September 3, 2025 • 35 mins
Today's Mystery: A Chicago gangster is found murdered in a swank New York hotel room.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 10, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen; Howard McNear; GeGe Pearson; Marlowe Dwyer; Adrian Marden; Lou Merrill
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 10, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen; Howard McNear; GeGe Pearson; Marlowe Dwyer; Adrian Marden; Lou Merrill
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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from November tenth, nineteen fifty, here is the Johnny Hill
Murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Broadway takes its night time out of the river. The
autumn mists rise from the water scurl down the furious
avenues of the city and moisten the shadows, and for
an instant Broadway is stunned. Night has come too swiftly.
It's suddenly November, and the people of the time plot
go home to dinner in darkness. And I watched it
from my window at headquarters, the crowd, fragments breaking off
(02:31):
here and there, the dry it's luck in this doorway,
and that wiped my hand across the frosting glass and
considered it. That's why I didn't hear the man when
he came in huh Man's land. Did who are you?
What are you talking about? And Finch Room Services, Hotel Heaven. Finch,
(02:51):
what are you trying to tell me about? A man
lying dead? And the Penthouse Hotel Heaven.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I walked and delivered the drinks, the drinks were drawn,
noted that the spread had not been drawn back, noted
that he hadn't taken off his shoes, and noted.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That he was dead. How could you tell? He didn't move?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I tapped him on the shoulder, didn't breathe either in
here or ex hire. That's being dead.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Have you notified the manager? Did you hear me say
I did that.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm reporting it directly to the police, so it'll be
on the records that I found the man.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Pinch found him.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Finch f I n h alan Finch. You'll tell the
papers that any clover speaking came in where house hotel
to take it right away to Taglia Finch I f
I n h alan Finch. Don't forget it. What do
(04:11):
you want?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Oh it's you, daddy. I'm glad it's you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Makes you happy. I'morrow?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Yeah, come on it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That comic on.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Television he kills me.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You ever watch him, Danny?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
You should?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
You should look look at him. Where Hemorrow is the
dead one?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He's in the bed room. Come out. I'll show you
if you can tear yourself away from the comic. Danny.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Don't be like that.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
How many laughs does the housetick get in the day?
I mean for free? Yeah, there he is, Danny on
his twenty buck a day bed.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Shut the door.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
The television is for free too, Danny.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
In every room we can look in between, you know,
shut the door. Whenever you say that it wasn't here,
I'll hold up his head so you can look at him.
Looks different. Huh. We've been waiting a long time to
see him like this.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Hi, Danny, Johnny Hill, the same, a little punctured, but
the same, Danny Hill. Tell me about it. A lady
was bidding a gentleman good night at the door. While
lost in the kiss, she heard shot.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
She told me the four Did she see anyone leave
this apartment?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Uh uh, it was all too frustrating. She didn't see
a thing because her eyes were filled with tears. She
told me. Boyfriend scurried away. Didn't want to get caught
in the mess. The lady wept any ideas Morrow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And who put so many holes in him?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Yeah, except everybody whoever wanted Johnny Hill dead. Johnny Hill,
king of the Chicago Hooligans, wanted for all a small
print in the book. I was to put the finger
on who wanted him dead? I wanted it, You wanted it?
Who didn't want it?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Danny? Tell me? So I can get him a free
room in this classy feebag. There wasn't anything much. Morrow
said he was going back and look at the comic,
Except now the comic was through and there was a
cowboy instead, which was even better. Morrow assured me. When
the boys from Technical came, they were on Morrow's side.
(06:12):
When I asked everybody why the cowboy carried three guns,
they sneered at me, so I left. Then it was
legwork find out why a hoodlum from Chicago had come
to New York to die ring doorbells. Ask a man
in a midnight blue dinner jacket what he knew about
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the death of Johnny Hill. Have him beckoned the five
more midnight blue dinner jackets alibis. Then the nightclub circuit start,
where the cover charges ten dollars in the upholstery genuine
and ask questions, get no answers. Then to the joints
(06:55):
of plastic leather and no dance floor and no minimum
and get no answers. Then to the dives of the
Open Color and the biggest beer in town for a dime,
and one of them there's a man. His name is
Benny Fane. He's not happy way, then what's the matter
with you? Benny? He used to help us out what happened.
(07:16):
I'm not student them more. And that's all. Go away, man,
because you don't want to tell me about Johnny Hill. Yes,
go away. Suppose the boys around got to know you
used to work for me, Benny? What about Johnny Hill yesterday.
That's when he hit time. Where do you go? There's
people watching this, nobody watching us? Where'd he go?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Checked into the head? They went to where they are
then in the Griffin Club?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Please go away? That's all you know. I swear on
the missus messrs is doing time at the State Reformatory.
Would you'll be out in ten years? The Griffin Club, Bennie.
(08:02):
The Griffin Club was a polite brownstone mansion that peaked
at the park through white lace curtains, needle pointed with
awkward graffonds. It's the car late probation. It's membership, lovely ladies,
an equally elegant gentleman, their amusement, conversation of latter day
hooligans who have become quality folk. I knew that because
when I walked in, the tinkle stopped, whisper of silk
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took over, and I was looked at as if I
were a cheap wine spilled on the fawn colored rug.
Lady rose quickly to wipe away the stain I was
making in their drawing room.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
I'm afraid you've made a mistake. We are only from members,
we suggest to wives.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Right, don't you know me, Betsy, full.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Of the mat sticks. I'm missus Craig, vice president in
charge of accepting and rejecting.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Sure you are, Betsy, all right?
Speaker 9 (08:49):
So I know you.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
You're running out of your class, aren't you, Dinny?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I don't think so. Johnny Hill made me a.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Member, having a lovely time that you walked in. You
turned it sound call.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
That's the way you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Are, I said, Johnny Hill. And you didn't even drop
your fanily drop it, Betsy, So I'll have to pick
it up for you. Isn't Chicago no more? But you
know that, don't you.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
He finally made it. I'm glad for Johnny.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You'll tell him before that he did all the normal
things for him, checked into the hadd and penthouse, came
here and back to the Headen died in his bed,
normal Johnny.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
I'll tell my friends how it was, thanks, Danny. They've
been itching to know.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And you'll tell me the things that Johnny did here,
won't you, Betsy? Old time say, grab.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
A handful of kennopies, Danny, take some to your friends
because we're through reminiscing.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Wait, I'll get you a brown paper bag.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I couldn't go without you.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
Betsy, You've got nothing, not on me, not on the club.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Only I murdered Johnny Hill. You know all these these Werek, Betsy,
hold you on suspicion day month, as long as you want.
What happens to your vice presidency?
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Then it took me a long time. It's mine, No
part of it belongs to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Sure, think how hard you worked for it.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
I wracked myself to sleep thinking about.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
All right.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Johnny came in here about four o'clock last night, alone
for a while, alone for about an hour.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
He nibbled at the cavea the entertainment.
Speaker 9 (10:09):
And he got bored.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
Called Nick Joyn.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Nick was here.
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Johnny called him, didn't he? Johnny calls people come used
to They played cards. Then something must have happened because
they started calling each other names.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
So I called Johnny's boy to break it up.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He came, He did, Johnny's Boy. Who is it now?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Harry Bishop?
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Where nineteen twenty three forty seven? Having awfully good to you, Danny.
Didn't cost you a cent, not a penny.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Clutch it close to you because that's all you get.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Goodbye forever, Danny.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah you, Harry Bishop, make let's go inside let's go,
Harry does sounded like.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
Law Later, Lawyer, the mood will come to me in
our cards.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I sat inside it, inside it better. You got a
permit for this gun? Gun? Harry on the bed, Holy
smokes a gun? Did you shoot Johnny Hill with it?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You have yourself a sniff? See as we used in
some modoon ducks Inake, Michigan, I duck hunt with a
thirty eight. The ducks appreciate it. I wonder how that
gun got I thought it wasn't chka.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll ask your gun, Harry, did you shoot Johnny with it?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
You lost your MIBs. Johnny was done with a forty five?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How'd you know that? It wasn't? In the papers?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Nick carried a forty five? Nick Joyner, the guy who
shot Johnny?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're sure of it?
Speaker 13 (11:48):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Johnny was killed with a forty five, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
See Nick Joiner?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What happened at the Griffin Club last night?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
The card game with pickled cards? Johnny dropped maybe fifty
g's Nick wanted with pickled cards. Maybe Johnny wasn't gonna
stand for it. Maybe Nick beat him to it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You took Johnny home after the game.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Back to the head, tucked him in.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Where's Nick? I'll find That's why the gun, Harry, You're
gonna take care of Nick. Where's Nick leading to me?
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
If we go, you're never gonna find Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Come on, Harry, I'm booking you on a weapons church.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You're taking me in?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Where is he?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Where else?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hotel?
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Hadn't under an alias Ali Markle Merkle something I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I can save you the trouble cap. I owe it to.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Johnny, and you'll be held for homicide.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Then you'll have to catch me.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I already did. Turn off your radio and let's go, Harry.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Imagine Nick Joyner living under an alias mercle.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The thing is that guy will go through it. Agnner room.
You didn't know about it. I'm or so I help me, Danny,
not til you told me. This is a big hole.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
I can't keep my eye on everything that drawls into it.
So help me, Danny.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
All right, get it? You think next one? I got
to Jenny. I asked you a civil question. At least
you can do. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Room reserved for shoe salesman usually must be slow and
shoes maybe next out, Maybe you got any I got everything,
but maybe next whatever, say Danny, say, Nanny's out there
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another room, this one with bath, whole rooms with bath.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Nack.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
I am sorry to barge in, but guess who. Hey,
Danny's in the shower.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Nack, Nick, Hey, Nack opening Ma tell him we're here, Nick.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Can't you can't hear anything? An Nick is dead?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You are listening to Broadways My Bead, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover. How's for trying to sing it again this
Saturday night? Five thousand dollars in cold hard cash and
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(14:50):
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Here singing again this Saturday, won't you? Broadway stands on
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a street corner and raises its collective coat collar against
the coming of winter's night, tries to find warmth in
the blaze of neon or in the ashes of a
summer night's dream. For a time, Broadway warms its hands
at memory, tasting its glow, watching it flicker, watching it die.
Then it goes looking somewhere else. The translux screams in
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its ear murder. It screams, gangster dead and swank hotel.
Nick Joyner found dead. Broadway is happy, Broadway is daring,
goes right ahead and accepts the substitute grins. It found
what it was looking for, a.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Police headquarters the next day, that robing over the murder
of two men, Johnny Hill and Nick Joyner, and assisting
at the probe A man with an apple in his mouth.
Speaker 14 (16:12):
MM good what I was merely remarking that this apple
is good, trying to bite Danny for some other time, Roger,
I will save you a piece of Wax's paper.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Look for around the water cool with Danny. That way,
you'll keep cool anything else you're saving for me?
Speaker 14 (16:29):
You know, no nothing? Oh you mean Hi? You didn't
have to mention it, Danny. I was coming out with
it anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I'm sorry. Ah, you're forgiving if I don't forgive you
who should I? All right, Danny, all right?
Speaker 14 (16:46):
In the matter of the killing of Johnny Hill, hailing
from Chicago, he'll tell me who goes without saying. Established
by technical said, Johnny Hill was undone by a revolver
at caliber forty five. I know that they've checked on
the bullets found him to stem from a gun owned
by Nick Joyner, hailing lately from this city. That means,
permit me to finish your thought, Danny. That means that,
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without a shadow of a doubt, or, as Mike Shrek,
all headed miracle detective from Philadelphia would.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Have it, it.
Speaker 14 (17:14):
Means that Johnny of Chicago was undone by Nick of
this city because of an argument over a friendly game
of cards. You know, Danny, Mike Shrek coined a phrase
for such cases, open and shut.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That's wreck. Now you will tell me about Nick Joyner.
Speaker 14 (17:30):
I need you ask. Nick Joyner was undone by a poison,
the title of which can be found in any child's
chemistry magazine. What else, uh, Danny, we found someone who
might be sorry, Nick is dead, that's what else? His missus,
missus Claire Joiner of nine o two Benton Road, Forest Hills.
You know I think I'll penn of note this Shrek
(17:51):
about this?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Why?
Speaker 14 (17:53):
Well, it's a riddle to his liking Danny. Look, if
Nick killed Johnny? Who killed Nick? Or Johnny's friends are
in the cool or in Chicago? That leaves a large
question mark. You know you don't mind if I write
the Shrek about it? Why Danny?
Speaker 13 (18:26):
Okay, can you come back? Oh? Oh, I'm sorry? Sorry,
but what I thought you were the daughter door tea salesman.
The duel truck is across the street, and I was
going to tell him, who are you?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Danny Clover?
Speaker 13 (18:40):
Police, Please come in in here, Please sit down. I'm
afraid I haven't very much time, NIKKEI I want to
see him just once more. Is it the mortuary? I
feel I ought to see him.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
How long is it, Ben, since you're your husband left together?
Speaker 13 (19:01):
I don't know exactly how to answer that, mister Klogerg.
No longer than that. Once Nick brought home a black gown,
strapless and cut. Well, you know I put it on.
I looked like a housewife, looking ridiculous in a strapless gown.
Nick left.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Then he moved out.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
No, no, he moved out just a month ago. It's
been three years since he brought me the gown.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You knew about.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Next business affairs, that he was a thief, that it
was a hoodlum. I knew about it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 13 (19:36):
I'll tell you something, mister Clover. Nick would go out
and something would happen to him. Maybe he'd beat a
man with a gun. He'd come home and stare at me.
He needed me so he could feel ashamed.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You still love it, thought he was here.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
I was glad he's gone, but I'm not sorry. Nick
wasn't the kind of man who could live very long.
I had him for a part of the time that
he did join her. No, please, you understand, mister Clover.
Long ago Nick wanted me to move someplace, you know,
Park Avenue, place like that Park Avenue. It was like
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a strapless gun.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Did you ever meet any of Nick's friends?
Speaker 13 (20:13):
He didn't have any friends. He had people he had
fun with, like who so many of them women, of course,
lots of them. But he never felt a shame before
any of them.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wasn't there someone someone special?
Speaker 13 (20:29):
Miss Lisbon was special. I saw her once. I saw
her walking on Broadway with Nick on Broadway, mister Clover,
she only saw Nick. Miss Lisbon. Nick told me about her.
She stayed at the hotel, hadn't I believed maybe she
poisoned Nick.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Maybe, And I'm sorry for her.
Speaker 13 (20:48):
She doesn't know what she killed.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The woman turned away from me, walked over to the
hall mirror, adjusted a whisper of colorless hair under her hat,
smoothed their gloves, looked once at her face, looked away,
then walked out for one more time with Nick. She
left the door open. I closed it for at headquarters,
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there was a file on Paul at Lisbon, Kansas City,
Las Vegas, Chicago, Paris, the Italian Riviera, the girl who
opened the door for me at the hotel hat and
was the sum of all the places in which she'd
been whispered to, clothed in silk, the some of all
the hands that had stroked, the shadows on her throat,
the edges of her mouth. All there was in the
room was Paul at Lisbon.
Speaker 15 (21:37):
Thank you what for the way you look at me?
I thank you this Lisbon.
Speaker 16 (21:43):
It looked at me like that.
Speaker 15 (21:44):
Sometimes other men makes a girl feel good.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I mean good, you liked Nick.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
It brought me pretty flowers, These on my neck, on
my arm, those boxes on the dressing table. Sure, I
like Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And maybe you'll help us find us killer.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
You really want him the killer? I mean, so many
people are celebrating Nick's time all over town. I know
because I've been invited.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You're not going No, no.
Speaker 15 (22:10):
I think Nick would like me to breathe a.
Speaker 16 (22:12):
Little after that.
Speaker 15 (22:13):
I'm on my own.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
He told me so lots of times he was poisoned.
Maybe you can tell me why.
Speaker 15 (22:19):
I can give you a lot of wise, but don't
ask me who.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
You tell me if you knew cost my heart hope
to die? Who needed him dead? You?
Speaker 15 (22:28):
The citizens, the people of the country. My Nikki was
a stain that brings us to you. I needed him alive.
You're like me, doesn't know where her next Nick is
coming from.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
Would you open up for me? Da any please?
Speaker 15 (22:46):
This rope the guests might whisper.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
What you come on. In French, you don't keep a promise,
even spell my name for what.
Speaker 16 (22:59):
You bring me this time?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Finch, Oh, you'd be so pleased, Miss Lisbon.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I stole it from the kitchen, Uncle Fessor.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
There's no charge.
Speaker 16 (23:09):
Well, there's some bills on my dresser.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Finch, help yourself, you know I don't do it for that, missus, Elizabeth.
You just helped yourself to these goods.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
Have some Danny's on the house always is with Finch.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
No thanks.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
It killed you and mister john and didn't they, Miss Lisbon,
He had to be brave to kill a.
Speaker 17 (23:28):
Man like mister Johnny.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
Like it that way?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You just called me to clean up the mess when
you're through it.
Speaker 15 (23:34):
By miss Lisbon, there are so many many kinds, a
whole difference.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
Sure you won't have some Danny movie.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
And throw it away from me, will you?
Speaker 13 (23:47):
Danny?
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Please?
Speaker 16 (23:48):
Out the window? Was fun, lots of fun, Danny.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh hello, doctor Sinsky, come on in, that's on your mind?
You got a cigarette? Danny? Here you are light?
Speaker 18 (24:14):
No, I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I carry my own Manchester.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
A very strange thing just happened, Danny. Like what I
just finished an autopsy on Johnny Hill.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Auto for he was shot to death? What you need
an autopsy for? Because he wasn't shot to death you're
talking about it. Of course he was shot, of course
he was.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
Here's three forty five caliber bullets, but that's not what
killed him. Look, please, Danny, let me have my minute
of flory huh, thank you. I happened to see the
photographs taken of Johnny by our boys. Why, I asked myself,
is this a little blood from a man who's been.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Shot by a large caliber bullet?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Then the more I examined Johnny, very little blood on
his clothes.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So he performed an autopsy just.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
To prove.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Johnny was dead before he was shot. What Johnny was
poisoned to death with the same poison that killed Nick Johnner?
Know anybody who didn't like those two fellas?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Danny?
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Here he is, Danny, sit down me him you leave more? Oh, Danny,
I let you in my office. Be polite out Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I said you can sit down. I'm not gonna habit.
Sit down. Room service, right, Finch, room services. Tell me
about yourself? I told you rooms. I mean how you live,
your friends, what you do outside of the hotel? You're interested? Yeah,
ok yeah? How do I live?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I don't work eight hours, read a lot, go out
the movie's lat write letters to the newspapers. They printed
some of them. Spell your name right always. I have
such a simple need to remember. May mean that's why
everybody forgets what about your friends? Tried that people don't
measure up? Does miss Lisbon measure up? She's beautiful. I'd
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like her to admire me, but really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Don't you care what people think about your? Bench used
to bother me.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I used to try when I was younger at your
physical culture exercises and correspondence courses and personality and never finished.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Now you don't care. Oh, people are stupid. I don't
know what goes on inside of other people. Well, you
asked me these thingsons because I admire you. Oh, thank you,
thank you. Oh see, let me show you something I
have me right here in my coach park. It's a
letter i'm writing to the time. Read it, tell me
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about it. It's about there's two men and were murdered
in this hotel so.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Side, I think, whoever did it? Give him a medal?
And you think, think what give them a medal? Whoever
poison those two men? Yeah, that's one way of looking
at a finch. You know, mister Clover, you and I
think alike, you can understand the man. I think we
can be great for you. I think I would have
hated Nick Joyner myself. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Tell me, well,
(27:29):
I would have poisoned a big man like Johnny Hill,
and if someone would have come along and taken all
the credit for it by emptying his gun into Johnny, what.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Kind of curries is that?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Killing a dead man? Maybe Nick didn't know Johnny was dead.
He probably just thought Johnny was sleeping.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Well, that doesn't make any difference. Nick got all the
glory for killing Johnny.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You couldn't stand that you wanted that glory. You killed
them both, didn't just Johnny and Nick poison Johnny because
of how important it would make you feel inside yourself.
You could walk the streets and look at the No,
they didn't know how important you are. I didn't say that,
missed you, So you had to kill me? No, no, no, no, no,
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that's not right. Miss You said they were both poisons.
How'd you know? I just found it? And listen to me.
I reported the first murder to me yesterday. It's a
great pains to give me details. But you didn't say
he was shot because you didn't know he was. You've
got to listen. You listen to me. Think about it.
Finch Alan Finch kills two big notorious gamesters. Yeah, but look, look,
(28:32):
mister c think about it, Finch. Your picture and all
the papers, your name, and all the headlines, Helen, not
just letters to the editor, pictures.
Speaker 18 (28:42):
Headlines, personal interviews about how I did. Sure, of course,
maybe a picture Miss Lisbon and she'll be crying.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That's gonna tell the papers about it.
Speaker 17 (28:55):
Finch, Finch, Alan Finch. If I didn't see.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It, It's the happy time on Broadway after the movies.
(29:27):
Nobody wants to go home. It's a place strung against
the night, like a phosphorescent valley. Their heap care, the
golden girl, the bright eyed kid, the man with the promises,
the guy who believes it. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the
(29:47):
most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
with Charles Calvert as Starteglia. The program is produced and
directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted
by Alexander Courage. Included in tonight's cast were Howard mcneer,
Marlow Dwyer, G. G. Pearson, Adrian Martin, lou Merrill and
Jack Krushian. We Americans have a valuable heritage, a heritage
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we wish at the church, our synagogue of our own choice.
By attending church regularly, we can gain the moral and
spiritual strength to meet the many problems which confront us today.
Help support your church, and attend regularly with your family.
(30:58):
Dan coverly speaking, this is CB Yes for yours truly.
Johnny Dollar brings Adventure Saturday nights on the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Welcome back. I do like this sort of story and
this sort of solution, particularly when you're dealing with a
powerful underworld figure and you know you have all of
these dangerous enemies and it turns out the person who
did it was just an ordinary person. It kind of
speaks to the mortality of those who think they're so
(31:42):
big and important and can step on everybody else. And
of course is always great to hear Howard McNear on
Broadways My Beat.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Well, now we.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have a
couple of comments on YouTube regarding the John Webster murder case.
Mildred writes, I think I heard John's other wife mentioned
on an episode of Burns and Allen, which is a
good illustration because most of their episodes are well past
that series brief Hayday, and Jeffrey writes, Adam, is it
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my imagination or does that Edna Harper sound like the
Southern Bell girlfriend of the Great Guildersleeve, Leela Ransom. Well,
I don't think you're crazy, and it could be similar,
but it is not the same actress. Unlike most other
series where we don't have the cast list, we do
know that the only two actresses in this were Peggy
(32:39):
Weber and Jeanette Nolan, both of whom you know. I
think Jeanette Nolan was known more for her old lady voices,
but she had some vocal dexterity. Either one of those
could do a Southern Bell character quite well. And then
we have a comment on our listener survey from Lynn
who writes, Adam Graham wonderful knowledge, highest quality podcasts for
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Speaker 2 (33:09):
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Speaker 17 (33:53):
Your name, Richard Morgan is in righting. Yeah, that's right,
Police officers, mister Mortigan, this is sergeant Romero.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
How are you. My name is Friday.
Speaker 17 (34:00):
Were out of accident investigation. I talk to you about
the accident that just happened here. Sure was a bad one.
I hope you catch those kids didn't even slow down.
Understand you witnessed the accident. Wonder if he'd be kind
not to tell us what you saw.
Speaker 19 (34:11):
I was just closing up my nursery here, just unlocked
my car and was about to get in when I
saw this car come shooting up. Los Phylis there. Fast
clip went away with the two women. They were just
stepping off the curb under the crosswalk over there. I
could tell they didn't see the car. Yeh, hawk my horn.
I guess I wasn't quick enough, just offul going this morning.
Oh where that car hit those women? Looked to me
(34:32):
like he knocked him fifty feet at least, then just
like nothing at all. The car raced right on through
the intersection on Don los Phyllis that way.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Need you get a look at the driving?
Speaker 17 (34:40):
No, sure, not too good. But I believe he had
blonde hair. Looked to me like he was alone in
the car. Anything more about him looked like a young kid.
To me, I bet on that he was young, blond kid,
about eighteen nineteen on in their.
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go to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. But now,
from November tenth, nineteen fifty, here is the Johnny Hill
Murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Broadway takes its night time out of the river. The
autumn mists rise from the water scurl down the furious
avenues of the city and moisten the shadows, and for
an instant Broadway is stunned. Night has come too swiftly.
It's suddenly November, and the people of the time plot
go home to dinner in darkness. And I watched it
from my window at headquarters, the crowd, fragments breaking off
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here and there, the dry it's luck in this doorway,
and that wiped my hand across the frosting glass and
considered it. That's why I didn't hear the man when
he came in huh Man's land. Did who are you?
What are you talking about? And Finch Room Services, Hotel Heaven. Finch,
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what are you trying to tell me about? A man
lying dead? And the Penthouse Hotel Heaven.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I walked and delivered the drinks, the drinks were drawn,
noted that the spread had not been drawn back, noted
that he hadn't taken off his shoes, and noted.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That he was dead. How could you tell? He didn't move?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I tapped him on the shoulder, didn't breathe either in
here or ex hire. That's being dead.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Have you notified the manager? Did you hear me say
I did that.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm reporting it directly to the police, so it'll be
on the records that I found the man.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Pinch found him.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Finch f I n h alan Finch. You'll tell the
papers that any clover speaking came in where house hotel
to take it right away to Taglia Finch I f
I n h alan Finch. Don't forget it. What do
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you want?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Oh it's you, daddy. I'm glad it's you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Makes you happy. I'morrow?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Yeah, come on it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That comic on.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Television he kills me.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You ever watch him, Danny?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
You should?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
You should look look at him. Where Hemorrow is the
dead one?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He's in the bed room. Come out. I'll show you
if you can tear yourself away from the comic. Danny.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Don't be like that.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
How many laughs does the housetick get in the day?
I mean for free? Yeah, there he is, Danny on
his twenty buck a day bed.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Shut the door.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
The television is for free too, Danny.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
In every room we can look in between, you know,
shut the door. Whenever you say that it wasn't here,
I'll hold up his head so you can look at him.
Looks different. Huh. We've been waiting a long time to
see him like this.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Hi, Danny, Johnny Hill, the same, a little punctured, but
the same, Danny Hill. Tell me about it. A lady
was bidding a gentleman good night at the door. While
lost in the kiss, she heard shot.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
She told me the four Did she see anyone leave
this apartment?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Uh uh, it was all too frustrating. She didn't see
a thing because her eyes were filled with tears. She
told me. Boyfriend scurried away. Didn't want to get caught
in the mess. The lady wept any ideas Morrow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And who put so many holes in him?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Yeah, except everybody whoever wanted Johnny Hill dead. Johnny Hill,
king of the Chicago Hooligans, wanted for all a small
print in the book. I was to put the finger
on who wanted him dead? I wanted it, You wanted it?
Who didn't want it?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Danny? Tell me? So I can get him a free
room in this classy feebag. There wasn't anything much. Morrow
said he was going back and look at the comic,
Except now the comic was through and there was a
cowboy instead, which was even better. Morrow assured me. When
the boys from Technical came, they were on Morrow's side.
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When I asked everybody why the cowboy carried three guns,
they sneered at me, so I left. Then it was
legwork find out why a hoodlum from Chicago had come
to New York to die ring doorbells. Ask a man
in a midnight blue dinner jacket what he knew about
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the death of Johnny Hill. Have him beckoned the five
more midnight blue dinner jackets alibis. Then the nightclub circuit start,
where the cover charges ten dollars in the upholstery genuine
and ask questions, get no answers. Then to the joints
(06:55):
of plastic leather and no dance floor and no minimum
and get no answers. Then to the dives of the
Open Color and the biggest beer in town for a dime,
and one of them there's a man. His name is
Benny Fane. He's not happy way, then what's the matter
with you? Benny? He used to help us out what happened.
(07:16):
I'm not student them more. And that's all. Go away, man,
because you don't want to tell me about Johnny Hill. Yes,
go away. Suppose the boys around got to know you
used to work for me, Benny? What about Johnny Hill yesterday.
That's when he hit time. Where do you go? There's
people watching this, nobody watching us? Where'd he go?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Checked into the head? They went to where they are
then in the Griffin Club?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Please go away? That's all you know. I swear on
the missus messrs is doing time at the State Reformatory.
Would you'll be out in ten years? The Griffin Club, Bennie.
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The Griffin Club was a polite brownstone mansion that peaked
at the park through white lace curtains, needle pointed with
awkward graffonds. It's the car late probation. It's membership, lovely ladies,
an equally elegant gentleman, their amusement, conversation of latter day
hooligans who have become quality folk. I knew that because
when I walked in, the tinkle stopped, whisper of silk
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took over, and I was looked at as if I
were a cheap wine spilled on the fawn colored rug.
Lady rose quickly to wipe away the stain I was
making in their drawing room.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
I'm afraid you've made a mistake. We are only from members,
we suggest to wives.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Right, don't you know me, Betsy, full.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Of the mat sticks. I'm missus Craig, vice president in
charge of accepting and rejecting.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Sure you are, Betsy, all right?
Speaker 9 (08:49):
So I know you.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
You're running out of your class, aren't you, Dinny?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I don't think so. Johnny Hill made me a.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Member, having a lovely time that you walked in. You
turned it sound call.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
That's the way you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Are, I said, Johnny Hill. And you didn't even drop
your fanily drop it, Betsy, So I'll have to pick
it up for you. Isn't Chicago no more? But you
know that, don't you.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
He finally made it. I'm glad for Johnny.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You'll tell him before that he did all the normal
things for him, checked into the hadd and penthouse, came
here and back to the Headen died in his bed,
normal Johnny.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
I'll tell my friends how it was, thanks, Danny. They've
been itching to know.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And you'll tell me the things that Johnny did here,
won't you, Betsy? Old time say, grab.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
A handful of kennopies, Danny, take some to your friends
because we're through reminiscing.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Wait, I'll get you a brown paper bag.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I couldn't go without you.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
Betsy, You've got nothing, not on me, not on the club.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Only I murdered Johnny Hill. You know all these these Werek, Betsy,
hold you on suspicion day month, as long as you want.
What happens to your vice presidency?
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Then it took me a long time. It's mine, No
part of it belongs to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Sure, think how hard you worked for it.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
I wracked myself to sleep thinking about.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
All right.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Johnny came in here about four o'clock last night, alone
for a while, alone for about an hour.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
He nibbled at the cavea the entertainment.
Speaker 9 (10:09):
And he got bored.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
Called Nick Joyn.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Nick was here.
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Johnny called him, didn't he? Johnny calls people come used
to They played cards. Then something must have happened because
they started calling each other names.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
So I called Johnny's boy to break it up.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He came, He did, Johnny's Boy. Who is it now?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Harry Bishop?
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Where nineteen twenty three forty seven? Having awfully good to you, Danny.
Didn't cost you a cent, not a penny.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Clutch it close to you because that's all you get.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Goodbye forever, Danny.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah you, Harry Bishop, make let's go inside let's go,
Harry does sounded like.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
Law Later, Lawyer, the mood will come to me in
our cards.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I sat inside it, inside it better. You got a
permit for this gun? Gun? Harry on the bed, Holy
smokes a gun? Did you shoot Johnny Hill with it?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You have yourself a sniff? See as we used in
some modoon ducks Inake, Michigan, I duck hunt with a
thirty eight. The ducks appreciate it. I wonder how that
gun got I thought it wasn't chka.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll ask your gun, Harry, did you shoot Johnny with it?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
You lost your MIBs. Johnny was done with a forty five?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How'd you know that? It wasn't? In the papers?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Nick carried a forty five? Nick Joyner, the guy who
shot Johnny?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're sure of it?
Speaker 13 (11:48):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Johnny was killed with a forty five, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
See Nick Joiner?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What happened at the Griffin Club last night?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
The card game with pickled cards? Johnny dropped maybe fifty
g's Nick wanted with pickled cards. Maybe Johnny wasn't gonna
stand for it. Maybe Nick beat him to it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You took Johnny home after the game.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Back to the head, tucked him in.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Where's Nick? I'll find That's why the gun, Harry, You're
gonna take care of Nick. Where's Nick leading to me?
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
If we go, you're never gonna find Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Come on, Harry, I'm booking you on a weapons church.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You're taking me in?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Where is he?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Where else?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hotel?
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Hadn't under an alias Ali Markle Merkle something I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I can save you the trouble cap. I owe it to.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Johnny, and you'll be held for homicide.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Then you'll have to catch me.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I already did. Turn off your radio and let's go, Harry.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Imagine Nick Joyner living under an alias mercle.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The thing is that guy will go through it. Agnner room.
You didn't know about it. I'm or so I help me, Danny,
not til you told me. This is a big hole.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
I can't keep my eye on everything that drawls into it.
So help me, Danny.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
All right, get it? You think next one? I got
to Jenny. I asked you a civil question. At least
you can do. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Room reserved for shoe salesman usually must be slow and
shoes maybe next out, Maybe you got any I got everything,
but maybe next whatever, say Danny, say, Nanny's out there
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another room, this one with bath, whole rooms with bath.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Nack.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
I am sorry to barge in, but guess who. Hey,
Danny's in the shower.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Nack, Nick, Hey, Nack opening Ma tell him we're here, Nick.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Can't you can't hear anything? An Nick is dead?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You are listening to Broadways My Bead, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover. How's for trying to sing it again this
Saturday night? Five thousand dollars in cold hard cash and
ten thousand dollars in fine prices are waiting for the
CBS listener who can solve the new Phantom Voice mystery.
(14:50):
Dan Seymour will be on hand with those coast to
coast phone calls, and Alan Dale, Judy Lynn, Bob Howard
and the Riddlers will be making music. It's an hour
of fun and song, entertain you, and perhaps pay off
every Saturday night on most of these same CBS stations.
Here singing again this Saturday, won't you? Broadway stands on
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a street corner and raises its collective coat collar against
the coming of winter's night, tries to find warmth in
the blaze of neon or in the ashes of a
summer night's dream. For a time, Broadway warms its hands
at memory, tasting its glow, watching it flicker, watching it die.
Then it goes looking somewhere else. The translux screams in
(15:39):
its ear murder. It screams, gangster dead and swank hotel.
Nick Joyner found dead. Broadway is happy, Broadway is daring,
goes right ahead and accepts the substitute grins. It found
what it was looking for, a.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Police headquarters the next day, that robing over the murder
of two men, Johnny Hill and Nick Joyner, and assisting
at the probe A man with an apple in his mouth.
Speaker 14 (16:12):
MM good what I was merely remarking that this apple
is good, trying to bite Danny for some other time, Roger,
I will save you a piece of Wax's paper.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Look for around the water cool with Danny. That way,
you'll keep cool anything else you're saving for me?
Speaker 14 (16:29):
You know, no nothing? Oh you mean Hi? You didn't
have to mention it, Danny. I was coming out with
it anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I'm sorry. Ah, you're forgiving if I don't forgive you
who should I? All right, Danny, all right?
Speaker 14 (16:46):
In the matter of the killing of Johnny Hill, hailing
from Chicago, he'll tell me who goes without saying. Established
by technical said, Johnny Hill was undone by a revolver
at caliber forty five. I know that they've checked on
the bullets found him to stem from a gun owned
by Nick Joyner, hailing lately from this city. That means,
permit me to finish your thought, Danny. That means that,
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without a shadow of a doubt, or, as Mike Shrek,
all headed miracle detective from Philadelphia would.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Have it, it.
Speaker 14 (17:14):
Means that Johnny of Chicago was undone by Nick of
this city because of an argument over a friendly game
of cards. You know, Danny, Mike Shrek coined a phrase
for such cases, open and shut.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That's wreck. Now you will tell me about Nick Joyner.
Speaker 14 (17:30):
I need you ask. Nick Joyner was undone by a poison,
the title of which can be found in any child's
chemistry magazine. What else, uh, Danny, we found someone who
might be sorry, Nick is dead, that's what else? His missus,
missus Claire Joiner of nine o two Benton Road, Forest Hills.
You know I think I'll penn of note this Shrek
(17:51):
about this?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Why?
Speaker 14 (17:53):
Well, it's a riddle to his liking Danny. Look, if
Nick killed Johnny? Who killed Nick? Or Johnny's friends are
in the cool or in Chicago? That leaves a large
question mark. You know you don't mind if I write
the Shrek about it? Why Danny?
Speaker 13 (18:26):
Okay, can you come back? Oh? Oh, I'm sorry? Sorry,
but what I thought you were the daughter door tea salesman.
The duel truck is across the street, and I was
going to tell him, who are you?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Danny Clover?
Speaker 13 (18:40):
Police, Please come in in here, Please sit down. I'm
afraid I haven't very much time, NIKKEI I want to
see him just once more. Is it the mortuary? I
feel I ought to see him.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
How long is it, Ben, since you're your husband left together?
Speaker 13 (19:01):
I don't know exactly how to answer that, mister Klogerg.
No longer than that. Once Nick brought home a black gown,
strapless and cut. Well, you know I put it on.
I looked like a housewife, looking ridiculous in a strapless gown.
Nick left.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Then he moved out.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
No, no, he moved out just a month ago. It's
been three years since he brought me the gown.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You knew about.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Next business affairs, that he was a thief, that it
was a hoodlum. I knew about it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 13 (19:36):
I'll tell you something, mister Clover. Nick would go out
and something would happen to him. Maybe he'd beat a
man with a gun. He'd come home and stare at me.
He needed me so he could feel ashamed.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You still love it, thought he was here.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
I was glad he's gone, but I'm not sorry. Nick
wasn't the kind of man who could live very long.
I had him for a part of the time that
he did join her. No, please, you understand, mister Clover.
Long ago Nick wanted me to move someplace, you know,
Park Avenue, place like that Park Avenue. It was like
(20:10):
a strapless gun.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Did you ever meet any of Nick's friends?
Speaker 13 (20:13):
He didn't have any friends. He had people he had
fun with, like who so many of them women, of course,
lots of them. But he never felt a shame before
any of them.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wasn't there someone someone special?
Speaker 13 (20:29):
Miss Lisbon was special. I saw her once. I saw
her walking on Broadway with Nick on Broadway, mister Clover,
she only saw Nick. Miss Lisbon. Nick told me about her.
She stayed at the hotel, hadn't I believed maybe she
poisoned Nick.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Maybe, And I'm sorry for her.
Speaker 13 (20:48):
She doesn't know what she killed.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The woman turned away from me, walked over to the
hall mirror, adjusted a whisper of colorless hair under her hat,
smoothed their gloves, looked once at her face, looked away,
then walked out for one more time with Nick. She
left the door open. I closed it for at headquarters,
(21:14):
there was a file on Paul at Lisbon, Kansas City,
Las Vegas, Chicago, Paris, the Italian Riviera, the girl who
opened the door for me at the hotel hat and
was the sum of all the places in which she'd
been whispered to, clothed in silk, the some of all
the hands that had stroked, the shadows on her throat,
the edges of her mouth. All there was in the
room was Paul at Lisbon.
Speaker 15 (21:37):
Thank you what for the way you look at me?
I thank you this Lisbon.
Speaker 16 (21:43):
It looked at me like that.
Speaker 15 (21:44):
Sometimes other men makes a girl feel good.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I mean good, you liked Nick.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
It brought me pretty flowers, These on my neck, on
my arm, those boxes on the dressing table. Sure, I
like Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And maybe you'll help us find us killer.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
You really want him the killer? I mean, so many
people are celebrating Nick's time all over town. I know
because I've been invited.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You're not going No, no.
Speaker 15 (22:10):
I think Nick would like me to breathe a.
Speaker 16 (22:12):
Little after that.
Speaker 15 (22:13):
I'm on my own.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
He told me so lots of times he was poisoned.
Maybe you can tell me why.
Speaker 15 (22:19):
I can give you a lot of wise, but don't
ask me who.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
You tell me if you knew cost my heart hope
to die? Who needed him dead? You?
Speaker 15 (22:28):
The citizens, the people of the country. My Nikki was
a stain that brings us to you. I needed him alive.
You're like me, doesn't know where her next Nick is
coming from.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
Would you open up for me? Da any please?
Speaker 15 (22:46):
This rope the guests might whisper.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
What you come on. In French, you don't keep a promise,
even spell my name for what.
Speaker 16 (22:59):
You bring me this time?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Finch, Oh, you'd be so pleased, Miss Lisbon.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I stole it from the kitchen, Uncle Fessor.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
There's no charge.
Speaker 16 (23:09):
Well, there's some bills on my dresser.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Finch, help yourself, you know I don't do it for that, missus, Elizabeth.
You just helped yourself to these goods.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
Have some Danny's on the house always is with Finch.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
No thanks.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
It killed you and mister john and didn't they, Miss Lisbon,
He had to be brave to kill a.
Speaker 17 (23:28):
Man like mister Johnny.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
Like it that way?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You just called me to clean up the mess when
you're through it.
Speaker 15 (23:34):
By miss Lisbon, there are so many many kinds, a
whole difference.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
Sure you won't have some Danny movie.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
And throw it away from me, will you?
Speaker 13 (23:47):
Danny?
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Please?
Speaker 16 (23:48):
Out the window? Was fun, lots of fun, Danny.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh hello, doctor Sinsky, come on in, that's on your mind?
You got a cigarette? Danny? Here you are light?
Speaker 18 (24:14):
No, I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I carry my own Manchester.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
A very strange thing just happened, Danny. Like what I
just finished an autopsy on Johnny Hill.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Auto for he was shot to death? What you need
an autopsy for? Because he wasn't shot to death you're
talking about it. Of course he was shot, of course
he was.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
Here's three forty five caliber bullets, but that's not what
killed him. Look, please, Danny, let me have my minute
of flory huh, thank you. I happened to see the
photographs taken of Johnny by our boys. Why, I asked myself,
is this a little blood from a man who's been.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Shot by a large caliber bullet?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Then the more I examined Johnny, very little blood on
his clothes.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So he performed an autopsy just.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
To prove.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Johnny was dead before he was shot. What Johnny was
poisoned to death with the same poison that killed Nick Johnner?
Know anybody who didn't like those two fellas?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Danny?
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Here he is, Danny, sit down me him you leave more? Oh, Danny,
I let you in my office. Be polite out Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I said you can sit down. I'm not gonna habit.
Sit down. Room service, right, Finch, room services. Tell me
about yourself? I told you rooms. I mean how you live,
your friends, what you do outside of the hotel? You're interested? Yeah,
ok yeah? How do I live?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I don't work eight hours, read a lot, go out
the movie's lat write letters to the newspapers. They printed
some of them. Spell your name right always. I have
such a simple need to remember. May mean that's why
everybody forgets what about your friends? Tried that people don't
measure up? Does miss Lisbon measure up? She's beautiful. I'd
(26:19):
like her to admire me, but really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Don't you care what people think about your? Bench used
to bother me.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I used to try when I was younger at your
physical culture exercises and correspondence courses and personality and never finished.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Now you don't care. Oh, people are stupid. I don't
know what goes on inside of other people. Well, you
asked me these thingsons because I admire you. Oh, thank you,
thank you. Oh see, let me show you something I
have me right here in my coach park. It's a
letter i'm writing to the time. Read it, tell me
(27:01):
about it. It's about there's two men and were murdered
in this hotel so.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Side, I think, whoever did it? Give him a medal?
And you think, think what give them a medal? Whoever
poison those two men? Yeah, that's one way of looking
at a finch. You know, mister Clover, you and I
think alike, you can understand the man. I think we
can be great for you. I think I would have
hated Nick Joyner myself. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Tell me, well,
(27:29):
I would have poisoned a big man like Johnny Hill,
and if someone would have come along and taken all
the credit for it by emptying his gun into Johnny, what.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Kind of curries is that?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Killing a dead man? Maybe Nick didn't know Johnny was dead.
He probably just thought Johnny was sleeping.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Well, that doesn't make any difference. Nick got all the
glory for killing Johnny.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You couldn't stand that you wanted that glory. You killed
them both, didn't just Johnny and Nick poison Johnny because
of how important it would make you feel inside yourself.
You could walk the streets and look at the No,
they didn't know how important you are. I didn't say that,
missed you, So you had to kill me? No, no, no, no, no,
(28:06):
that's not right. Miss You said they were both poisons.
How'd you know? I just found it? And listen to me.
I reported the first murder to me yesterday. It's a
great pains to give me details. But you didn't say
he was shot because you didn't know he was. You've
got to listen. You listen to me. Think about it.
Finch Alan Finch kills two big notorious gamesters. Yeah, but look, look,
(28:32):
mister c think about it, Finch. Your picture and all
the papers, your name, and all the headlines, Helen, not
just letters to the editor, pictures.
Speaker 18 (28:42):
Headlines, personal interviews about how I did. Sure, of course,
maybe a picture Miss Lisbon and she'll be crying.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That's gonna tell the papers about it.
Speaker 17 (28:55):
Finch, Finch, Alan Finch. If I didn't see.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It, It's the happy time on Broadway after the movies.
(29:27):
Nobody wants to go home. It's a place strung against
the night, like a phosphorescent valley. Their heap care, the
golden girl, the bright eyed kid, the man with the promises,
the guy who believes it. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the
(29:47):
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Speaker 1 (31:21):
Welcome back. I do like this sort of story and
this sort of solution, particularly when you're dealing with a
powerful underworld figure and you know you have all of
these dangerous enemies and it turns out the person who
did it was just an ordinary person. It kind of
speaks to the mortality of those who think they're so
(31:42):
big and important and can step on everybody else. And
of course is always great to hear Howard McNear on
Broadways My Beat.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Well, now we.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have a
couple of comments on YouTube regarding the John Webster murder case.
Mildred writes, I think I heard John's other wife mentioned
on an episode of Burns and Allen, which is a
good illustration because most of their episodes are well past
that series brief Hayday, and Jeffrey writes, Adam, is it
(32:16):
my imagination or does that Edna Harper sound like the
Southern Bell girlfriend of the Great Guildersleeve, Leela Ransom. Well,
I don't think you're crazy, and it could be similar,
but it is not the same actress. Unlike most other
series where we don't have the cast list, we do
know that the only two actresses in this were Peggy
(32:39):
Weber and Jeanette Nolan, both of whom you know. I
think Jeanette Nolan was known more for her old lady voices,
but she had some vocal dexterity. Either one of those
could do a Southern Bell character quite well. And then
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Speaker 17 (33:53):
Your name, Richard Morgan is in righting. Yeah, that's right,
Police officers, mister Mortigan, this is sergeant Romero.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
How are you. My name is Friday.
Speaker 17 (34:00):
Were out of accident investigation. I talk to you about
the accident that just happened here. Sure was a bad one.
I hope you catch those kids didn't even slow down.
Understand you witnessed the accident. Wonder if he'd be kind
not to tell us what you saw.
Speaker 19 (34:11):
I was just closing up my nursery here, just unlocked
my car and was about to get in when I
saw this car come shooting up. Los Phylis there. Fast
clip went away with the two women. They were just
stepping off the curb under the crosswalk over there. I
could tell they didn't see the car. Yeh, hawk my horn.
I guess I wasn't quick enough, just offul going this morning.
Oh where that car hit those women? Looked to me
(34:32):
like he knocked him fifty feet at least, then just
like nothing at all. The car raced right on through
the intersection on Don los Phyllis that way.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Need you get a look at the driving?
Speaker 17 (34:40):
No, sure, not too good. But I believe he had
blonde hair. Looked to me like he was alone in
the car. Anything more about him looked like a young kid.
To me, I bet on that he was young, blond kid,
about eighteen nineteen on in their.
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