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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Cooper, which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Quiet Please for Today is called Calling All Souls.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'll tell you what happened last Halloween or all Souls
or all Hallows or whatever you call it. Near part
of the country. I bet you can't guess where I was. Well,
I was a couple of places where I started. I
was sitting in a tight little room in a great
big house. You ever been west, Well, you know when
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you cross the Mississippi River on the Santa Fe from
Illinois to Iowa, about four or five hours out of Chicago,
Fort Madison, Iowa. Ever notice that great big place right
alongside the river bank to your right, the big high
walls and the towers and the big gates. That's right,
the Iowa State Prison. That's where I was last Halloween,
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in a little cell. Oh, very comfortable, all by myself,
waiting and not much more time to wait. Sure, but
that's a I was just sitting there, playing solid hair on.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
The edge of my bed, trying not to think if
I was coming up, and thinking of nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Else about that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I was pretending I paid the house fifty two dollars
for the deck, and the house would pay all five
dollars for every car they got up the top rope.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I was thirty two dollars for the good this particular hand.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I didn't hear anybody come up.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I didn't hear anybody except the guard walking around.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So this voice spoke to.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Me, red eyed on the head of clubs.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Thois, Oh, hello Delby, Yeah, that's right, coming in.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah all, ye.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Alright, so far how are you alright? Sit down? Yeah, no, soap,
turn this down? That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And what'd you say?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, a lot of things? What that's a difference, he said.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
No, it's touts umbert when I didn't do it. Stuff
on me too, Louis. Yes, but they're not gonna hang you.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I beg him to give you a two weeks stay,
at least, be said his conscience wouldn't let him. Conscience, huh,
he said, If you felt I would turn up anything
at all in two weeks, he'd be tempted to give
you the benefit of the doubt. You've had three stays, now, Ah,
could you turn up anything? We was, Yeah, Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I know I'd done everything I could.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But I didn't do it, dumbrit, No, you didn't, but
proving it, I wanna play cards.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I guess I didn't wanna play there.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, I'd done my very best, lewis my very level best.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I know. I know it's pretty tough on me, though,
and it certainly.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Is no hope at all.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I'll hope until no witnesses plenty of motive. You have
fingerprints all over everything.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I remember, only I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Who did you got the idea? Looise?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh, I did it all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Maybe I just opened the door after I knocked a
dozen times. I just opened the door and they were
on the floor. I told you, I know, and I
was so shocked.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know, I couldn't help it. I tried to.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
That's how I got the fingerprints all over.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You told me.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I admit I didn't like Harris.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I didn't go for DA very much either, But I
didn't kill him, Dulbert.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You told me I just went out there to.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Ask him to let me have holor how much he
could have got two thousand dollars he owed me for
the pigs.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I should have made all those statements about you were
gonna get the money or else.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I you know it.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, you shouldn't have gun through his desk looking.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
For the money either. I don't know why the dicking
you did that?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, well, I don't know either, but I was, I
said it was shocked. I just thought this was a
good way to get them money if I could find it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Nobody had know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I figured I knew if I didn't get it, then
I'd never get it. They were lying there on the floor,
Lewis listening.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
It was pretty hard to convince a jury you didn't
do it then lying on the floor, and you going
through the desk and blood spots on your suit and everything.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I ain't knowing. Yeah, I'm crazy to do it, But
I didn't murder him. I know that. I told you
delbrit Hi.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
They sure enough gonna hang me unless unless what they
discovering new evidence? Where they gonna discover that, I'll have
to do it, awful fat Where are they gonna discover it?
You tell me there isn't any more evidence? Whoever really
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didn't cover his tracks too good?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'll say he did. Oh you smoothed it up fooling around,
My gosh, But I was just trying to see if
I could haven't.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Seen if you could find the money, Harris ojoy, I
know it was for honestly, Lewis. Now you wouldn't expect
anybody in his right mind.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
To believe your story. I did.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I know it's true, but I couldn't make the jury
believe it or the governor.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
How do you know it's true?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Why?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
How do you know it's true? Why?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I just know it, Lewis. I've seen murderers.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Before, you know who. Don't think I'm a murderer, of course, not.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Delbert.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Don't you really think there's a chance of I'm covering
some new evidence?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Really?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I think the only people who saw the murder.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The only people know did it, are harrison ed it themselves.
So they're dead. That's right, they're dead. Louis, Look what
I stopped in for.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I you want me to ask father McIntire to come
around and see?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know, thirteen steps up with your hands fastened behind you,
thirteen steps, Stop and turn around, the man says, stand here,
look down the thirteen steps of the reporters.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The doctor with a stethoscope hanging around his neck.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Feel a man tying your feet together, Feel a floor,
give her a little under fourth. See how the man
stays away from the little trap door, reaching out to
make the rope tight around your ankles.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Listen, father McIntyre's voice in your ear.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
A little rustling behind you, and a black hood over
your head, and you can't see anymore, but you can
feel the ropes and brushes against you, like a little
hairy and creepy crawling on your skin, and the weight
of the N nine turns on your shoulder. Flora gives
a little on the foot.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, I can't, I can't. I thought I didn't do it.
I tell you I didn't do it. Well, I could think.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That was what my lawyer said, what Delbert said before
he got up and opened the door and went away.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
The only people who saw, the only people who know
who did it are Harrison at it themselves, and Harrison.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Eda knew I didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Maybe they didn't know who it was they did it,
but they didn't know that I.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Didn't do it. Maybe they didn't and maybe they did.
Maybe they didn't know.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Maybe they could tell me, Maybe they could discover some
new evidence.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Why would put it? Maybe they could tell me where
to go, who to look for? Would I find? I
could tell it all the job, But he could go
tell the governor I'd got to stay. Heard the would
be good enough side he should they let me go.
Maybe they wouldn't hang. But Harris is dead, and that
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is dead.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I saw them dead on the floor of their house
when I went, and they accused me of murdering it.
They fought me guilty. I'm in the death cell waiting.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Harris had a don't let me die, don't let them had.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
A Harris, have mercy on my soul.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And when I heard the bell told him somewhere in
the since I remembered, I remembered what night this was.
This was all souls night. This was the night when
the souls of the weary dead walked the earth again.
I remember when grave yards yawn and tones give up
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their dead, and the sound of the bell flowing away
in the darkness of early evening, calling all souls, calling
all souls.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And he wondered.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
If my soul had to leave my body when I
walked up the thirteen steps and after if my soul
had to leave my body, then why could it not
leave my living body for a while and go seeking
after the others that step from the tuneless night. The
souls of the weary dead, the souls of the unhappy dead,
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the murdered, the kindly souls that knew. Then I sat
down again quietly. The fit of deadly terror was gone
for a moment. I was exhausted and weak. I closed
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my eyes and the sound of the distant bell stayed
out as I.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Thought, I can't it be possible, I thought.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
All these things, they're not mere superstition.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There's some foundation and every belief. I thought. I can't die.
I'm innocent, I thought, And only those two are the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Calling all souls, I repeated again to myself, calling all souls,
and I stood up.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I stood up in that brightly light, its powerful place.
And as I rose, I turned.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A look behind me, and there on the bed, still
in an attitude of despair, sat my body, and in
a flash of darkness, the place paded away, the stone
walls and the iron bars, and a bare, narrow bed.
The man in prison uniform seated motionless on its.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Edge, and I stood alone in the.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Darkness of a place I knew. Tall marble shats gleaming
faintly in the starlight, curving gravel roadways hedge boarded, and
the scent of mollering flowers in the darkness, a dry
rustle of a weather beaten flag at the head of
a low mound. Beside me, Hell, loneliness, all alonenessing with
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a probably like a living thing, leave of false souls,
and suddenly quietly own the cool shadows at little whispers
of innumerable voices, the voices of the wondering souls that
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hastened past me, seeking their dusty desires across the face
of the world.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
They once saw, knew.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And then a voice speaking to me in the dark,
speaking my name in the darkness, calling me, and another
voice lose, And I knew I had rotten, for these
were the voices of the two. They said, I murdered.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Why of course you didn't thor of course you did.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And a little child, a little boy, ran up in
the darkness and took my hand and laughed to hear
my name.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Do you remember a little Tommy, our little boy died
when he was sick, And I remember it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And in the darkness I saw many another I had
all but forgotten, Charlie Cullum that was killed at Romaine,
and they are gone. Thirty years ago Albert Newhouse, my
boy scout come, had that drowned so many years ago,
Grace Williams had died at her husband's hand. Crowds and
Crowds are the ones who had gone before, spending this
their brief holiday on air well after earth, and I
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the only living soul among them, spending my brief moment
with them to seek my life from them. Han Alsos
eve a year ago and I said, help me, and
Edda answered me.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
What is there we can do now?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Louis, you know I didn't kill you, whether of curves,
they're going to hang me for it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You didn't do it. But how can I prove it?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Delbert said, if we could fly new evidence, there's plenty
of evidence.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Lewis to be far away. How why let me see
he found.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
The money, That's why you couldn't find it, Lewis.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But if he found the money, it must be gone
by now.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No, he has some of it left. But what good
does that do?
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Why there's a list of the numbers of the bill somewhere.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Look for it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
They couldn't find it. Have them look in the bedroom, Lewis,
behind the third drawer in my chest of drawers. I
know where it is. It fell down there.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Oh, but that's wonderful, But what good will it do
now unless we know, Unless you tell me.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
There's plenty of evidence, Lewis, if you'll just look for it.
He ripped his coat on the catch of the living
room door. There's threads there that could be identified.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You know who did it?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You know who did it? Yes? Yes, don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Tell me and I'll see. Tell me, I'll see that
he confesses.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Look, I tell you, you're going to hang me for it,
do you hear?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Tell me? Oh? And you still hate me and you
haven't learned mercy since since.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
You You're going to let me die because you hate
me while.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You want to lie. You're going to carry it beyond
the grave. You're going to keep it to yourself and
let me hang. You hated us, Yes, I hate it
you and I hate you. Now ghost, I'll go So
I all right, No nowhere Sam pitty on me. It's
all over now that there's no use hating me.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Don't you hate the man that cutes you? Don't you? No, Louis, No,
we don't.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But you hate me.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You're going to let me die. You know I'm innocent.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
You're gonna let me die just because we didn't like
each other on hurt.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
And Lewis, listen to us. There's no such thing as
hate anymore with us.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Then why don't you give me a chance to live?
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Go back, Lewis, Go back to your body.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Go back, go back to die. Dying isn't so bad, Lewis.
You don't see any unhappiness among all these souls, do you.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I don't want to die.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
You'd rather save your life for a while at the
expense of somebody else's load.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I like Jody, it is, Go back, Lewis.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Back, I won't go back to you, probably will kill you.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Listen to me, Lewis. You're tampering with things that things
that you have no right to know. Your soul has
left your body before it's time. You have come upon secrets,
but no living man should know. Your body is waiting
for you. Go back to it while there's time, While
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there's time. It is only this one night that souls
may walk here. And when morning comes, well, when morning.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Comes, if you are still here, Louis, I can make
you no promises.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Go back, Lewis, tell me the man's name.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
No, Louis, No, it's none of your affair, none of
my affair.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Don't you understand what I said. You go to help
me none of my affairs. There was no need for.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
You to send your soul out sating us.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Louis, I don't get that.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
We have been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
This night, Lewis. Well tell him here. He will have
to come with us now. Yes, that is the law.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
You should not have come here, Louis. There is still time,
but only a little time.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you go back now, I won't go back. I
won't go back and say you tell me you have
no right here. You know lord what I'm here, and
now it is too late. You will have to come
with us. Where you're going.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Telliam Harris, we are going to visit the man who
murdered us.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What I told you, There was no need for you
to come here, Louis. We have a way of taking
care of this man. Hi don't know what you mean.
Haven't you ever heard of haunting? Louis. Come with us now, Lewis, No,
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you must come. You're really going to haunt him and
make you confess. We are going to appear to him, Louis.
What he will do we cannot say. But when he
sees her and I'm going back to the prison.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
No I'll go back and I'll call a wad and
I'll get Dubbert, tell him that there'll be a confession.
Dublin will get me a state of execution, that many confessions.
I'll be Who is it, Harris, Come with us and
you will see.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
No, I'm going back to the prison.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I told you, get things all set up. No, you
changed your mind too late, Lewis.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Too late.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Why I know, Lewis, you have nevered too much, You
have gone too far. The souls of the living have
no place here, but you have come. We told you
to go back while there was time. Lewis, Yes, but
now you must come with us. No, No, I want
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to go back. Come, Louis.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
High up over the face of the sleeping starlet world
with a.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Time, the lights of the living far belows, the broad,
peaceful fine lands, the sleeping cities, the broad breast of
the grid river fabuloos, the universe.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Throbbing with strange, compelling song.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And above us, around us, the sense of a million souls,
a million and merely of the countless multitude, returning joyously
to their single night upon.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
The earth they loved.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I looked up in the clearness of the haunted knight,
and above me the endless pathway of the milky way
glowed with a strange slender.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And plucked my sleeve. The halfway the Solois the way
we all returned, and I saw the features of the
ones I had loved, of strangers, of.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Men, women and little children, the boys in ragged uniforms,
of bearded ancients, and smiling babes in their mother's arms,
and their faces in a sparkling night, and expression of
off leagerness, a wrong waited realization that this night they
would once again rest upon them mortalaryes. And I, even
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I have the only living soul amongst all, another dude
of the bed. Even I've had an overpowering desire to
set my feet again this moment upon the reality of verts.
And I closed my eyes for.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
A moment, and I opened him.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We three were in a room, and on a bed
there was a sleeping man.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Where are we?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Is this the man? This is the man? This is
the man? Who is he? Go and look? I no,
go and look. I don't want to go and look, Louis,
she must go and look.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
He lay there, sleeping as innocently as any child.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The covers were drawn.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Up about his face, as if he were shutting out
some childish fancy, a bogeyman in the dark. But I
knew him for a wicked, guilty man, the man who
held my own life in jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Look at him, Louis, look at him loose, and I
lifted up.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The comforter that hid his face and bent bound to
look at him. Delbert Delbert, my friend, the man would
defended me in the courtroom and lost. The man who
had gone to the governor or paddygone to plead for
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my life.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Delbert, the man who told me, of course I know
you didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Of course he knew he alone. If mortal man knew
the murderer, for the defender of the accused man was
the murderer himself.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Wake him, Lewis, No wake him.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Delbert, Delbert, Delbert, wake up, Louis.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Waiting here.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He came with us, Delbert Parrish Harrison et.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Your ghosts.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
We are human souls. Delbert, come to hear your testimony.
I'll tell you anything.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You heard them, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You murdered us, Delbert. No, I didn't do it. You
didn't do it. You Lewis. You can't be here confess.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Lewis must hear you, Delbert, Oh, I did George I
killed Lewis?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I I do want to proble blame on you? Are
you want to get your convict? And I can say myself,
I hated a tors Oh, forgive me, forgive you, Delberts.
Ask Harris and Eda to forgive you. Harris.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Ada, we have already forgiven you, Delbert. But you have
done a great wrong to Lewis.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You will be punished.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I'm going back to my body now in the prison.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Thank you, give me, Thank you, Harris. I'm going back. Oh,
Harris Lewis, what is the quiet murderer? But Harris, you
can't go back, Lewis. I can't go back? Why what if? What?
You must stay?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Stay?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Say? Why must I stay? My body's back down the
prison waiting for me. I've got to go back and live.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
No, why tell me why everything's all?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Once a mop? You tell him? Delgia Lewis, Well, Louis,
they hang you half an hour ago. The title of
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today is Quiet Please. Story is Calling All Souls was
written and directed by Willis Cooper and The Man who
Spoke to You. Ernest Chaffel and.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Kermit Murdoch played Albert Harris and Edda were, respectively, Ralph
Schulman and Mary Patton. Miss Cooper and I are very
grateful for the superb efforts of Albert Berman, who was
always responsible for our quiet fassic.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Now Alpher world about next week. Here is our right
director Willis Cooper. Thank you for listening to client.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Please again next week I have a story for your
fall Adam and the Darkest Day.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
And so until next week.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
At the same time, I am prively yours, Ernest Chapel,
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and now a listening reminder, David Harding. Conterspy is a
name that means action, excitement, drama. Each time his efficient
law enforcement organization exposive another racket. Here Conterspy this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Over these ABC stations. This is ABC, the American broadcasting
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Company WJZ, New York's first station, WJZ AM an athel
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Cooper, which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Quiet Please for Today is called Calling All Souls.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'll tell you what happened last Halloween or all Souls
or all Hallows or whatever you call it. Near part
of the country. I bet you can't guess where I was. Well,
I was a couple of places where I started. I
was sitting in a tight little room in a great
big house. You ever been west, Well, you know when
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you cross the Mississippi River on the Santa Fe from
Illinois to Iowa, about four or five hours out of Chicago,
Fort Madison, Iowa. Ever notice that great big place right
alongside the river bank to your right, the big high
walls and the towers and the big gates. That's right,
the Iowa State Prison. That's where I was last Halloween,
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in a little cell. Oh, very comfortable, all by myself,
waiting and not much more time to wait. Sure, but
that's a I was just sitting there, playing solid hair on.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
The edge of my bed, trying not to think if
I was coming up, and thinking of nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Else about that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I was pretending I paid the house fifty two dollars
for the deck, and the house would pay all five
dollars for every car they got up the top rope.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I was thirty two dollars for the good this particular hand.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I didn't hear anybody come up.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I didn't hear anybody except the guard walking around.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So this voice spoke to.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Me, red eyed on the head of clubs.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Thois, Oh, hello Delby, Yeah, that's right, coming in.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah all, ye.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Alright, so far how are you alright? Sit down? Yeah, no, soap,
turn this down? That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And what'd you say?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, a lot of things? What that's a difference, he said.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
No, it's touts umbert when I didn't do it. Stuff
on me too, Louis. Yes, but they're not gonna hang you.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I beg him to give you a two weeks stay,
at least, be said his conscience wouldn't let him. Conscience, huh,
he said, If you felt I would turn up anything
at all in two weeks, he'd be tempted to give
you the benefit of the doubt. You've had three stays, now, Ah,
could you turn up anything? We was, Yeah, Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I know I'd done everything I could.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But I didn't do it, dumbrit, No, you didn't, but
proving it, I wanna play cards.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I guess I didn't wanna play there.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, I'd done my very best, lewis my very level best.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I know. I know it's pretty tough on me, though,
and it certainly.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Is no hope at all.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I'll hope until no witnesses plenty of motive. You have
fingerprints all over everything.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I remember, only I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Who did you got the idea? Looise?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh, I did it all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Maybe I just opened the door after I knocked a
dozen times. I just opened the door and they were
on the floor. I told you, I know, and I
was so shocked.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know, I couldn't help it. I tried to.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
That's how I got the fingerprints all over.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You told me.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I admit I didn't like Harris.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I didn't go for DA very much either, But I
didn't kill him, Dulbert.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You told me I just went out there to.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Ask him to let me have holor how much he
could have got two thousand dollars he owed me for
the pigs.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I should have made all those statements about you were
gonna get the money or else.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I you know it.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, you shouldn't have gun through his desk looking.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
For the money either. I don't know why the dicking
you did that?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, well, I don't know either, but I was, I
said it was shocked. I just thought this was a
good way to get them money if I could find it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Nobody had know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I figured I knew if I didn't get it, then
I'd never get it. They were lying there on the floor,
Lewis listening.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
It was pretty hard to convince a jury you didn't
do it then lying on the floor, and you going
through the desk and blood spots on your suit and everything.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I ain't knowing. Yeah, I'm crazy to do it, But
I didn't murder him. I know that. I told you
delbrit Hi.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
They sure enough gonna hang me unless unless what they
discovering new evidence? Where they gonna discover that, I'll have
to do it, awful fat Where are they gonna discover it?
You tell me there isn't any more evidence? Whoever really
(06:04):
didn't cover his tracks too good?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'll say he did. Oh you smoothed it up fooling around,
My gosh, But I was just trying to see if
I could haven't.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Seen if you could find the money, Harris ojoy, I
know it was for honestly, Lewis. Now you wouldn't expect
anybody in his right mind.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
To believe your story. I did.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I know it's true, but I couldn't make the jury
believe it or the governor.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
How do you know it's true?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Why?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
How do you know it's true? Why?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I just know it, Lewis. I've seen murderers.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Before, you know who. Don't think I'm a murderer, of course, not.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Delbert.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Don't you really think there's a chance of I'm covering
some new evidence?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Really?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I think the only people who saw the murder.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The only people know did it, are harrison ed it themselves.
So they're dead. That's right, they're dead. Louis, Look what
I stopped in for.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I you want me to ask father McIntire to come
around and see?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know, thirteen steps up with your hands fastened behind you,
thirteen steps, Stop and turn around, the man says, stand here,
look down the thirteen steps of the reporters.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The doctor with a stethoscope hanging around his neck.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Feel a man tying your feet together, Feel a floor,
give her a little under fourth. See how the man
stays away from the little trap door, reaching out to
make the rope tight around your ankles.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Listen, father McIntyre's voice in your ear.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
A little rustling behind you, and a black hood over
your head, and you can't see anymore, but you can
feel the ropes and brushes against you, like a little
hairy and creepy crawling on your skin, and the weight
of the N nine turns on your shoulder. Flora gives
a little on the foot.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, I can't, I can't. I thought I didn't do it.
I tell you I didn't do it. Well, I could think.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That was what my lawyer said, what Delbert said before
he got up and opened the door and went away.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
The only people who saw, the only people who know
who did it are Harrison at it themselves, and Harrison.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Eda knew I didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Maybe they didn't know who it was they did it,
but they didn't know that I.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Didn't do it. Maybe they didn't and maybe they did.
Maybe they didn't know.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Maybe they could tell me, Maybe they could discover some
new evidence.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Why would put it? Maybe they could tell me where
to go, who to look for? Would I find? I
could tell it all the job, But he could go
tell the governor I'd got to stay. Heard the would
be good enough side he should they let me go.
Maybe they wouldn't hang. But Harris is dead, and that
(09:22):
is dead.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I saw them dead on the floor of their house
when I went, and they accused me of murdering it.
They fought me guilty. I'm in the death cell waiting.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Harris had a don't let me die, don't let them had.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
A Harris, have mercy on my soul.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And when I heard the bell told him somewhere in
the since I remembered, I remembered what night this was.
This was all souls night. This was the night when
the souls of the weary dead walked the earth again.
I remember when grave yards yawn and tones give up
(10:17):
their dead, and the sound of the bell flowing away
in the darkness of early evening, calling all souls, calling
all souls.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And he wondered.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
If my soul had to leave my body when I
walked up the thirteen steps and after if my soul
had to leave my body, then why could it not
leave my living body for a while and go seeking
after the others that step from the tuneless night. The
souls of the weary dead, the souls of the unhappy dead,
(11:05):
the murdered, the kindly souls that knew. Then I sat
down again quietly. The fit of deadly terror was gone
for a moment. I was exhausted and weak. I closed
(11:26):
my eyes and the sound of the distant bell stayed
out as I.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Thought, I can't it be possible, I thought.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
All these things, they're not mere superstition.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There's some foundation and every belief. I thought. I can't die.
I'm innocent, I thought, And only those two are the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Calling all souls, I repeated again to myself, calling all souls,
and I stood up.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I stood up in that brightly light, its powerful place.
And as I rose, I turned.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A look behind me, and there on the bed, still
in an attitude of despair, sat my body, and in
a flash of darkness, the place paded away, the stone
walls and the iron bars, and a bare, narrow bed.
The man in prison uniform seated motionless on its.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Edge, and I stood alone in the.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Darkness of a place I knew. Tall marble shats gleaming
faintly in the starlight, curving gravel roadways hedge boarded, and
the scent of mollering flowers in the darkness, a dry
rustle of a weather beaten flag at the head of
a low mound. Beside me, Hell, loneliness, all alonenessing with
(13:00):
a probably like a living thing, leave of false souls,
and suddenly quietly own the cool shadows at little whispers
of innumerable voices, the voices of the wondering souls that
(13:21):
hastened past me, seeking their dusty desires across the face
of the world.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
They once saw, knew.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And then a voice speaking to me in the dark,
speaking my name in the darkness, calling me, and another
voice lose, And I knew I had rotten, for these
were the voices of the two. They said, I murdered.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Why of course you didn't thor of course you did.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And a little child, a little boy, ran up in
the darkness and took my hand and laughed to hear
my name.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Do you remember a little Tommy, our little boy died
when he was sick, And I remember it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And in the darkness I saw many another I had
all but forgotten, Charlie Cullum that was killed at Romaine,
and they are gone. Thirty years ago Albert Newhouse, my
boy scout come, had that drowned so many years ago,
Grace Williams had died at her husband's hand. Crowds and
Crowds are the ones who had gone before, spending this
their brief holiday on air well after earth, and I
(14:26):
the only living soul among them, spending my brief moment
with them to seek my life from them. Han Alsos
eve a year ago and I said, help me, and
Edda answered me.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
What is there we can do now?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Louis, you know I didn't kill you, whether of curves,
they're going to hang me for it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You didn't do it. But how can I prove it?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Delbert said, if we could fly new evidence, there's plenty
of evidence.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Lewis to be far away. How why let me see
he found.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
The money, That's why you couldn't find it, Lewis.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But if he found the money, it must be gone
by now.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No, he has some of it left. But what good
does that do?
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Why there's a list of the numbers of the bill somewhere.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Look for it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
They couldn't find it. Have them look in the bedroom, Lewis,
behind the third drawer in my chest of drawers. I
know where it is. It fell down there.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Oh, but that's wonderful, But what good will it do
now unless we know, Unless you tell me.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
There's plenty of evidence, Lewis, if you'll just look for it.
He ripped his coat on the catch of the living
room door. There's threads there that could be identified.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You know who did it?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You know who did it? Yes? Yes, don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Tell me and I'll see. Tell me, I'll see that
he confesses.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Look, I tell you, you're going to hang me for it,
do you hear?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Tell me? Oh? And you still hate me and you
haven't learned mercy since since.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
You You're going to let me die because you hate
me while.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You want to lie. You're going to carry it beyond
the grave. You're going to keep it to yourself and
let me hang. You hated us, Yes, I hate it
you and I hate you. Now ghost, I'll go So
I all right, No nowhere Sam pitty on me. It's
all over now that there's no use hating me.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Don't you hate the man that cutes you? Don't you? No, Louis, No,
we don't.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But you hate me.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You're going to let me die. You know I'm innocent.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
You're gonna let me die just because we didn't like
each other on hurt.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
And Lewis, listen to us. There's no such thing as
hate anymore with us.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Then why don't you give me a chance to live?
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Go back, Lewis, Go back to your body.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Go back, go back to die. Dying isn't so bad, Lewis.
You don't see any unhappiness among all these souls, do you.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I don't want to die.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
You'd rather save your life for a while at the
expense of somebody else's load.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I like Jody, it is, Go back, Lewis.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Back, I won't go back to you, probably will kill you.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Listen to me, Lewis. You're tampering with things that things
that you have no right to know. Your soul has
left your body before it's time. You have come upon secrets,
but no living man should know. Your body is waiting
for you. Go back to it while there's time, While
(18:04):
there's time. It is only this one night that souls
may walk here. And when morning comes, well, when morning.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Comes, if you are still here, Louis, I can make
you no promises.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Go back, Lewis, tell me the man's name.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
No, Louis, No, it's none of your affair, none of
my affair.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Don't you understand what I said. You go to help
me none of my affairs. There was no need for.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
You to send your soul out sating us.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Louis, I don't get that.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
We have been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
This night, Lewis. Well tell him here. He will have
to come with us now. Yes, that is the law.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
You should not have come here, Louis. There is still time,
but only a little time.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you go back now, I won't go back. I
won't go back and say you tell me you have
no right here. You know lord what I'm here, and
now it is too late. You will have to come
with us. Where you're going.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Telliam Harris, we are going to visit the man who
murdered us.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What I told you, There was no need for you
to come here, Louis. We have a way of taking
care of this man. Hi don't know what you mean.
Haven't you ever heard of haunting? Louis. Come with us now, Lewis, No,
(19:47):
you must come. You're really going to haunt him and
make you confess. We are going to appear to him, Louis.
What he will do we cannot say. But when he
sees her and I'm going back to the prison.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
No I'll go back and I'll call a wad and
I'll get Dubbert, tell him that there'll be a confession.
Dublin will get me a state of execution, that many confessions.
I'll be Who is it, Harris, Come with us and
you will see.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
No, I'm going back to the prison.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I told you, get things all set up. No, you
changed your mind too late, Lewis.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Too late.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Why I know, Lewis, you have nevered too much, You
have gone too far. The souls of the living have
no place here, but you have come. We told you
to go back while there was time. Lewis, Yes, but
now you must come with us. No, No, I want
(20:40):
to go back. Come, Louis.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
High up over the face of the sleeping starlet world
with a.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Time, the lights of the living far belows, the broad,
peaceful fine lands, the sleeping cities, the broad breast of
the grid river fabuloos, the universe.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Throbbing with strange, compelling song.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And above us, around us, the sense of a million souls,
a million and merely of the countless multitude, returning joyously
to their single night upon.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
The earth they loved.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I looked up in the clearness of the haunted knight,
and above me the endless pathway of the milky way
glowed with a strange slender.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And plucked my sleeve. The halfway the Solois the way
we all returned, and I saw the features of the
ones I had loved, of strangers, of.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Men, women and little children, the boys in ragged uniforms,
of bearded ancients, and smiling babes in their mother's arms,
and their faces in a sparkling night, and expression of
off leagerness, a wrong waited realization that this night they
would once again rest upon them mortalaryes. And I, even
(22:09):
I have the only living soul amongst all, another dude
of the bed. Even I've had an overpowering desire to
set my feet again this moment upon the reality of verts.
And I closed my eyes for.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
A moment, and I opened him.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We three were in a room, and on a bed
there was a sleeping man.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Where are we?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Is this the man? This is the man? This is
the man? Who is he? Go and look? I no,
go and look. I don't want to go and look, Louis,
she must go and look.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
He lay there, sleeping as innocently as any child.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The covers were drawn.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Up about his face, as if he were shutting out
some childish fancy, a bogeyman in the dark. But I
knew him for a wicked, guilty man, the man who
held my own life in jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Look at him, Louis, look at him loose, and I
lifted up.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The comforter that hid his face and bent bound to
look at him. Delbert Delbert, my friend, the man would
defended me in the courtroom and lost. The man who
had gone to the governor or paddygone to plead for
(23:45):
my life.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Delbert, the man who told me, of course I know
you didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Of course he knew he alone. If mortal man knew
the murderer, for the defender of the accused man was
the murderer himself.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Wake him, Lewis, No wake him.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Delbert, Delbert, Delbert, wake up, Louis.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Waiting here.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He came with us, Delbert Parrish Harrison et.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Your ghosts.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
We are human souls. Delbert, come to hear your testimony.
I'll tell you anything.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You heard them, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You murdered us, Delbert. No, I didn't do it. You
didn't do it. You Lewis. You can't be here confess.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Lewis must hear you, Delbert, Oh, I did George I
killed Lewis?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I I do want to proble blame on you? Are
you want to get your convict? And I can say myself,
I hated a tors Oh, forgive me, forgive you, Delberts.
Ask Harris and Eda to forgive you. Harris.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Ada, we have already forgiven you, Delbert. But you have
done a great wrong to Lewis.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You will be punished.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I'm going back to my body now in the prison.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Thank you, give me, Thank you, Harris. I'm going back. Oh,
Harris Lewis, what is the quiet murderer? But Harris, you
can't go back, Lewis. I can't go back? Why what if? What?
You must stay?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Stay?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Say? Why must I stay? My body's back down the
prison waiting for me. I've got to go back and live.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
No, why tell me why everything's all?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Once a mop? You tell him? Delgia Lewis, Well, Louis,
they hang you half an hour ago. The title of
(26:55):
today is Quiet Please. Story is Calling All Souls was
written and directed by Willis Cooper and The Man who
Spoke to You. Ernest Chaffel and.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Kermit Murdoch played Albert Harris and Edda were, respectively, Ralph
Schulman and Mary Patton. Miss Cooper and I are very
grateful for the superb efforts of Albert Berman, who was
always responsible for our quiet fassic.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Now Alpher world about next week. Here is our right
director Willis Cooper. Thank you for listening to client.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Please again next week I have a story for your
fall Adam and the Darkest Day.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
And so until next week.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
At the same time, I am prively yours, Ernest Chapel,
(28:08):
and now a listening reminder, David Harding. Conterspy is a
name that means action, excitement, drama. Each time his efficient
law enforcement organization exposive another racket. Here Conterspy this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Over these ABC stations. This is ABC, the American broadcasting
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Company WJZ, New York's first station, WJZ AM an athel
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