Classic Radio 08-10-42 - Diary of Sophronia Winters, Samuel Paris Murder, Visiting Corpse - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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

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Huspense, Shadow Note Washington calling David Honey, count.

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As my classic radios theaters, the.

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Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
Iss your host Wyatt Cos.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good evening friends, Vionna Tango.

Speaker 7 (00:39):
In our regular podcast today, we're going to have drama.
But I want to tell you that some of you
may have noticed that there are four additional podcasts dropping today.
Those four additional podcasts are from what happened on this
date eighty years ago today, August tenth, nineteen forty five,
NBC sensing that VJ Day was here, Victory in Japan

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was here based on preliminary reports that Japan had partially
accepted the Potsdam Declaration of surrender, but they had some
quabbles they wanted to have resolved first, but they began
recording all of their shows that day, and so on

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our four additional two hour podcast today, you will hear
the programs daytime programs of that date, including soap operas, newscasts,
and more. So you can follow what people were listening
to eighty years ago today. Hope you'll take the time

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to listen and enjoy. But on our regular podcast, we're
going to go back sixty seven years Mercedies the Cambridge
starring in an episode of suspense, The Diary of Sopronia
Winters Oridgetionally. Agnes Morehead did that episode of suspense. In
this rebroadcast in nineteen fifty eight, Mercedes McCambridge was in

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the starring role. Also, I have an episode of Somebody
Knows from seventy five years ago, the Unsolved Murder of
Samuel I Paris, an episode of the Mysterious Traveler The
Visiting Corpse, and an episode of Quiet Please, another one
entitled bring Me to Life, and we'll wrap it all

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up with another episode of Levanader. That's what straight ahead
on this Sunday. This is the tenth day of August
two hundred and twenty second day of the year, one
hundred and forty three days remaining in twenty twenty five.
The term the tenth of August, used by historians, has
a shorthand for the storming of the Tulari's palace on

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the tenth of August seventeen ninety two, the effective end
of the French monarchy until it was restored in eighteen fourteen.
Happy Birthday, Missouri, You became the twenty fourth state of
Union on this date. In eighteen twenty one, eighteen forty six,
the Smithsonian Institute established in Washington from funds left by
British scientist James Smithson. It was on this date. In

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nineteen twenty one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stricken with polio at
his summer home on Campabella Island.

Speaker 8 (03:23):
I hope the duo have pardon me for I'm the
unusual posture of sitting down giving a presentation of what
I want to say.

Speaker 9 (03:32):
But I know that you will realize that it makes
it a lot easier for.

Speaker 8 (03:35):
Me and not having to carry about ten pounds of
steel round on the bottom of my legs, and also
because the fact that I have just completed a fourteen
thousand mile trip.

Speaker 7 (03:48):
That was the opening of the President's last speech to
Congress in March of nineteen forty five. Two months earlier,
he had turned sixty three years of age, had been
dealing with the crippling effects folio had left him with,
and he would pass away of a cubrebral cerebral hemorrhage
about six weeks following that speech, Roosevelt first stricken with

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polio on this date in nineteen twenty one. US Force
to see Guam from Japan on this date in nineteen
forty four. In nineteen forty eight, Candid Camera with Alan
Funt debuted on television after having been on radio for
a year as Candid. Microphone. Spider Man made his debut

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in the comics on this date in nineteen sixty two,
in issue fifteen of Amazing Fantasy. That comic is worth
a lot of money today because the value of Amazing
Fantasy Number fifteen in mint condition over one million bucks.
A near mint copee sold in twenty eleven for one
point one million dollars. First million selling record in Britain

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certified on this dated nineineteen sixty two, it was Frank
Ifield's I Belong To You Got to Saiah is number
five in the US now. First Lady Betty Ford went
on Sixty Minutes with Morley Safer on this date in
nineteen seventy five and created a storm of controversy over

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what her then considered liberal attitude when Saper asked her
what her reaction would be if her daughter Susan would
tell her mother, I'm having an affair.

Speaker 10 (05:32):
Well, I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 11 (05:34):
I think she's a perfectly normal human being, like all
young girls. If she wanted to continue, and I would
certainly counsle and advise her on the subject. And I
want to know pretty much about the young man that
she was planning to have the affair with, whether it

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was a worthwhile in owner or whether it was going
to be one of those She's pretty young to start
affairs now.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
The press made much of the then salacious nature of
the question and ignored the call to maintain open communication
between parents and children. In nineteen eighty eight, President Reagan
signed a bill that awarded twenty thousand dollars to each
survivor of the Japanese American internment. It was some money,

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not a lot of money, better than nothing. Nineteen ninety three,
Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as the second female US
Supreme Court justice. And it was on this date. In
nineteen ninety five, Timothy McVeigh Terry Nichols indicted for the
Oklahoma City bombing. Michael Fortyer pled guilty in a plea
bargain agreement for his testimony. There is still a lot

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We do not know about that incident today. As a
reporter who covered at the time and talked a lot
about it, there were others involved whom the government chose
to just ignore.

Speaker 12 (07:02):
Now.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
A TERRFF plot was spoiled in Britain on this date
in two thousand and six, as twenty one were arrested
in a plot to blow up flights from the UK
to the US.

Speaker 13 (07:12):
At this point in time, it's unclear how long these
restrictions will remain in place.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
Tony Douglas, the CEO of BAA Heathrow, the people who
ran the airport in London restrictions were similar to what
we have in place today in air travel. The minor
inconvenience dudo of plot as the Deputy Commissioner of London's
Metropolitan Police, Paul Stevenson, said in a news briefing on
this date in two thousand and six that the terrorists

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aimed to commit mass murder.

Speaker 14 (07:42):
We believe that the terry saim was to smuggle explouses
onto our planes in hun luggage on getting these in flights.
We also believe that the intended targets for flights from
the United Kingdom to the United States and America.

Speaker 7 (07:57):
That plot exposed nineteen years ago today believed to have
been tied to al Qaeda. In twenty eighteen, Horizon Their
employee Richard Russell, hijacked and performed an unauthorized takeoff on
an Horizon Air Bombardier DASH eight Q four hundred plane
at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. He flew it around for

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more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing
himself on Tetron Island in Puget Sound. And a widespread,
long lived straight line windstorm at Durret Show in Idaho,
Iowa rather became the most costly thunderstorm disaster in US history.
On this date in twenty twenty, it was not. It

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was not a tornado, straight line wins, high speed and
very very deadly. Now Among those passing away on this
date in history, the original Rin Tin Tin, the acting dog,
politician Estes, keepopper Isaac Hayes, who not only was a

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singer songwriter, the man who recorded Shaft, he was also
an actor. He was in He was a chef in
South Park, the producer manager for Jack Benny and George Burns.
Irving Fine passing away on this date. Edie Gore may
also passing away on this date and passing away on

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this date in twenty nineteen, sixty six years ago today
Jeffrey Epstein, and we're still waiting for files. We should
see some soon. Birthdays on this date include President Herbert Hoover,
the Tin Man and the Wizard of Oz, Jack Haley,
singer Jimmy Dean, Big John, Big Bad John, pt. One

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nine and Sausage as well singer actor Eddie Fisher born
on this date. The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Hatfield and Ronnie
Spector the Ronettes all born on this date in history.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 15 (10:04):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 16 (10:07):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
Wonderful singer songwriter Patty Austin seventy five today from Desperately
Seeking Susan Rosanna Arquette is sixty three, Actor Antonio Bendettas
is sixty five from Law and Order, Angie Harmon fifty
three from Riba and Freaks and Yeeks. Joanna Garcia Swisher

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is forty six from mad Men. Aaron Staton is forty five.
WWE wrestler and commentator Wade Barren is forty five and
from the Kardashian family. Kylie Jenner is twenty eight and
whether or not she's got a million bucks doesn't matter.
She's made a lot of money though. Some of the

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people celebrating the tenth day of August is their birthday.

Speaker 17 (10:56):
If this is your birthday, hi, freshmen, and we just
want to say I'm gonna roll on here on this Sunday,
Classic Radio Theater with Biob Talks with an episode of
suspense from sixty seven years ago, August Ted, nineteen fifty eight,
The Diary of Sophronia Winters.

Speaker 13 (11:25):
This is Peter Hallas as senior editor of the Hungarian
Desk Radio Free Europe. I write and edit material destined
for an audience still living behind barbed wire. I know
those people for I was one of them. I escaped
to freedom in nineteen fifty six, but there are millions.

Speaker 18 (11:47):
Still in captivity.

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Keep r FEE on the air with contributions to Crusade
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Speaker 7 (12:00):
Classic Radio Theater with Why at Cox. Thanks to our
friends at the Suspense Project for this episode of the program.
I think I have a copy of it, but this
is a really good one. Sixty seven years ago August tenth,
nineteen fifty eight, Mercedes mc Cambridge, who Morson Wells called
one of the best radio actresses ever in the Diary

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of Sophronia.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Winters, Suspense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
the master of mystery and adventure William and Robeson.

Speaker 19 (12:35):
One of the axioms of drama might be summed up
in the words don't cheat the audience, Yet one of
the most famous short stories of the century, The Lady
of the Tiger, does just that. No, we are not
about to bring you that famous masterpiece, but the story
we are going to tell, in addition to being well
calculated to keep you in suspense, is also guaranteed to

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start a lot of arguments, none of which we hope
will become too serious. Frankly, we don't know whether Sophronia
Winters or Hiram Johnson is telling the truth, and whether
one or both of them are crazy. But there's one
point of which we can all agree. Sophronia's Diary makes
mighty thrilling reading. Listen, listen, then, as miss Mercedes or

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Cambridge stars in the Diary of Sophronia Winters, which begins
in just a moment.

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Speaker 2 (14:23):
And now the Diary of Sophronia Winters, starring Mercedes McCambridge.
A tale well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Suspense.

Speaker 10 (14:41):
February first, Saint Petersburg, Florida. I, Sophronia Winters, have hereby
begun this diary because on this date I feel, for
the first time in my sixty years, that I I
have begun to live. It happened this morning. I had

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just settled myself on the beach when I noticed a man,
a thrilling looking man, strolling toward me.

Speaker 19 (15:16):
Well, sitting out here, I'll buy a.

Speaker 10 (15:17):
Lonesome Oh well, yes, yes I am.

Speaker 19 (15:23):
Didn't I see you last night over at the Starfish Teerroom.

Speaker 10 (15:26):
The Starfish Tea Room. Oh yes, yes, I was there yesterday.

Speaker 19 (15:30):
Said good table over there. I'd sit down beside your head.

Speaker 10 (15:34):
Not at all. Oh just a minute, sit on this magazine.
This sand sticks to your clothes.

Speaker 19 (15:40):
Oh sand, don't bother me. Johnson's name Hiram Johnson. Come
from Greenhabor, Maine. Or a big hotel up there summers.
That's my whole history in a nutshell.

Speaker 10 (15:51):
My name is Sophronia, Sophronia Winters.

Speaker 19 (15:54):
Sophronia. No, that's quite a coincidence. My assist in law's
name is Fronia. Stronia Johnson. You never heard of her?
She looked quite a bit like.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
You, Sophronia Johnson. No, I'm afraid I haven't. Who was she?
Some one very famous? I'm so ignorant about these days.

Speaker 19 (16:18):
No, Spronia wasn't very famous up in the state of
Maine for a while some time back. Well, look that
sun climbed to I'd say it was close to lunch time.
And I'm going on a hunger strike unless you have
lunch with me. Oh eh, dear, dear diary.

Speaker 10 (16:40):
Now I know what they mean by the young in heart.
There is indeed a boy for every girl in the world,
and I have found mine. He is so kind and
so generous and so strong, and I am so weak
because as I want to be.

Speaker 19 (17:02):
Oh what's the good of waiting, Sopronia, I got to
be back to the hotel in the week. We may
never see each other again.

Speaker 10 (17:07):
Oh, hi, room, don't say that I couldn't bury it.

Speaker 19 (17:11):
Then let's do it right away tomorrow. There's a passing
out on Coral Avenue. Will do the job for us,
and we can take a nice moonlight drive out the
Alligator Farm afterwards and have nice short dinner, then climb
on board the Orange Blossom tomorrow night to Maine.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
But what would your family think. Wouldn't they be shocked?

Speaker 19 (17:29):
Family's all dead. I'm own boss. It'll just be the
two of us alone together, the.

Speaker 10 (17:37):
Two of us alone to get it, the two of
us alone together. But dear Diary, not exactly as I
had imagined it. Our wedding trip north on the Orange

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Blossom Express was all that I could have dreamed of.
But now now we are at the end of the journey.
Looming in front of us in the deepening winter twilight,
is a huge resort hotel, Hiram's hotel. Its wide veranda, empty,

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its ancient cupilas menacing against the gray sky, and not
a single light burning at any of its hundreds of windows.
What are you locking the gate for, Hiram?

Speaker 19 (18:33):
Why not nobody coming in after us? All going out
again for a while.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
But I thought you said the hotel.

Speaker 21 (18:40):
The hotel is empty, Hiram. Well what is it now, Hiram, darling.
I know it sounds silly, but let's not go in
there tonight. It's so dark and empty. Let's wait until morning.
Let's let's stay in the village, just for tonight.

Speaker 19 (19:02):
We're staying here now, my arm. You remember me telling
you down in Florida about my sister and lassophon you. Well,
that's her, that painting there on the wall. How you
take a look at her? Good luck? But why she
was a murderss She was hanged in Portland twenty five

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years ago for the murder of my brother Ephraim. Here
in the lobby of this hotel. You come downstairs singing
a hymn and murdered him in cold blood with an axe.
That fire axe hanging over there on the wall.

Speaker 10 (19:36):
Oh horrible.

Speaker 19 (19:38):
Yeah, now you stand over there under that painting him.

Speaker 10 (19:42):
Get over there, Yron, please, you're hurting me.

Speaker 19 (19:47):
Now you standing there quietly. I remember I said you
resembled my dead sister in law. Well you do.

Speaker 22 (19:57):
You were a spitting image.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
In a moment. We continue with the second act of.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Suspense.

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Speaker 2 (21:11):
And now starring Mercedes McCambridge, Act two of the Diary
of Sophronia Winters.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
I cannot understand it, and my heart is heavy. The
hotel is deserted, unchanged, and apparently uninhabited for twenty five years.
Washbulls and pitchers still stand in the empty rooms, covered
with cobwebs. The great dining room, with its oak woodwork,

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is alive with rats, and a row of broken rocking
chairs on the front porch faces emptily out to sea.
Does he mean this to be my home?

Speaker 19 (21:58):
And now madele let me show you the grounds.

Speaker 10 (22:01):
Oh but it's dark.

Speaker 19 (22:02):
I want to show you where my sister and loss
of Fronia is buried.

Speaker 10 (22:06):
Can't I see it tomorrow in the daylight.

Speaker 19 (22:08):
You'll see it now, Sophronia Aim, you're hurting me. I'm sorry,
my dear, but you must learn to do what I say,
and then we shall have no trouble.

Speaker 18 (22:28):
There.

Speaker 19 (22:28):
We are just yonder on that mound. That's when my
sister and loss of Fronia was laid away twenty five
years ago, buried her ourselves out of service out here
by herself on the grounds. Hephrom's buried in town, but
not Sopronia. I had a feeling I'd have to keep
an eye on her.

Speaker 10 (22:48):
Keep an eye on her.

Speaker 19 (22:51):
Yeah, I knew she was one of those restless sleepers
who wouldn't stay quiet and her grave.

Speaker 10 (22:56):
You mean you'd think she haunts this place.

Speaker 19 (23:00):
Nope, not this place. She never had any use for it,
live or dead. No, she makes for the warmer climates.
She was always a cold blooded little woman, freezing and
shivering all the time, places like California and Texas and Florida.
She makes for Florida, yep, one of her favorite haunts,

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particularly around Saint Petersburg. She likes the flowers and the
sun and the romance him.

Speaker 10 (23:26):
I feel cold, I'm shivering. Do you mind if I
go inside.

Speaker 19 (23:31):
Now in a minute. Haven't explained everything? You see? Those
birches over there, under every one oven's the grave?

Speaker 23 (23:42):
See?

Speaker 19 (23:42):
I found her wandering the earth in disguise three times.
I killed her three times. Still don't do any good.
She's still restless.

Speaker 10 (23:51):
You mean you killed three different women?

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yep?

Speaker 19 (23:57):
Now I keep another grave open from my mind waiting now.
Would you like to see it? Sopronia?

Speaker 10 (24:03):
Oh no, no, Hiram, No please.

Speaker 19 (24:06):
You afraid to see it? Sopronia?

Speaker 10 (24:08):
No I oh, Hiram, you don't think just because my
name happens to be Sopronia and that I look a little.

Speaker 19 (24:16):
Like think what Sophronia?

Speaker 10 (24:19):
Nothing?

Speaker 19 (24:22):
Well, lah no, we mustn't have you catched the cold,
My dear, When you come back along the hotel, I'll
show you to your room. My room, yes, Sopronia, your
room now. This room's cleanest in the hotel. Always expected

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to be occupied again sometime. Hey, see, kept everything just
as it was? Huh, what's manner?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Nothing?

Speaker 19 (25:00):
It's just seemed kind of familiar. No, no, just as
she left it. That afternoon, she walked downstairs to murder
my brother. See her embroidery on the table, needlesticking in it.
Her hymn books still open. She's very fond of singing hymn.
Sophronia was had nice boys too. I used to accompany

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her on the harmonium down the parlor well. I'll turn
down the bed for you and you can get undressed
while I go make you some hot tea.

Speaker 10 (25:32):
No, I don't want any.

Speaker 19 (25:34):
Oh, there's a closet you can put on one of
Sophronia's dressing gowns. Make yourself at home.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
Tim, Why are you locking my door?

Speaker 24 (25:46):
It's safe for my day up safe. Yeah, always locked
doors outside and inside windows. Too much safer for everybody.

Speaker 10 (26:02):
It must be nearly midnight now. I don't know. I
don't know how long it's been since he locked that
door on me and left me alone in this horrible
room with its hideous little mementos of a dead murderess.
I have lit the pink flowered oil lamp, and I

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am sitting here at her little wicker table, trying to
maintain my sanity. As I write this, I can hear
him downstairs in the shabby little parlor of the lobby,
playing the harmonium, playing the same piece over and over again.

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My hand has just brushed against her needlework, lying beside
the open hymn book open at the same him.

Speaker 12 (26:56):
He is playing, I shall.

Speaker 19 (26:59):
Go, mad, I shall go, I shall go.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
In a moment, we continue with the third act of suspense.

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Speaker 2 (28:21):
Starring Mercedes McCambridge, Act three of the Diary of Sophronia Winters.

Speaker 10 (28:29):
February twelfth. Can it be only a week since I
became the bride of a madman?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Now?

Speaker 10 (28:38):
I live only from moment to moment, listening to each
creek on the stairs, each note as it slowly wheezes
from the old harmonium, wondering when he will come for me,
when he will drag me out to join those other
Sophronias in their frosty graves beneath the naked burches.

Speaker 7 (29:02):
The BRONIAU, It's come, Bronia up.

Speaker 12 (29:08):
I'm downstairs, sing sing, She sang with him.

Speaker 10 (29:14):
He said, huh, how can I come downstairs when my
door is locked?

Speaker 19 (29:21):
It's unlocked? You try unlocked?

Speaker 10 (29:24):
Oh no, how could it? Oh it is it is,
and I never knew it.

Speaker 19 (29:31):
I never knew then he.

Speaker 10 (29:35):
Unlocked it sometime while I was just sitting there. Oh,
why didn't I try a few more times. Why did
I just sit there assuming no? No, he'd have caught
me anyway, he'd have known.

Speaker 12 (29:48):
But I might have got.

Speaker 10 (29:49):
Away, And now it's too late. He's going to kill me. Yes, Hiram,
I'm coming, Hiram.

Speaker 19 (30:05):
Where are you down here in the parlor?

Speaker 10 (30:08):
That's the harmonium?

Speaker 19 (30:11):
Waiting to sing with him?

Speaker 10 (30:13):
All right, I'll sing. I haven't sung in years, but
i'll try. I'll sing with you. I'll stay out here
in the hall. My voice will carry better.

Speaker 19 (30:28):
Always did carry better in the hall, didn't it so? Pronium?
Cos you know both the front and back doors a lot?

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Ah bad, we bar fall.

Speaker 10 (30:51):
The darkness te thins lord with me?

Speaker 9 (31:00):
Oh by, well all long?

Speaker 10 (31:18):
There's only one more page. Shall shall I read it
to you, nurse?

Speaker 29 (31:25):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (31:26):
Yes, go ahead, March twenty second. I have been sick,
I think for a very long time. The pages of
my diary are blank. But I shall take you out
again for diary today and start you over again. I

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shall never look back at the other pages. I shall
only write on and on about this beautiful place, so
that no one read it, this diary.

Speaker 19 (32:02):
We'll ever know.

Speaker 29 (32:04):
That I did it.

Speaker 12 (32:10):
But I did do it, Diary.

Speaker 10 (32:15):
I was smarter than he when I opened that door
at the head of the stairs and heard the music,
when I saw the fire axe still hanging on the wall. Oh, oh,
I was so cautious, so terribly cautious. I diptoed like

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a little mouse, even as I sang the hymn into
that room where he was playing. If a reflection of
that axe had so much as glimmered across the wood,
if he had turned, But I was clever, so much
cleverer than he. I kept on singing. And now I free,

(32:57):
free as a bird. I'm free, and he shall never
catch me, now, not this type forever again. Because he's dead,
isn't hens.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
Nurse?

Speaker 10 (33:13):
Isn't my dear brother in law Hiram really dead? Yes, Misterphronia,
he's dead. And now we'll put the diary away, shall we?

Speaker 30 (33:23):
Remember what the.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
Doctor said, We mustn't overdo if we're to get well.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
Oh, but I don't want to get well ever. I
like being sick. I feel so safe.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Suspense, in which Mercedes mc cambridge starred in William N.
Robson's production of the Diary of Sophronia Winters By Lucille
Fletcher in Just a Moment, the names of the supporting players,
and a word about next week's story of suspense.

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(34:31):
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(34:53):
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Speaker 2 (35:07):
Supporting Mercedes McCambridge in the Diary of Sophronia, Winters were
Carl Swenson and Ellen Morgan.

Speaker 18 (35:15):
Listen.

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would never be aired again. We're going back seventy five
years to August tenth, nineteen fifty to hear about the
unsolved murder of Samuel I Paris on Somebody Knows.

Speaker 25 (38:38):
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is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspence returns to the
air three weeks from now, on Thursday, August thirty.

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You out there, you who think you've committed the perfect crime,
the perfect murder, that there are no clues, no witnesses,
that your identity is unknown.

Speaker 33 (39:24):
Listen, somebody knows.

Speaker 32 (39:27):
Yes, you, wherever you may be, no matter where you're
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Yes, somebody knows.

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The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Somebody Knows, a program conceived
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law and order in the solution of this nation's unsolved crime.

Speaker 32 (40:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, We're going to recreate for you tonight
all the known facts in an actual unsolved murder. Somewhere
someone among you's had contact with the killer or killers,
someone whose identity need never be known, has seen evidence
or possesses information that can lead to the solution of
this crime.

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In the public interest, the Columbia Broadcasting System offers a
five thousand dollars reward for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the killer and this unsolved murder.

Speaker 32 (40:43):
We ask you then to please listen carefully, for you
may be the one to win this reward.

Speaker 9 (40:47):
Somebody knows it may be you.

Speaker 32 (40:55):
And now we open the files on one of this
nation's unsolved murders. It's file number h F one two
three four to two the Boston, Massachusetts Police Department. The
unsolved murder of samuel I Paris. Is it approximately three

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thirty pm, Saturday, April third, nineteen forty eight, at fifty
four Jones Avenue in the Dorchester District of Boston, Massachusetts.
Samuel Ie Paris, a taxi driver, is preparing to leave
home to go to work.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
You don't forget a clean negative, Sammy.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Okay, honey, Okay.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
You're feeling happy today, aren't you, Sammy?

Speaker 34 (41:44):
You give me a good for instance, why I shouldn't
with you.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
I wouldn't even dry now, Look, Sammy, be sure and
have a good name. Y. You work a long shift
and I want you to eat well and be sure
to wear your heavy jacket. You can't tell about these
spring nights, and I don't want you catching.

Speaker 34 (41:58):
Cold kill me.

Speaker 25 (42:00):
Okay, you know I thought we only had three kids,
But as far as you're concerned, I kiss on the fourth.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
Good Bydy goodbye, Sammy, take care of yourself.

Speaker 35 (42:09):
I don't worry.

Speaker 34 (42:10):
Oh, kiss the kids for me.

Speaker 19 (42:12):
Yeah, and missus Paris, you know something better?

Speaker 34 (42:15):
Save a couple for me when I get home.

Speaker 35 (42:17):
Oh, Sammy, it's a lot of honey.

Speaker 32 (42:27):
The time is approximately ten forty five pm, Saturday, April third,
nineteen forty eight. Cab number seven oh two of the
Independent Taxi Cab Operators Association is speeding along quiet residential
Norfolk Avenue in the Roxbury district of Boston, Massachusetts. Suddenly
it swerves toward the curb, smashes in the career of

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a park car, and comes to a stop on the sidewalk.

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At the same moment, in the home of Fred Lutfee
one seven seven Norfolk Avenue in Roxbury, a game of
whistas in progress. The players are mister Lufty, his wife, Jean,
his mother, and his sister, missus Barbara Darien of twelve
Rutland Street, South End, who is visiting him.

Speaker 36 (43:31):
Oh, Fred, now you should have known better than that.

Speaker 34 (43:34):
Oh well, I always say this game is more luck
than skilled.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Barbara.

Speaker 36 (43:38):
Ah, he's only jealous, Jean, maybe someday.

Speaker 37 (43:41):
Hey, now, what was that?

Speaker 34 (43:45):
Oh it sounds like a couple of women drivers tangling
bumpers somewhere.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Who's deal is it?

Speaker 10 (43:50):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (43:51):
Mine?

Speaker 34 (43:51):
I guess though.

Speaker 36 (43:52):
I don't mind telling you, young man, that I consider
your remarks about women drivers as.

Speaker 29 (43:57):
Being highly.

Speaker 36 (44:01):
I wonder what, Barbara, My car is parked out in front.
Do you think it's possible?

Speaker 12 (44:07):
You got better look out the window.

Speaker 10 (44:10):
What it is?

Speaker 35 (44:10):
My car?

Speaker 36 (44:11):
It is a Yes, that tipsy cab must have hit it.
Look the CAB's still on the sidewalk with his lights on. Yes,
and the driver somebody's running away down the street.

Speaker 34 (44:20):
How do you like that I hit and run?

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Hey, look, let's get out there.

Speaker 9 (44:23):
Huh, Non, be careful, don't get any problem.

Speaker 12 (44:28):
Look.

Speaker 36 (44:28):
Oh, he's practically roomed the rear end of my car, shoved.

Speaker 6 (44:32):
It way down the street.

Speaker 34 (44:33):
Don't worry, Barbara, the cab company will take care of it.
Wait a minute, there wasn't the driver who look at
him sleeping at the wheel must be drunk or something. Now, look, Mac,
what was the idea of driving like a lunatic? Don't
you know that?

Speaker 10 (44:46):
She?

Speaker 3 (44:48):
What is it?

Speaker 23 (44:50):
This man?

Speaker 29 (44:51):
The driver?

Speaker 34 (44:52):
I think he's Jenny, Jenny.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
You better call the police.

Speaker 32 (45:03):
It is approximately ten fifty pm. Saturday, April third, nineteen
forty eight, at the dispatcher's desk on the seventh floor
of police headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

Speaker 35 (45:16):
Dispatcher, I want to report some trouble. What kind of trouble, ma'am?

Speaker 10 (45:20):
A cap it right into my sister's car and then
onto the sidewalk in the front of our place.

Speaker 36 (45:25):
It's there now, something's.

Speaker 26 (45:27):
Wrong with the driver.

Speaker 35 (45:29):
What's the address please?

Speaker 6 (45:30):
It's one seventy.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Seven Norfolk Avenue in Roxbury, one seventy seven norfls.

Speaker 22 (45:36):
And your name missus Luffy.

Speaker 34 (45:38):
This is Fred Luffey.

Speaker 35 (45:39):
All right, missus Lufty, thanks for your notifying us. We'll
have some men right over there.

Speaker 32 (45:44):
The dispatcher takes a quick look at the lighted control
board in front of him, notes the disposition of cars
in the Roxbury district, and fix up his hand microphone.

Speaker 35 (45:52):
Set WRIS calling car nine oh, calling car nine oh.
Tactic cab has jumped curb on Norfolk Avenue near Shirley Street.
Investigate n I know on our way was.

Speaker 32 (46:11):
Within a minute or two. Car and nine or arrives
at the scene. At the crash. The police officers make
a quick check of the driver, who is still slumped
over the wheel. Then they put in a call for
an ambulance. While waiting for it to a ride, they
talked with mister Luftrey and missus Darion.

Speaker 34 (46:26):
You didn't touch the driver. He was like that when
you first saw him. Yeah, that's right off the cera
slumped over the wheel, just like that.

Speaker 12 (46:34):
You know.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
At first we oh, we thought he might be.

Speaker 34 (46:36):
Drunk or something.

Speaker 31 (46:37):
And then my wife called you as a tab of
dollar sixty on the meter, it's still running.

Speaker 34 (46:41):
Must have had a fair.

Speaker 38 (46:42):
Was anyone else in net cab?

Speaker 36 (46:44):
No, No, there wasn't anyone else. Wait a minute, I
did see someone running down the street. It was just
as I looked out the window. I saw him turned
on Shirley Street.

Speaker 34 (46:53):
Could you identify him?

Speaker 12 (46:54):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (46:55):
No, no, I don't think so. All I could tell
was that he seemed young, a dark clus on. No,
I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 32 (47:03):
If you get the driver's name for the identification.

Speaker 38 (47:05):
Card, it's Paris samuel I Paris fifty four Jones Avenue, Dorchest.

Speaker 34 (47:10):
Okay, be sure to give it to him, all right, folks.

Speaker 32 (47:24):
The ambulance rushes the cab driver to the Boston City Hospital,
where he is examined immediately upon arrival.

Speaker 33 (47:31):
Then probably curtiac figure natural causes, better remove him to
the morgue.

Speaker 32 (47:42):
The body of Samuel Iye Paris is then removed to
the Southern Mortuary, an annex of Boston City Hospital. His widow,
missus Rachel Peis, and his three children are informed of
the tragedy. Then, some twelve hours later, the autopsy is
required by law, is performed by doctor should forward a
socient medical examiner of Suffolk County.

Speaker 38 (48:04):
Too bad the law makes you waste your time? Is way,
doctor Ford.

Speaker 39 (48:08):
Investigating the causes of death or life is never a
waste of time. You'd better learn that before you complete
your internship.

Speaker 38 (48:16):
I know how you feel about that, doctor Ford. What's
to be learned about causes of death and a routine
autopsy like this one, for instance.

Speaker 39 (48:24):
You never can tell. It's always possible to there, it's
always possible to uncover a murder. Murder, But doctor Ford, yes,
it's a small caliber bullet penetrated under the right ear
and lodged beneath the left ear after piercing the brain.

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We'd better notify the Superintendent of police.

Speaker 31 (48:59):
In just a moment. We'll continue with homicide file number
H F one two three four to two of the Boston,
Massachusetts Police Department, the Unsolved Murder of Samuel I Paris.

Speaker 25 (49:11):
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(49:31):
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Speaker 4 (49:33):
They'll do a good job for you.

Speaker 25 (49:41):
Now back to somebody knows and a true case history
of an actual murder.

Speaker 32 (49:47):
Now, ladies and gentlemen will continue with the rest of
the factual information concerning file number h F one two
three four to two in the records of the Boston,
Massachusetts Police Department, the Unsolved Murder of Samuel I Paris.

Speaker 31 (50:01):
Remember, five thousand dollars will be paid for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of his killer.

Speaker 32 (50:21):
With the disclosure that the death of Samuel I Paris
was caused by the firing of a bullet into his head.
Superintendent of Police Edward W. Fallon orders an immediate all
out effort to apprehend his killer. A detail of patrolman
makes a house to house canvas of the Norfolk Avenue
Shirley Street area questioning residents seeking clues to the slayer.

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Thomas del Tulfo of one six' Four Norfolk avenue tells
them WHEN i.

Speaker 40 (50:49):
Heard the, CRASH i look out of my window saw
a man get out of the rear the cab only
was one a sweater or maybe a short.

Speaker 31 (50:55):
COULT i think he had a gray soft.

Speaker 19 (50:57):
Hat he looked young to.

Speaker 34 (50:59):
ME i thought at first the cabby had a blowout
in the affair was.

Speaker 32 (51:02):
Leaving bus Driver James spillane of twenty Two Bison, Street
dorchester tells the.

Speaker 41 (51:07):
Police there's about ten to Eleventh saturday, night that Was april,
third AND i pick up this passenger At Shirley, Street, Massachusetts.
SAVENY i remember pretty, clears about nineteen years, old is
maybe five for the, eighties got blond hair and he
was built kind of. Thin he was wearing A gabardine,
coat no. Hat he got off at The North Hampton
Elevated stations about eleven o.

Speaker 9 (51:29):
Five police Ballistician EDWARD.

Speaker 16 (51:31):
J culkin reports the bullet that Killed paris was twenty
two caliber from a short shell fired from a target
pistole or an older feign. Gun the murdered weapon will
be easily identifiable once we have it in our.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Possession out of.

Speaker 32 (51:45):
The welter of reports finding their way To Superintendent fallon's,
desk a number of pertinent facts come to, light facts
that enable the police to reconstruct the last hour and
forty five minutes Of Samuel parris's. Life now this is
their reconstruction of the. Crime please listen. Carefully it is
nine Pm, Saturday august, third nineteen forty. Eight cab seven

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oh two with Driver Samuel parris at the, wheel is
parked at the stand On Tremont street in front of
The Parker. HOUSE a man and a woman enter the
cab and swing an ADDRESS o somewhere in the vicinity

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Of North. Station his two passengers leave the cab And
Samuel paris heads back in a southwesterly. Direction, then at
approximately ten o'clock he parks at the cab stand At
washington And Nieland streets and almost immediately picks up a
sailor and a girl as passengers and drives them. Downtown,

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then at ten FIFTEEN. Pm he's returning from this trip
when he stops for a signal light On Tremont street
at Park, in another cab driven By Harry pitchell of
fifty Three Ellington, Street, dorchester pulls up.

Speaker 9 (53:06):
Alongside, Hi, Sammy.

Speaker 34 (53:09):
Hey, harry how goes?

Speaker 12 (53:10):
It SAME?

Speaker 19 (53:11):
Excuesu what about?

Speaker 34 (53:12):
You that could be? Better it could be. WORSE i ain't,
kicking And Sammy paris all, right don't you ever? Kick
what's the? Kick got my? Health i'm. Working they still
need cabs In. Boston i'm. Happy, Okay hell are you see? Me,
yeah sure, Thing.

Speaker 32 (53:27):
Harry as the lights, Change Samuel parris drives back toward
the cab stand At washington And Nieland. Streets it is
approximately ten twenty as he pulls in and. Stops then
at about ten twenty, five the door of his cab
opens and a man gets.

Speaker 34 (53:45):
In, yeah sure.

Speaker 32 (53:47):
Thing Samuel parris drives south On nieland To Albany, street
then turns west in the direction Of. Roxbury when he
finally Reaches Hampton, speed he turns again and then on
To Norfolk. Avenue somewhere along the, way he suddenly feels

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the cold muzzle of a gun pressing against his neck.
Below he's right, here all.

Speaker 12 (54:13):
Right that's a gun you Feel what is?

Speaker 3 (54:16):
This?

Speaker 10 (54:17):
Mag a?

Speaker 42 (54:17):
Sticker what?

Speaker 9 (54:18):
Else?

Speaker 34 (54:18):
LOOK i got noe do on. Me you should have
better sense in a pick and a hackey was out.

Speaker 12 (54:22):
What i'm telling?

Speaker 10 (54:23):
You? That?

Speaker 4 (54:24):
Okay?

Speaker 43 (54:25):
Mac?

Speaker 31 (54:25):
Okay what AM i supposed to?

Speaker 44 (54:28):
Do?

Speaker 34 (54:28):
Now just keep? Driving i'll tell you.

Speaker 19 (54:29):
What just keep. Driving, okay you're the.

Speaker 32 (54:31):
Boss Samuel parris keeps driving Down Norfolk. Avenue he's calm.
Alert he slips his wristwatch far up his left, sleeve
hoping it might go. Unnoticed he tries to figure some way.
Out then an idea comes to.

Speaker 34 (54:47):
Him, hey what do you think you're?

Speaker 25 (54:49):
Doing Maybe i'm gonna hurry to get this over.

Speaker 45 (54:51):
With swown a here up boy, House he brings on a, okay, mag,
okay what are you?

Speaker 32 (54:59):
Doing it is now the day following the murder Of SAMUEL. I.

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PARIS a car is speeding down a highway And deadham
near The westwood town. Line four youths are. Inside the
driver is weaving recklessly in and out of TRAFFIC a dozen.
Times accidents are only narrowly. Averted, finally a pursuing police
car forces him over to the.

Speaker 9 (55:54):
Curve, ah it's.

Speaker 35 (55:59):
Stepa keep your hands, up come, on get'a move on,
out all of you out better frisk them between hit
and run in a stolen. Car anything's lable to show,
up stand. Still you just keep those hands up.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
And did show.

Speaker 35 (56:12):
Up this looks like twenty two caliber it.

Speaker 34 (56:15):
Is isn't that the caliber that got the cave over
In roxbury last? Night, yeah and that's why this car
was reported.

Speaker 35 (56:21):
Stolen gotta hunch the boys At roxbury are going to
be pretty happy to see these four.

Speaker 32 (56:26):
Punks the four youths are turned over to the police
at The Roxbury. Division they're question. Thoroughly the twenty two
caliber pistol found on one of them is given to
ballistics for. Checking then some time, later the police issue a.

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Statement ballistics reports.

Speaker 46 (56:48):
That the twenty two caliber pistol is not the one
used in the past murdered our questioning ask convincers that
these four youths have no connection with that.

Speaker 32 (56:55):
Case the investigation into the murder Of Samuel parris continues
unabated as the entire city Of boston is. Aroused voices
of anger and protest are raised in the City. Council
in veterans. Organizations the cab drivers Of boston have their

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own way of showing their feelings about this.

Speaker 19 (57:17):
Case he is going to the widow and kids Of Sammy.

Speaker 32 (57:24):
Pearce the search for the, slim blonde youth seen boarding
the bus At massachusetts And shirley goes on unrelentingly in
his identification now seems to lie the one possible hope

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for solution of the. Killing it is Now april, seventh
nineteen forty, eight In Police station nine In. Roxbury the
desk sergeant is checking reports from several patrola out in
the field when the door. Opens then steps approach the
desk and.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
Halt i'd like to talk to someone place, sure what's.

Speaker 32 (58:09):
The standing before the desk as a young, man about
nineteen years of. Age he's about five foot, eight, thin
he has blonde.

Speaker 35 (58:17):
HAIR I i'm the man who got on that bus
At massachusetts And.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
SHIRLEY i understand you're looking for.

Speaker 32 (58:25):
Me the man is, interviewed questioned, thoroughly his statements checked and.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Rechecked the, result we.

Speaker 46 (58:38):
Are satisfied that this man has no connection with the
death Of Samuel.

Speaker 32 (58:41):
Pass, then five months, later what seems to be the
first major break in the case suddenly. Occurs it's two a.
M on the morning Of september, twelfth nineteen forty. EIGHT
a cab driven By Joseph murad of twenty nine At Upton,
Street South. End he's driving Through Andrew's. Square hey Caby.

Speaker 34 (59:07):
Hey see in six straight south.

Speaker 32 (59:14):
Bust, then if the cab approaches the, Destination murad suddenly
feels something cold and hard pressed against his.

Speaker 34 (59:30):
Neck, okay, kebby this is a stick.

Speaker 32 (59:32):
Up the man Orders murad to throw his money on
the floor and the driver does. So then he's ordered
to stop the. Cab he's forced out and the man
drives the cab. Away twenty minutes, later cab driver is

(59:56):
a door climb of one twenty Two Howland street in Rock,
xbury picks up a man On Washington street Near. Bennett
the same procedure is followed as With Joseph. Murad klan
is forced to throw his money on the, floor he's
ordered out of his, cab and the man drives off in. It,

(01:00:18):
meanwhile A Special service squad Containing Sergeant thomas, O'Keefe Detectives
Frank mulvey And John preston has been alerted to The
murad hold. Up they're cruising On Dorchester avenue Near columbia
when we want to.

Speaker 41 (01:00:30):
Report looked there's a camp being hal up ahead.

Speaker 46 (01:00:32):
There, yes he is man getting in a laws take
a better Talk.

Speaker 47 (01:00:35):
John all, right, mister you better get out and keep
your hands. UP i think they want to talk to
you at.

Speaker 32 (01:00:51):
Headquarters the suspect is identified at police headquarters by Drivers
murad And. Klein he is questioned exhaustively by special Officers
Leo devlin And Arthur, O'Shea who had been working on
The paris. Case then this statement is.

Speaker 46 (01:01:12):
Issued we are satisfied that this man has no connection
with the death Of Samuel.

Speaker 32 (01:01:17):
Pass it is Now september, twentieth nineteen forty. Eight Judge
Samuel eisenstadt of The Roxbury court makes a report on
the inquest into the death Of SAMUEL I, paris an
inquest it's been held open Since april.

Speaker 33 (01:01:37):
Third the deceased was a man of excellent, reputation good
father and a good, husband who had no known. Enemies
there was no motive for anyone to wish to take
his life unless the motive for. ROBBERY i advocate that
the case be held open in the event that the
assailant should be, apprehended despite the fact that this court

(01:01:59):
is unable to who recommend prosecution or the issuance of
complaints against this unknown.

Speaker 32 (01:02:05):
Person unknown. Person, no the killer Of Samuel Eye paris
is not. Unknown somewhere in whatever town or city this
man is. Hiding some one of you has seen him to,
day has spoken to, him eaten lunch and dinner with,
him knows the location of the gun that he fired

(01:02:26):
on that night two and a half years. Ago, no
the cold, blooded brutal killer who took the life Of
Samuel Eye paris is not. Unknown somebody. Knows now listen,

(01:02:49):
Carefully please, listen all of, you wherever you may. Be
we're going to give you a recapitulation of pertinent facts
in the unsolved murder Of SAMUEL I. Paris better make
a note.

Speaker 31 (01:03:00):
Of, them and, remember by following the instructions we shall
give you in a, moment you may be the one
to earn a five thousand dollar.

Speaker 32 (01:03:07):
Reward Now here are the actual facts in the Case
SAMUEL I, paris thirty nine years of. Age a cab
driver was shot to death in his cab in the
vicinity of one seven Seven Norfolk avenue in The Roxbury
district Of, Boston.

Speaker 31 (01:03:24):
Massachusetts the time approximately ten forty five p. M, Saturday april,
third nineteen forty.

Speaker 32 (01:03:30):
Eight the murder weapon was twenty two. Caliber it is
believed to be either a target pistol or an old
or foreign.

Speaker 31 (01:03:36):
GUN a young, man slight, build wearing either a sweater
or short coat and a soft gray hat was witnessed
running from the scene of the. Crime this man is
definitely wanted by the police as a suspect in the
murder Of SAMUEL I.

Speaker 32 (01:03:49):
Paris ladies and, gentlemen if any if you possesses information
that may have a bearing on the unsolved murder Of
Samuel Ie, paris and please don't send guesses or, hunches
but only actual authentic. Information follow these instructions so that

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your name and identity need never be made known unless you.
Wish now listen, carefully.

Speaker 31 (01:04:17):
Write your information on a plane sheet of. Paper do
not sign your name and said sign it with six,
numbers any arrangement of any six, numbers and then tear
off a blank corner of that paper with a ragged.
Edge write the same six numbers on that corner and keep.
It mail the rest of the paper with the information
to somebody Knows, Hollywood. California you need tell no one

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what you've.

Speaker 32 (01:04:40):
Done mail your letter to somebody Knows, Hollywood, california and
if the information you've supplied leads to the arrest and
conviction of the killer Of SAMUEL. I, paris will announce
your signature number on this. Program then if you don't
want your name to be, known go to your lawyer or,
doctor your, priest minister or rabbi and have him present

(01:05:02):
the torn corner of the paper to ANY cbs. Station
in this, way you do not need to appear in.

Speaker 31 (01:05:07):
Person if the torn corner matches the original paper containing the,
information the five thousand dollar reward will be.

Speaker 32 (01:05:14):
Yours remember, you wherever you. Are you whose name need
never be, known may win a reward of five thousand.

Speaker 31 (01:05:23):
Dollars next, week at the same, time we'll present another
true case history of unsolved murder its homicide file number
three eight sixty seven from the records of The, Detroit

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Michigan Police, Department the unsolved murder Of Missus Jean.

Speaker 32 (01:05:48):
Long you out, there you who have murdered in cold
blood and think you've gotten away with, it, listen you cannot.
Escape there is no perfect. Crime remember you are not.
Unknown Somebody Knows.

Speaker 31 (01:06:21):
Tonight's case was written By Sidney marshall from information in
the files of The, Boston Massachusetts Police. Department research was
By Maurice. Zim music was composed and played By Milton.
Charles Somebody knows as A JAMES. L safire production and
association WITH cbs by arrangement with The Chicago Sun, times
and is based on a copyright owned by W L.

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Finstead it was narrated and directed By Jack. Johnstone in
order to be eligible for the, reward letters containing, actual
authentic information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
killer or killers Of SAMUEL I paris must be addressed
To Somebody, Knows, Hollywood, california and must be postmarked not
later than Midnight august, thirtieth nineteen. Fifty arrest of the

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guilly person of persons must occur within ninety days of that,
date and conviction must be within one year Of tonight's.
Broadcast if more than one person gives the information leading to,
conviction our judges will divide the five thousand dollars reward
among them in proportion to the importance the judges attached
to the facts, implied and in this the decision of

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our judges will be final until Next. Thursday at the same,
time this Is Don baker saying good. Night and remember somebody.

Speaker 25 (01:07:35):
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Somebody Knows here On Classic Radio theater With Wyatt, cox
here's what's coming up of the week Ahead tomorrow we

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get to comedy from a nineteen forty four episode Of
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Of arable the Moon, man a nineteen forty eight episode
Of abode And, costello a nineteen forty two rendition OF
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Raymond burr From Port laramie in nineteen fifty, seven and
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Gleason Less tremaine in their show from nineteen forty four
With Edgar Bergen Matt ne With bob And ray from
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(01:10:18):
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Two Gary merrill stars In My, Wife The Deputy, sheriff
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have an episode Of The Fleischman Yeast hour Starring Rudy

(01:11:02):
valley from nineteen thirty, THREE A front And center Starring
Dorothy lamore from nineteen forty, Seven George, Burns Gracie, allen
and an episode of THE cbs Or Radio workshop from
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case of The Desert, explosion a nineteen fifty seven Suspense Peanut,
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Chronicles that's all coming up the weekend here On Classic
Radio theater With Wyatt cox coming up, Next The Mysterious, Traveler.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Ladies And.

Speaker 42 (01:11:55):
Gentlemen in the next seven years of bigger and bigger,
Enrollments america's grade schools will need nearly a quarter of
a million extra.

Speaker 12 (01:12:03):
Teachers besides those to fill normal.

Speaker 42 (01:12:05):
Vacancies this great, need plus the growing public interest in
education and improvements in, schools make elementary school teaching a
more rewarding career.

Speaker 18 (01:12:15):
Than, ever a career that.

Speaker 42 (01:12:17):
High school and college students should certainly. Consider education Holds america's,
future perhaps your.

Speaker 7 (01:12:23):
Future we roll on now On Classic Radio, theater going
over To mutual for an episode Of The Mysterious travelers
seventy seven years. Ago Today august, tenth nineteen forty. Eight
seventy seven years, ago The Visiting.

Speaker 28 (01:12:37):
Corps The Mutual Broadcasting system Presents The Mysterious, traveler written,

(01:13:08):
produced and.

Speaker 23 (01:13:08):
Directed By ROBERT.

Speaker 28 (01:13:10):
A arthur And David, cogan and starring tonight to a
radio's foremost, Personalities Adelaide klein And Mason adams in an
original radio drama Titled The Visiting.

Speaker 23 (01:13:21):
Corpse this is The Mysterious.

Speaker 43 (01:13:32):
Traveler inviting you to join me on another journey into
the realm of the strange and the. TERRIFYING i hope
you will enjoy the, trip that it will treat you
a little.

Speaker 12 (01:13:44):
And chill you a.

Speaker 43 (01:13:45):
Little so settle, back get a good grip on your,
nerves and be comfortable if you.

Speaker 23 (01:13:51):
Can as we meet The Visiting.

Speaker 43 (01:13:55):
Corps our story begins late one night in the modest
suburban home Of Albert Jordan's, albert a mild looking man

(01:14:16):
in his early, thirties is tossing restlessly in his.

Speaker 12 (01:14:19):
Sleep now in any moans and speaks as if having a. Nightmare, oh.

Speaker 27 (01:14:27):
Leave me, ALONE i don't want to hear.

Speaker 18 (01:14:30):
Anymore leave me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Alone over my Eyes Albert Jordan's i'm onto your.

Speaker 26 (01:14:38):
WAY i think my only child to.

Speaker 48 (01:14:41):
A Lonely, Oh, louise there were so many many eager
to marry, her and she had to be tricked into
marriage by.

Speaker 12 (01:14:50):
You leave me, alone leave me?

Speaker 9 (01:14:54):
Alone what is?

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
It?

Speaker 12 (01:14:58):
What oh louis you're having a.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Nightmare. Dear you don't want to wake mother. Up she
needs a good night's sleep for a trip home.

Speaker 18 (01:15:07):
Tomorrow, yes the.

Speaker 12 (01:15:09):
Trip we we mustn't let mess her, train or you
mustn't dear.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
Here but whatever in the world is wronged with?

Speaker 12 (01:15:16):
You ONLY i wish you were already tomorrow and she were.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Gone are you sure you have, everything? Mother, Yes.

Speaker 30 (01:15:28):
Louisia now don't forget to ship my trunk.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
And i'll be express. Man i'll be here to pick
it up this. Morning.

Speaker 12 (01:15:33):
Mother thank, you. Darling it's almost nine. O'clock, mother you'll
miss your.

Speaker 30 (01:15:37):
TRAIN i have never missed a train in my. Life
you needn't be too anxious to get.

Speaker 48 (01:15:41):
Rid of, Me, herbert oh oh lo, wee, DARLING i
do hate leaving you alone like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
This, Really, Mother i'll be all right very. Well if
you say, So i'll.

Speaker 48 (01:15:51):
Go But i'll be writing to you every, day and
if he abuses, you just let me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
Know, Goodbye, goodbye, mother and take care of, you and.

Speaker 12 (01:16:04):
Don't, Forget.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Louise mother will come back if you need. Her, Yes, mother, Goodbye.

Speaker 37 (01:16:10):
Louise if your mother pays us just one more, Visit
i'll leave this house And i'll never come.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Back But, darling it's only natural that mother should want
to visit. Me i'm the only one she hasn't.

Speaker 12 (01:16:20):
The, Worst, yes but she doesn't just visit. Her she
lives with.

Speaker 37 (01:16:23):
Us in the past, year she spent eight months whether
she has her, clothes he or at key to the,
house while she's even listed in the phone book under our.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Number please now that she's, gone, now let's not.

Speaker 37 (01:16:32):
Quarrel, yeah she's gone, now but in two or three,
weeks you can be sure she'll come back to spend
a few months with. Us i'm Warning, LOUISE i won't
be responsible for what happens if she keeps coming. Back

(01:16:52):
let me see send off the. Trunck, well that's one
JOB i can enjoy, doing. Missus heather rodin one two
Five River, Road burndale, Passed oh that won't.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Be, Necessary.

Speaker 30 (01:17:08):
Albert what my trunk can remain?

Speaker 12 (01:17:09):
Here, Mother but you want to catch your, Train i've.

Speaker 48 (01:17:13):
Changed my mind about. GOING i won't leave my little girl.
Alone i'm sure she needs.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Me where Is?

Speaker 12 (01:17:20):
Louise She she went Downtown, oh so you've come back.

Speaker 30 (01:17:25):
Again you've always wanted to get rid Of, may haven't, You,
albert to keep me away from my only?

Speaker 12 (01:17:31):
Child BUT i.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Refuse to give her.

Speaker 30 (01:17:33):
Up i've come back And i'm staying for.

Speaker 12 (01:17:36):
Good you're?

Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
What?

Speaker 48 (01:17:37):
Yes and Then i'll be sure That louise is being well. Treated,
FRANKLY i don't trust.

Speaker 12 (01:17:42):
You you don't trust? Me no?

Speaker 48 (01:17:45):
WHY i don't even know your. Background you were a
complete stranger when you forced for a weed to alofe
with you a year.

Speaker 37 (01:17:51):
Ago and FOR i know you may have criminal, tendencies
certain amount of a criminal in all of.

Speaker 12 (01:17:55):
Us most people can control their worst, instincts but some care.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Exactly And i'm here to see you with.

Speaker 12 (01:18:03):
That no one harms the, weed but it was going
to look out for.

Speaker 44 (01:18:06):
You.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
Mother.

Speaker 30 (01:18:09):
Albert why are you looking at me so?

Speaker 12 (01:18:13):
Queerly are you? Sick? Yes, Mother i'm, sick sick of
the sight of.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
You you Have you must control.

Speaker 30 (01:18:21):
YOURSELF i want you to go to your room and
wants to lie.

Speaker 12 (01:18:23):
Down oh you had to keep coming, back mother and
keep giving.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Me Or albert looking at me that?

Speaker 12 (01:18:30):
Way you seem like another PERSON i.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
Am.

Speaker 12 (01:18:33):
Mother you wouldn't let what was decent and me. Live
and now you must take the. Concert stay away from.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Me don't you dare come near?

Speaker 12 (01:18:41):
Me you would keep coming, back, mother when you came
back just.

Speaker 49 (01:18:44):
One you should have taken that train by. That but
at least NOW i know you won't be coming. Back
you won't come back ever. Again you, won't you. WON'T
i didn't want to kid.

Speaker 12 (01:18:59):
You but you made.

Speaker 37 (01:19:00):
Me i've got to get rid of. It he'll catch
me the, Trunk, yes it's large. Enough the keys here
in her. Handbag even in. Death you're a problem, mother
but you won't be her. Long, No i'll just packed

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this clothing around youre. TIGHTLY i got it, NOW i
don't have to get rid of the.

Speaker 12 (01:19:27):
Trunk Are louise the? Trunk i've got to get it clothed.

Speaker 19 (01:19:32):
That you have?

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
It, yes, Dear, OH i see you're locking the. Trunk.

Speaker 12 (01:19:36):
Yes, UH i was getting ready for the.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Expressman you should be here. Now how it is anything?

Speaker 29 (01:19:43):
Wrong?

Speaker 12 (01:19:43):
Well what do you, Mean?

Speaker 19 (01:19:45):
LOUISE i don't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Know your face is so.

Speaker 12 (01:19:47):
Flushed it's, uh just a little warming here and that's.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
All, look we forgot to pack mother's. ROBE i know
she'll want. It i'm afraid you'll have to open the trunk.

Speaker 12 (01:19:56):
Again Out, NO i, MEAN i mean the trunk is full.
Already we can't get anything else in.

Speaker 10 (01:20:00):
It.

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
Nonsense when mother AND i tag it was only half.
Full please open.

Speaker 12 (01:20:04):
It but it's locked and your mother has the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
Key, yes you're. Right well we just have to mail
the road to. Her i'll answer the.

Speaker 50 (01:20:12):
Door it must be the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Expressman make sure that tags are on.

Speaker 10 (01:20:15):
It deer.

Speaker 12 (01:20:15):
TAGS i can't go to her. Home ONLY i had
time to. Think, wait, yes that's the only thing to.
Door i'll make out new.

Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
Tags the expressman's backing has truck up the door. Out
but have you got the tags?

Speaker 12 (01:20:32):
Already i'm just finishing.

Speaker 18 (01:20:33):
Him, yep they're.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Already let me see if you have the address? Right
sometimes you.

Speaker 12 (01:20:39):
Forget, No, luis you needn't. Bother of course the tags
are made all. Right now stand. Aside i'll carry the
trunk to the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
Door let the expresson do it. Out but that's what
he's been paid, for AND i really do want to
check the address on. It, louise please, Out But i'm
just playing. Safe what these tags are addressed? To Missus
William smith's forty Five Wood street. Lovespeakers they, Are they certainly.

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Are what were you thinking?

Speaker 12 (01:21:08):
OF i don't, Know, louise But i'll change. Them you
just go on and let me tend do.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
It, INDEED i will. Not you let the expressman, in
And i'll tend to the. Tags IF i left it to,
You mother's trunk could probably go heaven knows where and
never be found. Again, ah But i'm really. Worried Worried,

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louise so weak, now and no word for. Mother she
said she'd write every, day my.

Speaker 12 (01:21:41):
Dear maybe she's been too busy to. Write she's, busy you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Know mother doesn't do. Anything, No, no it's something. WRONG
i see.

Speaker 37 (01:21:48):
Now you mustn't, Worry. Louise i'm sure that she's all.
Right i'll come with.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
You maybe it's a special delivery letter for.

Speaker 12 (01:21:55):
MOTHER i gotta track for.

Speaker 34 (01:21:59):
You, Fox, hi what is?

Speaker 12 (01:22:00):
Trunk?

Speaker 26 (01:22:02):
Jess you've always wanted to get rid of, Me, albert
to keep me away from my only, Child BUT i
refuse to give her. Up i've come, Back, albert And
i'm staying for.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Good, no, no would you, Say? Albert?

Speaker 12 (01:22:17):
HEY i think and lady the? Trunk, oh bring it,
in won't you?

Speaker 10 (01:22:21):
Please?

Speaker 12 (01:22:22):
Okay there you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
ARE i don't understand why should mother send her trunk
back to?

Speaker 12 (01:22:33):
Us would you mind signing for Mister? Jordan, oh, yes, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
Here you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Are thanks, bye, Hell BUT i can't understand why mother
shipt her trunk back to, us and without even writing
a word about. It, Well i'm going to put an
end to, this.

Speaker 12 (01:22:52):
Guessing what are you going to?

Speaker 18 (01:22:54):
Do i'm calling?

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Mother, hello, OPERATOR i want to put through a call To, Ferndale.
Pennsylvania the numbers two two, Three, yes that's. Right my
Number's riverdale seven seven four? Five thank?

Speaker 12 (01:23:07):
You why boy the, Phoning. Louise i'm sure there's a
letter on the.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Way i've waited long enough for, one Al but why
do you keep staring at the? Trunk?

Speaker 44 (01:23:16):
SO? I?

Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
Oh WAS?

Speaker 12 (01:23:18):
I it's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
All but this past week you've been so. Jumpy oh, hello, Hello,
sarah this Is louise. Calling how are?

Speaker 10 (01:23:25):
You?

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Oh i'm? Fine thank? You is my mother?

Speaker 26 (01:23:28):
There what.

Speaker 12 (01:23:31):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Sure so that's why you shift the trunk?

Speaker 44 (01:23:36):
Back?

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
No, no, thanks thank you? Sir, yes how But sarah
says that mother never arrived. Home she hasn't been there
this past?

Speaker 12 (01:23:47):
Week Was sarah the one who shipped the.

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
Trunk, yes she thought mother decided to stay with us
longer and need her. Clothes but where can.

Speaker 12 (01:23:55):
She, Be, Louise i'm sure that she's all, right.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
All, right she's been missing a. Week how could she.
Be i'm going to call, Police. Albert where can she?
Be twenty four hours of gone by and the police
still haven't.

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
Sun, no, no, Dear it takes. Time you must have.
Patience they're doing everything they.

Speaker 10 (01:24:21):
CAN i SUPPOSE i suppose she.

Speaker 12 (01:24:25):
Did you mustn't talk like. That nothing is known. Yet
why do you keep staring at the?

Speaker 37 (01:24:30):
TRUNK i don't, know. Darling it just upsets you to
see the. Trunk it keeps reminding you of your. Mother
i'd better put it in, storage all, right do what you.
Please now you're being, sensible. Dear i'll take good care
of mother's.

Speaker 43 (01:24:42):
Trunk that very, Afternoon albert took the trunk to the express.
Office he shifted away, again this time to a nonexistent.
Address he also gave a false return A, dreads so

(01:25:04):
he was quite.

Speaker 32 (01:25:05):
Sure it would never come back to bother him.

Speaker 12 (01:25:08):
Again, Look, Darling i've brought you some. Flowers here's a little.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
Present thank, you very.

Speaker 37 (01:25:16):
Nice, louise your mother has been missing five. Weeks, now
you can't go on this. Way you'll have a nervous. Breakdown,
Now but.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Where can she? Be why can't the police find?

Speaker 10 (01:25:27):
Her?

Speaker 37 (01:25:27):
Darling if she hasn't been found in five, Weeks i'm
afraid there's No. Louise you must resign yourself to her. Loss,
Oh i'll answer to. You just sit here and, rest,
eh good.

Speaker 51 (01:25:42):
Evening not something here WHICH i believe belongs to, you
belongs to. Me hey're, drunk. Drunk ever SINCE i came
into the depot a couple of days, Ago i've been
trying to locate the, owner AND i haven't quite a
time of. It did a little chicken and figured out
it might be.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Yours you've always.

Speaker 26 (01:26:00):
Wanted to get rid of, Me, albert to keep me
away from my only, child BUT i.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Refuse to give her.

Speaker 26 (01:26:06):
Up i've come, Back.

Speaker 51 (01:26:08):
Albert do you recognize?

Speaker 9 (01:26:10):
It?

Speaker 12 (01:26:11):
Oh don't you know where the trunk? Goes?

Speaker 51 (01:26:16):
Well, no it's come all the way back From. California
seems there wasn't any such a dress where this year was.
Shipped it was surely it had had to return. Address,
yeah but the rain kind of washed it. Off until
all you can make out now Is, Riverdale New. York
what makes you think of blondes? Here, WELL i sort
of did a little detective. Work the initial stamped on
the trunk OR H L, r AND i looked it

(01:26:36):
up in the phone book and the only person In
riverdale with those initials lives.

Speaker 37 (01:26:40):
Here i'm, sorry but you must have the wrong. Place
where will you take the trunk?

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
Now, oh it'll be.

Speaker 12 (01:26:46):
Put with uncleimed.

Speaker 51 (01:26:47):
Luggage then in a few months it will be so for.

Speaker 12 (01:26:50):
Charge it's an open sot for.

Speaker 51 (01:26:51):
Charge you'd be surprised what you sometimes find and unclaimed,
trunks sort of like a grab bag.

Speaker 12 (01:26:57):
Game well, sorry wait a, minute what what what did you?

Speaker 37 (01:27:02):
Say those initials were HL R Hl why they're my
mother in law's.

Speaker 12 (01:27:08):
Initials how, stupid of, Course but you just said it
Wasn't George.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
Trunk well it.

Speaker 12 (01:27:13):
Isn't it's. Hers her name Is HEATHER. L Rodin. E,
yeah that was the only name in the phone book
with those. Initials that's WHY i come.

Speaker 37 (01:27:19):
Here, well it was an extremely clever piece of detective.
WORK i suppose there's a collect charge on the.

Speaker 51 (01:27:24):
TRUNK yep comes to thirty one fifty with the. Truck,
Well i'll just put the trunk inside for.

Speaker 12 (01:27:29):
You thank. You, well we'd have hated to lose the
trunk his thirty five dollars to keep the. Change, say,
thanks you're.

Speaker 28 (01:27:41):
RIGHT i.

Speaker 12 (01:27:44):
Oh you've come back again as you said you. Would
well you haven't beaten me. Yet who was why?

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
TRUNKS i thought it was in?

Speaker 12 (01:27:56):
Store well it was, there but they're closing the storage.
House they brought it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Back, OH i see looks rather warm, now doesn't? Al
but how do we know there isn't a letter or
something in the trunk that will give us a clue
to mothers?

Speaker 12 (01:28:09):
Disappearing, Now, louise you know that's. Ridiculous there's nothing in
that trunk.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
But clothes probably right out just the.

Speaker 12 (01:28:17):
Same i'm going to open, it but you haven't got
the key to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
It, no BUT i have half a dozen old keys
on this. Ring, possibly just, possibly one of them might
open the.

Speaker 12 (01:28:24):
Truck, well let me have the.

Speaker 37 (01:28:25):
Keys i'll see IF i can open that. Way thank,
you hear you just waste the, Time but if it'll.

Speaker 12 (01:28:30):
Make it feel. Bettery one doesn't, Work no floor does this.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
One but you're not even really trying.

Speaker 12 (01:28:41):
Here let me tell's. Use, well let me try for.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Myself oh, no this key doesn't.

Speaker 12 (01:28:47):
EASE i told you. So now why don't you give?

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
Off this one doesn't. Ease you're only wasting your. Time,
no this one isn't any. Good perhaps this one will do. It,
no none of these keiths will open. It but in the,
Morning i'm going to get a locksmith to open. It
i've got to see what's in that. Trunk perhaps it'll

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lead to our finding.

Speaker 37 (01:29:12):
Mother so she's going to get a locksmith in the,
morning and she, well you won't be here when he comes.

Speaker 12 (01:29:26):
Out see.

Speaker 26 (01:29:26):
That you've always wanted to get rid of, Me, albert
to keep me away from my only.

Speaker 30 (01:29:31):
Child BUT i refuse to give her.

Speaker 26 (01:29:35):
Up i've come, Back, albert And i've stayed for.

Speaker 12 (01:29:40):
Good you're, not, dear Hear you're. Not you'll never come
back after.

Speaker 37 (01:29:45):
Tonight nevern't me.

Speaker 12 (01:29:53):
Miss but you store trunks, here don't?

Speaker 10 (01:29:55):
You?

Speaker 30 (01:29:56):
Well, yes, sir this is the largest storage house In New.
York do you wish to store it trunk you just brought?

Speaker 22 (01:30:01):
In?

Speaker 37 (01:30:01):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (01:30:01):
Please MAY i have your?

Speaker 37 (01:30:03):
Name, Williams John, Williams the address three Thirteen Maple.

Speaker 12 (01:30:07):
Street what did he? Please Baltimore.

Speaker 48 (01:30:10):
Maryland, Okay now the charge for the trunk will be
four dollars a. Month how many months do you want
to store?

Speaker 12 (01:30:16):
It how many? Months let me se how much MONEY i.
Have i've only eight dollars with.

Speaker 30 (01:30:20):
Me, well that'll pay for two. Months then if you
want to keep it here, longer you cannili your.

Speaker 12 (01:30:24):
Check, Yes i'll do.

Speaker 30 (01:30:25):
That, okay hered you, received Mister, Williams.

Speaker 12 (01:30:28):
Thank, you good, night.

Speaker 43 (01:30:43):
And So albert got rid of the embarrassing drunk at.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
Last, further there.

Speaker 43 (01:30:48):
Was only one little hit before he could send any more.
Money he lost the storage receipt and he forgot the
false name he'd given the storage, people so he couldn't
pay for additional. Storage but he knew they'd keep it
at least a. Year he was quite sure that it
could never could never be.

Speaker 23 (01:31:08):
Traced back to, him so after a few months he stopped.

Speaker 12 (01:31:13):
Worrying good, evening, dear how are?

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
You i'm all right as.

Speaker 37 (01:31:18):
Fine SEE i bunted A George horton and his wife
on the way, home and they asked us to come
to a charity auction that's being, held AND i.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
That was very nice of.

Speaker 37 (01:31:27):
Him, now why don't we go, dear do you a
lot of? Good you haven't been anywhere for six months.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
NOW i know, all But i've been. Uncity you. Haven't
you haven't seen anyone in six months? Yourself all, right
if you, Like i'll go to the charity auction.

Speaker 49 (01:31:43):
Tonight, Ah ladies and, gentlemen none of my fit for
this beautiful, antique Loun DO i have five? Boullars our Com,
come ladies and, gentlemen look closely at this work of Our.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
How DO i hear?

Speaker 12 (01:32:06):
Fire?

Speaker 30 (01:32:06):
OFF i did tie?

Speaker 49 (01:32:08):
Dollars then we have a lady with a real sense of.
Beauty now DO i hear six? Dollars good evening?

Speaker 52 (01:32:13):
Enjoyed Hello, Albert i'm glad That louise and you. CAME
i don't know why, You louise.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Quite as he's as nice of you to invite his.

Speaker 52 (01:32:20):
Pitch, well we've missed both to be quite a bit
these past.

Speaker 12 (01:32:23):
Mons, WELL i hope you'll be seeing more of. Us
you know you've got quite a crowd here. Tonight, yes
we hope to raise a good deal of.

Speaker 52 (01:32:29):
Money you know that auctioneer is a. Genius he can
sell the most useless object to make a team. Value,
well we'll have to get in on the. Bidding, hey,
wait do you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
See the next day and he puts up the.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Sales this is SOMETHING i don't mat.

Speaker 12 (01:32:40):
It it's going to be quite a.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
Surprise you are all as good at that shark, on.

Speaker 12 (01:32:44):
Let's move a little closer at the. Auctionair DO i hear?

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
Trial DO i hear? Trial all, Right i've got eleven.

Speaker 12 (01:32:51):
Dollars well you want to let this remarkable lamp goo
for as little as eleven?

Speaker 4 (01:32:55):
Dollars all?

Speaker 49 (01:32:57):
Right at your last chancelators.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
And john leuis going at eleven.

Speaker 49 (01:33:01):
Dollars one find tis so to The german in the tweed,
Suit i'm very fortunate.

Speaker 52 (01:33:08):
Here that lamp couldn't have cost more than three dollars
when it was. New, oh now here comes something to
say THAT i don't all, right, lightest.

Speaker 49 (01:33:16):
Gentlemen the next item for sale is something so, good,
hey That i've attempted to enter into bidding. MYSELF i Latest,
german my my, assistan who will remove that?

Speaker 12 (01:33:27):
Color and there.

Speaker 49 (01:33:31):
There you have the next bark a locked, TRUNK a
ladies german studied, well, Studied, well ladies and, Gentlemen i'll
give you a few minutes then.

Speaker 12 (01:33:43):
We'll start the bidding the.

Speaker 37 (01:33:45):
Trunk, no, no it can't be. Yet it's the same,
size it's the same. Color the, initials the initials that
will prove whether now they seem to have been rubbed.

Speaker 26 (01:34:02):
Off you've always want to get rid of, Me, albert
keep me away from my only, child BUT i refuse
to give her. Up i've come, Back, albert And i'm
staying for.

Speaker 19 (01:34:14):
Good you are.

Speaker 37 (01:34:15):
Back WHEN i didn't send them any more, money they
sold the trunk for.

Speaker 26 (01:34:20):
Target, Yes i've come, Back, albert And i'm staying for.

Speaker 49 (01:34:25):
Good all, right here we are, now this is no ordinary,
Trunk ladies and. Gentlemen it was donated to this auction
by Mister George, horton who bought at a storage. House
he never broke the lot to examine the, contents preferring
to save that wonderful surprise for the person who purchases
this remarkable. Trunk to, that all, right who knows what it?

(01:34:46):
Contains perhaps the crown jewels Of russia are?

Speaker 12 (01:34:50):
Better still is five quarts of scott.

Speaker 11 (01:34:54):
All?

Speaker 12 (01:34:54):
Right all, RIGHT i won't start for betting for this mystery.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
TRUNK i did twenty.

Speaker 12 (01:34:58):
Dollars twenty dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Matter this, truck that trunk alone is worth.

Speaker 12 (01:35:01):
Party who knows what's in?

Speaker 26 (01:35:03):
It i've come Back, albert And i'm staying for.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
No well did you look so? Pale is there anything?

Speaker 12 (01:35:11):
Wrong but oh, no, no everything s all.

Speaker 49 (01:35:15):
Right oh, come, come ladies and. Gentlemen the contents of
this truck may be. Priceless DO i hear a bit
of thirty?

Speaker 53 (01:35:21):
Dollars i'm Afraid i'm just as curious as everyone.

Speaker 12 (01:35:24):
ELSE i know what's in that. Trunk i've been thirty.

Speaker 49 (01:35:27):
Dollars we have a bit of thirty dollars for Mister,
horton The german who donated this mystery?

Speaker 12 (01:35:31):
Drunk all?

Speaker 49 (01:35:32):
Right DO i hate forty?

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Dollars al but that trunk looks something like, mothers doesn't?

Speaker 12 (01:35:36):
It so you'll notice? It SURELY i hear forty?

Speaker 49 (01:35:39):
Dollars why any dealer would pay forty dollars for the?

Speaker 12 (01:35:41):
Trunk? Alan that means you'd have the contents for.

Speaker 49 (01:35:44):
Free come, on ladies and, gentlemen DO i hate forty?

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
Dollars forty? Dollars there's a lady.

Speaker 12 (01:35:50):
With a shrewd eye for a.

Speaker 49 (01:35:51):
Bargain all, Right, oh bid fifty, Dollars i'll say.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
Fifty we don't need a.

Speaker 52 (01:35:57):
Trunk o't let him have, Fun, Louise after, all it
is for. Charity, decide you can never tell what's in the.

Speaker 12 (01:36:04):
TRUNCK i WISH i.

Speaker 49 (01:36:05):
Could bid on this, Myself ladies and, GENTLEMEN i now
have a bit of fifty, dollars Which i've convinced is
only one tenth the true value of this. Truck but
DO i hear sixty? Dollars fifty?

Speaker 12 (01:36:17):
Dollars seventy? Dollars that's more? Like am?

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
Not DO i hear eighty?

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
Dollars eighty?

Speaker 12 (01:36:20):
Dollars one hundred?

Speaker 29 (01:36:21):
Dollars?

Speaker 12 (01:36:22):
Hi you people are beginning to show a reappreciation for this?
Truck who'll make? It one hundred and, ten one hundred and,
ten one hundred and?

Speaker 49 (01:36:28):
Twenty DO i hear one hundred and, thirty one hundred and,
thirty one hundred and fifty Oh one's?

Speaker 23 (01:36:33):
Fun?

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Albert but you're going too hot along cal thet what's
wrong with?

Speaker 12 (01:36:36):
You gentlemen's bid one hundred and fifty?

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
Dollars DO i hear?

Speaker 49 (01:36:40):
Anymore going once at one hundred and, fifty going twice
at one hundred and? Fifty so for, that, gentleman for
one hundred and fifty.

Speaker 52 (01:36:53):
DOLLARS i never saw anyone go after anything the way
you went after that trunk out of. It, Well i'm
afraid nothing will satisfy the crowd, now but for you
to open up the trunk and reveal what didn't?

Speaker 12 (01:37:07):
It, no, No i'm, sorry BUT i don't intend to
open UNTIL i get. Home oh, no, no come on,
now but, now don't spoil the. Fun it won't hurt to.
OPEN i told YOU i wouldn't do.

Speaker 37 (01:37:19):
It, no, No i'm, Sorry, George but WELL i havn't
a key to open, it and there's no sense in
breaking the lock after paying one hundred and fifty dollars
for the.

Speaker 12 (01:37:30):
Trunk, well MAYBE i can help.

Speaker 40 (01:37:31):
You mister had some skeleton keys that will open any. Lock,
Here i'll show you we actually knew is always running
into locked.

Speaker 12 (01:37:38):
Trunk we will certainly appreciate.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
It, YEAH i think this key will do.

Speaker 12 (01:37:41):
It.

Speaker 49 (01:37:41):
STOP i have no right to touch my.

Speaker 12 (01:37:43):
TRUNK i paid for, it AND i don't want to open.
Now get away from.

Speaker 10 (01:37:46):
It it's.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Mine but what's wrong with?

Speaker 12 (01:37:48):
You all? Right certainly that's the way you feel At
come on the, way we're going.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
Home oh but you're acting so. Strangely why do you
insist on driving that trunk?

Speaker 12 (01:37:59):
Away now stop talking and come.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Along aw but that trunk is pretty.

Speaker 12 (01:38:05):
Heavy don't you want me to give you a? HAND
i can manage it, alone thank, YOU. O but not
door for, Me.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
Louise al but don't you think you better Than? George
help you get the trunk down those.

Speaker 12 (01:38:17):
Streets, No i'm not going to let anyone touch this.

Speaker 26 (01:38:20):
Trunk you've always wanted to get rid of, me al
but keep me away from my only. Child BUT i
refuse to give her. UP i have come, Back, albert
And i'm stayed for.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
Good i'll but do be careful on those.

Speaker 26 (01:38:35):
Stairs i've come Back, albert And i'm staying for.

Speaker 49 (01:38:39):
Quiet you old be quieted. Me, Yes i'll get rid of.
You it's the last THING i.

Speaker 10 (01:38:49):
What?

Speaker 12 (01:38:49):
Happens he lost his balance on the. Stairs trunk is
too heavy for.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
Him well to, Me, Alba, george do.

Speaker 12 (01:38:59):
Something i'm sorry the.

Speaker 40 (01:39:01):
Wise i'm afraid he's gone crushed his skull head like
Mister harton fall broke the trunk. Over there was nothing
in it but a load of. Books this is the

(01:39:42):
Mysterious Childer, again did you enjoy our. Tape too bad
about four. Alms then there are always.

Speaker 43 (01:39:51):
Some mother in laws who simply can't get away From
they keep coming back like an old. Refrain, Oh albert's now, freeman,
unless of course he's been haunted on the other. Side,
NOW i recall another case in which a young man.

Speaker 12 (01:40:09):
Who woke up to find himself dead and decided.

Speaker 9 (01:40:12):
That you.

Speaker 29 (01:40:14):
Have to get off.

Speaker 43 (01:40:15):
Here i'm, sorry But i'm sure we'll meet. AGAIN i
take this same train every week.

Speaker 23 (01:40:23):
At this same.

Speaker 28 (01:40:23):
Time you've just Heard The Mysterious, traveler a series of
dramas of the strange and. Terrifying all characters In tonight's

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story were, fictitious and any resemblance to the names of
actual persons was purely. Coincidental In tonight's case Were Maurice,
Toplin Adelaide, Kline Mason, Adams Bill, keane And Connie. Lempkey
sound was By George, cooney brought cast Engineer Al. King
original music was played By Paul. Taupman The Mysterious traveler is, written,
produced and directed By ROBERT.

Speaker 9 (01:41:08):
A arthur And David.

Speaker 28 (01:41:09):
Cogan listen next.

Speaker 43 (01:41:13):
Week to a tale Titled Murder Bank, proxy another strange
and suspenseful tale of The Mysterious.

Speaker 28 (01:41:19):
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Speaker 18 (01:41:35):
System but the.

Speaker 7 (01:41:46):
Question, remains where does the mother in law?

Speaker 29 (01:41:49):
Go that's?

Speaker 7 (01:41:51):
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Chest yesterday we brought you an, outstanding an outstanding broadcast
Of Quiet. Please i'm going to bring you another another episode,
today this one from a year, Earlier august, tenth nineteen forty.
Seven and this is a real weird. One Willis cooper
wrote some strange. Stuff this one is entitled Bring me To, Life.

Speaker 9 (01:43:35):
Please Quiet.

Speaker 53 (01:43:42):
Please today Is Quiet pleased story written and directed By

(01:44:07):
Willis cooper and Featuring Ernest, chapel was called Bring me To?

Speaker 9 (01:44:11):
Life Shut? Up why can't people let me? Alone? Oh

(01:45:00):
this Is HANK Viscarti, Hello. Hank how are you?

Speaker 18 (01:45:05):
Today where's your? Script?

Speaker 9 (01:45:08):
Oh i've just got three more pages to.

Speaker 18 (01:45:10):
GO i got it into you this. Afternoon we'll be
sure you, do will. You we're sitting here waiting for us.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
All, Sorry, Hank i'll get it in, Alright, Okay now
we've got to have it, today.

Speaker 9 (01:45:21):
All, right all, right you'll.

Speaker 18 (01:45:22):
Get, it, Okay i'll wait for, it all, Right i'll see. You, yeah,
yeah i'll see. You i'll see it IF i get an.

Speaker 9 (01:45:37):
Idea got no more idea in a rabbit page. One
yeah that's a. Start let me.

Speaker 18 (01:45:52):
See BUT i needs a.

Speaker 53 (01:45:54):
Character, character, Character come, on? Character, here you got three? Dollars,
NO i haven't got three. Dollars what do you want
three dollars for the?

Speaker 18 (01:46:06):
Milkman you had some money last?

Speaker 9 (01:46:08):
NIGHT i got eighty cents by listen To, ruthie give
me an idea for a.

Speaker 44 (01:46:12):
CHARACTER i haven't got any ideas for.

Speaker 9 (01:46:14):
Characters you really got three.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
Dollars he's been here.

Speaker 9 (01:46:17):
Twice you much check WHAT i wants a character for this?

Speaker 44 (01:46:20):
Script the only ONE i can think of now is the.
Milkman you'll get to.

Speaker 53 (01:46:24):
Work, yeah you get to. Work, Sure, SURE i get a.
Character i'll get to. Work that's ALL i, need and
i'll get a, story all, RIGHT i? Think come, on,
Character come, on, character.

Speaker 18 (01:46:45):
And now what you?

Speaker 9 (01:46:46):
WANT i, SAID i haven't got three. Dollars i'll come on, In,
Ruth what are? You what's the matter with? You come on?

Speaker 18 (01:46:58):
HERE i, Said, ruth you didn't you knock at this?

Speaker 12 (01:47:04):
Door?

Speaker 18 (01:47:07):
OH i THOUGHT i heard?

Speaker 9 (01:47:08):
Somebody all, right all right don't go on AND i
must be. Going, OH i didn't write.

Speaker 18 (01:47:23):
That how did that get on that?

Speaker 9 (01:47:27):
Paper bring me to? LIFE i didn't write, That NO i, Did. Ruth, Ruthie, Hey, ruthie.

Speaker 29 (01:47:46):
What's The?

Speaker 9 (01:47:48):
Ruthie come?

Speaker 4 (01:47:48):
Here come here?

Speaker 12 (01:47:49):
Quick what's the matter with?

Speaker 9 (01:47:50):
You look at my?

Speaker 18 (01:47:51):
Typewriter what about?

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
It?

Speaker 9 (01:47:53):
Look look what's on the?

Speaker 44 (01:47:54):
Paper bring me to? Life what's strange about?

Speaker 9 (01:47:58):
THAT i didn't write?

Speaker 29 (01:48:00):
It what are?

Speaker 44 (01:48:01):
You?

Speaker 9 (01:48:02):
Look look see what it's doing underlining those?

Speaker 44 (01:48:07):
Words how are you doing?

Speaker 22 (01:48:09):
That?

Speaker 9 (01:48:10):
GOD i tell. You, LOOK i SAID i didn't write,
it and the typewriter just said, NO i. Didn't who is?
IT i don't C H A R A C T
E r.

Speaker 44 (01:48:28):
Character now look this is a gag of some.

Speaker 29 (01:48:37):
Kind how are you?

Speaker 9 (01:48:38):
Doing and it isn't a gag that that typewriter's.

Speaker 44 (01:48:41):
Haunted it is, impossible, NOW i tell you it.

Speaker 10 (01:48:44):
Is.

Speaker 18 (01:48:44):
Huh we'll look at.

Speaker 10 (01:48:46):
It bring me?

Speaker 9 (01:48:49):
Life you, see.

Speaker 10 (01:48:53):
All?

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
Right smart, guys it's a great.

Speaker 44 (01:48:56):
Trick how do you do?

Speaker 10 (01:48:57):
It?

Speaker 9 (01:48:57):
RUTH i swear TO i Swear i'm not doing.

Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
It you are.

Speaker 9 (01:49:01):
Too look, no, wait wait a, Minute i'll go way
over here and you'll. See now it'll right it'll.

Speaker 29 (01:49:09):
Right why?

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
NOT i knew it was a.

Speaker 44 (01:49:16):
Gag, Listen i've got housework to. Do, now you go
on and get that script.

Speaker 3 (01:49:20):
Written the.

Speaker 18 (01:49:21):
TRUTH i have to think up a character. First there
it goes, again.

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
It, says, me, me, me, me, me.

Speaker 44 (01:49:38):
All, right there's your character right about?

Speaker 18 (01:49:41):
Him do you really? Suppose?

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
Now, look, Darling i've been married to a write long
enough to believe almost.

Speaker 44 (01:49:47):
ANYTHING i don't.

Speaker 10 (01:49:49):
Know how this is.

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
Done but it's worth, trying isn't.

Speaker 9 (01:49:51):
It WELL i don't like the monkey with things like.

Speaker 18 (01:49:54):
That don't be.

Speaker 4 (01:49:55):
Silly well it's wait a. Minute it's one thing to
write about supernatural. Things well that's another to.

Speaker 18 (01:50:02):
EXPERIENCE.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
M you've always been wishing.

Speaker 44 (01:50:04):
You had a typewriter that'll do your script for. You
now you got. It go, Ahead, yes but.

Speaker 18 (01:50:11):
How DO i know who this?

Speaker 44 (01:50:12):
Is?

Speaker 10 (01:50:13):
Who?

Speaker 9 (01:50:13):
Well this, character whatever it, Is, well.

Speaker 44 (01:50:16):
You decide you'll bring him to.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Life go?

Speaker 18 (01:50:19):
Ahead who should he?

Speaker 10 (01:50:23):
Be?

Speaker 18 (01:50:24):
Well a? PIRATE i don't know anything about.

Speaker 9 (01:50:29):
Pirates what it SAYS i?

Speaker 5 (01:50:34):
Do go?

Speaker 44 (01:50:35):
AHEAD i don't like. It go ahead unless this is a.

Speaker 18 (01:50:40):
Gag it's no, gag, Right.

Speaker 9 (01:50:43):
WELL, m it was a dark and stormy.

Speaker 4 (01:50:54):
Night what's that?

Speaker 30 (01:50:56):
Sound like.

Speaker 44 (01:50:57):
Thunder there's a storm coming.

Speaker 18 (01:51:01):
Up gosh does this thing control the weather? Too wt some?

Speaker 44 (01:51:06):
More this is getting. Interesting WELL i.

Speaker 18 (01:51:18):
M hm m mm. Hmm, okay nothing's.

Speaker 44 (01:51:26):
Happening what did you write?

Speaker 9 (01:51:28):
Here read?

Speaker 30 (01:51:29):
It the pirate ship gotted through the roaring, waves all
her sails straining.

Speaker 42 (01:51:35):
Under the howling.

Speaker 44 (01:51:36):
Wind do you smell?

Speaker 9 (01:51:41):
Anything smell, YEAH i sure.

Speaker 53 (01:51:45):
Do it smells like the. Ocean go, on read some?
More roots, HIGH i THINK i know how this. Works,
Now oh what do you? MEAN i think you have
to read it to make it?

Speaker 44 (01:52:02):
Happen well you read it? Then no YOU i don't
want to read.

Speaker 29 (01:52:09):
It i'm.

Speaker 44 (01:52:10):
SCARED i don't like it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:14):
Either look the, typewriter it, says.

Speaker 10 (01:52:21):
Well.

Speaker 53 (01:52:23):
Well Captain jabe's, Thorn scourge of The Spanish, Main scourge
of The Spanish. Main slowly climbed the steps of the companion.

Speaker 18 (01:52:38):
Way, uh companion.

Speaker 44 (01:52:43):
Way, yes there's somebody coming up the. Stairs you know.

Speaker 9 (01:52:48):
There are any stairs in this?

Speaker 18 (01:52:49):
House?

Speaker 9 (01:52:50):
Oh read some, more and flung open the.

Speaker 18 (01:52:55):
Door he gazed on.

Speaker 9 (01:52:59):
The wild scene for a second and drew his. Cutlass
what's that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
My sweetish crystal?

Speaker 18 (01:53:06):
Vase it fell?

Speaker 9 (01:53:08):
Down he knocked it off with that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:10):
That's comeless or whatever it. Is that phase costs forty two.

Speaker 9 (01:53:14):
Dollars, WELL i couldn't help, it, honey you do something about.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
It, oh my beautiful, vase and there.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Is another one like it in the.

Speaker 9 (01:53:22):
World what CAN i do for guy's? Sake, HONEY i
can't Help wait a.

Speaker 18 (01:53:26):
Minute. Wait he.

Speaker 9 (01:53:36):
Returned the cutlass to its. Scabbards you see.

Speaker 20 (01:53:41):
That doesn't bring back my.

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
Vese.

Speaker 53 (01:53:43):
Listen he turned to the beautiful girl at his, side
put on his.

Speaker 9 (01:53:49):
Arm, oh what's the, matter and great big.

Speaker 19 (01:53:53):
Hands what's?

Speaker 44 (01:53:55):
Happening somebody kissed me with what.

Speaker 10 (01:54:03):
You?

Speaker 49 (01:54:04):
Hired?

Speaker 26 (01:54:04):
You?

Speaker 12 (01:54:06):
You, no, no?

Speaker 18 (01:54:08):
You ruth's, up stop?

Speaker 44 (01:54:11):
Him scare you?

Speaker 9 (01:54:13):
Pirates, Ah, Ruth, well my, friends that all happened a week.

Speaker 18 (01:54:37):
Ago sure it really.

Speaker 9 (01:54:39):
Happened, NO i haven't got any explanation for.

Speaker 53 (01:54:43):
It ALL i know is that that stuff appeared on my,
typewriter and all the other things happened just the way
you've heard. Them And ruth made the pirates disappear when.

Speaker 18 (01:54:53):
She tore up the sheet of.

Speaker 53 (01:54:54):
Paper ALL i know is it hitting a good idea
for a story about a, pirate AND i wrote. It
people thought it would swell.

Speaker 4 (01:55:04):
And here it is deadline time again and me without
an idea, Again and any minute That hank, discard he'll
be on that phone again asking for my.

Speaker 18 (01:55:12):
Script you see get any?

Speaker 29 (01:55:16):
Psychic?

Speaker 53 (01:55:17):
Oh, okay, Hello, hank how did you know it was?
ME i always know when it's script. Day i've only
got about three pages to, Go.

Speaker 18 (01:55:28):
Hank when DO i get?

Speaker 9 (01:55:31):
It tomorrow?

Speaker 23 (01:55:31):
Morning for?

Speaker 18 (01:55:32):
Sure, okay see that you? Do, Okay, hank you get?
It you get? It here we go, Again here we go? Again? Uh,
me what DO i write about this? Time?

Speaker 23 (01:55:53):
Now not about pirates?

Speaker 18 (01:55:54):
Again?

Speaker 9 (01:55:56):
Now let me?

Speaker 18 (01:55:57):
Sing, no that's not for. ME I i don't like love.
Stories mm mm, No, no people don't want war. Stories
uh how about a Who done? It a crime? Story a, murderer, detective, spies.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
Maybe calling all?

Speaker 18 (01:56:31):
Cards, yeah MAYBE i could do that.

Speaker 4 (01:56:36):
Now awful lot of Who Done it's on the network.
Though oh, well one more won't hurt.

Speaker 9 (01:56:43):
'em let's go. Eh no for a character, CHARACTERS i
Wonder wait a, Minute wait a, minute Ruth ruthie.

Speaker 18 (01:57:14):
Just wanted to be sure she's asleep after the way
she murdered my.

Speaker 53 (01:57:19):
Pirate you know this could turn out to be a great.
Racket have your, characters write your stories for. Them the
only thing is you have to be careful WHEN.

Speaker 18 (01:57:30):
I put down on. Paper don't wanna find myself getting
choked to death by Somebody.

Speaker 4 (01:57:33):
I've brought to.

Speaker 9 (01:57:34):
Life, Hey, hey what AM i?

Speaker 18 (01:57:35):
Saying, well let's see what happens page.

Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
One you Don't you don't have to believe those. Friends
i'm not so SURE i believe it, Either even Though
i've been mixed up with supernatural stories for so, LONG
i Guess i'm a sucker for. Him maybe all that didn't.
Happen Maybe ruthie AND i dreamed. It the only thing

(01:58:10):
is two people don't usually dream the same dream at
the same, time you. Know and that sweetish crystal base
of hers is sure. Busted you KNOW i didn't do. It,
okay hypnotism Maybe, okay.

Speaker 9 (01:58:23):
Business isn't, something.

Speaker 18 (01:58:26):
And i'm going to try it. Again sure that, Relapse but.

Speaker 9 (01:58:32):
We'll see who will do the?

Speaker 18 (01:58:33):
Laughing me or?

Speaker 9 (01:58:34):
You how's your?

Speaker 4 (01:58:36):
Imagination mine's all? Right think you so shut up a
minute WHEN i try. This let's keep quiet and let's
see what. Happens, okay, okay, hey, character, character.

Speaker 9 (01:58:57):
Come, on, character come, on?

Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
Character what NO i did? That it wasn't the CHARACTER
i just? Wrote are you? There let me see if he.
Answers come, on, CHARACTER i need a. Story will help
me the other?

Speaker 9 (01:59:19):
Day?

Speaker 53 (01:59:19):
Character help? Me, now come, on come to. Life, character
you hear? Me come, on, PAL i need. Help don't
be mad at, me hyrate romantic. Guy i'm a. SOLDIER

(01:59:53):
i Mean i'm a. Detective, Okay, Okay So i'm a
jump SO i can't pull it back to out of
the air like.

Speaker 18 (02:00:07):
That, okay.

Speaker 9 (02:00:10):
So go on and Last i'm.

Speaker 4 (02:00:12):
Sorry and if you were sitting around waiting in the
country at this time of, night all, alone your wife sounds,
asleep and this is the only light in the, house
and you've got to write a supernatural story before, morning
try it. Sometime, friends we'll just keep quiet and let
me try to.

Speaker 23 (02:00:30):
Work.

Speaker 4 (02:00:30):
Huh you got nothing to do but listen to the.
Radio how'd you like to have to write those things
you listen?

Speaker 18 (02:00:35):
To huh in the middle of the, night hold on by.

Speaker 9 (02:00:38):
Yourself, okay, quiet, please.

Speaker 18 (02:00:46):
Hm m.

Speaker 9 (02:00:58):
Mm.

Speaker 18 (02:01:00):
Huh listen to.

Speaker 5 (02:01:00):
THIS i am.

Speaker 18 (02:01:04):
ALONE i am alone in a great.

Speaker 9 (02:01:07):
Dark house with only the weird wail of the wind
and the whispering. Willows. Uh you think that's too much.
Alliteration weird wail of, winds whispering. WILLOWS i kind of
like it in the whispering willows to keep me somber, company.

Speaker 18 (02:01:29):
That's.

Speaker 9 (02:01:29):
Okay, huh Maybe i'll get a story, yet just keep, quiet.

Speaker 18 (02:01:36):
They sure waste the. Character will give me a hand, Though,
now what could have happened to a guy sitting here
LIKE i am?

Speaker 10 (02:01:44):
See could?

Speaker 4 (02:01:47):
Happen it could be a, ghost N i, know ghost,
chains clanking and, stuff corny sound.

Speaker 18 (02:01:54):
Effects now.

Speaker 12 (02:01:56):
A, burgler.

Speaker 9 (02:01:59):
M burger might be. Good, UH.

Speaker 18 (02:02:04):
I wouldn't know what to do about a burger.

Speaker 4 (02:02:05):
Though we haven't got anythinghere' stealing around. Here, besides burglers
are kind of corny, too aren't?

Speaker 12 (02:02:10):
They you?

Speaker 44 (02:02:10):
Know?

Speaker 18 (02:02:10):
Uh you always think of a fat guy and a
mask with an old fashioned dark lantern and a bag
over his.

Speaker 4 (02:02:16):
Shoulder oh like those. Fellas uh they're drawn. Codgers uh
what's the name of the? Fella Does Larry? Reynolds the
big fat guy and the little old?

Speaker 23 (02:02:24):
One?

Speaker 9 (02:02:25):
Uh burglers are.

Speaker 4 (02:02:26):
Funny burgers are out, well what the hood comes sneaking
into your house in the middle of the.

Speaker 53 (02:02:34):
Night let me, see let's, See, hey what about an escaped.
Convict an escape. Convict that'd be all, right wouldn't?

Speaker 44 (02:02:46):
It uh.

Speaker 18 (02:02:46):
Huh you can do a lot of things with an escape.

Speaker 9 (02:02:49):
Convict guy's wife, asleep.

Speaker 18 (02:02:52):
You, know a desperate. CHARACTER i could have let the door.

Speaker 9 (02:02:55):
Unlocked he could have sneaked. IN i never know.

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
It they could be looking over my shoulder right. Now,
hey stop that scare myself to. That, hey this will
be all, Right this will be all.

Speaker 18 (02:03:10):
Right he, uh let's. See he could have sneaked Into ruthie's.
Room WOULD i wake, You?

Speaker 9 (02:03:17):
Ruthie i'm sorry talking to, Myself.

Speaker 12 (02:03:20):
Ruth ruth what's the, matter?

Speaker 9 (02:03:27):
Darling where's the?

Speaker 18 (02:03:28):
Light never mind the?

Speaker 44 (02:03:29):
Like?

Speaker 18 (02:03:29):
Mister and you shut up right?

Speaker 9 (02:03:33):
NOW i, said shut.

Speaker 18 (02:03:35):
Up quiet, now stop, it stop, it AND i won't hurt.
You now stop.

Speaker 29 (02:03:40):
You you hurt my.

Speaker 18 (02:03:42):
Husband he'll be all right, now just keep quiet a.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
Minute who are, you?

Speaker 18 (02:03:46):
MA'AM i just crashed out.

Speaker 9 (02:03:48):
Of the big.

Speaker 45 (02:03:48):
House as they say in the, movies YOU i have escaped, convict.
Ma'am and for your, INFORMATION i am a pretty desperate escaped.

Speaker 18 (02:03:56):
Convict where's your? Husband keep his? Clothes What i'm still
wearing the?

Speaker 53 (02:04:01):
CLOTHES a state thoughtfully provides for convicted, murderers, ma'am and
they're rather.

Speaker 18 (02:04:06):
CONSPICUOUS i need a. Change which is his? Closet you killed?

Speaker 45 (02:04:11):
Him, no, MA'AM i didn't kill, him BUT i may
do that yet IF i don't get a little cooperation
out of, you let me. Out oh you just sit
there and tell me where to find his other suit
whereas the.

Speaker 12 (02:04:22):
Light, mm you're very.

Speaker 18 (02:04:27):
Pretty let me go to my.

Speaker 9 (02:04:30):
Husband, nah, Darling, NO i got other plans for.

Speaker 44 (02:04:33):
You is?

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Uh is this his?

Speaker 9 (02:04:37):
Closet?

Speaker 18 (02:04:40):
Oh, yeah nice little? Suit, YEAH i like now.

Speaker 53 (02:04:47):
A little on the large side for. Me but you
can shut your eyes WHILE i CHANGE. U i'll need
a shirt.

Speaker 44 (02:04:54):
Too what are you going to?

Speaker 9 (02:04:56):
Do, Well i'll tell you.

Speaker 45 (02:04:58):
First i'm gonna get into this nice new oversized suit of.

Speaker 9 (02:05:02):
Clothes let me see if you go?

Speaker 53 (02:05:04):
Right? Sorry nice? Shirts, Sorry, NO i don't think he's.
Dead and, uh even if he, is he can't hang
me more than.

Speaker 9 (02:05:15):
Once you.

Speaker 18 (02:05:15):
Know, please please be, STILL i, said be.

Speaker 45 (02:05:19):
Still, listen. Ma'am don't be misled Because i'm treating you.
NICELY i am really a very rough. Person you might
have read about me in the. Papers please, no now shut,
up Or i'll have to shut you? Up what do
You as soon AS i get these clothes, Adjusted i'm
gonna leave, here, ma'am And i'm gonna take you with. Me,

(02:05:41):
no you, see they're out after me, already and they
want me pretty. Badly they have rifles and shop, guns,
ma'am and they don't hesitate to use, 'em that, is
unless there's a lady. Present you see, Now now on that,
tie you're not sh please please, HM i to.

Speaker 9 (02:06:01):
Tie this.

Speaker 29 (02:06:03):
Very?

Speaker 23 (02:06:04):
Nice you.

Speaker 45 (02:06:06):
See IF i might be so, CRUDE i intend to
take you along for a kind of shield. Man the
boys won't shoot, you, understand if there's a possibility of.

Speaker 9 (02:06:15):
Putting a bullet through.

Speaker 53 (02:06:16):
You SO i suggest you get up and get a
coat or. Something it's getting quite a lot cooler, OUT i,
said get.

Speaker 3 (02:06:24):
UP i, won't.

Speaker 18 (02:06:25):
Ma'am you better please let me see my. HAND i
told you'd be all.

Speaker 3 (02:06:29):
Right.

Speaker 53 (02:06:29):
Then if you're a good, girl you might get back
to him one of these. Days if you're, not does
your husband wear? Hats if you're, not you might not come,
on get, UP i.

Speaker 4 (02:06:40):
WON'T i suppose it Was ruth screaming that brought me
back through the darkness to a kind of semi.

Speaker 9 (02:06:52):
Consciousness the light was still on in their.

Speaker 18 (02:06:55):
ROOM i could hear them. Talking still out, COLD i.

Speaker 9 (02:06:58):
Have my eyes. SHUT i WHY i SUPPOSE i ought
to have got up and Helped.

Speaker 18 (02:07:03):
RUTH i was still pretty. GROGGY i just lay. THERE
i could hear, Them, oh come, on, MA'AM i haven't
got much time to. WAIT i got my eyes open
just a little, then AND i could See ruth with their.

Speaker 53 (02:07:15):
Heavy croat thrown around, her and he had her by the,
hand and he was pulling her toward the.

Speaker 9 (02:07:20):
Door, oh come, on come, on come.

Speaker 53 (02:07:22):
On seemed to be a long time BEFORE i could
get up on one. ELBOW i had, hurt AND i
wasn't sure what. Happened ruth was. Gone who was the
MAN i saw dragging her? AWAY I i tried to. Think,
finally the fog fared away enough SO i could figure

(02:07:45):
out what to. Do it seemed hours later.

Speaker 9 (02:07:48):
THAT i got to my.

Speaker 18 (02:07:49):
FEET i staggered out to the other.

Speaker 9 (02:07:53):
Room Where i'd been working with my.

Speaker 18 (02:07:55):
TYPEWRITER i should do, SOMETHING i knew what SHOULD i.

Speaker 53 (02:08:01):
Do my mind wouldn't. WORK i wanted to go after,
them but something stopped. Me something wouldn't let me.

Speaker 18 (02:08:09):
GO i didn't know what it? Was something was making
a noise through the ringing in my? Ears what was?

Speaker 9 (02:08:18):
It and at LAST i recognized the sound was my.

Speaker 53 (02:08:26):
TYPEWRITER i fell down AS i staggered across to. IT
I i crawled the rest of the, way of, course,
myself to look at the. Paper my keys were happening
away and slowly, THANEFULLY i read the words.

Speaker 9 (02:08:45):
Bring me to, life bring me to, life bring who to?

Speaker 18 (02:08:59):
Life me, me, me said the, Typewriter, me, me, me.

Speaker 29 (02:09:09):
And the last.

Speaker 44 (02:09:12):
My.

Speaker 53 (02:09:12):
Pirate, oh come, on, character come, on, pirate and the
typewriter clacked. Away, hurry, hurry, HURRY i, said, Painfully, oh so.

Speaker 9 (02:09:31):
PAINFULLY i got.

Speaker 53 (02:09:32):
One hand on the, keyboard and that is real blurred
WHEN i found. Them M pirate comes, in draws, cutlass.

Speaker 9 (02:09:53):
Sees, enemy goes to rescue Through french, window pursues, enemy
enemy frightened white knows rest you coming pirates raises. Cutless,

(02:10:23):
Yeah i'm my, veil now.

Speaker 30 (02:10:26):
My.

Speaker 9 (02:10:26):
Bail it was pretty hard to.

Speaker 4 (02:10:29):
Explain that that man wearing my clothes in my garage
dead from the wicked slashing blows of a great sword a.

Speaker 9 (02:10:37):
Cutlass hard to, explain that's, impossible.

Speaker 18 (02:10:43):
You believe?

Speaker 9 (02:10:43):
IT i believe.

Speaker 53 (02:10:45):
It ruth believes, it and that's the whole. Story thanks,
character good, night, character.

Speaker 9 (02:11:12):
You have listened to bring me to.

Speaker 18 (02:11:14):
LIFE A Quiet please story written and directed By Willis.

Speaker 9 (02:11:18):
Cooper the man who talked to you Was Ernest.

Speaker 18 (02:11:21):
Chappell that route was played By Helen.

Speaker 23 (02:11:23):
Marcy Walter black was the.

Speaker 4 (02:11:25):
Murderer the man on the telephone Was Warren. Bryan the
music was composed and played By Jeane brazzo and the.
Character and now for a word.

Speaker 9 (02:11:37):
About next Week's Quia. Please here is our, writer Director Willis.

Speaker 18 (02:11:41):
Cooper next week's story is CALLED A Mile high and
A Mile, deep with the story about the copper mines
and the mountains Above Butte montana and the people who worked.
There and so until next. Week at this, TIME i

(02:12:04):
Am quiet for, Yours.

Speaker 9 (02:12:07):
Ernest.

Speaker 53 (02:12:07):
Chapel this program came to you From New. York this

(02:12:29):
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(02:16:21):
in a very abrupt and foreboding. Manner the other, night
just as the mystery man was about to reveal the
significance of the coat of arms found in the baby's,
locket lum heard a gunshot and the phone conversation was never.
Finished so the old fellows know little more than they
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(02:16:43):
and the baby in the jott and down store and.

Speaker 9 (02:16:45):
Library listening.

Speaker 3 (02:16:51):
Is.

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grandpap's all us reading?

Speaker 29 (02:17:03):
Out oh oh yeah that? That, yeah you wait right,
here and now That. Charlie i'll be right back for.

Speaker 4 (02:17:09):
Him and don't call the Baby charlie got and is
how would that Sound King?

Speaker 29 (02:17:13):
Charlie well we could use this full, Name King Charlie.
Avenue that sounds.

Speaker 4 (02:17:18):
Good that's even. Worse hurry up and get the? Book
is this it?

Speaker 20 (02:17:22):
Here the one with the red caber on?

Speaker 44 (02:17:24):
It?

Speaker 4 (02:17:24):
YEAH i believe that you One i'm bringing on over.

Speaker 12 (02:17:26):
Here, yeah it's the.

Speaker 29 (02:17:27):
One Of grandpappy, spirit all, right the rule.

Speaker 4 (02:17:30):
Where we start our spearman's, down. Spearman, yeah you're going
to try out different foreign languages on the little or
on his. Majesty then we'll see if he acts like
he's familiar with any of. Them by a way we
can tell what country is.

Speaker 29 (02:17:43):
From oh, OH i, see, well good for. You well
you sure this will work now?

Speaker 4 (02:17:49):
LONG i don't know what we will have to try
it because he's the only person we got left to
find out anything from. Him oh, here give me the.

Speaker 29 (02:17:55):
Book, yeah, yeah what do you mean over by that
he's on and one?

Speaker 4 (02:18:01):
Left well we know he ain't got no mom. Anymore
no these, ways that's what The feller told us on
the phone the other.

Speaker 29 (02:18:07):
Night, yeah that's what he.

Speaker 4 (02:18:08):
Claimed and according to, him that woman that left the
baby here is a mean sister of the. Marm she
just trying to get shut of the baby so she
can get the kingdom for. Herself.

Speaker 29 (02:18:17):
YEAH i hate and despy that.

Speaker 4 (02:18:19):
Woman so that sure we don't want to ask her
no questions or have anything to do with at. First, no, no,
no not a thing in the.

Speaker 29 (02:18:25):
World don't want to get mixed up with. Her i'll
hey to you that right.

Speaker 4 (02:18:28):
Now and we can't find out nothing more from that
fella In Kansas city because he ain't living no. More
AND i wish he would have told me what that
end sign that stands for before he got hisself. Shot, well, now.

Speaker 29 (02:18:39):
Are you sure that's what happened to him later he got? Shot,
well you heard me talking to him on the phone
the other and, YEAH i was right. Here SURE i
heard every word he.

Speaker 4 (02:18:48):
Said and all of a, SUDDEN i hear the gunshot
and he sort of. Moaned and after THAT i couldn't
get no more conversation out of.

Speaker 29 (02:18:54):
Him, no that sounds like he might have got, shot all, right.

Speaker 4 (02:18:57):
You recollect he kept saying he couldn't talk no louder
on the county was too.

Speaker 29 (02:19:00):
Dangers, yeah, YEAH i re select. That he kept saying
that all the.

Speaker 4 (02:19:04):
Time that's what he's talking. About, oh they got, him
just sure as the.

Speaker 3 (02:19:07):
World it Was.

Speaker 29 (02:19:08):
Reckon it was that mean, sister the Chotting, well.

Speaker 4 (02:19:11):
No, reckon it was somebody else that she got to
do it for. Her, oh, oh more than likely that
bunch of. Crooks she's mixed up.

Speaker 29 (02:19:19):
With just about who it, was and then.

Speaker 4 (02:19:21):
He they ain't taking no chances on nobody. Spiling that s.
Firm i'll say that they're bound and. Determined they're gonna
get the baby's.

Speaker 29 (02:19:28):
Kingdom, Yeah dad blames snakes and the. Weeds they ought
to be ashamed of their.

Speaker 4 (02:19:32):
Shame but they're overlooking one, thing and that's me and
you or two.

Speaker 18 (02:19:37):
Things.

Speaker 4 (02:19:38):
Huh we ain't gonna let them get away with, It, Avenue, no.

Speaker 29 (02:19:41):
SIR i. Don't is good for. Us we'll protect.

Speaker 4 (02:19:43):
Him, yeah, Sure i'm, Smart alex.

Speaker 29 (02:19:45):
Thing, yeah that's our.

Speaker 4 (02:19:46):
Time and as you, Know, avenue me and you were
just about the only relates the baby's.

Speaker 29 (02:19:52):
Got relates are we related with?

Speaker 19 (02:19:55):
Him?

Speaker 4 (02:19:55):
Well, NO i mean, Friends, oh somebody to look after
him all si she's At, yeah, yeah he's a orphan
that's what he.

Speaker 29 (02:20:01):
Is orphan king told you that's Running little Orphant King.
Charlie that sounds just like that. Poem you know, What
little Orphant King charlie come to our house to stay
the worst.

Speaker 4 (02:20:12):
Host case we ain't gonna ain't gonna stay having how
as soon as we find out where his kingdom's, at
we'll get him back to his royalty castles. Fast you'll
make that sister's head.

Speaker 29 (02:20:22):
Swim, well good for, us that's the thing gonna. Do, yeah,
well come, on come, on let's trying the languages and
see when we get this country business settle right.

Speaker 4 (02:20:30):
Now, yeah let me look at the book here and
find that good in to try out on.

Speaker 29 (02:20:34):
Him don't we wait him a? Long look her Little
charlie's fell asleeet looking.

Speaker 4 (02:20:39):
Setting up there.

Speaker 29 (02:20:40):
In, yeah look at, him a part of him setting
up that, away you, Know, yeah look at. Him look at.

Speaker 4 (02:20:46):
Him he's acute and when he's, Asleep, yes he. Is
never expect that little. Man there's a. King would you all?

Speaker 29 (02:20:53):
Look got his thumb in his? Mouth oh, boy he
wants to know what he's talking about? Him, yeah hall
all the, Flure.

Speaker 54 (02:21:03):
Yes, sir you're a smart and anti you look at him, Grid,
yeah bless his Hard, well come on there you deal
up from some.

Speaker 29 (02:21:11):
Dimples look there, HERE i dog, IT i least he
is a short, word little cart when he's smart, enough,
well giving them foreign languages while he's awake out long
it may be talking now he's coming to say.

Speaker 4 (02:21:23):
Something oh, Shortly, NO i don't know what language he Did.

Speaker 29 (02:21:29):
NO i know that just sounds like a baby to.

Speaker 4 (02:21:31):
ME i don't believe, it you, see Believe i'll try
to french out on him, first frank huh, Yeah now
listen to. This goodn't, closer Little charlie set up there, now,
uh genie party posse. Fronks did he look up or
anything of?

Speaker 29 (02:21:49):
It, no just grab hold of his. Tools all he?

Speaker 4 (02:21:53):
Done, well watch his eyes it's. Time see if they
get brighter or?

Speaker 29 (02:21:56):
Anything, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure go, ahead go, ahead.

Speaker 4 (02:22:00):
Here's a good. Hurn be, quiet now, listen listen to pay.

Speaker 29 (02:22:03):
Attention now listen, along.

Speaker 4 (02:22:05):
Jeeves, ows sue haiti, lee bon. Jaar what do you
do this?

Speaker 12 (02:22:11):
Time h grab his toes?

Speaker 29 (02:22:13):
Again?

Speaker 12 (02:22:14):
Well what about his?

Speaker 29 (02:22:15):
Eyes oh, no he never grabbed.

Speaker 4 (02:22:16):
THEM i, mean did they light up or?

Speaker 18 (02:22:18):
Anything?

Speaker 29 (02:22:19):
Oh dog THAT i forgot to look at. Them i'd watched.

Speaker 4 (02:22:22):
Him, well, here you take that book And i'll watch
for reaction or they know that could put no dependings on.
You go ahead and give him a couple of lines.

Speaker 29 (02:22:29):
There, well, LONG i don't know these fine.

Speaker 4 (02:22:32):
Languages, well just read something out of the. Book there
is that all you have to? Do, sure go, AHEAD i,
See wait a, minute and pay attention a little. Feeder
see if you've ever heard this language, before.

Speaker 29 (02:22:43):
Go, ahead let me find one here out and, say dog.
Is he's the longest Words i've ever seen in my
life in this book there or you'll see? Here, yeah,
uh elie a all, morns so x.

Speaker 10 (02:23:00):
And t and be.

Speaker 4 (02:23:04):
IT i reckon it ain't the right. One his eyes
never lit up for, nothing never hung just played with
his toes, Though try some other, langer he, Says? French,
now what was That?

Speaker 29 (02:23:13):
FRENCH i just, said of, course my dog? IS i
never know WHAT i could Talk french? Before, well good for.
Me you know that's a heap, easy AND i ever
figured that?

Speaker 10 (02:23:24):
Be you know? What?

Speaker 29 (02:23:25):
LONG i Believe i'll call Up elizabetha right. Now i'm
telling her not to talk At french lang, Noing, NO
i don't call.

Speaker 23 (02:23:31):
Her what DO i?

Speaker 37 (02:23:32):
Say?

Speaker 12 (02:23:32):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:23:33):
LONG i don't. Know look in the book, there huh
translations right?

Speaker 29 (02:23:37):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:23:37):
Now what tell us what you said right? There out
from it?

Speaker 10 (02:23:40):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:23:40):
Hu which line did you?

Speaker 18 (02:23:42):
Read?

Speaker 29 (02:23:42):
Ah let's, see now that's right, HERE i believe it.
WAS i forget myself right. THERE i believe i'd said
it right?

Speaker 4 (02:23:50):
There all? Right she, SAID.

Speaker 9 (02:23:51):
U she is at least.

Speaker 4 (02:23:53):
Sixty DID i say that according to the?

Speaker 18 (02:23:56):
Book?

Speaker 12 (02:23:58):
Uh who WAS i?

Speaker 4 (02:23:59):
TALKING i don't know you said.

Speaker 29 (02:24:02):
IT i must have had somebody in mine. LAW i
just wouldn't sit around and say she's sexty and not
know WHO i was talking. About and, see now what
woman DO i know that's? SEXTY i Think Grandma master's An,
now she's way worth. Sexty and SO i was Saying charity's. Beard,
well just give me a little teeny hint, long a little. Hen,

(02:24:22):
YEAH i KNOW i ain't get. This now if you
just give me one little teeny weeny Hent? Uh what
is the first letter of her? Name what does it begin?

Speaker 4 (02:24:31):
WITH i mean, that don't beat the does give me
that book?

Speaker 10 (02:24:35):
Back?

Speaker 4 (02:24:35):
HUH i do this experimenting by.

Speaker 29 (02:24:37):
Myself oh now wait a, minute, now, long wait a,
MINUTE i come, on just give me the first. LETTER
i can't get. It i'm good at.

Speaker 4 (02:24:42):
THAT i ain't gonna do it after you get an
id like that in your head and you couldn't jar
it out with a stick of.

Speaker 29 (02:24:47):
Anymore, LONG i can get the right answer to.

Speaker 9 (02:24:49):
This you.

Speaker 29 (02:24:50):
Order seeing me over the place last night working, PUSTLE
i was good at. It little pearl, SAID i was
better than everyone in her class at.

Speaker 4 (02:24:56):
School you play with her, then BECAUSE i ain't got
time for, no just.

Speaker 29 (02:25:00):
Give me the first. Letter that's ALL i. Want let
me see see is that the? Letter see? See oh,
No Miss, seastrung is that it? Long miss Sea, strung.

Speaker 4 (02:25:11):
Don't bother, Me. Avenue can't you See i'm trying to
concentrate on these. Lingers Sea, strung that's gonna Try spanish
shining this. Time my dog isn't ever Knows Miss seastrunk
was sixty year, sure don't look at you know?

Speaker 29 (02:25:22):
What how did you know that? Long is this her
birthday or?

Speaker 4 (02:25:25):
Something, hey Chef? Avenue all, right little'm now listen close
to this.

Speaker 29 (02:25:29):
One or she's having a big birthday party again this.

Speaker 4 (02:25:32):
Year, AVENUE i told you. That hashaft oh are you,
ready little? NOUN i mean your majesty lead. Questa uh
the el carnero a? Shadow huh That's? Spanish oh you Talking?

Speaker 29 (02:25:47):
Spanish?

Speaker 4 (02:25:48):
Yeah what did you?

Speaker 29 (02:25:51):
Say?

Speaker 23 (02:25:52):
See?

Speaker 4 (02:25:53):
YEAH i don't have to read it.

Speaker 10 (02:25:54):
Here?

Speaker 4 (02:25:55):
Huh according to, THIS i, said do you like roast?
Mutton roast?

Speaker 29 (02:26:00):
Mutton oh my YES i. Do that's my favorite. Dish, yes,
sir he. Is that's why she's having tonight ROAs munting, Lum,
wow who's?

Speaker 4 (02:26:10):
Having?

Speaker 10 (02:26:10):
Why you know?

Speaker 29 (02:26:11):
Me Sea, Strong. Doggies i'm glad you found out about.
Teslam you know?

Speaker 4 (02:26:16):
What for goodness, Sakes, avenue this roast mutton thing is
just Something i'm trying out on the, baby on the
baby all.

Speaker 29 (02:26:23):
ON i wait a, minute LOMB i don't believe he
order be eating anything like. That that's a. Mistake we'll
hardly let him have.

Speaker 4 (02:26:28):
None, no, Sir, LONG i never said he's gonna eat
any roast. Mutton you, never of course.

Speaker 29 (02:26:33):
Not, oh she's gonna fix him something, Else, steve who
you talking about, Now. DOGGIES i better call Up elizabeth right,
NOW A. Longlizabeth, YEAH i better get her force too. Late,
yes you'll be mad.

Speaker 4 (02:26:44):
And she can't. BE i wait a, Minute, avenue don't
waste her telephone just to tell her you can. Talk Frank,
Well i've got more to tell her.

Speaker 29 (02:26:50):
That i've got to tell her we're. Going oh, hello
is that You elizabeth at they suit your?

Speaker 43 (02:26:57):
Man.

Speaker 29 (02:26:57):
Avenue, Yeah Saint, elizabeth have you started supper?

Speaker 12 (02:27:02):
Yet?

Speaker 29 (02:27:04):
Well stop it in right. NOW i don't care throw
it away because we ain't eating at home. Tonight no
Mere seastrunks invited the baby and all of us over
there for roast. Mutton, yeah she's having a big. Party
it's her. Birthday she's sixty year. Old, Now lom, said
you want you, wonder.

Speaker 4 (02:27:30):
Say, ladies you probably don't think that a mere man
could tell you anything about shopping.

Speaker 12 (02:27:35):
That you don't already know.

Speaker 4 (02:27:37):
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(02:27:59):
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Speaker 7 (02:28:52):
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(02:29:18):
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