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A man Rogue has never met tries to pick a fight with Rogue, suspecting that his wife had hired Rogue to tail him. After getting back to his office, Rogue meets the wife who tries to hire him. He declines. The next day, the man is found dead.
Original Air Date: June 30, 1946
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A man Rogue has never met tries to pick a fight with Rogue, suspecting that his wife had hired Rogue to tail him. After getting back to his office, Rogue meets the wife who tries to hire him. He declines. The next day, the man is found dead.
Original Air Date: June 30, 1946
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of Rogue's Gallery. Lady with aGun. The f W. Fitch Company
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Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue inRogues Gallery. Rogue speaking, there is
something about being happy that I likeand I couldn't have been any happier than
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I us that night if somebody hadbeen tickling me with a feather. I
had a date with Betty Callahan,and the way I feel about Betty hasn't
been covered by a word yet,but it's a very dandy way to feel,
and I was reveling in it.If we sat there in the club
Cooper, drinking after dinner coffee andgrinning at each other. I was quite
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annoyed when a gentleman without raged dignitylurched over, drew up a chair,
and made himself unwelcome at our table. Now hope that you are Richard Rogue,
the investigative. Oh that's right.Why don't you go back to your
own table? I just want toted you road that I consider your way
of making a living despicable. Now, thank you very much. How Richard,
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don't start feel look good? Mister? Why don't you go away?
You wouldn't like to have me callthe captain and have you drag away what
you're Oh no, no, Ihave a few things to say before I
leave, Rogue. I understand thatmy wife has retained your services to spy
on me and sneak around after me. Richard it's been drinking. Now,
Okay, look, mister, willyou please go away? We don't like
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you. Look, you'll know me, and I know what you're doing here.
I just want to tell your roguethat my wife means a great deal
to me. I don't even knowyour wife. I don't care anything about
your private life, as long asyou leaded someplace away from this table,
going to lie about it. Hehaven't even got nerve enough to admit that
you're sticking around watching me. Okay, okay, Emmanuel, oh Manual,
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will you take this creep away beforeI see one of those vitamin pills I've
been taking. Really work. Takehim away with him yelling for help,
her rogue yellow. He well,I'll show you, mister Willis told me,
I'll chilling the s Come on,Betty, let's get out of here
before I love my temper and nailthat guy. I'd never seen him before.
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You look like a nice little man, but he didn't look like he
could poke his way out of amosquite in that. As we got a
cab, I looked at Betty andshe was blushing like a June groom,
and her little lower lip was pushedout in that cute way, which indicated
that she was going to tell mejust what she thought of me and my
profession. As soon as she couldcontrol herself. She did. It was
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early, but Betty wanted to gohome, so I took her there.
Then I went to my apartment.In the hall, I met a woman
waiting for me. Beautifully it turnedout water well capped thirty five with a
baby face and the full mouth droopedat the corner, mister rogue, Yes,
yes, you waiting for me?Yes, well, how nice.
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In just a moment, won't youcome in? Thank you have a chair?
Have we met before? No?I don't believe we had, mister
rogue, I've always admired you though, I've always admired you work. Wow,
oh, thank you? And nowjust what is it you wanted to
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see me about? About my husband? Oh? Oh, he's found a
new interest. Yes, well,where suppose you tell me? What's your
name? By the way, I'mmissus Webb, missus Matt Webb Webb,
oh Webb. Oh, I'm beginningto see the light. Tell me as
your husband a bad disposition and delusionsof grandeur. My husband, well,
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yeah, I just met him.He said that you would retain me for
some reason which you didn't explain.Why did you tell him that I want
to retain you, mister Rode,look at this? Huh oh, come
on over here on the line.M bill for a for a court five
thousand dollars. I want to knowwho my husband bought that court forms the
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rogue. I'll pay you well forfinding out. I'm really sorry, miss
Well, but I don't get mixedup in domestic difficulties. There are plenty
of detectives though. Who will takeyour case? You won't take? No,
I really want. I'm much toobusy. Good night, missus Webb.
Mister Rogan, I'm sorry, missusWebb. I'm tired. I don't
take the mextic cases. Thanks fordropping in, but now good night.
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I have to get some sleep.Good night, mister rogue. Oh what's
the idea of calling me? Betty? And it's ten o'clock? Oh?
Oh, well, hello, Angela, I wasn't quite awaken. I have
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news for you. Your friend MattWebb, remember him at the club last
night? Sure? What about him? Well, he was found dead in
his car this morning, parked inthe Hollywood Hills shot. I'm kidding,
I just left the tender Durban incharge of the case for homicide. He
knows about your argument with Matt Webblast night. Well, he doesn't think
I did it, does he?Well, no, but that's somebody at
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the door. How about lunchby.So it's me, Honey, keep your
shirt on, I'm coming, I'mcoming. Oh hello, Urban con man.
Thanks, Rogie. I don't knowanything about it. Don't even know
the guy you're talking about, MattWebb, I suppose, or who else.
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Don't tell me you disrupted here fora cup of coffee. How did
you know Webb was dead? DidI say it was dead? Full up
a chair? Cigarette? No?What do you know about Webb? Rog
Nothing? I met him at theclub Cooper last night. He wanted to
beat my brains out because I wasan investigator. Seems you had a strange
idea that his wife had retained meto follow him. Okay, rog talk
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your brains out, but you can'ttalk away the fact that Webb is dead
and you had a beef with him. Sure, but I don't know anything
about this case. Urban. It'searly in the morning, and while you
have a genius for getting all mixedup in things, you don't know anything
about han't your Roggie, I don'tget sore. Okay, I'm not sore
just because I meet a guy whodoesn't like investigators and his wife tries to
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harm me to find out who hebought a fur coat for, and he
turns up dead. That her wifeangler is interesting. Rogie, get dressed.
Why missus Webb didn't mention any furcoat when I went out to see
her this morning? She didn't.Maybe she's got some more little secrets.
Come on, Roggie, we're goingto call on her. We'll continue our
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shampool regularly. Now back to DickPowell as private investigator Richard Rogue. In
Rogue's gallery, it isn't very oftenthat I could tangle up in a case
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of the normal money in it thana busted piggy bank. I operate on
the theory that a boy's best friendis a dollar. I didn't know the
recently dead Matt Webb from Gunga then, but there I was and Urban's homicides
then on my way out to playquiz with Missus Webb. During the ride,
Urban gave me a quick rundown onthe events surrounding Matt Webb's murder.
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Webb was a very wealthy man,you know, Rogie, big manufacturer farm
machinery. And he couldn't have beenvery smart or acou he wouldn't have been
parked up in the Hollywood Hills.That's volunteering for a stick up. Yeah,
what's the widow? Looked like hisdaughter? No, I guess she's
not quite that young. But whatthe beauty parlor and the foundation can do
to keep her young has been done. Very pretty woman. She looks about
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thirty, probably thirty five. Bythe time we get back down to headquarters,
were no more about her and everythingelse in the case. I might
get it over with. I wantto go on my vacation. I'm sick
of murders. Hey, so thisis the way of the other half,
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las huh must have taken a lotof farmers. Sheineed to PLoP an up
doll for this monstrosity. Rampared amillion or two. And hey, now
I'll do the questioning rogue. I'min charge of the case, you know,
well, sure, sure, sure, sure, I'm just a silent
partner ring the bell. Thank you, I will yes, police, I
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want to see missus Webb. Oh, come in, thank you, I'll
go ahead, Urban, go ahead, she's in here. My name is
Bregg Gail. I was sales managerfor Matt and mister Webb. Lieutenant Urban
must I'm sorry. This is RichardRogue. I'm glad to know you,
Gail. Would you mind telling mewhy I shut out Rogue? Huh?
Well, shop right in here,please, missus Webb. He's gentlemen from
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homicide want to talk with you.How must you talk to me right now?
I have nothing more to say,missus Webb. Richard Rogue here tells
me that you called on him lastnight, attempted to hire him to check
on the disposition. The disposition whichyour husband made of a fur coat.
Yes, I did. I didn'ttell you about it this morning because I
didn't consider it important. Well,now, Missus Webb, every detail is
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important in the investigation of a homicide. Only you suspect of receiving the code.
Look, Lieutenant, I hate toget into this, mister Gale,
if you please, this is myopinion. Matt Webb was my best friend.
With you, Missus Webb had beena little more understanding. No time
to fight with me. Maybe wecould organize this conversation a little bit.
You'll stay out of it, rogue. This is a murder investigation. Now
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listen. Oh just a minute,just a minute, Urban Look, missus
Webb, how about telling us alittle more about the home life of you
and your husb rogue. If youdon't shut up, I'm gonna throw you
out of this investigation. Oh justa mat of Gail. Weren't you with
Mat? Weren't you with Matt Webbat the club Kuba last night? Yes?
I had dinner with him there,and you must have known who he
was with and what he did later. I had no idea what he did
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later in the evening. I lefthim a little left to raid at that
time. His plans were to gohome playstack was my understanding? Or maybe
you'll feel more like talking a littlelater. Gail, You can go now.
You can get me at the officeanytime you want. Okay, better
fix that cold now, this isWebb. You seem to think that your
husband was involved with some woman.Of course he was. That's how he
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got killed. Who do you thinkHe gave the first court to his secretary,
Helen Damon. He's been in lovewith her for the last year.
She's been making a perfect fool ofhim. Helen Damon. We'll never talk
with her. Lieutenant Irman dropped meby my office and I took penn and
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Racing Farm in hand and managed toforget all about killings not made at Hollywood
Park until noon when I left andmet Betty Callahan at the Brown Derby.
She was as full of information asa Chamber of Commerce brochure. Richard,
I want you to come with meto the jail. I want you to
talk with Helen Damon Webb secretary.Why I feel so sorry for her.
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Homicide detectives have been grilling her allmorning and she's so tired and discouraged.
Well, does it look like Helendid the job? Well? Yes,
A man showed up at the policestation this morning and he said he saw
a girl in a tweed coat witha tuxedo collar run down out of the
hills last night, drive away inthe Chrysler coop, a blue one,
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just about the time of Webb's murderand in the same locality. And Helen
Damon has a code like that anddrives a blue Chrysler coupe right, Yes,
Richard, I don't think she didit. Oh, just because she
has big brown eyes, I supposelook Baby, cops don't make many mistakes.
Why do they find out about thegun? I was a thirty eight
revolver that mister Webb kept in hisdesk at the office. Nothingerprints on it.
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It was. It was found inthe weeds a little away from where
the car was parted. Betty,Betty, honey, you're a newspaper reporter,
not an investigator. So why don'tyou let the police take care of
finding the killers. If Helen Damondid it, she'll get the book.
If she didn't, she'll be okayas she got any alibi for the time
of the crime. No, shehasn't. Oh, you have to get
down there and talk to her.I promised her you would. Oh no,
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what business if you promising anybody thatI'll take the case? Looks to
me like this, Helen Damon isguilty as angleback. I don't want to
get mixed up in a case likethat. I should have known that the
way you'd look at it, justbecause she doesn't have much money to pay
you. But baby, that's gotnothing to do with it. I have
a couple of hundred dollars. Iwant to see that Helen Damon gets a
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fair deal. I'll look, Betty. I'm not going to get mixed up
in this case. That's final.You understand to see Helen Damon, I'll
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give you ten minutes roguing. ThanksAlison, Hello there, miss Damon.
Betty Callahan, the reporter told meyou were expecting me. I don't see
how you can do me any good, mister Rogue. You've already decided that
I did it. Nothing I cando to convince I know about the partial
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identification. I suppose you tell mewhere you were at the time the crime
was committed, all right, lastnight at nine o'clock, Within a few
minutes of nine, anyway, Igot a call from mister Webb. I
don't think it was mister Webb now, but I thought it was. Then
he asked me to meet him athis office. Said he had some important
letters he had to get out atonce. Was he in the habit of
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having your work at nine? No, but it didn't seem unreasonable to me,
So I put on my coat andwent down to get in my car,
which was parked in the parking lotnext to my apartment building. Just
as I got into the car,somebody grabbed me from behind and held a
cloth over my face. It waschloroform. When I came to about three
hours later, I was in mycar. My coat was thrown over me.
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The car was back in the parkinglot and it had been driven about
fifteen miles. I know because Ihad a serviced yesterday and the service record
is on the dash. You liveat Hollywood, Yes, oh well that's
just about right for a drive tothe Hollywood Hills. You're gonna have trouble
convincing a jury with a story likethat. I look, Helen, I
I'm your friend. Is that storythe truth? Yes, yes it is,
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mister rogue. I know you don'tbelieve me. Nobody does. You're
having the slightest idea of what happenedbetween nine o'clock last night and midnight.
Right, Yes, that's right.There's no way in the world I can
prove I'm telling the truth. Icouldn't figure out why anybody would do anything
like that to me. I gotit this morning. I went to work.
I didn't say anything to anybody becauseI alone. Yes, Helen,
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I want to be frank with me. Were you overly friendly with Matt Webb?
I liked him and admired him.That's all, missus. Webb seems
to think of a little present.No, oh, no, no,
I hardly knew him at all socially. He's taking me to dinner a few
times, that's all, mister rogue. Do you think you can do anything
to help me? I'm not amurderous Yeah, Tommy. Do you know
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anything about a first cult? Acult that Matt Webb bought for somebody not
his wife. No, I don'tknow anything about it. I haven't done
anything wrong. Can you get meout of here, mister rogue? I
don't know. I don't know.You haven't got much of a case you.
I have a little money to skipthat skip that. I'm doing this
as a favorite to a friend.Are you sure you're on the level with
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me? I told you everything Iknow. I didn't kill him. He
was a fine man. When Ileft Helen Dame and I had a great
inquisitiveness about a fur court. Igot my car, fought all the other
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crazy California drivers to a sandstill tryingto park in front of Helen's apartment house.
I got her apartment number off theregister in the fire and walked up
one flight. The lock was easypickings. I walked in, closed the
door, and oh oh, Icaught it right at the base of the
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skull like a turkey. On thefirst Thanksgiving, my astral body left this
world and floated up through eternity likea Christmas smoke, only paler. I
was so glad to see Cloudy,my home away from home. I'm glader
to see Ugor, my alter ego. Ugor was sitting there on a used
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thunderbolt is and looking eyes buckling withglee. No, Rogie, welcome home.
You've got the duck again. High. Oh, let me sleep.
I'm tired of Oh, you bettersnap out of a cheep. You've got
plenty of work to do. Yeah, I know it, but I'll take
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care of it later. Go away. No, can't, Rogy. You
need a talking to. You can'tlay down on a job. Now,
come on, snap out of it. Oh oh my head. Betty Callahan
got me into this, her andher hunches. You've got the same hunch,
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you know it, Rogie. Oh, now you're reading my mind.
Look Mitchell, reading your mind.Look, cheep, I am your mind,
and I'm telling you to get downstairs. You've got work to do later.
Now over you go, Rogie,pushing you go. I'm not well
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over your back. Don't work solong, rogy, rogue, rog rogue,
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snap out of it, rogie.Oh hello, hello, hello,
Harvin. What happened to you?Um? I got hit on the head,
I am. Can't you see?What kind of a detective are you?
Now? Take it easy? Whatwere you doing here in Helen Damon's
apartment. I wasn't doing anything.I just opened the door. Somebody let
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me have it. Why were youlooking for up here? I've got a
little bit inquisitive. Why allah?I had to talk with Helen Damon and
she didn't know anything about a furcoat. That's funny. That's funny about
it. We just got a murderindictment against Helen Damon. Oh well,
that's a long way from conviction.And when I was up here this morning,
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there was no fur coat in thatcloset. There's a fur coat in
that closet now, Ogie. Peculiar, isn't it. We'll return to our
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as private investigator Richard Rogue. InRogue's gallery, assorted and unrelated facts were
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whirling around in my massive intellect likeneutrons around them atom They were just as
much explosive in them as I couldget if I could get them properly under
control. So I got away fromurban and decided to drive out for a
visit with Missus Matt Webb. AsI pulled up in the same block with
a web house, I saw MissusWebb get into her car and drive away.
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I followed her over Coalwater Canyon andout into the valley. When she
pulled into the driveway of an earlysuburban white ranch house, I parked up
the street. She went in.I took a look at the mailbox in
front of the house. The nameon that mailbox was F. R.
Gale. I got that old,familiar chill in the region of my solar
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plexus. I'd lucked into something,and I knew it. I worked my
way around in the rear of thehouse as quiet as fallen snows. The
back door was unlocked. I pushedher put it in, flowed up to
the doors between the dining room whereI was at the living room where Fred
Gale stood talking with Missus. Manwere myshom May. I'd be the first
to congratulate you on a performance yougave for Lieutenant Urban and Rogue tonight.
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You did very well yourself with it. Now, I suppose you tell me
what you're doing out here. Well, I had to see you. I
needed a little moral support from yourfriend. Yeah, I know that this
is the craziest thing you could havedone. Marshall. You don't act as
though you're very glad to see menow, Luck Marsha. We've got a
lot of trouble to cover up thefact that we're friends, haven't we friends?
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Is that what we are? Youknow? I love you and Marsha.
It's only that so much depends onus being smart just a little while
longer. How do you know youweren't followed? Let us both in jail
for murder. We've been smart sofar. Why ruin it? They don't
suspect us. They have a murderindictment against Helen Damon. Aren't you going
to kiss me? Fred Can?Yes? We had stay kissed, and
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then Helmet I reached my gun outof my shoulder holster and read it myself
for the pinch, but something heldme back. You can call it second
side or luck or anything you like, but I couldn't move my feet.
And while I was debating, theybroke it up and started talking again.
It was a very interesting conversation,Darling. Everything's going to be wonderful for
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us now, isn't it? Sure? You'll just stay away from me a
little while until the case is settled. Everybody's forgotten the murder. Will always
be sure of each other, won'tly, of course? Oh Fred, I
know I'm silly, but I worry. I don't know what i'd do if
I ever lost you. I wantyou to do something for me. Promise
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me that you will. Okay,I can do anything for you, Mutching,
if you'll only promise you'll be agood girl and get out of here
and stay away from me until everything'sall right again. You gotta be smart,
baby. I'll stay away if you'lljust help me. I want you
to write a note like this oneI've written. Read it, confession I
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alone, sistant killed mad wim signMarshall win. I said, this is
out a nonsense if we can't trusteach other. Now, I want you
to write a note like that,in your own handwriting and give it to
me. And I'll give you myconfession and you give me yours. And
we know that nothing can ever separateus. You And it's a stupid thing
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to do. Say that note up? What if it got into the wrong
hands? Sit down here, writeme one, make it. I don't
know that everything's all right. Shekissed him then and walked with him over
to the desk, talking love allthe way. She got a penance and
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paper. She stood behind him withher arms around his neck. As he
started to write. I saw herfree hand come up with a gun,
and as he finished the note,she placed the gun an inch from his
temple. And I'm Gail Duck.You shot me? He shot bro Yeah,
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you should be off glad to seeme, Gail. In about another
minute, you'd have better suicide andyour girlfriend here would have been a walty
wead. Don't believe it's skip itbusiness web. Look, Gail, you
see that gun, your lovely collaboratordropped Marcia. If I hadn't put that
slug through her shoulders, she wasgoing to put one through your head,
sucker. She was slipping you witha kiss of lying Freddy's lying where you
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were you were going to kill me? Sit down, Gail, sit on.
I am running the show from hereon art and the little lady has
a reserved seat in the gas chamber. Well. It didn't take much to
convince Gail that Marsha's planned to killhim and leave the gun in his hand
as he slumped over the desk.The don'ts he asked him to ride would
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have sensed his death as remorseful suicide. Missus Webb would have had all of
Matt Webb's money and a dead accomplice. She would have been as safe as
an odds on bet that Dick Tracycatch his shoulders. Gail admitted his part
with the plot to murder Webb andframed the youngers Tell and Damon for the
crime, and Gail got away withlife. Marsha paid the full charge in
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the gas chamber. Oh well,I've always said that there should be a
little editing done. That Old SaintHell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
The last words should be deleted.Present company accepted, of course,
ladies, But you men you knowwhat I mean. This is Dick Powell
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again, Ladies and Japan. Ihope you enjoyed our story tonight. Ray
Buffam wrote it. Leif Stevens composedand conducted the music in D and back,
produced and directed View of Us again. Next Sunday, will you we
have a story for you about asummer resort, a lovely girl, and
some newspaper clippings about a murder.We call it cabin on the lake must
be a floating cabin. Thanks forlistening, and I his gem Doyle.
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Listen again next week at this sametime to hear Dick Powell as private investigator
Richard Rogue in Rogue's gallery. Bythe way, Dick will next be seen
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conversing Richard Dick Powell was really stumblingthrough his lines. And actually I ran
into the first instance I've had whereinan OTR detective actor swearing on the air.
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I actually went ahead and I cutit because I know a lot of
folks would have found it offensive,and we have kids out there, and
it wasn't actually part of the script. Didn't find any record of him getting
into any Dick Powell game to anytrouble with the FCC over it. Had
it been observed and reported, itprobably would have been an issue with the
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fc SEE or network sensors anyway atthe time, though not today. And
really it was just kind of thissource of frustration thing because he just really
stumbled over those lines. And youhave to appreciate how some of these absolutely
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complicated terms of phrases, particularly inthe hard boiled genres, are usually delivered
so expertly and sometimes, as inthis case, the writers lost track that
you know, somebody is going tohave to try and read this over the
air, and usually no matter howhard the script that came through, but
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as this illustrates, it wasn't alwayseasy. Well, we did receive some
comments regarding our five hundredth episode specialstarring Dick Powell in Lux Radio Feeder to
the Ends of the Earth and alsoare We made a blog post where we
put where we embedded some video thatTurner Classic Movies had to the Ends of
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the Earth on their website and Timcomments on this. They say that radio
is better than movies because the picturesare better. This is one case where
the opposite is true. When theslaves go overboard in the lux production,
the sailors are described as shoving themoff the deck. In the film snippet,
the captain releases the special anchor andthe whole lot of them are dragged
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after it like falling dominoes. Ispent last weekend avoiding nine to eleven voltage.
I've becoming noward to the collapsing towersand the panicky cows running to outrace
the smoke cloud like some horrible marathon. But the side of the leapers still
fills me with dread. The imageof the slaves going over stuck with me
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all week. This was the realmethod that African slavers use. After importation
was banned in eighteen oh seven,they were still smuggled into Charleston. But
if captain saw a new cutter advancing, he cut the anchor cable and send
his human cargo to the ocean floor. And it was definitely a more terrifying
way. The way that the movieportrayed it wasn't graphic like it would be
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today. It was very short cutaway, the radio not so much. I
think the whole anchor thing would wouldjust be a little hard to explain in
the limited time that you had topresent a story on radio, and this,
you know, Lex's A is agreat program, but this was one
of its limitations because it was tryingto take a movie, which is a
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visual medium, and translate it toradio. And sometimes it worked pretty well,
sometimes there were challenges. There wereother programs that adapted novels and stories
that had been made to movies,but they adapted directly from the novel or
the story to the radio, andthat could often work better. One case
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is the story Deadline at Dawn.Lux Radio Theater adapted the movie adaptation of
Deadline at Dawn, and I watched, I listened to that, didn't care
for that as much, and thenI listened to the Spence adaptation of the
same story, except they adapted fromthe original story and made it fit to
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radio, so kind of cutting outthe middleman tend to work a little better.
But this was still a good presentationoverall. To spot the challenges,
Tim goes on to say that saidthis was a great story horri finally told,
but not exploritatively, a worthy choicefor your five hundredth episode. Well
done, Great Detectors of Old timeradio. The script really brought out the
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worldwide scale of drug production and distributionwithout the Hollywood tendency to include exotic locations
just for novelty's sake, like inthe later James Bond movies, and include
a couple of things or spoilers forthe radio version. So I want to
read in case you decide to goback and listen to him. Harry Enslinger
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mission repeatedly as Dick Powell's boss reallywas the head of the Narcotics Bureau,
so this production must have been madewith the support of the US government.
Enslinger to listen to the history rewrittenby the himp Lobby comes across to something
of a clownish figure. I'll needto study him some more, take him
a bit more seriously. Well,I'm glad that that's always a good idea.
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And that's one thing I always findfascinating about many old radio programs.
It's the opportunity to hear history howit happened and how it was being viewed
in the era it occurred, ratherthan just what we get as the retrospective
through history, and it feels alot of gaps in and this story definitely
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helped in that regards. I'm gladyou enjoyed. It also received a comment
from Andrew who called it epic andin daed it was all right, well
we'll do it for today. Ifyou have our app or a premium site,
we have another Dick Pile Watch RadioTheater extra that I think you're sure
to enjoy. Join us tomorrow forlet George Do It, and next week
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Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue inRogues Gallery. Rogue speaking, there is
something about being happy that I likeand I couldn't have been any happier than
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I us that night if somebody hadbeen tickling me with a feather. I
had a date with Betty Callahan,and the way I feel about Betty hasn't
been covered by a word yet,but it's a very dandy way to feel,
and I was reveling in it.If we sat there in the club
Cooper, drinking after dinner coffee andgrinning at each other. I was quite
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annoyed when a gentleman without raged dignitylurched over, drew up a chair,
and made himself unwelcome at our table. Now hope that you are Richard Rogue,
the investigative. Oh that's right.Why don't you go back to your
own table? I just want toted you road that I consider your way
of making a living despicable. Now, thank you very much. How Richard,
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don't start feel look good? Mister? Why don't you go away?
You wouldn't like to have me callthe captain and have you drag away what
you're Oh no, no, Ihave a few things to say before I
leave, Rogue. I understand thatmy wife has retained your services to spy
on me and sneak around after me. Richard it's been drinking. Now,
Okay, look, mister, willyou please go away? We don't like
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you. Look, you'll know me, and I know what you're doing here.
I just want to tell your roguethat my wife means a great deal
to me. I don't even knowyour wife. I don't care anything about
your private life, as long asyou leaded someplace away from this table,
going to lie about it. Hehaven't even got nerve enough to admit that
you're sticking around watching me. Okay, okay, Emmanuel, oh Manual,
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will you take this creep away beforeI see one of those vitamin pills I've
been taking. Really work. Takehim away with him yelling for help,
her rogue yellow. He well,I'll show you, mister Willis told me,
I'll chilling the s Come on,Betty, let's get out of here
before I love my temper and nailthat guy. I'd never seen him before.
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You look like a nice little man, but he didn't look like he
could poke his way out of amosquite in that. As we got a
cab, I looked at Betty andshe was blushing like a June groom,
and her little lower lip was pushedout in that cute way, which indicated
that she was going to tell mejust what she thought of me and my
profession. As soon as she couldcontrol herself. She did. It was
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early, but Betty wanted to gohome, so I took her there.
Then I went to my apartment.In the hall, I met a woman
waiting for me. Beautifully it turnedout water well capped thirty five with a
baby face and the full mouth droopedat the corner, mister rogue, Yes,
yes, you waiting for me?Yes, well, how nice.
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In just a moment, won't youcome in? Thank you have a chair?
Have we met before? No?I don't believe we had, mister
rogue, I've always admired you though, I've always admired you work. Wow,
oh, thank you? And nowjust what is it you wanted to
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see me about? About my husband? Oh? Oh, he's found a
new interest. Yes, well,where suppose you tell me? What's your
name? By the way, I'mmissus Webb, missus Matt Webb Webb,
oh Webb. Oh, I'm beginningto see the light. Tell me as
your husband a bad disposition and delusionsof grandeur. My husband, well,
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yeah, I just met him.He said that you would retain me for
some reason which you didn't explain.Why did you tell him that I want
to retain you, mister Rode,look at this? Huh oh, come
on over here on the line.M bill for a for a court five
thousand dollars. I want to knowwho my husband bought that court forms the
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rogue. I'll pay you well forfinding out. I'm really sorry, miss
Well, but I don't get mixedup in domestic difficulties. There are plenty
of detectives though. Who will takeyour case? You won't take? No,
I really want. I'm much toobusy. Good night, missus Webb.
Mister Rogan, I'm sorry, missusWebb. I'm tired. I don't
take the mextic cases. Thanks fordropping in, but now good night.
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I have to get some sleep.Good night, mister rogue. Oh what's
the idea of calling me? Betty? And it's ten o'clock? Oh?
Oh, well, hello, Angela, I wasn't quite awaken. I have
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news for you. Your friend MattWebb, remember him at the club last
night? Sure? What about him? Well, he was found dead in
his car this morning, parked inthe Hollywood Hills shot. I'm kidding,
I just left the tender Durban incharge of the case for homicide. He
knows about your argument with Matt Webblast night. Well, he doesn't think
I did it, does he?Well, no, but that's somebody at
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the door. How about lunchby.So it's me, Honey, keep your
shirt on, I'm coming, I'mcoming. Oh hello, Urban con man.
Thanks, Rogie. I don't knowanything about it. Don't even know
the guy you're talking about, MattWebb, I suppose, or who else.
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Don't tell me you disrupted here fora cup of coffee. How did
you know Webb was dead? DidI say it was dead? Full up
a chair? Cigarette? No?What do you know about Webb? Rog
Nothing? I met him at theclub Cooper last night. He wanted to
beat my brains out because I wasan investigator. Seems you had a strange
idea that his wife had retained meto follow him. Okay, rog talk
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your brains out, but you can'ttalk away the fact that Webb is dead
and you had a beef with him. Sure, but I don't know anything
about this case. Urban. It'searly in the morning, and while you
have a genius for getting all mixedup in things, you don't know anything
about han't your Roggie, I don'tget sore. Okay, I'm not sore
just because I meet a guy whodoesn't like investigators and his wife tries to
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harm me to find out who hebought a fur coat for, and he
turns up dead. That her wifeangler is interesting. Rogie, get dressed.
Why missus Webb didn't mention any furcoat when I went out to see
her this morning? She didn't.Maybe she's got some more little secrets.
Come on, Roggie, we're goingto call on her. We'll continue our
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shampool regularly. Now back to DickPowell as private investigator Richard Rogue. In
Rogue's gallery, it isn't very oftenthat I could tangle up in a case
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of the normal money in it thana busted piggy bank. I operate on
the theory that a boy's best friendis a dollar. I didn't know the
recently dead Matt Webb from Gunga then, but there I was and Urban's homicides
then on my way out to playquiz with Missus Webb. During the ride,
Urban gave me a quick rundown onthe events surrounding Matt Webb's murder.
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Webb was a very wealthy man,you know, Rogie, big manufacturer farm
machinery. And he couldn't have beenvery smart or acou he wouldn't have been
parked up in the Hollywood Hills.That's volunteering for a stick up. Yeah,
what's the widow? Looked like hisdaughter? No, I guess she's
not quite that young. But whatthe beauty parlor and the foundation can do
to keep her young has been done. Very pretty woman. She looks about
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thirty, probably thirty five. Bythe time we get back down to headquarters,
were no more about her and everythingelse in the case. I might
get it over with. I wantto go on my vacation. I'm sick
of murders. Hey, so thisis the way of the other half,
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las huh must have taken a lotof farmers. Sheineed to PLoP an up
doll for this monstrosity. Rampared amillion or two. And hey, now
I'll do the questioning rogue. I'min charge of the case, you know,
well, sure, sure, sure, sure, I'm just a silent
partner ring the bell. Thank you, I will yes, police, I
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want to see missus Webb. Oh, come in, thank you, I'll
go ahead, Urban, go ahead, she's in here. My name is
Bregg Gail. I was sales managerfor Matt and mister Webb. Lieutenant Urban
must I'm sorry. This is RichardRogue. I'm glad to know you,
Gail. Would you mind telling mewhy I shut out Rogue? Huh?
Well, shop right in here,please, missus Webb. He's gentlemen from
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homicide want to talk with you.How must you talk to me right now?
I have nothing more to say,missus Webb. Richard Rogue here tells
me that you called on him lastnight, attempted to hire him to check
on the disposition. The disposition whichyour husband made of a fur coat.
Yes, I did. I didn'ttell you about it this morning because I
didn't consider it important. Well,now, Missus Webb, every detail is
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important in the investigation of a homicide. Only you suspect of receiving the code.
Look, Lieutenant, I hate toget into this, mister Gale,
if you please, this is myopinion. Matt Webb was my best friend.
With you, Missus Webb had beena little more understanding. No time
to fight with me. Maybe wecould organize this conversation a little bit.
You'll stay out of it, rogue. This is a murder investigation. Now
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listen. Oh just a minute,just a minute, Urban Look, missus
Webb, how about telling us alittle more about the home life of you
and your husb rogue. If youdon't shut up, I'm gonna throw you
out of this investigation. Oh justa mat of Gail. Weren't you with
Mat? Weren't you with Matt Webbat the club Kuba last night? Yes?
I had dinner with him there,and you must have known who he
was with and what he did later. I had no idea what he did
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later in the evening. I lefthim a little left to raid at that
time. His plans were to gohome playstack was my understanding? Or maybe
you'll feel more like talking a littlelater. Gail, You can go now.
You can get me at the officeanytime you want. Okay, better
fix that cold now, this isWebb. You seem to think that your
husband was involved with some woman.Of course he was. That's how he
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got killed. Who do you thinkHe gave the first court to his secretary,
Helen Damon. He's been in lovewith her for the last year.
She's been making a perfect fool ofhim. Helen Damon. We'll never talk
with her. Lieutenant Irman dropped meby my office and I took penn and
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Racing Farm in hand and managed toforget all about killings not made at Hollywood
Park until noon when I left andmet Betty Callahan at the Brown Derby.
She was as full of information asa Chamber of Commerce brochure. Richard,
I want you to come with meto the jail. I want you to
talk with Helen Damon Webb secretary.Why I feel so sorry for her.
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Homicide detectives have been grilling her allmorning and she's so tired and discouraged.
Well, does it look like Helendid the job? Well? Yes,
A man showed up at the policestation this morning and he said he saw
a girl in a tweed coat witha tuxedo collar run down out of the
hills last night, drive away inthe Chrysler coop, a blue one,
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just about the time of Webb's murderand in the same locality. And Helen
Damon has a code like that anddrives a blue Chrysler coupe right, Yes,
Richard, I don't think she didit. Oh, just because she
has big brown eyes, I supposelook Baby, cops don't make many mistakes.
Why do they find out about thegun? I was a thirty eight
revolver that mister Webb kept in hisdesk at the office. Nothingerprints on it.
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It was. It was found inthe weeds a little away from where
the car was parted. Betty,Betty, honey, you're a newspaper reporter,
not an investigator. So why don'tyou let the police take care of
finding the killers. If Helen Damondid it, she'll get the book.
If she didn't, she'll be okayas she got any alibi for the time
of the crime. No, shehasn't. Oh, you have to get
down there and talk to her.I promised her you would. Oh no,
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what business if you promising anybody thatI'll take the case? Looks to
me like this, Helen Damon isguilty as angleback. I don't want to
get mixed up in a case likethat. I should have known that the
way you'd look at it, justbecause she doesn't have much money to pay
you. But baby, that's gotnothing to do with it. I have
a couple of hundred dollars. Iwant to see that Helen Damon gets a
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fair deal. I'll look, Betty. I'm not going to get mixed up
in this case. That's final.You understand to see Helen Damon, I'll
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give you ten minutes roguing. ThanksAlison, Hello there, miss Damon.
Betty Callahan, the reporter told meyou were expecting me. I don't see
how you can do me any good, mister Rogue. You've already decided that
I did it. Nothing I cando to convince I know about the partial
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identification. I suppose you tell mewhere you were at the time the crime
was committed, all right, lastnight at nine o'clock, Within a few
minutes of nine, anyway, Igot a call from mister Webb. I
don't think it was mister Webb now, but I thought it was. Then
he asked me to meet him athis office. Said he had some important
letters he had to get out atonce. Was he in the habit of
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having your work at nine? No, but it didn't seem unreasonable to me,
So I put on my coat andwent down to get in my car,
which was parked in the parking lotnext to my apartment building. Just
as I got into the car,somebody grabbed me from behind and held a
cloth over my face. It waschloroform. When I came to about three
hours later, I was in mycar. My coat was thrown over me.
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The car was back in the parkinglot and it had been driven about
fifteen miles. I know because Ihad a serviced yesterday and the service record
is on the dash. You liveat Hollywood, Yes, oh well that's
just about right for a drive tothe Hollywood Hills. You're gonna have trouble
convincing a jury with a story likethat. I look, Helen, I
I'm your friend. Is that storythe truth? Yes, yes it is,
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mister rogue. I know you don'tbelieve me. Nobody does. You're
having the slightest idea of what happenedbetween nine o'clock last night and midnight.
Right, Yes, that's right.There's no way in the world I can
prove I'm telling the truth. Icouldn't figure out why anybody would do anything
like that to me. I gotit this morning. I went to work.
I didn't say anything to anybody becauseI alone. Yes, Helen,
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I want to be frank with me. Were you overly friendly with Matt Webb?
I liked him and admired him.That's all, missus. Webb seems
to think of a little present.No, oh, no, no,
I hardly knew him at all socially. He's taking me to dinner a few
times, that's all, mister rogue. Do you think you can do anything
to help me? I'm not amurderous Yeah, Tommy. Do you know
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anything about a first cult? Acult that Matt Webb bought for somebody not
his wife. No, I don'tknow anything about it. I haven't done
anything wrong. Can you get meout of here, mister rogue? I
don't know. I don't know.You haven't got much of a case you.
I have a little money to skipthat skip that. I'm doing this
as a favorite to a friend.Are you sure you're on the level with
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me? I told you everything Iknow. I didn't kill him. He
was a fine man. When Ileft Helen Dame and I had a great
inquisitiveness about a fur court. Igot my car, fought all the other
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crazy California drivers to a sandstill tryingto park in front of Helen's apartment house.
I got her apartment number off theregister in the fire and walked up
one flight. The lock was easypickings. I walked in, closed the
door, and oh oh, Icaught it right at the base of the
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skull like a turkey. On thefirst Thanksgiving, my astral body left this
world and floated up through eternity likea Christmas smoke, only paler. I
was so glad to see Cloudy,my home away from home. I'm glader
to see Ugor, my alter ego. Ugor was sitting there on a used
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thunderbolt is and looking eyes buckling withglee. No, Rogie, welcome home.
You've got the duck again. High. Oh, let me sleep.
I'm tired of Oh, you bettersnap out of a cheep. You've got
plenty of work to do. Yeah, I know it, but I'll take
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care of it later. Go away. No, can't, Rogy. You
need a talking to. You can'tlay down on a job. Now,
come on, snap out of it. Oh oh my head. Betty Callahan
got me into this, her andher hunches. You've got the same hunch,
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you know it, Rogie. Oh, now you're reading my mind.
Look Mitchell, reading your mind.Look, cheep, I am your mind,
and I'm telling you to get downstairs. You've got work to do later.
Now over you go, Rogie,pushing you go. I'm not well
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over your back. Don't work solong, rogy, rogue, rog rogue,
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snap out of it, rogie.Oh hello, hello, hello,
Harvin. What happened to you?Um? I got hit on the head,
I am. Can't you see?What kind of a detective are you?
Now? Take it easy? Whatwere you doing here in Helen Damon's
apartment. I wasn't doing anything.I just opened the door. Somebody let
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me have it. Why were youlooking for up here? I've got a
little bit inquisitive. Why allah?I had to talk with Helen Damon and
she didn't know anything about a furcoat. That's funny. That's funny about
it. We just got a murderindictment against Helen Damon. Oh well,
that's a long way from conviction.And when I was up here this morning,
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there was no fur coat in thatcloset. There's a fur coat in
that closet now, Ogie. Peculiar, isn't it. We'll return to our
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as private investigator Richard Rogue. InRogue's gallery, assorted and unrelated facts were
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whirling around in my massive intellect likeneutrons around them atom They were just as
much explosive in them as I couldget if I could get them properly under
control. So I got away fromurban and decided to drive out for a
visit with Missus Matt Webb. AsI pulled up in the same block with
a web house, I saw MissusWebb get into her car and drive away.
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I followed her over Coalwater Canyon andout into the valley. When she
pulled into the driveway of an earlysuburban white ranch house, I parked up
the street. She went in.I took a look at the mailbox in
front of the house. The nameon that mailbox was F. R.
Gale. I got that old,familiar chill in the region of my solar
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plexus. I'd lucked into something,and I knew it. I worked my
way around in the rear of thehouse as quiet as fallen snows. The
back door was unlocked. I pushedher put it in, flowed up to
the doors between the dining room whereI was at the living room where Fred
Gale stood talking with Missus. Manwere myshom May. I'd be the first
to congratulate you on a performance yougave for Lieutenant Urban and Rogue tonight.
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You did very well yourself with it. Now, I suppose you tell me
what you're doing out here. Well, I had to see you. I
needed a little moral support from yourfriend. Yeah, I know that this
is the craziest thing you could havedone. Marshall. You don't act as
though you're very glad to see menow, Luck Marsha. We've got a
lot of trouble to cover up thefact that we're friends, haven't we friends?
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Is that what we are? Youknow? I love you and Marsha.
It's only that so much depends onus being smart just a little while
longer. How do you know youweren't followed? Let us both in jail
for murder. We've been smart sofar. Why ruin it? They don't
suspect us. They have a murderindictment against Helen Damon. Aren't you going
to kiss me? Fred Can?Yes? We had stay kissed, and
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then Helmet I reached my gun outof my shoulder holster and read it myself
for the pinch, but something heldme back. You can call it second
side or luck or anything you like, but I couldn't move my feet.
And while I was debating, theybroke it up and started talking again.
It was a very interesting conversation,Darling. Everything's going to be wonderful for
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us now, isn't it? Sure? You'll just stay away from me a
little while until the case is settled. Everybody's forgotten the murder. Will always
be sure of each other, won'tly, of course? Oh Fred, I
know I'm silly, but I worry. I don't know what i'd do if
I ever lost you. I wantyou to do something for me. Promise
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me that you will. Okay,I can do anything for you, Mutching,
if you'll only promise you'll be agood girl and get out of here
and stay away from me until everything'sall right again. You gotta be smart,
baby. I'll stay away if you'lljust help me. I want you
to write a note like this oneI've written. Read it, confession I
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alone, sistant killed mad wim signMarshall win. I said, this is
out a nonsense if we can't trusteach other. Now, I want you
to write a note like that,in your own handwriting and give it to
me. And I'll give you myconfession and you give me yours. And
we know that nothing can ever separateus. You And it's a stupid thing
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to do. Say that note up? What if it got into the wrong
hands? Sit down here, writeme one, make it. I don't
know that everything's all right. Shekissed him then and walked with him over
to the desk, talking love allthe way. She got a penance and
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paper. She stood behind him withher arms around his neck. As he
started to write. I saw herfree hand come up with a gun,
and as he finished the note,she placed the gun an inch from his
temple. And I'm Gail Duck.You shot me? He shot bro Yeah,
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you should be off glad to seeme, Gail. In about another
minute, you'd have better suicide andyour girlfriend here would have been a walty
wead. Don't believe it's skip itbusiness web. Look, Gail, you
see that gun, your lovely collaboratordropped Marcia. If I hadn't put that
slug through her shoulders, she wasgoing to put one through your head,
sucker. She was slipping you witha kiss of lying Freddy's lying where you
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were you were going to kill me? Sit down, Gail, sit on.
I am running the show from hereon art and the little lady has
a reserved seat in the gas chamber. Well. It didn't take much to
convince Gail that Marsha's planned to killhim and leave the gun in his hand
as he slumped over the desk.The don'ts he asked him to ride would
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have sensed his death as remorseful suicide. Missus Webb would have had all of
Matt Webb's money and a dead accomplice. She would have been as safe as
an odds on bet that Dick Tracycatch his shoulders. Gail admitted his part
with the plot to murder Webb andframed the youngers Tell and Damon for the
crime, and Gail got away withlife. Marsha paid the full charge in
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the gas chamber. Oh well,I've always said that there should be a
little editing done. That Old SaintHell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
The last words should be deleted.Present company accepted, of course,
ladies, But you men you knowwhat I mean. This is Dick Powell
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again, Ladies and Japan. Ihope you enjoyed our story tonight. Ray
Buffam wrote it. Leif Stevens composedand conducted the music in D and back,
produced and directed View of Us again. Next Sunday, will you we
have a story for you about asummer resort, a lovely girl, and
some newspaper clippings about a murder.We call it cabin on the lake must
be a floating cabin. Thanks forlistening, and I his gem Doyle.
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Listen again next week at this sametime to hear Dick Powell as private investigator
Richard Rogue in Rogue's gallery. Bythe way, Dick will next be seen
in his newest Columbia picture. Johnnyo' clarke. A while that a time,
use pitch time. Use your headafter and between pitch shampoos. You
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can keep your hair shining and manageableby using a few drops of Pitcher's Ideal
Hair Tonic every day. Pitcher's IdealHair Tonic is not sticky or greasy,
yet it gives your hair that wellgroomed low welcome back. If you notice
at the final break when Robe cameback to conveniently stumble on the two conspirators
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conversing Richard Dick Powell was really stumblingthrough his lines. And actually I ran
into the first instance I've had whereinan OTR detective actor swearing on the air.
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I actually went ahead and I cutit because I know a lot of
folks would have found it offensive,and we have kids out there, and
it wasn't actually part of the script. Didn't find any record of him getting
into any Dick Powell game to anytrouble with the FCC over it. Had
it been observed and reported, itprobably would have been an issue with the
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fc SEE or network sensors anyway atthe time, though not today. And
really it was just kind of thissource of frustration thing because he just really
stumbled over those lines. And youhave to appreciate how some of these absolutely
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complicated terms of phrases, particularly inthe hard boiled genres, are usually delivered
so expertly and sometimes, as inthis case, the writers lost track that
you know, somebody is going tohave to try and read this over the
air, and usually no matter howhard the script that came through, but
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as this illustrates, it wasn't alwayseasy. Well, we did receive some
comments regarding our five hundredth episode specialstarring Dick Powell in Lux Radio Feeder to
the Ends of the Earth and alsoare We made a blog post where we
put where we embedded some video thatTurner Classic Movies had to the Ends of
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the Earth on their website and Timcomments on this. They say that radio
is better than movies because the picturesare better. This is one case where
the opposite is true. When theslaves go overboard in the lux production,
the sailors are described as shoving themoff the deck. In the film snippet,
the captain releases the special anchor andthe whole lot of them are dragged
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after it like falling dominoes. Ispent last weekend avoiding nine to eleven voltage.
I've becoming noward to the collapsing towersand the panicky cows running to outrace
the smoke cloud like some horrible marathon. But the side of the leapers still
fills me with dread. The imageof the slaves going over stuck with me
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all week. This was the realmethod that African slavers use. After importation
was banned in eighteen oh seven,they were still smuggled into Charleston. But
if captain saw a new cutter advancing, he cut the anchor cable and send
his human cargo to the ocean floor. And it was definitely a more terrifying
way. The way that the movieportrayed it wasn't graphic like it would be
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today. It was very short cutaway, the radio not so much. I
think the whole anchor thing would wouldjust be a little hard to explain in
the limited time that you had topresent a story on radio, and this,
you know, Lex's A is agreat program, but this was one
of its limitations because it was tryingto take a movie, which is a
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visual medium, and translate it toradio. And sometimes it worked pretty well,
sometimes there were challenges. There wereother programs that adapted novels and stories
that had been made to movies,but they adapted directly from the novel or
the story to the radio, andthat could often work better. One case
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is the story Deadline at Dawn.Lux Radio Theater adapted the movie adaptation of
Deadline at Dawn, and I watched, I listened to that, didn't care
for that as much, and thenI listened to the Spence adaptation of the
same story, except they adapted fromthe original story and made it fit to
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radio, so kind of cutting outthe middleman tend to work a little better.
But this was still a good presentationoverall. To spot the challenges,
Tim goes on to say that saidthis was a great story horri finally told,
but not exploritatively, a worthy choicefor your five hundredth episode. Well
done, Great Detectors of Old timeradio. The script really brought out the
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worldwide scale of drug production and distributionwithout the Hollywood tendency to include exotic locations
just for novelty's sake, like inthe later James Bond movies, and include
a couple of things or spoilers forthe radio version. So I want to
read in case you decide to goback and listen to him. Harry Enslinger
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mission repeatedly as Dick Powell's boss reallywas the head of the Narcotics Bureau,
so this production must have been madewith the support of the US government.
Enslinger to listen to the history rewrittenby the himp Lobby comes across to something
of a clownish figure. I'll needto study him some more, take him
a bit more seriously. Well,I'm glad that that's always a good idea.
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And that's one thing I always findfascinating about many old radio programs.
It's the opportunity to hear history howit happened and how it was being viewed
in the era it occurred, ratherthan just what we get as the retrospective
through history, and it feels alot of gaps in and this story definitely
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helped in that regards. I'm gladyou enjoyed. It also received a comment
from Andrew who called it epic andin daed it was all right, well
we'll do it for today. Ifyou have our app or a premium site,
we have another Dick Pile Watch RadioTheater extra that I think you're sure
to enjoy. Join us tomorrow forlet George Do It, and next week
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another episode of Rogues Gallery. Ifyou have a common email at to box
thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives,
and give us a call two Oeight nine nine one four seven eight three.
But from Boise, Idaho, thisis your host, Adam Grahamson and off
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