May 6, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Danger.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Doctor dan Bery.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Our story opens in the small town of Benton, located
north of New York City on the Hudson River. Two
French Canadian labors are digging a ditch on the ground
a prosperous looking farm. A mon dieu, mon dieu. Pierre, Hey, Pierre,
we what is it? Wanna me? Come here? There's something
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I do not understand. Hey, what is the matterageacque? You
play some gold? Maybe? Uh? Oh, mother of Mary, I
think perhaps we have found south in cream. Not supposed
to help you?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Cross yourself, John, he's the buddy of a man. Suck
what he's left of a man. Come, we should not
disturb the grave of the.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Dead graef, you say, do not be a.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Fool, pr cause one barely one's dead. In the field
behind the house will be a cast at north cross
to mark the spot.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Huh that I do not think. No, in what is
it you think more of me? I think that we
will find this is the body of Monsieur Howard Holbrook.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Who has been reported missing these past words. Come let
us go to the police.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It sounds interesting, mister Ferry, go on, please will Well.
There isn't a great deal more to tell, Doc you see.
As representative of the Great Eastern Insurance Company, it's my
job to check every detail before I recommend to the
home office that they pay Missus Holbrook the hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
A hundred thousand dollars, there's a lot of money. I
don't blame you, Stilla. I don't see that you have
any real reasons to suspect that Howard Holbrook was murdered.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, I'm relying Leona Hunch, Miss Fairfax, and the so
far unexplained reason why Holbrook's body was found in the
trench behind his farmer home. You're positive that there was
that of Hobrook. Yes, yes, the corpse had of course
disintegrated beyond recognition, but Missus Holbrook identified him by the
fact that the third toe of his left foot was missing. Also,
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there was watch inscribed with Holbrook's name.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Were you able to determine the cause of death.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, there were no marks of violence at all. But
still you think he was murdered, possibly by his wife
in order to collect the insurance. Well, we have definitely
established that Holbrook's wife was spending most of the month
of June with her sister in Fairfield.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
That Fairfield is only fifty miles from Benton. Couldn't she
have driven back without her sister's knowing about it?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, from June sixth, the June thirteenth, missus Holbrook was
sick in bed with a cold. Her sister and some
friends have already testified to that fact. Well establishes her
alby rather completely, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Wait a minute, June's sixth, That was a year ago.
I thought, how Hobrook was serving a jail sentence at
that time.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
No, you see, miss Fairfax. He was given his freedom
on June fifth. As you'll remember, Wholebrook was sentenced on
a charge of embezzlement from the bank of which he
was president. Oh yes, since it was quite a scandal.
He's been appropriating the bank's funds over a period of years.
That's right. He had amassed a small fortune, but all
of it was spent fighting the charges against him. So
when he was released from jail, he was broke. Yes,
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on June fifth, he was set free. On June fourteenth,
he appeared at the home of a cousin in Chicago,
and he told the cousin he lacked the courage to
face his family or society. Uh huh. The next day
he disappeared and hadn't been heard from since.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It looks to me, mister Fuller, as though you'd have
to pay missus Herbert.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
One hundred thousand dollars if possibly you're right, Miss Fairfax.
Oh well, before I make my offer, there's one other
thing you must know. Oh it's a well. Between June
sixth and June thirteenth, neighbors reported seeing a light in
the Wholebrook home, and some of the reports stated that
a mysteric figure was seen moving about the grounds. And
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what's your answer the story is, mister Fuller or just
this doctor. When Holbrook was in jail, he made an
enemy of a man named Guy Emerson. They quarreled frequently
over small matters, even resorting to fisticups on one or
two occasions. Emerson was released two days after Hobrook. And
it's your opinion that this guy Emerson came directly to
the Holbrook home, found Howard Holbrook waiting there for his
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wife to return from her sisters, and murdered him. No, no,
it couldn't have happened that way. Number. Doctor Holbrook was
seen in Chicago on June fourteenth. Oh as a matter
of fact, doctor Danfield, I don't believe returned to his
home at all. Then what do you believe, mister Fuller.
I believe that Holbrook was murdered by his wife. I
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don't know how, or when or where, and I've absolutely
nothing to go on but a hunch. But my company, Danfield,
is willing to gamble ten thousand dollars to have me
proven right in a moment. Who returned for the second
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act the danger, doctor Danfield? But first, now for the
second act of danger, doctor Danfield. Dan? Oh, yes, Rusting, What.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Time did the plane get into Chicago?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In about an hour?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I think, And you.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Really believe that these cousins of Howard Hobert can help us.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Any I don't know, Arresting. I am not yet convinced
that it was actually a Holbrook who called on them
a year ago, last yearne fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
What if it wasn't, then do you know what I think?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hmm? What's that, Rustling?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I think that you feel that this case is as
hopeless as I do. They're just pretending there's a chance
of proving that Elsie Holbrook murdered her husband because well
because because.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Of ten thousand dollars, Rustling.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Oh, I I don't mean to imply that you take
money under false pretenses only, Rusty.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You're wonderful. Don't worry. If I have failed brother Missus
Holbrook murdered her husband, I'll I'll not take mister Fuller's
ten thousand dollars. I'm sorry you came way out here
to Chicago, doctor Danfield. There's not the least doubt that
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the man who talled on me a year ago, last
June fourteenth was my cousin, Howard Holbrook. Thank you very much.
You've f the lust.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, doctor Danfield. Now are you convinced that it was
Howard Holbrook who call on his cousin Charles in Chicago?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yes, yes, I am rusting Chonles Holbrook struck me as
the type of man who wouldn't fly. I can't see
that it would avail him anything if he did.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
But you're still convinced you can build up a case
against missus Holbrook.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Don't be so pessimistic, Rusty. There's an answer to this
problem somewhere, and we're going to find it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
What problem. I don't see that there's any problem. A
man is found dead, his wife identifies him there's no
indication that he was murdered.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
There's no indication that he wasn't murdered either, Rusty. And
if he wasn't, how did he die? And who buried
him in a ditch behind his own house?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Guy Emerson is prison mate Hope White, as plain as
the nose on your face.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh, I thought you didn't believe that story about a
mysterious figure being seen about the Hobrook place a year ago.
Last year?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
All right, all right, so I made a mistake. So
now I changed my mind. If Howard Holbrook was murdered,
the murderer had to be Guy Emerson. I think we'd
do much better if we tried to run down this
Emerson person instead of chasing all over the country trying
to prove that Howard Holbrook wasn't Howard Holbrook.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh do you, Rusty? I disagree. I think we're going
to find the answer to our problem at Holbrook's home
in Bentam, and that's where we're going right now.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Really, doctor Danfield, your purpose in coming here is too obvious.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, Missus Hobrook. Just
what do you think my purpose is? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Come, let's not try to fool each other. Isn't mister Fuller,
the Great Eastern Insurance Company offer you a sum of
money to prove that it was I who murdered my husband?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do you believe your husband was murdered, Missus Hobrook.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I don't know. There are no indications that he was.
You haven't answered my question.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh oh, mister Fuller did offer me some money to
work on the case. That's true, did not.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
You are being presumptuous to think that I would help
you prove myself a murderess.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I don't intend to prove you're a murderous Missus Hobrook.
In fact, I intend to prove just the opposite.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Mister Fuller.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Belis I know mister Fuller believes you're guilty.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I don't now, will you Corporate?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I don't know what to say. I think what missus
Hobrook wants to say is that she doesn't believe you.
Dan No, it isn't that. I Oh, I don't know.
Everything seems so strange and unreal. People have been coming
to the house ever since poor Howard's body was found.
They all acts a species. They all look at me
and go away without offering any explanation.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Believe me and I you hear, Missus Hobrook.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Suppose you look at it this way. You didn't murder
your husband, so therefore you having a thing to lose
by offering me your help.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
As a matter of fact, you have everything to gain. Ah,
I suppose you're right. What is it you want me
to do?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I'd like to answer you a few questions, and
then i'd like permission to remain here at your home
for a few days.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Very well, you'll have to shift for yourself. However, I've
had no servant for over a year. Everything's run down.
I've only been able to survive because there was a
lot of valuable machine when he had livestock that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I could see. Yes, yes, I understand. Uh. Howard Holbrook's
plan was to build himself a muddled farm up here,
wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yes, we'd only lived here one summer. You know Howard
invested most of our savings. We had great plans for
the future of me.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yes, yes, Now, Missus Holbrook, are you sure in your
own mind that the body that was found by the
laborers was that of your husband? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes, I'm positive. Why do people keep asking me that question.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Because if you weren't sure, Missus Holbrook, the insurance company
would save themselves a hundred thousand dollars. Now, now about
this ditch that the laborers were digging, what was to
be its purpose?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Well, there's an orchard behind the garage. Howard it had
it set out. A neighbor told me that if I
kept the trees alive, the value of my property would
be much increased.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I seem so you decided to pint border into the orchard. Yes,
Now one more questions, is Holbrook, and then, with your
commission and brows around the place, what is the question.
Do you believe that this man, guy Emerson, who knew
your husband in jail, is his murderer?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm not sure? How can I be? There's no indication
that Howard was murdered. However, it seems to me that
the least the insurance company could do weas to find
if there is a person in questioning.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The police are endeavoring to do that right now. Well,
thank you, missus Hobrook, And come on, Rusty, let's see
if we can't dig up a clue or two that
our employer has overlooked.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Then when you told Missus Hobrook that you didn't believe
she murdered her husband. Did you mean it?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I've already told you I meant it, rusty, and I'll
stop asking me. I don't wanna change my mind. Eh,
this must be the ditch.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Oh, let's get the ditch. It's almost dark. We can't
see anything tonight. Besides, I have some questions I wanna
ask you.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I see now if I have to sit Ouett's over,
there must be the apple orchard. Well that means, of course,
if the pipeline should run right. Well, now what no
surveyor rusty. But it seems to me that if Missus
Hobrook wanted to run water for my house to a orchard,
spending a lot of money unnecessarily, why why Because of
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those laborers kept going in the same direction that they started,
they'd wind up at a point between the house and
the darum.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh, dann stop grabbing its straws. There could be a
dozen reasons why the ditch is heading in that direction.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh name three.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Oh, laborers might've struck am edge. They might have intended
to splice into the pipeline. It must run from the
house to the garage, or they might have intended to
displice it at the garage instead of the house.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh perhaps, sure, right, were any of your ancestors plumbers rested?
Oh damn? Hey, it's uh getting dark, isn't it now?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I'd say it is and I'm tired. Good gosh, what's that?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Uh? I didn't get alarm, It's only a screech owl.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Oh, let's get back, I say, dolls. They're like that.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
They're not at all like that's resty?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
All right, come on, let's go there real. How much
more we can do in the daylight anyhow?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
All Oh, I'm begetting there's much we can do even
in daynight, Dan, I wish we weren't going to stay
here tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Why you afraid missus Holbrook will murder you and sleep?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I'm afraid I won't even sleep. Oh here's the garage.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes, I imagine those outside stairs lead up at the
servants quarters. Well, LUSTI come on, hey with it?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Whatt you look out?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
In a moment, we'll return for the third act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
But first, now.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Back to our star Michael Dunn for the third act
of Danger, Doctor Danfield. Rusty, rusty, all right?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Oh, I guess, so what happened?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I don't know. Someone attacked us here. Let me get
up my handkerchief. Your faces bleeding?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I aunt didn't see anyone, and I didn't hear anyone either. Hello,
did that doctor?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Is something wrong over this?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
White?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Missus Brooke, bring a light, would you please?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
How's it now?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Rusty?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Oh? I'm all right, more scared than anything. I guess, Dan,
what was it? What was what? Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Here's missus horrourk over here, missus Hollbrook.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Oh, what is is?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I heard the girl scream.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh, it's nothing serious, Missus Hollbrook. Someone attacked us. Uh
hold the lantern up a little bit week please, Oh my,
she's bleeding.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I'll call a doctor. It's only a scratch. No, No,
I don't need a doctor. Dan. Did you see the
person who attacked us?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No? No, he got a way too fast. You hear me,
White Block.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Are you're sure it was a he?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Am? I sure it was a What do you mean
by that?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
She's up set and frightened. Come back to the house,
both of you. If you won't let me call a doctor,
I can at least be that scratch on your face?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, it's an excellent night here, missus Hobrook come along right,
see but.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Dan, you you don't seem to understand you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
To stand perfectly rusty? Come along, Yeah, this is your
room here? Rest in?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Did I wish I didn't have to go to bed?
I'm scared? But can't we sit up all night?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Sit up all night?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And isn't going to help Mandy anywhere?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I see?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's nothing to be frightened.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Well, there is. I don't know what, but there's something
terribly wrong in this house. Dan, Why do you suppose
missus Hobrooke left U saloon so long in the kitchen
when she went to the intercepted right?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I think she went to telephone.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Here's that awful owl m telephone to whom I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Know, but I planned to find out in the morning.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Oh was she telehorning to someone about us?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I wouldn't be surprised, however, Dan, that was a shot. Yes,
come on, there's the window at the end of the carter, and.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It's soundly that they came from the garage.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Look there, someone's running across the fields.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
We's carrying a rifle. That bright moonlight it's easy to see. Yes, yeah,
what's that in his other hand?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I don't know. I he's gone now. I wonder if Dan, what.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Does it mean? Oh? I wish we'd never come here.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I'm a contrary, Rusty. I'm very glad we did come here.
Let me see now, Yes, yes, by George, that must
be it?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Who what must be hot?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Rusty?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I think I'm beginning to see the answer to all
this mystery. Yes, I'm sure, I am.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Oh what is it? For goodness sake?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Tell me, yes, yes, it all adds up now as
soon as I check a few more facts, come on, Rusty,
We're gonna get a good night's sleep, and then I
think we can clean this case up.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I don't suppose it matters if it's only the crack
of dawn. I didn't sleep anyway. The least we could
have done is waited for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Muh. It's in consider of your rusty waking missus Slowbrook
at this hour of the morning to get his breakfast.
It sounds we have more important things to attend to. Yeah,
here's the vine, let's go in.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
What he expect to find in the barn? Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, less we play him my idea, the more air
tight our case will become. Yeah, it seems to be empty,
doesn't it, except for a.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Few broken down farm implements.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Mm. Yeah, for even's sake, what's that?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Hm? Looks like a butterfly in net? Maybe Howard Hobrit
condoulsed in bug chasing as a sideline and do that
and that is big.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Enough to catch her whale. Well, I I guess we've
checked everything that's worth checking here.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now what do we do now?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Le's team, We go out and see how many acres
of land Howard Hobot's plan they have under culivation. That's
very important.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Okay, so whole book would have had fifty acres under culivation,
mostly in apple orchards and potatoes. Now where are we?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well, we're a lot closer the solution of this mystery
than we were a half an hour ago arresting.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh oh, is this.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Looks like the farmer from next door?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Damn?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Look at that ugly scar running from the corner behind Hello.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
There looking for something or nothing in particular. We're uh
staying here at the Hoebrook farm for a couple of days.
Oh and my name is Dunstan Jason Dunston, I live
next door. Well, I had annoy you, mister Dunstan. I'm
doctor Daniel Danfield and this is my secretary of Rusty Crifax.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well yell the crime psychologist.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Eh still trying to find out if whole Brook was murdered. Duck?
Do you think he was murdered, mister Dunstan. I'm sure
he didn't drawl in the ditch himself and pull the
dirt over.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Is you're quite right?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh? Well, by the way, did you hear a shot
last night?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Is shot?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Where'd it come from?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
From? My somewhere named missus Hobrook's garage?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oh well, I wouldn't be able to hear it anyhow.
My place is half a mile away. Oh who is
shooting at what? Well? We don't know. Tell me. Did
you know the Hopebrook's very well, mister Dunston. Oh, I
didn't know Wholebrook at all. I didn't uh buy my
place until about four months ago. Missus Holbrook and I
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have become pretty well acquainted those since then. I bought
some of the stuff she sold off. Uh huh did
you have much to sell? Oh? Plenty. Holbrook really went
to town when he stopped the place. Oh, the widow would
get along even though she doesn't collect her insurance.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So good. Look someone's driving into Missus Holbrook's yard.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ah, yes, that's probably a tradesman.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
By the way, mister Dunstan, is there a public library
in the village of the library. Yes, that's a funny question,
but yes, I suppose there is, although I never happened
to see one.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Uh, there's a set of encyclopedias in Missus Hobrook's living room.
Then if you wanna look up in for me?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Oh, is there a rusty? Yeah, that's fine. That was
a nice meeting in mister Dunstan. Possibly we will see
each other again. Come on, Russey, Hey you bet Dunton.
If there is anything nice and who that help you?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I hope I didn't embarrass mister Dunstan by staring at
that scar on mis days.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, yes, well all adds up, doesn't investing?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
What heads up? Who say? Dan? That man coming across
the fields is mister Fuller, the insurance investigator, So it is?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh there, mister Fuller. Oh god, it's fair facts. I
thought i'd dropped by and see how things were going.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Well, you made it bright and early, all right, it's
only six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Well, I'm not used to this country, I miss Fairfax.
I stayed at the hotel in the village last night
and hardly closed my eyes. Oh uh, make headway die.
Oh yes, we've got your mystery cleared up for you,
mister Puller. It wasn't too difficult. What this is incredible?
Do you mean that you actually know who murdered Howard Holbrook? No,
but I know that by earlier conviction was right. Hobrook
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wasn't murdered. It wasn't murdered. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Why not the man can die at least two ways
besides being murdered naturally or accidentally I know, but being.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Buried in not Coming in the library with us, mister Fuller,
and I'll show you the final answer in the Encyclopaedia National.
I see. No I made any any the p Yes,
yes here we are.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I wonder where Missus Holbrook is. She don't to be
getting up by now.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh. I'm much more interested in what Dan Phil expects
to find in that encyclopedia than I am in Yes
here we are owls owls.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
What does that say, Dan?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Just what I expected it to say. Rusty, listen, a
mother owl will become vicious to appoint it in sepy
if she thinks her offspring are in danger. At such times,
they fear nothing will attack any foe, regardless of.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Side a clause.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Are like steel have an advantage because they are entirely
soundless in flight.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Dad, Then it was an owl that attacked us last night.
He didn't see anything or hear anything.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's right, Rusty. It was an owl that's responsible for
the scar on Jason Dunstan's forehead. On Jason Dunston's forehead, yes,
it was an unusually deep scar made about a year ago.
Wouldn't you think, Doc, How does this business about the
owls and scars on foreheads tying with the murder of
Howard Holbrook? It's rather an elaborate plan for murder, mister fuller,
and most cleverly executed.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Are they glad to explained?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh? Oh, come in, mister Dunstan, I rather expected you.
Where's your partner?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And cry?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Missus Holbrook?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Right here? Oh you're clever, Danfield, but.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You're also a fool again. They both got guns, that's
really they both have guns. Two people who are about
to be proven guilty of winter would be expected to
carry guns well, you're a cool in Danfield. What a
pity that you went to all this trouble for nothing. Oh,
I didn't do it for nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I did it for ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Ten thousand dollars, Eh, Fuller, you must have been pretty
sure of yourself to damble that amound piles. But I still,
of course you don't. You're not smart like Danfield. Go on, Duck,
give the guy his money's worth. Tell him how you
worked it out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, they glad to.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
When Howard Hobrook was in jail, his wife got the
idea of not the owls. She visited her husband and
told him her play. The day before Holbrook's liberation, she
left for her sisters to establish her alibi. When Hobrook
got home, the place was deserted using the net which
we found in the barn. He kept her the mother owl.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
So that's why the neette interested you so much, Yes.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Rusty, mister Hobrook then dipped the steel like clause of
the owl and a powerful poison called curare poison, and
that's why Holbrook's body showed no signs of violence. You're
almost right, mister Fuller, but not quite. After poisoning the
owl's cause. Hobrook released the bird and sat back to way. Yes,
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but what you know for what, mister Dunstan for the
arrival of his convict friend, Guy Emerson.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Then it was Guy Emerson who murded Hobrook.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh, no, Rusty, it wasn't Guy Emerson who murdered Hobrook.
In fact, it wasn't Hobrook who was murdered. It was Emerson.
What was then the.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
The corpse that was found wasn't bit of Howard Hobrook at.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
All, That's right, The co opes was that of Guy Emerson.
As a matter of fact, this gentleman here who was
pointing the gun at me and who calls himself Jason Dunstan,
is actually Howard Holbrook. Oh, mister Fuller, did you tell
your mendus around the place? What's around? Good?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Good?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Rusty stepped way from the window so the policeman can.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Choose me, is it right?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Why?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Hook like you better?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
In the moment we returned for the conclusion of danger,
doctor Danfield. But first, now back to Michael Dunn for
the conclusion of danger, Doctor Danfield. Oh, come in, mister Fuller,
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mis fair facts and I were just about to leave.
Is uh?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is everything taken care of him?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yes? The local police department took him both away. Oh,
by the way, Doc, before you leave, I'd like to
hear the end of the story. Well, there isn't a
great deal more to tell Hobrook. Obviously in Vegel's guy,
Emerson's was spot near where they owl had its nest.
He attacked, gouged Emerson about the face, and the poison
took effect, killing him. Then what now? Then Hobrook transferred
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his watch to Emerson's pocket and severed the third toes
has left the foot.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Afterward, he buried him out behind the garage.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
And then Hobrook went to Chicago, calling his cousins and
announced he couldn't face society and was going to disappear.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yes, yes, that's that's right, Rusty. He stayed out of
sight for a while and then returned to this town
and both the adjoining farm. No one recognized him because
few people had ever seen him in this neighborhood, and
because his face was disfigured by the scar.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
You, I guess that explains everything. Oh what got you
to thinking along those lines?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Dan? Or? A great many things, Rusty, But chiefly it
was the ditch going in the wrong direction and net
in the barn. In the scar on Hobrook's face, the scar,
of course, but not unlike the one on your face,
rus Still, only his was deeper. Then I remember that
after we heard the shop last night, we no longer
heard the hoot of.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
The ol Holbrook shoot the all.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yes, well, this is Hobo Neil.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
We'd been attacked. She called her husband and told him
to shoot the oisl just.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
In case we got suspicious.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
What and then when you saw the scar on Hobrook's face,
you reason that he must have been attacked by the
hour when he captured it to dig.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Its close in poison, Rusty, You're a hundred percent right,
You always right. I don't know what I'd do without you.
As a matter of fact, I don't intend.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
To do without you. Mm I, Come on right, See.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
We've got ten thousand dollars to spend. Let's go
Danger.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Doctor dan Bery.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Our story opens in the small town of Benton, located
north of New York City on the Hudson River. Two
French Canadian labors are digging a ditch on the ground
a prosperous looking farm. A mon dieu, mon dieu. Pierre, Hey, Pierre,
we what is it? Wanna me? Come here? There's something
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I do not understand. Hey, what is the matterageacque? You
play some gold? Maybe? Uh? Oh, mother of Mary, I
think perhaps we have found south in cream. Not supposed
to help you?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Cross yourself, John, he's the buddy of a man. Suck
what he's left of a man. Come, we should not
disturb the grave of the.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Dead graef, you say, do not be a.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Fool, pr cause one barely one's dead. In the field
behind the house will be a cast at north cross
to mark the spot.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Huh that I do not think. No, in what is
it you think more of me? I think that we
will find this is the body of Monsieur Howard Holbrook.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Who has been reported missing these past words. Come let
us go to the police.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It sounds interesting, mister Ferry, go on, please will Well.
There isn't a great deal more to tell, Doc you see.
As representative of the Great Eastern Insurance Company, it's my
job to check every detail before I recommend to the
home office that they pay Missus Holbrook the hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
A hundred thousand dollars, there's a lot of money. I
don't blame you, Stilla. I don't see that you have
any real reasons to suspect that Howard Holbrook was murdered.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, I'm relying Leona Hunch, Miss Fairfax, and the so
far unexplained reason why Holbrook's body was found in the
trench behind his farmer home. You're positive that there was
that of Hobrook. Yes, yes, the corpse had of course
disintegrated beyond recognition, but Missus Holbrook identified him by the
fact that the third toe of his left foot was missing. Also,
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there was watch inscribed with Holbrook's name.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Were you able to determine the cause of death.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, there were no marks of violence at all. But
still you think he was murdered, possibly by his wife
in order to collect the insurance. Well, we have definitely
established that Holbrook's wife was spending most of the month
of June with her sister in Fairfield.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
That Fairfield is only fifty miles from Benton. Couldn't she
have driven back without her sister's knowing about it?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, from June sixth, the June thirteenth, missus Holbrook was
sick in bed with a cold. Her sister and some
friends have already testified to that fact. Well establishes her
alby rather completely, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Wait a minute, June's sixth, That was a year ago.
I thought, how Hobrook was serving a jail sentence at
that time.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
No, you see, miss Fairfax. He was given his freedom
on June fifth. As you'll remember, Wholebrook was sentenced on
a charge of embezzlement from the bank of which he
was president. Oh yes, since it was quite a scandal.
He's been appropriating the bank's funds over a period of years.
That's right. He had amassed a small fortune, but all
of it was spent fighting the charges against him. So
when he was released from jail, he was broke. Yes,
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on June fifth, he was set free. On June fourteenth,
he appeared at the home of a cousin in Chicago,
and he told the cousin he lacked the courage to
face his family or society. Uh huh. The next day
he disappeared and hadn't been heard from since.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It looks to me, mister Fuller, as though you'd have
to pay missus Herbert.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
One hundred thousand dollars if possibly you're right, Miss Fairfax.
Oh well, before I make my offer, there's one other
thing you must know. Oh it's a well. Between June
sixth and June thirteenth, neighbors reported seeing a light in
the Wholebrook home, and some of the reports stated that
a mysteric figure was seen moving about the grounds. And
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what's your answer the story is, mister Fuller or just
this doctor. When Holbrook was in jail, he made an
enemy of a man named Guy Emerson. They quarreled frequently
over small matters, even resorting to fisticups on one or
two occasions. Emerson was released two days after Hobrook. And
it's your opinion that this guy Emerson came directly to
the Holbrook home, found Howard Holbrook waiting there for his
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wife to return from her sisters, and murdered him. No, no,
it couldn't have happened that way. Number. Doctor Holbrook was
seen in Chicago on June fourteenth. Oh as a matter
of fact, doctor Danfield, I don't believe returned to his
home at all. Then what do you believe, mister Fuller.
I believe that Holbrook was murdered by his wife. I
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don't know how, or when or where, and I've absolutely
nothing to go on but a hunch. But my company, Danfield,
is willing to gamble ten thousand dollars to have me
proven right in a moment. Who returned for the second
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act the danger, doctor Danfield? But first, now for the
second act of danger, doctor Danfield. Dan? Oh, yes, Rusting, What.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Time did the plane get into Chicago?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In about an hour?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I think, And you.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Really believe that these cousins of Howard Hobert can help us.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Any I don't know, Arresting. I am not yet convinced
that it was actually a Holbrook who called on them
a year ago, last yearne fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
What if it wasn't, then do you know what I think?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hmm? What's that, Rustling?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I think that you feel that this case is as
hopeless as I do. They're just pretending there's a chance
of proving that Elsie Holbrook murdered her husband because well
because because.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Of ten thousand dollars, Rustling.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Oh, I I don't mean to imply that you take
money under false pretenses only, Rusty.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You're wonderful. Don't worry. If I have failed brother Missus
Holbrook murdered her husband, I'll I'll not take mister Fuller's
ten thousand dollars. I'm sorry you came way out here
to Chicago, doctor Danfield. There's not the least doubt that
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the man who talled on me a year ago, last
June fourteenth was my cousin, Howard Holbrook. Thank you very much.
You've f the lust.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, doctor Danfield. Now are you convinced that it was
Howard Holbrook who call on his cousin Charles in Chicago?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yes, yes, I am rusting Chonles Holbrook struck me as
the type of man who wouldn't fly. I can't see
that it would avail him anything if he did.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
But you're still convinced you can build up a case
against missus Holbrook.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Don't be so pessimistic, Rusty. There's an answer to this
problem somewhere, and we're going to find it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
What problem. I don't see that there's any problem. A
man is found dead, his wife identifies him there's no
indication that he was murdered.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
There's no indication that he wasn't murdered either, Rusty. And
if he wasn't, how did he die? And who buried
him in a ditch behind his own house?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Guy Emerson is prison mate Hope White, as plain as
the nose on your face.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh, I thought you didn't believe that story about a
mysterious figure being seen about the Hobrook place a year ago.
Last year?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
All right, all right, so I made a mistake. So
now I changed my mind. If Howard Holbrook was murdered,
the murderer had to be Guy Emerson. I think we'd
do much better if we tried to run down this
Emerson person instead of chasing all over the country trying
to prove that Howard Holbrook wasn't Howard Holbrook.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh do you, Rusty? I disagree. I think we're going
to find the answer to our problem at Holbrook's home
in Bentam, and that's where we're going right now.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Really, doctor Danfield, your purpose in coming here is too obvious.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, Missus Hobrook. Just
what do you think my purpose is? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Come, let's not try to fool each other. Isn't mister Fuller,
the Great Eastern Insurance Company offer you a sum of
money to prove that it was I who murdered my husband?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do you believe your husband was murdered, Missus Hobrook.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I don't know. There are no indications that he was.
You haven't answered my question.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh oh, mister Fuller did offer me some money to
work on the case. That's true, did not.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
You are being presumptuous to think that I would help
you prove myself a murderess.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I don't intend to prove you're a murderous Missus Hobrook.
In fact, I intend to prove just the opposite.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Mister Fuller.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Belis I know mister Fuller believes you're guilty.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I don't now, will you Corporate?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I don't know what to say. I think what missus
Hobrook wants to say is that she doesn't believe you.
Dan No, it isn't that. I Oh, I don't know.
Everything seems so strange and unreal. People have been coming
to the house ever since poor Howard's body was found.
They all acts a species. They all look at me
and go away without offering any explanation.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Believe me and I you hear, Missus Hobrook.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Suppose you look at it this way. You didn't murder
your husband, so therefore you having a thing to lose
by offering me your help.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
As a matter of fact, you have everything to gain. Ah,
I suppose you're right. What is it you want me
to do?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I'd like to answer you a few questions, and
then i'd like permission to remain here at your home
for a few days.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Very well, you'll have to shift for yourself. However, I've
had no servant for over a year. Everything's run down.
I've only been able to survive because there was a
lot of valuable machine when he had livestock that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I could see. Yes, yes, I understand. Uh. Howard Holbrook's
plan was to build himself a muddled farm up here,
wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yes, we'd only lived here one summer. You know Howard
invested most of our savings. We had great plans for
the future of me.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yes, yes, Now, Missus Holbrook, are you sure in your
own mind that the body that was found by the
laborers was that of your husband? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes, I'm positive. Why do people keep asking me that question.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Because if you weren't sure, Missus Holbrook, the insurance company
would save themselves a hundred thousand dollars. Now, now about
this ditch that the laborers were digging, what was to
be its purpose?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Well, there's an orchard behind the garage. Howard it had
it set out. A neighbor told me that if I
kept the trees alive, the value of my property would
be much increased.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I seem so you decided to pint border into the orchard. Yes,
Now one more questions, is Holbrook, and then, with your
commission and brows around the place, what is the question.
Do you believe that this man, guy Emerson, who knew
your husband in jail, is his murderer?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm not sure? How can I be? There's no indication
that Howard was murdered. However, it seems to me that
the least the insurance company could do weas to find
if there is a person in questioning.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The police are endeavoring to do that right now. Well,
thank you, missus Hobrook, And come on, Rusty, let's see
if we can't dig up a clue or two that
our employer has overlooked.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Then when you told Missus Hobrook that you didn't believe
she murdered her husband. Did you mean it?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I've already told you I meant it, rusty, and I'll
stop asking me. I don't wanna change my mind. Eh,
this must be the ditch.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Oh, let's get the ditch. It's almost dark. We can't
see anything tonight. Besides, I have some questions I wanna
ask you.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I see now if I have to sit Ouett's over,
there must be the apple orchard. Well that means, of course,
if the pipeline should run right. Well, now what no
surveyor rusty. But it seems to me that if Missus
Hobrook wanted to run water for my house to a orchard,
spending a lot of money unnecessarily, why why Because of
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those laborers kept going in the same direction that they started,
they'd wind up at a point between the house and
the darum.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh, dann stop grabbing its straws. There could be a
dozen reasons why the ditch is heading in that direction.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh name three.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Oh, laborers might've struck am edge. They might have intended
to splice into the pipeline. It must run from the
house to the garage, or they might have intended to
displice it at the garage instead of the house.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh perhaps, sure, right, were any of your ancestors plumbers rested?
Oh damn? Hey, it's uh getting dark, isn't it now?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I'd say it is and I'm tired. Good gosh, what's that?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Uh? I didn't get alarm, It's only a screech owl.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Oh, let's get back, I say, dolls. They're like that.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
They're not at all like that's resty?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
All right, come on, let's go there real. How much
more we can do in the daylight anyhow?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
All Oh, I'm begetting there's much we can do even
in daynight, Dan, I wish we weren't going to stay
here tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Why you afraid missus Holbrook will murder you and sleep?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I'm afraid I won't even sleep. Oh here's the garage.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes, I imagine those outside stairs lead up at the
servants quarters. Well, LUSTI come on, hey with it?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Whatt you look out?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
In a moment, we'll return for the third act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
But first, now.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Back to our star Michael Dunn for the third act
of Danger, Doctor Danfield. Rusty, rusty, all right?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Oh, I guess, so what happened?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I don't know. Someone attacked us here. Let me get
up my handkerchief. Your faces bleeding?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I aunt didn't see anyone, and I didn't hear anyone either. Hello,
did that doctor?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Is something wrong over this?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
White?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Missus Brooke, bring a light, would you please?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
How's it now?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Rusty?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Oh? I'm all right, more scared than anything. I guess, Dan,
what was it? What was what? Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Here's missus horrourk over here, missus Hollbrook.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Oh, what is is?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I heard the girl scream.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh, it's nothing serious, Missus Hollbrook. Someone attacked us. Uh
hold the lantern up a little bit week please, Oh my,
she's bleeding.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I'll call a doctor. It's only a scratch. No, No,
I don't need a doctor. Dan. Did you see the
person who attacked us?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No? No, he got a way too fast. You hear me,
White Block.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Are you're sure it was a he?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Am? I sure it was a What do you mean
by that?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
She's up set and frightened. Come back to the house,
both of you. If you won't let me call a doctor,
I can at least be that scratch on your face?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, it's an excellent night here, missus Hobrook come along right,
see but.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Dan, you you don't seem to understand you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
To stand perfectly rusty? Come along, Yeah, this is your
room here? Rest in?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Did I wish I didn't have to go to bed?
I'm scared? But can't we sit up all night?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Sit up all night?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And isn't going to help Mandy anywhere?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I see?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's nothing to be frightened.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Well, there is. I don't know what, but there's something
terribly wrong in this house. Dan, Why do you suppose
missus Hobrooke left U saloon so long in the kitchen
when she went to the intercepted right?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I think she went to telephone.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Here's that awful owl m telephone to whom I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Know, but I planned to find out in the morning.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Oh was she telehorning to someone about us?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I wouldn't be surprised, however, Dan, that was a shot. Yes,
come on, there's the window at the end of the carter, and.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It's soundly that they came from the garage.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Look there, someone's running across the fields.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
We's carrying a rifle. That bright moonlight it's easy to see. Yes, yeah,
what's that in his other hand?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I don't know. I he's gone now. I wonder if Dan, what.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Does it mean? Oh? I wish we'd never come here.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I'm a contrary, Rusty. I'm very glad we did come here.
Let me see now, Yes, yes, by George, that must
be it?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Who what must be hot?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Rusty?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I think I'm beginning to see the answer to all
this mystery. Yes, I'm sure, I am.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Oh what is it? For goodness sake?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Tell me, yes, yes, it all adds up now as
soon as I check a few more facts, come on, Rusty,
We're gonna get a good night's sleep, and then I
think we can clean this case up.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I don't suppose it matters if it's only the crack
of dawn. I didn't sleep anyway. The least we could
have done is waited for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Muh. It's in consider of your rusty waking missus Slowbrook
at this hour of the morning to get his breakfast.
It sounds we have more important things to attend to. Yeah,
here's the vine, let's go in.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
What he expect to find in the barn? Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, less we play him my idea, the more air
tight our case will become. Yeah, it seems to be empty,
doesn't it, except for a.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Few broken down farm implements.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Mm. Yeah, for even's sake, what's that?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Hm? Looks like a butterfly in net? Maybe Howard Hobrit
condoulsed in bug chasing as a sideline and do that
and that is big.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Enough to catch her whale. Well, I I guess we've
checked everything that's worth checking here.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now what do we do now?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Le's team, We go out and see how many acres
of land Howard Hobot's plan they have under culivation. That's
very important.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Okay, so whole book would have had fifty acres under culivation,
mostly in apple orchards and potatoes. Now where are we?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well, we're a lot closer the solution of this mystery
than we were a half an hour ago arresting.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh oh, is this.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Looks like the farmer from next door?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Damn?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Look at that ugly scar running from the corner behind Hello.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
There looking for something or nothing in particular. We're uh
staying here at the Hoebrook farm for a couple of days.
Oh and my name is Dunstan Jason Dunston, I live
next door. Well, I had annoy you, mister Dunstan. I'm
doctor Daniel Danfield and this is my secretary of Rusty Crifax.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well yell the crime psychologist.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Eh still trying to find out if whole Brook was murdered. Duck?
Do you think he was murdered, mister Dunstan. I'm sure
he didn't drawl in the ditch himself and pull the
dirt over.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Is you're quite right?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh? Well, by the way, did you hear a shot
last night?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Is shot?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Where'd it come from?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
From? My somewhere named missus Hobrook's garage?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oh well, I wouldn't be able to hear it anyhow.
My place is half a mile away. Oh who is
shooting at what? Well? We don't know. Tell me. Did
you know the Hopebrook's very well, mister Dunston. Oh, I
didn't know Wholebrook at all. I didn't uh buy my
place until about four months ago. Missus Holbrook and I
(19:10):
have become pretty well acquainted those since then. I bought
some of the stuff she sold off. Uh huh did
you have much to sell? Oh? Plenty. Holbrook really went
to town when he stopped the place. Oh, the widow would
get along even though she doesn't collect her insurance.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So good. Look someone's driving into Missus Holbrook's yard.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ah, yes, that's probably a tradesman.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
By the way, mister Dunstan, is there a public library
in the village of the library. Yes, that's a funny question,
but yes, I suppose there is, although I never happened
to see one.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Uh, there's a set of encyclopedias in Missus Hobrook's living room.
Then if you wanna look up in for me?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Oh, is there a rusty? Yeah, that's fine. That was
a nice meeting in mister Dunstan. Possibly we will see
each other again. Come on, Russey, Hey you bet Dunton.
If there is anything nice and who that help you?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I hope I didn't embarrass mister Dunstan by staring at
that scar on mis days.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, yes, well all adds up, doesn't investing?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
What heads up? Who say? Dan? That man coming across
the fields is mister Fuller, the insurance investigator, So it is?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh there, mister Fuller. Oh god, it's fair facts. I
thought i'd dropped by and see how things were going.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Well, you made it bright and early, all right, it's
only six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Well, I'm not used to this country, I miss Fairfax.
I stayed at the hotel in the village last night
and hardly closed my eyes. Oh uh, make headway die.
Oh yes, we've got your mystery cleared up for you,
mister Puller. It wasn't too difficult. What this is incredible?
Do you mean that you actually know who murdered Howard Holbrook? No,
but I know that by earlier conviction was right. Hobrook
(20:42):
wasn't murdered. It wasn't murdered. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Why not the man can die at least two ways
besides being murdered naturally or accidentally I know, but being.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Buried in not Coming in the library with us, mister Fuller,
and I'll show you the final answer in the Encyclopaedia National.
I see. No I made any any the p Yes,
yes here we are.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I wonder where Missus Holbrook is. She don't to be
getting up by now.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh. I'm much more interested in what Dan Phil expects
to find in that encyclopedia than I am in Yes
here we are owls owls.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
What does that say, Dan?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Just what I expected it to say. Rusty, listen, a
mother owl will become vicious to appoint it in sepy
if she thinks her offspring are in danger. At such times,
they fear nothing will attack any foe, regardless of.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Side a clause.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Are like steel have an advantage because they are entirely
soundless in flight.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Dad, Then it was an owl that attacked us last night.
He didn't see anything or hear anything.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's right, Rusty. It was an owl that's responsible for
the scar on Jason Dunstan's forehead. On Jason Dunston's forehead, yes,
it was an unusually deep scar made about a year ago.
Wouldn't you think, Doc, How does this business about the
owls and scars on foreheads tying with the murder of
Howard Holbrook? It's rather an elaborate plan for murder, mister fuller,
and most cleverly executed.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Are they glad to explained?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh? Oh, come in, mister Dunstan, I rather expected you.
Where's your partner?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And cry?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Missus Holbrook?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Right here? Oh you're clever, Danfield, but.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You're also a fool again. They both got guns, that's
really they both have guns. Two people who are about
to be proven guilty of winter would be expected to
carry guns well, you're a cool in Danfield. What a
pity that you went to all this trouble for nothing. Oh,
I didn't do it for nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I did it for ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Ten thousand dollars, Eh, Fuller, you must have been pretty
sure of yourself to damble that amound piles. But I still,
of course you don't. You're not smart like Danfield. Go on, Duck,
give the guy his money's worth. Tell him how you
worked it out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, they glad to.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
When Howard Hobrook was in jail, his wife got the
idea of not the owls. She visited her husband and
told him her play. The day before Holbrook's liberation, she
left for her sisters to establish her alibi. When Hobrook
got home, the place was deserted using the net which
we found in the barn. He kept her the mother owl.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
So that's why the neette interested you so much, Yes.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Rusty, mister Hobrook then dipped the steel like clause of
the owl and a powerful poison called curare poison, and
that's why Holbrook's body showed no signs of violence. You're
almost right, mister Fuller, but not quite. After poisoning the
owl's cause. Hobrook released the bird and sat back to way. Yes,
(23:40):
but what you know for what, mister Dunstan for the
arrival of his convict friend, Guy Emerson.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Then it was Guy Emerson who murded Hobrook.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh, no, Rusty, it wasn't Guy Emerson who murdered Hobrook.
In fact, it wasn't Hobrook who was murdered. It was Emerson.
What was then the.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
The corpse that was found wasn't bit of Howard Hobrook at.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
All, That's right, The co opes was that of Guy Emerson.
As a matter of fact, this gentleman here who was
pointing the gun at me and who calls himself Jason Dunstan,
is actually Howard Holbrook. Oh, mister Fuller, did you tell
your mendus around the place? What's around? Good?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Good?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Rusty stepped way from the window so the policeman can.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Choose me, is it right?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Why?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Hook like you better?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
In the moment we returned for the conclusion of danger,
doctor Danfield. But first, now back to Michael Dunn for
the conclusion of danger, Doctor Danfield. Oh, come in, mister Fuller,
(25:01):
mis fair facts and I were just about to leave.
Is uh?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is everything taken care of him?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yes? The local police department took him both away. Oh,
by the way, Doc, before you leave, I'd like to
hear the end of the story. Well, there isn't a
great deal more to tell Hobrook. Obviously in Vegel's guy,
Emerson's was spot near where they owl had its nest.
He attacked, gouged Emerson about the face, and the poison
took effect, killing him. Then what now? Then Hobrook transferred
(25:26):
his watch to Emerson's pocket and severed the third toes
has left the foot.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Afterward, he buried him out behind the garage.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
And then Hobrook went to Chicago, calling his cousins and
announced he couldn't face society and was going to disappear.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yes, yes, that's that's right, Rusty. He stayed out of
sight for a while and then returned to this town
and both the adjoining farm. No one recognized him because
few people had ever seen him in this neighborhood, and
because his face was disfigured by the scar.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
You, I guess that explains everything. Oh what got you
to thinking along those lines?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Dan? Or? A great many things, Rusty, But chiefly it
was the ditch going in the wrong direction and net
in the barn. In the scar on Hobrook's face, the scar,
of course, but not unlike the one on your face,
rus Still, only his was deeper. Then I remember that
after we heard the shop last night, we no longer
heard the hoot of.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
The ol Holbrook shoot the all.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yes, well, this is Hobo Neil.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
We'd been attacked. She called her husband and told him
to shoot the oisl just.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
In case we got suspicious.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
What and then when you saw the scar on Hobrook's face,
you reason that he must have been attacked by the
hour when he captured it to dig.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Its close in poison, Rusty, You're a hundred percent right,
You always right. I don't know what I'd do without you.
As a matter of fact, I don't intend.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
To do without you. Mm I, Come on right, See.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
We've got ten thousand dollars to spend. Let's go
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