August 10, 2025 • 30 mins
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Vinything about the compliment things.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, uh, I've made out as best I could. I
don't want to don't.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Want you to think that I have to grudged you
a vacation. After all, you have worked hard. You didn't
deserve it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Sam State, Is that all you have to say to me.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I'm not putting the blame on you, after all, it
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of letting me down at a time when I needed
you most.
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You might at least asked me if I had a
good time.
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I'm sorry if your conscience bothered.
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You, Oh well it didn't.
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Speaker 1 (02:33):
In the Adventures of Sam Spain.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just outside on Virgin River the West.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Uh huh?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
And did I mention the interesting the result of erosions?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yes, and it's authentic too, say Hamlin's ranch in a
working ranch. Yes, you see that way you get into
the spirit. My job was to see the chickens, and
that's how I met him. One of the Butte Oh Sam,
he's a very culture gentleman.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Culture smasher. What's he doing for a living? He's sure, Sam,
You don't say. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Charlie Shank, Charlie.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
He's the founder of the Shank Institute of Articulative Correction,
which I should.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Learn articulative correction. Where is this institute?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, I have the address here General Delivery, Butte, Montana.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah. Sure. He didn't have him break parole.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh no, oh no no.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
We just went on long walks together where to all
different places is inter like, like Wolf Canyon. He invited
me on this championship but trip honorable, of course, but
I couldn't go on to kind of my sunburnl awful, awful.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
She'll got it to see. And then then he went
back to Butte. He had to leave him such a herr.
Didn't even say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It was a pity too, because an old friend he
hadn't seen in years came looking for him just a
few minutes later with a warrant. No, he was an
attendant in a nearby hospital.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Metal.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, yes, very intelligent. He read me some of his poetry.
Maybe you've heard it.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and do
wait a.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Minute, doesn't have the rubiyat of omer Cayenne was written
by a guy named Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Of course that's his name.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Quite offend, yes, but he paid his debt to society.
And the other time it was a bad beef. He
told me all about it.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He cried on my shoulder afterwards.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Sweetheart, when you make a mistake, it's a.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Beauty same nothing happened.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Well, I'm glad he cures you of sammering anyhow, ready,
Oh yeah, life goes on.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I got a brand new notebook, sam I'll just turn
over a newly not a bad idea date July eighteen too,
mister Alex M.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Young. Try that again, mister Alex mu Young Blood po
Box three one seven, San Francisco from Samuel Stately number one.
He sent five nine SIXPERI, missy young Blood, I need
a vacation myself.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
You need Charlie Jay.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Time. Fortunately, until I met you, my only experience that
any of the men and women who make your newspapers
run had been with one of your corner newsboys, who
short changed me two times within as many days. I
have not read your rag since, but your name looked imposing,
and so did a three hundred dollars check upon which
you had written it. Hurry your instructions promptly. At four
(05:39):
pm on the fifteenth instant, I much threw the litter
of your city room called a door marked am young Blood, publisher,
managing editor and city editor. I wondered if you were ambitious,
frugal or three men. I did not know that you
had good taste until I saw the prim twentiation with
tooths and the secretary in your author office.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Hello you here, an't you?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Ah? Well, I'm not exactly here. I'm just here to
see mister young Blood.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The name of Spade, Samuel Faith.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Sam except for my most famolent friends.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, my advice to you, Sam is to be the
hasty re treat he's in a foul movie.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Oh why is he blind or older than he fails?
I refer, of course, to your spectacular chime. That's if
I may call you a mess. Please.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
This is neither the time of the place.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
My name is Phyllis Watson and my phone number is
in the directory. If you're really interested, I could be
thank you. And if a man answers telling you're my
French teacher, we you better go in now.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
If you're late to an appointment with him, you're through.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You have any more words of wisdom.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, but I hope you can do something to improve
his state of mind. He's been awful lately.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Good luck, same, Thank you, Phyllis Watson. Come in, Come in,
I'm going to pass forward. You must be the spade.
That's right, you're almost late. Sit down, spade, cigar. No thanks.
Don't expect me to offer a drink. You aren't a drinker.
I hope you don't listen to the radio, do you well?
(07:10):
You will not drink in this office. Nothing here but
the cooler filled with water from a clean, gurgling, laughing
mountain stream. You sound like a reform drunk, mister young blood.
What's that. Well, it was good many years ago. If
you don't mind, I'll just taste up the weather report
for my morning edition before we talk. Oh you do
that too, huh, yes, obviously, and with good reasons. I
(07:32):
remind myself that I was once a copy boy, and
I find it a splendid way to at least once
each day to lower myself to the level of the
working man. There we are a hot to phoenix. I say,
just what do you want to detect it for, mister
young lud I was coming to that spade. Sorry. Now, well, first,
(07:53):
let me warn you that your assignment is a highly
confidential one. They all are, in this case a man's life.
Maybe it's situation. My newspaper, at my ordered, under my guidance,
has launched a campaign against crime, not aimed at the
petty criminal, but at the easy living leeches, at the
controls of the rackets, the hoods and banker's clothing, the
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mansion house parasites who direct the pickpockets, the second story men,
the housebreakers who gamble away. I come to you, Yes,
I understand, I understand. You're after the boys on the
safer side of the fences. Nicely puts Pade the long
and short of it is this, The author of the
(08:35):
Expose A series, Ray mccullay, my top crime reporter, has
been missing for two days. I want you to find him.
What makes you think he's still alive? Good? Heaven's spain
ry this you suggested? He isn't Because if I were
a mansion house parasite and danger of being unhoused by
a newshawk, i'd see said newshawks standing in a cement
block on the bottom of the bay. I will accept
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that only when no stone has been left unturned, every
straw and every haystack has been searched, every nook and cranny. Yes,
sounds as though you need at least one police force,
mister young Blood. Now why don't you No, no, no, no, impossible.
We've already had a brush with the police over the
explos I'll not be dictated to at this stage of
(09:16):
the game. I started this investigation, now finish it alone.
Well it's a pretty big order, mister young Blood. But
times are tough. I'll see what I can do. Good.
I hereby turn over to you all the resources and
power of this my newspaper. When one of my reporters
is in trouble or danger, Sir, I will spend every
penny at my fortune if necessary to deliver aid and
(09:38):
sucker to his side. O. You then gave me Ray
mccully's expose stories to date. I saw why you, his
family and friends, and his creditors could have been worried
about it. They were hot. One followed a stolen car
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from the time of the high through the alteration of
the body, colored fire brands, license number, motors, serial number,
but the pimate was shoved onto a used car lot.
They named names all the way through, and another did
the same with the firm of Otter, Badger and Mole,
Purians and the ledged manufacturers of coats from clouted pelts.
Ray McCully had dropped out of sight right after that
(10:21):
story had been published, so I left your office hoping
that I had reached the address of Otter, Badger and
Mole before closing time. I did. The plushy showroom was
occupied by a dozen attractive fur bearing models female but wax.
The live models male were wearing padded shoulders, pointed shoes,
and coats tailored for under arm artillery. They would have
(10:43):
looked more natural at Madame Fossad's waxworks burnt from the
burglar section. Are you hey one?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Let's being something through a little woman?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Where do I find Misterata? You the lore Leo sent
Me's in his office? Come on, Oh wait a minute,
wait a minute, don't crowd me. You see you wouldn't
see the bus on business. Stop nudging me with a
rod and there, Hey you move, okay, okay, here are
your buss. Here's it? Joe here to see you. Leo
(11:10):
send him?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well nudging Mendi, no nudging widdy? Well, well, well, so
Leo's sending him on to see me.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I wonder why if you'll calm his character here out
of my hair, I'll try and tell you sit down
with him. Thanks? You're you and Tom? Yeah, that's why
Leo sent me. A local munk record named Ray McCully
interviewed you. He also interviewed Leo, but I didn't get
printed yet. Leo wants to find him, so do I
How can I help? Well? He walked out of here,
(11:37):
went to his hotel, wrote the story and mailed it in.
That's the last anybody's seen him. Leo was just sort
of hoping that you'd already taken care of him. Not
yet That's all I wanted to know. Nice, that's the moment. Yeah,
Leo's sending you out alone? Why not?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
That's a tough boy. That mccully's got plenty of protection.
That's what you need. What kind of takes you go
along with him?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Who me? You're Woody, aren't you? Now? Look luck, mister Otter.
I don't want to fuck a gift horse in the mouth.
But the way I see it, this is a lone
wolf type caper. Hey, which matter? How do you think
I'm too good for your well, Woody? I wouldn't say
that good.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Set Take care of him, Woody, and don't mix it
up with any of Leo's boys. If he's out to
get that rat McCully, he's our friend.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I was beginning to wonder who Leo was. I'd grabbed
the name off a calendar on the wall. Leo's Vannon's story.
I didn't know whether he was the Leo mister Otter
didn't like, and I hoped I wouldn't find out. The
best way I could think to keep from finding out
was to shake Woody. On the way uptown. I walked
him past four police stations, crossing Market Street. I pushed
him straight into the arms of the traffic gut, who
(12:50):
begged his pardon and let me off of the warning.
At the Blue Bottle Bar and Grill, I gave Joe
the bartend of the Mickey Finn sign, but wood he
liked it. He ordered another, and he said knew a
place on Columbus where the drinks were even better. It
was called Leo's Place. I wanted the fat man anything. Hey, hey,
oh me, I want you to drink. Would you like
this joint? Ayeah, sure, it's fine. When I get anywhere, though,
(13:14):
will really take your way? Serious me, When I go
gun for somebody, I go where I'm least likely to succeed.
You live only, Yes, what do you know about this
guy mcully? You hear the pulls. You say he's a
red Yeah, but he said he's got plenty of profection's
furnishing it. Well, you see there's pool, you know, Foolly,
(13:35):
look at we're just looking. I looked. What I saw
was not disappointing. She was wearing a sim fite black
satin with a plunging neckline and a new look only
in places where it didn't matter. But she's still looking
up like your secretary of Phillis Watson to be out
of place in Leo's place. She didn't stay that long.
(13:56):
She made a bee line through the kitchen with a
rear exit. I made a bee line right AFTERWHI Woody
was breathing down my neck. I started up the rickety
outside stairway at the back of the building. I stopped
the landing and turned around the face. See you later, Woody.
I didn't wait to see if he made it all
(14:17):
the way to the bottom of the stairs. I was
more interested in what was going on at the top.
A door had opened, and Phillip stepped inside. The man
who let her in looked like Ray McCully. Who are
you the name of Spade? I don't know that name.
Your boss hired me to find you. Yeah, can I
(14:38):
talk to you for a minute. Sure, put your.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Hands behind your neck and walk up the slow Okay,
all right, God said, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You're not acting glad to see me. This is a
guy fellas.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yes Alex, hired in this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
There you see. What do you want me to tell,
young blood?
Speaker 10 (15:02):
You're not going to tell anybody any.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
It caught me right behind the ear. The last thing
I saw was that plunging neckline as Phillis rushed forward.
I didn't know whether she was rushing to my rescuer
to gain in a few licks of her own. Five
seconds later, I didn't care the design of a linoleum
slammed up at me. I had just time to wonder why,
of all the people who were looking for Ray mcklly,
I had to find him, and I was out buying
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Adventure with Sam's Bay.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I was lying on the floor in a room with
nothing in it but a sink. An army caught a
square of dirty lanoil in and a body. I sagon
of my freight ransom, cold water over my head and
took a closer look. It was Ray McCully. It was
a very dead paceding reporter. He been stabbed clean through
with a long bladed kitchen. I had set on a
handle property of Leo's place and went through his pockets
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and his wallet. A press card, a police card, Union card,
and ten genuine Crisp new thousand dollars bills. They gave
me a line on a killer. It was crazy, so
was I. I left it on him too. Folded up
in his best pocket, I found two newspaper clippings, one
from the Chronicle and one from your paper, both weather
reports for the same date. Was very hot in Phoenix,
(17:35):
according to both papers, but according to your weather report,
the temperature in Needles, California was one hundred and thirty
five degrees. That needled me sort did the slip of
paper I found on his shoe, The number nine and
a date had been stamped on it with a rubber stamp.
The date was the same as that of the weather reports.
I turned it over, it said Ruthie's booth manson Bowling Alley.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You're the cigar kid. Corona's a pan of.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Telly Thanks Sion, just shocking.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'll got a nice line of notions.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
No, I mean the dolls, the holly with dolls, you
know for the bed only a dollar plus tax?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Very reasonable?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Say what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Uh? Leo sent me, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Are you going to collect the slips here after?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Well? U not tonight. You see, I'm a sort of
a trouble shooter. Leo's checking up on some of the
numbers that didn't come out right.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
Listen, I'll tell him to his safe. I don't want
any part of.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Those wrong numbers.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
They're scary nuts who bought this one?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Let me see, oh last fairsay of number nine? How
can I forget? He put five hundred dollars and honest,
if he's.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
Been around once, he's been around one hundred times to.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
See if it paid off?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Did it?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Litter Binelli?
Speaker 11 (18:59):
He buy to slip every day and if you ask me,
he's learned a system because he's been winning your knowls dines,
and then a dollar, and then five dollars, and then
when he come in with five number nine, it only
dropped dead?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Did it?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Well?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
What does he left? It? Did quite out?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Look on the chine.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Hey, somebody else was in just this afternoon ride around
the corner on mansion eight ten. Say, maybe that's his
system eight and one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Don't get that up to nine. Hey, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Where are you going to such a run?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Please come back lace.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Small next week?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Are you missus Spinelli?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Please? So that's trouble? Is your husband hom Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
My poor madam? They takes him away.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
He's dead. Oh I'm sorry? How did it happen?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I'm a detective. Maybe I can help you? Recommens? All right,
come on, I said quite a while to gain her confidence,
And after that it took store quite a while to
piece together the grease second grumble of words that poured
out of her. When I got it down in the
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form of a statement, I asked her to read it all.
I him statement by Missus Arturo Spinelli.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
All the time he played those numbers, I told him,
I just a bunch of gangsters. They don't let you win.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Then you met this man mccullay, a rite for the newspaper.
My husband says, this man shows him how to win.
He wins and wins. Then he goes to bank and
takes out all our savings. I beg for him not
to do it, but no, no, he what's greedy, and
(21:02):
this macaulay poisoned his mind.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Sure he won.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He brought the.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Money home in his hand, ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I took it while he is sleeping with wine and
gave it to the men.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I tell him all I want is if I wanted.
He tried to tell me we do good. We helped
catch the big gangsters.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I say, we don't want to do so good.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
We get murdered in our beds.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So he says, okay, But if I change mind.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Here is I.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Don't change my mind because already my husband he is
dead as home style. No, I don't change my mind.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
She signed it and I left her alone with agreed.
I wasn't working for you anymore, mister young luddyd. He
hired me to find your reporter, and I had and
I wished I hadn't the rest of it. I did
for myself. You weren't in your office when I got there,
but Phyllis was. I found her behind the city desk,
and he acted dropping tomorrow morning's weather report under the slot.
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I grabbed it out of her hand. Oh where's your boss?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh my good.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
We'll talk in his office.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Come on, Sam, I can explain how You're.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Gonna explain Plenty before I'm finished with you. Sin Oh, you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Got to be so rough.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
What's the matter with you, Plenty? I'm stupid. I was
stupid to take this job, and I was stupid to
play at cagy with you. I should have beaten the
story out of it before the trouble started. It's a
little late in the day now, but not too late
to send you up for mcully's murder.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, you're insane, Ray McCully with Honey the only one
who ever tried to help you, and I'm the only
one who can place you in that room.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Not ten minutes before the murder, I told you I
explain my trying to save your own skin. Spinelli was
only one of a half million poor domious that lose
their Nichols and dimes and dollars every day in the
policy racket. Only he had the bad luck to win.
There won't be any more lucky, dead people like him.
If I have to make a patsy out of you
to stop it, he won't.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Stop it, nothing will. Ray talked big and brave, like
you know he's dead.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Yeah, with ten thousand bucks dirty money in his wallet.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I won't let you say things like that. Ray was
an honest reporter, too honest. He thought young Blood meant
what he said about that cleanup campaign.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah he did. He wanted to run this time by himself,
clean up his competition.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
When Ray started collecting material on the numbers racket, he still.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Thought young Blood was on the level. But that was
before he stumbled on to the thing about the weather report.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah, that was unknown the old Dutch schultzmuggs to
add up the stock market quote theations of a cheat.
They knew their customers weren't good enough for arithmetic to
prove it. But who knows how hot it is? And
Phoenix unless.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
They lived there, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Listen. That's how the number game works, sweetheart. The suckers
pick a number from one to ten. See the operators
tally up the slips, and the least popular for that
day has to win. The weather report doesn't have to
pass through the copy desk, and with young Blood tasting
it up with a few strategic corrections, it was easy
to make their winners look as if they were on
the level. But of course you have no way of
knowing that. You only watched them do it day after day.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You know, I couldn't understand why he did those things.
It seems silly, falsifying a weather report, but it didn't
seem as if it could do any hard.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
What did you meet McCully for? I guess your cut
of the ten grand Spinella was killed for?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
How dare you?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I went there to warn him about you kill them.
I don't know you're lying, all right, I'm lying, But
I can prove that Ray was on the level. I've
got the proof right here, the whole story he wrote
on the numbers racket, even.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Naming young Blood as the head of it, his own publisher.
I went there to get it. I was going to
take it to another newspaper.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Why didn't you? I can't tell you that you don't
have to missus. Spinella was confused grief craze. She had
to put the blame on somebody in when she did,
she got her Ravens the only way she thought she could.
She may have been right about that, but she killed
the wrong man.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Why didn't you tell me you knew who killed Ray?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I wanted to give you a chance to tell me yourself.
I'm glad you didn't, and that, mister young Glad is
the crop. I'm sure you appreciate the fact that I
gave the double scoop to your paper. Like Missus Spinelli,
I have my own ideas ad vengeance. The size of
(25:24):
may up your circulation a little, and you can certainly
use a little extra money for your defense. Uh fight away.
Who's Leo? Period? And the report?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
It's Sam?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yes, Ebbie, I thought missus Spinelli killed Ray McCully.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
The vacation helped. You are absolutely correct, Missus Spinelli killed
mister McCully. If you acquired the expression why did she
kill her husband? I was wrong. The vacation didn't help.
You mean she didn't she killed McCully to avenge the
murder of her husband.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You mean mister McCully killed mister Spinelli.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Effie, stop, I'll go mad, oh you need a vacation
thing type that up. The clatter of the keys may
stimulate you to further cerebral activity. I beg your pardon, sir,
rain work, not shoe oh, rainwork.
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We'll hear you then, and you are absolutely right. The
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Set for one thing, will let's clear that up right away.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Why did missus Spinelli chill her husband?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
She did not kill her husband.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
I'm sorry, I'm like, why did mister McCully kill mister Spinelli?
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Kelly did not kill Spinelle McCully.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Oh, Kelly's real name was Killy.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Let's start all over again. This regard everything we said
up until now. Make your mind a complete blank. In
the first place, McCully did not kill Spanelli.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What I said, it was his wife, wasn't it now,
wasn't it?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Sam?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Oh? Stop teasing me?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
What do you look at me like that?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Effy? Mister Spinelli was killed by one of the policy
racket hoods to get back to ten grand he won
on the numbers game.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And how did the money get into Kelly's plot? Colly's
why you done using his alias?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Effy? That was the tip of the song. I mean, look,
missus Spanelli took it to him because she was afraid
her husband might be killed for it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Why didn't they take the money when they killed him?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Because missus Spanelli had already taken it.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Then she did killing go home, Efphy and Syon so
irritable to.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
You, But I thought it was this a long since
I been here, you know, Angel, Angel, You're just tired.
They ocasions have a habit of doing that to you.
After a week or two in the office, she'll be
all rested up again.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'll take it directed though you thought my mind were.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
It's nice to have you back. You look good too,
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Speaker 2 (28:20):
Take my nose is peering well, don't crack at it.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Good Night, good night.
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It's me Effie.
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Vinything about the compliment things.
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Well, uh, I've made out as best I could. I
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Want you to think that I have to grudged you
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Sam State, Is that all you have to say to me.
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I'm not putting the blame on you, after all, it
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You might at least asked me if I had a
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You, Oh well it didn't.
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Those outdoor types they go to pieces them.
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Are you pulling out over the.
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Just outside on Virgin River the West.
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Uh huh?
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And did I mention the interesting the result of erosions?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yes, and it's authentic too, say Hamlin's ranch in a
working ranch. Yes, you see that way you get into
the spirit. My job was to see the chickens, and
that's how I met him. One of the Butte Oh Sam,
he's a very culture gentleman.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Culture smasher. What's he doing for a living? He's sure, Sam,
You don't say. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Charlie Shank, Charlie.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
He's the founder of the Shank Institute of Articulative Correction,
which I should.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Learn articulative correction. Where is this institute?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, I have the address here General Delivery, Butte, Montana.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah. Sure. He didn't have him break parole.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh no, oh no no.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
We just went on long walks together where to all
different places is inter like, like Wolf Canyon. He invited
me on this championship but trip honorable, of course, but
I couldn't go on to kind of my sunburnl awful, awful.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
She'll got it to see. And then then he went
back to Butte. He had to leave him such a herr.
Didn't even say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It was a pity too, because an old friend he
hadn't seen in years came looking for him just a
few minutes later with a warrant. No, he was an
attendant in a nearby hospital.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Metal.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, yes, very intelligent. He read me some of his poetry.
Maybe you've heard it.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and do
wait a.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Minute, doesn't have the rubiyat of omer Cayenne was written
by a guy named Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Of course that's his name.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Quite offend, yes, but he paid his debt to society.
And the other time it was a bad beef. He
told me all about it.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He cried on my shoulder afterwards.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Sweetheart, when you make a mistake, it's a.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Beauty same nothing happened.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Well, I'm glad he cures you of sammering anyhow, ready,
Oh yeah, life goes on.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I got a brand new notebook, sam I'll just turn
over a newly not a bad idea date July eighteen too,
mister Alex M.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Young. Try that again, mister Alex mu Young Blood po
Box three one seven, San Francisco from Samuel Stately number one.
He sent five nine SIXPERI, missy young Blood, I need
a vacation myself.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
You need Charlie Jay.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Time. Fortunately, until I met you, my only experience that
any of the men and women who make your newspapers
run had been with one of your corner newsboys, who
short changed me two times within as many days. I
have not read your rag since, but your name looked imposing,
and so did a three hundred dollars check upon which
you had written it. Hurry your instructions promptly. At four
(05:39):
pm on the fifteenth instant, I much threw the litter
of your city room called a door marked am young Blood, publisher,
managing editor and city editor. I wondered if you were ambitious,
frugal or three men. I did not know that you
had good taste until I saw the prim twentiation with
tooths and the secretary in your author office.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Hello you here, an't you?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Ah? Well, I'm not exactly here. I'm just here to
see mister young Blood.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The name of Spade, Samuel Faith.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Sam except for my most famolent friends.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, my advice to you, Sam is to be the
hasty re treat he's in a foul movie.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Oh why is he blind or older than he fails?
I refer, of course, to your spectacular chime. That's if
I may call you a mess. Please.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
This is neither the time of the place.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
My name is Phyllis Watson and my phone number is
in the directory. If you're really interested, I could be
thank you. And if a man answers telling you're my
French teacher, we you better go in now.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
If you're late to an appointment with him, you're through.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You have any more words of wisdom.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, but I hope you can do something to improve
his state of mind. He's been awful lately.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Good luck, same, Thank you, Phyllis Watson. Come in, Come in,
I'm going to pass forward. You must be the spade.
That's right, you're almost late. Sit down, spade, cigar. No thanks.
Don't expect me to offer a drink. You aren't a drinker.
I hope you don't listen to the radio, do you well?
(07:10):
You will not drink in this office. Nothing here but
the cooler filled with water from a clean, gurgling, laughing
mountain stream. You sound like a reform drunk, mister young blood.
What's that. Well, it was good many years ago. If
you don't mind, I'll just taste up the weather report
for my morning edition before we talk. Oh you do
that too, huh, yes, obviously, and with good reasons. I
(07:32):
remind myself that I was once a copy boy, and
I find it a splendid way to at least once
each day to lower myself to the level of the
working man. There we are a hot to phoenix. I say,
just what do you want to detect it for, mister
young lud I was coming to that spade. Sorry. Now, well, first,
(07:53):
let me warn you that your assignment is a highly
confidential one. They all are, in this case a man's life.
Maybe it's situation. My newspaper, at my ordered, under my guidance,
has launched a campaign against crime, not aimed at the
petty criminal, but at the easy living leeches, at the
controls of the rackets, the hoods and banker's clothing, the
(08:14):
mansion house parasites who direct the pickpockets, the second story men,
the housebreakers who gamble away. I come to you, Yes,
I understand, I understand. You're after the boys on the
safer side of the fences. Nicely puts Pade the long
and short of it is this, The author of the
(08:35):
Expose A series, Ray mccullay, my top crime reporter, has
been missing for two days. I want you to find him.
What makes you think he's still alive? Good? Heaven's spain
ry this you suggested? He isn't Because if I were
a mansion house parasite and danger of being unhoused by
a newshawk, i'd see said newshawks standing in a cement
block on the bottom of the bay. I will accept
(08:56):
that only when no stone has been left unturned, every
straw and every haystack has been searched, every nook and cranny. Yes,
sounds as though you need at least one police force,
mister young Blood. Now why don't you No, no, no, no, impossible.
We've already had a brush with the police over the
explos I'll not be dictated to at this stage of
(09:16):
the game. I started this investigation, now finish it alone.
Well it's a pretty big order, mister young Blood. But
times are tough. I'll see what I can do. Good.
I hereby turn over to you all the resources and
power of this my newspaper. When one of my reporters
is in trouble or danger, Sir, I will spend every
penny at my fortune if necessary to deliver aid and
(09:38):
sucker to his side. O. You then gave me Ray
mccully's expose stories to date. I saw why you, his
family and friends, and his creditors could have been worried
about it. They were hot. One followed a stolen car
(09:58):
from the time of the high through the alteration of
the body, colored fire brands, license number, motors, serial number,
but the pimate was shoved onto a used car lot.
They named names all the way through, and another did
the same with the firm of Otter, Badger and Mole,
Purians and the ledged manufacturers of coats from clouted pelts.
Ray McCully had dropped out of sight right after that
(10:21):
story had been published, so I left your office hoping
that I had reached the address of Otter, Badger and
Mole before closing time. I did. The plushy showroom was
occupied by a dozen attractive fur bearing models female but wax.
The live models male were wearing padded shoulders, pointed shoes,
and coats tailored for under arm artillery. They would have
(10:43):
looked more natural at Madame Fossad's waxworks burnt from the
burglar section. Are you hey one?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Let's being something through a little woman?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Where do I find Misterata? You the lore Leo sent
Me's in his office? Come on, Oh wait a minute,
wait a minute, don't crowd me. You see you wouldn't
see the bus on business. Stop nudging me with a
rod and there, Hey you move, okay, okay, here are
your buss. Here's it? Joe here to see you. Leo
(11:10):
send him?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well nudging Mendi, no nudging widdy? Well, well, well, so
Leo's sending him on to see me.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I wonder why if you'll calm his character here out
of my hair, I'll try and tell you sit down
with him. Thanks? You're you and Tom? Yeah, that's why
Leo sent me. A local munk record named Ray McCully
interviewed you. He also interviewed Leo, but I didn't get
printed yet. Leo wants to find him, so do I
How can I help? Well? He walked out of here,
(11:37):
went to his hotel, wrote the story and mailed it in.
That's the last anybody's seen him. Leo was just sort
of hoping that you'd already taken care of him. Not
yet That's all I wanted to know. Nice, that's the moment. Yeah,
Leo's sending you out alone? Why not?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
That's a tough boy. That mccully's got plenty of protection.
That's what you need. What kind of takes you go
along with him?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Who me? You're Woody, aren't you? Now? Look luck, mister Otter.
I don't want to fuck a gift horse in the mouth.
But the way I see it, this is a lone
wolf type caper. Hey, which matter? How do you think
I'm too good for your well, Woody? I wouldn't say
that good.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Set Take care of him, Woody, and don't mix it
up with any of Leo's boys. If he's out to
get that rat McCully, he's our friend.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I was beginning to wonder who Leo was. I'd grabbed
the name off a calendar on the wall. Leo's Vannon's story.
I didn't know whether he was the Leo mister Otter
didn't like, and I hoped I wouldn't find out. The
best way I could think to keep from finding out
was to shake Woody. On the way uptown. I walked
him past four police stations, crossing Market Street. I pushed
him straight into the arms of the traffic gut, who
(12:50):
begged his pardon and let me off of the warning.
At the Blue Bottle Bar and Grill, I gave Joe
the bartend of the Mickey Finn sign, but wood he
liked it. He ordered another, and he said knew a
place on Columbus where the drinks were even better. It
was called Leo's Place. I wanted the fat man anything. Hey, hey,
oh me, I want you to drink. Would you like
this joint? Ayeah, sure, it's fine. When I get anywhere, though,
(13:14):
will really take your way? Serious me, When I go
gun for somebody, I go where I'm least likely to succeed.
You live only, Yes, what do you know about this
guy mcully? You hear the pulls. You say he's a
red Yeah, but he said he's got plenty of profection's
furnishing it. Well, you see there's pool, you know, Foolly,
(13:35):
look at we're just looking. I looked. What I saw
was not disappointing. She was wearing a sim fite black
satin with a plunging neckline and a new look only
in places where it didn't matter. But she's still looking
up like your secretary of Phillis Watson to be out
of place in Leo's place. She didn't stay that long.
(13:56):
She made a bee line through the kitchen with a
rear exit. I made a bee line right AFTERWHI Woody
was breathing down my neck. I started up the rickety
outside stairway at the back of the building. I stopped
the landing and turned around the face. See you later, Woody.
I didn't wait to see if he made it all
(14:17):
the way to the bottom of the stairs. I was
more interested in what was going on at the top.
A door had opened, and Phillip stepped inside. The man
who let her in looked like Ray McCully. Who are
you the name of Spade? I don't know that name.
Your boss hired me to find you. Yeah, can I
(14:38):
talk to you for a minute. Sure, put your.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Hands behind your neck and walk up the slow Okay,
all right, God said, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You're not acting glad to see me. This is a
guy fellas.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yes Alex, hired in this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
There you see. What do you want me to tell,
young blood?
Speaker 10 (15:02):
You're not going to tell anybody any.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
It caught me right behind the ear. The last thing
I saw was that plunging neckline as Phillis rushed forward.
I didn't know whether she was rushing to my rescuer
to gain in a few licks of her own. Five
seconds later, I didn't care the design of a linoleum
slammed up at me. I had just time to wonder why,
of all the people who were looking for Ray mcklly,
I had to find him, and I was out buying
(15:30):
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Speaker 5 (16:50):
I was lying on the floor in a room with
nothing in it but a sink. An army caught a
square of dirty lanoil in and a body. I sagon
of my freight ransom, cold water over my head and
took a closer look. It was Ray McCully. It was
a very dead paceding reporter. He been stabbed clean through
with a long bladed kitchen. I had set on a
handle property of Leo's place and went through his pockets
(17:13):
and his wallet. A press card, a police card, Union card,
and ten genuine Crisp new thousand dollars bills. They gave
me a line on a killer. It was crazy, so
was I. I left it on him too. Folded up
in his best pocket, I found two newspaper clippings, one
from the Chronicle and one from your paper, both weather
reports for the same date. Was very hot in Phoenix,
(17:35):
according to both papers, but according to your weather report,
the temperature in Needles, California was one hundred and thirty
five degrees. That needled me sort did the slip of
paper I found on his shoe, The number nine and
a date had been stamped on it with a rubber stamp.
The date was the same as that of the weather reports.
I turned it over, it said Ruthie's booth manson Bowling Alley.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You're the cigar kid. Corona's a pan of.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Telly Thanks Sion, just shocking.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'll got a nice line of notions.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
No, I mean the dolls, the holly with dolls, you
know for the bed only a dollar plus tax?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Very reasonable?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Say what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Uh? Leo sent me, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Are you going to collect the slips here after?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Well? U not tonight. You see, I'm a sort of
a trouble shooter. Leo's checking up on some of the
numbers that didn't come out right.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
Listen, I'll tell him to his safe. I don't want
any part of.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Those wrong numbers.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
They're scary nuts who bought this one?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Let me see, oh last fairsay of number nine? How
can I forget? He put five hundred dollars and honest,
if he's.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
Been around once, he's been around one hundred times to.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
See if it paid off?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Did it?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Litter Binelli?
Speaker 11 (18:59):
He buy to slip every day and if you ask me,
he's learned a system because he's been winning your knowls dines,
and then a dollar, and then five dollars, and then
when he come in with five number nine, it only
dropped dead?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Did it?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Well?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
What does he left? It? Did quite out?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Look on the chine.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Hey, somebody else was in just this afternoon ride around
the corner on mansion eight ten. Say, maybe that's his
system eight and one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Don't get that up to nine. Hey, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Where are you going to such a run?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Please come back lace.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Small next week?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Are you missus Spinelli?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Please? So that's trouble? Is your husband hom Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
My poor madam? They takes him away.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
He's dead. Oh I'm sorry? How did it happen?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I'm a detective. Maybe I can help you? Recommens? All right,
come on, I said quite a while to gain her confidence,
And after that it took store quite a while to
piece together the grease second grumble of words that poured
out of her. When I got it down in the
(20:23):
form of a statement, I asked her to read it all.
I him statement by Missus Arturo Spinelli.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
All the time he played those numbers, I told him,
I just a bunch of gangsters. They don't let you win.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Then you met this man mccullay, a rite for the newspaper.
My husband says, this man shows him how to win.
He wins and wins. Then he goes to bank and
takes out all our savings. I beg for him not
to do it, but no, no, he what's greedy, and
(21:02):
this macaulay poisoned his mind.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Sure he won.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He brought the.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Money home in his hand, ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I took it while he is sleeping with wine and
gave it to the men.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I tell him all I want is if I wanted.
He tried to tell me we do good. We helped
catch the big gangsters.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I say, we don't want to do so good.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
We get murdered in our beds.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So he says, okay, But if I change mind.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Here is I.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Don't change my mind because already my husband he is
dead as home style. No, I don't change my mind.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
She signed it and I left her alone with agreed.
I wasn't working for you anymore, mister young luddyd. He
hired me to find your reporter, and I had and
I wished I hadn't the rest of it. I did
for myself. You weren't in your office when I got there,
but Phyllis was. I found her behind the city desk,
and he acted dropping tomorrow morning's weather report under the slot.
(22:22):
I grabbed it out of her hand. Oh where's your boss?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh my good.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
We'll talk in his office.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Come on, Sam, I can explain how You're.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Gonna explain Plenty before I'm finished with you. Sin Oh, you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Got to be so rough.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
What's the matter with you, Plenty? I'm stupid. I was
stupid to take this job, and I was stupid to
play at cagy with you. I should have beaten the
story out of it before the trouble started. It's a
little late in the day now, but not too late
to send you up for mcully's murder.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, you're insane, Ray McCully with Honey the only one
who ever tried to help you, and I'm the only
one who can place you in that room.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Not ten minutes before the murder, I told you I
explain my trying to save your own skin. Spinelli was
only one of a half million poor domious that lose
their Nichols and dimes and dollars every day in the
policy racket. Only he had the bad luck to win.
There won't be any more lucky, dead people like him.
If I have to make a patsy out of you
to stop it, he won't.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Stop it, nothing will. Ray talked big and brave, like
you know he's dead.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Yeah, with ten thousand bucks dirty money in his wallet.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I won't let you say things like that. Ray was
an honest reporter, too honest. He thought young Blood meant
what he said about that cleanup campaign.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah he did. He wanted to run this time by himself,
clean up his competition.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
When Ray started collecting material on the numbers racket, he still.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Thought young Blood was on the level. But that was
before he stumbled on to the thing about the weather report.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah, that was unknown the old Dutch schultzmuggs to
add up the stock market quote theations of a cheat.
They knew their customers weren't good enough for arithmetic to
prove it. But who knows how hot it is? And
Phoenix unless.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
They lived there, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Listen. That's how the number game works, sweetheart. The suckers
pick a number from one to ten. See the operators
tally up the slips, and the least popular for that
day has to win. The weather report doesn't have to
pass through the copy desk, and with young Blood tasting
it up with a few strategic corrections, it was easy
to make their winners look as if they were on
the level. But of course you have no way of
knowing that. You only watched them do it day after day.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You know, I couldn't understand why he did those things.
It seems silly, falsifying a weather report, but it didn't
seem as if it could do any hard.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
What did you meet McCully for? I guess your cut
of the ten grand Spinella was killed for?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
How dare you?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I went there to warn him about you kill them.
I don't know you're lying, all right, I'm lying, But
I can prove that Ray was on the level. I've
got the proof right here, the whole story he wrote
on the numbers racket, even.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Naming young Blood as the head of it, his own publisher.
I went there to get it. I was going to
take it to another newspaper.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Why didn't you? I can't tell you that you don't
have to missus. Spinella was confused grief craze. She had
to put the blame on somebody in when she did,
she got her Ravens the only way she thought she could.
She may have been right about that, but she killed
the wrong man.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Why didn't you tell me you knew who killed Ray?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I wanted to give you a chance to tell me yourself.
I'm glad you didn't, and that, mister young Glad is
the crop. I'm sure you appreciate the fact that I
gave the double scoop to your paper. Like Missus Spinelli,
I have my own ideas ad vengeance. The size of
(25:24):
may up your circulation a little, and you can certainly
use a little extra money for your defense. Uh fight away.
Who's Leo? Period? And the report?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
It's Sam?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yes, Ebbie, I thought missus Spinelli killed Ray McCully.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
The vacation helped. You are absolutely correct, Missus Spinelli killed
mister McCully. If you acquired the expression why did she
kill her husband? I was wrong. The vacation didn't help.
You mean she didn't she killed McCully to avenge the
murder of her husband.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You mean mister McCully killed mister Spinelli.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Effie, stop, I'll go mad, oh you need a vacation
thing type that up. The clatter of the keys may
stimulate you to further cerebral activity. I beg your pardon, sir,
rain work, not shoe oh, rainwork.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
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Speaker 1 (26:06):
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Speaker 2 (26:47):
We'll hear you then, and you are absolutely right. The
typing cleared my mind. It's all clear enough.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Set for one thing, will let's clear that up right away.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Why did missus Spinelli chill her husband?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
She did not kill her husband.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
I'm sorry, I'm like, why did mister McCully kill mister Spinelli?
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Kelly did not kill Spinelle McCully.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Oh, Kelly's real name was Killy.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Let's start all over again. This regard everything we said
up until now. Make your mind a complete blank. In
the first place, McCully did not kill Spanelli.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What I said, it was his wife, wasn't it now,
wasn't it?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Sam?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Oh? Stop teasing me?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
What do you look at me like that?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Effy? Mister Spinelli was killed by one of the policy
racket hoods to get back to ten grand he won
on the numbers game.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And how did the money get into Kelly's plot? Colly's
why you done using his alias?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Effy? That was the tip of the song. I mean, look,
missus Spanelli took it to him because she was afraid
her husband might be killed for it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Why didn't they take the money when they killed him?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Because missus Spanelli had already taken it.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Then she did killing go home, Efphy and Syon so
irritable to.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
You, But I thought it was this a long since
I been here, you know, Angel, Angel, You're just tired.
They ocasions have a habit of doing that to you.
After a week or two in the office, she'll be
all rested up again.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'll take it directed though you thought my mind were.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
It's nice to have you back. You look good too,
all tanned and healthier. It's great.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Take my nose is peering well, don't crack at it.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
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