October 14, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Your move, Harry.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, Bill, let's see you get away for my king
after this move.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think you got me?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is why not?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Why you?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Harry? There is only a chicken.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Game, not the way you play it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But you still got a chance King and no King.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah maybe if you don't make any more dumb moves. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I could answer that, but there's no use partners being
sold each other over a little game of Just.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
A minute, Bill Martin's garage, Yeah, what kind?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay, go buy it Neona right away?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Bill?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Good news? Ray?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That car cracked up at Hanley Bridge just a little
while ago.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh that swell.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let make nineteen forty two Buick convertible Coop nineteen forty
two convertible Cooper.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, Buick. I sent time out the steel one just
like it. Now.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who
make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Oh, Mary, this is Blackie.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Yes, Darling.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Thanks for the use of your car, Mary, but you
don't have another one. I can borrow all mines in
the garage.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Do young with my car back?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Nothing much? I parked it out in front of the court.
Has a few minutes ago when I went back to
get it, it was stolen. Stolen unless it's part homing pigeon
and left for its garage by itself.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh do you well, don't worry about it, Mary, it's ensured.
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh, yes, I'm not worried about that part of it.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
I'll probably get it back anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
But it certainly foiled my trip.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Well, no it doesn't. My car will be fixing the day,
so you can borrow that.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Oh, thanks, backie?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Could I?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh It's the least I can do for you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, now I feel better.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh oh, will you do me.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Another favor though?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Remember the route you mark for me on that road?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Lab Yes, well, it was in my car, so i'll
need another one.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
I'll pick one up today, Thanks God. Look, Mary, I
want to get the police on this right away. That'd
give me some identifying details about that car viewers.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh yeah, sure, What do you need to know?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Oh, engine number and so forth. All I know now
is that it's a nineteen forty two Buick convertible.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Hello Friday, goodbye, Blankie.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I'll say goodbye in a minute. Inspector, First, I want
you to do something for me.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Be kind of Boston Blankie week?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
That's next week right now? This is do something for
Mary Wesley hour, Mary cars ben Stone.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You come to me about a stolen car.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yes, I know stolen cars are out of your department,
but I thought you could use your influence to get
some fast action in finding it. You do have influence
around here, don't you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I don't think so, at least not enough to keep
you out.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Of my office. Well that's because I have a certain
amount of influence myself. Oh, come on, furday, be a sport.
If you won't do this.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
For me, do it for Mary, all right, as long
as it's for her. What kind of a car is it?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Nineteen forty two BUA convertible engine number. Let me see
at two nine three six seven four one for well, anything.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Else, nothing of importance.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
The thieves can't get rid of air of ladies, gloves,
flash light, the usual junk. But don't bother about those things.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I won't.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Oh, there's a slight dent and a rather long scratch
on the right rear of fender.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Dent and scratch on rear friendly right, Okay, Blackie, I'll
do what I can, but I want you to understand something.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I know what it is, Fara day. You aren't doing
this for me or doing it for Mary. Well, I'm
sure she appreciates.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
It's okay, mister Morton. Pete and I are putting the
motor from the wrecked car into the stolen car right now.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Learn easy, Pete.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, Okay, Hey, I noticed car. What'd you pick it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Up in front of the courthouse.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's little while ago, mister Morton, any trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Not a bit hold of Pete? Okay, engines in place
now a couple of minutes more, I have another job.
All done. Uh thanks, Pech.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You can go back upstairs now.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Okay, you're gonna call me a good Yeah, I gotta laugh.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah it's Morton.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Why why you know who is? Stolen car belongs to NAC,
to Mary Wesley. She parks it right here in my garage. Yeah,
well I would know about that.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I work down here in the basement most of the time.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What are you griping about? This is where you do
your best work. Got everything cleaned out of her car?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, we'll get rid of everything. Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Good, be sure you get rid of the motor out
of Miss Wesley's car. We don't want that later round,
don't worry, I said, Uh, somebody upstairs wants to get
that car.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I guess Pete must be busy.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Hold the hammer at time.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Okay, I'm through anyway, Yeah, mister Morton, Yeah, Pete. A
lady up here wants to see you, missus Wesley. She
wants to talk talk to you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh tell her I'm not here. No, hey, I sent
Tom up to talk to her.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Okay, hey, Tom, do you have mister Morton?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The Wesley Dame is upstairs? You go talk to her.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Will he talk to her? What'll I say?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Just hear what she has to say.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, you got the motive the wreck car in so
this Wesley Gal's carl will run.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
It's all set to travel, mister Morton, Okay, go up
and see what the Wesley Dame wants.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
If she wants me, I'm.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Not here, okay, Boss, I remember I'm smart that way,
Hi Pee, where's this Miss Wesley?
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
There by the guys pumps?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Thanks, I'm Tom the mechanic. You want something, Miss Westley?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What she wants is a car.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I can talk for myself Blackie, Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Do you have a car?
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I can risk mine's been stolen.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Ah, that's too bad, mess, But we don't have a thing.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Well, it was a nice try, Mary. Maybe my garage
will let her not one.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
No, Blackie, we'll just wait till.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yours is ready.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Sorry, can't help you, miss. Is that all you wanted?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Thanks? I hope you get your car back, miss, Thanks?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So do I come on, Blackie, Let's.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Hop in a cab and go down to micro.
Speaker 11 (07:13):
Eyes, Say Pete, Yeah, Tom, did you get that new
grease gun from Barney's?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh not yet.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
You better run over there and get.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It right away. I'm gonna need.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It, okay, but we'll watch things up here.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I'm through downstairs.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
I'll take over right, Okay, I'm going downstairs, see the boss.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
It you still down here, miss Martin? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What did the west lead name? War time?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
There was a reddit car.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Isn't that a hot one with their own car right
down here?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (07:51):
But let her try to claim this is hers now
with that new motor in it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, that's right, here's your dull time twenty five.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
But uh, look, mister Morton, I've been wanting to talk
to you, eh, it's jobs getting to be worth more
than twenty five.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Bucks a car. Who thinks, so I I do?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I do?
Speaker 12 (08:15):
I think I ought to get a hundred dollars a
job from now, or maybe I might do some talking someplace.
Oh really, yeah, I'll start by taking a hundred for
this one.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
It's not too much. You and your partner, Harry, make
almost a thousand clear.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
At least days.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I sent Pete Barney's for a grease gun. Oh uh,
don't get me off the hundred bucks.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
I want it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 13 (08:43):
See, oh it isn't Uh, it's as simple as this.
Here's one for lunch job.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh, Harry, he's used guys, Alry, This is Bill Morton.
I got another car ready for you. Yeah, the engine
from the wreck car is in it in good shape too.
We already get nine hundred to a thousand.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
For this one. Good. I'll send for bright away.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And by the way, Harry, we'll need a new mechanic.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Mechanic. Why what's the matter with Tom?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Tom? Well, he don't work here anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Hasn't there been any trace of my car at all?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Black Hee's not a sign of marror. If Friday would
have called me. Now, relax and enjoy this country road.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Oh dear, I do hate to take your car when
I go away.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What do you do for one?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well, whoever stole your car has been pretty successful and
keeping it hidden for a whole day.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Maybe I'll steal one too, Oh.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Blackie, don't worry, Lucky.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
What that car that just tasked us?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That's my car?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
If you're convertible? All right?
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Sure you're yes, yes, yes, Look the plates are different,
but there's a dent and a scratch on the right
riar fender.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You're right, Mary, there is.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What we do.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You may not want to play.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Is gonna happen so fast he won't have time to play, Bucky,
look out, my god, nothing, I'm cutting him off.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Brother, you say, hey, Mary.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's driven. Make it tough about it.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He's running away. I sort of stop him. Don't you
kill him.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I was just firing into the air, but it didn't
stop him anyway.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
We'll let him call darling.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
All I want is my car, and I have that.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, let's take a look at it. Make sure.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
All right, Hey it's my car all right?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Look same upholstery inside and everything.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's amazing. We don't usually have this much.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Luck, Well, it's all you ius again, So I'll hop
in right back to town.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
What do you know, I I think I'd rather not
do well. I don't know, but the man we caught
driving it might still be around.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That's a good thought.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Well, if it leaves your mind, I suggest you take
my car and I'll drive you as I get.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A Blackie.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Auto suggestion.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Hey, yo, you're speaking to me, officer.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, where'd you get that? Well, if it isn't Boston, Blackie, And.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
If it isn't, Officer Smith, don't tell me I went
through a red light back there. No, Well, if I did,
I'll stop on a green ones make up for it.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
They're sitting in a bad car to make jokes. Blackee.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Oh, the car's all right. It's only my jokes to
the bad.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
There's nothing wrong with the car, black A.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's just what it was used for last night. Huh.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
What nineteen forty two Buick convertible over these license plates
was seen out in the country at nine o'clock last
night and the driver dumped a dead body.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out of it.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Now back to Boston, Blackie. A nineteen forty two Buick
convertible is wrecked and Mary Wesley's car, also a nineteen
forty two Buick convertible, is stolen. The thieves by the
wrecked car, lift out its engine and put it in
Mary's car, thereby removing from Mary's car one of its
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shortest means of.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Identification, the engine number.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Tom, the mechanic who switches the engines from the wrecked
to the stolen cars, threatens to go to the police
if he's not given more money, so Bill Morton, his boss,
shoots and kills him. The next day, Blackie spots Mary's
car and forces it to the curb. The driver flees,
but Blackie drives Mary's car back to town, where a
policeman informs him that a dead body had been dumped
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from that car the n I previous. As we return
to our story, Blackie has been taken to Inspector Faraday's office.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So you killed the guy, have Blackie and stolen car?
Huh and drove out in the country huh and dump
the body huh. And you thought you could get.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Away with it.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You forgot the last h Paraday Huh?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
All right? Huh?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now, look you you came in here yesterday and asked
me to find a stolen corfee of Mary Wesley's car
that wasn't stolen?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You had it?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
I didn't have it, Paraday, not until just now. I
caught a guy driving it, forced him to the side
of the road and took the car away.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
From our great story. The driver you took the car
away from, oh got away.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I was only interested in getting Mary's car back. I
wasn't interested in chasing to Faraday, Marylands.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I checked them more numbers than that car black he was.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Driving, and they were the engine numbers of Mary's car.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Right, No, Blackie, wrong, they weren't.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
What So, Blankie, you're driving a stolen car, No Faraday,
so help me.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
That's Mary's car I'm driving.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She identified it herself.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Well, maybe she needs glasses, or she's been around you
so long, maybe she needs brains. The telephone, Faraday speaking.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Specer, Paradise.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
This is Callahan and the stolen Car Apartment.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Don't bother me, fucking speker.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
You asked us to find a nineteen forty two I
Buick convertible.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Stolen from miss Mary Wesley. Well, we just got a call.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
From Leonard Wells that somebody stole a car from him
about an hour ago, and it was a nineteen forty
two of Buick convertible.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I know the answer to that from Callahan. I've got
the guy who lifted it. I'll handle this.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Hey, thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Black. He wants to ma with you.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The car you're driving belongs to a Leonard Wells, not
a Mary Wesley.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
What Faraday? There's something wrong here?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I'll say there's something wrong here.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I just said that.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Look, give me a couple of hours and let me
find out what this is all about. Nothing doing or
come on it? I could be a sport No, why not?
Aren't you the athletic type.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'm the type who can't stand jokes like that. But
I'll give you two hours and if you haven't cleared
yourself in that time, you'll get two years.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yes are you Leonard Wells?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Your car was stolen today, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Gave me quite a scare too, somebody cut me off.
I thought it was a stick up, so I.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Ran I'd like to talk to you about that. May
I come in sure? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
That was your car, mister Wells?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It was?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Do you have proof it was yours?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I bought it where Harry has used cars? When yesterday
you have.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
A bill of sale?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Where is the bill of sale right here?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Mm? Hm?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Engine license number matches the car I was driving? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Why should they?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Good question, mister Wells. Now, I'm going out and look
for an answer to the match. Are you the owner
of this car?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Lot?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm Harry.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Got the best used cars in town right here.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I don't doe it? Uh? Can you give me a
little information?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Sure, be glad to give you anything you want.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Mister. Did you sell a car to Leonard Wells today? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Sure did find car too, one of the best I've
had in a long time, nineteen forty two. You are convertible,
he recommends me to you.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yes, and a way. Where'd you get the car? Harry?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I bought it mister Fellop, her name of Jack Brown,
banged it up at Hanley Bridge night before last. I
bought it from him, Jack Brown. Eh, thanks, take that
n but mister think nothing of it.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yes, this is my car, all right, blanket. When I
cracked up at Hanley Bridge night before last. Lucky my
wife and I weren't killed. They sure did a good
job of fixing it up.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Are you sure this is your car, mister Brown? It's
gotta be, hasn't it?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Say?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Mate?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
The engine the.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Licen numbers matched the numbers of my bill to save
what you doing outside the police station?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It was stolen? Stolen?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You mean after I sold it to a fellow from
Harry's Used Cars.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I guess. So when did you sell it?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
About a half hour after I wrecked it. He offered
me fifty dollars for it, and I took it. I
wish I hadn't sold that wreck now. I didn't know
it'd be as easy to fix as this.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I wish you hadn't sold it either, Bran, for whoever
fixed this car of yours fixed me too, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You got ten minutes, you had two hours to go. Now,
why you about to go into the morgue?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Because Faraday, I followed every other lead and got nowhere.
Maybe seeing the body that was dumped out of the car,
you say I stole.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Will do me some good. Why don't you give up?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I wouldn't give you that much pleasure. Where's the body
on that table over there? Let's have a look at it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Okay, but you still have only ten minutes, no nine minutes.
Get out of that car stealing wrap. I know, I know,
I'll pull the sheet back. Eh, how long has it
been dead?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Since about six o'clock last night? Now when you give
up later, Farriday, I still have nine.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I've seen this fellow before, eh, Mary and I talked
to him yesterday in Bill Morton's garage.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
So what so this Jack.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Brown said his car as a total wreck after he
crashed into Hanley Bridge, but.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Now is causing fine shape.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
That means a lot of garage work was done on it, right.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You mean the car we caught you driving was smashed
up only night before last.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yes, and what I mean smashed and the.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Garage where it was repaired could have been Bill Morton's garage.
And this fellow here could have been the mechanic who
did the work on it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Could have been could have been.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What good is that, Faraday?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I've got the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Somebody bought Jack Brown's wreck, stole Mary's car because they
were both the same make and model, and switched the
engine numbers.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Sorry, Blackie, I thought of a pustle switching engine numbers too.
We have ways of telling if an engine number has
been changed.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
These weren't.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Oh hey, maybe the motor in Mary's car is the
motor and the.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Car that was wrecked.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Say that could be the.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Motors could have been transferred, and maybe it was this
guy who made the switch.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well maybe, but that doesn't tell us who killed him.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
His boss might have done it.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Why even you should be able to figure that out.
I could only find out where he was killed.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I'll tell you one thing. Maybe he was a mechanic,
but he wasn't killed in any garage. He had his
street clothes on. There wasn't a spot of grease on.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Him anywhere, not in his clothes, Faraday. But look at
his hands. They covered with grease. It proves he was
killed while he was still at the garage. All auto
mechanics wash their hands with special soap before leaving work.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Hey, that's right, Blackie, they do.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Somebody wanted to make it seem like he was killed
outside and probably switched his overalls for an ordinary suit.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Must have forgotten about the grease though, Eh.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Well, the grease on this fellow's hands may keep a
killer from slipping through our fingers.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
H Bill Mutton. Yeah, I'm Boston, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm doing a little investigating into the
death of a mechanic who used to work here.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
You mean Tom Tom's dead very or say that's too fair.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I wondered why he didn't come to work today.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
He couldn't very well. You know much about him.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh, he was a good worker, one of the best
repairmen I ever had.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Walked downstairs in a shop.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Oh, Tom work downstairs. Huh, don't mind if I go
down there and have a look around. Oh, come on,
I'll take you down.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Watch the steps to kind of weak some.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Of them, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Kind of dark here when no one's waking. Wait out
ten out of light.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, say some shop you have down here.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
We like it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
We can do most anything to a car when we
got a good mechanic like Tom was sure.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I hate losing him.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I saw Tom here yesterday. Where did you see him last?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Down here?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
He went out the door there. That was the last
I saw it.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Too bad. Kind of messed up place down here. But
it says a garage.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You know, we don't often have visitors.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
If we known you were coming, forget it.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Oh, say here's a rope mapped somebody's thrown away. I
need one of these, man, I have it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'll get your brand.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
No upstairs, No, it's all right. This is a new
one too.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Let's see if it has the right territory inside planning
not taking a trip.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
In front of the line is hmmm, he says, what
I want? Everything? I want? Good, mister Morton.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, Tom's body was dumped out of a car on
a country road last night.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Where were you then, me? I was here all night.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Tom's body was dumped out of a car about nine o'clock.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You were here then too, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I was here from about five o'clock in the afternoon
until about five o'clock the next morning.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
One of my nightmen was off sick. Thanks, mister Morton.
Thanks a lot. What are you doing pulling a gun
on me, accusing you of Tom's murder? That's all You're crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I just told you I was here when Tom's body
was dumped in the country.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I can prove that I know you were here, mister Morton,
which means that somebody else dumped his body for you.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But you killed him.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
What makes you think so?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
You told me so?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I told you yes, when you admitted that you were
here from five last night until five this morning. Because
Tom was shot and killed in this garage at six
o'clock last night, you remember to change his clothes?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Do you shut him. But you forgot to wash his hands,
too bad Morton.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
If Tom's hands had been washed, maybe we'd never be
able to guess that your hands weren't clean.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Oh, what a lovely day for driving the country, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
I'm surprised you wanted to go with me, Mary. Aren't
you leaving on your trip tomorrow?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
I am, and it'll be such a release to go
on my own car. Oh, by the way, you will
get me a new road map like you did.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Before, won't you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I certainly will not, Blacky. I don't have to marry
I've already done it.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Oh thanks, When did you get it?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Two hours ago?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Where?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
And Bill Morton's criage?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Darling?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Do you mean that you had time to catch Bill Morton?
Get him to confess and the name that Harry person
is his?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
The compass?
Speaker 7 (23:57):
And still get me a map?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Personal fellow to say the least speedy.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
That's me.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Let's see if you had time to mark the root
for me like you did last time?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
No, no, I didn't, Well.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
You did, so it's marked.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know when I marked that, Matt, Mary? When last week?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Last week?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Oh Blackie, the mark road map was in my car when.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I was stolen I know, and it was in an
ash can in Bill Morton's garage when I went to
see him.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
That's the map you lost.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Mary, Then that's how you knew my car had been
in Buil's garage and that he was involved in this.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Yes, And isn't it a bit of an irony, Mary,
that when I marked out the root of your trip,
I also marked the root for Bill Morton's trip, the
last one he'll ever take.
Your move, Harry.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, Bill, let's see you get away for my king
after this move.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think you got me?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is why not?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Why you?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Harry? There is only a chicken.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Game, not the way you play it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But you still got a chance King and no King.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah maybe if you don't make any more dumb moves. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I could answer that, but there's no use partners being
sold each other over a little game of Just.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
A minute, Bill Martin's garage, Yeah, what kind?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay, go buy it Neona right away?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Bill?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Good news? Ray?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That car cracked up at Hanley Bridge just a little
while ago.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh that swell.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let make nineteen forty two Buick convertible Coop nineteen forty
two convertible Cooper.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, Buick. I sent time out the steel one just
like it. Now.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who
make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Oh, Mary, this is Blackie.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Yes, Darling.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Thanks for the use of your car, Mary, but you
don't have another one. I can borrow all mines in
the garage.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Do young with my car back?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Nothing much? I parked it out in front of the court.
Has a few minutes ago when I went back to
get it, it was stolen. Stolen unless it's part homing pigeon
and left for its garage by itself.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh do you well, don't worry about it, Mary, it's ensured.
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh, yes, I'm not worried about that part of it.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
I'll probably get it back anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
But it certainly foiled my trip.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Well, no it doesn't. My car will be fixing the day,
so you can borrow that.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Oh, thanks, backie?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Could I?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh It's the least I can do for you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, now I feel better.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh oh, will you do me.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Another favor though?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Remember the route you mark for me on that road?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Lab Yes, well, it was in my car, so i'll
need another one.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
I'll pick one up today, Thanks God. Look, Mary, I
want to get the police on this right away. That'd
give me some identifying details about that car viewers.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh yeah, sure, What do you need to know?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Oh, engine number and so forth. All I know now
is that it's a nineteen forty two Buick convertible.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Hello Friday, goodbye, Blankie.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I'll say goodbye in a minute. Inspector, First, I want
you to do something for me.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Be kind of Boston Blankie week?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
That's next week right now? This is do something for
Mary Wesley hour, Mary cars ben Stone.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You come to me about a stolen car.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yes, I know stolen cars are out of your department,
but I thought you could use your influence to get
some fast action in finding it. You do have influence
around here, don't you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I don't think so, at least not enough to keep
you out.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Of my office. Well that's because I have a certain
amount of influence myself. Oh, come on, furday, be a sport.
If you won't do this.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
For me, do it for Mary, all right, as long
as it's for her. What kind of a car is it?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Nineteen forty two BUA convertible engine number. Let me see
at two nine three six seven four one for well, anything.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Else, nothing of importance.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
The thieves can't get rid of air of ladies, gloves,
flash light, the usual junk. But don't bother about those things.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I won't.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Oh, there's a slight dent and a rather long scratch
on the right rear of fender.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Dent and scratch on rear friendly right, Okay, Blackie, I'll
do what I can, but I want you to understand something.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I know what it is, Fara day. You aren't doing
this for me or doing it for Mary. Well, I'm
sure she appreciates.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
It's okay, mister Morton. Pete and I are putting the
motor from the wrecked car into the stolen car right now.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Learn easy, Pete.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, Okay, Hey, I noticed car. What'd you pick it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Up in front of the courthouse.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's little while ago, mister Morton, any trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Not a bit hold of Pete? Okay, engines in place
now a couple of minutes more, I have another job.
All done. Uh thanks, Pech.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You can go back upstairs now.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Okay, you're gonna call me a good Yeah, I gotta laugh.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah it's Morton.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Why why you know who is? Stolen car belongs to NAC,
to Mary Wesley. She parks it right here in my garage. Yeah,
well I would know about that.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I work down here in the basement most of the time.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What are you griping about? This is where you do
your best work. Got everything cleaned out of her car?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, we'll get rid of everything. Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Good, be sure you get rid of the motor out
of Miss Wesley's car. We don't want that later round,
don't worry, I said, Uh, somebody upstairs wants to get
that car.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I guess Pete must be busy.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Hold the hammer at time.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Okay, I'm through anyway, Yeah, mister Morton, Yeah, Pete. A
lady up here wants to see you, missus Wesley. She
wants to talk talk to you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh tell her I'm not here. No, hey, I sent
Tom up to talk to her.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Okay, hey, Tom, do you have mister Morton?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The Wesley Dame is upstairs? You go talk to her.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Will he talk to her? What'll I say?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Just hear what she has to say.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, you got the motive the wreck car in so
this Wesley Gal's carl will run.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
It's all set to travel, mister Morton, Okay, go up
and see what the Wesley Dame wants.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
If she wants me, I'm.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Not here, okay, Boss, I remember I'm smart that way,
Hi Pee, where's this Miss Wesley?
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
There by the guys pumps?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Thanks, I'm Tom the mechanic. You want something, Miss Westley?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What she wants is a car.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I can talk for myself Blackie, Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Do you have a car?
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I can risk mine's been stolen.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Ah, that's too bad, mess, But we don't have a thing.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Well, it was a nice try, Mary. Maybe my garage
will let her not one.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
No, Blackie, we'll just wait till.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yours is ready.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Sorry, can't help you, miss. Is that all you wanted?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Thanks? I hope you get your car back, miss, Thanks?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So do I come on, Blackie, Let's.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Hop in a cab and go down to micro.
Speaker 11 (07:13):
Eyes, Say Pete, Yeah, Tom, did you get that new
grease gun from Barney's?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh not yet.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
You better run over there and get.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It right away. I'm gonna need.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It, okay, but we'll watch things up here.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I'm through downstairs.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
I'll take over right, Okay, I'm going downstairs, see the boss.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
It you still down here, miss Martin? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What did the west lead name? War time?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
There was a reddit car.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Isn't that a hot one with their own car right
down here?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (07:51):
But let her try to claim this is hers now
with that new motor in it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, that's right, here's your dull time twenty five.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
But uh, look, mister Morton, I've been wanting to talk
to you, eh, it's jobs getting to be worth more
than twenty five.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Bucks a car. Who thinks, so I I do?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I do?
Speaker 12 (08:15):
I think I ought to get a hundred dollars a
job from now, or maybe I might do some talking someplace.
Oh really, yeah, I'll start by taking a hundred for
this one.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
It's not too much. You and your partner, Harry, make
almost a thousand clear.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
At least days.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I sent Pete Barney's for a grease gun. Oh uh,
don't get me off the hundred bucks.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
I want it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 13 (08:43):
See, oh it isn't Uh, it's as simple as this.
Here's one for lunch job.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh, Harry, he's used guys, Alry, This is Bill Morton.
I got another car ready for you. Yeah, the engine
from the wreck car is in it in good shape too.
We already get nine hundred to a thousand.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
For this one. Good. I'll send for bright away.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And by the way, Harry, we'll need a new mechanic.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Mechanic. Why what's the matter with Tom?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Tom? Well, he don't work here anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Hasn't there been any trace of my car at all?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Black Hee's not a sign of marror. If Friday would
have called me. Now, relax and enjoy this country road.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Oh dear, I do hate to take your car when
I go away.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What do you do for one?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well, whoever stole your car has been pretty successful and
keeping it hidden for a whole day.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Maybe I'll steal one too, Oh.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Blackie, don't worry, Lucky.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
What that car that just tasked us?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That's my car?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
If you're convertible? All right?
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Sure you're yes, yes, yes, Look the plates are different,
but there's a dent and a scratch on the right
riar fender.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You're right, Mary, there is.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What we do.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You may not want to play.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Is gonna happen so fast he won't have time to play, Bucky,
look out, my god, nothing, I'm cutting him off.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Brother, you say, hey, Mary.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's driven. Make it tough about it.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He's running away. I sort of stop him. Don't you
kill him.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I was just firing into the air, but it didn't
stop him anyway.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
We'll let him call darling.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
All I want is my car, and I have that.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, let's take a look at it. Make sure.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
All right, Hey it's my car all right?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Look same upholstery inside and everything.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's amazing. We don't usually have this much.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Luck, Well, it's all you ius again, So I'll hop
in right back to town.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
What do you know, I I think I'd rather not
do well. I don't know, but the man we caught
driving it might still be around.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That's a good thought.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Well, if it leaves your mind, I suggest you take
my car and I'll drive you as I get.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A Blackie.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Auto suggestion.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Hey, yo, you're speaking to me, officer.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, where'd you get that? Well, if it isn't Boston, Blackie, And.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
If it isn't, Officer Smith, don't tell me I went
through a red light back there. No, Well, if I did,
I'll stop on a green ones make up for it.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
They're sitting in a bad car to make jokes. Blackee.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Oh, the car's all right. It's only my jokes to
the bad.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
There's nothing wrong with the car, black A.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's just what it was used for last night. Huh.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
What nineteen forty two Buick convertible over these license plates
was seen out in the country at nine o'clock last
night and the driver dumped a dead body.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out of it.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Now back to Boston, Blackie. A nineteen forty two Buick
convertible is wrecked and Mary Wesley's car, also a nineteen
forty two Buick convertible, is stolen. The thieves by the
wrecked car, lift out its engine and put it in
Mary's car, thereby removing from Mary's car one of its
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shortest means of.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Identification, the engine number.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Tom, the mechanic who switches the engines from the wrecked
to the stolen cars, threatens to go to the police
if he's not given more money, so Bill Morton, his boss,
shoots and kills him. The next day, Blackie spots Mary's
car and forces it to the curb. The driver flees,
but Blackie drives Mary's car back to town, where a
policeman informs him that a dead body had been dumped
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from that car the n I previous. As we return
to our story, Blackie has been taken to Inspector Faraday's office.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So you killed the guy, have Blackie and stolen car?
Huh and drove out in the country huh and dump
the body huh. And you thought you could get.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Away with it.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You forgot the last h Paraday Huh?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
All right? Huh?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now, look you you came in here yesterday and asked
me to find a stolen corfee of Mary Wesley's car
that wasn't stolen?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You had it?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
I didn't have it, Paraday, not until just now. I
caught a guy driving it, forced him to the side
of the road and took the car away.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
From our great story. The driver you took the car
away from, oh got away.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I was only interested in getting Mary's car back. I
wasn't interested in chasing to Faraday, Marylands.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I checked them more numbers than that car black he was.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Driving, and they were the engine numbers of Mary's car.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Right, No, Blackie, wrong, they weren't.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
What So, Blankie, you're driving a stolen car, No Faraday,
so help me.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
That's Mary's car I'm driving.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She identified it herself.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Well, maybe she needs glasses, or she's been around you
so long, maybe she needs brains. The telephone, Faraday speaking.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Specer, Paradise.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
This is Callahan and the stolen Car Apartment.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Don't bother me, fucking speker.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
You asked us to find a nineteen forty two I
Buick convertible.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Stolen from miss Mary Wesley. Well, we just got a call.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
From Leonard Wells that somebody stole a car from him
about an hour ago, and it was a nineteen forty
two of Buick convertible.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I know the answer to that from Callahan. I've got
the guy who lifted it. I'll handle this.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Hey, thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Black. He wants to ma with you.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The car you're driving belongs to a Leonard Wells, not
a Mary Wesley.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
What Faraday? There's something wrong here?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I'll say there's something wrong here.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I just said that.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Look, give me a couple of hours and let me
find out what this is all about. Nothing doing or
come on it? I could be a sport No, why not?
Aren't you the athletic type.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'm the type who can't stand jokes like that. But
I'll give you two hours and if you haven't cleared
yourself in that time, you'll get two years.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yes are you Leonard Wells?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Your car was stolen today, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Gave me quite a scare too, somebody cut me off.
I thought it was a stick up, so I.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Ran I'd like to talk to you about that. May
I come in sure? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
That was your car, mister Wells?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It was?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Do you have proof it was yours?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I bought it where Harry has used cars? When yesterday
you have.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
A bill of sale?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Where is the bill of sale right here?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Mm? Hm?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Engine license number matches the car I was driving? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Why should they?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Good question, mister Wells. Now, I'm going out and look
for an answer to the match. Are you the owner
of this car?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Lot?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm Harry.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Got the best used cars in town right here.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I don't doe it? Uh? Can you give me a
little information?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Sure, be glad to give you anything you want.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Mister. Did you sell a car to Leonard Wells today? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Sure did find car too, one of the best I've
had in a long time, nineteen forty two. You are convertible,
he recommends me to you.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yes, and a way. Where'd you get the car? Harry?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I bought it mister Fellop, her name of Jack Brown,
banged it up at Hanley Bridge night before last. I
bought it from him, Jack Brown. Eh, thanks, take that
n but mister think nothing of it.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yes, this is my car, all right, blanket. When I
cracked up at Hanley Bridge night before last. Lucky my
wife and I weren't killed. They sure did a good
job of fixing it up.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Are you sure this is your car, mister Brown? It's
gotta be, hasn't it?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Say?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Mate?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
The engine the.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Licen numbers matched the numbers of my bill to save
what you doing outside the police station?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It was stolen? Stolen?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You mean after I sold it to a fellow from
Harry's Used Cars.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I guess. So when did you sell it?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
About a half hour after I wrecked it. He offered
me fifty dollars for it, and I took it. I
wish I hadn't sold that wreck now. I didn't know
it'd be as easy to fix as this.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I wish you hadn't sold it either, Bran, for whoever
fixed this car of yours fixed me too, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You got ten minutes, you had two hours to go. Now,
why you about to go into the morgue?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Because Faraday, I followed every other lead and got nowhere.
Maybe seeing the body that was dumped out of the car,
you say I stole.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Will do me some good. Why don't you give up?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I wouldn't give you that much pleasure. Where's the body
on that table over there? Let's have a look at it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Okay, but you still have only ten minutes, no nine minutes.
Get out of that car stealing wrap. I know, I know,
I'll pull the sheet back. Eh, how long has it
been dead?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Since about six o'clock last night? Now when you give
up later, Farriday, I still have nine.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I've seen this fellow before, eh, Mary and I talked
to him yesterday in Bill Morton's garage.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
So what so this Jack.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Brown said his car as a total wreck after he
crashed into Hanley Bridge, but.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Now is causing fine shape.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
That means a lot of garage work was done on it, right.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You mean the car we caught you driving was smashed
up only night before last.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yes, and what I mean smashed and the.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Garage where it was repaired could have been Bill Morton's garage.
And this fellow here could have been the mechanic who
did the work on it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Could have been could have been.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What good is that, Faraday?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I've got the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Somebody bought Jack Brown's wreck, stole Mary's car because they
were both the same make and model, and switched the
engine numbers.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Sorry, Blackie, I thought of a pustle switching engine numbers too.
We have ways of telling if an engine number has
been changed.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
These weren't.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Oh hey, maybe the motor in Mary's car is the
motor and the.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Car that was wrecked.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Say that could be the.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Motors could have been transferred, and maybe it was this
guy who made the switch.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well maybe, but that doesn't tell us who killed him.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
His boss might have done it.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Why even you should be able to figure that out.
I could only find out where he was killed.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I'll tell you one thing. Maybe he was a mechanic,
but he wasn't killed in any garage. He had his
street clothes on. There wasn't a spot of grease on.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Him anywhere, not in his clothes, Faraday. But look at
his hands. They covered with grease. It proves he was
killed while he was still at the garage. All auto
mechanics wash their hands with special soap before leaving work.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Hey, that's right, Blackie, they do.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Somebody wanted to make it seem like he was killed
outside and probably switched his overalls for an ordinary suit.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Must have forgotten about the grease though, Eh.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Well, the grease on this fellow's hands may keep a
killer from slipping through our fingers.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
H Bill Mutton. Yeah, I'm Boston, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm doing a little investigating into the
death of a mechanic who used to work here.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
You mean Tom Tom's dead very or say that's too fair.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I wondered why he didn't come to work today.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
He couldn't very well. You know much about him.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh, he was a good worker, one of the best
repairmen I ever had.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Walked downstairs in a shop.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Oh, Tom work downstairs. Huh, don't mind if I go
down there and have a look around. Oh, come on,
I'll take you down.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Watch the steps to kind of weak some.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Of them, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Kind of dark here when no one's waking. Wait out
ten out of light.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, say some shop you have down here.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
We like it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
We can do most anything to a car when we
got a good mechanic like Tom was sure.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I hate losing him.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I saw Tom here yesterday. Where did you see him last?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Down here?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
He went out the door there. That was the last
I saw it.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Too bad. Kind of messed up place down here. But
it says a garage.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You know, we don't often have visitors.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
If we known you were coming, forget it.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Oh, say here's a rope mapped somebody's thrown away. I
need one of these, man, I have it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'll get your brand.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
No upstairs, No, it's all right. This is a new
one too.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Let's see if it has the right territory inside planning
not taking a trip.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
In front of the line is hmmm, he says, what
I want? Everything? I want? Good, mister Morton.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, Tom's body was dumped out of a car on
a country road last night.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Where were you then, me? I was here all night.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Tom's body was dumped out of a car about nine o'clock.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You were here then too, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I was here from about five o'clock in the afternoon
until about five o'clock the next morning.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
One of my nightmen was off sick. Thanks, mister Morton.
Thanks a lot. What are you doing pulling a gun
on me, accusing you of Tom's murder? That's all You're crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I just told you I was here when Tom's body
was dumped in the country.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I can prove that I know you were here, mister Morton,
which means that somebody else dumped his body for you.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But you killed him.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
What makes you think so?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
You told me so?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I told you yes, when you admitted that you were
here from five last night until five this morning. Because
Tom was shot and killed in this garage at six
o'clock last night, you remember to change his clothes?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Do you shut him. But you forgot to wash his hands,
too bad Morton.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
If Tom's hands had been washed, maybe we'd never be
able to guess that your hands weren't clean.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Oh, what a lovely day for driving the country, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
I'm surprised you wanted to go with me, Mary. Aren't
you leaving on your trip tomorrow?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
I am, and it'll be such a release to go
on my own car. Oh, by the way, you will
get me a new road map like you did.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Before, won't you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I certainly will not, Blacky. I don't have to marry
I've already done it.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Oh thanks, When did you get it?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Two hours ago?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Where?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
And Bill Morton's criage?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Darling?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Do you mean that you had time to catch Bill Morton?
Get him to confess and the name that Harry person
is his?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
The compass?
Speaker 7 (23:57):
And still get me a map?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Personal fellow to say the least speedy.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
That's me.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Let's see if you had time to mark the root
for me like you did last time?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
No, no, I didn't, Well.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
You did, so it's marked.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know when I marked that, Matt, Mary? When last week?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Last week?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Oh Blackie, the mark road map was in my car when.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I was stolen I know, and it was in an
ash can in Bill Morton's garage when I went to
see him.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
That's the map you lost.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Mary, Then that's how you knew my car had been
in Buil's garage and that he was involved in this.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Yes, And isn't it a bit of an irony, Mary,
that when I marked out the root of your trip,
I also marked the root for Bill Morton's trip, the
last one he'll ever take.
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