August 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Today's Mystery: An elderly woman is found murdered in her apartment and three people confess to the crime.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1950
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergent Muggavan, Joyce McCluskey, Herb Butterfield, Peggy Webber, Lou Krugman, and David Ellis
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1950
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergent Muggavan, Joyce McCluskey, Herb Butterfield, Peggy Webber, Lou Krugman, and David Ellis
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, 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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(01:12):
per month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well,
now we go to Broadways My Beat from October thirteenth,
nineteen fifty. Here is the Helen Carroll Murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thori as Detective Danny.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Broadway. Or you walk through the October evening and hold
close the things you want to save for memories, then
Broadway's as innocent and nostalgic as music drifting from the carouself.
If you move on, you get hit in the face
by a guy fishing for nickels under a grating. Whatever
you were pursuing is gone, now lost, and Broadway trails
off into the side streets. Walk them like I did,
(02:35):
and try to close your eyes against the pattern of
scars in the street, of the tenements, the kids with
the torn deck of cards under the lamp post, the
dogs at the crash cans, the wide eyed girl who
lurched against me. That's all right, pardon me, that's all right.
There's something wrong, miss.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, No, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'll find it, all right, find what I help you.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You've seen it, you know where it is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You're not feeling well. Let me take you home. That's right.
Where do you live?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I don't know, And tell.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Me your name, will find out.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I don't know my name.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I don't know who I am.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'll just take it easy. That's better. What were you
looking for?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Pocketbook? I remember I had it. I think I had
it when I was rocking right over there, I sailed down.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Let's go see along Ago jamisia pocketbook.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
A little while. I think I don't know an hour,
I don't know just a few minutes ago. I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
When here's where you fell.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yes, I remember because when it happened, I stretched out
my arm so I wouldn't hit the trash.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Can uh.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is this it? Miss?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I can remember that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Let's open it.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
The wallet is a driver's license made up to Linda Arnold,
nineteen twelve, voice, fifty four street, five four blonde hair,
green eyes, My fits and this in case of accident,
notify Helen Carroll addressed the same Helen Carroll.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And Helen. Yes, that's right. My name's Linda Arnold, and
Helen Carrol's my aunt.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Something else of this person, Miss Arnold, recognize it?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Why that's a letter opener and Helen's. And there's blood
on it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's right, Miss Arnold. It's sticky with blood. Which is
your apartment, Miss Arnold?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That one the one of the All right, yes, I'm
all right now it's the one at the end of
the hall.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Have your keys in my person, mugger?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
All right, Danny, you get the caller?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What call?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I'm as signe Danny you mean you didn't get it,
then why you're here?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sarnold lives here, she's their lifehoned her wandering in the streets.
So I brought her home.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He said someone was dead.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Who is it?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Who's dead? Woman named Carol missus Helen Carroll in the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Make her light down someplace?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Okay, Danny, bedroom over there, all right?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hear the song?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Let me open, Danny.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
We've been waiting for you.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
You got a cigarette, Danny.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm sure doctor Siskey is here.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
How stead in the chest over and over bes the
lungs to art. It might have remain very sure, Danny,
like was what he lived for all his life.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Who called it in?
Speaker 7 (06:03):
You know? And detective mugg of and said some man
from a coin box wouldn't give.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
His name, stamped boys know with what?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
No weapons and evidence, Danny. They think it was a knife,
a small knife.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Like a letter opener.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Maybe the boys mentioned the possibility of a letter open.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, there's a girl in the bedroom. Doctor, she'll lead
your help.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Don't take me to her, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I killed her.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I killed her. He lay with me and rotten.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Twist that everything and made it dirty and mean.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
I killed her.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
You two mugg of it, but gently, You'll be all right, Miss, It'll.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Be all right.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Green. Did do me tell him?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
He help?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Did tell him?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
I killed her.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
To come to me a moment longer, Danny, a moment.
She'll be asleep.
Speaker 9 (07:08):
This girl murdered Danny.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
She's asleep. You're right, doctor Sinski. Only took a moment.
It only took a moment, and sleep touched Linda Arnold,
and the face gouged with hysteria, smooth down to a
kind of release, an innocence. Her lips formed a final
word ted once, then she surrendered to sleep. I left routine.
(07:40):
Then questions, questions, preface for the word ted, and answers
from people who lived in the apartment house. Ted. I
guess that's her boyfriend that always comes calling mister the
good looking boy in the uniform. Then a woman who
opened the door for me before I knocked told me, Tad,
you mean Ted Raymond, Mister Lynda's boyfriend bought as uniform. Mister,
guess that's because he drives a bus. The more questions
(08:01):
and find out Ted Raymond drove a bus for cross
country tours. Go to the depot. Ted was off yesterday.
But here's his address, but Ted wasn't home when I
got there. A sign a man to call me. When
Ted got in the next morning, a tan a phone
call Ted Raymond about out all night? He just got in.
I went there. You're the police, that's right, Danny Clover,
(08:29):
come on in. Thanks. How'd you know I was with
the police.
Speaker 10 (08:35):
How did I know one of your boys was outside
this house when I came in. He was trying to
look like a maple tree, like the one that's outside.
Real detectively looking fat man with a cigar, trying to
look like a maple tree.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I came home. He went across the street and made
a call. Then you came. Have a cheer.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Thanks. You know why I'm here? Sure, that's why you
were packing that bag over in the bed.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
Maybe I was doing the thing. I don't know the
etiquette about getting arrested. Did they furnish prisoners with small
and necessary items like razor and toothbrush and combs and brushes?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Go ahead, look that's what I'm packing. Looking and arrest me.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Arrest you for what?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Come on, come on, I don't get cagy on me.
Arrest me for murder.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I killed Helen Carroll or were you all last night?
Speaker 10 (09:18):
Ted killing Helen Carroll and walking the streets and toning
to myself.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
For my crime, how'd you?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
My god?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Fine?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
She needed to be killed.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
All her money, Linda never got a set of it.
Kill her aunt, Hanlin Mary, Linda be rich logic.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Now I'm caught.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'ld you kill her?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
I stabbed with what? How do I know with what?
I picked up something and stabbed her.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Let's go, mister Clover.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Take me down the headquarters, get me a secretary, and
I'll dictate my confession.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It could have ended there with the boy's confession and arrest.
Could have been easy, easy to erase. The words of
a girl, the cries of a girl out of anguish
and hysteria, and the sickness of the lost, easy to
put out of mind. The blood on a letter open,
the found in her purse, found behind a trash can,
a girl wandering aimlessly in the twilight. That never happened,
(10:13):
but you'll know it did, all of it. So you
make a call to doctor Sinski and he tells you
the girl is in the police hospital. Yes, she can
talk to you. She's been asking for you. And the
girl sitting upright in the bed is a girl who
was never lost, who never cried except alone.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I've waited for you to come back, mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You're better now, feel all right?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Look at me? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You look fine?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I tried. I made them bring me lipstick and powder,
Miss Neglige. That's when I've been saving you.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Like it?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You consider this an occasion, Miss Arnold, isn't it? Can
you remember what you told me when I brought you
home the other night when we found your aunt.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I remember it exactly word forward. I said it killed
her because I hated her. My aunt was mean, mister
Clover and rotten. That's why I killed her. This makes
it an occasion, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You lived with your aunt ever since.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I was in Pigtails, ever since I was twelve. I
think it began the first night I stayed in her house. Yeah,
that's right, that's when it began.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
What be the hate?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Loathing?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Why?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Because she made me cry? Because she put me in
a dark room and let me cry all night.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You've done something wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I did wrong. My mother and father were dead, That's
what I did wrong, with no one to take me
except a school friend of my mother's. I call her aunt. Helen,
that's what I did wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And after that?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Have you ever had to live on the charity of
a bitter old woman? Mister Clover? It could have been
so nice. She was that rich. One hundred thousand dollars,
Alfred said, one hundred thousand dollars, and we ate out
of paper bags dressed.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Alfred Carrol, my uncle, my aunt's husband thing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
We didn't even know about him. Where is he?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I don't know? But find him, mister Clover. He'll be
so relieved that I've killed her, so happy. I'd like
to see his face. Find him for me, please, we will.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We'll put out on all points bulletin.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Now you'll put me in a cell.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
I suppose.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I'm well enough for you to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Ted Raymond says he killed your aunt.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
You're not fooled, are you? He said that because he
loves me. Turn your back, mister Clover. I'll get dressed
so you can put me away.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hi you, Danny, Oh, come on in to Taglia. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:07):
Thanks Danny, especially to extend to you formally the warm
hand of welcome back from your vacation. Wes to the
great device thanks to you, and to remark that the
western winds have indeed done wonders to your features, the
sun burned brow, the hearty handshake, and that dun Juan shirt.
You look like a veritable done one.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Thanks Giny.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
And I tell you that I have prepared myself during
your vacation for whatever problems perplex your brain.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh, tell me about it.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
I have been studying the exploits of Mike Shrek, the
bald headed miracle detective from Philadelphia. Detective Shrek is a
man who has coined two interesting theories. First theory, find
a woman. Second theory, the criminal always returns to the
scene of his crime, put him together.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
In other words, when a man walks past the scene
of the crime of the girl.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
He's the killer. Hey, how did you know?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's right? Come in, thank you.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
I understand you're looking for me. I am My name
is Alfred Carroll.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yes, as we were looking for you, mister Carroll. You
know why we want you?
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Yes, yes, of course I do. It's about my wife's murder.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's this way. Two people have confessed to your wife's murder. Wow,
that's right. And Arnold and Ted Raymond.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I'm not a young man. Anymore? Lieutenant, would you mind
if I sat down?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Please? Do that's straight?
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Why should two people confess to my wife's murder? But
why should they do that? I killed my wife? I
killed Helen.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You are listening to Broadway Is My Beat, written by
Morton Ynne and David Friedgan and starring Larry Thor as
Detective Danny Clover. Keep your Guard up. That's the key
slogan of the nineteen fifty National Guard recruiting drive, and
it's a slogan as timely as today's headlines. More than
ever before, America stands prepared, and the National Guard must
recruit approximately two hundred and twenty thousand men as soon
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as possible. By joining the National Guard, young men will
have the advantage of choosing their own unit and preparing
themselves for promotion by being in a job for which
they are best qualified. Investigate the National Guard. Now, help
America to keep up its guard.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
In the late October afternoon, Broadway stands on a corner,
SIPs its coffee, snaps at a cone. It sums up
the day. Some days are better than others, you know,
because the Translux says it was our men in career
are doing fine. It says, a horse out in far
Hollywood paid for two It says, but you went on
it were your kid, But the rich they run a
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kid and get this sighte and look what it says.
Three people confess to murder of Helen Carroll. A field
day for the police, ack kid, three tries, three scores
coming up in the world, the police and at headquarters.
The husband sits quietly waiting for the police deenographer to
catch up with him, because his confession spills out of
him like laughter, like it has to be shared with
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the world.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Have you got that now, young man? All of it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Every word, He's got it. Mister Carroll, go on.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
There's not much more. I wish there were. There are
so many things.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Where did you go after you killed your wife, mister Carroll?
Speaker 9 (16:42):
I went to do things she'd never let me do,
like what enjoyable things, pleasureable things like what. I went
to a bar and had a drink, a lot of
drinks with her money, with Helen's money.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What else was a.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Girl sitting all alone? She came up to me and
asked me if I was having a good time. I said, indeed,
I was. Then I asked her if I could buy
her a drink, and she smiled. What have you done
with Linda?
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Wes?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Linda, how much money did your wife have?
Speaker 9 (17:19):
A hundred thousand dollars? Imagine a hundred thousand dollars? And
she made us live like pigs, like beggars. She wouldn't
even let me get a job so I could have
money for myself.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Why does she keep her money?
Speaker 9 (17:32):
It's all in the bank in her name. It's all
coming to me. Now. You know what I'm going to
do with it after I die?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
After you, what are you going to do with it?
Speaker 9 (17:42):
I'm going to leave it all to Linda, to my child.
I think of her as my child, but she Isn't
you know? It's like a blessing to have Linda in
our house. I want her to have all that money.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Let me look at the try script, Floria. Thanks.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
You will see to it that Linda gets that money,
won't you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You said here, you've stabbed your wife for the letter opener.
Mister Carroll, what did you do with it?
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Didn't I tell you that? I must have forgotten in
the excitement. I walked around, and all of a sudden
I was on the dock. A garbage scowl floated right past.
So I threw the weapon onto the garbage. I thought
that was right.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
For help, Is this the latter opener?
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Yes, that's it. It belonged to Helen. That's what I
killed her with.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I found it in Linda's purse with blood on it.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
You lie, you're lying. I threw it away. I threw
it on that barge. You're lying.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mister Carroll gets hold.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
I killed her, rye killing her.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There it was three people confessed to a single murder.
An elderly man, Alfred Carroll said he killed his wife,
but the details of the killing were too cloudy. A
young woman, Linda Arnold, said she did it killing done
in a mental blackout. A young man, Ted Raymond, swore
he was the killer. Take a premise, consider it. Make
up your mind that one of the suspects was the murderer.
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But who all had motive? As far as I could gather,
all had opportunity. That was the joker routine again, and
questions again, the knocking on doors and tipping the hat
and flashing the badge and intrude in the lives of
people who fought. The word murder was reserved for headlines.
Only A person like missus Westfall, for instance, landlady and
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purveyor of towels and clean sheets for Ted Raymond.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
Yeah, you talking about Ted Raymond, And that's right. Ted
drives a bus.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Are you looking at missus Westfall?
Speaker 13 (20:02):
Little fiddle? Look at her walking down the street, giddle
in her rupperty of ways, it's just October and she's
got out the raccoon coat already. Look at her.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Ted Raymond, he drives.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
A bus, bus driver, jockey for a bus.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Do you know whether we made any phone calls?
Speaker 13 (20:25):
My phone will always makes some broke a date with
his girl. I heard him because I was peeping.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
With my ears.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Then what they do I don't know.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
Maybe winter work where he works at the bus depot.
I'll bet it's not even real.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Raccoon customer, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
From the police.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
Fine, I drive that bus for cross country tours. I'm
supposed to take it out to Washington in five minutes.
Think i'll make it.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Sure, that's long. Take a minute. The man at the
ticket when I said you were a friend of Ted Raymonds.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
What's in trouble?
Speaker 14 (21:07):
Oh, I'm just supposed to answer the questions, so you'll
make the bus. I know Ted?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Did you see him?
Speaker 14 (21:13):
Last night all night, sat up with Peinockle all night
from five pm to four am.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's funny. You know what's funny.
Speaker 14 (21:21):
He called me very early this morning told me if
anyone asked us, say I never saw him at all
last night, you better catch your bus mister McLean.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Tomorrow in Washington, leaving.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
In your name plover.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That's right, who are you?
Speaker 9 (21:41):
My name is Jones, and I've been looking for you.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Why have you been doing that?
Speaker 9 (21:44):
Because I read in the paper you were assigned to
the murder of Missus Carroll. Therefore this therefore what here
a hundred dollar barrel?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Take it? You see?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
I didn't spend the sentiment. Look, mister Jones, what's this
all about? It's about that boy Ted Raymond. He gave
me one hundred dollars, and I'm giving it to you.
Why are you doing that? Because I'm a shoping tend
to the apartment house in which Missus Carroll was slaying
Ted Raymond gave me one hundred dollars early this morning,
he said, tell anyone that ask that he was lurking
around the apartment house at the time of the murder.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I see what took you all this time? To come
to the police.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
As what Yes, it did take me a long time.
What happens at the one hundred dollars bill? Now, mister clo.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh, Ted, your marbles must have come loose.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Mister Clover, you leave that door open.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
I make a dash for it, escape, become a fugitive
from justice, make a name for myself on the papers.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But you won't do that, will you, Ted? You won't
do it because you'll like it here.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, that's right. I like it here.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
The walls are worn thin, where guys have cried on them,
where guys have beaten their heads against them. Oh, yeah,
I like it here, mister Clover.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
She'll be careful. Huh, careful. I don't hurt you when
I try.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
It's open, Ted, All you have to do is walk out.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
So what is this? I never even read about it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You told me you killed Helen Carroll?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Yeah? Who else should I tell? Bring him to me.
I'll whisper it in their ears.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
She was killed in the evening at seven o'clock. The
medical examiner says.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
So, lessome, I killed her in the evening at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You're lying, ten. We know everything it did from five
until four in the morning. You weren't even near Helen Carroll.
How much did you lose at pinnuckled?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Ted, you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The man you played cards with McLean is he crazy too? Ted?
All of us and Jones? The man you paid one
hundred dollars to establish at the scene of the crime
at the current price for a confession a murder? Answer
me ten.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
So I didn't kill anybody, so you don't have to
put your hands on me.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Who did you do it for?
Speaker 10 (23:39):
It's this way, mister Clover, somebody gets killed. I feel Gilly,
so I confess, and I don't feel Gilly anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It was for Linda, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
I do it for her too.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Forlinda.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Leave her out of this. I want you to leave
her out.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Look, mister Clovery, you're wrong.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Linda. She's a sick, but she wouldn't kill Not Linda.
She's just sick. That's all all she needs is how sick?
Ask her doctor. He'll tell you, doctor Malcolm.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Doctor Malcolm.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Yes, doctor Robert Malcolm in the Equitable Building. Go ask
him how sick a girl like Linda can be.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We won't need you anymore. Ted, the god at the
end of the tyr will show you where to go. Goodbye, Ted.
Speaker 14 (24:38):
The case of Lynda Arnold is not a very exciting one,
mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I want to write a magazine article, doctor Malcolm. I'm
just trying to clear up a murder. I'll waging the material.
Speaker 14 (24:45):
You please come and contact doctor of course, of course,
man Donald. And she came to me some years ago,
how many years ago? About ten, I'd say, charity patient
and later I found it around was quite well, viso,
I had a done out for my Her.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Aunt was the one who was murdered.
Speaker 14 (25:02):
Really, now that's interesting. Oh why oh, let me ask
you a question, mister Clover. Did Linda kill her aunt?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
We're not sure? Maybe she did. Why do you ask?
Speaker 14 (25:12):
Well, there might be a pattern for murder there. And
Linda was an emotional girl, and when an emotional crisis
presented itself, she would do well blackout.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
In other words, at times, rather than face reality. Linda,
would I said it blackout? Would you say you cured her? Doctor?
Speaker 14 (25:27):
I can only say she hasn't had need to see
me for the last three years. I didn't say she
was a briefly healthy, normal girl. Anything else. No, good day,
mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It was five pm. When I walked out of doctor
Malcolm's office. It was ten minutes after five when I
called the police headquarters and had them release Linda Arnold
and back on Broadway for a hot pastrami sandwich. I
almost had some cream soda too, but Marris, the waiter said, ah, Danny,
you look dyspleptic. Hypers tribe salary tonic. Then the theater
crowds began to gather and Broadway became crowded, so I
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left it. Linda Arnold should be home by now. I
went there to her apartment, but it wasn't Linda Arnold
who opened the door for me.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Oh oh, it's you, mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Please come in, thanks very well. Where's Linda?
Speaker 9 (26:25):
She was just admiring the clothes I bought for her.
I opened a charge account for her because I'm going
to get all that money, and I bought all those
beautiful clothes for silks. Linda looked so wonderful in silks.
See these and these and these?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Where's Linda, mister Carroll in this?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
You should have seen Linda in this. We played that
record you're listening to so Linda could walk around to it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Let's get rid of it, uh, where's Linda, mister Carroll.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Oh, she's in her room changing into something else. Call
her because you want to take her back for murder.
It won't work.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You know.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Linda has no mental responsibility for what she did. And
besides that, if she were brought to trylight, I'd say
I did it, Linda. Doesn't she look good for mister Clover?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
How do you feel, Linda?
Speaker 8 (27:17):
What happened to the music?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I turned it off, but I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I need music to go with her. Look at these things?
Look at them. Uncle Alfred bought them for me.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Yes, I did, didn't I? Linda?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Tad signed this confession. Linda?
Speaker 9 (27:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yes? The district Attorney's going to arrain them tomorrow morning.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Ted did that?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Isn't that wonderful? Linda?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
I asked you?
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Isn't that wonderful? In jail now we have nothing to
worry about, don't you see, Linda?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yes, yes, Uncle Alfred.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Linda, don't call me uncle. I'm not your uncle, Linda, Linda,
you're so lovely, so lovely lovely.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
You did your hands off me, you old man?
Speaker 8 (28:11):
You take your hands off?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Do you talk to me like?
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Get Oh, dear, I killed for you, plan this whole
thing for you.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
The years I waited for you. You you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
All malver alone.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I'll show you.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Take her, mister Clover, take her me too.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You're crazy to me, mister Clover.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
I planned it all. Was I who told her to
walk around, to be found in the days with a
knife and her purse. No jury would convict her. I
killed my wife, and Linda helped me to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
All those beautiful things, you'll take them all away, all
these things, all these beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
In the time of autumn, twilight sighs down on Broadway.
You walk toward it. Someone smiles and takes your hand,
whispers to close your eyes, then bangs your head against
a wall, and your scream mixes well with the shriek
of the night. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent,
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the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor's detective Danny Clover, with
Charles Calvert as Tarteglia. The program was produced and directed
by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by
Alexander Courage. Included in tonight's cast, Rejoyce McCluskey, Herb Butterfield,
Peggy Weber, Louke Krugman, David Ellis and Jack Krushian, Jack Smith,
(30:38):
Dinah Shore, Margaret Whiting, Bob Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Lowell Thomas, Bulah, Edmurrow.
Anywhere else they'd make up an all star list for
a week, But at CBS the Stars Address, you can
hear them every evening Monday through Friday. Dan Coberly speaking,
this is CBS for yours truly. Johnny Dollar brings Adventure
(31:00):
Saturday nights on the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Welcome Back Daddy may have gone away, but the Herb
Butterfield did it. Trope didn't. Also, if you're wondering about
that one hundred thousand dollars that Helen Carroll had today,
in terms of purchasing power, it would be one point
three million dollars, which is nothing to sneeze at, but
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not super wealthy in terms of net worth. A lot
of people with that sort of net worth going around,
though I should say most with that sort of total
assets have them in their home equity or locked up
in retirement investment accounts. Having that much money down at
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the bank ready to draw on and live on in
an apparently cheap and miserable way is probably a bit rarer.
Ted is probably the most unique character in the story.
It's pretty common, I mean relatively for there to be
multiple confessions that a detective has to sort through, but
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for someone to work so hard to frame himself for murder,
it's just kind of oppressive, even though, as I gathered
from his landlady, finding a dozen different ways to say it,
he works at a bus company, I believe, as a
bus driver. I think I got that ride. We turn
now to listener comments and feedback, and we start over
(32:43):
on YouTube, where a listener rits, I've only heard four
episodes of the show, but it seems like this police
officer gets beat up a lot. Well, I appreciate your comment. Now,
of course, that was regarding the Jack Jorneau murder case.
I wouldn't say that Danny gets beat up a lot
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compared to your average private detective. You know, you're Richer
Diamonds or you're Barry Craig. But he does get beat
up a lot more than you would expect for a
police officer. I mean, he even got beat up on
Christmas Eve. I mean Danny couldn't get out of a
(33:23):
lighthearted Christmas episode unscathed. One thing about Broadways my beat
is it's kind of like a quasi procedural at times,
but it's really written in the style of like a
hard boiled detective program, which makes it a bit odd
but also unique. All right, now we go to our
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of course, but what separates this podcast is Adams fax
and commentary. It adds depth and understanding. I also enjoy
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other podcast, The Old Time Radio Snack Wagon, I actually
have done a couple of episodes that are just compilations
of different old time radio ads. There's a definite fascination
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Speaker 2 (35:14):
We've been on this guy for a long time.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
He pulled the same thing down in San Diego, knocking
down about two thousand dollars a month, and he laid out.
Now he's at it again up here in.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
La As you know, we've been getting reports of the
thefts and the passing of the checks about ten days ago.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
We've got five checks passed by this same thief. According
to handwriting analysis. We know it's the same guy. Talk
to the victims and the bank tellers description of the
guy seems to tell you with what you people have
on him. Yeah, there's just one thing we haven't been
able to piece out yet. What's that you when he
steals a check? How does he know what bank to
pass it on. I think we got the answer to
that one.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Well, let's say that.
Speaker 12 (35:48):
He steals a letter, and we know he doesn't only
hit the community mailboxes. Sometimes he goes to a private
residence fishes the letters right out of the mail slots.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
In that case, I.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
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now we go to Broadways My Beat from October thirteenth,
nineteen fifty. Here is the Helen Carroll Murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thori as Detective Danny.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Broadway. Or you walk through the October evening and hold
close the things you want to save for memories, then
Broadway's as innocent and nostalgic as music drifting from the carouself.
If you move on, you get hit in the face
by a guy fishing for nickels under a grating. Whatever
you were pursuing is gone, now lost, and Broadway trails
off into the side streets. Walk them like I did,
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and try to close your eyes against the pattern of
scars in the street, of the tenements, the kids with
the torn deck of cards under the lamp post, the
dogs at the crash cans, the wide eyed girl who
lurched against me. That's all right, pardon me, that's all right.
There's something wrong, miss.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, No, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'll find it, all right, find what I help you.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You've seen it, you know where it is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You're not feeling well. Let me take you home. That's right.
Where do you live?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I don't know, And tell.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Me your name, will find out.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I don't know my name.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I don't know who I am.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'll just take it easy. That's better. What were you
looking for?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Pocketbook? I remember I had it. I think I had
it when I was rocking right over there, I sailed down.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Let's go see along Ago jamisia pocketbook.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
A little while. I think I don't know an hour,
I don't know just a few minutes ago. I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
When here's where you fell.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yes, I remember because when it happened, I stretched out
my arm so I wouldn't hit the trash.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Can uh.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is this it? Miss?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I can remember that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Let's open it.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
The wallet is a driver's license made up to Linda Arnold,
nineteen twelve, voice, fifty four street, five four blonde hair,
green eyes, My fits and this in case of accident,
notify Helen Carroll addressed the same Helen Carroll.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And Helen. Yes, that's right. My name's Linda Arnold, and
Helen Carrol's my aunt.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Something else of this person, Miss Arnold, recognize it?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Why that's a letter opener and Helen's. And there's blood
on it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's right, Miss Arnold. It's sticky with blood. Which is
your apartment, Miss Arnold?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That one the one of the All right, yes, I'm
all right now it's the one at the end of
the hall.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Have your keys in my person, mugger?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
All right, Danny, you get the caller?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What call?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I'm as signe Danny you mean you didn't get it,
then why you're here?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sarnold lives here, she's their lifehoned her wandering in the streets.
So I brought her home.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He said someone was dead.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Who is it?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Who's dead? Woman named Carol missus Helen Carroll in the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Make her light down someplace?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Okay, Danny, bedroom over there, all right?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hear the song?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Let me open, Danny.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
We've been waiting for you.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
You got a cigarette, Danny.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm sure doctor Siskey is here.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
How stead in the chest over and over bes the
lungs to art. It might have remain very sure, Danny,
like was what he lived for all his life.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Who called it in?
Speaker 7 (06:03):
You know? And detective mugg of and said some man
from a coin box wouldn't give.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
His name, stamped boys know with what?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
No weapons and evidence, Danny. They think it was a knife,
a small knife.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Like a letter opener.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Maybe the boys mentioned the possibility of a letter open.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, there's a girl in the bedroom. Doctor, she'll lead
your help.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Don't take me to her, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I killed her.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I killed her. He lay with me and rotten.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Twist that everything and made it dirty and mean.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
I killed her.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
You two mugg of it, but gently, You'll be all right, Miss, It'll.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Be all right.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Green. Did do me tell him?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
He help?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Did tell him?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
I killed her.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
To come to me a moment longer, Danny, a moment.
She'll be asleep.
Speaker 9 (07:08):
This girl murdered Danny.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
She's asleep. You're right, doctor Sinski. Only took a moment.
It only took a moment, and sleep touched Linda Arnold,
and the face gouged with hysteria, smooth down to a
kind of release, an innocence. Her lips formed a final
word ted once, then she surrendered to sleep. I left routine.
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Then questions, questions, preface for the word ted, and answers
from people who lived in the apartment house. Ted. I
guess that's her boyfriend that always comes calling mister the
good looking boy in the uniform. Then a woman who
opened the door for me before I knocked told me, Tad,
you mean Ted Raymond, Mister Lynda's boyfriend bought as uniform. Mister,
guess that's because he drives a bus. The more questions
(08:01):
and find out Ted Raymond drove a bus for cross
country tours. Go to the depot. Ted was off yesterday.
But here's his address, but Ted wasn't home when I
got there. A sign a man to call me. When
Ted got in the next morning, a tan a phone
call Ted Raymond about out all night? He just got in.
I went there. You're the police, that's right, Danny Clover,
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come on in. Thanks. How'd you know I was with
the police.
Speaker 10 (08:35):
How did I know one of your boys was outside
this house when I came in. He was trying to
look like a maple tree, like the one that's outside.
Real detectively looking fat man with a cigar, trying to
look like a maple tree.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I came home. He went across the street and made
a call. Then you came. Have a cheer.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Thanks. You know why I'm here? Sure, that's why you
were packing that bag over in the bed.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
Maybe I was doing the thing. I don't know the
etiquette about getting arrested. Did they furnish prisoners with small
and necessary items like razor and toothbrush and combs and brushes?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Go ahead, look that's what I'm packing. Looking and arrest me.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Arrest you for what?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Come on, come on, I don't get cagy on me.
Arrest me for murder.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I killed Helen Carroll or were you all last night?
Speaker 10 (09:18):
Ted killing Helen Carroll and walking the streets and toning
to myself.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
For my crime, how'd you?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
My god?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Fine?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
She needed to be killed.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
All her money, Linda never got a set of it.
Kill her aunt, Hanlin Mary, Linda be rich logic.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Now I'm caught.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'ld you kill her?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
I stabbed with what? How do I know with what?
I picked up something and stabbed her.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Let's go, mister Clover.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Take me down the headquarters, get me a secretary, and
I'll dictate my confession.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It could have ended there with the boy's confession and arrest.
Could have been easy, easy to erase. The words of
a girl, the cries of a girl out of anguish
and hysteria, and the sickness of the lost, easy to
put out of mind. The blood on a letter open,
the found in her purse, found behind a trash can,
a girl wandering aimlessly in the twilight. That never happened,
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but you'll know it did, all of it. So you
make a call to doctor Sinski and he tells you
the girl is in the police hospital. Yes, she can
talk to you. She's been asking for you. And the
girl sitting upright in the bed is a girl who
was never lost, who never cried except alone.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I've waited for you to come back, mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You're better now, feel all right?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Look at me? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You look fine?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I tried. I made them bring me lipstick and powder,
Miss Neglige. That's when I've been saving you.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Like it?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You consider this an occasion, Miss Arnold, isn't it? Can
you remember what you told me when I brought you
home the other night when we found your aunt.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I remember it exactly word forward. I said it killed
her because I hated her. My aunt was mean, mister
Clover and rotten. That's why I killed her. This makes
it an occasion, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You lived with your aunt ever since.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I was in Pigtails, ever since I was twelve. I
think it began the first night I stayed in her house. Yeah,
that's right, that's when it began.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
What be the hate?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Loathing?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Why?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Because she made me cry? Because she put me in
a dark room and let me cry all night.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You've done something wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I did wrong. My mother and father were dead, That's
what I did wrong, with no one to take me
except a school friend of my mother's. I call her aunt. Helen,
that's what I did wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And after that?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Have you ever had to live on the charity of
a bitter old woman? Mister Clover? It could have been
so nice. She was that rich. One hundred thousand dollars,
Alfred said, one hundred thousand dollars, and we ate out
of paper bags dressed.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Alfred Carrol, my uncle, my aunt's husband thing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
We didn't even know about him. Where is he?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I don't know? But find him, mister Clover. He'll be
so relieved that I've killed her, so happy. I'd like
to see his face. Find him for me, please, we will.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We'll put out on all points bulletin.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Now you'll put me in a cell.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
I suppose.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I'm well enough for you to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Ted Raymond says he killed your aunt.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
You're not fooled, are you? He said that because he
loves me. Turn your back, mister Clover. I'll get dressed
so you can put me away.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hi you, Danny, Oh, come on in to Taglia. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:07):
Thanks Danny, especially to extend to you formally the warm
hand of welcome back from your vacation. Wes to the
great device thanks to you, and to remark that the
western winds have indeed done wonders to your features, the
sun burned brow, the hearty handshake, and that dun Juan shirt.
You look like a veritable done one.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Thanks Giny.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
And I tell you that I have prepared myself during
your vacation for whatever problems perplex your brain.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh, tell me about it.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
I have been studying the exploits of Mike Shrek, the
bald headed miracle detective from Philadelphia. Detective Shrek is a
man who has coined two interesting theories. First theory, find
a woman. Second theory, the criminal always returns to the
scene of his crime, put him together.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
In other words, when a man walks past the scene
of the crime of the girl.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
He's the killer. Hey, how did you know?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's right? Come in, thank you.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
I understand you're looking for me. I am My name
is Alfred Carroll.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yes, as we were looking for you, mister Carroll. You
know why we want you?
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Yes, yes, of course I do. It's about my wife's murder.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's this way. Two people have confessed to your wife's murder. Wow,
that's right. And Arnold and Ted Raymond.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I'm not a young man. Anymore? Lieutenant, would you mind
if I sat down?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Please? Do that's straight?
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Why should two people confess to my wife's murder? But
why should they do that? I killed my wife? I
killed Helen.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
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Speaker 2 (15:43):
In the late October afternoon, Broadway stands on a corner,
SIPs its coffee, snaps at a cone. It sums up
the day. Some days are better than others, you know,
because the Translux says it was our men in career
are doing fine. It says, a horse out in far
Hollywood paid for two It says, but you went on
it were your kid, But the rich they run a
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kid and get this sighte and look what it says.
Three people confess to murder of Helen Carroll. A field
day for the police, ack kid, three tries, three scores
coming up in the world, the police and at headquarters.
The husband sits quietly waiting for the police deenographer to
catch up with him, because his confession spills out of
him like laughter, like it has to be shared with
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the world.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Have you got that now, young man? All of it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Every word, He's got it. Mister Carroll, go on.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
There's not much more. I wish there were. There are
so many things.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Where did you go after you killed your wife, mister Carroll?
Speaker 9 (16:42):
I went to do things she'd never let me do,
like what enjoyable things, pleasureable things like what. I went
to a bar and had a drink, a lot of
drinks with her money, with Helen's money.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What else was a.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Girl sitting all alone? She came up to me and
asked me if I was having a good time. I said, indeed,
I was. Then I asked her if I could buy
her a drink, and she smiled. What have you done
with Linda?
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Wes?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Linda, how much money did your wife have?
Speaker 9 (17:19):
A hundred thousand dollars? Imagine a hundred thousand dollars? And
she made us live like pigs, like beggars. She wouldn't
even let me get a job so I could have
money for myself.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Why does she keep her money?
Speaker 9 (17:32):
It's all in the bank in her name. It's all
coming to me. Now. You know what I'm going to
do with it after I die?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
After you, what are you going to do with it?
Speaker 9 (17:42):
I'm going to leave it all to Linda, to my child.
I think of her as my child, but she Isn't
you know? It's like a blessing to have Linda in
our house. I want her to have all that money.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Let me look at the try script, Floria. Thanks.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
You will see to it that Linda gets that money,
won't you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You said here, you've stabbed your wife for the letter opener.
Mister Carroll, what did you do with it?
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Didn't I tell you that? I must have forgotten in
the excitement. I walked around, and all of a sudden
I was on the dock. A garbage scowl floated right past.
So I threw the weapon onto the garbage. I thought
that was right.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
For help, Is this the latter opener?
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Yes, that's it. It belonged to Helen. That's what I
killed her with.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I found it in Linda's purse with blood on it.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
You lie, you're lying. I threw it away. I threw
it on that barge. You're lying.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mister Carroll gets hold.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
I killed her, rye killing her.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There it was three people confessed to a single murder.
An elderly man, Alfred Carroll said he killed his wife,
but the details of the killing were too cloudy. A
young woman, Linda Arnold, said she did it killing done
in a mental blackout. A young man, Ted Raymond, swore
he was the killer. Take a premise, consider it. Make
up your mind that one of the suspects was the murderer.
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But who all had motive? As far as I could gather,
all had opportunity. That was the joker routine again, and
questions again, the knocking on doors and tipping the hat
and flashing the badge and intrude in the lives of
people who fought. The word murder was reserved for headlines.
Only A person like missus Westfall, for instance, landlady and
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purveyor of towels and clean sheets for Ted Raymond.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
Yeah, you talking about Ted Raymond, And that's right. Ted
drives a bus.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Are you looking at missus Westfall?
Speaker 13 (20:02):
Little fiddle? Look at her walking down the street, giddle
in her rupperty of ways, it's just October and she's
got out the raccoon coat already. Look at her.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Ted Raymond, he drives.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
A bus, bus driver, jockey for a bus.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Do you know whether we made any phone calls?
Speaker 13 (20:25):
My phone will always makes some broke a date with
his girl. I heard him because I was peeping.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
With my ears.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Then what they do I don't know.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
Maybe winter work where he works at the bus depot.
I'll bet it's not even real.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Raccoon customer, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
From the police.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
Fine, I drive that bus for cross country tours. I'm
supposed to take it out to Washington in five minutes.
Think i'll make it.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Sure, that's long. Take a minute. The man at the
ticket when I said you were a friend of Ted Raymonds.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
What's in trouble?
Speaker 14 (21:07):
Oh, I'm just supposed to answer the questions, so you'll
make the bus. I know Ted?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Did you see him?
Speaker 14 (21:13):
Last night all night, sat up with Peinockle all night
from five pm to four am.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's funny. You know what's funny.
Speaker 14 (21:21):
He called me very early this morning told me if
anyone asked us, say I never saw him at all
last night, you better catch your bus mister McLean.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Tomorrow in Washington, leaving.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
In your name plover.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That's right, who are you?
Speaker 9 (21:41):
My name is Jones, and I've been looking for you.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Why have you been doing that?
Speaker 9 (21:44):
Because I read in the paper you were assigned to
the murder of Missus Carroll. Therefore this therefore what here
a hundred dollar barrel?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Take it? You see?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
I didn't spend the sentiment. Look, mister Jones, what's this
all about? It's about that boy Ted Raymond. He gave
me one hundred dollars, and I'm giving it to you.
Why are you doing that? Because I'm a shoping tend
to the apartment house in which Missus Carroll was slaying
Ted Raymond gave me one hundred dollars early this morning,
he said, tell anyone that ask that he was lurking
around the apartment house at the time of the murder.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I see what took you all this time? To come
to the police.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
As what Yes, it did take me a long time.
What happens at the one hundred dollars bill? Now, mister clo.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh, Ted, your marbles must have come loose.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Mister Clover, you leave that door open.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
I make a dash for it, escape, become a fugitive
from justice, make a name for myself on the papers.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But you won't do that, will you, Ted? You won't
do it because you'll like it here.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, that's right. I like it here.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
The walls are worn thin, where guys have cried on them,
where guys have beaten their heads against them. Oh, yeah,
I like it here, mister Clover.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
She'll be careful. Huh, careful. I don't hurt you when
I try.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
It's open, Ted, All you have to do is walk out.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
So what is this? I never even read about it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You told me you killed Helen Carroll?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Yeah? Who else should I tell? Bring him to me.
I'll whisper it in their ears.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
She was killed in the evening at seven o'clock. The
medical examiner says.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
So, lessome, I killed her in the evening at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You're lying, ten. We know everything it did from five
until four in the morning. You weren't even near Helen Carroll.
How much did you lose at pinnuckled?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Ted, you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The man you played cards with McLean is he crazy too? Ted?
All of us and Jones? The man you paid one
hundred dollars to establish at the scene of the crime
at the current price for a confession a murder? Answer
me ten.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
So I didn't kill anybody, so you don't have to
put your hands on me.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Who did you do it for?
Speaker 10 (23:39):
It's this way, mister Clover, somebody gets killed. I feel Gilly,
so I confess, and I don't feel Gilly anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It was for Linda, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
I do it for her too.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Forlinda.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Leave her out of this. I want you to leave
her out.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Look, mister Clovery, you're wrong.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Linda. She's a sick, but she wouldn't kill Not Linda.
She's just sick. That's all all she needs is how sick?
Ask her doctor. He'll tell you, doctor Malcolm.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Doctor Malcolm.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Yes, doctor Robert Malcolm in the Equitable Building. Go ask
him how sick a girl like Linda can be.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We won't need you anymore. Ted, the god at the
end of the tyr will show you where to go. Goodbye, Ted.
Speaker 14 (24:38):
The case of Lynda Arnold is not a very exciting one,
mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I want to write a magazine article, doctor Malcolm. I'm
just trying to clear up a murder. I'll waging the material.
Speaker 14 (24:45):
You please come and contact doctor of course, of course,
man Donald. And she came to me some years ago,
how many years ago? About ten, I'd say, charity patient
and later I found it around was quite well, viso,
I had a done out for my Her.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Aunt was the one who was murdered.
Speaker 14 (25:02):
Really, now that's interesting. Oh why oh, let me ask
you a question, mister Clover. Did Linda kill her aunt?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
We're not sure? Maybe she did. Why do you ask?
Speaker 14 (25:12):
Well, there might be a pattern for murder there. And
Linda was an emotional girl, and when an emotional crisis
presented itself, she would do well blackout.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
In other words, at times, rather than face reality. Linda,
would I said it blackout? Would you say you cured her? Doctor?
Speaker 14 (25:27):
I can only say she hasn't had need to see
me for the last three years. I didn't say she
was a briefly healthy, normal girl. Anything else. No, good day,
mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It was five pm. When I walked out of doctor
Malcolm's office. It was ten minutes after five when I
called the police headquarters and had them release Linda Arnold
and back on Broadway for a hot pastrami sandwich. I
almost had some cream soda too, but Marris, the waiter said, ah, Danny,
you look dyspleptic. Hypers tribe salary tonic. Then the theater
crowds began to gather and Broadway became crowded, so I
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left it. Linda Arnold should be home by now. I
went there to her apartment, but it wasn't Linda Arnold
who opened the door for me.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Oh oh, it's you, mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Please come in, thanks very well. Where's Linda?
Speaker 9 (26:25):
She was just admiring the clothes I bought for her.
I opened a charge account for her because I'm going
to get all that money, and I bought all those
beautiful clothes for silks. Linda looked so wonderful in silks.
See these and these and these?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Where's Linda, mister Carroll in this?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
You should have seen Linda in this. We played that
record you're listening to so Linda could walk around to it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Let's get rid of it, uh, where's Linda, mister Carroll.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Oh, she's in her room changing into something else. Call
her because you want to take her back for murder.
It won't work.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You know.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Linda has no mental responsibility for what she did. And
besides that, if she were brought to trylight, I'd say
I did it, Linda. Doesn't she look good for mister Clover?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
How do you feel, Linda?
Speaker 8 (27:17):
What happened to the music?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I turned it off, but I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I need music to go with her. Look at these things?
Look at them. Uncle Alfred bought them for me.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Yes, I did, didn't I? Linda?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Tad signed this confession. Linda?
Speaker 9 (27:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yes? The district Attorney's going to arrain them tomorrow morning.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Ted did that?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Isn't that wonderful? Linda?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
I asked you?
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Isn't that wonderful? In jail now we have nothing to
worry about, don't you see, Linda?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yes, yes, Uncle Alfred.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Linda, don't call me uncle. I'm not your uncle, Linda, Linda,
you're so lovely, so lovely lovely.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
You did your hands off me, you old man?
Speaker 8 (28:11):
You take your hands off?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Do you talk to me like?
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Get Oh, dear, I killed for you, plan this whole
thing for you.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
The years I waited for you. You you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
All malver alone.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I'll show you.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Take her, mister Clover, take her me too.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You're crazy to me, mister Clover.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
I planned it all. Was I who told her to
walk around, to be found in the days with a
knife and her purse. No jury would convict her. I
killed my wife, and Linda helped me to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
All those beautiful things, you'll take them all away, all
these things, all these beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
In the time of autumn, twilight sighs down on Broadway.
You walk toward it. Someone smiles and takes your hand,
whispers to close your eyes, then bangs your head against
a wall, and your scream mixes well with the shriek
of the night. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent,
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the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor's detective Danny Clover, with
Charles Calvert as Tarteglia. The program was produced and directed
by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by
Alexander Courage. Included in tonight's cast, Rejoyce McCluskey, Herb Butterfield,
Peggy Weber, Louke Krugman, David Ellis and Jack Krushian, Jack Smith,
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Dinah Shore, Margaret Whiting, Bob Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Lowell Thomas, Bulah, Edmurrow.
Anywhere else they'd make up an all star list for
a week, But at CBS the Stars Address, you can
hear them every evening Monday through Friday. Dan Coberly speaking,
this is CBS for yours truly. Johnny Dollar brings Adventure
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Saturday nights on the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Welcome Back Daddy may have gone away, but the Herb
Butterfield did it. Trope didn't. Also, if you're wondering about
that one hundred thousand dollars that Helen Carroll had today,
in terms of purchasing power, it would be one point
three million dollars, which is nothing to sneeze at, but
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not super wealthy in terms of net worth. A lot
of people with that sort of net worth going around,
though I should say most with that sort of total
assets have them in their home equity or locked up
in retirement investment accounts. Having that much money down at
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the bank ready to draw on and live on in
an apparently cheap and miserable way is probably a bit rarer.
Ted is probably the most unique character in the story.
It's pretty common, I mean relatively for there to be
multiple confessions that a detective has to sort through, but
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for someone to work so hard to frame himself for murder,
it's just kind of oppressive, even though, as I gathered
from his landlady, finding a dozen different ways to say it,
he works at a bus company, I believe, as a
bus driver. I think I got that ride. We turn
now to listener comments and feedback, and we start over
(32:43):
on YouTube, where a listener rits, I've only heard four
episodes of the show, but it seems like this police
officer gets beat up a lot. Well, I appreciate your comment. Now,
of course, that was regarding the Jack Jorneau murder case.
I wouldn't say that Danny gets beat up a lot
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compared to your average private detective. You know, you're Richer
Diamonds or you're Barry Craig. But he does get beat
up a lot more than you would expect for a
police officer. I mean, he even got beat up on
Christmas Eve. I mean Danny couldn't get out of a
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lighthearted Christmas episode unscathed. One thing about Broadways my beat
is it's kind of like a quasi procedural at times,
but it's really written in the style of like a
hard boiled detective program, which makes it a bit odd
but also unique. All right, now we go to our
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listener survey. We have a couple of comments there, C. W. Wrights,
this show is classically entertaining. It reminds me of my
younger days. Keep up the good work. And then we
have a comment no name given. I enjoy the stories,
of course, but what separates this podcast is Adams fax
and commentary. It adds depth and understanding. I also enjoy
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the original old time advertisements. Believe it or not, well,
thanks so much, and I definitely believe that. On my
other podcast, The Old Time Radio Snack Wagon, I actually
have done a couple of episodes that are just compilations
of different old time radio ads. There's a definite fascination
(34:31):
with them, and they had some really interesting approaches and
hopefully we will do more of that over at the
Old Time Radio Snackwag. Of course, enjoy the ads that
are on these episodes. As well. All right, well, now
it's time to think our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I do want to go ahead and thank Tristan
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Patreon supporter since November twenty twenty four, currently supporting the
podcast at the Shawmas love of four dollars or more
per month. Thanks so much for your support. And that
will do it for today. We will be back next
Wednesday with another episode of Broadways My Bait. But join
us back here tomorrow for drag netwhere.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
We've been on this guy for a long time.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
He pulled the same thing down in San Diego, knocking
down about two thousand dollars a month, and he laid out.
Now he's at it again up here in.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
La As you know, we've been getting reports of the
thefts and the passing of the checks about ten days ago.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
We've got five checks passed by this same thief. According
to handwriting analysis. We know it's the same guy. Talk
to the victims and the bank tellers description of the
guy seems to tell you with what you people have
on him. Yeah, there's just one thing we haven't been
able to piece out yet. What's that you when he
steals a check? How does he know what bank to
pass it on. I think we got the answer to
that one.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Well, let's say that.
Speaker 12 (35:48):
He steals a letter, and we know he doesn't only
hit the community mailboxes. Sometimes he goes to a private
residence fishes the letters right out of the mail slots.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
In that case, I.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send
your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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