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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to Classic comedy of Old time Radio. I'm your host,
Ron Eckelbarger. Happy Thanksgiving. Now, I realize I have a
lot of listeners who don't live in the United States
or in places where the American holiday of Thanksgiving is observed,
and yet giving thanks is something that transcends all ethnicities
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and national borders. So I do wish everyone a wonderful day,
whether you are eating turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes
and gravy and pumpkin pie like me, or tea and crumpets,
or a ros comfoil, or even a hunk of bread
with marmite or vegemite on it. Today we are celebrating
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the soliday with a special Thanksgiving themed episode. This episode
is from the Adventures of Sam Spade. It is called
the Terrified Turkey Caper. This episode originally aired over seventy
five years ago on the day after Thanksgiving, November twenty fourth,
nineteen fifty The.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Fade, Detective.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm saying to talk about this sweet.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh there's it? Does this blos out over the flocks
in a row.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Of a just business going on as usual, going all vccasions.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Whatever, get on about down. They cried eye dust, try
to put my feathers and cooked my goose city. How
could they? Oh? They were a mean lot.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Hey LENARTI every gibbling in place and on a feather
repos did you em?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And I Thanksgiving with heaven? Mama had to take your dinner?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Say second contain a dance, haid sighting came clean eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Everyone was there seven day DWAs missus plaus How would
take the part that you.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Didn't tell up? Song to do at that student dinner? Sure?
Say at the helping hand rescue mission where there's party
of free parking and never a cover charge. For further details,
consult the report, which I will presently be down to
dictate on a pasty chronicle.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Of foul praise the Terrified Turkey Caper.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
One BC William Peer Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery
and crime drama brings you the greatest private detective of
them all in the Adventures of Sam Faith Sam Bay. Oh,
you were waiting for seven thanks to dinner, had a
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rescue mission and there your mother for me as tell
her I'll be over the blank wishbones with her or
not and to atone for my social indifferences. Here's a
little something I brought for you, he said, beautiful a
blunderby a blunder bess as in sect to the rear
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of Oh, well, it's fun. It's a gun. Our founding
fathers use it in foraging for feathered food when they
settle this abundance continent. And it's not to do is
what you will? Oh, where's the game? And swo boys,
Chad opens the founding father. Don't peek, they No'tember twenty fourth,
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nineteen fifty two Detective resented, I see Kelsey homicide detailed
San Francisco Police from Samuel State Ricense number one, three seven,
five nine six, Soudric Turkey, Dear Kelsey, this was a
big week for the cranberry pickers, the butchers, the stage makers,
and the stomach pilled people. But the price with detectives
it was thickly from hunger. My office door opened only
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twice a day, once to let me in and once
to let me out. And when on Wednesday I heard
a knock on the door, I went into a paroxysm
of delight. Come in, come in, Come in, husre wo
Hu said. When I ran out of languages. I got
up from behind the desk, walked to the door and
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opened it. Standing there was a small, middle aged man
with a pink bald head. His blue serge suit needed pressing,
and he was nervously fingering a full very birthmark under
his left ears. Mister Samuel Stink, I am like may
I I haven't known it. You may have several, but
not in the corridor. It's not in my lease.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, I'll come in.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, yes, you'll have to excuse me, mister Stado.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I've had so fhe dealing with the part of detective.
I'll find it hard to be go.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh, perhaps I shouldn't have come at all. Good, No,
I'll wait a minute. Maybe I can help you. So
you see I.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh, what's the use You won't believe me? Nobody does.
I reely that is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh my wait wait, I'll believe you. Oh, I asked
you the check. Now let's start with your name. What
my name is? Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yes, yes, my name?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
To begin with.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You won't believe that, but I can verify it if
I can. It's find the registration book the old Colony
hotel in the nineteen forty three phone books and on
my old River's license.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, i'll have to know it before I can verify it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Okay, yes, of course you will.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's just it's come. Yeah, that's not so hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh, you haven't heard the rest of it. It's come apparently,
you see. I told you you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I said, Oh no, let me be the first to
believe you, now, mister read or what's your.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Oh dare yet it's even harder to explain.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well now that I don't fully but to take a
breath and jump into it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yes, hello Tom Turkey and said guy to kill me
for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, I had asked for it, and I have gotten it.
And I sat back wondering who had gone to all
the trouble to play this funny joke on it. I
was looking at my hand to see if there was
any issuing powder on it where he'd shaken it. When
my phone rang. I loot to the receiver, swung around
in my swivel, and gave out out of a street.
It was Alcoucho, calling a private eye whose reputation was
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shadier than a mushroom cellar high Stow.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I haven't seen much of you lately, spready and I
have to get together.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, well so long.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Wait wait, I'll tell you why I call it. I've
had a pest in my office keeps coming back. Thinks
she's a turkey. Somebody wants to dress. I brushed him,
but your name came up and I just wanted to
warn yet he might be able.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
To see it. I'm confused now. I never knew you
to turn your back on our butt. Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't want any of this one.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
His buttons are loose.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
My advice to you is to bounce.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We've never traded advice before, Toucho fin. After all, we're
in the same racket.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If we can't help each other.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The oh sure, al sure, I appreciate it. Gimme a ring.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We've got to get together some Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
When I got a pre night, will Jimmy parking lead? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We uh oh yeah, they're parking me a letter.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I turned back to the desks, and what I saw
in front of me was an empty chair. Tom Turkey
had taken wings. I got up and walked to the window,
and a minute later I tew him come out of
the building downstairs and start to cross the street. And
then I saw something else, the large four ton truck
was turning down the street picking up seeds. Instinctively, I
shot at the warning and at the last second Tom
Turkey startled from in front of the fucking disappeared into
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the alleyway. A truck crawled up the street non at
side was prented in gold letters paynes you drive. There
was nothing to say. It wasn't coincidence, this near mith Path.
But somehow I found myself in free wanting to hear
more of the little guy's story. He said the old
Colony hotel, I'm away. I stopped at the library, found
an old nineteen forty three phone book and looks he
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was listed Commas Turkey. It says, out of curiosity, I
rang the number. Hello, I wonder if you could help me.
I'm inquiring about a mister Turkey. Turkey, his home, his number,
no more. I know I'm not the call from him
for years. Yeah, I know, I know. No. A woman
named Rabbit once missus rabbits about Turkey. Could you remember
what he looked like? I don't, Hey, Manny what Turkey?
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It looks like.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Small man round pikey, nice telematic.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Very under aggressive, very undress here money, oh yeah, saw
Verry under aggressive. Well, thank you madam for your information,
and thanks to Manny. Well you're welcome, but I don't
know what you're going to do with it. Oh no,
turkey job, good dad for you, jolly sir and chillious.
I thought they had this drag the man who came
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to my office twenty minutes ago, and now he'd been
dead for years. I continued on to the old Colony
hotel room seventy five cents, It said Tom's room has
one fourteen is sam faith?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh I'm little mister stage there, I'm sorry anyway, I
couldn't think so really.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
There, Well, I'm not sure I do yet? Tell me
were that fucking accident?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh I don't think so. No, they they'll make three
attempts before to kill me. Somebody kind of push me
kind of a trill. Then a wheel chef full of
simonth dropped off of Hilly in Justinsk and I was
shocked at.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
All who were very and why would they want to
kill you?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Oh, don't look, I'm shocked.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
No, look what's Texas Tack? I dialed your old phone
number and the people who answered said you're dead.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Oh A lot of people think I'm good.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, look, do you still want me to work for you? Oh? Yes, yes,
Well you'll have to tell me more than I tell her.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I guess i'd better tell you everything. Oh it's hard
to talk about in mister Spade. It's not easy to
admit to someone she's being a foolish thing. You see,
I just turned fifty. I was quite tired of the
last odelets, proper doll and man fruitful accepting money. My
business was wearing, and so was my wife, Henriette both
has a traditional ring. Anyway, to make it sure, I
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decided to run away, wonder I drove to work. I
parked my car in the middle of the Bay Bridge
where the suicide note left this and disappeared.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Where did you go? Oh? All over the world. I
took a job on a boat.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I did on a boat, and then I settled in
Sant Paula, Brazil under another name. Now you're back wise,
Maybe I got lonely, Maybe I got wiser. Maybe maybe
I felt I take enough the man's takes. Let's you say,
I'm box. I want to do with Henrietta?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Have you seen her? I checked into this hotel and
drove her a lever so I wasn't dead. I was
back in San.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Francisco and I wanted to come back to her if
she still would have me. But I told her I
would ada her unless she wanted to see me, that
she could contact me here. That's where was a week ago,
and you haven't heard drummer no no, And almost right
away these attents on my last be games.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I see now.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I went to address for you run one eight Monroah,
she's taking her lingolo again, black Henry Attapropa, come on,
let's go. No, No, I'm not going to see her
until she asks me. Look, you're going to my apartment,
nobody a body of theirs, and you are going to
see Henriette.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh, thank you, thank you, mister stage. You do to
lose me, I think, hudrure ready to say the well again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now. I deposited Tome in my apartment with instructions to
open the door for no one but me, and then
I proceeded to thirty one eighteen Monroe in a high
rent district. I was ventured through a come re portogo
by a Japanese maid who told me to wait in
a study heavy with mahaganez. In a moment two people
came in. The woman who wore a black vest, silver pendant,
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flat shoes, and a complexion of apple meat. She was
miss Henriette Black and or missus Tom Turkey. The man
turned out to be Leander Luce, the lady's attorney, business
manager and Tonster partner.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You say you have something important to discuss with me,
mister Strain, I do. I hope you don't mind my
asking if the.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Loose to do her not at all, Missus Turkey. I
just talked to your husband Tom, mister Sade, if you
please I say something a rather feeble attempts at comedy,
Missus Stable. I wasn't trying for a last you are,
Missus Turkey answers, I was? You undoubtedly still are. I've
expected to hear another one of these cruel jokes about
mony Thanksgiving time, mister Straid. Someone was always going to
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stuff Tom, based him, gret him fly here this season
they're going to kill him. They are not going to
kill him.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He is already dead.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He's not dead, Missus Turkey, and you should not. I yes,
he sent you a letter saying he was back in
San Francisco and wanted to see mister Fraid. This is
going absolutely far enough, not quite. What about the letter
I know of? No sus I see. Well, thank you
for your time. I'm sorry I bought it. You was
bad judgment and coming in the first place. Yes, maybe
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you're right. There was false foot in this someplace, Lieutenant,
and it suck out like a fat girl in flack.
The only thing to do is to go back to
my apartment, get Tom Turkey in confront Missus Tea with
her husband in the flesh. But when I got back
to my apartment building, I spotted, in rapid succession, one
an ambulance, two a police car, and upstairs outside my
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half open apartment door, I spotted free. You ben't expecting it.
What's going on, Chelsea? Serious? Who's that bullheaded man moving
around the apartment? That's mccrackham and your medical examiner checking
a stiff on your rug. I stepped around you, Lieutenant,
and pushed the door all the way open. I saw
McCracken kneeling over the body and a couple of men
from homicide taking photos. I moved into the room feeling
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nothing good. A little guy had given me a job
and followed jacking with his wife. Somebody got to him
my apartment where I'd sussed them. Mccreckon stood up and
I looked down at the body. Then I looked again.
Who I saw wasn't Tom Turkey at all. It was
a late private eye al kutsl. You are listening to
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the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Faith
You Friday fans of Sam Stade's mystery. On Saturday evening too,
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on NBC Tomorrow, the man called X sets out on
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and his business is danger. He's the man called X.
Tomorrow stations for Top Sunday Listening, It's another broadcast of
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Fred Allen, Jack Carson, Lindy Carson, ed Archie Gardner.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Edwin and many many more. And Talula is your MC
as usual this Sunday. It's the Big Show on MDC.
And now back to the Terrified Turkey Caper. Tonight's adventure
with Sam Stade.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
While the men from Hamas Garde were taking pictures et
ceter You and I lieutenants were going round and round
on the question if I didn't kill a man found
in my room, who did? And you were sufficiently impressed
with my insult, Chelsea, not to hold me for the murder.
We vowed to each other, and I left, thinking back
to the trucks that had almost run Turkey down. I
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went to the hange you drive truck rental garage. What me,
what do you want? I'm a detective. Could you give
me a list of names for everybody who rendered the
truck from you during the past few days? Here? He
handed me a big registration book and I read every
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name for the past week. For the first five days
they all seemed to be nice, normal, abnormal names. And
then under the rentals for the day before was the
name of John Smith. John had given his address There's
seventy two hundred turney, and I happened to know the
tourney only goes up to twenty hundred. The despatcher said
that mess had returned the trunk about three hours before,
and he remembered them as an ugly, heavy set and
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rough voice character who looked like an ex long shoreman.
They had already washed the truck, so their fingerprints were
all out. Stuff here, it's just pray again. Look, I'd
like to speak with missus. Missus Flack's gisue, no buy,
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come in, come in, thank you, this way into the
day right. Well, I was sure you'd look into this
affair a little more and realized as it was just
a blind alley a halt for some times. Miss Black, Oh,
she's upstairs, lying down. The whole affair is upset her.
And there she asked not to be the surved. I
think the wisest cause of action for you, Missus vaide,
is just to let the matter drop. You can't let
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our murder just drop, Miss Fillers. The police wouldn't hear it? Huh?
Who an, I'm trapped. Private detective named al Kucho, Oh
what does this have to do with Henrietta Blank? Al
Kuchu called me earlier today and said that Tom Turkey
was a crack pop, a little man with delusion. He
tried to taught me off taking his case. He sound
was a perceiving man. Well he didn't perceive ending up
in my apartment with a bullet in his head. That's
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too bad. But I still let Tom Turkey in my
apartment for safe keeping. And when I returned he was
gone and Kutcher was dead. Well, let's explained itself. Obviously,
this detective knew that Tom Turkey was a phony, and
Turkey killed him. Did ten figure that way and a
number of other ways. It's afraid I have no desire
to sit here taking subtlety with you, and yet no
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one has demonstrated that the real Tom Turkery actually exists alive.
Now I'm tek you to have something more concrete and
less mythological. This black request that you do not come
around opening up all wounds. You've made an eloquence twice.
That's only one thing if I can, When did Tom
Turkey disappear? I mean what month? What day?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It was?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh? Yes, nineteen forty three November, But I'm not sure
the exact day I since it was in the third week.
Could it have been on Thanksgiving? Very possibly? Very possibly.
I returned thoughtfully to my office and did a little
rapid mental arithmetic and came up with a number seven.
So November twenty third, nineteen forty three. So November twenty third,
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nineteen fifty was seven years for the day, and I
pondered this, what did the number seven mean to the
life or death of Tom Turkey. I had just hit
upon the answer and was crying eureka when my office
door opened. I'm not and a visitor came in on announced,
with ugly heavy set and looked like an ex long shoreman.
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I waited to see if a voice checked spray. Who
shall I say? It is called here Captain John Smith,
and here's my calling card. The pose. The first bullet
grazed my shoulder and tore the padding out of my coat.
The second bullet hit the water cooler and it crashed
over the water and all on top of me. The
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the third bullet hit. I wasn't sure it's time, because
God can't say much until my head like a freak.
When I opened my eyes again, I expected to see
Saint Peter checking my ID card. But all I saw
with the dust falls under my desk and a fly
bathing himself in a pool of water, spreading slowly over
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the floor. It was blood in my hand, but it
came from a glass cut. I was in shambles, but alive.
Captain John Smith had shoved off, obviously thinking his bullets
had done their work on the side. Look, can it, Kelse,
Sam Kelsey, if you found anything more about Tom Turkey? Doesn't? Sam?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if there is such a good.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well Clever Kelsey, a human if Fidola, the roller by
the name, believe it or not, Captain John Smith stuff
tried to kill me in my office.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Go on, Sam, I find it hard to think.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You find it hard to think, period? Really, Sam, did
you get him? No? All that my office is a
wrest and there's a whole basket in my wall big
enough to put a basketball in.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What are the heels of bazooka?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I figured? Dumb, dumb Bulley, dumb dumb. That's illegal, isn't it? Kelsey?
Doesn't strike you as significant? But every attempt on Turkey's
life has been vicious. And did someone not only wanted
to kill him but also mutilate him?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, now that you mention it, somebody probably wanted to
make identification difficult even dead. They didn't want anybody to
know who he was. Now listen carefully, Kelsey, this is
real deep. Tom Turkey disappeared on Thanksgiving of nineteen forty three.
A person has to be missing seven years before he
be legally dead and his insurance collected. Now, if someone
had Turkey insured, they could collect the day after this Thanksgiving.
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If Turkey didn't show up before, you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Mean somebody's trying to kill him for the insurance.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I would say so, Chelsea, I would say, soul, now
hurry up and find them. When I put down the
phone and I heard a heavy pounding. For a minute,
I thought it was in my head until I turned
to face the door, and standing there with a small
pilgrim with bandy legs and black stockings, pantaloons, white collared
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coat and stilt pipe hat. He wore silver buckles, and
what he was pounding on the pole was an eighteenth
century bunderbus Helliah. And they got to write me full
off hand. I say, so, if you're looking for Captain
John Smith, he goes let pocomtis is expected any minute. Yeah,
got to go triding to confuse me. I'm too chirsty.
What's on your mind? Well, I'm I'm looking for a
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fellow named Van. I'm so thirsty. I forgot Sam. That's it.
Oh you broke your water bottle? Huh yeah good? That
stuff poison anyway.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Halleluia illnlu Hey, say, do you happen to have any
hard cider around for a shot?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And I'm kind of thirsty, you know, any type of
corn squeezes here by the said wherever? Yeah? Good? Huh
you like that? Huh fun of me? But before we go,
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do you suppose we can have a little subject for
the road. It's pretty cold. I gave him a little,
but not too much, because I didn't want him to
lose his way. He walked me right down Market Street
so he could look in the liquor store window. He
said it gave him a comfortable feelings, you know, there
was so much good in the world. And then we
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turned right a few blocks until we came to the
Helping Hand Nature and pass this gray found a banner
promised special holiday food and comfort to the unfortunate, and
I'm a stood in front of it. There was a
brass band sending out bignals to the vicinity. But any
minute the great piece of banks getting would begin. The
band members and other volunteer workers were all versus still them,
but thanks couldn't see My pilgrim led me to a
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dot corner of the pub room and sitting there unhappily
was none other than Tom Turkey and all tim what
happened to my apartment? Why did you run away? While
I was a said? You told me not asking the
door until we pulled out. So combody knocked on the
door and sat there. Du so I opened it and
too many was one of the male kuchu the get touches.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The other man was a school ugly looking fellow, and when.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They saw I was alone, they sat at augur about
what wether?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
They just to show that now that he bro up.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
The ugle lander, he wanted his money. Well the ugly
mons pulled a gun.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
And the shouted the count oh did I'll slipped out
the door, But when I was echoed down stairs, I
was the shot and just all right?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, hell Kutchiel is dead?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Oh my, I thought, so this was the only place
I could think.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I told hide. Oh and henry Etta finds out I
didn't look stuck in a murder sits. It takes me back, Henrietta.
They tell me the dwo wives ever had any insurance
on you before.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Eyes got away? She did a fifty thousand dollar policy,
but oh that's would.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Have lost by low. Did it have a suicide cause
in it suici.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, very no, No, it's didn't I remember. Yeah, Yeah,
you'd like to talk to Henriette, wouldn't you. All right,
here's your phone number, call her up and tell her
where you are. Oh you know, I don't think I could.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'm too fun. You've got to do something to help yourself.
If you don't find it that you might be a
call taking, I'm sorry, just look up, all right, I'll
do it. Felly went and made the call. When he returned,
he said that a man had answered. He said Henriette
would come down and picked Tom up. He didn't want
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to wait, but I sat on him. The pilgrim brought
up a bitious turkey dinner, saying he couldn't sand food
himself and were months to sell. In a little while,
a limousine pulled up in front of a nation with
someone in back whom I couldn't see. A soil first
set out and came in inquiring for Tom turkey. It
was Captain John Smith himself. When he saw me, a
look of shocked surprise came over. He's on the handsome face,
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hoping to catch him off balance. I pay about him.
It was the liveliest thing that has happened with my
head and handles in a year, and we have good
out fool money was even changing. Man. When I heard
the odds gotten to go again with me, I realized
I better come up with something. You're a game knocker,
and I did the bandy right. Pilgrims up this one
of us. Ripe my hands and I swamped stiff, dropt
my cousin on a wing. I looked up. The passenger
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from the limousine was just coming in here. What's the
meaning of it? It means, Leander Luce that you are
not going to carve Tom Turkey up the euro Thanksgiving
insurance policy. Dumb sick anyone who and the report Sam Howe.
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So let's just plain as the Cranberry scene on your dress,
ask lousy. Henrietta's business manager had her power of attorney
and secretly kept making the payments on Tom Turkey's insurance policies.
Oh and thenn't collect far hit the money himself. Sometimes
your lightning mind frightens me. I'll go sight that up.
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Three chimes mean good times on MDC. There's fun and
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in Duffy's tavern. As usual, Duffy won't be there, but
Archie the manager will definitely be on hand to serve
his blue plate fashion of grilled English language. This Sunday,
the Big Show comes your way again. Tallula will be
your hostess, and the stars include Fred Allen, Jack Carson Edwin,
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Meredith Wilson, and many many more. It's the Big Show
Sunday on MDC.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Son.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The miner said, I'm tryed to tell you, was this
really Captain John Key? No, Welsy. Could we have a
Thanksgiving taper without a Captain John Smith? It wouldn't be right.
Ut well, if you promised not to tell any his
real name was Michael Giuseppe Yablunsky Smith. I called him
John for sure? You're so kind? Are we going over
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to your mother's? The cold turkey snacks? All right? But
I don't be muh oh, my cousins, we.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Can't find a little joy another phone, and said the performer.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He was inside the turkey. He's albie.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Is there no way to occur that tongue of your line?
Welcome here? Good nights were.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
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Speaker 1 (29:34):
I think they did a good job with the uh
Tom turkeys and the Captain John Smith and all that
kind of good stuff reminiscent of the Pilgrims and turkeys
and all that kind of wonderful holiday expressions. Interesting how
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to host at CLASSICCOMEDYOTR dot co till next time. In
the words of G. K. Chesterton, I would maintain that
thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude
is happiness doubled by wonder
Welcome to Classic comedy of Old time Radio. I'm your host,
Ron Eckelbarger. Happy Thanksgiving. Now, I realize I have a
lot of listeners who don't live in the United States
or in places where the American holiday of Thanksgiving is observed,
and yet giving thanks is something that transcends all ethnicities
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and national borders. So I do wish everyone a wonderful day,
whether you are eating turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes
and gravy and pumpkin pie like me, or tea and crumpets,
or a ros comfoil, or even a hunk of bread
with marmite or vegemite on it. Today we are celebrating
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the soliday with a special Thanksgiving themed episode. This episode
is from the Adventures of Sam Spade. It is called
the Terrified Turkey Caper. This episode originally aired over seventy
five years ago on the day after Thanksgiving, November twenty fourth,
nineteen fifty The.
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National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Fade, Detective.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm saying to talk about this sweet.
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Oh there's it? Does this blos out over the flocks
in a row.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Of a just business going on as usual, going all vccasions.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Whatever, get on about down. They cried eye dust, try
to put my feathers and cooked my goose city. How
could they? Oh? They were a mean lot.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Hey LENARTI every gibbling in place and on a feather
repos did you em?
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And I Thanksgiving with heaven? Mama had to take your dinner?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Say second contain a dance, haid sighting came clean eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Everyone was there seven day DWAs missus plaus How would
take the part that you.
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Didn't tell up? Song to do at that student dinner? Sure?
Say at the helping hand rescue mission where there's party
of free parking and never a cover charge. For further details,
consult the report, which I will presently be down to
dictate on a pasty chronicle.
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Of foul praise the Terrified Turkey Caper.
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One BC William Peer Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery
and crime drama brings you the greatest private detective of
them all in the Adventures of Sam Faith Sam Bay. Oh,
you were waiting for seven thanks to dinner, had a
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rescue mission and there your mother for me as tell
her I'll be over the blank wishbones with her or
not and to atone for my social indifferences. Here's a
little something I brought for you, he said, beautiful a
blunderby a blunder bess as in sect to the rear
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of Oh, well, it's fun. It's a gun. Our founding
fathers use it in foraging for feathered food when they
settle this abundance continent. And it's not to do is
what you will? Oh, where's the game? And swo boys,
Chad opens the founding father. Don't peek, they No'tember twenty fourth,
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nineteen fifty two Detective resented, I see Kelsey homicide detailed
San Francisco Police from Samuel State Ricense number one, three seven,
five nine six, Soudric Turkey, Dear Kelsey, this was a
big week for the cranberry pickers, the butchers, the stage makers,
and the stomach pilled people. But the price with detectives
it was thickly from hunger. My office door opened only
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twice a day, once to let me in and once
to let me out. And when on Wednesday I heard
a knock on the door, I went into a paroxysm
of delight. Come in, come in, Come in, husre wo
Hu said. When I ran out of languages. I got
up from behind the desk, walked to the door and
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opened it. Standing there was a small, middle aged man
with a pink bald head. His blue serge suit needed pressing,
and he was nervously fingering a full very birthmark under
his left ears. Mister Samuel Stink, I am like may
I I haven't known it. You may have several, but
not in the corridor. It's not in my lease.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, I'll come in.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, yes, you'll have to excuse me, mister Stado.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I've had so fhe dealing with the part of detective.
I'll find it hard to be go.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh, perhaps I shouldn't have come at all. Good, No,
I'll wait a minute. Maybe I can help you. So
you see I.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh, what's the use You won't believe me? Nobody does.
I reely that is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh my wait wait, I'll believe you. Oh, I asked
you the check. Now let's start with your name. What
my name is? Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yes, yes, my name?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
To begin with.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You won't believe that, but I can verify it if
I can. It's find the registration book the old Colony
hotel in the nineteen forty three phone books and on
my old River's license.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, i'll have to know it before I can verify it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Okay, yes, of course you will.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's just it's come. Yeah, that's not so hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh, you haven't heard the rest of it. It's come apparently,
you see. I told you you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I said, Oh no, let me be the first to
believe you, now, mister read or what's your.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Oh dare yet it's even harder to explain.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well now that I don't fully but to take a
breath and jump into it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yes, hello Tom Turkey and said guy to kill me
for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, I had asked for it, and I have gotten it.
And I sat back wondering who had gone to all
the trouble to play this funny joke on it. I
was looking at my hand to see if there was
any issuing powder on it where he'd shaken it. When
my phone rang. I loot to the receiver, swung around
in my swivel, and gave out out of a street.
It was Alcoucho, calling a private eye whose reputation was
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shadier than a mushroom cellar high Stow.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I haven't seen much of you lately, spready and I
have to get together.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, well so long.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Wait wait, I'll tell you why I call it. I've
had a pest in my office keeps coming back. Thinks
she's a turkey. Somebody wants to dress. I brushed him,
but your name came up and I just wanted to
warn yet he might be able.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
To see it. I'm confused now. I never knew you
to turn your back on our butt. Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't want any of this one.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
His buttons are loose.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
My advice to you is to bounce.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We've never traded advice before, Toucho fin. After all, we're
in the same racket.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If we can't help each other.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The oh sure, al sure, I appreciate it. Gimme a ring.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We've got to get together some Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
When I got a pre night, will Jimmy parking lead? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We uh oh yeah, they're parking me a letter.
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I turned back to the desks, and what I saw
in front of me was an empty chair. Tom Turkey
had taken wings. I got up and walked to the window,
and a minute later I tew him come out of
the building downstairs and start to cross the street. And
then I saw something else, the large four ton truck
was turning down the street picking up seeds. Instinctively, I
shot at the warning and at the last second Tom
Turkey startled from in front of the fucking disappeared into
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the alleyway. A truck crawled up the street non at
side was prented in gold letters paynes you drive. There
was nothing to say. It wasn't coincidence, this near mith Path.
But somehow I found myself in free wanting to hear
more of the little guy's story. He said the old
Colony hotel, I'm away. I stopped at the library, found
an old nineteen forty three phone book and looks he
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was listed Commas Turkey. It says, out of curiosity, I
rang the number. Hello, I wonder if you could help me.
I'm inquiring about a mister Turkey. Turkey, his home, his number,
no more. I know I'm not the call from him
for years. Yeah, I know, I know. No. A woman
named Rabbit once missus rabbits about Turkey. Could you remember
what he looked like? I don't, Hey, Manny what Turkey?
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It looks like.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Small man round pikey, nice telematic.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Very under aggressive, very undress here money, oh yeah, saw
Verry under aggressive. Well, thank you madam for your information,
and thanks to Manny. Well you're welcome, but I don't
know what you're going to do with it. Oh no,
turkey job, good dad for you, jolly sir and chillious.
I thought they had this drag the man who came
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to my office twenty minutes ago, and now he'd been
dead for years. I continued on to the old Colony
hotel room seventy five cents, It said Tom's room has
one fourteen is sam faith?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh I'm little mister stage there, I'm sorry anyway, I
couldn't think so really.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
There, Well, I'm not sure I do yet? Tell me
were that fucking accident?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh I don't think so. No, they they'll make three
attempts before to kill me. Somebody kind of push me
kind of a trill. Then a wheel chef full of
simonth dropped off of Hilly in Justinsk and I was
shocked at.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
All who were very and why would they want to
kill you?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Oh, don't look, I'm shocked.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
No, look what's Texas Tack? I dialed your old phone
number and the people who answered said you're dead.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Oh A lot of people think I'm good.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, look, do you still want me to work for you? Oh? Yes, yes,
Well you'll have to tell me more than I tell her.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I guess i'd better tell you everything. Oh it's hard
to talk about in mister Spade. It's not easy to
admit to someone she's being a foolish thing. You see,
I just turned fifty. I was quite tired of the
last odelets, proper doll and man fruitful accepting money. My
business was wearing, and so was my wife, Henriette both
has a traditional ring. Anyway, to make it sure, I
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decided to run away, wonder I drove to work. I
parked my car in the middle of the Bay Bridge
where the suicide note left this and disappeared.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Where did you go? Oh? All over the world. I
took a job on a boat.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I did on a boat, and then I settled in
Sant Paula, Brazil under another name. Now you're back wise,
Maybe I got lonely, Maybe I got wiser. Maybe maybe
I felt I take enough the man's takes. Let's you say,
I'm box. I want to do with Henrietta?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Have you seen her? I checked into this hotel and
drove her a lever so I wasn't dead. I was
back in San.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Francisco and I wanted to come back to her if
she still would have me. But I told her I
would ada her unless she wanted to see me, that
she could contact me here. That's where was a week ago,
and you haven't heard drummer no no, And almost right
away these attents on my last be games.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I see now.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I went to address for you run one eight Monroah,
she's taking her lingolo again, black Henry Attapropa, come on,
let's go. No, No, I'm not going to see her
until she asks me. Look, you're going to my apartment,
nobody a body of theirs, and you are going to
see Henriette.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh, thank you, thank you, mister stage. You do to
lose me, I think, hudrure ready to say the well again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now. I deposited Tome in my apartment with instructions to
open the door for no one but me, and then
I proceeded to thirty one eighteen Monroe in a high
rent district. I was ventured through a come re portogo
by a Japanese maid who told me to wait in
a study heavy with mahaganez. In a moment two people
came in. The woman who wore a black vest, silver pendant,
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flat shoes, and a complexion of apple meat. She was
miss Henriette Black and or missus Tom Turkey. The man
turned out to be Leander Luce, the lady's attorney, business
manager and Tonster partner.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You say you have something important to discuss with me,
mister Strain, I do. I hope you don't mind my
asking if the.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Loose to do her not at all, Missus Turkey. I
just talked to your husband Tom, mister Sade, if you
please I say something a rather feeble attempts at comedy,
Missus Stable. I wasn't trying for a last you are,
Missus Turkey answers, I was? You undoubtedly still are. I've
expected to hear another one of these cruel jokes about
mony Thanksgiving time, mister Straid. Someone was always going to
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stuff Tom, based him, gret him fly here this season
they're going to kill him. They are not going to
kill him.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He is already dead.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He's not dead, Missus Turkey, and you should not. I yes,
he sent you a letter saying he was back in
San Francisco and wanted to see mister Fraid. This is
going absolutely far enough, not quite. What about the letter
I know of? No sus I see. Well, thank you
for your time. I'm sorry I bought it. You was
bad judgment and coming in the first place. Yes, maybe
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you're right. There was false foot in this someplace, Lieutenant,
and it suck out like a fat girl in flack.
The only thing to do is to go back to
my apartment, get Tom Turkey in confront Missus Tea with
her husband in the flesh. But when I got back
to my apartment building, I spotted, in rapid succession, one
an ambulance, two a police car, and upstairs outside my
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half open apartment door, I spotted free. You ben't expecting it.
What's going on, Chelsea? Serious? Who's that bullheaded man moving
around the apartment? That's mccrackham and your medical examiner checking
a stiff on your rug. I stepped around you, Lieutenant,
and pushed the door all the way open. I saw
McCracken kneeling over the body and a couple of men
from homicide taking photos. I moved into the room feeling
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nothing good. A little guy had given me a job
and followed jacking with his wife. Somebody got to him
my apartment where I'd sussed them. Mccreckon stood up and
I looked down at the body. Then I looked again.
Who I saw wasn't Tom Turkey at all. It was
a late private eye al kutsl. You are listening to
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the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Faith
You Friday fans of Sam Stade's mystery. On Saturday evening too,
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on NBC Tomorrow, the man called X sets out on
another mission of danger and intrigue in some far off
corner of the earth. Herbert Marshall stars as the man
called X, a man without a name who travels the
world over protecting his country's interest. He lives by his wits,
and his business is danger. He's the man called X.
Tomorrow stations for Top Sunday Listening, It's another broadcast of
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the Big Show on MDC this Sunday. Your stars include
Fred Allen, Jack Carson, Lindy Carson, ed Archie Gardner.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Edwin and many many more. And Talula is your MC
as usual this Sunday. It's the Big Show on MDC.
And now back to the Terrified Turkey Caper. Tonight's adventure
with Sam Stade.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
While the men from Hamas Garde were taking pictures et
ceter You and I lieutenants were going round and round
on the question if I didn't kill a man found
in my room, who did? And you were sufficiently impressed
with my insult, Chelsea, not to hold me for the murder.
We vowed to each other, and I left, thinking back
to the trucks that had almost run Turkey down. I
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went to the hange you drive truck rental garage. What me,
what do you want? I'm a detective. Could you give
me a list of names for everybody who rendered the
truck from you during the past few days? Here? He
handed me a big registration book and I read every
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name for the past week. For the first five days
they all seemed to be nice, normal, abnormal names. And
then under the rentals for the day before was the
name of John Smith. John had given his address There's
seventy two hundred turney, and I happened to know the
tourney only goes up to twenty hundred. The despatcher said
that mess had returned the trunk about three hours before,
and he remembered them as an ugly, heavy set and
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rough voice character who looked like an ex long shoreman.
They had already washed the truck, so their fingerprints were
all out. Stuff here, it's just pray again. Look, I'd
like to speak with missus. Missus Flack's gisue, no buy,
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come in, come in, thank you, this way into the
day right. Well, I was sure you'd look into this
affair a little more and realized as it was just
a blind alley a halt for some times. Miss Black, Oh,
she's upstairs, lying down. The whole affair is upset her.
And there she asked not to be the surved. I
think the wisest cause of action for you, Missus vaide,
is just to let the matter drop. You can't let
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our murder just drop, Miss Fillers. The police wouldn't hear it? Huh?
Who an, I'm trapped. Private detective named al Kucho, Oh
what does this have to do with Henrietta Blank? Al
Kuchu called me earlier today and said that Tom Turkey
was a crack pop, a little man with delusion. He
tried to taught me off taking his case. He sound
was a perceiving man. Well he didn't perceive ending up
in my apartment with a bullet in his head. That's
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too bad. But I still let Tom Turkey in my
apartment for safe keeping. And when I returned he was
gone and Kutcher was dead. Well, let's explained itself. Obviously,
this detective knew that Tom Turkey was a phony, and
Turkey killed him. Did ten figure that way and a
number of other ways. It's afraid I have no desire
to sit here taking subtlety with you, and yet no
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one has demonstrated that the real Tom Turkery actually exists alive.
Now I'm tek you to have something more concrete and
less mythological. This black request that you do not come
around opening up all wounds. You've made an eloquence twice.
That's only one thing if I can, When did Tom
Turkey disappear? I mean what month? What day?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It was?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh? Yes, nineteen forty three November, But I'm not sure
the exact day I since it was in the third week.
Could it have been on Thanksgiving? Very possibly? Very possibly.
I returned thoughtfully to my office and did a little
rapid mental arithmetic and came up with a number seven.
So November twenty third, nineteen forty three. So November twenty third,
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nineteen fifty was seven years for the day, and I
pondered this, what did the number seven mean to the
life or death of Tom Turkey. I had just hit
upon the answer and was crying eureka when my office
door opened. I'm not and a visitor came in on announced,
with ugly heavy set and looked like an ex long shoreman.
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I waited to see if a voice checked spray. Who
shall I say? It is called here Captain John Smith,
and here's my calling card. The pose. The first bullet
grazed my shoulder and tore the padding out of my coat.
The second bullet hit the water cooler and it crashed
over the water and all on top of me. The
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the third bullet hit. I wasn't sure it's time, because
God can't say much until my head like a freak.
When I opened my eyes again, I expected to see
Saint Peter checking my ID card. But all I saw
with the dust falls under my desk and a fly
bathing himself in a pool of water, spreading slowly over
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the floor. It was blood in my hand, but it
came from a glass cut. I was in shambles, but alive.
Captain John Smith had shoved off, obviously thinking his bullets
had done their work on the side. Look, can it, Kelse,
Sam Kelsey, if you found anything more about Tom Turkey? Doesn't? Sam?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if there is such a good.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well Clever Kelsey, a human if Fidola, the roller by
the name, believe it or not, Captain John Smith stuff
tried to kill me in my office.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Go on, Sam, I find it hard to think.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You find it hard to think, period? Really, Sam, did
you get him? No? All that my office is a
wrest and there's a whole basket in my wall big
enough to put a basketball in.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What are the heels of bazooka?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I figured? Dumb, dumb Bulley, dumb dumb. That's illegal, isn't it? Kelsey?
Doesn't strike you as significant? But every attempt on Turkey's
life has been vicious. And did someone not only wanted
to kill him but also mutilate him?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, now that you mention it, somebody probably wanted to
make identification difficult even dead. They didn't want anybody to
know who he was. Now listen carefully, Kelsey, this is
real deep. Tom Turkey disappeared on Thanksgiving of nineteen forty three.
A person has to be missing seven years before he
be legally dead and his insurance collected. Now, if someone
had Turkey insured, they could collect the day after this Thanksgiving.
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If Turkey didn't show up before, you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Mean somebody's trying to kill him for the insurance.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I would say so, Chelsea, I would say, soul, now
hurry up and find them. When I put down the
phone and I heard a heavy pounding. For a minute,
I thought it was in my head until I turned
to face the door, and standing there with a small
pilgrim with bandy legs and black stockings, pantaloons, white collared
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coat and stilt pipe hat. He wore silver buckles, and
what he was pounding on the pole was an eighteenth
century bunderbus Helliah. And they got to write me full
off hand. I say, so, if you're looking for Captain
John Smith, he goes let pocomtis is expected any minute. Yeah,
got to go triding to confuse me. I'm too chirsty.
What's on your mind? Well, I'm I'm looking for a
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fellow named Van. I'm so thirsty. I forgot Sam. That's it.
Oh you broke your water bottle? Huh yeah good? That
stuff poison anyway.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Halleluia illnlu Hey, say, do you happen to have any
hard cider around for a shot?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And I'm kind of thirsty, you know, any type of
corn squeezes here by the said wherever? Yeah? Good? Huh
you like that? Huh fun of me? But before we go,
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do you suppose we can have a little subject for
the road. It's pretty cold. I gave him a little,
but not too much, because I didn't want him to
lose his way. He walked me right down Market Street
so he could look in the liquor store window. He
said it gave him a comfortable feelings, you know, there
was so much good in the world. And then we
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turned right a few blocks until we came to the
Helping Hand Nature and pass this gray found a banner
promised special holiday food and comfort to the unfortunate, and
I'm a stood in front of it. There was a
brass band sending out bignals to the vicinity. But any
minute the great piece of banks getting would begin. The
band members and other volunteer workers were all versus still them,
but thanks couldn't see My pilgrim led me to a
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dot corner of the pub room and sitting there unhappily
was none other than Tom Turkey and all tim what
happened to my apartment? Why did you run away? While
I was a said? You told me not asking the
door until we pulled out. So combody knocked on the
door and sat there. Du so I opened it and
too many was one of the male kuchu the get touches.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The other man was a school ugly looking fellow, and when.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They saw I was alone, they sat at augur about
what wether?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
They just to show that now that he bro up.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
The ugle lander, he wanted his money. Well the ugly
mons pulled a gun.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
And the shouted the count oh did I'll slipped out
the door, But when I was echoed down stairs, I
was the shot and just all right?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, hell Kutchiel is dead?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Oh my, I thought, so this was the only place
I could think.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I told hide. Oh and henry Etta finds out I
didn't look stuck in a murder sits. It takes me back, Henrietta.
They tell me the dwo wives ever had any insurance
on you before.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Eyes got away? She did a fifty thousand dollar policy,
but oh that's would.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Have lost by low. Did it have a suicide cause
in it suici.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, very no, No, it's didn't I remember. Yeah, Yeah,
you'd like to talk to Henriette, wouldn't you. All right,
here's your phone number, call her up and tell her
where you are. Oh you know, I don't think I could.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'm too fun. You've got to do something to help yourself.
If you don't find it that you might be a
call taking, I'm sorry, just look up, all right, I'll
do it. Felly went and made the call. When he returned,
he said that a man had answered. He said Henriette
would come down and picked Tom up. He didn't want
(25:02):
to wait, but I sat on him. The pilgrim brought
up a bitious turkey dinner, saying he couldn't sand food
himself and were months to sell. In a little while,
a limousine pulled up in front of a nation with
someone in back whom I couldn't see. A soil first
set out and came in inquiring for Tom turkey. It
was Captain John Smith himself. When he saw me, a
look of shocked surprise came over. He's on the handsome face,
(25:25):
hoping to catch him off balance. I pay about him.
It was the liveliest thing that has happened with my
head and handles in a year, and we have good
out fool money was even changing. Man. When I heard
the odds gotten to go again with me, I realized
I better come up with something. You're a game knocker,
and I did the bandy right. Pilgrims up this one
of us. Ripe my hands and I swamped stiff, dropt
my cousin on a wing. I looked up. The passenger
(25:47):
from the limousine was just coming in here. What's the
meaning of it? It means, Leander Luce that you are
not going to carve Tom Turkey up the euro Thanksgiving
insurance policy. Dumb sick anyone who and the report Sam Howe.
(26:15):
So let's just plain as the Cranberry scene on your dress,
ask lousy. Henrietta's business manager had her power of attorney
and secretly kept making the payments on Tom Turkey's insurance policies.
Oh and thenn't collect far hit the money himself. Sometimes
your lightning mind frightens me. I'll go sight that up.
(26:37):
Three chimes mean good times on MDC. There's fun and
laughs with the chimes. Later tonight, when Ed Gardner stars
in Duffy's tavern. As usual, Duffy won't be there, but
Archie the manager will definitely be on hand to serve
his blue plate fashion of grilled English language. This Sunday,
the Big Show comes your way again. Tallula will be
your hostess, and the stars include Fred Allen, Jack Carson Edwin,
(27:00):
Meredith Wilson, and many many more. It's the Big Show
Sunday on MDC.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Son.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The miner said, I'm tryed to tell you, was this
really Captain John Key? No, Welsy. Could we have a
Thanksgiving taper without a Captain John Smith? It wouldn't be right.
Ut well, if you promised not to tell any his
real name was Michael Giuseppe Yablunsky Smith. I called him
John for sure? You're so kind? Are we going over
(27:39):
to your mother's? The cold turkey snacks? All right? But
I don't be muh oh, my cousins, we.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Can't find a little joy another phone, and said the performer.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He was inside the turkey. He's albie.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Is there no way to occur that tongue of your line?
Welcome here? Good nights were.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William spear. Sam Saide was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreene Tuttle is Effie. Script for the Night's Adventure by
Larry Roman and John Michael Hayes. Musical storing by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbristers. Join us again next group, same
(29:17):
time for another adventure with Sam Say the Magnificant Montague.
Then visit Duffies Tavern on MBC.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I think they did a good job with the uh
Tom turkeys and the Captain John Smith and all that
kind of good stuff reminiscent of the Pilgrims and turkeys
and all that kind of wonderful holiday expressions. Interesting how
they were advertising Duffy's Tavern. Our next episode of Duffy's
will be here soon. Please send your questions and comments
(29:57):
to host at CLASSICCOMEDYOTR dot co till next time. In
the words of G. K. Chesterton, I would maintain that
thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude
is happiness doubled by wonder
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