April 26, 2025 • 27 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a reformed thief turned detective, solving crimes with wit and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Guess what kind of a private detective are you?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Whaler good, Bruce. They're the best that you wouldn't have
hired you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I wonder about that.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Watch its ton a voice broke.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I don't like him, all right, all right, I'm sorry
with him, but I won't ask you. You're getting it,
but it's too slow. I hired you two months ago
to get something, unless to rally on what if you're
done nothing yet?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Not?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How am I going to win the nomination.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Against a man with a record like Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
He's pure, mister Bruce is sure, but he's not hermetically sealed.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know that he was involved in something illegal once,
but he's covered it up. I hired you to uncover it. Now,
why haven't you, loud.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Broster, When you hired me, you hired a detective, not
a P thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I worked slowly, but I.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Get there just to sing you made any progress at all?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But it'd be surprised surprise me that Boston Blackie knows
what Allan did wrong a few years back. But I
told you Boston Blankie knew about Allan's illegal jaunt. Blackie
was the one who caught him at it, but he
won't talk don't.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Worry, mister Bruce.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Do I found somebody.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Else who knows about Allen and will talk Ooh a
dame who came into my office this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
What does she know about Allen everything? Boston black you knows.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll make you think so she's uh missus Boston Blackie.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And now I'll meet Richard Calmer.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Boston Blackie's anime to those who make him an enemy,
friend to those who have no friendly.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm awfully god you had a moment to see him.
Miss Blackie's told me so much about.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
You, Oh, your missus Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
This is certainly a surprise when we married three.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Weeks ago in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Oh, mister Allan Blackie speaks of you so often.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
He doesn't tell the whole truth, I hope.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh, but he does, even about that uh scandal he
was mixed up in a few years ago.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Uh you mention that for any particular reason?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh? Yes, I don't think I understand you will.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You don't really have to continue in the campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do m I'm beginning to understand now you'd.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Have a day afficult time being elected to any office
if you were exposed.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Wouldn't you look here.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I was innocently involved in that scandal. That's why Blanket
pledged himself never to mention it to anyone, But he
mentioned it to me.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
He's white, and I'm not bound by any foolish pledge
to keep it secret.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Look are you trying?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm more than trying, mister Allen.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
I'm doing it.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I want you to drop out of the campaign.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
What if I don't?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is there any other choice? Maybe? Money? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
How much you name it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Five hundred?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
You did pay ten thousand, ten thousand?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
That's better?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
How do I know?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Once I pay you, you will just have to trust me?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Of course you can be trusted.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I don't like sarcasm.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Is travel just money? How do you want it?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
In cash?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
And in small builds?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You did say you were Missus Boston Blackie.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Didn't you most good time? Missus Boston Blackie?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Why?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Because you sound to me more like Missus Boston black Mail.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What's the matter with you? Marry? You're eating?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I was just thinking, glassy.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What that you don't like your own cooking?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I was just thinking, are you ever gonna get married?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
If I ever get to thinking too, Some people do married,
you know, some people jump out of windows too. Oh,
I'll answered, But it's probably your building superintendent telling you
he's finished moving your stuff into the new apartment. I
hope so, Yellow, Blackie, not Lester j Allen. How are
you lass or even hiding? Don't give me that old
(05:00):
pal stuff, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Hey, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know very well?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
What's the matter? I thought you realized I was innocently
involved in that highway property scandle.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And that what you knew was to stay strictly.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Between the two of us.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
That's a fine reason to be so.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I wouldn't be if you'd kept your word.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Your wife is here with me now, my wife who
married her.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
In Springfield, Ohio, three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
My wife is in your office. Wait a minute, married now?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Will you look blaky?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
What was the idea?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Just a minute? Less? Married?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I will not wait. I'm getting my hat and sold like.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Are you still there? Listen less? I can't talk to
you right now. Keep my wife there, don't let her leave.
I'll see you in a minute. Mary, No wonder you
didn't want to talk about getting married someday you're already married.
I look married to look all right, and.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I'm gonna keep looking until I get where you can't
find me.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
She's still here, less my damn Blackie, and you have
a lot of explaining to do.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
She knows about that construction scant.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Oh does she?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh? She implied as much.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You have a guilty conscience. That's all.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I could only call the springfield. It'll come here if
you don't mind. He where is your dinner? This way?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I didn't tell her you were coming, managed to slip
away while she was waiting for.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The money for good the money, l.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
What d what are you doing here? You said you
weren't coming.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I couldn't stay away from you another moment, sugar.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Oh you sweet things, you're the most wonderful husband.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
In the world. No, I wouldn't say, h huh did
she use your wife? Well? Of course? Then is white
mister dryand oh yeah, tell the bewildered man all about it.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Darling, you mean hollowing that at the Mountain Inn in
New Hampshire last docket.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
If you would like, you did spend last August at
the Mountain Inn?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Of course I did, Darling.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Why aren't you wearing your lovely brown suits, the one
with a thin white stripe.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You looked so nice in that, Oh you don't love
me just for my flows to your doll.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, Blackie, this convinces me.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
I was with you and you.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Bought that shoe.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I knew I must stay here any longer. Dying, Let's
go to Martin's for dinner. That's your favorite place.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, dear, let's go enough from both of you.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
This girl is your wife, Blacky, or she wouldn't know
so much about you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Let's go die there. You go ahead, I'll meet you later.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Oh right, I have an appointment at the hairdressers. Anyway,
I'll meet you.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Ask me why, darling, I think you'd better leave two blackies.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I've had enough of you.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I've never seen that girl before in my life.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Then how did she know enough about me? And that
that construction scandal?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
The blackmail me?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That girl blackmailed your ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, look less.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
As soon as this call from Springfield comes through and
straightens you out about the girl, I'll straighten out this
blackmail business myself.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
It will take a lot to convince me that girl's
not your wife.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
He knows too much about you.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
She's probably been studying for this act for months.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh that's my call.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Hello, and all. This is the marriage burn Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh, yes, I called you.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I'd like to know if you have any record of
a Boston Blackie being married in your town three weeks ago?
Just tomor It look like this will strake me out
about the girl.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Then what about my ten thousands?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You shouldn't have paid it until you got in touch
with me. That girl was so convincing I can believe. Oh, yes,
you wanted all a man by the name of Boston
Blackie got married here?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Do you have no record of any such marriage? Who
wants I do?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A young man with your gut besides a wife a
case of amnesia? Boston Blackie was married in your town?
Sure it was the Jones Blake just three weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well look the musty look.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
If this is your idea of a joke, I don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I don't have time to wait.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Goodbye, Hello, hello, hello, well, well, man by the name
of Boston Blackie was married to Joan Blake in Springfield?
Was all right back? Why are you doing this to me?
I trusted you? Don't you understand less?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
This whole thing is faked.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Nobody knows anything about you except me and I haven't talked,
and I'm not married to that girl. And I'd like
to think you wouldn't blacken me.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But who would and why?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I don't know, but I'll find out. I can find
out where my wife is living.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
And she told me when you first came in that
she was living at the Walton House until you could
find a larger appliment.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
To the Waltham House. Huh, hung down in fear.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, and oh, by the way, a young lady seemed
interested in going to see Missus Boston Blanket too, phoned
here just after Ice booked you.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
On the phone.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Name was Mary Wesley.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Mary called here.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I gave her the Waltham House addressed.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
And I do anything wrong?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You're batting one hundred percent a day less so far
you haven't done anything right. Hey, Hey, is this the
Waltham House for the morning? Right with you? Sir? And
I feel better getting lonesome out of there. Guess it
is there a Missus Boston Blackie. You interested him? Oh? Yes,
(10:07):
in room eleven. Oh scen thanks, oh oh just a minute, sir.
I made him speak Missus Boston black he is not.
Where is she?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
She moved to room eleven or nine this morning?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, I'm going up to see her now or an
ordinary woman there has change your mind. My wife has
to change your room too. I'd like to speak to
well inspected Paraday. I would not like to speak to
you all. I thought you'd have better sense than to
(10:38):
come back get in here. Sure, sure, and stop waving
that gun in my face. But Paraday, uh be as
stupid if you want to on your own time, but
not on mine.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I came here to talk.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow, I don't act surprise Blackie. She's not sleeping. She's
been shot. She's dead, and you killed it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I killed her. I only saw her once a.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
My life, so it was love at first sight.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You married her. I have this certificate to prove it. Listen,
Brian Joan Blake, Broom, Boston, Blackie married Springfield, Ohio. Now
try to talk your way out of that, Sorr. They
don't be a dope, will you? Why would I kill
this girl? This is Joan Blake. First of all, for money.
She had ten thousand dollars. Here's a note she was
rinning standing it to somebody who It doesn't say who.
(11:24):
There isn't even carfare in this room? And look at
this a handkerchief. I don't use ladies handkerchif know, but
Mary Wesley does pluck. Her name's on this one. Uh uh.
Maybe you didn't kill her, Blackie. Maybe Mary Wesley did.
The handkerchief was in the corner of that sofa by
the window. Come on, Blackie, Oh right, inspector, andn't mind
if I smoke on the way smoke smoke? Who chairs
(11:46):
join me? Oh? Thanks, hurry up, let's go. We'll I
get a wife, will you, Blackie? If this is one
of your smart tricks out?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Since when is lighting a cigarette as smart?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Break inspector? Even you can do it? Good night? Say
what's in this cigarette?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Tobacco?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Wise guy? Something that's been added that should have been subtracted.
Will I have a look?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Lay so help me?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You can waste more time.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Might put an ouse?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, cases, this is a soap and pickle juice.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Let's see what I'm in.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
There's nothing in it but tobacco. Come on, look, I have.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
A cigarettes split open.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Now I told you something, and it besides tobacco.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
We'll take a closer look.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
See those white specs with white spekes. Where yeah, wacky
my eyes? Wait, got that gun? Fatday, Tomas, thank you,
tol me up, thanks, thanks very much, Fatday, and leave
you a gun on the floor. Mine's in my hand, Lanky.
Someday you'll be sorry for this, maybe, but right now
I'm awful glad so long it's make it now.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Back to Boston.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Blackie Master Allan is running for political office against arrival
with a doubtful record. Alan at one time was innocently
involved in a property scandal, which is something only Blackie knows.
But when a woman who called herself Missus Boston Blackie
came to Allan and threatened to expose him, Allan paid
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her ten thousand dollars to keep her quiet. When Blackie
went to see the girl posing as his wife, she
was dead. Spector Parody found not only evidence proving the
dead girl was Blackie's wife, but discovered Mary Westley's handkerchief
near the body. As usual, Blackie escaped from parody and
as we returned to our story, as paying a midnight
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call to Mary Westley's apartment.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Hey, Mary, open up with Blackie.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Blackly, I told you I.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Never wanted to see you again.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'll go away. Mary, open the door please, I said,
it won't be much of me left if you don't
open door.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Oh I not what do you want in?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Oh? No?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
The chain stage on the door.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Look, Paraday is scouring the town for me.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Let me rule, mister Vos and Zackly.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Why the mister, because there was a missus?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You mean there was?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Oh I suppose you got a divorce.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Not even I can divorce a dead wife.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, and you might as well go to Paraday's office
and sign a confession. Mary, he found your handkerchief near
the body. Oh no, I who were you doing there?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I have I I wanted to see for myself what
kind of a fool were they pull enough to marry you.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I'm not married to that girl or anybody, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
She showed me proved.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Give me twenty four hours and I could r prove
to you that that we were married in eighteen sixty three.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Blackie.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You you you're sure you're not married to that girl.
I'm not and never was, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Are you telling me the truth?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
What do you want me to do to prove it?
To chew on this door chain?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Alright, I'm sorried.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
I'm ill never mind.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
All I wanted to know is that if you left
your handkerchief in that girl's.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Room, that's golly, what am I going to do?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You're gonna stay here?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Paraday doesn't know that you've moved to this new apartment.
I'm going over to see less Allen. I think he
can tell me more or I don't know Less.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, you must want something important.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Black You need to barge in on me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
In the middle of the night, I found the late
Missus Boston Blackie Lass.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Late Missus Boston Blacky.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Someone got to her before I did and killed her.
Who I thought, maybe you'd have some idea. Why why
the ten thousand dollars you paid her was missing? Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
God'll admit ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
There's a lot of money to me, Blackie, but I
wouldn't kill for it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You wouldn't like to have to add to that ten thousand?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Do you mean you want to sap Allan?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You paid that girl money to keep her mouth shut,
but I didn't buy what you thought she knew about you. Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I was contemplating what to do about that.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I have a mile suspicion you contemplated with a bank.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I didn't shoot the girl.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
How did you know she was shot? Huh? Well, I
didn't you say so.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I merely said she was killed. I didn't say how.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I took it for granted.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It just so happens that she was shot, Lackey.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I I'll admit I was worried about how to keep
her from blackmailing me again.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
But I thought i'd wait until.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
She tried it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
And then you admit you thought she would No.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
No, I I made a bargain with her. I trusted
her to keep it failing in mine.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I guess trusting people.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The loss of money could change him.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Flancky, listen, don't drag me into this. I can't afford
this candle right now? Did This election means a lot
to me.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
If you wanna stay out of this, you'll have to
help me.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Help you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
How what do you know about this girl? Who could
have sent her?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, Leonard Brewster might have gone That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
What would Leonard Brewster? A political lion?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
What would blackmail money he could buy and sell you
fifty times?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Brewster is a political lion, all right, But he could
have sent that girl to me trying to force me
out of the race.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, I better go see Brewster at his house, and
if anybody calls while I'm there, they'll find the lion
as busy.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
What do you want if you're Lening Brewster, I want you.
I'm Brewster.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Who are you Boston Blackie? And of course you'll invite
me in. Thanks. Look here, I won't stand for being
disturbed this time of the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Then I'll make it briefe.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Did you know a girl posing as missus Boston Blackie?
Watch it to you. She was murdered yesterday, Larder, and
I happen to know you sent her to Lester Allen
trying to force him out of campaign. What if I did?
The last I saw her was in her hotel room Tuesday.
She was very cordial. We sat on the sofa by
the window and talked over my business proposition.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
He accepted, of course, No if.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
She didn't, she suddenly turned cold as eyes. She said
she'd do the job for ten thousand dollars or else
or else wife or else. She'd tell Lester Allen that
I sent her to him, and that's all Allan would
need me to force me out of the campaign for
you paid. I did not That was blackmail. I got
up and left. That's the last I saw. How did
you happen to go to her in the first place? Well,
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Jim Whalen, the private detector, set me up to her.
She said she was your wife, and I sure would
have liked to talk to her, even on the telephone before.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
She was murdered.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Too bad, I didn't have time to give my wife
a ring.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
What's good about a chum? It's four am. This is
inspected paraday of the place. I want to ask you something, missus.
Boston Blackie checked into one rum Oni hotel and later
changed their room.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Why well it it's so small, sir, all we can
get in it is a bed.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Your chair, Oh, I say, everybody who has that room
ace for a bigger one. Wait a minute, eh, how
long was she in the small room? Well, just Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We moved it to the room she was killed on
Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh, there's no sofa in the room she was in
on Tuesday. Um.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh, the room isn't much bigger than the sofas.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It was there a sofa in the room where she
was killed.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Eh. Oh, yes, yes, thank you very much. Yes, that
solves this case. Yes, how uh what you said about
the sofa, chum. Sofas are made to lie on, not
about Okay, Blankie, wake up, get out of that betty horse.
(19:49):
It's the middle of the afternoon. H come on, come on,
snap out of it is your old path, paraday Ooh
who who else.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Have you run my bath?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
He I'll run you ragged first. Now. Is that a
nice way to talk at such.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
A beautiful after dude?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Am I ashamed of you?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I know my sleep is showing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know who murdered your wife, Lenny. If you didn't
kill her, Mary Wesley?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Did you said that yesterday? Mary is in her apartment.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Get her if you like. I've been to her apartment.
Mary doesn't live there anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
All right, Friday, I've let you make a dope out.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Of yourself long enough, well like it dressed, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Take you to your killer.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I've got my killer. You are Mary. The dead girl
was your wife. She was probably breaking up your romance
with Mary. That's the reason enough for either of you.
The killer.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's a good reason, all right, Friday. Only it's a
wrong one.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I suppose Mary Wesley didn't even go to see it.
That that handkerchief of hers just flew into the murder room.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
No, now you want to see it?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Is this the beginning of a confession? Somebody else went
to her hotel room too?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah you yes, but she shall I say.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It kicked out before I got there. Who else came
out to see her?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Her killer?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, quits, darling, get dressed.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Give me thirty minutes para day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
To get dressed, to get dressed, pay a call and hand.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You your killer.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I'm sorry to bother you again after this morning, mister Brewster.
For if you all right, black you found out more
about that girl who was killed? No, nobody seems to
know anything about her. That's why I've come back to you. Oh,
I thought perhaps you re told me the story of
how you went to see her and what happened. I
might get some clues to her real identity. I see
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sort of character reference.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You might say, the character is the word?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
All right? Uh? Could you tell me the story just
as you told it to me when I called before?
Of course I went up to a room at the
Waltham House to talk about her going to see Lester
Allen one day with this uh Tuesday in the afternoon.
M go on, Well, I told you she was very friendly,
made me a drink. He sat on the sofa.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Uh the sofa was where?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Why? By the way, Oh that's right. You talked about
the view is. Then we talked business when I discovered
her business was black. Now I got up and left.
That was the last I saw that. You never saw
her after Tuesday. Definitely not leaving so soon.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
No, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I just want someone else to join us.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Come on in, Faraday, all right, brister, don't move.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What is the reason for all this? You heard this
little Tuesday afternoon story, Paraday about the sofa every word.
I'm arresting you, Brewster for the murder of missus Boston Blankie.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
How can you say I killed anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't have to say it, brister. You said it
yourself when you said you sat on a sofa in
the murder room on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
What does that prove?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The room the murdered woman was in on Tuesday had
no sofa in it, which proved that you lied. You
didn't see her on Tuesday. You went to her room
on Wednesday when she was in the room of the
sofa and killed it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Really for what reason?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Why have your reason? Brewster?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
On Wednesday when you saw the girl you had already
been to see Allen, And instead of forcing him to
withdraw from the campaign, which is what you paid her
to do, she merely blackmailed him, which didn't serve your purpose.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Is that so?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yes, that's so. When you got so harsh, he threatened
to blackmailed you too, and with your record, she had
plenty the blackmail before. So, like the nice little boy
that you are, you killed her. Come on, christ I'm
taking you down a headquarters near Brewster.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I just had a thought.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Isn't it ironic that a sofa is going to send
you to the.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Chair were we're walking back?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
He does it matter? Mary?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Mm mm?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You're voting tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
M oh?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I understand Leonard Brewster.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Withdrew from the race.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yes, he withdrew to the seclusion of one of Paraday's
special cells with Jim Whalen. That detective of his Paraday
found Whalen in Saint Louis with Allen's seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Ooh, missus Boston Blackie wasn't married at.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
All, was it?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Missus Boston Blackie was married to Jim Whalen. M Faraday
figured that out Whale had admitted he was married under
the name of Boston Blackie.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well, why did you run away with the money the girl.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Got from miss Allen?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
She double cost him when she blackmailed Allen, so.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
He double cost her by taking the money into granted.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
And then the girl had to turn around and fry
a blackmail brewster to make up for the money her
lovely husband had taken from her.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Lovely people, lovely knight.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
And look at that lovely sign over there. It says
get married in five minutes. Five dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Uh, I uh think we'd better keep moving.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
What's matter? Haven't you just five dollars?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
No, the smallest I have is fifty.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Oh, but I'm sure the minister would.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Be willing to make the change.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I don't doubt that the minister is willing to make
the change, Mary, But I don't think I am u
Speaker 3 (27:09):
M
Guess what kind of a private detective are you?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Whaler good, Bruce. They're the best that you wouldn't have
hired you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I wonder about that.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Watch its ton a voice broke.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I don't like him, all right, all right, I'm sorry
with him, but I won't ask you. You're getting it,
but it's too slow. I hired you two months ago
to get something, unless to rally on what if you're
done nothing yet?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Not?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How am I going to win the nomination.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Against a man with a record like Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
He's pure, mister Bruce is sure, but he's not hermetically sealed.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know that he was involved in something illegal once,
but he's covered it up. I hired you to uncover it. Now,
why haven't you, loud.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Broster, When you hired me, you hired a detective, not
a P thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I worked slowly, but I.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Get there just to sing you made any progress at all?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But it'd be surprised surprise me that Boston Blackie knows
what Allan did wrong a few years back. But I
told you Boston Blankie knew about Allan's illegal jaunt. Blackie
was the one who caught him at it, but he
won't talk don't.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Worry, mister Bruce.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Do I found somebody.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Else who knows about Allen and will talk Ooh a
dame who came into my office this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
What does she know about Allen everything? Boston black you knows.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll make you think so she's uh missus Boston Blackie.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And now I'll meet Richard Calmer.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Boston Blackie's anime to those who make him an enemy,
friend to those who have no friendly.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm awfully god you had a moment to see him.
Miss Blackie's told me so much about.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
You, Oh, your missus Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
This is certainly a surprise when we married three.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Weeks ago in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Oh, mister Allan Blackie speaks of you so often.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
He doesn't tell the whole truth, I hope.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh, but he does, even about that uh scandal he
was mixed up in a few years ago.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Uh you mention that for any particular reason?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh? Yes, I don't think I understand you will.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You don't really have to continue in the campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do m I'm beginning to understand now you'd.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Have a day afficult time being elected to any office
if you were exposed.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Wouldn't you look here.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I was innocently involved in that scandal. That's why Blanket
pledged himself never to mention it to anyone, But he
mentioned it to me.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
He's white, and I'm not bound by any foolish pledge
to keep it secret.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Look are you trying?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm more than trying, mister Allen.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
I'm doing it.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I want you to drop out of the campaign.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
What if I don't?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is there any other choice? Maybe? Money? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
How much you name it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Five hundred?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
You did pay ten thousand, ten thousand?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
That's better?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
How do I know?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Once I pay you, you will just have to trust me?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Of course you can be trusted.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I don't like sarcasm.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Is travel just money? How do you want it?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
In cash?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
And in small builds?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You did say you were Missus Boston Blackie.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Didn't you most good time? Missus Boston Blackie?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Why?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Because you sound to me more like Missus Boston black Mail.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What's the matter with you? Marry? You're eating?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I was just thinking, glassy.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What that you don't like your own cooking?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I was just thinking, are you ever gonna get married?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
If I ever get to thinking too, Some people do married,
you know, some people jump out of windows too. Oh,
I'll answered, But it's probably your building superintendent telling you
he's finished moving your stuff into the new apartment. I
hope so, Yellow, Blackie, not Lester j Allen. How are
you lass or even hiding? Don't give me that old
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pal stuff, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Hey, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know very well?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
What's the matter? I thought you realized I was innocently
involved in that highway property scandle.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And that what you knew was to stay strictly.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Between the two of us.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
That's a fine reason to be so.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I wouldn't be if you'd kept your word.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Your wife is here with me now, my wife who
married her.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
In Springfield, Ohio, three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
My wife is in your office. Wait a minute, married now?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Will you look blaky?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
What was the idea?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Just a minute? Less? Married?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I will not wait. I'm getting my hat and sold like.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Are you still there? Listen less? I can't talk to
you right now. Keep my wife there, don't let her leave.
I'll see you in a minute. Mary, No wonder you
didn't want to talk about getting married someday you're already married.
I look married to look all right, and.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I'm gonna keep looking until I get where you can't
find me.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
She's still here, less my damn Blackie, and you have
a lot of explaining to do.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
She knows about that construction scant.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Oh does she?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh? She implied as much.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You have a guilty conscience. That's all.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I could only call the springfield. It'll come here if
you don't mind. He where is your dinner? This way?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I didn't tell her you were coming, managed to slip
away while she was waiting for.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The money for good the money, l.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
What d what are you doing here? You said you
weren't coming.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I couldn't stay away from you another moment, sugar.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Oh you sweet things, you're the most wonderful husband.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
In the world. No, I wouldn't say, h huh did
she use your wife? Well? Of course? Then is white
mister dryand oh yeah, tell the bewildered man all about it.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Darling, you mean hollowing that at the Mountain Inn in
New Hampshire last docket.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
If you would like, you did spend last August at
the Mountain Inn?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Of course I did, Darling.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Why aren't you wearing your lovely brown suits, the one
with a thin white stripe.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You looked so nice in that, Oh you don't love
me just for my flows to your doll.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, Blackie, this convinces me.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
I was with you and you.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Bought that shoe.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I knew I must stay here any longer. Dying, Let's
go to Martin's for dinner. That's your favorite place.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, dear, let's go enough from both of you.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
This girl is your wife, Blacky, or she wouldn't know
so much about you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Let's go die there. You go ahead, I'll meet you later.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Oh right, I have an appointment at the hairdressers. Anyway,
I'll meet you.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Ask me why, darling, I think you'd better leave two blackies.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I've had enough of you.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I've never seen that girl before in my life.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Then how did she know enough about me? And that
that construction scandal?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
The blackmail me?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That girl blackmailed your ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, look less.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
As soon as this call from Springfield comes through and
straightens you out about the girl, I'll straighten out this
blackmail business myself.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
It will take a lot to convince me that girl's
not your wife.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
He knows too much about you.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
She's probably been studying for this act for months.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh that's my call.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Hello, and all. This is the marriage burn Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh, yes, I called you.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I'd like to know if you have any record of
a Boston Blackie being married in your town three weeks ago?
Just tomor It look like this will strake me out
about the girl.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Then what about my ten thousands?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You shouldn't have paid it until you got in touch
with me. That girl was so convincing I can believe. Oh, yes,
you wanted all a man by the name of Boston
Blackie got married here?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Do you have no record of any such marriage? Who
wants I do?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A young man with your gut besides a wife a
case of amnesia? Boston Blackie was married in your town?
Sure it was the Jones Blake just three weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well look the musty look.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
If this is your idea of a joke, I don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I don't have time to wait.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Goodbye, Hello, hello, hello, well, well, man by the name
of Boston Blackie was married to Joan Blake in Springfield?
Was all right back? Why are you doing this to me?
I trusted you? Don't you understand less?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
This whole thing is faked.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Nobody knows anything about you except me and I haven't talked,
and I'm not married to that girl. And I'd like
to think you wouldn't blacken me.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But who would and why?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I don't know, but I'll find out. I can find
out where my wife is living.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
And she told me when you first came in that
she was living at the Walton House until you could
find a larger appliment.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
To the Waltham House. Huh, hung down in fear.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, and oh, by the way, a young lady seemed
interested in going to see Missus Boston Blanket too, phoned
here just after Ice booked you.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
On the phone.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Name was Mary Wesley.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Mary called here.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I gave her the Waltham House addressed.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
And I do anything wrong?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You're batting one hundred percent a day less so far
you haven't done anything right. Hey, Hey, is this the
Waltham House for the morning? Right with you? Sir? And
I feel better getting lonesome out of there. Guess it
is there a Missus Boston Blackie. You interested him? Oh? Yes,
(10:07):
in room eleven. Oh scen thanks, oh oh just a minute, sir.
I made him speak Missus Boston black he is not.
Where is she?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
She moved to room eleven or nine this morning?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, I'm going up to see her now or an
ordinary woman there has change your mind. My wife has
to change your room too. I'd like to speak to
well inspected Paraday. I would not like to speak to
you all. I thought you'd have better sense than to
(10:38):
come back get in here. Sure, sure, and stop waving
that gun in my face. But Paraday, uh be as
stupid if you want to on your own time, but
not on mine.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I came here to talk.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow, I don't act surprise Blackie. She's not sleeping. She's
been shot. She's dead, and you killed it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I killed her. I only saw her once a.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
My life, so it was love at first sight.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You married her. I have this certificate to prove it. Listen,
Brian Joan Blake, Broom, Boston, Blackie married Springfield, Ohio. Now
try to talk your way out of that, Sorr. They
don't be a dope, will you? Why would I kill
this girl? This is Joan Blake. First of all, for money.
She had ten thousand dollars. Here's a note she was
rinning standing it to somebody who It doesn't say who.
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There isn't even carfare in this room? And look at
this a handkerchief. I don't use ladies handkerchif know, but
Mary Wesley does pluck. Her name's on this one. Uh uh.
Maybe you didn't kill her, Blackie. Maybe Mary Wesley did.
The handkerchief was in the corner of that sofa by
the window. Come on, Blackie, Oh right, inspector, andn't mind
if I smoke on the way smoke smoke? Who chairs
(11:46):
join me? Oh? Thanks, hurry up, let's go. We'll I
get a wife, will you, Blackie? If this is one
of your smart tricks out?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Since when is lighting a cigarette as smart?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Break inspector? Even you can do it? Good night? Say
what's in this cigarette?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Tobacco?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Wise guy? Something that's been added that should have been subtracted.
Will I have a look?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Lay so help me?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You can waste more time.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Might put an ouse?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, cases, this is a soap and pickle juice.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Let's see what I'm in.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
There's nothing in it but tobacco. Come on, look, I have.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
A cigarettes split open.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Now I told you something, and it besides tobacco.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
We'll take a closer look.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
See those white specs with white spekes. Where yeah, wacky
my eyes? Wait, got that gun? Fatday, Tomas, thank you,
tol me up, thanks, thanks very much, Fatday, and leave
you a gun on the floor. Mine's in my hand, Lanky.
Someday you'll be sorry for this, maybe, but right now
I'm awful glad so long it's make it now.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Back to Boston.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Blackie Master Allan is running for political office against arrival
with a doubtful record. Alan at one time was innocently
involved in a property scandal, which is something only Blackie knows.
But when a woman who called herself Missus Boston Blackie
came to Allan and threatened to expose him, Allan paid
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her ten thousand dollars to keep her quiet. When Blackie
went to see the girl posing as his wife, she
was dead. Spector Parody found not only evidence proving the
dead girl was Blackie's wife, but discovered Mary Westley's handkerchief
near the body. As usual, Blackie escaped from parody and
as we returned to our story, as paying a midnight
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call to Mary Westley's apartment.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Hey, Mary, open up with Blackie.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Blackly, I told you I.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Never wanted to see you again.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'll go away. Mary, open the door please, I said,
it won't be much of me left if you don't
open door.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Oh I not what do you want in?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Oh? No?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
The chain stage on the door.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Look, Paraday is scouring the town for me.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Let me rule, mister Vos and Zackly.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Why the mister, because there was a missus?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You mean there was?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Oh I suppose you got a divorce.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Not even I can divorce a dead wife.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, and you might as well go to Paraday's office
and sign a confession. Mary, he found your handkerchief near
the body. Oh no, I who were you doing there?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I have I I wanted to see for myself what
kind of a fool were they pull enough to marry you.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I'm not married to that girl or anybody, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
She showed me proved.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Give me twenty four hours and I could r prove
to you that that we were married in eighteen sixty three.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Blackie.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You you you're sure you're not married to that girl.
I'm not and never was, Blackie.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Are you telling me the truth?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
What do you want me to do to prove it?
To chew on this door chain?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Alright, I'm sorried.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
I'm ill never mind.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
All I wanted to know is that if you left
your handkerchief in that girl's.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Room, that's golly, what am I going to do?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You're gonna stay here?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Paraday doesn't know that you've moved to this new apartment.
I'm going over to see less Allen. I think he
can tell me more or I don't know Less.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, you must want something important.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Black You need to barge in on me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
In the middle of the night, I found the late
Missus Boston Blackie Lass.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Late Missus Boston Blacky.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Someone got to her before I did and killed her.
Who I thought, maybe you'd have some idea. Why why
the ten thousand dollars you paid her was missing? Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
God'll admit ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
There's a lot of money to me, Blackie, but I
wouldn't kill for it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You wouldn't like to have to add to that ten thousand?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Do you mean you want to sap Allan?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You paid that girl money to keep her mouth shut,
but I didn't buy what you thought she knew about you. Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I was contemplating what to do about that.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I have a mile suspicion you contemplated with a bank.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I didn't shoot the girl.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
How did you know she was shot? Huh? Well, I
didn't you say so.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I merely said she was killed. I didn't say how.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I took it for granted.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It just so happens that she was shot, Lackey.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I I'll admit I was worried about how to keep
her from blackmailing me again.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
But I thought i'd wait until.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
She tried it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
And then you admit you thought she would No.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
No, I I made a bargain with her. I trusted
her to keep it failing in mine.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I guess trusting people.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The loss of money could change him.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Flancky, listen, don't drag me into this. I can't afford
this candle right now? Did This election means a lot
to me.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
If you wanna stay out of this, you'll have to
help me.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Help you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
How what do you know about this girl? Who could
have sent her?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, Leonard Brewster might have gone That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
What would Leonard Brewster? A political lion?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
What would blackmail money he could buy and sell you
fifty times?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Brewster is a political lion, all right, But he could
have sent that girl to me trying to force me
out of the race.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, I better go see Brewster at his house, and
if anybody calls while I'm there, they'll find the lion
as busy.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
What do you want if you're Lening Brewster, I want you.
I'm Brewster.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Who are you Boston Blackie? And of course you'll invite
me in. Thanks. Look here, I won't stand for being
disturbed this time of the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Then I'll make it briefe.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Did you know a girl posing as missus Boston Blackie?
Watch it to you. She was murdered yesterday, Larder, and
I happen to know you sent her to Lester Allen
trying to force him out of campaign. What if I did?
The last I saw her was in her hotel room Tuesday.
She was very cordial. We sat on the sofa by
the window and talked over my business proposition.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
He accepted, of course, No if.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
She didn't, she suddenly turned cold as eyes. She said
she'd do the job for ten thousand dollars or else
or else wife or else. She'd tell Lester Allen that
I sent her to him, and that's all Allan would
need me to force me out of the campaign for
you paid. I did not That was blackmail. I got
up and left. That's the last I saw. How did
you happen to go to her in the first place? Well,
(18:24):
Jim Whalen, the private detector, set me up to her.
She said she was your wife, and I sure would
have liked to talk to her, even on the telephone before.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
She was murdered.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Too bad, I didn't have time to give my wife
a ring.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
What's good about a chum? It's four am. This is
inspected paraday of the place. I want to ask you something, missus.
Boston Blackie checked into one rum Oni hotel and later
changed their room.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Why well it it's so small, sir, all we can
get in it is a bed.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Your chair, Oh, I say, everybody who has that room
ace for a bigger one. Wait a minute, eh, how
long was she in the small room? Well, just Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We moved it to the room she was killed on
Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh, there's no sofa in the room she was in
on Tuesday. Um.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh, the room isn't much bigger than the sofas.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It was there a sofa in the room where she
was killed.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Eh. Oh, yes, yes, thank you very much. Yes, that
solves this case. Yes, how uh what you said about
the sofa, chum. Sofas are made to lie on, not
about Okay, Blankie, wake up, get out of that betty horse.
(19:49):
It's the middle of the afternoon. H come on, come on,
snap out of it is your old path, paraday Ooh
who who else.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Have you run my bath?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
He I'll run you ragged first. Now. Is that a
nice way to talk at such.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
A beautiful after dude?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Am I ashamed of you?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I know my sleep is showing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know who murdered your wife, Lenny. If you didn't
kill her, Mary Wesley?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Did you said that yesterday? Mary is in her apartment.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Get her if you like. I've been to her apartment.
Mary doesn't live there anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
All right, Friday, I've let you make a dope out.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Of yourself long enough, well like it dressed, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Take you to your killer.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I've got my killer. You are Mary. The dead girl
was your wife. She was probably breaking up your romance
with Mary. That's the reason enough for either of you.
The killer.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's a good reason, all right, Friday. Only it's a
wrong one.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I suppose Mary Wesley didn't even go to see it.
That that handkerchief of hers just flew into the murder room.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
No, now you want to see it?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Is this the beginning of a confession? Somebody else went
to her hotel room too?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah you yes, but she shall I say.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It kicked out before I got there. Who else came
out to see her?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Her killer?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, quits, darling, get dressed.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Give me thirty minutes para day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
To get dressed, to get dressed, pay a call and hand.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You your killer.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I'm sorry to bother you again after this morning, mister Brewster.
For if you all right, black you found out more
about that girl who was killed? No, nobody seems to
know anything about her. That's why I've come back to you. Oh,
I thought perhaps you re told me the story of
how you went to see her and what happened. I
might get some clues to her real identity. I see
(21:33):
sort of character reference.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You might say, the character is the word?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
All right? Uh? Could you tell me the story just
as you told it to me when I called before?
Of course I went up to a room at the
Waltham House to talk about her going to see Lester
Allen one day with this uh Tuesday in the afternoon.
M go on, Well, I told you she was very friendly,
made me a drink. He sat on the sofa.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Uh the sofa was where?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Why? By the way, Oh that's right. You talked about
the view is. Then we talked business when I discovered
her business was black. Now I got up and left.
That was the last I saw that. You never saw
her after Tuesday. Definitely not leaving so soon.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
No, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I just want someone else to join us.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Come on in, Faraday, all right, brister, don't move.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What is the reason for all this? You heard this
little Tuesday afternoon story, Paraday about the sofa every word.
I'm arresting you, Brewster for the murder of missus Boston Blankie.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
How can you say I killed anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't have to say it, brister. You said it
yourself when you said you sat on a sofa in
the murder room on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
What does that prove?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The room the murdered woman was in on Tuesday had
no sofa in it, which proved that you lied. You
didn't see her on Tuesday. You went to her room
on Wednesday when she was in the room of the
sofa and killed it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Really for what reason?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Why have your reason? Brewster?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
On Wednesday when you saw the girl you had already
been to see Allen, And instead of forcing him to
withdraw from the campaign, which is what you paid her
to do, she merely blackmailed him, which didn't serve your purpose.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Is that so?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yes, that's so. When you got so harsh, he threatened
to blackmailed you too, and with your record, she had
plenty the blackmail before. So, like the nice little boy
that you are, you killed her. Come on, christ I'm
taking you down a headquarters near Brewster.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I just had a thought.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Isn't it ironic that a sofa is going to send
you to the.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Chair were we're walking back?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
He does it matter? Mary?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Mm mm?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You're voting tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
M oh?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I understand Leonard Brewster.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Withdrew from the race.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yes, he withdrew to the seclusion of one of Paraday's
special cells with Jim Whalen. That detective of his Paraday
found Whalen in Saint Louis with Allen's seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Ooh, missus Boston Blackie wasn't married at.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
All, was it?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Missus Boston Blackie was married to Jim Whalen. M Faraday
figured that out Whale had admitted he was married under
the name of Boston Blackie.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well, why did you run away with the money the girl.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Got from miss Allen?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
She double cost him when she blackmailed Allen, so.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
He double cost her by taking the money into granted.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
And then the girl had to turn around and fry
a blackmail brewster to make up for the money her
lovely husband had taken from her.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Lovely people, lovely knight.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
And look at that lovely sign over there. It says
get married in five minutes. Five dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Uh, I uh think we'd better keep moving.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
What's matter? Haven't you just five dollars?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
No, the smallest I have is fifty.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Oh, but I'm sure the minister would.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Be willing to make the change.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I don't doubt that the minister is willing to make
the change, Mary, But I don't think I am u
Speaker 3 (27:09):
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