October 13, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Uncle Frank.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Joe, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm fine, Uncle Frank. How are you wanna.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Get some all right? Joe?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Very nice of you to come and see me.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, I've meant to drop in, I know, for some
time now, but I've been busy with my apartment building
out of repairs to take care of, you know, and
I have to do most of the work myself.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, repairs expensive aren't very.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well the labor on him is.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That's why I have to do most of my own work.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And Joe, I like you, but you're very subtle. I
know you want my money. You probably need it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One of these days, son, we'll have it, maybe sooner
than you.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Nuncle Frank, know what you say, Joe, What are you
doing with that gun?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's pretty obvious, isn't it, pointing it at you?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Joe, put down that gun.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Put it down.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Uh No, you said I'd get your money sooner than
I thought. I'm getting it sooner than you thought you did.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Joe.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You know you can't get away with murder.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But I know I can, Uncle Frank. I've planned this
much too perfectly for it to be anything less than
a perfect crime. No one saw me coming, Uncle Frank,
no one and no one will see me leave.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Ivery so, but the police will find out you are
my only living relative, my sole heir, the only person
in the world to benefit by my dead I'm going
to tell them that myself as soon as they come
to you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Don't dare.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If you did, they'd.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Ask you where you were at this time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They'd say, Joe, where were you at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon?
And you won't be able to answer that without going
to the chair.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, you're very funny, uncle Frank. But I've already
taken care of you, and I'm going to take care
of you right now.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
And now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those
who have no friend.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's been three days since the murder of Frank Wilson,
three days, three whole days. And what have you done
to catch Wilson kill her? Nothing? Absolutely nothing. But we've
done all we can so far, Commissioner Blake. We know
who killed Frank Wilson, his nephew, Joe Parker. And we're
looking for Parker now, and we'll guess it's parody.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
We've located Joe Parker.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He's a disaddress ronins Let me have that and get
me a squad cat quick, well, Commissioner Blake, just watch me. Now,
I'm gonna grab Parker, prove he killed Wilson, and then
sit back and let you congratulate me.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Mm hmmm. Hello, Aunt Margaret Lecky.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Who's come in?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm nice of you to call black. You haven't seen
you all week.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I've been busy, Aunt Margaret, Say you're looking well? How
do you feel?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
I'm fine thanks to those sleeping tablets that doctor James
gave me.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, I'm glad to hear it. Say I've got good
news for you.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh no, no, don't tell you. Found an apartment for me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I have and in my building, too, lacky, how wonderful?
See it? Before you say that?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
You see who's at.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
The door of Blacking Sure if it's the newsboy's money,
it's on the table.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
There by the joy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh, yes, I see it. Yes, you wants to Faraday, Blankie,
what are you doing here? When you think of a
better question, I'll think of an answer to it. What's old?
Inspect then old, I'll old you if you bother.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Me in this case, step upside Blanky Oh, Carol, let's
bring packer in. Stick around, Blankie. He wants me solve
a merdicase.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And three it's likes Friday. But I won't be able
to wait. I only have a couple of hours to
spare by it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Uh, lady, I haven't inspected Faraday at the place you
Margaret Cooper, Yeah, good, miss Cooper. Do you know this man?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, Joe Parker.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
What else do you know about him?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, he lives to me at the half of his house.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And if he's my lund though, Uh, well, you know
that on Tuesday this week, in fact, Tuesday afternoon, at
three o'clock, he killed a man. No, yes, but he
says he was here in your apartment all day Tuesday,
fixing the plumbing in your kitchen.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Wait, it's a matter of fact you was. I'm quite certain,
Inspector Saturday. You see, Tuesday is today Tilly Blaine comes
to clean, and uh, Tilly was here when mister Parker
was here.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
He was fixing the plumbing.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, I guess this is all you want with me, inspect.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You're stay right away to our Parker till me up. Lankey,
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What happens if I don't want to listen.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
You'll listen and you like it. Come on over here.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Thanks for telling him, Cooper, you said.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Least, what do you want? Friday?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Look, Blackie, I know Joe Parker is give could dismiss
Cooper be lying.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh no, Friday. One thing I know Aunt Margaret wouldn't
do was lye and she doesn't scarily in case you
think Parker may have threatened her.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Blackie, believe me. Parker killed Wilson. I know it. He
killed Wilson Tuesday afternoon. That's definite.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But you heard what Aunt Margaret said.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yes, I heard what she said. You're a big help. Alright, Rollins,
we'll have to release Parker. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Pressure leavings those soon and inspector, Yes, don't you leave
tart Parker.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Sorry to follow you, Miss Cooper.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh that's of course, alright?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Sor right lighty uh wait a minute, Friday, I'll go
with you, Aunt Margaret. That apartment in the Sunset Towers
will be ready for you to look at tomorrow, Mary,
and I'll call for you about two tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
All right, Blackie, good bye?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Why thanks Ms Cooper. I'd be in jail now for
a murder if you hadn't told the inspector I was
here all day Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I told him that because you were here all day.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I wouldn't lie, mister Parker, not even to send you
to prision. You see, I hate lying even more than
I hate you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
As still a Gland's house nineteen iron straight. Wanna come
in with him to marry?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Well? I think a better Blackie. Chilly may be a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm seeing her because she cleans Aunt Margaret's apartment. That'll
make Tuesday happy, now overjoyed.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
But I'll go with you. Just things all right?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Wait, I'll get out your side. Okay.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
You know I.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Certainly wind up in some queer places.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
If you're Blackie, I know how your life can be
made normal again.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Oh just a minute, that was a common not a complaint,
telling I'm staying with your.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Hey, what achill?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
He's not home?
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Then?
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Wait, head, don't cheer his home? Brutan decision matter?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Who how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Uh shuh sign? I think I'm smart. Things like that
all times. Yeah, I'd like to speak to Tilly blame ways,
I'm her. May we come in.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't know what you want.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
We'll tell her here, black Hem, I won't have.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
To go in the lan's tech knowledge is the fellow
genius at Tilly. Do you clean house from Margaret Cooper?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Sure, I clean house form miss Cooper every Tuesday. Been
doing cleaning from miss Cooper every Tuesday for years.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
What did you clean house for a last Tuesday?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Well, sure, lady, you cleaned house fromss Cooper all day
last Tuesday, like always.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh? Well, tell me was anyone else in this Cooper's
apartment while you were there?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Sure that U?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Mister Parker was there. Fellow owns the building. He helped
me up with all the mess you made fixing the pipes.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
In the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I see? And how long was Parker there?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You're there when I came to start cleaning. That was
nine o'clock on Tuesday mornings. Is there on the left
of the cleaning done? That was after five.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
O'clock Tuesday afternoon? I see?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh, well, too bad, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Too bad, too too bad? Unless they were two tuesdays
this week.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Hey, Diana, nice of you to drop in on the Babieswell.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Surprise glad to see me.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uh, I'll show you.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh, Joe don't squeeze me so hard.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'm sorry, baby, It's just that I feel good tonight.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I guess mm, you certainly do. What are you so
pipped up of that?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I got a right to the baby? I'm driving him crazy?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Driving who crazy?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The cops Hm, they know I killed Uncle Frank and
on Tuesday too, but.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They can't prove it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Why not, Joe, Honey, that's one thing I won't even
tell you. How would you like to name Diana Larson
on an apartment door at the Sunset Tallis?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Are you kidding? Can you get me an apartment at
the town Way?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm going, Honey? There wasn't anything I can't get you.
If you're going down there, baby, you'll get that apartment
if you ask for it.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Night.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Oh, I'll last prett nice alright, But what's that grin
on your face for it?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Grin?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
It's kind of as you see you getting that apartment's
gonna be a laugh on Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Blackie, Miss Cooper, This is Tom Bradley, the Superintendent of
Sunset Tarz. Tom MS Cooper and Tom you know miss Wesley? God?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, sure, how are you Miss Wesley?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Tom? This Cooper's here to see about that apartment you
said would be available today.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'm afraid I got bad news for your black kid.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's already rented. What look, Tom, you told me he
was saving that apartment for me. You promised you would.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, I didn't know, Blackie. If you will think back,
you remember I told you I wouldn't tell anybody about
it till after you'd had a chance to take it.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And why is it already rented?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
When somebody came in yesterday afternoon and asked to see it, so.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I had to show and you didn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Mister Bradley nor miss Wesley not a soul.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I've got an idea.
Who rented that apartment ahead of us black kids? Joe Parker.
He heard me tell you about it yesterday, h Tom.
Was the apartment here runted by a tall, dark fellow
wearing glasses saw black. It was rented by a small
blond girl wearing a smile as she said, her name
was Diana black Well.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I've seen her picture in the paper. Is Diana Larson.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Diana Larson Blackie.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
She's singing on the stage of the Garden.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Theater at the Garden, Eh Well, let's go down to
the garden and see if we can take up a clue.
Tell you where's Diana Larson's pressing room?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right? Tell her there, mister it and if you
want to see it, you'd have to hire her. She
goes on stage in a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Thanks, come on, Mary.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Oh no, I think I'll just wonder on backstage, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Do you considered I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yes, And don't think I'm not surprised you're going to
leave me alone with a lovely lady.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh but the doorman said that. She goes on in
a minute. Okay, Dowding, I'll see you any gain else.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, hello Diana Lawson.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, I got back then? Why yet? But I go
on the stage in a moment.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'll keep you only a moment, all right.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Am I supposed to know who you are?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I dot it. I'm Boston Blackie, Boston Blackie.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Why are you sure you're looking for me?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yes? You runt in an apartments fifty one cents at
Parkway yesterday. I'd like to find out how you happen
to know that apartment was vacant.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't think that's any of your business.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That shows how wrong you are eh, the picture of
that fellow in classes, Miss loss in the picture on
your dressing table that your boyfriend.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Maybe yes, maybe no?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Want me to take my choice? Huh, I'll let's see
what he's written on it. It's the baby who do
you love?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
So? So?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Joe Parker asked you a question, but he gave me
the answer, the answer to how you got that Towers apartment.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And now back to Boston.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Blackie police are sure Joe Parker killed his uncle Frank
Wilson on a Tuesday afternoon. The police can't arrest Joe
because Margaret Cooper, a respected citizen and aunt of Boston Blackie,
insists that he was in her apartment all day the
day of the murder. A cleaning woman, Tillie Blaine, also
(12:40):
strengthens Parker's alibi. The next day, unable to make any
headway with the case, Blackie and Mary take Miss Cooper
to the superintendent of Blackie's building to see an apartment
that his vacant, but they learned the apartment as already
rented to a Miss Diana Larson, girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Of Joe Parker.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
As we return to our story, Inspector Parady is in
his office.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Rons Hey Rollins. Yes, anywhere from the lab on those
Wilson case reparts. Well, hurry, I'm up. We gotta get
some proof against that guy Parker.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The core of its center, the realm of the uninformed.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Flankye, you stay out of my office. I've got an
ansalt murder on my hands, not scramp blankey before I
take it out on you Faturday.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Why don't you be smart about it and let me
beat this case for you.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You couldn't beat a drum for me. I listened, Blankie.
I've had just about enough of you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, you don't know much. Do you know I haven't
come anywhere near giving my all.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, whatever it is, it's all I can take.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Rowins, What are you.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Standing there for? I told you to get out of here,
you Rowins. Somebody better get out of here.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Thursday, I've got an announcement to make. You're about to
go to work for me, me work for you.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That'll be the day.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, then it's the day. Listen. I just got this
wire from someone in Kansas City who knows who killed Wilson.
It says, if you'll meet me in the Scranton Hotel
here Saturday night, I'll tell you who killed Frank Wilson.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Hey, let me look at that wife who sign it?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's unsigned Friday, even you can tell that. Look give
me a letter of introduction to the chief of police
in Kansas City, saying I am okay, will you I
need his help? You think I'm crazy leading question, Friday.
Try it some time when I'm not asking you for a.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Favor, nothing doing. If you go to Kansas City, you're
go on your own. If you ask me, you're going
out there on a wild goose chase.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Maybe so, but so far in this case, you've wound
up with a big goose.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Sake, Doctor James, I thought you'd never get here.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I came as soon as I could, mister Parker. I'm
awfully busy on Monday. What's the matter with miss Cooper?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
She won't wake up.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I was worried when I couldn't reach him on the phone,
so I came down to her apartment.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Here.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You must have taken too many sleeping tablets, dock, because
she's been sleeping since Saturday nights and here it is Monday.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Mmm, have a look, Candy. I wander against taking too
many sleeping tablets. I had to wake on her.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Up, Miss Cooper.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Doctor do you think.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
She she's sleeping a lot of deeply, isn't she?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (15:09):
But her breathing is normal enough, Miss Cooper.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I tried shaking her a little while ago. It didn't
do any good.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
It's done some good. She seems to be coming out
of it, Miss Cooper. I m Miss Cooper, wake up?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Oh my?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Who's oh?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Doctor James? What are you doing here?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
What?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
You've been asleep, Miss s Cooper for a long time?
It's Monday morning?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
What Monday?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
It was Saturday night?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
What's he doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Parker?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
He called me when he couldn't get you on the
telephone and then couldn't wake you when he's investigated.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Oh well, I'm uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I alarmed you, doctor, Uh, and you too, Mr Parker.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm glad you're all right.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
I'll be going, Miss Cooper, say, Sunday is the day
of r but you certainly overdid it?
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And good afternoon, Blackie? Hello Mary? Oh, I'm fine.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
I hope you didn't try to get me on the
phone yesterday though, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I slept all day long, but.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
As a matter of fact, I wasn't even in time yesterday.
I flew to Kansas City the night before to see
a little man who wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Blackie got a telegram saying a man would meet him
in Kansas City and tell him who.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Killed mister Wilson.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
But the man didn't show up.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Obviously somebody was trying to get me out of town
over Sunday and did a good job of it. Two said,
do you mind if I turned on your radio and I
want to hear the news.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Oh, I'm sorry, Blackie. My radio doesn't work. It hasn't
worked since last Monday.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Let me take a look, Anna, What do you know
about fixing radios.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Nothing. I didn't ask to fix it. I just asked
to look at it.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Sometimes if you shake these things, takes say there's something
something loose inside it. Let us see what. Hey, Hey,
one of these tubes is out of the socket and
one of this radio doesn't worry.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Tube is out.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Well.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I don't see how this could have happened.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't either where those things are put in and
couldn't have fallen out? And yeah, put it back in place.
Let's see if your radio works.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Now, well, it lights up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I want to do that.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Before it just wouldn't play.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Uh well, I have a hunch it's gonna play now
Markley and.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Me and baby makes three.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Hey, it's because the radio works.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We're just gen aunt, Margaret. I think somebody tampered with
your radio so it wouldn't work after Monday night. Look
at Margaret. This is just a shot and the jock.
But the police are convinced Joe killed his uncle Frank
last Tuesday afternoon, and I'm convinced of it too. Are
you sure he was here last Tuesday?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Well, yes, Blackie, all day long. I I know it
was Tuesday. Tilly was here to clean until he comes
here every Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But you didn't listen to the radio Tuesday, did you.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I tried to, but I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The radio wouldn't work, No, because somebody didn't want it
to work. And that's somebody is Joe Parker. You're sure
it was Tuesday that Joe Parker and Tilly Blaine were here?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
What are you driving at, Blackie? But of course it
was Tuesday. I wouldn't have told the police it was
tuesdays it hadn't been Tuesday. I'm sure it was Tuesday.
I always get milk on Tuesdays. The milk was on
the doorstep, as it always is Tuesday mornings, and the
Tuesday paper.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well that doesn't mean much. Somebody could have put the
milk in the paper there any day, Aunt Margaret. Something
tells me Joe Parker and Tilly Blaine weren't here Tuesday
at all. Now, what do you remember about the other
days last week?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Well, not too much, Blackie. Every day's pretty much the
same to an old wor. All I remember is that
Tilly was here on Tuesday, the police were here a
few days later.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And then when I went to sleep Saturday night, it
was raining.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
And Margaret, did you say it was raining when you
went to sleep Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
That's impossible.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Well, you wouldn't know this, black Day because you were
out of town.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
But it didn't rain Saturday night. It rained Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It didn't rain Saturday night.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
No, But you did I remember when I went to
bed it was raining. Well, Aunt Margaret, if it was
raining when you went to bed, then you went to
bed Sunday night, not Saturday.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
But that's impossible. I slept all day Sunday.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Wait a minute, this is on the way we explaining everything.
And Margaret, how do you know you slept all day Sunday?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Because doctor James was here to wake me up.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Mister Parker was alarmed when I slept so long and
called the doctor.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Uh huh. So nobody but Parker really knows how long
you slept. And Margaret, you didn't sleep over Sunday. You
went to bed Sunday night thinking it was Saturday.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
But no, Blackie, No, why would I think it was
Saturday night when it was really Sunday.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Because Parker arranged it that way. You slept the whole
day but it wasn't Sunday. I'm betting that Tilly Blaine
was here, not on Tuesday, but on Wednesday, and Joe
Parker was here fixing the plumbing. Not on Tuesday, the
day of the murder, but Wednesday. No black Yes, sad, Margaret,
you slept all day Tuesday. Joe Parker probably fixed it.
So you took an overdose of sleeping tablets Monday night
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to see to it that you did sleep through Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Wait, but why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Why? Because he planned his murder of Frank Wilson for Tuesday,
and he also planned on using us an alibi. Who
told you what day it was when you woke up
on what was really Wednesday morning?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Wait?
Speaker 7 (20:47):
No one, I I just thought it was Tuesday because
Tilly was here when I woke up. See Tuesday newspaper
was outside and the mill.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I'll be simple to arrange that. And Parker was here too.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yes, he woke me up, pausing on the pipes he
was fixing in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thanks Sam, Margaret, don't tell Parker what we've been talking about.
Just now? Why Mary? All right, we're going to see
Tilly Blaine. I'm gonna make that scrub woman help her
clean up this case. You didn't go to miss Cooper's
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apartment Tuesday, did you? Telly?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I told you I did. I always go to her
apartment on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
But last week he went on Wednesday, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
No, it went on Tuesday, said Joe.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Parker told me it was Wednesday, and that he paid
you to say it was Tuesday. He did, yes, And
I guess there's nothing I can do for you. If
you insist upon lying, I'm gonna have to turn you
over the police.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
The police, what.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
For implication of the murder of Frank Wilson. You're helping
alibi Joe Parker who killed him, and you'll be trying
for murder two of them.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yes, Tilly, murder.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Well, now wait a minute, I don't I want no
part of murdering anybody.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I didn't murder anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I cleaned for miss Cooper on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Mister Parker told me to, and he paid me to
tell anybody.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
You asked that it cleaned on two, Oh Blackie.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That proves your theory.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yesn't approved. Joe Parker murder Wilson too, and on Tuesday,
just as the police say, did Tilly? Will you tell
the police what you just told me?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
But I don't want any truck with the police.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Don't worry, Tilly. You'll go free after you've had your
truck with the police, and the police will send their
wagon for Joe Parker.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All right, Packer, we know the whole story, So start
talking till he told us most of what we wanted
to know.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yes, Parker, and my how she can talk. We know
you were free to kill your uncle on Tuesday because
it was Wednesday, not Tuesday, isn't you Until he spent
in this Cooper's apartment. Yeah, yeah, you gave her an
overdose of sleeping tablets on Monday, woke her up Wednesday morning,
but told her it was Tuesday. You went Tuesday's bottle
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of milk to prove it, Tuesday's papers to prove it,
to be blamed the prove it, and you fixed the
radio to keep your plan from going wrong. You made
only one mistake, Parker. You forgot to consult the weather man.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Did I Yeah, and let me have the pleasure of
telling him about that blanking Sure? Sure, okay, Packer, Do
you try to fix it so miss Cooper would be
straight on her days again. She went to sleep on
what she thought was Saturday night, only it was Sunday night.
When you woke her up. You told her she'd slept
all day Sunday and now it was Monday. That set
hers straight on the days.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
A little rain threw the whole thing up.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
But it was very cute, I thought so, And it
almost worked, didn't it? Sure had you guys running around
in Turcos, and I mixed that, man, my good days,
didn't that?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yes? You should, didn't, Parker? And maybe Aunt Margaret's days
were mixed up? Too, but your days are numbered, s
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Sh
Hello, Uncle Frank.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Joe, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm fine, Uncle Frank. How are you wanna.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Get some all right? Joe?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Very nice of you to come and see me.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, I've meant to drop in, I know, for some
time now, but I've been busy with my apartment building
out of repairs to take care of, you know, and
I have to do most of the work myself.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, repairs expensive aren't very.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well the labor on him is.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That's why I have to do most of my own work.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And Joe, I like you, but you're very subtle. I
know you want my money. You probably need it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One of these days, son, we'll have it, maybe sooner
than you.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Nuncle Frank, know what you say, Joe, What are you
doing with that gun?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's pretty obvious, isn't it, pointing it at you?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Joe, put down that gun.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Put it down.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Uh No, you said I'd get your money sooner than
I thought. I'm getting it sooner than you thought you did.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Joe.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You know you can't get away with murder.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But I know I can, Uncle Frank. I've planned this
much too perfectly for it to be anything less than
a perfect crime. No one saw me coming, Uncle Frank,
no one and no one will see me leave.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Ivery so, but the police will find out you are
my only living relative, my sole heir, the only person
in the world to benefit by my dead I'm going
to tell them that myself as soon as they come
to you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Don't dare.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If you did, they'd.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Ask you where you were at this time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They'd say, Joe, where were you at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon?
And you won't be able to answer that without going
to the chair.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, you're very funny, uncle Frank. But I've already
taken care of you, and I'm going to take care
of you right now.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
And now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those
who have no friend.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's been three days since the murder of Frank Wilson,
three days, three whole days. And what have you done
to catch Wilson kill her? Nothing? Absolutely nothing. But we've
done all we can so far, Commissioner Blake. We know
who killed Frank Wilson, his nephew, Joe Parker. And we're
looking for Parker now, and we'll guess it's parody.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
We've located Joe Parker.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He's a disaddress ronins Let me have that and get
me a squad cat quick, well, Commissioner Blake, just watch me. Now,
I'm gonna grab Parker, prove he killed Wilson, and then
sit back and let you congratulate me.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Mm hmmm. Hello, Aunt Margaret Lecky.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Who's come in?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm nice of you to call black. You haven't seen
you all week.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I've been busy, Aunt Margaret, Say you're looking well? How
do you feel?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
I'm fine thanks to those sleeping tablets that doctor James
gave me.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, I'm glad to hear it. Say I've got good
news for you.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh no, no, don't tell you. Found an apartment for me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I have and in my building, too, lacky, how wonderful?
See it? Before you say that?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
You see who's at.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
The door of Blacking Sure if it's the newsboy's money,
it's on the table.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
There by the joy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh, yes, I see it. Yes, you wants to Faraday, Blankie,
what are you doing here? When you think of a
better question, I'll think of an answer to it. What's old?
Inspect then old, I'll old you if you bother.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Me in this case, step upside Blanky Oh, Carol, let's
bring packer in. Stick around, Blankie. He wants me solve
a merdicase.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And three it's likes Friday. But I won't be able
to wait. I only have a couple of hours to
spare by it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Uh, lady, I haven't inspected Faraday at the place you
Margaret Cooper, Yeah, good, miss Cooper. Do you know this man?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, Joe Parker.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
What else do you know about him?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, he lives to me at the half of his house.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And if he's my lund though, Uh, well, you know
that on Tuesday this week, in fact, Tuesday afternoon, at
three o'clock, he killed a man. No, yes, but he
says he was here in your apartment all day Tuesday,
fixing the plumbing in your kitchen.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Wait, it's a matter of fact you was. I'm quite certain,
Inspector Saturday. You see, Tuesday is today Tilly Blaine comes
to clean, and uh, Tilly was here when mister Parker
was here.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
He was fixing the plumbing.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, I guess this is all you want with me, inspect.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You're stay right away to our Parker till me up. Lankey,
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What happens if I don't want to listen.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
You'll listen and you like it. Come on over here.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Thanks for telling him, Cooper, you said.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Least, what do you want? Friday?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Look, Blackie, I know Joe Parker is give could dismiss
Cooper be lying.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh no, Friday. One thing I know Aunt Margaret wouldn't
do was lye and she doesn't scarily in case you
think Parker may have threatened her.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Blackie, believe me. Parker killed Wilson. I know it. He
killed Wilson Tuesday afternoon. That's definite.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But you heard what Aunt Margaret said.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yes, I heard what she said. You're a big help. Alright, Rollins,
we'll have to release Parker. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Pressure leavings those soon and inspector, Yes, don't you leave
tart Parker.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Sorry to follow you, Miss Cooper.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh that's of course, alright?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Sor right lighty uh wait a minute, Friday, I'll go
with you, Aunt Margaret. That apartment in the Sunset Towers
will be ready for you to look at tomorrow, Mary,
and I'll call for you about two tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
All right, Blackie, good bye?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Why thanks Ms Cooper. I'd be in jail now for
a murder if you hadn't told the inspector I was
here all day Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I told him that because you were here all day.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I wouldn't lie, mister Parker, not even to send you
to prision. You see, I hate lying even more than
I hate you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
As still a Gland's house nineteen iron straight. Wanna come
in with him to marry?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Well? I think a better Blackie. Chilly may be a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm seeing her because she cleans Aunt Margaret's apartment. That'll
make Tuesday happy, now overjoyed.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
But I'll go with you. Just things all right?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Wait, I'll get out your side. Okay.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
You know I.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Certainly wind up in some queer places.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
If you're Blackie, I know how your life can be
made normal again.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Oh just a minute, that was a common not a complaint,
telling I'm staying with your.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Hey, what achill?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
He's not home?
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Then?
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Wait, head, don't cheer his home? Brutan decision matter?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Who how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Uh shuh sign? I think I'm smart. Things like that
all times. Yeah, I'd like to speak to Tilly blame ways,
I'm her. May we come in.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't know what you want.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
We'll tell her here, black Hem, I won't have.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
To go in the lan's tech knowledge is the fellow
genius at Tilly. Do you clean house from Margaret Cooper?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Sure, I clean house form miss Cooper every Tuesday. Been
doing cleaning from miss Cooper every Tuesday for years.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
What did you clean house for a last Tuesday?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Well, sure, lady, you cleaned house fromss Cooper all day
last Tuesday, like always.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh? Well, tell me was anyone else in this Cooper's
apartment while you were there?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Sure that U?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Mister Parker was there. Fellow owns the building. He helped
me up with all the mess you made fixing the pipes.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
In the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I see? And how long was Parker there?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You're there when I came to start cleaning. That was
nine o'clock on Tuesday mornings. Is there on the left
of the cleaning done? That was after five.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
O'clock Tuesday afternoon? I see?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh, well, too bad, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Too bad, too too bad? Unless they were two tuesdays
this week.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Hey, Diana, nice of you to drop in on the Babieswell.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Surprise glad to see me.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uh, I'll show you.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh, Joe don't squeeze me so hard.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'm sorry, baby, It's just that I feel good tonight.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I guess mm, you certainly do. What are you so
pipped up of that?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I got a right to the baby? I'm driving him crazy?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Driving who crazy?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The cops Hm, they know I killed Uncle Frank and
on Tuesday too, but.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They can't prove it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Why not, Joe, Honey, that's one thing I won't even
tell you. How would you like to name Diana Larson
on an apartment door at the Sunset Tallis?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Are you kidding? Can you get me an apartment at
the town Way?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm going, Honey? There wasn't anything I can't get you.
If you're going down there, baby, you'll get that apartment
if you ask for it.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Night.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Oh, I'll last prett nice alright, But what's that grin
on your face for it?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Grin?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
It's kind of as you see you getting that apartment's
gonna be a laugh on Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Blackie, Miss Cooper, This is Tom Bradley, the Superintendent of
Sunset Tarz. Tom MS Cooper and Tom you know miss Wesley? God?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, sure, how are you Miss Wesley?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Tom? This Cooper's here to see about that apartment you
said would be available today.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'm afraid I got bad news for your black kid.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's already rented. What look, Tom, you told me he
was saving that apartment for me. You promised you would.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, I didn't know, Blackie. If you will think back,
you remember I told you I wouldn't tell anybody about
it till after you'd had a chance to take it.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And why is it already rented?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
When somebody came in yesterday afternoon and asked to see it, so.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I had to show and you didn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Mister Bradley nor miss Wesley not a soul.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I've got an idea.
Who rented that apartment ahead of us black kids? Joe Parker.
He heard me tell you about it yesterday, h Tom.
Was the apartment here runted by a tall, dark fellow
wearing glasses saw black. It was rented by a small
blond girl wearing a smile as she said, her name
was Diana black Well.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I've seen her picture in the paper. Is Diana Larson.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Diana Larson Blackie.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
She's singing on the stage of the Garden.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Theater at the Garden, Eh Well, let's go down to
the garden and see if we can take up a clue.
Tell you where's Diana Larson's pressing room?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right? Tell her there, mister it and if you
want to see it, you'd have to hire her. She
goes on stage in a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Thanks, come on, Mary.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Oh no, I think I'll just wonder on backstage, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Do you considered I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yes, And don't think I'm not surprised you're going to
leave me alone with a lovely lady.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh but the doorman said that. She goes on in
a minute. Okay, Dowding, I'll see you any gain else.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, hello Diana Lawson.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, I got back then? Why yet? But I go
on the stage in a moment.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'll keep you only a moment, all right.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Am I supposed to know who you are?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I dot it. I'm Boston Blackie, Boston Blackie.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Why are you sure you're looking for me?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yes? You runt in an apartments fifty one cents at
Parkway yesterday. I'd like to find out how you happen
to know that apartment was vacant.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't think that's any of your business.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That shows how wrong you are eh, the picture of
that fellow in classes, Miss loss in the picture on
your dressing table that your boyfriend.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Maybe yes, maybe no?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Want me to take my choice? Huh, I'll let's see
what he's written on it. It's the baby who do
you love?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
So? So?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Joe Parker asked you a question, but he gave me
the answer, the answer to how you got that Towers apartment.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And now back to Boston.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Blackie police are sure Joe Parker killed his uncle Frank
Wilson on a Tuesday afternoon. The police can't arrest Joe
because Margaret Cooper, a respected citizen and aunt of Boston Blackie,
insists that he was in her apartment all day the
day of the murder. A cleaning woman, Tillie Blaine, also
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strengthens Parker's alibi. The next day, unable to make any
headway with the case, Blackie and Mary take Miss Cooper
to the superintendent of Blackie's building to see an apartment
that his vacant, but they learned the apartment as already
rented to a Miss Diana Larson, girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Of Joe Parker.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
As we return to our story, Inspector Parady is in
his office.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Rons Hey Rollins. Yes, anywhere from the lab on those
Wilson case reparts. Well, hurry, I'm up. We gotta get
some proof against that guy Parker.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The core of its center, the realm of the uninformed.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Flankye, you stay out of my office. I've got an
ansalt murder on my hands, not scramp blankey before I
take it out on you Faturday.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Why don't you be smart about it and let me
beat this case for you.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You couldn't beat a drum for me. I listened, Blankie.
I've had just about enough of you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, you don't know much. Do you know I haven't
come anywhere near giving my all.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, whatever it is, it's all I can take.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Rowins, What are you.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Standing there for? I told you to get out of here,
you Rowins. Somebody better get out of here.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Thursday, I've got an announcement to make. You're about to
go to work for me, me work for you.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That'll be the day.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, then it's the day. Listen. I just got this
wire from someone in Kansas City who knows who killed Wilson.
It says, if you'll meet me in the Scranton Hotel
here Saturday night, I'll tell you who killed Frank Wilson.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Hey, let me look at that wife who sign it?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's unsigned Friday, even you can tell that. Look give
me a letter of introduction to the chief of police
in Kansas City, saying I am okay, will you I
need his help? You think I'm crazy leading question, Friday.
Try it some time when I'm not asking you for a.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Favor, nothing doing. If you go to Kansas City, you're
go on your own. If you ask me, you're going
out there on a wild goose chase.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Maybe so, but so far in this case, you've wound
up with a big goose.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Sake, Doctor James, I thought you'd never get here.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I came as soon as I could, mister Parker. I'm
awfully busy on Monday. What's the matter with miss Cooper?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
She won't wake up.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I was worried when I couldn't reach him on the phone,
so I came down to her apartment.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Here.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You must have taken too many sleeping tablets, dock, because
she's been sleeping since Saturday nights and here it is Monday.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Mmm, have a look, Candy. I wander against taking too
many sleeping tablets. I had to wake on her.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Up, Miss Cooper.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Doctor do you think.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
She she's sleeping a lot of deeply, isn't she?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (15:09):
But her breathing is normal enough, Miss Cooper.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I tried shaking her a little while ago. It didn't
do any good.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
It's done some good. She seems to be coming out
of it, Miss Cooper. I m Miss Cooper, wake up?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Oh my?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Who's oh?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Doctor James? What are you doing here?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
What?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
You've been asleep, Miss s Cooper for a long time?
It's Monday morning?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
What Monday?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
It was Saturday night?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
What's he doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Parker?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
He called me when he couldn't get you on the
telephone and then couldn't wake you when he's investigated.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Oh well, I'm uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I alarmed you, doctor, Uh, and you too, Mr Parker.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm glad you're all right.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
I'll be going, Miss Cooper, say, Sunday is the day
of r but you certainly overdid it?
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And good afternoon, Blackie? Hello Mary? Oh, I'm fine.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
I hope you didn't try to get me on the
phone yesterday though, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I slept all day long, but.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
As a matter of fact, I wasn't even in time yesterday.
I flew to Kansas City the night before to see
a little man who wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Blackie got a telegram saying a man would meet him
in Kansas City and tell him who.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Killed mister Wilson.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
But the man didn't show up.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Obviously somebody was trying to get me out of town
over Sunday and did a good job of it. Two said,
do you mind if I turned on your radio and I
want to hear the news.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Oh, I'm sorry, Blackie. My radio doesn't work. It hasn't
worked since last Monday.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Let me take a look, Anna, What do you know
about fixing radios.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Nothing. I didn't ask to fix it. I just asked
to look at it.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Sometimes if you shake these things, takes say there's something
something loose inside it. Let us see what. Hey, Hey,
one of these tubes is out of the socket and
one of this radio doesn't worry.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Tube is out.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Well.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I don't see how this could have happened.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't either where those things are put in and
couldn't have fallen out? And yeah, put it back in place.
Let's see if your radio works.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Now, well, it lights up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I want to do that.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Before it just wouldn't play.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Uh well, I have a hunch it's gonna play now
Markley and.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Me and baby makes three.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Hey, it's because the radio works.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We're just gen aunt, Margaret. I think somebody tampered with
your radio so it wouldn't work after Monday night. Look
at Margaret. This is just a shot and the jock.
But the police are convinced Joe killed his uncle Frank
last Tuesday afternoon, and I'm convinced of it too. Are
you sure he was here last Tuesday?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Well, yes, Blackie, all day long. I I know it
was Tuesday. Tilly was here to clean until he comes
here every Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But you didn't listen to the radio Tuesday, did you.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I tried to, but I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The radio wouldn't work, No, because somebody didn't want it
to work. And that's somebody is Joe Parker. You're sure
it was Tuesday that Joe Parker and Tilly Blaine were here?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
What are you driving at, Blackie? But of course it
was Tuesday. I wouldn't have told the police it was
tuesdays it hadn't been Tuesday. I'm sure it was Tuesday.
I always get milk on Tuesdays. The milk was on
the doorstep, as it always is Tuesday mornings, and the
Tuesday paper.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well that doesn't mean much. Somebody could have put the
milk in the paper there any day, Aunt Margaret. Something
tells me Joe Parker and Tilly Blaine weren't here Tuesday
at all. Now, what do you remember about the other
days last week?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Well, not too much, Blackie. Every day's pretty much the
same to an old wor. All I remember is that
Tilly was here on Tuesday, the police were here a
few days later.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And then when I went to sleep Saturday night, it
was raining.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
And Margaret, did you say it was raining when you
went to sleep Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
That's impossible.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Well, you wouldn't know this, black Day because you were
out of town.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
But it didn't rain Saturday night. It rained Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It didn't rain Saturday night.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
No, But you did I remember when I went to
bed it was raining. Well, Aunt Margaret, if it was
raining when you went to bed, then you went to
bed Sunday night, not Saturday.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
But that's impossible. I slept all day Sunday.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Wait a minute, this is on the way we explaining everything.
And Margaret, how do you know you slept all day Sunday?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Because doctor James was here to wake me up.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Mister Parker was alarmed when I slept so long and
called the doctor.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Uh huh. So nobody but Parker really knows how long
you slept. And Margaret, you didn't sleep over Sunday. You
went to bed Sunday night thinking it was Saturday.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
But no, Blackie, No, why would I think it was
Saturday night when it was really Sunday.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Because Parker arranged it that way. You slept the whole
day but it wasn't Sunday. I'm betting that Tilly Blaine
was here, not on Tuesday, but on Wednesday, and Joe
Parker was here fixing the plumbing. Not on Tuesday, the
day of the murder, but Wednesday. No black Yes, sad, Margaret,
you slept all day Tuesday. Joe Parker probably fixed it.
So you took an overdose of sleeping tablets Monday night
(20:32):
to see to it that you did sleep through Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Wait, but why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Why? Because he planned his murder of Frank Wilson for Tuesday,
and he also planned on using us an alibi. Who
told you what day it was when you woke up
on what was really Wednesday morning?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Wait?
Speaker 7 (20:47):
No one, I I just thought it was Tuesday because
Tilly was here when I woke up. See Tuesday newspaper
was outside and the mill.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I'll be simple to arrange that. And Parker was here too.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yes, he woke me up, pausing on the pipes he
was fixing in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thanks Sam, Margaret, don't tell Parker what we've been talking about.
Just now? Why Mary? All right, we're going to see
Tilly Blaine. I'm gonna make that scrub woman help her
clean up this case. You didn't go to miss Cooper's
(21:26):
apartment Tuesday, did you? Telly?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I told you I did. I always go to her
apartment on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
But last week he went on Wednesday, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
No, it went on Tuesday, said Joe.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Parker told me it was Wednesday, and that he paid
you to say it was Tuesday. He did, yes, And
I guess there's nothing I can do for you. If
you insist upon lying, I'm gonna have to turn you
over the police.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
The police, what.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
For implication of the murder of Frank Wilson. You're helping
alibi Joe Parker who killed him, and you'll be trying
for murder two of them.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yes, Tilly, murder.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Well, now wait a minute, I don't I want no
part of murdering anybody.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I didn't murder anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I cleaned for miss Cooper on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Mister Parker told me to, and he paid me to
tell anybody.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
You asked that it cleaned on two, Oh Blackie.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That proves your theory.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yesn't approved. Joe Parker murder Wilson too, and on Tuesday,
just as the police say, did Tilly? Will you tell
the police what you just told me?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
But I don't want any truck with the police.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Don't worry, Tilly. You'll go free after you've had your
truck with the police, and the police will send their
wagon for Joe Parker.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All right, Packer, we know the whole story, So start
talking till he told us most of what we wanted
to know.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yes, Parker, and my how she can talk. We know
you were free to kill your uncle on Tuesday because
it was Wednesday, not Tuesday, isn't you Until he spent
in this Cooper's apartment. Yeah, yeah, you gave her an
overdose of sleeping tablets on Monday, woke her up Wednesday morning,
but told her it was Tuesday. You went Tuesday's bottle
(23:05):
of milk to prove it, Tuesday's papers to prove it,
to be blamed the prove it, and you fixed the
radio to keep your plan from going wrong. You made
only one mistake, Parker. You forgot to consult the weather man.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Did I Yeah, and let me have the pleasure of
telling him about that blanking Sure? Sure, okay, Packer, Do
you try to fix it so miss Cooper would be
straight on her days again. She went to sleep on
what she thought was Saturday night, only it was Sunday night.
When you woke her up. You told her she'd slept
all day Sunday and now it was Monday. That set
hers straight on the days.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
A little rain threw the whole thing up.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
But it was very cute, I thought so, And it
almost worked, didn't it? Sure had you guys running around
in Turcos, and I mixed that, man, my good days,
didn't that?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yes? You should, didn't, Parker? And maybe Aunt Margaret's days
were mixed up? Too, but your days are numbered, s
Speaker 7 (25:49):
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