Classic Radio 08-20-25 - Jealous Partners and Arson, X Marks the Murder, and The Perfect Prisoner - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Suspense, Shadow Note Washington, calling David Honey count.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic radio Theater, the Great Eldest Lade Zapah McGhee,
and Molly Dragones guns Alone, rang Zoe.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

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

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Drum on a Wednesday with episodes of Boston Blackie is
Starting to Diet Camber from nineteen forty six, The Whistler
from nineteen forty five, The Green Lama Paul Freese in
the last show of the summer series from nineteen forty nine,
and Ilona Massey in Top Secret and loved Abner. That's

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all come up on this Wednesday. And of course you
know what that means. This is the twentieth day of
August two hundred and thirty second day of the year,
one hundred and thirty three days left. President Andrew Johnson
formally declared the Civil War over in eighteen sixty six.
In nineteen twenty, the first commercial radio station, eight MK,

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began operations in Detroit. That station known today as w WJ.
Now the originations of who was first? There are so
many ways that can be defined. It's just bizarre, but
they claim. First now exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky fatally

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wounded in Mexico City on the state in nineteen forty
by an assassin's ice axe. He died the following day.
Nineteen fifty three, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had
tested a hydrogen Bomben sixty eight, troops from the Warsaw
Pact nations led by the Soviet Union began an invasion
of Czechoslovakia to crush the liberalization efforts of leader Alexander Dupchek.

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The next day, President Johnson indicated he wasn't very happy.

Speaker 7 (02:16):
It is a sad commentary on the communist mind that
a sign of liberty in Czechoslovakia is deemed a fundamental
threat to the security of the Soviet system.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
On this date, in nineteen sixty nine, all four Beatles
together in the recording studio for the final time as
they finished the Abbey Road album. In nineteen seventy five,
NASA launched the Viking one planetary plobe toward Mars.

Speaker 8 (02:43):
It began here at the Kennedy Space Center of Florida.
Last summer. A pair of spacecraft Viking one and Viking
two were redded for their separate journeys to Mars. Each
is really two spacecraft, and one a five thousand pounds
orbiter with cameras and communications gear and sealed inside two
saucer like capsules. At the other end, the Viking landing craft,

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a camera equipped automated biological and chemistry laboratory and seismic
station which has been purged of earthly organisms by being
heated in a huge oven. The eleven month, four hundred
and twenty million mile trip for the two Viking orbiter
landers was set in motion by two launches, one in

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August one in September, Earth shrinked smaller and smaller as
the two Vikings head toward their Martian rendezvous.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
NASA Audio Viking two would be launched a month later
on this date. From this date in nineteen seventy five,
on their eleven month journey toward Mars, nineteen seventy seven,
US launched Voyager two, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a twelve
inch copper phonograph recording containing greetings in dozens of languages,

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samples of music, and sounds of nature, in Edmonton, Oklahoma,
on this date in nineteen eighty six, Postal Service employee
Patrick Sheryl gunned down fourteen of his coworkers before killing himself.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Had a nine millimeters pistol and he started a.

Speaker 9 (04:18):
Shooting.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Employee walked back all the ways on the right in
a booze. There was three bodies, and walked back a
through feet further and her four bodies. And you go
back a little bit further, and there's another problem. You
come back up the other side their isolated bodies. You
go back in the back room where they're having to
break their donuts and coffee on the table, and the
dead body.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Later there postal worker Vince Furlong and Edmund, Oklahoma District
Attorney Bob Macy. It was this shooting that coinined the
phrase going postal. In nineteen eighty eight to ceasefire agreed
to in the Iran Iraq War after almost eight years
of conflict. In nineteen ninety one, more than one hundred

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thousand people rallied outside the Soviet Union Parliament building, protesting
the coup, aiming to depose President Nikhail Gorbachev. In nineteen
ninety two, the Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President
George Herbert Walker Bush and Vice President Dan Quail for
a second term. In nineteen ninety three, after rounds of

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secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed,
followed by a public ceremony in Washington the following month.
In nineteen ninety eight, the US military launched cruise missiles
that attacks attacks against alleged Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan
and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for

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the August seventh bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Al Shiba pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum destroyed in the attack.
Joe Biden gave his acceptance speech virtually for the twenty
twenty Democrat presidential nomination at the twenty twenty Democrat National Convention.

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And it was two years ago today. Tropical Storm Hillary
struck Baja California, killing three and causing fifteen million dollars
in damage. As Los Angeles residents braced for the storm's impact,
Mayor Karen Bass had these words for them.

Speaker 10 (06:20):
If you do not need to be on the road,
please don't get in your car.

Speaker 11 (06:25):
Make sure your emergency hit and essential devices are on
hand and ensure that all of your devices are charged.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
It was the first tropical storm to hit southern California
in eighty four years. Among those passing away on this
date in history the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth.
A former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who took that
iconic Ewojima flag raising picture during World War II. He
passed away on this date in two thousand and six

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at the age of ninety four. The Queen of Mien
Leona Helmlessly passing away on this date, the delightful Phyllis Dillar.

Speaker 12 (07:05):
Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest?
I must have been out of my mind. I not
only came in last, I got three hundred and sixty
one get well cards. I don't want you to get
the idea that I have given up on my looks.
I will never give up. I am in my fourteenth
year of a ten day beauty plan. When I go

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to bed at night, I've got so much grease on
my body. I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.
We've got more grease NaNs in the bedroom than we
got in the garage. One night, I asked Fang to
kiss me good night. He got up and put on
his work clothes. You know, the lights have gone out
with dirty old Fang. The last time there was a

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gleam in Fang's either was a shortness electric blanket. All
he cares about is football. I thought that our weekends
after we were married would be a loaf of bread
and jug of wine a lot, you know how it
turned out a box of pretzels, a can of beer,
and the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
A delightful entertainer, Phyllis Diller passing away on this date
in twenty twelve. Also jazz pianist and composer Marion McPartland
passing away on this date. And some people didn't think
he was very nice, and he may not have been,
but I will tell you, like the best entertainers the
best people that have real tempers, temperamental personalities, and Jerry

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Lewis certainly had one of those.

Speaker 13 (08:40):
My name is Norman and I'm five, yes, And this
is my lolly and it's orange and it's my favorite kind.
And if I had a whole out of them, then
everybody here could have some. But it's the only one
I have, so.

Speaker 14 (08:56):
It shouldn't go to waster.

Speaker 15 (09:00):
You know.

Speaker 13 (09:01):
You know a lot of times I say the wrong
thing and my mother really gets very mad at me.
Like the other day, I was in the kitchen and
waiting for my mother to make me breakfast, and my
mother came down. I said, hey, ma, your belly is
sticking very far out and my mother said, that's the baby.
I said, oh, I said, is it nice? She said, oh, yes,

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it's very nice. I said, do you love it? She said, oh, yes,
I love it. I said, then why did you eat it?

Speaker 5 (09:38):
From the nineteen eighty six comic Relief special Jerry Lewis
passing away on this date Back in twenty seventeen. Well
birthdays on this date include the original voice of Fred
Flintstone Alan Reid, but he had a lot of other voices,
including pasqually, you.

Speaker 16 (09:56):
Want to see me about the something, my little pumpkin,
the hair.

Speaker 17 (10:00):
I've got something very important.

Speaker 15 (10:02):
I want to talk to you about it.

Speaker 16 (10:04):
If I wasn't to ask you if you want to
marry Rosa, wouldn't your answer be known?

Speaker 7 (10:09):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (10:10):
Yes, who is you?

Speaker 19 (10:11):
My son?

Speaker 9 (10:12):
I accept your propos.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
From Life with Luigi with j Carrold Nash Alan Reed
born on this date in history, President Benjamin Harrison born
on this date, President twenty three, novelist Jacqueline Suzanne, and
Jim Reeves, wonderful singer, the President of Serbia, and the
Yugoslavist Slovann Melosovich, and the guy who well, I think

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probably a lot of people will remember miss Chef, but
he was quite a singer. Isaac Hayes born on this date.
All those folks have gone past the veil of tears.

Speaker 20 (10:51):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 17 (10:53):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 21 (10:55):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Journalist Connie Chung turns seventy nine today, But every.

Speaker 12 (11:04):
Turn lately the president is running into an attack from
Ross Perrot. Seven months after the election, Pero is still campaigning.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
She's worked for all the major networks ABCCBSNBCCNN and MSNBC
and quick. Who's she married to?

Speaker 18 (11:21):
Quick?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Quick?

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Do you remember? Do you remember? Here's your hint? You
are not the father Maury Povitch? Yes, Connie Chung seventy
nine today. Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant is seventy seven. Al
Roker is seventy one.

Speaker 22 (11:41):
Out West Temperature's nineties, one hundreds hundred teens in the Southwest,
seventies in New England, sixties in the Pacific Northwest. That's
what's going on around the country. Here's what's happening in
your neck of the woods.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
I have no idea what's going on in your neck
of the woods now. Al Roker years and years on
the Today Show, seventy one years of age Today, Spike
from the Buppy and Angel television shows, James Marster sixty
three when Biscuits Spread, Durst is fifty five from Supernatural,
Misha Collins is fifty one. Amy Adams is also fifty

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one today.

Speaker 10 (12:17):
We got the bureau to park two million dollars for
three days.

Speaker 23 (12:19):
We've got the account onless.

Speaker 20 (12:22):
Well you mean you want him?

Speaker 9 (12:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
We did it.

Speaker 23 (12:27):
Yeah, me and that guy she showed me.

Speaker 9 (12:30):
You showed him out thing.

Speaker 23 (12:32):
You did that without me?

Speaker 20 (12:34):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 10 (12:35):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 5 (12:37):
From the twenty thirteen movie American Hustle. Amy Adams fifty
one From Once Upon a Time, Megan Ori is forty three.
He was Spidy. Andrew Garfield is forty two today.

Speaker 9 (12:50):
What are you you a cop?

Speaker 18 (12:52):
Really? You seriously think I'm a cop?

Speaker 24 (12:55):
Fov in a skin tight red and blue suit.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
You know you're here from the twenty twelve twenty fourteen
Spider Man movies. Andrew Garfield forty two. Today WWE's Gunther
pro wrestler thirty eight years of age today.

Speaker 24 (13:11):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Gunther today would have been an ultramega superstar in the
seventies and eighties, he would have been today. He's still
a star, you know, especially the way he will oh
those chops, No, no, no. Gunther thirty eight today. Demi
Lovado thirty three from Glee. Alex Newle is also thirty three,

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and Orda, the voice of Dora the Explorer. Patima Patchek
is twenty five. Those just a few of the people
celebrating the twentieth day of August as their birthday. If
this is your birthday, Hi, We're the.

Speaker 20 (13:51):
Four Freshmen and we just want to say happy birthday to.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
We'll get started now on this Wednesday. Classic Radio Theater
with Quiet Talks, Dick Calmer, Boston Blackie seventy nine years ago,
August twentieth, nineteen forty six, The Jealous Partners and Arson
that's next.

Speaker 25 (14:18):
There's a price tag on almost everything, whether you drive
a shining new nineteen fifty two model or a pre Wargilloppa.
You had to pay the price, and when you were
driving that car, remember that speed also has its price.
The price tag on speed violations last year was fifteen
thousand killed and five hundred thousand injured. This year, thousands
of lives can be saved if you and millions of

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other motorists come to the sober realization that speed is
the biggest killer on the highways and resolved to slow
down before you or someone else pays the price that
must be paid for it. You can do your part
by keeping within speed limits at all times. Drive as
though your life depends on it.

Speaker 9 (14:53):
It does now.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie this episode from seventy nine,
nine years ago August twentieth, nineteen forty six. The jealous
partners and Arson.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Come in.

Speaker 10 (15:10):
Oh, come right in, mister Adams.

Speaker 18 (15:11):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 9 (15:12):
Mister Parker?

Speaker 24 (15:13):
Fine, I'm just fine. I don't have to guess what
you're here about, do I? Oh, I don't suppose you do. Well,
mister Parker. All you have to do to renew the
fire insurance on your building is just sign this form here. Yeah,
Straddam's all I have to do is sign that form
if I were going to renew the policies.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Oh now, come, mister Parker, you're not going to switch
to another company.

Speaker 24 (15:34):
I know I'm not switching to another company. I've just
decided not to carry any more fire insurance on my building.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
Oh now, I know you're kidding.

Speaker 24 (15:42):
That building of yours is much too valuable not to
be heavily insured, and the machinery in it, mister Parker,
you'd lose a fortune if anything ever happened to that.
I've had that building machinery covered for three years and
nothing has happened to it so far. Oh perhaps not,
but a fire could break out at any time to
day tomorrow, next week. Just think what a tragedy that
would be. Your policy lapses at noon to day, you

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can't be serious about not renewing. I am serious, mister Adams.
I'm sorry, but that's my decision.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
All right, mister Parker. It's your decision, and it's your building.
But if it burns down any time after twelve o'clock
noon to day, it's also your loss. And now meet
Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie, enemy to those who make

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him an enemy friend to those who have no friend.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Blackie, this is a lovely view from your window. But
I've stared at it so long as staring back. How
soon can we go out and eat?

Speaker 6 (16:51):
In just a little while, Mary, after finish the latter
the shoddy hm er long ladder to the short one
that's mixed up?

Speaker 10 (16:58):
Isn't it kinda hurry up with?

Speaker 26 (17:01):
You'll stare at the view some Why.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
Go see who that is? Will you married?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
You're sure there's probably somebody from a lovely view to
complain about me staring at it.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
It might be someone from down in the street and
thought you were a lovely view.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well you say the nicest thing to me when you're
so busy you don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 19 (17:18):
Ah, yes, this Boston Blackie is a partner.

Speaker 27 (17:20):
It is.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
And that's Blackie right over there.

Speaker 19 (17:22):
And oh yes, of course I didn't see him.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
There have been people who couldn't see me, some who wouldn't,
But you're the first fellow who didn't. Oh hello, we've met,
haven't we, mister?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yes, my name is Gardner, Blackie, Robert Gardner. I met
you at that party as your friend Charlie Kingston's penthouse
last month.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
Oh, yes, that's right. You and a fellow named Jim
Parker are own business together.

Speaker 18 (17:43):
That's right.

Speaker 19 (17:44):
We own a large factory building on a Love and Street.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Of course. Oh this is miss Wesley well Gardner. Is
there something I can do for him?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yes, Blackie, I wouldn't ask you this if I went desperate.
It's a little embarrassing, but I I guess everybody in
town knows I'm broke, Blackie. I've got to have twenty
five thousand dollars, and I've got to have.

Speaker 26 (18:05):
It fast, twenty five fast.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
You came to me for twenty five thousand dollars. Well,
that's a little out of my class. God, if a
thousand will do you any good?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
No, no, Blackly, No, a thousand won't be a bit
of good. It has to be twenty five thousand at least.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
Well, I'm afraid I can't swing that. You say everyone
in town knows you're broke?

Speaker 9 (18:27):
Why?

Speaker 6 (18:27):
I understand that you and your partner Parker pretty well off.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Parkery is, but I'm not really the Only thing I
have is my half ownership of that building, and the
machinery on Eleventh Street is worth a lot of money, Blacky.
But right now what I need is cash mortgage. I've
already done that, Blackie. My wife is the reason I
have no money in and the reason I need money now.
She's demanding things I can't afford to give hern and
I've got to buy the fur she leave me. I

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can't let that happen.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
No, I suppose not tell you what I'll do. You've
met Charlie Kingston. Yes, why don't you ask him for them?
Use your interest in your firm as security.

Speaker 19 (19:02):
You think mister Kingston would lend me the money?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
He might try, can't any harm. It might be a
good investment for Charlie. I'll call him and tell him
you will be up.

Speaker 19 (19:11):
Oh, thanks, Mickie. I'll see him first thing in the morning.
Thanks a lot.

Speaker 6 (19:14):
Don't thank me. I haven't done anything.

Speaker 18 (19:15):
Yes, yes you have.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
You give me hope of getting that twenty five thousand dollars,
and you don't know how much I needed. I'd do
almost anything to get it. Well, goodbye, Blackie, Goodbye Miss Wesley.
It's nice to match you.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
Goodbye.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Goodbye a lot of luck.

Speaker 19 (19:29):
Miss Wesley.

Speaker 18 (19:29):
I don't need that. I need money.

Speaker 10 (19:32):
Oh, that man is desperate.

Speaker 19 (19:33):
Blackie.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yes, Mary, and there are twenty five thousand reasons.

Speaker 10 (19:37):
Why what, Robert, what did you say?

Speaker 19 (19:51):
I let you have that new coat you wanted, Harry.

Speaker 10 (19:53):
Oh, now, Robert, please don't make such stupid statement. Where
would you get the money?

Speaker 19 (19:59):
I'm gonna get it. I saw Boston Blackie a.

Speaker 10 (20:01):
Little while ago, and he's going to give it to you.

Speaker 19 (20:04):
Well, never mind about that. The money's as good as
in my pocket right now, the money for the cold
and a whole lot more.

Speaker 10 (20:10):
Why, Darling, how sweet are you? I'll go down and
pick out the coat this very afternoon. Now you're sure
you're not joking about having the money this.

Speaker 19 (20:19):
Time tomorrow, sweetheart, I'll be rich. See you for dinner.

Speaker 18 (20:23):
You know you will.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
Now, goodbye, Darling, Bye, Harriet.

Speaker 24 (20:32):
Guess who that was and what he wanted? Jim, I
don't have to guess, Darling. I know because your ever
loving husband. He was bribing her to stay with him.
What a lovely one handed conversation.

Speaker 10 (20:43):
It was too one handed, Jim. I don't understand.

Speaker 24 (20:47):
You were holding the telephone receiver with one hand, and yeah,
that was busy holding my hand.

Speaker 10 (20:52):
You're my husband's partner, aren't you. That's my part in
the partnership. You love me, don't you enough to be
missus Jim Parker. One of these days could be I
haven't quite decided to leave Robert yet, especially.

Speaker 9 (21:08):
Now, Harriet.

Speaker 24 (21:10):
You will leave in one of these days and come
to me. I have more money right now than your
dear husband has ever seen.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
I know your money is one of the reasons that.
Oh that may be Robert. He may have been funny
from across the street. You'd better get out of here,
out the back way quickly, all right, all right?

Speaker 24 (21:24):
Oh but listen, Harran, if I give you a reason
to leave Robert.

Speaker 10 (21:28):
Will you do it and stop worrying about a Jim
and get out of here?

Speaker 22 (21:30):
Right?

Speaker 18 (21:31):
Why?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Dog?

Speaker 18 (21:32):
Good bye?

Speaker 10 (21:33):
Coming coming?

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Oh, this is Robert Gardner. Yes, I am Boston Blackie.
Oh my, how thrilling it might be that Missus.

Speaker 28 (21:47):
Gardner back men. Hmm, I should say, ah, maybe you should,
but not like that. You're here to see my husband now,
Missus Gardener, I'm here to see you. Your husband came
to me this morning trying to borrow twenty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 10 (22:07):
Fine, I could use twenty five thousand dollars. It should
buy a lot of things. Don't you think I.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Can tell you right now what it's going to buy,
missus Gardner.

Speaker 10 (22:16):
Trouble and a few furs and jewels. Perhaps having them
might be worth a little trouble.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
Missus Gardner. I know it's no business of mine to
come here like this, but my friend Mary Wesley's never
mind what.

Speaker 10 (22:28):
Your friend Mary suggested. Blackie, let me make a little suggestion.
Let me run my own life.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
I'd let you run your life, missus Gardener, except that
I'm sure you'll ruin your husband's.

Speaker 19 (22:58):
Get away away from that south wall man.

Speaker 18 (23:02):
The flames up, weakened those.

Speaker 19 (23:03):
Kurders, and the walls are about to come down.

Speaker 9 (23:06):
But now there does.

Speaker 10 (23:14):
Oh, it's close.

Speaker 18 (23:15):
All the men out of the building.

Speaker 19 (23:16):
Okay, okay, number five and six trucks. Turn your hose
on the side of the building with a wall fowl.

Speaker 18 (23:23):
We don't want that fire that's spread to the next building. Jee,
how's everything?

Speaker 24 (23:27):
Oh it's you, inspected, Faraday. Well, we've been fighting the
fire since eight forty five. But we'll have it out
no time. It's under control. Now you've got work to
do on this one, inspector. Yeah, why oh, this fire
didn't start by itself, Faraday said, Hansen, that's what they
call it, and I think it's slightly illegal.

Speaker 18 (23:46):
Hey what's this?

Speaker 10 (23:47):
Hey?

Speaker 18 (23:47):
You and the car keep moving? Not parking here? I'm
part on this building. Ah, that's different. Down the central
Plotner's around somewhere.

Speaker 19 (23:55):
What happened? How did it start?

Speaker 18 (23:56):
Can't you say anything? Ain't it easy? Fella? Take it easy?
What's your name?

Speaker 19 (24:00):
Gardner? Robert Garden?

Speaker 18 (24:02):
Robert Hell?

Speaker 19 (24:03):
When they get in touch with Jim.

Speaker 10 (24:04):
Oh, Jim, this is terrible.

Speaker 18 (24:06):
You don't know how terrible. Hey, who's this guy?

Speaker 19 (24:08):
Park Jim Parker my partner. He's the other half owner
of this building.

Speaker 18 (24:12):
Well, from here it looks like are you guys owners
a pile of ashes?

Speaker 19 (24:15):
It's not as bad as it seems. Inspector the building
and everything and is insured.

Speaker 18 (24:18):
Well that's good. No, that's bad.

Speaker 19 (24:21):
It was in sure, Robert, like a fuller, like a
policy lapse at noon today?

Speaker 10 (24:38):
Answer you've full this time?

Speaker 9 (24:39):
Will you?

Speaker 18 (24:39):
Harriet?

Speaker 10 (24:40):
Why aren't you home?

Speaker 6 (24:46):
Excuse me? Sorry I frightened you, sir, but this note
was left for you at seven o'clock this evening. I
thought it might be important. I didn't mean to disturb you.

Speaker 18 (24:56):
What with the fire.

Speaker 24 (24:57):
Oh, thanks Martin, and he worked for Missus Gardner this evening. No, Sir,
that's strange. Have called her at her home several times
tonight and got no answer. Well, I'll try her again
in a few minutes. Yes, sir, who brought the note?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Martin?

Speaker 18 (25:10):
Er a messenger?

Speaker 9 (25:11):
Sir, Oh, I wonder what it is.

Speaker 29 (25:16):
MM.

Speaker 24 (25:17):
By the smell of it, it's from a young lady,
an attractive young lady. Yes, sir, let's see if it's
an attractive message too. I was right about the lady
being attractive, Martin. It's from missus Gardner.

Speaker 18 (25:31):
Well splendid.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Perhaps it explains why you aren't able to reach her tonight,
and I hope so.

Speaker 24 (25:36):
Yes, it says I've decided to leave him at once.
We'll meet you at your office at eight thirty tonight.

Speaker 18 (25:43):
Oh, mister Parker, say you're so pale. What's the matter.

Speaker 24 (25:46):
What's the matter, Martin? It's missus Gardner. If she was
to meet me at my office at eight thirty, she
was caught in a fire.

Speaker 18 (25:53):
She's dead, Love Gardner.

Speaker 24 (26:07):
I've had guys sitting here in my office till they
grew beards because I wouldn't talk.

Speaker 18 (26:11):
So you better start talking.

Speaker 19 (26:12):
But I tell you, inspector parody, I didn't set fire
of my building.

Speaker 18 (26:16):
Oh you didn't.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
No, getting this way, quiet, lanky, Quiet. You didn't ask
me down here to be quiet?

Speaker 2 (26:22):
You know.

Speaker 18 (26:23):
All I want you to tell me is that gardener
came to you asking for money this morning. That's all.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Yes, And I told you we did, and.

Speaker 19 (26:28):
I admit I did. But that's all I admit. I
didn't set fire to my building.

Speaker 18 (26:32):
Why should I? Why should you? I'll tell you why
you needed money?

Speaker 19 (26:36):
But the building wasn't insured. I got no money from it,
I know.

Speaker 24 (26:39):
But you didn't know the building wasn't insured. You didn't
auntill after the fire.

Speaker 18 (26:43):
Do you deny that?

Speaker 19 (26:44):
Oh? No, I don't deny that.

Speaker 24 (26:46):
You better not, because I was right there when you
heard the news, and you admit it. Then it was
the first you'd heard of it. You said you were ruined,
and you also said this would be the end of
you and your wife.

Speaker 18 (26:56):
Just what was the meaning of that crack anyhow? My wife?

Speaker 19 (27:00):
Ask my partner Jim Parker about that. He'll tell you
what does he know about it?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
He knows my wife was ready to leave me. In fact,
I think she was going to leave me for him.
The reason I went to Blackie was because I wanted
money for her.

Speaker 18 (27:11):
Oh is that so?

Speaker 24 (27:12):
He is, Well, you know what you're doing, don't you.
You're admitting you burned down your building to get money
for your wife, Blackie.

Speaker 19 (27:18):
Make him believe I didn't set fire to that building.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
I'd like to do that, Gardner, but I.

Speaker 18 (27:22):
Bet you can't. Nobody can, because he did set fire
to that building.

Speaker 24 (27:26):
He needed money. He admits that he thought the building
was insured. He admits that he set fire to that building.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
Ah, he doesn't admit fact.

Speaker 18 (27:34):
No, and I'm not going to Well, i'll tell you something.
You are going to You're going to jail.

Speaker 19 (27:39):
Oh No, I didn't I Blackie. Can't you help me?

Speaker 6 (27:43):
I don't know, Gardner. I'll try. But whoever did set
that fire sent me made it hot for you.

Speaker 30 (28:02):
Now back to Boston, Lackey. When Boston Blackie was unable
to lend Robert Gardner twenty five thousand dollars. He knew
that Gardener would do something desperate to get the money,
but he didn't think he'd go so far as to

(28:23):
set fire to a building for the insurance money. What
Blackie didn't know though, was that Jim Parker, Gardener's partner,
had allowed the insurance to lapse and had himself set
fire to the building in a plan to ruin Gardener
and take Gardener's wife away from him. Gardner's wife, also
unaware of Parker's plan, was to meet Parker in the building,

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and now Parker thinks she died in the flames. Nothing
has been said about a body being found in the building, however,
and with Robert Gardner in jail for arson, Blackie goes
to see Jim Parker. Yes, I'd like to see mister Parker, please,

(29:07):
mister James Parker.

Speaker 18 (29:09):
Uh, I'm sorry, sir, he's not in.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
Do you expect him in sooner?

Speaker 18 (29:14):
Yes, sir? Would you like to eat?

Speaker 6 (29:16):
I wouldn't like to, but I will very good. Your
Parker's butler obviously his new butler. Oh, well, you know
you aren't exactly the butler type. Hard that you should
say that, sir. That's one of mister Parker's most frequent
complaints about me. Say do you know where mister Parker

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is at the moment?

Speaker 9 (29:39):
Ah?

Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yes, sir, yuh, he's down at the fire at the
fire well at the building's er or what's left of it?
But why the fire has been at simple since late
last night. I know mister Parker didn't say why he
was going down the building. Perhaps he thought you might
be there, he thought I'd be there.

Speaker 18 (30:00):
Yes, you're his partner, mister Gardner, aren't you.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Uh, Yes, yes I am. Of course. I say, maybe
you can help me.

Speaker 18 (30:07):
I'll do anything I can.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Sir, Well, i've got a police headquarters. Ever since the fire,
my wife's probably tried to get in touch with me
and wasn't able to. I wonder if she left any
word for me here. I know she didn't say no
word for you. Oh she did leave some word for
mister Parker or just the note? The note or what note?

Speaker 26 (30:27):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (30:27):
The note was mister Parker saying she wanted to meet
him at his office at eight thirty last night. Perhips,
I shouldn't be never mind what you should I shouldn't say,
my friend, and don't bother to tell your master I
was here to see him. I'm going down to the
fire and tell him so myself.

Speaker 10 (30:54):
Maybe here, Maybe it has to be here, not here
looking for some Huh, who are you?

Speaker 18 (31:02):
Who do you want?

Speaker 6 (31:04):
I'm Boston Blackie, and I want to talk to you.

Speaker 10 (31:06):
I don't have time to talk right now.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Why not you seem to have time to nose around
this pilot, burned up junk.

Speaker 10 (31:11):
This is my building, this is still my property. I
can do what I want here.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, maybe I can help you looking for anything in particular? No, then,
what are you looking for?

Speaker 10 (31:20):
Nothing?

Speaker 6 (31:21):
Just looking looking for nothing? Well, that should take no time.
Your partner, Robert Gardner, is looking for something. He's looking
for his wife, And I have an idea. That's bad, bad.
Why she's missing?

Speaker 18 (31:37):
Missing? Where is she?

Speaker 6 (31:38):
You don't make much sense, Parker. If anyone knew where
she was, she wouldn't be missing. I think I have
an idea why she's missing.

Speaker 18 (31:46):
You do why?

Speaker 6 (31:48):
I happen to know she planned to meet you in
your office in this building at eight thirty last night.
So so the building caught fire a little after eight
thirty when she was supposed to be in your office.
That's why you're down here. You know she was supposed
to be in your office last night. You think she
died in the fire. That's why you're here to make
sure if you can.

Speaker 10 (32:06):
I don't know anything about missus Gardner.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
You know plenty about her Parker. You wanted her, and
I think she was agreeable to leaving her husband for you.

Speaker 19 (32:14):
I know nothing about it.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
You know the whole story, Parker, from start to finish.
You let the insurance policy on this building lapse and
set fire to it. Sir, you destroy Gardner's last hope
of being able to support his wife. You knew Gardener's
wife would leave him as soon as she saw he
was flat broke. You're in a spot, Parker.

Speaker 18 (32:33):
I am why.

Speaker 6 (32:34):
I'll tell you why. Like a lot of women, maybe
Missus Gardner was late for her eighth thirty appointment with
you last night.

Speaker 10 (32:42):
She was.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
Maybe maybe she got down here just in time to
see the building go up in flames and you run
out of the place, and maybe she got the very
unpleasant thought that you were trying to murderer. She might
not like that, Parker. I'd certainly hate to be in
your shoes if Missus Gardner is alive.

Speaker 10 (33:18):
Hello Parker speaking Hello Jeer, Hello, who's this?

Speaker 19 (33:23):
Don't you know me?

Speaker 26 (33:27):
Don't you know me?

Speaker 18 (33:28):
Darley?

Speaker 16 (33:29):
No?

Speaker 10 (33:30):
Who who is this?

Speaker 20 (33:32):
Well?

Speaker 26 (33:32):
Maybe seeing what you tried to do to me has
changed my voice a little? Dolly?

Speaker 10 (33:37):
H is this Harriet?

Speaker 19 (33:38):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (33:39):
You do remember me? Yes, yes, this is Harriet, Harriet.

Speaker 10 (33:45):
Gardener, Miss Harriet. What what's the matter with your voice?

Speaker 26 (33:49):
It's my throat, it's raw from all the smoke that
got into it during that fire.

Speaker 10 (33:54):
Oh, oh, I see Harriet. Are you all right?

Speaker 26 (33:57):
Oh yes, I'm all right, but you are What do
you mean? I mean? I saw what you tried to
do for me, and I'm going to get you for it.

Speaker 10 (34:07):
Good Night, Dot, Harriet, Harriet, listen to me, listen to me.

Speaker 26 (34:19):
Hello, Hello, Jim Darling. How are you this morning?

Speaker 10 (34:24):
Harriet?

Speaker 18 (34:25):
Is that you?

Speaker 10 (34:25):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (34:25):
You know my voice? Right away?

Speaker 10 (34:27):
This guy?

Speaker 26 (34:28):
Why were you thinking about me last night?

Speaker 10 (34:31):
What's the matter with this wire?

Speaker 26 (34:32):
The same thing that's the matter with us? The connection
is bad.

Speaker 10 (34:35):
Look, Harriet, about what you said on the phone last night?

Speaker 26 (34:38):
What about it?

Speaker 24 (34:39):
You've got everything all wrong. You don't know what you're
talking about. Oh well, I know what I saw, but
you don't understand. Look, I'll give fifty thousand dollars. You
always wanted money, I'll give you fifty.

Speaker 26 (34:50):
I don't want to get money now, all I wanted
to get you.

Speaker 31 (34:55):
Goodbye, Dot, I'll get it Martin.

Speaker 32 (35:06):
Yes, Hello, hello, Jim Darling. Spending a quiet evening at home, Harris. Yes,
I waited till this evening to call you.

Speaker 19 (35:20):
I thought you'd be lonesome, Harriet.

Speaker 24 (35:22):
Listen to me, why cause you must be caught it
driving me mad. I'll give you a hundred thousand dollars
to go away by.

Speaker 26 (35:28):
That's twice what you offered me.

Speaker 10 (35:30):
Its wrong, I know, would you take it?

Speaker 19 (35:32):
Why to keep quiet about what you know and leave
me alone?

Speaker 10 (35:35):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (35:35):
I'm going to leave you alone, doll very much alone.

Speaker 14 (35:40):
What.

Speaker 19 (35:41):
Yes, this is my.

Speaker 32 (35:43):
Last telephone call, and yours too. I'm going to kill
you for what you did to me, and I'm going.

Speaker 10 (35:52):
To kill you tonight, harrieys Harriet.

Speaker 19 (35:57):
Mart Martin, Martin, Yes, get my car right away, right
away to you.

Speaker 18 (36:02):
Hear you're going out tonight, sir.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
Yes, I'm going to police headquarters.

Speaker 24 (36:14):
Now go through the whole thing slowly this time, Parker,
so the police s denographer can take it all down,
all right, inspect the parity? Okay, go ahead, Yes, sir,
I set fire to my building. I canceled the fire
insurance policy.

Speaker 18 (36:27):
Cancel it or let it lapse, let it lap? Why?

Speaker 24 (36:30):
It was Robert Gardner's only means of income I wanted
to destroy the building and therefore wipe him out, Why
so that his wife.

Speaker 18 (36:36):
Would leave him.

Speaker 24 (36:37):
I was in love with her and wanted her, but
she wouldn't leave him as long as he could support her.

Speaker 18 (36:40):
Then you set fire to the building yourself, and gard
had nothing.

Speaker 19 (36:43):
To do with it, nothing, nothing at all.

Speaker 24 (36:44):
I did it all myself. It was my idea, and
I did it all myself. Now protect me, will you have?
You have your confession?

Speaker 18 (36:49):
Protect me? Protect you, Parker? From what? From whom? From
missus Gardner.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
She planned to meet me in the building the night
of the fire.

Speaker 19 (36:55):
She saw me sit fire to it.

Speaker 18 (36:56):
She thought I planned to.

Speaker 10 (36:57):
Kill her, So she's going to kill me.

Speaker 24 (36:59):
I don't think she'll kill you, Parker, But she will,
she said to herself. She did when just an hour
ago on the telephone. She's threaten me three times since
the fire.

Speaker 18 (37:07):
I wonder where she was calling from. She's dead. She
died in a fire. No, but can't be it. Not
only can be, Parker, it is.

Speaker 24 (37:15):
She kept that eight thirty appointment with you and was
caught in your office when the building went up in flames.
We found her body in the ruins about an hour
after we got the fire out.

Speaker 10 (37:23):
But if she's dead, who called me up today in
this evening?

Speaker 24 (37:27):
Oh, I'll show you what did you push that bus
up for? Relax, nothing's gonna harm you, Packer, nothing but
the law. Parn Yeah, come on in, you too, Miss Wesley.
Case over, yes, miss Wesley for everybody but Parker here
with missus Gardener dead, and he wants to know who
called him up and threatened.

Speaker 18 (37:46):
Her way I did.

Speaker 26 (37:48):
Don't you recognize my voice, darling?

Speaker 10 (37:52):
It was you?

Speaker 6 (37:52):
You catch on fast, Parker?

Speaker 24 (37:55):
But why it wasn't I told that Harriet was dead.
I've been frandy since the fire, frandic, not.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Frantic enough pocket and not frantic enough to talk until
you thought you yourself weren't dangerous.

Speaker 18 (38:04):
And then you talked. But plenty hey, rollins, rollins, rollins.
Get this guy out of here, lock him up.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
Okay, all right, but you don't have to push for your.

Speaker 18 (38:16):
Well.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
I solved another one. They'd like you solved another one.
Whose idea was it that Robert Gardner was innocent? Okay,
it was yours?

Speaker 18 (38:24):
But I was ready to let him go. In fact,
I'm gonna let him go now.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
Sure, after a trick of mine forced Parker to confess,
and whose idea was it not to reveal that we'd
found the body in the fire so that the killer
would go crazy wondering whether or not missus Garden was dead.

Speaker 24 (38:40):
All right, that was your idea too, But I agreed
it would work, didn't I yes, I'll give you credit
for that much.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
But whose idea was it?

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Just to minu at you too while you're passing out compliments.
Don't forget me, it was my voice that fool, mister Parker.
I'd like to hear either one of you impersonate a
woman dead or alive.

Speaker 26 (38:58):
So how about the credit for me?

Speaker 18 (39:01):
I'll give you lots of credit, Miss Wesley.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
Yes, Friday, give Marry the credit, but see that you
give Paka.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
The works.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
From seventy nine years ago. August twentieth, nineteen forty six,
Dick Kalmer is Boston Blackie on Classic Redeo Theater with
Wyatt Cox Up next, The Whistler.

Speaker 33 (39:37):
Billions in europan Asia are going hungry and facing actual starvation. Therefore,
it's up to us, the best fed nation in the world,
to tighten our belts.

Speaker 23 (39:47):
We can share a.

Speaker 33 (39:47):
Meal and save a life.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
And here's how.

Speaker 33 (39:50):
By only as much brand and other wheat products as
you really need. Use rice, fats and oils, staring me.
Don't waste any food turning you used fats and oils
at the food store. Properly plant a garden and raise
as much of your family's food as you can. You
are saving food for of those who desperately need it
when you buy less, especially when you use up those leftovers.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
We go back eighty years on this Wednesday, classic radio
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coast of the US X marks the Murder from August twentieth,
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know many things. For I walk by night. I know
many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and
women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know
the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. If

(41:43):
it hadn't been for a simple housewife named Mamie Cast
and her idea, the police might never have solved the
case at all, and it was a case that they
certainly wanted to solve and quickly. It was a long
series of murders which baffled police and terrorized the city
not only because of their fiendish quality, but because of
their apparent lack of motive. I say apparent black because

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you can't expect the police to find and recognize a
motive deep in the mind of a man who simply
enjoys killing, a man who rationalizes his feeling into a
sort of righteous cause. So at the time Mamie Cast
got her idea, the police were still baffled and getting nowhere.
Mamie reading a lot it, got her idea and told Ben,

(42:30):
her husband, about it, over their evening coffee.

Speaker 27 (42:34):
Think of it, four of them, all women, scabbed and
left dying in the fleet, and the police looking high
and low, and him or here nowhere to be found.

Speaker 24 (42:43):
You know it must be a man.

Speaker 27 (42:45):
It couldn't be a woman to do a thing like
that to your own kinds. Don't you agree?

Speaker 9 (42:51):
Huh? Ben?

Speaker 27 (42:53):
Ain't you listening to me. Sure, Sure, what's got into you?
Sitting there staring like that?

Speaker 9 (43:00):
I was just watching your reading about it. You get
all worked up like there was you that was staff.

Speaker 27 (43:08):
Like any minute it happened to you will it might
be too who's to say? He's not looking right around here?
And when I go out some nights, why it might
be someone in our own neighborhood might be. You know,
the police think it's a working man.

Speaker 9 (43:22):
They do.

Speaker 27 (43:24):
Why well, because all.

Speaker 34 (43:26):
The killings have been on weekends when there ain't work
to keep a body busy and out of trouble.

Speaker 9 (43:31):
H They know so much. Why don't they catch him?

Speaker 27 (43:33):
They don't know. It's just a theory.

Speaker 9 (43:35):
Uh, they're just guess him.

Speaker 34 (43:37):
Well in sort of yes, but well, they'll double the
police on weekends until they catch him.

Speaker 9 (43:44):
Maybe he's too smart to get caught.

Speaker 27 (43:47):
The newspaper's offering a rod for one thousand dollars. It says,
this paper will pay one thousand dollars to anyone who
can offer a clue which will lead to the arrest
and conviction of the monster who's terrorizing the city.

Speaker 9 (44:03):
Sapt would they call color?

Speaker 27 (44:06):
Well, what else would you call one who kills people
like that. You know we could use that one thousand dollars.

Speaker 9 (44:13):
Ben, I want nothing to do with it.

Speaker 34 (44:15):
You wouldn't take one thousand dollars if all you had
to do was to give the police an idea.

Speaker 9 (44:19):
Ain't got the idea?

Speaker 14 (44:20):
Well I have.

Speaker 27 (44:22):
I've been working on it all day and I'm going
to send it to the police.

Speaker 9 (44:26):
You have, Yes, where'd you get this idea? I ain't
putting the ideas in your head? Have I?

Speaker 27 (44:33):
H where'd you get an idea? All you do is
come home from work every morning and fall asleep. When
you wake up, you sit in that chair all afternoon
evening till it's time to go to work again, just
sitting there and brooding. No, I gave myself this idea.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
You wouldn't want to tell me, would you?

Speaker 19 (44:49):
No?

Speaker 27 (44:50):
Why should I?

Speaker 9 (44:50):
I'm your husband. They ain't right to keep things from you.

Speaker 27 (44:54):
You keep things from me?

Speaker 9 (44:55):
No, I don't what things?

Speaker 27 (44:56):
You don't always tell me where you go?

Speaker 9 (44:58):
Can't a man take a walk now and then without
having to get his wife?

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Say?

Speaker 9 (45:01):
So, what's your idea? Well?

Speaker 27 (45:06):
Here, looks see this map of the city. See see
them four crosses?

Speaker 9 (45:12):
Yeah? What are they?

Speaker 14 (45:13):
Each?

Speaker 27 (45:14):
One? Marks the place where a killing occurred.

Speaker 9 (45:16):
Anybody could make a map like that.

Speaker 27 (45:18):
Well wait a minute, watch when I connect those four points,
it makes a square almost.

Speaker 9 (45:24):
That ain't so wonderful.

Speaker 27 (45:26):
Now.

Speaker 34 (45:26):
My theory is that whoever's doing the killings lives some
place inside that square.

Speaker 9 (45:31):
Oh, there's half a million people lives there.

Speaker 14 (45:33):
But he never strikes twice in the same place.

Speaker 27 (45:36):
I've got the idea that he goes out in a
different direction from where he lives every time he wants
to do away with somebody.

Speaker 9 (45:42):
What makes you think that, Well, it's just natural not
to do.

Speaker 27 (45:46):
Something like that in front of his own house. He'd
go far away and in a different direction each time,
so as not to have two happen in the same place,
don't you see?

Speaker 9 (45:53):
And according to your figuring, where's he live?

Speaker 27 (45:56):
Somewhere in the middle of the square? Now, mayell, I
connect the opposite corners of the square.

Speaker 9 (46:03):
What's that for?

Speaker 27 (46:04):
He lives nearby where the lines cross.

Speaker 9 (46:08):
Hellok, let's see this soon comes along eighth Street and.

Speaker 27 (46:12):
It crosses this one here. Then look why is it
cross right here? Practically in our old back there? You see?
Maybe it is someone who knows.

Speaker 14 (46:23):
Maybe we see him every day.

Speaker 9 (46:26):
He ain't even to send this fool idea to the police.

Speaker 27 (46:28):
I am maybe it is rot and maybe it's worth
a thousand dollars. Anyways, I'm going to try.

Speaker 9 (46:32):
Amy. I'm warning you don't fool around with something that's
none of your business.

Speaker 21 (46:36):
And why not.

Speaker 9 (46:38):
Got a feeling you might regret it.

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(48:29):
the end of the atrocity murders that terrorized the city.
Mamie Kast had an idea, and in spite of her
husband Ben's objection, she sent it into the police. That
was on a Tuesday, and all day Wednesday, she waited
for somebody to call her, but of course they didn't.

Speaker 24 (48:47):
And that night, as a patrolman strolled down Eighth Street, blasted,
I'll watched this. Hey there, there's no place to go
to sleep. Come on, get up, Come on, I'll get up.
I'll give you a hand, Come.

Speaker 9 (49:07):
On up your cup. Eh something wrong here? Mother in Heaven?
Another one.

Speaker 19 (49:35):
Then, is that you?

Speaker 23 (49:37):
Huh?

Speaker 9 (49:37):
Then? Witch screeching, it's me.

Speaker 27 (49:39):
It's happened again.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
What's your light on for it? Turn it off?

Speaker 27 (49:42):
Right here in our block?

Speaker 9 (49:42):
It was horrible light.

Speaker 27 (49:44):
I was frightened. I felt safer with it.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
I like the dog.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
Turn it off?

Speaker 20 (49:47):
All right?

Speaker 27 (49:47):
All right, didn't you hear me?

Speaker 19 (49:50):
Don't you know?

Speaker 27 (49:50):
Your wife's been here all this time, almost dying with fear,
and there's been a murder almost on our doorstep.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Yeah, I know, you know how?

Speaker 9 (49:59):
And a police were talking about it as they came in.

Speaker 27 (50:02):
What's the water places running for?

Speaker 9 (50:04):
Washing my hands?

Speaker 27 (50:05):
Never knew you to do that before.

Speaker 9 (50:07):
I thought you washed up at the factory and a
man wash his hands when they needed. Get me some.

Speaker 27 (50:14):
Brandy, brandy at this hour in the morning.

Speaker 9 (50:17):
Yeah, I'm tired, done in.

Speaker 27 (50:19):
Never acted like this before. It's right here on the sideboard.

Speaker 9 (50:32):
Yeah it's better.

Speaker 18 (50:34):
Yeah, you better have some.

Speaker 27 (50:35):
I will have a drop.

Speaker 9 (50:37):
Now. What do you think of your find theory? This
time it didn't happen on a weekend.

Speaker 27 (50:42):
I wonder why all the others did.

Speaker 24 (50:45):
You said he lived in this block, went far away
in a different direction. Maybe you ain't so smart after all.
You better stick to your dishes and househore. I cannot
dream about rewards.

Speaker 19 (50:56):
I'll dream if I.

Speaker 27 (50:57):
Want to, and if I get another idea, I won't.

Speaker 14 (50:59):
Tell you about it.

Speaker 27 (51:01):
I'm going to bed, Will you be coming pretty soon?

Speaker 9 (51:05):
Been long as soon as I washed my hand?

Speaker 15 (51:14):
Well, maybe cast perhaps your idea wasn't so good, or
perhaps it was too good. At any rate, you've almost
forgotten about it since the latest murder. Besides, the police
rarely pay attention to such unsolicited theories as yours, except
in this case. They're getting desperate.

Speaker 9 (51:34):
I know, commissioners, but over a week's is the last killing.
I've got every available man on duty, Shane.

Speaker 35 (51:40):
We've got to solve this one.

Speaker 18 (51:42):
The papers are howling for an arrest, so.

Speaker 9 (51:44):
Is the mayor.

Speaker 24 (51:45):
I know, but frankly we haven't got a clue. There's
no motive, no connection between killings. It's pretty baddling. All
we can hope is that somebody will come up with
something now. The papers have increased the reward of five
thousand dollars. Well, Shane, your best goods sider Smith, Yes,

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captain anything in those letters, Oh, they're the usual. Six
people write confessions, as many more will say who's guilty
if we'll pay the reward first, and every other convict
in prison offers to catch the murderer if we'll set
him free. By the time you read them, you'd swear
there are more screwballs.

Speaker 9 (52:24):
I'll think carefully.

Speaker 24 (52:25):
Was there any one letter which you gave a second thought,
say one that you even started to show that then
decided it wasn't worthwhile.

Speaker 36 (52:33):
Well, out of the whole pile, it was only one
letter that made even an impression. Is a woman by
the name of missus cast wrote that if the four
points at which your murder occurred were connected, well, they
formed a square, that the guilty man probably lived someplace
inside that area.

Speaker 24 (52:50):
Everybody, including the police, noted that it was suggested in
the newspapers.

Speaker 36 (52:55):
Well, she narrowed down to the place where two diagonals
of the square intersected.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
The spot we arrest the man who lives the point
on the X case of song.

Speaker 18 (53:03):
But here's what makes me remember the letter.

Speaker 36 (53:05):
It was David the twenty third, and the next murder
took place the next night within one hundred feet of
the point where the lines intersected.

Speaker 9 (53:13):
Yeah, says it's a coincidence. Neither date on my desk,
and I'll make a check when I can find the time.

Speaker 15 (53:27):
Now, maybe perhaps your theory will get a try, But
only when Captain Shane gets around to it. And in
the meantime, a certain change of attitude is coming over you. Yes,
there's a new and strange thought coming into your mind,
and to night it begins to take real shape. When
Ben went to work tonight, he forgot his lunchbox, so

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you follow him to the factory to deliver it. After all,
you will get pretty hungry before morning.

Speaker 27 (53:57):
Are you the timekeeper?

Speaker 35 (53:59):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 19 (54:00):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 27 (54:01):
My husband went off and forgot his nunch and I'm
bringing it to him. Oh it's his name, cast Ben,
cast he's in the grinding shed.

Speaker 35 (54:09):
I gaykay cast Ben. Yeah, he didn't punch in tonight.

Speaker 27 (54:16):
You mean he ain't here, that's it.

Speaker 9 (54:18):
He's not working tonight.

Speaker 27 (54:19):
But he always goes to work.

Speaker 35 (54:22):
Maybe he's got a date with a blonde.

Speaker 27 (54:24):
He ain't stayed away before, has he?

Speaker 35 (54:27):
I wait, now check, he ain't supposed to, but seeing
you or his wife, and I guess it's okay. No,
he's pretty regular. Missed only once before this month.

Speaker 9 (54:37):
When was that last week? Wednesday?

Speaker 27 (54:39):
It was past Wednesday?

Speaker 14 (54:41):
No, not Wednesday.

Speaker 18 (54:43):
Well here's the card.

Speaker 19 (54:45):
Clock doesn't lie?

Speaker 37 (54:47):
And what's the matter?

Speaker 9 (54:47):
You look pale? You ain't gonna faint? Wednesday.

Speaker 15 (54:58):
What is it your thinking? Maybe Wednesday? Last Wednesday? Ben
didn't come to work last Wednesday when a woman was
killed just outside your door, and Ben came in and
washed his hands. When you get home, he's not there yet.

Speaker 9 (55:13):
You wait and wait. Then finally.

Speaker 34 (55:22):
Ben, huh, we're still up. Yes, there's been another Yeah,
don't pester me with questions.

Speaker 9 (55:36):
I'm too tired.

Speaker 27 (55:37):
I oh, I left the brandy on the table for you.

Speaker 9 (55:46):
Yes.

Speaker 15 (55:46):
Maybe, now you're beginning to understand, and now you know
your plan was too good, too good?

Speaker 10 (55:55):
But what about you?

Speaker 9 (55:56):
Ben?

Speaker 15 (55:56):
What are you thinking? Were you in too much of
a daze to hear? What made me?

Speaker 18 (56:00):
He was saying to you.

Speaker 15 (56:01):
Don't you see those looks she gives you the next day,
looks a fascinated horror. You don't even notice that she's frightened.
It doesn't penetrate that she knows anything that is not
till you go to work the next night. Yeah, sure,
hello Ben?

Speaker 35 (56:18):
Oh h, I see you brought your lunch tonight.

Speaker 9 (56:21):
What do you mean I could eat tonight?

Speaker 35 (56:24):
You forgot it last night? Your wife brought it down.

Speaker 24 (56:28):
My wife was here last night. Yeah, put my lunch basket.
She knows I wasn't to work, that's right, and she
seemed a little upset about it.

Speaker 18 (56:38):
Hey, where are you going?

Speaker 9 (56:39):
Rick clings off a horse to home?

Speaker 15 (56:49):
Yes, Ben, now you know now the danger signals penetrate
through your numbed consciousness and you're going home to Maimie fast.
At least you climb the stairs, you real someone is
there before you. There are voices at your door. You
shrink back in the shadows of the hall.

Speaker 9 (57:07):
Well the night. Sorry to father, Joe. Father, a letter
won't be of much help, Thanks for sending it in anyway,
Good night.

Speaker 19 (57:19):
Oh what do you please?

Speaker 6 (57:20):
Chain?

Speaker 9 (57:21):
I won't think anything now or whether we check it
her husband, She seemed frightened almost in the day. I
just can't blame her rest the murder nearby and the
police calling on her.

Speaker 27 (57:38):
Then your home?

Speaker 9 (57:40):
What dose one?

Speaker 27 (57:41):
Well, they just came to ask about the letter. It
doesn't mean a thing. They check up on all that
is like that. You were right then, the idea wasn't
any good ask about me, yes, but just what they
call routine questions. What you did, where you worked, and
how long we'd been married, and you know, things like that.

Speaker 24 (57:57):
You told them, Oh yes, I had to did you
tell them I didn't go to work class Wednesday.

Speaker 27 (58:02):
No, I didn't tell them that, you know, don't you mean? No,
you don't have to tell me where you were. I'm
not asking you anything.

Speaker 24 (58:13):
Then, how do you know the other night when you
asked me if there'd been another one, it was in
the newspaper.

Speaker 9 (58:17):
Wasn't in the papers when you ask me then?

Speaker 27 (58:19):
It wasn't in the papers when you told me, it's
it's you. You, you're the monster.

Speaker 9 (58:25):
No, don't call me that. I'm not monster. That's what
you are. You a woman who'd sell her husband for
a thousand dollars.

Speaker 27 (58:33):
I never said it word. You please put down that knife.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Spell.

Speaker 27 (58:37):
I'll never say a word. I'll never tell a soul.

Speaker 9 (58:39):
Shut the police on my trail.

Speaker 24 (58:40):
They'll go to the factory and final I wasn't at work,
and they'll be like a pack of hounds, snipping and
paying at me and let me have no peace.

Speaker 27 (58:47):
I could save you been. I know I'm only a woman,
but I can throw them off the sea.

Speaker 9 (58:51):
Oh can you?

Speaker 14 (58:52):
You don't prove anything.

Speaker 19 (58:54):
You're not being at.

Speaker 27 (58:54):
Work, And when they come back to check, I'll tell
them you were with me every minute of the time.
That they don't you see, Ben? You need me. I
need you, yes, more now than you ever did. You
need someone who can swear to where you were those
nights you wanted the factory. I'm the only one who
can do that, the only one who will do it.

Speaker 19 (59:13):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 9 (59:17):
I'll have to tell him I was someplace.

Speaker 27 (59:20):
But you'll have to have someone to back you up.

Speaker 9 (59:22):
You're not gonna turn me in.

Speaker 27 (59:24):
No, you can put that knife down now, Ben, I
won't ever tell I'm your alibi now without me having
the chance.

Speaker 15 (59:33):
I'm your alibi, Yes, Ben.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Be careful.

Speaker 15 (59:43):
Maimie is your alibi, your only alibi, so be careful
of her, very careful. Stay at home, watch your closely.

Speaker 27 (59:57):
Then, can't you stop pacing up and down That all
you've done for three nights? Now that and sit brooting
in the armchair.

Speaker 24 (01:00:05):
Getting foggy, heavy black fog, can't see the street light?

Speaker 27 (01:00:11):
Ain't it about time you started for work?

Speaker 19 (01:00:14):
Then?

Speaker 27 (01:00:15):
I said, ain't it about time you started for the factory?

Speaker 9 (01:00:19):
Won't be going to the factory tonight?

Speaker 27 (01:00:21):
Not going to what's come over you?

Speaker 9 (01:00:23):
You call a factory and tell him I'm not coming
in tonight.

Speaker 27 (01:00:27):
Don't don't make me do that.

Speaker 9 (01:00:29):
Don't do what I say?

Speaker 27 (01:00:30):
All right, all right, but don't go out, not again
another one.

Speaker 24 (01:00:34):
What difference does it make rotten world? Any wood better
off out of it? We'd all be call a factory.

Speaker 9 (01:00:43):
I won't be there. I'll be back in the morning.

Speaker 15 (01:01:22):
So the monster struck again for the last time. You
didn't know that, Ben, But it was for the last time. Yes,
it might not have been if it hadn't been for
Mamie's idea and her letter to the police, and the
train of thought it started in the mind of Captain
Shane of the homicide squad.

Speaker 36 (01:01:40):
You think we've got enough to make an a rush, Captain.

Speaker 24 (01:01:43):
Not yet, got nothing new, But I hope too, after
I've questioned him everyone else what to do.

Speaker 9 (01:01:48):
Oh yes, sir, we've even rehearsed like actors. Good and
bring him in. Write him here, mister cast. M sit out, mister.

Speaker 24 (01:02:02):
Cast Why am I here? My wife's waiting for me
at home. She'll be frightened. I just stepped out for
a few minutes.

Speaker 9 (01:02:08):
You told her you'd be right back. Yeah, and of
course you will be worried.

Speaker 24 (01:02:13):
I'll be as brief as possible, and you can go
to her er, mister Casst, we want you to help us, me,
help the police. These killings help us baffle, and we
thought you might be able to help us out. How
your wife sent us a map.

Speaker 9 (01:02:28):
It was her theory that the guilty one lived near
the point where the two lines crossed. Oh er, I
remember it. Day told her there was no use fothering
the police with it. You didn't think it strange when
the next murder took place with a hundred feet from
that point, Oh queer.

Speaker 24 (01:02:42):
Things happen right after she pointed out to you the
four murders that occurred on weekends. The next one took
place on Wednesday. That was the first night you would
miss going to work in six years. I didn't feel well.
I stayed home.

Speaker 9 (01:02:57):
A week later, on a Thursday, it was another murder.
That was the second time in six years.

Speaker 23 (01:03:04):
That you didn't go to work.

Speaker 9 (01:03:05):
Oh I I don't remember. I did stay home again.
It might have been that night. Your wife knew, of course,
that you were staying home. Of course she always knows
when I stay home. Mm. Then why did she take
your lunch box to the factory that night? She she
brought my lunch eh?

Speaker 24 (01:03:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember when I got to the factory,
I found i'd come off without my lunch, so I
went back after it. And when I got home it
wasn't there, and I knew my wife had taken it
to the factory. I I waited for her to come home,
but she took so long I didn't bother to go
to work.

Speaker 9 (01:03:38):
I stayed home to night. About an hour ago the
woman was killed, and to night you were at work,
mister Cast. Where were you an hour ago? I was home.
I just leaving on an errand when your men come
up and asked me to come down here.

Speaker 24 (01:03:55):
Oh, I'm sorry. My man must have thought you were home,
not leaving. That's a very serious mistake on your part,
Sergeant Schmidt. You must be more careful about such things.

Speaker 9 (01:04:06):
Awfully sorry, sir, accept my apologies, mister Cast.

Speaker 24 (01:04:10):
Now, mister Cast, we're not questioning your word, but I'm
sure you'll agree that you'll be in a better position
if you could prove just where you were. By that,
I mean have some witness who could swear that he
saw you.

Speaker 9 (01:04:24):
You mean an alibi? Yes, yes, that's right.

Speaker 24 (01:04:29):
My wife will prove everything I say is true. And
where will we find your wife right at home, of course,
where I left her. I'm afraid not, mister cad. We
tried that and she wasn't there.

Speaker 20 (01:04:42):
Not there.

Speaker 24 (01:04:43):
In fact, I think I can safely say that your
wife will never prove what you say. Alibia's worthless, mister Caste.

Speaker 15 (01:05:00):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending to tonight's story. Meantime, where are you going?
I mean, with that unlimited supply of gasoline you can
enjoy from now on. Yes, of course you're going to
make up for lost driving and really go places, But unfortunately,
for a while at least, it's going to have to

(01:05:21):
be on those tired, old tires that have been recapped
and repaired again and again now to avoid marring your
driving fun with that familiar roadside disease in which one
side of a tire gets very, very flat. Here is
a surefire prescription. Tell your neighborhood signal gasoline dealer you'd
like for him to keep an eye on your tires,

(01:05:43):
to catch little cuts and injuries before they grow big
and let you down. Before you can buy a new tire.
You'll find your signal dealer is completely equipped to give
you the finest in modern tire repair, whether it's a
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(01:06:03):
than just a place to get signal. Go farther gasoline
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car running better, looking better, and lasting longer. And now
back to the whistler. Well, then you've come to the

(01:06:43):
end of the road, Captain Shane says. Your alibi is worthless.
You can't understand it because you were so sure that
Mami would stand by you. But you're trying to get
it through your dull consciousness. As the Captain explains it
to you, you seem to cast.

Speaker 24 (01:07:00):
When I talked to your wife, I was struck by
the fact that she was so frightened, much too frightened.
When I checked up on you and found out about
your absence from work, I began to understand why she
was afraid of him me, but Maimie. I came back
again to check with her. You came back while you
were at work. She swore you had been at home

(01:07:22):
with her, but she was even more frightened. Then I
knew that she not already feared you, but loved you
enough to protect you. And I knew that unless she
broke down and helped us, we'd never be able.

Speaker 9 (01:07:31):
To prove that you you were a guilty. Man me, why,
I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 24 (01:07:37):
I think you do, mister Cast. And I think now
that we can prove it, now that your alibi is gone.

Speaker 9 (01:07:44):
What if you turned to mamie.

Speaker 24 (01:07:45):
Where is she right outside, mister Cast? Dargeant, bring in
missus Cast, Yes, sir, and.

Speaker 23 (01:08:01):
Put the body down.

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
By what's my wife doing on that stretcher?

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
She's dead?

Speaker 9 (01:08:10):
H No, my my alibi? What have you done to her?
We didn't do anything to her, mister Cast.

Speaker 24 (01:08:19):
Tonight she ran out after you, probably to try to
stop you, and walked right into your trap.

Speaker 9 (01:08:25):
It was your wife you killed tonight, mister Cast.

Speaker 15 (01:08:59):
Next Monday, at nine o'clock, the Whistler will bring you
another strange tale. The Whistler is broadcast for your entertainment
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(01:09:20):
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Speaker 18 (01:09:38):
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Speaker 15 (01:09:42):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
From eighty years ago. August twentieth, nineteen forty five, The
Whistler on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Let's look
at our Thursday comedies that'll be up tomorrow are Miss
Brooks starring Eve Barton Weekend at Crystal Lake with the Conklins,
a summer show, Too Many Cooks, the new system for

(01:10:20):
the blended family, that's what we call them now from
nineteen fifty The Adventures of Archie Andrews and Andrews Family
going on a Picnic Back in nineteen forty eight, and
the final episode of Granby's Green Acres Granby breaks Down.
Yes it was a rugged time for mister Granby. On

(01:10:40):
Friday Crime with Nick Carter, Master Detective starring Lawn Clark
from nineteen forty eight, Inner Sanctum from nineteen forty nine,
an early episode of The Whistler from nineteen forty two,
Death Has a Thirst and X minus one from nineteen
fifty seven, Drop Dead. We'll Go to the Movie on
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(01:11:04):
She Met Skylark starring Ginger Rogers, and the Lady Ester
Screen deal Players from forty three and from fifty one,
Rosalind and Russell in The Velvet Touch and Will have
excerpts from the Amos and Andy Music Halls thirtieth Anniversary
from nineteen fifty nine. Crime on Sunday with Somebody Knows
The Story of Elizabeth Short, the final episode of that

(01:11:27):
short run show that five thousand dollars if they'd be
given away one of them, Boy, how much wonderful publicity
would that have been? And plus solving a mystery, solving
a murder the Lives of Harry Lyme Orrison Walls, The
Ticket to Tangiers from nineteen fifty one, a Wonderful Lights
Out episode sub Basement starring Joseph Kerns and b Benedera,

(01:11:51):
and Intertinct to Mysteries from nineteen fifty two, Everett Sloane
and No Rest for the Dead. Monday, we'll have a
line again versus The Ants and Episode of Suspense from
nineteen fifty seven, starring William Conrad. Two other shows from
nineteen fifty seven, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Bob Bailey

(01:12:11):
in The Smoky Sleeper Matter and the CBS Radio Workshop,
Roy Glenn Stars and Sweet Cherries in Charleston, and the
nineteen thirty eight Calling All Cars the thirteenth Gradve. Tuesday,
we'll get some more comedies in with The Great Yelder
Sleep from nineteen fifty three, George and Gracie from nineteen forty,

(01:12:31):
Milton Burrow from nineteen forty seven, and the Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet from nineteen forty five. A week from today,
we'll have another episode of The Whistler from nineteen forty five.
I'll Trade You Murder Jeff Reagan Investigator, also from nineteen
fifty Gentlemen Prefer Horses, The Adventures of Philip Marlow from

(01:12:53):
nineteen forty nine, and Let George Do It Murder on Vacation.
All that coming up here on Classic Stream in the
days ahead. Up next, The Green Lama.

Speaker 29 (01:13:11):
Our religious institutions are strongholds of the American way of life.
Our country was founded by men who had faith in
God and who were willing to endure hardship and sacrifice
for the sake of that faith. Today, the religious institutions
in your community need your interest and support. So take
an active part in religious affairs. Your pastor, rabbi or

(01:13:33):
priest will give you invaluable family counsel and aid if
you are a newcomer to the community. To face the
problems of the future, America must be morally strong, and
that moral strength comes.

Speaker 9 (01:13:46):
Through worship and faith.

Speaker 23 (01:13:48):
Go to church this week and take someone with you now.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
The final episode of a summer series that starred wonderful
voice Paul Freeze, The Green Lama seventy six years ago
August twenty, nineteen forty nine. The Perfect Prisoner.

Speaker 20 (01:14:09):
M money adme harm. The Green Lama strikes for justice.
It is truly written that the man with no future
is dangerous. There were one hundred such men in the

(01:14:33):
adventure of the Perfect Prisoner, all of them with guns.

Speaker 38 (01:14:42):
From the mystery of the Far East, from the mountain
peaks of a Shangri La, come the exciting Adventures of
Jethro Dumont. Jethro Dumont, the wealthy young American who, after
ten years in Tibet, returned as the Green Lama to
carry on a single handed fight against injustice and crime.

Speaker 39 (01:15:13):
I am Tulku, who serves the Green Lama. It is
said that ambition is merely the mask of greed, and
we learned that this was true in the Adventure of
the Perfect Prisoner. It began one night when the Green
Lama received a phone call.

Speaker 19 (01:15:32):
Jethro Dumont.

Speaker 18 (01:15:33):
Yes, a Sando Warden, Sando.

Speaker 20 (01:15:35):
Oh, Hello, Warden, how's your model prison man?

Speaker 17 (01:15:39):
It's about one of my model prisoners that I'm calling you,
Frank Copp.

Speaker 20 (01:15:44):
Frank oh, yes, the sculptor.

Speaker 17 (01:15:46):
It's wonderful the way you've helped his rehabilitation by getting
a sculpture shown.

Speaker 26 (01:15:50):
There in New York.

Speaker 20 (01:15:51):
Well, he's a fine artist.

Speaker 17 (01:15:52):
Jethrow, you've been promising to come up and inspect our prison.

Speaker 19 (01:15:55):
And here's the perfect Chaps.

Speaker 17 (01:15:57):
I've got a little surprise for cop tomorrow, and you
deserve to be here when we tell it.

Speaker 18 (01:16:01):
Now. You've been promising, and I won't take no for an.

Speaker 20 (01:16:04):
Answer, all right, Warden? Till coo, and I'll be there. Well, so, Coon,
you're now in the finest prison this poor old world
has ever seen.

Speaker 15 (01:16:25):
Even so, my lama, I'm glad we do not call
this place home.

Speaker 20 (01:16:30):
Well, I agree, it's no cottage in the country, but
as far as the moral reconstruction of the men goes
its tops.

Speaker 6 (01:16:36):
Hey there just a minute.

Speaker 17 (01:16:37):
Yes, if you're looking for the warden's office, I'll show you.

Speaker 9 (01:16:40):
I have the guard's permission.

Speaker 20 (01:16:42):
The guard's permission, which one man's a trusty mister Dumont.

Speaker 40 (01:16:46):
You'll take it in mister Sando's office.

Speaker 41 (01:16:47):
Oh, I see, all right, thank you this way, please
you will. You're mister Dumont, don't you. I've sort of
been waiting for you. I've wanted to tell you how
grateful I am for the one man show you fixed
up for me in New York.

Speaker 20 (01:17:00):
Oh well, then you're Frank Cobb. You don't know me
any thanks. Your clay figurines did all the work themselves.

Speaker 41 (01:17:07):
Anyway, mister Dumont, maybe soon I can do really good stuff.
You see, I know the Warden's got a little surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
For me today. Oh what kind?

Speaker 41 (01:17:16):
I really can't say, because if I did it wouldn't
be much of a surprise anymore, would it.

Speaker 20 (01:17:21):
I'm afraid you lost me back there, Cobb. I don't
think I follow you.

Speaker 41 (01:17:25):
That's okay, But just to keep things even up, I've
got a surprise for the warden.

Speaker 20 (01:17:31):
Oh and I suppose if you told me what it was,
it wouldn't be a surprise anymore either.

Speaker 41 (01:17:36):
That's right, it's not time yet.

Speaker 17 (01:17:40):
Well, here you are, mister Dumont, the Warden's office.

Speaker 9 (01:17:43):
I got to get back to my work.

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
I'll sew you.

Speaker 20 (01:17:47):
What do you make of that too, kum.

Speaker 15 (01:17:49):
Mister Cobb is burdened with a secret he knows he
must not keep my lama.

Speaker 20 (01:17:54):
Yes, I think he's afraid to tell it. Well, let's
see what Wardens Sendo has on his mind. Warden, Sando Dumont,
Jeff Dumont, come in, come in.

Speaker 17 (01:18:08):
Delighted you could make it up here.

Speaker 15 (01:18:09):
Today, Ala toku, my honor Warden.

Speaker 17 (01:18:12):
You're looking fine, Jethro, sit.

Speaker 20 (01:18:13):
Down, thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:18:14):
One.

Speaker 20 (01:18:16):
We have just left a mutual friend. In fact, he
escorted us to your door.

Speaker 17 (01:18:21):
Frank Cobb, or you've met him then, I finally convinced
the governor that that man doesn't belong behind bars and
oh oh, come in somers Chethro. This is my second
in command, Captain ed Summers. Mister Dumont, mister Toko said,
annoy you do you come up to inspect our model prison.

Speaker 20 (01:18:40):
Yes, and we're also here for Warden Sando's surprise.

Speaker 17 (01:18:43):
Right, Frank Cobb's pardon, it's just come through. Well, come on,
let's go find him. He works right next door in
the examination building.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
All right.

Speaker 17 (01:18:51):
You know the fact that you showed interest in his
sculptures meant a.

Speaker 18 (01:18:54):
Lot to him.

Speaker 20 (01:18:55):
Jethro, I'm very happy. A man's a fine artist.

Speaker 37 (01:18:57):
He's also a convict.

Speaker 9 (01:18:59):
We do to make him remember it.

Speaker 20 (01:19:01):
Then you think the label of convict would help him
readjust to society?

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Is that it?

Speaker 37 (01:19:06):
Captain Summons my opinion, there's only one way to handle criminals.
Given treatment that'll make him think twice the next time.

Speaker 20 (01:19:14):
That's our job. But history shows that method has failed
consistently for centuries. Captain Summers, that's right.

Speaker 17 (01:19:19):
Our job is to strengthen through education, not fear.

Speaker 18 (01:19:24):
Cobb.

Speaker 17 (01:19:26):
Maybe he's in the next room.

Speaker 9 (01:19:27):
I'll get himored, all right, Cob, step out here.

Speaker 20 (01:19:34):
He's not an herest.

Speaker 17 (01:19:35):
That's strange, Hobb.

Speaker 15 (01:19:38):
Oh my Lama, look there behind that desk, one quick,
what is it?

Speaker 9 (01:19:47):
It's Cobb?

Speaker 20 (01:19:49):
Yes, it's Frank Cobb, and the knife that killed him
is still in his back.

Speaker 37 (01:20:04):
Orden, if we'd been smart, this wouldn't have happened. I
don't want to say I told you so, but you
can't treat a gang of art and criminals like a
troop of boy rangers.

Speaker 20 (01:20:12):
It just won't work. Captain Summers. Why do you think
Frank Cobb was killed.

Speaker 37 (01:20:17):
Because somebody found out he was being pardoned and didn't
think he deserved it.

Speaker 17 (01:20:21):
That's all it takes in.

Speaker 6 (01:20:22):
Here, you know, Yes, Sammy Warden, Oh yes.

Speaker 9 (01:20:26):
Come in Sammy, screw excuse me?

Speaker 18 (01:20:29):
The guy said you want to see me Warden?

Speaker 17 (01:20:31):
Yes I did, Sammy. Do you know that Frank Cobb
is being pardoned today, the guy with the statues no kittens?

Speaker 20 (01:20:39):
Yes, but somebody doesn't want to see him get out, Sammy.
Happen to know who that might be?

Speaker 27 (01:20:44):
What?

Speaker 18 (01:20:45):
I'm shocked.

Speaker 37 (01:20:46):
I can't believe this was straight met out Sammy the
singer talked playing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Oh that's level, sir, honest gee, who'd want to see
a guy's a break like that? Nobody?

Speaker 17 (01:20:55):
It's already happened, Sammy, somebody stuck a knife in him.

Speaker 9 (01:21:00):
This knife?

Speaker 17 (01:21:02):
Gee, ever see it before?

Speaker 19 (01:21:05):
You know me, Warden, I wouldn't life at two minutes.

Speaker 21 (01:21:08):
Sure, I've seen it before. That's how Bower's knife he
used to be. It was swiped off in him, Sir.
He kept it in his mattress, and a couple of
nights ago it ain't there anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:21:19):
I see.

Speaker 9 (01:21:20):
Well, that's all I know, Sir.

Speaker 37 (01:21:23):
If I go now, his bower has Bennett his machine
in the mill all day?

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Well, yeah, I think so.

Speaker 21 (01:21:32):
But I have my nose in a grindstone the whole shift, Sir,
I couldn't say for sure.

Speaker 9 (01:21:38):
Is that all?

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
That's all?

Speaker 37 (01:21:44):
Well, it's perfectly obvious to me, Warden, that Bower's fake,
that's stolen knife story to cover up in advance for
this job. If you let me handle this my way,
I'll get to.

Speaker 20 (01:21:52):
The bottom of it in a hurry out of curiosity.
Captain Summer's just what is your way?

Speaker 37 (01:21:56):
According to some standards, Mister Dumont, it's all, But I
can guarantee hisself, and.

Speaker 17 (01:22:02):
I say there are better ways of getting answers. Excuse me,
wasn't Sando what a riot?

Speaker 18 (01:22:09):
Where how bad is it?

Speaker 17 (01:22:11):
Car I knew it sooner or later.

Speaker 20 (01:22:12):
It was bounding.

Speaker 17 (01:22:13):
I see, yes, how hold On was a riot. My
mill Catta doesn't know how it started, but he says
it's beag.

Speaker 37 (01:22:18):
Sand Oh you're directly responsible for this. You molly coddled
a bunch of killers and theorized with them until they've
got the idea they can run all over here.

Speaker 17 (01:22:24):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Cotta Holdah. I think Capone's dead.

Speaker 37 (01:22:30):
More than that dead before this is over. If any
of my boys get at Wardens, Sando you Gordon.

Speaker 17 (01:22:36):
Rdon, he's been his right here, Come and take it
easy now, my shoulder not serious.

Speaker 42 (01:22:40):
It's a break, Warden, bad one. The riot was a
blind that's all about one hundred of them. They had guns,
must have been smuggled in. They made it into the
boiler house, then down the pack passage way at the arsenal.

Speaker 9 (01:22:52):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 18 (01:22:53):
I even had a key.

Speaker 17 (01:22:54):
They're in the arsenal now behind the barricade. I believe
we've still got a chance.

Speaker 20 (01:22:58):
Well, then, come on, Warden, let's go.

Speaker 17 (01:23:14):
We're safe enough here behind the wall.

Speaker 20 (01:23:15):
Do you a mount keep your head down so too, Yeah.

Speaker 37 (01:23:18):
Us notes just across the court out there. It's a microphone, Warden,
it's ready.

Speaker 20 (01:23:23):
Go ahead, hand it to me.

Speaker 9 (01:23:24):
Summary.

Speaker 17 (01:23:27):
Attention, man, attention, this is the one you've made a mistake.
It's a long way to the main gate. You'll never
get that far. I'm asking you now to back out
before it's too late. I'll listen to your answer. Who's
going to speak for you? I am Warden?

Speaker 18 (01:23:52):
All right back it?

Speaker 17 (01:23:53):
Can you speak for the others?

Speaker 9 (01:23:54):
Sure?

Speaker 21 (01:23:58):
We don't care what your game is one.

Speaker 43 (01:24:03):
We ain't playing ball her, so save yourself and pray
are running.

Speaker 17 (01:24:14):
You'd better think it over, Ben, Here's what I want
you to do. Come out one at a time. Here,
your guns down, and why not facing me? You have
my word, there'll be no gun fire when we're ready.

Speaker 40 (01:24:29):
We're coming out all right soon.

Speaker 17 (01:24:33):
So here's will we Why you though?

Speaker 20 (01:24:37):
If you don't, why you're boys and blue a something?

Speaker 40 (01:24:42):
Keep them away?

Speaker 9 (01:24:44):
Why that's smile Warden.

Speaker 15 (01:24:46):
You've got to listen to me.

Speaker 18 (01:24:47):
Now.

Speaker 20 (01:24:47):
We're in real trouble.

Speaker 37 (01:24:48):
I've got three heavy machine guns in the north tower
on plenty of ammunition. That's enough firepower to cut the
whole mob down. I'll tell him to come out right
now with a hands empty or way open up.

Speaker 17 (01:24:57):
No, no, I'm telling you, Sandu, it's the only way
I used to permit wholesale slaughter of those men.

Speaker 15 (01:25:02):
Listen their corner now.

Speaker 37 (01:25:03):
But they're going to come bawling out of there in
the second and it'll be too late for us.

Speaker 9 (01:25:06):
How shall I give the order?

Speaker 37 (01:25:07):
Well, just a minute, both of you, wouldn't, Sando, I
want to go in there and talk to those men.
You wouldn't get ten feet beyond this wall before they'd
have you cut to ribbons.

Speaker 20 (01:25:18):
I want to go, Sando. Men can be reasoned with.
But Captain Summers is right. We've got to hurry. Well,
it's either me or the machine guns.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Warden.

Speaker 20 (01:25:26):
All right, Jethrow, But just now take the mic again
and tell him I'm coming.

Speaker 17 (01:25:30):
Okay man, big Manhacka, listen to me, mister Jethrow. Dumont
is coming to talk to you.

Speaker 43 (01:25:39):
If he ain't bullet thro better team under cover, we'll
tell why you first.

Speaker 15 (01:25:46):
Here.

Speaker 17 (01:25:47):
He's coming out back, and I want you to listen
to him.

Speaker 15 (01:25:51):
Oh my Lama, I beg of you.

Speaker 20 (01:25:53):
I know what I'm doing. Tilku I believe I can
save those men?

Speaker 15 (01:25:56):
Yes, of course? May would I go with you luck, But.

Speaker 39 (01:26:06):
I watched the Green Lama climb the wall and walk slowly,
alone and unarmed, across the barren prison court, straight into
the relentless gaze of one hundred pairs of hostile eyes
and the muzzles of one hundred guns in desperate hands.

Speaker 38 (01:26:40):
In just a moment, we will return to the Green Lama,
but first, sure, CBS is famous for its Sunday comedy lineup,
but there's action and fast paced drama there too. Johnny
Dollar hunts the crooks who will cheat his insurance company.
Bill Grant shows you how a big town police commissioner
goes to work on call the police and Sam Spade
around wise cracking his way through another typical adventure. Hear

(01:27:03):
them All Tomorrow, Johnny Doller Call the Police, Sam Spade
on most of the same CBS stations. Now with our
star Paul Freese, we returned to the Green Lama and
tonight's story, the Adventure of the Perfect Prisoner.

Speaker 39 (01:27:30):
Even as Jethro Dumont crushed the prison yard, the jeers
and cat calls that the convicts were lost in their throats,
and everywhere was only an empty silence, silence, and the chilling,
sharp echo of Jethro Dumont's footsteps, moving closer to the
armed prisoners as he walked across the yard and into

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the arsenal.

Speaker 20 (01:27:56):
Man, I'm coming in.

Speaker 6 (01:28:01):
Right, sure, what are we waiting for?

Speaker 15 (01:28:05):
Yeah, he's just the same as a copper.

Speaker 10 (01:28:07):
Why don't you let him have it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Thick?

Speaker 9 (01:28:09):
Then shut up.

Speaker 6 (01:28:11):
I'll decide when to let him have it.

Speaker 44 (01:28:16):
I want to be able to hear everything mister Dooman
has to say. Okay, here, speak your peace?

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Are you hacke it?

Speaker 9 (01:28:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:28:29):
I'm big Ben Hackett.

Speaker 18 (01:28:30):
What have you?

Speaker 20 (01:28:32):
Stand up? Why I said stand up? Then I'll talk
to you, Amanda.

Speaker 6 (01:28:37):
Man, Okay, will too mean to me?

Speaker 9 (01:28:45):
Go ahead?

Speaker 20 (01:28:47):
Tell your man to put down their guns.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Hacke it.

Speaker 20 (01:28:49):
You haven't got one chance in a hundred of getting
out of here alive if you try to make a break.

Speaker 18 (01:28:53):
Ain't you got that backwards? Junior?

Speaker 9 (01:28:55):
We're one hundred, you're know one.

Speaker 20 (01:28:56):
Remember, go on, mister Dumon, you ain't got very loon.
Then I'll get right to the point, which is where
the lives of these other men, Hacket. They're not all
in for life, So what I don't get it? Why
then listen Hard Bowers and the rest of you right
this minute. You're living on borrowed time, each and every

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one of you. Yes, yeah, the three heavy machine guns,
Captain Sumrs is just itching to use. You're surrounded and
you know it. But you don't know is that there's
only one good reason why those guns aren't spitting lead
in here right now, and that's a man. A man
who wouldn't let Captain Summers open fire. A man who

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thinks you're also men with names, not just numbers stenciled
over breast pockets. A man who's your friend Warden sand though,
Hey he's right there.

Speaker 18 (01:29:50):
We don't be duck in death now if sand was Wharton.

Speaker 45 (01:29:54):
Wait a minute, your nuts, yeah, yeah, nuts, hacket nuts
about living to being old man.

Speaker 44 (01:30:00):
Well you might as well surrender and get slapped into
solitary for six months.

Speaker 6 (01:30:04):
No sale do much?

Speaker 9 (01:30:05):
Yeah, what about that?

Speaker 17 (01:30:06):
What's the current rate of exchange?

Speaker 6 (01:30:08):
Too?

Speaker 9 (01:30:08):
Mud?

Speaker 15 (01:30:08):
If we do call it quits.

Speaker 20 (01:30:10):
Now, even you know your Warden Bowers, nothing will happen
to any of you, with one exception, which is well,
Frank Cobbs murderer. He pays him full if he's caught.
Don't worry, Bowers, he will be all right. Men, put
your guns down. Well, who are the holdouts?

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
Good?

Speaker 20 (01:30:40):
Now, how about you Bowers? What'll it be? It'll be,
it'll be quits, Sammy.

Speaker 23 (01:30:47):
Oh, I'm with the others.

Speaker 9 (01:30:48):
I quit too, I ain't no life.

Speaker 15 (01:30:50):
I only joined hacking.

Speaker 40 (01:30:52):
Bowers because you was the one who got hold of
the key to the yards. No, we can all sing, Sammy,
don't forget that, just as loud and clear as you can.

Speaker 9 (01:31:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:31:00):
Maybe, but I'm the only one who knows it was Cob.

Speaker 21 (01:31:03):
Yeah, Frank Cobb, the perfect prisoner who got the guns
to us.

Speaker 9 (01:31:08):
In the first place.

Speaker 20 (01:31:08):
Run Cobb was behind this.

Speaker 18 (01:31:10):
Yeah, yeah, but that ain't normos stool, in fact, too much.

Speaker 31 (01:31:16):
Stinking.

Speaker 20 (01:31:19):
Oh that's right. If you are the only one who
knows so much about Cobb, you might also find yourself
the only one with a real motive for his murders.

Speaker 46 (01:31:27):
Oh no, no, that ain't so, I can prove it,
I wonder, little Sammy. Yeah, wouldn't have thought it possible. Well, Hacket,
I don't think we got anything to worry about anymore. Meanwhile,
meaning that mister dumont here has saved the lives for us,

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what else? After all, big Ben, he was the one
who reminded us of the odds with a heavy one
hundred to one against.

Speaker 15 (01:31:59):
And then we got a good warden.

Speaker 17 (01:32:01):
And we've also got some very lousy.

Speaker 9 (01:32:05):
Prisoner No, no, no boers.

Speaker 44 (01:32:07):
Not wait a minute, shut up both, eh, we got
some lousy prisoners in here. But I ain't so sure
that's enough reason to give up my gun, mister Dumont.

Speaker 6 (01:32:19):
Maybe it'd be super to.

Speaker 20 (01:32:20):
Just pull a triggy simpler, Hacket, but not wiser and
you know it, I'll drop your gun.

Speaker 44 (01:32:32):
Okay, I just want to know one think, doom Man,
what is it? How come you wasn't afraid to work
in here? How come you didn't figure you'd get shot
before you got to talk?

Speaker 20 (01:32:46):
You see, Hacket, you're the ring lader. Nobody here would
have dared to shoot before you.

Speaker 15 (01:32:50):
Oh and the reason I wouldn't shoot my.

Speaker 20 (01:32:55):
Back, I never turned it towards you.

Speaker 9 (01:33:00):
Let's go.

Speaker 24 (01:33:11):
Warden, Sandals speaking, Captain Summers reporting from the central Tower.

Speaker 9 (01:33:14):
Warden, the arsenal secure, Sir, and the.

Speaker 17 (01:33:16):
Men are all encounter good. That was a wonderful job.
Jumont did not a single shot fired.

Speaker 18 (01:33:22):
Captain, which may have been a mistake. You can't handle.

Speaker 17 (01:33:24):
Prisons never mind that, captain. Now, are the cells are
lucked yet?

Speaker 37 (01:33:28):
Yes, sir, the cells are all unlocked, and the happy
prisoners are back at the jobs, business as usual.

Speaker 17 (01:33:33):
Would all right, That's exactly the way I wanted kept, understand. Yes,
and one thing more, Summers, just throw Ju Mount and
his frenda to be allowed free run of the entire prison.
They're going to examine cobb cell. Then they want to
talk to Sammy the singer. After that, I think they'll
deliver them all. That's awesome.

Speaker 20 (01:33:57):
Sixteen seventeen eighteen. Here we are Tulku, the late Frank
Cobbs cell.

Speaker 15 (01:34:03):
But Malama, except for these bars, it seems more like
an artist's studio than a prison cell. All this clay
and these handsomely carved figures.

Speaker 20 (01:34:11):
Yes, just another example, Tolku of Warden Sando's rehabilitation program.
Cobo is an artist and the warden never wanted him
to forget it. It's just too bad he did.

Speaker 15 (01:34:21):
Oh you mean the guns that were smuggled into the prison.

Speaker 20 (01:34:23):
Lama, Yes, the guns, which no doubt are embedded here
in these fresh boxes of modeling clay. That's the only
way cop could have got guns in. You Toko, give
me a head, Yes, Mama, I will see in just
a minute.

Speaker 15 (01:34:41):
Oh, yes, Lama.

Speaker 20 (01:34:43):
Look here, it's a forty five automatic. And blow at
another one, not the same caliber, but equally effective. Toku.

Speaker 15 (01:34:52):
The cell door it's closing, my lama.

Speaker 20 (01:34:55):
Correction, Tuku, it's already closed.

Speaker 15 (01:34:57):
But why Malama? Who would want to keep us prisoner?

Speaker 20 (01:35:01):
I don't know, but I don't intend to stay this
way very long. Could you have a penny in your pocket?

Speaker 15 (01:35:06):
Penny?

Speaker 18 (01:35:07):
Yes?

Speaker 20 (01:35:07):
But why that it's light here? The bulb unscrewed and
replaced with a penny, Give it me, Toku. Inserted in
between it and the connection will blow the fuse fast ooh.

Speaker 39 (01:35:19):
And so render the electrical machinery that locks these cell
doors useless.

Speaker 20 (01:35:23):
No, it's not that simple, Tulku. But in a modern
prison where doors and windows operate electrically, any tampering with wires,
such as a blown fuse might bring results. Now the
bulb back in and we'll see.

Speaker 15 (01:35:36):
Yes, Oh, you were right, my lama gets set off
an alarm.

Speaker 20 (01:35:40):
Yes, and that red light there at the end of
the corner, Look, Tilko, it tags this row is the
seat of the trouble. We should have help any there
coming towardous Tulku so warden with a guard.

Speaker 17 (01:35:49):
Behind him, one here and cops, sell, we're locked in
too much. Wait a minute, I'll get the alarm first,
then have you out you don't, Yes, yes, sir, get
the alarm and open the door block.

Speaker 39 (01:36:00):
Yes, sir, my lama, you have no thought as to
why we happen to be caught in here this way.

Speaker 20 (01:36:06):
No other than that, it's not a coincidence. Still, let's go.
Maybe the warden can help us get throw.

Speaker 17 (01:36:12):
I can't understand this, Sergeant, you patrol this building.

Speaker 18 (01:36:15):
Did you hear the gates closed?

Speaker 17 (01:36:16):
I'll see any prisoners in here?

Speaker 45 (01:36:18):
No, sir, I didn't head up for this block until
that alarm went off. A little before that, I heard
the door of that supply closet down there slam shut.
So I started to investigating, but I never got past
the lower stair warden. Warden under the door of the
supply closet down there, look something seeping.

Speaker 20 (01:36:34):
Out, Yes, something that looks like blood. Come on, it's his.

Speaker 17 (01:36:45):
Blood, all right, jet Throne in a second.

Speaker 20 (01:36:47):
Will know whop oh, yes, Sammy the singer also with
a knife in his back. He's dead.

Speaker 9 (01:36:54):
Jethrow.

Speaker 20 (01:36:55):
No, Warden, but he's slipping fast. Sammy me, who was it?

Speaker 27 (01:37:01):
It was?

Speaker 9 (01:37:04):
It was?

Speaker 18 (01:37:04):
Who?

Speaker 20 (01:37:04):
Sammy?

Speaker 15 (01:37:05):
Try and tell me.

Speaker 10 (01:37:07):
It was that a double crossing hack?

Speaker 9 (01:37:13):
He's gone, Jethrow.

Speaker 17 (01:37:18):
Yes, maybe Captain Somers is right. Maybe this isn't the
way to run a prison. Maybe I should have listened
to him in the first place. Jethrow, What did Sammy
say to you? Something about Hacket?

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 15 (01:37:32):
Jethrow?

Speaker 9 (01:37:34):
Jethrow?

Speaker 39 (01:37:37):
But when the Green Lama failed to answer the Warden's
question and instead stared down at the lifeless form at
his feet, I knew that he had entered the path
of concentration, taught him by the High Lamas of Tibet.
One problem at one time, one solution, the ultimate goal.

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Then a few moments later, Jethro Dumont straightened up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Warden.

Speaker 20 (01:38:06):
Warden, before this place became a model prison? Where were
the so called incorrigibles kept in solitary the basement of
this building? But what's that got to do with these murders?
I don't know, Maybe nothing, maybe everything. Let's go Warden.

Speaker 15 (01:38:28):
The Green Lama and I followed close behind the Warden.

Speaker 39 (01:38:31):
We crossed to a narrow half concealed doorway that opened
onto a spiral staircase leading fifty feet into the earth below.
The long corridor was hewn out of rock, damp and
as silent as the passing of time. It was dark

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except for a thin finger of light ahead from a
lantern and a crude table in a.

Speaker 15 (01:38:57):
Room that was more like a cave. Then we heard
a familiar voice.

Speaker 40 (01:39:03):
So that's your plan, is it?

Speaker 9 (01:39:05):
Brother? It won't work to you, Mont.

Speaker 20 (01:39:07):
I never should have doubted you about what.

Speaker 9 (01:39:09):
I should have known that guilty.

Speaker 20 (01:39:13):
It isn't alone and there won't make it isn't a
guilty one what somebody else killing. But that's right.

Speaker 40 (01:39:20):
Confession carefully as we move up and see.

Speaker 20 (01:39:23):
If you don't recognize the other voice, No dice.

Speaker 37 (01:39:26):
Just shoot period, all right, I'll do it your way, Hacket,
as long as I have to.

Speaker 9 (01:39:31):
What still get away with?

Speaker 15 (01:39:35):
I got the upper hand.

Speaker 20 (01:39:36):
I'm a garden, you're a con.

Speaker 37 (01:39:37):
I can knock you off and say it happened, because
after you admitted killing both Sammy and the singer and Cobb,
you made a break for it, and everybody will believe
even though the.

Speaker 40 (01:39:47):
Truth is that you nite Corb because you was getting
the guns to him yourself, but it didn't play out
dead at Summers Cobb changed his mind when his pardon
come through unexpected that may you have to kill him?

Speaker 9 (01:40:01):
Or worried that he talked?

Speaker 37 (01:40:02):
Yeah, and as long as you'd like to understand everything
real thorough like before you go out hack it, I'll
cut you in on a little more the reason I
killed Sammy.

Speaker 20 (01:40:09):
Mind if I try it, Captain Summers.

Speaker 9 (01:40:11):
Come on, what stay away your stop walking, your matter
our shoot?

Speaker 20 (01:40:18):
You killed Sammy, Captain Summers, because he knew too much.
You couldn't afford to let him live when the break
didn't come off, because Sammy sings too easily, doesn't he mut?

Speaker 9 (01:40:28):
Stop? Stop for our shoe?

Speaker 20 (01:40:29):
And do what when Hackett grabs for you, big Ben
the man you were about to murder? Or were you
counting on getting us both at once? All right? Which
one will it be? First? Summers?

Speaker 9 (01:40:40):
Yeah, Captain, which I don't know?

Speaker 19 (01:40:44):
Huh?

Speaker 9 (01:40:46):
Stay back? Woulden wouldn't tell him to stay back?

Speaker 20 (01:40:50):
Tell him what I'll answer for the Wharton Summers?

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
Second?

Speaker 20 (01:40:55):
All right, drop the gun?

Speaker 15 (01:40:56):
It come it?

Speaker 18 (01:40:57):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:41:01):
You went humunt.

Speaker 17 (01:41:12):
Well, Jethro here it is Captain Summer's complete confession, thanks
to you. But how did you suspect him in the
first place?

Speaker 15 (01:41:18):
This has also been bothering me, my Lama.

Speaker 20 (01:41:20):
Well, there were four things pointing him Warden. First, if
al Bauer's story of the murder knife being stolen from
his cell was true, it could only have been stolen
by a guard.

Speaker 17 (01:41:28):
Yes, no one else would be able to get into
the cell too.

Speaker 20 (01:41:30):
Summers was the only person in the entire prison to
have a key to the arsenal right, Warden, Yes. And
Sammy the singer, was not the type of person who
could have gotten that key away from a man like
Captain Summers, so the key must have been given to him.
Then Summers knew we were going to talk to Sammy,
and he needed time to get to Sammy first, so
he locked us in the cell. Only Summers and you,
Warden knew we were there. Finally, Sammy told us it

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was Summers. Sammy told us yes. When Sammy was dying,
he said that it was that double crossing hack. Remember
you thought he was trying to say heck it, but
in prison.

Speaker 17 (01:42:02):
Prison slang, yes, heck means of God.

Speaker 20 (01:42:05):
In this case, Sommers, Yes, Warden, Summers the only man
with a motive to stir up riots and murders in.

Speaker 17 (01:42:10):
The model prison because he wanted my job.

Speaker 20 (01:42:13):
That's right, Warden. You know it is truly written that
the ambitious man often falls into the pit dug by
his own greed.

Speaker 38 (01:42:34):
You've just heard another adventure with The Green Lama, starring
Paul Freeze as Jeffre Dumont with Ben Ryt as Tilko.
The script was by Gene Levin and Bob mitchofrom A
story by Richard Foster featured on the cast where Edgar Barrier,
Clayton Post, Dave Young, Bill Conrad, ed Max, Jack Krusian,
and Bud Widham. Special music is by Richard Urrandt. The
Green Lama was produced and directed by James Burton.

Speaker 18 (01:43:04):
Music.

Speaker 38 (01:43:05):
And a lot of fine music is coming your way
almost immediately on most of these same CBS stations. Bond
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top hits of today. Geneou three will come riding with
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So stay tuned right now for Bond Monroll following immediately
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(01:43:28):
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Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
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Speaker 5 (01:44:47):
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Here on CLAI Classic Radio Theater with Fly of Cox
The Church Without a Cross next Sunday.

Speaker 25 (01:45:05):
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Speaker 9 (01:45:22):
Over most of these NBC stations.

Speaker 25 (01:45:27):
Beginning September one, Top Secret will be heard Friday evenings.
Top Secret, starring gorgeous Ilona Massey as the Baroness Karen
gezer In transcribed stories of a woman who pitted beauty,
brains and courage against the forces of evil. Tonight as

(01:45:49):
Assignment eleven, The Church Without a Cross.

Speaker 48 (01:46:08):
Assignment eleven was a fight against death, death that came silently,
without warning. I had to find a place, a pinpoint
on the coast of Europe. It was in Belgium, north
of Brussels, and was known as Location our X. Many
men had looked for it, suffered for it, died for it.

(01:46:31):
An old friend had worn me told me what to expect.

Speaker 49 (01:46:36):
You were young, beautiful, full of life. I am old
and I know to find Location our.

Speaker 9 (01:46:47):
X is to die.

Speaker 48 (01:46:57):
But location our X had to be found and found quickly,
otherwise London would perish. Accordingly, I asked permission to enter
Belgium by parachute. I made my request to Sir Eric Hamilton,
head of London's Department of Civilian Defense.

Speaker 24 (01:47:15):
My dear baroness, what you ask is impossible, quite impossible.

Speaker 14 (01:47:19):
Please sir ready, let me try.

Speaker 9 (01:47:22):
Please. It's too dangerous, Baroness.

Speaker 14 (01:47:24):
I am used to danger. And besides, if I should die,
there is no one.

Speaker 9 (01:47:29):
Who wush listen, windows rattling, one of them is hit.
I don't see, no one ever does. Oh there it
is that cloud of dust. Get away from the window, Barness, Get.

Speaker 20 (01:47:38):
Away from the window.

Speaker 9 (01:47:40):
Oh you heardes?

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
All right?

Speaker 10 (01:47:44):
Your cheek is bid.

Speaker 9 (01:47:45):
You know I'm all right, really, Baroness, Please.

Speaker 48 (01:47:48):
Let me find us where they are coming from. If
they ever learned to aim them accurately, London is finished?

Speaker 9 (01:47:52):
Yes, I know?

Speaker 14 (01:47:53):
Then please al readies.

Speaker 9 (01:47:54):
Please all right, bitterness, you win.

Speaker 24 (01:47:58):
That's the third v two and twenty four hours us
this week, four hundred dead, over two thousand injured. Fig
goes on much longer, the city will panic. Nerves are
like watch springs coiled ready to snap. At any moment,
we will send you into Belgium by parachute.

Speaker 9 (01:48:14):
Tonight, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 24 (01:48:16):
We think they're coming from a location called r X,
somewhere east of Ostend. We know that the key man
is a Colonel van Cash, with an office in the
Hall of Liberty in Brussels. Yes, your contact in Brussels
is a Frenchman.

Speaker 9 (01:48:28):
If he's still on them for ten days?

Speaker 14 (01:48:30):
What is his name and how shall I know him?

Speaker 24 (01:48:32):
His name is Lebron, Pierre Lebron. His last address was
one four five Rue des.

Speaker 14 (01:48:37):
Petite Closch, Street of the Little Bell.

Speaker 9 (01:48:40):
One four five. You will know him by coin, an
old penny minted in nineteen twenty. This is the last
one I have. Twelve others have gone before you, Baroness
and vanished. Yes you mean that, yes, Baroness.

Speaker 24 (01:48:57):
Twelve other operators have searched for locals r EX and
vanished you of the thirteenth.

Speaker 48 (01:49:07):
As I left his office, I passed the place where
the V two had fallen. There had been no warning,
no sound, only a sudden vibration, and then the explosion,
crumbling a block of houses.

Speaker 14 (01:49:27):
Rubble in the ruins.

Speaker 48 (01:49:30):
I saw doll, a tiny doll with golden hair clutched
in the hand of a child.

Speaker 14 (01:49:37):
At the end of the hand, an arm at the
end of the arm. Nothing. I hurried on second.

Speaker 48 (01:49:46):
Horrified, I reported to the airfield. It was dark when
I took off in a small scene engine plane. As
we headed all over the Channel, the dim gray shape
of London disappeared. A few minutes later we were over Belgium.

(01:50:10):
I checked my parachute, my compass. Then my position was
the pilot. With thirty seconds to go, I opened the hatch.

Speaker 17 (01:50:20):
He twenty six twenty seven, twenty eight twenty nine.

Speaker 48 (01:50:33):
The wind was soft to my teeth and warm. The
earth came up to meet me in slow motion. My
search for location our ex had begun. When I landed,
I threw my parachute, done an old well and made

(01:50:55):
by way to Brassels on foot. The city was quiet.
There was no traffic, no people, and seemingly no life.
There were shadows in every doorway, and the whole thing
seemed unreal, as if as if I.

Speaker 14 (01:51:09):
Were walking in a dream.

Speaker 48 (01:51:12):
I found the rude the petty close, and in an
alley beside a cafe, I found the Frenchman's house.

Speaker 14 (01:51:23):
Who is it a friend with a penny, an old
English penny. A penny, yes, an English panny made in
nineteen twenty. Coming, come in, show it to me. Suddenly
they come, they vanish, they die, but still they come again.

Speaker 23 (01:51:43):
Your ma'amselle, here is nine. I am Pierre Lebon.

Speaker 14 (01:51:49):
Thank you you have papers?

Speaker 48 (01:51:50):
Yes, of course, I am Baroness Karen Gazer, formerly of Vienna,
now of London from Sir Eric Hamilton.

Speaker 11 (01:51:57):
You have obtained a penny. Yes, I will tell you
what I know. Yes, the B two is a rocket bomb. Yes,
as yet the control will sit on ferrier. They do
not aim with accuracy, and bustles two or three times
have gone wrong and fallen. The people call them la mousnnsieur,

(01:52:19):
the silent death that comes from al where they are manufactured.
I do not know from a place known as location wrecks.
They are launched exactly. This part is annon, except that
it is by the sea. In charge is a man
of the devil for a line a Colonel Hans frankersh
Than Karsh, half the chemist, half the soldier, all the Nazi.

(01:52:43):
He is in charge of Location a ricks.

Speaker 14 (01:52:45):
Where can I find him?

Speaker 11 (01:52:46):
He has an office in the all of liberty hereng bussels,
I will write down the address.

Speaker 10 (01:52:52):
St.

Speaker 14 (01:52:53):
Whala mercy. And now can you suggest any way in
which I might be able to find?

Speaker 11 (01:52:58):
I can suggest nothing for Filene. For me, these suggestions
are bad. Twelve men have come, twelve men of honor
and courage, I suggest, and they banish.

Speaker 23 (01:53:10):
I have now the fear. Soon I will also every blame.

Speaker 14 (01:53:14):
Oh, sir Eric knows it isn't your fault, I said,
he knows it can't be helped.

Speaker 11 (01:53:20):
You are sure, Yes, I'm glad you're the same foy line.
It is the importance that you go. If we meet,
do not speak. If you must come to this house,
come at night alone.

Speaker 14 (01:53:31):
But I thought I would say, nor.

Speaker 11 (01:53:34):
Sit down, poor sheep. You can obtain a room in possons.

Speaker 14 (01:53:37):
I am small. I could sleep on that couch.

Speaker 23 (01:53:39):
That fraulein is the bet of my son.

Speaker 14 (01:53:41):
Yo, your son is he one of us?

Speaker 19 (01:53:44):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:53:44):
No go, Filene, please, My friend is dangerous.

Speaker 14 (01:53:48):
Do you think working alone is the best way?

Speaker 23 (01:53:51):
Working alone is the only way?

Speaker 11 (01:53:54):
Bonsoiry, bon chance, Thank you and good luck to you.
The thirteenth phinish man cheer will then it'll stop. Val Cash,

(01:54:16):
Colonel vancsh Yes, who is it your friend Connel with
something to say?

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
Ah?

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
Another penny the thirteenth?

Speaker 11 (01:54:27):
How much Connel? I am old and tired? How much
they are now of a heretic Conner? This one will
be expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
What does he look like?

Speaker 11 (01:54:40):
It is not the man Connel van Cache, But uh I,
it is not the man who will be easily got.

Speaker 9 (01:54:48):
Does it occur?

Speaker 24 (01:54:48):
Do you miss your lebrand that might at stop or
could get the information out of you?

Speaker 23 (01:54:53):
In out of the way, and let me tell the
secret of location.

Speaker 11 (01:54:57):
I ICs not, Connel, I think not the pics five
thousand American dollars.

Speaker 23 (01:55:04):
Think it over good night.

Speaker 14 (01:55:17):
As I left the old man's house, despair swept over me.

Speaker 48 (01:55:21):
I could expect no help from a gentle old Frenchman,
and felt responsible for the death of twelve men, and
was now without courage.

Speaker 9 (01:55:30):
To go on.

Speaker 48 (01:55:31):
To connect with one cash seemed impossible, and yet with
one cash was the secret of location r X.

Speaker 14 (01:55:43):
I walked on the crooked, deserted little street.

Speaker 19 (01:55:47):
It was dark.

Speaker 48 (01:55:51):
There was no sound except my footsteps on the stones.
I then passed always where shadows lurked. I was tired,
I had no place to sleep. I was a spy
without contact, alone in the midst of the enemy.

Speaker 24 (01:56:08):
Mademoiselle, wait, please do not be alarmed. Did you come
just now from there?

Speaker 9 (01:56:13):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
The other boy?

Speaker 10 (01:56:14):
Who are you?

Speaker 9 (01:56:14):
Momoiselle? And beggres to tell me let go? Man fire
the rue dated flush were you there?

Speaker 14 (01:56:20):
Let me go.

Speaker 24 (01:56:21):
I'll screep and bring the police. Pheps not Mademoiselle. They
would arrest you, arrest me as a alid's spy. Let
me go, please, Mademoiselle, I name, I cannot run.

Speaker 20 (01:56:33):
Please go back.

Speaker 48 (01:56:45):
Out of the Brussels night. A stranger who knew somebody
knew who I was and where I had been. I
ran on till I could go no further. That night
I slept in the streets. The next day I got
a room and began. I'm working on Colonel van Cash.
At the end of four weeks I got an interview
with him. At the end of four more I got

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a job as one of his three secretaries.

Speaker 14 (01:57:11):
It's to brive money, and a lot of it.

Speaker 48 (01:57:13):
But at last I had established a contact that was
barely close and reasonably safe. His headquarters occupied an entire
floor in the Hall of Liberty in Brussels.

Speaker 9 (01:57:26):
Have you been to lunch for ale Ankello.

Speaker 24 (01:57:28):
No, sir, then go now when you come back, make
six copies of that letter and put the one ful
location r X in my basket.

Speaker 9 (01:57:35):
I'm going up tonight.

Speaker 14 (01:57:36):
Oh, Colonel van Caush, you look so tired, and it's
it's such a long drive.

Speaker 9 (01:57:42):
Who said it is a long drive?

Speaker 14 (01:57:45):
But no, no one sir, just that that you look.

Speaker 9 (01:57:49):
How are you trying to find out where it is?

Speaker 14 (01:57:52):
Oh no, why of course not. I only thought that
you seen.

Speaker 18 (01:57:56):
You are not here to think.

Speaker 17 (01:57:57):
You are here to work, not ask questions.

Speaker 2 (01:58:01):
You obey, go to lunch.

Speaker 9 (01:58:04):
When I want an opinion on.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
My hell, I will oh cash.

Speaker 19 (01:58:12):
No.

Speaker 18 (01:58:14):
He asked me for five.

Speaker 24 (01:58:15):
Thousand American dollars and disappeared. You have been looking for
him for two months.

Speaker 9 (01:58:21):
I want some action.

Speaker 24 (01:58:23):
There's an Allied spy somewhere in Brussels who must be caught.
I want results, and I want them fast, Aline Cella,
I told you to go to lunch.

Speaker 31 (01:58:34):
Go.

Speaker 48 (01:58:41):
I went to lunch. It was late, nearly one point thirty.
When I returned it was a quarter to three. Quite
without design. I got into the elevator third from the end.
There were four people in it, including the operator. I
had noticed him before. There was a flavor in his accent.
It reminded me of Dublin. The other passengers got out

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on the second floor, leaving the operator and me alone
between the third and the fourth floors.

Speaker 14 (01:59:11):
He stopped the car. Speak to you. Why are you stopping?

Speaker 10 (01:59:16):
What does this mean?

Speaker 23 (01:59:17):
I would like to speak to you about a penny?

Speaker 15 (01:59:19):
A penny?

Speaker 23 (01:59:20):
Yes, I know twenty.

Speaker 9 (01:59:22):
This one.

Speaker 14 (01:59:23):
Who are you?

Speaker 23 (01:59:25):
Perhaps you have won to match it?

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:59:27):
I have in my purse.

Speaker 23 (01:59:31):
Yes, at last, someone else? Who are you? Twelve agents
have come over, mademoiselle. I was the seventh.

Speaker 14 (01:59:37):
I am the thirteenth.

Speaker 23 (01:59:39):
Who's your contact?

Speaker 48 (01:59:40):
And Monsieur Lebrun he has disappeared. Mine was the son Jacques,
he too has disappeared. Are you of the location? Ares?

Speaker 23 (01:59:46):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:59:47):
Are you? Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:59:48):
Why haven't you gotten a message through to London?

Speaker 23 (01:59:50):
Because I left now the men have died. Oh, I
have to go on.

Speaker 14 (01:59:54):
I am working for one cash. I'll get to you
if I learn anything.

Speaker 23 (01:59:58):
Thank god I found you. I just I had a feeling,
a feeling that you will.

Speaker 14 (02:00:03):
Can you get an automobile?

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
I think so?

Speaker 14 (02:00:04):
With some notices we may need a change.

Speaker 9 (02:00:07):
Here we are find Heller. Any you please at once
tell me and bring your book.

Speaker 24 (02:00:17):
Yes, sir, I am telephoning a Heleopod Shalk of the
Shark Steel Mills.

Speaker 17 (02:00:24):
He's a very important man.

Speaker 24 (02:00:26):
You will listen to the extension and take down every
word of our conversation.

Speaker 10 (02:00:29):
Is that clear?

Speaker 24 (02:00:30):
Yes, sir, Well you've had great news, fine Keller, great news.
By Sunday the aiming device will be ready. We will
be able to aim the rockets with the accuracy of
a rifle. PIM find actual buildings. MM quick lift the extension.
This is his private line. Write down everything he says. Everything,

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Hasha her sharp. This is Konel from Carsh.

Speaker 9 (02:00:58):
I have great news. We have perfected the aiming device.

Speaker 19 (02:01:02):
Congratulations.

Speaker 24 (02:01:03):
I would like you to come to Location ex on
Sunday Sunday. Yes, I will drive you up myself. I
wish to know how many rockets your plans in Belgium
can produce the next six weeks.

Speaker 19 (02:01:12):
I do not have to call a location I X
to tell you that.

Speaker 9 (02:01:15):
Oh, but Sunday night is important. Here shall the first
rocket with.

Speaker 24 (02:01:19):
The aiming device will be fired at midnight if possible.
We wish to hit the Buckingham Palace. The death of
the King and the Queen would be a tremendous blow
to civilian morale in London.

Speaker 17 (02:01:31):
I see, say well, I will come girl.

Speaker 9 (02:01:35):
I will have your passmate out and drive you up myself.

Speaker 19 (02:01:37):
I will be an stand anyway on Sunday at my
country place.

Speaker 9 (02:01:40):
It's only in my drive to the peninsula.

Speaker 14 (02:01:42):
Shall please do not mention the location?

Speaker 9 (02:01:47):
Yes, but so am I.

Speaker 26 (02:01:49):
No one can hear us.

Speaker 19 (02:01:51):
Send me the pass and the mail and viv over
to the charge myself.

Speaker 18 (02:01:54):
I have pa.

Speaker 24 (02:01:58):
Hang up for all and hell hello, Yes, colonel from Gosh,
make got the paths for her shaka with sinning and
feel it.

Speaker 9 (02:02:04):
You will deliver it personally into his hands. Sent it
to the mail. The man is a fool.

Speaker 24 (02:02:10):
And yes, Colonel from Gosh, by accident, you have learned something.
I have decided to trust you. But you will forget
what you heard about Location r X.

Speaker 14 (02:02:37):
At last a.

Speaker 10 (02:02:38):
Clue to Location r X.

Speaker 48 (02:02:40):
I made up the pass. He signed it and stamped
it with his special seal. He closed the envelope with
ceiling bags and addressed himself. I was to deliver it
by hand. At the very moment, I was trembling with
excitement as I rang for the elevator, the special elevator,
third from the left.

Speaker 23 (02:03:00):
Thank you, may I'm back.

Speaker 10 (02:03:05):
I've cut it.

Speaker 48 (02:03:06):
Can you stop the elevator? Yes, it's bad now I've
got a pass to get into location or X. It's
made up to a littlepoold shark. I know that the
rockets are launch from the police eight miles from Ostend
on Peninsula, near the church.

Speaker 9 (02:03:19):
How do you know all this?

Speaker 14 (02:03:20):
Never mind? You and I are driving to Ostend tonight.
Can you get a car, yes, in a couple of hours.

Speaker 9 (02:03:25):
Make it one all right?

Speaker 23 (02:03:26):
One?

Speaker 9 (02:03:27):
Ah?

Speaker 23 (02:03:27):
Anything else?

Speaker 14 (02:03:28):
We should each have a gun.

Speaker 23 (02:03:29):
I'll see to that too.

Speaker 14 (02:03:31):
Pick me up in front of the opera house in
an outright.

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
But how can you know all this?

Speaker 23 (02:03:35):
How can you be sure?

Speaker 48 (02:03:36):
I'll explain it later. First I've a call to Meek.
I'm going back once more to the Rue de Petit.

Speaker 23 (02:03:41):
Clauch misieur Lebron. Yes, but he isn't there. You've been back.

Speaker 14 (02:03:45):
I want to try again.

Speaker 48 (02:03:46):
Why if something happened to us left with some one
we can trust, then perhaps the next person can start where.

Speaker 14 (02:03:53):
We left off.

Speaker 23 (02:03:53):
If the old man isn't there, you can trust the sun.
You can't mistake him. He limps and he has no hair,
no hair. He was a pilot in the French Air Force.
He crashed and mys terribly in gentle. His head was
badly burned. His name is Jacques.

Speaker 14 (02:04:06):
All right, and not take me down.

Speaker 23 (02:04:10):
I'll be in front of the opera house in an hour.

Speaker 14 (02:04:13):
Good. But first time I see Monsieur Lebron, even though
he's afraid.

Speaker 50 (02:04:17):
He's at least on all side, Jacques, jack Please, in
the name of Eden, will you stop it.

Speaker 10 (02:04:34):
I do not know anything.

Speaker 9 (02:04:36):
Don't go back to the cellar, father, But I tell
you I do not know.

Speaker 10 (02:04:39):
I swear I do not know.

Speaker 18 (02:04:40):
I cannot stay down there forever?

Speaker 23 (02:04:43):
Very much?

Speaker 19 (02:04:43):
Now?

Speaker 24 (02:04:43):
Is I You will stay until you tell three months
three years I have died.

Speaker 23 (02:04:47):
I am seek Jacques.

Speaker 9 (02:04:48):
Keep this cold, all right? Please please father. If I
had not proof, I would kill you. Jacques.

Speaker 15 (02:04:55):
Please.

Speaker 24 (02:04:56):
Twelve men have come to this house fighting for the
same things. I thought their identification was a penny. They
left the near they left, they would never leave them.

Speaker 9 (02:05:06):
Never Where did you get them? One of the pennies
was your identification? Where did you get the others? Where?
And the girl where has she gone? Where did you
send her.

Speaker 18 (02:05:17):
There was not a girl.

Speaker 9 (02:05:18):
There was never a girl.

Speaker 23 (02:05:20):
You made the mistake that Jacques. She departed from another house,
not this one.

Speaker 24 (02:05:25):
I have the rest of my life to make your
talk downstairs. Father, No no, I will come strae and
then I will throw you down one.

Speaker 9 (02:05:35):
Jacques, please please, so.

Speaker 23 (02:05:39):
The door, Jacques, there was so many.

Speaker 24 (02:05:42):
If you do, don't move, I will answer it. I
am ugly for then, but I am not dangerous.

Speaker 14 (02:05:52):
What do you want, I'll forgive me. I I wish
to see mister Lebron.

Speaker 9 (02:05:59):
Sure sure the girl jees come in?

Speaker 14 (02:06:06):
What are you doing to him?

Speaker 9 (02:06:08):
She not's your father my name? She lies? I never
saw her before in my life. She lies.

Speaker 24 (02:06:13):
I tell you there is nothing left for your father,
but silent, not Monseille. I am Jacques Leavoins. I am
a French pilot with a quade gare. For weeks now
I've suspected my father of collaboration. It is very important
that you tell me the truth. Ah, You a British
agent from Sir Eric Hamilton.

Speaker 48 (02:06:31):
Yes, I came to Belgium by parafood from London. I
had a identification a penny, an English penny dated nineteen twenty.

Speaker 14 (02:06:39):
I talked to your father the night I landed two
months is lie.

Speaker 17 (02:06:42):
She's like, I swear, She's like, Jacque, dolet this job.
I am your father, your father Jacques.

Speaker 15 (02:06:48):
This girl is he eh?

Speaker 24 (02:06:52):
Go on, mademoiselle, your father was my countact your proof
of this?

Speaker 9 (02:06:57):
Why?

Speaker 1 (02:06:58):
No?

Speaker 10 (02:06:58):
No, I am sie Jacques.

Speaker 48 (02:07:00):
You see wait wait, yes, yes, I have in my purse.
I think he gave me the address of Colonelphan Carsh.

Speaker 14 (02:07:06):
He wrote it down on this. If you are his son,
you will recognize his writing here.

Speaker 9 (02:07:11):
No, thank you, Mademoiselle Shack, No, no, please, in the
name of heaven.

Speaker 18 (02:07:19):
No, I have your father?

Speaker 27 (02:07:22):
Oh you please? Please?

Speaker 9 (02:07:25):
Oh that was here. My father was a Nazi. Should
I go?

Speaker 18 (02:07:34):
Now?

Speaker 14 (02:07:34):
I know location r X.

Speaker 24 (02:07:36):
I have a car.

Speaker 14 (02:07:37):
Perhaps you may be able to help.

Speaker 9 (02:07:38):
Us, But that, Mademoiselle, I couldn't do anything.

Speaker 23 (02:08:01):
Let miss Pitouch Colonel van kersh quickly.

Speaker 14 (02:08:15):
The car was waiting at the opera house I drove.

Speaker 48 (02:08:19):
In the back seat was a British agent from Dublin
named Roger beside me a French pilot from Paris named Jacques.
We had maps, and we searched eight miles from Ostende
on a peninsula a white church.

Speaker 14 (02:08:38):
Suddenly we were challenged by a German God, at least
your path.

Speaker 48 (02:08:45):
Then he asked for a pass. We knew we were
on the right track. Roger hid on the floor behind
the front seat with a motor rug over him. Jacques
posed as her shark at the half of the pass
in the darkness.

Speaker 9 (02:08:58):
Who got through.

Speaker 48 (02:09:00):
Five minutes later we saw it on a tiny point
of land jutting out into the North Sea, a white
country church with a steeple. We parked the car off
the road in the shadows. We had to be sure
we were right, so we made our way through the
woods on the foot.

Speaker 9 (02:09:25):
Can rushah.

Speaker 24 (02:09:29):
Wait there behind the church, be launching rolf.

Speaker 11 (02:09:34):
We found it, then let's get out it as it
was lighty, very quiet, said Grey.

Speaker 9 (02:09:39):
A little closer.

Speaker 14 (02:09:40):
Why isn't it more heavily guarded.

Speaker 24 (02:09:42):
Deadly guards around the country church would be suspicious.

Speaker 14 (02:09:45):
Something's wrong, Rock, I can feel it.

Speaker 9 (02:09:48):
Very I'm caught.

Speaker 10 (02:09:51):
I shock.

Speaker 19 (02:09:52):
What is it?

Speaker 18 (02:09:53):
The trap?

Speaker 23 (02:09:54):
I'm cut?

Speaker 9 (02:09:55):
That's why the huns and the guards. Get out both
of your place.

Speaker 26 (02:09:58):
We'll help.

Speaker 16 (02:09:58):
You'll touch it, it's wired. Don't touch A draft is electrified.
If you touch it you'll get a shock. Then why
don't we show you go, both of you get this
back to London. Please at the hotel in Ustune. The
undergrowd has the radio transmitter Rauhia, make her go. Get
your youth fools, leave me Krausha. Don't touch that crap.

Speaker 48 (02:10:19):
You'd be electrically eight one and Roger, we can please,
you would.

Speaker 16 (02:10:21):
Be killed, don't you understand by a legis artificial? As
long as said the buntake Chris, now go go.

Speaker 48 (02:10:37):
We stood there in an agony of indecisions. Searchlight began
to put curious white thingers into the woods.

Speaker 14 (02:10:43):
And they realized we had to leave him.

Speaker 48 (02:10:45):
We'll headed back to the car and in twenty minutes
we were safe in a stand and then now underground
headquarters and the exact details of location are X had
been radioed to London.

Speaker 14 (02:11:01):
Roger and I waited the rest of the night, all
hearts heavy.

Speaker 48 (02:11:07):
With the memory of the strange firety Frenchman with a
magnificent face.

Speaker 14 (02:11:13):
And the ugliest guard head.

Speaker 48 (02:11:17):
Then in the gray first light of the dawn, they
came the medium bombers with the swift Fighter escort like
angry spokes. Then the bombs began to fall on the
White Country Church on the steeple.

Speaker 51 (02:11:32):
Without a cross, one for London, one of France and
our Father, which are in heaven, one for rock Lebrun.

Speaker 25 (02:12:09):
You have just heard Top Secret droughtter You, transcribed by
MBC and starring gorgeous Alora Massy, who comes to you
now with a special message.

Speaker 48 (02:12:20):
Next Sunday evening, that wonderful program the album of familiar
music will be heard in plays of Top Secret over
most of these NBC stations. On Friday September First, we
will all be back with a new series of Top
Secret programs which we think you will find especially fascinating.
Remember the date a week from next Friday, September First,

(02:12:44):
over most of these NBC stations, and good Night everybody.

Speaker 17 (02:12:48):
A Top Secret is directed and produced by Harry W.

Speaker 20 (02:12:57):
Jenkin.

Speaker 17 (02:12:59):
The night script by Charles Lee Hutchings.

Speaker 25 (02:13:02):
Members of the cast included Guy Repp as Lebron Theo
good says Von Cash, David McKay as Jacques, Roy Irving
as Roger, and Lui Van Rutton Messer Eric Hamilton. The
music was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. This
is Bred Collins speaking. This program came to you from

(02:13:34):
Radio City, New York.

Speaker 5 (02:13:36):
And this also the final episode of Top Secret, as
the summer series working their way to an end. Seventy
five years ago. August twentieth, nineteen to fifty. Here on
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Talks, We'll head down to
Pine Ray, Jarkansas. See what's going on with Lomon Abner.

Speaker 18 (02:13:53):
And the baby.

Speaker 52 (02:14:00):
How many people are there in a crowd of ten million?
Do you have any picture in your mind? Or is
that figure too overwhelming? Well, ten million is more people
than there are in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles combined.
And that's how many men, women and children in our
country are suffering from some form of mental illness. Yes,
ten million. Among that ten million may be there's some

(02:14:21):
one you know, a neighbor, friend, or a relative. So
you see, mental illness is a problem that concerns us all.
That's why we are all being asked to give to
our local mental health campaign to fight mental illness. The
best weapon is research. Research to find out how to
prevent mental illness. Your doctors can be helped by your dollars.
They can learn enough to really lick this number one problem,

(02:14:43):
mental illness. The victims of mental illness need your help.
Desperately give to your local mental health campaign.

Speaker 5 (02:14:50):
Hey, let's wrap up this edition of Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatcocks with another episode of Love an Abner. As
we go back eighty three years August twentieth, nineteen forty.

Speaker 15 (02:15:01):
The makers of Alka Seltzer bring you Lomon Abner.

Speaker 2 (02:15:52):
You know, old friends. We're all learning to do without
a lot of things these days. Yet even our own
government tells us that we should not do without good times.
If we're to do our best work, we must have
some rest and relaxation.

Speaker 14 (02:16:06):
Two.

Speaker 2 (02:16:06):
Of course, that does not mean we should overdo it either,
But sometimes in spite of good intentions, it can happen.
And there's that morning after misery to reckon with. Well,
if it should happen to you, here's hoping that you're
acquainted with Alka Selzer. For Alco Selzer can make such
a difference in the way you feel when the morning
after dawns, thanks to the soothing relief it offers for

(02:16:27):
headaches and for minor stomach upsets. So whenever you forget
your better judgment, be sure to remember Alka Selzer. Get
it at any drug store by the package or by
the glass at the soda fountain. And now let's see
what's going on down in pine Ridge. Well, Lum and

(02:16:48):
Abner are in debt to Squire Skimp for an additional
six hundred dollars. Mister Blair, their lawyer on the Baby's
gold mine case, informed them that he needed to hire
two mining experts to sneak into the mine and make
some tests to determine if it really is worthless, as
missus Logan's lawyer claims. The Squire advanced the money for this,

(02:17:08):
but Lomb went to the County Seat Bank today to
borrow enough money to repay Squire. As we're looking on
the little.

Speaker 9 (02:17:14):
Community today, we find that lumb has just to turn
from his trip to the bank.

Speaker 2 (02:17:20):
Listen, and they wouldn't make you no loan. Huh No, no,
I don't understand it. That's the first time I ever
been turned down by that bank. Well what reason did
they give for not letting you have the money loan? Well,
they claimed I was getting myself a bad reputation, bad reputation.
They said, I had just wrote some checks to Squire

(02:17:41):
Skimp that weren't no good. Oh, he said, if it
hadn't been for Squire, I'd have got myself in a
lot of trouble over well, I thought Squire said he
called up the bank and told him not to let
that check of years go too. Yeah, that's what I
thought too. But more likely he never called him up
in time. Yah, I boundary, he never called him up atall,
if you Oh, no, he called him up all right,

(02:18:02):
because he fixed it someway he did, but not quick
enough to keep me from getting a bad reputation. And
another thing is said I didn't pay my bills, claimed
I owed that mister Douglas over here some money for
selling that truck Cedric bought for the Lamb tacks. Now,
reckon how they knowed about it. I don't know what
they found out some way, h them bank fellers knows

(02:18:23):
everything I hate and despise them. Well, here, what are
we going to do now?

Speaker 9 (02:18:27):
On?

Speaker 2 (02:18:27):
I'm Squire respecting us to pay him back that money today,
wasn't he?

Speaker 9 (02:18:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:18:31):
I told him I'd sure enough had the money today.
Fact says I was figured on barring up in the
bank to pay back both the five hundred dollars he
paid out for a lawyer and six hundred dollars for
them experts. Experts them fellus. It was going to sneak
into the mine at night and make some tests to
see if there's any more gold. Oh oh yeah, yeah.
I still don't see though, why we already had to

(02:18:52):
pay them six hundred dollars just for doing that. Mister Blair.
The attorney claims they wouldn't do it for less on
account of it, and it's risky, risky. You see, if
miss Logan catches him in our mind or what she
claims is her mind, well she can have him arrested
and throw them the penitentiary. Oh well, I'd hate to
see that happen to him. I hope they don't discover

(02:19:14):
that that mine ain't got no more gold here, cause uh, then,
me and you've just spent eleven hundred dollars for nothing. Yeah,
we ain't spent that much actually, but we owe it
the squire. Well, now, if we get the mine away
from miss Logan and give it back to little Charlie,
well we get any of that eleven hundred dollars back lung.
Oh yeah, naturally the baby's of state will pay us back.

(02:19:36):
He well, huh yeah, moren't likely they'll want to pay
us extra for doing.

Speaker 9 (02:19:39):
Such good work.

Speaker 2 (02:19:40):
Yeah, we won't take it. Won't take it. Oh we're
interested in doing is getting a baby? Everything is coming
to him. Oh yeah, sure, we ain't gonna let nobody
take nothing away from little Charlie. No, sir, I wish
you'd quit call him little Charlie. That ain't his name.
Well that's the one I like anyway, little Lum I
like it. I like Charlie better. Of course, after we

(02:20:00):
get his mind running in good shape, we might look
around the Black Hills and open up a little gold
mine of her own, one of our own. Huh ye,
get one right close to the baby's mind, so as
we could run both of them at the same time. Yeah,
that sounds like a good idy dog is just get
come squire right now. I hate to tell him. We
can't say him that money where general? Well, Squire, well,

(02:20:23):
I just stopped her on my way over the post
over is long. I'm sort of expecting to here from
b Double this afternoon. Yeah, yes, you see Ward him
at six hundred dollars yesterday, and then last night he
wired back to tell me that he'd hire the two
mining experts and that they're going right to work.

Speaker 6 (02:20:41):
Well that's good.

Speaker 2 (02:20:43):
They went into mine last night. Yes, yes, I get
sew them and they find a lot of gold years
we need to win. I figure if they were able
to make any tests, why, bub, you'll send me the resources.
So why I guess I better get on over and
see if any word come in. Well just a minute, squire,
there's something I ought to tell you. What's that? Long? Well,

(02:21:05):
I'm fared I can't pay you back that money right away,
whole tut tut loom. I went into the county seat
today to get a loan at the bank and they
turned me down. Turned you down? Yeah, Flatt said it
was on account of that check of mine you sent
to the bank on the stay. Why are the scoundrels
why they can't do that? I told them that was

(02:21:26):
an accident, explain the whole thing to him. Long Well,
they said you fixed it up someway for us, but
they still wouldn't give me no loans. By jove, I
never heard of anything like that before. I have was
a good notion to discontinue doing my banking. Their first scoundrel, Well, anyways,
that's the reason we can't pay you now. Well, now,

(02:21:47):
don't you let that worry you for a minute. Long. Well,
that's nice of you to say that, Squire, but we
don't feel right about it. I can't help it, worries.
How well, now I tell you what you can do. Long,
just you ease your conscience and make you feel better
about it. I'll let you sign a note for the
full amount if you'd like to. Yeah, well you do that, squire?

(02:22:07):
Why yes? He Well, personally, i'd rather just take your word. Long,
But now if you want to sign a note, why
that's the thing to do, if it'll make you feel
any better. Let's see, I should have a promisory note
blank in my Paper's here somewhere, say an insurance policy,
rate books, property dues, subdivision man letter from JP Morgan.

(02:22:31):
Yes here we are, yes, promise hery o, yes, just
sign on the bottom earon LOM and I'll fill out
the rest of her All right, Squire, hand me that
pen there, Yeah, yeah, I'll let's see. Now this will
be for eleven hundred dollars wanting. Yeah, that's try, squire.
Not that it matters much to me, but I just
think we shouldn't keep the reconstrator at all. Ye squire,

(02:22:56):
all sign yes? All right? Long, Now, don't two men work,
worry about tisia tole just forget it until after you
get the mind back. There'll be plenty of time to
discuss your ten. Yeah, well much of bliged, squire. You
don't know how much of a help you here? Ooh
cut cutlom think nothing of it? Well, I better get
on over the post office. If I hear anything, well,

(02:23:16):
I'll be right Berckman. Yeah, all right, squire, dog is
that's a awful big note you signed there? Ain't it long? Yeah?
It is, ain't it?

Speaker 9 (02:23:28):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
There is eleven hundred dollars. But I don't know what
else we could do, and I don't feel like we're
un there so much obligation this squire, this way. Of
course we still got to find the money though, Yeah,
but only the minstary's grandfather grandfather. Well I do know, well,
hoidy Grandpather? Howdy how you today?

Speaker 9 (02:23:48):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (02:23:49):
You stella? Hear about Cedric? About Sedric? Yeah, he got
hisself a gold mine, all that, yes, sir, a genuine
gold mine fourteen carriage, he says, huh, he's president of it.
Funny you fellas ain't heard about ith. It's all over town. Well,
we knowed about it, Grandpap, It's all a mistake. All
there's noe Cedric can make a success out of hisself.

(02:24:09):
All there's no president of a gold minded his age,
and his age reminds me of Curtis McCook. You recollect Curtis,
don't you ev No, No, I don't believe I do.
Oh yeah, Cherry Hill boy, you recollect him, don't you long? No,
I don't believe I do. Grandpap had one awful big year,
had awful big year. His mama there never let him

(02:24:30):
go outdoors doing a higher wind at all. Good stiff
breeze blow him around in circle, all Grandpap sassy fra
it would hit wood. Eh, Sir Curtis had a lot
of get up and go to him nor he wanted
to make a success out of hisself for the worst way.
So we went to Gary, Indiana and taking up miniature
golf men in church golf. Yes, sure, taking it right up.

(02:24:50):
And he got to be a champion of the whole
state of Indiana. Well, so then he got big eyedes
and he's head and moved to Chicago, and right there's
where he made his mis What mistake? Why had them
Chicago winds? Just blowed Curtis around like a top. He
couldn't hit a golf ball to save his life. Lost
every game he played, and three weeks later he died

(02:25:12):
of a broke cart. Died of a bro cart? What
sack got to do with Sedrick? I say, what that
got to do with Sadrick? Cedric? We hunt? You mean, yeah,
sad just heard something about him. He's bought a gold mine.
Oh my hey, Genia Wine Goldman fourteen carriage. She said,
all us knowed Cedric can make a success out of hisself. Noted.

(02:25:33):
Reminds me of a boy I used to know where
Cherry Hill Curtis McCook my dog is long. Look at last, Squire,
run across the street there. He must have heard something
from them lawyers. Yes, would I ever tell you fellers
about Curtis had one great, big year. His mama never
let him go out there. We quiet, Grand Pap, We
ain't interested. We're come on in, Squire. Did you hear

(02:25:55):
something from mister Blair?

Speaker 19 (02:25:57):
Yes, here's a did long.

Speaker 2 (02:25:58):
I got a telegram and I'm I'm afraid it's bad
news too. I'm afraid it is bad news. Yes, m
I hate to tell you did them ex first find
out the mine weren't no good? Well no, well, as
a matter of fact, lum, he didn't know what they
found out because they're in jail. They're in jail. Yes,

(02:26:19):
what kind of fellows did we hor? Anyway, Well, it
seems that they were caught lumb in the mine, and
missus Logan has had them arrested for trespassing. Oh yes,
it's got them boat locked up in jail, and their
bill has been said at five thousand dollars five thousand
dollars years and b w advice it that you bail

(02:26:40):
them out as quick as possible to advice is that
we bail them? Yes, want you to do it right away, Lamb,
Grannie squire, you know we ain't got that much money.
In fact, it were almost broken.

Speaker 9 (02:26:51):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (02:26:52):
Yes, High Nord Lamb, I know it. But you'd better
raise it somehow and do it quick. With those men
in jail, you won't have much as in the world
to when this case from He's right in it, yes
it is. And furthermore, you'd better do it to save yourselves,
save ourselves. Why, yes, you see, in as much as

(02:27:12):
these men that were hard by you to do this job,
lom Why you're just as guilty as they are. Yea, Why,
yes you are. And if you don't bail them out, why,
they'll more likely start talking and tell that you hurt them.
And the first thing, you know, you're liable to find
yourself right in jail with them, You know, friends, It's

(02:27:37):
it's really a downright shame that vitamin hunger doesn't give
us that gnawing empty feeling it ordinary hunger does, for
if it did, we probably wouldn't find as some recent
surveys indicate that the average American diet often does not
furnish enough vitamins, particularly the B vitamins. And that's too bad,
because the body needs BE vitamins to carry on its

(02:27:58):
normal activity, in which nerves and energy indigestion all play
a part. Then two, the B vitamins are not readily
stored by the body, so we should make sure that
our supply has replenished regularly in substantial uniform quantities. All
very good reasons, then, for you to supplement your meals
with one a day brand Vitamin B complex tablets.

Speaker 9 (02:28:18):
Now that's a mighty easy.

Speaker 2 (02:28:19):
Economical way to be sure that you get your full
minimum daily requirements of the B complex vitamins whose requirements
have been established, one tablet a day is all you need,
and one tablet a day is all you take. Now
think of that for convenience, think of its economy. Then
why run the risk of a B complex vitamin deficiency?
Take one a day brand Vitamin B complex tablets. Now,

(02:28:42):
this valuable B vitamin protection will cost you twenty six
cents a week or less, depending on the size package
you buy. Remember now, for real convenience and economy, ask
your druggist for and insist on one a day brand
Vitamin B complex tablets. Look for that big one on the.

Speaker 5 (02:29:23):
How is it that Squire Skimp gets the boys in
all this trouble?

Speaker 19 (02:29:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:29:29):
Eighty three years ago, August twentieth, nineteen forty two. Love
and Abner Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
Visit our webpage at Classic Radio Dot Stream. Join us
tomorrow for comedy with our Miss Brooks, hal March and
Mary Jane Croft and Too Many Cooks the Adventures of
Archie Andrews, Bob Hastings, Granby's Green Acres. The final episode

(02:29:52):
starring Gail Gordon and v Benedera, and the Couple next Door.
That's all coming up on our Thursday program Moves. See
you tomorrow. For more classic radio theater, I'm Wyat Cox.

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