Classic Radio 10-05-25 - Operation Music Box, Big 38, and Bulletin Murder Case - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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As my classic radio Theater, The.

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It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
Good evening, friend, Savionna Danton.

Speaker 7 (00:38):
Crime on this Sunday, episodes of the Lives of Harry
Limes starring Orson Wells, Jack Webb, and Dragnet in the
Big thirty eight five Old Vance starring Jackson Beck. And
we'll also have Friendsier Gentleman starring John Dayner. And we'll
check in with Loman Amner and see what's going on there.
That's all coming up on this Sunday. This is the

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fifth day of our October two hundred seventy eighth day
of the year, eighty seven days remaining. Wilbur Wright piloted
the Right Fire three on this date in nineteen oh five,
and a flight of twenty four miles in thirty nine minutes.
That was a world record that would stand until nineteen
oh eight, three years It was on this date. In

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nineteen forty five a six month strike by Hollywood Setnick
raiders turned into a bloody riot at the gates of
Warner Brothers Studios. The first televised White House address given
by President Truman on this date in nineteen forty seven.
In that address, Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating
meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile

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grain for the starving people in Europe. Yes nineteen forty seven,
Europe was still recovering for World War II. In nineteen
fifty three, on this state, Earl Warrent sworn in as
the fourteenth Chief Justice of the US and premiering on
this day Dame nineteen fifty six the Dinas Shore Chevy Show.

Speaker 8 (02:04):
See the u USSA in your chef roll America is
asking you to call drive your chef Rolly through the USSA.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
America is the greatest land of all.

Speaker 8 (02:18):
On a highway or a road along a levee, perform
it's a sweeter, nothing compet Life is completed in a Chevy.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
So make a date to day to see the USA
and see it in your.

Speaker 9 (02:32):
Chef ro.

Speaker 10 (02:34):
Travel erdies traveling west.

Speaker 9 (02:37):
Wherever you go, Chevy services best southward or north near
blazer By. There it's a Chevrollet D for Chevrolake.

Speaker 8 (02:46):
So make a date to day to see the USSA
and see it in your show.

Speaker 11 (02:56):
Now.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
The show would last until May of nineteen sixty three,
was not a weekly show, ran irregularly. The Beatles released
their first single, Love Me Do in Britain on this
state in nineteen sixty two. It would still be some
time several months before the Beatles would even become known
in America. The first broadcast on this date in nineteen

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sixty nine of Monty Pythons. But I in so, I guess.

Speaker 12 (03:29):
Is this the rogun for an argument? I've told you once?
There you have?

Speaker 13 (03:34):
Is I have? Well?

Speaker 14 (03:36):
Just now, No you didn't, Yes I did.

Speaker 9 (03:38):
Didn't I didn't tell you you did not.

Speaker 12 (03:41):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 15 (03:41):
Is this a five minute argument of the full HORSEA?

Speaker 16 (03:44):
Oh oh, just a five minute.

Speaker 12 (03:50):
Thank you? Anyway?

Speaker 16 (03:51):
I did you must certainly did not.

Speaker 17 (03:53):
Let's get one thing quite.

Speaker 12 (03:55):
I must definitely told you you did not. Yes I did,
you did not? Yes I didn't, Yes I didn't. No,
this isn't an argument. Yes it is. No, it isn't.

Speaker 9 (04:03):
It's just contradiction.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
No it isn't, Yes it is it is not.

Speaker 14 (04:06):
It is you just contradicted me.

Speaker 9 (04:08):
Oh you did no, no, no, no, no, no you
did just.

Speaker 18 (04:11):
No no nonsense.

Speaker 19 (04:12):
Oh look this is futile.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
No it isn't.

Speaker 19 (04:14):
Game here for a good argument.

Speaker 20 (04:16):
You did.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Argument one.

Speaker 12 (04:17):
Argument is not the same as contradiction can be.

Speaker 21 (04:20):
No, it can't arguments and elected series of statements to
establish a definite proposition.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
No, it isn't, is it is?

Speaker 12 (04:26):
It isn't just contradiction.

Speaker 22 (04:27):
Look, if I argue with you, I must take up
a country position.

Speaker 9 (04:31):
But it isn't.

Speaker 12 (04:31):
Just say no it isn't, Yes it is, No, it isn't.

Speaker 9 (04:35):
Arguments an intellectual process.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
Contradiction is just the automatic gain saying of anything the
other person.

Speaker 12 (04:40):
Says, No, it isn't, yes it is no.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
Look, thank you John Clees and Graham Chapman in the
argument Clinic. And who could forget that sketch about your
favorite tanned meat product spam, eggs, sausage.

Speaker 23 (04:55):
And spam.

Speaker 24 (04:56):
That's not got much spam in it.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I don't want any.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Forty five episodes of the program aired over four series
from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy four, and the
franchise still goes on today. Amazingly, I honestly love you
first reach number one of the Billboard charts on this
date in nineteen seventy four, giving Olivia Newton John her

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first top selling single in the US. In nineteen eighty three,
the leader of Poland's Solidarity labor movement, like Wallensa, was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Committee chairman Eagle. Excuse me,
let's try this again. Egel Arvik made the announcement.

Speaker 25 (05:42):
The Committee has taken into account Vallesa's contribution made with
considerable personal sacrifice.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Wleska spent some time in prison for his activities. He
became Poland's president after the fall of communism. In the
vice presidential debates of nineteen eighty eight, Republican vice presidential
nominee Dan Quayle, who had been comparing himself to President
Kennedy in stump speeches, said during the debate he had

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as much experience as in Congress as JFK did when
he sought the presidency. It was the moment Senator Lloyd
Benson had been waiting.

Speaker 26 (06:20):
For, I serve with Jack Kennedy.

Speaker 27 (06:22):
I knew Jack Kennedy.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.

Speaker 26 (06:28):
Senator, You're know Jack Kennedy.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
Now the line was not as offhanded as it appeared.
In fact, the line had been practiced in the mock
Debate three days earlier, premiering on the WB Network, the
sequel to the Buffy the Vampire Slayers show Angel. In
nineteen ninety nine, mass demonstrations in Belgrade led to the

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resignation of Serbian strongman Sloba down Melosovic on this day.
In two thousand, demonstrations often called the Bulldozer Revolution, Robert
Stevens became the first victim in the two thousand and
one anthrax attacks on this date, and also in two
thousand and one, Tom Ridge resigned as governor of Pennsylvania
to become President Mush's Homeland Security advisor, dividing the White House.

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A Senate voted on this date in two thousand and
five by a ninety to nine margin to approve an
amendment that would prohibit the use of cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment against anyone in US government custody.
In twenty ten, fis Al Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who
tried to detonate a carbomb in Times Score, sentenced to

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life in prison by a federal judge in New York,
and it was on this date. In twenty seventeen, the
New York Times published a story revealing multiple allegations of
sexual harassment against film mogul Harvey Weinstein. It was the
first time these allegations, which spanned decks aids, had been
brought to light.

Speaker 28 (08:02):
Who protected Harvey Weinstein?

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Who protected the women?

Speaker 24 (08:05):
Did the women feel they could speak up?

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Did they feel that anybody would believe them?

Speaker 7 (08:09):
Did they fear that this would hurt their careers? Times
column this Jody Cantor. The revelation shook the Hollywood scene,
leading to the hash me too movement passing away On
this date in history, singer songwriter Eddie Kendricks, pro wrestler
Brian Pillman, the very funny Rodney Dansherfield, and the co
founder of Apple and Pixar Steve Jobs. Birthdays on this

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date include the wonderful Bill Dana.

Speaker 29 (08:37):
You've been selected to be the first man shot to Mars.
Would you like to talk about that trip?

Speaker 28 (08:42):
Not really?

Speaker 29 (08:44):
Well, go ahead, that's going to be a long trip,
of course, out of space, all those spendy days long.

Speaker 30 (08:49):
How what do you plan to do to entertain yourself?

Speaker 20 (08:54):
Plan to cry a lot.

Speaker 12 (08:57):
At the start.

Speaker 30 (08:57):
Nils, No, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 29 (08:59):
Now tell me, Jose, when you return to Mars, where
would you be landing.

Speaker 31 (09:04):
I am going to be landing in Nevada, Ah, the
state of Nevada.

Speaker 20 (09:09):
The state of Nevada.

Speaker 29 (09:10):
Well, then you obviously are convinced that they're going to
get you back to Earth.

Speaker 30 (09:13):
I am campaigned that they will get me about the world.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Just how far into it?

Speaker 9 (09:22):
That's what I'm not campaying.

Speaker 29 (09:25):
But Jose, surely they must have provided something to break
your fall.

Speaker 14 (09:29):
Oh yes, the state of.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
Nevada with Ed Sullivan on the Ed Sullivan Show. You
couldn't do that today. A Hungarian Jew portraying a Bolivian
character is what they called it. Jose Jimenez. He passed
away in twenty seventeen at the age of ninety two,

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very very funny man. Twenty first president of the US
born on this date. See if you can remember who
that is. As I tell you the other folks born
on the date. Rocket scientist Robert Goddard, the Goddard Space
Flight Center. The fine classical actor Larry Fine. You remember
Larry as a part of that eclastic ee classic eclectic group,

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the Three Stooges, fast food entrepreneur Ray Krock born on
this date. Missus Miller born on this date in history,
the singer. This is also the birthdate of Alan Ludden,
who is very, very happy to be reunited with his wife,
the lovely Betty White. That's got to be a delight

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family circus cartoonist Bill Keene born on this date.

Speaker 23 (10:44):
She was the.

Speaker 7 (10:45):
Oldest living Academy Award nominee before she passed last year
at the age of one hundred. Glennis Johns she was
one hundred years old when she passed last year. Also B. W. Stevenson,
My Maria, actor, Jeff Conaway, Bernie Mack and, as I mentioned,
the twenty first President of the United States. Yes, the

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relevant and exciting Chester A. Arthur born on this date
in history. They have all left the building. Shall we
say hi?

Speaker 9 (11:19):
This is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 32 (11:20):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 22 (11:22):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 7 (11:26):
From Animal House and Raiders of the Lost art Karen
Allen seventy four today from the Boomtown Rats Live Aid
organizer Bob Geldolf is seventy four from Hell Raiser and
candyman Clive Barker, the author, is seventy three years old today.
Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson sixty seven. The third youngest

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of the Baldwin brothers, Daniel Baldwin is sixty five. Also,
Josie Bissett from Melrose Place is fifty five. She played
Rose in ty Tan. Kate Winslett is fifty.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Did you understand the.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Water is freezing?

Speaker 33 (12:04):
And then not have the omer?

Speaker 19 (12:07):
Sheip?

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Good to die?

Speaker 7 (12:08):
Kate Winslett fifty years old today. You know her most
recently from Er, but I remember some of her earliest
work in a motion picture called Bend It. Like Beckham,
par Mender Nagra is fifty today.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Didn't ask to be good at football anyway.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
There was a scout from America there today and he's
offered me a place at a top university.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
She was almost thirty years old when she did that,
part of a youngster that that excelled in sport. But
the problem was that her parents were not a fan
of young girls playing sport, especially with boys. But it
worked great movie Bend It, like Beckham Parminder nagra Ate

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her latest work. She's been working even though she still
theoretically lives in the US according to this, but she
starred in the titular character of a series d I
Ray where she is a detective inspector in a police force.

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So there's that. But yeah, I'm glad to see that
she is still with us. I'm doing well. Fifty years old.
I'm feeling really old right now. Also turning forty two
is Jesse Eisenberg from the adventureland zombie Land and the
social network Jesse Eisenberg forty two. Those just a few
of the people celebrating the fifth day of October as

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their birthday. If this is your birthday, Happy day too,
Happy Day two.

Speaker 14 (14:08):
Too.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
Well, here's some missus Miller on her birthday. Why not?
All right, Classic radio Theater. We'll get underway here as
we are going to check out Orson Wells in the
Harry Allen Towers series Towers of London, The Lives of
Hairy Live, the prequel to the Third Man motion picture.

Speaker 30 (14:35):
That's next, Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 10 (14:45):
The chief hope of our enemies is to divide the
United States along racial and religious lines, and thereby conguerus.
Let's not spread prejudice. A divided America is a week America.
Through our behavior, we encourage the re inspect of our
children and make them better neighbors to all races and religions.
Remind them that being good neighbors has helped make our

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country great and kept her free.

Speaker 34 (15:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (15:11):
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coox now Orson Wells in
the Lives of Harry Lyme, The Third Man, prequel of
seventy four years ago October fifth, nineteen fifty one, Operation Music.

Speaker 22 (15:24):
Box presenting Orson Wells as The Third Man. Lives of

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Harry Lyme, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
created in the motion picture The Third Man with so
Other music by Anton Carris.

Speaker 35 (16:16):
That was the shot that killed Harry Lyme. He died
in a sewer beneath Vienna. As those of you know
who saw the movie The Third Man. Yes, that was
the end of Harry Lyme, but it was not the beginning. Now,
he had many lives. I can tell you about all

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of them, how because my name is Harry Lyme. Now
kid is London, which is the capital of England, is
noted for a number of curious historical events. King Charles

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was beheaded in London. They had a fire there and
a plague. And it is also the place where Harry
Lyme broke three music boxes and found it an orphan asylum.
Please don't ever say I'm not a music lover and
a philanthropist, because I'm not.

Speaker 22 (18:00):
M and now orson Wells as Harry Lyme, the third
man in today's story, Operation Music Box.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Good afternoon, mister Dowdley. I'm interested in.

Speaker 14 (18:21):
A music but no, madam, we haven't number.

Speaker 18 (18:23):
I'll go and get them just a moment, though, mister Dowdley,
I'm only interested.

Speaker 14 (18:29):
He didn't hear you. I think he must be a
little deaf. Yessir, you know you make me homesick?

Speaker 36 (18:35):
What do you mean?

Speaker 14 (18:36):
Don't you know what it is to be homesick? You
should do.

Speaker 18 (18:39):
I've only been away a few weeks nights, certainly like
to be back. But why do I make you homesick?

Speaker 35 (18:44):
You make me think of Central Park, in the fountain
by the Plaza, Fifth Avenue in the morning in May,
and the sound of roller skating on the sidewalk downtown
who would have shipping on the East River?

Speaker 14 (18:55):
Everything?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
In fact, how do you know I come from New York?

Speaker 9 (18:59):
It just yes, your cheek.

Speaker 14 (19:01):
Mister Line, Oh, thank you sir. Mister Anne Twistle, here
we are, madam.

Speaker 15 (19:06):
These are all music boxes we have. These two are
seventeenth century and this one eighteenth century. This one works.
That's a delightful tune, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I should have explained, mister Dudley.

Speaker 18 (19:27):
I don't care if the music boxes were made in
the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I don't care when they were made. What I want
to know is when did you buy them them?

Speaker 15 (19:35):
Sure, did the value of a music box lies and
when it was made, not when it was born?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Not to me, mister Dudley.

Speaker 18 (19:41):
I'm only interested to know whether you purchased any music
boxes between February and June of last year.

Speaker 37 (19:46):
We're here to sell antiques, Miss Jepick, Miss Chepick, not
to disclose records of our purchases.

Speaker 35 (19:52):
If you'll excuse me, budding in, I guess what this
lady's trying to say is that she's ready to buy
any music boxes you have to purchase during that period.

Speaker 18 (20:00):
I'm not trying to say anything. I'm quite capable of
making myself understood.

Speaker 12 (20:03):
Thank you, chick.

Speaker 15 (20:05):
Do I take it that it is as mister Lynhers yes, yes,
that case, we'll see what we can do for you.
What do our records say, mister n Twist, Ah, yes.

Speaker 20 (20:15):
Let me see.

Speaker 12 (20:17):
Yes.

Speaker 15 (20:17):
During the period in questions we are we purchased a
four music boxes, the three of which have since been
so and the fourth, it's the one, mister Dowd, is
holy at the moment, madam.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Now look aated mister Dudley got a hammer.

Speaker 14 (20:32):
Yes, you're not going to buy this music box just
to smash it up, are you?

Speaker 9 (20:35):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (20:36):
You mind?

Speaker 14 (20:36):
It's all right with me.

Speaker 16 (20:37):
I've never heard of such a thing.

Speaker 15 (20:39):
In fifteen years experience of selling anties, I've never heard of.

Speaker 17 (20:42):
Such a thing.

Speaker 19 (20:42):
Should care?

Speaker 3 (20:43):
You can name your own.

Speaker 37 (20:44):
Price, little Matt, And that is mister Twist, definitely, I
think so, mister Chefick.

Speaker 15 (20:48):
I do like to see beautiful things wilfully destroyed.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I said you could name your own price, mister Dudley.

Speaker 37 (20:54):
In that case, I must warn you the price will
be stiff. One be give miss chapickerma.

Speaker 14 (21:01):
Very will Is this a habit of yours? Breaking up
music boxing?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
You don't know how many I've broken up in the
last week.

Speaker 14 (21:08):
Here comes your hammer.

Speaker 16 (21:10):
You are, miss Jackick.

Speaker 12 (21:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 37 (21:23):
No good and that little act of want in destructions
Jackick will cost you exactly thir if I've done.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
It's okay, mister Dowdley.

Speaker 18 (21:32):
But I'd like you to do one thing more for me,
if you will, I'd like you to let me have
the names and addresses of the people.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
About those other three music I will pay a stiff
price for that too.

Speaker 14 (21:43):
Oh, get your taxes. I thought he was going to
refuse to give you those addresses.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Well they didn't.

Speaker 14 (22:00):
He's trying that when the flags don I know it's
waiting for me. In that case, you can give me
a list.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
I don't suppose for a minute we're going in the
same direction.

Speaker 35 (22:06):
That's just where you're wrong. And that's how I met
Murna Chappik. My interest in this girl was twofold. First
of all, she definitely started where the petty girls left off.
And secondly, where's this little matter of the music boxes?

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My left little toe was twitching. Could have been the
damp weather, of course, but with me, it's usually a
sign that money is in the air.

Speaker 14 (22:36):
Anyway.

Speaker 35 (22:37):
An hour later, we were on our fourth martini and
Murna was beginning to unbend. Now, come on, Murna, What
is all this? What's the idea of busting up all
those music boxes?

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Have you heard of Jan Chabbick?

Speaker 14 (22:52):
You mean the Czechoslovakian gore, the politician. What's he got
to do with it?

Speaker 18 (22:56):
The day before he died, he wrote me a letter
from London and me my person here.

Speaker 35 (23:03):
Here you can read it, right, dear Murner. He will
not know me, except perhaps from seeing my picture in
the paper many years ago. But then that is not surprising,
because I only know you from seeing yours. The other
day I happened to see in an old issue of
the American magazine Escort in a colored photograph of Murna Chappick,
and couldn't help remarking the resemblance to your mother, my sister,

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who left for America some twenty five years ago.

Speaker 14 (23:30):
Had you want to heard of this guy? Did your
mother ever mention?

Speaker 6 (23:32):
No, not that I remember.

Speaker 14 (23:33):
How come he took your mother's name, not your father's.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
My father's name was Chapick. He was a coal miner
in Pennsylvania's.

Speaker 14 (23:39):
Funny thing your mother marrying a man of the same name,
wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Well, As a matter of fact, it wasn't that she
was an Italian and.

Speaker 14 (23:45):
The man who wrote this letter wasn't your uncle.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Now, he couldn't have been it. You know, I'm talking
too much. I don't know whether it's you or the Martinis.

Speaker 27 (23:52):
It's both.

Speaker 13 (23:54):
Well, go ahead read the rest.

Speaker 14 (23:55):
Of it, okay.

Speaker 35 (23:56):
You know, my dear niece, this is a painful task
which I have before me, but really there is no
possible choice. You must know that when the Communists seize
control in my country, a price was put on my head,
and I only managed to escape at the very last
moment by concealing myself in the tail of an American
airliner which was leaving Prague that night. Like many others

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in Europe in those terrible last years, I managed only
to take away with me the meagerest of possessions, a
small traveling case, light enough for me to carry, for
I was ailing and feeble even then. I have said
that the purpose of this letter is a painful one,
but perhaps you will not find it so, because after all,
you do not know me and surely will not receive
the news of my death with any sorrow. But the

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fact is that I will be gone by the time
you read these words, which are not intended so much
for a farewell. People who don't know each other can
very well say goodbye, can they. But as a last
will and testament, I am leaving you the contents of
my little suitcase murner, a few shirts and necktie, and
the unfinished manuscript of my last book. These you will

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not I find very exciting. I'm afraid, and I can't
imagine you're traveling across the ocean to claim.

Speaker 27 (25:04):
Such an inheritance.

Speaker 14 (25:05):
That there is a music box burner.

Speaker 24 (25:08):
Hm.

Speaker 35 (25:09):
It's the only thing of value I could take away
with me on my flight. I want you to have it,
and I give you my word that it will be
worth your trouble to come after it. The landlady, who
is not a sympathetic woman, has not been entrusted with
a secret, and unluckily she has not been paid for
the rent of this attic room for several weeks. By
the time you come to London, she will have sold it,

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and you must find out where and to whom, and
you must buy it back. And now my hand is
very tired, and I cannot go on pushing this pen
across the paper for many more words. I send my
blessing to the child of my sister who has inherited
her wonderful green eyes, and also something else, almost as
wonderful and almost as green, your.

Speaker 14 (25:53):
Uncle, Yeah, huh, almost as wonderful, almost as green then
I could be. I'm sure that's what it is. And
you think the emeralds are concealed in the music box
in a false bottom.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
I don't think it.

Speaker 18 (26:05):
I know it, and I'm gonna get those amerals if
I have to break up every music box in London.

Speaker 35 (26:23):
I left Murner a good deal later that night. He
had a wonderful time. I had a promise that we'd
meet the next evening. I also had something else. I
had that list from Dowdley's antique shop. Yes, I know
what you're thinking. You're thinking I pinched it out of
a purse, and you're right, that's what I did. Somewhere
in London there were three music boxes and one of

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those three was a fortune in emeralds. And I've always
been a great believer in the old adage finders keepers.
If anybody was going to break up any music boxes,
it was gonna be me.

Speaker 14 (27:04):
Good morning, is missus Moira court battle at home?

Speaker 13 (27:07):
No, she's out.

Speaker 14 (27:08):
Well, have you any idea where she's gone.

Speaker 36 (27:10):
I wouldn't like to say for sure, but wait to
try the Velvet peng.

Speaker 14 (27:14):
The velvet.

Speaker 35 (27:16):
There's a nightclub, Velvet Penguin, but a night this is
ten o'clock.

Speaker 36 (27:19):
In the morning, anywhere, that's where she'll be.

Speaker 22 (27:37):
Orson Wells returns in just a moment as the third Man,

(28:26):
and now Orson Wells as the third Man continues with
today's story, Operation Music Box.

Speaker 35 (28:42):
Like all nightclubs, the Velvet Penguin looked more than ordinarily
squalid at ten thirty in the morning. Most of the
chairs were piled up under the tables, and by the
glare of a worklight, an unhappy looking character in shirt
sleeves was pounding a piano. A girl was singing, Three
or four other girls were waiting their turn, while a
committee of fats sleek gentleman sad in judgment.

Speaker 16 (29:04):
Okay, enough, we get the idea.

Speaker 14 (29:07):
What's your name again?

Speaker 36 (29:08):
More a cork battle, he turns up.

Speaker 21 (29:10):
Don't call us, we'll call you nextd may.

Speaker 14 (29:18):
Miss cork bottle. Yes, my name is Lime. I'd like
to talk to you from me if you don't mind.

Speaker 38 (29:22):
What's it about a job or no, I'm not interested.
Just about as much of this audition racket as I
can take. Fed up with a whole cabaret game, just
as soon go back to singing in front of a band,
even in the small.

Speaker 35 (29:32):
Sorry, I just wanted to ask you about that music box.
You bought it Dowdley's last February. You were detected none exactly.
You did buy one, though, didn't you.

Speaker 36 (29:39):
Yes, I did, but didn't do any good.

Speaker 14 (29:40):
What do you mean it didn't do any good.

Speaker 36 (29:41):
I thought it would soften him up.

Speaker 14 (29:43):
Soften who miss cork bottle?

Speaker 36 (29:44):
My uncle? Of course, my uncle Ben cork Battle. You
know General Corp.

Speaker 19 (29:48):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 36 (29:48):
You mean you never heard of General Copper?

Speaker 28 (29:50):
No?

Speaker 12 (29:50):
I never did.

Speaker 36 (29:51):
Well, you haven't missed anything.

Speaker 38 (29:52):
It's no skin flint and he hates women, even niece's
who sent him nice antique boxes filled with his favorite
Turkish cigarettes on the occasion of his one hundred and first.

Speaker 14 (30:00):
Is he really that old?

Speaker 36 (30:01):
Of course, not that way.

Speaker 14 (30:03):
He has the box.

Speaker 36 (30:04):
Yes, when last heard Rummy had the box. I wish
he had the measles.

Speaker 14 (30:07):
Would you like to be a good kid give me
his address?

Speaker 36 (30:09):
Yes, all right, give me a bit of paper and pencil,
Now write it down for you.

Speaker 38 (30:15):
And look if you see him telling him I'm starving
to death, which is true, and I speak of him constantly,
which is also true.

Speaker 36 (30:20):
And if you can see, it's way clear to send
him one hundred pounds or even the fiber.

Speaker 13 (30:23):
But no, he won't.

Speaker 14 (30:25):
I know him.

Speaker 38 (30:26):
Well, good luck with the general, mister lymon, don't forget
to weigh your bulletproof.

Speaker 9 (30:30):
Best go away.

Speaker 12 (30:47):
Take my stick to you.

Speaker 16 (30:50):
You don't look like a pitler.

Speaker 14 (30:51):
Oh no, sir, I'm not. I'm a collector, dust collector,
garbage collector.

Speaker 9 (30:55):
What kind of collector?

Speaker 14 (30:56):
Well, we'll speak up music boxes.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
One by goad the things turning into a positive plague.

Speaker 19 (31:03):
You will will come in, come in, come in.

Speaker 9 (31:05):
Let's get to the bottom.

Speaker 12 (31:06):
RK.

Speaker 14 (31:06):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 21 (31:08):
This will will come into my study. That what's the
explanation of this wild rash of music box collectors? You
would want a music box? Blasted things make you jump?
Give me the gym, jerbobs. We will come in, Come in,
young fellow, there must be something in music boxes. I
don't know about a fine looking young woman like.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Miss what is your name again, my dear jek We
know each other?

Speaker 14 (31:29):
General, you do, yes, we do the will.

Speaker 21 (31:34):
That's not surprising after all, you you music box bugs,
probably have some kind of club or other old meetings
swap boxes and already, Oh.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
We're gonna hold a meeting in general.

Speaker 36 (31:44):
You can be sure of that.

Speaker 14 (31:45):
Please don't miss anders.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
I understand perfectly then, and I haven't got all the morning.

Speaker 21 (31:51):
Yeah, before this young fellow interrupted us, you were making
me an offer.

Speaker 14 (31:55):
Yes, well you have music box general, that is, if
you're willing to sell general. What's your right?

Speaker 13 (31:59):
Two pounds thound, four pounds.

Speaker 14 (32:03):
High as I'll go, Well, that's the highest bin.

Speaker 35 (32:08):
Doing.

Speaker 22 (32:09):
God, No, no, no, don't write to check, young fellow.

Speaker 14 (32:12):
I'll take it in cash.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
You've got a nerve holding in on this. I guess
you're up to something. When I missed that list from
my purse, you took it, didn't you?

Speaker 14 (32:27):
Sure I took it? What are you worrying about? You're
seen to be doing all right without the.

Speaker 18 (32:30):
List only because I haven't remember seeing the name cork
Battle on top of the list. And luckily they're only
three or four of them.

Speaker 14 (32:34):
At the phone books, right kid? You deserve better luck.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
No, luck's all right.

Speaker 18 (32:38):
I've caught up with you, haven't I from now on.
You got yourself a constant companion, so you'd better start getting.

Speaker 23 (32:43):
Used to it.

Speaker 14 (32:45):
That shouldn't be hot?

Speaker 12 (33:03):
Give me that?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Give it another suck?

Speaker 14 (33:19):
No use, man, isn't this one.

Speaker 12 (33:35):
You n chel chef?

Speaker 14 (33:39):
I wonder if we could come in for just a moment.

Speaker 39 (33:41):
Well, I don't know, I am pressed for We will
take Suppose I can spire you a few minutes?

Speaker 14 (33:49):
Most kind of you can't swell?

Speaker 12 (33:53):
I can?

Speaker 35 (33:53):
I can see that you're a man of taste. You've
got some lovely pieces of furniture.

Speaker 16 (33:58):
Is possible? Possible?

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Or not?

Speaker 16 (34:00):
What I was used to in the old days? This
is our time? No, what is it you want? Please?

Speaker 14 (34:05):
What about new music boxes?

Speaker 16 (34:09):
Please? Just a minute? Wanted the time?

Speaker 14 (34:11):
Yes, I'm sorry, I can't.

Speaker 16 (34:12):
Yeah, what is all about music boxes?

Speaker 12 (34:15):
Well?

Speaker 16 (34:15):
I am not a collector of music boxes.

Speaker 39 (34:17):
I am a collector of minutubes of the Empress Katterine
or Russia?

Speaker 14 (34:20):
Or what about this music box on the table?

Speaker 39 (34:23):
I bought that one, certainly, but only because of the
enabled portrait medal. You know, catterin no deliver she is
an ancestor of mine.

Speaker 16 (34:31):
You looks? Can't you see the resemblance to me?

Speaker 14 (34:33):
Yes, and now you've got it's remarkable. But do you
man if I set this thing going, No, no, please
don't do that, please, no, don't. That's all right there.

Speaker 16 (34:41):
I am not interested in this is a music box?

Speaker 14 (34:43):
Oh you want? Well, then in that case, Count, maybe
you'd be ready to sell it.

Speaker 39 (34:47):
Sell it, Yes, certainly not, but I told you I
want it for the miniature on deliver.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
I can't be persuade you to change your mind. You're
prepared to pay a good time price.

Speaker 39 (34:56):
Doesn't ender into it, my dear lady, I don't buy
things to sell again, this.

Speaker 14 (35:00):
A particular music box happens to be awfully important to us.

Speaker 12 (35:03):
I can't help that.

Speaker 16 (35:05):
I'm sorry. I couldn't possibly sell it. No use talking,
no use arguing.

Speaker 35 (35:15):
You know, it's a very lucky thing for you, murder
my girl, that you've got me as a partner in
this business.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
I hadn't noticed it. It wasn't much luck about the
China Ship episode. We haven't got the book.

Speaker 35 (35:24):
We soon will have the box, because, my dear old girl,
it so happens there just for kicks. I once took
lessons from one of the best cat burglars in the business,

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the Count lived in what was once a big private
house that had been turned into three or four flats.

Speaker 27 (35:52):
There was a garden and a big war.

Speaker 35 (35:55):
That night, I got over the war, crept through the garden,
climbed up to the second floor, and got through the
window into the Count's drawing room. I worked quickly and quietly.
I cut the small section out of the crystal cabinet
with my diamond cutter that contained the Count's object, got
through to the latch, unlocked.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
It, and seized the music box, and then at that moment.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
My music.

Speaker 14 (36:36):
Just a minute there, what's there, Harry?

Speaker 9 (36:38):
What's going on?

Speaker 14 (36:39):
The officer?

Speaker 35 (36:39):
We've we've just been a burgled. A burglar got in
my flat over there. He's stolen my father's antique music box.
Did you see anyone come around the corner over there?

Speaker 20 (36:48):
Now?

Speaker 12 (36:48):
Sorry, he kind of come this way.

Speaker 16 (36:50):
We've better try the other way.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Quick, Just a minute. Well, there were no emeralds on
that one.

Speaker 14 (37:12):
There was a pleasure breaking it up. Good afternoon. We'd
like very much to see the Prince shipers and Maga.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Did you to get past the old porter downstairs?

Speaker 14 (37:29):
Like this? Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Honey, well, I'm afraid the Prince presser.

Speaker 36 (37:33):
I wouldn't see you without an appointed.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Tell me before she was married, wasn't she? Mabel Schroder
from the Bill God of the Chain's talking.

Speaker 14 (37:39):
She was divorce from her husband last year, wasn't she.

Speaker 36 (37:42):
That doesn't mean she's looking for any boyfriends money. There's
always plenty of those.

Speaker 14 (37:45):
I don't look at me like that. I only want
to speak to her.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
I really don't think it's possible.

Speaker 13 (37:51):
These people.

Speaker 35 (37:53):
We've been trying to locate a music box. Music box, Yes,
it's quite the it's a music box we've been trying
to locate. I don't know whether anybody sent you a
music box, Principessa.

Speaker 40 (38:05):
Yes, so we certainly did have a music box, and mister,
a gentle beIN friend of mine, gave it to my
little daughter, Shirley.

Speaker 13 (38:13):
We haven't got it now.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
We gave it away to some charity.

Speaker 40 (38:16):
Or rather, I believe I've live the St Andrew's Fambling
Home orphanage down the East end here.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Shirley sure hated that music box. Why was that, Principessa.

Speaker 40 (38:25):
She couldn't stand that tune?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Oh you know that awful tune. Look this is the place,
Harry said, Andrew's founding home in orphany.

Speaker 14 (38:44):
There's some kind of a ceremony going on.

Speaker 41 (38:49):
Si silence for our Directorko, ladies and gentlemen and children ago,
some kindly soul sent to us anonymously, amongst other.

Speaker 14 (39:04):
Gifts, a music box.

Speaker 41 (39:06):
A few days later, little Billy Gvins, whom you all know,
whilst playing with the box, stumbled and dropped it. For
this incident, trivial in itself, had the most surprising result.
A secret compartment in the box was revealed, and in
it weare jewels. Naturally, we made inquiries in an effort
to identify the donor, but fortunately for us, they all

(39:29):
proved fruitless. And it is from the sale of these
jewels that the building of this wonderful new.

Speaker 14 (39:36):
Wing is being financed.

Speaker 41 (39:38):
Here in my hands is the very box that brought
about our good fortune, and I my dad it can
still be used as.

Speaker 15 (39:45):
A plaything by little Billy Guvins.

Speaker 42 (39:48):
Listen, no, no, no, Harry does see how happened to
be amongst the visitors, A doctor, a gentleman back there.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
Seems to have fainted.

Speaker 22 (40:33):
Harry Lyon returns in just a moment. And now Harry Lite.

Speaker 35 (41:26):
Good bye for now, and remember what Ben Franklin said
about honesty being the best policy I wish I could.

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Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case from official police bolence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
the story of your police force in action.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
It was Friday, August seventeenth, was hot in Los Angeles.
We were working the Night Watch out of robbery detail.
My partner's Ben Ramel, the boss's captain Walker. My name
is Friday. Was eight thirty five pm when we get
to the church of Saint Damien the vestibule. That must
be her playing the organ. Yeah, I don't see any stairs.

(45:38):
I wonder how you get up there to the loft.
Looks like that might be the sect and that we're there.
Let's ask her. Excuse me, sir, Yeah, we're looking for
an Ernestine Matthews. Understands he's the organist here at the church.

Speaker 20 (45:52):
Oh, that's her playing up there now, fighting over a
few pieces for Sunday.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Could you tell us how to get up to the
choir out?

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Surely through that door over there, follow the stairway straight up.
Can't miss thank it sure has been a long time.
Well what's that climbing stairs to acquire a law? Saying
a lot in church when I was a kid, boys, Briano,

(46:18):
all right, can't finally through me out a boy's change?

Speaker 12 (46:26):
Yes? Did you want something?

Speaker 34 (46:27):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
And missus Ernestine Matthews?

Speaker 23 (46:29):
Yes, did you come about the new clawbooks.

Speaker 12 (46:31):
No, ma'am.

Speaker 30 (46:31):
Police officers, Oh, can I help you?

Speaker 1 (46:33):
It's about your husband.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Was Matthews Burt?

Speaker 23 (46:36):
What about him? As Burt done something?

Speaker 1 (46:38):
He was hurt ma'am.

Speaker 23 (46:39):
Oh, I don't understand. Bert's working at store. What do
you mean he was hurt?

Speaker 24 (46:43):
There was a hold of Dear God, my husband.

Speaker 23 (46:46):
Was he hurt bad?

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 23 (46:48):
Where is he? I've got to go to him.

Speaker 28 (46:49):
Is he in pain?

Speaker 23 (46:50):
No, ma'am, what are you trying to say to God?
Tell me the truth? Which hospital is in?

Speaker 1 (46:56):
It took him to Georgia Street. They helped him all
they could.

Speaker 23 (46:59):
Not trying to for it's dead now trying to tell
me that are you?

Speaker 1 (47:04):
I'm sorry man.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
In the past sixteen days, seven armed robberies had been committed,
apparently with the same man. The suspect was described by
victims as tall, heavily built, and very nervous.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
He was armed.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
It's cold logic that every suspect who was armed in
the commission of a robbery is a potential killer. It's
a fact that's been proved one hundred times over. The
man we were after had proven it again. We'd used
every means at our disposal to identify him through the
Stats Office, the Record Bureau, laden fingerprints through informants and witnesses.
We'd gotten not an APB on him containing his description

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and his method of operation. We'd maintained stakeouts. We hadn't
reached him in time. Early that evening, a downtown grocery
store had been held up. One of the clerks, thirty
one year old Bert Matthews, failed to empty the cash
register quickly enough, and the band had shot him three
times through the chest.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
He died almost instantly in the hold up.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Man escape was only one witness, another clerk who had
been on duty in the store with Matthews at the
time of the hold up. His name was Jess Tallman.
He was brought to the city Hall, where we questioned
him further.

Speaker 24 (48:09):
Did you see Birt's wife? Does you know?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yeah, we dropped off at the church on the way
and go over to his sister's place. Still can't get
it through my head. One minute I was talking to Bert,
the next minute he was dead. It's kind of hard
to take.

Speaker 20 (48:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
I would like to go over that description of the
hold up man. Uh, you were pretty upset out there
at the story. Do you feel up to it now, Yeah,
I'm okay, all right now, you just take it easy,
tell us everything you remember, and take all the time
you need. Well, I I know he was a big guy,
over six foot anyway, I'm sure that he had a
good bill too.

Speaker 24 (48:39):
Wasn't skinny?

Speaker 2 (48:40):
How about his face? Jest, you get a good look
at him?

Speaker 26 (48:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (48:42):
I did.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
It was thin and he kept working it around, you know,
twitching like guy who's bloody nervous.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Can you tell us anything else about it?

Speaker 2 (48:50):
He was young, about twenty one. I'd say I had
dark color eyes. That's about all I'd swear to sergeant.

Speaker 24 (48:57):
He had a hat on.

Speaker 33 (48:57):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
How about the rest of it, I wouldn't be sure
about it. Could have been a great coat, blue coat,
I don't know. I wouldn't wanna give you a bump stare.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Did you get a look at the gun?

Speaker 24 (49:08):
I couldn't miss that.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
It was a big one. Wasn't shine? He was kind
of a dark blue color. I could see the guy
now walking in the store and pointing at it.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Burt, What time was that again, Jess? When the band
had showed up just.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
About seven thirty. Bert was behind the counter. I was
in the back stacking the shelves. The guy just walked in,
point of the gun, said give me the dough. I
heard him say that. Bert was kind of surprised. He
just stood there for a minute and the guy said,
hurry up, give me the doll. Bert said, okay, you
can have everything, and he reached to get the dough
from the cash register. That's when the guy did it.

(49:40):
He hit Bert right in the chest.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
What happened?

Speaker 14 (49:42):
Then?

Speaker 24 (49:43):
Bert moaned a little, fell down on the floor. I
got some mad. I started running for the guy, but
he swung around at me with a gun and said
stay where you are.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (49:51):
Well I didn't wanna get killed.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
I stopped.

Speaker 24 (49:53):
You can't blame me for that, can you.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Did you follow the man when he left, Well, you see,
he backed out of the store and when he got
to the sidewalking he jammed the gun in his pocket,
ran down the street.

Speaker 24 (50:02):
I ran out after him, saw him jumping a taxi cab.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
And take off.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Did you get the CAB's number, Well, it was too
far away for that, at least halfway down the block.
I know somebody else must have been driving it, though.
How do you know that the CAB's already moving when
the whole up guy jumped in and got in the
front seat.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
How do you know it was the front seat and
not the back the way.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Those cab doors open, you know, front doors swing out
to the left, back when swing out to the right.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
That ties in. Joe used the same memo and those
hold ups last week.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, you got anything else to add? Yes, anything you
think we ought to know. It's about the size of it.

Speaker 26 (50:34):
Sergeant.

Speaker 24 (50:35):
You don't think I'm yellow, do you?

Speaker 6 (50:37):
Well?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I mean because I stopped when he pointed the gun
at me. I guess I should have grabbed him. But
that gun looked as big as a cannon. Let's face it,
I'm not that much of a hair.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
I'll put in with you. Yes, huh, neither am I.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Along with the team of men from Homicide Detail, we
continued our investigation of the hold up and killing. Ballistics
reported that the slug's taken from the body of Burt
Matthews possibly been fired.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
From a thirty eight caliber coat revolver. The slugs were
in good condition for identification.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
All the possible suspects picked from the mud books by
the victims had been checked out.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
All of them had been cleared.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Fingerprints left by the bandit a the scene of his
latest crime were checked out.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
No make. We tried to check the taxicab used in
the escape. We got nowhere. The morning after the Matthew
was killing, we got a.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Call from Sheriff's homicide who went across the street and
checked with Inspector Bowers.

Speaker 33 (51:28):
Either one of you remember that case about six months ago,
the Harry Solomon killing.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Oh yeah, inspect here. It's pretty vague right now. Your
men handled it at Connecky.

Speaker 26 (51:37):
Yeah, let me lay it out.

Speaker 6 (51:38):
Fair.

Speaker 26 (51:38):
It's just possible it might tie in with that killing
you Phillis had last night.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
And what's the angle.

Speaker 33 (51:43):
Harry Solomon was a taxi cab driver. The night of
February twenty sixth somebody saw him pick up a fair
at Sunset and Hiland about ten thirty pm.

Speaker 26 (51:51):
That's the last time he had seen alive.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
I mean, I think I remember.

Speaker 33 (51:54):
The next morning, we found Solomon's body in the ditch
out in the valley, two thirty eight slugs in his head,
found his cab a few yards up the road. Abandoned
killer used the thirty eight same kind of gun used
in the last night's job.

Speaker 26 (52:05):
There's something else that ties in.

Speaker 33 (52:08):
Yeah, the description of the passenger Salomon picked up at
Sunset and Highland the night he was murdered.

Speaker 26 (52:14):
The last fairy ever handled.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
White male American over six feet tall, heavy bill age
twenty twenty one, dark eyes, had a dark suit on
the half matches up all the way down on line.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
You had a robbery motor figured on the Solomon killing,
didn't you.

Speaker 26 (52:29):
That's right, except for a five dollar bill hidden in
as well.

Speaker 33 (52:31):
That Solomon didn't have a penny of his receipts for
the night might have been another reason behind the killing.

Speaker 26 (52:36):
Besides that.

Speaker 33 (52:37):
Yeah, it's just barely possible. Solomon might have known the
hold up man, the guy who killed him.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
How do you figure it?

Speaker 33 (52:43):
Solomon had been a caby for fourteen years before he
was murdered from this hold up man's mo, using cabs
for a getaway car. It's possible he might have been
a cab driver at some time or.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
At It mean, if the kell had got in a
cab and thought Salmon Solomon recognized him was suspicious.

Speaker 33 (53:00):
Right, could have been reason enough for him to kill Solomon.
I know there's a lot of kods and ifs, and
maybe he's in it, but I thought you.

Speaker 26 (53:07):
Might be interested.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
I would check it out. First thing. How are your
men coming on the Solomon face rog?

Speaker 26 (53:11):
This is pretty slow.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
We'll keep you posted on anything new and fre can help.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
We know, right bye? Two sets of thirty eight slugs?
What do you think? Let's ask the crime Lamb.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
We put in a request to Russ Camp and Ballistics
to check the thirty eight slugs found in taxi driver
Solomon's body against those found in the body of grocery
clerk Burt Matthews. Then we contacted the special agent at
the taxi camp company. We asked him for pictures of
all their drivers employed but the company during the past
year who were six feet and highter over. He told
us that they'd have a file ready for us. The

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following morning, we drove back to the office and checked
in with Russ Camp.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
At the Crime Lamb. He was examining the thirty eight
slugs under the comparison mind, just.

Speaker 14 (54:00):
A few more match, fella's have a check.

Speaker 6 (54:02):
Yeah, uh, not much luck so far.

Speaker 7 (54:09):
Well uh.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Yeah, well that's it. Yeah, do make these slugs come
from two different guns. That night, two more armed robberies
were committed, one at a liquor store, the other at
a cafe. In both cases, the hold up man escaped
in a taxi cab. The description of the man who
robbed the liquor store matched that of the bandits who

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shot and killed Burt Matthews. The big switch came when
we checked the cafe hold up.

Speaker 19 (54:41):
There.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
The victims described the.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Suspect as short and fat, with dark blonde hair. He
had a deep scar on his chin. During the robbery,
this suspect had become so nervous that he'd dropped his gun,
but he'd succeeded in getting outside and escaping in a
taxi cab before it could be apprehended. The gun was
taken back to Lake fingerprints and checked was clean. Russ
Camp check to through ballistics. Some days I like this, fellas,

(55:03):
what do you mean that cab driver Solomon was shot
with a thirty eighth? Yeah, Bert Matthews was shot with
a thirty eight, A different one, though it's gone. The
bandit dropped tonight it's a thirty eight too, You know,
we know that What are you getting at?

Speaker 6 (55:13):
It doesn't match either case.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
The next morning we started working one of the few
leads we had left.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
We drove down to the taxicab company and collected the
pictures of all the drivers that they employed during the
past year, who were six feet in highter over the
eighty seven of them. We started checking them out. That's
what the working detective calls legwork. It's slow and it's tedious,
and you're not sure it's going to amount to anything
even by the time you finished. Two nights later, the
taxicab bandit hit again. His first repeater, a restaurant in

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South figure Ore. He robbed the same place less than
three weeks before. Ben and I interviewed the manager of
mister Cavallo.

Speaker 20 (55:50):
Tell you, sogeant, I can't take any more of it.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Twice in one month, Yes, sir, could we talk about then?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Run of the bullets? Oh yeah, come on, you've got
a good look at the man.

Speaker 12 (56:00):
MS had two feet from him, memorize his face and
the first time it's a joke, you know. So, I
have no time for the customers.

Speaker 20 (56:07):
They're too busy opened the cash spots for that feet Yeah,
shut up and thanks.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Well, when you're positive it's the same man who robbed
you before, there's no question there, h none.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
I'm positive and he used the same moo too.

Speaker 27 (56:21):
Yeah, sure, m o.

Speaker 24 (56:23):
What's that?

Speaker 26 (56:24):
Excuse me?

Speaker 1 (56:24):
I mean he used the same approach, the same method
of operation.

Speaker 20 (56:27):
Everything was the same, the man, the gun, that taxi cab.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Everything. You didn't get the number of the cab. I
looked for it, I didn't see any Must cover it up, someway.

Speaker 12 (56:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Well, we've got some pictures here, mister Cavallo. We'd like
to have you look at him. Just tell us if
you recognize any of 'em.

Speaker 20 (56:41):
I won't do any good.

Speaker 12 (56:42):
Hm.

Speaker 20 (56:42):
I already did that. They showed me pictures the last time.
This is a different locks.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Oh alright, quite a few of 'em.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I like to have you check each one of 'em, careful,
if you would just take your time.

Speaker 20 (56:54):
Oh, we can't sit here without coffee.

Speaker 12 (56:56):
Notale, Well, I wouldn't not.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
I don't care for any I don't be silly.

Speaker 20 (56:59):
Can't work without eating not yea coffee?

Speaker 12 (57:02):
Three cocks?

Speaker 24 (57:03):
Okay, and now where do wife start?

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Well, he's right here. If you just check these over, please.

Speaker 12 (57:09):
Uh uh.

Speaker 35 (57:12):
Uh no not him, I uh.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Not him either, Oh, thank you, thank you?

Speaker 20 (57:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Yeah, Oh it's hot.

Speaker 27 (57:33):
No, not that one.

Speaker 36 (57:37):
M No?

Speaker 12 (57:39):
Is that all?

Speaker 20 (57:41):
No?

Speaker 1 (57:42):
That's some more here.

Speaker 20 (57:43):
Uh oh, hey, that's an ugly looking guy. I don't
look at that scar.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
He look familiar. No, better check with his skipper when
we finished here, and he's spend a couple hours in him.

Speaker 20 (57:58):
That allows you No good sea Sorry, right here, this one,
that's a guy, you're sure? I open my cash box
twice for a might. No, his face in a million.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Morris Copley, aged twenty one, description matches let's coping.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Thanks Mitch, cell.

Speaker 20 (58:15):
It's only forty minutes since the robbery's probably not even
home yet. What can you do?

Speaker 1 (58:19):
We'll wait up ten thirty pm.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
We park down the street from five twenty seven Dayton Avenue,
a two story white stucco apartment house. We checked the
names on the mailboxes. Morris Copley's wasn't on any of'em.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
We rank for the.

Speaker 45 (58:33):
Manager Copling Mars Copeland. No, he doesn't live here, never
heard of him.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
I wonder if you'd take a look at this man
this picture, ma'am. Have you ever seen this man before?

Speaker 28 (58:46):
Let me get over here in the line let me
see now. No, it doesn't live.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
Here, and you've never seen him before.

Speaker 28 (58:56):
No, I didn't say that, I just said he doesn't
live here.

Speaker 45 (58:59):
You haven't seen I believe in my town. Yes, matter
of fact, I'm sure of it. It's a friend of
mister Toubyen's apartment. Five comes to visit mister Tauben.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Every now and then, is this mister Taubin in now man?
We like to talk to him?

Speaker 45 (59:13):
Nor not? It works nice, never comes home to him.
Here's a cab driver.

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Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Ten forty five pm.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
In the presence of the manager, we made a search
of the apartment registered in the name of Ralph Tobin,
the man who was supposed to be a friend of
the suspect Morris Copley. We found nothing that would tie
either of them up with the robberies and the killings.
Before the manager returned to her apartment, we instructed her
to say nothing about our being there in case Tobain
or Copley returned. We called the office and told them
we'd received an identification on Morris Copley.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
They checked them both through R and I. Neither had
any criminal record. They got out an APB on Copley.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
We waited midnight, came nothing happened, one am, one thirty,
still no sign of either man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
One for five somebody's coming around back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
You know, kitchen door, Mary, you vacor right hold it
right there, mister police officers. Oh Fanny, why is this
a stick up? Police officers explain, Joe, what's it all about?

Speaker 24 (01:02:00):
What do you want you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Ralph Tobin?

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
This is my apartment, you know, Morris Copley. Copley, Yeah,
I know him. You're looking for him.

Speaker 6 (01:02:07):
He's not here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
We know that where I wish.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
I know.

Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
I'm looking for him too. He owes me money.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Hopefully he's a pretty steady visitor. Here's that right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
He was till I let him at sixty five dollars.
I haven't seen him since he took off. When was
that when? About two weeks ago? Yeah, just about Look
you mind if I sit down, I'm a little nervous.
Go ahead kind of sets you. You know, why are
you looking for?

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
May like to have your repeat what you said when
you came in that door.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
What I said as to your word, and I mean
before that said, I don't think I know what you're getting.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
That officer, you said, Maury you're back already, not what
you said.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Yeah, I guess I did. I guess I thought Maury
came back to pay me the sixty five he borrowed.
You didn't make it sound like ketob and I got
the idea you were expecting expecting him. I haven't seen
more in two weeks, maybe three. It took me for
sixty five dollars. Right, that's enough small talk, mister. Now,
Copley's in deep. Gonna match him if we don't get
a straight story.

Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
Some cans of beer in the refrigerator. Let's have one around.
I'll get the beer.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Where's Copeley?

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
I'll swear in the Bible if you want me to.

Speaker 30 (01:03:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
Look, if Maury pull anything heavy, I'm nothing none, Ben.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
You wanna check with the manager. Ask her when's the
last time she saw Copley here?

Speaker 26 (01:03:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Right now, Wait a minute, officers, I wanna cooperate. Morey's
in deep. That's his fault, not mine. That's right, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
That's right? Nowhere is he?

Speaker 6 (01:03:25):
I don't know, that's the truth. I'll tell you something else.
I wasn't squaring.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I saw Maury early tonight six o'clock, came here and
borrowed another five from him.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
But you know the word he is?

Speaker 14 (01:03:35):
Now?

Speaker 24 (01:03:35):
No, said sure, like a can.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Of beer if you don't worry, He said, still, I'll
get it for you.

Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
You sure you won't have one?

Speaker 20 (01:03:42):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:03:43):
Not me?

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
No, thanks, I don't want him there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
You go good cold beer. I like it when I
get nervous. Ah, this calms me down.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Say ay, Tobin, Yeah, sorry, you haven't taken your hat off.

Speaker 6 (01:04:04):
Oh I I was nervous. I guess I forgot.

Speaker 12 (01:04:08):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Your hair always been dark blonde since.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
I was a kid. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Why how about that scar in your chin? It's pretty deep?

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
One, be sure good? I ask you about the scar.
It's kind of embarrassing. I got a little high one night,
fell off a merry garade, big night. Now I've heard everything.
We had a robbery report a couple of nights ago, Tobin,
hold up, man was just about your height and weight. Yeah,
dark blonde hair. Had a scar on his chin too.
I'm afraid you got a wrong slat officer. I worked

(01:04:36):
my cab every night of the week.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
Wasn't me mind?

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
If we ever look at your cars?

Speaker 27 (01:04:40):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
How'd you know I had a car? We didn't just
give it a look, Shelley, Why do you wanna look
at it?

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Do you have anything to hide at it?

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
Of course not.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
And there like Morey's aws in Trouble as on the Lamb,
you probably think it's funny when you check the glove
compartment in my car.

Speaker 12 (01:04:54):
Will we ya you will?

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Why is there keep a gun in there? You know
how many cab drivers get shot. A guy can't be
too careful.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
What kind of gun you have, Tobin?

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
Revolver, regular revolver?

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
What caliber? Therry ate?

Speaker 34 (01:05:06):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Two thirty am.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
We searched his car, picked up his thirty eight caliber revolver,
and then we drove Ralph Tobin back to the office
where he was detained for questioning.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
We had a stakeout placed in his apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Russ Camp and Ballistics checked Tobin's gun against the slugs
which had taken the lives of Harry Solomon and Bert Matthews.
Was found beyond the question of a doubt that his
gun had been used in the Solomon killing. We confronted
Tobin with the evidence. He started talking. He told us
that Copley was responsible for the murder of both Solomon
and Matthews, that Copley had borrowed his gun for the
Solomon john. In all the robbers except one, he described

(01:05:41):
himself only as the accomplice.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
He drove the getaway taxi camp.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
The only occasion he tried to handle the actual hold
up was at the cafe where he became so nervous
that he had dropped his gun before he was booked
on suspicion of murder. Tobin told us that Morris Copley
still had two thirty eight revolvers in his possession. He
insisted he had no idea where Copley was ben handled
questioning while a stenographer took Tobin's statement. I contacted Inspector
Bowers and informed him of our progress. Eleven am. I

(01:06:07):
got back to the squad room.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
All right, did you check back through that personnel record
we got from the cab Come up?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Yeah, I got half an idea, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
See here on Copey's application for the job.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Well, I'm sure we checked out all those references. They
didn't go anywhere. No, I mean that's right here, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Yes, children one daughter aged four months m When this
application is dated May sixth, that means his baby was
born in Babruary. I'm sure Copley was working here then,
so it's tender when the baby was born in the
local hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
But I mean, if we find the right hospital of
the doctor, they could lead us. Tongue. There's the phone book.
Let's go. From noon until four pm.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
We called every hospital, sanitarium, clinic and rest home listed
in the book. The answers were the same. No record
of confinement from Missus Morris Copley. Well it seemed like
a good idea, so you've called him.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Now we've got one more at the County Hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Well, this is Sergeant Friday, Police Department, Robbery Detail.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Yes, I'd like to find out if you have.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Any record of confinement for a Missus Morris Copley. No,
it's Copley, sa isn't Charlie? Yes, thank you might have
sent his wife out of town to have a baby.
That's possible. Yeah, eleven eighteen, Thank you, eleven eighteen Rochester
Copley's aunt.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Four thirty pm.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Together with Olson and Faxter from Homicide Detail, we drove
out to eleven eighteen Rochester Avenue in the Frenshaw district.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
The house was vacant.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
From a neighbor, we learned that Copley's aunt had moved
two weeks before. We got her address from one of
her friends in the neighborhood and finally located her at
work in a beauty shop on Melrose Avenue.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
We posed as traffic investigators.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
The aunt told us she thought we could find her
nephew Morris at home and address on East thirteenth Street,
six pm.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
We located the house and parked cars are half a
block away.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
As we approached the house on foot, we saw a
light burning in one of the windows on the left
side of the house. Thaxter and Olsen covered the back,
had a given signal lay at the back door.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Ben and I went through the front. It's empty.

Speaker 12 (01:08:16):
Yeah, facts he coming back here at y'all happy?

Speaker 27 (01:08:20):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
It looks like somebody passed him a tip off just
in time with them messes places in.

Speaker 30 (01:08:26):
I got out in a hurry, A right, hey, what's
going on here?

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
A few men think you're doing police Elvis? Is your
name is Silvera?

Speaker 27 (01:08:32):
One of the neighbors.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
You looking for the Copley's when they leave twenty minutes ago?

Speaker 20 (01:08:36):
I guess in an awful.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Hurry, what's the trump? You know where they were going?

Speaker 26 (01:08:40):
No, but you might try mister Kopley's ant.

Speaker 20 (01:08:42):
She lives over in Rochester.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
They're out there. Well, have you tried his sister's house?
Six forty five pm.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
The neighbors Silvera directed us to the home of Morris
Copeley's sister. A small frame cottage on the edge of
Beverly Hills. The lights were on in the living room,
but the shades were drawn. Thanks are in Olsen made
their way quietly around to the back. But then I
went up the front steps and rang the bell.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Yes, what do you want you, miss Copefully?

Speaker 14 (01:09:16):
Yes?

Speaker 36 (01:09:16):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Police officers, ma'am I'm sorry.

Speaker 23 (01:09:19):
Oh he isn't here, mar Moore, he isn't here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
We know he's here. Living room's empty. Must be in
the back yard, you can't.

Speaker 23 (01:09:25):
He's in the bedroom with the baby.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
He's got a gun.

Speaker 45 (01:09:27):
You can't go in there.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Where's the bedroom?

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
See into the hall at that door.

Speaker 12 (01:09:31):
He wasn't sleeping.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
I think he's awake now, the baby close to him,
his seme bed, he's propped.

Speaker 23 (01:09:35):
Up on pools right next to it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
He's got that gun with him.

Speaker 36 (01:09:38):
Don't go in, please.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Where's the bed situating in the room.

Speaker 23 (01:09:41):
It's right inside the door.

Speaker 12 (01:09:42):
But let please don't go in.

Speaker 23 (01:09:44):
He won't care what happens to the baby.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Man, I'll open the door and you hit the light
switch and cover me. Why not a baby? You might
just stay here, miss Copefully, Your baby won't get hur
Let's go alright, let's going, but you stop the gun.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Bet all right, I got it, Joe, all right, go
forget him, come on after. Yeah, yeah, just a little frightened, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
She's all right, I kill you.

Speaker 24 (01:10:15):
Maybe you tell him where to find this? Didn't you
call you for that?

Speaker 26 (01:10:20):
Lousy dam? Nobody else knows. She's the one who told
you didn't and who did? Who told you?

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
You're looking at her? What do you mean, your baby?

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From seventy five years ago October fifth, nineteen fifty Dragnet
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox Comedy Tomorrow
with It Pays to Be Ignorant, The Craziest game show
You Ever heard, starring Demes Taylor as their guest. Also
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to meet Dennis's mom back in nineteen forty six, and
a nineteen forty eight edition of The Great Gilders Sleeve
starring Harold Perry Comedy again on Tuesday, Fred Allen Ozzy
and Harriet all from forty five, Who's Your hot Shots
from nineteen fifty and Milton Burrow and a Salute to
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Then on Wednesday we get back to Crime and Adventure
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Dick Calmer is Boston Blackie from nineteen forty six, Gerald
Moore as Philip Marlow from nineteen forty nine, and a
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Thursday's program, an uncut edition of The Phil Harris Alis
Fay Show from nineteen fifty three that includes the warm
up so you get to hear what they were doing
to get the audience all in the mood. We'll also
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a nineteen forty six episode of the Great Guilders Sleeve
as Leela leaves town, and a nineteen fifty two edition
of Father Knows Best Betty the Crooner Comedy again on Friday,
where we'll have Amos and Andy from nineteen forty eight,
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eight edition of Lomon Abner, and Jack Benny from nineteen
thirty seven, and next Saturday Spy Escape the lineup and Suspense.
And then on Sunday next Comedy with Jack Benny You
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Bob Hope. That's all coming up the week ahead. Here
on Classic Radio Theater with wyat Cox, but now Jackson
Beck as Filo Vans.

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Now on Classic Radio Theater with wyat Cox, Jackson and
Beck starring as Filo Vance from seventy seven years ago.
October fifth, nineteen forty eighty bulletin murder case.

Speaker 14 (01:15:12):
Hey Harkins, an old man watching his office?

Speaker 13 (01:15:15):
Oh thanks, Eddie. Probably wants to give me a bonus
on that last yarn I turned in for the sheet.

Speaker 14 (01:15:19):
Who knows what he wants including him walk into the door.

Speaker 38 (01:15:23):
Yeah, I do that.

Speaker 13 (01:15:24):
Some young cub reporter might be waiting to take a
bite out of me and transit.

Speaker 14 (01:15:27):
What are you working on for the old man, Harkins?

Speaker 13 (01:15:29):
Something hot, big secret stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:15:32):
No can talk, not even to me. I'm working here.

Speaker 13 (01:15:34):
You know, you never know it. See you later, ed, Hi, boss.

Speaker 14 (01:15:40):
I'll come in Harkins. I got an assignment for him.

Speaker 13 (01:15:43):
Good, let's have it.

Speaker 14 (01:15:45):
Ever hear a final events.

Speaker 13 (01:15:46):
Private investigator par excellence? Sure, I've heard of him.

Speaker 46 (01:15:50):
Get an interview on him, something about the cases he's
worked on. I want to make a good feature. Maybe
we'll run it as a series on Sundays.

Speaker 14 (01:15:57):
That's all just like that.

Speaker 13 (01:15:58):
I'm gonna get a story out of an Mike. You know,
he never talks to reporters.

Speaker 46 (01:16:03):
Don't be a reporter, Be a society gal, be somebody
in trouble, be anybody. Nobody said you had to be
a reporter.

Speaker 13 (01:16:09):
No, that's right, nobody did a lot of people have
told me I'm not a reporter, but you wouldn't be
one of them, would you mind?

Speaker 14 (01:16:15):
I might one of these days call me in. Let
me know how you make go.

Speaker 13 (01:16:19):
Okay, Mike up by the way, that yarn I was
on this morning, nothing doing on it, nng ns, no story?

Speaker 14 (01:16:26):
What one's that?

Speaker 13 (01:16:28):
That thing about the concert pian is Lilian White inheriting
a half million bucks? She denies it.

Speaker 14 (01:16:33):
She denies it, so there's no story. Maybe I should
have sent Henderson.

Speaker 13 (01:16:37):
Wait a minute, Mike, keep your top down. Did dig
up something on the White gal? Found out she was
once married to a man named Joe McGuff mean anything.

Speaker 14 (01:16:46):
Not to me? Did you knock out what you have here?

Speaker 13 (01:16:49):
It is on his paper only it isn't much and
you can't use it. But here it is such as
it is only. I'm telling you now, it's no yarn.
It's no nothing, man.

Speaker 46 (01:16:58):
If you got nothing except that she was married to
a guy named Joe mcgufford, sure is no story.

Speaker 14 (01:17:03):
Okay, leave it and all look it over. Go on,
huh see what you can find out in final vans.

Speaker 13 (01:17:08):
I'm on my way only from what I've heard of him.
I've got an idea you'll find out more about me
than I will about him.

Speaker 9 (01:17:23):
Keep keep hovering there, keep moving. Hey, you, what's the
idea of parking in the middle of a busy street?
More that cab out of there before I give you
a ticket?

Speaker 14 (01:17:33):
Office, I gotta talk to you. Come here, please hurry.

Speaker 9 (01:17:37):
Okay, what's with you in that taxi?

Speaker 14 (01:17:39):
I said, Look in the back of my cab. There's
a girl there. I picked her up in front of
the bullet and office ten minutes ago.

Speaker 9 (01:17:44):
What about it.

Speaker 47 (01:17:45):
She's dead, She's been murdered. There's a knife in her heart.

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That's the story of Vance, all of it. The girl
was a reporter on the bulletin and she was on
her way to interview you when she was murdered.

Speaker 14 (01:18:13):
Interview me. That sounds like a very interesting case, Markham.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Not to me.

Speaker 48 (01:18:17):
It doesn't if anybody was murdered because they were on
their way to interview you. Vans murder's getting a little
too close to home.

Speaker 46 (01:18:24):
Perhaps we'll move our home then, Ellen, what does the
district attorney think about that?

Speaker 47 (01:18:29):
I'm not thinking about anything Vance except this girl's murder
and the fact that she was on her way here
when she was killed. Generally, you're not concerned with the
murder until after it happens.

Speaker 46 (01:18:38):
That's true, of course, But before I do anything on
the girl's murder, I think it might be an idea to.

Speaker 14 (01:18:44):
Quiet by a secretary's fear for my safety.

Speaker 12 (01:18:48):
Ellen.

Speaker 14 (01:18:49):
Up until now, I've done a pretty good job of
taking care of myself, haven't I.

Speaker 48 (01:18:52):
Yes, fans, you have, but it only takes one mistake
to bring your average all the way down to zero.

Speaker 46 (01:18:57):
Well, I'll try not to make that mistake. Come on,
mark them, Let's get going. We'll make the newspaper office
our first stop. I don't know a better place to
pick up some news. Eddy, listen to me, somebody murdered
one of our staff. Reporters have solved cries before, but

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this one we've got to sew. I'd like to get
my mits on whoever knocked off Harkins.

Speaker 14 (01:19:24):
Mike. She was one of the best newspaper men I've
ever worked with.

Speaker 46 (01:19:28):
We'll go on, get going. Any there must be some
connection with her death and the story she was working on,
or you'd know what yarn you gave her, Mike.

Speaker 12 (01:19:34):
What was she on?

Speaker 14 (01:19:35):
Nothing? At the moment.

Speaker 46 (01:19:36):
Nothing but a straight assignment, an interview with final events
or was she working on before?

Speaker 14 (01:19:40):
Nothing?

Speaker 46 (01:19:41):
That item about a concert pianist named Lilian White and
hurting some money, nothing.

Speaker 47 (01:19:45):
Important, Nothing except that you took that story and put
it on page one. What a nice little job you
made of it too, headline? Is this the story that
caused the death of the bulletin reporter? Subhead? Who is
this mysterious Joe Magow nuts McGuff, mcgeo, ug h is mcgout?
All righty have it your way, only don't be bitter

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that yarn treated. Just that way, We'll be on page
one of every paper in the country by morning. They'll
all handle the story the same way. It's human interest
story that wasn't even a story becomes front page news.
Only had cost the reporter's life. I think maybe I'll
turn in my press card.

Speaker 14 (01:20:22):
I know how you feel, Eddie, but forget it. I'll listen.

Speaker 46 (01:20:26):
I'm out to the house where the taxi driver lives,
the one that picked up Hawkins in front of our building.
Get him to say something, whether he saw anybody get
in the cab when it stopped, or light anything.

Speaker 47 (01:20:34):
Okay, Mike I'm on my way only if the cab
driver knew anything he'd told the cops, and Riley at
headquarters said he keeps insisting he didn't see anyone get
into the cab.

Speaker 14 (01:20:42):
After Harkins got in.

Speaker 46 (01:20:43):
The cops let him go at ease, hol Now you
got the address, sure, Rally gave it to me. We'll
get on your horse and see what you can find out.

Speaker 12 (01:20:50):
Okay.

Speaker 47 (01:20:51):
I don't expect me to die just to put my
story on the front page. All right, Johnny, what is this?
Every newspaper man in town waiting to see that taxi driver.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Looks like you, don't it. We can't get in, though, Eddie.
Cops have been there since I got here. Flash a
press cart I could have left at home. Sergeant heats
in charge? Heat, Yeah, heats on homicide. What's he doing here?
That Hawkins girl's death wasn't in the accidents, you know?
And if you really want to know what Heath is doing,
ask him yourself. Here he comes out the door.

Speaker 9 (01:21:29):
Now, Hey, what'd he say?

Speaker 16 (01:21:31):
You get any All right? Shut up, shut up, all.

Speaker 47 (01:21:34):
Of you, okay, quite Heath. All we want to know
is whether that cab driver talked. Did he say he
saw anybody getting his cab while he was driving the girl?

Speaker 9 (01:21:41):
Yeah, what'd you get from? I said? Shut up?

Speaker 14 (01:21:44):
And I mean it.

Speaker 49 (01:21:45):
The cab driver didn't talk once more. He ain't gonna
talk now or never to nobody. He's dead, why, Yeah,
killed the same way as the girl was.

Speaker 14 (01:21:56):
We don't know who knocked him off either.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
Hello, Miss Lily and White.

Speaker 48 (01:22:11):
Yes, long distance is calling. I have your party, sir,
go ahead, please, Hello.

Speaker 13 (01:22:16):
Lil Yes, who is this?

Speaker 14 (01:22:19):
This is Joe Little, your darling husband. Remember me, Joe?
Where are you?

Speaker 13 (01:22:25):
What do you want?

Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
It don't make hardly any difference where I am and
what I want? Well, that don't make hardly any difference either.
I'd just seen the papers.

Speaker 13 (01:22:36):
But Joe, Joe, I don't know how that reporter found
out that you were my husband. I didn't tell her.

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
I don't suppose you would hardly, but she found out only.
I don't care about that. I care about a half
million bucks you in her. According to the story, I
want in on that dough. I'm entitled to it. I'm
still married to you, remember.

Speaker 14 (01:23:01):
Kid, Joe.

Speaker 13 (01:23:02):
That story isn't true.

Speaker 14 (01:23:04):
Maybe maybe not. Anyhow, I'm hopping a plane in a
few minutes, and I'll be in to see you in
a couple of hours. Just don't be too surprised when
I walk in. I hardly want to surprise you, honey, hardly.

Speaker 47 (01:23:29):
City Room's on the eighth floor, Jimmen, thank you. Well,
we're finally on the way to the bulletin office. Fance,
Sorry we were held up. The taxi driver's death didn't
help us any Markham. Apparently the same person killed miss Harkins.
I'm the one murderer, and you saw two murders.

Speaker 46 (01:23:46):
Hmmm, sounds like bargain day. You know why the taxi
driver was killed, I think so. And I think I
know why miss Harkins was killed too, And.

Speaker 47 (01:23:55):
I'd say she was killed because of a story she
was working on. Someone didn't want that story. And if
that's true, when we see her editor, we'll find out
what she was working on, and we'll have our suspects.
The general idea is a possibility. The cab driver's death
is pretty easily explained.

Speaker 46 (01:24:11):
He probably did see someone in his cab with Miss Harkins,
didn't tell the police, but instead figured he'd try a
little blackmail.

Speaker 14 (01:24:17):
Oh when will people learn? I wonder he won't learn
anything any more. I'm afraid. Well, here's the eighth floor
city room straight ahead, right in advance. I think this
case is going to give us trouble. I just have
that feeling. All cases give us trouble, Markham.

Speaker 46 (01:24:36):
In every case we ever work on, somebody has committed
a murder they've thought out pretty carefully in their intelligence
lies the extent of the trouble they cause us.

Speaker 14 (01:24:46):
And I'm sure our murderer this time isn't stupid, and
my hunt was correct.

Speaker 46 (01:24:51):
Probably we'll know very shortly, as soon as we know
what story. Miss Hawkins was going to print one in
with me. I beg your pardon, Yes, what is it?
I'm final advance. This is District Attorney Markham.

Speaker 47 (01:25:08):
Oh yeah, oh hello, hello both of you. I'm Eddie Henderson.
Can I help you dvance?

Speaker 14 (01:25:12):
Perhaps I'd like to see the city editor. Where do
I find him?

Speaker 47 (01:25:15):
In that office back there? The first one on your right?
Walk right in where it says private. Everyone else does,
thank you? Oh, by the way, which desk was miss Hawkins?

Speaker 14 (01:25:25):
That one there? First one? You see why? I don't
imagine we have to explain? Why do we, mister Henderson?

Speaker 47 (01:25:32):
Oh no, of course not I'm sorry, Well, I gotta
get this copy to the boy. Excuse me, why didn't.

Speaker 46 (01:25:38):
You tell him why we wanted to see miss Harkins
desk Barkham A very complicated reason. Vance you didn't tell
me why we wanted to see it?

Speaker 14 (01:25:46):
Well, here it is. Let me see.

Speaker 46 (01:25:51):
Every newspaper writer I ever knew kept a carbon of
every pc he wrote, generally the top drawer.

Speaker 14 (01:25:57):
Hmm, Miss Hawkins was no exception of hardly there are
hur commons.

Speaker 46 (01:26:01):
I'm going to take a look at the last few,
just for luck. Nothing on the first one except the
note to Winterview me.

Speaker 14 (01:26:09):
We knew about that. Yes, of course this one.

Speaker 46 (01:26:12):
Lily and White denied today that she had inherited five
hundred thousand dollars, although the Bulletin learned from authoritative sources
that she had. Miss White, famous concert pianist, was the
wife of Joe McGuff.

Speaker 14 (01:26:25):
H have you heard of him?

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Markham McGuff, How.

Speaker 14 (01:26:30):
Do you spell it? Man McGuff? Knowing? I'm not sure?

Speaker 46 (01:26:38):
Well, Malcolm, that's the unfinished story every paper in America.
Carriage is the last item miss Harkins wrote.

Speaker 14 (01:26:43):
That's the story her killer didn't want finished. I imagine eh.

Speaker 46 (01:26:47):
Perhaps, and then again perhaps not. I'll just borrow this carbon. Now,
let's see our friend of the city editor.

Speaker 47 (01:26:55):
Oh, his name is Abbot, Mike Abbott, though that doesn't
tell us anything. Of course, it isn't his name I
expect will tell us anything.

Speaker 14 (01:27:02):
I'm hoping that he will. Hello miss White Eddie.

Speaker 13 (01:27:16):
Eddie, what are you doing in my apartment?

Speaker 14 (01:27:18):
Talking to you?

Speaker 47 (01:27:19):
I mean, I don't know why I'm bothering to I've
done a lot for you in the bullet and Lilian,
but I didn't.

Speaker 14 (01:27:25):
Like what you did to pay me off.

Speaker 13 (01:27:26):
Please, Eddie, don't I have enough trouble now? I I
don't even know what you're talking about.

Speaker 14 (01:27:31):
Don't you.

Speaker 47 (01:27:32):
It wouldn't be that you wanted to make sure Marna
Harkins never got any more information about you, would it,
And that you killed her?

Speaker 13 (01:27:38):
I killed her? Who sent it to me with that
made up story about an inheritance that I never got
couldn't have been anybody but you.

Speaker 47 (01:27:46):
It doesn't matter where the paper got the tip that
sent Harkins here. What does matter to me is that
you wouldn't want any information about your husband is Joe
macguff to get out?

Speaker 14 (01:27:55):
You see? I just got finished checking and I found
out the rackets.

Speaker 13 (01:27:58):
He's been running out of here, Eddie, get out of
here before I send for someone to throw you out.

Speaker 47 (01:28:02):
Who are you going to send for it, Joe? And
what are you gonna tell him? And aren't you afraid?
I've got something to tell him too? That this is

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District Attorney Markham. The bullet and murder case began when
Murder Harkin's Bulletin reporter was found stabbed to death in
a cab. Final Vance visited the bulletin office, where he
talked to Eddie Henderson, reporter and Mike Abbott, editor. Neither
could throw any light on the murder, but the police
believed that a story Miss Harkins was writing and which

(01:28:44):
was later published unfinished as a clue. It concerns a
concert pianist named Lilian White and her secret and up
till now missing husband Joe McGuff. Vance was on his
way to Miss White's apartment when I last saw him,
and should be there in a few minutes.

Speaker 14 (01:29:04):
Wats the matter, Lily? You don't seem hardly glad to
see me at all?

Speaker 12 (01:29:08):
Hardly Go oh.

Speaker 13 (01:29:10):
Hey, Joe, go back where you came from.

Speaker 14 (01:29:13):
I hopped the plane just to look at you, Lily,
so stop playing that piano. I want to look at
you and that half million bucks.

Speaker 13 (01:29:22):
There is no half million, Joe. I don't know who
had the newspaper. Ever thought I inherited anything. I didn't
believe me. I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
Maybe not anyhow, I'm going to stick around town here
to make sure. Hey, that newspaper dame that wrote that story,
she's the one got herself killed. That wouldn't hardly be
anything you did, Lily.

Speaker 13 (01:29:46):
Joe, you don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 14 (01:29:48):
No, maybe not Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
I have in a way a couple of years. I
was coming back about this time. Any how to take
care of a guy you wouldn't hardly know? Nobody named Gregory?
Would you Bill Gregory?

Speaker 12 (01:30:03):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:30:05):
No, I never heard of him, and I wish i'd
never heard of you.

Speaker 14 (01:30:08):
I like you too, Lily lady, only I don't hardly
like the way you're talking to me. Somebody calling on, Lily.

Speaker 13 (01:30:15):
I don't know. I'm not expecting anyone. Might be the police.
They've been here almost all the time since that story appeared.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
Okay, Lily, if it's the cups, I'll get out the
back way. I gotta take care of you and that
Gregory guy. Only it's two different ways that taken care.

Speaker 13 (01:30:32):
Be seeing you, Lily, I'm coming just a moment, Yes.

Speaker 14 (01:30:39):
Miss White, I'm final vance. May I come in?

Speaker 12 (01:30:43):
Yes?

Speaker 46 (01:30:45):
Yes, of course your company left in a hurry. I
presume I didn't scare him off.

Speaker 12 (01:30:51):
Did I?

Speaker 13 (01:30:52):
How did you know there had been somebody here?

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
Oh?

Speaker 46 (01:30:55):
Please, Miss White, don't expect any Sherlock Holmes explanations such
as a rubber heel mark on your where a burning
cigar left carelessly behind. I merely heard voices from outside. Oh,
magnificent piano.

Speaker 13 (01:31:08):
This what do you want, mister Vans?

Speaker 14 (01:31:13):
Well, under any.

Speaker 46 (01:31:14):
Other circumstances, i'd want to hear you play. But right
at the moment, I'd like to know about a man
named Joe McGuff.

Speaker 13 (01:31:21):
What the papers printed about him? Was true? He's my husband.

Speaker 46 (01:31:25):
McGuff a mc g o U g h. Yes, then
the paper's had the spelling right. I wondered, by the way,
it wasn't he who was here a little while back?

Speaker 14 (01:31:36):
Was it?

Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (01:31:37):
It was he left the back way. He thought you
might be the police.

Speaker 14 (01:31:42):
Oh what's his allergy to police? Miss White?

Speaker 13 (01:31:46):
I don't know what he's been doing. He's been away
for five years. All I do know is that right
now he's looking for a man named Gregory.

Speaker 46 (01:31:53):
He's been away five years, and Ms. Harkins found out
about you and him.

Speaker 13 (01:31:58):
She came to interview me when I was my maid
let her in and she was alone here in the apartment.
She might have come across my marriage license correspondence anything.

Speaker 14 (01:32:07):
They did say. She was a good reporter.

Speaker 16 (01:32:10):
Ms.

Speaker 46 (01:32:10):
White, Have you any idea where I can see Joe
McGuff No, no, I don't. I haven't either, but I'll
find him. You may be unhappy to learn. I think

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that will be all Miss Daring. My notes are up
to date on the bullet and murder. I believe read
me the last item again. Will you please.

Speaker 48 (01:32:37):
Certainly vance with the knowledge of the above fact detailed
and chronological order. It is very evident to me who
murdered Murda Harkins and as a consequence, Arthur Allen the
taxi driver. Oh that's advance.

Speaker 13 (01:32:51):
Now tell me who was it?

Speaker 46 (01:32:52):
Who it was Allan is secondary in this case to
why it was. Wait until Markham gets here, which should
be momentarily, and I'll tell you both the same.

Speaker 48 (01:33:00):
Time you could dictate it, and then I'll promise not
to even look at it until the district attorney gets here.

Speaker 13 (01:33:05):
Oh, Ellen, I'll wait for Mark.

Speaker 12 (01:33:08):
Hello, you too.

Speaker 14 (01:33:10):
I am right on schedule, ractically.

Speaker 48 (01:33:11):
On cue, and I'm glad you're here.

Speaker 47 (01:33:14):
Really well, that's very complimentary, Vance. I've got some information.
Joe McGuff is at the Rex Hotel. Heath tracked him down.
Only McGuff doesn't know that.

Speaker 46 (01:33:24):
Good Markham. That's really good news. It will postpone my announcement. However,
I'm going to see mister McGuff Fance. You promise, Yes,
I did, Ellen, But I told you the fascinating part
of this case was why Miss Hawkins was killed. That's
the part I don't know either, but it's the part
I'm going to find out now. I could kick you

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out of here, Vance. He could hardly blame me for that,
could you hardly?

Speaker 23 (01:33:55):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:33:55):
I couldn't. You don't seem surprised that I found you
to go. I heard of you, Vince. I ain't surprised
at nothing you do.

Speaker 46 (01:34:04):
That it won't disturb you too much to know that
I can find a certain man named Gregory for you.

Speaker 4 (01:34:08):
Gregory, you know where he is, I think so maybe
you're thinking it's a good Maybe you talk faster and
you know, what does he look like?

Speaker 46 (01:34:18):
About forty five, gray hair, parted on the side, big fellow,
big head.

Speaker 14 (01:34:22):
And big bluff. Okay, Vince, you know him?

Speaker 12 (01:34:25):
Where is he?

Speaker 14 (01:34:26):
First? What do you have against mister Gregory? A beef?
That's what I have.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
And he knows I got that beef. And he knows
that one day I was gonna come and take it
out on him a hard way. So he's afraid of you.
He's been afraid of me for five years, ever since
he crossed me. And every day of those five years
he ain't hardly slept hardly. And O'Connor he knew I'd
get him. You think, not hardly, Joe. I'm going to

(01:34:52):
do more than just tell you where Gregory is and
what name he's using. I'm going to deliver him to you.

Speaker 14 (01:34:58):
How'd you like that? I like it with bells on,
my coat off and my sleeves rolled up. That's how
I'd like it. Hello, Ellen, this is Vance. Is Mark.

(01:35:25):
I'm still at the office.

Speaker 48 (01:35:26):
Yes, he's sitting right here, Vance, and so am I.
Only I'm on pins and needles rather uncomfortable.

Speaker 14 (01:35:30):
I imagine, Vance, I've got.

Speaker 48 (01:35:31):
To know who killed murder Hawkins and why?

Speaker 13 (01:35:34):
But I'll sell it for one thing.

Speaker 26 (01:35:35):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:35:36):
Were the police right in.

Speaker 48 (01:35:37):
Their original premise that the story about Miss White's inheritance
was the reason Miss Hawkins was murdered?

Speaker 12 (01:35:42):
You mean?

Speaker 46 (01:35:43):
Was Miss Hawkins killed to prevent that story from being printed? Yes,
we've never been more wrong in our lives. That murder
was committed in order to make certain that that story appeared.
Good evening, mister Rabbit. Huh oh, hello, Vance, where's your

(01:36:05):
star reporter, mister rabbit, mister Eddie Henderson, I believe his
name is.

Speaker 14 (01:36:09):
He's out in the city room. You want him?

Speaker 46 (01:36:10):
Yes, as soon as I check some facts with you, Yeah,
check away, mister Rabbit. mRNA harkins last story would never
have been printed if she hadn't been murdered.

Speaker 14 (01:36:18):
Isn't that so? You mean it was no story the
way she wrote it? That's right.

Speaker 46 (01:36:22):
Suppose it was important to somebody that that story appeared,
not only in your paper but nationally. It would be
impossible unless the person who wrote it suddenly became important.
You know, Abbott, I think I chaf oh, come in Henderson.
We were talking about you a while ago. Sergeant Eith Vance,
please come in with mister Henderson and stay close to him,

(01:36:44):
will you sure Vance?

Speaker 19 (01:36:46):
Anything you say?

Speaker 14 (01:36:47):
Come on, Henderson, Vance wants you. What do you are
with me? Vance?

Speaker 12 (01:36:50):
Eddie?

Speaker 14 (01:36:51):
Mister Vance thinks you had something to do with Myrna
Harkins's death. He does, well, isn't that nice?

Speaker 49 (01:36:57):
Don't get tough with Vance?

Speaker 9 (01:36:58):
Who are wrap your one?

Speaker 6 (01:37:00):
Thank you?

Speaker 46 (01:37:00):
Sergeant Henderson. You knew nobody would print the Lily in
white inheritance story the way she wrote it, so you
killed her to make sure it would appear.

Speaker 14 (01:37:09):
Take him downtown, Eith sure Vans, come along. You get
your hands off me, you big Egge. I never killed anybody.

Speaker 9 (01:37:15):
I'll meet you.

Speaker 16 (01:37:17):
I'll take care of this character.

Speaker 12 (01:37:19):
Vance.

Speaker 16 (01:37:19):
Don't worry.

Speaker 14 (01:37:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 46 (01:37:24):
So Henderson's a murderer. I can't believe it, then, don't
try to. Oh, mister Gregory, Yeah, I mean, who don't
bother with a deception?

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
My friend.

Speaker 46 (01:37:34):
I know your name is Gregory, and I know you
killed Myrna Harkins. That little by play with Henderson just
now is to throw you off your guard so you'd
answer to the name of Gregory. What does that prove
a lot of things. You said, whoever killed Harkins did
it so her story would get in the paper. Well,
I'm the editor. I could use that story if i'd
wanted to. And what's this mister Gregory business about. You're Gregory,

(01:37:55):
al right? I described you to Joe McGuff. McGuff, that's right,
and it's right that you could have published miss harkins
story in your own paper, But that wasn't any good.
You had to have a story that would break nationally,
so no matter where McGuff was, he'd see it and
come back here.

Speaker 14 (01:38:10):
I wanted him back here, whoever he is.

Speaker 46 (01:38:13):
Most certainly that was your intention when you first dreamed
up the inheritance story for miss Harkins to work on.
You had the whole thing planned. Then let her write
the denial. Then you would to kill her, and her
last story would then be page one news all over
the country. You wanted McGuff back here so you could
kill him before he got you.

Speaker 14 (01:38:31):
Hey, hey, here, I am vance. I take this guy downtown, please.

Speaker 46 (01:38:37):
He's one of the lowest murderers I've ever met, killing
an innocent girl just as a means to bring somebody
here where he could get his hands on him, Hawkins innocent.
That's how much you know. She knew all about me,
the same things that McGuff knew. She'd been blackmailing me
for years. Ay, Vance, that's tell me. I gotta know something.

(01:38:58):
Where did I make my mistake? You would two good
a newspaper man. Gregory too good a newspaperman, but not
too good a murderer. Well, Ellen, any questions.

Speaker 24 (01:39:15):
Just one?

Speaker 28 (01:39:16):
Vance?

Speaker 48 (01:39:16):
What pointed mister Abbott or Gregory as the murderer?

Speaker 14 (01:39:20):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 46 (01:39:21):
When Murda Hawkins wrote the story of Lillian White's alleged inheritance,
she spelled McGuff mc guff.

Speaker 12 (01:39:28):
Yes.

Speaker 46 (01:39:29):
Her editor, who'd sent her on the story in the
first place, knew the correct spelling was mc gug h,
so he changed her copy accordingly.

Speaker 23 (01:39:37):
Oh, I get it.

Speaker 48 (01:39:38):
And actually he'd have no way of knowing the right
spelling unless he knew McGuff correct.

Speaker 46 (01:39:43):
He had to change the story to be sure it
came to the attention of the right McGuff. Quite simple,
isn't it.

Speaker 48 (01:39:49):
It always is after you explain it. Vance, You're so
wonderful you solved this one. And it was a pretty
tough package.

Speaker 46 (01:39:56):
Well, let's not discuss packages, Ellen. Let's understand only that
this is the end of the Bullet Murder Case.

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We continue now on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
An episode of Frontier Gentleman starring John Dayner from sixty
seven years ago, October fifth, nineteen fifty eight, The Story
of the Librarian.

Speaker 19 (01:41:21):
Last week I reported an incident involving a gold mining claim.
This is the story of an altogether different type of claim.

Speaker 50 (01:41:35):
Frontier Gentleman here with an Englishman's account of life and
death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times,

(01:41:57):
he writes his colorful and unusual story. But as a
man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part
of the violent years in the New Territories. In just
a moment, we will bring you this latest report from
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(01:42:18):
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Every morning on CBS Radio, join CBS News Correspondence on

(01:42:38):
the World News Roundup for reports from the major news
centers of the world. Now starring John Dayner, this is
the story of JB. Kendall, Frontier Gentleman.

Speaker 19 (01:42:57):
Now on the western shore of the Missouri River Indicota Territory,
is a town called Fort Pierre across the river a

(01:43:21):
tiny wood frame extension of Fort Pier called simply Pier.
But it is here that the United States Government has
established a land office, and it was here that I
journeyed in search of a story on homesteaders. The land
office was closed, but a local citizen told me I
might find homesteaders some twenty five miles east of there instead.

(01:43:45):
It was only desolation, and I was turning my horse
for the trip back to Pier when the afternoon air
was shooting by an exchange of gun punts. Riding towards
a puff of smoke that rose from a dry wash
some distance away, I found a woman who appeared to
be in her middle thirties, busily firing a rifle at
a shank that stood some hundred yards beyond him.

Speaker 51 (01:44:09):
Love that Cavin, with your hands in the air while
you can steal, what.

Speaker 19 (01:44:14):
Do you need help? Don't cony closer, mister, I'm not
going to harm you.

Speaker 9 (01:44:18):
Don't come any closer off suits.

Speaker 19 (01:44:19):
I'm sure you would, but you'd be making a mistake.

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
Are you with him?

Speaker 19 (01:44:23):
I assume you are talking about the party or shooting
at in the cabin.

Speaker 27 (01:44:27):
No, I assure you I'm not with him.

Speaker 13 (01:44:29):
It's a trick.

Speaker 12 (01:44:29):
You're on his side.

Speaker 16 (01:44:31):
No.

Speaker 19 (01:44:31):
I happened to be in the area. I heard the
gunshots soon came over to investigate you.

Speaker 9 (01:44:36):
Sure, I'm caught.

Speaker 51 (01:44:43):
You, convinced, almost got you, didn't he gotta keep that
long neck of yours down.

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
But I'm not taking this rifle off you till I know.

Speaker 23 (01:44:51):
Who you are.

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
What's your name?

Speaker 19 (01:44:54):
JB.

Speaker 27 (01:44:54):
Kendall?

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
What are you doing around here?

Speaker 27 (01:44:57):
I'm a writer, mister.

Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
Do you think I'm just fooling with you?

Speaker 20 (01:45:03):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:45:03):
No, no, not at all. I am a writer. I
write for the London Times. I'm a correspondent.

Speaker 5 (01:45:09):
No, you don't keep your hands where I can see them.

Speaker 27 (01:45:13):
Miss Please believe me.

Speaker 19 (01:45:16):
If I could be of help, I want to, but
a shotgun interrogation is hardly to my liking.

Speaker 27 (01:45:20):
Do you want to tell me what this is all about?

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
I don't trust you. I'm not used to this kind
of thing people out here.

Speaker 19 (01:45:30):
Something tells me Dakota Territory is a good deal west
of your home.

Speaker 5 (01:45:35):
My husband died in Massachusetts. I've just come from there.

Speaker 27 (01:45:38):
I'm sorry you haven't told me your name.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
Missus James Danworthy Almayra down withy?

Speaker 6 (01:45:45):
Is it done with me?

Speaker 27 (01:45:48):
What you're doing out here besides trying to kill somebody.

Speaker 51 (01:45:51):
It's not a joking, madam. Mister Ken did My husband
and I came west almost a year ago. We'd seen
one of those advertisements in the eastern papers, the cheats,
advertising towns.

Speaker 5 (01:46:01):
In the West that don't even exist. Yes, I have
to all our money, which wasn't much.

Speaker 51 (01:46:06):
He'd been a soldier four years of war and several
years after, and I was a librarian in Boston. I
was thirty when I married him. I'd waited a long
time for him to get his fill of the army.

Speaker 13 (01:46:17):
Then we.

Speaker 5 (01:46:18):
Came west and nothing worked out.

Speaker 51 (01:46:22):
We'd paid for a house and lot in a town
that didn't even exist, that was in Kansas.

Speaker 27 (01:46:28):
And how did you happen to come to Dakota.

Speaker 51 (01:46:30):
We wanted to get out of Kansas and heard about
this homestead land here. Kind of dry sometimes, but we
liked it, I guess because we could have it. We
preempted it right away, and pre emptied for me. If
you're twenty one and a citizen, haven't borne arms against
the United States, you can have one hundred and sixty

(01:46:50):
acres and.

Speaker 27 (01:46:51):
You've got one hundred and sixty acres.

Speaker 51 (01:46:55):
If I'm living there a week from now I have
Oh what do you mean? You get six months to
prove up on your land?

Speaker 5 (01:47:03):
Jim took sick.

Speaker 51 (01:47:04):
We had three months more to go. I took him
back to Massachusetts, but it was too late.

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
He died there.

Speaker 19 (01:47:11):
Now you're back when somebody has moved in on your claim?

Speaker 12 (01:47:13):
Is that it?

Speaker 36 (01:47:14):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
I have to be living here or I lose it.

Speaker 27 (01:47:19):
I see. Would you know who the man is?

Speaker 12 (01:47:22):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:47:23):
I just got here today. He chased me away, said
it was his place.

Speaker 27 (01:47:28):
Have you talked to him? No, just shooting at him.

Speaker 51 (01:47:32):
Yes, he came out several times, but I couldn't hit him.
I'd kill him if I could.

Speaker 5 (01:47:38):
Jim and I worked hard for this.

Speaker 27 (01:47:40):
Why did you come back?

Speaker 5 (01:47:41):
It was to be our home, not.

Speaker 23 (01:47:45):
It was mine.

Speaker 27 (01:47:48):
It's still yours.

Speaker 30 (01:47:49):
You can you do well?

Speaker 27 (01:47:51):
First, take that rifle.

Speaker 12 (01:47:55):
With him.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
You are No, it's been a trick the whole time,
all of this.

Speaker 14 (01:47:59):
No.

Speaker 19 (01:48:00):
No, and now listen to me. I'm going up and
talk to him.

Speaker 36 (01:48:05):
You're not fooling me.

Speaker 5 (01:48:06):
He's just doing that, trying to make me think he's
shooting at you. You're together stealing my lap right now?

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
You for tricking me.

Speaker 19 (01:48:15):
Wait, I'm going up there.

Speaker 27 (01:48:19):
I'll talk to him.

Speaker 19 (01:48:22):
Don't shoot, don't shoot, I'll kill you.

Speaker 33 (01:48:31):
Thing I do.

Speaker 30 (01:48:43):
It's the smoke which comes through the filter that counts.

Speaker 19 (01:48:47):
Yes.

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Speaker 19 (01:49:54):
I walked toward the cabin. At any moment I expected gunfire,
Nothing happened. I was such an obvious target that my
hidden adversary must have been curious as to my intent.
It was with a feeling of relief that I finally
confronted the stranger in the cabin. Young man, but haggard
and hungry looking. He stood in the doorway and waggled

(01:50:17):
a long rifle barrel at me.

Speaker 31 (01:50:21):
Oh look here, I got me a brave yankee, just
gone well, ride down this squirrel gun. All right, stop
in your tracks, Jackie, you move that raffle your won't
age all blew.

Speaker 12 (01:50:36):
Your eards out.

Speaker 27 (01:50:37):
I have no quarrel with you.

Speaker 7 (01:50:40):
Hoo, Why I didn't even yankee throw down our rifle?

Speaker 27 (01:50:45):
No, I came to talk, not give up my gun.
I told you I have no quarrel with you.

Speaker 12 (01:50:53):
I shoot you down right now.

Speaker 27 (01:50:55):
You could and you never know what I have to say.

Speaker 12 (01:51:00):
Mister, you gotta allow nerve walking up here.

Speaker 19 (01:51:02):
No more than you have taking over the lady's claim.

Speaker 9 (01:51:05):
That's what you want to say.

Speaker 19 (01:51:06):
You come here to say that I'm asking you to leave.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
You gonna shuck on you.

Speaker 30 (01:51:15):
Shuck cigarette makings?

Speaker 1 (01:51:17):
You got any yes? Hand them over?

Speaker 27 (01:51:24):
Is that an order or a request?

Speaker 9 (01:51:26):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 19 (01:51:27):
Did it occur to you that I may not like
to take orders? That my rifle is covering you at.

Speaker 31 (01:51:33):
This point, mister, I've had every rifle in the Yankee
army on me one time or another.

Speaker 14 (01:51:42):
Don't make no do to me.

Speaker 1 (01:51:43):
Give me the makons if you can spare.

Speaker 27 (01:51:47):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:51:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:51:51):
Catch you. You're pretty shaky, aren't you be?

Speaker 6 (01:51:56):
New?

Speaker 14 (01:51:57):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:51:58):
No, it's sick.

Speaker 12 (01:52:01):
The war left me that.

Speaker 14 (01:52:04):
Who's that lady?

Speaker 9 (01:52:05):
Your wife?

Speaker 27 (01:52:06):
No, just a friend.

Speaker 9 (01:52:08):
You better tell her to leave me alone.

Speaker 7 (01:52:09):
I could kill her easy, but I assume not.

Speaker 19 (01:52:11):
But you seem like a decent sort. Why don't you
saddle up and right on. This lady is a widow.
She and her husband built this.

Speaker 31 (01:52:18):
Mister, Now you get this, and you get it straight.
I spent four years shopping in my eye on Yankees
during the war. Now it's over and we're all supposed
to be friends again.

Speaker 9 (01:52:27):
But it don't work that way.

Speaker 23 (01:52:28):
See.

Speaker 31 (01:52:30):
I've had a saddle throat on me in every town
west of the Mississippi and north Dark Kansas. I got
a hold of my neck to chase a plow, but
the Yankees won't let me have no land legal like.

Speaker 9 (01:52:40):
So I found this one and I'm taking it.

Speaker 14 (01:52:43):
You hear me, Then.

Speaker 19 (01:52:44):
You'd rather steal this line from a widow?

Speaker 12 (01:52:47):
Yankee? Is the best widow makers.

Speaker 14 (01:52:49):
I know, mister the war is over, is it.

Speaker 12 (01:52:54):
Nothing? But oh God, leave me be.

Speaker 9 (01:53:03):
Cool, get out of here.

Speaker 27 (01:53:05):
You are sick, aren't you leave me be?

Speaker 12 (01:53:08):
I said, don't kid, Next time you come out, I'll
kill you.

Speaker 5 (01:53:29):
I never expected you to come back.

Speaker 27 (01:53:32):
Did you really think I was in partnership to steal
your property?

Speaker 24 (01:53:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
I saw you talking to him. I thought, I understand
who is he?

Speaker 27 (01:53:43):
War sick Confederate soldier?

Speaker 5 (01:53:45):
Can we get him out?

Speaker 19 (01:53:47):
And I don't want to shoot him. He's had enough
of that. And we'll go to the land office and Pierre,
they'll see you get it back legally.

Speaker 12 (01:54:11):
Ah.

Speaker 27 (01:54:12):
Good morning, folks, Good morning. I'm mister Kendall, and this
is now.

Speaker 9 (01:54:17):
Don't tell me, don't tell me.

Speaker 19 (01:54:19):
This is the charming Missus Kendall.

Speaker 17 (01:54:22):
No, this is Missus Danworthy, Missus Danworthy Hartley Quill, United
States landage in power, excellence, your humble.

Speaker 9 (01:54:30):
Servant, madam.

Speaker 5 (01:54:32):
Yes, how do you do, mister Quill?

Speaker 17 (01:54:35):
Now, you folks are desirous of locating a nice homestead
in the area.

Speaker 14 (01:54:39):
Is that correct?

Speaker 9 (01:54:41):
Will cost you fifty cents?

Speaker 17 (01:54:42):
I shall have my assistant, mister Todd, bring forward the
necessary papers. If you can't read, I'll help you, mister Todd.

Speaker 27 (01:54:49):
Mister Quill, please listen, your servant, sir.

Speaker 19 (01:54:52):
Yes, well then, yes, well, missus Danworthy and her late
husband already have a homestead claim some five miles east
of here.

Speaker 17 (01:55:01):
Oh a widow, madam. I am sorry, mister Todd, never mind, Yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:55:07):
Mister Kendall, maybe i'd better work this out in my
own way.

Speaker 12 (01:55:11):
Work what out?

Speaker 14 (01:55:12):
Madam?

Speaker 5 (01:55:12):
There's a claim jumper on my property?

Speaker 19 (01:55:14):
Claim jumper?

Speaker 9 (01:55:16):
Do you mean some foul citizen has moved onto your.

Speaker 19 (01:55:20):
Land, worse into the cabin. He's taken it over, and
you want him out? Of course, of course we thought
maybe you could advise him.

Speaker 20 (01:55:26):
No.

Speaker 17 (01:55:27):
No, As government land agent, I am not allowed to
advise in these matters. What you need is a land attorney,
a person familiar with the law. Yes, not only familiar
with it, but conversant and persuasive.

Speaker 19 (01:55:41):
May I ask are you allowed to recommend such a person?

Speaker 12 (01:55:44):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:55:45):
Indeed, indeed, madam, your worries are over the land attorney.
Mister Quiyle, you were, Fortunately, sir, there is one in
these parts, but only one. His name Bartley Wilkinson, Quell,
Attorney at law Yale fifty four.

Speaker 27 (01:56:00):
Yes, of course I should have known, all right?

Speaker 6 (01:56:03):
What can you do in time, good sir?

Speaker 17 (01:56:05):
In time, mister Todd, bring me my book covering claim jumpers.

Speaker 12 (01:56:09):
What I don't understand this? There's no book, oh Todd.

Speaker 17 (01:56:14):
Pardon sir for the stupidity of my assistance. Stupidity is
the problem these days, all phases of government.

Speaker 27 (01:56:20):
Well, now I wouldn't you found it?

Speaker 6 (01:56:22):
Of course, Todd, Yes, sir, it is this it.

Speaker 19 (01:56:25):
Mister quill I. Missus Danworthy hardly has the time for
such legal work as you apparently intend to do.

Speaker 9 (01:56:31):
But a matter of weeks, Kendall have him out in
no time.

Speaker 12 (01:56:35):
That's just it.

Speaker 19 (01:56:36):
What is she has less than a week in which
to be living on her land? No, it has to
be done quickly, now a widow, you say, yes, now, madam?
There will doubtless be many legal affairs of another nature
to be taken care of Will's estate, settlements affairs in
the east Batan. Mister quill it is not necessary to
hang your shingle on Missus Dunworthy's doors.

Speaker 9 (01:56:56):
Nor should one hide under a bushel, my dear sir.

Speaker 27 (01:56:58):
Not a chance, mister quill.

Speaker 19 (01:57:00):
Thank you, mister pul You've been most entertaining, but the
lady needs more instantaneous help. Do I detect a depression?
What you will? Good day?

Speaker 17 (01:57:08):
Just a moment, sir, I perceive that this is a
matter for the sheriff. You your servant, Sir. I'll get
up a posse. Isn't that proper? A posse, mister Kendall,
and we'll go.

Speaker 14 (01:57:22):
Hang the man.

Speaker 50 (01:57:36):
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Speaker 19 (01:58:14):
Not knowing how long mister Quill would take to organize
his posse, I insisted missus Dunworthy engage hotel room to rest.
Then I went out and watched the tiny town of
Peer come alive with excitement as mister Quill spread the
word that help was needed. By noon, twenty men with
horses were lounging about the land office waiting for mister Quill,

(01:58:35):
whom I knew, to be inside with his books looking
up the proper procedure for handling a posse. I felt
it was a good opportunity for me to tell the
men my feelings in regard to the man in the cabin.

Speaker 27 (01:58:46):
Least of all, did I want to hang.

Speaker 19 (01:58:50):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, your attentions. Please. Thank you A gentleman, as
you may or may not know, I am mister King.
It was I who brought Missus Danworthy to town for help.

Speaker 16 (01:59:04):
Oh she We don't know nothing about this, just that
the old man needed a cross.

Speaker 19 (01:59:09):
Oh I see, well, some of you may remember missus Danworthy.
She and her husband homestead of twenty five miles from here.
They took a trip back east and her husband died.
Now she's come back to find a claim jumper.

Speaker 27 (01:59:25):
On her place.

Speaker 16 (01:59:25):
We know how to take care of them.

Speaker 19 (01:59:28):
No, no, no, please, that's exactly what we doubt want.
Now I've talked to this man. He is dangerous in
his present frame of mind, and I suggest that we
proceed with caution, but I also insist.

Speaker 27 (01:59:41):
That we do not kill the man.

Speaker 19 (01:59:44):
I've heard that you sometimes let claim jumpers swim across
the river, is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:59:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:59:51):
Funny thing though, ain't no record of wann to ever
reach another side, just just a moment.

Speaker 19 (02:00:02):
I'm not suggesting that either.

Speaker 12 (02:00:04):
Well, what do you want us to do with him?

Speaker 9 (02:00:06):
Chase seem and put him to bed?

Speaker 19 (02:00:08):
If you just, gentlemen, please, please, gentlemen, if you'll just
help me to catch him without harm. Now, what he's
doing isn't fair to Missus Danworthy, and he must be removed.
But killing him is not the answer.

Speaker 12 (02:00:21):
I know how you going to get rid him otherwise.

Speaker 9 (02:00:23):
It's nice here you are? Boy?

Speaker 17 (02:00:28):
Well everybody ready, yes, sir, Yeah, I've been reading up
on it.

Speaker 9 (02:00:33):
Boys. I found out one thing here.

Speaker 19 (02:00:36):
What's that quill?

Speaker 6 (02:00:37):
It's no good without a rope.

Speaker 30 (02:00:40):
Yeah, Because after the.

Speaker 19 (02:00:45):
Men had ridden out of town toward the homestead, that
I discovered Missus Danworthy had disappeared. She had not lain
in her bed at the hotel, and no one had
any idea where she might have gone. Her wagon and
horse were missing, and I rode as fast as I could,
but I was too late.

Speaker 27 (02:01:00):
POSSI had arrived just ahead of me.

Speaker 12 (02:01:06):
Will just a moment.

Speaker 19 (02:01:10):
This is Dunworthy. Have you or any of your men
seen her?

Speaker 17 (02:01:13):
It doesn't make any difference, Candle, Legally the owner needn't
be here.

Speaker 19 (02:01:17):
Mister Quill, Will you stop hopping on the legal aspects
of a hanging.

Speaker 27 (02:01:20):
You can't do this thing.

Speaker 19 (02:01:21):
I won't let you know. Maybe Missus Dunworthy is giving
up the land.

Speaker 9 (02:01:24):
Where we'll just move in on that jumper anyway, Candle, I.

Speaker 5 (02:01:32):
Want every last one of you men off my property
right now.

Speaker 20 (02:01:38):
Now.

Speaker 9 (02:01:38):
Get we don't Danworthy. It's your friend, mister Quill, the attorney.

Speaker 3 (02:01:46):
Mister Quiller, asking you to leave.

Speaker 9 (02:01:50):
What about the claim jumper? We rode a long way
for him.

Speaker 3 (02:01:53):
He's gone.

Speaker 5 (02:01:54):
I came back here this morning and he was gone.

Speaker 9 (02:01:58):
You'll remember me, now, won't you? Missus dan Worthy? Anytime
you have any legal problems.

Speaker 16 (02:02:04):
Why'll we be obliged if you get off my property?

Speaker 9 (02:02:08):
Yes, ma'am, all right, we're going to.

Speaker 36 (02:02:19):
Mister Kendall.

Speaker 5 (02:02:20):
Yes, would you come here please? Yes, I'd like to
thank you for trying to help me.

Speaker 19 (02:02:35):
That's all right, There's something I want to know. Yes,
did you come back to kill him. Yes, but why
we'd have got rid of him.

Speaker 5 (02:02:49):
For you, because I didn't want that kind of help
if it was to come to that.

Speaker 19 (02:02:54):
It was my fight and he was sick.

Speaker 27 (02:02:56):
He didn't deserve to be killed.

Speaker 5 (02:02:58):
Mister Kendall. I didn't tell you why my husband died.
It was this land. A man never worked so hard,
but it killed him.

Speaker 20 (02:03:10):
No.

Speaker 5 (02:03:11):
I just couldn't let a stranger have it, could I?

Speaker 27 (02:03:16):
Where did you put his body?

Speaker 5 (02:03:20):
I didn't kill him, mister Kendall. He's inside. He doesn't
know it, but he's dying of fever. He told me
it first came on him in the war.

Speaker 27 (02:03:31):
Does he know you came back to kill him?

Speaker 5 (02:03:34):
No, he was helpless when I when I found him.
He thinks I came back because you told me he
was sick. No, he doesn't know.

Speaker 27 (02:03:54):
I stayed there two days.

Speaker 19 (02:03:57):
Almira Dunworthy nursed him to the end, and he died
blessing her name.

Speaker 50 (02:04:21):
Frontier Gentleman was produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's
script was written by Tom Hanley and stars John Dayner
as JB.

Speaker 12 (02:04:29):
Kendall.

Speaker 50 (02:04:30):
Featured in the cast were Virginia Gregg, Eddie Firestone, Richard Perkins, and.

Speaker 30 (02:04:35):
Charles Seal.

Speaker 50 (02:04:48):
Join us again next week for another report from the Frontier.

Speaker 30 (02:04:52):
Gentleman Bud Sewell speaking.

Speaker 7 (02:06:01):
I would love to have had that show have a
nice long run, but television got in the way, don't
you know. Here you go sixty seven years ago, October fifth,
nineteen fifty eighth Frontier Gentlemen Here on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt Cox will take a trip to Pine Ridge,
Arkansas and head down to the John Downstore.

Speaker 13 (02:06:24):
Next.

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(02:09:33):
what's going on down in pine Ridge. Well, Abner's poor
handwriting prevented the professor from reading a certain letter that
inadvertently fell into his hands. It was the love letter
which Lom had planned to send to the wider Abernathy
using a professor's name. Saved from this embarrassment, Loum has
proceeded with his plan to get the widow infatuated with

(02:09:55):
Professor Sloan and thus drive him out of pine Ridge.
As we're looking on the little community today, we find
Abner and grandpap in the library section of the Jobam
down store. They're consulting a Spanish textbook.

Speaker 12 (02:10:12):
Listen, well, hurry up, grandpap and find a Mexican word
for farm in there. They just hold your horses here, Edvan,
I'm looking as fast as a tin. Well, I want
to get this ad rode before long gets back. He
thinks I'm buying a Mexican jumping bean farm is silly?
Uh what Mexican paper? You're gonna run this head in, evner.

(02:10:33):
I don't know why I've got to find at out summer,
I might not sure they got a newspaper some kind
of Have you found that word farm yet? Yeah, here's
a Mexican word for football, how about changing it to that.
I don't wanna buy no football farm. I'm even on
getting a jumping bean farm. I thought you said you
know the Mexican language. Good, Well, I do spent one

(02:10:57):
whole morning here in the library learning rusting on it. Now.
Now here's a word for field. You might use that field?
Why that wouldn't sound right Mexican jumping bean field. That
sounds like someplace where the beans go to practice jumping. Well,
you need someplace like that, won't you? Well? Yes, but

(02:11:19):
not right away, man. You can say it this a
way edner a field of beans, you know, like you
say a field of corn or a field of potatoes.
Oh yeah, that's right. He yeah, I believe that's what
I'll put down. What's the word for a field? Where bash?
Where is that at?

Speaker 27 (02:11:34):
Now?

Speaker 19 (02:11:34):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (02:11:35):
Here? Uh see a m field camp old camp old?
Yeah you sure? Now that don't mean camp. I don't
want to buy no camp grandpath, well least ways not
till I start getting rich off of jumping beans. Well
this means field, says it right here? Can see it
for yourself here, little well, ain't no use of me looking.

(02:11:56):
I can't talk at landy and see now wanted one
campo of Mexican jumping. What's the word for jumping? Jumping?
Yeah's the second? Or looking up jumping? G gee, but
would you like to have a job working for me
on the farm? Grandpap here? Where jump? The word is

(02:12:16):
a salto saltoe s a lt doggies. Do they come
already salted? Or they don't mean salted? That means jump?
That's what you ask for any Yeah, but that don't
sound just right? Well, it's right according to the book.
Put it down there and all right? Wanted one campo
of saltoe. Right now, give me the word for beans. Yeah,

(02:12:39):
just a minute. This language is uncommon. Easy once you
get onto it. Beans bean here where samila? Samila? Yeah,
says here that's bean of the coco. Well, I don't
want no coco. We got all that we want right
here in a store. Wait around, and here's another bean

(02:13:00):
uh fried Jolie's man, that's better. How do you spell
that afr h jail? Oh? Well, yes, why dogg that
I got it? Now? Wanted one campole of sortol fried jolis?
Now what ought I to put down?

Speaker 31 (02:13:16):
Now?

Speaker 12 (02:13:16):
Right to abing her peabody pine ridge here? Yeah, that's good.
I better tell them right me back in America so
I can make it out. Oh well, don't worry about
that if it's in Mexican and I'll be able to
read it for you, dog that. I just hope i'll
get an answer right away. I can't hardly wait to
get down there and start growing them jumping beans. Well,
what you gonna do with them after you get them grolled? Well?

(02:13:40):
Let it's see. Now, what does a fella do with
the thing? Can't eat them? No, Now you'd have the
forks in town jumping like I got you Jack Rabbit, Yeah,
and dogg is. There must be some use firm on.
Maybe I could sell them to some college that some
of them college fellas are taking up high jumping. No, no,
I don't believe i'd be legal left now. They wouldn't

(02:14:00):
allow that. I'd give my unfair advantage, would huh? Well,
I wouldn't want to do nothing unegal. I reckon I
could feed them the bullfrogs, help them in there jumping.
But I don't know if I can make no money
at it all. Bullfrogs ain't got no money. No, they
wouldn't pay me. Maybe Lama was right when he said
this was a silly idy, haven't No, it ain't no
silly idy neither. I know good and well there's some

(02:14:23):
way to use them things. I'm gonna raise them and
find out what it is, too. I'm bound in determing.
I know I can sell a few of them. The
carnival fellers carnival feller, Yeah, sir. One time in long
Seeen a feller at the carnival over at Cherry Hill.
He had a whole box of them things. Come to
think of what he was selling too. I believe he

(02:14:43):
got a nickel a peace firm. F I recollect right
nicola piece? Yeah yeah, I see. Now in order to
get at least old fifty pods off every vine. And
here's about five beans in the party. Reckon, that's uh
five times fifty or two two hundred and fifty beans
go for one vine. You figured out I ain't gonna

(02:15:03):
worry my patience with it. Well, I ain't the plant,
or at least a couple of thousand vines. That's two
hundred and fifty thousand beans. That would make uh five
times So his or his dad blame it anyway, what's
the matter? That would be just smile up? What's the matter?
Why me running into idy like this? Just one to

(02:15:26):
give herman says it no feller make over twenty five
thousand dollars a year. Oh man, Well I believe you
can keep her under that way?

Speaker 19 (02:15:34):
I doubt it.

Speaker 12 (02:15:35):
Doubt it. Don't forget. You more likely have a lot
of them beans that won't be able to learn how
to jump even yeah, I reckon, So some of them
might not be smart enough to learn. I'll just unencourage
some of the men. In fact, is I might just
take us wayment comes along don't tell him about this
head I wrote. Now no I don't, but I think
you are to tell him. Man, I ain't want to

(02:15:56):
do mine. Hell hotylam any mail to day No, no,
none until oh hello, Grandpath? Now hoidey, honey, did you
know Abner's aiming? Grandpath? Be quiet? Now? What's that?

Speaker 30 (02:16:12):
Nothing?

Speaker 12 (02:16:13):
Long? Nothing at all, grandpat And he was just well
you discussing something, oh range. It appears like we ain't
never gonna get shut of Professor Sloan Avenue. We ain't. No.
I thought you said you managed to get him in
the weather aber naster together over that sociable Saturday night.
Well I did. I even got the widder to thinking

(02:16:33):
the professor was sort of sweet on her. But it
never done no good never, huh dog, it's having no
weather running after the one thing that drive any fella
clean out of town, to my notion, not the professor, though.
Do you know what he likes the winner? Huh likes her?
Well further land shake that fellow must be deef and blind, bolls. Well,

(02:16:55):
it shows one thing. It shows he ain't got brains
enough to be a school He jo tried to learn ourthing.
I just can't believe that lunch. He's even been older
to see the widow a couple of evenings since then
he had. Yeah, of course I found out he ain't
the romantics type. Hingh huh. I found out out from
one of the widows youngs little wrong. Oh what did

(02:17:16):
Ronald tell you?

Speaker 14 (02:17:17):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (02:17:18):
He said that his mama told the professor that she
just loved to gaze at the moon. Oh. So the
next night he brung over a telescope and the widow
had to sit there for three hours looking at the
moon through the telescope while he explained all about the
moon to her. Explain it, now, what is it explain
about the moon? I things just setting up her. Oh

(02:17:38):
there's a whole bunch of stuff. What's on it and
where it goes to in the daytime and all city
is at Oh I never thought about that. You see,
Professor Sloan claims he's astronomer. I found that out. He's astronomer. Yeah,
that's a feller that looks at the stars and studies
all about the planets and comets and the milky ways

(02:17:59):
and a lot of works nonsense, Like what's what I do?
I was reading a book in the library here the
other day, all about them astronomers. It's uncommonly interested in reading.
It is interested in my eyes. It's just a bunch
of priddle prattle, that's what it is. You know what
he told the winter he wants to do now he
wants to build hisself an observatory. Observatory. Oh, it's a

(02:18:25):
little building up high summers where he and set and
look at the sky. Goodness here, that's sort you think,
Why don't they climb a tree? I believe that fellow
must be touched well to be right, honest ad, I
sort of think he is myself. All must be set down.
Look at the sky.

Speaker 20 (02:18:45):
Now.

Speaker 12 (02:18:45):
I was reading about them astronomers, and them fellas has
to be awful smart to learn this stuff. Sassy fresh,
sassy fresh, he is right.

Speaker 8 (02:18:54):
I know.

Speaker 12 (02:18:54):
I'm gonna do all I can to keep from putting
anything as ridiculous as an observatory around here? Well long now?
Is he showing us serious about that? From what I
hear he is, Oh, he's cutting. Of course, he has
to raise some money first. I believe I'll just write
a note to the school board telling him what's going on.
Why Why don't you just call him up on a phone. No, no,

(02:19:16):
this is more official. Done it right now? Oh tell huh,
what're about some paper ad? Right there? I'm telling him
that the profession, For goodness sake, what's this you got
rolled down here?

Speaker 20 (02:19:25):
Huh?

Speaker 12 (02:19:26):
One can assaulted something? Oh you're a handwriting gets worse
every day, Avenue, what is this a grocery order?

Speaker 20 (02:19:34):
Huh?

Speaker 12 (02:19:35):
No, that's an ad Avenue is putting in a Mexican newspaper.
He wants to buy a jumping bean for a grand path,
For goodness sake, Ain't you got that idea out of
your head yet? Avenue? Well, now that's worse than Professor
Sloan wanting to build an observatory. Ain't done it? What
about your figuring on getting the money to buy this
farm with? Well, we've desposted quite a lot of money

(02:19:55):
in the bank here in the last month. And yeah,
and that money's gonna stay right there too. That's our reaser.
Nobody's gonna touch that neither. Well, now I'm half of that.
Well that's our ring, my half by Hello, johnam down
store lamb editor's talking jumping bean? Pretty good? Yeah, I

(02:20:15):
heard about that, but I don't think well I know,
but I'm again it. Uh huh name it?

Speaker 1 (02:20:25):
What?

Speaker 12 (02:20:27):
Well? Yeah, that does sound good? All right? Uh could
you work memorial in there somewhere or other? Good? Huh huh. Yeah,
that is a problem, but I believe I can handle
that end of it, all right. Yeah, let me check
up on something here and I'll call you right back. Yeah, goodbye.

(02:20:51):
Who was that long? That was Professor Sloan? How much
money did you say we had in the bank? What
do you want all that for? Course, I want to
buy a little piece of land up on the Piney Mountain.
Piney Mountain. Yeah, that's where me and Professor Sloan are
gonna build the Edward's Memorial Observatory.

Speaker 27 (02:21:13):
Well what do you know about that?

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Speaker 7 (02:22:19):
An Observatory in Pine Ridge. You gotta love it. Eighty
three years ago, October fifth, nineteen forty two, Lomon Abner
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Make sure
you're with us for our Monday podcast with comedy and
it pays to be ignorant, Stan Freeburg, Jack, Benny and
the Great Gilders Sleep and we'll check it all out

(02:22:42):
with another episode of Claudia. Thanks for being with us.
We'll see you on Monday for more Classic Radio Theater.
I'm Wyatt Cox.

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