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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M Adam Hats presented the strange doctor weird.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good evening, Come in, won't you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Why?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What's the matter? Surely you're not nervous. Perhaps it will
calm you if I tell you a story. It's a
rather odd story about a rather odd individual. You see,
he was a Morgue keeper. I call his story the
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Man who talked with Death. Oh my story, The Man
who talked with Death begins in the city Morgue on
a raw autumn evening. Two men who just entered the
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badly lighted basement of the gloomy stone building.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What is coal in hill? Outside? H where's Pop Hans?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I wanna get my pictures. Get out of here, Andybys
gives me the creep or Pop's are on some place?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
He probably may he not him talk to somebody.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Down here by the ice boxers, but to keep his steps.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, black wing stranger.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But let's you get over bad. Why there's nobody there.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Pop's talking to himself unless he's talking to what coast?
Come on? Yeh, there someplace else you go on to.
But if not a place you'll have to be frightened
up to leave me. Now it's time for you to
go goodbye. Jeans a good guy.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Hey Pop, Oh hello boys, isn't hear you come in? Hm?
Say Pop?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Who are you to talk to?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh? That was Jean with him. She came in last night.
What do you mean she came in last night? I
mean her body was brought in here.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'll shoot them.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
There.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
She is told, young and so pretty, no wonder she
was frightened when.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
She found she was dead. You they were talking to her?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh, yes, Harry. You see, when you die, part of
you goes on to someplace else, but it always stays
near its body for a while till it gets used
to things. It was that Gene with him, as I
was just talking to.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Of course, Pop, you've been working down here among these
steps too long?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
You mean, I just imagine I talked to them and
they talked to me. No, Tom, it's really true. Someday
you know I'm telling the true. H Maybe must camera chatter?
You want to get the picture of John waynwright Way right?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, they brought him in last night.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Everybody who dies a violent death comes here for old
Pop to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, here he is. Okay, Harry, gets yourself a couple
of pictures and we'll be gone. I won't take him
out her. I sure would like to know who killed Wayne, right,
the killer didn't live a clue.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Christ, that's young Professor Higgins, who shoot Wainwright? Tom Higgins
pride and enjoy the City University.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Wainwright told me so himself. Wainwright soldier, what are you
giving me? It's true?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You see, he was a blackmailer and he was blackmailing
higgins wife. Professor Higgins had to kill him to save her.
Wainwright told me so just before he left a little
while ago.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But wayIn Wright's dead. There's this body right there in
the ice spot.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I know I explained about that. Oh you're crazy, but
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Wainwright even told me that the gun Professor Higgins used
is hidden now in the left hand bottom draw of
the Professor's death in his home out of the university.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Okay, Tom, now just a second, pop. I don't know
where you got your tip, but I'm gonna look.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Into this, no, you merchant, you see, Tom? The things
that the dead tell me they can't be used in
any way by the living. It's too dangerous to the living.
They just can't be used. Well, let's can if it's
true if Higgins killed Wayne Right and I can prove it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oi, what a story it'll make.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No Tom, you mustn't try to prove it. It'll do
you no good.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Try and stop me.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Come on, Harry, and thanks very much, Dean.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Tell you all, gentlemen, you've just talked to the Dean
himself on the phone, and he's told you I was
playing cards at his home at eleven o'clock last night.
So that satisfy you, Yes, Professor Higgins, Wayne Right Waynwright
was shot at eleven So the alibi lets you out.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Who in the world.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Ever suggested that it was I who shot mister Waybright.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Nobody in the world, Professor. It was a ghost, Wainwright's ghost.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I'm afraid I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Ah, it's just a gag, Professor. Thanks, come on, Harry,
let's get back to town.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I told you the whole thing was a wild goose chase.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You don't you really believe that crazy stuff Pop told
us about talking to Wainwright, goes No, of course not.
But I thought maybe Pop knew something was trying to
give us a tip without a minting it.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Say hey, wait a.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Bit, huh, Higgins is a smart guy.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Maybe that alibi was fake.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh no, to Hop said the murder gun was hidden
in Higgins's desk. I think we ought to go back
and search that desk.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But that's crazy. Hey, hey Tom, what are you doing?
That's putting on the brakes. I'm gonna turn around and
go back. You have, but the roads all wet here.
Hey Tom, we're skotting. I'll get us out of it.
There's a hundred ft dropper of the gully there, he out,
Hey Tom, we're going over jump dump.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
While my pimples go away and we all wait to
learn what happens next. I'd like to ask doctor Weird
a question.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, d young Man, hey more he is, well.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Point them the other way, please and answer me this.
One of our listeners wants to know why you're on
the air only fifteen minutes instead of.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
A half hour. If we can scare people have to
death in fifteen minutes, I take price as long.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Very logical, Doctor the atom half people use similar logic
in their business. Take the famous Adam five just for instance.
Their feeling is, if we can deliver real hat quality
for five dollars, why charge twice as much and go
on with Adam hats in every price range. Every Adam
hat might well sell for more. Master craftsmen design every
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Adam style up to the minute, in fashion correct in
the fest of good takes. Stroll into the nearest Adam
hat store and look around a bit, try on a
few that strike you a fancy. You find perfect fit,
perfect style, and perfect price. And Adam does something for
a man. No doctor weird.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now I'll continue my story of the man who talked
was death. It's a few moments after the crash and
Tom and Harry and picking themselves off the ground on
the very edge of the deep gully, and we sat
car is just plating Harry.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Harry wriot over here, just making sure I'm going one's peace,
are you?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I guess it's a miracle we weren't both killed. Look
at the car down there, he folded up like an accordion.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I got the car door open. I'm sorry, were going
over and he must have both been thrown clear of it.
Now what are we gonna do.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
We're going back to the university and we're going to
get into Higgins's office and see if the murder gun
is really there in his debt.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hu Papa just talking nonsense when he said we find
it there, Tom, maybe and maybe not.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I don't believe in his little conversations with ghosts, but
I do believe he knows something, and if he does,
I'm gonna crack this case.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
A short time later, Tom and Harry reached Professor Higgins's
residence again and gained entrance to his office unseen through
an open window.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Okay, here's a desk which Jordan, Pop say in the
bottom up handling, this is the one, and it's open,
and there is a gun here. Look here forty five
automat and Pop was right who Betty was.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
And he was also right when he said Professor Higgins
shot wayinlight.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Higgins fake to alibi. I'll get the gun out.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't touch the cops will have to find a
gun here in this desk to be convinced.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It really belongs to Higgins. Yeah, of course, then let's
call him and get him out here.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
No, no, not yet, We're going back to the morgue
and ask Pop a few questions. Back to the morgue, Tom, listens,
you suppose Wainwright really could have told Pop.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
All after he was dead.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Of course, not that's stuff for talking to the steps.
There's a lot of Malochey, Pop knows something and he's
tied in it. We're gonna find out what he knows
and how, and then we're gonna break the big story
this town has ever seen.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Slipping away in the darkness, Tom and Harry tried vainly
the Thumma ride back.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
To the city.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
In the end, they have to walk the whole distance,
and it was well after midnight when they once more
stood outside the cold, gray morgue, bidding, Oh, what.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
A night, well walk so far in my life? Then
why do you suppose those.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Drivers wouldn't stop and give us a lift?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I don't know. I guess we're afraid of a stick up.
We'll let get inside and give Pop the old third degree.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, I wish we didn't have to, and I hate
to go in there again.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Tom's place upset me. Oh, come on, we're the lucky ones.
We can walk out again. Hey, somebody's left the door open.
Come on, name Tom, Tom. I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I don't want to go in there where they keep
the bodies hype.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I just don't want to.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Oh, you're acting like a kid. Now, come on, and
Pop over there by the ice boxes. O, Pop.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Little boys, I've been kind of expect to see you too, Pop.
We want to ask you some questions.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You went out to talk to Professor higginsinjo and I
asked her not to. I told you it wouldn't do
you any good, not any good at all. Oh but
a diad.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We found the gun just where you said it a
baby boy?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
What a sorry?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This town's gonna read tomorrow morning. Oh, they'll never read it.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
The Wainwright shooting is never going to be cleared up.
It's always going to be a mystery.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It has to be that way, like fun it does. Pop.
How do you know about Higgins and that gun?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Don't you realize yet? I was telling you the truth
that Wainwright himself told me after they brought his body here?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
H I think Pop telling the truth. Well, you may
be crazy, but I'm not. Now, Pop, come clean.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I should never have told you Tom. That caused all
your trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I'm sorry, Tom, I'm awful sorry, but I want you
not to go.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Remember if you hadn't, it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Would never have happened. What are you talking about? What
would never have happened? I think I know Pop means,
I think I know.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Curious do Harry? Some will understand in a minute too.
Look Tom, look here the two.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Bodies badly smashed up. Well, so what Tom, don't you know?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's true? Pop really can talk to the dead.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
He really can.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
That's why you can talk to us. Harry, get a
hold of yourself. What's the matter with Toma? Go two bodies,
there are ours. We're both dead.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
We were killed when our car crashed into that ravine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Sir Pop could talk to the dead after all. Hintly,
Tom and Harry found the proof very convincing. But if
you find it hard to believe, why not dropping at
the morgue and see yourselves. Of course, you'd have to
go there as a dead body, but we could easily
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arrange that. And oh you're leaving now, well, Fred, you'll
drop in again soon. I'm always home. Just look for
the house on the other side of the cemetery, the
house of doctor Weirm