August 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Today's Mystery: A man is found murdered at the funeral for a wealthy woman.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 20, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Jeanette Nolan; Francis X. Bushman; Ted Osborne; Peggy Webber
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 20, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Jeanette Nolan; Francis X. Bushman; Ted Osborne; Peggy Webber
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.
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going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways Might Beat.
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dot Great Detectives dot net. I do want to give
you a heads up that the audio quality of today's
program is not the best. It's not horrible, but it's
not great for Broadways My bait so a little bit
below our normal expectations. But here from October twentieth, nineteen
(01:35):
fifty is the John Webster murder case.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Broadways my Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circles, but
audios the most violence, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadways My beat with Larry thor and Detective Danny Klob.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Broadway, or you walk through.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The October evening and hold close the things you want
to save for memories. Then Broadways is innocent and nostalgic
as music drifting from the carousel. If you move on,
you get hit in the face by a guy fishing
for nickels under a drating Whatever you are pursuing is gone,
now lost. Broadway trails off into the side street walks
them like I did. Try to close your eyes against
(02:49):
the pattern of stars in the street of the tenement,
the kids that the torn deck of cards under the lampfort,
the dogs that the crash can the wide eyed girl
who lurks against me. Sorry a spectacular symptom. The neon winks.
He picks through the litter of darkness and good bye,
because on Broadway there's nothing else. And at the edge
(03:10):
of Broadway about where it touches the morning, the night
has been in partnership with death, their place of business
with Trevlin Martuary. A man is polishing a brass sign
on his marble sat who moves to consider it work.
You see that the sne reads easy payments to inquire within,
and within there's the scent of cut flowers. And another
man who leans against the marble pillars, brow is lighted.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
For the pink spotlight excretely hidden.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
In the folios of the propet palms, and he inhales
the faint music of an electric organ. He sees you firmly,
depatches himself from his revery, and attaches himself to.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You with a white hand.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
In the tower of your grief and the tower of
your loneliness, we are here but to lead you through
the maize. Someone called, they sent the seas. I understand
who can recommend it to us? He will not find
us wanting.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He doesn't let me finish the said A man liss
dead here.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Next day we are dead, he said, he was murdered.
Oh all that, then you must be of the police. Welcome,
just sitting there in the Queen Victoria Chapel with a
knife in the back of the stroms.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The reason I noticed him is that he.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Remained after the funeral services of Agnes Papa. I am
emeric Caavlinka. Make me the the Queen Victoria Chapel, of course, love,
it is the chapel we reserve for ladies of lavender
like dignity, such as miss Agnes Popper. It's took that
is observe who was he? I meant you to observe
(04:31):
the Victorian elegance of this room. The expert Victorian vows
in which are the acts of Agnes Pappas?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
This man? Who was it?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
When the others filed out, this man remained, though. I
quickly took the liberty of removing whatever bits and pieces
of identity he had done it. Yes, you would see
all he had up to from his driver's license, et cetera.
Is someone called John Webster of nineteen seventy six laden
places in Rochellow.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I've been to new He came here alone.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I couldn't possibly know. I was so engreat de ranging things.
I couldn't know the others Tena's services. If you know that,
of course I would. I have each guest sign our
guests look at the interned. It's one of our more
delicately thoughtful services. It also surplies us where the purcuitous
mailing list we must be on our codes in this petition. Yeah,
(05:22):
this the page. All these were guests, all of them.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Quite a catch wouldn't you page.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'll take it please, I'll dare you care the page
in the book. Those people were about to receive our
most recent literature on me. I have deprived them of it.
Can you ever forgive me, mister Craplin? There wasn't much
more after that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The boys and technical came and mister Crevelin watched their
manner of considering death with professional jealousy. Mister Clevelin took
it out on me. Imagine me with his eyes, handed
me a brochure and smiled sadly.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I left.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I call headquarters and told them to find out what
they could on a man named John Webster. Then the
consideration of the page torn out of the guest book.
The name's written down by Paul Evils to furnish proof
positive that they had come only.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
To witness the funeral, not to contribute themselves to it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
First name ethel Hoffer, family of been address, Summerfield Apartments
on Madison Avenue. Go there, right up to the seventh
floor on the noiseless elevators, Walk down the carpet of hallway,
rap on the panel's door.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Have you brought flowers? My sister? Didn't you see? People
have been bringing flowers.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm from the police. My name is Sanny Clovern.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I've been telling him to deliver the flowers to the last.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Ye tell me, yes, I'm from the police.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I've never talked to a policeman before, and you said
you were a place when I remembered pat. Never in
my whole life have I done what I'm doing now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
What's about a man named John Webster? I'm sure he.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Mm hmm in here.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
My sister loved his teaching so much. Here right from
this window. My sister jumps right from this window. Everybody
who comes here wants to see what window I just
jumps from your.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
My sister would really not to live.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Now, perhaps you can tell me about a man named
John web.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
My sister was a woman who loved the man. He
died for it. That's the woman's right. My sister loved
Thomas Perry, truly loved him.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Thomas Harry, he loved him.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
He was a child a bottoms where a woman should be.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What I a man named John Webster?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
John with oh, of course, of course, what you have
the wrong address? I never heard of a man by
that name.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But she had heard of a man named Thomas Perry,
a man her sister truly loved, she said, a man
her sister had died for.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Also a man whose name was on the funeral list.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Address West fifty first, the brown stone building converted to offices,
fair case with chips, white enamel signs on each stair,
asking chip personal questions, lonely, their questions friendless. The next
answer in search of true happiness, of gold, the nations,
and of the landing. The answer to all the questions
insult Thomas Perry. Please follow arrow. The arrow leads you
(08:50):
into a dismal room hung with Japanese lanterns and twisted
crape rage of the three piece orchestra in Churchilly, plotted
with somber couples dancing to his respectable rhythms. Have a
dance on the shoulder, and asked for Thomas Perry. She
giggles and points him out. He's a man on the
platform presiding over it all.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I saw you ask.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Missus Gilbert to point me out. You don't need to
ask permission, Just find a partner and join the fun.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You're Thomas Perry. You already know that, and you, Danny Colver,
believe well. I wouldn't think you fellows ever got in
this condition?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I want to talk to you, childs, somewhere quiet, and
this is quiet. Besides, I can't leave my people. They'd
be lost without me here to stir up things.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
What do we talk about?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Danny Agnes Harper, she loved me, loved me truly, tale
hands I love beside the shalamar a darning that kind
of love.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
She killed herself for him. She shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
She should have known the kind of man I am,
what kind of that? I'm a businessman? Danny Agnes came
to us in such a happiness. I saw the sign
we sent her various sizes in shape a hand, sort
of happiness, good, steady, respectable male counterparts. I chose them
for him myself. But they didn't do. You took over
(10:09):
You're quit Sanny. I took over personally. Agnes was dignity personified,
aristocracy personified, fifty thousand dollars personified.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And I childred her. That makes you a businessman, It
makes me adult. Jerk to you.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Agnes just wasn't for me, That's all. I prefer something gayer, younger,
you know. Yeah, did Agnes ever standing to you about
a man named John Webster. The name John Webster never
destroyed anything between.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Agnes and me.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Shouldn't have Danny, he was murdered at her funeral. He
chose the most appropriate setting. This John Webster, anything else Danny.
Missus Gilbert is seconding. She wants my arms surround her.
So this is a list of the people who attended
Agnes's funeral.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Do you know them? Let me.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
This I know, and then and then and this all
members of my club, all clients, our ladies and gentlemen.
Agnes met at my tea dancers. We make it a
point of return, courtesys, renders. The others are a strangers.
And now, if you please, Missus Gilbert is really biting
her lips.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Back to routine.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Stop at headquarters and find out that the background of
John Webster was still being checked. Leave with Detective Margavin
the names of the members of the Lonely Hearts Club
who at attended the funeral. Then more lake work with
the rest of the list, and another name, Rose Livingston.
What's fifty eighth Street?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And Missus Livingston is happy you dropped in.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yes, I like a man in my heart and the schooner.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm glad my cheek up knees. Now we can talk
about the funeral. What started from? Mister Livingstone.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
I was sitting there at the services and suddenly I said,
the niceself, my, how.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I've been doing it every.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Morning I read, but got the nicest one in my opinions?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
How many Missus Livingston this morning? You attendant?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
And I always weep just a little, you know?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
How is it get just as well?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A man named Missus Livingston, A man named John Webster.
Did you John Webster? He's wearing a dark blue suit.
He was bald, he was wearing eyeglasses, get a small mustache?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Did you know them? Are you sure?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
I always give my undivided attention to what's going on
up front, and I haven't notice the bald headed man.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Martin is Clover.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Hi, Danny, Hello, you know, come on in.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
I was just wondering, Danny.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
Tonight, Missus Tartaglia is dishing up chicken katcha Dory pizza
and generous servings of spamoning, all to be topped off
with the performance of the new porn dish washer, which
I have purchased for her care to join us?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Thanks, you know, but I can't work work well then
let's get with it.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
Danny, item to it. We have cracked down information on
John Webster, deceased, very uninteresting, no friends, no enemies. Who's
a divorce he having at once upon a time been
married to one Elizabeth Webster.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We'll want to talk to her at this very moment,
she is being looked for, Danny good Well.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
Detective Muggulvin has made a check of the people off
the list who were members of the Lonely Hearts Club.
Nothing except the old one to get married.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Here's the phone, Danny Pardoner, you do mention it? Think
you Danny Clover speaking, Come quickly, Tommy. Who is this?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Ethel Harper?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't want to be what's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I've seen him before.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Look at me all the time, I look.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Please, I'll be right tom Miss Harper. It's took ten
minutes to get there. I'm away the stop and intruded.
Miss Harper was imagining things. The man she saw was
part of the hysteria of a mind that Saola felt
with no stranger through his carrier and up the elevator,
down the hall, Miss Harper, Mis Harper, it's Danny Clover,
(14:46):
MS Harper living room, empty bedroom, empty kitchen, not empty.
Mis Hopper was there, MS Copper with a around his throat.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The Harper strungs my ceiling light texture.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Beneath her face, borescence of the light leaned on a
nice blade on the tabletop. I picked it up, grabbed
the kitchen shoel and sit on it and cut Miss
Harper down.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
She's breathing fully this life.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Then held her clothes for a brief second, then deferred
to the other in color returned. Their eyes came alive,
and they split it over my face, not understanding, thank you,
bewildered all.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
At once, understanding hung me.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
He tried to yield me.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There's a thing about Broadways. It offered a bag full
of free illusions, every color, every size, guaranteed against fading.
I'll say, a warranty against shrinkage.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Just reached in the bag. There's more all that one
came from.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Consider, for instance, the one that says Broadway can break
it heart well, for example, the classic all plastic fall
nineteen fifty laboratory tested one that says Broadway can shed
a tear.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That's the one for a.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Man who is murdered in a marchary only who we who.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Shed the tear. The current found.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The one I was most familiar with at the moment,
was offered by a woman Ethel Harper lately cut down
from a news.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm seeing my steady now, mister clover.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The doctor should be here soon, right now. The important
thing for you to do it, I said, I tell
it all right.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I don't need the doctor. What did you call it
doctor for?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Because you were almost dead?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
People think of dying, mister clover.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But clink, you can tell me what happened? Happens?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Everything so bad? Where on after the other began.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Let me help. You saw a man looking at you
across the cart from the window, which.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yes, yes, that's right, that windows cross.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Then you've called me then.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Then, oh, I don't know. He's right after that he
walked in from the window. I can remember rough material
right right here with October.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
All right, go.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Ahead, Oh no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Remember scream the after for money, the after for anything.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
He was big, rough, come in.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't know. It's nice. You wouldn't do this, It
wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Take it easy.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh you didn't know where to sit, you.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Myster.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
She turned it back to me arranged the folds of
the freshly laundered lace curtains on the window her sister
had jumped from, shook her head slowly, rearranged them, then
turned back and smiled at me helplessly apologetically. The curtains
just wasn't fall right. Then the doorbell rang, A shadow
sturried across her face, pounder lips popped them against the.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
New terrace with doctor sink. I told him, up happened.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
He went over to her, shook her hands, poked quietly
towards the shadow doctors.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Back inside her. Oh, there were things to check.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The apartment across the hat, for instance, from which the
man had watched her. The apartment was empty, hadn't been
occupied for a week. Its door opened so the people
could wander in, look at it, stare through its windows,
and then back to headquarters. And Detective Margaman handing me
a slip of paper honor the address of Elizabeth Webster,
divorced wife of the murdered man.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I went there. She thought I should have come in
another time.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
You see, you shouldn't just burst in on a girl
like this, not even if you are from the police.
A girl must have time to prepare herself to make
herself presentable as cracked you.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I just want to talk to you about your husband.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
My late husband for divorce husband, he was murdered.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Good for him.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Now, if you'll gift it over there and watch the
straighten up in my face, I'll tell you anything you
want to know.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
All you have to do is this sweet about when
were you a divorce on.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
October seventeenth at one thirty five in the PM and
the year of our Lord nineteen forty one, nine years ago,
nine years without John.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I'm just lucky.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
I what mean, mister Kou. I always start my makeup
from them now because it makes me more attractive more.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
No, the boys like you, I meant white? Is this
aborced him?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well, look what you made me?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Do you made me me? I'm a lipsty haven't answered me.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You want to know why?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Because he never loved me.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Because even on our honeymoon, I woke up for night
and night I found him looking at me and calling
me egg Agnes. I slept him hard, you bet good
and hard. He never thought of me as Agnes again,
not hi, myuch faith you bet Harper Agnes Harper, John
Zalla girlfriend John Zava White except he never married her.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
He married me.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That's what it's got.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
October seventeen one thirty five and the PM the year
of our Lord, nineteen forty one, the day we are divorce.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Goodbye, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Right, mister Perry. All the lonely hearts have gone home.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
They come here and meet people, go home to think
about it.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
At least, just you tell me something, Danny. Am I
a murder sister? That's right, you are.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I told you I never met the man.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
But Agnes did. Are you going to talk to me,
mister Perry?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Are you going to phone your lawyer and say you're
going to jail to please hurry up and meet you
there because you're being healthy suspicion of felony. Felony being murdered,
and all the lonely hearts would lose face in old
Tom Perry, wouldn't they.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Let's face it down.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You want to know why I never married Agnes, If
that's where you want to start, why I didn't marry
It was this, There was something there, Danny. I can't
tell you what the setup was. Well it wasn't nice Agnes,
her sister. And then there's the other thing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
What other things?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Agnes and here's where old John Webster comes in. Agnes
was going to marry him, didn't at the last minute.
She didn't left the boy standing there right at the
altar with agonisty.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That's what I want to know about what happened.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Agnes didn't tell me exactly, just didn't show up for
the wedding. Something happened, something important, I guess because Agnes
didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You want to know something else, you'll tell me.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
When Agnes and I were going to get married, Well,
I have a friend that does weddings at a pretty
nice rate for friends. But Agnes wanted to use the
same justice of peace who names tires an ingersong anything there, Danny,
I wouldn't know. Well, i'll find out, thanks Old Tom.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Here's my husband Asticot. He did the marriage go well?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Harrison and I look in this tongul, then I'll tell
you my fast and.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Didn't know as well as we counted on, didn't Harrison
nothing to him but a lot of questions, like mister.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Clover's mother ask the William Man ask him.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I told you, Harrison, I told you someone would come
snooping around here.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
That's all on I told you, so you did.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I told you is.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
What is it about a half of mister Clover to shake?
I know nothing of it. What I read in the papers.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's all we know.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You were going to perform the wedding ceremony for her,
for her and John Webster. It didn't come up. Tell
me why Anes was a friend of all.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
I don't feel Harrison.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
If you won't tell him, I will, I won't have
our lives met up.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Buddy, Why didn't forget married and beautiful?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Because just the night before Agnes is to be married,
someone tried to killer murder anyhow, Herison didn't marry them.
I'm trying to find out, but I couldn't be pushed up.
Don't look at me like that, Herison, The man asked,
So I told him you're too loyal Herrison.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Oh hello, mister Clover. I'm glad you came back. I
k you would want to know. I was feeling fine
me come in, thanks.
Speaker 11 (24:52):
Yes, that's ditty, was very little man. It's a lovely
Indian summer right, come out on the parish and catted
with me.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Agnes would have enjoyed a night like this, Yes, yes,
he would. How would you know what you've told me
about her.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Some of the other people have told me.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
What other peoples?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Perry, what did he tell you? He said he didn't
marry your sister because he was afraid a.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Phrase did he have to be afraid of? I don't
know what did he know about being afraid?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But you know, do.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
Tell me who tried to tell your sister the night
before she was to marry John webs He said.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I knew about being praise You are right now because.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Your sister has gone from here forever. You know, my
sister finally succeeded in I do very.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well with others. I can do things for myself.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
She's trying to marry John Webster.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You're trying to kill her someone else. So what difference
does it make. She didn't hurt herself and she didn't
want done with joy. How she told me so the
whole day we didn't stack together, and she told me
over and over again how long she did It.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Was different to Thomas Perry. This time she knew she
wasn't wrong. So you killed her. What's draut of a
kitchen window?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Watched her fall?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Now you're alone.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
She wasn't going to marry Tom Perry. She was going
to leave me.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
She told me that you have John Webster because he
knew your child, knew you'd try to do it once before.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You didn't think I could do things like that, did you?
None of you know the things I can do.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
When you hung yourself afraid I might come to later.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
I'm clever. I waited to do knocked on the door
the thing you people don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Oh, you people don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I'm through the way that the spring the audio I
dream to mine and the clowns to me.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I took it on.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Tell themself your sigh? What's smer.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Broadway screaming? Now it snears and makes a big fist
of the knife. The carnival is boiling, and it's the
clown of a jack in the box that leaps from
dark doorway.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And it's the geek with no arms, no legs, no heart.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's Broadway. It's Audium, the most violent, the lonesome vil
in the world.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Broadway, Mighty.
Speaker 13 (28:31):
Broadways, My Beat, star Larry Thor's Detective Danny Clover with
Charles Calvert Sarteglia. The program was produced and directed by
Elliot Lewis. The musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Kurrige.
Included in the night's cast were Jeanette Nolan, Heeggy Weber,
Marjorie Bennett, Francis X. Bushman, head Off Brand Van Waxman.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
S welcome back. It's not all that while that a
(30:04):
funeral parlor would have a sleazy practice of using funeral
guestbooks for solicitations, it's a bit much to think that
they would reveal it to the police. And of course
Danny is going to just frustrate the effort. Because the
conversation with the ex wife was interesting because she made
(30:26):
this point of saying John's other wife, and that was
actually a reference to a nineteen thirty six to nineteen
forty two soap opera called John's Other Wife. It was
produced by our old friends, the Hummers, and it was
about the wife of a department store owner whose name
(30:49):
was John, who was suspicious that her husband was having
a relationship with either his secretary or his assistant. Personally,
I'd be suspicious why he needed both a secretary and
an assistant, but I'm more likely to be an auditor
than a jealous wife. I suppose it was an essence
(31:12):
a golden age of radio precursor to that current millennial
and gen Z phrase work wife. It was kind of
surprised when I looked it up that this only lasted
six years, because the title John's Other Wife is referenced
all over the Golden Age of radio, and you'll even
(31:34):
see it in cartoons, you know, and when this episode aired,
John's Other Wife had been off the radio for eight years.
You'll hear it referenced in all sorts of comedic materials
with Bing Crosby, Red Skelton, Bob Hope. And it's probably
more to the point the title that was so catchy
(31:56):
and it was popular for a while that it kind
of stuck around in pomp culture. It's probably one of
those titles that was memorable even by people who didn't
listen to the series. And I suspect that was true
of Fine and Freaking. It really is a stretch to
work in the phrase John's other wife. I'm kind of
(32:19):
suspicious that Fine and Freakin might have named the murdered
man John just so they could do that, though well,
I suppose it could have worked in reverse that they
had a character named John, they had his ex wife
and she had been jealous, and so they just decided
to use the phrase I don't think it ever was
(32:39):
common or would have been something most people would have
done to call someone they suspected was having a relationship
with their husband and the other wife. A bit of
an interesting usage and a big stretch for a pop
culture reference to something that had been off the air
for a year. I did enjoy this story, and I
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think the solution took me by surprise, as did the
final struggle. I think we as an audience tended to underestimator.
So overall, another solid case, despite the sound quality hiccups.
Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
start with Raymond, who, along with his donation, sent a
(33:23):
note in the memo line thanks for all the great
podcasting your low key but informative commentary. Well, thank you
so much, Raymond. And then we have some comments on
YouTube regarding the Mary Demi murder case. We start with Ryanser,
who writes Johnny Dollar did this case too? I don't
(33:44):
think so. While Fine and Freakin did write some Johnny
Dollar scripts, this doesn't really feel like one of them,
because the whole key to the case in that particular
episode was using the yearbook to solve the crime. And
I cannot recall any episode of Johnny Doler that took
(34:09):
that tap as the featured point of the story, and
certainly not in one that Fine and Free Can wrote.
Although it's easy to get confused because there is a
lot of similar tropes and approaches that were used during
the golden age of radio, not everything was as original
(34:29):
as we might have liked sometimes. And then we have
a comment from Sinzeno, who writes, excellent script, well acted
and really gritty. And then another one, I am Zadock
says I love these old radio mysteries detectives. They make
modern television look terrible. Well, modern television does a good
(34:51):
enough job of that without any help, but appreciate the comment,
and Lucy writes, thank you well, thanks so much. Appreciate
all your comments. Now it's time to thank our Patreon
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But join us back here tomorrow for Drag.
Speaker 14 (35:43):
Nowwhere I see by the stickers on your bags, you've
been through Arizona.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 14 (35:48):
It must be nice weather down there.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, it's all right this way, sir. Thank you.
Speaker 14 (36:08):
Let me open my window for you, sir, a little
fresh air in.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Here, alright, okay, thanks, here you go, Thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 14 (36:20):
Help you with your bags?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah all right.
Speaker 14 (36:25):
Oh I'm sorry, sir. Something dropped out on the floor here.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
You better let me have that.
Speaker 14 (36:29):
Sorry, very sorry that happened. That's all right, mister Edwards. Uh,
while you're in town here, if there's anything I can
do for you, don't hesitate to let me know. Yeah, okay,
I couldn't help. But notice that little package there that
I dropped. Yeah, Well, like I say, I know my
(36:50):
way around here in this town. You need anything, you know,
anything at all, sir, I'll tell you what. Now here's
five bucks. You never saw anything fall out of my
bag there right, anything you say, sir, I.
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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 Might Beat.
But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're
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for as little lass two dollars per month at Patreon
dot Great Detectives dot net. I do want to give
you a heads up that the audio quality of today's
program is not the best. It's not horrible, but it's
not great for Broadways My bait so a little bit
below our normal expectations. But here from October twentieth, nineteen
(01:35):
fifty is the John Webster murder case.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Broadways my Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circles, but
audios the most violence, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadways My beat with Larry thor and Detective Danny Klob.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Broadway, or you walk through.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The October evening and hold close the things you want
to save for memories. Then Broadways is innocent and nostalgic
as music drifting from the carousel. If you move on,
you get hit in the face by a guy fishing
for nickels under a drating Whatever you are pursuing is gone,
now lost. Broadway trails off into the side street walks
them like I did. Try to close your eyes against
(02:49):
the pattern of stars in the street of the tenement,
the kids that the torn deck of cards under the lampfort,
the dogs that the crash can the wide eyed girl
who lurks against me. Sorry a spectacular symptom. The neon winks.
He picks through the litter of darkness and good bye,
because on Broadway there's nothing else. And at the edge
(03:10):
of Broadway about where it touches the morning, the night
has been in partnership with death, their place of business
with Trevlin Martuary. A man is polishing a brass sign
on his marble sat who moves to consider it work.
You see that the sne reads easy payments to inquire within,
and within there's the scent of cut flowers. And another
man who leans against the marble pillars, brow is lighted.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
For the pink spotlight excretely hidden.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
In the folios of the propet palms, and he inhales
the faint music of an electric organ. He sees you firmly,
depatches himself from his revery, and attaches himself to.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You with a white hand.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
In the tower of your grief and the tower of
your loneliness, we are here but to lead you through
the maize. Someone called, they sent the seas. I understand
who can recommend it to us? He will not find
us wanting.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He doesn't let me finish the said A man liss
dead here.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Next day we are dead, he said, he was murdered.
Oh all that, then you must be of the police. Welcome,
just sitting there in the Queen Victoria Chapel with a
knife in the back of the stroms.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The reason I noticed him is that he.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Remained after the funeral services of Agnes Papa. I am
emeric Caavlinka. Make me the the Queen Victoria Chapel, of course, love,
it is the chapel we reserve for ladies of lavender
like dignity, such as miss Agnes Popper. It's took that
is observe who was he? I meant you to observe
(04:31):
the Victorian elegance of this room. The expert Victorian vows
in which are the acts of Agnes Pappas?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
This man? Who was it?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
When the others filed out, this man remained, though. I
quickly took the liberty of removing whatever bits and pieces
of identity he had done it. Yes, you would see
all he had up to from his driver's license, et cetera.
Is someone called John Webster of nineteen seventy six laden
places in Rochellow.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I've been to new He came here alone.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I couldn't possibly know. I was so engreat de ranging things.
I couldn't know the others Tena's services. If you know that,
of course I would. I have each guest sign our
guests look at the interned. It's one of our more
delicately thoughtful services. It also surplies us where the purcuitous
mailing list we must be on our codes in this petition. Yeah,
(05:22):
this the page. All these were guests, all of them.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Quite a catch wouldn't you page.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'll take it please, I'll dare you care the page
in the book. Those people were about to receive our
most recent literature on me. I have deprived them of it.
Can you ever forgive me, mister Craplin? There wasn't much
more after that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The boys and technical came and mister Crevelin watched their
manner of considering death with professional jealousy. Mister Clevelin took
it out on me. Imagine me with his eyes, handed
me a brochure and smiled sadly.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I left.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I call headquarters and told them to find out what
they could on a man named John Webster. Then the
consideration of the page torn out of the guest book.
The name's written down by Paul Evils to furnish proof
positive that they had come only.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
To witness the funeral, not to contribute themselves to it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
First name ethel Hoffer, family of been address, Summerfield Apartments
on Madison Avenue. Go there, right up to the seventh
floor on the noiseless elevators, Walk down the carpet of hallway,
rap on the panel's door.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Have you brought flowers? My sister? Didn't you see? People
have been bringing flowers.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm from the police. My name is Sanny Clovern.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I've been telling him to deliver the flowers to the last.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Ye tell me, yes, I'm from the police.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I've never talked to a policeman before, and you said
you were a place when I remembered pat. Never in
my whole life have I done what I'm doing now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
What's about a man named John Webster? I'm sure he.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Mm hmm in here.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
My sister loved his teaching so much. Here right from
this window. My sister jumps right from this window. Everybody
who comes here wants to see what window I just
jumps from your.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
My sister would really not to live.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Now, perhaps you can tell me about a man named
John web.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
My sister was a woman who loved the man. He
died for it. That's the woman's right. My sister loved
Thomas Perry, truly loved him.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Thomas Harry, he loved him.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
He was a child a bottoms where a woman should be.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What I a man named John Webster?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
John with oh, of course, of course, what you have
the wrong address? I never heard of a man by
that name.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But she had heard of a man named Thomas Perry,
a man her sister truly loved, she said, a man
her sister had died for.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Also a man whose name was on the funeral list.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Address West fifty first, the brown stone building converted to offices,
fair case with chips, white enamel signs on each stair,
asking chip personal questions, lonely, their questions friendless. The next
answer in search of true happiness, of gold, the nations,
and of the landing. The answer to all the questions
insult Thomas Perry. Please follow arrow. The arrow leads you
(08:50):
into a dismal room hung with Japanese lanterns and twisted
crape rage of the three piece orchestra in Churchilly, plotted
with somber couples dancing to his respectable rhythms. Have a
dance on the shoulder, and asked for Thomas Perry. She
giggles and points him out. He's a man on the
platform presiding over it all.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I saw you ask.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Missus Gilbert to point me out. You don't need to
ask permission, Just find a partner and join the fun.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You're Thomas Perry. You already know that, and you, Danny Colver,
believe well. I wouldn't think you fellows ever got in
this condition?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I want to talk to you, childs, somewhere quiet, and
this is quiet. Besides, I can't leave my people. They'd
be lost without me here to stir up things.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
What do we talk about?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Danny Agnes Harper, she loved me, loved me truly, tale
hands I love beside the shalamar a darning that kind
of love.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
She killed herself for him. She shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
She should have known the kind of man I am,
what kind of that? I'm a businessman? Danny Agnes came
to us in such a happiness. I saw the sign
we sent her various sizes in shape a hand, sort
of happiness, good, steady, respectable male counterparts. I chose them
for him myself. But they didn't do. You took over
(10:09):
You're quit Sanny. I took over personally. Agnes was dignity personified,
aristocracy personified, fifty thousand dollars personified.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And I childred her. That makes you a businessman, It
makes me adult. Jerk to you.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Agnes just wasn't for me, That's all. I prefer something gayer, younger,
you know. Yeah, did Agnes ever standing to you about
a man named John Webster. The name John Webster never
destroyed anything between.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Agnes and me.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Shouldn't have Danny, he was murdered at her funeral. He
chose the most appropriate setting. This John Webster, anything else Danny.
Missus Gilbert is seconding. She wants my arms surround her.
So this is a list of the people who attended
Agnes's funeral.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Do you know them? Let me.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
This I know, and then and then and this all
members of my club, all clients, our ladies and gentlemen.
Agnes met at my tea dancers. We make it a
point of return, courtesys, renders. The others are a strangers.
And now, if you please, Missus Gilbert is really biting
her lips.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Back to routine.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Stop at headquarters and find out that the background of
John Webster was still being checked. Leave with Detective Margavin
the names of the members of the Lonely Hearts Club
who at attended the funeral. Then more lake work with
the rest of the list, and another name, Rose Livingston.
What's fifty eighth Street?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And Missus Livingston is happy you dropped in.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yes, I like a man in my heart and the schooner.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm glad my cheek up knees. Now we can talk
about the funeral. What started from? Mister Livingstone.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
I was sitting there at the services and suddenly I said,
the niceself, my, how.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I've been doing it every.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Morning I read, but got the nicest one in my opinions?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
How many Missus Livingston this morning? You attendant?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
And I always weep just a little, you know?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
How is it get just as well?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A man named Missus Livingston, A man named John Webster.
Did you John Webster? He's wearing a dark blue suit.
He was bald, he was wearing eyeglasses, get a small mustache?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Did you know them? Are you sure?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
I always give my undivided attention to what's going on
up front, and I haven't notice the bald headed man.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Martin is Clover.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Hi, Danny, Hello, you know, come on in.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
I was just wondering, Danny.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
Tonight, Missus Tartaglia is dishing up chicken katcha Dory pizza
and generous servings of spamoning, all to be topped off
with the performance of the new porn dish washer, which
I have purchased for her care to join us?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Thanks, you know, but I can't work work well then
let's get with it.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
Danny, item to it. We have cracked down information on
John Webster, deceased, very uninteresting, no friends, no enemies. Who's
a divorce he having at once upon a time been
married to one Elizabeth Webster.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We'll want to talk to her at this very moment,
she is being looked for, Danny good Well.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
Detective Muggulvin has made a check of the people off
the list who were members of the Lonely Hearts Club.
Nothing except the old one to get married.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Here's the phone, Danny Pardoner, you do mention it? Think
you Danny Clover speaking, Come quickly, Tommy. Who is this?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Ethel Harper?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't want to be what's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I've seen him before.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Look at me all the time, I look.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Please, I'll be right tom Miss Harper. It's took ten
minutes to get there. I'm away the stop and intruded.
Miss Harper was imagining things. The man she saw was
part of the hysteria of a mind that Saola felt
with no stranger through his carrier and up the elevator,
down the hall, Miss Harper, Mis Harper, it's Danny Clover,
(14:46):
MS Harper living room, empty bedroom, empty kitchen, not empty.
Mis Hopper was there, MS Copper with a around his throat.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The Harper strungs my ceiling light texture.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Beneath her face, borescence of the light leaned on a
nice blade on the tabletop. I picked it up, grabbed
the kitchen shoel and sit on it and cut Miss
Harper down.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
She's breathing fully this life.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Then held her clothes for a brief second, then deferred
to the other in color returned. Their eyes came alive,
and they split it over my face, not understanding, thank you,
bewildered all.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
At once, understanding hung me.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
He tried to yield me.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There's a thing about Broadways. It offered a bag full
of free illusions, every color, every size, guaranteed against fading.
I'll say, a warranty against shrinkage.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Just reached in the bag. There's more all that one
came from.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Consider, for instance, the one that says Broadway can break
it heart well, for example, the classic all plastic fall
nineteen fifty laboratory tested one that says Broadway can shed
a tear.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That's the one for a.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Man who is murdered in a marchary only who we who.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Shed the tear. The current found.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The one I was most familiar with at the moment,
was offered by a woman Ethel Harper lately cut down
from a news.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm seeing my steady now, mister clover.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The doctor should be here soon, right now. The important
thing for you to do it, I said, I tell
it all right.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I don't need the doctor. What did you call it
doctor for?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Because you were almost dead?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
People think of dying, mister clover.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But clink, you can tell me what happened? Happens?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Everything so bad? Where on after the other began.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Let me help. You saw a man looking at you
across the cart from the window, which.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yes, yes, that's right, that windows cross.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Then you've called me then.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Then, oh, I don't know. He's right after that he
walked in from the window. I can remember rough material
right right here with October.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
All right, go.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Ahead, Oh no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Remember scream the after for money, the after for anything.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
He was big, rough, come in.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't know. It's nice. You wouldn't do this, It
wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Take it easy.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh you didn't know where to sit, you.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Myster.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
She turned it back to me arranged the folds of
the freshly laundered lace curtains on the window her sister
had jumped from, shook her head slowly, rearranged them, then
turned back and smiled at me helplessly apologetically. The curtains
just wasn't fall right. Then the doorbell rang, A shadow
sturried across her face, pounder lips popped them against the.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
New terrace with doctor sink. I told him, up happened.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
He went over to her, shook her hands, poked quietly
towards the shadow doctors.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Back inside her. Oh, there were things to check.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The apartment across the hat, for instance, from which the
man had watched her. The apartment was empty, hadn't been
occupied for a week. Its door opened so the people
could wander in, look at it, stare through its windows,
and then back to headquarters. And Detective Margaman handing me
a slip of paper honor the address of Elizabeth Webster,
divorced wife of the murdered man.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I went there. She thought I should have come in
another time.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
You see, you shouldn't just burst in on a girl
like this, not even if you are from the police.
A girl must have time to prepare herself to make
herself presentable as cracked you.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I just want to talk to you about your husband.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
My late husband for divorce husband, he was murdered.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Good for him.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Now, if you'll gift it over there and watch the
straighten up in my face, I'll tell you anything you
want to know.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
All you have to do is this sweet about when
were you a divorce on.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
October seventeenth at one thirty five in the PM and
the year of our Lord nineteen forty one, nine years ago,
nine years without John.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I'm just lucky.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
I what mean, mister Kou. I always start my makeup
from them now because it makes me more attractive more.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
No, the boys like you, I meant white? Is this
aborced him?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well, look what you made me?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Do you made me me? I'm a lipsty haven't answered me.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You want to know why?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Because he never loved me.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Because even on our honeymoon, I woke up for night
and night I found him looking at me and calling
me egg Agnes. I slept him hard, you bet good
and hard. He never thought of me as Agnes again,
not hi, myuch faith you bet Harper Agnes Harper, John
Zalla girlfriend John Zava White except he never married her.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
He married me.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That's what it's got.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
October seventeen one thirty five and the PM the year
of our Lord, nineteen forty one, the day we are divorce.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Goodbye, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Right, mister Perry. All the lonely hearts have gone home.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
They come here and meet people, go home to think
about it.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
At least, just you tell me something, Danny. Am I
a murder sister? That's right, you are.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I told you I never met the man.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
But Agnes did. Are you going to talk to me,
mister Perry?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Are you going to phone your lawyer and say you're
going to jail to please hurry up and meet you
there because you're being healthy suspicion of felony. Felony being murdered,
and all the lonely hearts would lose face in old
Tom Perry, wouldn't they.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Let's face it down.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You want to know why I never married Agnes, If
that's where you want to start, why I didn't marry
It was this, There was something there, Danny. I can't
tell you what the setup was. Well it wasn't nice Agnes,
her sister. And then there's the other thing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
What other things?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Agnes and here's where old John Webster comes in. Agnes
was going to marry him, didn't at the last minute.
She didn't left the boy standing there right at the
altar with agonisty.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That's what I want to know about what happened.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Agnes didn't tell me exactly, just didn't show up for
the wedding. Something happened, something important, I guess because Agnes
didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You want to know something else, you'll tell me.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
When Agnes and I were going to get married, Well,
I have a friend that does weddings at a pretty
nice rate for friends. But Agnes wanted to use the
same justice of peace who names tires an ingersong anything there, Danny,
I wouldn't know. Well, i'll find out, thanks Old Tom.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Here's my husband Asticot. He did the marriage go well?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Harrison and I look in this tongul, then I'll tell
you my fast and.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Didn't know as well as we counted on, didn't Harrison
nothing to him but a lot of questions, like mister.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Clover's mother ask the William Man ask him.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I told you, Harrison, I told you someone would come
snooping around here.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
That's all on I told you, so you did.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I told you is.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
What is it about a half of mister Clover to shake?
I know nothing of it. What I read in the papers.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's all we know.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You were going to perform the wedding ceremony for her,
for her and John Webster. It didn't come up. Tell
me why Anes was a friend of all.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
I don't feel Harrison.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
If you won't tell him, I will, I won't have
our lives met up.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Buddy, Why didn't forget married and beautiful?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Because just the night before Agnes is to be married,
someone tried to killer murder anyhow, Herison didn't marry them.
I'm trying to find out, but I couldn't be pushed up.
Don't look at me like that, Herison, The man asked,
So I told him you're too loyal Herrison.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Oh hello, mister Clover. I'm glad you came back. I
k you would want to know. I was feeling fine
me come in, thanks.
Speaker 11 (24:52):
Yes, that's ditty, was very little man. It's a lovely
Indian summer right, come out on the parish and catted
with me.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Agnes would have enjoyed a night like this, Yes, yes,
he would. How would you know what you've told me
about her.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Some of the other people have told me.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
What other peoples?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Perry, what did he tell you? He said he didn't
marry your sister because he was afraid a.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Phrase did he have to be afraid of? I don't
know what did he know about being afraid?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But you know, do.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
Tell me who tried to tell your sister the night
before she was to marry John webs He said.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I knew about being praise You are right now because.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Your sister has gone from here forever. You know, my
sister finally succeeded in I do very.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well with others. I can do things for myself.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
She's trying to marry John Webster.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You're trying to kill her someone else. So what difference
does it make. She didn't hurt herself and she didn't
want done with joy. How she told me so the
whole day we didn't stack together, and she told me
over and over again how long she did It.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Was different to Thomas Perry. This time she knew she
wasn't wrong. So you killed her. What's draut of a
kitchen window?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Watched her fall?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Now you're alone.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
She wasn't going to marry Tom Perry. She was going
to leave me.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
She told me that you have John Webster because he
knew your child, knew you'd try to do it once before.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You didn't think I could do things like that, did you?
None of you know the things I can do.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
When you hung yourself afraid I might come to later.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
I'm clever. I waited to do knocked on the door
the thing you people don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Oh, you people don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I'm through the way that the spring the audio I
dream to mine and the clowns to me.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I took it on.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Tell themself your sigh? What's smer.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Broadway screaming? Now it snears and makes a big fist
of the knife. The carnival is boiling, and it's the
clown of a jack in the box that leaps from
dark doorway.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And it's the geek with no arms, no legs, no heart.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's Broadway. It's Audium, the most violent, the lonesome vil
in the world.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Broadway, Mighty.
Speaker 13 (28:31):
Broadways, My Beat, star Larry Thor's Detective Danny Clover with
Charles Calvert Sarteglia. The program was produced and directed by
Elliot Lewis. The musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Kurrige.
Included in the night's cast were Jeanette Nolan, Heeggy Weber,
Marjorie Bennett, Francis X. Bushman, head Off Brand Van Waxman.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
S welcome back. It's not all that while that a
(30:04):
funeral parlor would have a sleazy practice of using funeral
guestbooks for solicitations, it's a bit much to think that
they would reveal it to the police. And of course
Danny is going to just frustrate the effort. Because the
conversation with the ex wife was interesting because she made
(30:26):
this point of saying John's other wife, and that was
actually a reference to a nineteen thirty six to nineteen
forty two soap opera called John's Other Wife. It was
produced by our old friends, the Hummers, and it was
about the wife of a department store owner whose name
(30:49):
was John, who was suspicious that her husband was having
a relationship with either his secretary or his assistant. Personally,
I'd be suspicious why he needed both a secretary and
an assistant, but I'm more likely to be an auditor
than a jealous wife. I suppose it was an essence
(31:12):
a golden age of radio precursor to that current millennial
and gen Z phrase work wife. It was kind of
surprised when I looked it up that this only lasted
six years, because the title John's Other Wife is referenced
all over the Golden Age of radio, and you'll even
(31:34):
see it in cartoons, you know, and when this episode aired,
John's Other Wife had been off the radio for eight years.
You'll hear it referenced in all sorts of comedic materials
with Bing Crosby, Red Skelton, Bob Hope. And it's probably
more to the point the title that was so catchy
(31:56):
and it was popular for a while that it kind
of stuck around in pomp culture. It's probably one of
those titles that was memorable even by people who didn't
listen to the series. And I suspect that was true
of Fine and Freaking. It really is a stretch to
work in the phrase John's other wife. I'm kind of
(32:19):
suspicious that Fine and Freakin might have named the murdered
man John just so they could do that, though well,
I suppose it could have worked in reverse that they
had a character named John, they had his ex wife
and she had been jealous, and so they just decided
to use the phrase I don't think it ever was
(32:39):
common or would have been something most people would have
done to call someone they suspected was having a relationship
with their husband and the other wife. A bit of
an interesting usage and a big stretch for a pop
culture reference to something that had been off the air
for a year. I did enjoy this story, and I
(33:02):
think the solution took me by surprise, as did the
final struggle. I think we as an audience tended to underestimator.
So overall, another solid case, despite the sound quality hiccups.
Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
start with Raymond, who, along with his donation, sent a
(33:23):
note in the memo line thanks for all the great
podcasting your low key but informative commentary. Well, thank you
so much, Raymond. And then we have some comments on
YouTube regarding the Mary Demi murder case. We start with Ryanser,
who writes Johnny Dollar did this case too? I don't
(33:44):
think so. While Fine and Freakin did write some Johnny
Dollar scripts, this doesn't really feel like one of them,
because the whole key to the case in that particular
episode was using the yearbook to solve the crime. And
I cannot recall any episode of Johnny Doler that took
(34:09):
that tap as the featured point of the story, and
certainly not in one that Fine and Free Can wrote.
Although it's easy to get confused because there is a
lot of similar tropes and approaches that were used during
the golden age of radio, not everything was as original
(34:29):
as we might have liked sometimes. And then we have
a comment from Sinzeno, who writes, excellent script, well acted
and really gritty. And then another one, I am Zadock
says I love these old radio mysteries detectives. They make
modern television look terrible. Well, modern television does a good
(34:51):
enough job of that without any help, but appreciate the comment,
and Lucy writes, thank you well, thanks so much. Appreciate
all your comments. Now it's time to thank our Patreon
supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead
and thank Adrian, Patreon supporter since January twenty twenty, currently
supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven
(35:11):
dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks so
much for your support, Adrian, and that will do it
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back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadways My Beat,
But join us back here tomorrow for Drag.
Speaker 14 (35:43):
Nowwhere I see by the stickers on your bags, you've
been through Arizona.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 14 (35:48):
It must be nice weather down there.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, it's all right this way, sir. Thank you.
Speaker 14 (36:08):
Let me open my window for you, sir, a little
fresh air in.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Here, alright, okay, thanks, here you go, Thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 14 (36:20):
Help you with your bags?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah all right.
Speaker 14 (36:25):
Oh I'm sorry, sir. Something dropped out on the floor here.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
You better let me have that.
Speaker 14 (36:29):
Sorry, very sorry that happened. That's all right, mister Edwards. Uh,
while you're in town here, if there's anything I can
do for you, don't hesitate to let me know. Yeah, okay,
I couldn't help. But notice that little package there that
I dropped. Yeah, Well, like I say, I know my
(36:50):
way around here in this town. You need anything, you know,
anything at all, sir, I'll tell you what. Now here's
five bucks. You never saw anything fall out of my
bag there right, anything you say, sir, I.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send
your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, follow
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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