October 31, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Well, then, an, Inspector Farney, let's grab this guy Small
right now. If waterman's on his trail in a minute,
Logan Smith, tell want him to hold the wire a minute?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How muck fellows.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Warman thinks he's found Jack Small, and that's great if
he's found him. But we want to be sure. Do
we know for sure that Small is in town? I
think if we piece all the evidence together, Inspector will
be positive. All right, Logan, you've been trying to find him.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What do you know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I spotted his car on the east Side the day
before yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
His car.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That doesn't mean he was driving.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I got a look inside it and his famous lucky
piece was hanging from the gear shift.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Small might park with his car, but never with that
lucky piece of his. He's in town, all right, mm.
At least we know his car is, Logan, it means.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
He is too.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Inspector.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
A man in working clothes driving a car that fits
the description of Small's was in a minor accident yesterday, Eh,
but he drove away from the scene.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Nat checks with the dope we had on Small's pals.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I read me that report, loganer Okay, two weeks ago,
one of Small's former stooges bought several pairs of overalls,
heavy gloves, and a workman's cap and lunch parks in
a downtown store. Yes, so what Maybe he was buying
'em from South Ah, Inspector.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The clothes are much too large. He hasn't been seen
wearin' him.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is getting interesting, But we found out about work
clothes fits in with what Warman knows about Small. Small
joined a gang of workmen on the west side quarry. Smith,
the Waterman's still on the line. Yeah, okay, I'm satisfied
we finally found this game. I'll take that phone on Smith. Yeah, thanks,
hello Oneerman.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Oh, good morning, inspector.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
How are you fine, oneman?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Where are you in a candy store about a block.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Away from the quarry?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
In a candy store? Were Small in the quarry working? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You don't want me to go after him with a.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Shovel of the pickaggs, do you No?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I'm as close to him as I can get.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
And incidentally, he's working under the.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Name of Bigelow Biggelon. Huh Are you sure it's Small?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Well, I wouldn't be sitting here in this candy store.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
If I weren't sure, Inspector, I think you can trust me.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I know rab Biggielow and you will have Small.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, we don't want to take him while he's in
the quarry.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
Some of the other workmen might get hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know where he lives, Yeah, I found that out
before I found out where he works.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
He's living at eighteen Western Avenue.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Eighteen Western Avenue.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
With one of the workmen in the quarry, a chap.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Named Carter fine Oneman. Good work, hik follow Small when
he leaves work, call in then and the boys and
I will drop in and pick him up.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
And now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friend.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Ooh, oh Blackie.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
If it's all right with you, I'd like to just
sit around your apartment this evening.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You're just saying that because you don't want me to
think you're a good time Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Aren't you good time Charlotte?
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Oh Blackie, you do more things with words than you
do with locks and stakes.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, what about it? Am I cordially invited?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, you are to pay a call on a friend
of Shorty's.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh have you heard some Shorty mm.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Hm, telephone this afternoon? Wonderful friend that guy?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I know you what friend of his?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Do we have to call on s Nam Jackson. He's
out Shorty five hundred dollars for quite a while. I'm
sure he's just found out where he's living.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And he wants you to collect it for him.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Huh, that's right. Small now goes under the name of
Bill Bigelow, but the apartment is listed under the name
of Small's roommate that he caught it.
Speaker 9 (04:13):
Well, why does Small call himself Bigelow?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Blackie? And whom is he hiding from?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Paraday? I imagine Small got lost right after the Wallace
Johnson killing, and it strikes me that the good Inspector
would like to get.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
His hands on it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I see this ought to be interesting. You and I
are becoming collection agents, that we are.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Tonight we'll go to see mister Small. In fact, we'll
pay him a visit and see that he pays Shorty
the five hundred.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
All right, alad, everybody down at the end of the
quarry out of the way.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We get ready to that. Hey, hey, get that truck
out of there.
Speaker 10 (04:55):
Let me straight out about one hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hey, get him nowhere? Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
An fair?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Really sure? Hey?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Wait, hey, what's the matter head?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Why did you wait?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Did you hear me?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yell?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
That's what you're set up to day to right?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Film figure? Low us down?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And then he said when the blast went off, didn't
have a chance getting out in time.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Now he's buried under tons of solid rocks.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Did you take your waterman?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Good afternoon, Barbara.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
Am I gonna be able to sell you some candy today?
Or do you just want to use our phone again?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Mean phone, Barbara. I have something on my mind, but
it's not candy. You can hear the blasting in the
quarry from here again't you? Doesn't it bother you?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (06:05):
It used to it first, But mister Talbert and I
have been here six months now and we don't pay
any attention to it.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Oh, have some pepper later, thank you, Barbara.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
Oh but these are free, they're samples. A salesman left
them this morning.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Oh so that's the reason you keep the moves on
the counter. Well, maybe I'll accept your offer on the
way out.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
Please do, mister waterman. They'll make you feel better. Maybe
you look terribly upset.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yes, I am, and my boss, Inspector Faraday, will be too.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Well.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Everybody got him on the phone now.
Speaker 10 (06:35):
Oh, I hope it isn't as serious.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
As you think.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
To take your water, I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Excuse me, Barbara, Oh.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Say, Barbara.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Did a man named Bill Bigelow who lived here with
a fellow named Carter ever coming here?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I just wanted to check.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
I fday this waterman that's up.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You was supposed to wait all big a looll got
home and then call us. Don't tell he got.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
Away from you.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Sorry to support you, Inspector.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
He didn't get away from me. Or a dynamite blast.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
He's lying at the bottom of the west Side quarry
with thousands of tons of rock on top of him.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
What is he dead?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I imagine?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
So don't you killed in the quarry?
Speaker 11 (07:16):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I was Small?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, I was at the quarry when the report came
in that a man named Bigelow was caught in the blast.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Bigelow is the name.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
Small was going under so he was crushed at death.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Fly got just what he deserved.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Heah, they don't get it sooner or later, inspector any instructions.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
H just come on back to headquarters, make out a report.
It'll be weeks before we can dig smallesetoty out of
that quarry.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I guess yes it will.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
But you can consider him officially dead starting now. See
at headquarters. Bye. Well, thanks for the use of the phone, Barbara.
Another blast at the quarry. You know, I still don't
see how you standing.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Oh I don't even hear it. But after what I
did over here on the telephone, just no, I guess
I won't see you again, will I?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh you might.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
If those free peppermints of yours are good enough, I'll
take a handful, but don't tell your boss.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm not a cash customer.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Her boss, young man, but he didn't mind.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
Oh, mister talbrit this is mister Waterman.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
He's a detective.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Oh hello, mister Ay, nice shop you have here.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Hey, thank you. It's in good hands. When Barbara's behind
the country he Barbara, Well.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
There hasn't been much to do so far today, mister Talbert.
I guess you didn't like the birthday present I bought
you last month. I bought him a tie, mister Waterman,
only he never wears it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Wear it, of course, I wear it and wearing it now.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Look.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Oh, of course I didn't see it at first. People
who have beards don't have to wear ties. Mister Waterman
was looking for a man who called himself Bill bigelo
mister Talbert. But he was killed in the cory.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
This morning, killed in the Oh that's too bad.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Yes, it is too bad.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He was killed right after a blast.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Like that one buried under rock.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Well very much, mister Talbert.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Good bye, Barbara.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I'll take you up on that off for free purplements
again sometimes.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
All right, goodbye. He's an awfully nice man, don't you
think so, mister Talbert.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, quite a nice young man.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
Too bad he wasn't able to catch the man he
was looking for. I suppose he's very disappointed.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Mmm, I imagine so. Mmm. Free peppermint drops? Think I
have had some too?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yes, we would like to see Bill Bigelow please, And incidentally,
I know he's really Jack small.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Oh what do you want to see him for?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Never mind? What for? Just told him the Boston Blackie
wants to see him.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
I don't really want to see him.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I just came along as a bodyguard.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Oh, come in come, in both.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Dear, that's better, Mary, thank you.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
I'm caught a Jack's roommate. But I'm afraid you can't
see Jack just.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Now, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
He's dead?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Dead?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Why does this always happen to us? This happened to him, lady.
Was an accident.
Speaker 11 (10:25):
We were blasting at the quarry this morning.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
He was buried under the rocks.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Oh, always right, Blackie, There go Shorty's five hundred dollars.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
Uh, Jack old a friend of yours, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Well, Jack and I were good friends. Best I'll pay
his debts for him.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You'll play the five.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Hundred sure, yeah, Blackie, five sea notes satisfied.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, sure, sure, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Jack wasn't a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He told me if anything ever happened to him, the
square is that's He even gave me money for it
a couple of months ago.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I guess must have had a hunch.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, I guess he did. But I think it was
the law he thought would fall on him, not a
pile of rocks. Now, come on, Mary, we got what
we came for.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I guess we did, Blackie.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
Well, goodbye, mister Carter, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Sorry, so both goodbye.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Sure you ought to thank you, Blackie, somehow.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't think Carter would have given up that money
if you hadn't asked for it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I don't know about that. Mary. No, come on, let's
go out of the car.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Darling.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You have that certain preoccupied look in your eye.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well, it seems strange to me that Carter would pay
a dead man's debts just because he was his roommate.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Small gave him the money to do what he said that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I wonder if it's true though, And right now I
wonder if his death was accidental.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well what, Blackie, it's just.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Too much of a coincidence. Jack dies in the day
that we come out to see him, and Connor gave
up that money much too easily. Mary, was something funny
about that explosion. And I'm going to blast out the truth.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And now back to Boston, Blackie. Inspector Faraday has definite
evidence that Jack Small alias Bill Bigelow Murderer is in
town working in a stone quarry, but just as police
close in on the gangster, he is reported buried under
(12:39):
tons of falling rock blasted out of the.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Side of the quarry.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Bookie, unaware of Small's death, goes to see the gangster
to collect a five hundred dollars death, gets the money
from Carter Small's roommate, and learns of the gangster's death.
We now return to our story to find Blackie in
his apartment playing.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Checkers with Mary Wesley. Now, I see what you can
do with what's left on the checkerboard.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Mary, Well, Blackie, I still have two kings and two men.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Win there.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Sure we play long enough, you're boun to get lucky.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Lucky nothing, I'm shrewd. All right, there is my move.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's not bad. Here's mine.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Oh dear, Now what do I do?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You get shrewd? You've got a couple of possible moves?
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Then I can't see you One'll.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Keep looking, you'll find one, but I warn you. I
may be on the phone only an hour or two,
so you'll have to hurry.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Hello. Oh hold on, Spikes, I'm glad you called back. Look,
I won't talk to you about.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Jack Small, my move, Blacky call the wife?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Never mind? What for? When'd you move? Mary?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Never mind?
Speaker 8 (13:45):
I say it, you see it?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
But what can you do about it?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't know? Yes, I'll make this move. See what
you can do about that? Oh ahright, fding What are
you saying about Jack Small? Yes, he was killing the
blast the west Side quarry this afternoon. One to myself
into everything you mean to tell me? You realize this
(14:09):
is a case Saturday.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Sometimes I have moved.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Can you get out of that?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Hold the wire? Say just a minute, hold the wire
with your ridiculous see Oh Mary, are you going to
be sorry?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
One? Two? That's why?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Just one king and two men left?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Never say, dian Mary, I left my king at a very
tough spot there, I think. Say you can figure out why?
Now about that accident the quarry this morning, Sarday accident?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Accident?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
No, what makes you think so? I think he was murdered,
you do?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I by whom by one of his murdered to keep
him from talking when we grabbed him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Somebody wants to know me we're closing in and killed
him and shut him up. Huh, bad thinking, Faraday, Not
bad at all for you, plenty.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Wait a minute, old blackie.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I hate you, I know because I mean and your
only shrewd. Listen, Faraday, no, listen to this. You think
Small is dead, don't you well, I don't saday. I
think Jack Small or Bill Bigelow or whatever you want
to call him is still alive, which is more than
I can say for you. Goodbye, my move.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Mary, mm hmmm.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
And I think I really have you this time?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh you do? Just watch this?
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Ooh you want again?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Sorry? Mary, let's quit now. Huh.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
I'm thinking, Oh, then they play one more game, because
if you're thinking I have a chance to win.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
By the way, what are you thinking about that Jack smallseller?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, Mary, I'm thinking that when we're playing checkers, Jack
Small is playing dead. Let's go see his room mate, Catter.
I think the next move is his.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Oh good afternoon, after all, still blasting in the quarry,
aren't they even? I might say, Uh, do you work
in the quarry five days a week?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I do.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Oh I'm looking for some homemade cookies.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Homemade cookie.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
You carry him here, Yes, just a minute, please, I'll
see if we have them.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Sure, hurry, No, hurry at all.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Mister Talbrit. Yes, Barbara, come here, mister talbrit there's a
man in the store asking for homemade cookie. Oh there is, yes, sir,
you said to tell you if anyone ever came in
and asked for him.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Yes, my dear, I did, thank you very much. And
show the man back here into my living room, will you, Barbara, Yes,
show the man in.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
His Once.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Seems to me, Blackie, that mister Carter isn't at home.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It seems to me that my knuckles are getting sore
from knocking too. Maybe we're gonna just trying to do
the Mary.
Speaker 10 (17:12):
Oh, that's the hard waylay looking there on the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
If he did very that's Carter.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
This is what I like. I come up to ask
a question, I find a call.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
We had to get out of here before inspect a
Furday walk in. All he has to do is find
you with a dead box.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I'll leave when I'm through looking in Cotta's pocket.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
One of those moss balls.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh, there seemed to be those little pipmint all.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Right, but come on, let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Talking about Saday Mary And that's his voice, fellow Blackie,
you hello, and don't say I killed Carter. He was
dead when I.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Got Honestly, Blacky, I'll talk to you later. Well, what
I'm going now they.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Have both dead and we're at a dead end.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Inspector vera Day oh black Yeah, I don't think we've
ever met.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
My name's Waterman.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yes, I've heard of you. That's why Sleeve detective Watermen detective?
How was he killed Blackie Stabs.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
For the smallest murder?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Now? Catta fine?
Speaker 8 (18:14):
That means I've got to get to work.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Hey, these things are good?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
WoT things?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
These peppermints? Uh have some inspector?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Those things with you?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You've been tossing them in your mouth all morning.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I let's see one of those pepminks. May I have one?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Here, have a couple of thanks, But tell me what'd
you get them?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Flare at the candy store right there here?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They're free, they keep them.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
On the counter.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh I see.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I let's go, Mary, What have you all wrong for
me to ask?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Where to?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
At all? I'm gonna find out how good my hunches are.
I want to know what a mint meant in this murder.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Here's a candy stane over looking for a Blackie.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
What do you suppose that noise was flatting in the quarry
down the street? Probably? Oh, Mary, Carnor had peppermints in
his pocket when we found him, and Warman was eating peppermints.
He said, he got into the store.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
I see, and you think there's a connection, do you?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yes? And this store is then.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
There goes another blast.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yes, my blast didn't have anything more to do with
killing anybody than that one that was supposed to have
killed small Like you mean.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
You really think the smallert alive?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I have a strong haunch he is.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
And oh, I just had an idea, and I just
know I'm not gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So he comes a delivery boy in a bicycle.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Oh what are you gonna do?
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Ask him for a riding?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, I want you to see if the delivery is
for the store. Here. He's stopping right at the door.
Hey boy boy, Yes sir, a command man, Yes sir,
what do you want?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Said?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You're delivering that package this candy store? Here?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Here, I'm from the drug store.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'll watch it to you. Nothing much, only I'll deliver
it for you.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Fine fox, Hey, mister, take the package.
Speaker 10 (20:02):
So lucky. I don't like what you're up to, and
I like it less because I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Everything's gonna be all right, Mary. Now, let's see what's
in this package.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Oh, you couldn't get into trouble doing this.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I can make trouble for somebody you mean, Ah, I
was afraid of this.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
What's in the package?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Nothing at all that means anything to the paste, shaving cream,
soap and mouth washing. I just wasted five dollars.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Uh's body?
Speaker 8 (20:28):
All right?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What now, I'll deliver the package. Wait here, what do
you marry?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Oh dear, good afternoon, good afternoon, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Free prepmins.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Yes, help yourself? Is something I can do for you?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yes, but first I can do something for you.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
A delivery boy just asked me to bring this in.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Oh yes, mister calberdoor. It's something from the drug store.
This must be it, did you say, mister Talb, Yes,
he owns this place.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I see, m Talbot. Sammy has a fine stock of
candy here.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Oh it's the best. Could I interest you in any No?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
No, I don't think I could anything right now, not
anything I see that is.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Oh you're looking for something else.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
Something special, very special, something like well, homemade cookies.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Uh, yes, homemade cookies.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yes a minute, I'll be right with you. Oh, I'll
take that package with me if you.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Don't mind, of course.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Yes, here's a package for you. There's a man outside
looking for homemade cookies.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Homemade cookies?
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Yes? Shall I show him in?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It's just a minute, ye, yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
What are you looking for in that door, mister talburt?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Nothing can put in my day something I might need
show the manion, will you?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Right?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Would you come in here, a minister, mister Talbot? Would
I like to see you?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Why? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
That'll be all Barbara. Well, come raight in, sir, come
write in thank you? I said, that'll be all Barbara. Yes,
you asked for some homemade cookies, did you?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yes, in a way. It's a very fine beard you Hansa.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Santa Claus? And the man who came to dinner?
Speaker 8 (22:31):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I mean, mister Talbot? This is a cute gag, but
I also think the laugh is on you. You are
Jack Small, an't you? And don't reach for your game?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
No, then i'll reach for you with this I can
reach too.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Maybe I can't knock your be at all, mister Small,
but I can show pull it off? No, no, don't
it's off? Well looking here? It was a phony, wasn't it?
And so are you?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Pal?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So what so you know what mister Small, Your bed
wasn't real, But right now you're going to have to
take something else on the chin the disk saddan waterman Sadan, Relax,
(23:20):
glad to see you, Thanks, Blackie. Why don't you dropped in? Say?
Did Small tell you why he killed Carda?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Sure, sure, the same old story.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You you know it, don't you. I think so Small
killed Carta because Corda was the only one who knew
that Small wasn't killed in the quarry and had adopted
the identity of Talbot. I really suspected Cotta knew something
from the first it did. Corda paid a dit Small
after telling us Small was dead.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
He paid you the money to keep you off this case, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I figured there was something screwy somewhere. I suppose you
know who was killed in the quarry blast, don't you?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Uh huh nobody? That was the little plan worked out
by Carter, and they planned it a long time too.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I understand six months ago, I'd say, about the time
Small took on the part time identity of Talbot, a
candy store owner with a beard. Yeah that's about it.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
But you know, Small still doesn't know how you knew
that beard of his was fall Yeah, he says, you
seem so sure of it the.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Minute he came into the room.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh, I was sure of it. Waterman Smaller just received
a package from the drug store. It was shaving soap
in the package. A man with real beard, doesn't he
shaving soap? Does he?
Speaker 10 (24:33):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
But he has to keep himself clean shaven so that
the false beard will come off easier.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Uh huh. And you know what's a funny thing, Eh,
what is If small didn't have to be clean shaven
behind that beard of his, he could have made a
clean getaway. Nat
Well, then, an, Inspector Farney, let's grab this guy Small
right now. If waterman's on his trail in a minute,
Logan Smith, tell want him to hold the wire a minute?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How muck fellows.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Warman thinks he's found Jack Small, and that's great if
he's found him. But we want to be sure. Do
we know for sure that Small is in town? I
think if we piece all the evidence together, Inspector will
be positive. All right, Logan, you've been trying to find him.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What do you know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I spotted his car on the east Side the day
before yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
His car.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That doesn't mean he was driving.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I got a look inside it and his famous lucky
piece was hanging from the gear shift.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Small might park with his car, but never with that
lucky piece of his. He's in town, all right, mm.
At least we know his car is, Logan, it means.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
He is too.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Inspector.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
A man in working clothes driving a car that fits
the description of Small's was in a minor accident yesterday, Eh,
but he drove away from the scene.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Nat checks with the dope we had on Small's pals.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I read me that report, loganer Okay, two weeks ago,
one of Small's former stooges bought several pairs of overalls,
heavy gloves, and a workman's cap and lunch parks in
a downtown store. Yes, so what Maybe he was buying
'em from South Ah, Inspector.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The clothes are much too large. He hasn't been seen
wearin' him.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is getting interesting, But we found out about work
clothes fits in with what Warman knows about Small. Small
joined a gang of workmen on the west side quarry. Smith,
the Waterman's still on the line. Yeah, okay, I'm satisfied
we finally found this game. I'll take that phone on Smith. Yeah, thanks,
hello Oneerman.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Oh, good morning, inspector.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
How are you fine, oneman?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Where are you in a candy store about a block.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Away from the quarry?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
In a candy store? Were Small in the quarry working? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You don't want me to go after him with a.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Shovel of the pickaggs, do you No?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I'm as close to him as I can get.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
And incidentally, he's working under the.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Name of Bigelow Biggelon. Huh Are you sure it's Small?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Well, I wouldn't be sitting here in this candy store.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
If I weren't sure, Inspector, I think you can trust me.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I know rab Biggielow and you will have Small.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, we don't want to take him while he's in
the quarry.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
Some of the other workmen might get hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know where he lives, Yeah, I found that out
before I found out where he works.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
He's living at eighteen Western Avenue.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Eighteen Western Avenue.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
With one of the workmen in the quarry, a chap.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Named Carter fine Oneman. Good work, hik follow Small when
he leaves work, call in then and the boys and
I will drop in and pick him up.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
And now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friend.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Ooh, oh Blackie.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
If it's all right with you, I'd like to just
sit around your apartment this evening.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You're just saying that because you don't want me to
think you're a good time Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Aren't you good time Charlotte?
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Oh Blackie, you do more things with words than you
do with locks and stakes.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, what about it? Am I cordially invited?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, you are to pay a call on a friend
of Shorty's.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh have you heard some Shorty mm.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Hm, telephone this afternoon? Wonderful friend that guy?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I know you what friend of his?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Do we have to call on s Nam Jackson. He's
out Shorty five hundred dollars for quite a while. I'm
sure he's just found out where he's living.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And he wants you to collect it for him.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Huh, that's right. Small now goes under the name of
Bill Bigelow, but the apartment is listed under the name
of Small's roommate that he caught it.
Speaker 9 (04:13):
Well, why does Small call himself Bigelow?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Blackie? And whom is he hiding from?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Paraday? I imagine Small got lost right after the Wallace
Johnson killing, and it strikes me that the good Inspector
would like to get.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
His hands on it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I see this ought to be interesting. You and I
are becoming collection agents, that we are.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Tonight we'll go to see mister Small. In fact, we'll
pay him a visit and see that he pays Shorty
the five hundred.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
All right, alad, everybody down at the end of the
quarry out of the way.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We get ready to that. Hey, hey, get that truck
out of there.
Speaker 10 (04:55):
Let me straight out about one hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hey, get him nowhere? Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
An fair?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Really sure? Hey?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Wait, hey, what's the matter head?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Why did you wait?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Did you hear me?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yell?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
That's what you're set up to day to right?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Film figure? Low us down?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And then he said when the blast went off, didn't
have a chance getting out in time.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Now he's buried under tons of solid rocks.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Did you take your waterman?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Good afternoon, Barbara.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
Am I gonna be able to sell you some candy today?
Or do you just want to use our phone again?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Mean phone, Barbara. I have something on my mind, but
it's not candy. You can hear the blasting in the
quarry from here again't you? Doesn't it bother you?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (06:05):
It used to it first, But mister Talbert and I
have been here six months now and we don't pay
any attention to it.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Oh, have some pepper later, thank you, Barbara.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
Oh but these are free, they're samples. A salesman left
them this morning.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Oh so that's the reason you keep the moves on
the counter. Well, maybe I'll accept your offer on the
way out.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
Please do, mister waterman. They'll make you feel better. Maybe
you look terribly upset.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yes, I am, and my boss, Inspector Faraday, will be too.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Well.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Everybody got him on the phone now.
Speaker 10 (06:35):
Oh, I hope it isn't as serious.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
As you think.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
To take your water, I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Excuse me, Barbara, Oh.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Say, Barbara.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Did a man named Bill Bigelow who lived here with
a fellow named Carter ever coming here?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I just wanted to check.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
I fday this waterman that's up.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You was supposed to wait all big a looll got
home and then call us. Don't tell he got.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
Away from you.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Sorry to support you, Inspector.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
He didn't get away from me. Or a dynamite blast.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
He's lying at the bottom of the west Side quarry
with thousands of tons of rock on top of him.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
What is he dead?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I imagine?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
So don't you killed in the quarry?
Speaker 11 (07:16):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I was Small?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, I was at the quarry when the report came
in that a man named Bigelow was caught in the blast.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Bigelow is the name.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
Small was going under so he was crushed at death.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Fly got just what he deserved.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Heah, they don't get it sooner or later, inspector any instructions.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
H just come on back to headquarters, make out a report.
It'll be weeks before we can dig smallesetoty out of
that quarry.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I guess yes it will.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
But you can consider him officially dead starting now. See
at headquarters. Bye. Well, thanks for the use of the phone, Barbara.
Another blast at the quarry. You know, I still don't
see how you standing.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Oh I don't even hear it. But after what I
did over here on the telephone, just no, I guess
I won't see you again, will I?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh you might.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
If those free peppermints of yours are good enough, I'll
take a handful, but don't tell your boss.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm not a cash customer.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Her boss, young man, but he didn't mind.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
Oh, mister talbrit this is mister Waterman.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
He's a detective.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Oh hello, mister Ay, nice shop you have here.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Hey, thank you. It's in good hands. When Barbara's behind
the country he Barbara, Well.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
There hasn't been much to do so far today, mister Talbert.
I guess you didn't like the birthday present I bought
you last month. I bought him a tie, mister Waterman,
only he never wears it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Wear it, of course, I wear it and wearing it now.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Look.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Oh, of course I didn't see it at first. People
who have beards don't have to wear ties. Mister Waterman
was looking for a man who called himself Bill bigelo
mister Talbert. But he was killed in the cory.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
This morning, killed in the Oh that's too bad.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Yes, it is too bad.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He was killed right after a blast.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Like that one buried under rock.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Well very much, mister Talbert.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Good bye, Barbara.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I'll take you up on that off for free purplements
again sometimes.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
All right, goodbye. He's an awfully nice man, don't you
think so, mister Talbert.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, quite a nice young man.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
Too bad he wasn't able to catch the man he
was looking for. I suppose he's very disappointed.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Mmm, I imagine so. Mmm. Free peppermint drops? Think I
have had some too?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yes, we would like to see Bill Bigelow please, And incidentally,
I know he's really Jack small.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Oh what do you want to see him for?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Never mind? What for? Just told him the Boston Blackie
wants to see him.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
I don't really want to see him.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I just came along as a bodyguard.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Oh, come in come, in both.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Dear, that's better, Mary, thank you.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
I'm caught a Jack's roommate. But I'm afraid you can't
see Jack just.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Now, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
He's dead?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Dead?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Why does this always happen to us? This happened to him, lady.
Was an accident.
Speaker 11 (10:25):
We were blasting at the quarry this morning.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
He was buried under the rocks.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Oh, always right, Blackie, There go Shorty's five hundred dollars.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
Uh, Jack old a friend of yours, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Well, Jack and I were good friends. Best I'll pay
his debts for him.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You'll play the five.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Hundred sure, yeah, Blackie, five sea notes satisfied.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, sure, sure, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Jack wasn't a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He told me if anything ever happened to him, the
square is that's He even gave me money for it
a couple of months ago.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I guess must have had a hunch.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, I guess he did. But I think it was
the law he thought would fall on him, not a
pile of rocks. Now, come on, Mary, we got what
we came for.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I guess we did, Blackie.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
Well, goodbye, mister Carter, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Sorry, so both goodbye.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Sure you ought to thank you, Blackie, somehow.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't think Carter would have given up that money
if you hadn't asked for it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I don't know about that. Mary. No, come on, let's
go out of the car.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Darling.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You have that certain preoccupied look in your eye.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well, it seems strange to me that Carter would pay
a dead man's debts just because he was his roommate.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Small gave him the money to do what he said that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I wonder if it's true though, And right now I
wonder if his death was accidental.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well what, Blackie, it's just.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Too much of a coincidence. Jack dies in the day
that we come out to see him, and Connor gave
up that money much too easily. Mary, was something funny
about that explosion. And I'm going to blast out the truth.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And now back to Boston, Blackie. Inspector Faraday has definite
evidence that Jack Small alias Bill Bigelow Murderer is in
town working in a stone quarry, but just as police
close in on the gangster, he is reported buried under
(12:39):
tons of falling rock blasted out of the.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Side of the quarry.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Bookie, unaware of Small's death, goes to see the gangster
to collect a five hundred dollars death, gets the money
from Carter Small's roommate, and learns of the gangster's death.
We now return to our story to find Blackie in
his apartment playing.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Checkers with Mary Wesley. Now, I see what you can
do with what's left on the checkerboard.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Mary, Well, Blackie, I still have two kings and two men.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Win there.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Sure we play long enough, you're boun to get lucky.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Lucky nothing, I'm shrewd. All right, there is my move.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's not bad. Here's mine.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Oh dear, Now what do I do?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You get shrewd? You've got a couple of possible moves?
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Then I can't see you One'll.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Keep looking, you'll find one, but I warn you. I
may be on the phone only an hour or two,
so you'll have to hurry.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Hello. Oh hold on, Spikes, I'm glad you called back. Look,
I won't talk to you about.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Jack Small, my move, Blacky call the wife?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Never mind? What for? When'd you move? Mary?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Never mind?
Speaker 8 (13:45):
I say it, you see it?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
But what can you do about it?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't know? Yes, I'll make this move. See what
you can do about that? Oh ahright, fding What are
you saying about Jack Small? Yes, he was killing the
blast the west Side quarry this afternoon. One to myself
into everything you mean to tell me? You realize this
(14:09):
is a case Saturday.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Sometimes I have moved.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Can you get out of that?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Hold the wire? Say just a minute, hold the wire
with your ridiculous see Oh Mary, are you going to
be sorry?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
One? Two? That's why?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Just one king and two men left?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Never say, dian Mary, I left my king at a very
tough spot there, I think. Say you can figure out why?
Now about that accident the quarry this morning, Sarday accident?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Accident?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
No, what makes you think so? I think he was murdered,
you do?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I by whom by one of his murdered to keep
him from talking when we grabbed him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Somebody wants to know me we're closing in and killed
him and shut him up. Huh, bad thinking, Faraday, Not
bad at all for you, plenty.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Wait a minute, old blackie.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I hate you, I know because I mean and your
only shrewd. Listen, Faraday, no, listen to this. You think
Small is dead, don't you well, I don't saday. I
think Jack Small or Bill Bigelow or whatever you want
to call him is still alive, which is more than
I can say for you. Goodbye, my move.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Mary, mm hmmm.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
And I think I really have you this time?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh you do? Just watch this?
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Ooh you want again?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Sorry? Mary, let's quit now. Huh.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
I'm thinking, Oh, then they play one more game, because
if you're thinking I have a chance to win.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
By the way, what are you thinking about that Jack smallseller?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, Mary, I'm thinking that when we're playing checkers, Jack
Small is playing dead. Let's go see his room mate, Catter.
I think the next move is his.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Oh good afternoon, after all, still blasting in the quarry,
aren't they even? I might say, Uh, do you work
in the quarry five days a week?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I do.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Oh I'm looking for some homemade cookies.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Homemade cookie.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
You carry him here, Yes, just a minute, please, I'll
see if we have them.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Sure, hurry, No, hurry at all.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Mister Talbrit. Yes, Barbara, come here, mister talbrit there's a
man in the store asking for homemade cookie. Oh there is, yes, sir,
you said to tell you if anyone ever came in
and asked for him.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Yes, my dear, I did, thank you very much. And
show the man back here into my living room, will you, Barbara, Yes,
show the man in.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
His Once.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Seems to me, Blackie, that mister Carter isn't at home.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It seems to me that my knuckles are getting sore
from knocking too. Maybe we're gonna just trying to do
the Mary.
Speaker 10 (17:12):
Oh, that's the hard waylay looking there on the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
If he did very that's Carter.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
This is what I like. I come up to ask
a question, I find a call.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
We had to get out of here before inspect a
Furday walk in. All he has to do is find
you with a dead box.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I'll leave when I'm through looking in Cotta's pocket.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
One of those moss balls.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh, there seemed to be those little pipmint all.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Right, but come on, let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Talking about Saday Mary And that's his voice, fellow Blackie,
you hello, and don't say I killed Carter. He was
dead when I.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Got Honestly, Blacky, I'll talk to you later. Well, what
I'm going now they.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Have both dead and we're at a dead end.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Inspector vera Day oh black Yeah, I don't think we've
ever met.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
My name's Waterman.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yes, I've heard of you. That's why Sleeve detective Watermen detective?
How was he killed Blackie Stabs.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
For the smallest murder?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Now? Catta fine?
Speaker 8 (18:14):
That means I've got to get to work.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Hey, these things are good?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
WoT things?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
These peppermints? Uh have some inspector?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Those things with you?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You've been tossing them in your mouth all morning.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I let's see one of those pepminks. May I have one?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Here, have a couple of thanks, But tell me what'd
you get them?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Flare at the candy store right there here?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They're free, they keep them.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
On the counter.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh I see.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I let's go, Mary, What have you all wrong for
me to ask?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Where to?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
At all? I'm gonna find out how good my hunches are.
I want to know what a mint meant in this murder.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Here's a candy stane over looking for a Blackie.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
What do you suppose that noise was flatting in the quarry
down the street? Probably? Oh, Mary, Carnor had peppermints in
his pocket when we found him, and Warman was eating peppermints.
He said, he got into the store.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
I see, and you think there's a connection, do you?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yes? And this store is then.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
There goes another blast.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yes, my blast didn't have anything more to do with
killing anybody than that one that was supposed to have
killed small Like you mean.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
You really think the smallert alive?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I have a strong haunch he is.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
And oh, I just had an idea, and I just
know I'm not gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So he comes a delivery boy in a bicycle.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Oh what are you gonna do?
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Ask him for a riding?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, I want you to see if the delivery is
for the store. Here. He's stopping right at the door.
Hey boy boy, Yes sir, a command man, Yes sir,
what do you want?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Said?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You're delivering that package this candy store? Here?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Here, I'm from the drug store.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'll watch it to you. Nothing much, only I'll deliver
it for you.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Fine fox, Hey, mister, take the package.
Speaker 10 (20:02):
So lucky. I don't like what you're up to, and
I like it less because I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Everything's gonna be all right, Mary. Now, let's see what's
in this package.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Oh, you couldn't get into trouble doing this.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I can make trouble for somebody you mean, Ah, I
was afraid of this.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
What's in the package?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Nothing at all that means anything to the paste, shaving cream,
soap and mouth washing. I just wasted five dollars.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Uh's body?
Speaker 8 (20:28):
All right?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What now, I'll deliver the package. Wait here, what do
you marry?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Oh dear, good afternoon, good afternoon, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Free prepmins.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Yes, help yourself? Is something I can do for you?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yes, but first I can do something for you.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
A delivery boy just asked me to bring this in.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Oh yes, mister calberdoor. It's something from the drug store.
This must be it, did you say, mister Talb, Yes,
he owns this place.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I see, m Talbot. Sammy has a fine stock of
candy here.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Oh it's the best. Could I interest you in any No?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
No, I don't think I could anything right now, not
anything I see that is.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Oh you're looking for something else.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
Something special, very special, something like well, homemade cookies.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Uh, yes, homemade cookies.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yes a minute, I'll be right with you. Oh, I'll
take that package with me if you.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Don't mind, of course.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Yes, here's a package for you. There's a man outside
looking for homemade cookies.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Homemade cookies?
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Yes? Shall I show him in?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It's just a minute, ye, yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
What are you looking for in that door, mister talburt?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Nothing can put in my day something I might need
show the manion, will you?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Right?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Would you come in here, a minister, mister Talbot? Would
I like to see you?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Why? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
That'll be all Barbara. Well, come raight in, sir, come
write in thank you? I said, that'll be all Barbara. Yes,
you asked for some homemade cookies, did you?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yes, in a way. It's a very fine beard you Hansa.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Santa Claus? And the man who came to dinner?
Speaker 8 (22:31):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I mean, mister Talbot? This is a cute gag, but
I also think the laugh is on you. You are
Jack Small, an't you? And don't reach for your game?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
No, then i'll reach for you with this I can
reach too.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Maybe I can't knock your be at all, mister Small,
but I can show pull it off? No, no, don't
it's off? Well looking here? It was a phony, wasn't it?
And so are you?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Pal?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So what so you know what mister Small, Your bed
wasn't real, But right now you're going to have to
take something else on the chin the disk saddan waterman Sadan, Relax,
(23:20):
glad to see you, Thanks, Blackie. Why don't you dropped in? Say?
Did Small tell you why he killed Carda?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Sure, sure, the same old story.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You you know it, don't you. I think so Small
killed Carta because Corda was the only one who knew
that Small wasn't killed in the quarry and had adopted
the identity of Talbot. I really suspected Cotta knew something
from the first it did. Corda paid a dit Small
after telling us Small was dead.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
He paid you the money to keep you off this case, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I figured there was something screwy somewhere. I suppose you
know who was killed in the quarry blast, don't you?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Uh huh nobody? That was the little plan worked out
by Carter, and they planned it a long time too.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I understand six months ago, I'd say, about the time
Small took on the part time identity of Talbot, a
candy store owner with a beard. Yeah that's about it.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
But you know, Small still doesn't know how you knew
that beard of his was fall Yeah, he says, you
seem so sure of it the.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Minute he came into the room.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh, I was sure of it. Waterman Smaller just received
a package from the drug store. It was shaving soap
in the package. A man with real beard, doesn't he
shaving soap? Does he?
Speaker 10 (24:33):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
But he has to keep himself clean shaven so that
the false beard will come off easier.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Uh huh. And you know what's a funny thing, Eh,
what is If small didn't have to be clean shaven
behind that beard of his, he could have made a
clean getaway. Nat
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