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Speaker 1 (00:15):
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician Blackstone. He
told you the inside story of the Organ murder, and
right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you
yourself can perform, reveal the guarded secrets of the world's
greatest living magicians.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Blackstone, The Magic Detective. Well, what do you think of
magnetist magicians? That's Triphogan over there. Why it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
To you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I didn't know you played the organ black story.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
No, he can do anything, that guy, and that really
has a beautiful instrument.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Uh, but what's it doing in a magic studio?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know, everything in this room has something to do
with magic, and somehow the organ seems out of place.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, the organ isn't magical, really, but there was a
time when some people thought it was.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What do you mean, sounds like a story? It is
quite a story.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Tell him about it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Helen Trash was a friend of Rhoda's and when her
husband was shocked, she asked me if there was anything
I could do.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
You've got to help me, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
You've got to Helen, dear, don't get thought. Of course,
mister Blackstone will help you. That's why he's here.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Tell me exactly what happened, missus Trask On the day
your husband was murdered.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
I was sitting right here in this room waiting for Lesley.
He had called and said he wanted to speak to
me about something very important.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The door open, and I see that will be all
any I wanna speak the Vius the tract alone.
Speaker 8 (02:02):
Ry, what is it?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Wesley? You said you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Speak to me, Helen.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I want those securities of your fathers.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I need them.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You mean, unless I can raise fifty thousand dollars by tomorrow,
Trascin company will go under.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
So wonder why that's impossible?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Will you give me those securities?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'll have to know more about it, of course, But
what happened, Wesley?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
I thought the companies like yours were booming in more time.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You don't need to know anything, Helen. I want those securities.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Lesley. You you haven't done anything dishonest again, have you?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
I mean, Traskin Company has always been secure, except for
that one time years ago.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You haven't been gambling with company funds again.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I want those securities, Helen. I won't stand there arguing
about them.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'll give you those securities. If then when I decided
it's the right thing to do, and not.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Before Alliston, Helen, if you hold out on me now,
you will go down with me.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'll see that your name is black 'em along with mine.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I tell you I won't be swritten.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
I'll I'll kid you first.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I shouldn't lost my temper.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
I can see that now. But the many he was
asking if that was the last I had? Once before
I gave him enough to save him in this company.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
He never was honest, it wasn't in him, and he
had this time.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
M Well wanted to make sure that this would be
the last time.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
I had to make sure. If I gave him the securities,
I'd have nothing else, nothing left of my own.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I wouldn't have cared if I thought that this would
have been the end. But I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I couldn't be what happened next.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Oh, when I left Worsley gone into that little room
over there, I was walking up and down trying to
make up my mind. When I heard him go over
to the.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Older I leave. You shot him? An I call doctor?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Read again, you don't need no doctor?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He dead? Oh no, you shot him?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
No, you're wrong, Manny you commit suicide, Go get suicide.
You said, I won't be threatening, I'll kill you first,
and you've done it.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
No, No, I didn't do what I I didn't kill Wesley,
mister black Soon, I swear that.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
But to believe did they think that you didn't? I
don't know what they think really.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
They'd asked me not to leave the house.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
They I look around this room, Missus trad Well.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We certainly, mister Blakestone.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Uh had your husband give a contemplated suicide that you
know of, missus.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Prest boy, I know never he Well, he wasn't the
type of person who would do that. He had a
fear of pain of any kind of amounted almost too phobia.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I can remember once years ago when he cut his finger.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It was just a little cut, really, but from the
way he carried on, you'd think he'd cut his hand off.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Then suicide is out enemies?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He must have though.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
He always was a very definite sort of person. And well,
as I told you, he wasn't always too well too
honest in his business dealing.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
May I talk with Anny the maid for a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You certainly I'll get her Blackstone you don't think she
did it, do you, Anny?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
No, Helen Trask, she couldn't have Blackstone. I know it
just as well as I know. My name is wrote
a brind.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You sent for me, sir. Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, Anny, you discovered the body, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well in the manner of speaking, yes, I was the
first person to see him dead except missus Trask.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Of course, you seem pretty sure that missus Trists killed
her husband five the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
One nobody else who coulda done it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Nobody came here all day except the guy to too
in the organ.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Did you know that tune?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Had he been here before?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
No, sir, the regular man was sick, he said, so
this guy came instead.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He left at least an hour before mister Trask came home.
I see, well, thank you very much, Annie, very welcome.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I'm sure there is anything more I can do.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
No, no, nothing, thank you?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Oh why don't the police do something? She shot that man?
She shot him in cold blood while he was sitting
playing on that organ. She just came up and shot
the poor man.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Well, goodbye, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Missus Trask is a charming woman, wrote there. But her
maid doesn't think so. She seemed to think she's the
first cousin to board her.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, what are you gonna do now?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I'm going to check up on the organ. There is
some connection here road.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Uh, somehow these instruments connected with the murder of Westley Trus.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But how black stoneut could it be?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
You?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Maybe the rgent tuner was in here yesterday, but he
certainly didn't do a good job.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
That note is finer than a flounder.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I have it. Well, Uh, I know who killed trust.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Hum, and I know how it was done. Call the
police and have them arrest.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But who was it? Annie, missus? Trust?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yes again?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh, there's no one else who could've done it. Uh wait,
you got it? I think so the organ tuner, right?
But how did you know? And how did he do it?
Annie said? He left?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
He did, but he left an instrument of death behind,
a gun hidden inside of one of the pipes of
the organ, and when that particular note was played.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The vibration set off the hair trigger.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
The police traced the only piano tuner and discovered that
he was a man that Triusk had ruined in some
crooked prisonas.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Deal he knew trast he knew that he played the
organ a good deal and that it'd be only your
question of time before he hit the right note.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But didn't he run the risk of killing Missus Trask
instead of the man he was out gunning for.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Well, as Rhoda said, he knew Triss can be also
knew that Missus Trask was not musical.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But what did Annie the maid have against Missus Trask?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Annie, it seems, was the girl friend of our villain,
Well Blakestone.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So you saw another crime, but this one not with magic.
On the contrary, you mean this magic did ender into it.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
All magicians had to have very sensitive ears because so
many of their tricks depend on some If RhoD and
I hadn't learned to pick up the accurate pitch of
a scale, I never would have found the gun or
even noticed that the organ was not in tune.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And so there was another case, Saul, thanks to magic,
Well Blightstone. Have you a trick for us today?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I'll let me see do that new And you were
starting to tell me about this morning?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Mm oh, althor, I what's this trick? Based on Blakestone vibrations?
Just as the gun and the shop trisc is motivated
by vibration. Well, that sounds like real magic.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh it is uh roder.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Hang me that bottle of bevery okay, thank you, and
that glass that's right now, pull me a drink, will you. Well,
I will take this ordinary table fork. Watch close to
you too. When I pluck the problems of the fault.
Then I place my fingers above the glass and draw
the vibration right from it the fault.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
And here's the glass right, The sound is coming right
from the glass.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And now the sound will come right from the bottle.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Say that sound certainly is coming from the bottle. You're
joining it out of your fingertips.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Oh here, let me try a black stone. It looks
easy enough.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It is easy when you know how, I'll go ahead
a right pluck.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
The prongs of the fork like this.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Now hold your finger tips over the glass. There.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Oh, nothing happened. I don't get any vibrations at all.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Perhaps you're just not in tune. Uh, why don't uh
you try it?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'd like to give me the fork rotor. Here it did.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, I plucked the prongs and hold my fingers over
the glass.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Hm. Doesn't work for me either.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well, let me try it again.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Huh, go out.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Ahead, we'll be back in a minute to help you
improve your vibrations.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Oh, next, done, it still doesn't work, Oh yes it does.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Uh, just let me have that fork roder. Now, But how.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I did just what you were doing, But I didn't
get any sound at all.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Keep watching my left hand rotor the one that holds
the fork.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh, I see now you're pressing the end of the
fork against the table.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yes, and that's what produces the singing sound. See now
the fork handle against the table.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
But I would have scorned it came from the glass.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And one time I did it come from a beverage bottle.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I hope that's because your ears deceived you. Guessing the
direction of sound is almost impossible. And the something else
that cools you. First you see me pluck the foe,
and then my hand goes over to the glass. That's
when I set the poor candle on the table.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So what are I think?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They see?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Our ears believe what they hear.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
That's exactly it, Rhoda, and that's real magic. I hope
you enjoyed that trick, ladies and gentlemen. And now until
next time, this is Blackstone wishing you put magic and goodbye.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Be with us.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Next time when the world's greatest living magician. Blackstone tells
us the story of the Ghosts that wasn't and explains
more tricks that you yourself can perform. Listening again to Blackstone,
the world's greatest living magician,