June 6, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Thanks for everything, Boss. Maybe I can repay the favor sometime.
Maybe I can do something for you, like cutting your throat.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
W R presents the distinguished American actor Walter Hampden in
the Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. Tonight's adventure The Corpse Meets
the Deadline. Leonidis Witherall is the new England schoolmaster who
looks like Shakespeare and is always getting mixed up in murders.
At the moment, mister Witheroll has gone to the city
desk of the Dalton Herald. It's a very urgent mission
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on behalf of his housekeeper, Missus Mullet, and Leonidas, along
with Missus m is explaining it to the Herald's editor,
mister Forest.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You see Priest, yes, Leid and Missus Mullett. Here is
what's your title, Missus.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Munnett, I'm director of public relations for the Dawtons Ladies
Aid and Get Together Society Early rensidyar your own.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Group section two leaving on track seven and our.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Group's holding a special meeting tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
They're having a guest lecturer Forest.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Oh really, who is it?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
We're having Missus Hildegarde Fish who rope South American question,
mark and walk and riddle. She's gonna speak on Russia?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Russia?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What does it mean?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Completely battled, isn't she?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
And you want us to mention it in the Herald? Huh?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Mention it?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, if you could eliminate the news about General Eisenhower
and General Patton and just turn say ten columns over
the missus mulletts group Forest.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Aside from missus Fish, we're having an election and our
spring tea Dan's going to be a big day.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
All right, Missus mullet we'll see that you get all
the space you deserve.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How's that, Missu mullett I told you we could persuade
mister Forrest.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Persuade him why he should be good? I'm giving him
a school I.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Am, Missus Mullard. We don't often get a break like this.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
There you are, Forest, Mister Bennett Helos, you're a stupid, irresponsible,
cheap yellow general.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Now look Bennett, all idea of yours.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Look at that picture on the front page too. I
told you not to print that horrible picture of my daughter.
There's no harm in that running this picture of that
rotten gambling den with all those crooks there at the table,
My daughter I.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Can't help it if your daughter visits gambling joints. Bennett.
Speaker 8 (02:10):
Girls just eighteen years old. She went out on the ditch.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
She's no idea where they were going, just the same.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
She was there.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
She wanted to leave the minute they got to that
that evil, iniquitous space.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
She didn't leave. The cops came in and our man
got the picture. It's not our fault that she's in it.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
For Forest, I told you yesterday, not the print it.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Sorry, Bennett. It was the only shot we had, and
a good one too.
Speaker 8 (02:29):
You're ruined my daughter's reputation. You have disgrist.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Oh don't be touch your bluno was Bennett. Now, if
you don't mind, I'm busy. I've got an adition to
get out.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
I ought to thrash you, Forest.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I want to treat you the way my grandfather handled
a smart Alec newspaper man out west. He got a
horse whip and he whipped that it at her within
an inch of his life. If you don't watch your tongue, Bennett,
I'll have you thrown out of his orbit.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh you wouldn't, No, no, no, no, miouster Bennette. I don't
want to interfere but perhaps if you'd cool off, you'll.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Keep your beard out of this with her all and
you mind your tom mister Forest, you Phil get away,
miss death Bennett.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Yes, let make up my hands on yourself. I'm going
to show you.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Could, mister Bennett, take your hands off.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Alright, all right, you're crazy fool, get out here. I
warn you, all right for us time getting out now.
But this isn't the end of it. On you see
that justice is done for us. I'll see that you're
taken care of, no matter how far I have to go.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
As looks as mister Bennett's going to be a very
serious problem for us.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Him. No, I'm used to that.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
He seems to be extremely excitable.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You've got it more wrong.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Sure he'll raven ran for a while, write letters, and
then you calm down.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I hope. So it doesn't seem as trivial as that,
though I know Bennett. He's very headstrong, old gentleman. And
you're printing that picture has defiled his little cheiles good name.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Oh forget it, leon it is. Oh, come on, I
I don't often have you down here. Suppose I show
you and missus mullet a round the places he like
touring the plan.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, I love to lead on, Medu.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I'd like to see the room where the newschickers are.
Mister Mullet know a lot about news, you know. He
had a definition of news.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wasn't by any chance about a dog?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well that's right. He said that when a dog bites
a man, that's not news. But when a band bites
the dolls?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yes, anyone ever take a good bite out of mister Mullett.
Well how did you know?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
These are line of type machines, Leona, This quite a
formidable arraysm for It.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Could we go over to one of them and get
a closer lot?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Oh? Sure, come on, Pat Welsh over there will explain
his machine to you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Pat, Yes, mister Forrest, let.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Up a second, Pat, We have visitors. This is mister
Witherall and missus Mullet.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Pat here was once a publisher himself.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No really, yes, but I don't talk about Pet.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Had an unpleasant experience. I've lost his paper. It was
very sadly on it is terribly said.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The machines work like a big typewriter. You see, you
push the keys and they cut letters on what we
call lead slug.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Yes, Pet, had big ideas once, but he had to
learn the.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Lead isn't wasted after we print the paper, it's melted
down again.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Of course, lots of us have to learn. We all
make mistakes.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's evident for us that Pat would rather not talk
about his old career. Now, where do you melt down
the lead?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Or we have it in those big caldrons. You see
them on the platform up there, they're right over your head. Yeah,
you see the steam coming off, Well, that's piping hot
lead in that caldron, boiling like a noodle soup, noodle soup. Well,
this lugs are melted right in there, you see, And
and we cool it and feed it down to the machines.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Where are the presses. That's another thing I want to see.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We'll go there. Now we're running an addition, so you'll
see the whole works.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Run in anund edition. Or shouldn't you do something first
about my story the Ladies Literary Group.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh yes, Forrest, missus Mullett would like you to stop
the presses for it.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Oh, we'll get it in the next edition, Missus Mullett.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I put our top reporter on the job, Jackie Bigelow,
in the minute I get back upstairs.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Jackie's our best man.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's them for me, mister Faris.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yes, Jackie, I just left Leond his wither all. He
had some woman with him and missus Mullett Mollo.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I know, a sort of a neighborhood housekeeper up
around the Birch Hill section.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Once he's having a tappy for over ladies club. Get
one of the kids out front of call it witherows,
get the whole story. Rite a couple of sticks for
the free start all right, that's all, Jackie even goes.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's all as far as you're concerned.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Farrest.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, but I want to do a little talk and
this is just as good a time as any.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Oh honey, up, I've got a just goal of copy
in u. Huh. You know what it's about.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's about a phone conversation you had with Cosmopolitan Syndicate.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Oh that wasn't anything. Oh, that wasn't anything.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Huh. I worked for six months to get Cosmopolitan to
make me that offer.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You wouldn't have enjoyed being a foreign correspondent, Jackie, especially
in chun Kings, tough grind bankers.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I wouldn't huh.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That just happens to be why I got into this
newspaper racket. All my life, I've wanted to be a
foreign correspondent.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
You knew that.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
They asked me for the frank opinion, Jackie. I told
him I thought you were a pretty fair report.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Don't lie to me for us.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
You told him I was a punk reporter.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I found out you did that for one reason, because
you're naturally a louse.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
What an imagination you've got, Jenkie.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You didn't want to lose a good man yourself these days.
That's tough, isn't it When you got it. I couldn't
get into this man's wall the regular way. The army
turned me down. You knew that too. You know I've
been eating my heart out covering this small town junk
or just a little way down the railroad tracks. The
whole Boddy world's on fire. You killed my chance forrest.
I'll never get out of this town now. It might
be a year, two years, maybe forever. That was my
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one big chance, and you fixed it so I'd missed
the boat.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
They are jacking. I'm going to you hurt me.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
They are.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
City das far as uh huh yeah, yeah, okay, right,
get into that jealopy of yours and beat it over
to the preaking shipyards.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, three lines are gone out.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Okay, I'm on my way, and thanks forrest, Thanks for everything.
Maybe I can do something for you sometimes I cut.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
In your throat.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
What can I do for you, mister Bennette.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I've come here to your place, mister Witherorll, to apologize
for my behavior this morning at the Herald office.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It was a deplorable mister Bennette. But of course sure
you felt printing that picture of your daughter was very embarrassing.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
That's just the point.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I wanted to apologize to you, But I certainly don't
intend to retract anything I said to Forest.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
In fact, I want your help.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Really, mister Bennette, isn't this much ado about nothing? As
the poet said, you have too much respect upon the world.
They lose it that do buy it with much care,
mister Weatherall.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I realized that legally I haven't a leg to stand on,
so I decided the best thing to do is to
blacklist that newspaper.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Mister Bennett. I hardly think you are personal grudge against
mister Forest justifies organizing a huge boycott. No, but it
does that man has to learn the tactics like his
won't be tolerated in Dalton.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Here's your coffee, mister, and yours, mister Dannick.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Thank you now, mister witherall about blacklisting the hero. If
a group of prominent citizens of Dalton, led by you
and me, squire and see.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You through the window, you'll have to excuse missus mullet. There,
she's an enthusiastic.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's forty number three. Well that's Jimmy racious to roll out.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
I'll bet it's three alarms in men, there's your number,
Tomama person wha else?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Sorry for are you?
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Jackie?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
What a nice little blaze again?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Yeah it's honey, Jackie.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well we'll have it lick soon.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Anybody got any the idea about how it started?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
That's what has us wondering, Jackie. It looks funny.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You mean it wasn't an accident.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Well, now, I don't want to be quoted as saying
I'm positive, but I wouldn't be surprised if the shipyard's
burning because of saboteurs, No kiddings, saboteurs.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
I said, I'm not positive, Jackie, but.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We suspect the Thanks Chief. I gotta go call a desk.
Brother sabotage and a little old dawphon me for that telephone.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
What is this today? Pat? Everybody's after me for something. Now,
what do you want?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Forest? And this morning when you brought with her all
down to the lanotype department, you sort of went out
of your way to take a couple of putch shots at.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Me about the way you once owned the paper.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Pet.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Well, that struck me.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
The funny story, little sidelight on one of my employees.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You like that idea, don't you that I'm just one
of your employees.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Now, Pat, in San Francisco, ten years ago, when you
started paper that you said would put mine out of business,
I warned you.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I said not to try it because you wanted to
be the boss of the whole show.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You weren't making enough money. You had to squeeze the
life out of any paper that tried to get started
in the same town.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I was just meeting competition, Pan.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, by having my delivery boys beaten up in dark alleys,
by side slaving my trucks, so the two of my
drivers for the year in the hospital, by knocking over
any stand that carried my papers, and by breaking that
poor Italian peddler's neck. That was just an accident, show,
that's what the police called it. But I've got another version.
I know you've got blood on your hands, Forest, and
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you wrecked me. I lost every penny I had trying
to buck you.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I told you then, don't try it. Remember.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All I remember is that you're a crooked chiseloer who
ruined my business. You're a gangster and a killer.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And yes, Jackie Biglow, I'm at the freaking shipyard.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, I would have you got that'll hold a three
stop or a replace. This ain't no ordinary fire. Looks
like sabotage. Sabotage.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
What's he saying? Sabotage is the shipyard?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
You stay there, Jackie, get busy, dig up everything. You
don't lose touch with me. I give me the details
of what you know.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
City does for us.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Boss.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is a press room number three and four persons.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Just broke down, broke down.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Now.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I want to meet with a replate on that sabotage
story of all that count damn.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
But why can't you guys fix it? Nobody down here, Boss,
are all off for lunch. Besides, there's something very screwel.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Usually I can fix it myself, but I can't figure.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Out what's wrong this time that would happen? Now, ye, gods,
what kind of a day is this? Everything's going wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Better hurry boss, Sorry, but I'm afraid you'll have to
take a look at it yourself.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Okay, I'm on your way down. This business will drive
me nuts nuts?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
What's wrong with these presses? Where is everybody? What do
I pay people for the president of the Bullock stuff?
And there's nobody here of all that? Hey, what are
you doing up there on that platform? Get away with tolerance?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
There's not laid in there? Are you crazy?
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Don't push it over?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Don't don't do.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I s missus him?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Why, yes, mister Bennett.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Another Visitsnan. You are quite determined about the.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Herald, And here mister Weatherall. Something's happened, something horrifying.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's forest as the editor printed another inflammatory picture.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
No, no, it isn't that. Forrest is dead. Really, he's
been murdered. It's all over town it is.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And I didn't know what you must be slipping.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Since he's dead, well you know the consequences.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Sure, they'll have to turn in his ration book to
the OPA.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
How did he die, Miss Bennan, But in a pretty
gruesome way.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
He was evidently trapped.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
He was alone in the pressure room when the killer
dumped one of those huge kettles of boiling lead over him.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Say that's a new one.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And the body was found in the press room.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
No, the murderer took the body and dumped it down
a chute the shoot where the papers come off the
press and roll out onto the delivery trucks. And just
a little while ago the body came rolling down the
shoot along with the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Mister Bennett, why have you come here to tell me
about this?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, I know you've been mixed up in murders, mister
witherrall that you've been rather successful at solving them.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yes, and I heard you threatening forest. You weren't, by
any chance near the Herald building at the time of
the murder.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Heaven helped me. I was in the building.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But you know nothing about the murder, of course, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I've never been in the Herald press room in my life.
I don't know a thing about kettles of hot lead
or delivery shoots.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
M you'd have a little difficulty, mister Bennett, proving that.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
I realized that that's why I'm here. Mister Witheroff, would
you represent me?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, frankly, miss Bennett, I don't represent anyone if you
think my looking into the story might clarify it or
speed the solution.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
That's all I ask. I want you to come to
the Herald office now and get at the truth.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We're gonna look into the murder.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I'll get to the bottom of this. Where's my hat,
where's my cole?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yes, and don't forget your blood home? So you see,
Sergeant Maccabo. Mister Bennett claims he knows nothing about mister
Forest's death.
Speaker 11 (15:25):
Mister Bennett, yes, sergeant, you admit that you were here
in the Herald building at three point thirty eight when
Forrest's body came down that chute.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
That's right, sergeant, But I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
What were you doing here, mister Bennett.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Well, I was on the street floor.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
I decided to come back and demand that Forrest's print
an explanation, an apology for printing my daughter's picture.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But you never got up here to the city desk,
mister Bennan.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
No, mister Witherle, I changed my mind and I left
you see Shakespeare, you can't expect me to believe stories
like that.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Ken, Wait till you hear the fairy tale that lima
Typer's got boy. It's a Dilley.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Don't mind, Sergeant Bennett. They think you'd think you moron,
and the police force was too high, so they took
him in.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Ah, missus mulletson again. She's the only overaged destroyer that
never got to Britain.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Watch that tut tut tut now, isn't that the linotype
of coming now? Sajan mccobble.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
That's the guy Shakespeare names Pat Welch over here, Pat, sergeant,
I told you my story once.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
I want mister wither All to hear.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Pat get this, Shakespeare, get so, honey, Well, I work
in the lanotype department. I came up here to Forrest's
office to talk about the next edition. Then Jackie Biglow,
the reporter, telephoned from the shipyard while I was in
forrest room. Then I left him and went downstairs. That
was about three point fifteen. I think you're rather definite
about the time, Pat, Yes, I looked at the clock
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when I got back to the lanotype department. Then I
got a telephone call saying my mother was sick.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
You see what I mean, Shakespeare about fairy tales.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Why didn't you go the whole hog?
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Pat? Say that you had to leave because your grandmother died?
Or did you that when they get to a ball?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's the truth, Sergeant, I swear it that your whole story. Man. No,
soon as I heard about my mother, I ran to
the elevator to get home, but I got stuck inside.
I presume the elevator operator can confirm. No, it's a
self starting elevator. There isn't any operator, but it's stuck.
The superintendent swear to that it hasn't been fixed yet.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
I've got a little nephew, Pat, he's four years old.
The kid could make up a better story than You'll
gun pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Of yourself, ain't you?
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Sigh? Look missus, mother, it's time for spring cleaning. Why
don't you go home and rearrange the dirt.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I suppose we save the second hand with the amateur
knight and get on with finding the sparrow that killed
cock Robin. Pat, where's the main switch bob downstairs?
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Going down there?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Shakespeare? I excuse me, sergeant, Yes, it's possible that the
phone girl can confirm whether or not Pat received a
call after three this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Okay, go on, I'll wait here, not mess to whether
or you said you'd help me. Now you're wandering off
to corroborate this mans.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Mister Bennett, our objective was the truth.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Remember Dalton Herald, Good afternoon. Oh I'm sorry, mister Forest
is out. He's getting a fitting for a wooden suit. Yes,
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somebody didn't like his face, so they pushed.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Me to that.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Pardon.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I understand your name is Ruth.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's right, Jesus.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
If you don't look like what's his name, man Shakespeare, I.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Could only write like him too, But my name is
only whether all Ruth.
Speaker 12 (18:43):
Oh that's it. You're from Narrative Academy.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, I'm curious about what happened earlier this afternoon. To
watch his name Forrest?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh that jee.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
Pat Welch is in a fixed time. Everybody knows him
and Forrest hated each other's guest.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Expression. Ruth, what's there? The phone call for pattis afternoon?
Speaker 12 (19:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, about three o'clock. I don't know who
it was from. I only asked who's call him when
they asked for an executive.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Ah, Wayne.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
It is Shane Patty such a sweet guy. And Forrest,
if you'll pardon the expression, was a high class tanker.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
H we must have you address our English literature classes.
It Merredith sometime Ruth the tragedy of illiteracy. It might
be the subject.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Oh gee, I'd be only too happy with you as
exhibit a hill.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Hi, Ruthie?
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Man, oh man, what a fire I've been too.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I'm knocked out.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
I'll get ready for Lulu Jackie, boy, Wow, what's up?
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Well?
Speaker 12 (19:42):
While you were at the fire, somebody gave Forrest a
bath with a bucket of that lead in the press
room and then sent the corpse roller coastering down the
delivery shoe. Cute, ain't it?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
No kidding?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
That's it Jack the police upstairs now.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Hallellujah, Forest knocked off.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Boy, This is my lucky day.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I get a terrific story.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And on top of that, somebody puts four worry belonging
who did it?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (20:01):
They know?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Sergeant Maccabbo's upstairs now with pat wel from mister Bennett.
They're the most likely candidates for the honor at the moment.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well, what are we waiting for Let's go on up there.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
This I got to see.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
All right, Jack, we can wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Not that way, mister wither All up the stairs. The
elevator is broken.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
See you're Ruthie.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, fine to Ruthie. Come out to Meredith sometime. As
the students say, you will be hotter than a two
dollars pistol if you will pardon the expression.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Now, Jack, you say, Forrest cheated Pat here out of
a newspaper, put him out of business.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, that was the deal. Micabolo was in Frisco about
ten years ago. I'm sorry Pat for the facts of fact.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I'm not worried, Jackie Man. The citizen doesn't have anything
to worry about. Yes, since the Bard wrote truth is
truth to the end of reckoning.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Sergeant, aside from the fact that I happened to be
in the building, you haven't a scrap of tangible evidence
against me.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
But when it comes to motive, mister Bennett, you did
have a violent argument with mister Forrest about that picture
of your daughter.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Since when do you convict people? And that kind of evidence.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
We'll get all the evidence, so enough, give.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
The sergeant a chance. Mister Bennett, he'll learn, won't you
squeaky shoes.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Missus Mullnett, don't stand there with your teeth in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Why don't you easy easy talking about motives? Jack, I
happen to know that fires cut you out of the
job you wanted working for that syndicate and chun king,
and I also know what it meant to you.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Sure that's right? Oh, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
He's dead. I'll bet everybody in the building had a
motive for wiping out that lug.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What happened to your wrist, Jane, Oh, the bandage.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I burned myself with the fire. Now the chief will
back me up on that. I was poking in the
ruins for sabotage evidence.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You've been at the fire since that first call came
in about it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Jae, Yeah, I've been there all the time. I telephoned
fires from there. Anybody will tell you.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That you left the moment the news flash came in
mm hm yeah, about three o'clock. It was pat You
saw mister Forrest alive in his office when Jack telephoned.
I didn't. After Jack called about the sabotage development, fat,
you went back to the liner type. As I understand it,
that's right. When you did, you looked at the clock
and it was three fifteen. Then you received a call
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from your that your mother was ill. You danced for
the elevator, but it broke down while you were inside.
I told you that Super confirmed that. Therefore, the elevator
broke down roughly about three twenty. That's about it. It's
very interesting.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
That's the angle Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Now, Jack, you say you've been at the fire since
a few minutes past three, and we know that the
elevator broke down about three twenty.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Get to the point, mister Witherow.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, what's this all about.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Jack? It's about the fact you're supposed to have been
at the fire since shortly after three, long before the
elevator broke down. Yet when I met you downstairs with Ruth,
you remarked quite casually that we should take the stairway
because the elevator didn't work. How did you know that, Jay?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Sounds like a payoff question to me, Jack.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
One of the truckmen outside I'm away in he told
me just before I found you at the switchboard.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Really, Jack, I suppose you'd be willing also to submit
your wrist to a medical examination. My risk Rist.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Why certainly I will Why Why?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Because Jack, I think you burned your wrist while dumping
the caldron of hot lead over forest. As you know,
a medical examination will reveal whether that burn was caused
by flames or if there are traces of lead in it.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
I'll have another cup of coffee, Shakespeare. Then I'll be
meander at home. You figure. Jack went straight to.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
The fire, yes for Carmel. He stayed there long enough
to establish his presence, and then he raced back, unseen,
to the neighborhood of the Herald. He called up Forest
or from downstairs with the avatar story, creating the impression
that he was still at the fire.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
I get it.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
Then he buzzed Pat Welch, probably using a phony voice,
to tell him to rely about his mother being sick.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yes. That got Welsh out of the way, and gave
Welsh a very weak excuse too. Then Jack Monkey wrenched
the presses, forcing Forrest to go down to the press room,
where he was killed. The whole affair couldn't have taken
more than a few minutes. Then Jack went dashing back
the fire.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
He'd gotten away with it.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Two. We hadn't pulled that boner in front of you about.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The elevator, Yes, there was that, and the wristburn Shakespeare,
How did you.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Know the wristburn could be analyzed for traces of hot lead?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I never knew that, Sergeant. Shall I confess something to you?
Neither did I? What it sounded like? Such a good
idea at the time.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh, you baker, Rather anide.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Who worked beautifully too. Jack might never have confessed. You know,
I think my students at Meredith have given me a
superb training in the art of what they call manufacturing
apple sauce.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Eh, well, apple sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
In that Shakespeare. We caught that killer, and that's what counts.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Those murderers can't get to the chair fast enough for me.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
As a matter of fact, considering what kind of a
man that newspaper editor was, he deserved to get wiped
out too.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Probably, Sergeants, no doubt that society's transgressors must be punished.
Yet we mustn't make quick, violent judgments. We must always
remember what the gentleman I'm supposed to resemble once wrote
about mercy, when he said it is twice blessed. It
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blesseth him that gives, and him that takes his mightiest
in the mightiest it becomes the throned monarch better than
his crown. His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
the attribute of awe and majesty, wherein to sit the
dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this
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sceptan sway. It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
It is an attribute of God himself and earthly power.
Doth then show likest gods when mercy seasons justice.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
W R.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Has presented the distinguished American actor Walter Hamden in the
Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. Missus Mullett is played by Ethel Ramie.
Sergeant Picabo by Jack McBride. The character of Leonidas Witherall
is from the mystery novels by Alice Tilton. The radioscript
is written by Howard Merrill and the program is under
the direction of Roger Bauer. Next week, Leonidas meets a
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very interesting hitchhiker, doesn't he, mister Hamden h yes.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Leonartist is driving along the highway when he meets a
young lady who asks him ver a hitch and a
very informative young lady. She is too in fact. Before long,
Leonidas is receiving a very practical lesson in how to
win friends and influence homicidal maniacs. We hope you'll be
listening next Sunday at seven and until then good night.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Listen again next Sunday evening at seven pm Eastern wartime
for the Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. This program came to
you from the studios of WR in New York. This
is the Mutual Broadcasting System
Thanks for everything, Boss. Maybe I can repay the favor sometime.
Maybe I can do something for you, like cutting your throat.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
W R presents the distinguished American actor Walter Hampden in
the Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. Tonight's adventure The Corpse Meets
the Deadline. Leonidis Witherall is the new England schoolmaster who
looks like Shakespeare and is always getting mixed up in murders.
At the moment, mister Witheroll has gone to the city
desk of the Dalton Herald. It's a very urgent mission
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on behalf of his housekeeper, Missus Mullet, and Leonidas, along
with Missus m is explaining it to the Herald's editor,
mister Forest.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You see Priest, yes, Leid and Missus Mullett. Here is
what's your title, Missus.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Munnett, I'm director of public relations for the Dawtons Ladies
Aid and Get Together Society Early rensidyar your own.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Group section two leaving on track seven and our.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Group's holding a special meeting tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
They're having a guest lecturer Forest.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Oh really, who is it?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
We're having Missus Hildegarde Fish who rope South American question,
mark and walk and riddle. She's gonna speak on Russia?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Russia?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What does it mean?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Completely battled, isn't she?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
And you want us to mention it in the Herald? Huh?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Mention it?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, if you could eliminate the news about General Eisenhower
and General Patton and just turn say ten columns over
the missus mulletts group Forest.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Aside from missus Fish, we're having an election and our
spring tea Dan's going to be a big day.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
All right, Missus mullet we'll see that you get all
the space you deserve.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How's that, Missu mullett I told you we could persuade
mister Forrest.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Persuade him why he should be good? I'm giving him
a school I.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Am, Missus Mullard. We don't often get a break like this.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
There you are, Forest, Mister Bennett Helos, you're a stupid, irresponsible,
cheap yellow general.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Now look Bennett, all idea of yours.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Look at that picture on the front page too. I
told you not to print that horrible picture of my daughter.
There's no harm in that running this picture of that
rotten gambling den with all those crooks there at the table,
My daughter I.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Can't help it if your daughter visits gambling joints. Bennett.
Speaker 8 (02:10):
Girls just eighteen years old. She went out on the ditch.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
She's no idea where they were going, just the same.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
She was there.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
She wanted to leave the minute they got to that
that evil, iniquitous space.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
She didn't leave. The cops came in and our man
got the picture. It's not our fault that she's in it.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
For Forest, I told you yesterday, not the print it.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Sorry, Bennett. It was the only shot we had, and
a good one too.
Speaker 8 (02:29):
You're ruined my daughter's reputation. You have disgrist.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Oh don't be touch your bluno was Bennett. Now, if
you don't mind, I'm busy. I've got an adition to
get out.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
I ought to thrash you, Forest.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I want to treat you the way my grandfather handled
a smart Alec newspaper man out west. He got a
horse whip and he whipped that it at her within
an inch of his life. If you don't watch your tongue, Bennett,
I'll have you thrown out of his orbit.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh you wouldn't, No, no, no, no, miouster Bennette. I don't
want to interfere but perhaps if you'd cool off, you'll.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Keep your beard out of this with her all and
you mind your tom mister Forest, you Phil get away,
miss death Bennett.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Yes, let make up my hands on yourself. I'm going
to show you.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Could, mister Bennett, take your hands off.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Alright, all right, you're crazy fool, get out here. I
warn you, all right for us time getting out now.
But this isn't the end of it. On you see
that justice is done for us. I'll see that you're
taken care of, no matter how far I have to go.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
As looks as mister Bennett's going to be a very
serious problem for us.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Him. No, I'm used to that.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
He seems to be extremely excitable.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You've got it more wrong.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Sure he'll raven ran for a while, write letters, and
then you calm down.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I hope. So it doesn't seem as trivial as that,
though I know Bennett. He's very headstrong, old gentleman. And
you're printing that picture has defiled his little cheiles good name.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Oh forget it, leon it is. Oh, come on, I
I don't often have you down here. Suppose I show
you and missus mullet a round the places he like
touring the plan.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, I love to lead on, Medu.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I'd like to see the room where the newschickers are.
Mister Mullet know a lot about news, you know. He
had a definition of news.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wasn't by any chance about a dog?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well that's right. He said that when a dog bites
a man, that's not news. But when a band bites
the dolls?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yes, anyone ever take a good bite out of mister Mullett.
Well how did you know?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
These are line of type machines, Leona, This quite a
formidable arraysm for It.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Could we go over to one of them and get
a closer lot?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Oh? Sure, come on, Pat Welsh over there will explain
his machine to you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Pat, Yes, mister Forrest, let.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Up a second, Pat, We have visitors. This is mister
Witherall and missus Mullet.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Pat here was once a publisher himself.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No really, yes, but I don't talk about Pet.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Had an unpleasant experience. I've lost his paper. It was
very sadly on it is terribly said.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The machines work like a big typewriter. You see, you
push the keys and they cut letters on what we
call lead slug.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Yes, Pet, had big ideas once, but he had to
learn the.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Lead isn't wasted after we print the paper, it's melted
down again.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Of course, lots of us have to learn. We all
make mistakes.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's evident for us that Pat would rather not talk
about his old career. Now, where do you melt down
the lead?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Or we have it in those big caldrons. You see
them on the platform up there, they're right over your head. Yeah,
you see the steam coming off, Well, that's piping hot
lead in that caldron, boiling like a noodle soup, noodle soup. Well,
this lugs are melted right in there, you see, And
and we cool it and feed it down to the machines.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Where are the presses. That's another thing I want to see.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We'll go there. Now we're running an addition, so you'll
see the whole works.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Run in anund edition. Or shouldn't you do something first
about my story the Ladies Literary Group.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh yes, Forrest, missus Mullett would like you to stop
the presses for it.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Oh, we'll get it in the next edition, Missus Mullett.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I put our top reporter on the job, Jackie Bigelow,
in the minute I get back upstairs.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Jackie's our best man.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's them for me, mister Faris.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yes, Jackie, I just left Leond his wither all. He
had some woman with him and missus Mullett Mollo.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I know, a sort of a neighborhood housekeeper up
around the Birch Hill section.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Once he's having a tappy for over ladies club. Get
one of the kids out front of call it witherows,
get the whole story. Rite a couple of sticks for
the free start all right, that's all, Jackie even goes.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's all as far as you're concerned.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Farrest.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, but I want to do a little talk and
this is just as good a time as any.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Oh honey, up, I've got a just goal of copy
in u. Huh. You know what it's about.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's about a phone conversation you had with Cosmopolitan Syndicate.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Oh that wasn't anything. Oh, that wasn't anything.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Huh. I worked for six months to get Cosmopolitan to
make me that offer.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You wouldn't have enjoyed being a foreign correspondent, Jackie, especially
in chun Kings, tough grind bankers.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I wouldn't huh.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That just happens to be why I got into this
newspaper racket. All my life, I've wanted to be a
foreign correspondent.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
You knew that.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
They asked me for the frank opinion, Jackie. I told
him I thought you were a pretty fair report.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Don't lie to me for us.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
You told him I was a punk reporter.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I found out you did that for one reason, because
you're naturally a louse.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
What an imagination you've got, Jenkie.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You didn't want to lose a good man yourself these days.
That's tough, isn't it When you got it. I couldn't
get into this man's wall the regular way. The army
turned me down. You knew that too. You know I've
been eating my heart out covering this small town junk
or just a little way down the railroad tracks. The
whole Boddy world's on fire. You killed my chance forrest.
I'll never get out of this town now. It might
be a year, two years, maybe forever. That was my
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one big chance, and you fixed it so I'd missed
the boat.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
They are jacking. I'm going to you hurt me.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
They are.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
City das far as uh huh yeah, yeah, okay, right,
get into that jealopy of yours and beat it over
to the preaking shipyards.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, three lines are gone out.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Okay, I'm on my way, and thanks forrest, Thanks for everything.
Maybe I can do something for you sometimes I cut.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
In your throat.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
What can I do for you, mister Bennette.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I've come here to your place, mister Witherorll, to apologize
for my behavior this morning at the Herald office.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It was a deplorable mister Bennette. But of course sure
you felt printing that picture of your daughter was very embarrassing.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
That's just the point.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I wanted to apologize to you, But I certainly don't
intend to retract anything I said to Forest.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
In fact, I want your help.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Really, mister Bennette, isn't this much ado about nothing? As
the poet said, you have too much respect upon the world.
They lose it that do buy it with much care,
mister Weatherall.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I realized that legally I haven't a leg to stand on,
so I decided the best thing to do is to
blacklist that newspaper.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Mister Bennett. I hardly think you are personal grudge against
mister Forest justifies organizing a huge boycott. No, but it
does that man has to learn the tactics like his
won't be tolerated in Dalton.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Here's your coffee, mister, and yours, mister Dannick.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Thank you now, mister witherall about blacklisting the hero. If
a group of prominent citizens of Dalton, led by you
and me, squire and see.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You through the window, you'll have to excuse missus mullet. There,
she's an enthusiastic.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's forty number three. Well that's Jimmy racious to roll out.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
I'll bet it's three alarms in men, there's your number,
Tomama person wha else?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Sorry for are you?
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Jackie?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
What a nice little blaze again?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Yeah it's honey, Jackie.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well we'll have it lick soon.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Anybody got any the idea about how it started?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
That's what has us wondering, Jackie. It looks funny.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You mean it wasn't an accident.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Well, now, I don't want to be quoted as saying
I'm positive, but I wouldn't be surprised if the shipyard's
burning because of saboteurs, No kiddings, saboteurs.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
I said, I'm not positive, Jackie, but.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We suspect the Thanks Chief. I gotta go call a desk.
Brother sabotage and a little old dawphon me for that telephone.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
What is this today? Pat? Everybody's after me for something. Now,
what do you want?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Forest? And this morning when you brought with her all
down to the lanotype department, you sort of went out
of your way to take a couple of putch shots at.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Me about the way you once owned the paper.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Pet.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Well, that struck me.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
The funny story, little sidelight on one of my employees.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You like that idea, don't you that I'm just one
of your employees.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Now, Pat, in San Francisco, ten years ago, when you
started paper that you said would put mine out of business,
I warned you.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I said not to try it because you wanted to
be the boss of the whole show.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You weren't making enough money. You had to squeeze the
life out of any paper that tried to get started
in the same town.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I was just meeting competition, Pan.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, by having my delivery boys beaten up in dark alleys,
by side slaving my trucks, so the two of my
drivers for the year in the hospital, by knocking over
any stand that carried my papers, and by breaking that
poor Italian peddler's neck. That was just an accident, show,
that's what the police called it. But I've got another version.
I know you've got blood on your hands, Forest, and
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you wrecked me. I lost every penny I had trying
to buck you.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I told you then, don't try it. Remember.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All I remember is that you're a crooked chiseloer who
ruined my business. You're a gangster and a killer.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And yes, Jackie Biglow, I'm at the freaking shipyard.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, I would have you got that'll hold a three
stop or a replace. This ain't no ordinary fire. Looks
like sabotage. Sabotage.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
What's he saying? Sabotage is the shipyard?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
You stay there, Jackie, get busy, dig up everything. You
don't lose touch with me. I give me the details
of what you know.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
City does for us.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Boss.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is a press room number three and four persons.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Just broke down, broke down.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Now.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I want to meet with a replate on that sabotage
story of all that count damn.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
But why can't you guys fix it? Nobody down here, Boss,
are all off for lunch. Besides, there's something very screwel.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Usually I can fix it myself, but I can't figure.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Out what's wrong this time that would happen? Now, ye, gods,
what kind of a day is this? Everything's going wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Better hurry boss, Sorry, but I'm afraid you'll have to
take a look at it yourself.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Okay, I'm on your way down. This business will drive
me nuts nuts?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
What's wrong with these presses? Where is everybody? What do
I pay people for the president of the Bullock stuff?
And there's nobody here of all that? Hey, what are
you doing up there on that platform? Get away with tolerance?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
There's not laid in there? Are you crazy?
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Don't push it over?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Don't don't do.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I s missus him?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Why, yes, mister Bennett.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Another Visitsnan. You are quite determined about the.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Herald, And here mister Weatherall. Something's happened, something horrifying.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's forest as the editor printed another inflammatory picture.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
No, no, it isn't that. Forrest is dead. Really, he's
been murdered. It's all over town it is.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And I didn't know what you must be slipping.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Since he's dead, well you know the consequences.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Sure, they'll have to turn in his ration book to
the OPA.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
How did he die, Miss Bennan, But in a pretty
gruesome way.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
He was evidently trapped.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
He was alone in the pressure room when the killer
dumped one of those huge kettles of boiling lead over him.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Say that's a new one.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And the body was found in the press room.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
No, the murderer took the body and dumped it down
a chute the shoot where the papers come off the
press and roll out onto the delivery trucks. And just
a little while ago the body came rolling down the
shoot along with the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Mister Bennett, why have you come here to tell me
about this?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, I know you've been mixed up in murders, mister
witherrall that you've been rather successful at solving them.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yes, and I heard you threatening forest. You weren't, by
any chance near the Herald building at the time of
the murder.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Heaven helped me. I was in the building.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But you know nothing about the murder, of course, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I've never been in the Herald press room in my life.
I don't know a thing about kettles of hot lead
or delivery shoots.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
M you'd have a little difficulty, mister Bennett, proving that.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
I realized that that's why I'm here. Mister Witheroff, would
you represent me?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, frankly, miss Bennett, I don't represent anyone if you
think my looking into the story might clarify it or
speed the solution.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
That's all I ask. I want you to come to
the Herald office now and get at the truth.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We're gonna look into the murder.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I'll get to the bottom of this. Where's my hat,
where's my cole?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yes, and don't forget your blood home? So you see,
Sergeant Maccabo. Mister Bennett claims he knows nothing about mister
Forest's death.
Speaker 11 (15:25):
Mister Bennett, yes, sergeant, you admit that you were here
in the Herald building at three point thirty eight when
Forrest's body came down that chute.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
That's right, sergeant, But I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
What were you doing here, mister Bennett.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Well, I was on the street floor.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
I decided to come back and demand that Forrest's print
an explanation, an apology for printing my daughter's picture.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But you never got up here to the city desk,
mister Bennan.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
No, mister Witherle, I changed my mind and I left
you see Shakespeare, you can't expect me to believe stories
like that.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Ken, Wait till you hear the fairy tale that lima
Typer's got boy. It's a Dilley.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Don't mind, Sergeant Bennett. They think you'd think you moron,
and the police force was too high, so they took
him in.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Ah, missus mulletson again. She's the only overaged destroyer that
never got to Britain.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Watch that tut tut tut now, isn't that the linotype
of coming now? Sajan mccobble.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
That's the guy Shakespeare names Pat Welch over here, Pat, sergeant,
I told you my story once.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
I want mister wither All to hear.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Pat get this, Shakespeare, get so, honey, Well, I work
in the lanotype department. I came up here to Forrest's
office to talk about the next edition. Then Jackie Biglow,
the reporter, telephoned from the shipyard while I was in
forrest room. Then I left him and went downstairs. That
was about three point fifteen. I think you're rather definite
about the time, Pat, Yes, I looked at the clock
(16:45):
when I got back to the lanotype department. Then I
got a telephone call saying my mother was sick.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
You see what I mean, Shakespeare about fairy tales.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Why didn't you go the whole hog?
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Pat? Say that you had to leave because your grandmother died?
Or did you that when they get to a ball?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's the truth, Sergeant, I swear it that your whole story. Man. No,
soon as I heard about my mother, I ran to
the elevator to get home, but I got stuck inside.
I presume the elevator operator can confirm. No, it's a
self starting elevator. There isn't any operator, but it's stuck.
The superintendent swear to that it hasn't been fixed yet.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
I've got a little nephew, Pat, he's four years old.
The kid could make up a better story than You'll
gun pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Of yourself, ain't you?
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Sigh? Look missus, mother, it's time for spring cleaning. Why
don't you go home and rearrange the dirt.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I suppose we save the second hand with the amateur
knight and get on with finding the sparrow that killed
cock Robin. Pat, where's the main switch bob downstairs?
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Going down there?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Shakespeare? I excuse me, sergeant, Yes, it's possible that the
phone girl can confirm whether or not Pat received a
call after three this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Okay, go on, I'll wait here, not mess to whether
or you said you'd help me. Now you're wandering off
to corroborate this mans.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Mister Bennett, our objective was the truth.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Remember Dalton Herald, Good afternoon. Oh I'm sorry, mister Forest
is out. He's getting a fitting for a wooden suit. Yes,
(18:28):
somebody didn't like his face, so they pushed.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Me to that.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Pardon.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I understand your name is Ruth.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's right, Jesus.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
If you don't look like what's his name, man Shakespeare, I.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Could only write like him too, But my name is
only whether all Ruth.
Speaker 12 (18:43):
Oh that's it. You're from Narrative Academy.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, I'm curious about what happened earlier this afternoon. To
watch his name Forrest?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh that jee.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
Pat Welch is in a fixed time. Everybody knows him
and Forrest hated each other's guest.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Expression. Ruth, what's there? The phone call for pattis afternoon?
Speaker 12 (19:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, about three o'clock. I don't know who
it was from. I only asked who's call him when
they asked for an executive.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Ah, Wayne.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
It is Shane Patty such a sweet guy. And Forrest,
if you'll pardon the expression, was a high class tanker.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
H we must have you address our English literature classes.
It Merredith sometime Ruth the tragedy of illiteracy. It might
be the subject.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Oh gee, I'd be only too happy with you as
exhibit a hill.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Hi, Ruthie?
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Man, oh man, what a fire I've been too.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I'm knocked out.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
I'll get ready for Lulu Jackie, boy, Wow, what's up?
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Well?
Speaker 12 (19:42):
While you were at the fire, somebody gave Forrest a
bath with a bucket of that lead in the press
room and then sent the corpse roller coastering down the
delivery shoe. Cute, ain't it?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
No kidding?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
That's it Jack the police upstairs now.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Hallellujah, Forest knocked off.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Boy, This is my lucky day.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I get a terrific story.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And on top of that, somebody puts four worry belonging
who did it?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (20:01):
They know?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Sergeant Maccabbo's upstairs now with pat wel from mister Bennett.
They're the most likely candidates for the honor at the moment.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well, what are we waiting for Let's go on up there.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
This I got to see.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
All right, Jack, we can wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Not that way, mister wither All up the stairs. The
elevator is broken.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
See you're Ruthie.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, fine to Ruthie. Come out to Meredith sometime. As
the students say, you will be hotter than a two
dollars pistol if you will pardon the expression.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Now, Jack, you say, Forrest cheated Pat here out of
a newspaper, put him out of business.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, that was the deal. Micabolo was in Frisco about
ten years ago. I'm sorry Pat for the facts of fact.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I'm not worried, Jackie Man. The citizen doesn't have anything
to worry about. Yes, since the Bard wrote truth is
truth to the end of reckoning.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Sergeant, aside from the fact that I happened to be
in the building, you haven't a scrap of tangible evidence
against me.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
But when it comes to motive, mister Bennett, you did
have a violent argument with mister Forrest about that picture
of your daughter.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Since when do you convict people? And that kind of evidence.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
We'll get all the evidence, so enough, give.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
The sergeant a chance. Mister Bennett, he'll learn, won't you
squeaky shoes.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Missus Mullnett, don't stand there with your teeth in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Why don't you easy easy talking about motives? Jack, I
happen to know that fires cut you out of the
job you wanted working for that syndicate and chun king,
and I also know what it meant to you.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Sure that's right? Oh, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
He's dead. I'll bet everybody in the building had a
motive for wiping out that lug.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What happened to your wrist, Jane, Oh, the bandage.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I burned myself with the fire. Now the chief will
back me up on that. I was poking in the
ruins for sabotage evidence.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You've been at the fire since that first call came
in about it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Jae, Yeah, I've been there all the time. I telephoned
fires from there. Anybody will tell you.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That you left the moment the news flash came in
mm hm yeah, about three o'clock. It was pat You
saw mister Forrest alive in his office when Jack telephoned.
I didn't. After Jack called about the sabotage development, fat,
you went back to the liner type. As I understand it,
that's right. When you did, you looked at the clock
and it was three fifteen. Then you received a call
(22:14):
from your that your mother was ill. You danced for
the elevator, but it broke down while you were inside.
I told you that Super confirmed that. Therefore, the elevator
broke down roughly about three twenty. That's about it. It's
very interesting.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
That's the angle Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Now, Jack, you say you've been at the fire since
a few minutes past three, and we know that the
elevator broke down about three twenty.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Get to the point, mister Witherow.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, what's this all about.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Jack? It's about the fact you're supposed to have been
at the fire since shortly after three, long before the
elevator broke down. Yet when I met you downstairs with Ruth,
you remarked quite casually that we should take the stairway
because the elevator didn't work. How did you know that, Jay?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Sounds like a payoff question to me, Jack.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
One of the truckmen outside I'm away in he told
me just before I found you at the switchboard.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Really, Jack, I suppose you'd be willing also to submit
your wrist to a medical examination. My risk Rist.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Why certainly I will Why Why?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Because Jack, I think you burned your wrist while dumping
the caldron of hot lead over forest. As you know,
a medical examination will reveal whether that burn was caused
by flames or if there are traces of lead in it.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
I'll have another cup of coffee, Shakespeare. Then I'll be
meander at home. You figure. Jack went straight to.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
The fire, yes for Carmel. He stayed there long enough
to establish his presence, and then he raced back, unseen,
to the neighborhood of the Herald. He called up Forest
or from downstairs with the avatar story, creating the impression
that he was still at the fire.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
I get it.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
Then he buzzed Pat Welch, probably using a phony voice,
to tell him to rely about his mother being sick.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yes. That got Welsh out of the way, and gave
Welsh a very weak excuse too. Then Jack Monkey wrenched
the presses, forcing Forrest to go down to the press room,
where he was killed. The whole affair couldn't have taken
more than a few minutes. Then Jack went dashing back
the fire.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
He'd gotten away with it.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Two. We hadn't pulled that boner in front of you about.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The elevator, Yes, there was that, and the wristburn Shakespeare,
How did you.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Know the wristburn could be analyzed for traces of hot lead?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I never knew that, Sergeant. Shall I confess something to you?
Neither did I? What it sounded like? Such a good
idea at the time.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh, you baker, Rather anide.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Who worked beautifully too. Jack might never have confessed. You know,
I think my students at Meredith have given me a
superb training in the art of what they call manufacturing
apple sauce.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Eh, well, apple sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
In that Shakespeare. We caught that killer, and that's what counts.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Those murderers can't get to the chair fast enough for me.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
As a matter of fact, considering what kind of a
man that newspaper editor was, he deserved to get wiped
out too.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Probably, Sergeants, no doubt that society's transgressors must be punished.
Yet we mustn't make quick, violent judgments. We must always
remember what the gentleman I'm supposed to resemble once wrote
about mercy, when he said it is twice blessed. It
(25:38):
blesseth him that gives, and him that takes his mightiest
in the mightiest it becomes the throned monarch better than
his crown. His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
the attribute of awe and majesty, wherein to sit the
dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this
(26:02):
sceptan sway. It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
It is an attribute of God himself and earthly power.
Doth then show likest gods when mercy seasons justice.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
W R.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Has presented the distinguished American actor Walter Hamden in the
Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. Missus Mullett is played by Ethel Ramie.
Sergeant Picabo by Jack McBride. The character of Leonidas Witherall
is from the mystery novels by Alice Tilton. The radioscript
is written by Howard Merrill and the program is under
the direction of Roger Bauer. Next week, Leonidas meets a
(26:55):
very interesting hitchhiker, doesn't he, mister Hamden h yes.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Leonartist is driving along the highway when he meets a
young lady who asks him ver a hitch and a
very informative young lady. She is too in fact. Before long,
Leonidas is receiving a very practical lesson in how to
win friends and influence homicidal maniacs. We hope you'll be
listening next Sunday at seven and until then good night.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Listen again next Sunday evening at seven pm Eastern wartime
for the Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. This program came to
you from the studios of WR in New York. This
is the Mutual Broadcasting System
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