Classic Radio 08-02-25 - Murder in the Crypt, Vienna Mystery, and Ester Philips

Drama on a Saturday

First, a look at the events of the day

Then, Nick Carter Master Detective starring Lon Clark, originally broadcast August 2, 1943, 82 years ago, Murder in the Crypt. Where is the royal treasure of King Snafu? Only the jackal god knows, and he kills to keep it!

Followed by Dangerous Assignment starring Brian Donlevy, originally broadcast August 2, 1950, 75 years ago, Vienna Mystery.  Steve Mitchell is sent to the U.S. consulate in Vienna to recover documents that have been stolen. 

Then, Confession, originally broadcast August 2, 1953, 72 years ago, Ester Phillips.  A married woman begins seeing a man…who appears to be a criminal. 

Followed by Mr District Attorney starring Jay Jostyn, originally broadcast August 2, 1944, 81 years ago, The Case of the Curious Undertaker.  A dishonest lawyer plans to murder two eccentric old ladies. 

Finally, Dear Adolf, originally broadcast August 2, 1942, 83 years ago, A Letter From a Foreign-Born American. Joseph Schildkraut reads his letter as a foreign-born American. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

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Huspense, Shadow, Node Washington calling David Honey, count.

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As my classic radios Theater.

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The great Eldest Lade Zipper McGhee and Molly Dragones guns
Alone rang Zo.

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Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
Iss your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Vionna Tecto.

Speaker 7 (00:38):
Drama on this Saturday edition of the podcast. Lon Clark
as an a carter Master, Detective Brian don Levy in
Dangerous Assignment, a confession from Esther Phillips from nineteen fifty three,
Mister District Attorney from nineteen forty four, and Dear Adolph
a letter from a foreign born American to Adolf Hitler

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from nineteen forty two. That's all coming up on this Saturday.
This is the second day of August two hundred fourteenth
day of the year, one hundred and fifty one days
left till we get to twenty twenty six. And this
is the birthday of Butch Patrick. Butch Patrick, you know
who that is. We will tell you. There's on this date.

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In eighteen seventy six, wild Bill Hickock killed in Deadwood,
South Dakota. First Lincoln penny issued on this date in
nineteen oh nine, and President twenty nine Warren G. Harding,
died in San Francisco on this date. In nineteen twenty three,
the PT one nine, a torpedo boat commanded by Lieutenant
John F. Kennedy, sunk off the Solomon Islands by a

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Japanese destroyer now following Kennedy's election in nineteen sixty The
story became the basis of a hit song by Jimmy
Dean in nineteen sixty two. It was dean sixth release
on the Country charts, peaked at number three state on
the chart for thirteen weeks. PT one to nine went
to number eight on the pop charts and number two

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on the Hot Adult Contemporary charts. In nineteen forty five,
the Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the post
war governance of Germany, ended, and it was on this date.
In nineteen sixty four, the USS destroyer Maddox exchanged shots
with a North Vietnamese torpedo boat in the Gulf of Tonkin,

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which led President Johnson to take action.

Speaker 8 (02:30):
As President and Commander in Chief, it is my duty
to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions
against United States ships on the high seas in the
Gulf of Tonkin afterday required me to order the military

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forces of the United States to take action and reply.

Speaker 7 (02:58):
As a result, President Johnson or retaliatory air strikes. By
late nineteen sixty five, some one hundred and eighty thousand
American troops were on the ground and more on the way.
In nineteen seventy six, people who attended the American Legion
Convention in Philadelphia began dying of what appeared to be
heart attacks.

Speaker 9 (03:18):
Nobody has any idea what it really is. All we
know is that they only have one thing in carmon.
They were all at the state's American Legions Convention in Philadelphia.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
One hundred and thirty hospitalized, twenty five died, and what
would become the first outbreak of what would become known
as Legionnaire's disease. The Persian Gulf War broke out on
this date in nineteen ninety when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

Speaker 10 (03:45):
The United States strongly condemned the Iraqi military invasion of Kuea,
and we called the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all
the Iraqi forces. There is no play for this sort
of naked aggression. In today's world, and we do this
situation with the utmost gravity. We remain committed to take

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whatever steps are necessary to defend our long standing, vital
interests in the Gulf.

Speaker 7 (04:16):
President George Herbert Walker Bush, in response to an appeal
by Washington's Kuwait Ambassador Shaik Sad Nasir al Saba on
the day of the evasion, we have.

Speaker 11 (04:26):
Appealed to all our friends around the world, including the
United States, to come.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
To our aid.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Operation Desert Shield will begin on August ninth, and UN
forces entered Kuwait on January sixteenth. In two Thoy, twenty
five years ago. Today, Republicans nominated Texas Governor George W.
Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at
the party's convention in Buli, Delphia. In two thousand and seven,

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Mattel recalled nearly a million Chinese made toys from its
Fisher Price division. They were found to have excessive amounts
of lead, and in twenty eighteen, Apple became the first
US company to be valued at over a trillion dollars.
And then in twenty twenty two, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
arrived in Taiwan, becoming the highest ranking American official in

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twenty five years to visit the self ruled island, claim
by China, which quickly announced it would conduct military maneuvers
in retaliation for her presence.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
We come in friendship to Taiwan.

Speaker 12 (05:34):
We come in peace for the region and our vice
our Chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, mister Takano, representing
our veterans understanding the value of peace and the avoidance
of conflict.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Among those passing away on this date Pope John the Fifth,
also Horace Mann, educator, abolitionist. He was a man who said,
go west, young man, go west.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
We mentioned Bill Hickock being killed on this date. Tenor
Enrico Caruso passing away on this date. Inventor Alexander Grahambell
passed away on this date. Australian film director Fritz Lang,
politician Roy Cohen, puppeteer Sherry Lewis, Ron Townsend of the
Fifth Dimension, and sportscaster Ben Scully. He passed away three

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years ago at the age of ninety four birthdays on
this date. Of those who are no longer with us
include actress Myrna Roy Carol O'Connor, archie, the monker on
Yusal and the family. Also that was horrible. Actor Peter O'Toole.
Also countries Hank Cochran, film director Wes Craven, Dorothy Doris

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Cole of the Charells, and Andrew Gold, the man who
sang about the Lonely Boy. All born on this state
were no longer with us.

Speaker 13 (07:00):
Jeff Foxworthy, it is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 14 (07:03):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
Judge lance Eto, who was the judge in charge of
the OJ Simpson criminal trial. He turned seventy five years
old today. We mentioned Butch Patrick earlier. You remember him
as Little Eddie Munster on the sixty four, sixty five,
sixty six series The Monsters. Butch Patrick seventy two years

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old today. From Purple Rain, Apollonia Kotero is sixty six,
as he is from Saturday Night Live. Conservative comedian Victoria
Jackson from Fried Green, Tomatoes and Weeds. Mary Louise Parker
is sixty one.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
I liked it pretty much right away.

Speaker 15 (07:48):
I just liked that it was she was sort of
such an unapologetically flawed character.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
You know, she wasn't a sort of okay heroin.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Mary Louise Parker sixty one years old. Today he was
signed Bob in the Jay and Silent Bob movies. Also
in Clerks Kevin Smith fifty five. From Avatar. Sam Worthington
is forty nine.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
The language is of pain.

Speaker 10 (08:11):
But you know I figured it's like field ship and
a weapon, just repetition, repetition.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
Sam Worthington forty nine. Today Chloe Lane on Days of
Our Lives, Natalia Bjorln is forty four, Vice President jd
Vance is forty one. Today, actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg is
thirty three, Singer songwriter Charlie xx is thirty three, and
the WWE's Austin Theory is twenty eight. Those just a

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few other people celebrating the second day of August is
their birthday. If this is your birthday, Hi, We're.

Speaker 16 (08:48):
The four freshmen and we just want to say birthday.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
To And we're now going to go back eighty two
years second nineteen forty three. Lawn Clark as Nick Carter,
Master Detective.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's next, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 17 (09:13):
In the next seven years of bigger and bigger enrollments,
America's grade schools will need nearly a quarter of a
million extra teachers besides those to fill normal vacancies. This
great need, plus the growing public interest in education and
improvements in schools, make elementary school teaching a more rewarding
career than ever, a career that high school and college

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students should certainly consider. Education holds America's future, perhaps your future.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
Now we go to Mutual and the Nick Carter Master
Detective program starring Lawn Clark from maybe two years ago
August second, nineteen forty three. Murder in the Crypt.

Speaker 11 (09:52):
Loin Nick Cotter.

Speaker 18 (09:53):
Another case for Nick Cotter, Master Detective.

Speaker 19 (09:57):
Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all
Man Hunter, who's the detective whose ability at solving crime
is unequal in the history of detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective. This week's curious adventure is.

Speaker 20 (10:16):
Murder in the Crypt and the Jacob God.

Speaker 21 (10:44):
There.

Speaker 14 (10:46):
You'll never know that I came here this time anymore,
and it did the other time I was here.

Speaker 11 (10:53):
There's fourth steps coming this way.

Speaker 18 (10:56):
It's it's a new vision.

Speaker 11 (11:00):
And can't be I am a Newbies Gardian of the Dead.

Speaker 20 (11:08):
No, no, I must agree.

Speaker 19 (11:10):
I am a Newbis the jack Old, but you're not.

Speaker 22 (11:16):
No, no, no, pray scabbs and never does condition.

Speaker 11 (11:49):
Good come in?

Speaker 18 (11:53):
You don't you want to mine?

Speaker 23 (11:54):
I am Lieutenant Ranny from headquarters. You called me about
the museum guard who disappear?

Speaker 11 (12:00):
Of course, of course it's about Shelby, the chief attendant
here at the Egyptian Museum.

Speaker 23 (12:04):
Where and when did this Shelby disappear?

Speaker 20 (12:06):
Doctor?

Speaker 11 (12:06):
We failed to report to me as usual before leaving
last night. The guard on the door say, he did
not leave the building. We've haunded everywhere for him. We
haven't found him.

Speaker 18 (12:14):
You've hunted everywhere, have you, jas.

Speaker 11 (12:17):
Lieutenant, everywhere except in the crypt of Surfru? Who the
crypt of Nephru, an Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty?

Speaker 23 (12:25):
Where is this crypt in the basement now?

Speaker 11 (12:27):
It's on the second floor, directly about this office. It
was installed especially before Professor Ridden the archaeologist. He alone
has access to the crypt.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
It has a.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
Special lock on the door.

Speaker 18 (12:39):
You mean he has the only key.

Speaker 11 (12:41):
I called Professor Glidden's apartment a while ago, but he
did not answer. I presume he is on his way.

Speaker 17 (12:47):
Down here now.

Speaker 11 (12:48):
I hope he can shed some light on this mystery.

Speaker 20 (13:09):
Hmm, Nick, isn't this the Egyptian Museum across the road.

Speaker 11 (13:13):
Yes, Patsy, it is never been in.

Speaker 24 (13:15):
It looks too much like a mausoleum for me.

Speaker 20 (13:18):
Are we going in to look at the mummy?

Speaker 11 (13:20):
That Patsy depends entirely upon Professor Glinton. That bearded man
who was beckning to us in the doorway of the museum.

Speaker 20 (13:27):
Oh, I seem is he a client of yours?

Speaker 11 (13:30):
Yes, he called us before you arrived at the Office's
mind what does he want that? I don't know, Bessy.
Suppose they joined him and find out. And you say,

(13:53):
Professor that the Archaeological Society gave Dr Walnamer the money
to complete the museum.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes.

Speaker 14 (13:58):
Mister Carter added that he would install a special crypt
or I could place the relics from the tomb of
Kings Nephrew for examination and fatifications.

Speaker 20 (14:07):
So the crypt is officially your propety.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
For the present.

Speaker 14 (14:10):
Guess when my work is finished, it will be open
to the public.

Speaker 11 (14:13):
I say, And that's where do I come in.

Speaker 14 (14:16):
I want you, mister Carter, to be present when we
search the crypt, so there will be no question that
Shelby is not there.

Speaker 11 (14:24):
This is doctor Waldimar's office.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
It is.

Speaker 11 (14:29):
Oh, good morning, good, this is the tennant Riley from headquarters. Right,
Patsy too, I haven't seen each other in a long while.

Speaker 23 (14:39):
Don't tell me that you're looking for this man Shelby tu.

Speaker 11 (14:42):
Nick, I am rally at the request of Professor Clinton.
So since doctor Valdemar has asked you to perform the
same service, Rally, why don't we work together?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Fine?

Speaker 11 (14:51):
Oh you wouldn't objective, Lieutenant Rally help us the trip
with the professor not at all? Well, Rally, shall we
adjourn to the crypt?

Speaker 21 (14:58):
Right, Nick?

Speaker 23 (14:58):
The crypt is on the second floor right over this office.

Speaker 11 (15:13):
Come, come, glitten and lock the door.

Speaker 14 (15:16):
This is an intricate lock. While i'mar it takes careful
handling of.

Speaker 11 (15:19):
The key, wears the light switch. Professor Glyten just inside
the door to the right, very well, I'll.

Speaker 18 (15:31):
Would you look at that now?

Speaker 23 (15:33):
They never saw a statue to resemble that beast, the
body of a man in the head of a dog.

Speaker 11 (15:37):
It has I'd call it the head of a jackal. Rally,
am I right, Professor Glinton?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
You are it's Carter.

Speaker 14 (15:43):
A bronze statue is a life sized figure of Anubis,
a jackal god. Anubis was the guardian of the dead,
and his statue was set at the entrance of ancient
tombs to keep out beef and.

Speaker 20 (15:54):
Jackal face is enough to steer anyone away.

Speaker 11 (15:56):
Come along, rally. I stood around inside the crypt. Wow,
here's a mummy case. But I suppose contains old King
snappero in person.

Speaker 25 (16:11):
Carter.

Speaker 18 (16:12):
Yeah, Now here's the old boy throne. It looks like
the original monit chair.

Speaker 11 (16:17):
Let's see there's nobody hiding under it. Rilly Oh?

Speaker 23 (16:20):
Here, Nick, Now look over there in the alcohol over
behind the statue.

Speaker 11 (16:26):
Now, what is it?

Speaker 18 (16:27):
An the ancient Egyptian bathtub.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
For that rally?

Speaker 11 (16:30):
Is acophagus a stone coffin, the one that once can
playing the mommy case with.

Speaker 18 (16:34):
I saw, gosh, it's a big thing. Now at it.
What's all this crazy writing on the front of it?

Speaker 11 (16:41):
It was a hieroglyphic rally and inscription is about old
King Snapperoo.

Speaker 18 (16:46):
What's inside this thing?

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Nick?

Speaker 25 (16:47):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (16:48):
Probably nothing, now, Rallian, that's the sigo. What is it?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Nick?

Speaker 11 (16:53):
Apag is not empty? Rabbit Shelby's in it and he's dead.

Speaker 14 (17:10):
Once again, Lieutenant Raley, I must require that I know
nothing of this matter.

Speaker 11 (17:14):
As I've told you, I scarcely knew she'lb. I don't here, Rally,
your evidence against my client is purely circumstanced.

Speaker 23 (17:20):
Naked said disgrace to the memory of a him Carter,
the way his one and only son tries to misinterpret
the bald facts.

Speaker 11 (17:27):
The bald facts in this case? Is this, rally, you
have no proof that Professor Glitton even came to this
museum last night.

Speaker 23 (17:32):
Recall I want is one more bit of circumstance, Nick,
Doctor Valdemar, can you think of anything else that might
be really interesting in this case?

Speaker 26 (17:41):
No?

Speaker 11 (17:42):
Let me see.

Speaker 20 (17:43):
Look, Nick, a strange woman coming down the corridor to this.

Speaker 11 (17:47):
She looks like something we rived from ancient walks like
a cat.

Speaker 20 (17:51):
You can't hear the slightest footstet.

Speaker 11 (17:53):
Quite, she's starting close enough to overhear us. Rally, I
have it, asked the professor dot how he knew that
Shelby was missing when he telephoned Carter this morning.

Speaker 27 (18:03):
Way shall answer that question, not the world.

Speaker 18 (18:06):
Say where did you come from? Who's this?

Speaker 7 (18:08):
Lady?

Speaker 18 (18:09):
Doctor want mine?

Speaker 11 (18:09):
Allow me to introduce Madame Dukla, our librarian. Oh, you
have a library in this museum.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (18:14):
Yes, the library is an the other wing near the elevator.

Speaker 27 (18:17):
I was the person who informed Professor Glibbon that Shelby
was missing.

Speaker 20 (18:21):
I telephoned him this morning after.

Speaker 11 (18:24):
The search began, and Professor Glidden telephoned me rarely asking
you to come here to protect his interests, which I
have so far tried to do. Madame duclar comes from Cairo.
She's an Egyptian well versed in ancient law and legends.

Speaker 24 (18:36):
Madame declar, do you really believe those old Egyptian legends?

Speaker 27 (18:40):
I must believe them with my own eyes.

Speaker 28 (18:43):
I have seen the.

Speaker 27 (18:43):
Living Anubist walk through the corridors of this museum.

Speaker 20 (18:47):
But that's that.

Speaker 24 (18:48):
You couldn't possibly get out of a lost crypt.

Speaker 27 (18:50):
To Anubis, anything is possible.

Speaker 20 (18:53):
It is his duty to God. The treasure is a crypt?

Speaker 11 (18:56):
What treasure, Madame Douglas.

Speaker 20 (18:58):
The treasure that is found in the tomb of the
Egyptian king.

Speaker 27 (19:02):
Aubis, the avenging jackal god knew that the museum god
Shelby sought the treasure, so Anubis thought Shelby and killed
him and put his body in the crypt.

Speaker 20 (19:14):
As a warning. A Ubis is all powerful.

Speaker 11 (19:20):
You mean you've actually seen this, this jackal god walking
around this museum recently?

Speaker 27 (19:26):
A Ubis, the guardian of the dead, leaves the crypt
of King's nephew and prows these characters every night.

Speaker 20 (19:34):
I have seen him do it.

Speaker 11 (19:36):
Gosh, that will be all, Madame Dackler, thank you very
much for coming.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Nick.

Speaker 23 (19:42):
Suppose we go through that crypt again and see what
we can learn.

Speaker 11 (19:45):
An excellent suggestion, Rally, that's it. Suppose you go around
and wait in the library with Madame Belka. We'll join
you there later, Nick.

Speaker 18 (20:08):
This crypt is as solid as a rock.

Speaker 23 (20:10):
We've tested every inch of floor and walls and ceiling.

Speaker 29 (20:13):
Here as rally.

Speaker 11 (20:15):
Every spot we've tapped seems to be solid stone or concrete.

Speaker 18 (20:19):
Nick, She suppose we checked those measurements again.

Speaker 11 (20:22):
I don't no use in that rally room thirty by
thirty with four feet out for the door on one
side and eight feet out for the alcove on the other.

Speaker 23 (20:31):
How big did you say that's acophagus wise?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Nick?

Speaker 11 (20:34):
It's eight feet long and six feet wide to do
the same size as the alcove standing in and it's
four feet six inches high five And.

Speaker 23 (20:44):
I was just thinking, Nick, it's an awful big chunk
of rock there.

Speaker 11 (20:48):
Well. Therofensor Glinton says this one weighs over eleven hundred pounds.

Speaker 18 (20:52):
Two half a ton.

Speaker 23 (20:53):
This goes to show that the floor in this crypt
must be solid to support such a weight day in
and day out.

Speaker 11 (21:00):
There's an answer to this case somewhere rally, even if
I don't know yet where it is. Come on, let's
go back to the office.

Speaker 23 (21:08):
I've had followed my better judgment out of luck Professor
Glinton in the jails hell.

Speaker 11 (21:12):
First, it wouldn't be wise just yet.

Speaker 18 (21:14):
Round. You're wrong there, Nick, and I'll tell you why.

Speaker 23 (21:17):
This door here is the only way in and out
of that crypt, and this key, the only key there is,
now belong to Professor Clinton Riley.

Speaker 11 (21:28):
I want to learn the motive behind Shelby's murder. There
were some strange things going on around this museum. Three

(21:48):
ancient banquts. One job, come in, Come in, Oh with
shoes scutter? Well, you can that only Glitton could have
entered that crypt upstairs. I never like to accept the obvious.
After walabat, Oh, there goes the closing bell. I must

(22:08):
put these Egyptian relics back in the vault.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
We're running a.

Speaker 20 (22:15):
Large profit, is doctor Valdemar?

Speaker 11 (22:17):
Yes, the museum requires a large vault. I have this
one built here in the wall especially. Was it included
in the original plans for the museum? Well, no, not exactly.
This wing of the building was still unfinished when the
architect died from completing it. We made some minor changes.
I see, doctor. Do you think, Madam Dacland you must

(22:38):
excuse me for a few minutes, Carter, I must speak
to the attendants before they leave. It was one of
poor Shelby's duties. It will only take a few minutes.
Right away, Patsy, there's something at Valdammer's desk that should
interest you.

Speaker 20 (22:54):
You mean that odd looking job.

Speaker 11 (22:57):
It contained some ancient Egyptian perfume, he said.

Speaker 20 (23:02):
Hmm, notunds like roses.

Speaker 11 (23:05):
Very strong, all of our m overlood.

Speaker 20 (23:09):
You can you smell it, Nick, powerful stuff smelling.

Speaker 11 (23:13):
Put it in one of the shelves in the vat.

Speaker 24 (23:19):
I just tripped on a small step at the front
of all.

Speaker 11 (23:22):
You didn't spill any of that tysons perfume, did you?

Speaker 20 (23:24):
I'm afraid yes I did, still a few drops of it.

Speaker 11 (23:27):
Nick, Well, don't tell Valdemar I am coming.

Speaker 18 (23:36):
Well hard.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
Another day is done. Oh if you please stand away
from the vault this boin, I would like to close
the door. Thank you. By the way, doctor, was there
any treasure buried with King Snappero? Probably it was the custom,
but it is also probable that such treasure was stolen sanctuaries.

(23:57):
Ago Well isn't glidden interested in a matter of treasure. Possibly,
but he's more interested in translating the Hiero brithics on
the Gotaca. We'll beat you. I must be going, you
must be going.

Speaker 20 (24:09):
You mean you're going to leave me here in the
museum only.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
For a while.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
I want you to go back to the library and
have a talk with Madame Dacka pat and talk about
what I'll tell you that while we're walking to the
other wings. Good night doctor one of us. Good knight, Wiscotta.

Speaker 27 (24:33):
Mister Carter isn't interested in nacient manuscripts, Madame Becta.

Speaker 20 (24:36):
He wants to see the architects plans for this museum. Oh,
but he should ask doctor Waldemar for those. I don't
think doctor Waldemart has them. Mister Carter wants the original plan.
I'm so glad to see if I can find them
for you. I will try the file cabinet by the
door not on a for architect.

Speaker 27 (25:05):
And they are not underde a building plans. Others I
shall try on the m.

Speaker 20 (25:12):
Museum plans. Who said something.

Speaker 27 (25:15):
Sound out on the card is yes here they are
in this border plans for Egyptian Museum to be erected.

Speaker 20 (25:22):
Coming through the door and welcome and Ubis.

Speaker 18 (25:28):
A new Bis gives no greetings to those who retire him.

Speaker 11 (25:32):
I have never defied you, and you have sought the
pleasure that I got.

Speaker 20 (25:37):
Never never, I have always don't.

Speaker 18 (25:46):
Know what mischiefs Nick?

Speaker 11 (25:49):
Some time, Huh, that's it. We're just going to tell
me who wants I took Madame back by away, Patsy.

Speaker 24 (25:53):
It was somebody, somebody who looked like a Newbis, the
jackal God? What really, Nick, Madame that I had the
plan at the museum in her hand?

Speaker 23 (26:01):
There down too, Nick, This time we're going to look
in that crypt upstairs.

Speaker 18 (26:05):
First. Come on, I'd find that I twitched now, Nick, right.

Speaker 23 (26:19):
Rally, Yeah, there she is laying right at the feet
of that that.

Speaker 18 (26:24):
Creature stairs in the statue of anub.

Speaker 23 (26:27):
And it maybe a tattoo, now, Nick, but I am
near to believing that the thing comes alive when it chooses.

Speaker 18 (26:34):
She's still breathing, Patty, what do you make of it?

Speaker 11 (26:37):
Nick, She's in drug ready wait, get her over to
the door when the air is pressure. She's coming around.

Speaker 20 (26:46):
Now where am I? You're all right, Madam Docta, But
I am. I am in the crypt now, And the
last time you are, I was in the library. I
knew it. I knew steel doors on, no barrier to
a new bill.

Speaker 18 (27:04):
Help outside, Patsy, So so I can lock the door.

Speaker 20 (27:07):
You lean on me, but I'll tell you it is
useless to lost it all. A newbist can pass through
all barriers.

Speaker 23 (27:15):
Maybe so, but Professor Clinton can't. Come on, madam doctor,
I'll take you back to the library. Then I'm going
to put the professor in jail where I can keep
my eye on him.

Speaker 11 (27:29):
Patsy, when Riley opened the crypt just now, and I'm
madame Daca, do you notice the peculiar fragrance in the place.

Speaker 20 (27:36):
I must have been too excited and not was it neck?

Speaker 6 (27:38):
What was it like?

Speaker 11 (27:40):
It was the perfume of roses, Patsy, must be ancient roses.
You should have recognized, you mean, it was.

Speaker 20 (27:47):
Like the perfume from the bottle. I still in Walla's office.

Speaker 11 (27:50):
Yes, Patsy, it smells exactly the same.

Speaker 14 (28:03):
I admit nothing, Lieutenant Rally, I can't tell you how
either Shelby or Madam Dakler got into the crypt.

Speaker 23 (28:09):
It's like I've been trying to tell you, Clinton, It's
very simple. You had two keys, but you only gave
me one.

Speaker 14 (28:15):
As I've been telling you, Lieutenant Rally, there was no duplicate.

Speaker 23 (28:19):
Kes stay out, I'm busy here, I said, Rally.

Speaker 18 (28:24):
So it's you again, mister Nichols Caster.

Speaker 23 (28:27):
Well, I don't care whether Professor Clinton is your clients
or not.

Speaker 18 (28:30):
We're not releasing him.

Speaker 11 (28:31):
I don't want to release Rally. I just want to
ask him a few questions. Tell me, Professor Clinton, when
you sent those relics of King Snephier to the Egyptian Museum,
did doctor Waldemar have any chance to examine them?

Speaker 29 (28:43):
Why?

Speaker 11 (28:43):
No? They were all heavily boxed and created.

Speaker 14 (28:46):
That is, everything except the circophagus that was handled separately.
Valdemar installed theagus and the crypt before I arrived. I see,
I seem to recall that Shelby helped him set it up.
The boxes and crates were all upstairs when I got
back but I opened them alone and set up everything myself,
including the statue.

Speaker 11 (29:07):
That's all I wanted to know. I'm sorry, Professor that
you'll have to spend the night here, but I hope
to arrange your release by morning.

Speaker 23 (29:14):
All right, sargan't take a professor to his tale.

Speaker 11 (29:17):
Yes, I'm along, Professor, So Rally, will you do something
for me?

Speaker 18 (29:24):
Why should I?

Speaker 11 (29:25):
Why shouldn't you? You learn something yourself, and that's always
a help in a murder case.

Speaker 18 (29:30):
All right, Nick, can I lose?

Speaker 29 (29:32):
Fine?

Speaker 11 (29:32):
Pick up Patsy. She has all my notes and you
may need them. Then both of you go to the
crypt where you be. Nick, I have to attend to
another matter first. I listen carefully, Rally. Here's what I
want you to do. When you get to.

Speaker 30 (29:47):
Well, how long have we been in this crypt, Lieutenant
aran Ooh, about fifteen minutes?

Speaker 18 (29:58):
Patty, have a.

Speaker 24 (30:00):
Luminous dial on your watch. I'd say it was ours.
Why the next day that we should stay here in
the dark.

Speaker 23 (30:06):
You'll have to ask Nick that when he gets.

Speaker 18 (30:07):
Here, Patsy, where the next day was going.

Speaker 23 (30:12):
It might be that he's calling on Madame decler who
ought you just a question, and you understand oh.

Speaker 20 (30:17):
Riley, of all the ridiculous notions.

Speaker 23 (30:19):
Will declas by your friend and Yubis is right here
beside this, Patty, just here it Yeah, this tatue of
an ugus must be solid bronze, Patsy.

Speaker 24 (30:28):
If nothing happens here, something will happen when I find.

Speaker 20 (30:31):
Mister Nick Carter.

Speaker 18 (30:41):
For only ten minutes, may Patty, I'm.

Speaker 24 (30:44):
Getting so used to this darkness. I can see the
cigar paus plainly looks so big.

Speaker 18 (30:48):
It is big ways motion.

Speaker 20 (30:51):
What's that?

Speaker 31 (30:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (30:53):
There's something that's happening at last, Riley, What.

Speaker 18 (30:57):
Is it, Patty?

Speaker 23 (30:58):
Now you're not getting his check?

Speaker 20 (31:00):
Now I really know something. The perfume of roses and
it's getting strong.

Speaker 23 (31:04):
Now what is the perfume of roses.

Speaker 18 (31:05):
To do with all this year?

Speaker 20 (31:07):
Right? Look? Look at that's her.

Speaker 18 (31:10):
Complaicence, Pattie. What we're looking? That can't be happening here,
but it is.

Speaker 20 (31:14):
That's her complaicence is rising straight up in the air.

Speaker 18 (31:17):
I've always said that that's here. It was believed.

Speaker 20 (31:19):
Look, I see what's doing it right.

Speaker 23 (31:22):
You can't tell me that that anything that will make
us torn coffin where we'll weigh half a ton go
floating up in the air of five feet on the podcast.

Speaker 32 (31:29):
It's not tough.

Speaker 24 (31:30):
An elevator, Riley, an elevator, sure, that's what's little.

Speaker 18 (31:35):
Will glory be? You're right, Patty, that's what that rumbling sound.

Speaker 20 (31:40):
Was, right then coming out of the elevator with a flash.

Speaker 24 (31:45):
My good Patty, right, that elevator is a vault and
wallamas of.

Speaker 11 (31:54):
Right, right, I have you both covered. Don't try anything,
either of you.

Speaker 23 (31:58):
What you will be trying, well, there will.

Speaker 11 (32:00):
Be two new victims in this wall, Lieutenant Riley, two
fools who, like Shelby, found out too much.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I'm sorry it isn't free, Nick, Cotta would be a
welcome edition.

Speaker 11 (32:11):
You really mean that, Waldemar, Nick, How did you get here?
I've been waiting for you, and thanks nebrus Are compagus
and now.

Speaker 23 (32:19):
I kill you first, Cotton.

Speaker 11 (32:20):
I doubt this, okay, man Cat Patsy.

Speaker 23 (32:26):
He's knocking over that statue.

Speaker 11 (32:27):
It's falling over the firs. Will be along in a minute, now, Patsy.
He called me at the hospital and as they asked
me to meet him here outside the crypt in fifteen minutes,

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said he wanted to examine the elevator and the crypt well,
am I dead, Nick No Patsy, I only wanted him.
He knocked himself up when he staggered against the statue
of Anubis. Waldemar made a complete confession when he recovered.
He's admitted that he was hunting for the King's treasure
and wanted to find it before Professor Glidden finished translating
in the hieroglyphics, and he was.

Speaker 24 (33:07):
Using the elevator to make secret trips between his.

Speaker 20 (33:09):
Office and his crypt.

Speaker 11 (33:10):
Exactly Bessy. When Waltimar completed the new wing of the museum,
he might have fired the original plans and put his
office at the end of the first floor corridor, and
he built this crypt on the second floor right over
his office. Evidently, the elevator was already installed, and Waltamar
brought the sarcophagus.

Speaker 24 (33:26):
Up on top of it, and there was a sarcophagus
standing in an alcove that was really the elevator.

Speaker 11 (33:31):
Shaff The elevator itself became the vault in Waltamer's office.
He disguised it with shelves and loaded them with curios,
but it was still an elevator.

Speaker 20 (33:40):
And you think Shelby found out about it.

Speaker 11 (33:41):
Shelby must have helped Waltemar arrange things, since it was
more than a one man job.

Speaker 24 (33:45):
Then later Shelby decided to look for the treasure on
his own.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
Apparently, Waldemar confessed that he murdered Shelby for those very
reasons and left the body in the crypt to blame
the crime on Professor Glidden, and Waltamar put.

Speaker 24 (33:57):
Madame Dackler in the crypt so Glidden would be blamed
again exactly.

Speaker 11 (34:01):
But he didn't have to kill that claw. She knew nothing,
you see. He merely grabbed that law in order to
get the original plans of the museum.

Speaker 20 (34:08):
Hi comes the Professor.

Speaker 11 (34:10):
Oh hello, Professor, right on time.

Speaker 14 (34:11):
I saw so glad to find you here, Carter. I
wanted you to be here when I examined the crypt
in the elevator. I want no more surprises.

Speaker 11 (34:18):
Well, I don't think anything else is going to happen
up here, Professor, but I'll be glad of the chance
to do a little extra looking around myself.

Speaker 24 (34:26):
Is that a Newbis again?

Speaker 20 (34:27):
He's on his face this time.

Speaker 11 (34:29):
I was quite clever of waald them out to disguise
himself as Anubis. He really did resemble the statue.

Speaker 20 (34:35):
Nick they're at the statue lying on the floor.

Speaker 14 (34:38):
Why the head is completely turned around.

Speaker 11 (34:41):
He asked, Paul must to knock it loose. Oh, give
me a hand with the professor, who set it up again? Carter,
it's pretty heavy.

Speaker 20 (34:53):
Go oh, Nick, is it real?

Speaker 14 (34:56):
I imagine it is, Miss Bourne.

Speaker 11 (34:58):
Why this must be the treasurable thank snuff rules. So
that's where the royal treasure was hidden.

Speaker 14 (35:03):
Vlamar must have looked everywhere except in the head.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Of this statue.

Speaker 11 (35:07):
So Anubis was really the keeper of the treasure. Well, congratulations, professor,
and I hope this discovery makes up for all your troubles.

Speaker 33 (35:16):
It does.

Speaker 14 (35:16):
Indeed, mister Carter, I shall now be able to visit
Egypt again.

Speaker 20 (35:35):
Well, Neck, there is just one problem that still bothers me.

Speaker 11 (35:38):
And I suppose, as usual that the problem represents the
crux of the whole case.

Speaker 20 (35:42):
It does.

Speaker 24 (35:43):
When I put that jarre fervum on the shelf, did
you already know that the vault was an elevator?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I did, Patsy.

Speaker 11 (35:50):
The elevator floor wasn't quite level. That's why you tripped
as you went into the valls.

Speaker 27 (35:54):
But of course, but Nick, what made you think it
was an elevator.

Speaker 11 (35:58):
In the first place, simple, Patsy, there had to be
an elevator to take the parcopoagus up to the crypt
and the second floor neck.

Speaker 24 (36:05):
There's an elevator in the other wing of the museum.
They could have taken the circophagus up that way and
wheeled it across to the crypt.

Speaker 11 (36:11):
Patsy, how large is a psycopagus?

Speaker 24 (36:14):
Well, it's eight feet long and six feet wide.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
And four and a half feet high, didn't you say,
m And how wide is the door to the crypt?

Speaker 20 (36:23):
Four feet according to your measurement?

Speaker 11 (36:25):
Exactly, now, Patsy, do you think you could put a
psycophagus four feet six inches high through a door only
four feet wide? Of course not me, of course, not Patsy.
Not even doctor Willimar could do it up through the
alcove was the only way. Waldem I probably hoped that
no one would think to compare the size of the
door to the.

Speaker 24 (36:43):
Size of the cap, and nobody did except Nick Carter.

Speaker 19 (37:07):
This was another strange experience of Nick Carter, Master detective
called Murder in the Crypt for Nick Carter and the
Jackal God. Another of the curious adventures of Nick Carter,
which are brought to you regularly by w R.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Mutual.

Speaker 19 (37:22):
And now Nick and Patsy, what about our story.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
For next week?

Speaker 14 (37:25):
Well, next week's story is full of action, isn't it, Patsy.

Speaker 20 (37:28):
Action is right.

Speaker 24 (37:29):
You see, Nick investigated a murder on a lonely place
called Skull Island.

Speaker 11 (37:34):
Yes, and there were only four people on the island
who could have committed the crime. But it took a
model of a clipper ship and a sea serpent to
find out who the murderer was.

Speaker 24 (37:41):
It also took Nick Carter and a smart piece of
deduction on his part to work out the answer.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
But what did the sea serpent have to do with
the murder? Well we'll tell you all.

Speaker 11 (37:50):
About that next week. In the meantime, I'm glad I
don't have to say sychococas skin.

Speaker 19 (37:53):
So long, don't lie, everybody, and so long to you
Nick and Patsy. In the Strange Adventure you have just heard,
Nick Carter was impersonated by John Clark, Patsy by Helen Choke.
The story was written for Nick Carter by Walter Gibson.
Original music was played by Blue White. The entire production
was under the direction of Jack McGregor. Next Week, at

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the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick
Carter entitled Murder.

Speaker 9 (38:40):
On Stall Island or Nick Carter Had the Mystery.

Speaker 34 (38:46):
Of the Sea Serpent.

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Speaker 2 (39:09):
This is mutual.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
Eighty two years ago, August second, nineteen forty three, Nick Carter,
Master Detective. You're on Classic Radio Theater with Wyattox. Next
up on this Saturday podcast Brian Dunlevy and another Dangerous assignment.

Speaker 35 (39:45):
Whatever you drive the car, there is always an unseen,
unwelcome passenger with you. That passenger is danger, the danger
of a traffic accident. Unfortunately, every person seems to have
the absurd notion that he bears a charmed life that
no traffic accident can happen to him. But it can,
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don't take chances. Obey all traffic rules. Drive safely for life,
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Speaker 7 (40:15):
Do be extra careful as you're driving now, Brian don
Levy with an episode of Dangerous Assignment from seventy five
years ago. Today August second, nineteen fifty, The Vine Mystery.

Speaker 16 (40:27):
Wheaties presents Dangerous Assignments on stage tonight from Hollywood. Dangerous
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Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a
lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell
the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk into
the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment is
going to involve my trying to hide three divisions of
troops behind an empty water glasson.

Speaker 28 (41:37):
Well, here he is, Commissioner.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
I found him right in the middle of a big deal, as.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
You, Steve, Commissioner.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
I hope it was a square deal.

Speaker 20 (41:44):
She didn't look square to me.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
What have you told him so far?

Speaker 28 (41:47):
Only that you wanted him go looking for a woman.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
I figured that was the best wait I could do.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Well, don't tell me it isn't true.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
Oh it's true, all right.

Speaker 36 (41:54):
But I'm afraid your association with this particular woman won't
be a very pleasant one.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I might have known.

Speaker 20 (41:58):
I have a passport.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Okay, Well, what's the deal, Commissioner Vienna, Jella, A long
time since I've dancers Strauss waltz.

Speaker 36 (42:09):
You can leave your ballet slippers homes tea. Here's a
setup with a situation. What it is, we have to
increase our arm strength on all fronts. Naturally, our consulates
are kept informed as to proposed increases of strength in
their respect variants. So two days ago a document containing
information regarding troop movements in Europe was stolen from our
consulate in Vienna. The troops have already embarked, and with

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these unidentified subs around, we can't take chances.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I see any idea. Who swiped the document? Yes, a
genitor named Joseph Bildner. Well that doesn't sound so tough.
Fine building.

Speaker 36 (42:40):
We've already found builder in an alley in Vienna last
night murdered.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
I see, well, that sort of puts a new light
on things.

Speaker 36 (42:47):
The document wasn't on his person. Just before he died,
he mumbled the name Eva.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Loch Eva losh. Hey, that name rings a bell, a siren.

Speaker 36 (42:54):
You should say that I haven't time to go into
a background. Now to fill a book. Man will osen
Un tell you all who's Olsen. He's with the consulate
in Vienna. You'll arrive there early tomorrow evening. Go to
the Imperial Bar at eight o'clock. Olsen will be waiting
for you.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Why meeting the bar. Not that I have any objection on.

Speaker 36 (43:10):
This investigation has to be kept under cover, particularly the
part about Evil Losh. Olson will tell you why a
Steve get over there, talk to Olson, find Evil Losh
and most important, get those documents back.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Well, that's it. You've got your assignment. Good luck.

Speaker 16 (43:39):
Dangerous assignments will continue in a moment. Now Here is
the wheatiest man Frank Martin ever think of this. You
wait longer for breakfast than for any other meal of
the day. From the time you go to bed until
you eat. Breakfast is the longest period there is between
two meals. So breakfast has to be good to do
the most good for you at a time when you

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really need food, which is why I say start breakfast
with wheaties and milk and fruit. It's a pleasant way
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Wheaties supply energy when you need energy, because there's a
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(44:23):
whole kernel of wheat in every Wheaty's flake. Sure, Breakfast
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at seven can help at eleven.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah, I've got my assignment. Find the girl named Evils
and get a stolen document from her. Ordinarily, there's nothing
I like better than the shareshell of them. But from
what the Commissioner has told me, I've got an easy
feeling that this is going to be all share shay
and know them.

Speaker 37 (45:00):
Well.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
It's Friday evening when I get to Vienna. I check
him at the hotel and then head for the Imperial Bar.
Over at the corner table, a guy gives me the
knot my head over there. You're Mitchell Archer. Yeah, awesome,
that's right, have a seat, thanks. Look, the commissioner back
in the States told me that you could give me

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the background on this evil Losch. Well, I can tell
you all we know over here at the Consulates, which
isn't enough. Evil Losch was a red hot Nazi she
was killed in the brilliant blitz. What we thought.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Now it looks as she's been very much alive and
in hiding all this time. And where she yet? It
looks like she's up for old tricks.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
You mean a new Nazi party? No, you know some
of these ex Nazis have a habit of selling out
to the highest bidder. I get him now. According to
what the Commissioner told me, this document concerning our troop
movements was stolen from your consulate by a janitor named Bildner.
He was found murdered in an alley and mumbled Evilosh's
name just before they die.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
And that's right.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
We believe Eva killed him, and it has the documents.
But of course we've kept all that under cover. We
don't want Eva to know. We know she's alive.

Speaker 6 (46:09):
Here this ad I spotted in the afternoon paper. Take
a look at right, all right?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Well, the cab driver who picked up a woman passenger
at the Plaza last Tuesday night at eight point thirty,
please come to thirty seven burgerstrass Hey Tuesday night. That
was the night the builder was murdered, wasn't it. Yes,
in an alley about half a block from the plaza.
This could tie in, all right, thirty seven Burgess Tras. Okay,
I think i'll answer that, ad Olson. I'll check with

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you later. Yes, are you the one who put that
advertisement in the paper this afternoon?

Speaker 28 (46:56):
Come in? Yes, I'm the one. Why Frau Denise Manesque?

Speaker 6 (47:05):
Who are you?

Speaker 2 (47:06):
I'm the cab driver you're looking for.

Speaker 5 (47:08):
Oh, describe this woman you picked up?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Well, both medium build, dark hair.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
You're lying, huh.

Speaker 28 (47:19):
I do not know who you are, but you are
not a cab driver.

Speaker 38 (47:22):
Now look, yes, you are the one who puts the
notice in the paper. Oh great, yeah, I would like
to talk to you just a minute. Crazy cab driver
in question?

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Who is this man?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
This man is about to leave?

Speaker 6 (47:38):
No, I do not think so.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Oh well, come to think of it, you may be right.
I'll come the gun buster.

Speaker 32 (47:44):
You will stay right here.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
Boss of you.

Speaker 28 (47:45):
You are not cab drivers, either of you.

Speaker 39 (47:48):
In my case, you are quite right. As far as
this other man, I do not know who he is.
I will find that out presently.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Well. As long as you're gonna play guessing games, maybe
you wouldn't mind if I start guessing who you are.

Speaker 39 (47:58):
You do not have to guess, my friend, I will
tell you I am like not Oscar Sigar loves the police.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
The police. Well, that takes a load off my mind,
does it? Yeah? But I can't say as much for
a frowm and Rescue. Here she seems to be real
upset at the news. Frown manus To the name seems
to mean something to you.

Speaker 39 (48:14):
Lieutenant, you are not by any chance related to George
manus To.

Speaker 32 (48:20):
Yes, I'm his wife, But this is completely mystifying.

Speaker 39 (48:24):
Why would the wife of George Manuscue be implicated in
such an unsavory affair as this?

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Somebody mind telling me who George Manesque is?

Speaker 32 (48:32):
What is your interest in this matter?

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Maybe these credentials will answer that question, Lieutenant, Yeah.

Speaker 32 (48:41):
Yeah, I see they have indeed answered that question, he Mitchell.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Now, how about filling me in on this? George Menescue, Oh, a.

Speaker 39 (48:49):
Local politician of high character who has worked in close
cooperation with your government.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Here, I see.

Speaker 28 (48:55):
Well, in that case, Frowman, there is no use holding
back anything more. I did not want a police brought
into this, but well here you are.

Speaker 39 (49:06):
Yeah, I am indeed I must strongly impress upon you
as a wisdom of making a full explanation.

Speaker 28 (49:12):
At this time, Yes, sir, but you see, Ivo Loosh
is my sister. Why I believed, as did the rest
of the world, that.

Speaker 20 (49:21):
She was dead.

Speaker 28 (49:23):
I believed that until Tuesday night when she came here
to see me.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
What did she want?

Speaker 28 (49:29):
She said she was in trouble and wanted to hide here.
I refused, and then she said I must help her
in what way? She said that a man was killed,
but that she did not do it, that there was
a cab driver who could clear her if she could
only find him.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
So you ran that ad in the paper.

Speaker 28 (49:48):
I didn't know what else to do. I couldn't go
to the police side. I know what damage would be
done to my husband's reputation if it were learned the
notorious ivoloshe was his wife sister. So I ran the advertisement,
hoping it would help clear her, and then if their
relationship will be revealed later, at least it would be

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not quite so bad from her husband.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
I see. Well, that all leads us up to the
big question. Where's Eva?

Speaker 32 (50:17):
I do not know from manuscu. It is my duty
to warn you that withholding information, I'm telling.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
You the truth.

Speaker 28 (50:23):
I swear it. I have no idea where Eva's hiding.
She said that she would contact me in a few days,
but I'd not heard from her.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Look, sisterly love is a wonderful thing, but I hope
that you realize unless we locate Eva in a hurry,
there's going to be a lot more damage done than
just to your husband's reputation.

Speaker 28 (50:40):
It's totally love, you think. That is what I feel
for Eva. As far back as I can remember, we've
hated each other. My only regret is that she was
not killed in Berlin.

Speaker 39 (50:49):
Then we have your promise that you will communicate with
us at once if she contacts you again.

Speaker 28 (50:53):
Yes, yes, at once. As to sure, gentlemen, it will
be a happy day for me when I can turn
my dear sister.

Speaker 11 (51:01):
Over to you.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Oh it sounds like quite a surprise party you run
into last night, Mitchell. Yeah, it was Olson, And of
course the biggest surprise was finding out that missus Menescue
is Evilosha's sister. Incidentally, what information have you got on
name Menescue's Well, he seems to be our white hope
in local politics around here right now. He's very pro
United States. To the background, George and his wife and
me he s apparently were I did not see you
right from the start, which must have made a little

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tough on them in Germany. Yeah, I can imagine. I
believe they were married just before the fall of Berlin
managed to get out of the country. Would you like
to meet George Meliskie Mitchell?

Speaker 6 (51:43):
Yeah, I would.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Can you arrange it? I'm playing golf with them in
an hour. Why don't you come along, it's the deal,
let's go. Last shot of yours was a honeymmester of Manesue. Yes,
it looks like you're only about two feet from the pen.

Speaker 26 (52:02):
We thank you, mister Misru, but I wish you to
know that from no one, I believe nothing you say.

Speaker 40 (52:08):
Oh, when the three of us started this game, you
were full of apologies.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
About your bad goal.

Speaker 40 (52:12):
They are now approaching the seventheen and you are three
so over power.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yes, friend, Mitchell makes mostly to apologies before it makes
it best. You can't blame a guy for trying to
get good hot.

Speaker 26 (52:24):
Indeed, you cannot. Well, here we are gentlemen. I must
say this is the part of golf I enjoy the most.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Putting. Yes, well, it's the part of the game that
pays off perhaps it is.

Speaker 40 (52:37):
Because putting is so helpful to me.

Speaker 26 (52:40):
How sold this game, but I practice it constantly, even
when I'm at home, particularly when I'm thinking about something.
Putting relaxes me, helps me to see clearly miss outs.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
And I believe you are your thought oh sly.

Speaker 6 (52:55):
Downhill but too that's the kind I don't like.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Well, and you're case practice your pays off, mister menesque.
Your putting is very sharp. Thank you too, bad olds
and rim the cup on you. Huh yeah it is
me there six. Well, it looks like I'm next little
break to the right. It looks like not quite as
nonch a rule. Thanks for the tip, nice, but I

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had good advice.

Speaker 40 (53:24):
Maybe you can return it sometime.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Be glad to except I don't think you'll need any
on this putty. Yours can't be more than two feet.

Speaker 32 (53:30):
No, I need this for my paw.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
This is a lot more pleasant way to spend time
than roosting behind the desk. Yeah, but it isn't helping
us find evil losh mess. I'm sorry, mister minescue. I
didn't realize you were set to putner. I would have
kept still.

Speaker 40 (53:47):
Ooh, it's quite all right, mister me till your voice
did not bother me.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I do know what in wrong? It looked like it
tightened up all of a sudden.

Speaker 29 (53:55):
Yes, well it is.

Speaker 40 (53:56):
No match comes next to tea right over there.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
I'm really sorry about that, Manesco. Oh, but I assure
you I wasn't even aware you were talking me. True.

Speaker 40 (54:07):
With the life of me, I can't understand why I
should miss a two foot cut.

Speaker 6 (54:12):
But that is what makes the.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Game of go so unpredicted.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
But I suppose I think they call it the human
of them.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Yeah, I think they do.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
Yeah, let's see.

Speaker 41 (54:21):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (54:21):
Oh, I believe you're still up to ask you?

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, you know, Steve. It seems to me
that you raised your voice a little when you mentioned
the name Evash did I wait, we mustn't rattle Manscue anymore.
He's ready to drive. Oh, neither quite a slice.

Speaker 40 (54:39):
I must have cut across of all gentlemen. I hate
to say this, but I seem to have a headache.
I wonder if perhaps you would excuse me from continuing
with our match.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Sure, matter of fact, I've had enough, how about you, Wilson?
Sure anytime? If we cut back towards the clubhouse with
this grove of trees.

Speaker 40 (54:56):
Please please, I don't want to spoil your game. Why
don't the two of you?

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Couldn't you? Noah, No, it seems to be getting a
little too warm for comfort anyway.

Speaker 18 (55:05):
Mitchell, he's been shot right through the head.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Quitscular. Let's get into that grove of trees. I think
it's a little safer there.

Speaker 40 (55:13):
But where did the shot come from?

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Those here? It was from a rifle, which means the
sniper could be behind a hundred different trees and bushes
on the golf course.

Speaker 26 (55:23):
Which I do not understand why anyone would want to
kill Olson. He had no enemies, That's.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
What I was thinkingskif, And it gives rise to a
few assorted interesting thoughts. What do you mean maybe that
bullet was meant for somebody else? Somebody else?

Speaker 40 (55:36):
Do you mean yourself?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah? Maybe me or maybe you?

Speaker 16 (55:40):
Meneskiv Steve Mitchell will continue his dangerous assignment in just
a moment, Halts, I.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Would like to have you meet a good friend of
mine and a prominent member of a fine little organization
known as your I'll go white socks, mister Lucius Benjamin
Appling ooh, Ed, don't say it like that. Whoever heard
of a ball player named Lucia's? What if I went
around calling you Paul Edward Prenny's, let's just make it
in and Luke huh, all right, Luke, say just how
long have you been with the White Sox?

Speaker 6 (56:15):
Over twenty years?

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Ed Golly, I played in darn near twenty five hundred games,
then at bat almost nine thousand times. Man, I'm from
way back. Well, Luke, you don't look at how do
you keep up the pace anyway?

Speaker 11 (56:26):
Well?

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Ed?

Speaker 6 (56:27):
I sleep good, I eat good.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
I eat mighty good.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Wheat is about four mornings a week. Those little old
flakes put a lot of snap even in the old
timer like me. Must be because they're hundred percent whole wheat.
I sure like wheaties and milk and proof, you know, Luke,
that's exactly what I hear from a lot of ball
players and plenty of other people too. No wonder they
call wheaties the breakfast stuff champion.

Speaker 16 (56:50):
Thank you, Ed Prettie, Luke kapling. And as for a
breakfast of champions, friends, sure they're for men who go
to bat for a living, but confidentially there for us too,
You and me. We need a whole weat energy, same
as the champions who played ball for their paychecks. Don't
forget your own breakfast of champions, Weeds, get yours. Now

(57:18):
back to dangerous assignment, Dan Steve Mitchell.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Mitchell, I have been expecting you you uncovered anything new,
Lieutenant Signals Seed.

Speaker 39 (57:32):
I have you told me that when you mentioned the
name Eva Loschonse golf course earlier today?

Speaker 32 (57:37):
Manuscue reacted visibly.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
That's right. I dangled a little bait under his nose
and he snapped at it like an undernourished barracuda. Eh.
Of course, to be fair to the guy, he probably
knows that his wife is Eva's sister. It could have
been that.

Speaker 39 (57:48):
I am positive it was much more so that I
have done a considerable amount of investigation into Manusque's background,
and I am sure it will be of interest to
you to learn that in the old Nazi days in Germany,
Manuscue and Eva losh where shall we say, extremely friendly?

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Oh? Yeah, that kind of puts a different light on things, and.

Speaker 32 (58:06):
Dieed it does.

Speaker 39 (58:07):
After Ivas's death, Manuscue married her sister Denny's and made
his escape from Germany.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
With her, And now Eva's popped up again. You know.
That gives rise to an interesting possibility.

Speaker 39 (58:18):
Has the possibility that Manuscue has been seeing Ava again
and knows where she is, which means he.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Either has those documents or knows where they are. Oh,
I've got a hand it to him for the big
act he's been putting on about being such a friend
of the United States.

Speaker 39 (58:31):
If our suspicions of Manuscue are correct, one cannot help
feeling sorry for his wife.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Yeah, it must be pretty rough spot for Deniece. If
she has any idea what's going on?

Speaker 32 (58:41):
Or excuse me, please, Lenn say God.

Speaker 28 (58:44):
Speaking, May I speak to mister Mitchell.

Speaker 32 (58:47):
Yeah, one moment, please, it's for you, Mitchell. It's a
lady in question.

Speaker 29 (58:52):
Oh.

Speaker 28 (58:53):
Hello, this is Denise Manscue. Mister Mitchell. Something has come up.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
I must see you at once, Okay, I'll be there
in about fifteen minutes. Well, it could be that Denise
is starting to smell a rat, Lieutenant, I'd better get
over there and see if it's the same rat I
think it is. So I held for the Nascue's house,
Manscuie with a preoccupied look and a putter in his hand.
Let's see in the front door. Then he disappears into

(59:20):
his study. Denise is waiting for me in the living room.

Speaker 28 (59:23):
Thank you very much for coming.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Mister Marsha. You said something had come up, Denise.

Speaker 28 (59:28):
Yes, first, let me ask you. Did you say anything
to my husband when he let you in the front door.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
No, he looked like he was in another world.

Speaker 28 (59:36):
Yes, he seems to be worried about something.

Speaker 5 (59:39):
I'm afraid I know.

Speaker 20 (59:39):
What it is.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
You think maybe he's been seeing evil osh lately.

Speaker 20 (59:43):
Yes, I think he has.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 28 (59:46):
I'm sorry too. My sister died. I thought that part
of his life was over. It is not a very
pleasant thing to realize that you have been married on
the rebound, mister Mitchell, I told you what's the matter?

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Steve.

Speaker 28 (01:00:03):
There is someone on the roof of the house next
door where it was Sonny watching and disappeared. Come on here,
we can go up through these French doors.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Or in sight? Did you recognize him?

Speaker 28 (01:00:16):
All I could see was that trench coat that's lodged
hat and a gun.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Look you stay here. I'll circle around this house and
try to climb up and nab him. I circle around
the house next door and I spot some vines running
up the wall. I started climbing. With ten feet from
the ground, I hear a sound that stopped me cold.
I dropped to the ground. Run back to Menescue's house.
The study window was shattered and in front of its

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stands Denise starring and cried and stirring. Denis what happened?

Speaker 11 (01:00:45):
Denise?

Speaker 28 (01:00:46):
Too light?

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I tried to warn worn, who.

Speaker 28 (01:00:50):
Here's the windows on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Tell me what happened, Denise?

Speaker 28 (01:00:56):
After you enter around to the other side of that house.

Speaker 32 (01:00:59):
The person back to the edge of the roof, that
the door to the study.

Speaker 28 (01:01:03):
Yes, I suddenly I knew what was going to happen.
I started running through the study window to run my husband.
Then the shot.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Here we are George bullet enter at the top of
his head. Must have come from the roof. All right,
wait a minute, what's that water glass doing on the floor?

Speaker 28 (01:01:25):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
He must have knocked it over as he fell. Well,
the man who shot him is probably a few blocks
away by.

Speaker 28 (01:01:32):
Now, Steve, Steve, I do not think it was a man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
What do you mean you told me before the shot
that he was wearing a trench coat and a slouch hat.

Speaker 28 (01:01:39):
Yes, but just before the shot I got a quick
look at the face a woman. I think it was
my sister, either.

Speaker 39 (01:02:01):
A most perflet sing case, Mitchell, first, the janitor Joseph
Bieldner murdered, second, the American Ulson murdered.

Speaker 32 (01:02:09):
Third choice Manuscule murdered.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
But at least we know who's behind it all, even those,
So the big problem is finding her in those documents. Lieutenant.
You know, there's one thing I don't get. Why is
Eva hanging around town if she already has those documents?

Speaker 39 (01:02:23):
Mitchell, have you considered the possibility that Manuscue might have
been shot by his wife?

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Danny, Sure, I've considered it. She had a motive too,
she knew her husband had been seeing Eva. But there's
just one little item that sort of knocks that theory
into what cocked pat.

Speaker 39 (01:02:37):
Yeah, Unfortunately, you arise, you are referring, of course, to
the angle at which the bullet entered Manuscule's hate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Yeah, from the top of his head down.

Speaker 39 (01:02:45):
Which would indicate that the bullet was fired from some
distance above him, that his wife was addled the terriscet
at the time slowly below him.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
As a matter of fact, all of which brings us
back to our friend Eiva.

Speaker 42 (01:02:56):
Do please, are you a latent cigar the police? Perhaps
she would be good enough to tell me what this
is all about.

Speaker 32 (01:03:04):
Perhaps you would be good enough to tell me your
name and what what is all about?

Speaker 42 (01:03:07):
Excuse I'm Anton, I drive taxicab so so today in
newspaper stands and advertisement.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Wait a minute, you mean one about the cab driver
who picked up a woman at the plaza last Tuesday night.

Speaker 32 (01:03:18):
Yeah, you put it in.

Speaker 40 (01:03:19):
No, no go on, I answered the head.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
I go to the address.

Speaker 42 (01:03:23):
There is policeman there, and over in one corner a
woman sitting with her head in her hands crying.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
That'd be the nie.

Speaker 42 (01:03:29):
So I tell policeman that I picked up a woman
last Tuesday.

Speaker 32 (01:03:33):
Night, probably ever lost.

Speaker 40 (01:03:34):
I did not know her name. I picked her up
at the plaza and she stayed in my cab only
two blocks.

Speaker 42 (01:03:40):
She kept looking back over her shoulder, and then she
made me pull over to the curb and got out.

Speaker 40 (01:03:44):
All this I tell policemen.

Speaker 42 (01:03:46):
He takes down maadress and tells me to come over
here to Imperial Bar and report to you.

Speaker 32 (01:03:52):
Very well, thank you for your information. You may all go,
it says.

Speaker 18 (01:03:56):
Still, nobody tells me what this is all about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Well, that was a big bunch of nothing, Mitchell.

Speaker 32 (01:04:03):
This case is giving me a headache.

Speaker 39 (01:04:05):
Murders, stolen documents, politically intrigue, and every time we think
we have a fresh lead, that disappears into thin air
poof Hey, hey, watch ah, it would appear my gestures
a little too much.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Hey, wait a minute, it's the matter, loock Siegel. You
knocked the glass off the table just now and it broke.
This is not a very profound observation, but I found
a glass lying on its side in Minescue's study after
he got shot, and that glass wasn't broken yet. The
table there is about the same height as the table here.

Speaker 32 (01:04:36):
What are you getting at?

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Minescue's glass wasn't knocked off the table, it was placed
on the floor. So so we've been a couple of
prize jug hits. I still do not understand the whole
thing has just fallen in the place. Lieutenant. There's just
one big thing wrong right now.

Speaker 32 (01:04:49):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
I mean?

Speaker 39 (01:04:51):
We could be just about five minutes too late, Mitchell.
There's the cab driver's house just to hit Okay, let's
stop here, lieutenant. We'll circle around to the back of
the house. He probably keeps his cab there.

Speaker 32 (01:05:12):
Mitchell I still do not understand why this taxi cab
is suddenly so important to us.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Look, remember what that cab driver said when he picked
up either after she'd killed that janitor, she only stayed
in this cab a few minutes then got out.

Speaker 39 (01:05:24):
Yeah, she hits the documents there. That is why she
had Denny's puts that head in the paper. She wanted
to find that taxi cab driver.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
That's right. Wait, yeah, there's a cabin that little lean
to the back of the house. Okay, let's take it
as quiet as we can.

Speaker 32 (01:05:36):
Now, mitchell I fletch like somebody seens that cab.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Yeah, it doesn't really surprise me.

Speaker 39 (01:05:46):
Come on, found those documents yet, Dennis manners Que, No evil,
low lieutenant. It's one and the same person, right, No,
that's a lie Say that either the real Denise got
killed in the Berlin blitzed. Didn't she know it to
be a neat scheme If people thought it was you
who were killed, you posed it. The niece married Manusculee
and got out of.

Speaker 28 (01:06:05):
To nice all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I guess Manuscue was the right guy, after all. He
probably figured you'd reform when he found out if you hadn't,
you were afraid he'd expose you. You tried for him
once on the golf course and got Olsen instead. Then
you rigged this little scheme for my benefit at your
house this afternoon and killed him.

Speaker 32 (01:06:22):
Watch out, Yeah, I.

Speaker 29 (01:06:23):
See the gun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
The rain isn't as hot as it was even drop
it better, And thanks for giving us the one piece
of evidence we needed, this gun of yours. Five will
get your ten week and prove that the slug that
killed your husband came from this gun, you temper, Mitchell.

Speaker 39 (01:06:43):
Yeah, this is all very nice, but there's one thing
that we may have difficulty improving. What's that the angle
of elevation of the bullet that killed Manuscule?

Speaker 20 (01:06:52):
That's right?

Speaker 32 (01:06:52):
How could it have been fired by Ava here? Who
was standing on the ground outside the window.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
He brings us back to the empty water glass, which
was lying on its side on the floor in Minescue's study.
I should have figured it sooner, she good. What look?
When Menescue let me in the front door, he had
a putter in his hand. He'd already told me that
he practiced putting it home whenever he had a problem,
and along about then he had a big problem what
to do about eva putting? Yeah, how do you go
about putting a golf ball, Lieutenant? Right way?

Speaker 32 (01:07:20):
One takes the club in his hand, bins over the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
And you can stop right there. That's what Monesco was doing.
That's why the bullet entered the top of his head.

Speaker 28 (01:07:28):
Right, I have nothing to say.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
You don't have to. You know, you never want to
underestimate anybody's golf game either. You probably thought your husband's
putting practice was a big joke. Well maybe you were right. Yeah,
I guess you could call it the joke, a real
funny one. It'll kill you.

Speaker 16 (01:07:46):
Oh, we certainly enjoyed that, as I'm a Brian, your
usual sterling performance.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Thank you, Frank.

Speaker 16 (01:08:02):
I had an extra bowl full of wheaties this morning.
Maybe that Hell, I'm sure it did, Brian. Seriously, you
know wheaties can make a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Oh, I agree. Let's have a letdown, Oh, moral of
the old up and at them. That's right. But I
have something to to infest, Frank. You have what the
real reason I eat wheaties is I like them? Well,
good for you, best reason in the world. It's fine.

Speaker 16 (01:08:25):
The whole wheat vitamins and minerals and proteins and wheaties.
But it's just the plain goodness you go for.

Speaker 9 (01:08:30):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
That's right, Frank.

Speaker 16 (01:08:32):
Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard the words of an
honest man. Yeah, you're wheaties tomorrow, work better all morning
for it. But most of all, eat them because.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
You like them, right, Brian do Levy, Right, Frank, Good night.

Speaker 16 (01:08:58):
Dangerous Assignment starring Don Levy as Steve Mitchell, is written
by Bob Riiche, with music by Basil Adlam, conducted by
Ralph Hollinback, and is produced and directed by Bill carn
Join us again next Wednesday, when Brian Don Levy as
Steve Mitchell embarks on another dangerous assignment and this is
the Wheedies man. Frank Martin inviting you to listen Thursday.

(01:09:19):
That's tomorrow night to Sarah Berner in Sarah's private paper
on the Wheaties Big Parade.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
See you then.

Speaker 16 (01:09:33):
Next listen for the Falcon on NBC.

Speaker 7 (01:09:37):
Seventy five years ago, August second, nineteen fifty. Dangerous Assignment
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox coming up
on our Sunday podcast. Have a couple of shows from
nineteen fifty with the lineup and Somebody Knows The Subways
Are for Sleeping, an episode of the CBS Radio Workshop

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from nineteen fifty six, and Inter Sanctum Mysteries, The Tailtale
Heart and Lomon Adner will be with us as well.
Now on Monday, Gerald Moore starring as the Philip Marlow
in The Long Way Home, DeForest Kelly in The Flesh
Peddler his only appearance on Suspense from nineteen fifty seven,

(01:10:20):
return to tomorrow, an episode of Romance from nineteen fifty two,
and a nineteen fifty four episode of the FBI in
Peace and War. On Tuesday, Uncle Milty, The Milton Borough Show,
The Salute to the Great Outdoors, the Screen Guilt Theater
presentation of Christmas in Connecticut, starring that Reagan guy you know,

(01:10:40):
you know he'd become Governor of California own eventually president,
along with Jane Wyman from nineteen forty six, George Burns,
Gracie Allen from nineteen forty and an episode of a
Date with Judy. Now on Wednesday, we'll have episodes of
The Whistler, The Man Who Came to Murder, top S
starring Alone a Massy from nineteen fifty, Jeff Reagan Investigator

(01:11:04):
starring Frank Graham and of the other Frank you know,
Frank Nelson nineteen fifty and the Adventures of Philip Marlow
from nineteen forty nine, The August Lion Thursday The Shadow
from nineteen thirty eight, and The Creeper Howard Dupp as
Sam Spade Detective from nineteen forty nine, Mystery and the

(01:11:25):
Air Peter Laurie from nineteen forty seven, The Marvelous Bastro
and the Crime Club, A Pitch in Time from nineteen
forty seven, And on Friday, we'll have an episode to
Let George Do It starring Bob Bailey from nineteen forty nine,
One Chance at the World, And we like Howard Duff
so much we'll bring him in on Friday again with

(01:11:46):
another Sam Spade detective story from nineteen forty eight, this
time The Blueberry Caper, a nineteen fifty six episode of
suspense Double Identity starring Bick Perrin, and the f Scott
Fitzgerald offshore pirate story in Romance that'll be from nineteen
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Radio theater with Wyatt Coogs or webpage, classicradio dot stream
up next, confession.

Speaker 28 (01:12:21):
Can I get this cunning used back in the store
and keep the money?

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Why?

Speaker 34 (01:12:24):
Yes?

Speaker 28 (01:12:25):
But what made you think about doing.

Speaker 34 (01:12:27):
That all of a sudden, Well, heck, mom, they got
a big sign in the store about it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
They're paying real money for this used fat.

Speaker 34 (01:12:32):
Now.

Speaker 43 (01:12:33):
Yes, you may be surprised at how much dealers are
paying for used fats these days, It soon comes up.
You see, used fats are still needed very much. This
country and the whole world are still short of oils
for making soap and other industrial products. So whether you
let Junior keep the change or use the money to
cut down your grocery bills, it pays to save every
drop of used.

Speaker 7 (01:12:52):
Fat now From seventy two years ago, August second, nineteen
fifty three.

Speaker 35 (01:12:58):
Confession A confession you are about to hear as an
actual tape recording.

Speaker 37 (01:13:07):
Go ahead, please, I make this confession of my own
free will because it is true there has not been
any force or violence used upon my person to induce
me to make these statements without promise of immunity or

(01:13:28):
reward or gratuity.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
I confess you understand.

Speaker 44 (01:13:34):
That your statement will be made public through the radio
program Confession. I do not Your name for the purpose
of this broadcast will be Esther Phillips.

Speaker 20 (01:13:44):
Yes, I understand.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
I want to tell the whole story.

Speaker 44 (01:13:47):
Lean forward a little more, please Esther talk about in
the microphone.

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Yes, yes, I want to tell it all, the whole story.

Speaker 35 (01:14:15):
You are listening to Confession. The case history of the
woman referred to is Esther Phillips. As a matter of
documented record, you'll hear the story of her crime experiences
told in her own words.

Speaker 41 (01:14:26):
All right, where do you go ahead?

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Please?

Speaker 17 (01:14:38):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
Well, I guess it was a funny thing. I mean
the way we met. You see, Johnny was wanted by
the police when I met him. Well, I didn't know
it then, but after I found out, it was too
late because by that time I was in love with him.
You mean John Tyler, Yes, Johnny Tyner.

Speaker 28 (01:15:01):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
I wouldn't have left my husband on my own. I
guess I would have thought it wasn't respectable, even though
he was so dull and well boring. But when I
met Johnny he was he was so different of his
exciting kind of and I guess the decision was made
for me It was like, I have nothing.

Speaker 20 (01:15:23):
To do with it at all, You know what I mean?

Speaker 41 (01:15:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Exactly?

Speaker 28 (01:15:27):
How did you meet him at the races?

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
I used to go to the races quite a bit
in Chicago, Washington Park, Arlington. I used to lose a
lot of money there. Well, what I mean is I
I I couldn't stand it. Just sit home and just
sit there all day long, not doing anything. It just
got boring for me.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Did uh did your husband know you went to the races?

Speaker 45 (01:15:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
I guess he knew.

Speaker 29 (01:15:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:15:50):
Anybody said anything.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
What about the money you lost?

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
I told him I spent it. He never used to
ask any more questions. If I sounded mad enough.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
You met Johnny at the races, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
It was the last race Arlington. I was carrying my
ticket to you know, the tickets you get when you're bak.
You know there's one.

Speaker 46 (01:16:14):
I didn't even notice.

Speaker 20 (01:16:15):
I'm standing there.

Speaker 45 (01:16:16):
Beside the rail.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Great luck. Huh that's one hundred bucks I drove. I
see you got taken too. How much you lose five dollars? Oh,
that's not so bad, one hundred bucks. Talk about the breaks?
Huh huh? Say I hope you don't mind me saying this.

Speaker 11 (01:16:45):
What.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Well, I've been kind of watching you all afternoon. I mean,
you know, because you seem so interesting. I know, kind
of person to get to know. Look, I guess I'm
saying all the wrong things, but what I mean to
say is that all afternoon I wanted to meet you.
That's what I meant. I wait a second. Yeah, look,

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you got off the bus at the corner over there
around one o'clock. You were all along. Yeah, well I
saw you. In the minute I saw you, I made
up my mind I was going to get to know you.
So I planted myself here and I bet on the
same horse as you.

Speaker 41 (01:17:21):
Did, and.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Panic corner.

Speaker 34 (01:17:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
Well, look, do you have to take the bus back?
Can I give you a lift?

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
No?

Speaker 46 (01:17:30):
No, I guess no.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Come on, I'm home was I'll drop you right off
at your door. You don't even ever have to see
me again if you don't want, I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
Think I'm better, I insist.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Come on.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
We got through the crowd to the parking lot. He
had a convertible with a nice day, and he put
the top down. He didn't say anything for a while.
Pulled up at a stoplight, he he looked down at
my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Nice wedding ring. Thanks, any children? Nope, say, uh you
happen to have the time?

Speaker 20 (01:18:17):
Uh it's five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
Thanks. You know a good place I can get some food.
I haven't had lunch yet.

Speaker 20 (01:18:23):
Only lots of places in the loop.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Well, just a sandwich. I eat dinner lately, Lots of
good places. Hey, it's a nice looking place. Huh, clean looking.
You in a big hurry?

Speaker 11 (01:18:33):
Me?

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Yeah, I thought you might join me in a cup
of coffee or something. To get home on Oh, gee,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:18:39):
I've got to get back, got cooking dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Oh it'll just take a few minutes. Don't worry, I'll
get you home on time.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
He got out of the car and came around and
opened the door for me. I looked at him for
the first time. Really, he was good looking, real good, lucky.
He was dressed nice, and he didn't talk like he
was fresh or anything, just as if we were good friends.
I don't know. It's hard now and I think back

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to know what happened. Really, Maybe it was the way
he treated me like it was somebody important to him,
not just like a cook and dishwasher. For instance, he
opened the car door for me. He opened the door
of the restaurant for me, and when we sat down,
he helped me with my chair. He ordered coffee for

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me and some orange juice and ham and eggs for himself.
He asked me some more questions, questions about myself. Not
nosy lie, just interested. And I started to talk. And
once I started, I couldn't stop. I guess I must
have needed somebody to talk to awful bad, because I

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told him everything I hated about seven years.

Speaker 28 (01:20:00):
I'd been married seven years.

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
Seven years, that's right, seven years.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
You know something? You know what I thought when I
saw you was standing there at the races? What I
thought you were a dancer? A dancer, that's right, some
kind of a dancer. The way you were standing there,
I don't know. Oh did you ever do any dancing? Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:20:26):
When I was a kid in school, we used to
have a little plays. I did some dancing in school.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
I knew it. Do you mind if I ask a question?

Speaker 5 (01:20:35):
You go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
Why had you stuck it out so long with my
husband with that kind of life?

Speaker 20 (01:20:42):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:20:42):
I left him twice?

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Is that right?

Speaker 20 (01:20:44):
Twice?

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
Once we went up to Wisconsin. I said I wasn't
going back with him.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
But you did.

Speaker 5 (01:20:51):
Yeah, I was lonely. He just looked up by me
and said, don't be silly.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
He said, of.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
Course you're coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
And I did the other time.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
Well, the other time I went to an uncle's of
mine and the luth but he has a big family,
so I came back. When I walked into the house,
George looked at me like he knew i'd be back
all the time. He didn't say anything. It just helped
me unpack. Someday. I'm telling you, he's going to get
the surprise of his life. I'm going to go and

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I'm never coming back.

Speaker 10 (01:21:28):
Never.

Speaker 20 (01:21:29):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
I feel silly. Why telling you all these things?

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
I know?

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Look, maybe it would help if I formally introduced myself.
Maybe Johnny Tyler is the name? Who are you?

Speaker 5 (01:21:48):
Esther Phillips?

Speaker 46 (01:21:50):
Huh, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
Why Esther Phillips? I said, Well, isn't that your name?

Speaker 20 (01:21:56):
No, Esther Phillips is my name.

Speaker 25 (01:21:59):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
What was my name before I got married?

Speaker 20 (01:22:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
What do you say? We just keep it like that,
miss Phillips.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
Before he dropped me downtown, he left me his phone number,
said the call. I did my shopping and came home,
and the minute I walked to him at the door,
I knew I couldn't stay, but like I wasn't home
at all. It was like a prison. I went right
to George half keeping me in a prison. I had

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a right to be happy, just the same as anybody
else had. I ran into the bedroom and packed up
some of my clothes. I wrote George a little note
saying that I was going and this time I wasn't
coming back. I didn't call Johnny, not right away. For
about two hours, I wandered around. I didn't go anywhere.

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I didn't know where to go or or what to do.
And then I remember Johnny's telephone number, so I call him.
I thought, maybe if you weren't busy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Tonight night, well to night kind of tied up.

Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
Oh well, never mind, No, no, no, I don't wait.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Him or not. I don't be silly. I don't mean
it that way. I mean busy, you know, like it work. Look,
i'll be finished about ten o'clock. Is that too late
for you?

Speaker 5 (01:23:23):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
Oh good, make it ten.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
You have my end rate, just a phone number.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Well at the bark Worth Hotel on the near North Side,
it's not a huron.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
Ten o'clock, nine o'clock, huh, it was seven. I sat
in the bar until nine thirty. I felt like I
shouldn't have called him, but I had to somebody else
to call. And the more I waited, the more I
wanted to see him. I wondered all about him, what

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he did. I thought maybe he was a broker, kind
of a business man. I took a bus to the
hotel at ten fifteen. I knocked this sore.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Well, hello again, come on in, thanks, sit down, let
me fix you a drink.

Speaker 5 (01:24:16):
No, no, no, no, no thanks. What's the trouble I
left him. I couldn't take it any more. Honest, I
just couldn't take it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Oh, I drink will fix you up. I'll be right back.

Speaker 11 (01:24:27):
Just relax, that's the idea.

Speaker 29 (01:24:29):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (01:24:32):
I felt warm and good, like I hadn't felt for
a long time. And I knew it right then. I
had to be with Johnny.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
I had to.

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
I looked in my purse for a cigarette. It was
a lot of cigarettes. I looked on the table. No cigarettes.
I opened the coffee table drawer. I thought there might
be cigarettes in there, but there weren't any cigarettes in
the drawer. There was something else, A gun.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Hey, I that's all I fix. What are you looking for?

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
I have a cigarettes, that's all.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Yeah, you should have asked me. I have cigarettes here?

Speaker 5 (01:25:17):
Thanks to keep it for protection.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
That's right. I needed my business. What's the matter? You
know it looks over good.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
Just scared me, that's all.

Speaker 20 (01:25:25):
Just scared me.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
First time I ever saw a gun up that clothes
forget it? Come here, Johnny.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
You're beautiful. Anybody ever tell you that a long time ago? Well,
I'm telling you now. Look, this is my last night
in town. We really live it up.

Speaker 5 (01:25:47):
What do you say, last night in town?

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Yeah? I gotta keep traveling. That's how I make my living,
traveling around. Why don't you come with me? What? Well,
you're not going back there? Are you come back there?

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
For a million dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Well, Johnny, why.

Speaker 5 (01:26:10):
You're in some kind of trouble? Aren't you?

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
You want to come, don't you?

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Yes, Johnny, I do want to come. I really want
to very much.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
You are listening to confession.

Speaker 35 (01:26:38):
Before continuing with the documented record of the woman referred
to as Esther Phillips, the National Broadcasting Company is honored
to present mister Richard D. McGee, Director of Corrections, Department
of Corrections, State of California.

Speaker 47 (01:26:49):
Mister McGhee, our modern thinking personal happiness has become a
confused issue. Countless crimes are committed by a foolish persons
believe that their rash acts will ultimately lead them to happiness.
But I have seen too many thousands of men and
women in our prisons unhappily regretting the stupid and thoughtless

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mistakes that placed them there. Their search for happiness was
too often merely a reflection of vanity, reed lust, and
infantile frustration. The majority of these men and women in
our penal institutions will assure you no happiness of the
moment can possibly last unless you achieve it with dignity,

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with respect for yourself as an individual, and without harm
to others.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Thank you, mister McKee.

Speaker 35 (01:27:43):
Now to continue with confession and the documented record of
the woman referred to as Esther Phillips.

Speaker 33 (01:27:48):
All right, you can continue now, Esta, Well, we left
Chicago that night, I mean you and Johnny, Yes, and
for the first time, and I don't know how long

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I felt free.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
Funny thing was, I didn't feel ashamed of what I did.
I didn't feel all ashamed. I didn't care about anything
but just being happy, just so I had a little
faun out of life, schoe. I drove alone time.

Speaker 20 (01:28:31):
Johnny didn't say anything.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
Finally he lit a cigarette and started to tell me
all about himself.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
I've been in prison since I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
I don't wanna know anything about it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
I want you to know otherwise it's no good. I've
been in prisons all over the country. I was on parole.
I jumped it. I'm on the run. Well, well, what
do you want me to take you home? No scared
of me?

Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
Oh, I couldn't never be scared of you, no matter
what you did.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
You're quite a girl.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Where are we going?

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Saint Louis, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, all points west.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
Oh, I've never been with you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
Got any idea how much money I've got?

Speaker 20 (01:29:19):
I told you I didn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
I know you don't care, but I care. I got
exactly five dollars in change.

Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
I've got some money. How much five dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Oh, you're wonderful, you know that. Look, honey, I gotta
have money, not small change money, five six hundred bucks.

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Why all that money?

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
Cause I needed That's why? Hey, how far is Saint Louis.
There's a sign.

Speaker 20 (01:29:45):
Oh yeh, I couldn't see it very well.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
Oh can't be fine. All right, we'll get into a
town and get a place to stand. I'll pick up
some money.

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
Now, don't get in any more trouble, Johnny, Please don't no,
what is it select you to her?

Speaker 11 (01:29:57):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:29:57):
I just don't want to see you getting any more trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
You'll let let me worry about that man. You know
you are a very pretty company, very pretty.

Speaker 5 (01:30:14):
And that's how it began. We drifted across the country.
I don't know how many robberies I lost track. I
would wait outside and he'd go in get the money,
and then when he slammed the door and said let's go,
i'd start off. I got to be pretty good at
spotting a police car a long ways off.

Speaker 20 (01:30:33):
I didn't like it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
I didn't want to do it. I did it for
Johnny because if I didn't, he wouldn't let me be
with him anymore. We stayed in Las Vegas long enough
for me to get a divorce, and then Johnny and
I got married, and then we went to California, San Bendino,
a store along Main Street. We parked down about a

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block and walked back with a liquor store. Johnny got
an idea of the place, and we went back to
the car. I drove up and parked in front of
the liquor store, and Johnny went in. I saw him
cover the gun with one hand and pointed at the
old man behind the counter. I saw the old man

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get mad, then a shot. I felt sick. The old
man fell over on the counter. Johnny came running out.
It was white.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Get out of here, shut up, just drive kill someone.
Maybe maybe not. I think I just waked him as
a police car slowed down. Oh, we need to get
picked up. He's turning off. Okay, let it go. Why
are we Why don't we what?

Speaker 20 (01:31:45):
Well, you turned yourself in and turned myself in?

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
What are you crazy? Yeah, we'll be sick, but keep quiet.
You're enough to drive a guy wacky.

Speaker 28 (01:31:53):
Well, what is it gonna do?

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
We gotta get rid of the car. That's the first
thing anyone spotted us to be looking for this car
all over California. And tell you what, We'll get rid
of it along the road. Well hits to the next time. Now,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 29 (01:32:06):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I must have been crazy to bring you along crazy?
All right, all right, take it easy. That's a place.

Speaker 18 (01:32:13):
Pull over the car, will.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
You're quit arguing with me?

Speaker 18 (01:32:16):
Pull over?

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
We get rid of fingerprints.

Speaker 20 (01:32:28):
We walked to the next.

Speaker 5 (01:32:29):
Town, where we got a bus to Los Angeles. We
stayed in Los Angeles a couple of weeks, in a
terrible place downtown. One day I came home. I opened
the door and went in right away. I knew something
was wrong. Johnny, Johnny, home, Johnny Tyler, don't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
Be righting, missus Tyler.

Speaker 11 (01:32:53):
We're from the police department. Put your purse on the table.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Now, where is he? Let's not play games? Where is he?

Speaker 5 (01:33:05):
Johnny?

Speaker 11 (01:33:06):
I don't know?

Speaker 28 (01:33:07):
Why should I know?

Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
I just came home.

Speaker 20 (01:33:09):
What are you wanning for?

Speaker 13 (01:33:10):
Dissortied crimes? Do you want to tell us about what
happened in San Bernardino?

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
San Bernardino? You must have We must have the wrong party.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Cork lived identified him.

Speaker 29 (01:33:23):
What's your name, Esther Tyler?

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
What was your single name?

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
Esther Tyler's name?

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
You ever been in trouble?

Speaker 11 (01:33:30):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
No, I it was in trouble my whole life.

Speaker 13 (01:33:34):
Mm hm, assuming you haven't been in trouble before, missus, Well,
you'll get off of a pretty light sentence if you
tell us about him.

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
We know most of it anyhow, Johnny, stay away, Johnny, Johnny, run, run,
Johnny run.

Speaker 11 (01:33:50):
Not going to do your case any good, missus Tyler,
you've got pretty sharp ears.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
I didn't hear that front door open.

Speaker 46 (01:33:57):
You won't get him.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
I think we will. Come on, miss Tyler, let's go.

Speaker 5 (01:34:05):
They locked me up. I'd never been locked up before,
and I didn't care. The only thing I thought about
was Johnny. They got him the next day. I was
sentenced from one to five years, and they sentenced Johnny
five to life.

Speaker 20 (01:34:23):
I served two years, and.

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
I got out on parole.

Speaker 20 (01:34:26):
Because I was his wife.

Speaker 5 (01:34:27):
The warden and my parole officer gave me special permission
to visit Johnny. I rented a little place near the
prisoner and I went to work as a waitress. One
day I came to visit Johnny and he seemed to
be real nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
I'm getting out of here. He got a help.

Speaker 5 (01:34:43):
Oh don't do it, Johnny, please, it's crazy. They'll kill you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
You win this or not.

Speaker 5 (01:34:47):
He'll be out in a few years.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
Johnny. If you don't try two years your the Athorrdy
turned me down, didn't even set my sentence.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Don't try it, Johnny. This is a maximum security prisoner
to maximum secure.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Listen to me. The only one I can trust, the
only one they outside. I can't get through any other way.
Why do you have to? Are you going to do
it or aren't?

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
You don't say it like that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Look a guy named Mitchell. Look him up at the
Blue Fox tavern. Give him five hundred douns. I'm going
to get more after tell him Monday night, ten o'clock
after the count West Wall.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
Well no, why no, Johnny, I'm not going to do it.
You'll your Johnny. I'd rather have you in here than dead.
Oh please, Johnny, don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
Please, you're a great little paty. Uh, go ahead and
get out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
I told myself I wouldn't, but on Monday night I
found myself walking near the prison outside the West Wall.
I just had to. I just had to be near him.
I was hoping and praying he wouldn't try it. I
wanted to go to the police, to my parole officer.
I wanted to tell somebody, but I could I couldn't
do that, so I just waited at a few minutes

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past hand, I heard a siren. He was going to
do it. I held my breath and watched. I saw
the lights moving across the walls. It was it was
too dark to see anything else. And then I saw
somebody running along the wall, and the lights darted around
and they picked him up, and he started to run.

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The lights followed him. I could see them taking aim
and the gun towers yan.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Yan Yet.

Speaker 20 (01:36:59):
I thought they killed.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
I saw him look up once end of the light
slump down along the wall. They didn't kill him. It's
a miracle. I told him the truth about not helping Johnny,
and they believe me, and they let me visit him
in the prison hospital.

Speaker 37 (01:37:23):
All Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:37:27):
Writed, to try it, Johnny, that's a crazy question.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
I wanted to get out of here. I'm a lossy planner.

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
We lousy, don't talk.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
I want to. I want to talk. I got to thinking, Hello,
how much longer do I stay in here? Twenty years? Forty?

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
How long?

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
Drove me wacky thinking about all the time I'd have
to be in here.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
I'll set your sentence next time, Johnny, I know they will.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
Oh sure, after try at the wall, I'll set my
sentence sure, honey, I'm in here for good. I'll never
get out. I'll die in here.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
Oh you'll get out, Johnny. I'm gonna write to the
Adull authority. I'm I'm gonna tell them what kind of
a person you are.

Speaker 28 (01:38:25):
They've got no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Are you are? Wonderful? You know that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:34):
I love you, Johnny.

Speaker 18 (01:38:36):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
You can say that anytime you want to.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
You got rest for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
I I don't. Once you're hanging around time I can
do it. Before you understand. I want you to get
away from here and forget me. Go someplace, huh, someplace nice.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
I don't want to go any Grace. I want to
be here with you, and I want to be able
to see you every chance I get.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
What kind of a life is that?

Speaker 20 (01:39:05):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
You do as I say, you get away from here.

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
I couldn't even if I wanted to see Johnny, it.

Speaker 20 (01:39:13):
Will be.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
I've been here for good.

Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
I'm staying, Johnny. Listen to me, no matter how long
it takes, I'll be here. I'll be here.

Speaker 32 (01:39:35):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:39:36):
Keep you Betta gets the mess.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
You have just heard an actual confession.

Speaker 35 (01:39:54):
This case history of the woman referred to as Esther
Phillips as a matter of documented record to protect the
legal rights of the girl.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Names and places were changed or deleted.

Speaker 35 (01:40:03):
Technical advice or confession comes from the office of the
Director of Corrections, Department of Correction, State of California.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
In a moment, you will again hear Esther Phillips.

Speaker 44 (01:40:11):
The case of Esther Phillips is still pending before the
Board of Trustees California Institution for Women. Whether she'll be
returned to prison for refusing to reveal her knowledge of
John Tyler's plan for escape, or whether he parole will
be extended as yet been undetermined. Now again Esther Phillips.

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
Like I told myself a hundred times, I don't know
really what made me need my husband and what made
me fall for Johnny in the first place. I guess
it would like to tell me I wanted fun. Remember
that means I think I know where I went wrong.

(01:40:55):
If I'd been smart, i'd have made him go back
to where he broke his parole and then we wouldn't
be in prison. Yeah, that's right, we me and Johnny,
because while he's in there, so am I. He's got
to do his time inside and I got to do

(01:41:18):
my time outside.

Speaker 20 (01:41:23):
Just different contents. It's all.

Speaker 35 (01:41:41):
This has been confessional transcribe statements of actual crime. These
true tragedies are brought to you each week as an
NBC Radio Network production and an effort to stem the
nation's forward march of crime.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Credit for this broadcast goes to our cast.

Speaker 35 (01:41:55):
Paul Freeze, Loreen Tuttle, Gerald Moore, Dan Riss, music, Michael
Simmo The script, supervision, Warren Lewis Direction, Homer Canfield, John
Wall speaking. Confession of Canfield Lewis creation came to you
from California.

Speaker 7 (01:42:19):
Dan Beeper drives me crazy, otherwise a good show. Seventy
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(01:42:40):
We go back eighty one years to mister District Attorney.

Speaker 11 (01:42:50):
Means you've got to be smarter than ever at figuring
ways to fix the me who's your families want, especially
since you don't have as many points as you used to. Well,
the smartest thing to do is to get extra points
by turning in waste fats you know your meat dealer
will give you cash and two red points for every
pound you turn in, So get going. You'll be doing
yourself a favor and your country an important service. For

(01:43:10):
used fats are urgently needed for military medicines, armaments, and
a host of things so necessary to win this war.
Strain every drop into any tin can no glass containers, please,
and turn them in as soon as you have a pound.

Speaker 7 (01:43:23):
We continue now with more classic radio theater in an
episode of Mister District's Attorneys starring Jay Johston. This goes
back eighty one years to August second, nineteen forty for
the case of the Curious Undertaker.

Speaker 48 (01:43:49):
Quit Evening. This is Peter lay disillusionment. The strange things
to people when the wood delivers crushing and saddening blow.
There is an impulse to renounce life completely. But a
barred door is no insurance against death. As you will

(01:44:13):
hear to night in a mystery playhouse. The mystery playhouse

(01:44:38):
is host tonight to that champion of the people and
defender of truth, mister District Attorney. Well, mister Die has
been putting a finger on a criminal element of the
Big City for some time now. He's dealt with all
sorts racketeers, thieves, murderers, and come out on top every time.

(01:45:06):
Let's see how he does it?

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
To night? Huh.

Speaker 48 (01:45:10):
In a business district of mister d a city surrounded
by tall, gray buildings, stands alone. The house, its windows boarded,
its walls faded, the unkempt and gentle remains of yesterday's splendor,
striving valiantly but hopelessly to hold its own against the

(01:45:31):
strong and overwhelming ards of to day's commerce. Within the house,
a single kerosene lamb dimly lights a dusty, disordered room. Here,
an old lady seated in a chair, rocking, rocking back

(01:45:54):
and forth. Another old woman enters the room and sh.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
Elma, what is it?

Speaker 25 (01:46:06):
Marry?

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
I don't like to bother you, but isn't it time
that I went to the store.

Speaker 15 (01:46:12):
You're not going to the store, sister, but I go
every day. I have my reasons, Marry.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
But there's no food in the house, I know, and
we need grosine for the lamb. I'm aware of that.

Speaker 15 (01:46:26):
Well, then why don't these remember, my dear? I am
your older sister.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
Oh oh, I am not questioning your decision, Ella, but
what is your reason.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
We have no money.

Speaker 46 (01:46:39):
No money.

Speaker 15 (01:46:40):
Mister Douglas has not sent us our cash allowance for
the last four weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
I know, I don't know that.

Speaker 28 (01:46:46):
What shall we do, sister? I am going to.

Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
See mister Douglas. You you are going outside the house. Yes,
but Ella, you're vow you'd be brave, can't You haven't
left this house for nearly thirteen years. I know. Why
can't I go?

Speaker 47 (01:47:06):
Ella?

Speaker 15 (01:47:07):
Oh, my dear child, you're much too young to handle
business matters.

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
Why I was sixty seven last month.

Speaker 46 (01:47:15):
You're still my baby, sister.

Speaker 15 (01:47:18):
I have qualms every time I send you around the
corner to the store. You could hardly expect me to
send you on an errand like this. Oh very well,
listen to me for a minute. Yes, I want you
to wait here in the house for me until I return. Yes, yes,
of course you're not to answer the door bell if
it brings.

Speaker 1 (01:47:37):
Oh, I understand. I shall bring the food.

Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
Back with me, all right.

Speaker 15 (01:47:42):
I never intended to break my vow and leave this house,
but for your sake and mine, I must why there's
some important reason why we've not received our allowance. I'm
going to see mister Douglas and find out, mister Douglas. Yes,

(01:48:13):
I came here to your home for only one reason,
our allowance. Well, my sister and I have not received
any money from you in the past four weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
As I know that, Miss Croppin. Well, I have been
meaning to drop around and go over the entire matter
with you. But what do you mean, Well, I have
some rather shocking news for you.

Speaker 41 (01:48:34):
What is it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
You haven't any more money?

Speaker 28 (01:48:37):
You mean it's gone, all of it?

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
Yes, I regret to say it is. I don't understand
you and your sister were receiving a weekly income from
the interstand securities that were left you both. I know
as the administrator of the estate, I have handled these
securities to the best of my abilities. Yes, Unfortunately, the
companies that you held stuck in were non essential industries.
The containments of war wipe them out.

Speaker 1 (01:49:03):
Mister Douglas, I don't believe you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
Well, I I'm sorry you feel that way, Miss Crawford,
but it's true.

Speaker 15 (01:49:11):
I think you have been dishonest with us on just
a minute, please, and in view of that, you leave
me very little choice. Why what do you mean When
I leave here, I shall go to the police. What
for to have you arrested for stealing our money? I
see it was two large a sums that just dissolved
in the manner you described. Why did you lock that door?

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
I've been hoping you'd come here. That's why I stop
sending you the money.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
Are you trying to frighten me?

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
No, I am merely going to kill you.

Speaker 5 (01:49:45):
You're joking, you think.

Speaker 15 (01:49:47):
So keep away from me, Keep away, keep away.

Speaker 20 (01:50:10):
Excuse me? Cheap.

Speaker 34 (01:50:11):
Yes, you know Sam Green, don't you? He run good,
little delicate Hassan's store right off Main Street. Yes, yes,
but he's outside. He'd like to see you for just
a minute. Oh, it's something about a customer of.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
His, probably want you to collect a bill from Cheap.

Speaker 45 (01:50:27):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:50:27):
He's good guy, right, Thank you very much, ma'amory.

Speaker 18 (01:50:30):
Hello there, Sam. Oh, hi, you mister Harrington, and you
mister District.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Tell you Sam, what can I do for you?

Speaker 49 (01:50:36):
Well, it's about a customer of mine, a very nice
little old lady. Yes, yeah, she ain't been into my
store for the last two days, and so I'm worried.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
What I tell you, Cheap, I know there'll be something
like this. He wants you to find customers for him.

Speaker 40 (01:50:50):
You're some joke of mister Harrington.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
But that ain't it. For this particular lady not to
come in. There must be a special reason. Well, how's that?

Speaker 49 (01:50:58):
For over twelve years now, this is the first two
days she has missed?

Speaker 25 (01:51:02):
Eh?

Speaker 11 (01:51:02):
Who is she?

Speaker 49 (01:51:03):
Her name Miss Crawford, Miss Marie Crawford. Maybe you remember
reading about it in the papers a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
Crawfing.

Speaker 49 (01:51:10):
She and her sister lived in that old tumble down
house right in the business district.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
Yes, yes, I know the huh oh yeah, I remember
the story too. The building inspectors were going to close
it up and the two old ladies wouldn't let him in.

Speaker 49 (01:51:21):
Oh boy, did the feature writers jump on that one exactly.
They were a very wealthy family.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
Ones.

Speaker 14 (01:51:26):
This woman is coming to your store every day until
just a few days ago, is that?

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
Yes?

Speaker 49 (01:51:31):
So I'm worried if something has happened to her, if
she is sick or something. There's no way to find out.
No one goes into the house. Well, Sam, well be
going through that neighborhood a little later on. We'll stop
by at the house and see what we can find out.

(01:52:00):
I'm wearing my knuckles of the bones knocking on this door. Chief,
Why what do we do now?

Speaker 14 (01:52:06):
I think we'd better try to get in somewhere. Yeah, now,
how about skeleton key? Yes, yes, chances our poor old
woman is sick either. That are very deep after all
of that knocking, And I'll try this key here, this
one ought to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
Well, there we are, go ahead, chief.

Speaker 23 (01:52:28):
H h.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
Now we have to use a flashlighting here alright? Those
windows all born up just like night. Yes, oh, there
we are. Hm. Oh, this is quiet and establishment. Yeah,
it looks like an abandoned junk yard. What are all
these empty boxes scattered around the hole?

Speaker 14 (01:52:50):
But I guess they might have been placed there to
trip up any unwelcome intruders.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
Huh. Hey, look down there at the end of the hole.
M three pianos, yes, covered with does h. Well, let's
see if we can maneuver around these boxes. Yeah right,
let's beetle quiet? Yeah, sure, jee, I feel like little
Kiva hopping cakes of ice. Wait a minute, eh, listen, hey,

(01:53:18):
what's it? I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:53:20):
There seems to be a faint light coming from that
room down there.

Speaker 2 (01:53:24):
Yeah, and that's where that sound comes from too. Let's
see what's in the cake? Hey, hey, look cheap. Yes,
it's an old liney. You're sitting there rocking. Oh, I
mean better let her know we're here.

Speaker 1 (01:53:46):
Is that you Ella?

Speaker 34 (01:53:48):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
No, ma'am mayor we come in?

Speaker 6 (01:53:50):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
Oh I thought it was Ella returning? Well, who are you?

Speaker 46 (01:53:56):
Why are you here?

Speaker 21 (01:53:57):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:53:57):
We have just come to see if you were all right?

Speaker 1 (01:54:00):
Of course I'm all right, but but you really shouldn't
be here. Oh, Ella will be angry.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
Who is Ella? Man, she's my sister. Is she around?

Speaker 34 (01:54:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
No, she went out on an errand I'm rather worried
about her. She's been gone for such a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
How long?

Speaker 1 (01:54:20):
Well almost two days?

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
For two days? Where'd she go?

Speaker 1 (01:54:25):
Well, I I've been trying to remember. It was something
about money. I know that, because that's why I didn't
go to the store.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
Why haven't you let someone know about this?

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
Well, because Ella told me to wait here. I always
do as Ella says. You see, i'm her younger sister, Marie.

Speaker 14 (01:54:44):
Are you sure you can't recall where she went?

Speaker 11 (01:54:47):
No?

Speaker 46 (01:54:48):
No, not quite.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
But it did have to do with money.

Speaker 46 (01:54:53):
You see.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
There was nothing to eat in the house, and she
was going to get money for food.

Speaker 2 (01:54:59):
You mean you ain't since she left here.

Speaker 1 (01:55:01):
No, no, I guess I haven't have you a lawyer.

Speaker 14 (01:55:05):
And business advisor, anyone who handles your affairs.

Speaker 20 (01:55:08):
Oh, yeah, you know who that is.

Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
But I'm trying to think. Wait, this might help. Ella
wrote out a card a long time ago. I carry
it when I go to the store in case anything
should happen to me, and I have it here someplace.

Speaker 46 (01:55:26):
Oh, here it is.

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
May I see it? Please?

Speaker 1 (01:55:28):
Surely? Ella wrote it down very plainly.

Speaker 14 (01:55:32):
Yes, yes, I see in case of accidental notifier William Douglas,
fourteenth floor Spire Building.

Speaker 1 (01:55:38):
Oh that's it, that's who she went to see, mister Douglas.

Speaker 20 (01:55:42):
You're sure.

Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
Oh yes, of course.

Speaker 14 (01:55:44):
Harrington called miss Miller and I have to bring some
food over here and a wheelpaer, call on, mister Douglas.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
Won't you sit down? Gentlemen?

Speaker 14 (01:56:05):
Now, what can I do for yourself? Well, mister Douglas,
we'd like some information for anything at all, sir. We've
just come from the home of a woman named Crawford.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
Marie Crawford. Yeah, that was her first name.

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
She.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
Oh, yes, do you know her, mister Douglas, Oh, very well,
I handler estate. Nothing wrong with her, I hope, No,
it's her sister. It concerns us her sister. Yes, she's
been missing for almost two days. Yeah, the old lady
told us that she left the house to come to
see you, to see me. Yes, did she ever show up?
Tell me, mister district attorney, how did you ever get

(01:56:40):
mixed up with Marie Crawford?

Speaker 14 (01:56:41):
Our store keeper brought her to our attention. He was
worrying about everything she hadn't put in her daily appearance
in his shop.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
So you went to her home to investigate it? Yeah? Yeah,
that was there? Anything about her behavior that struck you
as unusual? Vagueness of manner? Perhaps? Yes, yes, she didn't
have trouble recalling him. I bet she couldn't even remember
my name. That's quite true. Well, what's that got to
do with her sister disappearance? Or a great deal? You

(01:57:07):
see miss Crawford in dulges in flights of fancy. Huh
you mean she hasn't a sister? No, I mean she
had a sister. She's the North Side Cemetery. She died
in nineteen thirty one. Hello, I see, well get that

(01:57:33):
information for me. Will you please and call me back?
Thank you very much? Yes, come in, you're busy chief, No,
come in, come in, thanks, well, chief, I've just been
out to the North Side cemetery. That old gal is
buried out there, all right. You see the grave, Well
it wasn't a grave, chief, It was one of these
world these here above the ground job as a mausoleum. Yeah,

(01:57:56):
that's right. I copied off the carbon now it said.
Crawford born January tenth, eighteen seventy died December twenty fifth,
nineteen thirty one, Christmas there. Yeah, I also checked with
the records out there. This was the Crawford family plot. Yeah,
that Marie's down for some space when she kicks in two. See.
I guess the poor old dame is just a little
loose upstairs, hun't she? She is eccentric, There's no doubt

(01:58:19):
about that.

Speaker 6 (01:58:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
For a minute and a half I thought we had
a red hot case.

Speaker 14 (01:58:22):
Yeah, i'll take it out hello speaking Oh yes, yes,
in nineteen thirty five, you're sure of that. Well, thanks
a lot, goodbye, I think I have an assignment for you,
having right. I once knew over to Sam Green's delicatessen.
See if he kept a copy of the grocery list
that Miss Crawford used to bring him right if he

(01:58:44):
hasn't got the mask him to recall just what food
she ordered?

Speaker 20 (01:58:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Sure, have you got a new angle, Yes I have.

Speaker 14 (01:58:48):
I've just found out something makes me question whether Olla
Crawford did die in nineteen thirty one.

Speaker 34 (01:59:08):
Take a little more suit, miss Crawford. Thank you, Miss Miller.
Now you really haven't eaten a thing?

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
Ella would scold me for that if she were here.
She's always after me about my eating.

Speaker 29 (01:59:19):
Really.

Speaker 5 (01:59:20):
You're very dependent on your sister, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:22):
Yes, I don't know what i'd do without her. Your
sick mother and father both died when I was quite young,
and Ella took charge of me. From that day on.
I've always been with her, even when she married married. Yes,
Ella was married to a very wealthy young man named
Robert Elliott. They fell in love at their first meeting,

(01:59:42):
and two weeks later they were married.

Speaker 18 (01:59:45):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:59:46):
His parents, however, did not approve. They forced them to
separate before they'd been married a year or how awful,
Ella was never the same.

Speaker 5 (01:59:56):
Did she ever see him again, But about.

Speaker 1 (01:59:59):
Fifty years later, when he died, he'd been killed in
an accident. His parents had long since passed. Dawn and
he died alone and penniless. They found a picture of
Ella in his possession, so she was the one who
was notified of his death. I see as he died
on Christmas Day in nineteen thirty one. She buried him

(02:00:21):
two days later and never left the house again. She
felt that her soul had passed on.

Speaker 5 (02:00:27):
With him, and that's why you lived like this.

Speaker 1 (02:00:31):
Yes, Ella took a vow that she'd never leave the
house again, and I've stayed with her.

Speaker 34 (02:00:37):
I see, miss Crawford, do you mind if I leave
you for a few minutes. I want to make a
phone call and I to.

Speaker 1 (02:00:43):
Toe my dear. I'm sorry there's no telephone here, but
we had so little use. I understand that nice mister
Green on the corner has a telephone in his store.
I'm sure he'd let you use it. Thanks lot, I'll
be right back. Oh, such a nice child. I do

(02:01:04):
hope she finds Ella.

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
I don't think she will. Oh. Oh, who's there, mister Douglas.

Speaker 1 (02:01:10):
Oh, mister Douglas, Well how did you get in?

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
I came in the side, though.

Speaker 28 (02:01:14):
Where is my sister?

Speaker 1 (02:01:16):
She's all right, Marie, but she's been gone for two days.
Is someone taking care of her.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
I took care of her. Now I tend to take
care of you, will, Chief. Have we got something on
this case right with?

Speaker 14 (02:01:42):
I'm beginning to think we have gay is before you
got here, Miss Mellophone from greens and Elegantest.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
Yeah, I must have just missed her.

Speaker 14 (02:01:49):
Yes, she called her report that Marie Crawford's sister Ella,
who was once married to a man named Robert Elliott.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Robert Elliot.

Speaker 14 (02:01:55):
Yes, it seems as though it was an unfortunate marriage.
His parents broken off. Let me think a minute and
die on Christmas Day in nineteen thirty one.

Speaker 2 (02:02:03):
Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute, December
twenty five, nineteen thirty one. That's on the old gal's epithet.
Don't cheat us. I know that's why I think what
I'll check it. Hello, Hello, Chief, it's me again back
at Greensdale.

Speaker 20 (02:02:16):
Like a test.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
Yes, miss Miller, what's up? Well?

Speaker 34 (02:02:19):
After I left you, I went back to the Crawford
place and found that mister Douglas there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
Yes, what was he up to?

Speaker 34 (02:02:25):
He was trying to talk Marie Crawford into packing her
things and leaving with him.

Speaker 2 (02:02:29):
What did she do it?

Speaker 11 (02:02:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:02:31):
I stopped it good, mister.

Speaker 34 (02:02:33):
Douglas says the old gals bat. He wants to put
her away, but I wasn't having any of that.

Speaker 2 (02:02:37):
Good for you, Miss Miller. Where's Douglas now?

Speaker 34 (02:02:39):
Oh he went off in a huff, muttering about court.

Speaker 46 (02:02:42):
Orders and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
Well that's all right. Where's miss Crawford?

Speaker 34 (02:02:45):
Oh well, I brought her down here to the store
with me. She's right outside the phone booth now listening
to what Sam Green thinks about Hitler.

Speaker 14 (02:02:52):
Oh well, that's fine, and don't let her out of
your sight. I'll send Brophy out to stay with you.
Done a good job, miss Minner.

Speaker 2 (02:02:57):
Thanks Chief, Bye bye, I'm Chief. While he was talking,
I remembered something Robert Elliott. That name is carved on
a tomb right next to the Crawford games.

Speaker 14 (02:03:07):
I saw it, buttons it up. Then he come on, Harrings,
Where to Oh what Ms Miller had sever by that?
Now we're going out the north Side cemetery.

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
You know, Chief, this ain't exactly my idea of a
pleasant way to spend an evening. They're gonna walk through
a graveyard. Well, if you feel like whistling, go ahead.
Oh no, no, that only wakes up the ghosts.

Speaker 14 (02:03:46):
You remember the location of the mausoleum.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
It's right along here someplace. Wait a minute, I think
that's it, right down there. What are we looking for
on this excursion?

Speaker 14 (02:03:57):
Chief, proof of miss Crawford and not in nineteen thirty one?

Speaker 2 (02:04:01):
Why? Well, if she didn't die, we was she?

Speaker 14 (02:04:03):
That's something mister Douglas may have to answer. What do
you think he knocked her off?

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
Chief? I'm not sure. I don't. Wait a minute, hold on,
I think this is in China. Flashlight right m Now
you are Ella Crawford. Yeah, he look clock here, Chief,
right east to it. I was right cause here's the
tomb of Robert Elliott.

Speaker 14 (02:04:25):
Yes, I see, died December twenty fifth, nineteen thirty one.

Speaker 41 (02:04:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
Well what do we do now?

Speaker 14 (02:04:33):
I'm going into that musleum? Yeah huh yes, it's quite
necessary that I do have. Well, a Chief, do you
think it'll be okay? I mean, uh, well, don't you
think we ought to get permission for a thing like that?
Well no, no, I'm afraid that might lead to complications.
We'll just have to do it on our own responsibility.

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Yeah yeah, I well, how do you get into one
of these places?

Speaker 14 (02:04:53):
I'm just opening the gate, I imagine. Ah, well, I'm
you'll wait out here?

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
Yeah yeah, gla, I mean right, yeah. If you get stuck, holler, Chief,
I will shut up you. Yeah, Chief money here. I
want to show you something I.

Speaker 29 (02:05:23):
Was afraid of that.

Speaker 20 (02:05:27):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:05:29):
Yeah, there's the answer. Well, oh how do you get it?
What do you know about that? Well, let's Chief coming
at school. Oh no, let's wait here. Huh put your
light up? Huh, I said, put your flash light out,
and I wanna wait here? Yeah, okay, okay, I guess

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he's part of the franchise here. Yes, how uh? How
much longer do we wait?

Speaker 20 (02:05:59):
In?

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
Chief? Oh? This a little while. I had an idea
that something might have happened, and uh, I guess maybe
I was wrong. Yeah, hey, hey, Chief, I just been
thinking women. Huh. There's a car, I mean right, Hey,

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somebody's getting out here.

Speaker 14 (02:06:26):
Yeah, he needs some help. Mister Douglas, who's that the
district attorney?

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
Well, uh, what are you doing here?

Speaker 14 (02:06:43):
I was going to ask you the same question, but
I uh, I have come out of this Crafford's grave.

Speaker 2 (02:06:47):
Yes, so we see what's that you're carrying in your arm?
Help him with your gun?

Speaker 14 (02:06:51):
Carryings.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
Rank, he's carrying the dead body of Ella croptids sure,
and he wants to put it in that empty casket.
We just looked at it. Well, really, gentlemen, never mind
the alibis. Douglass come on with us. Well, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 14 (02:07:09):
A clever plan that mister Douglass and evolved to cover
up the death of Ella Crawford failed and he paid
the full penalty for his crime.

Speaker 2 (02:07:17):
Yeah, and for his swindling those old women out of
their dough. Don't forget that, Chief, what a mean good? Yes, needy?

Speaker 5 (02:07:24):
Was what made you first suspect Douglas?

Speaker 46 (02:07:26):
Chief?

Speaker 14 (02:07:27):
It was the identification kind that Ella had given to
her sister Marie. It was in Ella's handwriting, and it
gave Douglas's address as the Spire Building. I recalled that
the Spire Building hadn't been erected until nineteen thirty five.
I had this point confirmed, and that was four years
after the supposed death of Ella Crawford.

Speaker 2 (02:07:48):
How about that mausoleum, Chief that had a school for
a while?

Speaker 14 (02:07:51):
Ella craftin built that for herself when her husband died.
In her own eccentric way, she believed that it was
a harbor for her soul that she had lost when
he passed away. As we know, she'd even gone so
far as to have the date of her husband's death
carved on her own tomb, for in her mind she
regarded it as the date of her own death.

Speaker 34 (02:08:12):
And that little eccentricity nearly enabled Douglas to get away
with the murder of Miss Crawford too.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
Yes, Miss Muller.

Speaker 14 (02:08:18):
Unfortunately we were able to catch him, proving once again
that the criminal never can win.

Speaker 48 (02:08:30):
Seeing that Douglas Fellow was a pretty low character, huh,
can't you just see him as a little boy playing
happily pulling the wings off the flies. Well, mister district Attorney,
more power to you, sir, many thanks, and I hope
you and your cast appears another visit soon. Now, my friends,

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are you ready for our trip to the green room?

Speaker 29 (02:08:59):
Huh?

Speaker 48 (02:09:00):
The pliers are reversing our next performance there you know
we won't you just come with me, please come comet.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
Come mm hmmm mm hmm.

Speaker 46 (02:09:14):
You hit a rock?

Speaker 29 (02:09:18):
Sounded like a rock?

Speaker 50 (02:09:20):
A little hollow figure up whatever it is school, Yes,
a scull the spears is right. The space must have
been an old Indian burial ground.

Speaker 2 (02:09:36):
Please put it back, keep it come.

Speaker 46 (02:09:39):
Perhaps you'd better put it please.

Speaker 2 (02:09:40):
Please bear it again, mister Cruise, it will bring bad
luck to all of us.

Speaker 29 (02:09:44):
No, Spears, that's just a silly superstition.

Speaker 46 (02:09:47):
What about the rest of the skeleton.

Speaker 2 (02:09:53):
It doesn't seem to be one. No, just a scull.

Speaker 50 (02:10:00):
Uh you bring it into the house when you, Spears,
I'd rather not, all right, I'll take it in myself.

Speaker 11 (02:10:06):
I don't either.

Speaker 50 (02:10:07):
Have you mentioned this to my brother Arthur. He's terribly
scared of things like this, and he's just gotten over.
He's neverous break down.

Speaker 46 (02:10:13):
Perhaps you should put the skull back.

Speaker 29 (02:10:15):
Why Steel, You're not being taken in by this hook
about curses, are you?

Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
That sounded like my wife Mary.

Speaker 41 (02:10:22):
She was cleaning the window.

Speaker 20 (02:10:28):
Courty.

Speaker 46 (02:10:30):
She fell out of the window. Mary, Marry, Marry, but
she's unconscious.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
Please do something, You must do something.

Speaker 50 (02:10:38):
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do, Spears. She hit
her head against a rock. She's dead, Oh, Spears, he's
quieted down.

Speaker 31 (02:10:56):
I can't understand it. There's only one rock underneath the window,
and Marry hit that that one rock. There isn't even
a pebble around for yards go imagining things again.

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
Art Spears kept talking about a curse.

Speaker 29 (02:11:09):
Spears believes in pixies and gremlins too.

Speaker 2 (02:11:11):
Don't forget well, I feel rather funny about it all.

Speaker 46 (02:11:14):
Oh, Carl, maybe you'd better switch some more lambs on.
This living room feels gloomy.

Speaker 29 (02:11:19):
Oh, let's cut this nonsense. O.

Speaker 2 (02:11:21):
Wait, do you hear anything? Oh? Dog?

Speaker 20 (02:11:29):
Yes, something is coming from the ceiling.

Speaker 29 (02:11:33):
What's coming from the ceiling?

Speaker 2 (02:11:34):
I don't he.

Speaker 12 (02:11:37):
What is it?

Speaker 29 (02:11:41):
Must be the beams. I sometimes do that from the heat.

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
It's not for beams.

Speaker 29 (02:11:45):
It's too regular a sound.

Speaker 46 (02:11:48):
What room is directly above us?

Speaker 31 (02:11:51):
It's an old bedroom. We use it as a storeroom now.
It hasn't been opened in years.

Speaker 46 (02:11:56):
M something up there of copse.

Speaker 29 (02:11:58):
Theirs a lot of old things years back?

Speaker 5 (02:12:02):
Did you put the scarf a scorp?

Speaker 11 (02:12:04):
Yes?

Speaker 29 (02:12:06):
What are you too? Whispering?

Speaker 18 (02:12:09):
Coming down the stairs like a look of settleness.

Speaker 2 (02:12:15):
So far?

Speaker 29 (02:12:17):
Look at your feet, Curl a skull? How did it
get down here? It came down the steps?

Speaker 28 (02:12:30):
Seems to be looking up at a skull?

Speaker 18 (02:12:35):
How did it get into the house?

Speaker 46 (02:12:36):
Curl found it while digging. Spars said it belongs Tononium.

Speaker 29 (02:12:41):
Spears was right, there is a curse on the house.

Speaker 18 (02:12:44):
Well I'll be killed.

Speaker 2 (02:12:45):
I'm leaving.

Speaker 18 (02:12:45):
I can't stairs.

Speaker 48 (02:12:49):
Oh sculls that come bouncing down the stairs all about themselves.
See that's a little unusual, isn't it. Hum Well, why
don't you try to be on aheady next time? When
you're in a Sanctum's Boy, Raymond gives us the lowdown

(02:13:10):
on some scout duggery. H this is pedoloric closing the
doors of the mystery playhouse.

Speaker 45 (02:13:23):
Good night, good time. But this is the Armed Forces
Radio Service, So.

Speaker 7 (02:14:12):
That program a Mister District Attorney was rewrapped for Armed
Forces Radio. They did that with a number of the
shows back in the day eighty one years ago August second,
nineteen forty four. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt
cogs up next a letter to eight All Pickler.

Speaker 3 (02:14:35):
There's a price tag on almost everything.

Speaker 19 (02:14:37):
Whether you drive a Shining You nineteen fifty two model
or a pre Wargillopa, you had to pay the price.

Speaker 3 (02:14:43):
And when you were driving that car, remember that speed
also has its price. The price tag on speed violation
last year was fifteen thousand killed and five hundred thousand injured.
This year, thousands of lives can be saved if you
and millions of other motorists come to the sober realization
that speed is the biggest killer on the hud By
Ways and resolved to slow down before you or someone
else pays the price that must be paid for it.

(02:15:05):
You can do your part by keeping within speed limits
at all times. Drive as though your life depends on it.

Speaker 2 (02:15:11):
It does.

Speaker 7 (02:15:12):
Now we wrap up this classic radio theater podcast with
the final episode of Dear Adolf from maybe three years ago,
August second, nineteen forty two. This a Letter from a
foreign born American.

Speaker 2 (02:15:26):
Dear Adol, A letter to Hitler.

Speaker 51 (02:15:43):
The National Broadcasting Company and cooperation with the Council for
Democracy presents Dear Adol, a series of six narrative letters
written each week by Stephen Vincent Benet, one of the
nation's greatest writers. These broadcasts are based upon actual letters
written to Hitler by Americans. Today's program, the sixth of
the series presents the distinguished star Joseph Schildkraut, who will

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relate the views of a foreign born American as he addresses.

Speaker 29 (02:16:10):
A letter to Hitler.

Speaker 4 (02:16:23):
Dear a Dove, Rice Chancellor, Rice Leader, Rice Destroyer. You
know my voice. It is the voice of the peoples
you have crushed and starved and shot. The voice of
the peoples of Europe, headed down but unsubdued, the voice

(02:16:45):
of suffering people's tricked and to warrant your side by
their rotten and stupid rulers. The voice of suffering peoples
beaten down by your armies, but waiting, waiting, waiting, in
terrible patience, for the dawn and the liberation and the

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nw A dove it. It is underground, that voice in Europe.
It burrows like a mole, underground. It whiskers like the
night way through the air. It doesn't speak loudly yet,
but when it speaks, your hangman dies. But my voice

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comes from America, not from Europe. I speak to you,
and I speak for my fellow Americans. I speak for
the alien born. I speak from many stocks and many
mother tongues. I speak for old, famous cities and peasant villages,
for the lands where custom is old, where the fields

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have been killed from many generations, the lands of our
mother's milk and our father's endeavor. And I speak for
the men and wimen who left these behind to come here.
We came here to this country as children why we
came here only a few short years ago. We came
with no English at all, with a few words picked

(02:18:13):
up somehow, with a painful scholarly phrases you learn in books,
and the scraps of old fashioned slang.

Speaker 2 (02:18:20):
We were so proud of knowing.

Speaker 4 (02:18:22):
We came in different clothes, different haircuts, homesick, excited, weary,
looking forward, wondering, wondering if it was true, if it
could be true, if America was what they said, if
we would be welcomed or hated, given a place, or
despised for roots are hard to tear up aid of,

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even for bread or freedom. The heart looks back for
a while, even when the body has crossed the ocean.
Was it true, but they said that this was a
land where your stuck or your birthplace or your name
didn't matter, beside what you were and what.

Speaker 2 (02:19:00):
You could do.

Speaker 4 (02:19:02):
Was it true we'd have rights like the rest and
a chance like the rest. Was it true that we
could be American? Hear my friend from the Lebanon.

Speaker 52 (02:19:20):
In my village in the Lebanon, when I was a boy,
when the governor's carriage passed down the street, everyone jumped
up and saluted. If you didn't salute, well, then you
would do for trouble. Ours was a subject country, and
when our village elders found themselves oppressed, they would raise
helpless hands and say, oh, it's your governor and your God.

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And there was no appeal from God or the governor.
So when I came here at twenty with others of
my compatriots, when you were little of many things, there
would doubtless be governors here, just like our governors.

Speaker 2 (02:19:59):
So a man examined my.

Speaker 52 (02:20:00):
Papers at the port of Boston, and I stood before him,
shaking in my boots. He was an official, a governor.
But when he had finished with my papers, he got
up and shook me by the hand. He wished me
good luck in my new country. I have never forgotten that.
I will never forget that.

Speaker 18 (02:20:22):
What did we find here?

Speaker 52 (02:20:24):
We found that neither race, nor birth, nor faith stood
in the way of our advancement. We found a land
that thought us the meaning of liberty, and made of
us three men now.

Speaker 32 (02:20:41):
And no other cause.

Speaker 4 (02:20:47):
Here my friend who was born in Hungary.

Speaker 21 (02:20:50):
America is my country, and America is the home of
my children, will be the home of their children. My
youngest daughter is in love with than Irish fellow, and
she told me she dreams about him in English. This
surely is my country. When my daughter loves him Irish
fellow and dreams about him in English and speaks to

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me about him in Hungarian. I know how to read,
but my wife never learned how. But we both know
we don't have to lick the boots of our bosses.
And when my daughter's fellow he's in the army, when
he writes her letter, that makes us all happy.

Speaker 2 (02:21:31):
What else can I tell you.

Speaker 4 (02:21:33):
I'm a citizen. I can vote.

Speaker 2 (02:21:36):
I never could do that in the old country.

Speaker 21 (02:21:38):
And I go to church and there are no spies
looking at me, and I can speak to God, and
I don't have to mind Hitler.

Speaker 2 (02:21:48):
America must win. She will win.

Speaker 4 (02:22:01):
Here, my friend from Germany, Adolf, the Germany you slew.

Speaker 53 (02:22:06):
I fight you because you taught me the full meaning
of a verse by the poet Chiller. As Conde firms
tonished in freedom leabeen when it's the imbursen nachbal. A
saint cannot live in peace if his wicked neighbor does
not like it. I was a pacifist, once an intellectual,

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a thinker. You drove me out of Germany. I took
refuge in France for the first time. There I began
to know what freedom is. Then you invaded France. I
took part in that terrible retreat.

Speaker 2 (02:22:46):
I know what you did there. I do not want
to talk about that, but I know what you did.

Speaker 25 (02:22:54):
In the end, by great good luck, I was rescued
and came to the USA, and there I saw what
amazed me an organized democracy defending its freedom.

Speaker 4 (02:23:07):
Hitler, you will never understand what America means to us.

Speaker 25 (02:23:11):
You may boast of your ability in keeping the appearance
that everything is well in Germany, this society here would
break down the moment when everybody should.

Speaker 4 (02:23:21):
Say everything is well.

Speaker 25 (02:23:23):
It gets things done by criticism and discussion, by one
hundred and thirty million people criticizing, discussing, and cooperating.

Speaker 6 (02:23:34):
And that is why you will never win this war.

Speaker 40 (02:23:38):
The American people.

Speaker 25 (02:23:40):
Are fighting for their way of life.

Speaker 4 (02:23:43):
They cannot be scared into panic.

Speaker 40 (02:23:45):
They will not be brought to their knees by your
war of nerves.

Speaker 25 (02:23:50):
They become more decided every day your war goes on.

Speaker 18 (02:23:56):
They know they have no way but to in it.

Speaker 4 (02:24:09):
Yes, I'm afraid you've been deceived. About us our rights,
Chancellor hits her. I'm afraid you've been badly deceived. Yes,
you've bought a few traitors here and there, you've planted
a few spies. You've caused a few deluded men and
women to doubt democracy, while you've even tried your oldest
trict on us to get us fighting among ourselves, labor
against management, Protestant against Catholic, Christian against you, native born

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against foreign bond.

Speaker 2 (02:24:34):
But we Hateolf.

Speaker 4 (02:24:35):
We have a litmus paper and the test of democracy.
We the many, the uncountered, the ordinary, who quietly take
our pledge to the flag you hate, and the freedom
you hate, and the rights of men that you hate.
No all is not perfectly that, Chancellor. But I'm a
free man, and so I can tell you the truth,
and I will. Yes, they talk about monkeys and dagoes,

(02:24:59):
mix and poet and they say, oh, you got too
many foreigners around here. They say, well, what can you
expect for all these foreigners? Yes, that's quite true. And
yet adout, No matter where I go, no matter what
bad accent I speak, I can say I am an
American man. No one will there to laugh. These are

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good American names. Stone Marshall, Saltenstall, Magruda Cross. These are
good American names too, the Guardia, Eisenhower, Adamic, Nuts, and Nimits.
They are all good American names aid off, and as
we say in America, that's all period at of You know,
I can't explain this to you because there is no

(02:25:41):
way of explaining it, and you're crazy. Mine wouldn't understand
any I can say that those who fight for freedom
in the United States Army today had the gray name
in the world. But still that isn't enough. You see,
we are quiet the alien born, because after all, Adolf,
we are still We're even a little child when our

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children come back from schools, who are sure and yet
the questions. While we are proud of those children. We
see them grow big and free, taking rights for granted,
and that's fine, that's just what we want.

Speaker 29 (02:26:15):
Ada.

Speaker 4 (02:26:16):
But even they do not know quite the price of
freedom as we know it, not even they. We hear
those long in the land who talk of their country,
our country. We know who speaks true and who speaks false,
and we listen well to those who speak true. Ada

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or their fathers made this land. But even many of
them do not know the price of freedom as we
know it, not even they, we the pilgrims of a
thousand unnamed and forgotten mayflowers. Our freedom and our citizenship

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was bought with all we have. It was bought with
the dream in our mind, the dream of a free,
lucky country, our life would be good and human beings equal.
It was bought with travailent poverty, and the wrenching up
of old memories, and fear and hope and faith. Yes,
he offered a great price. We bought this freedom, and

(02:27:17):
that price seems little today. We'd paid again and again.

Speaker 54 (02:27:21):
How rice chance lave skin for skin, We would pay
it ten times over.

Speaker 2 (02:27:26):
We would pay it. Miss that class.

Speaker 4 (02:27:32):
There was a town called the dj Adolf Hitler. We
know what happened to the town. There was a city
named Rotterdam, at the city named Krakau. And that is
why you're against you, aid Al Hitler, We the alien born.
Then you Americans whose children shall be Americans, against you,
and against you, forever, against you, living or dying against you,
waking us sleeping against you, every minute, every hour, every day.

Speaker 54 (02:27:53):
You would bring to this country the things we escaped
and hated. You would poison the air on the water
on the minds of our growing children. Why you would
drag them back, not even to the life we knew, adol, No,
but to the life of a ship, the life of
a slave.

Speaker 4 (02:28:06):
But we have tasted liberty, adols. We've seen if we
walk in the streets, know right we were not a
Lexican nor Gettysburg. But the names that we make today
shall be named as shining all over the country. They
answer the Americans, the alien born, all over the country.
They answer for the free world, the good thing, the
old tradition and.

Speaker 2 (02:28:25):
The new life.

Speaker 11 (02:28:27):
Asians of.

Speaker 54 (02:28:30):
Those of our Greeks, Italians, Croat Slovenians, Americans, those a
of our Romanians, Bohemians, Russians, Arabians, Norwegians, American.

Speaker 21 (02:28:43):
With liberty and.

Speaker 54 (02:28:47):
Danes and sweets, Irish, French, Americans, Americans, voices, voices with actions, very.

Speaker 4 (02:28:57):
Heavy accent, every accent, but meaning, meaning every word. We
are the tests of democracy. The lich must paper armed, and.

Speaker 18 (02:29:10):
That's your legan to the lag are.

Speaker 2 (02:29:14):
They are.

Speaker 4 (02:29:23):
And that is all our rice chance like Hitler, that
is all Dear Rado period.

Speaker 51 (02:29:37):
You have just heard Dear Edo, starring Joseph Schildkraut, the
last of a series of six narrative letters written each
week by Stephen Vincent Bennet and presented by the National
Broadcasting Company and cooperation with the Council for Democracy. The
program was directed by William Sweets, with original music composed
by Tom Bennett and conducted by Joseph Stope. These broadcasts
are based upon actual letters written to Hitler BIOMERI.

Speaker 2 (02:30:00):
Your letter's commenting on the series will be appreciated.

Speaker 51 (02:30:04):
Copies of today's Dear Adolph letter may be secured without
cost by writing directly to the Council for Democracy, eleven
West forty second Street, New York City. This program came
to you from New York. This is the National Broadcasting Company.

Speaker 7 (02:30:20):
Too bad they only did those six episodes Dear Adolph
eighty three years ago August second, nineteen forty two. Here
on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcox. Join us tomorrow for
more crime, the Lineup, Somebody Knows Inner Sanctum the CBS
Radio Workshop in Lomon Avenue. See you tomorrow for more
Classic Radio Theater. I'm Wyatt Cox.