Classic Radio 11-17-25 - Hepcat Kills the Canary, Death of Sam Space, and Joan Fuller Murder - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Good evening Friend, Savionna Tank.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Crime on the Monday episodes of Rocky Fortune starring Frank Sinatra,
Sam Spade starring Steve Dunn. Heck of a story to
tell you about why Steve Dunn is doing this show.
Broadway is My Beat starring Larry Thor calling All Cars
and the Four Lead Slugs. And we'll wrap it all

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up with an episode to Claudia that's coming up on
this Monday. This is the seventeenth day of November three
hundred and twenty, first day of the year, forty four
days left. In twenty twenty five, Congress held its first
session in Washington on this date. In eighteen hundred, National
Rifle Association granted a charter by the State of New
York on this date. In eighteen seventy one, the Russian

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Socialist Democrat Party, Labor Party splint In two party, the
Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, the majority and minority. Now the
Screen Actors Guild implemented an anti Communist loyalty oath on
this date in nineteen forty seven. In nineteen sixty two,
President Kennedy dedicated Dulles International Airport serving Washington, acting on

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optimistic reports he was given on November thirteenth. President Johnson
told the nation on this date in nineteen sixty seven,
while much work remained to be done, we're in afflicting
greater losses than we're taking.

Speaker 7 (02:00):
Know that most people's intentions are good. We don't question
them motives. We never said that on patriotic although they
say some pretty ugly things about us. We believe very
strongly in preserving the right to differ in this country
and the right to dissent. And if I have done
a good job of anything since I've been president, is

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to ensure that they have plenty of dissenters.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
President Johnson, fifty eight years ago today. Negotiators from the
Soviet Union in the US met in Helsinki on this
date in nineteen sixty nine to begin Salt One negotiations
aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
Lieutenant William Kelly went on trial on the state in
nineteen seventy for the my Line massacre. Douglas Engelbart received

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the patent on this date. In nineteen seventy for the
first computer mouse in Orlando, Florida. President Nixon told four
hundred Associated Press managing editors he wan't a crook.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
I made a lot of money. I made two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars from a book and the serial rights,
which many of you were good enough to purchase. Also
in the practice of law, and I'm not claiming I
was worth it, but apparently former vice presidents or presidents
are worth a great deal to law firms. And I
did work pretty hard. But then also in that period,

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I earned between one hundred and two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars every year, so that when I in nineteen
sixty decided to become a candidate for president, I decided
to clean the decks and to put everything in real estate.
I sold all my stock for three hundred thousand dollars.
That's all I own. I sold my apartment in New
York for three hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 9 (03:47):
I'm using rough figures here.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
And I had one hundred.

Speaker 8 (03:49):
Thousand dollars coming to me from the law firm, and
so that's where the money came from. Let me just
say this, and I want to say this to the
television audience.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
I made my mistakes, but in all of my.

Speaker 8 (04:01):
Years of public life, I have never profited, never profited
from public service.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I've earned every cent And in.

Speaker 8 (04:10):
All of my years of public life, I have never
obstructed justice. And I think too that I can say
that in my years of public life, that I welcome
this kind of examination because people have got to know
whether or not they're President's a crook.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well, I'm not a cruk.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
I've earned everything I've got.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
President Nixon on this date in nineteen seventy three. Less
than a year later, he would resign under the specter
of being removed from office by impeachment. In nineteen ninety three,
by a two hundred and thirty forty two hundred vote,
the House voted to implement the North American Free Trade Agreement.
President Clinton hailing the vote, which was a major political

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victory for his young administration at.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
A time when many of our people are hurting from
the strains of this tough global economy.

Speaker 10 (05:03):
We chose to compete, not to retreat.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
Unfortunately, the throwing opened the doors to unfettered free trade,
killed family farms, It killed whole industries, and killed whole
communities in America. In two thousand and four, Kmart announced
it was buying Sears Roebucking Company for eleven billion dollars

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in naming the newly merged company Seers Holding Corporation. Seers
Holdings closed in twenty nineteen after its holdings were spun
off Kmart part of a privately held company. There are
very few stores remaining. A rare late season tornado outbreak
struck the Midwest on this date in twenty thirteen. Illinois,

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Indiana most affected, tornado reports as far north as Lower Michigan.
In all, around six dozen tornadoes touched down in about
eleven hour time time period, including seven EF three and
two EF four tornadoes. The first known case of COVID
nineteen on this date in twenty nineteen, traced to a

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fifty five year old man who had visited a market
in wu Han, China, and it was on this date
three years ago. Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she
would not seek a leadership position in the new Congress,
a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of
leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans

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in the midterm elections.

Speaker 11 (06:35):
For me, the hours come for a new generation to
lead the Democratic Caucus that I so deeply respect, and
I'm grateful that so many are ready and willing to
shoulder this awesome responsibility.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
That new generation has shifted very, very far to the left.
Nineteen ninety eight. Passing away on this date. Three people
passed away on this date in history nineteen ninety eight
Estra Roll from Good Times, the Lady Man who sang
about sweet soul music, Arthur Conley, and Countries Don Gibson,

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all passing away on this date in history. Birthdays include
the Sun of Dean Martin, Dean Paul Martin, also Gordon
and Whitefoot Sundown, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Rock Hudson, Fine,
actor and director Lee Strasburg. All those folks born on
this state, they have all departed the facility.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements. The following people are now officially older than.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Dirt film director Martin Scorskazy is eighty three years old
Today share with an audience.

Speaker 12 (07:48):
The story goes back to seeing things happen in daily life,
but also being part of a group listening to person
tell a story.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Martin Scorsese eighty three year years old Today from Paper
Lion and American Jigglow. Lauren Hunting eighty two from Taxi
and Twins. Danny DeBrito eighty one.

Speaker 13 (08:10):
He in a dude, blame me for a sucker. I
give you the money now, and you're gone.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
From the movie Heist. Danny DeBrito eighty one, also Turning
eighty one, the producer of Saturday Night Live, Lauren Michaels.
Howard Dean, the politician who, well you remember what he did.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and
North Dakota and New Mexico.

Speaker 13 (08:36):
We're going to California and.

Speaker 14 (08:38):
Texas and New York, and.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan,
and then we're going to Washington, d C.

Speaker 13 (08:46):
To take back the White House.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
The scream that doomed his campaign, Howard Dean, And that
was back in two thousand and four. Howard Dean seventy seven,
years old today from News Radio and Office Space. Stephen
Root seventy four from Scarface and The Color of Money.
Mary Elizabeth Mostriano is sixty seven. Drag entertainer Rue Paul

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sixty five. Model actress Daisy Fuentes is fifty nine from
Dexter and Arrow. David Ramsey fifty four from Lawn Order SVU,
Diane Neil forty nine from Mean Girls. Rachel McAdams is
forty seven. Why are you ready?

Speaker 15 (09:33):
Why it wasn't over for me?

Speaker 6 (09:37):
I waited for seven years from The Notebook Rachel McAdams
forty seven. Pro wrestler Mercedes Martinez. I think she's now
working in Ring of Honor. She is forty five today.
Beyonce's cousin Shanika Knowles is thirty five, and from Jersey Girl,

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Raquel Castro is thirty one. Those just a few of
the people celebrating the seventeenth day of November as their birthday.
If this is your birthday, Happy birthday, Happy. And I

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Speaker 17 (13:06):
Well, the past fifteen minutes, you've been listening to Stars
for Defense, a transcribe program devoted to the American tradition
civil defense, presented weekly by this station as a public
service in cooperation with the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization.
They are Star was Bing Crosby, to whom we say
thanks for his usual outstanding performance. Bing, how about a

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few parting words?

Speaker 18 (13:28):
Certainly, Ken sure thing, I'd just like to add a
word to two to the advice giving you a few
minutes ago by Director Hoig to be ready for emergency action.

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Make sure that your car.

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Is in tip top mechanical condition. Keep your gas tank
at least half full at all times, and see that
your tires are in good condition.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Too.

Speaker 17 (13:46):
Bye for now, Thanks Bang, and our thanks to to
Buddy Call and the boys. This is Ken Carpenter saying
so long and inviting you to listen in next week
for another great star and another fine orchestra on stars
for defense.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
Sinatra's career was on a downslide. He had to do
something to keep the lights on, so he did a
program for NBC called Rocky Fortune. Wasn't the greatest detective
show ever. It lasted for thirty episodes until he won
an Academy Award, and then he was resurrected. His career resurrected.

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Let's listen to an episode of Rocky Fortune starring Frank
Sinatra seventy two years ago, November seventeenth, nineteen fifty three.
The Hepcat Kills the Canary.

Speaker 20 (14:43):
Frank Sinatra, transcribed as Rocky Fortune in DC presents Frank

(15:08):
Sinatra as that footloose and fancy free young gentleman, Rocky Fortune.

Speaker 21 (15:33):
Hi.

Speaker 20 (15:34):
When I was a kid, a couple of maiden hands
made me practice the bull fiddle.

Speaker 22 (15:37):
The strengthen my character.

Speaker 20 (15:39):
It didn't do much for my character because I hocked
the fiddle and ran away from home. Every once in
a while, though, I got a chance to pick up
a couple of bucks playing with a small combo at
a Polish wedding or above Minster.

Speaker 22 (15:49):
The last job I had was neither. It was more
of a funeral my own.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, hey, Dad, I wanna speak the rocky.

Speaker 22 (16:01):
Boy you got him rock?

Speaker 23 (16:03):
This is Bugsy Bugsy Biden.

Speaker 22 (16:06):
Well, Hi a jazz ball? Where you been?

Speaker 20 (16:08):
I mean a cat's about a little flee back called
the hotels.

Speaker 24 (16:11):
Azerbal you dig that played?

Speaker 22 (16:12):
I've been there.

Speaker 20 (16:13):
Hi is America's great as b Bob Horn gaining altitude,
man gain and.

Speaker 22 (16:18):
Altitude getting tall?

Speaker 25 (16:19):
N yeah, real high? You all looking for those game
for employment?

Speaker 20 (16:23):
You mean music, dad, I do mean bricklaying bugs. I
ain't played the bass for five years. Also, my instrument
is with a uncle. I hucked it for trains there, man,
that don't signify I we'll scuffle up a base for you.

Speaker 22 (16:34):
How much in where does amzibal? Fifteen bucks in the
path for the night seeing a half hour solid solid
plant you now?

Speaker 23 (16:40):
I dig you later?

Speaker 22 (16:42):
Whatever happened to that.

Speaker 20 (16:43):
Line, I invest the subway token, and twenty minutes later
I am in the jungle room at the Hotel Zanzibar,
which is a cheap three story fleabag on Bleekman Street,
on the band's stand as Bugsy bought, and there's five
bottles of box bugs. He is a musician's musician and

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the boys are playing strictly from Memphis. After the set, Bugs,
he comes over and sits down with me. This boy's
five feet wide across the chest, and he doesn't know
from his own strength.

Speaker 9 (17:13):
Rock boy, give me some skin man easy.

Speaker 22 (17:16):
Bugs, you're breaking up the metacoppos. What's up? My bass
player's on the sauce.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
I need somebody to take his place tonight.

Speaker 22 (17:22):
Well I ain't much of a bass player.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Bugs.

Speaker 22 (17:24):
That don't matter.

Speaker 25 (17:25):
Man.

Speaker 20 (17:25):
All you gotta do is stand up there and wallop
the whill er two. I just want to cover the
boy to keep the hotel manager from.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
Going his top.

Speaker 22 (17:31):
Yeah, see what you mean? Where's the fiddle?

Speaker 20 (17:33):
You go up to Johnny's room two twelve, get his fiddling.
Come on down, Johnny, Johnny.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Lement Man, the best double bass.

Speaker 22 (17:39):
You ever laid near drum on. Yeah, of course he
used to play with Goodman, didn't he.

Speaker 9 (17:43):
Oh this Johnny's been all over town rock Man.

Speaker 20 (17:46):
When he's sober, he can play all over That instrument
hits every register with the cash register.

Speaker 22 (17:50):
Uh, what's wrong?

Speaker 25 (17:52):
Girl?

Speaker 20 (17:52):
Trouble used to have a little flush called Evie Johnson.
She and Johnny had to fallen out. And he's taking
it pretty hard.

Speaker 22 (17:58):
Come on, man, you better hustle.

Speaker 9 (17:59):
We're on in ten minutes.

Speaker 22 (18:05):
I hop the self service elevator up to two. We'll
look for room two twelve. It ain't very hard because
it's the only room with a building trombone plan. Yes,
this Johnny Lament's room.

Speaker 21 (18:20):
Baby, what do you want?

Speaker 20 (18:21):
I'm Rocky Fortune. I'm sitting for Johnny b He comes
in for a landing, which won't be soon by the
looks of.

Speaker 21 (18:27):
Him, you still haven't said what you want.

Speaker 22 (18:29):
Don't pardon me. I need the fiddle.

Speaker 21 (18:32):
Don't you have your own instrument?

Speaker 22 (18:33):
Honey, don't give me a bad time. I need the fiddle.

Speaker 21 (18:37):
Come in, thanks, Oh, Sonny, who is that? Take it easy? Johnny?

Speaker 22 (18:44):
Eve heve you come back in? Is there you eavy?

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (18:48):
This kid's for Belleville, Evie.

Speaker 21 (18:51):
Johnny go back to sleep.

Speaker 22 (18:53):
If for some more music, on, baby, put.

Speaker 26 (18:56):
Me something sad. If you see my baby, you send
them home to me. You see my baby, you see
the who she mean till my baby I'm seeing is
I can't be.

Speaker 22 (19:18):
Who's that cat?

Speaker 20 (19:20):
Name's Rocky Fortune, Johnny. I'm sitting there with Bugsy and
the boys tonight. I need your fiddle, he shurem man
ainy sing you see man, you want a drink? Man
at Laurius, Sonny, give this righteous cat.

Speaker 22 (19:31):
A little drink. Thanks, I don't touch it.

Speaker 20 (19:33):
You on, say, man, you see my ivy any place around?
See a little chik a butt so high with the
softest blonde hair.

Speaker 21 (19:42):
You seen 'em?

Speaker 22 (19:42):
Man freight, not.

Speaker 21 (19:43):
Johnny and the fiddles in the closet.

Speaker 22 (19:46):
Rocky, thanks baby. I didn't catch her name.

Speaker 27 (19:48):
I didn't throw it. It's de Lauri's cane. I'm Bugsy's
new singer.

Speaker 22 (19:53):
Pleased to meet you. Hey, Yes, what's the gun on
the shelf for? Oh, it's Johnny's.

Speaker 21 (20:00):
Don't worry, I already threw the bullets out the window.

Speaker 22 (20:03):
Clever girl. Thank you, I'm pretty too, thank.

Speaker 21 (20:06):
You, And don't forget the base fiddle.

Speaker 22 (20:09):
Yeah, oh shure, come.

Speaker 9 (20:13):
In, it's eleven ten, Miss Kate.

Speaker 21 (20:17):
Oh, write down, mister Quaid.

Speaker 28 (20:18):
In case no one has informed you, Miss Kane, I
pay you and mister Barton to put on a show
in my club at ten thirty is now eleven ten.

Speaker 27 (20:25):
I'm sorry, mister Quaid.

Speaker 9 (20:26):
We were just I can see what you were.

Speaker 25 (20:28):
Just.

Speaker 28 (20:29):
Is this drunken Paganinny going to perform tonights?

Speaker 27 (20:31):
Well, Johnny isn't feeling so good, mister Quaid. But mister
Fortune here is gonna take his place.

Speaker 9 (20:36):
Fortune.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
I don't believe I've ever heard of it.

Speaker 27 (20:39):
Rocky Fortune. Why, he's one of the greatest bass players
in the business.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
I'm paying for the greatest Rocky.

Speaker 22 (20:44):
Tell mister Quaid.

Speaker 27 (20:45):
Are you and Dixie had him screaming for mercy at
Lejah's Hot in Paris last year?

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Wow?

Speaker 22 (20:49):
Yeah, I don't want to brag, baby.

Speaker 15 (20:51):
Oh go on.

Speaker 22 (20:52):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (20:53):
You see, we was playing a dog watch from twelve
to four, and sudden like Dixie gets off on Japanese
sin man every Well. He said Dix was losing his lip,
but that night he was blowing up a storm. I'm
just playing a long one up. He comes, boogety boogerty,
open horn and every note was to look like it
was greased and stuffed. Pretty soon the cats were jumping
in pandemonium breaks loose French bankers were tearing their clothes off.

Speaker 22 (21:15):
You know. It took one hundred and fifty Yon downs
aiclum the joint down.

Speaker 28 (21:18):
That's very interesting, mister fortune. But the next show was
due to start in three minutes. If you don't mind.

Speaker 22 (21:23):
Me, I don't mind. See you later, Johnny any sing
you sing man.

Speaker 20 (21:29):
You see my ivy down there, You tell her, Jenny says,
come back here, You tell her her. Johnny's been the
weep city for and he wants to bank. I shoulder
the fiddle down of the jungle room. Just as Bugsy
and the boys get off on Sweet Lorrain, we start

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all playing with the French called in time.

Speaker 22 (21:52):
We call it in the closet.

Speaker 20 (21:54):
After a while, the joints starts jumping in. For the
next five hours, I slapped that base until the gut
turns black and blue on my hand half the time
on the two different keys, but nobody cares, and the
fans figure on another Eddie Safranski because I'm playing notes.

Speaker 22 (22:07):
That don't even exist. About four and a am the
whole deal bill.

Speaker 20 (22:11):
Superscendo till I think the top of my head's gonna
fly off, and then suddenly we're playing sixteen bars a
good Night's Sweetheart, and it's all over.

Speaker 23 (22:18):
I think, okay, cut, that does it? Thanks rock?

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well?

Speaker 22 (22:30):
How did it go? Pal? I tell you sweet and
groovy like a ninety cent movie man. Yeah, what happens now?
You won't play ginnemar.

Speaker 20 (22:36):
We got a room for you in the third floor
if you need a pad for the night. Fifteen bucks
fifteen you got it solid. Here's the key.

Speaker 22 (22:44):
Say, how's Johnny Lament? Still on his hip? He's taking
this thing kind of hot at me? What happened to him?

Speaker 25 (22:50):
Him?

Speaker 9 (22:50):
And he of you had a big thing to night?
You walked out bag and baggage.

Speaker 22 (22:54):
Oh that's rough.

Speaker 20 (22:55):
Yeah, it's Dame's for him, invest heavy and come out
of light him to pardon the expression, But what time
the boy stop seeing double? About eleven and we rehearsh
at twelve. I lugged the bull fiddle up to the
third floor and a head from my room. I don't

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get very far, however, because halfway down the hall, I
hear's something which ain't music.

Speaker 23 (23:23):
Hey, what's going on in there?

Speaker 21 (23:24):
Hold up, open up.

Speaker 22 (23:29):
Take it easy, day. Wait a minute, just a minute.
What's wrong.

Speaker 20 (23:34):
Before I have a look with your mind? Putting down
the knife? Knife, unless that's ketchup on it, baby, maybe
you better tell me what's in that room.

Speaker 9 (23:43):
It isn't possible.

Speaker 14 (23:44):
It never is.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
On me.

Speaker 20 (23:46):
Well, I take a look, don't go away. I sprint
for the bedroom, get the door halfway open, and I stopped.

Speaker 22 (23:58):
There. On the bed is the body of a beautiful
little blonde.

Speaker 20 (24:01):
One look tells it all. Some cats kill the canary. Alright,
to lares, let's happen.

Speaker 22 (24:07):
It just can't be. Come on, baby, what happened here?

Speaker 27 (24:10):
I finished singing my last number, and I had a
drink at the bar, made me sleepy, and I came
up to the room and passed out.

Speaker 23 (24:19):
Well, a couple of minutes.

Speaker 21 (24:20):
Ago, he was lying on the bed.

Speaker 23 (24:23):
It's ife was in my hand.

Speaker 29 (24:26):
I didn't kill her.

Speaker 22 (24:28):
I didn't just to take it easy. He didn't know it, did.

Speaker 21 (24:31):
I swear to you it happened just the way I said.

Speaker 27 (24:35):
When I saw her, I screamed at that.

Speaker 22 (24:36):
Make it easy.

Speaker 20 (24:37):
Look open your eyes, I said, open your eyes, look
at me.

Speaker 22 (24:44):
Okay, Oh what was that for? Just checking.

Speaker 20 (24:48):
Honey, somebody slipped your mickey. Your pupils are contracted.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
It was to drink, I know it.

Speaker 22 (24:56):
You know why anybody who wanna frame you for Eve
Johnson's murder? Why? Shit as somebody did? Baby?

Speaker 20 (25:02):
Now come on, we gotta work fast. Whoever did this
is probably phone the gendarmes already.

Speaker 22 (25:06):
What can we do? I don't know? At four a m.
Wait a minute, listen, you go on, press the elevator button.
What are you gonna do? Get rid of the body,
now get moving.

Speaker 20 (25:22):
Dolorus holds the elevator while I carry Eve's body in,
and I tell her to hold the button until I
can hustle down to the first floor. I hit the lobby.
This as my good friend. Detective Sergeant Hamilton J. Finger
of Homicide comes on like Buster's gang.

Speaker 9 (25:34):
Pardon me, Sam, yes, homicide. We gotta tip on a
body in room pree ten. Oh there must be some mistake, sergeant.

Speaker 22 (25:41):
Well, well, my old cell made Hamilton Finger?

Speaker 30 (25:43):
Uh I mind a note? Is this one of your
practical jokes?

Speaker 9 (25:46):
Fortune?

Speaker 22 (25:47):
I don't know from what you're talking side.

Speaker 9 (25:48):
Step over the elevator with me.

Speaker 22 (25:50):
We'll go upstairs.

Speaker 9 (25:50):
Rocky.

Speaker 22 (25:51):
Anything you say, look uh, what brings you here?

Speaker 30 (25:54):
I ain't sure, but I think it's a carps.

Speaker 22 (26:06):
I jab the elevator button and we wait for the car.

Speaker 20 (26:09):
My pumper is playing footsie with my Adam's apple as
the car comes down and the door is open, and
I nearly drop dead.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
The car's as.

Speaker 20 (26:18):
Empty as ever it's feel in December. We ride up
the room three ten, which belongs to the Larus Kane. Am, Hey, sarge,
what's it all about?

Speaker 9 (26:28):
You'll find out?

Speaker 21 (26:30):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (26:31):
Open up baby homicide.

Speaker 20 (26:33):
Sergeant Finger, Miss Kane and uh, you've met the lowest
things for bugsy, I've been sitting in that's musicians talk.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
Uh you mind if I look around help yourself?

Speaker 21 (26:44):
Do you mind if I ask you what you're looking for?

Speaker 30 (26:46):
We got a phone call, so there was a dead
woman in this room.

Speaker 21 (26:49):
That isn't very flattering.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
What's in there?

Speaker 21 (26:52):
Take a look?

Speaker 22 (26:55):
Eh?

Speaker 9 (26:56):
Empty?

Speaker 27 (26:57):
I think somebody's been pulling your leg, Serge both of them?

Speaker 9 (27:00):
Where's a bedspread in the hamper? Excuse me?

Speaker 21 (27:08):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (27:09):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (27:10):
I suppose this is nail polish?

Speaker 21 (27:12):
How did you know?

Speaker 9 (27:13):
Yogi?

Speaker 25 (27:15):
Mind?

Speaker 9 (27:15):
If I take it down the lab.

Speaker 22 (27:16):
For analysis, if you'll have it laundered?

Speaker 9 (27:18):
Okay, what's in the closet.

Speaker 21 (27:20):
Oh, that's a small dragon named Launcelot. Carefully doesn't bite you, Ronnie.

Speaker 30 (27:27):
Booh, okay, I'll have the bedspread analyze for bloodstains.

Speaker 9 (27:30):
I don't go away, either one of you.

Speaker 22 (27:32):
We wouldn't think of it. Not a knight side and
no more practical jokes.

Speaker 9 (27:36):
You understand?

Speaker 22 (27:38):
What did you do with it? What the body? It's
in the elevator, not anymore?

Speaker 21 (27:42):
It ain't What do you mean?

Speaker 22 (27:44):
It never made the first floor? The car was empty.

Speaker 21 (27:47):
It's impossible.

Speaker 22 (27:48):
Eve Johnson's body didn't walk out of that car. Baby,
somebody lifted it.

Speaker 21 (27:52):
But what does that mean? Somebody must have stopped the
car on the second floor.

Speaker 22 (27:55):
Correct. The next question is who would want to steal
a corpse? What do we do?

Speaker 20 (28:00):
Well, Finger's gonna find bloodstains on that spread, and when
he does, he'll be back with some tickless questions.

Speaker 22 (28:05):
And I got a hunch we better have the answers.
Let's move. We start a room in the room canvas
of the second floor.

Speaker 20 (28:16):
Delaurus takes one carter and I take the other. Result
a big fat goose egg. I finish my carter and
go look for Dolorus. She's gone, But from the sound
of voices, I figured she stopped off to see how
Johnny Lament is making out. I started to go in,
but I changed my mind.

Speaker 21 (28:31):
Johnny cut it out.

Speaker 23 (28:33):
She's dead and she my little Levee's dead.

Speaker 22 (28:35):
Oh, don't be crazy. I ain't crazy, baby.

Speaker 26 (28:37):
Not anymore.

Speaker 21 (28:38):
What makes you think she's dead?

Speaker 22 (28:40):
I could see it in your eyes when I asked
you body.

Speaker 21 (28:43):
But it matters how much she walked out on you.

Speaker 23 (28:46):
Didn't she she'd come back if she was Okay?

Speaker 22 (28:49):
I know Evie? Come on de lauris what happened to her?

Speaker 21 (28:51):
How should I know?

Speaker 22 (28:52):
You know?

Speaker 31 (28:53):
Baby?

Speaker 23 (28:53):
You said you was gonna kill it. You're out of
your head, she told.

Speaker 22 (28:56):
Me, she says, Johnny, boy, Delaorus is jealousy you, and
she says, if I.

Speaker 23 (29:01):
Don't stop seeing you, you'll kill me.

Speaker 22 (29:03):
It's not true. Come on, baby, I know you. We
were married, wasn't you? And may remember now? It's have
it what you do to Eve nothing.

Speaker 21 (29:11):
I don't wash, baby, that just don't wash.

Speaker 22 (29:14):
They're gonna tell me, honeywhere's Evie?

Speaker 23 (29:17):
What'd you do to Johnny? You're crazy?

Speaker 22 (29:18):
Drug?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I get a word of talk, Johnny, Johnny.

Speaker 24 (29:24):
All right?

Speaker 22 (29:25):
Hold it, john get on it.

Speaker 23 (29:26):
Knock it off.

Speaker 22 (29:28):
You all right, baby, not that I really care.

Speaker 21 (29:31):
I'm alright.

Speaker 22 (29:31):
Sit down, jazz balls. Your new boyfriend baby is in
there like his face and I think shames. Sit down, Johnny.
He's all right. I had to belt him and I
ought to clip you too.

Speaker 21 (29:45):
I don't understand.

Speaker 20 (29:46):
I heard it, baby, I got big ears.

Speaker 22 (29:49):
He didn't bother to tell me you were married to
Johnny in the meant and you didn't bother to tell
me you and Eve had a slight falling out.

Speaker 21 (29:54):
I wanted you to help me.

Speaker 22 (29:55):
I was afraid you.

Speaker 20 (29:56):
Wanted a passy baby, and you got one when you
were about to lose him. Because Rocky Boy's gonna walk
away from all this right down the nearest police station, Rocky.
Note all that builds about how you were framed, and me,
with my open mind, I got.

Speaker 22 (30:08):
A hole in my head, Rocky, it's not true.

Speaker 20 (30:10):
Yeah, Well tell Dick the fun loving rover boy when
he comes to I'll leave his fiddle in.

Speaker 22 (30:14):
The band room. It's a long baby, And.

Speaker 20 (30:16):
The next time you want a corps moved, call the
seven Santini brothers.

Speaker 22 (30:20):
I don't belong to the right union.

Speaker 20 (30:28):
I put it up to my room as mad as
a centipede with a hot foot, and lugged the big
bass fiddle down to the band room, which is right
across the hall from Johnny the men's room.

Speaker 22 (30:36):
The empty fiddle case is standing in the corner.

Speaker 20 (30:39):
I start to lay it down flat and weighs about
a tongue, and even before it slips out of my.

Speaker 22 (30:44):
Hands, I know why. Holy smokes.

Speaker 20 (30:50):
Okay, fly boy, get him up high. So you're the
guy who was all busted up about losing his best
girl back against the real nice guy kills his doll
and tries to hang it on his ex wife.

Speaker 22 (31:04):
You're a doll buster.

Speaker 20 (31:06):
She found out I was pushing dope and threatened to
go to the cops. Static killer.

Speaker 22 (31:10):
Why you crummy dope peddler.

Speaker 20 (31:13):
It's misfits like you to give honest musicians a bad name.

Speaker 22 (31:15):
They'll run your mouths and me fortune.

Speaker 20 (31:17):
If you'd have keipped out of it, you'd be all right.

Speaker 22 (31:20):
You're gonna have.

Speaker 20 (31:20):
A tough time trying to get rid of two corps.
As John Boy, a fiddle case only holds one. I'll
worry about that and turn around, sure a pal. Anything
you say, only before I do. There's one thing I.

Speaker 22 (31:33):
Think you ought to know.

Speaker 20 (31:34):
Hah do Laurus took the bullets out of your gun. Hello, Hello, yes, plead,
Who is this the manager?

Speaker 4 (31:46):
What is it?

Speaker 20 (31:46):
Please listen, Quai, This is Rocky Fortune. I'm up in
the band room two fifteen.

Speaker 23 (31:52):
Listen.

Speaker 20 (31:53):
Eve Johnson's Body's up here in the base fiddle case.
And I got the cat that killed it. And get
the cops and make it fast. You say you've got
the man step it stretched out like a herry.

Speaker 9 (32:03):
That's just fine, Fortune, stay right there, I'll call the police.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Make it fast.

Speaker 22 (32:06):
I hear somebody coming now, don't worry.

Speaker 9 (32:08):
You will be taken care of.

Speaker 20 (32:17):
It takes about two seconds before lightning strikes.

Speaker 22 (32:20):
How did Quaid know she was sad? And how did
he know it was a man? Suddenly little wheels start
to spin herround in my noodle. Quaid is internet, sure
he is.

Speaker 20 (32:29):
He's probably supplying Johnny Lament with the stuff, and what's
Moy's undoubtedly on his way up here right now. I
start to pick up Johnny Lamen's forty five and remind
myself that Dolores cann has removed the bullets. My hand
turns the door knob but it can't be quad so soon.
I just pray that one of the cats has come
to get his instrument. The door opens, I freeze, Hey.

Speaker 23 (32:51):
Hey, dad, put the thing down. You gone, goonie buck?

Speaker 22 (32:54):
See brother? Am I glad to see you? I put
down a heater of man. What's going on in here?

Speaker 20 (33:00):
Take a look in a fiddle case? Holy smokes, Eve, Yeah,
here's the little boy who did it.

Speaker 22 (33:07):
Jie admitted it. I had to flatten him.

Speaker 23 (33:10):
Well you did real good.

Speaker 22 (33:12):
Not good enough. Listen, bugs.

Speaker 20 (33:14):
The manager's on his way up here right now, and
unless I miss my guests, he's got heavy artillery.

Speaker 21 (33:19):
Oh quay is he in on this?

Speaker 9 (33:21):
He is?

Speaker 22 (33:21):
Now? I gotta get out of here. What you gonna do?

Speaker 20 (33:24):
I got a sudden brainstone. Look, help me get Eve
Johnson's body out of this case. Come on, I'll get
with it. Come okay, okay, Yeah, where too in the closet?

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Yeah, had a boy.

Speaker 22 (33:34):
Now, dump laughing boy into the base, drunk right now?
Open the door.

Speaker 20 (33:41):
Yeah, look, you think you can lift that case.

Speaker 16 (33:45):
With me in it?

Speaker 31 (33:46):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 22 (33:47):
I had a boy, muscle man? Here goes all right?

Speaker 23 (33:50):
What you want me to do?

Speaker 16 (33:51):
Now?

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Look?

Speaker 20 (33:51):
You just walk out like you're on your way to
a jam session. Once I get past Quaid and there's artillery,
I'm alright.

Speaker 22 (33:56):
Oh ky huh, watch you hand it?

Speaker 14 (33:59):
Here go?

Speaker 31 (34:02):
How you doing?

Speaker 20 (34:03):
Cut the lip dribble and get gone before I get blue.

Speaker 22 (34:14):
The fiddle case fits me like a fidal disease.

Speaker 20 (34:16):
But I squinched down and hold my breath, and I
figure maybe we'll make it. Bugsy boy picks me up
like I weigh in a three pounds just.

Speaker 22 (34:22):
As a door opened.

Speaker 23 (34:23):
All right, Fortune, get your hi, mister Quaid.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
Oh it's you.

Speaker 22 (34:29):
You was expecting somebody else.

Speaker 9 (34:30):
I was expecting fortune. Did he get away?

Speaker 22 (34:33):
Fortune? Oh you mean the bass playing?

Speaker 9 (34:35):
You know who I mean, muscle brain?

Speaker 28 (34:37):
Did he get out?

Speaker 22 (34:38):
You know me better than that bosh. I got rocky
fortune right here inside the fiddle case.

Speaker 20 (34:55):
So there I am smart. They don't come any smart
to no Roco Fortunado Jack. It never occurred to me
that this hotel might be operating a narcotics dodge, and
that my pole Bugsy might be.

Speaker 22 (35:07):
In on it. But I'm real tricky. I am, yes, sir.

Speaker 20 (35:10):
Ree I out with the crook by crawling into a
base fiddle case and letting them snap the catch on
me and there I hang like a cured hand with
me boiling hot fat.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
What do we do with him? Boss?

Speaker 22 (35:21):
Let me out of here.

Speaker 25 (35:22):
You're punk.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
Get him out of here.

Speaker 21 (35:24):
Why don't we just dropp him down the air shift?

Speaker 22 (35:26):
It looked like an accident.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Don't be a jerk.

Speaker 9 (35:28):
Take him down the river?

Speaker 22 (35:29):
Anything you say?

Speaker 21 (35:30):
Boss?

Speaker 22 (35:31):
Hey, yeah, I watch you shot?

Speaker 4 (35:33):
I pulled for the whole mind.

Speaker 32 (35:35):
Don't mine?

Speaker 22 (35:36):
What a temper this cat has got to?

Speaker 9 (35:37):
Come on, Bugsy, don't great anything?

Speaker 22 (35:40):
Who's that? Shach me?

Speaker 29 (35:42):
Mop?

Speaker 33 (35:42):
Went up?

Speaker 9 (35:43):
Who is it?

Speaker 23 (35:44):
Only just a moment?

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Dropped out the window right out?

Speaker 9 (35:52):
Hol on, Okay, open the door. What's going on here?

Speaker 28 (36:02):
I'd like to know, Officer. He came in and found
his musician knocked out on the floor.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
Fortune Fortune. I haven't seen him, of you, Bugsy Fortune?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (36:12):
Not a hide nor a hair either.

Speaker 21 (36:14):
Well, I know he came in here to return the fiddle.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
You must have left, then. Maybe he's in his room.

Speaker 23 (36:18):
Yeah, yeah, he might have been here. Buddy left.

Speaker 9 (36:21):
Come on, miss, we'll go up to his room.

Speaker 28 (36:23):
Something wrong, Officer, Yeah, Fortune's wanted as an accessory of murder.

Speaker 29 (36:27):
Hold it?

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Oh no, Rocky, what are you doing.

Speaker 20 (36:30):
I don't believe this, sergeant, but I just climbed out
of a fiddle case. These hoodlums stopped me out of
the window onto a fire escape one slight down.

Speaker 9 (36:37):
What he's obviously crazy, probably drunk, not.

Speaker 20 (36:41):
Crazy, brother, than how about opening that closet door, because
I've had a hallucination that Eve Johnson's body's inside. I'd
like to oblige fortune, but you see I've got other plan.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
Crap, buddy, all right, don't move either one of you.

Speaker 22 (36:54):
I'm standing still.

Speaker 9 (36:55):
Open the closet, Rocky.

Speaker 22 (37:00):
For your sergeant.

Speaker 9 (37:01):
Yeah, it'll do for the time being. All Right, let's go.
You two keep an eye on Dreamboat there.

Speaker 22 (37:08):
Sure well, if he comes to a belt him with
a fiddle let's go.

Speaker 21 (37:13):
Who boy, Are you alright, Rocky?

Speaker 22 (37:17):
If I can have a straighten up, I'll be fine.
What happened up here?

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (37:20):
The sergeant came back when he found out those were bloodstains,
and I told him the whole story. We came down
to look for you, and I guess you know the rest.

Speaker 21 (37:29):
You Sure you're all right, Rocky?

Speaker 22 (37:32):
I'm fine, baby, But I.

Speaker 20 (37:34):
Was just thinking what what they would have said if
that fire escape hadn't have been there, what would they
have said?

Speaker 22 (37:42):
Man?

Speaker 20 (37:42):
Dig that crazy bass fiddle. NBC has presented Frank Sinatra
as that footloose, fancy, free, and frequently unemployed young gentleman

(38:05):
Rocky Fortune. Tonight's cast included Jack Krusian, Gene Tatum, Tom Holland,
Frank Gerstlal and Bonnie Phillips. Tonight's script was written by
George Lefferts and Andrew C. Love directed. This is Eddie
King speaking now to tell you about next week's adventure.
Here's Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune. Did I ever tell

(38:45):
you about the Broadway actress who was involved in the
murder of a drama critic? And when I asked her
for autographs he gave it to me with a forty five?

Speaker 22 (38:54):
Tell you about it next week, See you around.

Speaker 20 (39:00):
Visit with tebber McGee and Malay Tonight on the NBC
Radio Network.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
I remember Harlem, that theme song from Roy Eldridge for
Frank Sinatra and Rocky Fortune seventy two years ago, November seventeenth,
nineteen fifty three. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
The Adventures of Sam Spade returned on this date in

(39:27):
nineteen fifty. Why did it go away? And why is
Steve dunnstarring in the show instead of Howard Dupp. We'll
tell you about that next.

Speaker 34 (39:45):
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Defense Office of Civil Defense, Washington. Especially in time of emergency,
think before you act and follow instructions by responsible authorities.
You may receive warning of an attack by outdoor warning systems,
or by radio or television, or even by word of mouth,
unless local officials have instructed you otherwise, Go immediately to

(40:07):
a public fallout shelter or to your home fallout shelter.
Then tune your radio to any local station that is broadcasting,
and listen for official information. Follow whatever instructions are given.
Don't use the telephone to obtain further information and advice
about the emergency. Depend on radio, as the government will
be broadcasting all the information it has available. The telephone

(40:28):
lines will be needed for official calls. Help keep them open.
Let me repeat, in time of emergency. For official government
information and civil defense instructions, tune your radio to any
local station that is broadcasting.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
So what happened to Sam Spade? To be perfectly honest,
he got caught up in the Red Scare a Dashel
Hammet was thought to have communist leanings, and then Howard
Duff ended up being in the book Red Channels, which

(41:07):
was where a whole bunch of people got accused of
being communists and having pro communist leanings. Well, Sam Spade
ended up going away and NBC had to deal with

(41:28):
a ticked off public. They wanted their Sam Spade. Public
demand forced the show to come back. That was the
good news. The bad news is they didn't bring back
Howard Duff. Duff was the character Steve Dunn wasn't Sam Spade.

(41:52):
You'll be able to tell in this edition of the show,
the first show back of the Adventures of Sam Spade
from seven twenty five years ago today November seventeenth, nineteen
fifty see if you can understand why the replacement show
didn't last.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
In response to requests representing millions of listening friends, the
National Broadcasting Company is pleased, indeed to bring you again
The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

Speaker 14 (42:35):
Hello me sweet?

Speaker 10 (42:37):
What number of I got?

Speaker 22 (42:38):
Sam?

Speaker 10 (42:40):
Oh? Well, ma sweet?

Speaker 9 (42:42):
Something happened?

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Call me later, twife.

Speaker 10 (42:44):
The White Sheet.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Look, I didn't know you you were in town.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
You didn't write toumir effi ye, this is me in
the flesh Sammy the Spade. Oh no, what goodbye, Effie,
I'm in a pay phone, my Nicholas running out?

Speaker 35 (42:59):
How can you so cruel and played jokes at a
time like this?

Speaker 9 (43:03):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Wait, listen are you listening? Yeah, I am not dead.
Don't believe everything you're reading the papers or here on
the radio. You are at my funeral? Is that what
you were about to say? Yes, lovely, don't believe that either.
Stay right where you are, sweetheart, because I'll be there,
alive and handsomer than ever, with an account of a
caper which proves you can kill some of the people

(43:25):
part of the time. My exaggerated report on the death
of Sam Spade NBC welcomes back to the era a
character who has captured the public imagination more completely than
any other since the birth of Sherlock Holmes. William Spear,
radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama, brings

(43:48):
you the greatest private detective of them all in the
Adventures of Sam Spade. Hey, it grand the me blooming
well dead, Candles at my feet, Candle.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
That my We're not over for business today.

Speaker 36 (44:03):
I mean mister Stay's office is closed right now because.

Speaker 10 (44:06):
Because oh wait ah wait, you look just like what's
your name? Spade? S P A D. E.

Speaker 9 (44:15):
Spade?

Speaker 36 (44:16):
Sam never told me he had a twin brother.

Speaker 10 (44:18):
He doesn't. I'm me Sam. Oh wait, come here now
do you believe me?

Speaker 21 (44:27):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (44:28):
What's the use?

Speaker 36 (44:31):
Who is so much like you?

Speaker 37 (44:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Never mind, never mind, I'll get your pencil and paper
and take it. Date November seventeenth, nineteen fifty to miss
Effie Perie from Samuel Spade.

Speaker 10 (44:45):
That's me, license number one three seven five nine.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
It must have been the last one to see him alive.

Speaker 22 (44:49):
Did he tend you to give me a message?

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Shut up subject my death, dear e Fie. Since the
sight of me in the flesh, breathing, hungering and living
doesn't convince you, maybe this report well think if you
can back to last Monday, if you recall, it was
about eleven o'clock when, on the flimsy pretense that we
needed stamps for the office, you drew two dollars from

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petty cash and stepped out to buy a pair of
step ins. And that's when my client materialized. He was
small and thin and carried with him the unmistakable odor
of stale flowers. His black alpaca suits, string bows, hie
elevator's shoes, and white gloves had no bearing.

Speaker 10 (45:29):
On his conversation. Oh dear, my name is Chester Swang.
Are you sure he is? My name is Spade? What
can I do?

Speaker 38 (45:36):
How told you?

Speaker 10 (45:36):
Mister Spade? Six feet in my feet?

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Wait?

Speaker 10 (45:39):
One seventy eight? I always noticed a man's bone structure.
Don't you always open? Huh open? Let me see inside? Oh?
Ikus alight, fine? Uh well now that you know me
this well, mister Swan, what can.

Speaker 14 (45:52):
I do for you?

Speaker 39 (45:52):
Oh dear, Perhaps I perhaps I shouldn't have come here tall,
I'm sorry, mix streme, what really?

Speaker 31 (46:00):
Oh dear?

Speaker 10 (46:01):
Oh hello again, mister Swan. You wanted to talk to me?
He is, But I can't talk now, mister Sprange stale here.
I live at eighty five sixteen Claire Martin, Berkeley.

Speaker 23 (46:12):
I'll be there tonight.

Speaker 31 (46:13):
I old here this time.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
As he made his exit, he left fifty dollars on
the edge of my desk, and so stupid me. I
was at eighty five sixteen Claremont at the close of
the day. It was a small white cottage with green
shutters and a white ticket fence. There was a hill
and back and a brook in front. The sun was
beginning to set on it, and it was all very picturesque,

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in fact, so much so that a girl with red hair,
blue jeans, purple smock oils and canvas was making it immortal.

Speaker 10 (46:49):
She liked me immediately.

Speaker 35 (46:50):
Here hold is certainly my it. Oh, this is my
first landscape. I'm a sprouting.

Speaker 10 (46:56):
Artist, obvious, make your own.

Speaker 35 (46:58):
Not when I can get somebody to do.

Speaker 22 (46:59):
It for me.

Speaker 10 (47:00):
Oh, I might be a fellow artist. Don't do that.
You're a liar.

Speaker 35 (47:03):
You're Sam Spade. I saw your picture in a newspaper
clipping when I was helping Chester clean out his desk
before he moved it. You don't know an easel from
a palace all, but.

Speaker 10 (47:11):
I could learn.

Speaker 35 (47:12):
I take it seriously, then.

Speaker 14 (47:14):
So do I.

Speaker 31 (47:14):
I doubt it.

Speaker 35 (47:15):
You've never tried to get away, to stand off, to
throw off the shackles, have you?

Speaker 25 (47:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (47:20):
No, I'll have to admit that the urgency of living,
the pressure of merely existing has had the catfish.

Speaker 31 (47:26):
Sam.

Speaker 35 (47:26):
By the way, I'm Amy Goodrich Catfee. The world is
full of unhappy people who never try to get away.

Speaker 31 (47:31):
From it all.

Speaker 10 (47:32):
Well, honestly, stop it.

Speaker 35 (47:33):
I wanted to, really, honestly, Sam, get away from everything.
Leave desire.

Speaker 31 (47:37):
I've dreamed of it, never return.

Speaker 10 (47:39):
Cross my heart? What are you doing here to see
mister Swan?

Speaker 35 (47:42):
He isn't home yet. His house is a wonderful subject, look, Sam, colorful,
moderate pleasance, that is until the sun stops shining. But
picture it at night in the fog, crushed with barrenness,
full of death, brooding olmns. I'm trying to capture that too.
It's what we've got to get away from.

Speaker 31 (47:59):
Isn't its?

Speaker 10 (48:00):
Absolutely you and I am.

Speaker 35 (48:02):
As you start up the hill on Claremont, there's a
green apartment house on the rights. I'm in four twenty.

Speaker 10 (48:07):
Well, maybe we'll find a way out together.

Speaker 35 (48:09):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
I waved her a fawn farewell and sat on the
steps of my client's house until he showed up at
six point fifteen. He took me inside, where the only
furniture was an army cut and a portable Barbi.

Speaker 39 (48:24):
I'm so glad you kept our appointment, missus spread I'm
so frightened.

Speaker 10 (48:28):
I've been upset all week long. I didn't know what
to do. I just didn't. And what have you been
so upset about, mister Swan?

Speaker 39 (48:35):
Well, lately, mister spread infrequently. For the last week, I've
noticed a man. I think he's following me. At first,
i'd see him in a car following my bus when
I went downtown. Did he be waiting around at the
bus stop in the evening when I came back home.

Speaker 10 (48:49):
I'm so my house and I ready to move. It's
unnerved me so much. But he did he follow you
home tonight?

Speaker 25 (48:55):
No? No?

Speaker 10 (48:56):
But why would anyone be following you, mister Swan? Would
I don't know, mister, I don't know. I really don't.
All right, I'll try another tech. What does this man
look like? He always wears dark clothes and a hat.

Speaker 39 (49:07):
I'd say he was about your height six feet I remember,
maybe heavier, same boone structure though.

Speaker 10 (49:12):
Yeah, you haven't been to the police, ohcared, No, a
man in my business can't afford off color publicity.

Speaker 40 (49:18):
No, what kind of business is that? The Bontan mortuary?
Oh twenty five years, same location?

Speaker 22 (49:24):
Who?

Speaker 40 (49:25):
And I've worked hard, so very hard, And if there's
something behind all, there's something that had stopped me from
being made the executive secretary of the Undertaker's breakfast club
when they hold their annual election next month.

Speaker 10 (49:35):
I don't know what I'll do, mister Fate.

Speaker 22 (49:37):
I just don't really know what or do.

Speaker 31 (49:39):
I just don't.

Speaker 10 (49:40):
Don't. Oh, go ahead, mister swan, you'll feel better. Just
let it all out, just really do. And he did.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
When he stopped crying, I instructed him to go about
his daily habits as always and left, assuring him I'd
get to the bottom of it all. I walked down
to the corner ostentatiously, which is a neat trick well
calculated to throw nefarious observers off the track and lull
them into false security. And when the bus showed up
ten minutes later, I got on it, rode three blocks,
walked back and took a plant across the street, a

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clever roofs as you see, to invite a showdown. Two
hours later, a man about my size and dark clothes
appeared over the hill and crept stealthily to the front
of my client's cottage. He had his eyes glued to
the window when I walked up behind him, Hey, let go,
let go, come on, you're going in size and I'm
peeping tome. No, no, you're the bloodhound type. I'm inviting

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you in for a real sniffer.

Speaker 14 (50:37):
Oh no, you don't. I well, all right then I'll
go quietly.

Speaker 10 (50:41):
No, okay, that's better. Now we'll just walk home.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
The kick he landed on me wasn't according to Queensberry,
and I couldn't move for three or four minutes, and
by that time he disappeared. When I recovered my faculty
is I reported the incident to my clients, who cried
himself to sleep.

Speaker 10 (51:05):
After I bolted him in for the night.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I stopped on my way down the hill at Apartment
four twenty in the little Green apartment house. She was
still wearing the blue jeans and the purple smock, and
she still had the same ideas.

Speaker 35 (51:16):
Come in, Sam, you said you were serious about getting
away from it all, and a whole day has passed.

Speaker 10 (51:22):
It was that pressure of living. I'm here to apologize.

Speaker 35 (51:25):
You are not goad.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 35 (51:27):
I love to be fooled, Sam, You're forgiven.

Speaker 10 (51:30):
How's the painting coming? The one of Swan's.

Speaker 35 (51:32):
Cuttage slow fog is always tough?

Speaker 10 (51:35):
Looks nice though? How long you've been on it?

Speaker 35 (51:37):
Three weeks, all told.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Well, and you've had a pretty good plant on the house.
Haven't you ever noticed a tall, broad shouldered guy in
a dark suit.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Casing the place? Tall broad shiuldern pretty much like me?

Speaker 35 (51:48):
Could anybody be pretty much like you?

Speaker 21 (51:51):
Sam?

Speaker 10 (51:52):
No, you're right, Sam?

Speaker 35 (51:54):
Is there something wrong?

Speaker 36 (51:55):
No?

Speaker 35 (51:55):
No, Well, then don't stand there doing nothing, Do something?

Speaker 12 (52:00):
Who me?

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Amy fixed me a small dinner which had a strong
turpentine taste to it, and then we mixed oils and
painted and made fun. Next afternoon, at the Hall of Records,
I did a little spade work on Chester Swan his
application and permit to practice undertaking in the City of
San Francisco, where dated nineteen thirty eight, details unmarried, fifty

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two years of age, graduated from mortician school in Ohio.
Listed one living relative, nephew, Theodore J. Swan, Toledo, Ohio.
I was gathering the above information when I smelled whiskey
over my shoulder, which is always good luck. It was
Al Torrington, who was also in the private investigation racket
in this city, and he was leaning peering from my

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face to the cart that I held in my hands.

Speaker 10 (52:57):
Get over to you Tuesday, who got over to meel
that thinny with the tears. What's his name? Uh, in
my eyes, ain't so good? Swan Chester, Swan more Tsiane. Yeah, yeah,
that's him.

Speaker 41 (53:09):
Sam, the same one exactly came to my office two
weeks complaining about somebody following them, and he did nothing
about it, said.

Speaker 10 (53:16):
I was too fat, Oh you are? Are you sure?

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Sure?

Speaker 31 (53:19):
I'm sure?

Speaker 41 (53:21):
And some other of the boys said he was around
there too, one of the private eye. But he wanted
a man who looked just right, all right, obviously as
right as you are, Sam, because it looks like.

Speaker 10 (53:31):
He picked you.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Eh yeah, yeah, yes, if it did look like he
picked me. And I thought that over and I didn't
like it, and I called my client off home to
tell him he was fired. But he didn't give me
a chance.

Speaker 10 (53:45):
Oh, jear, I'm so glad you called, mister Spade.

Speaker 14 (53:47):
I really am.

Speaker 10 (53:48):
I called for a reason, mister Swan, I'm resigning this case. Oh, dear,
mister Spade.

Speaker 22 (53:52):
You can't do that, you really can't.

Speaker 10 (53:54):
I don't think you've been quite honest with.

Speaker 25 (53:56):
Me, mister Sap.

Speaker 10 (53:56):
Oh dear, Tears will get you nowhere.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
A routine check on your reasons for hiring me, and
they don't quite fit with the reasons, you gay, They
really just don't quite mister Swan.

Speaker 39 (54:07):
It's no game, mister Spade. Believe me, he's back tonight
right now. He's standing beneath the lamp post outside my window.
And I'm frightened to death.

Speaker 40 (54:16):
Please hurry over, mister Spade, and let's get this business
street and now, please please.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
And stupid, stupid me, I went over and I found
that little white cottage on the hill, looking grim and
gne in the heavy fog. Amy's words about it being
crushed with barrenness, full of brooding and death came back
to me, and mister Swan's frightened words about a mysterious
man in dark clothes waiting beneath the street light also

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came back to me, particularly when I noted there was
no street light near the house. However, there was a
light somewhere in the rear of the house, and the
front door was ajar, Oh, mister Swan, mister Swan, are
you here, Oh, mister Swan, it's me Sam you hear,
mister Spade?

Speaker 16 (55:02):
Is that you?

Speaker 23 (55:03):
Are you out there?

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Where are you?

Speaker 10 (55:09):
Things happened fast.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
I turned around to find the front door filled with
a man in a dark suit, he had something in
his hand. It looked like a roll of cotton candy,
but it felt different. It only staggered me against the wall,
but it made me forget where my arms were.

Speaker 16 (55:21):
Easy, spade, easy, does it for easy?

Speaker 10 (55:23):
He let me down on the floor gently.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I could still see the lights somewhere in the back
of the house, and I could hear him talking way
or give me the.

Speaker 31 (55:32):
Hurry, spikerd watch.

Speaker 25 (55:34):
I blew upstairs.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
The needle went somewhere in my left arm, but not
before somebody pulled my coat off, and for no reason
I could think of at the moment, also tried to
pull my finger off, and I couldn't dwell on it.
By that time, the stuff in my arm was going
other places, and I was going with it, even though
there was action all around me.

Speaker 31 (55:52):
He no, no, stay away from me, get out of here.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Vaguely, somewhere somebody was shooting roman candles or having blowouts
or playing be Bop.

Speaker 10 (56:06):
I just didn't care at all. I just didn't.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
The first thing I saw was sunlight. It was the
kind you see in a picture. It was a picture
of a little white cottage with green shutters deo guests.
I was an Amy's apartment where we made fudge together.
I got to my feet somehow.

Speaker 23 (56:31):
I had few days.

Speaker 35 (56:33):
You'll have to figure out the best.

Speaker 15 (56:34):
Thing to do with it.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I knew the best thing to do with me. There
was a fire escape in a window. I got out there,
and I weaved against the wall.

Speaker 15 (56:41):
He's done.

Speaker 37 (56:43):
He's gone.

Speaker 23 (56:44):
Well, you mean he's gone.

Speaker 31 (56:44):
He couldn't have gotten away with that load.

Speaker 23 (56:46):
He was gone.

Speaker 21 (56:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 31 (56:47):
I don't know she was unconscious of I don't just say.

Speaker 10 (56:50):
We've gotta do something.

Speaker 23 (56:50):
There might be trouble all of you.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
I didn't wait to find out what they were gonna do.
I made my way down the fire escape and started
walking for the street. And and that's when I noticed
my shoes didn't fit me anymore. They weren't mine. Neither
was the gray flannel suit with the label marked Tidchees.
Neither was the blue shirt. While I was at it,
the ring on my finger in graved Emerson High in
nineteen thirty six wasn't mine either. My new belt buckle

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had a big letter T on it, which is not
my initial. It really isn't. And I didn't have any
useful The eyeglasses in my coat pocket. Either you were
out when I walked in the office, f but you'd
been there. There was a black crpe done up in
a white satin ribbon hanging on the door. The desk

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flotter was drenched with salt tears, and a newspaper folded
back to page thirteen. And I'll soothe the chronicle on
this if it's the last thing I do. Gave me
a two inch spread item November fifteenth, nineteen fifteen, fifteenth
What happened to the thirteenth and the fourteenth Detective perishes
in Berkeley Fire?

Speaker 10 (57:56):
I read it through once, then twice. It was obituary.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
You are listening to the first in a new series
of adventures involving radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. Later

(58:28):
tonight on most NBC stations, Duffy's Tavern comes your way
with another merry half hour session starring Ed Gardner as
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with chuckles and whipped up by Archie and his unpredictable friends,
Miss Duffy, Clifton Finnegan and Eddie the Waiter. It's just
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It's Duffy's Tavern, your queue for better listening, where the
three chimes always.

Speaker 10 (58:54):
Mean good times.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Make it a Friday evening habit to tune early and
stay late at your favorite NBC station. And now back
to Caper over my dead body Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade.

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I left the crape on the door and went out
to buy a new desk blotter and some more newspapers.
The Hobo News had the best story, which wasn't much.
Samuel Spade, licensed private investigator, perished Wednesday night in a
fire in a vacant house in Berkeley. His warm friends
will feel regretted the passing of a man who was
always kind to the poor. None of us ever asked

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Sam Spade for a handout without receiving a kind word
and bonmot as he turned us down. This was nice,
but I wanted more. Figured I was fairly safe to
wonder about unrecognized. My ill fitting attire acquired from my
unknown benefactor would be disguised enough when combined with my
two day Bear Engine Company sixteen Berkeley Division had handled

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the fire, and half a block away was a grog
shop called the Shamrock I waited for a fireman to
come in.

Speaker 42 (01:00:09):
Bartender, Bartender, what kind of a place you're running now,
I've been here five minutes.

Speaker 31 (01:00:15):
I shut up, Patty adjust a rived. Well it seemed
like five minutes. I weep it more than.

Speaker 23 (01:00:21):
If you don't.

Speaker 10 (01:00:22):
That's enough for you, Patty. You're still on, dude, I
am not.

Speaker 42 (01:00:25):
I'm off now. The chief said I could be off.
Itn't every day received such a shock to me system.

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
You received your shock three days ago, and.

Speaker 31 (01:00:33):
I'm still shit. Command.

Speaker 42 (01:00:37):
Oh, the site of him was terrible, terrible, hurt, as
black as the good Saint's beard, all twisted and horrible
in death.

Speaker 10 (01:00:45):
He was probably dead drunk and didn't know what happened
to him.

Speaker 31 (01:00:48):
And were you there fighting the flames and finding them
like me?

Speaker 22 (01:00:52):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (01:00:52):
It was terrible, terrible, tenfer.

Speaker 19 (01:00:56):
Terrible.

Speaker 31 (01:00:57):
It wasn't that bad.

Speaker 10 (01:00:58):
And you've had your limit?

Speaker 31 (01:01:00):
And who says so?

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
I say, so? Oh you do?

Speaker 21 (01:01:02):
Do you?

Speaker 31 (01:01:03):
And who are you?

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
Your brother in law? Well, now, well maybe I can
spot you. One pain never drink was strangers?

Speaker 31 (01:01:09):
What's your name?

Speaker 15 (01:01:10):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:01:10):
Oh, doolan?

Speaker 31 (01:01:11):
When you heard the man go ahead, poor.

Speaker 43 (01:01:15):
Cheers, Yeah, fireman, you had a terrible experience three though
that I've heard it a dozen times. I'll be it
the other three nights to go, mister Doolan. And we
get a call to the house and Claremont is a fire. Well,
so when we get there, it's about all gone. Can't

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understand why it's flames so fast?

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
Would?

Speaker 42 (01:01:39):
It was the funeral fire of a man who lived
in Sin a detective fellow Sam Spade.

Speaker 31 (01:01:46):
He was identified as, oh.

Speaker 10 (01:01:49):
One moment fireman. I've heard fine things about him.

Speaker 42 (01:01:52):
Ah, some of those are pretty police fellows from the
Division of Homicide said he was a nice fellow. But
some of the boys at the fire station and so well,
we got our own ideas about that.

Speaker 10 (01:02:03):
What kind of idea is patty me boy?

Speaker 31 (01:02:04):
What kind of good can any man be accomplished in
an empty house late at night? I asked you, was
through dooland?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (01:02:11):
He was done to attorney was when I burst in
the door with.

Speaker 42 (01:02:14):
Me acts saved, hid in the coal charge, empty, with
stupar scattered all about Sin Nolan Sin. He'd gone to
sleep with a smoke and cigarette that set the whole
place off viet.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
From there, I went downtown to a telegraph office, where
I sent a wire to Toledo on a long chance.
While I was waiting for an answer, on a not
so long chance, I slunk into the Bonton funeral parlor
to pay my respects to the departed. I stood in
the back of that dimly lit chapel and scanned the sea.

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Three of the boys from homicide were there, blowing their noses.
Two chorus girls I thought had long since forgotten me
were there in black deep v Next, my insurance man
was there, looking awful worried. One chronicle reporter with photographer
and a shoeshine boy from our building, and the bailiff
from the courthouse. Just to mention a few I could
make a and you were there, Fie up front, near

(01:03:20):
a closed casket. I made out a bar of flowers
from robbery detail. It said goodbye. Sam MAXI from the
City Morgue was the only one who looked at ease.

Speaker 23 (01:03:33):
All right?

Speaker 10 (01:03:34):
Does anyone wish to a fumish?

Speaker 15 (01:03:38):
Many called him Shammon, but I called him friend. On
this his last caper.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I was touched, Effie, and I would have stopped the
whole thing then and there, but I had to find
out who was in that casket. I reeled out the
front door with tears in my eyes and slid around
to the back door and into chester Swan's private office,
And there I made a phone call and got an
answer to my telegram, which caused me to make another
call to his bank. By that time most of it
was right in place. A search through his desk revealed nothing,

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and a safe standing in the corner the same. But
then my answer walked right in the door.

Speaker 35 (01:04:27):
Oh, Sam, Darling, I was so worried when I found
you'd left that I saw you at the funeral and
I thought you'd.

Speaker 10 (01:04:31):
Be here, and the guy was with you, was he worried?

Speaker 23 (01:04:33):
Oh?

Speaker 35 (01:04:34):
Wamn him?

Speaker 10 (01:04:34):
That was doctor Jesslyn.

Speaker 23 (01:04:35):
Sam.

Speaker 35 (01:04:36):
You'd been out for two days and I didn't. Oh Sam,
you're a safe. You got away from it all.

Speaker 36 (01:04:41):
You've escaped.

Speaker 31 (01:04:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:04:43):
Yeah, they're burying me right now. I'm dead.

Speaker 35 (01:04:45):
It's so wonderful, Sam.

Speaker 10 (01:04:46):
Only one thing, where do you fit? The caper?

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
I was supposed to burn up in that fire, and
what was left was supposed to look enough like Theodore J.
Swan class of nineteen thirty six, Toledo, Ohio to let
beneficiary chester Swan collect a nice pie insurance money Sam,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 35 (01:05:02):
Who's Theodore j What did you say?

Speaker 10 (01:05:04):
Chester's only living relative. They're burying him right now. Somebody
lost his caper. You want to tell me, Dolly.

Speaker 35 (01:05:09):
I was at the house the night of the fire,
working on my foggy picture. You didn't see me when
you went in, and later on you didn't come.

Speaker 10 (01:05:15):
Out, and I went over and I was on the
floor and a man was bending over me.

Speaker 35 (01:05:19):
He changed clothes with you, Sam, and I screamed and
he pulled out a gun and I hit him with
a hole and I drug you out on the lawn
and then what happened. I put you in my car
and took you home. I was going to phone the police,
but I decided it was something you were working on.
And I went back to the house.

Speaker 10 (01:05:33):
And it was burning, and you knew the man you'd
hit on the head.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
Was in there.

Speaker 35 (01:05:36):
Believe me, Sam, I didn't know the house was going
to burn down. I wouldn't kill anybody, Sam.

Speaker 10 (01:05:42):
I only wanted to You only wanted to help me,
And you did write angels. That's all right. I'm your witness.
You didn't start the fire.

Speaker 35 (01:05:49):
I mean, somebody really started it.

Speaker 10 (01:05:52):
Chester.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
He thought it was me lying on the floor in there.
The bank tells me he's about to go bust it.
He figured this one out with his nephew to scare
up some insurance though the same size.

Speaker 10 (01:06:01):
Hold me.

Speaker 35 (01:06:02):
It's been horrible. This is the kind of thing I
was trying to paint. Now I'm smack dab up against
it and I'm sick. I'm scared. Easy, easy, Sam, you're
really dead. There's our way out, Sam, Just leave now,
let it go the way it is.

Speaker 22 (01:06:20):
They all think you're dead, Oh.

Speaker 31 (01:06:22):
Dear, huh, but we know different, don't we miss the spade?

Speaker 10 (01:06:29):
He was holding a Navy Colt revolver in front of
him with both hands.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
I couldn't make up my mind to rush him and
count on his bad aim, or stand still and be
a perfect target while I tried to talk him out
of it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:40):
Either way, he was a crazy man with a gun.
He was getting ready to use it.

Speaker 35 (01:06:44):
Sam, he's going to kill us.

Speaker 9 (01:06:46):
Why sad?

Speaker 39 (01:06:47):
Because my nephew was stupid enough to wear your watch
and your suit when he exchanged clothes with you.

Speaker 10 (01:06:53):
I'm going to lose the bunton. And that puts you
in quite a spot, doesn't it. Mister Swan until a
moment ago.

Speaker 39 (01:06:58):
Yes, But now, mister Spade, the newspapers all say you're dead.
The death certificate says the same thing. All of your
friends are following your casket and my nephew's copse to
the cemetery at this very moment. Everybody expects you to
be dead, mister Spade. Thanks to you, mister Swan, But no,
nobody'd miss.

Speaker 10 (01:07:17):
You if I killed you.

Speaker 35 (01:07:19):
I'd miss you, Sam, but I'd have to kill you too.

Speaker 10 (01:07:22):
Oh did you notice you're still wearing Theodore's clothes, even
his ring.

Speaker 39 (01:07:27):
Why, mister Spad, I could kill you and put you
in a fire somewhere and collect my insurance on Theodore, now,
couldn't I No?

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Why, that's a terrible thing to think. Ah, Oh, you're
not reasoning properly, Chester, You really aren't. How would you
explain any he just said you'd have to kill her.
And what about the coroner's office? You know how they are.
But I don't forget the medical examiner's got something to
say too, not to mention the fact that you'd have
to really burn me up to cover up the bullet hole.
And furthermore, Chester, when you shoot me, if you happen
to hit a rib and chip off some bone. They'd no,

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I was shot before and then homicided. Being honest, stop stop,
nothing works for me.

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
I'm a failure.

Speaker 10 (01:08:04):
Go ahead, mister Swan, let it all out. You'll feel that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
And he did, and he's still crying in his cell
downtime period and the report.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
Oh damn, you was so brave.

Speaker 35 (01:08:23):
You actually stood there and talked that crazy man out
of murdering you.

Speaker 36 (01:08:28):
You were wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
True Fie Amy thinks so too. She's gonna do me
in oils when they let her out of the Pokey
Amy's in jail. Oh, technical charge of an involuntary manslaughter.
I'll springer as soon as the corner's inquest is completed.

Speaker 35 (01:08:41):
Dear Amy, did she make good fudge?

Speaker 10 (01:08:44):
Say fudge? Oh that was the least of it.

Speaker 35 (01:08:47):
Oh what do you mean after the fudge?

Speaker 10 (01:08:50):
What thenucci? Oh boy, oh boy, say go type that up, sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Well, I see if there's any mention of my miraculous
resuscitation on the radio page, go go.

Speaker 31 (01:09:00):
Scoot, scoop.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
There certainly is a mention of sam'spade on the radio
page for Friday. Sam'spade is one more in the list
of great shows to join up in NBC's Parade of
the Stars. Have you heard the Big Show? This Sunday,
the Big Show comes your way once again on NBC.
Listen to just a few of the star names who
will be appearing this week. Bob Hope, Jimmy Duranty, Perry Como,
Jose Ferrer, Mindy Carson, Eddie Canter, Meredith Wilson and his Orchestra,

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and many many more. And of course, your MC once
again will be the lady who invented the snappy retort
Ta Lula Bankhead. Yes, it's the Big Show. It's big
in music, big in drama, and big in comedy. Be
sure to hear the Big Show Sunday.

Speaker 16 (01:09:49):
We'll hear you.

Speaker 10 (01:09:50):
Then I'll tight good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
I will sign it, and you will keep it always
to remind you that I'm still here, living, breathing, brave
and handsome, a.

Speaker 10 (01:09:58):
Paragond, Sam, What will we do about the mayil, the mail?
What mal where the letters and post.

Speaker 36 (01:10:03):
Guts and telegrams and all that came in when people
thought you.

Speaker 16 (01:10:07):
You are good?

Speaker 10 (01:10:08):
When I taught you there have been enough tears tonight,
is oh Sam?

Speaker 35 (01:10:11):
It's so good to have you back, would you be
the same as you always wear?

Speaker 10 (01:10:15):
Well, I'm going to try it.

Speaker 36 (01:10:16):
Because then you can't help it me.

Speaker 35 (01:10:17):
Like they say, the greatest private detective of them all.

Speaker 10 (01:10:22):
We'll see good night, good night, sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed
by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen title is Effie. Script for Tonight's adventure by E.
Jack Newman, musical scarring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Frank Wort.

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Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam's bade here the Magnificent Montague, then visit Duffy's
Tavern on NBC.

Speaker 6 (01:11:22):
The show limped to the end of the nineteen fifty
fifty one season with the Hail and Farewell Caper in
April of nineteen fifty one. Done this couldn't do it.
He was not Howard Duff and he didn't have the personality.

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He didn't have the charisma to make it happen. And
when you're following an act like Howard Duff, I mean,
I don't think you could have made anybody work in role.
November seventeenth, nineteen fifty The Adventures of Sam Spade. Here

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on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcox, we'll let you hear
a couple more of those episodes. I can barely call
them that. Coming up here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatcox Tomorrow we will have Comedy The Aldridge Family, Abbott
and Costello, The Great Gilder Sleeve with Harold Perry and

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my favorite husband. Wednesday, Counterspy Calling All Cars, Escape and
Suspense on Thursday, and we get to our Thanksgiving shows.
In the start of our Thanksgiving stuff. A week ahead
of Thanksgiving, we'll have Amos and Andy, Let George Do It,
The Cavalcadive American, Jeff Reagan Investigator, all in Thanksgiving them shows.

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We'll also have on Friday Lomon Abner, Maxwell House, Coffee Time,
Jack Benny, and Willard Waterman as Guildersleeve. Then on Saturday,
Harold Perry appears twice, not only is Guildersleeve but as
Honest Harold the Homemaker, and The Harold Perry Show. We'll
also have an episode of Doctor Christian and Tarzan. As

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I said, all these are Thanksgiving themed shows. Next Sunday,
Good News of nineteen forty the Aldrich Family with Bobby
Ellis and Jack Benny and then on Monday, same deal,
Good News of nineteen thirty nine points sublime starting clip
our Cat and mel Blank and I'll make you suffer

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through another episode of Stephen Doun as Sam Spade, although
this one is the Terrified Turkey Caper, so at least
the writing might make it worthwhile. And we'll have Thanksgiving
shows all the way through until we get to the
tail end of next week. So that's all coming up

(01:14:01):
here on Classic Radio Theater with Yave Talks. We'll have
a whole week of Thanksgiving here for you. Uh, that's
coming up straight ahead here coming up next Larry Thor
Broadway is my beat.

Speaker 31 (01:14:20):
Gonzalez, Gonzalez, I think I have it.

Speaker 22 (01:14:22):
I hear something.

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
Where are you get through?

Speaker 25 (01:14:25):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (01:14:25):
Yes, And last from.

Speaker 9 (01:14:26):
Mars ureally in radio contact with the Mars.

Speaker 23 (01:14:29):
Yes, Gonzalez, it's Mars.

Speaker 31 (01:14:30):
The message.

Speaker 16 (01:14:31):
These messages man's first communication with the planet Mars.

Speaker 9 (01:14:34):
Who why they say, why? They say?

Speaker 23 (01:14:37):
This is phenomenal.

Speaker 22 (01:14:39):
Positively here they are.

Speaker 32 (01:14:42):
Listen.

Speaker 24 (01:14:42):
Do you know what to do in case of a
civil defense emergency? You must know these two numbers six
forty and twelve forty. They may save your life. Mark
these numbers six forty and twelve forty on your standard
radio dial. Now, these are your conra red frequencies, your
only way of getting life saving civil defense instructions information
during an enemy attack, only on radio. Only at six

(01:15:04):
forty or twelve forty on your radio, Will you hear
the Conrad broadcasts. Be sure you have a battery radio
in your home should electric power be knocked out. Also
make certain your car radio as a working order. Remember
in a civil defends emergency.

Speaker 6 (01:15:17):
June two, Oh lordy, We continue now on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyattox with an episode of Broadway Is My
Beat starring Larry Thor, the show helmed by Elliott Lewis
and starring Larry Thor seventy five years ago November seventeenth,

(01:15:42):
nineteen fifty the Joan Fuller Murder Case.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

Speaker 44 (01:16:14):
Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
At one o'clock in the morning, night begins to slip
out of Broadways and Broadway stands bildered, staring at its
empty hands. Solitude whispers its invitation the derelicts of night.
Run from it. Beat on the door, plead for a
refuge from the offered emptiness. But no door opens to me.

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At headquarters, you consider it through a grime state window,
turn away from it. Find on your desk a slip
of paper that I've been there before. Homicide. It said,
Central Park Lake the Broadway has finally opened the door.
The password the violent dead. There's the lake in the

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facade of the city embracing it. There's a shadow covering
a dead girl with its coat, the puny effort to
thaw the veil of frost on the girl's heart. Then
the shadow riser shakes its head and it's muggaming.

Speaker 9 (01:17:26):
I don't know, Danny.

Speaker 31 (01:17:27):
Sometimes it's.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
You know, Danny.

Speaker 33 (01:17:31):
I got a nephew three years old. He comes here
during the daytime to play, to feed the ducks.

Speaker 14 (01:17:37):
Who is she?

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
We don't know.

Speaker 33 (01:17:38):
They're dragging a lake now for any identification she might
have had on her. So far nothing drowned. Come here,
I'll show you see the knife wound where it is.
It probably killed her instantly. Then they threw in the
lake a guy and this girl. They were you know, smooching.
They looked up on the body floating in the water.

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They reported precinct near the house.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
Anything.

Speaker 13 (01:18:02):
We questioned them, why didn't they report it right away?

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
They had an argument about it.

Speaker 33 (01:18:05):
They said, didn't want to get into a mess, they said,
and the girl said she told a boyfriend.

Speaker 19 (01:18:09):
We'd better report it, so they did.

Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
Who were they?

Speaker 33 (01:18:11):
Smooch's nothing else, Danny. We're positive he made no comment,
Danny on what the way this girl is dressed, The
expensive evening gown, the expensive mink for a coat. I
know it's real mink because my wife talks in a
sleep about mink like that.

Speaker 19 (01:18:24):
So so a lot, Danny.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
The girl as.

Speaker 33 (01:18:28):
Expensive, as beautiful as this one, somebody'll come asking for her.
It's the least they could do, huh, Danny.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
There wasn't anything to say after that, And from far
away across the stillness, the brief wild sob of a
boat whistle and a sudden flurry of wind through naked branches,
the quick, small sounds in places where there's no sun.
This was the autumn's night past star with death in it.
I turned up my collar and walked away from it.

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The next morning, it was back to headquarters receive the
report that so far nothing had been found on the
bottom of the lake to identify the dead girl. Go
downstairs to the place where it's never daytime. The mark,
the three people waiting there, the quiet audience, sensing the
etiquette of stillness, the presence of the dead. All right,

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you the lady over there, ugulman, uhh. We want you
to be sure. Man, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Well, no, it's not my sister.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
That way out, ma'am. Now, the gentleman, my wife was blonde.
Is this your wife?

Speaker 9 (01:19:44):
Take it easy. I haven't seen Aggie in three years.

Speaker 33 (01:19:46):
This girl is five to six weight one twenty four,
approximately twenty two years of age.

Speaker 38 (01:19:51):
Aggie's gonna turn up here one of these days.

Speaker 5 (01:19:53):
I'll make book on it.

Speaker 9 (01:19:54):
She ain't done it yet. This ain't Aggie.

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
Through that door over there, please, you're next, lady, your missus.

Speaker 38 (01:20:09):
Hunterslow, Hey, yeah, what do you want?

Speaker 20 (01:20:18):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:20:18):
It's hers?

Speaker 19 (01:20:19):
And get her out of her way.

Speaker 33 (01:20:21):
Come on, missus h We know if it so often
this happens with missus Hunter Danny really identified a daughter
here about five years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
Keeps coming back.

Speaker 22 (01:20:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
That's all of them are money lovely young girl dressed beautifully.
Someone must want to know what's happened to her, where
she is, someone must know who she is. Okay, mougamon,
We'll try it another way. Another way was to check

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with a man in technical Maybe they had something.

Speaker 9 (01:20:57):
They had.

Speaker 5 (01:20:58):
The dress the girl had wanted to die was an
exclusive made exclusively for one woman in an exclusive shop
just off Park Avenue. The cult too. The girl had
good taste, they told me, and the money to indulge it,
and the beauty to grace it. Beyond that, all they
had was a shrug. So I packed it, shrug and
all in a cardboard suitcase, and the top of it
the portrait of the girl taken in death and closed

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the cover snapped the lock. At Roderick's Incorporated, just off
Park Avenue, a man tried to stop me from opening
the suitcase. Maybe I should have been proud it was
Roderick Incorporated.

Speaker 19 (01:21:38):
Himself a good fellow. The hours for salesmen are between
nine and ten of the morning. They are and on
Tuesdays and thursdays of a week. Now that you've been briefed,
you miscarry off and take that thing with you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
This could interest you, Roderick. Why because I'm a policeman.
Don't turn pale, Roderick. You don't match the color scheme
that way.

Speaker 14 (01:21:56):
Whatever would a policeman want with Rodrick?

Speaker 5 (01:21:58):
This picture, Roderick, look at it.

Speaker 14 (01:22:02):
Stunning girl, but so so dead?

Speaker 10 (01:22:06):
You know her?

Speaker 29 (01:22:07):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:22:07):
No, no, oh but wait that dress she's wearing, it's mine,
that is It's a Roderick original, a Rodrick inspiration, is it?

Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
This dress?

Speaker 14 (01:22:16):
But of course and the co too. Who else could
have molded those lines?

Speaker 5 (01:22:21):
You molded them for this girl?

Speaker 19 (01:22:22):
Oh no, no, never, never, Obviously, your dead girl is
a thief. I created these things for Gladys Hampton, the
advertising executive. Surely you've seen her in these things in Harpers.
Where else can I see her? She has place on Fifth,
a tired mansion. Kiss her for me when you see her?
Will you tell her you do it for Rodrique.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
If you don't mind, mister Clover, Let's get this over
as quickly as possible, shall we.

Speaker 5 (01:22:56):
All you have to do is cooperate, miss Hampton.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Cooperate. I've just come home from Vermont just this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
I've got work to do.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
Cooperating with pleas is not on the agenda.

Speaker 5 (01:23:04):
I'll show you something. These clothes, this coat, this dress?

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
Here'd you get them?

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
Have you ever seen them before?

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
I'll tell you why I have. I paid a lot
of money for them. They're mine. What are you doing
with them?

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Look at this? Go ahead, take a look at this picture.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
It's Joan. What's it all about?

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
Who is John?

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
Joan is Joan? Joan Fullham? I made What's happened?

Speaker 5 (01:23:23):
Didn't you miss her when you came home today?

Speaker 21 (01:23:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
She didn't know when I was coming back. What's happened
to her?

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
We found her in Central Park Lake, murdered.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
I'm not going to like a publicity about this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
That's how sorry you are.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
I don't allow myself those kind of luxuries. I'm too busy.

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
Tell me about John.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
But she's worked for me for two years. She came
from Munsey, Indiana. She was efficient, she lived here. I
paid her well. I couldn't tell you more than that.

Speaker 5 (01:23:47):
How is it she was wearing your clothes before I.

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
Left for the weekend? She said, a young man she
knew from Munsey was in town. She wanted to dress
well for him. Would I lend her some clothes?

Speaker 10 (01:23:56):
I would?

Speaker 22 (01:23:56):
And did?

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
What young man from Muncie, how do I know what.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
Young man from Muncie. I suppose Munsey has its share
of young men, else eventually there'd be no Muncy.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
You gotta look at him.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
Well, he was coming in while I was going out.
He was nice looking. I'd probably remember him if I
saw him again, but I couldn't describe him. You see,
I'm being of no help to you. Besides, I'm busy.
Please close both doors to the vestibule as you go out,
mister Clover.

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
I did, and walked out into the street, holding the
crumbs she'd given me. The identity of the dead girl,
a girl who had bored her employer's claws to impress
a young man from Munseie, a girl whose final embrace
was holding close the bitter waters of a lake at headquarters.

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The routine that is a requiem for the violent dead.
The telegram to Munsie asking for information on John Fullard,
the ordered a muggavun to riffle through hotel registers for
a visitor from Munseie, a young man good looking, The sifting,
the questioning, the break for a cup of Lukewan coffee,
and then another call from my him.

Speaker 22 (01:25:00):
I'll tell Adam's Danny Johnny Barrett registered with his wife
from Muncie.

Speaker 29 (01:25:05):
I looked at him, Danny, he looks lightly.

Speaker 5 (01:25:07):
The tired room, complete with stained drug stayne washstand the
young man at the dresser manicuring his fingernails.

Speaker 13 (01:25:16):
You're here to present me with the keys to the city.
I'd like that because I'm fond of your city.

Speaker 5 (01:25:23):
To ask you questions, mister Barrett.

Speaker 13 (01:25:25):
Now, what would a boy from the country know that
would interest a big city man like you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
You might have known a girl named Joan Fuller, if.

Speaker 13 (01:25:32):
He might have known a lot of girls, not one
named Joan. No, that's when he's missed.

Speaker 5 (01:25:37):
How big is Munsey, mister Barrett.

Speaker 13 (01:25:40):
Big enough that I could walk at streets, put nickels
in slot machines, order a beer, go alone to movies,
and never meet a girl named Joan. It teases me,
though I'd like to meet her.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
She's dead. She was murdered.

Speaker 13 (01:25:57):
That makes me sad cry when girls die. It's the
thing with me.

Speaker 5 (01:26:02):
Let's go, mister Barrett.

Speaker 13 (01:26:04):
I haven't finished my pinky. You want to show me
the sights.

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
I want to show you to a woman who says
a young man came calling on Joan Fuller, a young
man from Muncie.

Speaker 13 (01:26:15):
That could be a sight.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Get your cult, mister Barret.

Speaker 13 (01:26:17):
Let's go, can't wait? Oh, honey, honey, dal come on
in enjoy looking at the shop windows.

Speaker 5 (01:26:26):
Jimmy, who is a policeman?

Speaker 13 (01:26:28):
Honey? He wants to go show me to a lady.
This is my wife, mister.

Speaker 5 (01:26:34):
Clover, Miss Barrett.

Speaker 13 (01:26:36):
It's hard to believe she's my wife. How mister Clover,
me being young and honey Doll here being But we
love each other to pieces, don't we, honey doll?

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Mm Jimmy, I don't understand what the policeman doing with you.

Speaker 13 (01:26:57):
Don't worry, baby, I told you it's a lady to
look at me so she can identify me as the murderer,
as some pretty girl named Joan. She was pretty high,
mister Clover. Jimmy, go window shopping again, honey doll. The
policeman and I have got a date.

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
Let's call Jimmy.

Speaker 13 (01:27:28):
Sure, let's go.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
This house?

Speaker 13 (01:27:32):
Nice house. I been here before, No, I bet you
wish I had though nice chimes, pretty.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
Nice funny best of bill. Doors open a bit. It's
happened like the doors closed.

Speaker 13 (01:27:54):
Oh you wouldn't peek?

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
Would Yeah? I would stuck. It'll only o paya.

Speaker 25 (01:28:02):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
Look what there was to look at was a Vesterville floor,
a tile mosaic and a simple block pattern, clean gleaming.
Even the blood that spread across it had a new
quality to it. Miss Hampton's blood, Miss Hampton lying there.
I knelt beside her, Miss Hampton with a knife in

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her heart, Miss Hampton dead. You were listening to Broadways
My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedgen and
starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Are you ready

(01:28:47):
to sing it again? This Saturday night? You'll find a
whole hour full of the day's popular music by Alan Dale,
Bob Howard, Judy Lynn and the Riddlers. You'll hear the
tuneful riddle songs that lead to sing it Again's Phantom Voice,
treasure trove five dollars in cash and ten thousand more
in wonderful prices. Be listening to sing it again this
Saturday night when it comes your way on most of

(01:29:07):
these same CBS stations. The Phantom's a puzzler, but some
CBS listener will win that five grand in cash. When
it's November and the winter is a coming. In Broadway,

(01:29:28):
is a place of regret. The dreams are dying, and
it's a long time before April will come again. The
orange juice stands put glass doors between themselves and the pavement,
serve hot coffee as a buffer against the wind and loneliness.
Somebody leaves a newspaper on the stool besides you, not
very neat, folded badly. There's a small bit of BlackBerry
pie on the item that tells about a girl who

(01:29:50):
floated face downward in the lake. You flip back a
page and consider the miner headline concerning a woman named
Gladys Hampton, also murdered. And flip another one and see
how they ran it highly. And you take your time outside.
It's pavements outside, it's cold. I didn't have it so good.
I got my coffee out of a paper cup and
sergeant to tagle he had put too much cream in it?

(01:30:12):
Or has he put it.

Speaker 12 (01:30:14):
Too much cream?

Speaker 22 (01:30:15):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Not enough sugar?

Speaker 21 (01:30:16):
Ah?

Speaker 12 (01:30:17):
You always get them mixed up, Danny, Why is this?

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
We all have our bad days, do you know?

Speaker 12 (01:30:21):
Hey? Only I seem to have the more frequent than most.

Speaker 5 (01:30:25):
Have you noticed, Let's get on with it. You got
anything for me?

Speaker 14 (01:30:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:30:29):
Danny.

Speaker 11 (01:30:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:30:30):
In a matter of Jimmy Barrett, the young man from Monsie,
it has been established by the coroner that he could
not have killed Gladys Hampton since at the moment of
her device, Jimmy.

Speaker 25 (01:30:39):
Was with you.

Speaker 5 (01:30:39):
What about an alibi for last night when Joan Fuller
was killed.

Speaker 12 (01:30:42):
He claims that he was doing the town up with
his wife and cannot tell us what time he was where?
Ah ha what he cannot tell us what time he
was were Denny?

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
How does he like our Pokeachin?

Speaker 8 (01:30:56):
Know?

Speaker 12 (01:30:56):
Not very much. He's screaming for his wife. Also, he
wrote the little verse on a while to tell us
how much he didn't like it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:04):
It's starts so dumming later, gin know, I'm going up? Hey,
where Denny see a man's wife?

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
Oh it's you. Where's my husband? What have you done
with him?

Speaker 5 (01:31:29):
It's downtown, miss Barred. We're holding him on suspicion of murder.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
Who don't stand there in the hall making a show
of me before the world.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Come in here, Come here, sugars.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
I was just washing out some of my things in
the basin. You live in a dirty city, mister Clover.
The dirty eats into everything. What right have you to
do a thing like that to Jimmy? What right?

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
Because we think he murdered a girl named Joan Fuller, the.

Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
Girl I read about, girl from Muncie. Jimmy never knew her.
He never knew anything like her, not like her.

Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
You know that much about your husband, Missus Barrett.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
I'm a middle aged woman, mister Clover. I know things
about my husband that no girl ever knew.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
Why did you and Jimmy come to New York, miss Barrett?

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
You won't say any of the things people say when
I tell them Jimmy and I are on our honeymoon,
Missus Barrett. He loves me. You saw how much he
loves me, the sweet names he.

Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
Calls me, I saw, Missus Barrett, took me a long.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Time to bring Jimmy around to me, mister Clover, to
the things I wanted. I'm not going to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Him to you.

Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
You'll help us, Maybe we can give him back.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
This is a trick. You're trying to trick me. You
want me to say something about him that'll make him dead.

Speaker 5 (01:32:41):
Something that can save him.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
What can I tell you that we'll do that?

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
Did he ever leave you alone on your honeymoon? Go
off somewhere alone.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Never why Jimmy waits on me hand and foot. That's
what first attracted me to him. Back home, How polite
he was, how considerate when he could have had any
girl here?

Speaker 5 (01:33:02):
Missus Barrett. Has he left you alone here? I told you, No,
he was alone when I found him.

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
That was different, Huh. I went window shopping. I like
to do that alone. I like to come back and
tell him the things I saw, all the useless, expensive,
frilly things that are no use to anyone, just to
look at. Sometimes you've done that, other times go back
home in Monsey, not here.

Speaker 5 (01:33:26):
One more question, Miss Barrett. Did you know Joan Fuller?

Speaker 25 (01:33:30):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
I didn't know her. My husband didn't know her. I
haven't told you anything that'll save him, have I No?

Speaker 31 (01:33:39):
But I will.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
You'll see. I hired a lawyer. He's getting a writ
You'll bring Jimmy back to me, You'll see. Wait till
I tell Jimmy how you treated me.

Speaker 16 (01:33:49):
Just to wait.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
I'll wait. Don't take Jimmy back home with you, Missus Barrett.
We'll want you both here.

Speaker 12 (01:34:06):
Come on in, you know, okay, Just a word to
let you know that people question around the home of
Gladys Hampton had never seen Jimmy Barrett. Also that Jimmy is.

Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
Released on a writ Yeah, I was threatened with it.

Speaker 12 (01:34:19):
And to tell you that outside is a gentleman from Muncie, Indiana.

Speaker 5 (01:34:23):
Another one.

Speaker 12 (01:34:23):
Yeah, Danny, you know this is the first week in
my life I have met two people from Muncie, Indiana,
one on top of the other.

Speaker 5 (01:34:30):
Shore Geno.

Speaker 12 (01:34:33):
This way in to see Danny Clover.

Speaker 5 (01:34:35):
Mister Fuller, sit down, mister Fuller, thank you.

Speaker 19 (01:34:41):
I'm Joneses father.

Speaker 5 (01:34:42):
Mister Clover, I see I'm very sorry about well.

Speaker 19 (01:34:45):
Thank you, But of course you're not sorry if we
mean the same thing by that word. You're a policeman
on homicide, and your job's got to do with the
dead people. People get used to death almost as easy
as they do to cigarettes. The sorrow of Jones's death
belongs to me.

Speaker 29 (01:35:00):
Not to you.

Speaker 19 (01:35:02):
Forgive me. I made a speech.

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
How did you know your daughter was dead?

Speaker 19 (01:35:05):
You notified the Munsey police, They notified me. I've come
to take her home with me if I can. I'm
the person who killed her.

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
We're trying, mister Fuller.

Speaker 19 (01:35:14):
I've never been vengeful. I've always felt sorry for people.
Eaten by hate. Now it's happened to be I can understand.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Tell me, mister Fuller, do you know a man named
Jimmy Barrett for Monthly?

Speaker 19 (01:35:26):
Of course Joan knew him too.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
Pardon me a sad, but Daglia, Roger Danny is a
man telling Jimmy Barrett. Isn't they get in touch with them?
Find out where Jimmy is, Roger Oliver. We were talking
about Jimmy Barrett, mister Fuller, tell me about him.

Speaker 19 (01:35:43):
Well, Jimmy married a woman somewhat older than he, rather
wealthy woman.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
Why do you ask he's honeymooning in New York? How
well did your daughter know him?

Speaker 19 (01:35:53):
Valentine's letters un flowered, stationary, holding hands and dances that much?

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
No more than then you see what John tell you.

Speaker 19 (01:36:01):
She was doing in New York, working in advertising, she
said everyone back in months He thought that I didn't
know she was a maid.

Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
I know how you feel.

Speaker 14 (01:36:10):
Forgive me again.

Speaker 19 (01:36:11):
You can't possibly know.

Speaker 45 (01:36:12):
Did you have a daughter, Did you tell us stories?
Did she cry against your cheek? Did you watch her
grow up? Was she found in the lake?

Speaker 14 (01:36:19):
Was she murdered?

Speaker 45 (01:36:21):
We don't know each other, mister Clover we're not friends.
Your sympathy doesn't mean anything to me. Just find my daughter's.

Speaker 9 (01:36:26):
Killer, Annie.

Speaker 5 (01:36:29):
What is it to Dayling?

Speaker 12 (01:36:30):
The man we had tailing, Jimmy Barrett just phoned in.
Jimmy just bought himself a new car five minutes ago.
Prano Hudson Where tobn J One hundred and fifth Street.

Speaker 46 (01:36:38):
Thanks Gino, you're primed to buy a new car, mistery,
youre just tantalizing yourself with this new model.

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
I want to work, sure you want to.

Speaker 13 (01:36:55):
Everybody wants to do this. No feeling like the feeling
of running your hand over.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
This new all leather l save it. I'm from the police.

Speaker 46 (01:37:02):
That makes you different, that gives your desires different from
other people's desires.

Speaker 5 (01:37:06):
A man named James Barrett is justin.

Speaker 9 (01:37:08):
I'll never forget him.

Speaker 46 (01:37:10):
He bought a new car off of me, not a
half hour go, paid me cash, drove away on a dream.

Speaker 9 (01:37:15):
Cash twenty five hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
He just took twenty five hundred dollars out of his
pocket and gave it to you, well.

Speaker 29 (01:37:20):
Not exactly.

Speaker 13 (01:37:21):
Let me give you a vivid description of it. I
found it very thrilling.

Speaker 46 (01:37:24):
You thrill me too, He looked at the car, asked
me how much it was as has stood there, and
I told him. Then he runs across the street to
the bank, runs back with twenty five hundred dollars.

Speaker 19 (01:37:33):
Clutched in his wet fist. See you see why it
wasn't exactly he pulled it out of his pocket.

Speaker 38 (01:37:37):
He was clutching it in his wet fist.

Speaker 5 (01:37:38):
Bank across the street.

Speaker 46 (01:37:39):
Huh yeah, Hey, what's the matter?

Speaker 19 (01:37:42):
He got it from the bank.

Speaker 13 (01:37:42):
It can't be confet Kennedy, don't give me heart faded
like that.

Speaker 31 (01:37:45):
Hit me in a place with him.

Speaker 47 (01:37:55):
Don't you find it rather interesting, mister Clover, that I
Stephen Chase and working for the Corn Exchange.

Speaker 38 (01:38:00):
We Chases have a bank of our own, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
I know, And you're the Chaser gave Barrett twenty five
hundred dollars precisely that Chase. Does Barrett have an account
here as of this morning, a rather plump one. He
opened an account this morning and withdrew that much money
this afternoon.

Speaker 47 (01:38:13):
I see you don't understand banks.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
Oh, explain them to me, missus.

Speaker 47 (01:38:17):
Barrett had a letter of credit from a bank in Munsey, Indiana,
which she chose to deposit here with us at Cornon
go on, please. Therefore, this account was in Missus Barrett's name. However,
this morning mister Barrett appeared, mister Barrett the bearer of
a letter from his wife to the effect that her
account should now be a joint account.

Speaker 5 (01:38:35):
Is that all? Please?

Speaker 47 (01:38:36):
I called Missus Barrett to find out whether the letter
was valid. Missus Barrett told me to give her husband
as much money as he wanted. All this happened this morning, precisely,
this morning, precisely.

Speaker 38 (01:38:47):
Mister Chase, Oh hi, you Danny just going out?

Speaker 13 (01:39:07):
I want to go out with us?

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
No, I'm coming in almost burn See you got all
your things packed going back to Monsse.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
Oh no, no, you said we couldn't go back to
Munsi until this thing was all cleared up. We're going
to find a nicer place to live.

Speaker 13 (01:39:20):
Yeah, me and the honey Doll are going to branch
out nothing but a ball from now on. We're really
gonna live night we Honey Doll.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
You know whatever you want, Jimmy, tell me what you want.

Speaker 13 (01:39:32):
Jimmy, would I want get out of this crummy hole?
New clothes for honey Doll and for me? Drapes double breasted.

Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
Understand you got a new car.

Speaker 13 (01:39:43):
It's got New York talking.

Speaker 23 (01:39:45):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
We're talking about it down at headquarters.

Speaker 1 (01:39:47):
Jimmy, the man said he chose the penthouse at nine o'clock.
It's almost that now.

Speaker 13 (01:39:51):
You heard what honey Doll said, Danny, I guess I'm hintpacked.
That's all.

Speaker 5 (01:39:55):
Tell me when all this happened, Jimmy, the last time
I saw you, you were happy right here.

Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
How much are you all out to meddle in our lives?
What concern is it of yours where we live?

Speaker 13 (01:40:03):
Oh, honey Doll, don't talk like that to Danny. He
wants to come up for a drink sometime. He wants
to know our address.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
Get him out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:40:11):
Didn't answer my question, Jimmy, why did you make up
your mind about all this new car? Penthalles, I'll tell you.

Speaker 13 (01:40:18):
Honey Dollar and me had a small talk. We decided
we were tired of living like folks, like other people.
Honey Doll wants to support me in the manner i'm
mitching for, and she can afford it. Kill me, honey Doll, Jimmy, Jimmy,
get him out of here. This is Jimmy Jimmy with

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his arms around.

Speaker 15 (01:40:43):
Jack.

Speaker 13 (01:40:44):
Okay, but you're supposed to give me anything I want.

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Remember, you're a little blackmail Jimmy. Huh. I had a
talk with Joanes' father. He said you used to hold
hands with his daughter. If you did that, you lied
to me. You didn't know John. I did lie to him, Danny.

Speaker 13 (01:41:02):
So I lied to you.

Speaker 38 (01:41:04):
I was nervous.

Speaker 1 (01:41:04):
It's getting late, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
You lie to him, Miss Barre. Did you know John
back in Monsoon? But you knew Jimmy knew her. You
knew Jimmy was singing her while you were here, while
you were on your honeymoon, Miss Bear?

Speaker 13 (01:41:13):
Oh why not? Danny? Guy like sill a couple old friends,
especially an old friend who's made good in the big city.

Speaker 5 (01:41:20):
I got news for you. John was a housemaid. Those
clothes she was wearing belonged to her employer.

Speaker 13 (01:41:24):
I knew that, and I understand why she did it
to impress me. It make me hate myself because I
married another woman.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
Jemmy, you realize what you're lying can cost you?

Speaker 13 (01:41:36):
Sure, Danny? Now I'm your number one murder suspect.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
That's right, Danny.

Speaker 13 (01:41:43):
Uh huh, what's the penalty for murder.

Speaker 5 (01:41:45):
In this state, premeditate him, premeditated life. The chair depends
on the jury.

Speaker 13 (01:41:52):
And how about for obstructing.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
Justice it depends one to ten maybe, but for murder
it can be the chair.

Speaker 29 (01:41:58):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (01:41:59):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (01:42:01):
Did you hear that, honey doll? You're gonna get the chair.

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
Jenny, you killed so you could keep your husband in
you missus Barrett, Jenny.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
I'm begging you. Get him out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
You're afraid, Jimmy, would you blame for it? Because Miss
Hampton or employer could recognize him. You had to kill
miss Hampton too, didn't you, Jenny. That's what you held
over your wife. Jimmy, you knew all this. She had
to give you everything you wanted, thought you'd get as
soon as you were married, but didn't.

Speaker 14 (01:42:31):
One to ten.

Speaker 13 (01:42:31):
Huh, that's the way it was, Danny.

Speaker 1 (01:42:37):
You well, I killed for you, for you, and you.

Speaker 13 (01:42:48):
Don't take it so hard. Honey doll, you've lived almost
most of your life. They had a week of it
with me.

Speaker 10 (01:42:56):
Let's go both of you, honey doll.

Speaker 13 (01:42:59):
I promise you this. When I get out, God spend
your money. I'll be happy, just the way you wanted.

Speaker 14 (01:43:07):
Me to.

Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
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You've known in other places at other times. Don't rip
off the mask kit because you couldn't stand what you'd see.
It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile

(01:43:54):
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(01:44:15):
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The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
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old friend who suspected of a serious crime.

Speaker 10 (01:44:38):
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Speaker 34 (01:46:07):
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can protect yourself against it, consult your local civil defense office.

Speaker 6 (01:47:09):
We now go back eighty seven years November seventeenth, nineteen
thirty eight, an episode of Calling All Cars and the
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story we are about to hear was taken from the
confidential files of the Sheriff of CLASSA counter. We have
therefore asked Sheriff Elmer H. Gumm of Auburn to open
our program. The case we are here tonight was one
of the most interesting in the history of California jurisprudence.
This case is interesting in that it was the first

(01:49:43):
trial in which the science of ballistics was employed to
prove that a specific weapon was used to commit a murder.

Speaker 20 (01:49:51):
Another significant outgrowth of this case was the law which
was enacted by the California legislature prohibiting the inheritance of
money or a property by a person who had committed
a crime for that purpose. As a matter of record,
this crime, as all others with which I have come
into contact, was a most unprofitable affair. How the criminal

(01:50:14):
was brought to justice we shall learn as our program progresses.
Our scene the gallows room a wholesome principle.

Speaker 4 (01:50:32):
The time ten thirty on the morning of September sixth,
nineteen o five. Come on, weather TI the wall, No, no,
have you that's all been decided. Come along, cut out
the dramatics.

Speaker 5 (01:50:53):
Didn't Stuart?

Speaker 25 (01:50:54):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (01:50:55):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 25 (01:50:56):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 48 (01:50:59):
Yes, it's to help them play father and we pull
yourself together.

Speaker 14 (01:51:05):
Son.

Speaker 25 (01:51:08):
What time is it?

Speaker 4 (01:51:10):
Almost ten thirty?

Speaker 25 (01:51:12):
May send one more wire. You can't hang an innocent man.

Speaker 4 (01:51:16):
If you want to take it wire. Okay, what is it?

Speaker 25 (01:51:18):
Weather? Send it to my tourney, Send it to all
of them. They've got to help me. What do you
want to say? Prevent excussentative? Keep an ifing were me,
answer it once? All right, let's go tend the defenses.
You're kenn you'll be hanging an innocent man.

Speaker 4 (01:51:37):
I'm on, Weather, it's all long enough. Tell you I
just do it up those steps. Weather. Do you wanna
go with him?

Speaker 15 (01:51:48):
Problem?

Speaker 29 (01:51:49):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
Let me help your son.

Speaker 25 (01:51:53):
By innocent?

Speaker 19 (01:51:54):
Don't you?

Speaker 4 (01:51:54):
Father?

Speaker 25 (01:51:56):
You know, don't you?

Speaker 4 (01:51:57):
It isn't for me to see.

Speaker 48 (01:51:59):
I am not your judge.

Speaker 4 (01:52:02):
Over here?

Speaker 29 (01:52:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:52:04):
No, I can you help me take this hood?

Speaker 48 (01:52:07):
Is there anything you wish to say?

Speaker 25 (01:52:09):
My son, I didn't do it before? God is by judge.
I didn't do it?

Speaker 22 (01:52:19):
Mean with me, and pray m.

Speaker 48 (01:52:25):
Dear heavenly bothered forgive this boy and his error.

Speaker 4 (01:52:29):
He knew not what he did.

Speaker 20 (01:52:31):
Didn't do it.

Speaker 48 (01:52:32):
We are all children and make many mistakes, some more
serious than others.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
And so as this boy, Adoc Welbert.

Speaker 48 (01:52:43):
Stands on the threshold of the great adventure, help him
in the life hereafter to atone.

Speaker 4 (01:52:50):
For his wrongdoing. Amen, he bed you could be back killed.
You put this over your head.

Speaker 32 (01:53:00):
Telegraphs the telegram. You've got to wait for the telegraphs.

Speaker 48 (01:53:03):
What time is it, please?

Speaker 4 (01:53:06):
Fifteen seconds to ten thirty fifteen seconds a lifetime. You
better leave the platform. Father, it's a gem second.

Speaker 29 (01:53:16):
Fifteen second.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
You've got to telegram.

Speaker 25 (01:53:25):
You've got to save me for a whole trials of
fake to the all jumped up charges.

Speaker 32 (01:53:37):
Still line, I mean I didn't do it. The car
was talking to American.

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
Attornage George Hamilton for the State of California, and the
people will give his closing argument. Your honor, gentleman of
the jury, we have before us a question to answer,
a question that can have but one answer. Is that

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man sitting over there, Adolf Webber, guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 29 (01:54:33):
He is charged with murder. Think that over, gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (01:54:39):
That man sitting slumped over in his chair with a
smirking grin spread across his face, is charged with the
wilful and wanton.

Speaker 25 (01:54:48):
Killing of his own mother.

Speaker 4 (01:54:53):
He is suspected of murdering his father, and his sister
and his brother, and will be tried for those crimes later.
But present we are concerned only with the shooting of
Mary Webber. Let's go back and review the case from
the start to the present.

Speaker 29 (01:55:11):
On the evening of November fourth, nineteen.

Speaker 4 (01:55:14):
Four of fire broke out in the Webber home on
the hill overlooking Auburn. The fire department rushed to the
scene and fought desperately.

Speaker 25 (01:55:24):
A few minutes later, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:55:25):
Discovered that there were four people trapped in the raging inferno,
Julius Webber, his wife Mary Webber, their daughter Bertha Webber,
and their youngest son, Earl Webber. The work of rescuing
these four people were started immediately. Clarence gear and George
Ruth carried the bodies. Now take way, give me wrong,

(01:55:50):
I've got miss Webber. Stand back, everybody, give her air.
Lay're out here, Clarn take.

Speaker 23 (01:55:54):
Unt, George, ruse Bertha, keep back, everybody, nobody help me
get a doctor, Gid.

Speaker 15 (01:55:59):
Doctor Rooney.

Speaker 14 (01:56:00):
What you can I'm going back after roof.

Speaker 1 (01:56:01):
He's still in there.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
You can't go back in there, You'll be killed.

Speaker 38 (01:56:04):
I'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 23 (01:56:05):
Where aid all the tea in there too?

Speaker 15 (01:56:06):
No, he's sitting over there under the magn your tree.

Speaker 29 (01:56:08):
Yes, he must be stunned by all this.

Speaker 23 (01:56:10):
Hey, eight off are you all. Now, where's he going?

Speaker 29 (01:56:13):
What do you want to do with that bundle?

Speaker 23 (01:56:15):
There comes doctor Rooney, get back for let him thru all.

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
I got here just as soon as I could.

Speaker 29 (01:56:21):
Somebody bring me some water.

Speaker 26 (01:56:22):
They're still alive, doctor, Look he don't just throw that
roll up through the dining room window.

Speaker 15 (01:56:27):
You want to find me little brother.

Speaker 22 (01:56:29):
I can't find any signs.

Speaker 29 (01:56:31):
Of life in ease of body.

Speaker 4 (01:56:32):
They're both pretty badly burned here with her.

Speaker 29 (01:56:35):
Let him drove.

Speaker 22 (01:56:37):
Here's early. I couldn't find mister Weber and let me
see him. Oh, poor boy's falling head? True, duck, you
can't tell you?

Speaker 25 (01:56:46):
Hello, doctor Roy Are they all dead?

Speaker 4 (01:56:49):
Hello?

Speaker 22 (01:56:49):
Adn't?

Speaker 4 (01:56:50):
Are they dead? Yes, my boy, I'm afraid they are.
They're all pretty badly burned. They hadn't been rescued just
when they weren't sure they're dead?

Speaker 25 (01:56:59):
Yes, positive.

Speaker 34 (01:57:01):
He was very rain to clime and help rescue the maiden.

Speaker 49 (01:57:05):
What do you mean, who saw you throw that bundle
through the window and wake it?

Speaker 35 (01:57:10):
If the fire hadn't suddenly stayed up up, I'm sure.

Speaker 28 (01:57:13):
You would have saved your little brother.

Speaker 14 (01:57:16):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
I was trying to rescue him.

Speaker 23 (01:57:22):
I was going to climb in the window and drag
him out.

Speaker 4 (01:57:26):
The fire was too hot, and so these three bodies
were taken from the blazing house. The body of Julius
Webber was not found until the next day. Now, there
are two points of importance in what I've just told you.

(01:57:49):
One is that Adolph Webber.

Speaker 29 (01:57:52):
Didn't attempt to help in the rescue your work.

Speaker 25 (01:57:56):
Edna Pulton has testified.

Speaker 29 (01:57:58):
That he sat under the magnolia tree and viewed the
scene as a spectator.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
The other point is the throwing of the bundle through
the window of the living room or the dining room. Rather,
that bundle, on Adolph Webber's own statement, was a pair
of trousers.

Speaker 29 (01:58:21):
Why did the defendant throw them through the window?

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
Edna Pulton testified that she thought he intended climbing into
the room and saving his brother Earl's life. Clarence gear
testified that he found the body of Earl.

Speaker 29 (01:58:39):
In the dining room, as.

Speaker 4 (01:58:41):
Were the bodies of Mary and Bertha Weber. How did
the defendant know Earl was there? The dining room was
shut up and did not start to blaze until Webber
broke the window and created a draft. Remember that gentleman.

Speaker 29 (01:59:01):
Adolph Webber knew the bodies were in the dining room.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
The following day, discovery was made in the coroner's office.
Jeff Keina was called in and.

Speaker 25 (01:59:12):
De queted with the.

Speaker 4 (01:59:15):
Let me get there straight. You say, doctor Runey, that
they were all dead before the fires dined it. Yes,
Mary Webber was shot through the hot Bertha Webber was
shot in the chest, and so uh Julius Webber and
erh h'll be have they got the bullet? Yes? Uh, yeah,
they are n four slugs from forty five Uh huh.

(01:59:38):
I found one in missus Webber's body and one in
Bertha's body, and mister Webber was killed by one or
by the other. Who do you think did it? Don't
ask me, it's your job, sir is Tarifina. Well, your
yeses is as good as mine. Doctor.

Speaker 20 (01:59:54):
It might have been murder and suicide. Oh, Julius could
have done it, Yeah, possible, But then again, what.

Speaker 4 (02:00:00):
Would be his motives? There was never any trouble in
that family that I ever heard about, did you know,
as I ever did? Might have been a robber? Well,
I thought of that too, But on the other hand,
I don't forget they were all shot from in front.

Speaker 20 (02:00:14):
Now it seems reasonable to suppose one of 'em might
have tried to run away. Certainly a stranger couldn't have
gone from room to room and one after the other
shot the whole family without so much as cause and
a stir.

Speaker 4 (02:00:25):
That sound, reasoning, Sherrick Kelly, mighty sound. But there's still
this question to answer. Who did it? Let's see eight
dollfour wasn't there. He was downtown, so he couldn't have
done it, Julius, the father could have, though doesn't make sense.
There's no motive. I had been some money involved, there
might be it. Hey, what's happened to you? That might

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be the motive. Money.

Speaker 22 (02:00:51):
I don't get you.

Speaker 4 (02:00:52):
Who'd received the book to the estate in the event
that mister Webber died and there was no remaining airs?
Thank golly, Sheriff. I believe you're right. I know I am.

Speaker 29 (02:01:00):
And then again, Adolf as an Alabama can prove it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
Maybe Edna Folk was at the Weber house and left
about five thirty that even the fire was discovered about
six thirty one hour later. Now, Adolf said he took
his usual eating walk around back of town and then
down into town. Supposed he would mine and that high
tailed straight down Brewery Lane. But can you prove it? Well,

(02:01:24):
if that's what he did, I'll prove it, and.

Speaker 30 (02:01:35):
In the course of his investigations shut off.

Speaker 4 (02:01:37):
Kenock questioned Joe Powell, clerk at the American Hotel, Now
to drink hard, jeorseph real hard. Why you see Adolph
heat come in here one night this week? But so
much has happened in such a short time. I can't
just remember what night it was Adolf Uh came in
here to the American Hotel often, didn't he?

Speaker 29 (02:01:54):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:01:54):
Sure, that's why I can't remember that November fourth? But
he was in here this week. Now you're sure about that? Oh,
I'm dead sure on that cause I was back in
the washroom doing some cleaning up in there and he
comes in and see he didn't see me, and he
starts to wash his hands. Well, I spoke to him,
and it scared him some bad. He ran out the door.
He didn't even dry his hands a tree, He didn't

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turn off the tap. He just didn't that strike you?
He's odd? Uh? Well it, you know, looked kind of
crazy at the time, But I didn't think no more
about it.

Speaker 9 (02:02:22):
I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (02:02:22):
What did you do after he left?

Speaker 48 (02:02:25):
And they, oh the same. I finished cleaning up.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
In there and went out to the front of the desk,
and then what happened? I don't just remember. It seems
to me something happened, but I can just uh, wait
a minute, say that was the night of the fire.

Speaker 23 (02:02:40):
Shore.

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
I remember now cause I got hail Columbia for not
staying at the desk out. That's all I wanted to know.
Clark made Clark had additional information on the case.

Speaker 22 (02:02:59):
You see, Sheriff.

Speaker 4 (02:03:01):
I was coming up really lane from the American when
Adolf passed going down.

Speaker 15 (02:03:05):
They seemed him kind of a hurry and he didn't
even hardly speak to me.

Speaker 4 (02:03:08):
Did you notice anything strange?

Speaker 39 (02:03:10):
No, sept He.

Speaker 17 (02:03:11):
Seemed in a hurry.

Speaker 10 (02:03:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, he had a bundle under his arm.

Speaker 15 (02:03:15):
Must have been that pair of pants he throwed through
the dining room window.

Speaker 22 (02:03:19):
Oh what time? Was it quiet?

Speaker 23 (02:03:21):
Just before the fire?

Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
Are you sure sure?

Speaker 21 (02:03:23):
I'm sure. I was expecting a a a friend of mine.

Speaker 4 (02:03:27):
At six thirty, so I I know it was just
before the fire.

Speaker 27 (02:03:31):
That's why I was.

Speaker 22 (02:03:32):
Going back to my room.

Speaker 4 (02:03:33):
Well, thanks me, you've given me a lot of help.

Speaker 20 (02:03:35):
Well, if I can give any more help here again,
why just let me?

Speaker 9 (02:03:39):
No, Sheriff.

Speaker 4 (02:03:49):
With this information, Keno sent for Webber. I left the
house soon after DNA Fulton did. I walked across the
hills back of town, then turned back and walked down
the hill into town. You didn't walk down Bury Lane
to the American? I told you how I walked. Were
you in the American hotel just before the fire alarm
was sounded? It might have been I drop in there frequently?

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Did you see anyone when you walk? No? Did you
see anyone with the American? I didn't say I was there,
That's right, you didn't. Uh? What were you carrying a
pair of pants under your arm?

Speaker 26 (02:04:22):
For?

Speaker 4 (02:04:22):
Well, I'd torn a hole in them, and I was
taking them down to the tailors to see if he
had another pair to match them.

Speaker 22 (02:04:28):
He was closed.

Speaker 4 (02:04:30):
Well, why did Jews throw that same pair of pants
through the dining room window at the fire. That should
be obvious to a man of your intelligence, Sheriff, mm,
perhaps more obverse? New thing for interesting? You don't buy
any chance to spect me of killing my entire family?

Speaker 26 (02:04:44):
Do you? Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:04:46):
One other thing? Who receives the web of fortune? Why
I do.

Speaker 22 (02:04:50):
Of course, I'm the soul surviving air.

Speaker 14 (02:04:52):
How much was it?

Speaker 4 (02:04:53):
I can't say that it's any of your business, but
it's around seventy thousand dollars.

Speaker 22 (02:04:57):
Seventy thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:04:59):
Try to l who puts you and Dolf Webber, I
arrest you for the murder of your mother, your father,
your sister, and your brother. All right, boys, take him on,
lock him up him And so, with the information he
had gained, Sheriff Kena arrested Adolf Webber on suspicion of murder.
Inasmuch as it is not possible to try a man

(02:05:20):
for more than one crime at a time in the
state of California, we are therefore trying the defendant first
for the murder of his mother, Mary Weber. And gentlemen
of the jury, I thank god the jurious Weber is dead.
I thank god that Bertha Weber and this defendant's little

(02:05:41):
brother are dead. I thank god that we do not
have to see them come into this courtroom and from
that witness stand with tears running down their cheeks, describe
Dolf Weber's crime. I give thanks to a beneficent providence
that these persons are dead, that they do not have

(02:06:03):
to come here to swear away the life of this man,
but to resume our reviewed effects. A few days later,
one of Sheriff Keena's men found the gun that was
used to commit these murders, a gun from which four
bullets had been fired. The defense us to see proof

(02:06:24):
that this was the weapony dof Weber used. We proved it.

Speaker 29 (02:06:28):
Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Speaker 4 (02:06:32):
As you recall, we summoned Howard Carr from San Francisco.

Speaker 29 (02:06:36):
He is a recognized expert on fire.

Speaker 4 (02:06:39):
Up that defense for us does to prove that this
was the gun used to murder Mary Weber. Very well, boys,
will you stand that veil of cotton over.

Speaker 23 (02:06:52):
By the wall?

Speaker 4 (02:06:53):
Now is the car if you'll explain to the court
not just what you intend doing. Please, thank you, mister Hamilton.
I have here in my hand the four slugs taken
from the dead bodies of Julius Webber, his wife, his daughter,
and his younger son. After placing these under a microscope,
I observed that there were certain markings, certain identical markings

(02:07:15):
on each bullet. Then I examined the barrel of the
revolver and discovered the cause of these markings. There was
a slight obstruction on one side that left the groove
on each slug as it passed through the barrel.

Speaker 20 (02:07:31):
These markings were so small that they could only be
seen with the aid of a powerful microscope. I was
convinced that these four slugs were fired from this pistol.
But to further prove the fact, I have fired several
more bullets from this same gun, and after examining them closely,

(02:07:52):
I found them to be grooved identically like the fatal
bullets marked as Exhibit D. And now, mister Carr, are
you're ready to demonstrate to the court what you've just said?

Speaker 4 (02:08:02):
Yes, very well, proceed as you can observe. Gentlemen, We've
placed a thick bail of cotton against the opposite wall
into which mister Howard Carr will fire four bullets. Proceed now,

(02:08:23):
gentlemen of the jury, it is your privilege to examine
for yourselves the four bullets taken from the bodies, and
then the.

Speaker 29 (02:08:30):
Four that have just been fired and are being removed
from the bail of cottons.

Speaker 4 (02:08:35):
Look closely, and you will see that they all look alike.
Definite proof, gentlemen, that.

Speaker 23 (02:08:41):
All eight bullets were fired from the same gun.

Speaker 4 (02:08:45):
And let me remind you that this gun was found
in the Weber barn among Adolf Webber's personal effects, and
one other point, the empty cartridges were found nearby where
this fiend threw them. If you'll step down one of
the time, you may all look through this microscope to
see for yourself. So you have all looked through the

(02:09:11):
microscope and have seen for yourselves that this undoubted there
was the gun from which the fatal bullets were fired.
Very hard it is to believe that a man can
kill his mother. All that he has he owes to her.
It was she who bore him, reared him, taught him,

(02:09:37):
and promised herself that in her old age he'd be
a comfort and joy to her. I say it is
hard to believe that a man can kill his mother.
But I say to you also that if there is
such a man upon the face of this her, that
man sits here.

Speaker 29 (02:10:03):
Let me once more reconstruct the crime for you.

Speaker 4 (02:10:09):
The father, Julius Webber, was in the kitchen closet, The
sister Bertha Weber, was playing the piano and singing. The mother,
Mary Webber, was putting the younger brother Earl to bed,
It was then that this fiend, with gun in hand,

(02:10:29):
deliberately and calmly, walked up to his father and without
the slightest hesitation, looking for something.

Speaker 48 (02:10:37):
Huh oh, hello son, Oh yes, I used to have him.

Speaker 4 (02:10:42):
Hey dog, what are you doing with that gun?

Speaker 20 (02:10:52):
No?

Speaker 21 (02:10:53):
Little sister the due next.

Speaker 29 (02:11:01):
Brother turning around a minute, Oh.

Speaker 15 (02:11:06):
Hinder way, I just jowar brother?

Speaker 21 (02:11:20):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (02:11:22):
Didn't die?

Speaker 25 (02:11:22):
Here?

Speaker 22 (02:11:23):
Sho it? A?

Speaker 21 (02:11:25):
What's happened?

Speaker 13 (02:11:26):
What's the matter with berther?

Speaker 10 (02:11:29):
They just shudder?

Speaker 15 (02:11:31):
Don't they put that gun down?

Speaker 4 (02:11:34):
Don't point it?

Speaker 15 (02:11:40):
Mother?

Speaker 39 (02:11:42):
Mother?

Speaker 23 (02:11:42):
All right, Earl be quiet, I'll be right up just
a minute.

Speaker 25 (02:11:48):
How tender you are?

Speaker 22 (02:11:52):
Now?

Speaker 48 (02:11:53):
That's all the racket about, Earl?

Speaker 15 (02:11:56):
Where's mother?

Speaker 22 (02:11:57):
Mind? Mother?

Speaker 25 (02:11:59):
What you.

Speaker 3 (02:12:02):
Which for?

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
Sue? And so he carried his brother, his sister, and
his mother down to the dining room. His father he
left in the kitchen closet. Then, after carefully setting fire

(02:12:25):
to the house, he started across the hills and then
doubled back into town. And there he had the nerve
to calmly eat an ice cream soda. But he made
one mistake. He left the dining room shut up, and

(02:12:47):
since a fire needs a draft, that room failed to burn.

Speaker 29 (02:12:51):
When it alf Webber returned to his burning home.

Speaker 4 (02:12:53):
He made this discovery and quickly made his way to
the dining room window and threw his trousers at the
window and broken thereby causing a draft and the room
burst into flames. He served a double purpose by this act,
as he wished to rid himself of tell tale evidence.
Although he denied it, it seems reasonable to assume he

(02:13:16):
wished to rid himself of these trousers because they were
splashed with blood. In conclusion, gentlemen of the jury, there
is one more vital fact that you must not overlook,
and that is that Adolf Weber is the sole heir

(02:13:40):
to a seventy thousand dollars estate that supplies his motive.
Now you have all the facts before you, why he killed,
how he killed, and the gun he killed, with every point,
every step dovetails perfectly. As citizens of this state, I

(02:14:02):
implore you to do your duty. Give this man who
sits even now, sneering and smirking while I talk.

Speaker 25 (02:14:11):
Give this man the justice he deserves.

Speaker 4 (02:14:16):
Give him the same quality of mercy that he gave
his mother as she knee before him, begging for her life.

Speaker 32 (02:14:38):
To God, send the Red Belgrove, the god deliverul old
trivels of fature, the Count chad Alife.

Speaker 21 (02:14:49):
I really intended to do it.

Speaker 32 (02:14:52):
The trial is crooking, the Mederican, the man.

Speaker 4 (02:14:55):
You can't make me quiet, however, step over your.

Speaker 43 (02:15:01):
I do.

Speaker 4 (02:15:03):
I do years to step over here. I do want
to put your hands behind you.

Speaker 25 (02:15:12):
Don't I do the thing.

Speaker 4 (02:15:18):
That'll hold you whispering coward.

Speaker 48 (02:15:21):
I still want to put this rope around your neck.

Speaker 25 (02:15:24):
Bet to stave me.

Speaker 32 (02:15:27):
Don't tag me.

Speaker 25 (02:15:30):
That ropes to state you d.

Speaker 4 (02:15:35):
All's that Sheriff Keenan. Just a moment, we shall get
the concluding facts on our program. Incidentally, just to remind
you on your way to work in the morning, drop
around for that tankful of real grand to christ the

(02:15:57):
gastline of real police car performance. And if you're in
need of an oil change, ask for Leelude. The motor
roor that engine Heaton's speed can't break down. Le Elude
can't get gritty, can't be diluted, can't be substituted because
it is sold only in refinery sealed cans. He never invoked.

(02:16:17):
Adolph Webber was convicted after one of the most sensational
cases in the history of California. He was sentenced to die,
and on the morning of September sixth, he was hanged
in Folsom Prison. Hiss was another crime that failed to pay.

Speaker 37 (02:16:46):
Lessergne Sheriff's I was calling all cars attention, all cars
to cancelation on broadcast two hundred sixty.

Speaker 4 (02:16:53):
Regarding a murder and a fire. Suspect in this case
was hanged. That is all harmony as a generator. Fredrickman
labidding a good night for real Brandy. Next week, at

(02:17:20):
this time, Rio BRANDI will present the case of the
rasping voice.

Speaker 23 (02:17:25):
This is the Calumbnia broadcasting system.

Speaker 6 (02:17:37):
I know it's not as crisp and clear, but you
gotta consider it's eighty six years old. Eighty seven years old.
November seventeen, nineteen thirty eight, Calling all Cars here on
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt talks to get right down
to it. Some of these shows that are almost ninety
years old sound better than some stuff that was produced

(02:17:58):
fifty years ago. Calling all Cars here on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyatt cogs up. Next, Well, Chicken with.

Speaker 50 (02:18:06):
Claudia yellow and black and rectangular rectangular yes?

Speaker 10 (02:18:17):
And what else?

Speaker 50 (02:18:19):
Well, doctor, it has kind of wed shapes.

Speaker 51 (02:18:23):
Inside yellow black and with wed shapes inside.

Speaker 1 (02:18:27):
I see them everywhere everywhere.

Speaker 26 (02:18:29):
Do you hear me?

Speaker 10 (02:18:30):
Are there there, Missus Edwards? Just lie back on the
What does it mean?

Speaker 3 (02:18:35):
Am I losing my mind?

Speaker 51 (02:18:37):
Missus Edwards? My professional diagnosis is quite simple.

Speaker 50 (02:18:41):
Oh thank you doctor.

Speaker 51 (02:18:43):
What you have been seeing everywhere you look are those
yellow and black signs installed by Civil Defense. Oh they're
the yellow and black signs used to indicate a fallout
shelter in building. Every building that displays that yellow and
black sign and has an approved shutter man.

Speaker 10 (02:19:02):
He's started with supplies.

Speaker 45 (02:19:03):
So you see these signs?

Speaker 10 (02:19:05):
To doctor Black, why sure, Missus edwis well?

Speaker 1 (02:19:10):
I feel better already?

Speaker 6 (02:19:13):
We wrap up this edition of Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt Coxx on a Monday with an episode of Claudia,
a very sad episode seventy eight years ago. November seventeenth,
nineteen forty.

Speaker 5 (02:19:25):
Seven, Your Coca Cola Butler presents Claudia. Claudia based on
the original stories by Rose Franken, brought to you transcribed
Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca Cola.

(02:19:49):
Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself.

Speaker 4 (02:19:53):
Have a coke?

Speaker 16 (02:20:01):
Oh, now, Claudia.

Speaker 23 (02:20:12):
Coming coming?

Speaker 16 (02:20:17):
Oh David, it's you, Yes, it's me.

Speaker 36 (02:20:19):
What are you doing home at noon time? Do you
have lunch? David? Is anything wrong?

Speaker 16 (02:20:24):
No, darling, nothing is wrong with me. But your eyes
are red.

Speaker 36 (02:20:27):
I they I can't tell I'm behind him, David?

Speaker 3 (02:20:30):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (02:20:31):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (02:20:32):
I know why you came. Oh, darling, that's sweet.

Speaker 16 (02:20:34):
You don't know anything of the kind. And I'm not sweet.
I came home to test you.

Speaker 21 (02:20:39):
Test me?

Speaker 16 (02:20:40):
How many times do I have to tell you not
to answer the door when you don't know who it is?

Speaker 36 (02:20:45):
And how do you expect me to find out?

Speaker 16 (02:20:46):
Put the chain on the door before you open it? Oh,
and no one can get in if you don't want
them to.

Speaker 36 (02:20:51):
That's sissy, and I am not a sistan and become.

Speaker 16 (02:20:53):
A sissy sometimes it's smart to be one.

Speaker 36 (02:20:56):
Can't fool me, David. You didn't come home to tell
me that came home because of sick kitten.

Speaker 22 (02:21:00):
Didn't you.

Speaker 49 (02:21:01):
You can't fool me either, That's why your eyes are red.
I uh had to be uptown this afternoon anyway, David.

Speaker 36 (02:21:08):
It's so awful to watch him. Where is he the
sofa of your time to come in.

Speaker 16 (02:21:12):
I'll make time.

Speaker 36 (02:21:13):
I'm glad you came. He's only a kitten, and yet
I I just can't help feeling. Oh, David, you don't
think I'm just being silly.

Speaker 16 (02:21:24):
I look, darling, I married you because you are silly
about things like this.

Speaker 36 (02:21:28):
No, there are lots of things more important in the world.

Speaker 49 (02:21:30):
But I not really, because this sick kitten is a
symbol of all the important things.

Speaker 4 (02:21:34):
In the world.

Speaker 36 (02:21:35):
I see what you mean, David, Poor little devil. He
just seems to get smaller, so pitifully smaller and vulnerable. David,
what dare He's not gonna die?

Speaker 26 (02:21:50):
Is he?

Speaker 16 (02:21:51):
Well, he doesn't seem to be getting any better.

Speaker 36 (02:21:55):
I wish you'd never brought him home. Why ask for
a heartache when you don't have to.

Speaker 16 (02:22:00):
If you are afraid of that, you won't have any
joy either, David.

Speaker 36 (02:22:04):
I'm not brave, and I'm I'm sorry if you're disappointed
in me.

Speaker 16 (02:22:08):
Now listen here a moment ago, you said you weren't
a sissy.

Speaker 36 (02:22:10):
I'm not about opening doors, maybe about life.

Speaker 22 (02:22:14):
I am.

Speaker 49 (02:22:17):
Oh, that's probably for me. I told Roger to call
in case something came up at the office. Hello, oh Kelly,
this is not yes, but uh, I'll be tied up
a little while. But look here. Now, you stay where
you are. I'll be there when I get there. I'm
warning you have that reinforcing problem licked or else. Okay, goodbye?

Speaker 36 (02:22:39):
Oh boy, Well I couldn't be married to Kelly David.
He wouldn't understand.

Speaker 16 (02:22:45):
He's not a bad guy, just a little tough.

Speaker 36 (02:22:47):
You sound tough.

Speaker 16 (02:22:48):
I am tough. Don't let this general exterior fool you.

Speaker 36 (02:22:52):
It's not the exterior that fools me.

Speaker 3 (02:22:54):
It's your interior.

Speaker 49 (02:22:56):
Just because you think I came home at high noon
to see a sick kitt and you think I'm not.

Speaker 36 (02:23:00):
I think you're wonderful.

Speaker 42 (02:23:02):
That's what I think.

Speaker 49 (02:23:03):
Say, how would you like to go out to dinner tonight?
There's that nice fish place around the corner.

Speaker 36 (02:23:08):
No, I'd rather stay home. Would you like me to
get some fish for dinner?

Speaker 16 (02:23:12):
It all depends on what kind of fish, not salmon place.

Speaker 36 (02:23:16):
There are other kinds of fish and salmon in the sea.
Say maybe the smell of fish would prick up the kitten.

Speaker 49 (02:23:21):
Like aromatic spirits of ammonia. Well it's an idea, no
harm in try m Darling, I'm going by the store.
I'll give you a lift in the car for David.

Speaker 36 (02:23:31):
Maybe when I get back, you'll be better, maybe, Darling,
but don't count on it.

Speaker 4 (02:23:46):
Good dame.

Speaker 14 (02:23:47):
Is this Norton? Oh Fritz, Hello, lovely days is it?

Speaker 36 (02:23:50):
I've been hurrying so I hardly noticed.

Speaker 14 (02:23:52):
I take care by him. That's up you have without breath.

Speaker 22 (02:23:55):
It's all right.

Speaker 5 (02:23:55):
I can manage.

Speaker 25 (02:23:56):
Oh.

Speaker 14 (02:23:56):
I go up anyway to the fourth floor to fix things.

Speaker 3 (02:23:59):
But you're always going up to the fourth floor.

Speaker 22 (02:24:01):
What do they do up there?

Speaker 14 (02:24:02):
Four little boys? Oh, I see, I take the packages.
I can smell it.

Speaker 23 (02:24:09):
That's good.

Speaker 36 (02:24:09):
I hope the kittens can.

Speaker 46 (02:24:10):
That's what I bought it for.

Speaker 14 (02:24:11):
The little kittens are too young for eating.

Speaker 36 (02:24:13):
Still, yes, I know one of them, doffy sick Fritz, Oh.

Speaker 14 (02:24:17):
No, and so small before he even is alive. But
the other one he is strong.

Speaker 36 (02:24:22):
Yes, he he's all right.

Speaker 52 (02:24:23):
Maybe the little sick one will be all right too.
I was a farmer, one's missus Norton. I was good
with the animals. I come in and look at him.

Speaker 36 (02:24:31):
Oh, would you Maybe you'll know what the matter is?

Speaker 14 (02:24:33):
Maybe I try, man.

Speaker 36 (02:24:39):
He's in the living room.

Speaker 14 (02:24:41):
I go in first and see how he is.

Speaker 13 (02:24:43):
I'll come with you.

Speaker 36 (02:24:46):
He's right over there, fots on the pillow. Yeah, sofye
quiet now? Yeah, he is christ That's a good sign,
isn't it. He's been mostly feverish and restless. See one
Fritz Fiel his nose.

Speaker 4 (02:24:59):
No, he is.

Speaker 14 (02:25:01):
He's cool now and maybe everything is Everything is all
right now?

Speaker 4 (02:25:06):
It is?

Speaker 36 (02:25:08):
You mean he?

Speaker 4 (02:25:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 36 (02:25:11):
I shouldn't have gone out. If I'd stayed, you could
do nothing.

Speaker 14 (02:25:14):
It's the way, what way always for the living? There
there must be the dead.

Speaker 36 (02:25:19):
Why Fritz he was so small?

Speaker 14 (02:25:21):
It's not the size or the age.

Speaker 36 (02:25:24):
There's no method in it at all.

Speaker 14 (02:25:26):
It's not for us to decide. I take him now,
I take care of everything.

Speaker 36 (02:25:31):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 13 (02:25:31):
No, no, don't tell me.

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
I don't want to know.

Speaker 14 (02:25:33):
It would be the best that they.

Speaker 3 (02:25:36):
That's the other one.

Speaker 36 (02:25:38):
I guess he doesn't know.

Speaker 14 (02:25:39):
He knows. Perhaps he's made of the fish.

Speaker 36 (02:25:41):
I don't want him now. You take the other kitten
to Fritz, give him the berth.

Speaker 5 (02:25:45):
Oh, no, you'll be No.

Speaker 36 (02:25:47):
I don't want anything. It's safer not to want anything.
I've learned that much already.

Speaker 14 (02:25:52):
But missus Norton. He cries for you, and she's alive.
Yet it's for the living.

Speaker 52 (02:25:57):
One must live until here until and then they're they're
always others.

Speaker 4 (02:26:02):
There I go.

Speaker 14 (02:26:03):
Now that's says she will come up.

Speaker 36 (02:26:05):
I'm all right, thanks Fritz, eh, missus Norton, thanks for
having been here.

Speaker 19 (02:26:12):
I am glad.

Speaker 14 (02:26:13):
And you will see with things like this wee cannot fight.
And always there are things like this.

Speaker 22 (02:26:29):
Who is it?

Speaker 29 (02:26:30):
Who you thinking is?

Speaker 16 (02:26:32):
I'll open it and see I will What do you
think you're doing?

Speaker 15 (02:26:39):
Is?

Speaker 16 (02:26:40):
Of course like my husband likes me to be, I'll
wring your neck.

Speaker 36 (02:26:43):
Oh, now, put your face up to the crack and
let me see who is the open this door?

Speaker 1 (02:26:48):
Puts your face up.

Speaker 36 (02:26:49):
All I can see is the tip of your nose.
I don't recognize it, and you'll recognize it, all right.
Oh is that a nice way to ask permission to
come in? What's the password?

Speaker 16 (02:26:59):
Claudia Darling. It's the end of a long day. I'm tired.
It's better.

Speaker 53 (02:27:03):
Well now that I know you have a dashing harmless
mister Naughton, come on in. Well, David, you know I
thought it was you you did huh m oh, You're
never satisfied. This morning when I opened the door without
the chain, I got a long lecture about it.

Speaker 16 (02:27:22):
You should be locked up. Say you've got a funny
look on your face.

Speaker 36 (02:27:27):
You're not very original.

Speaker 3 (02:27:28):
You said that this morning too.

Speaker 16 (02:27:29):
This is a different funny look. Oh you're much too gay.

Speaker 36 (02:27:32):
Oh I just can't please you this morning. My eyes
were red tonight.

Speaker 16 (02:27:36):
There is something fishy about all this.

Speaker 36 (02:27:39):
Can you smell it all the way out here?

Speaker 16 (02:27:40):
And I don't mean fish?

Speaker 27 (02:27:42):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (02:27:43):
Now, trying to answer me like a human being?

Speaker 4 (02:27:45):
Huh, that's a.

Speaker 36 (02:27:46):
Lovely thing to call your favorite wife.

Speaker 29 (02:27:48):
What is merely a human being?

Speaker 16 (02:27:50):
I hadn't seen you all day since one o'clock.

Speaker 36 (02:27:52):
And you come home and the best you can do
is call me a human being.

Speaker 16 (02:27:55):
You're right, I apologize. You are not a human being.
I'm not no resemblance at all.

Speaker 36 (02:28:00):
Then what have you got nicer to say?

Speaker 32 (02:28:02):
I am?

Speaker 9 (02:28:02):
You are half.

Speaker 16 (02:28:04):
Woodspried, half sheet devil, and half magpie.

Speaker 36 (02:28:07):
It can't be.

Speaker 16 (02:28:08):
Why not?

Speaker 36 (02:28:09):
That's three halves, David, nothing's three halves.

Speaker 4 (02:28:12):
You are.

Speaker 16 (02:28:13):
There's a lot more to you than meets the eyes.

Speaker 1 (02:28:15):
Oh no, you're being really sweet.

Speaker 16 (02:28:17):
I will not be called really sweet. I feel anything.

Speaker 36 (02:28:19):
But tell me how does it feel to feel like anything?

Speaker 20 (02:28:22):
But?

Speaker 25 (02:28:22):
Oh? Not bad?

Speaker 15 (02:28:24):
Not bad.

Speaker 36 (02:28:25):
I wish I felt like anything, but.

Speaker 16 (02:28:27):
Darling, U sit on my lap a minute.

Speaker 36 (02:28:32):
Say did I tell you about the little man at
the fish store?

Speaker 14 (02:28:35):
What about him?

Speaker 16 (02:28:35):
Well?

Speaker 36 (02:28:35):
I went in about the fish. I didn't know what
kind of get, so, you know, David, fish stores are
pretty exciting places when you're accustomed to the butcher. Don't
you think I mean in a fish store people sort
of have something in common the fish. No, No, it's
more than that. I sort of get a feeling when
I buy a fish that I never get when I
buy a steak. I don't even know where a steak
comes from.

Speaker 16 (02:28:56):
From a steer you dope, Oh, I know it comes from.

Speaker 36 (02:29:00):
But I mean it's this little part of that something
has no personality. But a fish there, you really got something,
all of it. You can even look it right in
the eye.

Speaker 16 (02:29:09):
Do you always look your fish in the eye before
you buy it?

Speaker 13 (02:29:12):
Always?

Speaker 36 (02:29:13):
The already is resting elegantly on a bed of cracked ice,
perfectly self satisfied, absolutely unblinking and disinterested.

Speaker 40 (02:29:22):
You know where you.

Speaker 36 (02:29:22):
Stand with a fish because the ad is in person.

Speaker 3 (02:29:25):
There are no bones about it.

Speaker 16 (02:29:26):
There are plenty of bones in a fish, none in
a steak. But what about the little man?

Speaker 36 (02:29:31):
What about him?

Speaker 25 (02:29:32):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (02:29:32):
Yes, well he wanted to tell me a file of
soul or halibu.

Speaker 16 (02:29:35):
But I bought a mackerel, the whole fish or no
fish at all.

Speaker 36 (02:29:38):
Oh so much personality in a mackerel. This one, David
was positively magnetic.

Speaker 16 (02:29:44):
And and what and then what the nothing?

Speaker 22 (02:29:48):
That's all there is to it.

Speaker 16 (02:29:50):
Fascinating the story of a magnetic mac Look, Darling, relax,
I am relaxed.

Speaker 3 (02:29:58):
I'm so relaxed. I've got the gills.

Speaker 16 (02:30:01):
You're you're not kidding me not? Come on, now, tell
me what's happened since I saw you.

Speaker 14 (02:30:07):
I was telling you now that's not what I meant.
And you know it.

Speaker 22 (02:30:11):
I know it.

Speaker 36 (02:30:13):
The kitten died, David while I was out with a macro.

Speaker 4 (02:30:17):
Darling.

Speaker 16 (02:30:17):
I I'm sorry, so am I Why didn't you call me?

Speaker 14 (02:30:22):
Well?

Speaker 36 (02:30:23):
I I I I thought I'd wait till you got home.
Non't a way. I was glad you weren't here. David
gave me a little time.

Speaker 22 (02:30:31):
Where is he?

Speaker 36 (02:30:33):
Fritz took him?

Speaker 16 (02:30:35):
Darling.

Speaker 49 (02:30:35):
I I bought those kittens, brought them home to make
everything easier, not harder.

Speaker 14 (02:30:41):
I know you did, Darling and Diamond.

Speaker 22 (02:30:44):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 36 (02:30:45):
Don't be sorry.

Speaker 16 (02:30:47):
I I am, because in a way it's it's my fault.
They were too young.

Speaker 36 (02:30:53):
I was too young this morning too. Say Fritz was
a farmer.

Speaker 5 (02:30:58):
Did you know he was?

Speaker 13 (02:31:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 36 (02:31:01):
I suppose when you're a farmer, you you're gonna learn
an awful lot about things.

Speaker 1 (02:31:04):
Too, like Fritz.

Speaker 49 (02:31:06):
Yes, you do, from the start to the finish. There's
a lot of living that goes on and working the land.

Speaker 36 (02:31:13):
You're gonna make a wonderful farmer. David dislike Fritz.

Speaker 16 (02:31:17):
That's a that's a very very nice compliment.

Speaker 49 (02:31:22):
Claudia, hmm. Would you like me to return the other kittens?
I'll come on, come on, come on, don't be ashamed
to say so. I'm only Papa, No, Papa.

Speaker 36 (02:31:32):
You were offully smart to buy a spare downing. You
should see how much milk the spare drink this afternoon.

Speaker 16 (02:31:37):
Remarkable. Remarkable.

Speaker 36 (02:31:38):
You wait and see. He's gonna grow up to be
the world's most outstanding cat.

Speaker 16 (02:31:42):
I'd say he would probably be the uh chairman of
the back fence. How's that very good?

Speaker 4 (02:31:50):
You know? Darling.

Speaker 49 (02:31:51):
Even if you put eight chains on eight doors before
letting anyone in you, you still wouldn't be a sissy.

Speaker 36 (02:31:59):
Well, then it's all right, meet open the door.

Speaker 16 (02:32:01):
But if I ever catch you doing it, I will
break every bone in your body.

Speaker 36 (02:32:07):
Oh David, how wonderful you really love me as much
as that.

Speaker 5 (02:32:22):
All story material used on this broadcast of Claudia was
under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown Maloney.
Getting ready to go to market, then put this hint
in the back of your mind. Pause where you see
that familiar red cooler, and have an ice cold Coca Cola.

(02:32:46):
Then you can shop refreshed. And remember the family likes
refreshment too, So have your grocer or your service station
attendant put a case of coca cola in your car.
There's plenty of coca again, keep it on ice or
your family and your friends. Every day, Monday through Friday,

(02:33:10):
Claudia comes to you, transcribed with the best wishes of
your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca cola. So listen again
tomorrow at the same time. And now this is Joe
King saying a revoir. And remember, whoever you are, whatever
you do wherever you may be. When you think of refreshment,

(02:33:31):
think of coca cola or ice cold. Coca Cola makes
any pause the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 6 (02:34:07):
Heavenly days. What a wonderful, sweet, sweet show, even the
way it handles the death of a tiny kitten seventy
eight years ago, November seventeenth, nineteen forty seven. Claudia here
on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. We'll be a
little more humorous tomorrow with episodes of the Aldrich Family,

(02:34:30):
Abbot and Costello, the Great gilder Sleeve, and my favorite husband.
And we'll cap it all up with another episode of
Claudia with some special guests. That's tomorrow on Tuesday. Right now,
have youself a great Monday, and we'll see you tomorrow
for more Classic Radio Theater. I'm Wyatt Cox.

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