May 6, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Danger, Doctor dan pears, a human mind is like a cave.
Beyond the light.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
There are doctor passage ways and mysterious recesses. Alright, doctor
Daniel Danfield of Explorer, those unknown retreats and know their secrets.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Today's story opens in the town of Barlow, located in
southern New York State. It's late evening. Four people are
beginning a final hand of bridge outside the snug living room.
It's bitterly cold, but the light fall of snow on
the ground.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Cards are shuffled.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Belt uh uh they are folks.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Pick up your cards the last time.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
We really shouldn't stay even for this hands, knowing the
way there is long drive back the times.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Oh, ten minutes won't make much difference, and it stops
snowing an hour ago.
Speaker 7 (00:55):
Oh, what are you bid there?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We'll look at my cards straighten out here. Okay, no
bit of spade ranch, now.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
I could double bill space.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I'll be two diamonds.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
There you go talking across the board again.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
Only forget it. Forget it, Sam? What are you bidding? Sam?
Huh oh, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'll see here.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I'm saying here, good heavens, he's drunk again.
Speaker 7 (01:19):
I'm not drunk.
Speaker 8 (01:20):
Sarbar's a judge.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Say, oh, Sam, you ward drunk? What am I gonna
say to your mother? How could he be drunk? We've
only had three bourbon d.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, three bourbons each?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Sam?
Speaker 8 (01:32):
You kill the rest of the bottle when you went
out to mix those last ones?
Speaker 9 (01:35):
They're all crazy.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
Sarbar is a judge.
Speaker 9 (01:39):
I'll bet five spades five space.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh what's the sent in playing anymore?
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Come on, Sam, you might as go get start.
Speaker 8 (01:45):
No, wait a minute, I want to talk to this
judg yet.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Look, Sam, I'm your best friend. I'm telling you, if
you keep on with this drinking, it's gonna get you down.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's so. Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Some people can handle liquor and some can't. You happen
to be one of those who can't. Why don't you face?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh? Bill?
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Is no use talking to him when he's in this condition?
Yes there is two.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Sam always remembers everything that's said when he's drunk. I
think God should talk to him. I wouldn't care so
much of his mother weren't visiting us. You you'll blame
it all on me.
Speaker 9 (02:12):
See, a woman doesn't care if I drink telling my
mother she's thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You know that's not so.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It's tall.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
You are being hard on him, badge. After all, Sam
works hard and drinking relaxes, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Whoever?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I heard that crack before? Sure he worked out, so
do I sort of a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Just because Sam makes more money than the rest of
us doesn't mean he works any harder has the right
to drink himself.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And it was stupid.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Oh, I'm sofer am I.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I didn't say you were stupid, But what I am
saying is that one of these days your ticker is
gonna quit.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Keep up this place.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
You're killing you. I'm trying to keep ahead of the
rest of.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
The crowd, not steal belly boy.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Okay, that's to me.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
But you won't be wearing that silly grin when you
wind up in a hospital or a casket.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
No, no, why no shopping, belly boy.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
But I live longer than you though that the way
you're going.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
No, you will want a bet.
Speaker 9 (03:06):
I'll keep going twice as hard and live twice as long.
You're just lazy, that's all, billy boy. You're envious, You
aren't smart. You spend half your time thinking up excuses
because you're not making the doll I am damn stuff
no time. Somebody tosks Guy off. He's got an inferiority complex.
(03:27):
I'm second of his preaching, second being told I'm an
old boozehound, knock on myself out just to keep ahead
of the pack. He thinks you live longer than I
won't let him make a bet, but.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I'd sam, I will I bet you a thousand dollars
I live longer than you too.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Oh, this is ridicuoud Sam, I haven't kick one of this, Blanche.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
All you gotta do is worry about telling Mama I
what stinkhole thousand bucks ain't.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Billy boy.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's a bet who's gonna pay off?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And the other one conks out?
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Will you try out to check right now and give
him esther tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She can give you no such things.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Frank has gone far enough.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Sill.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
You can't afford to tie up a thousand dollars for
the rest of your natural days and i'll days.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
Do you hear what she said, Philly boyne natural days?
Speaker 7 (04:20):
She doesn't know natural days? Huh?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
If she only knew what we knew, Hey, Billy boy.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Natural days. Oh boy, shut what are you running on about?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Anybody?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Shall I tell him Billy Boyne?
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Shall I tell him that our natural days will probably
end before Esther has time to get the checks Customarrow.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
In a moment.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You'll return for the second act of danger, doctor dan Field.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But first.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I'll back to Michael Dunn for the second act o.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Danger, Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, Rustini, now that it stops snowing, we want to
be back in New York.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
In less than an hour.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
I almost hate to get back. Then, we had such
a wonderful time up at Lake Pleasant.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yes, yes, it was pleasant, rather a romantic spot. Lake Pleasant.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
And what was that you said?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I said, we had a nice vacation. Well, it'll be
good to get back to work again.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
No, and I was sure that you said?
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Then?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes, yes. If I see a young woman standing on
the road waving her arms.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Don't stop, Dan, it might be a hold.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Of I thought i'd rust In had young ladies in trouble.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
She does look scared.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Hello, there anything wrong?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Thank Heaven?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Your stought?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
My husband he's been shot shocked? Your husband? Where is he?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I can't explain.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now You've got to help me.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Of course we will Russie, move over and give the
young lady room.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
We don't all right, hand let me help, thank you?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
All right, about a.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Mile down the road, tell me how did this accident happen? Missus?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
It wasn't an accident.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Sam was murdered.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Murdered, Yes, it was terrible. Shot came from off in
the woods. I don't know what to do. You see,
Sam and Bill had made.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
A best na. Suppose you tell us who you are
and then begin at the beginning of the circle.
Speaker 10 (06:29):
You poor kid stand You have to ask your questions now,
all right, I want to talk.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
My name is Blanchardie. Tonight, Sam, my husband and I
spent the evening and boller with.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Some friends Bill Claire and his wife Sam.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Thank too much.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We all lected him.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What was the best you spoke of?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
It was still Sam got annoyed because Bill told him
if he kept on drinking and working so harty, you
wouldn't live.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
My Tonga and your husband bet this Bill he'd outlive him.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yes, we didn't take him seriously, perstuly. Both wrote out
checks and gave him the bills right best to the hole.
And you think that Bill shot your husband in order
to win the bathroom all. I don't know what to think.
Sam's mother's thing with us. I didn't want to see
Sam drunk, so I drove into an old wagon road
on the way home, hoping that Sam would take a
(07:17):
nap and sober up.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And that's when he was shot. Yes, Sam was just drunk.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Enough to be stubborn.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Turned the heater on, sat dead, talking, laughing about the
bed he'd made with Bills.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
How long were you there before it happened?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
But about thirty minutes, I should think for a moment,
I didn't realize what had happened. I I just sat
then Sam and fallen sideways. I spoke to him, He
didn't answer her. Guess I lost my head.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I don't blame you, how me?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you remember what you did? Missus Harney?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I got on started to run. Suddenly I realized I
was going in the wrong direction. I turned and came
part way back, so moving light mute, with an automobile
passing on the road.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I guess otherwise I would have come long.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And you can think of no one else but this
Bill Fair might wanna see your husband, Dad.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Oh, but you mustn't say that Bill wouldn't wanna see Pam.
Dad they were good friends.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Low down, please, I think it was.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
A long here.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Oh yes, there's this wagon little going into the woods.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
There's the tie tracks. Alright, yeah, yes, I see them.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You too, Stay here?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Will you?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Then?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I'm cold?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh you're not rush the a.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The police would never forgive us if we messed up
this new fall on the snow with a lot of footprints.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Uh hand me the flash flight from the glove compartment.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
I guess you're right here.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You are, Thank you. Better close the door and keep
it here going. It's pretty cold. I'll be back in
a minute.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Be careful, Dan.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You don't suppose the man who shot dam is still around?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I doubt it. Besides, Dan can take care of himself.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I don't know what i'd have done if you can
come along?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Would you mind telling me your name?
Speaker 10 (08:51):
Ohh, I'm sorry we should have told you before. Dan
is doctor Daniel Danfield, and I'm the secretary of Rusty Fairfax.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Doctor Danfield is crimes. Yes, because then perhaps that you
find out who shot towards them, he probably will. He
likes to get mixed up in this sort of thing.
Oh here he comes back. Find anything Dan?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh not much?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
What do you mean not much.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean rusty that it looks as though it might
have been Missus Hardy who had drunk too much of
the party, and not her husband.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I didn't find your husband, Missus Hardy. In fact, I
didn't find your automobile. There's nothing back there but a
single set of tire tracks going off into the woods.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
No.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I must be going mad.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, sure you didn't have too much to drink yourself,
Missus Hardy.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Of course, I'm.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Sure even if i'd have too much to drink, would
I manufacture such a fantastic story? Would my husband leaving
out on the highway at twelve o'clock at night when
I urge you to go looking for the automobile if
I didn't think it was there.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think she's right, Dan, I said, no Ques about it?
Tell me is this your streetments attorney.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yes, it's the third house on the road.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh, something wrong?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Well?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
That automobile park in front of all, Dan, if someone
sitting in it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, I see there is.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Sam and see the bullet hole in the side of
his head.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right interests me more.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Missus Honney is at the window on the driver's side
of the Curain's open.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Man, let's get out and take a look.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I knew we'd find it with Sam.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, just to make sure that's open the door.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Oh, Dan, he must have been kney against the door.
He got all in the heap.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, yes, I see.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Then what are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dan?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
We we just can't leave in here.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We don't have to rust in until I can get
rid of Captain notice of the state place oulders, I
think will be very much interested in this case.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, Captain, how did you make out? Not so good? Duck?
We dusted everything for fingerprints and didn't find any. M
I rather expected that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And now, as closed it was last evening, everyone will
be wearing gloves.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Have you talked with missus Hardy this morning, Captain Notice?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yes, and fantastic though her story sounds, I believe it. Well,
I suppose there's nothing to do but to begin at
the beginning and work the thing out. Duc how about
uh sticking around? Huh?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And now to god you, captain, suppose we go out
to the sceenior of the alleged murder and see what
the marks in the snow tell it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Anyway, come on, let's get out. Uh, there's a set
of tire marks made by Hardy's car. I can check
those of these enough.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
And uh, those footprints were made by Dan last night.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Uh, I see, Well how about that other set of
footprints buttings in the tire tracks? Say there is another
set someone walked in the tire tracks?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Hm, well, game that didn't walk out. Well, they were
made by a woman.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Mm it seems strange that they went into the woods
and didn't come out. Yes, yes, well, so the car
was parked.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
And the footprints we've just been following in right here.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
How about that set over there?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
All those, Captain, I think we're made by Mensius Hardy.
When she left the car, she said she ran into
the woods away for she realized she was going in
the wrong direction, remember, mum.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And how about this set of footprints that lead in
from the road and end here where the car was parked.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think we'll find, Captain that those were made by
the person who drove the car back to the Hardy home.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
But again, there's only one set of tire tracks going
off into the wood.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Naturally there would be arresting the chances off that this
wagon road swings back to the main highway or possibly.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And it sets another road over beyond. H That sounds reasonable,
But before we check it, let's look around here them
are mm that's a good idea, Captain.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Seeing now, m.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hardy was shot in the left side of the head,
so the killer must have been over in that direction, right,
you are all right, let's go. It couldn't have been
very far away because of the heavy undergrowth around here.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
He would probably standing over there in that big pine. M.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You're right, my sair fans. Here's the uh footprint in
the snow.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And oh, there's no doubt these were made by a man.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
There are two sets, one.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Coming up the tree and the other cutting back through
the woods towards the highway.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah, look that depression in the snow.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Why, George, it's the handle of it. Well, yes, it's
a gun. Don't touch it, dark. The killer must have
thrown it there after he shot Hardy. Oh do you
think it's okay? Why? Of course, it's perfectly obvious what happened.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
And what if it is the murder probably loves too,
There won't be any fingerprint.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh wait a minute, I look, dark, what's on your mind?
Don't you think that the killer stood here and shot
Hardy and then threw the gun away. No, I don't
cat to him. I don't believe a calculating.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Murderer, such as this person must have been, would do
anything so obvious.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Mm, well, then what do you think happened?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think that if we make an impression of these footprints,
we'll find that they belong to boots owned by Bill Flair.
I think we'll find also that the gun there in
the snow didn't belong to him at all.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And I think that the woman's.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Footprints which we found on the tire tracks were made
by missus Flair.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
In a moment, we'll return for the third act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
But first, now back to Michael Dunn for the third
act of.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Danger, Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Oh oh, hello expecting company?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Bill? What makes you ask that?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
All morning long, you've been as nervous as a cat,
and now I find you staring up the road as
though you expected to.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Go to nonsense. Have a bit of a hangover, that's all.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
When you think the police can yours?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Lol, What the devil are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Isn't that what you worried about? Bill? Isn't it that
police car you expect you see coming down.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
The road seven six? What are you getting at esther?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I know, Bill?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Know what?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
How about you and blench about me?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Sce you do Bill what?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
They'll?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Don't lie? Please, it'll only make matters worse.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
I an't saying I understand what.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
But it was only a harmless little plication mine. She's
very attractive, but she's not for you, though.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
I see how long have you known this matter?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Nothing matters now except that I still love you, and
I'm not going to let it make any difference. And
you don't have to worry about the police.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Why should I worry about the police?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I followed you last night though, when you said that
you were worried about Sam driving home because it was
so drunk.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I knew it was your excuse.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
It wasn't an excuse.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I was still built stop line.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Sam wasn't even driving. Blanche was at the wheel.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Well, she wouldn't have been for long. You know Sam
is when he's drunk.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Right, That's right. Sam was at the wheel when he
was shot. Let me go.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What did you say, oh darling?
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Why won't you trust me? Why don't you believe that
I'm trying.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
To help help. I don't need any help. I don't
need anybody.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
There's a trembling. Why because you think that I saw
you come out of the woods. I did you? I
heard the shot?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, that's where you were last night. Huh who's that?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
It's the police as to your kill.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You are.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Get control of yourself. I don't let them see that
you're nerve. Oh let's.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yes, Hello, are you missus sayor yes?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
I'm missus Sayer.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Oh, I'm doctor Danfield.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
This is my secretary, and it's fair of fact. Oh
I commend?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Oh yeah, we're uh working with tetanotis. I'm a murder
of your friend Sam Hardy?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Oh y, yes, uh, I'll come in and please thank you?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Is uh?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Is this mister fairer? Yes? I'm fair?
Speaker 8 (17:38):
What was the name Danfield?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's right? This is my secretary. Why do you think.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Sam Hardy's murder concerns out Stanfield?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Did I say it to? Then? Why you here?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Because the Hardy spent last evening in this house. Because
when they left, you both follow them, did we.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
You're jumping into conclusions on that one brother.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I followed because Sam was drunk and I knew he
didn'sist on driving. Oh, they stopped to change seats. I
planned to insist on driving him the rest of way home.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's very good thinking, mister Fair. Fortunately I can prove
that you're lying. It would be interesting. Let's see you
do it very well? If you're a car, have good
rich silvertime tires.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes, why M just checking?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So would you mind showing me your overshoes? Overshoes, yes,
just the ones you were last night. You see, we
made an impression of some footprints we found in the
snow near the spot where Harty was shot, and I
suspect that they'll match up very nicely with the soles
of your overshoes.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Were all right? So I was standing in the woods.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Near the park car. Does that prove I shot Sam?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You're getting ahead of me there.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I didn't even remotely.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Suggest that you shot Sam Hardy anymore than the fact
that your wife drove the Hardy automobile with a corpse
of Sam still in it, onto his home suggests that
she's shot him.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
But it doesn't prove either one of you innocent.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Ess what he says true.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Don't answer that just yet, missus Fair. There's a link
in this chain of evidence that's missing. Frankly, I'm guessing
when I suggest that you were both at the scene
of the crime last night, you have no evidence. I
have what I think will turn into evidence.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yes, then you actually can't prove a thing. I won't
have to prove a thing.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
There.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Captain Otis or the State Police is on his way
here right now with missus Hardy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's Captain Otis who will do approving.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
And the so called missing link you're after has nothing
to do with Sam stab at all.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh, yes, yes, it has a lot to do with it.
I think the missing link is the real motive for
the murder.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
It didn't It isn't that serious. Oh, you've got to
believe us.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Believe what's missus?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
They?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
No, No, I won't.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
It would only be worth if the police find it
out by questioning or Blanche tells it.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Captain Otis.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
That's very sensible of you.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Missus there, all right, They let me tell it, Blanchardie,
how we're carrying on a mile flirtation wasn't serious, although
Sam happened to stepped into a room one day unexpectedly.
I see, so it became serious with Sam. I suppose,
So sure, that's the all I wanted to know. Fair,
Oh well, Rusty, what time is it?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Time?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
It's uh ten minutes to twelve?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Right, can't to know?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
This should be here any minute now, and then I
think we'll know the identity of the murderer.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Doc Danfields and I have been checking our notes all morning,
Missus Hardy, and we're reasonably sure that the footprints we
found near the scene of your husband's death were made
by Bill and Esther Thayer. But why would.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Either one of them want to murder Sam? Why they
were our best friends?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Possibly it was because of the best the two men made.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Oh no, we even you must realized that one intelligent
man wouldn't murder another just just to one a thousand
dollars bet h.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Then there must have been another motive.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Well they couldn't. Oh no, wait a minute, yes, not
too silly to think of it now.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know I might be wrong, wrong, wrong about what?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
But thinking that Bill could possibly shot Sam because what
because still was interested in me?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
That's the the oldest motive for a murder in the world,
Missus Hardy.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
There was nothing serious.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Too.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Wouldn't commit murder?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I know he wouldn't. Possibly not, I haven't met this
Bill yet, Oh he's Uh that's the player home.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
It's yes, the one with a car parking high.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's all like a dream.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I I believe it's really happening.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Bill and Sam was such a good friend.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Mm. The line between love and hate is finally's wrong,
Missus Hardy, and let's go on in and miss Fairfaxtor
waiting for us?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Uh hello, Captain Missus Hardy. Uh, Hello, Doc, hope he
didn't keep you waiting. I don't know. Everything was very
nicely timed, Dot Dan, I.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Do admitted shooting Sam. No, Blanch, I haven't did you
think I would?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Course, I didn't be all up? Only what Blanche? Do
you think it would?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I wouldn't answer that, Missus Hardy. Well, hello, miss fairfaction
help Captain? Uh, Doc, you'd better introduce me to these people,
and then let's get going right captain, Notice, how do
you do now?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Then?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Dark, let's have it very well.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
When mister and missus Harney left the house last night,
Hardy was pretty drunk. Missus Harney prevailed upon him to
stop the car and try to sober.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Him up by taking a nap. She drove into the
wagon road for that purpose. H That was when Hardy
got him behind the wheel. Like most drunks, he objected
to being told what to do. Yes, there was following
the Hardies. He saw the tail out of their car
disappear in the woods. He guessed the reason.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He stopped his own car, cut through the woods and
stood near the big pine listening.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I've already admitted that I knew Sam would be belligerate.
If Blanche needed help, I wanted to be on hand.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, that was noble of you there. However, some time later, Missus.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Fair called a taxi from the all night standing. The
ligion set out for the Hardy home.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
When she saw her husband's car park beside the road,
she drove on past, dismissed the cab and walked back.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And it was just about then that you heard the shot.
He's got, right, Missus Fair.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Yeah, that's right. You know what can I say? They know?
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, I guess there's Louisa. It was I who shut him.
You shut him there, but you didn't kill him. What
Sam Hardy was already dead when you pulled the trigger.
He died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Missus Harley had fixed
it so the fumes from the exhaust came into the car. Oh, yes,
it's true, Missus Hardy.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
We've gone over your car and found where you had
previously attached the length of rubber hose to the exhaust
pipe so you could direct the fumes with a minimum
of it. When you stopped in the woods, Missus Hardy,
Sam was asleep. You rolled up the windows of the
car and then stepped outside and waited for him to die.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Afterwards, you arranged.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The exhaust pipe the way it was before, and then
rolled down the window on the driver's side so that
no one would suspect he'd been asphyxiated.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Can't prove that, you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Can't prove it, all right, Missus Hardy. You were wearing
woolen gloves. From those gloves caught on a breath of
holding the exhaust.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
You can't help us.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Just that, not just a little thing like that.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It doesn't prove anything. It doesn't not just.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
A little thing like that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
In a moment, will return for the conclusion of danger,
doctor Danfield. But first, now, for the conclusion of.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Danger, doctor Danfield.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Just for my benefit, dan will you go on with
that story and clean up the loose ends, those ends.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Rusting Let's face it, Doc, there are pretty of them.
You must be pretty sure it was missus Hardy who
was guilty in order to ask me to back up
your bluff about the thread from the woolen glove catching
on the bracket of the exhaust pipe. Oh, I was, Captain.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
And what I can't understand is why didn't missus Slayer
see Missus.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Hardy when she ran from the woods and started up highway.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, Missus Slayer did see her, Rustine, Naturally, she didn't
give her presents away because you know that Bill was
in the woods and was practically sure.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It was he who fired the shot. That makes sense.
But look, Doc, how were you so sure that Blanche
Hardy thatsixtiated her?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Because Captain, by the time we found Hardy's body in
the car in front of his house, rigor mortis would
have set in if he had been.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Shot, and it hadn't.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
You see, rigormortis never sets in when a person dies
of cormbon monoxide poisoning.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Hey, that's right. When we opened the door of his car,
Hardy's body fell out and crumbled up in a heap.
I wouldn't have crumbled up like that if riga mortis
had set in that's.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right, But I think, why didn't you tell me about
that in the first place, Doc, Because Captain proving that
Missus Harley was lying and proving her guilty of murder
with two different things. I wanted to establish her motive first.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
That wasn't the only reason, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Frankly, I had to have material for a lecture on
delivering tomorrow night.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Who is Then we did have a nice vacation anyway,
in oy sty of Captain Otis weren't here.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I had to end our vacation with a proper gesture.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
As a matter of fact, I think I will anyway
Danger, Doctor dan pears, a human mind is like a cave.
Beyond the light.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
There are doctor passage ways and mysterious recesses. Alright, doctor
Daniel Danfield of Explorer, those unknown retreats and know their secrets.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Today's story opens in the town of Barlow, located in
southern New York State. It's late evening. Four people are
beginning a final hand of bridge outside the snug living room.
It's bitterly cold, but the light fall of snow on
the ground.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Cards are shuffled.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Belt uh uh they are folks.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Pick up your cards the last time.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
We really shouldn't stay even for this hands, knowing the
way there is long drive back the times.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Oh, ten minutes won't make much difference, and it stops
snowing an hour ago.
Speaker 7 (00:55):
Oh, what are you bid there?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We'll look at my cards straighten out here. Okay, no
bit of spade ranch, now.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
I could double bill space.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I'll be two diamonds.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
There you go talking across the board again.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
Only forget it. Forget it, Sam? What are you bidding? Sam?
Huh oh, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'll see here.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I'm saying here, good heavens, he's drunk again.
Speaker 7 (01:19):
I'm not drunk.
Speaker 8 (01:20):
Sarbar's a judge.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Say, oh, Sam, you ward drunk? What am I gonna
say to your mother? How could he be drunk? We've
only had three bourbon d.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, three bourbons each?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Sam?
Speaker 8 (01:32):
You kill the rest of the bottle when you went
out to mix those last ones?
Speaker 9 (01:35):
They're all crazy.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
Sarbar is a judge.
Speaker 9 (01:39):
I'll bet five spades five space.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh what's the sent in playing anymore?
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Come on, Sam, you might as go get start.
Speaker 8 (01:45):
No, wait a minute, I want to talk to this
judg yet.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Look, Sam, I'm your best friend. I'm telling you, if
you keep on with this drinking, it's gonna get you down.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's so. Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Some people can handle liquor and some can't. You happen
to be one of those who can't. Why don't you face?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh? Bill?
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Is no use talking to him when he's in this condition?
Yes there is two.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Sam always remembers everything that's said when he's drunk. I
think God should talk to him. I wouldn't care so
much of his mother weren't visiting us. You you'll blame
it all on me.
Speaker 9 (02:12):
See, a woman doesn't care if I drink telling my
mother she's thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You know that's not so.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It's tall.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
You are being hard on him, badge. After all, Sam
works hard and drinking relaxes, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Whoever?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I heard that crack before? Sure he worked out, so
do I sort of a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Just because Sam makes more money than the rest of
us doesn't mean he works any harder has the right
to drink himself.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And it was stupid.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Oh, I'm sofer am I.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I didn't say you were stupid, But what I am
saying is that one of these days your ticker is
gonna quit.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Keep up this place.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
You're killing you. I'm trying to keep ahead of the
rest of.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
The crowd, not steal belly boy.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Okay, that's to me.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
But you won't be wearing that silly grin when you
wind up in a hospital or a casket.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
No, no, why no shopping, belly boy.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
But I live longer than you though that the way
you're going.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
No, you will want a bet.
Speaker 9 (03:06):
I'll keep going twice as hard and live twice as long.
You're just lazy, that's all, billy boy. You're envious, You
aren't smart. You spend half your time thinking up excuses
because you're not making the doll I am damn stuff
no time. Somebody tosks Guy off. He's got an inferiority complex.
(03:27):
I'm second of his preaching, second being told I'm an
old boozehound, knock on myself out just to keep ahead
of the pack. He thinks you live longer than I
won't let him make a bet, but.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I'd sam, I will I bet you a thousand dollars
I live longer than you too.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Oh, this is ridicuoud Sam, I haven't kick one of this, Blanche.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
All you gotta do is worry about telling Mama I
what stinkhole thousand bucks ain't.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Billy boy.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's a bet who's gonna pay off?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And the other one conks out?
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Will you try out to check right now and give
him esther tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She can give you no such things.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Frank has gone far enough.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Sill.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
You can't afford to tie up a thousand dollars for
the rest of your natural days and i'll days.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
Do you hear what she said, Philly boyne natural days?
Speaker 7 (04:20):
She doesn't know natural days? Huh?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
If she only knew what we knew, Hey, Billy boy.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Natural days. Oh boy, shut what are you running on about?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Anybody?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Shall I tell him Billy Boyne?
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Shall I tell him that our natural days will probably
end before Esther has time to get the checks Customarrow.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
In a moment.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You'll return for the second act of danger, doctor dan Field.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But first.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I'll back to Michael Dunn for the second act o.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Danger, Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, Rustini, now that it stops snowing, we want to
be back in New York.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
In less than an hour.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
I almost hate to get back. Then, we had such
a wonderful time up at Lake Pleasant.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yes, yes, it was pleasant, rather a romantic spot. Lake Pleasant.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
And what was that you said?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I said, we had a nice vacation. Well, it'll be
good to get back to work again.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
No, and I was sure that you said?
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Then?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes, yes. If I see a young woman standing on
the road waving her arms.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Don't stop, Dan, it might be a hold.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Of I thought i'd rust In had young ladies in trouble.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
She does look scared.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Hello, there anything wrong?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Thank Heaven?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Your stought?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
My husband he's been shot shocked? Your husband? Where is he?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I can't explain.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now You've got to help me.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Of course we will Russie, move over and give the
young lady room.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
We don't all right, hand let me help, thank you?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
All right, about a.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Mile down the road, tell me how did this accident happen? Missus?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
It wasn't an accident.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Sam was murdered.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Murdered, Yes, it was terrible. Shot came from off in
the woods. I don't know what to do. You see,
Sam and Bill had made.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
A best na. Suppose you tell us who you are
and then begin at the beginning of the circle.
Speaker 10 (06:29):
You poor kid stand You have to ask your questions now,
all right, I want to talk.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
My name is Blanchardie. Tonight, Sam, my husband and I
spent the evening and boller with.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Some friends Bill Claire and his wife Sam.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Thank too much.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We all lected him.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What was the best you spoke of?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
It was still Sam got annoyed because Bill told him
if he kept on drinking and working so harty, you
wouldn't live.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
My Tonga and your husband bet this Bill he'd outlive him.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yes, we didn't take him seriously, perstuly. Both wrote out
checks and gave him the bills right best to the hole.
And you think that Bill shot your husband in order
to win the bathroom all. I don't know what to think.
Sam's mother's thing with us. I didn't want to see
Sam drunk, so I drove into an old wagon road
on the way home, hoping that Sam would take a
(07:17):
nap and sober up.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And that's when he was shot. Yes, Sam was just drunk.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Enough to be stubborn.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Turned the heater on, sat dead, talking, laughing about the
bed he'd made with Bills.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
How long were you there before it happened?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
But about thirty minutes, I should think for a moment,
I didn't realize what had happened. I I just sat
then Sam and fallen sideways. I spoke to him, He
didn't answer her. Guess I lost my head.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I don't blame you, how me?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you remember what you did? Missus Harney?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I got on started to run. Suddenly I realized I
was going in the wrong direction. I turned and came
part way back, so moving light mute, with an automobile
passing on the road.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I guess otherwise I would have come long.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And you can think of no one else but this
Bill Fair might wanna see your husband, Dad.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Oh, but you mustn't say that Bill wouldn't wanna see Pam.
Dad they were good friends.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Low down, please, I think it was.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
A long here.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Oh yes, there's this wagon little going into the woods.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
There's the tie tracks. Alright, yeah, yes, I see them.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You too, Stay here?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Will you?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Then?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I'm cold?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh you're not rush the a.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The police would never forgive us if we messed up
this new fall on the snow with a lot of footprints.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Uh hand me the flash flight from the glove compartment.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
I guess you're right here.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You are, Thank you. Better close the door and keep
it here going. It's pretty cold. I'll be back in
a minute.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Be careful, Dan.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You don't suppose the man who shot dam is still around?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I doubt it. Besides, Dan can take care of himself.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I don't know what i'd have done if you can
come along?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Would you mind telling me your name?
Speaker 10 (08:51):
Ohh, I'm sorry we should have told you before. Dan
is doctor Daniel Danfield, and I'm the secretary of Rusty Fairfax.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Doctor Danfield is crimes. Yes, because then perhaps that you
find out who shot towards them, he probably will. He
likes to get mixed up in this sort of thing.
Oh here he comes back. Find anything Dan?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh not much?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
What do you mean not much.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean rusty that it looks as though it might
have been Missus Hardy who had drunk too much of
the party, and not her husband.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I didn't find your husband, Missus Hardy. In fact, I
didn't find your automobile. There's nothing back there but a
single set of tire tracks going off into the woods.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
No.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I must be going mad.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, sure you didn't have too much to drink yourself,
Missus Hardy.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Of course, I'm.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Sure even if i'd have too much to drink, would
I manufacture such a fantastic story? Would my husband leaving
out on the highway at twelve o'clock at night when
I urge you to go looking for the automobile if
I didn't think it was there.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think she's right, Dan, I said, no Ques about it?
Tell me is this your streetments attorney.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yes, it's the third house on the road.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh, something wrong?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Well?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
That automobile park in front of all, Dan, if someone
sitting in it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, I see there is.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Sam and see the bullet hole in the side of
his head.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right interests me more.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Missus Honney is at the window on the driver's side
of the Curain's open.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Man, let's get out and take a look.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I knew we'd find it with Sam.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, just to make sure that's open the door.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Oh, Dan, he must have been kney against the door.
He got all in the heap.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, yes, I see.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Then what are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dan?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
We we just can't leave in here.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We don't have to rust in until I can get
rid of Captain notice of the state place oulders, I
think will be very much interested in this case.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, Captain, how did you make out? Not so good? Duck?
We dusted everything for fingerprints and didn't find any. M
I rather expected that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And now, as closed it was last evening, everyone will
be wearing gloves.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Have you talked with missus Hardy this morning, Captain Notice?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yes, and fantastic though her story sounds, I believe it. Well,
I suppose there's nothing to do but to begin at
the beginning and work the thing out. Duc how about
uh sticking around? Huh?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And now to god you, captain, suppose we go out
to the sceenior of the alleged murder and see what
the marks in the snow tell it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Anyway, come on, let's get out. Uh, there's a set
of tire marks made by Hardy's car. I can check
those of these enough.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
And uh, those footprints were made by Dan last night.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Uh, I see, Well how about that other set of
footprints buttings in the tire tracks? Say there is another
set someone walked in the tire tracks?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Hm, well, game that didn't walk out. Well, they were
made by a woman.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Mm it seems strange that they went into the woods
and didn't come out. Yes, yes, well, so the car
was parked.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
And the footprints we've just been following in right here.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
How about that set over there?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
All those, Captain, I think we're made by Mensius Hardy.
When she left the car, she said she ran into
the woods away for she realized she was going in
the wrong direction, remember, mum.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And how about this set of footprints that lead in
from the road and end here where the car was parked.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think we'll find, Captain that those were made by
the person who drove the car back to the Hardy home.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
But again, there's only one set of tire tracks going
off into the wood.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Naturally there would be arresting the chances off that this
wagon road swings back to the main highway or possibly.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And it sets another road over beyond. H That sounds reasonable,
But before we check it, let's look around here them
are mm that's a good idea, Captain.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Seeing now, m.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hardy was shot in the left side of the head,
so the killer must have been over in that direction, right,
you are all right, let's go. It couldn't have been
very far away because of the heavy undergrowth around here.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
He would probably standing over there in that big pine. M.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You're right, my sair fans. Here's the uh footprint in
the snow.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And oh, there's no doubt these were made by a man.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
There are two sets, one.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Coming up the tree and the other cutting back through
the woods towards the highway.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah, look that depression in the snow.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Why, George, it's the handle of it. Well, yes, it's
a gun. Don't touch it, dark. The killer must have
thrown it there after he shot Hardy. Oh do you
think it's okay? Why? Of course, it's perfectly obvious what happened.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
And what if it is the murder probably loves too,
There won't be any fingerprint.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh wait a minute, I look, dark, what's on your mind?
Don't you think that the killer stood here and shot
Hardy and then threw the gun away. No, I don't
cat to him. I don't believe a calculating.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Murderer, such as this person must have been, would do
anything so obvious.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Mm, well, then what do you think happened?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think that if we make an impression of these footprints,
we'll find that they belong to boots owned by Bill Flair.
I think we'll find also that the gun there in
the snow didn't belong to him at all.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And I think that the woman's.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Footprints which we found on the tire tracks were made
by missus Flair.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
In a moment, we'll return for the third act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
But first, now back to Michael Dunn for the third
act of.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Danger, Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Oh oh, hello expecting company?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Bill? What makes you ask that?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
All morning long, you've been as nervous as a cat,
and now I find you staring up the road as
though you expected to.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Go to nonsense. Have a bit of a hangover, that's all.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
When you think the police can yours?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Lol, What the devil are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Isn't that what you worried about? Bill? Isn't it that
police car you expect you see coming down.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
The road seven six? What are you getting at esther?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I know, Bill?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Know what?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
How about you and blench about me?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Sce you do Bill what?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
They'll?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Don't lie? Please, it'll only make matters worse.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
I an't saying I understand what.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
But it was only a harmless little plication mine. She's
very attractive, but she's not for you, though.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
I see how long have you known this matter?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Nothing matters now except that I still love you, and
I'm not going to let it make any difference. And
you don't have to worry about the police.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Why should I worry about the police?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I followed you last night though, when you said that
you were worried about Sam driving home because it was
so drunk.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I knew it was your excuse.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
It wasn't an excuse.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I was still built stop line.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Sam wasn't even driving. Blanche was at the wheel.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Well, she wouldn't have been for long. You know Sam
is when he's drunk.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Right, That's right. Sam was at the wheel when he
was shot. Let me go.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What did you say, oh darling?
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Why won't you trust me? Why don't you believe that
I'm trying.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
To help help. I don't need any help. I don't
need anybody.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
There's a trembling. Why because you think that I saw
you come out of the woods. I did you? I
heard the shot?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, that's where you were last night. Huh who's that?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
It's the police as to your kill.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You are.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Get control of yourself. I don't let them see that
you're nerve. Oh let's.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yes, Hello, are you missus sayor yes?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
I'm missus Sayer.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Oh, I'm doctor Danfield.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
This is my secretary, and it's fair of fact. Oh
I commend?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Oh yeah, we're uh working with tetanotis. I'm a murder
of your friend Sam Hardy?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Oh y, yes, uh, I'll come in and please thank you?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Is uh?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Is this mister fairer? Yes? I'm fair?
Speaker 8 (17:38):
What was the name Danfield?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's right? This is my secretary. Why do you think.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Sam Hardy's murder concerns out Stanfield?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Did I say it to? Then? Why you here?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Because the Hardy spent last evening in this house. Because
when they left, you both follow them, did we.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
You're jumping into conclusions on that one brother.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I followed because Sam was drunk and I knew he
didn'sist on driving. Oh, they stopped to change seats. I
planned to insist on driving him the rest of way home.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's very good thinking, mister Fair. Fortunately I can prove
that you're lying. It would be interesting. Let's see you
do it very well? If you're a car, have good
rich silvertime tires.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes, why M just checking?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So would you mind showing me your overshoes? Overshoes, yes,
just the ones you were last night. You see, we
made an impression of some footprints we found in the
snow near the spot where Harty was shot, and I
suspect that they'll match up very nicely with the soles
of your overshoes.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Were all right? So I was standing in the woods.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Near the park car. Does that prove I shot Sam?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You're getting ahead of me there.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I didn't even remotely.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Suggest that you shot Sam Hardy anymore than the fact
that your wife drove the Hardy automobile with a corpse
of Sam still in it, onto his home suggests that
she's shot him.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
But it doesn't prove either one of you innocent.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Ess what he says true.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Don't answer that just yet, missus Fair. There's a link
in this chain of evidence that's missing. Frankly, I'm guessing
when I suggest that you were both at the scene
of the crime last night, you have no evidence. I
have what I think will turn into evidence.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yes, then you actually can't prove a thing. I won't
have to prove a thing.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
There.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Captain Otis or the State Police is on his way
here right now with missus Hardy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's Captain Otis who will do approving.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
And the so called missing link you're after has nothing
to do with Sam stab at all.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh, yes, yes, it has a lot to do with it.
I think the missing link is the real motive for
the murder.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
It didn't It isn't that serious. Oh, you've got to
believe us.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Believe what's missus?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
They?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
No, No, I won't.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
It would only be worth if the police find it
out by questioning or Blanche tells it.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Captain Otis.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
That's very sensible of you.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Missus there, all right, They let me tell it, Blanchardie,
how we're carrying on a mile flirtation wasn't serious, although
Sam happened to stepped into a room one day unexpectedly.
I see, so it became serious with Sam. I suppose,
So sure, that's the all I wanted to know. Fair,
Oh well, Rusty, what time is it?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Time?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
It's uh ten minutes to twelve?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Right, can't to know?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
This should be here any minute now, and then I
think we'll know the identity of the murderer.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Doc Danfields and I have been checking our notes all morning,
Missus Hardy, and we're reasonably sure that the footprints we
found near the scene of your husband's death were made
by Bill and Esther Thayer. But why would.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Either one of them want to murder Sam? Why they
were our best friends?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Possibly it was because of the best the two men made.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Oh no, we even you must realized that one intelligent
man wouldn't murder another just just to one a thousand
dollars bet h.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Then there must have been another motive.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Well they couldn't. Oh no, wait a minute, yes, not
too silly to think of it now.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know I might be wrong, wrong, wrong about what?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
But thinking that Bill could possibly shot Sam because what
because still was interested in me?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
That's the the oldest motive for a murder in the world,
Missus Hardy.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
There was nothing serious.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Too.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Wouldn't commit murder?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I know he wouldn't. Possibly not, I haven't met this
Bill yet, Oh he's Uh that's the player home.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
It's yes, the one with a car parking high.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's all like a dream.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I I believe it's really happening.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Bill and Sam was such a good friend.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Mm. The line between love and hate is finally's wrong,
Missus Hardy, and let's go on in and miss Fairfaxtor
waiting for us?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Uh hello, Captain Missus Hardy. Uh, Hello, Doc, hope he
didn't keep you waiting. I don't know. Everything was very
nicely timed, Dot Dan, I.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Do admitted shooting Sam. No, Blanch, I haven't did you
think I would?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Course, I didn't be all up? Only what Blanche? Do
you think it would?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I wouldn't answer that, Missus Hardy. Well, hello, miss fairfaction
help Captain? Uh, Doc, you'd better introduce me to these people,
and then let's get going right captain, Notice, how do
you do now?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Then?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Dark, let's have it very well.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
When mister and missus Harney left the house last night,
Hardy was pretty drunk. Missus Harney prevailed upon him to
stop the car and try to sober.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Him up by taking a nap. She drove into the
wagon road for that purpose. H That was when Hardy
got him behind the wheel. Like most drunks, he objected
to being told what to do. Yes, there was following
the Hardies. He saw the tail out of their car
disappear in the woods. He guessed the reason.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He stopped his own car, cut through the woods and
stood near the big pine listening.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I've already admitted that I knew Sam would be belligerate.
If Blanche needed help, I wanted to be on hand.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, that was noble of you there. However, some time later, Missus.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Fair called a taxi from the all night standing. The
ligion set out for the Hardy home.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
When she saw her husband's car park beside the road,
she drove on past, dismissed the cab and walked back.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And it was just about then that you heard the shot.
He's got, right, Missus Fair.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Yeah, that's right. You know what can I say? They know?
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, I guess there's Louisa. It was I who shut him.
You shut him there, but you didn't kill him. What
Sam Hardy was already dead when you pulled the trigger.
He died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Missus Harley had fixed
it so the fumes from the exhaust came into the car. Oh, yes,
it's true, Missus Hardy.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
We've gone over your car and found where you had
previously attached the length of rubber hose to the exhaust
pipe so you could direct the fumes with a minimum
of it. When you stopped in the woods, Missus Hardy,
Sam was asleep. You rolled up the windows of the
car and then stepped outside and waited for him to die.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Afterwards, you arranged.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The exhaust pipe the way it was before, and then
rolled down the window on the driver's side so that
no one would suspect he'd been asphyxiated.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Can't prove that, you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Can't prove it, all right, Missus Hardy. You were wearing
woolen gloves. From those gloves caught on a breath of
holding the exhaust.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
You can't help us.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Just that, not just a little thing like that.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It doesn't prove anything. It doesn't not just.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
A little thing like that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
In a moment, will return for the conclusion of danger,
doctor Danfield. But first, now, for the conclusion of.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Danger, doctor Danfield.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Just for my benefit, dan will you go on with
that story and clean up the loose ends, those ends.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Rusting Let's face it, Doc, there are pretty of them.
You must be pretty sure it was missus Hardy who
was guilty in order to ask me to back up
your bluff about the thread from the woolen glove catching
on the bracket of the exhaust pipe. Oh, I was, Captain.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
And what I can't understand is why didn't missus Slayer
see Missus.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Hardy when she ran from the woods and started up highway.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, Missus Slayer did see her, Rustine, Naturally, she didn't
give her presents away because you know that Bill was
in the woods and was practically sure.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It was he who fired the shot. That makes sense.
But look, Doc, how were you so sure that Blanche
Hardy thatsixtiated her?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Because Captain, by the time we found Hardy's body in
the car in front of his house, rigor mortis would
have set in if he had been.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Shot, and it hadn't.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
You see, rigormortis never sets in when a person dies
of cormbon monoxide poisoning.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Hey, that's right. When we opened the door of his car,
Hardy's body fell out and crumbled up in a heap.
I wouldn't have crumbled up like that if riga mortis
had set in that's.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right, But I think, why didn't you tell me about
that in the first place, Doc, Because Captain proving that
Missus Harley was lying and proving her guilty of murder
with two different things. I wanted to establish her motive first.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
That wasn't the only reason, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Frankly, I had to have material for a lecture on
delivering tomorrow night.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Who is Then we did have a nice vacation anyway,
in oy sty of Captain Otis weren't here.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I had to end our vacation with a proper gesture.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
As a matter of fact, I think I will anyway
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