August 13, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam Stay Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Me, sweetheart, stop take it easy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The papers are on the street.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I saw the show, did I. There'll be some red
faced editors ducking behind their green eye shades tomorrow. What
do you mean say you don't pint up the score
until the returns are all in f This applies to
presidential elections, boxing matches, and executions at San Quentin Prison.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You mean, Willy, I mean Willie.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Batten down the hatches and turn over your poam rubber cushion,
wonder girl for even now.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm homeward bond with.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
A stride by a strideacon of a twelve hour marathon
which I shall call for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The Hail and Farewell.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Caper transcribe for MBC. William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director
of mystery and crime Drama brings you the greatest private
Detective of the mall, starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures
of Sam Spade. I've been ron heavy right in here
(01:17):
this minute. Have I done? That's what I was about
to ask. Have you been sticking your.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Delightful freckled cupboard, upturned little nose into my schnuff's bottle.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, answer me, girl, and you know I don't. All right, then?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Who the nervous little man who was here did open
the door to find a pencil and paper and even know?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, you're clear.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Dam What about the little man?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
A good and leading question? F shall we attempt to answer?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I'm not ready to h They fill it in.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
To Justice Edward Benjamin, State Supreme Court, from Samuel's Fade
License number one, three seven, five, nine six, subject the
Hail and Farewell Caper. Dear Justice Benjamin, My relationship with
the spending little man goes clear back to a week
ago Thursday, possibly even before that, but that was the
day I first noticed it. I remember it was Thursday
(02:05):
because I was having corn beef and cabbage at Schroders
with him. It was a glass of water at the
next table.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He was paying little mind to the menu.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Having decided to spend the lunch hour staring at me.
A couple of times, he put down his glass of
water and pushed back his chairs. If you were going
to come over and talk, fucked, he changed his mind.
I put away the corn beef and cabbage and was
halfway past.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The pie when he finally did it. Excuse me, sir,
Hello you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Sir, I'm mister Speed.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I am the Detective, Sam Speed, Detective.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Ages at your service, sir. Now what can I I.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I you see I? Do you have a match?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I gave him a match, and he thanked me and
went out. On Friday, I saw him in Ben's grotto
over a plate of wrecked soul.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He got just about his far. Then he returned the
match shield.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
The following week I saw him four times, once as
I was going into a show, once at the post office,
and twice as I was going into my office building.
Each was the same. We get up to the point
where he's about to tell me something. Then he backed
down and asked me what time it was?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Or did I have a horse in the fifth at
Golden Gate? Or would I lend him a cigarette?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Then he'd bustle off as fast as his spindley little
legs could carry it. And thus matters stood yesterday place
my office time one thirty seven pm, Sam Spade, mister.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Spaed is this this is a German?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Who is?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah? Don't tell me? I know the voice?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
What is it? This time? I like to see you,
mister Speed that must see me.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I know I'll save us both a trip. That day
by is April twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
The time is.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
One thirty eight pm.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
All training planes and street cars are leaving on schedules
and for the favorite at Golden Gate tomorrow consult you're
near his books, please, sir.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Please, mister Spaid, please do the jest.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Matter of life and death. I say fine, and I'll
see you tomorrow for lunch. Uh.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I won't be here, mister Speed.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh where you be?
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Did?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Look?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'm tired of this, mister Spinley. Give it them me
straight or sign off?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What is it? Gotta listen to me, mister Spa, It's
most important. It's a life for desert life. Hello, mister Spinley. Hello.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It almost seemed as if he were in earnest this time,
so I didn't hang up. I hustled down the hall
to the next office, found another poone and so we
talked to supervisor.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Into tracing down mister Spinley.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It was a pay book in a drug store opposite
the Park Emergency Hospital. The clerk in the drug store
was just getting over it when I punched in. Spindley
had collapsed in the booth and had been hauled across
the street to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
On the bed there.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh thanks doctor, life and death. Mister Spade, terrible. You
got to stop it. It's murder. He's been motering like
that ever since we brought him in.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Hop hunh the legal kind you see before you an
overdose of sleeping tablet.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You mean he trying to kill himself. I can't think
of an easy way. Anyone could feed him two full bottles?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Can you pull through?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Probably it gave him a good pumping.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Don't don't do mister, do don't carry on? So but
I know you missed up right right? I know who
is to get easy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He's got a lot of strength for a little guy.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Mister Doe, no name, nothing to identify him. Funny thing, man,
what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I almost guarantee the man's undernourished, hasn't eaten for days, shabby.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Clothes and so on. Look at the roll I found
these pockets?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How much?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Almost eight hundred dollars?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Did you find anything else?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
This?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Front pages of the Star Times. It's a gally proof,
isn't it? Kind of run off in the line of
type room before they starts presses.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, Chiller dies tonight. Willie Johnson, hitchhike, murderer. They had
her gas chamber at midnight.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Inderson, innocent man.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You go, mister Doe.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But I know who did? I know everything everything. I
know the frame. It's just skillful frame. You mean Willie Johnson.
I know what it was.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It was Hail farewell, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Farewell? Who was it?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Come on, mister, don't wake up.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's to Doe. Yeah, I was waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Hit him like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
He'll be in communicat over the next twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Hours longer Hail and farewell a broken down actor? Huh,
Only an actor would think more of an exit line
than an innocent man's neck. You mean you believe he
I don't know what I believe.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
The guy's been trailing me for ten days, driving himself nuts,
tries to knock himself off.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a sinch.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He believes it.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
There's no chance of bringing him around before tomorrow, aswing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Willie Johnson dies tonight, So what happens? So I'm stuck
for taxi? Fair to san Quentin.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Believe in him, Believe in Willie Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I know you're his lawyer, mister Greyson.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
I'm his lawyer because I volunteered to save you. Mister Spade.
I've been in the law a long long time. I've
defended a lot of phonies. Sometimes you've got you if
you want to eat. They all sing the same song
I was framed. Oh, I know all eighty nine verses.
But Willie, Yeah, Willie's song is different because Willie Johnson's
an innocent man.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Willie was framed.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Four appeals, four appeals, four stays, and we've had our
less one. It's folded up in a spade. I'm going
to take the walk with him at midnight, So do
something for me, will you sure, sir? When when you've
walked into a cell, Remember you're talking to a man
who's going to die.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
In less than eight hours.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
We're trying to we're trying to build his spirit up
so he can go out with the colors. Fine, you know, yeah,
don't give him a lot of false hope, Spade, because
because there isn't any.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I don't quite understand, mister Spaces. I told my story
so many times.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I uh, I like to write something about you for
the papers.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Will he.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Oh, yes, sir, all the newspaper gentlemen, don't you?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And gong?
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I know? Could you tell her just one smart?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Will he?
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, sir, it's more than a year ago. I
guess you know that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I was broke.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
You know, things hadn't been going so well, sir. I
was down in my last two bits. At night, I
walked into Shery Dugin's. That's a bar on my wonderf Yes, sir,
I got to talking with a fella sitting at the
bar there. He bought me beer.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Who is he?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I never did find his name. I ain't seen him
since that night.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
If I could find him, I don't reckon. I'd be
where I am, sir. He had a paper with him,
was reading the classified ad section, you know, a part
about Otto's transportation so on. Well, there was an ad there.
I'd say, we'll pay five hundred dollars plus the expenses
to drive car to Mexico City with a phone number.
And the fella said, if he were in my shoes,
(09:12):
he'd called up and quiet.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So I did.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I'm quieter and I got the job, well, sir. About
an hour later I met a man with a car
southern Mason by the gas station there, and he'd give
me the five hundred and I start out for Mexico City.
It wasn't really never found his name ether if we
tried to, mister Grayson and me never could find him.
(09:37):
I see, well, it was raining that night, sir, I
remember raining, and I hadn't gotten Moan fifty miles south
of town, somewhere around Morgan Hill. It was when Sirene
blew off behind me, and the first thing I knew
where they was asking the questions about a girl, a
girl named Georgia Lyon. It was her car, it seems,
(09:57):
and that the officer claim I stole it. They they
made me raise my arms and they searched me, and
there was a knife in my pocket, you see, what
would blood on it there, and I don't know how
it got there, and the five hundred dollars that had
blood on it too, and there was blood on the seat.
And when they opened the turtle back there she was
(10:17):
this joji a line. I told you all double up
there and dead, and they said I'd done it for
the money in the car, and I guess I just
went crazy, mister Spade with her with this all coming
at me at once that way. You see, I tried
to make a break for it, and I got away, and.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I knew what was a terrible wrong thing to do.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
What about the trial, Well, so mister Grayson done everything
in his powers, and so did I told the truth
as close as I could recollect it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But it didn't make no sense.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
We never found a man in a bar, or the
man who drove up in the car. What about the
phone number there, all that that turned out to be
a fancy a dress that turned out to be a
fancy dress shop on Powell Street, color Mason Francine and
the classified ads that that was the queerest thing of all.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What do you mean, Well, mister.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Grayson went through every newspaper in the country for two
weeks either side of the night, and there wasn't any
such add in any of them.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So they said I was lying.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
They said I was lying. I made it all up
in my head, and now they're going to kill me
for it. I don't know, mister Spade, I've heard so
long now.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Maybe I did kill her.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Maybe they're right, Maybe they're.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Right, but there was something in the way he said.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Maybe they're right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He told you they were wrong. I thanked him and
told him I had what I wanted from my story
and said goodbye. There was no hope in his space,
but no despair either. He knew of us coming and
he was ready.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And that's all.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I hit the homeward bound commuters on the wrong side
of the Golden Gate Bridge. So it was almost seven
when I checked in a Cherry Duggan's bar on the waterfront.
A girl was sitting three stools down from me, A
class type dame and a black file suit from Magnums
and a hat that must have set some good time
Charlie back fifty bucks. That's the kind of a dame
you'd expect to be sitting in Sherry Dugan's.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Least of all as drunk as she was her yard
jack sixty cents. Thank you. Wait a minute, this is
a one man operation, isn't it. O. Yes, why well,
then you'd be Sherry Dugan.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
No.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
No, I bought the joint from Sherry a few months back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Why well, I'm I'm doing a story for the papers
on Willie Johnson. Tell me, was Sherry here on the
Big ninth?
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes, only Woody Johnson wasn't you could
look it up?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
What Sherry?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
About?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Where is he?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Now? There? You'll say?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You know why? Why Sherry has brains for a man
in his shoes. There's no better place right now in
South America?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh tell me more?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He needed to rest the worst way Sherry did. Jolie's
been true. Tending bar can be difficult at times, right, Tim,
And do you.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Show me a good bott and I'll show you a
bard diplomatic more.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Besides, Oh, here's the Sherry wherever he is, Keep running, Sherry,
keep running? You know, Sherry is like a dog running
away from a can tied to his tail.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
We all are?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Who's we?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
All of us? All of us the world? Give me
another drink, Tims. Don't give me any lip. This is
a first class week.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Isn't it a send off for Willie?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Just sometimes George stood.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Ask come on, we're going home.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Take your time, George, two of the members present, one more,
we'll have a quorum. Pour him a drink.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Tim, do you want me to carry out of here?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It might be fun?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Daddy facing the floor?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Now, come on, you know something, George. You've got a
can tied to your tale. Two? No use running George?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh you're right at your head?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Whatever made you come here?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Kind of appropriate, don't you think? Special? Night tonight? What dress?
All six? Gleve us a week?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Not here?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
We are? Are you coming? All right? Where we go?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Silly? You?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Hold how much? Just show you?
Speaker 8 (14:37):
That's three four five?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Here worthy?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I tell me who is she?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
H model?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Some shop uptown?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh like the Maison Francine, for instance. Oh do you
know that's the hunch? What's your name?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Merlyn Hale?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Her old man runs the Star Times.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You know the publisher. The guy is his partner, George,
farewell you. I started the firm ale and farewell.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I had, but it was a slightly different reading from
the one mister Spinley gave me at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I looked at my watch. Willie was four and a
half hours from the end of the line when I
took off with the press room at the Stars. Times
you want listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
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(15:45):
There's fun and music for you tomorrow evening with the
Dennist Day Show. There'll be songs by Dennis and another
typical tangled comedy situation, the kind of hilarious mix up
that could happen only to Dennis Day. And now back
to the hail in Farewell cap her Tonight's Adventure with Sam.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Spade Time eight eleven.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I got out of the elevator in the basement of
the Star Times building on Mission Street and started looking
for the press room former somebody named Joe Fordesque. I
finally found his feet sticking out from under a sick linus.
I pulled him out and tried to make him understand.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
What I wanted. Yeah, I know, I know, you mean it,
old little baby like this guy, can't hear you, I
tell you, little baby like you guy. Yeah, that's the
guy who what about it? Come on, go ahead you first? Ah?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
How who is he?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Charlie Forest isn't I know? But that's not what I
timed up his rocker for a year. Look you see
that picture on the wall over your head. Yeah that's
mister Hale. The Iron Fist won't tolerate no inefficiency, you understand.
But this scroup, all this Charlie Forrest, I personally can
and twice and both times Iron Fists sends the victim yeah, so,
(17:01):
don't make no never mind to be brother, leave him
come to work, stude all the time, leave him lay
off of two straight weeks like this time. Don't make
no never mind? Yeah, yeah, no, Look, I'm up with
you now. How long has Charlie been this way? A
year or so?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I know just when it started, when Willie Johnson was
hauled in on the hitchhiking killing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Right, Oh, you've been talking to Charlie. Huh yeah, A
funny thing.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
How that hit him.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
He'd find him sitting in a corner by himself, mumbling
all the time about the guy being innocent. What do
you suppose Charlie had to do with that?
Speaker 8 (17:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Got real crazy. He told the end, you know, said
he was killing Willie Johnson. And you'd ask him with what,
he'd say, a Liner type machine and a Hunker newsprint.
One day he even offered to prove it, you know how,
I don't know. He said he had proof. He said
he had the evidence. It would say Willie's neck hid
in his room was the office trolley. I've got to
find out where he lives. They don't know upstairs, I
don't know. We don't know downstairs neither. He moved out
(17:52):
of his apartment three weeks back, and.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Don't nobody know where he went.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Look, he was in this morning, picked up a gally
proof of page one.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, I'll tell you who might know where to find him.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Come on, come on about ten o'clocky leave here. He
said he was going to look him up. Somebody is
somebody named Spade, Thanks same Spade. He's a detective that
remains to be seen. A message day a bandy like
(18:23):
a little guy named Charlie Fires Death. He must have
been in around ten ten thirty this morning. I didn't
get here till eleven.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
They're still clearing stuff off the tracks from the Magathury set.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, never mind that, now listen write this down.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Oh oh we're left on a piece of paper.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Hurry up, yes, here, out of the ash tray.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Go ahead there.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Paul Jeremy Grayson, he's a lawyer and he's with Willie
Johnson and a death row at Quton. Tell him to
get hold of a justice on the State Supreme Court
and hold the line open.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And I get him. You got that, yes, sir?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Is there anything else?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, I'll get back to you a little wieh. We
gotta go hang up.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
What's the matter because paper I'm riding on under the ashtray.
It's a nose.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Go ahead, mister Stace, please contact me at once.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Charles W.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Fosters a floor Hotel three three eight Foton Street.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
It took twenty more minutes to cross town and ten
on top of that to convince the cork at the Bellflower.
I had a right to the key to Charlie's room,
which I had not. I tossed the room from the
light fixture to the floorboards, covered everything from the window
shades to the bathroom plumbing. Result one batch of dirty laundry,
six soggy cigarettes, and two empty bottles of sleeping pills.
I was on my way out when I remembered one
(19:27):
more thing.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It wasn't an accident like in the movies. It was
on purpose.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I unscrewed the tops of the iron bedposts inside Number three.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I found it. There was a payphone at the end
of the dark hallway.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Sam.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I warned you about this. We've had four stage. They
won't come through with a fifth.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I've got a fair hole card, Grayson. Did you get
the judge? Yeah? Benjamin State Supreme court. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What I knew?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He'd say, no evidence, no stage, how him, I got evidence?
It better be good, said it is a pony newspaper,
a copy of the Star Times for the night of
the murder, with a special page in the classified section
carrying the ad that Willie answered, does that sound.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
You've got it now?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah? Or for peace sake, hang on to it. I'll
get back to the judge.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Say wait, aute, who's fine.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's a long story. I'll tell you when I see you.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hang up?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
When you what spade?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Spade? Hang up? Ro kid you.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You can turn around now. Well, iron Fist, we've met.
I've seen your picture, mister Hale.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It flattered me, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Give it to me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
What the paper is stupid? I haven't read the Funnies,
all right, mister Spade. If you'd read it, Iron Fists
knew other games besides publishment.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He moved up.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I went for the gun, which suddenly wasn't there, and
he was giving me a fast demonstration of judo for
a beginning. First thing, you know, I was sprawled on
the floor and he was looking down at me along
the barrel of his thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I could kill you, I suppose, But why.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Why?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
He backed off toward the windows, spread out the paper
and crumbled it up. Now you know what you're doing
with that match, Hale, You're burning Willie Johnson at the stakes.
He touched the match to the pile of papers, watched
them players suddenly lighting up the entire Halloway.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He looked like a medieval devil.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'm sorry about.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Willie's spade, but it has to be, That's all it
has to be. What did you have to do with
Georgia Lyon?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Nothing at all. And her name wasn't Georgia Lyon, really,
it was a stage name. Her real name was Farewell.
Your partner his way by Spade. Didn't you read the
testimony at the trial. He was leaving George that night.
She'd made a noble decision to.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Walk out of his life and leave him free for
your daughter.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'm Maryland, that's right. And it was such a tragedy
Georgia had to run into Willie Johnson the very night
she left. Wasn't it, Spade, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He bent over the.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Fire, watched it die down into a pile of ashes.
I was looking at something else, said draft from the
stairwell behind him.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He had picked up a glowing scrap and set it
down at the foot of a sleezy window curtain behind him.
M hell, that's it, Spade, the last of Woollie Jones,
the last of what. I hit him at the knees
as the curtain went up in a blinding flash. Oh judo,
this time just an old fashioned hammer.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Lit, there we go.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Come on, give me that gun.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
No like your arm, your art. That's better.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Now, get up, Get up, hell stop, hell, pardon on
my legacy.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hit the top of the stairway. He took off like
an eagle, lit on his neck halfway down and top
of the rest of the way like a loose tack
sackle laundry. He was dead when I got to score.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
With an hour and five minutes to play, no evidence,
one dead witness, one unconscious, one, one killer, and a
up was at large. There was only one way left
to go, and I took it. Larklas George Farewells apartment.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That's the Penthoffs.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, see home. I don't know what's the matter up there, sir.
I think something's wrong, awfully wrong. He went up there
early this evening with a young lady, and.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
The door to the roof is locked at the eighth floor.
That's never happened before any other way up. Well, you
might try the fire escape.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
If it's urgent.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
It is so I climbed the fire escape at the
eighth floor and went up onto the roof, or rather
into George Farewells patio. I worked my way through a
maze of potted shrubbery around a fish pond with a fountain.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
In the middle.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Piano music was coming through a pair of French doors.
But before I saw where the music was coming from,
I knew it was the radio and not the piano,
because the piano of fourteen foot grand that George Farewells
sprawled across the keyboard with a bullet threw his head.
I crossed to the set of French doors on the
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other side of the house. There I saw standing up
on the three foot parapet surrounding the roof, looking eight
floors down into the street.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Don't come any close.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You're not really going to jump.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Maryl He did it his way, I'm gonna do it mine.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Don't come any closer.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Don't I won't.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
So George shot himself. Huh, why not?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Then goes through lices.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It can tie to your tail.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
No running away from that, No, there isn't.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, you're gonna jump give me time. Oh, you want
to do it the dramatic way, don't you, Marilyn. Only
thirty five minutes left until Willie checks out over the ship,
and to make it really ironic, you'll want to take
off before he does.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
The one person left who can say them. I talked
to Willy, Marilyn.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He must hate the world.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
He doesn't hate anybody, poor jerk. I think he'd feel
even sorrier for you throwing your your own life away
while you can still save his. You can't run away
from this ten can, but you can untie it. You
can climb down off that wall and right over to
Quenton with me. You can tell him George Farewell killed
his wife. Bet the three of you and the little
lioner Typer made a pigeon out a Willie.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Huh oh my breath.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
She swayed, looked down into the street, poising herself. Then
she turned round and stepped onto the roof again.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Let's go congratulations, Yeah, oh my, George Farewell didn't stab
his wife that night.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I did. We pulled up at Quentin with six minutes
to spare the foregoing justice. Benjamin has submitted and supported
the stay of execution granted Willie Johnson and will be
set forth in the tail in mister Grayson's petition for
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a new trial period and of report.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
She really can say? What can I say?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I have one constructive suggestion.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I could say you're the greatest, finest, most wondering.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yes, but you'd only be repeating yourself, Jaron.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
The proper line at this moment is I shall have
the report ready for you immediately following the next announcement.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Right scoot three times mean good times on NBC Listen
to the stars on This Sunday's Big Show, Jimmy Duranty,
effel Mermann, Milton Berle, and Gordon McGray, plus Meredith Wilson
and his orchestra. You're MC on the Big Show, of course,
is the Glamorous to Lula. You're invited, Sam, here's the report?
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Oh yeah, yeah, what are you writing? Sam Alec has
this man of the World dashing Debonair Cosmopolitan temporarily at
Liberty desires employment.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Sounds wonderful, Thank you?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
All right, we'll drop it down a few notches, private investigator,
accomplished raconteur, will tell troubles to listening public. Nice telephone
voice contact Sam Spade, One East forty eighth Street, New York.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
One East forty eighth Street.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
My address during the summer months. Charr have you got it?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
One East forty eighth Street, New York City. Maybe a
lot of people will write Sam.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I'm sure they will.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Thanks, so they're always be a Samuel State Incorporated. Will
there look a smile through the tears saying I am
The day will come soon again, when when.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The phone will ring and you will say.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Sam State Detective Agencies.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
And I will say me sweetheart, fuck up, old girls, southfella,
stiff upper lip, good show, Oh reward Hale, and farewell,
good night. Sweet Tonight's Transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade was produced, entited,
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and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen Dunn, Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast
for Junius Matthews, Oland Soileat, Wally Mayer, Sidney Miller, Kathy Lewis,
Paul Freeset, Max and lou Merrow script Fortnight's Adventure by
Harold Swanton. Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbuster.
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This is NBC, the national broadcasting company,
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam Stay Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Me, sweetheart, stop take it easy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The papers are on the street.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I saw the show, did I. There'll be some red
faced editors ducking behind their green eye shades tomorrow. What
do you mean say you don't pint up the score
until the returns are all in f This applies to
presidential elections, boxing matches, and executions at San Quentin Prison.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You mean, Willy, I mean Willie.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Batten down the hatches and turn over your poam rubber cushion,
wonder girl for even now.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm homeward bond with.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
A stride by a strideacon of a twelve hour marathon
which I shall call for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The Hail and Farewell.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Caper transcribe for MBC. William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director
of mystery and crime Drama brings you the greatest private
Detective of the mall, starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures
of Sam Spade. I've been ron heavy right in here
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this minute. Have I done? That's what I was about
to ask. Have you been sticking your.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Delightful freckled cupboard, upturned little nose into my schnuff's bottle.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, answer me, girl, and you know I don't. All right, then?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Who the nervous little man who was here did open
the door to find a pencil and paper and even know?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, you're clear.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Dam What about the little man?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
A good and leading question? F shall we attempt to answer?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I'm not ready to h They fill it in.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
To Justice Edward Benjamin, State Supreme Court, from Samuel's Fade
License number one, three seven, five, nine six, subject the
Hail and Farewell Caper. Dear Justice Benjamin, My relationship with
the spending little man goes clear back to a week
ago Thursday, possibly even before that, but that was the
day I first noticed it. I remember it was Thursday
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because I was having corn beef and cabbage at Schroders
with him. It was a glass of water at the
next table.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He was paying little mind to the menu.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Having decided to spend the lunch hour staring at me.
A couple of times, he put down his glass of
water and pushed back his chairs. If you were going
to come over and talk, fucked, he changed his mind.
I put away the corn beef and cabbage and was
halfway past.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The pie when he finally did it. Excuse me, sir,
Hello you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Sir, I'm mister Speed.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I am the Detective, Sam Speed, Detective.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Ages at your service, sir. Now what can I I.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I you see I? Do you have a match?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I gave him a match, and he thanked me and
went out. On Friday, I saw him in Ben's grotto
over a plate of wrecked soul.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He got just about his far. Then he returned the
match shield.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
The following week I saw him four times, once as
I was going into a show, once at the post office,
and twice as I was going into my office building.
Each was the same. We get up to the point
where he's about to tell me something. Then he backed
down and asked me what time it was?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Or did I have a horse in the fifth at
Golden Gate? Or would I lend him a cigarette?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Then he'd bustle off as fast as his spindley little
legs could carry it. And thus matters stood yesterday place
my office time one thirty seven pm, Sam Spade, mister.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Spaed is this this is a German?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Who is?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah? Don't tell me? I know the voice?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
What is it? This time? I like to see you,
mister Speed that must see me.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I know I'll save us both a trip. That day
by is April twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
The time is.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
One thirty eight pm.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
All training planes and street cars are leaving on schedules
and for the favorite at Golden Gate tomorrow consult you're
near his books, please, sir.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Please, mister Spaid, please do the jest.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Matter of life and death. I say fine, and I'll
see you tomorrow for lunch. Uh.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I won't be here, mister Speed.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh where you be?
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Did?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Look?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'm tired of this, mister Spinley. Give it them me
straight or sign off?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What is it? Gotta listen to me, mister Spa, It's
most important. It's a life for desert life. Hello, mister Spinley. Hello.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It almost seemed as if he were in earnest this time,
so I didn't hang up. I hustled down the hall
to the next office, found another poone and so we
talked to supervisor.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Into tracing down mister Spinley.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It was a pay book in a drug store opposite
the Park Emergency Hospital. The clerk in the drug store
was just getting over it when I punched in. Spindley
had collapsed in the booth and had been hauled across
the street to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
On the bed there.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh thanks doctor, life and death. Mister Spade, terrible. You
got to stop it. It's murder. He's been motering like
that ever since we brought him in.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Hop hunh the legal kind you see before you an
overdose of sleeping tablet.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You mean he trying to kill himself. I can't think
of an easy way. Anyone could feed him two full bottles?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Can you pull through?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Probably it gave him a good pumping.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Don't don't do mister, do don't carry on? So but
I know you missed up right right? I know who
is to get easy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He's got a lot of strength for a little guy.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Mister Doe, no name, nothing to identify him. Funny thing, man,
what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I almost guarantee the man's undernourished, hasn't eaten for days, shabby.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Clothes and so on. Look at the roll I found
these pockets?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How much?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Almost eight hundred dollars?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Did you find anything else?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
This?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Front pages of the Star Times. It's a gally proof,
isn't it? Kind of run off in the line of
type room before they starts presses.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, Chiller dies tonight. Willie Johnson, hitchhike, murderer. They had
her gas chamber at midnight.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Inderson, innocent man.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You go, mister Doe.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But I know who did? I know everything everything. I
know the frame. It's just skillful frame. You mean Willie Johnson.
I know what it was.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It was Hail farewell, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Farewell? Who was it?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Come on, mister, don't wake up.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's to Doe. Yeah, I was waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Hit him like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
He'll be in communicat over the next twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Hours longer Hail and farewell a broken down actor? Huh,
Only an actor would think more of an exit line
than an innocent man's neck. You mean you believe he
I don't know what I believe.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
The guy's been trailing me for ten days, driving himself nuts,
tries to knock himself off.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a sinch.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He believes it.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
There's no chance of bringing him around before tomorrow, aswing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Willie Johnson dies tonight, So what happens? So I'm stuck
for taxi? Fair to san Quentin.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Believe in him, Believe in Willie Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I know you're his lawyer, mister Greyson.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
I'm his lawyer because I volunteered to save you. Mister Spade.
I've been in the law a long long time. I've
defended a lot of phonies. Sometimes you've got you if
you want to eat. They all sing the same song
I was framed. Oh, I know all eighty nine verses.
But Willie, Yeah, Willie's song is different because Willie Johnson's
an innocent man.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Willie was framed.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Four appeals, four appeals, four stays, and we've had our
less one. It's folded up in a spade. I'm going
to take the walk with him at midnight, So do
something for me, will you sure, sir? When when you've
walked into a cell, Remember you're talking to a man
who's going to die.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
In less than eight hours.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
We're trying to we're trying to build his spirit up
so he can go out with the colors. Fine, you know, yeah,
don't give him a lot of false hope, Spade, because
because there isn't any.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I don't quite understand, mister Spaces. I told my story
so many times.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I uh, I like to write something about you for
the papers.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Will he.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Oh, yes, sir, all the newspaper gentlemen, don't you?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And gong?
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I know? Could you tell her just one smart?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Will he?
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, sir, it's more than a year ago. I
guess you know that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I was broke.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
You know, things hadn't been going so well, sir. I
was down in my last two bits. At night, I
walked into Shery Dugin's. That's a bar on my wonderf Yes, sir,
I got to talking with a fella sitting at the
bar there. He bought me beer.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Who is he?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I never did find his name. I ain't seen him
since that night.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
If I could find him, I don't reckon. I'd be
where I am, sir. He had a paper with him,
was reading the classified ad section, you know, a part
about Otto's transportation so on. Well, there was an ad there.
I'd say, we'll pay five hundred dollars plus the expenses
to drive car to Mexico City with a phone number.
And the fella said, if he were in my shoes,
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he'd called up and quiet.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So I did.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I'm quieter and I got the job, well, sir. About
an hour later I met a man with a car
southern Mason by the gas station there, and he'd give
me the five hundred and I start out for Mexico City.
It wasn't really never found his name ether if we
tried to, mister Grayson and me never could find him.
(09:37):
I see, well, it was raining that night, sir, I
remember raining, and I hadn't gotten Moan fifty miles south
of town, somewhere around Morgan Hill. It was when Sirene
blew off behind me, and the first thing I knew
where they was asking the questions about a girl, a
girl named Georgia Lyon. It was her car, it seems,
(09:57):
and that the officer claim I stole it. They they
made me raise my arms and they searched me, and
there was a knife in my pocket, you see, what
would blood on it there, and I don't know how
it got there, and the five hundred dollars that had
blood on it too, and there was blood on the seat.
And when they opened the turtle back there she was
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this joji a line. I told you all double up
there and dead, and they said I'd done it for
the money in the car, and I guess I just
went crazy, mister Spade with her with this all coming
at me at once that way. You see, I tried
to make a break for it, and I got away, and.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I knew what was a terrible wrong thing to do.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
What about the trial, Well, so mister Grayson done everything
in his powers, and so did I told the truth
as close as I could recollect it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But it didn't make no sense.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
We never found a man in a bar, or the
man who drove up in the car. What about the
phone number there, all that that turned out to be
a fancy a dress that turned out to be a
fancy dress shop on Powell Street, color Mason Francine and
the classified ads that that was the queerest thing of all.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What do you mean, Well, mister.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Grayson went through every newspaper in the country for two
weeks either side of the night, and there wasn't any
such add in any of them.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So they said I was lying.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
They said I was lying. I made it all up
in my head, and now they're going to kill me
for it. I don't know, mister Spade, I've heard so
long now.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Maybe I did kill her.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Maybe they're right, Maybe they're.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Right, but there was something in the way he said.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Maybe they're right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He told you they were wrong. I thanked him and
told him I had what I wanted from my story
and said goodbye. There was no hope in his space,
but no despair either. He knew of us coming and
he was ready.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And that's all.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I hit the homeward bound commuters on the wrong side
of the Golden Gate Bridge. So it was almost seven
when I checked in a Cherry Duggan's bar on the waterfront.
A girl was sitting three stools down from me, A
class type dame and a black file suit from Magnums
and a hat that must have set some good time
Charlie back fifty bucks. That's the kind of a dame
you'd expect to be sitting in Sherry Dugan's.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Least of all as drunk as she was her yard
jack sixty cents. Thank you. Wait a minute, this is
a one man operation, isn't it. O. Yes, why well,
then you'd be Sherry Dugan.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
No.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
No, I bought the joint from Sherry a few months back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Why well, I'm I'm doing a story for the papers
on Willie Johnson. Tell me, was Sherry here on the
Big ninth?
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes, only Woody Johnson wasn't you could
look it up?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
What Sherry?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
About?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Where is he?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Now? There? You'll say?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You know why? Why Sherry has brains for a man
in his shoes. There's no better place right now in
South America?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh tell me more?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He needed to rest the worst way Sherry did. Jolie's
been true. Tending bar can be difficult at times, right, Tim,
And do you.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Show me a good bott and I'll show you a
bard diplomatic more.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Besides, Oh, here's the Sherry wherever he is, Keep running, Sherry,
keep running? You know, Sherry is like a dog running
away from a can tied to his tail.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
We all are?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Who's we?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
All of us? All of us the world? Give me
another drink, Tims. Don't give me any lip. This is
a first class week.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Isn't it a send off for Willie?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Just sometimes George stood.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Ask come on, we're going home.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Take your time, George, two of the members present, one more,
we'll have a quorum. Pour him a drink.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Tim, do you want me to carry out of here?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It might be fun?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Daddy facing the floor?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Now, come on, you know something, George. You've got a
can tied to your tale. Two? No use running George?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh you're right at your head?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Whatever made you come here?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Kind of appropriate, don't you think? Special? Night tonight? What dress?
All six? Gleve us a week?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Not here?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
We are? Are you coming? All right? Where we go?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Silly? You?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Hold how much? Just show you?
Speaker 8 (14:37):
That's three four five?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Here worthy?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I tell me who is she?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
H model?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Some shop uptown?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh like the Maison Francine, for instance. Oh do you
know that's the hunch? What's your name?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Merlyn Hale?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Her old man runs the Star Times.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You know the publisher. The guy is his partner, George,
farewell you. I started the firm ale and farewell.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I had, but it was a slightly different reading from
the one mister Spinley gave me at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I looked at my watch. Willie was four and a
half hours from the end of the line when I
took off with the press room at the Stars. Times
you want listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three times mean good Times on NBC.
(15:45):
There's fun and music for you tomorrow evening with the
Dennist Day Show. There'll be songs by Dennis and another
typical tangled comedy situation, the kind of hilarious mix up
that could happen only to Dennis Day. And now back
to the hail in Farewell cap her Tonight's Adventure with Sam.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Spade Time eight eleven.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I got out of the elevator in the basement of
the Star Times building on Mission Street and started looking
for the press room former somebody named Joe Fordesque. I
finally found his feet sticking out from under a sick linus.
I pulled him out and tried to make him understand.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
What I wanted. Yeah, I know, I know, you mean it,
old little baby like this guy, can't hear you, I
tell you, little baby like you guy. Yeah, that's the
guy who what about it? Come on, go ahead you first? Ah?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
How who is he?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Charlie Forest isn't I know? But that's not what I
timed up his rocker for a year. Look you see
that picture on the wall over your head. Yeah that's
mister Hale. The Iron Fist won't tolerate no inefficiency, you understand.
But this scroup, all this Charlie Forrest, I personally can
and twice and both times Iron Fists sends the victim yeah, so,
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don't make no never mind to be brother, leave him
come to work, stude all the time, leave him lay
off of two straight weeks like this time. Don't make
no never mind? Yeah, yeah, no, Look, I'm up with
you now. How long has Charlie been this way? A
year or so?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I know just when it started, when Willie Johnson was
hauled in on the hitchhiking killing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Right, Oh, you've been talking to Charlie. Huh yeah, A
funny thing.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
How that hit him.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
He'd find him sitting in a corner by himself, mumbling
all the time about the guy being innocent. What do
you suppose Charlie had to do with that?
Speaker 8 (17:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Got real crazy. He told the end, you know, said
he was killing Willie Johnson. And you'd ask him with what,
he'd say, a Liner type machine and a Hunker newsprint.
One day he even offered to prove it, you know how,
I don't know. He said he had proof. He said
he had the evidence. It would say Willie's neck hid
in his room was the office trolley. I've got to
find out where he lives. They don't know upstairs, I
don't know. We don't know downstairs neither. He moved out
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of his apartment three weeks back, and.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Don't nobody know where he went.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Look, he was in this morning, picked up a gally
proof of page one.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, I'll tell you who might know where to find him.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Come on, come on about ten o'clocky leave here. He
said he was going to look him up. Somebody is
somebody named Spade, Thanks same Spade. He's a detective that
remains to be seen. A message day a bandy like
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a little guy named Charlie Fires Death. He must have
been in around ten ten thirty this morning. I didn't
get here till eleven.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
They're still clearing stuff off the tracks from the Magathury set.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, never mind that, now listen write this down.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Oh oh we're left on a piece of paper.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Hurry up, yes, here, out of the ash tray.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Go ahead there.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Paul Jeremy Grayson, he's a lawyer and he's with Willie
Johnson and a death row at Quton. Tell him to
get hold of a justice on the State Supreme Court
and hold the line open.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And I get him. You got that, yes, sir?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Is there anything else?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, I'll get back to you a little wieh. We
gotta go hang up.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
What's the matter because paper I'm riding on under the ashtray.
It's a nose.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Go ahead, mister Stace, please contact me at once.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Charles W.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Fosters a floor Hotel three three eight Foton Street.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
It took twenty more minutes to cross town and ten
on top of that to convince the cork at the Bellflower.
I had a right to the key to Charlie's room,
which I had not. I tossed the room from the
light fixture to the floorboards, covered everything from the window
shades to the bathroom plumbing. Result one batch of dirty laundry,
six soggy cigarettes, and two empty bottles of sleeping pills.
I was on my way out when I remembered one
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more thing.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It wasn't an accident like in the movies. It was
on purpose.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I unscrewed the tops of the iron bedposts inside Number three.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I found it. There was a payphone at the end
of the dark hallway.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Sam.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I warned you about this. We've had four stage. They
won't come through with a fifth.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I've got a fair hole card, Grayson. Did you get
the judge? Yeah? Benjamin State Supreme court. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What I knew?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He'd say, no evidence, no stage, how him, I got evidence?
It better be good, said it is a pony newspaper,
a copy of the Star Times for the night of
the murder, with a special page in the classified section
carrying the ad that Willie answered, does that sound.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
You've got it now?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah? Or for peace sake, hang on to it. I'll
get back to the judge.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Say wait, aute, who's fine.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's a long story. I'll tell you when I see you.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hang up?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
When you what spade?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Spade? Hang up? Ro kid you.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You can turn around now. Well, iron Fist, we've met.
I've seen your picture, mister Hale.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It flattered me, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Give it to me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
What the paper is stupid? I haven't read the Funnies,
all right, mister Spade. If you'd read it, Iron Fists
knew other games besides publishment.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He moved up.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I went for the gun, which suddenly wasn't there, and
he was giving me a fast demonstration of judo for
a beginning. First thing, you know, I was sprawled on
the floor and he was looking down at me along
the barrel of his thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I could kill you, I suppose, But why.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Why?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
He backed off toward the windows, spread out the paper
and crumbled it up. Now you know what you're doing
with that match, Hale, You're burning Willie Johnson at the stakes.
He touched the match to the pile of papers, watched
them players suddenly lighting up the entire Halloway.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He looked like a medieval devil.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'm sorry about.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Willie's spade, but it has to be, That's all it
has to be. What did you have to do with
Georgia Lyon?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Nothing at all. And her name wasn't Georgia Lyon, really,
it was a stage name. Her real name was Farewell.
Your partner his way by Spade. Didn't you read the
testimony at the trial. He was leaving George that night.
She'd made a noble decision to.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Walk out of his life and leave him free for
your daughter.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'm Maryland, that's right. And it was such a tragedy
Georgia had to run into Willie Johnson the very night
she left. Wasn't it, Spade, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He bent over the.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Fire, watched it die down into a pile of ashes.
I was looking at something else, said draft from the
stairwell behind him.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He had picked up a glowing scrap and set it
down at the foot of a sleezy window curtain behind him.
M hell, that's it, Spade, the last of Woollie Jones,
the last of what. I hit him at the knees
as the curtain went up in a blinding flash. Oh judo,
this time just an old fashioned hammer.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Lit, there we go.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Come on, give me that gun.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
No like your arm, your art. That's better.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Now, get up, Get up, hell stop, hell, pardon on
my legacy.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hit the top of the stairway. He took off like
an eagle, lit on his neck halfway down and top
of the rest of the way like a loose tack
sackle laundry. He was dead when I got to score.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
With an hour and five minutes to play, no evidence,
one dead witness, one unconscious, one, one killer, and a
up was at large. There was only one way left
to go, and I took it. Larklas George Farewells apartment.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That's the Penthoffs.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, see home. I don't know what's the matter up there, sir.
I think something's wrong, awfully wrong. He went up there
early this evening with a young lady, and.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
The door to the roof is locked at the eighth floor.
That's never happened before any other way up. Well, you
might try the fire escape.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
If it's urgent.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
It is so I climbed the fire escape at the
eighth floor and went up onto the roof, or rather
into George Farewells patio. I worked my way through a
maze of potted shrubbery around a fish pond with a fountain.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
In the middle.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Piano music was coming through a pair of French doors.
But before I saw where the music was coming from,
I knew it was the radio and not the piano,
because the piano of fourteen foot grand that George Farewells
sprawled across the keyboard with a bullet threw his head.
I crossed to the set of French doors on the
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other side of the house. There I saw standing up
on the three foot parapet surrounding the roof, looking eight
floors down into the street.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Don't come any close.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You're not really going to jump.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Maryl He did it his way, I'm gonna do it mine.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Don't come any closer.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Don't I won't.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
So George shot himself. Huh, why not?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Then goes through lices.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It can tie to your tail.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
No running away from that, No, there isn't.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, you're gonna jump give me time. Oh, you want
to do it the dramatic way, don't you, Marilyn. Only
thirty five minutes left until Willie checks out over the ship,
and to make it really ironic, you'll want to take
off before he does.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
The one person left who can say them. I talked
to Willy, Marilyn.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He must hate the world.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
He doesn't hate anybody, poor jerk. I think he'd feel
even sorrier for you throwing your your own life away
while you can still save his. You can't run away
from this ten can, but you can untie it. You
can climb down off that wall and right over to
Quenton with me. You can tell him George Farewell killed
his wife. Bet the three of you and the little
lioner Typer made a pigeon out a Willie.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Huh oh my breath.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
She swayed, looked down into the street, poising herself. Then
she turned round and stepped onto the roof again.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Let's go congratulations, Yeah, oh my, George Farewell didn't stab
his wife that night.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I did. We pulled up at Quentin with six minutes
to spare the foregoing justice. Benjamin has submitted and supported
the stay of execution granted Willie Johnson and will be
set forth in the tail in mister Grayson's petition for
(26:00):
a new trial period and of report.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
She really can say? What can I say?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I have one constructive suggestion.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I could say you're the greatest, finest, most wondering.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yes, but you'd only be repeating yourself, Jaron.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
The proper line at this moment is I shall have
the report ready for you immediately following the next announcement.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Right scoot three times mean good times on NBC Listen
to the stars on This Sunday's Big Show, Jimmy Duranty,
effel Mermann, Milton Berle, and Gordon McGray, plus Meredith Wilson
and his orchestra. You're MC on the Big Show, of course,
is the Glamorous to Lula. You're invited, Sam, here's the report?
(26:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, what are you writing? Sam Alec has
this man of the World dashing Debonair Cosmopolitan temporarily at
Liberty desires employment.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Sounds wonderful, Thank you?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
All right, we'll drop it down a few notches, private investigator,
accomplished raconteur, will tell troubles to listening public. Nice telephone
voice contact Sam Spade, One East forty eighth Street, New York.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
One East forty eighth Street.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
My address during the summer months. Charr have you got it?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
One East forty eighth Street, New York City. Maybe a
lot of people will write Sam.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I'm sure they will.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Thanks, so they're always be a Samuel State Incorporated. Will
there look a smile through the tears saying I am
The day will come soon again, when when.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The phone will ring and you will say.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Sam State Detective Agencies.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
And I will say me sweetheart, fuck up, old girls, southfella,
stiff upper lip, good show, Oh reward Hale, and farewell,
good night. Sweet Tonight's Transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade was produced, entited,
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and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen Dunn, Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast
for Junius Matthews, Oland Soileat, Wally Mayer, Sidney Miller, Kathy Lewis,
Paul Freeset, Max and lou Merrow script Fortnight's Adventure by
Harold Swanton. Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbuster.
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