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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Inner sanctum mysteries.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good evening, friends of the creaking door. This is your
host inviting you into the un sanctum once again.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You're early tonight. The coroner hasn't arrived yet, but it's
all right. The corpse is here. Yes, that's him over
there in the corner, the slightly decapitated gentleman sitting with
his head in his hand. Ah, all right, friends, let's
(01:07):
gather around and meet that grim reaper, mister mccob. No, no, no, no, no,
don't try to run away. Lie perfectly still. If you
race with mister maccabb you're liable to end up in
a dead From the living room of a small house
that has seen better days, a single light shines in
(01:29):
the early evening. Inside, Grace Stanning waits alone for her
father to come home. Anxiously, lighting one cigarette from the other,
she paces the floor until at last she hears his
footsteps on the porch stairs.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Father, Is that you, father, Yes, dear, Oh you worried
about me.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, you're never this late for dinner. I thought something
might have happened to you. You weren't down at the
river again, were your father?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No? No o? Where were you just downtown. I stopped
off for a minute. Grace, Why are you staring at me?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You look so strange, so frightened.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well I should be frightened. You know what it's like
to live without money, week after a week, waiting, hoping
for a break that never comes.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, don't worry, darling, your luck will change.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I'm not worried anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You got the loan, Yes from the bank, No.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
From doctor Tarleton.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Doctor Tarleton, he wouldn't lend you any money. He wouldn't
have a finger to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why not. He's an old friend of mine, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well I wouldn't call him a friend, not after the
way he's treated you all these years. He still hasn't
forgiven you for taking mother away from him.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Don't be a fool, But he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He's still in love with her. He told me so
at the funeral.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh what difference does it make. I've got the money,
haven't I?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
But how did you get it?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I told you he lent it to me.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Why did he lend you that money?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Because I gave him something? And what I I sold
him my brain?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What do you mean, father?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I willed it to him in return for the loan
your brain. Yes, he said it would be of value
to him and his experiments. He said the medical school
was making a study of men with artistic talents.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You haven't painted for years.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, doctor Tarlton didn't really want my brain, Grace, can't
you see it? It was just an excuse to to
torment me.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You're not going through with it. I won't let.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You'll have to, Grace. I've gotten the money.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Can you'll give it back? I won't let you take it.
What are you doing pulling him up to return that money?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's pull him down?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Father, Go drive you out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
If you've set this loan.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Let me speak to him.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Doctor Tart's office, Henry speaking.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Hello, Oh, miss Henry is doctor Tarton Mayre.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Why who's calling? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
This is Miss Denning, George Denning's daughter. Would you ask
the doctor to come to the phone please, I'm afraid
I can't, Miss Denning.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Doctor Talton, it's dead.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Miss Henry. I I hope you don't mind my coming
over here. I asking you all these questions. But you see,
doctor Talton was an old friend of the families, and
I I I'm rather anxious to know the circumstances then,
Miss Denning, Doctor Talton often spoke of you and your mother.
When did he die, Miss Henry, this afternoon about five o'clock.
(04:37):
We can't be sure of the exact time. Nobody was
with him when he died. Nobody, as far as we know.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I was out of the office on an errand when
it happened, and when I got back.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He was dead.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well what happened to him? I mean it was also sudden.
Did he have a heart attack or something?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, he was subject to dizzy spaills, Miss Denning, He
probably had one this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh, I see, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Not sure that's what caused the accident.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Accident.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, he fell against the instrument cabinet in his office
and broke the glass. The edge of it cut an
artery in his neck, and he died before anyone could
reach him.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
How awful. Well, what makes you think it wasn't an accident?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I just have a feeling it might have been murder.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Why was anybody with doctor Tarnton when you left this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, a man by the name of MiCab who mister
mi Cobb. I don't know his first name or anything
about him, but the police are investigating him right now,
And there.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Wasn't anybody else this afternoon, not that I know of.
Are you sure didn't doctor Tarton have an appointment with
the man who was interested in some sort of brain experiment?
What's that? An elderly gentleman, tall with gray hair and
a long, thin face. Where I'm miss? That was mister micawb.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Where have you been, Grace?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh? Just stop out for walk now?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Don't lie to me? Where have you been over to
doctor Carlton's office? Yes? Or what for? I told you
not to meddle in my business. Carleton's dead and my
bargain with him is automatically canceled.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is that the agreement you made with him? Father?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
My agreement with doctor Tarlton doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It doesn't to me, father, but it might to the
police if they find a copy of that agreement.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What are you driving in?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Don't you think they'll find out Tarlton's death wasn't an accident.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good Heaven's grace. You don't think I killed him? Do you?
You don't think I murdered a man for the sake
of a few hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
What did you do? You were in his office at
five o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Weren't you a who told you?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
That?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Difference?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Does it make?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Miss Henry knows you were there. She told me all
about it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I didn't speak to Miss Henry.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Mister Macobb did. Oh for heaven's sake, Father, don't you
think the police will see through a trick like that?
They're not looking for you right now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Confounded grace, I didn't kill doctor Carleton, and I never
heard of mister Micabb. Now let's not.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Talk about him, all right? Father, you wanna bluff it through?
I can't stop you. Only I wish to.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Just a minute, I'll get that. No, no, let me.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It may be the police.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hello, hello, Miss Denning. Yes, I've got to see you
right away. I have something to tell you about the
murder of doctor Tarleton.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I can't talk to you over the phone, but if
you will come down to fifty four Palmer Street right away,
I'll er I'll tell you all about it. Come alone,
Miss Denning, and come quickly just a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You haven't told me who you are.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, I'm sorry. The name is mister macabb. All right,
all right, I'm coming. Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What I'm understanding. Weren't you expecting me?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I never expect anybody around here, especially at this time
of night. What did you ring the bell for?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, I was supposed to meet somebody here.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I am sure you got to write address. This is
the University medical School, the autopsy. Lad, we're closed up
for the night.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's strange. I was sure, he said, fifty four Palmer Street.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh why is this one of the students.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's a funny place to be meeting a friend of yours.
But if he said he'd be here, well maybe you
better come in. Come on. I don't mind you waiting
on the inside. Sure, I'm always glad to have a
little company around. Place like this kind of gets under
his skin. What do you mean, ain't you never been
to a medical school before? No, well, there ain't nothing
(09:01):
to be afraid of, lady. But it's just like being
in the morgue with them dead ones around.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Especially tonight. Why tonight didn't you read in.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The papers what happened? Didn't you see where that doctor
got killed under mysterious circumstances, Doctor Talton?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, that's the one you you knew, doctor Tarlton.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'm sure I knew him. He used to teach down
here anatomy.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Oh I didn't know that. N Maybe that's why I
was told to.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Come here because of doctor Tartan. You know something about
his death?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, but the man I'm supposed to meet here does
Have you ever heard of a mister McCobb.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Mccob, are you waiting for mister McCobb.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, do you know him?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who sent you here? She did?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He called me up on the phone and told me
he wanted to speak to me about doctor Tartan's death.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mister mccob said that, yes, you better come with me. Lady,
what's wrong? I didn't say there was anything wrong. I
just want you to come with me. I gotta know
if you were telling me the truth?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Are you taking me?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Don't worry it in far I didn't hear.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Come on, stop pulling me, will you? Where are we?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And he is? Think in the lab?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Why did you bring me here?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Didn't you say you had to see mister McCobb. Yes,
well this is where he is, right in that canvas bag. Body.
Of course, it's a body and they give them all names,
the students. I mean, oh, no, this one is mister mccob.
That's what I want to know? Who puts you up
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to this? Who told you to come over here and
tell me he was alive?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Nobody?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Don't lie to me. Every one of them students know.
I'm scared of mister McCobb. They've been playing tricks on
me ever since I got here, not until I make
sure he's in that bag?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Look, it's not mister McCobb. What it's doctor Talton?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Are you sure it's doctor Tarlton?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And you see it is?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I'm gonna call the police.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wait a minute. You're not gonna call anybody till you
tell me why you came here. I told you you
told me a lie. You knew doctor Talton was in
this bag. You brought him here to you a fool? Then?
Who did? Who puts you up to this? One of
them students know? They must have, or you wouldn't have
told me that story about mister McCobb. Where is he?
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What have they done with him?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Nothing is I didn't have anything.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
To do with it. I mean, you're not playing a
trick on me.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And it's true it was mister McCobb. What he is
the one who killed doctor Tartan he's the one who
put him in that bag.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You're in saying insane? Am I you don't know about
mister McCobb. You don't know where he came from. What
do you mean his body, Miss Denning? They brought it
from the state penitentiary. He was a murderer. I can't
stop it. Don't you understand. We've got to find him
and bring him back before it happens again. Eh, right,
(12:32):
there's a pahn. Hello. Hello, is miss Denning there? Please?
I just a minute. It's for you, Miss Denning. Yes here,
answer it? Hello, Hello, Miss Denning. Yes, tell your father
(12:53):
not to worry about the murder. Doctor Tarlton was killed
by a woman, a woman who who lives at nine
River Road.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
How do you know who is this?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Don't you recognize my voice? I'm mister Mcca.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
That's the house father, nine River Road.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Gray. Sure you're not going in there.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I've got to father, I've got to know who this
woman is.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And I'm going with you.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No, no, pee, you stay here. Maybe some sort of
a trap to find out where you are. I'm better
off alone.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Though, careful, Grace, please be careful. If this woman is
a murderer.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Don't worry. Father, Just stay in the car and I'll
call you if I need you.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
All right, dear, I'll be right here.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Come in, Miss Stanning, Miss Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, doctor Carlton's names, which good heavens? How did you know?
I was at the door?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I saw your car driver come in?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Won't you look?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I quick, Misstanning, come in.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
What's the matters? I'll tell you in a minute. Just
let me close the door.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's better now I can speak freely.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
You act as though you were expecting me, Miss Henry.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I was.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's strange nobody knew I was coming.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh, but you're wrong. I had a message saying you
were A message from whom. Well, he wouldn't give me
his name over the phone, but I had a feeling
it was mister maccabb.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Do remember he's the man I.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Told you about at the office, the one the police
are looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
He called you on the phone about ten minutes ago.
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well, he didn't want to talk very much, but he
said you were coming over to see me about doctor
Taunton's death.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
He said you suspected me of committing the murder. What
do you mean, do you? I? Stanling?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No? I have no reason to suspect you. What made
you think I did?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Just the fact that he said so and the way
you're looking at me right now? How did you find
out about the letter opener? Miss Danny? What letter opener
the one that's missing from doctor Talton's desk? Who told
you about it?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Why nobody I I didn't know was missing till you
just mentioned it?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Then?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Why did you come here? Because mister mc dorr blame
it on him? He never saw that letter opener, Well
neither did I. I I don't don't even understand what
connection it has, won't you, miss Danny?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Why would a letter opener be taken from doctor Talton's
desk unless it had been used to commit the murder?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You mean doctor Taralton was stabbed to death.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
He might have been the murderer, could have stabbed him
first and broken the instrument cabinet later to make it
look like an accident. Only that isn't the way it happened.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Because that letter opener isn't really missing, just been mislaid somewhere.
And if I had a chance to search the office,
I'd probably find it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Why don't you search the office now, Miss Henry, I
will if you'll come with me. All right, I'll come
with you. I've felt rather peculiar about going down there
air alone. But if you're with me, Miss Denning, the
matter behind you.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Look at the back window.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What I didn't don't see anything?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
It was there, I tell you it was there a
moment ago.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
What a faint peering in through the window.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It's my car?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Why that's funny. That doesn't seem to be any one
else back here? To have been your imagination? I saw it,
I tell you there was something. Quick.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
What is it? Thought?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I heard something move behind the garage? Quick, let's go
in there.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
We can look through the back window without being things.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
We must make a sound here, hold on to my arm.
I can't see a thing, Miss Henry. Who who's there?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Don't be afraid, Miss Tenny, it's me. Who are you,
mister Crane? Don't you remember the night watchman from the
medical school?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I'm looking for mister McCobb. He's around here somewhere. I
just saw him where out in the field behind the garage.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I don't see anyone out here.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You're not looking in the right place. Come with me.
I'll show him to it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
No, don't, don't go with him, miss Henry.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Why not? It may take two of us to bring
him back. He might not want to come with me.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Please, will you leave us alone, mister Crane, go back
to your job. Let the police find mister mccabb.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
No, no, wait, he might know where mister miccabb really is.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Of course I know. I just told you he was
down there in the field.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Then you go find him, mister Crane, and wait for me.
I'll be there in a minute, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, But don't leave me out there alone with
him too long.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
For heaven's sake, Miss Henry. Don't you know that man's crazy?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Crazy or not. I've got to know what he's up
to here. Take the key to doctor Tarlton's office and
go down there right away.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Aren't you coming with me?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Not until I find out about mister mccough. Don't worry,
miss Stanning. I'll meet you at the doctor's office in
a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Are you sure you'll be all right? Of course? The
case go ahead, all right, I'll I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Mister mccar oh, mister Crane, where are you?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Why don't you answer me?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Dear?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Who's on my past?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Don't don't.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Father?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Aren't you in the car? Father? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Sorrow? Grace? I'm here?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Where?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Right here? In the doorway?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Did you think i'd left?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You justn't know where you were? Why didn't you wait
for me in the car?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh? I don't know. I just got tired sitting there. Besides,
I thought I had some voices back in the house.
Is anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
No, at least I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Uh, I know better.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
After we get to doctor Talton's office, What.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Are you going down there for her?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I let her open her father, I've got to find
out if it's really missing.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Her, Grace? Will you stop butting into other people's business?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
This is our business, don't you understand? Are you coming
with me? Or shall I go alone?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
No, dear, I'll go with you.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Wait bright to your father just outside the door. Let
me know if anybody comes down the hall, even Miss Henry.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Alright, hurry, I be as quick as I can. Oh.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I should have turned on the light before I close
that door. Now where on earth is that light switch?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh? Oh? Matter what this think? Doesn't work. No, No,
it doesn't Grace, who.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Said that I did?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Don't you recognize my voice? No? Where are you over
here sitting at my desk, doctor Carlton?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yes you're alive.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, my dear, I'm just living on borrowed time for
a while, just long enough to tell the police who
murdered me. It's a trick.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You're not really dead.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
No, you shouldn't have come back here to return that
letter over. That was the trap we set for you
only we never dreamed you'd kill miss Henry before? Who
are you, doctor Carlton? Did the man who was foolish
enough to leave you half his estate because of your mother?
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You're a murderous Miss Dennings. Require the locket you. You
can't kill me, Grace, you've done it already. Hold on again,
what do I might to sign the way I killed
Miss Henry?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Here?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Put that letter? Open her down. It's all right, Miss Denning.
We won't frighten you anymore. We've got all the evidence
we need.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Now, a detective.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You guessed it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
The dead man, the one you had propped up in
the chair.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Who is that? Don't you know that was mister mccabb.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, that was a corner stunt for Macob to play.
If I were a corpse, I wouldn't go around frightening
confessions out of murderous young ladies.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'd rather be seen dead.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And speaking of death scene, have you ever heard the
one about the ambitious school who left no stone unturned. Well, friends,
it's time once again to close that creaking door until
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next week at the same time when we'll be back
with a little Hankom horror. You'll be sure to listen,
don't you until next week?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Then good night, pleasant dreams.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
And
Inner sanctum mysteries.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good evening, friends of the creaking door. This is your
host inviting you into the un sanctum once again.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You're early tonight. The coroner hasn't arrived yet, but it's
all right. The corpse is here. Yes, that's him over
there in the corner, the slightly decapitated gentleman sitting with
his head in his hand. Ah, all right, friends, let's
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gather around and meet that grim reaper, mister mccob. No, no, no, no, no,
don't try to run away. Lie perfectly still. If you
race with mister maccabb you're liable to end up in
a dead From the living room of a small house
that has seen better days, a single light shines in
(01:29):
the early evening. Inside, Grace Stanning waits alone for her
father to come home. Anxiously, lighting one cigarette from the other,
she paces the floor until at last she hears his
footsteps on the porch stairs.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Father, Is that you, father, Yes, dear, Oh you worried
about me.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, you're never this late for dinner. I thought something
might have happened to you. You weren't down at the
river again, were your father?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No? No o? Where were you just downtown. I stopped
off for a minute. Grace, Why are you staring at me?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You look so strange, so frightened.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well I should be frightened. You know what it's like
to live without money, week after a week, waiting, hoping
for a break that never comes.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, don't worry, darling, your luck will change.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I'm not worried anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You got the loan, Yes from the bank, No.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
From doctor Tarleton.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Doctor Tarleton, he wouldn't lend you any money. He wouldn't
have a finger to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why not. He's an old friend of mine, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well I wouldn't call him a friend, not after the
way he's treated you all these years. He still hasn't
forgiven you for taking mother away from him.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Don't be a fool, But he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He's still in love with her. He told me so
at the funeral.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh what difference does it make. I've got the money,
haven't I?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
But how did you get it?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I told you he lent it to me.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Why did he lend you that money?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Because I gave him something? And what I I sold
him my brain?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What do you mean, father?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I willed it to him in return for the loan
your brain. Yes, he said it would be of value
to him and his experiments. He said the medical school
was making a study of men with artistic talents.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You haven't painted for years.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, doctor Tarlton didn't really want my brain, Grace, can't
you see it? It was just an excuse to to
torment me.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You're not going through with it. I won't let.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You'll have to, Grace. I've gotten the money.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Can you'll give it back? I won't let you take it.
What are you doing pulling him up to return that money?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's pull him down?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Father, Go drive you out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
If you've set this loan.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Let me speak to him.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Doctor Tart's office, Henry speaking.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Hello, Oh, miss Henry is doctor Tarton Mayre.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Why who's calling? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
This is Miss Denning, George Denning's daughter. Would you ask
the doctor to come to the phone please, I'm afraid
I can't, Miss Denning.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Doctor Talton, it's dead.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Miss Henry. I I hope you don't mind my coming
over here. I asking you all these questions. But you see,
doctor Talton was an old friend of the families, and
I I I'm rather anxious to know the circumstances then,
Miss Denning, Doctor Talton often spoke of you and your mother.
When did he die, Miss Henry, this afternoon about five o'clock.
(04:37):
We can't be sure of the exact time. Nobody was
with him when he died. Nobody, as far as we know.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I was out of the office on an errand when
it happened, and when I got back.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He was dead.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well what happened to him? I mean it was also sudden.
Did he have a heart attack or something?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, he was subject to dizzy spaills, Miss Denning, He
probably had one this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh, I see, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Not sure that's what caused the accident.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Accident.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, he fell against the instrument cabinet in his office
and broke the glass. The edge of it cut an
artery in his neck, and he died before anyone could
reach him.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
How awful. Well, what makes you think it wasn't an accident?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I just have a feeling it might have been murder.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Why was anybody with doctor Tarnton when you left this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, a man by the name of MiCab who mister
mi Cobb. I don't know his first name or anything
about him, but the police are investigating him right now,
And there.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Wasn't anybody else this afternoon, not that I know of.
Are you sure didn't doctor Tarton have an appointment with
the man who was interested in some sort of brain experiment?
What's that? An elderly gentleman, tall with gray hair and
a long, thin face. Where I'm miss? That was mister micawb.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Where have you been, Grace?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh? Just stop out for walk now?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Don't lie to me? Where have you been over to
doctor Carlton's office? Yes? Or what for? I told you
not to meddle in my business. Carleton's dead and my
bargain with him is automatically canceled.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is that the agreement you made with him? Father?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
My agreement with doctor Tarlton doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It doesn't to me, father, but it might to the
police if they find a copy of that agreement.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What are you driving in?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Don't you think they'll find out Tarlton's death wasn't an accident.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good Heaven's grace. You don't think I killed him? Do you?
You don't think I murdered a man for the sake
of a few hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
What did you do? You were in his office at
five o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Weren't you a who told you?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
That?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Difference?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Does it make?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Miss Henry knows you were there. She told me all
about it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I didn't speak to Miss Henry.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Mister Macobb did. Oh for heaven's sake, Father, don't you
think the police will see through a trick like that?
They're not looking for you right now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Confounded grace, I didn't kill doctor Carleton, and I never
heard of mister Micabb. Now let's not.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Talk about him, all right? Father, you wanna bluff it through?
I can't stop you. Only I wish to.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Just a minute, I'll get that. No, no, let me.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It may be the police.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hello, hello, Miss Denning. Yes, I've got to see you
right away. I have something to tell you about the
murder of doctor Tarleton.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I can't talk to you over the phone, but if
you will come down to fifty four Palmer Street right away,
I'll er I'll tell you all about it. Come alone,
Miss Denning, and come quickly just a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You haven't told me who you are.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, I'm sorry. The name is mister macabb. All right,
all right, I'm coming. Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What I'm understanding. Weren't you expecting me?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I never expect anybody around here, especially at this time
of night. What did you ring the bell for?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, I was supposed to meet somebody here.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I am sure you got to write address. This is
the University medical School, the autopsy. Lad, we're closed up
for the night.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's strange. I was sure, he said, fifty four Palmer Street.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh why is this one of the students.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's a funny place to be meeting a friend of yours.
But if he said he'd be here, well maybe you
better come in. Come on. I don't mind you waiting
on the inside. Sure, I'm always glad to have a
little company around. Place like this kind of gets under
his skin. What do you mean, ain't you never been
to a medical school before? No, well, there ain't nothing
(09:01):
to be afraid of, lady. But it's just like being
in the morgue with them dead ones around.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Especially tonight. Why tonight didn't you read in.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The papers what happened? Didn't you see where that doctor
got killed under mysterious circumstances, Doctor Talton?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, that's the one you you knew, doctor Tarlton.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'm sure I knew him. He used to teach down
here anatomy.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Oh I didn't know that. N Maybe that's why I
was told to.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Come here because of doctor Tartan. You know something about
his death?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, but the man I'm supposed to meet here does
Have you ever heard of a mister McCobb.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Mccob, are you waiting for mister McCobb.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, do you know him?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who sent you here? She did?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He called me up on the phone and told me
he wanted to speak to me about doctor Tartan's death.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mister mccob said that, yes, you better come with me. Lady,
what's wrong? I didn't say there was anything wrong. I
just want you to come with me. I gotta know
if you were telling me the truth?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Are you taking me?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Don't worry it in far I didn't hear.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Come on, stop pulling me, will you? Where are we?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And he is? Think in the lab?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Why did you bring me here?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Didn't you say you had to see mister McCobb. Yes,
well this is where he is, right in that canvas bag. Body.
Of course, it's a body and they give them all names,
the students. I mean, oh, no, this one is mister mccob.
That's what I want to know? Who puts you up
(10:49):
to this? Who told you to come over here and
tell me he was alive?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Nobody?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Don't lie to me. Every one of them students know.
I'm scared of mister McCobb. They've been playing tricks on
me ever since I got here, not until I make
sure he's in that bag?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Look, it's not mister McCobb. What it's doctor Talton?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Are you sure it's doctor Tarlton?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And you see it is?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I'm gonna call the police.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wait a minute. You're not gonna call anybody till you
tell me why you came here. I told you you
told me a lie. You knew doctor Talton was in
this bag. You brought him here to you a fool? Then?
Who did? Who puts you up to this? One of
them students know? They must have, or you wouldn't have
told me that story about mister McCobb. Where is he?
(11:46):
What have they done with him?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Nothing is I didn't have anything.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
To do with it. I mean, you're not playing a
trick on me.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And it's true it was mister McCobb. What he is
the one who killed doctor Tartan he's the one who
put him in that bag.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You're in saying insane? Am I you don't know about
mister McCobb. You don't know where he came from. What
do you mean his body, Miss Denning? They brought it
from the state penitentiary. He was a murderer. I can't
stop it. Don't you understand. We've got to find him
and bring him back before it happens again. Eh, right,
(12:32):
there's a pahn. Hello. Hello, is miss Denning there? Please?
I just a minute. It's for you, Miss Denning. Yes here,
answer it? Hello, Hello, Miss Denning. Yes, tell your father
(12:53):
not to worry about the murder. Doctor Tarlton was killed
by a woman, a woman who who lives at nine
River Road.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
How do you know who is this?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Don't you recognize my voice? I'm mister Mcca.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
That's the house father, nine River Road.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Gray. Sure you're not going in there.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I've got to father, I've got to know who this
woman is.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And I'm going with you.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No, no, pee, you stay here. Maybe some sort of
a trap to find out where you are. I'm better
off alone.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Though, careful, Grace, please be careful. If this woman is
a murderer.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Don't worry. Father, Just stay in the car and I'll
call you if I need you.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
All right, dear, I'll be right here.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Come in, Miss Stanning, Miss Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, doctor Carlton's names, which good heavens? How did you know?
I was at the door?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I saw your car driver come in?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Won't you look?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I quick, Misstanning, come in.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
What's the matters? I'll tell you in a minute. Just
let me close the door.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's better now I can speak freely.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
You act as though you were expecting me, Miss Henry.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I was.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's strange nobody knew I was coming.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh, but you're wrong. I had a message saying you
were A message from whom. Well, he wouldn't give me
his name over the phone, but I had a feeling
it was mister maccabb.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Do remember he's the man I.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Told you about at the office, the one the police
are looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
He called you on the phone about ten minutes ago.
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well, he didn't want to talk very much, but he
said you were coming over to see me about doctor
Taunton's death.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
He said you suspected me of committing the murder. What
do you mean, do you? I? Stanling?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No? I have no reason to suspect you. What made
you think I did?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Just the fact that he said so and the way
you're looking at me right now? How did you find
out about the letter opener? Miss Danny? What letter opener
the one that's missing from doctor Talton's desk? Who told
you about it?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Why nobody I I didn't know was missing till you
just mentioned it?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Then?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Why did you come here? Because mister mc dorr blame
it on him? He never saw that letter opener, Well
neither did I. I I don't don't even understand what
connection it has, won't you, miss Danny?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Why would a letter opener be taken from doctor Talton's
desk unless it had been used to commit the murder?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You mean doctor Taralton was stabbed to death.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
He might have been the murderer, could have stabbed him
first and broken the instrument cabinet later to make it
look like an accident. Only that isn't the way it happened.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Because that letter opener isn't really missing, just been mislaid somewhere.
And if I had a chance to search the office,
I'd probably find it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Why don't you search the office now, Miss Henry, I
will if you'll come with me. All right, I'll come
with you. I've felt rather peculiar about going down there
air alone. But if you're with me, Miss Denning, the
matter behind you.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Look at the back window.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What I didn't don't see anything?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
It was there, I tell you it was there a
moment ago.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
What a faint peering in through the window.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It's my car?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Why that's funny. That doesn't seem to be any one
else back here? To have been your imagination? I saw it,
I tell you there was something. Quick.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
What is it? Thought?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I heard something move behind the garage? Quick, let's go
in there.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
We can look through the back window without being things.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
We must make a sound here, hold on to my arm.
I can't see a thing, Miss Henry. Who who's there?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Don't be afraid, Miss Tenny, it's me. Who are you,
mister Crane? Don't you remember the night watchman from the
medical school?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I'm looking for mister McCobb. He's around here somewhere. I
just saw him where out in the field behind the garage.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I don't see anyone out here.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You're not looking in the right place. Come with me.
I'll show him to it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
No, don't, don't go with him, miss Henry.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Why not? It may take two of us to bring
him back. He might not want to come with me.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Please, will you leave us alone, mister Crane, go back
to your job. Let the police find mister mccabb.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
No, no, wait, he might know where mister miccabb really is.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Of course I know. I just told you he was
down there in the field.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Then you go find him, mister Crane, and wait for me.
I'll be there in a minute, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, But don't leave me out there alone with
him too long.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
For heaven's sake, Miss Henry. Don't you know that man's crazy?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Crazy or not. I've got to know what he's up
to here. Take the key to doctor Tarlton's office and
go down there right away.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Aren't you coming with me?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Not until I find out about mister mccough. Don't worry,
miss Stanning. I'll meet you at the doctor's office in
a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Are you sure you'll be all right? Of course? The
case go ahead, all right, I'll I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Mister mccar oh, mister Crane, where are you?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Why don't you answer me?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Dear?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Who's on my past?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Don't don't.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Father?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Aren't you in the car? Father? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Sorrow? Grace? I'm here?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Where?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Right here? In the doorway?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Did you think i'd left?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You justn't know where you were? Why didn't you wait
for me in the car?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh? I don't know. I just got tired sitting there. Besides,
I thought I had some voices back in the house.
Is anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
No, at least I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Uh, I know better.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
After we get to doctor Talton's office, What.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Are you going down there for her?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I let her open her father, I've got to find
out if it's really missing.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Her, Grace? Will you stop butting into other people's business?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
This is our business, don't you understand? Are you coming
with me? Or shall I go alone?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
No, dear, I'll go with you.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Wait bright to your father just outside the door. Let
me know if anybody comes down the hall, even Miss Henry.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Alright, hurry, I be as quick as I can. Oh.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I should have turned on the light before I close
that door. Now where on earth is that light switch?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh? Oh? Matter what this think? Doesn't work. No, No,
it doesn't Grace, who.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Said that I did?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Don't you recognize my voice? No? Where are you over
here sitting at my desk, doctor Carlton?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yes you're alive.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, my dear, I'm just living on borrowed time for
a while, just long enough to tell the police who
murdered me. It's a trick.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You're not really dead.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
No, you shouldn't have come back here to return that
letter over. That was the trap we set for you
only we never dreamed you'd kill miss Henry before? Who
are you, doctor Carlton? Did the man who was foolish
enough to leave you half his estate because of your mother?
(20:57):
You're a murderous Miss Dennings. Require the locket you. You
can't kill me, Grace, you've done it already. Hold on again,
what do I might to sign the way I killed
Miss Henry?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Here?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Put that letter? Open her down. It's all right, Miss Denning.
We won't frighten you anymore. We've got all the evidence
we need.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Now, a detective.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You guessed it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
The dead man, the one you had propped up in
the chair.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Who is that? Don't you know that was mister mccabb.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, that was a corner stunt for Macob to play.
If I were a corpse, I wouldn't go around frightening
confessions out of murderous young ladies.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'd rather be seen dead.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And speaking of death scene, have you ever heard the
one about the ambitious school who left no stone unturned. Well, friends,
it's time once again to close that creaking door until
(22:17):
next week at the same time when we'll be back
with a little Hankom horror. You'll be sure to listen,
don't you until next week?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Then good night, pleasant dreams.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
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