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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Craft Foods Company brings you The Adventures of the Falcon,
starring Les Damon. Hello, Yes this is the Falcon speaking,
Oh Doris, thanks for the call, but tonight is out
for me. I'm working for a businessman who has killed
off his competition, and the question is did he do it? Literally,
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this is ed hurly heat friends in fighting. You on
behalf of the Craft Foods Company to listen to the Adventures.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of the Falcon.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You met the Falcon first in his best selling novels,
then you saw him in his thrilling motion picture series.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Now join him on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When the Falcon's halls, the Case of the Widow's Gorilla,
Sunday Afternoon and Time, or another thrilling Adventure.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Of the Falcon.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
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Speaker 3 (01:25):
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Speaker 1 (01:27):
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Now the case of the Widow's Gorilla. It's late Sunday
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night in the New York apartment of novelty manufacturer Raymond
or Sadie Orsadi is the stop middle aged man who
at the moment is opening a desk broy in the
study of the apartment, out of which he takes a revolver.
He breaks the revolver, sees that it's loaded, closes it,
and is raising it to his head when he.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Hears a sound behind him.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
He turns to see his wife, Lois standing.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
In the doorway.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What are you doing? What does it look like I'm doing?
Stay away from me. Stay away or you really get hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
What can you say? Business is ruined? Kendrick's got the
best to me.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
There's nothing left.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You're just going to quit. Let him win so easy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He's already worn driven me to the wall.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
There's nothing I can do, be something bankruptcy, disgrace.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
You just stop feeling sorry for yourself and really work
out it. You'd find a way out, how Don't ask me?
You're the brain.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I tell you it's no use. Only other way out
would Hey, wait a minute, that's an idea. If Kendrick
would fall for it. Yes, it's a possibility, it is.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You'll see if it works.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Have to figure out how to present it to Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He might just go for it. He just might.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well, there's the proposition, Kendrick. What do you say? Is
that all you have to offer?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Look, it's all in your favor, everything the way I
are Saturday, I'm not interested, But don't you see not
worth discussing. When you asked me to come over this morning,
I thought you were a worthwhile offer. I can't waste
my time on this good Oh Kendrick, Wait, your time
isn't valuable as mine is Gooday again.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I might have known he wouldn't be interested. I should
have known. Why do I try to kid myself? What's
the use, dear Lewis? It's no use. I knew that
it wouldn't be, but I tried to pretend. I'm sorry
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about everything, but there's only one way out. You took
the gun last night, but you didn't know I have another.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Try to forgive me.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Ray excuse me? Miss Yes, I'd like to say, mister Kendrick.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Hen you know something? What you can also?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Not like the falcon that's the shape of my face?
Will you please tell mister Kendrick I'm here. He's expecting me.
You mean Michael Worring.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yes, not Michael Wearing. You are the fucing yees.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Small world, isn't it. Now?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You tell Kendrick I'm going out for a few minutes.
If mister Wearing comes, ask him to wear. Oh fine,
I'm not going out after all. Come on in wearing
right and if anyone else comes, I don't want to
be disturbed now wearing. I guess you wonder what a
man like me wants with a detective.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, I wouldn't say that happens in the best of families.
What happens needing detectives? Oh oh that I thought you
meant murder. I wonder how you knew.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So that's why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, the police just left. You read about it in
the paper tomorrow. Well, ireen, I have a nice little
business here. Whar ain't been growing steadily the past few years?
This week I drove my chief competitor, Raymond Arsatti to
the wall bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'll bully for you.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Got a call from him this morning, could I come
right over? I went. What he offered was a merger.
Try don't need him? He needs me? Well, well, I
told him I wasn't interested and left. An hour later,
he's found shot through the head.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That was one way to get rid of competition. I
didn't do it, all right, jam all right.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But the medical examiner says he got it right around
the time I was there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But he was alive when you left, definitely, only I
have no proof, But I have a theory.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Welling is see what you think of it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I say suicide.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Was there a note?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They didn't find any. But here's the way I see it.
Orsati knew he was licked and blames me. He decides
to give up and shoots himself, but he does it
in a way to get back at me.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He kills he calls me on a silly pretext, waits
till I leave, and then kills himself intentionally, leaving no
note so I'll be blamed.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You don't buy it as possible. Who found the body?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A Leonard Stribling? He arrived an hour after me?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You know anything about stribling?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I understand he's a bookie or sorry? Liked the horses?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
All right, Kendrick, I'll drop around and see stribbling. You're
playing a long shot, and I have an idea. He's
just the boy to quote me the odds. Hello, my
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name is Mike Wearing. Like to see leonard'stribbling? Please, I'm
stribbling the bookie. Look around you're wearing? Look around? You
can't you see this as a loan office convenient? You
clean them, lend them the money, and then clean them
all over again, get them coming and going. You got
the wrong Leonard's stribbling. Didn't you find Raymonds? Out his body?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And so on?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I've got the right line of stribbling. Look, I don't
know what you want. Wearing but whatever it is, you're
wasting your time. The laws had me on the grill already,
and I'm clear or Sadi was killed an hour before
I went up to his place, and I can account
for every second of that hour with witnesses.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So you didn't kill him. What's the chances he killed
himself suicide? Are you sure there wasn't a note?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
What are you working for? Wearing?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Insurance company? What insurance company?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well saidy's he had a thirty grand policy, didn't you know,
I'm just beginning tell me more.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, you'd tell me who you're working for. That's no secret.
Kendrick Kendrick, good, very good, you like that?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Come mine in here wearing Okay, Now, look, Kendrick is
in this kind of deep so well, I suppose there
was a note, a suicide note. I don't say there was,
but if there was, that'd be all proof. Kendrick would
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need that he didn't knock off for Sadi, right right?
Note like that ought to be worth a lot to Kendrick.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
How much?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Don't ask me, Kendricks only Wan who can answer that.
But before he starts figuring, maybe you'd better remind him
that he's not the only one to be interested in
the note? Who else Saida's widow? Why suicide clause? You
guessed it, Chim. The clause is in effect. If Asadi
killed himself, the insurance is void, meaning that missus Oh
is out a cool thirty grand I get the picture.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Good, show it to Kendrick.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
He may appreciate art too.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, are you Lowers?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
My name is Mike Waring. I'd like to talk to
you for a minute. Mack, come in. What's it about
your husband's desk?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I don't want to think about it anymore. You'll have
to go.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No, I know how you feel.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But before I go, I thought you might like to know.
I've just seen Leonard's stribling. What of it He tried
to sell me your husband's suicide notes? What asked missus Ossadi?
Stribbling says your husband killed himself, and he's dickering with
you to sell you the note so you can cash
in on the insurance.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
That's a lie. I haven't seen stribling.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Rather than you will.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
He wants to get us bidding against each other.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
What's your interest in the note?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, it could save me a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
If you buy it, you're just going to wind up
in a gym with the insurance company.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
What an awful thing to say, to suggest that I
do such a thing. It isn't enough what I've gone through.
You have to come here make such an accusation.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I didn't accuse. I advise get.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Out of here.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Sure, so long, Barbary, Barbary come here.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Yeah, missus osati, what's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
A man just left Michael wearing. You can catch him
before he reaches the street. I want you to see
that he doesn't get to stribling if he tries to
stop him. I don't care what you do, only stop him.
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Adventures of the Vulcan. Ten minutes have passed since Louis
(12:11):
Orsatt ordered Marbury to keep Mike from Stribling. Now, in
a restaurant Mike Henderson's phone books put in the call
who was Fighting? As he dials, Mike looks through the
glass door and sees Marbury earnestly studying the phrases of
the colophone book, and from time to time shooting glances
at Mike that are meant to be unnotised. Hello, Kendrick, Yes,
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Mike wearing Oh, yes, wearing any la. Yeah you were right.
Looks like Orsari killed himself. I knew it, but you
were also wrong. What's that he said? Ossari didn't leave
a note because he wanted you blame. Well, there is
a note, there is, so, Stribling claims. So what becomes
of your theory?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, it's still suicide. But Stribling told the police there
wasn't any.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Note because he wants the peddler to the highest bidder.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh but who else would be interested? I try to
talk her out of the deal, but no dice. She
put a tail on me. What Yeah, flat faced Joe
was making such a production of being inconspicuous that he
stands out like an overcoat.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
In July. He's right outside his phone booth waiting to
pick me up again.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
What are you going to do? Have dinner?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I'm hungry, all.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Right, welling, But about that note, I'm willing to pay.
I don't like being involved.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
With murder, and I don't like blackmail. I'll go up
and see stribbling as soon as I finished dinner, and
the man who's following you, I'll be still with me
after dinner.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'll call him on it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
If he's as bad a liar as he is a tale,
I should learn plenty. All right, chum, what are we playing?
(13:54):
You've been following me ever since I left Arsad's. You
owned a sidewalk considering taxes Sometimes I wonder if.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
You wanna walk?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You walk? I wanna walk? I walk.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
It doesn't say somebody's following somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, walk, I'll wait here.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I'll walk when I feel like it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You mean when I feel like it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I look, chum, I've been in this racket long enough
to know when I'm being tailed.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
In that case, you've been in the record long enough
to be familiar.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
With one of these gun. Yes, we'll turn around.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Go on.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Now, start walking fare tail straight ahead. Remember I'm right
behind you.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And under the circumstances, I'm not likely to forget you.
I'm sorry. I's so attached to me. I'm really not
your type at all.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Maybe you have a point.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Turn into that alley.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
All right now, stuff, I.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Have an idea. This is the part I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Don't like you love it? It's where I leave you.
That's where you want it, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Yes, only before I go, I better say goodbye like so.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Al right, pal on your feet? Oh hello, come on,
get up.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, I'll try and miss.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Can't handle it, shouldn't touch it. Huh you heard me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You think I'm drunk?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, that aroma issuing from you is doubtless genuine adder
of roses.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What? Oh yeah, you must have doused the stuff on me.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh you didn't drink it. Somebody doused you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Look office, I was sapped. Here's the lump if you
want to feel it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Hey, neat job right back of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Maybe I was wrong yeah, maybe what time is it opposite?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
A little after a can?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I've only been out a few minutes. Cany still be time?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
The suck obviously works for missus Suy.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I thought I could scare and a tossing in her hand,
but the strong arm act means she's shooting for the pot.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That means I've got to work. Fans.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Why you say she wants.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
To leave me? Do a deal with Stribling? But if
she gets that note, I'm cooked. When the gable comes down,
I have to be a high better. I've got to
get up.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
There, all right. I run along. You're not drunk, You're crazy.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Heroson Departments, Callahan Trio. Just a moment, I connect you, Yes,
Sta know what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
What apartment of Stripling? Because I want to talk to him.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I am afraid that is impossible, sir. He's not seeing anyone,
but he'll see me. I do not think so, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Why not? Mister Stripling is dead?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Oh you again?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That's right, missus sad Do you want this time? The thug?
Whereas he the character who followed me when I left
here before?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You do know what I'm talking about. He didn't tail
me here, he did tail me from here.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You must be the link.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Now see here, mister Waring.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I know, I know this is no way to talk
to a poor bereaved widow, but it so happens. I've
just been slug by the poor widow's gorilla, and a
thing like that doesn't put me on my best behavior.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Now where is he?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Look? If you don't stop bothering me, I'm going to
call the police.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Don't bother they'll be around. I've already talked to him.
I told you you were flirting with trouble. I the
trouble's here. There's been a murder. Murder, yeah, murder, and
your playmate may have some of the answers on it.
So where can I find him?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
How many times do I have.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
To tell you? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I keep thinking you listen to reason, but I see
you are determined to do it the hard way, so
I might as well run along.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm just wasting my time here.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I'm glad you finally realized that. Goodbye, mister.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Hello. Oh yeah Swelling, I've been trying to reach you.
I want to know what I owe you so we
can settle up. You mean I'm canned. No, it's just
I don't need your services anymore. I'll come. Have you
seen Stribling tonight? Yeah? Well didn't he tell you?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
No, he's not in a talkative mood. What should he
have told me.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
About the notes?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I got it from him? What I have our Sathi's
suicide note? Got it from Strebbling tonight. So you can see.
As far as your concern, the case is closed.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh maybe, Kendrick, But as far as your concern, believe me,
it's just starting.
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It is twenty minutes since Kendric told Mike over the
phone about having Orsati's suicide note, and since he has
the note, Kendric thinks he no longer needs Mike.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But Mike has different ideas on the subject, and he's
gone over to mix two present them. So you say
you bought the note from Stribbling.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's right, welling, I don't see why you're so excited
about it. No, No, the note's conclusive, unmistakably and Orsadi's handwriting.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
All right, Kendrick, you've proved you didn't kill Ossati. Now
what about Stribbling?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
What about him?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I suppose you don't know that he was killed tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
What good heavy?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You walk out of one murder rapp right into another.
So it looks like my services are still very much required.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You're not joking When.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I worked for Yox, Kendrick, I pull cute the stuff
in this. What'll we do first?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
A quick run through to see where we stand, Like,
why did you go up to Striblings?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I told you I'd handle it.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
He called me right after you did what didn't know
how much i'd pay? He claimed missus Osati had offered
fifteen thousand. I offered twenty and you took it.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Right over to him.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
When'd you get there?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Around seven thirty?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
How long did you stay? Five ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Great?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He were there right around the time he was killed.
Oh no, the neighbors heard the shots. He was alive
when I left as.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And was killed right after seven point forty.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
You're in a or Sadi and stribling right back where
you started, only this time there's no note.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
There may be another difference too, know What's that? It
was known that I was up at Orsati's. Possibly no
one knows I went to Striblings, I know except you. Look,
I'm scared the death of a murder charge welling. I
paid twenty thousand already to clear myself for one How
much do you want.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To save your pennies, Kendrick. I'll work for my fifty
a day plus expenses, and if I can't clear you
that way, you better have cash on hand for a
good lawyer.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You've got to clear me, all right, and let me
do it my way.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm going to make one last attempt at getting lower
Sosadi to talk, and you better come with me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I want to keep my eye on you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Why because missus Arsadi has a gorilla working for her,
and if she gets the idea you have the note,
he may come calling and take my word for it, Kendrick,
you wouldn't enjoy the visit.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
All right, here we are four twelve.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Now, remember Kendrick, let me do the talking. All right,
Just one thing before we go in. Did you ever
meet Stribling before tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Why, I'm good? Oh not you a guess in this
time I'm coming in.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I see you are.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
What do I have to do? Just be your charming self?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
All right, let's get this over with once and.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
For all that suits me?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Fine, you know, mister Kendrick, Yes, I know, I mean
killed my husband.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
No, see here, Missus I'll handle it. Kendrick, this is
our sorry. I told you your husband killed himself.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Now we have proof, and Kendrick grove into it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It was strictly business up and up. If your husband wasn't, Kendrick,
I'll handle it. Sorry, this is our sorry. Your husband
killed himself. We have a note to prove it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You have it?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, right here now, I don't touch that. You can
see it's in your husband's hand. Right Where did you
get it from Stribling?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You killed him for it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Who told you he's dead?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
The police were here? I see, yes, they were here.
All right, it's not enough. I've lost a husband. No, no,
all day long, you and the police and the blaze
and you.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's too bad.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You know, I could have more sympathy with you if
you weren't involved with that gorilla, and if you didn't
lie about your dealings with Stribling.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I didn't have any dealings with Stribling.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
He said different.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
He was lying.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I doubted he wouldn't have closed the deal with us
until he heard your last off.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
He didn't close the deal. You killed him. That's how
you got the note.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
What makes you so sure?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Because he obviously was killed for the note and you've
got it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That's nice going, missus Arsadi. But there's one hitch.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What's that Kendrick never met Stribbling before, so when he
bought the note, how do we know he bought it
from Stribling?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Where you mean that wasn't Stribling.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Someone could have killed Stribbling for the note then, so
that you pretending to be Stribbling. Obviously not you, missus Arsadi.
You couldn't have masqueraded as a man, but your gorilla.
You told me you don't know the gorilla. But there's
a good possibility that he's a murderer. If you want
to keep on.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Covering for him, you may wind up as an accessory.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I didn't have anything to do with the murder, but you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Did have something to do with the murderer.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And if you don't talk now, we'll still prove it
when we find him. After all, I've seen him, I've
described him to the police. Now it's just a matter
of time.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Tell us his name, tell us where we can find him.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
All right, But you understand I didn't know he was
going to kill Stribley.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Stribling phone me said he had something that I might
be interested in.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I hired Marbury to find out about it, and.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's all Marbury. So that's his name, yes, Jack Morbury.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Right, But I didn't know he'd commit murder. I'm still
not sure that he did. All I know is when
you came, I ordered him to follow you. Later he
called back said, he followed you home home, That's what
he said.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
And then he said he went up to Striblings, but
just as he got to the door, he heard a shot.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Oh he heard the shot, that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He looks like you've heard it, Wearing. He was lying
to where he went up, killed Stribling for the note,
sold it to me.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
M h, where can we find him? Missus arsat in?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, perhaps if you look for me by reach all
of you.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
He's so wearing, come in here. So I went around
the back. I thought you might need me, sweetheart, but
I was wrong. You don't need me.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
What you need is a good smack in the tea.
Wearing is going for it, and that's my chance. Good Wearing.
You knocked him out, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Not the one who soldier of the note.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I didn't think he would be what you said out
what I said, because I was trying to catch a murderer.
And you know, Kendrick looks like I did. Yes, who
Kendrick is obvious? The broken hearted widow lois or Sai?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, is here?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
All right? Send him in? Hello, Wearing, come in, sit down.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Thanks, Kendrick. Well, I got the whole story out of
her at headquarters.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Good. One thing I still don't understand wedding, And maybe
you can explain what's that? Why did she do it?
The note was what everyone was after killing Stribbling didn't
get it for she wanted a note.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Because she'd lose thirty thousand if it fell into your
hands precisely, But Stribling called her, told her you wo
had offered twenty thousand cash. Yeah, now, she couldn't see
topping your bid, but she'd have left out of thirty.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Wouldn't be worth the risk.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
But she knew twenty thousand in cash would be changing
hands at Striblings, so she went there with a gun.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To collect it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
She figured if she couldn't protect her thirty, she settled
for your twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
She knew Stribling would be in opposition to call Copper,
so it seems safe.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Only he put up a struggle and she had to
shoot him.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And just how did you know it was?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
She?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, first of all, I didn't think it was.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
You flattering Why not?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, you were just trying to clear yourself of one murder.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
App I couldn't see you exposing yourself to another, and
just to wipe out the first.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Very well, well you've cleared me.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Still, that doesn't you didn't do it. I knew Marbury didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I told you no, Marbury didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Not because Stribling was killed at seven forty and it
so happens that at that exact time Marbury was sitting
across from me in a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Keeping an eye on me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oh so that left missus Rsari. Of course, there was
the outside chance that the job was pulled by someone
not directly involved in the case, but I squashed that
by giving missus Orsari a chance to finger Marbury, and
she fell for it. Well, she figured the off for
a guy. She had lined up the safe as she'd be.
But when she tried to place Marbury at Stribling's at
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the time of the shooting, that proved she was lying.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Very good, wearing very good indeed, and now here's your check,
thank him. And I guess that's just about all um.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh, just one more thing.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So what's the name of that cute little secretary of yours, Ernie?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Oh it's missus Kendrick.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Oh, well are saying Kendrick. I guess that's just about
all them holong.
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Now the case of the Widow's Gorilla. It's late Sunday
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night in the New York apartment of novelty manufacturer Raymond
or Sadie Orsadi is the stop middle aged man who
at the moment is opening a desk broy in the
study of the apartment, out of which he takes a revolver.
He breaks the revolver, sees that it's loaded, closes it,
and is raising it to his head when he.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Hears a sound behind him.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
He turns to see his wife, Lois standing.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
In the doorway.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What are you doing? What does it look like I'm doing?
Stay away from me. Stay away or you really get hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
What can you say? Business is ruined? Kendrick's got the
best to me.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
There's nothing left.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You're just going to quit. Let him win so easy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He's already worn driven me to the wall.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
There's nothing I can do, be something bankruptcy, disgrace.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
You just stop feeling sorry for yourself and really work
out it. You'd find a way out, how Don't ask me?
You're the brain.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I tell you it's no use. Only other way out
would Hey, wait a minute, that's an idea. If Kendrick
would fall for it. Yes, it's a possibility, it is.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You'll see if it works.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Have to figure out how to present it to Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He might just go for it. He just might.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well, there's the proposition, Kendrick. What do you say? Is
that all you have to offer?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Look, it's all in your favor, everything the way I
are Saturday, I'm not interested, But don't you see not
worth discussing. When you asked me to come over this morning,
I thought you were a worthwhile offer. I can't waste
my time on this good Oh Kendrick, Wait, your time
isn't valuable as mine is Gooday again.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I might have known he wouldn't be interested. I should
have known. Why do I try to kid myself? What's
the use, dear Lewis? It's no use. I knew that
it wouldn't be, but I tried to pretend. I'm sorry
(04:27):
about everything, but there's only one way out. You took
the gun last night, but you didn't know I have another.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Try to forgive me.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Ray excuse me? Miss Yes, I'd like to say, mister Kendrick.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Hen you know something? What you can also?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Not like the falcon that's the shape of my face?
Will you please tell mister Kendrick I'm here. He's expecting me.
You mean Michael Worring.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yes, not Michael Wearing. You are the fucing yees.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Small world, isn't it. Now?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You tell Kendrick I'm going out for a few minutes.
If mister Wearing comes, ask him to wear. Oh fine,
I'm not going out after all. Come on in wearing
right and if anyone else comes, I don't want to
be disturbed now wearing. I guess you wonder what a
man like me wants with a detective.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, I wouldn't say that happens in the best of families.
What happens needing detectives? Oh oh that I thought you
meant murder. I wonder how you knew.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So that's why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, the police just left. You read about it in
the paper tomorrow. Well, ireen, I have a nice little
business here. Whar ain't been growing steadily the past few years?
This week I drove my chief competitor, Raymond Arsatti to
the wall bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'll bully for you.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Got a call from him this morning, could I come
right over? I went. What he offered was a merger.
Try don't need him? He needs me? Well, well, I
told him I wasn't interested and left. An hour later,
he's found shot through the head.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That was one way to get rid of competition. I
didn't do it, all right, jam all right.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But the medical examiner says he got it right around
the time I was there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But he was alive when you left, definitely, only I
have no proof, But I have a theory.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Welling is see what you think of it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I say suicide.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Was there a note?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They didn't find any. But here's the way I see it.
Orsati knew he was licked and blames me. He decides
to give up and shoots himself, but he does it
in a way to get back at me.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He kills he calls me on a silly pretext, waits
till I leave, and then kills himself intentionally, leaving no
note so I'll be blamed.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You don't buy it as possible. Who found the body?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A Leonard Stribling? He arrived an hour after me?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You know anything about stribling?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I understand he's a bookie or sorry? Liked the horses?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
All right, Kendrick, I'll drop around and see stribbling. You're
playing a long shot, and I have an idea. He's
just the boy to quote me the odds. Hello, my
(07:45):
name is Mike Wearing. Like to see leonard'stribbling? Please, I'm
stribbling the bookie. Look around you're wearing? Look around? You
can't you see this as a loan office convenient? You
clean them, lend them the money, and then clean them
all over again, get them coming and going. You got
the wrong Leonard's stribbling. Didn't you find Raymonds? Out his body?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And so on?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I've got the right line of stribbling. Look, I don't
know what you want. Wearing but whatever it is, you're
wasting your time. The laws had me on the grill already,
and I'm clear or Sadi was killed an hour before
I went up to his place, and I can account
for every second of that hour with witnesses.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So you didn't kill him. What's the chances he killed
himself suicide? Are you sure there wasn't a note?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
What are you working for? Wearing?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Insurance company? What insurance company?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well saidy's he had a thirty grand policy, didn't you know,
I'm just beginning tell me more.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, you'd tell me who you're working for. That's no secret.
Kendrick Kendrick, good, very good, you like that?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Come mine in here wearing Okay, Now, look, Kendrick is
in this kind of deep so well, I suppose there
was a note, a suicide note. I don't say there was,
but if there was, that'd be all proof. Kendrick would
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need that he didn't knock off for Sadi, right right?
Note like that ought to be worth a lot to Kendrick.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
How much?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Don't ask me, Kendricks only Wan who can answer that.
But before he starts figuring, maybe you'd better remind him
that he's not the only one to be interested in
the note? Who else Saida's widow? Why suicide clause? You
guessed it, Chim. The clause is in effect. If Asadi
killed himself, the insurance is void, meaning that missus Oh
is out a cool thirty grand I get the picture.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Good, show it to Kendrick.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
He may appreciate art too.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, are you Lowers?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
My name is Mike Waring. I'd like to talk to
you for a minute. Mack, come in. What's it about
your husband's desk?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I don't want to think about it anymore. You'll have
to go.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No, I know how you feel.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But before I go, I thought you might like to know.
I've just seen Leonard's stribling. What of it He tried
to sell me your husband's suicide notes? What asked missus Ossadi?
Stribbling says your husband killed himself, and he's dickering with
you to sell you the note so you can cash
in on the insurance.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
That's a lie. I haven't seen stribling.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Rather than you will.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
He wants to get us bidding against each other.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
What's your interest in the note?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, it could save me a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
If you buy it, you're just going to wind up
in a gym with the insurance company.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
What an awful thing to say, to suggest that I
do such a thing. It isn't enough what I've gone through.
You have to come here make such an accusation.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I didn't accuse. I advise get.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Out of here.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Sure, so long, Barbary, Barbary come here.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Yeah, missus osati, what's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
A man just left Michael wearing. You can catch him
before he reaches the street. I want you to see
that he doesn't get to stribling if he tries to
stop him. I don't care what you do, only stop him.
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Adventures of the Vulcan. Ten minutes have passed since Louis
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Orsatt ordered Marbury to keep Mike from Stribling. Now, in
a restaurant Mike Henderson's phone books put in the call
who was Fighting? As he dials, Mike looks through the
glass door and sees Marbury earnestly studying the phrases of
the colophone book, and from time to time shooting glances
at Mike that are meant to be unnotised. Hello, Kendrick, Yes,
(12:33):
Mike wearing Oh, yes, wearing any la. Yeah you were right.
Looks like Orsari killed himself. I knew it, but you
were also wrong. What's that he said? Ossari didn't leave
a note because he wanted you blame. Well, there is
a note, there is, so, Stribling claims. So what becomes
of your theory?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, it's still suicide. But Stribling told the police there
wasn't any.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Note because he wants the peddler to the highest bidder.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh but who else would be interested? I try to
talk her out of the deal, but no dice. She
put a tail on me. What Yeah, flat faced Joe
was making such a production of being inconspicuous that he
stands out like an overcoat.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
In July. He's right outside his phone booth waiting to
pick me up again.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
What are you going to do? Have dinner?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I'm hungry, all.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Right, welling, But about that note, I'm willing to pay.
I don't like being involved.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
With murder, and I don't like blackmail. I'll go up
and see stribbling as soon as I finished dinner, and
the man who's following you, I'll be still with me
after dinner.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'll call him on it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
If he's as bad a liar as he is a tale,
I should learn plenty. All right, chum, what are we playing?
(13:54):
You've been following me ever since I left Arsad's. You
owned a sidewalk considering taxes Sometimes I wonder if.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
You wanna walk?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You walk? I wanna walk? I walk.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
It doesn't say somebody's following somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, walk, I'll wait here.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I'll walk when I feel like it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You mean when I feel like it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I look, chum, I've been in this racket long enough
to know when I'm being tailed.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
In that case, you've been in the record long enough
to be familiar.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
With one of these gun. Yes, we'll turn around.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Go on.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Now, start walking fare tail straight ahead. Remember I'm right
behind you.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And under the circumstances, I'm not likely to forget you.
I'm sorry. I's so attached to me. I'm really not
your type at all.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Maybe you have a point.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Turn into that alley.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
All right now, stuff, I.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Have an idea. This is the part I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Don't like you love it? It's where I leave you.
That's where you want it, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Yes, only before I go, I better say goodbye like so.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Al right, pal on your feet? Oh hello, come on,
get up.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, I'll try and miss.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Can't handle it, shouldn't touch it. Huh you heard me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You think I'm drunk?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, that aroma issuing from you is doubtless genuine adder
of roses.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What? Oh yeah, you must have doused the stuff on me.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh you didn't drink it. Somebody doused you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Look office, I was sapped. Here's the lump if you
want to feel it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Hey, neat job right back of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Maybe I was wrong yeah, maybe what time is it opposite?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
A little after a can?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I've only been out a few minutes. Cany still be time?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
The suck obviously works for missus Suy.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I thought I could scare and a tossing in her hand,
but the strong arm act means she's shooting for the pot.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That means I've got to work. Fans.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Why you say she wants.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
To leave me? Do a deal with Stribling? But if
she gets that note, I'm cooked. When the gable comes down,
I have to be a high better. I've got to
get up.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
There, all right. I run along. You're not drunk, You're crazy.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Heroson Departments, Callahan Trio. Just a moment, I connect you, Yes,
Sta know what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
What apartment of Stripling? Because I want to talk to him.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I am afraid that is impossible, sir. He's not seeing anyone,
but he'll see me. I do not think so, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Why not? Mister Stripling is dead?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Oh you again?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That's right, missus sad Do you want this time? The thug?
Whereas he the character who followed me when I left
here before?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You do know what I'm talking about. He didn't tail
me here, he did tail me from here.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You must be the link.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Now see here, mister Waring.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I know, I know this is no way to talk
to a poor bereaved widow, but it so happens. I've
just been slug by the poor widow's gorilla, and a
thing like that doesn't put me on my best behavior.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Now where is he?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Look? If you don't stop bothering me, I'm going to
call the police.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Don't bother they'll be around. I've already talked to him.
I told you you were flirting with trouble. I the
trouble's here. There's been a murder. Murder, yeah, murder, and
your playmate may have some of the answers on it.
So where can I find him?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
How many times do I have.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
To tell you? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I keep thinking you listen to reason, but I see
you are determined to do it the hard way, so
I might as well run along.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm just wasting my time here.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I'm glad you finally realized that. Goodbye, mister.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Hello. Oh yeah Swelling, I've been trying to reach you.
I want to know what I owe you so we
can settle up. You mean I'm canned. No, it's just
I don't need your services anymore. I'll come. Have you
seen Stribling tonight? Yeah? Well didn't he tell you?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
No, he's not in a talkative mood. What should he
have told me.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
About the notes?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I got it from him? What I have our Sathi's
suicide note? Got it from Strebbling tonight. So you can see.
As far as your concern, the case is closed.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh maybe, Kendrick, But as far as your concern, believe me,
it's just starting.
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It is twenty minutes since Kendric told Mike over the
phone about having Orsati's suicide note, and since he has
the note, Kendric thinks he no longer needs Mike.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But Mike has different ideas on the subject, and he's
gone over to mix two present them. So you say
you bought the note from Stribbling.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's right, welling, I don't see why you're so excited
about it. No, No, the note's conclusive, unmistakably and Orsadi's handwriting.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
All right, Kendrick, you've proved you didn't kill Ossati. Now
what about Stribbling?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
What about him?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I suppose you don't know that he was killed tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
What good heavy?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You walk out of one murder rapp right into another.
So it looks like my services are still very much required.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You're not joking When.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I worked for Yox, Kendrick, I pull cute the stuff
in this. What'll we do first?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
A quick run through to see where we stand, Like,
why did you go up to Striblings?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I told you I'd handle it.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
He called me right after you did what didn't know
how much i'd pay? He claimed missus Osati had offered
fifteen thousand. I offered twenty and you took it.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Right over to him.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
When'd you get there?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Around seven thirty?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
How long did you stay? Five ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Great?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He were there right around the time he was killed.
Oh no, the neighbors heard the shots. He was alive
when I left as.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And was killed right after seven point forty.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
You're in a or Sadi and stribling right back where
you started, only this time there's no note.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
There may be another difference too, know What's that? It
was known that I was up at Orsati's. Possibly no
one knows I went to Striblings, I know except you. Look,
I'm scared the death of a murder charge welling. I
paid twenty thousand already to clear myself for one How
much do you want.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To save your pennies, Kendrick. I'll work for my fifty
a day plus expenses, and if I can't clear you
that way, you better have cash on hand for a
good lawyer.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You've got to clear me, all right, and let me
do it my way.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm going to make one last attempt at getting lower
Sosadi to talk, and you better come with me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I want to keep my eye on you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Why because missus Arsadi has a gorilla working for her,
and if she gets the idea you have the note,
he may come calling and take my word for it, Kendrick,
you wouldn't enjoy the visit.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
All right, here we are four twelve.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Now, remember Kendrick, let me do the talking. All right,
Just one thing before we go in. Did you ever
meet Stribling before tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Why, I'm good? Oh not you a guess in this
time I'm coming in.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I see you are.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
What do I have to do? Just be your charming self?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
All right, let's get this over with once and.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
For all that suits me?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Fine, you know, mister Kendrick, Yes, I know, I mean
killed my husband.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
No, see here, Missus I'll handle it. Kendrick, this is
our sorry. I told you your husband killed himself.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Now we have proof, and Kendrick grove into it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It was strictly business up and up. If your husband wasn't, Kendrick,
I'll handle it. Sorry, this is our sorry. Your husband
killed himself. We have a note to prove it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You have it?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, right here now, I don't touch that. You can
see it's in your husband's hand. Right Where did you
get it from Stribling?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You killed him for it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Who told you he's dead?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
The police were here? I see, yes, they were here.
All right, it's not enough. I've lost a husband. No, no,
all day long, you and the police and the blaze
and you.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's too bad.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You know, I could have more sympathy with you if
you weren't involved with that gorilla, and if you didn't
lie about your dealings with Stribling.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I didn't have any dealings with Stribling.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
He said different.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
He was lying.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I doubted he wouldn't have closed the deal with us
until he heard your last off.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
He didn't close the deal. You killed him. That's how
you got the note.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
What makes you so sure?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Because he obviously was killed for the note and you've
got it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That's nice going, missus Arsadi. But there's one hitch.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What's that Kendrick never met Stribbling before, so when he
bought the note, how do we know he bought it
from Stribling?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Where you mean that wasn't Stribling.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Someone could have killed Stribbling for the note then, so
that you pretending to be Stribbling. Obviously not you, missus Arsadi.
You couldn't have masqueraded as a man, but your gorilla.
You told me you don't know the gorilla. But there's
a good possibility that he's a murderer. If you want
to keep on.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Covering for him, you may wind up as an accessory.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I didn't have anything to do with the murder, but you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Did have something to do with the murderer.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And if you don't talk now, we'll still prove it
when we find him. After all, I've seen him, I've
described him to the police. Now it's just a matter
of time.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Tell us his name, tell us where we can find him.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
All right, But you understand I didn't know he was
going to kill Stribley.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Stribling phone me said he had something that I might
be interested in.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I hired Marbury to find out about it, and.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's all Marbury. So that's his name, yes, Jack Morbury.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Right, But I didn't know he'd commit murder. I'm still
not sure that he did. All I know is when
you came, I ordered him to follow you. Later he
called back said, he followed you home home, That's what
he said.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
And then he said he went up to Striblings, but
just as he got to the door, he heard a shot.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Oh he heard the shot, that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He looks like you've heard it, Wearing. He was lying
to where he went up, killed Stribling for the note,
sold it to me.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
M h, where can we find him? Missus arsat in?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, perhaps if you look for me by reach all
of you.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
He's so wearing, come in here. So I went around
the back. I thought you might need me, sweetheart, but
I was wrong. You don't need me.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
What you need is a good smack in the tea.
Wearing is going for it, and that's my chance. Good Wearing.
You knocked him out, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Not the one who soldier of the note.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I didn't think he would be what you said out
what I said, because I was trying to catch a murderer.
And you know, Kendrick looks like I did. Yes, who
Kendrick is obvious? The broken hearted widow lois or Sai?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, is here?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
All right? Send him in? Hello, Wearing, come in, sit down.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Thanks, Kendrick. Well, I got the whole story out of
her at headquarters.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Good. One thing I still don't understand wedding, And maybe
you can explain what's that? Why did she do it?
The note was what everyone was after killing Stribbling didn't
get it for she wanted a note.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Because she'd lose thirty thousand if it fell into your
hands precisely, But Stribling called her, told her you wo
had offered twenty thousand cash. Yeah, now, she couldn't see
topping your bid, but she'd have left out of thirty.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Wouldn't be worth the risk.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
But she knew twenty thousand in cash would be changing
hands at Striblings, so she went there with a gun.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To collect it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
She figured if she couldn't protect her thirty, she settled
for your twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
She knew Stribling would be in opposition to call Copper,
so it seems safe.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Only he put up a struggle and she had to
shoot him.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And just how did you know it was?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
She?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, first of all, I didn't think it was.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
You flattering Why not?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, you were just trying to clear yourself of one murder.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
App I couldn't see you exposing yourself to another, and
just to wipe out the first.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Very well, well you've cleared me.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Still, that doesn't you didn't do it. I knew Marbury didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I told you no, Marbury didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Not because Stribling was killed at seven forty and it
so happens that at that exact time Marbury was sitting
across from me in a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Keeping an eye on me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oh so that left missus Rsari. Of course, there was
the outside chance that the job was pulled by someone
not directly involved in the case, but I squashed that
by giving missus Orsari a chance to finger Marbury, and
she fell for it. Well, she figured the off for
a guy. She had lined up the safe as she'd be.
But when she tried to place Marbury at Stribling's at
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the time of the shooting, that proved she was lying.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Very good, wearing very good indeed, and now here's your check,
thank him. And I guess that's just about all um.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh, just one more thing.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So what's the name of that cute little secretary of yours, Ernie?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Oh it's missus Kendrick.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Oh, well are saying Kendrick. I guess that's just about
all them holong.
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