August 5, 2025 • 29 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 Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweethearts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Damn, I heard you were hob nobbing with a wealthy
set of Ice City.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If what I was doing is their idea of hob nobbing,
f I'm glad I'm in the lower income brackets.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Well you mean what happened?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I will only reveal that, Fie, in the intimate secrecy
of our office.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Was it worse?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Emotions? Random uck passions were strewn from Fishermen's Walk to
the peninsula. Hatreds festoon the very air. And there was
jealousy too. It was positively lurid, as they say, Do
you think it's all right for me?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Do you hear it?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, I'll exprogate it a little, f I'll water it
down to your strength. I'll use Monosylavic instead of apollo
Slavic words, and so on.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now, dam I want you to tell me everything you
think I should hear, and then just a little more.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a deal if prepare yourself for listening, and I
will shortly make my inference with a saga of society skullduggery.
The lowdown on the Uptown and all that. If we
need a name for it, why not call it the
Vendetta Caper or the Revenge of Monte Christoff transcribe for
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n DC.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
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 Spay.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You don't have to call Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm right here. Let me take your coat where if
he isn't the sufficient of you, i'd be quiet and
give me a coat.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Nah, I've oiled your chair so most week.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Where you make me feel like an emotional invalid. But
it's wonderful and he here.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh never Ce dougle Worth eight year old stuff. I
have Friscoin's drugstore. Send it up, apple Jack, It's called
apple Jack.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Well, what brought it on, f Why this particular punishing
of the apple Jack? Well, I'm on out with it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I just thought, well, you've been working with the rich people,
and maybe you were handsomely compensated and my back salary.
You're not mad, Sam.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, as it happens, I did make a few dollars
and yours will be the first account settled. Oh, It's
sure it wasn't me. It was the money all the time.
Sam No, I just I accept your apology. Two, Lieutenant J. F. Randall,
San Francisco Police Department, from Samuel's Spade license number one
three seven five nine six, subject the Revenge of Manti
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Christophe Money Crystal.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is this a historical drama?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Christoph c ri I S t O F F Monty
m O N t y, And it's still a historic drama,
dear Lieutenant. Revenge is an old fashioned motive, but when
you get it raw and distilled, as in the Gosden affair,
it's new all over again. This was the slow burning,
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deliberate kind of passion that starts smoldering way back in
the forgotten days and explodes among some people who never
knew they were living over a keg of dynamite. It
was yesterday morning that the distant sputtering of the fuse
began to be heard by a man named Chandler Gosden.
You know, I'm the hulking rich boy in the electrical
appliance sign who took a professional boxing for a while.
I think he was built as gold plate. Gosden a
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society scrapper, and he was doing well too, until a
right cross by someone who needed the money.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
More than he did send him back to clipping.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Coupis spade. Yeah, I'm Chandler Gosden.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
I recognize you now.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Guys like you charge well, it depends on the job investigation,
sixty dollars a day and any unusual expenses cheap.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Do you guys have some kind of a code or
code you know, like doctors? Do you keep things in confidence?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Well, most of us do, including me, making any big.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Difference that got out.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I'm not afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I just assume punch him in the mouth as look
at him. Who Marty Christov.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Heard of him?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, moved into the peninsula my neighborhood, bought the major
Dunhill place.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Oh oh yeah, I know. The estate must have cost
plenty the by.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Two hundred and fifty thousand a year. And what's money
these days? Everybody's got it day, Isn't it awful? It's
a tax scheme. I suppose Ever since he moved into
that ark of a house, he's been throwing parties. There
are a cross between the last days of POMPEII and
a Polish wedding invites hundreds of guests, everybody, who is
anybody disgusting? But it seems legal so far. He's been
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there four months, throwing parties, inviting everybody in the phone book,
everybody but me.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Oh, maybe he just doesn't like you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
What are you talking about. I'm one of the best
like guys in the peninsula. Everybody likes me, little kids, cops,
the guys at the country club. I never had an
enemy in the world. Besides, I got Virginia.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Oh who she my wife?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
One of the sweetest little girls that ever came down
the pike.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, my apology if he was a baldwin. Oh, here
I married her. She was the social catch of the
year among the women. Really, yeah, so was I among
the men. Well, well, look, I got to tell.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You some more.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
A month ago one of my company warehouses burned down.
Somebody slipped up and the fire insurance hadn't been renewed.
I lost three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Guess who
had lunch with my insurance man a week before the fire,
Monte Christo, you got it. Next thing is the room
I gets surrounded. The Gosden Electrical Companies on the verge
of bankrupts. No of course it isn't absolutely not a
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gossip column. This report that I'm going to close up
shop and beat it to South America with what doahs left.
Then when the stock prices start dropping, somebody suddenly buys
them up so fast they disappear overnight, some corporation I
never heard of, Golo, the Dantees corporation I see. And
then all my friends start getting unfriendly.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
As soon as I show up.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Everybody stops talking, act as if there's some big secret
about me that I don't know. And they've all been
to Montey Crystal's parties lately. That's right, the week after
he arrived in town, all these things started happening. Now,
what I want to find out is why I don't
even know the guy, but he's making a big change
in my life. Well, it sounds like you're entitled to know.
I don't know how far I can get. The best
I can do is find out who he is, where
he comes from, who his friends are, all those things.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Okay, you're hired.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'll find out everything about this, Mandy Christuff. I got
to know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
All right, Jender, I wasn't able to get here when
you said the traffic was absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Cars God, everywhere, it must be giving cars away these days.
Everybody has one. I think we should get a helicopters
to spade my wife, Ginny, Well, how do you doing, missus?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Gunstin Chan?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I hope you have lost your head and blabbed everything
to him. I told you these sort of men weren't trustworthy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I beg your pardon, ma, Look, Jinny, I told him,
and he's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well if you just want to go around giving your
life secret, oh shut up.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well you I'm the man of the house.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Really, and I suppose I count for nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh oh, I forget it, Spade, I'm depending on you.
Don't let me down. You wouldn't think a millionaire would
be hard to biograph, but I came up with very
little information on this Monty Christoff. He'd arrived in town
four months ago, stayed ten days at the Saint Mark Hotel,
then bought his house. He had a bank deposit running
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into seven figures. He had no known business connections, just money.
The register at the Saint Mark said he came from Chicago,
and an airline company verified that he'd been a passenger aboard.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
One of those ships from the Windy City. This was
as far as I had dealt.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
When my place of business was entered by a man
in powder blue livery.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
You swayed the same mister Monty.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Christoph sent me to pick you up. I see, I'm
for where for his matching on a pencil?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Oh, he said he knew what a rough time you
must be having at your present job, and he'd be
glad to make the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Simple to you.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
He really said that, That's.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
What he said.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
But I don't know what it means exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I don't know what it means exactly either, but
here's one good way to find out. Home, James, and
my name is Bertucciosa Bertuccio.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I see, how long have they been calling you that?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, let me see it's about what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I mean, it's my name?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I don't we'll talk it over in the car. The
car was long and blue and smooth. I'm as democratic
as the next guy, and I would just as soon
have ridden up front with Bertuccio. But now he wouldn't
hear of it. I had a ride in a back
seat with a window of bulletproof glass separating us.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
And thus we rode down to the peninsula.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We glided down elm shaded streets and finally through the
gate of Monte Christophe's estate. The driveway was lined with
spring green poplins. The mansion door was opened by a
rear admiral and I was ushered in. I wouldn't want
to say that the living room was locked, but I
coughed once and it was a full minute before the
echo came back. A door opened somewhere and a tan,
hard bodied man walked in across the marble floor with
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an outstretched hand.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
It was tougher than a whale boat.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I appreciate you coming, mister, mister Christoph. Do you have
a drink?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Champagne, scotch Irish, what, oh anything?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Whatever? You like?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Good? I figured you're for rides already, it figarten.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
No thanks their custom role diventas made expressly to my
own taste.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Oh thanks anyway, But I have some beat up cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
He we'll try mine.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
The King of England I did him a favor once
he ships them over.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How is George you drink?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Oh? Thank you for too, child.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Now you've been investigating me, yes, and you haven't found
out anything.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Do you know, Miss Kristo there was nothing to find out.
You're right, I'll do you a service and save you
time and money.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
That's a handsome offer I accept.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I was born in Michigan to a prosperous lumber family.
I went to Phillips andover in Harvard Marx Fair. I
served with the army in the recent war major military
police wounded twice.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Farents died while I was in Italy.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I inherited enormous lumber holdings, which I sold, hence my
bank account.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I like San Francisco, came in and settled out.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
No, you're very kind, but I don't need all this.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I have more money than a man can spend in
a lifetime. And by that I don't mean to boast.
It was an accident of breath.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes, Christoff, I'm only trying to find I know what
you're trying to find out.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Chandler Gos didn't put you on my trail.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Well, there's no need to deny us.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And what would you take to get off my trail,
mister Spade, Well, no car, A selection of fine liquor,
about a job cash, all rather enticing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I'm afraid you've misjudged me, sir. I only worked
for one client at a time.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Is there anything wrong with switching your allegiance.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, I'm afraid it wouldn't be cricket.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Is that the way they say it? At andover?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Very Well, then I'm afraid I've given you all the
information I can about myself.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh you've been very generous. But just one other thing.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
How long did you live in Chicago?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Yes? I never lived there, but you flew here from Chicago?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh that I was just there on business.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, if you say so, Bertuccio is outside with the car.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
He'll drive you back to your office.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
With that, he turned and left me outside. Bertuccio was waiting,
and passively he ushered me into the limit and started out.
Only we didn't head for my office. Instead, we seem
to be leaving town. I banged on the glass between us,
but Bertuccio didn't choose to answer. When we stopped at
a light, I tried the doors, but they were both
mysteriously locked. I was a prisoner in a moving jail.
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I made desperate signs to passers by and traffic police,
mind you, but they just smiled and waved back at me.
It was all very jolly, So I sat back and waited.
About twenty or thirty miles out of town. We pulled
onto a lonesome road and stopped. We are just where
our way, and why.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, don't blow your top, Chris stop.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Told me to take you out.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Here to give you this. Oh what's in the envelope? Money?
Two grand, big sec. Well, it's a lot of grands.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
They're gonna do a lot for you. You're gonna take
it and keep going north. Forty eight hours will be
long enough, just so you keep.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Out of Frisco.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, just so you know how I stand, I'm going back.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
You know, I was hoping you'd say that now I
can do things in my own.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He pulled out a long black salven, started wheeling. First
cut just grazed my head and smashed into my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I blocked this.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Second blow and moved in for some close work. The
third time he swung at me, his arm caught an
overhead tree branch, and that was his undoing. He took
four or five and then went down and out.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I searched him, and his billfold reveal that he was.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Joseph Kowalski, late of Chicago, Illinois. The cards and addresses
had contained left little doubt that.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Kowalski was in the records.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I threw him in the car and drove back to
town and police headquarters. He was awake by then, and
I had to drag him into the hall. The one
I'm locked up. Sam went for assault and battery, assault
with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to murder. Mayam anything,
he can't lock me up. I didn't do any of
those things anyway. If I did do him, it was
in San Martin County, not.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Frisco, Salmon. I don't know what I can do. He's
got to do something in our Jeorisha.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Sure see all right, he picked my pocket on the
way into town. Here, Kowalsky say, look, he's got my
wallet in his hand right now, I have all up
braising lawbreakers.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You're gonna let him get away with this.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Walking right in the headquarters with the evidence in his hand.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
If I'm on, come on, Kowski, we go pretty hard
on pickpocket in his.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Time period time.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I want a lawyer, give me. He was dragged away protesting.
They got no sympathy from me, he started. Lieutenant Randall
then teletyped Chicago to find out more about him. In
about an hour, the report came back.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
I won't read his whole record, Sam, but he's paid
for everything. They say he's clean. However, it does say
he was the bodyguard for a man named Bonnie Moffin.
Jess Moffatt was a shady business operator, picked up several times,
nothing hung on him. He left town about the same
time Kowelski did. He listed as undesired.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Nobody's not wanted, thanks, Lieutenant. If a man named Bonnie
Moffat had a whole named Joseph Kowalski is a bodyguard,
and they both disappeared from Chicago at the same time,
the obvious conclusion was conclusively obvious. I rode the limousine
back to Christoph's estate, but as I parked the car,
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my headlights hit another car. There was someone getting into it.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Missus Chandler. God, what do you think you're doing? Remember me,
Sam Spade?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh, detective, Yes, what are you following me for?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
What were you doing in Christof's house? I thought he
was a wasn't a friend of yours or your husband?
To Spade? Get in, please, let's talk, Okay, spill It's none.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Of your business what I was doing in there, whatever
it was, I want you to forget you ever saw me.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
That'll be pretty hard to do.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Would money help you.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
In this case? No?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
What do you care what.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Happens to my life or Chance or Christoph?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Because your husband's paying me to worry?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
All right? If I were you, I just forget that
you ever met any of us, because this mess we're
in is so bad that nothing you or anybody else
can do is going to get us out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
With that, she burst out crying, and I couldn't get
anything else on her, so I let her go and
she drove off. I walked up to Christoph's house, knocked
on the door, and a servant opened it.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
A couple of steps.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Inside, when six pairs of arms bread me. Some of
them had to the struggle was just getting knife. You
want Christoph up here? I don't appreciate this kind of
trait on Christoph?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Men, take a walk?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Nah, what's it all about?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
It?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
My orders? If you ever showed up here again?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Why'd you soften?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I just heard about Kowowski. You managed that very well.
I admire resourcefulness.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
How would you like to work for me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Moffatt Moffatt Barnie Moffatt, late of Chicago and the rackets,
so you know, well, I wasn't sure until just now,
but you've cleared.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Up the doubt.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
How much do you know?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Very little, just that you were a shady operator. But
nobody's looking for you anything, sped.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I did a lot of things several years, a tightrope,
walking with a lag, but I never did anything that
could jail me.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
For I have an idea you're considering doing something in
the near future.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
What makes you say that.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
It's a vendetta, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Bonnie, Christoph and Bertu show the Steward and the Danist Corporation.
You couldn't resist the drama, could you?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
All?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
From Duma's novel?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
But why why do you want to play the Anna
monte Cristo? What did Gosden do to you to merit
all this revenge?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Tomorrow? It will be over tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And with that he clutched at his heart and fell
forward at my feet. You are listening to the weekly
adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. Free Chimes
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Speaker 6 (17:21):
I bent over and listened to his heart. It was okay.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Monty Christoph had just keeled over, apparently from a crescendo
of emotion.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
He flecked out.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I didn't want to be held up by his henchman,
so I left the room and walked out of the.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
House without calling anybody.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I walked down the road, and good luck, there was
an empty cab cruising along.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
At Chandler Gosden's.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I found him pacing the living room in a state
of physical and mental disorder.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
I told him what I knew, Vendetta.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Why I never heard him? I never did anything to
the man.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Why would your wife go and see him?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't know. Dona Jasker, because she hasn't been home
all day, and here it is one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
She's still listening.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Tell me, is there something special happening tomorrow? Christolph seemed
to think that everything would be settled tomorrow. Annual corporation election,
just a matter of form. I'm elected president, A few
other people voted into office, always the same people, and
then he must plan to swing the election his way,
maybe put you in office. Suh got a.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Fat chance of that.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I don't care how much stock he buys. Jenny owns
ten percent. I own forty one. That's fifty one percent.
If he bought forty nine percent of the open market,
that still wouldn't be enough.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
We could still out vote him. You're sure you've got
the stock in your position.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I saw it last week when I was down in
the hall with my birth certificate. Stupid me forgot I
don't have a birth certificate.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
No, that must be Edson.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
My lawyer called and said he had something on his mind.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Tender, I have that news for you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It can wait, No, no, it can. This is Sam Spade,
Ralph Sonny, you do a spade now, chan listen to me,
all right, what's biting you?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Just this?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
We're liable to lose that election tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
We can't. I just found out that Monte Christo has
fifty nine percent of the voting stock and goes an
elect fifteen. He can't have it. Oh look, wait a minute,
Wait a minute. If my wife sold her stock, he
could have fifty nine.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Couldn'ty he could? Spade?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Are you positive you saw her coming out of Christoph's house.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I'm afraid I did. I'm gonna find her.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm gonna find her, and if she sold any of
her stock for Kristoff, I'll kill her.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I tried to dissuade him, but.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
He brushed me and the lawyer aside ran out of
the house. I called the police and told him to
try and find Virginia Gosden before her husband did. Then
I went looking myself. The first place I've tried was
Monte Christoff's mention. There were lights on, so I entered,
gun in hand. I didn't have any time.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
To dick her.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
With servants and bodyguards, Christolph appeared in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
All right, Spade, what is it you want now?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Virginia Gusin?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
She hasn't been here since the last time you saw
you know where she is. I haven't any idea if
you know, tell.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Me her husband's looking for her with homicide in his eyes.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I can't say I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Well that's a nice sentiment.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
She sold you were stock in the Gudsen company, didn't she,
since you seem.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
To know about it.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Yes, why is she in love with you? Maybe she is,
and you're in love with her.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
She's a stupid, empty headed nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I can't stand the sight of her.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I hate her.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I hold it now, you'll knock yourself out again.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Yes, yes, come over here. Take a good look at that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's a pillow, an ordinary pillow, so you'll notice how
dirty it is.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Yeah, notice that it.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Isn't even stuffed with feathers. They were no good.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
It's stuffed with dirty cutton rags.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Well, my father's head was.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Lying on that pillow when he died. I've kept it
ever since as a reminder of who killed him. Who
did A man named Elwood Gosden, a man who cheated
and lied and stole everything he had in his life.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Chandler's father.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yes, my father and Elwood Gosden had a hardware store
once my father invented an electric iron. Ever heard of
the Gosden iron? Yeah, it should have been the Mouffet iron.
Elwood Gosden stole the plans from my father, registered them first,
and then drove my father out of business. He made
a fortune out of it and then went into other
electrical appliances.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh, things are beginning to jail now.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
My father became a peddler and died poor and broke
and ill. My mother died twenty years before she should
have been over work, while the Gosdens grew fat and
respected on the Moffet brains.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
So you started jo undetta, huh?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I started it the day my father died.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I set out to make one thing in this world money,
and I made it in handfuls.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You can look me up.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Barney Moffitt, Chicago gambling, black markets, gun running, slave trading,
anything and everything that had a big profit in it.
And then I set out for San Francisco to break
that criton son of Elwoods and his old family.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And on the way you lost a guy named Barney Motha.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What difference.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Look, you've got money now and everything you need.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Why go on with it?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I don't care anything about money, I only want to
use it against them.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
You know why I had all those parties.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
To buy stock from people, Yes kind of Gosden company.
I've paid twice three times what the shares were worth.
But right now I own fifty nine percent of the
Gosden Enterprises. And tomorrow morning, when the two of us
meet at the stockholders meeting, I'm going to vote him
out of office and take over the company. And then
I'm going to drive it right into bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And you got missus Gosden's stock by making her fall
in love with you, I do.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Don't let's talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
About Chandler Gosden. He's a man with a very short
and violent temper. He might come gunning for you.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
That's just what I hope he does. Ask the man
at the door to show you up.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I spent most of them I trying to find Virginia
Gosden with no luck.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Chandler didn't return to.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
His house, so I didn't know what he was up to.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
It was early the.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Following day when I got my first report. Lieutenant Randall
called me down a police headquarter. We found her speed
bed or alive.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Oh about halfway in between She was shot in a
chant at close range, gun right up against her, but
she's still living.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Chances, Sam, Where'd you find her?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
In a walk up apartment on Tolk Street. It was
registered to her, looked like a love nest, a place
where she met a boyfriend orson no weapon, I see,
I figure murder attempt her husband. We have a pickup
on him right now, but so far he's vanished. Shame
final San Francisco family.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
What do you know, Sam, I'll give me a free
hand for a couple of hours, will you Maybe I
can do something for this fine old San Francisco family.
I had no more idea than the police where Chandler
Gosden was at the moment, but I had a good
idea where he might be. Later in the morning, I
put a call into Ralph Edson, his lawyer. Stockholders meeting
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of the Gaysden Company was to be held at eleven
o'clock at their executive officers. Edson got me in and
in five minutes to eleven Monte Christov walked in. There
were three of us. None of us spoke. We just
sat around a long, polished table, alternately watching the clock
and the door.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
At eleven three.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
The door opened.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Chandler Gosden stood there, rumple, red eye, vicious.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
He had a gun.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The first man who moves is gonna get a bullet
right in the face.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Look, for heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Had the gun you try to kill your wife with.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
It's the gun.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
But I didn't try to kill her. She did it
herself because he drove her to it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Me.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, you, Kristal, you are meeting her in an apartment.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Don't think I didn't dumb.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Put they gunna win. Let's get down to business.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I got the same gun she using herself, and I'm
gonna use.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
It on you.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well, stop talking, you can get it over with you
act as if you want me to do it.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
All right, it's in spade. They're out of here.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Doesn't use your head.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I said, get out of here and go on.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Okay, but don't take your eye off him.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
He's got a gun in his pocket. I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I won't.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You were working for him, working for him all along.
Everybody list no, now, listen to me. He wanted you
to kill him. He doesn't care about himself. He just
wanted you to be put away from murder.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Sae, this is our affair.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Not you.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I look both of you, shut up and listen. This
is a tough thing to try to settle something that's
been boiling up in you. Mop and ever since you
can remember, you spent all of your grown up life
trying to get back at the wrong man. It appealed
to some ironical sense of yours to carry out the
Manti Cristo revenge story. Now let me ask you this.
You remember all about Monte Cristo and how he ruined
the people who had ruined his life, and how his
father died heartbroken. But do you remember the end of
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that book?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Go on?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You found that he couldn't bring himself to revenge the
wrong doings of families on their innocent children.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
That reads good in the book, But I don't feel
that way.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well maybe you will when you hear this.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But this man right here that you spent twenty years
getting ready to ruin is not even a Gosden. What
He's an adopted son. Mister Elwood Gosden adopted him from
an Oakland orphanage on October eleventh, nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I got the records to prove it this morning.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I would have known, mister Edson, You've always been the
family lawyer.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Isn't this true?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It was a long chance that Edson would play along
with it, but to bring it off it needed the
final clincher lawyer. Edson looked at me, then looked at
Chandler Gosden. He galted and licked his lips.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
It's true, It's true.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Chandler adopted you're your father never wanted you to know.
Chandler didn't move, He just stood there, stunned. Barney Muffett
sank down into a chair and buried his head in
his hands. Edson and I looked at each other and waited. Finally,
Christoph looked up and spoke, start the meeting, mister Edson,
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I hereby declare the Annual Stockholders Meeting of the Gosden
Company open.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Mister Gosden, I don't care what happens now.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I bothered the majority stockholder. Oh, mister Kristopher, I beg
your pardon.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Mister Moffett.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Has the majority stockholder.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
I vote that the chairmanship of the Gosden Electrical Corporation
remain as it has for the past twenty years, with
Chandler Gosden.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Period.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
End of report.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh Sam, you were magnificence.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
It was rather a stirring scene, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I was good, but.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It was superb, it really was. Did you sign over
with the stock and everything?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
He did? Indeed?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh Sam. Do you think the world will ever get
to a time when everybody has all he wants and
instead of trying to get more, everybody spends his time
just just trying.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
To enjoy life?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Well? You know, best of it?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Do you really believe that, Sam?
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Well, You've got to believe something. It's better than nothing.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I guess I have a theory too, sam Well spouted out.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, if everybody in the world picked somebody else to
be nice to, there'll never be any more trouble anywhere.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
How do you figure that?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well, before you can be nice to somebody, you have
to think nice thoughts. And once you start thinking nice thoughts,
well you can see how silly the bad ones are.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Effie, come here. You know I might just put you
up as a candidate for.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
A chair of philosophy at Columbia.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I know who you picked out to be nice to me?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
True?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Can I pick you?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Good night?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Good night, sweetheart, Tonight's transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade was produced, edited,
and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by
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Stephen Dunn, Loreen Tuttle as Effie stript for Tonight's adventure
by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by lud Bluskin, conducted.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
By Robert Armbrewster.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Dennis Day and Judy Canova entertain
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam Say Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweethearts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Damn, I heard you were hob nobbing with a wealthy
set of Ice City.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If what I was doing is their idea of hob nobbing,
f I'm glad I'm in the lower income brackets.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Well you mean what happened?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I will only reveal that, Fie, in the intimate secrecy
of our office.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Was it worse?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Emotions? Random uck passions were strewn from Fishermen's Walk to
the peninsula. Hatreds festoon the very air. And there was
jealousy too. It was positively lurid, as they say, Do
you think it's all right for me?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Do you hear it?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, I'll exprogate it a little, f I'll water it
down to your strength. I'll use Monosylavic instead of apollo
Slavic words, and so on.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now, dam I want you to tell me everything you
think I should hear, and then just a little more.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a deal if prepare yourself for listening, and I
will shortly make my inference with a saga of society skullduggery.
The lowdown on the Uptown and all that. If we
need a name for it, why not call it the
Vendetta Caper or the Revenge of Monte Christoff transcribe for
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n DC.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
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 Spay.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You don't have to call Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm right here. Let me take your coat where if
he isn't the sufficient of you, i'd be quiet and
give me a coat.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Nah, I've oiled your chair so most week.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Where you make me feel like an emotional invalid. But
it's wonderful and he here.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh never Ce dougle Worth eight year old stuff. I
have Friscoin's drugstore. Send it up, apple Jack, It's called
apple Jack.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Well, what brought it on, f Why this particular punishing
of the apple Jack? Well, I'm on out with it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I just thought, well, you've been working with the rich people,
and maybe you were handsomely compensated and my back salary.
You're not mad, Sam.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, as it happens, I did make a few dollars
and yours will be the first account settled. Oh, It's
sure it wasn't me. It was the money all the time.
Sam No, I just I accept your apology. Two, Lieutenant J. F. Randall,
San Francisco Police Department, from Samuel's Spade license number one
three seven five nine six, subject the Revenge of Manti
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Christophe Money Crystal.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is this a historical drama?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Christoph c ri I S t O F F Monty
m O N t y, And it's still a historic drama,
dear Lieutenant. Revenge is an old fashioned motive, but when
you get it raw and distilled, as in the Gosden affair,
it's new all over again. This was the slow burning,
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deliberate kind of passion that starts smoldering way back in
the forgotten days and explodes among some people who never
knew they were living over a keg of dynamite. It
was yesterday morning that the distant sputtering of the fuse
began to be heard by a man named Chandler Gosden.
You know, I'm the hulking rich boy in the electrical
appliance sign who took a professional boxing for a while.
I think he was built as gold plate. Gosden a
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society scrapper, and he was doing well too, until a
right cross by someone who needed the money.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
More than he did send him back to clipping.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Coupis spade. Yeah, I'm Chandler Gosden.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
I recognize you now.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Guys like you charge well, it depends on the job investigation,
sixty dollars a day and any unusual expenses cheap.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Do you guys have some kind of a code or
code you know, like doctors? Do you keep things in confidence?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Well, most of us do, including me, making any big.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Difference that got out.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I'm not afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I just assume punch him in the mouth as look
at him. Who Marty Christov.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Heard of him?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, moved into the peninsula my neighborhood, bought the major
Dunhill place.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Oh oh yeah, I know. The estate must have cost
plenty the by.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Two hundred and fifty thousand a year. And what's money
these days? Everybody's got it day, Isn't it awful? It's
a tax scheme. I suppose Ever since he moved into
that ark of a house, he's been throwing parties. There
are a cross between the last days of POMPEII and
a Polish wedding invites hundreds of guests, everybody, who is
anybody disgusting? But it seems legal so far. He's been
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there four months, throwing parties, inviting everybody in the phone book,
everybody but me.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Oh, maybe he just doesn't like you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
What are you talking about. I'm one of the best
like guys in the peninsula. Everybody likes me, little kids, cops,
the guys at the country club. I never had an
enemy in the world. Besides, I got Virginia.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Oh who she my wife?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
One of the sweetest little girls that ever came down
the pike.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, my apology if he was a baldwin. Oh, here
I married her. She was the social catch of the
year among the women. Really, yeah, so was I among
the men. Well, well, look, I got to tell.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You some more.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
A month ago one of my company warehouses burned down.
Somebody slipped up and the fire insurance hadn't been renewed.
I lost three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Guess who
had lunch with my insurance man a week before the fire,
Monte Christo, you got it. Next thing is the room
I gets surrounded. The Gosden Electrical Companies on the verge
of bankrupts. No of course it isn't absolutely not a
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gossip column. This report that I'm going to close up
shop and beat it to South America with what doahs left.
Then when the stock prices start dropping, somebody suddenly buys
them up so fast they disappear overnight, some corporation I
never heard of, Golo, the Dantees corporation I see. And
then all my friends start getting unfriendly.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
As soon as I show up.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Everybody stops talking, act as if there's some big secret
about me that I don't know. And they've all been
to Montey Crystal's parties lately. That's right, the week after
he arrived in town, all these things started happening. Now,
what I want to find out is why I don't
even know the guy, but he's making a big change
in my life. Well, it sounds like you're entitled to know.
I don't know how far I can get. The best
I can do is find out who he is, where
he comes from, who his friends are, all those things.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Okay, you're hired.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'll find out everything about this, Mandy Christuff. I got
to know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
All right, Jender, I wasn't able to get here when
you said the traffic was absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Cars God, everywhere, it must be giving cars away these days.
Everybody has one. I think we should get a helicopters
to spade my wife, Ginny, Well, how do you doing, missus?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Gunstin Chan?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I hope you have lost your head and blabbed everything
to him. I told you these sort of men weren't trustworthy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I beg your pardon, ma, Look, Jinny, I told him,
and he's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well if you just want to go around giving your
life secret, oh shut up.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well you I'm the man of the house.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Really, and I suppose I count for nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh oh, I forget it, Spade, I'm depending on you.
Don't let me down. You wouldn't think a millionaire would
be hard to biograph, but I came up with very
little information on this Monty Christoff. He'd arrived in town
four months ago, stayed ten days at the Saint Mark Hotel,
then bought his house. He had a bank deposit running
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into seven figures. He had no known business connections, just money.
The register at the Saint Mark said he came from Chicago,
and an airline company verified that he'd been a passenger aboard.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
One of those ships from the Windy City. This was
as far as I had dealt.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
When my place of business was entered by a man
in powder blue livery.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
You swayed the same mister Monty.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Christoph sent me to pick you up. I see, I'm
for where for his matching on a pencil?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Oh, he said he knew what a rough time you
must be having at your present job, and he'd be
glad to make the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Simple to you.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
He really said that, That's.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
What he said.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
But I don't know what it means exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I don't know what it means exactly either, but
here's one good way to find out. Home, James, and
my name is Bertucciosa Bertuccio.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I see, how long have they been calling you that?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, let me see it's about what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I mean, it's my name?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I don't we'll talk it over in the car. The
car was long and blue and smooth. I'm as democratic
as the next guy, and I would just as soon
have ridden up front with Bertuccio. But now he wouldn't
hear of it. I had a ride in a back
seat with a window of bulletproof glass separating us.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
And thus we rode down to the peninsula.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We glided down elm shaded streets and finally through the
gate of Monte Christophe's estate. The driveway was lined with
spring green poplins. The mansion door was opened by a
rear admiral and I was ushered in. I wouldn't want
to say that the living room was locked, but I
coughed once and it was a full minute before the
echo came back. A door opened somewhere and a tan,
hard bodied man walked in across the marble floor with
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an outstretched hand.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
It was tougher than a whale boat.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I appreciate you coming, mister, mister Christoph. Do you have
a drink?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Champagne, scotch Irish, what, oh anything?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Whatever? You like?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Good? I figured you're for rides already, it figarten.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
No thanks their custom role diventas made expressly to my
own taste.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Oh thanks anyway, But I have some beat up cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
He we'll try mine.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
The King of England I did him a favor once
he ships them over.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How is George you drink?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Oh? Thank you for too, child.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Now you've been investigating me, yes, and you haven't found
out anything.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Do you know, Miss Kristo there was nothing to find out.
You're right, I'll do you a service and save you
time and money.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
That's a handsome offer I accept.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I was born in Michigan to a prosperous lumber family.
I went to Phillips andover in Harvard Marx Fair. I
served with the army in the recent war major military
police wounded twice.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Farents died while I was in Italy.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I inherited enormous lumber holdings, which I sold, hence my
bank account.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I like San Francisco, came in and settled out.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
No, you're very kind, but I don't need all this.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I have more money than a man can spend in
a lifetime. And by that I don't mean to boast.
It was an accident of breath.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes, Christoff, I'm only trying to find I know what
you're trying to find out.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Chandler Gos didn't put you on my trail.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Well, there's no need to deny us.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And what would you take to get off my trail,
mister Spade, Well, no car, A selection of fine liquor,
about a job cash, all rather enticing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I'm afraid you've misjudged me, sir. I only worked
for one client at a time.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Is there anything wrong with switching your allegiance.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, I'm afraid it wouldn't be cricket.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Is that the way they say it? At andover?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Very Well, then I'm afraid I've given you all the
information I can about myself.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh you've been very generous. But just one other thing.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
How long did you live in Chicago?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Yes? I never lived there, but you flew here from Chicago?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh that I was just there on business.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, if you say so, Bertuccio is outside with the car.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
He'll drive you back to your office.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
With that, he turned and left me outside. Bertuccio was waiting,
and passively he ushered me into the limit and started out.
Only we didn't head for my office. Instead, we seem
to be leaving town. I banged on the glass between us,
but Bertuccio didn't choose to answer. When we stopped at
a light, I tried the doors, but they were both
mysteriously locked. I was a prisoner in a moving jail.
(11:14):
I made desperate signs to passers by and traffic police,
mind you, but they just smiled and waved back at me.
It was all very jolly, So I sat back and waited.
About twenty or thirty miles out of town. We pulled
onto a lonesome road and stopped. We are just where
our way, and why.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, don't blow your top, Chris stop.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Told me to take you out.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Here to give you this. Oh what's in the envelope? Money?
Two grand, big sec. Well, it's a lot of grands.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
They're gonna do a lot for you. You're gonna take
it and keep going north. Forty eight hours will be
long enough, just so you keep.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Out of Frisco.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, just so you know how I stand, I'm going back.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
You know, I was hoping you'd say that now I
can do things in my own.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He pulled out a long black salven, started wheeling. First
cut just grazed my head and smashed into my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I blocked this.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Second blow and moved in for some close work. The
third time he swung at me, his arm caught an
overhead tree branch, and that was his undoing. He took
four or five and then went down and out.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I searched him, and his billfold reveal that he was.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Joseph Kowalski, late of Chicago, Illinois. The cards and addresses
had contained left little doubt that.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Kowalski was in the records.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I threw him in the car and drove back to
town and police headquarters. He was awake by then, and
I had to drag him into the hall. The one
I'm locked up. Sam went for assault and battery, assault
with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to murder. Mayam anything,
he can't lock me up. I didn't do any of
those things anyway. If I did do him, it was
in San Martin County, not.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Frisco, Salmon. I don't know what I can do. He's
got to do something in our Jeorisha.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Sure see all right, he picked my pocket on the
way into town. Here, Kowalsky say, look, he's got my
wallet in his hand right now, I have all up
braising lawbreakers.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You're gonna let him get away with this.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Walking right in the headquarters with the evidence in his hand.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
If I'm on, come on, Kowski, we go pretty hard
on pickpocket in his.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Time period time.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I want a lawyer, give me. He was dragged away protesting.
They got no sympathy from me, he started. Lieutenant Randall
then teletyped Chicago to find out more about him. In
about an hour, the report came back.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
I won't read his whole record, Sam, but he's paid
for everything. They say he's clean. However, it does say
he was the bodyguard for a man named Bonnie Moffin.
Jess Moffatt was a shady business operator, picked up several times,
nothing hung on him. He left town about the same
time Kowelski did. He listed as undesired.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Nobody's not wanted, thanks, Lieutenant. If a man named Bonnie
Moffat had a whole named Joseph Kowalski is a bodyguard,
and they both disappeared from Chicago at the same time,
the obvious conclusion was conclusively obvious. I rode the limousine
back to Christoph's estate, but as I parked the car,
(13:55):
my headlights hit another car. There was someone getting into it.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Missus Chandler. God, what do you think you're doing? Remember me,
Sam Spade?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh, detective, Yes, what are you following me for?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
What were you doing in Christof's house? I thought he
was a wasn't a friend of yours or your husband?
To Spade? Get in, please, let's talk, Okay, spill It's none.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Of your business what I was doing in there, whatever
it was, I want you to forget you ever saw me.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
That'll be pretty hard to do.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Would money help you.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
In this case? No?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
What do you care what.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Happens to my life or Chance or Christoph?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Because your husband's paying me to worry?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
All right? If I were you, I just forget that
you ever met any of us, because this mess we're
in is so bad that nothing you or anybody else
can do is going to get us out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
With that, she burst out crying, and I couldn't get
anything else on her, so I let her go and
she drove off. I walked up to Christoph's house, knocked
on the door, and a servant opened it.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
A couple of steps.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Inside, when six pairs of arms bread me. Some of
them had to the struggle was just getting knife. You
want Christoph up here? I don't appreciate this kind of
trait on Christoph?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Men, take a walk?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Nah, what's it all about?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
It?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
My orders? If you ever showed up here again?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Why'd you soften?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I just heard about Kowowski. You managed that very well.
I admire resourcefulness.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
How would you like to work for me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Moffatt Moffatt Barnie Moffatt, late of Chicago and the rackets,
so you know, well, I wasn't sure until just now,
but you've cleared.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Up the doubt.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
How much do you know?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Very little, just that you were a shady operator. But
nobody's looking for you anything, sped.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I did a lot of things several years, a tightrope,
walking with a lag, but I never did anything that
could jail me.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
For I have an idea you're considering doing something in
the near future.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
What makes you say that.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
It's a vendetta, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Bonnie, Christoph and Bertu show the Steward and the Danist Corporation.
You couldn't resist the drama, could you?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
All?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
From Duma's novel?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
But why why do you want to play the Anna
monte Cristo? What did Gosden do to you to merit
all this revenge?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Tomorrow? It will be over tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And with that he clutched at his heart and fell
forward at my feet. You are listening to the weekly
adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. Free Chimes
(16:40):
Mean Good Times on NDC. If you've been searching for
mystery on Saturday night, put away your magnifying glass and
follow these clues. Dial this NDC station tomorrow evening and
listen for the chimes, and then you'll be off on
a perilous trip with a man called.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
X, starring Herbert Marshall. And if you've been searching for
music too on Saturday, then Eileen Wilson is your dish
as she stars in your hip Parade with Snookie Lanson
and Raymond Scott's Orchestra. Now back to the Vendetta Caper
or the Revenge of Monty Christoff tonight's adventure with Sam's Babe.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I bent over and listened to his heart. It was okay.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Monty Christoph had just keeled over, apparently from a crescendo
of emotion.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
He flecked out.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I didn't want to be held up by his henchman,
so I left the room and walked out of the.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
House without calling anybody.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I walked down the road, and good luck, there was
an empty cab cruising along.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
At Chandler Gosden's.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I found him pacing the living room in a state
of physical and mental disorder.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
I told him what I knew, Vendetta.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Why I never heard him? I never did anything to
the man.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Why would your wife go and see him?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't know. Dona Jasker, because she hasn't been home
all day, and here it is one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
She's still listening.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Tell me, is there something special happening tomorrow? Christolph seemed
to think that everything would be settled tomorrow. Annual corporation election,
just a matter of form. I'm elected president, A few
other people voted into office, always the same people, and
then he must plan to swing the election his way,
maybe put you in office. Suh got a.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Fat chance of that.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I don't care how much stock he buys. Jenny owns
ten percent. I own forty one. That's fifty one percent.
If he bought forty nine percent of the open market,
that still wouldn't be enough.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
We could still out vote him. You're sure you've got
the stock in your position.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I saw it last week when I was down in
the hall with my birth certificate. Stupid me forgot I
don't have a birth certificate.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
No, that must be Edson.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
My lawyer called and said he had something on his mind.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Tender, I have that news for you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It can wait, No, no, it can. This is Sam Spade,
Ralph Sonny, you do a spade now, chan listen to me,
all right, what's biting you?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Just this?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
We're liable to lose that election tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
We can't. I just found out that Monte Christo has
fifty nine percent of the voting stock and goes an
elect fifteen. He can't have it. Oh look, wait a minute,
Wait a minute. If my wife sold her stock, he
could have fifty nine.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Couldn'ty he could? Spade?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Are you positive you saw her coming out of Christoph's house.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I'm afraid I did. I'm gonna find her.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm gonna find her, and if she sold any of
her stock for Kristoff, I'll kill her.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I tried to dissuade him, but.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
He brushed me and the lawyer aside ran out of
the house. I called the police and told him to
try and find Virginia Gosden before her husband did. Then
I went looking myself. The first place I've tried was
Monte Christoff's mention. There were lights on, so I entered,
gun in hand. I didn't have any time.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
To dick her.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
With servants and bodyguards, Christolph appeared in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
All right, Spade, what is it you want now?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Virginia Gusin?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
She hasn't been here since the last time you saw
you know where she is. I haven't any idea if
you know, tell.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Me her husband's looking for her with homicide in his eyes.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I can't say I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Well that's a nice sentiment.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
She sold you were stock in the Gudsen company, didn't she,
since you seem.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
To know about it.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Yes, why is she in love with you? Maybe she is,
and you're in love with her.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
She's a stupid, empty headed nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I can't stand the sight of her.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I hate her.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I hold it now, you'll knock yourself out again.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Yes, yes, come over here. Take a good look at that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's a pillow, an ordinary pillow, so you'll notice how
dirty it is.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Yeah, notice that it.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Isn't even stuffed with feathers. They were no good.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
It's stuffed with dirty cutton rags.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Well, my father's head was.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Lying on that pillow when he died. I've kept it
ever since as a reminder of who killed him. Who
did A man named Elwood Gosden, a man who cheated
and lied and stole everything he had in his life.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Chandler's father.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yes, my father and Elwood Gosden had a hardware store
once my father invented an electric iron. Ever heard of
the Gosden iron? Yeah, it should have been the Mouffet iron.
Elwood Gosden stole the plans from my father, registered them first,
and then drove my father out of business. He made
a fortune out of it and then went into other
electrical appliances.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh, things are beginning to jail now.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
My father became a peddler and died poor and broke
and ill. My mother died twenty years before she should
have been over work, while the Gosdens grew fat and
respected on the Moffet brains.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
So you started jo undetta, huh?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I started it the day my father died.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I set out to make one thing in this world money,
and I made it in handfuls.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You can look me up.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Barney Moffitt, Chicago gambling, black markets, gun running, slave trading,
anything and everything that had a big profit in it.
And then I set out for San Francisco to break
that criton son of Elwoods and his old family.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And on the way you lost a guy named Barney Motha.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What difference.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Look, you've got money now and everything you need.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Why go on with it?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I don't care anything about money, I only want to
use it against them.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
You know why I had all those parties.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
To buy stock from people, Yes kind of Gosden company.
I've paid twice three times what the shares were worth.
But right now I own fifty nine percent of the
Gosden Enterprises. And tomorrow morning, when the two of us
meet at the stockholders meeting, I'm going to vote him
out of office and take over the company. And then
I'm going to drive it right into bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And you got missus Gosden's stock by making her fall
in love with you, I do.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Don't let's talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
About Chandler Gosden. He's a man with a very short
and violent temper. He might come gunning for you.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
That's just what I hope he does. Ask the man
at the door to show you up.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I spent most of them I trying to find Virginia
Gosden with no luck.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Chandler didn't return to.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
His house, so I didn't know what he was up to.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
It was early the.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Following day when I got my first report. Lieutenant Randall
called me down a police headquarter. We found her speed
bed or alive.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Oh about halfway in between She was shot in a
chant at close range, gun right up against her, but
she's still living.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Chances, Sam, Where'd you find her?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
In a walk up apartment on Tolk Street. It was
registered to her, looked like a love nest, a place
where she met a boyfriend orson no weapon, I see,
I figure murder attempt her husband. We have a pickup
on him right now, but so far he's vanished. Shame
final San Francisco family.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
What do you know, Sam, I'll give me a free
hand for a couple of hours, will you Maybe I
can do something for this fine old San Francisco family.
I had no more idea than the police where Chandler
Gosden was at the moment, but I had a good
idea where he might be. Later in the morning, I
put a call into Ralph Edson, his lawyer. Stockholders meeting
(23:41):
of the Gaysden Company was to be held at eleven
o'clock at their executive officers. Edson got me in and
in five minutes to eleven Monte Christov walked in. There
were three of us. None of us spoke. We just
sat around a long, polished table, alternately watching the clock
and the door.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
At eleven three.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
The door opened.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Chandler Gosden stood there, rumple, red eye, vicious.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
He had a gun.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The first man who moves is gonna get a bullet
right in the face.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Look, for heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Had the gun you try to kill your wife with.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
It's the gun.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
But I didn't try to kill her. She did it
herself because he drove her to it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Me.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, you, Kristal, you are meeting her in an apartment.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Don't think I didn't dumb.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Put they gunna win. Let's get down to business.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I got the same gun she using herself, and I'm
gonna use.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
It on you.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well, stop talking, you can get it over with you
act as if you want me to do it.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
All right, it's in spade. They're out of here.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Doesn't use your head.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I said, get out of here and go on.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Okay, but don't take your eye off him.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
He's got a gun in his pocket. I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I won't.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You were working for him, working for him all along.
Everybody list no, now, listen to me. He wanted you
to kill him. He doesn't care about himself. He just
wanted you to be put away from murder.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Sae, this is our affair.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Not you.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I look both of you, shut up and listen. This
is a tough thing to try to settle something that's
been boiling up in you. Mop and ever since you
can remember, you spent all of your grown up life
trying to get back at the wrong man. It appealed
to some ironical sense of yours to carry out the
Manti Cristo revenge story. Now let me ask you this.
You remember all about Monte Cristo and how he ruined
the people who had ruined his life, and how his
father died heartbroken. But do you remember the end of
(25:17):
that book?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Go on?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You found that he couldn't bring himself to revenge the
wrong doings of families on their innocent children.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
That reads good in the book, But I don't feel
that way.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well maybe you will when you hear this.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But this man right here that you spent twenty years
getting ready to ruin is not even a Gosden. What
He's an adopted son. Mister Elwood Gosden adopted him from
an Oakland orphanage on October eleventh, nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I got the records to prove it this morning.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I would have known, mister Edson, You've always been the
family lawyer.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Isn't this true?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It was a long chance that Edson would play along
with it, but to bring it off it needed the
final clincher lawyer. Edson looked at me, then looked at
Chandler Gosden. He galted and licked his lips.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
It's true, It's true.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Chandler adopted you're your father never wanted you to know.
Chandler didn't move, He just stood there, stunned. Barney Muffett
sank down into a chair and buried his head in
his hands. Edson and I looked at each other and waited. Finally,
Christoph looked up and spoke, start the meeting, mister Edson,
(26:27):
I hereby declare the Annual Stockholders Meeting of the Gosden
Company open.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Mister Gosden, I don't care what happens now.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I bothered the majority stockholder. Oh, mister Kristopher, I beg
your pardon.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Mister Moffett.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Has the majority stockholder.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
I vote that the chairmanship of the Gosden Electrical Corporation
remain as it has for the past twenty years, with
Chandler Gosden.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Period.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
End of report.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh Sam, you were magnificence.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
It was rather a stirring scene, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I was good, but.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It was superb, it really was. Did you sign over
with the stock and everything?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
He did? Indeed?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh Sam. Do you think the world will ever get
to a time when everybody has all he wants and
instead of trying to get more, everybody spends his time
just just trying.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
To enjoy life?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Well? You know, best of it?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Do you really believe that, Sam?
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Well, You've got to believe something. It's better than nothing.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I guess I have a theory too, sam Well spouted out.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, if everybody in the world picked somebody else to
be nice to, there'll never be any more trouble anywhere.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
How do you figure that?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well, before you can be nice to somebody, you have
to think nice thoughts. And once you start thinking nice thoughts,
well you can see how silly the bad ones are.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Effie, come here. You know I might just put you
up as a candidate for.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
A chair of philosophy at Columbia.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I know who you picked out to be nice to me?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
True?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Can I pick you?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Good night?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Good night, sweetheart, Tonight's transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade was produced, edited,
and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by
(28:37):
Stephen Dunn, Loreen Tuttle as Effie stript for Tonight's adventure
by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by lud Bluskin, conducted.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
By Robert Armbrewster.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Dennis Day and Judy Canova entertain
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