November 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Today's Mystery: A woman is found murdered with a broken neck.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 26, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 26, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boyse, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Beat.
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And now from May twenty sixth, nineteen fifty one, here
is the Eleanor Corbett murder case.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Broadways might be from Iam Square to Columbus Circle, the Gaudius,
the Most Violent, the Lonesome Smile the World.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
There's a special moon over broadways. It dips low and
mixes with the laughter of the clack of heels and
the lights flung downwards from the spectaculars. And occasionally people
notice it and squeeze somebody's hand, point at it, blink
at it, and walk into whatever shadow there's.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Planning for to night.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And the moon holds briefly right its long, slow curve Crosstown,
then dries the river. Broadway's happier. But where I was,
in the land of the tenements, the district of the
rat and the low rent, the moon completes. It's transit rapidly.
That's why the light had furnished by the city, specifically
(03:02):
the spotlight and the squad car parked in the alley
and cutting the darkness out of the backyard. The small
detective muggle and cigarette curls up into it deep points
too right there, Danny, uh huh, not too long ago?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Could be suicide?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You think, no, No, I don't. This girl fell or
was pushed neck broken. See the attitude of the body.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, I saw, That's why I said, maybe suicide.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Women don't pick backyards of tenement houses muggling. They register
in high class hotels, find a bridge, you know that, Yeah,
most of them, Danny, not all. And take what bruises
on the thlug here? Look here, bruise another one here.
This girl died instantly. These bruises were from a beating,
and she got thrown Huh, I'd say so cruci.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I can't tell no identification, Danny, I'd say she was
about twenty two.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Huh, twenty two?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What nothing but take care of the technical boys and
they get here, mugguman, I'll get back to you later.
And the rows of mas thelip windows like yellow folsters,
piled one on top of the other against the soot
grimed tenement walls, and centered in the leaners upon sills,
the man whose arm.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Warms the bare shoulders.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Of the woman beside, the kids leaning far out, shrieking
to each other across the littered yard, littered now with
the new refuse, the dead girl with the black hair.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Broken and thrown away.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Finally, the shroud over that draws the curtain on the spectacle.
It turns out the twenty watt bulbs in tenement galleries,
and the nighttime used up by the seekers of their
private dead. The men and women beckoned out of sleep
to identify the girl lying in the morgue, and while
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rubbing sleep out.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Of their eyes, they tell you they don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
They've never seen it. The halting, dragging parade of lost faces.
And then the one that's dawned, the one you won't
easily forget, the one who looks.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Up the girl and knows her, tells her.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
But she went out last night, Early says she's been
back a little well, who wish she mister Ella, that's ell.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I'm someone you've known wrong, a friend.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
My wife, Ellen is my wife. Yeah, I said, please
all right?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
If I said, of course, on that bench against the walls,
can I get you something.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And pass the water? You were understand all?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
It was something I didn't know that she was gone
all night. I woke up this morning and she wasn't
beside me.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's the first time.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I mean. I reported to the police and they asked
me to describe her, and I did in detail.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
They said, please come.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Down right, have to happen to her.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You can tell me why, help us find out why,
mister Coleman, I can't.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I don't understand it. I just don't understand it at all.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Your wife went out like this other times stayed out
all night.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
What are you trying to say to me?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We have to know, mister corvit. If you want her murderers,
you'll have to tell us a lot of things that.
Maybe tell her, oh, it was.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
A good watch, it was beautiful. Sometimes she's like to
go out and the evil hello, to move here, just
for a walk.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
She told me she was going to a movie last night. Yes,
that's what she said.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Well I never checked out her. I'd just go to bed.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
We wait for.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Last night. I fell asleep. Just leave me alone with it,
just a little, please, please.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'll wait in the hall for you, mister cork.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, I wait for as long as it took me
to smoke two cigarettes, for as long as it took
mister Carbott to consider.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That his white laid that in a public morgue.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Then mister Corbett came out into the card, took a
drink of water from the common.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
And it's not that he was ready to go. I
showed him to the street. I watched him go near
the corner.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
He stopped walking, leaned against the building, bowl of his head,
and ran his hand alongside his cheeks. Once a woman
stopped and stared at him, then hurried away, then back
into my office to consider the various reports. In the
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corner of the technicians, the lab boys stare at the
photograph taken of missus Eleanor Corbett from death, printed and
retouched to represent a reasonable facsimile of Missus Corbett living
and going now back to the tenements, knocking the door
show the picture asked, The question gets no answers, and
between the fourth and fifth floor the man walks your way.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's painting the banisters, and you wait until he straightens up.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Top job?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It is you work here all the time or does
this job of painting?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Mister police? Danny Clover?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Hi, wait a time, names Bluss the super right, go
with the rent in the cold water. Right now, I'm
up to my elbows and yellow paint, and I don't
see it from the Take a look at this picture.
It's coming now. I've been expecting cops to tap me
on the shoulder the picture. What about it?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I've ever seen this girl before?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
About them?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I'll explain the last question. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
How under what circumstances?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I mean, so, I just finished putting on the first
coat of paint and I was in my room. She
rang the bell wanted nowhere was the room of al
Martin Ruler? I toldally, went back to my coffee locks.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Where is Al Martin's room the top of.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The stairs, right there.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Look missed it.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
You want to know why I didn't come running to
the police. The girl dead.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I don't scratch over nobody's grave. That's for you to
come scratch stick around lusk.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Sure I got a week's barister's yet to paint.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I'm Bennie Polver police name.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
You want to drink from? Johnny Walker on the bottom
of that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Bottom Your name al markham our rooms.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Deal with me.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
I'm Frank Hagen.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It's about what happened last night.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Frank, Yeah, I know it's sig.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Have you ever seen this girl before?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Let me see it's the gun your fine?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Yeah, yeah, I saw last night with your roommate. Can't
to see him.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I got introduced.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Her name is Eleanor Corbett.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It could have been I didn't take the time to remember.
I said hello and walked up.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
How long did you stay away?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
As long as it.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Takes the walk from here to forty second? Speak to
you a double pig.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And come back.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Wait a minute was longer than that all night movie house.
I fell asleep, got back here long enough to put
on a clean shirt and go look for the job again.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Was Al here when you got back?
Speaker 8 (09:37):
No body, just a smell of place, fume, had a scrub,
a lipstick stand off, a cheese glad to get a
drink of water.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Where's your roommate? Now?
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Al Al wakes folks river down at that with that frame,
being on his way to California, he always wanted to
go to California. I'd say this was an a one
excuse for going.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Wouldn't you say it was an a one excuse for going?
Speaker 9 (10:13):
You?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
No, lady, no light?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Mo aroun my work?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I have permission and I got to schedule a course.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
See the sign in the front office, pin on my
gentim It says developed up final assembly. And you see
this yellow rimmer on the sign that means I'm a
putcher and attention you must be paid.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'll pay attention, misspath, I promise.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
Miss I'm working at it for no hanky. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
Hey, they thank you to me for work.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I got news for you.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I'll break your heart this morning, I can use it.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Got thanks for the work of mission from in front
of it. You take that, do study your hands a
little and honest toil.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Let me try to explain it to you, missus Fath.
I'm from the police, from.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The police God.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
That'll pro thank you from picking up a few part
time Nichols. I'd like to talk to al Mark Al Marta,
a worker who don't show up for work.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
You mean Al hasn't shown up this morning?
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Now the telephone? How much to make a man from
a woman? That client all mustnt no books where all right?
So I sent some boys down the mopp him up.
You want a job of the four lady Mesopolice, take mind? Well,
what's good?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Health? Martin?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Trunk drunk is.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Just krunking Patty's barrow knights after keep pushing, missus Clapp,
I'll go get Martin for you my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Al Martin is he here since last night?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You'll need a drink to make your equal, honest you will,
You'll need a Carlos.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Where is he?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Ed Ben?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You notice, to the crook of my long slender finger,
I glanced your eye alonger than back be Al Martin
in the back booth around the corner through the paper
flower draped doorway.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Thanks, hey, don't go yet.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I'll give you a jig around the house for taking
him out of head. He made trouble, not trouble, only
grief ball. Last night he was in here wiping his
tears at my bar aprin. Then he passed out over that.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Table to sleep it off.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I come to open the joint in.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
The early morning hours. He's waiting for me, still passed out.
I'm tired sobering him up.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
This time.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You tried, and I going O. I just thought i'd
explain him being a defense waker. He can't afford moons
like this at a time like this, This is a
time when every man must come to the Eid and
not go to California.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Hel al, I'm from the police ower, hel wake up,
Wake up. I shook him. The bottle slipped out of
his fingers, fell rolled on the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The jukebox played, and Patty at the bar blew on
the glass and polished it. I shook him again. None
of it bore, none of it would ever waken. Stain
of blood under his coat told me that the paper
flowers in the doorway rustles with a new wind.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Al Martin was dead.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You are listening to Broadways might be written by Morton
Fine and David Ridkin and starring Larry Thorres Detective Danny Clover.
The new Summer's Day is only a few hours old
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on Broadway, and already the street wants up, its screaming
and bounces it against the morning. The gutters have been
swept down, washed plates, the neon dusted, the bolts replaced
in the spectaculars, the swarm released from the steel apps
hurtling and shuttling underground.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
The Summer's Day stretches out.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Before Brockway, languid and empty, waiting to be filled, waiting
to be torn apart. At headquarters, we didn't have that problem.
The day was planned, maybe the night and the days
and nights after. All that had to be done was
to fill it in with reasons. That two people were
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newly dead in the city, Eleanor Corpett and al Martin,
who had met for a time in the tenement room,
then parted. Then in another place, in another darkness, found
death waiting for them. And to help you rid yourself
of it, your left hand, start and protect.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
It, Danny, I am not in the mood but you're
chatted this morning.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
All right, you know any way you wanted you eventually.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
The past two days the murders have drawn a blind
so to speak down across my naturally good natured shows.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
If you say so, Ji, I will not even regain
you with the favor of the zummament funds now lying
in my luck or waiting for my teeth to shink
into them.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Take it back a notch Geno Zimmerman.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Bun baked by my neighbor, the baker down the street
from me, Mister Zimmerman especialty.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Zimmerman bun of thanks for clearing enough for me.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Don't mention.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
To work.
Speaker 12 (15:14):
In a matter of the death of one al Martin,
the murder weapon of state knife is now being handled
by the boys and technical they come up with anything
two of sorted fingerprints from the fingers of inhabitants of
the bar who have been questioned, recorded and sent on
their way as not one so far has failed to
produce an alibi anything else established by technical but according
to the position of her body.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
In the yard, Missus Corbett was pushed out of the tenement.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
Hall window after death.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Established the Frank Hagen, who made of Barton is a
man who cannot hold.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
A job established something else? No?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Yeah, a personal question, nanny, how is it a man
doesn't know where his wife disappears to nights? I am
speaking of mister korbet Danny.
Speaker 13 (15:58):
How can a husband not know?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Questions? Why don't I go ask the man? Such a
good question? You don't mind?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
It goes without saying, I need an answer to such
a thing. Go down already. Oh oh, hello, mister Clover,
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I'm just oh my my name, mister Cover.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Thanks. You started to say you were busy, mister Calver.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Oh no, no, no, it's all right in here in
the bedroom. Look it's a small bedroom. No chairs if
you don't mind. I know it's not made up, but
don't sit on the bed like bringing some nos.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
That's all. I'll stand right here. I was packing elements things, staring.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
No, no, I'm I don't think I well, I know
other husbands saved their wives clothes, and I'm giving elements away.
I called a good will mission, sending a truck.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Just go ahead your.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Past and she looked nice and miss dress better do well?
Oh yess, that's no way to talk.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
You were happy together, mister Conor oh, I was proud
when I was with her.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Maybe there wouldn't be people anyways around, but people didn't
have to see me with it. Make me feel proud
just to touch it. She had beautiful hair, I said, oh,
it's just beautiful. You should have seen me in nicenesscover.
And when she got it, she danced around the room.
I watched. When she got near me, she threw her
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arms around her neck.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
She kissed me.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I remember, because her hair was flying got between her lips.
We laughed, mister Carpet, laugh and dance the lady, mister Carpet.
Did you know where your wife went the night before last,
the night.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
She was killed?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Of course it she went to school.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
School? What school?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Well, my wife was winning ceramics. Her friend next door
talk to into going. I didn't want her to go
to ceramics with that ashtrays, But Brinnice talked to and
the girl.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Why didn't you tell me this yesterday?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Because my wife was found in a strange place. My
wife was found on the edge of an alley and
the place she should never have been, so im ied
the first thing any husband would have done.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You know what she was doing there?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
No, And I don't want to know. Even if you
find out, I don't want you to tell me. You've
got to promise me at the school, even if you
find out.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Why it was where she was, don't tell me.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I don't want to know why.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Finally got it, hands away from me from clutching my
coat and trying to pull out of its fabric, to
promise he won'ted needed, so the pride could well up
inside him once more. Then he turned away and began
packing her things again, and the dead wife belonged only
to him. He turned once to show me another dress
ship on whenever I really saw it the door I
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was closing and blotted it out. Next door, the girl
who asked me him was plain except for the eagerness
in her eyes, except for the hundering them wait at
the feast on the excitement I brought into her chins
curtained light.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
I did my whole room myself, mister clover, we did
the whole thing. You should have seen it when I
moved in there, and ugly.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I only want you to tell me.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
Don't you think the room? I mean right? Happy all
I wake at night and I could hear it sing.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'm inside singing, and she went to school night before
last year, Missus Corbett.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Next the night she was found dead, wasn't it in
that awful place?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
What happened to her? Mister Clover?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
How was she killed?
Speaker 9 (20:12):
I mean, well, you know the paper They don't.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Always thrown out of a window, A paper, said.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I thought.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Don't ask me, I don't.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Know what I thought.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Was it usual for you to go to ceramics class
with missus Corbett every week?
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Of course there was this time when she had somewhere.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Better to go.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
She was very pretty. Where did she go?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
The secret? She made me swear I'd keep it a secret.
Girls like Eleanor always trust me, mister Clover, I'm that
kind of girl.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
She went through all Martin's. Did she tell you that's
before she was going? You can tell it now, Bernie,
she's dead.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
It was the only time she has a wins there,
the only time she ever told me about it. I mean,
she said she had to tell him off. He was
bothering her.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
She told Mark No, no, she didn't say his name.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
She just said there were two boys living in this
room together, and one of them had been making advances
and she wanted us to stop? And why are some
people so lucky?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Mister close me.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I take night classes and try to improve my mind,
and I should have been dead a girl like Geleanor?
Speaker 8 (21:53):
What do you want from me?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Clothes?
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Just tell me what you want. I got enough trouble.
I gotta have you.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
What kind of trouble of you got?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Frank thirty two years close?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
My homes are thinking room and is thinking walk up.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
I got no job.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
I once had a friend, but he got sabb Now
you tell me your trouble will knock our heads against
each other and shed tiah.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Come, you're not working plenty jobs, run sure, plenty me.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
I got qualifications to get the kind of job where
they called your boy. My old man was the same way.
He filed things in a big office, called him boy,
so they noticed the ball ahead. Then he was called pop.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
How do you live? Rank?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Sometimes I tow, sometimes I rack pool balls. An old
man that drives a long black car. He think some
good luck, takes me to card game, rubs the back
of me hand for luck. Go away, clover, leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I can't do that. There's still my prime suspect.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Well you think I like it?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's been done in murder cases.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Like maybe it was the other way around, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right, Like maybe eleanor Carbett came to see you and
it was all at the walk and later I killed him.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Maybe Come on, I said, come on, Frank, let's go
down time right, all right?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Cloth, I can't just wait till tomorrow. My friend wants
me to play Lucky tonight. He wendsday took me a
stop up. Sometimes he gives me a couple of shikes.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Come on, oh, crowd me.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Look, I got this one suit that don't have to
be wrong yet.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yeah, yeah, what back in your room? Frank? Sure?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Sure, think.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You'll keep your clothes in this closet, Frank me, And.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Now there it is the one suit. Al Mine's gummy back.
The combined ships are unmentionable. They're in that chest to
draw you want to look clover.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Over there.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Frank helped me get put a collection of shirts monograph,
but that's not what I was looking for. Ol shirts
were brought cloth and playing but they didn't have what
I was looking for either. I didn't need anything that
was in that room. Then I went to a place
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in the bowery. The guilt from the window that spelled goodwill.
Mischeon was flaked and inside the man told me his
name and told me the coffee and stew would be
served right after the preiman.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
But you don't look like the kind of man who
needs a hand now.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Thanks, mister Stanmponi. I'm from the police.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I suspected that. And whoever you want to see? Can't
you wait until l after the prayers? They start in ten.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Minutes from time to time, mister Stanmponi's I understand that
people who call you and have you sent around a
truck pick up magazines, newspapers, old clothes.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
There are many such kind people.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Did mister Corbett call you, Yes, yes he did, and the.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Truck received his donation just a few hours ago.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Has it been delivered to you?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Well, the truck road is all over there in the corner.
After the prayers, the men was sorted. They come on,
I'll show you didn't have such a good day today.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Let's see. I think this is it. There's a tag
on it from mister Walter Corty.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You mind opening it, mister Stempori, we.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Don't have to be done anyhow.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Ladies dresses mind if I look pretty dresses?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Let's say, young woman.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Does this look like a young woman's dress to you?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Of course that it's a man suit code.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We can use that.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
We'll clean off the paint and don't.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Bother about it. I'll take it, thanks, mister Stamponi.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Oh you again, mister Cover.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
But now we'll talk about it inside.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
I told you I didn't.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Want to know anything more. Helen is dead. I just
leave her alone.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Let's just joinside, mister.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I'll just come back from Eleanor's funeral. Very well, come,
what do you want?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Did you kill your wife?
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Kill Ellen? Do you mean that?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (26:10):
You do.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I can see by your face you mean it. And
I thought you were a kind man. Mister Klug, Well
you're a crew man.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Did you kill al?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Is this what happens to people like you?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Mm hmmmm?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Nice piano almost to call them it's paid for.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Eleanor wanted to study music, and I bought it for hers.
She lost interest in it makes the place look homey.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That happens. I didn't mind this a snapshot album.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Oh all my life with Eleanor's in there. Yeah, yeah,
I just got me show you something. You remember I
told you she had beautiful hair. Just look at that
on the far rockaway last year when I took my vacation.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
A look at the center and why I could kill her.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
You killed you, make me remember the good thing. And
then you say I disturbed here you throwing him, mister Croby,
You're going to get out now in.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Your own this case of seashells another my mantle of
your happy life together.
Speaker 13 (27:15):
And I bought my father was thrilling her. I told
her I found them on the beach, and I said,
away from them. I wondered, she was so interested in
so many things.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Sure she was, Al Martin.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You followed her to his room, waited outside in the
hall when she left there you're slugger and threw.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Out of the window. And I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I was even when around and waited for Al. Followed
him to to a bar, sat with him, maybe he
talked to him.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Stabbed him there.
Speaker 13 (27:41):
I never followed.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I never followed any inst But I have.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
A colt out of my car, A man's court yours,
the one you sent to the Goodwill mission.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
What are you talking about? The mission will get it back.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They left to clean it, but they've got ways to
take paint off clothing, green paint from the tenement where
I'll lived off the door of the banisters something where
where you struggled with your wife on your coat, green
painted crazy. I was never there green paint.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
On your coat.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Oh yes, I remember, Yes, I did get some pin
of my coat, That's why I gave it away.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
But it wasn't green.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It was yellow. That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yellow, the color of the paint in OL's tenement house,
the color that's on your coat.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I loved Eleanor.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
She didn't know how much.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I tried to tell her, even out in the hallway
when she came from Arrows room. I tried to tell her.
I wasn't angry. I just wanted her to know how
wrong she was. She was the one I was angry.
I tried to read them with her, and then she
slapped me Eleen. The hit me Ellen, and that made
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me furious. I hit her.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I hit her.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
I hit her.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Then I didn't want her anymore. It's true, a way.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Broadway sleeping now, the furious avenues of the night are
still only the sleepwalkers are there, the seekers, the sadden,
the huggers, close to nothing at all. It's Broadway a gaune,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the World, Broadway My.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Feat Tonight ONPN presents You've been listening to some of
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the best in radio drama with Member McGhee and Malay
and Broadway as my beat.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Join us again Monday.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Evening at the same time Mine Old Bought when FPN
presents drag Nets and.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
Escape Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It is nice to have Tartaglia provide the key clue
quite intentionally that gets Danny looking in the right direction. Also,
the Zimmerman role is a great name for confection and
if you're a baking minded Zimmerman or Zimmerman adjacent person,
you could probably get away with it. The highlight of
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the episode had to be the performance of Howard mcneir.
He was believable right up to the end, even when
he was getting indignat and you looked at the time
remaining and you're like, Okay, there's no way he's not
the murderer. I still wasn't one hundred percent. It really
only became apparent he was lying and the truth became
(32:13):
undeniable at the end. And of course the way he
played the husband, it wasn't like that episode from nineteen
fifty where he played a killer and was totally fabricating
the grief. There was some real complexity there, and again
mcneir just does a great job bringing that out. The
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weird part of the episode was the bartender closing up,
believing now was drunk and leaving apparently helping out find
his way out. There are all kinds of ways that
could have ended badly, and this was just one of them.
Worth noting. There is a gap between last week's episode
(32:56):
in this week's there was no missing episode. In that gap,
the series was preempted. However, there actually was a missing episode.
I forgot to mention there was an episode one week
before the first one we played from nineteen fifty one,
and that's actually the first missing episode of the Larry
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Thor era. All right, well, now it's time for listener
comments and feedback now, and we have comments regarding the
Harry Foster murder case over on Spotify. Peter Wrights, this
is my all time favorite episode of Broadways my beat.
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I love it because Danny says very little at the
end and gives mister and Missus Mason space to implicate themselves.
Missus Mason's Candida mission that going to jail wouldn't make
a difference because she was already in prison in a wheelchair.
Was also really powerfully delivered by the actress who played her.
I could listen to this one over and over again.
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Thank you so much, Peter Mechanic sixty six rights good
one and then over on Facebook, Elizabeth writs aside from
the great stories, I love the unique cadence and the dialogue. Well,
thank you so much, Elizabeth. And now it's time to
thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want
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My Beat, but join us back here tomorrow for drag Netwere.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Like a good kid a thirty turn?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
What do you mean, Jocko, how do you turn? Why
do you think I'm here?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
You mean he's the one who works over?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah? Where is he Jocko? Do you know? No? Do
you know where he's staying? Do you have any idea
at all? No?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Still all my stuff, everyody outs, what was it? Heroin?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Listen, yeah, get him fast. He's got enough junk to
start a war.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boyse, Idaho.
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And now from May twenty sixth, nineteen fifty one, here
is the Eleanor Corbett murder case.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Broadways might be from Iam Square to Columbus Circle, the Gaudius,
the Most Violent, the Lonesome Smile the World.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
There's a special moon over broadways. It dips low and
mixes with the laughter of the clack of heels and
the lights flung downwards from the spectaculars. And occasionally people
notice it and squeeze somebody's hand, point at it, blink
at it, and walk into whatever shadow there's.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Planning for to night.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And the moon holds briefly right its long, slow curve Crosstown,
then dries the river. Broadway's happier. But where I was,
in the land of the tenements, the district of the
rat and the low rent, the moon completes. It's transit rapidly.
That's why the light had furnished by the city, specifically
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the spotlight and the squad car parked in the alley
and cutting the darkness out of the backyard. The small
detective muggle and cigarette curls up into it deep points
too right there, Danny, uh huh, not too long ago?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Could be suicide?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You think, no, No, I don't. This girl fell or
was pushed neck broken. See the attitude of the body.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, I saw, That's why I said, maybe suicide.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Women don't pick backyards of tenement houses muggling. They register
in high class hotels, find a bridge, you know that, Yeah,
most of them, Danny, not all. And take what bruises
on the thlug here? Look here, bruise another one here.
This girl died instantly. These bruises were from a beating,
and she got thrown Huh, I'd say so cruci.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I can't tell no identification, Danny, I'd say she was
about twenty two.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Huh, twenty two?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What nothing but take care of the technical boys and
they get here, mugguman, I'll get back to you later.
And the rows of mas thelip windows like yellow folsters,
piled one on top of the other against the soot
grimed tenement walls, and centered in the leaners upon sills,
the man whose arm.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Warms the bare shoulders.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Of the woman beside, the kids leaning far out, shrieking
to each other across the littered yard, littered now with
the new refuse, the dead girl with the black hair.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Broken and thrown away.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Finally, the shroud over that draws the curtain on the spectacle.
It turns out the twenty watt bulbs in tenement galleries,
and the nighttime used up by the seekers of their
private dead. The men and women beckoned out of sleep
to identify the girl lying in the morgue, and while
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rubbing sleep out.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Of their eyes, they tell you they don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
They've never seen it. The halting, dragging parade of lost faces.
And then the one that's dawned, the one you won't
easily forget, the one who looks.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Up the girl and knows her, tells her.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
But she went out last night, Early says she's been
back a little well, who wish she mister Ella, that's ell.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I'm someone you've known wrong, a friend.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
My wife, Ellen is my wife. Yeah, I said, please
all right?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
If I said, of course, on that bench against the walls,
can I get you something.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And pass the water? You were understand all?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
It was something I didn't know that she was gone
all night. I woke up this morning and she wasn't
beside me.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's the first time.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I mean. I reported to the police and they asked
me to describe her, and I did in detail.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
They said, please come.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Down right, have to happen to her.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You can tell me why, help us find out why,
mister Coleman, I can't.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I don't understand it. I just don't understand it at all.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Your wife went out like this other times stayed out
all night.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
What are you trying to say to me?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We have to know, mister corvit. If you want her murderers,
you'll have to tell us a lot of things that.
Maybe tell her, oh, it was.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
A good watch, it was beautiful. Sometimes she's like to
go out and the evil hello, to move here, just
for a walk.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
She told me she was going to a movie last night. Yes,
that's what she said.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Well I never checked out her. I'd just go to bed.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
We wait for.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Last night. I fell asleep. Just leave me alone with it,
just a little, please, please.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'll wait in the hall for you, mister cork.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, I wait for as long as it took me
to smoke two cigarettes, for as long as it took
mister Carbott to consider.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That his white laid that in a public morgue.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Then mister Corbett came out into the card, took a
drink of water from the common.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
And it's not that he was ready to go. I
showed him to the street. I watched him go near
the corner.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
He stopped walking, leaned against the building, bowl of his head,
and ran his hand alongside his cheeks. Once a woman
stopped and stared at him, then hurried away, then back
into my office to consider the various reports. In the
(07:24):
corner of the technicians, the lab boys stare at the
photograph taken of missus Eleanor Corbett from death, printed and
retouched to represent a reasonable facsimile of Missus Corbett living
and going now back to the tenements, knocking the door
show the picture asked, The question gets no answers, and
between the fourth and fifth floor the man walks your way.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's painting the banisters, and you wait until he straightens up.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Top job?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It is you work here all the time or does
this job of painting?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Mister police? Danny Clover?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Hi, wait a time, names Bluss the super right, go
with the rent in the cold water. Right now, I'm
up to my elbows and yellow paint, and I don't
see it from the Take a look at this picture.
It's coming now. I've been expecting cops to tap me
on the shoulder the picture. What about it?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I've ever seen this girl before?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
About them?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I'll explain the last question. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
How under what circumstances?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I mean, so, I just finished putting on the first
coat of paint and I was in my room. She
rang the bell wanted nowhere was the room of al
Martin Ruler? I toldally, went back to my coffee locks.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Where is Al Martin's room the top of.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The stairs, right there.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Look missed it.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
You want to know why I didn't come running to
the police. The girl dead.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I don't scratch over nobody's grave. That's for you to
come scratch stick around lusk.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Sure I got a week's barister's yet to paint.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I'm Bennie Polver police name.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
You want to drink from? Johnny Walker on the bottom
of that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Bottom Your name al markham our rooms.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Deal with me.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
I'm Frank Hagen.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It's about what happened last night.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Frank, Yeah, I know it's sig.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Have you ever seen this girl before?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Let me see it's the gun your fine?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Yeah, yeah, I saw last night with your roommate. Can't
to see him.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I got introduced.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Her name is Eleanor Corbett.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It could have been I didn't take the time to remember.
I said hello and walked up.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
How long did you stay away?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
As long as it.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Takes the walk from here to forty second? Speak to
you a double pig.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And come back.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Wait a minute was longer than that all night movie house.
I fell asleep, got back here long enough to put
on a clean shirt and go look for the job again.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Was Al here when you got back?
Speaker 8 (09:37):
No body, just a smell of place, fume, had a scrub,
a lipstick stand off, a cheese glad to get a
drink of water.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Where's your roommate? Now?
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Al Al wakes folks river down at that with that frame,
being on his way to California, he always wanted to
go to California. I'd say this was an a one
excuse for going.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Wouldn't you say it was an a one excuse for going?
Speaker 9 (10:13):
You?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
No, lady, no light?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Mo aroun my work?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I have permission and I got to schedule a course.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
See the sign in the front office, pin on my
gentim It says developed up final assembly. And you see
this yellow rimmer on the sign that means I'm a
putcher and attention you must be paid.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'll pay attention, misspath, I promise.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
Miss I'm working at it for no hanky. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
Hey, they thank you to me for work.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I got news for you.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I'll break your heart this morning, I can use it.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Got thanks for the work of mission from in front
of it. You take that, do study your hands a
little and honest toil.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Let me try to explain it to you, missus Fath.
I'm from the police, from.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The police God.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
That'll pro thank you from picking up a few part
time Nichols. I'd like to talk to al Mark Al Marta,
a worker who don't show up for work.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
You mean Al hasn't shown up this morning?
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Now the telephone? How much to make a man from
a woman? That client all mustnt no books where all right?
So I sent some boys down the mopp him up.
You want a job of the four lady Mesopolice, take mind? Well,
what's good?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Health? Martin?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Trunk drunk is.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Just krunking Patty's barrow knights after keep pushing, missus Clapp,
I'll go get Martin for you my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Al Martin is he here since last night?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You'll need a drink to make your equal, honest you will,
You'll need a Carlos.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Where is he?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Ed Ben?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You notice, to the crook of my long slender finger,
I glanced your eye alonger than back be Al Martin
in the back booth around the corner through the paper
flower draped doorway.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Thanks, hey, don't go yet.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I'll give you a jig around the house for taking
him out of head. He made trouble, not trouble, only
grief ball. Last night he was in here wiping his
tears at my bar aprin. Then he passed out over that.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Table to sleep it off.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I come to open the joint in.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
The early morning hours. He's waiting for me, still passed out.
I'm tired sobering him up.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
This time.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You tried, and I going O. I just thought i'd
explain him being a defense waker. He can't afford moons
like this at a time like this, This is a
time when every man must come to the Eid and
not go to California.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Hel al, I'm from the police ower, hel wake up,
Wake up. I shook him. The bottle slipped out of
his fingers, fell rolled on the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The jukebox played, and Patty at the bar blew on
the glass and polished it. I shook him again. None
of it bore, none of it would ever waken. Stain
of blood under his coat told me that the paper
flowers in the doorway rustles with a new wind.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Al Martin was dead.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You are listening to Broadways might be written by Morton
Fine and David Ridkin and starring Larry Thorres Detective Danny Clover.
The new Summer's Day is only a few hours old
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on Broadway, and already the street wants up, its screaming
and bounces it against the morning. The gutters have been
swept down, washed plates, the neon dusted, the bolts replaced
in the spectaculars, the swarm released from the steel apps
hurtling and shuttling underground.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
The Summer's Day stretches out.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Before Brockway, languid and empty, waiting to be filled, waiting
to be torn apart. At headquarters, we didn't have that problem.
The day was planned, maybe the night and the days
and nights after. All that had to be done was
to fill it in with reasons. That two people were
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newly dead in the city, Eleanor Corpett and al Martin,
who had met for a time in the tenement room,
then parted. Then in another place, in another darkness, found
death waiting for them. And to help you rid yourself
of it, your left hand, start and protect.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
It, Danny, I am not in the mood but you're
chatted this morning.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
All right, you know any way you wanted you eventually.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
The past two days the murders have drawn a blind
so to speak down across my naturally good natured shows.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
If you say so, Ji, I will not even regain
you with the favor of the zummament funds now lying
in my luck or waiting for my teeth to shink
into them.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Take it back a notch Geno Zimmerman.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Bun baked by my neighbor, the baker down the street
from me, Mister Zimmerman especialty.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Zimmerman bun of thanks for clearing enough for me.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Don't mention.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
To work.
Speaker 12 (15:14):
In a matter of the death of one al Martin,
the murder weapon of state knife is now being handled
by the boys and technical they come up with anything
two of sorted fingerprints from the fingers of inhabitants of
the bar who have been questioned, recorded and sent on
their way as not one so far has failed to
produce an alibi anything else established by technical but according
to the position of her body.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
In the yard, Missus Corbett was pushed out of the tenement.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
Hall window after death.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Established the Frank Hagen, who made of Barton is a
man who cannot hold.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
A job established something else? No?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Yeah, a personal question, nanny, how is it a man
doesn't know where his wife disappears to nights? I am
speaking of mister korbet Danny.
Speaker 13 (15:58):
How can a husband not know?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Questions? Why don't I go ask the man? Such a
good question? You don't mind?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
It goes without saying, I need an answer to such
a thing. Go down already. Oh oh, hello, mister Clover,
(16:30):
I'm just oh my my name, mister Cover.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Thanks. You started to say you were busy, mister Calver.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Oh no, no, no, it's all right in here in
the bedroom. Look it's a small bedroom. No chairs if
you don't mind. I know it's not made up, but
don't sit on the bed like bringing some nos.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
That's all. I'll stand right here. I was packing elements things, staring.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
No, no, I'm I don't think I well, I know
other husbands saved their wives clothes, and I'm giving elements away.
I called a good will mission, sending a truck.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Just go ahead your.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Past and she looked nice and miss dress better do well?
Oh yess, that's no way to talk.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
You were happy together, mister Conor oh, I was proud
when I was with her.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Maybe there wouldn't be people anyways around, but people didn't
have to see me with it. Make me feel proud
just to touch it. She had beautiful hair, I said, oh,
it's just beautiful. You should have seen me in nicenesscover.
And when she got it, she danced around the room.
I watched. When she got near me, she threw her
(17:48):
arms around her neck.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
She kissed me.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I remember, because her hair was flying got between her lips.
We laughed, mister Carpet, laugh and dance the lady, mister Carpet.
Did you know where your wife went the night before last,
the night.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
She was killed?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Of course it she went to school.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
School? What school?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Well, my wife was winning ceramics. Her friend next door
talk to into going. I didn't want her to go
to ceramics with that ashtrays, But Brinnice talked to and
the girl.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Why didn't you tell me this yesterday?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Because my wife was found in a strange place. My
wife was found on the edge of an alley and
the place she should never have been, so im ied
the first thing any husband would have done.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You know what she was doing there?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
No, And I don't want to know. Even if you
find out, I don't want you to tell me. You've
got to promise me at the school, even if you
find out.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Why it was where she was, don't tell me.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I don't want to know why.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Finally got it, hands away from me from clutching my
coat and trying to pull out of its fabric, to
promise he won'ted needed, so the pride could well up
inside him once more. Then he turned away and began
packing her things again, and the dead wife belonged only
to him. He turned once to show me another dress
ship on whenever I really saw it the door I
(19:19):
was closing and blotted it out. Next door, the girl
who asked me him was plain except for the eagerness
in her eyes, except for the hundering them wait at
the feast on the excitement I brought into her chins
curtained light.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
I did my whole room myself, mister clover, we did
the whole thing. You should have seen it when I
moved in there, and ugly.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I only want you to tell me.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
Don't you think the room? I mean right? Happy all
I wake at night and I could hear it sing.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'm inside singing, and she went to school night before
last year, Missus Corbett.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Next the night she was found dead, wasn't it in
that awful place?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
What happened to her? Mister Clover?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
How was she killed?
Speaker 9 (20:12):
I mean, well, you know the paper They don't.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Always thrown out of a window, A paper, said.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I thought.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Don't ask me, I don't.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Know what I thought.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Was it usual for you to go to ceramics class
with missus Corbett every week?
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Of course there was this time when she had somewhere.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Better to go.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
She was very pretty. Where did she go?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
The secret? She made me swear I'd keep it a secret.
Girls like Eleanor always trust me, mister Clover, I'm that
kind of girl.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
She went through all Martin's. Did she tell you that's
before she was going? You can tell it now, Bernie,
she's dead.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
It was the only time she has a wins there,
the only time she ever told me about it. I mean,
she said she had to tell him off. He was
bothering her.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
She told Mark No, no, she didn't say his name.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
She just said there were two boys living in this
room together, and one of them had been making advances
and she wanted us to stop? And why are some
people so lucky?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Mister close me.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I take night classes and try to improve my mind,
and I should have been dead a girl like Geleanor?
Speaker 8 (21:53):
What do you want from me?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Clothes?
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Just tell me what you want. I got enough trouble.
I gotta have you.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
What kind of trouble of you got?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Frank thirty two years close?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
My homes are thinking room and is thinking walk up.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
I got no job.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
I once had a friend, but he got sabb Now
you tell me your trouble will knock our heads against
each other and shed tiah.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Come, you're not working plenty jobs, run sure, plenty me.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
I got qualifications to get the kind of job where
they called your boy. My old man was the same way.
He filed things in a big office, called him boy,
so they noticed the ball ahead. Then he was called pop.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
How do you live? Rank?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Sometimes I tow, sometimes I rack pool balls. An old
man that drives a long black car. He think some
good luck, takes me to card game, rubs the back
of me hand for luck. Go away, clover, leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I can't do that. There's still my prime suspect.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Well you think I like it?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's been done in murder cases.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Like maybe it was the other way around, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right, Like maybe eleanor Carbett came to see you and
it was all at the walk and later I killed him.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Maybe Come on, I said, come on, Frank, let's go
down time right, all right?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Cloth, I can't just wait till tomorrow. My friend wants
me to play Lucky tonight. He wendsday took me a
stop up. Sometimes he gives me a couple of shikes.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Come on, oh, crowd me.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Look, I got this one suit that don't have to
be wrong yet.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yeah, yeah, what back in your room? Frank? Sure?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Sure, think.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You'll keep your clothes in this closet, Frank me, And.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Now there it is the one suit. Al Mine's gummy back.
The combined ships are unmentionable. They're in that chest to
draw you want to look clover.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Over there.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Frank helped me get put a collection of shirts monograph,
but that's not what I was looking for. Ol shirts
were brought cloth and playing but they didn't have what
I was looking for either. I didn't need anything that
was in that room. Then I went to a place
(23:59):
in the bowery. The guilt from the window that spelled goodwill.
Mischeon was flaked and inside the man told me his
name and told me the coffee and stew would be
served right after the preiman.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
But you don't look like the kind of man who
needs a hand now.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Thanks, mister Stanmponi. I'm from the police.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I suspected that. And whoever you want to see? Can't
you wait until l after the prayers? They start in ten.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Minutes from time to time, mister Stanmponi's I understand that
people who call you and have you sent around a
truck pick up magazines, newspapers, old clothes.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
There are many such kind people.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Did mister Corbett call you, Yes, yes he did, and the.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Truck received his donation just a few hours ago.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Has it been delivered to you?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Well, the truck road is all over there in the corner.
After the prayers, the men was sorted. They come on,
I'll show you didn't have such a good day today.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Let's see. I think this is it. There's a tag
on it from mister Walter Corty.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You mind opening it, mister Stempori, we.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Don't have to be done anyhow.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Ladies dresses mind if I look pretty dresses?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Let's say, young woman.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Does this look like a young woman's dress to you?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Of course that it's a man suit code.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We can use that.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
We'll clean off the paint and don't.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Bother about it. I'll take it, thanks, mister Stamponi.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Oh you again, mister Cover.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
But now we'll talk about it inside.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
I told you I didn't.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Want to know anything more. Helen is dead. I just
leave her alone.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Let's just joinside, mister.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I'll just come back from Eleanor's funeral. Very well, come,
what do you want?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Did you kill your wife?
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Kill Ellen? Do you mean that?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (26:10):
You do.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I can see by your face you mean it. And
I thought you were a kind man. Mister Klug, Well
you're a crew man.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Did you kill al?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Is this what happens to people like you?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Mm hmmmm?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Nice piano almost to call them it's paid for.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Eleanor wanted to study music, and I bought it for hers.
She lost interest in it makes the place look homey.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That happens. I didn't mind this a snapshot album.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Oh all my life with Eleanor's in there. Yeah, yeah,
I just got me show you something. You remember I
told you she had beautiful hair. Just look at that
on the far rockaway last year when I took my vacation.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
A look at the center and why I could kill her.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
You killed you, make me remember the good thing. And
then you say I disturbed here you throwing him, mister Croby,
You're going to get out now in.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Your own this case of seashells another my mantle of
your happy life together.
Speaker 13 (27:15):
And I bought my father was thrilling her. I told
her I found them on the beach, and I said,
away from them. I wondered, she was so interested in
so many things.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Sure she was, Al Martin.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You followed her to his room, waited outside in the
hall when she left there you're slugger and threw.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Out of the window. And I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I was even when around and waited for Al. Followed
him to to a bar, sat with him, maybe he
talked to him.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Stabbed him there.
Speaker 13 (27:41):
I never followed.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I never followed any inst But I have.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
A colt out of my car, A man's court yours,
the one you sent to the Goodwill mission.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
What are you talking about? The mission will get it back.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They left to clean it, but they've got ways to
take paint off clothing, green paint from the tenement where
I'll lived off the door of the banisters something where
where you struggled with your wife on your coat, green
painted crazy. I was never there green paint.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
On your coat.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Oh yes, I remember, Yes, I did get some pin
of my coat, That's why I gave it away.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
But it wasn't green.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It was yellow. That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yellow, the color of the paint in OL's tenement house,
the color that's on your coat.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I loved Eleanor.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
She didn't know how much.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I tried to tell her, even out in the hallway
when she came from Arrows room. I tried to tell her.
I wasn't angry. I just wanted her to know how
wrong she was. She was the one I was angry.
I tried to read them with her, and then she
slapped me Eleen. The hit me Ellen, and that made
(28:48):
me furious. I hit her.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I hit her.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
I hit her.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Then I didn't want her anymore. It's true, a way.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Broadway sleeping now, the furious avenues of the night are
still only the sleepwalkers are there, the seekers, the sadden,
the huggers, close to nothing at all. It's Broadway a gaune,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the World, Broadway My.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Feat Tonight ONPN presents You've been listening to some of
(30:12):
the best in radio drama with Member McGhee and Malay
and Broadway as my beat.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Join us again Monday.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Evening at the same time Mine Old Bought when FPN
presents drag Nets and.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
Escape Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It is nice to have Tartaglia provide the key clue
quite intentionally that gets Danny looking in the right direction. Also,
the Zimmerman role is a great name for confection and
if you're a baking minded Zimmerman or Zimmerman adjacent person,
you could probably get away with it. The highlight of
(31:50):
the episode had to be the performance of Howard mcneir.
He was believable right up to the end, even when
he was getting indignat and you looked at the time
remaining and you're like, Okay, there's no way he's not
the murderer. I still wasn't one hundred percent. It really
only became apparent he was lying and the truth became
(32:13):
undeniable at the end. And of course the way he
played the husband, it wasn't like that episode from nineteen
fifty where he played a killer and was totally fabricating
the grief. There was some real complexity there, and again
mcneir just does a great job bringing that out. The
(32:35):
weird part of the episode was the bartender closing up,
believing now was drunk and leaving apparently helping out find
his way out. There are all kinds of ways that
could have ended badly, and this was just one of them.
Worth noting. There is a gap between last week's episode
(32:56):
in this week's there was no missing episode. In that gap,
the series was preempted. However, there actually was a missing episode.
I forgot to mention there was an episode one week
before the first one we played from nineteen fifty one,
and that's actually the first missing episode of the Larry
(33:19):
Thor era. All right, well, now it's time for listener
comments and feedback now, and we have comments regarding the
Harry Foster murder case over on Spotify. Peter Wrights, this
is my all time favorite episode of Broadways my beat.
(33:39):
I love it because Danny says very little at the
end and gives mister and Missus Mason space to implicate themselves.
Missus Mason's Candida mission that going to jail wouldn't make
a difference because she was already in prison in a wheelchair.
Was also really powerfully delivered by the actress who played her.
I could listen to this one over and over again.
(34:02):
Thank you so much, Peter Mechanic sixty six rights good
one and then over on Facebook, Elizabeth writs aside from
the great stories, I love the unique cadence and the dialogue. Well,
thank you so much, Elizabeth. And now it's time to
thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want
to thank Lovingly Patreon supporter since November twenty twenty four,
(34:26):
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so much for your support, Lovingly, and that will actually
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(34:50):
We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadways
My Beat, but join us back here tomorrow for drag Netwere.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Like a good kid a thirty turn?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
What do you mean, Jocko, how do you turn? Why
do you think I'm here?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
You mean he's the one who works over?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah? Where is he Jocko? Do you know? No? Do
you know where he's staying? Do you have any idea
at all? No?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Still all my stuff, everyody outs, what was it? Heroin?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Listen, yeah, get him fast. He's got enough junk to
start a war.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
send your comment to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net.
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