September 9, 2025 • 39 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Bulletproof
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Come in welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm g Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It is established scientific fact. As we all know that
no two sets of fingerprints are alike. It is equally
true that the markings on a bullet that's been fired
are as distinctive as fingerprints. One gun and one gun
only will leave those precise markings no other Our mystery
(00:45):
drama bullet Proof was written especially for the Mystery theater
by George Lowther and stars Mason Adams and Patricia Elliott.
It is sponsored in part by Millick Motor Division. I'll
be back shortly that one. It almost goes without saying
(01:12):
that what intrigues us about a mystery is finding the
answer to it, especially the kind I bring you now
another of those riddles that seemingly defy solution. Yet the
answer the solution had to be found if an innocent man,
or in any case, a man who claimed to be innocent,
was to be saved from execution in the guest chamber
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of a certain Western state where the death penalty had
been restored. That man was Rocky Stark, who one night
not too long ago found himself facing.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But that's our story.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Another cup of coffee before you get a work hunt
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Look you're say now.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Because you don't think we can afford we can will
not come on Rocky in one of your downloads again.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Nothing's not all that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But that sure sure living, if you can call it,
in one room and a condemned tenement, me with a
crummy night watchman job that pays peanuts, no future, no sign.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Even the future. And you you can say things aren't
all like bad.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I got each other.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
In fact, you and prison two years and all, but
to me it's everything Rocky, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Kim baby, don't don't get me wrong, those two years
behind bars, taking the rock for that creepy partner of
mine many revel I thought of you all day, I
dreamed of you all night.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And all the time.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I'm thinking, when I get out everything, I'll come.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Up roses and man, he owes me. I'm thinking, man,
he'll pay off. It'll be like old times, you and
me living in style the way you ought to live,
instead of a pig style like Rocky.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What happens? What happens?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I go to see him at the Golden Cab, many
him out and what did he say?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm afraid you are he says out.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh U T and then he really lays it on me.
He's got a new partner, two bit Coffee and Colors, Punk,
Johnny Mallow, Fucky.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Sweethet, forget it?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
What's there going over the gun and a can't cards?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I can't forget it. I thought we were running a legit.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Night spot and all the time behind my back, man
he's got a loan shark operation going. He comes to me, kid, kid,
he says, I'm a I'm a three time loser. You
take the bath for me and.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'll make it up to you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Sure, I took the bath, all right, and I'm still
dropping and you along with me, Ken, That is the
hell of it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's what drives me crazy alone.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And they're not warehouse are And I'm thinking what you
deserve to have on what you've got taken it if
you hadn't been fool enough to marry him.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I married you because I love you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Things are gonna work out. They're working out already. You've
got a job.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
He's the thing you never got, an ex car.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You've got it, and it's a step towards something better.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But they promise you it would.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Don't get me wrong, Kim, I've got a lot of
respect for my brother, Frank, he's gone far city councilman
and only thirty three, two years.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Younger than me. But he can't work miracles.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Thanks got to the job, didn't He got to the
primith to carry your gune so you could take the job.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, I guess you could say that came pretty close
to America.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Me and that's Cohn, But never mind the butt. Thanks
promised to do everything he can for.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You or for you?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
H what do you mean for me?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He's in love with you, Kim, always has been. You
know that hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
He's silly.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Thanks, stop carrying the torch from me the day I
married you out. I want you better get moving or
you'll be late.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Who could that be?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You Rocky Stack. Yeah, Lieutenant Chambers, my sidekick, Detective Robins.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Well what do you want now?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What do you want? You're arrest under arrest for what
sus picion of my.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Who's work?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Got named? Johnny Mallory Johnny Mallory Rackey, Hello, Frank, thanks
for coming. Your lawyer will be here in half an hour,
So my.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Lawyer, I haven't got a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You have now, Gary McMillan, Gard McMillan. Well, he's the
best what is he gonna cost that on the never mind?
Now now you need the best. And that's all the
counts right now. Boyt's do it, Rocky?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Are you hid he or something?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I didn't kill Johnny Mallory and they say you did.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
They'll have to prove that they can.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What the bullets that kill Mallory were fired from York.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
LA's impossible, Bla's impossible.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm thirty eight of mine has never left my handswins
the day you got me the permit for it. Now, look, Rocky,
they picked you up last night when Manny Revel told
Annie has told them about the fight you had with
Mallory and Manny's office, and the fletcher made a ballistics
checked the bullets to kill Mallory with the bullet fired
from your gun. The markings are identical.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
They can't be. They are.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Not Tell me, did you threaten Mallory? No? I never
even saw Johnny Mallery when you went to see Manny.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
That's all I saw.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Manny Racky. Where were you yesterday afternoon between three and six? Why,
that's when Mallory was murdered. They found the body in
his car parked in a lonely spot out near warehouse point.
He'd been killed with two bullets through the head. Bullets
they dug out of the backseat cushion, and compared with
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one fired from your thirty eight. Now where were you
between three and.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Six in Bayside Park? What were you doing there?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Kim works in a restaurant. Here there I was killing time,
waiting for the finish so as I could walk home
with her. You were waiting for three hours on a cold,
rainy day in the park. For three hours.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Sounds kind of out of space, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It certainly does.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, maybe I have space out, Frank, I can't get.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Out of my mind when I've gone to Kim. I
wrecked her life. She's the greatest.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You know that, And I wanna give her the sun,
the moon, the stars or what have I given her?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
A roach's trapping, a condemned tenement. I get to think,
I like that alone in the place, and I have
to get out, so I go to the park, rain
or shine.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
At least that's free.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
In this cumming world. May cost you more than you're
barking for. Without an alibi, though what alibi? You could have?
Your gun killed him?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
My gun?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Nobody has touched that gun except me. Well, how can
you be so sure of that? How hot tell you how.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You stuck your neck out?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're stuck your neck way out to get me that
part of it. And you had to have a gun
to get the job, and you got it for me.
So was I gonna take a chance on some gun?
So'll stealing it on me? I owed you that at least,
So when I tell you that that thirty eight never
left my hands, it never did. And fought Frank, I
even slept with the damn thing, slept stopped to my side.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I wasn't taking any.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Chances, So I don't care what they came up with
in ballistics. There were the comparison microscope doesn't lie. Cops
are people, and people make mistakes, not this time.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I asked to see for myself and they showed me well,
and I don't get it right.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Why the look.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You think I did it?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Huh? It doesn't matter what I think. It's what the
fox poof. Now, you and Johnny Mallory were enemies for years. Now,
that's for openers. Johnny stepped into your shoes when he
became Manny Ravel's partner. Now, according to revel. You threaten me, Johnny,
and Johnny was killed with your gun. No, it doesn't
matter what I think. What matters is yeah, what a
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jury will think.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Rocky, just a minute, what do you want now?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Is that a way to greet an old friend? Kim?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Did you say friend?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Nanny?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Rocky's in a mess. I want to help if I can. Okay,
to come in, come in.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Whatever you have to say, Nanny, say it and get out.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I guess I already said it. I wanna help any
way I can. Rocky's gonna need a lawyer. That one
his brother took care of the lawyers costs. You'll need money,
not from you, not after what you did to him.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Me.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I did something to Rocky.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He took a lot to you, and you sold him out.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, Wrapper, Now what are you talking about? I see
that's the little fairy tale.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
He told you that had no fairy tale, the.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Truth, and I sold him out. Now would I do
that now? He too? Johnny taping me temporary Sure NoHo
runs a night spot as big as a golden cap
without help. When they put Rocky away, I needed help.
I had Johnny mallray he wish you, Poppy told no,
I see, I see more fairy tales, eh, Kim. Let
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me give it to you straight. Rocky never took any
rep from me. They nailed him.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
With the good Then how come when he went to
kee you, I tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
He finds out Malory's working with me and right away
blows his wig, you know, his head triggered temper. He
gets it into his head Mallory's my partner and starts
sounding off. Never gives me a chance to straighten them out.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You're lying, No, Kim, I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Hey, listen, you know how I feel about Rocky, and
you'll at least know how I feel about you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I ought to you made enough papers while Rocky was
in prison.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It's my fault your time.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Are you will? Really?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Rocky spend you to ten yourself off?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But anyhow, I want to help if.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I can, and any come in? Oh frank, uh, come in?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Though?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm asking myself the same question. Stock You know where
I am, Kim, if you need me, Huh?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What was that all about?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Never mind? Did you see Rocky?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yes? How is he He's okay?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
When can I see him?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
As soon as Garment Millan arranges things. Now, maybe this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
McMillan, the same as goar McMillon.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yes, Rocky needs the best legal talent can be had
now he's in real trouble.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I know the bullet snatch his gun.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's in the papers that he didn't murder Johnny Mallory.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Thank he didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No one else could have.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Kim.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Now, Rocky swears that gun never left him since the
day he and I went together to buy it.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It never hired.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well, then the mistake's been made, that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, no mistake.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You believe he did it?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Have I any choice?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
He's your brother.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's one reason I haven't had any choice. I know Rocky,
I know that temper of his.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Oh I'm sorry, Kim.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But from where I sit, Rocky killed Johnny Mallory. No
one else could have.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Someone else did the bullets poved. The shots were fired.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
From Rocky's gun.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But it wasn't Rocky. You pulled the trigger.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It had to be. He swears the gun has never
been out of his hands now, is that true?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yes, but he's never.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Even fired it except on a practice.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Rain, never him. The police have a strong case against
Rocky In fact, it's open and shut. I don't think
even Gar McMillan can save him. Well, surely it is
an open and shut case. There's no question at all
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about the bullets matching comparison. Microscopes don't lie. As for
the gun having been used by someone else personally, I
believe Rocky's story that it has never been out of
his possession. So what possible answer can they be to
the well the impossible. I'll return shortly for act two.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What is fate?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, I don't know. I'm asking you. You have to
wonder why an apparently nice guy like Rocky Stark, who
is trying his best to repay their broken dreams because
he's deeply in love with his wife, Kim R and
wants her to have everything in the world can offer.
You really have to wonder why life suddenly and for
no discernible reason, takes another hefty wallop at him, visiting
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him in his cell, Kim puzzles over the same thing.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's too much, it isn't fair. Just when things were
beginning to.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Break for you, of this, I wouldn't exactly say things
were breaking for me, Kim. I had my uh first
talk with mcmellan this morning.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
God mc newan, he was here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, the way he acted, the way he talk I
I don't know, Kim, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Cause he's he's the best defense in the country.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
A lawyer, not a magician.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
He tried to sound upbeat, but I could tell he
wasn't exactly all choked up over my chance.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Either.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You, Kim, why it was in your eyes when you
walk in there now, in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Even in the way you smile. I know your honey,
I can tell.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, wouldn't it be foolish pretending it's cause be easy
proving you anything?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I suppose, even if you believe I'm innocent.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Do you look you? I I love you, I know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But that isn't what I asked him. Johnny Mallory was
murdered with my gun. But Kim, I swear to yet,
I didn't fire the shot, sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's impossible unless you run about nobody else getting your
hands on that gun.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Nobody else did.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Nobody caught him.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
He didn't lend it to anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Good Lord, Kim.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
If I'd have done that, don't you think I'd be
spelling it to everybody?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yes? Of course you wouldn't. Oh, hinds up already give.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Us another minute, hidie, look, sweetie, you take care of yourself.
I will, I mean, okay, got up door to get
by like that? How about food stamps were running low?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh no, no, no, I got enough?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, especially with me in here. Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's one bright side dollars anyhow, My three squares are
free on the house.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Food not bad either.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Now I have got something to worry about.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
If you spoil when you get home, my cooking won't
be enough for you anymore.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And you you are no baby lucky move me day, Yes,
missus Stark, Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
My mother Spratt, Jack Spratt, I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Maybe the name Fats would mean more to you that.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You're rocky rocky head meant that name.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Everybody calls me Fats. You see, Okay, if I come in,
I'm a I'm a friend of the Rockies.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Well, of course cook come in?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, thank you? Hey, Hey smells good? Why are you cooking?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Became me? Called?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Sure? Smells good?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Real good?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I I I I.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
W Would you like that?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I sure worder you gotta half hot?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, yeah, plenty to take it out off.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
God's fine?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Fine, he.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Now you know who I am, missus.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Dodd Well, yes, and no, I I mean rocket Hat,
Munson Tire.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I hop away the place called the bulls Eye. It's
a practice range where guys they want to sharpen up
the rye or keep it shop they practice.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Or uh a shitting range here.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, hey, thanks, this looks good. He that's how
I know Rocky and he knows me. See he done
practicing at the place, and not much in the county,
couldn't afford much. But but someone and him and we,
you know, we hit it off like, hey, you didn't
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sell yourself yet.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I uh, I really don't care for me.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You don't care a distant smells and taste like this,
and you don't believe any Wait a minute, wait a minute,
let me have a look in that pot. You know
you shouldn't have done nothing. I got message Stark, you
got just enough food for yourself and you give it
to me. Now that's no one that Rocky. He was
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always saying, you belong on a pedistal. Yeah, here to
you you're going, I'm not I'm not hungry. I just
like to eat it all.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You go, you dig in?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Will I tell you why I'm here, has it now?
See when I heard Rocky was accused of putting the
barn and on Johnny Marrowy, I said to myself, that's
a lot of ball Rockies, no killer, no own shock
type eater. Then you don't believe that he took a
bye for manor of el and when he got out
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many shifted him.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
But Johnny Nowley would kill the Rocky.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Gower looks that way.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, but Rocky's convinced the gun has never been out
of his hands.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
See that's what I wanted to ask you about. Now me,
I know how Rocky felt about that thirty eighth. Could
he be wrong? Maybe about nobody else getting his hands
on that gun? Like, for instance, did he actually sleep
with it strapped to his side? Du no, no, no,
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he wasn't taking all chances now your day. I just
wanted to be sure of that before I go down
to headquarters.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Please had caught it?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, yeah, I got an idea that could save.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Rocky if I might.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
That is my idea.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
What now, Look, don't go get your hopes too high.
I could be wrong too, but I don't want to
talk it over with a friend of mine. And ballist
makes the parent chambers.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But that's what is your idea?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well, it's just this. Somebody could have put the brain
on Johnny Murray with another gun and made it look
like Rockies.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I mean, is it true that the bullets are distinctive,
the fingerprints, that the markings on a bullet after it's
been five proud.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That it came from one gun and the other gun?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Right, But then how can now you have been killed
with another gun? If the bullets that killed and came
from Rockies?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Wo?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
How look it's better, right, I'll tell him, I said,
I don't want to take chances the wrong guy. And
I know what I know, I think I know, But
I'm tell you this. If my idea is right, if
it supposed I Rocky will be a free man by tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But chimage quite pretty sure it was right.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
How could he be My gun killed Johnny Mowry. There
just can't be any two ways about that.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You didn't kill him and nobody else thought you had done. Yeah, yeah,
he's right, It is ideal.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Whatever it is is, he shouldn't have come to you
getting your hopes up, getting.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yours up too. If it comes to that, No, learn me, Turkey.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I had another talk with McMillan and he said he
checked everything out his staff anyhow, guys who do his
investigating and let's hopeless. No, yeah, he wants me to
plead guilty, guilty with a plea for clemency on grinds
of I don't know, temporary insanity or something.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That's he out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Funny.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
If there's anybody in this world who is an out
of his mind, it's gar McMillan. Oh fuck well, lucky Kim.
But the afternoon pay for fives. I uh, I just
come for seeing McMillan. He told me about the guilty plate.
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You've can ride with that I don't know yet. You'd better, why, Kim,
I don't want to upset you. Thank If Rocky pleads innocent,
the jury just playing won't believe him now, no jury
that's right mind would But.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Thank you don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
We've got to face facts.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Rocky is the next car.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Thank there's a man offender Rocky to call him thoughts.
He came to see me earlier today and thanks you
listen to me please, He said he was sure Rockey
within it's a positive of it and he's an idea
had worked out to him. He could prove another gun
with you to kill Mallory.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Calder factors talking blue sky. Fats is dead?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
What dead?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He's a front page headline in the afternoon paper. See
for yourself, I'm killing your playhead. He's the owner of
a pistol shooting practice range. Fats Jack Spratt was gunned
down in cold Blood this after noon, just a block
from police.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
No, decent guy like Fats.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Why uh he got me?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But how'd you happen to annoy him?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I practiced at the range he owned when I could
afford it.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I liked him, he liked me.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Well, whatever idea he had will never know what it
was now that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Depends on what and whether he was killed before he
got the Lieutenant Chambers or after.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
The chambers.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, it's coming in, missus shack Calen and have to
see h Thank you. You're the wife of Rocky Stock
and you wanted to see me about Jack Spratt. Fats, Yes,
Fats was a good friend of mine and on each
other for years. How'd you happen to annoy him? To start?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, he came to see me about my husband three
hours or so before he before he was murdered.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Ah, why did Fats want to see you about your husband?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He said he had an idea of how Johnny Mallory
was killed.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, I uh, I guess we know how Mallory was killed,
don't we do we? I'm sorry, of course you feel.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I certainly do, Lieutenant. My husband is innocent.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Well he's uh, he's yet to be proved guilty, that's
for sure.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Lieutenant. It stops killed before he saw.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You, or afterward, before he saw me. I I I
don't think I understand when he left me.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
He was on his way here to see you. He
had this idea he wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh, well, he he never got here. Come to think
of it, he must have been on his way here
when he was shot down.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
He was, well, I'll be well, I guess that ends that. Well,
thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Oh wait, wait, cite missus Shark gom all all I calls, Okay,
I I think you and I ought to do some talking.
Missus Starr.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I don't know what about lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That never told you I was gone down on his
way to see me, which could mean somebody didn't want
Tom to see me, didn't want me to find out
what idea Fats had in mind.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I didn't think of that.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, think of it now, missus Shark. What idea did
Fats have in mind? Exactly what idea? Of course, it
goes without saying that the idea Fats had in mind
stopped this side of sanity. How could two bullets be
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fired from one gun but leave the markings on them
of another gun? As any forensic expert will tell you,
it's an impossibility. And yet, well, I promise we'll know
the answer, And there is an answer. I return for
Act three. When a certain Johnny Mallory was murdered with
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two bullets from a thirty eight automatic. The bullets dug
from the back seat of the car in which Mallory
was sitting were traced to a gun owned by Rocky Stark.
The murder bullets match exactly precisely a test bullet fired
from rocky thirty eight automatic. Yet Rocky claims that, although
the gun has never left his possession, he did not
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murder Johnny Mallory. This, as Lieutenant Larry Chambers of Ballistics
tells Rocky's devoted wife Kim, is an absolute and utter impossibility.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
My husband didn't kill Johnny Mallory, Lieutenant, I know it
didn't look.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You're his wife, you'll love him naturally, you feel that way.
But assuming for argument's sake, he didn't kill Mallory and
someone else killed him, and that someone else used I
had to use your husband's thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's impossible.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Rocky gotted that gun is a his life depended on it.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Hu.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I wish he hadn't.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I wish he could say someone might have stolen it.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Let let's get back to fat Jack Spratt. I'll tell
you again what he told you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
He said he had an idea how somebody could have
murdered Mallory with another gun and make it look like Rockies.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That was exactly what he told you. Our memories played
tricks on or something.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I said.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Someone else could have burned burned. That was the way
you burned Mallory with another gun and made it look
like Rockies. Now those were his words, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Mmm. Nobody could have pumped two bullets in the Mallory
with another gun and made it look like your husband's. No,
two guns make the same marks on a bullet. Still
in awe yes, nobody in this town knew more about guns.
Especially small firearms, handguns and fats. If he had some
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idea of how it could have been done, then I'd
say it could be done. Could be why he was killed.
Sobody was scared. He blowed his whole puzzle wide open.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
But you can't. I mean, what, pats that doesn't go
up for you?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Uh huh, But let me think about it for a
while and maybe it will.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You don't find that helpful, hey all the time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's see the tag on that gun. Yeah, it's Rocky stocks,
all right, Okay, fire me a test bullet by four.
Here's a test bullet we'll use when we combine all
that peepe. But fire me another whatever you say, Look
and just let me fit into the test box here.
So now I'll have a dug out of the cot
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in a second.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Thanks, Now, let's put it under the comparison microscope with
one of the murder bullets. Okay, yeah, yeah, set up,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Look hmmm.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Mm hmm a match, No doubt about that, same glus
and scratches, pit marks in the rim, satisfying, I guess.
So only uh, only what I don't know? What about facts?
Why was he gunned down on his way to see me, Well,
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thanks for your trouble, Pete. Why trouble. I enjoy shooting
bulletin at that box and finding him again. E gives
me a sense of accomplishment. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah sure,
send missus Stark right then, come in, kim baby, come in,
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good to see heh sit here right here. I was
about a drink. No thanks, you don't mind if I
uh I have. It's a long time, no see.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
On a month you said you wanted to see me
about Rocky.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
You said you could help him.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, we'll we'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Let's get to it now. It's the only reason I'm here.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, Rocky goes to tryal tomorrow and he hasn't got
to pray it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You know it, I know it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
In that case, how can you help him?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, I figure he's worried about you, so uh, how
would you like a job here at the club hostess?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
A job here?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well, the paid be good, a lot better than you
do is a waitress.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
It's just what you happened me here for that.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
You have helping Rocky take a.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Worry off his mind, wasn't that? I mean he'd know
you have a good paying job, that you were secure.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And safe around you, I'd be safe and a snake pit.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Now wait a minute, don't go hands of baby, will
be little pain. Never did any harm dog.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
It?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah what he wanted. I got a choice. Okay, send
a bum in, I bit it bebby out this way?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
And what song with the front arm to is I
tell you way?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh times for this kind of time?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Oh heck yeah, come on in, Come on in, lieutenant?
What what the dam was he? Your Manny was O, Hey,
what do you want? Lieutenant? I'm Billy so am I
Rocky Shock and you were partners in this nightclub a
little more than two years ago. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What of it?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
The two of you were accused of using the place
as a front for a loan shark operation.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You know it is a white bother asking You also
know the rock he was operating behind my back. Guy
was in his Simpton Market. Can pass his talk around
that he took a fall for you.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So what else is new?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That you and Johnny Mallory weren't hitting it off too
well for quite a while before he took two slugs
in the head, and that you've always had a yen
for Rocky's wife Camma on the Tennant spell it. What
do you have to I think you killed Mellory. I
think you need psychiatric help.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
With Tennant.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You had three solid motives. One put Rocky away on
ice and he never be able to tell what he knows. Two,
get rid of Mallory by framing Rocky and at the
same time free satisfy that yin of yours for Rocky's wife.
It adds up reveal you know, I changed my mind.
You don't need a psychiatrist, you need a computer. Mallory
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was killed with Rocky's gun, and that gun, on his
own statement, was never out of his hands. And second thought,
forget the computer. Even a computer won't help you add
that up. It's bugging you, you're bugging me, hed All
I've asked for is the photographs of those bullets. By
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the hundredth time, what do you expect to come up with?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Nothing, that's hopeless. I know it's hopeless, and yet I
saw her this afternoon. Kim Stock. He goes to the
gas chamber tonight midnight. She looked, she looked awful. Pete. Yeah,
well it's rough, sure, but one thing that bugs me
and keeps bugging me? Is the pit marks? I'm a
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murder slug. I told you they were made with black powder. Now,
black powder pits the rim deeper than smokeless. But why
would he buy black powder bullets when he could buy
smokeless I told you that too, they're cheaper.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
He was saving money, black powder smokeless powder. Perhaps the
difference the marks on the murder slugs matched the marks
on the test bullet.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
And that senses.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Everything seems that way, Lieutenant. It is that way now,
once and for all. That's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Kim Rocky, alright, things, silly question.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
No, No, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Eight o'clo.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
We always had supper around eight.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
A.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You eight and you want something?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
No, I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'll bring in a tray if you want no no things.
It's something I wanna say.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Tell you you're lucky. I I don't want you to.
I I don't want listen.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You've got your life ahead of me. You're young, and
you're pretty, and you meet the right guy. You meet
the right guy. Some day you married Roy.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Don't be one man in my life, and there'll never
be any other.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
You listen, you listen.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
There's never been anybody like you, and I never will be.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I never loved anyone the way I love you, and.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
And I never will again. We had love together, dreams together.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Bust it now?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Oh h busted, Kim. You can't live with busted dreams.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You can repair them maybe. And if you can't, well,
if they were worth enough to you and they were Rocky,
you can live with the pieces. Oh Kim, Kim, I
I love you, Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Are you all alone? I thought there're the others here?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
May I come in?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
I'd uh rather you didn't?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I thought, never mind, just just one thing. I'm sorry.
I couldn't do anything. I tried. Believe me, I tried.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
I believe you, and I thank you. You did everything. Anyway?
Do come in? No?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Not if I'm acting the way Rocky wouldn't want me
to act, doing what he wouldn't want me to do,
cutting myself off, drowning in my own self pity.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Come in. Uh, there's the coffee? Would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I could thank you? I don't know what I'd do
without coffee. I know I drink too much of it.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But what is it?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
This box of bullets? Here an addresser, this box of bullets?
What about it that made with smokeless powder. Rocky use
bullets made with smokeless powder.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
What off?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
What a fool I've been? What a stupid fool?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
That's what Fats wanted to tell me. It explains everything.
It's the answer, the simple answer, so simple. I never
saw the answer to the whole damn little are you
calling DA the governor? If I have to to stop
Rockie's execution? What he's innoson, Kim, Lucky, He's innoson? By heaven?
Now I can prove it, Kenn, And I don't know
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how to thank you. What do you say to a
guy when he saves your life? And at the last
minute you could have asked why he wasn't smarter quicker?
It was staring me smack in the face all the time,
and I never saw it. The slugs that supposedly killed
Johnny Mallory that were dug out of the back seat
of the murder car were pitted with black powder, and
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the bullets I used were smokeless pottery. Even so, the
bullets that came out of that back seat weren't fired
from my thirty eight automatic by me, but.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Fatjack practice range.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Honey, sure, sure, ammunition that Fats let us use for
practice because it was a lot cheaper than the smokeless
stuff and no trick at all from mana revella. Get
all of a few slugs from the practice range bullets
fired by your gun and stuffed them into the holes
made by the bullets that killed Johnny Mallory after removing
the bullets that did kill him.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Of course, it all looks so impossible if there was
a simple answer all the time.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
The answer you came up with Luta almost too late, Rocky,
almost too late, but luckily not too late. So once again, friends,
I brought you a mystery seemingly impossible of solution, And
once again the answer was as plain to you as
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it was to Lieutenant Chambers, who saw it only in
the nick of time. Did you see it before he did?
You did, well, you're a better detective than he is,
or I am, I didn't. I'll be back shortly to
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save you the trouble of writing and asking. Let me
tell you that all all is well today with Kim
and Rocky and their very close friend Lieutenant Chambers. Rocky
is doing pretty well with FATS practice range. He took
it over not only as a going business, but in
memory of his old friend. As for Kim, She's just
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very happy to as the song title has it, to
have a man around the house her man. Our cast
included Patricia Elliott, Mason Adams, George Petrie, Earl Hammond, and
Ian Martin. The entire production, which under the direction of
Hymon Brown, This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to
return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
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Until next time, Pleasant Dream. The preceding program was produced
by the Columbia Broadcasting System near Noyl News with John
Scott w R. New York
Come in welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm g Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It is established scientific fact. As we all know that
no two sets of fingerprints are alike. It is equally
true that the markings on a bullet that's been fired
are as distinctive as fingerprints. One gun and one gun
only will leave those precise markings no other Our mystery
(00:45):
drama bullet Proof was written especially for the Mystery theater
by George Lowther and stars Mason Adams and Patricia Elliott.
It is sponsored in part by Millick Motor Division. I'll
be back shortly that one. It almost goes without saying
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that what intrigues us about a mystery is finding the
answer to it, especially the kind I bring you now
another of those riddles that seemingly defy solution. Yet the
answer the solution had to be found if an innocent man,
or in any case, a man who claimed to be innocent,
was to be saved from execution in the guest chamber
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of a certain Western state where the death penalty had
been restored. That man was Rocky Stark, who one night
not too long ago found himself facing.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But that's our story.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Another cup of coffee before you get a work hunt
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Look you're say now.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Because you don't think we can afford we can will
not come on Rocky in one of your downloads again.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Nothing's not all that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But that sure sure living, if you can call it,
in one room and a condemned tenement, me with a
crummy night watchman job that pays peanuts, no future, no sign.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Even the future. And you you can say things aren't
all like bad.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I got each other.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
In fact, you and prison two years and all, but
to me it's everything Rocky, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Kim baby, don't don't get me wrong, those two years
behind bars, taking the rock for that creepy partner of
mine many revel I thought of you all day, I
dreamed of you all night.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And all the time.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I'm thinking, when I get out everything, I'll come.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Up roses and man, he owes me. I'm thinking, man,
he'll pay off. It'll be like old times, you and
me living in style the way you ought to live,
instead of a pig style like Rocky.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What happens? What happens?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I go to see him at the Golden Cab, many
him out and what did he say?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm afraid you are he says out.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh U T and then he really lays it on me.
He's got a new partner, two bit Coffee and Colors, Punk,
Johnny Mallow, Fucky.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Sweethet, forget it?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
What's there going over the gun and a can't cards?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I can't forget it. I thought we were running a legit.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Night spot and all the time behind my back, man
he's got a loan shark operation going. He comes to me, kid, kid,
he says, I'm a I'm a three time loser. You
take the bath for me and.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'll make it up to you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Sure, I took the bath, all right, and I'm still
dropping and you along with me, Ken, That is the
hell of it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's what drives me crazy alone.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And they're not warehouse are And I'm thinking what you
deserve to have on what you've got taken it if
you hadn't been fool enough to marry him.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I married you because I love you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Things are gonna work out. They're working out already. You've
got a job.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
He's the thing you never got, an ex car.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You've got it, and it's a step towards something better.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But they promise you it would.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Don't get me wrong, Kim, I've got a lot of
respect for my brother, Frank, he's gone far city councilman
and only thirty three, two years.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Younger than me. But he can't work miracles.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Thanks got to the job, didn't He got to the
primith to carry your gune so you could take the job.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, I guess you could say that came pretty close
to America.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Me and that's Cohn, But never mind the butt. Thanks
promised to do everything he can for.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You or for you?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
H what do you mean for me?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He's in love with you, Kim, always has been. You
know that hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
He's silly.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Thanks, stop carrying the torch from me the day I
married you out. I want you better get moving or
you'll be late.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Who could that be?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You Rocky Stack. Yeah, Lieutenant Chambers, my sidekick, Detective Robins.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Well what do you want now?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What do you want? You're arrest under arrest for what
sus picion of my.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Who's work?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Got named? Johnny Mallory Johnny Mallory Rackey, Hello, Frank, thanks
for coming. Your lawyer will be here in half an hour,
So my.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Lawyer, I haven't got a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You have now, Gary McMillan, Gard McMillan. Well, he's the
best what is he gonna cost that on the never mind?
Now now you need the best. And that's all the
counts right now. Boyt's do it, Rocky?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Are you hid he or something?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I didn't kill Johnny Mallory and they say you did.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
They'll have to prove that they can.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What the bullets that kill Mallory were fired from York.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
LA's impossible, Bla's impossible.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm thirty eight of mine has never left my handswins
the day you got me the permit for it. Now, look, Rocky,
they picked you up last night when Manny Revel told
Annie has told them about the fight you had with
Mallory and Manny's office, and the fletcher made a ballistics
checked the bullets to kill Mallory with the bullet fired
from your gun. The markings are identical.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
They can't be. They are.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Not Tell me, did you threaten Mallory? No? I never
even saw Johnny Mallery when you went to see Manny.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
That's all I saw.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Manny Racky. Where were you yesterday afternoon between three and six? Why,
that's when Mallory was murdered. They found the body in
his car parked in a lonely spot out near warehouse point.
He'd been killed with two bullets through the head. Bullets
they dug out of the backseat cushion, and compared with
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one fired from your thirty eight. Now where were you
between three and.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Six in Bayside Park? What were you doing there?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Kim works in a restaurant. Here there I was killing time,
waiting for the finish so as I could walk home
with her. You were waiting for three hours on a cold,
rainy day in the park. For three hours.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Sounds kind of out of space, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It certainly does.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, maybe I have space out, Frank, I can't get.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Out of my mind when I've gone to Kim. I
wrecked her life. She's the greatest.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You know that, And I wanna give her the sun,
the moon, the stars or what have I given her?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
A roach's trapping, a condemned tenement. I get to think,
I like that alone in the place, and I have
to get out, so I go to the park, rain
or shine.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
At least that's free.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
In this cumming world. May cost you more than you're
barking for. Without an alibi, though what alibi? You could have?
Your gun killed him?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
My gun?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Nobody has touched that gun except me. Well, how can
you be so sure of that? How hot tell you how.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You stuck your neck out?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're stuck your neck way out to get me that
part of it. And you had to have a gun
to get the job, and you got it for me.
So was I gonna take a chance on some gun?
So'll stealing it on me? I owed you that at least,
So when I tell you that that thirty eight never
left my hands, it never did. And fought Frank, I
even slept with the damn thing, slept stopped to my side.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I wasn't taking any.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Chances, So I don't care what they came up with
in ballistics. There were the comparison microscope doesn't lie. Cops
are people, and people make mistakes, not this time.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I asked to see for myself and they showed me well,
and I don't get it right.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Why the look.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You think I did it?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Huh? It doesn't matter what I think. It's what the
fox poof. Now, you and Johnny Mallory were enemies for years. Now,
that's for openers. Johnny stepped into your shoes when he
became Manny Ravel's partner. Now, according to revel. You threaten me, Johnny,
and Johnny was killed with your gun. No, it doesn't
matter what I think. What matters is yeah, what a
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jury will think.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Rocky, just a minute, what do you want now?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Is that a way to greet an old friend? Kim?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Did you say friend?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Nanny?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Rocky's in a mess. I want to help if I can. Okay,
to come in, come in.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Whatever you have to say, Nanny, say it and get out.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I guess I already said it. I wanna help any
way I can. Rocky's gonna need a lawyer. That one
his brother took care of the lawyers costs. You'll need money,
not from you, not after what you did to him.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Me.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I did something to Rocky.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He took a lot to you, and you sold him out.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, Wrapper, Now what are you talking about? I see
that's the little fairy tale.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
He told you that had no fairy tale, the.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Truth, and I sold him out. Now would I do
that now? He too? Johnny taping me temporary Sure NoHo
runs a night spot as big as a golden cap
without help. When they put Rocky away, I needed help.
I had Johnny mallray he wish you, Poppy told no,
I see, I see more fairy tales, eh, Kim. Let
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me give it to you straight. Rocky never took any
rep from me. They nailed him.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
With the good Then how come when he went to
kee you, I tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
He finds out Malory's working with me and right away
blows his wig, you know, his head triggered temper. He
gets it into his head Mallory's my partner and starts
sounding off. Never gives me a chance to straighten them out.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You're lying, No, Kim, I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Hey, listen, you know how I feel about Rocky, and
you'll at least know how I feel about you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I ought to you made enough papers while Rocky was
in prison.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It's my fault your time.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Are you will? Really?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Rocky spend you to ten yourself off?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But anyhow, I want to help if.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I can, and any come in? Oh frank, uh, come in?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Though?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm asking myself the same question. Stock You know where
I am, Kim, if you need me, Huh?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What was that all about?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Never mind? Did you see Rocky?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yes? How is he He's okay?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
When can I see him?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
As soon as Garment Millan arranges things. Now, maybe this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
McMillan, the same as goar McMillon.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yes, Rocky needs the best legal talent can be had
now he's in real trouble.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I know the bullet snatch his gun.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's in the papers that he didn't murder Johnny Mallory.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Thank he didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No one else could have.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Kim.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Now, Rocky swears that gun never left him since the
day he and I went together to buy it.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It never hired.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well, then the mistake's been made, that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, no mistake.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You believe he did it?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Have I any choice?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
He's your brother.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's one reason I haven't had any choice. I know Rocky,
I know that temper of his.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Oh I'm sorry, Kim.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But from where I sit, Rocky killed Johnny Mallory. No
one else could have.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Someone else did the bullets poved. The shots were fired.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
From Rocky's gun.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But it wasn't Rocky. You pulled the trigger.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It had to be. He swears the gun has never
been out of his hands now, is that true?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yes, but he's never.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Even fired it except on a practice.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Rain, never him. The police have a strong case against
Rocky In fact, it's open and shut. I don't think
even Gar McMillan can save him. Well, surely it is
an open and shut case. There's no question at all
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about the bullets matching comparison. Microscopes don't lie. As for
the gun having been used by someone else personally, I
believe Rocky's story that it has never been out of
his possession. So what possible answer can they be to
the well the impossible. I'll return shortly for act two.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What is fate?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, I don't know. I'm asking you. You have to
wonder why an apparently nice guy like Rocky Stark, who
is trying his best to repay their broken dreams because
he's deeply in love with his wife, Kim R and
wants her to have everything in the world can offer.
You really have to wonder why life suddenly and for
no discernible reason, takes another hefty wallop at him, visiting
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him in his cell, Kim puzzles over the same thing.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's too much, it isn't fair. Just when things were
beginning to.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Break for you, of this, I wouldn't exactly say things
were breaking for me, Kim. I had my uh first
talk with mcmellan this morning.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
God mc newan, he was here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, the way he acted, the way he talk I
I don't know, Kim, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Cause he's he's the best defense in the country.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
A lawyer, not a magician.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
He tried to sound upbeat, but I could tell he
wasn't exactly all choked up over my chance.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Either.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You, Kim, why it was in your eyes when you
walk in there now, in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Even in the way you smile. I know your honey,
I can tell.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, wouldn't it be foolish pretending it's cause be easy
proving you anything?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I suppose, even if you believe I'm innocent.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Do you look you? I I love you, I know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But that isn't what I asked him. Johnny Mallory was
murdered with my gun. But Kim, I swear to yet,
I didn't fire the shot, sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's impossible unless you run about nobody else getting your
hands on that gun.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Nobody else did.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Nobody caught him.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
He didn't lend it to anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Good Lord, Kim.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
If I'd have done that, don't you think I'd be
spelling it to everybody?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yes? Of course you wouldn't. Oh, hinds up already give.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Us another minute, hidie, look, sweetie, you take care of yourself.
I will, I mean, okay, got up door to get
by like that? How about food stamps were running low?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh no, no, no, I got enough?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, especially with me in here. Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's one bright side dollars anyhow, My three squares are
free on the house.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Food not bad either.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Now I have got something to worry about.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
If you spoil when you get home, my cooking won't
be enough for you anymore.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And you you are no baby lucky move me day, Yes,
missus Stark, Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
My mother Spratt, Jack Spratt, I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Maybe the name Fats would mean more to you that.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You're rocky rocky head meant that name.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Everybody calls me Fats. You see, Okay, if I come in,
I'm a I'm a friend of the Rockies.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Well, of course cook come in?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, thank you? Hey, Hey smells good? Why are you cooking?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Became me? Called?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Sure? Smells good?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Real good?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I I I I.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
W Would you like that?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I sure worder you gotta half hot?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, yeah, plenty to take it out off.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
God's fine?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Fine, he.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Now you know who I am, missus.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Dodd Well, yes, and no, I I mean rocket Hat,
Munson Tire.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I hop away the place called the bulls Eye. It's
a practice range where guys they want to sharpen up
the rye or keep it shop they practice.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Or uh a shitting range here.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, hey, thanks, this looks good. He that's how
I know Rocky and he knows me. See he done
practicing at the place, and not much in the county,
couldn't afford much. But but someone and him and we,
you know, we hit it off like, hey, you didn't
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sell yourself yet.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I uh, I really don't care for me.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You don't care a distant smells and taste like this,
and you don't believe any Wait a minute, wait a minute,
let me have a look in that pot. You know
you shouldn't have done nothing. I got message Stark, you
got just enough food for yourself and you give it
to me. Now that's no one that Rocky. He was
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always saying, you belong on a pedistal. Yeah, here to
you you're going, I'm not I'm not hungry. I just
like to eat it all.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You go, you dig in?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Will I tell you why I'm here, has it now?
See when I heard Rocky was accused of putting the
barn and on Johnny Marrowy, I said to myself, that's
a lot of ball Rockies, no killer, no own shock
type eater. Then you don't believe that he took a
bye for manor of el and when he got out
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many shifted him.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
But Johnny Nowley would kill the Rocky.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Gower looks that way.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, but Rocky's convinced the gun has never been out
of his hands.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
See that's what I wanted to ask you about. Now me,
I know how Rocky felt about that thirty eighth. Could
he be wrong? Maybe about nobody else getting his hands
on that gun? Like, for instance, did he actually sleep
with it strapped to his side? Du no, no, no,
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he wasn't taking all chances now your day. I just
wanted to be sure of that before I go down
to headquarters.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Please had caught it?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, yeah, I got an idea that could save.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Rocky if I might.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
That is my idea.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
What now, Look, don't go get your hopes too high.
I could be wrong too, but I don't want to
talk it over with a friend of mine. And ballist
makes the parent chambers.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But that's what is your idea?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well, it's just this. Somebody could have put the brain
on Johnny Murray with another gun and made it look
like Rockies.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I mean, is it true that the bullets are distinctive,
the fingerprints, that the markings on a bullet after it's
been five proud.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That it came from one gun and the other gun?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Right, But then how can now you have been killed
with another gun? If the bullets that killed and came
from Rockies?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Wo?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
How look it's better, right, I'll tell him, I said,
I don't want to take chances the wrong guy. And
I know what I know, I think I know, But
I'm tell you this. If my idea is right, if
it supposed I Rocky will be a free man by tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But chimage quite pretty sure it was right.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
How could he be My gun killed Johnny Mowry. There
just can't be any two ways about that.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You didn't kill him and nobody else thought you had done. Yeah, yeah,
he's right, It is ideal.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Whatever it is is, he shouldn't have come to you
getting your hopes up, getting.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yours up too. If it comes to that, No, learn me, Turkey.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I had another talk with McMillan and he said he
checked everything out his staff anyhow, guys who do his
investigating and let's hopeless. No, yeah, he wants me to
plead guilty, guilty with a plea for clemency on grinds
of I don't know, temporary insanity or something.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That's he out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Funny.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
If there's anybody in this world who is an out
of his mind, it's gar McMillan. Oh fuck well, lucky Kim.
But the afternoon pay for fives. I uh, I just
come for seeing McMillan. He told me about the guilty plate.
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You've can ride with that I don't know yet. You'd better, why, Kim,
I don't want to upset you. Thank If Rocky pleads innocent,
the jury just playing won't believe him now, no jury
that's right mind would But.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Thank you don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
We've got to face facts.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Rocky is the next car.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Thank there's a man offender Rocky to call him thoughts.
He came to see me earlier today and thanks you
listen to me please, He said he was sure Rockey
within it's a positive of it and he's an idea
had worked out to him. He could prove another gun
with you to kill Mallory.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Calder factors talking blue sky. Fats is dead?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
What dead?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He's a front page headline in the afternoon paper. See
for yourself, I'm killing your playhead. He's the owner of
a pistol shooting practice range. Fats Jack Spratt was gunned
down in cold Blood this after noon, just a block
from police.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
No, decent guy like Fats.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Why uh he got me?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But how'd you happen to annoy him?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I practiced at the range he owned when I could
afford it.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I liked him, he liked me.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Well, whatever idea he had will never know what it
was now that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Depends on what and whether he was killed before he
got the Lieutenant Chambers or after.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
The chambers.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, it's coming in, missus shack Calen and have to
see h Thank you. You're the wife of Rocky Stock
and you wanted to see me about Jack Spratt. Fats, Yes,
Fats was a good friend of mine and on each
other for years. How'd you happen to annoy him? To start?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, he came to see me about my husband three
hours or so before he before he was murdered.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Ah, why did Fats want to see you about your husband?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He said he had an idea of how Johnny Mallory
was killed.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, I uh, I guess we know how Mallory was killed,
don't we do we? I'm sorry, of course you feel.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I certainly do, Lieutenant. My husband is innocent.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Well he's uh, he's yet to be proved guilty, that's
for sure.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Lieutenant. It stops killed before he saw.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You, or afterward, before he saw me. I I I
don't think I understand when he left me.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
He was on his way here to see you. He
had this idea he wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh, well, he he never got here. Come to think
of it, he must have been on his way here
when he was shot down.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
He was, well, I'll be well, I guess that ends that. Well,
thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Oh wait, wait, cite missus Shark gom all all I calls, Okay,
I I think you and I ought to do some talking.
Missus Starr.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I don't know what about lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That never told you I was gone down on his
way to see me, which could mean somebody didn't want
Tom to see me, didn't want me to find out
what idea Fats had in mind.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I didn't think of that.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, think of it now, missus Shark. What idea did
Fats have in mind? Exactly what idea? Of course, it
goes without saying that the idea Fats had in mind
stopped this side of sanity. How could two bullets be
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fired from one gun but leave the markings on them
of another gun? As any forensic expert will tell you,
it's an impossibility. And yet, well, I promise we'll know
the answer, And there is an answer. I return for
Act three. When a certain Johnny Mallory was murdered with
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two bullets from a thirty eight automatic. The bullets dug
from the back seat of the car in which Mallory
was sitting were traced to a gun owned by Rocky Stark.
The murder bullets match exactly precisely a test bullet fired
from rocky thirty eight automatic. Yet Rocky claims that, although
the gun has never left his possession, he did not
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murder Johnny Mallory. This, as Lieutenant Larry Chambers of Ballistics
tells Rocky's devoted wife Kim, is an absolute and utter impossibility.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
My husband didn't kill Johnny Mallory, Lieutenant, I know it
didn't look.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You're his wife, you'll love him naturally, you feel that way.
But assuming for argument's sake, he didn't kill Mallory and
someone else killed him, and that someone else used I
had to use your husband's thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's impossible.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Rocky gotted that gun is a his life depended on it.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Hu.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I wish he hadn't.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I wish he could say someone might have stolen it.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Let let's get back to fat Jack Spratt. I'll tell
you again what he told you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
He said he had an idea how somebody could have
murdered Mallory with another gun and make it look like Rockies.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That was exactly what he told you. Our memories played
tricks on or something.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I said.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Someone else could have burned burned. That was the way
you burned Mallory with another gun and made it look
like Rockies. Now those were his words, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Mmm. Nobody could have pumped two bullets in the Mallory
with another gun and made it look like your husband's. No,
two guns make the same marks on a bullet. Still
in awe yes, nobody in this town knew more about guns.
Especially small firearms, handguns and fats. If he had some
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idea of how it could have been done, then I'd
say it could be done. Could be why he was killed.
Sobody was scared. He blowed his whole puzzle wide open.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
But you can't. I mean, what, pats that doesn't go
up for you?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Uh huh, But let me think about it for a
while and maybe it will.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You don't find that helpful, hey all the time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's see the tag on that gun. Yeah, it's Rocky stocks,
all right, Okay, fire me a test bullet by four.
Here's a test bullet we'll use when we combine all
that peepe. But fire me another whatever you say, Look
and just let me fit into the test box here.
So now I'll have a dug out of the cot
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in a second.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Thanks, Now, let's put it under the comparison microscope with
one of the murder bullets. Okay, yeah, yeah, set up,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Look hmmm.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Mm hmm a match, No doubt about that, same glus
and scratches, pit marks in the rim, satisfying, I guess.
So only uh, only what I don't know? What about facts?
Why was he gunned down on his way to see me, Well,
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thanks for your trouble, Pete. Why trouble. I enjoy shooting
bulletin at that box and finding him again. E gives
me a sense of accomplishment. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah sure,
send missus Stark right then, come in, kim baby, come in,
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good to see heh sit here right here. I was
about a drink. No thanks, you don't mind if I
uh I have. It's a long time, no see.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
On a month you said you wanted to see me
about Rocky.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
You said you could help him.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, we'll we'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Let's get to it now. It's the only reason I'm here.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, Rocky goes to tryal tomorrow and he hasn't got
to pray it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You know it, I know it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
In that case, how can you help him?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, I figure he's worried about you, so uh, how
would you like a job here at the club hostess?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
A job here?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well, the paid be good, a lot better than you
do is a waitress.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
It's just what you happened me here for that.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
You have helping Rocky take a.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Worry off his mind, wasn't that? I mean he'd know
you have a good paying job, that you were secure.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And safe around you, I'd be safe and a snake pit.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Now wait a minute, don't go hands of baby, will
be little pain. Never did any harm dog.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
It?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah what he wanted. I got a choice. Okay, send
a bum in, I bit it bebby out this way?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
And what song with the front arm to is I
tell you way?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh times for this kind of time?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Oh heck yeah, come on in, Come on in, lieutenant?
What what the dam was he? Your Manny was O, Hey,
what do you want? Lieutenant? I'm Billy so am I
Rocky Shock and you were partners in this nightclub a
little more than two years ago. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What of it?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
The two of you were accused of using the place
as a front for a loan shark operation.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You know it is a white bother asking You also
know the rock he was operating behind my back. Guy
was in his Simpton Market. Can pass his talk around
that he took a fall for you.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So what else is new?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That you and Johnny Mallory weren't hitting it off too
well for quite a while before he took two slugs
in the head, and that you've always had a yen
for Rocky's wife Camma on the Tennant spell it. What
do you have to I think you killed Mellory. I
think you need psychiatric help.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
With Tennant.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You had three solid motives. One put Rocky away on
ice and he never be able to tell what he knows. Two,
get rid of Mallory by framing Rocky and at the
same time free satisfy that yin of yours for Rocky's wife.
It adds up reveal you know, I changed my mind.
You don't need a psychiatrist, you need a computer. Mallory
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was killed with Rocky's gun, and that gun, on his
own statement, was never out of his hands. And second thought,
forget the computer. Even a computer won't help you add
that up. It's bugging you, you're bugging me, hed All
I've asked for is the photographs of those bullets. By
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the hundredth time, what do you expect to come up with?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Nothing, that's hopeless. I know it's hopeless, and yet I
saw her this afternoon. Kim Stock. He goes to the
gas chamber tonight midnight. She looked, she looked awful. Pete. Yeah,
well it's rough, sure, but one thing that bugs me
and keeps bugging me? Is the pit marks? I'm a
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murder slug. I told you they were made with black powder. Now,
black powder pits the rim deeper than smokeless. But why
would he buy black powder bullets when he could buy
smokeless I told you that too, they're cheaper.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
He was saving money, black powder smokeless powder. Perhaps the
difference the marks on the murder slugs matched the marks
on the test bullet.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
And that senses.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Everything seems that way, Lieutenant. It is that way now,
once and for all. That's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Kim Rocky, alright, things, silly question.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
No, No, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Eight o'clo.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
We always had supper around eight.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
A.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You eight and you want something?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
No, I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'll bring in a tray if you want no no things.
It's something I wanna say.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Tell you you're lucky. I I don't want you to.
I I don't want listen.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You've got your life ahead of me. You're young, and
you're pretty, and you meet the right guy. You meet
the right guy. Some day you married Roy.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Don't be one man in my life, and there'll never
be any other.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
You listen, you listen.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
There's never been anybody like you, and I never will be.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I never loved anyone the way I love you, and.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
And I never will again. We had love together, dreams together.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Bust it now?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Oh h busted, Kim. You can't live with busted dreams.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You can repair them maybe. And if you can't, well,
if they were worth enough to you and they were Rocky,
you can live with the pieces. Oh Kim, Kim, I
I love you, Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Are you all alone? I thought there're the others here?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
May I come in?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
I'd uh rather you didn't?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I thought, never mind, just just one thing. I'm sorry.
I couldn't do anything. I tried. Believe me, I tried.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
I believe you, and I thank you. You did everything. Anyway?
Do come in? No?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Not if I'm acting the way Rocky wouldn't want me
to act, doing what he wouldn't want me to do,
cutting myself off, drowning in my own self pity.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Come in. Uh, there's the coffee? Would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I could thank you? I don't know what I'd do
without coffee. I know I drink too much of it.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But what is it?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
This box of bullets? Here an addresser, this box of bullets?
What about it that made with smokeless powder. Rocky use
bullets made with smokeless powder.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
What off?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
What a fool I've been? What a stupid fool?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
That's what Fats wanted to tell me. It explains everything.
It's the answer, the simple answer, so simple. I never
saw the answer to the whole damn little are you
calling DA the governor? If I have to to stop
Rockie's execution? What he's innoson, Kim, Lucky, He's innoson? By heaven?
Now I can prove it, Kenn, And I don't know
(37:14):
how to thank you. What do you say to a
guy when he saves your life? And at the last
minute you could have asked why he wasn't smarter quicker?
It was staring me smack in the face all the time,
and I never saw it. The slugs that supposedly killed
Johnny Mallory that were dug out of the back seat
of the murder car were pitted with black powder, and
(37:34):
the bullets I used were smokeless pottery. Even so, the
bullets that came out of that back seat weren't fired
from my thirty eight automatic by me, but.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Fatjack practice range.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Honey, sure, sure, ammunition that Fats let us use for
practice because it was a lot cheaper than the smokeless
stuff and no trick at all from mana revella. Get
all of a few slugs from the practice range bullets
fired by your gun and stuffed them into the holes
made by the bullets that killed Johnny Mallory after removing
the bullets that did kill him.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Of course, it all looks so impossible if there was
a simple answer all the time.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
The answer you came up with Luta almost too late, Rocky,
almost too late, but luckily not too late. So once again, friends,
I brought you a mystery seemingly impossible of solution, And
once again the answer was as plain to you as
(38:30):
it was to Lieutenant Chambers, who saw it only in
the nick of time. Did you see it before he did?
You did, well, you're a better detective than he is,
or I am, I didn't. I'll be back shortly to
(38:56):
save you the trouble of writing and asking. Let me
tell you that all all is well today with Kim
and Rocky and their very close friend Lieutenant Chambers. Rocky
is doing pretty well with FATS practice range. He took
it over not only as a going business, but in
memory of his old friend. As for Kim, She's just
(39:17):
very happy to as the song title has it, to
have a man around the house her man. Our cast
included Patricia Elliott, Mason Adams, George Petrie, Earl Hammond, and
Ian Martin. The entire production, which under the direction of
Hymon Brown, This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to
return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
(39:39):
Until next time, Pleasant Dream. The preceding program was produced
by the Columbia Broadcasting System near Noyl News with John
Scott w R. New York
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