June 6, 2025 • 28 mins
This mystery series follows an eccentric professor-turned-sleuth solving baffling crimes with wit and literary flair. His cases blend deduction with clever storytelling.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Keep your eyes on the screen, gentlemen. This is a
marvelous action shot of that run for a touchdown here
it comes.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Turn on the right, quickly, turn on the light.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Cut the picture.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's the man in front of me. He's been stabbed.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
W O R Mutual presents the distinguished American actor Walter
Hampden in the Adventures of Leonorda's Witherall.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Leanora's Witherow's always getting mixed up and murdered.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, you wouldn't think so.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He looks just like Shakespeare is dead, and he's kind
of an important school for boys in New England. He
also writes through the stories on the side, the Lieutenant
hazel Time story and being headmaster of an important school
for boys, whither All is often called upon to preside
at school functions, isn't he, mister Hampton.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The class of nineteen twenty five is gathered for an
alumni dinner on the Meredith campus. Although being the life
of the party isn't exactly to Witherof's taste, inevitably he
has been chosen as master of ceremonies, and inevitably, too,
there's the horrible necessity of an after dinner speech. Gen
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gentlemen with us this evening are the members of that
immortal backfield famous in Meredith's football history, the four Killers.
There's Dick Underwood, who has become a world famous publisher.
His magazines and newspapers are so humorous. I doubt even
he could name the war.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I became a world famous publisher with all yes and
how and why? The different stories.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The other three men here know that story.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I hope whether raw doesn't tell on me to log
brings too many memories.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's very dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dick first got his start in the publishing world with
Sam Graves. I believe he and Sam were inseparable on
the campus, co editors of the Merriagorus Bulletin, and Sam
always ran interference for Dick on the football field, inseparable
on the campus, best friends in the world. Whither all
doesn't know about that afternoon and takes office that brainy
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afternoon five years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Get out, Sam, get out before I have your program.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You'll see me day. You sit right there at that
fancy desk of yours, and keep your mouth shut while
I tell you something.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I know just what you want to say. You've had
a diggy deal, So what happens. You want me to
sing hearts and flowers.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, I just want to tell you that when you
forced me out of this juicy business of yours, I
knew exactly what you were doing. I knew what was
going on, but I needed the money, so I had
to send my stock to you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is that all that's on your mind.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I built every magazine you own. I stayed up for
two in the morning every night for month, editing, developing
ideas and making up dummies. Why it was through me
that you got control of every newspaper you have.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, you've no kick coming.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I tell you you for the stopper, and maybe I
have no claim in court. What I have against you
is just a matter of ordinary human decency. That's more important.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Maybe it is in your cheme of things. You're wasting
my time, Sam, I.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Came back to tell you, Dick, someday I catch up
with you. You can't take twenty years work from a
man and then brush him off with a little check
for a couple of shares of stock.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I knew we should have had some sad music.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You will get your sad music. I'll see that.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Then.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I suppose that's your subtle way of saying you're going
to get even sad.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You're always so obvious family.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Just as soon as I can arrange it, you're going
to have that sad music funeral music. Yes, Sir, Dick
and Sam have been an inspiring example of how strong
and lasting of friendship can become, especially when founded in
the formative days. I'd almost said the healthier days of
school life. We've spoken of two members of the four Killers,
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but we mustn't.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Overlook the others. There's Harry Bellows.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
His ambition was to be a lawyer, and what a
prominent member of the bar he has become. Yes, the
third member of our four Killers has found his measure lawyer,
a very successful.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Lawyer with wrong What a miserable failure on the way
because of my dear friends, the giant of the He's
from me coming.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Back from the.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I tell you you can't do this to genetic We
went all through that before I married her, and he.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Was supposed to be a very close friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
We trusted each other. Please, I trusted you time married
to Jenness. Now and what happens between us as none
of your diste.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Harry, I thought you'd be in here, please I don't
know what you said, but it's home.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Just leave us.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Alone, won't you. You've been out on Jack flabbing to
him again about how I treat you. He doesn't have to.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Anybody can see that she's a nervous wreck. I wanted
to kill you when you're first her from me.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Anything you can do, Harry, you're justn't curiating yourself and me.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's right, Tevin, that again, of course, and that you
could leave me. I keep Dick Junior as a lot
of the fact, you too.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
May have given me grounds for divorce. Henny, you're only
making trouble. I know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Jeanette mine to her emotions.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I thought you were a lawyer, not a psycholic. It
was bad enough when you took her away from me.
Now I have to stand by and what you ruined
her life?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Please go, I just beat some CHENI to.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You mind, try it off.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh it's no use, Ran. Don't you understand that you
can't change him?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
And I wouldn't leave my son.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'll give you just sixty seconds to get out of
this cabin and then never mind. I'll go, but I'll
provide the finish to this very bloody finish, it'll be
too thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Let me quote from my favorite poets, those friends thou
hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul
with hoops of steel. Yes, gentlemen, Harry Bellows has become
a bride and lawyer, and I imagine he owes much
of his success to the war and encouragement of Dick's friendship.
And now the fourth member of our incomparable football combination.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He's here too, Jack Gregor.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Jack's become a superb bodists And I think it was
Dick on the will who first inspired him the paint.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Dick believed in Jack. It helped.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Dick was very healthy.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yes, he did everything he could for me. For instance,
when I came to an apartment that night.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It was three in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Dick, I'm awfully sorry the button like this. I know
it's terrible light, but this is so important.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Was the better. He's in trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's my brother Macanon. Yeah, yes, you met Tommy, haven't you?
Fifect though about seventeen, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Our parents died when we were very young. I've had
to work. I never had the chance to well sort
of look after Tom, you didn't come here at three
o'clock in the morning to tell me your family's history.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That Joe.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Give me a chance, won't you?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Go on?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Go on, well er Tom, he's kind of a wild kid, now,
come on, come on. Last night he and two other
boys stole a bracelet from a jewelry store. Your brother's
alvis to me like a plain ordinary crookman home. He
hasn't had the right friends. The kid his age gets
involved so easily. The gang had probably call him yellow
if he didn't go with him on a job like that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
What of it? What do you come here for us?
I I need money?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh, the jeweler said he wouldn't prosecute. If we'd pay
for the broken window, a new lock, and give him
tash for his insurance, the lad will go up.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You see.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, well, I'm not working now. I use my last
than to pay the rent. The whole thing comes to
a hundred dollars. Would you give it to me? Dick,
I've got a swell possibility a job that's coming up
next month.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Next month, you might not get a job for a
year within a depression. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
A hundred dollars wouldn't mean a thing to you, Dick,
But I did keep my brother out of jail. Sorry, Jack,
your credit isn't very good.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I never thought you'd put it to me on a
business base.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
You're asking for money, Are sure that's business? You're not working,
probably won't get a job for a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Every day looks like a bad investment. You mean a
boy's life is either a good cash investment or it
Isn't that what you want to say, I'll please, let's
not go into abstraction. You're asking for a loan, and
I'm turning it down. If my brother gets blocked up,
he's through, He's licked.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's his business. Haven't you asked your other friend, somebody
maybe who's a little more sentimental.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Most of my friends are broke. The loan company turned
me down because I'm unemployed. Well, I'm not going to
risk good money just because your brother's a crazy kid
without enough tense to keep out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The answer is no, all right, I won't beg Oh,
I'm going to bed Dick. How about it?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Would you give me a scot give me a chance,
say fifty dollars if I wanted to risk fifty at
risk one hundred good. Nice that you forget about this
in a few minutes, but I won't. I'll remember it
as long as I live. And if my brother goes
to jail, Dick, it comes out the way I think
you will.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You'll pay for it, all right, the hard way.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yes, Jack probably owes a lot to Dick on the Wood,
and Dick, in his turn, was inspired by Jack to
dare and to do. I think the magnificent friendship between
all the four killers is a symbol of the whole
class of twenty five. Of course, while these four men
were in the spotlight, we all know one other gentleman
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was in love. Part responsible for their brilliant record on
the football field. Yes, in every game they played they
were supported by that sturdy tackle, Curry Foster. Curry Foster's
the eminent doctor Foster. Now, but I'll wager the Good
hasn't forgotten the old days here. Merried it, the days
of his comradeship with Dick on the woods.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I haven't forgotten the Meredith.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No because of me here that Dick learned to despise me, here,
that he planned his offended. I didn't know about expected
that I finished my internship. Then that night in the
executive office is the hospital.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Tack.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Wait a minute, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh hello, Curli, finally my sadan.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I've been trying to reach you all week.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Look, I have a dinner and gakith.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
This won't take long. Well, what is it last Friday?
I was dropped out of research?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Really for the friend? Well, you can always go into
some other field.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
I was dropped out of research on account of you,
so silly.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What did I have to do with it?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You're a director of this hospital, and what you say goes.
I found out that you killed my appointment to work
under doctor Man.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Why is it nothing of the sort of boy?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You did it a cheap way too.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Didn't come out in the open and say you disapproved. No,
you made remarks about me, about my personality, about my ability.
You told a couple of rotten lies about me too,
and everyone believed them because you're the great night go
around here. Well, Frankly, you do have kind of a
jippery personality, Curly, and I didn't think if.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You were quite the man for the job.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I became a doctor so I could do research. This
is going to make it impossible for me to get
into research anywhere else. Oh, I'll never be able to
live down being dropped here, and I can never in
my life stop those stories. Do you know what that
can do to someone trying to start out in medicine.
You know, I might as well take the ten years
I've put into this and toss them out the window,
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telling me I can't do researchers like cutting off my
right hand.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, don't exaggerate, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm not going to endanger the success of the department
with an unpredictable man.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I had the highest rating in my graduating class. Mansfield
said he was looking forward to working with me. Well,
we all have our little set back.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I knew you were four flush ever think you were fifteen.
I was the only kid in Merrith who had you
down for what you were, and you loathed me for it.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You will never be much of a doctor, Curley. You're
too excitable, too many fantastic ideas.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Get this, Dick.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Last Friday, you blew my career up in smoke. You
started something when you did that, And I'm going to
have the last words, the very last word.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Dick was a director of the hospital at Curly Foster
Service internship, and I'm sure that there he was a
source of hope and the real assistant as doctor Foster
began his life's work. Now, before we go on speaking
of other personnel, it is for you from Sam Gray.
You want to show the picture now, mist whether or no?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, Sam.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Sam's not only been very active as a publisher, you know,
but he's quite an amateur scientist and a photography expert.
He is the motion picture scenes of the campus back
in the twenties, highlights of the Four Killers in actions. Yes,
I have the projection machine set up right back there
at any time.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Have you have you got the Digbie games him?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You will see shots of every game we played, Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I never knew that there's a picture.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Sign are lots of things about me you didn't know, Dick.
Why do I focused this thing?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Can I help it? Then?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
No, Jackson on, there's nothing to it. Lights out, please,
that's to be pitch black in here.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
God stop the show right now.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I'll explain the picture as we go along. If I
have to stand him back a bit machine, if my
voice sounds muffled or can they let me know? And
I've tried to talk louder there's some music later. I
had a sound record dubbed with a film. When I
get that turning, Yeah, okay, there are the four killers.
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There you are Dick.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Look at me. Two uniforms we had. There you are Harry. Yeah,
we're number thirteen, the good old.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Thirteen at the fact, the smiling quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Remember, let's think I look like a toothpaste there.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Now here's the digbie game. Watch closely. Dick pulls a
spinner over about twenty yards. Now the cart stands up
and chairs. He's going down the line down that wait, wait,
stop everything, Turn on the right quickly, turn on the lights.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's Dick.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I saw a shadow standing over him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
With the knight.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'll switch the light arm. There we are, Dick. He's
been stabbed.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Somebody stabbed him while you were showing the picture.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Sam, I think I think he's dead.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh no, that's incredible. Here, h I'm afraid you're right, Jack,
he's dead, but I can't believe it. Stabbed in the back,
Doctor Foster, would you take a look at him, Maybe
he's still alive.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
And I step aside where you're let's see him. M
hm m hm. Knife went through his back and penetrated
his heart.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Men, doctor, you telephone the police.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I will, mister Wither, I'll use the phone down.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I don't think you should have surned for the police,
Miss wither or not yet? Well why not? Sam Dick
was a very prominent man. There'll be a terrible uproars
and newspapers find out if he's been murdered. It might
be smarter to think first of what we'll say, how
much we will tell them.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Besides, we've well, we've all got reputations to worry about.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I agree with Sam. I think we should lock the
doors and try to work this out ourselves.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
If you make this public, everyone would be subjected to rumors, suspicions, accusations.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We can't let that happen now.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think you and Sam are covering up Jack.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You're a lawyer, Harry. I presume you've some basis for
saying that.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I don't see why we shouldn't turn it over to
the police immediately.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's all. You have a reputation for being mixed up in.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Murdered, mister Witherall, Yes, sure, mixed up, for thoroughly mixed
up yourselves.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Some killing.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Oh really helped the solution, along as the gentlemen, they say,
I resemble who's written murder, though it had no tongue.
We'll speak with most miraculous organs. Maybe you can help
work this one out. Yes, ordinarily I'd prefer that the
police handle it, but since we're at Meredith and you're
all alumni, and.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You're liable to get that beer of yours into a
lot of club.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's a very.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Durable beard and has come safely through many perils. Well,
I'll do what I can till the police arrived. Will
you please be quiet? And when them remain seated. Let's see,
Dick was sitting there in that chair, Harry, you were
I was behind him, Oh, I see behind him, and
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Jack I was to his left. To his left, I
was working the projecting machine back there.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That would eliminate you. Sam.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Looks as though either Jack or I were guilty, then,
doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
No, there's another man in this room, in that pitch darkness,
anyone could have walked up behind Dick and plunged the
knife into his bed.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Just the same. I think it was one of the
four of us. For four killers, you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Mean one of the four killers has taken the title literally.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I called the police there on the way over.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, oh, thank you doctor.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Have you seen Dick lately, curly, Yes, he was guest
speaker the Medical General I attended a month ago.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Maybe you're theory about it being one of the four killers,
doesn't right, Harry.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
You're not implying that I stabbed Dick, are you?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Who anyone in the room could have? Harry, you seem
rather convinced that Dick on the Wood was murdered by
one of the remaining members of the famous quartet.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Now look, mister Wetherall everything you said tonight about all
of us, I mean, Harry, and I don't start that
go on.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I don't think anything should be concealed.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Now, all right, the four of us, Dick, Sam and
Jack and myself, we weren't the happy little group you.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Described, not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
We hated Dick and.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I thought I'd made such a moving speech. However, let
us see if murder will find its tongue and speak.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I'm a lawyer, mister Wetherell. I don't just how much
can be brought out by questioning. I don't see any point,
and everyone's being coy. I despised Dick because he took
away the girl. I loved and married her and then
made her miserable. Jeanette, that's Dick's wife. She's in a
sanitarium now. Nervous breakdown they call it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You seem to be working yourself up to break down.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, wouldn't you be in.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
My place now?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Besides, Jeannette, is the fact that you, may excuse me, murdered.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You specialize in worrying about things before they happen.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Why are the two of you so quiet?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Are you hiding something?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I have nothing to hide.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
I'll tell my story good whither.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Or if we go on, we will read it from
making unpleasant things?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, you were saying, Jack, Dick turned me down when
I wanted money to keep my brother out of prison.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
He could have spared it easily. My brother died a
year later in jail.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I'm a paductory remark.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I swore i'd killed Dick for that. I'm glad he died,
and I'm sorry I didn't have the honor of getting
him out of the way.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It seems that Dick was even more attractive than I
pictured him. Both of you wanted to kill him.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Eh, go on, Sam, go on. You haven't spoken yet.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't intend to I'll talk when I'm questioned.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
By the authority. Listen to you. If you've got something
to say, get it over with.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We want to know who killed Dick, and we want
to know fast.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Go on, Sam, or shall I tell some of the
story myself about how you work for twenty years for
Dick and then he chiseled.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You are a third motive? Huh. We're moving toward our
objective the fast than the four of you. I'm the
greed good. I am too fast. Perhaps, Sam, I was
thinking we should first show that film again. Oh, there's
no sense to that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You want us to turn off the lights and give
the killer another chance to murder somebody.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, imagine the killer was after Dick. I don't think
he's going to repeat the performance, unless, of course, he
was so dazzled by his first job that he feels
obliged to provide an encore. Why do you insist on
showing the film again? I'll only have to rewind it
and go through a rigmarole. I want to see the
film again because of something curious.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
When you were talking Sam in the dark, explaining the pictures,
I heard a ticking sound.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, what of it? Well?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
When the lights went on, I noticed there isn't any
clock in this room. Oh, I don't want to run
through that film again. It's a silly nuisance, Sam, Run
the film again. You don't think I had anything to
do with the murder? Do you why I was standing
in the back of the projector you heard me talking
every second while that film was on? Run the film.
Stop storming that just because somebody heard ticking. I'm going
to examine the film eventually. You might as well clear
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it up now.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'll put it on if people all.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right, okay, I would rewind it a grease on dust
all over my hands, pooling with this gadget.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you think that idea you have will lead us
to the killer, mister Witherow You I mean, when the
lights go out and we see the film, since you
seem to be on his trails, whoever killed Dix Flybill
to have a go at you?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Go at me? Well, I don't have to take that term.
All right, the film's ready. I'm not going around the
whole business again. Just the third part. Sam, I'd appreciate
it if you would run the entire sequence just as
it appeared when Dick Underwood was stabbed.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Okay, okay, lights out here always there were four killers.
There we are there you are Dick, Dick.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You're crazy, Sam?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
What'd you say? That?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Pot flying there? Dead? There? You are Dick? There, you
are Dick.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That way?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
For the sound record is stuck? Gendleman a, just as
the film the sound record. Yes, if you turn on
the lights, I can explain Rot and Lucky Sham to
have planned your murder so successfully, so carefully, only to
have the sound record stick.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Sam kills Dick.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I've found a light switch.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Wait here we are. Look at Samock swamped over the machine.
He's been stabbed. He's dead.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yes, the murderer did provide a non call. I saw
a shadow standing it. Pick I call his carr of
standing it? Pick I saw a shadow standing still?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Hear his voice?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Stop the sound.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Doctor, Same story, same story.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Stabbed in the back, knife penetrated the heart, died in
a split second.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Seems to be the work of a pretty trained hand.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Will you either accuse me directly or stop making remarks
at my expense?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
How could Sam keep on talking after he died?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well he was a very clever amateur scientist. Remember it's
obvious He recorded his description of the film on that soundtrack.
He had a double track to see, one that would
seem innocent enough when prayed, and the other was a
recording he made of his own voice. He thought that
would give him a perfect excuse. He could say he
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was standing by the machine talking while actually he was
creeping in the dark toward Dick to stab him. He
had it all planned, you see, even to the point
of discovering the murder. He just committed. I'll turn on
the sound. Listen to the dead man's speak.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's thick.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I saw a shatter standing over him with a knife.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's next, see Dick? What was that? Picking noise? O?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What happened? Very often? He made his record in a
room where there was a clock, but he didn't notice it.
He even went to the trouble of apologizing for what
might seem to be a strange voice quality.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Do you remember that all that worked and he never
got to kill Dick anyway?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Or did he?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No? Confounded? I was wrong. Sam's elaborate mechanism took me
up a blind alley. I seem to have been the
true expert. I avoided these small errors as I swept
on to the grand fallacy. Evidently Sam started toward Dick
but reached him too late. The real murderer, who killed
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both of these men, got there first.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And who is the real murderer?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, when Sam was behind Dick, he bumped into the killer.
Couldn't see him, of course, but he could touch him
in the dark. Then the killer, knowing Sam had spotted him,
took advantage of our second showing of the film to
silence poor Sam. Hmm, a gentleman, and a rather strange
request to make. Want would you all remove your coats
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and passed them to me?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Or cooperate anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Here's mine? Thank you? Doctor?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Is this another tremendous idea? Like showing the film again?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Another blind alley?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I'd appreciate your coat, Harry?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right? Here here here's mine. Kay, Yes, he's right.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Take now, that'll do nicely. Gentlemen, what are you looking for?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yes? What's the idea?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, if you look at the late Sam's hands, they're grimy,
as he said, the soil the coupvered with grease and
dust from operating the projector they could to me if
he did touch the murderer in the dark, groping toward Dick,
it'd be a spot on the murderer's coat from Sam's hands?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Did you find a spot on someone's coat?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yes? I did, on someone on whose? Ah? The post
of that question?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, who put in that call? I? Did those two
bodies been moved? Or well? It just that way?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Just that way, officer.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Everybody in a room was around when they were stabbed.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Yes, okay, I got hold of Dodge mccabble. Have you
here in a few minutes, then what's start the investigation?
You don't have to if their weather or all knows
who committed the murder?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yes, tell us little whether all on whose coat? Did
you find the spot? Jack?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yours?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Jack?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Wats him? Officer?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Officer, you two dead bodies and the murderer a rather
a well tied package, and say where.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You are you?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'm not going to try to escape or even alibi
for what I did. I have only one thing to
ask when I go on trial. Try me for Sam's murder,
not Dick. Sam's death was inexcusable, it was out and
out murder, but Dick's, and that was justice. Killing Dick
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was the only thing.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
To do, perhaps Jack, and perhaps not for to quote
the bearded poet, I resemble, if to do were as
easy as to know what we're good to do? Chapels
have been churches and four men's cottages, princes palaces.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Ah watch into venice at one thing two?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Correct, officer?
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Or what line line number thirteen?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Here, officer, take my gabble. You're going to preside at
the dinner where you're going to walk your beat?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
W O. R.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
MutL has presented the distinguous American actor Walter Hampden in
the Adventures of Leonordus Witherall. The character of Leonordus Witherall
is from the mystery novels by Alice Tilton. The radio
script is by Howard Merrill, and the program is directed
by Roger Bauer. In next week's story, leonor Us attend
the State Fair, doesn't he, mister Hampton.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Here Leonodus borrows a horse and buggy and goes to
the State Fair with his friend, Missus Mullett, who has
entered a jar of preserves in the state Fair contest.
Of course, at the fair, whithero can't resist the shooting gallery.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Okay, stir far up. Every man is on commando. Can't
judge bird quarter?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Try your skill all right, mister take your shirt to
page a quarter.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Go right ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
What's the most difficult thing to hit?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You knock off that little clay pipe and you get
a box the delicious homemade milk chocolate.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Watch me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Rifle?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
All right, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You see what's coming from behind that target dripping under
the floor.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That's blood.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Mister, there's a body behind that target.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
But sure I didn't die. I didn't know anyone.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You didn't.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Huh, we'll see about that, mister.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You just committed murder.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh yes, of the State Fair, leonor Us discovers the
stranger's most unbelievable techniques for committing homicide. It's a very
unusual story, and I hope you'll be listening next Sunday
and now good night.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
If you're living in a mere New yawner, if you're
planning to visit New York seroon, you're advices who attend
of broadcast of Leonor's wither or there's no trige prediction.
Don't drop a post card with your name and address.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Your Bill takes there.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's what Leonora's friends calling Bill takes there.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Karen w o R, New York eighteen.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, we having done compliment todict remember said under postcards,
who Bill Take Spears?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Wo On, New York eighteen.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
The adventures of the Honored wetherall came to here from
the stage of the wo On Newtral Playhouse in New York.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
This is Newtral
Keep your eyes on the screen, gentlemen. This is a
marvelous action shot of that run for a touchdown here
it comes.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Turn on the right, quickly, turn on the light.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Cut the picture.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's the man in front of me. He's been stabbed.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
W O R Mutual presents the distinguished American actor Walter
Hampden in the Adventures of Leonorda's Witherall.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Leanora's Witherow's always getting mixed up and murdered.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, you wouldn't think so.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He looks just like Shakespeare is dead, and he's kind
of an important school for boys in New England. He
also writes through the stories on the side, the Lieutenant
hazel Time story and being headmaster of an important school
for boys, whither All is often called upon to preside
at school functions, isn't he, mister Hampton.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The class of nineteen twenty five is gathered for an
alumni dinner on the Meredith campus. Although being the life
of the party isn't exactly to Witherof's taste, inevitably he
has been chosen as master of ceremonies, and inevitably, too,
there's the horrible necessity of an after dinner speech. Gen
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gentlemen with us this evening are the members of that
immortal backfield famous in Meredith's football history, the four Killers.
There's Dick Underwood, who has become a world famous publisher.
His magazines and newspapers are so humorous. I doubt even
he could name the war.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I became a world famous publisher with all yes and
how and why? The different stories.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The other three men here know that story.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I hope whether raw doesn't tell on me to log
brings too many memories.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's very dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dick first got his start in the publishing world with
Sam Graves. I believe he and Sam were inseparable on
the campus, co editors of the Merriagorus Bulletin, and Sam
always ran interference for Dick on the football field, inseparable
on the campus, best friends in the world. Whither all
doesn't know about that afternoon and takes office that brainy
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afternoon five years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Get out, Sam, get out before I have your program.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You'll see me day. You sit right there at that
fancy desk of yours, and keep your mouth shut while
I tell you something.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I know just what you want to say. You've had
a diggy deal, So what happens. You want me to
sing hearts and flowers.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, I just want to tell you that when you
forced me out of this juicy business of yours, I
knew exactly what you were doing. I knew what was
going on, but I needed the money, so I had
to send my stock to you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is that all that's on your mind.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I built every magazine you own. I stayed up for
two in the morning every night for month, editing, developing
ideas and making up dummies. Why it was through me
that you got control of every newspaper you have.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, you've no kick coming.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I tell you you for the stopper, and maybe I
have no claim in court. What I have against you
is just a matter of ordinary human decency. That's more important.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Maybe it is in your cheme of things. You're wasting
my time, Sam, I.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Came back to tell you, Dick, someday I catch up
with you. You can't take twenty years work from a
man and then brush him off with a little check
for a couple of shares of stock.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I knew we should have had some sad music.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You will get your sad music. I'll see that.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Then.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I suppose that's your subtle way of saying you're going
to get even sad.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You're always so obvious family.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Just as soon as I can arrange it, you're going
to have that sad music funeral music. Yes, Sir, Dick
and Sam have been an inspiring example of how strong
and lasting of friendship can become, especially when founded in
the formative days. I'd almost said the healthier days of
school life. We've spoken of two members of the four Killers,
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but we mustn't.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Overlook the others. There's Harry Bellows.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
His ambition was to be a lawyer, and what a
prominent member of the bar he has become. Yes, the
third member of our four Killers has found his measure lawyer,
a very successful.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Lawyer with wrong What a miserable failure on the way
because of my dear friends, the giant of the He's
from me coming.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Back from the.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I tell you you can't do this to genetic We
went all through that before I married her, and he.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Was supposed to be a very close friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
We trusted each other. Please, I trusted you time married
to Jenness. Now and what happens between us as none
of your diste.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Harry, I thought you'd be in here, please I don't
know what you said, but it's home.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Just leave us.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Alone, won't you. You've been out on Jack flabbing to
him again about how I treat you. He doesn't have to.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Anybody can see that she's a nervous wreck. I wanted
to kill you when you're first her from me.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Anything you can do, Harry, you're justn't curiating yourself and me.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's right, Tevin, that again, of course, and that you
could leave me. I keep Dick Junior as a lot
of the fact, you too.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
May have given me grounds for divorce. Henny, you're only
making trouble. I know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Jeanette mine to her emotions.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I thought you were a lawyer, not a psycholic. It
was bad enough when you took her away from me.
Now I have to stand by and what you ruined
her life?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Please go, I just beat some CHENI to.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You mind, try it off.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh it's no use, Ran. Don't you understand that you
can't change him?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
And I wouldn't leave my son.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'll give you just sixty seconds to get out of
this cabin and then never mind. I'll go, but I'll
provide the finish to this very bloody finish, it'll be
too thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Let me quote from my favorite poets, those friends thou
hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul
with hoops of steel. Yes, gentlemen, Harry Bellows has become
a bride and lawyer, and I imagine he owes much
of his success to the war and encouragement of Dick's friendship.
And now the fourth member of our incomparable football combination.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He's here too, Jack Gregor.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Jack's become a superb bodists And I think it was
Dick on the will who first inspired him the paint.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Dick believed in Jack. It helped.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Dick was very healthy.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yes, he did everything he could for me. For instance,
when I came to an apartment that night.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It was three in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Dick, I'm awfully sorry the button like this. I know
it's terrible light, but this is so important.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Was the better. He's in trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's my brother Macanon. Yeah, yes, you met Tommy, haven't you?
Fifect though about seventeen, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Our parents died when we were very young. I've had
to work. I never had the chance to well sort
of look after Tom, you didn't come here at three
o'clock in the morning to tell me your family's history.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That Joe.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Give me a chance, won't you?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Go on?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Go on, well er Tom, he's kind of a wild kid, now,
come on, come on. Last night he and two other
boys stole a bracelet from a jewelry store. Your brother's
alvis to me like a plain ordinary crookman home. He
hasn't had the right friends. The kid his age gets
involved so easily. The gang had probably call him yellow
if he didn't go with him on a job like that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
What of it? What do you come here for us?
I I need money?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh, the jeweler said he wouldn't prosecute. If we'd pay
for the broken window, a new lock, and give him
tash for his insurance, the lad will go up.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You see.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, well, I'm not working now. I use my last
than to pay the rent. The whole thing comes to
a hundred dollars. Would you give it to me? Dick,
I've got a swell possibility a job that's coming up
next month.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Next month, you might not get a job for a
year within a depression. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
A hundred dollars wouldn't mean a thing to you, Dick,
But I did keep my brother out of jail. Sorry, Jack,
your credit isn't very good.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I never thought you'd put it to me on a
business base.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
You're asking for money, Are sure that's business? You're not working,
probably won't get a job for a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Every day looks like a bad investment. You mean a
boy's life is either a good cash investment or it
Isn't that what you want to say, I'll please, let's
not go into abstraction. You're asking for a loan, and
I'm turning it down. If my brother gets blocked up,
he's through, He's licked.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's his business. Haven't you asked your other friend, somebody
maybe who's a little more sentimental.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Most of my friends are broke. The loan company turned
me down because I'm unemployed. Well, I'm not going to
risk good money just because your brother's a crazy kid
without enough tense to keep out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The answer is no, all right, I won't beg Oh,
I'm going to bed Dick. How about it?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Would you give me a scot give me a chance,
say fifty dollars if I wanted to risk fifty at
risk one hundred good. Nice that you forget about this
in a few minutes, but I won't. I'll remember it
as long as I live. And if my brother goes
to jail, Dick, it comes out the way I think
you will.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You'll pay for it, all right, the hard way.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yes, Jack probably owes a lot to Dick on the Wood,
and Dick, in his turn, was inspired by Jack to
dare and to do. I think the magnificent friendship between
all the four killers is a symbol of the whole
class of twenty five. Of course, while these four men
were in the spotlight, we all know one other gentleman
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was in love. Part responsible for their brilliant record on
the football field. Yes, in every game they played they
were supported by that sturdy tackle, Curry Foster. Curry Foster's
the eminent doctor Foster. Now, but I'll wager the Good
hasn't forgotten the old days here. Merried it, the days
of his comradeship with Dick on the woods.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I haven't forgotten the Meredith.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No because of me here that Dick learned to despise me, here,
that he planned his offended. I didn't know about expected
that I finished my internship. Then that night in the
executive office is the hospital.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Tack.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Wait a minute, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh hello, Curli, finally my sadan.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I've been trying to reach you all week.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Look, I have a dinner and gakith.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
This won't take long. Well, what is it last Friday?
I was dropped out of research?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Really for the friend? Well, you can always go into
some other field.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
I was dropped out of research on account of you,
so silly.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What did I have to do with it?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You're a director of this hospital, and what you say goes.
I found out that you killed my appointment to work
under doctor Man.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Why is it nothing of the sort of boy?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You did it a cheap way too.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Didn't come out in the open and say you disapproved. No,
you made remarks about me, about my personality, about my ability.
You told a couple of rotten lies about me too,
and everyone believed them because you're the great night go
around here. Well, Frankly, you do have kind of a
jippery personality, Curly, and I didn't think if.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You were quite the man for the job.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I became a doctor so I could do research. This
is going to make it impossible for me to get
into research anywhere else. Oh, I'll never be able to
live down being dropped here, and I can never in
my life stop those stories. Do you know what that
can do to someone trying to start out in medicine.
You know, I might as well take the ten years
I've put into this and toss them out the window,
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telling me I can't do researchers like cutting off my
right hand.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, don't exaggerate, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm not going to endanger the success of the department
with an unpredictable man.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I had the highest rating in my graduating class. Mansfield
said he was looking forward to working with me. Well,
we all have our little set back.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I knew you were four flush ever think you were fifteen.
I was the only kid in Merrith who had you
down for what you were, and you loathed me for it.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You will never be much of a doctor, Curley. You're
too excitable, too many fantastic ideas.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Get this, Dick.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Last Friday, you blew my career up in smoke. You
started something when you did that, And I'm going to
have the last words, the very last word.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Dick was a director of the hospital at Curly Foster
Service internship, and I'm sure that there he was a
source of hope and the real assistant as doctor Foster
began his life's work. Now, before we go on speaking
of other personnel, it is for you from Sam Gray.
You want to show the picture now, mist whether or no?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, Sam.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Sam's not only been very active as a publisher, you know,
but he's quite an amateur scientist and a photography expert.
He is the motion picture scenes of the campus back
in the twenties, highlights of the Four Killers in actions. Yes,
I have the projection machine set up right back there
at any time.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Have you have you got the Digbie games him?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You will see shots of every game we played, Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I never knew that there's a picture.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Sign are lots of things about me you didn't know, Dick.
Why do I focused this thing?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Can I help it? Then?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
No, Jackson on, there's nothing to it. Lights out, please,
that's to be pitch black in here.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
God stop the show right now.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I'll explain the picture as we go along. If I
have to stand him back a bit machine, if my
voice sounds muffled or can they let me know? And
I've tried to talk louder there's some music later. I
had a sound record dubbed with a film. When I
get that turning, Yeah, okay, there are the four killers.
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There you are Dick.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Look at me. Two uniforms we had. There you are Harry. Yeah,
we're number thirteen, the good old.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Thirteen at the fact, the smiling quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Remember, let's think I look like a toothpaste there.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Now here's the digbie game. Watch closely. Dick pulls a
spinner over about twenty yards. Now the cart stands up
and chairs. He's going down the line down that wait, wait,
stop everything, Turn on the right quickly, turn on the lights.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's Dick.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I saw a shadow standing over him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
With the knight.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'll switch the light arm. There we are, Dick. He's
been stabbed.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Somebody stabbed him while you were showing the picture.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Sam, I think I think he's dead.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh no, that's incredible. Here, h I'm afraid you're right, Jack,
he's dead, but I can't believe it. Stabbed in the back,
Doctor Foster, would you take a look at him, Maybe
he's still alive.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
And I step aside where you're let's see him. M
hm m hm. Knife went through his back and penetrated
his heart.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Men, doctor, you telephone the police.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I will, mister Wither, I'll use the phone down.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I don't think you should have surned for the police,
Miss wither or not yet? Well why not? Sam Dick
was a very prominent man. There'll be a terrible uproars
and newspapers find out if he's been murdered. It might
be smarter to think first of what we'll say, how
much we will tell them.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Besides, we've well, we've all got reputations to worry about.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I agree with Sam. I think we should lock the
doors and try to work this out ourselves.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
If you make this public, everyone would be subjected to rumors, suspicions, accusations.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We can't let that happen now.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think you and Sam are covering up Jack.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You're a lawyer, Harry. I presume you've some basis for
saying that.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I don't see why we shouldn't turn it over to
the police immediately.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's all. You have a reputation for being mixed up in.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Murdered, mister Witherall, Yes, sure, mixed up, for thoroughly mixed
up yourselves.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Some killing.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Oh really helped the solution, along as the gentlemen, they say,
I resemble who's written murder, though it had no tongue.
We'll speak with most miraculous organs. Maybe you can help
work this one out. Yes, ordinarily I'd prefer that the
police handle it, but since we're at Meredith and you're
all alumni, and.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You're liable to get that beer of yours into a
lot of club.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's a very.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Durable beard and has come safely through many perils. Well,
I'll do what I can till the police arrived. Will
you please be quiet? And when them remain seated. Let's see,
Dick was sitting there in that chair, Harry, you were
I was behind him, Oh, I see behind him, and
(16:22):
Jack I was to his left. To his left, I
was working the projecting machine back there.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That would eliminate you. Sam.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Looks as though either Jack or I were guilty, then,
doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
No, there's another man in this room, in that pitch darkness,
anyone could have walked up behind Dick and plunged the
knife into his bed.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Just the same. I think it was one of the
four of us. For four killers, you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Mean one of the four killers has taken the title literally.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I called the police there on the way over.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, oh, thank you doctor.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Have you seen Dick lately, curly, Yes, he was guest
speaker the Medical General I attended a month ago.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Maybe you're theory about it being one of the four killers,
doesn't right, Harry.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
You're not implying that I stabbed Dick, are you?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Who anyone in the room could have? Harry, you seem
rather convinced that Dick on the Wood was murdered by
one of the remaining members of the famous quartet.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Now look, mister Wetherall everything you said tonight about all
of us, I mean, Harry, and I don't start that
go on.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I don't think anything should be concealed.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Now, all right, the four of us, Dick, Sam and
Jack and myself, we weren't the happy little group you.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Described, not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
We hated Dick and.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I thought I'd made such a moving speech. However, let
us see if murder will find its tongue and speak.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I'm a lawyer, mister Wetherell. I don't just how much
can be brought out by questioning. I don't see any point,
and everyone's being coy. I despised Dick because he took
away the girl. I loved and married her and then
made her miserable. Jeanette, that's Dick's wife. She's in a
sanitarium now. Nervous breakdown they call it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You seem to be working yourself up to break down.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, wouldn't you be in.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
My place now?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Besides, Jeannette, is the fact that you, may excuse me, murdered.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You specialize in worrying about things before they happen.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Why are the two of you so quiet?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Are you hiding something?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I have nothing to hide.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
I'll tell my story good whither.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Or if we go on, we will read it from
making unpleasant things?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, you were saying, Jack, Dick turned me down when
I wanted money to keep my brother out of prison.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
He could have spared it easily. My brother died a
year later in jail.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I'm a paductory remark.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I swore i'd killed Dick for that. I'm glad he died,
and I'm sorry I didn't have the honor of getting
him out of the way.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It seems that Dick was even more attractive than I
pictured him. Both of you wanted to kill him.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Eh, go on, Sam, go on. You haven't spoken yet.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't intend to I'll talk when I'm questioned.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
By the authority. Listen to you. If you've got something
to say, get it over with.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We want to know who killed Dick, and we want
to know fast.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Go on, Sam, or shall I tell some of the
story myself about how you work for twenty years for
Dick and then he chiseled.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You are a third motive? Huh. We're moving toward our
objective the fast than the four of you. I'm the
greed good. I am too fast. Perhaps, Sam, I was
thinking we should first show that film again. Oh, there's
no sense to that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You want us to turn off the lights and give
the killer another chance to murder somebody.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, imagine the killer was after Dick. I don't think
he's going to repeat the performance, unless, of course, he
was so dazzled by his first job that he feels
obliged to provide an encore. Why do you insist on
showing the film again? I'll only have to rewind it
and go through a rigmarole. I want to see the
film again because of something curious.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
When you were talking Sam in the dark, explaining the pictures,
I heard a ticking sound.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, what of it? Well?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
When the lights went on, I noticed there isn't any
clock in this room. Oh, I don't want to run
through that film again. It's a silly nuisance, Sam, Run
the film again. You don't think I had anything to
do with the murder? Do you why I was standing
in the back of the projector you heard me talking
every second while that film was on? Run the film.
Stop storming that just because somebody heard ticking. I'm going
to examine the film eventually. You might as well clear
(20:05):
it up now.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'll put it on if people all.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right, okay, I would rewind it a grease on dust
all over my hands, pooling with this gadget.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you think that idea you have will lead us
to the killer, mister Witherow You I mean, when the
lights go out and we see the film, since you
seem to be on his trails, whoever killed Dix Flybill
to have a go at you?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Go at me? Well, I don't have to take that term.
All right, the film's ready. I'm not going around the
whole business again. Just the third part. Sam, I'd appreciate
it if you would run the entire sequence just as
it appeared when Dick Underwood was stabbed.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Okay, okay, lights out here always there were four killers.
There we are there you are Dick, Dick.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You're crazy, Sam?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
What'd you say? That?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Pot flying there? Dead? There? You are Dick? There, you
are Dick.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That way?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
For the sound record is stuck? Gendleman a, just as
the film the sound record. Yes, if you turn on
the lights, I can explain Rot and Lucky Sham to
have planned your murder so successfully, so carefully, only to
have the sound record stick.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Sam kills Dick.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I've found a light switch.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Wait here we are. Look at Samock swamped over the machine.
He's been stabbed. He's dead.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yes, the murderer did provide a non call. I saw
a shadow standing it. Pick I call his carr of
standing it? Pick I saw a shadow standing still?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Hear his voice?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Stop the sound.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Doctor, Same story, same story.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Stabbed in the back, knife penetrated the heart, died in
a split second.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Seems to be the work of a pretty trained hand.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Will you either accuse me directly or stop making remarks
at my expense?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
How could Sam keep on talking after he died?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well he was a very clever amateur scientist. Remember it's
obvious He recorded his description of the film on that soundtrack.
He had a double track to see, one that would
seem innocent enough when prayed, and the other was a
recording he made of his own voice. He thought that
would give him a perfect excuse. He could say he
(22:18):
was standing by the machine talking while actually he was
creeping in the dark toward Dick to stab him. He
had it all planned, you see, even to the point
of discovering the murder. He just committed. I'll turn on
the sound. Listen to the dead man's speak.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's thick.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I saw a shatter standing over him with a knife.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's next, see Dick? What was that? Picking noise? O?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What happened? Very often? He made his record in a
room where there was a clock, but he didn't notice it.
He even went to the trouble of apologizing for what
might seem to be a strange voice quality.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Do you remember that all that worked and he never
got to kill Dick anyway?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Or did he?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No? Confounded? I was wrong. Sam's elaborate mechanism took me
up a blind alley. I seem to have been the
true expert. I avoided these small errors as I swept
on to the grand fallacy. Evidently Sam started toward Dick
but reached him too late. The real murderer, who killed
(23:16):
both of these men, got there first.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And who is the real murderer?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, when Sam was behind Dick, he bumped into the killer.
Couldn't see him, of course, but he could touch him
in the dark. Then the killer, knowing Sam had spotted him,
took advantage of our second showing of the film to
silence poor Sam. Hmm, a gentleman, and a rather strange
request to make. Want would you all remove your coats
(23:45):
and passed them to me?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Or cooperate anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Here's mine? Thank you? Doctor?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Is this another tremendous idea? Like showing the film again?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Another blind alley?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I'd appreciate your coat, Harry?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right? Here here here's mine. Kay, Yes, he's right.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Take now, that'll do nicely. Gentlemen, what are you looking for?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yes? What's the idea?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, if you look at the late Sam's hands, they're grimy,
as he said, the soil the coupvered with grease and
dust from operating the projector they could to me if
he did touch the murderer in the dark, groping toward Dick,
it'd be a spot on the murderer's coat from Sam's hands?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Did you find a spot on someone's coat?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yes? I did, on someone on whose? Ah? The post
of that question?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, who put in that call? I? Did those two
bodies been moved? Or well? It just that way?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Just that way, officer.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Everybody in a room was around when they were stabbed.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Yes, okay, I got hold of Dodge mccabble. Have you
here in a few minutes, then what's start the investigation?
You don't have to if their weather or all knows
who committed the murder?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yes, tell us little whether all on whose coat? Did
you find the spot? Jack?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yours?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Jack?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Wats him? Officer?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Officer, you two dead bodies and the murderer a rather
a well tied package, and say where.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You are you?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'm not going to try to escape or even alibi
for what I did. I have only one thing to
ask when I go on trial. Try me for Sam's murder,
not Dick. Sam's death was inexcusable, it was out and
out murder, but Dick's, and that was justice. Killing Dick
(25:35):
was the only thing.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
To do, perhaps Jack, and perhaps not for to quote
the bearded poet, I resemble, if to do were as
easy as to know what we're good to do? Chapels
have been churches and four men's cottages, princes palaces.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Ah watch into venice at one thing two?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Correct, officer?
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Or what line line number thirteen?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Here, officer, take my gabble. You're going to preside at
the dinner where you're going to walk your beat?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
W O. R.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
MutL has presented the distinguous American actor Walter Hampden in
the Adventures of Leonordus Witherall. The character of Leonordus Witherall
is from the mystery novels by Alice Tilton. The radio
script is by Howard Merrill, and the program is directed
by Roger Bauer. In next week's story, leonor Us attend
the State Fair, doesn't he, mister Hampton.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Here Leonodus borrows a horse and buggy and goes to
the State Fair with his friend, Missus Mullett, who has
entered a jar of preserves in the state Fair contest.
Of course, at the fair, whithero can't resist the shooting gallery.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Okay, stir far up. Every man is on commando. Can't
judge bird quarter?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Try your skill all right, mister take your shirt to
page a quarter.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Go right ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
What's the most difficult thing to hit?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You knock off that little clay pipe and you get
a box the delicious homemade milk chocolate.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Watch me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Rifle?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
All right, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You see what's coming from behind that target dripping under
the floor.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That's blood.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Mister, there's a body behind that target.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
But sure I didn't die. I didn't know anyone.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You didn't.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Huh, we'll see about that, mister.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You just committed murder.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh yes, of the State Fair, leonor Us discovers the
stranger's most unbelievable techniques for committing homicide. It's a very
unusual story, and I hope you'll be listening next Sunday
and now good night.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
If you're living in a mere New yawner, if you're
planning to visit New York seroon, you're advices who attend
of broadcast of Leonor's wither or there's no trige prediction.
Don't drop a post card with your name and address.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Your Bill takes there.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's what Leonora's friends calling Bill takes there.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Karen w o R, New York eighteen.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, we having done compliment todict remember said under postcards,
who Bill Take Spears?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Wo On, New York eighteen.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
The adventures of the Honored wetherall came to here from
the stage of the wo On Newtral Playhouse in New York.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
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