August 2, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ten pm Eastern wartime.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your dialist set at six sixty w E A F
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Wrinso RI I N s O.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Sylvia Rich Wrinso presents Boston Blackie starring Chester Morris.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hello, is mister Manlever there?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Why No, I'm sorry he's not. This is his secretary,
Miss Rochelle. Can I help you?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, you can deliver a message for me. I've been
trying to reach him all day. This is John I'm Partridge,
president of the Morton National Bank.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Mister Partridge. But well, Arthur Borden is president of the
Morton Bank, isn't he nut since yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Is not? Give us message to mister Manletter. Please tell
him that his notes to the bank would you and
payable on Monday of this week. And we must have
our money.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
But mister Partridge, we showed our books to mister Borden
only last week and he agreed to extend the notes
until our accounts receivable came in. Our business is in
fine shaped, mister Partridge.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Our books prove it. Please tell mister Manletter that we'll
accept our money in the morning, Miss Rachelle.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
But it's a hundred thousand dollars. We can't possibly raise
that money overnight.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm sorry, that's mister Manletther's problem.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Goodbye, one hundred thousand dollars. Hello Jeane, mister manletter, the
bank just called. Does a new president make they.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Want to foreclothes on my notes?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
How did you know?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Read this letter? I got at the house this morning.
Here read it.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
If you want to know how to prevent the bank
from foreclosing on your note, have your friend Boughton Blackie
visit a house at fifteen hundred Street at seven o'clock
this evening, Signed a friend, mister manleutter. What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I don't know. I can't see any connection between the
bank and Blackie, but I do know I won't ask
him to go to Hunter Street.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Well, can we raise one hundred thousand dollars for the
notes overnight?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I don't think so, but I'll try. Well, there isn't
much hope.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Then you must call your friend Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No. If it only means trouble for Blackie, I don't
know how or why, but it must be trouble for
him if I am being forced to ask him to
go there.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
But Blackie thrives on trouble. Mister manletter and it'll save
your business.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
No, I won't call Blackie. I'm going out to try
to raise the money. You'll hear from me later.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
All right, Sir Alice, will you call a number for me?
Please get me Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Get me Boston Blackie. For words that the week use
to call their champion. You know, some expressions seem so
natural and right we use them all the time without
even thinking, like ruby red and sky blue and so on. Well,
what I get a particular kick out of is the
fact that we've added a new one to the nation's vocabulary. Yes,
I hear tell that. Nowadays you ladies say rinsol white
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when you want to talk about really white clothes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Of course, there's a mighty good reason why Rinso gets
your clothes so white.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Rinso's soaphy rich Sudds won't take no for an answer
from dirt. They pitch right in in your tabow washer
and go to town. Yes, Rinso gets out more dirt,
and that's why you ladies are able to turn out
those beautiful Rinso white Rinso bright washes. So next wash day,
whistle for the kind of wash you're proud to hang
(03:45):
on your line like this, And remember it stands for
Rinsol White. Now meet Chester Morris as Boston. Blackie.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Tell me, Blackie, which one of these girls do you like? Be?
Come on, take I'll get their pictures. Come on, yeah,
all right, Shorty, I'll judge your personal beauty contest for you.
Now this blonde here call at Shorty. I'll get the phone. Hello, Blackie, Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Blackie, this is Jean. I had to call you. Mister
Manlutter's in terrible trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Hey, come on with your Blackie. Come, I get off
that phone. I gotta know about this redhead lay off? Shorty. Well,
what is a gene? What's the matter with Arthur?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
The bank called an hour ago. I've been trying since
send to reach you. They're going to take over the
business if Arthur doesn't redeem his notes for one hundred
thousand dollars by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They can't do that, Gene, Yes they can.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
The notes are overdue.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Hey boss, what about this brunette? Now, come on come
on with you. Whyat not you? Jane? Look, Honey, I
happen anywhere near one hundred thousand, and I wouldn't know
where to go to get it by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I didn't expect you what, Blackie, But mister Manlutter received
a message saying that if you come to fifty Hunter
Street at twelve at seven o'clock tonight, the notes will
be renewed.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
If I go to fifty hundred street. Well what does
that mean? I don't know, Blackie, But if I show up,
they'll renew.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
That's what the note says. Mister Manmater knew you'd be
in some kind of danger if you went, and he
would ask you.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
For Oh, don't worry, chick, you'll hear from me.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So you finally got done? Now come on help me
with I got fifty pictures here, pick out the one
I should print up on my mind. I can't do
anything about your pin up problem now, shorty, I've got
something at fifty hundred Street that I've got to pin down.
(05:37):
Come in, Blacky, I'm in black, I'm in black. Wait
what is this? Sounds like a record? Hey, you're behind
that desk, you in the mask? What is this? Come on,
talk basket of.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All Boston Blatton.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Don't try anything, fully, there's one of my men behind
you with a gun. Now that you've turned around to
see me, tell you that you are listening to this recording,
which I made because I don't want you to know
what my voice sounds like in.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Person a record. Huh, Well, personally, I prefer Harry James GotY.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I want you to listen, Camlet, what follows? Have you
anything to say?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Sure? I have. I hope you'll get.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Okay, Boss, take your record off. He's out cold. I
uh hope I didn't hit him too hard.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Boss.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
There's no sense killing him. The law is gonna do
that for us very soon.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Gee, Blankie, way you been, I've been having pumps. Well,
I hope they look like their mother. Well I'm back, Shorty,
only I'm not the same guy. You should have had
your head exam for going down that Hunter Street. June. Yes,
I I had a crack. That's worse. Take a look
at this, shorty. A bullethole? Yeah yeah, col pocket. Would
you shoot Blackie? I didn't shoot anybody, Shorty. Somebody slugged me,
and when I woke up, my gun was gone and
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this hole was in my pocket. I must have been
out for hours. It's almost eleven o'clock. I called Jean
and she told me the bank when you had man
let his notes? The minute I showed up at the
Hunter Street place. Somebody sure took an offul crack. I said, hey, bleak,
it's more than that, shorty, only how much more and
exactly what? I don't know? Get my roe, will you please? Yeah? Yeah, sure, boss,
give me your coat and I'll hang it over this
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hit chair. Well here did Blackie? What do you make
of this business this afternoon? I don't make it. It's
got me stumped. Yeah, me too. Well, here's your robe. Thanks.
I think I'll lie down and relax for half an hour.
Would you mind fixing me some coffee?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sure, have it free in just a minute, boss, Thanks,
Hello Blackie. Glad to see me, well, Inspector Farady. Of course,
I'm glad to see you, which goes to prove how
easy I am to please a very funny blackie. I
think you overdid it this afternoon, or my head sure
feels like I did. That isn't what I mean. Did
you ever hear of a private detective named fred viswl
(08:00):
crooked Jamis? Yeh oh, sure I've heard of him, and
he's heard of me too, Farday. I got the guy's
license suspended when he tried to blackmail me. Old couple
of friends of mine. You know last year, that's the
guy he didn't like you, Blackie. You know I'd feel
a whole lot worse if you said Rita Hayworth didn't
like me, you didn't like him either. I hate rats Friday.
Come on, what's all this about? Nothing? Only vis Will
(08:20):
was found shot to death an hour ago. Huh, I'm
taking you in for his murdered Blackie. Let's get going now. Look, Fataday,
you've done ridiculous things every day of your life, but
right now you're borrowing from next week. What makes you
think I bumped off this one. I don't think it.
I gnaw it. We've got your gun and it's got
your fingerprints on it. Oh, we found it near Viswill's body.
And if I'm not mistaken, isn't that a bullet hole
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in the pocket of this coat of yours on the
chair you fired from your pocket? Well maybe i'd burned
the hole with a cigarette. Uh, no cigarette ever burned
a hole like that. Come on, let's get going, Blackie,
get dressed and hurry up. Take off that rope. Put
a coat on. You're coming with me. Come on, take
that robe all right? All right, pretty robe isn't it
too bad? You won't be allowed to wear it in jail.
You like this robe, Inspector, Well, here, take a good
look at it. Take a good look at it right
(09:03):
over your head, Shorty Chory. Yeah, yeah, I'm right here, boss.
I was waiting for a second for him before I
come to help me tie him up. Shorty, we'll use
the cord from the rope. Now, quiet, did inspector? Quiet?
Don't you know it's impolite to talk with your mouth full.
You'll be tied up like a chicken in just a
little minute. Now, Well, I know what the score is now, Shorty.
Somebody's fixed it to look like I knocked off Fred Visible. Yeah,
I heard in the very pretty picture is a boss.
(09:25):
I'm not worried about the picture, Shorty. I'm worried about
the frame. Who is it?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Who's there?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Put me in?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Jean, hurry, it's black Blackie. Well thanks, huh. I'm sorry
about coming to your apartment at this hour, Jean, but
I couldn't reach you on the telephone.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
They closed the downstairs switchboard at midnight. What is it, Blacky?
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I need information, Gene, I need all you know I
can remember there's some connection between a I have a
detective named fred Viswell and somebody at the Morton National Bank. Now,
who was it that spoke to you on the telephone.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The new president. His name is John Partridge.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, that's the man. I'm going to see. Faraday's on
my trail again, Jeane, and I've got to clear myself.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh, you'll never be able to get into the bank
to see Partridge, especially if Faraday has a dragnet out
for you.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
As soon as you show up, they'll throw in jail.
Oh don't worry. I'll figure out a way to get
in to see him. But if I don't get anywhere
with Partridge, I'm a dead jack.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Good morning, Good morning, missus, good morning.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh I let you fail at the protect Thank you.
I'll be in my office if anyone wants me. I
don't open your mouth, Partridge, or this gun will shut
it permanently. What what do you want? Aren't you one
of the special beliefs that protects the bank? Oh well,
don't let this uniform fool you. I wire just to
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get in here and keep away from your desk. You know,
I'm allergic to the sudden pushing of buttons. Ah, that's better. Now.
Do you know who I am? No, I'm Bosston Blackie.
That doesn't mean a thing to me. Oh I think
it does. You called Arthur man Letter's office and told
him the bank wouldn't renew his notes, but he received
a letter saying that if I were to go to
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fifty hundred Street, the bank would renew. Maybe you know
what you're talking about, but I don't. You've got to
be the man behind a pretty shrewd frame of Partridge
unless you're acting on somebody's instructions. Now, which is it?
You know that if I raised my voice, you'd be
shot dead with the bank guards before you could go
through the front door. Well, i'd have company Partridge. Believe me.
You Inspector Faraday thinks I killed a man. They don't
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hang you twice for double killing. Why was I framed
for the murder of Fred Visible? I don't know any
Fred Visible, and I don't know anything about any telephone
call that was supposed to be made by me. The
Arthur man letter you don't, eh. How about the renewal
of man Letter's note? There never was any question about
renewing man letters. No, his credit is excellent. The note
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was renewed by me personally at ten o'clock yesterday morning
with a note re attesting to the time. And that
was certainly long before my alleged phone call. You played
at cozy. You know your new man letter would call me,
so you bluffed him. How long are you going to
make me stand here? Can't you see there's nothing I
know that can help you.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Why don't you go?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Will I've got another stop to make. But the minute
I leave this office you'll call for help, of course,
of course. Oh but you're not going to You know,
the only way you can do any calling Parthage is
to talk in your sleep. Mister Borton. Yes, I'm sorry
(12:43):
to disturbut at your home, my name is Boston Blackie.
How do you do, mister Blacke. I came up here
to see you, mister Borton, about your bank? You mean
about what used to be my bank. I'm sorry. Who
decided to replace you? Was president? The board of director forward?
And was it done suddenly? Yes? Very uh huh? And
where did John Partridge come from?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I don't know you'd been on our board of directors
only a short file.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh I'm an old.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Man, Blackie. The loss of my bank was a blow
to me. Everything came so suddenly. I haven't gotten you
not being there anymore. Will you forgive me if i'd
rather not talk about Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I understand, mister Borton. I'm going to try to get
your bank back for you, but I need some help.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Here's an address where I can be reached. Oh, you
must have some loyal employee at the bank you can
depend on, And would you call him and get him
to find out something about Partridge? And if you get
any information, send me a message. And send that ring
you're wearing with it so I know it's from you.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I'll send you a message if I get it, but
with just a paper clip on it. I haven't been
able to get this ring off in years. The paper
clip will identify my messenger if I hear anything good.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Give me a little help. I'll turn a murder over
it to Inspector Faraday, get rid of a charge against myself,
and give you a bank right in your side pocket.
We've got to stay down here at my waterfront hide
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out during the day, Shorty. Every copping town is on
our tail, and Faraday's sworn he won't sleep till he
brings me in. It's okay with me, Blackie, and go ahead.
It's your deal. You got me only see you got
me sixty to seventeen and two boxes. That's your deal.
You know one thing about Jim Rummy. It sure passes
the time away. Yeah, it passes my doorway too.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, you too question him?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Come on, Petsy, you're coming. Look, Blackie, stand up and
don't try No, no, melan foolish. I know all about
you and your trucks.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Well I wasn't exactly going to ask you to pick
a card.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Who are you a guy who ain't going to be
outsmarted by you? That little guy a Petsy?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, tire him up, good dude, don't talk Tie, I'm
tiring him.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
He ain't going going nowhere for a while.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Okay, Bras we start moving, Blackie ready, Pansy, Yeah, your
arm ready, mug.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, of course, don't anybody ask me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You're ready, Blackie, But you don't know for what I'll
start moving.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh this is a ride, huh okay, one way.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh, I wouldn't say that, Blackie. We're coming back, not seeing.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Me, but we got orders to get you, orders to
get me. Uh. Dealing in the blackie market.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You're straining arm reaching for jokes like that.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I thought that was rather clevers.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
But you might as well know something. We ain't taking
you on any gang ride. We're turning you over to
the cop.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah. I'll bet a couple of hoods like you wouldn't
go within two miles at headquarters. I guarantee Fawaday's got
charges hanging over both you guys.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Maybe only he'll be so glad to see you he
won't be able to think straight. All right, let's get moving, Blackie,
and remember I'm the guy that's got the gun on you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Okay, mug, but take my word for it. Someday you're
going to beg me to forget that, Blackey. There's something
natural about the way you look behind bars. They look
good on you. Okay, You've got no idea how nice
it is to see you sitting so sweetly in that sound. Now, Faraday, listen,
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I didn't knock off thissile, no kidding, of course not.
And you didn't throw your bathrobe over my head and
tie me up, either, did you, Blackey? Well, yes, I
did do that, Faaday, you know I did, but I
did it to help you. Oh, this is gonna be good.
Now tell me how or somebody knocked off Fred Biswell.
Your job is to catch murderers, Faraday. I had to
be free to help you, see Blacke, you should have
been a lawyer. Thanks only you're overlooking a slight something.
(16:31):
Your gun, your pretty little gun with your fingerprints on it,
and a slug from it in Visible's head and a
bullet hole in your coat pocket. Nobody else kills Visbel Blackie.
You've got no alibi. You hated the guy, and your
gun did the job. Looks like kind of a perfect
job to me. This is a frame of Faraday. Now
you've got to do something you've never done before. What
use your head? You're in jail, Blackie, and you tell
(16:53):
me to use my head. Don't you think this is
a spot where you should use your.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Well, it seems as though Inspector Faraday is about to
realize a lifelong ambition and has finally found a charge
against Boston Blackie that will stick. However, that remains to
be seen.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
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(18:15):
Now back to Boston Blackie starring Chester Morris. Blackie is
in jail. Inspector Faraday knows that it was Blackie's gun
that killed Fred viiswell, and Blackie can't clear himself while
he's in prison. Into the cell.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Block where Blackie is being kept, walks a young lady.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
The policeman at the end of the carter said, I
could come in and talk to all the other policemen
in the whole jail, and you're the other policeman, so
I thought I'd come over and talk to you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
All right, But about what about the ball?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Of course everybody knows about the ball.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
What ball?
Speaker 8 (18:44):
The ball we're giving. But I'm selling tickets only to policemen.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Oh, I've heard everything selling tickets to policemen for a
civilians ball.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
How much are they a dollar?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
But the policeman at the end of the quarter said.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Here's a dollar, and keep the ticket. And the next
policeman is right down past this row of cells. Go
by the him when you please. Yeah, And uh, don't
tell me that bag you're carrying is full of tickets.
Aren't that many? Please?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Men, you're so silly, of course not. I always carry
a bag.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
It makes me look as if I'm always about ready
to go someplace.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You can go right now. I unlocked the door. You
can walk down the corridor till you find another cop
at the end of it. His name's Murphy.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Isn't every policeman I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
All right, go go on miss right down the corridor.
Don't mind them muggs and the cells.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Blackie, Jeane, what are you doing here? This isn't visiting day, Blackie. Listen,
I've got to keep walking.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
When the guard looks this way.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Oh, don't be silly. Come in the doors. Open the
cell door's open, sure, try it.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
It is, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
How did you do that?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Close the door?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You know I could open the cell door, all right, Jean,
that was a sinch, But I haven't figured out yet
how to get past the guards at both ends of
the guard.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Stop figuring it, Blackie. Here, look this bag I brought.
It's an outfit that is the one I'm wearing, only
it's a couple of sizes is larger.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Put it on quick, boud and leave you in the
cell or nothing doing hoy.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I'll go out the door I came in, Blackie, and
you go out the other one.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Only hurry. The guard might get curious.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Okay, well I won't take me a second first room,
my trousers up when oh, oh, you brought a wig too?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You think of everything? Can I can I get into
these shoes?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Sure you can? Then hurry Blackie, don't forget your hat.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Say it's a cute one. All right, zip me up
with you? All set?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I just walk out, black In. Tell a coop at
the end of the corridor his name's Murphy. Tell him
he ran out of tickets. Uh can you talk like
a girl?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Oh me, of course I can.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
You better not talk.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Buy Blackie and Luck.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Get me back in my car.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Thanks, Jane, You're wonderful.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
See you later, Blackie, you look awful cute not outfit?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Watch out for the wolf or not me for once?
I wanna be on the receiving end of a This
is the how shorty fifty Hunter Street. I don't know
what I'd expect to find here, but let's go in
why boss, Well, maybe I can pick up something inside
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that'll give me a clue to that mask. Man. Uh,
you see any lights? No, not ring anybody. Okay, now,
don't hit your flashlight or we close the street door.
Oh what kind of a lock is this? I don't know,
but if you're working on it, it's an easy lock.
I'll guarantee that. No, shorty, it's an open lock. Come
on in, sh quiet, hit your flash shorty, right, Yeah,
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this is the room where I got conked. The mask
guy sat right over there facing me with his hands
folding on that table, and he Shorty, what what what happened?
I know now who the mask guy was, Shorty. Yeah,
I'm gonna straighten out this whole mess where till I
look up a number in this phone book. Let's see. Hey,
what do you call you? Bucky? I'm calling the murderer
of fred Biswol. Wait a minute, yeah, okay, here it is.
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So now, let's hope I sound like the mug he
bore sys a muk. Come right down to Hunter Street
house A good plucky here he's hoite. Oh you wanna
talk to him? Okay, talk to the boss BLACKI here
you get it again? Here take the phone. So you're
the boss? Uh? What am I supposed to do? Applaud?
(22:14):
Oh give me that phone, Blacky? Okay, boss? Yeah, yeah,
that's sure, is Blacky ere or you'll be right down?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well okay, Shorty, Now you beat it. I'm staying right
here and I'm handling this alone. But I have a
job for you when you get outside. Okay, it may
decide who dies for the murder of Fred Viswol, And
just between us, i'd rather it wasn't me.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Uh uh are you in here? MoU turn on the light.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's dark. I can't see you. Turn on the light.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Here's a light, mister Borton, right in your face, Boston Blackee.
That's right, Boston, Blackie. You had a very nice frame up,
all fixed for me. But I think you're going down
to explain it all to Inspector.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Faraday, now, are you. I don't so the phone call
to me was a gay ky. I might have known
it was one of your tricks, Blackie, but I didn't
no harm, none though.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I'll just leave, oh just like that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Mm mmm.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
And don't think you can threaten me, Blackie. As long
as I'm alive, I'm a potential alibi for you, only you.
And I know you didn't kill Fred Baer as well,
and that I did. And you've got to let me
live in the hope that someday I'll confess.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, yes, I guess maybe I do. Or you're a
pretty smart man, board and you'd have to be to
have me in this kind of a gam What did
Vis Will ever do to you?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
He thought he could outsmart me, the fool some private
investors had him checking the books at the bank found
that I'd taken quite a bit of money that didn't
belong to me, and he thought he'd try a bit
of blackmail.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
He didn't get very far. Pretty thorough, aren't you anything?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
So how did you know I was the mask Man, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Well, two ways, bordon Is. One was the fact that
I gave you the address of my waterfront hide out,
and later your hoods paid me a visit down there.
You were the only one that had that address. The
other was that ring you're wearing er, you know, the
one you told me you couldn't take off. When I
came in the night, I remembered the mask man was
wearing that ring, you know. Putting John Partridge in your
place as president of the bank sounds like a wonderfully
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smart idea. It was.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I was tired of working, and I can throw Partridge
in jail any time I like.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
For a little embezzlement job. He did, so he must
do as I say.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
And now, Boston, Blackie, let's go visit Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, no, mister Borden, I I don't think I care
to see the Inspector to I.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
No, Perhaps this gun would make you change your mind.
I happen to know that Paraday as your gun. You're
still in the suspicion of murder, you know, and if
you try to escape, Blackie, I think nothing of killing
you in cold blood, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Believe you would. Bordon, all right, all right, I'll go
with you. I got I'd rather be a live prisoner
than a dead suspect.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
He is Inspector Paraday's office.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Blackie, well grad in go on, okay, if you say so, Bordon, Hello,
Inspector say, look, don't you ever sleep? How Blackly I've
been expecting you. You're a little late. Would you mind
telling this gentleman in back of me to get rid
of his gun? Please, Inspector. He doesn't realize that it's
impolite to point. His name is Arthur Borden. Okay, mister Borden,
I'll take that gun.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Certainly here you are.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, looks like I've got a first rate murder suspect
right here in this room. It certainly does, Inspector to
lock him up in just a minute. In fact, I
might as well do it very legal and proper. Arthur Bordon,
you're under arrest for the murder of fred viswol What
me why ihave it? I wish it was Blackie, only
it isn't. We've got your confession in your own voice,
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right on a dictagraph record at dicta graff planted in
my Hunter Street house.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
It's impossible nobody could have put a dictagraph in there.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You tell him, Blackie, you figured this thing out well
before you came into the Hudder Street house. Tonight, mister Bordon,
I dialed the inspector's private number on the telephone and
left the receiver off the hook. You see, I had
Shorty call him before and tell him to expect his
private telephone to ring. All the while you were telling
me how perfectly you would frame me. The inspector was
listening on this end, not only listening, but having the
whole thing taken down on the record. Say, Inspector, I
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did you a favorite, didn't I? By turning up Visible's Murderer,
you did yourself a bigger favorite. But what's on your mind? Well,
I'll tell you, Inspector. Shorty told me you have Gene
Rochelle booked you. You said it black as she helped
you escape from jail. Well maybe she did, but if
she did, I brought you in a murderer, so you
certainly owe her a favor too, right, Oh, maybe what
do you expect me to do? Let her go? Sure
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you've held it long enough. Now it's my turn.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
You've heard about making mountains out of mole hills. But
here's how to make mytons of dishes go right down
to nothing in a hurry. You put some rinsow in
your dishpan. Up go the Suds's plenty of thick SuDS
from surprisingly little rinso, and down goes that stack of
dishes in practically no time. Yes, dish washing is a
might easy simple job with Rinso helping out. China, silver glassware,
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They're all shining brightly in a jiffy with rinsos soapy
rich SuDS on the job. Why even your pots and
pans come clean easily when Rinso gets to work. Use
Rinso too for.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
All the soap and water jobs around the house. It's swell.
Now a glimpse at next week's adventure of Boston blackte
All right, momma, hand give me a little more juice
in that light. No way, I can't stand this. That's better. Now, listen, shorty,
you say you don't remember what happened, I don't I
keep telling you I don't. All right, maybe you don't
remember you were slug. Now. We don't want to know
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anything except one thing. I think, Hard Shorty, who was
the last person you saw her talked to before you
were slug? Now, that's all we want to know. I'm
thinking of Specter Alice. I'm dizzy trying to think. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Hey, wait a minute, Oh yeah, I remember now. The
last person I talked to before I got conquer was
Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Be sure to listen in at this same time next
week for another exciting adventure with Boston Blackie, starring Chester
Morris with Richard Lane as Inspector Faraday. You can see
Chester Morris as Boston Blackie at your favorite movie theater.
Boston Blackie's latest Columbia picture is One Mysterious Night, soon
to be released. Original music for the program was by
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of Rinso and wishing you all a very pleasant good night.
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hello, is mister Manlever there?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Why No, I'm sorry he's not. This is his secretary,
Miss Rochelle. Can I help you?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, you can deliver a message for me. I've been
trying to reach him all day. This is John I'm Partridge,
president of the Morton National Bank.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Mister Partridge. But well, Arthur Borden is president of the
Morton Bank, isn't he nut since yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Is not? Give us message to mister Manletter. Please tell
him that his notes to the bank would you and
payable on Monday of this week. And we must have
our money.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
But mister Partridge, we showed our books to mister Borden
only last week and he agreed to extend the notes
until our accounts receivable came in. Our business is in
fine shaped, mister Partridge.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Our books prove it. Please tell mister Manletter that we'll
accept our money in the morning, Miss Rachelle.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
But it's a hundred thousand dollars. We can't possibly raise
that money overnight.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm sorry, that's mister Manletther's problem.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Goodbye, one hundred thousand dollars. Hello Jeane, mister manletter, the
bank just called. Does a new president make they.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Want to foreclothes on my notes?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
How did you know?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Read this letter? I got at the house this morning.
Here read it.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
If you want to know how to prevent the bank
from foreclosing on your note, have your friend Boughton Blackie
visit a house at fifteen hundred Street at seven o'clock
this evening, Signed a friend, mister manleutter. What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I don't know. I can't see any connection between the
bank and Blackie, but I do know I won't ask
him to go to Hunter Street.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Well, can we raise one hundred thousand dollars for the
notes overnight?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I don't think so, but I'll try. Well, there isn't
much hope.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Then you must call your friend Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No. If it only means trouble for Blackie, I don't
know how or why, but it must be trouble for
him if I am being forced to ask him to
go there.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
But Blackie thrives on trouble. Mister manletter and it'll save
your business.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
No, I won't call Blackie. I'm going out to try
to raise the money. You'll hear from me later.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
All right, Sir Alice, will you call a number for me?
Please get me Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Get me Boston Blackie. For words that the week use
to call their champion. You know, some expressions seem so
natural and right we use them all the time without
even thinking, like ruby red and sky blue and so on. Well,
what I get a particular kick out of is the
fact that we've added a new one to the nation's vocabulary. Yes,
I hear tell that. Nowadays you ladies say rinsol white
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when you want to talk about really white clothes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Of course, there's a mighty good reason why Rinso gets
your clothes so white.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Rinso's soaphy rich Sudds won't take no for an answer
from dirt. They pitch right in in your tabow washer
and go to town. Yes, Rinso gets out more dirt,
and that's why you ladies are able to turn out
those beautiful Rinso white Rinso bright washes. So next wash day,
whistle for the kind of wash you're proud to hang
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on your line like this, And remember it stands for
Rinsol White. Now meet Chester Morris as Boston. Blackie.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Tell me, Blackie, which one of these girls do you like? Be?
Come on, take I'll get their pictures. Come on, yeah,
all right, Shorty, I'll judge your personal beauty contest for you.
Now this blonde here call at Shorty. I'll get the phone. Hello, Blackie, Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Blackie, this is Jean. I had to call you. Mister
Manlutter's in terrible trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Hey, come on with your Blackie. Come, I get off
that phone. I gotta know about this redhead lay off? Shorty. Well,
what is a gene? What's the matter with Arthur?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
The bank called an hour ago. I've been trying since
send to reach you. They're going to take over the
business if Arthur doesn't redeem his notes for one hundred
thousand dollars by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They can't do that, Gene, Yes they can.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
The notes are overdue.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Hey boss, what about this brunette? Now, come on come
on with you. Whyat not you? Jane? Look, Honey, I
happen anywhere near one hundred thousand, and I wouldn't know
where to go to get it by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I didn't expect you what, Blackie, But mister Manlutter received
a message saying that if you come to fifty Hunter
Street at twelve at seven o'clock tonight, the notes will
be renewed.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
If I go to fifty hundred street. Well what does
that mean? I don't know, Blackie, But if I show up,
they'll renew.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
That's what the note says. Mister Manmater knew you'd be
in some kind of danger if you went, and he
would ask you.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
For Oh, don't worry, chick, you'll hear from me.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So you finally got done? Now come on help me
with I got fifty pictures here, pick out the one
I should print up on my mind. I can't do
anything about your pin up problem now, shorty, I've got
something at fifty hundred Street that I've got to pin down.
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Come in, Blacky, I'm in black, I'm in black. Wait
what is this? Sounds like a record? Hey, you're behind
that desk, you in the mask? What is this? Come on,
talk basket of.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All Boston Blatton.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Don't try anything, fully, there's one of my men behind
you with a gun. Now that you've turned around to
see me, tell you that you are listening to this recording,
which I made because I don't want you to know
what my voice sounds like in.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Person a record. Huh, Well, personally, I prefer Harry James GotY.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I want you to listen, Camlet, what follows? Have you
anything to say?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Sure? I have. I hope you'll get.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Okay, Boss, take your record off. He's out cold. I
uh hope I didn't hit him too hard.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Boss.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
There's no sense killing him. The law is gonna do
that for us very soon.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Gee, Blankie, way you been, I've been having pumps. Well,
I hope they look like their mother. Well I'm back, Shorty,
only I'm not the same guy. You should have had
your head exam for going down that Hunter Street. June. Yes,
I I had a crack. That's worse. Take a look
at this, shorty. A bullethole? Yeah yeah, col pocket. Would
you shoot Blackie? I didn't shoot anybody, Shorty. Somebody slugged me,
and when I woke up, my gun was gone and
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this hole was in my pocket. I must have been
out for hours. It's almost eleven o'clock. I called Jean
and she told me the bank when you had man
let his notes? The minute I showed up at the
Hunter Street place. Somebody sure took an offul crack. I said, hey, bleak,
it's more than that, shorty, only how much more and
exactly what? I don't know? Get my roe, will you please? Yeah? Yeah, sure, boss,
give me your coat and I'll hang it over this
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hit chair. Well here did Blackie? What do you make
of this business this afternoon? I don't make it. It's
got me stumped. Yeah, me too. Well, here's your robe. Thanks.
I think I'll lie down and relax for half an hour.
Would you mind fixing me some coffee?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sure, have it free in just a minute, boss, Thanks,
Hello Blackie. Glad to see me, well, Inspector Farady. Of course,
I'm glad to see you, which goes to prove how
easy I am to please a very funny blackie. I
think you overdid it this afternoon, or my head sure
feels like I did. That isn't what I mean. Did
you ever hear of a private detective named fred viswl
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crooked Jamis? Yeh oh, sure I've heard of him, and
he's heard of me too, Farday. I got the guy's
license suspended when he tried to blackmail me. Old couple
of friends of mine. You know last year, that's the
guy he didn't like you, Blackie. You know I'd feel
a whole lot worse if you said Rita Hayworth didn't
like me, you didn't like him either. I hate rats Friday.
Come on, what's all this about? Nothing? Only vis Will
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was found shot to death an hour ago. Huh, I'm
taking you in for his murdered Blackie. Let's get going now. Look, Fataday,
you've done ridiculous things every day of your life, but
right now you're borrowing from next week. What makes you
think I bumped off this one. I don't think it.
I gnaw it. We've got your gun and it's got
your fingerprints on it. Oh, we found it near Viswill's body.
And if I'm not mistaken, isn't that a bullet hole
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in the pocket of this coat of yours on the
chair you fired from your pocket? Well maybe i'd burned
the hole with a cigarette. Uh, no cigarette ever burned
a hole like that. Come on, let's get going, Blackie,
get dressed and hurry up. Take off that rope. Put
a coat on. You're coming with me. Come on, take
that robe all right? All right, pretty robe isn't it
too bad? You won't be allowed to wear it in jail.
You like this robe, Inspector, Well, here, take a good
look at it. Take a good look at it right
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over your head, Shorty Chory. Yeah, yeah, I'm right here, boss.
I was waiting for a second for him before I
come to help me tie him up. Shorty, we'll use
the cord from the rope. Now, quiet, did inspector? Quiet?
Don't you know it's impolite to talk with your mouth full.
You'll be tied up like a chicken in just a
little minute. Now, Well, I know what the score is now, Shorty.
Somebody's fixed it to look like I knocked off Fred Visible. Yeah,
I heard in the very pretty picture is a boss.
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I'm not worried about the picture, Shorty. I'm worried about
the frame. Who is it?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Who's there?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Put me in?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Jean, hurry, it's black Blackie. Well thanks, huh. I'm sorry
about coming to your apartment at this hour, Jean, but
I couldn't reach you on the telephone.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
They closed the downstairs switchboard at midnight. What is it, Blacky?
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I need information, Gene, I need all you know I
can remember there's some connection between a I have a
detective named fred Viswell and somebody at the Morton National Bank. Now,
who was it that spoke to you on the telephone.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The new president. His name is John Partridge.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, that's the man. I'm going to see. Faraday's on
my trail again, Jeane, and I've got to clear myself.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh, you'll never be able to get into the bank
to see Partridge, especially if Faraday has a dragnet out
for you.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
As soon as you show up, they'll throw in jail.
Oh don't worry. I'll figure out a way to get
in to see him. But if I don't get anywhere
with Partridge, I'm a dead jack.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Good morning, Good morning, missus, good morning.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh I let you fail at the protect Thank you.
I'll be in my office if anyone wants me. I
don't open your mouth, Partridge, or this gun will shut
it permanently. What what do you want? Aren't you one
of the special beliefs that protects the bank? Oh well,
don't let this uniform fool you. I wire just to
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get in here and keep away from your desk. You know,
I'm allergic to the sudden pushing of buttons. Ah, that's better. Now.
Do you know who I am? No, I'm Bosston Blackie.
That doesn't mean a thing to me. Oh I think
it does. You called Arthur man Letter's office and told
him the bank wouldn't renew his notes, but he received
a letter saying that if I were to go to
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fifty hundred Street, the bank would renew. Maybe you know
what you're talking about, but I don't. You've got to
be the man behind a pretty shrewd frame of Partridge
unless you're acting on somebody's instructions. Now, which is it?
You know that if I raised my voice, you'd be
shot dead with the bank guards before you could go
through the front door. Well, i'd have company Partridge. Believe me.
You Inspector Faraday thinks I killed a man. They don't
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hang you twice for double killing. Why was I framed
for the murder of Fred Visible? I don't know any
Fred Visible, and I don't know anything about any telephone
call that was supposed to be made by me. The
Arthur man letter you don't, eh. How about the renewal
of man Letter's note? There never was any question about
renewing man letters. No, his credit is excellent. The note
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was renewed by me personally at ten o'clock yesterday morning
with a note re attesting to the time. And that
was certainly long before my alleged phone call. You played
at cozy. You know your new man letter would call me,
so you bluffed him. How long are you going to
make me stand here? Can't you see there's nothing I
know that can help you.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Why don't you go?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Will I've got another stop to make. But the minute
I leave this office you'll call for help, of course,
of course. Oh but you're not going to You know,
the only way you can do any calling Parthage is
to talk in your sleep. Mister Borton. Yes, I'm sorry
(12:43):
to disturbut at your home, my name is Boston Blackie.
How do you do, mister Blacke. I came up here
to see you, mister Borton, about your bank? You mean
about what used to be my bank. I'm sorry. Who
decided to replace you? Was president? The board of director forward?
And was it done suddenly? Yes? Very uh huh? And
where did John Partridge come from?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I don't know you'd been on our board of directors
only a short file.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh I'm an old.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Man, Blackie. The loss of my bank was a blow
to me. Everything came so suddenly. I haven't gotten you
not being there anymore. Will you forgive me if i'd
rather not talk about Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I understand, mister Borton. I'm going to try to get
your bank back for you, but I need some help.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Here's an address where I can be reached. Oh, you
must have some loyal employee at the bank you can
depend on, And would you call him and get him
to find out something about Partridge? And if you get
any information, send me a message. And send that ring
you're wearing with it so I know it's from you.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I'll send you a message if I get it, but
with just a paper clip on it. I haven't been
able to get this ring off in years. The paper
clip will identify my messenger if I hear anything good.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Give me a little help. I'll turn a murder over
it to Inspector Faraday, get rid of a charge against myself,
and give you a bank right in your side pocket.
We've got to stay down here at my waterfront hide
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out during the day, Shorty. Every copping town is on
our tail, and Faraday's sworn he won't sleep till he
brings me in. It's okay with me, Blackie, and go ahead.
It's your deal. You got me only see you got
me sixty to seventeen and two boxes. That's your deal.
You know one thing about Jim Rummy. It sure passes
the time away. Yeah, it passes my doorway too.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, you too question him?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Come on, Petsy, you're coming. Look, Blackie, stand up and
don't try No, no, melan foolish. I know all about
you and your trucks.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Well I wasn't exactly going to ask you to pick
a card.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Who are you a guy who ain't going to be
outsmarted by you? That little guy a Petsy?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, tire him up, good dude, don't talk Tie, I'm
tiring him.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
He ain't going going nowhere for a while.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Okay, Bras we start moving, Blackie ready, Pansy, Yeah, your
arm ready, mug.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, of course, don't anybody ask me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You're ready, Blackie, But you don't know for what I'll
start moving.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh this is a ride, huh okay, one way.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh, I wouldn't say that, Blackie. We're coming back, not seeing.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Me, but we got orders to get you, orders to
get me. Uh. Dealing in the blackie market.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You're straining arm reaching for jokes like that.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I thought that was rather clevers.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
But you might as well know something. We ain't taking
you on any gang ride. We're turning you over to
the cop.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah. I'll bet a couple of hoods like you wouldn't
go within two miles at headquarters. I guarantee Fawaday's got
charges hanging over both you guys.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Maybe only he'll be so glad to see you he
won't be able to think straight. All right, let's get moving, Blackie,
and remember I'm the guy that's got the gun on you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Okay, mug, but take my word for it. Someday you're
going to beg me to forget that, Blackey. There's something
natural about the way you look behind bars. They look
good on you. Okay, You've got no idea how nice
it is to see you sitting so sweetly in that sound. Now, Faraday, listen,
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I didn't knock off thissile, no kidding, of course not.
And you didn't throw your bathrobe over my head and
tie me up, either, did you, Blackey? Well, yes, I
did do that, Faaday, you know I did, but I
did it to help you. Oh, this is gonna be good.
Now tell me how or somebody knocked off Fred Biswell.
Your job is to catch murderers, Faraday. I had to
be free to help you, see Blacke, you should have
been a lawyer. Thanks only you're overlooking a slight something.
(16:31):
Your gun, your pretty little gun with your fingerprints on it,
and a slug from it in Visible's head and a
bullet hole in your coat pocket. Nobody else kills Visbel Blackie.
You've got no alibi. You hated the guy, and your
gun did the job. Looks like kind of a perfect
job to me. This is a frame of Faraday. Now
you've got to do something you've never done before. What
use your head? You're in jail, Blackie, and you tell
(16:53):
me to use my head. Don't you think this is
a spot where you should use your.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Well, it seems as though Inspector Faraday is about to
realize a lifelong ambition and has finally found a charge
against Boston Blackie that will stick. However, that remains to
be seen.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Of course.
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(18:15):
Now back to Boston Blackie starring Chester Morris. Blackie is
in jail. Inspector Faraday knows that it was Blackie's gun
that killed Fred viiswell, and Blackie can't clear himself while
he's in prison. Into the cell.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Block where Blackie is being kept, walks a young lady.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
The policeman at the end of the carter said, I
could come in and talk to all the other policemen
in the whole jail, and you're the other policeman, so
I thought I'd come over and talk to you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
All right, But about what about the ball?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Of course everybody knows about the ball.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
What ball?
Speaker 8 (18:44):
The ball we're giving. But I'm selling tickets only to policemen.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Oh, I've heard everything selling tickets to policemen for a
civilians ball.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
How much are they a dollar?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
But the policeman at the end of the quarter said.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Here's a dollar, and keep the ticket. And the next
policeman is right down past this row of cells. Go
by the him when you please. Yeah, And uh, don't
tell me that bag you're carrying is full of tickets.
Aren't that many? Please?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Men, you're so silly, of course not. I always carry
a bag.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
It makes me look as if I'm always about ready
to go someplace.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You can go right now. I unlocked the door. You
can walk down the corridor till you find another cop
at the end of it. His name's Murphy.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Isn't every policeman I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
All right, go go on miss right down the corridor.
Don't mind them muggs and the cells.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Blackie, Jeane, what are you doing here? This isn't visiting day, Blackie. Listen,
I've got to keep walking.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
When the guard looks this way.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Oh, don't be silly. Come in the doors. Open the
cell door's open, sure, try it.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
It is, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
How did you do that?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Close the door?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You know I could open the cell door, all right, Jean,
that was a sinch, But I haven't figured out yet
how to get past the guards at both ends of
the guard.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Stop figuring it, Blackie. Here, look this bag I brought.
It's an outfit that is the one I'm wearing, only
it's a couple of sizes is larger.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Put it on quick, boud and leave you in the
cell or nothing doing hoy.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I'll go out the door I came in, Blackie, and
you go out the other one.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Only hurry. The guard might get curious.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Okay, well I won't take me a second first room,
my trousers up when oh, oh, you brought a wig too?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You think of everything? Can I can I get into
these shoes?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Sure you can? Then hurry Blackie, don't forget your hat.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Say it's a cute one. All right, zip me up
with you? All set?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I just walk out, black In. Tell a coop at
the end of the corridor his name's Murphy. Tell him
he ran out of tickets. Uh can you talk like
a girl?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Oh me, of course I can.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
You better not talk.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Buy Blackie and Luck.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Get me back in my car.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Thanks, Jane, You're wonderful.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
See you later, Blackie, you look awful cute not outfit?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Watch out for the wolf or not me for once?
I wanna be on the receiving end of a This
is the how shorty fifty Hunter Street. I don't know
what I'd expect to find here, but let's go in
why boss, Well, maybe I can pick up something inside
(21:06):
that'll give me a clue to that mask. Man. Uh,
you see any lights? No, not ring anybody. Okay, now,
don't hit your flashlight or we close the street door.
Oh what kind of a lock is this? I don't know,
but if you're working on it, it's an easy lock.
I'll guarantee that. No, shorty, it's an open lock. Come
on in, sh quiet, hit your flash shorty, right, Yeah,
(21:26):
this is the room where I got conked. The mask
guy sat right over there facing me with his hands
folding on that table, and he Shorty, what what what happened?
I know now who the mask guy was, Shorty. Yeah,
I'm gonna straighten out this whole mess where till I
look up a number in this phone book. Let's see. Hey,
what do you call you? Bucky? I'm calling the murderer
of fred Biswol. Wait a minute, yeah, okay, here it is.
(21:52):
So now, let's hope I sound like the mug he
bore sys a muk. Come right down to Hunter Street
house A good plucky here he's hoite. Oh you wanna
talk to him? Okay, talk to the boss BLACKI here
you get it again? Here take the phone. So you're
the boss? Uh? What am I supposed to do? Applaud?
(22:14):
Oh give me that phone, Blacky? Okay, boss? Yeah, yeah,
that's sure, is Blacky ere or you'll be right down?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well okay, Shorty, Now you beat it. I'm staying right
here and I'm handling this alone. But I have a
job for you when you get outside. Okay, it may
decide who dies for the murder of Fred Viswol, And
just between us, i'd rather it wasn't me.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Uh uh are you in here? MoU turn on the light.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's dark. I can't see you. Turn on the light.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Here's a light, mister Borton, right in your face, Boston Blackee.
That's right, Boston, Blackie. You had a very nice frame up,
all fixed for me. But I think you're going down
to explain it all to Inspector.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Faraday, now, are you. I don't so the phone call
to me was a gay ky. I might have known
it was one of your tricks, Blackie, but I didn't
no harm, none though.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I'll just leave, oh just like that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Mm mmm.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
And don't think you can threaten me, Blackie. As long
as I'm alive, I'm a potential alibi for you, only you.
And I know you didn't kill Fred Baer as well,
and that I did. And you've got to let me
live in the hope that someday I'll confess.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, yes, I guess maybe I do. Or you're a
pretty smart man, board and you'd have to be to
have me in this kind of a gam What did
Vis Will ever do to you?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
He thought he could outsmart me, the fool some private
investors had him checking the books at the bank found
that I'd taken quite a bit of money that didn't
belong to me, and he thought he'd try a bit
of blackmail.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
He didn't get very far. Pretty thorough, aren't you anything?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
So how did you know I was the mask Man, Blackie?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Well, two ways, bordon Is. One was the fact that
I gave you the address of my waterfront hide out,
and later your hoods paid me a visit down there.
You were the only one that had that address. The
other was that ring you're wearing er, you know, the
one you told me you couldn't take off. When I
came in the night, I remembered the mask man was
wearing that ring, you know. Putting John Partridge in your
place as president of the bank sounds like a wonderfully
(24:23):
smart idea. It was.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I was tired of working, and I can throw Partridge
in jail any time I like.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
For a little embezzlement job. He did, so he must
do as I say.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
And now, Boston, Blackie, let's go visit Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, no, mister Borden, I I don't think I care
to see the Inspector to I.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
No, Perhaps this gun would make you change your mind.
I happen to know that Paraday as your gun. You're
still in the suspicion of murder, you know, and if
you try to escape, Blackie, I think nothing of killing
you in cold blood, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Believe you would. Bordon, all right, all right, I'll go
with you. I got I'd rather be a live prisoner
than a dead suspect.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
He is Inspector Paraday's office.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Blackie, well grad in go on, okay, if you say so, Bordon, Hello,
Inspector say, look, don't you ever sleep? How Blackly I've
been expecting you. You're a little late. Would you mind
telling this gentleman in back of me to get rid
of his gun? Please, Inspector. He doesn't realize that it's
impolite to point. His name is Arthur Borden. Okay, mister Borden,
I'll take that gun.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Certainly here you are.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, looks like I've got a first rate murder suspect
right here in this room. It certainly does, Inspector to
lock him up in just a minute. In fact, I
might as well do it very legal and proper. Arthur Bordon,
you're under arrest for the murder of fred viswol What
me why ihave it? I wish it was Blackie, only
it isn't. We've got your confession in your own voice,
(25:56):
right on a dictagraph record at dicta graff planted in
my Hunter Street house.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
It's impossible nobody could have put a dictagraph in there.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You tell him, Blackie, you figured this thing out well
before you came into the Hudder Street house. Tonight, mister Bordon,
I dialed the inspector's private number on the telephone and
left the receiver off the hook. You see, I had
Shorty call him before and tell him to expect his
private telephone to ring. All the while you were telling
me how perfectly you would frame me. The inspector was
listening on this end, not only listening, but having the
whole thing taken down on the record. Say, Inspector, I
(26:26):
did you a favorite, didn't I? By turning up Visible's Murderer,
you did yourself a bigger favorite. But what's on your mind? Well,
I'll tell you, Inspector. Shorty told me you have Gene
Rochelle booked you. You said it black as she helped
you escape from jail. Well maybe she did, but if
she did, I brought you in a murderer, so you
certainly owe her a favor too, right, Oh, maybe what
do you expect me to do? Let her go? Sure
(26:46):
you've held it long enough. Now it's my turn.
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All right, momma, hand give me a little more juice
in that light. No way, I can't stand this. That's better. Now, listen, shorty,
you say you don't remember what happened, I don't I
keep telling you I don't. All right, maybe you don't
remember you were slug. Now. We don't want to know
(27:49):
anything except one thing. I think, Hard Shorty, who was
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were slug? Now, that's all we want to know. I'm
thinking of Specter Alice. I'm dizzy trying to think. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Hey, wait a minute, Oh yeah, I remember now. The
last person I talked to before I got conquer was
Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Be sure to listen in at this same time next
week for another exciting adventure with Boston Blackie, starring Chester
Morris with Richard Lane as Inspector Faraday. You can see
Chester Morris as Boston Blackie at your favorite movie theater.
Boston Blackie's latest Columbia picture is One Mysterious Night, soon
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