November 16, 2025 • 34 mins
A woman visits the Derringer Society and the members start dying as she predicted.
Original Air Date: July 8, 1946
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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Original Air Date: July 8, 1946
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Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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now it's time for today's episode of the Casebook of
Gregory Hood. The Derringer Society at three.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Wine brings you Facebook the Gregory Hood. Tonight's the Petrie Family,
the family that took time to bring you to the
story of a Darringer Society. Another exciting story from the
case Books of Gregory Hood. And right now i'd like
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to talk about those few minutes you have while you're
waiting for dinner every evening, that's the perfect time for
a glass of Petrie California Sherriff. Is the best beginning
a good meal ever had. You really feel like you're
enjoying the good things of life when you take time
for a glass of Petrie sherry. Pull that glass of
sherry to the light. Look at it. It's a beautiful
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dark amber. Yes, and Petrie sherry is clear and fragrant
the way a good wine should be. Now tasty, Ah,
you've got something that Petrie sherry has a real heart
of the grape flavor. And look, if you like your
sherry dry, you know, not sweet. Petrie makes a fine
dry sherry. It's called Petree pale dry. And if you
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don't know yet which you prefer, the regular sherry or
the dry, why not try both. Don't buy one by two,
just be sure you always by Petrick. Well, it's Monday
(04:23):
night in San Francisco. We have a date with Gregory
Hood and his friend and attorney Sanderson Sailor. Tonight's rendezvous
is at that delectable backwater, the Happy Valley Room at
the famous Palace hotel. Let's keep our date, shall we?
Everry Botell, how are you, hello, Gregory hitting mister sailor?
What do you mean, Harry? We just ordered the grass
of Sherry. You join us across. Thanks, Greg, be very nice.
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I make that three Sherry's call. Well, gentlemen, which stories
have you selected from the casebook for tonight's episode? Quite
remarkable case to be filed under the Hitting of the Derringer, Sosie.
It sounds exciting. But what is the Derringer Society? Well,
surely you remember the it was wonderful early semi scientific
yarns about doctor Darringer. Yes, I do, Greg, now that
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you mention it, it's sort of Jules Byrne stories, weren't they. Yes,
And if you reread them, Harry, you'll realize that they
predict just about everything, from rockets to the atomic bomb.
You're both members of the Darringers Society. I think it,
In fact, Gregorous, President, Greg, I'm always learning something new
about you. Oh. I've been a Deringer fan for a
great many years, Harry, so it was only natural that
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I rounded up a few old cronies here who were
equally interested and formed of the society. We meet from
time to time in a private Roman scenario in maidenly.
On the particular occasion I'm talking about, the evening started
out very quietly, with an excellent dinner, fine wine, and
lots of good talk about the famous Doctor Derringer. And
then I rose when ut, Fellow members of the.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Deringer Society, you will already have noticed.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That we have violated our long standing stag rule. We
have a lady among us for shame. Oh no, no, George,
We've broken the president for a very particular reason. I
don't have to remind any of you that the fabulous
Doctor Derringer, that great bade bearded scientific giant, was especially
devoted to the tricks played by time.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Our guest tonight is Miss Julia Hayes. She claims to
perform exactly the sort of time travel prophecy that the
Great Deringer foretold. Miss Hayes, gentlemen, claims to be able
to predict future events. Doctor Barton, our psychiatrist's member, has
been examining Miss Hayes today, and I shall ask him
to introduce her. Thank you, mister President. Fellow members, I
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must preface my remarks by skating that if I appear
to speak of our guest in a slightly clinical manner.
I do so with her full permission. Am I right,
Miss Hayes, Yes.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Doctor Barton, you may say anything you wish.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thank you, Miss Hayes.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Gentlemen, this afternoon I spent some two hours examining our guests,
and by all known psychological tests, he's simply normal, and
perhaps a fifer below average mentality. But her record has
already established the fact that she can often predict future
events with surprising accuracy, quite above the laws of chance.
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And now, gentlemen, Miss Hayes will be quite willing to
answer any question. Yes, Sir Sandy Taylor, I think yours
was the first handy. There are few any outstanding events
that you're predicted in the past.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
On May the fourth, nineteen thirty seven, I predicted that
two days later the German airship Hindenburg would be destroyed.
I predicted the death of both Mussolini and his son
in law Canciano. I was writers to both date and time.
I am seldom wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Miss Haylees.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
How do you explain your unusual ability?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
I cannot explain it. It is beyond my understanding. It
is a gift when I let my mind go blank.
I can see into the future.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Miss Hayes, can you tell me what horse is going
to win the second race at Arlington?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Tomorrow's the Chester? Hey? That are again?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Sorryhood, I beg your pardon today. I was just saying,
let me ask you a serious question. Are you able
to see into the future at will?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Yes? If I make my mind a blank, I can
usually see into the immediate future.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Would you consider making a prediction for it?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I will try.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I can promise nothing, but I will try. Monday, Monday.
It is Monday, at age fifteen. I see the future,
but not far ahead. This same night, three hours from now,
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at eleven fifteen to night, I see a small man,
a bald man with glasses. His name is Chester.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Jo Quiet, mister Chester, don't spoil it.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
She's still hot tonight, mister Chester. At exactly eleven fifteen,
you will be murdered.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I think that was one of the most emotional meetings
we've ever had of the Daring Just Society. It certainly
broke up in a higway when she predicted the murder
of Chester. Yes, what do you make of that woman? Gregory? Well,
it's hard to say time traveled into the future is
all very well in the Daring stories. Otherwise, I don't
care for it too much. Life's complicated enough in a straight.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Line these days.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Wait for me, Chester, he's chasing us on the double.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
He really must be scared when.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I caught you fellows before you left. What's wrong, mister Chester?
You're taking that prediction seriously? It's hard to me, more
like a and a prediction. My reason tells me it's
foolish to take the thing seriously. And yet, after all,
I did make that stupid remark about.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
The horse races. She's a weird woman.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
She may have some odd powers that we know nothing about.
What do you first think I ought to do get
the police for half now? I think it'd be a
little hard to convince them that you were in danger. Yes,
it's a quarter of eleven. Now would you like me
to come home with you until after her? Eleven fifteen deadliners?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Fast?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh no, no, what?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I won't part of you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm probably being extremely stupid. Well, thanks for this little talk.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I feel a lot better.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Good Night, good night, miss Chester. Good night.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
He really is frightening, isn't badly?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh well, Sandy, I don't think we need to take
the business very seriously, of course, just the same. I
have a feeling that miss balford Chester may not sleep
too easily tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yes, there it's me.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Are you in bed? I'll hang up my things and
come and tell you about it. It was rather a
peculiar evening. There was a woman there who claimed to
be able to see into the future.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I know, But the funny thing was she, Oh, but
that's non sense.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What's the time, Alice? Eleven fifteen?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And I'm safe.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I need at the top of the morning to you
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stand morning? What brings you to my office is early
in the morning?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Stand?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Could we induce you in this ming bars for missus
Silvers or we have a nice line in inca headdresses.
You'd look rather fetching in one, Greg, I'm here on business.
You saw Alfred Chester last night?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Sure we both did.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Why late last night he was murdered?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
He was what time stand?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
His wife says it was exactly eleven fifteen? Christ God,
then the prediction came true. What predictions are you talking about?
Mister Tabor? Chester attended the meeting of the darn To
Society last night. A woman by the name of Julia
Hayes went into a sort of trance. Predicted Chester would
be murdered as exactly eleven fifteen. And that's a woman
I've got to talk to.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
We'll all go and talk to us.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Stand, but before we do, there's one thing I'd like
to know. How was the murder committed? Chester was stabbed
from behind by a medium sized, right handed person. No fingerprints,
no clue.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Who are you calling, Grigors boss?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
He can tell us where Julia Hayes can be found.
Get me doctor Bartons. Obviously, Doctor Barton, I know him.
He's a psychiatrist, isn't he. That's the man he brought
your Hayes to our meeting last night. Oh thanks, doctor Barton.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
This is Gregory Hood.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh can you tell me where I can get in
touch with Julia Hayes. She's here in my office now
and I found out something very interesting about so have I. Boughton,
please keep her there until we arrive. We're leaving right away.
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I've been examining miss Hayes again this morning, gentlemen, and
I've uncovered a very interesting fact. Miss Hayes was left
handed in her childhood, but she's been forcibly trained into
right handedness since it's a situation that, as often has
unpredictable psychological results. Though I'll confess never precisely like her.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
She is extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
She Barton, Lieutenant Silver's will tell you just how extraordinary,
Doctor Barton. Albert Chester was murdered last night, murdered by
her right hand the person what and her prediction came
through to the exact minute. He died at eleventh fifteen.
He did die right. I don't know what to say.
One thing I can assure you, gentlemen. Miss Hayes did
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not commit the crime myself. How do you know because
I brought her back here after the meeting last night.
I was working with her until twelve thirty. Where's Messes
now in the other room. You want to talk to her, yes,
doctor Barton, I certainly do.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'll call her in.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Come in, say yes, doctor these a gentleman want to
ask you a few questions. What questions? I understand you
predicted the murder of mister Alfred Chester last night.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yes it happened, of course, Yes I knew it would.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
How do you account for the fact that you predicted
it three hours before it happened?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I cannot account for it. It is a gift that
I cannot explain. I can see things in the immediate future.
I can tell you what is to happen today before
the days of I can't tell you again.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
What can you tell us, miss Hayes.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I see a large man, red face man.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
His name to George Felton, another member of the Darrent.
What do you see, Miss Hayes.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
He will die tonight, he too will be murdered.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
The hecky well, this is one murder that isn't going
to take place.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
George Shelton speaking sluten.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
And silvers again, mister Silvis, why don't you leave me alone?
I don't want any police protection, and I won't have anymore,
mister feld And I told you that Alfridchester was murdered
last night, right after he's been threatened by this woman.
If death was a coincidence of this, it is probably
a prowler. But I'm not easily scared, and I don't
believe in supernatural powers, even though I am a member
of the Darrent Society. I wish you'd let me come over,
mister Pelton. We don't like to take any chance. Now
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look here, Silva's it's nearly midnight. My wife and I
are going to bed. Don't you worry about us If
anyone murders me during the night, I'll get in touch
with you first thing in the morning. Lieutenant Silda's again,
still worrying about that streath on your life. Yes, that's
the fifth time he's called me today, Darling. He must
take it seriously, even if you don't. Oh, now, don't
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worry all pretty d about it, India, you run along
to bed, dear, I'll lock up. I suppose you know best?
What's that I heard something, Gregory. I blame myself for
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mister Felton's murder last night. You did your best, yes, lieutenants,
not for all you. You tried to force him to
take protection, but he wouldn't hear of it. And I
know what I do, blame myself. Well, let's see what
Jugut Hayes has to say about this one. He's waiting outside,
I mean places Hays, Thomas Hayes. I want to know
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how you knew this latest murder was going to take place.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I cannot tell you how I knew it is just
that when my mind is a blank, I have the
ability to see into the future.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Now, look, miss Hayes, I'm a plain, straightforward police officer
one coincidence I can take, but not to And I
can't write on a police report that you knew about
the murder because you can see into the future, you know,
why not tell me the truth? I am telling the truth,
Oh Gregory, See if you can get anything out of it,
Miss Hayes, What is it I understand about your being
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able to travel into the future, But surely you must
be able to remember more about what you saw when
you had that vision.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Try and think back?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Will you think back?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I can only see forward forward.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
My mind's banking out again.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I see another death in the immediate future, sudden death.
Man is tall and dark.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
His name is Hood, Gregory Hood. You'll hear the rest
of gregoryhood story in just a second. So I'll tell
you quickly about a wine. I know you like. That
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wine is Petrie California Muscatel. Petrie Muscatel is really marvelous.
In fact, I'm willing to bet you like everything about it.
Petrie Musketel is good. Just to look at the color
of sheer gold and say, if you've ever tasted plump,
luscious muscat grapes at their sunripe, and well, then you
know what to expect when you taste Petrie musket Tell.
(19:04):
Petrie musketell brings you that same wonderful muscat flavor, and
you like Patrie musketell after dinner by itself or served
with fruit, for instance, peaches, or with cake. Just be
sure it's Petrie Petrie musket Tell, because Petrie wine is
always good wine. Well, Gregory, so yours was the third
murder to be predicted, considering the first two had taken place.
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According to Schedin, you must have felt a little nervous
for the first twenty four hours. I was a trifle
sensitive to sudden sounds, Harry. But when forty eight hours
had passed without anything happening, I began to feel rather
let down. Down. Would have thought you'd have been grateful.
And Gregory has an ingrein sense of meta drama. Have
I think he felt cheated because the spot plight was
on him and he didn't have a scene to play
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exactly Sandy, As my old father used to say, if
you're fortunate enough to hit the headlines, for Heaven's sake,
make the most of it. But how could I The
other two killings had followed right on the heels of
the prophecies. Now mine had been predicted and nothing happened
at all. It was rather humiliating. That's one way of
looking at it. In any case. I'm sure you didn't
just sit down and wait for someone to try to
catch you.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Oh no, no, Harry.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
As soon as Julia Hayes Thatt had her dia threat,
Lieutenant Silvers and I went into action. We questioned everyone
and checked the alibias who we were as black in
the face as a couple of end men. But after
three days of this we had regressed exactly nowhere. On
the night of the fourth day, I remember Sandy and
I sat in my apartment while you and look at
and Silvers have been doing the leg work. I've been
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doing some serious thinking, blended Sandy, what conclusions did you
arrive at? I think there's only one answer to this case,
and that answer is doctor Barton's a psychiatrist. Julia Hayes
is slightly subnormal. I wouldn't mind giving you odds that
he hypnotized her into performing the two murders. She'd be
an easy hypnotic vict him. I've thought of that possibility.
Have you figured out his motive? No, but I'll skip
that for the moment. One thing we do know, he
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had the opportunity. He was the only person who was
alone with the woman for any length of time between
her arrival in San Francisco and her first prophecy at
our meeting. Very true, and I think I could provide
your missing motive, Sandy. We've checked on doctor Barton thoroughly.
The wife of George Felton, the second man murdered, was
a patient of Barton's. There was also a beautiful woman,
no doubt, is now a very rich one. I've gleened
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rumors that her relationship with Barton was a little more
cozy than that which usually exists between doctor and patient.
In that case, how would you account for the first murder,
the stabbing of Alfred Chester. Well, that could have been
a blind to establish a pattern and conceal the motive. Well,
that's the case. Your death would be necessary. Also true, true,
done at Sandy. This is all supposition. We happened, a
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real lead to follow.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
There's one thing I.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Will say, although who are you calling? Doctor Howell is
staying at the Fairmont. He's probably the greatest psychiatist in
the country, Doctor Eustace Howelly. What can he say? Whether
Julia Hayes could have been hypnotized into committing murder. Doctor Howell,
this is Gregory Hood. I'm fine, thanks, Yes, I'd like
to in the meanwhile, do you mind if I pick
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your brains?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah? Is here My problem?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Is it possible to hypnotize an individual to commit a
criminal act against his will?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Thanks? Thanks? I thought so. I'm much obliged to.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I'll call you in a day or two.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Goodbye. Can't down?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Huh no, he says. The answer is an unqualified no. Well,
I'm going to accelerate my own murder. Just tell me
what flowers you like first. I'm very fond of trans
valid days. Is Sanday, but don't worry about my funeral life. Yes,
Lieutenant silversplease? Who can play at this game?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Sandy?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh Stan, this is greg Hood. No, no, no more leads,
But I have got a brain wave. Pick up Julia
Hayes and bring her up to the apartment as soon
as you can. Yes, we'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I cannot answer any more questions.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Mister Hood. Miss Hayes, you predicted that I would be
murdered in this apartment. Doesn't the setting ring a responsive
chord in your No? No, it does not. Your other
prophecies came through. What happened to this one? I do
not know.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I cannot explain it.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Perhaps you've lost your mysterious power. May oh, perhaps you
never had it. Perhaps you made the whole thing up.
Why not admit you or a murders who poses as
a prophet.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I am no murderers.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I can see the future, or I could.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Something has happened to me.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You never could see the future, and you never will.
But I'll tell you your future, Misses. If you don't tell
us the truth, you'll end up in the gas chamber.
And I don't have to be a clairvoyant to know that.
Stop talking like that. Leave me alone. I won't see
you come back.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
No, no, Stan, let her go.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'll Taylor though Greg good idea he's upset.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
She might show her hand.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I'll be back later. Well, I'm still known it. Other solution, Vigor,
I don't know. I swear there's still hypnotism in it somewhere.
I have a hunch that Julia Hayes isn't conscious of it,
that alibi of hers for the first killing might be
a true one. At that Hello, yes, button, my brother
A serious confession to make you I lied to the
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police about what seeing that Julia Hayes was with me
at the time of the first.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Murder was why did you lie?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well? The woman seems such a unique psychiatric steady. I
wanted to complete my examination before the police. No, I've
finished my researcher with her. Tell him yourself, Barton, and
I wish you the worst of luck in explaining it
to them. There's a man that danced at his father's wedding.
What did you say, Gregor? He dynamited Julia Hayes alibi
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for the first murder, But in doing so, I'm pretty
certain he's put the finger on himself. Doctor Howell.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Please, and I think we're on the right track at last.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I certainly hope, sir, doctor Hawll. This is greg Hood again.
I want just one more piece of information.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Please.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Can a post hypnotic suggestion include persuading the patient that
he was never hypnotized at all? It can, thank you, doctor,
I'm immensely obliged to you. There's our answer, Sandy. When
Barton demolished the woman's alibi, he also demolished his own.
Then he did hypnotize, sure, then he planted the apparent
prophecies in her mind after she'd made them public, he
committed the murders himself. I get it, and he thought
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that when he's cuttle, Julia Hayes alibi. We think she
tried to make her own predictions come true.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
That's it Andy.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Fortunately for us, he's outsmarted himself and walked into his
own trap.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
We've got him.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Who's that that?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
You?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Stan? Who turned off the light? Oh? No, you know beggary? Beggary?
Where are you? What happened? Right into the light switch?
He's got a knife?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Bragg a man?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, why the light sort?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't stand the killers here.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
He's got a knife. She's got a knife.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's Jusa Hayes. She got away from me when I
praised them back.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It can't be again. Here's the witch. It is Julia Hayes. Gregory,
you've got your cold miss Hayes. Knife's in your hand
and all. Well, well have you got to say for yourself?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I'm sorry I did not kill you, mister Hood.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well that's very friendly of you, Miss Hayes. But I'm
completely confused, so am I Gregory, who just finished proving
to me that she couldn't be the well. I don't
know what more evident you want. Greg The knife's in
her hand and she admits she wished she'd killed you. Yes,
I admit it.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
You all made fun of me. You did not believe
in my gift. If you had died, then all my
predictions would have come true.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
But I am no murderers.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Of course you aren't.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
What are you talking about, Gregory? But don't you see
she's holding the knife in her left hand.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
There's the answer.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Come on, lieutenant, Let's go over and see doctor Barton
as fast as the squad car can get us there.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
This is all very dramatic.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
A police inspector and amateur detective and his attorneys stand
in my home and accuse me of murder? Is this
some form of practical joke. If you think it is,
you must have a very warped sense of humor. I
don't think the judge will find it funny, doctor Barton,
and I know that your attorney weren't. But this is ridiculous.
You're suggesting that I hypnotized Julia Hayes into making murder prophecies,
and then that I carried out the murders myself to.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Coin a phrase.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yes, But my dear hood, you've just admitted that she
attacked you tonight. Yes, you suggested the idea and the
three of us by taunting her with her failure as
a prophet earlier on helped her never too stable minds
snapped and she attacked me to fulfill her record of prophecies.
But why couldn't she have committed the two murders.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You overlooked one thing, my friend.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You didn't know that under strong emotion she reverts to
her childhood left handedness. She attacked me tonight with her
left hand. The murders were committed by a right handed person.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I want to argue any more.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'd like to know what you think my motive was, hood.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Oh that's easy.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Missus Felton, the widow of your second victim, broke down
half an hour ago and spilled.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Quite a few beams.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
She did, I mean, yes, she is sure. Cynthia's been talking.
That had come with me. Doctor, Very well, Lieutenant, I
should prefer not to talk any more. I've seen my
attorney good night. I see you in court.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Barton.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You tell the most convincing lies. That story about Missus
Felton talking. How can you do it?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
It takes years of training.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
My old father always used to say that if you
couldn't think of a really convincing truth when you wanted
to make a good point, then tell us something great life.
You're a chip off the old block, Sandy, I'm worried.
Conscience bothering. Mm hmm. I'm thinking about the Darringer Society.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
What about it? Well, Sandy brood about it.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
With two of our society murdered and the third headed
for the gas chamber, we can certainly use some new members, Greg,
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that was an exciting story. How do you get mixed
up in these things?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Harry? I guess I'm just around when they happen.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
But why is it I'm never around?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Harry.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Maybe you're just the kind of person nothing ever happens
too lucky you you mean for me? I bet if
our remember of the Derringer Society. Things would start happening
to me.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But before you can become a member, you must be
able to contribute something to the society.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Have you a scientific mind?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I'm a genius with a tinker toy. Oh no, no
know anything about psychiatry, no hypnotism, no precognition. Don't even
know what it means. Well, in that event, Harry, what
in the world could you possibly contribute to the Dringer
Society a case of Petrie wine. I should have known
they'll love me, greg because Petrie wine is such good wine. Well,
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it's just got to be. With the Petrie family, the
growing of perfect sun ripened grapes, in the art of
turning those grapes into fragrant, delicious wine is a heritage.
It's a heritage passed on down from father to son,
from father to son. No wonder Petri wine is so good. Yes,
the making of Petrie wine is a family affair, and
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the Petrick family has every intention of keeping it just that.
So you know, the name Petrie on a bottle of
wine is more than a trademark. It's the personal assurance
of the Petrie family that Petrie wine is and always
will be good wine. Well, Gregory, which adventure out of
the case book are you planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Next Monday, Harry, I'm going to tell of a.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Weird adventure that stand in I had in Mexico City
some months ago.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
During the course of the story, I succeeded.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
In getting myself kidnapped by a female shop shooter nearly
ended up with an extremely beautiful wife. I'll see you
next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory Hood is
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written by Dannis Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed
and played by Dean Fossler. Gail Gordon plays the part
of Gregory Hood, and Sanderson Taylor is played by Carl Harbor.
The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you
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to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
The Case Book of Gregory Hood comes to you from
our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying good night
for the Petrie family. We're a solid hour of exciting
mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of these same
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Speaker 2 (31:48):
Welcome back. Another great story. And I love how they
really just confuse things towards the end. It seemed within
the last five minutes they changed between the psychiatrist and
the quote unquote prophet something like three times and again.
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This is just a great series and I definitely wish
there were more episodes, and I wish they could keep
a Sanderson Taylor. We have a new actor with playing
Sanderson Taylor. Sounds kind of British, Carl Harberg. Actually beyond
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Gregory Hood. The Derringer Society at three.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Wine brings you Facebook the Gregory Hood. Tonight's the Petrie Family,
the family that took time to bring you to the
story of a Darringer Society. Another exciting story from the
case Books of Gregory Hood. And right now i'd like
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the way a good wine should be. Now tasty, Ah,
you've got something that Petrie sherry has a real heart
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don't know yet which you prefer, the regular sherry or
the dry, why not try both. Don't buy one by two,
just be sure you always by Petrick. Well, it's Monday
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night in San Francisco. We have a date with Gregory
Hood and his friend and attorney Sanderson Sailor. Tonight's rendezvous
is at that delectable backwater, the Happy Valley Room at
the famous Palace hotel. Let's keep our date, shall we?
Everry Botell, how are you, hello, Gregory hitting mister sailor?
What do you mean, Harry? We just ordered the grass
of Sherry. You join us across. Thanks, Greg, be very nice.
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I make that three Sherry's call. Well, gentlemen, which stories
have you selected from the casebook for tonight's episode? Quite
remarkable case to be filed under the Hitting of the Derringer, Sosie.
It sounds exciting. But what is the Derringer Society? Well,
surely you remember the it was wonderful early semi scientific
yarns about doctor Darringer. Yes, I do, Greg, now that
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you mention it, it's sort of Jules Byrne stories, weren't they. Yes,
And if you reread them, Harry, you'll realize that they
predict just about everything, from rockets to the atomic bomb.
You're both members of the Darringers Society. I think it,
In fact, Gregorous, President, Greg, I'm always learning something new
about you. Oh. I've been a Deringer fan for a
great many years, Harry, so it was only natural that
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I rounded up a few old cronies here who were
equally interested and formed of the society. We meet from
time to time in a private Roman scenario in maidenly.
On the particular occasion I'm talking about, the evening started
out very quietly, with an excellent dinner, fine wine, and
lots of good talk about the famous Doctor Derringer. And
then I rose when ut, Fellow members of the.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Deringer Society, you will already have noticed.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That we have violated our long standing stag rule. We
have a lady among us for shame. Oh no, no, George,
We've broken the president for a very particular reason. I
don't have to remind any of you that the fabulous
Doctor Derringer, that great bade bearded scientific giant, was especially
devoted to the tricks played by time.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Our guest tonight is Miss Julia Hayes. She claims to
perform exactly the sort of time travel prophecy that the
Great Deringer foretold. Miss Hayes, gentlemen, claims to be able
to predict future events. Doctor Barton, our psychiatrist's member, has
been examining Miss Hayes today, and I shall ask him
to introduce her. Thank you, mister President. Fellow members, I
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must preface my remarks by skating that if I appear
to speak of our guest in a slightly clinical manner.
I do so with her full permission. Am I right,
Miss Hayes, Yes.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Doctor Barton, you may say anything you wish.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thank you, Miss Hayes.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Gentlemen, this afternoon I spent some two hours examining our guests,
and by all known psychological tests, he's simply normal, and
perhaps a fifer below average mentality. But her record has
already established the fact that she can often predict future
events with surprising accuracy, quite above the laws of chance.
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And now, gentlemen, Miss Hayes will be quite willing to
answer any question. Yes, Sir Sandy Taylor, I think yours
was the first handy. There are few any outstanding events
that you're predicted in the past.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
On May the fourth, nineteen thirty seven, I predicted that
two days later the German airship Hindenburg would be destroyed.
I predicted the death of both Mussolini and his son
in law Canciano. I was writers to both date and time.
I am seldom wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Miss Haylees.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
How do you explain your unusual ability?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
I cannot explain it. It is beyond my understanding. It
is a gift when I let my mind go blank.
I can see into the future.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Miss Hayes, can you tell me what horse is going
to win the second race at Arlington?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Tomorrow's the Chester? Hey? That are again?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Sorryhood, I beg your pardon today. I was just saying,
let me ask you a serious question. Are you able
to see into the future at will?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Yes? If I make my mind a blank, I can
usually see into the immediate future.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Would you consider making a prediction for it?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I will try.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I can promise nothing, but I will try. Monday, Monday.
It is Monday, at age fifteen. I see the future,
but not far ahead. This same night, three hours from now,
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at eleven fifteen to night, I see a small man,
a bald man with glasses. His name is Chester.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Jo Quiet, mister Chester, don't spoil it.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
She's still hot tonight, mister Chester. At exactly eleven fifteen,
you will be murdered.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I think that was one of the most emotional meetings
we've ever had of the Daring Just Society. It certainly
broke up in a higway when she predicted the murder
of Chester. Yes, what do you make of that woman? Gregory? Well,
it's hard to say time traveled into the future is
all very well in the Daring stories. Otherwise, I don't
care for it too much. Life's complicated enough in a straight.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Line these days.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Wait for me, Chester, he's chasing us on the double.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
He really must be scared when.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I caught you fellows before you left. What's wrong, mister Chester?
You're taking that prediction seriously? It's hard to me, more
like a and a prediction. My reason tells me it's
foolish to take the thing seriously. And yet, after all,
I did make that stupid remark about.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
The horse races. She's a weird woman.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
She may have some odd powers that we know nothing about.
What do you first think I ought to do get
the police for half now? I think it'd be a
little hard to convince them that you were in danger. Yes,
it's a quarter of eleven. Now would you like me
to come home with you until after her? Eleven fifteen deadliners?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Fast?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh no, no, what?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I won't part of you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm probably being extremely stupid. Well, thanks for this little talk.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I feel a lot better.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Good Night, good night, miss Chester. Good night.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
He really is frightening, isn't badly?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh well, Sandy, I don't think we need to take
the business very seriously, of course, just the same. I
have a feeling that miss balford Chester may not sleep
too easily tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yes, there it's me.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Are you in bed? I'll hang up my things and
come and tell you about it. It was rather a
peculiar evening. There was a woman there who claimed to
be able to see into the future.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I know, But the funny thing was she, Oh, but
that's non sense.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What's the time, Alice? Eleven fifteen?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And I'm safe.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I need at the top of the morning to you
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stand morning? What brings you to my office is early
in the morning?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Stand?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Could we induce you in this ming bars for missus
Silvers or we have a nice line in inca headdresses.
You'd look rather fetching in one, Greg, I'm here on business.
You saw Alfred Chester last night?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Sure we both did.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Why late last night he was murdered?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
He was what time stand?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
His wife says it was exactly eleven fifteen? Christ God,
then the prediction came true. What predictions are you talking about?
Mister Tabor? Chester attended the meeting of the darn To
Society last night. A woman by the name of Julia
Hayes went into a sort of trance. Predicted Chester would
be murdered as exactly eleven fifteen. And that's a woman
I've got to talk to.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
We'll all go and talk to us.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Stand, but before we do, there's one thing I'd like
to know. How was the murder committed? Chester was stabbed
from behind by a medium sized, right handed person. No fingerprints,
no clue.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Who are you calling, Grigors boss?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
He can tell us where Julia Hayes can be found.
Get me doctor Bartons. Obviously, Doctor Barton, I know him.
He's a psychiatrist, isn't he. That's the man he brought
your Hayes to our meeting last night. Oh thanks, doctor Barton.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
This is Gregory Hood.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh can you tell me where I can get in
touch with Julia Hayes. She's here in my office now
and I found out something very interesting about so have I. Boughton,
please keep her there until we arrive. We're leaving right away.
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I've been examining miss Hayes again this morning, gentlemen, and
I've uncovered a very interesting fact. Miss Hayes was left
handed in her childhood, but she's been forcibly trained into
right handedness since it's a situation that, as often has
unpredictable psychological results. Though I'll confess never precisely like her.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
She is extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
She Barton, Lieutenant Silver's will tell you just how extraordinary,
Doctor Barton. Albert Chester was murdered last night, murdered by
her right hand the person what and her prediction came
through to the exact minute. He died at eleventh fifteen.
He did die right. I don't know what to say.
One thing I can assure you, gentlemen. Miss Hayes did
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not commit the crime myself. How do you know because
I brought her back here after the meeting last night.
I was working with her until twelve thirty. Where's Messes
now in the other room. You want to talk to her, yes,
doctor Barton, I certainly do.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'll call her in.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Come in, say yes, doctor these a gentleman want to
ask you a few questions. What questions? I understand you
predicted the murder of mister Alfred Chester last night.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yes it happened, of course, Yes I knew it would.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
How do you account for the fact that you predicted
it three hours before it happened?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I cannot account for it. It is a gift that
I cannot explain. I can see things in the immediate future.
I can tell you what is to happen today before
the days of I can't tell you again.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
What can you tell us, miss Hayes.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I see a large man, red face man.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
His name to George Felton, another member of the Darrent.
What do you see, Miss Hayes.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
He will die tonight, he too will be murdered.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
The hecky well, this is one murder that isn't going
to take place.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
George Shelton speaking sluten.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
And silvers again, mister Silvis, why don't you leave me alone?
I don't want any police protection, and I won't have anymore,
mister feld And I told you that Alfridchester was murdered
last night, right after he's been threatened by this woman.
If death was a coincidence of this, it is probably
a prowler. But I'm not easily scared, and I don't
believe in supernatural powers, even though I am a member
of the Darrent Society. I wish you'd let me come over,
mister Pelton. We don't like to take any chance. Now
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look here, Silva's it's nearly midnight. My wife and I
are going to bed. Don't you worry about us If
anyone murders me during the night, I'll get in touch
with you first thing in the morning. Lieutenant Silda's again,
still worrying about that streath on your life. Yes, that's
the fifth time he's called me today, Darling. He must
take it seriously, even if you don't. Oh, now, don't
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worry all pretty d about it, India, you run along
to bed, dear, I'll lock up. I suppose you know best?
What's that I heard something, Gregory. I blame myself for
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mister Felton's murder last night. You did your best, yes, lieutenants,
not for all you. You tried to force him to
take protection, but he wouldn't hear of it. And I
know what I do, blame myself. Well, let's see what
Jugut Hayes has to say about this one. He's waiting outside,
I mean places Hays, Thomas Hayes. I want to know
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how you knew this latest murder was going to take place.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I cannot tell you how I knew it is just
that when my mind is a blank, I have the
ability to see into the future.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Now, look, miss Hayes, I'm a plain, straightforward police officer
one coincidence I can take, but not to And I
can't write on a police report that you knew about
the murder because you can see into the future, you know,
why not tell me the truth? I am telling the truth,
Oh Gregory, See if you can get anything out of it,
Miss Hayes, What is it I understand about your being
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able to travel into the future, But surely you must
be able to remember more about what you saw when
you had that vision.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Try and think back?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Will you think back?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I can only see forward forward.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
My mind's banking out again.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I see another death in the immediate future, sudden death.
Man is tall and dark.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
His name is Hood, Gregory Hood. You'll hear the rest
of gregoryhood story in just a second. So I'll tell
you quickly about a wine. I know you like. That
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wine is Petrie California Muscatel. Petrie Muscatel is really marvelous.
In fact, I'm willing to bet you like everything about it.
Petrie Musketel is good. Just to look at the color
of sheer gold and say, if you've ever tasted plump,
luscious muscat grapes at their sunripe, and well, then you
know what to expect when you taste Petrie musket Tell.
(19:04):
Petrie musketell brings you that same wonderful muscat flavor, and
you like Patrie musketell after dinner by itself or served
with fruit, for instance, peaches, or with cake. Just be
sure it's Petrie Petrie musket Tell, because Petrie wine is
always good wine. Well, Gregory, so yours was the third
murder to be predicted, considering the first two had taken place.
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According to Schedin, you must have felt a little nervous
for the first twenty four hours. I was a trifle
sensitive to sudden sounds, Harry. But when forty eight hours
had passed without anything happening, I began to feel rather
let down. Down. Would have thought you'd have been grateful.
And Gregory has an ingrein sense of meta drama. Have
I think he felt cheated because the spot plight was
on him and he didn't have a scene to play
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exactly Sandy, As my old father used to say, if
you're fortunate enough to hit the headlines, for Heaven's sake,
make the most of it. But how could I The
other two killings had followed right on the heels of
the prophecies. Now mine had been predicted and nothing happened
at all. It was rather humiliating. That's one way of
looking at it. In any case. I'm sure you didn't
just sit down and wait for someone to try to
catch you.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Oh no, no, Harry.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
As soon as Julia Hayes Thatt had her dia threat,
Lieutenant Silvers and I went into action. We questioned everyone
and checked the alibias who we were as black in
the face as a couple of end men. But after
three days of this we had regressed exactly nowhere. On
the night of the fourth day, I remember Sandy and
I sat in my apartment while you and look at
and Silvers have been doing the leg work. I've been
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doing some serious thinking, blended Sandy, what conclusions did you
arrive at? I think there's only one answer to this case,
and that answer is doctor Barton's a psychiatrist. Julia Hayes
is slightly subnormal. I wouldn't mind giving you odds that
he hypnotized her into performing the two murders. She'd be
an easy hypnotic vict him. I've thought of that possibility.
Have you figured out his motive? No, but I'll skip
that for the moment. One thing we do know, he
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had the opportunity. He was the only person who was
alone with the woman for any length of time between
her arrival in San Francisco and her first prophecy at
our meeting. Very true, and I think I could provide
your missing motive, Sandy. We've checked on doctor Barton thoroughly.
The wife of George Felton, the second man murdered, was
a patient of Barton's. There was also a beautiful woman,
no doubt, is now a very rich one. I've gleened
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rumors that her relationship with Barton was a little more
cozy than that which usually exists between doctor and patient.
In that case, how would you account for the first murder,
the stabbing of Alfred Chester. Well, that could have been
a blind to establish a pattern and conceal the motive. Well,
that's the case. Your death would be necessary. Also true, true,
done at Sandy. This is all supposition. We happened, a
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real lead to follow.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
There's one thing I.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Will say, although who are you calling? Doctor Howell is
staying at the Fairmont. He's probably the greatest psychiatist in
the country, Doctor Eustace Howelly. What can he say? Whether
Julia Hayes could have been hypnotized into committing murder. Doctor Howell,
this is Gregory Hood. I'm fine, thanks, Yes, I'd like
to in the meanwhile, do you mind if I pick
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your brains?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah? Is here My problem?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Is it possible to hypnotize an individual to commit a
criminal act against his will?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Thanks? Thanks? I thought so. I'm much obliged to.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I'll call you in a day or two.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Goodbye. Can't down?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Huh no, he says. The answer is an unqualified no. Well,
I'm going to accelerate my own murder. Just tell me
what flowers you like first. I'm very fond of trans
valid days. Is Sanday, but don't worry about my funeral life. Yes,
Lieutenant silversplease? Who can play at this game?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Sandy?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh Stan, this is greg Hood. No, no, no more leads,
But I have got a brain wave. Pick up Julia
Hayes and bring her up to the apartment as soon
as you can. Yes, we'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I cannot answer any more questions.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Mister Hood. Miss Hayes, you predicted that I would be
murdered in this apartment. Doesn't the setting ring a responsive
chord in your No? No, it does not. Your other
prophecies came through. What happened to this one? I do
not know.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I cannot explain it.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Perhaps you've lost your mysterious power. May oh, perhaps you
never had it. Perhaps you made the whole thing up.
Why not admit you or a murders who poses as
a prophet.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I am no murderers.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I can see the future, or I could.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Something has happened to me.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You never could see the future, and you never will.
But I'll tell you your future, Misses. If you don't tell
us the truth, you'll end up in the gas chamber.
And I don't have to be a clairvoyant to know that.
Stop talking like that. Leave me alone. I won't see
you come back.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
No, no, Stan, let her go.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'll Taylor though Greg good idea he's upset.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
She might show her hand.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I'll be back later. Well, I'm still known it. Other solution, Vigor,
I don't know. I swear there's still hypnotism in it somewhere.
I have a hunch that Julia Hayes isn't conscious of it,
that alibi of hers for the first killing might be
a true one. At that Hello, yes, button, my brother
A serious confession to make you I lied to the
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police about what seeing that Julia Hayes was with me
at the time of the first.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Murder was why did you lie?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well? The woman seems such a unique psychiatric steady. I
wanted to complete my examination before the police. No, I've
finished my researcher with her. Tell him yourself, Barton, and
I wish you the worst of luck in explaining it
to them. There's a man that danced at his father's wedding.
What did you say, Gregor? He dynamited Julia Hayes alibi
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for the first murder, But in doing so, I'm pretty
certain he's put the finger on himself. Doctor Howell.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Please, and I think we're on the right track at last.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I certainly hope, sir, doctor Hawll. This is greg Hood again.
I want just one more piece of information.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Please.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Can a post hypnotic suggestion include persuading the patient that
he was never hypnotized at all? It can, thank you, doctor,
I'm immensely obliged to you. There's our answer, Sandy. When
Barton demolished the woman's alibi, he also demolished his own.
Then he did hypnotize, sure, then he planted the apparent
prophecies in her mind after she'd made them public, he
committed the murders himself. I get it, and he thought
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that when he's cuttle, Julia Hayes alibi. We think she
tried to make her own predictions come true.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
That's it Andy.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Fortunately for us, he's outsmarted himself and walked into his
own trap.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
We've got him.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Who's that that?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
You?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Stan? Who turned off the light? Oh? No, you know beggary? Beggary?
Where are you? What happened? Right into the light switch?
He's got a knife?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Bragg a man?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, why the light sort?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't stand the killers here.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
He's got a knife. She's got a knife.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's Jusa Hayes. She got away from me when I
praised them back.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It can't be again. Here's the witch. It is Julia Hayes. Gregory,
you've got your cold miss Hayes. Knife's in your hand
and all. Well, well have you got to say for yourself?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I'm sorry I did not kill you, mister Hood.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well that's very friendly of you, Miss Hayes. But I'm
completely confused, so am I Gregory, who just finished proving
to me that she couldn't be the well. I don't
know what more evident you want. Greg The knife's in
her hand and she admits she wished she'd killed you. Yes,
I admit it.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
You all made fun of me. You did not believe
in my gift. If you had died, then all my
predictions would have come true.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
But I am no murderers.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Of course you aren't.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
What are you talking about, Gregory? But don't you see
she's holding the knife in her left hand.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
There's the answer.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Come on, lieutenant, Let's go over and see doctor Barton
as fast as the squad car can get us there.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
This is all very dramatic.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
A police inspector and amateur detective and his attorneys stand
in my home and accuse me of murder? Is this
some form of practical joke. If you think it is,
you must have a very warped sense of humor. I
don't think the judge will find it funny, doctor Barton,
and I know that your attorney weren't. But this is ridiculous.
You're suggesting that I hypnotized Julia Hayes into making murder prophecies,
and then that I carried out the murders myself to.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Coin a phrase.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yes, But my dear hood, you've just admitted that she
attacked you tonight. Yes, you suggested the idea and the
three of us by taunting her with her failure as
a prophet earlier on helped her never too stable minds
snapped and she attacked me to fulfill her record of prophecies.
But why couldn't she have committed the two murders.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You overlooked one thing, my friend.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You didn't know that under strong emotion she reverts to
her childhood left handedness. She attacked me tonight with her
left hand. The murders were committed by a right handed person.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I want to argue any more.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'd like to know what you think my motive was, hood.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Oh that's easy.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Missus Felton, the widow of your second victim, broke down
half an hour ago and spilled.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Quite a few beams.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
She did, I mean, yes, she is sure. Cynthia's been talking.
That had come with me. Doctor, Very well, Lieutenant, I
should prefer not to talk any more. I've seen my
attorney good night. I see you in court.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Barton.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You tell the most convincing lies. That story about Missus
Felton talking. How can you do it?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
It takes years of training.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
My old father always used to say that if you
couldn't think of a really convincing truth when you wanted
to make a good point, then tell us something great life.
You're a chip off the old block, Sandy, I'm worried.
Conscience bothering. Mm hmm. I'm thinking about the Darringer Society.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
What about it? Well, Sandy brood about it.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
With two of our society murdered and the third headed
for the gas chamber, we can certainly use some new members, Greg,
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that was an exciting story. How do you get mixed
up in these things?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Harry? I guess I'm just around when they happen.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
But why is it I'm never around?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Harry.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Maybe you're just the kind of person nothing ever happens
too lucky you you mean for me? I bet if
our remember of the Derringer Society. Things would start happening
to me.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But before you can become a member, you must be
able to contribute something to the society.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Have you a scientific mind?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I'm a genius with a tinker toy. Oh no, no
know anything about psychiatry, no hypnotism, no precognition. Don't even
know what it means. Well, in that event, Harry, what
in the world could you possibly contribute to the Dringer
Society a case of Petrie wine. I should have known
they'll love me, greg because Petrie wine is such good wine. Well,
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it's just got to be. With the Petrie family, the
growing of perfect sun ripened grapes, in the art of
turning those grapes into fragrant, delicious wine is a heritage.
It's a heritage passed on down from father to son,
from father to son. No wonder Petri wine is so good. Yes,
the making of Petrie wine is a family affair, and
(29:53):
the Petrick family has every intention of keeping it just that.
So you know, the name Petrie on a bottle of
wine is more than a trademark. It's the personal assurance
of the Petrie family that Petrie wine is and always
will be good wine. Well, Gregory, which adventure out of
the case book are you planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Next Monday, Harry, I'm going to tell of a.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Weird adventure that stand in I had in Mexico City
some months ago.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
During the course of the story, I succeeded.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
In getting myself kidnapped by a female shop shooter nearly
ended up with an extremely beautiful wife. I'll see you
next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory Hood is
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written by Dannis Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed
and played by Dean Fossler. Gail Gordon plays the part
of Gregory Hood, and Sanderson Taylor is played by Carl Harbor.
The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you
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to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
The Case Book of Gregory Hood comes to you from
our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying good night
for the Petrie family. We're a solid hour of exciting
mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of these same
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Speaker 2 (31:48):
Welcome back. Another great story. And I love how they
really just confuse things towards the end. It seemed within
the last five minutes they changed between the psychiatrist and
the quote unquote prophet something like three times and again.
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This is just a great series and I definitely wish
there were more episodes, and I wish they could keep
a Sanderson Taylor. We have a new actor with playing
Sanderson Taylor. Sounds kind of British, Carl Harberg. Actually beyond
the case book of Gregory Hood, he appeared in one
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episode of Dark Venture and then several episodes of Whitehall
twelve twelve, which was a series about the Black Museum
in Scotland yard and mostly in character roles. It looks
like all right, Well, now we turn to listener comments
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