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Speaker 1 (00:09):
In response to the grants representing Williams and listening friends,
the National Broadcasting Company is pleased, indeed to bring you
again the adventures of Sam Fade Detective sweet What number
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of I guys? Oh? Well, ma, sweet tap is calling
Lad's life the right chip. Look, I didn't know you
were in town. You didn't write to miss Effie. This
is me in the flesh Sammy the Spade. Oh no,
what good rye Effie. I'm in a play for my
Nicholas running out?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
How can you be so cruel and take both for
the guy right there?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Wait, listen, Oh you're listening.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am not dead. Don't believe everything reading the papers
or here on the radio. You are at my funeral?
Is that what you're about to say? Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Who love?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Don't believe that either. Say right where you are, sweetheart,
because I'll be there, alive and handsomer than ever. With
an account of a caper which proves you can kill
some of the people part of the time. My exaggerated
report on the death of Sam Space NBC welcomes back
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to the era of character who has captured the public
imagination more completely than any other since the birth of
Sherlock Holmes. William Fear Radio's outstanding producer director of history
and crime drama, brings you the greatest private detective of
them all in the Adventures the sam faith Ay it
grandly brooming well. Dead candles at my feet, candles at.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
My own were not over the business ready, I mean,
mister Brothers is closed right now.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Because I'll wait, I'll wait.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's the move?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Spaye s p A d e space. I met a
twin brother, he doesn't. I'm me Sam Oh, wait, come here,
mai bel.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh, what's the use?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I'll never mind, never mind. I'll get your pencil and
paper and take it. Day November seventeenth, nineteen fifty to
miss e Fie Perrie. I'm Samuel Stay. That's me licensed
number one three seven five nine.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You may it be the last under see him the
life merchant.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Shut up subject my death. Dear Effie, since the sight
of me in the flesh, breathing, hungering and living doesn't
convince you, maybe this report will think at the camp
back the last Monday, if you recall, it was about
eleven o'clock when, on the flimsy pretense that we needed
stamps for the office, you drew two dollars some petty
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cash and stepped out to buy a pair of step
in And that's when my clients materialized. He was small
and thin and carried with him the unmistakable odor of
sail flowers. His black outpack of suits, string bow tie,
elevator's shoes, and white bloods had no bearing on his conversation.
Oh dear, my name is Chess.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are you sure he is? My name is Spade? What
can I do?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I tell you?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Mister shade?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Six feet in my face? Wait one seventy eight.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I always noticed a man's bone structure.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Don't you always open? Open? Let me inside? Oh? Oh,
I I fine? Oh well, now that you know me
this way, mister Swam, what can.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I do for you? Oh dear, Perhaps I perhaps I
shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Tall, I'm tired extreme well, Oh dear.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh hello again, mister Swam. You wanted to talk to me?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
He is, but I can't talk now. Yeah, I'm ready,
buy a sixteen trim Berkeley. I'll be there, old here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Their time. As he made his exit, he bout fifty
dollars on the edge of my desk, And so stup
was me. I was at eighty five sixteen Paramatta the
close of the Bear. It was a snow white cottage
with green shutters and a white clicked fence. It was
a hill and back and a brook in front. The
sun was beginning to set on it, and it was
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all very picturesque, in fact, so much so that a
girl with red hair, blue jeans, purple smocks, oils and
canvas was making it immortal. She liked me immediately. Here
hold this, sertally.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Mys, this is my first landscape.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I'm a sprouting eyes obvious.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Make sure not when I can get somebody to do
it for me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Who are you, Oh, I might see a fellow artist.
Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You're a liar.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Your sand stayed. I saw your picture in a newspaper
clipping when I was talking. Churchter came out his desk
before he moved in. But you don't know an easy
from the palace O I could learn. I take it
to you, so do I.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I doubt it.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You've never tried to get away, to stand off, to
throw off the shuffles.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Have you? No?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
No, I'll have to admit that the urgency of living,
the pressure nearly existing, has had the drop.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Sam.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
By the way, our name is good, rich, capsy. The
world is full of our happy people. Never try to
get away.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
From the but I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Honestly, Sam, get away from everything. Leave desire, never cross
my heart?
Speaker 8 (05:29):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You see, mister Swan, who isn't telling yet?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
He tells a wonderful subject looks Sam, colorful, moderate, pleasant,
that is until.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The sun stops shining. But pitch you this night, in
the fog and crush. The band is full of death brooding.
I'm trying to capture that too. It's what we've got
to get away from.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Absolutely You and I.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
As you start up the hill on Clermont, there's a
green of parsing house on the right.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm in four twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Maybe we'll find a way out together.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I waved upon farewell and sat on the steps of
my client Siles until he showed up at six fifteen.
He took me inside, where the only furniture was an
army cut and a portable barbie.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I'm so glad you kept our appointment, missus Stade. I'm
so frightened.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I've been upset all week long.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I just didn't and what have you been so upset
about mister Swan.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Lately, mister Straid infrequently.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
For the last week, I've noticed a man.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think he's following me.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
At first, I see him in a car following my
bus when I went downtown.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Did he'd be breathing around at the bus stopped in
the evening when I came back.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
I told my house and I'm ready to move.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's unnerved me so much.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But did he follow your homes? And I no?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But why would anyone be following you? Mister Swan? I
don't know, mister Straid, I don't know. I really don't.
All right, I'll try another tech. What does this man
look like?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He always wears dark clothes and a hat.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
I'd say he was about your height, sixth straight. I
remember making heavier same bonsto.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, you un' done of the police.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Oh get no, a man in my business, Countriford off
Cator Publicity.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
No, what kind of business is that?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
The Bantan Oh twenty five years paid locations.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
When I worked host so very hot and.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
To be something behind all there is something that has
stopped me for being made the executive secretary of the
Undertaker's Breakfast Club. When they hold their annual election next month.
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'll do, mister Bates, I just don't really know what all.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Just don't go ahead, mistres swan, you'll feel better, goss
flood it all out, Just really do And he did.
When he stopped crying, I instructed him to go about
his daily habits as always and less, assuring him I'd
get to the bottom of it all. I walked down to
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the corner I sentatiously, which is a neat trick well
calculated to throw natharious observers off the track and lull
them into full security. And when the bus showed up
ten minutes later, I got on it, rode blacks, walked
back and took a planet across the street, a clever
roofs as you see, to invite a showdown. Two hours later,
a man about my size and dark clothes appeared over
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the hill and crept stealthily to the front of my
client's counters. He had his eyes glued to the window
when I walked up behind him, Hey, let go, let go,
Come on, you're going inside and I'm peeping. No, No,
you're the butt on type. I'm inviting you in for
a real sniff. Oh you don't. I well, all right
then I'll go quietly. No, okay, that's better now just
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to walk home. The kitkie landed on me wasn't the
according to Queensberry, and I couldn't move for three or
four minutes, and by that time he disappeared. When I
recovered my faculty, as I reported the incident to my clients,
who cried himself to sleep, that's will, I bolted him
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in for the night and I stopped on my way
down the hill at the apartment four twenty in the
Little Green apartment house. He was still wearing the jeans
and a purple smile, and she still had the same ideas.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Come in, Sam, you said you were serious about getting
away from it all, and a whole.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Day has said it was a pressure of living. I'm
here to apologize. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I love to be food. Sam, you're forgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How's the painting coming? They're the one of Swan's cotting.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So fog is always tough.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's nice, though, I don't even honest.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And you've had a pretty good plan. I'm a huh
so I see everyone was a tall, broad shouldered guy
in a dark suit tasing the place.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Tom Dog should pretty much like me could. Ernest thought
would be pretty much like you say, no, yeah, son,
is it something wrong? No, well then don't stand they're
doing nothing oo.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
S ooh Ami fixed me a small dinner which had
a strong turpentine taste to it, and then we mixed
oils and painted made fun. Much afternoon at the Hall
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of Records, I did a little spade work on Chester
Swan his application and pyramit the practice undertaking in the
city of San Francisco, where dated nineteen thirty eight details unmarried,
fifty two years of age, graduated from mortician school in Ohio.
Lifted one leading relative, nephew, Theodore J. Swan, Toledo, Ohio.
I was gathering the above information when I smelled whiskey
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over my shoulder, which is always good luck. It was
Al Torrington. I was also in the private investigation racket
in the city, and he was leaning tearing for my
face to the card that I held in my hands
over the too, got over the mail.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Jim, that's Sinney with the tears.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What's his name? In my eyes? The Swan now Chester
Swan more Titian.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's him saying the same one exactly came
to my office two weeks complaining about somebody to hollow them,
and he.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Did nothing about it, that I was too fat? Oh
you are? Are you sure? I'm sure?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And some other the boys said he was around there too,
one of the private eye but one of the men
who looked just right, all right, obviously as right as
you are, Sam, because it looks.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Like he picked you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Eh, yes, it did look like he picked me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And I thought that over and I didn't like it,
and I called my client if on the selling he
was fired, but he didn't give me a chance. Oh dear,
I'm so glad you called it to Spade. I really am.
I called for a reason, mister Swan. I'm resigning this case.
Oh dear, mister State, you can't do that, You really
can't up. I don't think you've been quite honest.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
With me, mister Oh oh dear, pears will.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Get you nowhere. And they had a will tine chuck
on your reasons for hiring men. They don't quite fit
with the reasons you gave. They really just don't quite mister.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Swe He's no game that Stade.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Believe me, he's back to me right now. He's standing
beneath the lamp posts outside my I'm fighting to death.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Please way over, missus street, and let's get this business street,
and now please please.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And stupid, stupid me. I went over and I found
that little white cottage on the hill looking grim and
dawn in that heavy song. Amy's words about it being
crushed with barrenness, full of brooding and death came back
to me, and mister Swan's fighting words about a mysterious
man in dark clothes waiting beneath the street light also
came back to me, particularly when I noticed there was
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no street light near the house. However, there was the
light somewhere in the rear of the house, and the
front door was a jar. Oh, mister Swan, let's the Swan.
Are you here?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh, it's the Swan.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It's me Sam Stray.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Are you hear it's the same that you are you
out there?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Way? Things happened fast. I turned around the find the
front door afloat with a man in a god stop.
You have something in a Swan like there a captain family,
But it felt different. It only said ment, But I
mean me for jet? Why say easy? Does a three?
He let me down to the floor gently I could
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still he did somewhere in the back of my mouse,
and I could learn fucking me way or somebody I
can't watch.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I was going up stock.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The neither went somewhere in my left arm, but not
before somebody turned my coat off, and but no reason
I could think up at the moment. Also tried to
pull my finger off, so I couldn't dwell on it.
By that time, the step of my arm was going
other places, and I was going with it, even though
there was option all around.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Me, my mouth stair away from the gut.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Here very day, somewhere somebody was shooting Roman candles, or
having bowl out or playing d box. I just didn't
care at all. I just didn't. The first thing I
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saw was sunlight, was the kind you see in a picture.
There was a picture of a little white cottage with
green shutters. He guessed it. I was an Amy's apartment
where we made pubs together. I got to my feet
somehow out the thing I knew, the best thing that
there was neither was a fire escape in a window.
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I got out there and I weaved against the wall. Well,
you mean his trow He couldn't have gotten away with that.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Lord he was saying, Oh, I don't know he was unconscious.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm gonna do something, and I'd become a lot of people.
I didn't wait to find out what they're gonna do.
I made my way down the fire escape and started
working for the street. And and that's when I noticed
my shoes didn't fit me anymore. They weren't nine. Neither
was a gray flannel soup with a lady in my
tip cheese. Neither was a blue shirt. While I was
out at the ring on my finger and graved them
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were some high in nineteen thirty six than nine either
my new bat but I had a big letter tea
on it, which is not my initial. It really isn't.
And I didn't have any usefully eyeglasses in my cool
pocket either. You were out when I walked in the
office off but you've been there. There was a black
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crpe done up in a white satin ribbon hanging on
the door. The dusk water is wrenched with salt tears,
and say the folding back to page thirteen, and I'll
see the chronicle on this if if the last thing
I do, gave me a swo inch spread item November fifteenth,
nineteen fifty fifteen, What happened to the thirteenth and the
fourteenth Detectives Parishes in Berkeley Fire? I read it through
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once and twice it was my obituary. You are listening
to the burst in a new series of adventures and
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And now back to Caper Over My Dead Body, The
Night's Adventure with Tom Stade. I left the crape on
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the door and went out to buy a new desk.
Blatter and the more newssakers. The Whole Door News had
the best story, which wasn't much. Samuel Stay, licensed carvate
investigator perish Wednesday night in a fire in a vacant
house in Berkeley. His warm friends will feel regret. It's
the passing of a man who was always kind to
the poor. None of us ever asked Sam Safe for
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a handout without receiving a kind word and bonlock as
he turned us down. This is nice, but I wanted more.
Figured I was poorly safe to wonder I got unrecognized.
My ill fitting a fire acquired for my unknown benefactor
would be disguise enough when combined with my two day bills.
Engine Company sixteen Berkeley Division had handled the fire, and
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half a block away was a grodden shop called the Shamlock.
I waited for a fireman to come in.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Bytender bartender, what kind of a make you running?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Now I've been here five minutes. I shut up, Paddy
adu a way that bide a wee pick more than
that's enough for you? Patty, you're still on going.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'm off. Now that you said that could be off,
he received such a shock to me, says you received
your shot three days ago, and I'm still sick.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Comeback.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh, the site of him was terrible, terrible, burnt. His
black is a good Saints bear. I'm twisted and horrible
and dead. He was probably dead drunk and didn't know
what happened to him.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And were you there fighting the friends and finding him?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Like me?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Oh, it was terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. It wasn't that bad.
And you've had your limits? And who says so? I
say so? And how are you your brother in law?
But whatever, I can spat you. One place I never
drink was strangers. What's your name? Old?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Why you had?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Then?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
A go ahead?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Poor cheers?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah for herman, you had a terrible experience.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Freedom that dool that the indeed, I've heard it a
dozen times.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Abby at the other three Nice to a mister Doolan.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
And we get a cause the house and Claremont is
a fire.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Don't here when we get parents about all guns?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
Can't understand white and flames of bass wood. It was
the funeral pile of a man who lived in sin
The detective fellow Sam Stade.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
He was identified ad Oh one moment fireman. I've heard
fine things about him, as some of those are at police.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Fellows from the Division of Homicide said.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He was a nice fellow.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
But some of the boys with the position, and myself, well,
we got.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Our own ideas about that. What kind of idea is
studying me? By?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
What kind of good can any man be accomplishing?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
In them? The house late at.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Night as umslow doolans, Oh he was done to attorney
was when I bought in the old me up, said,
sit in the tudle, then he must give up. Scattered
all the boat, sin sin, he's gone to sleep with
a smoke and cigarette.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That set the whole place off race limp. From there
I went downtown to the telegraph office, where I sent
a wire to Toledo on a long shot. When I
was waiting for an answer on a not so long chance,
I sunk into a Bonton fumery caller to pay my
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respects to the departed. I stood in the back of
that dimly lit shackle and scams of seas. Three of
the boys from homicide, with their bowing their noses. Two
chorus girls I thought had long since forgotten me, were
there in black deep being next my insurance man was
there looking awful worry one chronicle reporter with photographer Shoe
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Shine Boy from our Billy and the tailiff from the courthouse,
just to mention a few I could make. And you
were the face I fed near a closed casket, made
out a bottle of flowers from robberies detail. It said
that Una see from the city Morgue was the only
one who looked at these all right?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Is that anyone wished to a fuman.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Men called him Salmons, but I called him sand.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
At, and this not through.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I was touched ay, and I would have shot the
whole thing done in there, but I had to find
out who was in that castle. I reeled out the
front door with tears in my eyes, and slid around
to the back door, and then to touch this swan's
private office. And there I made a phone call and
got an answer to my telegram, which caused me to
make another call to his bank. By that time most
of it was writing place. I searched through his desk
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to heal nothing, and I say, standing in the corner
the same, But then my answer walked right in the door.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, sand you were so worried when I found you'd
left that I saw you at.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
The female and I thought you was here and the
guy was waving was the worried.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And that was doctor Grisin ten then as for two days,
and I oh sad he got away from the he
was straight down.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, they're burying me right now. I'm dead.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Only one thing. Where do you fish the caper? I
was supposed to burn up in that fire, and what
was likely supposed to looking up like Theodore J. Swan
class of nineteen thirty six to Lido Oha to let
beneficiary Chester Swan collect a nice pilot and giants money.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So then you talk to me about who is Theodore J?
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Chester is the only living reality. They're burying them right now.
Somebody lost this caper. You want to tell me, ny
I was.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
At the house and out of the fire, looking on
my fas and pictures. You didn't when you run in
another one. You didn't come out, and I went over.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I was on the floor and a man was bending
over me.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He changed cloth with you, Sanna, and I screamed and
he got out of that and I went him at
the howe and I dove.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You at and then what happened?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I put put you in my contact you home. I
was gonna find the police, but I decided it was
something you were working on him.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I went back to the height and it was burning,
and you knew the man you'd hit on my head
with him there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He believed me, saying I didn't know the house was
gonna burn down. I wouldn't kill anybody, said, I only.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Got to you only wanted to help me, and you're
good riding. That's all right. I knew what hum, you
didn't bank the fire?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Somebody freely stages trusted.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
He thought it was me lying on the floor in there.
The bank tells me he's about to go busted. He
figured this went out with his neck to stare up
some insurance. Though I don't about the same.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Man hold me het and horrible.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This is the kind of thing I was trying to paint. Now.
I'm smack drought up with GONSI. I'm sick.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I'm skiing easy, easy, damn he really did, please, I
will out theme Just leave now, Matty bad the way
they're all sense.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You were good?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh yeah, huh, but real different? Don't we miss the shade?
He was holding a Navy Colt revolver in front of
him with both hands. I couldn't make up my mind
a Russian and count on his bad aim or Sam
staying the autepic target while I tried to talk him
out of it. Either way, he was a crazy man
with a gun. He was getting ready to use it.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Sam, He's gonna kill Why because my nephew was stupid
enough to wear your watch and your suite when he
exchanged clothes with you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I'm going to lose the vantage I am. That puts
you in quite a spot, does it, Missus Swan?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Until a moment ago, yes, But now, mister Shade, the
newspapers all say you're dead.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The death certificate says the same thing.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
All of your friends are following your casket and my
nephew's cops to the secretary. At this very moment, everybody
expects you to be dead, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Thanks to you, mister Swan, but now.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Nobody Missus, if I kill you, I'd miss you, say,
but I'd have to kill you too. Oh did you
notice he's still wearing Pero's clothes?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
See the muser vegan.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Why, Missus Stevens, I could kill you and put.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You in the far somewhere and connect my insurance on
see your door knock. No, why that a terrible thing
to think? Uh oh, you're not reasoning proper, Leicester, you
really aren't. How would you explain to me? He just
said you'd have to kill her. And what about the
colonel's office? You know how? I don't forget the medical
examiner's got up and the say too not connection, the
fact that you'd have to really burn me up to
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talk about the Burne Hurry and Burdamore Chester when you
shoot me if you happen to hit a ribbon chip
off some bonemaids. And I was shocked before and then
I'm excited of being honest and.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Nothing worse for me.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I'm a war You go ahead, missus Swan let it
all out. You'll see you that And he did it,
and he still crying in his cell. Down time carry
it under the report.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Say you're actually sit down and talk that crazy man
out of murdering little one true Essie.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Amy thinks so too. She's gonna do me in oils
when they let her out of the poking to you
all technical charge of an involuntary manslaughter and springer. As
soon as the corners in Crests completed day, Amy.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Which she makes good fighting.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
H oh, that was the least of it. Oh the
after the flash Hopper Falucci, Oh boy, oh boy. If
they go type that up, sweet hight Well, I see
if there's any mention of my miraculous resuscitation on the
radio page, Go Go. Thirdly is the mention of Sam
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Spade on the radio page for Friday. Sam Fade is
one more in the list of great shows to join
up in MDC's Parade of the Stars. Have you heard
the Big Show This Sunday? The Big Show comes our
way once again on MDC. Listen to just a few
of the star names who will be appearing this week.
Bob Hope, Jimmy Duranty, Perry Kobbo, Jose Perere, Mindy Carson, Becatter,
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Meredith Wilson and the Orchestra, and many many more. And
of course your MC once again will be the ladies
who invented this mappy retort to Lula Bank It. Yes,
it's the Big Show. It's big, and music's big, and
drama and big in comedy. Be sure to hear the
Big Show Sunday. Oh my lord, I will sign it
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and you will keep it always, so remind you that
I'm still here, living, breathing, brave and handsome. A paradigm, son,
Let you.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Do that to Maya?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
The mail? What's mayl oh?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The letters and post guys and telegrams. Now what chill men?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
When people talk to where there's.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Been enough to tonight it assume it's so big the
healthy will be the same as your arms. Well, I'm
going to try it does when then helps you like,
we'll say the greatest private des touches.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Of them all will see good night, good night get
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
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Marine Tattle is Duffy swept for tonight's adventure by E
Jack Newman. Musical scarring by Love Glussman, conducted by Frank Wort.
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Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade. Here the Magnificent Montague. Then visit Duffy
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In response to the grants representing Williams and listening friends,
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again the adventures of Sam Fade Detective sweet What number
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of I guys? Oh? Well, ma, sweet tap is calling
Lad's life the right chip. Look, I didn't know you
were in town. You didn't write to miss Effie. This
is me in the flesh Sammy the Spade. Oh no,
what good rye Effie. I'm in a play for my
Nicholas running out?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
How can you be so cruel and take both for
the guy right there?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Wait, listen, Oh you're listening.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am not dead. Don't believe everything reading the papers
or here on the radio. You are at my funeral?
Is that what you're about to say? Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Who love?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Don't believe that either. Say right where you are, sweetheart,
because I'll be there, alive and handsomer than ever. With
an account of a caper which proves you can kill
some of the people part of the time. My exaggerated
report on the death of Sam Space NBC welcomes back
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to the era of character who has captured the public
imagination more completely than any other since the birth of
Sherlock Holmes. William Fear Radio's outstanding producer director of history
and crime drama, brings you the greatest private detective of
them all in the Adventures the sam faith Ay it
grandly brooming well. Dead candles at my feet, candles at.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
My own were not over the business ready, I mean,
mister Brothers is closed right now.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Because I'll wait, I'll wait.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's the move?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Spaye s p A d e space. I met a
twin brother, he doesn't. I'm me Sam Oh, wait, come here,
mai bel.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh, what's the use?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I'll never mind, never mind. I'll get your pencil and
paper and take it. Day November seventeenth, nineteen fifty to
miss e Fie Perrie. I'm Samuel Stay. That's me licensed
number one three seven five nine.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You may it be the last under see him the
life merchant.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Shut up subject my death. Dear Effie, since the sight
of me in the flesh, breathing, hungering and living doesn't
convince you, maybe this report will think at the camp
back the last Monday, if you recall, it was about
eleven o'clock when, on the flimsy pretense that we needed
stamps for the office, you drew two dollars some petty
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cash and stepped out to buy a pair of step
in And that's when my clients materialized. He was small
and thin and carried with him the unmistakable odor of
sail flowers. His black outpack of suits, string bow tie,
elevator's shoes, and white bloods had no bearing on his conversation.
Oh dear, my name is Chess.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are you sure he is? My name is Spade? What
can I do?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I tell you?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Mister shade?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Six feet in my face? Wait one seventy eight.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I always noticed a man's bone structure.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Don't you always open? Open? Let me inside? Oh? Oh,
I I fine? Oh well, now that you know me
this way, mister Swam, what can.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I do for you? Oh dear, Perhaps I perhaps I
shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Tall, I'm tired extreme well, Oh dear.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh hello again, mister Swam. You wanted to talk to me?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
He is, but I can't talk now. Yeah, I'm ready,
buy a sixteen trim Berkeley. I'll be there, old here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Their time. As he made his exit, he bout fifty
dollars on the edge of my desk, And so stup
was me. I was at eighty five sixteen Paramatta the
close of the Bear. It was a snow white cottage
with green shutters and a white clicked fence. It was
a hill and back and a brook in front. The
sun was beginning to set on it, and it was
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all very picturesque, in fact, so much so that a
girl with red hair, blue jeans, purple smocks, oils and
canvas was making it immortal. She liked me immediately. Here
hold this, sertally.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Mys, this is my first landscape.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I'm a sprouting eyes obvious.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Make sure not when I can get somebody to do
it for me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Who are you, Oh, I might see a fellow artist.
Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You're a liar.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Your sand stayed. I saw your picture in a newspaper
clipping when I was talking. Churchter came out his desk
before he moved in. But you don't know an easy
from the palace O I could learn. I take it
to you, so do I.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I doubt it.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You've never tried to get away, to stand off, to
throw off the shuffles.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Have you? No?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
No, I'll have to admit that the urgency of living,
the pressure nearly existing, has had the drop.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Sam.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
By the way, our name is good, rich, capsy. The
world is full of our happy people. Never try to
get away.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
From the but I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Honestly, Sam, get away from everything. Leave desire, never cross
my heart?
Speaker 8 (05:29):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You see, mister Swan, who isn't telling yet?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
He tells a wonderful subject looks Sam, colorful, moderate, pleasant,
that is until.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The sun stops shining. But pitch you this night, in
the fog and crush. The band is full of death brooding.
I'm trying to capture that too. It's what we've got
to get away from.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Absolutely You and I.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
As you start up the hill on Clermont, there's a
green of parsing house on the right.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm in four twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Maybe we'll find a way out together.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I waved upon farewell and sat on the steps of
my client Siles until he showed up at six fifteen.
He took me inside, where the only furniture was an
army cut and a portable barbie.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I'm so glad you kept our appointment, missus Stade. I'm
so frightened.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I've been upset all week long.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I just didn't and what have you been so upset
about mister Swan.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Lately, mister Straid infrequently.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
For the last week, I've noticed a man.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think he's following me.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
At first, I see him in a car following my
bus when I went downtown.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Did he'd be breathing around at the bus stopped in
the evening when I came back.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
I told my house and I'm ready to move.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's unnerved me so much.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But did he follow your homes? And I no?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But why would anyone be following you? Mister Swan? I
don't know, mister Straid, I don't know. I really don't.
All right, I'll try another tech. What does this man
look like?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He always wears dark clothes and a hat.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
I'd say he was about your height, sixth straight. I
remember making heavier same bonsto.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, you un' done of the police.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Oh get no, a man in my business, Countriford off
Cator Publicity.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
No, what kind of business is that?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
The Bantan Oh twenty five years paid locations.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
When I worked host so very hot and.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
To be something behind all there is something that has
stopped me for being made the executive secretary of the
Undertaker's Breakfast Club. When they hold their annual election next month.
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'll do, mister Bates, I just don't really know what all.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Just don't go ahead, mistres swan, you'll feel better, goss
flood it all out, Just really do And he did.
When he stopped crying, I instructed him to go about
his daily habits as always and less, assuring him I'd
get to the bottom of it all. I walked down to
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the corner I sentatiously, which is a neat trick well
calculated to throw natharious observers off the track and lull
them into full security. And when the bus showed up
ten minutes later, I got on it, rode blacks, walked
back and took a planet across the street, a clever
roofs as you see, to invite a showdown. Two hours later,
a man about my size and dark clothes appeared over
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the hill and crept stealthily to the front of my
client's counters. He had his eyes glued to the window
when I walked up behind him, Hey, let go, let go,
Come on, you're going inside and I'm peeping. No, No,
you're the butt on type. I'm inviting you in for
a real sniff. Oh you don't. I well, all right
then I'll go quietly. No, okay, that's better now just
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to walk home. The kitkie landed on me wasn't the
according to Queensberry, and I couldn't move for three or
four minutes, and by that time he disappeared. When I
recovered my faculty, as I reported the incident to my clients,
who cried himself to sleep, that's will, I bolted him
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in for the night and I stopped on my way
down the hill at the apartment four twenty in the
Little Green apartment house. He was still wearing the jeans
and a purple smile, and she still had the same ideas.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Come in, Sam, you said you were serious about getting
away from it all, and a whole.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Day has said it was a pressure of living. I'm
here to apologize. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I love to be food. Sam, you're forgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How's the painting coming? They're the one of Swan's cotting.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So fog is always tough.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's nice, though, I don't even honest.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And you've had a pretty good plan. I'm a huh
so I see everyone was a tall, broad shouldered guy
in a dark suit tasing the place.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Tom Dog should pretty much like me could. Ernest thought
would be pretty much like you say, no, yeah, son,
is it something wrong? No, well then don't stand they're
doing nothing oo.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
S ooh Ami fixed me a small dinner which had
a strong turpentine taste to it, and then we mixed
oils and painted made fun. Much afternoon at the Hall
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of Records, I did a little spade work on Chester
Swan his application and pyramit the practice undertaking in the
city of San Francisco, where dated nineteen thirty eight details unmarried,
fifty two years of age, graduated from mortician school in Ohio.
Lifted one leading relative, nephew, Theodore J. Swan, Toledo, Ohio.
I was gathering the above information when I smelled whiskey
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over my shoulder, which is always good luck. It was
Al Torrington. I was also in the private investigation racket
in the city, and he was leaning tearing for my
face to the card that I held in my hands
over the too, got over the mail.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Jim, that's Sinney with the tears.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What's his name? In my eyes? The Swan now Chester
Swan more Titian.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's him saying the same one exactly came
to my office two weeks complaining about somebody to hollow them,
and he.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Did nothing about it, that I was too fat? Oh
you are? Are you sure? I'm sure?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And some other the boys said he was around there too,
one of the private eye but one of the men
who looked just right, all right, obviously as right as
you are, Sam, because it looks.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Like he picked you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Eh, yes, it did look like he picked me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And I thought that over and I didn't like it,
and I called my client if on the selling he
was fired, but he didn't give me a chance. Oh dear,
I'm so glad you called it to Spade. I really am.
I called for a reason, mister Swan. I'm resigning this case.
Oh dear, mister State, you can't do that, You really
can't up. I don't think you've been quite honest.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
With me, mister Oh oh dear, pears will.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Get you nowhere. And they had a will tine chuck
on your reasons for hiring men. They don't quite fit
with the reasons you gave. They really just don't quite mister.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Swe He's no game that Stade.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Believe me, he's back to me right now. He's standing
beneath the lamp posts outside my I'm fighting to death.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Please way over, missus street, and let's get this business street,
and now please please.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And stupid, stupid me. I went over and I found
that little white cottage on the hill looking grim and
dawn in that heavy song. Amy's words about it being
crushed with barrenness, full of brooding and death came back
to me, and mister Swan's fighting words about a mysterious
man in dark clothes waiting beneath the street light also
came back to me, particularly when I noticed there was
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no street light near the house. However, there was the
light somewhere in the rear of the house, and the
front door was a jar. Oh, mister Swan, let's the Swan.
Are you here?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh, it's the Swan.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It's me Sam Stray.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Are you hear it's the same that you are you
out there?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Way? Things happened fast. I turned around the find the
front door afloat with a man in a god stop.
You have something in a Swan like there a captain family,
But it felt different. It only said ment, But I
mean me for jet? Why say easy? Does a three?
He let me down to the floor gently I could
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still he did somewhere in the back of my mouse,
and I could learn fucking me way or somebody I
can't watch.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I was going up stock.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The neither went somewhere in my left arm, but not
before somebody turned my coat off, and but no reason
I could think up at the moment. Also tried to
pull my finger off, so I couldn't dwell on it.
By that time, the step of my arm was going
other places, and I was going with it, even though
there was option all around.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Me, my mouth stair away from the gut.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Here very day, somewhere somebody was shooting Roman candles, or
having bowl out or playing d box. I just didn't
care at all. I just didn't. The first thing I
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saw was sunlight, was the kind you see in a picture.
There was a picture of a little white cottage with
green shutters. He guessed it. I was an Amy's apartment
where we made pubs together. I got to my feet
somehow out the thing I knew, the best thing that
there was neither was a fire escape in a window.
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I got out there and I weaved against the wall. Well,
you mean his trow He couldn't have gotten away with that.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Lord he was saying, Oh, I don't know he was unconscious.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm gonna do something, and I'd become a lot of people.
I didn't wait to find out what they're gonna do.
I made my way down the fire escape and started
working for the street. And and that's when I noticed
my shoes didn't fit me anymore. They weren't nine. Neither
was a gray flannel soup with a lady in my
tip cheese. Neither was a blue shirt. While I was
out at the ring on my finger and graved them
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were some high in nineteen thirty six than nine either
my new bat but I had a big letter tea
on it, which is not my initial. It really isn't.
And I didn't have any usefully eyeglasses in my cool
pocket either. You were out when I walked in the
office off but you've been there. There was a black
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crpe done up in a white satin ribbon hanging on
the door. The dusk water is wrenched with salt tears,
and say the folding back to page thirteen, and I'll
see the chronicle on this if if the last thing
I do, gave me a swo inch spread item November fifteenth,
nineteen fifty fifteen, What happened to the thirteenth and the
fourteenth Detectives Parishes in Berkeley Fire? I read it through
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once and twice it was my obituary. You are listening
to the burst in a new series of adventures and
tarving radios more famous Detective Damned Fade. Later tonight on
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North NBC stations, Duffy's Tavern comes your way with another
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There's a full serving of lasts vanish with chuckles and
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Kristen Finnegan and Eddie the Waiter. It's just one of
the many great Friday evening entertainment features on NDC. It's
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Duffy's Tavern. You're to you for better listening, where the
three chimes always means good times. Nake it a Friday evening,
habit totoone early and stay late at your favorite NBC station.
And now back to Caper Over My Dead Body, The
Night's Adventure with Tom Stade. I left the crape on
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the door and went out to buy a new desk.
Blatter and the more newssakers. The Whole Door News had
the best story, which wasn't much. Samuel Stay, licensed carvate
investigator perish Wednesday night in a fire in a vacant
house in Berkeley. His warm friends will feel regret. It's
the passing of a man who was always kind to
the poor. None of us ever asked Sam Safe for
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a handout without receiving a kind word and bonlock as
he turned us down. This is nice, but I wanted more.
Figured I was poorly safe to wonder I got unrecognized.
My ill fitting a fire acquired for my unknown benefactor
would be disguise enough when combined with my two day bills.
Engine Company sixteen Berkeley Division had handled the fire, and
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half a block away was a grodden shop called the Shamlock.
I waited for a fireman to come in.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Bytender bartender, what kind of a make you running?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Now I've been here five minutes. I shut up, Paddy
adu a way that bide a wee pick more than
that's enough for you? Patty, you're still on going.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'm off. Now that you said that could be off,
he received such a shock to me, says you received
your shot three days ago, and I'm still sick.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Comeback.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh, the site of him was terrible, terrible, burnt. His
black is a good Saints bear. I'm twisted and horrible
and dead. He was probably dead drunk and didn't know
what happened to him.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And were you there fighting the friends and finding him?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Like me?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Oh, it was terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. It wasn't that bad.
And you've had your limits? And who says so? I
say so? And how are you your brother in law?
But whatever, I can spat you. One place I never
drink was strangers. What's your name? Old?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Why you had?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Then?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
A go ahead?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Poor cheers?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah for herman, you had a terrible experience.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Freedom that dool that the indeed, I've heard it a
dozen times.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Abby at the other three Nice to a mister Doolan.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
And we get a cause the house and Claremont is
a fire.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Don't here when we get parents about all guns?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
Can't understand white and flames of bass wood. It was
the funeral pile of a man who lived in sin
The detective fellow Sam Stade.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
He was identified ad Oh one moment fireman. I've heard
fine things about him, as some of those are at police.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Fellows from the Division of Homicide said.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He was a nice fellow.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
But some of the boys with the position, and myself, well,
we got.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Our own ideas about that. What kind of idea is
studying me? By?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
What kind of good can any man be accomplishing?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
In them? The house late at.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Night as umslow doolans, Oh he was done to attorney
was when I bought in the old me up, said,
sit in the tudle, then he must give up. Scattered
all the boat, sin sin, he's gone to sleep with
a smoke and cigarette.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That set the whole place off race limp. From there
I went downtown to the telegraph office, where I sent
a wire to Toledo on a long shot. When I
was waiting for an answer on a not so long chance,
I sunk into a Bonton fumery caller to pay my
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respects to the departed. I stood in the back of
that dimly lit shackle and scams of seas. Three of
the boys from homicide, with their bowing their noses. Two
chorus girls I thought had long since forgotten me, were
there in black deep being next my insurance man was
there looking awful worry one chronicle reporter with photographer Shoe
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Shine Boy from our Billy and the tailiff from the courthouse,
just to mention a few I could make. And you
were the face I fed near a closed casket, made
out a bottle of flowers from robberies detail. It said
that Una see from the city Morgue was the only
one who looked at these all right?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Is that anyone wished to a fuman.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Men called him Salmons, but I called him sand.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
At, and this not through.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I was touched ay, and I would have shot the
whole thing done in there, but I had to find
out who was in that castle. I reeled out the
front door with tears in my eyes, and slid around
to the back door, and then to touch this swan's
private office. And there I made a phone call and
got an answer to my telegram, which caused me to
make another call to his bank. By that time most
of it was writing place. I searched through his desk
(21:57):
to heal nothing, and I say, standing in the corner
the same, But then my answer walked right in the door.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, sand you were so worried when I found you'd
left that I saw you at.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
The female and I thought you was here and the
guy was waving was the worried.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And that was doctor Grisin ten then as for two days,
and I oh sad he got away from the he
was straight down.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, they're burying me right now. I'm dead.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Only one thing. Where do you fish the caper? I
was supposed to burn up in that fire, and what
was likely supposed to looking up like Theodore J. Swan
class of nineteen thirty six to Lido Oha to let
beneficiary Chester Swan collect a nice pilot and giants money.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So then you talk to me about who is Theodore J?
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Chester is the only living reality. They're burying them right now.
Somebody lost this caper. You want to tell me, ny
I was.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
At the house and out of the fire, looking on
my fas and pictures. You didn't when you run in
another one. You didn't come out, and I went over.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I was on the floor and a man was bending
over me.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He changed cloth with you, Sanna, and I screamed and
he got out of that and I went him at
the howe and I dove.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You at and then what happened?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I put put you in my contact you home. I
was gonna find the police, but I decided it was
something you were working on him.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I went back to the height and it was burning,
and you knew the man you'd hit on my head
with him there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He believed me, saying I didn't know the house was
gonna burn down. I wouldn't kill anybody, said, I only.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Got to you only wanted to help me, and you're
good riding. That's all right. I knew what hum, you
didn't bank the fire?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Somebody freely stages trusted.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
He thought it was me lying on the floor in there.
The bank tells me he's about to go busted. He
figured this went out with his neck to stare up
some insurance. Though I don't about the same.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Man hold me het and horrible.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This is the kind of thing I was trying to paint. Now.
I'm smack drought up with GONSI. I'm sick.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I'm skiing easy, easy, damn he really did, please, I
will out theme Just leave now, Matty bad the way
they're all sense.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You were good?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh yeah, huh, but real different? Don't we miss the shade?
He was holding a Navy Colt revolver in front of
him with both hands. I couldn't make up my mind
a Russian and count on his bad aim or Sam
staying the autepic target while I tried to talk him
out of it. Either way, he was a crazy man
with a gun. He was getting ready to use it.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Sam, He's gonna kill Why because my nephew was stupid
enough to wear your watch and your suite when he
exchanged clothes with you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I'm going to lose the vantage I am. That puts
you in quite a spot, does it, Missus Swan?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Until a moment ago, yes, But now, mister Shade, the
newspapers all say you're dead.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The death certificate says the same thing.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
All of your friends are following your casket and my
nephew's cops to the secretary. At this very moment, everybody
expects you to be dead, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Thanks to you, mister Swan, but now.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Nobody Missus, if I kill you, I'd miss you, say,
but I'd have to kill you too. Oh did you
notice he's still wearing Pero's clothes?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
See the muser vegan.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Why, Missus Stevens, I could kill you and put.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You in the far somewhere and connect my insurance on
see your door knock. No, why that a terrible thing
to think? Uh oh, you're not reasoning proper, Leicester, you
really aren't. How would you explain to me? He just
said you'd have to kill her. And what about the
colonel's office? You know how? I don't forget the medical
examiner's got up and the say too not connection, the
fact that you'd have to really burn me up to
(25:24):
talk about the Burne Hurry and Burdamore Chester when you
shoot me if you happen to hit a ribbon chip
off some bonemaids. And I was shocked before and then
I'm excited of being honest and.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Nothing worse for me.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I'm a war You go ahead, missus Swan let it
all out. You'll see you that And he did it,
and he still crying in his cell. Down time carry
it under the report.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Say you're actually sit down and talk that crazy man
out of murdering little one true Essie.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Amy thinks so too. She's gonna do me in oils
when they let her out of the poking to you
all technical charge of an involuntary manslaughter and springer. As
soon as the corners in Crests completed day, Amy.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Which she makes good fighting.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
H oh, that was the least of it. Oh the
after the flash Hopper Falucci, Oh boy, oh boy. If
they go type that up, sweet hight Well, I see
if there's any mention of my miraculous resuscitation on the
radio page, Go Go. Thirdly is the mention of Sam
(26:40):
Spade on the radio page for Friday. Sam Fade is
one more in the list of great shows to join
up in MDC's Parade of the Stars. Have you heard
the Big Show This Sunday? The Big Show comes our
way once again on MDC. Listen to just a few
of the star names who will be appearing this week.
Bob Hope, Jimmy Duranty, Perry Kobbo, Jose Perere, Mindy Carson, Becatter,
(27:00):
Meredith Wilson and the Orchestra, and many many more. And
of course your MC once again will be the ladies
who invented this mappy retort to Lula Bank It. Yes,
it's the Big Show. It's big, and music's big, and
drama and big in comedy. Be sure to hear the
Big Show Sunday. Oh my lord, I will sign it
(27:23):
and you will keep it always, so remind you that
I'm still here, living, breathing, brave and handsome. A paradigm, son,
Let you.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Do that to Maya?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
The mail? What's mayl oh?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The letters and post guys and telegrams. Now what chill men?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
When people talk to where there's.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Been enough to tonight it assume it's so big the
healthy will be the same as your arms. Well, I'm
going to try it does when then helps you like,
we'll say the greatest private des touches.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Of them all will see good night, good night get
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
(28:14):
Marine Tattle is Duffy swept for tonight's adventure by E
Jack Newman. Musical scarring by Love Glussman, conducted by Frank Wort.
(28:36):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade. Here the Magnificent Montague. Then visit Duffy
Tavern on MBC.
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