September 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Today's Mystery: A woman comes to The Falcon when a man breaks into her home, and robs and assaults her and then is shot, and she's being blackmailed.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1954
Originating from New York
Starring: George Petrie as The Falcon; Chuck Webster; Larry Haines; Mandel Kramer
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1954
Originating from New York
Starring: George Petrie as The Falcon; Chuck Webster; Larry Haines; Mandel Kramer
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
Patreon Supporter of the Day: Tony, Patreon supporter since March 2023.
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we
are going to bring you the last circulating episode of
the Adventures of the Falcon. But first I do want
to encourage you, if you are enjoying the podcast, to
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Detectives dot net. Given the episodes that we played so far,
(01:14):
I feel like I should warn you that the sound
quality on this episode is actually pretty dacent. Usually it's
the other way around, but this is the one that
actually sounds pretty good. So here from May thirty first,
nineteen fifty four is the case of the Snappy Snapshot.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Hello, Yes, this is the fucking speaking Oh Helen. I'm
glad you called. I won't be able to make it tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Angel.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Seems my client is having trouble with his competitors and
he wants me to give him the business. The Mutual
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Adventures of the Falcon, starring George Petrie as Mike Wearing
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(03:45):
There's one thing you learn working as a private detective.
Persistence always pays off. There's a case in point. I
give you the two gentlemen driving along the bowery. They
are the Kemp brothers, Walter and George. They run a
private detective agency in town. We'd have a guest to
look at them. There are a couple of philanthropists, but
no relief organization. Never looked harder to find a worthy
(04:08):
object of their charity than the camp boys.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
So down, George?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah? How about that bum standing at a point?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Shot?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Kind of bold?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Any what differences to make stop the car?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Hey Pop, Hey pop, come over here? Will you want
me muster?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How would you like to make yourself five bucks? Looking
for work?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Bill?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Pull? You come with us?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Not doubling?
Speaker 8 (04:38):
What will I have to do?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Nothing hard?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
We'll explain it to you later. No, I'm not interested.
You better get somebody else here. You are bump?
Speaker 8 (04:47):
You hit me a car? Right? Let me go right?
Beat it?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Fine before I pup you wonder.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
All right, George, how about that character over there? What
character sleeping in the hallways?
Speaker 8 (05:00):
So yeah, I got cut your motor.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Okay, let's go. Keep your eyes peel for con Hey, buddy, buddy,
let me go.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
What did you mind?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Get up off that floor?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Don't you must.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'm just trying to grab a little Smoothe.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Have to find some other place, Okay, Okay, I'm just
thinking maybe my brother and I could use you. I
would you like a nice steady job with easy hours and.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
All the expenses on the house I put them many?
Could you look like the kind of a man we went?
What's your name? Paul?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Granted your blow? My name is Walter Kemp. This is
my brother George. Hurry up, twell, and you've got any
family where you're from? Any friends in town?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No? Swell? I suppose you come along with us? Uh huh,
what's the matter? I change my mind?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Come on, water?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
How much time they're gonna waste with this shmoe? You
think you'd be right for the job? What he waited for?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Waller?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
If I dropped him, you'll pick him up.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
It's coming to okay, George, you better beat us what for?
You don't think you want to play ball if he
sees you here, especially after the way.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
You sock him.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
All right, I'll meet you. Don't wait up, it may
be late. Oh how problem I feel? Oh the w
what the camp? You remember?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
You don't one who slugged me?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Nod?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
That was my brother. I took it easy.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
George is a little hot headed.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, nobody's pushing me around.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I didn't maintain. He just lost his temper. After all,
you offer your job for sixty a weeks. Sixty weeks,
that's right, for how long? As long as you wanted?
Maybe after the first month through might even be a
little raised.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Would I have to do practically nothing? You see, My
brother and I run a.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Little detective agency. We specialize in divorce cases. What do
you mean, Well, I suppose you were married to some
day you didn't like. We furnished the evidence that she's
seeing some other guy in the site on.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Water she ain't.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Then we manufacture I don't get you, but we got
a case in the office right now. That's what we
wanted you for. My client is married to a gown
named kill Us Howard.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Kill us Howard.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
That's right, and just because my client's got a couple
of bucks. You won't let him go, so we're gonna
fix it. So she's got no choice in the matter. Ah,
But tomorrow morning, around six o'clock, we'll get you into
her apartment through a window. Her husband will be waking
on a fire escape with a camera. Now, all you
gotta do is put your arms around her while he
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takes a picture.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And I get sixty bucks for the job. That's right,
not enough. I want a hundred.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Driving an awful tough black.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now you heard me. You ain't dealing with some chump.
You know I want a hundred bucks. So it's no deal. Well,
since it's all set up for tomorrow, Okay.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
I wait a minute, ten and all, I ain't going
to this Phyllis apartment in these clothes.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I'll worry about it poor as long as I know
we can count on. Yeah, we'll have your dressed to kill.
What could be very than that?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Who's there?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Who's there?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
It's only me, baby?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
What are you doing in here?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Came up to see you. Isn't that nice to me?
Get out?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Ah? No, you don't really mean that.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Phyllis, who told you my name? You're admirers you know something.
I can't see why you want to get rid of
a good looking babe like you. Look, if you walk
my name, froll it, sweetheart, I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Little Paully wouldn't think of trouble. You just stay right
well you are.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
What's in his box?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Here?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
My jewelry?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Is it insured?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Then you won't mind if I help myself when you
can't get out? Oh almost forgot there was something, And
I'll say game for the baby. All I want is
want kiss Old Paul.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Honey, This thin't gonna hurt it. Bit, Come on, Phillips,
give who knows you may.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Even get to line till it gout. No.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
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Now back to the Adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Three hours later, I was awakened from a beautiful dream
by the doorbell.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
There's a pity to break it up. I was having
such a wonderful time. I tried to find my place again,
but whoever was leaning on the bell that used to
get discouraged. So I tossed on a robe and staggered
to the door.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Well are you wearing I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Never quite sure in the middle of a knight. My
name is Phyllis Howard. I don't care. Did you say
Phillis Howard? That's right, that'll come in how till they
let you wander around loose? What do you mean? Aren't
you the gal whose uncle was T. J. Howard?
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And didn't I read in the papers when his will
was probated last month he left you a cool ten million?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It was only one Well, whenever I read figures containing
more than three zero as I get his stigmatisity? What's
bothering you that a million dollars can't fit? Murder? Murder?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Yes, there's a dead man in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
How'd he get that? I think he came off the
fire's gape and he was alive when he walked in.
Who is he?
Speaker 10 (11:49):
He called himself Paul?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Paul?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
What about his last name? I don't know. Did he
try to walk off with any of your property? My
jewel box? Okay, then we'll claim self defense? Self defense? Yes,
what'd you do with the gun? Well? I didn't kill him,
and who doing? I don't know?
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Luck, miss Howell, I'll tell you why didn't he try
to kill me?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And while we were struggling. It was a shot from
his gun, so anybody hear it? Apparently not what happened
after that, I must have fainted. When I came to
I decided I better call on you. What made you
pick on me?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
I heard someone mention your name.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I'm not sure. You're not sure if anything? Are you? Phyllis?
You positive this Paul character is dead? He didn't move.
That doesn't prove anything. Did you listen for his heartbeat?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, I suppose we go over to your place and
try it. I got a wonderful ear for that sort
of thing.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Must you move him like that?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Must if I wanted to listen to his heartbeat? Well,
you're right the first time, Phyllis, we could have saved
ourselves a trip. This is gun, Yes, it was yours.
I told you I don't have any Well, friend, Paul
certainly wasn't killed with this thing he was unless he
(13:08):
was hit by a gum dropp.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
This is a kid's toy pistol. I don't understand, Hillis.
If you want me to work for you, you'll have
to trust me. Now. What was this man to you?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
I told you I never before saw him in my life.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I thought he was a burglar? Where's your person jewel box?
You put them under his coat? No, they're not here.
Now where did you generally keep them in my night table?
That one?
Speaker 10 (13:35):
But how did they get back in there?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That's what a jury I want to know. If we
claim he tried to rob you, you've got to believe me,
mister Waring.
Speaker 10 (13:43):
I told you that.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I had no idea open that closet. What are you
going to do? Get him out of the sight?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Can I help you?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Just a second?
Speaker 10 (13:58):
I'm coming.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Who is it?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well, we'll please slip it under the door, will you?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What is it? Phyllis death?
Speaker 8 (14:10):
For me?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Let's see it?
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Are the pictures?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And what pictures? They're all of you? Angel? Not very flattering,
are they?
Speaker 8 (14:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, I don't feel too badly. You couldn't expect to
look your best slumped over Paul's body?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
What does it mean? Blackmail? Black Well? These aren't the
kind of snapshoot send out for publicity purposes.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Shouldn't there be a note with them?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Not necessarily? Whoever is running this record could always get
a touch. That's one way to do it.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Hello, I'd like to speak to missus Phinnis Hart.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Please, who's calling? Just the second. Do you know anyone
named Carlos Dariol? No, you can't come to the phone, Dario.
You want me to leave message a very close friend
of the family. You know the pictures. Yeah, well I'm.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Staying at do tell when right there? Tell her to
come up and see me.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What's in it for her?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Don't worry, mister, I see missus Howard. Don't make trip
for nothing? You know what you mean?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That killed George?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Sergeant Friday?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Get out of my way?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I gotta call a client, do you mind? Well, you
know he left strict instructions. She was a shadow of
the Howard name. Well, she just left for Dario's apartlet
so what so? She wasn't alone.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
She had an escort, a fellow named Mike Wherry.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Could you can? Oh, don't be a jerk. I think
she hired one. What does that sound like to you?
She want to post told me a girl in her
position and pay right off. Told me the wouldn't be
any trump. I why died? You want to guarantees they
got a top at George.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
If you let go of my code, I will let
me get that phone.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I don't mean calling a client. We gotta get out
of when you shut up.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I didn't like the idea in the first place.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Remember, let's shut up limit that phone.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yes, you, Carlos Dario, that is right. I'm Mike wearing.
This is MSUs Howard hearing.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Why should bring you along? Don't blame her, Dario, It
was all my idea, Well it was.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Now suppose we get down to business that suits me?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Fine?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Then suppose we swamped the negatives for cash. I believe
that's the customary arrangement.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yes, but first I got a.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Little bonus for you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
You know, good?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Would you behave if you want to watch that temper?
Where were we? I got what you wanted to send
the lord mind? If I open it, I'd like to
see what I'm buying.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
Why it's full of one thousand dollar bills.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The surprise, Uh quite a bit. What's the idea, dariol
that's your price, isn't it? My price will help me wearying.
If you wu disturb ever tried to hold me up again,
I'll kill you. Now give me those nig Wait a minute,
do I get them? Or do I have to take
you a p pay? Say? When you shut up and
let me get this thing straight. How much money is
(17:26):
in here, twenty thousand dollars, and in exchange for it,
you expect us to turn over some negatives to you.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
That is right?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
If I any chance for those pictures of you near a.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Body, Yes, I don't know how you work it wearing,
but I never see that man before and I didn't
kill him.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, shake, sucker, we're on your side, my sne Yeah,
fella swears your art collection for those prints look familiar
to you, Dariel, Sure goictures of me taken last week.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I don't let those slacks for you. It's miss Howard.
You two are victims of the same racket.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Don't talk like it. Food the only way it makes sense.
Didn't have come. Miss Horard called me yesterday and said
to have twenty USand dollars ready. I didn't the lady
on telephone give your name. She was live. Don't you see, Darlia,
whoever called you was working for the blackmailer.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It don't add up so good to me. Look, it's
not difficult. What the killer is doing here is dividing
the risk. He wants money from you and miss Howard.
All right, there's less chance of his being caught and
collecting from one person than from two.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Who's this he you talk about? Whoever is behind this
little stunt? You'll probably get in touch with my client
next and ask her the matter your twenty grand another word,
it's time to be the collection. He touched it. I
don't know why wearing, but I believe you. Fine, you
keep my money and do what you think best.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Fair enough, but remember I can't afford nor mistakes these
pictures can make, No, they can't.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
What do you mean? Take a good look at this
one of miss Howard slumped over the body. You can
recognize Miss Howard, all right, but you can't make out
the face on the crooks. So instead of a body,
it could have been a wax gummy. But it was not.
We know that, but we don't have to admit it.
The only way the blackmailer can prove us liars is
to produce the body. What do you mean you're going
(19:26):
to get rid of me? That's right? But how even
to me? Phyllis? I think I know the boy to
handle it. Let's keep our fingers closed. Deaf eno a drinks? Thanks?
(19:53):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Now, what do you want?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
A slight favorite?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
And what do you call slight?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I Remember, sergeants, this is off the record. Go on,
there's a body in miss Howard's apartment.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There's you heard me? I look, Mike, I don't like
these kind of jokes.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
How did it get there?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I haven't time to go into that now.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Oh, I beg your pardon, mister Warring. I wouldn't want
to do anything to interfere with your schedule.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I never mind the sadcast. And could you have the
body removed and kept out of sight for a little while?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, maybe I could do the same for Miss Howard.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Listen, EI, if she killed him?
Speaker 11 (20:23):
When I call you, how do I know what a
screwball like you might do? I can see this is
a big mistake, and you're not kidding. Now let's see
that body.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
You've got to believe me for I didn't care.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
About the DA decided that.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Come on, I'll open up that door.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Oh where is he in the bedroom closet?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
All right, Miss Howard?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Either way, for the last time I'm asking you, sling
Twitter is still he's in here? You want some help
coverd No, you've done more than your share off. Okay, Mike,
what's the idea? What's the matter?
Speaker 11 (21:14):
Well, you're a great little clown, aren't you? How would
you like a punch in the nose?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
That?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Ain't no stiff, It's a wax dummy.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What all right? Kidd oh?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I give up?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
What's the joke?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
In a moment, we'll return to the adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But first, do you.
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Speaker 4 (22:56):
Now back too The Adventures of the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
A young fella named Israeli Ones wrote, what we anticipate
seldom occurs, what we least expect generally happily, and that.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Best describes my feeling on seeing the Sergeant Corbett Hall
a wax dummy out of Phillis Howard closet. And then
it took me twenty five minutes of fast ad living
to get the sergeant out of the apartment. Yes, but
his feelings were awfully heard. I don't think he likes
me anymore. What am I going to do?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Not a thing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm perfectly happy the way things are. The next move
is up to the killer. He's got to get in touch.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
With you if he wants to collect, but it may
be days before night. You better let me Hello.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Hello is mister Waring.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Who wants to know the.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Name is unimportant, sir. I'll answer to anything you choose, Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I supposed to call your prince. I once had a
dog by that name.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I think you're annoyed with me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You'll blame me. I was the idea of putting a
dummy for the stiff.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You didn't approve of my little joke.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I don't see the point.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
I was just anticipating your move on behalf of miss Howard.
I put myself in her place.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Did you like him?
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Not particularly? She's a pretty awkward spot.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
How much will it cost her to get out?
Speaker 8 (24:39):
I'm asking twenty thousand for the negatives? What did you take?
I don't believe in haggling, Sarah, you hurt my price.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Okay, Prince, what's the deal?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Look, I send a boy around for the money. Oh,
I wouldn't have him followed, mister Wearing. The consequences would
be unpleasant. You'll have the.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Forty thousand ready, forty thousand.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
The other twenty I referred to is mister Dario's contribution.
Who Carlos Dario?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Never heard of him?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
There must be some mistake. I was informed mister Dario.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Gave the money to you when your inform and gave
you a bum steer.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
I always insist on what's coming to me.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And I'd like to see you get it.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
I warned you, sir, he said, childish, attempted fraud. You gritted.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, fellas, that was Prince. But you told him you
didn't receive any money from Dariel. What did you up to?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's perfectly simple, anti any dollar I give that man
his money thrown down, monsieur, Well, twenty grand is an
awful big hunter.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Change he talks away like that. That money doesn't belong
to you.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You're at it the wrong way, Phyllis. It's bound because
Dario twenty grand anyway. Now, I'm sure he'd rather want
und up in my pocket and in Prince's.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You don't real life what you're saying.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
It did mister Prince thinks that Dario is holding out
on him. There, I'm telling what he might do.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You might even kill him. You know something, Phyllis, I
never thought of that. What do you say? We just
put it out of our minds. Hello, missus, Howard, mister
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Oh hi Dario, everything okay, just what you're trying to pull?
Oh calm down, fella, there's nothing you get excited about.
Here is my money? You mean that? Twenty grand? Yes? Oh,
I'm sorry, friend. I haven't got it. I've already paid
off the blackmailer. You're lying. How do you know that
I get to call from Prince? He told me you
denied getting any door from me.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You boys are pretty pally, aren't you. He calls you,
you call him, or maybe it's a lot simpler than that.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
What do you mean, you're Prince?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
You know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Ye're craigy. What the Dario?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You dropped your accent, the man's hat to his money
and off pad You look better without it. Listen, Mary,
you're I'll listen if you explain how you knew the
name I hung on our callar was Prince. You made
a mistake there, Dario, But then I can't blame you.
Anyone who's as slick as you are as bound as slip.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Now, man, I suppose we call.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
It to Mike.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
I wish you'd explained something to me.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
When did you first mistake?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Dario?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, when we found the body of Paul gone and
that dummy in his place, he should never have moved it.
The only ones who knew what I intended to do
with the body were you and Dario. And I know
you didn't lie.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Why did you give you the money, then, oh, that
was a beautiful piece of work. Angel. You see, Dario
doped out this blackmail's tone by pretending to be a
victim himself. No one was supposed to suspect him.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
When he gave me that twenty thousand dollars, he knew
he was bound to get it back plus another twenty
of yards.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And it's Paul. He said to my partner. That was
some schnook that Dario's confederate finned up to the occasion.
And Dallio wasn't alone in the plot. O.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
This took an organization. He had a couple of boys
working for him named Walter and George Kemp. They got
Paul for him.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
When Paul climbed into your room last night, Dario is
I'm a firest day while the two of us were battling,
he shot him. And then when you keeled over in
a fence, we went to work with the camp. Now
you've got it.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Now that I have what am I supposed to do
with it?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Right?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You can always tell your children about it some rainy day.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
But to have children, now, this has to be that.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
It's customary. Bet.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
If you decide against it, promise me one thing. Let
me handle the adoption papers, didn't have any do in
a moment, We'll tell you about next week's adventure of
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next week's Adventure of the Falcon, and Mike Waring learns
that what some Wilves'll do for their husbands is murder.
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Speaker 1 (31:26):
Welcome back. A really good episode and I'm so glad
it exists. It's nice to have one episode where you
can hear everything, including the closing credit. And it's a
great twisty falcon case with a bad guy who's elaborate
scheme in bowls murder and playing another victim of the scheme,
all in hopes of collecting a cool twenty grand. We
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also got confirmation that Chuck Webster continued on as Sergeant Corbett.
I thought he might have done, but the audio on
the other episode didn't seem good enough for me to
commit to that. Also, we got a Joe Friday reference,
which was cute. The mutual crime series of the nineteen fifties.
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When you have those programs and then you get references
to other programs, I feel a little sad because it
really is a shame we don't have more episodes of
those series. And when I do hear those mutual crime
series of the mid to late nineteen fifties, it seems
like they matured, not so much like ooh, they got
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so much more edgier in their content, although you know
there are a couple examples of that, but I think
there was a greater respect for the audience in telling
serious stories. It was in contrast, I think, to some
of the more goofy stories that came out of New
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York in the forties and even into the early fifties. Now,
what I have heard is that there was a move
to tape, which often would get recorded over, which is
why we have so few of those programs and so
much of what we do have are from AFRs disc
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because you still had to use transcription disc for that.
But again, this does bring us to the end of
the era. This is the last circulating episode with George Petrie,
who appeared as the Falcon in more than ninety episodes,
which puts him a little bit behind his three predecessors
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in the role, who each were the Falcon for more
than one hundred episodes. Although less Damon is probably who
most people are going to think of, and I'll be
honest that I think of it as well, because he
had the bulk of circulating episodes, but he was also
so good in that role. Not to slide any of
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the other gentlemen, but he definitely did leave an impression. Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
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join us back here tomorrow for Charlie Chan.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
Where attention please, Father has completed.
Speaker 10 (34:56):
Hurried investigations, go ahead, Pop, I shoulding to tell you
I got my clue.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Very good.
Speaker 12 (35:02):
Dead man before us was one of two men who
robbed house, bought with companions an injured same not broken
knuckles and wrench in hand. Oo who was stabbed with
knife and left for dead, crawled to telephone and called police.
Speaker 10 (35:18):
Anything else, pap hm extremely odd clue.
Speaker 12 (35:24):
Roses on neck of dead men are moist with chemical
most probably night throw glizerin. Same used to open safe
escaped thief and murderer had night throw glzerin on hands.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
Right lawly did he leave micro glissoving behind. Pop, But
one of his tools I fell of the piano. Look
it's my clue.
Speaker 12 (35:45):
Ah, excellent, but this not burglar equipment. Son his tuning
hammer for piano used by piano tunas tuning hammers.
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Gee, I'd better study carrols one girl. Do you remember her?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Pop?
Speaker 10 (36:02):
What a funny coincidence if this is a piano.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
She tune us.
Speaker 12 (36:06):
Afternoon silence, Got my idea?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Pop?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
This bankrupt brain entertains odd thought. During investigation of recent
vigor is, one interesting fact noted.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
What puts that prior to each piano in house?
Speaker 12 (36:23):
First tune Hope.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we
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I feel like I should warn you that the sound
quality on this episode is actually pretty dacent. Usually it's
the other way around, but this is the one that
actually sounds pretty good. So here from May thirty first,
nineteen fifty four is the case of the Snappy Snapshot.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
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Angel.
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There's one thing you learn working as a private detective.
Persistence always pays off. There's a case in point. I
give you the two gentlemen driving along the bowery. They
are the Kemp brothers, Walter and George. They run a
private detective agency in town. We'd have a guest to
look at them. There are a couple of philanthropists, but
no relief organization. Never looked harder to find a worthy
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object of their charity than the camp boys.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
So down, George?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah? How about that bum standing at a point?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Shot?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Kind of bold?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Any what differences to make stop the car?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Hey Pop, Hey pop, come over here? Will you want
me muster?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How would you like to make yourself five bucks? Looking
for work?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Bill?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Pull? You come with us?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Not doubling?
Speaker 8 (04:38):
What will I have to do?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Nothing hard?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
We'll explain it to you later. No, I'm not interested.
You better get somebody else here. You are bump?
Speaker 8 (04:47):
You hit me a car? Right? Let me go right?
Beat it?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Fine before I pup you wonder.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
All right, George, how about that character over there? What
character sleeping in the hallways?
Speaker 8 (05:00):
So yeah, I got cut your motor.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Okay, let's go. Keep your eyes peel for con Hey, buddy, buddy,
let me go.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
What did you mind?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Get up off that floor?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Don't you must.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'm just trying to grab a little Smoothe.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Have to find some other place, Okay, Okay, I'm just
thinking maybe my brother and I could use you. I
would you like a nice steady job with easy hours and.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
All the expenses on the house I put them many?
Could you look like the kind of a man we went?
What's your name? Paul?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Granted your blow? My name is Walter Kemp. This is
my brother George. Hurry up, twell, and you've got any
family where you're from? Any friends in town?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No? Swell? I suppose you come along with us? Uh huh,
what's the matter? I change my mind?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Come on, water?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
How much time they're gonna waste with this shmoe? You
think you'd be right for the job? What he waited for?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Waller?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
If I dropped him, you'll pick him up.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
It's coming to okay, George, you better beat us what for?
You don't think you want to play ball if he
sees you here, especially after the way.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
You sock him.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
All right, I'll meet you. Don't wait up, it may
be late. Oh how problem I feel? Oh the w
what the camp? You remember?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
You don't one who slugged me?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Nod?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
That was my brother. I took it easy.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
George is a little hot headed.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, nobody's pushing me around.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I didn't maintain. He just lost his temper. After all,
you offer your job for sixty a weeks. Sixty weeks,
that's right, for how long? As long as you wanted?
Maybe after the first month through might even be a
little raised.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Would I have to do practically nothing? You see, My
brother and I run a.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Little detective agency. We specialize in divorce cases. What do
you mean, Well, I suppose you were married to some
day you didn't like. We furnished the evidence that she's
seeing some other guy in the site on.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Water she ain't.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Then we manufacture I don't get you, but we got
a case in the office right now. That's what we
wanted you for. My client is married to a gown
named kill Us Howard.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Kill us Howard.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
That's right, and just because my client's got a couple
of bucks. You won't let him go, so we're gonna
fix it. So she's got no choice in the matter. Ah,
But tomorrow morning, around six o'clock, we'll get you into
her apartment through a window. Her husband will be waking
on a fire escape with a camera. Now, all you
gotta do is put your arms around her while he
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takes a picture.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And I get sixty bucks for the job. That's right,
not enough. I want a hundred.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Driving an awful tough black.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now you heard me. You ain't dealing with some chump.
You know I want a hundred bucks. So it's no deal. Well,
since it's all set up for tomorrow, Okay.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
I wait a minute, ten and all, I ain't going
to this Phyllis apartment in these clothes.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I'll worry about it poor as long as I know
we can count on. Yeah, we'll have your dressed to kill.
What could be very than that?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Who's there?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Who's there?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
It's only me, baby?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
What are you doing in here?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Came up to see you. Isn't that nice to me?
Get out?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Ah? No, you don't really mean that.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Phyllis, who told you my name? You're admirers you know something.
I can't see why you want to get rid of
a good looking babe like you. Look, if you walk
my name, froll it, sweetheart, I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Little Paully wouldn't think of trouble. You just stay right
well you are.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
What's in his box?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Here?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
My jewelry?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Is it insured?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Then you won't mind if I help myself when you
can't get out? Oh almost forgot there was something, And
I'll say game for the baby. All I want is
want kiss Old Paul.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Honey, This thin't gonna hurt it. Bit, Come on, Phillips,
give who knows you may.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Even get to line till it gout. No.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
No.
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Three hours later, I was awakened from a beautiful dream
by the doorbell.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
There's a pity to break it up. I was having
such a wonderful time. I tried to find my place again,
but whoever was leaning on the bell that used to
get discouraged. So I tossed on a robe and staggered
to the door.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Well are you wearing I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Never quite sure in the middle of a knight. My
name is Phyllis Howard. I don't care. Did you say
Phillis Howard? That's right, that'll come in how till they
let you wander around loose? What do you mean? Aren't
you the gal whose uncle was T. J. Howard?
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And didn't I read in the papers when his will
was probated last month he left you a cool ten million?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It was only one Well, whenever I read figures containing
more than three zero as I get his stigmatisity? What's
bothering you that a million dollars can't fit? Murder? Murder?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Yes, there's a dead man in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
How'd he get that? I think he came off the
fire's gape and he was alive when he walked in.
Who is he?
Speaker 10 (11:49):
He called himself Paul?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Paul?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
What about his last name? I don't know. Did he
try to walk off with any of your property? My
jewel box? Okay, then we'll claim self defense? Self defense? Yes,
what'd you do with the gun? Well? I didn't kill him,
and who doing? I don't know?
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Luck, miss Howell, I'll tell you why didn't he try
to kill me?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And while we were struggling. It was a shot from
his gun, so anybody hear it? Apparently not what happened
after that, I must have fainted. When I came to
I decided I better call on you. What made you
pick on me?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
I heard someone mention your name.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I'm not sure. You're not sure if anything? Are you? Phyllis?
You positive this Paul character is dead? He didn't move.
That doesn't prove anything. Did you listen for his heartbeat?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, I suppose we go over to your place and
try it. I got a wonderful ear for that sort
of thing.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Must you move him like that?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Must if I wanted to listen to his heartbeat? Well,
you're right the first time, Phyllis, we could have saved
ourselves a trip. This is gun, Yes, it was yours.
I told you I don't have any Well, friend, Paul
certainly wasn't killed with this thing he was unless he
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was hit by a gum dropp.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
This is a kid's toy pistol. I don't understand, Hillis.
If you want me to work for you, you'll have
to trust me. Now. What was this man to you?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
I told you I never before saw him in my life.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I thought he was a burglar? Where's your person jewel box?
You put them under his coat? No, they're not here.
Now where did you generally keep them in my night table?
That one?
Speaker 10 (13:35):
But how did they get back in there?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That's what a jury I want to know. If we
claim he tried to rob you, you've got to believe me,
mister Waring.
Speaker 10 (13:43):
I told you that.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I had no idea open that closet. What are you
going to do? Get him out of the sight?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Can I help you?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Just a second?
Speaker 10 (13:58):
I'm coming.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Who is it?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well, we'll please slip it under the door, will you?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What is it? Phyllis death?
Speaker 8 (14:10):
For me?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Let's see it?
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Are the pictures?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And what pictures? They're all of you? Angel? Not very flattering,
are they?
Speaker 8 (14:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, I don't feel too badly. You couldn't expect to
look your best slumped over Paul's body?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
What does it mean? Blackmail? Black Well? These aren't the
kind of snapshoot send out for publicity purposes.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Shouldn't there be a note with them?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Not necessarily? Whoever is running this record could always get
a touch. That's one way to do it.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Hello, I'd like to speak to missus Phinnis Hart.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Please, who's calling? Just the second. Do you know anyone
named Carlos Dariol? No, you can't come to the phone, Dario.
You want me to leave message a very close friend
of the family. You know the pictures. Yeah, well I'm.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Staying at do tell when right there? Tell her to
come up and see me.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What's in it for her?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Don't worry, mister, I see missus Howard. Don't make trip
for nothing? You know what you mean?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That killed George?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Sergeant Friday?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Get out of my way?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I gotta call a client, do you mind? Well, you
know he left strict instructions. She was a shadow of
the Howard name. Well, she just left for Dario's apartlet
so what so? She wasn't alone.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
She had an escort, a fellow named Mike Wherry.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Could you can? Oh, don't be a jerk. I think
she hired one. What does that sound like to you?
She want to post told me a girl in her
position and pay right off. Told me the wouldn't be
any trump. I why died? You want to guarantees they
got a top at George.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
If you let go of my code, I will let
me get that phone.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I don't mean calling a client. We gotta get out
of when you shut up.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I didn't like the idea in the first place.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Remember, let's shut up limit that phone.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yes, you, Carlos Dario, that is right. I'm Mike wearing.
This is MSUs Howard hearing.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Why should bring you along? Don't blame her, Dario, It
was all my idea, Well it was.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Now suppose we get down to business that suits me?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Fine?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Then suppose we swamped the negatives for cash. I believe
that's the customary arrangement.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yes, but first I got a.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Little bonus for you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
You know, good?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Would you behave if you want to watch that temper?
Where were we? I got what you wanted to send
the lord mind? If I open it, I'd like to
see what I'm buying.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
Why it's full of one thousand dollar bills.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The surprise, Uh quite a bit. What's the idea, dariol
that's your price, isn't it? My price will help me wearying.
If you wu disturb ever tried to hold me up again,
I'll kill you. Now give me those nig Wait a minute,
do I get them? Or do I have to take
you a p pay? Say? When you shut up and
let me get this thing straight. How much money is
(17:26):
in here, twenty thousand dollars, and in exchange for it,
you expect us to turn over some negatives to you.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
That is right?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
If I any chance for those pictures of you near a.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Body, Yes, I don't know how you work it wearing,
but I never see that man before and I didn't
kill him.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, shake, sucker, we're on your side, my sne Yeah,
fella swears your art collection for those prints look familiar
to you, Dariel, Sure goictures of me taken last week.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I don't let those slacks for you. It's miss Howard.
You two are victims of the same racket.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Don't talk like it. Food the only way it makes sense.
Didn't have come. Miss Horard called me yesterday and said
to have twenty USand dollars ready. I didn't the lady
on telephone give your name. She was live. Don't you see, Darlia,
whoever called you was working for the blackmailer.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It don't add up so good to me. Look, it's
not difficult. What the killer is doing here is dividing
the risk. He wants money from you and miss Howard.
All right, there's less chance of his being caught and
collecting from one person than from two.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Who's this he you talk about? Whoever is behind this
little stunt? You'll probably get in touch with my client
next and ask her the matter your twenty grand another word,
it's time to be the collection. He touched it. I
don't know why wearing, but I believe you. Fine, you
keep my money and do what you think best.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Fair enough, but remember I can't afford nor mistakes these
pictures can make, No, they can't.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
What do you mean? Take a good look at this
one of miss Howard slumped over the body. You can
recognize Miss Howard, all right, but you can't make out
the face on the crooks. So instead of a body,
it could have been a wax gummy. But it was not.
We know that, but we don't have to admit it.
The only way the blackmailer can prove us liars is
to produce the body. What do you mean you're going
(19:26):
to get rid of me? That's right? But how even
to me? Phyllis? I think I know the boy to
handle it. Let's keep our fingers closed. Deaf eno a drinks? Thanks?
(19:53):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Now, what do you want?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
A slight favorite?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
And what do you call slight?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I Remember, sergeants, this is off the record. Go on,
there's a body in miss Howard's apartment.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There's you heard me? I look, Mike, I don't like
these kind of jokes.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
How did it get there?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I haven't time to go into that now.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Oh, I beg your pardon, mister Warring. I wouldn't want
to do anything to interfere with your schedule.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I never mind the sadcast. And could you have the
body removed and kept out of sight for a little while?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, maybe I could do the same for Miss Howard.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Listen, EI, if she killed him?
Speaker 11 (20:23):
When I call you, how do I know what a
screwball like you might do? I can see this is
a big mistake, and you're not kidding. Now let's see
that body.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
You've got to believe me for I didn't care.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
About the DA decided that.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Come on, I'll open up that door.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Oh where is he in the bedroom closet?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
All right, Miss Howard?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Either way, for the last time I'm asking you, sling
Twitter is still he's in here? You want some help
coverd No, you've done more than your share off. Okay, Mike,
what's the idea? What's the matter?
Speaker 11 (21:14):
Well, you're a great little clown, aren't you? How would
you like a punch in the nose?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
That?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Ain't no stiff, It's a wax dummy.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What all right? Kidd oh?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I give up?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
What's the joke?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
In a moment, we'll return to the adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But first, do you.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
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and November. Well, thirty days have something else too. They
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why Camels lead by a record fifty and eight tenths percent.
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(22:12):
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latest figures, published in nineteen fifty four by Harry M.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Wooton, leading tobacco industry.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Authority, show Camel's lead is bigger than ever before. There
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(22:51):
smokers than any other cigarette.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Now back too The Adventures of the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
A young fella named Israeli Ones wrote, what we anticipate
seldom occurs, what we least expect generally happily, and that.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Best describes my feeling on seeing the Sergeant Corbett Hall
a wax dummy out of Phillis Howard closet. And then
it took me twenty five minutes of fast ad living
to get the sergeant out of the apartment. Yes, but
his feelings were awfully heard. I don't think he likes
me anymore. What am I going to do?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Not a thing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm perfectly happy the way things are. The next move
is up to the killer. He's got to get in touch.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
With you if he wants to collect, but it may
be days before night. You better let me Hello.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Hello is mister Waring.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Who wants to know the.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Name is unimportant, sir. I'll answer to anything you choose, Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I supposed to call your prince. I once had a
dog by that name.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I think you're annoyed with me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You'll blame me. I was the idea of putting a
dummy for the stiff.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You didn't approve of my little joke.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I don't see the point.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
I was just anticipating your move on behalf of miss Howard.
I put myself in her place.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Did you like him?
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Not particularly? She's a pretty awkward spot.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
How much will it cost her to get out?
Speaker 8 (24:39):
I'm asking twenty thousand for the negatives? What did you take?
I don't believe in haggling, Sarah, you hurt my price.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Okay, Prince, what's the deal?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Look, I send a boy around for the money. Oh,
I wouldn't have him followed, mister Wearing. The consequences would
be unpleasant. You'll have the.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Forty thousand ready, forty thousand.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
The other twenty I referred to is mister Dario's contribution.
Who Carlos Dario?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Never heard of him?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
There must be some mistake. I was informed mister Dario.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Gave the money to you when your inform and gave
you a bum steer.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
I always insist on what's coming to me.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And I'd like to see you get it.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
I warned you, sir, he said, childish, attempted fraud. You gritted.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, fellas, that was Prince. But you told him you
didn't receive any money from Dariel. What did you up to?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's perfectly simple, anti any dollar I give that man
his money thrown down, monsieur, Well, twenty grand is an
awful big hunter.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Change he talks away like that. That money doesn't belong
to you.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You're at it the wrong way, Phyllis. It's bound because
Dario twenty grand anyway. Now, I'm sure he'd rather want
und up in my pocket and in Prince's.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You don't real life what you're saying.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
It did mister Prince thinks that Dario is holding out
on him. There, I'm telling what he might do.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You might even kill him. You know something, Phyllis, I
never thought of that. What do you say? We just
put it out of our minds. Hello, missus, Howard, mister
(26:30):
Oh hi Dario, everything okay, just what you're trying to pull?
Oh calm down, fella, there's nothing you get excited about.
Here is my money? You mean that? Twenty grand? Yes? Oh,
I'm sorry, friend. I haven't got it. I've already paid
off the blackmailer. You're lying. How do you know that
I get to call from Prince? He told me you
denied getting any door from me.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You boys are pretty pally, aren't you. He calls you,
you call him, or maybe it's a lot simpler than that.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
What do you mean, you're Prince?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
You know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Ye're craigy. What the Dario?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You dropped your accent, the man's hat to his money
and off pad You look better without it. Listen, Mary,
you're I'll listen if you explain how you knew the
name I hung on our callar was Prince. You made
a mistake there, Dario, But then I can't blame you.
Anyone who's as slick as you are as bound as slip.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Now, man, I suppose we call.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
It to Mike.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
I wish you'd explained something to me.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
When did you first mistake?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Dario?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, when we found the body of Paul gone and
that dummy in his place, he should never have moved it.
The only ones who knew what I intended to do
with the body were you and Dario. And I know
you didn't lie.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Why did you give you the money, then, oh, that
was a beautiful piece of work. Angel. You see, Dario
doped out this blackmail's tone by pretending to be a
victim himself. No one was supposed to suspect him.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
When he gave me that twenty thousand dollars, he knew
he was bound to get it back plus another twenty
of yards.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And it's Paul. He said to my partner. That was
some schnook that Dario's confederate finned up to the occasion.
And Dallio wasn't alone in the plot. O.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
This took an organization. He had a couple of boys
working for him named Walter and George Kemp. They got
Paul for him.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
When Paul climbed into your room last night, Dario is
I'm a firest day while the two of us were battling,
he shot him. And then when you keeled over in
a fence, we went to work with the camp. Now
you've got it.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Now that I have what am I supposed to do
with it?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Right?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You can always tell your children about it some rainy day.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
But to have children, now, this has to be that.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
It's customary. Bet.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
If you decide against it, promise me one thing. Let
me handle the adoption papers, didn't have any do in
a moment, We'll tell you about next week's adventure of
the pulp. But first, now hear a Mutual minute. The
(29:12):
advent of supersonic flight, atomic energy, or even the most
recent discovery of a battery powered directly by the Sun
has not changed some aspects of our lives. At least,
Evening hours are still leisure hours for most, and for
most people it means time to enjoy their favorite kind
of entertainment.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
For millions, the programs.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
They hear regularly on Mutual every evening provide just the
kind of relaxing, informative, or challenging listening they like best.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
There are top tales of mystery for the who.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Done It fans, ranging from fantasy to documentary, and some
of the most famous private eyes in the business stop
Mutuals their waves regularly. News, too, is yours for the tuning.
Whether you prefer a fast five minute news digest or
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evening lineup of programs, all heard over most of these stations.
The Case of the handby Helpmate that's the title of
next week's Adventure of the Falcon, and Mike Waring learns
that what some Wilves'll do for their husbands is murder.
(30:27):
The Adventures of the Falcon was presented by the makers
of Mild Flavorful Camels, America's most popular cigarette, in cooperation
with a Mutual Network. The Adventures of the Falcon is
based on the famous character created by Drexel Drake, Produced
and transcribed by Bernard al Schubert, written by Eugene Wang.
George Petrie was starred as the Falcon Chuck Webster his
(30:48):
argent Corbett. This program is fictional and I resemblance to
actual persons living or dead is coincidental. Russ Dunbar speaking,
(31:17):
this is the Muti World broadcasting system.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Welcome back. A really good episode and I'm so glad
it exists. It's nice to have one episode where you
can hear everything, including the closing credit. And it's a
great twisty falcon case with a bad guy who's elaborate
scheme in bowls murder and playing another victim of the scheme,
all in hopes of collecting a cool twenty grand. We
(31:50):
also got confirmation that Chuck Webster continued on as Sergeant Corbett.
I thought he might have done, but the audio on
the other episode didn't seem good enough for me to
commit to that. Also, we got a Joe Friday reference,
which was cute. The mutual crime series of the nineteen fifties.
(32:10):
When you have those programs and then you get references
to other programs, I feel a little sad because it
really is a shame we don't have more episodes of
those series. And when I do hear those mutual crime
series of the mid to late nineteen fifties, it seems
like they matured, not so much like ooh, they got
(32:32):
so much more edgier in their content, although you know
there are a couple examples of that, but I think
there was a greater respect for the audience in telling
serious stories. It was in contrast, I think, to some
of the more goofy stories that came out of New
(32:53):
York in the forties and even into the early fifties. Now,
what I have heard is that there was a move
to tape, which often would get recorded over, which is
why we have so few of those programs and so
much of what we do have are from AFRs disc
(33:18):
because you still had to use transcription disc for that.
But again, this does bring us to the end of
the era. This is the last circulating episode with George Petrie,
who appeared as the Falcon in more than ninety episodes,
which puts him a little bit behind his three predecessors
(33:42):
in the role, who each were the Falcon for more
than one hundred episodes. Although less Damon is probably who
most people are going to think of, and I'll be
honest that I think of it as well, because he
had the bulk of circulating episodes, but he was also
so good in that role. Not to slide any of
(34:05):
the other gentlemen, but he definitely did leave an impression. Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and think Tony, Patreon
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(34:48):
join us back here tomorrow for Charlie Chan.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
Where attention please, Father has completed.
Speaker 10 (34:56):
Hurried investigations, go ahead, Pop, I shoulding to tell you
I got my clue.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Very good.
Speaker 12 (35:02):
Dead man before us was one of two men who
robbed house, bought with companions an injured same not broken
knuckles and wrench in hand. Oo who was stabbed with
knife and left for dead, crawled to telephone and called police.
Speaker 10 (35:18):
Anything else, pap hm extremely odd clue.
Speaker 12 (35:24):
Roses on neck of dead men are moist with chemical
most probably night throw glizerin. Same used to open safe
escaped thief and murderer had night throw glzerin on hands.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
Right lawly did he leave micro glissoving behind. Pop, But
one of his tools I fell of the piano. Look
it's my clue.
Speaker 12 (35:45):
Ah, excellent, but this not burglar equipment. Son his tuning
hammer for piano used by piano tunas tuning hammers.
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Gee, I'd better study carrols one girl. Do you remember her?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Pop?
Speaker 10 (36:02):
What a funny coincidence if this is a piano.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
She tune us.
Speaker 12 (36:06):
Afternoon silence, Got my idea?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Pop?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
This bankrupt brain entertains odd thought. During investigation of recent
vigor is, one interesting fact noted.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
What puts that prior to each piano in house?
Speaker 12 (36:23):
First tune Hope.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
You'll be with us then in the meantime. Send your
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