Classic Radio 09-22-25 - Yellow Talon Murder, Kitchen Knives, and the Law and Miss Deborah - 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, David.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Honey, count As My classic Radio Theater, The Great Elderslide,
Via McGhee and Molly Dragones Guns Alone Er. Now step
back into a time machine with your host Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Good Evening Friends, Vionna Tanto.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Drama on this Monday with episodes of Mister Keen, Tracer
of Lost Persons, Bury Craig Confidential, Investigator, Romance and Suspense.
Jackie Kelch in a very bizarre dramatic role and will
wrap it all up with loved Amner. That's all coming

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up on this Monday, twenty second day of September, two
hundred sixty fifth day of the year, one hundred days
left in twenty twenty five, the last day of the
summer season. Last people hanged for witchcraft in the US
on the state in sixteen ninety two. Nathan Hale hanged
for spying during the American Revolution in seventeen seventy six

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on this date. The position of Postmaster General established on
this date in seventeen eighty nine, and the city of
Des Moines, Iowa incorporated as Fort des Moines. President Lincoln
issued the preliminary emancipation Proclamation in eighteen sixty two, declaring
all slaves in Rebel States free as of January first

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of eighteen sixty three. First issue of National Geographic Magazine
published on this date. In eighteen eighty eight, and in
eighteen ninety three, the first American built automobile built by
the Duryer Brothers displayed. Jack Dempsey lost the Long Count
boxing match to Gene Tunney on this date in nineteen
twenty seven. In nineteen forty nine, the Soviet Union exploded

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its first atomic bomb. Beddler on the Roof opened on
this state in nineteen sixty four with zero mostel for
the first time, singing if I was a rich man.
On this date. In nineteen seventy five, Sarah Jane Moore
tried to assassinate President Ford.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Becca, it sounds like someone has fired a shot after.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
President of Justice.

Speaker 7 (02:33):
He came out the door.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
We didn't hear the fire.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
They're screaming away.

Speaker 9 (02:39):
Apparently someone has fired.

Speaker 10 (02:41):
Some sort of shot at the president.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
We can't see from here.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
He is okay, yeah, tells you exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
What's going on at this point.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
The plot formed. I former Marine Oliver Sipple on this
state in nineteen seventy five was on this stage. In
nineteen eighty, Procter and Gamble took Relied tampons off the
market after study showed the use of Rely might increase
the risk of toxic shock syndrome.

Speaker 11 (03:12):
We are suspending the sale of Rely tampons to remove
Rely and Procter and Gamble from the controversy surrounding a
new disease called toxic shock syndrome. This is being done
despite the fact that we know of no defect in
the Rely tampon, and despite evidence that the withdrawal of
Rely will not eliminate the occurrence of toxic shock even

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if Reli's use is completely discontinued.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Procter and Gamble went so far as to buy radio
time to further the recall.

Speaker 12 (03:42):
If you use Rely tampons, here's an important message from
Procter and Gamble. Women who use Rely tampons should stop
using them. Procter and Gamble asks that you return any
unused product to the company for a refund. Procter and
Gamble has suspended the sale of Rely tampons. We've taken
this action until more is known about a newly discovered disease.

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Called toxic shock syndrome. Tampons have been associated with this disease.
Tampons do not cause toxic shock syndrome, but use of
tampons seems to be a contributing factor in its development.
Some studies suggest that RELY tampons increase this risk more
than other brands. Please look for the Rely advertisements in

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your daily newspapers to learn more about toxic shock syndrome
and how to get a refund for any unused Rely
tampons you may have in your home. In the meantime,
we advise you to stop using Rely tampons now.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
In March of nineteen eighty two, Parctern Gamble found negligent
by a federal jury for offering a defective product, but
no damages were awarded on that same date. Back in
nineteen eighty the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq
erupted into pole scale war Iraqi's protesting after their president

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Samma Hussein invaded an oil producing province in Iran on
this state in nineteen ninety one, The Dead Sea Scrolls
Who made Him a Little of the public for the
first time by the Huntington Library in nineteen ninety three,
an Amtrak train plunged into a bayou in the middle
of the night near Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 13 (05:34):
It was dire, you know, and water was coming in
inside that car, and I mean water now, and that
people just started scholaring, screaming all over and trying to
get out.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Survivor Raymond Mordillo describing the panic from his hospital bed.
Forty seven people killed in the crash. It was on
this state. In two thousand and five, John Roberts nomination
is Chief Justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a
thirteen to five vote. The US Mint unveiled the first

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change to the penny in fifty years on this date
in two thousand and eight, as Lincoln's portrait still on
the front of the penny, but new designs replacing the
Lincoln memorial on the back. Passing away on this date
in history, the Very Very Funny Dan Rowan, also Irving Berlin,

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Wonderful composer, Dorothy Lamore, George C. Scott, Isaac Stern, Gordon
Jump from WKRP in Cincinnati from Butterflies Are Free, the
motion picture Edward Albert, also the mime and actor Marcel Marceau.
His last words were also singer Eddie Fisher, and a

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baseball player, coach and man manager, Yogi Barrett, because he
was a mind you see, I know, telling jokes about
dead people. Some folks get very upset that I do that,
but I think many of these people would actually appreciate
them or someone anyway. Birthdays on this date include actor
Edward Eric Bonstroheim, actor Paul Muni, actor John Housman, and

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actress Martha Scott. All born on this date and they
have left the building.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 14 (07:31):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 15 (07:34):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
No, I'm not denigrating Marcel Marceau. He was a fine mine,
he really was. I just, you know anyway, the lady
who sang about Oh Mickey, you're so fine, You're so fine,
you bow my mind. Tony Basel eighty two years old today.

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He played Hot Rodner John Milner in American Graffiti. Paul
Lamett is eighty today. Singer Sherry Bellaponte's seventy one. Singer
Debbie Boone is my age. I can't believe that. Sixty
nine years old. Tenor Andrea Baccelli sixty seven Fox News
commentator Neil Cavudo is sixty seven. Musician Joan jet Is

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also sixty seven from Chaci On Happy Days, Charles in
Charge Scott Byo is sixty five from Rainman. Bonnie Hunts
sixty four, who talks about her very first audition.

Speaker 16 (08:36):
I make the U turn, I pull right into the spot,
I open the door, and a truck comes by and
takes the door right off.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
He would kind of take the edge off that, don't
you know. Bonnie Hunt sixty four years old today from Dynasty.
Katherine Oxenberg also sixty four from Orphan Black and she
was she Hulk. Attorney at law. Tatiana Maslan is forty

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and Draco Malfour on Harry Potter Tom Felton is thirty eight.
Those just a few of the people celebrating the twenty
second day of September as their birthday. If this is
your birthday.

Speaker 17 (09:15):
Happy birthday, Happy.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Birth Bennett Killpack as mister Keene tracer of Lost Persons

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from seventy six years old comes up in just a moment.

Speaker 18 (09:47):
In case of enemy attack on our country, these two
numbers six forty and twelve forty may save your life.
They are your connel right frequencies. Remember six forty and
twelve forty And on.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
This Monday Classic Radio Theater with why at Cox Bennett
Killpack as mister Keen Tracer of Lost Persons seventy six
years ago September twenty second, nineteen forty nine, The Yellow
Talon Murder Case.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
It's time now for mister Keen Tracer of Lost person
Ladies and gentlemen, Annison and Klinos present mister Keen Tracer

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of Lost Persons, one of the most famous characters of
American fiction, in one of radio's most thrilling problems. Tonight
and every Thursday at the same time, the famous old
investigator takes from his file and brings to us one
of his most celebrated missing persons cases. Tonight's case is
entitled the Yellow Talon Murder Case. Today, many thousands of

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yellow talon.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Murder case.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
Opens and the study of a country home on the
Hudson River, some fifty miles from New York. An attractive
orburn haired young woman has just entered the room, and
as she.

Speaker 19 (12:10):
Shakily picks up the telephone and dials.

Speaker 20 (12:12):
The number, it's.

Speaker 19 (12:14):
Obvious that she is under some frightful stream.

Speaker 21 (12:25):
Why don't they answer? Why don't they answer?

Speaker 17 (12:37):
Operator?

Speaker 22 (12:38):
Operator?

Speaker 21 (12:39):
I've been trying to get the police.

Speaker 9 (12:41):
It's a matter of life and death.

Speaker 23 (12:44):
Seventh sake, Hello, Hello.

Speaker 21 (12:52):
The phone the line's been cut.

Speaker 23 (12:54):
The phone's dead.

Speaker 24 (12:59):
No, no, don't kill me, don't kill me?

Speaker 25 (13:23):
Can I help a young fella? Are you mister Kean?

Speaker 26 (13:26):
I might Clancy his partner, mister Kings in his private office.
Did you and this young lady have an appointment with him?

Speaker 25 (13:33):
No?

Speaker 27 (13:33):
I I just hoped i'd get a chance to see him, right, away.

Speaker 25 (13:36):
It's rather important.

Speaker 21 (13:37):
Please tell him. Philip Carter's here. It's terribly urgent.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Oh there's the boss, now, Mike, do you have the
Roberts folder, are you, mister Keens.

Speaker 27 (13:48):
Yes, my name is Philip Carter and this is my fiance,
Eloise Gray. Could you possibly give us a few minutes
of your time, sir, I'd be very grateful.

Speaker 8 (13:57):
Just what is it you want to see me about? Philip?

Speaker 25 (14:00):
A murder, mister Keen.

Speaker 21 (14:01):
It's Philip's sister Helen. She was She was killed last
night in Philip's home.

Speaker 26 (14:06):
Sense preserves, but we didn't read anything about it in
the papers, young fellow.

Speaker 27 (14:10):
The family estate's fifty miles from here on Hudson. It
would probably be reported in the newspapers later today.

Speaker 8 (14:17):
We'll sit down Philip and you, miss Gray.

Speaker 25 (14:20):
Mike.

Speaker 8 (14:20):
We can let the Roberts matter drop for a while.
Doesn't seem to be as urgent as this or came,
mister Keane. Now suppose you give me the details, Philip.

Speaker 27 (14:28):
My sister Helen was fond of the study about Midnight
by our uncle Jonathan. He's been living with us ever
since the death of our parents years ago.

Speaker 21 (14:36):
I'll never forget last night as long as I lived,
mister Keane, I saw Helen's body too.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
You were in the house time of the crime, Heloise.

Speaker 21 (14:46):
I was asleep. Philip's uncle woke me up and set
me into town for the police. The phone wires had
been cut.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
How was Helen Carter killed?

Speaker 21 (14:55):
That was the most horrible thing of all, mister Key.

Speaker 27 (14:59):
My sister had been strangled and her throat was terribly lacerated.
It was as if some gigantic bird with sharp talons
or claus had attacked a bird.

Speaker 25 (15:10):
Saints per service.

Speaker 27 (15:11):
What made you think of a bird, Philip? Because of this,
it was found near my sister's body. The police permitted
me to bring it here when I told him I
was going to ask you to enter the case.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
Mister Key, Well, let me see that, Philip.

Speaker 20 (15:25):
Wake.

Speaker 8 (15:25):
What do you make of this?

Speaker 25 (15:27):
It looks like a talent, mister Keane.

Speaker 8 (15:31):
A yellow claw, yes, the type of claw an eagle
or a hawk might have. Yet this particular talent is
too big for an ordinary hawk. It actually came from
a bird. The bird must have been gigantic.

Speaker 26 (15:46):
You want to make your spine crawl just to look
at it. Boss. The sharp is a razor?

Speaker 8 (15:52):
What other facts are that are the case Philip Well,
According to Uncle Jonathan, he was awakened around midnight by
some kind of horrible screen.

Speaker 25 (16:01):
First he thought it was one of his pets, but
later he changed his mind.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
What kind of pets does your uncle Keith?

Speaker 25 (16:06):
Falcons?

Speaker 27 (16:08):
In medieval times, as you probably know, mister Kean, hunters
would train falcons to help them back.

Speaker 25 (16:13):
Their game where I'd never even seen one of them things.

Speaker 8 (16:15):
A falcon is a hawk like and a very clever
and ferocious bird. Hundreds of years ago, they were trained
to go after a small game. They can be quite
wild and dangerous.

Speaker 27 (16:26):
Uncle Jonathan Briggs is an eccentric. I guess he's been
a little peculiar ever since he lost his fortune years
ago and came to live with us. We've been supporting him,
but it hasn't been difficult. Dad left a very considerable
estate when he died, and your.

Speaker 8 (16:41):
Uncle Jonathan and your fiance, Miss Elouise were the only
people in the house at the time of your sister's murder.

Speaker 27 (16:47):
Yes, mister Keane, my sister Helen had a personal maid,
Amy Perrish, but she had taken the evening off and
she didn't return until very late.

Speaker 21 (16:55):
PHILIPPI, I think you allsought to tell mister Keane about Kim.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
Bradhood and who is Kim Bradhurst a neighbor.

Speaker 27 (17:03):
He was in love with my sister and he used
to make a pest to himself. I once had to
throw him out of the house bodily because he annoyed her.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
So was he questioned by the police.

Speaker 27 (17:12):
Yes, mister Kean, but he had an alibi. He was
still all day yesterday and in bed. He had a
doctor visit him about nine last night.

Speaker 21 (17:21):
Mister King Philip's sister, Helen was one of my best
friends and a wonderful girl. I never thought she made
an enemy in her life until now.

Speaker 25 (17:30):
We were very close allend, and I if I ever
get my hands on.

Speaker 21 (17:35):
The Killip, please don't talk like that. You frighten me.
Let mister Kean and the police handle the case. There's
been enough horror already.

Speaker 8 (17:44):
Your fiance is right, Philip. No matter how you feel,
the law must take its cause.

Speaker 25 (17:50):
I understand that, sir.

Speaker 21 (17:52):
Will you come back to the house with mister Keen.
Philip was afraid to leave me there alone after what happened.
That's why I came with him in New York.

Speaker 27 (18:01):
Elouise was spending a few days with Helen while I
attended a horse show near here. I've shown a few
entries every year, but I wish I'd never even thought
of it this time. Maybe if I'd been at home
last night, I'd have been able to save my sister's life.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
It was something you certainly couldn't foresee, Philip, Mike, Suppose
we drive out to the Carter estate along with Philip
and Eloise.

Speaker 27 (18:23):
I've got the car, mister King, we're having my sister's
tune at two o'clock this afternoon.

Speaker 25 (18:28):
I guess we'll just have time to make it.

Speaker 8 (18:31):
And suppose Mike and I go to your house. Philip,
you and miss Eloise can attend the funeral while we
make a preliminary investigations.

Speaker 25 (18:38):
Whatever you say is to key.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
This yellow talon is most strange, to say the least.
Certainly it couldn't have been some monstrous birds dreadful.

Speaker 21 (18:48):
It makes me shudder just to look at it.

Speaker 25 (18:51):
I think of poor Helen.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
I I know it's shocking. I promise you, Philip, I'll
see this case through to the end, no matter how
great the.

Speaker 25 (19:01):
Risk that must be. The Carter House mister King, right
in front of us.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
Yes, apparently that's where the road ends.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Mike.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
Huh, since preservers, what's the trouble?

Speaker 25 (19:25):
Did you see that? Boss?

Speaker 19 (19:26):
What?

Speaker 26 (19:27):
But something flew by the car and the left just
a second ago, mister King.

Speaker 19 (19:35):
Look out, it's some kind of a hawk.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
Yes, Mike, it's it's a falcon well of uncle Jonathan's.
I imagine it's flying back to the house, trying to
see where it lands.

Speaker 25 (19:45):
Mike. There there she goes up behind them gables on
the roof, and she is a beauty, isn't she? Mister King?

Speaker 19 (19:53):
Who's that?

Speaker 25 (19:55):
Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Good afternoon. Any chance he you Philip Carr?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Uncle?

Speaker 25 (20:00):
Well, yes, I'm Jonathan Briggs. Who may you be?

Speaker 8 (20:04):
My name is Keene and this is my partner, my Clancy.

Speaker 26 (20:07):
The eminent investigator. You've come to look into the death
of my niece.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
Helen at your nephew Philip's request. I imagined you'll be
at your niece's funeral, mister Briggs.

Speaker 26 (20:18):
I don't like funerals, mister Keane, and never attend them.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Well, would you mind showing us to the house?

Speaker 20 (20:25):
Not at all, But.

Speaker 26 (20:27):
Let me tell you that you're just wasting your time here,
am I, as well as risking your life.

Speaker 8 (20:33):
The house is no good, it's cursed with bad luck.
They'll risk it, mister Briggs.

Speaker 25 (20:38):
Suit yourself, but just remember that I warn you this way.

Speaker 17 (20:44):
Mister Keane, Hey Amy, why are you?

Speaker 25 (21:02):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (21:03):
Maid's never around when you want to make yourself at home?
Mister Kean and mister Clancy.

Speaker 19 (21:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
Mister Briggs.

Speaker 25 (21:08):
It certainly is a big house. Must be twenty or
thirty rooms in this place. Yes, it's big, big, cold.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
You don't seem to like it very much, mister Bray,
I don't. And why do you stay?

Speaker 26 (21:23):
Because I can't go anywhere else besides Sir Richard and
Lady Sharp would miss the wood?

Speaker 8 (21:29):
And who are Sir Richard and Lady Sharp?

Speaker 25 (21:31):
My birds? My falcons?

Speaker 26 (21:34):
You saw Sir Richard a moment ago when he threw
past your car. He's as fast as lightning, that one is.
I've spent three years training him how to kill.

Speaker 25 (21:44):
Got a very.

Speaker 26 (21:44):
Cheerful hobby you've got, mister Briggs. The attacks only feel
nice and small animals.

Speaker 19 (21:49):
Mister Clancy.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
Will that falcon be capable of attacking human being?

Speaker 26 (21:53):
And you you'd come to that mister Kean. They want
to blame my niece Helen's death on one of my birds.
While it's ridiculous, one of those Hawkins is harmless, Sister?

Speaker 25 (22:04):
What as that sounded like? Amy?

Speaker 16 (22:06):
The maid?

Speaker 25 (22:08):
Amy? Amy controlled yourself? Why are you carrying on one
of your helpets?

Speaker 23 (22:12):
You blew it through the window and all the blinded.

Speaker 25 (22:14):
Acting like a child. It's probably Sir Richard. I'll find him.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
Calm yourself, Amy, You're not in any danger. My name
is Keene, mister.

Speaker 23 (22:24):
Kean, the great investigator.

Speaker 25 (22:26):
Oh.

Speaker 21 (22:26):
I was hoping mister Carter would call you in, Sir.

Speaker 23 (22:29):
The most terrible things have been going on in this house,
so I've heard it's those birds. Well you think they
were human the way mister Briggs talks to them. One
of them killed miss Helen. I know it, and I'll
be next.

Speaker 26 (22:42):
Oh no, take it easy, Amy, No one's going to
do any childing while we're around.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Tell me something about miss Helen Carter. Was she on
good terms with her uncle Jonathan as.

Speaker 23 (22:51):
Far as I know, Sir, I guess he's a harmless
one himself, though he acts like a loon sometimes. But
it's those vicious birds I can't stand them.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
I don't think Helen Carter was murdered by a bird,
am no. In fact, I'm sure of it.

Speaker 23 (23:07):
But mister Keene, I've heard of eagles and hawks attacking
people sometimes and even killing them.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
That's true. A bird the size of a hawk might
possibly attack a man or a woman if it was provoked,
but it certainly wouldn't bother to cut a telephone wire
before doing it.

Speaker 26 (23:24):
I never thought of that, boss, Come back, don't you.

Speaker 25 (23:32):
Faith?

Speaker 6 (23:32):
For now?

Speaker 8 (23:33):
What's going on in this place? A shotgun blast, mic
sound as if it came from from outside the house.

Speaker 19 (23:38):
Come along with me, mister king.

Speaker 25 (23:44):
Look who are you?

Speaker 8 (23:47):
I was just going to ask you the same question,
Kim Bradhurst, my name? Where's Jonathan? I've got a little
present for him.

Speaker 25 (23:55):
You'll kill him, you, sir Richard.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
I'll say I have, and I am glad to blast
his ugly head off. You'll find him out there in
the woods. Jonathan, that other bird of yours starts going
after my chickens, She'll get the same.

Speaker 25 (24:09):
Bat you murderous studied, mister.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Blake him inside the house, Mike.

Speaker 26 (24:13):
Come along, killing my fault A squire couse, a square
cous if it's the last thing that I do.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
What did you say your name was, mister, I didn't say,
but it happens to be Keen.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
They must investigate her. And I suppose you've come to
find out how Helen Carter died. Well, I loved her
as much as anyone. You find the killer, I'll be
happy to.

Speaker 25 (24:41):
Help you take care of him.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
I won't need any help on that s call, mister Bradhurst,
but I assure you I intend to find him or her,
no matter how dangerous the task it may be. Helen
Carter was murdered by a human being, not a bird.
Although it appears her killer had talents, I'm going to
see that those talons are clipped for good.

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strange and terrifying murder of Pretty Helen Carter brings mister Kean,
the famous investigator, and his partner My Clancy to the
Carter home, fifty miles.

Speaker 19 (26:52):
From New York. The scene of the crime.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
The victim appeared to have been attacked by some gigantic bird.
Clue discovered so far as a large, broken yellow talon
as sharp as a knife. Now shortly after midnight, and
in the room mister Keane and Mike have been given.
Mike is suddenly awakened from his sleep but the sound
of someone moving about quietly. Mike reaches under his pillow

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for his revolver and then raises himself on one elbow
and prepares for action. Don't move, whoever you are, mister,
don't mover. I'll shoot me.

Speaker 25 (27:29):
Mike. Everything's all right, mister Keane. What are you doing, Sir?

Speaker 8 (27:33):
I heard someone moving about the house. Don't put the
lights on, Mike. Just slip into your robe and slippers
and follow me.

Speaker 26 (27:40):
I'll be right with you, Boss, Just one second ready, Mike, Yes, sir,
and follow me.

Speaker 20 (27:52):
This way down the hall.

Speaker 26 (27:55):
This house seems to be as quiet as a tomb
I'm sure there's a prowler.

Speaker 25 (27:59):
Molto Boss. Look, there's a light moving towards us. At
the end of the hall.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
Someone with a kennel in his hands stand back against
the wall until he reached us. He hasn't seen us yet.

Speaker 26 (28:13):
Of course, it says I have caught his uncle, Jonathan Briggs.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
Looking for something.

Speaker 26 (28:23):
Mister Briggs, whether you're doing mister teens spang on me.

Speaker 8 (28:29):
I was just wondering what you were up to at
this hour.

Speaker 26 (28:31):
You're and your partner here think I'm crazy, don't you?
You think there's something wrong with my mind?

Speaker 8 (28:36):
On the contrary, I believe you're a lot more aware
of what's going on than you appear.

Speaker 26 (28:41):
Looking for a murderer, I'm sure you're looking for the
man who killed my niece Helen. Well, maybe you'll have
two murderers on your hands.

Speaker 8 (28:49):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 26 (28:50):
Kim Bradhurst killed my pet fork and he killed one
of my birds for no reason at all, because he
wanted to see how miserable he could make me. When
I get my hands on Bradhurst, you wish she'd never
been bond. Mister Briggs. Maybe ought to go back.

Speaker 25 (29:06):
To your room. Don't touch me. I can take care
of myself.

Speaker 26 (29:09):
And I was old and decrepit, as my nephew seems
to think.

Speaker 25 (29:13):
You may be supporting me, But.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Mister King's coming from that room.

Speaker 25 (29:19):
Mike, that's the majors.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Room, Amy's block bass wreate it down, Mike. Wait, what's
going on?

Speaker 25 (29:31):
My celewise? My never you see?

Speaker 8 (29:33):
What's the trouble, Eloie?

Speaker 21 (29:34):
Is this made? Amy is a thief. She's got a
room full of things that belonged to Helen Carter. I
heard her prowling around the house, and I followed her
here to her room. I caught her with my purse.
I left it downstairs on the table by mistake, before
I went to bed.

Speaker 8 (29:49):
Amy.

Speaker 23 (29:49):
I guess there's no point in saying no, you have
the evidence.

Speaker 25 (29:53):
What's the trouble, mister key? What's going on here?

Speaker 8 (29:55):
I'm afraid your housemaid Amy is in a very difficult situation, Philip.
She's evidently a See look, Philip, the.

Speaker 21 (30:01):
Closet doors opened. There's a pair of shoes that belong
to your sister Helen. She even stole her clothes.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Miss Louise, what's happened to your hand?

Speaker 25 (30:09):
You've got her cut on the palm. Young lady.

Speaker 21 (30:12):
Amy scratched me when I tried to take my bag
away from her. She fought like a wildcatch.

Speaker 23 (30:17):
For what do you expect me to do? Smile at
you when you grab me?

Speaker 21 (30:20):
Anyway?

Speaker 23 (30:21):
I I didn't take much. It isn't as bad as
all as I'm afraid.

Speaker 8 (30:24):
It is a lot more serious than you imagine. Amy,
you not only face a charge of blossomy but also
one of murder in the first degree murder.

Speaker 23 (30:34):
Oh no, no, I I didn't kill Helen Carter.

Speaker 21 (30:38):
I swear I didn't. Mister Kean.

Speaker 25 (30:39):
You can defend yourself in courting me. I'm asking mister
Keane to see to it that you're placed under arrest.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, at least give me a chance to call.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
Someone an attorney.

Speaker 21 (30:49):
No, no, not a lawyer.

Speaker 27 (30:50):
Uh, mister Bradhurst, him Bradhurst, our neighbor. What's he got
to do with this?

Speaker 21 (30:54):
Never mind?

Speaker 23 (30:55):
He owes me a little something at least protection. Let
me call him, That's all I am.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
All right, Amie, go ahead, I keep her company boss,
just to see that she beheads right.

Speaker 8 (31:05):
Mike, So it was in me parish who murdered my niece.
Perhaps this case isn't quite finished, mister Briggs may be
due for another surprise. In the event we'll hear what
mister Bradhurst has to say. That must be Kim Bradhurst

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now Hellip, yesked, mister Kean, I suggest you take your
uncle to his room. There may be trouble between the two.

Speaker 25 (31:40):
Very well, mister Keener, come on, uncle Jonathan. Oh right,
I'll go. Can looking at him?

Speaker 21 (31:47):
Many word yes, Kim Bradhurst.

Speaker 25 (31:51):
Mister Kean still carrying his shotgun. I noticed, maybe.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
I like to carry it around, mister Clancy. Well, now, Amy,
what is it you want to say to miss Burst.

Speaker 23 (32:00):
Mister Keane's accusing me of murder, mister Bradhurst. They all
say I kill miss Helen.

Speaker 8 (32:05):
That's ridiculous. We found Amy's a maid with stolen goods
a little while ago, and she admitted taking most of
it from the murdered girl, Helen Cotter. I don't know
anything about stolen good mister Keane, but I'll stake my
reputation on the fact that Amy didn't murder Helen. What
makes you so sure, mister Bradhurst, Because she was Helen's
confidante as well as her personal maid, and she's a

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friend of mine. Amy's done me many a favor, making
things easier for me when Helen was alive. I return
those favors by backing her to the limit. In what
way did Amy help you, mister Bridehurst?

Speaker 21 (32:38):
I can tell you that, mister Keane, Well, Miss Louise,
do you know Amy used to inform Kim Bradhurst when
Helen's brother Philip was out of the house so he
could try to see her on the sly.

Speaker 22 (32:49):
It used to frighten me.

Speaker 21 (32:50):
I knew that Philip disliked Kim, and I thought one
day it would leave the trouble. Do you know why
he carries that gun around with him all.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
The time and admitting it in the Sweetheart? Philip's a
big man, Eloise, and stronger than I am. I made
up my mind to take care of him the next
time he put a hand on me. Mike asked Philip
Cotter to bring his uncle Jonathan back to the room
and ask Jonathan to bring his pet falcon along.

Speaker 17 (33:17):
Okay, no, I'm afraid of that. I don't want to
see it.

Speaker 8 (33:20):
Don't worry, Amy, I got rid of one of those
falcons with a shotgun. I can do the same for
the second. I adviseure to be careful, mister Bradhurst and
keep that gun lord, But.

Speaker 21 (33:30):
Why bring the falcon in, mister King.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
You'll see in just a moment, Miss Eloise, please just
call me Eloise.

Speaker 21 (33:38):
I feel as though we've known each other for a
long time, mister Key, no thought.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
I feel the same way.

Speaker 20 (33:44):
Eloise.

Speaker 25 (33:45):
Just step inside, mister Briggs. What do you want with
me my bird?

Speaker 8 (33:49):
Mister Kean, I just wanted to make a test. Mister Briggs,
look at that bird.

Speaker 22 (33:53):
It's horrible.

Speaker 8 (33:55):
Do you also think the falcon is horrible, Elouise?

Speaker 21 (33:59):
No, I think it's a beautiful, very mister Ki.

Speaker 26 (34:03):
Yes, Louise all who was like my falcons, she understands.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
Perhaps even more than you imagine. Mister Briggs, what just
what are you getting at, mister Key? I'm afraid I
have some shocking news for you, Philip. In my opinion,
your fiance, Eloise Gray is a murderess. She murdered your
sister Helen. What let you say, ellowie? Mister King, are
you choking? A few minutes ago, Eloise claimed that she
followed Amy to her room and caught her with her purse.

Speaker 21 (34:32):
Well, Amy admitted it, didn't she?

Speaker 8 (34:35):
Yes, she admitted, Hi, Louise, and she did steal your purse.
But you didn't follow her or see her take it.
You were waiting for Amy in her room.

Speaker 21 (34:44):
And may I ask how you know the door was locked?

Speaker 8 (34:48):
If you had followed the thief to her room, you
certainly wouldn't have locked the door yourself. It would have
put you in a dangerous position. No, it was Amy
who locked her own door when she entered. Think she
was alone. You were waiting there to kill her the
way you killed Helen Catter.

Speaker 21 (35:05):
That's a lie, mister Kean.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
No it's not Iloise, and I have further proof. You
said Amy scratched your hand and you struggled with her
for the purse. I noticed that Amy bites her fingernails.
They aren't long enough to scratch anyone.

Speaker 27 (35:21):
Then, mister Kean, how did Eloise get that cut on
her palm?

Speaker 8 (35:24):
She inflicted it on herself by accident with it. She
was wearing sharp talents, yellow tousins. You was on Amy
as she did on your sister.

Speaker 17 (35:33):
Look at her, mister t Yes, yes, I killed her.

Speaker 21 (35:38):
She hated me. She wanted to break up my engagement
to Philip.

Speaker 25 (35:41):
That isn't true, Eloise.

Speaker 17 (35:43):
She loved you, loved me.

Speaker 21 (35:45):
Wasn't she trying to.

Speaker 22 (35:46):
Call the police?

Speaker 8 (35:47):
Yes, and you cut the phone in some way. Helen
found out what you wear, Aloise, and she tried to
protect herself Walse But she's putting on her hands, the
Helen's the sharp claws.

Speaker 17 (35:58):
She wears them like glass.

Speaker 21 (36:00):
Do you hate me?

Speaker 28 (36:00):
Two kids?

Speaker 21 (36:02):
Now you'll get my secret.

Speaker 25 (36:10):
It's preserves. But I was almost too paralyzed to move.

Speaker 26 (36:14):
Did you see how she acted, boss, How she waved
her arms like like she was some kind of a hawk.

Speaker 25 (36:18):
And I went for your throat, mister Keane.

Speaker 8 (36:20):
Yes, Mike, mister Brads, I'm sorry. Your gun Mike would
have been able to subdue her.

Speaker 25 (36:27):
Couldn't help with, mister Keane.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
And I saw the insane look in her face, watched
to reach for your neck with her talons, tried to
protect you instinctively. Well, I suppose she's better off. She
was undoubtedly insane, mister Kean.

Speaker 25 (36:41):
I can't believe it. How could anyone change?

Speaker 8 (36:46):
So I'm sorry for you, But in my opinion, your
fiance had a split personality. He changed from a human
being what you've just seen homicidal maniac. How long had.

Speaker 25 (36:59):
You've known her, only a few months?

Speaker 8 (37:01):
And your sister Helen actually was very fond.

Speaker 29 (37:04):
Of her Philip.

Speaker 25 (37:05):
Yes, mister Keene.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
Aloise had to have some excuse for murder in her
poor distorted mind, so she imagined Helen was trying to
ruin her life. Amy would have been her second victim.
It went for a stroke of luck. However, we can
consider the case to be closed. We've solved the mystery
yellow Talon murder.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
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(39:13):
of Lost Persons is based on the novel Mister Keene.
The radio sequel has originated and produced by Frank and
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Mister Keene is on the air every Thursday at this time,
Miss mister Kean next Thursday, when the kindly old Tracer
turns to the case of Murder with a thousand witnesses.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
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(40:09):
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Speaker 20 (42:50):
Mary Craig speaking, I suppose the classic position in which
confidential investigators are generally supposed to be found is liking
in a doorway. I was in such a position this
particular evening, but I wasn't enjoying it. The one thing,
the doorway was drafting. For another, it was raining outside,
And for a third, if that's necessary, I hadn't liked

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the assignment in the first place. All I had to
do was wait in the doorway until a man named
Sam Jenkins made an appearance. Then go home. The next morning,
I type up a report to the effect that Sam
Jenkins was seen leaving ten twelve East forty third Street
at eleven oh one pm the previous night and mail
it to his business associates. Generally there's a check in

(43:32):
the return mail, all of which is fine but not
especially exciting, except that sometimes it gets exciting. Anyway, I'm
blocking you of you, mister, that would depend on what
I was looking at.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
Let's say the house across the street.

Speaker 20 (43:48):
It's a large house. I'm a large man. I've noticed that. Well,
then why not take a walk down the street. I
like it here.

Speaker 31 (43:56):
Look, mister, why don't you go find yourself a keyhole
to peep throw and save yourself some trouble.

Speaker 20 (44:03):
Maybe I like trouble. You figuring on making some for me?

Speaker 6 (44:07):
Okay, I think I'm gonna enjoy this.

Speaker 20 (44:11):
Enjoy wat slus in your stomach. The gun's loaded. I
got a license for it, and I'd be delighted to
explain the whole thing to the police.

Speaker 31 (44:19):
Jomo, you feel pretty brave standing there behind a gun,
don't you not?

Speaker 20 (44:24):
Especially I just happened to be working, and I don't
like interruptions.

Speaker 31 (44:29):
I'll get in touch with you some other time. Wise, guy,
please do goodbye.

Speaker 20 (44:36):
The large gentleman moved down the street, turned the corner,
and that was the end of it for the time being.
It was a pretty obvious effort to make me stop
watching the house opposite and Jenkins exit therefrom. It hadn't worked, though,
at least at the time I thought it had. By
the time a couple of hours ago bye, I wasn't

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so sure. The rain had stopped and the night was
getting old. Jenkins was still in the house opposite. He
wasn't supposed to know. I was following him and reporting
to his associates up until the time I made my
move across the street. I was pretty sure he hadn't known.
That didn't explain why he was still in the house.
I decided he might just as well find out about me. Yes,

(45:27):
or excuse me, I'm looking for a man named Sam Jenkins.

Speaker 22 (45:30):
That sounds like a very dull thing to be looking for.

Speaker 20 (45:33):
I'm a very dull type, still in my own dull way.
I'd like to speak to mister Jenkins.

Speaker 22 (45:38):
Oh, do a misunderstand me. I have no objections. You're
speaking to mister Jenkins.

Speaker 20 (45:42):
You're making it a little difficult for me to get
at him without running over you.

Speaker 22 (45:46):
That sounds as if you thought he was in my house.

Speaker 25 (45:48):
He is.

Speaker 22 (45:49):
He must have a very good reason for thinking.

Speaker 20 (45:51):
So I have the best of all possible reasons. I
saw him go in three and one quarter hours ago.
The time was nine forty three exactly.

Speaker 32 (46:00):
Must be a train announcer or something. I mean, who
will keeps such careful track of the time?

Speaker 20 (46:04):
Investigators due? Oh, I see, I don't have a search.

Speaker 6 (46:09):
Warrant, missus.

Speaker 22 (46:10):
My name is Lynn Walters.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
Barry Craig's mind. Would you like to look at my credentials?

Speaker 20 (46:14):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (46:15):
I don't really think so.

Speaker 20 (46:16):
Okay, As I was saying, I don't have a search warrant,
miss Wallers, if I were to force my way into
your house, it would be illegal. The licensing board wouldn't
pack me approvingly on the head.

Speaker 22 (46:26):
Does that matter very much to you?

Speaker 20 (46:28):
That is a great deal. So I'm not going to
force my way into your house. I'm going to figure
that you're as bright as you look. I thank you,
mister Craig, and that therefore you're going to ask me in.

Speaker 32 (46:37):
Well, at least it's different, what if your approach, But
it's terribly late.

Speaker 22 (46:42):
I'm alone in the house.

Speaker 20 (46:44):
My offer to show you my credentials still holes.

Speaker 22 (46:47):
I guess you can come in.

Speaker 20 (46:48):
Thanks.

Speaker 32 (46:52):
Now, are you going to ransack the house thoroughly searching
in every nook and cranny for Sam Jenkins?

Speaker 22 (46:57):
I think you said, I.

Speaker 20 (46:59):
Said, Sam Jenkins. And of course I'm not going to
search the house. What that little routine at the front
door could have given half a dozen Sam Jenkins. It's
time to get out through the back door.

Speaker 22 (47:09):
And I thought you said there was only one Sam Jenkins.

Speaker 20 (47:11):
All right, then he could have left six times.

Speaker 22 (47:14):
Mister Craig, you're losing your temper.

Speaker 20 (47:16):
You could say that also. It happens to be true. Sure,
I'm losing my temper, partially because you're a fool.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
I am.

Speaker 20 (47:23):
I can testify on oath that Sam Jenkins entered this
house tonight. The fact that I didn't see him leave
isn't of any great importance. I would have preferred to
include it in my report to my employer. However, that's
the only reason I rang your doorbell. You stalled me
and gave Jenkins a chance to get out the back way.

Speaker 6 (47:39):
I don't mind.

Speaker 22 (47:40):
Particularly then, why did you lose your temper?

Speaker 20 (47:42):
Because I'm a sucker for pretty woman. I like to
think that their lives are as clean and as clear
as their's skin and eyes and hair.

Speaker 22 (47:50):
A very pretty speech, mister Craig.

Speaker 20 (47:52):
Yeah. And the funny part of it is, I mean
it good night, miss Wallace.

Speaker 9 (47:57):
Good wait.

Speaker 22 (48:00):
I never thought very highly of men in your particular profession,
mister Craig.

Speaker 20 (48:03):
That's okay, neither of I.

Speaker 22 (48:06):
But I suppose it can be an honest and decent job.

Speaker 20 (48:09):
I try to make it so.

Speaker 22 (48:10):
Suppose Sam Jenkins were here and you reported him, would
that be very bad for.

Speaker 20 (48:15):
Whom Sam, according to the story, furnished me with my
fee When I accepted the job. Sam Jenkins's partners suspected
that he was releasing confidential information about the firm's operations,
releasing them to people who would then be able to
compete unfairly with the firm to which Jenkins belonged. According
to further information given me, you were one of those people.

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Jenkins associates wanted to be sure, however, that he was
in contact with you, before proceeding to take whatever steps
they would then deem necessary. They can be sure.

Speaker 22 (48:45):
Now suppose I told you that it wasn't quite that simple.

Speaker 32 (48:48):
Mister Craig, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe him because you
think I'm a liar.

Speaker 20 (48:52):
Because I always believe a client until I am forced
to think otherwise.

Speaker 32 (48:56):
I can force you to think otherwise, mister Craig by
telling you what's.

Speaker 20 (48:59):
Really bout this, that's up to you. I'm not asking.

Speaker 32 (49:03):
I understand, mister Craig. Sam's partners, the two men named
Griffith and Swenson. Sam owns half the firm.

Speaker 22 (49:10):
They only other have.

Speaker 32 (49:11):
They've been trying for years now to force Sam to
sell his half of the partnership and leave the business.

Speaker 22 (49:16):
They haven't been successful.

Speaker 20 (49:17):
Maybe that's so, But what difference does it make as
far as my report goes.

Speaker 32 (49:21):
The reason they want that report is because Sam Jenkins
is married.

Speaker 22 (49:25):
His wife is a very jealous woman.

Speaker 32 (49:28):
If you turn that report into them, they'll take it
to his wife, or perhaps they'll threaten to unless Sam
sells out.

Speaker 20 (49:34):
I don't handle divorce cases.

Speaker 22 (49:36):
Griffith and Sweatston must have known that. That's why they
told her the story they did.

Speaker 20 (49:39):
You can prove this.

Speaker 22 (49:40):
It's true, But how could a thing like that be prove?

Speaker 20 (49:44):
Good night, miss Wallace. You're going to send the report
in so far tonight two people have tried to stop
me from reporting on Jenkins, yourself.

Speaker 22 (49:52):
And myself and who.

Speaker 20 (49:54):
He didn't give his name, but he was a lodge man,
maybe six', two broad, shouldered dark, skin dies gray maybe or.
Blue he wore the. Squallers she. Fainted it was a genuine.
Faint she hit the floor. SOLIDLY i tried to get
her out of it by shaking her a, bit but

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it didn't. WORK a little first aid would be. Necessary
i'd need. Water it was a fairly large. HOUSE i
had a little trouble finding the. Kitchen FINALLY i found.
IT i found something else, too, Though Sam. Jenkins But Sam,
jenkins who wouldn't walk through any more doorways because he'd
walked through the last one into. Death oh, yeah, yeah

(50:45):
try drinking some of.

Speaker 22 (50:46):
This oh.

Speaker 20 (50:50):
Thank you feel? BETTER i suppose.

Speaker 22 (50:53):
SO i guess you?

Speaker 20 (50:55):
Fainted, heah let me help you. Up oh, HEY i
got a grab a.

Speaker 22 (51:00):
Chair, yeah that was very silly of.

Speaker 20 (51:04):
Me what's his? Name the boy with the broad? Shoulders
you Mean?

Speaker 22 (51:07):
Baldwin? Oh you tricked? Me into answering that.

Speaker 20 (51:10):
Is there any reason WHY i shouldn't know his?

Speaker 22 (51:12):
Name it doesn't have anything to do with. Anything maybe you're.

Speaker 20 (51:16):
RIGHT i got the water you've been drinking in the.

Speaker 22 (51:19):
Kitchen from EVERYTHING i, hear that's an awful good place
to get.

Speaker 20 (51:22):
WATER i ran into something WHILE i was, there SOMETHING
i hadn't.

Speaker 22 (51:25):
Expected are you going to complain about my? Housekeeping?

Speaker 20 (51:28):
MAYBE i don't think you tidied up as well as
you might, have embarrassing. ME i think you're the one
who want to call the, police Miss. Wallers they might
give you a better break if you did.

Speaker 22 (51:39):
Call the police about domestic.

Speaker 20 (51:41):
Untidyness, yeah when that untidiness includes a. Corpse i'm not
very good at being subtle about. Things what are you
trying to? SAY i told YOU i was in your.
Kitchen someone else was there, too someone who's going to
stay there until he's carried. Away Sam Sam, Jenkins, yes.
Mistaken there are a lot of THINGS i could be mistaken,

(52:02):
about but they don't include. CORPSES i don't understand how
he was. STABBED i didn't touch the, knife but from
WHAT i could see of, it it came from someone's.
Kitchen i'd say the odds were that it came from.
Yours she didn't faint, again she just turned. White after a.

(52:23):
While she had a look at what was lying on
our kitchen. Floor maybe she'd seen the body, before maybe.
Not she managed to make her phone call and the police.
ARRIVED i wasn't there to greet, them, though Because i'd
managed to persuade her to furnish me with Mister baldwin's first.
Name it Was. Frank she didn't, know or at least
she said she didn't know his. ADDRESS i went back

(52:45):
to my original employer to make my report in. Person
what is, It, Mary, craig mister griffth just a? Moment
what on earth you got? NEIGHBORS i don't think they'd be.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
Interested i'm, sorry come, in thank.

Speaker 31 (53:03):
YOU i presume you have something to, Report, Craig but
isn't your zeal a little?

Speaker 20 (53:10):
Excessive it's one in the. MORNING i know it's one
in the, morning AND.

Speaker 31 (53:13):
I can't imagine anything being so urgent that it requires
waking me at this.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
Hour how about?

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Murder are you? Drunk?

Speaker 20 (53:21):
No who was? Murdered the former Associate Sam? Jenkins that's.
Impossible why did you think he was? Immortal?

Speaker 3 (53:29):
No of course.

Speaker 25 (53:30):
Not but.

Speaker 31 (53:32):
This is quite a shock to, Me, craig mind IF
i sit, down not at.

Speaker 20 (53:37):
ALL i don't understand why it's such a. Shock though
you wanted to get rid of. HIM i don't like
the way you put.

Speaker 31 (53:44):
That swenson AND i were convinced he was selling the firm.
Out therefore we decided to take steps about. It but
steps short of? Murder would we have employed you with?
Violence was our?

Speaker 20 (53:54):
Intention that's the. Point it's probably even a good. One
but BEFORE i get to the rest of the, report
Who's Frank? Baldwin?

Speaker 31 (54:04):
Frank, oh, yes, well he was a rather well known
football player at one. TIME i think he was engaged
to Marry Lynn. Walters nothing ever happened since. Then he's
been around so far AS i. Know he hasn't earned
an honest dollar since he left.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
School he's grown a, lot.

Speaker 20 (54:22):
Though Sam jenkins was found dead in the kitchen Of
Lynn waller's. Home Lynn walter's, home then he was seeing.
Her your ideas about that seemed to have been. Correct,
However i'd like a little reassurance on one. Point and what's?
That according To Lynn, wallers the reason you wanted him
follow to her, place the reason you wanted me to

(54:43):
turn in an official report to that effect was Because
jenkins's wife is insanely. Jealous, again according to Miss, wallers
you were to use that report as a club Over
jenkins's head to force him into leaving the. Firm, well
this is complete. Nonsense, Okay, now Since jenkins is, DEAD
i don't suppose if there's any further reason you'd want

(55:04):
me to stay on in your employ isn't.

Speaker 31 (55:05):
IT i suppose. Not we'll send you a check in the. Morning,
Fine and, that of course means you're not my client,
anymore Mister. Griffin, YES i suppose that's.

Speaker 20 (55:16):
CORRECT i think it's fine because NOW i can tell
you that you're a. LIAR i didn't slam the door behind,
me BUT i. LEFT i didn't report To swinson. Either
griffith would take care of. THAT i went looking for
a man Named Frank balwin who hadn't earned an honest
dollar for, YEAR a man who at one time had

(55:39):
been engaged To Lynn wallace.

Speaker 6 (55:40):
And might still be in love with.

Speaker 20 (55:41):
HER a man who had known that the front door
of her house was being, watched and who might have
checked on the back, door the one that led to the. Kitchen, hello.

Speaker 31 (55:53):
Balwin oh, oh number six ball in the side.

Speaker 20 (55:59):
Pocket, hey that was a nice.

Speaker 25 (56:02):
Shot.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
Thanks also proves you've got nerves of. Steel lock run.
Away you annoy, Me i'm just beginning to annoy.

Speaker 28 (56:11):
You.

Speaker 20 (56:12):
Bowin don't you want to know HOW i found out your?

Speaker 25 (56:15):
Name i'm not into.

Speaker 20 (56:16):
It you should. Be when old girlfriends start talking about a.
Man what old Girlfriend Lynn? Wallace she told you my?

Speaker 31 (56:23):
Name lynn wouldn't have done, that.

Speaker 20 (56:25):
Maybe not under ordinary. Circumstances but a girl who suddenly
discovers herself to be supplied with the corpse in the
kitchen is likely to lose her.

Speaker 6 (56:32):
Head, well are you trying to give me a bad?

Speaker 20 (56:35):
Time how AM i? Doing you still got that? Gun
i've got, it but it's in my pocket Now i'm not.
Working you might, say let's go for a. Walk huh, Sure,
oh leave your accoutstick, here Though.

Speaker 31 (56:49):
I'm terribly absent.

Speaker 20 (56:50):
Minded come, on kind of, late Isn't it depends on the?

Speaker 31 (56:59):
Hours, LISTEN i gotta know you said something about a
corpse And lynn's.

Speaker 20 (57:05):
Kitchen who was? It who do you Think i'm not?

Speaker 25 (57:07):
Thinking i'm?

Speaker 20 (57:08):
Asking, okay don't get, excited it's no. Secret by this.
Time Sam, Jenkins you sure of THAT i saw. It
there's something wrong here because there was a, corpse you,
mean or because it was the wrong.

Speaker 31 (57:20):
CORPSE i don't think we're going to carry this conversation
on any. FURTHER i gotta go play a couple of, visits,
Okay but before.

Speaker 20 (57:29):
You, Do, Borwin, yeah have you got any reason to worry?
About a park card down the? BLOCK a bit a?

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Park?

Speaker 20 (57:36):
Uh why SHOULD i worry about? IT i don't. Know
but the motor is, idling the lights are, off could
be waiting for, somebody maybe, you maybe.

Speaker 6 (57:45):
Me you're just.

Speaker 31 (57:46):
Wasting, Time my, time so, long so, long, fallen.

Speaker 20 (57:57):
Falling he could be paige from now to, doomsday Mister,
balwin but he wouldn't. Answer Mister balwin hadn't known, it
but he had a lot to worry about. It now
he had no more. WORRIED a half dozen bullets had
cut him almost in. Half, Barry, Yes Lieutenant, rodgers you

(58:21):
think you could spot the?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Car you saw?

Speaker 25 (58:22):
It?

Speaker 20 (58:22):
Again in view of the fact that they make a
hundred thousand like it every year In, DETROIT i might
have a little.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
Trouble they wouldn't have been using their own license. Plates
professionals never, Do. Barry does this tie up with The
jenkins killing?

Speaker 20 (58:36):
Across?

Speaker 24 (58:36):
It?

Speaker 20 (58:36):
Does we didn't haul The wallers.

Speaker 24 (58:39):
Girl maybe we should.

Speaker 20 (58:40):
Have did you have any good reasons.

Speaker 6 (58:42):
To one advantage being a policeman is you don't always
have to have a good, reason at least not for a.

Speaker 20 (58:46):
While you Mean Lynn wallace could have arranged to have
Mister baldwin knocked.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
OFF i mean she could have done it.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Herself, oh it's.

Speaker 20 (58:52):
A, possibility BUT i don't think.

Speaker 6 (58:54):
So or maybe we didn't have evidence that she Killed. Jenkins,
barry we don't have evidence that he didn't eat.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
It how long?

Speaker 20 (59:01):
Ago did you release the?

Speaker 3 (59:02):
Girl an hour?

Speaker 33 (59:03):
Ago?

Speaker 20 (59:03):
Maybe, well that's too. Bad she would have had enough.
Time have you got any men on her at the?

Speaker 25 (59:09):
House?

Speaker 6 (59:10):
Playing clothesmen out in? Front there's also a back. DOOR
i know, that BUT i didn't expect.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
That neither had.

Speaker 20 (59:15):
Bowin you'll need me?

Speaker 25 (59:17):
Now?

Speaker 20 (59:17):
Well you what good would it kill me IF i?

Speaker 19 (59:19):
Said?

Speaker 6 (59:20):
Yes, Thanks, Trad i'm going to Visit Lynn wallace in
the spirit of, good clean, fun not exactly preventive.

Speaker 24 (59:28):
Medicine not that.

Speaker 20 (59:29):
EITHER i think MAYBE i might acquire a new. Client,
oh Mister craig Mister, craig mind IF i come.

Speaker 22 (59:46):
IN i guess not after. TONIGHT i very much Doubt
i'll ever mind anything.

Speaker 20 (59:52):
Again we'll get over, it that, is if you haven't
been going around killing.

Speaker 22 (59:57):
PEOPLE i didn't Kill. Sam, wait you said. People does that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Mean?

Speaker 20 (01:00:03):
Yes means someone else has been killed. TOO i hope
it comes as a surprise to.

Speaker 22 (01:00:08):
You of course it. DOES i don't even know who
who was?

Speaker 20 (01:00:11):
It judging from all, Indications Sam jenkins was a boyfriend of.
Yours he was a, friend all right with accept that
version for the time. Being you had another friend at one,
Time Frank. Baldwin, yeah this doesn't seem to be a
very good season for friends of.

Speaker 22 (01:00:29):
Yours you mean it Was frank who.

Speaker 20 (01:00:32):
Died let's not be.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
DELICATE i mean it Was frank who was.

Speaker 22 (01:00:35):
MURDERED i SUPPOSE i should react most strongly to.

Speaker 20 (01:00:39):
THAT i.

Speaker 22 (01:00:40):
Can't i'm completely.

Speaker 20 (01:00:42):
Numb if that's the, TRUTH i think you ought to
hire yourself a. Detective you're going to need. One Why
Sam jenkins was killed in your house at a time
when you could have been alone with, Him Frank baldwin
could have been killed by. Anyone perhaps it's only a
coincidence that he died on the same night That Sam jenkins.
Did the district attorney is likely to stop brooding about

(01:01:04):
that and decide it isn't a coincidence at.

Speaker 22 (01:01:06):
ALL i can't PRETEND i don't understand what you're. SEEING
i can't pretend THAT i care very much.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Either were you in love With?

Speaker 32 (01:01:13):
Jenkins i've already told you he was a, friend a good,
friend but nothing.

Speaker 20 (01:01:17):
More in that, case tomorrow, morning we'll find you feeling
a lot. Different hire me for tomorrow. Morning? Huh, well all.

Speaker 22 (01:01:25):
Right but why are you so insistent you need the?

Speaker 20 (01:01:27):
Work, no But i've been used in this. THING i
don't like being. USED i need the standing that having
you as my client would give. Me let's say the
fee will be one dollar per.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Day no.

Speaker 22 (01:01:37):
Expenses that's very.

Speaker 20 (01:01:39):
CHEAP i don't think it's going to take very. Long,
now tell me that you didn't Kill jenkins And baldwin, again,
PLEASE i.

Speaker 22 (01:01:47):
Didn't Kill Sam. JENKINS i didn't Kill Frank. Baldwin.

Speaker 20 (01:01:50):
Thanks you know what the funny part of it, Is,
well ninety nine people out of one hundred would be
sure that you are. LYING i think you're telling the.
TRUTH i LEFT i had a couple of calls to.
MAKE i didn't think either of them would take very.
Long at the SALARY i was working, FOR i couldn't

(01:02:10):
afford to let. Them Mister griffith wasn't at. Home it
was kind of late for a dignified gentleman Like griffith
to be, abroad especially in view of the fuss he'd.

Speaker 6 (01:02:27):
Made WHEN i waked him.

Speaker 20 (01:02:28):
Earlier THEN i thought that perhaps tender solicitude had touched his.
Heart perhaps he had gone to Console Sam jenkins's. WIDOW
i decided i'd go help.

Speaker 19 (01:02:39):
Him who's?

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
There the name Is, Craig Missus. Jenkins what do you?
Want among other?

Speaker 20 (01:02:47):
THINGS i don't want to be shouting through a shut.

Speaker 22 (01:02:49):
Door i'm, sorry but it's really quite.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Late you're still.

Speaker 22 (01:02:54):
UP i don't think that's of any particular concern of.

Speaker 20 (01:02:57):
Yours it Is i'm looking for Mister. Griffith not, here
surely say his car has parked out.

Speaker 22 (01:03:02):
Front, OH i guess you'd better come.

Speaker 20 (01:03:05):
In thank. You who is that, hello Mister? Griveth and
why did.

Speaker 22 (01:03:11):
You show your car parked in?

Speaker 31 (01:03:13):
FRONT i didn't take my, CAR i used a. Taxi never,
Mind very Clever craig. THANKS i don't know exactly once
you had in mind coming. Here you're not employed by me,
anymore you, KNOW i. Know therefore you're off the.

Speaker 20 (01:03:29):
Case and, Sorry i'm not off the. Case i've just changed.
Employers what are you talking?

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
About to be.

Speaker 20 (01:03:35):
Precise and, Personal i'm talking About Lynn. Wallace Miss walters
hired you at my. Suggestion she. Did she got a.
Bargain and what did she hire you to do to
make sure that she doesn't wind up taking a rap
for two?

Speaker 6 (01:03:48):
Murders Mister, griffth, yes.

Speaker 20 (01:03:51):
Are you sure that she didn't commit? Them of, Course
i'm sure why she told me she.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Didn't this is. RIDICULOUS i suggest you get out of here.

Speaker 20 (01:03:58):
Immediately, craig you call the. Police that's right if you.

Speaker 31 (01:04:02):
Persist in Annoying Missus jenkins and.

Speaker 20 (01:04:04):
Myself the trouble, is Mister, Griffith i'm Afraid i'm going
to have to annoy you a lot more BEFORE i. Leave.

Speaker 32 (01:04:09):
TOM i can't take much more of this After sam's
death and, All Missus.

Speaker 20 (01:04:12):
JENKINS i don't like to intrude on a lady's, grief
But i'm afraid i'll have. To you, see immediately AFTER
i terminated my employment with Mister. GRIFFITH i called him a.
LIAR i don't.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Care you'd.

Speaker 20 (01:04:23):
Better griffith And swinson hired me to find proof against your,
husband proof that he was betraying professional secrets to a competitive.
FIRM i watched your husband for a while and found
that he went nowhere near any such. COMPETITOR i did, discover,
however that he was paying visits To Lynn. Waters WHEN
i reported this to Mister, griffith he was. Delighted he

(01:04:44):
wanted me to make a final check and turn in a.
Report Lynn waters is not a business.

Speaker 22 (01:04:50):
Firm very, well so she ISN'T. I i fail to
see why you have to tell us all.

Speaker 20 (01:04:54):
THIS i didn't discover UNTIL i was already on the
case that this was a matter of domestic relations and possibly.

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
Divorced so far As Lynn wallace, knew she thought that.

Speaker 20 (01:05:03):
My report would be used to Blackmail Sam jenkins into
quitting the firm and giving up his interest in. It
but SINCE i find Mister griffith, here it becomes obvious
that that report was to be used in divorce. Proceedings
presumably the idea was to get rid Of jenkins not
only from the firm but from your life as.

Speaker 22 (01:05:19):
Well, tom you do something about this.

Speaker 20 (01:05:21):
Man, now look, Here. Craig even if what you say
should be, true thanks for telling me that it. Is
we come to something. Else WHILE i was watching Outside
Lynn wallace, house a man Named Frank balwin came along
and made an effort to get me to. LEAVE i didn't.
Budge Frank balwin himself. Left now that's of no indiest
hip saying.

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
That why because all this is.

Speaker 31 (01:05:42):
IMPORTANT i failed to see what can be important about?

Speaker 25 (01:05:45):
It just.

Speaker 20 (01:05:45):
This his effort to make me more was intentionally. Weak
he didn't intend to. Succeed, furthermore he knew WHO i,
was which meant that he had been hired to annoy,
me but not to move me from my, Position hired
by someone who knew THAT i was being employed to
Watch Sam. Jenkins the purpose of his approaching me was
to make me think that it Was Lynn. Walters But

(01:06:07):
Lynn wallerce didn't know That jenkins was being, followed neither The.
JENKINS i know my business well enough to be.

Speaker 31 (01:06:13):
Sure that are you implying THAT i hired this Man.

Speaker 20 (01:06:16):
Baldwin i'm implying that the murder Of Sam jenkins And
Frank baldwin hired him way all this is.

Speaker 31 (01:06:21):
Nonsense If baldwin had been hired by the murderer Of Sam,
jenkins why did that murderer Kill baldwin?

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
Too her simple reason.

Speaker 20 (01:06:29):
Safety whoever did the murders was someone who wanted to
be very sure of, things someone who didn't trust legal
processes and divorce, courts someone who didn't trust the hired
allegiance of a thud Like. BALDWIN i thought you were an, honest, Fool.

Speaker 31 (01:06:42):
Craig i'm beginning to think now that you're not a,
fool and perhaps not.

Speaker 20 (01:06:48):
Honest that's why you're waving that gun at. Me, YES
i just want to be. Sure the murderer wanted to
be sure, Too but how sure is? She how sure
can she ever? Be you Mean Lynn walters did Kill.
Sam Lynn walters isn't the only woman in the. Case
Don did you hear what he?

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Said why the man's?

Speaker 20 (01:07:06):
Raving When baldwin was gone, DOWN i was within one
hundred feet of. Him he didn't die immediately before he,
did he had a chance to tell me who had
hired him to serve as a red, herring who had
hired him to keep me pinned out in front of
the house while she was killing her husband in.

Speaker 32 (01:07:20):
Back no man could have lived to tell you that
with half a dozen bullets in.

Speaker 20 (01:07:23):
Him how did you know how many bullets he had in,
him Missus, jenkins unless you'd shot him. Yourself it's a
grip THAT i suggest that you have just captured a dangerous.
Murderer keep that revolver on her until the police get,
here and my. CONGRATULATIONS i wasn't particularly happy about the.

(01:07:43):
CASE i never ram when it's a question of, Murder
no matter how well justice may be, served people have,
died sometimes unnecessarily and always. VIOLENTLY i felt. DEPRESSED i
wondered If Lynn walters felt depressed. TOO i decided to
go visit her and match. Depressions funny. Thing soon AS

(01:08:03):
i decided to do, THAT i began to feel a
lot less to. PRESS i wonder why.

Speaker 25 (01:08:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Daughter Miss.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Deborah in page it began.

Speaker 6 (01:14:36):
At an Ordinary council meeting When Pucker gormley tugg at
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Aloud, gentlemen there remains one more item on the.

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Agenda not, again, yes judge page, again, gentlemen we have
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County the chair, recognizes mister.

Speaker 24 (01:15:02):
BARTLECAST i thought we referred that To.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Richmond five.

Speaker 6 (01:15:05):
Times we referred it To, richmond and five times they
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THEN i suggest we dispense with the usual procedure and
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is automatically eliminated from such consider, automatically my, foot if
you speak, anatomically we are forced to concur that my
daughter is indeed a. Female, however let me point out

(01:15:28):
that nowhere in the books does the law clearly differentiate
between the, sexes except perhaps in certain.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Cases, gentlemen please please, Order.

Speaker 15 (01:15:38):
Do you want to see her get?

Speaker 26 (01:15:39):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Like of course, Not BUT i insist that she be
stopped within the.

Speaker 31 (01:15:43):
Law.

Speaker 6 (01:15:44):
Order, please this is no time for a private discussion
Between Judge page and mister bartlecass. Order, PLEASE I i
THINK i have a, solution, gentlemen to satisfy. Everyone there
speaks a politician THAT i ever heard.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Of the, gentlemen look out of this. Window, oh will
somebody feel the judges in?

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
Believe chair Over i'll stay right WHERE i am very.
Well now look over, there, gentlemen near the big. Tree
the young lady seated on the Bench's Miss Deborahlyn, page
awaiting the verdict of this. Council now do you suppose
that any young woman as lovely as that would be
content to practice the law for the rest of her?
Life why it's against, reason against, logic even against.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Nature poor defenseless.

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
Nature spare us the birds and the bees and get
on with it very.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
WELL i suggest we grant her the. License let her
be a.

Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
Lawyer can you think of anyone in this day and
age ration enough to be represented in court by a female?
Attorney however learned she may? Be and just how dangerous
is a lawyer without?

Speaker 24 (01:16:45):
CLIENTS i want, you.

Speaker 6 (01:16:47):
Gentlemen my daughter will not be satisfied with an empty,
victory you're setting a dangerous precedent to mark your. Votes,
gentlemen if you, please no matter what the majority, VOTES
i am a Post and, FURTHERMORE i want the record
to clearly show, that as of this, day, PAMEN i
am no longer in favor of educating any female beyond
the need of simple. Continues, oh come, now this wom

(01:17:08):
of hers will not extend beyond her wedding.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Day her husband will see to. That Mister, gouldley you
are a.

Speaker 6 (01:17:16):
Bachelor ask any married man here if he can speak
for his wife without first consulting.

Speaker 9 (01:17:22):
Her of COURSE i knew the Minute Proctor gromley in
the council looked out of the. Window oh you, did
of COURSE i knew my legal qualifications didn't. Show but
don't you THINK i have a most intelligent? Profile?

Speaker 6 (01:17:40):
Father tell me, Something how on earth did you manage
to attract attention to yourself from outside the.

Speaker 9 (01:17:47):
WINDOW i kept flashing a mirror so the sun would
send a beam of light into the council.

Speaker 6 (01:17:52):
ROOM i wonder what would happen To american juris students
if women ever decide to show their.

Speaker 24 (01:17:59):
Limbs that sign is.

Speaker 6 (01:18:12):
Disgraceful if it's my last act on, Earth i'm going
to stop you from making a further fool of.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Yourself don't you dare test that.

Speaker 9 (01:18:17):
SIGN i have permission from The High sheriff himself to
hang it. THERE i warn, You i'll see you for
damages to my.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
PROPERTY i hadn't.

Speaker 24 (01:18:24):
Sue it will be the only case you ever get.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
To just what are you too fighting?

Speaker 6 (01:18:30):
About will you please inform your daughter that ethical lawyers
do not stoop to advertise themselves as merchants.

Speaker 9 (01:18:36):
Do it's not an, advertisement it's a public notice posted
in the public.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Wealth what are you talking?

Speaker 24 (01:18:41):
About?

Speaker 9 (01:18:41):
Father as you well, know a lot of people come
up before the court can't afford her, council even though
they're entitled to legal. Aid their own poverty forces them
into a position.

Speaker 6 (01:18:51):
That's sounding as if you're running for. Office and tell
me the.

Speaker 9 (01:18:54):
FACTS i have decided to become a public defender of
what than anyone from, anything regardless of their ability to.
Pay article six of The amendment of The constitution guarantees
all involved in criminal action the right to legal. Counsel
no where.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Does it mention. Money article six is?

Speaker 33 (01:19:13):
That?

Speaker 26 (01:19:13):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:19:14):
FUNNY i always thought it Was article. Seven, debra just
look at that. Moment it's almost as lovely as you are. Tonight, Partly,
honey you were mean to me this. Afternoon i'm. Sorry

(01:19:39):
let's get married right. Away let's not wait. Anymore debra m.

Speaker 9 (01:19:48):
Badly, honey you're. Sweet you put too much faith in simple.

Speaker 24 (01:19:55):
Biology what kind of an answer is?

Speaker 9 (01:19:58):
That no matter how much you make love to me,
Tonight i'm still going to practice the law.

Speaker 24 (01:20:04):
Tomorrow she saw right through my.

Speaker 6 (01:20:11):
Proposal it didn't. Work maybe you weren't roman taken. Up
did you ever try to make love to a. Lawyer
there's got to be a loophole. Somewhere she's becoming. IMPOSSIBLE
i Expect Patrick henry for dinner. Tonight maybe he can. Help,

(01:20:31):
no you see why it's, important Mister. HENRY i suggest
you see Young John. Marshall at twenty, eight he already
knows more law than any other lawyer in the. Country
aren't you being unnecessarily, modest? Sir, NO i Know Juris
marshall knows the. Law shortly after that, Exchange Pactor gorney

(01:20:55):
arrived to show off both his new clothes From london
and his Nephew roger who had just been from making
The Grand.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Tour this is the latest.

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
Fashion look you're as vain as a. Woman not another
piece of fabric like this exists in the entire. Country
ah and look here a'm matching money.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Pouch how does it feel to be, Home?

Speaker 6 (01:21:15):
Roger and how did you Like? LONDON i Preferred paris
at your, age that's. Natural where Did debor?

Speaker 25 (01:21:22):
Go?

Speaker 6 (01:21:23):
Artley you'll be glad to See roger again after all these,
yet And i'll look for.

Speaker 9 (01:21:26):
Sir you don't have To partley. HERE i Am helloa.

Speaker 24 (01:21:30):
Say hello To Roger gornley and via proper.

Speaker 9 (01:21:32):
HOOSTS i will.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Hello You Remember, deborah don't?

Speaker 28 (01:21:39):
You?

Speaker 6 (01:21:39):
Roger i'd rather not remember her any further back than
the way she looks this.

Speaker 24 (01:21:44):
Moment your servant Was?

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Deborah?

Speaker 9 (01:21:47):
Oh, yes, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Roger just returned From.

Speaker 9 (01:21:52):
Europe sometime you must tell me about.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
IT i should like.

Speaker 24 (01:21:58):
To shall we go into the?

Speaker 13 (01:22:00):
Garden your, pardon?

Speaker 24 (01:22:02):
Gentlemen well will you excuse me?

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Please? Sir where are you? Going?

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
BARLET i have some reading to do unsimple Biology.

Speaker 9 (01:22:28):
Bartley, Honey i'm, Sorry i'm, late TRULY i, am But
i've just been studying law and order in its natural habitat.

Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
With Mister Roger. GORMLEY i notice you have any idea
how affected you become. Lately you don't have to talk
like a lawyer unless you're trying a.

Speaker 24 (01:22:41):
Case, bartley, Honey i'm.

Speaker 9 (01:22:43):
Sorry i've just come from the.

Speaker 6 (01:22:44):
Jail, GORMLEY i saw, you AND i don't think you
should be exposed to such sites in.

Speaker 9 (01:22:49):
Sights so nowhere is bad as This.

Speaker 24 (01:22:50):
Smith it isn't.

Speaker 9 (01:22:51):
SAFE i wasn't.

Speaker 24 (01:22:52):
Alone you never are these. Days come. Here please stop
talking long enough for me to kiss.

Speaker 9 (01:22:57):
You you never kissed me like that.

Speaker 24 (01:23:03):
BEFORE i never kissed you goodbye?

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
Before.

Speaker 24 (01:23:05):
Either are you chillling?

Speaker 6 (01:23:08):
Me just giving you a chance to make up your
own mind without any incumbrances like a disapproving. Fiance and don't, Cry,
DEBORAH i won't stay here long enough to feel like a.
Cat stop the. Tears you might be able to think.
STRAIGHT i don't want to think.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Straight.

Speaker 35 (01:23:30):
FATHER i just don't want to Lose.

Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
Bartley you don't have, to BUT i don't want to
give Up.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
Roger you can't have them. Both there's a law in
this stake against multiple.

Speaker 9 (01:23:40):
MARRIAGE i recognize my mistake. NOW i should never have
Permitted bartley to even LEARN i was Seeing roger much
less skip jealous of. Him But i'll change. That how
ALL i have to do is it's Convinced bartley THAT
i Find roger dull and, boring and THAT i feel
search for him and haven't the heart to hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Him that's all you Think he'll believe?

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
That why Not roger Thinks i'm too tender hearted to
Send bartley?

Speaker 24 (01:24:08):
Away what a liar you.

Speaker 21 (01:24:09):
ARE i haven't lied.

Speaker 9 (01:24:11):
ENOUGH i Paid bartley the supreme compliment of being completely
honest with. Him should have known. Better no man can
stand honesty when he can get flattery, Instead And i'm
going to prove that point to Mister Bartley.

Speaker 10 (01:24:24):
Carson we'll return to romance in just a.

Speaker 16 (01:24:40):
Moment dial smile and listen a while TO Cbs. RADIO Cbs.
Radio you can listen by the hour AND cbs will
shower you within entertaining shows if you die a mile.

Speaker 21 (01:24:58):
And listen a WHILE Cbs.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
Radio now for the second act of, Romance bartley at
least behaved with perfect masculine. Reason he went straight to
the tavern to drown his.

Speaker 10 (01:25:17):
Horror, mommy, Mommy i'm.

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
Thirsty even my soul is thirsty and who? Cares, Hello
martley drinking alarm down out if you care to join?

Speaker 24 (01:25:31):
Me sit, Down, roger not at all find the sight
of you very.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
Helpful. Huh Now i'm drinking to forget what you look,
like and as long AS i can see, You i'm too.

Speaker 24 (01:25:43):
Sober that's very. Logical i'm a very logical. Man i'm a.
Lawyer let me order a fresh. Joe, no let me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
BARMY i have to, shout she's, Deaf, No, marion whill
you come?

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Here?

Speaker 24 (01:25:59):
Play Who's marian the? Barnaide?

Speaker 9 (01:26:02):
Oh, yes Mister. Roger what CAN i do for?

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
You another?

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Jug?

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Please anything you, want Mister.

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
Roger she winked at, YOU i, know or she didn't
wink at. Me it's going to be my sorrow to
go through life unloved and Unwink i'm a failure of.

Speaker 22 (01:26:21):
Everything here you, are Mister.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Roger thank, You thank. You Mister.

Speaker 6 (01:26:27):
Roger be honest with. Me how do you feel About Miss?
DEBORAH I i plan to ask her to marry.

Speaker 24 (01:26:37):
Me how can you chase after a?

Speaker 6 (01:26:39):
Bombaid Miss debrah isn't here? Now oh that's very. PRACTICAL
i never would have thought her that.

Speaker 25 (01:26:48):
It's very sleepy.

Speaker 6 (01:26:49):
Out come on, Body i'll take you home and give some.

Speaker 19 (01:26:54):
Sleep.

Speaker 6 (01:26:55):
Marian bring a cover to put off the gentleman when
that fire dies.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
Down, here take a, Jill, yes sir Mister, ROGER i
BELIEVE i don't Think i'm.

Speaker 24 (01:27:07):
SORRY i don't seem to remember your, Name sir P.

Speaker 36 (01:27:09):
OTIS i work for your uncle by, day don't bother
me one by. Night i'm my own man and my own,
boss And i'll thank you to leave my wife.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Alone why don't you go?

Speaker 20 (01:27:18):
Away that's my wife And i'll handle on my own.

Speaker 24 (01:27:22):
WAY i don't beat you with.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
It and ain't your life not in my?

Speaker 11 (01:27:25):
Presence Mister.

Speaker 9 (01:27:32):
Roger we'd better get out before the high shaff.

Speaker 22 (01:27:34):
Comes follow me at the back.

Speaker 6 (01:27:35):
Whale covered by the, Blanket bartley was unnoticed from the
High sheriff Arrested Narrian otis for disturbing the. Peace nothing
happened To roger Is Uncle puctor sort of that Missus.
Otis this money bag is full and it's all. Yours
if you keep my nephew's name out of this case

(01:27:58):
and swear that you hit your husband with the, Bottle.

Speaker 32 (01:28:01):
I'm, willing but you'll never get filed with gree and
he's the one Mister roger.

Speaker 6 (01:28:05):
Hit you'll do AS i say as soon as he regains.
Consciousness what happens to, me you will be. Fine sentence
will be, suspended and you'll be put on The philadelphia,
stage leaving here tomorrow at.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Noon what if something goes, wrong the judge will have his.
ORDERS i feel safer with a.

Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
LAWYER il if need, be just asked For Bartley casson my.
Attorney but be sure That roger's name is never.

Speaker 9 (01:28:27):
Mentioned hand over the Money early the next.

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
Morning bartley awakened with a hangover and a, resolution which
he promptly put the paper and had delivered to my.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
Daughter it's a note From.

Speaker 15 (01:28:44):
Berkeley Dear, deborah when a woman persists in assuming masculine,
derogatives she must be expected to forego Feminine, privilegesfore be
assured THAT i will not rest UNTIL i can find
a way to have your license for the law taken.

Speaker 24 (01:28:56):
Away and be further assured THAT i will.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Fight you as if you were a.

Speaker 9 (01:28:59):
Man how silly of, you you, know, father there is one.
Loophole he won't do any good to find.

Speaker 24 (01:29:06):
It why he.

Speaker 9 (01:29:08):
Intends to fight me fairly and, honestly like a. Man
i'm not that. Stupid i'll fight him like a.

Speaker 6 (01:29:14):
WOMAN a short distance, Away Roger gormley was being awakened
to face the. Day, roger wake, up wake, Up, wick
oh my, head listen to me or you might lose.
It you played It billionshire last night With Judge Alan
carle and. Me he's prepared to swear you never left the.

Speaker 24 (01:29:36):
House oh you take this too.

Speaker 6 (01:29:38):
SERIOUSLY i suppose you think a successful candidate For congress
can conduct a campaign from a prison.

Speaker 24 (01:29:43):
Cell who's going to put a first offender in g
offer a.

Speaker 6 (01:29:45):
Misdemeanor harrison Folly otis died without regaining. Consciousness cheorge now
stands at.

Speaker 24 (01:29:49):
Manslaughter you'll never Get bartley to stand so for. That
he was there with, me stopped.

Speaker 6 (01:29:55):
Shaking hardley left town an hour ago on some private
business of his, own and he gets back this case
will be a. Memory i'll say to THAT.

Speaker 10 (01:30:17):
I should have known better than to trust any, man
especially a.

Speaker 9 (01:30:21):
GENTLEMAN i suppose that lawyer they promised me.

Speaker 21 (01:30:24):
Is out of town or.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Something, yes yes he.

Speaker 18 (01:30:27):
Is you know what happened used to right.

Speaker 16 (01:30:30):
By when he gave me the money why don't you help?

Speaker 22 (01:30:33):
Me what kind of a man are?

Speaker 10 (01:30:35):
You what's a?

Speaker 24 (01:30:36):
Christianation and has an answer to?

Speaker 10 (01:30:38):
Himself this?

Speaker 8 (01:30:40):
Morning?

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
Ma'am what CAN i do for?

Speaker 9 (01:30:42):
You since no clients look for, Me i've come looking for.
Them do anyone here who requires my?

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
Services you have to, Leave miss W you will have
to get a pass on the court the next time
you want to visit the.

Speaker 32 (01:30:53):
Jailhouse when and since last night when they brought me,
in they're all Afraid i'll try to save my neck
and they're.

Speaker 9 (01:30:58):
Right CAN i do to help?

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
You you will, Believe Miss?

Speaker 9 (01:31:01):
Deborah get me a, lawyer please before they hang? Me at,
now just a, Moment. SHERIFF a lawyer doesn't need a
pass to confer with the.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Client but you're not her? Lawyer do you.

Speaker 9 (01:31:10):
Want me to handle your?

Speaker 21 (01:31:11):
Case? You, well.

Speaker 9 (01:31:15):
You're better than, NOTHING i, Guess. Sheriff did you make
a search of the prisoner when she was brought in
here last?

Speaker 25 (01:31:20):
Night?

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
No in view of the, CHARGES i want her searched
in front of reliable, witnesses and everything taken from her
person placed in a sealed packet and marked EXHIBIT. A.

Speaker 6 (01:31:37):
Amen, why Miss? Deborah what a nice, surprise and how
pretty you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Look thank.

Speaker 9 (01:31:43):
YOU i hope you're not too busy to see.

Speaker 6 (01:31:46):
Me oh never, mind, dear come, in sit down now,
there tell me all about.

Speaker 9 (01:31:52):
It, WELL i came to see you on. Business you,
see it's a question of. LAW i got my first, case.
CONGRATULATIONS i don't know If i'm going to like being
a lawyer IF i have to involve my. Friends Mister,
WOOMLEY i don't know how to say, this BUT i
just heard the most shocking accusations made against. You, NATURALLY

(01:32:13):
i don't believe.

Speaker 22 (01:32:14):
THEM i hate.

Speaker 6 (01:32:16):
This, oh, now you go right ahead and ask your
questions like a good.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Lawyer do you know.

Speaker 9 (01:32:21):
A woman who calls herself Maryan?

Speaker 6 (01:32:23):
Otis Funny otis works for, me BUT i never met his.

Speaker 9 (01:32:28):
Wife oh, Good, well then you won't mind signing a
statement to that, effect will YOU i feel some business like?
This sign right, here, please. Father i've interviewed every one

(01:32:51):
of the People mary And otis swore was in the
tavern that, night all the night being, there every one of.

Speaker 6 (01:32:56):
Them some people just don't want to be involved with
the law or any.

Speaker 9 (01:33:01):
Which Ie bartley was being paid to stair away that.

Speaker 6 (01:33:04):
Woman could be lying for her own vindictive. Reasons Doctor
gormley's no. Fool why would he give you a small
statement that he never met. Her he's too smart to
sign anything that could be used against him in.

Speaker 24 (01:33:18):
Call that's.

Speaker 9 (01:33:20):
It what difference would it make what he signed if
this case never comes to. TRIAL i need your, help.
Father i'm going to ride out tonight After.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Bartley how do you know who he?

Speaker 9 (01:33:31):
Is IF i Know bartley and all of a SUDDEN i,
do or he can only be in one, place conferring
With John marshall And, sunnyside trying to find a way
to get my license.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Revoked she supposing he's, Innocent, well here's WHAT i.

Speaker 9 (01:33:44):
Want you to do for me While i'm. Gone because
of the MINUTE i leave, Town Doctor gormley has to.
Act what do you know About Marionota's.

Speaker 24 (01:34:02):
Who never heard of? Her who is?

Speaker 9 (01:34:04):
She the bar made at the? Tavern?

Speaker 24 (01:34:07):
Oh the blonde? Wench don't dear.

Speaker 9 (01:34:10):
Look so pleased at the mention of any woman's name but, MINE.

Speaker 6 (01:34:14):
I believe it or. Not, deborah she didn't even look at.
Me she Found roger much more. ATTRACTIVE i may have
been too drunk to, move AND i saw the whole
brawl of, Certainly jeff didn't see me underneath that, blanket
AND i wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Asleep do you.

Speaker 9 (01:34:27):
Realize what it will mean to Oppose Proctor?

Speaker 6 (01:34:29):
Gormley, well there are other, cities other. States a good
lawyer can always earn a. Living at the council meeting
that followed, immediately Doctor gormley heard himself charged with inciting to,
riot privary, coercion and the use of his high public
office to obstruct the course of.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
Justice which of these charges can.

Speaker 6 (01:34:48):
You prove that you Paid Marion notice the sum of
one hundred guineas to keep the name of your Nephew
roger out of the original misdemeanor. CHARGE i wasn't aware
of the distinctive quality of My doesn't all money look the? Same,
yes but that all of it is found in money
pouches made of exclusive fabric like that of your matching
wiscoat never the council has just voted to revoke your

(01:35:16):
license to practice the law on the following.

Speaker 24 (01:35:18):
Grounds although a woman is.

Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
Of legal age at, eighteen the law specifically states that
a candidate for a license must be over twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
One you like six months of that?

Speaker 9 (01:35:27):
Age doesn't the law also state that a married woman
automatically achieves that.

Speaker 6 (01:35:32):
Majority gentlemen of The, Council MAY i Present Missus Bartley.
Carson we were married when the meeting adjourned for dinner
two hours, Ago.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
Jetparo don't look so.

Speaker 9 (01:35:44):
SHOCKED i told you i'd fight party like a, woman
don't you, Remember gentlemen of The, Council will you please
hold my original petition and list of. QUALIFICATIONS i plan
to refile for a license as soon AS i returned
from my.

Speaker 6 (01:35:58):
Honeymoon, oh you haven't won, yet married, woman you need
your husband's permission to do anything of a legal.

Speaker 9 (01:36:02):
NATURE i know by ANY i won't sign, Lightly, HONEY
i don't want to make up your mind. Yet i'll
wait and go after our Honey.

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
Romance is produced and directed In hollywood By Anthony Ellis Today's.
Story it was written By Irene winston and Starred Alice
beckus in the law And Miss deborah featured in our
cast for Her, Butterfield Joseph, Kerns John, Stephenson, Parley, Bear Don,
Diamond Sam, edwards And Charlotte. Lawrence musical supervision By Jerry.
Goldsmith this Is Dan coberly inviting you to Hear. Romance

(01:36:44):
transcribe next week at this same. Time every week A
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(01:37:06):
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Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Stations and there you have Oh man from this date

(01:38:03):
back in nineteen fifty, six sixty nine years, ago and
here On Classic Radio theater With Wyatt. Talks Alice bacchus
not a well known. Actress she performed on, radio television
and in films from the forties to the nineties five
nine cheaply ON. Tv during her career in over eighty

(01:38:25):
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she was a member of THE Lds church for her.
Life born into The. Church she did act on a
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(01:38:49):
dragnet And. Suspense she did appear in over TWENTY tv
series both in dramatic and supported. Roles her first roles
in nineteen fifty two as an office secretary On, gangbusters
and did a whole bunch of other Shows mister And,
Missus North, Medic Doctor Hudson's Secret, Journal The adventures Of

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ozzie And, harriet and just a whole lot. More she
performed in no less than a dozen beature, films continuing
to display in those roles her ability to play a
wide variety of. Characters she only married, once To Milton,
citron a native Of New, york A hollywood sound effect

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specialist editor for both film AND. Tv they married in
nineteen sixty. One they were together for more than twenty
years until his passing in nineteen eighty. Three no, children
and after she retired from acting in the, nineties she
continued to devote her time to charities and to her
lifelong passion for, music studying the works of the classical,

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masters as well As broadway scores and early choral. Compositions
she relocated To Virginia, Beach virginia in two thousand and
six to be closer to family, members and in two
thousand and seven she passed away in her sleep of natural.
Causes she was eighty, three and there you have the

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story of today's, Star Alice bacchus From. ROMANCE I you're
On Classic Radio theater With Wyatt cocks coming up next
To Radio's Outstanding theater Of Thrill, Suspense Jackie kelk is
a shadow on The.

Speaker 18 (01:40:35):
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may not be. Available that's why one member of each
family should take A Red Cross First aid or home nursing. Course,
now don't.

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
Forget we have links to all sorts of information about
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At Classic radio Dot com stream Now Radio's Outstanding theater
Of Thrill suspense from sixty eight years Ago september twenty,
second nineteen fifty, Seven Jackie kelk in a rather disturbing

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story Entitled shadow on The.

Speaker 25 (01:41:14):
Wall, suspense.

Speaker 37 (01:41:22):
And the producer Of radio Is Outstanding theater Of. Thrills
the master Of mystery And, Adventure WILLIAM.

Speaker 38 (01:41:29):
N robeson whether you call it by the poetic phrase
the Silver, cord or more prosaically just mother's apron strings
smother love can louse up the life of a growing
boy complicated with what child psychologists call sibling, rivalry and
the boy may cease growing, altogether at least, emotionally of

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such elements As greek tragedy. Made and as it, happens
the story you were about to. Hear, listen listen then
As Jackie kelk stars and shadow on the, wall which
begins at exactly one.

Speaker 39 (01:42:04):
Minute, now how many of you have heard a doctor
lecture on the lining of the stomach and what you're
doing to? It, well you may think this line of
gab is only for. You why, son doctors have been
Telling americans this ever since we became a. Nation like
a fella come up to me the other day and
asked about that Great American Mike, Fink, say is it

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true That mike once ated a buffalo? Robe, certainly and
with the hair on? It, well why did he do? That,
well you, See mike rank so much whiskey that he
destroyed the coating of his, stomach and the doctor told
him that before he could get, well he'd need a
new coat for. It mike thought that over and made
up his mind that a buffalo robe with hair on

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it was just the. Thing so he sat down and swallowed.
One he could drink any amount of whiskey after, that
and that's a. Fact folklore belongs to every nation's ledgend very,
past AND i guess We americans have our share of
some tall.

Speaker 10 (01:43:04):
Ones and Now.

Speaker 37 (01:43:10):
Shadow on The wall Starring Jackie, kelk a tale well
calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 28 (01:43:19):
Suspense, soon very, soon now there'll be a shadow on the.
Wall shadows always. Shadows i'll never get away from.

Speaker 40 (01:43:41):
Them i've been.

Speaker 28 (01:43:43):
Watching them for days now or is it? WEEKS i
don't know, anymore.

Speaker 40 (01:43:51):
BUT i do.

Speaker 28 (01:43:51):
Know it started the last day of my brother's. Life my,
brother my, dear dear older, brother a thief all my,
life he had stolen from, me stolen my father's respect
and then my mother's.

Speaker 40 (01:44:07):
Love now he was determined to steal.

Speaker 28 (01:44:09):
The last HOLD i had on, life the, house the
house WHERE i was born and grew up out On Long.
Island he was building a modern monstrosity on the estate
a few hundred yards, away and when it was, finished
the house mother's house was to be.

Speaker 40 (01:44:27):
Wrecked it was just.

Speaker 41 (01:44:30):
Too, Much, henry will you stop. WHINING i have a
great deal to do BEFORE i leave for the Coast.

Speaker 28 (01:44:35):
Roger IF i have to get on my knees and,
BEG i, Will But please don't destroy the.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
House this place is.

Speaker 41 (01:44:41):
Worthless victorian houses like this cost too much to.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Maintain think of nothing but.

Speaker 40 (01:44:46):
Money what about my feelings you're? Feeling, yes and mother's
if she was still.

Speaker 41 (01:44:51):
Alive, oh mother would, Approve i'm sure it.

Speaker 25 (01:44:53):
Would you.

Speaker 28 (01:44:54):
Know this is the house mother came to us a,
bride the house where she bore and raised her too.

Speaker 40 (01:45:00):
Sons this house was her.

Speaker 41 (01:45:01):
Life oh, Really, henry it's.

Speaker 28 (01:45:03):
True how can you stand by and watch the room
where she used to kiss us good?

Speaker 40 (01:45:07):
Night broken to bits by?

Speaker 3 (01:45:09):
Wreckers sentimental?

Speaker 28 (01:45:10):
Nonsense and what about all her silver and, furniture old and?

Speaker 40 (01:45:14):
Beautiful you can't put things like that in a modern.

Speaker 41 (01:45:17):
House we'll pack them carefully and send them to.

Speaker 40 (01:45:20):
Storage, yes, yes you just pack mother away and forget.
Her look look here her favorite. Candlesticks don't wave that.

Speaker 25 (01:45:28):
Around it's worth a small fortune and.

Speaker 40 (01:45:30):
No wealth of love to.

Speaker 28 (01:45:31):
Me where will lee's go in your fancy new?

Speaker 40 (01:45:34):
House all?

Speaker 41 (01:45:35):
Right put them under your pillow, then like your baby.
TEETH i don't.

Speaker 40 (01:45:39):
Care, no, now you, don't do, You? Roger you don't
care one little?

Speaker 35 (01:45:44):
Bit what are you talking?

Speaker 40 (01:45:46):
About why should you? Care you got it. All you're
the executor of the. Estate, yes and you've been the
executioner of my self.

Speaker 8 (01:45:54):
Respect.

Speaker 41 (01:45:55):
Nonsense, now AS i, SAID i have a great deal
to do BEFORE i leave. TOMORROW i hate, You.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
ROGER i hate.

Speaker 2 (01:46:00):
You What i'd like to see you?

Speaker 41 (01:46:02):
Dead and we stop being child to tear your heart
out of your.

Speaker 25 (01:46:05):
Hat Any, henry put down that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Candlestick, no they.

Speaker 40 (01:46:08):
Are, mothers and you want to pack mother. AWAY i
order you don't want destroy. Us you won't Put mother's
memory in. Storage i'll make Sure mother isn't.

Speaker 24 (01:46:16):
Hidden you give me.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
NO i hate, YOU i hate.

Speaker 42 (01:46:20):
YOU i hate.

Speaker 28 (01:46:21):
You mister Dazed roger lay on the, floor a trickle
of blood oozing from his.

Speaker 40 (01:46:38):
TEMPLE i bent over.

Speaker 28 (01:46:40):
Him no, breath no, Pulse Sir.

Speaker 26 (01:46:46):
Roger was.

Speaker 28 (01:46:46):
Dead SUDDENLY i heard a car coming up the. Drive Missus,
loomis the, housekeeper was returning from the. VILLAGE i Dragged
roger's body to the, closet pushed.

Speaker 40 (01:46:57):
Him, inside and locked the. Door not a moment too,
soon Mister.

Speaker 42 (01:47:00):
HENRY i stopped by the laundry for Mister roger's, shirts
but they weren't. Ready oh he'll be, FURIOUS i, suppose
seeing he's flying to the coast in the.

Speaker 28 (01:47:08):
Morning, well it doesn't, Matter Missus, lomis he's already gone, gone. Sir,
yes he decided to spend the night In New york
at the club and go to the airport from.

Speaker 42 (01:47:20):
There BUT i never got a chance to say good
bye to. Him perhaps we could go to the airport.

Speaker 28 (01:47:25):
Together, no, No I'll i'll see him off.

Speaker 42 (01:47:28):
Alone BUT i always wish Mister roger well before one
of his.

Speaker 28 (01:47:33):
Trips i'll give him your best, Wishes Missus. Lommis i'd
rather you stayed here in the, morning very.

Speaker 22 (01:47:40):
Well, sir it'll just be you for.

Speaker 26 (01:47:43):
Dinner.

Speaker 28 (01:47:43):
Then, oh don't bother, Tonight Missus. Lommis why don't you
take the night off for a, change go to a.

Speaker 42 (01:47:50):
MOVIE i might at, that, sir if it's all, right of,
course thank, you. Sir BUT i do WISH i could
have seen Mister roger.

Speaker 28 (01:48:01):
OFF i waited in the library UNTIL i Heard Missus
loomis go. OUT i had to get rid of the body.

Speaker 35 (01:48:13):
Now but where.

Speaker 28 (01:48:16):
AS i gazed out across the lawn to the new,
house that awful modern, house the idea.

Speaker 40 (01:48:23):
Came that very.

Speaker 28 (01:48:25):
Day the workmen had just finished the base of the,
fireplace a broad fieldstone structure about three feet high and
eight feet. Across the mortar would still be. Wet the
stones would easily pull. Loose why not.

Speaker 40 (01:48:46):
The perfect?

Speaker 28 (01:48:46):
Place after, All roger was so fond of the new.
House it took longer THAN i thought was. DONE i
returned to my. ROOM i now had to Explain roger's.
DISAPPEARANCE i sat up all night, thinking, thinking and then

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as dawn crept over the, LAWN i knew what i'd.

Speaker 19 (01:49:14):
Do.

Speaker 17 (01:49:21):
Announcing the arrival of wa.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
Morning, oh good.

Speaker 40 (01:49:25):
Morning i'm on flight eighty.

Speaker 36 (01:49:26):
Eight your ticket, Shurn, yes, here that's, right flight eighty.
Eight any, Baggage, no just this. Briefcase all, right Mister
harper was in order gate. Fourteen thank, You.

Speaker 40 (01:49:39):
ALINE i sat down and waited for the gate to.

Speaker 28 (01:49:41):
OPEN i would board the, plane fly To Los, angeles
and then come right. Back for the airline would support
the evidence That Roger harper was on the passenger, list
and when he didn't show up In Los, Angeles i'd
report him. Missing AS i, WAITED i overheard a small
man arguing with the desk.

Speaker 35 (01:49:58):
Clerk isn't there any this was the this?

Speaker 6 (01:50:01):
Later i'm, sorry But i've got to catch that.

Speaker 19 (01:50:03):
Flight isn't there anything you can?

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Do other?

Speaker 8 (01:50:05):
Things?

Speaker 6 (01:50:05):
Sir you might try Over Land.

Speaker 3 (01:50:07):
AIRWAYS i have a morning.

Speaker 20 (01:50:08):
Fly, well thank, You i'll.

Speaker 6 (01:50:10):
See WHAT i can.

Speaker 40 (01:50:11):
Do the man turned away from the, desk AND i
hurried after. HIM i beg your.

Speaker 25 (01:50:15):
Pardon, oh, YES.

Speaker 40 (01:50:17):
I heard your conversation with the clerk over, there and.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
WELL i may be able to help.

Speaker 19 (01:50:21):
You oh how's.

Speaker 40 (01:50:21):
That you see my plans have suddenly. Changed i'll be
happy to let you have my. Ticket you're, Kidding, no,
no take. It, Oh i've already checked it. Through everything's
in the.

Speaker 19 (01:50:32):
Order, WELL i don't know what to.

Speaker 40 (01:50:34):
Say it's all, right but. Hurry they're announcing the.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
Flight in, fact here's the.

Speaker 10 (01:50:37):
MONEY i had it, already all, right.

Speaker 40 (01:50:39):
All, right you'd better.

Speaker 28 (01:50:40):
Hurry just go on the plane As roger. Hopper he
went through the gate and up onto the. Plane the
hostess smiled and checked a name on the. Clipboard roger
was now confirmed on the passenger, list AND i wouldn't
have to explain my. ABSENCE i went to bed early that,

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night BUT i couldn't. Sleep AS i lay staring at the,
ceiling the enormity of the Thing i'd done overwhelmed. Me at,
first it was more a feeling than anything, real a
fleeting feeling that another presence was beginning to form in the.
HOUSE i got up and flooded my room with, lights

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BUT i couldn't push the thought from my. Mind, then
just after, midnight the doorbell. RANG i peered through the
crack of my bedroom door As Missus loomis hurried.

Speaker 42 (01:51:42):
Downstairs Mister, harper a gentleman to see.

Speaker 20 (01:51:47):
You who is?

Speaker 42 (01:51:48):
It he, says he's from the.

Speaker 43 (01:51:50):
Police.

Speaker 40 (01:51:52):
Police what does he?

Speaker 42 (01:51:54):
WANT i don't, know, sir he wants to see.

Speaker 40 (01:51:57):
You I'll i'll be right.

Speaker 44 (01:52:00):
Down, yes Mister Henry, hopper that's, Right Detective Sogeant, allen.

Speaker 45 (01:52:11):
Sir sorry to disturb you with this, hour but it is.

Speaker 40 (01:52:13):
Important it's all.

Speaker 24 (01:52:15):
Right i'm here about A Roger, hopper this.

Speaker 25 (01:52:18):
Address.

Speaker 45 (01:52:19):
Roger he was on flight eighty eight out Of LaGuardia this, morning.

Speaker 40 (01:52:22):
That, Right, yes, yes he.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Was you're sure about?

Speaker 40 (01:52:26):
That, yes of COURSE i saw him off.

Speaker 45 (01:52:29):
Myself i'm, sorry Mister. Hopper flight eighty eight crashed in
The rockies late this. Afternoon there were no. Survivors the
second back of suspense continues in one.

Speaker 35 (01:52:47):
Minute this Is Johnny baker With communism on The. Spot
one of the most important terms in The communist political
dictionary is the socialist division of. Labor it describes the
communist technique for integrating members of the so called socialist
camp into one economic. System in, practice communist exploitation Of

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soviet block nations doesn't differ from that of traditional. Colonialism
the only difference is That soviet colonialism justifies its actions
on the basis of the so called economic unity of socialist.
Society this means that the subject nations serve as first
class sources of raw material for The Soviet.

Speaker 37 (01:53:30):
Empire and now we continue with that two Of shadow
on The wall Starring Jackie, kelk a tale well calculated
to keep you in.

Speaker 46 (01:53:46):
SUSPENSE i was, safe safe, NOW i walked on.

Speaker 40 (01:53:59):
Air the next.

Speaker 28 (01:54:00):
Day the second day was, peaceful. Bliss then on the
third day it began. Again the feeling of another presence
was coming. BACK i mustn't leave my.

Speaker 40 (01:54:13):
ROOM i was always safe in my room WHEN i
was a little. Boy but it was no. Use that's
WHERE i saw it for the first. Time it was
barely visible.

Speaker 28 (01:54:31):
At, first just a dim shadow on the wall across from,
me and then slowly ever so, slowly it began to
grow wider and, wider.

Speaker 40 (01:54:43):
Darker and, darker until it became a perfect.

Speaker 28 (01:54:47):
SILHOUETTE i was too terrified to. Move my hands gripped
the sides of the chair AS i looked at the,
shadow the shadow of a man hanging by his.

Speaker 40 (01:54:59):
NECK i stared rigid at this ghastly.

Speaker 28 (01:55:08):
Vision the head bowed against the, chest hands tied behind the,
back the feet, together hanging. Limp it stayed, there, motionless and,
then as slowly as it had, come it. Disappeared the
head blended into the, body the legs seemed to melt

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into the, wall and at last he was.

Speaker 42 (01:55:34):
Gone Mister, henry, SIR i have supper, ready Mister, henry Mister,
henry what is?

Speaker 28 (01:55:47):
It, oh Missus, lamas you gave me a? Fright?

Speaker 42 (01:55:52):
Sir staring straight ahead like?

Speaker 40 (01:55:55):
That what what time is?

Speaker 25 (01:55:57):
It?

Speaker 22 (01:55:59):
Is something?

Speaker 2 (01:55:59):
Wrong?

Speaker 40 (01:56:00):
No nothing at? All what time is?

Speaker 42 (01:56:02):
It it's after six, o'clock.

Speaker 22 (01:56:05):
SIR i have supper, Ready.

Speaker 42 (01:56:08):
Lisa what's the? Trouble SHALL i call the?

Speaker 40 (01:56:10):
Doctor? No, No i'm perfectly all, right.

Speaker 42 (01:56:14):
But you don't seem to be. Sir if, all, missus
will you? Stop i'm, SORRY.

Speaker 40 (01:56:19):
I can't stand you babying me all the.

Speaker 42 (01:56:21):
Time very, well, Sir never mind.

Speaker 40 (01:56:24):
DINNER i don't want.

Speaker 33 (01:56:24):
It that?

Speaker 40 (01:56:33):
Thing what was? It the shadow? Vision something? REAL i
was too. JOKY i was losing.

Speaker 28 (01:56:45):
Confidence the next, day a look at the chimney on
the new, house growing higher and higher Over roger's body
reassured me nothing out of.

Speaker 40 (01:56:57):
Place facing suspicious that, afternoon WHEN i entered the, LIBRARY
i found Missus.

Speaker 42 (01:57:06):
Lumis, oh Mister, henry what.

Speaker 40 (01:57:08):
Are you doing with those?

Speaker 42 (01:57:09):
CANDLESTICKS i didn't hear you come.

Speaker 40 (01:57:11):
In why are you holding those? Candlesticks?

Speaker 42 (01:57:14):
WHY i always polished them? Regularly you know, that?

Speaker 25 (01:57:17):
Sir?

Speaker 40 (01:57:18):
Oh, yes of. Course did you know one of these is?

Speaker 42 (01:57:22):
Dented?

Speaker 40 (01:57:22):
Dented? Yes, look how did that? HAPPEN i don't.

Speaker 42 (01:57:26):
Know i'm always So those were.

Speaker 40 (01:57:28):
My mother's favorite. Pieces what did you do to?

Speaker 42 (01:57:31):
THEM i didn't give me, those Mister, HENRY i swear to.

Speaker 40 (01:57:36):
You who else could have damaged? Them are you SUGGESTING
i might?

Speaker 42 (01:57:39):
Have, please, sir don't look.

Speaker 40 (01:57:41):
Happy please take them to my. Room you won't touch them.

Speaker 43 (01:57:45):
Again, Ever, oh she'd been so, close too, Close.

Speaker 40 (01:57:58):
But how could she?

Speaker 28 (01:57:59):
Suspect after the plane, CRASH i took the candlesticks to my.

Speaker 40 (01:58:04):
Room i'd hardly closed the door.

Speaker 28 (01:58:06):
Behind, me when, gradually very, GRADUALLY i had the feeling
that something was coming into the.

Speaker 40 (01:58:13):
ROOM i could feel it moving about there by the,
Desk no no, hate near the. Bed oh oh. Oh
there on the wall.

Speaker 28 (01:58:30):
It hung like a ghoulish, vision the head, bent the
hands tied behind the.

Speaker 40 (01:58:37):
Back the shadow was as, clear if not, clearer than.

Speaker 28 (01:58:42):
Before NOW i, KNEW i knew certainly that this thing
on the, wall this, shadow.

Speaker 40 (01:58:53):
Was waiting for.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
Me act three of.

Speaker 37 (01:59:03):
Suspense follows in one.

Speaker 35 (01:59:05):
Minute this Is Johnny baker with communism on the.

Speaker 47 (01:59:08):
Spot citizens are guaranteed freedom of, speech freedom of the,
press freedom of, assembly and freedom of street. Demonstrations now
that sounds pretty, promising doesn't. It it might even be
a quote from The United States. Constitution not. Quite these
are some of the freedom supposedly guaranteed by The Soviet,

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constitution guaranteed but never. Practiced soviet jails are filled with
those who speak their, minds students who ask the wrong,
questions plain citizens who air their gripes and are now
paying the. Price they're learning the hard way that communist
constitutions are not worth.

Speaker 25 (01:59:46):
The paper they're written.

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
On and.

Speaker 37 (01:59:48):
No we continue With Act free Of shadow on The,
wall Starring jackie kelk Oh, well calculated to keep you in, suspense.

Speaker 28 (02:00:10):
Same grotesque, thing the, shadow its spread across the, wall
the head bent against the, chest the terrifying hump of the.

Speaker 40 (02:00:21):
Back what do you? Want is it? Me are you
waiting for?

Speaker 42 (02:00:27):
Me or you never get?

Speaker 22 (02:00:29):
Me?

Speaker 40 (02:00:30):
Never because this house is coming.

Speaker 28 (02:00:31):
Down you'll have to go away Because i'm tearing down the.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
House do you Hear you've, Won you've.

Speaker 40 (02:00:37):
Won it's coming, Down.

Speaker 3 (02:00:38):
So go, away go, away go, away go, away please please.

Speaker 42 (02:00:45):
Go, away Mister, Henry Mister, Henry, sir Mister, henry you're

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awake at, last, sir.

Speaker 40 (02:01:10):
Missus hullmers.

Speaker 42 (02:01:13):
Were AM i in the guest, room. Sir you've been
here for two, days two.

Speaker 40 (02:01:19):
Days we thought.

Speaker 42 (02:01:20):
It better to move you in here after the, Shock.

Speaker 40 (02:01:24):
SIR i don't understand what you don't?

Speaker 42 (02:01:28):
Remember? Sir you collapsed in your. Room the doctor says
it's emotional. Stress you've been unconscious for two. DAYS i don't.
Remember it's all right, now. Sir in your state of,
mind it's no wonder you took.

Speaker 40 (02:01:46):
On so what what do you?

Speaker 3 (02:01:49):
Mean?

Speaker 42 (02:01:50):
Why seeing that awful shadow on the wall. Shadow it
gave me a, turn. Sir after removed you in, HERE
i was cleaning up your room next afternoon AND i
saw the stranger shadow on the wall like a man.
Hanging oh it was. Awful you saw it too with
my own. Eyes but it's gone now and we'll never

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see it. Again what do you mean WHY i showed
it to Mister. Simpson Mister, simpson you know the contractor
who's building the new.

Speaker 40 (02:02:23):
House, oh, yes.

Speaker 42 (02:02:25):
Well he did some. Investigating he said it was the
oddest thing he ever.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
Did.

Speaker 42 (02:02:31):
See what missus Lormis, well every, day when the sun
gets to a certain spot behind the new. House over,
there the fireplace chimney cast a. Shadow it's, fieldstone you,
know and the rough stones cast that awful shadow right
into your room. Fireplace but don't worry any more about, it.

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Sir Mister simpson's got the chimney almost torn. Down now
he's going to move the fire place to the other
side of the house and not going to charge you anything.
Extra that's nice of. Him don't you think.

Speaker 40 (02:03:20):
The shadows are coming? Again?

Speaker 28 (02:03:22):
Now there on the, wall the, long thin shadows. Thin
there's a rail and just five inches, apart long thin EVEN.

Speaker 24 (02:03:41):
I, WONDER.

Speaker 28 (02:03:43):
I wonder If i'll ever find a place where there
aren't Any shadows on The.

Speaker 3 (02:03:48):
Wall.

Speaker 25 (02:03:56):
So suspense.

Speaker 37 (02:04:00):
In Which Jackie kelk starred In william And robson's production
Of shadow on The, wall written By Robert.

Speaker 25 (02:04:07):
Juran listen.

Speaker 37 (02:04:11):
Listen again next week when we return With Venica brown
in Vamp Till, dead another tale well calculated to keep
you in, suspense supporting Mister kelk In shadow on The
wall Where Janet, Nolan John, White frank McDonald And charles Lung.

Speaker 4 (02:04:49):
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And we wrap up this edition of the podcast with
an episode Of London. Abner this goes back eighty three
Years september twenty, second nineteen forty.

Speaker 3 (02:05:53):
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and now let's see what's going on down In Pine. Ridge,
Well Lemon abner went to the county sep yesterday to
Meet Marrying, sloan the new school, teacher but difficulties with
a weighing machine prevented them from carrying out this. Mission
so Now President edwards of the school board is anxious
to compensate in some way for failing to meet the new.

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Teacher as we looking on the little community, today we
Find Lemon avenue over at the schoolhouse making preparations of some. Kind, listen, Well,
ALM i believe already going over the store and open. Up, no,
no you can't do, That. Avenue you can to that.
Later oh, my if anybody wants, groceries they can get

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'em Over Dick huddson's. STORE i want you to stick
around the school here after Miss sloan gets. Here, well
how do you know that she's coming over here this?
Morning of COURSE i sent a note over To Sister
simpson's boarding, house and AND i wanted a new teacher
to drap over here and discuss education with. Me, well
we don't even know if she's in Pine redge. Yet
long we messed her at the train. Yesterday, yeah but

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she got. HERE i found that out. Myself she. Did,
huh she gonna be. HERE i know she. Will, WELL
i still don't see what you want, me. FUR i
ain't praised in the school. Board that's You, LONG i
know who's. Preisdent BUT i need you to help out
with a. Conversation. Conversation, yeah there's some THINGS i want
you to, say things THAT i can very well say.

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Myself what? Things, oh you, know things, like, uh did
you know Mister edward's justice of the peace or h
my ain't Mister edwards a handsome and generous? Feller stuff like.
That you want me to say them? Things, yeah it
looked LIKE i was unmodest IF i said sich things about.
Myself AND i don't Want marian to get the wrong

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impression of.

Speaker 25 (02:09:38):
Me.

Speaker 3 (02:09:38):
Mary yeah that's her, Name Marion. Sluan.

Speaker 29 (02:09:42):
Oh, yeah, WELL i still don't see what you're a
bashful about casting favors at. Yourself all of a sudden.
Fur you see all them things about yourself every time
you make a speech, Long.

Speaker 3 (02:09:54):
Well that's. DIFFERENT i stand before you a say off
made man iman and who has a barefoot boy walked
nineteen miles to school every day in the, snow all
right after. Her don't get. Sarcastics now you want me
to tell her about you going? Barefoot Norm, no just
say casual, remarks see them sort of off, handed like off. Handed,

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yeah think up some nice things about men and throw
'em in every time there's a lull in the, CONVERSATION
a lull in the, Conversation, yeah and.

Speaker 29 (02:10:26):
Thogus if you act Around Miss saloon like you've done
Around Miss, frederick why that Means i'll be talking all the.

Speaker 3 (02:10:33):
Time it don't know such a THING i bound. You
you never said nine words To Miss frederick all last
year that ain't the? Truth and you know. It it
is done. It SOMETIMES i had a lot to. SAVE
i had trouble getting a lump in my.

Speaker 29 (02:10:47):
Throat, yeah If adam's, after you're bounced up and down
like a rubber ball every time you seen.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
HER i had many a long heart to heart talk with. Her,
YELL i never heard you get, past how they Do Miss? Frederick,
well what's wrong with saying how to? Do Miss? Frederick?
Well WHAT i mean from there? On why the conversation
generally little? Permanent well that was mostly on account OF
i wasn't president of the school. Board, Then, oh things

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is gonna be different this. YEAR i can tell you
that right.

Speaker 29 (02:11:15):
Now, well now tell me the. Truth are you in
love with Miss salon?

Speaker 3 (02:11:21):
Already of? Course not, Silly i'm just doing this Cause
i'm interested in, education that's. All, well what what you?
Doing so dressed up for? THEM i ain't particularly dressed
up at Your sunday? Suit and you Know i'm just
being neat saw everybody are to be. Neither i've always said,
that yeah, said how COULD i be in love with a?

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MOMENT i ain't never even? Saw that's?

Speaker 8 (02:11:45):
RIGHT i?

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
Dog if we ain't sorry have well of?

Speaker 25 (02:11:47):
Course?

Speaker 3 (02:11:47):
Ween you KNOW i just die. Laugh and if she's
ugly as a mud, fence well it wouldn't make no
difference to me if she. Was All i'm interested in
is discussing education with her. Education, BESIDES i asked the
ticket agent that the county Seat deepo yesterday if he
saw any auburn haired woman get off the, train and

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he said he never noticed her, hair but a, awful
good looking woman got off of the train there. Yesterday,
well how do you know that was? Her? Though of
course he said she was on a woman that got
off at the county. Seat WELL i do, know but,
uh all your in rested in is just a. Education
huh that's. Right, yeah look out the window there and
see if you can see her. Coming all, right all,

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right my miss anders a handsome and. Jenderler don't say
it in that tone of. Voice. Happening can you see? Anybody, no,
nobody Sept. Sedrick he's coming across. There oh, good, YEAH
i speared he wouldn't get here on. Time get here on.
Time you ain't eve on him seeing them casual remarks

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about you. Too, NO i just had him run a
couple of errands from his Af OH i, SEE i
do you know? Them, Warning? Sedric, warning Mister. Evener what
she got in that? Box? Sir? Here give it to, Me, Cedric, Yes,
morman what's in?

Speaker 25 (02:13:07):
It?

Speaker 39 (02:13:07):
Long?

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:13:08):
Nothing? Nothing tall much your, Bliged? Sedric, well now what's in?
It come? ON i tell Me? Long what? Is it's
a flower and some perfume fall for goodness, Sake, cedric
do you have to tell? Everything, Ooh i'm. SORRY i
never know what it. Was the Secrets? Perfume is that
what you, Said? Sedric, yes. Ma'am it's got a fancy name,
too Loves temptation Fairdie lamb, said are you using that stuff?

Speaker 19 (02:13:33):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:13:33):
Long, noh this per, hum it's just a little present
from his, Slan, oh just to make her feel it
home in Pine. Ridges all health, education that's. Right. Yeah,
uh well let's see. It long open the. Boxer, oh all,
right and look at. IT i see.

Speaker 29 (02:13:50):
Alright, no he's sure got a fancy ribbon on. It
i'll say that for.

Speaker 19 (02:13:54):
You.

Speaker 3 (02:13:55):
Uh where are you gonna send?

Speaker 25 (02:13:56):
It?

Speaker 3 (02:13:57):
Long? OH i don't. KNOW i GUESS i just stand
it on her desk. HERE i wrote out a card
to go with. It you have was a? Card, say,
oh it's just stuff about. Education you wouldn't understand. It,
well what's his flower hair? Firm, well that's wherein her?
Hair At Luke spear's restauring tonight Or Luke spear's. Restaurant,

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YEAH i wasn't gonna tell, you but maybe me and
her'll have supper there, tonight just to discuss. EDUCATION i don't.
Understand oh, Sure cedric. Did luke, said fix that up for, me.
Mom he said he'd stay open a half hour later
tonight so her and you could eat by yourselves after
everybody else had gone. Fire they lamb, see and he

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said he'd fix it so you could eat by candlelight.

Speaker 24 (02:14:41):
Too?

Speaker 3 (02:14:42):
Candlelight why, sure we gotta save electricity fire the. Lambs
but he ain't found nobody to place Off romantics music
on the? Mandolin you, too? Mandolin? Mom you have to
have music and candlelight to discuss.

Speaker 29 (02:14:57):
Education, no you don't have to, have, Well cedric, Said
luke was trying to get them for.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
YOU i KNOW i had that. Idea it's better that,
way Tis. Ham you can concentrate on what you're. Saying,
THEN i think my dog as that beats Anything i've
ever heard of. You, mom you're more in love with
her than every one woman you've ever saw, YET i,
mean ever knowed about. It you ain't even saw them

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as sloan. YOU i ain't in love with. You looking at,
YOU i already know When i'm in, love orn't?

Speaker 25 (02:15:31):
It?

Speaker 3 (02:15:31):
Well you ought, To but you're in love right now
that music over, there and want to eat with her to,
night bringing her, perfume and all that, Time i'm just
trying to be, neighbors, all HAVEN'T i don't want her
to feel it, home a new teacher coming in here
without a friend in the.

Speaker 29 (02:15:46):
WORLD i wish you'd move next to. Me if you're
that kind of. Neighbor i'll say, THAT elizabetha love a
bottle of. Perfume take me To Luke experience a hundred.
Times i'm just doing this and the best address of
Pine rache. EDUCATION i, KNOW i know what you're.

Speaker 3 (02:16:02):
Doing i've gotter be. GOING i never meant to get
no argument. Here papa wants me to help him in
the blacksmith shop. Today, yeah wait a, Minute, Cedric i'll
go along with. You, no, no, no you're staying Here. Avenue.
Huh much obliged for helping me, Out. Cedric i'll see
you later this. Morning wonderful. World wonderful, World. Cedric, Now,
Lord i'm going to you don't need me around? Here

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YES i. Do you're the one that's gonna suggest me
and her having this supper tonight At Luke's. Me, yeah
when you hear me say, THAT i think we are
to continue our discussion of education sometime. Soon then you
step in and suggest about the supper for the. Lambsakes,
now why don't you do? That, long you're the one
that's gonna eat supper with, her not. Me, well it's

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better this. Way it won't look Like i'm being too.
Forged it won't Huh, no another. Thing once in a
while you can whistle something, like uh, Whistle, YEAH i
mean just little tunes like the wedding right or loves
Old sweet, song just to put romantics in.

Speaker 29 (02:17:03):
THERE i, doggie this is going too. Far now that's
one THING i ain't gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:17:09):
DO i ain't done. It, no, SURE i won't do.
It you better, whistled, Abmir i'm gonna whop you right
on top of the. Head, well just start, whaffing CAUSE
i ain't gonna whistleing old love. Songs i'll tell you.
That get your canar if you want some whistling dead
see this racering my hand? Now, long put that down.
There don't you throw that thing at? Me, now you
put that. Down that's one of them wood. Backwards pick

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up a soft. One if you're gonna throw, something take
a piece of choke and write a sign right on your. Back, now.
Long all, Right i'll. Whistle i'll see if you can
see her coming? Yet that's, better all? Right want of
goodness standing around, here whistling love? Songs that be ANYTHING
i ever.

Speaker 39 (02:17:48):
Seen in my?

Speaker 3 (02:17:49):
Life can you see her?

Speaker 25 (02:17:50):
Yet? No?

Speaker 3 (02:17:51):
Can't some old cord you're wearing spectacles coming after the?
Schoolhousehold for goodness, Sakes, now who can that? BE i
don't KNOW i ever. Before maybe some fella wants to
get the janitor's job for this. Year more, likely, well
i'll get shut of him before he knows he's.

Speaker 29 (02:18:07):
Here even mind now he's coming up the don't worry.

Speaker 3 (02:18:11):
Now well how do you, do? Sir how do you?

Speaker 24 (02:18:16):
Do how do you?

Speaker 33 (02:18:16):
Do i'm looking for Mister, EDGAR i believe the school board.

Speaker 3 (02:18:22):
President well that's, me but the Name's. Ererge oh oh oh, yes,
yes of Course. Edgar's i'm, Sorry i'm a pa. Body
WELL i came, on Mister. Wandy why you sent for?
ME i believe said for. YOU i never sent for.
You you.

Speaker 19 (02:18:41):
Didn't, no that's strangely.

Speaker 33 (02:18:44):
Strange i'm SURE i received a note from you something
about dropping over here to.

Speaker 3 (02:18:49):
Have a chat on education with.

Speaker 33 (02:18:51):
You, Uh but there's evidently been a. Mistake things do
get jumbled, Up no, matter no, MATTER i just want
to look the school, over get used.

Speaker 3 (02:19:00):
To my new. Surroundings you, know your new. Surroundings what
do you mean by? There, WELL i mean, well as
the new, TEACHER i new. Teacher well wait a, minute
her Name's. Marion oh, yes, yes that's. Right, uh Only
i'm not a Her marion or The. Sloan oh my,
goodness is this WHERE i start with?

Speaker 9 (02:19:21):
Them?

Speaker 3 (02:19:21):
Law, well it looks as though the new school teacher's
job is liable to prove a headache to school Board PRESIDENT.
L edwards and, say speaking of, headaches always keep a
package of modern Effervescent Alka celtic tablets handy both at
work and at, home and then if a headache comes,

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along you're prepared to help yourself to fast relief Or
alkaselta really does offer fast relief for headaches thanks to
the unusual combination of scientifically tested ingredients which it. Contained in,
fact it offers a kind of relief you hope, for
but really do It and oh, Yes i'll most forgot
if you don't have Alcas elcer. Handy the next time

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a headache troubled you get a thirty or sixty cent
sized package from your nearest, ruggist or if you, prefer
your druggists can serve you a glass Of Alka selzer
at the soda.

Speaker 4 (02:20:11):
Fountain there you, go lums in it, again eighty three

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Years september twenty, second nineteen forty, two lumb And. AMNER
i guess he didn't know That John wayne's name Was,
marion so you know it works both ways. Anyway thank
you for being with us on This monday edition of the.
Podcast Tomorrow The Great Yield Nurse lead To charlie, McCarthy Milton,

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Burrell The Screen Director's, playhouse and another episode Of Loman.
Apter thanks for being with us here on this edition
This monday edition Of Classic Radio. Theater I'm Wyatt.

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