November 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Today's Mystery: A woman asks Grainger for help when a man whom she sent to prison is released.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you this week's episode of Danger with Granger.
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(01:18):
is the any Lussic story.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Danger with Grain Gut. The jury reached diverted.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We have you, honor, dependant or a less ease and
feace the jury. Now, how do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty? Yelty, your honor, I've been prayed.
I never robbed the apartment, honalssic. He's this bench for sentence,
but your honor, I never honlessic. This court sentences you
(02:13):
to serve a term in the state penitentiary of not less.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Than five not more than fifteen years. That was six
years ago. Arnie Lessek had finally been caught and convicted
of one of his numerous crimes. After Judge Hallwood pronounced sentence,
the crook was led to the exit by two deputies.
Among the witnesses was a girl girls had given a
final testimony that sent Less to the pen. As he
(02:40):
passed the girl, he bent over and muttered one single
ominous sentence, Baby, I'm gonna get you if it's the
last thing I'd do. This is Steve Granger, private detective
with a story which began with a conviction and led
to murder in just a moment. I'll take you back
to one of my most interesting cases, says Granger. Then
(03:12):
I say case with six years ago this month, I've
been forgotten. The day after the trial, I was at
my office working on a routine case report, wiping a
damp brow with a damper handkerchief. When the girl walked in.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'm r Perry.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mustn't get your services. They come in, Miss Perry,
sit down, I need a bodyguard.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'll pay you vote the services.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Watch your trouble, Miss Perry. Do you remember the yeah
and you were the star witness.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Only gets out to day. Miss Greeny. You'll be back
in New York as fast as you can.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It threatened you today. Yes, forget it, Ruth. He won't
do a thing. No, look at this. I'll be back
in a couple of days. I want to see you
bad baby. I think this is from Arnie. Yes, no,
it isn't sign. Can you be sure.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I know it's Arnie. I know it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's Granger. We knew the sum is for what.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Find out when he's arriving in town. Wait for him
at the station, follow him, see where he goes?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What go to?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
What do mister Granger any less? It contends to kill
me if he can get away with us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Annie is a two time loser. I don't think he'll
fuss with the law again for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'll pay you anything.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, but I think you're wasting your money. The train
was on time, and so it was only lessing. He
walked towards me, carrying a single piece of cheap luggage
in one hand and a scowl on his face. Wow, Hey,
it doesn't Steve Granger. Private eye. Hi Ernie looking to
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somebody me? He maybe not particularly. I think you're lying. Granger.
I don't use too many words like lying. Nie, I
don't go for him. Girls perish stood around New York,
Why just wondering? Oh, I got no heart fearing to
draw you on the sand. Even if she did hang
a phony wrap on me, I wouldn't lay a finger
(05:13):
on her. And another thing, granger, I'm playing it straight
from now on, Annie, lest it cost me A friendly
smile out of one corner of his mouth, and walked
towards the outer doors of the station to the street.
I stood out intrusively in the doorway and watched the
ex condy get into a can. I followed him up
to a midtown hotel and another I found him in
(05:34):
the bar. I hid my face and saw a glass
of beer and watched lessard as he sat down on
the back bove. Five minutes later, he was joined by
a most attractive girl. She was not Luise Perry. He
ordered to drink, excused himself and went to the lobby.
On his way back, he saw me and moved over. Well, well,
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watch that, I didn't know this was the private eyes
hang on, no law to say I can't drink where
I like, Ornie. Listen, what are you following me around?
For I'm following you around, kept the wide eyed stuffed
Granger the day and ruf Perry. She hired you to
find out where I'm staying. I suppose she didn't. You
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made a threat to her then in court? Can you
blame her for being scared? And she doesn't have to
be any more? I told you that to lay off me, Granger.
Don't get rough with me, Ornie. I'm not getting rough
with anybody. Well, I'm going to let alone by people
that includes you. I dis missed Donnie Less and Ruth
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Terry from my mind. A few days later, they both
came back in a big way. Hello, yep, this is
Perry out at the Manning Hotel.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think you better come over.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I can't please come over?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Quick? Cleanse your cat? All right? Ruth, what's trouble now?
I think you better come upstairs with me. I'm not
going any place until you tell me what this is
all about.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Verry, Well, I got another not Fromarty lesson this one.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Must see you right away, Room two one three, many
hotels signed Arnie. All right, take it from there.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I came over here, I went upstairs. It's going to
please want you come.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
With me, okay, just once, I'll play with you.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You can take the stairs to talk Spicus.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Which way is this? Two? One? Three? Arnie in there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
God, he.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Unlocked. Uh yeah, he's in there, so I see, and
I don't need glasses to tell that's a knife sticking
out of his back. I'll continue with this interesting story
in a minute. I stood there in the hotel room,
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looking from the dead body of Arne Elastic to the
figure of Ruth Perry, whose face was taught but expressionless.
Did you slip that knife into him? No?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'll call the police. I'll be interested in why Anne
Elisk was knife. You better have a good story.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Did I just keep over because he wrought me?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Just now? Why would Arnie Eleist want to see you?
I don't know. Dress and drawers pulled out everything inside out.
Somebody was looking for something.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That way when I got here?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
How was that note delivered?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It slipped under my door?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's a help. Well, I might as well call the police.
The first punch caught me a splat foot as a penguin.
I tried fighting back, but succeeded only in catching more
and more punches. There was a final one and the
lights went out.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
All right, Dranger, wake up.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
King? How sweet of you to come to my party? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Isn't it who gave me to Wannie LEI?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I don't know all the time, and I came up here.
All was unluch Arnie was in the same position as
in now. Room has been searched. Why I want to
ask me? You're the policeman around here?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Was your connection with Annie Leazick? He was healthy to
have a round of the cobra.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Girl was a free and armor Ruth Kerry.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, she's nuts. Where a capital na?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He told it? Let alone?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh was she up here with you?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Uh? Huh? Hi? Suppose she beat it? When the pipe started?
You didn't see the man who attacked you. I thought, though,
come on, get off the floor in my way. I
took Jack Ranking at his word and beat it back
to my office. I never quite made it because on
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the street I suddenly found myself with company. Never mind
walking inside, Granger, we want to see you. What for
not a signe? Let's come over there. Don't act like
you're going to make a move. Glad you could make
up grades that I have a choice. Drivers to the spot,
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benjer No Grader don't worry. Nothing is going to happen
to you. Your words sound more comforting than that gun
than your fist looks. What was your connection with Arnie?
Let no connection? Woman thought you needed protection?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Arnie knew this.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yep. What were you doing in his room looking at
his corpse? Grainger?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
How many times did you.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Actually see on me? Twice? Once at Grand Central or
second time in a Lenning hotel? Arnie didn't give you
something to keep for it? Nope?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Are you sure you're not lying?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yep? Benja pull up now, just to be accept mister Grainger.
Benji will cover you while ize that show. No it's
not there. If you two operators would tell me what
it is, I could help you. You covered him from
the time he left the hotel, Benzin, Yeah, I can't
imagine where I could have gone to him. While if
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you're finished with media, mind if I leave the atmosphere
in the still appius a little stych we go by
all means, mister Granger. But before you do a word
of warning, I know that was coming. I'm trusting to
your discression not to mention our little visit to the police.
I see if you should, things would happen things are
so unpleasant you might not even survive them. I make
myself clear. If you made yourself any clearer, I could
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almost call it a threat. The two friendly gens shoved
me out of the car and left me park on
the sidewalk while they took off from the traffic. And
I was left scratching my skull and trying to figure
out just where as they fit it into the setup,
and also what they were looking for. And just a minute,
(12:26):
I'll bring you the climax of the case. After my
encounter with the two guys, it seemed so interested in
something with the late Arnie Lessick had in his possession.
Whatever that something was, I made my way over to
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cal Hendricks's place. I thought the newspaper man might be
some help in this situation.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
See ee mee boy, what's new?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
One of your old pals just passed into the great beyond?
Arnie Lessick? Oh what happened to him? Somebody just slid
a shaving him over at the Mounting Hotel after I
left the place, a gorilla shang. I had me in
it a car, but the most charming Jenna wanted something
I didn't have. Losing your job, I guess so, Cal,
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you know what anything about the trial that sent Arnie
to the pen, Well, I don't remember the details, but
it was simple robbery and some girl test to side.
It was that Ruth Perry's the name. That's how I
got mixed up in this. Came to me for protection
from Arnie when he got out. You know, Stevie, you
could do yourself some good. Go down and get a
transcript of that trial. Why today is just the day
(13:38):
for reading. I decided to follow Cal's suggestion, and I
just reached the front of his apartment when a police
car pulled into the curb. Right in front of me.
There was my hot tempered homicide friend, Lieutenant Jake Rank.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
And all right, grangers, I'm just coming after you.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Which of the amount of Ferrys City by laws have
I contravened?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Never mind the fancy language. What did you do with
Ruth Perry?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Me? Nothing.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Ill luck, Lieutenant, I told you what happened. She must
have slipped it whilst I was taking that beating. Oh yeah,
what's this all about?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
I wish I knew some dim with phone homicide that
if they wanted to low down or Annie's murder and
the disappearance of Ruth Perry to ask you, oh great.
Up until then, we hadn't known she disappeared.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Your newstickers a little slow, Rangers, don't trifle with me today.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I think you'd better come along with me. I'm kicking
the Pettigill's apartment.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I clutched at my nervous system as a lieutenant's driver
wheeled us up to an apartment on Western Avenue. Rankin
was in no mood to be trifled with. After a
few words with the building superintendent, we were let into
Ruth Perry's apartment.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Oh so this is where she lived?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Hes uh, Just what is it you're looking for, Lieutenant?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I don't know. The occupant of this place had been
reported as missing. Maybe something was left to indicate why
she disappeared. We'd like to find her. She could describe
the man who slugged you.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think he killed one was right now.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I'm not thinking just looking hear me.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'll cut that out. That's bad, Dranger. No indication what
might have happened to her. That phone call might have
been a fake.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Wherever call knew on he had been killed. He didn't
read it in the papers because the story hadn't been printed.
Speaking of Ruth Terry, she's walking up here now where
two blocks done? See the girl in the green dress?
Come on, hey, she wants to fun at me. She's
sitting around Miss Harry, Hey, Miss Harry. He's going to
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that apartment building. Lieutenant Rancan and I covered the building
from bruce to basement. Perry girl remained as invisible as
spilling mime on on the Bonny House table.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I'm going back to head Cherry, Jamee, I'll put out
a pickup on the girl.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I can't jage. See you latle later. Why are you
up to me? Or it's such a nice day. I
thought i'd go for a walk in the park. Not
very long afterwards, I was standing outside Lieutenant Jake Rankin's
office and I had someone with me, And.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
What do you want? I brought you something, Jake, But
whatever it is, I don't want it. I'm busy.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
This happens to be Ruth Perry.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Where do you find her in her apartment?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Rangers?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Are you saying she was there when we went through
the place?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
She was there? After she ducked through the back of
that other apartment house.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Come in, miss.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Perry, It's going to.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Be a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I hung around for thirty minutes while Lieutenant Rankin casked
questions with the agility of a grenade handler, but he
achieved nothing in the way of answers. Ruth Perry's story
was straight. I remember cal Hendrix's advice about reading the
transcript of Arnie Lessex's trial. I went over to the
Hall of Records and started reading. One name stuck out
like two left feet. Mary Wellan Mary welland chief witness
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for Arnie Lessex lived down in the village short way
from the Hall of Records. I went there, Yes, what
is it? The girl facing me in the doorway was
the same attractive girl who'd been with Arnie Lesseck in
the bar at the Lenning Hotel. Who are you?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You're Mary wellm Yes, I'd like to talk to you
Mary about Arnie Lessex.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't know anyone by that name.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Maybe I'm Steve Granger of Private Eye. Happens that I
saw you with Arnie in the bar of the Manning Hotel.
Why do you want like to know what you too
talked about? Why? Also, I'd like to hear you a
story about Annie's trial. Why? Because Annie was murdered not
long ago. I don't think he committed suicide.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Come inside. How did you find out about Arnie? It
has been in the papers.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I got a call from girl and claimed to have
received a note from him. When she got there, Arnie
was dead.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
What was this girl?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Ruth Perry?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
She's a liar. Annie would never have written her a note.
He never wanted to see her again.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
She seemed to think he was on a ghet her
because the testimony sent him to the penet.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
She lied then too, Oh, she testified her apartments had
been broken into. He claimed to have seen Annie leaving
her eye.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I know, I know, I read the testament.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
She lied because Annie was with me, but I couldn't
prove it and they wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Why not? Where were you?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Arnie was here? He was frightened at something he sneaked in.
When they put my landlady on the stand, she testified
she hadn't seen Arnie because she hadn't Mary.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Was Ernie connected in anyway with a tall dark man
who has a pal rather short, talks like a mug.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
He was once but no more Arnie was through. I
don't know. Hide behind that screen for the hair.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, good they Mary, What do you want? I come
with some bad news. Arnie is dead. Go on, he
was your boyfriend. Can't you show more emotion than that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I'll take care of my own emotions. What else have
you got to say?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We trusted hone, Benji and I. Donnie got away with
something of ours. He wouldn't have rested with you when
he was sentenced to prison, would he? Would you mind
if Benjy and I looked around?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, I'll call a police.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Okay, Mary, the effects the way you want to play it.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Who was that guy Peter Carling?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He the one who used to be connected with Annie.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yes, he and his pals, Benji, mister Grange. I have
to trust somebody, and I'll tell you Arnie did leave
something with me. What I never opened the package?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
He told me to hide it.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yes, I got it pass into the back of that
high boy. Will you help me please?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah? Sure? Yeah, yeah here.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I think it's got something to do with Peter Carling
in that horrible Benji. Would you take it to the hand
of the police.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Might be nothing at all? Better open at first? Wow?
What is it a set of plates. Mary flights to
make fake postage stands.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
If the police find out I had been, they'll put
me in Jay, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Now listen calling this power bound to come back, you
better not be here when they do. WI there a
back way out of here?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Why should I think out?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah? Why what do you mean by what? I'm gonna
make a call? The police head calls a certain man
come over. Then you walk out, big as life and
three times as conspicuous. A puzzled Mary Well and agreed
to do what I told the to. She left a
moment after Lieutenant Jake Rankin showed up via the back door.
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Lieutenant was still bad tempered.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Now what kind of a still? He said?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Up? Is there?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Jake?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm positive that Peter Calling and his Benji are implicated
in Arnie's murder.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So we'll pull him in have a chat with him.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
No, No, it goes further than that. With what I've
got in this package, we can really hook him.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
What's in the package?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
These guys are a cinch to be in here in
the next couple of minutes, since they knew Mary Well
that's gone out.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
What in the package you'll see when I open it, stranger.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I'm warning you. Why somebody's coming down the hall behind
that screen.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
We have a little thing hide both of us.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's better take it easy, right, he's got a key.
Come on, Benji, that's Carling in his pal Ain't we
taking a big chance? Peter, he's be gone long enough.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Now look for that package.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It must be here. Hey, he bors that. Let me
see we've got them.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Hey, that Arnie didn't have much sense, did he? Too bad?
He wouldn't listen to reason at the hotel.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
That doesn't hold it. You too, You're under arrest, answer
station of murder, Carling? How'd you get in here?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Also? The government wants you in possession of fake postage standpoints.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
No, gentlemen, just for a moment, Jake, watch you.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, friends, that's the story. I'll be back to wrap
up the case in just a minute. Oh, Peter Carling
fell to the floor with a bullet through his shoulders.
He went to hospital and the guard, while Benji went
a headquarters where he testified that calling at knife Darni
Leissick when the latter refused to divouge the hiding place
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of the place. Benji made another statement that Lieutenant Ranking
and me and a little errand only I went in alone. Hi,
Ruth sectally.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Didn't expect you.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Hi. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I I guess I won't have any more trouble about iron.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
How did you know that Arnie left the package for you?
A package here? Well, aren't you going to open it up? Well?
Not right now, Ruth, But I know what's inside? You do? Yeah,
go on open it? The plates are there all right?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
What do you want to split?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I know you lied on the witness stand. You and
Carling framed Donnie thinking you'd turn over the plates if
you take care of him, but he didn't, so he
went to jail.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
How did you find out about all this car Carling's
locked up things? I know I can get plenty of
money for the right out of the.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hat only record it.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
What do you think, Ranger?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I say, come on in, Rank and thanks, thank you?
You double crossing rap. Nothing like a compliment to start
the day right. See you in ten years, baby, Steve Branger. Again,
you've just heard one of the most interesting cases in
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my file. I'll have another one for you, so be
around next time.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Welcome back. I do appreciate one of the sources who
the detective goes to for information, to tell the detective
where to go and leave him to do his own research,
rather than the reporter going to work for the detective,
as so often happens. And in this case, it's totally understandable.
(25:21):
The man's a reporter, has got a work of his
own to do and can't be digging into some six
year old robbery case. We have a few comments on
YouTube regarding the stolen Necklace case art Rights. I was
surprised to learn this series was from the mid nineteen fifties,
as the style of the music, acting, in script or
(25:45):
reminiscent of detective shows from the late nineteen thirties or forties.
Then I read it was produced in Australia. Since Australia
was a bit of a pop culture backwater at the time,
it makes sense I think were a bit behind the times.
Well or I don't agree, at least on the music.
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The show's got a very jazzy sort of soundtrack that
wouldn't be out of place in a show that was
competing with Peter Gunn, and I don't think the stories
were that out of date, certainly not the thirties, although
there is a sense in which what they were trying
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to do was to create programs that could be sold
in the American market and satisfy the taste of existing
radio fans. So maybe it wasn't entirely up to date,
but I don't quite say it that way. I appreciate
your comment, though. Kathy wrote, really liked the series, but
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is it just me or does it seem like the
audio is speeded up. Everyone sounds like their voice is
artificially fast and higher pace. It's slightly reminiscent of how
we used to play our forty five records on seventy
eights when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Haha.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Can't quite relate to that experience, Kathy. I suspect there
would have been consequences and repercussions if I messed with
the speed of my dad's record player back in the nineties.
But I think that is something that is sadly not
oncommon with a lot of the programs that originate from Australia,
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and I've noticed similar sounds on other series. I'm not
certain the reason for it. It may be that there
are more transfers from tape or later generation materials in
terms of copies of copies in What's become available, and
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then comment from Dottie dug this one a lot. It's
always fun to find new shows I've never heard of.
Hope you can key revealing new discoveries. A fun thing
would be a week of those Australian Shadow episodes that
are missing, or for missing episodes. Yeah, I still don't
do anything with the Shadow lest I get smacked down
(28:17):
by Condie Ast who last I heard or making copyright
claims on the character and all the programs. So I'll
leave that one alone, but appreciate the comments and the suggestion.
Then we also have an email from Caleb, who writes
in Adam, hope all is well with you and your family.
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Until I really got into old time radio and hard
boiled detective fiction, I never would have guessed that being
knocked unconscious and trapped in a sanitarium was such an
occupational hazard. You mentioned Philip Morlowe, and it just happened
to Steve Granger, but it also happened to Dan Holiday
as well, and I'm sure there were others. Well, there
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were others. I personally, I guess I would put being
put in a sanitarium into two separate categories. What happened
to Granger and Marlowe and some others was that they
were put into a sanitarium to stop them from investigating
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or finding out the truth. The case that happened with
Box thirteen and another similar episode with Rocky Fortune involved
the hero being opportunistically kidnapped and put in the sanitarium
(29:50):
to be passed off as someone else as part of
some enterprise. So slightly different categories. There's you know, there's
two different things. You can be knocked out and put
in a sanitarium. I guess it doesn't make a whole
lot of difference to the person on the receiving end,
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but I guess keeps my category straight. He also writes
a little bit about Cloak and Dagger. On another note,
I'm really enjoying Cloak and Dagger. Thanks for playing it,
although I have to get used to Ralph Bell being
a good guy too many episodes of The Falcon and
CBS Radio Mystery Theater where that has decidedly not been
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the case. Thank thanks for all you do and God
blast well. Bell has had a few villainous parts in
Cloak and Dagger, although they tended to be more minor villains,
and he plays a surprising number of good guys, and
I would be honest that that is odd for Bell
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and my radio experience. In general, Bell tended to play
a lot of crooks. He was kind of in that
same category as William Conrad was for a lot of
his radio career, where he could play a crook or
he could play a tough comp His main good guy
role that he's known for, or was known for to
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some extent, was as Barry Craig's friend on the police
Force trav Rogers in some of the early seasons of
Barry Craig. You always expect villainy when Ralph Bell is
playing a character. I remember there was an episode of
Proudly We Hail we played as one of our extras,
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and it was basically an educational episode about the development
of jetflight, and Ralph Bell played one of the guys
I think it was on the crew, and I kept
waiting for his character to try to double cross or
sell stuff to the Soviets, and it never happened. And
(32:05):
I was listening to one CBS Mystery Theater episode that
had the commercials in it, and Ralph Bell came on
to sell a car and I was like, wait, should
I trust that hat? But truth is I think that
Folks then as well as now love that voice and
appreciate Bell as a performer, even if we struggle a
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bit with his few times playing the good guy. Thanks again,
appreciate you reaching out Caleb. Well, now it is time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
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tomorrow for the big story.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Where how is this? Missus Graham murdered Sargeant Gillis with
a hatchet? Miss kill Gallen? Oh but that sounds like
the work of a maniac. You mean you suspect a
couple of kids. Yeah, I know, it doesn't seem possible,
especially kids like these. Where's missus Graham's daughter? Now she's
with the Lieutenant Morgan in that room over there. He's
been grilling her for hours, but she won't talk either,
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will her boyfriend? Where'd you pick up the kid's sargeant
and a bear joint near the Summerville Circle? Oh, here
comes Morgan? Now any locked, Lieutenant?
Speaker 6 (33:51):
No, no more questions? Ask her the tighter, she claims up. Now,
I've had some tough crooks on the grill, but this
kid beats them all.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh hello, miss Kilgallon, Hello, lieutenant. Got anything I can
use for a story? Ah?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Not a thing, miss kill Gallan. And that's the truth. Frankly,
we're pretty well up against a stone wall. Now, what
can you do when a cute looking seventeen year old
kid just just sits there and swings her legs and
looks at you with a sweet face and says, I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Know, she won't say anything. I've tried everything.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Talk to her like a Dutch uncle, like a father,
like a like a cop, like a mug even, but
it's no go.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I don't know. She says, just like that. I don't know,
Lieutenant Morgan. Yeah, mind if I go into that room
and talk to Janet Graham.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Alone, Oh what good'll that do?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I don't know that it'll do any.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Good, but I just might come up with something, you know,
just between us girls, how about it?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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is the any Lussic story.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Danger with Grain Gut. The jury reached diverted.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We have you, honor, dependant or a less ease and
feace the jury. Now, how do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty? Yelty, your honor, I've been prayed.
I never robbed the apartment, honalssic. He's this bench for sentence,
but your honor, I never honlessic. This court sentences you
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to serve a term in the state penitentiary of not less.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Than five not more than fifteen years. That was six
years ago. Arnie Lessek had finally been caught and convicted
of one of his numerous crimes. After Judge Hallwood pronounced sentence,
the crook was led to the exit by two deputies.
Among the witnesses was a girl girls had given a
final testimony that sent Less to the pen. As he
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passed the girl, he bent over and muttered one single
ominous sentence, Baby, I'm gonna get you if it's the
last thing I'd do. This is Steve Granger, private detective
with a story which began with a conviction and led
to murder in just a moment. I'll take you back
to one of my most interesting cases, says Granger. Then
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I say case with six years ago this month, I've
been forgotten. The day after the trial, I was at
my office working on a routine case report, wiping a
damp brow with a damper handkerchief. When the girl walked in.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'm r Perry.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mustn't get your services. They come in, Miss Perry,
sit down, I need a bodyguard.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'll pay you vote the services.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Watch your trouble, Miss Perry. Do you remember the yeah
and you were the star witness.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Only gets out to day. Miss Greeny. You'll be back
in New York as fast as you can.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It threatened you today. Yes, forget it, Ruth. He won't
do a thing. No, look at this. I'll be back
in a couple of days. I want to see you
bad baby. I think this is from Arnie. Yes, no,
it isn't sign. Can you be sure.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I know it's Arnie. I know it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's Granger. We knew the sum is for what.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Find out when he's arriving in town. Wait for him
at the station, follow him, see where he goes?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What go to?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
What do mister Granger any less? It contends to kill
me if he can get away with us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Annie is a two time loser. I don't think he'll
fuss with the law again for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'll pay you anything.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, but I think you're wasting your money. The train
was on time, and so it was only lessing. He
walked towards me, carrying a single piece of cheap luggage
in one hand and a scowl on his face. Wow, Hey,
it doesn't Steve Granger. Private eye. Hi Ernie looking to
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somebody me? He maybe not particularly. I think you're lying. Granger.
I don't use too many words like lying. Nie, I
don't go for him. Girls perish stood around New York,
Why just wondering? Oh, I got no heart fearing to
draw you on the sand. Even if she did hang
a phony wrap on me, I wouldn't lay a finger
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on her. And another thing, granger, I'm playing it straight
from now on, Annie, lest it cost me A friendly
smile out of one corner of his mouth, and walked
towards the outer doors of the station to the street.
I stood out intrusively in the doorway and watched the
ex condy get into a can. I followed him up
to a midtown hotel and another I found him in
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the bar. I hid my face and saw a glass
of beer and watched lessard as he sat down on
the back bove. Five minutes later, he was joined by
a most attractive girl. She was not Luise Perry. He
ordered to drink, excused himself and went to the lobby.
On his way back, he saw me and moved over. Well, well,
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watch that, I didn't know this was the private eyes
hang on, no law to say I can't drink where
I like, Ornie. Listen, what are you following me around?
For I'm following you around, kept the wide eyed stuffed
Granger the day and ruf Perry. She hired you to
find out where I'm staying. I suppose she didn't. You
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made a threat to her then in court? Can you
blame her for being scared? And she doesn't have to
be any more? I told you that to lay off me, Granger.
Don't get rough with me, Ornie. I'm not getting rough
with anybody. Well, I'm going to let alone by people
that includes you. I dis missed Donnie Less and Ruth
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Terry from my mind. A few days later, they both
came back in a big way. Hello, yep, this is
Perry out at the Manning Hotel.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think you better come over.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I can't please come over?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Quick? Cleanse your cat? All right? Ruth, what's trouble now?
I think you better come upstairs with me. I'm not
going any place until you tell me what this is
all about.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Verry, Well, I got another not Fromarty lesson this one.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Must see you right away, Room two one three, many
hotels signed Arnie. All right, take it from there.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I came over here, I went upstairs. It's going to
please want you come.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
With me, okay, just once, I'll play with you.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You can take the stairs to talk Spicus.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Which way is this? Two? One? Three? Arnie in there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
God, he.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Unlocked. Uh yeah, he's in there, so I see, and
I don't need glasses to tell that's a knife sticking
out of his back. I'll continue with this interesting story
in a minute. I stood there in the hotel room,
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looking from the dead body of Arne Elastic to the
figure of Ruth Perry, whose face was taught but expressionless.
Did you slip that knife into him? No?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'll call the police. I'll be interested in why Anne
Elisk was knife. You better have a good story.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Did I just keep over because he wrought me?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Just now? Why would Arnie Eleist want to see you?
I don't know. Dress and drawers pulled out everything inside out.
Somebody was looking for something.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That way when I got here?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
How was that note delivered?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It slipped under my door?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's a help. Well, I might as well call the police.
The first punch caught me a splat foot as a penguin.
I tried fighting back, but succeeded only in catching more
and more punches. There was a final one and the
lights went out.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
All right, Dranger, wake up.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
King? How sweet of you to come to my party? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Isn't it who gave me to Wannie LEI?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I don't know all the time, and I came up here.
All was unluch Arnie was in the same position as
in now. Room has been searched. Why I want to
ask me? You're the policeman around here?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Was your connection with Annie Leazick? He was healthy to
have a round of the cobra.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Girl was a free and armor Ruth Kerry.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, she's nuts. Where a capital na?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He told it? Let alone?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh was she up here with you?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Uh? Huh? Hi? Suppose she beat it? When the pipe started?
You didn't see the man who attacked you. I thought, though,
come on, get off the floor in my way. I
took Jack Ranking at his word and beat it back
to my office. I never quite made it because on
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the street I suddenly found myself with company. Never mind
walking inside, Granger, we want to see you. What for
not a signe? Let's come over there. Don't act like
you're going to make a move. Glad you could make
up grades that I have a choice. Drivers to the spot,
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benjer No Grader don't worry. Nothing is going to happen
to you. Your words sound more comforting than that gun
than your fist looks. What was your connection with Arnie?
Let no connection? Woman thought you needed protection?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Arnie knew this.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yep. What were you doing in his room looking at
his corpse? Grainger?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
How many times did you.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Actually see on me? Twice? Once at Grand Central or
second time in a Lenning hotel? Arnie didn't give you
something to keep for it? Nope?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Are you sure you're not lying?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yep? Benja pull up now, just to be accept mister Grainger.
Benji will cover you while ize that show. No it's
not there. If you two operators would tell me what
it is, I could help you. You covered him from
the time he left the hotel, Benzin, Yeah, I can't
imagine where I could have gone to him. While if
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you're finished with media, mind if I leave the atmosphere
in the still appius a little stych we go by
all means, mister Granger. But before you do a word
of warning, I know that was coming. I'm trusting to
your discression not to mention our little visit to the police.
I see if you should, things would happen things are
so unpleasant you might not even survive them. I make
myself clear. If you made yourself any clearer, I could
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almost call it a threat. The two friendly gens shoved
me out of the car and left me park on
the sidewalk while they took off from the traffic. And
I was left scratching my skull and trying to figure
out just where as they fit it into the setup,
and also what they were looking for. And just a minute,
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I'll bring you the climax of the case. After my
encounter with the two guys, it seemed so interested in
something with the late Arnie Lessick had in his possession.
Whatever that something was, I made my way over to
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cal Hendricks's place. I thought the newspaper man might be
some help in this situation.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
See ee mee boy, what's new?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
One of your old pals just passed into the great beyond?
Arnie Lessick? Oh what happened to him? Somebody just slid
a shaving him over at the Mounting Hotel after I
left the place, a gorilla shang. I had me in
it a car, but the most charming Jenna wanted something
I didn't have. Losing your job, I guess so, Cal,
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you know what anything about the trial that sent Arnie
to the pen, Well, I don't remember the details, but
it was simple robbery and some girl test to side.
It was that Ruth Perry's the name. That's how I
got mixed up in this. Came to me for protection
from Arnie when he got out. You know, Stevie, you
could do yourself some good. Go down and get a
transcript of that trial. Why today is just the day
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for reading. I decided to follow Cal's suggestion, and I
just reached the front of his apartment when a police
car pulled into the curb. Right in front of me.
There was my hot tempered homicide friend, Lieutenant Jake Rank.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
And all right, grangers, I'm just coming after you.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Which of the amount of Ferrys City by laws have
I contravened?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Never mind the fancy language. What did you do with
Ruth Perry?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Me? Nothing.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Ill luck, Lieutenant, I told you what happened. She must
have slipped it whilst I was taking that beating. Oh yeah,
what's this all about?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
I wish I knew some dim with phone homicide that
if they wanted to low down or Annie's murder and
the disappearance of Ruth Perry to ask you, oh great.
Up until then, we hadn't known she disappeared.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Your newstickers a little slow, Rangers, don't trifle with me today.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I think you'd better come along with me. I'm kicking
the Pettigill's apartment.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I clutched at my nervous system as a lieutenant's driver
wheeled us up to an apartment on Western Avenue. Rankin
was in no mood to be trifled with. After a
few words with the building superintendent, we were let into
Ruth Perry's apartment.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Oh so this is where she lived?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Hes uh, Just what is it you're looking for, Lieutenant?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I don't know. The occupant of this place had been
reported as missing. Maybe something was left to indicate why
she disappeared. We'd like to find her. She could describe
the man who slugged you.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think he killed one was right now.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I'm not thinking just looking hear me.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'll cut that out. That's bad, Dranger. No indication what
might have happened to her. That phone call might have
been a fake.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Wherever call knew on he had been killed. He didn't
read it in the papers because the story hadn't been printed.
Speaking of Ruth Terry, she's walking up here now where
two blocks done? See the girl in the green dress?
Come on, hey, she wants to fun at me. She's
sitting around Miss Harry, Hey, Miss Harry. He's going to
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that apartment building. Lieutenant Rancan and I covered the building
from bruce to basement. Perry girl remained as invisible as
spilling mime on on the Bonny House table.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I'm going back to head Cherry, Jamee, I'll put out
a pickup on the girl.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I can't jage. See you latle later. Why are you
up to me? Or it's such a nice day. I
thought i'd go for a walk in the park. Not
very long afterwards, I was standing outside Lieutenant Jake Rankin's
office and I had someone with me, And.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
What do you want? I brought you something, Jake, But
whatever it is, I don't want it. I'm busy.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
This happens to be Ruth Perry.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Where do you find her in her apartment?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Rangers?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Are you saying she was there when we went through
the place?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
She was there? After she ducked through the back of
that other apartment house.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Come in, miss.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Perry, It's going to.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Be a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I hung around for thirty minutes while Lieutenant Rankin casked
questions with the agility of a grenade handler, but he
achieved nothing in the way of answers. Ruth Perry's story
was straight. I remember cal Hendrix's advice about reading the
transcript of Arnie Lessex's trial. I went over to the
Hall of Records and started reading. One name stuck out
like two left feet. Mary Wellan Mary welland chief witness
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for Arnie Lessex lived down in the village short way
from the Hall of Records. I went there, Yes, what
is it? The girl facing me in the doorway was
the same attractive girl who'd been with Arnie Lesseck in
the bar at the Lenning Hotel. Who are you?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You're Mary wellm Yes, I'd like to talk to you
Mary about Arnie Lessex.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't know anyone by that name.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Maybe I'm Steve Granger of Private Eye. Happens that I
saw you with Arnie in the bar of the Manning Hotel.
Why do you want like to know what you too
talked about? Why? Also, I'd like to hear you a
story about Annie's trial. Why? Because Annie was murdered not
long ago. I don't think he committed suicide.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Come inside. How did you find out about Arnie? It
has been in the papers.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I got a call from girl and claimed to have
received a note from him. When she got there, Arnie
was dead.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
What was this girl?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Ruth Perry?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
She's a liar. Annie would never have written her a note.
He never wanted to see her again.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
She seemed to think he was on a ghet her
because the testimony sent him to the penet.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
She lied then too, Oh, she testified her apartments had
been broken into. He claimed to have seen Annie leaving
her eye.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I know, I know, I read the testament.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
She lied because Annie was with me, but I couldn't
prove it and they wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Why not? Where were you?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Arnie was here? He was frightened at something he sneaked in.
When they put my landlady on the stand, she testified
she hadn't seen Arnie because she hadn't Mary.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Was Ernie connected in anyway with a tall dark man
who has a pal rather short, talks like a mug.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
He was once but no more Arnie was through. I
don't know. Hide behind that screen for the hair.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, good they Mary, What do you want? I come
with some bad news. Arnie is dead. Go on, he
was your boyfriend. Can't you show more emotion than that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I'll take care of my own emotions. What else have
you got to say?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We trusted hone, Benji and I. Donnie got away with
something of ours. He wouldn't have rested with you when
he was sentenced to prison, would he? Would you mind
if Benjy and I looked around?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, I'll call a police.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Okay, Mary, the effects the way you want to play it.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Who was that guy Peter Carling?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He the one who used to be connected with Annie.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yes, he and his pals, Benji, mister Grange. I have
to trust somebody, and I'll tell you Arnie did leave
something with me. What I never opened the package?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
He told me to hide it.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yes, I got it pass into the back of that
high boy. Will you help me please?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah? Sure? Yeah, yeah here.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I think it's got something to do with Peter Carling
in that horrible Benji. Would you take it to the hand
of the police.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Might be nothing at all? Better open at first? Wow?
What is it a set of plates. Mary flights to
make fake postage stands.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
If the police find out I had been, they'll put
me in Jay, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Now listen calling this power bound to come back, you
better not be here when they do. WI there a
back way out of here?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Why should I think out?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah? Why what do you mean by what? I'm gonna
make a call? The police head calls a certain man
come over. Then you walk out, big as life and
three times as conspicuous. A puzzled Mary Well and agreed
to do what I told the to. She left a
moment after Lieutenant Jake Rankin showed up via the back door.
(21:30):
Lieutenant was still bad tempered.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Now what kind of a still? He said?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Up? Is there?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Jake?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm positive that Peter Calling and his Benji are implicated
in Arnie's murder.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So we'll pull him in have a chat with him.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
No, No, it goes further than that. With what I've
got in this package, we can really hook him.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
What's in the package?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
These guys are a cinch to be in here in
the next couple of minutes, since they knew Mary Well
that's gone out.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
What in the package you'll see when I open it, stranger.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I'm warning you. Why somebody's coming down the hall behind
that screen.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
We have a little thing hide both of us.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's better take it easy, right, he's got a key.
Come on, Benji, that's Carling in his pal Ain't we
taking a big chance? Peter, he's be gone long enough.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Now look for that package.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It must be here. Hey, he bors that. Let me
see we've got them.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Hey, that Arnie didn't have much sense, did he? Too bad?
He wouldn't listen to reason at the hotel.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
That doesn't hold it. You too, You're under arrest, answer
station of murder, Carling? How'd you get in here?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Also? The government wants you in possession of fake postage standpoints.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
No, gentlemen, just for a moment, Jake, watch you.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, friends, that's the story. I'll be back to wrap
up the case in just a minute. Oh, Peter Carling
fell to the floor with a bullet through his shoulders.
He went to hospital and the guard, while Benji went
a headquarters where he testified that calling at knife Darni
Leissick when the latter refused to divouge the hiding place
(23:20):
of the place. Benji made another statement that Lieutenant Ranking
and me and a little errand only I went in alone. Hi,
Ruth sectally.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Didn't expect you.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Hi. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I I guess I won't have any more trouble about iron.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
How did you know that Arnie left the package for you?
A package here? Well, aren't you going to open it up? Well?
Not right now, Ruth, But I know what's inside? You do? Yeah,
go on open it? The plates are there all right?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
What do you want to split?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I know you lied on the witness stand. You and
Carling framed Donnie thinking you'd turn over the plates if
you take care of him, but he didn't, so he
went to jail.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
How did you find out about all this car Carling's
locked up things? I know I can get plenty of
money for the right out of the.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hat only record it.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
What do you think, Ranger?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I say, come on in, Rank and thanks, thank you?
You double crossing rap. Nothing like a compliment to start
the day right. See you in ten years, baby, Steve Branger. Again,
you've just heard one of the most interesting cases in
(24:49):
my file. I'll have another one for you, so be
around next time.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Welcome back. I do appreciate one of the sources who
the detective goes to for information, to tell the detective
where to go and leave him to do his own research,
rather than the reporter going to work for the detective,
as so often happens. And in this case, it's totally understandable.
(25:21):
The man's a reporter, has got a work of his
own to do and can't be digging into some six
year old robbery case. We have a few comments on
YouTube regarding the stolen Necklace case art Rights. I was
surprised to learn this series was from the mid nineteen fifties,
as the style of the music, acting, in script or
(25:45):
reminiscent of detective shows from the late nineteen thirties or forties.
Then I read it was produced in Australia. Since Australia
was a bit of a pop culture backwater at the time,
it makes sense I think were a bit behind the times.
Well or I don't agree, at least on the music.
(26:07):
The show's got a very jazzy sort of soundtrack that
wouldn't be out of place in a show that was
competing with Peter Gunn, and I don't think the stories
were that out of date, certainly not the thirties, although
there is a sense in which what they were trying
(26:28):
to do was to create programs that could be sold
in the American market and satisfy the taste of existing
radio fans. So maybe it wasn't entirely up to date,
but I don't quite say it that way. I appreciate
your comment, though. Kathy wrote, really liked the series, but
(26:51):
is it just me or does it seem like the
audio is speeded up. Everyone sounds like their voice is
artificially fast and higher pace. It's slightly reminiscent of how
we used to play our forty five records on seventy
eights when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Haha.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Can't quite relate to that experience, Kathy. I suspect there
would have been consequences and repercussions if I messed with
the speed of my dad's record player back in the nineties.
But I think that is something that is sadly not
oncommon with a lot of the programs that originate from Australia,
(27:32):
and I've noticed similar sounds on other series. I'm not
certain the reason for it. It may be that there
are more transfers from tape or later generation materials in
terms of copies of copies in What's become available, and
(27:52):
then comment from Dottie dug this one a lot. It's
always fun to find new shows I've never heard of.
Hope you can key revealing new discoveries. A fun thing
would be a week of those Australian Shadow episodes that
are missing, or for missing episodes. Yeah, I still don't
do anything with the Shadow lest I get smacked down
(28:17):
by Condie Ast who last I heard or making copyright
claims on the character and all the programs. So I'll
leave that one alone, but appreciate the comments and the suggestion.
Then we also have an email from Caleb, who writes
in Adam, hope all is well with you and your family.
(28:40):
Until I really got into old time radio and hard
boiled detective fiction, I never would have guessed that being
knocked unconscious and trapped in a sanitarium was such an
occupational hazard. You mentioned Philip Morlowe, and it just happened
to Steve Granger, but it also happened to Dan Holiday
as well, and I'm sure there were others. Well, there
(29:03):
were others. I personally, I guess I would put being
put in a sanitarium into two separate categories. What happened
to Granger and Marlowe and some others was that they
were put into a sanitarium to stop them from investigating
(29:28):
or finding out the truth. The case that happened with
Box thirteen and another similar episode with Rocky Fortune involved
the hero being opportunistically kidnapped and put in the sanitarium
(29:50):
to be passed off as someone else as part of
some enterprise. So slightly different categories. There's you know, there's
two different things. You can be knocked out and put
in a sanitarium. I guess it doesn't make a whole
lot of difference to the person on the receiving end,
(30:11):
but I guess keeps my category straight. He also writes
a little bit about Cloak and Dagger. On another note,
I'm really enjoying Cloak and Dagger. Thanks for playing it,
although I have to get used to Ralph Bell being
a good guy too many episodes of The Falcon and
CBS Radio Mystery Theater where that has decidedly not been
(30:36):
the case. Thank thanks for all you do and God
blast well. Bell has had a few villainous parts in
Cloak and Dagger, although they tended to be more minor villains,
and he plays a surprising number of good guys, and
I would be honest that that is odd for Bell
(30:59):
and my radio experience. In general, Bell tended to play
a lot of crooks. He was kind of in that
same category as William Conrad was for a lot of
his radio career, where he could play a crook or
he could play a tough comp His main good guy
role that he's known for, or was known for to
(31:21):
some extent, was as Barry Craig's friend on the police
Force trav Rogers in some of the early seasons of
Barry Craig. You always expect villainy when Ralph Bell is
playing a character. I remember there was an episode of
Proudly We Hail we played as one of our extras,
(31:44):
and it was basically an educational episode about the development
of jetflight, and Ralph Bell played one of the guys
I think it was on the crew, and I kept
waiting for his character to try to double cross or
sell stuff to the Soviets, and it never happened. And
(32:05):
I was listening to one CBS Mystery Theater episode that
had the commercials in it, and Ralph Bell came on
to sell a car and I was like, wait, should
I trust that hat? But truth is I think that
Folks then as well as now love that voice and
appreciate Bell as a performer, even if we struggle a
(32:29):
bit with his few times playing the good guy. Thanks again,
appreciate you reaching out Caleb. Well, now it is time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
want to thank Gretchen, Patreon supporter since September twenty seventeen,
currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level of four
(32:50):
dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Gretchen,
and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
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tomorrow for the big story.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Where how is this? Missus Graham murdered Sargeant Gillis with
a hatchet? Miss kill Gallen? Oh but that sounds like
the work of a maniac. You mean you suspect a
couple of kids. Yeah, I know, it doesn't seem possible,
especially kids like these. Where's missus Graham's daughter? Now she's
with the Lieutenant Morgan in that room over there. He's
been grilling her for hours, but she won't talk either,
(33:42):
will her boyfriend? Where'd you pick up the kid's sargeant
and a bear joint near the Summerville Circle? Oh, here
comes Morgan? Now any locked, Lieutenant?
Speaker 6 (33:51):
No, no more questions? Ask her the tighter, she claims up. Now,
I've had some tough crooks on the grill, but this
kid beats them all.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh hello, miss Kilgallon, Hello, lieutenant. Got anything I can
use for a story? Ah?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Not a thing, miss kill Gallan. And that's the truth. Frankly,
we're pretty well up against a stone wall. Now, what
can you do when a cute looking seventeen year old
kid just just sits there and swings her legs and
looks at you with a sweet face and says, I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Know, she won't say anything. I've tried everything.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Talk to her like a Dutch uncle, like a father,
like a like a cop, like a mug even, but
it's no go.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I don't know. She says, just like that. I don't know,
Lieutenant Morgan. Yeah, mind if I go into that room
and talk to Janet Graham.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Alone, Oh what good'll that do?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I don't know that it'll do any.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Good, but I just might come up with something, you know,
just between us girls, how about it?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot NT,
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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