October 15, 2025 • 37 mins
Today's Mystery: A wealthy retiree is found murdered in his apartment after an impromptu party.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis; Peggy Webber; Lee Millar Jr.; Russell Simpson; Michael Ann Barrett
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis; Peggy Webber; Lee Millar Jr.; Russell Simpson; Michael Ann Barrett
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
Patreon Supporter of the Day: Sheryl, Patreon supporter since April 2024.
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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to Adam Graham. Well. Now, from April twenty first, nineteen
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fifty one, here is the Philip Hunt murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
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 (02:07):
In Springtime's Early Morning Broadway depends upon the mood you're
in now. The seesaw of color is gone, the riot
of night sounds is stilled, and the revelers have found
their sleep. There's nothing here but litter, and missed the
beginning sunlight. But it's the start of an April day.
That's something. You walk into it, and there's something else.
The man standing against the lamp post, staring, hands locked
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in back of him, and last night's newspaper trapped against
his leg walked past him quickly. Kid, it's better to
start the day with a cup of coffee. I didn't
have time for coffee. The call came while I was
pouring the cream. The call with a cold number that
said homicide, that set an address on Fifth Avenue, that
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said get there, and get there, and get ushered into
a room and into the presence of a man who
uses words instead of numbers in describing death.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Was a gun that did it, Danny Revolver, two shots
missing from the chamber. One killed him over there on
the bed. We're still looking for the other level.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Philip Hunt Securities Investments retired about two years ago to
try to enjoy himself, the maid said. The maid called
it in what else plenty, Let's go. I'll show you.
It's down the hall, big party here last night. Danny
glasses Scotch bourbon gin cigarette butts, gold tipped cork tip
(03:28):
lipstick tip.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Oh this too, oh pocket lighter, fancy one.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Give me a light one, thanks, Yeah, real fancy and
Evans catching engraving on it.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
From Barbara to the wheel end. It'll have to be traced.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Found it in the bathroom, in the shower store doorbell made.
It'll get it in here, Danny the library.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Who were they?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
The girl stretched out on the couches, and niece of
the dead man names Lewis Hunt the mats lives here
him the soldier over there on the chair that made
didn't know him, never.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Saw him before. How about the rest of the people
at the party?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Nothing there yet. Maybe the girl in the corporal will
know when they come to. Doctor Sinski gave him a needle.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
A needle to a couple of drunks. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Are not drunk? The drinks were doped. Yeah, girl's glass smell.
The corporal's the same. Doctor Sinsky said, It's fortunate he
got here in time.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Then the gathering together of the police reporters and the
press photographers, the statement for the new editions, the jolly
farewells over the dead, and the promise of the mention
of your name, the bribe for more detail more. You
know what Danny got to compete with the comics kid,
and the walking away from it, and in your office,
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the arrangement and rearrangement on your desk of the clutter
that ended Philip Hunt's dying, a cigarette lighter, a gun
fired twice, two glasses stained with death, and a few
hours later, the quiet opening of the door, and two
kids stand waiting, bewildered, their eyes not touched by the
morning light.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Doctor Sinsky said it was all right for you to interrogate.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Us now, He said, Oh, come in, miss Hunt, Corporal,
that's it on.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sure you feel all right, Miss Hunt?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
No, no, no, I'm fine, just a little dazed. I've
had other mornings like this, maybe not quite so sad, uncle.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Phil did you, Corporal? I'm fine, sir, just fine.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
He'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Doctor Sinsky's a good man. You two known each other long,
been going together a long time, yes, or a long time,
maybe five or six months. I saw Lois at a
USO dance.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
You're lying, Tommy. Don't tell a man a lie.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Kid.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Just look, maybe you don't, Corporal, you you tell me those.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I only met Tommy last night at a bar, lonely,
kind of lost made him so attractive.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I'm rich.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
I bought his drinks.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And you took him to the party at your home.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
There wasn't a party. We made up as we went
a long you know a bar.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
How picked up people who said funny things. I took
them home because I wanted to celebrate Tommy, the nice corporal.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
It wasn't a pickup, sir. Lois is a fine girl.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Jeez, I am Tommy's sweet was your uncle at the party?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Loss?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
We crashed in on him just as he was getting
ready for bed. We all kissed him good night. That's
how gay we were. We all kissed my uncle good night.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Let's tell you left him going to bed, yes, sir,
then you rejoined the party.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This gun is that.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
The one that killed my uncle Phil.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
You know the gun was given to my uncle Phil
by his employees.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
They know how I loved guns.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know the gun corporal, Yes, sir, Lois took it
out of the case so I could show the party
how how a soldier uses a gun. Who'd you show
your tricks to?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Tommy? Who else was at the party? I don't know, You're.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Honest, I do he know them if I didn't, they
were a stranger's funny parties, strangers we had fun, answered.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Just fun.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Then I passed out and Lois was sitting there already
passed out with a book in her lap. She can
reading poetry to me, and she passed out, and I laughed.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I remember and.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Hunt, Annie. They have traced a cigarette lighter from descriptions
distributed hither and yon by calm efficient men under beep.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You'll tell me a sergeant to Tagliam.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Sold by Tiffany's to one Willard Jordan twenty three forty
six East eighty, steady customer by Tiffany's me. I only
gazed in their windows on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
All right, I'll check it.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Do that, Danny, and also bid ado to miss Hunt.
Our wealthy lawyer has put up bail for him and
the corporal. No arrangements have been made with the military him.
We can keep bale is only for the likes of
Miss Hunt.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, take care of things. Be calm and efficient. While
I'm out at that Taglia.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
I'm very sorry. I'm busy.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'm from the police. Does Willard Jordan live here?
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Yes, he says, I'm his wife.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
What is it.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
I suppose we'll talk here, if you don't mind, I'm
getting ready.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
To go out.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
What does it you want?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Is your husband home?
Speaker 9 (08:31):
No, you'd better stop in another.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Time, as too, clover or is your husband?
Speaker 9 (08:36):
I don't know. I didn't invite you to go in there.
Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Is he your husband?
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Heypay? I told you if you stared in that mirror
once more, I'll scream, sit down, sit down and drink
your drink and don't you move. Don't you open your mouth.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
After your husband?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Eh?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Then? Who?
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Hey, Bay, you must know mister Clote, he's a model
for my husband. Willard did him as narcissist.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
What's paper doing here now?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Waiting? He dropped in to see Willard? Willard's going to
paint him for his summer show.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
When the last time you saw your husband, missus Jordan.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Early yesterday morning. I handed him a sketch pad when
he walked out of the door. Now you tell me something.
Why is it so important for a policeman to talk
to my husband?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
He was at a party last night where a murder
was committed, and you.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
Think Willard did it? Willard?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I didn't say that. I just want to talk to himself.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Willard committed murder. Paypey, paype one more time and out
you go.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Doesn't it worry that your husband didn't come home last night?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Why should worry me? What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Willard does not come home like this before?
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Oh, I see it to me. Yes, Willard stays way
off and he's a roamer. He goes places, talks to
strange people, from material to paint. Let's see. Yes, he
said he was going to take a model around last night,
model a paper, Barbara, I think yes. Barbara Sullivan, nice girl.
You've seen her in the beer ads. Mister clover. She
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lives close by. I'll tell you where. If she knows
where Willard is, phone me let me know, will you,
of course you will.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Whenever it is slipping under the door.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Trying to get to sleep, Open up, miss Sullivan, it's
the police.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Open up.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
This is me and last night's frop, this morning's I pads,
trying to sleep away the bags under my eyes. So
you won't lose a kick when you draw mustaches on me.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
On the billboards.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Missus Jordan told me you might know where her husband is.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Melissa told you that, good old Melissa.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We want Willard for suspicion of murder. What you were
with him last night?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
With Willard? Where is Willard now?
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Sleeping off a jag under a cold water tap and
the shower stall of the fifth Avenue mansion. I know
I threw him there myself, everything I do myself.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
He's not there anymore.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
We peeked and go look for a man with wet
coat and pants dry the gutter on Third Avenue in
twenty eighth, Willard's favorite, his pride and joy.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
That's where you left him.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
I left him in the shower store and told you that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Two yards ago.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Threw Willard in the shower went home. What time did
all these good things happened?
Speaker 10 (11:53):
M maybe two, three, four in the morning. I remember.
All was on my mind was my beauty sleep.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I'm vain toddle.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
My beauty get fat checks for cuddling it.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
So you want Willard for murder?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Anyone?
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I know?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Philip Hunt? You were in his house last night.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
That's where I was. That's where that pale, little rich
girl took us. I wish i'd known. Maybe I could
have wheedled the old man into using me in his advertising.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's all it means to you. A man's murder or
wanting Willard for it.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Maybe come to me with a Hollywood contract, mister, and
I'll show you what things can mean to me. I'll
change overnight for you.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'll live for it. Keep posing for beer, miss Sullivan,
just so i'll know you're around.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
I'll do it good because i'll keep it in mind.
You'll be staring at me through shop windows. I'm by now.
It's side pad time again.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So a half day had gone by and I had nothing.
The Technical division had something, though, and they gave it
to me. There'd been about seventeen people at the party
last night at the home of Philip Hunt. Seventeen people,
according to the kind of drinks, drags in the bottom
of liquor glasses and fingerprints, maybe nine men and eight women.
So far I had talked to three of the seventeen.
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Result shrugs and bleary answers.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Result. Nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Back Now to the home of Philip Hunt and talk
to his niece again, outside, this time in the small garden.
Sit in a wrought iron chair and watch Lois Hunt
taker three o'clock Scotch and soda.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Sure you won't have one, mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No thanks. Listen to me, Lois. All I want you
to do is try to remember who else was here
last night. Somebody who had a motive for killing your uncle.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I had a motive. Money, I inherit most of the estates,
how soldier boy, Tommy, nice kid. I'm going to visit
him tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
You mean you just pick these people up and brought
them home?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
For sure?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Grab beg You never know Lor.
Speaker 11 (13:48):
There's cleaning.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Please please look.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The guesthouse was just across the garden, up a few steps.
The place was neat as a pin starched linen curtains,
maple chairs, and three shagged throw rugs placed at interesting angles.
And the one that stretched diagonally across the floor was
a man. I knelt beside him, away from the bloodstain
that had spilled from the bullet wound in his chest.
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His coat was still moist and it was spread open.
There was a label on the inside pocket tailored it
set by Jensen's Mills, expressly for mister Willard Jordan, and
mister Willard Jordan was dead.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover with the kids of the Beverly Hills Beavers
to the right of him, and those two curious revenue
agents to the left of him. Jack Benny needs plenty
of trouble this Sunday night on CBS. Be listening, be
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laughing with the Jack Benny showed tomorrow night, and be
with us too for the fun with Eve Arden as
our miss Brooks. On most of these same CDs stations, The.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Long winter is dead on Broadway, and the street mourns.
It's dying without a tear. What's to weep?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Kid?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The dawn banging on the radiators, tearing, sleeping of pieces
on a cold morning. The standing on the street corner
in the night wind, trying to thumb through the racing
form with one hundred percent wall mittens, and the girls
so bundled up you can see their face.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
That's to weep.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Give me the springtime, kid, and the springtime things bud
and blossom, the girls, the neon flowers, the field of
golden daisies on the Transluxe. Look at it now, kid.
Artists dead in Fifth Avenue guest house. Police sift murder clues,
search link with death of Philip Hunt millionaire ever smell
posies like that, kid Springs come to Broadway, give up
(16:09):
to it at police headquarters. That's just what Sergeant Daglia did.
He gave up to it.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Uh, Danny, the missus has been slipping the sofa with
the molasses into my pizzas lately.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
It's that time of the year again.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Goody, He's good that way.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
The way Missus Tattaglia makes a pizza, Danny, no harm
could come to it no matter what felon issue commits
to it here, which reminds me when you're coming to
partake of a springtime pizza soon, Geno, as soon as
I can, I promise, Ah, goody. I have also buy
mails so invited Lady Jane Pugh the they do well
lady detective from London Town.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
She's coming.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
She has not as yet replied with her rs VP
on an English capeer no doubt what else. I will
notify you, Danny when she accep you do that now. Firstly,
and to the forefront, the boys and technical have deduced
that the bullet that killed Willard Jordan Artists sprang from
the same gun that did likewise.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
To fill a punt. Thanks for telling me, I.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Thought you would relish it secondly and in the background.
Major Robert E.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Woodcock retired, Try me again, Geno, I haven't had my
sulfur and molasses.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Major Robert E.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Woodcock retired part took of breakfast every morning of his
retirement with the late deceased Philippunt, a fact established by
Sergeant Muggavin while questioning the housemaid three morning.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Huh, that's interesting, Gene. Only a stab in the dark.
But if a fellow wanted to talk to this Major Woodcock.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
He would go to the Union Club where the retired
major resides.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Naturally naturally Major, Major Woodcock, Wake up, Major, wake up.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
It never ends. It never ends. Major, I'm awake, young man, awake,
or a current dream you know, never ends, Always cut
off when it gets interesting, always cheated at the ending.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I'm from the police, Major, And.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
Don't pussyfoot boy, You're from the police. Be proud of it.
Nothing to be ashamed of. Walk on tiger's feet.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
About Philip Hunt.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
My friend, my old friend, chaperone of Mademoiselle around Paris
and the old army days together. Phil and I many
sunny days to remember. You want to know if I
was with Phil the night he died. Were you dropped
in for randy game chess? A lot of young people
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took me in tow, made me act the major with
the boy a young corporal who was there. I'm afraid
it was a rather pathetic entertainment.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Then you got away from them.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
Happy to dismiss me, shunted me upstairs to old Phil.
We had our quiet brandies, our endless chest came never
finished it and cried old soldiers tears, and so to bed.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
You didn't come back for breakfast?
Speaker 11 (19:16):
Oh you know about that do? You had breakfast with
Phil every morning since our discharged in the library seven am.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Pleasant.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Then we'd putter around in the garden, pleasant, a ritual.
But you didn't come back that morning? Why too tired?
Overslept over brandied. I wish I had come back? Why
bid feel a good journey? Dead men can hear things
like that, you know pleases them. There was another reason
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I wish i'd have come back.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Want to console Lois and thought of that.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
No, thank Phil for including me in his will. Left
me quite a som enormous sum, quite an over payment
for my work in his garden. But you knew about that. No,
I didn't makes me a suspect, though it does. It
should be interesting when you asked me about Willard Jordan,
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the artist right now painted my portrait. Willard did there?
It is hanging in back of me. Major Robert E.
Woodcock retired leaning against a field piece, classic clap trap.
But I've grown rather fond of it. That's all there
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is of me now, me and it. I can always
reach you here Major Bill's gone? Where else would I go?
Speaker 9 (21:00):
It doesn't matter to you that I'm a widow, now,
does it?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You have to ask me questions, that's right, Missus Jordan.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
I won't answer them. I don't have to answer them.
Please get out and let me alone.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You told me you weren't at Lois Hunt's house last night.
You heard what I said?
Speaker 9 (21:17):
How was it Lois Hunt's house last night? I know
he's a terrible party pape.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
They take you to the party.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Tapey never goes to parties. He spills things in people's rugs.
I went along?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Did Lois pick you up at a bar?
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I never go to bars?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And you were following your husband?
Speaker 11 (21:34):
So what? So what?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
It's your right? Missus?
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Of course it is. I was his wife, just tagged
along just in case Willard got into trouble with that
brewery poster. That's all. Saw Willard go into the house, waited, well,
then I went in too.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Willard got into trouble. Missus Jordan, where were you?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Well?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Well, what.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Has to be sociable at a party? Anybody knows that
somebody gave you a drink? Never did get to see Willard?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And you must have gotten to know some of the people,
just names.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Like Nicki and John and Bobby. Honestly, I don't remember
a lot. Honestly, did I see you?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Danny?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh sure, Muggavn, come on in.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
What have you got got to report here from the
finger print department? You know what's strange, Danny?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The gun's got the prince of seventeen people on it.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Or maybe you did have once, not anymore? Wipe clean.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
What's the drama for Muggavn.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Why don't you just say it didn't have any prints
on it?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Because it has prints on it. The most beautiful set
of prince is possible, the entire hand of Lois Hunt.
Here's a photostat without a blemish or a smear killer,
Lois h.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'm asking you, Daddy, No, No, I don't think so.
Somebody doped to drink and pressed her hand against the gun.
If Lois had handled the gun to kill both men,
she'd have handled it twice. Then there would have been
two sets of prints, not one. Yeah, killer tried to
plan a frame.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I don't know, maybe or what else?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Nothing, Just these photographs of the Hunt mansion interiors, exteriors.
Six of the people who were at the party last
night are outside. You want me to bring them in?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, one at a time. Wait a minute, vacuum. Have
you talked to that corporal lately? A couple of times?
Six to his story passed out right after the girl did.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
She'd been reading to him. Isn't that what he said
in poetry?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Even told me the name of the books Sonnets from.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Look at this picture mugovin library for the kids we
found up boy sitting here, girl there?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Yeah, see any book near them? Now?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Look at this one picture of Hunt dad in his bedroom,
Squint muggovn. What's the name of the book.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Summits from Portuguese? You don't have to talk to those people, now,
do you. Danny?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Missus Lewis is upstairs in her room.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
I'll tell her you're here.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Take me to her, please.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
This way.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What time did you find miss Lewis and that soldier
in the library, Francis, about.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
A quarter after six. I've told that other policeman the.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Quarter after six. Isn't that pretty early?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Sure, Charley, I'll do it every morning, clean up in
the libraries so mister Hunt and that major could have
their breakfast.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Saw miss Lois and the soldier passed out and went
to tell mister Hunt. You saw mister Hunt dead and
called the police.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
I told another policeman that too, mis what is it policeman?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Hello, mister Clover, come one and that'll be all. Francis, Well,
come to tell me something about that soldier boy that
I'm going to try to do everything I can for him.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
You want to drink?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That gun that killed your uncle and Willard Jordan had
your prints on it?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Aren't you warm? I am just a second one.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
The casement opened.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
It's much more pleasant, don't you think? And what did
you say?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
The gun had your prints on it?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Didn't it have everyone's? We all handled the gun.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Why just my prince?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Because you wiped off everybody's prince and put your own
on it.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
I must have been loaded Why did I do that?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Make me think what? I thought? That?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You've been framed. Someone had put the gun in your
hand when you'd passed out.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
You've come to tell me you don't think that.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
What were you reading to Tommy when that dope drink
caught up with you?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Some Sonnets? I think everybody else had left, so I
thought sonnets were just a thing.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Corny?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You were reading the Sonnets and all of a sudden
you felt dizzy and you went to sleep.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Exactly?
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I told you.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But the book wasn't there when we found you, Lois,
What where was it on the night table next to
your uncle?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
But I was drugged? How to get there?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You put it there? That was an oversight, Lois. You
carried it up to your uncle's room, but.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I was drugged. You know that the doctor knows that
I was drugged.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Later, you put on an act for Tommy, pretended to
pass out, waited for the drug you'd put in his
drink to work on him. Then you got up, killed
your uncle, came back, then drugged your own drink.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Don't tell me what I did. If I'd done that,
I would have died.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
The doctor said, that drug was deadly.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Your own doctor, you didn't have anything to worry about. Francis,
your maid always cleaned up the library at six o'clock.
You knew she'd yell for help. Now tell me about
Willard Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Don't talk to me like that. Don't tell me what
to do.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, Jordan came back, didn't he He was looking for
a cigarette letter.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
You know every You and Uncle Fick.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Came back and saw Tommy lying there alone. Then you appeared.
You had a gun in your hand.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
You're so smart, walked.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Well into the guesthouse, killed him because.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
You had to smart.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Uncle was smart, told me what to do. Why I
had to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It wasn't just the money you had. That your uncle
gave you everything you want.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Like I was a little girl, like I didn't know
my own mind.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Just the way you're talking to.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Me, let's go all over.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
No, no, no, come on, no, I won't go.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
I'm going to kill myself.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Get away from that wind all OUs.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I don't care, I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Listen to me.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
Don't you come near me. I'm gonna die.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
You'll be sorry, all of you when I'm lying out there,
you'll be sorry.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
My friend look good, and they'll look at me and
they'll be sorry.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
And I grab her.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
She didn't struggle, was just shrieked over and over. When
I let her out of the room, she was still shrieking,
and all of a sudden she stopped. Then she looked
at me, bewildered at first, then smiling an etiquette smile
that a girl gives a man after a pleasant dance.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Then she touched my cheek. She spoke, I.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Don't think my friends would have been sorry, mister Clover,
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
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Speaker 3 (29:19):
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Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack
Krusian as Muggovin. The program was produced and directed by
Ali At Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by
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Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Welcome back. Even with the expectation that the maid was
going to show up, she was taking an awfully big risk.
If the maid was late or the police doctor couldn't
get there right away, or if the doctor was not
quite as good as doctor Sinski, she could have died.
It was a huge gamble. But then again, whoever said
(31:34):
murderers are always sensible? Now we got to hear Kathy
Lewis as the murderer, and it's worth talking about. She's
an incredibly talented radio actress, but unlike people like Virginia
greg or Piggy Weber, we don't get to hear her
much now. At this point, she was playing Irma's best
(31:56):
friend on My Friend Irma, and she'd also be on
frequently on radio anthology programs like The Suspense or The
Whistler every week. Much earlier in her career, she played
Phyllis Hamilton to Wally Maher's Michael Shane, but she didn't
appear as often in guest roles in detective programs. For
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the most part, the major disclosed that he had a
motive for doing the killing, which I think is sensible.
There is nothing that gives the police more suspicion than
if you act like there was no motive and they
find out that there was. And we have a comment
for Carol who writes, I've enjoyed listening to you for years,
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and it is time to show my appreciation. Well, thank
you so much, and I appreciate your donation. Thanks so much.
And then Mechanics sixty six riots regarding the episode the
Ben Justin murder case over on Spotify. Since they knew
they couldn't be tried again for the same crime, why
would they bother killing anyone or for that matter, paying blackmail? Well,
(33:07):
I think one thing that the insurance agent reference in
that episode was the idea that for one hundred thousand
dollars they keep trying. The episode had the idea that
they could somehow have the insurance money clawed back, although
(33:29):
I guess it would kind of depend on how the
insurance contract was written. Would the insurance company be able
to reclaim the funds, perhaps by filing a wrongful death suit,
or is the lack of a criminal conviction enough to
allow them to keep the insurance money. So I'm not
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certain the technicality on that, and I guess beyond that
is just the whole social angle. Even if you're not
criminally convicted, if somebody comes out with evidence that you
did the murder, that's very convincing to the public. You're
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not going to prison, but life may be very unpleasant
for you. And so those are the things that I
would expect go into committing the murder now. And as
I said, whether they legally would be able to get
the money back, I'm not certain, although there is a
clear intimation from what the insurance agent said that the
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insurance company believed that they could somehow get the money back,
which is why they were keeping an eye on Ben
Justin and his relationship with this couple in this case
he investigated. And then Ryan Sir comments on the on
YouTube regarding the Kenneth Mitchell murder case. What a case. Wow, Well,
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Speaker 12 (35:48):
This is Hank Carter, Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Ben Romeo. Please, department, Hank,
I wonder if you'd tell these officers a little of
what you told me about kill Dore TV specialists and
how supports. I'm a customer. I commend to kill Gore's
I don't like aside of my repair bill. What were
you instructed to say? We generally tried to talk him
out of any complaint. Of course, I complained about all
the multiple charges. I wanted an explanation of the work
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you did. What then you just tell you that it
wouldn't do any good to explain. You wouldn't understand all
the technical stuff anyway. Tell us kill Gore's attitude with
the customer.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
You mean about the loose wires test? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (36:18):
Please?
Speaker 13 (36:19):
Well, kil Gore used to tell us that if we
only charged fifty cents for fixing the loose wire, the
customer wouldn't believe we really fixed his set. So we
used to charge quite a lot more, well, how much more?
For example, for Nichols worth of wire, we usually charge
four dollars and seventy five cents.
Speaker 11 (36:32):
Pretty fair profit and it's a real rub.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
What else can you tell us?
Speaker 13 (36:36):
An We'd never let a customer watch any of the
TV repair job. For example, if a customer causes says
he thinks the two is blown out and it will
only be a simple replacement job in his home, and
we'd tell him the parts they are getting hard to
get and we'd have to take his set into the
shop and charge him a higher rate because we had
to pay black market prices for the two.
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(01:16):
fifty one, here is the Philip Hunt murder Case.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
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 (02:07):
In Springtime's Early Morning Broadway depends upon the mood you're
in now. The seesaw of color is gone, the riot
of night sounds is stilled, and the revelers have found
their sleep. There's nothing here but litter, and missed the
beginning sunlight. But it's the start of an April day.
That's something. You walk into it, and there's something else.
The man standing against the lamp post, staring, hands locked
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in back of him, and last night's newspaper trapped against
his leg walked past him quickly. Kid, it's better to
start the day with a cup of coffee. I didn't
have time for coffee. The call came while I was
pouring the cream. The call with a cold number that
said homicide, that set an address on Fifth Avenue, that
(02:52):
said get there, and get there, and get ushered into
a room and into the presence of a man who
uses words instead of numbers in describing death.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Was a gun that did it, Danny Revolver, two shots
missing from the chamber. One killed him over there on
the bed. We're still looking for the other level.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Philip Hunt Securities Investments retired about two years ago to
try to enjoy himself, the maid said. The maid called
it in what else plenty, Let's go. I'll show you.
It's down the hall, big party here last night. Danny
glasses Scotch bourbon gin cigarette butts, gold tipped cork tip
(03:28):
lipstick tip.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Oh this too, oh pocket lighter, fancy one.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Give me a light one, thanks, Yeah, real fancy and
Evans catching engraving on it.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
From Barbara to the wheel end. It'll have to be traced.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Found it in the bathroom, in the shower store doorbell made.
It'll get it in here, Danny the library.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Who were they?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
The girl stretched out on the couches, and niece of
the dead man names Lewis Hunt the mats lives here
him the soldier over there on the chair that made
didn't know him, never.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Saw him before. How about the rest of the people
at the party?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Nothing there yet. Maybe the girl in the corporal will
know when they come to. Doctor Sinski gave him a needle.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
A needle to a couple of drunks. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Are not drunk? The drinks were doped. Yeah, girl's glass smell.
The corporal's the same. Doctor Sinsky said, It's fortunate he
got here in time.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Then the gathering together of the police reporters and the
press photographers, the statement for the new editions, the jolly
farewells over the dead, and the promise of the mention
of your name, the bribe for more detail more. You
know what Danny got to compete with the comics kid,
and the walking away from it, and in your office,
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the arrangement and rearrangement on your desk of the clutter
that ended Philip Hunt's dying, a cigarette lighter, a gun
fired twice, two glasses stained with death, and a few
hours later, the quiet opening of the door, and two
kids stand waiting, bewildered, their eyes not touched by the
morning light.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Doctor Sinsky said it was all right for you to interrogate.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Us now, He said, Oh, come in, miss Hunt, Corporal,
that's it on.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sure you feel all right, Miss Hunt?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
No, no, no, I'm fine, just a little dazed. I've
had other mornings like this, maybe not quite so sad, uncle.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Phil did you, Corporal? I'm fine, sir, just fine.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
He'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Doctor Sinsky's a good man. You two known each other long,
been going together a long time, yes, or a long time,
maybe five or six months. I saw Lois at a
USO dance.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
You're lying, Tommy. Don't tell a man a lie.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Kid.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Just look, maybe you don't, Corporal, you you tell me those.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I only met Tommy last night at a bar, lonely,
kind of lost made him so attractive.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I'm rich.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
I bought his drinks.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And you took him to the party at your home.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
There wasn't a party. We made up as we went
a long you know a bar.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
How picked up people who said funny things. I took
them home because I wanted to celebrate Tommy, the nice corporal.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
It wasn't a pickup, sir. Lois is a fine girl.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Jeez, I am Tommy's sweet was your uncle at the party?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Loss?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
We crashed in on him just as he was getting
ready for bed. We all kissed him good night. That's
how gay we were. We all kissed my uncle good night.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Let's tell you left him going to bed, yes, sir,
then you rejoined the party.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This gun is that.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
The one that killed my uncle Phil.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
You know the gun was given to my uncle Phil
by his employees.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
They know how I loved guns.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know the gun corporal, Yes, sir, Lois took it
out of the case so I could show the party
how how a soldier uses a gun. Who'd you show
your tricks to?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Tommy? Who else was at the party? I don't know, You're.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Honest, I do he know them if I didn't, they
were a stranger's funny parties, strangers we had fun, answered.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Just fun.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Then I passed out and Lois was sitting there already
passed out with a book in her lap. She can
reading poetry to me, and she passed out, and I laughed.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I remember and.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Hunt, Annie. They have traced a cigarette lighter from descriptions
distributed hither and yon by calm efficient men under beep.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You'll tell me a sergeant to Tagliam.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Sold by Tiffany's to one Willard Jordan twenty three forty
six East eighty, steady customer by Tiffany's me. I only
gazed in their windows on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
All right, I'll check it.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Do that, Danny, and also bid ado to miss Hunt.
Our wealthy lawyer has put up bail for him and
the corporal. No arrangements have been made with the military him.
We can keep bale is only for the likes of
Miss Hunt.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, take care of things. Be calm and efficient. While
I'm out at that Taglia.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
I'm very sorry. I'm busy.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'm from the police. Does Willard Jordan live here?
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Yes, he says, I'm his wife.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
What is it.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
I suppose we'll talk here, if you don't mind, I'm
getting ready.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
To go out.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
What does it you want?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Is your husband home?
Speaker 9 (08:31):
No, you'd better stop in another.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Time, as too, clover or is your husband?
Speaker 9 (08:36):
I don't know. I didn't invite you to go in there.
Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Is he your husband?
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Heypay? I told you if you stared in that mirror
once more, I'll scream, sit down, sit down and drink
your drink and don't you move. Don't you open your mouth.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
After your husband?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Eh?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Then? Who?
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Hey, Bay, you must know mister Clote, he's a model
for my husband. Willard did him as narcissist.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
What's paper doing here now?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Waiting? He dropped in to see Willard? Willard's going to
paint him for his summer show.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
When the last time you saw your husband, missus Jordan.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Early yesterday morning. I handed him a sketch pad when
he walked out of the door. Now you tell me something.
Why is it so important for a policeman to talk
to my husband?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
He was at a party last night where a murder
was committed, and you.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
Think Willard did it? Willard?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I didn't say that. I just want to talk to himself.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Willard committed murder. Paypey, paype one more time and out
you go.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Doesn't it worry that your husband didn't come home last night?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Why should worry me? What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Willard does not come home like this before?
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Oh, I see it to me. Yes, Willard stays way
off and he's a roamer. He goes places, talks to
strange people, from material to paint. Let's see. Yes, he
said he was going to take a model around last night,
model a paper, Barbara, I think yes. Barbara Sullivan, nice girl.
You've seen her in the beer ads. Mister clover. She
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lives close by. I'll tell you where. If she knows
where Willard is, phone me let me know, will you,
of course you will.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Whenever it is slipping under the door.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Trying to get to sleep, Open up, miss Sullivan, it's
the police.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Open up.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
This is me and last night's frop, this morning's I pads,
trying to sleep away the bags under my eyes. So
you won't lose a kick when you draw mustaches on me.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
On the billboards.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Missus Jordan told me you might know where her husband is.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Melissa told you that, good old Melissa.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We want Willard for suspicion of murder. What you were
with him last night?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
With Willard? Where is Willard now?
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Sleeping off a jag under a cold water tap and
the shower stall of the fifth Avenue mansion. I know
I threw him there myself, everything I do myself.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
He's not there anymore.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
We peeked and go look for a man with wet
coat and pants dry the gutter on Third Avenue in
twenty eighth, Willard's favorite, his pride and joy.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
That's where you left him.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
I left him in the shower store and told you that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Two yards ago.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Threw Willard in the shower went home. What time did
all these good things happened?
Speaker 10 (11:53):
M maybe two, three, four in the morning. I remember.
All was on my mind was my beauty sleep.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I'm vain toddle.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
My beauty get fat checks for cuddling it.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
So you want Willard for murder?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Anyone?
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I know?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Philip Hunt? You were in his house last night.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
That's where I was. That's where that pale, little rich
girl took us. I wish i'd known. Maybe I could
have wheedled the old man into using me in his advertising.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's all it means to you. A man's murder or
wanting Willard for it.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Maybe come to me with a Hollywood contract, mister, and
I'll show you what things can mean to me. I'll
change overnight for you.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'll live for it. Keep posing for beer, miss Sullivan,
just so i'll know you're around.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
I'll do it good because i'll keep it in mind.
You'll be staring at me through shop windows. I'm by now.
It's side pad time again.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So a half day had gone by and I had nothing.
The Technical division had something, though, and they gave it
to me. There'd been about seventeen people at the party
last night at the home of Philip Hunt. Seventeen people,
according to the kind of drinks, drags in the bottom
of liquor glasses and fingerprints, maybe nine men and eight women.
So far I had talked to three of the seventeen.
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Result shrugs and bleary answers.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Result. Nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Back Now to the home of Philip Hunt and talk
to his niece again, outside, this time in the small garden.
Sit in a wrought iron chair and watch Lois Hunt
taker three o'clock Scotch and soda.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Sure you won't have one, mister Clover.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No thanks. Listen to me, Lois. All I want you
to do is try to remember who else was here
last night. Somebody who had a motive for killing your uncle.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I had a motive. Money, I inherit most of the estates,
how soldier boy, Tommy, nice kid. I'm going to visit
him tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
You mean you just pick these people up and brought
them home?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
For sure?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Grab beg You never know Lor.
Speaker 11 (13:48):
There's cleaning.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Please please look.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The guesthouse was just across the garden, up a few steps.
The place was neat as a pin starched linen curtains,
maple chairs, and three shagged throw rugs placed at interesting angles.
And the one that stretched diagonally across the floor was
a man. I knelt beside him, away from the bloodstain
that had spilled from the bullet wound in his chest.
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His coat was still moist and it was spread open.
There was a label on the inside pocket tailored it
set by Jensen's Mills, expressly for mister Willard Jordan, and
mister Willard Jordan was dead.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover with the kids of the Beverly Hills Beavers
to the right of him, and those two curious revenue
agents to the left of him. Jack Benny needs plenty
of trouble this Sunday night on CBS. Be listening, be
(15:08):
laughing with the Jack Benny showed tomorrow night, and be
with us too for the fun with Eve Arden as
our miss Brooks. On most of these same CDs stations, The.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Long winter is dead on Broadway, and the street mourns.
It's dying without a tear. What's to weep?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Kid?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The dawn banging on the radiators, tearing, sleeping of pieces
on a cold morning. The standing on the street corner
in the night wind, trying to thumb through the racing
form with one hundred percent wall mittens, and the girls
so bundled up you can see their face.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
That's to weep.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Give me the springtime, kid, and the springtime things bud
and blossom, the girls, the neon flowers, the field of
golden daisies on the Transluxe. Look at it now, kid.
Artists dead in Fifth Avenue guest house. Police sift murder clues,
search link with death of Philip Hunt millionaire ever smell
posies like that, kid Springs come to Broadway, give up
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to it at police headquarters. That's just what Sergeant Daglia did.
He gave up to it.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Uh, Danny, the missus has been slipping the sofa with
the molasses into my pizzas lately.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
It's that time of the year again.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Goody, He's good that way.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
The way Missus Tattaglia makes a pizza, Danny, no harm
could come to it no matter what felon issue commits
to it here, which reminds me when you're coming to
partake of a springtime pizza soon, Geno, as soon as
I can, I promise, Ah, goody. I have also buy
mails so invited Lady Jane Pugh the they do well
lady detective from London Town.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
She's coming.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
She has not as yet replied with her rs VP
on an English capeer no doubt what else. I will
notify you, Danny when she accep you do that now. Firstly,
and to the forefront, the boys and technical have deduced
that the bullet that killed Willard Jordan Artists sprang from
the same gun that did likewise.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
To fill a punt. Thanks for telling me, I.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Thought you would relish it secondly and in the background.
Major Robert E.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Woodcock retired, Try me again, Geno, I haven't had my
sulfur and molasses.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Major Robert E.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Woodcock retired part took of breakfast every morning of his
retirement with the late deceased Philippunt, a fact established by
Sergeant Muggavin while questioning the housemaid three morning.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Huh, that's interesting, Gene. Only a stab in the dark.
But if a fellow wanted to talk to this Major Woodcock.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
He would go to the Union Club where the retired
major resides.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Naturally naturally Major, Major Woodcock, Wake up, Major, wake up.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
It never ends. It never ends. Major, I'm awake, young man, awake,
or a current dream you know, never ends, Always cut
off when it gets interesting, always cheated at the ending.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I'm from the police, Major, And.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
Don't pussyfoot boy, You're from the police. Be proud of it.
Nothing to be ashamed of. Walk on tiger's feet.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
About Philip Hunt.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
My friend, my old friend, chaperone of Mademoiselle around Paris
and the old army days together. Phil and I many
sunny days to remember. You want to know if I
was with Phil the night he died. Were you dropped
in for randy game chess? A lot of young people
(18:48):
took me in tow, made me act the major with
the boy a young corporal who was there. I'm afraid
it was a rather pathetic entertainment.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Then you got away from them.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
Happy to dismiss me, shunted me upstairs to old Phil.
We had our quiet brandies, our endless chest came never
finished it and cried old soldiers tears, and so to bed.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
You didn't come back for breakfast?
Speaker 11 (19:16):
Oh you know about that do? You had breakfast with
Phil every morning since our discharged in the library seven am.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Pleasant.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Then we'd putter around in the garden, pleasant, a ritual.
But you didn't come back that morning? Why too tired?
Overslept over brandied. I wish I had come back? Why
bid feel a good journey? Dead men can hear things
like that, you know pleases them. There was another reason
(19:49):
I wish i'd have come back.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Want to console Lois and thought of that.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
No, thank Phil for including me in his will. Left
me quite a som enormous sum, quite an over payment
for my work in his garden. But you knew about that. No,
I didn't makes me a suspect, though it does. It
should be interesting when you asked me about Willard Jordan,
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the artist right now painted my portrait. Willard did there?
It is hanging in back of me. Major Robert E.
Woodcock retired leaning against a field piece, classic clap trap.
But I've grown rather fond of it. That's all there
(20:37):
is of me now, me and it. I can always
reach you here Major Bill's gone? Where else would I go?
Speaker 9 (21:00):
It doesn't matter to you that I'm a widow, now,
does it?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You have to ask me questions, that's right, Missus Jordan.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
I won't answer them. I don't have to answer them.
Please get out and let me alone.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You told me you weren't at Lois Hunt's house last night.
You heard what I said?
Speaker 9 (21:17):
How was it Lois Hunt's house last night? I know
he's a terrible party pape.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
They take you to the party.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Tapey never goes to parties. He spills things in people's rugs.
I went along?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Did Lois pick you up at a bar?
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I never go to bars?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And you were following your husband?
Speaker 11 (21:34):
So what? So what?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
It's your right? Missus?
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Of course it is. I was his wife, just tagged
along just in case Willard got into trouble with that
brewery poster. That's all. Saw Willard go into the house, waited, well,
then I went in too.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Willard got into trouble. Missus Jordan, where were you?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Well?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Well, what.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Has to be sociable at a party? Anybody knows that
somebody gave you a drink? Never did get to see Willard?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And you must have gotten to know some of the people,
just names.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Like Nicki and John and Bobby. Honestly, I don't remember
a lot. Honestly, did I see you?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Danny?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh sure, Muggavn, come on in.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
What have you got got to report here from the
finger print department? You know what's strange, Danny?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The gun's got the prince of seventeen people on it.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Or maybe you did have once, not anymore? Wipe clean.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
What's the drama for Muggavn.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Why don't you just say it didn't have any prints
on it?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Because it has prints on it. The most beautiful set
of prince is possible, the entire hand of Lois Hunt.
Here's a photostat without a blemish or a smear killer,
Lois h.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'm asking you, Daddy, No, No, I don't think so.
Somebody doped to drink and pressed her hand against the gun.
If Lois had handled the gun to kill both men,
she'd have handled it twice. Then there would have been
two sets of prints, not one. Yeah, killer tried to
plan a frame.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I don't know, maybe or what else?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Nothing, Just these photographs of the Hunt mansion interiors, exteriors.
Six of the people who were at the party last
night are outside. You want me to bring them in?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, one at a time. Wait a minute, vacuum. Have
you talked to that corporal lately? A couple of times?
Six to his story passed out right after the girl did.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
She'd been reading to him. Isn't that what he said
in poetry?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Even told me the name of the books Sonnets from.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Look at this picture mugovin library for the kids we
found up boy sitting here, girl there?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Yeah, see any book near them? Now?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Look at this one picture of Hunt dad in his bedroom,
Squint muggovn. What's the name of the book.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Summits from Portuguese? You don't have to talk to those people, now,
do you. Danny?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Missus Lewis is upstairs in her room.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
I'll tell her you're here.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Take me to her, please.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
This way.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What time did you find miss Lewis and that soldier
in the library, Francis, about.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
A quarter after six. I've told that other policeman the.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Quarter after six. Isn't that pretty early?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Sure, Charley, I'll do it every morning, clean up in
the libraries so mister Hunt and that major could have
their breakfast.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Saw miss Lois and the soldier passed out and went
to tell mister Hunt. You saw mister Hunt dead and
called the police.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
I told another policeman that too, mis what is it policeman?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Hello, mister Clover, come one and that'll be all. Francis, Well,
come to tell me something about that soldier boy that
I'm going to try to do everything I can for him.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
You want to drink?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That gun that killed your uncle and Willard Jordan had
your prints on it?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Aren't you warm? I am just a second one.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
The casement opened.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
It's much more pleasant, don't you think? And what did
you say?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
The gun had your prints on it?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Didn't it have everyone's? We all handled the gun.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Why just my prince?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Because you wiped off everybody's prince and put your own
on it.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
I must have been loaded Why did I do that?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Make me think what? I thought? That?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You've been framed. Someone had put the gun in your
hand when you'd passed out.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
You've come to tell me you don't think that.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
What were you reading to Tommy when that dope drink
caught up with you?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Some Sonnets? I think everybody else had left, so I
thought sonnets were just a thing.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Corny?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You were reading the Sonnets and all of a sudden
you felt dizzy and you went to sleep.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Exactly?
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I told you.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But the book wasn't there when we found you, Lois,
What where was it on the night table next to
your uncle?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
But I was drugged? How to get there?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You put it there? That was an oversight, Lois. You
carried it up to your uncle's room, but.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I was drugged. You know that the doctor knows that
I was drugged.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Later, you put on an act for Tommy, pretended to
pass out, waited for the drug you'd put in his
drink to work on him. Then you got up, killed
your uncle, came back, then drugged your own drink.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Don't tell me what I did. If I'd done that,
I would have died.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
The doctor said, that drug was deadly.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Your own doctor, you didn't have anything to worry about. Francis,
your maid always cleaned up the library at six o'clock.
You knew she'd yell for help. Now tell me about
Willard Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Don't talk to me like that. Don't tell me what
to do.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, Jordan came back, didn't he He was looking for
a cigarette letter.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
You know every You and Uncle Fick.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Came back and saw Tommy lying there alone. Then you appeared.
You had a gun in your hand.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
You're so smart, walked.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Well into the guesthouse, killed him because.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
You had to smart.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Uncle was smart, told me what to do. Why I
had to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It wasn't just the money you had. That your uncle
gave you everything you want.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Like I was a little girl, like I didn't know
my own mind.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Just the way you're talking to.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Me, let's go all over.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
No, no, no, come on, no, I won't go.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
I'm going to kill myself.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Get away from that wind all OUs.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I don't care, I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Listen to me.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
Don't you come near me. I'm gonna die.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
You'll be sorry, all of you when I'm lying out there,
you'll be sorry.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
My friend look good, and they'll look at me and
they'll be sorry.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
And I grab her.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
She didn't struggle, was just shrieked over and over. When
I let her out of the room, she was still shrieking,
and all of a sudden she stopped. Then she looked
at me, bewildered at first, then smiling an etiquette smile
that a girl gives a man after a pleasant dance.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Then she touched my cheek. She spoke, I.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Don't think my friends would have been sorry, mister Clover,
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
On Broadway, the fury of the night races against the
time of dawn. It needs those hours to prove itself.
The mob, the grinning faces, the voice that whispers. But
hurry times at your heels, and the night lasts only
so long. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the
(29:16):
lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Broadway, My Beat, Broadways, My Beat stars Larry Thor as
(29:41):
Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack
Krusian as Muggovin. The program was produced and directed by
Ali At Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by
Alexander Courage. In tonight's cast, Kathy Lewis was heard as
Lois Hunt, Lee malaras Tommy Milo, Heggy Webber as Melissa Jordan,
Michael Ann Barrett is Barbara Sullivan, and Russell Simpson as
(30:03):
Major Woodcock. Our defense program today calls for sacrifices, but
the better we produce, the fewer those sacrifices will be.
To do this most effectively, we must all work together
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toward top productivity. The free booklet The Miracle of America
gives the story of the American system and of the
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of us. Write box ten Times Square Station, New York
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the better we produce, the stronger we grow. Stay tuned
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now for Singing Again, which follows immediately over most of
these same CDs stations. Joe Walder is speaking. This is
CDs where you laugh at Jack every Sunday night the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Welcome back. Even with the expectation that the maid was
going to show up, she was taking an awfully big risk.
If the maid was late or the police doctor couldn't
get there right away, or if the doctor was not
quite as good as doctor Sinski, she could have died.
It was a huge gamble. But then again, whoever said
(31:34):
murderers are always sensible? Now we got to hear Kathy
Lewis as the murderer, and it's worth talking about. She's
an incredibly talented radio actress, but unlike people like Virginia
greg or Piggy Weber, we don't get to hear her
much now. At this point, she was playing Irma's best
(31:56):
friend on My Friend Irma, and she'd also be on
frequently on radio anthology programs like The Suspense or The
Whistler every week. Much earlier in her career, she played
Phyllis Hamilton to Wally Maher's Michael Shane, but she didn't
appear as often in guest roles in detective programs. For
(32:20):
the most part, the major disclosed that he had a
motive for doing the killing, which I think is sensible.
There is nothing that gives the police more suspicion than
if you act like there was no motive and they
find out that there was. And we have a comment
for Carol who writes, I've enjoyed listening to you for years,
(32:42):
and it is time to show my appreciation. Well, thank
you so much, and I appreciate your donation. Thanks so much.
And then Mechanics sixty six riots regarding the episode the
Ben Justin murder case over on Spotify. Since they knew
they couldn't be tried again for the same crime, why
would they bother killing anyone or for that matter, paying blackmail? Well,
(33:07):
I think one thing that the insurance agent reference in
that episode was the idea that for one hundred thousand
dollars they keep trying. The episode had the idea that
they could somehow have the insurance money clawed back, although
(33:29):
I guess it would kind of depend on how the
insurance contract was written. Would the insurance company be able
to reclaim the funds, perhaps by filing a wrongful death suit,
or is the lack of a criminal conviction enough to
allow them to keep the insurance money. So I'm not
(33:51):
certain the technicality on that, and I guess beyond that
is just the whole social angle. Even if you're not
criminally convicted, if somebody comes out with evidence that you
did the murder, that's very convincing to the public. You're
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not going to prison, but life may be very unpleasant
for you. And so those are the things that I
would expect go into committing the murder now. And as
I said, whether they legally would be able to get
the money back, I'm not certain, although there is a
clear intimation from what the insurance agent said that the
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insurance company believed that they could somehow get the money back,
which is why they were keeping an eye on Ben
Justin and his relationship with this couple in this case
he investigated. And then Ryan Sir comments on the on
YouTube regarding the Kenneth Mitchell murder case. What a case. Wow, Well,
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My Beat, But join us back here tomorrow for drag netwere.
Speaker 12 (35:48):
This is Hank Carter, Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Ben Romeo. Please, department, Hank,
I wonder if you'd tell these officers a little of
what you told me about kill Dore TV specialists and
how supports. I'm a customer. I commend to kill Gore's
I don't like aside of my repair bill. What were
you instructed to say? We generally tried to talk him
out of any complaint. Of course, I complained about all
the multiple charges. I wanted an explanation of the work
(36:08):
you did. What then you just tell you that it
wouldn't do any good to explain. You wouldn't understand all
the technical stuff anyway. Tell us kill Gore's attitude with
the customer.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
You mean about the loose wires test? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (36:18):
Please?
Speaker 13 (36:19):
Well, kil Gore used to tell us that if we
only charged fifty cents for fixing the loose wire, the
customer wouldn't believe we really fixed his set. So we
used to charge quite a lot more, well, how much more?
For example, for Nichols worth of wire, we usually charge
four dollars and seventy five cents.
Speaker 11 (36:32):
Pretty fair profit and it's a real rub.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
What else can you tell us?
Speaker 13 (36:36):
An We'd never let a customer watch any of the
TV repair job. For example, if a customer causes says
he thinks the two is blown out and it will
only be a simple replacement job in his home, and
we'd tell him the parts they are getting hard to
get and we'd have to take his set into the
shop and charge him a higher rate because we had
to pay black market prices for the two.
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