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A man stumbles into Rogue’s office and then dies, leaving only a mysterious addresses in the lining of his coat pocket.
Original Air Date: June 23, 1946
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A man stumbles into Rogue’s office and then dies, leaving only a mysterious addresses in the lining of his coat pocket.
Original Air Date: June 23, 1946
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by the generous financial support of ourlisteners, so thank you very much for
that. And we're going to beginwith the MBC run of Rogues Gallery in
the summer of nineteen forty six.The last mutual episode aired on June twentieth
of nineteen forty six, called TheMissing Witness, and then the program shifted
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over to MBC. This was quitecommon for a program to start on one
network switched to another switch back.Rogues Gallery had actually begun over NBC in
the summer of nineteen forty five.I shouldn't mention here that for the next
about twenty three weeks Tuesdays we'll featurean MBC pro Graham with one exception.
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But here now is the star ofSavoy. The f W. Fitch Company
presents Dick Powell as private investigator RichardRogue in Rogues Gallery. The f W.
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the benefit of those who tuned inhoping to hear cass Daily, may I
introduce myself. My name is RichardRogue. I'm a private investigator. I
said it, and I'm glad privateinvestigator. That's the Harvard way of saying.
I'm a guy who has parleyed ahard head and a great curiosity about
other people's affairs into a career.At least that's the way the homicide squads
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Lieutenant Urban, who shares my interestand unalive bodies feels about me. And
I'd also better tell you now thatI have a certain personal indio sygnracy.
I hold audible consola consultations with myalter ego once a while when I'm confused
and in need of advice. Hisname is Ugre, which is rogue spell
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backwards, and he's a very pressurelittle spook. Of course, I wouldn't
have known I had an alter ego. Betty Callahan, the girl I would
rather be marooned on a desert islandwith than not, hadn't browb eaten me
under reading Sigmund Freud. Betty,who is the sharpest newspaperwoman in town,
extends upward about five feet of thefloor, has hair the color of court,
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a letter and firelight, and atip tilted irish nose shying away from
the most kissable mouth of the World'sWell, she's wonderful, and on this
day I'm going to tell you aboutShe and I had had lunch together.
She had an hour to kill,so she walked back to my office with
me. You know, Richard,this is much too nice a day to
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work. Look, Bettie, whocan get rid of that? A sign?
Much you have for this afternoon?We'll go to the racist. Oh,
I haven't been out this year.I got some information from herb high
to the cigar store in the lobby. He gave me two horses who gave
him their word. They were readytoday, talking only to herb. They
don't speak English, but fortunately hespeaks horse. I get on the phone
and ask that slave driver at yourcity desk for the afternoon off telling me
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have to go to your grandmother's weddingor something. Well, I'll try it,
but it's not going to work.And I know, just sit right
down there and paying no attention tothat sign asking you to leave a nickel
in the cigar box for every call. Oh, thank you. Oh it's
nothing, it's nothing. I'll doanyth for the girl I love. Better.
Think it's something better than my grandmother'swedding. I know. I'll tell
him I want to go to therace. Okay, here, you're Richard
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Rogue. Detective in the yard namedClement Cohan reformed me to you. My
name is Charles McDonald. Yeah,I got his letter. I gotta see
it right away. I'll go onin that office there. I'll be in
in a minute, all right,Please hurry. What's the matter with him?
He looked sick, probably been drinking. I noticed that from that.
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Hello, give me the city desk. Please, I'll make it a good
story telling your mother. Hello,Walter, this is Betty Callahan. Look,
can you put somebody else on thatstool? Story this afternoon? I
want to go to the races,but Walter, yes, But okay,
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what did he say? No?Oh, told me to get right back
to the paper. And I likemy job, so well, wait a
minute, Wait a minute, I'llgo in and talk with this guy.
Give him the quick brushing gorb withyou. Maybe I can talk Walter into
letting you take the afternoon off forthe betterment of racing. Oh, you'll
have to hurry, Walter's nad.Just take it easy. I'll be right
back. Hey, Hey, what'sthe matter, good lord Betty? Richel
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will happen? Oh he thought ofhis chair. Yeah, get Urban on
the phone, call it for anambulance. Oh, Rich, he's dead.
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Now back to Dick Powell, asprivate investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's gallery,
I should be inured to the sightand smell of sudden death by this time
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but it always does something to me. It freezes my stomach and gives me
a dull ache at the vase ofmy brain. When I left Betty Callahan
on the phone my reception room andwalked into my private office, I found
my mysterious visitor falling forward out ofhis chair in death. I knelt by
his side and loosened the long topcoat he was wearing. The front of
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his suit and his shirt were red, and there were two bullet holes,
one to the right of his heartand one a little bloyd. I try
to blame myself for not talking joinedat once for not understanding that his staggering,
shuffling gait was not caused by adrinking but by loss of blood.
I looked in his billfol for identification. His name was Charles MacDonnell, and
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he was assistant manager of a ParkAvenue jewelry store in New York. There
was a piece of paper in hishand. I looked at it. It
carried an address one three E ninetwo squirrel Hill. I put the paper
in my pocket. Then I heardthe outer office door open. A feminine
voice said, mister Rogue's office.I jumped at my feet and ran out
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there. Closing the door behind me. There was a girl standing by the
desk talking to Betty. A darkgirl said if she had a figure with
enough, oh, send it toput it in them. Then indollar column
and I faced the match. Bettysaid, this is mister rogue. Where's
my husband? I'm sure I don'tknow. What's his name? Charles McDonald.
He's here. I saw him.Cany, that's very interesting. Excuse
me a moment, Betty, arethe other way? Yes? Thanks?
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Now missus McDonald, what makes youthink your husband is here? I saw
him come in here. You wereon the elevator with him. No,
I just happened to be passing onthe street. I saw Charles and spoke
to him. He didn't even lookat me. He walked right by.
I couldn't understand it. It lookssick. I saw him coming into this
building. I followed him in.Oh have you been all this time?
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Missed his elevator? Wh you questioningme like this? I know he is
here. I want to see him. Well, if you missed his elevator,
what makes you think he's here?This is a big building, you
know. I waited for his elevatorto come back to the ground floor.
I talked to the operator. Heremembered my husband and told me the childs
had asked for your office. Whereis he, mister rogue? Where is
he? Oh? Missus McDonald,would you just please have a chair.
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He's here all right, but he'sbusy. You will have to wait.
Oh hello, lieutenant Urban, comein? What goes on? Where's the
urban? I want to see inthe next office? Follow me, William,
Hey, we sure did How didit happen? Rogie? I'll tell
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you all I know. He camein here looking pretty sick. I thought
he'd been drinking at long top coathe had uncovered the fact that he was
bleeding to death. I told himto come in here and wait. I
came in about two minutes later,just as he pitched forward out of his
chair and died. That's what Icalled you, or had they call you?
She was here when he came in. Saw the whole thing looks like
a thirty eight candramar job two aroundthe heart. His name is Charles McDonald
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and he's from New York City.Oh that's interesting. Who's the girl outside
with Callahan? His wife? Wheredoes she fit in here? Well?
She? I want to see misterrode. Now I'm going in there,
Candle in my noise, and thereI'm going in. Joe. Well,
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when that girl saw Charles McDonald lyingthere as dead as yesterday's bear, she
folded up right over him like adrop piece of strain. Urban and Betty
and I were still working over whenthe medical examined her and the technical squad
from homicide showed up. We pickedher up, carried her into the Yatter
office. As soon as she cameto Betty gave her a glass of water,
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which she sipped nervously when Urban startedthrowing questions at her like baseballs,
missus McDonald, I'm sorry I haveto question you at this time. Will
you please put that glass down andlistening to me? Now, your husband
was obviously murdered. I have tohave the information. I no who could
have done it? My husband isa business man. He wasn't mixed up
in anything that could have caused amurder. What kind of business with your
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husband? And who was in thejewelry business? Manager of a big store
in New York? The paper?How I get the story? Okay,
wait a minute, I'll walk outof the hall with you. All right,
Come, where are you going?Rogie. I'm taking Betty to a
cab. I'll be back. Seethat you are. Come on, what
are you doing pulling me along likethis? I have high heels on a
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hurry baby. Would you told littenantUrban you'll be right back? I told
him i'd be back, and Iwill. My rents paid for another month.
Well, where are you going todo a little investigating? That's what
it says in my card investigator.Hello, honey, when we get downstairs,
I'm going to have to leave you. I'll see you tonight here at
the opposite seven o'clock gone down.Hello, mister rogue. Hi, sure
he dropped this thing? Well,you'm in a urry. I shot out
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of that building like a bat outof a belfry and jumped into a cab.
I slipped the cab jockey of Billthat made his eyes pop open like
dropped eggs, and told him hecould keep it if he could get me
the thirteen ninety two Squirrel Hill infive minutes. That's the address I found
in Charles McDonald's hand. He brokeevery law at the eighteenth Amendment. The
next four minutes of fifty seconds andI jumped out of the cab hit the
front steps of that big, desertedlooking old house in the dead run.
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The door was ajar, so Itook my gun out of his shoulder host
and put it in my side coatpocket walked right in into a black jack.
Oh. My glazed eyes told mybrain there was a dead man lying
there. And then my head hitone of the stars which were surrounding me,
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and the star exploded with a blindingflash. I felt myself flying upward
at a speed that made me dizzy. I was grabbing at the tails of
comments trying to break my speed,but nothing could stop me. I looked
on at the earth and seemed Iseemed to be looking through the wrong end
of a telescope. It was alittle round ball, that's all. I
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couldn't get my breath. I thoughtfor it, thought for it, and
then my lungs seemed to explode,and everything was peaceful. I opened my
eyes and I was on cloudy myhall away from home. Hugo I was
sitting there, dangling his little shortlegs over. He turned him and calmbing
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his long white beard with his stubbyfingers. Hello, Rogy, been using
your head stuff again? Huh oh, never mind the cracks I feel awful.
Who did it? Somethig g Isaw the boy? Why would you
want to hit me? Well,you must have been into brigand business.
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Geep, there was a dead Iknow it. What was I doing there?
I'm a little foggy. Well youwent there because it was the address
that was printed on that piece ofpaper you found in Charles McDonald's head.
Remember. Oh oh yeah, hey, I better get downstairs. I gotta
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work to do. Help me outthe side. Oh, rogie, there's
no doll in this case for you. Why don't you get out of it?
Do you want to get yourself killedfor free? I'll get out of
it if I ever get back downstairs. Give me a show. Yeah,
I'm going down there. Okay,Geep, but take care of yourself now.
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So long, rogie. I openedone eye carefully, then I closed
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it again so fast that I wasafraid the guy who was watching me would
hear it snap. He was abig man with his eyes with a blue
or high scube my ice cubes offloodlights behind them, hot eyes. One
of his hands was holding a gun, and the gun was pointed right where
my heart would have been if ithappened them on my throat. No use
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playing possum now, mister Rowe.No, indeed, I am aware that
you have returned to consciousness. Ohwho are you? My name is Mua.
Now come, mister rogue. Irealize that you undoubtedly have a headache,
probably a spitting headache, and I'mregretful. But we can finish our
business in just a moment if you'llsit up and talk with me. Okay,
I'll try. Excellent, Now,mister rogue, where is it?
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Where is what? No? Notime is of the essence. Let us
not waste it. You know whatI'm speaking of the Star of Savoy?
Where is it? You't have tobelieve me. I don't know whether you're
talking about a burlesque dancer, apassenger liner or a military decoration. What
is the Star of Savoy? Andwhy am I supposed to know something about
it? You're jesting? Of course, don't believe me. I'm never jest
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with a head like this. Okyou got the wrong number. Do you
think I killed this man here?Oh? Indeed I don't. He was
killed by a man named Charles McDonald, You know, mister McDonald. Of
course, vaguely, vaguely, yes, he was dead when I'm at him
delightful sense of humor. I alwaysadmired a man with a sense of human
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good. Well, then, look, I am going to get out of
here. That's possible, entirely possible, after you tell me where I may
find the Start of Savoy. Misterrogue, I don't know. I don't
know anything about it, don't evenknow what it is. It's a large
I am, and, mister rogue, one of the largest in the world,
formerly owned by the Hohenzollend family,recently the property of a New York
collector of famous jewels. It's amagnificent jewel, rogue, magnificent. Where
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is it? Oh? I supposeyou think I came here after it?
Oh, I wouldn't know about that, mister rogue. But you say you
met my friend Charles McDonald after hewas dead, very cleverly put. But
when McDonald left her, he wentfrom here directly to your office. He
was carrying the Star of Savoy inhis coat. I know that to be
true. I was following him.Now, we searched him the police,
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and I he didn't have the Starof Savoy, or any other diamond or
a carrot any place on him.That's the truth. One thing I found
on him was this address. That'swhy I came here. That's very straight.
Yes, quite badly. Have youmet a strikingly beautiful girl, tall,
black hair, brown eyes, veryappealing. You mean McDonald's wife.
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Well, yes, McDonald's wife.You've met her, yes, here.
She was at my office when hedied. Who was the stuff here?
Oh? A former partner of mine. He was attempting to double cross me,
poor fellow, do you see,rogue? He and I had a
market for the Star of Savoy,a very fine market. That's why we
hope to get it from mister McDonaldtoday. McDonald was most unreasonable, most
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unreasonable. Of course, I intendto continue in my efforts to acquire the
Star of Savoy. And this darkyoung lady, missister McDonald. Was she
alone with him at any time,either while he was alive or after his
death? Oh no, she cameinto my office and saw that he was
dead and fainted. Oh I see, will mister rogue. I'm inclined to
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believe your story about knowing nothing aboutmy diamond. I think I'll be running
along, but just to make surethat you don't use your meager talents to
pursue me. I'll have to Oh, we'll return to our story in just
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I t now back to Dick Powellas private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's
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Gallery. Well, what had startedout to be a lovely, lucid day
had certainly turned out to be asugly and mad as a giraffe of a
sore throat. The date I hadwith Betty Callahan had been interrupted by a
stranger walking into my office and droppingdead of predigested murder. I got knock
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Selley and came too to find aguy named Moore, politely annoyed with me
about a diamond I had never seenso annoyed with me, in fact,
that he was determined to kick myteeth out. I saw that big shoe
swing from my jaw, and Iducked right in to it. Oh,
it would have been so easy forme to pass out again, but I
thought it. I couldn't. Ineeded the time. I vaguely heard the
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fading footsteps of mister Moore through theaura of pain, which was surrounding me
like a fog, and after heatfaded out, I sat there for a
while. Then I got to myhands and knees and crawled until my head
cleared a little. When I gotto my feet, I ran out of
the house, grabbed a cap Atthe part Crest Hotel. I thought i'd
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find more there looking for missus McDonald. Oh, I must have looked like
a hit and run victim. AsI approached the very proper clerk, he
backed away, but I reached acrossthe counter and grabbed him. Let joel.
I wanted information. I wanted fast. What room is missus Charles McDonald
of New York City? And missusMcDonald stopped stalling? What's her room number?
We have a mister McDonald, butthere is no missus McDonald. His
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wife was in New York. Howdo you know that I set a wire
to a for him last night.There's no missus McDonald out here. And
now let me go. Before Icalled the house officer, I remembered then
mister Moore had hesitated when I peggedthat tall, dark girl as missus McDonell.
That girl was an impostor. Myhead was still doing the Virginia reel
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with variations on the turns, butI couldn't slow up now. In spite
of the racket inside my skull,I was thinking straight, clearly, I
ran to my office. It wasonly a block and I got that glass
that missus McDonald had been twirling inher fingers as urban question her. I
took it down to police headquarters andasked the sergeant of the Fingerprint Bureau to
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dust it for Prince and telephoto ofthe Prince to the FBI in Washington.
I told him he could find mein my office. I went back to
my office and sank into my swevelchair and let sleep take over. Wake
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up match you, m Richard?Has happened to you? Oh honey,
you look so awful? Oh Betty, how, oh baby? How are
you doing here at seven o'clock?Richard? You told me to meet you
here at seven o'clock? Seven?Who seven? It is? Oh?
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Hey about those fingerpants? Fingerprints?Excuse me a minute, baby, I'm
gonna call you Identification Bureau. Youshould be in a hospital. Oh Richard,
you can't take me to dinner.Look for like that, honey,
I think? How I see you? Identification Bureau SiGe Jane Side and this
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is Richard Rogue. You got ananswer from the FBI on those prints I
gave you. Yeah, it justcame in Rogue. They belonged to a
girl named Alice Ryan three years agowhen they took him with the aircraft company
where she worked. She lived atfour or four three five after one Avenue
in North Hollywood, any criminal record. Arrested once in a confidence rep four
years ago. It's mess for lackof evidence. Thanks SiGe. I owe
you a c a guy. Comeon, Betty, we're gonna go to
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North Hollywood. I'll explain why ina cab. Come on. No,
at least does not live here anymore. She moved into Los Angeles seven months
ago when she quit her job atthe airplane factory. Did she leave afore
wearing address? Oh yes, I'llget it for you just a minute.
You think she has the diamond?Don't you sure she lifted it off McDonald's
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body when she fainted over him.Oh wow, Here it is a long
drive from here in Los Angeles.Thanks Alice Ryan. Now she doesn't live
here anymore. She came in themoney at him. She lives in Hollywood.
Now did you know her dress?There? Big guy rand here after
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an hour ago North Rano. Waita minute, I'll get it for a
big man. That's the man,that's the man. He has an hour's
head start here it is, Iwrote it down. Oh thank you.
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Okay, now, Betty, I'llring the belt and then stand back,
clear back against the wall and staywithin the windows. All right, Richard,
you take care of yourself now,I always do. Stand where you
are and i'll go knock on thedoor. All right, you'll stay right
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there, Betty. I'm gonna trythe door. I'll stay where you are.
Come in. Come in, misterRoade, and don't attempt to be
clever, because you present a beautifultarget there in the doorway. Where's Alice
Ryan? Cheez here? Drop yourgun, please, mister road I can
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see you. You know I havea bit of advantage. Drop your gun,
mister Rogue. Close the door,mister Rogue. Now that I've turned
the light on, you can seethat you have found Alice Ryan. Oh
Rob, yes, I'm sorry Iwas forced to eliminate her, mister Rogue.
She was most unreasonable about giving methe Star of Savoy. She chose
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to pit her ordinary brain against mygenius in this race to see who would
be the possessor of the stone afterCharles McDonald was eliminated. And now,
mister Rogue, you find yourself inmuch the same position yeah, I guess
I'm not very smart. You havethe diamond, indeed I have, and
I think perhaps you deserve a glimpseidethere is that? Not the most inspiring
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sight you ever seen, mister Rogue. Look at it glistening. A hundred
people have died, I would imagine, mister Rogue in the history of the
stone. Yes, at least ahundred. I have spent the last ten
years scheming, contriving, bribing,dealing to get this lovely thing. And
now, mister Rogue, it's mine. Yeah, you got it. All
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I gotta do with her to sitthere and look at it. I can
get a million dollars for it,a million in cold cash and no questions
asked, a million dollars. I'mnot at all sure that that is enough,
mister Rogue. And now I'm afraidI'm going to be falsed, regretfully
to remove you. There was coldmurder in the ice blue eyes that were
looking into mine. Moore was enjoyingevery breath of my last few minutes on
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earth. He was waiting for meto break, and all the time he
was talking in that cultured iceberg voice. Then I saw Betty. She was
hugging the wall of the next room, creeping silently towards the killer. I
wanted to shout at her, toshout at her, to tell her to
go away, and then yeah,yeah, knocked. He's gonna be air
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when you scared him. Silly,Oh Betty, Betty, bless your little
pointed head. But why did youdo it, Betty? Of all the
times to faint? Isn't it justlike a woman? Well the police took
it from there, and the storywas pretty plain. More was the head
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of a gang of international jewel thievesconsisting of the man I found dead on
Squirrel Hill, Alice with a darkblack hair, and himself. They had
offered Charles McDonald of Portune to stealthe Stars of Boy from the Park Avenue
establishment, where he was employed andwhere it was on exhibition. They planned
to kill him when he delivered thestone, but the trio trip across themselves
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and finally only More remained alive,which was a temporary thing because Moore soon
paid the final score for the murdershe committed, and I got a five
thousand dollars reward for breaking the case. Five thousand dollars. We're just getting
batted around a little at the isn'tthat I split the reward with Betty Callahan,
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who certainly saved my life, Andshe went right up and spent her
half on a fur cape. Youknow, women should never have money,
they don't know how to handle it. Of course, the first time she
wore the cape, she looked solovely that I took her to the races
and lost my half on a horsenamed Investigator. Oh well, money isn't
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as important as true love, butthere's a lot more of it, you
know what I mean. This isDick Powell again. Ladies and gentlemen,
it's often nice to meet you ona new network. I hope you enjoyed
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interesting because it was the first episodeafter a year of being on another network
that we get a whole introduction tothe Rogue character that we've not been able
to hear before. And I imaginethat there were probably a similar efforts in
the premiere of the series in summerof forty five and then on the first
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episode for Mutual. So this waskind of interesting to hear. And in
the end, Betty turns out tobe smarter with money than Rogue because at
least she's got her first still,while all Rogue has is the memory of
making a losing bet Rogue sake,I hope the income tax back then still
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allows you to de doct gambling losses. Well, now we turn to listener
comments and feedback. I received anemail regarding the Latin type the compartment on
the train. The two similar ata shakecases seems like an old plot from
the Abbots. Maybe it's the BlueRocket Express this episode three sixty six,
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but Rogues Gallery came first, suggestingthat Rogue may have been or that Abbots
may have been bothering from borrowing fromRogue. I think Blue Rocket Express took
some different, very different turns.The plot of mystery and Murder on a
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Train is very similar to a lotof different stories, but it goes on
to evaluate some of the characters.It goes I find George Valentine to be
too one dimensional. Same with EdmundO'Brien's Johnny Dollar. Howbard Doll Dollar got
some good wise cracks in the BirdieBaskerville matter. Her outfit was so skimpy
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that a silkworm would hang himself.Need more like Charles Russell O'Brian needs to
lighten up, Richard Rogue and better, and Barry Craig a better banter,
Sherlock Holmes is not my cup oftea, and hope John Lynne sposes it
up. Thanks for the fun radioold style from Sparking in San Diego.
Thanks so much, And we doactually just have two O'Brien episodes left,
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so we'll see what John Lunn hasto bring. Shortly on Facebook, Patrick
comments on episode four ninety two BlueEyes, she was to feminine architecture what
the Adam Bomb was to science.That's a great line, inded, and
this one had another one. Shehad a figure with enough ohs in it
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to put it in the million dollarcolumn. Dick Pound was the original with
this sort of manner. Finally,we have a nice review from iTunes from
Carolyn. I love listening to theSherlock Home Stories and now I've moved on
to Rogue's gallery. Love the podcast. Gonna have to check out the Dragnet
podcast everyone else has posted about.Thanks well, thank you so much Carolyn
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for your nice review on iTunes,and we always welcome both reviews, us
and ratings as so many people lookat those when determining whether to subscribe to
a podcast. Well, that willactually do it for us for today.
We will be back tomorrow with LetGeorge Do It and next week another exciting
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by the generous financial support of ourlisteners, so thank you very much for
that. And we're going to beginwith the MBC run of Rogues Gallery in
the summer of nineteen forty six.The last mutual episode aired on June twentieth
of nineteen forty six, called TheMissing Witness, and then the program shifted
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over to MBC. This was quitecommon for a program to start on one
network switched to another switch back.Rogues Gallery had actually begun over NBC in
the summer of nineteen forty five.I shouldn't mention here that for the next
about twenty three weeks Tuesdays we'll featurean MBC pro Graham with one exception.
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But here now is the star ofSavoy. The f W. Fitch Company
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the benefit of those who tuned inhoping to hear cass Daily, may I
introduce myself. My name is RichardRogue. I'm a private investigator. I
said it, and I'm glad privateinvestigator. That's the Harvard way of saying.
I'm a guy who has parleyed ahard head and a great curiosity about
other people's affairs into a career.At least that's the way the homicide squads
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Lieutenant Urban, who shares my interestand unalive bodies feels about me. And
I'd also better tell you now thatI have a certain personal indio sygnracy.
I hold audible consola consultations with myalter ego once a while when I'm confused
and in need of advice. Hisname is Ugre, which is rogue spell
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backwards, and he's a very pressurelittle spook. Of course, I wouldn't
have known I had an alter ego. Betty Callahan, the girl I would
rather be marooned on a desert islandwith than not, hadn't browb eaten me
under reading Sigmund Freud. Betty,who is the sharpest newspaperwoman in town,
extends upward about five feet of thefloor, has hair the color of court,
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a letter and firelight, and atip tilted irish nose shying away from
the most kissable mouth of the World'sWell, she's wonderful, and on this
day I'm going to tell you aboutShe and I had had lunch together.
She had an hour to kill,so she walked back to my office with
me. You know, Richard,this is much too nice a day to
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work. Look, Bettie, whocan get rid of that? A sign?
Much you have for this afternoon?We'll go to the racist. Oh,
I haven't been out this year.I got some information from herb high
to the cigar store in the lobby. He gave me two horses who gave
him their word. They were readytoday, talking only to herb. They
don't speak English, but fortunately hespeaks horse. I get on the phone
and ask that slave driver at yourcity desk for the afternoon off telling me
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have to go to your grandmother's weddingor something. Well, I'll try it,
but it's not going to work.And I know, just sit right
down there and paying no attention tothat sign asking you to leave a nickel
in the cigar box for every call. Oh, thank you. Oh it's
nothing, it's nothing. I'll doanyth for the girl I love. Better.
Think it's something better than my grandmother'swedding. I know. I'll tell
him I want to go to therace. Okay, here, you're Richard
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Rogue. Detective in the yard namedClement Cohan reformed me to you. My
name is Charles McDonald. Yeah,I got his letter. I gotta see
it right away. I'll go onin that office there. I'll be in
in a minute, all right,Please hurry. What's the matter with him?
He looked sick, probably been drinking. I noticed that from that.
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Hello, give me the city desk. Please, I'll make it a good
story telling your mother. Hello,Walter, this is Betty Callahan. Look,
can you put somebody else on thatstool? Story this afternoon? I
want to go to the races,but Walter, yes, But okay,
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what did he say? No?Oh, told me to get right back
to the paper. And I likemy job, so well, wait a
minute, Wait a minute, I'llgo in and talk with this guy.
Give him the quick brushing gorb withyou. Maybe I can talk Walter into
letting you take the afternoon off forthe betterment of racing. Oh, you'll
have to hurry, Walter's nad.Just take it easy. I'll be right
back. Hey, Hey, what'sthe matter, good lord Betty? Richel
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the phone, call it for anambulance. Oh, Rich, he's dead.
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Now back to Dick Powell, asprivate investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's gallery,
I should be inured to the sightand smell of sudden death by this time
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but it always does something to me. It freezes my stomach and gives me
a dull ache at the vase ofmy brain. When I left Betty Callahan
on the phone my reception room andwalked into my private office, I found
my mysterious visitor falling forward out ofhis chair in death. I knelt by
his side and loosened the long topcoat he was wearing. The front of
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his suit and his shirt were red, and there were two bullet holes,
one to the right of his heartand one a little bloyd. I try
to blame myself for not talking joinedat once for not understanding that his staggering,
shuffling gait was not caused by adrinking but by loss of blood.
I looked in his billfol for identification. His name was Charles MacDonnell, and
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he was assistant manager of a ParkAvenue jewelry store in New York. There
was a piece of paper in hishand. I looked at it. It
carried an address one three E ninetwo squirrel Hill. I put the paper
in my pocket. Then I heardthe outer office door open. A feminine
voice said, mister Rogue's office.I jumped at my feet and ran out
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there. Closing the door behind me. There was a girl standing by the
desk talking to Betty. A darkgirl said if she had a figure with
enough, oh, send it toput it in them. Then indollar column
and I faced the match. Bettysaid, this is mister rogue. Where's
my husband? I'm sure I don'tknow. What's his name? Charles McDonald.
He's here. I saw him.Cany, that's very interesting. Excuse
me a moment, Betty, arethe other way? Yes? Thanks?
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Now missus McDonald, what makes youthink your husband is here? I saw
him come in here. You wereon the elevator with him. No,
I just happened to be passing onthe street. I saw Charles and spoke
to him. He didn't even lookat me. He walked right by.
I couldn't understand it. It lookssick. I saw him coming into this
building. I followed him in.Oh have you been all this time?
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Missed his elevator? Wh you questioningme like this? I know he is
here. I want to see him. Well, if you missed his elevator,
what makes you think he's here?This is a big building, you
know. I waited for his elevatorto come back to the ground floor.
I talked to the operator. Heremembered my husband and told me the childs
had asked for your office. Whereis he, mister rogue? Where is
he? Oh? Missus McDonald,would you just please have a chair.
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He's here all right, but he'sbusy. You will have to wait.
Oh hello, lieutenant Urban, comein? What goes on? Where's the
urban? I want to see inthe next office? Follow me, William,
Hey, we sure did How didit happen? Rogie? I'll tell
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you all I know. He camein here looking pretty sick. I thought
he'd been drinking at long top coathe had uncovered the fact that he was
bleeding to death. I told himto come in here and wait. I
came in about two minutes later,just as he pitched forward out of his
chair and died. That's what Icalled you, or had they call you?
She was here when he came in. Saw the whole thing looks like
a thirty eight candramar job two aroundthe heart. His name is Charles McDonald
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and he's from New York City.Oh that's interesting. Who's the girl outside
with Callahan? His wife? Wheredoes she fit in here? Well?
She? I want to see misterrode. Now I'm going in there,
Candle in my noise, and thereI'm going in. Joe. Well,
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when that girl saw Charles McDonald lyingthere as dead as yesterday's bear, she
folded up right over him like adrop piece of strain. Urban and Betty
and I were still working over whenthe medical examined her and the technical squad
from homicide showed up. We pickedher up, carried her into the Yatter
office. As soon as she cameto Betty gave her a glass of water,
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which she sipped nervously when Urban startedthrowing questions at her like baseballs,
missus McDonald, I'm sorry I haveto question you at this time. Will
you please put that glass down andlistening to me? Now, your husband
was obviously murdered. I have tohave the information. I no who could
have done it? My husband isa business man. He wasn't mixed up
in anything that could have caused amurder. What kind of business with your
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husband? And who was in thejewelry business? Manager of a big store
in New York? The paper?How I get the story? Okay,
wait a minute, I'll walk outof the hall with you. All right,
Come, where are you going?Rogie. I'm taking Betty to a
cab. I'll be back. Seethat you are. Come on, what
are you doing pulling me along likethis? I have high heels on a
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hurry baby. Would you told littenantUrban you'll be right back? I told
him i'd be back, and Iwill. My rents paid for another month.
Well, where are you going todo a little investigating? That's what
it says in my card investigator.Hello, honey, when we get downstairs,
I'm going to have to leave you. I'll see you tonight here at
the opposite seven o'clock gone down.Hello, mister rogue. Hi, sure
he dropped this thing? Well,you'm in a urry. I shot out
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of that building like a bat outof a belfry and jumped into a cab.
I slipped the cab jockey of Billthat made his eyes pop open like
dropped eggs, and told him hecould keep it if he could get me
the thirteen ninety two Squirrel Hill infive minutes. That's the address I found
in Charles McDonald's hand. He brokeevery law at the eighteenth Amendment. The
next four minutes of fifty seconds andI jumped out of the cab hit the
front steps of that big, desertedlooking old house in the dead run.
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The door was ajar, so Itook my gun out of his shoulder host
and put it in my side coatpocket walked right in into a black jack.
Oh. My glazed eyes told mybrain there was a dead man lying
there. And then my head hitone of the stars which were surrounding me,
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and the star exploded with a blindingflash. I felt myself flying upward
at a speed that made me dizzy. I was grabbing at the tails of
comments trying to break my speed,but nothing could stop me. I looked
on at the earth and seemed Iseemed to be looking through the wrong end
of a telescope. It was alittle round ball, that's all. I
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couldn't get my breath. I thoughtfor it, thought for it, and
then my lungs seemed to explode,and everything was peaceful. I opened my
eyes and I was on cloudy myhall away from home. Hugo I was
sitting there, dangling his little shortlegs over. He turned him and calmbing
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his long white beard with his stubbyfingers. Hello, Rogy, been using
your head stuff again? Huh oh, never mind the cracks I feel awful.
Who did it? Somethig g Isaw the boy? Why would you
want to hit me? Well,you must have been into brigand business.
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Geep, there was a dead Iknow it. What was I doing there?
I'm a little foggy. Well youwent there because it was the address
that was printed on that piece ofpaper you found in Charles McDonald's head.
Remember. Oh oh yeah, hey, I better get downstairs. I gotta
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work to do. Help me outthe side. Oh, rogie, there's
no doll in this case for you. Why don't you get out of it?
Do you want to get yourself killedfor free? I'll get out of
it if I ever get back downstairs. Give me a show. Yeah,
I'm going down there. Okay,Geep, but take care of yourself now.
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So long, rogie. I openedone eye carefully, then I closed
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it again so fast that I wasafraid the guy who was watching me would
hear it snap. He was abig man with his eyes with a blue
or high scube my ice cubes offloodlights behind them, hot eyes. One
of his hands was holding a gun, and the gun was pointed right where
my heart would have been if ithappened them on my throat. No use
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playing possum now, mister Rowe.No, indeed, I am aware that
you have returned to consciousness. Ohwho are you? My name is Mua.
Now come, mister rogue. Irealize that you undoubtedly have a headache,
probably a spitting headache, and I'mregretful. But we can finish our
business in just a moment if you'llsit up and talk with me. Okay,
I'll try. Excellent, Now,mister rogue, where is it?
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Where is what? No? Notime is of the essence. Let us
not waste it. You know whatI'm speaking of the Star of Savoy?
Where is it? You't have tobelieve me. I don't know whether you're
talking about a burlesque dancer, apassenger liner or a military decoration. What
is the Star of Savoy? Andwhy am I supposed to know something about
it? You're jesting? Of course, don't believe me. I'm never jest
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with a head like this. Okyou got the wrong number. Do you
think I killed this man here?Oh? Indeed I don't. He was
killed by a man named Charles McDonald, You know, mister McDonald. Of
course, vaguely, vaguely, yes, he was dead when I'm at him
delightful sense of humor. I alwaysadmired a man with a sense of human
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good. Well, then, look, I am going to get out of
here. That's possible, entirely possible, after you tell me where I may
find the Start of Savoy. Misterrogue, I don't know. I don't
know anything about it, don't evenknow what it is. It's a large
I am, and, mister rogue, one of the largest in the world,
formerly owned by the Hohenzollend family,recently the property of a New York
collector of famous jewels. It's amagnificent jewel, rogue, magnificent. Where
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is it? Oh? I supposeyou think I came here after it?
Oh, I wouldn't know about that, mister rogue. But you say you
met my friend Charles McDonald after hewas dead, very cleverly put. But
when McDonald left her, he wentfrom here directly to your office. He
was carrying the Star of Savoy inhis coat. I know that to be
true. I was following him.Now, we searched him the police,
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and I he didn't have the Starof Savoy, or any other diamond or
a carrot any place on him.That's the truth. One thing I found
on him was this address. That'swhy I came here. That's very straight.
Yes, quite badly. Have youmet a strikingly beautiful girl, tall,
black hair, brown eyes, veryappealing. You mean McDonald's wife.
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Well, yes, McDonald's wife.You've met her, yes, here.
She was at my office when hedied. Who was the stuff here?
Oh? A former partner of mine. He was attempting to double cross me,
poor fellow, do you see,rogue? He and I had a
market for the Star of Savoy,a very fine market. That's why we
hope to get it from mister McDonaldtoday. McDonald was most unreasonable, most
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unreasonable. Of course, I intendto continue in my efforts to acquire the
Star of Savoy. And this darkyoung lady, missister McDonald. Was she
alone with him at any time,either while he was alive or after his
death? Oh no, she cameinto my office and saw that he was
dead and fainted. Oh I see, will mister rogue. I'm inclined to
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believe your story about knowing nothing aboutmy diamond. I think I'll be running
along, but just to make surethat you don't use your meager talents to
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I t now back to Dick Powellas private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's
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Gallery. Well, what had startedout to be a lovely, lucid day
had certainly turned out to be asugly and mad as a giraffe of a
sore throat. The date I hadwith Betty Callahan had been interrupted by a
stranger walking into my office and droppingdead of predigested murder. I got knock
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Selley and came too to find aguy named Moore, politely annoyed with me
about a diamond I had never seenso annoyed with me, in fact,
that he was determined to kick myteeth out. I saw that big shoe
swing from my jaw, and Iducked right in to it. Oh,
it would have been so easy forme to pass out again, but I
thought it. I couldn't. Ineeded the time. I vaguely heard the
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fading footsteps of mister Moore through theaura of pain, which was surrounding me
like a fog, and after heatfaded out, I sat there for a
while. Then I got to myhands and knees and crawled until my head
cleared a little. When I gotto my feet, I ran out of
the house, grabbed a cap Atthe part Crest Hotel. I thought i'd
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find more there looking for missus McDonald. Oh, I must have looked like
a hit and run victim. AsI approached the very proper clerk, he
backed away, but I reached acrossthe counter and grabbed him. Let joel.
I wanted information. I wanted fast. What room is missus Charles McDonald
of New York City? And missusMcDonald stopped stalling? What's her room number?
We have a mister McDonald, butthere is no missus McDonald. His
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wife was in New York. Howdo you know that I set a wire
to a for him last night.There's no missus McDonald out here. And
now let me go. Before Icalled the house officer, I remembered then
mister Moore had hesitated when I peggedthat tall, dark girl as missus McDonell.
That girl was an impostor. Myhead was still doing the Virginia reel
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with variations on the turns, butI couldn't slow up now. In spite
of the racket inside my skull,I was thinking straight, clearly, I
ran to my office. It wasonly a block and I got that glass
that missus McDonald had been twirling inher fingers as urban question her. I
took it down to police headquarters andasked the sergeant of the Fingerprint Bureau to
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dust it for Prince and telephoto ofthe Prince to the FBI in Washington.
I told him he could find mein my office. I went back to
my office and sank into my swevelchair and let sleep take over. Wake
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up match you, m Richard?Has happened to you? Oh honey,
you look so awful? Oh Betty, how, oh baby? How are
you doing here at seven o'clock?Richard? You told me to meet you
here at seven o'clock? Seven?Who seven? It is? Oh?
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Hey about those fingerpants? Fingerprints?Excuse me a minute, baby, I'm
gonna call you Identification Bureau. Youshould be in a hospital. Oh Richard,
you can't take me to dinner.Look for like that, honey,
I think? How I see you? Identification Bureau SiGe Jane Side and this
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is Richard Rogue. You got ananswer from the FBI on those prints I
gave you. Yeah, it justcame in Rogue. They belonged to a
girl named Alice Ryan three years agowhen they took him with the aircraft company
where she worked. She lived atfour or four three five after one Avenue
in North Hollywood, any criminal record. Arrested once in a confidence rep four
years ago. It's mess for lackof evidence. Thanks SiGe. I owe
you a c a guy. Comeon, Betty, we're gonna go to
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North Hollywood. I'll explain why ina cab. Come on. No,
at least does not live here anymore. She moved into Los Angeles seven months
ago when she quit her job atthe airplane factory. Did she leave afore
wearing address? Oh yes, I'llget it for you just a minute.
You think she has the diamond?Don't you sure she lifted it off McDonald's
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body when she fainted over him.Oh wow, Here it is a long
drive from here in Los Angeles.Thanks Alice Ryan. Now she doesn't live
here anymore. She came in themoney at him. She lives in Hollywood.
Now did you know her dress?There? Big guy rand here after
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an hour ago North Rano. Waita minute, I'll get it for a
big man. That's the man,that's the man. He has an hour's
head start here it is, Iwrote it down. Oh thank you.
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Okay, now, Betty, I'llring the belt and then stand back,
clear back against the wall and staywithin the windows. All right, Richard,
you take care of yourself now,I always do. Stand where you
are and i'll go knock on thedoor. All right, you'll stay right
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there, Betty. I'm gonna trythe door. I'll stay where you are.
Come in. Come in, misterRoade, and don't attempt to be
clever, because you present a beautifultarget there in the doorway. Where's Alice
Ryan? Cheez here? Drop yourgun, please, mister road I can
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see you. You know I havea bit of advantage. Drop your gun,
mister Rogue. Close the door,mister Rogue. Now that I've turned
the light on, you can seethat you have found Alice Ryan. Oh
Rob, yes, I'm sorry Iwas forced to eliminate her, mister Rogue.
She was most unreasonable about giving methe Star of Savoy. She chose
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to pit her ordinary brain against mygenius in this race to see who would
be the possessor of the stone afterCharles McDonald was eliminated. And now,
mister Rogue, you find yourself inmuch the same position yeah, I guess
I'm not very smart. You havethe diamond, indeed I have, and
I think perhaps you deserve a glimpseidethere is that? Not the most inspiring
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sight you ever seen, mister Rogue. Look at it glistening. A hundred
people have died, I would imagine, mister Rogue in the history of the
stone. Yes, at least ahundred. I have spent the last ten
years scheming, contriving, bribing,dealing to get this lovely thing. And
now, mister Rogue, it's mine. Yeah, you got it. All
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I gotta do with her to sitthere and look at it. I can
get a million dollars for it,a million in cold cash and no questions
asked, a million dollars. I'mnot at all sure that that is enough,
mister Rogue. And now I'm afraidI'm going to be falsed, regretfully
to remove you. There was coldmurder in the ice blue eyes that were
looking into mine. Moore was enjoyingevery breath of my last few minutes on
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earth. He was waiting for meto break, and all the time he
was talking in that cultured iceberg voice. Then I saw Betty. She was
hugging the wall of the next room, creeping silently towards the killer. I
wanted to shout at her, toshout at her, to tell her to
go away, and then yeah,yeah, knocked. He's gonna be air
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when you scared him. Silly,Oh Betty, Betty, bless your little
pointed head. But why did youdo it, Betty? Of all the
times to faint? Isn't it justlike a woman? Well the police took
it from there, and the storywas pretty plain. More was the head
(29:18):
of a gang of international jewel thievesconsisting of the man I found dead on
Squirrel Hill, Alice with a darkblack hair, and himself. They had
offered Charles McDonald of Portune to stealthe Stars of Boy from the Park Avenue
establishment, where he was employed andwhere it was on exhibition. They planned
to kill him when he delivered thestone, but the trio trip across themselves
(29:40):
and finally only More remained alive,which was a temporary thing because Moore soon
paid the final score for the murdershe committed, and I got a five
thousand dollars reward for breaking the case. Five thousand dollars. We're just getting
batted around a little at the isn'tthat I split the reward with Betty Callahan,
(30:03):
who certainly saved my life, Andshe went right up and spent her
half on a fur cape. Youknow, women should never have money,
they don't know how to handle it. Of course, the first time she
wore the cape, she looked solovely that I took her to the races
and lost my half on a horsenamed Investigator. Oh well, money isn't
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as important as true love, butthere's a lot more of it, you
know what I mean. This isDick Powell again. Ladies and gentlemen,
it's often nice to meet you ona new network. I hope you enjoyed
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our story tonight. Ray Buff andBrovi Leith Stevens composed and conducted the music
in d Engelbach produced and directed.Be with Us again next Sunday, will
you we have a story for youabout a triangle, a rendezvous and the
plan that failed. We call itLady with a Gun. Thanks for listening
and his Jem Doyle. Listen againnext week at this same time to hear
(31:06):
Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Roguein Rogue's Gallery. While that a song
for your style? U s Pitchshampoo. Just stare, use your head,
save your hair used shampoo after andbetween Fitch shampoos. You can keep
(31:30):
your hair shining and manageable by usinga few drops of Fitch's Ideal Hair tonic
every day. Pitch's Ideal Hair Tonicis not sticky or greasy, yet it
gives your hair that well groomed look. Welcome back. Well, this was
(31:56):
interesting because it was the first episodeafter a year of being on another network
that we get a whole introduction tothe Rogue character that we've not been able
to hear before. And I imaginethat there were probably a similar efforts in
the premiere of the series in summerof forty five and then on the first
(32:20):
episode for Mutual. So this waskind of interesting to hear. And in
the end, Betty turns out tobe smarter with money than Rogue because at
least she's got her first still,while all Rogue has is the memory of
making a losing bet Rogue sake,I hope the income tax back then still
(32:40):
allows you to de doct gambling losses. Well, now we turn to listener
comments and feedback. I received anemail regarding the Latin type the compartment on
the train. The two similar ata shakecases seems like an old plot from
the Abbots. Maybe it's the BlueRocket Express this episode three sixty six,
(33:00):
but Rogues Gallery came first, suggestingthat Rogue may have been or that Abbots
may have been bothering from borrowing fromRogue. I think Blue Rocket Express took
some different, very different turns.The plot of mystery and Murder on a
(33:21):
Train is very similar to a lotof different stories, but it goes on
to evaluate some of the characters.It goes I find George Valentine to be
too one dimensional. Same with EdmundO'Brien's Johnny Dollar. Howbard Doll Dollar got
some good wise cracks in the BirdieBaskerville matter. Her outfit was so skimpy
(33:42):
that a silkworm would hang himself.Need more like Charles Russell O'Brian needs to
lighten up, Richard Rogue and better, and Barry Craig a better banter,
Sherlock Holmes is not my cup oftea, and hope John Lynne sposes it
up. Thanks for the fun radioold style from Sparking in San Diego.
Thanks so much, And we doactually just have two O'Brien episodes left,
(34:08):
so we'll see what John Lunn hasto bring. Shortly on Facebook, Patrick
comments on episode four ninety two BlueEyes, she was to feminine architecture what
the Adam Bomb was to science.That's a great line, inded, and
this one had another one. Shehad a figure with enough ohs in it
(34:30):
to put it in the million dollarcolumn. Dick Pound was the original with
this sort of manner. Finally,we have a nice review from iTunes from
Carolyn. I love listening to theSherlock Home Stories and now I've moved on
to Rogue's gallery. Love the podcast. Gonna have to check out the Dragnet
podcast everyone else has posted about.Thanks well, thank you so much Carolyn
(34:54):
for your nice review on iTunes,and we always welcome both reviews, us
and ratings as so many people lookat those when determining whether to subscribe to
a podcast. Well, that willactually do it for us for today.
We will be back tomorrow with LetGeorge Do It and next week another exciting
(35:15):
trip inside george Rogues gallery. Inthe meanwhile cast you wrote for the show
and podcast Alley Podcast Alley dot GreatDetectives dot Net. Give us a call
to alight nine nine, one,four, seven, eighth three and if
you have a comment, email atto box thirteen at great Detectives dot net.
But from Boise, Idaho, thisis your host, Adam Grahamson and off
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