August 8, 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 Say Detaching Agency, Me.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Sweetheart, and all is forgiven Like I told you?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How can you forgive me?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I almost killed you?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Why kick yourself f you would have done the private
detective profession.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
A great favor.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't say that by removing from its rolls the
only operative in San Francisco stupid enough to shake an
apple tree for an entire evening trying to pick up
an apron full of bananas.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
But they all can't come out right in the end.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But you haven't heard the PostScript. Angel PostScript indeed, batton
down the hatches and worn all within earshot that they're
about to catch stupid Sam. The incomparable in a new act.
We're during the next twenty nine minutes and thirty seconds,
I shall down the mettle of don Quixote, shoulder my battery,
glance and tilt at windmills, and an object lessened to
the gullible entitled the Spanish Prisoner Kper.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Transcribe for n DC.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama,
brings you the greatest private Detective of them all in
the Adventures of sam Spadem Effie.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, ah, now they're they're rangel. Don't cry, little girl.
Don't cry.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'm so stupid you might have been.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Yet We'll have no more of it. Here not a
word book pencil.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They fill it into Miss Marjorie Loveland, Brockhaven Apartments from
Samuel Spade still license number one, three, seven, five, nine
six down fiew subject the Spanish prisoner caper.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
There there, Marjorie.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
When they made you, darling, they threw them all away
in this day of the emancipated, self sufficient, one hundred
percent competent female. It came as a fresh breeze and
a boost of my masculine ego to run across a lady,
white haired and fragile with all who needed protection. After
meeting you, I knew what the fellow had in mind
when he wrote Heaven will protect the working girl. As
a matter of fact, you could have been the very girl,
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since you and the song were about the same vintage.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Do please said down, missus bab and may I picked
you some tea?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No thanks?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I planned to come to your office that I decided
I just couldn't risk going out.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
At this time.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Oh, why is that really might come?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You see?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
And I'd never forgive myself if I was out.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Who's this snoroun Mara? Who He's not going to week
overdue now? And I'm on pins and needles.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I gave him a guest here at the Brockhaven. But
there's the Brocklebank and the Brockhurst and.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
The and the Bronx.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
It would be so easy for him.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
To become confused, being a stranger in town.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Caw, I'm a native. I'm confused myself.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Well, I thought perhaps you could locate in He should
be back from Mexico by now.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
With Don Louis steer me.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
So many things could happen to them walking the streets.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
With all that money. What money, the gold and the
precious gems? How about starting all over again?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Why haven't I.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Made myself clear, missus Spain?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, I have the end fairly straight, yes, but if
you'll give me the beginning, we'll have everything.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Oh oh well, well, I suppose the beginning was three
weeks ago where in the lobby of the Grand Hotel
for Women, I see, I was staying there temporarily while
I was waiting for this apartment.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
You see, So the.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Day I got word I could move here. I packed
up and had them take my things out to the taxi.
Then I went to the desk and got my.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Money from the board.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh how much eighty done? Yes, and bills my annuity
money had just come to me. Well, well, I just
put the bills in. My person was starting out the
door when it happened.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
This voice came over my shoulder, a soft Latin voice saying, Senorita,
I'll come to you on a matter of terrible urgency.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
And lo and behold it was Senor Palmer. How did
you know I have a feeling for those things? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well, his uncle Don Luis Alvaro was in terrible trouble,
he said, in prison in Mexico City on some sort
of trumped up political.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Chard ah and the family, though noble, was financially impolished. Yes,
except except for a casket containing the family jewels and
an assortment of priceless heirlooms, all hundreds of years old
hand wroth of the finest virgin.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Goal mister Stade.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
However, it said, caskets and its precious horde being hidden
away in a secret place known only to Don Luis.
All he needs is a paltry eight hundred and forty dollars.
It was a I went to the bank up paltry
thousand dollars to bribe a jail official, and presto, don
Luis goes free on earth the casket and rewards you
with an ample share of the family treasure.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Mister Speed, you've talked to Senora PALMERA Nope, how badly
do you need the dough?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
H need it?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Why?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Good heavens, mister Spade, it's all I haven't till next June.
There's a small pension from the school board in Kiako.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
But dear me, I don't know just how mister Spade
do you mean me? He isn't coming back with my money.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The truth of the matter, Marjorie, was that you'd fallen
for the Spanish prisoners swindle, a hoary old chestnut that
goes back to the day of P. T.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Barnum and before what you look like.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If I gave you an honest answer, you dissolve into tears.
As I said, I was in one of my heaven
and Spade will protect the working girl mood. So I
made up a dishonest one. Well, I'll try and look
him up. Maybe it's all a terrible misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh good, that's Nick too and Slip too, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Dorothy Eppie, Miss Speren Sam Stage Exacivagency. This is mister
Spade Charming one.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Oh Sam, I'm sorry, Yes, Dorothy here and I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
To learn a nit argyle song.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We'll fine drop all stitches and look in the file
for me, will you. I remember getting a circular a
while back on a con man who was running the
Spanish prisoner around here?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What would be under Sam?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Spanish prisoner con games?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Absolutely, get out the file.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh it's Sam. Does look at the file confidence games?
Oh yes, Knit and Slip.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
To I'm sure sad, Yeah, I found it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
His name is Pedro Rodriguez Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
There's no address, but it says he habitually associates with
somebody named Lolita Montoya sounds.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Spanish slightly slightly any addressed for her six fifteen Mason Street.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Fine, fine, that's all there is this.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh golly, I'm so mixed up with these darn argyles.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
What's so tough about that? You want to try it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Sometimes?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
What role were you on?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Twenty seven Knit Tree and Slip one she says, and.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I she's wrong, wrong, wrong, knit two, slip one, knit
one past one and knit one.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Damn how bractle.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I've been going out with a gray lady. Six fifteen
Mason Street was a very large apartment building with the
usual brass plate in the entry listing the inhabitants, among
which I was happy to note was Lolita Montoya, Apartment
four O eight. I pick up the house phone and
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pressed the button. Yeah, telegram for Lolita Montoya.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Elita isn't here, Lolida, my loreda?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Who is calling?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Just a telegram?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Pub Stick it in the box, eh, money order. Somebody
has to sign for it, but it may be important.
I will stick care of and understands you. Yes, yes,
Are you a di state sonny, Yeah, climb back into
that cap. I saw you get out of hustle over
the Western Junion and tell the president Lolita's on a vacation.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Get it score for you now? Hello? Hello, Well nothing dadted.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I punched a few bells until one of the less
suspicious tenants gave me the front door. Bus walked in
and took the automatic elevator to the fourth floor. Or
I should say, tore the fourth floor, since halfway between
the third and fourth she quit cool the elevator, that is,
but there were devices for such things. I pushed the
button on emergency, and it took me only fifty minutes
to get out, assisted by the janitor, the manager, and
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twelve tenants. The doors on the four floor it seemed
have been carelessly pried open and held that way by
a magazine carelessly stuck in the crack. Continuing my stealthy
approach to four oh eight, I found my man in
his palad somehow since I was coming, and run off
without stopping to close the door. The apartment was filled
with cigarette smoke and not much else.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
A bad and empty dresser and a table on which were.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
One top half full of foul black coffee, a little
pointed gadget that looked like a nuttick, and a handful
of metal shavings. I was contemplating what connection, if any,
this had with your missing thousand bucks.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Whens, Yeah, that's just dives. Bo.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
I just wanted to inquire how everything is coming A
look if.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It'll see grain? How much right? There's a thousand? Is
a good bore? What do you think? O?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Very Joe to shave is joyous, knows like use that Pedro.
How Spanish prisoner is a valuable man.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
I must hustle over to the lighthouse.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And inform the leader lighthouse.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
She has been very conscientious in the rule, pet.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Baby, Oh see Grain.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
It's not every girl who would sell out her grandfather
so readily.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Petvill.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
No, we must not take a lot leader for granted.
I will give it a new rumble and we'll see
you to night at simple right.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
See right, I revorve Pedro, I reward well, I reward
lay Sneidie.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The only lighthouse higne was a gin mill pirch midway
down the Embaccadero south of Market, surrounded by shoals strewn
with human wrecks.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Of all descriptions.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
A place you might find shell game man and kane grifters,
but hardly a habitat for a con man's moving up
to work. The Spanish prisoner, the lighthouse keeper, who looked
like he'd retired from the sea after a losing battle
with Motley Dick has been over a pinball machine next
to the door. As far as I can see about
the one light in the joint, it was.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Empty up get up up, up too bad, lighthouse keeper. Yeah,
what do you have? Well? Beer when you're ready? Do
you know Pedro Rodriguez?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, worked for me.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
What a couple of years ago? I can them. Why.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, he's a Swab only honist nickel he ever made
was what he was here?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
All right? Thanks? Yeah, crooked swab is Pedro Rodriguez. He's
up to something right now.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If you asked me Spanish prisoner, uh you mixed up
with it too, huh Nope, I just want to be
how does it go?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
About your body, only it seems to smell. See.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Pedro was sitting at the body the other night with
another Swab talking about old Spanish jet was going back
to a billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Just come over from Spade you nice shirt, body, English,
pure and simple. So what about the spanishin Well, I
didn't hear no more about that. I tell you what
you do.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You ask Lalita about it, and they take Pedro's big
stuff and she generally knows about good.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Where do I find Lolita?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Let's see, I show whether it's the third and the fourth,
third or fourth one? The boot from the back there.
She was sitting there all night writing letters.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
You better be careful, though she got her awful temper,
thanks linehouse keeper. How about the beer?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Sure, hey, Larry draw one? So Larry drew one, and
I took it down to the bar to a point
opposite booth number four, which indeed contained Lolita planned a
little thing, whether in a turtle next sweater mark Steelman's gym.
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The table was covered with writing paper, and her alabaster
brows a mass of uncychly wrinkled as she chewed the
end of her pumping cairn to settle down, I'm gonna
punt door open, and what appear to be the reincarnation
of dark Genshu with a gorilla only with close steamed
down the island and slid in next to Lolita, who
was not alarmed at all.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
The leader that bever tidy.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Listen to this, I am making progress. Grandfather, dear, you
cannot know how dire is the peril into which I
have been thrust.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Okay for Supril, each for Supril at.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Least, or maybe maybe a grandfather beloved. As I take
up my pen in hand, I am.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Overcome with fears.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Things look very black.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Indeed, I have fallen into the clutches.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Of usin What are you grinnin A I have just
conversed with Padri in the telpher.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We are in really yeah, give me no more letters?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Padre is he julted?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
He says, m.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Are we into bearing with your trainer to It's.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
No, no, no, no, I'll go right ahead. I'll just
sit here and drank my beer.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Wait a minute, now, look, George, there is plenty of
bar down near the front door.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
He's just a schmook.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm not so sure he's.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Got an honest look about him. I do not like
what is on your.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Mind, George.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Pedro gree euh yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
He's getting careless short changed a friend of mine a
thousand bucks.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I just disfigured.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
This man is so stizy, and you are anxious to
put the bite on Pedro for a grand right.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Uh huh, that is unless Pedro wants to take a
five year wraps.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Up to him.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Five year wrap for what stupidity.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They ought to know better than to try to get
by with a Spanish prisoner.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Honey, Spanish, he knows well.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I tell you to shakedown, relax violence to get you nowhere.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
The gun you better let me have it. Babymper.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I got hold of the gun with one hand while
a lolita showed on my other one, meanwhile stretching my
head under his arm like a nutcracker and kicking me
in the stomach with his knee.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
This went on for some time.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Then I became vaguely aware of Stylee's fist as big
as a ham coming.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Up from the floor.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Everybody put me on the side of the head and
I skied down.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
The marble floor. Has to throw a boot like a
ball on a bowling.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Alley, scoring a ten strike on a pinball machine, which
leaned brinkenly over me, nuck out its coin draw and
flashed a red light in my face, reading foul ball.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Try again, stupid me, I did.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three chimes mean Good Times on NBC.
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There's Music and Mystery tomorrow on NBC. For Music, your
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Speaker 5 (16:46):
There you will find the man called X.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And now back to the Spanish prisoner caper Tonight's adventure
with Sam Spade. I came to with my head jam
between the brass rail and the bar, next to what
food could be The lighthouse keepers left shoe pot is
always in front of the pinball machine. All right, best
(17:16):
up front, All right, get up, get up, Get up,
Get up, get up?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
They top holes all filled, the three balls to go.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yours. How about a little lead in the mug? Oh deb,
get up? Get up? Get up up? Oh deb took
off blastom.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I had some more and eighty thousand points run up,
but they had to go throw you at the machine
cause it tilt and lie. I sat until the buzzing
in my ears quieted down, and trying to hark back
to the phone conversation with Stiety in the apartment. It
came eventually, and I pried mine host the lighthouse keeper
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away from the pinball machine and set him down next
to me. With the yellow and standard sections of the
telephone book Simplex bar apply, No.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Plex easy do garden furniture.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Note how about Simplex Pretty Company five? I had said,
sub Street, No Simplex office fund Sipplex.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Service station twelve?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Well, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Make there's forty two simplexes in his book alone. Find
one that sounds like the front for a con operation
on buyers see and Plex Cleaners. No Simplex Associates, Uh
no dot the suspicious Simplex Associates Business opportunities, investments, gold oil,
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body securities, box cards, loaded dice, and Las Vegas real estate.
Doesn't that just sounds like it might be a possibility
though homicide Dundee Sam done.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
They do me a favor?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Will your pound run across the hall and check the
bunko files. There's an outfit called Simplex Associates, and it
started out as a calm game. Grifter took my client
for a thousand bucks. I'm a Spanish prisoner.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Spanish prisoner, what's that got to do with me? Call
bunker yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
They're closed down at this time of night. Done thee
be a sweetheart?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I'm little sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I'm a homicide lieutenant and I don't run a service agency.
Were private detectives unless there's a corpse in it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You can take your business elsewhere?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Done they look? Hold it? Will you?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I can't hold it?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Where is she?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Where is I got it? I'm down on the floor,
couch in the back.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
No, no, no, don't easy, there, said.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I know she's here.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
They must free her. Humus, cood your polish free here.
Why why was Pedro holding to make me do this,
this terrible thing? I have done it, but you must
stop him.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Now he will let me go now, then you must
stop him.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Millions millions of faces in my honor. You must, you
must be clerzy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It seemed bigs, he said, a bad way baked, not anymore.
He was an aristocrat, thin face, silver hair, and the
look of a bourbon. It stopped me, Marjorie, because here
it was just like you're Signor Palmera told you a
nobleman in a ragged clothes and dangling from one of
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his ankles, the broken chain of a leg iron.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
In short, the complete Spanish prisoner. It's legitimate.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Now you've got your corpse. There was nothing on him
to indicate who he was or where he came from.
But I had a feeling i'd seen him before. After
making the lighthouse keeper promised me he'd lay off a
pinball game until Dundee rhyme and I took off from
my office and a very practical errand buckling on my
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forty five. Sweetheart, if I had a light tank and
a azoka, I take them too.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Oh Samn, you're safe.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I know, I know, sweetheart, Sam about the sandy fruit, Well,
there's a real Spanish prisoner in this one. After he's
dead now, by the way, and from the cheap grip
of a thousand bucks from a poor retired school teacher,
we're now.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Up in a million dollar bracket. They got a.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Murderous ex correine playing like she's been kidnapped and writing
extortion notes to her grandpa, and a muggle looks like
a monkey's nightmare, and nut picks and metal shavings, and
someplace or somebody named Simplex, not to mention.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Stops sold my fall.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was still mixed up with the Argylls.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
What of the ur guyles got to do it? When
you called about the file the secular on the convenance.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Man, Yeah, I was looking under com under the seas.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I got off the one.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Next to it by mistake. No, yes, the one my counter.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Only then did I remember where I had seen the
old man before. The paper was still on my desk
and his picture was still on the front page over
an article that ran something like this search on for
ex Spanish Treasury official police. Today we're still without definite
leads in the search for Raymond Montoya, former chief engraver
of the Spanish Men. Montoya, who arrived in San Francisco
three weeks ago to visit his granddaughter, vanished from his
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hotel room shortly after checking in, etc.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Paul, Lieutenant Dundee at the Lighthouse on the Embarcadero, also
called the Treasury Department, tell him both Pedro Rodriguez and
his two assistants are even now busially running off currency
from placing great by Raymond Montoya at the Simplex Penning Company,
five Old nine Sansum Street, Mexican pesos.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It was by the basketful, and.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
The Treasury Dix agreed it was a happy thing for
Mexico that Raymond had kept his engraver's tool on the.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Right side of the law. Off to now.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
As so the matter of your signor Palm Marah and
his Spanish prisoner, I had excusably I hope lost my enthusiasm,
and so it was Marjorie that I walked into the
Palace Hotel lobby a couple of hours later to call you. Yes, Sir,
I'd like some Nichols. The phone plays, no, no, no, no,
they're phony Mexican bill.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Oh dear dear, Oh good heaven. You shouldn't show money
around like I just stuck them in my pockets forever
and forgot to turn them over to the treasury.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
And ah, here we are here, yes sir, and near Yorky,
Senor you can drop some big one.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Ah huh, he's back from my pocket. Excuse me please,
And John, look, I want to hell my dream. It's
the same spade I got to. Mister Spade, did your
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I'm sorry my dream.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I beg your pardon just a minute, Marge, Look, buddy,
you can have the phone in a minute.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Now, your relax. You mean my money is gone? I'm
afraid so, Marge.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Is an expensive lesson, but it's worth it if you remember, Honey,
from now on, never flash your money in public places.
And I'm almost through with you. Wait a minute, and
never trust strangers, Marge. The world is full of sharks
looking around for easy at middle aged ladies with bank rows.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
But he seems so honest, mister Space.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
That's the trouble, the.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Way he came up to me instead, Senorita, I come
to you on a matter of terrible urgency.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I know, I know he's on your bank. You want
a matter of terrible origins? Figure? Do you look like
an easy mark march?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
So you know that's a minute my dream. What did
you say? I say, I come, do you want a
matter of terrible urgency? My uncle don Luisa arrival. He's
an awful trouble. Oh oh, this is going to be
great rewards, Senor. You'll help us, you know, we just
might be able to work something out. Well, Minjorie.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He had one thousand, three hundred and fifty eight dollars
from which I diducted join one thousand and closes here
with plus fifty eight dollars representing my standard retainer period
and the report.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
It must be.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Awful to be gullible like that, dear sweet little soul. Yeah,
imagine your falling for a transparent swindle like that. No,
that's one thing I've learned from you, Sam. I have
my savings and that in a real good solid thing
what's that an avocado mine?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
An avocado mine? Where in?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, that's in Alaska?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Well. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding, go type that up.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Three chimes mean good times on NBC For something new
about the army, Here the Phil Reagan Show every Sunday
on NBC. Coming from a different service base. Every week,
Phil Reagan brings you songs and fun and brings prizes
to talented gis. It's an exciting newcomer in your Sunday
chime lineup on NDC and Sunday also means carry Grant
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and Betsy Drake as mister and missus blandings.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Why nit two pearl, three slip fun and nit fun?
You see?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
How many really did you do?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I'm on fifty seven?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Are you sure you're right?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well, look at it? Have you ever seen such argon?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Well, that's what I mean, Sam, They it's not a
billow out.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well, who cares?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
That guy you're making aport probably won't appreciate him anyway.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
The well, look at that.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It'll make a perfect sleeping bag for a fat tat.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
I tell him your boss last the month? Oh dear,
what's the man?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Give you a surprise? The forum?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Now, well, I'll Treasure'm sweetheart, that's a beautiful just what
I wanted. That's my boss.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Good night, good night Sweart.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Sam Spade was produced, edited, and
directed by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen
Dunn Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast were
Verna Felton, Lou Merrill, Shirley Mitchell, Ed, Max Jerry Hausner,
Nestor Piva, and Tony Barrett. Script for Tonight's adventures by
Harold Swanton, musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster.
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Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade for more mystery excitement. Tomorrow, It's the
Man Called X on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam Say Detaching Agency, Me.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Sweetheart, and all is forgiven Like I told you?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How can you forgive me?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I almost killed you?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Why kick yourself f you would have done the private
detective profession.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
A great favor.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't say that by removing from its rolls the
only operative in San Francisco stupid enough to shake an
apple tree for an entire evening trying to pick up
an apron full of bananas.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
But they all can't come out right in the end.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But you haven't heard the PostScript. Angel PostScript indeed, batton
down the hatches and worn all within earshot that they're
about to catch stupid Sam. The incomparable in a new act.
We're during the next twenty nine minutes and thirty seconds,
I shall down the mettle of don Quixote, shoulder my battery,
glance and tilt at windmills, and an object lessened to
the gullible entitled the Spanish Prisoner Kper.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Transcribe for n DC.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama,
brings you the greatest private Detective of them all in
the Adventures of sam Spadem Effie.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, ah, now they're they're rangel. Don't cry, little girl.
Don't cry.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'm so stupid you might have been.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Yet We'll have no more of it. Here not a
word book pencil.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They fill it into Miss Marjorie Loveland, Brockhaven Apartments from
Samuel Spade still license number one, three, seven, five, nine
six down fiew subject the Spanish prisoner caper.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
There there, Marjorie.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
When they made you, darling, they threw them all away
in this day of the emancipated, self sufficient, one hundred
percent competent female. It came as a fresh breeze and
a boost of my masculine ego to run across a lady,
white haired and fragile with all who needed protection. After
meeting you, I knew what the fellow had in mind
when he wrote Heaven will protect the working girl. As
a matter of fact, you could have been the very girl,
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since you and the song were about the same vintage.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Do please said down, missus bab and may I picked
you some tea?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No thanks?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I planned to come to your office that I decided
I just couldn't risk going out.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
At this time.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Oh, why is that really might come?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You see?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
And I'd never forgive myself if I was out.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Who's this snoroun Mara? Who He's not going to week
overdue now? And I'm on pins and needles.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I gave him a guest here at the Brockhaven. But
there's the Brocklebank and the Brockhurst and.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
The and the Bronx.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
It would be so easy for him.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
To become confused, being a stranger in town.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Caw, I'm a native. I'm confused myself.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Well, I thought perhaps you could locate in He should
be back from Mexico by now.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
With Don Louis steer me.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
So many things could happen to them walking the streets.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
With all that money. What money, the gold and the
precious gems? How about starting all over again?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Why haven't I.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Made myself clear, missus Spain?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, I have the end fairly straight, yes, but if
you'll give me the beginning, we'll have everything.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Oh oh well, well, I suppose the beginning was three
weeks ago where in the lobby of the Grand Hotel
for Women, I see, I was staying there temporarily while
I was waiting for this apartment.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
You see, So the.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Day I got word I could move here. I packed
up and had them take my things out to the taxi.
Then I went to the desk and got my.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Money from the board.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh how much eighty done? Yes, and bills my annuity
money had just come to me. Well, well, I just
put the bills in. My person was starting out the
door when it happened.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
This voice came over my shoulder, a soft Latin voice saying, Senorita,
I'll come to you on a matter of terrible urgency.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
And lo and behold it was Senor Palmer. How did
you know I have a feeling for those things? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well, his uncle Don Luis Alvaro was in terrible trouble,
he said, in prison in Mexico City on some sort
of trumped up political.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Chard ah and the family, though noble, was financially impolished. Yes,
except except for a casket containing the family jewels and
an assortment of priceless heirlooms, all hundreds of years old
hand wroth of the finest virgin.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Goal mister Stade.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
However, it said, caskets and its precious horde being hidden
away in a secret place known only to Don Luis.
All he needs is a paltry eight hundred and forty dollars.
It was a I went to the bank up paltry
thousand dollars to bribe a jail official, and presto, don
Luis goes free on earth the casket and rewards you
with an ample share of the family treasure.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Mister Speed, you've talked to Senora PALMERA Nope, how badly
do you need the dough?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
H need it?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Why?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Good heavens, mister Spade, it's all I haven't till next June.
There's a small pension from the school board in Kiako.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
But dear me, I don't know just how mister Spade
do you mean me? He isn't coming back with my money.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The truth of the matter, Marjorie, was that you'd fallen
for the Spanish prisoners swindle, a hoary old chestnut that
goes back to the day of P. T.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Barnum and before what you look like.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If I gave you an honest answer, you dissolve into tears.
As I said, I was in one of my heaven
and Spade will protect the working girl mood. So I
made up a dishonest one. Well, I'll try and look
him up. Maybe it's all a terrible misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh good, that's Nick too and Slip too, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Dorothy Eppie, Miss Speren Sam Stage Exacivagency. This is mister
Spade Charming one.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Oh Sam, I'm sorry, Yes, Dorothy here and I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
To learn a nit argyle song.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We'll fine drop all stitches and look in the file
for me, will you. I remember getting a circular a
while back on a con man who was running the
Spanish prisoner around here?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What would be under Sam?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Spanish prisoner con games?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Absolutely, get out the file.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh it's Sam. Does look at the file confidence games?
Oh yes, Knit and Slip.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
To I'm sure sad, Yeah, I found it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
His name is Pedro Rodriguez Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
There's no address, but it says he habitually associates with
somebody named Lolita Montoya sounds.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Spanish slightly slightly any addressed for her six fifteen Mason Street.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Fine, fine, that's all there is this.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh golly, I'm so mixed up with these darn argyles.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
What's so tough about that? You want to try it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Sometimes?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
What role were you on?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Twenty seven Knit Tree and Slip one she says, and.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I she's wrong, wrong, wrong, knit two, slip one, knit
one past one and knit one.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Damn how bractle.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I've been going out with a gray lady. Six fifteen
Mason Street was a very large apartment building with the
usual brass plate in the entry listing the inhabitants, among
which I was happy to note was Lolita Montoya, Apartment
four O eight. I pick up the house phone and
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pressed the button. Yeah, telegram for Lolita Montoya.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Elita isn't here, Lolida, my loreda?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Who is calling?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Just a telegram?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Pub Stick it in the box, eh, money order. Somebody
has to sign for it, but it may be important.
I will stick care of and understands you. Yes, yes,
Are you a di state sonny, Yeah, climb back into
that cap. I saw you get out of hustle over
the Western Junion and tell the president Lolita's on a vacation.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Get it score for you now? Hello? Hello, Well nothing dadted.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I punched a few bells until one of the less
suspicious tenants gave me the front door. Bus walked in
and took the automatic elevator to the fourth floor. Or
I should say, tore the fourth floor, since halfway between
the third and fourth she quit cool the elevator, that is,
but there were devices for such things. I pushed the
button on emergency, and it took me only fifty minutes
to get out, assisted by the janitor, the manager, and
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twelve tenants. The doors on the four floor it seemed
have been carelessly pried open and held that way by
a magazine carelessly stuck in the crack. Continuing my stealthy
approach to four oh eight, I found my man in
his palad somehow since I was coming, and run off
without stopping to close the door. The apartment was filled
with cigarette smoke and not much else.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
A bad and empty dresser and a table on which were.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
One top half full of foul black coffee, a little
pointed gadget that looked like a nuttick, and a handful
of metal shavings. I was contemplating what connection, if any,
this had with your missing thousand bucks.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Whens, Yeah, that's just dives. Bo.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
I just wanted to inquire how everything is coming A
look if.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It'll see grain? How much right? There's a thousand? Is
a good bore? What do you think? O?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Very Joe to shave is joyous, knows like use that Pedro.
How Spanish prisoner is a valuable man.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
I must hustle over to the lighthouse.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And inform the leader lighthouse.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
She has been very conscientious in the rule, pet.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Baby, Oh see Grain.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
It's not every girl who would sell out her grandfather
so readily.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Petvill.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
No, we must not take a lot leader for granted.
I will give it a new rumble and we'll see
you to night at simple right.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
See right, I revorve Pedro, I reward well, I reward
lay Sneidie.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The only lighthouse higne was a gin mill pirch midway
down the Embaccadero south of Market, surrounded by shoals strewn
with human wrecks.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Of all descriptions.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
A place you might find shell game man and kane grifters,
but hardly a habitat for a con man's moving up
to work. The Spanish prisoner, the lighthouse keeper, who looked
like he'd retired from the sea after a losing battle
with Motley Dick has been over a pinball machine next
to the door. As far as I can see about
the one light in the joint, it was.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Empty up get up up, up too bad, lighthouse keeper. Yeah,
what do you have? Well? Beer when you're ready? Do
you know Pedro Rodriguez?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, worked for me.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
What a couple of years ago? I can them. Why.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, he's a Swab only honist nickel he ever made
was what he was here?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
All right? Thanks? Yeah, crooked swab is Pedro Rodriguez. He's
up to something right now.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If you asked me Spanish prisoner, uh you mixed up
with it too, huh Nope, I just want to be
how does it go?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
About your body, only it seems to smell. See.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Pedro was sitting at the body the other night with
another Swab talking about old Spanish jet was going back
to a billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Just come over from Spade you nice shirt, body, English,
pure and simple. So what about the spanishin Well, I
didn't hear no more about that. I tell you what
you do.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You ask Lalita about it, and they take Pedro's big
stuff and she generally knows about good.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Where do I find Lolita?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Let's see, I show whether it's the third and the fourth,
third or fourth one? The boot from the back there.
She was sitting there all night writing letters.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
You better be careful, though she got her awful temper,
thanks linehouse keeper. How about the beer?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Sure, hey, Larry draw one? So Larry drew one, and
I took it down to the bar to a point
opposite booth number four, which indeed contained Lolita planned a
little thing, whether in a turtle next sweater mark Steelman's gym.
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The table was covered with writing paper, and her alabaster
brows a mass of uncychly wrinkled as she chewed the
end of her pumping cairn to settle down, I'm gonna
punt door open, and what appear to be the reincarnation
of dark Genshu with a gorilla only with close steamed
down the island and slid in next to Lolita, who
was not alarmed at all.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
The leader that bever tidy.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Listen to this, I am making progress. Grandfather, dear, you
cannot know how dire is the peril into which I
have been thrust.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Okay for Supril, each for Supril at.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Least, or maybe maybe a grandfather beloved. As I take
up my pen in hand, I am.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Overcome with fears.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Things look very black.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Indeed, I have fallen into the clutches.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Of usin What are you grinnin A I have just
conversed with Padri in the telpher.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We are in really yeah, give me no more letters?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Padre is he julted?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
He says, m.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Are we into bearing with your trainer to It's.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
No, no, no, no, I'll go right ahead. I'll just
sit here and drank my beer.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Wait a minute, now, look, George, there is plenty of
bar down near the front door.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
He's just a schmook.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm not so sure he's.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Got an honest look about him. I do not like
what is on your.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Mind, George.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Pedro gree euh yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
He's getting careless short changed a friend of mine a
thousand bucks.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I just disfigured.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
This man is so stizy, and you are anxious to
put the bite on Pedro for a grand right.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Uh huh, that is unless Pedro wants to take a
five year wraps.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Up to him.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Five year wrap for what stupidity.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They ought to know better than to try to get
by with a Spanish prisoner.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Honey, Spanish, he knows well.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I tell you to shakedown, relax violence to get you nowhere.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
The gun you better let me have it. Babymper.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I got hold of the gun with one hand while
a lolita showed on my other one, meanwhile stretching my
head under his arm like a nutcracker and kicking me
in the stomach with his knee.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
This went on for some time.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Then I became vaguely aware of Stylee's fist as big
as a ham coming.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Up from the floor.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Everybody put me on the side of the head and
I skied down.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
The marble floor. Has to throw a boot like a
ball on a bowling.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Alley, scoring a ten strike on a pinball machine, which
leaned brinkenly over me, nuck out its coin draw and
flashed a red light in my face, reading foul ball.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Try again, stupid me, I did.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three chimes mean Good Times on NBC.
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There's Music and Mystery tomorrow on NBC. For Music, your
Hit Parade brings you the top tunes in the land,
as selected by you and presented by Raymond Scott's Orchestra,
Eileen Wilson and Snookie Lanson. For Mystery, Herbert Marshall stars
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(16:40):
who travels to all corners of the world, wherever there
is danger, romance and mystery.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
There you will find the man called X.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And now back to the Spanish prisoner caper Tonight's adventure
with Sam Spade. I came to with my head jam
between the brass rail and the bar, next to what
food could be The lighthouse keepers left shoe pot is
always in front of the pinball machine. All right, best
(17:16):
up front, All right, get up, get up, Get up,
Get up, get up?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
They top holes all filled, the three balls to go.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yours. How about a little lead in the mug? Oh deb,
get up? Get up? Get up up? Oh deb took
off blastom.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I had some more and eighty thousand points run up,
but they had to go throw you at the machine
cause it tilt and lie. I sat until the buzzing
in my ears quieted down, and trying to hark back
to the phone conversation with Stiety in the apartment. It
came eventually, and I pried mine host the lighthouse keeper
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away from the pinball machine and set him down next
to me. With the yellow and standard sections of the
telephone book Simplex bar apply, No.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Plex easy do garden furniture.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Note how about Simplex Pretty Company five? I had said,
sub Street, No Simplex office fund Sipplex.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Service station twelve?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Well, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Make there's forty two simplexes in his book alone. Find
one that sounds like the front for a con operation
on buyers see and Plex Cleaners. No Simplex Associates, Uh
no dot the suspicious Simplex Associates Business opportunities, investments, gold oil,
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body securities, box cards, loaded dice, and Las Vegas real estate.
Doesn't that just sounds like it might be a possibility
though homicide Dundee Sam done.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
They do me a favor?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Will your pound run across the hall and check the
bunko files. There's an outfit called Simplex Associates, and it
started out as a calm game. Grifter took my client
for a thousand bucks. I'm a Spanish prisoner.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Spanish prisoner, what's that got to do with me? Call
bunker yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
They're closed down at this time of night. Done thee
be a sweetheart?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I'm little sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I'm a homicide lieutenant and I don't run a service agency.
Were private detectives unless there's a corpse in it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You can take your business elsewhere?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Done they look? Hold it? Will you?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I can't hold it?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Where is she?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Where is I got it? I'm down on the floor,
couch in the back.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
No, no, no, don't easy, there, said.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I know she's here.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
They must free her. Humus, cood your polish free here.
Why why was Pedro holding to make me do this,
this terrible thing? I have done it, but you must
stop him.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Now he will let me go now, then you must
stop him.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Millions millions of faces in my honor. You must, you
must be clerzy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It seemed bigs, he said, a bad way baked, not anymore.
He was an aristocrat, thin face, silver hair, and the
look of a bourbon. It stopped me, Marjorie, because here
it was just like you're Signor Palmera told you a
nobleman in a ragged clothes and dangling from one of
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his ankles, the broken chain of a leg iron.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
In short, the complete Spanish prisoner. It's legitimate.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Now you've got your corpse. There was nothing on him
to indicate who he was or where he came from.
But I had a feeling i'd seen him before. After
making the lighthouse keeper promised me he'd lay off a
pinball game until Dundee rhyme and I took off from
my office and a very practical errand buckling on my
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forty five. Sweetheart, if I had a light tank and
a azoka, I take them too.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Oh Samn, you're safe.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I know, I know, sweetheart, Sam about the sandy fruit, Well,
there's a real Spanish prisoner in this one. After he's
dead now, by the way, and from the cheap grip
of a thousand bucks from a poor retired school teacher,
we're now.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Up in a million dollar bracket. They got a.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Murderous ex correine playing like she's been kidnapped and writing
extortion notes to her grandpa, and a muggle looks like
a monkey's nightmare, and nut picks and metal shavings, and
someplace or somebody named Simplex, not to mention.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Stops sold my fall.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was still mixed up with the Argylls.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
What of the ur guyles got to do it? When
you called about the file the secular on the convenance.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Man, Yeah, I was looking under com under the seas.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I got off the one.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Next to it by mistake. No, yes, the one my counter.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Only then did I remember where I had seen the
old man before. The paper was still on my desk
and his picture was still on the front page over
an article that ran something like this search on for
ex Spanish Treasury official police. Today we're still without definite
leads in the search for Raymond Montoya, former chief engraver
of the Spanish Men. Montoya, who arrived in San Francisco
three weeks ago to visit his granddaughter, vanished from his
(22:25):
hotel room shortly after checking in, etc.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Paul, Lieutenant Dundee at the Lighthouse on the Embarcadero, also
called the Treasury Department, tell him both Pedro Rodriguez and
his two assistants are even now busially running off currency
from placing great by Raymond Montoya at the Simplex Penning Company,
five Old nine Sansum Street, Mexican pesos.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It was by the basketful, and.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
The Treasury Dix agreed it was a happy thing for
Mexico that Raymond had kept his engraver's tool on the.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Right side of the law. Off to now.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
As so the matter of your signor Palm Marah and
his Spanish prisoner, I had excusably I hope lost my enthusiasm,
and so it was Marjorie that I walked into the
Palace Hotel lobby a couple of hours later to call you. Yes, Sir,
I'd like some Nichols. The phone plays, no, no, no, no,
they're phony Mexican bill.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Oh dear dear, Oh good heaven. You shouldn't show money
around like I just stuck them in my pockets forever
and forgot to turn them over to the treasury.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
And ah, here we are here, yes sir, and near Yorky,
Senor you can drop some big one.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Ah huh, he's back from my pocket. Excuse me please,
And John, look, I want to hell my dream. It's
the same spade I got to. Mister Spade, did your
(24:00):
I'm sorry my dream.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I beg your pardon just a minute, Marge, Look, buddy,
you can have the phone in a minute.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Now, your relax. You mean my money is gone? I'm
afraid so, Marge.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Is an expensive lesson, but it's worth it if you remember, Honey,
from now on, never flash your money in public places.
And I'm almost through with you. Wait a minute, and
never trust strangers, Marge. The world is full of sharks
looking around for easy at middle aged ladies with bank rows.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
But he seems so honest, mister Space.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
That's the trouble, the.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Way he came up to me instead, Senorita, I come
to you on a matter of terrible urgency.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I know, I know he's on your bank. You want
a matter of terrible origins? Figure? Do you look like
an easy mark march?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
So you know that's a minute my dream. What did
you say? I say, I come, do you want a
matter of terrible urgency? My uncle don Luisa arrival. He's
an awful trouble. Oh oh, this is going to be
great rewards, Senor. You'll help us, you know, we just
might be able to work something out. Well, Minjorie.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He had one thousand, three hundred and fifty eight dollars
from which I diducted join one thousand and closes here
with plus fifty eight dollars representing my standard retainer period
and the report.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
It must be.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Awful to be gullible like that, dear sweet little soul. Yeah,
imagine your falling for a transparent swindle like that. No,
that's one thing I've learned from you, Sam. I have
my savings and that in a real good solid thing
what's that an avocado mine?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
An avocado mine? Where in?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, that's in Alaska?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Well. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding, go type that up.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Three chimes mean good times on NBC For something new
about the army, Here the Phil Reagan Show every Sunday
on NBC. Coming from a different service base. Every week,
Phil Reagan brings you songs and fun and brings prizes
to talented gis. It's an exciting newcomer in your Sunday
chime lineup on NDC and Sunday also means carry Grant
(26:14):
and Betsy Drake as mister and missus blandings.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Why nit two pearl, three slip fun and nit fun?
You see?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
How many really did you do?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I'm on fifty seven?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Are you sure you're right?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well, look at it? Have you ever seen such argon?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Well, that's what I mean, Sam, They it's not a
billow out.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well, who cares?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
That guy you're making aport probably won't appreciate him anyway.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
The well, look at that.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It'll make a perfect sleeping bag for a fat tat.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
I tell him your boss last the month? Oh dear,
what's the man?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Give you a surprise? The forum?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Now, well, I'll Treasure'm sweetheart, that's a beautiful just what
I wanted. That's my boss.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Good night, good night Sweart.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Sam Spade was produced, edited, and
directed by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen
Dunn Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast were
Verna Felton, Lou Merrill, Shirley Mitchell, Ed, Max Jerry Hausner,
Nestor Piva, and Tony Barrett. Script for Tonight's adventures by
Harold Swanton, musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster.
(28:21):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade for more mystery excitement. Tomorrow, It's the
Man Called X on NBC
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