October 20, 2025 • 28 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a reformed thief turned detective, solving crimes with wit and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
I don't see what you're complaining about, John, Oh yet don't?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, who owns this punch up?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Paul?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You me, both of us were both to you and
all that. Okay, then from now when I signed checks
the same as you do. Oh wait a minute, John,
you're getting your share of the props, aren't you? So
you say only I don't trust you, I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hello, Wait a minute, this is anybody on here?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hello? Is this Blame?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? What do you want?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I want to speak to Paul Blame? Please?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
H you don't care who you speak to? Do you?
Just a minute? Just foray you here? Thanks? Hello?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hello Paul Blaine.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, this is part of Blackie.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You wanted me to call you?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, and uh, I'm sorry about the way
my brother spoke you on the phone. We're having a
little argument.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's all right. What do you want, Blaine?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'd like to see you. It's important. And well, could
you get down here this afternoon? Well I don't know, no, Look,
you gotta come. It's awfully important, all right, Blaine.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'll be there about three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, three o'clock. Thanks, goodbye? And what kind of a
team you've got cooking with Blackie, Paul. That's my own business.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Look, John, I don't want no more trouble with you
or no where you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Wait a minute, John, don't leave.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Stop worrying about my leaving, But just stop worrying if
I come back.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie, enemy
to those who make him in that m friend to
those who have no friend.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh that's the porn chef. We want two dolls down, Mary.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Oh yeah, why did Paul Blaine want to you, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know, Mary, That's what I've come down here
to find out.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Well, that being the case, let's go in and find out.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Here we are. Oh, good afternoon, Good afternoon. Are you
Paul Blaine?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes I am. You must be Boston Blackie. Yes, this
is Mary Wesley.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do you do well? Here?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Right on time? Blackie? You said you'd be here at three,
and it's well two minutes or three right now.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm generally on time, Blaine. What do you want to
see me a man?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, that's this, Blackie. I made a loan of a
thousand dollars in a diamond yesterday and this morning I
found out it's stolen property.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Oh that's bad, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's very bad, Miss Wesley. It means I may lose
my thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, what do you want me to do about a plane?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, I thought you'd take the diamond to the insurance
company that carries a policy on it and make a
deal so I could get my mond.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh well, I suppose I could do that, But why
can't you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
They'd have no reason to bargain with me. They'd know
i'd have to turn in the diamond to the police.
And well, I was hoping it wouldn't be too much.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Trouble for you to.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Blackie's so used to trouble. He's lonesome without it. Quiet
marry all right, but I like that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's what I like, modesty. All right, Blaine, I'll take
the diamond all.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The thanks, thanks a lot. Here, I have it here
in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay, Blaine. You'll hear from me tomorrow about what time, Blackie,
Same time as now, three o'clock. Come on, Mary?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh, okay, three tomorrow, Blade, goodbye and.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Thanks, goodbye, and don't mention it. Let's wait here for
cad Mary.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
All right, Blackie, will you be able to get mister
gwent thousand dollars back.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I think so, Mary, all I have that was a
shot and inside the store too. Come on, Plaine Plaine,
what oh there is Blacky Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh, it looks like he's dead.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Mary. He has to be dead unless he was wearing
a bulletproof hut.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
But who could have I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But whoever it was, it was probably out the back
way by Now. Well, here we go again. I guess
I had better call Faraday.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
No, Dine, no, please don't call Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You didn't have anything to do with this, but Faraday
will never believe you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
All right, Mary, I guess the best way for us
to stay out of this is to get out of here.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Hey, Rollins, Rolins, come in my office, you, inspect What
about some action on the murder of Paul Playing.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The porn program? Inspector, that hasn't been a thing developed.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Just a minute, Faraday speaking, Inspector, got a little.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
News for you. You want to know who killed Paul Playing?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Don't you sure? Do you know who did it?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well? I know who was in a store about the
time he got boxed.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh, friend of yours, Boston Blackie, A friend of it fucked? Hello? Hello,
what was it? Inspector?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Some guy who says Boston Blackie was at the scene
of Paul Blain's murder.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hey, that's exactly what you want, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It should be, but it isn't.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
This is one time I don't think Blackie's involved, And besides,
I waste too much time chasing that guy.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Anyway, Gee, Inspector.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You must be sick. Maybe that call was a straight.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Tip I darted.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Besides, I got a line on Blain's killer. Yeah, who,
never mind who? But Blain sent a certain guy to
prison about five years ago. Last week that certain guy
got out of prison. I think he killed Blaine for revenge.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Could be inspected, but I'd still like to have a
look around Blackie's apartment.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Go ahead, waste your time anywhere you want, But I
bet I find a real killer before you find anything
on Boston Blackie.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Harry, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Nothing, nothing?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Something is honey? You seem more offully upset? What is
the matter?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You read the paper you brought me, read the headline.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I don't remember what they said, though.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Oh let me refresh your memory just a little. Mm Yeah, listen,
to this headline. Huh cops looking for ex convict and
Blaine murder.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Oh, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh I'm an ex cohn remember that?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yes, of course, darling, you got out of jail. Let's
see it was last Uh that what day was it?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's Friday?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Oh yeah, that's right. But doing what does this have
to do with you?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
And then there's mister Blaine's murder.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Well, Blaine sent me to prison. Now the cops are
trying to tie me up with his murder.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Oh mm uh.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Paper says Blaine was knocked off at three o'clock yesterday.
If I could just remember where I was, then I don't.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You know where you were, Harry?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You were with me?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, but where we weren't anywhere? We were
out walking, that's all.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Oh, yes, that's right. Where were we walking?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Not exactly downtown somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Mm.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
No, I've got to keep you out of this. I
think I know what I'm gonna do. Well, I'm gonna
see a fellow named Boston Blackie. He helps guys like me.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Well, you can't leave here if the police are looking
for you, Harry. I've met Blackie's friend, Mary Wesley. I
know her.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I'll get her to help me, and she'll get Blackie
to help you.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now, Helen, please, can't you remember where you and Harry
were and at least above what time?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
No, Mary, I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
All I know.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Is is that we were out walking. Yes, but where, dear?
Just downtown. That's the big hill.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Look, Paul Blaine was murdered at three o'clock in a
shop on seventy first Street.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Were you on seventy first Street around three o'clock? Well?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
No, oh gosh, I'm beginning to sound by Blackie.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Mary, I don't know where we were.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I started out to see a man about fixing my coat.
I think I have his address here in my purse. Oh, well,
it might be something, oh dear, Oh yes, here's his address,
twentieth Street. All right, now, you think you were on
twentieth Street?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yes, down there somewhere, But I don't know. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, what's that other card in your purse?
Where which one? Oh? Yes, let's see.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Oh, yes, I remember a sidewalk photographer took our picture
and gave us this check yesterday, Yes, while we're out
walking yesterday afternoon. Well, as Blackie might say, when I
show him this. It's a nice photograph. Let's hope it
doesn't result in any negative development.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Speaking Inspector Faraday, this is Rawlins.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I'm calling from Blackie's apartment and guess what I found.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Guess guess what? Am I a guest star?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
A diamond?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, this diamonds.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is one of the things which should have been
in poor Blaine's porn shop.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, and that means maybe Blackie was well, he he
might have.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
What are you talking about? Well, you see, uh I
got it.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Blankie slipped up behind you and has a gun in
your back. Huh Sam cough you are I'll just put
Blackie on the phone.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Sure, hear Blackie. He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thanks Royland, and don't go away yet, Okay, hello, inspect
them Blankie?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
What is that diamond from Blaine's pawn shop doing in
your apartment?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's all very simple, Inspector, but it'll sound complicated to you.
Blaine gave it to me. Oh yeah, when at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, three o'clock.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
That's when we think he was killed. And I gotta
tip you where there when it happened? Only I didn't
believe it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Why not? I was there a few minutes before and
after the murder?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Why and you didn't report it?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, Faraday? And you know why too. It meant getting
mixed up in this, which is something I didn't want
to do.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I didn't believe the tip I got. And I'll tell
you something. You won't believe what I believe you.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
How do you like that?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Thaday? My? How you've changed?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Never mind about me? You sent Rolins back to headquarters
and with that diamond?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, bye? Good bye Rawlins.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You have Blacky Faraday.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Wants you back at headquarters and you can take this
diamond with you.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Sure, okay, thanks a lot, Blackie. Good Uh oh hello
miss Wesley.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Hello Sagan Command. Mary the sergeant is just leaving. Yeah,
so long bye, Well Mary. I almost got mixed up
on the Blaine mourday. Rawlins found that diamond Blaine gave me,
and Faraday got a tip I was there when Blaine
was killed.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Oh, somebody's trying to frame you. Well, that means you'll
help my friend Helen, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
What what friend Helen?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Helen will from Jellity, the one I told you about
on the telephone. Faraday thinks her fiance Harry Matthews murdered Blaine.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh oh, yes, well that means i'd better find an
alibi for Matthews that will show him away from the
scene of the crime at the time of the murder.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Well, all right, then I know this much, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yesterday afternoon, Helen and Harry were walking on twentieth Sleep.
Now that's about five miles from the scene of the crime.
A sidewalk photographer took their picture. She thinks about three o'clock,
and she had a receipt for it.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I took back here picture.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Huh, say, let's see it. Maybe the shadows on the
street or something on it would give Matthews an alibi.
It's toughfully late. Photoshop is probably closed by now. But
if we can get into the dark room, maybe we
can bring an alibi for Matthews out into the light.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
How soon will the picture be developed?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Blackie should be a backman. Now, Mary, I've had the
print in the solution about Uh. Oh, I'm being need
to see something now good. I'm glad you took this
claim check from Helen so we could find this picture.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Hm developing that printed and taking the phone.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
If it took us to get in here.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was a tough lock on the door. Mary had
a hard time picking it.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, you'll have to buy the photographer new lock, won't you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I suppose?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And let's hope this picture shows something it'll help us.
All we know now is that it was taken the
afternoon of the murder.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Okay, I'm hoping, look like it is the whole picture.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Now it's clear too.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And well left it out of the solution and have
a look at it here. I'll put it on the
table here and hold it down with these weights. It
won't go. I'll dry it there.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Well, it chose Helen, their friend Matthew's alright.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Look behind Helen and our boyfriend Mary the Lead's jewelry
store clock and look at the time.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Three o'clock and Lead Jewelry Stories on twentieth Street, a
good five miles from where Paul Blaine was killed.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And the three o'clock. Tell your friend Helen not to
worry Mary. Our friend Harry Matthews is all right. The
clear shot of the clock in this picture put him
in the clear too.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Now back to Boston, Blackie, Paul Blaine, pawnbroker gets Blackie's
help in returning a stolen diamond. Just after Blackie leaves him, however,
Blaine is shot and killed. Police think Blaine was murdered
by Harry Matthews ex Cohn, who was sent to jail
(13:43):
by Blaine, but with the help of his girlfriend, Helen Walcom,
Matthews receives Blackie's help in proving his innocence. Blackie finds
a sidewalk photographer's picture of Matthew's near the Leeds Jewelry store,
five miles away from the murder scene, with the hands
of the clock at three, which is the time Blaine
was killed, so Matthews is obviously innocents returned to our story,
(14:08):
Mary Wesley is if the lead's jewelry store?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Miss?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I'm not sure, are you? Mister?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
H Well, this may sound sort of silly, but I'd
like to know about that big clock out in front
of his store.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I hope you don't want to buy it, No.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
No, I just would like to know how accurate it is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh, it's the most accurate clock in town.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Miss.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We have a check once a week, could lose his
hardly a second.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I see when was a check last four days. Oh,
thank you, thank you very much. Where's the nearest publiton?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
If you want to use the phone, you may use
mine right there in the desk. Oh, that's quite all.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Right, black it is Mary. Yes, so I was right
and you were checked four days ago.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Good. Now, I'm absolutely sure Matthew's is senocent. I'm going
up to tell him for two reasons, to make him
happy and Faraday miserable.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
All right, Matthews, you might as well talk. I didn't
come to your apartment to outstare you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I don't have anything to talk about, Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You killed Paul Blaine, so you ought to have a
lot to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I didn't kill him, Inspector.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I admit I had a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He sent me to jail, but I didn't kill him.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
That's what they all tell me until I proved they're lying.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Who was out at the door one of your pals, Matthews,
I don't know who it is.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well go answer it, but no, tracks, I don't worry.
I don't have anything to hide.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Is Harry Matthews Bartman?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yes, I'm Harry Matthews.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Blacky. For pete sake, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Just playing newsboy, good news boy, I might say.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Blackie Eyed didn't kill Blaine. Don't let this guy arrest me.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Don't worry, Harry. I wouldn't let Paraday do anything he'd
be sorry for.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Huh what do you mean i'd be sorry? Harry? Here
is the one who's going to be sorry. Hey, he's
going to jail?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Is he one was playing killed.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
At three o'clock yesterday?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know that? All right? Take a look at this?
What is it? A picture of Harry and his girlfriend
walking down twentieth Street. They good five miles away from
the scene of the crime, taken yesterday too.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
There's a date on it, Like I am looking so what? So?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Look at the clock behind them? What time does it say?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, it says three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's right. And do you know what time it is now? Paraday?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Eh, what's that time?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You apologize to an innocent man and got out of here?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, Matthews.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Okay, I'm Blackie. Thanks thanks a lot.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Yeah, thanks, Blackie. You are a big help to me.
You've just crossed me, my only suspect.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Don't fret, Paraday. What I take away I usually put back.
I've got another one. For you. Come on, Harry, I'd
like you to drive me down to see him. Right now.
(17:12):
This is Blaine's porn shop right here, Harry. Thanks for
driving me.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh, no trouble, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
It was nice thing you, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Thanks Helen, and thanks for the left. Okay, Oh say,
would you wait for me for a few minutes. I'm
gonna want to get to my bank and may not
be able to get a car.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Sure, sure, we'll wait, but you better hurry. The bank
closes in a few minutes. I guess I shouldn't have
stopped to pick up Helen.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's all right, we'll make it. How far are your
banks on twenty fifth Street?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
The weatherly now is no blanky?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, Helen?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Why why that's my bank too?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, practically, partners. I'll be out in a minute. Do
you want me to go with you? No, thanks, Matthews.
I like to do things like this alone. Be right back, hurry.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Well, be too late to get to the.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Bank, all right, that's noon.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, what's good about it?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, that's fine talk you own the shop.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm John Blaine, if that's what you mean. I'm Bosston Blackie. Hooray,
so you're Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So what so I'd like to talk to you, maybe
about the killing of your brother.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
What makes you think I killed him?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You were having an argument when I called up yesterday
afternoon and spoke to your brother, So so an argument
could end in a killing?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So could too much curiosity? Get out of here, Blackie fast?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
How is that a nice way to do business? John?
Your brother Paul never pulled a gun on a visitor.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Get out of here, I said, when I'm finished, You're finished, Now,
get out of here. Maybe this will help you move.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You missed me, my friend? Or should I wait till
it's right to turn my head?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I missed you because I wanted to. But next time,
maybe I won't want to miss I wish i'd known
you were having trouble with John Blaine, Blackie. I could
have run out and given.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You a hand.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I didn't mind arguing with him, Harry. It was the
back talk from his gun. I couldn't do anything about, Blacky.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I want to thank you for helping Harry out of
his trouble.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He's not out completely yet, Helena.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
He isn't Blakie. Why isn't he?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh, it's nothing to get excited about. I just wasn't
able to prove John Blaine as one hundred percent suspect,
And until I do, Faraday will always feel like Harry
here is guilty. Well, as long as you believe I'm innocent,
you're safe. Even Faraday has to face the facts. You
couldn't have killed Blaine. You're too far away from the
scene of the murder when Blaine was killed. Oh say,
(19:34):
it's too late for me to get to the bank,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I guess it is?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Oh dear, that's a shame. It is after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Isn't it slightly? Could say? Do either of you have
enough money to can't shoo shack? If it isn't too big?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well, all I've got is five? How about you? Helen?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
No, I don't think. Oh wait, I might have some. Yes, yes,
of course I do.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, could you spare fifty, Helen?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Fifty?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Oh, oh dear, what's the that with me? I drew
a hundred out of the bank yesterday?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You did?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yes, it was yesterday.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I remember.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I got to the bank, touched his clothing time, and
I had to argue with the man at the door
to let me in. Here's the money? You wanted Blackie.
Oh how much did you ask for?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Just fifty?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh, yes, forty fifty.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
You can make a check out later, all right, thanks,
that's all right.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I could give you more if you wanted it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No, thanks, you've given me plenty already. Oh hmm, that's
I walked. Photographer must have a mania for plink fancy
blacks on this door, this one' stuff and the one
(20:47):
I picked yesterday?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Mary seems to be.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But what are we going to find by breaking into
the stark room again?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh? Nothing much, Mary, Just this how hell and wortham
could have been with Harry Matthews in front of Leeds
Jewelry Store having a picture to say we got three
o'clock yesterday and still be in her bank at closing time?
That's three o'clock. I know it's my bank too, mm.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Bare not opened the bot good?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
But about the time, that's impossible, Donnie.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
The clock on the jewlish store is never wrong, I
know it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But why would Helen say she was in her bank
at closing time if she wasn't. She was very definite.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
About that, Yeah I know. Or so you said, come on,
let's go into the dark room.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm gonna take a look at that pacture again, all right,
quite out, turning the light.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Bare blackly.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
You think the picture of Harry and Helen was faked,
pretouched to something?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, it wasn't, alright, I would've noticed it. The picture
was real. The clock wasn't wrong. So if there's only
one answer to this whole thing, what I said, there's
only one answer, Mary, I didn't say I knew what
it was. Oh, let's see. Do you remember the number
of that picture of Harry and Helen?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I sure do, forty one twenty one.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
H h yeah, here's the index file forty one twenty one,
forty one twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
In may sense.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh hey, we are mm hmm. It's a legitimate picture.
All right.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
So where are we right back when it was started?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, I'm friends. H Wait a minute, I've got a
hunch this is a picture forty one twenty one. Let's
have a look at picture number forty one twenty and
see what that looks like.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Well, what do you think that'll show?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh? I don't know. That's why I wanna look at it.
It's twenty one, twenty forty one twenty ah. Here it
is already developed. Yeah, taking that the same spot that's good.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Let me look at it too, a picture.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Of a woman and a little girl. Oh, that's not much,
But Mary, look at the clock behind them.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
We couldness take the There's a man on a ladder
doing something to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yes, looks as if he's cleaning it. And look, Mary,
look at the time. It's three thirty, three thirty. But yes,
and do you know what that means. It means the
picture was taken before picture number forty one twenty and
yet the clock says three thirty. So picture number forty
one twenty one showing Harry and Helen had to be
taken after.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Three thirty Blackie. Then Harry could have killed Paul Blaine.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He normally could have married, but he probably did. That
guy in the ladder there is obviously Harry's accomplice. He
was planned to step back the clock so that Harry
could have an alibi when his picture was taken. Wow, Wow,
I was right. So it was Harry and that John Blaine.
After all, I should have known John acted too guilty
to be guilty. Come on, it's gonna hurt to do this,
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but I've got to call Faraday and tell him that
he was right about Matthews.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Oh, it's a lovely day for a walk, isn't it, Blacky?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Beautiful Mary?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Is that beautiful Mary? Or beautiful Mary?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Take your churche?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Well I've taken it, and so I thank you kind sir.
Hey Blackie.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yes, Why did.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Harry Matthews call Inspector Paraday and tell him.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
You were at the scene of Paul Blaine's murder?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh that's easy, Mary. Two reasons. He wanted to involve me,
and he wanted to make sure the police established the
time of the murder at three o'clock so his alibi
with the fixed up clock would stand up. He probably
was hiding in the back of the pawn shop while
we were talking to Paul Blaine the day of the murder. Oh.
I see that Garry Matthews was clever, Mary. He never
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once offered an alibi. He knew it would be too
phony if he did. He waited for me to supply
it for him, and I did by discovering that sidewalk
photographer's picture.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yoh, he was clever, all right.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
He killed Paul Blaine for revenge, didn't he.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
But uh, he made one mistake, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
He didn't go to the trouble to find out where
his friend Helen was at exactly three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, thanks to her, we broke the ca I said
he was glad fired. They didn't involve her. Harry was
obviously just using it.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Blackie, did you see what just happened? A sidewalk photographer
just snapped out picture?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Why are you like that? Why does everything happen to us? Well?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I don't know, but it certainly does. Blacky.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Tell me, how does sidewalk photographers like this fellow know.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Whose picture to take?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Huh or marry? That's simple snap judgment. That's all, just
snap judgment.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh,
I don't see what you're complaining about, John, Oh yet don't?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, who owns this punch up?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Paul?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You me, both of us were both to you and
all that. Okay, then from now when I signed checks
the same as you do. Oh wait a minute, John,
you're getting your share of the props, aren't you? So
you say only I don't trust you, I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hello, Wait a minute, this is anybody on here?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hello? Is this Blame?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? What do you want?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I want to speak to Paul Blame? Please?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
H you don't care who you speak to? Do you?
Just a minute? Just foray you here? Thanks? Hello?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hello Paul Blaine.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, this is part of Blackie.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You wanted me to call you?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, and uh, I'm sorry about the way
my brother spoke you on the phone. We're having a
little argument.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's all right. What do you want, Blaine?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'd like to see you. It's important. And well, could
you get down here this afternoon? Well I don't know, no, Look,
you gotta come. It's awfully important, all right, Blaine.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'll be there about three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, three o'clock. Thanks, goodbye? And what kind of a
team you've got cooking with Blackie, Paul. That's my own business.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Look, John, I don't want no more trouble with you
or no where you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Wait a minute, John, don't leave.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Stop worrying about my leaving, But just stop worrying if
I come back.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie, enemy
to those who make him in that m friend to
those who have no friend.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh that's the porn chef. We want two dolls down, Mary.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Oh yeah, why did Paul Blaine want to you, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know, Mary, That's what I've come down here
to find out.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Well, that being the case, let's go in and find out.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Here we are. Oh, good afternoon, Good afternoon. Are you
Paul Blaine?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes I am. You must be Boston Blackie. Yes, this
is Mary Wesley.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do you do well? Here?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Right on time? Blackie? You said you'd be here at three,
and it's well two minutes or three right now.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm generally on time, Blaine. What do you want to
see me a man?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, that's this, Blackie. I made a loan of a
thousand dollars in a diamond yesterday and this morning I
found out it's stolen property.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Oh that's bad, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's very bad, Miss Wesley. It means I may lose
my thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, what do you want me to do about a plane?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, I thought you'd take the diamond to the insurance
company that carries a policy on it and make a
deal so I could get my mond.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh well, I suppose I could do that, But why
can't you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
They'd have no reason to bargain with me. They'd know
i'd have to turn in the diamond to the police.
And well, I was hoping it wouldn't be too much.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Trouble for you to.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Blackie's so used to trouble. He's lonesome without it. Quiet
marry all right, but I like that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's what I like, modesty. All right, Blaine, I'll take
the diamond all.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The thanks, thanks a lot. Here, I have it here
in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay, Blaine. You'll hear from me tomorrow about what time, Blackie,
Same time as now, three o'clock. Come on, Mary?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh, okay, three tomorrow, Blade, goodbye and.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Thanks, goodbye, and don't mention it. Let's wait here for
cad Mary.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
All right, Blackie, will you be able to get mister
gwent thousand dollars back.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I think so, Mary, all I have that was a
shot and inside the store too. Come on, Plaine Plaine,
what oh there is Blacky Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh, it looks like he's dead.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Mary. He has to be dead unless he was wearing
a bulletproof hut.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
But who could have I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But whoever it was, it was probably out the back
way by Now. Well, here we go again. I guess
I had better call Faraday.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
No, Dine, no, please don't call Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You didn't have anything to do with this, but Faraday
will never believe you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
All right, Mary, I guess the best way for us
to stay out of this is to get out of here.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Hey, Rollins, Rolins, come in my office, you, inspect What
about some action on the murder of Paul Playing.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The porn program? Inspector, that hasn't been a thing developed.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Just a minute, Faraday speaking, Inspector, got a little.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
News for you. You want to know who killed Paul Playing?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Don't you sure? Do you know who did it?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well? I know who was in a store about the
time he got boxed.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh, friend of yours, Boston Blackie, A friend of it fucked? Hello? Hello,
what was it? Inspector?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Some guy who says Boston Blackie was at the scene
of Paul Blain's murder.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hey, that's exactly what you want, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It should be, but it isn't.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
This is one time I don't think Blackie's involved, And besides,
I waste too much time chasing that guy.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Anyway, Gee, Inspector.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You must be sick. Maybe that call was a straight.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Tip I darted.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Besides, I got a line on Blain's killer. Yeah, who,
never mind who? But Blain sent a certain guy to
prison about five years ago. Last week that certain guy
got out of prison. I think he killed Blaine for revenge.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Could be inspected, but I'd still like to have a
look around Blackie's apartment.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Go ahead, waste your time anywhere you want, But I
bet I find a real killer before you find anything
on Boston Blackie.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Harry, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Nothing, nothing?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Something is honey? You seem more offully upset? What is
the matter?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You read the paper you brought me, read the headline.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I don't remember what they said, though.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Oh let me refresh your memory just a little. Mm Yeah, listen,
to this headline. Huh cops looking for ex convict and
Blaine murder.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Oh, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh I'm an ex cohn remember that?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yes, of course, darling, you got out of jail. Let's
see it was last Uh that what day was it?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's Friday?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Oh yeah, that's right. But doing what does this have
to do with you?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
And then there's mister Blaine's murder.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Well, Blaine sent me to prison. Now the cops are
trying to tie me up with his murder.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Oh mm uh.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Paper says Blaine was knocked off at three o'clock yesterday.
If I could just remember where I was, then I don't.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You know where you were, Harry?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You were with me?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, but where we weren't anywhere? We were
out walking, that's all.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Oh, yes, that's right. Where were we walking?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Not exactly downtown somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Mm.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
No, I've got to keep you out of this. I
think I know what I'm gonna do. Well, I'm gonna
see a fellow named Boston Blackie. He helps guys like me.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Well, you can't leave here if the police are looking
for you, Harry. I've met Blackie's friend, Mary Wesley. I
know her.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I'll get her to help me, and she'll get Blackie
to help you.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now, Helen, please, can't you remember where you and Harry
were and at least above what time?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
No, Mary, I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
All I know.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Is is that we were out walking. Yes, but where, dear?
Just downtown. That's the big hill.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Look, Paul Blaine was murdered at three o'clock in a
shop on seventy first Street.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Were you on seventy first Street around three o'clock? Well?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
No, oh gosh, I'm beginning to sound by Blackie.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Mary, I don't know where we were.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I started out to see a man about fixing my coat.
I think I have his address here in my purse. Oh, well,
it might be something, oh dear, Oh yes, here's his address,
twentieth Street. All right, now, you think you were on
twentieth Street?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yes, down there somewhere, But I don't know. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, what's that other card in your purse?
Where which one? Oh? Yes, let's see.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Oh, yes, I remember a sidewalk photographer took our picture
and gave us this check yesterday, Yes, while we're out
walking yesterday afternoon. Well, as Blackie might say, when I
show him this. It's a nice photograph. Let's hope it
doesn't result in any negative development.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Speaking Inspector Faraday, this is Rawlins.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I'm calling from Blackie's apartment and guess what I found.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Guess guess what? Am I a guest star?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
A diamond?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, this diamonds.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is one of the things which should have been
in poor Blaine's porn shop.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, and that means maybe Blackie was well, he he
might have.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
What are you talking about? Well, you see, uh I
got it.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Blankie slipped up behind you and has a gun in
your back. Huh Sam cough you are I'll just put
Blackie on the phone.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Sure, hear Blackie. He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thanks Royland, and don't go away yet, Okay, hello, inspect
them Blankie?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
What is that diamond from Blaine's pawn shop doing in
your apartment?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's all very simple, Inspector, but it'll sound complicated to you.
Blaine gave it to me. Oh yeah, when at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, three o'clock.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
That's when we think he was killed. And I gotta
tip you where there when it happened? Only I didn't
believe it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Why not? I was there a few minutes before and
after the murder?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Why and you didn't report it?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, Faraday? And you know why too. It meant getting
mixed up in this, which is something I didn't want
to do.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I didn't believe the tip I got. And I'll tell
you something. You won't believe what I believe you.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
How do you like that?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Thaday? My? How you've changed?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Never mind about me? You sent Rolins back to headquarters
and with that diamond?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, bye? Good bye Rawlins.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You have Blacky Faraday.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Wants you back at headquarters and you can take this
diamond with you.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Sure, okay, thanks a lot, Blackie. Good Uh oh hello
miss Wesley.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Hello Sagan Command. Mary the sergeant is just leaving. Yeah,
so long bye, Well Mary. I almost got mixed up
on the Blaine mourday. Rawlins found that diamond Blaine gave me,
and Faraday got a tip I was there when Blaine
was killed.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Oh, somebody's trying to frame you. Well, that means you'll
help my friend Helen, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
What what friend Helen?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Helen will from Jellity, the one I told you about
on the telephone. Faraday thinks her fiance Harry Matthews murdered Blaine.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh oh, yes, well that means i'd better find an
alibi for Matthews that will show him away from the
scene of the crime at the time of the murder.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Well, all right, then I know this much, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yesterday afternoon, Helen and Harry were walking on twentieth Sleep.
Now that's about five miles from the scene of the crime.
A sidewalk photographer took their picture. She thinks about three o'clock,
and she had a receipt for it.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I took back here picture.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Huh, say, let's see it. Maybe the shadows on the
street or something on it would give Matthews an alibi.
It's toughfully late. Photoshop is probably closed by now. But
if we can get into the dark room, maybe we
can bring an alibi for Matthews out into the light.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
How soon will the picture be developed?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Blackie should be a backman. Now, Mary, I've had the
print in the solution about Uh. Oh, I'm being need
to see something now good. I'm glad you took this
claim check from Helen so we could find this picture.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Hm developing that printed and taking the phone.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
If it took us to get in here.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was a tough lock on the door. Mary had
a hard time picking it.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, you'll have to buy the photographer new lock, won't you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I suppose?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And let's hope this picture shows something it'll help us.
All we know now is that it was taken the
afternoon of the murder.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Okay, I'm hoping, look like it is the whole picture.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Now it's clear too.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And well left it out of the solution and have
a look at it here. I'll put it on the
table here and hold it down with these weights. It
won't go. I'll dry it there.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Well, it chose Helen, their friend Matthew's alright.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Look behind Helen and our boyfriend Mary the Lead's jewelry
store clock and look at the time.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Three o'clock and Lead Jewelry Stories on twentieth Street, a
good five miles from where Paul Blaine was killed.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And the three o'clock. Tell your friend Helen not to
worry Mary. Our friend Harry Matthews is all right. The
clear shot of the clock in this picture put him
in the clear too.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Now back to Boston, Blackie, Paul Blaine, pawnbroker gets Blackie's
help in returning a stolen diamond. Just after Blackie leaves him, however,
Blaine is shot and killed. Police think Blaine was murdered
by Harry Matthews ex Cohn, who was sent to jail
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by Blaine, but with the help of his girlfriend, Helen Walcom,
Matthews receives Blackie's help in proving his innocence. Blackie finds
a sidewalk photographer's picture of Matthew's near the Leeds Jewelry store,
five miles away from the murder scene, with the hands
of the clock at three, which is the time Blaine
was killed, so Matthews is obviously innocents returned to our story,
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Mary Wesley is if the lead's jewelry store?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Miss?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I'm not sure, are you? Mister?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
H Well, this may sound sort of silly, but I'd
like to know about that big clock out in front
of his store.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I hope you don't want to buy it, No.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
No, I just would like to know how accurate it is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh, it's the most accurate clock in town.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Miss.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We have a check once a week, could lose his
hardly a second.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I see when was a check last four days. Oh,
thank you, thank you very much. Where's the nearest publiton?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
If you want to use the phone, you may use
mine right there in the desk. Oh, that's quite all.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Right, black it is Mary. Yes, so I was right
and you were checked four days ago.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Good. Now, I'm absolutely sure Matthew's is senocent. I'm going
up to tell him for two reasons, to make him
happy and Faraday miserable.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
All right, Matthews, you might as well talk. I didn't
come to your apartment to outstare you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I don't have anything to talk about, Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You killed Paul Blaine, so you ought to have a
lot to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I didn't kill him, Inspector.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I admit I had a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He sent me to jail, but I didn't kill him.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
That's what they all tell me until I proved they're lying.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Who was out at the door one of your pals, Matthews,
I don't know who it is.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well go answer it, but no, tracks, I don't worry.
I don't have anything to hide.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Is Harry Matthews Bartman?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yes, I'm Harry Matthews.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Blacky. For pete sake, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Just playing newsboy, good news boy, I might say.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Blackie Eyed didn't kill Blaine. Don't let this guy arrest me.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Don't worry, Harry. I wouldn't let Paraday do anything he'd
be sorry for.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Huh what do you mean i'd be sorry? Harry? Here
is the one who's going to be sorry. Hey, he's
going to jail?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Is he one was playing killed.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
At three o'clock yesterday?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know that? All right? Take a look at this?
What is it? A picture of Harry and his girlfriend
walking down twentieth Street. They good five miles away from
the scene of the crime, taken yesterday too.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
There's a date on it, Like I am looking so what? So?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Look at the clock behind them? What time does it say?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, it says three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's right. And do you know what time it is now? Paraday?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Eh, what's that time?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You apologize to an innocent man and got out of here?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, Matthews.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Okay, I'm Blackie. Thanks thanks a lot.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Yeah, thanks, Blackie. You are a big help to me.
You've just crossed me, my only suspect.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Don't fret, Paraday. What I take away I usually put back.
I've got another one. For you. Come on, Harry, I'd
like you to drive me down to see him. Right now.
(17:12):
This is Blaine's porn shop right here, Harry. Thanks for
driving me.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh, no trouble, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
It was nice thing you, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Thanks Helen, and thanks for the left. Okay, Oh say,
would you wait for me for a few minutes. I'm
gonna want to get to my bank and may not
be able to get a car.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Sure, sure, we'll wait, but you better hurry. The bank
closes in a few minutes. I guess I shouldn't have
stopped to pick up Helen.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's all right, we'll make it. How far are your
banks on twenty fifth Street?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
The weatherly now is no blanky?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, Helen?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Why why that's my bank too?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, practically, partners. I'll be out in a minute. Do
you want me to go with you? No, thanks, Matthews.
I like to do things like this alone. Be right back, hurry.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Well, be too late to get to the.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Bank, all right, that's noon.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, what's good about it?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, that's fine talk you own the shop.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm John Blaine, if that's what you mean. I'm Bosston Blackie. Hooray,
so you're Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So what so I'd like to talk to you, maybe
about the killing of your brother.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
What makes you think I killed him?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You were having an argument when I called up yesterday
afternoon and spoke to your brother, So so an argument
could end in a killing?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So could too much curiosity? Get out of here, Blackie fast?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
How is that a nice way to do business? John?
Your brother Paul never pulled a gun on a visitor.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Get out of here, I said, when I'm finished, You're finished, Now,
get out of here. Maybe this will help you move.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You missed me, my friend? Or should I wait till
it's right to turn my head?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I missed you because I wanted to. But next time,
maybe I won't want to miss I wish i'd known
you were having trouble with John Blaine, Blackie. I could
have run out and given.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You a hand.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I didn't mind arguing with him, Harry. It was the
back talk from his gun. I couldn't do anything about, Blacky.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I want to thank you for helping Harry out of
his trouble.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He's not out completely yet, Helena.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
He isn't Blakie. Why isn't he?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh, it's nothing to get excited about. I just wasn't
able to prove John Blaine as one hundred percent suspect,
And until I do, Faraday will always feel like Harry
here is guilty. Well, as long as you believe I'm innocent,
you're safe. Even Faraday has to face the facts. You
couldn't have killed Blaine. You're too far away from the
scene of the murder when Blaine was killed. Oh say,
(19:34):
it's too late for me to get to the bank,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I guess it is?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Oh dear, that's a shame. It is after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Isn't it slightly? Could say? Do either of you have
enough money to can't shoo shack? If it isn't too big?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well, all I've got is five? How about you? Helen?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
No, I don't think. Oh wait, I might have some. Yes, yes,
of course I do.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, could you spare fifty, Helen?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Fifty?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Oh, oh dear, what's the that with me? I drew
a hundred out of the bank yesterday?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You did?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yes, it was yesterday.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I remember.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I got to the bank, touched his clothing time, and
I had to argue with the man at the door
to let me in. Here's the money? You wanted Blackie.
Oh how much did you ask for?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Just fifty?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh, yes, forty fifty.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
You can make a check out later, all right, thanks,
that's all right.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I could give you more if you wanted it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No, thanks, you've given me plenty already. Oh hmm, that's
I walked. Photographer must have a mania for plink fancy
blacks on this door, this one' stuff and the one
(20:47):
I picked yesterday?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Mary seems to be.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But what are we going to find by breaking into
the stark room again?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh? Nothing much, Mary, Just this how hell and wortham
could have been with Harry Matthews in front of Leeds
Jewelry Store having a picture to say we got three
o'clock yesterday and still be in her bank at closing time?
That's three o'clock. I know it's my bank too, mm.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Bare not opened the bot good?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
But about the time, that's impossible, Donnie.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
The clock on the jewlish store is never wrong, I
know it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But why would Helen say she was in her bank
at closing time if she wasn't. She was very definite.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
About that, Yeah I know. Or so you said, come on,
let's go into the dark room.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm gonna take a look at that pacture again, all right,
quite out, turning the light.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Bare blackly.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
You think the picture of Harry and Helen was faked,
pretouched to something?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, it wasn't, alright, I would've noticed it. The picture
was real. The clock wasn't wrong. So if there's only
one answer to this whole thing, what I said, there's
only one answer, Mary, I didn't say I knew what
it was. Oh, let's see. Do you remember the number
of that picture of Harry and Helen?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I sure do, forty one twenty one.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
H h yeah, here's the index file forty one twenty one,
forty one twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
In may sense.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh hey, we are mm hmm. It's a legitimate picture.
All right.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
So where are we right back when it was started?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, I'm friends. H Wait a minute, I've got a
hunch this is a picture forty one twenty one. Let's
have a look at picture number forty one twenty and
see what that looks like.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Well, what do you think that'll show?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh? I don't know. That's why I wanna look at it.
It's twenty one, twenty forty one twenty ah. Here it
is already developed. Yeah, taking that the same spot that's good.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Let me look at it too, a picture.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Of a woman and a little girl. Oh, that's not much,
But Mary, look at the clock behind them.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
We couldness take the There's a man on a ladder
doing something to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yes, looks as if he's cleaning it. And look, Mary,
look at the time. It's three thirty, three thirty. But yes,
and do you know what that means. It means the
picture was taken before picture number forty one twenty and
yet the clock says three thirty. So picture number forty
one twenty one showing Harry and Helen had to be
taken after.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Three thirty Blackie. Then Harry could have killed Paul Blaine.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He normally could have married, but he probably did. That
guy in the ladder there is obviously Harry's accomplice. He
was planned to step back the clock so that Harry
could have an alibi when his picture was taken. Wow, Wow,
I was right. So it was Harry and that John Blaine.
After all, I should have known John acted too guilty
to be guilty. Come on, it's gonna hurt to do this,
(23:35):
but I've got to call Faraday and tell him that
he was right about Matthews.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Oh, it's a lovely day for a walk, isn't it, Blacky?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Beautiful Mary?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Is that beautiful Mary? Or beautiful Mary?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Take your churche?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Well I've taken it, and so I thank you kind sir.
Hey Blackie.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yes, Why did.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Harry Matthews call Inspector Paraday and tell him.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
You were at the scene of Paul Blaine's murder?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh that's easy, Mary. Two reasons. He wanted to involve me,
and he wanted to make sure the police established the
time of the murder at three o'clock so his alibi
with the fixed up clock would stand up. He probably
was hiding in the back of the pawn shop while
we were talking to Paul Blaine the day of the murder. Oh.
I see that Garry Matthews was clever, Mary. He never
(24:36):
once offered an alibi. He knew it would be too
phony if he did. He waited for me to supply
it for him, and I did by discovering that sidewalk
photographer's picture.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yoh, he was clever, all right.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
He killed Paul Blaine for revenge, didn't he.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
But uh, he made one mistake, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
He didn't go to the trouble to find out where
his friend Helen was at exactly three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, thanks to her, we broke the ca I said
he was glad fired. They didn't involve her. Harry was
obviously just using it.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Blackie, did you see what just happened? A sidewalk photographer
just snapped out picture?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Why are you like that? Why does everything happen to us? Well?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I don't know, but it certainly does. Blacky.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Tell me, how does sidewalk photographers like this fellow know.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Whose picture to take?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Huh or marry? That's simple snap judgment. That's all, just
snap judgment.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh,
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