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Barrie is hired by a wealthy woman to be companion to her accident prone husband who keeps almost killing himself.
Original Air Date: January 4, 1955
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Barrie is hired by a wealthy woman to be companion to her accident prone husband who keeps almost killing himself.
Original Air Date: January 4, 1955
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(00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of OldTime Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
is your host, Adam Graham.If you have a common email it to
us Box thirteen a Great Detectors dotNet. Give us a call to eight
nine nine one four seven eight threeand become one of our friends on Facebook,
Facebook dot com Slash Radio Detectives.Today's episode is brought to you by
(00:52):
the support of our listeners. Thankyou so much for your support, and
I specially I want to thank Jamestoday or his contribution, and we'll be
sending along access to our premium site, which we do with all donations of
seven dollars or more. All right, well, now it's time to get
into today's episode of Barry Craig.This is our first nineteen fifty five episode
(01:19):
from January fifth, nineteen fifty five. Here now is Angel of Death.
William Gargans dies as Barry Craig confidentialinvestigator. It's okay to cut a competitor
down a few notches, but nevercut him six feet lower than the souls
(01:42):
of this feat That's no longer faircompetition, folks. Thanks BARI. The
National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan inanother transcribe drama of mystery and adventure with
America's number one detective Barry Craig ConfidentialInvestigator Barry Craig speaking, one way of
(02:17):
landing a client is to fish himout of the river, which exactly how
I commenced my confidential file and acharacter named Richie Stimpson. I jumped with
my shoes on. I found Stimpson'shat before I found Stimpson. Nobody rescues
(02:38):
a hat, so I didn't.When Stimpson finally bobbed into reach, he
promptly stuck one thumb in my eyeand the remaining one in my juggle of
vange. Another thing nobody wants todo is drowned and as strange as embraced.
When his jaw came up flush withthe surface, I landed on it.
(02:59):
He lay quietly on his back,now spouting water from the mouth like
Moby Dick, and I began floatinghim to shore. On shore, the
closest shelter we could find was ajunk dealer's basement store. I stuck Moby
(03:19):
Dick right up against the stove sowe could dry out stand Dad in the
icicles melkbuster. Then I got myshoes off squash. I've been really walking
in canal boats. Rescue a guyfrom drowning. You expect his first speech
to be thank you, but notthis joker my car. He would about
(03:45):
my car. Oh, I'm keepingit as a souvenir of the occasion.
It's a brand new job that thefish will be pleased to know. Betty
close a minute, Buster, that'sclose enough. I want to smell your
breath. M I wasn't drunk gonethrough that guardrail. Get that idea out
of your ahead. Just lousy driving. Huh yeah, yeah, it's coming
(04:11):
back to me. Now what itThat same feeling I've been getting lately,
dopy all of a sudden and theblues, like I'm depressed up here,
something starts fogging up in your head. Yeah yeah, it makes me want
to shut my eyes like I beenon a weekend too. No, I
got to sleep. And do youshut your eyes? I don't know?
(04:35):
Bus day why Confidentially, who areyou Richie Stimpson? Chauffeurd used to be
and now a husband? That's youroccupation? Yeah that is Oh who are
you, Verry Craig? I'm adetective? Well do you know? And
(04:57):
where can I build? You?Feel me? For what the clothes look?
Oh yes, hey, are yousure it wasn't on before? Now
that's what I call lattitude. Orseven two and one half Park Avenue.
Send me the numbers and all rightout of check where Park Avenue? Man,
what's the surprise or your kisser?It's got tenth Avenue on it.
(05:23):
So I moved these seven blocks,so you married east seven blocks My mail
Stimpson, my bill for suit ofclothes and a new pair of shoe and
surprise of surprises. I got aprompt reply in the return mail address these
(05:44):
name on it Simpson with the ParkAvenue address. There was a check in
it, but not exactly for onehundred dollars I had politely requested. Check
had an extra zero on it.One thousand dollars check, signed Natalie Simpson.
I read the short note that camewith it, ar mister Craig,
(06:05):
A small token of my gratitude forthe wonderful thing you did for my husband,
Signed missus Natalie Simpson. There wasa postcript I would very much like
to meet you at your convenience.A thousand bucks was the most elegant persuasion.
I knew information. I'd liked thephone number of a golden angel.
(06:30):
Her name, oh missus Natalie Simpson, four seventy two and a half Park
Avenue. We met at a rendezvousat the Ladies Assistance, not Mine and
out of the way private for membersonly joint call Lee Club Socrates, where
(06:54):
people dined lying down on couches likethe old Roman nobility, the majord hotel
or a toga and the slant eyedwakeresses were all made up to resemble peer
poka. Natalie tried to clear upmy confusion. It's the revival of old
Roman dining habits, Arry, it'sthe newest fair imagine who let miss was
eating to what it should be andwhat's that? Oh well, life's most
(07:16):
gratifying experience, A sheerly exotic andI've said, so kick your shoes off,
lie back on the couch, andLuxuria really enjoy it, Banning,
So tell me, damn you whywe're wallowing here. Oh oh, I
want to talk to you about Listenfor your ex chauffeur and present husband.
(07:36):
It's his unaccountable depressions. You worrya little. Richie's told you about him.
He sounds surprised. Oh I amfor Richie to confide so quickly.
I'm a guy. People right awaycan find him, he says. He
gets quote dorpy all of a sudden, just the bulls becomes a depressed and
(07:59):
then up here in the something startsfucking up unquote. His reflexes go awry,
he loses sense and coordination. I'veseen it happened in time and again.
Will give me an example. Wollenentering my dad brokerage office some weeks
ago, Richie burst through the door, but continued going across the room.
He didn't stop at Dad's dance andread did he continue on to right through
(08:22):
the window? How far did hefall? Two stories? The miracle waz
he landed on a terrace on thetwenty sixth story. Otherwise twenty eight floors
to the sidewalk. Otherwise it horribleday. How do you make I could
go medical, don't call it anunconscious suicide wish, but I won't say
it. What do you say?I say, hand Richie over to a
(08:46):
doctor, but he offended doctors,doctors and the pro who six doctors this
year? What did the last chapsay that Richie's a normal narrati yet he's
accident prone? Accident prone? Thoseare exactly the words the other fellow that
the lay analysts use. So keephim under glass, don't let him roam
around? Now is that practical advice? Maybe done? Now? Beside sympathy,
(09:11):
what do you want of me?I want you to be Richie's man's
things come again. See I've gotmy own theory aboplachy that being. But
he's a cat in a strange alley. You need someone around him if heel
at home with someone who talks hislanguage. Same being a slob like me,
h ippay A thousand dollars of easefor me to chum around with Richie?
(09:35):
Room with him. They didn't runme with him, go up to
ballet's shows, all the things whichhe used to enjoy doing. And for
how long am I samon to hisPythius? One month? One month of
four thousand soul? Can you'll doit? Poor grand I swim underwater to
Siam. And that's how I cameto move over to Park Avenue, But
(10:03):
not without protests from my new foundbuddy. Get your hat and scram out
of here. I do that.I'm unemployed. Hey, who's playing you?
My father in law? I've methim yet. Natalie Natalie so Natalie
hires you to watch over me.Huh, you've got to have wife in
a million. Hey, yeah,what's Natalie paying it? Oh? Me
(10:26):
a thousand a week? Five hundred? What happened to my other five?
I just cut in for it,you would? Yeah, I could use
more, though they're keeping me onshort rations. And if I get stubborn
about my whole thousand, we're notbest friends no more. You run out
of here like a thief. You'reunemployed. Bum okay, okay, partner.
(10:54):
Uh, I'll give you a horse. You're running your five act with
grand decent of you? Hey,what do we do today? Anybody for
the zoo? Zoe my eye?Hey? I know what so do I?
Oh? Hey, you're not amind reader? Your mind rage easy?
(11:15):
The Crescent for less cause, hopeand hope open? What do you
know you are a mind reader?At that? That was the chauffeur turned
blue blood in one of his optimisticmoods. I also got him in his
pessimistic moods, and right on topof breakfast, Hey, the fox coming
(11:41):
up. It's beaten at my eyeballs. You're depressed today. I feel lousy,
boy? How lousy? I feel? Hating the world and yourself.
Yeah, yeah, that's one wayof putting. Hey, you look,
I can't even tie my shoe.Likes hand shaking. Yeah, I like
that, head momo. But thecresent last night, the reflexes all shot.
(12:05):
Who knows about reflexes? How aboutthe whole one arm out straight in
front of him? Huh okay,now what close your eyes so that closed.
Now bring your finger back and touchthe tip of your nose. Touched
the oh double, I jabbed myfigure in my eye. Couldn't find your
(12:26):
own nose? Huh hey what doesthat mean? Well, co ordinations are
way wail. What what does itto me? I asked the doctor?
What if the doctors I've been tappedwith a little hammers x rayed. I've
(12:46):
been laying on couches and talking myselfhorse, talking about what oh anything that
came in my head. Psychiatry.This was about kid days, my old
lady at the time Lefty Louis cameout. We would have put your knife
all the broadness was. And thenabout miss Curran, Miss Current, Yeah,
(13:07):
my teacher four B. I usedto dream about her a lot.
I'm thinking of Marrio when I grewup, so I didn't he all the
time. I was in four bshe was seventy two. Now, no
what I got into doctors? Itried him, Hey, yeah, what
we do today? Huh? We'llstay into ours and play gin leave us
(13:28):
not tempt your replaces. Ritchie hadbeen to doctors, but I hadn't,
So I tried an old friend.He'd rome with my aunt once while serving
his internship. Doctor dingle Spieler,a nice little guy who kept his beard
(13:50):
button in his vest. You willsay he has been to doctors six he's
running the gammuck from cardiography to psychoanalysis, except there was no recommended therapy.
This intology seems to be clear,meaning disorientation, the damage to the nervous
system. Talk to me in English, not great. There either the man
(14:11):
has a detective or nervous disorder,or he is in the cycles. As
simple as that, I mean,medically speaking, a good position. I
should see what bothers. Reggie Stempsonby I a head doctor could do it
by year. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely apple pie for a doctor to
diagnose. Look, apple pie isfor the cook and the kitchen. Okay,
(14:35):
then say easy to diagnose. Thereis perhaps one simple conclusion to come
to speaking for the doctors. Imean, and that is that to add
none of these symptoms you have describedat precisely those times when the doctors examined
him had none of the symptoms atthe time of examination. Yeah, I
need time to figure that one out. Do tell me which brand of medicine
(15:00):
is more apt to be mistaken thenerve suggestionists can be sure, meaning the
head doctor has a bigger margin aboutthe psychic sickness is Is it more experimental
medic it is in a stage ofdevelopment in Richie Stempson is in a stage
of disintegration. Well, thask foryour time. Doc. If I said
(15:22):
I wasn't twice as confused as whenI came in, I'd be lying now
so long. I turned myself overto tenth bat over a peak into Richie
Stempson's background. I look into hiscase history as these science books put it.
I figured on a chat with hisfolks if he had any or his
(15:45):
neighborhood priest. But I found abrother. So lettering on the window of
the fish store read Waldo Stimpson freshFish. I found Waldo in a bloody
apron, chopping away sea monster.Does it look like barracuda. I'll stop
chopping and let's talk about your brother, Richie. Letchie. I got one
(16:07):
word that ends a conversation, inthe word snap. He's been high hatting
him box. That snassy carve isin front of my fish thorn, sits
behind a wheel, smoking as aguy. I'll just sits out there rubbing
it in, rubbing one in.How he's got him? And I ain't.
Oh, answer a question or twofor me? Who was Richie physically
(16:30):
fit? Strong as a bull?He should have seen away broke Toby Dellahandy's
jaw bang one sock? Or washe subject to headaches and accidents? I
don't get you. You ever fallover his own feet, fall down the
stairs, walk into a plate classwindow, Let not on your light bub
(16:51):
huh km of moving around? Itwas two champ basketball player and ice hockey
by the pros. Will hustle himto sign a country, then generally well
coordinated shop eyestight and the rest ofus stop eyesight. You saw the chickney
grab doll for himself. Yeah,upper class nathlete. Oh tell me,
(17:12):
how do you figure he swung man? Oh? There, come, I'm
making out. Ritchie was a carnival. That wasn't a day. He didn't
have a scheme going for himself,shady or strictly legit, both ways,
depending anyway Richie could better himself.Why that was it? Hey, look
you're taking up my time. Igot fished her self. You got a
(17:33):
three pounds iberian herring, Berian herring. H what do you know? I'm
fresh out of him. That ledme to the father, see Lindsey Bernard
broker. I wanted to know howcome the uppercase Bernard? It sanctioned his
(17:55):
daughter's marriage to the family chap Ifound, Bernard. I've seen you behind
the mahogany desk, the size ofa tennis court, cigar in his mouth
almost reached out into the hall tothe elevator. Here her question, Craig
as definite point, But not withme? Why not here? There's no
snobbery in the veins of C.Lindsey Bernard, not a drop of its
(18:18):
air. With a tribe of greatcommoners. Why my father clean sewers,
and his father sold pots and pansalong the Great American Highway. Then you
approved of Richie Simpson er heartily,sir might say, I cheered him up
that middle aisle of the marriage Alder. I favored Ritchie over Byron Fallens been
Yes, Sir, a red bloodedyoung man like Ritchie. Why I have
(18:40):
betted his cause with Natalie. Iam against the rich. In breeding with
the rich very bad for progeny transmitswhite blood cells, offsprings or enemic cuts
My ears a bent. While we'reon this high level talk, a quotation
comes to my head something we usedto reside in school. Mister Bernard from
Shakespeare, who always a pleasure tohis Shakespeare quoted the quotation, Sir,
(19:03):
for me thinks you plead too hard, let us sneer at my veracity.
It could be where you found him, a lowborn peasant, and a minute
ago you with a guy advertising himselfas the great commoner. From Bernard Senior's
(19:25):
office. I drove back to ParkAvenue to resume with Ritchie Stempson. He
had big plans for the evening,a repeat of the Night Before, The
Night Before, the Crescent Burlesque,Gobur and Hoboven. At four seventy two
and a half Park Avenue, Ifound Ritchie already downstairs on the street,
on the sidewalk, a few feetaway from the big front door. Canopy
(19:49):
top hat on him and tails asif he couldn't wait to get going to
hobothn the only thing he was thelast guy I'd want to be seen out
with, not the condition. Hewas then flat on his back with a
seepage of blood dying his clothes red, a crowd of morbid gapers packed around
him, and an ambulance on thepoint of the scene. No, sir,
(20:11):
no date. I couldn't see myselfwatching a girly show with a cought
one. Byproduct of death, youcan be absolutely sure of is a widow's
tears, and naughtily sure wept tearscascading down her until the little chip on
(20:40):
item she was wearing clung to herlike a bathing suit after a dip in
the ocean. Show of grief andthe berief father in law comes harder.
Either it's unmanny to cry or see. Lindsay Barnard was a five data kapper
in the art of self control.The only thing that occurred to him to
do was abused me. Richie diedbecause of your neck Jin's Craig, your
default of duty. You weren't hireto get about making ridiculous inquiries. You
(21:04):
had explicit duties. You were paidto stay with Richie. Never let him
out of your sight. Guy isslater to walk off on outside terrorist eighteen
stories. Up comes a time whenhe does it. There's only one chap
really watching him twenty four hours aday. One chap the angel of death.
(21:27):
A brother of the deceased can usuallymuster a tear or two. Who
death softened you towards your brother Richie? Huh yeah, yeah, I ain't
got no hot feelings now who shesaid it like this year? Look at
them drapes from that Chandelisah, imaginewalking out on him, walking off a
(21:49):
terrorist into space eighteen stories over thesidewalk. Yeah, what a way to
go. You're beautifully coordinative brother,kid with sharp eyes, tight and trained
reflected, Oh oh about that.No, I didn't exactly future the right
dope on Richie that that time hetalked and I sort of left something out,
(22:14):
you do, Yeah, you knowsomething that came back in mind.
You see, Richie, he wasa big one for accidents all the time,
falling down cellars or fire escapes andyour pains here here in the head,
always with the with the wet toweland the ice pack on his bean.
You get me, huh better thanyou think? Tell me something?
(22:36):
What who's paying you to lie tome? And how much you're getting Whose
I am in the way of afew bucks? No harm to nobody?
Why should I pass it up?Because your brother was set up to accidentally
kill himself. I'll be murdered,heard it? How could that be?
(23:00):
Say a push off that terraft?But you don't know that, No,
I don't, but pushed or fell? Either way, it's murder. But
he'd been dopey all the time,tripping over his own feet or yourself told
me that, Yeah, dopie andso far. And I've got an explanation
for that. What drug somebody's beenfeeding Richie? Drugs in this drink and
in this food, Drugs that workhavoc on his reflexes for a time,
(23:23):
then dissipate into the bloodstream so heseems okay during medical examinations. Yeah,
who be heating and drugs? Whooffered you a bribe to suddenly remember that
Ritchie was accident prone? Who wouldnatalie her old man? I only got
(23:48):
a piece of the truth from Laslie. I didn't marry Ritchie, he married
me. What was the blackmail threatthat got you to say yes because my
father showed for heat. That's somethingon your father, some business or regularity.
A father could be liable to prosecutionfor about it. Okay, clam
(24:08):
up and the advice of counsel.I'm content to let the whole story wait
on the autopsy, the one I'mordering to be done immediately to determine the
nature of the drug that got Richiedrowsy and dopey enough to walk off that
terrace into cold face. This onehasn't had time yet to really dissipade into
(24:30):
the bloodstream. Beautiful Never, peopleare all a calm, hiring me as
a cover for the acute operations.I can be hired, baby, but
not bored. Hired but not bored. I'm sure you understand the difference.
You've been to call it. Youhave been listening to William Garden in another
(25:00):
exciting transcribe mystery drama from the Adventuresof Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator to Night's
Story. Angel of Death was writtenby John Robert next week. It's the
strange story of the man who diedby himself, about which Barry Craig has
this to say. We call nextweek's story The Man who Died by Himself,
among other things and corpses. Itdeals with a fortune teller, a
(25:22):
fortune and a beautiful girl, andof course the man who died by himself,
except he wasn't entirely alone. Hehad a killer for company. The
National Broadcasting Company has just brought youan NBC Radio Network production with William Gargan
(25:47):
starring as Barry Craig Confidential Investigator,directed by Arthur Jacobson. Cast included Paul
dubaf, Betty lu Gerson, JackCarroll, and Jack Moyles. Missus John
Lang speaking boy you bet your Lifetonight on the radio Welcome back. Well
(26:17):
today shall kind of reminded me ofthis month's Barry Craig extra, but for
those of you with the app siteor the premium site, we'll be saving
that for next week. But thiswas I think a well told story.
I don't think the um blackmail youknow angle was unpredictable, but still it
(26:41):
was a good way kind of sortingout and getting to the truth, though
not soon enough to save the victim'slife. Though. I think even if
Barrett had discovered the truth while theguy was alive or had evidence of it
because I think out he had somesuspicions. I don't think the guy would
(27:07):
have gone along with it. Hehad to suspect there was something going on
with his nerves and everything. Failingthat, someone was out to get him
and he was greedy, and Ithink he would probably just have kept on
trying to exploit and milk the situation, regardless of the risk. But that's
(27:30):
probably more speculation than anything else onmy part. All right, well,
we do turn to listener comments andfeedback.
Welcome to the Great Detectives of OldTime Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
is your host, Adam Graham.If you have a common email it to
us Box thirteen a Great Detectors dotNet. Give us a call to eight
nine nine one four seven eight threeand become one of our friends on Facebook,
Facebook dot com Slash Radio Detectives.Today's episode is brought to you by
(00:52):
the support of our listeners. Thankyou so much for your support, and
I specially I want to thank Jamestoday or his contribution, and we'll be
sending along access to our premium site, which we do with all donations of
seven dollars or more. All right, well, now it's time to get
into today's episode of Barry Craig.This is our first nineteen fifty five episode
(01:19):
from January fifth, nineteen fifty five. Here now is Angel of Death.
William Gargans dies as Barry Craig confidentialinvestigator. It's okay to cut a competitor
down a few notches, but nevercut him six feet lower than the souls
(01:42):
of this feat That's no longer faircompetition, folks. Thanks BARI. The
National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan inanother transcribe drama of mystery and adventure with
America's number one detective Barry Craig ConfidentialInvestigator Barry Craig speaking, one way of
(02:17):
landing a client is to fish himout of the river, which exactly how
I commenced my confidential file and acharacter named Richie Stimpson. I jumped with
my shoes on. I found Stimpson'shat before I found Stimpson. Nobody rescues
(02:38):
a hat, so I didn't.When Stimpson finally bobbed into reach, he
promptly stuck one thumb in my eyeand the remaining one in my juggle of
vange. Another thing nobody wants todo is drowned and as strange as embraced.
When his jaw came up flush withthe surface, I landed on it.
(02:59):
He lay quietly on his back,now spouting water from the mouth like
Moby Dick, and I began floatinghim to shore. On shore, the
closest shelter we could find was ajunk dealer's basement store. I stuck Moby
(03:19):
Dick right up against the stove sowe could dry out stand Dad in the
icicles melkbuster. Then I got myshoes off squash. I've been really walking
in canal boats. Rescue a guyfrom drowning. You expect his first speech
to be thank you, but notthis joker my car. He would about
(03:45):
my car. Oh, I'm keepingit as a souvenir of the occasion.
It's a brand new job that thefish will be pleased to know. Betty
close a minute, Buster, that'sclose enough. I want to smell your
breath. M I wasn't drunk gonethrough that guardrail. Get that idea out
of your ahead. Just lousy driving. Huh yeah, yeah, it's coming
(04:11):
back to me. Now what itThat same feeling I've been getting lately,
dopy all of a sudden and theblues, like I'm depressed up here,
something starts fogging up in your head. Yeah yeah, it makes me want
to shut my eyes like I beenon a weekend too. No, I
got to sleep. And do youshut your eyes? I don't know?
(04:35):
Bus day why Confidentially, who areyou Richie Stimpson? Chauffeurd used to be
and now a husband? That's youroccupation? Yeah that is Oh who are
you, Verry Craig? I'm adetective? Well do you know? And
(04:57):
where can I build? You?Feel me? For what the clothes look?
Oh yes, hey, are yousure it wasn't on before? Now
that's what I call lattitude. Orseven two and one half Park Avenue.
Send me the numbers and all rightout of check where Park Avenue? Man,
what's the surprise or your kisser?It's got tenth Avenue on it.
(05:23):
So I moved these seven blocks,so you married east seven blocks My mail
Stimpson, my bill for suit ofclothes and a new pair of shoe and
surprise of surprises. I got aprompt reply in the return mail address these
(05:44):
name on it Simpson with the ParkAvenue address. There was a check in
it, but not exactly for onehundred dollars I had politely requested. Check
had an extra zero on it.One thousand dollars check, signed Natalie Simpson.
I read the short note that camewith it, ar mister Craig,
(06:05):
A small token of my gratitude forthe wonderful thing you did for my husband,
Signed missus Natalie Simpson. There wasa postcript I would very much like
to meet you at your convenience.A thousand bucks was the most elegant persuasion.
I knew information. I'd liked thephone number of a golden angel.
(06:30):
Her name, oh missus Natalie Simpson, four seventy two and a half Park
Avenue. We met at a rendezvousat the Ladies Assistance, not Mine and
out of the way private for membersonly joint call Lee Club Socrates, where
(06:54):
people dined lying down on couches likethe old Roman nobility, the majord hotel
or a toga and the slant eyedwakeresses were all made up to resemble peer
poka. Natalie tried to clear upmy confusion. It's the revival of old
Roman dining habits, Arry, it'sthe newest fair imagine who let miss was
eating to what it should be andwhat's that? Oh well, life's most
(07:16):
gratifying experience, A sheerly exotic andI've said, so kick your shoes off,
lie back on the couch, andLuxuria really enjoy it, Banning,
So tell me, damn you whywe're wallowing here. Oh oh, I
want to talk to you about Listenfor your ex chauffeur and present husband.
(07:36):
It's his unaccountable depressions. You worrya little. Richie's told you about him.
He sounds surprised. Oh I amfor Richie to confide so quickly.
I'm a guy. People right awaycan find him, he says. He
gets quote dorpy all of a sudden, just the bulls becomes a depressed and
(07:59):
then up here in the something startsfucking up unquote. His reflexes go awry,
he loses sense and coordination. I'veseen it happened in time and again.
Will give me an example. Wollenentering my dad brokerage office some weeks
ago, Richie burst through the door, but continued going across the room.
He didn't stop at Dad's dance andread did he continue on to right through
(08:22):
the window? How far did hefall? Two stories? The miracle waz
he landed on a terrace on thetwenty sixth story. Otherwise twenty eight floors
to the sidewalk. Otherwise it horribleday. How do you make I could
go medical, don't call it anunconscious suicide wish, but I won't say
it. What do you say?I say, hand Richie over to a
(08:46):
doctor, but he offended doctors,doctors and the pro who six doctors this
year? What did the last chapsay that Richie's a normal narrati yet he's
accident prone? Accident prone? Thoseare exactly the words the other fellow that
the lay analysts use. So keephim under glass, don't let him roam
around? Now is that practical advice? Maybe done? Now? Beside sympathy,
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what do you want of me?I want you to be Richie's man's
things come again. See I've gotmy own theory aboplachy that being. But
he's a cat in a strange alley. You need someone around him if heel
at home with someone who talks hislanguage. Same being a slob like me,
h ippay A thousand dollars of easefor me to chum around with Richie?
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Room with him. They didn't runme with him, go up to
ballet's shows, all the things whichhe used to enjoy doing. And for
how long am I samon to hisPythius? One month? One month of
four thousand soul? Can you'll doit? Poor grand I swim underwater to
Siam. And that's how I cameto move over to Park Avenue, But
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not without protests from my new foundbuddy. Get your hat and scram out
of here. I do that.I'm unemployed. Hey, who's playing you?
My father in law? I've methim yet. Natalie Natalie so Natalie
hires you to watch over me.Huh, you've got to have wife in
a million. Hey, yeah,what's Natalie paying it? Oh? Me
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a thousand a week? Five hundred? What happened to my other five?
I just cut in for it,you would? Yeah, I could use
more, though they're keeping me onshort rations. And if I get stubborn
about my whole thousand, we're notbest friends no more. You run out
of here like a thief. You'reunemployed. Bum okay, okay, partner.
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Uh, I'll give you a horse. You're running your five act with
grand decent of you? Hey,what do we do today? Anybody for
the zoo? Zoe my eye?Hey? I know what so do I?
Oh? Hey, you're not amind reader? Your mind rage easy?
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The Crescent for less cause, hopeand hope open? What do you
know you are a mind reader?At that? That was the chauffeur turned
blue blood in one of his optimisticmoods. I also got him in his
pessimistic moods, and right on topof breakfast, Hey, the fox coming
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up. It's beaten at my eyeballs. You're depressed today. I feel lousy,
boy? How lousy? I feel? Hating the world and yourself.
Yeah, yeah, that's one wayof putting. Hey, you look,
I can't even tie my shoe.Likes hand shaking. Yeah, I like
that, head momo. But thecresent last night, the reflexes all shot.
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Who knows about reflexes? How aboutthe whole one arm out straight in
front of him? Huh okay,now what close your eyes so that closed.
Now bring your finger back and touchthe tip of your nose. Touched
the oh double, I jabbed myfigure in my eye. Couldn't find your
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own nose? Huh hey what doesthat mean? Well, co ordinations are
way wail. What what does itto me? I asked the doctor?
What if the doctors I've been tappedwith a little hammers x rayed. I've
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been laying on couches and talking myselfhorse, talking about what oh anything that
came in my head. Psychiatry.This was about kid days, my old
lady at the time Lefty Louis cameout. We would have put your knife
all the broadness was. And thenabout miss Curran, Miss Current, Yeah,
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my teacher four B. I usedto dream about her a lot.
I'm thinking of Marrio when I grewup, so I didn't he all the
time. I was in four bshe was seventy two. Now, no
what I got into doctors? Itried him, Hey, yeah, what
we do today? Huh? We'llstay into ours and play gin leave us
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not tempt your replaces. Ritchie hadbeen to doctors, but I hadn't,
So I tried an old friend.He'd rome with my aunt once while serving
his internship. Doctor dingle Spieler,a nice little guy who kept his beard
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button in his vest. You willsay he has been to doctors six he's
running the gammuck from cardiography to psychoanalysis, except there was no recommended therapy.
This intology seems to be clear,meaning disorientation, the damage to the nervous
system. Talk to me in English, not great. There either the man
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has a detective or nervous disorder,or he is in the cycles. As
simple as that, I mean,medically speaking, a good position. I
should see what bothers. Reggie Stempsonby I a head doctor could do it
by year. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely apple pie for a doctor to
diagnose. Look, apple pie isfor the cook and the kitchen. Okay,
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then say easy to diagnose. Thereis perhaps one simple conclusion to come
to speaking for the doctors. Imean, and that is that to add
none of these symptoms you have describedat precisely those times when the doctors examined
him had none of the symptoms atthe time of examination. Yeah, I
need time to figure that one out. Do tell me which brand of medicine
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is more apt to be mistaken thenerve suggestionists can be sure, meaning the
head doctor has a bigger margin aboutthe psychic sickness is Is it more experimental
medic it is in a stage ofdevelopment in Richie Stempson is in a stage
of disintegration. Well, thask foryour time. Doc. If I said
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I wasn't twice as confused as whenI came in, I'd be lying now
so long. I turned myself overto tenth bat over a peak into Richie
Stempson's background. I look into hiscase history as these science books put it.
I figured on a chat with hisfolks if he had any or his
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neighborhood priest. But I found abrother. So lettering on the window of
the fish store read Waldo Stimpson freshFish. I found Waldo in a bloody
apron, chopping away sea monster.Does it look like barracuda. I'll stop
chopping and let's talk about your brother, Richie. Letchie. I got one
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word that ends a conversation, inthe word snap. He's been high hatting
him box. That snassy carve isin front of my fish thorn, sits
behind a wheel, smoking as aguy. I'll just sits out there rubbing
it in, rubbing one in.How he's got him? And I ain't.
Oh, answer a question or twofor me? Who was Richie physically
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fit? Strong as a bull?He should have seen away broke Toby Dellahandy's
jaw bang one sock? Or washe subject to headaches and accidents? I
don't get you. You ever fallover his own feet, fall down the
stairs, walk into a plate classwindow, Let not on your light bub
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huh km of moving around? Itwas two champ basketball player and ice hockey
by the pros. Will hustle himto sign a country, then generally well
coordinated shop eyestight and the rest ofus stop eyesight. You saw the chickney
grab doll for himself. Yeah,upper class nathlete. Oh tell me,
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how do you figure he swung man? Oh? There, come, I'm
making out. Ritchie was a carnival. That wasn't a day. He didn't
have a scheme going for himself,shady or strictly legit, both ways,
depending anyway Richie could better himself.Why that was it? Hey, look
you're taking up my time. Igot fished her self. You got a
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three pounds iberian herring, Berian herring. H what do you know? I'm
fresh out of him. That ledme to the father, see Lindsey Bernard
broker. I wanted to know howcome the uppercase Bernard? It sanctioned his
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daughter's marriage to the family chap Ifound, Bernard. I've seen you behind
the mahogany desk, the size ofa tennis court, cigar in his mouth
almost reached out into the hall tothe elevator. Here her question, Craig
as definite point, But not withme? Why not here? There's no
snobbery in the veins of C.Lindsey Bernard, not a drop of its
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air. With a tribe of greatcommoners. Why my father clean sewers,
and his father sold pots and pansalong the Great American Highway. Then you
approved of Richie Simpson er heartily,sir might say, I cheered him up
that middle aisle of the marriage Alder. I favored Ritchie over Byron Fallens been
Yes, Sir, a red bloodedyoung man like Ritchie. Why I have
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betted his cause with Natalie. Iam against the rich. In breeding with
the rich very bad for progeny transmitswhite blood cells, offsprings or enemic cuts
My ears a bent. While we'reon this high level talk, a quotation
comes to my head something we usedto reside in school. Mister Bernard from
Shakespeare, who always a pleasure tohis Shakespeare quoted the quotation, Sir,
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for me thinks you plead too hard, let us sneer at my veracity.
It could be where you found him, a lowborn peasant, and a minute
ago you with a guy advertising himselfas the great commoner. From Bernard Senior's
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office. I drove back to ParkAvenue to resume with Ritchie Stempson. He
had big plans for the evening,a repeat of the Night Before, The
Night Before, the Crescent Burlesque,Gobur and Hoboven. At four seventy two
and a half Park Avenue, Ifound Ritchie already downstairs on the street,
on the sidewalk, a few feetaway from the big front door. Canopy
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top hat on him and tails asif he couldn't wait to get going to
hobothn the only thing he was thelast guy I'd want to be seen out
with, not the condition. Hewas then flat on his back with a
seepage of blood dying his clothes red, a crowd of morbid gapers packed around
him, and an ambulance on thepoint of the scene. No, sir,
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no date. I couldn't see myselfwatching a girly show with a cought
one. Byproduct of death, youcan be absolutely sure of is a widow's
tears, and naughtily sure wept tearscascading down her until the little chip on
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item she was wearing clung to herlike a bathing suit after a dip in
the ocean. Show of grief andthe berief father in law comes harder.
Either it's unmanny to cry or see. Lindsay Barnard was a five data kapper
in the art of self control.The only thing that occurred to him to
do was abused me. Richie diedbecause of your neck Jin's Craig, your
default of duty. You weren't hireto get about making ridiculous inquiries. You
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had explicit duties. You were paidto stay with Richie. Never let him
out of your sight. Guy isslater to walk off on outside terrorist eighteen
stories. Up comes a time whenhe does it. There's only one chap
really watching him twenty four hours aday. One chap the angel of death.
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A brother of the deceased can usuallymuster a tear or two. Who
death softened you towards your brother Richie? Huh yeah, yeah, I ain't
got no hot feelings now who shesaid it like this year? Look at
them drapes from that Chandelisah, imaginewalking out on him, walking off a
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terrorist into space eighteen stories over thesidewalk. Yeah, what a way to
go. You're beautifully coordinative brother,kid with sharp eyes, tight and trained
reflected, Oh oh about that.No, I didn't exactly future the right
dope on Richie that that time hetalked and I sort of left something out,
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you do, Yeah, you knowsomething that came back in mind.
You see, Richie, he wasa big one for accidents all the time,
falling down cellars or fire escapes andyour pains here here in the head,
always with the with the wet toweland the ice pack on his bean.
You get me, huh better thanyou think? Tell me something?
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What who's paying you to lie tome? And how much you're getting Whose
I am in the way of afew bucks? No harm to nobody?
Why should I pass it up?Because your brother was set up to accidentally
kill himself. I'll be murdered,heard it? How could that be?
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Say a push off that terraft?But you don't know that, No,
I don't, but pushed or fell? Either way, it's murder. But
he'd been dopey all the time,tripping over his own feet or yourself told
me that, Yeah, dopie andso far. And I've got an explanation
for that. What drug somebody's beenfeeding Richie? Drugs in this drink and
in this food, Drugs that workhavoc on his reflexes for a time,
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then dissipate into the bloodstream so heseems okay during medical examinations. Yeah,
who be heating and drugs? Whooffered you a bribe to suddenly remember that
Ritchie was accident prone? Who wouldnatalie her old man? I only got
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a piece of the truth from Laslie. I didn't marry Ritchie, he married
me. What was the blackmail threatthat got you to say yes because my
father showed for heat. That's somethingon your father, some business or regularity.
A father could be liable to prosecutionfor about it. Okay, clam
(24:08):
up and the advice of counsel.I'm content to let the whole story wait
on the autopsy, the one I'mordering to be done immediately to determine the
nature of the drug that got Richiedrowsy and dopey enough to walk off that
terrace into cold face. This onehasn't had time yet to really dissipade into
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the bloodstream. Beautiful Never, peopleare all a calm, hiring me as
a cover for the acute operations.I can be hired, baby, but
not bored. Hired but not bored. I'm sure you understand the difference.
You've been to call it. Youhave been listening to William Garden in another
(25:00):
exciting transcribe mystery drama from the Adventuresof Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator to Night's
Story. Angel of Death was writtenby John Robert next week. It's the
strange story of the man who diedby himself, about which Barry Craig has
this to say. We call nextweek's story The Man who Died by Himself,
among other things and corpses. Itdeals with a fortune teller, a
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fortune and a beautiful girl, andof course the man who died by himself,
except he wasn't entirely alone. Hehad a killer for company. The
National Broadcasting Company has just brought youan NBC Radio Network production with William Gargan
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starring as Barry Craig Confidential Investigator,directed by Arthur Jacobson. Cast included Paul
dubaf, Betty lu Gerson, JackCarroll, and Jack Moyles. Missus John
Lang speaking boy you bet your Lifetonight on the radio Welcome back. Well
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today shall kind of reminded me ofthis month's Barry Craig extra, but for
those of you with the app siteor the premium site, we'll be saving
that for next week. But thiswas I think a well told story.
I don't think the um blackmail youknow angle was unpredictable, but still it
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was a good way kind of sortingout and getting to the truth, though
not soon enough to save the victim'slife. Though. I think even if
Barrett had discovered the truth while theguy was alive or had evidence of it
because I think out he had somesuspicions. I don't think the guy would
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have gone along with it. Hehad to suspect there was something going on
with his nerves and everything. Failingthat, someone was out to get him
and he was greedy, and Ithink he would probably just have kept on
trying to exploit and milk the situation, regardless of the risk. But that's
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probably more speculation than anything else onmy part. All right, well,
we do turn to listener comments andfeedback.
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