July 29, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
No, Doctor Austin, I just won't believe it. I know
my grandfather was murdered, but that's impossible, Linda.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Your grandfather was in a hospital bed attended by several doctors,
I among them, when he died.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, I know that, but just the same I know
that Joe Reid killed him.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Linda, you'll have to face the facts. I know as
well as you do that Joe Reid hated your grandfather.
But your grandfather died a natural death. He suffered from
heart trouble for eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was his heart that killed him.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, doctor Joe Reid killed him. I know what I
feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why, Linda, why would Read kill your grandfather?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You know very well, doctor Austin.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Grandfather left him fifty thousand dollars in his will.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, if that's your only logic, you and I had
a reason to kill your grandfather too. He left me
twenty five thousand and you get more than a hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That doesn't make any difference. Grandfather was going to cut
Joe Read out of his will. I know it, and
I think Read knew it too, and he killed grandfather
before he could do it.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
You keep him from changing his will.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Isn't that what you'd do?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Doctor, I wouldn't commit murder for fifty thousand dollars or
for any amount, and neither would Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Nolinder.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I know you dislike read, but I'm afraid you can't
make trouble for him. Your grandfather died unnatural deaths.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well, I know he didn't, Doctor Austin.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I know that Joe murdered him, and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
To prove it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Howlinder, How I'm going to Boston Blackie.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
That's how.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friend.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hello, Hello, Tom, This is Bob.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh how are you, Bob?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
What's new?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Nothing, just the same old stuff.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You doing anything this weekend?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No? I don't think so. Oh yes, missus Van Grifton,
No not there.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, wants me to go to our country home for
the weekend. But I think I'll have a much better
time at ah.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No. Hello, who are you? Hello?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Tom?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Put down that knife?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Hello Tom?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Children?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Children, don't go too far away from the door, and
don't be late for supper.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Ye, m.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Where did you come from? Who are you?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Put down at knife.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Here's the third one, Inspector Faraday, lion right here on
the dock work.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But prolman Murphy found.
Speaker 9 (03:33):
Him the third one in five hours, and all with
a ten cent store kitchen knife stuck in him.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Rollins.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We've got a madman on the loose. Yeah, kill him
for the fun of it.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
This has got me, no kidding. First Tom Marshall, one
of the richest men in town, then that housewife out
in green Meadows, and now this, this bomb at the waterfront.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And bomb is about the only identification we have on
this one.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Inspector, tell her who he is?
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
No identification?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Take him to the mague.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Maybe we'll get identification from fingerprints or dental work, if
any have. We got to work fast and grab this killer,
and we'll have another body lying around somewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, but how are we going to figure where this
killer is going to strike next? He just picks out
anybody anywhere and sticks a knife.
Speaker 9 (04:09):
And I had know, but there must be some way.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Who's this?
Speaker 9 (04:13):
You might know who it is?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Blankie?
Speaker 9 (04:16):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Looking for you? It looks as if my admission is accomplished.
What do you get here? What does it look like
stand no strangled.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
The knife in his chest is just for effect. Pet
it will I get enough trouble?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Since one is one body.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Trouble for the great inspected Paraday, No, one body isn't.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
But this happens to be the third one on the
last five hours.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What yeah, the third and.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
All killed in the same way, but the same type
of instrument, a ten cent store kitchen knife.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
All here at the waterfront, of course.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Now.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
One of the victims was Tom Marshall, the millionaire. Yeah,
killed in his home. The second was a woman, missus
Harriet Jones. She was killed the same way on a
street out in Green Meadows. And yeah, this one, we
can't even identify it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You've got a problem worse than mine.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
I'll say I have, and don't make it any better.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Stay out of it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Stay out of it, old farady.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
How can I three absolutely unrelated people kill the same
way in three different parts of town.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Tell you what, let's do.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
This is gonna be good.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
I'll take this case and you take mine. I'm trying
to prove murder in the case of an old man
who died of hot trouble in the hospital.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Look, will you quit bothering me?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
With Child's play, Chiles, player is awfully consistent with your mentality.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Not you get out of my sight and stay out.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I've got a madman on the loose.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
I don't want you bothering me till I got him
on the books.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Where are we going? Blackie?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
The City hospital? Married to see doctor Raustin.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
What can he have to do with the three madman murders?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Mary Paraday won't let me work on that case with him,
and he won't give me enough information, so I can
go to work on it myself.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So I'm going to see what I can do for
Linda Graham.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Old Blackie.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
It's just nonsensibly which he told you about her grandfather
being killed. Oh, mister Graham died of heart trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I know, but she thinks a man named Joe Reid
killed him.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Now how he died in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I know that too.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
But according to miss Graham's story, Joe Reid was an
old Man Graham's secretary.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
Oh, I see, and all secretaries kill her bosses, now
what sense this pet?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
None?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Reid was afraid he was going to be cut out
of old Man Graham's will, so he wanted to kill
him before he had a chance to change that.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Will Who say that as if you believe it?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
No, Mary, I don't believe it, not yet anyhow. But
miss Graham came to me in good faith, and I
promised her that I do what.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I can for her.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So so you're going to do what you can.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
For which is nothing? WHOA not exactly nothing.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
I'm going to talk to old man Graham's doctor and
everyone else involved, but I'm afraid what I'll end up
with is nothing. Well here's the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Well, here goes nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Doctor Rausin.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yes, I'm doctor Austin.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm Boston, Blackie. How do you do You won't.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
Mind if I ask you a few questions, William, No.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Not at all, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
In fact, I've been expecting you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You have.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yes, Linda said she was going to see you.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Well she did see me. She thinks her grandfather was murdered. Yes, yes,
I know, and by Joe Reid. Huh, because Joe Reid
was afraid he was going to be cut out of
Graham's will any possibility read murdered Graham.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
None whatsoever, Blackie. I treated Graham for eighteen years. He
died in this hospital. And the presence of two other doctors,
both of whom have attested that heart.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Failure killed him.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Thank you doctor.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
It looks as if Graham's death was quite all right,
and miss Linder Graham is quite all wrong.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
For a pretty girl, you're awfully stupid, miss Graham? Or
is there a lot of truth in the expression beautiful
but dumb?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't know how you have the nerve to talk
to me, mister Reed.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I didn't want to talk to you, miss Graham. You
wanted to talk to me. This is uh my apartment,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And why do you even have an apartment? Because my
grandfather was too kind of fire you, even after you
had robbed him.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I robbed your grandfather, Then why wasn't I sent to jail,
mister Reed?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You know very well why you weren't.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Grandfather wouldn't prosecute No, of course, not because he had
no proof, just as you have no proof that your
grandfather died of anything but a bad heart.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You killed him, didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You, My dear miss Graham.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Your grandfather's death is a matter of medical record. He
was an old man who had suffered for many years
from an ailing heart.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
His heart just stopped beating but you wanted him to die,
didn't you.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I'm fifty thousand dollars richer, and I like his money
much better than I liked him.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But you knew he was going to cut you out
of his will, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You, yes, I did. He told me so two weeks ago,
and he told you. That's why you killed him.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
My dear Miss Graham, must even the simplest effects be
explained to you. A heart attack killed your grandma.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No, mister Reed, you killed them. I don't know how,
but I'm going to find out, and I'm going to
prove it.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Miss Graham.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I'd advise you to let matters stand as they are,
stay away from me.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'd like to be amused.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
By your accusations, Miss Graham, but your insistence is beginning
to bore me that I hate to be bored.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I'll get out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I will help you here.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Come, come, it's not that bad. I think I will
teach you to let you read like.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That makes two of us. But I'm afraid mister Reed
isn't going to make that unanimous.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Blackie, Boston, Blackie, I suppose we'll both of you.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Get out of here. What'd want to be alone? Yes?
Will you settle for being half alone? What do you mean?
It's Graham? Will you step out for a while? Please?
My car is park down in front.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Maybe you'd better stay.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Miss Graham changed her mind awfully fast, and Jerad, too
bad you didn't change mine.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Go ahead, Miss Graham, wait for me in my car,
all right, Blackie, if you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Say so, I'll wait there.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Reed was teaching you something a minute ago, Miss Graham.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Now he's going to take a lesson from the professor.
I won't be long. He looks like a good student.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I'll wait for you, blackly ah read.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
There's only one thing I have to say to you,
and next.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
What did you hit me for, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I am belaying to you.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
A little top was for not knowing how to talk
to a lady. This one is for twisting a ram
a few minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I'll hit me again.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Get up your wrest and I'll trust you a level
to crawl in your hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Get up.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You've got no right to come here and hit me.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
The police would the police? Will you? May? I ought
to let you have one in advance in case you do. No, No,
don't now, Please don't. I won't go to I won't
go near him. Read.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I didn't know why I didn't like you when I
walked in here.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I still don't know, but I kind of like not
liking you. It sort of makes me a nicer guy.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
And I want to leave me alone, Blacky.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I never interfeit with you.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
You know, Miss Graham had an idea you were responsible
for her grandfather's death.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He died.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
I know, I know he died at all, right, there
is that perhaps you didn't actually kill him, but you
were responsible for something phony somewhere along the line.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And after seeing you, I don't.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Let me alone, Blacky, Please let me alone.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Sue only you've given me some cause for thought. You're
so exact, so precise, your clothes, well.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It just so.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
I wonder how your etiquette is. I wonder if you
know the proper way too. Let's say, hold a knife.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And now back to Boston, Blackie. Lynda Graham comes to
Blackie to accuse Joe Reid of murdering her aged grandfather,
but authoritative medical reports show the grandfather died in a
hospital bed of a heart ailment he had been suffering
(12:16):
from for eighteen years. Meanwhile, Inspector Faraday is faced with
a baffling trio of murders. Three people in three different
parts of town and in three different walks of life
are murdered in the same way, and all within the
space of five hours. As we return to our story, Blackie,
unable to solve his case, walks into police headquarters to
(12:38):
see how Inspector.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Faraday is doing with his.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Hello, rawlins, how known find Blackie to hear it? Don't
bother you? When asks me, I'll go right into Paraday's
Oh no, you don't, Blackie. The inspector doesn't want to
see you, even if he telephone for me. Rawlins, Oh he.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Called for you.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well that's different, all right in thanks Rowlins.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Hey wait a minute, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Come back here.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Did the inspector call for you?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Thanks for letting me in. You got the identification? Huh good?
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Thanks doctor Packer.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Goodbye?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh so it's you.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Well, the same goes for you too, Blankie.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Goodbye.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
No, Farday, you know you don't mean that You're glad
to see me, aren't you.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Yes, Blankie, I am looking at you makes me realize
how lucky I am.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
To be me, Well lucky you, how lucky have you
been with those three murders.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
But I haven't been lucky at all.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I've been smart.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
I got identification on the body we found at the waterfront.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Did the dead man wake up and tell all No.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
He was identified through his dental work?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh so what, Dennis?
Speaker 9 (13:50):
None of your business?
Speaker 8 (13:51):
All right, I'll sell the case by tracing back the
knives using the sabbing.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I've already done that.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
They can't be traced. Their ordinary kitchen knives bought at
the ten cent stores and every time store and Tom
carries them.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
You just don't want me to help you do I'll
tell you a little secret, Blacky.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What No, Paraday? Who is the dentist who identify the victim?
Speaker 9 (14:13):
Not any of business?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Oh come on Friday, please, no, please, no, I said,
But I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
You said, inspect him? What You were on the phone
when I came in, and you said, thanks lot, doctor
Parker saw what? So Parker is a doctor.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
A doctor can be a dentist, and I'm going to
see him to get my teeth into this case.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, Blackie, I identified the dental work for Inspector Faraday.
The dead man was Bernest Brown, a carpenter here in
the building.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I see.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well, do you know any reason why anyone would want
to kill him, Doctor.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Parker, No, no, not at all. But I will tell
you something. He was about to call the police when
you came in. Missus Harriet Jones, a Madman's second victim, was.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Also a patient of mine. What yes, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Oh, I know that she lived out in Green Meadows,
but I used to practice out there, and well she
got in the habit of coming to me.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Well, don't tell us Tom Marshall was a patient.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Of yours too.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
If he was, I'm gonna faint.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, Tom Marshall wasn't a regular patient of mine. He
was passing by one day and he had a toothache
and saw my sign stopped in for an emergency treatment
one day.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What one day? That might have some significance.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yes, I think it does, Blackie. That's what I was
going to call the police about. It was a week
ago last Friday.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Why call the police about that?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Because Missus Wesley a week ago last Friday, Ernest Brown
and Harriet Jones were in my office too, and all
three of them were here at the same time.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Well, I'd say that's interesting, but it's not it's more
than interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You think it has direct bearing on their being murdered
by this madman?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
It's the first hint of a connection with the three
of them. Looker, why they were here? Was anyone else
with him?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Mmmm?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, no, The three of them were alone in the
waiting room. My nurse and I were busy in the
other room with another patient.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Then that's it. While they were sitting here they saw
something or heard something. The killer didn't want them to
see you here, Come on, Mary, where to? I'll tell
you later, Doctor Parker.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Call Inspector Friday and give him the information you just
gave me.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
To tell him not to do anything about it until
hears from me.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
All right, Come on, Marray, let's grab an elevator and get.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Out of heare all right back here? Were really on
the wi What are you looking.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
At that door at the other end of the hall. Here,
I'll link with the elevator for.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Goodness sake to buy The name on the door its
Lester Graham's old office.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Yes, it's very interesting. Maybe our mad killers jowel red in.
The three patients in Parker's office heard him say he
was going to kill.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
O.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
No, why not?
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Oh, just wonderful. In fact, Mary Graham wasn't murdered. Still,
Graham's office, being so near the dentist's waiting room, would
put Read in possible contact with the three murder.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Victims because it was Graham's secretary. Yeah, I suppose so.
But why would all three of them be killed? What
do they have in common? They weren't witnesses to a
murder or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
No, but what were they witnesses too?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We'll find the answer to that, and you find out
why they were killed.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's a great statement, Mary.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh, I'm a great girl. My gosh, have the elevators
in this building stopped running?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hum?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Daydreaming?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
No? Day thinking?
Speaker 8 (17:37):
What can three different people from three different parts of
the city have in common?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
M But let's stay with that witness angle. What could
they have seen?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Mary? I've got it.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
If there was another will cutting Reid out of Graham's
first will, I've got it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
God, what Mary?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
It takes three witnesses to make a will absolutely uncontestable.
The three people in Parker's waiting room could have been
a witnesses to Graham's second will if there there was
such a thing, and he could have been.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Looking for witnesses and walked in there.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's right, Blackie.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
And we knew about the will, Stolet destroyed it and
then killed the three witnesses.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
That is, of course, providing a second will exist.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, how can you find out? As you say, it's
probably been destroyed.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I think I know how, Mary.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Come on, we've got to get to a telephone.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Who are you calling, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Joe read Mary. He's hoping he doesn't call my bluff.
He is hoping to he's bluffing.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Hello, Joe reading. Yes, this is doctor Parker. Oh, doctor
Lester Parker, the dentist.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I don't think I know you do?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Huh No, we've.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
Never met, but I think we should meet him soon.
Why I know something I think you should know.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
I know why those three people one knife to death
yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Mm?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Oh really, well what about it?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I think maybe we'd better have a little talk about
what about.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Why those three people were killed?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Look, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
But I do.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
It's all Man Graham's will. The three murdered people will
witness this to it. But I was too in a way.
I just didn't have time to sign my name to it,
so I saw what was in the will accidentally.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Of course, it.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Seems you were cut off without assent.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Now, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 8 (19:33):
It is to me. It didn't mean anything to me then,
but it does now. See me in my office at
ten o'clock tonight, and I'll tell you how much. Is
there only one entrance to this office of yours, doctor Parker, Yes, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Just the door of the reception room here.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
He won't sneak up behind us.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
No, if he shows up at all, which I'm beginning
to doubt. It's ten out of ten already and a
sign of him.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Maybe your trick isn't going to work.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Maybe Read isn't a murderer. But it won't be your
fault if I can't prove anything. You're a brave Canada.
Go through with this, doctor. If reads the man we're after,
he's a dangerous killer, Blacky, we simply the elevator door
just opened. Good now, sh I'll stay back from the door.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Don't worry. I'm back.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
He's coming down the hall.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah. Here, aim take him into your office when he
gets in, but leave the door open.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
So I can hear.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I'll get back at this desk now just outside the door.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Now, good luck.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Thanks, hello, Blackie, you hear call Faraday? Blackie?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
What are you doing hiding in the dark?
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Not trying to hide from you, Inspector, turn on the lights,
doctor Parker. All right, I'm afraid our trick didn't work well, trick?
Speaker 9 (21:00):
And what was miss Wesley's idea of telling me.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You were in dangerous?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Skip it? Inspector?
Speaker 8 (21:04):
You know, doctor Parkin, Yes, yes, Blankie, what are you
up to? I thought I was up to grabbing your
killer for you. That seems my suspected and come up
to be grabbed. Come on, doctor, I'll drive you home. Okay,
you come along to Faraday.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'll tell you all about it on the way.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, thanks for the left home.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Blackie's all right, Doctor, glad to do it. Thanks for
helping me try to catch Red.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's if he was either not gullible or too smart
for us, though it doesn't take much to be too
smart for Blankie.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Now, Friday, is that nice?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Just true?
Speaker 9 (21:43):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Good night, It's Baker. Good night night, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
D fucker m M.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Good evening, Doctor Parker, who are you.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You ought to know, doctor Parker.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
You said you wanted to see me tonight in your
office at ten o'clock. They're Joe Reid marvelous deduction. Sorry
I couldn't keep my appointment with you at your office,
but it seems so unwise.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't like traps. Traps? Do I look like a fool?
Doctor Parker?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Oh, I see you were afraid the police might be
waiting in my office with me'am?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Do I look like a fool?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Mister Reid?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Look, I can make a great deal of money keeping
the police away from you.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You can, yes, as much as you can afford to pay.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
What makes you think? So?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
What I know about you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Graham's second will and the three people killed by what
the police think is a madman.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You think I killed them?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I know you did, but I think we could come
to an understanding.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
If what are you talking about about?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Keeping my mouth shut? If you keep your wallet open?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
How do I know you haven't already gone to the police.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
I wouldn't be talking money if I had. Yeah, I
don't believe me. You're quite safe so far.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
No one else knows about Graham's second will, the one
you probably destroyed no one but me.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Nobody knows, huh.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Only the two of us.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I'd be a lot safer if they were only one
of us, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I'll look here.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You look here, you'll see a gun in my hand,
A nice, well loaded gun. Too bad you kept this
to yourself, doctor, because that gives me a reason for
killing you.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
You don't care how many people you kill.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Do you? No one more or less one make any difference.
It's worth a lot to me.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
That's fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yeah, I had a lot of time and effort. I
had to wait till old Man Graham died a natural
day before I started. But when you're out of the way,
I'll be safe. The second will is destroyed, the witnesses.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Are dead, and soon you will be too.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
You wouldn't be so smug if you just look behind
your read.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I think I'd fall for that when you're crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You didn't read.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Man, I hope he's got a hard head.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Nice work, lucky, Nice work yourself, pucker.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You couldn't have talked to Read any better if we'd
rehearsed for ten hours. Well, Paccer did read smart me
as much as you thought.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, I guess he didn't Blackie when he.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Didn't show up at your office. I guess he'd be
smart enough to come here to your home. So we
ducked back in here through a window.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
I guess you could say we came through. Eh.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's funny how I knew Joe was guilty. Faraday.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
He irritated me every time I saw red. I saw red,
No, Doctor Austin, I just won't believe it. I know
my grandfather was murdered, but that's impossible, Linda.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Your grandfather was in a hospital bed attended by several doctors,
I among them, when he died.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, I know that, but just the same I know
that Joe Reid killed him.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Linda, you'll have to face the facts. I know as
well as you do that Joe Reid hated your grandfather.
But your grandfather died a natural death. He suffered from
heart trouble for eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was his heart that killed him.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, doctor Joe Reid killed him. I know what I
feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why, Linda, why would Read kill your grandfather?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You know very well, doctor Austin.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Grandfather left him fifty thousand dollars in his will.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, if that's your only logic, you and I had
a reason to kill your grandfather too. He left me
twenty five thousand and you get more than a hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That doesn't make any difference. Grandfather was going to cut
Joe Read out of his will. I know it, and
I think Read knew it too, and he killed grandfather
before he could do it.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
You keep him from changing his will.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Isn't that what you'd do?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Doctor, I wouldn't commit murder for fifty thousand dollars or
for any amount, and neither would Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Nolinder.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I know you dislike read, but I'm afraid you can't
make trouble for him. Your grandfather died unnatural deaths.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well, I know he didn't, Doctor Austin.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I know that Joe murdered him, and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
To prove it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Howlinder, How I'm going to Boston Blackie.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
That's how.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friend.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hello, Hello, Tom, This is Bob.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh how are you, Bob?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
What's new?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Nothing, just the same old stuff.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You doing anything this weekend?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No? I don't think so. Oh yes, missus Van Grifton,
No not there.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, wants me to go to our country home for
the weekend. But I think I'll have a much better
time at ah.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No. Hello, who are you? Hello?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Tom?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Put down that knife?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Hello Tom?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Children?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Children, don't go too far away from the door, and
don't be late for supper.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Ye, m.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Where did you come from? Who are you?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Put down at knife.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Here's the third one, Inspector Faraday, lion right here on
the dock work.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But prolman Murphy found.
Speaker 9 (03:33):
Him the third one in five hours, and all with
a ten cent store kitchen knife stuck in him.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Rollins.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We've got a madman on the loose. Yeah, kill him
for the fun of it.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
This has got me, no kidding. First Tom Marshall, one
of the richest men in town, then that housewife out
in green Meadows, and now this, this bomb at the waterfront.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And bomb is about the only identification we have on
this one.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Inspector, tell her who he is?
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
No identification?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Take him to the mague.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Maybe we'll get identification from fingerprints or dental work, if
any have. We got to work fast and grab this killer,
and we'll have another body lying around somewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, but how are we going to figure where this
killer is going to strike next? He just picks out
anybody anywhere and sticks a knife.
Speaker 9 (04:09):
And I had know, but there must be some way.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Who's this?
Speaker 9 (04:13):
You might know who it is?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Blankie?
Speaker 9 (04:16):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Looking for you? It looks as if my admission is accomplished.
What do you get here? What does it look like
stand no strangled.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
The knife in his chest is just for effect. Pet
it will I get enough trouble?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Since one is one body.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Trouble for the great inspected Paraday, No, one body isn't.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
But this happens to be the third one on the
last five hours.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What yeah, the third and.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
All killed in the same way, but the same type
of instrument, a ten cent store kitchen knife.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
All here at the waterfront, of course.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Now.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
One of the victims was Tom Marshall, the millionaire. Yeah,
killed in his home. The second was a woman, missus
Harriet Jones. She was killed the same way on a
street out in Green Meadows. And yeah, this one, we
can't even identify it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You've got a problem worse than mine.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
I'll say I have, and don't make it any better.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Stay out of it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Stay out of it, old farady.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
How can I three absolutely unrelated people kill the same
way in three different parts of town.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Tell you what, let's do.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
This is gonna be good.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
I'll take this case and you take mine. I'm trying
to prove murder in the case of an old man
who died of hot trouble in the hospital.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Look, will you quit bothering me?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
With Child's play, Chiles, player is awfully consistent with your mentality.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Not you get out of my sight and stay out.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I've got a madman on the loose.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
I don't want you bothering me till I got him
on the books.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Where are we going? Blackie?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
The City hospital? Married to see doctor Raustin.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
What can he have to do with the three madman murders?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Mary Paraday won't let me work on that case with him,
and he won't give me enough information, so I can
go to work on it myself.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So I'm going to see what I can do for
Linda Graham.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Old Blackie.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
It's just nonsensibly which he told you about her grandfather
being killed. Oh, mister Graham died of heart trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I know, but she thinks a man named Joe Reid
killed him.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Now how he died in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I know that too.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
But according to miss Graham's story, Joe Reid was an
old Man Graham's secretary.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
Oh, I see, and all secretaries kill her bosses, now
what sense this pet?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
None?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Reid was afraid he was going to be cut out
of old Man Graham's will, so he wanted to kill
him before he had a chance to change that.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Will Who say that as if you believe it?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
No, Mary, I don't believe it, not yet anyhow. But
miss Graham came to me in good faith, and I
promised her that I do what.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I can for her.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So so you're going to do what you can.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
For which is nothing? WHOA not exactly nothing.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
I'm going to talk to old man Graham's doctor and
everyone else involved, but I'm afraid what I'll end up
with is nothing. Well here's the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Well, here goes nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Doctor Rausin.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yes, I'm doctor Austin.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm Boston, Blackie. How do you do You won't.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
Mind if I ask you a few questions, William, No.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Not at all, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
In fact, I've been expecting you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You have.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yes, Linda said she was going to see you.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Well she did see me. She thinks her grandfather was murdered. Yes, yes,
I know, and by Joe Reid. Huh, because Joe Reid
was afraid he was going to be cut out of
Graham's will any possibility read murdered Graham.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
None whatsoever, Blackie. I treated Graham for eighteen years. He
died in this hospital. And the presence of two other doctors,
both of whom have attested that heart.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Failure killed him.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Thank you doctor.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
It looks as if Graham's death was quite all right,
and miss Linder Graham is quite all wrong.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
For a pretty girl, you're awfully stupid, miss Graham? Or
is there a lot of truth in the expression beautiful
but dumb?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't know how you have the nerve to talk
to me, mister Reed.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I didn't want to talk to you, miss Graham. You
wanted to talk to me. This is uh my apartment,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And why do you even have an apartment? Because my
grandfather was too kind of fire you, even after you
had robbed him.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I robbed your grandfather, Then why wasn't I sent to jail,
mister Reed?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You know very well why you weren't.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Grandfather wouldn't prosecute No, of course, not because he had
no proof, just as you have no proof that your
grandfather died of anything but a bad heart.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You killed him, didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You, My dear miss Graham.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Your grandfather's death is a matter of medical record. He
was an old man who had suffered for many years
from an ailing heart.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
His heart just stopped beating but you wanted him to die,
didn't you.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I'm fifty thousand dollars richer, and I like his money
much better than I liked him.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But you knew he was going to cut you out
of his will, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You, yes, I did. He told me so two weeks ago,
and he told you. That's why you killed him.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
My dear Miss Graham, must even the simplest effects be
explained to you. A heart attack killed your grandma.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No, mister Reed, you killed them. I don't know how,
but I'm going to find out, and I'm going to
prove it.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Miss Graham.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I'd advise you to let matters stand as they are,
stay away from me.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'd like to be amused.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
By your accusations, Miss Graham, but your insistence is beginning
to bore me that I hate to be bored.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I'll get out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I will help you here.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Come, come, it's not that bad. I think I will
teach you to let you read like.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That makes two of us. But I'm afraid mister Reed
isn't going to make that unanimous.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Blackie, Boston, Blackie, I suppose we'll both of you.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Get out of here. What'd want to be alone? Yes?
Will you settle for being half alone? What do you mean?
It's Graham? Will you step out for a while? Please?
My car is park down in front.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Maybe you'd better stay.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Miss Graham changed her mind awfully fast, and Jerad, too
bad you didn't change mine.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Go ahead, Miss Graham, wait for me in my car,
all right, Blackie, if you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Say so, I'll wait there.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Reed was teaching you something a minute ago, Miss Graham.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Now he's going to take a lesson from the professor.
I won't be long. He looks like a good student.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I'll wait for you, blackly ah read.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
There's only one thing I have to say to you,
and next.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
What did you hit me for, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I am belaying to you.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
A little top was for not knowing how to talk
to a lady. This one is for twisting a ram
a few minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I'll hit me again.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Get up your wrest and I'll trust you a level
to crawl in your hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Get up.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You've got no right to come here and hit me.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
The police would the police? Will you? May? I ought
to let you have one in advance in case you do. No, No,
don't now, Please don't. I won't go to I won't
go near him. Read.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I didn't know why I didn't like you when I
walked in here.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I still don't know, but I kind of like not
liking you. It sort of makes me a nicer guy.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
And I want to leave me alone, Blacky.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I never interfeit with you.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
You know, Miss Graham had an idea you were responsible
for her grandfather's death.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He died.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
I know, I know he died at all, right, there
is that perhaps you didn't actually kill him, but you
were responsible for something phony somewhere along the line.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And after seeing you, I don't.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Let me alone, Blacky, Please let me alone.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Sue only you've given me some cause for thought. You're
so exact, so precise, your clothes, well.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It just so.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
I wonder how your etiquette is. I wonder if you
know the proper way too. Let's say, hold a knife.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And now back to Boston, Blackie. Lynda Graham comes to
Blackie to accuse Joe Reid of murdering her aged grandfather,
but authoritative medical reports show the grandfather died in a
hospital bed of a heart ailment he had been suffering
(12:16):
from for eighteen years. Meanwhile, Inspector Faraday is faced with
a baffling trio of murders. Three people in three different
parts of town and in three different walks of life
are murdered in the same way, and all within the
space of five hours. As we return to our story, Blackie,
unable to solve his case, walks into police headquarters to
(12:38):
see how Inspector.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Faraday is doing with his.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Hello, rawlins, how known find Blackie to hear it? Don't
bother you? When asks me, I'll go right into Paraday's
Oh no, you don't, Blackie. The inspector doesn't want to
see you, even if he telephone for me. Rawlins, Oh he.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Called for you.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well that's different, all right in thanks Rowlins.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Hey wait a minute, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Come back here.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Did the inspector call for you?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Thanks for letting me in. You got the identification? Huh good?
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Thanks doctor Packer.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Goodbye?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh so it's you.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Well, the same goes for you too, Blankie.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Goodbye.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
No, Farday, you know you don't mean that You're glad
to see me, aren't you.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Yes, Blankie, I am looking at you makes me realize
how lucky I am.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
To be me, Well lucky you, how lucky have you
been with those three murders.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
But I haven't been lucky at all.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I've been smart.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
I got identification on the body we found at the waterfront.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Did the dead man wake up and tell all No.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
He was identified through his dental work?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh so what, Dennis?
Speaker 9 (13:50):
None of your business?
Speaker 8 (13:51):
All right, I'll sell the case by tracing back the
knives using the sabbing.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I've already done that.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
They can't be traced. Their ordinary kitchen knives bought at
the ten cent stores and every time store and Tom
carries them.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
You just don't want me to help you do I'll
tell you a little secret, Blacky.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What No, Paraday? Who is the dentist who identify the victim?
Speaker 9 (14:13):
Not any of business?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Oh come on Friday, please, no, please, no, I said,
But I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
You said, inspect him? What You were on the phone
when I came in, and you said, thanks lot, doctor
Parker saw what? So Parker is a doctor.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
A doctor can be a dentist, and I'm going to
see him to get my teeth into this case.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, Blackie, I identified the dental work for Inspector Faraday.
The dead man was Bernest Brown, a carpenter here in
the building.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I see.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well, do you know any reason why anyone would want
to kill him, Doctor.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Parker, No, no, not at all. But I will tell
you something. He was about to call the police when
you came in. Missus Harriet Jones, a Madman's second victim, was.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Also a patient of mine. What yes, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Oh, I know that she lived out in Green Meadows,
but I used to practice out there, and well she
got in the habit of coming to me.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Well, don't tell us Tom Marshall was a patient.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Of yours too.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
If he was, I'm gonna faint.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, Tom Marshall wasn't a regular patient of mine. He
was passing by one day and he had a toothache
and saw my sign stopped in for an emergency treatment
one day.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What one day? That might have some significance.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yes, I think it does, Blackie. That's what I was
going to call the police about. It was a week
ago last Friday.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Why call the police about that?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Because Missus Wesley a week ago last Friday, Ernest Brown
and Harriet Jones were in my office too, and all
three of them were here at the same time.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Well, I'd say that's interesting, but it's not it's more
than interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You think it has direct bearing on their being murdered
by this madman?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
It's the first hint of a connection with the three
of them. Looker, why they were here? Was anyone else
with him?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Mmmm?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, no, The three of them were alone in the
waiting room. My nurse and I were busy in the
other room with another patient.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Then that's it. While they were sitting here they saw
something or heard something. The killer didn't want them to
see you here, Come on, Mary, where to? I'll tell
you later, Doctor Parker.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Call Inspector Friday and give him the information you just
gave me.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
To tell him not to do anything about it until
hears from me.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
All right, Come on, Marray, let's grab an elevator and get.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Out of heare all right back here? Were really on
the wi What are you looking.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
At that door at the other end of the hall. Here,
I'll link with the elevator for.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Goodness sake to buy The name on the door its
Lester Graham's old office.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Yes, it's very interesting. Maybe our mad killers jowel red in.
The three patients in Parker's office heard him say he
was going to kill.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
O.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
No, why not?
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Oh, just wonderful. In fact, Mary Graham wasn't murdered. Still,
Graham's office, being so near the dentist's waiting room, would
put Read in possible contact with the three murder.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Victims because it was Graham's secretary. Yeah, I suppose so.
But why would all three of them be killed? What
do they have in common? They weren't witnesses to a
murder or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
No, but what were they witnesses too?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We'll find the answer to that, and you find out
why they were killed.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's a great statement, Mary.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh, I'm a great girl. My gosh, have the elevators
in this building stopped running?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hum?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Daydreaming?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
No? Day thinking?
Speaker 8 (17:37):
What can three different people from three different parts of
the city have in common?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
M But let's stay with that witness angle. What could
they have seen?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Mary? I've got it.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
If there was another will cutting Reid out of Graham's
first will, I've got it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
God, what Mary?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
It takes three witnesses to make a will absolutely uncontestable.
The three people in Parker's waiting room could have been
a witnesses to Graham's second will if there there was
such a thing, and he could have been.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Looking for witnesses and walked in there.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's right, Blackie.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
And we knew about the will, Stolet destroyed it and
then killed the three witnesses.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
That is, of course, providing a second will exist.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, how can you find out? As you say, it's
probably been destroyed.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I think I know how, Mary.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Come on, we've got to get to a telephone.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Who are you calling, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Joe read Mary. He's hoping he doesn't call my bluff.
He is hoping to he's bluffing.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Hello, Joe reading. Yes, this is doctor Parker. Oh, doctor
Lester Parker, the dentist.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I don't think I know you do?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Huh No, we've.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
Never met, but I think we should meet him soon.
Why I know something I think you should know.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
I know why those three people one knife to death
yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Mm?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Oh really, well what about it?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I think maybe we'd better have a little talk about
what about.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Why those three people were killed?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Look, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
But I do.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
It's all Man Graham's will. The three murdered people will
witness this to it. But I was too in a way.
I just didn't have time to sign my name to it,
so I saw what was in the will accidentally.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Of course, it.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Seems you were cut off without assent.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Now, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 8 (19:33):
It is to me. It didn't mean anything to me then,
but it does now. See me in my office at
ten o'clock tonight, and I'll tell you how much. Is
there only one entrance to this office of yours, doctor Parker, Yes, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Just the door of the reception room here.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
He won't sneak up behind us.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
No, if he shows up at all, which I'm beginning
to doubt. It's ten out of ten already and a
sign of him.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Maybe your trick isn't going to work.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Maybe Read isn't a murderer. But it won't be your
fault if I can't prove anything. You're a brave Canada.
Go through with this, doctor. If reads the man we're after,
he's a dangerous killer, Blacky, we simply the elevator door
just opened. Good now, sh I'll stay back from the door.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Don't worry. I'm back.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
He's coming down the hall.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah. Here, aim take him into your office when he
gets in, but leave the door open.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
So I can hear.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I'll get back at this desk now just outside the door.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Now, good luck.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Thanks, hello, Blackie, you hear call Faraday? Blackie?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
What are you doing hiding in the dark?
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Not trying to hide from you, Inspector, turn on the lights,
doctor Parker. All right, I'm afraid our trick didn't work well, trick?
Speaker 9 (21:00):
And what was miss Wesley's idea of telling me.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You were in dangerous?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Skip it? Inspector?
Speaker 8 (21:04):
You know, doctor Parkin, Yes, yes, Blankie, what are you
up to? I thought I was up to grabbing your
killer for you. That seems my suspected and come up
to be grabbed. Come on, doctor, I'll drive you home. Okay,
you come along to Faraday.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'll tell you all about it on the way.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, thanks for the left home.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Blackie's all right, Doctor, glad to do it. Thanks for
helping me try to catch Red.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's if he was either not gullible or too smart
for us, though it doesn't take much to be too
smart for Blankie.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Now, Friday, is that nice?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Just true?
Speaker 9 (21:43):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Good night, It's Baker. Good night night, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
D fucker m M.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Good evening, Doctor Parker, who are you.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You ought to know, doctor Parker.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
You said you wanted to see me tonight in your
office at ten o'clock. They're Joe Reid marvelous deduction. Sorry
I couldn't keep my appointment with you at your office,
but it seems so unwise.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't like traps. Traps? Do I look like a fool?
Doctor Parker?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Oh, I see you were afraid the police might be
waiting in my office with me'am?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Do I look like a fool?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Mister Reid?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Look, I can make a great deal of money keeping
the police away from you.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You can, yes, as much as you can afford to pay.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
What makes you think? So?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
What I know about you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Graham's second will and the three people killed by what
the police think is a madman.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You think I killed them?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I know you did, but I think we could come
to an understanding.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
If what are you talking about about?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Keeping my mouth shut? If you keep your wallet open?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
How do I know you haven't already gone to the police.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
I wouldn't be talking money if I had. Yeah, I
don't believe me. You're quite safe so far.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
No one else knows about Graham's second will, the one
you probably destroyed no one but me.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Nobody knows, huh.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Only the two of us.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I'd be a lot safer if they were only one
of us, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I'll look here.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You look here, you'll see a gun in my hand,
A nice, well loaded gun. Too bad you kept this
to yourself, doctor, because that gives me a reason for
killing you.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
You don't care how many people you kill.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Do you? No one more or less one make any difference.
It's worth a lot to me.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
That's fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yeah, I had a lot of time and effort. I
had to wait till old Man Graham died a natural
day before I started. But when you're out of the way,
I'll be safe. The second will is destroyed, the witnesses.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Are dead, and soon you will be too.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
You wouldn't be so smug if you just look behind
your read.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I think I'd fall for that when you're crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You didn't read.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Man, I hope he's got a hard head.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Nice work, lucky, Nice work yourself, pucker.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You couldn't have talked to Read any better if we'd
rehearsed for ten hours. Well, Paccer did read smart me
as much as you thought.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, I guess he didn't Blackie when he.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Didn't show up at your office. I guess he'd be
smart enough to come here to your home. So we
ducked back in here through a window.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
I guess you could say we came through. Eh.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's funny how I knew Joe was guilty. Faraday.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
He irritated me every time I saw red. I saw red,
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