time there's
always some snoopy reporter hanging around the sargeant's desk. That's
the true Listen, speed, I've got a half a million
dollars tied up in this business, and I don't want
anybody thinking I might get knocked over by some looney
with a grut.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And that's why it didn't tell the police. Don't you
believe me? It'll Joe, for now you'll think of something batter.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I'll see your impertinence is twenty five a day, and no,
that'll be forty five a day in expenses. I want
you to find Joe Josephs and bring.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Him to me Nisen's wan.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
More than that, I've got enough stuff in that droader
sending back to Quentin. If I have to, oh, what
kind of stuff left over from his trial, it'll be
grand gloss in me this time. And they don't stop
at five years for that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You withheld evidence. I worthheld us down. My bank is
only eight feet from the window, and it came through
from the other building across the court. The talents hurried
the ruin, the marshman tamer. It is just a bad
shot because out of six five he didn't connect with
a thing with the dust clamp and a waste basket.
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I that fan champion and I were both in the
flotsamping on top of me. I kicked out to get loose,
and he kicked me back. I gave that up and
put it around for my gun. Across the corner window
was open about six inches, one corner of which was
full of a dark sleeved hand and a gun arm.
I fired at it from what was known his number
six position. It can't get me with bait, get him
with free. What do you think I hired some before.
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I didn't bother the answer, and I went through the window,
hunted the fire escape, and all over the next building.
I did more. I went in that building, which is
apparently bacont down the stairs and started out the back entrance.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Hey, sorry, he looks a big guy.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He came out of this building which way he goes.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
O game out of what building?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This building? Right here? Just a second? Agoo him? Who
the guy who just ran down the other ll wuk
it up?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I can't rugge it up by who?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Where?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Don't fish your curly anytime.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I couldn't tell her what he looked like because I
hadn't seen him. After a careful search of the building,
which was biled nothing, I decided my suspect to eluded
me for good, and I returned to the arbics of
Elliot Champion. He was sitting on his green leather chair,
wearing an expression to match missed him speed. What does
Joseph look like?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Oh, I've got a couple of snapshots here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Eyes, Oh, yes, here, let's have a look. I was
later to regret having those snapshots in my person. They
showed a tall, thin face, hearted looking guy, an old
looking twenty eight good face, shock of black hair, and
dark eyes. I've seen plenty of cons and bezzler type,
and he wouldn't have been cast in the pot in
my movie. There's nothing about him to indicate that he'dnbuzzled
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two thousand dollars to us a silence around a gun.
I dug two thirty eight slugs out of Champion's wall
and went down on the street. Faid he was a
heavy set man in a dirty white panama hat and
see a sucker suit that didn't fit him around the middle.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Just a minute, spirit, just a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
He crawled out of a black sedan, jammed a cigar
in his mouth, and began sweating. He needed a shave.
He'd always need a shave.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Hot afternoon, Yes, for sure is hot.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Sure he's hot here here in my card, lem you
will drigger confidential investigations.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, I should not have some new ones sprinted up.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Huh. I guess you should order Lamb and change the name.
You're at it. Eh, the commission a bounch and nine
years ago for rolling a pack before you did the booking. Oh,
let buy guns be Bygne Spade. I'm in business for
myself now. It is business Lamb Punk, try another racket,
Lamb and Spade. You've been in to see old man Champion.
Maybe maybe I was just going to go in and
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see him myself. When I spot you pulled up. I
recognize you in.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The pictures in the paper last week.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I figured maybe you and me are to talk. What
did you figure you and maybe ought to talk about Limb.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Oh, you make it.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Tough for a guy, Spade.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
We're we're in the same business.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know what'd you go see him about? So long?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Lamb?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Hey, wait a minute, I'm an old gum boot.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Huh's that old gum boot whouldn't get quick as the
house paper or tailing the punk as that is?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Okay, Spain, Okay, you're full.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Of vindergar now, but just you keep my card, you'll.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
I'm to see Lembgriger before Joe turned up.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Don't want to see.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Me cruel, But he was right.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I did want to say him because when I got
down to the chronicle office and looked up a mark
on the Joe Joseph's trial, the first thing that jumped
out at me was the name Lemuel Trigger. Lemuel Trigger,
private detective who had been employed when mister Champion had
become suspicious of Joseph's the counterregularity, and who together was
mister Champion caught Joseph's red handed, and who willingly offered
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his testimony the same at the trial which convicted Joe
Joseph to San Quentin for five years. The file also
gave the name of Joseph's lawyer, a man named Anthony Speezer.
The phone book showed an apartment address on Geary.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Did you, Aggy?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Hold on a man?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And I was just trying to get dinner over before
you showed up.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I guess I'm late tonight for you, mister Speezey.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
My name's Spade. I'm a private investigator. I'm trying to
locate a former client of years, a man named Joseph.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
I was expecting Aggie, but come in.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thanks.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
I always fix my on dinner coached egg and half
and half. Ulcer's name Spade?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, want an egg? No thanks, I'm un dirty.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Nine to five.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's up to you.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Who's your client? Spade?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Elliott Champion Joe josephs is back in time and he's
been making telephone frats and throwing thirty eighth around.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Eh, you know where he is.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Joe was a nice kid, but a calendar job born
with one war going on a depression on deck and
another war in the whole makes a difference. The calendar
got him. Everything was against him at the trial too.
I couldn't do anything, he thought. I let him down,
told me so he got real sore when they read
the book at him. Thurtn Champion and that private dick
little gregger and everybody else said he was railroaded.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Your is it turning?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
I know, I know, but he didn't have a chance
to meet in a beating that rap. He thought I
ratted when I took the guilty plea in court's mercy,
all for a lousy two grand. Well he's done his
time and he's out now.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He hasn't gotten in touch with him? No, no threats, nope,
have a right to you from prison?
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Any idea where he'd BELLI in time?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Possibly as a mother?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And I guess I'll leave you at a Aggie were
playing records.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Aggie used to be a violinist.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Violence up to her Spade?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Uh, Spade, Yeah, if you find Joe, tell him where
I live. I'd like to see him. Why No, maybe
I just want to see what five years and the
pandas to a kid like that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I'll bet you do. Uh Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Is this you, mister Spade? This is no good Champion
remember me and my uncle's office.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I remember, Spade.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You're looking for Joe, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I know you are you don't have to answer me.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I think I can help you find him. I must
talk to you right away before something terrible happens.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Please come out to the house before something terrible happens.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
He's right in the corner.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I got out to the house as fast as I could,
but not before something terrible had happened. Hey. Hey, the
front door was open and all the lights were on,
and Elliot Champion was lying at the foot of the
stairs in the front hall holding his palace. If it
would get away front me.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Hey, don't touch me.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Don't try to move me.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
It's in my lung somewhere.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I never thought it didn't look like they'd be much used,
but I beat it up the stairs to the hall
phone to call emergency ambulance. Oh what's this is? Joel?
So you hired a private eye and look me up high? Well,
he'll never find me, but I'll find you. Yeah, mister Champion,
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I'll be.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Seeing you real soon.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I didn't get it then, but I got it a
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Sam Spade. The neighbors had complained of gunshots, which was
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fortunate to me. I still might have been lying at
the bottom of those stairs and Champions House, Lieutenant, if
you hadn't walked in, applied first aid, asked me my
name and listen to my story. You considered the threatening
phone call after my client's death as a cover up
and promptly sent out a general alarm on Joe Joseph's
I's like an aspen and a taxi cab for home.
Half way uptown, I discovered the pictures of Joe Joseph's
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were missing from my wallet, and that is why I
was absent at the medical Examiner's inquest this morning. Instead
of going home, I went out to Sam Mateo Jimmy
Delocke Champion's office and violated City Ordinance number three fifty
two B. My dead client's desk revealed one important item,
an income tax boucher dated August seventeen, nineteen forty four,
noting him delinquent. Then I found another important item. Same
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for nineteen forty three. His secretary's desk was even more interesting.
But I found there led me to one call her
home result no answer, and two to revisit attorney Speezer.
I found him poaching another egg.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
All right, all right, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's late.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
He what's the idea unless it's rage over nine? All spade?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You give a show?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Yeah? Left early, it has worked tomorrow. What were you
still looking for? Joels? Yep, and he leads if I
could help your speed?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Elliott Champion was shot and killed in his home tonight. No,
that all you have to say, Joe, do it? Maybe
what you don't seem scared for a mouthpiece Joe didn't like.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
If you mean? Should I be next? No, I'm not scared.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Speed.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
The kid should realize at this time I liked him
that all he could.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You've been here all evening, Haggie. Could you prove it? Yeah?
You may have to. Did you know Mildred Champion was married.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
To Joe Joseph?
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, how'd you know? The secret?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I found this marriage license and a desk drawers. I
found something else. Champion didn't pay his income taxes all
the time.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
A lot of people are like that. Spade.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Meg testified against Joe at the trial. So the Champion
note that worked in the office, but she didn't testify it.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
WFE can't testify against husband. Real good stories, Spade, But
what about Joe?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Champion had something on Lem Dragger and Drager had something
on Champion. Joe's in between. You tell me, huh huh,
All right, I'll tell you. It's all about a green
kid hired into a brokerage firm to be framed on
a phony embezzling charge to cover up a tax delinquency.
You want to finish it, I can.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
I don't know. You've got is though, Yeah, yes, Fade,
You're right, I've got ideas, and all of them make
me sick inside. That kid stood there and told me
he was innocent. He said it a million times if
he said it once. And he told me he thought
Champion was short with the income tax people.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And the Champion was short. He gets Funny up a
book and get a worn out private detective like Dregg
had to testify that they had been a fraud, and
Joe takes.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
The rep is that's what happened. They did it pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Did you mention anything like this at the trial.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Surmise is not admissible, and there was no way to
investigate it and no way to prove it. Joe was
a nice kid, Spade, and he told a good story.
I've been fooled a lot of times.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
What do you think.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I haven't met him yet.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
All right, he's done his five years, he came out.
Now they want him for killing the man as Enema.
His whole life's gone, and for what, Spade. I hope
you don't find them. I hope nobody ever finds them.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But we did find Joe. Joseph Manity was right under
our noses all the time, and I called Julia, told
me to come on down to the morgue, the county hospital.
We both stood and looked at Joe josephs.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
It's a funny thing, Simon. We had an alarm out
for an hour on this guy. We've been looking all
over for him, and he turns up right here and
he's dead. He's been dead since last night, about.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Seven seven, same time Champion was killed.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
TB just got the whole story. Had an awful bat
in prison on a sick quarter the last two years,
wanted out, awful bad when his time was up last week.
He made him release him, but he wound.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Up here died in the hospital. He looks awful young
to be a corner off.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I don't know, Sam, He's just a kid, is me.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I've been tell Nan you had some kind of case
against Joe Josephs. But when the medical examiner reported that
Mike Klan had been shot at the thirty two, the
rest of it began to fall into place. Lemn Bigger's
office was a dirty room over a shoe repair shop
on Mission Street. The glance on the door hadn't been
washed in five years, and neither than anything else you
can how they tell where the office left off and
lemb began. Hello, Spade, I have been waiting for you.
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I thought you'd get over for some talk talk. What
makes you think that? Lamb? Can you hear?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Ain't you all right?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Let's make talk talk? Did the silence are ruin your gun?
Come on? Come on? I want it all. Hey, you
your phone to night after Champion was killed. You've been
phoning them right along, saying it was Joe. Just a minute, Spade,
we're in the same run shot at him with a
silence r on your thirty eight. This afternoon and make
it look real good. You can't prove anything. I didn't
kill it one slug out of your gun on match
set up every cop carries at thirty eight, you were
a cop once, Spade. You got this all wrong because
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you thought he'd called you in for protection. He called
you in once on another job.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Listen, I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
But I was so bad.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You had to draum it up, didn't you. Jesus was
released from president. It was unnatural. Only it didn't work.
Champion called me instead, and you tried to shake me down.
He only thought we could kind of work together. You
don't make it a good thing. And I thought you
once you should try another racket, but you didn't take
my advice. Now you're gonna have to What do you mean,
because your license will be revoked pretty quick. You got
into a lot of trouble about two minutes from now,
(20:53):
I did.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
I was right here.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
What do you try to go out and complain on
you for assault and battery? Wait a minute, I ain't
done nothing, do you?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Champion instead in this.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Said lamb, you tried to strike me and I had
a friend play and I sent my guy a complaint.
Lieutenant I phoned your office, and two of your men
were on the way out to pick him up. When
I heard a footstep outside the door. I knew who
was there and what she was there for. And I
did the only thing I could think of at the moment.
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And it was lucky. I did it. Her own thirty
two was in her hand when she came in the door.
She looked at me and limb, smoking gun in my hand,
looked at him stretched out on the floor. Then she
looked back at me, and the gun fell from her
hand as she began to cry, Hello.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I wanted to do it. I came here to do it.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I know why?
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Why did you to stop you?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Why?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
My bullets went over the sailing He just knocked out.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
No he ought to be dead, dead.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
No, no, no, not anymore, Milly.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You take me.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You knew I was coming here, and you know he
should die.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I won't bring Joe back.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
How many real tramps have you met in your life.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Mister Spade?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Lots and suddenly just.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Thought they were Well, you met the genuine product yesterday.
My uncle, for example, he stole money from himself and
made it look like Joe did it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I know about that and this one. Why didn't you
let me kill him too?
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Why I went over to see him in the hospital
the first time I knew he was dying.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
He had that look in his eyes, helpless, and he
knew what they'd done to him, and he couldn't do
anything about it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
But you figgured that you could, So you killed your
uncle when you found out Joe died, and you came
here to kill him.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
They killed him.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
They killed Joe when they sent him to prison.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Five years I waited for him to get out of
that awesome toy.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I waited to hold him in my arms and tell
him it was all over.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Five years.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I waited to help him forget his hat.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
My hat.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Five years.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I loved him so much every day, and then he
came back to me to wait. Those pictures were all
I had left of him after five years.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Of waiting loving him.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Now he's dead.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
What can you or I or anybody do about what
they've done to him? Look at me, mister Spade, Go ahead,
look at me.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm not what you'd call it beautiful. I'm not even
very pretty. Nobody would ever look at me. Twice Well,
Joe looked at me, and he loved me. Now he's
dead and I'm dead inside.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
I'm dead inside, and I'll be glad when I'm dead outside.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Period and a report there was Yeah, I had a
notation that I want to be around for the corners
in question this report when Zillie Nordo, I should be
at messiblest testimony. I want to get out of town
for a few days, sour ragged, and now listen to
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Speaker 9 (24:43):
Too didn't make any mistakes, cause you didn't.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Are you retty serious about getting out of town for
a few days?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I am. The world's too much with you, Sam, Effie.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I know it's potter Sam, and it seems kind of
appropriate right now.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I don't care if she did kill those two minutes
you'll sorry for it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
What's I've got to do with?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What's kind of justice? Why did she dressed the way
she did in a black dress and low heels.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Form of penancy. It's a morning absence of her missing lover.
And look, look you'll have to type it all over
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Speaker 5 (25:26):
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