November 11, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam stan Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Me, sweetheart, stop take it easy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The papers are on the street.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I saw the show, did I. There'll be some red
faced editors ducking behind their green eye shades tomorrow. What
do you mean You don't pint up the score until
the returns are all in f This applies to presidential elections,
boxing matches, and executions at San Quentin Prison. You mean Willie,
I mean Willie. Batten down the hatches and turn over
your poam rubber cushion wonder girl for even now. I'm
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homeward bond with a stride by a stratacon of a
twelve hour marathon which I shall call for obvious reasons.
The hail and farewell caper friendscribe for MBC, William Spear,
Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama, brings
you the greatest Private Detective of.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Mall, starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I've been ron heavy right in here this minute.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Have I done some?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's what I was about to ask. Have you been
sticking your delightful freckle cupboard upturned little nose into my
schnuff's bottle. Now answer me, girl, and you know I don't.
All right? Then, who the.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Nervous of a man who was here did open the
door to find a pencil and paper? And and even know?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay, you're clear?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Dam What about the little man?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
A good and leading question, I f shall we attempt answer?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm not ready to him?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
They fell it in to Justice Edward Benjamin, State Supreme Court,
from Samuel's Fade License number one, three seven, five, nine six,
subject the Hail and Farewell Caper. Dear Justice Benjamin. My
relationship with the spendled little man goes clear back to
a week ago Thursday, possibly even before that, but that
was the day I first noticed it. I remember it
(02:04):
was Thursday because I was having corn beef and cabbage
at Schroders with him. It was a glass of water
at the next table. He was paying little mind to
the menu, having decided to spend the lunch hour staring
at me. A couple of times, he put down his
glass of water and pushed back his chairs. If he
were going to come over and talk fucked, he changed
his mind. I put away the corn beef and cabbage
and was halfway past the pie when he finally did it.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Excuse me, sir, Hello you, sir, I'm mister Speed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I am the Detective, Sam Spade, Detective agenty at your service, sir.
Now what can I I I you see? I? Do
you have a match? I gave him a match, and
he thanked me and went out. On Friday, I saw
him in Ben's Grotto over a plate of wrecked soul.
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He got just about his far. Then he returned the match.
Heel over the following week. I saw him four times,
once as I was going into a show, once at
the post office, and twice as I was going into
my office building. Each was the same. We get up
to the point where he's about to tell me something.
Then he backed down and asked me what time it was,
or did I have a horse in the fifth at
Golden Gate, or would I lend him a cigarette? Then
he'd bustle off as fast as his Spenley little legs
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could carry it. And thus matters stood yesterday place my
office time one thirty seven pm, Sam Spade, mister.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Speed, is this this is a gentleman.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Who is Yeah, don't tell me. I know the voice? Now,
what is it?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
This time.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I like to see you, mister Speed that must see me.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I know I'll save us both the trip. The day
by is April twenty six. The time is one thirty
eight pm. All training planes and street cars are leaving
on schedules and for the favorite a golden gate tomorrow
consult youre near his book, please, sir, Please, mister Spad,
please do the jest. This is a mater of life
and death. I say fine, and I'll see you tomorrow
for lunch.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I won't be here, mister Speed. Oh where you be?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Did look?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Look? I'm tired of this, mister Spinley. Give it to
me straight or sign off? Now? What is it? Gotta
listen to me, mister Spade. It's most important, he said,
life or desig life. Hello, mister Spinley. Hello. It almost
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seemed as if he were in earnest this time, so
I didn't hang up. I hustled down the hall to
the next office, found another pole and sweet talked a
supervisor into tracing down mister Spinley. It was a paybook
in a drug store. I was at the Park Emergency Hospital.
The clerk in the drug store was just getting over
it when I punched in Spindley had collapsed in the
booth and had been hauled across the street to the hospital.
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On the bed there. Oh thanks doctor life and death.
Mister Spade, terrible. You gotta stop it. It's murdered. He's
been muttering like that ever since we brought him in.
Hop hunh the legal kind you see before you an overdose,
the sleeping tablet. I mean he trying to kill himself.
I can't think of an easy way. Anyone could feed him?
Two full bottles? Can you pull for? Probably the game.
(05:01):
I'm a good pumping don't let.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Don't do.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Mister do don't carry on? So but I know you
missed up, all right. I know who is to get easy.
He's got a lot of strength for a little guy.
Mister Doe, no name, nothing to identify him. Funny thing, man,
what do you mean? I almost guarantee the man's undernourished,
hasn't eaten for days, shabby clothes and so one. Look
at the roll I found in these pockets? How much?
(05:28):
Almost eight hundred dollars?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Do you find anything else? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
What do you make of it? Yeah? Front page of
the Star Times. It's a gally proof isn't it kind
of run off in the line of type room before
they start the presses. Yeah, Chiller dies tonight, Willie Johnson
hitchhike murderer to and her gas chamber at midnight inosent in.
You go, mister Doe. But I know who did? I
know everything.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I know the frame.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's his skill up a frame. You mean Willie Johnson,
I know it was it was. It was Hail farewell, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Farewell? Who was it?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Come on, mister, don't wake up. It's to Doe. Yeah,
I was waiting for that. Hit him like a ton
of bricks. He'll be in communicat over the next twenty
four hours longer Hail and farewell, a broken down actor
h Only an actor would think more of an exit
line than an innocent man's neck. You mean you believe
he I don't know what I believe. The guy's been
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trailing me for ten days, driving himself nuts, tries to
knock himself off. It's a sinch. He believes it. There's
no chance of bringing him around before tomorrow. As Willie
Johnson dies tonight, So what happens? So I'm stuck for taxi?
Fair to San Quentin.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Believe in him, believe in Willie Johnson.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, I know you're his lawyer, mister Grayson.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm his lawyer because I volunteered to sapia. Mister Spade,
I've been in the law a long long time. I've
defended a lot of phonies. Sometimes you've got you if
you want to eat. They all sing the same song
I was framed. Oh, I know all eighty nine verses.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But Willie, Yeah, Willie's song.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Is different because Willie Johnson's an innocent man. Willie was
framed four appeals, four appeals, four stays, and we've had
our last one. It's folded up in our spade. I'm
going to take the walk with him at midnight, So
do something for me.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Will you sure? Sir?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
When when you've walked into a cell, Remember you're talking
to a man who's going to die in less than
eight hours. We're trying to we're trying to build his
spirit up so he can go out with the pella
is fine?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, don't give him a lot of false hope, Spade,
because because there isn't any.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I don't quite understand, mister Spath. So I told my
story so many.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Times, I uh I like to write something about you
for the papers, will he?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Oh, yes, sir, all the newspapers, gentlemen, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And gong?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I know? Could you tell it? Just one smart will I?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Well, all right, sir, it's more than a year ago.
I guess you know that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah. I was broke.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know, things hadn't been going so well, sir. I
was down on my last two bits. At night, I
walked into Sherrif Dugin's.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That's a bar on my wonder front.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yes, sir, I got to talking with a fella sitting
at the bar there. He bought me beer.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I never did find his name. I ain't seen him
since that night. If I could find him, I don't
reckon I'd be where I am, sir. He had a
paper with him, was reading the classified ad section, you know,
the part about Otto's transportation so on. You know, Well
there was an ad there. I'd say, we'll pay five
hundred dollars plus the expense to drive car to Mexico
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City with a phone number. And the fella said that
he were in my shoes. He'd called up and quiet,
so I did. I'm quieter and I got the job. Well, sir.
About an hour later, I met a man with a cart,
Southern Mason, by the gas station there, and he'd give
me the five hundred and I start out for Mexico City.
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It wasn't really never found his name either if we
tried to, mister Grayson and me never could find him.
I see, well, it was raining that night, sir, I
remember raining, and I hadn't gotten Moan fifty miles south
of town, somewhere around Morgan Hill. It was when Sirene
blew off behind me, and the first thing I knew
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where they was asking the questions about a girl, a
girl named Georgia Lyon. It was her car, it seems,
and that the officer claim I stole it. They they
made me raise my arms and they searched me, and
there was a knife in my pocket. You see what
would blood on it there and I don't know how
it got there, and the five hundred dollars that had
blood on it too, and there was blood on the seat.
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And when they opened the turtle back there she was
this joji a line. I told you all double up
there and.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Dead, And they said I'd done it for the money
in the car.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And I guess I just went crazy, mister Spade, with
her with this whole coming at me at once that way,
You see, I tried to make a break for it,
and I got away, and I knew it was a
terrible wrong thing to do. I know that.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
What about the trial, Well, so mister Grayson done everything
in his powers, and so did I told the truth
as close as I could recollect it, but it didn't
make no sense. We never found a man in the bar,
or the man who drove up in the car. What
about the phone number there all that that turned out
to be a fancy dress that turned out to be
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a fancy dress shop on Powell Street, color Mason Francine
and the classified ads that that was the queerest thing
of all. What do you mean, Well, mister Grayson went
through every newspaper in the country for two weeks either
side of the night, and there wasn't any such add
in any of them. So they said I was lying.
They said I was lying. I made it all up
(11:21):
in my head, and now they're.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Going to kill me for it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I don't know, mister Spade, I've heard so long now.
Maybe I did kill her. Maybe they're right, Maybe they're right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But there was something in the way. He said, maybe
they're right. I told you they were wrong. I thanked
him and told him I had what I wanted from
my story and said goodbye. There was no hope in
his face, but no despair either. He knew what was
coming and he was ready. And that's all. I hit
the homeward bound commuters on the wrong side of the
Golden Gate Bridge. So it was almost seven when I
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checked in a Cherry Dugan bar on the waterfront. A
girl was sitting free stools down from me, a class
type dame and a black file suit from Magnums and
a hat that must have set some good time Charlie
back fifty bucks. That's the kind of a dame you'd
expect to be sitting in Sherry Dugan's, least of all
as drunk as she was telling her yard Jack, thank you. Wait,
(12:18):
wait a minute. This is a one man operation, isn't it. O. Yes,
Why well, then you'd be Sherry Dugan.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
No, I brought the joint from Sherry a few months back.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Why well, I'm I'm doing a story for the papers
on Willie Johnson. Tell me, was Sherry here on the
big ninth? Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yes, yes, yes, only Woodley Johnson wasn't you could look
it up? What Sherry? Just about?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Where is he?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Now?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
There? He'll say? You know why why Cherry has brains
for a man in his shoes. There's no better place
right now in South America?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh, tell me more.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
He needed to rest the worst way Sherry did. Joe's
been true. Tending bar can be difficult at times, right, Tim, Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
And do you show me a good bott and I'll
show you a bard diplomatic I'm more.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Besides, Oh, here's the Sherry wherever he is, Keep running, Sherry,
keep running. You know, Sherry is like a dog running
away from a can tied to his tail. We all are?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Who's we? All of us?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
All of us the world?
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Give me another drink? Tim, don't you give me any lip?
This is a first class week.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Isn't it a send off for Willie? Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Just sometimes?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
George said, ask come on, we're going home.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Take your time, George, two of the members present, one more,
we'll have a quorum.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Pour him a drink, Tim, do you want me to
carry out of here?
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Might be fun?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Daddy facing the floor?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Now, come on, you know something.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
George, you've got a can tied to your tale.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Two.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
No use running, George.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're right at your head?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Whatever made you come here?
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Kind of appropriate, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Special?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Night?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Tonight?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
What glass?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
You'll fix it us a week?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Not here we are?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Are you coming? All right?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Where we go?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Ye?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Silly you?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
How about hold it? How much to show you? That's
three forty five? Here?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Worthy?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I tell me who is she? H? Model?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Some shop uptown?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh, like the Maison Francine for instance. Oh do you
know that's the hunch? What's your name? Well, Marlyn Hale?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Her old man runs the Star Times. You know the publisher.
The guy is his partner, George Farewell. I started the
firm a l and Farewell.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I had, but it was a slightly different reading from
the one mister Spinley gave me at the hospital. I
looked at my watch. Willie was four and a half
hours from the end of the line. When I took
off of the press room at the Star Times.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade three times being Good Times on NBC.
(15:45):
There's fun and music for you tomorrow Evening with the
Dennist day show, There'll be songs by Dennis and another
typical tangled comedy situation, the kind of hilarious mix up
that could happen only to dennist Day. And now back
to the hail in farewell cap for tonight's adventure with
Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Time eight eleven. I got out of the elevator in
the basement of the Star Times building on Mission Street
and started looking for the press room foreman, somebody named
Joe Fordesque. I finally found his feet sticking out from
under a sick linux. I pulled him out and tried
to make him understand what I wanted.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
You mean an old little baby like this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I can't hear you, I tell you, little baby like
you guy. Yeah that's the guy. What about come on?
Go ahead? You first?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
How who is he? Charlie Forest? I know, but that's
not what I trimed off his rocker.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
For a year? Look you see that picture on the
wall over your head. Yeah that's mister Hale the iron
fist won't teller, ain't no inefficiency, you understand. But this scroup,
all this Charlie Forrest, I personally can him twice and
both times iron Fist sends it back. Tom Ye, So
don't make no never mind to be brother, leave him
come to work, stude all the time, leave him lay
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off of two straight weeks like this time. Don't make
no never mind?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, Look, I'm up with you now. How
long has Charlie been this way? A year or so?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I know just when it started.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
When Willie Johnson was hauled in on the hitchhiking killing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Right, Oh, you've been talking to Charlie. Huh yeah, a
funny thing. How that hit him. You'd find him sitting
in a corner by himself, mumbling all the time about
the guy being innocent.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
What do you suppose Charlie had to do with that?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know, got real crazy, told the end, you know,
said he was killing Willie Johnson. And you'd ask him
with what he'd say, a liner type machine in a
hunker newsprint. One day, he even offered to prove it,
you know how, I don't know. He said he had proof.
He said he had the evidence. It would say Willie's
neck in his room was the office trolley.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I've gotta find out where he lives. They don't know upstairs.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I don't know we don't know downstairs neither. He moved
out of his apartment three weeks back, and don't nobody
know where he went.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Look he was in this morning. Picked up a Gallley
proof of page one.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, I'll tell you who might know where to find him.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Come on, come on.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
About tennith Parky leave here. I said he was gonna
look him up. Somebody is somebody named Spade.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Thanks same Spaine. He's a detective that remains to be
seen a message day, A bandy like a little guy
named Charlie Firestaff. He must have been in around ten
ten thirty this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I didn't get here till eleven. They're still clearing stuff
off the tracks from the Macarthury set.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, never mind that. Now listen write this down.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Oh we're left on a piece of paper. Hurry up, Yes, here,
out of the ash tray.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Go ahead. There called Jeremy Grayson. He's a lawyer and
he's with Willie Johnson and a death row at Quentin.
Tell him to get hold of a justice on the
State Supreme Court and hold the line open. I get him.
You got that, yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Is there anything else?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh, I'll get back to you A little while. We
got to go hang up, what's the matter paper.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm riding on him the ashtray. It's a nose.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Go ahead, mister stay.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Please contact me at once Charles W. Foster Flour Hotel
three three eight Falcon Street.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It took twenty more minutes to cross town and ten
on top of that to convince the clerk at the
Bellflower I had a right to the key to Charlie's room,
which I had not. I tossed the room from the
light fixture to the floorboards, covered everything from the window
shades to the bathroom plumbing. Result one batch of dirty laundry,
six soggy cigarettes, and two empty bottles of sleeping pills.
I was on my way out when I remembered one
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more thing. It wasn't an accident like in the movies.
It was on purpose. I unscrewed the tops of the
iron bedposts inside Number three. I found it. There was
a payphone at the end of the dark hallway.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Sam, I warned you about this. We've had four stage.
They won't come through with a fifth.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I've got a fair hole card, Grayson. Did you get
the judge?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, Benjamin State Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What do he say what I knew.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
He'd say, no evidence, no stage, how him, I got evidence?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It better be good, said it is a phony newspaper,
a copy of the Star Times for the night of
the murder, with a special page in the classified section
carrying the ad that Willie answered, does that sound You've
got it?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Now?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
For fore sake, hang on to it. I'll get back
to the judge. Say wait, a who's behind It's a
long story. I'll tell you when I see you. Hang up?
When you what?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Spade?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Spade? Hang up, brod kidd you Hey, that's it.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
You can turn around now.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, iron Fist, we've met. I've seen your picture, mister Hale.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
It flattered me, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Give it to me.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
What the paper is stupid?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I haven't read the Funnies, all right, mister Spade, if
you'd read it, Iron Fist knew other games besides publishing.
He moved up. I went for the gun, which suddenly
wasn't there, and he was giving me a fast demonstration
of judo for a beginning. First thing, you know, I
was sprawling on the floor and he was looking down
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at me along the barrel of his thirty eighth I
could kill you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I suppose, But why why?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
He backed off toward the windows, spread out the paper
and crumbled it up. Now you know what you're doing
with that match, Hale, You're burning Willie Johnson at the stake.
He touched the match to the pile of papers, watched
them players suddenly lighting up the entire hallway. He looked
like a medieval devil.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
I'm sorry about Willie's spade, but it has to be,
That's all it has to be.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What did you have to do with Georgia Lyon?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Nothing at all. And her name wasn't Georgia Lyon, really,
it was a stage name. Her real name was Farewell,
your partner his way by Spade. Didn't you read the
testimony at the trial. He was leaving George that night.
She'd made a noble decision to walk out of his
life and.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Leave him free for your daughter. I'm Maryland, that's right.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
And it was such a tragedy. Georgia had to run
into Willie Johnson the very night she left.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Wasn't it, Spade, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He bent over the fire, watched it die down into
a pile of ashes. I was looking at something else.
A draft from the stairwell behind me. Had picked up
a glowing scrap and set it down at the foot
of a sleezy window curtain behind him. M m hell,
that's it's made.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
The last of Woodie Jones, the last of what.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I hit him at the knees as the curtain went
up in a blinding flash. No judo this time, just
an old fashioned hammer. Lit here we go. Come on,
give me that gun. No break your arm, your heart? Yeah,
that's better.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Now get up, Get up, hell stop hell, carton in
my Legas he hit the top of the stairway, he
took off like an eagle, lit on his neck halfway
down and top of the rest of the way like
a loose packed sack of laundry.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
He was dead when I got to him. Score. With
an hour and five minutes to play, no evidence, one
dead witness, one unconscious, one, one killer, and a pump
was at large. There was only one way left to go,
and I took it. Lark Place, George Farewells apartment. That's
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the pentoff yeh, see home. I don't know what's the
matter up there, sir. I think something's wrong, awfully wrong.
He went up there early this evening with the young lady,
and the door to the roof is locked at the
eighth floor. That's never happened before any other way up.
Or you might try the fire escape if it's urgent.
It is so I climbed the fire escape at the
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eighth floor and went up onto the roof, or rather
into George Farewells patio. I worked my way through a
maze of potted shrubbery around a fish pond with a
fountain in the middle. Piano music was coming through a
pair of French doors. But before I saw where the
music was coming from, I knew it was the radio
and not the piano, because the piano of fourteen foot
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grand that George Farewells sprawled across the keyboard with a
bullet threw his head. I crossed to the set of
French doors on the other side of the house. There
I saw her standing up on the three foot parapet
surrounding the roof, looking eight floors down into the street.
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Don't come any cooks, You're not really gonna jump maryln.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He did it his way, I'm gonna do it mine.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Don't come any closer, don't I won't. So George shot himself.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Huh, why not?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Can't go through life as he can tie to your tail.
No running away from that, No, there isn't. Well, you're
gonna jump give me time. Oh you want to do
it the dramatic way, don't you, Marilyn. Only thirty five
minutes left until Willie checks out over the ship, and
to make it really ironic, you'll want to take off
before he does. Right, the one person left who can
say them. I talked to Willie, Marilyn. He must hate
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the world. He doesn't hate anybody, poor jerk. I think
he'd feel even sorrier for you throwing your your own
life away while you can still save his. You can't
run away from this ten can, but you can untie it.
You can climb down off that wall and right over
to Quenton with me. You can tell him George Farewell
killed his wife. Be the three of you and the
little lioner Typer made a pigeon out of Willie. Huh,
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oh my breath. She swayed, looked down into the street,
poising herself. Then she turned round and stepped onto the
roof again. Let's go. Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Yeah, oh my, George Farewell didn't stab his wife that night?
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We pulled up at Quentin with six minutes to spare
the foregoing Justice Benjamin has submitted and supported the stay
of execution granted Willie Johnson and will be set forth
into tail in mister Grayson's but for a new trial
period and of report.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
She really considers, what can I say?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Well, I have one constructive suggestion.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I could say you're the greatest, finest, most wondering.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yes, but you'd only be repeating yourself, Jaron. The proper
line at this moment is I shall have the report
ready for you immediately following the next announcement. Right scoot
three times mean good times on NBC Listen to the
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stars on This Sunday's Big Show, Jimmy Duranty.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Effe Mermann, Milton Berle, and Gordon McGray, plus Meredith Wilson
and his orchestra. You're MC on the Big Show, of course,
is the Glamorous Toulula. You're invited, Sam, here's the report?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, what are you writing?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Sam? Alec has this man of the World dashing Debonair
Cosmopolitan temporarily at Liberty desires employment.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Sounds wonderful, Thank you?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
What does it mean? All right, we'll drop it down
a few notches. Private investigator, accomplished raconteur, will tell troubles
to listening public. Nice telephone voice contact Sam Spade, One
East forty eighth Street, New York.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
One East forty eighth Street.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
My address during the summer months. Charr have you got it?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
One East forty eighth Street, New York City. Maybe a
lot of people will write Sam. I'm sure they will. Thanks,
so they're always be a Samuel Stade Incorporated. Will there
look smile through the tears saying I am the day
will come soon again.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
When when the phone will ring, and you will say.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Sam Spade Detective agencyes and I.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Will say me sweetheart, walk up, old girls, Southfella, stiff
upper lip, good show, revol hale and farewell, good night.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Sweet to Night's Transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade was produced, entited,
and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen dun Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also on the cast
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for Junius Matthews, Oland Souleet, Wally Mayer, Sidney Miller, Kathy Lewis,
Paul Freeset, Max and lou Merrow script Fortnight's Adventure by
Harold Swanton. Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbruster.
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This is MBC, the national broadcasting company.
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam stan Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Me, sweetheart, stop take it easy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The papers are on the street.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I saw the show, did I. There'll be some red
faced editors ducking behind their green eye shades tomorrow. What
do you mean You don't pint up the score until
the returns are all in f This applies to presidential elections,
boxing matches, and executions at San Quentin Prison. You mean Willie,
I mean Willie. Batten down the hatches and turn over
your poam rubber cushion wonder girl for even now. I'm
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homeward bond with a stride by a stratacon of a
twelve hour marathon which I shall call for obvious reasons.
The hail and farewell caper friendscribe for MBC, William Spear,
Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama, brings
you the greatest Private Detective of.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Mall, starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I've been ron heavy right in here this minute.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Have I done some?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's what I was about to ask. Have you been
sticking your delightful freckle cupboard upturned little nose into my
schnuff's bottle. Now answer me, girl, and you know I don't.
All right? Then, who the.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Nervous of a man who was here did open the
door to find a pencil and paper? And and even know?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay, you're clear?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Dam What about the little man?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
A good and leading question, I f shall we attempt answer?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm not ready to him?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
They fell it in to Justice Edward Benjamin, State Supreme Court,
from Samuel's Fade License number one, three seven, five, nine six,
subject the Hail and Farewell Caper. Dear Justice Benjamin. My
relationship with the spendled little man goes clear back to
a week ago Thursday, possibly even before that, but that
was the day I first noticed it. I remember it
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was Thursday because I was having corn beef and cabbage
at Schroders with him. It was a glass of water
at the next table. He was paying little mind to
the menu, having decided to spend the lunch hour staring
at me. A couple of times, he put down his
glass of water and pushed back his chairs. If he
were going to come over and talk fucked, he changed
his mind. I put away the corn beef and cabbage
and was halfway past the pie when he finally did it.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Excuse me, sir, Hello you, sir, I'm mister Speed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I am the Detective, Sam Spade, Detective agenty at your service, sir.
Now what can I I I you see? I? Do
you have a match? I gave him a match, and
he thanked me and went out. On Friday, I saw
him in Ben's Grotto over a plate of wrecked soul.
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He got just about his far. Then he returned the match.
Heel over the following week. I saw him four times,
once as I was going into a show, once at
the post office, and twice as I was going into
my office building. Each was the same. We get up
to the point where he's about to tell me something.
Then he backed down and asked me what time it was,
or did I have a horse in the fifth at
Golden Gate, or would I lend him a cigarette? Then
he'd bustle off as fast as his Spenley little legs
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could carry it. And thus matters stood yesterday place my
office time one thirty seven pm, Sam Spade, mister.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Speed, is this this is a gentleman.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Who is Yeah, don't tell me. I know the voice? Now,
what is it?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
This time.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I like to see you, mister Speed that must see me.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I know I'll save us both the trip. The day
by is April twenty six. The time is one thirty
eight pm. All training planes and street cars are leaving
on schedules and for the favorite a golden gate tomorrow
consult youre near his book, please, sir, Please, mister Spad,
please do the jest. This is a mater of life
and death. I say fine, and I'll see you tomorrow
for lunch.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I won't be here, mister Speed. Oh where you be?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Did look?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Look? I'm tired of this, mister Spinley. Give it to
me straight or sign off? Now? What is it? Gotta
listen to me, mister Spade. It's most important, he said,
life or desig life. Hello, mister Spinley. Hello. It almost
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seemed as if he were in earnest this time, so
I didn't hang up. I hustled down the hall to
the next office, found another pole and sweet talked a
supervisor into tracing down mister Spinley. It was a paybook
in a drug store. I was at the Park Emergency Hospital.
The clerk in the drug store was just getting over
it when I punched in Spindley had collapsed in the
booth and had been hauled across the street to the hospital.
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On the bed there. Oh thanks doctor life and death.
Mister Spade, terrible. You gotta stop it. It's murdered. He's
been muttering like that ever since we brought him in.
Hop hunh the legal kind you see before you an overdose,
the sleeping tablet. I mean he trying to kill himself.
I can't think of an easy way. Anyone could feed him?
Two full bottles? Can you pull for? Probably the game.
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I'm a good pumping don't let.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Don't do.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Mister do don't carry on? So but I know you
missed up, all right. I know who is to get easy.
He's got a lot of strength for a little guy.
Mister Doe, no name, nothing to identify him. Funny thing, man,
what do you mean? I almost guarantee the man's undernourished,
hasn't eaten for days, shabby clothes and so one. Look
at the roll I found in these pockets? How much?
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Almost eight hundred dollars?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Do you find anything else? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
What do you make of it? Yeah? Front page of
the Star Times. It's a gally proof isn't it kind
of run off in the line of type room before
they start the presses. Yeah, Chiller dies tonight, Willie Johnson
hitchhike murderer to and her gas chamber at midnight inosent in.
You go, mister Doe. But I know who did? I
know everything.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I know the frame.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's his skill up a frame. You mean Willie Johnson,
I know it was it was. It was Hail farewell, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Farewell? Who was it?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Come on, mister, don't wake up. It's to Doe. Yeah,
I was waiting for that. Hit him like a ton
of bricks. He'll be in communicat over the next twenty
four hours longer Hail and farewell, a broken down actor
h Only an actor would think more of an exit
line than an innocent man's neck. You mean you believe
he I don't know what I believe. The guy's been
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trailing me for ten days, driving himself nuts, tries to
knock himself off. It's a sinch. He believes it. There's
no chance of bringing him around before tomorrow. As Willie
Johnson dies tonight, So what happens? So I'm stuck for taxi?
Fair to San Quentin.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Believe in him, believe in Willie Johnson.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, I know you're his lawyer, mister Grayson.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm his lawyer because I volunteered to sapia. Mister Spade,
I've been in the law a long long time. I've
defended a lot of phonies. Sometimes you've got you if
you want to eat. They all sing the same song
I was framed. Oh, I know all eighty nine verses.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But Willie, Yeah, Willie's song.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Is different because Willie Johnson's an innocent man. Willie was
framed four appeals, four appeals, four stays, and we've had
our last one. It's folded up in our spade. I'm
going to take the walk with him at midnight, So
do something for me.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Will you sure? Sir?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
When when you've walked into a cell, Remember you're talking
to a man who's going to die in less than
eight hours. We're trying to we're trying to build his
spirit up so he can go out with the pella
is fine?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, don't give him a lot of false hope, Spade,
because because there isn't any.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I don't quite understand, mister Spath. So I told my
story so many.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Times, I uh I like to write something about you
for the papers, will he?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Oh, yes, sir, all the newspapers, gentlemen, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And gong?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I know? Could you tell it? Just one smart will I?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Well, all right, sir, it's more than a year ago.
I guess you know that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah. I was broke.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know, things hadn't been going so well, sir. I
was down on my last two bits. At night, I
walked into Sherrif Dugin's.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That's a bar on my wonder front.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yes, sir, I got to talking with a fella sitting
at the bar there. He bought me beer.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I never did find his name. I ain't seen him
since that night. If I could find him, I don't
reckon I'd be where I am, sir. He had a
paper with him, was reading the classified ad section, you know,
the part about Otto's transportation so on. You know, Well
there was an ad there. I'd say, we'll pay five
hundred dollars plus the expense to drive car to Mexico
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City with a phone number. And the fella said that
he were in my shoes. He'd called up and quiet,
so I did. I'm quieter and I got the job. Well, sir.
About an hour later, I met a man with a cart,
Southern Mason, by the gas station there, and he'd give
me the five hundred and I start out for Mexico City.
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It wasn't really never found his name either if we
tried to, mister Grayson and me never could find him.
I see, well, it was raining that night, sir, I
remember raining, and I hadn't gotten Moan fifty miles south
of town, somewhere around Morgan Hill. It was when Sirene
blew off behind me, and the first thing I knew
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where they was asking the questions about a girl, a
girl named Georgia Lyon. It was her car, it seems,
and that the officer claim I stole it. They they
made me raise my arms and they searched me, and
there was a knife in my pocket. You see what
would blood on it there and I don't know how
it got there, and the five hundred dollars that had
blood on it too, and there was blood on the seat.
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And when they opened the turtle back there she was
this joji a line. I told you all double up
there and.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Dead, And they said I'd done it for the money
in the car.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And I guess I just went crazy, mister Spade, with
her with this whole coming at me at once that way,
You see, I tried to make a break for it,
and I got away, and I knew it was a
terrible wrong thing to do. I know that.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
What about the trial, Well, so mister Grayson done everything
in his powers, and so did I told the truth
as close as I could recollect it, but it didn't
make no sense. We never found a man in the bar,
or the man who drove up in the car. What
about the phone number there all that that turned out
to be a fancy dress that turned out to be
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a fancy dress shop on Powell Street, color Mason Francine
and the classified ads that that was the queerest thing
of all. What do you mean, Well, mister Grayson went
through every newspaper in the country for two weeks either
side of the night, and there wasn't any such add
in any of them. So they said I was lying.
They said I was lying. I made it all up
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in my head, and now they're.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Going to kill me for it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I don't know, mister Spade, I've heard so long now.
Maybe I did kill her. Maybe they're right, Maybe they're right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But there was something in the way. He said, maybe
they're right. I told you they were wrong. I thanked
him and told him I had what I wanted from
my story and said goodbye. There was no hope in
his face, but no despair either. He knew what was
coming and he was ready. And that's all. I hit
the homeward bound commuters on the wrong side of the
Golden Gate Bridge. So it was almost seven when I
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checked in a Cherry Dugan bar on the waterfront. A
girl was sitting free stools down from me, a class
type dame and a black file suit from Magnums and
a hat that must have set some good time Charlie
back fifty bucks. That's the kind of a dame you'd
expect to be sitting in Sherry Dugan's, least of all
as drunk as she was telling her yard Jack, thank you. Wait,
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wait a minute. This is a one man operation, isn't it. O. Yes,
Why well, then you'd be Sherry Dugan.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
No, I brought the joint from Sherry a few months back.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Why well, I'm I'm doing a story for the papers
on Willie Johnson. Tell me, was Sherry here on the
big ninth? Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yes, yes, yes, only Woodley Johnson wasn't you could look
it up? What Sherry? Just about?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Where is he?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Now?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
There? He'll say? You know why why Cherry has brains
for a man in his shoes. There's no better place
right now in South America?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh, tell me more.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
He needed to rest the worst way Sherry did. Joe's
been true. Tending bar can be difficult at times, right, Tim, Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
And do you show me a good bott and I'll
show you a bard diplomatic I'm more.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Besides, Oh, here's the Sherry wherever he is, Keep running, Sherry,
keep running. You know, Sherry is like a dog running
away from a can tied to his tail. We all are?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Who's we? All of us?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
All of us the world?
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Give me another drink? Tim, don't you give me any lip?
This is a first class week.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Isn't it a send off for Willie? Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Just sometimes?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
George said, ask come on, we're going home.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Take your time, George, two of the members present, one more,
we'll have a quorum.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Pour him a drink, Tim, do you want me to
carry out of here?
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Might be fun?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Daddy facing the floor?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Now, come on, you know something.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
George, you've got a can tied to your tale.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Two.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
No use running, George.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're right at your head?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Whatever made you come here?
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Kind of appropriate, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Special?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Night?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Tonight?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
What glass?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
You'll fix it us a week?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Not here we are?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Are you coming? All right?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Where we go?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Ye?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Silly you?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
How about hold it? How much to show you? That's
three forty five? Here?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Worthy?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I tell me who is she? H? Model?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Some shop uptown?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh, like the Maison Francine for instance. Oh do you
know that's the hunch? What's your name? Well, Marlyn Hale?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Her old man runs the Star Times. You know the publisher.
The guy is his partner, George Farewell. I started the
firm a l and Farewell.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I had, but it was a slightly different reading from
the one mister Spinley gave me at the hospital. I
looked at my watch. Willie was four and a half
hours from the end of the line. When I took
off of the press room at the Star Times.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade three times being Good Times on NBC.
(15:45):
There's fun and music for you tomorrow Evening with the
Dennist day show, There'll be songs by Dennis and another
typical tangled comedy situation, the kind of hilarious mix up
that could happen only to dennist Day. And now back
to the hail in farewell cap for tonight's adventure with
Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Time eight eleven. I got out of the elevator in
the basement of the Star Times building on Mission Street
and started looking for the press room foreman, somebody named
Joe Fordesque. I finally found his feet sticking out from
under a sick linux. I pulled him out and tried
to make him understand what I wanted.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
You mean an old little baby like this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I can't hear you, I tell you, little baby like
you guy. Yeah that's the guy. What about come on?
Go ahead? You first?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
How who is he? Charlie Forest? I know, but that's
not what I trimed off his rocker.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
For a year? Look you see that picture on the
wall over your head. Yeah that's mister Hale the iron
fist won't teller, ain't no inefficiency, you understand. But this scroup,
all this Charlie Forrest, I personally can him twice and
both times iron Fist sends it back. Tom Ye, So
don't make no never mind to be brother, leave him
come to work, stude all the time, leave him lay
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off of two straight weeks like this time. Don't make
no never mind?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, Look, I'm up with you now. How
long has Charlie been this way? A year or so?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I know just when it started.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
When Willie Johnson was hauled in on the hitchhiking killing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Right, Oh, you've been talking to Charlie. Huh yeah, a
funny thing. How that hit him. You'd find him sitting
in a corner by himself, mumbling all the time about
the guy being innocent.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
What do you suppose Charlie had to do with that?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know, got real crazy, told the end, you know,
said he was killing Willie Johnson. And you'd ask him
with what he'd say, a liner type machine in a
hunker newsprint. One day, he even offered to prove it,
you know how, I don't know. He said he had proof.
He said he had the evidence. It would say Willie's
neck in his room was the office trolley.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I've gotta find out where he lives. They don't know upstairs.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I don't know we don't know downstairs neither. He moved
out of his apartment three weeks back, and don't nobody
know where he went.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Look he was in this morning. Picked up a Gallley
proof of page one.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, I'll tell you who might know where to find him.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Come on, come on.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
About tennith Parky leave here. I said he was gonna
look him up. Somebody is somebody named Spade.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Thanks same Spaine. He's a detective that remains to be
seen a message day, A bandy like a little guy
named Charlie Firestaff. He must have been in around ten
ten thirty this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I didn't get here till eleven. They're still clearing stuff
off the tracks from the Macarthury set.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, never mind that. Now listen write this down.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Oh we're left on a piece of paper. Hurry up, Yes, here,
out of the ash tray.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Go ahead. There called Jeremy Grayson. He's a lawyer and
he's with Willie Johnson and a death row at Quentin.
Tell him to get hold of a justice on the
State Supreme Court and hold the line open. I get him.
You got that, yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Is there anything else?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh, I'll get back to you A little while. We
got to go hang up, what's the matter paper.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm riding on him the ashtray. It's a nose.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Go ahead, mister stay.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Please contact me at once Charles W. Foster Flour Hotel
three three eight Falcon Street.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It took twenty more minutes to cross town and ten
on top of that to convince the clerk at the
Bellflower I had a right to the key to Charlie's room,
which I had not. I tossed the room from the
light fixture to the floorboards, covered everything from the window
shades to the bathroom plumbing. Result one batch of dirty laundry,
six soggy cigarettes, and two empty bottles of sleeping pills.
I was on my way out when I remembered one
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more thing. It wasn't an accident like in the movies.
It was on purpose. I unscrewed the tops of the
iron bedposts inside Number three. I found it. There was
a payphone at the end of the dark hallway.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Sam, I warned you about this. We've had four stage.
They won't come through with a fifth.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I've got a fair hole card, Grayson. Did you get
the judge?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, Benjamin State Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What do he say what I knew.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
He'd say, no evidence, no stage, how him, I got evidence?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It better be good, said it is a phony newspaper,
a copy of the Star Times for the night of
the murder, with a special page in the classified section
carrying the ad that Willie answered, does that sound You've
got it?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Now?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
For fore sake, hang on to it. I'll get back
to the judge. Say wait, a who's behind It's a
long story. I'll tell you when I see you. Hang up?
When you what?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Spade?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Spade? Hang up, brod kidd you Hey, that's it.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
You can turn around now.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, iron Fist, we've met. I've seen your picture, mister Hale.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
It flattered me, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Give it to me.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
What the paper is stupid?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I haven't read the Funnies, all right, mister Spade, if
you'd read it, Iron Fist knew other games besides publishing.
He moved up. I went for the gun, which suddenly
wasn't there, and he was giving me a fast demonstration
of judo for a beginning. First thing, you know, I
was sprawling on the floor and he was looking down
(20:47):
at me along the barrel of his thirty eighth I
could kill you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I suppose, But why why?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
He backed off toward the windows, spread out the paper
and crumbled it up. Now you know what you're doing
with that match, Hale, You're burning Willie Johnson at the stake.
He touched the match to the pile of papers, watched
them players suddenly lighting up the entire hallway. He looked
like a medieval devil.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
I'm sorry about Willie's spade, but it has to be,
That's all it has to be.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What did you have to do with Georgia Lyon?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Nothing at all. And her name wasn't Georgia Lyon, really,
it was a stage name. Her real name was Farewell,
your partner his way by Spade. Didn't you read the
testimony at the trial. He was leaving George that night.
She'd made a noble decision to walk out of his
life and.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Leave him free for your daughter. I'm Maryland, that's right.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
And it was such a tragedy. Georgia had to run
into Willie Johnson the very night she left.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Wasn't it, Spade, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He bent over the fire, watched it die down into
a pile of ashes. I was looking at something else.
A draft from the stairwell behind me. Had picked up
a glowing scrap and set it down at the foot
of a sleezy window curtain behind him. M m hell,
that's it's made.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
The last of Woodie Jones, the last of what.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I hit him at the knees as the curtain went
up in a blinding flash. No judo this time, just
an old fashioned hammer. Lit here we go. Come on,
give me that gun. No break your arm, your heart? Yeah,
that's better.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Now get up, Get up, hell stop hell, carton in
my Legas he hit the top of the stairway, he
took off like an eagle, lit on his neck halfway
down and top of the rest of the way like
a loose packed sack of laundry.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
He was dead when I got to him. Score. With
an hour and five minutes to play, no evidence, one
dead witness, one unconscious, one, one killer, and a pump
was at large. There was only one way left to go,
and I took it. Lark Place, George Farewells apartment. That's
(23:13):
the pentoff yeh, see home. I don't know what's the
matter up there, sir. I think something's wrong, awfully wrong.
He went up there early this evening with the young lady,
and the door to the roof is locked at the
eighth floor. That's never happened before any other way up.
Or you might try the fire escape if it's urgent.
It is so I climbed the fire escape at the
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eighth floor and went up onto the roof, or rather
into George Farewells patio. I worked my way through a
maze of potted shrubbery around a fish pond with a
fountain in the middle. Piano music was coming through a
pair of French doors. But before I saw where the
music was coming from, I knew it was the radio
and not the piano, because the piano of fourteen foot
(23:56):
grand that George Farewells sprawled across the keyboard with a
bullet threw his head. I crossed to the set of
French doors on the other side of the house. There
I saw her standing up on the three foot parapet
surrounding the roof, looking eight floors down into the street.
(24:17):
Don't come any cooks, You're not really gonna jump maryln.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He did it his way, I'm gonna do it mine.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Don't come any closer, don't I won't. So George shot himself.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Huh, why not?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Can't go through life as he can tie to your tail.
No running away from that, No, there isn't. Well, you're
gonna jump give me time. Oh you want to do
it the dramatic way, don't you, Marilyn. Only thirty five
minutes left until Willie checks out over the ship, and
to make it really ironic, you'll want to take off
before he does. Right, the one person left who can
say them. I talked to Willie, Marilyn. He must hate
(24:54):
the world. He doesn't hate anybody, poor jerk. I think
he'd feel even sorrier for you throwing your your own
life away while you can still save his. You can't
run away from this ten can, but you can untie it.
You can climb down off that wall and right over
to Quenton with me. You can tell him George Farewell
killed his wife. Be the three of you and the
little lioner Typer made a pigeon out of Willie. Huh,
(25:17):
oh my breath. She swayed, looked down into the street,
poising herself. Then she turned round and stepped onto the
roof again. Let's go. Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Yeah, oh my, George Farewell didn't stab his wife that night?
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We pulled up at Quentin with six minutes to spare
the foregoing Justice Benjamin has submitted and supported the stay
of execution granted Willie Johnson and will be set forth
into tail in mister Grayson's but for a new trial
period and of report.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
She really considers, what can I say?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Well, I have one constructive suggestion.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I could say you're the greatest, finest, most wondering.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yes, but you'd only be repeating yourself, Jaron. The proper
line at this moment is I shall have the report
ready for you immediately following the next announcement. Right scoot
three times mean good times on NBC Listen to the
(26:34):
stars on This Sunday's Big Show, Jimmy Duranty.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Effe Mermann, Milton Berle, and Gordon McGray, plus Meredith Wilson
and his orchestra. You're MC on the Big Show, of course,
is the Glamorous Toulula. You're invited, Sam, here's the report?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, what are you writing?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Sam? Alec has this man of the World dashing Debonair
Cosmopolitan temporarily at Liberty desires employment.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Sounds wonderful, Thank you?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
What does it mean? All right, we'll drop it down
a few notches. Private investigator, accomplished raconteur, will tell troubles
to listening public. Nice telephone voice contact Sam Spade, One
East forty eighth Street, New York.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
One East forty eighth Street.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
My address during the summer months. Charr have you got it?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
One East forty eighth Street, New York City. Maybe a
lot of people will write Sam. I'm sure they will. Thanks,
so they're always be a Samuel Stade Incorporated. Will there
look smile through the tears saying I am the day
will come soon again.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
When when the phone will ring, and you will say.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Sam Spade Detective agencyes and I.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Will say me sweetheart, walk up, old girls, Southfella, stiff
upper lip, good show, revol hale and farewell, good night.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Sweet to Night's Transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade was produced, entited,
and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen dun Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also on the cast
(28:33):
for Junius Matthews, Oland Souleet, Wally Mayer, Sidney Miller, Kathy Lewis,
Paul Freeset, Max and lou Merrow script Fortnight's Adventure by
Harold Swanton. Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbruster.
(28:54):
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