September 10, 2025 • 43 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Black Widow
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
DS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in and welcome, I MEE. G.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Marshall, your host for another adventure so strange and so chilling,
and we dare say you'll get little sleep this night.
At the moment, we're in a shabby little storefront studio
near the waterfront of a large city. On the dusty window,
in hand painted letters are the words Carol Reader and Advisor.
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Reader and Advisor, A comfort to thousands who believe in
their powers, and a fraud to the thousands who laughed
them off as ridiculed. Martha Hawthorne, however, is one of
the thousands who believe, and at the moment she is
seeking help for a desperate situation.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, Carol, it is in this bottle. Do not, under
any circumstances open it until the time comes, until you
are ready to use it. I understand the effects are
not always instantaneous. It takes a while, and it is
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sometimes unpredictable. I'll take those chances. The idea appeals to
me so enormously, It's so perfect. The careful Missus Hawthorne,
I must warn you when the bottle is opened, the
very very careful.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Our mystery drama Black Widow was written especially for the
radio mystery theater by Bob Duran and stars Robert Dryden
and E. V.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Justter.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is sponsored in part by Anhuser Busch Incorporated, brewers
of Budweiser. I'll be back.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Shortly with Act one.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Standing up for what you believe is right is both
honorable and necessary, and it also can be dangerous, particularly
if your adversary has very little scruples and a lot
to lose should you have your way. Such is the
case with John Hawthorne, a top notch mechanic whose father
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before him took pride in his work, his friends, and
his trade union, and John intends to bring back those
better days and stand for what his father stood for. Hello, Hello, John,
what do you want? Max?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I don't like the noises you've been making with the
rank and file.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know where I stand.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I'm beginning so.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yes, it's come to my attention that you're even thinking
of running for union president.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Not thinking anymore? Max, am running? That's my job. I
waste your time.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know you can't win.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I know the damn here. The whole membership is fed
up with you, and that's so called business manager of yours.
You see Max, But I've got that you haven't. Is
the membership on my side.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
The membership all that sol job. They don't have any
say in.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The union's affairs. You're right there, Max, that's been the
whole trouble. I intend to give this union back to
the members.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We'll see. Let's talk about it in person after the meeting.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Thanks Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's not talking to you Max. We've been trying to
talk for two years, but you run things your way.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And we're fed up with it.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
All right, John, don't get excited. You'll run for president.
See what it gets you. Ah.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I wondered when Max would start getting worried.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's not worried. Mother, I am.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That makes two of us.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I'm proud of your guts, John, but we both know
who Max has behind him, and they play rough.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I'm not afraid of threats.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm just worried that maybe I can't carry it off.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I still wish you'd reconsider. You have to do what
you think is right. I don't want to be a
hero's widow.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, no, no, they wouldn't try anything like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I expect little rough stuff maybe, but I've got my
eyes open and I've got my protection too.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh John, is it worth it? What's it going to
do to Lilian and me?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Nobody's going to get hurt except Max Conger. He's never
had a serious challenge to his authority. We're a small
independent mechanics union that used to be great until Max
Conger and his friends got their claws into us.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I know you've been upset about it for months, but
let someone else carry the standard.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I have to, Martha. My father was shop steward for years,
and now me. The guys just look to me to
do it. Well.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I can't say I'm not proud of you. I guess
I wouldn't want you any other way?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
And how high?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Lilian?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Hello? Baby?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You home for supper if it's quick? And you're sicking
me up?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
At seven? We are you two heading tonight reller skating?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Believe it or not, we're meeting Eune and Fred there.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Aren't they old for roller skating?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Hello missus Hawthorn. Hank Thomas here?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh yes, Hank? You want John.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Bibby he's not busy.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I'll take it, brother, Yeah, Hank, John, I've got to
call a shop stewarts meeting tonight.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I know it's last minute. Can you make it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know I can.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Well, we're running.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Into a problem at the Campbell shop over in Florence.
We've got things to work out.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
What's the Campbell shop got to do with us?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Well, we're all union brothers.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, and it suits your purpose.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Okay, John, I know about your talk with Max a
little while ago.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
When you win the election, you can do things your way.
Until then, we'll do it mine. Okay, see it eight?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Yeah, okay, Hello.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Hello missus Hawthorn. Hank Thomas again. I hope John has
left you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Oh he did about ten minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Oh too bad.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I had to postpone that meeting tonight, and I hoped
I could catch him.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
He's on his way to the union hall now.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Well, I'll see him and send him home. I'm sorry
about the inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't think donaldman, I'll buy myselthorn.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Goodbye. Good evening, missus Hawthorne. Good evening, Carol. I'm sorry
to bother you for reading this late, but I'm terribly worried.
I am always at your service, missus Hawthorne, always for
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regular customers who need help from the cards.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
My husband went to a union meeting tonight, and that's
part of my problem.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sit down, Did I see you? What the cards tell us?
These cards are the threat? This is your husband. A
red king that is favorable. A red king will triumph
over the situation. Oh thank you? If if?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
What if?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The next card is a red jack or a black
queen of it? The Ace of Spade, I'm sorry, Ace
of Spade is dead. That is what is in the card.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
There's I've got to get all.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Missus harforn one moment I haven't died. There is a way,
There is a way you can protect your husband from
all harm. Caro, what are you saying?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
There is?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But I hate the word a spell. It's costly, but
it works with it, he cannot be harmed. Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Very?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
But for Heaven's sake, do it? Give it to me
or whatever. It will take two days, but it will work.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Do it well.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I will need a bit of his hair and a
bit of his skin, and his skin wh just a
tiny shaving, not even enough to draw blood in the
snip of hair. But how can I get them without
his knowing? That does not matter. Explain it to him.
He will agree, He'll think I'm crazy. Find a way to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Get them and get them.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Fast if you value your husband's life. John, it's me
mother and my dad go to a shop Steward's meeting, but.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
After he left, Hank Thomas call to say it was canceled.
I thought your father would be home long before this.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Oh, they probably went for a drink they usually do,
but the meeting was called off. I'm so nother. What
is it you're shaking?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Your father's in danger?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh? Mother?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Have you been seeing that Carroll person again? I had to.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I had to know what would happen with this union business.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh, dad can handle himself and you know it. What
did your advisor say? You mustn't tell anyone, Lilian, She's
going to give me a spell to protect your father.
The spell. I don't like seeing you this way, believing
something like this would work. It's voodoo or worse, it's
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not going to protect that. It's making a wreck out
of you.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
This union business is making a wreck out of me.
If I can find a way to stop it.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I will.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, this isn't the way to stop it. With which
is spelled?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
And Hugh John forgot his kid, I'm not a worry
him about this.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, how is it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Miss Hart, I yes, the time Carrie fourteenth precinct.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
What's happened?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
John? What is mother?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Policeman? Mister Hawthorne met with an accident.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'm to what happened?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Hitting round? Apparently no witnesses.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
How bad I'm a daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm sorry. Will you come with me please? Of course,
I'll be outside.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
We have to know the police at waters. I yes,
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that's my husband. There were no witnesses, you say, not as.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Far as we know, but someone might come forward. There's
always a chance someone saw it happen.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It was no accident, Lieutenant, if.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You know something, Miss Hawthorn, my father.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Was challenging the union authority and suddenly he's dead on
the street. No witness, nothing to tie them in with it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Are you making an accusation, missus Hawthorne.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yes, I'm accusing Max Conger and Hank Thomas of murder.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, that may be impossible to prove.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Let's go home, mother, home, what's left of home.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'll have a car take you back.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We'll talk with you both, Miss Hawthorne when your mother's
recovered a little. There's absolutely nothing to link those two
men with this case. Miss Hawthorne, I realize that, well,
there's always a chance, as I said, is someone.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Coming forward, But it would take that. I'm afraid to
pull mother out of her shock.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Could I see her perhaps a different face?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Of course, don't be surprised if she just stares at you,
But then she might respond follow me.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Sure you've had a doctor tender I'm sure?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh, yes, almost every day. Apparently this happens frequently. He says.
Medication might even make it worse. So he's just waiting
for nature.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
In your mother's case, there's the bitterness that makes it
all tougher.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Mother. Mother, she's gone, But I thought you said she
hasn't left this room for a week. I talked to
her here just an hour before you arrived.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We were right downstairs. How did she get by without
our senior the backstairs?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's possible, but it's not probable. Where would she go?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I have to ask this. Did your father have a gun?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Not?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Did I know of I've got to use your phone
and fast. Her tortured mind is prey to a thousand
tormenting thoughts, and a grief stricken widow, embittered by what
she believes was the murder of her husband, is prey
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to a host of sinister motivations. We'll learn what's motivating
Martha Hawthorne and to what action when I returned shortly
with that too. Martha Hawthorne has at last been motivated.
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For a week after her husband was killed in a
hit and r on accident, she sat motionless in her room,
harboring the bitterness of suspicion, convinced he was murdered by
the men he challenged, but for Mirtha Hawthorne, there was
no way to prove it. Now, dressed entirely in black
with a widow's veil, she seeks the help she so
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desperately wants.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Sit down, Missus Hawthorne. Well, I was sorry to hear
of your husband. We were too late. It seems they
didn't give me a chance to protect him. Are you
so certain these men were responsible? I'm certain?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Then?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Would not the police be the ones? The police can't
do anything. There's no proof, no witnesses. That's why I'm here.
I want revenge if it is in the cards. Perhaps
the cards, you know what I want? Yes, one that
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will be as foolproof as there are. You shall certain,
Missus Hawthorne. Please listen. I had been your advisor for
almost three years. You are a gentlewoman. What you are
doing now is out of brief and bitterness. Wait wait
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a month, and I will not wait very well. There
is a very effective method, and you would be above
suspicion exactly what I want. There is some risk to you,
that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I shall have it ready. It is in this black bottle.
Do not, under any circumstances open it until the time comes,
until you are ready to use it. I understand the
effects are not instantaneous. It takes a while, and it
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is sometimes unpredictable. I'll take those chances. The idea appeals
to me so enormously, it is so persed. Be careful,
missus Hawthorne. I must warn you when the bottle is opened,
be very very careful.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Come.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I hope I'm not interrupting anything.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Max.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I imagine you're surprised to see me.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You're always welcome here. Martha. You know how I felt
about John's death.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Your flowers were very thoughtful.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It runs a cowardly thing. If we can find out
who killed John and just left him.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
But he's conveniently out of your way. Now, wouldn't you say,
whoever did it?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Did you a favor? Why, Arthur, what a thing to say?
John was a fine man, but still.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
A threat to you and your position.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
We had our differences, yes, but to say that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You don't fool me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Max.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Oh, I don't say you were driving the car. But
John's death was no accident, and you know it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You arranged it. You are taking chances with that attractive
mouth of yours.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
With What you mean is I'll be next.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
This is ridiculous with I wouldn't threaten you, nor are you.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
But if a certain piece of evidence I have proved
to be right, I'll drop the proof of John's murder.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Right in your lap.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What evidence?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's my secret. It's in my garage. You'd know it
if you saw it, and it points right to you
and Hank Thomas.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That doesn't concern me.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I came here Max because I I want you to
know I'm not making wild accusations. When I can prove it,
and I know I can, I'll do what's.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Fair and right.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You think you can tie me here, Hank into this,
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You're gonna be very sorry, though.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh no, I'm not, Max.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You are thank Harthorne's wife was just here and she
knows something. I thought you told me you made it clean.
Oh something went wrong?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Get in here. You gotta talk, mother.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Why can't we have the lights on? And why have
you been pacing by that window for an hour? You'll
know when it happens, Lilian, and I'm pretty sure it will.
Why don't you tell me?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Wait there?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes, there they are. Who Max Conger and Hank Thomas?
What they're heading for the garage? I knew it, mother.
I insist on knowing what's going on. That's it, Max, Huh,
Come into my pallor little flies. I'm ready for you now.
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I knew you'd prove your gift. Mother. Should I call
the police?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Stay right here by the window, Keep watching the garage,
watch everything they do. I'll be back in a few
moments before you're going never mind, Just stay here and
don't leave the window.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Whatever you do, it is in this black bottle. Who
do not, under any circumstances open it until the.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Time comes, until you are ready to use it. The
effects are not instantaneous. Take for a while, and sometimes
it does.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
A pretty good but but be careful.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
If fun I not wat you like.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
The bottle is open.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Keep the white lobe. What are we looking for? I
don't know, but she said I'd recognize it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
She shield her daughter's life. Let's see. Yes, here's nobody home.
I've been phoning for an hour. No lights in my house. Well,
this is crazy, Max. How could she have any evidence?
She's working on your nerves? How could she trace it
to us?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't know, and that's what worries me. Last. You're
light around, but keep it lowly. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, looks like a black widow, ain't jess Now if
you don't touch them, see he just sits there. It
gives me the truths. Let's get out of it. I
find what I came for. Yeah, the spider's gone. Look
at everything it stands out. I don't know next, but
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if you're not leaving, I am gold, then and leave
me the light there? Wait, flup black with a spider
get it's like frontly with the I won't attack, at
least I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
If you'll touch one by accident, that's when they fight back.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Look at it, these little steps toward us.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's disappeared again.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
They don't like the light.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think they had for dark corners.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I got shows just looking at that thing.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm getting bay to here. Max. Okay, there's nothing here.
Martha is bluffing.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So Missus Hawthorne, it was effective. Very I need another one.
Are you sure you want to continue this, Missus harf one?
Absolutely certain, very well. I shall have another for you tomorrow.
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I hope you don't mind my calling on you at home.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Max.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All right, Martha, come into this study.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I've decided not to pursue this any longer.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Max.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'm I'm not sure I can make my evidence stick.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Set out there, let's be friends. John and I were.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
John hated your guts and you know it. I know
for certain that you and Hank you're John. But I'm
giving up. You won't be seeing me again.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Max.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Well, if you want it that way, Martha. But my
door is always open to you.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Your courtesy doesn't impress me.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Max.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
May I drive you home?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
No thanks, it's a lovely night.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well then, good night, Martha, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Max.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Be careful for his harthorn.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I must warn you when the bottle is open.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Careful, I'll be careful.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Here's to your health, Max.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Local forty eight. Oh Max, what's up?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I just had a visitor Arthur Hawthorn. Oh, she's giving up.
She knows she can't prove anything. She's finally admitting it.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
And still that knows an intective to deal with.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He hasn't got a Oh Max, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Good Lord Max?
Speaker 5 (24:48):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
A black spider just landed on my desk?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Spider?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's it's a white widow in it for the phone going.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Up the lamp, Max, I got it, kill it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I can't Oooh, I can't fool it's so hideous. Oo Max,
doop slight.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Chopping, drop my back up, get off, get off action.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I beat Nash.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh, get an albuos.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Right, mister Thomas, Yeah, I'm a lieutenant carry fourteenth Precincts.
I called on you after John Hawthorne's death. Is I
like some information?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So? Would I want to know how maxes?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I know if they tell me mister Congred died ten
minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Max dead. I was too late.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You brought him to the hospital. Yeah, I didn't wait
for an ambulance. He was in pain. He was a miracle.
This happened at home.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yes, what do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
A black widow spider death is relatively rare? Did he
say anything on the way to the hospital. No, where
was he when it happened in his den? He called
me from there and I found him on the floor. Huh.
It's unusual. Black widows rarely come out like that. They
generally stay in their dark corners. This one didn't. It
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was awful hearing Max scream like that. I'll never forget it.
Wait a minute, little Tenner, what is it? She couldn't
have known who Martha Hawthorne. She visited Max last night
they hit and run victim's widow. Yes, do you think
there's a connection. It's crazy wild. Missus Hawthorne accused Max
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of me of her husband's death. Yeah. No, last night
she went to Max and told them she was well,
withdrawing the accusation. So she was there, and then Max,
are you suggesting missus Hawthorne brought a black widow spider
into his home?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
It's impossible, but she was there.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I'll have a talk with missus Hawthorne since you say
she was evidently the last person to see Max Kannger alive.
Back again, missus.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Hawthorne had I read of the man's death in the paper.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Do you think they're murderer? Karen? No?
Speaker 7 (27:38):
No, I'm an executioner. That man killed my husband and
I'm not quite finished, Carol. I need one more, just
one more.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Martha Hawthorne is a determined woman, and she's chosen a
unique method for disposing of her husband's killers, untraceable.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Who can blame a murder on a spider?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But through it all, there's one risk to herself that
Martha Hawthorne fails to see. We'll see what it is
when I returned shortly with Act three. Will you walk
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into my parlor? Said the spider to the fly. Tis
the prettiest little parlor that you ever did? Spy? Oh no, no,
said the little fly to ask me, is in vain?
For who goes up your winding stair? Can ne'er come
down again? Martha Hawthorne still bent on avenging her husband's
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death as one more vic to move, bitterness to dispose of.
But the victim is beginning to fear for his life
and has suggested to police Lieutenant Carrie that there may
be some connection between Martha Hawthorne's visit to Max Conger
and Max's subsequent death.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
How can I help you, Lieutenant Carrie.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's about the death of Max.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Conger that was dreadful.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I make no pretense of liking Max, but I was
shocked when I read of.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
His old for death a spider. Miss Congress associated mister
Thomas says you visited him that night. I did.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's true. I told Max I was through accusing him.
You know the story.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
We're still investigating that case, Miss Hawthorne.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I'm trying to forget it. Why don't you?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
No, we don't forget hit and run. But back to
the reason for my visit. Yes, Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
How to say this, but.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You've visited Max Conger and a short time later he
was bitten by a deadly spider.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Do I No?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I don't think I understand you right.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Are you suggesting that I had something to do with
a spider biting Max Conger?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I know it's far fetched, but we have to take
it far fetched.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's insane.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
How in the world could I catch one, let alone
deliver it to.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Max Conger, a lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
This is beyond belief. Ah. The curious thing is the spider.
Black widows don't usually come out and climb up on desks.
They stay in the darkness.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
I know nothing of spider behavior. You're being taken in
by Hank Thomas. Lieutenant, he thinks because I accused them,
that I'm responsible for everything that might happen to them.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're right, mister Thomas is over sensitive and that coupled
with my own curiosity. I hope you'll forgive me. I
won't trouble you again.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I hope not, Lieutenant. I'm finished with the whole business.
I'm moving away from here as far as I can.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I think you're wise to do that. Missus Hawthorne. Bitterness
can really eat you out. I know I've seen it.
I don't care what you say, Lutant, I'm in danger. How,
mister Thomas, missus Hawthorne can't possibly do you any harm.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
She did it to Max.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Why are you so sure Miss Hawthorne is out to
get you? As you put it, well, she's a hysterical
bit of woman and a threat to me. No, not
miss Hawthorne, mister Thomas. But someone is the reason I'm
pursuing this is because there is something strange. Two members
of the same union meet with accidental deaths within two
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weeks of each other. There's no one sabotaging the union.
John Hawthorne had an accident. His hysterical wife's making waves.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
If you won't protect me from Arthur, I've set up
my own defense. She told me she was forgetting the
whole thing. Yeah, she told that to Max Conger, and
look what happened to him. There's no way or not
for you. Maybe, but I know different That spider was
no accident. All right, I'll tell you what I'm going
to do, mister Thomas. I'm going to post a guard
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at your home and your office. No one, including missus Hawthorne,
will be able to approach you. That makes me feel better,
but I can't do it indefinitely. It's just until I
can make heads or tails out of this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Good afternoon. I'd like to see mister Thomas.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
No one's permitted in the office.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Man, why a police guard? Has something happened to mister Thomas?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Will tell it, carries ortis no one's allowed to see
mister Thomas. He's all right then, yes, and Lieutenant Carrie
intends to keep him that way.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But I don't understand. I've known mister Thomas for years.
I'm Martha Horthorn.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Oh yeah, well, uh, I'm sorry, Missus Hawthorne. But he
said you particularly what will be kept out.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
I'm very sorry for him. He must be living in
terrible fear. Can you imagine anyone being afraid of me?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Excuse me? Yes, sir, oh it's you. Where's my secretary?
He's gone to lunch, sir.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Well, when she gets back, I'm going home.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yes, sir, Hank, what's the trouble. It's me Martha.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Leave Martha now, Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Hank, please, Hank, Hank. What's he doing in there?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
You are right, mister Thomas? All right, he's moving furniture
against the door.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
No, it's pitiful to see someone so frankly.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
There's no thank you, mister Thomas anymore.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I've got the door barricade.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'll send her away.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I leave now.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
There's no use.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Miss Hawthorne's leaving now, Sir.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I feel sorry for him, I really do, so terribly sorry, be.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Very I must want with the block.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
So Hank Thomas won't see me. Well, we'll see about that.
And now he's to your health.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Thank you, mister Thomas. Missus Hawthorne's gone, now, are you
really gone?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Okay, but don't let it back in, not even.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
In the outer office.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes, sir, send my secretary.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Anyway, mister Thomas, what's the matter? Get away?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Get it away?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
A right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I can't open the door.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
You've got that furniture against it. It is poly it might,
it's just fortunate enough to.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Scare it that I can't get it off the hole.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Still, I'll get it, because lord, it's black widow. You
get it, You get it off, got it? I'll call
an ambulance fast. What's the word, lieutenant dead heart?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Failure?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
What's the matter with you, Joe? I put you there
to guard him, and bingo, he gets it with you
right under his nose. I ought to have your badge
the tenant. I swear nobody went into that office, you said,
missus Hawthorne left shortly before he started screaming.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
About two minutes. Maybe he less while.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
She was there in the out of office. Did you
hear take anything from a personal all?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Not a thing.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I can sweatow it. She wasn't there more than a minute.
He told her to leave, and she never went into
his private office. I wouldn't have let her your orders sides,
mister Thomas had a chair pushed in front of the door.
That's why it took me so long to get to him.
I don't understand it. I just don't. Missus Hawthorne left
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the outer office.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
She went into the hall.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Then about two minutes later, mister Thomas screamed, it's right.
I had to force the door, and there he was,
with the black widow spider on his neck. I slapped
it off his nut and killed it with a book.
It's more than coincidence this time. I've got to have
a talk with missus Hawthorne.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Coming. Who did?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Okay, hello, lieutenant, and this hard heart, and I must
speak with your mother right away.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Oh, she's not here.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Did you know she visited hank thomas office this afternoon?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
No? I got home at six. Mother wasn't here, and
there wasn't any no. I just assumed she'd gone shopping
or something.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hank Thomas died from a heart attack after being bitten
by a black widow spider. Oh my no, it happened
minutes after your mother was there. When I can learn
from my guard your mother never went near the private office.
But this right on top of Max Conger. It's just
not coincidence anymore. The two men die in the same
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way shortly after your mother visited them.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
A ghastly, Lieutenant, I just can't believe.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Mother. It is highly improbable. But how do you explain it?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I don't know. Look, i'll tell mother you want to
see her the minute she gets home.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I like to wait, if you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh, come on in. I'll give us some coffee. It's
not like mother to be gone so long without phoning.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It's nine o'clock. Is there a friend she might have
visited several I could call. Yeah, maybe it better because
in ten minutes I'm gonna put out in all points on.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Oh there she is, hello mother. Oh no, she's not here.
Who Oh, yes, yes, I know urgent. Why Oh, then
Mother hasn't been there today. Yes, I'll have her call you.
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Who was that mother's reader and advisor, someone named Caro. Well,
she's been going to her for years.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Oh one of those spooks.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh, mother, beliezer, unless she's checked with Carroll. Wait a minute, Oh,
dear lord, I wonder what is it. Well, when mother
thought Dad was in danger, she told me this Carol
was going to give her a spell.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
A spell, yes, a spell.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
To protect him. I just laughed it off. I mean,
advice from the cards is one thing, but what could
this have anything to do with the spiders.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Where is this Carol?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
A little noise exactly somewhere near the waterfront.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I know that our fine.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Welcomes. What can Carol do for you?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I'm Lieutenant Carey Police. I don't get upset. Just a
few questions. Missus John Hawthorn is a client of yours.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yes, for several years. But what is the trouble as
something happened to missus hostl No, but her.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Daughter says, you are going to give miss Hawthorne a
spell to protect her husband.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Some believe, some do not.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Did Missus Hawthorne ask for another spell? Something involving spiders? Then?
You know two men have died from black widow spider
bites shortly after Missus Hawthorne visited them.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
When did the second man die?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
This afternoon? My man killed the spider and we've taken
the ticket.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Sider was killed.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, it's in the lab for study.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
No, I want her to be careful. I don't have
to be careful.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Then you did supply Missus Hawthorne with deadly spiders. No,
but you're saying I did not.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Give Missus Hawthorn spiders?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, what did you do? Then? It's obvious that this
whole thing started here.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
She came to me for a deadly whip on.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yes, she wanted revenge, and you gave her the spell?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
No, I told you I did not. How could an
ordinary spider be depended on to do.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
What she asked? Yeah, that's been bothering me.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I gave missus hawsthorone a portion.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
A portion.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
It was an elixir. It's called certain Changes in her appearance. Oh,
it's a very old formula. Oh, your god, the spider
was killed. I told her to be careful, Lieutenant, you
will not see missus Hawthorn again.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Must I spell it out, Lieutenant?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Word for word?
Speaker 3 (41:43):
The potion, for a short period of time actually turned
missus Hawthorne into.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Spiders have always given me the chills. They all serve
their purpose in the scheme of things, I suppose, But
I'm glad they prefer to stay in their dark corners,
most of them, at least. I prefer to give them
a wide berth, and I'd suggest you do the same
in the future. I might also suggest that you think
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twice before killing one again.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
You never can tell. It might just be someone you know.
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Well, perhaps you'll sleep tonight after all, our story was
pure fantasy. Of course, no one can actually turn into
a spider, and no matter how potent the potion.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
But wouldn't it be fun. You wouldn't have to worry
about the.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Fuel shortage, energy crisis, or inflation just where your next
fly was coming from. It is fun to stretch our imaginations, though,
isn't it, And that, of course is what radio Mystery
Theater is all about. Our cast included Robert Dryden, E.
V Justter, Hetty, Galim Jackson Beck and Dan Hacko. The
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entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,
DS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in and welcome, I MEE. G.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Marshall, your host for another adventure so strange and so chilling,
and we dare say you'll get little sleep this night.
At the moment, we're in a shabby little storefront studio
near the waterfront of a large city. On the dusty window,
in hand painted letters are the words Carol Reader and Advisor.
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Reader and Advisor, A comfort to thousands who believe in
their powers, and a fraud to the thousands who laughed
them off as ridiculed. Martha Hawthorne, however, is one of
the thousands who believe, and at the moment she is
seeking help for a desperate situation.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, Carol, it is in this bottle. Do not, under
any circumstances open it until the time comes, until you
are ready to use it. I understand the effects are
not always instantaneous. It takes a while, and it is
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sometimes unpredictable. I'll take those chances. The idea appeals to
me so enormously, It's so perfect. The careful Missus Hawthorne,
I must warn you when the bottle is opened, the
very very careful.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Our mystery drama Black Widow was written especially for the
radio mystery theater by Bob Duran and stars Robert Dryden
and E. V.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Justter.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is sponsored in part by Anhuser Busch Incorporated, brewers
of Budweiser. I'll be back.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Shortly with Act one.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Standing up for what you believe is right is both
honorable and necessary, and it also can be dangerous, particularly
if your adversary has very little scruples and a lot
to lose should you have your way. Such is the
case with John Hawthorne, a top notch mechanic whose father
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before him took pride in his work, his friends, and
his trade union, and John intends to bring back those
better days and stand for what his father stood for. Hello, Hello, John,
what do you want? Max?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I don't like the noises you've been making with the
rank and file.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know where I stand.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I'm beginning so.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yes, it's come to my attention that you're even thinking
of running for union president.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Not thinking anymore? Max, am running? That's my job. I
waste your time.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know you can't win.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I know the damn here. The whole membership is fed
up with you, and that's so called business manager of yours.
You see Max, But I've got that you haven't. Is
the membership on my side.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
The membership all that sol job. They don't have any
say in.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The union's affairs. You're right there, Max, that's been the
whole trouble. I intend to give this union back to
the members.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We'll see. Let's talk about it in person after the meeting.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Thanks Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's not talking to you Max. We've been trying to
talk for two years, but you run things your way.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And we're fed up with it.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
All right, John, don't get excited. You'll run for president.
See what it gets you. Ah.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I wondered when Max would start getting worried.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's not worried. Mother, I am.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That makes two of us.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I'm proud of your guts, John, but we both know
who Max has behind him, and they play rough.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I'm not afraid of threats.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm just worried that maybe I can't carry it off.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I still wish you'd reconsider. You have to do what
you think is right. I don't want to be a
hero's widow.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, no, no, they wouldn't try anything like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I expect little rough stuff maybe, but I've got my
eyes open and I've got my protection too.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh John, is it worth it? What's it going to
do to Lilian and me?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Nobody's going to get hurt except Max Conger. He's never
had a serious challenge to his authority. We're a small
independent mechanics union that used to be great until Max
Conger and his friends got their claws into us.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I know you've been upset about it for months, but
let someone else carry the standard.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I have to, Martha. My father was shop steward for years,
and now me. The guys just look to me to
do it. Well.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I can't say I'm not proud of you. I guess
I wouldn't want you any other way?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
And how high?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Lilian?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Hello? Baby?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You home for supper if it's quick? And you're sicking
me up?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
At seven? We are you two heading tonight reller skating?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Believe it or not, we're meeting Eune and Fred there.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Aren't they old for roller skating?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Hello missus Hawthorn. Hank Thomas here?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh yes, Hank? You want John.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Bibby he's not busy.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I'll take it, brother, Yeah, Hank, John, I've got to
call a shop stewarts meeting tonight.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I know it's last minute. Can you make it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know I can.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Well, we're running.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Into a problem at the Campbell shop over in Florence.
We've got things to work out.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
What's the Campbell shop got to do with us?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Well, we're all union brothers.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, and it suits your purpose.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Okay, John, I know about your talk with Max a
little while ago.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
When you win the election, you can do things your way.
Until then, we'll do it mine. Okay, see it eight?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Yeah, okay, Hello.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Hello missus Hawthorn. Hank Thomas again. I hope John has
left you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Oh he did about ten minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Oh too bad.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I had to postpone that meeting tonight, and I hoped
I could catch him.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
He's on his way to the union hall now.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Well, I'll see him and send him home. I'm sorry
about the inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't think donaldman, I'll buy myselthorn.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Goodbye. Good evening, missus Hawthorne. Good evening, Carol. I'm sorry
to bother you for reading this late, but I'm terribly worried.
I am always at your service, missus Hawthorne, always for
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regular customers who need help from the cards.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
My husband went to a union meeting tonight, and that's
part of my problem.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sit down, Did I see you? What the cards tell us?
These cards are the threat? This is your husband. A
red king that is favorable. A red king will triumph
over the situation. Oh thank you? If if?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
What if?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The next card is a red jack or a black
queen of it? The Ace of Spade, I'm sorry, Ace
of Spade is dead. That is what is in the card.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
There's I've got to get all.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Missus harforn one moment I haven't died. There is a way,
There is a way you can protect your husband from
all harm. Caro, what are you saying?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
There is?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But I hate the word a spell. It's costly, but
it works with it, he cannot be harmed. Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Very?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
But for Heaven's sake, do it? Give it to me
or whatever. It will take two days, but it will work.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Do it well.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I will need a bit of his hair and a
bit of his skin, and his skin wh just a
tiny shaving, not even enough to draw blood in the
snip of hair. But how can I get them without
his knowing? That does not matter. Explain it to him.
He will agree, He'll think I'm crazy. Find a way to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Get them and get them.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Fast if you value your husband's life. John, it's me
mother and my dad go to a shop Steward's meeting, but.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
After he left, Hank Thomas call to say it was canceled.
I thought your father would be home long before this.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Oh, they probably went for a drink they usually do,
but the meeting was called off. I'm so nother. What
is it you're shaking?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Your father's in danger?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh? Mother?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Have you been seeing that Carroll person again? I had to.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I had to know what would happen with this union business.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh, dad can handle himself and you know it. What
did your advisor say? You mustn't tell anyone, Lilian, She's
going to give me a spell to protect your father.
The spell. I don't like seeing you this way, believing
something like this would work. It's voodoo or worse, it's
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not going to protect that. It's making a wreck out
of you.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
This union business is making a wreck out of me.
If I can find a way to stop it.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I will.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, this isn't the way to stop it. With which
is spelled?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
And Hugh John forgot his kid, I'm not a worry
him about this.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, how is it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Miss Hart, I yes, the time Carrie fourteenth precinct.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
What's happened?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
John? What is mother?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Policeman? Mister Hawthorne met with an accident.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'm to what happened?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Hitting round? Apparently no witnesses.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
How bad I'm a daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm sorry. Will you come with me please? Of course,
I'll be outside.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
We have to know the police at waters. I yes,
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that's my husband. There were no witnesses, you say, not as.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Far as we know, but someone might come forward. There's
always a chance someone saw it happen.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It was no accident, Lieutenant, if.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You know something, Miss Hawthorn, my father.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Was challenging the union authority and suddenly he's dead on
the street. No witness, nothing to tie them in with it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Are you making an accusation, missus Hawthorne.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yes, I'm accusing Max Conger and Hank Thomas of murder.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, that may be impossible to prove.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Let's go home, mother, home, what's left of home.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'll have a car take you back.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We'll talk with you both, Miss Hawthorne when your mother's
recovered a little. There's absolutely nothing to link those two
men with this case. Miss Hawthorne, I realize that, well,
there's always a chance, as I said, is someone.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Coming forward, But it would take that. I'm afraid to
pull mother out of her shock.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Could I see her perhaps a different face?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Of course, don't be surprised if she just stares at you,
But then she might respond follow me.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Sure you've had a doctor tender I'm sure?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh, yes, almost every day. Apparently this happens frequently. He says.
Medication might even make it worse. So he's just waiting
for nature.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
In your mother's case, there's the bitterness that makes it
all tougher.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Mother. Mother, she's gone, But I thought you said she
hasn't left this room for a week. I talked to
her here just an hour before you arrived.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We were right downstairs. How did she get by without
our senior the backstairs?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's possible, but it's not probable. Where would she go?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I have to ask this. Did your father have a gun?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Not?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Did I know of I've got to use your phone
and fast. Her tortured mind is prey to a thousand
tormenting thoughts, and a grief stricken widow, embittered by what
she believes was the murder of her husband, is prey
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to a host of sinister motivations. We'll learn what's motivating
Martha Hawthorne and to what action when I returned shortly
with that too. Martha Hawthorne has at last been motivated.
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For a week after her husband was killed in a
hit and r on accident, she sat motionless in her room,
harboring the bitterness of suspicion, convinced he was murdered by
the men he challenged, but for Mirtha Hawthorne, there was
no way to prove it. Now, dressed entirely in black
with a widow's veil, she seeks the help she so
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desperately wants.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Sit down, Missus Hawthorne. Well, I was sorry to hear
of your husband. We were too late. It seems they
didn't give me a chance to protect him. Are you
so certain these men were responsible? I'm certain?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Then?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Would not the police be the ones? The police can't
do anything. There's no proof, no witnesses. That's why I'm here.
I want revenge if it is in the cards. Perhaps
the cards, you know what I want? Yes, one that
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will be as foolproof as there are. You shall certain,
Missus Hawthorne. Please listen. I had been your advisor for
almost three years. You are a gentlewoman. What you are
doing now is out of brief and bitterness. Wait wait
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a month, and I will not wait very well. There
is a very effective method, and you would be above
suspicion exactly what I want. There is some risk to you,
that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I shall have it ready. It is in this black bottle.
Do not, under any circumstances open it until the time comes,
until you are ready to use it. I understand the
effects are not instantaneous. It takes a while, and it
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is sometimes unpredictable. I'll take those chances. The idea appeals
to me so enormously, it is so persed. Be careful,
missus Hawthorne. I must warn you when the bottle is opened,
be very very careful.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Come.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I hope I'm not interrupting anything.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Max.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I imagine you're surprised to see me.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You're always welcome here. Martha. You know how I felt
about John's death.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Your flowers were very thoughtful.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It runs a cowardly thing. If we can find out
who killed John and just left him.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
But he's conveniently out of your way. Now, wouldn't you say,
whoever did it?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Did you a favor? Why, Arthur, what a thing to say?
John was a fine man, but still.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
A threat to you and your position.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
We had our differences, yes, but to say that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You don't fool me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Max.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Oh, I don't say you were driving the car. But
John's death was no accident, and you know it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You arranged it. You are taking chances with that attractive
mouth of yours.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
With What you mean is I'll be next.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
This is ridiculous with I wouldn't threaten you, nor are you.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
But if a certain piece of evidence I have proved
to be right, I'll drop the proof of John's murder.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Right in your lap.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What evidence?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's my secret. It's in my garage. You'd know it
if you saw it, and it points right to you
and Hank Thomas.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That doesn't concern me.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I came here Max because I I want you to
know I'm not making wild accusations. When I can prove it,
and I know I can, I'll do what's.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Fair and right.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You think you can tie me here, Hank into this,
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You're gonna be very sorry, though.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh no, I'm not, Max.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You are thank Harthorne's wife was just here and she
knows something. I thought you told me you made it clean.
Oh something went wrong?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Get in here. You gotta talk, mother.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Why can't we have the lights on? And why have
you been pacing by that window for an hour? You'll
know when it happens, Lilian, and I'm pretty sure it will.
Why don't you tell me?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Wait there?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes, there they are. Who Max Conger and Hank Thomas?
What they're heading for the garage? I knew it, mother.
I insist on knowing what's going on. That's it, Max, Huh,
Come into my pallor little flies. I'm ready for you now.
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I knew you'd prove your gift. Mother. Should I call
the police?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Stay right here by the window, Keep watching the garage,
watch everything they do. I'll be back in a few
moments before you're going never mind, Just stay here and
don't leave the window.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Whatever you do, it is in this black bottle. Who
do not, under any circumstances open it until the.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Time comes, until you are ready to use it. The
effects are not instantaneous. Take for a while, and sometimes
it does.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
A pretty good but but be careful.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
If fun I not wat you like.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
The bottle is open.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Keep the white lobe. What are we looking for? I
don't know, but she said I'd recognize it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
She shield her daughter's life. Let's see. Yes, here's nobody home.
I've been phoning for an hour. No lights in my house. Well,
this is crazy, Max. How could she have any evidence?
She's working on your nerves? How could she trace it
to us?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't know, and that's what worries me. Last. You're
light around, but keep it lowly. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, looks like a black widow, ain't jess Now if
you don't touch them, see he just sits there. It
gives me the truths. Let's get out of it. I
find what I came for. Yeah, the spider's gone. Look
at everything it stands out. I don't know next, but
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if you're not leaving, I am gold, then and leave
me the light there? Wait, flup black with a spider
get it's like frontly with the I won't attack, at
least I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
If you'll touch one by accident, that's when they fight back.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Look at it, these little steps toward us.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's disappeared again.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
They don't like the light.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think they had for dark corners.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I got shows just looking at that thing.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm getting bay to here. Max. Okay, there's nothing here.
Martha is bluffing.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So Missus Hawthorne, it was effective. Very I need another one.
Are you sure you want to continue this, Missus harf one?
Absolutely certain, very well. I shall have another for you tomorrow.
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I hope you don't mind my calling on you at home.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Max.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All right, Martha, come into this study.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I've decided not to pursue this any longer.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Max.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'm I'm not sure I can make my evidence stick.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Set out there, let's be friends. John and I were.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
John hated your guts and you know it. I know
for certain that you and Hank you're John. But I'm
giving up. You won't be seeing me again.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Max.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Well, if you want it that way, Martha. But my
door is always open to you.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Your courtesy doesn't impress me.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Max.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
May I drive you home?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
No thanks, it's a lovely night.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well then, good night, Martha, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Max.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Be careful for his harthorn.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I must warn you when the bottle is open.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Careful, I'll be careful.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Here's to your health, Max.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Local forty eight. Oh Max, what's up?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I just had a visitor Arthur Hawthorn. Oh, she's giving up.
She knows she can't prove anything. She's finally admitting it.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
And still that knows an intective to deal with.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He hasn't got a Oh Max, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Good Lord Max?
Speaker 5 (24:48):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
A black spider just landed on my desk?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Spider?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's it's a white widow in it for the phone going.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Up the lamp, Max, I got it, kill it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I can't Oooh, I can't fool it's so hideous. Oo Max,
doop slight.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Chopping, drop my back up, get off, get off action.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I beat Nash.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh, get an albuos.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Right, mister Thomas, Yeah, I'm a lieutenant carry fourteenth Precincts.
I called on you after John Hawthorne's death. Is I
like some information?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So? Would I want to know how maxes?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I know if they tell me mister Congred died ten
minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Max dead. I was too late.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You brought him to the hospital. Yeah, I didn't wait
for an ambulance. He was in pain. He was a miracle.
This happened at home.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yes, what do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
A black widow spider death is relatively rare? Did he
say anything on the way to the hospital. No, where
was he when it happened in his den? He called
me from there and I found him on the floor. Huh.
It's unusual. Black widows rarely come out like that. They
generally stay in their dark corners. This one didn't. It
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was awful hearing Max scream like that. I'll never forget it.
Wait a minute, little Tenner, what is it? She couldn't
have known who Martha Hawthorne. She visited Max last night
they hit and run victim's widow. Yes, do you think
there's a connection. It's crazy wild. Missus Hawthorne accused Max
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of me of her husband's death. Yeah. No, last night
she went to Max and told them she was well,
withdrawing the accusation. So she was there, and then Max,
are you suggesting missus Hawthorne brought a black widow spider
into his home?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
It's impossible, but she was there.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I'll have a talk with missus Hawthorne since you say
she was evidently the last person to see Max Kannger alive.
Back again, missus.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Hawthorne had I read of the man's death in the paper.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Do you think they're murderer? Karen? No?
Speaker 7 (27:38):
No, I'm an executioner. That man killed my husband and
I'm not quite finished, Carol. I need one more, just
one more.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Martha Hawthorne is a determined woman, and she's chosen a
unique method for disposing of her husband's killers, untraceable.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Who can blame a murder on a spider?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But through it all, there's one risk to herself that
Martha Hawthorne fails to see. We'll see what it is
when I returned shortly with Act three. Will you walk
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into my parlor? Said the spider to the fly. Tis
the prettiest little parlor that you ever did? Spy? Oh no, no,
said the little fly to ask me, is in vain?
For who goes up your winding stair? Can ne'er come
down again? Martha Hawthorne still bent on avenging her husband's
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death as one more vic to move, bitterness to dispose of.
But the victim is beginning to fear for his life
and has suggested to police Lieutenant Carrie that there may
be some connection between Martha Hawthorne's visit to Max Conger
and Max's subsequent death.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
How can I help you, Lieutenant Carrie.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's about the death of Max.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Conger that was dreadful.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I make no pretense of liking Max, but I was
shocked when I read of.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
His old for death a spider. Miss Congress associated mister
Thomas says you visited him that night. I did.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's true. I told Max I was through accusing him.
You know the story.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
We're still investigating that case, Miss Hawthorne.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I'm trying to forget it. Why don't you?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
No, we don't forget hit and run. But back to
the reason for my visit. Yes, Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
How to say this, but.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You've visited Max Conger and a short time later he
was bitten by a deadly spider.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Do I No?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I don't think I understand you right.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Are you suggesting that I had something to do with
a spider biting Max Conger?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I know it's far fetched, but we have to take
it far fetched.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's insane.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
How in the world could I catch one, let alone
deliver it to.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Max Conger, a lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
This is beyond belief. Ah. The curious thing is the spider.
Black widows don't usually come out and climb up on desks.
They stay in the darkness.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
I know nothing of spider behavior. You're being taken in
by Hank Thomas. Lieutenant, he thinks because I accused them,
that I'm responsible for everything that might happen to them.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're right, mister Thomas is over sensitive and that coupled
with my own curiosity. I hope you'll forgive me. I
won't trouble you again.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I hope not, Lieutenant. I'm finished with the whole business.
I'm moving away from here as far as I can.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I think you're wise to do that. Missus Hawthorne. Bitterness
can really eat you out. I know I've seen it.
I don't care what you say, Lutant, I'm in danger. How,
mister Thomas, missus Hawthorne can't possibly do you any harm.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
She did it to Max.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Why are you so sure Miss Hawthorne is out to
get you? As you put it, well, she's a hysterical
bit of woman and a threat to me. No, not
miss Hawthorne, mister Thomas. But someone is the reason I'm
pursuing this is because there is something strange. Two members
of the same union meet with accidental deaths within two
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weeks of each other. There's no one sabotaging the union.
John Hawthorne had an accident. His hysterical wife's making waves.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
If you won't protect me from Arthur, I've set up
my own defense. She told me she was forgetting the
whole thing. Yeah, she told that to Max Conger, and
look what happened to him. There's no way or not
for you. Maybe, but I know different That spider was
no accident. All right, I'll tell you what I'm going
to do, mister Thomas. I'm going to post a guard
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at your home and your office. No one, including missus Hawthorne,
will be able to approach you. That makes me feel better,
but I can't do it indefinitely. It's just until I
can make heads or tails out of this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Good afternoon. I'd like to see mister Thomas.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
No one's permitted in the office.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Man, why a police guard? Has something happened to mister Thomas?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Will tell it, carries ortis no one's allowed to see
mister Thomas. He's all right then, yes, and Lieutenant Carrie
intends to keep him that way.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But I don't understand. I've known mister Thomas for years.
I'm Martha Horthorn.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Oh yeah, well, uh, I'm sorry, Missus Hawthorne. But he
said you particularly what will be kept out.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
I'm very sorry for him. He must be living in
terrible fear. Can you imagine anyone being afraid of me?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Excuse me? Yes, sir, oh it's you. Where's my secretary?
He's gone to lunch, sir.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Well, when she gets back, I'm going home.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yes, sir, Hank, what's the trouble. It's me Martha.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Leave Martha now, Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Hank, please, Hank, Hank. What's he doing in there?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
You are right, mister Thomas? All right, he's moving furniture
against the door.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
No, it's pitiful to see someone so frankly.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
There's no thank you, mister Thomas anymore.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I've got the door barricade.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'll send her away.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I leave now.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
There's no use.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Miss Hawthorne's leaving now, Sir.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I feel sorry for him, I really do, so terribly sorry, be.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Very I must want with the block.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
So Hank Thomas won't see me. Well, we'll see about that.
And now he's to your health.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Thank you, mister Thomas. Missus Hawthorne's gone, now, are you
really gone?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Okay, but don't let it back in, not even.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
In the outer office.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes, sir, send my secretary.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Anyway, mister Thomas, what's the matter? Get away?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Get it away?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
A right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I can't open the door.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
You've got that furniture against it. It is poly it might,
it's just fortunate enough to.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Scare it that I can't get it off the hole.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Still, I'll get it, because lord, it's black widow. You
get it, You get it off, got it? I'll call
an ambulance fast. What's the word, lieutenant dead heart?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Failure?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
What's the matter with you, Joe? I put you there
to guard him, and bingo, he gets it with you
right under his nose. I ought to have your badge
the tenant. I swear nobody went into that office, you said,
missus Hawthorne left shortly before he started screaming.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
About two minutes. Maybe he less while.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
She was there in the out of office. Did you
hear take anything from a personal all?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Not a thing.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I can sweatow it. She wasn't there more than a minute.
He told her to leave, and she never went into
his private office. I wouldn't have let her your orders sides,
mister Thomas had a chair pushed in front of the door.
That's why it took me so long to get to him.
I don't understand it. I just don't. Missus Hawthorne left
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the outer office.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
She went into the hall.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Then about two minutes later, mister Thomas screamed, it's right.
I had to force the door, and there he was,
with the black widow spider on his neck. I slapped
it off his nut and killed it with a book.
It's more than coincidence this time. I've got to have
a talk with missus Hawthorne.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Coming. Who did?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Okay, hello, lieutenant, and this hard heart, and I must
speak with your mother right away.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Oh, she's not here.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Did you know she visited hank thomas office this afternoon?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
No? I got home at six. Mother wasn't here, and
there wasn't any no. I just assumed she'd gone shopping
or something.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hank Thomas died from a heart attack after being bitten
by a black widow spider. Oh my no, it happened
minutes after your mother was there. When I can learn
from my guard your mother never went near the private office.
But this right on top of Max Conger. It's just
not coincidence anymore. The two men die in the same
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way shortly after your mother visited them.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
A ghastly, Lieutenant, I just can't believe.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Mother. It is highly improbable. But how do you explain it?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I don't know. Look, i'll tell mother you want to
see her the minute she gets home.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I like to wait, if you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh, come on in. I'll give us some coffee. It's
not like mother to be gone so long without phoning.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It's nine o'clock. Is there a friend she might have
visited several I could call. Yeah, maybe it better because
in ten minutes I'm gonna put out in all points on.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Oh there she is, hello mother. Oh no, she's not here.
Who Oh, yes, yes, I know urgent. Why Oh, then
Mother hasn't been there today. Yes, I'll have her call you.
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Who was that mother's reader and advisor, someone named Caro. Well,
she's been going to her for years.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Oh one of those spooks.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh, mother, beliezer, unless she's checked with Carroll. Wait a minute, Oh,
dear lord, I wonder what is it. Well, when mother
thought Dad was in danger, she told me this Carol
was going to give her a spell.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
A spell, yes, a spell.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
To protect him. I just laughed it off. I mean,
advice from the cards is one thing, but what could
this have anything to do with the spiders.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Where is this Carol?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
A little noise exactly somewhere near the waterfront.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I know that our fine.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Welcomes. What can Carol do for you?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I'm Lieutenant Carey Police. I don't get upset. Just a
few questions. Missus John Hawthorn is a client of yours.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yes, for several years. But what is the trouble as
something happened to missus hostl No, but her.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Daughter says, you are going to give miss Hawthorne a
spell to protect her husband.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Some believe, some do not.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Did Missus Hawthorne ask for another spell? Something involving spiders? Then?
You know two men have died from black widow spider
bites shortly after Missus Hawthorne visited them.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
When did the second man die?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
This afternoon? My man killed the spider and we've taken
the ticket.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Sider was killed.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, it's in the lab for study.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
No, I want her to be careful. I don't have
to be careful.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Then you did supply Missus Hawthorne with deadly spiders. No,
but you're saying I did not.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Give Missus Hawthorn spiders?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, what did you do? Then? It's obvious that this
whole thing started here.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
She came to me for a deadly whip on.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yes, she wanted revenge, and you gave her the spell?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
No, I told you I did not. How could an
ordinary spider be depended on to do.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
What she asked? Yeah, that's been bothering me.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I gave missus hawsthorone a portion.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
A portion.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
It was an elixir. It's called certain Changes in her appearance. Oh,
it's a very old formula. Oh, your god, the spider
was killed. I told her to be careful, Lieutenant, you
will not see missus Hawthorn again.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Must I spell it out, Lieutenant?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Word for word?
Speaker 3 (41:43):
The potion, for a short period of time actually turned
missus Hawthorne into.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Spiders have always given me the chills. They all serve
their purpose in the scheme of things, I suppose, But
I'm glad they prefer to stay in their dark corners,
most of them, at least. I prefer to give them
a wide berth, and I'd suggest you do the same
in the future. I might also suggest that you think
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twice before killing one again.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
You never can tell. It might just be someone you know.
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Well, perhaps you'll sleep tonight after all, our story was
pure fantasy. Of course, no one can actually turn into
a spider, and no matter how potent the potion.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
But wouldn't it be fun. You wouldn't have to worry
about the.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Fuel shortage, energy crisis, or inflation just where your next
fly was coming from. It is fun to stretch our imaginations, though,
isn't it, And that, of course is what radio Mystery
Theater is all about. Our cast included Robert Dryden, E.
V Justter, Hetty, Galim Jackson Beck and Dan Hacko. The
(43:20):
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,
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