February 21, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good evening, free and welcome to the mystery player. If
you like to curl up with a good mystery, if
suspense and a serious adventure, or your particular dish, then
don't go away, stay right where you are, because tonight
we've been fortunate enough to again secure the services of
that lighthearted reckon tour of murder, horror and the supernatural,
(00:32):
the laughing Boy of any Sanctum, Your host, Raymond.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good evening friend, Sabina Dankshi, welcome once again for the
squeaking so brave or good of that being.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know, I do like to have a body around and.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It keeps me in good spiritence I said, oh if
you want, well, now, that may be the fault of
the chair. Do you see we've been redecorating in The
chairs you're sitting in are hot seats. We brought them
cheap from a firm that builds up a prison on them.
(01:18):
The convict didn't like them, so they complained that everyone
who sits in those chairs gets absolutely burned alive. And
our friends draw up those chairs we talked about earlier,
and listen to the Night's Tale of Terror, written especially
for the Unner Sanctum by Michael sklar our start tonight
(01:42):
is Santa Sir Tiger, who acts the role of Martin
Wheeler in a blood chilling story entitled I Want to
report a murder.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Where she carried on?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You think I was Clark Gable instead of a middle
aged ban cash. You're getting bawled in a little hot bellied.
I've never given her any reason to be jealous. Not
in twenty years of married life. She saw green every
time I mentioned another woman, every time I went out
of the house, like tonight, that was the.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Reason the last time.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
You've always got a reason for going out and leaving
me here alone. Now you've got to practice for the
bank employees bowling tournaments.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
That's a likely story.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It happens to be the truth, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Oh, sure, the team will be practicing over the bowling alleys,
and I'm just as sure.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You won't be there.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
What else would I be, Martin.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I know you've got a date with one of those women.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I've told you one hundred times I don't have any
dates with any other women. I'm sick and tired of
your insane suspicion. Yes they are.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'll be home at eleven o'clock. You can wait up
for me if you're like good night.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I went down to the car began to drive to
the Bowling Alleys. Margaret always nagging at me. Someday she'd
push me too far. Yes, someday if she didn't stop
the nag, and there would be another woman. Stopped the
car for a red light, said girl crossing the street.
I noticed that she was blond and ready, little like
(03:16):
Margaret looked when we were first marriage. And suddenly, as
the girl passed in front of the car, she slipped
and fell to the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And what happened?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Well, I that hole in the street. I tripped.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Let me help you to your feek?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Have much have screened?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Can you walk?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Well? Try now, I can't put anyway on it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, that's too bad. Look here, let me drive you home.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I don't like to impose, but it's not an imposition.
I'd consider it a pleasure. She was about twenty five
years old and married. He said her name was Sir
Susan Holmes. I didn't tell her my name, and as
(04:04):
things turned out, that was lucky. No one was home
in her apartment. I helped her to a chair and
started to leave.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Don't go, yeah, come here, don't be afraid of me.
I'm not gonna bite you.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Missus Holmes, I've got an appointment at the bowling Alley.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Well that's not very flattering.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Don't you like them? Yeah? Sure I do, But miss
Holmes pleaded you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Don't be billy. You've been very kind.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I like you. Her arms were around my neck,
pulling me down. Twitter.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
She used a faint perfume. Margaret hardly ever used the perfume. Margaret,
that's a little vers Susan had kissed me, and I
stopped thinking until.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The door opened. Say, what is there roping Susan? Who
is I come home and find my wife kissing another guy?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
How long has this been going on?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well? This, this is all a mistake.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Your wife tripped and heard a w ankle.
Speaker 8 (05:19):
I brought it home.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You warn't ways allowed of this By blaming it all
on Susan, it won't work.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Mistake. I saw both of you with the homes.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I tried to explain.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
You won't listen to me, So why I'm leaving?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh, you don't get out of my way.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
This gun is loaded, Missy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Put that gun back in your pocket.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Don't be a fool.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
You're staying here and tell hey.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Let go my arm gone child?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You from set gold gun out?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
You're und.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
How I've got the gun back to me.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I won't stop it, rop it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I had to take the gun away from her. Oh,
I didn't mean to pull the trigger. Because you've killed him.
I'll kill a man.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I had to get away quick before the police came in.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yes, I could walk out of the door and forget
the whole thing. Missus.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Holes didn't know anything about me or even my name.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
I have to face.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I could get away, go straight to the bowling alley
and pretend it never happened.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm leaving?
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Come back here, come back here?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well you did come to the bowling alley.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
After all, Margaret, What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I've been waiting for you checking up on me. Why
shouldn't I certainly didn't take you this long a drive.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Over from the house for every bad Oh, my heaven's sake, Margaret,
leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Why are you staring at me?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What about my face?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Let's stick.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
That's why you're took so long to get here, so loud,
and you sort you never have states?
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Whatever? Women, I knew it all.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Why I don't talk like that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
People terring there got don't hear every word I say.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I want your friends to know what kind of a
man you are, mister Whayler.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I don't call it once.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
People for me. I'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Hello, mister Wheeler.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, who who's this?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
This is Susan Holmes. Mister Wheeler, you killed my husband?
Just in case you've already forgotten.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Huh? How did you know my name? Where to find me?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
It was all in your wallet? I was it dropped
out of your pocket during the fight.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
What you're why?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I gotta see you right away.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's impossible, my wife.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Would you rather have me call the police? No?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, don't do that. Please? Where shall I meet you?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Down stairs? In front of my apartment hut. I'll be
there waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'll be there in ten minutes. Bye.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Who's that phone call from?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
No one?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
You know?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Margaret. I can tell the expression on your face.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Who was that woman?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Again? I can't argue with your Margaret.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
I've got to go nowhere.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I can't tell you you're going back to her.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I won't stand for it. I won't be your million.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
If you go around.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Kill you. I swear kill you. They just delivered there crying.
What else could I do? She wouldn't have.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Believed what happened anymore than holmes Dad, even less because
she was so jealous.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Susan's voice had sounded hard and bitter over the phone.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Oh, I couldn't blame her so rotten thing I did
running away like that, And I saw waiting at the curb, young, slim, pretty.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
So you came.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I got into the car, Sace. I I wanna tell
you I'm sorry about running away.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Save the apology. Start driving.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
We drove for a while in silence. Several times I
tried to start a conversation, but you wouldn't answer.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Finally, I parked at the end of.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
A deserted street in the waterfront. Bob was rolling into
the water. Few minutes the mist clothes around us.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I've been thinking. I decided what we're gonna do. You
don't want the police mixed up in this, do you?
Speaker 8 (10:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Of course not.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I need to do why. Don't ask me why? I
got my own good reason?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
You got a plan?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah, my husband sub lease the apartment under an assumed name.
We've only been there a few weeks. Nobody in the
house knows this I'll leave Tom for good. The police
won't be able to trace either of us. But your
husband's body, I'll leave it. That don't give me at
least a couple of days start before the police find it.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
You'll have to help me. I need money? How much?
Five thousand dollars? I've thought.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You've got a nerve's talking about money after what you did?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
It was self depending?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
How would you like to tell that to a journey?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But I simply up and got five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
There was a card in your wallet that showed you
work in a bank. The bank gots plenty of money.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
You know how to get it and more too.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
She wanted me to steal the money. It's so clear now,
how longer young and fresh and pretty? That's the cheap passion.
Woman wanted money, the money. It was blackmail.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
If she got the five thousand, wouldn't down there. She'd
keep writing me, squeezing me milk.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well, which is it going to be the money or
the police?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Neither?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't be stupid. There's a law against murder.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm going to do something very sensible. Susan, what do you.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Take your hands off my throat.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I don't quite to do this.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
What you're joking?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
My fingers tightened on her throat. My felt's though I
was killing something inside me. She kissed me once, she
said she liked me, and for a moment I felt
young again. The body went suddenly between my hands.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
She was dead.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I was a double murderer.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know, I'm really annoyed at that Martin Wheeler, the
ungrateful scoundrel, and that poor kid, Susan hall She got
her neck twisted all because she was trying to do
Martin a good That wasn't a good return for her
pains was. But on the other hand, it's not hard
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to see Martin's point of view. He probably felt that
one good turn deserves another. And now let's return to
Martin Wheeler, the middle aged bank cashier who's having a
knight full of trouble. A moment ago, he killed Susan
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Holmes because she'd threatened to tell the police about the
death of her husband.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mart was all around now making the world and rear
so of in the war.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
The park whistles for smy stood at the end of
a peer thod he of Susan in my arms. A
moment longer than was necessary, and then dropped her into
the water. Oh to go back to Margaret, try to
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forget that I had committed murder.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Then I remembered my wallet. My wallet contained my driver's
license with my name and address on it.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Back in the car, I found a handbag contained a
change first into her apartment, but not my wallet.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
The wallet must still be in our apartment.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Nothing acond go wild and disregarding the fog, passing through
red lights.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Then the car loomed up in front of me, and
I slammed on the brakes and stopped. A man got
out of the car in front of me, wore a uniform.
I'd almost hit a police car. All right, But you're right, missie,
I didn't see these stops on the fog.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You were doing at least forty miles an hour down
the city street too.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Driving like that on a night like this, you get
killed somebody.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
What's your hurry? Nothing? Nothing at door. I just want
to get home to my wife. Let's have a look
at your life. My driver's license, it's in my wallet.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, that's out.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I lost my wallet the other day. A license in Orwa.
I haven't had a chance to apply for a new one.
That's your name, Martin Willer?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Where do you live?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Six and three and a half cents a drive? You
say your wife is at home? Yes, all right, move over,
we'll drive over to your house. Your wife will have
to identify it.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
All off?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It all except for this.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I here's your ticket wheeler appear in Travick Court tomorrow morning,
applying for a new license. You understand, Yes, I'll do
all right, and don't let me catch your driving like
that again?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Good night, good night? Well not, I'm sorry, Margaret, you're a.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Who is she?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
What's the name?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Believe me? This isn't like weather.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
You're in love with her, are you?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Anthony?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I don't love her.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Some day I'll be able to tell you what happened,
But not now.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm oh you, let's go to bed. I pretended to sleep.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I thought of my wallet still, and Susan's apartment kept
spinning through my mind. I had to get out of
the house. I had to get to Susan's apartment and
find the woman. I couldn't leave until I was sure
Margaret was asleep.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Chose to sleep now. I slipped out of bed, get
into my clothes, crept toward the door. I didn't see
the chair in the dark until I stumbled open there,
What w are you?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I used the key I found and Susan's pressed to
let myself into her apartment. I thought it was no
longer in the living room. Flow must have dragged it away.
Perhaps she put it in the closet before she went
to meet me. I didn't look at the body. My
quest concern was my wallet, and I found it where
she must have left it on the telephone table. Everything
was there, two dollars, my license, put it into my pocket,
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started to leave way.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Dammen, Hols. I thought you were dead. I'm still very
much alive, And I said, really, what put the fight?
The gunshot?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You fell to the flaw.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Susan said, no, not even wounded. I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The gun.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It must have been loaded with bikes, that's right. But
why why didn't you tell me? Why did you let
me go on thinking that?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I understand now it was the old badger came right
from the beginning. Who's who's stream Hancock?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
When she kissed me, when you came in on us,
that was all arranged in advance. Oh, I thought you really.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Liked me, But it was all done in order to
blackmail me.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
No, no, she where is she? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
She met you to arrange for the money.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Now you've got her door key. What did you do
to her? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
You don't kid me whither I can figure out what happened.
She met you and asked for the money according to plan.
But you figured you could get out of the messmer
killing her.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's what you did.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
No, here you did.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
That's how could you get the door key? She wouldn't
give it to you. Why would you come back here
for the wallet? You better be able level with me
with her. I don't know what you're talking about it,
Yes you do, so you kill her, but I don't
hold it against you.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Level with me and will make a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What do they want? So you did kill her? Yes,
so it's a.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Real thing now instead of a phony. But the price
is still saying I'll keep my mouth shut for five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
It was right.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The situation was still the same. I got the money
for him. I'd be in his grip forever, his life
for mine. I had no choice, but I needed a weapon,
and I saw it on the desk the shop pointed
all right, I'll give her the money when right now,
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I'll sit down at the desk and write you a check.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
This part day really yeah, at night, stay away from
me some money, no no.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Where?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh he was dead. I killed him twice one night.
This time I make sure he was dead. Then I
wipe my fingerprints off the knife, wipe the doorknot.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Clean, and I'd be a bottle. I thought of everything.
I have nothing behind. It might connect you with the
two markers. Going home, I concentrated on one thought. I
must forget this night, waste it for my memory. I
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never thought of this night again. It would be as
a nightmare.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Our bedroom was still dark, as I ndered, Margaret must
have Bendeston.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
That's good to behold again. Save it's back in a
world with such things as I've done simply didn't happen.
Some day I tell Margaret the truth. Some day when
we were old, such things no longer mattered.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And then the room.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Exploded my face.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Oh Margaret, don't, don't, please, don't. You're making a mistake.
Well you would let me m hmm.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I don't need any explanations. He went back to her.
I told you, I'd tell you what you went back
to that woman. H operator, get me the police. I
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want to report a murder.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Surprise then, mm hmmm, oh you won't. But anyway, that
ending certainly was a surprise for Martin Weaver. You might
say it was curtain for Martin.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
As you don't.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Come to think of it, he made one big mistake.
He shouldn't have murdered that nice homes couple. No, indeed,
he should have murdered his wife. Then we might have
had a happy day. Hell good night to you all,
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poisonous and thanks for your story. I want to report
a murder. A night's performance in the mystery playhouse. They'll
be taking you again in the near future.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Creeps. Until next time, good night.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
It's the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Good evening, free and welcome to the mystery player. If
you like to curl up with a good mystery, if
suspense and a serious adventure, or your particular dish, then
don't go away, stay right where you are, because tonight
we've been fortunate enough to again secure the services of
that lighthearted reckon tour of murder, horror and the supernatural,
(00:32):
the laughing Boy of any Sanctum, Your host, Raymond.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good evening friend, Sabina Dankshi, welcome once again for the
squeaking so brave or good of that being.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know, I do like to have a body around and.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It keeps me in good spiritence I said, oh if
you want, well, now, that may be the fault of
the chair. Do you see we've been redecorating in The
chairs you're sitting in are hot seats. We brought them
cheap from a firm that builds up a prison on them.
(01:18):
The convict didn't like them, so they complained that everyone
who sits in those chairs gets absolutely burned alive. And
our friends draw up those chairs we talked about earlier,
and listen to the Night's Tale of Terror, written especially
for the Unner Sanctum by Michael sklar our start tonight
(01:42):
is Santa Sir Tiger, who acts the role of Martin
Wheeler in a blood chilling story entitled I Want to
report a murder.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Where she carried on?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You think I was Clark Gable instead of a middle
aged ban cash. You're getting bawled in a little hot bellied.
I've never given her any reason to be jealous. Not
in twenty years of married life. She saw green every
time I mentioned another woman, every time I went out
of the house, like tonight, that was the.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Reason the last time.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
You've always got a reason for going out and leaving
me here alone. Now you've got to practice for the
bank employees bowling tournaments.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
That's a likely story.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It happens to be the truth, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Oh, sure, the team will be practicing over the bowling alleys,
and I'm just as sure.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You won't be there.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
What else would I be, Martin.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I know you've got a date with one of those women.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I've told you one hundred times I don't have any
dates with any other women. I'm sick and tired of
your insane suspicion. Yes they are.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'll be home at eleven o'clock. You can wait up
for me if you're like good night.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I went down to the car began to drive to
the Bowling Alleys. Margaret always nagging at me. Someday she'd
push me too far. Yes, someday if she didn't stop
the nag, and there would be another woman. Stopped the
car for a red light, said girl crossing the street.
I noticed that she was blond and ready, little like
(03:16):
Margaret looked when we were first marriage. And suddenly, as
the girl passed in front of the car, she slipped
and fell to the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And what happened?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Well, I that hole in the street. I tripped.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Let me help you to your feek?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Have much have screened?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Can you walk?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Well? Try now, I can't put anyway on it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, that's too bad. Look here, let me drive you home.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I don't like to impose, but it's not an imposition.
I'd consider it a pleasure. She was about twenty five
years old and married. He said her name was Sir
Susan Holmes. I didn't tell her my name, and as
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things turned out, that was lucky. No one was home
in her apartment. I helped her to a chair and
started to leave.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Don't go, yeah, come here, don't be afraid of me.
I'm not gonna bite you.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Missus Holmes, I've got an appointment at the bowling Alley.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Well that's not very flattering.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Don't you like them? Yeah? Sure I do, But miss
Holmes pleaded you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Don't be billy. You've been very kind.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I like you. Her arms were around my neck,
pulling me down. Twitter.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
She used a faint perfume. Margaret hardly ever used the perfume. Margaret,
that's a little vers Susan had kissed me, and I
stopped thinking until.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The door opened. Say, what is there roping Susan? Who
is I come home and find my wife kissing another guy?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
How long has this been going on?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well? This, this is all a mistake.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Your wife tripped and heard a w ankle.
Speaker 8 (05:19):
I brought it home.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You warn't ways allowed of this By blaming it all
on Susan, it won't work.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Mistake. I saw both of you with the homes.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I tried to explain.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
You won't listen to me, So why I'm leaving?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh, you don't get out of my way.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
This gun is loaded, Missy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Put that gun back in your pocket.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Don't be a fool.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
You're staying here and tell hey.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Let go my arm gone child?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You from set gold gun out?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
You're und.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
How I've got the gun back to me.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I won't stop it, rop it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I had to take the gun away from her. Oh,
I didn't mean to pull the trigger. Because you've killed him.
I'll kill a man.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I had to get away quick before the police came in.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yes, I could walk out of the door and forget
the whole thing. Missus.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Holes didn't know anything about me or even my name.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
I have to face.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I could get away, go straight to the bowling alley
and pretend it never happened.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm leaving?
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Come back here, come back here?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well you did come to the bowling alley.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
After all, Margaret, What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I've been waiting for you checking up on me. Why
shouldn't I certainly didn't take you this long a drive.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Over from the house for every bad Oh, my heaven's sake, Margaret,
leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Why are you staring at me?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What about my face?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Let's stick.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
That's why you're took so long to get here, so loud,
and you sort you never have states?
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Whatever? Women, I knew it all.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Why I don't talk like that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
People terring there got don't hear every word I say.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I want your friends to know what kind of a
man you are, mister Whayler.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I don't call it once.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
People for me. I'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Hello, mister Wheeler.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, who who's this?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
This is Susan Holmes. Mister Wheeler, you killed my husband?
Just in case you've already forgotten.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Huh? How did you know my name? Where to find me?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
It was all in your wallet? I was it dropped
out of your pocket during the fight.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
What you're why?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I gotta see you right away.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's impossible, my wife.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Would you rather have me call the police? No?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, don't do that. Please? Where shall I meet you?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Down stairs? In front of my apartment hut. I'll be
there waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'll be there in ten minutes. Bye.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Who's that phone call from?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
No one?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
You know?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Margaret. I can tell the expression on your face.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Who was that woman?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Again? I can't argue with your Margaret.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
I've got to go nowhere.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I can't tell you you're going back to her.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I won't stand for it. I won't be your million.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
If you go around.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Kill you. I swear kill you. They just delivered there crying.
What else could I do? She wouldn't have.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Believed what happened anymore than holmes Dad, even less because
she was so jealous.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Susan's voice had sounded hard and bitter over the phone.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Oh, I couldn't blame her so rotten thing I did
running away like that, And I saw waiting at the curb, young, slim, pretty.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
So you came.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I got into the car, Sace. I I wanna tell
you I'm sorry about running away.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Save the apology. Start driving.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
We drove for a while in silence. Several times I
tried to start a conversation, but you wouldn't answer.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Finally, I parked at the end of.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
A deserted street in the waterfront. Bob was rolling into
the water. Few minutes the mist clothes around us.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I've been thinking. I decided what we're gonna do. You
don't want the police mixed up in this, do you?
Speaker 8 (10:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Of course not.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I need to do why. Don't ask me why? I
got my own good reason?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
You got a plan?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah, my husband sub lease the apartment under an assumed name.
We've only been there a few weeks. Nobody in the
house knows this I'll leave Tom for good. The police
won't be able to trace either of us. But your
husband's body, I'll leave it. That don't give me at
least a couple of days start before the police find it.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
You'll have to help me. I need money? How much?
Five thousand dollars? I've thought.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You've got a nerve's talking about money after what you did?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
It was self depending?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
How would you like to tell that to a journey?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But I simply up and got five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
There was a card in your wallet that showed you
work in a bank. The bank gots plenty of money.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
You know how to get it and more too.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
She wanted me to steal the money. It's so clear now,
how longer young and fresh and pretty? That's the cheap passion.
Woman wanted money, the money. It was blackmail.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
If she got the five thousand, wouldn't down there. She'd
keep writing me, squeezing me milk.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well, which is it going to be the money or
the police?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Neither?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't be stupid. There's a law against murder.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm going to do something very sensible. Susan, what do you.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Take your hands off my throat.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I don't quite to do this.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
What you're joking?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
My fingers tightened on her throat. My felt's though I
was killing something inside me. She kissed me once, she
said she liked me, and for a moment I felt
young again. The body went suddenly between my hands.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
She was dead.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I was a double murderer.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know, I'm really annoyed at that Martin Wheeler, the
ungrateful scoundrel, and that poor kid, Susan hall She got
her neck twisted all because she was trying to do
Martin a good That wasn't a good return for her
pains was. But on the other hand, it's not hard
(13:07):
to see Martin's point of view. He probably felt that
one good turn deserves another. And now let's return to
Martin Wheeler, the middle aged bank cashier who's having a
knight full of trouble. A moment ago, he killed Susan
(13:29):
Holmes because she'd threatened to tell the police about the
death of her husband.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mart was all around now making the world and rear
so of in the war.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
The park whistles for smy stood at the end of
a peer thod he of Susan in my arms. A
moment longer than was necessary, and then dropped her into
the water. Oh to go back to Margaret, try to
(14:11):
forget that I had committed murder.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Then I remembered my wallet. My wallet contained my driver's
license with my name and address on it.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Back in the car, I found a handbag contained a
change first into her apartment, but not my wallet.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
The wallet must still be in our apartment.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Nothing acond go wild and disregarding the fog, passing through
red lights.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Then the car loomed up in front of me, and
I slammed on the brakes and stopped. A man got
out of the car in front of me, wore a uniform.
I'd almost hit a police car. All right, But you're right, missie,
I didn't see these stops on the fog.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You were doing at least forty miles an hour down
the city street too.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Driving like that on a night like this, you get
killed somebody.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
What's your hurry? Nothing? Nothing at door. I just want
to get home to my wife. Let's have a look
at your life. My driver's license, it's in my wallet.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, that's out.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I lost my wallet the other day. A license in Orwa.
I haven't had a chance to apply for a new one.
That's your name, Martin Willer?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Where do you live?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Six and three and a half cents a drive? You
say your wife is at home? Yes, all right, move over,
we'll drive over to your house. Your wife will have
to identify it.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
All off?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It all except for this.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I here's your ticket wheeler appear in Travick Court tomorrow morning,
applying for a new license. You understand, Yes, I'll do
all right, and don't let me catch your driving like
that again?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Good night, good night? Well not, I'm sorry, Margaret, you're a.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Who is she?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
What's the name?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Believe me? This isn't like weather.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
You're in love with her, are you?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Anthony?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I don't love her.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Some day I'll be able to tell you what happened,
But not now.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm oh you, let's go to bed. I pretended to sleep.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I thought of my wallet still, and Susan's apartment kept
spinning through my mind. I had to get out of
the house. I had to get to Susan's apartment and
find the woman. I couldn't leave until I was sure
Margaret was asleep.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Chose to sleep now. I slipped out of bed, get
into my clothes, crept toward the door. I didn't see
the chair in the dark until I stumbled open there,
What w are you?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I used the key I found and Susan's pressed to
let myself into her apartment. I thought it was no
longer in the living room. Flow must have dragged it away.
Perhaps she put it in the closet before she went
to meet me. I didn't look at the body. My
quest concern was my wallet, and I found it where
she must have left it on the telephone table. Everything
was there, two dollars, my license, put it into my pocket,
(17:32):
started to leave way.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Dammen, Hols. I thought you were dead. I'm still very
much alive, And I said, really, what put the fight?
The gunshot?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You fell to the flaw.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Susan said, no, not even wounded. I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The gun.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It must have been loaded with bikes, that's right. But
why why didn't you tell me? Why did you let
me go on thinking that?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I understand now it was the old badger came right
from the beginning. Who's who's stream Hancock?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
When she kissed me, when you came in on us,
that was all arranged in advance. Oh, I thought you really.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Liked me, But it was all done in order to
blackmail me.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
No, no, she where is she? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
She met you to arrange for the money.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Now you've got her door key. What did you do
to her? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
You don't kid me whither I can figure out what happened.
She met you and asked for the money according to plan.
But you figured you could get out of the messmer
killing her.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's what you did.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
No, here you did.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
That's how could you get the door key? She wouldn't
give it to you. Why would you come back here
for the wallet? You better be able level with me
with her. I don't know what you're talking about it,
Yes you do, so you kill her, but I don't
hold it against you.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Level with me and will make a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What do they want? So you did kill her? Yes,
so it's a.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Real thing now instead of a phony. But the price
is still saying I'll keep my mouth shut for five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
It was right.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The situation was still the same. I got the money
for him. I'd be in his grip forever, his life
for mine. I had no choice, but I needed a weapon,
and I saw it on the desk the shop pointed
all right, I'll give her the money when right now,
(20:03):
I'll sit down at the desk and write you a check.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
This part day really yeah, at night, stay away from
me some money, no no.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Where?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh he was dead. I killed him twice one night.
This time I make sure he was dead. Then I
wipe my fingerprints off the knife, wipe the doorknot.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Clean, and I'd be a bottle. I thought of everything.
I have nothing behind. It might connect you with the
two markers. Going home, I concentrated on one thought. I
must forget this night, waste it for my memory. I
(21:06):
never thought of this night again. It would be as
a nightmare.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Our bedroom was still dark, as I ndered, Margaret must
have Bendeston.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
That's good to behold again. Save it's back in a
world with such things as I've done simply didn't happen.
Some day I tell Margaret the truth. Some day when
we were old, such things no longer mattered.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And then the room.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Exploded my face.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Oh Margaret, don't, don't, please, don't. You're making a mistake.
Well you would let me m hmm.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I don't need any explanations. He went back to her.
I told you, I'd tell you what you went back
to that woman. H operator, get me the police. I
(22:28):
want to report a murder.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Surprise then, mm hmmm, oh you won't. But anyway, that
ending certainly was a surprise for Martin Weaver. You might
say it was curtain for Martin.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
As you don't.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Come to think of it, he made one big mistake.
He shouldn't have murdered that nice homes couple. No, indeed,
he should have murdered his wife. Then we might have
had a happy day. Hell good night to you all,
(23:43):
poisonous and thanks for your story. I want to report
a murder. A night's performance in the mystery playhouse. They'll
be taking you again in the near future.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Creeps. Until next time, good night.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
It's the Armed Forces Radio Service.
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