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A man wants Regan to clear his daughter of murder, but his wife doesn't want Regan to investigate.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1950
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I do want to let you knowthat coming up on the Amazing World
of Radio Amazing dot Great Detectives onSunday, listen to a special episode in
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Great Detectives dot net. Coming upon this Sunday. Well, now it
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is time to get into this week'sepisode of Jeff Reagan. The original air
date is May the twelfth, nineteenfifty and the title is Oil for the
Lamps of Burbank. My name's Reagan. I worked for Anthony jay lyon Detective
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Bureau. They call me the Lion'sEye. Jeff Reagan Investigator, starring Paul
de Bab as Reagan, with FrankNelson as Anthony jay Lyon. So standby
for Mystery and suspense and adventure.In tonight's Transcribe story Oil for the Lamps
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of Burbank. There was a girlin it, a young pretty girl about
nineteen, and her father, ascared little man who couldn't remember the last
time he'd had an opinion. Therewas a boy about the girl's age,
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and he was dead, And thenthere was a woman. It all started
with a phone call, a simple, little five cent phone call at the
Lion Answer that Friday afternoon. Onlywhat you didn't guess was that the conversation
on the other end of the linewas more than five cents worth of trouble.
Yes, I've got daddy, hecould use meek a little loudably.
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Oh yes, indeed, our senda man rider. Hello, Hello,
hang up on your fat So youare et it, Jeffrey, I'm who
got here? Sounds bad? Oh, Geoffrey, he is bad, that
poor man. He could hardly getthe words out. What's his name?
Lion name? I don't know.He talks so softly. I barely understood
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it. But you said you'd sendthe man out. Well I did get
the addressed Jeffrey. It's in Burbanktwo sixteen North Cordova's treed. He told
me that before he told me therest. What's the rest, Well,
there's something about his daughter. She'sin jail for murder. Then he mentioned
someone else. I think it washis wife. Maybe he wasn't sure.
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He wasn't sure if she was hiswife, Belly. He just didn't seem
sure of anything. He didn't oryou didn't, No, Geoffrey. You
know I always get the facts ofthe case, like the client's name well,
or why he wanted to hire aprivate detective. Well, now,
Geoffrey, there were extenuating circumstances.His head of the Lion Detective Agency.
I can only do so much.After all, some of the work is
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up to you. How much ishe paying fats home fifty dollars? You
heard that all right? Well hesaid that before his voice got so short.
Sure he did fat so he probablyrepeated it a couple of times.
Repeat. Yes. As a matterof fact, he didn't. Don't just
stand there, he can get outthere and see are lion. The Lion
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produced one of his more operatic typeroars, and I left the office.
Twenty minutes later, I found twosixty North Cordova, a two story stucco
house, surrounded by apartments. Thestreet had just been paved, but that
didn't stop the rest of the yardfrom looking like an oversized sandpile. When
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the door finally opened, a littleman balled and red eye stood peeking at
me from behind thick lens glasses.He wore a pair of house shoes and
open vest and a frightened look.Yeah, you're from the detective Agency.
My name's Regan. Well, I'mClarence and Over. Mister Reagan. Please
come in. I'll have to askyou to speak softly, mister Regan.
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My wife is upstairs asleep. Pleasesit here. My boss said something about
your daughter, mister and Over.My daughter's in jail, mister Reagan.
I just don't understand that they've takenher to jail when last night they took
Dorothy to jail last night. Youwant to tell me about it, mister
and Over. But mister Regan,she didn't kill Jimmy Withers. She wouldn't
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kill anyone. Maybe you better takeit from the beginning. The police and
they came here this morning. Theytold me Dorothy was in jail. They
said she'd shot Jimmy. Don't yousee, mister Regan, Dorothy wouldn't hurt
anyone. Jimmy was her boyfriend.Yes, they were well almost engaged.
You see, it's my wife,mister Reagan. Oh, Clarence, answer
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me. I speak to you.I certainly expect. Oh you are talking
to someone, Clarence. Aren't yougoing to introduce me? Or isn't your
wife important enough to be introduced tostrangers? Yester? This is mister Regan.
He's a friend. How do youdo, mister Reagan, you're selling
something? I imagine you might aswell know. We aren't interested in buying
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anything. We certainly can't afford tobuy anything on the little money Clarence makes.
You should have told you that,Clarence, to the gentleman, we
can't afford to buying. What's that? He isn't selling anything? Mister Reagan
is a private detective, Dear,mister Regan is a private detective, Clarence.
What on earth is a private detectivedoing here? Haven't we had enough
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trouble for one day? I calledhim Emily, you call him? Well,
you explain it, peace, misterReagan. Clarence, I'm waiting for
an explanation. Look, missus andover, it's about your daughter. Dorothy.
She most said me, my daughter, My first wife died fifteen years
ago. Mister Regan, all right, your husband's daughter, missus Andover,
she's in trouble. Your husband figureshe needs help. Well, he's certainly
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right, for once in his life. The girl does need help. But
I assure you, mister Regan,it's not the kind of help that requires
a private detective. What that girlneeds is spiritual and moral guidance. Clarence
had thought of that sooner. It'sjust like I always told you, Clarence,
that girl would come to no good. You will bear me witness.
I told you so, mister Regan. If you'll just leave us alone,
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I'm quite sure we can handle ourown problems. Isn't that right, Clarence,
Well, Clarence, yes, Emily, I guess that's right. Well,
thank you, mister Regan for comingout. We'll get along. Sure,
we'll get along, well we Clarence, Yes, dear, we'll get
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along. Clarence Sandover wanted help.He told the Lion he'd pay fifty dollars
for private detective. Only Emily,Clarence's wife, didn't see it that way.
I decided to stick with Clarence.I edit my car for the city
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jail. Okay, in five minutes, Dorothy, my name's Jeff Rigg,
and your father sent me. Daddyhe thinks we might help straighten this out.
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He knows your father knows you didn'tkill Jimmy, Dorothy, but we
got to prove that. I knewhe'd believe me, mister Regan, Daddy
believes me. Suppose you tell mewhat happened. What do you mean,
I we were in his car,were parked by the side of the road.
Must I tell it all over againif you want me to help.
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They made me tell it so manytimes, so many times. No,
but try it just once more.M all right, all right, I'll
tell you. We were in groupof part Jimmy and I. We were
talking, really just talking. Suddenlysomebody stot the gun in the window and
shot at us. Jimmy yelled,and I yelled. And then and I
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guess I think you didn't see whodid it? No, No, I
just couldn't see anything. It wasso dark, and there was this gun
on the window. And that's allI remember. When I came to the
police car was there and they werelooking at me. And what else?
The gun within my hair the gunsthat killed Jimmy. Yeah, that's what
they said. That's all of it. Yeah, that's all of them.
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Tell me about Jimmy. What didhe do? Who were his friends?
His enemies? He didn't do anything. He used to work for dead Daddy
has an electical appliance stolen bourbon.Jimmy used to work there. She made
Daddy fire your stepmother. She's awful. I hate her, mister Rigg and
I hate her. Why did shemake your father fire Jimmy because he stole
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something? Tell me about that.He and another boy, George Dennison,
they robbed the store one night,but Jimmy didn't really mean to do it.
He brought everything back the next day. He just let George talk him
into it. Daddy was willing toforget, but not your stepmother. She
took Jimmy to the police. Theykept him locked up until he had to
tell him who else was with him. Oh, Jimmy told on George.
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He didn't want to, but theymade him. It stands the reason George
Dennison might like to get even withJimmy for that. George had a bad
rick. When the police found outabout him, he was sent to jail
and They let Jimmy go because hebrought everything back. I didn't do any
good? What didn't do any good? My stepmother phoned everyone in town and
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told him not to give Jimmy ajob because he was a thief. Is
there anyone else who knew Jimmy whobelieved in him? My uncle, he
believed in Chimney. What's his name, Uncle Peter, Peter Cheney. He's
not really my real uncle. He'she's my stepmother's youngest brother. But he's
not like her, really, isn't. He's he's a lot younger, and
he's nice. He works My fathertoun and he lived with Maybe I'll have
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a talk with him. You'll likehim, I'm sure you will once you
give me a chance. He's akind of odd at first. That's only
because my stepmother brought him up.Okay, Dorothy, I'll talk to him.
Okay. There's one more thing,mister, I haven't told anybody about.
Yeah, Jimmy and huh we weregoing to be married. I checked
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out from f Lieutenant san Ducci,but they that he wouldn't be in for
an hour. That gave me timeto run out to Burbank and the girl's
father's electrical appliance store. Only whenI'd driven halfway out Riverside, I discovered
something, something I didn't expect behindme, a great coup that had been
there since I left the jail.I was being followed. But when I
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pulled up in front of Andover's Appliancestore on San Fernando Road, the great
coop was gone. I'm looking forPeter Cheney. When you come to the
right place, May I show yousomething electrical appliances? No? Thanks,
fine, If you'll step this way, I'll show you on your homing.
Suppose we start with your home.Oh, here we do. We have
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the latest in coffeemakers. With thislittle gadget I can Chaney, will tell
me about Jimmy Withers. Nice boy. Now here, we have a waffle
baker, fully automatic, and itserves four people. Just okay, Chaney,
Now we'll talk my business. Doyou think Ernie's killed that boy?
Dorothy Andover is not my niece.She's my sister's husband's child. I know
that skip technicalities. I think we'dbetter skip the entire discussion, sir.
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I don't like your tone of voice. Jimmy Withers was killed at eleven o'clock
last night, Cheney, where wereyou at the time? I was at
home reading, and I have awitness to prove it. Now, crude
fellow, get out. That tookcare of that. Peter Cheney hurried off
to another customer, and I walkedoutside to my car. Then I got
another idea. A great coup hadtailed me to Burbank and then disappeared.
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But maybe it had pulled over toa stop just before I did. Maybe
the Great Coup was waiting for meto get started again. I left my
car and walked down the street,then back, No sign of the coop.
Then I moved around the corner andback behind Andover's Appliance Store. There
was a parking lot back there,and there was a great Coup parked in
it, the same car that hadtailed me from the jail nineteen forty one,
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Nash license plate number twenty six andnine nine oh seven two. But
that wasn't what I wanted. WhenI wanted was inside, wrapped around the
steering post in a neat little celluloidfolder, the registration card that would tell
me who drove the gray Coop.I leaned in moved it around to where
I could get a good look,and oh I never got a chance to
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find out. It was late afternoonand the sun was slanting behind the ancient
brick buildings, and there was fog, fog mixed up with the sunshine and
the taste of gravel in my mouth. I was lying in the parking lot
behind and oversupply in store, andthe fog was in my head. I
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sat up and looked around. Thegray coop was gone, and with it,
whoever it bent a blackjack over myhead. I got up, dusted
off my pants, and decided tohave a talk with my old pall,
Lieutenant san Duci. So I drovedown to police headquarters. Reagan. They
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told me you wanted to talk tome. Yeah, yeah, that's right,
Sanduci. You look like you don'tfeel very well. You know that
could be the most honest statement I'veheard all day. Okay, Regan,
what's the trouble the girl? Yougot on a murder rap? Dorothy and
over go on? You sure,san Duci? All the evidence went directly
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to this girl. But you askedme if I'm sure, and I must
tell you the truth. I amnot. But you're still holding her,
Reagan. She was found with agun in her hand. The boy was
sitting beside her dead. What elsecan I do? Ton, I lose
and pray for America? Okay,okay, what about the dead boy?
He was mixed up in a robberywith another kid about six months ago.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know what you're thinking. The
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other one's name was George Dennis anda bad one. But you checked him.
Of course, we checked him,Reagan, believe me, there'd been
any other wi George Dennison had analibi, six witnesses, six spent the
evening in a bar. So wehave the girl herman. What does that
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mean? What a rotten way tomake a living. George Dennison, the
logical suspect, had six witnesses thathe was nowhere near the scene of the
crime. But I still wanted totalk to him. I went out to
a phone with him the lobby andcalled my boss, Anthony jay Lyon Lion
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Detective Agency. Me, fat Soff, what's so surprising about that, Jaffrey,
You get up here to my officeimmediately? Is that clear? Listen,
Lion, I'm in the middle ofI don't care what you're in the
middle of. You will report backto my office at once, Henrigan.
If you aren't here in ten minutes, you're fired. Is that clear?
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Mister lion Sue. I won't haveyou and your employees disrupting my life.
Regan, come here this minute.That's the man. Arrest him. I
want this man, arrest him.Regan, do you know this woman?
He most certainly does know me.And if he says he doesn't, that
he's lying. Yeah, I knowyour fact. Now just a moment,
Missus hand Over, suppose we hearwhat mister Regan has to say about this?
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Well, mister Regan, what doyou have to say about this?
About what's you know very well about? What? Did you or did you
not come to my home this afternoon? I did did you or did you
not hear me say that my husbanddoes not require your services? I heard
you say it, Missus Handlevers.Mister Regan, I will not tolerate your
impudence. I told you we wereperfectly capable of taking care of ourselves,
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and let me assure you I intendproving it. Regan, why didn't you
tell me Missus hand Over had firedyou off the case. So you're lying
here? Yes, you've got offboth of you. I suppose somebody tells
me just what the complaint is reading. You have no man, You had
no right to investigate the private livesof my family. The very idea of
your questioning my brother. Oh sothat's it? That most certainly is it.
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Peter phoned me that a man hadbeen in the store questioning him,
and I knew immediately that you wouldbe just such a person. Well,
I'm going to put a stop toit. You all through, missus andover
you two facts over, okay,Then I'm going to tell you something,
both of you. There's a girlsitting down there in a jail cell.
She's charged with murder. Well,I don't think she killed Jimmy Withers.
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I think she's telling the truth.And I'm going to find out one way
or another. I'm gonna find out. And you, missus hanover or you
line, I'm gonna stop me.If I made myself clear, just stay
out of my way. There wasone visit left to make one more place
to add facts. I've phoned lieutenantsDUEI down at headquarters and got the address.
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Then I drove out boil Heights,Wilmot Street, four family flat and
out in front, out front ofthe four family flat was parked a gray
coup. A gray coup nineteen fortyone NASH license number twenty six and nine
nine seven two. I moved faster. Yeah, I think you and we
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are going to have a talk.Hey, home, your home, Dennison.
He left your car parked out frontflat foot. You remember he's not
that short, George. Move over, that's better, George. I suppose
we talk about a robbery. You'retrying to frame me, Shamas job you
pull about six months ago. Youwant a kid named Jimmy Withers. Thanks,
George, I may be here allnight. No, you got the
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wrong guy, all right. Jimmystool on you the next day. You
remember that, George, you wereso a real sword. Jimmy not only
Stooley took back the stuff you'd stolen. Oh you don't, Shamus, not
anymore yet. Oh George has agun. Now we'll put it down.
Stay right there. We can addgun without permit. We're gonna add nothing,
Shamus, not a salt of batteryor nothing. Stand back, We'll
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add plenty. No, let's notwaste any more time alone. Who killed
Jimmy Withers? I don't know whydid you rob and over store. It
was his idea had the combination ofthe safe. He was just a clerk.
They don't give clerks the numbers tothe safe. He got it somewhere.
He had insight. He told youthat. Yeah, yeah, he
wanted me to plan. Why didhe squealed because of the girl? He
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said, because he was in lovewith some girl in a ship. He
was afraid he'd lose the cut.She had all the boyfriends. I don't
know, I don't know. Whydid you tell me, George? Why
did you sack me? I wasdown at the jail having for questioning.
I saw your leaf sand Tucci's office. I figured you were trying to flame
me. You were gonna make trouble. You made your own trouble, George,
plenty of it. You're gonna frameit for that murder, raped Chamus,
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just for assault, for carrying agun without a permit, for trying
to use it. You'll framed yourself. I called the police and waited for
a squad car to pick up GeorgeDennison. They came and went, and
I drove back through town towards Burbank. Yeah. Oh oh, mister Regan,
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mind if I come in Clarence well, well, I wouldn't mind,
mister Regan, but you see thatis my wife, Reces wouldn't care much
for the idea that is, well, I wouldn't see exactly. It's okay,
Clarence, I'll say it. Besides, your wife's the one I want
to see. Well, if yousay so, mister Regan, I suppose
I'll tell Emily just a minute,Clarence, I want to ask you one
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question first, very well, misterReagan, last night when Jimmy Withers was
shot, were you at home?No, no, no, no,
I wasn't. I was at alarge meeting until midnight. You see,
Emily said, There was just Emilyand her brother Peter. Oh. Yes,
we can talk about it later.I suppose you call your wife.
A nervous little man shoveled up thestairs rather than raise his voice to call
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Emily, glanced back at me once, unsure worried, then moved up to
the second floor. There were voicesup there for a few minutes, and
then down the stairs came Emily,and over Emily and all her bombastic glory,
a housecoat wrapped around her big frame, hairpins holding down a mass of
twisted ringlets, Emily the Queen andit for a crown. Well, mister
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Reagan, and what excuse you givingthem barging into my home again, meddling
into my affairs. Mister Regan,you stay out of this, Clarence.
What I've got to say is foryour wife, Missus and Over. You
spent the evening at home last night. Yes, I did. Your brother
he was here with you, Yes, he was all evening. Mister Reagan,
I'm going to call the police.I said all evening. Oh yes,
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but you're not sure. Yes,yes, I'm sure you sat here
all evening with Peter. What isthe meaning of this, mister Reagan?
Are you trying to imply that Ilied to the police. Yes, you
shouldn't say it. The boy wasmurdered last night. Missus and Over,
your husband's daughters in jail for thatmurder. Sure, she's not your flesh
and blood, she's your stepdaughter.But Peter Cheney is. He's your flesh
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and blood brother, he's yours.Mister. Yet you'd lie for what's yours
and let another man's daughter die fora murder she didn't commit. That's not
true. It's not true. Itisn't You don't believe in murder, do
you, missus andover murderer is wrong, but you provided an alibi for a
murderer. No, Peter Cheney,your brother shot and killed Jimmy Withers,
shot and kill him because Jimmy wasabout to take Dorothy away, because Jimmy
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was about to marry her. No, no, that's a lot. Peter
Cheney followed them to Griffith Park,he shot Jimmy Withers, he returned to
the house, and you provided thealibi for him. No, No,
he wouldn't do a thing like that. Peter wouldn't he could. He wasn't
home with you all evening. No, no, he wasn't. He went
out about ten or ten thirty,came back maybe thirty minutes or so later.
Yes, yes he did. ButPeter wouldn't kill anyone. I know
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he wouldn't. He's my brother.Thank you for defending me, Emily.
Peter, Mister Regan is lying,Emily. You and I both know that
a gun. Mister Regan talks toomuch, My dear. We wouldn't want
some of those lies spread around theneighborhood, would we are to the police,
Chenney. We wouldn't want them spreadthere precisely, mister Regan, just
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the way I feel about it.Peter, what what mister Vegan? Emily,
you shouldn't have admitted to mister Reganthat I left the house last night.
That was quite wrong of you.But Peter, I didn't know you'd
lie for murderer missus Hanover. Youdidn't know because he happened to be your
brother. Mister Regan, I don'tlike what you're doing at all. You're
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undermineing my sister's faith, to saynothing of my dear brother in law.
That right, Clarence, don't talkto me. You see, mister Regan,
my sister crying and my brother inlaw trying to act like a man
again. Terrible what you're doing.You did to Jimmy Withers. You gave
him the combination to the store safe. You encouraged him to pull off a
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robbery so he could turn on him, have him arrested, and have Dorothy
for yourself. How did I knowJimmy was going to bring everything back?
The next morning? When George Dennisontold me Jimmy had inside dope, it
began to make sense. George alsotold me Jimmy was afraid of losing his
girl, Dorothy, a lovely girl. Dorothy's quite fond of me, you
know, so, she told mein her jail cell this morning. When
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I added the robbery and the otherman Jimmy was afraid of it had to
be you. You wanted Dorothy,but you let her go to prison for
your crime. And I was sureGeorge Dennison would be arrested. He'd been
caught stealing in the neighborhood before,he hated Jimmy, and he had a
prison record. Naturally, I wasquite shocked when he turned up with such
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a good alibi. You're hateful,hateful, mister dear. That's no way
to act. After all, youare an accomplice in them too. We
must kill mister Regan before he bringsruin on both of us. No,
I mean, you aren't going tosupply me with another alibi. Emily Deia,
don't forget. You have to saveyour own skin. No, no,
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I won't do it. I don'tcare what they do with me.
I don't care even Emily Peter andyou, Clarence, surely you don't want
to see poor Emily in prison.I want to kill you. Clarence,
stay right where you are I've hatedyou from the first moment you set foot
in my house, from the momentI first saw you looking at my daughter.
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I listened to Emily. I gaveyou a job. I supported Clarence.
I am not going to listen toEmily any longer, Brother Peter,
I am not going to let youand your sister destroy what's left because my
life stop him. I'll take thatgun out. No, yes, Clarence,
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you all right? Yeah, yeah, yes, mister Riggan. You
you saved my life. Oh no, not me, Clarence. Once you
you saved your own life. Lieutenantsand Ducci showed up for the prisoner Peter
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Cheney and with him when his sisterEmily. It made sense that Emily wouldn't
get off scott free for lying tothe cops, but Peter, he could
plan nothing less than life. Clarenceand over watched them go. The look
in his eyes gave the whole thingmore, meaning Clarence didn't need either of
them anymore. Even my boss,Anthony J. Lyon was happy when I
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showed up for work the next morning, fell the Chiffy happy today he will
not, especially Jeffrey, not especiallyfunny, you sounded to me like a
guy who just received a check.Why, how redicuous, Jeffrey, who
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told you Clarence and over he saidhe was mailing the feet of the office
last night. He did. Ohthe fee? Yes, yes, yes,
he mailed the fee. He's justlike I said, fifty dollars.
He's very kind of him. I'msure. Fifty dollars, yes, yes,
Jeffrey. I I deposited his checkat the bank this morning. I
had saved it to show to you, But you see, I wanted to
get to the bank early. Ohboyd the rush you understand, Oh sure,
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I understand banks are crowded these days. If I'd gotten there any later,
why why? Why? Even asit was, Jeffrey, the line
was have wayed down to the nextcounters. Fifty dollars a fat song,
Well, Jeffrey, there was asmall bonus included it. Miss jan Over
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just enclosed a little something to buya new doormat. No lion, one
hundred dollars will buy a lot ofdoormats. Yeah, one hundred. Dolly
who told you that Clarence had overadded another fifty because we saved his daughter?
Well, now fat, oh,very well, Jeffrey, hundred dollars
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is in the bank. You'll getyour share, thanks fat so I already
have. I was at the bankthis morning, standing in line right behind
you. Jeffrey Jeff Reagan Investigator iswritten by William Prue, produced and directed
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by Sterling Tracy, and stars Paulde Barbas Reagan with Frank Nelson as Anthony
Jay Lion. Original music is byDickaran Bob Stevenson's speaking inviting you to be
with us again for more Transcribe suspenseand mystery and adventure with Jeff Regan Investigator,
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Welcome back. I do think thatRegan is probably smart to get his
portion of the bonus money out himself. Not sure entirely ethical, but smart
to do so, given boy theLion approaches things. The title of today's
episode actually harkens back to a filmcalled Oil for the Lamps of China,
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a book and later a nineteen thirtyfive film starring paddle'brian. The plot of
the movie doesn't bear any relation tothe plot of this particular episode. It's
just one of those little plays onwords. The way the episode en it
up, there was definitely a bitof over the top melodrama, but not
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in the same way that you'll hearon New York programs. Well listener comments
and feedback. Now and we havea comment from Jan, who writes high
at him, I love your show. I do have an issue about the
current Jeff Reagan. He calls hisboss fats O too much, too often
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in single conversation. No one wouldtake that abuse. Doesn't bother you or
anyone else. Well, thanks somuch for the question. Jan. You
know this is not something that hasbothered me, so I can do kind
of get the repetitiveness now. Certainlythere are repetitive nicknames like if you listen
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to something like let George do Itor Wally mayor in Michael Shane they call
their female associates angel. But therepetitiveness of that doesn't really bother anyone.
It's only when you've got something likefats so or I remember, you know
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and standby for crime. People gotreally annoyed at glamour Puss. So is
fats O the glamour puss of twentytwenty one, twenty twenty two, maybe
for some folks. I kind ofdo take it to its historic contexts.
I think that there were a lotof men who were not nearly as sensitive
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about their weight, as your averagetwenty first century mail myself included might be.
In fact, you had famous peoplewhose names were Fats or Fatty,
like Fats Domino, Fats Walker,Fatty Arbuckle. In fact, if you
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look into it, there were peoplein the first half of the twentieth century
who were gangsters or politicians who werenickname more known as Fats or Fatty,
though I think Fats was more common. I mean, the guy who offered
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his own form of rough justice andyesterday's program wasn't named Fats. So it's
hard for me to get too annoyedat Fats. So it's just kind of
an era thing, and it doesn'tseem to be something that the Lion objects
to. It's just part of thequirkiness of Reagan in Lions relationship. And
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then we got a couple of commentsfrom Joey regarding some of our boxing league
programs. He writes, I'm enjoyingboxing week. Maybe a circus week next,
And you know, I've thought ofcircus week. I don't know if
I'll do it next, but it'scertainly something that I think would be fun.
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And there's a whole lot of circusrelated programs. It's definitely a summer
serious sort of thing. I didhave an idea for something else for summer,
but if there's a great interest inCircus Week, you could do that
instead. Though I'm certain if Idon't do Circus Week in twenty twenty two,
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I will eventually do one as longas the show keeps going because there's
so many fun circus related episodes.Thanks for the suggestion and Joey comments.
Regarding the Boston Blackie episode, theinteraction between Boston Blackie and Inspector Faraday is
somewhere between kind of funny and completelyannoying. Yeah, it straddles the line,
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and certainly there are some listeners whowill come down either way. But
Joan Ritson, it was nice tohear of Boston Blackie again. Thanks,
Adam and Matt concurred, well,thank you so much. I'm glad you
enjoyed it. Now it is timeto thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
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Thank you to Garrick. Patreon supporterssince January of twenty eighteen currently supporting
the program at the Detective Sergeant levelof seven dollars and fourteen cents or more
for a month. Thanks so muchfor your support, Garrett, Well,
I did want to go ahead andlet you know that we are actually getting
near the end of our run ofpreviously uncirculated episodes of Jeff Reagan. We
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only have three more weeks left andso coming in four weeks we'll be bringing
you previously uncirculated episodes of another series, So more on that to come.
That will do it for today.If you are enjoying this podcast, please
write and review it wherever you downloadyour podcast from. We'll be back next
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Tuesday with another episode of Jeff Reagan. But coming up tomorrow we take a
listen to the Man called X whereI'm sorry to have to put you off
that Brandy Case show. But KenThirst on the sick list, Well,
you've worked closer with him than anyoneelse. Well, all I know about
it is but I got from thenewspapers on the way up yet, Chief,
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and that wasn't much. You don'thave much more ourselves, Joe.
But Sir Hartley Manning was on boardthat plane and that's the reason enough to
drop everything else. I know youand advised on the North African affairs.
The only man who's ever shown achance of bringing about some permanent agreement between
the Arabs and the French. Yeah, he was supposed to give his decision
on the Arab farm loan in Paristoday. That's why the lids ready to
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blow off over there. You see, nobody knows for sure what a decision
was going to be on each side'sblaming the other for his murder. I
suppose there's no doubt out that itwas murdered. Yeah, literally blown the
bit. It couldn't have been anaccident, Joe. Somebody put a time
bomb aboard. Well, one thingsaid in chief, it's got to be
solved fast, or there's no pointin solving it at all. I know
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Algie's pretty well one spot and startablaze. There's a plane standing by.
It's ready to leave whenever you are. Yes, I better start, Oh,
Joe, there's one other thing.I don't know exactly how to say
it, and i'd rather again Thurstonwasn't full just enjoy just got the full
passenger list a little while ago.The victims of that explosion, and well
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on one of the names was Pagan'sElschmidt. Yeah, I've allays been pretty
rough on el Schmidt. But man, I'm sorry. Take all of it
here in the deer have been prettyrough on him, and you come right
down to it underneath it all.Well, well, Chief, I'll call
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you from now. Jays. Ihope you'll be with us then. In
the meantime, do send your commentsto Box thirteen and Great Detectives Net.
Check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives,
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I do want to let you knowthat coming up on the Amazing World
of Radio Amazing dot Great Detectives onSunday, listen to a special episode in
honor of the late Betty Why inwhich will present an old time radio episode
in which Miss White appeared. Youcan check this out over an Amazing doc
Great Detectives dot net. Coming upon this Sunday. Well, now it
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is time to get into this week'sepisode of Jeff Reagan. The original air
date is May the twelfth, nineteenfifty and the title is Oil for the
Lamps of Burbank. My name's Reagan. I worked for Anthony jay lyon Detective
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Bureau. They call me the Lion'sEye. Jeff Reagan Investigator, starring Paul
de Bab as Reagan, with FrankNelson as Anthony jay Lyon. So standby
for Mystery and suspense and adventure.In tonight's Transcribe story Oil for the Lamps
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of Burbank. There was a girlin it, a young pretty girl about
nineteen, and her father, ascared little man who couldn't remember the last
time he'd had an opinion. Therewas a boy about the girl's age,
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and he was dead, And thenthere was a woman. It all started
with a phone call, a simple, little five cent phone call at the
Lion Answer that Friday afternoon. Onlywhat you didn't guess was that the conversation
on the other end of the linewas more than five cents worth of trouble.
Yes, I've got daddy, hecould use meek a little loudably.
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Oh yes, indeed, our senda man rider. Hello, Hello,
hang up on your fat So youare et it, Jeffrey, I'm who
got here? Sounds bad? Oh, Geoffrey, he is bad, that
poor man. He could hardly getthe words out. What's his name?
Lion name? I don't know.He talks so softly. I barely understood
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it. But you said you'd sendthe man out. Well I did get
the addressed Jeffrey. It's in Burbanktwo sixteen North Cordova's treed. He told
me that before he told me therest. What's the rest, Well,
there's something about his daughter. She'sin jail for murder. Then he mentioned
someone else. I think it washis wife. Maybe he wasn't sure.
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He wasn't sure if she was hiswife, Belly. He just didn't seem
sure of anything. He didn't oryou didn't, No, Geoffrey. You
know I always get the facts ofthe case, like the client's name well,
or why he wanted to hire aprivate detective. Well, now,
Geoffrey, there were extenuating circumstances.His head of the Lion Detective Agency.
I can only do so much.After all, some of the work is
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up to you. How much ishe paying fats home fifty dollars? You
heard that all right? Well hesaid that before his voice got so short.
Sure he did fat so he probablyrepeated it a couple of times.
Repeat. Yes. As a matterof fact, he didn't. Don't just
stand there, he can get outthere and see are lion. The Lion
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produced one of his more operatic typeroars, and I left the office.
Twenty minutes later, I found twosixty North Cordova, a two story stucco
house, surrounded by apartments. Thestreet had just been paved, but that
didn't stop the rest of the yardfrom looking like an oversized sandpile. When
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the door finally opened, a littleman balled and red eye stood peeking at
me from behind thick lens glasses.He wore a pair of house shoes and
open vest and a frightened look.Yeah, you're from the detective Agency.
My name's Regan. Well, I'mClarence and Over. Mister Reagan. Please
come in. I'll have to askyou to speak softly, mister Regan.
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My wife is upstairs asleep. Pleasesit here. My boss said something about
your daughter, mister and Over.My daughter's in jail, mister Reagan.
I just don't understand that they've takenher to jail when last night they took
Dorothy to jail last night. Youwant to tell me about it, mister
and Over. But mister Regan,she didn't kill Jimmy Withers. She wouldn't
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kill anyone. Maybe you better takeit from the beginning. The police and
they came here this morning. Theytold me Dorothy was in jail. They
said she'd shot Jimmy. Don't yousee, mister Regan, Dorothy wouldn't hurt
anyone. Jimmy was her boyfriend.Yes, they were well almost engaged.
You see, it's my wife,mister Reagan. Oh, Clarence, answer
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me. I speak to you.I certainly expect. Oh you are talking
to someone, Clarence. Aren't yougoing to introduce me? Or isn't your
wife important enough to be introduced tostrangers? Yester? This is mister Regan.
He's a friend. How do youdo, mister Reagan, you're selling
something? I imagine you might aswell know. We aren't interested in buying
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anything. We certainly can't afford tobuy anything on the little money Clarence makes.
You should have told you that,Clarence, to the gentleman, we
can't afford to buying. What's that? He isn't selling anything? Mister Reagan
is a private detective, Dear,mister Regan is a private detective, Clarence.
What on earth is a private detectivedoing here? Haven't we had enough
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trouble for one day? I calledhim Emily, you call him? Well,
you explain it, peace, misterReagan. Clarence, I'm waiting for
an explanation. Look, missus andover, it's about your daughter. Dorothy.
She most said me, my daughter, My first wife died fifteen years
ago. Mister Regan, all right, your husband's daughter, missus Andover,
she's in trouble. Your husband figureshe needs help. Well, he's certainly
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right, for once in his life. The girl does need help. But
I assure you, mister Regan,it's not the kind of help that requires
a private detective. What that girlneeds is spiritual and moral guidance. Clarence
had thought of that sooner. It'sjust like I always told you, Clarence,
that girl would come to no good. You will bear me witness.
I told you so, mister Regan. If you'll just leave us alone,
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I'm quite sure we can handle ourown problems. Isn't that right, Clarence,
Well, Clarence, yes, Emily, I guess that's right. Well,
thank you, mister Regan for comingout. We'll get along. Sure,
we'll get along, well we Clarence, Yes, dear, we'll get
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along. Clarence Sandover wanted help.He told the Lion he'd pay fifty dollars
for private detective. Only Emily,Clarence's wife, didn't see it that way.
I decided to stick with Clarence.I edit my car for the city
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jail. Okay, in five minutes, Dorothy, my name's Jeff Rigg,
and your father sent me. Daddyhe thinks we might help straighten this out.
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He knows your father knows you didn'tkill Jimmy, Dorothy, but we
got to prove that. I knewhe'd believe me, mister Regan, Daddy
believes me. Suppose you tell mewhat happened. What do you mean,
I we were in his car,were parked by the side of the road.
Must I tell it all over againif you want me to help.
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They made me tell it so manytimes, so many times. No,
but try it just once more.M all right, all right, I'll
tell you. We were in groupof part Jimmy and I. We were
talking, really just talking. Suddenlysomebody stot the gun in the window and
shot at us. Jimmy yelled,and I yelled. And then and I
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guess I think you didn't see whodid it? No, No, I
just couldn't see anything. It wasso dark, and there was this gun
on the window. And that's allI remember. When I came to the
police car was there and they werelooking at me. And what else?
The gun within my hair the gunsthat killed Jimmy. Yeah, that's what
they said. That's all of it. Yeah, that's all of them.
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Tell me about Jimmy. What didhe do? Who were his friends?
His enemies? He didn't do anything. He used to work for dead Daddy
has an electical appliance stolen bourbon.Jimmy used to work there. She made
Daddy fire your stepmother. She's awful. I hate her, mister Rigg and
I hate her. Why did shemake your father fire Jimmy because he stole
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something? Tell me about that.He and another boy, George Dennison,
they robbed the store one night,but Jimmy didn't really mean to do it.
He brought everything back the next day. He just let George talk him
into it. Daddy was willing toforget, but not your stepmother. She
took Jimmy to the police. Theykept him locked up until he had to
tell him who else was with him. Oh, Jimmy told on George.
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He didn't want to, but theymade him. It stands the reason George
Dennison might like to get even withJimmy for that. George had a bad
rick. When the police found outabout him, he was sent to jail
and They let Jimmy go because hebrought everything back. I didn't do any
good? What didn't do any good? My stepmother phoned everyone in town and
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told him not to give Jimmy ajob because he was a thief. Is
there anyone else who knew Jimmy whobelieved in him? My uncle, he
believed in Chimney. What's his name, Uncle Peter, Peter Cheney. He's
not really my real uncle. He'she's my stepmother's youngest brother. But he's
not like her, really, isn't. He's he's a lot younger, and
he's nice. He works My fathertoun and he lived with Maybe I'll have
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a talk with him. You'll likehim, I'm sure you will once you
give me a chance. He's akind of odd at first. That's only
because my stepmother brought him up.Okay, Dorothy, I'll talk to him.
Okay. There's one more thing,mister, I haven't told anybody about.
Yeah, Jimmy and huh we weregoing to be married. I checked
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out from f Lieutenant san Ducci,but they that he wouldn't be in for
an hour. That gave me timeto run out to Burbank and the girl's
father's electrical appliance store. Only whenI'd driven halfway out Riverside, I discovered
something, something I didn't expect behindme, a great coup that had been
there since I left the jail.I was being followed. But when I
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pulled up in front of Andover's Appliancestore on San Fernando Road, the great
coop was gone. I'm looking forPeter Cheney. When you come to the
right place, May I show yousomething electrical appliances? No? Thanks,
fine, If you'll step this way, I'll show you on your homing.
Suppose we start with your home.Oh, here we do. We have
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the latest in coffeemakers. With thislittle gadget I can Chaney, will tell
me about Jimmy Withers. Nice boy. Now here, we have a waffle
baker, fully automatic, and itserves four people. Just okay, Chaney,
Now we'll talk my business. Doyou think Ernie's killed that boy?
Dorothy Andover is not my niece.She's my sister's husband's child. I know
that skip technicalities. I think we'dbetter skip the entire discussion, sir.
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I don't like your tone of voice. Jimmy Withers was killed at eleven o'clock
last night, Cheney, where wereyou at the time? I was at
home reading, and I have awitness to prove it. Now, crude
fellow, get out. That tookcare of that. Peter Cheney hurried off
to another customer, and I walkedoutside to my car. Then I got
another idea. A great coup hadtailed me to Burbank and then disappeared.
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But maybe it had pulled over toa stop just before I did. Maybe
the Great Coup was waiting for meto get started again. I left my
car and walked down the street,then back, No sign of the coop.
Then I moved around the corner andback behind Andover's Appliance Store. There
was a parking lot back there,and there was a great Coup parked in
it, the same car that hadtailed me from the jail nineteen forty one,
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Nash license plate number twenty six andnine nine oh seven two. But
that wasn't what I wanted. WhenI wanted was inside, wrapped around the
steering post in a neat little celluloidfolder, the registration card that would tell
me who drove the gray Coop.I leaned in moved it around to where
I could get a good look,and oh I never got a chance to
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find out. It was late afternoonand the sun was slanting behind the ancient
brick buildings, and there was fog, fog mixed up with the sunshine and
the taste of gravel in my mouth. I was lying in the parking lot
behind and oversupply in store, andthe fog was in my head. I
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sat up and looked around. Thegray coop was gone, and with it,
whoever it bent a blackjack over myhead. I got up, dusted
off my pants, and decided tohave a talk with my old pall,
Lieutenant san Duci. So I drovedown to police headquarters. Reagan. They
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told me you wanted to talk tome. Yeah, yeah, that's right,
Sanduci. You look like you don'tfeel very well. You know that
could be the most honest statement I'veheard all day. Okay, Regan,
what's the trouble the girl? Yougot on a murder rap? Dorothy and
over go on? You sure,san Duci? All the evidence went directly
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to this girl. But you askedme if I'm sure, and I must
tell you the truth. I amnot. But you're still holding her,
Reagan. She was found with agun in her hand. The boy was
sitting beside her dead. What elsecan I do? Ton, I lose
and pray for America? Okay,okay, what about the dead boy?
He was mixed up in a robberywith another kid about six months ago.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know what you're thinking. The
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other one's name was George Dennis anda bad one. But you checked him.
Of course, we checked him,Reagan, believe me, there'd been
any other wi George Dennison had analibi, six witnesses, six spent the
evening in a bar. So wehave the girl herman. What does that
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mean? What a rotten way tomake a living. George Dennison, the
logical suspect, had six witnesses thathe was nowhere near the scene of the
crime. But I still wanted totalk to him. I went out to
a phone with him the lobby andcalled my boss, Anthony jay Lyon Lion
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Detective Agency. Me, fat Soff, what's so surprising about that, Jaffrey,
You get up here to my officeimmediately? Is that clear? Listen,
Lion, I'm in the middle ofI don't care what you're in the
middle of. You will report backto my office at once, Henrigan.
If you aren't here in ten minutes, you're fired. Is that clear?
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Mister lion Sue. I won't haveyou and your employees disrupting my life.
Regan, come here this minute.That's the man. Arrest him. I
want this man, arrest him.Regan, do you know this woman?
He most certainly does know me.And if he says he doesn't, that
he's lying. Yeah, I knowyour fact. Now just a moment,
Missus hand Over, suppose we hearwhat mister Regan has to say about this?
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Well, mister Regan, what doyou have to say about this?
About what's you know very well about? What? Did you or did you
not come to my home this afternoon? I did did you or did you
not hear me say that my husbanddoes not require your services? I heard
you say it, Missus Handlevers.Mister Regan, I will not tolerate your
impudence. I told you we wereperfectly capable of taking care of ourselves,
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and let me assure you I intendproving it. Regan, why didn't you
tell me Missus hand Over had firedyou off the case. So you're lying
here? Yes, you've got offboth of you. I suppose somebody tells
me just what the complaint is reading. You have no man, You had
no right to investigate the private livesof my family. The very idea of
your questioning my brother. Oh sothat's it? That most certainly is it.
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Peter phoned me that a man hadbeen in the store questioning him,
and I knew immediately that you wouldbe just such a person. Well,
I'm going to put a stop toit. You all through, missus andover
you two facts over, okay,Then I'm going to tell you something,
both of you. There's a girlsitting down there in a jail cell.
She's charged with murder. Well,I don't think she killed Jimmy Withers.
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I think she's telling the truth.And I'm going to find out one way
or another. I'm gonna find out. And you, missus hanover or you
line, I'm gonna stop me.If I made myself clear, just stay
out of my way. There wasone visit left to make one more place
to add facts. I've phoned lieutenantsDUEI down at headquarters and got the address.
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Then I drove out boil Heights,Wilmot Street, four family flat and
out in front, out front ofthe four family flat was parked a gray
coup. A gray coup nineteen fortyone NASH license number twenty six and nine
nine seven two. I moved faster. Yeah, I think you and we
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are going to have a talk.Hey, home, your home, Dennison.
He left your car parked out frontflat foot. You remember he's not
that short, George. Move over, that's better, George. I suppose
we talk about a robbery. You'retrying to frame me, Shamas job you
pull about six months ago. Youwant a kid named Jimmy Withers. Thanks,
George, I may be here allnight. No, you got the
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wrong guy, all right. Jimmystool on you the next day. You
remember that, George, you wereso a real sword. Jimmy not only
Stooley took back the stuff you'd stolen. Oh you don't, Shamus, not
anymore yet. Oh George has agun. Now we'll put it down.
Stay right there. We can addgun without permit. We're gonna add nothing,
Shamus, not a salt of batteryor nothing. Stand back, We'll
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add plenty. No, let's notwaste any more time alone. Who killed
Jimmy Withers? I don't know whydid you rob and over store. It
was his idea had the combination ofthe safe. He was just a clerk.
They don't give clerks the numbers tothe safe. He got it somewhere.
He had insight. He told youthat. Yeah, yeah, he
wanted me to plan. Why didhe squealed because of the girl? He
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said, because he was in lovewith some girl in a ship. He
was afraid he'd lose the cut.She had all the boyfriends. I don't
know, I don't know. Whydid you tell me, George? Why
did you sack me? I wasdown at the jail having for questioning.
I saw your leaf sand Tucci's office. I figured you were trying to flame
me. You were gonna make trouble. You made your own trouble, George,
plenty of it. You're gonna frameit for that murder, raped Chamus,
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just for assault, for carrying agun without a permit, for trying
to use it. You'll framed yourself. I called the police and waited for
a squad car to pick up GeorgeDennison. They came and went, and
I drove back through town towards Burbank. Yeah. Oh oh, mister Regan,
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mind if I come in Clarence well, well, I wouldn't mind,
mister Regan, but you see thatis my wife, Reces wouldn't care much
for the idea that is, well, I wouldn't see exactly. It's okay,
Clarence, I'll say it. Besides, your wife's the one I want
to see. Well, if yousay so, mister Regan, I suppose
I'll tell Emily just a minute,Clarence, I want to ask you one
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question first, very well, misterReagan, last night when Jimmy Withers was
shot, were you at home?No, no, no, no,
I wasn't. I was at alarge meeting until midnight. You see,
Emily said, There was just Emilyand her brother Peter. Oh. Yes,
we can talk about it later.I suppose you call your wife.
A nervous little man shoveled up thestairs rather than raise his voice to call
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Emily, glanced back at me once, unsure worried, then moved up to
the second floor. There were voicesup there for a few minutes, and
then down the stairs came Emily,and over Emily and all her bombastic glory,
a housecoat wrapped around her big frame, hairpins holding down a mass of
twisted ringlets, Emily the Queen andit for a crown. Well, mister
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Reagan, and what excuse you givingthem barging into my home again, meddling
into my affairs. Mister Regan,you stay out of this, Clarence.
What I've got to say is foryour wife, Missus and Over. You
spent the evening at home last night. Yes, I did. Your brother
he was here with you, Yes, he was all evening. Mister Reagan,
I'm going to call the police.I said all evening. Oh yes,
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but you're not sure. Yes,yes, I'm sure you sat here
all evening with Peter. What isthe meaning of this, mister Reagan?
Are you trying to imply that Ilied to the police. Yes, you
shouldn't say it. The boy wasmurdered last night. Missus and Over,
your husband's daughters in jail for thatmurder. Sure, she's not your flesh
and blood, she's your stepdaughter.But Peter Cheney is. He's your flesh
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and blood brother, he's yours.Mister. Yet you'd lie for what's yours
and let another man's daughter die fora murder she didn't commit. That's not
true. It's not true. Itisn't You don't believe in murder, do
you, missus andover murderer is wrong, but you provided an alibi for a
murderer. No, Peter Cheney,your brother shot and killed Jimmy Withers,
shot and kill him because Jimmy wasabout to take Dorothy away, because Jimmy
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was about to marry her. No, no, that's a lot. Peter
Cheney followed them to Griffith Park,he shot Jimmy Withers, he returned to
the house, and you provided thealibi for him. No, No,
he wouldn't do a thing like that. Peter wouldn't he could. He wasn't
home with you all evening. No, no, he wasn't. He went
out about ten or ten thirty,came back maybe thirty minutes or so later.
Yes, yes he did. ButPeter wouldn't kill anyone. I know
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he wouldn't. He's my brother.Thank you for defending me, Emily.
Peter, Mister Regan is lying,Emily. You and I both know that
a gun. Mister Regan talks toomuch, My dear. We wouldn't want
some of those lies spread around theneighborhood, would we are to the police,
Chenney. We wouldn't want them spreadthere precisely, mister Regan, just
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the way I feel about it.Peter, what what mister Vegan? Emily,
you shouldn't have admitted to mister Reganthat I left the house last night.
That was quite wrong of you.But Peter, I didn't know you'd
lie for murderer missus Hanover. Youdidn't know because he happened to be your
brother. Mister Regan, I don'tlike what you're doing at all. You're
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undermineing my sister's faith, to saynothing of my dear brother in law.
That right, Clarence, don't talkto me. You see, mister Regan,
my sister crying and my brother inlaw trying to act like a man
again. Terrible what you're doing.You did to Jimmy Withers. You gave
him the combination to the store safe. You encouraged him to pull off a
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robbery so he could turn on him, have him arrested, and have Dorothy
for yourself. How did I knowJimmy was going to bring everything back?
The next morning? When George Dennisontold me Jimmy had inside dope, it
began to make sense. George alsotold me Jimmy was afraid of losing his
girl, Dorothy, a lovely girl. Dorothy's quite fond of me, you
know, so, she told mein her jail cell this morning. When
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I added the robbery and the otherman Jimmy was afraid of it had to
be you. You wanted Dorothy,but you let her go to prison for
your crime. And I was sureGeorge Dennison would be arrested. He'd been
caught stealing in the neighborhood before,he hated Jimmy, and he had a
prison record. Naturally, I wasquite shocked when he turned up with such
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a good alibi. You're hateful,hateful, mister dear. That's no way
to act. After all, youare an accomplice in them too. We
must kill mister Regan before he bringsruin on both of us. No,
I mean, you aren't going tosupply me with another alibi. Emily Deia,
don't forget. You have to saveyour own skin. No, no,
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I won't do it. I don'tcare what they do with me.
I don't care even Emily Peter andyou, Clarence, surely you don't want
to see poor Emily in prison.I want to kill you. Clarence,
stay right where you are I've hatedyou from the first moment you set foot
in my house, from the momentI first saw you looking at my daughter.
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I listened to Emily. I gaveyou a job. I supported Clarence.
I am not going to listen toEmily any longer, Brother Peter,
I am not going to let youand your sister destroy what's left because my
life stop him. I'll take thatgun out. No, yes, Clarence,
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you all right? Yeah, yeah, yes, mister Riggan. You
you saved my life. Oh no, not me, Clarence. Once you
you saved your own life. Lieutenantsand Ducci showed up for the prisoner Peter
(27:29):
Cheney and with him when his sisterEmily. It made sense that Emily wouldn't
get off scott free for lying tothe cops, but Peter, he could
plan nothing less than life. Clarenceand over watched them go. The look
in his eyes gave the whole thingmore, meaning Clarence didn't need either of
them anymore. Even my boss,Anthony J. Lyon was happy when I
(27:52):
showed up for work the next morning, fell the Chiffy happy today he will
not, especially Jeffrey, not especiallyfunny, you sounded to me like a
guy who just received a check.Why, how redicuous, Jeffrey, who
(28:14):
told you Clarence and over he saidhe was mailing the feet of the office
last night. He did. Ohthe fee? Yes, yes, yes,
he mailed the fee. He's justlike I said, fifty dollars.
He's very kind of him. I'msure. Fifty dollars, yes, yes,
Jeffrey. I I deposited his checkat the bank this morning. I
had saved it to show to you, But you see, I wanted to
get to the bank early. Ohboyd the rush you understand, Oh sure,
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I understand banks are crowded these days. If I'd gotten there any later,
why why? Why? Even asit was, Jeffrey, the line
was have wayed down to the nextcounters. Fifty dollars a fat song,
Well, Jeffrey, there was asmall bonus included it. Miss jan Over
(29:00):
just enclosed a little something to buya new doormat. No lion, one
hundred dollars will buy a lot ofdoormats. Yeah, one hundred. Dolly
who told you that Clarence had overadded another fifty because we saved his daughter?
Well, now fat, oh,very well, Jeffrey, hundred dollars
(29:22):
is in the bank. You'll getyour share, thanks fat so I already
have. I was at the bankthis morning, standing in line right behind
you. Jeffrey Jeff Reagan Investigator iswritten by William Prue, produced and directed
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by Sterling Tracy, and stars Paulde Barbas Reagan with Frank Nelson as Anthony
Jay Lion. Original music is byDickaran Bob Stevenson's speaking inviting you to be
with us again for more Transcribe suspenseand mystery and adventure with Jeff Regan Investigator,
(31:26):
Welcome back. I do think thatRegan is probably smart to get his
portion of the bonus money out himself. Not sure entirely ethical, but smart
to do so, given boy theLion approaches things. The title of today's
episode actually harkens back to a filmcalled Oil for the Lamps of China,
(31:53):
a book and later a nineteen thirtyfive film starring paddle'brian. The plot of
the movie doesn't bear any relation tothe plot of this particular episode. It's
just one of those little plays onwords. The way the episode en it
up, there was definitely a bitof over the top melodrama, but not
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in the same way that you'll hearon New York programs. Well listener comments
and feedback. Now and we havea comment from Jan, who writes high
at him, I love your show. I do have an issue about the
current Jeff Reagan. He calls hisboss fats O too much, too often
(32:37):
in single conversation. No one wouldtake that abuse. Doesn't bother you or
anyone else. Well, thanks somuch for the question. Jan. You
know this is not something that hasbothered me, so I can do kind
of get the repetitiveness now. Certainlythere are repetitive nicknames like if you listen
(33:01):
to something like let George do Itor Wally mayor in Michael Shane they call
their female associates angel. But therepetitiveness of that doesn't really bother anyone.
It's only when you've got something likefats so or I remember, you know
(33:22):
and standby for crime. People gotreally annoyed at glamour Puss. So is
fats O the glamour puss of twentytwenty one, twenty twenty two, maybe
for some folks. I kind ofdo take it to its historic contexts.
I think that there were a lotof men who were not nearly as sensitive
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about their weight, as your averagetwenty first century mail myself included might be.
In fact, you had famous peoplewhose names were Fats or Fatty,
like Fats Domino, Fats Walker,Fatty Arbuckle. In fact, if you
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look into it, there were peoplein the first half of the twentieth century
who were gangsters or politicians who werenickname more known as Fats or Fatty,
though I think Fats was more common. I mean, the guy who offered
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his own form of rough justice andyesterday's program wasn't named Fats. So it's
hard for me to get too annoyedat Fats. So it's just kind of
an era thing, and it doesn'tseem to be something that the Lion objects
to. It's just part of thequirkiness of Reagan in Lions relationship. And
(34:50):
then we got a couple of commentsfrom Joey regarding some of our boxing league
programs. He writes, I'm enjoyingboxing week. Maybe a circus week next,
And you know, I've thought ofcircus week. I don't know if
I'll do it next, but it'scertainly something that I think would be fun.
(35:15):
And there's a whole lot of circusrelated programs. It's definitely a summer
serious sort of thing. I didhave an idea for something else for summer,
but if there's a great interest inCircus Week, you could do that
instead. Though I'm certain if Idon't do Circus Week in twenty twenty two,
(35:36):
I will eventually do one as longas the show keeps going because there's
so many fun circus related episodes.Thanks for the suggestion and Joey comments.
Regarding the Boston Blackie episode, theinteraction between Boston Blackie and Inspector Faraday is
somewhere between kind of funny and completelyannoying. Yeah, it straddles the line,
(36:00):
and certainly there are some listeners whowill come down either way. But
Joan Ritson, it was nice tohear of Boston Blackie again. Thanks,
Adam and Matt concurred, well,thank you so much. I'm glad you
enjoyed it. Now it is timeto thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
(36:20):
Thank you to Garrick. Patreon supporterssince January of twenty eighteen currently supporting
the program at the Detective Sergeant levelof seven dollars and fourteen cents or more
for a month. Thanks so muchfor your support, Garrett, Well,
I did want to go ahead andlet you know that we are actually getting
near the end of our run ofpreviously uncirculated episodes of Jeff Reagan. We
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only have three more weeks left andso coming in four weeks we'll be bringing
you previously uncirculated episodes of another series, So more on that to come.
That will do it for today.If you are enjoying this podcast, please
write and review it wherever you downloadyour podcast from. We'll be back next
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Tuesday with another episode of Jeff Reagan. But coming up tomorrow we take a
listen to the Man called X whereI'm sorry to have to put you off
that Brandy Case show. But KenThirst on the sick list, Well,
you've worked closer with him than anyoneelse. Well, all I know about
it is but I got from thenewspapers on the way up yet, Chief,
(37:29):
and that wasn't much. You don'thave much more ourselves, Joe.
But Sir Hartley Manning was on boardthat plane and that's the reason enough to
drop everything else. I know youand advised on the North African affairs.
The only man who's ever shown achance of bringing about some permanent agreement between
the Arabs and the French. Yeah, he was supposed to give his decision
on the Arab farm loan in Paristoday. That's why the lids ready to
(37:51):
blow off over there. You see, nobody knows for sure what a decision
was going to be on each side'sblaming the other for his murder. I
suppose there's no doubt out that itwas murdered. Yeah, literally blown the
bit. It couldn't have been anaccident, Joe. Somebody put a time
bomb aboard. Well, one thingsaid in chief, it's got to be
solved fast, or there's no pointin solving it at all. I know
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Algie's pretty well one spot and startablaze. There's a plane standing by.
It's ready to leave whenever you are. Yes, I better start, Oh,
Joe, there's one other thing.I don't know exactly how to say
it, and i'd rather again Thurstonwasn't full just enjoy just got the full
passenger list a little while ago.The victims of that explosion, and well
(38:38):
on one of the names was Pagan'sElschmidt. Yeah, I've allays been pretty
rough on el Schmidt. But man, I'm sorry. Take all of it
here in the deer have been prettyrough on him, and you come right
down to it underneath it all.Well, well, Chief, I'll call
(39:01):
you from now. Jays. Ihope you'll be with us then. In
the meantime, do send your commentsto Box thirteen and Great Detectives Net.
Check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives,
and follow us on Twitter at RadioDetectives from Boise, Idaho. This is
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your host, Adam Graham's sign andall
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