August 19, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
All right, mister, your page a quarter, there's a rifle.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Take your shot.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Uh got down that gun?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's wrong, lady?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well look behind.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
The targeting shooting match running down the side of the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
See it. That's blood. Well, there's a dead body behind
that target.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Police Murder.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
W O R.
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Mutual presents the distinguished American actor Walter Hampden in the
Adventures of Leonora's Witherall.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Always getting mixed up in murder.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
You wouldn't think so. He looks just like Shakespeare.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
It's his beard, and he's the head of an important
school for boys in New England.
Speaker 8 (00:55):
He also writes the thriller stories on the side of
the Lieutenant Hazeltine story.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
But Leonors is engaged in much more vital business knowledge me,
mister Hampton.
Speaker 9 (01:03):
Yes, business that takes precedence over all of Leonidas's regular activities.
The neighborhood housekeeper in Dalton whether All's close friends, Missus Mullett,
has entered the contest to determine who makes the finest
preserves in the state. The contest is a feature of
the annual State Fair. And whether All has borrowed a
horse and buggy in which he's now heading for the
(01:26):
fair get up, fair girl, and missus Mullett, you should
have known difficulty at all in winning this contest. Something
of an epicure. I can say your preserves are perfect.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Well, I'm going to have mighty hard competition, though, mister
withert All that Missus Axelbent's.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Not easy to please.
Speaker 9 (01:45):
Missus axel Bent.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Mmmmm, she's going to be the jugs, going to chase
all the entries very uply.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
She is I not like my preserves at all.
Speaker 9 (01:56):
Prefers axle grease perhaps, but don't you know yes meta words.
Her face is familiar, but her name is impossible.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
She's a divorcee, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh she was married to that farmer and very county,
mister Axelband.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Now she's going to marry the wealthiest farmer in the
coffee a.
Speaker 9 (02:17):
Mister Fribbits Fribbitts. For a moment I thought she was
making a change for a better name. Wrong again. Hell,
come on there, gay, I'll get up.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
She divorced him about two years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They say he never got over it either, still very
jealous and he used to be very pleasant.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now he's bloomy all the time. Having time to talk
to you now come and see me some other day.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
You're always too busy to talk to me.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh, don't be tiresome. Now I really must go. I'm
use to stay there.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm to be a judge.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
I'm going to prepare myself entering a prize bull Before
you get out of here, I have something to say
you marry Pribbits.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I won't let you rupert.
Speaker 10 (02:57):
We've been legally divorced, and it's so the goal over
all of our differences. Again, I've told you before, you're
the most insanely jealous man honors. That's why I divorced you.
That's why you're hitting now like a hopeless fool.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
You made me jealous clean enough to every fellow we met.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh, you imagined all that. Why except yourself.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
You don't love Rivets anymore than you loved me. He's
the wealthiest farmer in the state.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's why you rafter.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Now that's very unfair. You've no idea of how I
feel about him.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
I know how you feel about everything. It either pays
off for you, it doesn't. Now get this. If I
can't have you, no other man will remember what the
minister said, whom God hath joined together and.
Speaker 10 (03:38):
Being very final about something that's none of your business.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Before you marry that man.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
I'd rather see you dead first.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I will see you dead first.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Missus Axelbent never did strike me as a very pleasant person,
Missus my lesson, possibly because she was always so deliberately pleasant.
He has such an even disposition, irritating all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh you turned to the left here or where you
go in there?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You'll plug get up there?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Now go on this mister Fribs, the man she's gone
to marry. He has the best looking son. Randy is
his name, they say. Randy's not very happy about that
woman marrying his father. He's always been kind of a
hot tempered lad anyway, doesn't relish.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Having her step mother.
Speaker 11 (04:28):
You want me out of the way, don't you, missus
xspan Why no, Randy?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 9 (04:33):
Because I always tell the truth.
Speaker 11 (04:35):
You're not marrying my father because you love him.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You want to own this farm.
Speaker 10 (04:39):
And you've always expected to inherit the farm yourself?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is that it?
Speaker 11 (04:43):
I've worked on this farm since I was old enough
to stand up. That gives me a good claim, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Randy? Where don't you take a Oh? What's that girl's name?
Speaker 11 (04:50):
Connie, Connie maple Grove.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Yes, why don't you marry Connie and we're gonna wait
from the farm and a living in your own way,
under your own steam. Why do you feel contempt to
just sit back and wait till your father dies?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Go away?
Speaker 11 (05:04):
Huh? I'm wise to this dirty game you're playing, but
I want sure way to cut it short.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
What in the world are you talking about?
Speaker 11 (05:11):
You keep trying to marry my father and take the
farm away from me. You'll see what I'm talking about.
The ceremony'll have to be postponed because nobody can marry
a dead brust.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There's a fair right away to this, mister Witherraw, so
it is.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I want to wish you luck, Missus Mullett. I'll be
very surprised if you don't win.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We can tie up over there. It looks like a parking.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Place, all right, Oh girl, Oh, I'll just tie up here.
You know only see hitching posts at the fair these days.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There's missus Axelbaine standing by that first booth. See here, my,
how she's dressed decorated like an admiral's flag.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Ship, ain't she yes?
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Decorated? When the admiral wasn't looking. Who's still now girl?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Well, dear Missus Axelby, Oh, hello, Missus Mullett.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Oh, I know you have a beard now just a minute,
just the oh, of course the man who looks like Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You're the honorous Witherall.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Yes, Missus xlbent and how are you? How's every little thing?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Are you going to judge this preserves contest?
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Missus Ackrelbin, Oh, hello, Missus Wacker, Well.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Missus Worker.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You know mister Witherow, don't you, Missus Wacker does most
of the Fox laundry back in Dalton?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Answer my question?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Are you going to judge the Preserves contest? Missus Ackrelbin, Yes,
time to be the judge?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, I'm taking back my jar if you ought to
be the judge, my dear woman, I hardly think a
scene at this time. I don't care who hears me.
I'll take my job back, thank you. I couldn't win
if you're the judge. You're set against me now. After all,
everyone knows about you and me. They know you're trying
to take my boy away from me.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Meli suggested to the Lady's Council that I have to
think a laundry is a fit place to.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Raise the baby. My baby's very healthy and very happy.
Where we could discuss this some other time.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
We'll talk about it now.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Who are just ironing out a baby?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Where do they think they are?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You're making a scene and this is a very bad taste.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You wouldn't talk to me in that house of yours,
and so we'll talk now.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You let go of me, leave me alone.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
You wouldn't dare to take away my baby, you sniveling, nosybody,
you cheap hypocrite.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Your son hasn't a proper hole for what is supposed
to be.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
My son has the finest home in town, but it's
for the boys own good.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You couldn't take my son away from me in a
million years.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
You've nothing in your own life to satisfy you, and
so you make up for it by meddling with everyone
else's m This.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Promises to be the most jelly shaking contest in history.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You meddle with my life and you'll pay for it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
You take my baby from my house, and.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'll kill you. God would forgive me too.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Ah, these country affairs so peaceful from the hope of
the new world.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
You know I'm sorry for you, missus weicker terribly sorry.
So many people in your circumstances are blind, and what's
best for them?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh, missus xel Bains. Oh yes, mister, could you change
your plans a bit? I mean about the preserves contest?
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Why?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
We'd rather have you with the war bond booth. It's
much more important to sell bonds. And well you're so popular, yes,
isn't she?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And we thought it'd be better if room someone else
would judge the preserves?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Who judger? Who could we eat?
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Why? Those little jelly jars are causing one crisis after another?
Aren't they before being eaten? Too?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
See, let's see that somebody around here could do it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well, mister Wall could do it, and.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
I'll hold on Missus Mullett.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Please, Oh, I'd appreciate it so much.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
As a gastronomist, I'm afraid i'm caviar to the general.
What's that Shakespeare? I thought you said you're recognized man?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh ga, mister with at all. I'd like him to
do it. He looks like a very honest man, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Missus Wecker. To be honest, as this world goes, is
to be one man picked out of ten thousand what's
wrong here?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (09:17):
Just a discussion, rupers. We need someone to take my
place judging the preserves. Oh do you all know mister ackobyin.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
I just took Dalton Chancery Prince. I got the fourth
over to his pen, Dalton.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Chancery Prince Igor the fourth pen name of the writer.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There's my prize.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Bull trouble getting in here too is very wild today.
See him in the booth with a flag on it.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Yes, he looks formidable as the English say. Doesn't he
get going here?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Folks?
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I have no time to waste.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
All right, I'll do my best. There's a jelly taster.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 9 (09:50):
You get things started?
Speaker 10 (09:50):
Well, I'm not going to judge the preserves, Randy, mister
w is do you know?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Everyone?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Come on, come on, get going for everybody over? Took
number three for the preserved.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Contest number three.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Hey see, Michael, Randy, I bet you we come out
on top this year, you think so.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Here's my job, mister wither all mine.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
There's about two dozen of us already in the booth.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I'll say the crowd over you get up on the platform.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
It's all see you later, Shakespeare, and thank you for taking.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Midley, see you later.
Speaker 11 (10:20):
By the way, here's our entrance with all we should
walk away with a contest.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
My fiance made honey maple broke.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
All right, Randy, heel me first, hop up on this platform.
There we are quiet.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Everybody quiet, everybody quiet, please, thanks you.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Here's a clean spoon. Mister Witherraw you can start anytime.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Now stop clean eh? All right, mister Bradley, here goes.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Back, utting reply, clong down off that platforms with it all?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Why the bull to pick me out?
Speaker 9 (11:01):
So you platin me?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's been any times you're way everybody, everybody goes close.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
God, don't get near him any money.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He's my ball, He's my ball, I know him.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
He'll quiet again.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
God nothing, boy, fall back to your pen, go back.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Why that boot running the rabbit's crazy?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That crowd push you so much I can hardly stand up.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Look out, Randy, you'll knock over that job preserved.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh gosh, your coat.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
I'm sorry, I'm competless with all.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now you've put the jelly all over your well of
all things to happen all over his cart.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Don't bulve anybody if you start to run that full mile,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Come down off that tad forms to win a hole.
The boot looking at you, at me, but yees, don't
move now, don't find your means.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
That bull's too close for comfort.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Don't run, weather All, he'll go after you.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Get out of my way.
Speaker 13 (11:55):
Everybody, Hey, don't fare show my bully.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Ride those horns. Listens with all. Don't run.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Oh good, somebody say them say this within the ball.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But the bull's almost called him with all figure help help.
He's gotta near that wall.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Don't back up against that wall and gets you know
what's trying?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh, I can't look. It would be horrible. Look, mister
wither All's up against that wall while the bull's gonna charge.
He's getting fat. Do something, do something.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Hang off your coat, Weatherall, Throw your coat at him.
It might stopping.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I make him angry too.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You gotta take that chance.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Take off your coat, throw it at him.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
All right, try anything here goes.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Why it's working. The bull's looking at his coat.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Thank goodness for that. I thought it'd a distract him.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
The bull's going is coat.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, that's a lot better than going, mister Witherall.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
All right, Randy, you Joe. A couple of men sneak
up on, Greg. We can pull him back to the pen.
He'll be quiet now. He's taking quite a fancy of
Witherraw's coat.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, lucky it was covered with the jealous one.
Speaker 14 (13:07):
House careful, Okay, come down?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Would you want to break out of the pen and scare.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
All these people for him?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Come on, calm down, boy.
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Isn't anybody going to ask about me?
Speaker 15 (13:35):
You? All right?
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Mister, I'll be all right as soon as I get
my heart out of my mouth.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Well, that was just about the most terrible thing I've
ever seen happen to you.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Mister.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It was your own fault, so you shouldn't have started
to run.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Yes, and I knew it was my fault. In fact,
while I was making my one hundred yard dash from
the platform, with the bull's horns flitting with my coattails
all the way, I kept thinking of that famous phrase,
is this trip necessary?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
All right?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Books, All right, come on, break it up. Don't need
to prod around. Lots of other boots are open here.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Why look at that bullet chewing on your coat. Oh
it's a shame you have to lose it.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
Well, let the poor little thing keep it. I'm warm
enough now to get along without it, and anyway, those
preserves He used to like those preserves a lot.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Look at away he's looking him off the.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Coat quite a judge, isn't there. Well he's use up
my place. Why not give him a spoon too?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Wach murder, golden boy, you're tired and chasing mister Weatherall,
Poor darden boy.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yes, hope I didn't frighten him.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Say you know, this bull of mine looks sick to me.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
He looks sick, My good man, what do you think
I've been doing?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Nephew wore him out, wore him out.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh that's odd, very peculiar, running a couple of yards
after mister Whittall wore out your prow's boot.
Speaker 9 (14:59):
Well, i'll listen to him. Look at him wobbling on
his feet. Oh too bad. I wasn't wearing slippers too.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I wanna lie down, darden boy, feeling bad? Huh, lie
down if you want to go on? Lie down.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Yeah, she's been under quite a strain. Perhaps we could
get a chaise long for him.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Never mind being a funny. My bull sick and you
made him that way?
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Well, he made me sick. Tit for tat, Well, the bull.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Does seem pretty badly off, doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
You keep out of this, Missus Wacker, the very idea
the bull nearly kills mister Witherall.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Now everybody's feeling sorry for the bull. Huh, come on,
mister Witherall, let's get out of here.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Yes, a little relaxation is in order, Missus Mullett. They
probably won't reorganize your jelly contest for a while.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, want to stroll around the rest of the fairy.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
It's a very good suggestion.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
This bull of mine's really sick on a count of you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Whether all, I'll stow you?
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Yes, sure's me right teasing wild bulls. Bye, I'll come along,
said Mullett.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Doesn't it strike you is very funny that he husky
prize bull gets shick just from running around?
Speaker 9 (16:03):
To be funny? Is not the word, missus Mullett.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well, what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Well, I'm walking over here toward the bullspen purposely. He
did not break out by himself. I'm wondering who let
him out, Missus Mullet. That word is murderous perhaps, Hell, look,
(16:36):
miss Mullet, there's a shooting gallery.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well you're not such a good shot, are you.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
I'm not a. I was captain of the Meredith rifle team.
Did I wi all they called me? I'm for that
shooting gallery. Come on right, ten shots per quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They're all trying it, every man his own commando.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Kay, step step.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Right up and test your skill.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
I'll try it. Here's a quarter.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yes, yes, all right, here we are gonna win a
cupie doll for your girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Why did you say?
Speaker 14 (17:04):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Never mind him, missus mullett. He means to be complimentary.
Uh see, fellow, what's the most difficult object to hit?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Now that the clay pipe way over on the left side.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
There you see it.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You hit that thing and you get a free round plus.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
A gorgeous, rosy cheek, blue eyed, practically genuine cupie doll.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Get the doll? Ready?
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Did I with the waller is about to perform? Ah,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm glad you're shooting blanks.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Oh, lady, you couldn't knock anything over with blanks. Those
are real bullets. Go on, mister, go on, all right?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Did you say did eye? Mister?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I'm merely warming up.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Still warming up, mister Witherall, stop shooting. Put down that gun.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
What's the matter? What's happened?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Look on the curtain behind the time. It's trickling down
the curtain. It's blood.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Why she she's right, someone's behind that curtains.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Someone's been shot back there.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Come on, let's see. Hurry.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It must be between the curtain and the steel wall.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I gotta reinforced steel wall behind the target curtain.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It pulis moke. It's missus axel bam.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Why she she's dead?
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Yes, standing up?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Look, look, look look at all that blood.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Must be about fifteen bullets in her blanks, indeed.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Gags and tied to this pool back of the curtain.
No one could see her, but nearly everyone who took
a shot was likely to hit her.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh good gracious, I've never in my life seen anything
as awful as that, that.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Pool of blood. You were the last guy to shoot, mister.
I think the cops will want to talk to you.
You were murderer.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Me.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh, just can't stand looking at it. Just be away,
take her.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Away, help police, murder, murder.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Take it easy, little man, or you'll wake the dead.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
You were shooting to the extreme left of the target.
Curtains built.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
That's right, I said to Miccabo. None of the bullets
from my rifle could have hit missus mac xman murder.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Sure was a.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
Brute taking that woman and tied it to the pole
there behind that curtain, you know, Bill. She must have
tried screaming, but I guess the handkerchief was so tight
that she couldn't make much noise.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh, by the way, who was shooting here just before? Shakespeare?
Would you recognize them?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
I know some of them.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
There was a There was a lady, the one that
owns the laundry you know, over in Dalton.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
But that's Missus Wicker, Missus Wacker.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And a young fellow, the Fribbet boy.
Speaker 13 (19:43):
Ran Frandy Fribbott who well, the farmer, you know, the
farmer the bull got looser.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
What's his name?
Speaker 9 (19:49):
Axel Rod, Axle Grease, Axel Dan, axl Ben.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
A couple others too, the soldier and some sailors. A
couple of say. It makes things kind of tough, does
the build?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
It is hard to pin on anyone, Sergeant.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Is that so? Well? How about him? Sergeant? You know
this fellow Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
No, No, no, this fellow right here?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Why sure, I've known mister weinerall for years. Don't be silly? Well,
why couldn't it have been him, if you ask me.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
He's a he's a He's a fancy looking guy.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Got a got a beard.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
He might be a spy or something.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
I'm a spy. Bearded men are either spies or philosophers.
I'd rather be a spy.
Speaker 13 (20:23):
Here you, mister winterall have been looking all over for you.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Oh, mister Axel Beanter, I'm afraid we've some very bad you.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Oh, never mind that something important has happened.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
My bull's dead.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Your bull die, yes, Dalton Chancery, Prince Igor the fourth.
My prize bull died a while after you left, after
he tasted you.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
It was your fault whether all he died, Eh, Sergeant
the couple, that's the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What do you think of Bill?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
That bull was poisoned?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Poison?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Of course, don't you remember his Royal Highness ate something
just before he became ill.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He ain't your cold.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
No, he licked the preserve off my coat, Missus Mullett,
and the preserves were poisoned. You see, he'sn't preservice.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What's this all about?
Speaker 8 (21:06):
What's the police here for.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Mister Axelbent We found your ex wife in the back
of this shooting gallery, I should say we found your
ex wife's body and she's been murdered.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
Mart Phil whoever tied missus axel Bent up behind this gallery?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
He tried to kill her first by poison and jelly.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
You see, because they knew she was going to be
the judge of the contest and they'd be taste in
each bottle.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Isn't that exactly? Therefore, Sergeant, your problem now is who
made the preserves that were spilled on my coat.
Speaker 13 (21:47):
Here's the girl who made the jar of poison preserves, Bill,
Connie Maplegrove. Yeah, I got her name by checking the
number of the broken bottle against.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
The entry list.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Why she's Randy, sweetheart?
Speaker 15 (21:59):
What about it? I don't know anything about this. I
did make it preserves, but I never dreamed of killing
missus axelbt.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Connie Darling, it's awful they.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
Think I killed and I know you're perfectly innocent.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You've got no right to keep her here. Mind your
own business, Randy, I'm running this.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
They tell me, Conny that if missus Axelban married Randy's father,
your boyfriend would never inherit that big farmer's father. That's right,
But Connie, I don't think I am asking Cunny the
questions that you.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, it's true that she didn't have any right to
get the farm. Randy deserves it. He worked on it
all his life.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
With that woman out of the way.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
While you marry Randy, he gets that tremendous fim And
you're sitting pretty Is that correct?
Speaker 15 (22:39):
I never thought of such a thing besides this, Oh,
that's something I shouldn't think of.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
What's on your mind? Conne?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
What's very simple?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Yes, I know, But what's on it?
Speaker 15 (22:50):
Why do you accuse me? Anyone could have poisoned the
preserve somehow. It might have been that longest missus Wacker.
It might have been mister Axelbt, he's very jealous.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Strangely enough, Connie, we've already realized there are quite a
number of prospects and suspects too. But you're here for
a specific reason.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
Besides the jar preserves were stealed with paraffin, wasn't it.
How could anyone else get poisoned into that bottle? You're
the only person in the world who could have done
at Connie. And you're gonna sit there until you tell
us the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, we've got the goods on you, all right.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
Please Missus Mullett, leave this to me. Go on, Connie,
go on, start talking.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Well, go on, I tell you I don't know anything
about it.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Okay, then we'll just sit here till you change your
mind and quit lying.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yes, we're waiting for you to tell the truth.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
Please, Missus Mullett, leave this to me. Go on, Connie,
it'll be easier for you if you don't stall. You
killed Missus Axelbitt, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You murdered her, didn't you.
Speaker 13 (23:51):
You tied her up behind that shooting gallery, and then
you went out fot and you paid a.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Quarter for enough bullets to commit cold blooded murder. Now
you're gonna hang.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Come on now, it'll be easier for you if you
don't stop.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Please, missus will at leave this to me.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I don't know anything about this. I never wanted to
come to the fairs.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
I was afraid something would happen.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I didn't want to add of the contest. I really
didn't want to come here all. That's why I said
Randy ahead with my job. I wanted stay home us
just a minute.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Didn't you come here with Randy?
Speaker 14 (24:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I came much later. I only did here about ten minutes.
Speaker 15 (24:27):
Like I said, I didn't want to come at all.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
You weren't here when the contest started when the bull
of broke loose? What bull, ah, Sergeant. Our problem is
not who made the preserves. The murderer is the person
who let that prize bull out of his pen.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Let the prize ball out, shouldn't it.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
The killer planned to dispose of missus Axelban by means
of the preserves. Originally that's obvious, but at the last
minute there was an unexpected change of judges. I took
over the role. The killer wasn't out to me him,
so she or he had to get rid of that
bottle of poisoned jelly before I tasted it.
Speaker 13 (25:08):
So whoever it was, let the bull out of the
pen as an excuse to start.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
A pelly so the bottle could be broken.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
That's it. The murderer is the person who deliberately broke
that bottle of preserves and spilled it on me.
Speaker 12 (25:22):
All right, you stay where you are, Fiendish way to
kill Andy Fiendish, Tie up your victim, and then deliberately
buy the bullets ten shots for a quarter ten bloody
fatal shoting.
Speaker 13 (25:40):
Either you stand still in this black jack of Mine's
gonna make you take those hankles spilled slip over his wrists.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's it, Okay.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
I suppose she never married my father and take that
farm away from me.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Course she didn't. She didn't get it.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
No, no, neither of you will get the farm. That's
even handed justice. So my poet phrased it.
Speaker 13 (26:00):
There's just one thing bill about getting the poison into
the jar.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I mean it was sealed with paraple.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Oh that's easy, sergeant. An ordinary hypodemic syringe and needle
would do the trick, inject the poison through the paraffin
without disturbing it. How about that, Randy.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
Did you throw the hypodermic away or is it still
in your pocket?
Speaker 11 (26:21):
In my pocket?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That tan pockets. I'll get it. I'll search.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
With it all.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He hit the.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Sergeant on the head with a hand. Call DELI stop.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Him my gun take it?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Stop, don't shoot you kill him? Many hmm. You got
a mister with it all. Looks like you hit him
in the leg and with just one shot too.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Of course, just one shot. Missus mullett, remember dead eye
is my middle name. Now let's find another shooting gallery
and I'll get you a rosy cheeked, blue eyed, practically
genuine q P doll.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Now All R Mutual has presented the distinguous American actor
Walter Hampden in the Adventures of Leonidas Wetherall. Missus Mullett
is played by Ethel Ramie. The character of Leonidas Wetherall
is from the mystery novels by Alice Tilton. The radio
script is by Howard Merrill, and the program is directed
by Roger Bauer. Mister Hamden has an important announcement to
make mister Hamden well.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Leonardus's friends won't be sharing a puzzle in homicide with
him next week because our program is changing time. Whither All,
Missus Mullet and the Worthy Sergeant will be back on
the air on Sunday, October eighth, that's two weeks from
tonight at seven pm Eastern War Time. That's two hours
(27:55):
earlier than usual. I hope you'll make a note to
join us then Sunday, October eighth at seven pm until
then goodnight.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Beginning next Sunday, Evening October first, at nine pm from wartimes,
w ORR Mutual will present a new musical program, Steel Horizons,
with John Baker Baritona. The Metropolitan Opera Association and guest
soloists and an orchestra conducted by Frederic vanch And Remember,
Leonidus Witheroll will return on October eighth at seven pm.
(28:31):
The Adventures of Leonidus Witheroll came to you from the
stage of the Worr Mutual Playhouse in New York.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
This is mutual
All right, mister, your page a quarter, there's a rifle.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Take your shot.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Uh got down that gun?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's wrong, lady?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well look behind.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
The targeting shooting match running down the side of the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
See it. That's blood. Well, there's a dead body behind
that target.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Police Murder.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
W O R.
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Mutual presents the distinguished American actor Walter Hampden in the
Adventures of Leonora's Witherall.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Always getting mixed up in murder.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
You wouldn't think so. He looks just like Shakespeare.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
It's his beard, and he's the head of an important
school for boys in New England.
Speaker 8 (00:55):
He also writes the thriller stories on the side of
the Lieutenant Hazeltine story.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
But Leonors is engaged in much more vital business knowledge me,
mister Hampton.
Speaker 9 (01:03):
Yes, business that takes precedence over all of Leonidas's regular activities.
The neighborhood housekeeper in Dalton whether All's close friends, Missus Mullett,
has entered the contest to determine who makes the finest
preserves in the state. The contest is a feature of
the annual State Fair. And whether All has borrowed a
horse and buggy in which he's now heading for the
(01:26):
fair get up, fair girl, and missus Mullett, you should
have known difficulty at all in winning this contest. Something
of an epicure. I can say your preserves are perfect.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Well, I'm going to have mighty hard competition, though, mister
withert All that Missus Axelbent's.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Not easy to please.
Speaker 9 (01:45):
Missus axel Bent.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Mmmmm, she's going to be the jugs, going to chase
all the entries very uply.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
She is I not like my preserves at all.
Speaker 9 (01:56):
Prefers axle grease perhaps, but don't you know yes meta words.
Her face is familiar, but her name is impossible.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
She's a divorcee, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh she was married to that farmer and very county,
mister Axelband.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Now she's going to marry the wealthiest farmer in the
coffee a.
Speaker 9 (02:17):
Mister Fribbits Fribbitts. For a moment I thought she was
making a change for a better name. Wrong again. Hell,
come on there, gay, I'll get up.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
She divorced him about two years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They say he never got over it either, still very
jealous and he used to be very pleasant.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now he's bloomy all the time. Having time to talk
to you now come and see me some other day.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
You're always too busy to talk to me.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh, don't be tiresome. Now I really must go. I'm
use to stay there.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm to be a judge.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
I'm going to prepare myself entering a prize bull Before
you get out of here, I have something to say
you marry Pribbits.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I won't let you rupert.
Speaker 10 (02:57):
We've been legally divorced, and it's so the goal over
all of our differences. Again, I've told you before, you're
the most insanely jealous man honors. That's why I divorced you.
That's why you're hitting now like a hopeless fool.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
You made me jealous clean enough to every fellow we met.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh, you imagined all that. Why except yourself.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
You don't love Rivets anymore than you loved me. He's
the wealthiest farmer in the state.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's why you rafter.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Now that's very unfair. You've no idea of how I
feel about him.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
I know how you feel about everything. It either pays
off for you, it doesn't. Now get this. If I
can't have you, no other man will remember what the
minister said, whom God hath joined together and.
Speaker 10 (03:38):
Being very final about something that's none of your business.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Before you marry that man.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
I'd rather see you dead first.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I will see you dead first.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Missus Axelbent never did strike me as a very pleasant person,
Missus my lesson, possibly because she was always so deliberately pleasant.
He has such an even disposition, irritating all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh you turned to the left here or where you
go in there?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You'll plug get up there?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Now go on this mister Fribs, the man she's gone
to marry. He has the best looking son. Randy is
his name, they say. Randy's not very happy about that
woman marrying his father. He's always been kind of a
hot tempered lad anyway, doesn't relish.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Having her step mother.
Speaker 11 (04:28):
You want me out of the way, don't you, missus
xspan Why no, Randy?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 9 (04:33):
Because I always tell the truth.
Speaker 11 (04:35):
You're not marrying my father because you love him.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You want to own this farm.
Speaker 10 (04:39):
And you've always expected to inherit the farm yourself?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is that it?
Speaker 11 (04:43):
I've worked on this farm since I was old enough
to stand up. That gives me a good claim, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Randy? Where don't you take a Oh? What's that girl's name?
Speaker 11 (04:50):
Connie, Connie maple Grove.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Yes, why don't you marry Connie and we're gonna wait
from the farm and a living in your own way,
under your own steam. Why do you feel contempt to
just sit back and wait till your father dies?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Go away?
Speaker 11 (05:04):
Huh? I'm wise to this dirty game you're playing, but
I want sure way to cut it short.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
What in the world are you talking about?
Speaker 11 (05:11):
You keep trying to marry my father and take the
farm away from me. You'll see what I'm talking about.
The ceremony'll have to be postponed because nobody can marry
a dead brust.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There's a fair right away to this, mister Witherraw, so
it is.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I want to wish you luck, Missus Mullett. I'll be
very surprised if you don't win.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We can tie up over there. It looks like a parking.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Place, all right, Oh girl, Oh, I'll just tie up here.
You know only see hitching posts at the fair these days.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There's missus Axelbaine standing by that first booth. See here, my,
how she's dressed decorated like an admiral's flag.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Ship, ain't she yes?
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Decorated? When the admiral wasn't looking. Who's still now girl?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Well, dear Missus Axelby, Oh, hello, Missus Mullett.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Oh, I know you have a beard now just a minute,
just the oh, of course the man who looks like Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You're the honorous Witherall.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Yes, Missus xlbent and how are you? How's every little thing?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Are you going to judge this preserves contest?
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Missus Ackrelbin, Oh, hello, Missus Wacker, Well.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Missus Worker.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You know mister Witherow, don't you, Missus Wacker does most
of the Fox laundry back in Dalton?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Answer my question?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Are you going to judge the Preserves contest? Missus Ackrelbin, Yes,
time to be the judge?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, I'm taking back my jar if you ought to
be the judge, my dear woman, I hardly think a
scene at this time. I don't care who hears me.
I'll take my job back, thank you. I couldn't win
if you're the judge. You're set against me now. After all,
everyone knows about you and me. They know you're trying
to take my boy away from me.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Meli suggested to the Lady's Council that I have to
think a laundry is a fit place to.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Raise the baby. My baby's very healthy and very happy.
Where we could discuss this some other time.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
We'll talk about it now.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Who are just ironing out a baby?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Where do they think they are?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You're making a scene and this is a very bad taste.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You wouldn't talk to me in that house of yours,
and so we'll talk now.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You let go of me, leave me alone.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
You wouldn't dare to take away my baby, you sniveling, nosybody,
you cheap hypocrite.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Your son hasn't a proper hole for what is supposed
to be.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
My son has the finest home in town, but it's
for the boys own good.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You couldn't take my son away from me in a
million years.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
You've nothing in your own life to satisfy you, and
so you make up for it by meddling with everyone
else's m This.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Promises to be the most jelly shaking contest in history.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You meddle with my life and you'll pay for it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
You take my baby from my house, and.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'll kill you. God would forgive me too.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Ah, these country affairs so peaceful from the hope of
the new world.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
You know I'm sorry for you, missus weicker terribly sorry.
So many people in your circumstances are blind, and what's
best for them?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh, missus xel Bains. Oh yes, mister, could you change
your plans a bit? I mean about the preserves contest?
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Why?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
We'd rather have you with the war bond booth. It's
much more important to sell bonds. And well you're so popular, yes,
isn't she?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And we thought it'd be better if room someone else
would judge the preserves?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Who judger? Who could we eat?
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Why? Those little jelly jars are causing one crisis after another?
Aren't they before being eaten? Too?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
See, let's see that somebody around here could do it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well, mister Wall could do it, and.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
I'll hold on Missus Mullett.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Please, Oh, I'd appreciate it so much.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
As a gastronomist, I'm afraid i'm caviar to the general.
What's that Shakespeare? I thought you said you're recognized man?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh ga, mister with at all. I'd like him to
do it. He looks like a very honest man, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Missus Wecker. To be honest, as this world goes, is
to be one man picked out of ten thousand what's
wrong here?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (09:17):
Just a discussion, rupers. We need someone to take my
place judging the preserves. Oh do you all know mister ackobyin.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
I just took Dalton Chancery Prince. I got the fourth
over to his pen, Dalton.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Chancery Prince Igor the fourth pen name of the writer.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There's my prize.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Bull trouble getting in here too is very wild today.
See him in the booth with a flag on it.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Yes, he looks formidable as the English say. Doesn't he
get going here?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Folks?
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I have no time to waste.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
All right, I'll do my best. There's a jelly taster.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 9 (09:50):
You get things started?
Speaker 10 (09:50):
Well, I'm not going to judge the preserves, Randy, mister
w is do you know?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Everyone?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Come on, come on, get going for everybody over? Took
number three for the preserved.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Contest number three.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Hey see, Michael, Randy, I bet you we come out
on top this year, you think so.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Here's my job, mister wither all mine.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
There's about two dozen of us already in the booth.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I'll say the crowd over you get up on the platform.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
It's all see you later, Shakespeare, and thank you for taking.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Midley, see you later.
Speaker 11 (10:20):
By the way, here's our entrance with all we should
walk away with a contest.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
My fiance made honey maple broke.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
All right, Randy, heel me first, hop up on this platform.
There we are quiet.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Everybody quiet, everybody quiet, please, thanks you.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Here's a clean spoon. Mister Witherraw you can start anytime.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Now stop clean eh? All right, mister Bradley, here goes.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Back, utting reply, clong down off that platforms with it all?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Why the bull to pick me out?
Speaker 9 (11:01):
So you platin me?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's been any times you're way everybody, everybody goes close.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
God, don't get near him any money.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He's my ball, He's my ball, I know him.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
He'll quiet again.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
God nothing, boy, fall back to your pen, go back.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Why that boot running the rabbit's crazy?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That crowd push you so much I can hardly stand up.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Look out, Randy, you'll knock over that job preserved.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh gosh, your coat.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
I'm sorry, I'm competless with all.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now you've put the jelly all over your well of
all things to happen all over his cart.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Don't bulve anybody if you start to run that full mile,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Come down off that tad forms to win a hole.
The boot looking at you, at me, but yees, don't
move now, don't find your means.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
That bull's too close for comfort.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Don't run, weather All, he'll go after you.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Get out of my way.
Speaker 13 (11:55):
Everybody, Hey, don't fare show my bully.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Ride those horns. Listens with all. Don't run.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Oh good, somebody say them say this within the ball.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But the bull's almost called him with all figure help help.
He's gotta near that wall.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Don't back up against that wall and gets you know
what's trying?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh, I can't look. It would be horrible. Look, mister
wither All's up against that wall while the bull's gonna charge.
He's getting fat. Do something, do something.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Hang off your coat, Weatherall, Throw your coat at him.
It might stopping.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I make him angry too.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You gotta take that chance.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Take off your coat, throw it at him.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
All right, try anything here goes.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Why it's working. The bull's looking at his coat.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Thank goodness for that. I thought it'd a distract him.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
The bull's going is coat.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, that's a lot better than going, mister Witherall.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
All right, Randy, you Joe. A couple of men sneak
up on, Greg. We can pull him back to the pen.
He'll be quiet now. He's taking quite a fancy of
Witherraw's coat.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, lucky it was covered with the jealous one.
Speaker 14 (13:07):
House careful, Okay, come down?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Would you want to break out of the pen and scare.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
All these people for him?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Come on, calm down, boy.
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Isn't anybody going to ask about me?
Speaker 15 (13:35):
You? All right?
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Mister, I'll be all right as soon as I get
my heart out of my mouth.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Well, that was just about the most terrible thing I've
ever seen happen to you.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Mister.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It was your own fault, so you shouldn't have started
to run.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Yes, and I knew it was my fault. In fact,
while I was making my one hundred yard dash from
the platform, with the bull's horns flitting with my coattails
all the way, I kept thinking of that famous phrase,
is this trip necessary?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
All right?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Books, All right, come on, break it up. Don't need
to prod around. Lots of other boots are open here.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Why look at that bullet chewing on your coat. Oh
it's a shame you have to lose it.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
Well, let the poor little thing keep it. I'm warm
enough now to get along without it, and anyway, those
preserves He used to like those preserves a lot.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Look at away he's looking him off the.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Coat quite a judge, isn't there. Well he's use up
my place. Why not give him a spoon too?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Wach murder, golden boy, you're tired and chasing mister Weatherall,
Poor darden boy.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yes, hope I didn't frighten him.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Say you know, this bull of mine looks sick to me.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
He looks sick, My good man, what do you think
I've been doing?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Nephew wore him out, wore him out.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh that's odd, very peculiar, running a couple of yards
after mister Whittall wore out your prow's boot.
Speaker 9 (14:59):
Well, i'll listen to him. Look at him wobbling on
his feet. Oh too bad. I wasn't wearing slippers too.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I wanna lie down, darden boy, feeling bad? Huh, lie
down if you want to go on? Lie down.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Yeah, she's been under quite a strain. Perhaps we could
get a chaise long for him.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Never mind being a funny. My bull sick and you
made him that way?
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Well, he made me sick. Tit for tat, Well, the bull.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Does seem pretty badly off, doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
You keep out of this, Missus Wacker, the very idea
the bull nearly kills mister Witherall.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Now everybody's feeling sorry for the bull. Huh, come on,
mister Witherall, let's get out of here.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Yes, a little relaxation is in order, Missus Mullett. They
probably won't reorganize your jelly contest for a while.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, want to stroll around the rest of the fairy.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
It's a very good suggestion.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
This bull of mine's really sick on a count of you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Whether all, I'll stow you?
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Yes, sure's me right teasing wild bulls. Bye, I'll come along,
said Mullett.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Doesn't it strike you is very funny that he husky
prize bull gets shick just from running around?
Speaker 9 (16:03):
To be funny? Is not the word, missus Mullett.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well, what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Well, I'm walking over here toward the bullspen purposely. He
did not break out by himself. I'm wondering who let
him out, Missus Mullet. That word is murderous perhaps, Hell, look,
(16:36):
miss Mullet, there's a shooting gallery.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well you're not such a good shot, are you.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
I'm not a. I was captain of the Meredith rifle team.
Did I wi all they called me? I'm for that
shooting gallery. Come on right, ten shots per quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They're all trying it, every man his own commando.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Kay, step step.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Right up and test your skill.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
I'll try it. Here's a quarter.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yes, yes, all right, here we are gonna win a
cupie doll for your girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Why did you say?
Speaker 14 (17:04):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Never mind him, missus mullett. He means to be complimentary.
Uh see, fellow, what's the most difficult object to hit?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Now that the clay pipe way over on the left side.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
There you see it.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You hit that thing and you get a free round plus.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
A gorgeous, rosy cheek, blue eyed, practically genuine cupie doll.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Get the doll? Ready?
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Did I with the waller is about to perform? Ah,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm glad you're shooting blanks.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Oh, lady, you couldn't knock anything over with blanks. Those
are real bullets. Go on, mister, go on, all right?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Did you say did eye? Mister?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I'm merely warming up.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Still warming up, mister Witherall, stop shooting. Put down that gun.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
What's the matter? What's happened?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Look on the curtain behind the time. It's trickling down
the curtain. It's blood.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Why she she's right, someone's behind that curtains.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Someone's been shot back there.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Come on, let's see. Hurry.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It must be between the curtain and the steel wall.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I gotta reinforced steel wall behind the target curtain.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It pulis moke. It's missus axel bam.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Why she she's dead?
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Yes, standing up?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Look, look, look look at all that blood.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Must be about fifteen bullets in her blanks, indeed.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Gags and tied to this pool back of the curtain.
No one could see her, but nearly everyone who took
a shot was likely to hit her.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh good gracious, I've never in my life seen anything
as awful as that, that.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Pool of blood. You were the last guy to shoot, mister.
I think the cops will want to talk to you.
You were murderer.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Me.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh, just can't stand looking at it. Just be away,
take her.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Away, help police, murder, murder.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Take it easy, little man, or you'll wake the dead.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
You were shooting to the extreme left of the target.
Curtains built.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
That's right, I said to Miccabo. None of the bullets
from my rifle could have hit missus mac xman murder.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Sure was a.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
Brute taking that woman and tied it to the pole
there behind that curtain, you know, Bill. She must have
tried screaming, but I guess the handkerchief was so tight
that she couldn't make much noise.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh, by the way, who was shooting here just before? Shakespeare?
Would you recognize them?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
I know some of them.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
There was a There was a lady, the one that
owns the laundry you know, over in Dalton.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
But that's Missus Wicker, Missus Wacker.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And a young fellow, the Fribbet boy.
Speaker 13 (19:43):
Ran Frandy Fribbott who well, the farmer, you know, the
farmer the bull got looser.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
What's his name?
Speaker 9 (19:49):
Axel Rod, Axle Grease, Axel Dan, axl Ben.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
A couple others too, the soldier and some sailors. A
couple of say. It makes things kind of tough, does
the build?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
It is hard to pin on anyone, Sergeant.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Is that so? Well? How about him? Sergeant? You know
this fellow Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
No, No, no, this fellow right here?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Why sure, I've known mister weinerall for years. Don't be silly? Well,
why couldn't it have been him, if you ask me.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
He's a he's a He's a fancy looking guy.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Got a got a beard.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
He might be a spy or something.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
I'm a spy. Bearded men are either spies or philosophers.
I'd rather be a spy.
Speaker 13 (20:23):
Here you, mister winterall have been looking all over for you.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Oh, mister Axel Beanter, I'm afraid we've some very bad you.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Oh, never mind that something important has happened.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
My bull's dead.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Your bull die, yes, Dalton Chancery, Prince Igor the fourth.
My prize bull died a while after you left, after
he tasted you.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
It was your fault whether all he died, Eh, Sergeant
the couple, that's the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What do you think of Bill?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
That bull was poisoned?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Poison?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Of course, don't you remember his Royal Highness ate something
just before he became ill.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He ain't your cold.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
No, he licked the preserve off my coat, Missus Mullett,
and the preserves were poisoned. You see, he'sn't preservice.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What's this all about?
Speaker 8 (21:06):
What's the police here for.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Mister Axelbent We found your ex wife in the back
of this shooting gallery, I should say we found your
ex wife's body and she's been murdered.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
Mart Phil whoever tied missus axel Bent up behind this gallery?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
He tried to kill her first by poison and jelly.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
You see, because they knew she was going to be
the judge of the contest and they'd be taste in
each bottle.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Isn't that exactly? Therefore, Sergeant, your problem now is who
made the preserves that were spilled on my coat.
Speaker 13 (21:47):
Here's the girl who made the jar of poison preserves, Bill,
Connie Maplegrove. Yeah, I got her name by checking the
number of the broken bottle against.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
The entry list.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Why she's Randy, sweetheart?
Speaker 15 (21:59):
What about it? I don't know anything about this. I
did make it preserves, but I never dreamed of killing
missus axelbt.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Connie Darling, it's awful they.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
Think I killed and I know you're perfectly innocent.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You've got no right to keep her here. Mind your
own business, Randy, I'm running this.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
They tell me, Conny that if missus Axelban married Randy's father,
your boyfriend would never inherit that big farmer's father. That's right,
But Connie, I don't think I am asking Cunny the
questions that you.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, it's true that she didn't have any right to
get the farm. Randy deserves it. He worked on it
all his life.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
With that woman out of the way.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
While you marry Randy, he gets that tremendous fim And
you're sitting pretty Is that correct?
Speaker 15 (22:39):
I never thought of such a thing besides this, Oh,
that's something I shouldn't think of.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
What's on your mind? Conne?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
What's very simple?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Yes, I know, But what's on it?
Speaker 15 (22:50):
Why do you accuse me? Anyone could have poisoned the
preserve somehow. It might have been that longest missus Wacker.
It might have been mister Axelbt, he's very jealous.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Strangely enough, Connie, we've already realized there are quite a
number of prospects and suspects too. But you're here for
a specific reason.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
Besides the jar preserves were stealed with paraffin, wasn't it.
How could anyone else get poisoned into that bottle? You're
the only person in the world who could have done
at Connie. And you're gonna sit there until you tell
us the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, we've got the goods on you, all right.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
Please Missus Mullett, leave this to me. Go on, Connie,
go on, start talking.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Well, go on, I tell you I don't know anything
about it.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Okay, then we'll just sit here till you change your
mind and quit lying.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yes, we're waiting for you to tell the truth.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
Please, Missus Mullett, leave this to me. Go on, Connie,
it'll be easier for you if you don't stall. You
killed Missus Axelbitt, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You murdered her, didn't you.
Speaker 13 (23:51):
You tied her up behind that shooting gallery, and then
you went out fot and you paid a.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Quarter for enough bullets to commit cold blooded murder. Now
you're gonna hang.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Come on now, it'll be easier for you if you
don't stop.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Please, missus will at leave this to me.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I don't know anything about this. I never wanted to
come to the fairs.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
I was afraid something would happen.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I didn't want to add of the contest. I really
didn't want to come here all. That's why I said
Randy ahead with my job. I wanted stay home us
just a minute.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Didn't you come here with Randy?
Speaker 14 (24:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I came much later. I only did here about ten minutes.
Speaker 15 (24:27):
Like I said, I didn't want to come at all.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
You weren't here when the contest started when the bull
of broke loose? What bull, ah, Sergeant. Our problem is
not who made the preserves. The murderer is the person
who let that prize bull out of his pen.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Let the prize ball out, shouldn't it.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
The killer planned to dispose of missus Axelban by means
of the preserves. Originally that's obvious, but at the last
minute there was an unexpected change of judges. I took
over the role. The killer wasn't out to me him,
so she or he had to get rid of that
bottle of poisoned jelly before I tasted it.
Speaker 13 (25:08):
So whoever it was, let the bull out of the
pen as an excuse to start.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
A pelly so the bottle could be broken.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
That's it. The murderer is the person who deliberately broke
that bottle of preserves and spilled it on me.
Speaker 12 (25:22):
All right, you stay where you are, Fiendish way to
kill Andy Fiendish, Tie up your victim, and then deliberately
buy the bullets ten shots for a quarter ten bloody
fatal shoting.
Speaker 13 (25:40):
Either you stand still in this black jack of Mine's
gonna make you take those hankles spilled slip over his wrists.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's it, Okay.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
I suppose she never married my father and take that
farm away from me.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Course she didn't. She didn't get it.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
No, no, neither of you will get the farm. That's
even handed justice. So my poet phrased it.
Speaker 13 (26:00):
There's just one thing bill about getting the poison into
the jar.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I mean it was sealed with paraple.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Oh that's easy, sergeant. An ordinary hypodemic syringe and needle
would do the trick, inject the poison through the paraffin
without disturbing it. How about that, Randy.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
Did you throw the hypodermic away or is it still
in your pocket?
Speaker 11 (26:21):
In my pocket?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That tan pockets. I'll get it. I'll search.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
With it all.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He hit the.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Sergeant on the head with a hand. Call DELI stop.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Him my gun take it?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Stop, don't shoot you kill him? Many hmm. You got
a mister with it all. Looks like you hit him
in the leg and with just one shot too.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Of course, just one shot. Missus mullett, remember dead eye
is my middle name. Now let's find another shooting gallery
and I'll get you a rosy cheeked, blue eyed, practically
genuine q P doll.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Now All R Mutual has presented the distinguous American actor
Walter Hampden in the Adventures of Leonidas Wetherall. Missus Mullett
is played by Ethel Ramie. The character of Leonidas Wetherall
is from the mystery novels by Alice Tilton. The radio
script is by Howard Merrill, and the program is directed
by Roger Bauer. Mister Hamden has an important announcement to
make mister Hamden well.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Leonardus's friends won't be sharing a puzzle in homicide with
him next week because our program is changing time. Whither All,
Missus Mullet and the Worthy Sergeant will be back on
the air on Sunday, October eighth, that's two weeks from
tonight at seven pm Eastern War Time. That's two hours
(27:55):
earlier than usual. I hope you'll make a note to
join us then Sunday, October eighth at seven pm until
then goodnight.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Beginning next Sunday, Evening October first, at nine pm from wartimes,
w ORR Mutual will present a new musical program, Steel Horizons,
with John Baker Baritona. The Metropolitan Opera Association and guest
soloists and an orchestra conducted by Frederic vanch And Remember,
Leonidus Witheroll will return on October eighth at seven pm.
(28:31):
The Adventures of Leonidus Witheroll came to you from the
stage of the Worr Mutual Playhouse in New York.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
This is mutual
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