Classic Radio 09-25-25 - Crime and Punishment, The Indian Caper, and The Five Down Matter - 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, Node Washington, calling David Honey, count.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic Radios Theater.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Great Yeldesslide, Lava McGee and Molly Dragont Gun Alone
Rang Zoe.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 7 (00:34):
Good evening, friends, Vionna Tancu.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Drama on this Thursday, episodes of Mystery in the Air,
the Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective Yours truly Johnny Dollar,
and we will have an episode of night Watch that's
all straight ahead on the Sure Happy. It's Thursday, twenty
fifth day of September, two hundred and sixty eighth day
of the year, ninety seven days remaining, Congress passing twelve

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of them to the Constitution on this date in seventeen
eighty seven, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment,
and the ten known as the Bill of Brights. Only
the Bill of Brights ratified at that time, the other
two proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In nineteen
ninety two, the Congressional Compensation Amendment ratified as the twenty

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seventh Amendment to the Constitution, now. In eighteen forty six,
forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of
moder Ray. Nineteen twelve, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
founded in New York City. In nineteen twenty nine, Jimmy
Doolittle performed the first blind flight from Mitchell Field, proving
full instrument flight from take off to landing was possible.

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Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas integrated through the
use of army troops. Governor orble Babas was not pleased.

Speaker 8 (01:53):
We are now an.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Occupied territory off the naked source off the federal government
is here apparent in these unsheathed bayonets in the backs
off schoolgirls. I wish also to point out that low

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violence break out in the city until after the injunction
was issued by the imported federal judge and the guard forces.

Speaker 6 (02:29):
Where it's grown, people came to accept the fact that
the races would be mixed, plain and simple. Nineteen seventy three,
astronaut Alan Bean stepped out of Skylab three after spending
fifty nine days in space.

Speaker 9 (02:45):
Captain Adam Bean ready to step up, He embraces himself
on the edge of the hatch reaches out for helping
add upgrade rather and the ship company. Hilon Gros in
the audience as Captain all Dean stepped up and makes
his way a little on the shaky on the sety side,
but doing very very well. It's really surprising that strike

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the man with late underd and Joey.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
Bean log sixteen hundred and seventy one hours forty five
minutes in space, of which ten hours twenty six minutes
were in extra vehicular activities on the Moon and in
Earth orbit. He retired from the Navy in nineteen seventy five,
resigned from NASA as a civilian employee in nineteen eighty one.
Bean passing away May twenty sixth of twenty eighteen, at

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the age of eighty six. On this date, in nineteen
eighty one, Sandra Day O'Connor, the one hundred and second Justice,
sworn in as an Associate Justice of the US, the
first woman to hold the office.

Speaker 10 (03:51):
My own view in the area of abortion is that
I am opposed to it as a matter of birth
control or otherwise. The subject of abortion is a valid
one in my view for legislative action, subject to any
constitutional restraints or limitations.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
And you couldn't say that today. You couldn't. You'd be
immediately No, no, no, you can't have. Mone O'Connor served
on the courtpor nearly a quarter century, resigning in two
thousand and six, and President Obama gave her the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in two thousand and nine. Wing Commander
Andy Green established the world land speed record on this

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date in nineteen ninety seven at Bonnabille Salt Platts And
that's about an hour north of me here in ely Nevada,
in the thrust SSC jet powered car, the first man
to break the speed of sound on land. Twenty fourteen,
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport regained the title as the world's

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busiest airport from Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International air in Atlanta.
And of course they keep trading back and forth. The
title Atlanta may be at head again. I'm not certain
it was on this date. In twenty eighteen, Bill Cosby
sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated

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sexual assault.

Speaker 11 (05:18):
For decades, the defendant has been able to hide his.

Speaker 12 (05:23):
True self and hide his crimes using his fame and fortune.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
District Attorney Kevin Steele Cosby released in twenty twenty one
because he's old. Passing away on this date in history,
writer Ring Lardner, etiquette expert Emily Post, actor Walter Pidgeon,
Jimmy Carter's brother Billy Carter, who was adult pelle it
was a hilarious situation. Would you believe Don Adams passing

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away on this date? Singer Andy Williams, who had hits.
What was it in the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies.
I believe it was golfer Our Palmer Country singer Jeanie Shepard,
and David McCallum, the Man from Uncle, all passing away
on this date in history. Birthdays on this date of

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those who are no longer with us include Barbara Walters,
who talks about her greatest fear.

Speaker 13 (06:17):
My idea of hell is that I finished doing an
interview and someone says, did you ask such and such?

Speaker 7 (06:22):
An I think, Oh, I didn't.

Speaker 13 (06:24):
I didn't ask that.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I didn't ask that.

Speaker 13 (06:26):
But I have a lot in my work, I'm very decisive,
and in real life I'm very indecisive. So there were
years ago there was a chantou's name Edith Piaf, and
she sang a song that said I regret nothing, I
regret Lea and Bette Midler then did a take off
on it and sang, I regret everything, and I said,

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that's going to be my theme song.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
You name it, I regret it with Oprah Winfrey Barbara
Walters born on this date in history, along with Nobel
laureate William Faulkner, baseball player, sportscaster Bill Rizzuto, humorist and
author Shell Silverstein, actress Juliette Prausse, and actor Christopher Reeve,

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all born on this date in history. They have left
this mortal coil.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

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

Speaker 8 (07:17):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
Happy Birthday number eighty one to Michael Douglas.

Speaker 15 (07:24):
The point is, ladies and gentlemen at greed for lack
of a better word, is good.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
From Wall Street. Michael Douglas eighty one years old, Model
Eryl Chigue seventy eight years old, Anson Williams from Happy
Days seventy six today who talks about auditioning.

Speaker 16 (07:46):
One night, I get a call that there's an audition
for this fifty show, and on my way down like carstops.
I'm like hours late. I go to Paramount Studios. I
go up to the receptionist. Hi, I'm sorry, I'm so late.
It's Antson Williams.

Speaker 17 (08:02):
And I hear, where are the hell you been?

Speaker 7 (08:06):
And she goes, yeah, lucky, we haven't cast Pozzi yet.

Speaker 16 (08:11):
I say, what's a Pozzi?

Speaker 6 (08:13):
And we would all find out who Potzi was. Anson
Williams seventy six years old today, Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill
seventy four today pro wrestler gorgeous. Jimmy Garvin seventy three.
Remember we had that big, long, curly hair. Now it's
all gone. Actor actress, model Heather lockleyer sixty four, Jennie

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soprano and the sopranos Ida Tortillo Turturro I should say,
is sixty three. Will Smith is fifty seven.

Speaker 11 (08:43):
That's kind of that's cool.

Speaker 12 (08:44):
So we go and hang out for his birthday and
I'm like, man, that's really good. He wanted his family
with him, and Calvin Harris was performing, and we went
to the show and then we go to a restaurant,
you know, and.

Speaker 17 (08:55):
Jaden was just particularly excited. You know.

Speaker 12 (08:57):
We sit down at the restaurant and he looks at
the waiter and he says.

Speaker 17 (09:01):
I'll have a tequila And I said, whoa, whoa man,
hold on, what you doing?

Speaker 12 (09:08):
And he says, the drinking age is eighteen in England.

Speaker 18 (09:11):
Dad.

Speaker 19 (09:13):
That's oh no, that's why he got you.

Speaker 14 (09:17):
Oh how you joker, joker, that's how you got it.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
I was thinking fast. I was thinking fast. I said, oh,
but hold on, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 12 (09:25):
It's only noon in la and you weren't born till four,
so you not eighteen.

Speaker 18 (09:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
With Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show, Will Smith fifty
seven years old today. Catherine Zada Jones is fifty six.
Hal Spark's fifty six as well. Pro wrestler Ajah Kong
fifty five years old today. She was a scary looking woman.

Speaker 11 (09:52):
She really was.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Pete Sampers's wife, Actress Bridget Wilson Zampres fifty two. Donald
Globber from Community also the rapper Childish Dambino is who
he is also forty two years old today. From the
Office and the After Party, Zach Woods is forty one
and from Empire and Beast, Leah Jeffries is just sixteen.

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Though some of the people celebrating the twenty fifth day
of September is their birthday. If this is your birthday,
Happy day too, Happy birthday too, Happy day.

Speaker 15 (10:41):
Day day too.

Speaker 20 (10:53):
Now.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
On this Thursday, Classic Radio Theater with Wyacox the final
episode of Mystery in the airstarring Lorie seventy eight years ago,
as they do Crime and Punishment in thirty minutes. Woof,
that's going to be fast.

Speaker 21 (11:11):
You know, a fire that is raging out of control,
A fire that isn't burning in an open fireplace or
a close furnace, but a fire that is burning all
over the house, destroying everything it touches. That's the fire
we all live in fear of. The sound of fire
engines racing by in the dead of night isn't an
exciting sound. It's a frightening sound. And the only kind

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of comfort we derive from hearing it is is a
kind of a small, uneasy relief that it isn't happening
to us.

Speaker 8 (11:39):
Small and uneasy because we know that it could.

Speaker 21 (11:42):
Be happening to us. We all hope that it never will.
But that's a futile kind of hope unless we take
active steps to see that it doesn't, and the steps
to prevent such a fire happening to us.

Speaker 11 (11:54):
Are really simple here they are.

Speaker 21 (11:56):
Don't smoke in bed and don't lose track of that
cigarettes you're smoking somewhere around the house. Don't store up
old rags and papers, clean them out. Don't put up
with defective wiring and old frayed chords. Don't use cleaning
fluids that will catch fire. Don't leave matches in reach
of small children. Just five steps follow them. If you don't,

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you're gambling with fire, and the odds are overwhelmingly against you.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
We get started this Thursday with the final episode of
Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorie. They do an
ambitious adaptation of crime and Punishment from seventy eight years ago.
Today September twenty fifth, nineteen forty seven.

Speaker 22 (12:48):
Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lourie, presented by Camels Cigarettes.

Speaker 23 (13:06):
And it is now my great pleasure to confer our
academic degree with honor on the most distinguished student of
this class, Rodrik Raskolnikov.

Speaker 17 (13:15):
Step forward in the history of our university.

Speaker 23 (13:20):
There have been few young men who've compared with him
in mental brilliance, and few for whom the future held
greater promise, Rodrick, Rodrick, I've spoken for the university.

Speaker 17 (13:34):
Now I want to speak for myself.

Speaker 23 (13:35):
As a token of the esteem in which I hold
you and your abilities, I want to present you with
this watch.

Speaker 19 (13:43):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 17 (13:44):
Well read the inscription script.

Speaker 14 (13:48):
To Rodrik Kriskolnikov. May's great gifts bring him the reward
of honor and good fortune. Thank you, sir, Thank you
very much, Roderick, my boy. I'm proud to have had
yours one of us, and sad that you are leaving.
Good luck to you and God bless you.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
Again.

Speaker 22 (14:17):
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of the great stories, of the strange and unusual, of
dark and compelling masterpieces. Culled from the four corners of
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Fayodor Dostovsky.

Speaker 21 (14:42):
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Speaker 14 (15:38):
So I Rodrik Riskolnikoff went to the city to achieve
honor in good fortune.

Speaker 19 (15:45):
But one year later I had achieved neither.

Speaker 14 (15:49):
Oh I'd written one book, a book on crime, which
I had to sell to publisher for barely enough money
to pay my first six month rent.

Speaker 19 (15:57):
All the reviews were very nice. Yes, one of them said, the.

Speaker 14 (16:01):
Subject is handled with such brilliance that one wonders whether
it's the work of a genius or a great detective,
or both genius a great detective candy reviews. All the
time I was starving in a garret room.

Speaker 19 (16:16):
Come in, Oh, it's you, missus Barne.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yes, it's me.

Speaker 24 (16:22):
I haven't had a penny on you in six months?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
How much longer do you expect me to wait for
my end?

Speaker 19 (16:27):
Why can you stand the strain another half hour.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, so you're going to pay me in half an hour.
Just how you're going to raise the.

Speaker 19 (16:33):
Money, That's very simple. I'm going to rub a bank.

Speaker 25 (16:36):
Think how funny.

Speaker 17 (16:37):
Huh?

Speaker 14 (16:37):
Well, I don't hear it is crash to my house maybe,
But someday, someday they'll put a sign on his house
that I Raskolnikov had the privilege of starving here. I

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beg your pardner. Is there a palmbrokrt? I think it's
an old woman, But the name of Leona?

Speaker 19 (17:08):
Does she live here?

Speaker 11 (17:10):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (17:10):
One more flight up, I'll show you. I'm going there myself.

Speaker 19 (17:14):
Thank you very much. May I carry your package?

Speaker 12 (17:19):
No?

Speaker 25 (17:21):
No, I can manage. It's this door here, Just ring
the bell.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
What do you want? What's your sonya?

Speaker 21 (17:36):
Come in?

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Who is this one of your gentleman friends?

Speaker 25 (17:42):
No, I met him on the stairs.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well what have you got this time?

Speaker 21 (17:46):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (17:48):
This piper.

Speaker 26 (17:50):
Hm hmm.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
And where did you steal this?

Speaker 25 (17:53):
I didn't steal it. It'spending our family a long time.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
What do you want for it?

Speaker 25 (17:59):
The covers in with mother of pearl stones and garnets.
It's worth at least one hundred rubles.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'll give you six rubles for it if you don't
want to leave it. What have you got, mister?

Speaker 8 (18:12):
I have a watch.

Speaker 25 (18:13):
I'll take the six.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Here you are, you said six rubles, you give me one.

Speaker 27 (18:18):
That's right, six rubles less, three months interest for your
shawl and two months on the necklace and syver buckles.
That makes five rubles. Five from six is one ruble. Well,
what are you waiting for? Want your bible back?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
No, we'll come on. Get out a.

Speaker 27 (18:37):
Common little gutter snipe, I'll write, mister, let me see
your watch here hmm to rod rickrest called Nikoll touch me,
may his great gifts bring him the reward of honor
and good fortune.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
It's inscribed. I can't give you as much.

Speaker 19 (18:57):
I want fifty rubles on it.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
I'll give you all.

Speaker 19 (19:01):
Right, give me the ten.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
There you are? What are you staring at? Don't look
at me like that.

Speaker 14 (19:15):
I'm not looking. I'm not staring. I was watching you
put the young lady's bible when I watch into that trunk.

Speaker 19 (19:20):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
But I've got nothing in here. Nothing, got a lot
of trush, A lot of trush not out of here.

Speaker 19 (19:27):
As you say, oh you forgive me, oh, it's you,
miss Sonya. What are you looking for?

Speaker 25 (19:39):
My ruber dropped out of my hand when she pushed
me out the door.

Speaker 14 (19:43):
Somebody ought to push her straight into the next world.
What use is all that money to her?

Speaker 11 (19:49):
Is?

Speaker 19 (19:50):
Is her miserly life worth a hundred others like yours?
A monod? I'd like to take her by the throat.
She wouldn't say things low that black beetler. Here's your ruble.
I found it.

Speaker 25 (20:02):
You didn't find that. You took a rouble out of
your pocket.

Speaker 17 (20:05):
I didn't know.

Speaker 19 (20:06):
I swear I didn't.

Speaker 25 (20:10):
Thank you. I forgot there was still some kindness.

Speaker 26 (20:15):
In the world.

Speaker 14 (20:16):
I forgot there was still some beauty in it.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
What do you wanted this hour?

Speaker 14 (20:36):
It's after midnight, smearys Kolnikov. Don't you remember I've got
a valuable vanity case.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
This time fine hour? This is to come around with
your rubbish.

Speaker 28 (20:46):
But come in.

Speaker 27 (20:52):
Let's see this valuable vanity case here. It's heavy enough.
What's it made of? Let I believe that when I
see it? What's the idea of making so many knots?
I can't untie this thing.

Speaker 19 (21:08):
I'll show you the idea.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
But on that bucket put on that part on your head.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
You day, you don't come in.

Speaker 14 (21:34):
Oh, good morning, miss Possum. Fine day, don't you think?
Very fine day?

Speaker 3 (21:40):
I didn't come up here about the weather.

Speaker 14 (21:42):
Oh no, oh, it's about the money. Yes, well I'll
have it today. I promise I'll have it today.

Speaker 21 (21:48):
About the money, either about what.

Speaker 25 (21:52):
There's a policeman downstairs.

Speaker 8 (21:54):
Pol what is he?

Speaker 17 (21:58):
Here is?

Speaker 21 (21:59):
Now?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Ask him?

Speaker 7 (21:59):
Here?

Speaker 17 (22:01):
Are you the writer us calling? And call?

Speaker 29 (22:04):
Or come along with me.

Speaker 8 (22:05):
You're wanted at headquarters.

Speaker 14 (22:07):
There must be some mistaken Yes, there must be some
mistaken I haven't done anything.

Speaker 17 (22:12):
What have I go find out when you get there.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Come along.

Speaker 22 (22:36):
In a few moments, mister Peter Laurie will bring us
the climax of tonight's mystery in the air when Camels
present Act two of Crime and Punishment.

Speaker 21 (22:48):
You've got to be good, really good, you know, to
be a champion, You've got to have what it takes,
and it takes plenty of skill, plenty of training, and
above all, plenty of experience. Yes, sports camps have proved
it time and time again. Experience is the best teacher.
Cecil Smith, the polo star, thanks experience for his goals.

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Don Whitfield says experience made him what he is today,
the world's outboard speed champion. That goes for Jerry Ambler too.
He says it took experience to win his brontbusting crown. Yes,
the champions agree that experience is the best teacher in
the world of sports, and millions of smokers agree that
experience taught them plenty about cigarettes. Back in the days

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of the wartime cigarette shortage, folks smoked brand after brand.
They had to take whatever brands they could get. They
compared those brands, became experts on the differences in cigarette quality,
and that experience convinced thousands and thousands of smokers that
camels are their first choice. They learned that camels are

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the cigarette with a rich, full flavor and cool mildness. Yes,
smokers everywhere learned they prefer camels to all others cigarettes.

Speaker 24 (24:01):
Result, more people are smoking camels than ever before.

Speaker 21 (24:05):
Experience is the best teacher. Try a camel yourself.

Speaker 22 (24:23):
Rohederic Raskolnikov, trembling with fear, now stands before the clerk
in the police station.

Speaker 21 (24:32):
Kolnikov, let's see, oh o your landlady, thirty rubles and
you refuse to vacate the premises?

Speaker 19 (24:42):
Is that one? Is that why I've been broughty?

Speaker 17 (24:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (24:47):
Are you going to pay?

Speaker 8 (24:48):
Or must we throw you out?

Speaker 19 (24:52):
I'll pay, I'll pay tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (24:56):
No, what.

Speaker 19 (24:58):
Rented?

Speaker 30 (25:00):
It's not funny?

Speaker 11 (25:01):
Why it's the range?

Speaker 20 (25:02):
You see?

Speaker 17 (25:04):
Why did I say ten you rubles?

Speaker 19 (25:08):
That's why I've been proud?

Speaker 7 (25:10):
It's what not? That's sounding?

Speaker 21 (25:12):
You'll stop it?

Speaker 7 (25:14):
What's going on here? Who does that?

Speaker 18 (25:16):
Meaning?

Speaker 21 (25:17):
He's a writer named Raskolnikov. Huh, oh, Raskolnikov, just the man.
I want to see me why, sir, I'm Inspector Porphyri.

Speaker 19 (25:29):
Oh, commissioner.

Speaker 21 (25:30):
I read your excellent book about the crime and criminals. No,
I really mean it.

Speaker 7 (25:35):
You know.

Speaker 21 (25:36):
I thought I knew something about the subject, but your
book put me and my staff in the kindergarten class.

Speaker 17 (25:41):
I must talk to you.

Speaker 21 (25:43):
Come into my office.

Speaker 19 (25:44):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 21 (25:46):
And by the way, perhaps you'd like to help us
on a new murder case. It'll give you a chance
to see how the blundering police work a murder case.
An old pawnbroker was killed last night, a well known
character named Leona.

Speaker 19 (26:00):
Yes, I I've heard of her. Oh, what do you
know about uh, nothing, nothing at all. Think you'll get
him easily, guilty man who.

Speaker 21 (26:13):
Knows we may have him?

Speaker 19 (26:14):
Now, what do you mean?

Speaker 21 (26:16):
We brought a man in this morning, a house painter.
He had been working in a flat under Leonner's Mm.

Speaker 19 (26:21):
Do you think he did it?

Speaker 21 (26:23):
It doesn't really matter. He was found with a pair
of ear rings, he had blood on his hands. Oh,
of course he has an explanation for these things.

Speaker 14 (26:30):
But uh, he'll do as a suspect, just to keep
our records clear clear you mean, of course, of course.

Speaker 21 (26:38):
But come come, let's discuss your book. Let's see if
your theory can be.

Speaker 19 (26:42):
Applied to this case.

Speaker 17 (26:44):
My theory.

Speaker 21 (26:45):
Yes, you wrote that ordinary men must obey the law
because they are ordinary, But extraordinary men have the right
to transgress the law. No, isn't that right?

Speaker 14 (26:54):
No, no, no, not Exactly What I said was that
extraordinary man shouldn't be just ordinary. Stand and it's for example,
take Napoleon, if I doubt.

Speaker 21 (27:04):
If Napoleon murdered the old pawnbroker.

Speaker 19 (27:07):
Oh, I'm glad. My theories give you a chance to
be winning.

Speaker 21 (27:12):
If your theory is right, it would make it a
lot simpler for us. Policemen. If your extraordinary men had
some distinguishing mark, say medal or a ribbon, or a
resemblance to Napoleon, what do you mean, like yourself, for instance.
But to get back to our murderer in this case,
he was ordinary enough, all right, nothing but a stupid coward.

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What do you mean he hadn't been in a panic?
He to found the old woman's money fifteen hundred roubles
stucked away in the mattress. Steady took a lot of
junk that's no use to him, and he can't unload it.
I've got my men watching every outlet.

Speaker 14 (27:48):
Yes, inspector, you've promised to show me your blundering police methods,
and you certainly have. You're holding a man who is
probably entirely innocent, just to keep your records clear.

Speaker 19 (27:58):
Huh.

Speaker 21 (27:59):
Well, the painter will do until the real murderer comes in,
And he will come in. He'll give himself up through fear,
fear of the law of God. Oh yes, In the meantime,
I'll just wait.

Speaker 14 (28:25):
Oh why I admit I was furious, stupid coward indeed,
But then I realized that I wasn't a coward at all.
On the country and in facing the inspectors so calmly,
I had learned not to be afraid. Still, I needed money,
and now I didn't dare to sell any of the
old woman's staff. I determined to try my newfound courage

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on A publisher of my book.

Speaker 31 (28:48):
Said Dawn, mister Raskolnikov, I'm glad to see you. You
had very nice response on your book.

Speaker 19 (28:53):
Oh that's good. I've almost finished another one.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Oh is that so? Oh? You might let U see
it when it's well, you.

Speaker 14 (29:01):
See, as a matter of fact, another publisher, while he
has offered me an advance of seven hundred and fifty
roubles on.

Speaker 31 (29:07):
It, he has, Yes, by the pirate, you're my discovery.
Well look i'll give you a thousand rubles advance.

Speaker 14 (29:14):
Was that, Oh that's fine, that's wonderful. Yes, it's wonderful.
I took the money I paid my land laid in full.
Why I bought myself a whole new outfit of clothes. Oh,
I was riding on top of the world. But then

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a disturbing thought occurred to me. And of course the
inspector hadn't suspected me for a moment, but undoubtedly he
would find my name in the old palm Broker's books, saying,
you might think you're curious. I hadn't mentioned it myself.
I decided to go and see him again voluntarily, Yes,
out of my own free will. That's what an innocent
man would do, or would he? While anyway, I'm going.

Speaker 17 (30:10):
The inspector will see you in just a mooment.

Speaker 19 (30:13):
Thank you, having no hurry, Oh, mister Raskolnikov Sonya, what
are you doing here?

Speaker 25 (30:21):
The inspector sent for me. He returned my bible. He
asked me a few.

Speaker 19 (30:27):
Questions, questions with what kind of questions.

Speaker 25 (30:31):
About the day I went to the pond broker.

Speaker 19 (30:33):
Did he want to know anything about me?

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (30:36):
What did you tell him about the money you gave me?
And then he wanted to know why?

Speaker 19 (30:44):
What did he want to know?

Speaker 25 (30:45):
Before I knew what had happened? He made me tell
him what you said that she deserved to die?

Speaker 19 (30:52):
Well she did.

Speaker 32 (30:53):
She inspector will see you now, mister Raskolnikov Sonya.

Speaker 19 (30:57):
I must see you later. Where do you live?

Speaker 25 (30:59):
Catherine Street, first house from the bridge, second floor.

Speaker 19 (31:02):
I'll be over as soon as I can wait for.

Speaker 29 (31:04):
Me his way, sir.

Speaker 17 (31:06):
Thank you, Ah, mister Raskolikov.

Speaker 21 (31:10):
I am delighted to see you again.

Speaker 19 (31:12):
Come to claim my watch?

Speaker 21 (31:13):
Hire your watch.

Speaker 14 (31:15):
Come on, let's not beat around the bush. I hated
to part with it, but I need the money, so
so I took it to the old woman. And old woman,
oh you know the palm broke, the one that the
one we were talking about?

Speaker 19 (31:27):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (31:28):
Oh, did you have dealings with her?

Speaker 17 (31:30):
Did I need you know?

Speaker 19 (31:31):
I had?

Speaker 21 (31:32):
You know?

Speaker 17 (31:32):
I was there?

Speaker 19 (31:32):
I'm I mean, isn't my name in her book?

Speaker 21 (31:35):
Wait a minute?

Speaker 29 (31:37):
Why?

Speaker 7 (31:38):
So?

Speaker 21 (31:38):
It is funny? I didn't notice it.

Speaker 19 (31:40):
What are you trying to do?

Speaker 17 (31:41):
Upset me?

Speaker 8 (31:42):
Upset me?

Speaker 21 (31:42):
No, not at all. And I'm sorry, but there's no
watch listed among her effects. I'm afraid it's still in
the murder's possession.

Speaker 19 (31:50):
Wow, thank you very much. I must be going.

Speaker 21 (31:52):
Oh, by the way, that's a new suit, isn't it?

Speaker 19 (31:54):
Hum? Hm, yes it is?

Speaker 7 (31:56):
What of it?

Speaker 19 (31:57):
Why shouldn't I be wearing a new suit?

Speaker 21 (32:00):
Things have taken a turn for the better.

Speaker 19 (32:01):
Ah, yes, things hat taking a turn for the better.
I sold another book.

Speaker 21 (32:05):
Congratulations. I hope you'll have some theories in this one
that will help me solve this murder. We're still holding
that poor wretch of a painter.

Speaker 19 (32:13):
Oh, oh, Herry, your real murder hasn't come in.

Speaker 21 (32:16):
Huh No, not yet, but I haven't given up hope.

Speaker 19 (32:20):
Oh, you're very optimistic. That's good. Suspect anyone in particular?

Speaker 21 (32:23):
Why I suspect anyone in everyone?

Speaker 17 (32:24):
Ha ha ha, that's good.

Speaker 21 (32:28):
I'll admit now that for a time I even connected
you with the murder.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
Me.

Speaker 21 (32:32):
Yes, you know how a policeman's mind functions. I began
piecing things in a pattern. Your desperate poverty, the fact
you almost fainted when I mentioned the murderer the first time,
or your talk of Superman being above the law. Oh,
now you're going around town flashing all that money, which
I didn't know until just now came from your publisher.
You had me followed, or matter of routine.

Speaker 19 (32:55):
Yeah, well, let me tell you something.

Speaker 14 (32:57):
If I were the guilty man, I'd be too smart
to try to sell that junk. I have gone into
the country and buried it on a stone, you hear me, Yes,
under a big heavy stone.

Speaker 19 (33:07):
So come on, accuse me of murder if you.

Speaker 14 (33:10):
Like, but don't insult me by believing that I'd overlook
fifteen hundred roubles in a mattress. Try your clumsy methods
and half wits like that, poor fool, you're going to
sacrifice just to keep your records clear.

Speaker 21 (33:24):
But I'm not accusing you. I don't accuse a man
I think is guilty if I have no proof, I
just sit and wait.

Speaker 19 (33:32):
Yeah, you said, and wait. Stop playing this cat and
mouse game with me.

Speaker 14 (33:36):
If you think you have a case against me, come on,
arrest me or or bring me to a trial.

Speaker 17 (33:40):
I'll show you out.

Speaker 21 (33:43):
This man just confessed cons I'm guilty.

Speaker 33 (33:47):
I'm the murderer, lying you for You didn't kill over
ahead with up poker, I haddiot.

Speaker 7 (33:54):
You didn't even know about until we arrested you.

Speaker 21 (33:57):
You didn't know anything about it until we beat it
into your fear. Take him away, officer, you want to
go to Siberia that badly and get him out of here?

Speaker 19 (34:08):
Oh what a triumph for your methods, Inspector.

Speaker 14 (34:12):
First you tried to make him confess, and I tried
to make him believe he's innocent.

Speaker 19 (34:17):
Doesn't your conscience ever bought you know?

Speaker 21 (34:21):
Let the real murderer suffer from his conscience. Little trouble him.
He's no Napoleon. No, he's not hard enough, he'll come
in and I'll be waiting for him.

Speaker 19 (34:35):
I'll be waiting good.

Speaker 17 (34:52):
Who is it?

Speaker 11 (34:57):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (34:58):
Where have you been.

Speaker 19 (35:00):
Walking the street? I don't know how long. I know
it's later and I had to talk to you, Sonya.
I may never see you again.

Speaker 25 (35:11):
You're going away? Yes, where are you going?

Speaker 19 (35:16):
I don't know?

Speaker 3 (35:18):
And why?

Speaker 19 (35:19):
Because I'm free now, and so I'm free, free to
go where I.

Speaker 17 (35:24):
Please and do what I please, and free.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
From what please.

Speaker 19 (35:30):
They suspected me of the murder. Oh it's all over now, Sonia,
Come away with me.

Speaker 25 (35:39):
Did they find the guilty man?

Speaker 14 (35:41):
They had him all along, he confessed this morning over
painter worked in the house.

Speaker 19 (35:46):
Why all these questions? Leave me alone? I've been questioning enough.
Please put that Bible away here. I don't want to
be reminder of that old hag.

Speaker 25 (35:59):
And Jeez said, take away the stone?

Speaker 7 (36:03):
What tone?

Speaker 19 (36:04):
What tone are you talking about? How do you know?

Speaker 11 (36:08):
I hear it under the stone?

Speaker 25 (36:10):
It's the stone under which Lazarus was bare. Then they
took away the stone from the place where the dead
man was, and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father,
thou hast heard me. And when he had thus spoken,
he cried in a loud voice. Lazarus come forth, and

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he that was dead came forth.

Speaker 19 (36:37):
So Sonya to me, have mercy on me, Sonya, I
killed that old woman. I yes, Sir, I killed him.

Speaker 25 (36:52):
Why did you do it?

Speaker 29 (36:55):
I was mad?

Speaker 19 (36:57):
What shall I do now?

Speaker 3 (37:00):
What to tell you?

Speaker 25 (37:02):
Because you have no faith?

Speaker 19 (37:05):
What did I did? Have faith?

Speaker 25 (37:07):
Then I would tell you to confess a tone for
what you've done.

Speaker 19 (37:11):
First to the police.

Speaker 25 (37:12):
How else can you save the one who's being punished
in your place?

Speaker 14 (37:15):
Confess and go to Siberian in rock in prison? Sonya,
How can you ask me to do that?

Speaker 25 (37:22):
Because I love you?

Speaker 7 (37:27):
You love.

Speaker 19 (37:31):
Sonya, I know I.

Speaker 8 (37:35):
Know it now.

Speaker 19 (37:37):
You know I have faith. You have given it to me.

Speaker 14 (37:43):
You have made me see myself, yes, as I really was,
and just a coward who thought himself brave.

Speaker 19 (37:52):
All right, Sonya, I'll go and do as you say.

Speaker 25 (37:56):
Oh my god, I'll wait for you. I'll always wait
for you forever.

Speaker 21 (38:24):
Come in, good evening, inspector, good evening, Raskolnikov. I've been
expecting you. I've been expecting you for quite a long.

Speaker 17 (38:41):
Time, he alloy.

Speaker 21 (38:57):
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Speaker 24 (39:32):
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Speaker 21 (39:44):
And now here is Peter Laurie for a final word.

Speaker 19 (39:48):
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 14 (39:49):
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those men who have worked with me, especially our director,
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of America's favorite quiz shows, will be heard over these
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he just quizzes them well to each his own.

Speaker 17 (40:34):
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Speaker 30 (42:00):
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Speaker 6 (42:04):
How you adapt such a huge, a huge, huge book,
five hundred and twenty seven pages, and you adapt it
down to a movie, and then you adapt it down
to thirty minutes on the radio, which is really only
about twenty five minutes. They did the best they could.
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(42:24):
September twenty fifth, nineteen forty seven, on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt Cocks. Up next, The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

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Speaker 6 (43:52):
We go back seventy six years September twenty fifth, nineteen
forty nine, Howard Up as Sam Spade in the Adventures
of Sale Spade Detected We're just gonna call it the
Indian Taper, though I imagine you'll hear them try to
say the full title, because I don't have that many
syllables in my mouth.

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Detective Agency.

Speaker 7 (44:40):
The Sweetheart Shaman Spade Shaman not singing an all Indian
words signifying wise man. And it's true if I'm a
lot wiser man than.

Speaker 26 (44:49):
I was yesterday at this time, I'm really sad.

Speaker 7 (44:51):
Really little papoos quass and warpain a few turkey feathers
and your best open talk mark.

Speaker 26 (44:56):
Where are we going?

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Why to teds TV for a rousing repairs, asked the
ground corn and dried buffalo. Me, oh well, don't quittle, Effie,
get the wig where I'm ready shopping my tomahawk and
lay out my herring bone. Breech clock, I'll be right
in to dictate the shot. Gaga the shanagma Ah the
Indian Paper from the land of the Sky, Blue Water.

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They brought a captain made the red wing here, I
am running, stunk, running what skunk?

Speaker 26 (45:42):
He was, the famous Indian detective.

Speaker 7 (45:43):
Sure you're not making us up?

Speaker 17 (45:45):
Oh no, damn, oh no.

Speaker 26 (45:46):
He was a scourge of Indian law by the skirt.

Speaker 7 (45:50):
Even so, you have two minutes. I think have a
better name.

Speaker 26 (45:52):
Oh, rippling stream not viril enough, crunching muscles too viral?

Speaker 7 (45:59):
What is that stuff you've been getting me? Anyway? To
Lieutenant L. J. Myern, San Francisco homicide data, I better
take it back, copy too, Chief black cloud Santee the
coda Indian reservation, Oh murder attention Federal Indian Agent from
Samuel Space, San Francisco, License number one three seventy five,
ninety six. Subject the shark, gaga gg the shar gonna

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call it for now the Indian Caper And quiet to you.
I was sitting in my office.

Speaker 29 (46:27):
Quiet.

Speaker 7 (46:27):
I was sitting in my office doing absolutely nothing when
something interrupted me. First it was a buckskin smell, then
the soft tread of moccasins, followed by the sound.

Speaker 17 (46:36):
Of a rattle.

Speaker 7 (46:37):
His beaded clothes were wrapped in a rich looking embroidered blanket,
and his multi colored headdress reached to the floor. His
face looked like the model for the Indian had nickel.

Speaker 11 (46:46):
Oh, oh, my name, Chief fleck Cloud.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
How do you do Chief?

Speaker 2 (46:51):
You shaman spade Sam Shaman Indian wood for wise man
profit seer Sam newspaper.

Speaker 17 (47:00):
You good scout?

Speaker 7 (47:01):
Well exaggerated.

Speaker 11 (47:03):
So you know Chief need to hire a good scout
for a job.

Speaker 7 (47:06):
Well shall we talk?

Speaker 11 (47:07):
You come for pow wow in Chief's councilnew where's that? Said?
Mac Hotel, fourth floor.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
I see you have reservation.

Speaker 17 (47:16):
Well you ride with black plow.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
You have iron pony on street made by great Indian
Chief Pontiac.

Speaker 7 (47:28):
And he actually had a council lines at the Saint
Mark fourth floor. Outside the door of his room, two
braves were standing arms folded. One of them was the
first Indian I'd ever seen with hair on his chest.
We entered the room Indian file.

Speaker 17 (47:41):
Of course.

Speaker 7 (47:42):
The chief had apparently brought in his own decorator. The
walls were covered with hanging animal skins, A weathered canopy
of thatch hit the ceiling, and on the floor genuine
hand woven rugs no expensive than spared in one corner
of this room, sort of full sized teepee two squaws,
shovel out of it. Else the young one glad forward
and handled the chief a long Indian fight.

Speaker 11 (48:02):
Shaman s faith this veriest Indian maid of all.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Only person in world important to black Cloud name little
white Lilac.

Speaker 35 (48:13):
It's nice to have you here.

Speaker 11 (48:14):
She wise educated girl, graduate Smith college. Oh squawsow squaws,
no good at pow wow.

Speaker 17 (48:26):
Now we pow wow.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
You get paid well. Chief black Cloud owned one hundred
and thirty all wells near.

Speaker 7 (48:33):
Tsa, Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Huh not Oklahoma, Indian land union mean nothing union, temporary thing.
Indian here long before white man and Indian will be
here long after a white man.

Speaker 7 (48:46):
All right, Chief.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Black Cloud come to San Francisco village five days ago
for pow wow with big engineer. Anybody I know is
name Clarence Hobart, engineer for Arundel and Amaskid Consolid. That
engineering company, fine Indian name.

Speaker 7 (49:03):
We have pow wow. Four days Oh Bart disappear and
you want me to find them?

Speaker 29 (49:09):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Chief tired of San Francisco, want finish pow wow. Get
back to Senti Dakota Reservation.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
Okay, I'll see what I can find out.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
But one moment Shaman paid Chief have something you got
for a few days. This speeded wampum belt, ancient relic
of Nipmap tribe. Here in tips mark too many light
fingered chimber maids and bellboys.

Speaker 7 (49:36):
You want me to hold on to this for it?

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yes, wampum of great sentimental value, woven by ancient wise
man Tony Luca tell us interesting story and history of tribe.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
God it well, I haven't lost one from yet? Is
that all?

Speaker 11 (49:52):
One more thing? We smoke pipe of friendship?

Speaker 36 (49:56):
I smoke, yeah, now you smoke through friendship.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
Now I know what happens to the back of a
lucky strike doesn't buy. When I left Chief black Cloud's
fourth floor lives, there was only one brave standing outside
the door. The harry chested in him was partably taking five.
The warmpom belt was about three feet long, made up
of hundreds upon hundreds of little colored beads. They were

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woven into a picture pattern, very pretty. The interesting story
undottedly could have been translated instantly, I'm told fascinatingly by
Red Rider. But then he has a smart horse. I
put the wampum belt in my pocket and headed to
the offices of the Arundel and Armistigue Consolidated Engineering company
find old Indian names and inquired about Clarence Hobart. They
referred me to his partner, Anderson Watts.

Speaker 33 (50:49):
Hobart disappeared, absurd. Why you couldn't lose him if you
wanted to do. He's as white as a barn door.

Speaker 7 (50:54):
Yeah, well, Chief black Clouds seems to think he is missing.
When I look here, you're going to take it in
need opinion over mine, and I might. But just because
he doesn't show up for an appointment doesn't mean he's disappeared.
Why one day would we run a catialver project in
New Orleans? Yeah, some other time. If Hobart hasn't disappeared.

Speaker 29 (51:11):
Where would he be anywhere in the world.

Speaker 36 (51:13):
The man's unpredictable, brilliant engineer, but moody.

Speaker 33 (51:16):
Every now and then he goes off alone to scheme
up some fantastic thing, like maybe cutting off the Gulf
stream and turning Cuba into an iceberg.

Speaker 36 (51:24):
I like it, but he always comes back disappear dot Hobart.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
Yeah, well, can you give me his home address?

Speaker 18 (51:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (51:32):
Here you are, try it if you like, But I'm
sure he's not there. I called this morning and nobody
answered on this engine.

Speaker 7 (51:42):
I left this utterly charming man and started for the
address he had written down. I was taking a shortcut
through the alley on Sutton Straight when I heard the
rattle of beads, and a naked brown arm of considerable
size reached out of the merchant. I grabbed for it,
but he slipped out of my grasp, kitten sped swift
clay and silently up the dark alley under the fog,
waving me with a handful of max Factor number eight

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Iroquois makeup. I continue to Hobart's house without further incident,
found it just off Chinatown.

Speaker 23 (52:12):
Mister hoban Oh, I thought there might be somebody else
who Well, take your foot.

Speaker 17 (52:17):
Out of the door.

Speaker 7 (52:18):
Just let's talk a minute.

Speaker 11 (52:19):
Shall we want me to call the police?

Speaker 7 (52:21):
I don't think you will, mister hobbron.

Speaker 11 (52:23):
Oh, right out with what's on your mind.

Speaker 7 (52:25):
My name is Sam Spain. I'm a private detective. There's
an Indian name, Chief black Cloud, who's worried about you.

Speaker 11 (52:30):
I'm old enough to worry about myself. Now stop bothering me.

Speaker 17 (52:33):
Go away.

Speaker 7 (52:33):
Look, I'm gonna tell the chief where you are, you know,
because that's what I was hired to do.

Speaker 17 (52:37):
You'll, uh, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 19 (52:41):
Confidentially, I've been on a two day drunk.

Speaker 29 (52:43):
You know how it is me?

Speaker 11 (52:45):
Ah, tell him to pull me tomorrow. I'll talk to him.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
Well, what are you doing here? Today? Is your day? Are?

Speaker 26 (53:02):
I just wanted to show you something if you.

Speaker 7 (53:03):
First do me your favor and put this warmp on
belt in the safe, will you there? Genuine Indian art?

Speaker 26 (53:10):
Oh it's beau, you know what it'll go beautiful? It
is a girl waiting in your office.

Speaker 7 (53:17):
Well, good.

Speaker 26 (53:19):
Show.

Speaker 7 (53:23):
And there was indeed a girl in my office. That
was Little White Lilac, chief black clouds, fairest Indian maid
of all on the heap, big change at taking place.
She still had the Indian color, but gone was the
head band, gone, the buckskin breast, gone, the squatting squaw,
the Saint mark teepee. Little White Lilac stood revealed in
the thin disguise of a modern white woman's cocktail dress,

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complete with pale faced twenty carrot for film, it was
a transformation worthy of a high priced medicine man. But
more surprises were it.

Speaker 35 (53:52):
Come hello, how I've been waiting for you?

Speaker 14 (53:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (53:56):
Well, a big brave just returned from hunting body.

Speaker 35 (53:59):
You can drop the talk. I'm civilized.

Speaker 7 (54:02):
Well, okay, I sign your civilized line.

Speaker 35 (54:05):
Chief black Cloud gave you a wampa and belt. I
want you to give it to me so I can
destroy it.

Speaker 7 (54:10):
Well, I gave my word to keep it, and I
accepted the promise of money for its protection. Now you
wouldn't want me to be an Indian gift? I mean
via life, my sam.

Speaker 35 (54:20):
If I must tell you Chief black Cloud is insane
and if he keeps you aroun, must we have these
juvenile references to my.

Speaker 19 (54:27):
Personal beauty juvenil?

Speaker 7 (54:30):
Well, sorry, you are Indian, of.

Speaker 35 (54:32):
Course I am a nipmunk.

Speaker 7 (54:34):
Nipmuk.

Speaker 35 (54:34):
That wamp and belt is a secret to undreamed of
wealth greater than the fortunes of the ten, which is
families of this country. Chief black Cloud is wealthy from oil,
but that belt make him more powerful than the Bank
of America.

Speaker 7 (54:47):
You mean he could take my car back.

Speaker 35 (54:49):
You think this is a joke, don't you.

Speaker 7 (54:50):
Well, I love the way you felt it.

Speaker 35 (54:53):
He's going to use it to destroy modern American civilization,
to pay the white man back for what he did
to the Indian. Just started giant Indian Revolution and.

Speaker 7 (55:02):
You want to destroy the want of them to save.

Speaker 35 (55:03):
All this exactly, And now you'll give it to me,
won't you?

Speaker 7 (55:10):
What happens in the next chapter, Sam.

Speaker 26 (55:11):
You have to believe me?

Speaker 35 (55:13):
Why why do you think the chief is here conferring
with an engineer. He wants to get it that wealth.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
Hobart's gonna make him wealthy. Now, really, little white lic
isn't this all a little white life?

Speaker 28 (55:22):
Sam?

Speaker 26 (55:23):
If I take you to Hobart and he confirms what
I've said, will you believe me?

Speaker 35 (55:28):
I might come on.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
She took me by the hand, and she led me
out of the office and up and down several streets
until we arrived at a frowsy looking brown stuff. We
had it still holding hands, and came to rest in
an apartment that looked just recently occupied. I guess that's
what it looked like, because you couldn't tell much. It
was being let by either one time white frosted bulb
or by fireflies. This is a place, a little dimm

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in here.

Speaker 35 (55:57):
I like dim places.

Speaker 7 (56:00):
Where's Clarence? Yes?

Speaker 26 (56:05):
You being so nice?

Speaker 35 (56:07):
I want to find some way to thank you.

Speaker 30 (56:10):
I'll wait for you.

Speaker 19 (56:12):
I can start.

Speaker 7 (56:21):
The kiss was great. In fact, it blowed the top
of my head off. After this, there was a freight
fireworks display, followed closely by a giant roar that sounded
like Niagara Falls with a cold. It was a short
feature followed by a long period of dark, black silence.
When the curtain came up again, I was lying in
an alleyway. I was stiff and cold, my head dropped
with pain. My brain was a jumple. My sirit was

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torn and dirty, My paces was at an end, and
my anger with a little white lilac blue no bounds.
I went out of the office and change clothes and
get a drink. The phone was already ringing when I opened.

Speaker 18 (56:55):
The dark.

Speaker 7 (56:57):
Sam Spade step looking from Saint Maaktepe. Yeah, what's on
your mind?

Speaker 2 (57:03):
She ten minutes ago Beilboy delivered to cheap black cloud
box inside box's scalp.

Speaker 11 (57:09):
I've engineered, Clarence ho fart.

Speaker 7 (57:15):
I hung up the phone, fell out of my chair,
snapped on the lights, and fell out of it again.
My office had been massacred, The place had been ransacked.
Furrow in looked like the morning after a comanche smoker
and you guessed it. My safe had been drilled open.
The ancient and valuable nipmuk wanpum belt was gone. At
this point I decided what Chief black Cloud made. It
was a detective.

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Speaker 7 (58:58):
I found Chief black Bart sitting and looking disconsolately down
into a small cardboard box. Both squaws, including a little
white Lilac, were on one side of the room grinding coin.
I like looked through me as if I didn't exist.
I sat, I asked. The Chief looked into the box
and recoiled. It was a real, no imitation twentieth century scalp,
and the red hair was certainly.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Hobart's scalp comes with note let me see note written
in Algonquin dialect. I can sleep on a Chief black
Cloud returned to senti Dakota Reservation and die proper death
fitting to old man. Here, you will meet violence until death,
even as this man did.

Speaker 7 (59:38):
What's the point across like Chief? It isn't that I'm scared,
which I am, but I just decided to pull out
of this cable. What I've heard some things about you?
They don't sound too good. You hear why that you
want to start an Indian revolution to settle an old
score with a white man. Who tell you this the
parrest of them all. Little White Lilac, she tell you
I've never talked to you. She not only told me
all that, but she staith.

Speaker 36 (01:00:00):
When the little White Lilac tell you these things.

Speaker 7 (01:00:02):
She came in my office today.

Speaker 26 (01:00:03):
That's a lie. I never left this hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
We will see la Nuka, Yes, black cloud, did little
White Lilac leave hotel today?

Speaker 26 (01:00:13):
Little whitely luck with me already?

Speaker 36 (01:00:17):
Why ever?

Speaker 26 (01:00:18):
Out of sky?

Speaker 11 (01:00:20):
Enough go away, kla Uka speak with tongue of truth.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Little white Lilac I have grown from baby. She also
speaks with tongue of truth. Somebody lie our chief.

Speaker 7 (01:00:30):
I know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 11 (01:00:31):
You Chief does not need help of double tongue. Man
return wampum belt to me.

Speaker 7 (01:00:35):
I pay you all right, I'll well.

Speaker 11 (01:00:40):
Chief part enough lies returned one.

Speaker 7 (01:00:43):
Wait a minute, I got a small but biting bit
of truth to a light. Somebody stole the wamp and
belt humpum belt cone. Somebody broke into my office. Grill
the safe and tuck it. You're stolen stolen from me?

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Return one pom oh, you not live until sundown.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
I'll return it if I can find it, then you
can pay me off and we'll call it even.

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Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
I walked outside, muttering frightful white man's supprecations. Cutting through
the hotel parking lot, I suddenly noticed the Chief's iron
pony made by Plantiac. There was a leather bag on
the seat, sort of an Indian of a nightcase, and
sticking out of it was a bloodstained tomahawk. This was
a decided interest to me and sold the rest of
us content. Somebody had a giant engineering project a foot,
because there were order receipts for such things as two LST's,

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four underwater hydraulic drills, a diving belt, a dredging barge,
and a steam dairy. Back again, yeah, back again, mister
w Wash, you're looking for the missing Clarence Obart not anymore?

Speaker 36 (01:03:19):
Well, I knew you'd realize the futility of it.

Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
I found them, and I trust you found him in good.

Speaker 36 (01:03:23):
Health, old Obota bug on health.

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
Why works?

Speaker 20 (01:03:26):
But we were in cleve.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
I think instead it was the Ohio.

Speaker 36 (01:03:30):
River Bridge job yeah, did you say Hobart.

Speaker 7 (01:03:34):
Did scout anyway, mister Watch what was Hobart working on
with the chief? But I don't know exactly. Well, let's
go look at his desk file and see where can
find out. In a bottom drawer, under a lot of
miscellaneous papers, we found a large Manila envelope marked black Cloud.
It contained some topographical surveys of an area containing a lake.

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On the back of one of the surveys was written
in fine print a series of thirty seven letters. It
looked like a whole group of Indian words swung together,
or a coat, or just doodling. It started out chack
gaga something or other. I left mister Watt sitting in
his office with tears in these eyes a new roll
to him, and made my weary way back to my
place of business. Effie was standing in the middle of
the office with a shocked look on her face.

Speaker 26 (01:04:17):
Damn, look at this office. How did it get like this?

Speaker 29 (01:04:21):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (01:04:21):
My wild and everything?

Speaker 7 (01:04:23):
Oh I don't have to pick things up. And again,
by the way, what are you doing here? It's still
your day off.

Speaker 26 (01:04:29):
When you were here last time, I wanted to show
you something you're so anxious to get to that girl.

Speaker 7 (01:04:33):
All right, I am here and I'll look. What is it?

Speaker 26 (01:04:35):
A new sweight coat?

Speaker 17 (01:04:36):
How do you like it?

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
The color is rust well, I suppose Effie, what set
you're wearing as a belt?

Speaker 26 (01:04:43):
Don't be mad saying I just had to It went
so well with the coat when.

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
I saw it, black clouds wampom belt. You didn't put
it in the safe.

Speaker 29 (01:04:50):
Give it to me.

Speaker 18 (01:04:51):
Give it to me.

Speaker 7 (01:04:53):
Wait right here. I'll be gone for half an hour
and then I'll come back and take you out for
the best dinner.

Speaker 26 (01:04:57):
In time, I should go home the chambers.

Speaker 7 (01:05:04):
I had taken only four steps down the hall and
somebody hit me from behind. I rolled and he went
with me. He fought a quickly, quiet and decisive fight,
and at the end of it I held him in
an iron lock and let him back into my office.
I had an unexpected call. I come in with me
and take notes. Sit there all right?

Speaker 37 (01:05:24):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:05:24):
Who I am? What's on your mind?

Speaker 36 (01:05:25):
I'm nobody and I got nothing on my mind.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
Spring you know one of the braves that got of
the cheap Yeah, and you're a funny Indian lives he
make up and Indians gonna have hair in that sat
all right.

Speaker 36 (01:05:35):
My name's good Hamm and I'm a cowpolk. I should
have stayed ride belonged out on the ring.

Speaker 7 (01:05:39):
Well why didn't you?

Speaker 19 (01:05:40):
Once I said, I'll do anything for that guy.

Speaker 17 (01:05:42):
Now I wish I hadn't.

Speaker 7 (01:05:43):
She brought me here.

Speaker 36 (01:05:44):
Why whether it had something to do with Vervett treasure.

Speaker 11 (01:05:48):
She was going to give me a big cut.

Speaker 7 (01:05:50):
Where is it buried? I don't know.

Speaker 17 (01:05:51):
She was going to tell me.

Speaker 7 (01:05:58):
I took Hamm and around a hormicie. I had left
them in their safe keeping. Well there I got the
latest flash. They had found Clarence Hobart dead and less
scalp down to the waterfront. There were no clothes except
the blow on the back of the head and lipstick
on his mouth, which is enough to me, having been
through the same course myself. Then I proceeded with the
Saint Mark fourth floor. Little White Lilac met me at
the door.

Speaker 26 (01:06:18):
You can't see the chief, why not?

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
He's asleep one side, and the chief says, what I've
got to wake up? Screaming as wamp you have it?
And with that she pounced. I pushed her office. She
came back and got a hold of one end of
the wamp them and tried to pull it away from
me with disasters was up, the wamping came apart, and
the second was nothing but hundreds of beads rolling different

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directions all over the place. In fact, it was no more.
She cannot sleep well. I brought back your wample. But
now it's all over the floor. The belt destroyed.

Speaker 26 (01:06:51):
Yes, it's destroyed, You stupid old man.

Speaker 11 (01:06:54):
You talk to chief, Yes, stupid.

Speaker 26 (01:06:57):
You had the world in your hand. You didn't know it.
You wanted it all for yourself to tear down the earth.
It could have been used to live.

Speaker 29 (01:07:04):
What are you saying?

Speaker 26 (01:07:05):
You live the way I'm supposed to live.

Speaker 35 (01:07:07):
Now nobody will have it, not even you are that
back engineer.

Speaker 36 (01:07:10):
Who wanted it.

Speaker 11 (01:07:11):
Little white Lilac, shut mouth.

Speaker 26 (01:07:12):
I've been shutting my mouth all my life. You're a stupid, ignorant,
disgusting old man.

Speaker 17 (01:07:17):
To be better on.

Speaker 7 (01:07:23):
His big hands were around his throat. He stood there,
anger and betrayal in his eyes, and his hands dropped
and he turned away with tears streaming Ghana's face. It
was then that the fair Indian maid went for him
at the night, And that was like you to step
in with a pale face weapon.

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Speaker 7 (01:08:10):
Why I luh, Yeah, well I know usually have one
that don't feel too badly, Chief she er helped kill
Clarence Hobart.

Speaker 8 (01:08:18):
No Chief believe anything?

Speaker 7 (01:08:21):
Yeah, Chief, why did you want an engineer?

Speaker 11 (01:08:24):
Design?

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Woven in lumpum described location of hidden Nipmuc treasure many
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Discover only gold vein in east, mine gold and keep
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make lake.

Speaker 11 (01:08:48):
Gold there to day under water?

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Where is it that she could Chief keep locked in head?
Chief once had evil plan for gold? Now you forget,
make pilgrimage back to ancient ancestral Kemp and die Sidney
Bill Chief leave village of San Francisco for good.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
Buried and the power.

Speaker 26 (01:09:21):
Vanishing race testing. The days of the cold and the
Winchester are gone for.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
Us, so the day of running in the stowe us
go to it and type this up.

Speaker 26 (01:09:40):
Sam, Except one thing? How did the bloody tomahawk get
in chief black cloths bag?

Speaker 7 (01:09:46):
A little white li like planet? It there? If anything
happened to the Chief, she as the only other living nipmunk,
would inherit the one.

Speaker 26 (01:09:54):
She could have gotten the money by just waiting. Damn.
Notice anything about the report?

Speaker 7 (01:10:01):
Yeah, hey, you got the name of the caper right
the uh Chagaga?

Speaker 35 (01:10:05):
Oh what is it to Gota doll Man Chaga dogbun
among the mug capers.

Speaker 7 (01:10:10):
You've been going out on an allocation paper.

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Adventures of Sam Spade seventy six years ago, September twenty fifth,
nineteen forty nine. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt
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Today.

Speaker 6 (01:14:36):
We continue on this Thursday edition of Classic Radio Theater
with an episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Bob Bailey
sixty five years ago, The Five Down Matter, John Hi.

Speaker 26 (01:14:51):
Beddy Lewis, Hi, sweetie, isn't this the most beautiful Sunday
morning you ever saw?

Speaker 29 (01:14:57):
Or aren't you up and around yet?

Speaker 17 (01:14:58):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:14:58):
Right away and full of pepper?

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Then listen, dear, you know about the concert this afternoon
at the Memorial Hall.

Speaker 8 (01:15:03):
Yeah, sure, I was gonna call you. See if you'd
like to be among those presents.

Speaker 29 (01:15:06):
I'd love to, And why don't we make a day
of it?

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
So it's me fine, Maybe you pick me up for
an early lunch, take a walk in the park and
go to the concerts and go somewhere and get married
and have dinner together and maybe find something to do
this evening?

Speaker 8 (01:15:19):
Sure? Why not?

Speaker 17 (01:15:20):
You mean it to?

Speaker 18 (01:15:21):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (01:15:22):
Just let me put on my best viving tucker in.

Speaker 26 (01:15:23):
All ooh, what's matter?

Speaker 8 (01:15:25):
Ooh oh somewhere along the line, Uh, did I hear
you say something about getting married?

Speaker 26 (01:15:31):
Sure?

Speaker 37 (01:15:31):
Why not?

Speaker 21 (01:15:32):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:15:32):
Well, no, look, honey, let's not get about that.

Speaker 36 (01:15:35):
Who's kidding?

Speaker 17 (01:15:37):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:15:37):
You know how I feel about you? And if it
wasn't for this crazy risky job of mine, and it's
all off. Ahh Let's face it. It doesn't really make sense.

Speaker 29 (01:15:47):
Right now, okay, Johnny?

Speaker 11 (01:15:52):
Bye?

Speaker 8 (01:15:53):
Oh no, no, wait, Betty hello? Mm oh well dollar
you dope? You better drive on over and see that again.

Speaker 19 (01:16:04):
I'll try to scah.

Speaker 8 (01:16:06):
Now, listen, honey, I well, what I meant to say?

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
Back?

Speaker 29 (01:16:09):
What did you mean? And what's this?

Speaker 17 (01:16:11):
Honey's done?

Speaker 8 (01:16:12):
Who's that at mcgreen Universal Adjustment Bureau on a Sunday morning?

Speaker 29 (01:16:16):
On a Sunday morning? Listen, I've got to see you
Johnny right away?

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
You mean for an assignment some insurance investigation? No, sorry,
but I can't. All right now, I'll run on over
there you No, no, I won't be here. You better,
but I tell you, hello, Hello, the son of a
gun doesn't Pat realize that sometimes there are things more
important that Oh well, I suppose I shouldn't have barked

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at him. Maybe after I've kind of smooth things over
with Betty.

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
I got okay.

Speaker 8 (01:16:46):
Now listen, Patt. Instead of your coming over here, just
give me a couple of hours to take care of
something personal. I'll drive over and see you and you
can tell me.

Speaker 7 (01:16:55):
Pat.

Speaker 29 (01:16:56):
No, Johnny, this is George Reed at Floyd's of England.

Speaker 17 (01:16:58):
George.

Speaker 29 (01:16:59):
I know this is a Sunday morning and it's hardly
cricket to cotton.

Speaker 7 (01:17:02):
George.

Speaker 8 (01:17:03):
I'm all tied up and this is a real emergence.
I'm sorry, George.

Speaker 29 (01:17:06):
It involves Alvin Peabody Cartwright.

Speaker 8 (01:17:09):
Huh, that old crack Pott.

Speaker 29 (01:17:10):
Now you know you really love that old character.

Speaker 8 (01:17:12):
All right, So what it just happens that right now
I've got he's.

Speaker 29 (01:17:15):
Probably responsible for more of the big fancy fees that
have been paid you.

Speaker 8 (01:17:19):
George. Listen, I'm sorry, but nothing that involves Cartwright or
anybody else can possibly be more important at the moment
that something personally I have to do. And right away, nothing, Johnny, nothing,
not even murder.

Speaker 15 (01:17:41):
CBS Radio brings you, Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures
of the Man with the action packed expense account America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Speaker 8 (01:17:49):
Yours truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Universal No to Floyd's. Well, I'll

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wait before this case was through. There were enough insurance
companies involved to well anyhow, it's an accout of expenses
and courage. During my so called investigation of the five
down matter, three phone calls, all within a couple of minutes,
all demanding my services immediately, and I promised to call
them right back. George Reid at Floyd's of England, Pat

(01:18:32):
McCracken of Universal Adjustment Bureau, and frankly more important than me,
the best gal friend Betty Lewis, on account of maybe
I'd left the impression I was trying to give her
a brush off for something, and as the people who
listen to these reports know very well that I would
never never do. Yeah, yeah, that's aid. First I'd call Betty,
but as I reach for the phone again, huh Johnny Dollar, John,

(01:18:56):
thank goodness I found you with who are you? It's
vital that I say once immediately, Yeah, I said, who
are you?

Speaker 7 (01:19:02):
Who am I? Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:19:03):
Oh?

Speaker 29 (01:19:04):
Oh, why Johnny?

Speaker 15 (01:19:05):
This is Harry Brandson, Philadelphia, Mutual Liability and Casually Insurance coming.

Speaker 17 (01:19:08):
Up, Harry.

Speaker 8 (01:19:09):
Look, if this call is about business is well, I'm sorry,
I'm all tied up. But if it's something that can wait,
time afraid because I have two or three other things
that I have to turnd diverse.

Speaker 29 (01:19:18):
So John, is this I will give you the address
and where you must go.

Speaker 11 (01:19:21):
Oh.

Speaker 29 (01:19:21):
Sorry, and you can fly on out there and do.

Speaker 7 (01:19:23):
It, Harry.

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
No, and I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:19:26):
I know you said that. But now John, look, well.

Speaker 8 (01:19:29):
As soon as I can get these other things cleared away,
I'll call you back. Huh call me back, yes, but
good heavens, I'll call you back.

Speaker 7 (01:19:35):
John.

Speaker 8 (01:19:36):
Holy, what is this anyhow? I think the world was
coming going on? I'll wait, I call my confessor. Oh,
come on, this is carrying things too far, Johnny Dollar
Earl Johnny, Oh look Price State Life and Casual.

Speaker 17 (01:19:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:19:52):
I said, it's nice, but listen, I'm sorry I can't
talk to you right now, but Johnny, I want you
to come out here just as quit I can't. That
is I now, Listen, John, I mean at least not
right away, or I'm not right this minute. Huh, this
is very important. Well, something's come up. A lot of
things have come up, and I can't even take time
to talk to you and to listen. Hey, earl, I'm
listening all right. Let me call you back, huh in
a couple of minutes or maybe a couple of hours

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at the most. Okay, Well, as long as I can
be sure you'll come out, I can't all listen.

Speaker 7 (01:20:18):
I'll call you back.

Speaker 8 (01:20:20):
Oh mother, a nice, peaceful, quiet sunday. Huh. For all
these guys, I've been pretty good to me over the years.
So if any of them has got a real problem,
I don't know. First I got a call buddy and
patter thing something. Oh no, believe me, this is impossible. Yeah,
go ahead, ring ring your head out, go ahead. When

(01:20:41):
you decide there's no one here, I'll make the calls
I promised, and i'll an Oh well, Johnny Dollar, Johnny.

Speaker 29 (01:20:50):
This is Buster Buster, that's right, Luster favor Lake, my
hobby resort.

Speaker 8 (01:20:55):
Oh well, Buster, And I'll listen to Johnny.

Speaker 29 (01:20:59):
If you're on your California.

Speaker 8 (01:21:01):
I've got to see my way out to Ki.

Speaker 29 (01:21:03):
So in taking a plane out to Los Angeles. Why
don't I drive on over?

Speaker 8 (01:21:07):
Hey? Can I say anything about going to California?

Speaker 29 (01:21:10):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:21:10):
But I've got to see you, john Oh, bust. Look
please believe me. Well the crazy way things are going
around here, believe me. I'm sorry, but I can't talk
to you right now.

Speaker 29 (01:21:18):
But this is important, I know.

Speaker 8 (01:21:19):
So please just give me a few Just give me.

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
A little while.

Speaker 8 (01:21:23):
I'll get back here. Whatever you say, But when you do,
I'll get back to you. Telephone song helped me. If
you ring once more? All right, Hello, listen wherever you are.
This is Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 7 (01:21:37):
Nope, not this time.

Speaker 8 (01:21:39):
So guess again what I said to guess again?

Speaker 29 (01:21:42):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 17 (01:21:43):
Don't you hear?

Speaker 26 (01:21:44):
Good?

Speaker 8 (01:21:45):
Alvin pea buddy card?

Speaker 7 (01:21:47):
Right? Well, of course I'm Alvan by the car?

Speaker 9 (01:21:49):
Right.

Speaker 40 (01:21:49):
Who do you think I have anyway, mister Cartwright, Johnny,
you've got to come out here right away.

Speaker 8 (01:21:55):
Yeah, i'd wear and listen. George Reid called me about
you a few minutes ago. He said something about them
murder me murdered. What I was the impression I got either?

Speaker 40 (01:22:03):
I don't think so, Johnny.

Speaker 8 (01:22:04):
Wait a minute, Oh no, listen, mister cars it's vital
that I see you right away.

Speaker 17 (01:22:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:22:11):
Well, look here my summer place in Beverly.

Speaker 40 (01:22:13):
Here, Johnny always did get the seasons mixed up.

Speaker 17 (01:22:16):
You remember the place?

Speaker 8 (01:22:17):
Oh, yes, sir, remember it very well. Now listen that
last time you came here was to prevent a murder.

Speaker 17 (01:22:22):
I know, I know that was the card right time.

Speaker 40 (01:22:23):
This time, believe me, Johnny, it's much worse, it's much
more serious.

Speaker 21 (01:22:28):
Well, what what is it?

Speaker 7 (01:22:30):
Then?

Speaker 40 (01:22:30):
I honestly don't dare tell you of the phone of it.
But Johnny, I plead I beg of you come out
here right away.

Speaker 8 (01:22:40):
What I've already told several people more serious than murder.

Speaker 40 (01:22:45):
Believe me, boy, that there is nothing that can possibly
be more important than you're coming here.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
You mean that, don't you?

Speaker 7 (01:22:53):
Please?

Speaker 29 (01:22:53):
Johnny, Please, I'll be waiting for you.

Speaker 7 (01:23:08):
Ever.

Speaker 41 (01:23:08):
Notice the way pepsiicola has of disappearing fast. It's easy
to understand when you remember how every ice cold ounce
of pepsi tingles with a taste that everybody in the
family enjoys. And then two, there's no time limit on
pepsi day or night with meals or by itself, work
days or weekends for.

Speaker 8 (01:23:27):
Parties or all by yourself.

Speaker 29 (01:23:29):
Ah.

Speaker 41 (01:23:30):
But the thing that really makes pepsi go fast is
its light touch. Pepsi always refreshes lightly without filling, so
a pepsi just never tastes like too much. To make
sure your supply of pepsi meets the demand, always buy
an extra cartn er too.

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
You can't run a household without.

Speaker 38 (01:23:48):
Its keep populating with.

Speaker 8 (01:23:57):
Refresh The FSA have the pete.

Speaker 15 (01:24:08):
And now at two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and
the five down matter. Phone calls one on top of
the other, first from Betty Lewis, and I really better
patch things up with her. Then frantic calls from Pat McCracken,
George Reid, Harry Branson, Earl Porman Muster Favor, and finally

(01:24:30):
from old Alvin P. Cartwright, the latter sounding the most
urgent of all.

Speaker 8 (01:24:34):
Not one of them had given me any details about
the emergencies that prompted their calls. But these are men
that I've been working for and with for years, and
my money. They're not only important to my insurance investigations,
but they're the soul of the earth. And if it
came to a manner of which one to favor, over
the others. Oh no, wait a minute. Cartwright lived in

(01:24:55):
Beverly Hills. George Reid was worried about Cartwright. Porman could
be taken care of out there on the West Coast too,
and Buster a favor.

Speaker 17 (01:25:04):
Uh huh.

Speaker 8 (01:25:04):
I at back of the phone and tried calling Pat McCracken.
No answer. The same with George Reed, and with Harry
and Earl and Buster, even with Alvin P. Cartwright. And
when I couldn't even reach Betty Lewis to apologize for okay,
I turned out to bradley Field expense account. I'd have
won one hundred and seventy dollars and forty cents for
a plane ticket to Los Angeles.

Speaker 19 (01:25:25):
Here you are, mister Dollar.

Speaker 17 (01:25:26):
A plane is ready for takeoffs, right, thanks, I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (01:25:29):
Again I couldn't get you on a jet from New York, LA.

Speaker 7 (01:25:31):
He's okay, So now you better hurry your.

Speaker 15 (01:25:34):
Excuse me just a minute, please, Well, hey, let me
have the baggage checking out on this phone, mister Dollar.

Speaker 8 (01:25:40):
Yeah, well, very well, put the party on. Oh what
it calls for you, sir?

Speaker 29 (01:25:43):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:25:44):
Okay, Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 19 (01:25:47):
Calephone Exchange said they could get you for me.

Speaker 7 (01:25:50):
Who's that.

Speaker 17 (01:25:51):
But who answers you?

Speaker 29 (01:25:53):
It's you all Iss, your dearest friendly.

Speaker 8 (01:25:55):
Shot greed shot green Louis, and my sack the great cat.

Speaker 29 (01:25:59):
Bunch of corn.

Speaker 11 (01:26:00):
You're playing, mister dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:26:01):
Oh love, Louis, I can't talk to you now, and
I'm certainly not gonna run over to Paris to see you.
But this is most important, miss Yeah, okay, on my
playing for the West Coast about to leave, I've got
and that starved it for me.

Speaker 29 (01:26:13):
You're oldest, your dear, you do not like me anymore?

Speaker 8 (01:26:16):
Oh sure, Louis. Of course I do it, and you
do not appreciate what. Believe me, I appreciate all the
help you've given me over the years, and you're will sister. Okay, look,
I gotta make a plane, Louis. You've seeing me, missus dollar,
Please you better hurry. Yeah, yeah, But the real stopper

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came to New York when I changed for a plane
to the coast and with barely time to make it. Yeah,
another of my old pals, another one I didn't want
to turn down, Lieutenant Randy Singer of the eighteenth Precincts.
But under the circumstances and with only seconds to spairs.
But Johnny, you've got to handle this when I'm sorry, Randy,
it's not on the West coast in California, which is
exactly where I'm heading. If I make the well, it's good,

(01:27:01):
so let me tell you where to go when you Carndy, Please,
I'll missed the plane semi a wire or something.

Speaker 29 (01:27:06):
H that's your plane right here?

Speaker 17 (01:27:07):
Yes it is.

Speaker 8 (01:27:08):
And maybe i'd better climb a bore. I'm yeah, no,
such sluck. This flight is full of all right here
here's my take.

Speaker 7 (01:27:12):
Floods.

Speaker 29 (01:27:13):
They're good, run a bull things.

Speaker 8 (01:27:14):
Well, I can beat you out there on one of
the gym no space on them either.

Speaker 7 (01:27:17):
I tried it on a bed.

Speaker 29 (01:27:19):
Please, will you get a board? Right?

Speaker 15 (01:27:20):
So long?

Speaker 29 (01:27:21):
Indeed?

Speaker 8 (01:27:22):
Yeah see you, Jenny. Yeah, pretty shabby, I guess. I
mean the way I treated some of the best friends
I had. What would you have done in the circumstances. Well,
during the brief stuff at Chicago, I sent telegrams to
all concerned, telling them I'd call them a minute. I

(01:27:43):
could even a very long wire to Betty Lewis, promising
just about everything short at marriage.

Speaker 12 (01:27:49):
That is.

Speaker 8 (01:27:50):
Then finally, when I pulled into La and started to
pick up my baggage and look for a taxi on
a believe it my old contact from the underworld. Yeah, smoky, yeah,
smoky something.

Speaker 17 (01:28:02):
Yeah, I'll take your bag. I got a car right
over here.

Speaker 8 (01:28:06):
You're expecting me, you.

Speaker 21 (01:28:08):
Yeah, And a kind of poor old Cartwright.

Speaker 8 (01:28:11):
Oh hey, what's happened to him? What's this all about?

Speaker 38 (01:28:14):
Jolly jolly, I hate to say this, yeah, knowing how
much you really care for that old man.

Speaker 21 (01:28:21):
Yeah, and after all the pretty awful cribs I've saw.

Speaker 38 (01:28:25):
Before, I went straight, I come on, smoky, But what
you'll see at Cartwright's place, Oh jolly, You'll never believe that.
Constipation is something people don't talk about much, but it
can be a problem for anyone, even doctors. And when

(01:28:46):
constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors consider
important about a laxative they might use or recommend. Weill
A majority of the doctors we heard from had this
to say.

Speaker 21 (01:28:58):
A laxative should be effected gentle, close to natural acting,
a medicine that can be used with complete confidence.

Speaker 8 (01:29:07):
Now xlax has been popular with many doctors and minions
of people over the years because pleasant tasting, chocolated X
lax is effective overnight. It helps you toward your normal regularity.
X lax is so gentle, so close to natural acting,
there's no upset. That's why many doctors and millions of

(01:29:27):
people use x lax with complete confidence.

Speaker 7 (01:29:31):
X lax the.

Speaker 8 (01:29:32):
Laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight.
Now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar on the
drive end of the Beverly Hills address. So, mister Cartwright,
I try to make smoke yourself and tell me what
it was all about. I had only one answer for me. Oh, Johnny,

(01:29:52):
you'll never believe it. When we finally pull up in
front of the beautiful Houn I'm on North Roxbury Drive,
I jumped out of the car and tore on up
to the front door. All right, come on, come on,
come on, twenty is think you're trying to do break
in this house?

Speaker 32 (01:30:14):
Oh Johnnie, mister Carter Right, Johnny, Johnny, I've been friedening
the denner?

Speaker 8 (01:30:19):
What about, sir?

Speaker 17 (01:30:20):
What about?

Speaker 8 (01:30:20):
I was afraid you wouldn't make it.

Speaker 32 (01:30:22):
That's what it's all about. It and all those bodies
in bodies where in the library, Johnny, Come, I'll show you.

Speaker 8 (01:30:31):
Yeah, I think you'd better oh, over the floor. Just
wait till you see the well here is this the library? Yes? Oh,
dear Johnny, wait wait wait now.

Speaker 7 (01:30:44):
You your guns right now?

Speaker 8 (01:30:46):
Okay?

Speaker 17 (01:30:46):
Now now can I.

Speaker 29 (01:30:51):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:30:52):
Oh, look at all over the floor. Mister Cartwright wasn't kidding.
There were bodies there all right, half a dozen ofhing,
sprawled around in awkward positions, as though some giant hand
had suddenly struck them down. Why and there was no
sign of a struggle matter.

Speaker 17 (01:31:13):
Huh?

Speaker 11 (01:31:14):
What is it, Johnny?

Speaker 8 (01:31:16):
Who I mean, isn't it right a minute? That's Pat,
Pat McCracken.

Speaker 17 (01:31:22):
I know, I know.

Speaker 8 (01:31:23):
George Reed over here.

Speaker 36 (01:31:25):
Well he's still alive.

Speaker 8 (01:31:26):
Shall I call a doctor?

Speaker 18 (01:31:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:31:28):
Or shall I put him out of his misery?

Speaker 17 (01:31:30):
What gun? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:31:32):
Earl Portman over here? Buster favorite and.

Speaker 19 (01:31:35):
Me this chagre my dear, my darling friends.

Speaker 7 (01:31:38):
Are right now? All right, you guys? What is all this?
What goes here?

Speaker 8 (01:31:43):
Johnny?

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
Buster? So help me?

Speaker 17 (01:31:45):
All right now listen?

Speaker 8 (01:31:46):
Uh that's the guy right well, you take that gun
away from Randy.

Speaker 17 (01:31:49):
That's right. I told Jay could get it.

Speaker 21 (01:31:51):
JETI sure we all came out on the same flight, Earli.

Speaker 7 (01:31:55):
How are you, Johnny, surprise are.

Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
You kidding and Harry Branson, let's see you, don so
this is why you wouldn't tell me anything? Smoky yeah,
fool yeah, yeah, but come on, I want some big idea.

Speaker 15 (01:32:11):
Ante Wait a minute, I want you to stop waving
that through the eight around Johnny.

Speaker 29 (01:32:14):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
Oh, I'm sorry, Pat, I'm here, I'll take it. I'll
tell you better, right, I'm sir, right, I'll put a
bang on my pipe.

Speaker 17 (01:32:20):
I have it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
Down.

Speaker 17 (01:32:28):
Oh dear, I'm sorry, yes, yes, you'd better be sorry. Well, Johnny,
it looks like we succeeded in getting you out here. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:32:38):
Well, now look, well, somebody please start to make some
sense and tell me what this is all about. High on, Yes,
why don't you speak.

Speaker 7 (01:32:44):
For all of us?

Speaker 17 (01:32:45):
Yeah, go ahead, all right, I don't mind if I do.

Speaker 8 (01:32:49):
It's really pretty simple, Johnny.

Speaker 15 (01:32:51):
Today Sunday marks the end of five years in your
present series of investigations.

Speaker 29 (01:32:56):
For what.

Speaker 15 (01:32:58):
What we like to think is a really good lineup
of insurance companies.

Speaker 32 (01:33:02):
Yeah, so, happy anniversary, Johnny.

Speaker 15 (01:33:09):
Also, Johnny, it also completes five solid years of the
broadcasting on CBS of these cases.

Speaker 17 (01:33:15):
You have handled mighty well, Johnny, and you've.

Speaker 15 (01:33:18):
Performed a service throughout this country. And I don't get sommed,
not shut up any will you. You've done a great
service of the insurance company's, no question about. Your broadcasting
has helped to expose a lot of crookedness, fraud. That
sort of thing has saved the insurance companies.

Speaker 21 (01:33:34):
A lot of money.

Speaker 15 (01:33:35):
And that means it saved the people, their clients, the
people who listen to your program every week, it saved
them a lot of money too well. And purely incidentally,
these CBS shows of yours have provided a lot of entertainment,
a lot of pleasure to literally millions, in other words, Johnny,
in other words, a lot of people think mighty well
of you, and with very good Oh no, but take

(01:33:58):
it easy, shot up to get all those people together
to say thanks, well, that's that's impossible, obviously.

Speaker 8 (01:34:08):
So I thought we thought that instead of just handing you,
I mean, if we could.

Speaker 15 (01:34:15):
Somehow, fellas I'm doing pretty badly, make your feet well, Johnny.
I went over all your radio reports, I made a
list of the people who've been most involved in your
cases these past five years.

Speaker 17 (01:34:30):
And then when I made the suggestion that mister cart.

Speaker 32 (01:34:33):
Right, that's right, I told Pat that if he didn't
let me give this party to do you honor, honor.

Speaker 8 (01:34:40):
Are you kidding? Oh no, no, no, no, no no no,
all right, Well I have even throw a big fat
brawl for you, just to get her through that.

Speaker 17 (01:34:47):
Scull of orse, just.

Speaker 32 (01:34:50):
To well, just to show you how how much we
love and appreciate you, Johnny, And that's why we're here.

Speaker 17 (01:35:00):
Don't think of a better way to tell you, well
happy Johnny.

Speaker 8 (01:35:06):
Well, look, if you'll look, you guys think I want
to break up over this?

Speaker 7 (01:35:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:35:13):
Yeah, Johnny?

Speaker 8 (01:35:14):
Oh well, Pat, mister conn Wright, Smoky Harry Girl, Louis,
Randy Western, George, well to Johnny Fatty.

Speaker 40 (01:35:27):
Well when you look at that, I glad to see
what day night to.

Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
Let me honest, I don't have you to marry me yet.

Speaker 7 (01:35:42):
Now, somebody break this up before we start crying.

Speaker 17 (01:35:45):
Like.

Speaker 15 (01:35:47):
Let's well, Johnny, we just thought that maybe a gathering
of your friends, your real friends, Johnny, I mean that.

Speaker 22 (01:35:55):
And if there's anything you want, Johnny, this house is
a nice yacht, a couple more cars, anything.

Speaker 8 (01:36:03):
Anything on it, Yes, more than this. Well, look, if
I can somehow hold onto the friendship of people like you,
that's all I ask. Believe me, it's the most that
anybody could ask. Oh, mighty wonderful people, all of them.

(01:36:24):
Some others too, I mean behind the scenes and the
job of bringing you these radio reports week after week.
The associate directors on the show, Kenny Hodge, Bob Shoe,
the announcer Johnny Wall, the mighty wonderful technical crew Bob Chadwick,
Bill James, Tom Henley, and I mean Jack Johnstone, our
producer and director. Who well, he's the guy who makes
the time is up to you. Okay, but give them

(01:36:48):
a lot of credit, huh, because believe me, they deserve it.
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 15 (01:37:05):
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Speaker 8 (01:37:28):
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Speaker 15 (01:37:31):
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The story takes place in the famous historical ghost toown
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price of finding a rich vein of gold a silver back.

Speaker 8 (01:37:54):
In the middle of the late century or even today,
there's goal to be found and sometimes murder. I think
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Speaker 15 (01:38:26):
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(01:38:47):
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Speaker 6 (01:39:15):
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at Classic Radio Dot Stream. We're going to wrap up
this little shorter than usual podcast with an episode of
night Watch.

Speaker 15 (01:39:49):
How many times do you drive along the highway at
a pretty fast cliff and come upon a policeman at
the side of the road riding out a ticket for
some unfortunate traffic law violator. What happens almost automatically, you
slow down to a sensible.

Speaker 8 (01:40:02):
Speed and pay more attention to driving safely.

Speaker 15 (01:40:06):
Nobody likes to get a traffic summons, but it's only
by even stricter law enforcement that we're ever going to
cut down on the shocking and shameful death and accident
rate on our highways. That's why we should all get
behind local and state safety programs and support any measures
that will make driving a pleasure instead of a risk.
A proper safety program includes not only more rigid enforcement

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of traffic laws and stiffer penalties for violating them, but
also better public education on safer, saner driving habits and
the elimination of dangerous stretches of highway. The surest way
to cut down on accidents, though, is for all of
us motorists and pedestrians alike to be more careful and
more sensible about how we drive and walk. Let's all

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work together to save more lives on the road.

Speaker 8 (01:40:53):
It's up to you.

Speaker 6 (01:40:54):
No fifteen minutes show this time around, so we're gonna
get straight tonight. Watch this episode on the main streets
of the Culver City, California, from seventy one years ago,
September twenty fifth, nineteen fifty four.

Speaker 18 (01:41:08):
One Unit five all Unit nine is not on the air.
There is no Code five in that area. Came eighty
nine four.

Speaker 42 (01:41:18):
Fine sixty to one reporting in service starting mile eg
eight two sixty one, eighty two sixty one.

Speaker 20 (01:41:24):
Users Perkins and water Control on at four starting Miley
at eighty two sixty one six oh four am, Unit
five six reporting in service on the night watch.

Speaker 30 (01:41:38):
This is don read a police recorder. You're writing in
the bank seat of Detective Unit five to six, just
reporting in service of the night Watch. They're going to
write with.

Speaker 20 (01:41:47):
Us four one to fine, sect come in.

Speaker 18 (01:41:51):
Fine, thanks, go ahead, four one to fine. Sec Unit
five one is holding a possible burginary suspect at two
nine the Narrow Lincdwood Avenue. That's two nine a Lincolnwood Avenue.
They are requesting any detective here. It meets them that's
in the motel and that vocation wrote taven meet the

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officer and fortune and we'll all right over there.

Speaker 30 (01:42:16):
Well, we'll be on that burglary investigation shortly. But as
I started to say, you're going to write with us tonight,
and remember the people you meet are not actors. What
happens to us happens to you. Because this is it,
this is real. This is night Watch.

Speaker 34 (01:42:39):
Night Watch, the actual on the scene report of your
police force in action. There are no actors, There is
no script. Every voice, every sound is authentic. The investigations
are recorded as they actually occur. Night Watch presented with
the cooperation of the Police Department of Culver City, Pifornia. W. N. Hildebrand,

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Chief And now we switch you to Detective Unit five
six answering a call on a burglary suspect and the
police recorder Don Reid.

Speaker 30 (01:43:18):
Swinging into the auto court where one of our uniform
cars has a burglary suspect and custody. Police car park
drive one of our uniform lossters coming over here. Let's
see what it's all about.

Speaker 18 (01:43:40):
What do you got?

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
Jim, the manager of the motel here caught a fellow
going out the back window with an armful of bedclothes, clothing,
towels and so forth.

Speaker 30 (01:43:49):
It doesn't look too good. It seems that he's registered.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
Here under a phony name for boxes here now and
he's inside with my partner and the manager.

Speaker 30 (01:43:56):
They're holding Okay, let's talk him into the hotel room
at the Fat Sister and he too. I live in
The manager and suspect standing next to the bed in
the middle of the floor, blankets, pillows, sheets, teller.

Speaker 42 (01:44:18):
Just come out there. The dogs start barking.

Speaker 30 (01:44:20):
Stay So, I where where was he? When you said
he's right up in front?

Speaker 43 (01:44:23):
I said, well, where are you going with that?

Speaker 30 (01:44:26):
Should all.

Speaker 7 (01:44:28):
There?

Speaker 30 (01:44:28):
He admitted?

Speaker 4 (01:44:29):
He said, well, I played to the room.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
I wasn't going off about some seven He paid three
dollars in one way with all this death.

Speaker 30 (01:44:35):
Suspect glaring at the manager. He's tall, husky build, unshaven,
officers checking his pockets.

Speaker 11 (01:44:45):
Here's the keen in my favor, I say, Uh, they've
okay what I think three or four blocks?

Speaker 43 (01:44:49):
But what's the uh? What's the name of the place?

Speaker 7 (01:44:52):
Yeah? What did you do?

Speaker 30 (01:44:54):
Or he did?

Speaker 43 (01:44:55):
Do you live by yourself?

Speaker 7 (01:44:56):
Your cross? Yes?

Speaker 41 (01:44:57):
I do.

Speaker 37 (01:45:00):
Did you need betting or something?

Speaker 23 (01:45:01):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (01:45:01):
No, I guess you didn't need better.

Speaker 26 (01:45:03):
What were gonna do with an ash tray?

Speaker 43 (01:45:04):
You had gloss in my own hair?

Speaker 11 (01:45:05):
And two and everybody?

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
Yeah, what were you doing with the betting?

Speaker 7 (01:45:11):
Cause his brother and took go off and I was us.

Speaker 42 (01:45:13):
He said he's saw you on the street.

Speaker 26 (01:45:15):
No, sure, he told me.

Speaker 30 (01:45:16):
That's why that's where I let him on the seat.

Speaker 43 (01:45:18):
You know, he's a great street.

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
Why I'm steeing your trader one my similar trailer?

Speaker 30 (01:45:22):
Yeah, what was your first year?

Speaker 8 (01:45:25):
Any maw?

Speaker 30 (01:45:26):
What come you taken that? You're taking the blankets out
of here? Well, it don't get my ideas, And I'm
trying to sell something.

Speaker 43 (01:45:31):
Nice, man, don't tell me nothing jack coming. I can
get tough to I mean, but I'm not trying to kid.

Speaker 30 (01:45:37):
Oh well, I mean, alright, that's that's the only story
I can say. Okay, I'll call you a lie too.
Have you been arrested?

Speaker 8 (01:45:45):
Are the rest you kind of sold better?

Speaker 7 (01:45:46):
Good?

Speaker 43 (01:45:47):
N sething better? If I would do as all.

Speaker 30 (01:45:53):
Respect the rested for us? So five or two, that's
drunk driving. Mister street s w what did you take
the bet? Didn't pull it off?

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
Would you pay through this room?

Speaker 30 (01:46:02):
Paid three dollars for the room and go to see
thirty five dollars?

Speaker 43 (01:46:05):
Bett?

Speaker 30 (01:46:05):
Get me about funeral thirty five hours of the bet.

Speaker 43 (01:46:08):
We we wanna check job though, well he check me out.
I mean, if you think I'm wrong, okay, we'll most
feature trailer.

Speaker 42 (01:46:14):
When we check it off to the post.

Speaker 7 (01:46:18):
I will go down to it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
He couldn't posture the count and crack story because here
you talking out there with all this good things time
and just cause he'd paid.

Speaker 34 (01:46:24):
Three dollars to cut the price me down there, and
the price is for he cut it down to him.

Speaker 43 (01:46:28):
We tell people, see a good steal, tay three dollars
for the room, I.

Speaker 30 (01:46:33):
Say, cars and down away in the night. We've never
caught him.

Speaker 43 (01:46:35):
We had him to go away with the one buke
going away with two blankets and spread one night.

Speaker 30 (01:46:38):
And we'll go up to the trailer and see what situation. Now,
here's the deal. The radio officers have the suspect and
custody and they're going down to the trailer court. That's
good going on in the curt check out or detective
unit will roll down with him. See if we can
fill in some holes in this case. Trailer court off

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on the left, actually just a couple of hundred yards
from the motel. The uniform car is uh pulling up
in front with a suspect.

Speaker 7 (01:47:25):
That you know you got.

Speaker 30 (01:47:26):
The suspect is pointing out a green trailer on the ride.
And let's go over to the office where the detective station.
Just an observation. It seems strange that the suspector entered
the motel room just three minutes walk from the trailer
where maybe a little bit hard to explain. So well,
here's the office for small bungalow covered with trees.

Speaker 29 (01:47:47):
No I got.

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
Hello, what's the big prime?

Speaker 34 (01:47:54):
The last I'd ask some questions about the sellvision.

Speaker 42 (01:47:56):
The corner trailer of yours?

Speaker 25 (01:47:58):
Which one you mean right here.

Speaker 26 (01:47:59):
In the front?

Speaker 44 (01:48:00):
Uh huh, Well, listen, he just came in there other
night and just moved in there, and even commun he
ain't read or anything yet, and I haven't been able
to catch him. Wasn't there old day to then he'd
come and looked at the trailer, you know, m and
then uh he said that he was gonna come in
a certain time. And I said, well, the man stayed
up until the twentieth of the month. He couldn't come
in until, uh, you know before that. And he said, well,

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I can have it done by the twentieth and I said, yeah,
asked you can have about the twentieth. And then I
was out one the evening and he called here, said he's.

Speaker 7 (01:48:28):
Moved in there.

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
He uh went down here to the hotel next day
here he rented a room and went out the window
with all their baddy.

Speaker 44 (01:48:35):
You pity though, when he comes back, he's not coming
in here.

Speaker 34 (01:48:39):
Then the under I don't have to allow him to
have a daughter.

Speaker 30 (01:48:41):
He's not coming back.

Speaker 44 (01:48:42):
Huh, he said, I don't want him in here at all,
want you.

Speaker 43 (01:48:45):
I'm glad he's goannat out.

Speaker 7 (01:48:46):
Good all right?

Speaker 44 (01:48:47):
You keep him over there there, don't live.

Speaker 42 (01:48:48):
Me come back here.

Speaker 30 (01:48:50):
Good night, good night, good night. And there's another discrepancy
in the suspect story, cause that just seems see just
took over the trailer legally. He doesn't even move here.

Speaker 1 (01:49:03):
Yeah, gone, you wanna uh check out the tatter with us.

Speaker 18 (01:49:05):
We're going in.

Speaker 30 (01:49:06):
Yeah, let's go in and have a look off, Sir Blumenstein,
Sergeant Perkins going in.

Speaker 19 (01:49:18):
Huh.

Speaker 30 (01:49:19):
Here's the picture, empty whiskey bottles on the sink, couple
of dishes, full of cigarette stubs, with some bread, half
a loaf of bread, stale, some lunch meat that's had.
It's a bit over here in the corner. That hasn't

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not a stitch of betting on it, just a bear mattress.

Speaker 7 (01:49:46):
I would have seen enough. Le's go blob me, Paul.

Speaker 42 (01:49:52):
He hasn't got any betting in there at all.

Speaker 7 (01:49:54):
As a matter of.

Speaker 1 (01:49:55):
Fact, as he sneaked in, there isn't pain he rent.

Speaker 30 (01:49:58):
I suggest you take him on down, book him on
suspicion of burgery four five nine.

Speaker 21 (01:50:03):
Uh, there's no, no, not a.

Speaker 18 (01:50:04):
Sitch of betting on his bed.

Speaker 42 (01:50:05):
There none, none anywhere in the trailer.

Speaker 30 (01:50:09):
Or it's open a shutcase out of that.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
Or if you want to stay out here with him
and take him on it, he just might get it,
no trouble.

Speaker 30 (01:50:15):
I think I'd handcuff him on the way up. Oh
kay stand finally get him in the car. Well, that's that.
Suspect is handcuffed, be taken into the station in the
uniform car.

Speaker 29 (01:50:36):
You believe you partner, you kidding?

Speaker 30 (01:50:43):
What good might furnishing your trainer thretty much?

Speaker 45 (01:50:51):
Find A sixty one on the four five nine called
at twenty nine thirty one over a hill boulevard five
one had suspect and his crush team will ten nineteen work.

Speaker 18 (01:51:00):
They're and back in service. Control one to five sixty
ten four player and back on control.

Speaker 20 (01:51:12):
No further information of.

Speaker 18 (01:51:13):
The suspect at this time. If apprehended to hold for
robbery detail LAPD KMA three nine four one AM four
one to five six come in E niney six go ahead,
Control one to five six at one three two nine,
terrabella at one three two nine and terrabella we have

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a report fourteen year old girl locked out of the
house and is hammering on the door.

Speaker 45 (01:51:43):
Has to get in trouble uh ten four Control one.
We're at the west end of ten. I'll take us
about ten minutes.

Speaker 18 (01:51:50):
Control one to five sixty ten four road code.

Speaker 7 (01:51:53):
To ten foot.

Speaker 30 (01:52:06):
We used the red light coming down here, so we
actually made it in about five minutes. There it is
the house off on the right hand side. She wish
somebody to get that door fixed.

Speaker 18 (01:52:22):
Dark.

Speaker 30 (01:52:24):
Appear to be anyone inside. One officer going up the
walk to check the bedroom windows. Lard is a woman
leaning out of the show.

Speaker 34 (01:52:37):
She was coming in front.

Speaker 30 (01:52:38):
Dark coming around at the front. Apparently that's some other
she's locked her daughter on. Huh, let's see what this
is all about.

Speaker 25 (01:52:50):
Where where is she?

Speaker 30 (01:52:51):
Well, well, we heard that she was sitting on the
steps here. Here she is their up in curlers, bathrobe
pulled up around her throat.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
The information we had was that she uh wasn't permitted
in she came home late.

Speaker 26 (01:53:04):
Yeah, but I where is Where did she go tonight?

Speaker 18 (01:53:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 30 (01:53:08):
She wasn't to know any place.

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
And by the time I looked at out, you of
a bout and I thought that, my silver buck, she
would be home. Did you tell her she was gonna
be locked out? She didn't get in her night?

Speaker 42 (01:53:20):
See she comes in wait after twelve.

Speaker 28 (01:53:23):
I said she'd be locked out, But however she would
knocking the door.

Speaker 42 (01:53:28):
I would open it for her.

Speaker 30 (01:53:31):
You don't know where she went or when she was
with to night?

Speaker 8 (01:53:33):
No, I did.

Speaker 42 (01:53:34):
Are you'd all worried about your daughter? Yeah, I'm how
old is she?

Speaker 43 (01:53:38):
She's gonna be sixteen?

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
She's fourteen now, yep, she normally stay out this late
at night.

Speaker 42 (01:53:44):
No, she's not permitted, but she does it all the time.

Speaker 7 (01:53:47):
She does it all the time.

Speaker 42 (01:53:50):
I had no way of punishing at for that.

Speaker 30 (01:53:53):
Just don't know what to do about it.

Speaker 42 (01:53:56):
And I took to buy something that.

Speaker 30 (01:54:00):
At some lands.

Speaker 42 (01:54:01):
She's not in the house now, no loose noose? Do
you wanna check her bedroom?

Speaker 7 (01:54:09):
We'll wait for you.

Speaker 30 (01:54:11):
The mother going into the house.

Speaker 1 (01:54:14):
I wonder why kids get into trouble.

Speaker 30 (01:54:17):
Walking out of the shadows under the street light. Young girl, bareheaded,
no coat on? Must be the young girl in question? Wow,
so lest the fell?

Speaker 7 (01:54:30):
Yeah, knocked on the door.

Speaker 37 (01:54:32):
I knocked on the door, by h I came back
her twice, and I tried all the doors, and I
knocked my head off?

Speaker 30 (01:54:36):
And do you think that'd let me in?

Speaker 37 (01:54:37):
So I just didn't walk around. I knew you were
down here.

Speaker 43 (01:54:40):
You're year?

Speaker 30 (01:54:40):
How old?

Speaker 28 (01:54:41):
Fourteenth?

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
What time did you get here?

Speaker 37 (01:54:43):
Five quarter after twelve, But I was at work till land.

Speaker 1 (01:54:46):
You're at work?

Speaker 18 (01:54:46):
Where do you wan?

Speaker 26 (01:54:47):
I worked down here?

Speaker 37 (01:54:48):
Yeah, down this, the little westside down here, So I
worked there from about eight.

Speaker 28 (01:54:53):
I guess since I left the house till twelve. You
can check that with my boss.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
What are you doing working until twelve o'clock?

Speaker 30 (01:55:00):
I don't know that was were you?

Speaker 20 (01:55:03):
I wouldn't fall at night?

Speaker 26 (01:55:04):
No, Why.

Speaker 30 (01:55:07):
What time did you leave the house?

Speaker 37 (01:55:08):
I'd like to care about o, cause I don't know.
Tis about seven and thirty.

Speaker 30 (01:55:11):
Did your mother know where you were going?

Speaker 17 (01:55:13):
No?

Speaker 30 (01:55:13):
Does she know you worked on her?

Speaker 11 (01:55:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:55:15):
She knows I worked on there.

Speaker 30 (01:55:16):
Didn't you tell her where you're going?

Speaker 17 (01:55:17):
No?

Speaker 37 (01:55:17):
Cause I was mad, and I figure she always closed
up there anyway, so I figured she called, but she didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:55:22):
We're just about ready to rest out every neighborhood place around,
everybody that you know, trying to find out where you are.

Speaker 28 (01:55:27):
Well, I don't know what I was suposed to do
when I can't get in the house and.

Speaker 1 (01:55:31):
You're not supposed to be out this time of night anyway.

Speaker 28 (01:55:33):
Well, I couldn't get in, so I thought.

Speaker 1 (01:55:34):
Was supposed to be out at twelve o'clock at night.

Speaker 44 (01:55:37):
My egs.

Speaker 1 (01:55:37):
You're not supposed to work, and I permitted to work
until ast I mean up until ten o'clock. Wh wnt
it after ten?

Speaker 30 (01:55:44):
You have this trouble all the time.

Speaker 37 (01:55:46):
No, the propridelynd to out of a house. I an't
know I was gonna get locked out.

Speaker 28 (01:55:50):
I mean usually you know.

Speaker 37 (01:55:51):
I mean if she if she went as to where
I was going, I woulda told her.

Speaker 1 (01:55:54):
But I mean I figured she knew.

Speaker 37 (01:55:55):
She knew that I wouldn't take off any place with nobody,
and I think she figured i'd be down.

Speaker 35 (01:55:58):
There if I was any place she didn't home.

Speaker 7 (01:56:01):
Well, I like that.

Speaker 30 (01:56:05):
And your responsibility is that you'vena wants to tell your
parents where you're going. Their responsibility is to see that
you go at the right place.

Speaker 1 (01:56:10):
You see what time it is you were flock you're two.

Speaker 30 (01:56:14):
P Oh, yeah, I'd like to go home.

Speaker 28 (01:56:16):
We too, So that mean time I get home for
a long time.

Speaker 30 (01:56:19):
Now, talk to your mont her cool mother's out here
on the street. Let's go over with the daughter. Sergeant Perkins,
see you putting the street in this thing out. But
she was down work it.

Speaker 28 (01:56:40):
She wasn't working a fourteen year old girl. She split
at seven o'clock, she was at working. You wasn't working after.

Speaker 37 (01:56:52):
You was, so I wasn't working at them now I wasn't. No,
I've been working. I've you work a lit twelve, but
I knew I had to go to work.

Speaker 28 (01:56:59):
I told you, yeah, you have to go to work,
and you uns going to go to work, and you
had no attention of going. Do you think I was
a work?

Speaker 17 (01:57:06):
No?

Speaker 26 (01:57:06):
You win the well?

Speaker 37 (01:57:07):
Would you like to going up in the morning and
find out if I was at work? And when you
ask him what time I left there?

Speaker 18 (01:57:11):
I told you when I.

Speaker 37 (01:57:12):
Got home that I had to go back to work
at seven.

Speaker 28 (01:57:14):
Thirty thet I was older ages.

Speaker 1 (01:57:17):
Look, first place, you're not supposed to work after ten o'clock.
Second place, when you go out at night, you're supposed
to tell your parents where you're going, and they are
responsible for what you do.

Speaker 28 (01:57:31):
Well, what do you do with the juvenile that doesn't
listen to you?

Speaker 21 (01:57:33):
To the You hold one.

Speaker 28 (01:57:35):
Door and she runs up with the other door. She
gives me a shovel way your shoes when I resheve you.
What do you do with the juvenile like that?

Speaker 7 (01:57:42):
When I love fluck?

Speaker 1 (01:57:44):
You got a family, You got a daughter. She's intelligent, intelligent,
something that you can work out.

Speaker 7 (01:57:53):
I know.

Speaker 18 (01:57:53):
I've been signed God Max s.

Speaker 30 (01:57:55):
It's a mutual deal.

Speaker 1 (01:57:57):
It's a give and take on both parts.

Speaker 30 (01:58:00):
I've given too much.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
Well, I I won't say whether you have or not,
because I don't know. I don't think any parent can
give too much.

Speaker 30 (01:58:08):
On that basis.

Speaker 1 (01:58:11):
You're naturally you have a right to know where your
daughter's going, who she's with, what times she's going to
be home, and you have the right to set the
hours that she should be home.

Speaker 28 (01:58:21):
Yeah, but what do you do? She can't do that.
I mean, isn't there any other solution.

Speaker 21 (01:58:25):
I can't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:25):
There's only they can two solutions that we can do,
and that is either the parents properly supervised the children,
or the state supervisory means when the child is placed
in the home. I think that is something we don't
want to do with you. I think you've got enough
that you don't want to because she does.

Speaker 37 (01:58:42):
To me, I'm in trelib the way I've been treated.

Speaker 28 (01:58:45):
Okay, you've been treated a fourteen year old guilty run
around with with somebody. I don't know why. She once
came home three o'clock in the morning. In the morning
New year'sy. She came home a quarter to five, explaining
you why that way rights all by?

Speaker 18 (01:59:01):
Does all this?

Speaker 28 (01:59:02):
Why a New Year's Eve a quarter to five?

Speaker 37 (01:59:06):
So you came home why everybody and I you know,
and I go to pieces waiting up for you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:11):
You weren't expecting me home late after two o'clock cause
people neighbors are trying to sleep. We don't wanna have
a scene out here in the middle of the street.
You've got a problem, We'll be very happy to try
to help you with that.

Speaker 7 (01:59:23):
You know that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
However, until you're eighteen years of age, there are certain
rules and regulations you have to abide by it. One
of them is curfews. One of them is the state
labor law. One you can work, and when you can't,
how many hours you can work?

Speaker 30 (01:59:38):
Just them in a place.

Speaker 1 (01:59:39):
Yeah, you've got to abide by your parents wishes and
desires as long as they are reasonable.

Speaker 7 (01:59:46):
Just let me finish.

Speaker 1 (01:59:48):
There are certain things that you can do. You can
tell your parents where you're going, who you're with, away,
the time you're gonna be back.

Speaker 19 (01:59:54):
Now, always do that too.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
E wish you won't even hunt me, and then sh
she didn't knows where I'm at? Can I talk to
him in a place yes?

Speaker 30 (02:00:03):
Taking the words out I'd have a problem with now.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
And the home is a place where that she should
enjoy staying.

Speaker 28 (02:00:10):
What can I do?

Speaker 13 (02:00:11):
She just loves to love.

Speaker 28 (02:00:13):
She wasn't alone.

Speaker 30 (02:00:14):
She was good at the boy. How do you know
did you talk to the boy?

Speaker 19 (02:00:18):
No?

Speaker 30 (02:00:18):
Well, I mean you're just assuming that she was with
the boy. You don't know whether she was working or not?

Speaker 1 (02:00:21):
Actually not right, she was as good I do you know?

Speaker 42 (02:00:24):
I don't know, but she was.

Speaker 1 (02:00:26):
She was she only supposed to. What I'm trying to
point out is that you're telling her she isn't working.

Speaker 18 (02:00:30):
Maybe she was.

Speaker 28 (02:00:32):
Well, why didn't she tell me where she was?

Speaker 1 (02:00:34):
She just told you now and you said she wasn't working.

Speaker 28 (02:00:36):
I don't know how d I don't know how through
it is.

Speaker 1 (02:00:38):
I have to check that she probably no.

Speaker 30 (02:00:40):
But why don't you do this?

Speaker 1 (02:00:41):
Why don't you assume that she's telling the truth until
you prove that it's a falsehood, rather than assuming you're false.

Speaker 28 (02:00:46):
Even though she wasn't work until a cause, no way,
a way.

Speaker 30 (02:00:48):
She she might have been working until twelve o'clock.

Speaker 1 (02:00:50):
You don't know til we can find out.

Speaker 30 (02:00:53):
Let's assume that she was. Let's give her the back.

Speaker 28 (02:00:55):
He wasn't cou say she wasn't supposed to be working.

Speaker 1 (02:00:58):
Well, uh, I'm I'm not gonna stand here and argue,
but I'm just trying to tell you that you don't
know whether she was working or not. So you're calling
the child the liar, which is the worst thing in
the world to do. You don't know whether the girl's
lying or not. How can she want to tell you
the truth if you don't believe her. That's it too.
But uh, still you think that she was You have
the basoness.

Speaker 28 (02:01:18):
I mean, I I know that isn't the first time.

Speaker 30 (02:01:21):
I can tell you one thing.

Speaker 1 (02:01:22):
I can see why there's a problem in this household.
I can tell you one thing right off the back.
One of the biggest problems that you've got is the
fact that that girl doesn't believe that you've believe anything
she tells you.

Speaker 34 (02:01:31):
M No, that's the truth.

Speaker 28 (02:01:32):
Okay, she's lying all the time.

Speaker 1 (02:01:35):
Well you assume that she's lying right now. You don't
know whether she's lying or not.

Speaker 28 (02:01:39):
Well, it is it, some part of it is alive
because she did not back up to lie.

Speaker 30 (02:01:44):
She was with the boy up to run.

Speaker 1 (02:01:45):
She was Let's go call a boy and find out,
but he wouldn't tell you. You'll tell me.

Speaker 30 (02:01:50):
Let's go get him on the phone. Let's uh head
up the walk.

Speaker 29 (02:01:53):
I haven't.

Speaker 30 (02:01:53):
Sergeant Perkins is taking down the phone number of the
boy in question. Remember here also the place where the
daughter claims she was working in the kitchen, the phone
on a long cord on the breakfast table. Hello, miss

(02:02:19):
is Sergeant Persons a Cuver city belief.

Speaker 34 (02:02:25):
You are listening to night Watch and following the activities
of a detective unit on its tour of duty. Remember
the people and sounds you are hearing are real, and
the investigations are recorded in the field as they actually occur.
We'll bring you the final results of tonight's action at
the conclusion of night Watch. The most conscientious parent can't

(02:02:48):
help breathing a sigh of relief during school hours to
know the kids are off the streets, out of harm's
way and learning something. But between overcrowding and understaffing, our
children are getting short operations in their educations. Join your
local groups fighting for better schools and now we switch
you back to detective Unit five or six somewhere in

(02:03:11):
the field and to police Recorder Don Reid, who is
standing by during an investigation by Sergeant Ron Perkins.

Speaker 42 (02:03:23):
Police Department. Did you say, did or did not see
her tonight? She told you she had to work till
twelve o'clock. Oh okay, fine, thanks very much, Sorry about
it is the late.

Speaker 1 (02:03:37):
There's your answer.

Speaker 42 (02:03:38):
Daughter's telling the truth.

Speaker 30 (02:03:40):
The mother just staring at us, shrugging your shoulders, not
saying a word hard.

Speaker 42 (02:03:47):
Suggest you, uh, come on down to Junior VIAU will
make an appointment for next Wednesday night.

Speaker 1 (02:03:53):
Think you and your daughter had a problem here.

Speaker 7 (02:03:55):
We've got a problem.

Speaker 30 (02:03:56):
We'd like to get it worked out.

Speaker 7 (02:03:57):
We don't.

Speaker 29 (02:03:58):
You're gonna have arguments.

Speaker 30 (02:03:59):
She's gonna run away right right now.

Speaker 42 (02:04:01):
We're gonna go out and talk to your daughter.

Speaker 30 (02:04:03):
Good night, and conversations certainly stopped in a hurry. Kay,
Let's get back to the track. The daughter sitting in
the front seat of the police car. Let's win this
thing up.

Speaker 1 (02:04:23):
Would save a lot of trouble and a lot of
grief and worry if you would tell your mother where
you're going, who you're going with, and what time you're
coming home.

Speaker 37 (02:04:32):
I always do most of the time, except when you
don't want.

Speaker 19 (02:04:35):
To talk to me.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
You know that young ladies under the age of eighteen
and not supposed to be out after ten o'clock at night.
And do you know that if it continues, that we're
gonna have to come down and take you and place
you in juvenile hall where you will work and go
to school, get up at six o'clock in the morning
and do the dishes and scrub the floors and then
get a little play. And you've got a big tall
wall around you that you can't get out here. At

(02:04:58):
least you can get out once in a while. Well,
the discipline here at your home is certainly not anything
what's gonna be like in juvenil hall.

Speaker 8 (02:05:06):
You know that, don't you?

Speaker 19 (02:05:07):
Hu?

Speaker 1 (02:05:10):
And I think when you put out half of an effort,
I do, I honestly do. I've asked your mother and
I want you to come down to give more hearings
Wednesday night. Meantime, I don't want you to get any
ideas about running away.

Speaker 19 (02:05:24):
Oh I'm not gonna run away.

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
If you run away, run away to the police station.
You says, there's a lot of trouble, and your mother
says she's gonna come down the hearings next Wednesdays. I
gotta do one.

Speaker 17 (02:05:33):
You do it?

Speaker 1 (02:05:33):
I ain't know what well I'll look blood?

Speaker 30 (02:05:36):
Did you take that at it?

Speaker 7 (02:05:37):
Due?

Speaker 19 (02:05:37):
It won't do any good?

Speaker 30 (02:05:38):
Now, I don't take that.

Speaker 19 (02:05:39):
I do it all the time.

Speaker 37 (02:05:39):
To do, I'd tie everything.

Speaker 1 (02:05:41):
You haven't tried listening to me yet?

Speaker 7 (02:05:42):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (02:05:44):
Why don't you try listening to me as I wasn't
anybody who?

Speaker 30 (02:05:48):
Kay?

Speaker 1 (02:05:49):
Meantime, do what your mother tells you to do and
put up with it the best you can.

Speaker 30 (02:05:54):
Just think four more years you'll go out on your own.

Speaker 37 (02:05:56):
Three more, alright, all the more fifteen the end of
the monthing.

Speaker 1 (02:05:59):
Alright, but you got three more years, so right, Yeah,
I don't know that happens.

Speaker 37 (02:06:04):
No, Well, they can't get kicked out house anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:06:06):
So I'll think of experience again. So when you have
kids of your own way, you can bring them up differently.

Speaker 8 (02:06:10):
He came, right, I will, okay, So can I can? I?

Speaker 19 (02:06:26):
Uh?

Speaker 45 (02:06:27):
Fire sixty one player on the two fourteen investigation and
end of Watch.

Speaker 18 (02:06:32):
Control one to fire six and four care on two fourteen,
two sixteen am km E three ninety four Unit fired
six into the station and end of night Watch.

Speaker 34 (02:06:49):
What you have just heard is real recorded as it
actually happened on the night Watch, and now we switch
you back to police headquarters and Chief w oh N Hildebrand.

Speaker 43 (02:07:03):
Tonight's first burglary case resulted in the arrest of the
suspect when the follow up investigation revealed he had simply
paid three dollars for a motel room and then walked
off with approximately forty dollars.

Speaker 11 (02:07:15):
Worth of betting.

Speaker 43 (02:07:17):
The charge was later reduced to penal code violation for
at eighth petty theft, the maximum penalty of which is
six months in the cottage ail. In the other case tonight,
in which a young girl was locked out of the house,
both the mother and daughter were cited into juvenile hearing,
where a corrective program was worked out to prevent any

(02:07:38):
future reoccurrence.

Speaker 7 (02:07:41):
Each week, as.

Speaker 43 (02:07:42):
You follow Detective Unit five six, you'll note the events
run the gamut from homicide to advising juveniles. We hope
this will provide you with an insight of the work
being done by your local law enforcement officers. Night Watch
is pine nearing a new era of radio. Just like

(02:08:03):
the Public Relations Bureau of your police department is clearing
the way for a new understanding with the citizen. We
are trying to combine the two so that the American
public can understand firsthand the real problems facing your police
officer today. To succeed in this cause is the meaning

(02:08:23):
of night Watch.

Speaker 34 (02:08:25):
Thank you, Chief Hildebrand. You have been following the unlos
seen reports of your police force in action. Every voice,
every sound has been real. Night Watch, brought to you
through the cooperation of the Police Department of Culver City, California,
is produced by Sterling Tracy and Jim Headlock, with technical
advice by Sergeant Ron Perkins, and is described in the

(02:08:48):
field by police Recorder Don Reid.

Speaker 6 (02:08:51):
And even though night Watch was only around about a year,
twenty years later you would have to show cops come
around on Fox based on just what you heard here
seventy one years ago. September twenty fifth, nineteen fifty four.
Night Watch here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyattcox. Join
us tomorrow for the Lux Radio Theater, the Lomon Abner

(02:09:13):
Previews show You Bet Your Life and Fiber McGee and Mully.
That's all coming up on our Friday program. Have yourself
a great day, and we'll talk to you tomorrow. For
more classic radio theater, I'm Wyatcox.

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