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Speaker 1 (00:16):
In our sanctum mysteries. Good evening, friends of the creeking doors.
This is your host to welcome you in Vienna Center.
(00:39):
Come here into.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
A gay little world of homicidal maniacs, vampires, goats, were worlds,
and assorted forms of sudden death. Friends, if you ever
walked through a cemetery at midnight and see a girl
with hair is on fire and who.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Was carrying her head under.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Her arm, do you know what to tell her? Don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We'll just say, keep a cool head on your shoulder.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And run like crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Alright, fellow, good. You know what's going to happen now,
don't you. Mm. That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You're going to scream your little heads. I love it, ready, girl,
and let's hear I start acting small head in the
role of Claudia tell us the story in her own words.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
At exactly midnight, I saw him the first time. My
headlights pick came up, and he hailed me along a
lonely stretch of road near my home.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I wouldn't have stopped, but the storm.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Was so fierce I felt sorry for him. I drew
up to the side of the road.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Thank you, Going far? No, not far?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Where to?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I let you know.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh, what's that where there on the side toombs?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Tom?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh, there's a cemetery where I.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Picked you up.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes, birch hawn.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
He said nothing. For a few minutes. In the reflection of.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The dashboard light, I saw his face for the first time,
sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, mouth set in a queer grin,
a skull barely covered with a.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Thin layer of milk white flesh.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
At start, I realized he was.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Staring at me.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I've seen you before. I don't think we I know you?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Are you? Sure?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
I'd never forget someone so beautiful. Really, you're Claudia Dale.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, you're married to Howard Dale.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But I don't seem to place you.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Know you wouldn't. I know quite a lot about you,
do you really?
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Your first husband was Willard Banks? How do you know
that he died eight years ago? The skew a side?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You don't know me? And be careful you're speeding.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you're trembling. How do
you know so much about it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I just know, yeah, they are, But you have second
side or some such rubbish.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's not rubbish.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh, then tell me where I'm coming from Pittsfield.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You dare went there of visitor sick friend Martha Waltz tone.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You couldn't get that?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Do you care to know more of yourself?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No? I don't find your little trick particularly amusing.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Besides, what else do you think you can tell me
about myselfe your future?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Your present husband is dead, h verded.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You'll find this.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Body on the floor near the piano of your living
room when you get home. There are two bullets in
his head.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
You get out of this card, you hear me, get
out all right?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It happens that this is where I wanted to go.
Good night, and thank you missus Dale.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
He vanished in the shadows on the side of the road.
And then I noticed something white and shining queerly at
the spot.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Where he disappeared.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I looked close.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
It was another two stone in another cemetery.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I raced madly for home, fighting the hysteria that seasoning.
The night light was burning in the living room. Nothing
he had said could be true. Howard would take me
in his arms and kiss me when I stepped into
the house.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Somehow I managed to get my cue in the lock.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I ran into the living room.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Move, I'm right behind you. I've got a gun. A gun.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Get away from the body.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Who are you? Come around you?
Speaker 9 (05:37):
You would keep quiet, I said, I'm sorry I had
to slap here, but you were losing control.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You don't have to scream for the police. It's not
badge you. Detective Sergeant Quinn homicide, Oh, I thought, yes,
I know. Yeah, drink this. Who is he my husband?
You sure? When was it killed? About twenty hours ago?
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Four yesterday morning?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know one of the bullets went wild, hit that
clock on the mantel. Where were you yesterday morning?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Pittill? I stayed with a six friend, Martha Wolstone.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Look at these things.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It took the amount of his pocket.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Are they all his?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Where's the snake ring?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Where?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No rings? He had one?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
It was quite valuable. He was never about it. I
gave it to him all right.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Look? Oh did he h wear it on the third
finger of his left hand? Yes, yes, there's a mark,
but no ring.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
When did you come here?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I drove in behind you. He left the front door open.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I I think I know who killed him. A man
I met on the road coming here. He knew my
husband had been murdered.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He did? He even said his body?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Would he near the channel?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Why did you see this guy?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Or it's twenty minutes ago?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I picked him off on the road where at bir
Slawn Cemetery?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't know, but he he looked like a human cadaver,
like a man who's dead. I know.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You don't believe me. Why did you kill your husband?
What you heard me?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Why I told you I was in Peal?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Why did you go? Were you there at four yesterday morning?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Because?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Do you stop shouting at me? I told you who
killed him?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
What are you trying to do to me?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
It isn't enough to come home and find how I'd
like that without your Oh he didn't name?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Leave me all?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I know that, Scotchu lady, No, nothing here, keep the change.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'm leaving.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sit down, don't go? Yes you? Yes? Won't you please?
Sit down?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Are they making it difficult?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'll tell you later. Why do you come here to
talk to you? I knew i'd find you here.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Oh yeah, yes, you knew.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're not so skeptical? Now?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
No, why did you want to.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Tell me that you're the most beautiful woman I've ever
seen that. I love you. I've loved you since I
first saw you seven years ago, when you came here
to live with your husband. Why I killed him? Is
that what you were going to say?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Yes, I'm not an ordinary man, missus Dale, but I'm
not a fool. On this card, you will find my
name addressed in powerful number.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Do you really believe i'd phone?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yes, There'll come a time when you were one love.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Good night, missus Dale.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Good night. The operator set me police headquarters. Hurry he.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yes, that Quinn.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
That's God.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Dragman, Thank you, missus Dale. Would you mind coming down
to headquarters, mister Dragman, not at all. Did she tell
you I murdered her husband? Yes, I thought she would.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I didn't keep a wink that night. Twice I got
out of bed and drove the police headquarters. The lights
were blazing in Queen's office, but I didn't go in.
The Third time, I couldn't bear waiting.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I went in.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh, d well, I'm glad you stopped by. We checked everything.
Dragman said.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It seems he was in the same bar and grill
where you met him tonight when your husband was killed.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
What about the things he said to me?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
In the car.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
How could he know about the murder.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Before you were all I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Perhaps he does have second sight. An odd looking fellow,
isn't he? But you can't arrest a man for murder
because of that.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
He's criminally insane.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I know he is, my dear miss I know.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh what's the use? I had loved hard?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I was determined to find the man who murdered him.
I went to Darth Dragman's home. I was about to
ring the doorbell when missus.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Dale the door come in. You you were expecting me, yes,
I was expecting you. Do you still think I killed
your husband?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I don't know what to think anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Do you want me to find the person who murdered him?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yes? More than anything in the world, I have strange gifts,
missus Dale.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'll find your murderer for you on one condition.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
What's that.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That you marry me?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I felt my body turned eyes. I knew I was
talking to a man. I was sure I was talking
to the.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Man who had murdered my husband.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Or maybe you think that Claudia doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The courage to trap this homicidal rubo. Well, we'll let
our star Agnes moorehead on the roll of Claudia. Tell
you go ahead, Claudia, shock him into the shakes.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Two weeks later I married Gars Ragman. He was the
strangest man I ever knew.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He would disappear for days at a time and then
suddenly turn up without warning.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He had all the money he wanted get. I never
knew where it came from. There was a closet in
his room which was always kept locked and bolted.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I knew from the way he acted about it that
the closet contained the answer to all the things I wanted.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
To know about him.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
One night, while he was away, I obtained tools and
tried to force the lot.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Good evening, Claudia, you didn't expect me back, did you. No?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
I knew you'd try to open that closet someday. Why
do you keep it locked so that no one but
me could know what's in there? Not even me, you
in particular, but you You ought attempt to open it again,
will you, Claudia. No, forget me for striking you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
But I'm not quite myself tonight. I sometimes do things
I regret when these moods come upon me.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yes, of course, It's.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Something few people know but a person who has extraordinary
powers carries an extraordinary burden.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You mean you're gift of prophecy?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, yes, I didn't care to mention it. It seems
to upset you.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
So it doesn't strike me any longer.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Did you read a newspaper about it woman's body being
crowned in the river she'd been murdered.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Yeah, in this evening's paper. They don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Who she is.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
I can tell you who she is, Josephine Ford, a
stupid girl float here.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I could have told you three days ago that she'd
be murdered.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
How do you know these things? Because I see them
in a sort of vision. It's just now, Just now,
I'm seeing another vision. It's a house three four six
Harbor Street, down near the waterfront.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
A young woman lies in bed reading. She's very attractive.
In an hour she'll be.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Dead, and when the police come, they'll find her body decapitated.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
God, while you were gone, Martha Wollstone telephone, she's ill again.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
She asked me to come up immediately.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh why didn't you go?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, I was waiting for you to get home before
I left.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You want to leave immediately, if.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
You don't mind. It's really an emergency. It took only
a few minutes to get to the waterfront.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I found the house a tree for a six harbor trees.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I went in the land in the bedroom was bring
I look at dead?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I say, all right, missus Dale, I think he isn't
sit up.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Now, Quinn.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes, I hardly expected to find you here.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I came because God's dragman predicted this would happen.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Now, missus Dale, you still don't believe me. You're a
strange woman. All right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You accuse this man of killing your husband and then
you marry him. Now I suppose you're going to accuse
him of this murder too, Yes, this, and heaven only knows.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
How many others, missus Dale.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Don't you realize that you haven't got a single piece
of evidence to back up your contention?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, I don't get the evidence tonight. Will you let
me have a gun?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Will you be near my house? I'll need protection now.
After all I do to convince you what he is.
I've risked my own life and I'm willing to risk
it again.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
He's a monster.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Are you going to wait until he murders me before
you believe what I say?
Speaker 8 (16:15):
All Right?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'll give it a try. I'll come back to your
house with you. If you want me for an emergency,
smash the window pane.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
We drove back together.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I dropped Detective Quinn on the corner. The house being deserted.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
When I came in, I wasn't taking any chances. I
went to the kitchen, got a knife, hit it in
the folds of a long sleeved gown I was wearing.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I went to a goth's room. He wasn't there. The
closet door was open.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
What I saw in there nearly made me in clothes,
gos clothes, some of them blowing.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I forced myself again. Then I found something that made
my heart beat fast. A little jewelry case.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I'll take that. Claudia, give me that jewelry case. Please.
I I get away from the window. Claudia, do as
I tell you.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Don't go.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You were so anxious to see what's in that closet. Well,
now you have sit down. Kill me who killed your husband?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
No you, I've written out a confession for you to sign.
If I don't sign it, I credited you with more imagination.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Would you like to hear us? Yes?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Read it?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Please sit over here? Away from that window.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
I Claudia Dale, murdered my first husband, Willard Banks, for
his insurance by administering poisons. Claudia, I mean to make
this document strong enough to send you to your if
I wish. I've got all the details here, just how
you murdered your first.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Husband and how you killed your second?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Shall Shall I go on? No?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You know it's a lie. Just what is your game? Anyway?
If you want to kill me, why don't you shoot?
You've been very successful before. There's no reason why you
shouldn't succeed again. Go on, go on shoot.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You put me in a very difficult position, Claudia. You see,
you have found out certain things about me, things that
would cost me my life. I should prefer to see
you live because I love you, but I shouldn't hesitate
to murder you.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You love me, yes, Yet you haven't taken me in
your arms once since I've known you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The right time hasn't arrived.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And what do you consider the right time?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
When I feel that you understand me, When I feel
that you, you who murdered two men, would understand my
deep and strange desires.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You really believe I'm a murderer?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, and that's why I love you.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Then the time is now, the time to take me
in your arm, Claudia. He still held the gun. It
wasn't more than two inches from me. I turned my
lips up to him. I twisted my body to get
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out of the range of his revolver.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
When I felt his lips touch mine, I slowly let
the knife slip into my hand. Slowly, caressingly, I drew
my hand up toward his neck. Then I plunged the
blade in.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Ah way.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I killed him? He is a poor City murder in
my husband.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I thought it was a jewelry casey add in his pocket.
It's the same ring that was missing from my husband body.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Now do you believe me?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yes, that's the whole story.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I realized that you, with the district attorney, must know.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
All the facts, and there they are.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
There are a few points in the story that interests
me particularly. First, the confession that he asked you to sign.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
What about it?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
The confession says that you were not in Pittsfield at
poor Am when your husband was killed, as you gave
your friend Martha waltzt one a sleeping field, drove down
here shot your husband drove back to Pittsfield, turned me
Wollstone's bedside clock to four point fifteen and wakened earth.
Then you gave us a medicine to impress the time
on her. She thought it was four fifteen and went
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back to sleep.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Well, God was very clever things like this.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
He had the extraordinary brilliance of the insane.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Just one question, was that the way that you murdered
Howard Dale?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Ah, God murdered him.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
He never had the ring you put it in the
jewelry box.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I can't believe what you say.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
God was a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
He predicted the death of the people he murdered.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Missus Dragman, don't you know yet? Know what God?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Dragmon was a detective working out of my office. That's
how he knew about those deaths. He was put on
the case because we suspected you of murdering your first
husband as well as your second. Yes, and you are
going to die for killing him. It's extremely daring and
clever of you to murder him. But you never would
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have gotten away with it if he hadn't kissed you.
He kissed you because he fell in love with you.
The poor fool, he friend.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That just goes to prove you should never pick up
pitchhikers who come out of cemeteries at night.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'll bet you guess tomorrow broad.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Story, and it's taken from a famous quotation that Harry
the Hangman uttered jerk a knightmare quote. Never steal the
rings of people you murder on a condo. That's robbery. Well, friends,
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it's once again the closes that creaking door until next
week at the same time when we'll be back with
a little hank of morror. You'll be sure to listen,
don't you, Until next week. The good night, pleasant dreams.
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In our sanctum mysteries. Good evening, friends of the creeking doors.
This is your host to welcome you in Vienna Center.
(00:39):
Come here into.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
A gay little world of homicidal maniacs, vampires, goats, were worlds,
and assorted forms of sudden death. Friends, if you ever
walked through a cemetery at midnight and see a girl
with hair is on fire and who.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Was carrying her head under.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Her arm, do you know what to tell her? Don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We'll just say, keep a cool head on your shoulder.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And run like crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Alright, fellow, good. You know what's going to happen now,
don't you. Mm. That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You're going to scream your little heads. I love it, ready, girl,
and let's hear I start acting small head in the
role of Claudia tell us the story in her own words.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
At exactly midnight, I saw him the first time. My
headlights pick came up, and he hailed me along a
lonely stretch of road near my home.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I wouldn't have stopped, but the storm.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Was so fierce I felt sorry for him. I drew
up to the side of the road.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Thank you, Going far? No, not far?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Where to?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I let you know.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh, what's that where there on the side toombs?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Tom?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh, there's a cemetery where I.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Picked you up.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes, birch hawn.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
He said nothing. For a few minutes. In the reflection of.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The dashboard light, I saw his face for the first time,
sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, mouth set in a queer grin,
a skull barely covered with a.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Thin layer of milk white flesh.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
At start, I realized he was.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Staring at me.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I've seen you before. I don't think we I know you?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Are you? Sure?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
I'd never forget someone so beautiful. Really, you're Claudia Dale.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, you're married to Howard Dale.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But I don't seem to place you.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Know you wouldn't. I know quite a lot about you,
do you really?
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Your first husband was Willard Banks? How do you know
that he died eight years ago? The skew a side?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You don't know me? And be careful you're speeding.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you're trembling. How do
you know so much about it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I just know, yeah, they are, But you have second
side or some such rubbish.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's not rubbish.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh, then tell me where I'm coming from Pittsfield.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You dare went there of visitor sick friend Martha Waltz tone.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You couldn't get that?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Do you care to know more of yourself?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No? I don't find your little trick particularly amusing.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Besides, what else do you think you can tell me
about myselfe your future?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Your present husband is dead, h verded.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You'll find this.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Body on the floor near the piano of your living
room when you get home. There are two bullets in
his head.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
You get out of this card, you hear me, get
out all right?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It happens that this is where I wanted to go.
Good night, and thank you missus Dale.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
He vanished in the shadows on the side of the road.
And then I noticed something white and shining queerly at
the spot.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Where he disappeared.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I looked close.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
It was another two stone in another cemetery.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I raced madly for home, fighting the hysteria that seasoning.
The night light was burning in the living room. Nothing
he had said could be true. Howard would take me
in his arms and kiss me when I stepped into
the house.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Somehow I managed to get my cue in the lock.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I ran into the living room.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Move, I'm right behind you. I've got a gun. A gun.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Get away from the body.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Who are you? Come around you?
Speaker 9 (05:37):
You would keep quiet, I said, I'm sorry I had
to slap here, but you were losing control.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You don't have to scream for the police. It's not
badge you. Detective Sergeant Quinn homicide, Oh, I thought, yes,
I know. Yeah, drink this. Who is he my husband?
You sure? When was it killed? About twenty hours ago?
(06:14):
Four yesterday morning?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know one of the bullets went wild, hit that
clock on the mantel. Where were you yesterday morning?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Pittill? I stayed with a six friend, Martha Wolstone.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Look at these things.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It took the amount of his pocket.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Are they all his?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Where's the snake ring?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Where?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No rings? He had one?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
It was quite valuable. He was never about it. I
gave it to him all right.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Look? Oh did he h wear it on the third
finger of his left hand? Yes, yes, there's a mark,
but no ring.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
When did you come here?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I drove in behind you. He left the front door open.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I I think I know who killed him. A man
I met on the road coming here. He knew my
husband had been murdered.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He did? He even said his body?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Would he near the channel?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Why did you see this guy?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Or it's twenty minutes ago?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I picked him off on the road where at bir
Slawn Cemetery?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't know, but he he looked like a human cadaver,
like a man who's dead. I know.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You don't believe me. Why did you kill your husband?
What you heard me?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Why I told you I was in Peal?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Why did you go? Were you there at four yesterday morning?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Because?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Do you stop shouting at me? I told you who
killed him?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
What are you trying to do to me?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
It isn't enough to come home and find how I'd
like that without your Oh he didn't name?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Leave me all?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I know that, Scotchu lady, No, nothing here, keep the change.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'm leaving.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sit down, don't go? Yes you? Yes? Won't you please?
Sit down?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Are they making it difficult?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'll tell you later. Why do you come here to
talk to you? I knew i'd find you here.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Oh yeah, yes, you knew.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're not so skeptical? Now?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
No, why did you want to.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Tell me that you're the most beautiful woman I've ever
seen that. I love you. I've loved you since I
first saw you seven years ago, when you came here
to live with your husband. Why I killed him? Is
that what you were going to say?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Yes, I'm not an ordinary man, missus Dale, but I'm
not a fool. On this card, you will find my
name addressed in powerful number.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Do you really believe i'd phone?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yes, There'll come a time when you were one love.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Good night, missus Dale.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Good night. The operator set me police headquarters. Hurry he.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yes, that Quinn.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
That's God.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Dragman, Thank you, missus Dale. Would you mind coming down
to headquarters, mister Dragman, not at all. Did she tell
you I murdered her husband? Yes, I thought she would.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I didn't keep a wink that night. Twice I got
out of bed and drove the police headquarters. The lights
were blazing in Queen's office, but I didn't go in.
The Third time, I couldn't bear waiting.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I went in.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh, d well, I'm glad you stopped by. We checked everything.
Dragman said.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It seems he was in the same bar and grill
where you met him tonight when your husband was killed.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
What about the things he said to me?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
In the car.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
How could he know about the murder.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Before you were all I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Perhaps he does have second sight. An odd looking fellow,
isn't he? But you can't arrest a man for murder
because of that.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
He's criminally insane.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I know he is, my dear miss I know.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh what's the use? I had loved hard?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I was determined to find the man who murdered him.
I went to Darth Dragman's home. I was about to
ring the doorbell when missus.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Dale the door come in. You you were expecting me, yes,
I was expecting you. Do you still think I killed
your husband?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I don't know what to think anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Do you want me to find the person who murdered him?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yes? More than anything in the world, I have strange gifts,
missus Dale.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'll find your murderer for you on one condition.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
What's that.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That you marry me?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I felt my body turned eyes. I knew I was
talking to a man. I was sure I was talking
to the.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Man who had murdered my husband.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Or maybe you think that Claudia doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The courage to trap this homicidal rubo. Well, we'll let
our star Agnes moorehead on the roll of Claudia. Tell
you go ahead, Claudia, shock him into the shakes.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Two weeks later I married Gars Ragman. He was the
strangest man I ever knew.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He would disappear for days at a time and then
suddenly turn up without warning.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He had all the money he wanted get. I never
knew where it came from. There was a closet in
his room which was always kept locked and bolted.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I knew from the way he acted about it that
the closet contained the answer to all the things I wanted.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
To know about him.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
One night, while he was away, I obtained tools and
tried to force the lot.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Good evening, Claudia, you didn't expect me back, did you. No?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
I knew you'd try to open that closet someday. Why
do you keep it locked so that no one but
me could know what's in there? Not even me, you
in particular, but you You ought attempt to open it again,
will you, Claudia. No, forget me for striking you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
But I'm not quite myself tonight. I sometimes do things
I regret when these moods come upon me.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yes, of course, It's.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Something few people know but a person who has extraordinary
powers carries an extraordinary burden.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You mean you're gift of prophecy?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, yes, I didn't care to mention it. It seems
to upset you.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
So it doesn't strike me any longer.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Did you read a newspaper about it woman's body being
crowned in the river she'd been murdered.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Yeah, in this evening's paper. They don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Who she is.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
I can tell you who she is, Josephine Ford, a
stupid girl float here.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I could have told you three days ago that she'd
be murdered.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
How do you know these things? Because I see them
in a sort of vision. It's just now, Just now,
I'm seeing another vision. It's a house three four six
Harbor Street, down near the waterfront.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
A young woman lies in bed reading. She's very attractive.
In an hour she'll be.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Dead, and when the police come, they'll find her body decapitated.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
God, while you were gone, Martha Wollstone telephone, she's ill again.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
She asked me to come up immediately.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh why didn't you go?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, I was waiting for you to get home before
I left.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You want to leave immediately, if.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
You don't mind. It's really an emergency. It took only
a few minutes to get to the waterfront.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I found the house a tree for a six harbor trees.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I went in the land in the bedroom was bring
I look at dead?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I say, all right, missus Dale, I think he isn't
sit up.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Now, Quinn.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes, I hardly expected to find you here.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I came because God's dragman predicted this would happen.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Now, missus Dale, you still don't believe me. You're a
strange woman. All right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You accuse this man of killing your husband and then
you marry him. Now I suppose you're going to accuse
him of this murder too, Yes, this, and heaven only knows.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
How many others, missus Dale.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Don't you realize that you haven't got a single piece
of evidence to back up your contention?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, I don't get the evidence tonight. Will you let
me have a gun?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Will you be near my house? I'll need protection now.
After all I do to convince you what he is.
I've risked my own life and I'm willing to risk
it again.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
He's a monster.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Are you going to wait until he murders me before
you believe what I say?
Speaker 8 (16:15):
All Right?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'll give it a try. I'll come back to your
house with you. If you want me for an emergency,
smash the window pane.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
We drove back together.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I dropped Detective Quinn on the corner. The house being deserted.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
When I came in, I wasn't taking any chances. I
went to the kitchen, got a knife, hit it in
the folds of a long sleeved gown I was wearing.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I went to a goth's room. He wasn't there. The
closet door was open.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
What I saw in there nearly made me in clothes,
gos clothes, some of them blowing.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I forced myself again. Then I found something that made
my heart beat fast. A little jewelry case.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I'll take that. Claudia, give me that jewelry case. Please.
I I get away from the window. Claudia, do as
I tell you.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Don't go.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You were so anxious to see what's in that closet. Well,
now you have sit down. Kill me who killed your husband?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
No you, I've written out a confession for you to sign.
If I don't sign it, I credited you with more imagination.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Would you like to hear us? Yes?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Read it?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Please sit over here? Away from that window.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
I Claudia Dale, murdered my first husband, Willard Banks, for
his insurance by administering poisons. Claudia, I mean to make
this document strong enough to send you to your if
I wish. I've got all the details here, just how
you murdered your first.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Husband and how you killed your second?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Shall Shall I go on? No?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You know it's a lie. Just what is your game? Anyway?
If you want to kill me, why don't you shoot?
You've been very successful before. There's no reason why you
shouldn't succeed again. Go on, go on shoot.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You put me in a very difficult position, Claudia. You see,
you have found out certain things about me, things that
would cost me my life. I should prefer to see
you live because I love you, but I shouldn't hesitate
to murder you.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You love me, yes, Yet you haven't taken me in
your arms once since I've known you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The right time hasn't arrived.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And what do you consider the right time?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
When I feel that you understand me, When I feel
that you, you who murdered two men, would understand my
deep and strange desires.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You really believe I'm a murderer?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, and that's why I love you.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Then the time is now, the time to take me
in your arm, Claudia. He still held the gun. It
wasn't more than two inches from me. I turned my
lips up to him. I twisted my body to get
(19:37):
out of the range of his revolver.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
When I felt his lips touch mine, I slowly let
the knife slip into my hand. Slowly, caressingly, I drew
my hand up toward his neck. Then I plunged the
blade in.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Ah way.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I killed him? He is a poor City murder in
my husband.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I thought it was a jewelry casey add in his pocket.
It's the same ring that was missing from my husband body.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Now do you believe me?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yes, that's the whole story.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I realized that you, with the district attorney, must know.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
All the facts, and there they are.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
There are a few points in the story that interests
me particularly. First, the confession that he asked you to sign.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
What about it?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
The confession says that you were not in Pittsfield at
poor Am when your husband was killed, as you gave
your friend Martha waltzt one a sleeping field, drove down
here shot your husband drove back to Pittsfield, turned me
Wollstone's bedside clock to four point fifteen and wakened earth.
Then you gave us a medicine to impress the time
on her. She thought it was four fifteen and went
(21:09):
back to sleep.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Well, God was very clever things like this.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
He had the extraordinary brilliance of the insane.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Just one question, was that the way that you murdered
Howard Dale?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Ah, God murdered him.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
He never had the ring you put it in the
jewelry box.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I can't believe what you say.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
God was a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
He predicted the death of the people he murdered.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Missus Dragman, don't you know yet? Know what God?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Dragmon was a detective working out of my office. That's
how he knew about those deaths. He was put on
the case because we suspected you of murdering your first
husband as well as your second. Yes, and you are
going to die for killing him. It's extremely daring and
clever of you to murder him. But you never would
(22:02):
have gotten away with it if he hadn't kissed you.
He kissed you because he fell in love with you.
The poor fool, he friend.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That just goes to prove you should never pick up
pitchhikers who come out of cemeteries at night.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'll bet you guess tomorrow broad.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Story, and it's taken from a famous quotation that Harry
the Hangman uttered jerk a knightmare quote. Never steal the
rings of people you murder on a condo. That's robbery. Well, friends,
(22:59):
it's once again the closes that creaking door until next
week at the same time when we'll be back with
a little hank of morror. You'll be sure to listen,
don't you, Until next week. The good night, pleasant dreams.
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