August 27, 2025 • 34 mins
Today's Mystery: A wealthy socialite who had recently married a waterfront character is found murdered in a low-class hotel room.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 3, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lawrence Dobkin; Betty Lou Gerson; Edwin Max; Clayton Post; Jerry Hausner; Jody Gilbert
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 3, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lawrence Dobkin; Betty Lou Gerson; Edwin Max; Clayton Post; Jerry Hausner; Jody Gilbert
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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Great Detectives dot net. But now, from November third, nineteen fifty,
here is the Laura Burton murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Broadways My Beat with Larry Thori as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Broadway.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's the Neon Avenue of Beggars, the gleaming Alley where
you dart and search and revel in the blaze of fury.
You sidestep the gutters of night, try to close your
heart against the carnival scream that rises high above Broadway, shatters,
then prowls through the city. But it's no good. It
holds you close, But at the waterfront it releases you,
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hands you over to other sounds. The voices of the river,
the waking wind that has slept in the sea, the
siren wind that clears the way for morning and for death.
Beckons you up the protesting stairs of a waterfront hotel,
opens a door and invites you to consider.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
A dead girl.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
She sits sprawl on the floor, her head resting on
the edge of the bed, her eyes gray like mirrors
reflecting the gray of the sea through the open window.
Detective mugamna. Let you absorb it, get your fill of it.
Than hands you a cigarette, why, Danny, thanks?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
If you want coffee, the manager's perking some down the hall.
It's very friendly, he said. While I waited, I could strangle. Yeah,
it was a cord off a robe man's bathrobe. I'd say,
where's the rest of it? Couldn't find it, Danny, I've
been all over the killer cut it in half. Thrifty
type killer, half a bathrobe court, very thrifty.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Who found her? The manager, the friendly one.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Yeah. A husband and wife registered here earlier this morning.
Husband woke manager out of a sweet dream, told him
to bring breakfast to his wife in a half an hour.
The manager did, but she wasn't hungry. She was that way,
so the manager ate the breakfast himself.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You said her husband.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah, Robert Burton. Husband registered here last night with his wife,
Laura Burton. No baggage, you paid in advance. You're not reacting, Danny.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You said something.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yeah, I did, I said Laura Burton. You didn't react.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
She dies different from other people.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He'sy, Danny.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I only meant it's funny. You haven't heard about Laura Burton.
You know the heiress. Daddy made millions of baby food
in watering places, educated by counts and dukes and ski instructors,
married a few of them. Funny, I haven't heard.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Where's her husband?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I told you he ordered a breakfast, took a walk,
fed a seagull. That's the last anyone saw him. He
was talking to a seagull.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
All that money? Park Avenue Mansion? She dies like this
in a place like.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This, Muggovn said it, and I shrugged and over Muggvn's
shouldern Through the window, I could see the early morning
mist rise frostily from the river, the tugboat and a
man leaning over its side, And suddenly the sun was out,
striking glints on the water. Daytime. It just entered the
port of New York. Laura Burton, Heiress Laura Burton, strangled
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in a dollar a night hotel. Find out why go
to the Park Avenue address at Laura Burton be suitably
impressed by the paneled oak doors, the music chimes. The
butler who took my badge and placed it on a
silver tray, disappeared, then returned and gave it back to
me between his thumb and forefinger, and told me to sit.
Then fifteen minutes of considering the seventeenth century tapestries and
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wondering how George killed such a big dragon was such
a small sword, And just as I was about to
figure it, someone tapped me on the shoulder and I
had to leave George to his own devices.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
You like tapestries, not especially, I was just because if
you did, I've got some in this study.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
They would make your back teeth rather.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Some other time maybe right now.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
You're a policeman, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What?
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Policeman?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Clover Danny Clover Homicide.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I'm Muriel Carlson. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I asked to see Robert Burton, Laura Burton's husband.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
And you're from homicide. That's right one. Who did Robert murder?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You just want to talk to him. We're not sure
he committed murder.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Miscus what it's possible that he did? Did he kill Laura?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Laura is dead?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Shot, strangled, beaten, poison strangled.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Finally asked, because while I'm laura assistant, if any of
my friends asked me how Lara.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Died, I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I saw your sister's dying, doesn't he.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Oh it's much more than that, mister Clover.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
It's release.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
For years, I've been wondering how Laura would die. It's
been bothering me. Now I can think of something else.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Where'd she die?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The waterfront hotel?
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Then Robert killed her? Of course, I say, of course,
because there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Lara was always running off to places like water front
hotels with him so she could get to know him better.
Maybe her own canopid furniture border. You know, I thought
Laura's second husband would kill her, not turned out.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Her fourth husband.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Or do you know where will I find him?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Robert Robert the man with the muscles, man with a
flat stomach and the fat mouth.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Robert fourth husband, Robert Stevedo.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Where will I find him?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
I wouldn't know, But Robert could never get water run
out of his ear.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Literally, you could just smell it. Am I being helpful?
Mister Clover?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Then mc glee at what I brought her couldn't be
held back. It bubbled up, spilled out of her mouth,
shaped itself into a girlish She tried to smooth it
off her lips with the back of her hand, couldn't.
Instead stroked her throat, arranged her back hair, watched herself,
admired her image in an antique mirror with her eyes.
Invited me to the same I got out. Then the
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official the routine pattern began to spin itself out. The apbs,
all points bulleting on one. Robert Burton, suspicion of murder,
the inquiries at the waterfront places.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
If you find a mister, send him back to me.
I missed, dear old Robert, my prince charming. I called him,
find him for me.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The waterfront buddies.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Robert marriage something rich I hate Gilder Eh, she was
at the rich Fere's blood Huh at, sir Robbit for you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The waterfront hiring hall.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You cann't, detective.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We haven't seen him here since he married Mink and
Laddie Dad Robert's dreamboat. Come in the dead wife, live money. Eh.
Finally a man on the docks, a man loading cargo,
A man who knew Robert like he was his brother.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Like my brother. We loaded junk together. We dreamed together,
far away places and girls with bells on their toes.
Where is he hold up with a bag of gold
and a golden girl and some hole on Park Avenue
like I'll be someday if I'm a good boy. By
the way, I'm Marty Dixon. You're a cop that you
got a name?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Uh, Danny Clover.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They tell me you used to room with Burton.
Speaker 11 (08:33):
We shared everything a room, old comic books, girly magazines.
Sometimes we shared our friends into.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Until he married Laura.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
That part of himself he kept to himself, like I'll
do someday you won't begrudge me, that, will you, Danny,
like I don't begrudge my friend Robert.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Who's like a brother.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Tell me about their marriage.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
It's been in the society columns.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You tell me because you knew him so well.
Speaker 11 (08:57):
Gladly just been waiting to be asked. I'm tired of
thinking about it in the loneliness of my room. Their
marriage was champagne and antique mirrors, velvet carpets. Sometimes he
and Laura would come down and share the crumbs with me.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
That was gay.
Speaker 11 (09:15):
Why do you need to know nice things like that?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Because we think he murdered Laura. He did crawl and
no good, No matter, Marty.
Speaker 11 (09:24):
You want the killer, I'll give him to you where
I'll give him to you, because that he shares with me.
He comes to me, he says, he's in a little
trouble while I put him up for a couple of days. Sure,
I'll put him up where in my room eighteen twenty
three West six. You know something, Danny. I'm glad you
found me, cross my heart.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Come on, open up, Burton, open Who is it?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Police?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You got the wrong room? Op the door? No, okay, Burton.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Let's go be that easy cover you.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Like, I said, Burton, Let's go.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
By Danny ro Burton along because he wants to talk
to us.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Good sit down, Burton over there, Thanks.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Boy, I said, I should tell.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All you got a smart lawyer.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
And he can afford it. How many millions does your
wife leave?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Burton?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Seven? At ten? I never can remember. I get all
flustered when I mentioned that much money.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Why just strangle your wife? Burton?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh, such a leading question, Fellas. Next thing, I want
to know that I enjoy it. Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Burton?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Thinking about it? I enjoy it because now there's all
that money, that's the pot that's enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Is that what you lawyer told you to say?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Say it? He said?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
If you didn't do it, my boy, he said, say it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
How about that bathroom? Cord who's bathroom?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Mine?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Fellas who registered at the hotel with your wife?
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I did?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Fellas have been telling you police that for six hours.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You got a pretty nice place on park, haven't you?
Burton White pick a flea bag?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Saw that fella? The commonplace things? Laura and I enjoyed it.
I'm a different man. Near the waterfront Laura enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, Burton, what happened?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Woke up this morning? Felt like a walk? Stop to
the manager's room, told him to send breakfast up to Laura.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What about the manager?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
He's an old man, Doctor Sinsky said he wouldn't have
the strength to strain.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So you killed your wife, went for a walk? Is
that what happened? Burton?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Elia said, you might say?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Then even said the DA will probably rain me because
it looks like open and shot.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I killed my wife.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Why'd you run? You hide?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Because he killed it?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Because I came back to the hotel and saw the
crowd and heard that Laura Burton had been murdered.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
So I ran.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
What to do with the other half of the bathroom?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Court?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Once you was strangled?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
With the one you used?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
The strangler?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It was my role, but I did.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Why I do only use half the court because look,
why you're trying to confuse me.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I didn't kill her, but you're glad he's dead.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'll take me back to my sergeant.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Mum asked you a question.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Back to myself, I said, talk Burton, talk, take me back. Sure,
take your back and get your confession.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Oh what is homicide court? Just came in waterfront call said,
tell claud to get down here.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'm basically geno.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Carl came through the DA's office. Danny said, you I
got a squad car waiting. You're gonna take it?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Sure, Gino, that's all I've got to do.
Speaker 12 (12:55):
I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Lieutenant. It's right down the alley, thanks, officer.
Speaker 12 (12:59):
I was just making the beat and stopped here for
a drag and a cigarette. I mean, I was just
checking routine, you know, lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You stop for a dragon. Yeah, that's right, Lieutenant.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
Well, when I lighted up the light from the match anyway,
here she was playing there.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
I thought she was a drunk, told her to move on.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
I poked her. Maybe I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
This is the way you found her, just like that, Lieutenant.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I figured she wasn't drunk.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I figure she was strangled to death.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I shouldn't have poked it. I don't worry about her. You
know who she is. No. Here, I'll hold a flash
so you can see better. Good.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Hey see, she.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
Looks a lot like that Laura Burton who was strangled
with a bathrobe cord.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Same features, almost identical.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
Is that why they made such a big to do
about when I phoned in, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I thought I had a kidder. You were wrong? Huh?
Speaker 8 (13:46):
All that over and over?
Speaker 12 (13:49):
They asked me, are you sure she was strangled with
half a bathrobe cord?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Sure, I'm sure. I said you were wrong about having
a killer, how Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You were listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The election News.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You'll hear it best on CBS next Tuesday, November seventh.
With its world famous reporter Edward Armuro heading up the staff,
CBS News will bring you the latest, up to the
minute returns in state and important local contests. Be sure
you get the election news fastest and the most accurately.
Next Tuesday night. You'll hear it best on CBS.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Broadway. All depends on the mood you're in. You can
be part of the mob and perform for the sightseeres,
or you can create a stir by strangling with a
court of a flannel bathrow. The latter case, you have
an advantage, Broadway performs for you. It hangs on the
ropes and talks in whispers and plucks its tongue about
the police department, the ray of sunshine the next morning,
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the pure gold in an otherwise draft November day, the
sergeant to Taglia, who did remarkable things with file cards
with inkwells with pencil sharpness. Ah, what's the matter to you.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
At this pencil sharpner? Danny a veritable ogre of pencils,
choose them up and gives no points in return. I've
been waiting for you to come in, and I've been
shopping your pencil.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm here not you know well, you said you were
waiting for me. You guts something to.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Tell me, Roger, tell me, well, come of the matter
of the girl who was strangled in an alley. Her
name was Annalie Sisler, a name known most especially the
Precinct forty five for various and sundry misdemeanors. Go on,
technical ass had to be pointed out to you that
miss CISLa had physical attributes which were also observed on
Laura Burton, also deceased, such as to whip. Maybe the
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killer strangled the wrong woman the first time because both
were blonde, both had blue eyes, both approximately the same age,
same height, same weight, both strangled, and both by opposite
ends of the identical bathrobe cord. You know, Danny, this
brings to mind a famous case which involved might Shrek
the bald Head. Well, it was almost the miracle detective
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from Philadelphia's ondoing Danny if he hadn't disguised himself in
the nicke of time as a midget.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Whip.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
The DA has released Robert Barton as a murder's suspect
since he was in the pokey at the time of
the murder of Miss Cisler, and since the murder weapon
which killed Miss CISLa also killed Laura Burton.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, what else?
Speaker 10 (16:51):
What else? Is that Miss Cisler's last snow and address,
according to the records of the forty fifth Precinct, is
the Kenneth MacManus Monsieur Powers on East thirty fourth Street.
How'd I do, Danny?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Great? You know I'll get you a new pencil sharpener.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Sure you wouldn't care to grab yourself of steam, Miss
the Color, Then a nice salt rub from the salty
hands in one of my expoits all in the House
of Courts, and you can get you so clean and
pressed while being kidded do we think of everything in
this corner. Look, we got a lady's too, in case
you got a wife or a girl friend or something
else on the pump side. But then we got home
permanence while being cooked, the mold and pressing up.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's all of it get through.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Yeah, yeah, I can't sell yah. All you want is
what do I know about Anili Sisler?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's all might did.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Huh in an alley?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Huh well, such a good way.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
One of my best, Little Analin, and such demand by
whom ladies, fat lady, skinny ladies, happy ladies, sad ladies.
Little Analin had away with a steam cabinet. They always
asked for her.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
She finished her work last night, punched her time card,
wave goodbye to you from the door.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
That's right, She did all that just like you said.
Oh but you got one detail wrong, mister clover.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
She didn't wife goodbye wrong.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Again, she waved, but not last night. Five months ago,
she had a call from somewhere deep inside her. She
left my employed answer it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You'll explain to me about the call.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It happens to guys like Lilanelie. She had a call
to be a photographer's model. Nice clean, weight.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You wouldn't know where wrong again with.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Learoyd, a photographer on West tenth can't in they go
you into his theme.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Mister Clover, my receptionist secretary said you were different from
the other people who come to study with me.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
How much are you different? This much? Le Roy?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
I photographed those two police badgers. Yes, in my formative
stage when I was desperate, naive about subject matter.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
But now you're doing better, Holly right?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Oh much much has witnessed this mass class three miles
assembly line methods. Pardon me, try one from the floor,
mister Holmes, And this time we'll shoot it with films,
shall we, mister Holmes, that's right, Yes, it's better with film.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Now, mister Clover, where were we you had a model?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh that's why you're here.
Speaker 12 (19:16):
You want stuff about Annalie now, you know, wonderful girl,
ordinary but wonderful in such a wonderful way.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
The textures, the highlights, the shadows. Yes, we miss Annilie,
don't we, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Of course we do.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Ever done our studies in a prison cell, Leroy, The texture,
the highlights of man like you could do wonders you.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
Mean because I don't nudge up to your questions.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You do that to me, you'd.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
Hold my camera, mister Holmes, thank you. Now look here,
mister Clover, oh, I'm not going to hit you. Don't fear.
I'm just going to tell you off. Annalie Sisler was
our favorite model.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
We've lost her.
Speaker 12 (19:57):
We've mourned for her for five weeks now what five
weeks ago? She said she has something much better than us.
I pleaded with her, tried to bribe her to come
back to us, even went to her apartment my arms
full of goodies. She slammed the door in my face.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Her apartment.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Where is it nineteen twenty three is thirty second, top
floor in the rear. Wonderful subject matter, but you don't care.
All you care about is murder, spoiling things, things like that.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's right as you can give him back his camera,
mister Holmes, leroy just told me off. He's thirty second,
top floor in the rear. The door opened. The woman
in the room, or back to your not hearing you
walk in. A woman intent on grubbing through the open
drawers of the bureau, finding things, holding them close for
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an instant, tossing them on a pile of stuff already
on the floor, grubbing for more, then finally aware of
your presence, trying to still the greed trembling in her fingers,
in her body.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
What do you want here?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Spying?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Get out, it says Miss Sisler's apartment, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
What of it?
Speaker 9 (20:56):
She's got no use for all this now. She didn't
deserve things like this anyway, But you do.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yes, I do. All my life. I deserved them.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Now they're mine and you can't take them away.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Let's have a look.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I'll call the police.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I'm the police, and you.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I own this place. I run it, rent rooms to
girls like her, clean up.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
After that gives you the right to steal from a
dead girl like her?
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Not stealing, only taking what you would have given me anyway,
if she'd known she's gonna die. Anna was a girl
like that, generous, didn't care about her things.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They're expensive, silk imported.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Never had anything like that, not next to my body.
I haven't just watched her put them on sometimes. All right,
don't take them away, mister, she'd have given them to me.
I swear it, I swear it.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Danny Clover speaking, says Gordon Danny the lab come across
the hall from and then I have something to show you.
What a lady's slip you brought in the underwear? Gordon? Hello?
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Did you walk around? Denny? Don't you ever smile? What's
on your mind? Gordon? On my mind? All right, I'll
turn you. Why is it when the department is up
to its neck in unsolved murders they make kissing sounds
that John Gordon? You got something to tell me or
you just want me to admire you. Well, first I'll
tell you something. Then you can drop your chin in
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frank admiration. Take a look at this slip. Go ahead,
hold it up to the light. See what I mean.
I see a black silk slip, a real expensive black
silk slip.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Feel it, Go.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Ahead right here? See what I mean. M I didn't
see that roughness is thread. Something was sewn on that
slip and torn off a laundry mark, Danny. But you
don't know about slips. A laundry mark and a slip
sown here? Son Here was a French word, too sure,
and son here was a name, Laura. The stitches were
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pulled out, but they left their pattern. Now you want
to admire me, Danny? The Tagli, Hey, Gina, where are
you and what do you want? Danny call a Seaboard
shipping line, g know, get the doc foreman and ask
for Marty Dixon.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
Well, suppose they won't call Marty to the phone. Danny,
Dixon's just a steward.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's what I'm counting on. Leave Warred tell them, and
Surgeon say, Robert Burton wants to see Dixon as soon
as Dixon gets off from work.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Roger Danny, and also we'll call.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It was four o'clock when Mugavin called in adjusting the
dark foreman of the Seaboard Shipping Line hand Marty Dixon
a note. There's a few when his past five thirty
when Mugivan called back again. The quitting whistle had just
blown down the waterfront, and Marty Dixon had just punched
his time clock to take him twenty five minutes to
get to Burton's mansion on Park Avenue. It took me
ten minutes. Robert Burton said he was glad to see me.
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We could talk in privacy. Laura's sister was judging a
dog show on Long Island, and he'd given the servants
the day off to grieve his wife's death.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So we can talk in privacy, Danny. But you know
what what, you didn't have to come back and apologize
for the rough way you fellas treated me. I understand
these things. I didn't come back for that. Oh, got
something in your mind, Danny? Tell me I can fix it.
I got nothing but money eight million dollars and change.
Eight million dollars, and that's what the tax is skimmed.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Now tell me, Danny, I know who murdered your wife.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And you want to reward how much you want, Danny.
That's besides the gold watch you already got in mind.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
How do you want it? Em grave? Danny?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
And I'm matching gold cigarette case to anything because I'm
indebted to your fellow.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Don't you want to know who murdered your I figure.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You'll tell me when the time is right. Tell me,
and let's forget all about it.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I'll tell you a fellow you did? You murdered your wife? Oh, Danny,
you know better? How could I have killed Laura? Same
guy who killed her? Strangle that girl in the alley?
Even the DA knows that. What's the matter? Is he
on your back for a killer?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
No matter of fact? It gave me permission to pick
you up for murder.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
All this magnificence around here make your head spin.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I fellow, you try to give me trouble before Berkner,
rememberuld have got you.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
This time I get something better. I heard you've been
admiring that tapestry, Denny. It's worth maybe sixty ges.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
How would you like to use something like that for
a bath and not worry about it.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Like it?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Wouldn't you?
Speaker 14 (25:49):
Denny?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You would?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Wouldn't you tell me? How do you figure I killed
my wife?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Like we told you before? In that flea bag? Your
pal Marty Dixon wants to come in. Burton.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
How come you're so good?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Danny?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You stand here, talk to me. Here's some chimes. You
know it's Marty.
Speaker 14 (26:10):
How do you do things like that?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Fella?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Open the door for him, Burton, Yeah, I will, Oh
you know, I'm Marty Money.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
You're real good daddy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Hello, Marty goes on this way, Marty, the da is
on my back. I need a killer, isn't that right? Fella?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yeah? Yeah, that's the way it is. Moody. What does
he know?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Burton? That mean?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I know? Burton strangled his wife with half that chord.
Gave you the other half so you could strangle at
Cisler girl and it all arranged Hawk at the da
and died Burton when it was obvious the killer was
still on the loose.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
You know a lot? How is it that you know
a lot?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
At Cisler girl had an expensive slip that once belonged
to Laura Burton? How long did it take you boys
to find a girl at the same feature is Lauren?
I might it look like a killer? It strangled the
wrong girl when he killed Laura Burton.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It didn't take you very long to find it, did it?
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Mandey?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
A couple of weeks?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Then you wind her and dined her. Oh I helped,
didn't I money, gave you my wife's cast off clothes.
You could give the girl presents like I love you. You're
making a deal with the cop Burton.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
He likes nice things. I'm in a position to give
him anything you want.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Me too, because everything you got I got half. That
was the arrangement he made when we started this thing.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Clover, When did all this happen? Marty? It happened, And that's.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
The way it is.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I didn't sign anything. I don't remember doing that anyway.
You're a murderer, man, in my position can't have any
truck with murderers. And that's why I'm giving you to
the cop.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
You know, when I got a message this afternoon, I
figured something to go on sour, so I brought a friend, Marty.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Don't be crazy.
Speaker 11 (27:46):
Clover, don't go for your gun. And I killed cops too.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Look, Marty, we were having a joke, weren't we. Danny,
listen to me, Marty.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You don't have to rough me, Clover. Gun's empty.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Let's go, Marty.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Sure you want to.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
Know something what I feel real good? I'm going to
the electric chair, and I feel real good. How many
men get the opportunity to die for half of eight
million dollars?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
In the minutes before dawn, Broadway lies huddled in a
dreamless sleep. It's the time of the long black night.
No stars, the muted wind, and on the wind the
sly whispers. Start running, Kid, you'll never get home again.
It's Broadway, the cordeist, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
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in the world.
Speaker 14 (29:14):
Broadway, My Beat, Broadways.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
My Beat stars Larry Thoris, Detective Danny Clover with Charles Culibert.
The Starteglia program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis,
with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Included
in tonight's cast were Clayton Post, Larry Dobkin, Betty lou Gerson,
Jody Gilbert, ed Max, Jack Krushan, and Jerry Hausner. Every
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Saturday night, Americans from coast to coast play sing It Again.
Do you well if dogs you don't know the fun
and excitement you're missing, Not to mention radio's largest cash
award if you can name the Phantom Boys. There's music
on Singing Again, music with Alando, Bob Howard, Judy Lynn,
the Riddlers, Ray Block and his orchestra. There's contestants, contestants
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from all over America, phoned by Dan Seymour, and there's
prizes galore, plus that special jackpot prize we mentioned earlier.
So stay at home, play at home on Saturday nights.
Went over many of these same CBS stations. Dan Seymour says,
it's sing It Again, Dan coverly speaking, this is CBS
where yours truly. Johnny Dollar brings adventures Saturday nights on
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the Columbia Broadcasting Systems.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Welcome back, another good affacio. I do wonder with the
introduction of John Gordon if the writers are trying to
get us to hate police Scientist as much as Danny does,
because this guy is incredibly smug and conceded, and I
believe he was on last week too, so he's quickly
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becoming my least favorite recurring character. Landlady's defense that she
was only taking what the dead woman would have given
her had she been aware that she was going to
die is not something I'd try suggesting in probate court.
And I think she was looking for sympathy, but the
envy came through and that's never a good look. Also,
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I'm teending to go through all the episodes and find
all the mix Shrek information provided by Tartaglia and compile it.
Don't know what purpose I'd use it for A last
oddle curiosity is something I don't have as much time
for as I once did. All right, well, listener comments
and feedback, and we start with Sean, who just sent
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along a note thanks for all the great content. Thank
you so much, Sean. And then we had a comment
over on Spotify, and this comes from Peter, who writes
regarding the John Webster murder case, Adam was right about
the audio quality, but this one is worth listening to. Well,
thanks so much, Peter, and that tends to be what
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we found people have said over the years. Andrew, I
think way back when his show started, maybe a year
or so later, he formally surveyed his audience and asked
whether people wanted programs with lesser audio quality played, and
the audience responded that that was what they preferred as
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opposed to skipping those that were lesser. And I know
that it does get frustrating for some people whose hearing
is a bit impaired and it's just impossible for them
to enjoy the program. I was actually hardened recently for
A Harker, the president of SPURREDVAK, the Society to Preserve,
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Encourage and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy, actually was
able to do a restoration to a couple of programs.
One was I think a somewhat obscure family comedy called
The Nichols Family, but the other was an episode of
Quiet Please. And these were circulating and poor condition was
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able to get them to a much better higher quality.
And I'm hopeful that we'll see similar processes implemented, but
I suspect we will always encounter a few rough sounding
programs just because most of them were not systematically preserved.
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Great Detectives dot net. But now, from November third, nineteen fifty,
here is the Laura Burton murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Broadways My Beat with Larry Thori as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Broadway.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's the Neon Avenue of Beggars, the gleaming Alley where
you dart and search and revel in the blaze of fury.
You sidestep the gutters of night, try to close your
heart against the carnival scream that rises high above Broadway, shatters,
then prowls through the city. But it's no good. It
holds you close, But at the waterfront it releases you,
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hands you over to other sounds. The voices of the river,
the waking wind that has slept in the sea, the
siren wind that clears the way for morning and for death.
Beckons you up the protesting stairs of a waterfront hotel,
opens a door and invites you to consider.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
A dead girl.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
She sits sprawl on the floor, her head resting on
the edge of the bed, her eyes gray like mirrors
reflecting the gray of the sea through the open window.
Detective mugamna. Let you absorb it, get your fill of it.
Than hands you a cigarette, why, Danny, thanks?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
If you want coffee, the manager's perking some down the hall.
It's very friendly, he said. While I waited, I could strangle. Yeah,
it was a cord off a robe man's bathrobe. I'd say,
where's the rest of it? Couldn't find it, Danny, I've
been all over the killer cut it in half. Thrifty
type killer, half a bathrobe court, very thrifty.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Who found her? The manager, the friendly one.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Yeah. A husband and wife registered here earlier this morning.
Husband woke manager out of a sweet dream, told him
to bring breakfast to his wife in a half an hour.
The manager did, but she wasn't hungry. She was that way,
so the manager ate the breakfast himself.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You said her husband.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah, Robert Burton. Husband registered here last night with his wife,
Laura Burton. No baggage, you paid in advance. You're not reacting, Danny.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You said something.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yeah, I did, I said Laura Burton. You didn't react.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
She dies different from other people.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He'sy, Danny.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I only meant it's funny. You haven't heard about Laura Burton.
You know the heiress. Daddy made millions of baby food
in watering places, educated by counts and dukes and ski instructors,
married a few of them. Funny, I haven't heard.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Where's her husband?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I told you he ordered a breakfast, took a walk,
fed a seagull. That's the last anyone saw him. He
was talking to a seagull.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
All that money? Park Avenue Mansion? She dies like this
in a place like.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This, Muggovn said it, and I shrugged and over Muggvn's
shouldern Through the window, I could see the early morning
mist rise frostily from the river, the tugboat and a
man leaning over its side, And suddenly the sun was out,
striking glints on the water. Daytime. It just entered the
port of New York. Laura Burton, Heiress Laura Burton, strangled
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in a dollar a night hotel. Find out why go
to the Park Avenue address at Laura Burton be suitably
impressed by the paneled oak doors, the music chimes. The
butler who took my badge and placed it on a
silver tray, disappeared, then returned and gave it back to
me between his thumb and forefinger, and told me to sit.
Then fifteen minutes of considering the seventeenth century tapestries and
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wondering how George killed such a big dragon was such
a small sword, And just as I was about to
figure it, someone tapped me on the shoulder and I
had to leave George to his own devices.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
You like tapestries, not especially, I was just because if
you did, I've got some in this study.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
They would make your back teeth rather.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Some other time maybe right now.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
You're a policeman, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What?
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Policeman?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Clover Danny Clover Homicide.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I'm Muriel Carlson. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I asked to see Robert Burton, Laura Burton's husband.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
And you're from homicide. That's right one. Who did Robert murder?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You just want to talk to him. We're not sure
he committed murder.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Miscus what it's possible that he did? Did he kill Laura?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Laura is dead?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Shot, strangled, beaten, poison strangled.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Finally asked, because while I'm laura assistant, if any of
my friends asked me how Lara.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Died, I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I saw your sister's dying, doesn't he.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Oh it's much more than that, mister Clover.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
It's release.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
For years, I've been wondering how Laura would die. It's
been bothering me. Now I can think of something else.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Where'd she die?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The waterfront hotel?
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Then Robert killed her? Of course, I say, of course,
because there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Lara was always running off to places like water front
hotels with him so she could get to know him better.
Maybe her own canopid furniture border. You know, I thought
Laura's second husband would kill her, not turned out.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Her fourth husband.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Or do you know where will I find him?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Robert Robert the man with the muscles, man with a
flat stomach and the fat mouth.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Robert fourth husband, Robert Stevedo.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Where will I find him?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
I wouldn't know, But Robert could never get water run
out of his ear.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Literally, you could just smell it. Am I being helpful?
Mister Clover?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Then mc glee at what I brought her couldn't be
held back. It bubbled up, spilled out of her mouth,
shaped itself into a girlish She tried to smooth it
off her lips with the back of her hand, couldn't.
Instead stroked her throat, arranged her back hair, watched herself,
admired her image in an antique mirror with her eyes.
Invited me to the same I got out. Then the
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official the routine pattern began to spin itself out. The apbs,
all points bulleting on one. Robert Burton, suspicion of murder,
the inquiries at the waterfront places.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
If you find a mister, send him back to me.
I missed, dear old Robert, my prince charming. I called him,
find him for me.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The waterfront buddies.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Robert marriage something rich I hate Gilder Eh, she was
at the rich Fere's blood Huh at, sir Robbit for you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The waterfront hiring hall.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You cann't, detective.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We haven't seen him here since he married Mink and
Laddie Dad Robert's dreamboat. Come in the dead wife, live money. Eh.
Finally a man on the docks, a man loading cargo,
A man who knew Robert like he was his brother.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Like my brother. We loaded junk together. We dreamed together,
far away places and girls with bells on their toes.
Where is he hold up with a bag of gold
and a golden girl and some hole on Park Avenue
like I'll be someday if I'm a good boy. By
the way, I'm Marty Dixon. You're a cop that you
got a name?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Uh, Danny Clover.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They tell me you used to room with Burton.
Speaker 11 (08:33):
We shared everything a room, old comic books, girly magazines.
Sometimes we shared our friends into.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Until he married Laura.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
That part of himself he kept to himself, like I'll
do someday you won't begrudge me, that, will you, Danny,
like I don't begrudge my friend Robert.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Who's like a brother.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Tell me about their marriage.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
It's been in the society columns.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You tell me because you knew him so well.
Speaker 11 (08:57):
Gladly just been waiting to be asked. I'm tired of
thinking about it in the loneliness of my room. Their
marriage was champagne and antique mirrors, velvet carpets. Sometimes he
and Laura would come down and share the crumbs with me.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
That was gay.
Speaker 11 (09:15):
Why do you need to know nice things like that?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Because we think he murdered Laura. He did crawl and
no good, No matter, Marty.
Speaker 11 (09:24):
You want the killer, I'll give him to you where
I'll give him to you, because that he shares with me.
He comes to me, he says, he's in a little
trouble while I put him up for a couple of days. Sure,
I'll put him up where in my room eighteen twenty
three West six. You know something, Danny. I'm glad you
found me, cross my heart.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Come on, open up, Burton, open Who is it?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Police?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You got the wrong room? Op the door? No, okay, Burton.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Let's go be that easy cover you.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Like, I said, Burton, Let's go.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
By Danny ro Burton along because he wants to talk
to us.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Good sit down, Burton over there, Thanks.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Boy, I said, I should tell.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All you got a smart lawyer.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
And he can afford it. How many millions does your
wife leave?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Burton?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Seven? At ten? I never can remember. I get all
flustered when I mentioned that much money.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Why just strangle your wife? Burton?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh, such a leading question, Fellas. Next thing, I want
to know that I enjoy it. Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Burton?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Thinking about it? I enjoy it because now there's all
that money, that's the pot that's enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Is that what you lawyer told you to say?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Say it? He said?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
If you didn't do it, my boy, he said, say it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
How about that bathroom? Cord who's bathroom?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Mine?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Fellas who registered at the hotel with your wife?
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I did?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Fellas have been telling you police that for six hours.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You got a pretty nice place on park, haven't you?
Burton White pick a flea bag?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Saw that fella? The commonplace things? Laura and I enjoyed it.
I'm a different man. Near the waterfront Laura enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, Burton, what happened?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Woke up this morning? Felt like a walk? Stop to
the manager's room, told him to send breakfast up to Laura.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What about the manager?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
He's an old man, Doctor Sinsky said he wouldn't have
the strength to strain.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So you killed your wife, went for a walk? Is
that what happened? Burton?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Elia said, you might say?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Then even said the DA will probably rain me because
it looks like open and shot.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I killed my wife.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Why'd you run? You hide?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Because he killed it?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Because I came back to the hotel and saw the
crowd and heard that Laura Burton had been murdered.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
So I ran.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
What to do with the other half of the bathroom?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Court?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Once you was strangled?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
With the one you used?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
The strangler?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It was my role, but I did.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Why I do only use half the court because look,
why you're trying to confuse me.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I didn't kill her, but you're glad he's dead.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'll take me back to my sergeant.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Mum asked you a question.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Back to myself, I said, talk Burton, talk, take me back. Sure,
take your back and get your confession.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Oh what is homicide court? Just came in waterfront call said,
tell claud to get down here.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'm basically geno.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Carl came through the DA's office. Danny said, you I
got a squad car waiting. You're gonna take it?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Sure, Gino, that's all I've got to do.
Speaker 12 (12:55):
I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Lieutenant. It's right down the alley, thanks, officer.
Speaker 12 (12:59):
I was just making the beat and stopped here for
a drag and a cigarette. I mean, I was just
checking routine, you know, lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You stop for a dragon. Yeah, that's right, Lieutenant.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
Well, when I lighted up the light from the match anyway,
here she was playing there.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
I thought she was a drunk, told her to move on.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
I poked her. Maybe I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
This is the way you found her, just like that, Lieutenant.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I figured she wasn't drunk.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I figure she was strangled to death.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I shouldn't have poked it. I don't worry about her. You
know who she is. No. Here, I'll hold a flash
so you can see better. Good.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Hey see, she.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
Looks a lot like that Laura Burton who was strangled
with a bathrobe cord.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Same features, almost identical.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
Is that why they made such a big to do
about when I phoned in, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I thought I had a kidder. You were wrong? Huh?
Speaker 8 (13:46):
All that over and over?
Speaker 12 (13:49):
They asked me, are you sure she was strangled with
half a bathrobe cord?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Sure, I'm sure. I said you were wrong about having
a killer, how Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You were listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The election News.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You'll hear it best on CBS next Tuesday, November seventh.
With its world famous reporter Edward Armuro heading up the staff,
CBS News will bring you the latest, up to the
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Speaker 2 (14:53):
Broadway. All depends on the mood you're in. You can
be part of the mob and perform for the sightseeres,
or you can create a stir by strangling with a
court of a flannel bathrow. The latter case, you have
an advantage, Broadway performs for you. It hangs on the
ropes and talks in whispers and plucks its tongue about
the police department, the ray of sunshine the next morning,
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the pure gold in an otherwise draft November day, the
sergeant to Taglia, who did remarkable things with file cards
with inkwells with pencil sharpness. Ah, what's the matter to you.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
At this pencil sharpner? Danny a veritable ogre of pencils,
choose them up and gives no points in return. I've
been waiting for you to come in, and I've been
shopping your pencil.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm here not you know well, you said you were
waiting for me. You guts something to.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Tell me, Roger, tell me, well, come of the matter
of the girl who was strangled in an alley. Her
name was Annalie Sisler, a name known most especially the
Precinct forty five for various and sundry misdemeanors. Go on,
technical ass had to be pointed out to you that
miss CISLa had physical attributes which were also observed on
Laura Burton, also deceased, such as to whip. Maybe the
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killer strangled the wrong woman the first time because both
were blonde, both had blue eyes, both approximately the same age,
same height, same weight, both strangled, and both by opposite
ends of the identical bathrobe cord. You know, Danny, this
brings to mind a famous case which involved might Shrek
the bald Head. Well, it was almost the miracle detective
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from Philadelphia's ondoing Danny if he hadn't disguised himself in
the nicke of time as a midget.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Whip.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
The DA has released Robert Barton as a murder's suspect
since he was in the pokey at the time of
the murder of Miss Cisler, and since the murder weapon
which killed Miss CISLa also killed Laura Burton.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, what else?
Speaker 10 (16:51):
What else? Is that Miss Cisler's last snow and address,
according to the records of the forty fifth Precinct, is
the Kenneth MacManus Monsieur Powers on East thirty fourth Street.
How'd I do, Danny?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Great? You know I'll get you a new pencil sharpener.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Sure you wouldn't care to grab yourself of steam, Miss
the Color, Then a nice salt rub from the salty
hands in one of my expoits all in the House
of Courts, and you can get you so clean and
pressed while being kidded do we think of everything in
this corner. Look, we got a lady's too, in case
you got a wife or a girl friend or something
else on the pump side. But then we got home
permanence while being cooked, the mold and pressing up.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's all of it get through.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Yeah, yeah, I can't sell yah. All you want is
what do I know about Anili Sisler?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's all might did.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Huh in an alley?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Huh well, such a good way.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
One of my best, Little Analin, and such demand by
whom ladies, fat lady, skinny ladies, happy ladies, sad ladies.
Little Analin had away with a steam cabinet. They always
asked for her.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
She finished her work last night, punched her time card,
wave goodbye to you from the door.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
That's right, She did all that just like you said.
Oh but you got one detail wrong, mister clover.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
She didn't wife goodbye wrong.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Again, she waved, but not last night. Five months ago,
she had a call from somewhere deep inside her. She
left my employed answer it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You'll explain to me about the call.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It happens to guys like Lilanelie. She had a call
to be a photographer's model. Nice clean, weight.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You wouldn't know where wrong again with.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Learoyd, a photographer on West tenth can't in they go
you into his theme.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Mister Clover, my receptionist secretary said you were different from
the other people who come to study with me.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
How much are you different? This much? Le Roy?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
I photographed those two police badgers. Yes, in my formative
stage when I was desperate, naive about subject matter.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
But now you're doing better, Holly right?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Oh much much has witnessed this mass class three miles
assembly line methods. Pardon me, try one from the floor,
mister Holmes, And this time we'll shoot it with films,
shall we, mister Holmes, that's right, Yes, it's better with film.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Now, mister Clover, where were we you had a model?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh that's why you're here.
Speaker 12 (19:16):
You want stuff about Annalie now, you know, wonderful girl,
ordinary but wonderful in such a wonderful way.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
The textures, the highlights, the shadows. Yes, we miss Annilie,
don't we, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Of course we do.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Ever done our studies in a prison cell, Leroy, The texture,
the highlights of man like you could do wonders you.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
Mean because I don't nudge up to your questions.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You do that to me, you'd.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
Hold my camera, mister Holmes, thank you. Now look here,
mister Clover, oh, I'm not going to hit you. Don't fear.
I'm just going to tell you off. Annalie Sisler was
our favorite model.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
We've lost her.
Speaker 12 (19:57):
We've mourned for her for five weeks now what five
weeks ago? She said she has something much better than us.
I pleaded with her, tried to bribe her to come
back to us, even went to her apartment my arms
full of goodies. She slammed the door in my face.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Her apartment.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Where is it nineteen twenty three is thirty second, top
floor in the rear. Wonderful subject matter, but you don't care.
All you care about is murder, spoiling things, things like that.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's right as you can give him back his camera,
mister Holmes, leroy just told me off. He's thirty second,
top floor in the rear. The door opened. The woman
in the room, or back to your not hearing you
walk in. A woman intent on grubbing through the open
drawers of the bureau, finding things, holding them close for
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an instant, tossing them on a pile of stuff already
on the floor, grubbing for more, then finally aware of
your presence, trying to still the greed trembling in her fingers,
in her body.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
What do you want here?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Spying?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Get out, it says Miss Sisler's apartment, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
What of it?
Speaker 9 (20:56):
She's got no use for all this now. She didn't
deserve things like this anyway, But you do.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yes, I do. All my life. I deserved them.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Now they're mine and you can't take them away.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Let's have a look.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I'll call the police.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I'm the police, and you.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I own this place. I run it, rent rooms to
girls like her, clean up.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
After that gives you the right to steal from a
dead girl like her?
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Not stealing, only taking what you would have given me anyway,
if she'd known she's gonna die. Anna was a girl
like that, generous, didn't care about her things.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They're expensive, silk imported.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Never had anything like that, not next to my body.
I haven't just watched her put them on sometimes. All right,
don't take them away, mister, she'd have given them to me.
I swear it, I swear it.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Danny Clover speaking, says Gordon Danny the lab come across
the hall from and then I have something to show you.
What a lady's slip you brought in the underwear? Gordon? Hello?
(22:20):
Did you walk around? Denny? Don't you ever smile? What's
on your mind? Gordon? On my mind? All right, I'll
turn you. Why is it when the department is up
to its neck in unsolved murders they make kissing sounds
that John Gordon? You got something to tell me or
you just want me to admire you. Well, first I'll
tell you something. Then you can drop your chin in
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frank admiration. Take a look at this slip. Go ahead,
hold it up to the light. See what I mean.
I see a black silk slip, a real expensive black
silk slip.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Feel it, Go.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Ahead right here? See what I mean. M I didn't
see that roughness is thread. Something was sewn on that
slip and torn off a laundry mark, Danny. But you
don't know about slips. A laundry mark and a slip
sown here? Son Here was a French word, too sure,
and son here was a name, Laura. The stitches were
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pulled out, but they left their pattern. Now you want
to admire me, Danny? The Tagli, Hey, Gina, where are
you and what do you want? Danny call a Seaboard
shipping line, g know, get the doc foreman and ask
for Marty Dixon.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
Well, suppose they won't call Marty to the phone. Danny,
Dixon's just a steward.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's what I'm counting on. Leave Warred tell them, and
Surgeon say, Robert Burton wants to see Dixon as soon
as Dixon gets off from work.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Roger Danny, and also we'll call.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It was four o'clock when Mugavin called in adjusting the
dark foreman of the Seaboard Shipping Line hand Marty Dixon
a note. There's a few when his past five thirty
when Mugivan called back again. The quitting whistle had just
blown down the waterfront, and Marty Dixon had just punched
his time clock to take him twenty five minutes to
get to Burton's mansion on Park Avenue. It took me
ten minutes. Robert Burton said he was glad to see me.
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We could talk in privacy. Laura's sister was judging a
dog show on Long Island, and he'd given the servants
the day off to grieve his wife's death.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So we can talk in privacy, Danny. But you know
what what, you didn't have to come back and apologize
for the rough way you fellas treated me. I understand
these things. I didn't come back for that. Oh, got
something in your mind, Danny? Tell me I can fix it.
I got nothing but money eight million dollars and change.
Eight million dollars, and that's what the tax is skimmed.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Now tell me, Danny, I know who murdered your wife.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And you want to reward how much you want, Danny.
That's besides the gold watch you already got in mind.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
How do you want it? Em grave? Danny?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
And I'm matching gold cigarette case to anything because I'm
indebted to your fellow.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Don't you want to know who murdered your I figure.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You'll tell me when the time is right. Tell me,
and let's forget all about it.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I'll tell you a fellow you did? You murdered your wife? Oh, Danny,
you know better? How could I have killed Laura? Same
guy who killed her? Strangle that girl in the alley?
Even the DA knows that. What's the matter? Is he
on your back for a killer?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
No matter of fact? It gave me permission to pick
you up for murder.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
All this magnificence around here make your head spin.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I fellow, you try to give me trouble before Berkner,
rememberuld have got you.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
This time I get something better. I heard you've been
admiring that tapestry, Denny. It's worth maybe sixty ges.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
How would you like to use something like that for
a bath and not worry about it.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Like it?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Wouldn't you?
Speaker 14 (25:49):
Denny?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You would?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Wouldn't you tell me? How do you figure I killed
my wife?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Like we told you before? In that flea bag? Your
pal Marty Dixon wants to come in. Burton.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
How come you're so good?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Danny?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You stand here, talk to me. Here's some chimes. You
know it's Marty.
Speaker 14 (26:10):
How do you do things like that?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Fella?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Open the door for him, Burton, Yeah, I will, Oh
you know, I'm Marty Money.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
You're real good daddy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Hello, Marty goes on this way, Marty, the da is
on my back. I need a killer, isn't that right? Fella?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yeah? Yeah, that's the way it is. Moody. What does
he know?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Burton? That mean?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I know? Burton strangled his wife with half that chord.
Gave you the other half so you could strangle at
Cisler girl and it all arranged Hawk at the da
and died Burton when it was obvious the killer was
still on the loose.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
You know a lot? How is it that you know
a lot?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
At Cisler girl had an expensive slip that once belonged
to Laura Burton? How long did it take you boys
to find a girl at the same feature is Lauren?
I might it look like a killer? It strangled the
wrong girl when he killed Laura Burton.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It didn't take you very long to find it, did it?
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Mandey?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
A couple of weeks?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Then you wind her and dined her. Oh I helped,
didn't I money, gave you my wife's cast off clothes.
You could give the girl presents like I love you. You're
making a deal with the cop Burton.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
He likes nice things. I'm in a position to give
him anything you want.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Me too, because everything you got I got half. That
was the arrangement he made when we started this thing.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Clover, When did all this happen? Marty? It happened, And that's.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
The way it is.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I didn't sign anything. I don't remember doing that anyway.
You're a murderer, man, in my position can't have any
truck with murderers. And that's why I'm giving you to
the cop.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
You know, when I got a message this afternoon, I
figured something to go on sour, so I brought a friend, Marty.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Don't be crazy.
Speaker 11 (27:46):
Clover, don't go for your gun. And I killed cops too.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Look, Marty, we were having a joke, weren't we. Danny,
listen to me, Marty.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You don't have to rough me, Clover. Gun's empty.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Let's go, Marty.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Sure you want to.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
Know something what I feel real good? I'm going to
the electric chair, and I feel real good. How many
men get the opportunity to die for half of eight
million dollars?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
In the minutes before dawn, Broadway lies huddled in a
dreamless sleep. It's the time of the long black night.
No stars, the muted wind, and on the wind the
sly whispers. Start running, Kid, you'll never get home again.
It's Broadway, the cordeist, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
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in the world.
Speaker 14 (29:14):
Broadway, My Beat, Broadways.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
My Beat stars Larry Thoris, Detective Danny Clover with Charles Culibert.
The Starteglia program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis,
with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Included
in tonight's cast were Clayton Post, Larry Dobkin, Betty lou Gerson,
Jody Gilbert, ed Max, Jack Krushan, and Jerry Hausner. Every
(29:55):
Saturday night, Americans from coast to coast play sing It Again.
Do you well if dogs you don't know the fun
and excitement you're missing, Not to mention radio's largest cash
award if you can name the Phantom Boys. There's music
on Singing Again, music with Alando, Bob Howard, Judy Lynn,
the Riddlers, Ray Block and his orchestra. There's contestants, contestants
(30:15):
from all over America, phoned by Dan Seymour, and there's
prizes galore, plus that special jackpot prize we mentioned earlier.
So stay at home, play at home on Saturday nights.
Went over many of these same CBS stations. Dan Seymour says,
it's sing It Again, Dan coverly speaking, this is CBS
where yours truly. Johnny Dollar brings adventures Saturday nights on
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the Columbia Broadcasting Systems.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Welcome back, another good affacio. I do wonder with the
introduction of John Gordon if the writers are trying to
get us to hate police Scientist as much as Danny does,
because this guy is incredibly smug and conceded, and I
believe he was on last week too, so he's quickly
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becoming my least favorite recurring character. Landlady's defense that she
was only taking what the dead woman would have given
her had she been aware that she was going to
die is not something I'd try suggesting in probate court.
And I think she was looking for sympathy, but the
envy came through and that's never a good look. Also,
(31:37):
I'm teending to go through all the episodes and find
all the mix Shrek information provided by Tartaglia and compile it.
Don't know what purpose I'd use it for A last
oddle curiosity is something I don't have as much time
for as I once did. All right, well, listener comments
and feedback, and we start with Sean, who just sent
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along a note thanks for all the great content. Thank
you so much, Sean. And then we had a comment
over on Spotify, and this comes from Peter, who writes
regarding the John Webster murder case, Adam was right about
the audio quality, but this one is worth listening to. Well,
thanks so much, Peter, and that tends to be what
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we found people have said over the years. Andrew, I
think way back when his show started, maybe a year
or so later, he formally surveyed his audience and asked
whether people wanted programs with lesser audio quality played, and
the audience responded that that was what they preferred as
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opposed to skipping those that were lesser. And I know
that it does get frustrating for some people whose hearing
is a bit impaired and it's just impossible for them
to enjoy the program. I was actually hardened recently for
A Harker, the president of SPURREDVAK, the Society to Preserve,
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Encourage and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy, actually was
able to do a restoration to a couple of programs.
One was I think a somewhat obscure family comedy called
The Nichols Family, but the other was an episode of
Quiet Please. And these were circulating and poor condition was
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able to get them to a much better higher quality.
And I'm hopeful that we'll see similar processes implemented, but
I suspect we will always encounter a few rough sounding
programs just because most of them were not systematically preserved.
All right, Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
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supporter of the day, and I want to thank Susan,
Patreon supporter since October twenty eight eighteen, currently supporting the
podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and
fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks so much for
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