November 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Today's Mystery:Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck
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Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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out at snackwagon dot net. But now, from October one,
nineteen forty seven, here is the Case of the Counterfeit Coins.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The Big Story. Hey budd, Yeah, gotta match, sure, Thanks
here your matches back? What's obliged?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'll mention it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Operator operator, get me the Secret Service.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
A big story another in a thrilling series based on
true experiences of newspaper reporters. Good Night to Jack Adams
of the Los Angeles Examiner goes the pell Mell Award
for the Big Story Now, the exciting and authentic story
(02:50):
of the case of the counterfeit Coins.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
You are Jack Adams of the Los Angeles Examiner.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
For weeks, you've been running down leads.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
On a big counterfeiting ring in town, and the.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Weeks you've always come back to the same place.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Nowhere.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
At the moment, thousands of phony half dollar coins are
floating around in LA and nobody knows where the phony
money mill is or who's behind it. Then one afternoon,
one of the copy boys opens your office door, say.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Mister Adams, Yeah, kid, what is it?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
A guy outside wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
What about?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
He claims he's got a big story on the counterfeiting ring.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What another one? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Another one? Only I've never seen a character like this
in all my life.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
What do you mean, Eddie?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
I tased him for an ext con and then I
said to myself, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it's.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Just a refugee from a flophouse. He looks like a scarecrow.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Wearing a soup made out of burlap. Could be some
tramp after a handout. Does you look hungry?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Yeah, but not for bide him and or for a
cork or a needle if you ask me? And shall
I send him in and throw him out?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You're a pretty cynical kid, Eddie. You'll probably turn out
to be a great reporter, but just to prove that
the milk of human kindness doesn't always turn sour and
the gentleman in okay.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Okay, you go ahead in thanks, thanks a.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Lot, kid.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (04:10):
Are you Jack Adams?
Speaker 10 (04:11):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I'm Adams. Go you.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
My name's Snuffy. It's Snuffy.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I heard you the first time. Snuffy? What Snuffy? Okay? Snuffy? Ah?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (04:24):
I see in pite of papers, you've been writing a
lot of stories on a phony doll racket You've been writing.
And I says to myself, I says.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Maybe you'd be interested, interested in what a little info
inside stuff, if.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (04:36):
The McCoy on a phony four but slop set of
floating around. So I tells myself, I'll make the approach
and see what I can say, say vaguely. So if
I if I lead jari info, I gotta pay.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Off if your information is legitimate.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Yes, okay, you look, Coppa said it to me. You look,
I'll take a chance.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I knew one of us was taking a chance. Well,
what's your proposition, Snuffy? I can get you on the inside.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
With a confitt up?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
What Bob?
Speaker 9 (05:04):
I know every agent the racket.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I'll come connections. You want the story of don't you
if you could really get me on the inside.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
I said I would tonight, bub and I'm.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Gonna prove it.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Make me hit the examiner tomorrow night at nine polls.
I'm dressing the oldest sudger can fine and don't shave? Hey,
wait a minute, I didn't say I would.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Are you going, mister Adams?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Eddie?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
What oide the door? Are you going?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Look? Eddie?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's only in the movies the reporters listening to Keyhole.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Are you gonna keep that day with Stumpy tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
If you don't keep it? Can I no? Why not?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Because there's too dangerous.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
A good reporter isn't afraid of danger.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Everybody's afraid of danger.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
What are you gonna do about tomorrow night?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know. Before I decide anything, I think I'll
run over and have a.
Speaker 11 (05:51):
Little chat with George Miller at the Secret Service office.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, George, what do you think? Shall I keep this
date with a snoppy character or shouldn't I? Jack, don't
ask me to answer a question like that. What do
you mean? Well, you'll be taking a chance if you
go through with it. This counterfeiting ring is dangerous, Jack,
crooks are running it wouldn't hesitate to kill if they
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thought their racket was threatened. I see that's the way
it is. Huh, that's the way it is. Well, George,
you know me.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm no hero who is?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But I feel a big story coming on And in
that case, in that case, you'll take the chance. Yes,
all right, Jack, go ahead and meet your unsanitary little friend.
Don't say I didn't warn you. Hi a plum here, Hello, Snubby?
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How do I look?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You look okay?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Pole, But.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Can you I don't get you all Dud's in enough.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
You're gonna make with the lingo, see like I don't
get me. Otherwise they'll take it for a phony.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
They'll take it, thanks, Snuffy, not tanks like you.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
Say it pile tanks say off the English accent speak Americans?
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay? Boy, let's scram perfect?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah? Perfect?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Did you bring any doll did you? It ain't much,
but it'll left the door. What's the angle?
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Got a case?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Perfect?
Speaker 12 (07:36):
I got a case?
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Good buyer? Why sure you got the real letters? The
kind of cale Sammy puts on? And why don't you
buy the phony.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Four bit pieces?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Five half dollars for a legit box?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
I mean five pairs for one?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's the deal?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Opsic, I I see what you mean. Okay, then let's
beat it in contact some of my pals.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Let's contact sure, But before we go, one question, Snuffy,
what you're going to double across your pals?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:01):
You got the answer? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I'm not not a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So what so how do I know you won't double
across me? Across you? How can you say a thing
like that? What kind of a stool pigeon?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Do you take me for? Gome on?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
I got some pounds to me in a bus?
Speaker 13 (08:34):
Hi, baby, don't baby me? You're rady squirt. Who's your pal?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
The name's Jack?
Speaker 9 (08:39):
The name is it's the right guy.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Now let's this baby. Where's to meet your baby shame to.
Speaker 13 (08:44):
You, handsome, But it ain't sure Knuckles is gonna be
so happy about this nothing. We were supposed to meet
you here alone.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
They baby, those guys are right, Jay, Now you'd better
be right dream boy.
Speaker 13 (08:55):
But here comes Knuckles.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Now, Uh hi Knuckles, Hey.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah, Knuckles, who's the guy?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (09:05):
The name's Jack jackend of snapt up?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Never you lame brain though, beat your brain. Listen, Knuckles,
I bring here stupid. Come. I don't make us some
till I listen, Knuckles, shack, here's the right guys.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
I no pelami, see.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
What I mean?
Speaker 13 (09:20):
Pala not a bad looking when her knuckles?
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Baby, shut your fat mauth? How they where'd you meet
this mugge?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Knuckles?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Don't go up your rocket. He used to show for
me when I was running that carnival into San Diego.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No kidding.
Speaker 13 (09:34):
We'll watch your racket now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Harney, he's a bias, that's right. I might be interested
in a little merchandise.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
No, kitten, Knuckles, why don't you take care?
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Why don't you shut up? Who said we had anything
to say?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Mister? Heaven't say so. I got other contacts.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
You stay here, boy, don't be back in a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Go yeah, Boss, dispatch of half dollars is no good.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Discard them. But boy, I said, discard them.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
I don't make any merchandise unless it's perfect. Understand next
time wants your alloys, and to be careful of those molds.
There's anything I won't stand for, it's inefficiency. Yes, Boss,
this his knuckles well Snoppy just brought in a guy
from the outside. Snuffy did. Yeah, Nuncles, I don't like that.
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Snuffy claims he's a buyer.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Nuckles.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
I don't regard Snuffy as the soul of honor. His
friend could be a cup gee, Boss, I don't think so.
Snappy claims he's a buyer. He said that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Do you think he's a buyer?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Knuckles?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He could be big a. We're telling bout.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Well, I'm not interested in small fry. Jack him and
keep your eyes open. Okay, along with him for a
little while, see what you can find out.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I'll have a look at him later.
Speaker 13 (11:27):
Hya knuckles back so soon.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I'm back.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
See that's too bad. I was just having a very
interesting chat with handsome here.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'll do the chatting. Maybe you heard me.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
What do you want to talk about? Knuckles.
Speaker 13 (11:39):
You that's just what we were talking about.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Maybe we like to find out a few things about
our customers.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Where are you from, Jack Well, I was born in
a small town. Just never mind the obituary. Where do
you operate? All over?
Speaker 13 (11:58):
Like we're all over?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh, Chicago or Detroit?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Detroit?
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Why not? You know a guy from Detroit called Joseph?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What do you mean you think so? Isn't he the
guy they called Spiels? No? Oh Detroit?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, Detroit?
Speaker 10 (12:23):
Funny you never heard of Josta Whiskey. Everybody had ever
worked Detroit?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
No Joe? I mean, so, I see I lay.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Off the guy knuckles after dat.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
I warned you keep out of this blue eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You see, I always work solo. That's why I never
know too many of the mob say for that way,
No want to squill on me.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Didn't have to worry about now, Steeley, Eh, that's right. Hmm,
that's a good idea. How about that's nephew, And so
you think that's a good idea?
Speaker 9 (12:54):
Oh sure, sure, good idea.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Never have to worry you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Some little squirts gonna turns to Pidgeon on.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Ah, how about another per Knuckles? Uh, shut up?
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Yeah, you got a good idea there, Jack.
Speaker 13 (13:19):
Now he's a slick when this Jack fell a full idea,
ain't you? Honey?
Speaker 10 (13:22):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Will you dry up?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No?
Speaker 13 (13:23):
Wait a minute, Knuckles, you wan't the only got up.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I said, come on, we're getting out of here. Oh Knuckles,
I didn't come on.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
See you later, Jack and Snuffy. Yeah yeah, I'll be
keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Hell yeah, yeah, goodbye Knuckles, goodbye Snuffy.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Who is this? Knuckles? What's here in this counter?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
For the guy that's a Lotte?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Jack?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
That's a large You want to put a sport, a
couple of wooden boxes?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You want to I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
For your room for a balance strictly from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Knuckles as the boss, as strong man, and who's the boss?
Oh no, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I never saying them.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
This is a big opera.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
And once you get by, Knuckles, once you get by,
maybe you'll meet them. But come on, Checke's cutting later.
I want to wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That guy over there, sallow on that corner table. You know,
I'm the guy with his hat pull over his eyes. Yeah,
I've never seen him before. I have he followed us
here he was in a card that followed us here
from the Examiner.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
You're getting a jedize kitten.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Nobody's following us. Holl hey that guy. Let's get out
of here.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Where we go, we'll get some shut out at my hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're a hotel, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I got a sweet at the.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Supervor Mike says to take cuts tidy and tidy one.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So this is the sweet you were talking about. That's nothing,
ye sure, send me private, like semi private. I'd like
to see what you call public dirt vermin and the
smell you can cut.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
With a knife and the price recommends it look snobby?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do we have to stay here? Why do we go
back to my place to speak? A bath, get clean, dump,
and then go back to me knuckles in the morning.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Do you want to do commit suicide? You said there
was a monk telling then we'll tell you to your
high class places. Tell you now and then what the
whole game goes up? You gotta play your throat, John,
play your throat.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, snuffing, but this ain't play.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Here's the cuts.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, good night check, good night snuffy. Pleasant dreams, Yeah,
pleasant dreams.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
You lie there, watching, listening, and finally you see the
first streaks of dawn come trickling through the high, narrow windows.
Then you see a man get up from afar bed
walk towards you.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You strain your.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Eyes in the dim light. You see that this is
the mugg who's been trailing you. Comes closer. You wait,
your whole body prickling with goose flesh.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Who do you want quiet? You want to wake up
the whole George, you want you to look your name? Adams?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Wait a minute, Hey, it's easy.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'm Secret Service George Miller assigned.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Me to tear you s watch your follow me. You
ever die for sure? Sorry, you were never alone.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
I couldn't ip you off even now, I wasn't sure
it was you in this light.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Earn anything yet, Adams.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well, we'll be back in just a minute with tonight's
big story.
Speaker 14 (17:14):
Now we return you to our narrator, Barry Kroger, and
tonight's big story.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
You, Jack Adams of the Los Angeles Examiner. I've been
talking in whispers with the Secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
In the early morning.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Silence of the flophouse is suddenly shattered by.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You? Later?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Jacky Jack where right where?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I right before? I just what happened?
Speaker 9 (17:39):
I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Tell you I don't like it.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Know how a guy by the name of Red Davis
was just knife night and how I don't like this,
Jack of your listen, No guys have fund the minor
closes around getting themself nfe from pulling in the cops
so they can.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Ask comparison questions.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Come on, we'll get nay.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But from where we go? What us in?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Knuckles? Come on, knuckles open up? Hey, Stuffy and Jack.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Wait a minute, listen you little squirt. What do you do?
And barging in?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Here is time in the morning.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I look knocking your sweeter rooms at the flop house?
Good enough?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
I look n because it ain't funny. It ain't a
god just got knifed over there.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It ain't safe.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I tell you, waity, get in yours. Nothing.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
I don't like ben when they start asking questions, when
they start asking.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
Well, you walked in the same set up here, Snobby,
got a few questions more? I want to ask your friend, Jack, Shoot,
you said you were a buyer. That's right, Jack, that's right.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Like I told you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Now right down your runt. I'll do all the talking.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Okay, okay, I didn't nothing.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Getting back to the point, Jack, how much merchandise you
want to buy?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That depends on the price. What's the market? I'm halms
for a buck not so good?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Take it or leave it?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I mean for how much?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hundred bucks now, chicken feet and a lot more later?
If if?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
What? P?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
If your merchandise is good?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You don't think it's good.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I always like to be shown.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, you got a few samples with me?
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Take these four bit pieces, will make try them out yourself, mister, give.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Me an examiner. Yeah, change a half sure, always check
these half dollar pieces.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Now.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
There's a lot of phony stuff voting around this wants
to McCoy you all right, it's you change, mister, want.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
To be mister one Java coming up here you are?
How'd you get this half dollar?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Mister?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I don't know what's wrong with it.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
Nothing looks good to me, and I ain't been stuck
with a bad one yet.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh yeah, Bud, I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Here draw on here you are, bartender.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
One of these things? I mean, this half dollar is phony.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I don't know it's okay.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Anybody with a good eye can see that Besides, this
is dated nineteen thirty seven, and once I got to
do with it, well, I was tipped off that all
a phony for but pieces were dated nineteen thirty four,
nineteen thirty six. Who told you that guy who claimed
he was in the know, I mean snuppy.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh, Jack, you're sad. It's right.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I'm satisfied. It's good merchandise. Let's stock business.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
How much business?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Path big business? Okay, Jack, let's step into this air restaurant.
Why I want to make me a telephone call.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Let's see that new steel guye Joe?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Eh, here it is boss, not bad, that's good artwork,
very good.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Indeed.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, you know, with a good power press, Boss, we
can turn out about fifty grand in four bit pieces.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh, I never mind, Joe, I'll take it. Hello.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Oh this is Knuckles. Yes, it's new buyer's nuff. He
found his talking big.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
M You think he's legitimate, Knuckles.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
As far as I can make that, he's level. We
could use a good customer. Can bring him up, Boss,
all right, I'll look him over and incidentally, Knuckles, Yeah,
when you bring him up stick around, I may find
that I don't like his face.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You Jack Adams were listening with knuckles.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Dial the number.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Now you get the number down fast on a clip
of matches you're carrying.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You're sure the boss himself is at that number. But
you haven't got a chance to get into secret service.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
And then you see a man walk in the agent
that George Miller assigned to tell you.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You get a fast and desperate idea. All right, Jack,
let's go go away.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I'll tip you off when we get there.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Come on, okay, hold on, knuckles, I need to like, hey, bud, Yeah,
got a match? Sure? Thanks? Here your matches back? What's
(23:03):
you buy?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I come on, Jack, let's golling around and let's go.
Who is it me? Now? Goose? I got a friend
with me?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
All right, come in, won't you? So? You're a friend
of snuffies? Are you? That's right? And you're a buyer.
I'm a buyer. You don't look the part. I don't
let my clothes for you. Incidentally, this is a nice
(23:44):
layout you got around here. It's adequate.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
I hope to expand soon. How much of my merchandise
would you like to buy?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Five thousand to begin with? All later you have the
money with you? Oh not with me? But I'll bring
the cash tomorrow. That would be all right if I
were sure you were legitimate. But you know I'm a pallace.
Snappies Snuffy is very unreliable. How else can I prove
that I am on the level? You might like to
show me the press card you've got in your wallet.
(24:16):
Mumh nuncles.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
I'd like you to meet Jack Adams, a reporter of
the Los Angeles Examiner.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think there must be some mistake.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I I.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
There is a mistake, mister Adams, and you made it.
You should have known that. I make it a point
to recognize people who write unpleasant things about my my
business venture. Now, let's not waste time with useless lies.
You are Jack Adams, aren't you? Yes, thank you for
not shilly shlleying. I'll try to make this as painless
(24:48):
as possible. I dislike killing people.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You're not going to kill anyone?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Really?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Why not? Because an agent of the Secret Service is
going to be here any minute now, that's unlikely. That's positive.
Wh Knuckles dialed your phone number a few minutes ago.
I took it down on a book of matches and
passed it to the Secret Service man who has been
covering me so jesterday who you've been tricking? His his lion, Boss,
he's lying on a honest Boss. I didn't see anyone.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Open the door.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Open the door. This is the secret service.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Boss, out of drilling for this.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Open the door.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We'll break it down. Boss. Please let me drill him.
He got us into this.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Don't be late for that. Now open the door.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
In just a moment, we'll read you a telegram from
Jack Adams of the Lost Angless Examiner with the final
outcome of tonight's big story. Now we read you that
telegram from Jack Adams of the Lost ang This Examiner.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Leaders in counterfeiting ring were brought to trial, found guilty,
and sentenced to Federal penitentiary. All their equipment was confiscated,
and the circulation of counterfeit coins has ended. Many thanks
for the night's pell Mell Award.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Thank you, mister Adams. The makers of pell Mell Famous
Cigarettes are proud to have named you the winner of
the pell Mell five hundred dollars Award for notable service
in the field of journalism.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
Listen again next week, same time, same station, when pell
Mell Famous Cigarettes will present another big story, a big
story from the pages of the Nashville tennesseean byline Jack
setters a big story that reached its climax when a
newspaper published in Tennessee helped capture a murderer in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
The Big Story is produced by Bernard J.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Proctor, directed by Harry Ingram, with music by vladimits Lensky.
The night's program was written by Max Aleck. Your narrator
was Barry Kroger, and Dwight Wist lay the part of
Jack Adams. All names in Tonight's story except that of mister.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Adams were fictitious, but the.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Dramatization was based on a true and authentic case. This
is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Welcome back. While an interesting episode from a time where
I guess you could make money counterfeiting coins now in
this case, Dwight Weist played the role of Jack Adams,
and we have actually heard mister West quite recently, as
he played the Prince in the adaptation of The Suicide
(28:19):
Club that we included in our Top episodes of the
past season. Quite a bit of doubling up in this episode,
according to the script. Worth noting is that Larry Haynes
played the bartender who had gotten word about how the
(28:42):
counterfeit coins work from a reliable source in Snuffy, and
he also played Snuffy Now and if you're wondering about
the actual story behind these events, unfortunately this is one
where the stories behind the big story side comes up
(29:04):
with a blank. The note says the underlying news events
for this episode remain a mystery. There were many counterfitting
operations in the news at the time that Adams worked
at The Examiner. And it's also important to note that,
as I believe I said when we introduced it, or
(29:27):
if I didn't, it has been noted that they did
change details about some of the series portrayed in order
to avoid lawsuits. So you've got a counterfeiting operation, but
with the details changed, you can't really pinpoint which story
this was specifically about. All right, Well, now it's time
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Speaker 2 (30:45):
Not too long ago could be suicide? You think, Oh no,
I don't.
Speaker 12 (30:49):
This girl failer was pushed brokencon the attitude of the buddy.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, so that's why I said maybe suicide.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Women don't pick backyards of tenement houses, Margavian. You register
in high class hotels, find a bridge, you know that, Yeah,
most of them, Danny not. Oh and take a look. Bruises.
I'm the tug here. Look here, Bruce, another one here.
This girl died instantly. These bruises were from a beating
and she got thrown. Huh, I'd say, so pushy.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
I can't tell no identification, Danny, I'd say she was
about twenty two.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Huh, twenty two? What.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
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nineteen forty seven, here is the Case of the Counterfeit Coins.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The Big Story. Hey budd, Yeah, gotta match, sure, Thanks
here your matches back? What's obliged?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'll mention it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Operator operator, get me the Secret Service.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
A big story another in a thrilling series based on
true experiences of newspaper reporters. Good Night to Jack Adams
of the Los Angeles Examiner goes the pell Mell Award
for the Big Story Now, the exciting and authentic story
(02:50):
of the case of the counterfeit Coins.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
You are Jack Adams of the Los Angeles Examiner.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
For weeks, you've been running down leads.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
On a big counterfeiting ring in town, and the.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Weeks you've always come back to the same place.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Nowhere.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
At the moment, thousands of phony half dollar coins are
floating around in LA and nobody knows where the phony
money mill is or who's behind it. Then one afternoon,
one of the copy boys opens your office door, say.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Mister Adams, Yeah, kid, what is it?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
A guy outside wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
What about?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
He claims he's got a big story on the counterfeiting ring.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What another one? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Another one? Only I've never seen a character like this
in all my life.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
What do you mean, Eddie?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
I tased him for an ext con and then I
said to myself, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it's.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Just a refugee from a flophouse. He looks like a scarecrow.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Wearing a soup made out of burlap. Could be some
tramp after a handout. Does you look hungry?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Yeah, but not for bide him and or for a
cork or a needle if you ask me? And shall
I send him in and throw him out?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You're a pretty cynical kid, Eddie. You'll probably turn out
to be a great reporter, but just to prove that
the milk of human kindness doesn't always turn sour and
the gentleman in okay.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Okay, you go ahead in thanks, thanks a.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Lot, kid.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (04:10):
Are you Jack Adams?
Speaker 10 (04:11):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I'm Adams. Go you.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
My name's Snuffy. It's Snuffy.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I heard you the first time. Snuffy? What Snuffy? Okay? Snuffy? Ah?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (04:24):
I see in pite of papers, you've been writing a
lot of stories on a phony doll racket You've been writing.
And I says to myself, I says.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Maybe you'd be interested, interested in what a little info
inside stuff, if.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (04:36):
The McCoy on a phony four but slop set of
floating around. So I tells myself, I'll make the approach
and see what I can say, say vaguely. So if
I if I lead jari info, I gotta pay.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Off if your information is legitimate.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Yes, okay, you look, Coppa said it to me. You look,
I'll take a chance.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I knew one of us was taking a chance. Well,
what's your proposition, Snuffy? I can get you on the inside.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
With a confitt up?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
What Bob?
Speaker 9 (05:04):
I know every agent the racket.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I'll come connections. You want the story of don't you
if you could really get me on the inside.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
I said I would tonight, bub and I'm.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Gonna prove it.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Make me hit the examiner tomorrow night at nine polls.
I'm dressing the oldest sudger can fine and don't shave? Hey,
wait a minute, I didn't say I would.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Are you going, mister Adams?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Eddie?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
What oide the door? Are you going?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Look? Eddie?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's only in the movies the reporters listening to Keyhole.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Are you gonna keep that day with Stumpy tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
If you don't keep it? Can I no? Why not?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Because there's too dangerous.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
A good reporter isn't afraid of danger.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Everybody's afraid of danger.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
What are you gonna do about tomorrow night?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know. Before I decide anything, I think I'll
run over and have a.
Speaker 11 (05:51):
Little chat with George Miller at the Secret Service office.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, George, what do you think? Shall I keep this
date with a snoppy character or shouldn't I? Jack, don't
ask me to answer a question like that. What do
you mean? Well, you'll be taking a chance if you
go through with it. This counterfeiting ring is dangerous, Jack,
crooks are running it wouldn't hesitate to kill if they
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thought their racket was threatened. I see that's the way
it is. Huh, that's the way it is. Well, George,
you know me.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm no hero who is?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But I feel a big story coming on And in
that case, in that case, you'll take the chance. Yes,
all right, Jack, go ahead and meet your unsanitary little friend.
Don't say I didn't warn you. Hi a plum here, Hello, Snubby?
(07:03):
How do I look?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You look okay?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Pole, But.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Can you I don't get you all Dud's in enough.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
You're gonna make with the lingo, see like I don't
get me. Otherwise they'll take it for a phony.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
They'll take it, thanks, Snuffy, not tanks like you.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
Say it pile tanks say off the English accent speak Americans?
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay? Boy, let's scram perfect?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah? Perfect?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Did you bring any doll did you? It ain't much,
but it'll left the door. What's the angle?
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Got a case?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Perfect?
Speaker 12 (07:36):
I got a case?
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Good buyer? Why sure you got the real letters? The
kind of cale Sammy puts on? And why don't you
buy the phony.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Four bit pieces?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Five half dollars for a legit box?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
I mean five pairs for one?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's the deal?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Opsic, I I see what you mean. Okay, then let's
beat it in contact some of my pals.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Let's contact sure, But before we go, one question, Snuffy,
what you're going to double across your pals?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:01):
You got the answer? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I'm not not a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So what so how do I know you won't double
across me? Across you? How can you say a thing
like that? What kind of a stool pigeon?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Do you take me for? Gome on?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
I got some pounds to me in a bus?
Speaker 13 (08:34):
Hi, baby, don't baby me? You're rady squirt. Who's your pal?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
The name's Jack?
Speaker 9 (08:39):
The name is it's the right guy.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Now let's this baby. Where's to meet your baby shame to.
Speaker 13 (08:44):
You, handsome, But it ain't sure Knuckles is gonna be
so happy about this nothing. We were supposed to meet
you here alone.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
They baby, those guys are right, Jay, Now you'd better
be right dream boy.
Speaker 13 (08:55):
But here comes Knuckles.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Now, Uh hi Knuckles, Hey.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah, Knuckles, who's the guy?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (09:05):
The name's Jack jackend of snapt up?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Never you lame brain though, beat your brain. Listen, Knuckles,
I bring here stupid. Come. I don't make us some
till I listen, Knuckles, shack, here's the right guys.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
I no pelami, see.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
What I mean?
Speaker 13 (09:20):
Pala not a bad looking when her knuckles?
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Baby, shut your fat mauth? How they where'd you meet
this mugge?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Knuckles?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Don't go up your rocket. He used to show for
me when I was running that carnival into San Diego.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No kidding.
Speaker 13 (09:34):
We'll watch your racket now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Harney, he's a bias, that's right. I might be interested
in a little merchandise.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
No, kitten, Knuckles, why don't you take care?
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Why don't you shut up? Who said we had anything
to say?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Mister? Heaven't say so. I got other contacts.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
You stay here, boy, don't be back in a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Go yeah, Boss, dispatch of half dollars is no good.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Discard them. But boy, I said, discard them.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
I don't make any merchandise unless it's perfect. Understand next
time wants your alloys, and to be careful of those molds.
There's anything I won't stand for, it's inefficiency. Yes, Boss,
this his knuckles well Snoppy just brought in a guy
from the outside. Snuffy did. Yeah, Nuncles, I don't like that.
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Snuffy claims he's a buyer.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Nuckles.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
I don't regard Snuffy as the soul of honor. His
friend could be a cup gee, Boss, I don't think so.
Snappy claims he's a buyer. He said that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Do you think he's a buyer?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Knuckles?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He could be big a. We're telling bout.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Well, I'm not interested in small fry. Jack him and
keep your eyes open. Okay, along with him for a
little while, see what you can find out.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I'll have a look at him later.
Speaker 13 (11:27):
Hya knuckles back so soon.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I'm back.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
See that's too bad. I was just having a very
interesting chat with handsome here.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'll do the chatting. Maybe you heard me.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
What do you want to talk about? Knuckles.
Speaker 13 (11:39):
You that's just what we were talking about.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Maybe we like to find out a few things about
our customers.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Where are you from, Jack Well, I was born in
a small town. Just never mind the obituary. Where do
you operate? All over?
Speaker 13 (11:58):
Like we're all over?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh, Chicago or Detroit?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Detroit?
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Why not? You know a guy from Detroit called Joseph?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What do you mean you think so? Isn't he the
guy they called Spiels? No? Oh Detroit?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, Detroit?
Speaker 10 (12:23):
Funny you never heard of Josta Whiskey. Everybody had ever
worked Detroit?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
No Joe? I mean, so, I see I lay.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Off the guy knuckles after dat.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
I warned you keep out of this blue eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You see, I always work solo. That's why I never
know too many of the mob say for that way,
No want to squill on me.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Didn't have to worry about now, Steeley, Eh, that's right. Hmm,
that's a good idea. How about that's nephew, And so
you think that's a good idea?
Speaker 9 (12:54):
Oh sure, sure, good idea.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Never have to worry you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Some little squirts gonna turns to Pidgeon on.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Ah, how about another per Knuckles? Uh, shut up?
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Yeah, you got a good idea there, Jack.
Speaker 13 (13:19):
Now he's a slick when this Jack fell a full idea,
ain't you? Honey?
Speaker 10 (13:22):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Will you dry up?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No?
Speaker 13 (13:23):
Wait a minute, Knuckles, you wan't the only got up.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I said, come on, we're getting out of here. Oh Knuckles,
I didn't come on.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
See you later, Jack and Snuffy. Yeah yeah, I'll be
keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Hell yeah, yeah, goodbye Knuckles, goodbye Snuffy.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Who is this? Knuckles? What's here in this counter?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
For the guy that's a Lotte?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Jack?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
That's a large You want to put a sport, a
couple of wooden boxes?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You want to I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
For your room for a balance strictly from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Knuckles as the boss, as strong man, and who's the boss?
Oh no, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I never saying them.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
This is a big opera.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
And once you get by, Knuckles, once you get by,
maybe you'll meet them. But come on, Checke's cutting later.
I want to wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That guy over there, sallow on that corner table. You know,
I'm the guy with his hat pull over his eyes. Yeah,
I've never seen him before. I have he followed us
here he was in a card that followed us here
from the Examiner.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
You're getting a jedize kitten.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Nobody's following us. Holl hey that guy. Let's get out
of here.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Where we go, we'll get some shut out at my hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're a hotel, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I got a sweet at the.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Supervor Mike says to take cuts tidy and tidy one.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So this is the sweet you were talking about. That's nothing,
ye sure, send me private, like semi private. I'd like
to see what you call public dirt vermin and the
smell you can cut.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
With a knife and the price recommends it look snobby?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do we have to stay here? Why do we go
back to my place to speak? A bath, get clean, dump,
and then go back to me knuckles in the morning.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Do you want to do commit suicide? You said there
was a monk telling then we'll tell you to your
high class places. Tell you now and then what the
whole game goes up? You gotta play your throat, John,
play your throat.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, snuffing, but this ain't play.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Here's the cuts.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, good night check, good night snuffy. Pleasant dreams, Yeah,
pleasant dreams.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
You lie there, watching, listening, and finally you see the
first streaks of dawn come trickling through the high, narrow windows.
Then you see a man get up from afar bed
walk towards you.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You strain your.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Eyes in the dim light. You see that this is
the mugg who's been trailing you. Comes closer. You wait,
your whole body prickling with goose flesh.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Who do you want quiet? You want to wake up
the whole George, you want you to look your name? Adams?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Wait a minute, Hey, it's easy.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'm Secret Service George Miller assigned.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Me to tear you s watch your follow me. You
ever die for sure? Sorry, you were never alone.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
I couldn't ip you off even now, I wasn't sure
it was you in this light.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Earn anything yet, Adams.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well, we'll be back in just a minute with tonight's
big story.
Speaker 14 (17:14):
Now we return you to our narrator, Barry Kroger, and
tonight's big story.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
You, Jack Adams of the Los Angeles Examiner. I've been
talking in whispers with the Secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
In the early morning.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Silence of the flophouse is suddenly shattered by.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You? Later?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Jacky Jack where right where?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I right before? I just what happened?
Speaker 9 (17:39):
I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Tell you I don't like it.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Know how a guy by the name of Red Davis
was just knife night and how I don't like this,
Jack of your listen, No guys have fund the minor
closes around getting themself nfe from pulling in the cops
so they can.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Ask comparison questions.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Come on, we'll get nay.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But from where we go? What us in?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Knuckles? Come on, knuckles open up? Hey, Stuffy and Jack.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Wait a minute, listen you little squirt. What do you do?
And barging in?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Here is time in the morning.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I look knocking your sweeter rooms at the flop house?
Good enough?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
I look n because it ain't funny. It ain't a
god just got knifed over there.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It ain't safe.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I tell you, waity, get in yours. Nothing.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
I don't like ben when they start asking questions, when
they start asking.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
Well, you walked in the same set up here, Snobby,
got a few questions more? I want to ask your friend, Jack, Shoot,
you said you were a buyer. That's right, Jack, that's right.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Like I told you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Now right down your runt. I'll do all the talking.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Okay, okay, I didn't nothing.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Getting back to the point, Jack, how much merchandise you
want to buy?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That depends on the price. What's the market? I'm halms
for a buck not so good?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Take it or leave it?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I mean for how much?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hundred bucks now, chicken feet and a lot more later?
If if?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
What? P?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
If your merchandise is good?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You don't think it's good.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I always like to be shown.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, you got a few samples with me?
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Take these four bit pieces, will make try them out yourself, mister, give.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Me an examiner. Yeah, change a half sure, always check
these half dollar pieces.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Now.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
There's a lot of phony stuff voting around this wants
to McCoy you all right, it's you change, mister, want.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
To be mister one Java coming up here you are?
How'd you get this half dollar?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Mister?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I don't know what's wrong with it.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
Nothing looks good to me, and I ain't been stuck
with a bad one yet.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh yeah, Bud, I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Here draw on here you are, bartender.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
One of these things? I mean, this half dollar is phony.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I don't know it's okay.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Anybody with a good eye can see that Besides, this
is dated nineteen thirty seven, and once I got to
do with it, well, I was tipped off that all
a phony for but pieces were dated nineteen thirty four,
nineteen thirty six. Who told you that guy who claimed
he was in the know, I mean snuppy.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh, Jack, you're sad. It's right.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I'm satisfied. It's good merchandise. Let's stock business.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
How much business?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Path big business? Okay, Jack, let's step into this air restaurant.
Why I want to make me a telephone call.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Let's see that new steel guye Joe?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Eh, here it is boss, not bad, that's good artwork,
very good.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Indeed.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, you know, with a good power press, Boss, we
can turn out about fifty grand in four bit pieces.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh, I never mind, Joe, I'll take it. Hello.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Oh this is Knuckles. Yes, it's new buyer's nuff. He
found his talking big.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
M You think he's legitimate, Knuckles.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
As far as I can make that, he's level. We
could use a good customer. Can bring him up, Boss,
all right, I'll look him over and incidentally, Knuckles, Yeah,
when you bring him up stick around, I may find
that I don't like his face.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You Jack Adams were listening with knuckles.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Dial the number.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Now you get the number down fast on a clip
of matches you're carrying.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You're sure the boss himself is at that number. But
you haven't got a chance to get into secret service.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
And then you see a man walk in the agent
that George Miller assigned to tell you.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You get a fast and desperate idea. All right, Jack,
let's go go away.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I'll tip you off when we get there.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Come on, okay, hold on, knuckles, I need to like, hey, bud, Yeah,
got a match? Sure? Thanks? Here your matches back? What's
(23:03):
you buy?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I come on, Jack, let's golling around and let's go.
Who is it me? Now? Goose? I got a friend
with me?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
All right, come in, won't you? So? You're a friend
of snuffies? Are you? That's right? And you're a buyer.
I'm a buyer. You don't look the part. I don't
let my clothes for you. Incidentally, this is a nice
(23:44):
layout you got around here. It's adequate.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
I hope to expand soon. How much of my merchandise
would you like to buy?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Five thousand to begin with? All later you have the
money with you? Oh not with me? But I'll bring
the cash tomorrow. That would be all right if I
were sure you were legitimate. But you know I'm a pallace.
Snappies Snuffy is very unreliable. How else can I prove
that I am on the level? You might like to
show me the press card you've got in your wallet.
(24:16):
Mumh nuncles.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
I'd like you to meet Jack Adams, a reporter of
the Los Angeles Examiner.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think there must be some mistake.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I I.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
There is a mistake, mister Adams, and you made it.
You should have known that. I make it a point
to recognize people who write unpleasant things about my my
business venture. Now, let's not waste time with useless lies.
You are Jack Adams, aren't you? Yes, thank you for
not shilly shlleying. I'll try to make this as painless
(24:48):
as possible. I dislike killing people.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You're not going to kill anyone?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Really?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Why not? Because an agent of the Secret Service is
going to be here any minute now, that's unlikely. That's positive.
Wh Knuckles dialed your phone number a few minutes ago.
I took it down on a book of matches and
passed it to the Secret Service man who has been
covering me so jesterday who you've been tricking? His his lion, Boss,
he's lying on a honest Boss. I didn't see anyone.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Open the door.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Open the door. This is the secret service.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Boss, out of drilling for this.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Open the door.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We'll break it down. Boss. Please let me drill him.
He got us into this.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Don't be late for that. Now open the door.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
In just a moment, we'll read you a telegram from
Jack Adams of the Lost Angless Examiner with the final
outcome of tonight's big story. Now we read you that
telegram from Jack Adams of the Lost ang This Examiner.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Leaders in counterfeiting ring were brought to trial, found guilty,
and sentenced to Federal penitentiary. All their equipment was confiscated,
and the circulation of counterfeit coins has ended. Many thanks
for the night's pell Mell Award.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Thank you, mister Adams. The makers of pell Mell Famous
Cigarettes are proud to have named you the winner of
the pell Mell five hundred dollars Award for notable service
in the field of journalism.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
Listen again next week, same time, same station, when pell
Mell Famous Cigarettes will present another big story, a big
story from the pages of the Nashville tennesseean byline Jack
setters a big story that reached its climax when a
newspaper published in Tennessee helped capture a murderer in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
The Big Story is produced by Bernard J.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Proctor, directed by Harry Ingram, with music by vladimits Lensky.
The night's program was written by Max Aleck. Your narrator
was Barry Kroger, and Dwight Wist lay the part of
Jack Adams. All names in Tonight's story except that of mister.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Adams were fictitious, but the.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Dramatization was based on a true and authentic case. This
is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Welcome back. While an interesting episode from a time where
I guess you could make money counterfeiting coins now in
this case, Dwight Weist played the role of Jack Adams,
and we have actually heard mister West quite recently, as
he played the Prince in the adaptation of The Suicide
(28:19):
Club that we included in our Top episodes of the
past season. Quite a bit of doubling up in this episode,
according to the script. Worth noting is that Larry Haynes
played the bartender who had gotten word about how the
(28:42):
counterfeit coins work from a reliable source in Snuffy, and
he also played Snuffy Now and if you're wondering about
the actual story behind these events, unfortunately this is one
where the stories behind the big story side comes up
(29:04):
with a blank. The note says the underlying news events
for this episode remain a mystery. There were many counterfitting
operations in the news at the time that Adams worked
at The Examiner. And it's also important to note that,
as I believe I said when we introduced it, or
(29:27):
if I didn't, it has been noted that they did
change details about some of the series portrayed in order
to avoid lawsuits. So you've got a counterfeiting operation, but
with the details changed, you can't really pinpoint which story
this was specifically about. All right, Well, now it's time
(29:51):
to think our Patreon supporter of the day and I
want to thank Eliza, Patreon supporter since July of twenty
twenty one. I'm currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus
level of four dollars or more per month. Thanks so
much for your support, Eliza, and that will do it
for today. If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow
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(30:37):
but join us back here tomorrow for broadways my beat where.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Not too long ago could be suicide? You think, Oh no,
I don't.
Speaker 12 (30:49):
This girl failer was pushed brokencon the attitude of the buddy.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, so that's why I said maybe suicide.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Women don't pick backyards of tenement houses, Margavian. You register
in high class hotels, find a bridge, you know that, Yeah,
most of them, Danny not. Oh and take a look. Bruises.
I'm the tug here. Look here, Bruce, another one here.
This girl died instantly. These bruises were from a beating
and she got thrown. Huh, I'd say, so pushy.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
I can't tell no identification, Danny, I'd say she was
about twenty two.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Huh, twenty two? What.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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