November 7, 2024 • 28 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 Spaide Detective Agency. This is Miss bergamot Oh, Miss bergermant,
I'm so sorry. Mister State isn't in. He ought to
be back any moment, however, that is if you wish
to imply him. This is a secretary, Ms Pree. Well,
it's a matterspect Miss pre will be available. I know
the matter he's attending to is that. It's just it's
purely routine what he calls a humdrum number, humdrum.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, it's a private detective version of babysitting, is he?
All missus Paide had to do was sit on a
chair for twenty four hours And that's why.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I say you'll be back any minute.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
His last words to me, will take anything, So if
you desires never and I do not desire.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Mister Spade's services.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
As a matter of fact, he's using mine.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm his nurse at the Harbor Emergency Hospital.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Nurse. Another shot please this time?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Oh, he's coming along quite nicely.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The bullet didn't into the cranium at all. Bullet Missus
State wants to but I refuse.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nirst, I refuse, but miss Nightingale, I am wonder girl.
Cry those big brown eyes sherruh. Flop up the sofa
and spread out some lamp for me to lay my
poor bullet ritten head on. And practically no time.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
At all, I'll.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Be staggering in the gas by a humdrum report on
the Kimberly Cross Caper for NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding
producer director of mystery and crime Drama brings you the
greatest private detective of them all in the Adventures of
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Sam's Bay.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Hospitals.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Mill. I have to break down your whole constitution, give
you fits.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Ah else.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It looks like a drummer man in the seventy.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Six Nothing nothing, nothing you know Angel, no professionists without
its hazards, least of all this caldary one of ours.
PA sit down now now? May I put my poor
wounded head in your lap? Company? They're stupid too, honey.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
What's say.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A new feeling?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I do?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Huh? They fill it into uh GJ runcible claims manager
Sunset Indemnity Company from Samuel Spay License number one three, seven, five,
nine six, subject the Kimberly Cross Caper.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Dear mister run.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's just as well for private investigators that we have
no way of knowing by the way a job starts,
how it's going to end. I remember once I went
beating the bushes from mad All Killer and ended up
playing monopoly with him in a hotel room for six hours.
And I remember two the time I agreed to take
a box of homemade candy to an old lady wound
up with a double murder in the case of arson yours,
mister Runcible belonged to this species. Spade, GJ. Runcible, Sunset indemnity.
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You available? Maybe? How are you? Are you not available?
Mister Spade, answer yes or no? Yes, Yes, I'm a
fifty a day expenses right, I got a job boy
in next twenty four hours. All you got to do
is sit on a chair and keep your eyes on
something beautiful sounds. Keen might call it a babysitting job.
Oh who is she? Kimberly Cross?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Pretty like a quarter of a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh Rich too, He's on exhibit at the Bergendorf Gallery's
on Sutter Street. She's on exhibit. Get over there right away. Well,
I better check with mister Bergendorf personally and then see
Johnny Stroud our company man, he'll give you instruction. Fine, now,
why don't you tell me Wiward? Hello? Hello always happens.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
On page six, mister burgandor mister Bergdorf, You.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
Sorry, sir, The exhibit officially does not until nine a m.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Begin. As you said late forty five. I won't charge you,
mister Bergendorf, I won't charge it. You can bring out
the baby anytime now, mister Runcible of the sunset, and
damn that they sent me here, Michael, that's you, mister Spade.
You are, mister Spade. I am Oh what's where? There's
kimberly Cross.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
To a single house gallery such as mine comes such
an honor. Only ones today only Burgendgs is with Tiffany's
in the same class. Here here h this picture of
kimberly Cross. Fourteen stones, all blue, white, eight down, six across,
total two hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars plus twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Percent, Oh, jewelry.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
To call this jewelry is to call Elizabeth Taylor a
garden variety. Tomato is a crown jewel from Touringia. Mister Spain, really,
it's part of the state of a dead duke. Is
price tag two undred sixty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where is it involved?
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Timelock comes nine o'clock on the nose.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She opens, then the exhibit begins. Yeah, there's a company
man here from the insurance off. Isn't here Johnny Stroud?
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
He's working concealed?
Speaker 8 (05:29):
This meant Stroud under cover clever stuff. You see a
park at curve across the street, one out bus.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh oh yeah, Department of Public Health City and Connie
of San Francisco.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
What the Antituberculosis campaign is giving to public for free
grant is one X ray per citizen for chest cavity.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh chest X ray Handerley.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Parking opposite the Bergendorf Gallery. So inside mister Stroud can
take for himself a plant.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Get it?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Clever, clever. The free gratis auto bus for chest X
rays was a square end job, complete with reception compartment,
X ray machine and attendant, the latter of sincere type
with horn rim glasses and white starch bluffs. I use
the word sincere advisedly, since he was at the moment
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doing a selling job on Johnny Strode.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know what I always say, Stroud?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Why do you always say job?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You never can tell about a call. You'll never never
see you.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
See right there, I got a cold.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Maybe eight to five, it's only a cold.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But five to eight.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Let me take a picture.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Of no charge, no pain, no dice, Go away, go away?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh yeah, good good, Come on in, come on in.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
The bars city was sending you up front of your room?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Back here?
Speaker 9 (06:47):
You realize you're standing right in front of my X
ray machine.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
We'll move when you get a customer.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Oh customers, yes, where are they? Where are those chests?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
If people only knew that eight to five it may.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Be a cold?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Yeah, brief you on this face.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It was brief, all right?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
How do you make it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Fourteen vulgar sized diamonds looking for a buyer, sunset of
dmnity insuring Bergendorf against loss during the twenty four hours
they're on his hand.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
That's two for you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
There's two against me too, Oh like quite a sunset indemnity.
Need outside of help when they have you? And why
are you playing like a movie dick when the sensible
thing to do is to sit down next to the
exhibit with both eyes open and a rot under your arm?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
What are you doing, George?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I've testing my.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Machine with your boy.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
George doesn't like me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I see that.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Well, I guess the boss lept out one item sam
a tip. Yeah, yeah, last night some schmoke called him
around midnight and got him.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Out of bed.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Oh, Principle's a pessimist.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
When the sunset, indemnities on the line for a quarter
of a million, he tends to get jumpy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Who had the tip? Anonymous? They all are right from
the open.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
The guy says, somebody's gonna take a run and jump
at the Kimberly Cross while it's at Bergendorf's.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Needless to say.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
But the balance of the night, Principle does not sleep.
So today we got three impartments.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Jogi, Yeah, I'm going to leave you.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Now, George to take my post across the street.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, mister speed, Hey, wait a minute, Jonny. Look look
in front of Bergendor's the Dame. The dame, to paraphrase Bergendorf,
calling her a dame was like calling the Kimberly Cross
a hunk of jewelry. That's not what interested me, at
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least not right then.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
She was walking back.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And forth in front of Bergendorf's like a kid at
the tennis door, trying to get up the nerve to
push the button. Quoting from my notes, it says nine
two am girl five feet two, blonde, early twenties, gray
sweet suit, spent a few indecisive minutes in front of Bergendorf's,
finally went in. She came out almost immediately started west
on Sutter, then evidently saw a patrol officer approaching on
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the same side of street, hurriedly cross toward our post
in Public Health Department Mobile Unit number two and entered.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Hello, Well, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Am I too early for the Oh you're just in time?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
First customer of the day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Eh. Let's see now, name.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
Martin Martin, first name Bernice, address eight.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
She wasn't a very good liar. While she was telling
him her name was Bernice Martin. She filled with a
leather handbag with the initials PC on it. They're gonnough
to read from across the street. George filled the form
out and moved her around to the machine by on
a cop she was ducking and walked by and turned
the corner.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Shall I no, no, it won't be necessary to take
off your coat.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Is this all right?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's good?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Stand right there, old still, now take a deep breath,
Hold it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
You're doing a wise thing, lady, you think star certainly
eight to five it's only a cold, But five to
eight you never never know.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Eh, here's your stuff with your number on it.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
We'll notify you in a few days.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Thank you, thank you. Where Upon this PC also down
to the corner and into a drug store. Five minutes later,
she still hadn't come out. Stroud was beginning to champ
at the bit. So what Sam, So she's worried. Ah,
she's ducking cops. He's using a phony name or her
girlfriend's handbag stuck on for Hey, wait a minute, Wait
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a minute. I'm sure I've seen her somewhere before. Where
I don't know, but I think it was around headquarter.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Now, who's playing movie Jacon? Look it's ten after nine.
I'll go over and settle down next to the Vogue
of Diamonds, and you make yourself comfy with Georgie.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
If I get busy out, you go.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Pies on the customers going in and out. There's a
good loud burglar alarm over.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
The door there. You can hear it the block away.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
It's good laser.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Holy Count Stroud took the gallery and I set sail
to the corner drug store, pulling up in twenty seconds flat.
She was gone. Of course, the druggist was at the
fountain mixing a coat, but she spilled when I reached
the cross and grabbed them by the lapels. Blonde you saying, yeah, yeah,
young gray suit. Hmmm. I told you, Jack, she just
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came in here.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What do you want to know about her? What you
do telephone?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
She was just like you asked me about a guy?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What guy?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Larry Galliano?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
His name is?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I want to know if i'd seen him come by
this morning?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Who's he? I don't know? Did she describe him? Didn't
have to? Pictures on page one in the morning paper.
Here take a look. There was no time to dawdle,
but I gave her ten seconds. Larry Galliano, a one
time gas station stick up artist, had just been released
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from Quinton after doing five years. On the way across
the street to Bergendorfs. It came back to me where
I had seen her standing outside the courtroom crying when
they sentenced him five years ago.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Oh yeah, Bergendorf, Yeah yeah, shot from behind the stones.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Needless to say, maybe you were right about that day.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, no, she didn't have time. Someone was hiding in
here waiting for Bergendorf's open up this morning. How'd you
get out? I only must be a back door in
this joint.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I'll check it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The phones on the desk.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Wake up, Lieutenant tendya right?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
How you love it too? Two of us holding hands
across the street. W Johnny, Look, look it's me Berkendorf,
same Spade. He's checking the back door. Who did it?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Double crust me?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Won't it is all?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Who? Who are you talking about? It was as plain
as a man in his condition could have made it
obvious to anyone with average intelligence. But for stupid Sam,
it was still a long voyage home. You are listening
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to the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade.
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Speaker 7 (13:44):
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Speaker 4 (14:03):
And now back to the Kimberly.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Cross Caper Tonight's adventure with Sam's Bay. It was a dirty,
selfish trick, but I left Johnny Stroud at the Bergundalk
Gallery to play for Cheesey with dundeean company, knowing in
advance pretty much how the paddle was going to run.
Then called the Chronicle and found the picture of Larry
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Galliano had been taken yesterday as they walked out of
a fleabag on Mission Street called the Aeolian Hotel.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
Here Galliano, Yeah, sure, sure, sure, I know him stage
here night before last, until I found out about him.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh finow what hey, he was a.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Nixt con here.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
This year's a respectable joint place a house, monsieur. We
don't cater to Fellon's, mister Miners or any other members
of the Demon Demon Yes, needy hell, and I found
where Galliano come from?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look did he give you a
forwarding address.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Let me see.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Yes, yeah, Christopher apartments on Joe to see see you're
lucky young man.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Yeah, my girlfriends and landed over Dick. Now look a here,
don't you sweet talker?
Speaker 12 (15:21):
Now out of the way, boy, out of the way.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Look all I want, madam, is one moment of your time.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I already told you, boy, I don't know no girl,
never heard of him?
Speaker 12 (15:42):
Try to want to hear brother?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well wait a minute, now, will you just take a
look at.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
There?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Sweet, no time?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well missus landlady, I'm afraid you've lost off. What Yeah,
you were in lying to win a baglass vacuum cleaner.
You know what?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, Curly.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What do you want to know? Bud? Yes? Will this
Scalano just might be using another name. This is his
picture right here. Now I will rephrase my question. Has
he been around?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I see, lady, Well do I win?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I am sorry, but stand by for the giant jackpot
is an electric. I patted her cheek, made a detour
around her, and left, figuring to check with the parole board.
But as I was climbing into the cabin in front
of the building. A stray thought hit me, and I
went back to the doorway in case the name plates again,
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this time for someone with the initials I'd remembered seeing
on the blonde handbag PC. I did better. Patricia Conroy
was living in an apartment four old two. I buzzed
four times, then tried the door. It was open. I
gave the living room and bedroom a fast hoss, moved
onto the kitchen, tased a hammerful of laundry on the
back porch. Result nil. I'm about decided I was in
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the wrong apartment when I noticed something that changed my mind.
I crumpled up envelope in a wastepaper basket in the
living room with today's date on it mark Western Airlines
flight six to Los Angeles passenger LP Galliano. I had
the phone in one hand and a finger on the
dial and put it down.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Huh, oh, oh, Are you going to put the phone
down or do I have to shoot?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You mean there's no third choice?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Put it down?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Now what sit down? You'll be here for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
His plane lines at Burbank in a half hour. If
you have any dates between now and four point thirty,
I get them.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Mm hmm. Mind if I smoke, go ahead. You know, uh,
this is pretty heavy handed stuff for a knife.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know, I've grown up a lot in the last
two days.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Enough, honey, or if you wouldn't be stooging for Galliano.
He can't run away from this kind of rack, you though.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Forty eight hours that's how long Larry's been out of
the pen.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, he didn't waste any time getting back in shrine. Look,
what's your name, spade?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Spade? What if I told you Larry Galliano had nothing to.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Do with it, I might give you quite an argument, and.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I don't feel like arguing.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
No, I'll just tell you good.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Someone offered him the job at Bergendorf's the day he
got out. Larry thought it was legitimate until he heard
a couple.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Of things by accident, like what.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Like getting hired to play fall guy and a phony robbery.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, Bergendorf was in sure till this morning.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
They think that Larry'd be a handy guy to have
hanging around with his big fat prison record when the
diamonds disappeared. That's what he told me, And I believe him.
I love him, whether or not you believe or love
me or him. I do not care. I also do
not care what kind of a wrap you pin on me.
When this is all over, all I want is time
enough to do a couple of errands. Now, hoist it
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out of that chair and put it down in the closet.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
There you hear what I said? Yes, ma'am, I was wrong.
She was no Angenoux. Happily the closet had a light
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in it. So I settled down on my headbox and
read some old copies of Mademoiselle until five point thirty
when I heard the door close, but with sound proof
outside walls, no window, a double slab door with a
lock she thoughtfully filled with gum. Was almost seven when
I got back to my office. The next move, of course,
was to call Lieutenant Dunde, whys up the Los Angeles
Police on Galliano. I picked up the phone and put
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it down four times. There was no use kidding myself.
The range she told was pretty wild, but there was
something about the way she told it. And I will
and here.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Yeah, you remember me this morning, George the technician from
the X ray mobile unit.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, George, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (20:08):
The funny thing that girl thirty four chests you remember
the blonde.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh yeah, I remember very well, George. What about the blonde?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Well, I tried to call her. Operator says there's no
such number and the company has no record of a Bernice.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
She was using a phony moniker, George. Her name's Patricia Conroy.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Oh, now, why would she do that?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, girl's gotta be carefully, you though, she does for sure?
How come? How come?
Speaker 9 (20:30):
I I kind of took an interest in occasional. I
rushed the pictures through as soon as we closed up tonight.
She is an incipient case. Oh yes, I wanted the
wise up right away.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You see here?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Yes, oh, this is no no, This one's Johnny Stroud.
I took him when he wasn't looking toold him.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
I was testing.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
He was right at that nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
But I always say you never never.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, how about the girl? How about how about the girl? Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Yes, yes, here now now look you see this shadowy
part here?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, hey, wait a minute, I was looking at the
shadow part. I was looking at something at the left
side of the picture, right where the inside coat pocket
would be the clear blank outline of the Kimberley Cross.
Do you mean she had to f yeah, yeah, give
me the phone.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Well, I thought it was one of those clips it
makes the girls wear on.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
The phone the phone. Okay Spade, Johnny strad Look, I
got news for it.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I got news for you too. I spotted that bronde
again where in the bar on Connie Street talking to guests?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Who you mean?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Galliano?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Who's he?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Never mind?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Never mind?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Who was she drinking with?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Topadopolis the biggest jewelry fence on the coast where you now,
outside of Apotet Jones and near Post. I think the numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'll be in five.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Minutes, Like I told you, state, I don't want to argue.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
She says she doesn't want to argue.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sam Bad, too bad. I uh, I don't mind telling you.
I'm a little burned up, baby. I fell for that
line you handed me this afternoon. I didn't even mind
sitting in your closet for two hours. What's that sure?
She's got a thirty two tucked away here somewhere? Had
me looking up the barrel while she decided it was
got the cross? Honey, you or Gallioto?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
We don't know anything about it.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
And what were you doing in that bar with Papanapolis?
Speaker 12 (22:19):
Larry said? Whoever had it?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Would try to move it through him. I thought I
could get to him, but I was wrong. How did
that sound?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
What do you think? Look?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I walked into Bergendorf's this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Why'd you run out?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
The vault was open, furniture was overturned. Bergendorf didn't answer
when I called.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I think it was a setup for Larry to check in.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
He was on his waist.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
It does sound Soonny, It sure does.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I mean, I don't lie. I guess I could make
up a better.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Story than that. Oh you're doing great, white, Larry, Blowtom.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You need a diagram. He was scared.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
What chance is the next convict when it's his story
against someone else's.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
What did you do with the teddy too in the door?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Here's the big question, honey, I didn't sell anything else
Where are the diamonds? I know? Look, you're a real
modest girl. For she has a liar. You're a sensation.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Believe me.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You had the Kimberly Cross in your inside cold pocket
when you came into the wagon this morning.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
What are you talking about it?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'll get it the X ray, baby. Take a look.
You asked for a diagram. There it is, and your
inside left pocket.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Hello, mister Spade.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Yeah, this is George the technician again.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
This is all wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Hold it, George, let me see that. I don't have.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Any inside podlast. Look, I'm I in the sued right now.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Hold it, George, what is it?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
I got to worry about that print of miss Conroy's
the incipient.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Case thirty fourth yester, Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
I called the lab and they checked again. It's a mistake,
mister Spade, a switch. It belongs to someone else.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Johnny Stroud.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh oh well, well, George, you won't have to worry
about making more extra prints. The ones you have will do. Thanks,
Thanks a lot, George. George is getting worried. Extra prince.
Yeah yeah, I had him run off a batch Evidence
Trials's office, you know. Now, let's take her in.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Huh just a minute, this is crazy.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
I have no inside pocket house.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You wouldn't argue with a picture, would Johnny? Give me
the gun, Johnny, we'll take her in together. No, no, wait,
I want to settle something else, Johnny. You're you're appointing
that thing at me. It might go, oh yeah, it
might have that what's eating you, Johnny?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I know what's eating him?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
He's you want a very good liar either are you Sam?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
They're on any extra Prince and there's always George in
a couple of hours.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
That won't be any Okay, Johnny on your feet, let
me go, then you go. We can work out a.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Turn. Your head. You're shut. You take the gun. Call
Dundy get it in Dundee homicide. And the next voice
I heard belonged to cool Risk, Miss Berghaman of the
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Harbor Emergency Hospital period and a babysitting session.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
How intrip it is your wound?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Nothing, sweetheart, nothing is hop along, Cassidy always says in
real six. Don't worry, honey, it was only a scratch.
No wait now wait, can't you get up without moving
your last one.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Important omission, the Kimberley Cross? What did Stroud do?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Is it that cherub is an innermural affair between Stroud
and mister Runcible. Well, as you know, this report is
an affair between you and the portable scoot Scoots. Three
chimes mean good times On NBC, there's music and mystery
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for you tomorrow evening. For music, it's your Hit Parade,
bringing you the top tunes in the land with Eileen Wilson,
Snookie Lanson and Raymond Scott's orchestra for Mystery. It's the
Man called Ex, starring Herbert Marshall as an intrepid adventurer
and international intrigue who travels wherever there is mystery, danger
and romance. Oh brisk, efficient, miss Parade. You may lay
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it on my desk and restore your lap to its
original position.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Yes, oh.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Mm, comfortable, sam.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Ah, loving every minute Sam.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
A girl can't help wondering sometimes, well, the way you
described the blonde in your report, glamorous like a Kimberly
cross and all you like that?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh, I just wish sometimes someone else.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Could be your secretary, and I'd be the one. You've
been in a room with velvet dra pries and a
long cigarette holder and standing glasses and a.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Black lace negligees holded, girl, hold that you've gone quite far.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And I know, but it's only natural for a girl
to want to be glamless, says.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Pardon me. You show up with any of those props
and I'll turn you over my knee.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
You like me the way I am, Sam? Why is
it always this way? Just when I think I'm getting somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Outside myself, saying, I swear The Adventures of Sam Spade
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are produced, edited and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade
was played by by Stephen Dunn. Loreen title is Effie.
Also in the cast where Wally Mayer, Fritz Feld, Georgia Ellis,
Sidney Miller, Olinsulay, Alice Wellman, and John Monaghan. Script Fortnite's
Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted
by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same time
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free of charge or at a nominal cost.
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam Spaide Detective Agency. This is Miss bergamot Oh, Miss bergermant,
I'm so sorry. Mister State isn't in. He ought to
be back any moment, however, that is if you wish
to imply him. This is a secretary, Ms Pree. Well,
it's a matterspect Miss pre will be available. I know
the matter he's attending to is that. It's just it's
purely routine what he calls a humdrum number, humdrum.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, it's a private detective version of babysitting, is he?
All missus Paide had to do was sit on a
chair for twenty four hours And that's why.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I say you'll be back any minute.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
His last words to me, will take anything, So if
you desires never and I do not desire.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Mister Spade's services.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
As a matter of fact, he's using mine.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm his nurse at the Harbor Emergency Hospital.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Nurse. Another shot please this time?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Oh, he's coming along quite nicely.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The bullet didn't into the cranium at all. Bullet Missus
State wants to but I refuse.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nirst, I refuse, but miss Nightingale, I am wonder girl.
Cry those big brown eyes sherruh. Flop up the sofa
and spread out some lamp for me to lay my
poor bullet ritten head on. And practically no time.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
At all, I'll.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Be staggering in the gas by a humdrum report on
the Kimberly Cross Caper for NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding
producer director of mystery and crime Drama brings you the
greatest private detective of them all in the Adventures of
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Sam's Bay.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Hospitals.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Mill. I have to break down your whole constitution, give
you fits.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Ah else.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It looks like a drummer man in the seventy.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Six Nothing nothing, nothing you know Angel, no professionists without
its hazards, least of all this caldary one of ours.
PA sit down now now? May I put my poor
wounded head in your lap? Company? They're stupid too, honey.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
What's say.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A new feeling?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I do?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Huh? They fill it into uh GJ runcible claims manager
Sunset Indemnity Company from Samuel Spay License number one three, seven, five,
nine six, subject the Kimberly Cross Caper.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Dear mister run.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's just as well for private investigators that we have
no way of knowing by the way a job starts,
how it's going to end. I remember once I went
beating the bushes from mad All Killer and ended up
playing monopoly with him in a hotel room for six hours.
And I remember two the time I agreed to take
a box of homemade candy to an old lady wound
up with a double murder in the case of arson yours,
mister Runcible belonged to this species. Spade, GJ. Runcible, Sunset indemnity.
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You available? Maybe? How are you? Are you not available?
Mister Spade, answer yes or no? Yes, Yes, I'm a
fifty a day expenses right, I got a job boy
in next twenty four hours. All you got to do
is sit on a chair and keep your eyes on
something beautiful sounds. Keen might call it a babysitting job.
Oh who is she? Kimberly Cross?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Pretty like a quarter of a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh Rich too, He's on exhibit at the Bergendorf Gallery's
on Sutter Street. She's on exhibit. Get over there right away. Well,
I better check with mister Bergendorf personally and then see
Johnny Stroud our company man, he'll give you instruction. Fine, now,
why don't you tell me Wiward? Hello? Hello always happens.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
On page six, mister burgandor mister Bergdorf, You.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
Sorry, sir, The exhibit officially does not until nine a m.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Begin. As you said late forty five. I won't charge you,
mister Bergendorf, I won't charge it. You can bring out
the baby anytime now, mister Runcible of the sunset, and
damn that they sent me here, Michael, that's you, mister Spade.
You are, mister Spade. I am Oh what's where? There's
kimberly Cross.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
To a single house gallery such as mine comes such
an honor. Only ones today only Burgendgs is with Tiffany's
in the same class. Here here h this picture of
kimberly Cross. Fourteen stones, all blue, white, eight down, six across,
total two hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars plus twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Percent, Oh, jewelry.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
To call this jewelry is to call Elizabeth Taylor a
garden variety. Tomato is a crown jewel from Touringia. Mister Spain, really,
it's part of the state of a dead duke. Is
price tag two undred sixty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where is it involved?
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Timelock comes nine o'clock on the nose.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She opens, then the exhibit begins. Yeah, there's a company
man here from the insurance off. Isn't here Johnny Stroud?
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
He's working concealed?
Speaker 8 (05:29):
This meant Stroud under cover clever stuff. You see a
park at curve across the street, one out bus.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh oh yeah, Department of Public Health City and Connie
of San Francisco.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
What the Antituberculosis campaign is giving to public for free
grant is one X ray per citizen for chest cavity.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh chest X ray Handerley.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Parking opposite the Bergendorf Gallery. So inside mister Stroud can
take for himself a plant.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Get it?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Clever, clever. The free gratis auto bus for chest X
rays was a square end job, complete with reception compartment,
X ray machine and attendant, the latter of sincere type
with horn rim glasses and white starch bluffs. I use
the word sincere advisedly, since he was at the moment
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doing a selling job on Johnny Strode.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know what I always say, Stroud?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Why do you always say job?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You never can tell about a call. You'll never never
see you.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
See right there, I got a cold.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Maybe eight to five, it's only a cold.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But five to eight.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Let me take a picture.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Of no charge, no pain, no dice, Go away, go away?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh yeah, good good, Come on in, come on in.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
The bars city was sending you up front of your room?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Back here?
Speaker 9 (06:47):
You realize you're standing right in front of my X
ray machine.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
We'll move when you get a customer.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Oh customers, yes, where are they? Where are those chests?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
If people only knew that eight to five it may.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Be a cold?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Yeah, brief you on this face.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It was brief, all right?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
How do you make it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Fourteen vulgar sized diamonds looking for a buyer, sunset of
dmnity insuring Bergendorf against loss during the twenty four hours
they're on his hand.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
That's two for you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
There's two against me too, Oh like quite a sunset indemnity.
Need outside of help when they have you? And why
are you playing like a movie dick when the sensible
thing to do is to sit down next to the
exhibit with both eyes open and a rot under your arm?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
What are you doing, George?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I've testing my.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Machine with your boy.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
George doesn't like me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I see that.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Well, I guess the boss lept out one item sam
a tip. Yeah, yeah, last night some schmoke called him
around midnight and got him.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Out of bed.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Oh, Principle's a pessimist.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
When the sunset, indemnities on the line for a quarter
of a million, he tends to get jumpy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Who had the tip? Anonymous? They all are right from
the open.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
The guy says, somebody's gonna take a run and jump
at the Kimberly Cross while it's at Bergendorf's.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Needless to say.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
But the balance of the night, Principle does not sleep.
So today we got three impartments.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Jogi, Yeah, I'm going to leave you.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Now, George to take my post across the street.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, mister speed, Hey, wait a minute, Jonny. Look look
in front of Bergendor's the Dame. The dame, to paraphrase Bergendorf,
calling her a dame was like calling the Kimberly Cross
a hunk of jewelry. That's not what interested me, at
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least not right then.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
She was walking back.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And forth in front of Bergendorf's like a kid at
the tennis door, trying to get up the nerve to
push the button. Quoting from my notes, it says nine
two am girl five feet two, blonde, early twenties, gray
sweet suit, spent a few indecisive minutes in front of Bergendorf's,
finally went in. She came out almost immediately started west
on Sutter, then evidently saw a patrol officer approaching on
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the same side of street, hurriedly cross toward our post
in Public Health Department Mobile Unit number two and entered.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Hello, Well, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Am I too early for the Oh you're just in time?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
First customer of the day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Eh. Let's see now, name.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
Martin Martin, first name Bernice, address eight.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
She wasn't a very good liar. While she was telling
him her name was Bernice Martin. She filled with a
leather handbag with the initials PC on it. They're gonnough
to read from across the street. George filled the form
out and moved her around to the machine by on
a cop she was ducking and walked by and turned
the corner.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Shall I no, no, it won't be necessary to take
off your coat.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Is this all right?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's good?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Stand right there, old still, now take a deep breath,
Hold it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
You're doing a wise thing, lady, you think star certainly
eight to five it's only a cold, But five to
eight you never never know.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Eh, here's your stuff with your number on it.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
We'll notify you in a few days.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Thank you, thank you. Where Upon this PC also down
to the corner and into a drug store. Five minutes later,
she still hadn't come out. Stroud was beginning to champ
at the bit. So what Sam, So she's worried. Ah,
she's ducking cops. He's using a phony name or her
girlfriend's handbag stuck on for Hey, wait a minute, Wait
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a minute. I'm sure I've seen her somewhere before. Where
I don't know, but I think it was around headquarter.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Now, who's playing movie Jacon? Look it's ten after nine.
I'll go over and settle down next to the Vogue
of Diamonds, and you make yourself comfy with Georgie.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
If I get busy out, you go.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Pies on the customers going in and out. There's a
good loud burglar alarm over.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
The door there. You can hear it the block away.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
It's good laser.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Holy Count Stroud took the gallery and I set sail
to the corner drug store, pulling up in twenty seconds flat.
She was gone. Of course, the druggist was at the
fountain mixing a coat, but she spilled when I reached
the cross and grabbed them by the lapels. Blonde you saying, yeah, yeah,
young gray suit. Hmmm. I told you, Jack, she just
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came in here.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What do you want to know about her? What you
do telephone?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
She was just like you asked me about a guy?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What guy?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Larry Galliano?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
His name is?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I want to know if i'd seen him come by
this morning?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Who's he? I don't know? Did she describe him? Didn't
have to? Pictures on page one in the morning paper.
Here take a look. There was no time to dawdle,
but I gave her ten seconds. Larry Galliano, a one
time gas station stick up artist, had just been released
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from Quinton after doing five years. On the way across
the street to Bergendorfs. It came back to me where
I had seen her standing outside the courtroom crying when
they sentenced him five years ago.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Oh yeah, Bergendorf, Yeah yeah, shot from behind the stones.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Needless to say, maybe you were right about that day.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, no, she didn't have time. Someone was hiding in
here waiting for Bergendorf's open up this morning. How'd you
get out? I only must be a back door in
this joint.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I'll check it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The phones on the desk.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Wake up, Lieutenant tendya right?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
How you love it too? Two of us holding hands
across the street. W Johnny, Look, look it's me Berkendorf,
same Spade. He's checking the back door. Who did it?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Double crust me?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Won't it is all?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Who? Who are you talking about? It was as plain
as a man in his condition could have made it
obvious to anyone with average intelligence. But for stupid Sam,
it was still a long voyage home. You are listening
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to the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade.
Three chimes mean good Times on NBC. There's music for
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you tomorrow on NBC. With the distinctive four keyboard styling
of the First Piano Quartet, This widely acclaimed and unique
musical organization brings you a melodic blend of classical and
light classical selections in four part harmony. Every Saturday and Tomorrow.
There's also a one hour concert by the NBC Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Walter du Clo.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Featured in tomorrow's symphony performance are works by Sibelius and Schumann.
It's the best in music every Saturday with the NBC
Symphony and the First Piano Quartet.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And now back to the Kimberly.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Cross Caper Tonight's adventure with Sam's Bay. It was a dirty,
selfish trick, but I left Johnny Stroud at the Bergundalk
Gallery to play for Cheesey with dundeean company, knowing in
advance pretty much how the paddle was going to run.
Then called the Chronicle and found the picture of Larry
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Galliano had been taken yesterday as they walked out of
a fleabag on Mission Street called the Aeolian Hotel.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
Here Galliano, Yeah, sure, sure, sure, I know him stage
here night before last, until I found out about him.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh finow what hey, he was a.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Nixt con here.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
This year's a respectable joint place a house, monsieur. We
don't cater to Fellon's, mister Miners or any other members
of the Demon Demon Yes, needy hell, and I found
where Galliano come from?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look did he give you a
forwarding address.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Let me see.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Yes, yeah, Christopher apartments on Joe to see see you're
lucky young man.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Yeah, my girlfriends and landed over Dick. Now look a here,
don't you sweet talker?
Speaker 12 (15:21):
Now out of the way, boy, out of the way.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Look all I want, madam, is one moment of your time.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I already told you, boy, I don't know no girl,
never heard of him?
Speaker 12 (15:42):
Try to want to hear brother?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well wait a minute, now, will you just take a
look at.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
There?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Sweet, no time?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well missus landlady, I'm afraid you've lost off. What Yeah,
you were in lying to win a baglass vacuum cleaner.
You know what?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, Curly.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What do you want to know? Bud? Yes? Will this
Scalano just might be using another name. This is his
picture right here. Now I will rephrase my question. Has
he been around?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I see, lady, Well do I win?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I am sorry, but stand by for the giant jackpot
is an electric. I patted her cheek, made a detour
around her, and left, figuring to check with the parole board.
But as I was climbing into the cabin in front
of the building. A stray thought hit me, and I
went back to the doorway in case the name plates again,
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this time for someone with the initials I'd remembered seeing
on the blonde handbag PC. I did better. Patricia Conroy
was living in an apartment four old two. I buzzed
four times, then tried the door. It was open. I
gave the living room and bedroom a fast hoss, moved
onto the kitchen, tased a hammerful of laundry on the
back porch. Result nil. I'm about decided I was in
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the wrong apartment when I noticed something that changed my mind.
I crumpled up envelope in a wastepaper basket in the
living room with today's date on it mark Western Airlines
flight six to Los Angeles passenger LP Galliano. I had
the phone in one hand and a finger on the
dial and put it down.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Huh, oh, oh, Are you going to put the phone
down or do I have to shoot?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You mean there's no third choice?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Put it down?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Now what sit down? You'll be here for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
His plane lines at Burbank in a half hour. If
you have any dates between now and four point thirty,
I get them.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Mm hmm. Mind if I smoke, go ahead. You know, uh,
this is pretty heavy handed stuff for a knife.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know, I've grown up a lot in the last
two days.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Enough, honey, or if you wouldn't be stooging for Galliano.
He can't run away from this kind of rack, you though.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Forty eight hours that's how long Larry's been out of
the pen.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, he didn't waste any time getting back in shrine. Look,
what's your name, spade?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Spade? What if I told you Larry Galliano had nothing to.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Do with it, I might give you quite an argument, and.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I don't feel like arguing.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
No, I'll just tell you good.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Someone offered him the job at Bergendorf's the day he
got out. Larry thought it was legitimate until he heard
a couple.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Of things by accident, like what.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Like getting hired to play fall guy and a phony robbery.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, Bergendorf was in sure till this morning.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
They think that Larry'd be a handy guy to have
hanging around with his big fat prison record when the
diamonds disappeared. That's what he told me, And I believe him.
I love him, whether or not you believe or love
me or him. I do not care. I also do
not care what kind of a wrap you pin on me.
When this is all over, all I want is time
enough to do a couple of errands. Now, hoist it
(19:07):
out of that chair and put it down in the closet.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
There you hear what I said? Yes, ma'am, I was wrong.
She was no Angenoux. Happily the closet had a light
(19:30):
in it. So I settled down on my headbox and
read some old copies of Mademoiselle until five point thirty
when I heard the door close, but with sound proof
outside walls, no window, a double slab door with a
lock she thoughtfully filled with gum. Was almost seven when
I got back to my office. The next move, of course,
was to call Lieutenant Dunde, whys up the Los Angeles
Police on Galliano. I picked up the phone and put
(19:52):
it down four times. There was no use kidding myself.
The range she told was pretty wild, but there was
something about the way she told it. And I will
and here.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Yeah, you remember me this morning, George the technician from
the X ray mobile unit.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, George, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (20:08):
The funny thing that girl thirty four chests you remember
the blonde.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh yeah, I remember very well, George. What about the blonde?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Well, I tried to call her. Operator says there's no
such number and the company has no record of a Bernice.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
She was using a phony moniker, George. Her name's Patricia Conroy.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Oh, now, why would she do that?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, girl's gotta be carefully, you though, she does for sure?
How come? How come?
Speaker 9 (20:30):
I I kind of took an interest in occasional. I
rushed the pictures through as soon as we closed up tonight.
She is an incipient case. Oh yes, I wanted the
wise up right away.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You see here?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Yes, oh, this is no no, This one's Johnny Stroud.
I took him when he wasn't looking toold him.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
I was testing.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
He was right at that nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
But I always say you never never.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, how about the girl? How about how about the girl? Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Yes, yes, here now now look you see this shadowy
part here?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, hey, wait a minute, I was looking at the
shadow part. I was looking at something at the left
side of the picture, right where the inside coat pocket
would be the clear blank outline of the Kimberley Cross.
Do you mean she had to f yeah, yeah, give
me the phone.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Well, I thought it was one of those clips it
makes the girls wear on.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
The phone the phone. Okay Spade, Johnny strad Look, I
got news for it.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I got news for you too. I spotted that bronde
again where in the bar on Connie Street talking to guests?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Who you mean?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Galliano?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Who's he?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Never mind?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Never mind?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Who was she drinking with?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Topadopolis the biggest jewelry fence on the coast where you now,
outside of Apotet Jones and near Post. I think the numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'll be in five.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Minutes, Like I told you, state, I don't want to argue.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
She says she doesn't want to argue.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sam Bad, too bad. I uh, I don't mind telling you.
I'm a little burned up, baby. I fell for that
line you handed me this afternoon. I didn't even mind
sitting in your closet for two hours. What's that sure?
She's got a thirty two tucked away here somewhere? Had
me looking up the barrel while she decided it was
got the cross? Honey, you or Gallioto?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
We don't know anything about it.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
And what were you doing in that bar with Papanapolis?
Speaker 12 (22:19):
Larry said? Whoever had it?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Would try to move it through him. I thought I
could get to him, but I was wrong. How did
that sound?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
What do you think? Look?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I walked into Bergendorf's this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Why'd you run out?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
The vault was open, furniture was overturned. Bergendorf didn't answer
when I called.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I think it was a setup for Larry to check in.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
He was on his waist.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
It does sound Soonny, It sure does.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I mean, I don't lie. I guess I could make
up a better.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Story than that. Oh you're doing great, white, Larry, Blowtom.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You need a diagram. He was scared.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
What chance is the next convict when it's his story
against someone else's.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
What did you do with the teddy too in the door?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Here's the big question, honey, I didn't sell anything else
Where are the diamonds? I know? Look, you're a real
modest girl. For she has a liar. You're a sensation.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Believe me.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You had the Kimberly Cross in your inside cold pocket
when you came into the wagon this morning.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
What are you talking about it?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'll get it the X ray, baby. Take a look.
You asked for a diagram. There it is, and your
inside left pocket.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Hello, mister Spade.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Yeah, this is George the technician again.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
This is all wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Hold it, George, let me see that. I don't have.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Any inside podlast. Look, I'm I in the sued right now.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Hold it, George, what is it?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
I got to worry about that print of miss Conroy's
the incipient.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Case thirty fourth yester, Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
I called the lab and they checked again. It's a mistake,
mister Spade, a switch. It belongs to someone else.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Johnny Stroud.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh oh well, well, George, you won't have to worry
about making more extra prints. The ones you have will do. Thanks,
Thanks a lot, George. George is getting worried. Extra prince.
Yeah yeah, I had him run off a batch Evidence
Trials's office, you know. Now, let's take her in.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Huh just a minute, this is crazy.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
I have no inside pocket house.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You wouldn't argue with a picture, would Johnny? Give me
the gun, Johnny, we'll take her in together. No, no, wait,
I want to settle something else, Johnny. You're you're appointing
that thing at me. It might go, oh yeah, it
might have that what's eating you, Johnny?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I know what's eating him?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
He's you want a very good liar either are you Sam?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
They're on any extra Prince and there's always George in
a couple of hours.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
That won't be any Okay, Johnny on your feet, let
me go, then you go. We can work out a.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Turn. Your head. You're shut. You take the gun. Call
Dundy get it in Dundee homicide. And the next voice
I heard belonged to cool Risk, Miss Berghaman of the
(25:13):
Harbor Emergency Hospital period and a babysitting session.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
How intrip it is your wound?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Nothing, sweetheart, nothing is hop along, Cassidy always says in
real six. Don't worry, honey, it was only a scratch.
No wait now wait, can't you get up without moving
your last one.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Important omission, the Kimberley Cross? What did Stroud do?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Is it that cherub is an innermural affair between Stroud
and mister Runcible. Well, as you know, this report is
an affair between you and the portable scoot Scoots. Three
chimes mean good times On NBC, there's music and mystery
(25:58):
for you tomorrow evening. For music, it's your Hit Parade,
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and international intrigue who travels wherever there is mystery, danger
and romance. Oh brisk, efficient, miss Parade. You may lay
(26:31):
it on my desk and restore your lap to its
original position.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Yes, oh.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Mm, comfortable, sam.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Ah, loving every minute Sam.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
A girl can't help wondering sometimes, well, the way you
described the blonde in your report, glamorous like a Kimberly
cross and all you like that?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh, I just wish sometimes someone else.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Could be your secretary, and I'd be the one. You've
been in a room with velvet dra pries and a
long cigarette holder and standing glasses and a.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Black lace negligees holded, girl, hold that you've gone quite far.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And I know, but it's only natural for a girl
to want to be glamless, says.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Pardon me. You show up with any of those props
and I'll turn you over my knee.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
You like me the way I am, Sam? Why is
it always this way? Just when I think I'm getting somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Outside myself, saying, I swear The Adventures of Sam Spade
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are produced, edited and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade
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