August 9, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spay
Detective sam Sey Detective Agency Me sweetheart. Oh well, that's
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a warm reception if I ever heard one.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm here of my post, Sam, ready to do my duty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, all right, let's have it have what What
have I done?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Come on, come on, Sam, who was that lady?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I've seen you with?
Speaker 5 (00:36):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Lady?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Lady?
Speaker 6 (00:38):
Sam?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For your information, there was a five column picture on
page one of the chronicles showing you with your.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Arms around the reddit. Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Ah, it means nothing to me as a person, Sam,
Although I am a redhead myself, but I feel that
a certain Stam is a publicity, an agency of our statues.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Angel. Angel. If you'd bother to read the caption under
the picture, you would have learned that my arms are
around this other redhead to keep her from braining me
with a paperweight she picked off Dundee's death. Oh yes,
So take my picture back out of the drawer, and
while you're at it, grab the book and pencil, because
I'll be right down with a somewhat lengthier explanation entitled
The Sinister Siren Caper Transcribe Frim DC William Spear Radio's
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outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama brings you
the greatest private detective of them all In the Adventures
of Sam Spain. Oh red headed woman made a fool
out of me, ePIE, Miss Periem surprise, Oh no, black
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haircle spread is praid, afraid but tidy.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You've explained the same well and the youth you coming
in with.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Battlestars ha ha, among other things. How do I explain this?
That woman is a cue if I ever heard one?
Are you that's my girl? To mister Donald's striker Bell
Haven Apartments from Samuel Spade license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject the Sinister Siren Caper, Dear Donald,
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business was terrible, and I blamed the weather. Sitting in
my office.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
With my feet on the radiator and the paper on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
My lap, looking out on the forty eighth consecutive day
of rain, I was seriously contemplating moving my place of
business to a warmer climb where people could get out
in the sunshine and into trouble. The only item of
possible interest in the paper was the story of the
escape of one Dy the Actor, a convicted bank robber
who apparently didn't much care whether or not it was
raining when he.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Busted out of the city jail.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I reached the part about some good friend and true
smuggling ardy a set of keys, when something prompted me
to look up, and that, mister Striker, is how I
found you, mister Spade. Yes, sir, I am Donald O.
Striker s t r y k E. The O stands
for oglethor my mother's maiden name. H. Now that's nice.
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So now, mister Struck, well what can I do for you,
mister Spade?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
The Strikers, as you may or may not know, are
an ancient and honorable family dating back to pre Elizabeth England,
with the possible exception of one Southern number who is
said to have once nodded by mistake to Jesse James.
No Striker has run a fowl of the law. Well,
good for you, one and all, we have kept our
skirts clean, one and all. That is why I am
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utterly at a loss to explain the situation in which
I find myself. And just what situation is that a
quasi reliable source has informed me that I am a
marked man.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Quasi Yes, why don't you begin at the beginning, mister Striker.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
The beginning, mister Spade, is only two minutes from the ending. Oh, yes,
it happened last night. I was sitting home with a
book of Plato's dialogues when the bell rang most energetically.
It proved to be a man named Strut George P.
Strut s t r u t ky cheers, a wild haired,
wild eyed individual. He was, mister Spade, Striker, he says,
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donald O.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Striker.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Well, i'd hardly nodded when he grabbed me by the necktie. Ha,
he said, just like that, Ha ha, mister Striker.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Ha, I'm in time.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Then you can still save yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And he shoved this at me. What's that?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
A picture of a girl, a young and rather pretty girl,
out from a newspaper, No naymore identification. Beware this girl, Striker,
he said, Beware.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The siren song she sings. Striker, he said that he
sinched up even harder on my necktie. Yes, Striker, you
are number six. I am five, and four are doomed
before us.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Beware Striker, Beware this girl, this sinister red haired harpy,
this henmaiden of the dark angel.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well that's quite a speech, a.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Curtain speech, mister, Spade. For with that he let go
my necktie and ran off down the hall. Somehow, somehow,
after that, Plato.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Didn't seem quite the same. Yes, I see what you mean.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Do you know this girl that I saw her before
in my life or strupped either? No, mister Striker, I
don't want to talk myself out of a job, but
you don't need a private detective. Now, this is probably
some harmless chap who walked out of one of the
local sanitariums and took the ringing doorbit. But that's just it.
He isn't mister speed Huh. I did some telephoning this morning.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Yes, he has a quasi successful cigar stand downtown and
an apartment on Levenworth Street. His name is right next
to mine in the telephone book. I I must get
to the bottom of this, mister Spade. I here here's
fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, mister Striker, are you completely skeptical? No? No, just
quasi And with that we formalized our agreement on one
of my quasi legal contracts. And I promised to call
you instantly if anything turns up. And you departed, still
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in a quasi quandry, sticking the newspaper clipping into my wallet.
I hopped the cab and went to Strut's apartment on
Leavenworth see twenty six, twenty four, twenty two.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Who hey, hey lady, Yeah, open hardy.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It was a cleaning lady clawthon, head, mop and tail
beside her testing the guarantee on Strut's grand piano. Uh
to me that no head? Who struck?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Oh, I ain't got no respect for one thousand dollars
grand piano.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Listen to that busted string. Yes, the crime, that's what
it is.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
What do you want yack?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I take it, mister Strutt, isn't it no?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Sam Spade private detective detective? Yeah, seems struck thinks someone
is going to kill him? When did he dream that? One?
And you got me? You know, I'm very well.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I've come here twice a week for fifteen years. You
want to talk, samn, you'll have to follow me around.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
He got a wiggle on. Come on now, I'll got
a wiggle on. You think you think he was dreaming
it up? Hun?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Now, let me tell you about George Shutt.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Let me put that bucket.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Down out Yeah sorry, he.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Is sixty eight years old. My knowledge in the sixty
eight years. One important thing that's happened to him.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You were born.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
George does read too many cheap books.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I show no girlfriends, no well, no women.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Let me see there was a woman about eight years
ago on the bird watching club he belongs to.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
But that laden egg bird watching any enemies?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
How could a man like George have enemies? Nobody notices him.
He matches the.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Rugs now look.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
He goes to lodge meetings twice a month, to church
every sundry. He doesn't smoke, drink, gamble, still on the floor,
tasted women know all about habits, no car, no house,
no money, nor prospects the god I gotta get into
that cluck. So why would anyone want to kill George?
Truck been dead on his feet for twenty years. Why
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when I see George, don't give him a facial month.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Gord Oh, I turned in time to see him lean
out stiffly. He paused like a falling tree, and then
topple to the floor, followed closely by the cleaning lady,
who must have agreed before she fainted that George didn't
match the rug anymore. While this struck a false note
in my mind, it explained the false note in the piano.
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The missing string was wound around his neck. I dragged
her into the bedroom and managed to get her onto
the bed by making two trips, and I called homicide.
The next order of business for our agreement was to
call you, Striker, so I got Struts telephone book finally
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marked the page with your number on it with a
slip of paper, which turned out to be the receipt
for rent paid on a safe deposit.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Box at the Golden Gate Bank.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Now this didn't seem especially important at the moment, but
something else did. He made a circle around the group
of six names in the phone book, marking each one
with a check Struggle, Strudwick, Strum, Strutherton, Strut, and Striker.
I postponed calling you for the moment. I didn't dial
the number just above Struts, Strutherton, Harvey, j Won, five, six,
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Santa Anna Avenue, Saint Francis, W Yes, mister Stutherton in please.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
No, no, mister Strutherton isn't in.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This is his wife.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
My name is Spade, Missus Strutherton. I'm a private detective.
I don't want to alarm you, but alarm me. Do
you happen to know if your husband has received any
threats recently?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Did I know us any contact with a strange young
woman about thirty red hair? Why are you asking me this?
I'd rather not say until I know more about it.
What about the girl?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Yes, yes, he did meet a girl like that.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Oh. When she came to the door.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
One night, about a week ago, she said her car
was still down the street aways, Harvey went out to
help her. They were gone about a half hour, and
then he came back.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Did he tell you anything about it?
Speaker 10 (10:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Chelsead he'd got new started. Is he a mechanic or
he was a lawyer?
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Was Harvey? He's dead?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Missus Pate.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
His car crashed through a rail on the Skyline Boulevard
night before last. Brenda Hi just been to San Mateo
to identify the body.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Strum Joseph p. Eight twenty eight Howard Street. Yeah, yeah,
that's Joe Aisha Ben.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Thanks. You know Joe pretty well?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I like I might not? Why what do you mean
you might not? This is a two eight Howard Street,
isn't it the numbers over the door? Don't you like me?
By Jimmy? What's cheating you about? Joe? Strump? Look? You
see this Drivor detectives. Lets huh oh yeah, poor but
honest Mark, he's trying hard to get a little cooperation.
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I thought you was a cop.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now what's with Joe?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Well, i'll tell you she's Yeah. He uses the phone here,
makes a little book now and then in the back room.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Nothing wrong, you understand.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
But still in all there's nothing a guy likes to
blat around about the strangers, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah. Any idea where he is.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Now, Well, that's a pretty hard thing to say where
Joe is at any given time, even when Joe's acting normal,
which at present he isn't.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh why not?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Well, like all bookies, Joe does not have a hot
but if he had one, eye would not hesitate to
say Joe was in.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Love with a redheaded name about thirty. How did you know? May?
Look at the picture. Let me get my glasses.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
There are there? Ohhh, this is the dish.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know her name?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
No, no, Joe has made no formal announcement as yet,
but the waight has gone around. He is giving eight
to five he will marry her, which for Joe is
a short thing. Last Friday, it was when I seen
him last. They sat after the bar here and the
two of them talking at some length about things I
have never heard Joe discussed before. Well, As I said,
bookies are different from people, so it should have not
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surprised me that Joe and his wren were not discussing
rose covered cottages as do most boys and girls when
they reached the Loney stage. Yes, from what I could
gather as I passed by now and again saving the
other customers, Joe and his girl were discussing a cozy,
little rose covered safe deposit box.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Mm hm. And you haven't seen either of them since
last Friday? No, oh, man, you're right with you?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, globe belief for Fay Charlie talking. Yeah, why you
don't say when this morning?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Eh? Yeah, yeah, sure I will. That's for God. Goodbye?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You were You wouldn't know a bookie who might be
casting about for a phone, would you?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
What happened to Joe.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Body washed the shore on Baker's Beach this morning?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That was the mook? I know what you mean, Sam
Marx abrasions, confusions, indications of foul play, that's right, Maxing.
Did you see the police surgeon's report? Yeah, shot a
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dope and shoved into the briny.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Person or person's unknown.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, pretty hard to do by yourself. Sam, Oh you
wish to look on Joe Strum? I take it? Yeah, yeah, listen, yeah,
let's see yeah. Oh oh no, no, this is the
wrong one. This is Strudwick. Wait a minute, Strudwick, Strudwick
Anthony P I know, I'm Sam Yeah, twenty eighth Genera Place,
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Bayview seven two one one eight. Nice looking boy, they said,
friend of yours. Huh no, no, huh, Well then how
did you brand new league? I'm in Maxie, we call
the shots ahead of time. What about Strudwick?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Artists lived on Telegraph Hill, got drunk Green Heights to
go walk out his studio window on the fourth floor,
all alone.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
If anyone offers yards on that, grab it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
See you later, MAXI yeah, but ain't.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You going to look on Joe's drum? No, well it's
up to you, Sam, So long strut with top man
on the totem pole was James A strubel of barber
who lived on eighteen seven. I called, No one answered,
so I made what by now it become the obvious deduction.
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I went to headquarters and checked the homicide reports. Likewise,
the accident files and the traffic detail. Surprise, no James
a Strubel. So I switched abruptly from the s's to
the d's and called on deer patient Understanding, Lieutenant Dundee,
who's going off? Half cord?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
You?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
If you weren't such an idiot, you'd see what I'm
talking about. Oh listen, Sam, I'm no green pea. I've
been kicking around homicide for thirty years, long enough to
know you've got to have a motive to build up
a case. Yes, how can you stand there and tell me?
A redheaded dame opens a phone book, draws a ring
around six names, and then runs out quick knocks him hard.
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I didn't say that, ah, And why do you want
me to put out a general pickup on James A Struble?
Because if he isn't dead right now, he will be
the dame, don't they? No dame could strangle a six
foot man like strutt with a piano wire. She's working
with someone same. I love you, believe me, but try
to see my side, will you? So I put out
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a general on Struble and we pick him up, and
he screams, and the chief hauls me and ask why,
and I tell him we put the pinch on struble
because his name is ticked off in somebody's phone book.
Why ye, hey, were you? I want to see the lieutenant.
We'll ask him, Oh yeah, what's your name? James Struber?
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I want to report a love or who me? That's
the last week got out of him ten seconds.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
After he hit the floor. He was dead.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
The thirty eight slugg hat's taken him just onder the
left shoulder blade, and instinctively Dundee grasped the point that
squad car was dispatched to your office, mister Striker, to
pick you up and stow you safely in the poke
when I checked out. You are listening to the weekly
adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. Three chimes
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mean good Times on NBC. This Sunday, the glamorous and
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our Fred Allen, Eddie Canter, Filled, Eddie Fisher, and many
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Guild on the Air presents the hawkwarming play Genie, starring
Barry Sullivan and Margaret Phillips. Now back to the Sinister
Siren Caper Tonight's adventure with Zam Spade. The next move
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looked like a tedious one to take the clipped out
picture of the Redhead and try to identifyer by matching
it up in the files of one of the town's
four newspapers. I'd gone a half a block when someone
saved me.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
The trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
The bartender news for you, Wickling, talk about the Blue Fox. Okay,
I'll meet you in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Wait a minute. Why can't we talk here? She is? Yeah? Sorry, Sam, Sorry,
Well you're in sad shape, bartender. What happened the red Head?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Joe Strum's girl. She was in when an hour ago
she was worded to begin with, And when I poured
her a couple of stiff horns on the house, she
begun to talk. Oh, Sam, crime is rampant.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
For instance, Well, from what she told me, Joe Strum
was dwelling in a fool's paradise. Much talk, many promises,
and an occasional spooch, But when the score is added up,
Joe never gets past his own tenyatline.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Who's girl was she? Whose girl? Prepare for a jolt, Sam,
I'm holding onto my chair? AREI the actor? AREDI? The actor? AREDI?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
The actor?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
The picture you showed me was taken at his trial.
She was sitting right behind his lawyer.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, the safe defuss advice.
How much is are he supposed to have stanched away?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
She told me a solid half million bucks. Now numerous
insurance officials and a half full of private dicks are
openly curlling. He says, to what happened to the dough?
And the ranks of the curious have just been joined
by Addi himself since.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
He busted out of the jug. No do the cupboard
is bear?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Why do he take the box out in Joe's name?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
She says?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Ahdi is a whimsical type guy.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know what he does. But he flips the phone
book open.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
When they pull into town with the dough and picks
himself five names and five banks.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Six names? You mean, no, five, she says, No striker
was o huh?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Never mind, never mind?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So why do you figured with the money in five
different legitimate names. It couldn't be traced to him if
if he got tats, which she.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Does, get tat and convicted. Besides, now the dish looks
upon Addi as in the deep freeze and hustles around
to each of the five guys with the proposition. So
Ardi becomes wise to this and takes them up in order.
When he busts out, it is Yeah, there's much I
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learned before she staggers out of my joint. The rest
time assleep for you.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You can't drink bartender occasional.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Sam if there is any other reward though, floating around
when the smoke sentles, I will.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Be at the cloverallef sir, only beer, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
And if you run across the nice hard working book
who needs a phone?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Charlie. Charlie wiped the froth off
his chin with a napkin and took off. I let
him have a healthy lead, then tailed him. It was
quite a tour too, into the Morgue, across the street,
out the Kearney Street door, then out of the California
Street cable car and up knob Hill to the Fairmount Hotel,
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where He hustled into a yellow cab number four six'
two and drove, off and waiting for him in the
cab was The Redheaded. Dame there were no other cabs
around the, following SO i waited a half hour until
it got, back waved a bill under the driver's, nose
and climbed back on The merry go. Round he Let
charlie out at his own, place the Clover, leaf and
then driven downtown to a fleabag called the Shore Side
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hotel on The, embarcadero where he left The.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
REDHEAD i woke up the desk clerk and shove The
redhead's picture under his.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Nose let me, see let me.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
See seems like you recognize.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Him, sure Terrible clara about?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Them will be, clean don't win. Anything, look, friend she
was just, Here. Clara the girl here isn't she ain't,
clarable right? Right she Ain't. Clara she just drove up
in a.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Taxi, yeah don't see as good as how you?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
See you see the glasses hurt My, no.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
She just drove up in a. Taxi did you see
her come?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
In?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
No, no, NO i must have been doge in the. Way,
YEAH i seen her come, out, though, yeah her and
Mister walker checked out fifteen minutes. Back he was in
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
UPSTAIRS i didn't have to cross examine the clerk to
see Mister walker had lived in twenty six for some.
Time the floor was ankled deep in cigarette, butts liquor,
bottles sandwich, crusts another. DEBRIS a table in the corner
was covered with travel, folders mostly On South america And
Seven days, newspapers the top one of which was turned
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to the story On lardy the. Actor And i've been
reading in my office this morning when it all. Started you,
know it's too bad you came in when you did strike,
her because If i'd read one more, Paragraph i'd learned
something that could have saved me a lot of. Trouble
whatever was the case with four of the, names the
fifth one already.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Hadn't picked at.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Random his lawyer Was Harvey Jay.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Strutherton, hello Missus, strutherton this Is Sam. Space Mister, Space
Thank heaven you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Call i'm terribly. Frightened what's the matter the? GIRL i read? Him,
yes she just called.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Me she, says she, says my husband was.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Murdered one of his, clients a man he.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Defended things have he betrayed here.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Arty the Actor Aardy. Billings, yes there was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Money she knows where it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Is why is she telling you? ALLWAY i don't, know Mister.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Spade she warned me against calling the. POLICE i don't
know what to, do.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And don't do. Anything don't you see she's coming. Here
she'll be.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Here in twenty.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
MINUTES i made it in, fifteen left the cabble block
away and walked Down Santa Ana, avenue the number one five.
Six the night fogot moved, in making it tough to
follow the path through the high shrubbery to the door
of the. House Missus strutherton hadn't helped. Matters anybody turning
out every light in the. Joint Mister, Spade, yeah, yeah
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she hear.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You no come?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
In why don't you turn out the? LIGHTS i was being.
Watched there's a fire in the living room this. Way
crushades and draperies were all, full the windows shut.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Tight the house had the musty reek of a room
that's been closed.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Up for a long. Time she guided me around the
dining room furniture and threw the doors into the living
room and sat me down in front of the. Fire
would you like some, brandy Mister, Spade no, thanks, cigarette, yeah?
Thanks tell me, now tell.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
ME i want to know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Everything this man my husband.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Descended you know he's out of. JAIL i saw the.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Papers why would he Kill harvey after my husband did
everything in his power.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
To get him? Acquitted? MONEY a lot of? Money how?
Much a half million? Dollars how about a? Match?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
YES i held, back and without, thinking she leaned over
into the. FIRELIGHT i saw Missus.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Strebenham then for the first.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Time it was the. Redhead all, right holding, now don't.
Move this is a thirty eight baby at the back
of your. Neck, now don't, move all? Right where is?
HE i don't know what you. Mean you heard WHAT i.
Said where's your? Husband he's? Dead body you identified And
Sam mateo is already the. Actor you And harvey engineered the,
escape so you'll have a fall guy for five murders
and five hundred thousand. Bucks, now for the last, time
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where is?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
He?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Harvey all, Right harvey kill?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Me don't don't do.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
IT i didn't have to a few.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Months hence the state Of california will do it the legal.
Way it was a long ride Round Robin hood's, barn.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Striker but you wanted to get to.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The bottom of. It so there it is period end of. Report,
damn what about the? Money i'm still looking for. It
If horvey has thus far chosen not to, talk But
dundee hasn't really turned on the persuasion machinery. Yet who.
Knows maybe he's opened the phone book at The p's
and put his finger on Pirene, Efie, oh we don't.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Even think of, It. Sham i'll settle for twenty six
dos and eighty seven, cents which represents the shorty in
my check covering the.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Period, Effie what CAN i?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Believe my?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Ears WHAT i look back upon the past twelve? Hours
how to keep our little organization together to stave off
the bill? COLLECTOR i placed my life in jeopardy tangle
with a, murderess use my poor tired body as bait
for her savage. Conspiracy i'm spurting my way Through morgan
crime ridden ally to finally win the, fight and then
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and then to come home expecting a cheery, welcome and
to get instead scurvy in the windows and a bill
for twenty six. Eighty don't forget it, them.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You don't ever mention it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Again i'm. Sorry that's my girl here ten twenty, five, six,
seven twenty.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Seven now we're all.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Square, Thanks come here.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Now you can bring me the thirteen cents, tomorrow my.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Boss Good night to, them good, night. Sweetheart three chimes
mean Good times ON nbc
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spay
Detective sam Sey Detective Agency Me sweetheart. Oh well, that's
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a warm reception if I ever heard one.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm here of my post, Sam, ready to do my duty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, all right, let's have it have what What
have I done?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Come on, come on, Sam, who was that lady?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I've seen you with?
Speaker 5 (00:36):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Lady?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Lady?
Speaker 6 (00:38):
Sam?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For your information, there was a five column picture on
page one of the chronicles showing you with your.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Arms around the reddit. Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Ah, it means nothing to me as a person, Sam,
Although I am a redhead myself, but I feel that
a certain Stam is a publicity, an agency of our statues.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Angel. Angel. If you'd bother to read the caption under
the picture, you would have learned that my arms are
around this other redhead to keep her from braining me
with a paperweight she picked off Dundee's death. Oh yes,
So take my picture back out of the drawer, and
while you're at it, grab the book and pencil, because
I'll be right down with a somewhat lengthier explanation entitled
The Sinister Siren Caper Transcribe Frim DC William Spear Radio's
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outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama brings you
the greatest private detective of them all In the Adventures
of Sam Spain. Oh red headed woman made a fool
out of me, ePIE, Miss Periem surprise, Oh no, black
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haircle spread is praid, afraid but tidy.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You've explained the same well and the youth you coming
in with.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Battlestars ha ha, among other things. How do I explain this?
That woman is a cue if I ever heard one?
Are you that's my girl? To mister Donald's striker Bell
Haven Apartments from Samuel Spade license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject the Sinister Siren Caper, Dear Donald,
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business was terrible, and I blamed the weather. Sitting in
my office.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
With my feet on the radiator and the paper on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
My lap, looking out on the forty eighth consecutive day
of rain, I was seriously contemplating moving my place of
business to a warmer climb where people could get out
in the sunshine and into trouble. The only item of
possible interest in the paper was the story of the
escape of one Dy the Actor, a convicted bank robber
who apparently didn't much care whether or not it was
raining when he.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Busted out of the city jail.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I reached the part about some good friend and true
smuggling ardy a set of keys, when something prompted me
to look up, and that, mister Striker, is how I
found you, mister Spade. Yes, sir, I am Donald O.
Striker s t r y k E. The O stands
for oglethor my mother's maiden name. H. Now that's nice.
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So now, mister Struck, well what can I do for you,
mister Spade?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
The Strikers, as you may or may not know, are
an ancient and honorable family dating back to pre Elizabeth England,
with the possible exception of one Southern number who is
said to have once nodded by mistake to Jesse James.
No Striker has run a fowl of the law. Well,
good for you, one and all, we have kept our
skirts clean, one and all. That is why I am
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utterly at a loss to explain the situation in which
I find myself. And just what situation is that a
quasi reliable source has informed me that I am a
marked man.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Quasi Yes, why don't you begin at the beginning, mister Striker.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
The beginning, mister Spade, is only two minutes from the ending. Oh, yes,
it happened last night. I was sitting home with a
book of Plato's dialogues when the bell rang most energetically.
It proved to be a man named Strut George P.
Strut s t r u t ky cheers, a wild haired,
wild eyed individual. He was, mister Spade, Striker, he says,
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donald O.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Striker.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Well, i'd hardly nodded when he grabbed me by the necktie. Ha,
he said, just like that, Ha ha, mister Striker.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Ha, I'm in time.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Then you can still save yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And he shoved this at me. What's that?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
A picture of a girl, a young and rather pretty girl,
out from a newspaper, No naymore identification. Beware this girl, Striker,
he said, Beware.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The siren song she sings. Striker, he said that he
sinched up even harder on my necktie. Yes, Striker, you
are number six. I am five, and four are doomed
before us.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Beware Striker, Beware this girl, this sinister red haired harpy,
this henmaiden of the dark angel.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well that's quite a speech, a.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Curtain speech, mister, Spade. For with that he let go
my necktie and ran off down the hall. Somehow, somehow,
after that, Plato.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Didn't seem quite the same. Yes, I see what you mean.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Do you know this girl that I saw her before
in my life or strupped either? No, mister Striker, I
don't want to talk myself out of a job, but
you don't need a private detective. Now, this is probably
some harmless chap who walked out of one of the
local sanitariums and took the ringing doorbit. But that's just it.
He isn't mister speed Huh. I did some telephoning this morning.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Yes, he has a quasi successful cigar stand downtown and
an apartment on Levenworth Street. His name is right next
to mine in the telephone book. I I must get
to the bottom of this, mister Spade. I here here's
fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, mister Striker, are you completely skeptical? No? No, just
quasi And with that we formalized our agreement on one
of my quasi legal contracts. And I promised to call
you instantly if anything turns up. And you departed, still
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in a quasi quandry, sticking the newspaper clipping into my wallet.
I hopped the cab and went to Strut's apartment on
Leavenworth see twenty six, twenty four, twenty two.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Who hey, hey lady, Yeah, open hardy.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It was a cleaning lady clawthon, head, mop and tail
beside her testing the guarantee on Strut's grand piano. Uh
to me that no head? Who struck?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Oh, I ain't got no respect for one thousand dollars
grand piano.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Listen to that busted string. Yes, the crime, that's what
it is.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
What do you want yack?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I take it, mister Strutt, isn't it no?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Sam Spade private detective detective? Yeah, seems struck thinks someone
is going to kill him? When did he dream that? One?
And you got me? You know, I'm very well.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I've come here twice a week for fifteen years. You
want to talk, samn, you'll have to follow me around.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
He got a wiggle on. Come on now, I'll got
a wiggle on. You think you think he was dreaming
it up? Hun?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Now, let me tell you about George Shutt.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Let me put that bucket.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Down out Yeah sorry, he.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Is sixty eight years old. My knowledge in the sixty
eight years. One important thing that's happened to him.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You were born.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
George does read too many cheap books.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I show no girlfriends, no well, no women.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Let me see there was a woman about eight years
ago on the bird watching club he belongs to.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
But that laden egg bird watching any enemies?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
How could a man like George have enemies? Nobody notices him.
He matches the.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Rugs now look.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
He goes to lodge meetings twice a month, to church
every sundry. He doesn't smoke, drink, gamble, still on the floor,
tasted women know all about habits, no car, no house,
no money, nor prospects the god I gotta get into
that cluck. So why would anyone want to kill George?
Truck been dead on his feet for twenty years. Why
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when I see George, don't give him a facial month.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Gord Oh, I turned in time to see him lean
out stiffly. He paused like a falling tree, and then
topple to the floor, followed closely by the cleaning lady,
who must have agreed before she fainted that George didn't
match the rug anymore. While this struck a false note
in my mind, it explained the false note in the piano.
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The missing string was wound around his neck. I dragged
her into the bedroom and managed to get her onto
the bed by making two trips, and I called homicide.
The next order of business for our agreement was to
call you, Striker, so I got Struts telephone book finally
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marked the page with your number on it with a
slip of paper, which turned out to be the receipt
for rent paid on a safe deposit.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Box at the Golden Gate Bank.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Now this didn't seem especially important at the moment, but
something else did. He made a circle around the group
of six names in the phone book, marking each one
with a check Struggle, Strudwick, Strum, Strutherton, Strut, and Striker.
I postponed calling you for the moment. I didn't dial
the number just above Struts, Strutherton, Harvey, j Won, five, six,
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Santa Anna Avenue, Saint Francis, W Yes, mister Stutherton in please.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
No, no, mister Strutherton isn't in.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This is his wife.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
My name is Spade, Missus Strutherton. I'm a private detective.
I don't want to alarm you, but alarm me. Do
you happen to know if your husband has received any
threats recently?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Did I know us any contact with a strange young
woman about thirty red hair? Why are you asking me this?
I'd rather not say until I know more about it.
What about the girl?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Yes, yes, he did meet a girl like that.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Oh. When she came to the door.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
One night, about a week ago, she said her car
was still down the street aways, Harvey went out to
help her. They were gone about a half hour, and
then he came back.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Did he tell you anything about it?
Speaker 10 (10:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Chelsead he'd got new started. Is he a mechanic or
he was a lawyer?
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Was Harvey? He's dead?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Missus Pate.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
His car crashed through a rail on the Skyline Boulevard
night before last. Brenda Hi just been to San Mateo
to identify the body.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Strum Joseph p. Eight twenty eight Howard Street. Yeah, yeah,
that's Joe Aisha Ben.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Thanks. You know Joe pretty well?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I like I might not? Why what do you mean
you might not? This is a two eight Howard Street,
isn't it the numbers over the door? Don't you like me?
By Jimmy? What's cheating you about? Joe? Strump? Look? You
see this Drivor detectives. Lets huh oh yeah, poor but
honest Mark, he's trying hard to get a little cooperation.
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I thought you was a cop.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now what's with Joe?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Well, i'll tell you she's Yeah. He uses the phone here,
makes a little book now and then in the back room.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Nothing wrong, you understand.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
But still in all there's nothing a guy likes to
blat around about the strangers, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah. Any idea where he is.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Now, Well, that's a pretty hard thing to say where
Joe is at any given time, even when Joe's acting normal,
which at present he isn't.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh why not?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Well, like all bookies, Joe does not have a hot
but if he had one, eye would not hesitate to
say Joe was in.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Love with a redheaded name about thirty. How did you know? May?
Look at the picture. Let me get my glasses.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
There are there? Ohhh, this is the dish.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know her name?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
No, no, Joe has made no formal announcement as yet,
but the waight has gone around. He is giving eight
to five he will marry her, which for Joe is
a short thing. Last Friday, it was when I seen
him last. They sat after the bar here and the
two of them talking at some length about things I
have never heard Joe discussed before. Well, As I said,
bookies are different from people, so it should have not
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surprised me that Joe and his wren were not discussing
rose covered cottages as do most boys and girls when
they reached the Loney stage. Yes, from what I could
gather as I passed by now and again saving the
other customers, Joe and his girl were discussing a cozy,
little rose covered safe deposit box.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Mm hm. And you haven't seen either of them since
last Friday? No, oh, man, you're right with you?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, globe belief for Fay Charlie talking. Yeah, why you
don't say when this morning?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Eh? Yeah, yeah, sure I will. That's for God. Goodbye?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You were You wouldn't know a bookie who might be
casting about for a phone, would you?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
What happened to Joe.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Body washed the shore on Baker's Beach this morning?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That was the mook? I know what you mean, Sam
Marx abrasions, confusions, indications of foul play, that's right, Maxing.
Did you see the police surgeon's report? Yeah, shot a
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dope and shoved into the briny.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Person or person's unknown.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, pretty hard to do by yourself. Sam, Oh you
wish to look on Joe Strum? I take it? Yeah, yeah, listen, yeah,
let's see yeah. Oh oh no, no, this is the
wrong one. This is Strudwick. Wait a minute, Strudwick, Strudwick
Anthony P I know, I'm Sam Yeah, twenty eighth Genera Place,
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Bayview seven two one one eight. Nice looking boy, they said,
friend of yours. Huh no, no, huh, Well then how
did you brand new league? I'm in Maxie, we call
the shots ahead of time. What about Strudwick?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Artists lived on Telegraph Hill, got drunk Green Heights to
go walk out his studio window on the fourth floor,
all alone.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
If anyone offers yards on that, grab it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
See you later, MAXI yeah, but ain't.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You going to look on Joe's drum? No, well it's
up to you, Sam, So long strut with top man
on the totem pole was James A strubel of barber
who lived on eighteen seven. I called, No one answered,
so I made what by now it become the obvious deduction.
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I went to headquarters and checked the homicide reports. Likewise,
the accident files and the traffic detail. Surprise, no James
a Strubel. So I switched abruptly from the s's to
the d's and called on deer patient Understanding, Lieutenant Dundee,
who's going off? Half cord?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
You?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
If you weren't such an idiot, you'd see what I'm
talking about. Oh listen, Sam, I'm no green pea. I've
been kicking around homicide for thirty years, long enough to
know you've got to have a motive to build up
a case. Yes, how can you stand there and tell me?
A redheaded dame opens a phone book, draws a ring
around six names, and then runs out quick knocks him hard.
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I didn't say that, ah, And why do you want
me to put out a general pickup on James A Struble?
Because if he isn't dead right now, he will be
the dame, don't they? No dame could strangle a six
foot man like strutt with a piano wire. She's working
with someone same. I love you, believe me, but try
to see my side, will you? So I put out
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a general on Struble and we pick him up, and
he screams, and the chief hauls me and ask why,
and I tell him we put the pinch on struble
because his name is ticked off in somebody's phone book.
Why ye, hey, were you? I want to see the lieutenant.
We'll ask him, Oh yeah, what's your name? James Struber?
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I want to report a love or who me? That's
the last week got out of him ten seconds.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
After he hit the floor. He was dead.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
The thirty eight slugg hat's taken him just onder the
left shoulder blade, and instinctively Dundee grasped the point that
squad car was dispatched to your office, mister Striker, to
pick you up and stow you safely in the poke
when I checked out. You are listening to the weekly
adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. Three chimes
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mean good Times on NBC. This Sunday, the glamorous and
very unpredictable Tallulah brings you another gala broadcast of The
Big Show. Among Tallula's guests for this Sunday's Big Show
our Fred Allen, Eddie Canter, Filled, Eddie Fisher, and many
many more. It's an hour and a half of the
very best in comedy, music and drama. Every Sunday, It's
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The Big Show on NBC for drama. This Sunday Theatre
Guild on the Air presents the hawkwarming play Genie, starring
Barry Sullivan and Margaret Phillips. Now back to the Sinister
Siren Caper Tonight's adventure with Zam Spade. The next move
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looked like a tedious one to take the clipped out
picture of the Redhead and try to identifyer by matching
it up in the files of one of the town's
four newspapers. I'd gone a half a block when someone
saved me.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
The trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
The bartender news for you, Wickling, talk about the Blue Fox. Okay,
I'll meet you in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Wait a minute. Why can't we talk here? She is? Yeah? Sorry, Sam, Sorry,
Well you're in sad shape, bartender. What happened the red Head?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Joe Strum's girl. She was in when an hour ago
she was worded to begin with, And when I poured
her a couple of stiff horns on the house, she
begun to talk. Oh, Sam, crime is rampant.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
For instance, Well, from what she told me, Joe Strum
was dwelling in a fool's paradise. Much talk, many promises,
and an occasional spooch, But when the score is added up,
Joe never gets past his own tenyatline.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Who's girl was she? Whose girl? Prepare for a jolt, Sam,
I'm holding onto my chair? AREI the actor? AREDI? The actor? AREDI?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
The actor?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
The picture you showed me was taken at his trial.
She was sitting right behind his lawyer.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, the safe defuss advice.
How much is are he supposed to have stanched away?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
She told me a solid half million bucks. Now numerous
insurance officials and a half full of private dicks are
openly curlling. He says, to what happened to the dough?
And the ranks of the curious have just been joined
by Addi himself since.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
He busted out of the jug. No do the cupboard
is bear?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Why do he take the box out in Joe's name?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
She says?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Ahdi is a whimsical type guy.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know what he does. But he flips the phone
book open.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
When they pull into town with the dough and picks
himself five names and five banks.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Six names? You mean, no, five, she says, No striker
was o huh?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Never mind, never mind?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So why do you figured with the money in five
different legitimate names. It couldn't be traced to him if
if he got tats, which she.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Does, get tat and convicted. Besides, now the dish looks
upon Addi as in the deep freeze and hustles around
to each of the five guys with the proposition. So
Ardi becomes wise to this and takes them up in order.
When he busts out, it is Yeah, there's much I
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learned before she staggers out of my joint. The rest
time assleep for you.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You can't drink bartender occasional.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Sam if there is any other reward though, floating around
when the smoke sentles, I will.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Be at the cloverallef sir, only beer, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
And if you run across the nice hard working book
who needs a phone?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Charlie. Charlie wiped the froth off
his chin with a napkin and took off. I let
him have a healthy lead, then tailed him. It was
quite a tour too, into the Morgue, across the street,
out the Kearney Street door, then out of the California
Street cable car and up knob Hill to the Fairmount Hotel,
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where He hustled into a yellow cab number four six'
two and drove, off and waiting for him in the
cab was The Redheaded. Dame there were no other cabs
around the, following SO i waited a half hour until
it got, back waved a bill under the driver's, nose
and climbed back on The merry go. Round he Let
charlie out at his own, place the Clover, leaf and
then driven downtown to a fleabag called the Shore Side
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hotel on The, embarcadero where he left The.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
REDHEAD i woke up the desk clerk and shove The
redhead's picture under his.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Nose let me, see let me.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
See seems like you recognize.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Him, sure Terrible clara about?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Them will be, clean don't win. Anything, look, friend she
was just, Here. Clara the girl here isn't she ain't,
clarable right? Right she Ain't. Clara she just drove up
in a.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Taxi, yeah don't see as good as how you?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
See you see the glasses hurt My, no.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
She just drove up in a. Taxi did you see
her come?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
In?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
No, no, NO i must have been doge in the. Way,
YEAH i seen her come, out, though, yeah her and
Mister walker checked out fifteen minutes. Back he was in
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
UPSTAIRS i didn't have to cross examine the clerk to
see Mister walker had lived in twenty six for some.
Time the floor was ankled deep in cigarette, butts liquor,
bottles sandwich, crusts another. DEBRIS a table in the corner
was covered with travel, folders mostly On South america And
Seven days, newspapers the top one of which was turned
(23:12):
to the story On lardy the. Actor And i've been
reading in my office this morning when it all. Started you,
know it's too bad you came in when you did strike,
her because If i'd read one more, Paragraph i'd learned
something that could have saved me a lot of. Trouble
whatever was the case with four of the, names the
fifth one already.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Hadn't picked at.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Random his lawyer Was Harvey Jay.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Strutherton, hello Missus, strutherton this Is Sam. Space Mister, Space
Thank heaven you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Call i'm terribly. Frightened what's the matter the? GIRL i read? Him,
yes she just called.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Me she, says she, says my husband was.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Murdered one of his, clients a man he.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Defended things have he betrayed here.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Arty the Actor Aardy. Billings, yes there was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Money she knows where it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Is why is she telling you? ALLWAY i don't, know Mister.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Spade she warned me against calling the. POLICE i don't
know what to, do.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And don't do. Anything don't you see she's coming. Here
she'll be.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Here in twenty.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
MINUTES i made it in, fifteen left the cabble block
away and walked Down Santa Ana, avenue the number one five.
Six the night fogot moved, in making it tough to
follow the path through the high shrubbery to the door
of the. House Missus strutherton hadn't helped. Matters anybody turning
out every light in the. Joint Mister, Spade, yeah, yeah
(24:27):
she hear.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You no come?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
In why don't you turn out the? LIGHTS i was being.
Watched there's a fire in the living room this. Way
crushades and draperies were all, full the windows shut.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Tight the house had the musty reek of a room
that's been closed.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Up for a long. Time she guided me around the
dining room furniture and threw the doors into the living
room and sat me down in front of the. Fire
would you like some, brandy Mister, Spade no, thanks, cigarette, yeah?
Thanks tell me, now tell.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
ME i want to know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Everything this man my husband.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Descended you know he's out of. JAIL i saw the.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Papers why would he Kill harvey after my husband did
everything in his power.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
To get him? Acquitted? MONEY a lot of? Money how?
Much a half million? Dollars how about a? Match?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
YES i held, back and without, thinking she leaned over
into the. FIRELIGHT i saw Missus.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Strebenham then for the first.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Time it was the. Redhead all, right holding, now don't.
Move this is a thirty eight baby at the back
of your. Neck, now don't, move all? Right where is?
HE i don't know what you. Mean you heard WHAT i.
Said where's your? Husband he's? Dead body you identified And
Sam mateo is already the. Actor you And harvey engineered the,
escape so you'll have a fall guy for five murders
and five hundred thousand. Bucks, now for the last, time
(25:38):
where is?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
He?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Harvey all, Right harvey kill?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Me don't don't do.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
IT i didn't have to a few.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Months hence the state Of california will do it the legal.
Way it was a long ride Round Robin hood's, barn.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Striker but you wanted to get to.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The bottom of. It so there it is period end of. Report,
damn what about the? Money i'm still looking for. It
If horvey has thus far chosen not to, talk But
dundee hasn't really turned on the persuasion machinery. Yet who.
Knows maybe he's opened the phone book at The p's
and put his finger on Pirene, Efie, oh we don't.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Even think of, It. Sham i'll settle for twenty six
dos and eighty seven, cents which represents the shorty in
my check covering the.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Period, Effie what CAN i?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Believe my?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Ears WHAT i look back upon the past twelve? Hours
how to keep our little organization together to stave off
the bill? COLLECTOR i placed my life in jeopardy tangle
with a, murderess use my poor tired body as bait
for her savage. Conspiracy i'm spurting my way Through morgan
crime ridden ally to finally win the, fight and then
(26:54):
and then to come home expecting a cheery, welcome and
to get instead scurvy in the windows and a bill
for twenty six. Eighty don't forget it, them.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You don't ever mention it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Again i'm. Sorry that's my girl here ten twenty, five, six,
seven twenty.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Seven now we're all.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Square, Thanks come here.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Now you can bring me the thirteen cents, tomorrow my.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Boss Good night to, them good, night. Sweetheart three chimes
mean Good times ON nbc
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