August 22, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam's Stade Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweetheart, Oh with you? What kind of a greeting
is that? Oh, it's you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I may be only your secretary and all that, but
I do have feelings.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know what have I done?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
If you recall you were supposed to take me to
the Geary Theater last night, Yeah, and you never showed up. Well, Fie, Oh,
I know you'll make up some big story like you
always do.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Always an excuse.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
No, I'll try to tell you the truth and then truth.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It'll probably be a story about at least two or
three people being killed, how you had to be there
to straighten the whole.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thing out well as a matter of fact, and there'll be.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Beautiful women with hair like card smoke and crimson slashes
for mouth. You would leave that out now that you
mentioned it, And shooting and getting knocked out and glass
keying your way into houses and if they else you
can think.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Of, Effie. Well, if you think that I'll fall for that, Effie,
will you please? What's your big Sorry you already.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Told everything about it, but the title I might as
well add that my big fat story is called a
Shot in the dock Caper.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Transcribe for NBC.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
William 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 Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yes, no, Effie, don't be like this. I promise you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Tonight, right after this report, we'll go to the theater
and we'll have dinner too, any place you wants.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Sound good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You're the employer.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The faster we do the report, the faster we get out.
I won't even take time out for a drink. So
come on, let's go, shall we. They'd fill it in
to Managing editor San Francisco Evening Gazette City from Samuel's
Spade Licensed number one three seventy five nine six, subject
the shot in the dock Caper or stop the presses
(02:10):
Spade has his pants caught in him caught their news hawk.
The next time you have a bright idea about a story,
count me out. There's too much work for the money
it pays, and the glory.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Just doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I don't mind being knocked on the head, shot at,
lied to, double crossed, and otherwise treated cruelly by circumstance,
But to do it all in one night, just so
you can have a scoop and then be referred to
in your columns as a gazette staff member. Well, my
professional pride was severely injured. I am a detective, sir,
and nobody's staff member. Well, now that that's off my chest.
(02:46):
Here in journalistic prose, is what happened starting yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, I'll take him here, is Spade? That's just what
Row Wilson really?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, I'm sorry, I have Teddy Roosevelt on the other phone.
It might take some time. You better try me later.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Bye, Fade.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Somehow I thought you were above that sort of Connie reportee.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I am above nothing, sir, as long as it's ethical.
Which Woodrow Wilson is this?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I am the new managing editor of the Evening Gazette.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We welcome to Tom. What can I do for it?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I have a job you might like, an interesting job
and interesting money.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
How interesting?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
If you find out what I want, you can almost
name your own price. Can you get over here in
three minutes?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So an he sort of a tailwind? I'll make it
in two a new track record.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I guess each Sprade? What is this interesting job.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
First, let me say I don't know much about you personally,
but you come well recommended.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I've tried.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Second, this is a confidential matter, and I wanted to
remain that way. Of course, I'm gonna trust you as
I would one of my own staff members. The police
wants to find out about it till it's all over,
and if any other newspaper gets it, you might as well.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Leave wood the old boy. The man doesn't live. Who
can say I ever double crossed him for money or
love or anything else.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I'll say it so we understand each other. I'll take
a look at this newest photo. Yes, one of our
boys snapped it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What do you see?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A street intersection, o' farrel, I'd say, two autobiles hit
head on, an ambulance, a couple of people injured, a
sordid crowd. We took that picture three days ago, Tuesday night,
routine accident picture.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But this morning, when we were filing it, I looked at.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
It again and I noticed something stoppling.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Look at it. It's a shot in the dock.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
But I smell a story.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well maybe I have a cold.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But whatever it is escapes on the right side of
the picture. It's an apartment house. M I'll count up
six flours and look at.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The fourth window across on the left. Yes, he was
this magnifying glass.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh what do you know? Somebody just fired off a gun.
That's it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
All you can see is a hand and the smoking gun.
You can't even tell whether the hands male or female.
But somebody shot at something, probably a person, just a
second before that picture was taken.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You want me to find out why.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
This calls for a detective not a reporter. There hasn't
been a single homicide, suicide, or gunshot wound reported in
the city since that habited. How I want to sorry,
get it okay, Chief, get ready to rip out page.
What the apartment house was the Greystone? It was actually
(05:19):
an apartment hotel and a little shabby.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I entered an hour later with a.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Suitcase and an out of town look the name plates
on the mailbox. It showed about five vacancies, including one
on the sixth floor. I rang the manager's door buzz,
but have not. I'd like to rent an apartment if
I could clin Clint, drop your suitcase anyplace.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
My name is Ed Barry.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
How are you Your suitcase is leaking? We charge one
price one seventy five per night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, I don't have that kind of cash with me
or my checkbook.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Could I pay you tomorrow? Well, a sure thing. You
name my comeboat mark? Yes, that's it. Where you're from?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Stumble, New York, Boy, New York, forty eight East fifty
first Street, Broadway, next to kin uh Any family relatives?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, No, are you own a car?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Look, I'm just running an apartment, not taking out life insurance. Well,
you see, there's a state law here requires us to
get this sort of information. I'm sorry, but there's nothing
I can do. No car, a bank account.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Carn Exchange bank.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
You own any property?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yes, yes I do, Albany, New York. Just how much?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Would you say?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Six feet in a cemetery? I expect to be buried there,
ha ha. Yeah, well, I guess that about takes care
of him. Anything on the sixth floor, Why the sixth,
particularly my lucky number. Oh well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Sorry, maybe later, Right now, we got nothing on the
sixth Come on, I'll show you around.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
In a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I was ensconced in room five one two as he
stood in the doorway at burying. The manager scan my luggage,
my clothes, my ring, and wristwatch, as if he were
trying to estimate what he could get for me from
a fence. After he went back to his apartment, I
took a stroll up to the sixth floor Woody Wilson
and I figured the gun incident took place in apartment
six oh eight. So I counted back from the end
(07:19):
of the corridor and found we were right.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Six oh eight was silent.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I knocked, but no one answered, so I sprung the
lock and went in. The place was absolutely empty, no furniture,
no nothing. In fact, it was being completely remodeled.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Huh, Well, where did you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Gee?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I guess maybe I startled you little. I was just
coming down the hall, you know, taking some of these groceries,
and I saw you standing there. You're new here?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Huh huh yeah, yeah, here, let me carry some of
those things.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Stay say, you.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Know you're the kind of man a girl should ever up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Well, I've tried to convince several of that.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Oh were you kidding? A big handsome guy like you
wouldn't have any trouble getting a girl.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well please not if I was a girl.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
But you know, Ben, my place is down here. Shall
we go.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Why not.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
My name's Honey Kane.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Your Mark Coumbo.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Okay, what a fascinating not oh not.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Half as fascinating as yours.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Really is a wonderful How fate just throws two people together.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The bags of groceries we were carrying.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Had a layer of dust on them, and the bags
looked as if they'd made fifty trips to the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
No one had to hit me on the head. Sam's fade, detective.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
She was small in peroxide and if you like them,
stupid small in peroxide.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
She lived in apartment six twenty with a roommate who
was quite a bit different, prettier, smarter, and quieter.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Andre want you to meet this very nice gentlemen, mister
Mark Cumberg. Humbo oh, I remember the mark by This
is Sandrel Lynn.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
How do you do, Miss Lynn? Hello? It's nice day. Great, well,
just put.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
The grocery down here, huh there? Now, let's have some fun,
like fun, Humble wouldn't be without it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You're priceless, but good.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Let's start with a drink.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
How about your son?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
No, no, you kids, have you all fun.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm going after the walls, Humble. You're supposed to be
looking at me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
An hour later, under the pretext of going out for
some snuff.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I shook her off and left.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The next half hour went to giving the apartment house
a thorough casing. I looked at all the names on
the mailboxes, and the only one that rang a bell
was one Max Barstow, a former heavyweight whenever got past
club fighting. I inquired about him of charming Ed Barry,
the manager A Max Barstow.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, I try to apartment.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
He isn't home. Yeah, well, you see, he won't be
home for some time. You see, he took a vacation,
went to visit his family in the Portland.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Wendy leave last Tuesday night. I remember him.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Saying, Ed, I won't be back for a while. Look
after things, William.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah a good memory. Yeah. Hey, can you tell me
something about.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Those two girls in six' twenty? Wife one of them
made a pass at. Me, well, MISTER i feel this.
WAY i rend apartments to responsible. Adults what they do
is their. Business he won't get.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Any trouble from.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Me, now that isn't WHAT i. ASKED i always like
to be. Sure now are they? Honest hard working?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
GIRLS i don't know nothing about, them but let me
tell you something.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Confidentialist why look a gift horse in the.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Mouth, WELL i gumshoot around the apartment house some, more
and one thing was. Sure they were making a number
of extensive. Alderations for, example in the basement there was
a new cement. Floor said cement floor had been, LAID
i was told by the Janitor wednesday, morning the morning
after a gun was fired in six so o', wait
(11:04):
the same morning on Which Max barstow suddenly left to
visit his, parents and about hearing the, plot it was
dramatically correct to wonder If max might be sleeping under
the furnace with a new cement overcoat covering. ME i
went back to my apartment for a couple of long,
ones and some thought it was getting along about supper
time when there.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Was a feminine.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
KNOCK i guess it'd be miss room service. Herself honey,
came but no, better much?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Better MAY i come?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
In you? May SHALL i leave the door? Open why'd
rather you? Close anything to make you feel at? Home?
Drink no? Talk? Oh what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Here?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Sad the Name's, Humboldt Mark.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Humboldt Or i've played any way you, want But i've
seen you.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
ROUND i know who you. Are you move in today and.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Half hour later you find our.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Apartment why your apartment found? Me at least half of?
It did the gift horse? Part maybe? So BUT i
figured you helped a little. Somewhere what are you trying
to get on using? NOTHING i just moved in here
for a place to live with one suit case in the.
Bottle i'm an.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Actor look whatever it, is lay off, WELLY i had.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Enough trouble in my. Life things are just starting.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
To go, Right. SANDRA i don't know what's on your,
mind but as far as i'm, concerned you're.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Clean.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Right MAYBE i made a.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Mistake try to make it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Up to you. Sometimes oh maybe you can start right.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
NOW i Think i'll open the door.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Again just a.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Question seen anything Of Max barstow?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
LATELY i knew it was. SOMETHING i knew. It, NO
i haven't Seen Max barstow.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Lately he went somewhere to visit his.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Family And i'm telling YOU i to leave me, alone
sending good anue you you will.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Write he stormed, out looking lovely all the, way AND
i sat very quietly for a. Minute it was the
second time somebody said It Max barstow is visiting his.
Family that was very interesting because you, See Max barstow
didn't have any family when he first started. Fighting he
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was under the aegis of The Saint John's. Orphanage so
what was all this rehearsed account of his.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
ABSENCE i watched at.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The window to see If sandra and then went, anywhere
and she appeared on the. STREET i was out of
the room and down the.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Stairs.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Presto ten blocks later she turned in at a brownstone
On Polk, street went in the first apartment on the first.
Floor fifteen minutes later she hurried, out AND i went
up to the apartment and knocked the door opened.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Cautiously, yes what is it you?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Want is Mister fairchild in nobody here by that?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Name you've got wrong? Address now just a.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Minute he used to live, Here no more he. Does
but could you tell me WHERE i could find, him Mister.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
KIGMUND i don't.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Know twice minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
On the way, OUT i looked at the car and
on his door buzz here he listed his apartments belonging
to a Mister. Rothschild at the, moment there was nothing
to be made out of, it SO i went back
to The. Greystone WHEN i got to my, room it
was very obvious THAT i had been visited during my.
Absence oh what happened to my?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Suitcase i'm, sorry Mister, humble BUT i didn't realize it.
Before you, see that apartment was already, rented SO i
guess you'll have to find one someplace.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Out, look you have four other vacant ones in this apartment.
House give me one of. Those, sorry no. Vacant then
give me my.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Suitcase, uh, yeah that's the one that. Leaked just a,
Minute i'll bring it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Out. Mister i'll go in and get it. Myself stay,
OFF i, Said i'll go in and get. It. Right
he swung at. ME i blocked and stepped into him
and gave, way AND i followed. In and then AS
i moved in the, apartment someone stepped out from behind the.
DOOR i, turned but it was too. LATE i was.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
SANDBAG a face behind the arm that swung it looked
an awful lot like that Of Max. BARSTOW i remember
asking myself AS i went, down If Max barstow wasn't
shot in room six.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh, eight who was.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
Famous Detective Sam. Spade Three chimes Mean Good times ON
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nbc On, Sunday march, fourth that's one week from This,
Sunday Theatre guild on The air will present radio's most
exciting dramatic. Event it's a full hour and a half
presentation Of Shakespeare's Immortal. Hamlet John gielgood will Portray. Hamlet
Pamela brown The, queen And dorothy McGuire.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Will appear As.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Ophelia the, intrigue beauty and romance Of hamlet come to Life,
Sunday march fourth.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
On Theater guild on The.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Air and now back to the shot in The dark
Caper tonight's adventure With sam's. BAY i was not for,
long but it was long enough to have been carried
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out of the apartment manager's place in dumped in an.
ALLEY i sat up and rubbed the back of my
head and discovered the boys had a sense of. Humor
pinned on my chest was a note that said beat.
It WHEN i went, BACK i had my gun handy to.
Hand nobody was home with Mister berring's, apartment so for
something to, DO i looked in On Max Barstow's diggings four.
THIRTEEN i, glanced keyed in and turned on the, lights
(16:11):
and a search revealed items a rent receipt Showing max
was paid up for two months and intended to stay.
Put but more interesting were two phony detective, badges a policeman's,
uniform and a flash.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
CAMERA a couple of these.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
With a dossier on a man Named Sigmund, polkis AND
i knew just What max had been doing since The
Fight game stopped paying his. Bills it Read Sigmund polkas
sixty years, Old, minneapolis just sold two restaurants for one
hundred and seventy five thousand. Dollars intends to retire and
settle down In San. Francisco that's as far AS i
(16:43):
got When honey poured herself on me.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Again, oh Mister, humbold what are you doing in Mister barstow's?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Apartment come, In come. In.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Thanks you shouldn't be, here Mister barstow ever found.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Out, Honey, honey you can drop the. Act you know
WHO i am AND i know who you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Are you're part of the bay for one of the
oldest rackets in the, world The Badger.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Game oh, me you all?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Right? SAM i didn't know who you. Were it first
Until sandra told, me, now.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You tell me what are you doing In max's?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
ROLE a number of, things first of all getting enough
evidence on him to give him a free vacation on the. State,
SECOND i wanted to see who would show up and? Why,
now what's your?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
STORY i just dropped in to see If max was?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Here try, Again, sam IF i tell you, anything will
you leave me?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Alone IF i can bear?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
IT i came over to get some things From.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Max you where's he?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Staying right across the street in The arlington three point
fourteen At Barring manages both apartment.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
House why Doesn't max stay? Here who are you working? For?
Sam i'm just asking a, client not the.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Police, No, SAM i don't have a thing to do
with the Mark max is.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Working on Now sigmund polkas Some oh, man do you
hear any shooting here Last tuesday?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Night an apartment six? Eight, Oh, SAM i didn't hear a,
thing not a single. Thing all, right get whatever you came,
for but remember.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
This you Tell MAX i was, here And i'll tie
you into something that will get you To hatchapee if.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's the last THING i. Do oh, SURE i knew
she'd be.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Impressed with that type of, threat because her kind of
girl lives by playing tag with the. Law they want
to be it as seldom as. POSSIBLE i finished the
dossier On pocus and thought of more business like visit
that the old man was in.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Order what is, it oh, YOU i.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Want to talk with, you Mister, Pocus come.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
IN i want to talk to you. Now, no right
where you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are he was pointing a gun in one shaking, hand
right at my, chest and as close AS i could,
tell it looked very much like the Gun i'd seen
in your, Picture, wilson and the hand that held it
was the very same.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
HAND i tried to think of something clever to. Say
it's the stage of my.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Life it would be very easy to shoot, you.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Mister, LOOK i came here maybe to help save you
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Trouble now if you listen to, ME.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
I know why you came, here BECAUSE i killed MUCH.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Fasto i'll give you a.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Choice will you take money or WILL i WILL i
shoot you right.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Here i'd take the, money but you didn't Kill Max.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Bart don't tell me WHAT i did WHEN i know
WHAT i. Did sandra told me one of his young
members was looking for, me but she doesn't understand the
power of. Money how much will you take to leave
us alone to our? Happiness what is much faster to
you now that he's.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Dead, LOOK i don't want any. MONEY i just WANTED
i felt like a.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Ghost the gun was ponied directly at, me but nothing hit.
ME i was, surprised albeit. Gratified the little man must
have THOUGHT i was wearing a bulletproof. Vest he didn't look, surprised,
though he just fold.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
HIM i disarmed him and push him down into a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
CHAIR i had to do. IT i had.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
TO i couldn't let you spoil the only bit of
HAPPINESS i had left in my.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Life Mister pocashu tried to shoot, me And i'm grateful
had told both of us something to begin.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
With you can't kill anybody with blanks in your. KS
i don't no. Blank what did you get the?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
GUN i always have gun, always and you don't know
the difference between real bullets and. Blanks you got it
From sandra and she loaded it.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Right maybe you shoot no.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Gunster, Look i'm a private detective name Of Sam. Spade,
now if you'll help, Me i'll help. You when Did
sandra give you this?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Gun Last. Tuesday, yes did you use it to Shoot? Barstow?
Yes then he couldn't be. Dead? Couldie this gun wouldn't
kill a?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Fly and, BESIDES i Met Max barstow tonight, alive saw.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Him fall to the floor and blood came out of
his coat with my own.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Eyes Mister, polkis you just came From minneapolis with one
hundred and seventy five thousand. Dollars you walked into a shakedown.
Gang they're after your. Money that, Girl sandra's just.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Bait don't speak About sandra that.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Way sure she tried to shake me up for, money
but only because that means That barsto. Maker she was a.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Slave she couldn't.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Get away from.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Him why did she stage a phony murder with you Killing? Barstow?
OH i don't. Know i'm so.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Confused tell me how it. Happened barstow post as a.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Policeman he found me In sundra's a. PARDON i was
supposed to pay him five thousand, dollars But sundra taught
me she loved me And foster was a. Racketeer we
were to meet an apartment in six or eight for
to pay.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Him she gave me a gun to frighten him. Whisper,
INSTEAD i killed nuts five. Thousand they knew how much
money you, had and.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They wanted to get all of it away from you
on a phony murder.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Scare handra doesn't want my money away from.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Me she loves, me Mister.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Polkis i'm sorry disillusionment should come to you so late in.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
LIFE i say she loved, me AND i can't prove.
It how this morning she became Missus Sigmunt.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Polkis that made me sit down and think things through
a little more. Carefully she could have gotten his, money
or most of, it without marrying. Him maybe she did love,
him or maybe they felt he was too dumb to pay,
off or maybe she married him so she could murder,
him and maybe.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
A dozen other.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Things his suitcases were, packed and he said that he
And sundra planned to leave town. Tonight he'd been waiting
for WHEN i came, in but she was already two hours.
LATE i could think of only one place she could,
be SO i left poor Mister polkas and went to
the filing zone three one, four the Address Honey kane
had given, me and she was.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
There oh From i'm glad you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
CAME i was. SCARED i didn't know what to. Do
i'm scared.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Now, now, honey quiet down and tell me what you're scared.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
About the Bedroom, max he's dare some nice. Job when'd
you find? Him five minutes?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
AGO i was with him the poor and THEN i
went offer Some chinese food WHEN i came.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Back all, right all? Right who else was here? Tonight is?
Anybody but? What he? Was?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Awful Mad assandra said she was double crossing him and
he wouldn't let her get away with.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
IT i went back To polcus's. Place he was, gone
but his bags were still, there SO i figured he'd be.
BACK i put out the lights and sat in a, chair.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Sign go, ahead go.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Ahead ask me What i'm doing here With. Pocus if he's,
smart he's on a train back To. Minneapolis i'm going
to look for.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Him you're not going.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Anywhere sit, Down, YES i, Said you're not going anywhere
unless it's the.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Jail what are you playing this aid district attorney?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
For because you Killed Max? Barstowe now tell me, Why.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Oh don't be a. JOKE a Mac bosto's as live
as you.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Are i'm not talking about the phony murder stage for
the benefit Of Polcus barstow was stabbed at that a
half hour.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Ago he, was he, WAS i saw, him you DAMN i.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
DIDN'T i.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
DIDN'T i saw him earlier, day.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But he was all.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Right you Married polkas to double cross, him didn't? You
you were going to skip time with the.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Mark i'm SURE i. Was So why WOULD i Kill?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Max because he knew what you were going to. Do
that's WHY i.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
DIDN'T i couldn't kill.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Anybody why did?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You what did you have planned For? POCUS i shoved
over to The Grand.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Canyon, NO I i love the old. Guys come, on
we'll dropping a police. Headquarter Know, Sam, No, sam. NOTHING
i wouldn't take you with a us ment thrown.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
In will you let me go IF i tell you what,
Happened IF i tell you who Killed, Bosto.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
If you didn't do, it nobody could hold you for
a murder, Anyway bearing And bearing did.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
It we plan a holding together with a freeze out On.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Bosto somehow he found out it had.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
To take care of.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
HIM i didn't have anything to do with.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
IT i tried to tell him, notough to tell him
not to.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
What i've got a gun in my.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Hand bearings so HAVE. I which one of us is
gonna shoot?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
First you wouldn't, shoot but he did period end of. Report,
Sam is that?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
All?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well what do you want an? Echo? No but he
shot you and you're all? Right were they blink.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Like the other?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Guy they were.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Not they were genuine steel jacketed. Bullets you didn't listen
carefully enough that.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
HEE i figured he'd shoot right.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Away he did, once just AS i jumped sideways and
fired two shots.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Back did you kill? Him?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, no but he's down with a little case of
lead poisoning though under police.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Guard you're.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Wonderful that's, true all? Right go type it up awkward.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Three times mean good.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
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Speaker 3 (25:36):
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Speaker 8 (25:37):
Symphony gim it is, said but it's SOMETHING i don't,
understand true wit what happened to nice old Mister.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Polkist why wasn't he in his apartment waiting to? Start,
well he did just WHAT i thought he should have.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Done he walked down to the railroad depot and got
on the first train For.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Minneapolis who. Knows maybe he's opened a new.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Restaurant, Yes and what happened To, Samdra, well.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
She's being held as an access rated, murder among other.
Things if they were, married that's, Enough, iffy that's.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Enough do you want me to make everything so simple
that everybody will be able to figure it?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Out?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
No but you?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
WHAT i get so? Confused sometimes that's most of your, Charm.
Iffy you, know if you were brisk and efficient and,
cold we'd never have any, fun would?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
WE i get Notam we do have a good time at.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Times we. Do, indeed like right, now coming fire in
a man's. Veins n that's What. SAM i don't know
WHAT i might. DO i love. It whatever it, WAS.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I better say good, Night, sam Good.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Night, sam good. Night sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
To Night's Transcribed adventure Of Sam spade was, produced, edited
and directed By William. Spear Sam spade was played By Stephen,
Dunn Loreen tuttle Is effie Script Fortnite's adventure By John Michael,
hayes musical scoring by Lud, gluskin conducted By Robert. Armbrewster
(27:40):
join us again next, week same time for another adventure
With Sam. Spade Sam spade lives a life of. Peril
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Speaker 3 (28:08):
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam's Stade Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweetheart, Oh with you? What kind of a greeting
is that? Oh, it's you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I may be only your secretary and all that, but
I do have feelings.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know what have I done?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
If you recall you were supposed to take me to
the Geary Theater last night, Yeah, and you never showed up. Well, Fie, Oh,
I know you'll make up some big story like you
always do.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Always an excuse.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
No, I'll try to tell you the truth and then truth.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It'll probably be a story about at least two or
three people being killed, how you had to be there
to straighten the whole.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thing out well as a matter of fact, and there'll be.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Beautiful women with hair like card smoke and crimson slashes
for mouth. You would leave that out now that you
mentioned it, And shooting and getting knocked out and glass
keying your way into houses and if they else you
can think.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Of, Effie. Well, if you think that I'll fall for that, Effie,
will you please? What's your big Sorry you already.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Told everything about it, but the title I might as
well add that my big fat story is called a
Shot in the dock Caper.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Transcribe for NBC.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
William 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 Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yes, no, Effie, don't be like this. I promise you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Tonight, right after this report, we'll go to the theater
and we'll have dinner too, any place you wants.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Sound good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You're the employer.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The faster we do the report, the faster we get out.
I won't even take time out for a drink. So
come on, let's go, shall we. They'd fill it in
to Managing editor San Francisco Evening Gazette City from Samuel's
Spade Licensed number one three seventy five nine six, subject
the shot in the dock Caper or stop the presses
(02:10):
Spade has his pants caught in him caught their news hawk.
The next time you have a bright idea about a story,
count me out. There's too much work for the money
it pays, and the glory.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Just doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I don't mind being knocked on the head, shot at,
lied to, double crossed, and otherwise treated cruelly by circumstance,
But to do it all in one night, just so
you can have a scoop and then be referred to
in your columns as a gazette staff member. Well, my
professional pride was severely injured. I am a detective, sir,
and nobody's staff member. Well, now that that's off my chest.
(02:46):
Here in journalistic prose, is what happened starting yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, I'll take him here, is Spade? That's just what
Row Wilson really?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, I'm sorry, I have Teddy Roosevelt on the other phone.
It might take some time. You better try me later.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Bye, Fade.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Somehow I thought you were above that sort of Connie reportee.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I am above nothing, sir, as long as it's ethical.
Which Woodrow Wilson is this?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I am the new managing editor of the Evening Gazette.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We welcome to Tom. What can I do for it?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I have a job you might like, an interesting job
and interesting money.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
How interesting?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
If you find out what I want, you can almost
name your own price. Can you get over here in
three minutes?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So an he sort of a tailwind? I'll make it
in two a new track record.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I guess each Sprade? What is this interesting job.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
First, let me say I don't know much about you personally,
but you come well recommended.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I've tried.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Second, this is a confidential matter, and I wanted to
remain that way. Of course, I'm gonna trust you as
I would one of my own staff members. The police
wants to find out about it till it's all over,
and if any other newspaper gets it, you might as well.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Leave wood the old boy. The man doesn't live. Who
can say I ever double crossed him for money or
love or anything else.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I'll say it so we understand each other. I'll take
a look at this newest photo. Yes, one of our
boys snapped it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What do you see?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A street intersection, o' farrel, I'd say, two autobiles hit
head on, an ambulance, a couple of people injured, a
sordid crowd. We took that picture three days ago, Tuesday night,
routine accident picture.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But this morning, when we were filing it, I looked at.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
It again and I noticed something stoppling.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Look at it. It's a shot in the dock.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
But I smell a story.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well maybe I have a cold.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But whatever it is escapes on the right side of
the picture. It's an apartment house. M I'll count up
six flours and look at.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The fourth window across on the left. Yes, he was
this magnifying glass.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh what do you know? Somebody just fired off a gun.
That's it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
All you can see is a hand and the smoking gun.
You can't even tell whether the hands male or female.
But somebody shot at something, probably a person, just a
second before that picture was taken.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You want me to find out why.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
This calls for a detective not a reporter. There hasn't
been a single homicide, suicide, or gunshot wound reported in
the city since that habited. How I want to sorry,
get it okay, Chief, get ready to rip out page.
What the apartment house was the Greystone? It was actually
(05:19):
an apartment hotel and a little shabby.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I entered an hour later with a.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Suitcase and an out of town look the name plates
on the mailbox. It showed about five vacancies, including one
on the sixth floor. I rang the manager's door buzz,
but have not. I'd like to rent an apartment if
I could clin Clint, drop your suitcase anyplace.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
My name is Ed Barry.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
How are you Your suitcase is leaking? We charge one
price one seventy five per night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, I don't have that kind of cash with me
or my checkbook.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Could I pay you tomorrow? Well, a sure thing. You
name my comeboat mark? Yes, that's it. Where you're from?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Stumble, New York, Boy, New York, forty eight East fifty
first Street, Broadway, next to kin uh Any family relatives?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, No, are you own a car?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Look, I'm just running an apartment, not taking out life insurance. Well,
you see, there's a state law here requires us to
get this sort of information. I'm sorry, but there's nothing
I can do. No car, a bank account.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Carn Exchange bank.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
You own any property?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yes, yes I do, Albany, New York. Just how much?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Would you say?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Six feet in a cemetery? I expect to be buried there,
ha ha. Yeah, well, I guess that about takes care
of him. Anything on the sixth floor, Why the sixth,
particularly my lucky number. Oh well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Sorry, maybe later, Right now, we got nothing on the
sixth Come on, I'll show you around.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
In a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I was ensconced in room five one two as he
stood in the doorway at burying. The manager scan my luggage,
my clothes, my ring, and wristwatch, as if he were
trying to estimate what he could get for me from
a fence. After he went back to his apartment, I
took a stroll up to the sixth floor Woody Wilson
and I figured the gun incident took place in apartment
six oh eight. So I counted back from the end
(07:19):
of the corridor and found we were right.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Six oh eight was silent.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I knocked, but no one answered, so I sprung the
lock and went in. The place was absolutely empty, no furniture,
no nothing. In fact, it was being completely remodeled.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Huh, Well, where did you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Gee?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I guess maybe I startled you little. I was just
coming down the hall, you know, taking some of these groceries,
and I saw you standing there. You're new here?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Huh huh yeah, yeah, here, let me carry some of
those things.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Stay say, you.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Know you're the kind of man a girl should ever up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Well, I've tried to convince several of that.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Oh were you kidding? A big handsome guy like you
wouldn't have any trouble getting a girl.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well please not if I was a girl.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
But you know, Ben, my place is down here. Shall
we go.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Why not.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
My name's Honey Kane.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Your Mark Coumbo.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Okay, what a fascinating not oh not.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Half as fascinating as yours.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Really is a wonderful How fate just throws two people together.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The bags of groceries we were carrying.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Had a layer of dust on them, and the bags
looked as if they'd made fifty trips to the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
No one had to hit me on the head. Sam's fade, detective.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
She was small in peroxide and if you like them,
stupid small in peroxide.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
She lived in apartment six twenty with a roommate who
was quite a bit different, prettier, smarter, and quieter.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Andre want you to meet this very nice gentlemen, mister
Mark Cumberg. Humbo oh, I remember the mark by This
is Sandrel Lynn.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
How do you do, Miss Lynn? Hello? It's nice day. Great, well,
just put.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
The grocery down here, huh there? Now, let's have some fun,
like fun, Humble wouldn't be without it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You're priceless, but good.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Let's start with a drink.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
How about your son?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
No, no, you kids, have you all fun.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm going after the walls, Humble. You're supposed to be
looking at me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
An hour later, under the pretext of going out for
some snuff.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I shook her off and left.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The next half hour went to giving the apartment house
a thorough casing. I looked at all the names on
the mailboxes, and the only one that rang a bell
was one Max Barstow, a former heavyweight whenever got past
club fighting. I inquired about him of charming Ed Barry,
the manager A Max Barstow.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, I try to apartment.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
He isn't home. Yeah, well, you see, he won't be
home for some time. You see, he took a vacation,
went to visit his family in the Portland.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Wendy leave last Tuesday night. I remember him.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Saying, Ed, I won't be back for a while. Look
after things, William.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah a good memory. Yeah. Hey, can you tell me
something about.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Those two girls in six' twenty? Wife one of them
made a pass at. Me, well, MISTER i feel this.
WAY i rend apartments to responsible. Adults what they do
is their. Business he won't get.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Any trouble from.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Me, now that isn't WHAT i. ASKED i always like
to be. Sure now are they? Honest hard working?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
GIRLS i don't know nothing about, them but let me
tell you something.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Confidentialist why look a gift horse in the.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Mouth, WELL i gumshoot around the apartment house some, more
and one thing was. Sure they were making a number
of extensive. Alderations for, example in the basement there was
a new cement. Floor said cement floor had been, LAID
i was told by the Janitor wednesday, morning the morning
after a gun was fired in six so o', wait
(11:04):
the same morning on Which Max barstow suddenly left to
visit his, parents and about hearing the, plot it was
dramatically correct to wonder If max might be sleeping under
the furnace with a new cement overcoat covering. ME i
went back to my apartment for a couple of long,
ones and some thought it was getting along about supper
time when there.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Was a feminine.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
KNOCK i guess it'd be miss room service. Herself honey,
came but no, better much?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Better MAY i come?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
In you? May SHALL i leave the door? Open why'd
rather you? Close anything to make you feel at? Home?
Drink no? Talk? Oh what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Here?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Sad the Name's, Humboldt Mark.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Humboldt Or i've played any way you, want But i've
seen you.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
ROUND i know who you. Are you move in today and.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Half hour later you find our.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Apartment why your apartment found? Me at least half of?
It did the gift horse? Part maybe? So BUT i
figured you helped a little. Somewhere what are you trying
to get on using? NOTHING i just moved in here
for a place to live with one suit case in the.
Bottle i'm an.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Actor look whatever it, is lay off, WELLY i had.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Enough trouble in my. Life things are just starting.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
To go, Right. SANDRA i don't know what's on your,
mind but as far as i'm, concerned you're.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Clean.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Right MAYBE i made a.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Mistake try to make it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Up to you. Sometimes oh maybe you can start right.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
NOW i Think i'll open the door.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Again just a.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Question seen anything Of Max barstow?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
LATELY i knew it was. SOMETHING i knew. It, NO
i haven't Seen Max barstow.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Lately he went somewhere to visit his.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Family And i'm telling YOU i to leave me, alone
sending good anue you you will.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Write he stormed, out looking lovely all the, way AND
i sat very quietly for a. Minute it was the
second time somebody said It Max barstow is visiting his.
Family that was very interesting because you, See Max barstow
didn't have any family when he first started. Fighting he
(12:51):
was under the aegis of The Saint John's. Orphanage so
what was all this rehearsed account of his.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
ABSENCE i watched at.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The window to see If sandra and then went, anywhere
and she appeared on the. STREET i was out of
the room and down the.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Stairs.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Presto ten blocks later she turned in at a brownstone
On Polk, street went in the first apartment on the first.
Floor fifteen minutes later she hurried, out AND i went
up to the apartment and knocked the door opened.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Cautiously, yes what is it you?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Want is Mister fairchild in nobody here by that?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Name you've got wrong? Address now just a.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Minute he used to live, Here no more he. Does
but could you tell me WHERE i could find, him Mister.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
KIGMUND i don't.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Know twice minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
On the way, OUT i looked at the car and
on his door buzz here he listed his apartments belonging
to a Mister. Rothschild at the, moment there was nothing
to be made out of, it SO i went back
to The. Greystone WHEN i got to my, room it
was very obvious THAT i had been visited during my.
Absence oh what happened to my?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Suitcase i'm, sorry Mister, humble BUT i didn't realize it.
Before you, see that apartment was already, rented SO i
guess you'll have to find one someplace.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Out, look you have four other vacant ones in this apartment.
House give me one of. Those, sorry no. Vacant then
give me my.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Suitcase, uh, yeah that's the one that. Leaked just a,
Minute i'll bring it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Out. Mister i'll go in and get it. Myself stay,
OFF i, Said i'll go in and get. It. Right
he swung at. ME i blocked and stepped into him
and gave, way AND i followed. In and then AS
i moved in the, apartment someone stepped out from behind the.
DOOR i, turned but it was too. LATE i was.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
SANDBAG a face behind the arm that swung it looked
an awful lot like that Of Max. BARSTOW i remember
asking myself AS i went, down If Max barstow wasn't
shot in room six.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh, eight who was.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
Famous Detective Sam. Spade Three chimes Mean Good times ON
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nbc On, Sunday march, fourth that's one week from This,
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Pamela brown The, queen And dorothy McGuire.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Will appear As.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Ophelia the, intrigue beauty and romance Of hamlet come to Life,
Sunday march fourth.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
On Theater guild on The.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Air and now back to the shot in The dark
Caper tonight's adventure With sam's. BAY i was not for,
long but it was long enough to have been carried
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out of the apartment manager's place in dumped in an.
ALLEY i sat up and rubbed the back of my
head and discovered the boys had a sense of. Humor
pinned on my chest was a note that said beat.
It WHEN i went, BACK i had my gun handy to.
Hand nobody was home with Mister berring's, apartment so for
something to, DO i looked in On Max Barstow's diggings four.
THIRTEEN i, glanced keyed in and turned on the, lights
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and a search revealed items a rent receipt Showing max
was paid up for two months and intended to stay.
Put but more interesting were two phony detective, badges a policeman's,
uniform and a flash.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
CAMERA a couple of these.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
With a dossier on a man Named Sigmund, polkis AND
i knew just What max had been doing since The
Fight game stopped paying his. Bills it Read Sigmund polkas
sixty years, Old, minneapolis just sold two restaurants for one
hundred and seventy five thousand. Dollars intends to retire and
settle down In San. Francisco that's as far AS i
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got When honey poured herself on me.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Again, oh Mister, humbold what are you doing in Mister barstow's?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Apartment come, In come. In.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Thanks you shouldn't be, here Mister barstow ever found.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Out, Honey, honey you can drop the. Act you know
WHO i am AND i know who you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Are you're part of the bay for one of the
oldest rackets in the, world The Badger.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Game oh, me you all?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Right? SAM i didn't know who you. Were it first
Until sandra told, me, now.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You tell me what are you doing In max's?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
ROLE a number of, things first of all getting enough
evidence on him to give him a free vacation on the. State,
SECOND i wanted to see who would show up and? Why,
now what's your?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
STORY i just dropped in to see If max was?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Here try, Again, sam IF i tell you, anything will
you leave me?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Alone IF i can bear?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
IT i came over to get some things From.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Max you where's he?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Staying right across the street in The arlington three point
fourteen At Barring manages both apartment.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
House why Doesn't max stay? Here who are you working? For?
Sam i'm just asking a, client not the.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Police, No, SAM i don't have a thing to do
with the Mark max is.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Working on Now sigmund polkas Some oh, man do you
hear any shooting here Last tuesday?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Night an apartment six? Eight, Oh, SAM i didn't hear a,
thing not a single. Thing all, right get whatever you came,
for but remember.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
This you Tell MAX i was, here And i'll tie
you into something that will get you To hatchapee if.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's the last THING i. Do oh, SURE i knew
she'd be.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Impressed with that type of, threat because her kind of
girl lives by playing tag with the. Law they want
to be it as seldom as. POSSIBLE i finished the
dossier On pocus and thought of more business like visit
that the old man was in.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Order what is, it oh, YOU i.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Want to talk with, you Mister, Pocus come.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
IN i want to talk to you. Now, no right
where you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are he was pointing a gun in one shaking, hand
right at my, chest and as close AS i could,
tell it looked very much like the Gun i'd seen
in your, Picture, wilson and the hand that held it
was the very same.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
HAND i tried to think of something clever to. Say
it's the stage of my.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Life it would be very easy to shoot, you.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Mister, LOOK i came here maybe to help save you
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Trouble now if you listen to, ME.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
I know why you came, here BECAUSE i killed MUCH.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Fasto i'll give you a.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Choice will you take money or WILL i WILL i
shoot you right.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Here i'd take the, money but you didn't Kill Max.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Bart don't tell me WHAT i did WHEN i know
WHAT i. Did sandra told me one of his young
members was looking for, me but she doesn't understand the
power of. Money how much will you take to leave
us alone to our? Happiness what is much faster to
you now that he's.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Dead, LOOK i don't want any. MONEY i just WANTED
i felt like a.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Ghost the gun was ponied directly at, me but nothing hit.
ME i was, surprised albeit. Gratified the little man must
have THOUGHT i was wearing a bulletproof. Vest he didn't look, surprised,
though he just fold.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
HIM i disarmed him and push him down into a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
CHAIR i had to do. IT i had.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
TO i couldn't let you spoil the only bit of
HAPPINESS i had left in my.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Life Mister pocashu tried to shoot, me And i'm grateful
had told both of us something to begin.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
With you can't kill anybody with blanks in your. KS
i don't no. Blank what did you get the?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
GUN i always have gun, always and you don't know
the difference between real bullets and. Blanks you got it
From sandra and she loaded it.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Right maybe you shoot no.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Gunster, Look i'm a private detective name Of Sam. Spade,
now if you'll help, Me i'll help. You when Did
sandra give you this?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Gun Last. Tuesday, yes did you use it to Shoot? Barstow?
Yes then he couldn't be. Dead? Couldie this gun wouldn't
kill a?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Fly and, BESIDES i Met Max barstow tonight, alive saw.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Him fall to the floor and blood came out of
his coat with my own.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Eyes Mister, polkis you just came From minneapolis with one
hundred and seventy five thousand. Dollars you walked into a shakedown.
Gang they're after your. Money that, Girl sandra's just.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Bait don't speak About sandra that.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Way sure she tried to shake me up for, money
but only because that means That barsto. Maker she was a.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Slave she couldn't.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Get away from.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Him why did she stage a phony murder with you Killing? Barstow?
OH i don't. Know i'm so.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Confused tell me how it. Happened barstow post as a.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Policeman he found me In sundra's a. PARDON i was
supposed to pay him five thousand, dollars But sundra taught
me she loved me And foster was a. Racketeer we
were to meet an apartment in six or eight for
to pay.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Him she gave me a gun to frighten him. Whisper,
INSTEAD i killed nuts five. Thousand they knew how much
money you, had and.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They wanted to get all of it away from you
on a phony murder.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Scare handra doesn't want my money away from.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Me she loves, me Mister.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Polkis i'm sorry disillusionment should come to you so late in.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
LIFE i say she loved, me AND i can't prove.
It how this morning she became Missus Sigmunt.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Polkis that made me sit down and think things through
a little more. Carefully she could have gotten his, money
or most of, it without marrying. Him maybe she did love,
him or maybe they felt he was too dumb to pay,
off or maybe she married him so she could murder,
him and maybe.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
A dozen other.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Things his suitcases were, packed and he said that he
And sundra planned to leave town. Tonight he'd been waiting
for WHEN i came, in but she was already two hours.
LATE i could think of only one place she could,
be SO i left poor Mister polkas and went to
the filing zone three one, four the Address Honey kane
had given, me and she was.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
There oh From i'm glad you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
CAME i was. SCARED i didn't know what to. Do
i'm scared.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Now, now, honey quiet down and tell me what you're scared.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
About the Bedroom, max he's dare some nice. Job when'd
you find? Him five minutes?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
AGO i was with him the poor and THEN i
went offer Some chinese food WHEN i came.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Back all, right all? Right who else was here? Tonight is?
Anybody but? What he? Was?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Awful Mad assandra said she was double crossing him and
he wouldn't let her get away with.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
IT i went back To polcus's. Place he was, gone
but his bags were still, there SO i figured he'd be.
BACK i put out the lights and sat in a, chair.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Sign go, ahead go.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Ahead ask me What i'm doing here With. Pocus if he's,
smart he's on a train back To. Minneapolis i'm going
to look for.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Him you're not going.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Anywhere sit, Down, YES i, Said you're not going anywhere
unless it's the.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Jail what are you playing this aid district attorney?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
For because you Killed Max? Barstowe now tell me, Why.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Oh don't be a. JOKE a Mac bosto's as live
as you.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Are i'm not talking about the phony murder stage for
the benefit Of Polcus barstow was stabbed at that a
half hour.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Ago he, was he, WAS i saw, him you DAMN i.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
DIDN'T i.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
DIDN'T i saw him earlier, day.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But he was all.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Right you Married polkas to double cross, him didn't? You
you were going to skip time with the.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Mark i'm SURE i. Was So why WOULD i Kill?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Max because he knew what you were going to. Do
that's WHY i.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
DIDN'T i couldn't kill.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Anybody why did?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You what did you have planned For? POCUS i shoved
over to The Grand.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Canyon, NO I i love the old. Guys come, on
we'll dropping a police. Headquarter Know, Sam, No, sam. NOTHING
i wouldn't take you with a us ment thrown.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
In will you let me go IF i tell you what,
Happened IF i tell you who Killed, Bosto.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
If you didn't do, it nobody could hold you for
a murder, Anyway bearing And bearing did.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
It we plan a holding together with a freeze out On.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Bosto somehow he found out it had.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
To take care of.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
HIM i didn't have anything to do with.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
IT i tried to tell him, notough to tell him
not to.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
What i've got a gun in my.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Hand bearings so HAVE. I which one of us is
gonna shoot?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
First you wouldn't, shoot but he did period end of. Report,
Sam is that?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
All?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well what do you want an? Echo? No but he
shot you and you're all? Right were they blink.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Like the other?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Guy they were.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Not they were genuine steel jacketed. Bullets you didn't listen
carefully enough that.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
HEE i figured he'd shoot right.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Away he did, once just AS i jumped sideways and
fired two shots.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Back did you kill? Him?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, no but he's down with a little case of
lead poisoning though under police.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Guard you're.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Wonderful that's, true all? Right go type it up awkward.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Three times mean good.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
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Walters featured soloist for tomorrow's performance is celebrated Violinist Joseph,
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Speaker 3 (25:36):
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Speaker 8 (25:37):
Symphony gim it is, said but it's SOMETHING i don't,
understand true wit what happened to nice old Mister.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Polkist why wasn't he in his apartment waiting to? Start,
well he did just WHAT i thought he should have.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Done he walked down to the railroad depot and got
on the first train For.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Minneapolis who. Knows maybe he's opened a new.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Restaurant, Yes and what happened To, Samdra, well.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
She's being held as an access rated, murder among other.
Things if they were, married that's, Enough, iffy that's.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Enough do you want me to make everything so simple
that everybody will be able to figure it?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Out?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
No but you?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
WHAT i get so? Confused sometimes that's most of your, Charm.
Iffy you, know if you were brisk and efficient and,
cold we'd never have any, fun would?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
WE i get Notam we do have a good time at.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Times we. Do, indeed like right, now coming fire in
a man's. Veins n that's What. SAM i don't know
WHAT i might. DO i love. It whatever it, WAS.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I better say good, Night, sam Good.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Night, sam good. Night sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
To Night's Transcribed adventure Of Sam spade was, produced, edited
and directed By William. Spear Sam spade was played By Stephen,
Dunn Loreen tuttle Is effie Script Fortnite's adventure By John Michael,
hayes musical scoring by Lud, gluskin conducted By Robert. Armbrewster
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