DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)

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Speaker 1 (02:23):
Let me get to another drink, Mark, before Tony comes up.
I ought to explain something.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, I've been waiting for that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I haven't told him anything about us.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's not surprising. It's a tough thing to do.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
When you telephone this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I simply said, you wrote crime stories, and and I
met you once when.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
You were here before.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
And that's a pretty gilly ring to it. I'd never
use it one of my stories.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I know you think it's silly, but when you get
to know Tony, you'll understand why I.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Said that, Darling, I understand now, but that doesn't stop
me from loving you.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's not as simple as that. Tony's changed.

Speaker 6 (03:08):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
He's a completely different person to the one I used
to tell you about.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Really, when all this happened that night.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I came to say goodbye.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
When I left your apartment, I came back here, I
sat down on the sofa and had a good cry,
and then I fell asleep.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And when I woke up, there was Tony standing in
the hall with all his bags and tennis records.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
He just said he decided to give up tennis and
settle down to a job, just like that, Just like that.
Of course, I didn't believe him at first, but he
meant it all right. But he's been wonderful ever since.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
I suppose that's when you stop writing me, margaot is it?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Do you remember the letters she wrote to me?

Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (03:49):
I remember.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
After I read them, I burned them. I thought it best,
all except one and probably another one.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
I mean, yes, I think I do.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
What about.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
It?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Was stolen? One day?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Tony and I were going to spend the weekend in
the country with friends, and while we were waiting on
the platform, I noticed my handbag was missing and the
letter was inside.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Where was this Victoria station?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I thought at first I left in the restaurant, but
when I went back to look for.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
It, did it go?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
You mean you never found?

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I recovered the handbag about two weeks later from the
Lost and Found, but the letter wasn't there. And then
about a week afterwards, I received a note. It told
me what I had to do to get the letter bag.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Let's go ahead, go on.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I was to draw fifty pounds from my bank and
five pound notes and then change them for used one
pound notes. It said that if I went to the
police or told anyone else, he would show the letter
to my husband, you still ever.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Know printed all capitals.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Anyone could have done this, And two days later I
got this.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
One both nailed in Brixton.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
If I have the money and the package and mailed
to Johns King, twenty three Newport Street, Brixton, SEW nine
and you'll get you a letter by a return.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
It's a little shop. People use it as a forwarding address.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
You didn't mail the money.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, Mark, But the letter was never returned. So after
waiting about two weeks, I went there. Said they had
never heard of a man by that name, and the
parcel was still there to never been opened.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Oh that's something I suppose man, I keep it.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yes, if you love can't understand why you didn't tell
me about it.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
There wasn't anything you could do.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
It probably would have made me tell Tony and the police,
and as it was only fifty pounds, I thought i'd pay.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I've never done with him, Margot. I would have tell
Tony about.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Us to know what. Please you mustn't you don't understand
Tony's changed. Please, I wish.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
It was a year ago.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
When you came to say goodbye, we were standing in
the kitchen. I nearly turned around and said I can't
go through with this. Let's find Tony and tell him
all about it. I believe you'd have done it that.
Like you said, there's gonna be a rough evening, all
of us saying nice things to each other. Look, there's
only one thing you haven't explained. Why didn't you burn

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that letter?

Speaker 6 (06:45):
Too?

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
There you are. I thought you were never coming.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
What have you been up to?

Speaker 4 (07:05):
I'm sorry do I'm at the boss be wind just
as I.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Was leaving Tony. This is Mark Canaday.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Hello. Hello, I'm terribly sorry to be so late. How
do you like it over here?

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Or fine? Just fine?

Speaker 8 (07:18):
Toning?

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Is this your first visit to London?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
No?

Speaker 4 (07:21):
No, I was here a year ago for a vacation.
Oh yes, that's right. Margaret told me you you're right
for the radio. Don't you no television for my sins?

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Darling?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did you reserve a table?

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yes, seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well come on then get you darling.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
A stight alteration in plans.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh no, don't say you can't go.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
I'm afraid so old man Burgess is flying to Brussels
on Sunday and I have to get my mother's reporting
by tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well can't you do it when we get back.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
To I'm afraid not it'll take hours. I have to
fake half of it.

Speaker 9 (07:47):
As it is.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
But what could you join us after the theater? We
might go somewhere.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Why don't you give me a ring an intermission? If
I'm inspired, I might make it.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
We'll try. I'll just get my things.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Mark over here the tickets. Thanks, Tony.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'm afraid this is.

Speaker 8 (08:03):
Terribly rude of me.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, not at all.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm sorry you can't come along, though.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
You must come to dinner one night.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Thanks.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
By the way, what are you doing tomorrow night? Saturday? Nothing?

Speaker 6 (08:11):
I know?

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Well, how do you have to come to a stag party?
A stag party?

Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yes, some American boys have been playing tennis all over
the continent and we're giving them a sort of farewell
of dinner. I say, well, I'm not much of a
tennis player.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
You know, New York and all the darling Mark's coming
to the party tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm good. Will you better drop in here first.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
And have a drink, that's the idea.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yes, all right, well I'll try and get a taxi.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh no, we can usually pick one now, So long.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Darling Joey's home. So long journing.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Good night, Oh Mark, Yes, try and sell the extra
ticket and have a drink in the proceeds.

Speaker 10 (08:45):
All right, have a good times.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Hello Hampstead seventy eight double nine. Could I speak to
Captain Les Good please? Oh, good evening.

Speaker 11 (09:29):
You don't know me.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
My name is Fisher. I understand you have a car
for sale. Oh yes, yes, I saw at your garage.
How much are you asking? Eleven hundred? I see, but
it certainly looks just a job for me. But I
don't like that price much.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
I don't like it.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Now when can we meet? I'm afraid I can't manage that. No,
I can't, and I'm going to Liverpool on Sunday. I
was rather hoping. I said you couldn't come round to
my flat tonight.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
It made a veil. I'd call on you only I
twisted my knee rather badly.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Sixty one eight Charington Gardens. I don't know Charrington turn
after the undergrounds about two minutes walk. That's extremely good
of you. Oh, by the way, will you bring in
the car? I'm afraid well that doesn't matter. I had
a good look at it, as you might bring the
registration book, any necessary papers. I don't see why we're

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gonna settle this whole thing here now provided you dropped
the price efficiently, Well we'll see what a couple of
brinks can do. Goodbye, Yes, Captain Lescott, Yes, won't you

(11:18):
come in?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Very good of you.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Let me have your coat? Have me difficulty finding your way?

Speaker 6 (11:27):
None at all?

Speaker 4 (11:28):
This sit down?

Speaker 6 (11:29):
How about a drink?

Speaker 5 (11:32):
You know I can't help thinking I've seen you before somewhere. No,
it's funny you should mention that the moment I opened
the door. Wait a minute, Lesgid, you're not Lesgit Swan
CJ's Swan.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Always at c A C A.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Well you've got a better memory than I have.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Fisher.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
When did we meet when dred Cambridge? Yes, it must
be twenty years ago. You wouldn't remember me. I only
came here last year.

Speaker 6 (11:59):
Wow, what a coincidence.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yes, it's called for a special drink. I was planning
to put you off than in different port Unless you
will we have here? How about this perfect?

Speaker 6 (12:12):
By the way, I do you know my cars for sale?

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Your garage told me that's odd.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
I don't think I mentioned it twenty one there I.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Was stopping for a fill up, and I told him
I was looking for an American car. They gave me
a phone number. I say this for sale, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well, of course I'm good, but I refuse to discuss
the price until we had these three bendis.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Well.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
I warn you I drive a hard bargain drunk also,
so do I.

Speaker 6 (12:35):
You know? I think I must have seen you somewhere
since we left Cambridge.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Ever been to Wimbledon?

Speaker 6 (12:41):
That's it? Wenders? Tell me when doers?

Speaker 4 (12:45):
What's all this about?

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Fisher?

Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's all this about Liskeet? You like a cigar?

Speaker 6 (12:53):
No thanks, I'll just stick to my pipe if you
don't mind.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
And there's one habit you've changed. I remembered college. You
always used to smoke gradvics, expensive cigars. Wait a minute,
I think I had a picture of you here somewhere. Yes, yes,
here's one taking at a reunion dinner.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
There you are with the biggest cigar in the business.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Well, that's the first and last reunion I ever went to.
What a murderous FuG guy. Look, yes you do rather.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Of course I always remember you because of the college board.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
You were the treasurer, aren't your honorary treasurer. I used
to organize the basicly things.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Yes, some of the ticket money was still and wasn't it.
That's right, almost one hundred pounds. I'd left it in
a cash box in my study and in the morning
had gone.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
It was the college porter, of course.

Speaker 12 (13:42):
Yes, of course, poor old Alfred, he never could back
a winner.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Now they found the cash.

Speaker 12 (13:47):
Box in his back garden, but not the money twenty
years ago.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
What are you doing nowadays? I didn't property, I said,
I don't follow tennis very close. They do still play.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
No, I'm enough tennis or while the tennis gave me up,
one has to earn a living some time, and that
had a pretty good run for my money, went around
the world three times. What are you doing now? I
sell sports equipment. It's not very lucrative, but it gives
me plenty of spare time.

Speaker 6 (14:13):
Well, I see you manage to run a very comfortable
little place.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Now I've had some money of her own.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
Otherwise I hardly feel like blowing a thousand pounds in
your car.

Speaker 12 (14:21):
Uh eleven hundred. You know, people with capital don't realize
how lucky they are. I'm almost resigned a living on
what I can.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Earn well, you can always marry for money. Yes, I
suppose some people make a business out of that.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
I know I did. Why do you think she married you?
I was a tennis star.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yes, but you've given up tennis. She hasn't left you.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
She nearly did, but after you were married. I played
in the various championships and took Margot with me. She
didn't like it much, and when we get back, she
tried to make me give up tennis and play husband instead.
In the end we compromised. I went alone for America
for the grass court season and returned after the national championships.
I soon realized that a lot had happened while I

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was away, but one thing, she was in love with
me any more, and there were phone calls which would
end abruptly if I happened to walk in. There was
an old school friend used to visit from time to time.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
One day we had a row.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
I wanted to play in a covered court tournament, and
as usual, she didn't want me to go. I was
in the bedroom the phone rang. It all sounded pretty urgent.
After that, she seemed rather keen that I play in
the tournament after all, so I packed my kit into
the car and drove off. I parked the car two
streets away walked back on my tracks. Ten minutes later,

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she came out of this house and took a taxi.
I took another.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Her old school friend lived in the studio in Chelsea.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
I could see them through the studio window as he
cooked spaghetti over a guess ring. They didn't say much.
They just looked very natural together. Now it's funny how
you can tell when people are in love. I went
for a walk began to wonder what would happen if
she left me. I had to find somewhere earning a
living to begin with. I suddenly realized how much I'd

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grown to depend on her. All these expensive tastes are
acquired while I was at the top. Now Big Tennis
had finished with me, and so apparently had my wife.
I can't ever remember being so scared. I dropped into
a pub and had a couple of drinks. As I
sat in the corner, I thought of all sorts of things.

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I thought of three different ways of killing him.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
I even thought of killing her, and that seemed a
far more sensible idea.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
And just as I was working out how I could
do it, I suddenly saw something which completely changed my mind.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
I didn't go to that tournament after all.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
When I got back, she was sitting exactly where you
are now, and I told her I decided to give
up tennis and look after her instead. Well well as
things turned out, and even got so worked up after all.
Apparently that spaghetti evening had been a sort of a
fun farewell. The boyfriend had been called back to New York,
ah American. Yes, there were long letters from there. They

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usually arrived on Thursdays, and she burned them all except one.
That one she used to transfer from Hanberg to Hanburg.
It was always with her. That letter became an obsession
with me. I had to find out what was in it,
and finally I did. That led him a very interesting reading.
Do you mean you stell it?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (17:33):
I even wrote it two anonymous notes ofking to send
it back.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Why.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
I was hoping you would make a come and tell
me all about him, but it didn't, so I kept
the letter.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Why telling me all this because you're the only person
I can trust.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Anyway, that did it, You must have put the fear
of God into because the letter stopped and we lived
happily ever after. It was funny to think that just
a year ago I sat in that nice Bridge pub
actually planning to murder her, and I might have done
it if I hadn't seen.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Something that changed my mind.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
Well, what did you say? I saw you? It was
so odd about that, the coincidence.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
You see, Only a week before I'd been to a
reunion dinner and the fellows were talking about you, how
you'd been caught martial during the war, a year in prison,
and that was news.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Mind you.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
At college we'd all said that all swan would end
up in jail.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
That cash box, I suppose.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Well what about it.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Oh, my dear fellow, everybody knew you.

Speaker 13 (18:48):
Took that money for Elford. Thanks very much for the drink.

Speaker 14 (18:59):
Interesting hearing your matrimonial affairs, I take it you want
to be wanting that car after all?

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Don't you want me to tell you why I brought
you here?

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Yes? I think him better.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
It is when I saw you in that pub that
had happened. Suddenly everything became quite clear. Only a few
months before, Margot and I had made our wills quite
short affairs, leaving everything we had to each other in
case of accidents. Has worked out at just over ninety
thousand pounds investments, mostly all a little too easy to
get at, and that was dangerous as to be bound

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to suspect me.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
And eat and alibi a very good one.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Then I saw you.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I had often wondered what happened to people when they
came out of prison, people like you. I mean, can
they get jobs? Do old friends rarely around? Suppose they
never had any friends. I became so curious to know
that I followed you. I followed you home that night,
and would you mind passing me your glass? Oow boy,

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thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
I've been following you ever since.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Why, I was hoping that sooner or later I might
catch you at something and be able to blackmail may
influence you. After a couple of weeks I got to
know your routine, and that made it a lot easier,
rather dull work.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
To begin with. Yes, but you know how it is.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
You take up a hobby, and the more you get
to know it, the more fascinating it becomes. You became
quite fascinating. In fact, there were times when I felt
that you almost belonged to me.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
That must have been interesting. Used to go to the.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Dog racing Mondays and thursdays. I even took it up
myself just to be near you.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
You'd change your name to Adams.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yes, I got board with Swan. Any crime in that, no, no,
none whatever. In fact, there was nothing really illegal about you.
I got quite discouraged. Then one day you disappeared from
your lodgings. If I phoned your landlady, I said, mister
Adams owed me five pounds.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
But apparently that was.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Mister Adams held her six weeks rent and her best lodge.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Of fifty five pounds. And mister Adams had been such
a nice gentleman. That's what scene were upset her most.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yes, it always seems to upset the most.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I say it. If you want another drink, you might
bring on these gloves. And where were we? Oh? Yes,
I'd lost you.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
And then I found you one day at the dog
racing and I tailed you home to your new lodgings
in Bellsize Park. There mister Adams became mister Wilson. Mister
Wilson left Belsize Park going sixteen weeks rent and somewhat
richer for a brief encounter with Miss and Miss Wallace.
Used to take Miss Wallace out on Wednesdays and Sundays.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
She certainly was in love with you, wasn't she.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
I suppose you thought you were growing that handsome mustache
to please her.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Poor miss Wallace, this.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Is all very interesting to go on July August September
apart from one to seven Carlile Court occupant to Missus
van Dorn. Her late husband left her two hotels and
a large apartment.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
How is furnished? What a base to operate from?

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Captain Lesgett. The only trouble is she does rather enjoy
being courted, and she's.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
So very expensive.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Perhaps that's why I've been trying to sell her car
for over a month.

Speaker 14 (22:13):
Missus van Dorn asked me to salad for her.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
I know, I called up just before you arrived here.
She only wanted eight hundred.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Where's the nearest place station.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Opposite the church?

Speaker 6 (22:27):
Two minutes walk? Suppose I walk there? Now?

Speaker 4 (22:30):
What would you tell them?

Speaker 6 (22:32):
Everything?

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Everything all about mister Adams and mister Wilson. I should
simply tell them that you're trying to blackmail me and
top into.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Murdering your wife.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
I almost wish she would when she heard that we
have the biggest laugh of our lives won't.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
You forgetting something?

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Am I?

Speaker 6 (22:51):
You've told me quite a lot tonight. What of it?

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Suppose I tell them how you followed her to that
studio in Chelsea and wats some cooking spaghetti and all
that rubbish on that ring a bell o? Would certainly
would they'd assume you followed her there yourself me Why
should I? Why should you steal her handbag? Why should
you write her all those blackmail notes? Can you prove
you didn't? You certainly can't prove I did. It'll be

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a straight case of your word against mine.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Got a puzzle on it. What could you say?

Speaker 5 (23:22):
I should simply say that you came here to night
half drunk and tried to borrow money on the strength
that we were at college together, but I refused. You
mention something about a letter belonging to my wife. As
far as I could make out, you're trying to sell
it to me. I gave you what money I had,
and you gave me the letter. It has your fingerprints
on it. Remember then you said if I went to

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the police, you'd tell some crazy.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Story about my wanting you to murder my wife.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
But before you go any further, old boy, do consider
the inconvenience. You see, I'm quite well known, and there'd
be pictures of you as well, and sooner or later
there'd be a deputation of landladies and lodgers who would
step forward to testify to your character. And someone is
almost certain to have seen you with Miss Wallace. You

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were careful not to be seen around with her. I
noticed you usually met in out of the way places
where you wouldn't be recognized, like the little tea shop
and Pimlicoal.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
That was her idea, not mine, as it.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Was a bit drummy, wasn't it hardly the place to
take Missus van Dorn? By the way, does Missus van
Dorn know about mister Adams and mister Wilson and miss Wallace?
You were planning to marry Missus van Dorn? Won't you smart?
Aren't you?

Speaker 4 (24:39):
No?

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Not really, I've just had time to think things out
put myself in your position. That's why I know you're
going to agree. What makes you think I'll agree? For
the same reason that a donkey with a stick behind
him and a carrot in front always goes forwards.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
And not backwards.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Tell me about the carrot.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
One thousand pounds in cash fuller.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Murder for a few minutes work. That's all it is,
and no risk. I guarantee that ought to appeal to you.
You've been skating on pretty thin ice.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
You ought to know. It's in all the papers. Middle
aged woman found dead due to an overdose of something.
Apparently she'd been taking this step for quite some time,
and nobody knows where she got it.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
But we know, don't we, poor miss Wallace.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
As thousand pounds.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
When is it?

Speaker 5 (25:33):
It's in a small attensh case in a checkroom where
somewhere in London.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Of course we don't meet again.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
As soon as you've delivered the goods, I shall mail
you the checkroom ticket and the key to the case.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
You can take this hundred pounds on account.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
You know the police. I only have to trace one
of these notes back to you to hang us both
from the same row.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
They won't for a whole year.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
I've been catching next to twenty pounds a week, always,
in five years, and then change them for those of
my leisure.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
Let me see your bank statement.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
By all means, don't touch.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
Turn back a page.

Speaker 14 (26:32):
Your balance is dropped by over a thousand pounds during
the year.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
Suppons the police ask you about that. I go dog
racing twice a week. We'll check your book maker.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Like you are always better than the tote.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Satisfied? When would this take place? Tomorrow night? Tomorrow? Not
a chance.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
I've got to think this over. It has to be tomorrow.
I've arranged things that way. Well, approximately where you're standing now.
H Onorrow evening, Halliday.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
That's the American boyfriend and I will go out to
a stag party.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
She will stay here. She'll go to bed.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Early and listen to Saturday night theater and the radio.
She always does.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
When I'm out, exactly three minutes to eleven, you'll ender
the house for the street door.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
You find the feet of this door under the stair carpet.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Here the fifth set, that's.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
The one.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
Goes straight to the window. Hide behind the curtains.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
But exactly eleven o'clock, I should go to the telephone
in the hotel to call my boss.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
I shall die the wrong number. This number. That's all
I shall do.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
When the phone rings, you'll see the light going under
her bedroom door. When she opens it, the light will
stream across the room. So don't move until she answered
the phone as little.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Noise as possible.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
After you've finished, pick up the phone and give me
a soft whistle and hang up.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Don't speak whatever you do, I shan't say a word.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
When I hear your whistle, I shall hang up and
redial with the correct number this time. I shall then
talk to my bosses. If nothing had happened and returned
to the party. Well, what happens next, Gorne. You will
see the suit case here. It contains and clothes the mind.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
For the cleaners. Open it and tip the clothes out
under the floor. Then fill it with a cigarette box
in some of these cups. Close the lid, but don't
snap the locks.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Then leave the suit case there just as it is now,
as if I left in a hurry.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
That's the idea. Now the window, if it's locked, unlock
it and leave it open. Then go out exactly the same.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
Way you came in by this door.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yes, and here's the most important thing.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
As you go out, return the key to the place
where you found it under the stair carpet.

Speaker 14 (28:58):
Yes, yes, but not exactly supposed to have happened.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
But they'll assume you came in by the window.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
You thought the apartment was empty, so he took the
suit case and went to work. She heard something, she
switched on her light. You saw the light under the door,
hid behind the curtains. When she came in here, you
attacked her before she could scream.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
When you realize you'd.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Actually killed her, you'd panicked, bolted through the garden, and
left the loot behind you.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Just a minute. I'm supposed to have come in through
these windows. Suppose they'd been locked. It wouldn't matter.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
You see, she often takes a walk around the garden
before she goes to bed, and she usually forgets to
lock up when she gets back. That's what I shall
tell the police.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
Yes, but she may say that, But she isn't going
to say anything, Is she all right?

Speaker 14 (29:58):
I leave the apartment, I put the key back under
the stair carpet and go out to the street door.
Suppose the street door's locked. How do I get in
in the first place?

Speaker 4 (30:07):
The street door is never locked.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
What time will you get back?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
About twelve?

Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'll bring Haliday back for a nightcap, so we'll find
her together and we shall live been together since we
left her.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
And there's my alibi.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
You've forgotten something? Why when you get back with what's
his name? Halliday? How will you get into the apartment?

Speaker 13 (30:40):
I just let myself in, but your key will be under.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
The stair carpet.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
You'll see you getting it out. It'll get the whole showy.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
No, it won't be my key under the carpet, it'll
be hers.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
I shall take it from her handbag and hide it
out there just before I leave the flat.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
She's not going on so she won't miss it.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
When I come back with Halliday, I'll.

Speaker 6 (30:59):
Use my own key to let us in.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Then, while he's out searching the garden or something, I'll
take the key from under the carpet and they turn
it to her handbag before the police arrive.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
How many keys are the to this door?

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Just her?

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Isn't mine? Made a meal for double nine?

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (31:25):
Hello, darling, how's it going?

Speaker 6 (31:31):
No, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
I mean I'm glad, but I don't think so. I
hardly seem to have started, Oh darling, Yes, of all,
I think there's someone at the door. You can be
seen from the bedroom window. Sorry, darling, false alarm. But
why don't you take Mark to Jerry's ill?

Speaker 6 (31:50):
Just mention my name?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
I don't know about the band but the food is good.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
By the way, Maureen called up just after you left
and wants us for dinner on Wednesday. But you something
written in your diary for Wednesday. I can't read your
writing looks like al Bentar. Who's he another one of
your boyfriends? Oh? The Albert Hall of course. I'm so
glad you don't have to go to Mauren. And she's

(32:15):
such a filthy cook. All right there, enjoy yourself.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
That's oh god.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Oh, Tony, don't make that martini to walk for it?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Now, where is the picture of Maraga?

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Darling?

Speaker 4 (33:34):
When are you going to finish pasting in those clippings?

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
I should find time one of these days. Okay, this
is the mal Rajah. Isn't he dreaming?

Speaker 4 (33:42):
The four Rose Royce? Is enough? Joseph think of battleship,
but all he really wanted is a big women.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Oh the poor darling. He was so shortsighted that he
could barely see the end.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
Of the record the ball.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Do you know you should have to tell you you
should write a book about all this?

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Why don't you to collaborate a detective novel with a
tennis best?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yeah? What about it?

Speaker 6 (34:01):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
You provide me with the perfect murder? Nothing I like better.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
How do you go about writing a detective story, Well,
you forget detection, concentrate on crime. Crime is the thing,
and then you imagine you're going to steal something or
murder somebody.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Oh is that high? I did it?

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Interesting?

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (34:15):
I usually put myself in the criminals shoes, and I
keep asking myself what do I do next?

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Do you really believe in the perfect murder?

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yes? Absolutely? On paper, that is.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
And I think I could plan one better than most people,
But I doubt if I could carry it out.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh why not?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Well, because in stories things used to turn out the
way the author wants them to do it.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
In real life they don't always.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Now I'm afraid my murders to be something like my bridge.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
I'd make some stupid.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Mistake and never realize till I find everybody who's looking
at me.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
We better drink up, Mark, Ye, what are you doing tomorrow?
Nothing I know of.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Why don't we all drive down to Windsor for luck.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
That's a good idea, coming on early, but not too early.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
We may be nursing a hangover.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
How about eleven? Fine?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh, we can have lunch at the King's Head is
that right in windsor No, it's just outside.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Darn it, I lend you my last key.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
I can't find it anyway.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
I don't know. I may have them both in my handbag.

Speaker 6 (35:09):
I'll just look.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
No, I've only got one here. Are you sure yours isn't.

Speaker 10 (35:33):
In your overcod?

Speaker 4 (35:34):
No, I've looked men burri you eyes.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Well that's a bit awkward.

Speaker 6 (35:38):
Why I may want to go out tonight?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yes, I thought I might go to a movie or something.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
Well, I'm gonna listen to the radio Saturday night theater.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Oh no, it's a thriller. I don't like thrillers when
I'm alone, I.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
See will in any case, I'll be back before you,
so I.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
Can let you in, But we won't be back in
l after midnight. You may be asleep by then. You
can always put your key. I'm a proverbial map.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Oh it's all right here. This is in my glove
all the time.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Well that said, is that?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
What movie are you going to?

Speaker 10 (36:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
The classic I expect?

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Will you get in Saturday night?

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I can always try. Oh but no, don't make me
stay home. You know how I hate doing nothing?

Speaker 4 (36:18):
Doing nothing?

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Why?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
There are hundreds of things you can do be written
to Peggy thanking her.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
For the weekend.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
And what about those clippings? It's an ideal opportunity.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, I like that you two go gallivanting while I
stay home and do those boring clippings.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
Very well, we won't go What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (36:36):
It's quite obvious you don't want us to go out
and I so we won't stay here with you.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Instead?

Speaker 6 (36:39):
What do we do? Play cards?

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Oh, Tony darling?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Well, I better call the grind and tell him me
not coming.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Oh Tony please, it would be childish about this. All right,
I'll do your old press clippings.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
You don't have to.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
We don't want to, you know, but I do want to.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
I think I'll try and scare up a taxi.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Have we had any paste?

Speaker 15 (37:08):
Hees?

Speaker 5 (37:09):
It's something in the desk? I need you need some scissors,
grosket that needs some change there?

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Just need some money for the taxi?

Speaker 3 (37:42):
My package?

Speaker 5 (37:42):
Then?

Speaker 3 (37:42):
How much do you need it?

Speaker 5 (37:43):
Well, let's see how much you've got?

Speaker 4 (37:45):
You want me ten? Bob? Anyway, I paid that package,
just had to Peggy. That comes out of house keeping.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Well, let me give it to you.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
There enough?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
How much you want?

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Well, I've got three, five, seven and sixpences. It old
enough to get a stand back.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh would you better take something?

Speaker 5 (38:02):
How much of the dinity or what are you paid
for tipping to the if I run short market help.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
House taxes here?

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Tell me what are you waiting for?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Nothing, dare nothing?

Speaker 3 (38:20):
What time you get home?

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Oh about twelve? I should think I'll bring walk back
from night Captain's way home. Will you be up?

Speaker 3 (38:26):
I should be fast to sleep and I don't want
to be disturbed.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
You should be as quiet as mice night night.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
Uh a, Margo, you know it's quite possible.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Man Burgess might call. Would you tell me that the
grand and it might be rather important?

Speaker 3 (38:44):
What's the number?

Speaker 4 (38:45):
It's in the book?

Speaker 6 (38:45):
All right, goodbye there?

Speaker 8 (38:55):
All right, Mark, I'm.

Speaker 15 (41:08):
Staying at the Tall Bay Hotel.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
You the tor Bay.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Hotel in Downbore.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
It's not exactly indomle Adele in the district of the North.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
I mean anyway.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
The whole point of the story is that it concerns
do more prison.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Specific thing stay the bank returns out station.

Speaker 16 (41:22):
I went to the department, so my turner stols betweens.
I fact I'm a commercial traveler. I sell agricultural machinery,
I said, agricultural.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
When any of you? Feller said the right time?

Speaker 6 (41:45):
There's I have seven minutes past eleven.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
I'll make it only just after.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
A level we left. My watch has stopped.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
That must have overwhatch so as I as I say,
my bus agricultural machinery?

Speaker 17 (41:59):
Hmm, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, Please.

Speaker 16 (44:45):
Quickly pull.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Maga.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
Where's that donning? It's me?

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Think I think it?

Speaker 6 (45:00):
What's the matter?

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Can't explain the Upcome quickly.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Please, darling, pull yourself together?

Speaker 3 (45:07):
What is it?

Speaker 18 (45:11):
Stra did it get away.

Speaker 10 (45:26):
To do?

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Stupid Margo?

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Now listen very carefully. Don't touch anything. I'll be with
you right away.

Speaker 5 (45:37):
No, no, don't, no.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
I won't touch anything. Is there for only? Please be quick.

Speaker 16 (46:44):
I was sitting in the same bar and I see
the same man standing at the other thing.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
He came across to me and said, no, no, they
do sit down and haven't run along.

Speaker 18 (46:52):
It's Margot.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
She's not feeling too well.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
Sah no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Nothing Serious're staying enjoy us. I'll come along. No, it's
perfectly all right.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
I meaney, just go.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
To It's all right. What happened?

Speaker 3 (47:38):
He told that they wrote my throat anything like stuck.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
Sure, let me see.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I got out to answer for it, and he came about,
tried to stay. I almost passed on, you know, goes
on anything.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
There's hardly any blood when he fell. He must have
What are you doing? I'm trying to find it?

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Hit there on my Aspiat got such an awful hair.

Speaker 5 (48:56):
What do you say?

Speaker 4 (48:57):
I'd better get a blanket.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
H shut the window please, No, he mustn't touch anything.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
To the police arrive. He must have broken in. I
wonder what he was after those cups I expect.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
When will the police get here?

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Have you called him already?

Speaker 1 (49:28):
No?

Speaker 3 (49:29):
You told me not to speak to anyone. Hadn't you
better call them now?

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Where's Mark?

Speaker 6 (49:40):
I told him to go straight home.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Hello, operator, give me the may aveiled police quickly?

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Did you tell him?

Speaker 4 (49:46):
No?

Speaker 5 (49:46):
I didn't know what happened. I just said that you
weren't feeling well a police? Oh police, there's been a
ghostly accident. A man has been killed windows.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Is that a double ass?

Speaker 5 (50:00):
D I ce your addresser if you want to charge?

Speaker 4 (50:04):
And God, was it an accident? I don't know what
do you mean? So you don't know? I think he
might have been killed by someone I don't know. We'll
have you have any idea who might have done it.

(50:24):
I'll explain that to you when you come. How long
will it take?

Speaker 6 (50:26):
About?

Speaker 4 (50:27):
Two minutes? Two minutes and don't touch anything. William said, no,
we won't touch anything. Goodbye, I'll get dressed. Why don't
want to see You're not going to see.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
You, But don't have to ask me a questions.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Tomorrow I'll tell them all they need to know.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Yes, why did you phone me?

Speaker 1 (50:49):
What?

Speaker 4 (50:50):
I'm sorry? I I'll tell you about that later. I
just thought of sounding you said he used a stocking.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I think it was a stocking or a scarf. Isn't
it there?

Speaker 4 (51:00):
No, but expect they'll find it.

Speaker 19 (51:02):
How you going to it.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
To judgment? Sergeant? Look, it's the other stocking?

Speaker 6 (54:22):
All right, break it up. Let's get moving on.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
Almost empty. Remind me to get some more. Always runs
out just.

Speaker 6 (54:53):
When we needed.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Oh look before I forget the sergeant wanted to know
why you didn't phone the police immediately?

Speaker 3 (54:58):
How coold are you? I tell you distinctly told me
not to speak to anyone until you got here.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
I know, darling, but I told him to start a
different story. Why, well, I said, you didn't.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
Phone the police because you naturally assumed that I would
do it from the hotel.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Why did you say that?

Speaker 5 (55:14):
Because it was the perfectly logical explanation, and he accepted it.
Now they get the idea that we delayed reporting it,
they might get nosy and start asking all sorts of questions.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Do you want me to say the same thing?

Speaker 4 (55:26):
I think so, dear, in case it comes up again. Oh,
that'll be Mark. Would you let him in?

Speaker 6 (55:36):
Good morning, madam?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Oh, good morning.

Speaker 6 (55:38):
Missus Wendy's Yes, I'm a police officer. May I come in?

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Of course? Excuse me? Just tell my husband you're here.

Speaker 15 (55:52):
Oh, thank you, Good morning, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 6 (56:19):
I'm Chief inspect Hubbard, in charge of criminal investigation of
this division. No, I think we gave you a sergeant
all the nessa's your information. Yes, I've seen his report,
of course, but there are a few things I'd like
to get first hand. I gather the sergeant only saw
you for a few moments.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
Missus windows, Yes, my wife was suffering from considerable shock.

Speaker 6 (56:38):
Yes, that was a very nasty experience with had Do
you mind.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
If I take a look around, so I'll go ahead.
The bedroom and bathroom through here, I saidainly didn't get
in the bathroom, the kitchen, his bars in the window.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
We assume he must have come in to these windows here.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
I understand that you weren't here when this happens.

Speaker 5 (57:19):
So no, I was that a dinner party at the
Grendon Hotel, And by curious coincidence, I was actually phoning
my wife when she was attack.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
And so I gather, can you tell me exactly what
time it was?

Speaker 5 (57:29):
No, I'm afraid I can't. I do remember my watch
had stopped. Did you notice missus window?

Speaker 15 (57:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Won't you sit down, inspector?

Speaker 6 (57:42):
I thank you.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Have you any idea who he was? M?

Speaker 6 (57:50):
Yeah, he is. At least we've discovered where he lived.
There still seems to be some confusion as to his
real name. Oh, he appeared to have several Had you
ever seen him before?

Speaker 4 (58:02):
We I?

Speaker 3 (58:02):
No, of course not.

Speaker 6 (58:06):
Oh is this him you don't recognize?

Speaker 4 (58:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (58:11):
I never saw him.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
But didn't you even catch a glimpse of his face?

Speaker 4 (58:15):
No?

Speaker 3 (58:15):
You see, he attacked me from behind and it was darker.
I hardly saw him at all.

Speaker 6 (58:21):
Yes, but before I showed you these photographs, you said,
you'd never seen him before. How could you know that
if you never saw his face last night?

Speaker 3 (58:29):
I don't quite understand.

Speaker 5 (58:30):
Inspect of my wife simply means that, as far as
she knew, she never saw him before.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
And was that what you meant?

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (58:37):
How about you, sir? Had you ever seen him before?

Speaker 4 (58:41):
No?

Speaker 5 (58:45):
No, at least yeah. It's very like someone I was
at college with. But the mustache makes quite a difference.

Speaker 6 (58:52):
What was his name?

Speaker 5 (58:54):
Oh, I don't know. Must be twenty years since south left?
Was it Lisgard? No Wilson? No Swan, Swan? Wait a minute, swan, Yes,
that's it is an old photo taking out of reunion.

(59:16):
Read the same college together?

Speaker 13 (59:17):
There he is there?

Speaker 4 (59:19):
Why it's unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (59:20):
Did you know him well? No, he was senior to me.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
No.

Speaker 6 (59:23):
Have you met him since then?

Speaker 5 (59:25):
No, at least time to think of it. I did
see him quite recently, but not to speak to Oh.
When's that about six months ago at a railway station Victoria.
I think I remember noticing how little he had changed.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
Now, how do you Mustarstanza? No, missus Winters, would you
show me exactly what happened last night?

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Totally?

Speaker 16 (59:46):
Do I have?

Speaker 4 (59:47):
I'm afraid So, darling, I was in.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Bed when the phone rang, and I've got up and
I came in here.

Speaker 6 (59:59):
But did you switch this? Just show me exactly where
you were standing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
I stood here and I picked up the phone just
one moment.

Speaker 6 (01:00:13):
Are you sure you had your back to the window
like that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
But why?

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Why not?

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
Why go round the desk? I should have picked it
up from this side?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
But I always answered the phone from here?

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
But why Well, in case I have to write anything down,
I can hold the phone in.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
My left hand.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
I see, yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Well I picked up the phone. He must have come
from behind those curtains and attacked me. He got something
round my neck or something.

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
What do you mean by something?

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
I think it was a stocking?

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
I see now what happened? Then?

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Well, then he pushed me across the disk. I distinctly
remember feeling for the scissors.

Speaker 6 (01:00:55):
So where were those scissors? Usually kept in.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
That mending basket? I'd forgotten to put them away?

Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
Now what makes you think he came from behind those curtains?

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Where else could he have been?

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
The curtains were drawn, I yes, but did you draw
them yourself?

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
And no, inspector, I drew them just before I went out.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Did you lock the window at the same time?

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
Are you quite sure of that?

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Oh, perfectly sure. I always lock up and I draw
the curtain. And how do you suppose he got into
this room or we assume that he broke in? There's
no sign of a break in. Our report shows the
lock's quite undamaged. Missus windows. Why didn't you call the
police immediately this happened.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
I was trying to get through to the police when
I discovered my husband was on the line. I naturally
thought that he would call the police from the hotel
before he came here.

Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
Didn't it occur to you to call a doctor?

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Why have I not?

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
He was dead?

Speaker 6 (01:01:51):
How did you know that I it was off? Did
you feel his pulse?

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
No, of course I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Anyone would have realized he was just want to look
at those steering eyes.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
So you did see his face? After all?

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
I saw his eyes.

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
I can't remember his.

Speaker 5 (01:02:07):
Face, Inspector. My wife obviously had never seen this man before.
And if he didn't come in by those windows, how
did he get in?

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
As a matter of fact, we're quite certain that he
came in by this door, but it was locked.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Igo.

Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
Did you open that door all after we'd gone.

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
No, how many keys are there to this door?

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Only two? Mine was in my handbag and you had
yours with you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
Yes, this right has the caretaker not a key.

Speaker 15 (01:02:35):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
Do you employ a charwoman?

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Yes, but she hasn't got one either. I'm always here
when she comes.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
What makes you think he came in this way? His shoes?
His shoes? The ground was soaking wet last night, and
if he'd come in by the garden, he'd have left mud.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
All over the carpet.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
As it is, he didn't leave any marks at all
because he wiped his shoes on the front door mat.
How can you tell? Fairly new mat and some of
its fibers came off on his shoes.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
Oh but surely.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
And there was a small ta stain on the mat
and some of the fibers show that as well.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
There's no question about it. Wait a minute, I think
I've got it. You remember when your bag was stolen? Yes,
wasn't the key inside?

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Yes? But it was still there when I got it back.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
Just a moment, and I'd like to hear about it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
What sort of bag a handbag?

Speaker 6 (01:03:28):
Inspector? My wife lost at the Victoria station.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
But I got it back from the lost and found
about two weeks later.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
I was anything missing?

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
All the money was gone?

Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
Anything else?

Speaker 15 (01:03:37):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:03:37):
I mean no papers or letters?

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
Are you quite sure about that? Yes? And your latch
key was in your handbag when you lost.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
It, yes, but it was still there when it was returned.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
But whoever stole the money could have copied the key.

Speaker 6 (01:03:52):
Where was the bag found eventually at Victoria Station? Wasn't
that where you said you saw this man?

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
Sir?

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
When did you lose wasn't it that weekend we went
to visit Peggy? Yes it was, I remember now he
was sitting in the restaurant.

Speaker 6 (01:04:06):
Was that where you left your handbag?

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:04:08):
It was?

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
And didn't I say something about or there's someone I
was at college with?

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
And that's how he got in.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
He had a duplicate made and then returned the original
to the handbag.

Speaker 6 (01:04:17):
And before you were any further with this, how did
he get in through the street door?

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
The street door is never locked. I see. He could
have had your key corpied and he could have used
it to open the door, But of course he didn't.
Why not because if he had, the key would still
have been on him when he died. But no key
was found when we went through his pockets.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
But we seem to be back just where we started.

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Don't we?

Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
Well? Not quite well?

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Then?

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
How did he get in?

Speaker 6 (01:04:53):
We'd better get all this done on paper. I'd like
you both to make an official statement before the inquest.
My office is only a few moments from here. Perhaps
you could come.

Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
Now, Tony, Mark, Oh, Mark, this is inspected, Hubbard inspected.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
This is Mark Halliday. He was with me last night.

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
I'd do inspecting now as the Helliday as you were
with mister Wendy's last night, you may be able to
help us here. Now did you notice what time it
was he went.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
To the phone. Yes, my I was just three minutes
after eleven? Or how did you come to notice that? Well,
mister Wenders's watch had stopped in some of his compared times?

Speaker 6 (01:05:29):
I thank you? So you see it was when missus
Wendy's came in here to answer his.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
Call that she was attacked. Did you phone markle before
or after you found your boss?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Tony? I know what I wanted to ask you. Why
did you telephone me last night?

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
Just one moment before I lose the thread of this
now at three minutes past eleven, and you left your
party to phone your boss.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Yes, I used the pavedphone in the lobby.

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
How long were you on the telephone to your boss
before you called your wife?

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
As a matter of fact, I never did speak to him.
I couldn't remember his number in the country, so I
rang my wife to ask her to look it up
in the adress book on the desk.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
You mean you hauled me out of bed just to
get his number.

Speaker 6 (01:06:04):
I had to, darling.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
You see my bosses trying to brustles this morning. I
wanted to remind him of something. It was rather important.
It wasn't there a telephone directory in the hotel? Yes,
missus country number wouldn't be in that directory.

Speaker 6 (01:06:15):
And did you have found him?

Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
No, naturally, And.

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
I heard what had happened to here, I forget all
about it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
Yes, oh, mister Halliday, mister and missus Wendys are coming
to my office now to make their statements. Would you
be good enough to give me your addresser, I may
want to get in touch with you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
I certainly, I'll just get my coat, I'm saying, the
Carfaxs Hotel.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
I'll just write it down there will you your telephone
number as well. Ever been over here before their? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Yes, about a year ago.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Yes, thank you, mister Wendy Is there's quite a crowd
in front of the house. I was going to suggest
that we left by the guard. Isn't there a gate
at the far end? Yes, as I'm afraid the gate
may be locked. Would you mind taking a look at?

Speaker 4 (01:07:06):
Certainly?

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
How much does he now about you and missus Wendy's.
I beg your pardon for you wrote a letter to
missus Wendy's from New York. It was found in the
dead man's inside pocket. I didn't mention it because I
wasn't sure how much mister Wendys knew. Have you any
idea I'd got there?

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
No, where's ten? He's just gone into the garden.

Speaker 6 (01:07:37):
And missus Wendy's when you lost your handbag? And did
you lose a letter as well?

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
No, Margot, it was found in the dead man's pardet.
You did lose it, didn't you? Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
I did.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
I asked you that before, didn't I?

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Yes? But you see my husband didn't know about it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:58):
Now, this man was black, it wasn't he Tell good
Margaret Toy, you'll have to know about it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
No, that's the only thing we can do, Inspector.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
After missus winn has lost my letter, she received these
two notes.

Speaker 6 (01:08:14):
I'st October. How many times have you seen this man?

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
I've never seen him.

Speaker 6 (01:08:20):
Mister hell and I'd like you to come along with us. Yes,
this is wind Is. When you come to make your statement,
there may be other police officers present. I shall warn
you first that anything you say will be taken down
and may be used in evidence. Now, never mind what
you've told me so far. We'll forget all about that.
But from now on, tell us exactly what you know

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about this man and exactly what happened last night. If
you try and conceal anything at all, it may put
you in a very serious position.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
I wish you'd explain what you mean by all this.

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
I will now you admit that you killed this man
where you say you did it in self defense. Unfortunate
there were no witnesses, so we've only your word for that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
But I heard all Inspector over the telephone.

Speaker 6 (01:09:07):
What exactly did you hear, mister Winness. Well, I heard
a series of faint cries, But did you hear anything
to indicate that a struggle was going on.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
What I did here, Inspector is perfectly consistent with what
my wife told me.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
So all you rarely know the matter is what your
wife told you, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
You suggest that this man came to burgle your flat,
but there's no evidence of that. There is evidence, however,
that he was blackmailing you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
Blackmail, yes, some friend, that's true, Tony.

Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
And you suggest that he came in by the window,
and we know that he came in by that door,
but he.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Can't have come in that way. That door was locked
and there are only two keys. My husband head is
with him in. Mine was in my handbag. Here.

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
You could have let him in. I you suggested she
let him in herself. Well, the president, that appears to
be the only way he could have entered you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Don't you even believe I was a tech? How do
you think I got these bruises on my throat?

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
You could have caused those bruises yourself. A silk stocking
was found outside the window. It had two knots tied
in it. Does that mean anything to her?

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
I suppose it must have been the stocking he used.

Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
We found the twin stocking hidden underneath this blotting pain.
Can you explain why or attacker should do that?

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:10:25):
Those stockings were yours, weren't they? No, we know they were.
One of the heels had been downed with some silk
that didn't quite match. We found a reel of that
silk in your mending basket.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Tell me there was a pair of stockings here.

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
I've heard of the police deliberty planning clues to ensure
a conviction.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
His men were here for hours last night. They would
easily have taken those stockings and done anything.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
Probably wiped his shoes in the door mat as well.

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
Oh hello, Roger, thank heaven, you're in Tony Wenders here
now listen. We had a burglary last night and Margot
was attacked. Margo, No, she's all right, But the man
was killed. The police are here now, and don't laugh.
They're suggesting that Margot killed him intentionally.

Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
I wouldn't say that about us.

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
Yeah, it is funny, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
Now, Roger, could you come around at once made a
veiled police station? Oh thanks, old boy, goodbye. It's all right, darling.
Roger's going to meet us at the police station.

Speaker 6 (01:11:29):
Oh, mister Wenders, I should advise you.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Our lawyer will give us any advice we need.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Thank you, Margo.

Speaker 6 (01:11:38):
Did that?

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (01:11:42):
You are coming over, of course, Inspector. Yeah, that's what
I judged.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
I mean, I just wondered.

Speaker 11 (01:12:06):
I charge you that on the twenty sixth of September
you did wilfully murder Charles Alexander Swan. Do you wish
to say anything in answer to this charge?

Speaker 6 (01:12:20):
And did you, at any time in your life meet
this man's wae.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
You received a letter from mister Halliday.

Speaker 6 (01:12:30):
This letter was found in the dead man's pocket. Now
you say you did not know. Do you find the prisoner,
Margot Mary Wendis guilty or not guilty? Guilty? The sentence

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of this court is that you be taken to the
place from whence you came from, thence to a place
of law, from execution.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
I'll hull aback. Annie.

Speaker 5 (01:13:59):
I have you gotten any news from the Home Secretary?
Then it's tomorrow, Tony. I I take it you do

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anything to save her life.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
We've done everything.

Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
No, Tony, we haven't done everything.

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
I've been trying to figure out something for weeks, just
in case it came to this. Now I really believe
it's her only chance let's have it. Margo was convicted
because nobody believed her story. The prosecution made out she
was telling one lie after another, and the jury believed him.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
But what did his case really about?

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
Just three things?

Speaker 5 (01:14:48):
My letter, her stocking, and the fact that because no
key was found on Swan, she must have led him
in herself.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
Don't try and tell me. Wait a minute, Tony, now
hear me out.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
This is where you come in to go to the
police and tell them some story, anything that will convince
them that Margot wasn't lying.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
After all, the police aren't lady to believe ending I
might tell.

Speaker 5 (01:15:07):
Them, Tony, I've been writing this stuff for years. I
figured out something for you to tell me. Now, let's
take those points one by one.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Margo says, she never lets Swan in through this door. Okay,
he must have opened it somehow.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
Suppose you tell the police that you left your key
out here somewhere, then Swan could have let himself in.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
How do you know it was there?

Speaker 6 (01:15:36):
You told him?

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
But I haven't met Swan in twenty years.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
Tony, Swan is dead and we've got to make the
most of that. You can tell any story you like
about him. Now, you can even say that. But you
two met somewhere and you planned this whole thing together.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
Planned what you suggesting. I arranged for Swan to come
here that night to blackmail her. No, to kill her,
kill Margot, that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:04):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
Because she said so?

Speaker 5 (01:16:08):
He came from behind the curtain and he tried to
strangle Okay, that's what he did.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
All you got to do is support everything she said,
don't you see, Tony, that's.

Speaker 6 (01:16:18):
My whole idea.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
But what about your letter? A man doesn't try and
kill the person who's blackmailing. It doesn't make sense. Yes,
I know that worried me for a while too, but
I've I've got that late. You tell them that you
stole her handbag yourself.

Speaker 6 (01:16:32):
Why should I do that?

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Because you wanted to read my letter, and when you
had read it, you got mad and decided to teach
her a lesson.

Speaker 6 (01:16:40):
So you wrote those blackmail notes. Nobody can prove you didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
And you can also say you never saw Swan at
Victoria's station. You just invented that to try to connect.

Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
Him with my letter.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Don't you see, Tony, how it all hangs together?

Speaker 6 (01:16:51):
But your letter?

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
Who is found in his pocket? Would you put it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
There when it's some time before the police arrived, and
you could have also planted the stockings at the same time.
But Mark, why shuld I want anyone.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
To kill Margot?

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
I know, Tony, it's tough for us to see because
we we both love her. But we need a reason now,
we need it badly. Let's take one of the old
stock motives. Had Margot made a will, yes, I believe
she had. Who is the beneficiary? Why I am?

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
I suppose there's your reason, Tony.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
But thousands of husbands and wives leave money to each
other without murdering each other. The police wouldn't believe a
word of it. They're taking it for exactly what it is,
a man trying desperately to save his wife. Well, I
certainly think it's worth that try. That's face that they
can't hang it for a murder that never came off.
Most you got to be a few years in prison,
Thanks very much. It's a small price to pay, Tony.

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You'd be saving her life. That's fine coming from you, Mark.
Her life wouldn't be in danger with or, but it
hadn't been you. It's because of her association with you
that she lost the sympathy of the journey. Don't get
me wrong, Mark. If there was the slightest chance of
this coming off, of course i'd do it. It's got
to be convincing. For instance, how could I possibly have

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persuaded Swan.

Speaker 12 (01:18:17):
To do a thing like this?

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
But if you offer him money or something? What money?

Speaker 5 (01:18:21):
I don't have any Yes, you would have had Margo's.
It'll be months before I get my hands on that.
And people don't commit murder on credit. Oh I'm I'm
afraid You'll have to think of something better than that.
I know you're trying to help, But can you imagine
anyone believing a story like that?

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
Yes? I can, if you may n't believe it, but
I wouldn't know what to say. You'd have to come
with me. Oh, Tony, that would really be a mistake.
They know't the kind of stuff by right, We wouldn't
stand a chance. Then, Oh, hello, inspect that is it

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about my wife?

Speaker 6 (01:19:11):
No, sir, I'm afraid not.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
Then what is it?

Speaker 6 (01:19:14):
Well, I'm making inquiries in connection with a robbery that
took place about three weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
Ago, So well, can't it wait a few days?

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
Of course, I'm very conscious of your position. If I
may I'd like to say, how deeply sorry I inspected?

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
Yes, all right, now, how can I help you?

Speaker 6 (01:19:30):
All? The cashier of a factory in Ledbury Street was
attacked in his office and two men made off with
several hundred pounds, mostly in pound notes.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
What is all this to do with me?

Speaker 6 (01:19:40):
In cases like this, all police divisions are asked to
keep a lookout for anyone spending large sums of money.
I see, I was wondering. I was wondering if you
had sold anything recently for cash?

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
Why?

Speaker 6 (01:19:54):
Well, my sergeant happened to be making inquiries at Wales
his garage the other day, and it appears that you
settled an account there recently for just over sixty part. Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
Well, you see, I happen to have quite a bit
on me at the time, so I settled for cash.
I see?

Speaker 6 (01:20:10):
Had you just drawn this money from your bank?

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
Have you been to my bank inspector.

Speaker 6 (01:20:16):
As a matter of factor, I have there, but they
wouldn't help me. Oh, bank statements are always jealously guarded.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
Yes, well, I'm rather surprised you didn't come to me first.

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
It was only a routine matter. After I didn't want
to disturb you. Where did you get it, sir? Is
that any of your business if it was stolen money? Yes, sir,
it is my business. But do you mind if I smoke?

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
Go ahead?

Speaker 6 (01:20:40):
Do you really think I've been receiving stolen money? Well,
until you tell me where you got it, I shan't
know what to think, shall I? You see if you
got this money from someone you didn't know, I mean,
that might be the very person we're looking for. Hello,
this is yours, But is it somebody's letter was lying
on the floor just here?

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
Now mine's hair.

Speaker 6 (01:21:13):
No, no, it's not yours. It may be mine. Man, Yes,
it is mine, as he must have dropped out of
the pocket. There's a small hole there. That's the trouble
with these letch keys. They're all in light. Oh I'm sorry,
so you were saying, I don't think I was. Oh, yes,
there's about that money, as I'd be grateful if you

(01:21:35):
tell me where you got it. After all, one hundred
pounds is quite a love to carry.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
Around, you said sixty a moments ago, did I?

Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:21:43):
My sergeant decided to dig a little deeper before he
put in his report. He said that you also paid
a bill at your tailor's and another for wines and spirit.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
Well, I'm sorry I went to all that trouble. Had
it come straight to me, I could explained it at once.
I simply one rather a large summit dug racing whatever.
Hundred pound, yes, over one hundred pounds.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
It has been done before.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
You know as well. Why didn't you tell me this straightaway? Well?

Speaker 5 (01:22:07):
I was rather ashamed of being caught going to dog
racing and my wife was under sentence of death.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
Yas I know, he tis it helps to take your
mind off things. Well, that answers everything, doesn't it. I'm
sorry too've had to bother you with this time.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
Not at all inspected, not at all.

Speaker 6 (01:22:27):
Oh, there's just one other things. Have you a small
blue attached a case?

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
Don't say you found it already? Have you lost it?

Speaker 6 (01:22:36):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
I was going to report it this afternoon. I think
I left it in a taxi.

Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
I see. Oh, we was trying to get it back,
mustn't we. Now? Where did you pick the taxi? Absent
Hyde Park corner about half an hour ago? Anything valuable?

Speaker 4 (01:22:50):
No, A few books and any money.

Speaker 6 (01:22:52):
Two or three pounds a level of I believe, not
two or three hundred. I haven't heard that just as well.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
Tell me, inspector, how did you find out about the
attached case?

Speaker 6 (01:23:01):
Well, the wineshop mentioned that you had it when you
paid your bill, so my sergeant checked back on your
garage and your tailor. They both remembered you have it
with you when you paid them.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
Is well, I use it instead of a briefcase.

Speaker 6 (01:23:11):
You see. Wow, these taxi men are pretty good at
turning things in. I hope you will find it all right, So.

Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Inspector, before you go, I think mister Wenders has something
to tell you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
Oh has he?

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
Then?

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
I like to show you something in here, sir, No
wonder you couldn't bear to sleep in her bedroom.

Speaker 6 (01:23:44):
There must be over five hundred pounds. Where did you
get it?

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
Well, I can tell you why he got it. This
money was to have been paid to a man named
Swan after he murdered missus Wenders. But as you know,
there was an accident, so it wasn't necessary to face
one after all. Obviously he couldn't produce all this without
questions being asked, so he lived on it. He's been
living on it since the twenty seventh of March.

Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
Well, mister Wenners, before.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
You came inspector.

Speaker 5 (01:24:13):
He was trying to persuade me to go to the police.
The most fantastic story you've ever heard. Apparently I bribed
Swan to murder my wife so that the correct me
if I go wrong, Mark, so that I could inherit
all her money. And that isn't all you remember mister
Halliday's letter, Well, apparently Swan.

Speaker 4 (01:24:33):
Didn't steal it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
I did, and I wrote those two blackmail notes. And
I kept mister Halliday's letter and planted it on the
buddy and the stocking. Oh yes, yes, the stocking. Perhaps
i'd better tell this markt about some more like a confession.
I substituted.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Is that the right word?

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
Yes, I substituted my wife's other stocking for the one
that you do. Follow me, don't you?

Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
What else?

Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
Mark?

Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
He told Swan he'd hide his key somewhere out here,
probably up on this ledge. Swan let himself in. He
hid behind the curtains. Then Wendy's telephone from the hotel
that brought her in.

Speaker 6 (01:25:10):
Just one moment. If Swan had used mister Wendys's key,
it would still have been on him when he died. Besides,
how did mister Wendis get in when he returned from
the hotel.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
Which she could have let him in, and he could
have taken his key from Swan's pocket before the police
got here.

Speaker 6 (01:25:23):
Could he let himself in with his own key that
came out in the trial, don't you remember?

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
Come on, Mark, you'll move.

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Swan could have taken the key down from here, unlocked
the door, and then replaced the key on the ledge.

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
Before he came in.

Speaker 6 (01:25:43):
All right, mister Halliday, this is all very interesting that
he isn't getting me any near of what I came
to find out.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
But this is a question of life and death. What
else matters.

Speaker 6 (01:25:51):
What matters to me is where mister Wendis got this money.
That's all I want to know. Just a moment pleases
then respector whit is it?

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
Look at this.

Speaker 5 (01:26:13):
The last check you wrote was on the twenty sixth
of March. That's the day before this all happened. I
tell you he's been living off it ever since.

Speaker 6 (01:26:19):
Missus Banks. I'm sorry. He hasn't drawn any large sums
from his bank, nothing over fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
Three pounds, but look inspector, practically every week thirty five
pounds forty forty five pounds fifty.

Speaker 10 (01:26:39):
He could have saved it up.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
Of course, I could have been planning all this for years.

Speaker 6 (01:26:43):
Then where did you get it?

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
Do you really want to know? I warn you you
won't like it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:48):
Mark, Come on, all right, you asked for it when
she called me back from the party that night, I
have found her kneeling beside Swan's body, going through his pockets.
She kept saying he had something with hers, but she
couldn't find it. She was almost hysterical. That's why I
wouldn't let the police question her in the stage she
was in. Should have told every lion of the sun.

(01:27:09):
The next morning, she showed me the money, just as
it is now on one pound notes, and she said, if.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
Anything happens to me, don't let them find this.

Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
Well, after she was arrested, I took the money in
that case to chain Cross station and left it in
the checkroom. Whenever I needed money, I took it out
and left it in some other checkroom. I knew if
you found it, she wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Stand a chance.

Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
You see, she was just about to give it to.

Speaker 6 (01:27:35):
Him when she killed him instead. You don't expect anyone
to believe this to you? I really no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
What about an inspector?

Speaker 6 (01:27:46):
Well, I must say I suspected something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:50):
You mean you're not even going to check up on this.
She's being hanged tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:27:53):
Look all this has been out of my hands for months,
has been a trial and an appeal or.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
Of course, it wouldn't mean much to you, would it
mt you arrested the wrong person. I think you'd better go,
You better, I'll go, But you've made one mistake. What'll
happen when Margot hears about this, which you'll denied, of course,
and perhaps you'll change her will You'll have done it

(01:28:17):
all for nothing, Tony.

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
If i'd told that story, is there anyone who believed me?

Speaker 6 (01:28:28):
No, not a chance. Before nearly every execution, someone comes
forward like this. This must have been very distressing for you,
coming as it did.

Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
You suppose to let him see her.

Speaker 6 (01:28:39):
I don't want her reupception just now, but have a
word with your lawyer. He might be able to prevent it.
And I should get all that money into the bank
before somebody pinches it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
Thank you, I think I will.

Speaker 6 (01:28:50):
I hope mister Halladay's not waiting outside to see me.
Would you mind just taking a look set to make
sure he's gone.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
Altaire.

Speaker 6 (01:29:09):
Oh, by the way, said, I was asked to tell
you there are a few things belonging to missus Windy's
at the police station. And what sort of things? Just
some books and a handbag. I believe they'd like you
to come and collect them. Sometimes you mean after tomorrow,
years or today if you like you just asked the
desk sergeant. He knows all about it. Yes, well, goodbye
is to witness. I don't suppose we shall meet again. Goodbye,

(01:29:30):
inspect and thank you very much, my chief inspector. Here

(01:31:22):
give me sergeant o bron quick Hubard. Look O'Brien, I've
got back in again. Start the ball rolling.

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
Inspector Howard, it's me Mark Holiday.

Speaker 6 (01:31:49):
Now what are you up to?

Speaker 4 (01:31:50):
What's the idea? What are you doing? He never mind
about that. I was wondering why you didn't you want
how to get.

Speaker 6 (01:31:54):
Out of here? Quick?

Speaker 4 (01:31:55):
Listen, instant right up?

Speaker 6 (01:31:56):
If you want to save missus Windy is keep quieting,
let me handle all you pop something honest? But what

(01:33:29):
is all this they talk about? Flat footed policemen? May
the Saints protect us from the gifted amateur? Better prepare
yourself for a.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Surprise, mister l.

Speaker 15 (01:33:58):
Margot.

Speaker 4 (01:34:02):
Hello, man whose tell me he's gone on?

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
When will he be back?

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
We're sure.

Speaker 6 (01:34:13):
Was that you who rang just now?

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Yes? Why didn't you let me in?

Speaker 6 (01:34:19):
You've got a key? Why didn't you use it?

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
I did, but it didn't fit the lock?

Speaker 6 (01:34:23):
No, and you know why don't you?

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
I don't as the lock being changed.

Speaker 6 (01:34:29):
We'll have your Bagman, whose key is this?

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
I thought it was mine. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
What's going on here.

Speaker 6 (01:34:56):
Your husband's explained this. You you can tell us all
about it. Now, what is it?

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
No, I don't believe you do. Person, sir, take this
handbag back to the police station and get that car
out of the way. Yes, wait a minute, you clock.
You can't walk down the street like that. You'll be arrested.
I put it in this.

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Margot? How did you get you?

Speaker 6 (01:35:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
About an hour ago, the warden came to see me,
just said I was to be taken home, and then
two detectives brought me here.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
I said I could go, but I couldn't get that
door in. Where's Tony?

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
He was supposed to visit me this morning? And they
said he couldn't come. Does anything happened to me?

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
Nothing, Inspector, I don't want to interfere. Do you think
you could tell us what you're up to?

Speaker 6 (01:36:02):
This is win? This what I've got to tell you
may come as a shock. Yes, we strongly suspect that
your husband had planned to murder you.

Speaker 4 (01:36:13):
Tony arranged for Swan to come here that night and
kill you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
How long have you known this?

Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
Did you suspect it yourself?

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
Never?

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
And yet what's the matter with me?

Speaker 6 (01:36:30):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
I don't seem able to feel anything. Shouldn't I break
down or something?

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
It's delayed action, that's all. In a couple of days,
You're going to have the most wonderful breakdown. When did
you find out? Well, the first clue came quite by accident.
We discovered that your husband had been spending a large
number of pound notes all over the place. So it
ran into over three hundred pounds, and it appeared to
have started at about the time you were arrested.

Speaker 6 (01:37:02):
Now I had to find out where he got that
money and how, And then I remembered that after you
were arrested, we searched this flat and I saw a
copy of his bank's statement in that desk. So yesterday
afternoon I went to the prison l asked to see
your handbag. While I was doing this, I managed to
lift your latch key. Highly irregular, of course, but my

(01:37:24):
blood was up. And then this morning, when your husband
was out, I came back here to look at his statement.
I never saw it because I never got through that door.
You see, the key that i'd taken from your handbag
didn't fit the lock. Williams, please, that was a near one.

(01:38:42):
Find him own, police, Brian speaking, Look at Ron. He's
found out about his raincoat. He just came back and
couldn't get it. I think he's on his way to
the station now. Has person arrived with the handbag yet?

Speaker 4 (01:38:53):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:38:54):
Good?

Speaker 6 (01:38:54):
Now listen, give when does those books and the handbag?
And make sure he sees the key. I'd better make
him check the contents and sign for them. If he
wants his own key and raincoat. Tell him I've gone
to Glasgow. Any questions, I'd call me back when he
leaves the station. Well, mister Halliday, have you got it?

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
I don't think so. Where's missus Wendy's key?

Speaker 6 (01:39:28):
It took me just half an hour to find it.
But if he was there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
Why didn't Wendess use it just now?

Speaker 6 (01:39:38):
But he didn't use it because he doesn't realize it's there.
He still thinks it's in his wife's handbag. You see,
you were very nearly right. He told Swan that he
would leave your latch key under the stair carp at
Missus Wendy's and told him to return it to the
same place when he left. But as Swan was killed,
we naturally assumed that your key would still be one
of Swan's pockets. That was his little mistake, because Swan

(01:40:01):
had done exactly as you suggested, mister Halliday. He unlocked
the door, then returned the key before he came.

Speaker 4 (01:40:10):
In, and it's been out there ever since.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
And the key, when it took out of Swan's pocket
and returned to her hand bag.

Speaker 6 (01:40:17):
Was Swan's own leach key. Mind you, even I didn't
guess that at once. Extrawd You know, it had always
puzzled me that no key was found on Swan's body
after almost men carry a letch key about with them.
And then I had a praying wave. I took the
key that was in your hand bag to his girl

(01:40:39):
friend's Missus Van Dorns and unlocked the door of her flat,
and then I borrowed her telephone and called Scotland Yard.

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Why did you bring me here?

Speaker 6 (01:40:49):
Because you were the only other person who could possibly
have left that key outside. I I had to find
out if you knew it was there.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
Suppose I had known.

Speaker 6 (01:41:02):
You didn't?

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
Yes, he can.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
Speak to Hubbin Obron. Yes, he just left the station. Right,
Try and hang on just a little longer, Williams.

Speaker 4 (01:41:34):
He's just left the station. Give me a thump if
he comes this way.

Speaker 2 (01:41:39):
What happens now?

Speaker 6 (01:41:41):
Sooner or later he'll come back here as I've pinched
his sledge key, he'll try the one in the handbag.
When that doesn't fit, he will realize his mistake. Put
two and two together and look under the stair carpet.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
But if he doesn't do that, all this is pure guesswork.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
We can't prove a thing that's perfectly true. But once
he opens that door, we shall know everything.

Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
What do you do?

Speaker 6 (01:42:01):
Then? I'm to phone the Home Secretary of personally. He's
standing by.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
For a call now at missus Winners.

Speaker 6 (01:42:07):
We'll have nothing else to fear, all right, Mark? Is
that all right? Quiet? Now?

Speaker 10 (01:42:16):
You do?

Speaker 4 (01:42:53):
What's he doing?

Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
He's wondering why that key doesn't fit. He's going around
to the back entrance. He stopped again. He's lookoking at
the handbag. Now he's trying to remember when he put
the key back in there. Now he's given up. I'm
fraid we've had it this time. He's he's going way
down the street. Hold it.

Speaker 9 (01:43:15):
He stopped again. He's turning around, he's staring at the key.
Of course, that's one skin.

Speaker 6 (01:43:27):
Now he's got it. He's coming back fast. He's remembered.

Speaker 5 (01:44:28):
As you said, Mark, it might work out on paper,
but congratulations, inspector.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
Oh by the way, well how about you, Margot?

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
Because I could do something Mark, so could I?

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
I suppose justin I do the inspector

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
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